Speaker 1: Welcome to The No Sports Report, a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Entree Fork Media. My name is Jensen Carpet.
Speaker 1: I'm a sports fan, so things haven't been real fun
Speaker 1: over the last few months. It's weird to see stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith just yelling about insignificant thoughts he has. He was
Speaker 1: mad Scotty Pippin look bad in the last Dance. He's
Speaker 1: mad that people think Garappolo is an elite player. He's
Speaker 1: screaming about Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert's friendship. He's like
Speaker 1: two minutes away from a rant on airplane food. Someone
Speaker 1: give that guy an actual game to bitch about. It's
Speaker 1: getting weird. On the other end of the spectrum, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to athletes and sports industry professionals about what they're
Speaker 1: doing in quarantine, hoping to figure out if THEYM is
Speaker 1: competing as much as I missed watching it. This is
Speaker 1: the No Sports Report. Jared Stole is as much Los
Speaker 1: Angeles as the Randy Newman's song about Loving It. Sure,
Speaker 1: he spent thirteen years in the NHL with stops in Edmonton, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and New York, but it's his contribution to the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Kings two thousand twelve and two thousand fourteen Stanley
Speaker 1: Cups that truly stand out. His overtime series ending goal
Speaker 1: in Game five of the two thousand twelve Western Conference
Speaker 1: Finals against the Phoenix Coyotes lad the team to the
Speaker 1: franchises first Cup ever and helps cement his name in
Speaker 1: the Annals of Los Angeles Sports, which helps explain his
Speaker 1: current gig as the King's development coach, working with young
Speaker 1: players on how to step up their game and handle
Speaker 1: the intense pressure of the NHL. In this episode of
Speaker 1: The No Sports Report, we talked to him about how
Speaker 1: he'll help guide players through this work stoppage and into
Speaker 1: next season, how much his wife ESPN analyst Aaron Andrews
Speaker 1: is still hustling, and his two thousand eleven episode of
Speaker 1: MTV Cribs, and Yeah, I have a business idea for
Speaker 1: him all on this episode of The No Sports Report,
Speaker 1: from Jar to accept Press one, Jared, Hello, I I
Speaker 1: guess I. My first thing is to figure out how
Speaker 1: you are doing, if you're making it, If you need help,
Speaker 1: you could tap the phone twice. At any point. I
Speaker 1: will come to your house and fix this as much
Speaker 1: as I can, because we are all stuck in quarantine.
Speaker 1: Where exactly are you? Wow, I appreciate that. Off. I'm
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I'm here full time with with my
Speaker 1: wife and our dogs. So it's yeah, we're getting by.
Speaker 1: We're getting through the day by day. It's it's uh,
Speaker 1: and everybody's in the same boat, so it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: an interesting time, a tough time, but we're somehow finding
Speaker 1: a way to get through everything. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like I have a ten month old Uh, so I
Speaker 1: I have it. I feel kind of easy in a
Speaker 1: sense that like I just like hand him like an
Speaker 1: old nineteen eighties TV guide and he just ripped it
Speaker 1: apart until it's completely torn with you. You're with your wife, Aaron,
Speaker 1: and your dog. Howie. How incredible is it to have
Speaker 1: man's best friend during quarantine? Well, it's it's special, for sure.
Speaker 1: It's it's great to have him around, and for him,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been around both of us for long stretches
Speaker 1: like this, and uh, probably forever, so he's three years old.
Speaker 1: But it's it's good. Uh. You know, if we're having
Speaker 1: a tough day trying to get through this or here
Speaker 1: pickering at each other or whatever, you look at him
Speaker 1: and his his tails wagon. He's always happy, he wants
Speaker 1: to play and definitely going for a lot of walks
Speaker 1: that that kills some time. And you know, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really nice having him around the house. For sure.
Speaker 1: We've all sort of stole our pets gimmicks, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I feel like I have a
Speaker 1: cat and a dog and they live this life. They
Speaker 1: just sit around a couch. What are we gonna do next?
Speaker 1: They have no idea. Now now we've kind of we've
Speaker 1: treaded on their territory. I know, right, we're sleeping in,
Speaker 1: we're taking naps where we're watching a lot of TV
Speaker 1: shows over here, and I look over and I catch
Speaker 1: him him kind of doing the same thing. I watch
Speaker 1: a lot of golf and he sees that white the
Speaker 1: white golf flaw on the TV and he's he's watching
Speaker 1: it with me. So yeah, there's a lot of studentlarities
Speaker 1: for sure that go on. But um, like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: it's just it's good having around the house and we
Speaker 1: want to look over, look over and play with them
Speaker 1: and wrestle with him and then roll them up and
Speaker 1: throw them in the pool. It's killed some time, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I did read you guys have been binging shows. You
Speaker 1: and your wife, Aaron Andrews and the dog are all
Speaker 1: quarantined together. I read that she was really connecting with
Speaker 1: Ship's Creek and you, on the other hand, almost the
Speaker 1: polar opposite, watching Narcos exactly. Yeah. When we when we
Speaker 1: split up, in into our different shows and I'm downstairs,
Speaker 1: she's upstairs, and yeah, Narcos is my show right now,
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of it and her shows up
Speaker 1: Ships Creek. But We're killing You's a great one. We
Speaker 1: love that. Um, we did finish. We're up to date
Speaker 1: on Ozarks, which sure a lot of people have watched.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're in the We just started Billions a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, so we're into that one as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys are diving in the deep end. Uh. Speaking
Speaker 1: of TV, I want to get this out of the way.
Speaker 1: Early addressed the elephant in the room, the question everyone
Speaker 1: wants to ask. What was it like to be on
Speaker 1: an episode of Cribs in two thousand eleven? Oh, I
Speaker 1: got I haven't heard that in a long time. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, it was fun, it was cool. Um, it
Speaker 1: was my first May my second year here in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and growing up in Canada and playing hockey in
Speaker 1: Canada for for many years, and then getting getting turded here.
Speaker 1: You know, we always watched it on and TV and
Speaker 1: it was just something that when they came to me
Speaker 1: and I just had built my house and um, there's
Speaker 1: something that I'm like, yeah, i'd be pretty cool to do.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was fun. It was fun. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I regret it or not yet, but you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't. It was jumping that was interesting. I I
Speaker 1: don't have many friends who have been on crips. I
Speaker 1: think I think I might have one, but I've never
Speaker 1: been able to really dive deep into it. But here,
Speaker 1: you had a teammate living with you at the time,
Speaker 1: you were living that bachelor life. Right. You had a
Speaker 1: paddle board on your wall, very large paddle board, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, okay, you had what every man boy wants.
Speaker 1: I'd still take one in my garage if my wife
Speaker 1: would let me. The Golden t Rcade game, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have that anymore. That's uh, that's that's been
Speaker 1: sold that a couple of years ago. Actually, But that
Speaker 1: was we had a lot of fun with that for sure. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's I get it. I had an arcade him in
Speaker 1: my bachelor Pad two. Man, it's the victim of marriage,
Speaker 1: but the biggest, the biggest one you had, and I
Speaker 1: was I remembered it when they were like, oh, do
Speaker 1: you want to interview Jared. So I didn't even think
Speaker 1: of the Stanley cup. I thought of the idea that
Speaker 1: you had a yurnal in your house. Yeah, that's it's
Speaker 1: not something that get gets used a lot actually, because
Speaker 1: it's it's downstairs, it's in a bathroom. That's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't use that often. So but whenever I'm down
Speaker 1: here and you know, I have to kind of somewhat go.
Speaker 1: It's it's always nice to slide over and use it.
Speaker 1: Live in the life. Man, that's the dream. Uh. So
Speaker 1: I know you too. You and Aaron are both big
Speaker 1: Disneyland fans. You guys even got engaged there. Have you
Speaker 1: thought about what it would be like post pandemic in
Speaker 1: a theme park. It's scary to think about that because
Speaker 1: every theme park is just it's so much fun. Everybody's
Speaker 1: having such a good time. It's a happy place and
Speaker 1: it's always That's why so many people go, and that's
Speaker 1: why every theme park is so busy, especially Disneylands. So actually,
Speaker 1: Aaron just told me we're got in the call that
Speaker 1: it sounded like Disneyland was going to start sometime in July,
Speaker 1: um opening up for taking reservations or something like that.
Speaker 1: She was telling me, So, you know, that's maybe a
Speaker 1: decision that will come out soon. But nevertheless, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be lots of people and it's gonna you know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure something out, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: so weird and uh in every aspect, you know, just
Speaker 1: with occupancy and and you know, with restaurants, so many
Speaker 1: people can go in, and it's definitely gonna hit theme
Speaker 1: parks a lot for sure. Yeah, I mean I assume
Speaker 1: the first run, at least for a few months, is
Speaker 1: going to be like of capacity. I mean, so I
Speaker 1: guess people who do want to take the chance or
Speaker 1: go to a theme park and keep socially distant, they're
Speaker 1: going to have a park to themselves. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: really want to go, and I don't think there'll be
Speaker 1: many three hour away times to get on Indiana Jones,
Speaker 1: but yeah, if you want to kind of roll through it,
Speaker 1: that's definitely a way to do it, but also a
Speaker 1: little bit risky. I know, I'm gonna let the others
Speaker 1: do it and then just follow their lead. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard the rumor about Disney World,
Speaker 1: they are saying that it's possible that an NBA season
Speaker 1: might end up being completed there. I did, and I
Speaker 1: did hear that it's pretty good set up for it.
Speaker 1: I guess with all the hotels and you know, you
Speaker 1: can have everybody quarantined within a couple of miles basically,
Speaker 1: and and having a couple of events centers there to play.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the logistics are going to be interesting. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that's gonna take a lot to figure out.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you have an area like that
Speaker 1: that you can you can put so many people up,
Speaker 1: then uh, then that would be great. So uh, you guys,
Speaker 1: your house must be pretty busy right now. Your wife
Speaker 1: continues to work through this, doing tons of live kind
Speaker 1: of like zoom things for television. She launched a sportswear
Speaker 1: line basically right before the pandemic. Has business lessened for her?
Speaker 1: And how are you staying busy while she's taking all
Speaker 1: these calls and doing this insanity. Yeah, she's got a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of stuff going on. I'm looking
Speaker 1: right now. She has a little set up on at
Speaker 1: her desk and has like has the professional microphone and
Speaker 1: has the back light thing that you know, every every
Speaker 1: woman needs the proper lighting, right, yes, beyond camera, beyond
Speaker 1: on zoom. But yeah, she's almost every day doing something.
Speaker 1: So And for myself, I'm in player development with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Kings. So and we have a call pretty
Speaker 1: much twice twice a week for sure, um with our organization,
Speaker 1: with our little group and going through our players and
Speaker 1: you know, season review type of stuff. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of what what I'm doing. A lot of these days.
Speaker 1: I'm getting up between nine and nine, you know, nine thirty,
Speaker 1: which is great to sleep in and uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: not to not mat at that. Like you said, you're
Speaker 1: working in player development and a talent scout for the Kings.
Speaker 1: You've worked with top prospects like Karl Grunstrom and Matt Luff.
Speaker 1: I mean, does this halt in a season? Does it
Speaker 1: take away from them as young superstars in their game experience? Well,
Speaker 1: this affect their growth at all? Well? Yes, and no,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got some guys that are are in
Speaker 1: that that wheelhouse, that age group that you know, this
Speaker 1: is their prime to develop, and um, you know guys
Speaker 1: that are just coming out of juniors or just coming
Speaker 1: out of college, guys that have just signed I you know,
Speaker 1: it's with one of our kids that came out of
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and just signed his contract. He's he flew in
Speaker 1: signed it and then that's when everything shut down and
Speaker 1: he's like, well, what do I do now? And they're like, well,
Speaker 1: you can stay here for a couple of days, or
Speaker 1: we could fly you back to Chicago right now. And
Speaker 1: he's like, ship, I'll stay here for a couple of
Speaker 1: days and UH, find me back later. But just a
Speaker 1: crazy time. You know, you want to work with these kids.
Speaker 1: That's all the pride, you know, it's it's such a
Speaker 1: prideful job for us to to develop these kids and
Speaker 1: and hope they make the NHL and place some NHL
Speaker 1: games and help the organization, so you know, for us
Speaker 1: to not be able to get our hands on them,
Speaker 1: and and vice versa. These kids they want to learn,
Speaker 1: They want to be here, you know, they don't want
Speaker 1: to be training at home. They want to be training
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles in front of the organization and
Speaker 1: try to become a pro. So yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: tough for these guys. Yeah, I was at that game
Speaker 1: right before I guess shut down the Devil's game where
Speaker 1: Mike Anderson debuted with his brother, Yeah, which was like
Speaker 1: kind of an amazing game, and and that dude probably
Speaker 1: was in l A for like five days before he
Speaker 1: had to stop playing. Well, for those guys, it's it's
Speaker 1: actually a really good setup because the minor league team
Speaker 1: is out of On Area, California, so it's it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where if they get called up, they're
Speaker 1: basically like walking right across the hallway. It's the same
Speaker 1: practice facility in al Segundo that the h L, the
Speaker 1: American Hockey League team uses and the NHL team. So
Speaker 1: for those guys, they just it's great for call up
Speaker 1: situations where they can, you know, play a NHL game. So,
Speaker 1: um yeah, for him, it wasn't it wasn't like he
Speaker 1: was flying across the country to get here, but um yeah, nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it was the first NHL game against his brother, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's got to be a pretty special moment.
Speaker 1: For him in his family. That's right. Uh. You said
Speaker 1: you keep in touch with other coaches and stuff. Are
Speaker 1: you keeping in touch with these young players as well
Speaker 1: during the break? Yeah, we are for sure. Um, we
Speaker 1: each have it was six of us on the development stuff,
Speaker 1: so we each have like five or six players that
Speaker 1: we are assigned to, and you know, we keep in
Speaker 1: touch with them, see how they're doing, see other families doing,
Speaker 1: how the workouts are going. Yeah, just kind of just
Speaker 1: be a friend, be a you know, whether it's a
Speaker 1: mentor or a coat. Not really a coach because we're
Speaker 1: not whach is were you know, I guess we're called
Speaker 1: development coaches, but it's not like we're we're teaching systems.
Speaker 1: We're just teaching a little detail, a little fundamentals of
Speaker 1: the game that these particular players need. And you know,
Speaker 1: if they feel like they need to need to call
Speaker 1: one of us, um, you know, they're they're comfortable to
Speaker 1: do so. And and we're also vice versa. We're comfortable
Speaker 1: to call them and just and just have a chat.
Speaker 1: Sure you participated in NBC's Hockey Happy Hour recently. This
Speaker 1: is the quarantine content for the NHL. You guys did
Speaker 1: a video chat where you and some former teammates like
Speaker 1: Trevor Lewis watched the famous Game five with the two
Speaker 1: fourteen Stanley Cup championships. Was that an experience? I mean,
Speaker 1: number one, it can only happen because of the pandemic,
Speaker 1: but was it Was it fun for you to sort
Speaker 1: of revisit it and have your teammates there and what
Speaker 1: is now the norm of a zoom call. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was great to see that. And I've
Speaker 1: seen clips of the actual telecast, but not not a
Speaker 1: full game, watching the full game back from NBC that
Speaker 1: on the telecast, so it was, Yeah, it was cool
Speaker 1: to hear you know, the commentators you know, stay certain things,
Speaker 1: and you're s seeing replays of that game, replays a
Speaker 1: little you know, plays within the game, and um, we
Speaker 1: had to watch it with Alec Martinez and Trevor Lewis
Speaker 1: and now Alec ended up scoring the goal to win
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup for US and double overtime, so you know,
Speaker 1: to watch it with him and and just get chills
Speaker 1: and just brings you back to, you know, to those
Speaker 1: good times and memories that we will never forget and
Speaker 1: and always have with us. So it was it was
Speaker 1: definitely fun to watch. It was you know, I would
Speaker 1: love to watch every every playoff game that we were in,
Speaker 1: especially well especially the ones that we want. Of course,
Speaker 1: did you notice anything that bothered you were? Like, ah,
Speaker 1: like did you did you notice a mistake? I can
Speaker 1: instantly tell if I like if I had had my
Speaker 1: legs that night or not, you know, like I was,
Speaker 1: you know the first shift i'd watched, like, oh I
Speaker 1: was flying that game, or you know, or I had
Speaker 1: a you know, it was maybe a little bit tired.
Speaker 1: I could tell right away how I was skating and
Speaker 1: I was moving out there, if I if I had
Speaker 1: some energy, had some jump or not. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think it made any mistakes that we really cost us,
Speaker 1: So that was that was good to see. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it's weird that you're more likely to see
Speaker 1: one of your replayed games on TV now than any
Speaker 1: of the players you're currently working within their games. Like
Speaker 1: it's like you're you're the only hockey on on TV.
Speaker 1: So that is pretty cool to see. Replace. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: seen a bunch, especially at Chicago Series in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen. It was the Western Conference finals, probably one
Speaker 1: of the one of the most exciting series that I've
Speaker 1: ever been a part of. And we're up three games
Speaker 1: to one on them, and they came back, and then
Speaker 1: we had to go to Chicago for Game seven and uh,
Speaker 1: we're down by the two goals and think twice in
Speaker 1: that game seven and we uh, we found their way
Speaker 1: to get it to get its overtime and and scoring
Speaker 1: double overtimes to get to the Stama Cup Final. And
Speaker 1: that they showed that game a couple of times within
Speaker 1: the last couple of months, So that was it was
Speaker 1: fun to watch that game because because that was just
Speaker 1: just a crazy game for for all of us. And
Speaker 1: to be able to watch that back that was that
Speaker 1: was awesome. Have you have you been able to watch
Speaker 1: that Game five against the Canucks yet, you know, late
Speaker 1: at night in bed, I get on YouTube for some
Speaker 1: reason and all of a sudden it brings you just
Speaker 1: you know, the rabbit hole of YouTube. You keep watching
Speaker 1: certain things, and um, I came across that clip a bunch,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have watched the clip, not not so
Speaker 1: much the full game. It's my favorite, truly winning I mean,
Speaker 1: you had the series winning goal in ot it is
Speaker 1: it is glorious. Morwould Jared Stole after this right now,
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Speaker 1: chat with the l A. Kings Jared Stole. We talked
Speaker 1: about it a little bit already on this podcast, but
Speaker 1: it's being reported that a lot of hockey players have
Speaker 1: been staying on top of their game by rollerblading. First,
Speaker 1: is that true? Secondly, are we allowed to call them dweeps? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is true. I know. Um one of my buddies
Speaker 1: down the street he used to play for the Kings
Speaker 1: now he's playing with the Philadelphia Flyers and I won't
Speaker 1: name names, but you know Nate Thompson, who's his name?
Speaker 1: But okay, sir, but I see he has a pair
Speaker 1: of roller blades and he's been going down the back
Speaker 1: alley here and back and forth, and it's yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I actually growing up, I had rollerblades my my whole
Speaker 1: childhood and roadblading around the town that I drew up in,
Speaker 1: but don't have any anymore. But it's if I was
Speaker 1: a player, I wouldn't be mad at getting a pair
Speaker 1: and just just wheeling around town and getting the legs going.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's totally different when you get on
Speaker 1: the ice. It's a different feeling, but at least it's
Speaker 1: a different way of working out and being active. You also,
Speaker 1: I mean, in your defense, you guys live in a
Speaker 1: beach city, right, Yeah, yeah, that's kind of allowed. Have
Speaker 1: you ever imagined and can you imagine what playing hockey
Speaker 1: would be like, of all sports without an audience? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing. Because you go to a hockey
Speaker 1: game live, Yeah, you watch one on TV and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's for me, it's exciting. I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of people say that, you know, you got to
Speaker 1: go to a game to to really experience it and
Speaker 1: to feel the electricity and the passion and how fast
Speaker 1: the game is, how physical it is. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that would that would hurt a lot, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they're gonna maybe pump some crowd music
Speaker 1: in there during the games or or whatnot. But you know,
Speaker 1: every sport, right that's whether it's the NFL or or
Speaker 1: basketball too, you know, baseball, it's just every sports so
Speaker 1: great in their own way. And um, you know for hockey,
Speaker 1: and you're right there, especially the people that are right
Speaker 1: down close to the glass, and you're experiencing that speed
Speaker 1: and intensity. Tanty's probably a good word for it, you know,
Speaker 1: once you lose that within the crowd and towards the
Speaker 1: ice surface and the players, it's yeah, it would be
Speaker 1: a it would be a huge difference and serious question here,
Speaker 1: And I asked this for real, do you think and
Speaker 1: I know maybe you know the answer because you've played
Speaker 1: juniors and all those things, but like, if there is
Speaker 1: not a large audience, let's say there's no one there,
Speaker 1: do the players still fight? Well, there's not much fighting
Speaker 1: in the game anymore. So I would say, no, they don't.
Speaker 1: They probably don't fight, But that would be really weird
Speaker 1: actually now, just to think about it, especially if there's
Speaker 1: if it's a really really good fight, just pure silence.
Speaker 1: The benches would be going to the players or teammates
Speaker 1: would be going bananas on the bench. But that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's probably about it. Yeah, that would be that would
Speaker 1: be an odd situation. I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 1: The teeth leaving a man's face, I don't want to hear.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear the punch. Uh. Not an
Speaker 1: incredible season for the Kings. But no matter how the
Speaker 1: season plays out, really if it ends now whatever, But
Speaker 1: I know they have a strong young core some players
Speaker 1: ready for call up as well. I figured you, of
Speaker 1: all people, could speak to the future squad. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been very good hands, I'm gonna be honest. And that's
Speaker 1: a transition period for the Kings. It is the last
Speaker 1: couple of years of it have been rough. But you know,
Speaker 1: having some top draft picks, um, that's how you rebuild
Speaker 1: and rebuild quickly with these top five, you know, last
Speaker 1: year with Alex Turcuff fifth overall. This year we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a most likely a top five pick again. And
Speaker 1: this year's draft is the top ten are the top
Speaker 1: ten ranked players are really really good players. And you know,
Speaker 1: to add those types of guys that skill level too
Speaker 1: to the organization is going to be huge. And then
Speaker 1: the minor league team American Hockey Team Ontario, like you
Speaker 1: said about call ups, there's there's probably eight or ten
Speaker 1: guys that are developing really, really well and getting close
Speaker 1: to becoming an NHL players. So yeah, there's been certain
Speaker 1: articles in the last year that have come out that
Speaker 1: have ranked the organization and one article is like were
Speaker 1: ranked first one article or ranked third and just and
Speaker 1: I guess, uh, you know prospects the prospects pool, if
Speaker 1: you will, And that's good to see and I see
Speaker 1: it firsthand. I see the skill and you know the
Speaker 1: types of players these kids are and the types of
Speaker 1: players we need in our line up in the near
Speaker 1: future here. So yeah, we're we're set up pretty well.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of these kids continuing to develop
Speaker 1: and then make that jump and make it make it
Speaker 1: pretty pretty easy. It's well, it's never easy to make
Speaker 1: the jump, but at least if they can come in
Speaker 1: and contribute rather quickly that that'll be huge for your organization. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: we usually like to end the interview a bit with
Speaker 1: something positive and then something a bit stupid, so we'll
Speaker 1: start with We'll start with positive. Is there anything that
Speaker 1: happens now during the pandemic, new traditions, ways that we're
Speaker 1: living that you would like to see kind of live
Speaker 1: on post pandemic once we're allowed to leave our homes.
Speaker 1: Is there anything we've adapted to that you think should
Speaker 1: stick around. Well, I know for myself, just like you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's the zoom calls or um, you know, house
Speaker 1: parties were on the house party app, which is becoming
Speaker 1: pretty popular, I think, and you know, just having a
Speaker 1: chance to see our friends and family more on on
Speaker 1: those types of things. You know. I never know, I
Speaker 1: FaceTime before this pandemic, but not not that often. And
Speaker 1: all my families back in Canada and my friends from
Speaker 1: when I where I grew up, so I don't see
Speaker 1: them a lot. So I think during this time I FaceTime,
Speaker 1: I've seen my my family, my friends a lot, and
Speaker 1: I think going forward, hopefully that I'll continue to do
Speaker 1: that and stay in touch with them that way. Great. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, now for the stupid. I want to give
Speaker 1: you some suggestions. It sounds like you know what you're
Speaker 1: up to in quarantine, sounds like you're having a good
Speaker 1: time out near the beach. But here are some suggestions
Speaker 1: of things that I think you could maybe pick up,
Speaker 1: things that might pass some time. Are you ready for these? Shoot? Okay? First,
Speaker 1: build a family tree. Have you ever done that before? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that no one ever has
Speaker 1: time for, like why would I do that? But it's
Speaker 1: kind of important. You can use like things like ancestry
Speaker 1: dot com or twenty three and me or any of
Speaker 1: those services. But it's just kind of a good way
Speaker 1: to start, you know, work with what you know and
Speaker 1: then and then figure out the things in between. And
Speaker 1: there are Etsy pages that have like professional posters you
Speaker 1: can make, and then there it is your whole family
Speaker 1: in one place. You and Aaron sort of have all
Speaker 1: your grandparents and cousins and all these things. I do
Speaker 1: have one warning. I do know someone who did this
Speaker 1: and found out that his grandparents were cousins, which is
Speaker 1: a percent true, So keep that in mind. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: adult person is starting to slowly open up around the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles area, So I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: time to do this family tree you're talking about. Alright, well,
Speaker 1: you're definitely not gonna like this next one then, because
Speaker 1: this is going to take up a lot of time.
Speaker 1: I've only seen one James Bond movie, so I'm suggesting
Speaker 1: people watch all the James Bond movies. How many have
Speaker 1: you seen? I've probably seen most of them. There are.
Speaker 1: They're just so you know, there are. There are technically
Speaker 1: twenty six practically, and I haven't seen most of them.
Speaker 1: I've only seen Skyfall. But people love Casino Royale on
Speaker 1: the New Side obviously, all the Sean Connery ones. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many you think you've seen? I think maybe five
Speaker 1: or so. What I'm really into it anytime any Jason
Speaker 1: Bourne moving on TV watching all the time. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: are great. Or the National Treasure movies, Oh come on,
Speaker 1: I oh my god, I'm a cage head man. Those
Speaker 1: are He's my guy. I love history and I love
Speaker 1: just you know, especially American history, and you know there's
Speaker 1: some of the things that go on in those movies.
Speaker 1: It's uh yeah. Every time those those two movies are on,
Speaker 1: it's it seems like I always just sit down and
Speaker 1: watch over and over and over again. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mark off James Bond. I'm gonna put watch all
Speaker 1: Nick Cage movies. Yeah, all right, that's good. Lastly, now
Speaker 1: we know everyone's been spending a lot of times in
Speaker 1: their home. Obviously, we have to assume that people have
Speaker 1: gathered some home improvement ideas, things they want to change.
Speaker 1: So I have a business idea for you. I know
Speaker 1: you're busy, but at least you'll be willing to hear this. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's something to capitalize on everything. And now we talked
Speaker 1: about it early in the interview, and it's important to
Speaker 1: go back to the urnal from your two thousand and
Speaker 1: eleven episode of Cribs. It was ahead of its time,
Speaker 1: something every man can use. So I think you should
Speaker 1: offer the service to come show up Stanley cups Campion.
Speaker 1: He walks in, he accesses the situation from a safe
Speaker 1: social distance, and then you install a yurnal wherever you want.
Speaker 1: I suggest a bathroom, but it's up to you. You'll
Speaker 1: be at the forefront of this trend. I think you
Speaker 1: walking into people's homes and installing a jurnal. Can I
Speaker 1: bring him Plumber with me? Yes? More for advice. Yes,
Speaker 1: you'll learn. You'll learn through experience, because I already have
Speaker 1: a name for the business. Okay, it's it's Jared No stalls.
Speaker 1: Jared no stalls. You got no no no. See, a
Speaker 1: unal doesn't need a stall. People usually need to get stalls.
Speaker 1: You're telling people just be out in the free man,
Speaker 1: be out in the open, stall in this house. Yeah okay, okay,
Speaker 1: um yeah, that would that would kill about a week,
Speaker 1: maybe a little longer trying to figure that out. Well,
Speaker 1: that one, that one at least got got further than
Speaker 1: James Bond and and the family Tree. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to thank you so much for talking to me today
Speaker 1: and stay safe, and I'm so excited for the future
Speaker 1: of the Kings and so happy to know you're involved
Speaker 1: in it because you truly are hometown hero here and
Speaker 1: we love, we love having you around the organization. Awesome,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. I appreciate it is good to catch
Speaker 1: up and uh and shout with you. Thank you. The
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