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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 4: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
Speaker 4: Radio and a Happy Friday to you. It is the
Speaker 4: sixth day of June and we are gonna have somebody
Speaker 4: on here in a moment. You probably already know because
Speaker 4: it's a podcast, and you can see who's gonna be
Speaker 4: on here, which I'm excited to talk to. I haven't
Speaker 4: talked to this guy in a minute. And we also
Speaker 4: love dope holidays. Today is National Donut Day, and as
Speaker 4: you know, my favorite donut the apple fritter with the
Speaker 4: cinnamon roll a close number two. And we have a
Speaker 4: fun fact about donuts. The earliest account known of the
Speaker 4: what has now known as the modern donut eighteen oh nine.
Speaker 4: Eighteen oh nine, that's one of the earliest accounts of donuts.
Speaker 4: It was attributed to a Dutch settler who brought them
Speaker 4: over to the States, to New York. So we in
Speaker 4: America eighteen oh nine, eighteen oh nine. The Salvation Army
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighteen set up canteens in the front lines
Speaker 4: of World War One and they provided care for the
Speaker 4: soldiers who were mangled in World War One, and they
Speaker 4: provided donuts.
Speaker 3: And can you imagine today if they did that. Who're
Speaker 3: just not healthy. You can't you can't do that. What's right?
Speaker 3: You know that whole thing.
Speaker 4: But they did in nineteen eighteen, over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 4: They're like, listen, these people are all messed up. These
Speaker 4: soldiers got God love them, got messed up in war.
Speaker 4: We need to make them better. We'll give them donuts.
Speaker 4: And they gave them donuts. And knock yourself out.
Speaker 3: It's also National yo Yo Day today.
Speaker 1: Yo Yo?
Speaker 3: Does anyone still use the yo yo? When I was
Speaker 3: a kid, people fusched around with the yo yo? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yo yo goes all the way back to five hundred
Speaker 4: BC five. It was made out of wood, metal and
Speaker 4: painted disc the first yo yos and it's the second
Speaker 4: oldest toy, by the way, second oldest toy.
Speaker 3: The yo yo considered the second oldest toy ever.
Speaker 4: It was patented in eighteen sixty six, so I guess
Speaker 4: before that they only had one other toy, which was
Speaker 4: like a ball, a ball or something like that. And
Speaker 4: then the modern yo yo. Because I know you're all
Speaker 4: about the yo yo. The modern yo yo was in
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty, so one hundred and twenty, one hundred and
Speaker 4: five years ago. Modern yoyo in the United States have
Speaker 4: they the string looped only around the axle, only around
Speaker 4: the axle, And yes, yo yo have been in space
Speaker 4: in outer space.
Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty five, it became the first toy to
Speaker 3: go to outer space.
Speaker 4: So I'm out of fun facts, and that means we
Speaker 4: must get to the meat of the matter. So big
Speaker 4: news yesterday and borrowing some kind of last minute snaffu.
Speaker 3: Today, we're doing this here early in the morning.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rogers is going to sign the docu sign he
Speaker 4: is going to go to the Pittsburgh Steelers. And what
Speaker 4: better way to welcome Aaron Rodgers to Pittsburgh than bring
Speaker 4: in the top Pittsburgh Steelers celebrity fan that I know
Speaker 4: and a longtime friend of mine. I worked the sports
Speaker 4: talk radio battlefield with this man for many many years,
Speaker 4: the late night war of talk radio. And he joins,
Speaker 4: now we're talking about Eddie Garcia King Eddie making his
Speaker 4: way in their steamboat. Willie on the podcast, I see
Speaker 4: is all decked out. He's got his high stuff on.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: And we'll get to that in a minute. But we're
Speaker 4: gonna start with the football Eddie. And I'll make it
Speaker 4: very simple. Thumbs up or thumbs down on Aaron Rogers
Speaker 4: joining your Pittsburgh Steel was give me the inside, skinny, Eddie.
Speaker 1: I guess I have to give it a thumbs up
Speaker 1: considering what the alternatives were, which were a bunch of
Speaker 1: crap on the roster now or like going and getting
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan or something. I mean, the options, the option,
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, what were they gonna Are they really
Speaker 1: gonna go into the season with the crap they had
Speaker 1: at quarterback before this news came down?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I mean, am I happy about it? No? Am
Speaker 1: I excited about it? Not really? But is it? Is
Speaker 1: it under the circumstances, you know, a better option than
Speaker 1: what they were gonna have? Apparently?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it does count.
Speaker 4: It counts as an upgrade, is what you're saying, because
Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph, the Red Noose quarterback was no. It is
Speaker 4: a sad Rogers looked pretty cooked right with the Jets. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: I agree, like they didn't have a lot left and
Speaker 4: just the whole, the whole shebang and all that. But
Speaker 4: the way I look at it, and you, obviously, Eddie,
Speaker 4: you have skin in the game because you have terrible.
Speaker 3: Dowels and you have how many Steeler jerseys do you own?
Speaker 1: Eddie? Oh gosh, probably about ten?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 5: Ten?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought maybe it was like three or four.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize it was ten. Now it's like it's
Speaker 4: like ten ten, Now do you have? Like I mean,
Speaker 4: oh boy, let see, we should do a game. Can
Speaker 4: we name how many?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that game.
Speaker 4: But before we get we'll try I'll try to guess
Speaker 4: how many legendary Steeler jerseys Eddie has just off the
Speaker 4: top there.
Speaker 1: But it might be more than ten now that I
Speaker 1: think about it. But we'll play the game.
Speaker 3: We'll play the game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so I look at it like this, uh,
Speaker 4: and this is as you know, I'm very objective, Eddie.
Speaker 3: I never just you raw emotion.
Speaker 4: But you had, if you're Pittsburgh, you had the third
Speaker 4: ranked quarterback in the division prior to this, right, because
Speaker 4: you had Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow are ahead of
Speaker 4: everyone else, and so they're there. And then thank God
Speaker 4: for the Browns. I think you could Eddie for the
Speaker 4: Steelers and.
Speaker 1: You would still be better.
Speaker 3: Off than with the Browns.
Speaker 4: Aff So, so you had, you still have the third
Speaker 4: ranked quarterback.
Speaker 3: And think of it, Eddie.
Speaker 4: For those of us, you know, you're you're a big podcaster,
Speaker 4: muckety muck, you know, and those that do this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff, think of the great conversations that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: will inspire. Either he'll be amazing, he'll have there's two
Speaker 4: ways this goes. Right, he has a career renaissance and
Speaker 4: this is the the classic.
Speaker 3: You know how in.
Speaker 4: Hollywood you have the high, the low, and then the
Speaker 4: redemption story. It's that or he just doesn't give a
Speaker 4: crap and he picks up the nickname Alleghany Aaron from
Speaker 4: you know, having tea parties out in the woods around
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh with Mike Tomlin and the players.
Speaker 3: And there's like, I don't think there's a middle ground here.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's just like middle ground. And either way,
Speaker 3: the Steelers are gonna win.
Speaker 4: What are you think with nine or ten games something
Speaker 4: like that, no matter what, right, they always win around
Speaker 4: that number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they'll make the playoffs and they'll lose the
Speaker 1: first round.
Speaker 3: So you got it all man.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of funny because I used to
Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson. I used to like watching him play.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a pretty fun player to watch.
Speaker 1: Thought he was pretty good when he was with Seattle
Speaker 1: in the heyday, and then I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was social media or what, he kind of turned into
Speaker 1: a very unlikable douche. And then he started bouncing around
Speaker 1: on different teams, and when he came to the Steelers,
Speaker 1: I was not excited about it at all. I didn't
Speaker 1: think he was going to do much. He actually played
Speaker 1: a little bit better than I thought they would early on,
Speaker 1: but then he ended up being the guy I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be, which is not very good. And
Speaker 1: now he's gone the same thing with Aaron Rodgers. There
Speaker 1: was nobody in the NFL that I enjoyed watching throw
Speaker 1: the football more than Aaron Rodgers. I loved how he
Speaker 1: threw the ball. It made it look so effortless, and
Speaker 1: he was fun to watch. And then he started doing
Speaker 1: interviews and he was on shows, and then you kind
Speaker 1: of realized what a douche she was and it became
Speaker 1: more about him as a personality than what he was
Speaker 1: doing on the field. And now he's coming to my
Speaker 1: team again, and I feel the exact same way that
Speaker 1: I did on Russell Wilson joint. I'm not really excited
Speaker 1: about it. I don't think he's gonna do much and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I'll hope for the best, but
Speaker 1: expect the worst.
Speaker 4: Well, Russell Wilson, at first, he thought, well he was
Speaker 4: I thought he was doing cosplay in Seattle. When he was,
Speaker 4: he sounded just like Pete Carroll. It was very bizarre,
Speaker 4: like he'd do news conferences. He sounded just like Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4: And then the moment where I knew it was all
Speaker 4: over for us when he did that thing that video
Speaker 4: when he walked around his house, mister mister unlimited, Oh
Speaker 4: my god, that was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And now he's had a lot of weird He had
Speaker 1: a lot of weird videos and clips and sound bite, says.
Speaker 4: Oh he did, he did, And then the stories that
Speaker 4: came out, like even when it was with the Broncos
Speaker 4: and he was high stepping down the trains continental flight
Speaker 4: over the Atlantic.
Speaker 3: Ocean, You're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 4: We're now going to play again here on the Fifth
Speaker 4: Hour podcast. Can we guess the Steeler jerseys.
Speaker 3: That Eddie has? And we'll go yay or nay on
Speaker 3: this Eddie.
Speaker 4: I will throw out some names and uh, all right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna set a timer here. I have you have
Speaker 4: some jerseys. Honestly, my my futzing around here. So you
Speaker 4: said you have ten Steeler jersey how many do you
Speaker 4: think I can name? I'm going to set the clock
Speaker 4: at I don't want to do this too long because
Speaker 4: no one will listen.
Speaker 3: How about two minutes? Two minutes as good?
Speaker 1: Right? Okay, sure that's fair enough.
Speaker 3: Just agree with me.
Speaker 1: Now, is it three strikes in you're out? Or what?
Speaker 4: You're setting new rules here? As many names in? Two minutes?
Speaker 4: Too minutes?
Speaker 3: All right, you got to do a minute. I'll do
Speaker 3: a minute.
Speaker 1: No, I'll know two minutes. We'll do two minutes, and
Speaker 1: I will I will keep score on how many you get, right, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, and does how does it count? Does it
Speaker 1: count if I have more than one jersey of a player,
Speaker 1: because I do have more than I have multiple jerseys. Really,
Speaker 1: you have the home in the road, you have the
Speaker 1: black and the white, and if you a couple of
Speaker 1: guys I do, yes, Okay.
Speaker 4: All right, I should get two points. If you have
Speaker 4: black in the in the white, I should get too.
Speaker 3: I think that's all right.
Speaker 4: Brian, here we go, uh sending the clock two minute,
Speaker 4: two minute, and we're on our way. Uh go, all right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go legends. How about Jerome Bettis the bus
Speaker 4: Jerome Bettis, Yes.
Speaker 1: I have I think I have at least one. I
Speaker 1: know I have at least one, maybe two, maybe two.
Speaker 4: So that's at least one point. How about Roethlisberger, Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I have one, Ben Roethlisberger. It was it was a
Speaker 1: gift from the Great Samba Teesh back in the day.
Speaker 4: Oh I remember Sam. He was a big producer at
Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got it from me from the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in Detroit when he went and he got he didn't
Speaker 1: pay for it. But anyway, I'm doing I'm still happy
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 3: You'd admit I'm doing well. I'm two for two.
Speaker 4: How about I hope you have this jersey because this
Speaker 4: is one of the greats of all time and it
Speaker 4: was starting one of the all time wonderful commercials me
Speaker 4: and Joe Green.
Speaker 1: That is, I do not It is a major omission
Speaker 1: in my spot. Eddie h is the number one omission. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Mike tom Zach, all right, that is a negative. I
Speaker 1: was for comedic person.
Speaker 4: Let's see, I'm trying to think other great, Well, you
Speaker 4: were like a bigger guy, so maybe you just no
Speaker 4: brad Shaw.
Speaker 3: About Terry Bradshaw all time great Terry Bradshaw.
Speaker 1: You now no Bradshaw?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 4: All right, what else do we have? Trying to think Steelers?
Speaker 4: I don't think you're not going to get Antonio Brown.
Speaker 4: You're not going to get like leve On Bell. So
Speaker 4: I'm not going to include.
Speaker 1: I actually did have an Antonio Brown jersey at one
Speaker 1: time when he before he went crazy and uh I yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I got rid of it.
Speaker 3: How about this Cam Hayward.
Speaker 1: No, that's a pretty good guest, But no, I don't
Speaker 1: have a Cam Hayward.
Speaker 3: He's too new.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, Troy Paulamalu plamlu, I have two different Jersey's
Speaker 1: two points I got?
Speaker 3: I got fifteen seconds? Alan Fannik That the offensive lineman,
Speaker 3: Alan Fannick.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good guess. But no, no, no.
Speaker 4: Trying to think more. Who is the big defensive god
Speaker 4: Harrison Harrison? What's the James Harrison?
Speaker 1: I don't have a James Harrison. That's a good game.
Speaker 3: Two minutes? Damn it? All right? How many did they get?
Speaker 1: Did you? You got Bettis? You got Roethlisberger, you got
Speaker 1: Paula Malu, that's it? How about the how about the
Speaker 1: biggest star on the team right now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: What Cray?
Speaker 3: Yes? Oh my god? How did I screw that up?
Speaker 1: I've got I've got home end road of T. J. Watt.
Speaker 4: I always thought, though, going into my mindset, was well,
Speaker 4: you probably got a lot of these, like fifteen years
Speaker 4: ago or something like that, right, And I thought, well,
Speaker 4: of these, That's why I went like Bettis, Roethlisberger, names
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: What about like frank O'harris? Do you have a frank
Speaker 3: O Harris?
Speaker 1: I do not have a Franco Harris. You want the
Speaker 1: rest of them? Off the top of my head, that
Speaker 1: I can think of.
Speaker 3: Was that lips guy. I like that was a fun
Speaker 3: name on a.
Speaker 1: Louis Lipps. Yes, the old wide receiver back in the
Speaker 1: really bad days of Migulas.
Speaker 4: In between the eighties and the in between the seventies,
Speaker 4: and then they became good again in the nineties.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a wide receiver that I have two
Speaker 1: of that you have not mentioned. And it's not stalwarth
Speaker 1: or Swan. Oh, it's got to be the guy that
Speaker 1: was the hero in the Super Bowl. But is it
Speaker 1: heinz Ward? Is that w That is correct? I got
Speaker 1: it right, but it's late though. I don't get credit
Speaker 1: for that. D my all time favorite Steeler. Yeah, told
Speaker 1: me that before. I think you've told me that.
Speaker 3: Uh no, offensive lineman, I thought, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I do. I have a Dermonty Dawson. And the
Speaker 1: reason I got it was we went to the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and I saw the list of people that
Speaker 1: were going to be signing and he was one of them.
Speaker 1: So I went online I bought a Dermanti Dawson jersey
Speaker 1: so he could sign it for me, and he did.
Speaker 1: He was a super nice guy.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: I didn't know And so that's your your alignement. And
Speaker 4: what other U I think some we'll just name them. Oh,
Speaker 4: Carnell remember Carnell Lake. He was good, but that was
Speaker 4: a long time ago. You probably don't have.
Speaker 1: No, I don't have him. One that you might not
Speaker 1: have gotten, and I only got it for kind of
Speaker 1: sentimental reasons was Ryan Shazier, the Steeler linebacker who's career
Speaker 1: ended when he was paralyzed, although he did regain a
Speaker 1: lot of his movement. And yes, I think, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was a sentimental one that I that I got.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big heart, Eddie. People say you're just cold, but
Speaker 3: you have a big heart.
Speaker 1: Look at that giant heart.
Speaker 3: Giant, massive, huge heart.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: All right, Well that ends the Steeler jersey game. So
Speaker 4: the main reason I was gonna have you on original
Speaker 4: I reached out to you, Eddie. I said, you know,
Speaker 4: I think I actually attempted the other night this is Friday,
Speaker 4: but the other night on Wednesday, actually did a hockey
Speaker 4: monologue on the Stanley Cup final. And and of course
Speaker 4: you're the hockey guy, but you know I'm not, and
Speaker 4: so I but I watched the game and I did
Speaker 4: used to cover hockey many years ago. I covered the
Speaker 4: Kings and whatnot. So I know hockey, I just don't
Speaker 4: talking about much. But I wanted to get your You're
Speaker 4: the big Hockey podcast, Eddie. How many how many hockey
Speaker 4: podcasts do you do?
Speaker 3: Two? Three, four, five, six, three three?
Speaker 1: Not one, not one, not two, but three three?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's a lot. That's a lot.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're all over the NHL. So the Florida
Speaker 4: pants Now, I picked Edmonton to win this series.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 4: I like stars. I'm all about the stars. Connor McDavid
Speaker 4: is the big star. But the Florida Panthers in that game,
Speaker 4: they only played well for one really one period in
Speaker 4: my analysis, and in the in the third period in particular, Yeah,
Speaker 4: look like they were I don't know what they were.
Speaker 4: They were skating in sand or something. Can you explain,
Speaker 4: Eddie how that happened? I mean, I I was like, again,
Speaker 4: I picked Edmonton. So I'm happy Edmonton won and all that,
Speaker 4: but I could not believe how poorly Florida looked in
Speaker 4: the in that late part of the game, like they
Speaker 4: worn out.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Apparently they tried to take a page from the La
Speaker 1: Kings postseason playbook and just crapped themselves in the third
Speaker 1: period of games against the Oilers. Now, two shots on
Speaker 1: goal in the third period is pathetic after seventeen shots
Speaker 1: on goal in the second period. I mean, talk about
Speaker 1: a complete flip of the script. But and I look,
Speaker 1: I hate the Edmondson Oilers with a passion, and I
Speaker 1: am rooting very hard for the Florida Panthers. But Edmonton
Speaker 1: had to win that game. When it's in overtime and
Speaker 1: they get a power play because dumb dumb threw it
Speaker 1: off the playing service and end of the crowd Toomas,
Speaker 1: no sick for Florida, Like you're like, they have to
Speaker 1: win this game. They've been the better team. They've got
Speaker 1: home ice this year. They didn't have it last year.
Speaker 1: The stars have showed up for him. McDavid and dry
Speaker 1: Title are already playing well and here they are in
Speaker 1: overtime at home against the defending Stanley Cup champs. They
Speaker 1: have to win this game. I thought if they were
Speaker 1: to blow that game, it would have been a gigantic defeat.
Speaker 1: But they get the power play. McDavid sets up dry
Speaker 1: see I'll drive home safely and all all is happy
Speaker 1: north of the border. But a very solid performance for Edmonton.
Speaker 1: I picked him to win the series because my picks
Speaker 1: have been so bad that I'm trying to do the
Speaker 1: reverse voodoo on them. Yeah. Yeah, I picked against them
Speaker 1: in every round, including against my kings, and they've won
Speaker 1: every round. So now I'm like, okay, enough, I'm going
Speaker 1: to try it the other way and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: But no, that was I thought that was a hell
Speaker 1: of a game. One goes over time, you have the
Speaker 1: lead change, you have some controversy with the goalie interference thing,
Speaker 1: and then you know, it ends up going in overtime
Speaker 1: and the stars, you know, like I said, McDavid and
Speaker 1: dry Settle show up. So a terrific start to the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Finals for the NHL.
Speaker 3: And my day ed the broadcast on tn T.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, friend the great Kenny Albert, who I know,
Speaker 4: you know because he's he used to listen to the
Speaker 4: occasional Malor Overnight listener and he's, uh, you know, I
Speaker 4: love that and you know sports with Coleman pal And
Speaker 4: and Eddie Oldchuk when I you remember by briefly did
Speaker 4: that crap at the studio show at NBC years ago,
Speaker 4: and he was at one of the copy and one
Speaker 4: time I've told I used to tell this, Sory Eddie,
Speaker 4: you got to kick out of this because I at
Speaker 4: one time the guy that was supposed to be on
Speaker 4: set to talk about hockey wasn't there, so I had
Speaker 4: to talk hockey and and he just busted my balls.
Speaker 3: He just thought that was funny.
Speaker 4: I'm like this, meetthead football fan and I had to
Speaker 4: like breakdown, breakdown hockey.
Speaker 3: It was really funny.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The other thing, as you know that the number.
Speaker 4: One cliche in the playoffs that he's a series does
Speaker 4: not start until the home team loses.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's usually an NBA thing though, isn't it,
Speaker 1: But it works in hockey.
Speaker 3: Two. I think it works in hockey too.
Speaker 1: Because the road teams win so often in hockey.
Speaker 4: I believe it still works though I'm going fine, Shay,
Speaker 4: So it hasn't really started until the home team loses
Speaker 4: and then the things. The other thing is everything I
Speaker 4: read as I did my copious amounts of research was
Speaker 4: that we're Stuart Skinner blows but he's playing well good
Speaker 4: and then but it was a bold strategy by Florida
Speaker 4: to not even really test Stuart Skinner from.
Speaker 3: Most of the game. Like if you if you have
Speaker 3: a weak link, don't you.
Speaker 4: Isn't sports one oh one or just any You just
Speaker 4: attack the weak link. And Florida did not put any pressure,
Speaker 4: did not make Stuart Skinner make saves late in the game.
Speaker 3: They just know how many shots they had.
Speaker 4: It's like, if that's the week you have, you're supposedly
Speaker 4: have the better goaltender.
Speaker 3: Although you did blow a three.
Speaker 4: To one lead, so I don't don't know how good
Speaker 4: Browsky was blowing that lead.
Speaker 3: But Stuart Skinner ady, who your Kings?
Speaker 4: How many goals did they score against him before they
Speaker 4: finally choked, you.
Speaker 3: Know, the third period of those games?
Speaker 1: But my god, well he got he got benched after
Speaker 1: the first two games the Kings won, and he didn't
Speaker 1: get back in until someone got hurt. That's the only
Speaker 1: reason he's playing is because the backup Calvin Picker, who's
Speaker 1: six and oh in the playoffs, but he can't get
Speaker 1: his job back now because Skinner has come back and
Speaker 1: now they're winning with him. But he is definitely the
Speaker 1: week league CA and you're a hundred center right. They
Speaker 1: have to wait, they have to put more pressure on him.
Speaker 1: That third period was shocking that they would I think
Speaker 1: it was the what was it the first time in
Speaker 1: thirty something games they blew a three third period lead
Speaker 1: under their head coach Paul Maurice.
Speaker 4: There was something like, oh yeah, yeah when they had
Speaker 4: to lead at the end of the first and second period.
Speaker 1: I saw they were thirty one to zer going into
Speaker 1: the third period with the lead in playoff games under
Speaker 1: Paul Maurice. So bye bye to that. But they only
Speaker 1: have themselves to play them, obviously, But it also didn't
Speaker 1: they look they can't. The Oilers had to had to
Speaker 1: win that game. They take advantage that dumb play where
Speaker 1: the where you know, the delay a game puck off
Speaker 1: the ice. I mean, they had to come through on
Speaker 1: that one. And they did, and and Florida let the
Speaker 1: door open for him, and and they orders took advantage.
Speaker 3: All well, I've been told by one of my guys
Speaker 3: in Boston, I gotta get any thought. The Bruins hired
Speaker 3: a new coach. Idiot. I don't even know if you
Speaker 3: know this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, I know him very very well usually.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, Marco st Strom is Storm Storm Marco sterm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know who this is.
Speaker 4: But he is the thirtieth head coach of the Boston Bruins.
Speaker 3: As you know, Eddie, we have a lot of listeners
Speaker 3: there in Boston.
Speaker 4: They love you and they love hockey and they I
Speaker 4: wish Eddie was here to bring Okay. So Eddie, you're here, Bruh,
Speaker 4: you're on the fifth hour. So good Hire bad higher.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of the guy.
Speaker 1: Well, he was the La Kings HL head coach, which
Speaker 1: is if you're if you don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: basically their Triple A team, if you know, if you're
Speaker 1: more a baseball guy, he was. He was the head
Speaker 1: coach of their farm team that's here in Ontario, California,
Speaker 1: and he'd been there for many years. He had played
Speaker 1: briefly with the Kings. He played for the Bruins and
Speaker 1: had ties to that organization. Those guys over there know him,
Speaker 1: and uh, he was being groomed as being the next
Speaker 1: King's head coach at some point, but it never like
Speaker 1: that was the thinking of it for for years and
Speaker 1: it just kind of wasn't happening, and they kept because
Speaker 1: the Kings felt like they were close. They didn't think
Speaker 1: it was a good idea to hand over a team
Speaker 1: that was, in their eyes, a Stanley Cup contender to
Speaker 1: a guy who never coached in the NHL before, so
Speaker 1: they hired Todd McClellan. Uh, and then they fire him
Speaker 1: and they promote the interim coach, and they I don't
Speaker 1: know if they thought that was gonna work out. But
Speaker 1: then this guy leads them to you know, the the
Speaker 1: tied for the most wins and points in a regular
Speaker 1: season ever. But then he vomits in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, he had Marco Sturm had
Speaker 1: been groomed to be a head coach. The Kings thought
Speaker 1: highly of him. He had coached professionally in Europe for
Speaker 1: a little while. So we'll see. He's taken over a
Speaker 1: team that's not very good. He's got one good player
Speaker 1: and David Pasternak, and we'll see what else they have.
Speaker 1: But there, they don't like to talk about rebuilding in
Speaker 1: Boston because that's just not the culture of sports there.
Speaker 1: As you know, I think, though, they're they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do a little bit of a rebuild there.
Speaker 3: So we'll see. He's he's unproven.
Speaker 4: He's a fly good, but they don't I mean not
Speaker 4: a not a Philadelphia flyer, but he's he's a you know,
Speaker 4: a guy just taking a shot I got you all right, very.
Speaker 3: Good and uh, you know, we did the whole hockey thing.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been to Vancouver, by the way, have
Speaker 3: you ever been?
Speaker 1: I have? I thought it was beautiful. How did you
Speaker 1: guys like it?
Speaker 3: I loved it. I had no expectations at all.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And our buddy Nico, who's a fan of yours by
Speaker 4: the way as well, is a big p one there
Speaker 4: in Vancouver.
Speaker 3: He's very kind.
Speaker 1: He rolled out the red carpet for us, and he
Speaker 1: offered to uh to fly me up there, by the way.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do that or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should have. Yeah, I had had to work. I
Speaker 1: had to do my little podcasting things, so but I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. That was incredibly generous. And I looked like,
Speaker 1: you guys had a great time.
Speaker 3: We did it. We did have a fun time, had
Speaker 3: a good turnout. And it's you know, you never know
Speaker 3: who's listening, right Eddie.
Speaker 4: We've been on and off the the Overnight Show has
Speaker 4: been on and off in Vancouver over the years, and
Speaker 4: and we had you know, guys coming from all over
Speaker 4: Vancouver and people from all over you know, different parts
Speaker 4: of Canada that showed up there and Vancouver was just great.
Speaker 4: And the thing that I wandered around. I didn't go
Speaker 4: to any games because we're supposed to go to a
Speaker 4: soccer game, but the team the game, the white Caps,
Speaker 4: moved the game to Mexico, so we obviously we didn't
Speaker 4: go to that, but.
Speaker 3: Yes, couldn't make it there.
Speaker 4: But wandering around Vancouver was like, it's so beautiful that
Speaker 4: I love the skyline. And then at the city, you know,
Speaker 4: on one side, but you got the this Stanley Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know who Lord Stanley is. You know, he's
Speaker 4: been you know, long dead before I came around. But
Speaker 4: I would say Stanley Park more impressive than the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3: Eddy, what an amazing place that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, Listen. I think Stanley Park's wonderful.
Speaker 1: We went to Stanley Park. When we went there, absolutely awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Stanley Park is this massive. It's bigger than Central
Speaker 4: Park and awesome. You've got the skyline on one side,
Speaker 4: huge trees, water surrounded by water.
Speaker 1: It's just seaplanes, like, I mean, it's I loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gorgeous.
Speaker 4: Oh, it was so sweet. I did not expect that.
Speaker 4: I had no expectations the other thing that I thought
Speaker 4: really put Vancouver on the map. Do you know what's
Speaker 4: right across the street from the Canuckserena, Eddie, do you
Speaker 4: know what's right? There's a one street you cross over.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of traffic, so you gotta be careful.
Speaker 4: And do you know what's right across the street do
Speaker 4: you remember?
Speaker 1: Well, well, we were all around there, but I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: That would be a Costco food court literally across the
Speaker 4: street from the Canucks Arena.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're laughing, Eddie, but I am.
Speaker 1: Did you go? I mean, it's a stupid question, but
Speaker 1: it could they sell poutine?
Speaker 4: Yes, Costco putin Yes, I had Costco poutine. They have
Speaker 4: chicken fingers, Eddie, and the Costco they have sushi. So
Speaker 4: my guy, our friend Eddie, not you, I mean Nico, Eddie,
Speaker 4: Nico who's lives there in Vancouvers and fan of your
Speaker 4: work and my work, and so Nico he's telling me,
Speaker 4: like they go. When people go to games in Vancouver,
Speaker 4: whether it's the CFL team, the Canadian Football League team
Speaker 4: there or the hockey team, they load up. There's a
Speaker 4: huge line at Costco because it's so cheap. You can
Speaker 4: tailgate and get the food and it's hot, you know,
Speaker 4: because they got all the normal pizza and hot dogs.
Speaker 5: That is wild right across the street, all this amazing
Speaker 5: dirt cheap, I mean advantage Vancouver massive.
Speaker 1: You're applying for your visa now you're moving moving to Vancouver.
Speaker 1: Was it was quite expensive? What I hear? But it
Speaker 1: is beautiful?
Speaker 4: Well, it is expensive, but remember because of the US
Speaker 4: currency versus the Canadian currency, it's like a twenty seven
Speaker 4: percent discount.
Speaker 1: And who am I to say it's expensive. I live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: I know the price of gas is obscene here. Everything
Speaker 3: is just absolutely crazy, crazy.
Speaker 4: Town all the way around. Now the football season. I
Speaker 4: did some math on this. The NFL season eighty is
Speaker 4: like ninety something, maybe less.
Speaker 3: Than that, I think remember less than ninety days away
Speaker 3: from the NFL.
Speaker 4: And you and your wife always going some road trips.
Speaker 4: Have you planned anything this year? You are you eyeing something?
Speaker 4: NFL road trip twenty twenty five? There is there something
Speaker 4: you're looking at here. I'm guessing you're gonna do Chargers,
Speaker 4: not Steelers, because you know.
Speaker 1: You're well, the Steelers are once again coming to LA
Speaker 1: to places right away.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna have to try to go to that game.
Speaker 3: When is that game?
Speaker 1: I'll have to try to go to that, gay, I'll
Speaker 1: be a That is going to be Sunday night, so
Speaker 1: that might not work out for you. That is on
Speaker 1: November the ninth.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's somewhat that's like this, Well, I guess
Speaker 4: it's not early in the season. That'd be a third
Speaker 4: month of the year, right September. Okay, so it's been
Speaker 4: October Neber, so yeah, okay, that'd be decent, you know,
Speaker 4: not bad. So you don't have to go Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Right any we are not going to Brazil, which is
Speaker 1: the Chargers opener in Plo, Brazil.
Speaker 4: Get the banana hammock out there, Come on, man, No, missus.
Speaker 1: Garcia had no interest in going to South America. She
Speaker 1: she was very upset that Europe was not on the
Speaker 1: schedule there for the Chargers. Although the the you know,
Speaker 1: if something, look, I'll be you know this is going
Speaker 1: on with me. They're her, my wife, God bless her her.
Speaker 1: She's got family members, her mom and her sister, who
Speaker 1: are going through very difficult health issues right now. So
Speaker 1: there are no plans for anything right now. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, We can't plan on anything. However, you know,
Speaker 1: there the Steelers are playing in in Ireland this year
Speaker 1: and that would be kind of a dream trip because
Speaker 1: she wants to go to Ireland and seeing the Steelers
Speaker 1: in Ireland would be pretty awesome. So it's if if
Speaker 1: anything in you know, along, if if it aligns right,
Speaker 1: maybe there's a chance that could happen. Uh, they're playing
Speaker 1: the Packers. What a legacy kind of game that is.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing, But it probably won't happen, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, but that would be a hell
Speaker 1: of a trip. But we don't. We don't unfortunately right now.
Speaker 1: Think everything's on hold. Everything is on hold right now.
Speaker 4: So yeah, one thing that's not on hold is your podcasting.
Speaker 3: As you are there the.
Speaker 4: Joe Rogan of Hockey podcasts here dominating that world and
Speaker 4: people I run up before I forget I did. I
Speaker 4: did harass you at the meet and greet in Vancouver
Speaker 4: because your name kept coming up, and so I finally
Speaker 4: was like, listen, I just want to call Eddie. I
Speaker 4: just I said I because people kept asking about you,
Speaker 4: and not that I don't love talking about you, but
Speaker 4: I was like well, I have his number, I'll just
Speaker 4: call him. So I called you up randomly. You actually
Speaker 4: answered the phone, and then I passed the phone around
Speaker 4: a little bit, and and you made people very happy.
Speaker 4: The guys that were there and their friend, the mail man,
Speaker 4: some of they were very happy. So I'm glad that
Speaker 4: you were able to do that.
Speaker 3: How can people find these podcasts?
Speaker 1: The way?
Speaker 3: How can people find you? Three podcasts? I know you
Speaker 3: do the Kings one, I know that.
Speaker 1: So there's there's the Puck podcast, which is you're gonna
Speaker 1: hope you down for this, right, we're going into our
Speaker 1: twentieth year. Wow, doing the Puck podcast.
Speaker 4: That was even they had Puck. They didn't have podcasts
Speaker 4: when you started.
Speaker 1: Well, not not the way we know them now. No,
Speaker 1: it was it was a very novel thing back when
Speaker 1: we started. And there's a rumor it could be the
Speaker 1: final season. What of the podcast?
Speaker 3: Would you know?
Speaker 1: No, so we'll see, we'll see, really, but coming up
Speaker 1: on the twenty year, there you just if you want
Speaker 1: to find that, you know Apple podcast, all the places
Speaker 1: you look, Puck podcast. Uh, then you've got the Locked
Speaker 1: on l a Kings podcast, which is five days a
Speaker 1: week sometimes six I'm feeling feeling good even in the
Speaker 1: off season every day. I know, I know it, Edie.
Speaker 3: I'm impressed. No, it's impressive and holy crap. All right.
Speaker 1: At the end of the year, they hired me to
Speaker 1: do a nightly NHL recap show called Locked on NHL
Speaker 1: Game Night, which will be out there this weekend for
Speaker 1: you guys to hear. And there's even a rumor they're
Speaker 1: going to try and maybe keep it around in the
Speaker 1: off season, although I don't know how that's gonna work,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna complain with it if it happens,
Speaker 1: because that's money for me. But again, all these shows,
Speaker 1: Puck podcasts, Locked on LA Kings, Locked on NHL Game Night,
Speaker 1: wherever are you looking for your podcasts? And also on YouTube,
Speaker 1: we have YouTube shows as well. Just search any of
Speaker 1: those shows titles and you will you will see those.
Speaker 1: You'll see my face and we may not want to
Speaker 1: see in my face because I've face made for radio,
Speaker 1: but it's there for you to enjoy in the audio
Speaker 1: form and the video form. And I thank you all
Speaker 1: for your support.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that very nice. Well, you're earning your money, Eddie,
Speaker 3: and you're learning.
Speaker 4: And I like that, as I've always said, Eddie, right,
Speaker 4: this is like this, we're in June now, and this
Speaker 4: is the time of the year that separates those that
Speaker 4: can do talk radio and those that new podcasting. It's
Speaker 4: easy to do these jobs when there's a lot going on, right,
Speaker 4: you come in there, there's like seventeen different things you're
Speaker 4: ready to run and yap about.
Speaker 3: But the real art of audio.
Speaker 4: Is coming in when there's not anything really juicy, and
Speaker 4: you can make it compelling and have people want to
Speaker 4: listen like That's that's what separates people.
Speaker 1: So well, my shows are only thirty minutes to an hour.
Speaker 1: You're you're your four hours, You're you're the You're in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. I'm still you know, I'm the
Speaker 1: miners here.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's great. And at some point, probably sooner
Speaker 4: than later, I'll be just like you. I'll just be
Speaker 4: doing some podcasts. That's it, and that's that's how it's
Speaker 4: gonna go. And I'm fine with that. I'm thirty minutes,
Speaker 4: I can rant I can probably do that blindfold.
Speaker 1: At thirty I think you could, to be honest with
Speaker 1: there at.
Speaker 4: This point after all these years. Uh oh, and one
Speaker 4: more thing, I know I'm taking.
Speaker 3: Much of your time.
Speaker 4: I want you to again remind people, Eddie, because this,
Speaker 4: this has become a it's become a real issue the
Speaker 4: last couple of months here, actually last couple of years.
Speaker 4: You worked in the stat world, right, you were in
Speaker 4: that world, and I keep seeing these random stats pop
Speaker 4: up or this it's the first time ever that this
Speaker 4: has happened. And they add like seven variables. To explain,
Speaker 4: Eddie again, why this is ridiculous, Because what they do
Speaker 4: is theyre when you were doing it. They demand that
Speaker 4: you find a unique stat.
Speaker 3: Right, isn't that how that work? Can you explain how
Speaker 3: that works?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And we even had the assistance of computer programmers
Speaker 1: at the time where we could go to them and
Speaker 1: they could access some ridiculous database and they would find
Speaker 1: the last time, you know, something ridiculous happened. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we would. You know, back when I worked in the
Speaker 1: TV side of things, they would have some extraoc doing something.
Speaker 1: Let's just say back in the day it was Steve
Speaker 1: Sachs was the Baseball Insider exactly, and he and he
Speaker 1: would say, you know, hey, I need something that shows
Speaker 1: that the White Sox bullpen is one of the best
Speaker 1: bullpins in all of Major League Baseball, and then they'd
Speaker 1: spin out some stat that he could throw out there
Speaker 1: and you'd completely ignore some other stat that says that's
Speaker 1: complete crap, but it it's just you could find any
Speaker 1: stat to justify just about any other opinion. So that's
Speaker 1: that's how it used to work, which is why I
Speaker 1: raised an eyebrow and a lot of different stats.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I'm right there with you, because they
Speaker 4: they'll they'll throw in that like triples or some weird
Speaker 4: like in baseball, they're throwing some weird stat.
Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, we'll get out.
Speaker 4: I remember at all those podcasts type in Puck podcast
Speaker 4: could be the iconic final season of the Puck Podcast.
Speaker 4: And you've got you've got all your your your deals
Speaker 4: over there with the Locked On podcast group.
Speaker 3: So you've got that. Is our friend Tom Lee still there,
Speaker 3: the great Tom Lee.
Speaker 1: He certainly is. Yeah, he was a part of me
Speaker 1: getting that latest job on Locked on NHL Game Night,
Speaker 1: so I had to talk to him and set hello
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 4: And yes, my best Tom Lee was the original boss
Speaker 4: of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: Tom Lee hired me and I guess you too, right
Speaker 3: Eddie of me.
Speaker 4: Both of us were here, yes, both of us at
Speaker 4: Fox Sports, right, and I'm internally grateful to Tom Lee,
Speaker 4: one of the great broadcast minds out there.
Speaker 3: So anyway, all right, thanks Eddie, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you Ben, and thank you all of the people
Speaker 1: out there in Benn mallor Land. I don't care. I'm leaving. Goodbye.
Speaker 3: Gotta murder, I gotta go.