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Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's the winter that we're having is not
Speaker 1: really much of winter, if you really want to call it.
Speaker 3: It's more of a I mean, I was talking to
Speaker 3: Daniel the other day, who's in two nobody. Okay, So
Speaker 3: I was talking to Daniel the other day and I
Speaker 3: was like, you know, when I was growing up, we
Speaker 3: would be talking about feet of snow right now.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought i'd like to say just feet in general.
Speaker 3: No, like snow depth. We would have feet of snow
Speaker 3: right not this. I think there's probab Well after today.
Speaker 3: I haven't been home yet today, but before today, I
Speaker 3: think I had like four inches on the ground stuff,
Speaker 3: you know about four inches?
Speaker 1: Yes, I do. That's that's what they tell me. Try.
Speaker 3: Did you see Matt's posts a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: after that snow storm.
Speaker 4: We got No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: He's like, stuck the tape measure in the ground. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: looks like we got about six inches here, And it
Speaker 3: was very clearly at the four inch mark.
Speaker 1: I think it's almost okay. You probably got me on
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 3: Bruce, Dustin and I were all like, where did you
Speaker 3: learn to read a tape measure?
Speaker 1: And I didn't really read. I didn't read it.
Speaker 4: Weird, Well, he doesn't know how to read.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the whole town knows you're not wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was many, many more reasons why I should not
Speaker 1: be in front of computer or typing anything, But no
Speaker 1: one else.
Speaker 3: Does as well. For one, you've got all the access
Speaker 3: to all that most of that ship. Like that ad
Speaker 3: image you made today, none of us could edit that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I can do that if you ask me.
Speaker 3: Well, I pointed out the issue you did.
Speaker 1: You got me on that one. You got me over
Speaker 1: a barrel in that one. But I'm just I'm trying
Speaker 1: to post to our group so or all.
Speaker 3: Though you're always on your phone and I'm trying.
Speaker 1: To post all the groups social media ship. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm doing right now.
Speaker 3: So did you end up going down for the girls.
Speaker 1: High school in State? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was down there. I was down there for Bimigian
Speaker 4: war Road.
Speaker 3: Actually, oh, Pioneer covers the war Road too.
Speaker 5: No, I mean like it's forum, but like so technically
Speaker 5: Grand Forks covers him, but you know the you know,
Speaker 5: they everyone's got a small staff right now, and so
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, I'm already down there, Like war
Speaker 5: Road stuff does good on her. I say, like, I'll
Speaker 5: just stick down there and cover state. And it was
Speaker 5: actually the first time I've gotten to cover a state
Speaker 5: title game of any kind in any sports.
Speaker 4: So that's cool. I mean world loss, so that was
Speaker 4: less cool.
Speaker 3: But because they lost to was a Becker h Blake
Speaker 3: or no, sorry, Breck Brett. Yeah, because my cousin's daughters
Speaker 3: on that team on Brekh Yeah, I mean they were
Speaker 3: and his wife is one of the coaches, Tricia, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: former olympian.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the head coach.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, they were really really good. They had a
Speaker 5: great goalie and yeah, I don't know. It was uh,
Speaker 5: it was interesting. It was the first time I did
Speaker 5: cover state girls hockey once. Who was during COVID, So
Speaker 5: it was a.
Speaker 1: Little lame, but I do it, okay, So sorry, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead, thought about this. I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: this earlier because Charlie. That's why I brought it up.
Speaker 1: What Charlie was on here when your first day here
Speaker 1: there was a hockey game going on. Was that you
Speaker 1: that came upstairs hung out with Hoover and I was
Speaker 1: that that day?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: It was one of the first times I think you
Speaker 1: came up there. You're just brand fucking new.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh you know what it might have been. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because now it's starting to come back. Were they playing
Speaker 5: war Road?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got absolutely Yeah, they Jason had like six
Speaker 5: points and between the legs girls. No that it wasn't girls.
Speaker 5: I was talking boys.
Speaker 1: Oh I know. It was war Road for sure.
Speaker 5: You know what, I think I did do a Bimiji
Speaker 5: war Road game for girls. That Yeah, I did two
Speaker 5: hockey games that year.
Speaker 1: And it was it was a girls because they they
Speaker 1: had a phenom in the in the net. I don't
Speaker 1: remember who it was or was it the boys, It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but anyways, it was.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, this was definitely boys, okay, because the
Speaker 5: phenom net was Hampton. Sulkinski was playing for Western Michigan
Speaker 5: won a national title last year. Jason Chagaba had six
Speaker 5: points I believe in that game. But he went between
Speaker 5: the legs and the third period on a pass that
Speaker 5: went back door, and I had a realization of, oh shit, uh,
Speaker 5: this might not be this might not be going as
Speaker 5: well as I'd hope. But thank god they proved me wrong.
Speaker 5: And is he's still over into luth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's He's disgusting. He's so good that whole top line.
Speaker 3: It's just that's crazy that what was worlds senior class
Speaker 3: that you had three or four kids drafted.
Speaker 5: Let's see, uh Shaga Bay Sulkinsky both got drafted Shagabay's
Speaker 5: second round to Tampa, Sulkinski second round to LA and
Speaker 5: then I don't know if if Pilgrim was drafted.
Speaker 3: There was another forward I think that got. It's not
Speaker 3: one of the Marvins, because I think they's all gone, though.
Speaker 5: Damon Gardner, i'd have to maybe. I don't know if
Speaker 5: he got drafted. He went to Clarkson right away. Now
Speaker 5: he's at Saint Cloud. But do you look up and
Speaker 5: down that roster. I mean there's college hockey players all over.
Speaker 5: What that was three years ago now, so it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Whatever you've been here, it's about three years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been here a little over three years, and
Speaker 5: so I caught like literally two hockey games before the
Speaker 5: end of those seasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: What's crazy is World is just a tiny town. They've
Speaker 3: had an Olympian or a gold medal Olympian on every team,
Speaker 3: but they just kick out me, Rock Nelson, tj Oshie Marvin's,
Speaker 3: Aaron Marvin.
Speaker 4: They're just yeah, it doesn't stop.
Speaker 3: Which We used to go up there in the summer
Speaker 3: for summer hockey school, the war Old Hockey Camp. Yeah
Speaker 3: that was fun. Yeah, yeah, and so one of our
Speaker 3: parents in our group actually knew GG Marvin's parents. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we would go hang out at their river cabin
Speaker 3: and rip around on jet skis and.
Speaker 1: Must be nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean even if you look at like girls hockey,
Speaker 5: like what I think they got like seven or eight
Speaker 5: kids playing in the w c h A. Like there's
Speaker 5: two of them, or there's three of them on Bmidgie
Speaker 5: State Kate Johnson, Katie Comstock and Talia hendricks and Gino
Speaker 5: Hendrickson graduated last year. There's Riley Bard's play for Saint Thomas.
Speaker 5: Like it's just it's just nuts, Like they just keep
Speaker 5: pumping out kids. They have a goal who's going to
Speaker 5: the u M next year, She'll it'll take her a
Speaker 5: few years to get some playing time, like they have
Speaker 5: sophomore in goal now, Taylor Reese will play somewhere, Jayley
Speaker 5: French wills play somewhere. Like it's every single year they're
Speaker 5: pushing kids out to college hockey. And it's the same
Speaker 5: for boys hockey too.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, and I know I've Matt's heard this
Speaker 3: story before. He probably doesn't remember it, but so back
Speaker 3: in the mid to late nineties, there was Gigi played
Speaker 3: with the boys. Yeah, and we were doing a scrimmage
Speaker 3: during the summer camp one time and I was in
Speaker 3: front of the net waiting for a rebound, trying to
Speaker 3: get a goal or whatever, and somebody knocked me down
Speaker 3: from behind. I came up swinging, clocked her in the face,
Speaker 3: and it was GG.
Speaker 1: So I almost said, yes, you just punched G in
Speaker 1: the face.
Speaker 3: Punch somebody knocked me down. I came up swinging then
Speaker 3: you know it was a girl at that point and
Speaker 3: I turned around, was like, oh shit.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't I don't know. That story would
Speaker 5: be told one hundred times if it were me. It
Speaker 5: was just like, first of all, getting just run over
Speaker 5: by Gg Marvin It's and then turning hero ountd and
Speaker 5: just giving one do her in a hockey be like,
Speaker 5: oh shit, damn, this is just one of the best
Speaker 5: hockey players to ever come out of the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 3: You were twelve at that point. Okay, that makes it
Speaker 3: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: She wasn't that person. Yeah, I know. One of my
Speaker 1: friends also played with her as well. She's from Rose
Speaker 1: played with her as well too. That's she said that
Speaker 1: maybe get her on the show. Yeah, pull in the strings.
Speaker 3: Later on there was another girl. Her name was Sarah something,
Speaker 3: but she was from Morehead. Her and Gig were they
Speaker 3: blended in with the with the.
Speaker 4: Guys and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just crazy how good Gig was back then.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I do like to take some time off
Speaker 4: in the summer, but yeah, I'll be around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I make it out to you. If you Tom, Yeah,
Speaker 4: if you I.
Speaker 1: See you out there once in a while. Is there
Speaker 1: is there anything important big you could do this year
Speaker 1: for this summer or for town ball. Yeah, no, just
Speaker 1: just in general, just in sports. I know, like as
Speaker 1: soon as like high school's over, you're kind.
Speaker 5: Of like, yeah, no, I mean, like my schedule pretty
Speaker 5: I mean, it's there's never such a thing as like
Speaker 5: a consistent sports schedule, right, I mean, it all depends
Speaker 5: on when kids are playing games and stuff, but I
Speaker 5: mean it always kind of there is some repetitive stuff,
Speaker 5: Like you know, once I get to the end of
Speaker 5: college hockey season, then it's like the busiest month I
Speaker 5: pretty much have of the year, with like the transfer
Speaker 5: portal and especially now with college hockey being as crazy
Speaker 5: as it is and kids can come in from wherever.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of like trying to track recruits and
Speaker 5: stuff like that, and you know, I try to cover
Speaker 5: the CCHA as a whole. So then it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's just a lot and then but then it just
Speaker 5: like stopped and it dies, and it's right around the
Speaker 5: end of like high school sports season, and then in
Speaker 5: the summer it's get on a golf course as much
Speaker 5: as I possibly can.
Speaker 1: So it's just say it I.
Speaker 3: Saw the other day that you were tagged in a
Speaker 3: college hockey podcast? Is that correct? Or a news show
Speaker 3: or something like that. There was you and two other guys.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So I do have a We do have
Speaker 4: an our own podcast.
Speaker 1: What's that.
Speaker 5: It's called the c CCHA Reporters Corner. We basically I
Speaker 5: go on the c CCHA Show every week and it's
Speaker 5: just the league does a podcast where it kind of
Speaker 5: recaps the games from the weekend before and the weekend after,
Speaker 5: and two summers ago, I pitched them like, hey, what
Speaker 5: if we did like a second show on that feed
Speaker 5: where we just bring in a player from around the league.
Speaker 5: We get to every team once or twice, and then
Speaker 5: once playoff start, we can kind of focus on the
Speaker 5: teams that are winning, but you know, bring on a player,
Speaker 5: kind of go through their hockey career, how they got
Speaker 5: to the CCHA, tell some funny stories.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 5: Pretty a lot more laid back. It's not so much
Speaker 5: about oh, you had a goal in this game. Are
Speaker 5: you feeling good about yourself? Like it's more just like,
Speaker 5: you know, hey, how did you get to the athlete?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Stuff like that good to have because other they are
Speaker 4: human too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take a one punk out of time. Yeah, pucks deep.
Speaker 5: Oh really yeah, that sounds like hockey Player. But at
Speaker 5: the new year of this year, so it started twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six. We uh got the podcast on its own
Speaker 5: feed now and then starting next year it'll just be
Speaker 5: its own thing away from the CCCHA where we can
Speaker 5: do a little a little bit more flexibility with it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, so we do.
Speaker 5: We actually did two episodes this week. I recorded one
Speaker 5: earlier today with a man Cato player. Hold your ears
Speaker 5: BPSU fans, But uh, you.
Speaker 3: Know, I watched peer Net that overtime winner on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: That's a good one, Cato.
Speaker 1: I was there.
Speaker 4: That was a good one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it was uh yeah, and he's been awesome
Speaker 5: this year. Yeah, but stud but yeah, so that's kind
Speaker 5: of that's what we do for podcasting and stuff. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: pack first one is gonna be the BSU hockey. They are.
Speaker 1: They're not bad. They're middle of the road. They could
Speaker 1: be a lot better, could be a lot worse. It
Speaker 1: could be a lot I've seen a lot worse.
Speaker 3: So it went my son and I went to Friday
Speaker 3: Night's Tommy game. They upset Night, and they were what
Speaker 3: twelve fourteen and one going into that game, so they
Speaker 3: were thirteen fourteen and one after Friday Night.
Speaker 5: Twelve seventeen and three. At that point, I think, but yeah,
Speaker 5: you mixed up the CCHA record and the main record.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you're pretty much spot on. Yeah no, it's
Speaker 5: oh yeah, twelve seventeen in one. And then I mean
Speaker 5: Jeffery's spot on, like it's.
Speaker 1: Middle of the roads.
Speaker 5: Is like the the very vague way of putting this
Speaker 5: season because I think, you know, if you go to
Speaker 5: the rink on one weekend, you see a team that
Speaker 5: can win the CCHA, could make the NCAA tournament. You
Speaker 5: go on a different weekend, you see a team that's like, hey,
Speaker 5: is this team gonna make the CCHA playoffs? You know,
Speaker 5: it's it's been the quintessential up and down year in
Speaker 5: a lot of respects.
Speaker 3: So they after Friday Nights when they locked in the
Speaker 3: sixth seed for the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Technically it was locked in and going into the third
Speaker 5: period because of Lake State, but yeah, with a win.
Speaker 3: Locked bath. So I've posed this question in the last
Speaker 3: two years. Now, at what point does territories leash run out?
Speaker 1: Because never ever, that's my lifetime contract.
Speaker 3: Because so this would have been before your time. But
Speaker 3: about ten years ago when they finally got into the
Speaker 3: WHA cost us the Sanford Center to get into the WCHA.
Speaker 1: So was that after I was gonna fight from guy
Speaker 1: from faris. No, it was so.
Speaker 3: They get into the WHA, They're finally in the premiere
Speaker 3: college conference. And I've got a lot of strong feelings
Speaker 3: about college hockey and the w c h A. I
Speaker 3: won't get into that though.
Speaker 4: No, that's fair. I got them too.
Speaker 3: But they held their own with the cream of the
Speaker 3: crop in that conference.
Speaker 4: Went to a frozen four.
Speaker 5: I think that was right right before that was right
Speaker 5: before the year before the w c h ay was
Speaker 5: the year they made.
Speaker 3: Just the CCHA at that point, but so nine Frozen
Speaker 3: four Run. They've made a couple tournament appearances since then,
Speaker 3: but haven't had anything like on nine.
Speaker 1: W c h A.
Speaker 3: Big ten fucking ruined college hockey. So the w c
Speaker 3: h A ceases to know as exists as we know it.
Speaker 3: So now it's in CCHC and then Big ten. And
Speaker 3: with how BSU played in the WCHA, you would have
Speaker 3: thought that they would just dominate the WCCHA that was
Speaker 3: left over and they were just a middle of their
Speaker 3: own team. And then when the WCCHA folded and they
Speaker 3: move into the CCHA, they've just been middling.
Speaker 5: Yeah to some respect, for sure, I'm and I think
Speaker 5: in that sense too, it's also kind of up and down,
Speaker 5: because I mean, they sure had their years like you know,
Speaker 5: this year and last year where the low points are
Speaker 5: really really low and really depressingly low to be at
Speaker 5: the rink, right, But then even you know, a big picture,
Speaker 5: right like two years ago they win the mcnoton Cup.
Speaker 5: I think seven years before that they won their first
Speaker 5: mcnoughton Cup. So it's like middling, yeah, one hundred percent,
Speaker 5: but it's also come with like these big swings of
Speaker 5: what middling looks like too of and you know it
Speaker 5: is it's interesting when you put it like that, when
Speaker 5: it's like you think they dominate. And I think another
Speaker 5: school to look at that is Minnesota State man Cato too,
Speaker 5: because they were horrible in the w c h A,
Speaker 5: I mean horrible, could not make the w c h
Speaker 5: A Final five.
Speaker 1: Bad.
Speaker 5: And you know the Troy Jutting as the coach, his
Speaker 5: uh you know, his son came and played for Amigies
Speaker 5: State transfer from Colorado College, but uh, you know, his
Speaker 5: time certainly ran out. But then they get Mike hay
Speaker 5: Stings and Mike hase things brings turns them into this
Speaker 5: juggernaut and it's like, you know, it's almost like it's
Speaker 5: hard to kind of think about it now, but it's
Speaker 5: like Minnesota State wasn't I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think.
Speaker 5: Always supposed to become this in the WHA or at
Speaker 5: the CCHA. But you know, a lot of it just
Speaker 5: kind of comes down to the external factors of college
Speaker 5: hockey in a lot of ways, right, and it's only
Speaker 5: getting harder in that respect. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: there's also things that make it a little bit easier,
Speaker 5: like the CHL infusion into college hockey. I mean, you
Speaker 5: know that that's the craziest thing about this year is
Speaker 5: you know, you look back at the past two or
Speaker 5: three years of the CCHA as a whole, it's.
Speaker 4: A one bid league into the tournament.
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, a lot of from a national perspective,
Speaker 5: I think it's perceived as well, one team at from
Speaker 5: Atlantic's going to get in, one team from the c
Speaker 5: CCHA is going to get in, and the rest of
Speaker 5: the spots are up for grabs for the ECAC Big
Speaker 5: ten Hockey yea. And I think that you know, when
Speaker 5: when we think of the CCCHA, you almost kind of
Speaker 5: have to think of it in like a three year window,
Speaker 5: and that to you know, two and a half now
Speaker 5: almost three years ago was the start of a window
Speaker 5: where I think the CCHA wanted to get better at
Speaker 5: branding itself as a conference that is not just a
Speaker 5: one bid league anymore.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: A lot of things had to break their way, right,
Speaker 5: Like you needed Augustana to become a good team and
Speaker 5: a viable team, not just a good story. That's like
Speaker 5: now they're a middling team and they have right, I mean,
Speaker 5: they finished second the league last year their third in
Speaker 5: the league. This year, they are the best chance for
Speaker 5: the c CCHA to get an at large bid into
Speaker 5: the NCAA Tournament. Minnesota State needed to stay at the top,
Speaker 5: Bowling Green needed to take a big step forward and
Speaker 5: compete with a Michigan Tech and Minutes you know, Bimidgie State,
Speaker 5: right all of those teams.
Speaker 3: Saint Thomas prior to last week and was rank sixteenth
Speaker 3: in the country, which jealous fan here slightly pissed off.
Speaker 3: What they get into the NCCHC after only being a
Speaker 3: D one program for two years three years, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: At the same time, though, like if you put Bimidgie
Speaker 5: State in the NCHD right now, it'd be hard to
Speaker 5: make the argument that the team would be better because
Speaker 5: you the resources that they can put towards getting your
Speaker 5: feeling of competitive hockey.
Speaker 3: Well, that's just so. Bamidge's the prime example of a
Speaker 3: second tier school compared to your Minnesota's or Boston's or
Speaker 3: any even North Dakota. We're never gonna get that five star,
Speaker 3: blue chip pro prospect. You know, they're always going to
Speaker 3: go to the major pro We're gonna be constantly getting
Speaker 3: the kids that need to go to juniors for a
Speaker 3: few years this season and that are going to be
Speaker 3: older when they finally do break into the college ranks.
Speaker 5: Bingo definitely, and I think you're like ninety percent right,
Speaker 5: because they do at times find the kid that slips
Speaker 5: through the curser. I was actually thinking pole Camp two
Speaker 5: years ago. You know, Eric Polcamp has his freshman year year,
Speaker 5: he's one of the best freshman defensemen in the country,
Speaker 5: plays World Juniors, wins the gold medal with the US.
Speaker 5: They committed him when he had I believe, two points
Speaker 5: in the USHL. After he commits, he then takes off
Speaker 5: like I don't know if it was pressure of trying
Speaker 5: to make a commitment or play well in front of
Speaker 5: scouts where it just wasn't working well. But after he
Speaker 5: made that commitment, he turned into a point per game defenseman.
Speaker 5: Won the USHL Defenseman of the Year award. The year after,
Speaker 5: plays his freshman year at Bimige State, they win the
Speaker 5: mcnuttin Cup. He transfers to Denver that sucked.
Speaker 1: It sucked.
Speaker 5: It sucks for you know a lot of reasons, Like
Speaker 5: in the hey, Bimigii State did the legwork to find
Speaker 5: a kid like that and he's not here anymore. It's
Speaker 5: not a unique story. Every college on Bemidjie State's level
Speaker 5: is dealing with it in a lot of respects. But
Speaker 5: at the same time, I think the attitude towards kids
Speaker 5: like that has shifted, not just for Bovinji State, but
Speaker 5: for college hockey as a hole where I'd rather have
Speaker 5: that kid in my locker room for one year than
Speaker 5: not have him in there at all.
Speaker 3: Part of that whole landscape that you're describing right now, too,
Speaker 3: is something that Bruce and I have a big bone with.
Speaker 3: Is the transfer portal. I would imagine, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: because it's akin to the twins developing Johan Santana and
Speaker 3: then time to re sign them to a contract and whoop,
Speaker 3: see you later. Correct, you know, So we're we're like
Speaker 3: the feeder program for some of these more major schools
Speaker 3: sure where they're going to get college experience versus you know,
Speaker 3: major junior a's or something like that.
Speaker 5: Definitely, the transfer portal is is always going to be
Speaker 5: a win lose thing, right like the because it is
Speaker 5: frustrating from a fan perspective, and and like I'll be honest,
Speaker 5: I'm not a fan of Themia. I'm not a fan
Speaker 5: of any college hockey team, Like it's it's my job,
Speaker 5: Like I go to the rink and I they cut
Speaker 5: me head or what you see. But it's you know,
Speaker 5: from a from the fan perspective, it is, it is.
Speaker 4: It sucks.
Speaker 5: It just sucks when you especially when you're one of
Speaker 5: the fans that watches every game, every period. You're living
Speaker 5: and dying with the players. You get to almost kind
Speaker 5: of know the players and a lot you know, you
Speaker 5: see him at Luken's when they're shopping for groceries. You
Speaker 5: see him at Coffee District when they're picking up coffee
Speaker 5: in the morning, right, Like that's the best part about
Speaker 5: hockey and Bamigi and Houghten and even Mankato which is
Speaker 5: a little bit bigger, but it allows people to make
Speaker 5: those personal connections with players that you don't really get
Speaker 5: to do in Minneapolis. You don't really get to do
Speaker 5: that in Boston, And it sucks for fans to, you know,
Speaker 5: have to live with the realization that if a kid
Speaker 5: is really really really really good, like elite level good,
Speaker 5: the chances of the of them staying in the CCHA
Speaker 5: are lower than maybe the rest of their team.
Speaker 3: From that athlete standpoint, if you get the chance to
Speaker 3: get more exposure, you take it absolutely.
Speaker 1: And I get I get the personal side where he
Speaker 1: wants to.
Speaker 5: And the thing that I always go back to, like,
Speaker 5: I don't I don't hate the transfer portal. I don't
Speaker 5: love the transfer portal.
Speaker 1: It just is what it is.
Speaker 3: It needs some different rules and some groundwork done to it.
Speaker 3: But at the reason I think that it should be
Speaker 3: regardless of hockey, football, basketball, it should be a minimum
Speaker 3: of a two year commitment.
Speaker 5: Sure, I think whatever commit whatever rules that you put
Speaker 5: on players, you have to put them on coaches.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: That is the barn up because when we think of
Speaker 5: the transfer portal, and it's the same for NIL, these
Speaker 5: NC double A rules were codified by law, like they
Speaker 5: you know, the transfer portal didn't just come up out
Speaker 5: of nowhere. And I'm not saying that you said that
Speaker 5: or anybody else is saying it. But that's the misconception
Speaker 5: with the transfer portal, is that the NC double A
Speaker 5: is the one dictating the rules of the transfer portal,
Speaker 5: when it's actually the courts of the American government that
Speaker 5: are doing it. But it always comes back down to
Speaker 5: what I would probably I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 5: have a better phrase, but maybe it's just like a
Speaker 5: human rights issue. If a coach can take four jobs
Speaker 5: in four years and recruits players to those schools and
Speaker 5: they're not allowed to leave, well, look at Dion exactly
Speaker 5: Colorado and he walks in and half is Jackson's eight
Speaker 5: rosters coming with them, right, you know, like you know,
Speaker 5: there's it happens every single year, and you know, if
Speaker 5: a coach can sit there and take four jobs in
Speaker 5: four years, a player should have the right to do
Speaker 5: that as well. It's the same as, uh, you know,
Speaker 5: when people say, hey, we should put a salary cap
Speaker 5: essentially on an IL, don't I don't disagree with that,
Speaker 5: But now you have to put caps on how much
Speaker 5: coaches can make too, because that's where you know, uh,
Speaker 5: we're you know, it's easy to kind of forget the
Speaker 5: fact that college athletes are still adults, like they are
Speaker 5: still essentially working adults and you know, playing college sports,
Speaker 5: and if there's a cap on how much money they're
Speaker 5: allowed to make compared to other people, you know, you'd
Speaker 5: almost have to like factor in a coach's salary into
Speaker 5: the entirety of an IL.
Speaker 3: So like Bruce and I have talked in the past too.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, say NCAA, courts, governing body authorities, go
Speaker 3: all right, here's your nil pool, and it's going to
Speaker 3: be the same for every school ten million for example.
Speaker 4: We're getting there. It's it's coming, you know, because.
Speaker 3: Same thing like Minnesota football is never gonna be able
Speaker 3: to compete with Alabama.
Speaker 4: And well, you know, Indiana approved can happen the worst,
Speaker 4: It'll be a cold day in hell.
Speaker 1: Can If you sound like an Indiana fan, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean hater.
Speaker 5: It literally just comes down to, is there somebody in
Speaker 5: the state of Minnesota that wants to see the Gophers
Speaker 5: win a national championship? And granted, now, then it takes
Speaker 5: an athletic department, you know, buying into that as well,
Speaker 5: and then hiring the coach that's gonna get behind the
Speaker 5: same vision, right, Like everybody likes to say, well, Indiana
Speaker 5: just infused like sixty million dollars into their roster. That's
Speaker 5: how they did it. Sure, it's a part of how
Speaker 5: they did it. Why come from Kurt Signetti being the
Speaker 5: best coaching hire maybe in the history of college football
Speaker 5: was a big part of that because he was able
Speaker 5: to get fine, you know, recognize and find the players
Speaker 5: that sure they were a two star recruit coming out
Speaker 5: of high school. Alabama wouldn't sniff him. But look what
Speaker 5: he became into when he was a junior in college. Right,
Speaker 5: we're getting there though with the like last summer, I
Speaker 5: should say they did take a big step into it,
Speaker 5: like you know, through the courts again that we're getting
Speaker 5: there because there was a settlement made in the Supreme
Speaker 5: Court last year. House versus the NC Double A. It
Speaker 5: was a cross country runner from I think the twenty tens,
Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, sued the NC Double A for
Speaker 5: essentially back payout or not making an eyel money because
Speaker 5: they he didn't have the opportunity to make it. So
Speaker 5: just like Reggie Bush, correct, Yes, So basically there were
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of different decisions that came out of that.
Speaker 5: One of them was roster limits. You know, if you
Speaker 5: opt into the if this school opts into the House settlement,
Speaker 5: now there are roster limits for every single sport, men's
Speaker 5: and women's hockey is twenty six. That number is way
Speaker 5: too low. It needs to be twenty eight or twenty nine.
Speaker 5: But they'll they'll fix that football, the numbers around one hundred.
Speaker 5: I don't know it off the top of my Heady
Speaker 5: you go up and down the list, every single sport
Speaker 5: had a roster limit. Another one was that schools can
Speaker 5: make nil payments directly to players. They don't have to
Speaker 5: do anything for it. There's just you have a certain
Speaker 5: amount of money that the schools can pay the players
Speaker 5: directly for nil. So if UCLA wants to play Nico
Speaker 5: emla Aba, you know, ten million dollars to play quarterback,
Speaker 5: they can pay ten million dollars straight from the UCLA
Speaker 5: books to go to Nico em Alayava. And that that
Speaker 5: number has a cap on it. I think it's twenty
Speaker 5: and a half million dollars. And I don't know if
Speaker 5: it's per team or per school, but that number has
Speaker 5: a cap on it. So and we're talking, we're talking
Speaker 5: power for schools, right, Like, this is not going to
Speaker 5: be an issue for the CCCHA or ninety nine percent
Speaker 5: of college hockey teams.
Speaker 4: It's just the big ten.
Speaker 5: And even then all of that starts and ends with
Speaker 5: football and men's basketball, right, and then the rest trickles
Speaker 5: down from there. But there was another thing that came
Speaker 5: out of it. Through revenue sharing, where you know, your
Speaker 5: if your football team makes a shit ton of money,
Speaker 5: that football team then can support college hockey, It can
Speaker 5: support cross country skiing, it can support men's volleyball, you know,
Speaker 5: whatever you wanted to support basically in or they looped
Speaker 5: the House settlement into solving a lot of minor problems
Speaker 5: that are basically more hiccups than anything else. But it
Speaker 5: did lay the groundwork for, you know, a lane for
Speaker 5: maybe a cap on how much kids can make an anil.
Speaker 5: That's the other thing that comes up so much when
Speaker 5: I hear about it, though, is like what are the
Speaker 5: kids doing to make NIL?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Like you would have thought, okay, well, this kid's gonna
Speaker 5: get an advertisement deal with a car dealership, and you
Speaker 5: know you'll see him on the commercials on TV, or
Speaker 5: you know, you see arch Manning on commercials for like
Speaker 5: I don't know, Jimmy Johns or something like that. Right,
Speaker 5: Like that's what people's initial thoughts of NIL looked like
Speaker 5: when the reality of NIL is, well, you know, this
Speaker 5: grad owns this company and they want this kid to
Speaker 5: play for their alma mater, So okay, we're gonna pay
Speaker 5: him two million dollars to play left tackle and all
Speaker 5: he's got to do is post on Instagram with a
Speaker 5: hashtag ad on it, like, is that is that nil?
Speaker 5: Or is that just cutting a check and posting a
Speaker 5: picture of you playing a game when you are you
Speaker 5: already would posted something like that and then you put
Speaker 5: a watermark sticker of Jimmy John's in the corner or
Speaker 5: some you know, some shit like. There's a long way
Speaker 5: to go in terms of actual regulations on nil, and
Speaker 5: there's an even longer way to go for those to
Speaker 5: you know, make their way to college hockey, because I
Speaker 5: think a big misconception is that, you know, when you
Speaker 5: see a kid like Gavin McKenna make seven hundred thousand
Speaker 5: dollars to play for Penn State, that you know the
Speaker 5: big ten schools are throwing out that kind of money
Speaker 5: all the time. There are some kids that make six
Speaker 5: figures comfortably. You know, you know, you look at Boston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Boston Boston College is a little excessive.
Speaker 1: That must be nice.
Speaker 5: But like Boston Boston College, right, they can give out
Speaker 5: some good ANIL checks. There are some c CJA schools
Speaker 5: that I know give out some decent nil checks. We're
Speaker 5: talking five figures, whether that's for a four year commitment
Speaker 5: or a one year and it renews every year. Right,
Speaker 5: but you know the Center for Indiana Football is making
Speaker 5: three hundred grand or you know, uh coy Perrich how
Speaker 5: much how much is he making for the golfers last year?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Like the money that college hockey players make in comparison
Speaker 5: to basketball and football our pennies, right, and so.
Speaker 3: Oh, I bet you if you look at the actual
Speaker 3: like percentage based on revenue, it's probably minute school. Well
Speaker 3: but even just college hockey is gonna make a million
Speaker 3: dollars in revenue. So only a few of them too, right,
Speaker 3: But you know whereas college football they're gonna make one
Speaker 3: hundred million. So I bet you that racial between football
Speaker 3: program football player hockey program hockey, I bet you that
Speaker 3: racial is very similar, definitely, And think this and then
Speaker 3: this also has like an impact on like the growth
Speaker 3: of college hockey. It's stuck at sixty three teams right now.
Speaker 3: There was actually a sixty or another team. Mayville State
Speaker 3: just announce it's getting hockey today, not today today. They're
Speaker 3: gonna start a transition here next year, start in twenty
Speaker 3: seven to twenty eight. But you know a few months
Speaker 3: back there was rumors that Oklahoma State was gonna get hockey.
Speaker 3: I don't if anybody, Yeah I saw that, and uh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's not happening, was it. UNLV is trying to move
Speaker 3: from house to do you want to make that?
Speaker 5: The thing with UNLV would be like what conference are
Speaker 5: they in? Because the problem with teams trying to start
Speaker 5: college hockey programs is you don't want to be an
Speaker 5: independent because one, the travels brutal too. You're playing twenty
Speaker 5: five percent of your games at home, right that's a
Speaker 5: power for school though un l V like they're they're
Speaker 5: in the middle, like they're like Bowling Green their group
Speaker 5: of five, you know, mid major in a lot of respect.
Speaker 5: So the thing is with the growth of college hockey,
Speaker 5: it's going to come from D two schools that want
Speaker 5: a D one program like in Augustana, you know, like
Speaker 5: a Bmidge State right where, and a lot of them
Speaker 5: are going to be private schools where they have a
Speaker 5: little bit of backing behind them, they maybe have some
Speaker 5: right owner.
Speaker 3: As it sits today, there's no D two programs.
Speaker 5: No no D three, D two in the whole scope
Speaker 5: of college athletics where they play everything D two. But
Speaker 5: then you know Augustana, Augustan is only D one sport
Speaker 5: is men's hockey. So you're going to see that more
Speaker 5: and more and more where hey like these D two
Speaker 5: schools where it's really really tough to turn a profit
Speaker 5: in anything except for football, but you can turn that
Speaker 5: in men's hockey because you're selling Division one.
Speaker 3: As long as we're talking college sports, now this title
Speaker 3: should have been college sports.
Speaker 4: This dies, this dove into like a tangent, but I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about North Dakota moving up to
Speaker 3: FBS from FCS or FCS from.
Speaker 5: FBS and issue, Yeah, it's it's smart. It's really smart
Speaker 5: because the the I think it's smart for a lot
Speaker 5: of reasons, won the money right.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 5: It cost them seventeen million to do it right, But
Speaker 5: I think they're going to make the money back, especially
Speaker 5: you know, if you can. North Dakota State's good enough
Speaker 5: to where you can at least make an argument that
Speaker 5: within the next ten years they'll be in contention for
Speaker 5: a college football payoff. You make the College Football Playoff
Speaker 5: one time, it makes up for all of.
Speaker 1: That they do.
Speaker 3: They maintain the program levels that they're at right now.
Speaker 5: That's the big question. Yeah, but I think the secondary
Speaker 5: reason why it's really good is it reinvigorated a fan
Speaker 5: base that really didn't have anything to show up for
Speaker 5: until the postseason started. You know, it's an a. The
Speaker 5: Fargo Dome is a great venue in terms of how
Speaker 5: lowed it gets in the atmosphere and stuff. Go to
Speaker 5: a Fargo Dome game in the middle of October when
Speaker 5: they're playing but whole State like no butt, whole state,
Speaker 5: like nobody cares by by the time the second quarter
Speaker 5: starts because the game's already over. Like you you wait
Speaker 5: for the Decoda marker game when they play USD or
Speaker 5: and STSU. You wait for the game against UND whether
Speaker 5: it's in Grand for it's or Fargo, and then maybe
Speaker 5: there's some juice with playing USD. But the thing is
Speaker 5: NDS you got so good that no power forward teams
Speaker 5: are gonna schedule him as an FBS opponent because you're
Speaker 5: not gonna pay NDSU to come in and maybe beat
Speaker 5: you on your home turn, which was.
Speaker 3: Becoming a regularity, right you know, they they would pay
Speaker 3: one hundred, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and then
Speaker 3: lose to this team that was supposed to just get
Speaker 3: ship stamped.
Speaker 5: Right, So I think if you're NDSU, sure, you know,
Speaker 5: you go into the red for a little bit, but
Speaker 5: now you're gonna have reinvigorated ticket sales. You're gonna have
Speaker 5: reinvagan reinor sales.
Speaker 3: That's where I was gonna go with this. Your cost
Speaker 3: to attend a NDSU game, though, probably just got more expensive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if it doubled, it would surprise me. But at
Speaker 5: the same time, if you're if you're an NDSU fan,
Speaker 5: let's not say you're born and raised in Fargo, you're
Speaker 5: thirty five years old, it's you know, it's kind of
Speaker 5: like small town feel to it, where it's really like,
Speaker 5: sure you watch the Vikings, where you watch the Packers.
Speaker 5: You got a favorite baseball team, favorite hockey team, but
Speaker 5: really at your core, NDSU is your favorite.
Speaker 4: Team to watch.
Speaker 3: University of Wyoming Sure, Craig Bowl.
Speaker 1: I want to say, if he was not on here
Speaker 1: on the Bierboy Sports Radio Network, we have the Bison
Speaker 1: Bits with TJ just who is a die hard Bison
Speaker 1: fan who does all the Bison stuff. He talks about
Speaker 1: this on the on the Bierboy Sports Radio Network. That's
Speaker 1: uh Bison bits you can go with to Beerberly Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network. You can find all bad good plug by
Speaker 1: the way too. I'm glad I came up organically, but
Speaker 1: now you know, you.
Speaker 4: Take that and it just there.
Speaker 3: I have seen some on some of the different Bison
Speaker 3: fan groups. Some of the fans are like, great, now
Speaker 3: we're gonna have some kind of ploid to prove or
Speaker 3: update or whatever the Fargo domes. Now we're early going
Speaker 3: to be bleeding money.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: People are going to piss him about anything.
Speaker 5: It is going to be a little bizarre seeing FBS
Speaker 5: football in the Fargo Dome because it's it looks a
Speaker 5: lot bigger on TV than it does in person, Like
Speaker 5: it's not that big of a state. Same with that,
Speaker 5: same with STSU right, STSU Sea, It's what nineteen thousand,
Speaker 5: I would have made this such.
Speaker 1: A beautiful it is such a great stadium.
Speaker 5: It is what is it the Dakota Dome seat's probably
Speaker 5: around the same as the Fargo Dome, right, twenty five
Speaker 5: thousand people.
Speaker 1: That's also not a good, fun fun place to be,
Speaker 1: like yank it's fun.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's it would be very funny to see
Speaker 5: like NBSU have like a dream season where they finish
Speaker 5: like seventh in the college football rankings, and it's like
Speaker 5: Michigan has to go into the Fargo Dome and play
Speaker 5: a game, Like could you imagine how well that I.
Speaker 1: Would get there? In a heartbeat? Yeah, you cost you
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars media passes to make this work.
Speaker 3: I wonder who would be donating.
Speaker 4: This is a serious question, Fluids.
Speaker 5: If NYSU hosted a college football playoff game, would the
Speaker 5: cheapest ticket to that game be more expensive than a
Speaker 5: super Bowl game?
Speaker 3: I bet you'd be right on par.
Speaker 5: It would have to be close, right, because the super
Speaker 5: Bowl is gonna cost you probably four figures to get in.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh, yeah, it's super Bowl. I think it's at
Speaker 3: least I think it was three four thousand. Was the
Speaker 3: cheap tickets?
Speaker 4: Was that the cheap? Okay? So the super Bowl's probably
Speaker 4: still got a beat, But there's I bet you.
Speaker 3: Locally it'd probably cost you twenty five hundred.
Speaker 5: But I don't think you're getting cheaper than twenty five hundred.
Speaker 5: I think that is that's the number I was thinking too,
Speaker 5: where it's like it's and and good for them, like
Speaker 5: that's in a grand we're talking resale at that point, right,
Speaker 5: But uh, you know that's that's fun, and you know,
Speaker 5: you hope that other schools who are at that level
Speaker 5: kind of take that an issue, like STSU should.
Speaker 4: Be next they're there.
Speaker 3: I've read a lot of things that now that North
Speaker 3: Dakota finally made the jump, people are looking a little
Speaker 3: south and going, what about you Brookides.
Speaker 1: I think they would, but not they would.
Speaker 3: Teams that I've seen mentioned are Montana and Montana State. Yes,
Speaker 3: and from what I've read, one won't do it without
Speaker 3: the other.
Speaker 1: And two thousand and five, with the move from D
Speaker 1: two to to the FCS, it was a packaged deal
Speaker 1: to bring U, NDSU and st SU up together. And
Speaker 1: I think USD and U and D were the same
Speaker 1: type of program, but they basically had and I know
Speaker 1: for sure two thousand and five it was NDSU and
Speaker 1: US and st SU all had move up at the
Speaker 1: same time. It was a weird packaging. Gotch Well.
Speaker 3: It makes sense though from a logistics standpoint in scheduling,
Speaker 3: because it's one you know, Okay, so now in North
Speaker 3: Dakota they're gonna have to go to Honolulu next year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I think I think Wyoming's coming here.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen the schedule.
Speaker 3: It's out.
Speaker 5: I know that it's I know it's out. I didn't
Speaker 5: look at it, but yeah it.
Speaker 3: Was yeah, because there's Oh, it's great.
Speaker 5: The thing is, though, and to tie this back into
Speaker 5: the CCCHA, because I do have a segue back into
Speaker 5: the CCHA with this, the like North Dakota State now
Speaker 5: has to figure out the level of players they can recruit.
Speaker 5: And it's very similar to when Bimidgie State made the
Speaker 5: jump to the WCCHA, where you know they're playing small
Speaker 5: conference hockey, they're playing against the same teams every year.
Speaker 5: Right now, you jump up into a conference that's half
Speaker 5: of it's filled with essentially blue bloods of college hockey.
Speaker 5: You start thinking, hey, maybe we can go compete with
Speaker 5: them in recruiting. And for sure, some of the kids
Speaker 5: you can, but there's other kids that want the blue
Speaker 5: blood tradition to go with it. Right So you can't
Speaker 5: just say because I'm in the Mountain West, now I
Speaker 5: can get only Mountain West players on a roster. You
Speaker 5: still have to do your due diligence for kids playing
Speaker 5: nine man football in Northern Minnesota, where they don't have
Speaker 5: a scout and two hundred miles watching them, right, And
Speaker 5: that's the same for the CCCHA is right now for
Speaker 5: Bimigi State, you go into the WHA, the WHA dispands
Speaker 5: and even though they had the name for what for
Speaker 5: four or five more years, it's essentially the CCHA R.
Speaker 5: The CCHA was okay. Each time that there's been a
Speaker 5: seismic shift in college hockey, they've had to learn the
Speaker 5: level of recruits that they can commit. And now there
Speaker 5: was another big turning point in that last summer again
Speaker 5: essentially last November, where the CCHL opens up, so players
Speaker 5: from the WHL, players from the OHL, and players from
Speaker 5: the QMGHL are now eligible to play college hockey.
Speaker 3: Do you know what that is different?
Speaker 4: I can explain it.
Speaker 3: It's the it's the Canadian Junior.
Speaker 5: Do you know what the USHL is, Yes? Do you
Speaker 5: know what the NAHL is. It's a tier right below
Speaker 5: the USHL for American junior hockey. The HL is the
Speaker 5: USAHL of Canada, but there's three leagues instead of one,
Speaker 5: and then there's like the BHL, the AJHL, the MGHL.
Speaker 1: The you know, the SJHL.
Speaker 5: Those are all tier two junior leagues on par with
Speaker 5: the nall the CHL kids for I don't know ever,
Speaker 5: at least for years.
Speaker 3: And years until about the mid two thousands.
Speaker 5: Right, they were not allowed to play college hockey because
Speaker 5: they were either making too much money to play CHL
Speaker 5: hockey or they were playing against players that were making
Speaker 5: too much money because a lot of those CHL players
Speaker 5: were signed to NHL contracts already and then going you know,
Speaker 5: basically assigned back to their CCHL team to withhold another
Speaker 5: year of their rights or their team control. So if
Speaker 5: you're playing, it was a big faux pa in the
Speaker 5: NCAA that you can't play against kids making eight hundred
Speaker 5: thousand dollars a year. It broke the amateurism rules. It's
Speaker 5: the same reason why you can't go win the Birchmont
Speaker 5: and go, you know, call yourself an amateur golfer, or sorry,
Speaker 5: you can't go win a pro golf meet and then
Speaker 5: go play in the Berchemont and call yourself an amateur golfer.
Speaker 3: So and then because what was it we were talking
Speaker 3: Bruce Dustin and I were talking about this last week
Speaker 3: with it kind of coincided. Well, no, the shift which
Speaker 3: led to what you're describing was in the mid two
Speaker 3: thousands when you started to see the shift of college
Speaker 3: hockey and its influence on the NHL.
Speaker 4: No, you're good, I'm gonna I haven't recorded, so I'm
Speaker 4: gonna perfect.
Speaker 3: But so in the because prior to the mid to
Speaker 3: late two thousands, it was very rare to see a
Speaker 3: kid that played NCUA eight hockey. You'd have a couple
Speaker 3: here and there, but by and large, you weren't seeing
Speaker 3: large numbers making an impact in the NHL.
Speaker 5: Right it was what was at thirty percent of college
Speaker 5: hockey players have played pro. They played that commercial all
Speaker 5: the they played during the state tournament for years and
Speaker 5: years and years, and it was like Matt Reid was
Speaker 5: in some of those commercials, you know, to bring it
Speaker 5: back to but Mane State too. Yeah, No, you're you're
Speaker 5: spot on. That number is going to grow significantly. You
Speaker 5: look ten fifteen years down the road, that number is
Speaker 5: absolutely going to grow because now CHL kids that aren't drafted,
Speaker 5: basically we're not talking like anybody who isn't like a
Speaker 5: bona fide first two round pick if they run out
Speaker 5: of HL eligibility, even if they're under team controlled by
Speaker 5: the NHL team that's taken them. Do they want to
Speaker 5: give a more runway to develop, get bigger, faster, stronger,
Speaker 5: play against kids that are twenty four or twenty five
Speaker 5: years old in college instead of kids that are sixteen, seventeen,
Speaker 5: eighteen year old old in the COCHL. They're gonna do that,
Speaker 5: and it's gonna give him a little It just extends
Speaker 5: the runway.
Speaker 3: And that's when Don Luccia, who at the time was
Speaker 3: still the Golfers head coach. It was him York from Boston,
Speaker 3: and one or two other coaches that were just it
Speaker 3: would have what they were proposing would have really screwed
Speaker 3: the Bemidges of the college hockey world because they wanted
Speaker 3: to limit how old kids could be. Yeah, coming down.
Speaker 5: The funny thing is when we were talking about our podcast,
Speaker 5: the CZCHA Reporters, car I interviewed a twenty five year
Speaker 5: old playing for Minnesota State today twenty.
Speaker 4: Five years old.
Speaker 5: He's a twenty five year old senior playing college hockey
Speaker 5: super senior. The kids that are playing in the CHL
Speaker 5: again are playing sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen year old kids
Speaker 5: with a handful of twenty year old kids right like
Speaker 5: that is a massive jump in size, speed, strength, everything,
Speaker 5: right and so well.
Speaker 3: At twenty five old, isn't a kid anymore, right, it's
Speaker 3: a grown man grown right, So you know it's interesting.
Speaker 5: But to bring it back to again the CHL part,
Speaker 5: like this is another shift in college hockey because the
Speaker 5: playerpool essentially got a thousand players bigger. You can take
Speaker 5: all the kids from the CCHL, any of them can
Speaker 5: come play college hockey. That's where Gavin McKenna came from.
Speaker 5: That's where Oliver pier in a lot of rispects came from.
Speaker 5: Now Oliver, the playerpool is even bigger than that though,
Speaker 5: because if you if you play CHL you're not good
Speaker 5: enough to sign a pro contract, or maybe you don't
Speaker 5: want to go play in the EHL, you can go
Speaker 5: play U Sports and the HL will pay for your
Speaker 5: scholarship to go play you sports. It's however many years
Speaker 5: you do in the CHL is however many years the
Speaker 5: CCHL will pay for you to go play U sports.
Speaker 5: U Sports is just Canadian college hockey. It was described
Speaker 5: to me as the most physical hockey league in all
Speaker 5: of Canada because it's all kids with either no skill
Speaker 5: who are just big, tough and will be part of you.
Speaker 5: Or kids who are really undersized, really smart, but maybe
Speaker 5: don't have the skill to go with it. But you know,
Speaker 5: it's it's just like a step doun think D three hockey,
Speaker 5: think you know that kind of hockey, right, But there
Speaker 5: are kids that play in the sports.
Speaker 3: Because you're talking about Canadian hockey, Canadian hockey. Ever, if
Speaker 3: you're gonna have a shot at going pro, you're not
Speaker 3: playing you sports correct.
Speaker 4: Never, it's very, very very if you're a kid.
Speaker 3: That's got anything any sort of potential, you're playing major juniors.
Speaker 5: Right You're playing major juniors when you're signing when you're
Speaker 5: like nineteen years old. Right right now, there are kids
Speaker 5: that like Oliver Pier. And Oliver Pier is the best
Speaker 5: example of this, and he's Vivigi State's best player this year.
Speaker 5: He's nineteen goals. There's only a handful of kids in
Speaker 5: the country who have scored more goals in Oliver Pier.
Speaker 5: At seventeen years old, Oliver Pier was playing Triple A hockey.
Speaker 5: He grew up in you know, Ontario. He wanted to
Speaker 5: play in the ohl. He said he sat there and
Speaker 5: watched all fifteen rounds of the OHL draft, didn't get picked.
Speaker 5: So he's like, okay, well I'll go play in the OJHL.
Speaker 5: I'll go play you know, junior A hockey. Well, all
Speaker 5: the OJHL teams were like, well you didn't get picked
Speaker 5: playing in you know the OHL, Well you're not good
Speaker 5: enough to play in the OJHL. I'll go play Triple A.
Speaker 5: And A's seventeen years old, the COVID year which got canceled.
Speaker 5: He was sitting there playing Triple A hockey, and he
Speaker 5: was sitting there with three acceptance letters to local colleges
Speaker 5: being like, I don't like nobody wants me. I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna go to school and pick up a degree. Because
Speaker 5: what's the point of keeping playing hockey at Triple A
Speaker 5: if I'm playing with kids that are three years younger
Speaker 5: than me, right, And so he's like, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'll give it one more year. I'll give it the summer.
Speaker 5: I'll think about it. And he's going around, he's skating
Speaker 5: with his friends in Ontario and he is practicing in August.
Speaker 5: He's practicing in front of a windsor spitfires coach or
Speaker 5: a scout for the in the OHL, and the stout
Speaker 5: comes up to him and says who are you and
Speaker 5: he goes, I don't know. He goes, well, where are
Speaker 5: you playing next year? He goes, I don't know. I
Speaker 5: don't have a spot. And they're like, well, come to
Speaker 5: our camp because I'm pretty sure you can make this team.
Speaker 3: So he goes.
Speaker 5: So he goes to Windsor, makes the team, signs there.
Speaker 5: He said he crushed it at camp. And then eight
Speaker 5: months later he's playing in the OHL Finals against Wyatt
Speaker 5: Johnston and Wyatt Johnson's on his team's and er Jack
Speaker 5: I bonafied NHL Or they're playing in their Hamilton versus
Speaker 5: the OHL finals. And then two months after that he's
Speaker 5: at the Pittsburgh Penguins development camp. Like this kid just
Speaker 5: developed a lot later than everybody else, and it's it's
Speaker 5: no fault of anybody.
Speaker 3: Some kids it just takes a.
Speaker 4: Little bit longer.
Speaker 5: We call him late bloomers, right, They're called late bloomers
Speaker 5: for a reason. And now he wasn't ready to go
Speaker 5: play HL hockey or even EHL hockey when his time
Speaker 5: the CHL was done. He needed another year to get
Speaker 5: his feet under him. He goes and plays U sports,
Speaker 5: tears it up and when the CHL rule change. Now
Speaker 5: he can come play college hockey Division one and Bimigie
Speaker 5: State was right on it. They got him in the
Speaker 5: door and he's like, holy shit, this is awesome, Like
Speaker 5: I don't have to play in front of two hundred
Speaker 5: people anymore in nowhere in Canada, Like I mean two hundred.
Speaker 3: It was at the Friday night Saint Thomas game.
Speaker 4: Twenty five hundred there for that, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Said so they include season ticket holders, it doesn't pay.
Speaker 5: It also includes like media members and all the players
Speaker 5: on the benches and stuff. So is one to attendance
Speaker 5: starts at three hundred every game. So but you know,
Speaker 5: now you look at a kid like that, though, and
Speaker 5: he's when whenever he's done in college, whether it's after
Speaker 5: this year, after next year, after the year after that,
Speaker 5: whenever he is, he's going to sign an AHL deal
Speaker 5: because now he's good enough to sign it. And it's
Speaker 5: like that just gave him the runway. That is a
Speaker 5: perfect BMIJI State kid. Because the big schools aren't gonna
Speaker 5: pay attention to you sports.
Speaker 4: They don't have to.
Speaker 5: They can get they can get the younger, hotshot kids
Speaker 5: that can come in and we're a little bit more guaranteed.
Speaker 3: Most of their kids will be ready to step in
Speaker 3: within a year or two. They might need a year
Speaker 3: or two of juniors, but they'll be ready to play
Speaker 3: Major dal one hockey. Yeah by the time they're nineteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should just have Scott on your show or something.
Speaker 4: I've done this a lot.
Speaker 1: We're gonna skip a couple of beers anyways.
Speaker 4: Bimiji State plays Augustanda of this week and it series
Speaker 4: in aug That's the opening round to the repeat of
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 5: It's a rematch of last year's game with passion. I
Speaker 5: graduated from there.
Speaker 1: I know. That's why I said it's looking at for it.
Speaker 4: So anyway, will you good a series?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fine. All right, let's do quickly through
Speaker 1: the wild while they're back.
Speaker 3: We have a new franchise goals leader.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, probably I was gonna place que I didn't
Speaker 1: play this first.
Speaker 9: This is why we're in the state of hockey. Deer buds,
Speaker 9: it's time to talk about you mean he throw it
Speaker 9: a wild?
Speaker 1: Holy shit?
Speaker 3: We crowd chan is the best version of the goal song.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't hate shout, I really don't.
Speaker 1: This is way better.
Speaker 4: It is better, But I don't hate shout. I think
Speaker 4: it's over hated.
Speaker 3: This got a little diluted league wide. When ever, the
Speaker 3: Islanders started using it too, because the Islanders US crowd
Speaker 3: chan as well. However, Carill caprice off number ninety seven
Speaker 3: has two hundred and twenty career goals now, which makes
Speaker 3: him the loan leader for franchise school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said, which is, if.
Speaker 3: You think about it, in the twenty six seasons, we've
Speaker 3: had the Wild back now, who have, as I've told
Speaker 3: you guys before, have been here as long now as
Speaker 3: the original North Stars iteration is in Minnesota, fucking shut
Speaker 3: the fuck up nineteen sixty seven to nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3: The Wild have been here as long now. So let
Speaker 3: it go, Let it go. But Norm Green still sucks.
Speaker 1: I would say, like you you're so hell bent on him,
Speaker 1: like you hate him with a passion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucking Norman Green. But so in twenty six years
Speaker 3: we've had two players that have gotten to two hundred
Speaker 3: and nineteen goals. That's a tough stretch.
Speaker 1: Is a tough stretch. So they beat the hell out
Speaker 1: of the Lightning, which Lightning are generally a good team,
Speaker 1: aren't they. Yeah, Okay, they kicked the hell out of
Speaker 1: them and they lost the Blues on Sunday one to three.
Speaker 1: Not gonna play against the Golden Knights in La in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Vegas has not beaten a team in a playoff position
Speaker 4: since November twentieth.
Speaker 1: That's all right, I've been good.
Speaker 3: It's finally good that they're experience in some adversity and.
Speaker 4: They lost mark Stone.
Speaker 1: Good again. Well he'll come back to playoffs. Tho. Ch oh. Good.
Speaker 4: He's actually hurt now.
Speaker 3: So starting this season, you have to be cap compliant
Speaker 3: in the playoffs as well.
Speaker 5: You can't use the lt IR kind of kind of
Speaker 5: there's you're you're, you're almost there. You can use lt
Speaker 5: i R up to twenty five percent of a player's
Speaker 5: contract through the end of the regular season. Then you
Speaker 5: can like you can go twenty five percent over per player.
Speaker 5: So if mark Stone's making eight million a year, they
Speaker 5: can use two million of it for lt i R
Speaker 5: through the rest of the year unless he's out through
Speaker 5: the end of the playoffs, and then they can use
Speaker 5: all eight million.
Speaker 1: I did not go back.
Speaker 3: He can't be sitting on IR right now and then
Speaker 3: come back right They can't. They can't add a player
Speaker 3: what they did with a few years ago.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 5: They can't add a player worth three million and then
Speaker 5: bring Stone back and then be a million dollars over
Speaker 5: the cap. Right, But if Stone doesn't come back, same
Speaker 5: with what they did with Petraangelo. Petraangelo is just done
Speaker 5: done now saying with Tyler Sagan, it's doubt. It's like
Speaker 5: you can shelve that money. Shaye Weber, Yes, car.
Speaker 1: Who Sorry Karen would I thought Weber?
Speaker 3: That's not his wife?
Speaker 1: Sorry, Ryan McDonough McDonough it was a Weber, wasn't It wasn't.
Speaker 4: No, he played for Nashville though, Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 4: was Ryan McDonough that was married to Carrie.
Speaker 1: Let's find out here. What did you guys?
Speaker 3: I can see the name right now, but it's right
Speaker 3: on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I swore it was Ryan.
Speaker 1: Talks about yourself. The keyword is Delaware. Delaware.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the wild look good last night. Yeah, gost looked
Speaker 4: really good.
Speaker 3: Looks good. So to that point, the name floated around
Speaker 3: as our major trade chip is yesper do you I
Speaker 3: watched did you watch the T n T broadcast? And
Speaker 3: how Hank Hendrik Lundquist was like, I wouldn't mess with that,
Speaker 3: though they've got good chemistry between Gustafson and Walston.
Speaker 5: If you're not getting a first line center, I don't
Speaker 5: even consider it. And then even then you have to
Speaker 5: really consider it for to get rid of Aalstat. The
Speaker 5: thing there, there's like one deal I can think of
Speaker 5: that I would take for Valstat, and it would be,
Speaker 5: first of all, I think you actually need a goalie
Speaker 5: coming back in return, Mike Fisher. Mike Fisher, you need
Speaker 5: a goalie coming back. And I think there is one
Speaker 5: trade that could work, and it would be Volstadt, straym
Speaker 5: al pick prospect right loaded up. It has to be
Speaker 5: a big package, probably maybe even a Hartman going back.
Speaker 5: That's why you added depth center yesterday. And then you
Speaker 5: get Robert Thomas from the Blues, and you also get
Speaker 5: Jordan Bennington coming back.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I've seen Bennington's name mentioned.
Speaker 5: I don't think either of them are going to get traded,
Speaker 5: and it would be it'd be like, oh, really Bennington.
Speaker 3: Because nobody especially right but welcome. But he's also so
Speaker 3: the do you think him and Fleur would fight and practice?
Speaker 5: It would be like they if for some reason, Biddington
Speaker 5: ends up in a Wild jersey and they don't do
Speaker 5: like one of those like little social videos where they
Speaker 5: just kind of fight like that would be a disservice.
Speaker 3: There was so many people on social media during the
Speaker 3: Olympics because Fleury still lives in Minnesoti practices he was.
Speaker 3: He was doing it the whole Olympics because two of
Speaker 3: our three goalies were gone, well three of our four goalies,
Speaker 3: because our top HL goalie plays for Slovakia, which apparently
Speaker 3: they're saying that the Wild are very high on him.
Speaker 3: And if if they did trade false, Yeah, they would.
Speaker 5: Still have cal Peterson to who they signed as like
Speaker 5: a depth goalie to like all these catches with his.
Speaker 1: Right hand, which what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4: It just makes me weirds me.
Speaker 1: Out on.
Speaker 3: The right hand.
Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, but you guys didn't play goalie, No, his
Speaker 1: brother did.
Speaker 4: I played goalie.
Speaker 3: You guys all got a few screws loose.
Speaker 4: Sure, what does your brother? What does your brother play in?
Speaker 3: Grand Rapids?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I thought, see just from my dad
Speaker 1: grew up well, Scott, what else do you who never mind?
Speaker 3: Best friend growing up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: The Wild they're good.
Speaker 5: They're really good and hopefully Vince and trow Checks and
Speaker 5: Green and Yellow. You see these kids, Well, I'm not
Speaker 5: getting traded.
Speaker 3: Like what, I got a team here.
Speaker 4: Troe Check is the perfect thing.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 5: It's the problem is that he doesn't want to play
Speaker 5: in the West. He's older though too, so yeah, he's.
Speaker 4: Only five and a half million a year.
Speaker 3: Right, But there's a lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 3: you got to give up a number one to get him. No, no,
Speaker 3: you're not giving up a first round for one. We
Speaker 3: don't have one to give up. They do have one more.
Speaker 5: I actually everybody, you know, I listen to a lot
Speaker 5: of NHL pod thirty two Thoughts is my favorite podcast ever.
Speaker 5: No offense to this one or my own podcast.
Speaker 1: But the Adelson my own either.
Speaker 5: Everybody keeps saying it's a buyer's and if teams are
Speaker 5: Paigi and the prices are going to get lower, nothing
Speaker 5: has told us this is a buyer's market with uh,
Speaker 5: you know, Michael McCarran getting a second round pick, like sure,
Speaker 5: I guess it's a feels like a depth center need.
Speaker 5: He can win a lot of face offs. He's not
Speaker 5: worth a second round pick, and Tyler Myers is not
Speaker 5: worth a second round pick and a fourth round pick
Speaker 5: for the Dallas Stars Cole Smith, who I was on
Speaker 5: my high school team playing for Renard. He is not
Speaker 5: worth a third round pick, probably just in the context
Speaker 5: of NHL trades like it's so, it's not necessarily a
Speaker 5: buyer's market, and I think the price for troe Check
Speaker 5: is steep. It starts with strayml. You probably have to
Speaker 5: give him another center going back, and it's likely Nico
Speaker 5: Storm in that sense, because why would you add McCarran.
Speaker 3: Ifout it and then sterms specialty. Why he got brought
Speaker 3: back was face offs. He was the number four ring
Speaker 3: center last season in faceoff percentage, So that's why they
Speaker 3: went and got him.
Speaker 5: Because do you wonder if he's still banged up because
Speaker 5: he didn't start the year healthy because it hasn't gone
Speaker 5: as well as it should have.
Speaker 3: No, he was brought in for to be a role
Speaker 3: player though, right you know, I'm sure the Olympics in
Speaker 3: Germany didn't help him a whole lot either.
Speaker 4: No, definitely not.
Speaker 3: The Delanhill goal was sick.
Speaker 1: I saw that too.
Speaker 4: I think Delan was gonna win the state title.
Speaker 1: Do what we can actually get into the high school hockey.
Speaker 1: That the next thing.
Speaker 3: We'll finish our thought here. But I don't storm second
Speaker 3: go around with us. He was brought back for one reason,
Speaker 3: one reason alone was to win face offs and cup experience.
Speaker 5: Right, that too, because Colorado and Florida. Yeah, Florida last year, right,
Speaker 5: I don't think he won two in Florida.
Speaker 3: I think Florida. He was, he was in Colorado two
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't have enough guys like that though,
Speaker 4: You really can't.
Speaker 3: Right, But that's why they went out and got Tarasenko
Speaker 3: though too as well.
Speaker 5: And he's been like he was a slow start, but
Speaker 5: then like he's finally coming around, right Is he back
Speaker 5: to his prime or he can't.
Speaker 4: His back is too fucked up for that. I mean
Speaker 4: he looks old when he plays.
Speaker 1: Oh great so, but but if.
Speaker 3: They play Dallas, he always goes off against Dallas.
Speaker 4: It's it just sucks.
Speaker 1: It's not one eight.
Speaker 3: It just sucks that they really I listen to Worst
Speaker 3: Seats in the House with do they bitch about it all?
Speaker 3: Russo or not? Russel la panta loathes the current format? Yeah,
Speaker 3: me too, it should be I fully agree one to
Speaker 3: eight to seven. Yeah, bring it back. There's no reason
Speaker 3: because right now the Western Conference it one, two, three
Speaker 3: is two.
Speaker 4: Of the top three teams in the Western Conference are
Speaker 4: not going to make the Western.
Speaker 3: Conference because two of the three of them or all
Speaker 3: three of them are in the Central Division, right and yeah,
Speaker 3: and even if you.
Speaker 5: Want to reward a division winner, where you do, okay,
Speaker 5: the top division winner gets the one, the top division
Speaker 5: division winner gets the two, the rest are seated three
Speaker 5: through three through eight.
Speaker 4: I'm fine with that, Like that's like if you should
Speaker 4: mean something to win your division.
Speaker 5: Sure, it shouldn't be like the NBA where divisions don't
Speaker 5: matter at all and they're they're for nothing, like that's
Speaker 5: that's stupid. But yeah, no, it sucks. But I actually,
Speaker 5: I don't know, I feel more confident this year. But
Speaker 5: Quinn Hughes is just like lights out, like it's it's hard.
Speaker 5: I don't even know how he skates like that, Like
Speaker 5: it's how does how is he physically capable of skating
Speaker 5: like that?
Speaker 4: Like it's it's just fucking insane.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of people that are like, what's
Speaker 3: going on with Krill after we got Hughes and whatnot?
Speaker 3: He because Hughes is going to take a lot of
Speaker 3: focus off, right.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. That's good.
Speaker 3: He's also what fifty points since Minnesota's gotten him or something.
Speaker 3: He's gotten it like multiple assists.
Speaker 5: Yeah, almost nightly the wild, the wild of the highest
Speaker 5: scoring team in the NHL since they've got Quinn, right,
Speaker 5: which is just insane.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 5: It went from the worst scoring defensive team in the
Speaker 5: entire NHL with the fewest amount of points by any
Speaker 5: defenseman to the most since I.
Speaker 10: Love it, all right, correct, thank god? Okay, we're gott
Speaker 10: we're audio over an hour.
Speaker 3: What happens when you have a sports editor on a
Speaker 3: show I know and we start talking sports.
Speaker 1: I just want to go into fucking two and a
Speaker 1: half hours.
Speaker 3: We'll speed through the last four of this, all right, Well,
Speaker 3: Minnesota High school hockey tournament. It started this morning, Travis,
Speaker 3: your Blue jackets, full start, full start for the Blue
Speaker 3: but they pulled out the w moving on.
Speaker 1: He's flying back back right now from Florida.
Speaker 4: Cathedral and MOTAMEDI was a great game this morning.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 3: Didn't see that.
Speaker 4: One fantastic game Moto meat I two to one.
Speaker 5: I actually did not see the top the winning goal,
Speaker 5: but it came with under like five minutes left, theed
Speaker 5: out of power play light or midway through the third period,
Speaker 5: didn't score, and right, I won it.
Speaker 3: And right now we're watching man Cato West and delan O.
Speaker 3: Delan was up two to one.
Speaker 4: It's my state title.
Speaker 3: Pick five minutes left in the first period.
Speaker 1: They're nasty. The big the big.
Speaker 3: School start tomorrow night. My Elma matter Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that's Travis's.
Speaker 3: Back in the dance.
Speaker 4: What do you got win in the double A tournament?
Speaker 4: And if you can't pick Grand.
Speaker 1: Rabits, no more Head, Morehead is this.
Speaker 3: Section eight?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: I hate I hate more Head for a lot of reason.
Speaker 1: I don't blame you what.
Speaker 4: They've done that.
Speaker 5: I just don't like their the people themselves, the teams
Speaker 5: were whatever, but what the perception they get from a
Speaker 5: state wide level drives me absolutely insane. But I'll leave
Speaker 5: it at that because I don't want to get in
Speaker 5: trouble with the powers that be, So the powers I'll
Speaker 5: take my powers at be.
Speaker 4: I'll take Minnetonka.
Speaker 1: I be honest, I didn't see any brackets.
Speaker 5: Yeah, skippers, there's like Minnetonka more Head, Uh, probably Dina
Speaker 5: could win it.
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of teams that could win it.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a great field, it's a great tournament
Speaker 5: outside of Minnetaka.
Speaker 4: Gentry sucks. So like Gentry's not.
Speaker 3: Gonna be private schools, right, I don't care. But it's
Speaker 3: the old meme you see going around Facebook this time
Speaker 3: here state hockey tournament playoff where everyone hates the Metro
Speaker 3: but every or when the North hates the Metro but
Speaker 3: everybody hates the Dina.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: That's that was one of my favorite things, not the
Speaker 5: Dyna stuff, but that came out of girls state hockey.
Speaker 5: I'll tell this really quick story, and there's where we
Speaker 5: were talking after the war Rold beat Dodge County in
Speaker 5: overtime in the Class A semi finals. Those two teams
Speaker 5: had played in the last two state championship games, and
Speaker 5: the Dodge County coach comes in and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I know. To be honest, I was hoping that our
Speaker 5: seatings would shake out in the way that you know,
Speaker 5: war Road would get one of Brecker Blake and we'd
Speaker 5: get one of the others of Black or Blake. We'd
Speaker 5: both take out of private school and meet in the
Speaker 5: state championship again. So even on the coach level. There's
Speaker 5: still a little bit of resemmant towards the private schools,
Speaker 5: which warms my heart as a Northern Minnesota.
Speaker 3: They really need to have their own conference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but then you take away the villains, like you
Speaker 5: have to. Sports needs villain, right, But nobody hates he
Speaker 5: Dina that much. Like if he Dina plays gentry, everybody's
Speaker 5: cheering for you Dina because everybody.
Speaker 3: That would hurt me. I'll tell you I would, it
Speaker 3: would hurt.
Speaker 5: Most people wouldn't watch. But then if the people that
Speaker 5: would be like, I guess, I'll take you Dine.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. On the West end of the
Speaker 1: Cities Albertville, Saint Michael, so STMA. Yeah, is it the
Speaker 1: Eaters of the West of the Cities?
Speaker 5: Sure, because that's I also can't talk too much about
Speaker 5: a Dynad because that's where my girlfriend's from and her
Speaker 5: parents live.
Speaker 4: So and she went to eater But no, don't worry.
Speaker 3: Every day I need attention. Don't worry. She transferred to banilla.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 3: Oh, even worse.
Speaker 1: Do you know where the song is from? This bed?
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 1: It's an eight bit song? I don't know. Scott knows
Speaker 1: because he's played all the time.
Speaker 3: No, no blades of steal.
Speaker 5: Sorry alright, I can't say I'm young anymore. I turned thirty,
Speaker 5: soh look at you. We're almost forty almost.
Speaker 3: I got carded.
Speaker 1: We're all in our thirties.
Speaker 3: I got carted today buying tobacco and nicotine free coffee pouches.
Speaker 4: That's fucking crazy.
Speaker 3: It's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: I was like.
Speaker 3: I looked at the cashiers, like, there's no tobacco or
Speaker 3: nicotine in these, They're just coffee pouches.
Speaker 1: Zero.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of caffeine in it, though, and here
Speaker 4: they should be carded for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you will watch out Scott anyways. Uh yeah, So
Speaker 1: I just quickly run through the state tournament that's happening
Speaker 1: for for hockey girls was last week. This boys, I
Speaker 1: was a fun time to watch. Hockey hair, of course,
Speaker 1: is probably one of the best.
Speaker 3: You gotta watch the video afterwards. It's all hockey hair.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 3: He said he was gonna retire from it like four
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 5: He says it all the time, and he never retires,
Speaker 5: and it's like, oh crazy, it makes a lot of money.
Speaker 4: Maybe you shouldn't retire.
Speaker 1: Probably don't do that. Anyways, let's quickly move on to.
Speaker 3: I will say, I do think it's kind of cool
Speaker 3: that a high school hockey tournament regularly over the course
Speaker 3: of these next four days, the attendance every day for
Speaker 3: this will outdraw n h L team, especially in South
Speaker 3: or like any This for US is football in Texas.
Speaker 1: Oh, I get that. I totally get that. Next one
Speaker 1: is a USA baseball so they just started. He just
Speaker 1: started first game. Buxton hit a hit a home run.
Speaker 4: Still an exhibition today it is, but yeah, they.
Speaker 3: He was hanging out with a kid today.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: Does he pop a hammy during this?
Speaker 1: You don't say that? Boo? No?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 1: Buxing hit a home run today against Colorado.
Speaker 3: Does Jared know about your shot bet?
Speaker 1: No? But let me play the shot bet for you though,
Speaker 1: find the button for it. I had a lot more
Speaker 1: buttons the past few weeks.
Speaker 3: You should search shot bet.
Speaker 6: It's Joe time.
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Speaker 1: All right. So the shot bet that I have is
Speaker 1: that I say that Joe Ryan will be traded this offseason.
Speaker 1: It has till May April.
Speaker 3: So this month, at some point, basically, he's going to
Speaker 3: get traded before opening days.
Speaker 1: Matt's bet.
Speaker 3: It's not. This was this was made what two months ago,
Speaker 3: well before Pablo shredded his elbow?
Speaker 4: What what's what happens if he doesn't get traded?
Speaker 1: I think shot? Oh wow, what a punishment? Uh no,
Speaker 1: there's ugly shot.
Speaker 5: Now, Okay, yeah, that is. There are some there are
Speaker 5: some punishments on the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not fun and Travis crew had to take
Speaker 1: a few of them before, like consecutively.
Speaker 3: It was did you say there's an orange version?
Speaker 1: There's an orange version of it's gross pass and it's
Speaker 1: at you know, free ear though free uh free shot
Speaker 1: out to the Wilton liquor store, because I think the
Speaker 1: only one I see.
Speaker 4: That has it shout out to the Wilton Lakers story.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a that's a shot.
Speaker 3: That be what they always have in the paper bag
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Speaker 1: Could be who knows what there? All? Right?
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was really Baseball World Baseball Classic kicks off.
Speaker 1: When tomorrow I think when it starts out the pool
Speaker 1: play starts, I think tomorrow the next day, one of
Speaker 1: the two. But it's starting and.
Speaker 3: Is this becoming an annual thing?
Speaker 4: No, it's like two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three years. I thought it was it two years
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 4: Something. It was one of my favorite base like you know,
Speaker 4: I was watching like that.
Speaker 3: Well at that point they were still teammates.
Speaker 4: Right, and we didn't think we'd ever see it, and
Speaker 4: then now we could see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can see it. It's great, it's fun. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. But women come back. We have
Speaker 1: misconnections which I did read. I did read this morning,
Speaker 1: but we'll see how it goes. How are they play? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, look at this little bit Morephis is under that.
Speaker 3: You also got some Wiskipedia. When you come back, Jared's
Speaker 3: going to the box two minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the body, be back a little bit. Beer
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Speaker 3: Welcome back. It's time for Matt's very favorite portion of
Speaker 3: the show. It is the live portion of the show
Speaker 3: where we get to do fun games. Listen to Matt
Speaker 3: Butcher misconnections. It's all right, show off his sixth.
Speaker 1: Grade read what I can. Who's with us as well?
Speaker 3: I got to my right. We got Matthew, John Geffrey,
Speaker 3: Angelica as Bruce like to say, and to my left.
Speaker 3: We got the sports reporter from the Bamigi Pioneer, mister
Speaker 3: Jared robutto sure is that how I pronounce it? I
Speaker 3: butchered it.
Speaker 4: I did everybody Butcher.
Speaker 3: I could not get.
Speaker 1: I get Jeffrey constantly.
Speaker 4: I have to check myself to not call you Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: It's all right. I got called Griffy one time. I'm
Speaker 1: not black, nor am I really good at but I
Speaker 1: do all right.
Speaker 4: Yeah that somebody needs to maybe just makes it a
Speaker 4: water next time.
Speaker 3: The brilliant does not swing like him either.
Speaker 1: I so my mom. I had a conversation with mom
Speaker 1: the other day when I was in youth sports that
Speaker 1: playing baseball, I had King Griffey swing. My mom swears
Speaker 1: up and down that I was like to start, so
Speaker 1: you do it, and I sucked. Now you saw me
Speaker 1: play baseball and softball, and they'm like not more compact and.
Speaker 3: Warning track power.
Speaker 1: Same with you. Same, I'm built a little little taller.
Speaker 3: You more stout, Yeah, a little more barrel stove.
Speaker 1: Now barrel stove. Well, I never heard. I just never
Speaker 1: heard used that before. So intrigued. All right, miss connections.
Speaker 2: I never have a pockward encounter with the supermarkets and
Speaker 2: don't know where else to turn searching for love on
Speaker 2: the Internet. It's time for missed connections with Matt Jeffrey.
Speaker 3: All right, so before you start, quick, justin. A lot
Speaker 3: of people go to college for seven years. Yeah, they're
Speaker 3: called doctors.
Speaker 1: See you make sure I got the right Okay, I do,
Speaker 1: all right? So this first one again, I did it
Speaker 1: this morning. I read it just once this morning. You
Speaker 1: know how it goes. I try to find a love
Speaker 1: on the internet on misconnections, either on Reddit or Craigslist,
Speaker 1: and that's always the best one. Craigslist is always the
Speaker 1: lettered it does. And then the Craigslist is always the
Speaker 1: Minnesota ones. Sometimes they're good, so then they're bad and
Speaker 1: the ones that Bruce hates the most. Where you could
Speaker 1: just go back in.
Speaker 3: She works at Red Lobster, So go back yeah, go
Speaker 3: tell her you should like that you work the coffee
Speaker 3: drive through at Cariboo.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's true. This one bit of a long one. First,
Speaker 1: of course, out of the gates.
Speaker 4: That's test tales read five minutes later.
Speaker 3: Assholes? What is this?
Speaker 4: What is this letter that it looks like an upside
Speaker 4: on triangle with an a what's the other thing is
Speaker 4: that an a.
Speaker 1: Is this geometry? No update, I didn't go jondre update
Speaker 1: to the original post that includes important details. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: the man that isn't named Jordan. Maybe you aren't fifty,
Speaker 1: maybe you aren't even an engineer, and maybe you are
Speaker 1: a compulsive liar. Dot dot dot but dot dot dot dot.
Speaker 1: Did you go to the Big rec slash Live show
Speaker 1: in Sketchewan on Saturday night? Did you have a fabulous
Speaker 1: time with a ginger girl and for good to get
Speaker 1: her number? Maybe these details will help me jog your memory.
Speaker 1: Your last concert at the Sagtall Center was the last
Speaker 1: Metallica show. You convinced a fourteen year old boy at
Speaker 1: his first concert to share his popcorn with you. What
Speaker 1: a dick. You look young for your apparent age. You
Speaker 1: have all of your hair. In fact, you have four
Speaker 1: gray hairs and they are all in your beard. You
Speaker 1: took the time to show me. That sounds like something I.
Speaker 4: Would do too, something I absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like beer weird and that night you had
Speaker 1: a lot of beer weird weird. It's not me, by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 3: Up in Saskatchewan.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. My idea works.
Speaker 3: You don't have a passport.
Speaker 1: No, you get in Canada with really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really enhanced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has to be an enhanced idea, not just
Speaker 3: a real ID.
Speaker 1: I had mine somewhere. It's one before you left it
Speaker 1: at the Sastel Center and soccer I did, damn it.
Speaker 1: Uh you asked me to marry you twice? Are you
Speaker 1: sure this is you?
Speaker 3: Matthew love Bomb Geffrey.
Speaker 1: Oh that's enough. You declare that in a return for
Speaker 1: being a kept woman, I would need to make you
Speaker 1: daily sandwiches, cook your dinner when you get home from work.
Speaker 1: It does like me when you when you said would
Speaker 1: you do you use the phrase kept woman?
Speaker 3: That was above his vocabulary level. A. I totally wrote
Speaker 3: this kind of like how you were trying to use
Speaker 3: that as a stole whatever word, And I'm like, what
Speaker 3: the fuck word are you even talking about?
Speaker 1: Uh? Can they go? Tom Hanks, focus on this. You
Speaker 1: said you would garden today, you garden together and have
Speaker 1: a greenhouse. You made me a promise. I would. I
Speaker 1: would love your cat, obviously not me. I fucking hate cats. Look, Jordan,
Speaker 1: you were a lot of fun. We both we both
Speaker 1: sang and dance and part of like it was nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine. I need more than this memory of you
Speaker 1: from the from the most fun I had in three
Speaker 1: hours of my life. You made a lot of promises.
Speaker 1: I would break my I would break my heart if
Speaker 1: this I'm sorry, it would break my heart if this
Speaker 1: marriage proposal wasn't indeed heartfelt meaningful to you. However, the
Speaker 1: only promise I will I want you to keep right
Speaker 1: now is to follow update. Because let's face it, I'm
Speaker 1: fun and you're a blast Between the two of us,
Speaker 1: how can one date be anything but more exceptional than
Speaker 1: the last I know you are. I know you are
Speaker 1: maybe feeling shy now Heck, I'm embarrassed too. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean for this being public dot dot dot, but listen
Speaker 1: to me, Jordan. We are in this together. We've gotten
Speaker 1: this far dot dot dot doesn't Doesn't it just seem
Speaker 1: right to complete this connection? So we can just let
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people who are viewing this post
Speaker 1: now Now, Now how successful finding love or fun with
Speaker 1: strangers at a concert that you both attended by yourselves
Speaker 1: can be.
Speaker 3: You have grumpy old men last year.
Speaker 1: I got a text for her by the way too,
Speaker 1: I'll show you. Okay, you know exactly where to find
Speaker 1: me dot dot dot Oh my love cautious knowledge seventy five.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's her snappers.
Speaker 3: I heard ID tag, Yeah, use your ID.
Speaker 1: Something like that, all right, next one? Or you're gonna
Speaker 1: say something because he pulled someone up.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was gonna show Jared the message chain yesterday
Speaker 3: when you're like, I'm an escatel.
Speaker 1: Oh esoterical approach. So basically, I just I just half asked.
Speaker 1: I look at the box score to go.
Speaker 3: That's not what that word means even.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I tried misconnections on Craigslist. The replies are wild replies.
Speaker 1: They are fucking wild. I thought, I thought. I tried
Speaker 1: here today in Winko one thirm. We we made the
Speaker 1: eye contact in the fruit section and I felt the
Speaker 1: flame emoji. You have dark features, dark shirt and a hat.
Speaker 1: You were alone. I'm the girl in the black long
Speaker 1: sleeves and a ponytail. I don't know why either of
Speaker 1: us said anything, but I was in a hurry and
Speaker 1: felt regret. As I was pulling out of the parking lot,
Speaker 1: I thought I'd give us a try and try to
Speaker 1: find you. Sorry, it's not allowed. PS no flares for
Speaker 1: this type of situation. Should we add one if you
Speaker 1: want to?
Speaker 4: I guess these people need more friends who are a therapist.
Speaker 1: Good one misconnection March first long shot. But maybe you
Speaker 1: are on here dot dot dot miss connection. At Disneyland
Speaker 1: yesterday Sunday, we met on a We met on Space Mountain.
Speaker 3: Shock, the happiest place he allegedly.
Speaker 1: And our kids bonded and they we spent half the
Speaker 1: day together. I felt so bad for not following up.
Speaker 1: My kids kept talking about both of you. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can all be friends and the kids can play video games.
Speaker 3: Question Mark, distract the kids, Yeah, yeah, distract the.
Speaker 1: Kids go to bed real quick. Not you? Oh never anyways? Uh,
Speaker 1: Minnesota time, Oakdale liquor store. Beautiful blonde, Uh, driving a
Speaker 1: black suv wearing a camel sweater. You smelled so good
Speaker 1: as well. I waved. I waved as you were leaving.
Speaker 1: You waved back, probably thinking I was probably someone that
Speaker 1: you knew. I would love to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Sometimes call me crazy, But if the first person you're,
Speaker 5: first thing you're starting with is you smelled so good, like,
Speaker 5: that's such a.
Speaker 1: Yeah that I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Say it because then it's getting political.
Speaker 1: Gg I love to hear. I love to hear you play.
Speaker 1: It's not gg Martin that Scott punched in the face, allegedly,
Speaker 1: but I love to hear you play. We had an
Speaker 1: amazing conversation and you heard you know, it's not I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe this is down to inver Grove, so maybe I would.
Speaker 3: I would laugh if twenty eight years later somebody said
Speaker 3: I remember that fucker.
Speaker 1: I'm going to reach out and ask. Anyways, we had
Speaker 1: an a maids of conversation, and you were right. I did.
Speaker 1: I did think about you. I said, Look, you're right,
Speaker 1: I did think about you when I got home. You
Speaker 1: made me think a lot about art. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear you play your cello. Allegedly, things go all right,
Speaker 1: fair ball. Running into each other has been It has
Speaker 1: been great to seeing you so randomly these past few
Speaker 1: months after so many years. Nice to see we still
Speaker 1: have that connection. I'll be down less over the next
Speaker 1: few months, but let's stay in touch this time. Obviously
Speaker 1: one person trying to pull the fuck away. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: all right, I think this is the last one.
Speaker 3: Yoga pants, all right, God's gift to men.
Speaker 1: All right, this is in Fargo, alright, alright, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Mancy. I'll jesus I love the snug fit.
Speaker 1: If you're willing to share a picture of your wonderful,
Speaker 1: wondrous curves, please do. No, that was weak. Uh, that's misconnections.
Speaker 1: This week, Justin's been comedy as like go Matt still
Speaker 1: lines from Courtney's shut up pines.
Speaker 3: I know, but he probably meant Matt still pines for court.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Oh I fore the next one? Okay, well
Speaker 1: that happens. No, I don't though she's not well.
Speaker 3: Broke my heart and I've hated Valentine's Day ever.
Speaker 1: Said fucking sucks. That's miss connections this week.
Speaker 3: I was tipped, but it just kind of the goalie'd got.
Speaker 4: These Delano helmets are disgusting.
Speaker 3: I like the cream color.
Speaker 4: The jerseys are fine. The helmets being cream is really
Speaker 4: throwing me off.
Speaker 1: My brother.
Speaker 3: So the Iowa Wild have a cream colored jersey. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the cream color. My brother loves it. Really, He's like,
Speaker 3: Minnesota needs that color.
Speaker 5: Cobo Lake State does it too. They have the cream helmets.
Speaker 5: It doesn't look good for them either.
Speaker 4: But I don't mind the Iowa Wild ones because it's
Speaker 4: because now that you mentioned have they compliment each.
Speaker 3: Other though, Yeah, cream in the forest greens yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't look good with Teleno. They should
Speaker 4: just have black.
Speaker 1: Help black helmets blended with their pants.
Speaker 4: It's better than orange.
Speaker 3: I say the same thing with like San Jose no
Speaker 3: even oh yeah, and Anaheim black breezers back, yeah, black helmets.
Speaker 5: Those I like when the sharks go back to black.
Speaker 5: And they also started wearing their throwbacks to those.
Speaker 1: Are sick that teal a teal looking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's sorry, not to dive back in.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's fine, all right. We do wiskipedia, a rad wiskipedia.
Speaker 1: So this is not what we know. It's what Jared knows,
Speaker 1: and and there are some good ones in here. I
Speaker 1: know we did the mayor last week and I think
Speaker 1: he got two of them, right, two or three?
Speaker 3: Three or four?
Speaker 1: Actually? Are you doing five or ten? Tenet? Pretty quick?
Speaker 5: Because I've done ten the previous two times, and I'm
Speaker 5: shooting for five. I think now that I remember I
Speaker 5: got four on the second time.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, so are you ready, Jared?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Question number one number one back on July fifth, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 4: Six, even born, I was three months old or something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: The first mammal a sheep was successfully cloned. What was
Speaker 3: its name?
Speaker 1: I remember this.
Speaker 4: I don't have a fucking clue.
Speaker 3: I just passed it's Dolly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Come on with the Augie. You should know this.
Speaker 4: I was not pre med or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But that was like huge news and they still talk
Speaker 3: about it from time to time. I missed me, alright.
Speaker 3: Question number two, number two, what was the name of
Speaker 3: Snoopy's bird friend?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: I could give you one hint and it would be
Speaker 3: a total giveaway.
Speaker 5: It's like Mike Fisher. It's like I can I can
Speaker 5: see the name, and it's just it's just sitting right there.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to say it. I this is this
Speaker 5: is embarrassing. This is a bad one.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: You can say it's wrong. But the most famous outdoor
Speaker 3: music festival.
Speaker 4: What's talk for me?
Speaker 1: I'll give it to him.
Speaker 3: No, No, that does not count. That does not I
Speaker 3: told you the clue would be very obvious, all right.
Speaker 3: Question number three, what is the name of the presidential
Speaker 3: retreat property located in Pennsylvania? Like the property or the town,
Speaker 3: the name of the facility.
Speaker 1: Any words of Johnny Carson. I did not know.
Speaker 4: I'm also gonna follow Johnny Carson.
Speaker 3: It is camp David.
Speaker 4: I probably should have known that one.
Speaker 1: Alrighty looking good? Three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh three, we're back to when I got like two.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're just just like the lines, you know how
Speaker 1: they start out.
Speaker 4: Well, if I get two, I can like run for mayor,
Speaker 4: so I would never I would never run for mayor.
Speaker 3: All right. Question four. If something were to happen to
Speaker 3: the president or the vice president, who is next in
Speaker 3: line for the presidency.
Speaker 5: I got two answers in my head, and I don't
Speaker 5: know which one's right. Is it the Speaker of the House,
Speaker 5: that is correct? I? Yeah, what was your other one?
Speaker 4: I was saying Secretary of the State, but that it
Speaker 4: just didn't didn't sound right.
Speaker 1: And I'm not.
Speaker 3: I don't, I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm an idiot politically, like I like after like tenth grade,
Speaker 5: like in one year out the other.
Speaker 4: It's all right, I never got it either, already.
Speaker 3: Question number five. This plant is said to eliminate four
Speaker 3: times the amount of carbon dioxide compared to a tree.
Speaker 4: I was gonna guess a tree, ah, sunflower.
Speaker 3: It is the hemp plant.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: Interesting, you learn that you learn something.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Who would have thought you learned something on Beer Belly Sports.
Speaker 3: The question number six Lassie was what type of dog?
Speaker 4: Who's last?
Speaker 1: Oh? What? No?
Speaker 3: You don't know who lasts?
Speaker 4: What am I missing?
Speaker 5: There are big gaps of knowledge from like a pop
Speaker 5: culture and entertainment sam.
Speaker 1: I right, okay, I'm right.
Speaker 4: Can I get a Can I get some context as
Speaker 4: to who Lassie is?
Speaker 3: Was a So Lastie was a show in like the
Speaker 3: sixties and seventies, fifties, sixties.
Speaker 1: I think sixties.
Speaker 3: It was on like TV Land a lot. But the
Speaker 3: dog would like rescue people all Oh oh oh, I.
Speaker 5: It's crazy. I think I saw a clip from the
Speaker 5: show on Twitter last week. Oh my god, is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't think I'm gonna know the breed
Speaker 5: of the dog. But I think I saw like somebody
Speaker 5: like doing like that. You know, it's sixties TV, right,
Speaker 5: and so they like have somebody like they're gonna they
Speaker 5: can't see gi a dog in the sixties, so they
Speaker 5: have somebody put on a dog costume in like mimic
Speaker 5: of humans. Right, is it like a I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: guess the Saint Bernard, But it's not that kind of dog.
Speaker 3: Last he was a colleague.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 5: Think I think I know what it's now I can
Speaker 5: see the dog, but it's not. Yeah, okay, sorry, So
Speaker 5: I'm what one for five? Yes, I need to go
Speaker 5: on a run. No, you're one for six right now?
Speaker 5: Oh shit, that's brainer math.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Man. It's all good because he
Speaker 1: because he got one. It's all mad, all right.
Speaker 4: Oh, I gotta get. I gotta get like at least.
Speaker 3: Up to three. This one might throw you for a
Speaker 3: loop then too. This eighties era action TV show revolved
Speaker 3: around a government agent who uses his ingenuity and basic
Speaker 3: basic items, including his trusty Swiss Army enough to get
Speaker 3: himself out of tricky situation.
Speaker 1: A little hint, he's from Minnesota.
Speaker 3: And he actually played semi professional hockey.
Speaker 1: No, oh man, he's really.
Speaker 4: Can you can you repeat the question for me real quick?
Speaker 1: At things?
Speaker 3: So eighties era action TV show. He was a government
Speaker 3: agent that uses his ingenuity and oftentime basic items, including
Speaker 3: his trust the giver. That is correct, it's been remade
Speaker 3: now macgroover, But no they actually now, like a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, they regurgitated mcgiver back yep, all right,
Speaker 3: two for seven. Question number eight, number eight. This Ford
Speaker 3: vehicle was discontinued after numerous lawsuits in which the vehicle
Speaker 3: would explode if rear ended.
Speaker 4: Oh can I ask a like, did they end up
Speaker 4: re remaking it in the future?
Speaker 3: They did not, So this is gone. This is gone.
Speaker 4: Then I have no fucking clue, not not even a clue.
Speaker 3: It was the four pinto.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was no chance I was gonna I like,
Speaker 1: so I said when I was in radio. I said,
Speaker 1: like I used to drive I drive my three wheel
Speaker 1: four pinto here just because it was funny to me.
Speaker 1: Oh if I would have got the joker, Yeah, it's okay,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: Question number nine, number nine. This famous western outlawn his
Speaker 3: game tried tried to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota
Speaker 3: in eighteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: Not a clue Banger saw by the way too.
Speaker 3: Jesse James and the James Younger Gang.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't getting one, Jesse James from Chaer Banger.
Speaker 3: Alright, And question number ten, this common kitchen item has
Speaker 3: a chemical formula of NaCl. That is.
Speaker 1: That was good.
Speaker 4: That was my only guess.
Speaker 1: That was good.
Speaker 3: So you got I'll take it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll take it three out of ten. That's
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 4: It's not my worst showing, but still not my best.
Speaker 1: So it's all matter. You got one. There was the
Speaker 1: music there it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was right what Justin said.
Speaker 1: I just didn't understood it. I was reading the other stuff.
Speaker 5: I should have got what stock That one's gonna kill now,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say about later. I'm gonna think about that
Speaker 5: for every single second of the ride home.
Speaker 3: All right, here's a bonus question for you regarding Snoopy.
Speaker 3: Sure when he was flying his make believe playing, who
Speaker 3: was he playing?
Speaker 1: As you know, great pizza by the way to it's
Speaker 1: not a giveaway, Well, I mean it's it's not great pizza.
Speaker 1: There's other When I was a kid, that was a.
Speaker 3: Good The red baron.
Speaker 4: Makes sense.
Speaker 5: Probably should have connected that with the pizza. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 5: I know, that's all right. I mean is way better
Speaker 5: than of course, then I haven't sitting in my friend.
Speaker 5: Probably go home and make it because hell yeah I
Speaker 5: need today. It's good pizza.
Speaker 1: Pizza.
Speaker 4: I like the breakfast one.
Speaker 1: That's that's.
Speaker 3: Lots of motss breakfast. Sorry, seventh half, I hadn't seen
Speaker 3: your breath.
Speaker 5: I'm not kidding. I'm taking seventh halves over lots of mons.
Speaker 5: I haven't had seventh lots of mots. Breakfast pizza is
Speaker 5: one of my favorite.
Speaker 4: It's good.
Speaker 5: It don't get me wrong, it's good. I'm taking seven
Speaker 5: and a half every time, every time, every single time. Now,
Speaker 5: there are probably some other lots of manzas that I
Speaker 5: probably favor, but the breakfast pizza that that's legitimately my
Speaker 5: favorite frozen breakfast pea.
Speaker 3: Have you ever called up Keith's and they've got it
Speaker 3: as taken bake their breakfast pizza.
Speaker 4: I have never had keith pizza. I know that's it's
Speaker 4: it's it's it's on the list the summer.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's insane.
Speaker 3: Their breakfast pizza is amazing.
Speaker 1: I'll say that Casey's breakfast pizza overrated.
Speaker 4: The standard breakfast pizza.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 1: It's not like you're not gonna go wrong if you
Speaker 1: eat it.
Speaker 3: But holiday had Godfather's breakfast pizzas they changed them, they're
Speaker 3: not that good anymore.
Speaker 1: You sound so disappointed. It's so disappointed.
Speaker 3: I'm passionate about breakfast pizza.
Speaker 1: Did you bake one one time? Like, actually make some
Speaker 1: suscratches I have he would.
Speaker 4: A breakfast pizza. Oh yeah, yeah, I've done that.
Speaker 3: I smoked my own bacon.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have not done that and seen it. I
Speaker 4: bet it was really good.
Speaker 3: It's once you get your recipe dialed in. Buying store
Speaker 3: bought stuff just doesn't.
Speaker 1: Even I agree.
Speaker 4: There's some things I won't do it for anymore, like
Speaker 4: I won't like you know, the the I speaking of
Speaker 4: seventh alf So yeah, there it is seventh to this
Speaker 4: on the screen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, is literally my favorite breakfast pizza they got.
Speaker 5: I like there are other pizzas too, like they you
Speaker 5: can find them in a ships on a grocery.
Speaker 10: Store, especially down south up here there's only you can
Speaker 10: get at the gas it's okay, or like holiday here,
Speaker 10: but soon you get down to Villa.
Speaker 5: Have they been and Lukens though they were for a
Speaker 5: little bit, okay, So I do. I do remember seeing
Speaker 5: him in a grocery store.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, like like Longville Hack they have in
Speaker 1: their grocery stores.
Speaker 5: And then because all like you know, all get done
Speaker 5: with the hockey game. I haven't eaten out at all
Speaker 5: in the day and I'm not gonna go to a
Speaker 5: grocery stop swing Bicircle on the way home, grab a
Speaker 5: pizza and they're.
Speaker 1: On the oven.
Speaker 3: I'm old enough now, it's always going to be holiday.
Speaker 4: I know it's I gotta rewire the brain a little
Speaker 4: bit to start saying depending on where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So when I'm in Walker for work, it's holiday, but
Speaker 1: when I'm here it's okay. Yeah, the same thing, same company,
Speaker 1: same same people who run it. They've been bought. It's okay,
Speaker 1: bought holiday years years ago.
Speaker 3: They're actually a Canadian based company because when they started
Speaker 3: doing all the rebranding, rebrank, rebranded finally, people are like,
Speaker 3: what the hell it's a Canadian company. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they bought it ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Justin said, if you you can't, if you can't
Speaker 1: find the red Baron made made a good Oh they
Speaker 1: made a good buffalo chicken pizza. Interesting Red Barren then, yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't had good.
Speaker 3: Intrigued is uh what is it's? I think? Okay, they're
Speaker 3: chicken elfraid one.
Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah, the older I get, the more I like
Speaker 1: thing crust.
Speaker 3: But you can't go wrong with a pizza hut personal
Speaker 3: pan pizza though those are.
Speaker 4: Kids fat to order a personal pane.
Speaker 3: You go through Deer River. You stop at the Senex
Speaker 3: there because they got pizza Hut Express there to meat lovers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Scott's been there quite a few times. It's like
Speaker 1: his normal stop.
Speaker 3: Well that's yeah. The kids like getting those pizzas on
Speaker 3: the way to my brother's house.
Speaker 1: It is kind of Disney. Good to your brother though,
Speaker 1: So I get that. Been there a few times. That
Speaker 1: that was it we had to take. That was the
Speaker 1: uh drive back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we dropped Stella off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, good times.
Speaker 3: God that drive.
Speaker 1: We have to go to Wabashaw next year. So the
Speaker 1: grump People Men Festival.
Speaker 3: Why does Abby you want to see you?
Speaker 1: She has a boyfriend?
Speaker 3: Oh the other one?
Speaker 1: The other one, that's what I was talking which the
Speaker 1: polka dancer or no, that would have been funny.
Speaker 3: I know you're talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the queer style. Yeah, the cougar let's see here
Speaker 1: or she just quick little text anyways, Uh, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it was a fun time. Look it looked like
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Granted, like you talked about, it's
Speaker 1: a uh where you parked your stuff last year. Last
Speaker 1: year that's where they tell their activities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to have been able to park down
Speaker 3: there this year.
Speaker 1: It would have been a lot of fun. I would
Speaker 1: enjoy it a lot. But yeah, I could have done
Speaker 1: this weekend. But it was all right it.
Speaker 3: I had fun while we were there. It just it
Speaker 3: was a pain in the asshole and the fish house
Speaker 3: down and it was expensive as fuck.
Speaker 1: I think next year we just we get a hotel
Speaker 1: or we get like Airbnb to say we just split whoever,
Speaker 1: all four of us. Great, it'd be a lot easier.
Speaker 1: A lot fucking taxing on usespecially on your vehicle. I
Speaker 1: felt bad drive back, like fuck.
Speaker 3: So I have a twenty one foot ice castle. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I had my old truck was a Toyota Tundra
Speaker 3: and with a lift kit in thirty four's And so
Speaker 3: we were going down to Wabshot last year, which by
Speaker 3: itself is like a six hour drive, right, but add
Speaker 3: on the back of that a seven thousand pound camper
Speaker 3: right driving into a headwind. I just watched my gas
Speaker 3: tinkle like this.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was so I felt so bad, like this sucks.
Speaker 1: And of course we get there, we didn't eat, so
Speaker 1: we started drinking literally right We.
Speaker 3: Left at like noon and we didn't get the te eight.
Speaker 3: It was because then we hit rush hour in the
Speaker 3: cities because you have to drive through the cities and
Speaker 3: you're just Matt was Matt. They had to tear down
Speaker 3: the building that Matt puked on.
Speaker 1: It was going away.
Speaker 3: So we get down there. My girlfriend meets up there,
Speaker 3: and Bruce and his wife were there and a couple
Speaker 3: of Bruce's friends, and then Matt well, we get down
Speaker 3: there and Bruce is well on his way.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's gone three sheets and you guys.
Speaker 3: Got to play catch up. So Matt, myself and my
Speaker 3: girlfriend start drinking. And then they've got this pickle flavored vodka.
Speaker 3: It's not just there's two versions. There's a regular one
Speaker 3: and then there's a spicy pickle and some Jada said
Speaker 3: it was Krista, but I don't know. They're like, here,
Speaker 3: have this one. I was like, I don't want spicy, No,
Speaker 3: this is a regular spicy.
Speaker 1: That was such a bad one.
Speaker 3: And then it was dollar fireball shot later. So, needless
Speaker 3: to say, Matt very quickly caught up and then surpassed everybody,
Speaker 3: and it kept going. It gets to be closing time
Speaker 3: and the band's winding up and we're all turning around
Speaker 3: and we're like where the hell is Matt. And we
Speaker 3: look over against the far wall and Matt's buried face
Speaker 3: first into a green waste management garbage can yes ralphin
Speaker 3: with his felt cowboy hat on and his insulated jean jacket.
Speaker 1: I felt so cool that six year old lady thought
Speaker 1: I was the hottest thing nineteen.
Speaker 3: Eighty five Canadian tuxedo. Matt over there was looking on fire.
Speaker 3: And then so we go outside and we lose Matt
Speaker 3: again and we turn around and he's puking on the
Speaker 3: side of the this building.
Speaker 1: Yeah, instantly, we went outside and got instantly hot. I
Speaker 1: went stage left. And then so.
Speaker 3: One of the organizers, who we're all like, yeah, we
Speaker 3: need to behave ourselves because we're here on official business.
Speaker 1: Yeah we are.
Speaker 3: And one of the organizers is hanging out with us
Speaker 3: as Matt's just fucking guts out. We're making a great
Speaker 3: first impression here. So she's like, she's like, where are
Speaker 3: you guys staying? Ats like, my fish house is back
Speaker 3: down at the parking lot at the park. Jump in
Speaker 3: my car, drop you guys off so you don't have
Speaker 3: to deal with this one.
Speaker 1: I got it nicely and I put my head down.
Speaker 1: The window was like, oh, I feels so good.
Speaker 3: So we get Matt back to the parking lot. He
Speaker 3: falls out of the car.
Speaker 1: I rick flared myself to the ground, and then.
Speaker 3: My girlfriend and Abby jump on top of Matt. We
Speaker 3: threw him in the snow bank, and then he finally
Speaker 3: just fully clothed, crawls into bed.
Speaker 1: He took my boots off because this is the fun out,
Speaker 1: great night. And then that was a great night.
Speaker 3: And then the next morning he goes on what became
Speaker 3: one of the show titles, A Long Walk to Quick
Speaker 3: Trip by himself. It was a.
Speaker 1: I had to because Scott was with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: I felt weird. I gotta go.
Speaker 3: We weren't doing anything.
Speaker 1: Allegedly, okay, okay, First, while you were in there, we
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything. Pass I am done.
Speaker 3: While you were in the fish house, we were being purty.
Speaker 1: Allegedly. I've probably passed out because your generator ran out,
Speaker 1: which was perfect timing for me because I was on fire.
Speaker 3: Wearing a hooded sweatshirt and an insulated jean jacket with
Speaker 3: a blanket on him dying.
Speaker 1: Let's try to sweat it out.
Speaker 3: Quick Trip was like two blocks away, so he decided
Speaker 3: to go walk down there.
Speaker 1: And it was fun.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give my bro some time long walk to
Speaker 3: for a reason.
Speaker 4: He probably didn't need that long.
Speaker 3: Well, it probably took him that long just.
Speaker 4: To walk there. I did get some body armors, and like,
Speaker 4: you could have just made a trip to the end
Speaker 4: of the driveway and came back. Yeah, three second, three
Speaker 4: seconds done and it happens now five all R Good
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, what have we learned? That? It was.
Speaker 4: That hem produces four times the amount of oxygen his trees.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Then Matt went to Saskatchewan.
Speaker 1: I guess I did. I didn't know. And it pays
Speaker 1: to have a friend who's a therapist. Yeah, it's nice benefits.
Speaker 1: I learned that you guys can talk a shitload about hockey,
Speaker 1: Like literally the first segment or the first I got
Speaker 1: like four more hours to go. I bet you fucking due.
Speaker 3: All right, well, it's a sports show. We should talk sports.
Speaker 3: But it's like the entire time with just that, and
Speaker 3: it just naturally flowed.
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Speaker 4: The Frozen four or three months teams made it last
Speaker 4: won the title.
Speaker 1: That's probably one of my favorites. All right, well, thank
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Speaker 1: are red green and keep it stick on the ice?
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Speaker 3: Hy can't they do numbers like that?
Speaker 1: We just did? Yeah, that's all you did.
Speaker 6: It wasn't very good after all, terrible.
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