The Hockey Show: Brad Williams' Saucy Passes

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Speaker 8 Hello, welcome to the hockey show. That's David Dwark of the Hockey News.
I'm Roy Bellamy. Ethan Bodowski is on remote, and Rosie's not here.

Speaker 8 She is now officially dealing with college football season. So

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Speaker 10 Send her back in one piece, please.

Speaker 8 Deals with Texas and Ohio State. A year ago,

Speaker 8 it was

Speaker 8 go Texas. Go Texas, go Longhorns.
Yeah, yeah, that.

Speaker 8 Anyway, a year ago, a tragic accident resulted in the loss of Johnny and Matthew Godreaux.

Speaker 8 And in their memory, the National Hockey League and the Columbus Blue Jackets are donating to the John and Matthew Godreaux Foundation, which supports youth hockey.

Speaker 8 Now, the Columbus Blue Jackets are honoring their player numbers. So $13,000.

Speaker 8 In honor of Johnny and $21,000 in honor of Matthew will be going to the foundation. The Calgary Flames are also donating.
They've added their jersey numbers. That would be $34,000.

Speaker 8 That's going towards the foundation. So

Speaker 8 hopefully a lot more teams will chip in and help out youth hockey in memory of Matthew and Johnny Gutcheon.

Speaker 10 It's crazy that it's been a year.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that was crazy.

Speaker 8 It felt like yesterday, and it's in memory of them,

Speaker 8 hopefully that they get a lot more money for the foundation. Yes, sir.
According to David Piñota, Matthew Kachuk already had his surgery. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 The injuries they sustained at Four Nations, he is getting it repaired via surgery. And that's going to mean that the Panthers are going to put him on long-term injured reserve to start the season.

Speaker 8 For a second year in a row, it's probably going to be the last time they do that for anybody in the league, right?

Speaker 10 Well, it's going to be the last time that they can use LTIR as a salary cap crutch, but it probably won't be the last time somebody's still hurt from the playoffs and misses the beginning of the regular season.

Speaker 10 Not with this Panthers team.

Speaker 8 Yet, USA Hockey has him penciled in to play in the Olympics, according to general manager of the Olympic team, Bill Guerin. They are planning and expecting him to be available.

Speaker 8 Now, keep in mind, Panthers general manager Bill Zito and Assistant General Manager Brett Peterson is a part of the Brain Trust. They are.

Speaker 10 Guerin actually said that he doesn't bother Billy too much about when's Matty going to be back.

Speaker 10 They're expecting him to be back before the Olympics arrive, that he should be playing hockey already.

Speaker 10 So hopefully we'll get a repeat of what we saw with Four Nations earlier this year because that was awesome. And I would love to see that on an Olympic stage.

Speaker 10 Although we won't see the fighting, though.

Speaker 14 Sorry, guys. The report is that Chucky will be back sometime around January, is what they're expecting.

Speaker 14 That would give him about a month to prepare for the Olympics, which are in mid-February, or early February. They start February 6th this year.

Speaker 14 Obviously, the interesting thing for the Panthers from that standpoint is: okay, Evan Rodriguez can be on the roster

Speaker 14 at least until January, but then what happens once Kachuk comes off LTIR? How are they going to manage the cap situation? Because the Panthers are over the cap.

Speaker 14 Are they banking on somebody else getting hurt

Speaker 14 and being able to keep E-Rod, you know, on the roster then? But it'll be interesting to see how Bill Zito maneuvers. Either way, whatever happens, I trust him.

Speaker 8 And Zito, we trust, right?

Speaker 14 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 8 Dominantly. I'm actually interested in seeing how Jeff Petrie plays.
He's the newest addition to the Florida Panthers.

Speaker 8 He's a defenseman, so I'm actually interested how he ends up playing.

Speaker 10 If they targeted him, he's probably going to fit in. Yeah, hopefully.
Usually works out that way.

Speaker 8 All right. So what happened with Mitch Marner, David?

Speaker 10 So Mitch Marner spoke to our buddy Mark Masters.

Speaker 10 He was speaking about his final days in Toronto. I'll go ahead and we can roll the sound and then we can just react to it afterwards because it's pretty gross.

Speaker 15 And then I get a phone call probably about five or so minutes after from,

Speaker 15 I think it was my wife's father called me and goes, I just want to let you know we've got people sending us screenshots of a guy posting your address online.

Speaker 15 saying that if people want to come pay us a visit and say

Speaker 15 you know their goodbyes in a quotation way. Here's the address.
And

Speaker 15 it was a little tough, obviously. I mean, we kind of dealt with it for the last two years in a way.
I mean,

Speaker 15 the market's very passionate. They love the team.
I mean, I know it. I was born and raised there.
I've been a part of the Leafs Nation for a long time.

Speaker 15 But yeah, when your family safety comes into question, especially having a new son,

Speaker 15 I don't think it's acceptable.

Speaker 15 You know, having full-time security pretty much at your house for two weeks after the playoffs, just to make sure no one's coming to the house.

Speaker 15 You know, also the safety-wise of trying to walk your dog and your child.

Speaker 8 So Mitch Mono got doxed and received death threats

Speaker 8 during the playoffs. Yeah.

Speaker 10 During and as soon as they were over.

Speaker 10 And this is a guy who born and raised in Toronto, bled white and blue, you know, arguably one of, if not, you know, not their best player off the Matthews, but certainly top, you know, he's great.

Speaker 10 He's core four guy. And he, they wanted to keep him.
Now, how's your team looking, Toronto? You ran one of your best players out of town. He wanted nothing to do with sticking around.

Speaker 10 You're threatening his family. But it's okay.

Speaker 10 You got Nicholas Roy.

Speaker 10 You got Matthias Maselli. This is great offseason, Toronto.

Speaker 10 Like, what are you guys doing? Like, the most passionate fans in hockey, you ran one of your best players out of town.

Speaker 8 Good job. I've always said that the biggest divider in this world is politics, religion, and sports.
It's just sports, man. Like,

Speaker 8 it is a player. It's an athlete playing on your favorite team.

Speaker 8 What are we doing? Why are we doxing? Why are we putting his address out there? And why are we threatening him and his family? Yeah, it's so funny for a game.

Speaker 14 It's terrible. It's terrible.
It's terrible how it went down, Roy. And, you know, Elliot Freeman says this a lot on the 32 Thoughts Show.

Speaker 14 He says that Marner should have gone down as the greatest Toronto-born maple leaf of all time.

Speaker 14 And the way that it's gone down since in his exit, I understand fans' frustration with the way he was playing, but I mean, obviously, you know, to take it to this level is completely asinine.

Speaker 14 And just everything that's gone down since, it's really ugly, and I don't think things need to be ugly. It could have just been cordial and just, hey, it didn't work out here.
It wasn't the right fit.

Speaker 14 I'm going to go somewhere else and try and make it work somewhere else and be happy that way. So

Speaker 14 it's a bummer the way everything has gone down, to be honest with you.

Speaker 8 Quite frankly, that should have been our fail of the week, but it's not.

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Speaker 10 server code or don't serve it at all jaggermeister damn that's code for more visit jagenmeister.com drink responsibly david what's your win my win of the week is a throwback i'm going back to december of 2001 because a game happened in calgary that i loved back then i got reminded of it this week there were 309 penalty minutes in this game roy and the majority of flames huh yes ducks flames jaguer a ginla it was like

Speaker 8 my trophy winner john for subastin jaguer even though he lost the final the majority of the yeah Yeah, awesome.

Speaker 10 That was

Speaker 14 the Conor McDavid special.

Speaker 10 Yeah. Talked to Brad Williams about that on the show.

Speaker 8 Oh.

Speaker 8 Who got ran for the Flames? Who was that? That was Mike Vernon. That was Mike Vernon.

Speaker 10 Yeah, that was Mike Vernon.

Speaker 8 Oh, back with the Flames. The second stint.

Speaker 10 This was, yes.

Speaker 10 That's a head of hair.

Speaker 14 Oh, my God. Did you see that hairline?

Speaker 10 So the final minute 25 saw

Speaker 10 200-something penalty minutes. I mean, the names in this game.
Bob Bugner. Rob Niedermeyer, Dave Lowry, Bob Bugner, Mike Vernon, Russian Salay, all former Panthers.
Craig Berubi was in this game.

Speaker 10 Dan Bilesmo was in this game. Sergei Kriva-Krasov, German Titov, Jeff Friesen, some of the best hockey names of our upbringing.

Speaker 8 German Titov. Right?

Speaker 10 Like, this game had a little bit of everything. So definitely my win of the week, a throwback, but God, what fun.
Wow. Nobody on the bench at the end of the game.

Speaker 10 Literally, like one guy on each bench when the game ended.

Speaker 8 Wow. The smile on my face, man.

Speaker 8 Oh, my goodness. Yeah, this is a good one.
Win of the week is uh, Evan Rodriguez, for as long as he is a Florida Panther, but our winner of the week is via Evan Rodriguez.

Speaker 8 If you grow, if you grew up modern sports like us, not like Ethan, uh, you've known that at the end of these championships, they usually, yes, not used because we know where you're going with this, Roy.

Speaker 14 I know where I know what this is. They still do this to the end of the day, to this day.

Speaker 8 Yes, where they're going to do now, going to Disney World. Well, that's what Evan Rodriguez did.
E-Rod and the family took the Stanley Cup to Disney World. Look at that kid.

Speaker 8 milk. Oh, they drank those

Speaker 8 straws. I think they may wash the cup and put champagne in it.

Speaker 10 They stuffed it with Remy the Rat plush dolls when they went to Epcot Center. That's good.

Speaker 14 Way to ruin my win of the week, David. Way to spoil it.

Speaker 8 Jeez.

Speaker 8 Okay, well, since.

Speaker 14 Jeez, Louis.

Speaker 8 Fine, fine. What is your win of the week there?

Speaker 14 My win of the week,

Speaker 14 piggybacking. Oh, my God.
I couldn't find the word there.

Speaker 8 Piggybacking. Piggy and fences.
A pig and a fence.

Speaker 8 Go ahead.

Speaker 14 Piggybacking off of this. E-Rod put the Remys

Speaker 14 in the cup,

Speaker 14 reminiscent of, of course, the Florida Panthers and the Rats.

Speaker 14 Ratatouille, one of my favorite Pixar movies for sure. But I just, I love this.
Like, this is so good. This is such a unique thing to do with the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 14 And the reason I love it so much is because imagine, like... Okay, your cup day is usually great for you, but imagine how great this cup day was for his kids.
Yeah.

Speaker 14 Like, I just think that's so beautiful, you know, to have a cup day that's more about your kids than you. I mean, he's done it twice, so he could make the second one more about his kids.

Speaker 14 But yeah, that was really, really cool.

Speaker 8 All right, David, what's your fail of the week?

Speaker 10 My fail of the week, it's a little family non-love. I don't know.
The other day, Walt Kachuck, father of Matthew and Brady,

Speaker 10 went on Instagram or social media and ranked his sons for NHL 26 and wasn't as kind as you might think, fellas.

Speaker 14 I'm going to have you assign some ratings to each of them for their video game ratings. So first we'll start with with speed.

Speaker 8 What would you give them out of 100? No, no. Oh, man.
I'd say low 80s in general. Low 80s.
Brady in mid-80s. What about agility?

Speaker 8 Well, they're slippery.

Speaker 8 Mattnessy.

Speaker 8 He's trying to hedge his best.

Speaker 3 He's fast or quick, but he's slippery with the puck. So I'd say 82 for Matthew, 80 for Brady.

Speaker 14 What would you give him a fighting rating?

Speaker 8 Brady in mid-90s.

Speaker 10 Matthew, low 80s.

Speaker 8 That one makes sense.

Speaker 5 Brady, 90.

Speaker 14 All right, so you know what your NHL 94 rating was?

Speaker 10 Chucky on the hand.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 14 You want to take a guess?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 14 55.

Speaker 8 55?

Speaker 10 He was 55 in NHL 94?

Speaker 8 This is rookie season.

Speaker 14 Do you know what your NHL 08 rating is? That's the last one we were able to find.

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 14 85.

Speaker 8 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 10 Okay. You'd think that he'd be a little bit kinder to his kids, but I love the way that they razz each other in this family.
It's very, it feels very hockey. So I'm here for it.

Speaker 8 So Big Walt, who wasn't as big as he was back in NHL 94.

Speaker 10 The Harris is certainly not.

Speaker 8 55.

Speaker 8 55 overall rating.

Speaker 8 And every time that I played with Keith Kachuk in one of these video games, I guess

Speaker 8 it shot up to like 90. I don't know if it was Peter 19.

Speaker 10 If you're talking NHL 94, it's Jeremy Roenick.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Jeremy Roenick and Wayne Gretzky, and that's it.

Speaker 8 Yeah, everybody play for the Blackhawks and the Kings. My fail of the week comes from the American Broadcasting Company.
The national TV schedule for the NHL came out. It's officially been released.

Speaker 8 The usual suspects are up there. The Washington Capitals have 18 nationally televised games, and that's going to make sense because this is a swan song season for

Speaker 8 the Great Eight. And also the Red Rings, Avalanche, and Bruins have 17 national games.
The Stars, All is Wild, Rangers, Penguins have 16. The Blackhawks,

Speaker 8 Panthers, Lightning, and Golden Knights have 15. Now, 15 for the Panthers.
I don't know if that's the most ever. It might be.
I have no idea. But one one thing I do know: zero games on ABC.

Speaker 8 The defending back-to-back national, national champion, the defending back-to-back Stanley Cup champions have zero games on network television.

Speaker 10 You got to make room for your boy Crosby, you know.

Speaker 8 How dare you?

Speaker 14 Yeah, they have to raise the banner at 5 p.m. because Crosby's just got to play the Rangers in prime time on opening night.
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 8 I think I may have seen it. I might be wrong about this.
The Penguins might have six games on ABC.

Speaker 10 Yeah, that sounds about right.

Speaker 8 Oh, my good God.

Speaker 8 I don't understand this. By the way, by the way, five Canadian teams are not going to be on ABC.

Speaker 5 Five. No, actually, no, I'm sorry.

Speaker 8 Five Canadian teams are not going to be on national TV in general in the United States.

Speaker 10 Five. I think I'm okay with that.
The Jets.

Speaker 10 Based off of the discrepancy in years leading up to it, yeah.

Speaker 8 The semifinalists in the Western Conference final, in the Western Conference, not on national TV. The Flames are not on there.
The Canucks are not on there. That's understandable.

Speaker 8 An up-and-coming team like the Canadian's not on there. The Senators who are going to be a playoff team, not on there.

Speaker 10 Doesn't make any sense to me. Toronto, who might not make the playoffs, not on there.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Oh, but Toronto's going to be on there.
We'll see. Anyway, for those of you on DraftKings Network, we have Brad Williams, the comedian, coming up next.

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Coming up next, Brad Williams.

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Speaker 8 You, Brad. Oh, Jesus.
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 8 You, Brad.

Speaker 8 Nice. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Well, all I know is

Speaker 14 Chris can say that now that he won $30,000 at a poker tournament. Yeah.
Yeah. And don't bleep that.
Don't, don't, don't bleep that. Yeah, that's the story of the interview.

Speaker 8 That's the story. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Beautiful. All right.
I want to make sure that everyone knows that Chris won $30,000.

Speaker 8 Brad Williams makes people laugh for a living. That's his career, and he's currently on tour to do just that.
It's the Growth Spurt tour. He'll be in Beaumont, Texas in two weeks.

Speaker 8 He'll be down here in Fort Lauderdale at the Parkett Playhouse near the Baptist Ice Plex in December. December 30th.

Speaker 10 We got to get tickets. Yeah.

Speaker 8 The Florida Panthers practice facility is right across the street, Brad. And I just recently found out that you played roller hockey.
I did. Yeah.

Speaker 8 How was the experience of uh learning that sport for you it was uh

Speaker 14 let's just say that i crushed a lot of dad's dreams just because i was a defenseman and uh when i played uh there was definitely some dads that like were like all right there yeah there i am

Speaker 14 There's definitely some dads that were like, my kid's going to go to the league. And then they saw me steal the puck from their kid.

Speaker 14 They're like, well, if they can't get around the dwarf, I really have no hope. So, yeah, crushed a lot of dad's dreams,

Speaker 14 won a few championships, and it was great. It was great to be a little person in a sport where typically you don't find, I mean, you don't find dwarves in a lot of sports, but definitely not hockey.

Speaker 14 And even though we kind of allowed physical play in that league, everyone knew not to touch me. I don't know if it was like there was a respect thing.

Speaker 14 I don't know if they thought if they hit me that I would just explode into candy sprinkles.

Speaker 14 I'm not sure. No one hit me, and no one hit me until one day.
One day, a new kid came in and

Speaker 14 he thought, well, there's a little guy. I'm going to hit the little guy.
And he did. And

Speaker 14 we had an enforcer on our team named Mike Cassas. And our coach, the great Doug Duxbury,

Speaker 14 just looking at Duxbury? Come on. For a hockey coach? Perfect.
And he looked at Mike Cassas and he literally said, you know what to do.

Speaker 14 And the next shift, a 12-year-old Mike Cassas, who looked about 26,

Speaker 14 just leveled this kid like a big hit. And the parents of both sides were like about to come to blows.
And the coach of the opposing team stopped him and said, no, no, no. Our guy hit Brad.

Speaker 14 He deserved it. Nice.

Speaker 8 Wait a minute.

Speaker 14 You mean to tell me that nobody in the crowd stuck up for you when you got checked oh there was there was yeah there was a lot going on our side was definitely chirping over to their side all the parents were really upset uh my dad who was an attorney i'm pretty i'm pretty sure was oh trying to file a lawsuit at that point

Speaker 8 uh but yeah

Speaker 14 but then once mike hit the hit the other kid then it exploded the opposing coach calmed it down and then after that uh we were we were back to even and back to square one and no one hit me again.

Speaker 14 So that's good.

Speaker 10 Was this in Anaheim? Was this Southern California? That this coach named Dux Berry was coaching a hockey team in Southern California?

Speaker 14 Yes. This was at a now.

Speaker 14 My childhood hockey rink is now at Goodwill.

Speaker 8 But

Speaker 14 at the time, it was called Stuart's Roller World.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 14 that was where I played in Fullerton, California. Stuart Silver was the owner who owned the Anaheim Bullfrogs, where if you remember the RHI, the Roller Hockey International League,

Speaker 14 the Anaheim Bullfrogs were a prominent team in that league. This was like 30 years ago, so I don't expect anyone to know that league.

Speaker 8 So you did a lot of roller hockey. Did you ever get on the ice? Yeah.

Speaker 14 So one of the cool parts about

Speaker 14 living up in LA and doing stuff is

Speaker 14 there's a comedian ice hockey pickup league.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 14 yeah, and I and I've played in it. It's awesome.

Speaker 14 Bill Burr plays in it.

Speaker 14 There's Steve Byrne plays in it. You guys need a goalie? I'm sorry, what? You need a goalie?

Speaker 8 Yeah. Flash on over to Anaheim.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 14 If you know one who's not like Swiss cheese like yourself, then yeah, sure.

Speaker 14 Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 10 If there's a qualifier, yeah, then I'm screwed.

Speaker 8 Well, Dave just got back on the ice. We have a picture of both Dave and I at the Baptist Ice Plex.

Speaker 8 We're getting the hockey today, Brad.

Speaker 14 let's go in in in in in the in the words of chance the rapper let's get that hockey yes okay let's yeah let's go oh dude dude dude that's great the uh the best part about the uh comedian league is that

Speaker 14 uh

Speaker 14 vince vaughn played one week and vince I thought, you know, based on based on swingers, he's grown, he grew up in Chicago. I thought Vince was going to be like an amazing player.
Kind of sucks.

Speaker 14 But to be fair, when he played, he had had back surgery not far removed from that. So he was just getting out there, trying to get some amill, try to get some ability.

Speaker 14 The best player is a comedian. He's a crowd work comic.
His name is Ian Bag. He's hilarious.
Everyone should look up his stuff. And he's the best player so far that he can't play at full strength.

Speaker 14 He has to kind of just glide out there and be like, all right,

Speaker 14 I'll humor all you weekend warriors. I like it.

Speaker 10 I like the double G. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 I'm a big fan of the Great Double G.

Speaker 14 Greg doesn't like that, though.

Speaker 8 Greg Cody doesn't like the double G.

Speaker 14 Well, at least it's not in a Greg.

Speaker 8 You know,

Speaker 14 right?

Speaker 14 It's on a bag.

Speaker 10 It's got to be in the last name. Yeah, it's got to be the last one.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 14 So it's fine. But I love playing hockey.

Speaker 14 It's really great. Roy, how long have you been

Speaker 14 getting out there?

Speaker 8 Just this year, I did learn to play, and that was a 12-week course. I had gotten better at skating.
I can actually stop now. That's awesome.

Speaker 14 That is a big part of it.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's a gigantic part of it. I can stop on my left skate.
My right skate? No. No.
But Dave over here, Dave just put on his goalie pads for the first time in a good long time. No.

Speaker 8 And got out the surgery. ACL surgery because of that.
He was injured. So how did that feel?

Speaker 10 Better than I thought it was going to. I was the proper amount of sore when I got off the ice.
It wasn't like I was expecting to be hurting for a while.

Speaker 8 But no, it went pretty well. Yeah.
I remember

Speaker 14 that's a that's a smell that I miss. I actually miss the

Speaker 14 smell of sweaty pads that you air dry in your backyard or a balcony or something like that.

Speaker 8 It's a very familiar smell.

Speaker 14 Yeah, the smell of a sweaty hockey locker room is very distinct. And that, like, the same way certain smells like just bring you back to your childhood.
That's the one that works for me.

Speaker 14 A smelly hockey locker room. That is the smell of my childhood.

Speaker 8 I came to the realization that my gloves after all this time now smell like cool ranch Doritos.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 8 That's the smell. I don't know how that happened.
Eating on the ice? I didn't eat it.

Speaker 11 It just smells that.

Speaker 14 Because you sweat Cool Ranch Doritos, Roy.

Speaker 8 Apparently, I do. Yeah.

Speaker 14 You have spent so much time in the press box munching down on Cool Ranch Doritos. You sweat.

Speaker 14 Wasn't that like an old Yo Mama joke? Like, Yo Mama's so fat, her blood type is Rocky Road. Yeah, like that's

Speaker 14 you, but for Cool Ranch Doritos.

Speaker 10 Well, Brad, we got into your hockey prowess, and I wanted to ask you what you thought the best element of your game is. And if I can guess before you answer, is it chirping?

Speaker 10 Because you're such a good shit talker.

Speaker 7 It's poke checking.

Speaker 14 Dude, I will tell you what the best part of my game was. And I took so much pride in this uh yes i i was a pretty good chirper um

Speaker 14 and uh people chirped back and i'll get into that in a second but the best part of my game is i could do this pass and i can still do it to this day where i i flip the puck in the air so the so the puck goes airborne so that's awesome manage but i always managed to land it flat it never It never landed on its side.

Speaker 14 It didn't bounce around. It just landed flat.
So I was really really proud of that.

Speaker 14 I was really proud of the fact that I could get a pass over your stick and then have it land flat and be right there for a guy.

Speaker 14 That's good.

Speaker 14 But hockey rivalries run deep. Childhood rivalries run deep.
I don't know if you guys have any

Speaker 14 people that you grew up with playing sports with. Like if you had an A-hole of your league where you...

Speaker 14 So

Speaker 14 the A-hole in my league, I'm going to say his name and it's okay because he's a public figure.

Speaker 14 His name is Evan Moore. Ended up playing tight end for the Cleveland Browns.
Oh my God. Wow.

Speaker 14 Wow.

Speaker 8 Wow.

Speaker 14 He grew up.

Speaker 14 He was such a dirty hockey player. I'll shout out a 10-year-old Evan Moore.
I'll put him on blast. I don't care.
He looks good.

Speaker 14 But then one day I'm watching the NFL and all of a sudden they're like, and there's the catch from Moore. And they show him and I'm like, duh.

Speaker 14 The guy went pro. The guy went to the NFL.

Speaker 14 I don't know what kind of career he had. I don't know how much money he made, but good on him.
But

Speaker 14 that was my solace knowing that

Speaker 14 the guy I hated playing hockey against more than anybody. Yes, he went to the NFL, but he played for the Browns.

Speaker 10 If you're wondering what his career stats were, three years for the Browns, one year for the Seahawks, one game for the Eagles, 63 career catches, five touchdowns in the NFL, and one lost fumble.

Speaker 14 Hey, that's five more touchdowns than any of us.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 14 Not exactly a fantasy stud, but

Speaker 14 you know,

Speaker 14 he got to the league.

Speaker 8 He's hooking you up at about 16.

Speaker 14 Shout out to Evan Moore, who now is probably watching Instagram or TikTok and going like, wait, that little dwarf from the league

Speaker 14 circles.

Speaker 8 i'm sure you've done uh corporate gigs for sports teams i saw that you did uh something with the uh the broncos and john elway um yeah how would you say that athletes take jokes uh because is it anything like norm mcdonald at the esps the way those athletes took those jokes i mean no those are pretty yeah the cervic but uh like yeah yeah yeah um in general I think athletes trash talk so much that they they like it and they go with it.

Speaker 14 The times I've been lucky enough to do something for the Broncos, and

Speaker 14 I highly advise: if you're going to be a fan of a football team, be a fan of a football team where if you're a D-list celebrity like myself, you're very popular with the team.

Speaker 14 Like, don't be a Chiefs fan right now because get in line.

Speaker 14 You're not getting free tickets. You're not getting hookups, but you're behind Paul Rudd, Rob Wriggle,

Speaker 14 half the uh the guy from modern family cam from modern family you're you're behind so many people

Speaker 14 yeah well not even titans because titans is in nashville so you got a lot of country music stars that are like they're not a fan really but they'll show up and like do whatever their pregame thing is you know titaned up or whatever the hell um so like you'll you'll get that but if you could be a fan of the jacksonville jaguars

Speaker 14 you're golden you're you're gonna be you're gonna get so many tickets You're going to be like,

Speaker 14 if you can be a D-list celebrity fan and just pick the random team,

Speaker 14 you're going to be awesome.

Speaker 10 See, we suck to be a celebrity and a Dolphins fan because there's so many and the team still sucks. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 14 Yeah. You got that.
Well, same thing with the Jets. Same thing with the Jets.

Speaker 14 Is you're a celebrity fan of the Jets. Stu Gotz, who used to work for this company.

Speaker 14 Stu Gotz,

Speaker 14 he's 42nd in line for

Speaker 14 the ticket request.

Speaker 8 Yeah, he's behind Hank Azaria.

Speaker 14 Yeah,

Speaker 14 it's hard, you know.

Speaker 14 So I, but, but being a fan of the Broncos, it's like me and

Speaker 14 Angela from the office.

Speaker 14 She, she, she's a big Broncos fan. And, uh, so yeah, Broncos are very nice to me.
But to your, but to your original point, yes, athletes get jokes. When I did the corporate event

Speaker 14 for John Elway, I made fun of Elway to his face. I talked about the teeth.

Speaker 14 He's once.

Speaker 14 It's okay. Yeah, exactly.
By the way, this was before the incident with his friend,

Speaker 14 where they were on a golf cart.

Speaker 14 Tragically, his friend fell out and actually lost his life. Horrible, horrible incident.
So I did not mention that because it had not happened yet.

Speaker 14 Nor would I.

Speaker 14 There are some things that you just know.

Speaker 14 But but uh I think in Kevin Hart's specials he had one where he had LeBron and Shaq in the audience this is back when Shaq was playing on the Cavs and

Speaker 14 he started roasting them and you saw them just going nuts and uh

Speaker 14 so yeah athletes in general they they can take jokes in my in my opinion I got one more for you, Brad, and it's a quick one.

Speaker 10 Maybe it's an easy one.

Speaker 10 Kind of in the ranks of like when we were kids, were you a Bat Street Boys guy or an in-sink guy, Brittany or Christina?

Speaker 10 are you a sydney crosby guy or are you an alex oveetchkin guy oh for sake yep oh we're going uh well man

Speaker 14 that is tough that is tough so if i if i had to pick one

Speaker 14 um

Speaker 14 i know who i'd rather have a beer with i'll tell you that no obviously you'll have yeah but you're drinking all though yeah Well, that that and that's why I'm not driving home drunk that day.

Speaker 14 So it's fine.

Speaker 14 Because I, you know, I definitely rather have a beer with Ovie,

Speaker 14 rather party with him.

Speaker 14 Who I want on my team, who I think is a better team guy,

Speaker 14 I'll probably go Sid, the kid who's now like Sid,

Speaker 14 the middle-aged man. But yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 But if you want excitement, Sid to me wasn't an exciting player. He's very good.
He's obviously a great player. But

Speaker 14 Obi's going to do things where you're just like, holy crap. And he's going to take chances and stuff's going to happen there that that's going to be a little more exciting.

Speaker 14 But if you got to start a franchise with Prime, either one, I go Sid.

Speaker 14 Sorry, Roy.

Speaker 8 Yeah, Sidney Crosby has one silky trophy vote. Yeah, and awesome.

Speaker 8 Finally,

Speaker 8 finally, the Panthers have been celebrating all summer, and now the players and coaching staff and trainers are getting the one day with the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 8 If you had one day with the Stanley Cup, what would you do? Oh,

Speaker 14 you know,

Speaker 14 when my ducks won a cup back in

Speaker 14 2006, it wasn't even 20. It was 2006.

Speaker 14 I believe Scott Niedermeyer

Speaker 14 did a really cool thing where

Speaker 14 he took the cup to the top of like a mountain.

Speaker 14 And then he like rented a helicopter.

Speaker 14 And then the helicopter

Speaker 14 flew around

Speaker 14 while he held the cup in the air and like did a camera shot.

Speaker 8 Wow.

Speaker 14 Yeah. And then I think they put like Creed in the background or something.

Speaker 8 Of course.

Speaker 8 Of course.

Speaker 14 We're not just heard the news today.

Speaker 8 Will you take me higher? Yeah. Oh, my God.

Speaker 14 That was pretty inventive and pretty awesome. Weird how times have changed because now you can just do that with a drone.
You don't have to.

Speaker 10 If you do not are not aware of this, when you're done, Google Scott Stapp Marlins Will Soar, the lead singer from Creed did a Miami, Florida Marlins, like pipe song. And it is,

Speaker 10 I can't even describe it.

Speaker 8 Yeah, and we spoofed it. We spoofed it on the Levatar show.
Ty goes to the runner. And that's one of the one stretches.

Speaker 14 Do you guys, have you guys heard the Prince Vikings song?

Speaker 8 No. Oh, God.

Speaker 10 That's got to be good. Prince is a big Vikings fan.

Speaker 14 No, it's not. No, it's not good.

Speaker 8 Oh, he doesn't know football.

Speaker 14 And I love Prince. Let me put that out there.
Love Prince. I was in Miami.
I was in the audience for the greatest halftime show ever. I was in the crowd for Prince's halftime show.
Literally.

Speaker 8 Purple Rain in the Rain on him.

Speaker 14 Purple Rain in the Rain is one of the greatest moments of my life. You know, outside the birth of my children.

Speaker 14 But

Speaker 14 yeah, that was great. But yeah, I think the song is called Hail to the Purple and Gold.

Speaker 10 Purple and Gold. I just found it on YouTube.

Speaker 10 We will be watching this when we get done.

Speaker 10 And you've got to watch Marlins Will Soar.

Speaker 8 Okay. That's our trade.
Big deal.

Speaker 14 So

Speaker 14 if I had one day with the cup, man, because it's like, of course, you want, like, I would definitely drink an old-fashioned out of it.

Speaker 8 Oh, yes. Oh, man.
That's a lot of, that's a lot of bourbon, man.

Speaker 10 The biggest ice cube of all time. I'm here for that.

Speaker 14 Yeah, it would, it would kill me.

Speaker 8 But, you know, whatever.

Speaker 14 I mean,

Speaker 14 at my size,

Speaker 14 I might still be able to swim in it. That'd be fun.

Speaker 14 You know what I would do? If I won the cup, I would drive it up to Evan Moore's house.

Speaker 14 Because hockey rivalries run deep. And I would say,

Speaker 14 look what your boy got. Look what your boy got.

Speaker 14 That's what I would do. I would drive it to Evan Moore's house.
And then, yeah.

Speaker 14 I'm so petty. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 I'm here for it.

Speaker 14 I'm so petty.

Speaker 8 The growth score is September 11th through April 12th. Find out the tour dates and where he's going to play near you and get your tickets at Brad WilliamsComedy.com.

Speaker 8 Brad Williams, thank you for joining us. Appreciate you.

Speaker 14 Hey, thank you guys for having me.

Speaker 14 Sorry, I was a little late to join the show, but I'm solo dadding this week. And I had to.

Speaker 14 I had to do my daughter's hair, which I found out yesterday that I am horrible at and I cannot do. And

Speaker 14 I but all my fans reached out and they gave me this cheat. I tried it this morning.
Holy crap, it works. All right.
So for the dads out there,

Speaker 14 it's a vacuum cleaner. You get a vacuum cleaner and you get the tube attachment and you

Speaker 14 put the scrunchie or the whatever on the tube. You fold it over like three or four times.
And then you suck all the hair. Warn your daughter first.
That's a key thing.

Speaker 14 Warn your daughter you're going to do this. Yeah, the noise is going to be a good one.

Speaker 14 Yeah, don't do that. Just, but warn her.
And then you suck all the hair in the vacuum and then you just throw the scrunchie up onto the hair. Perfect.
It worked. It was amazing.
Nice. I'm a great dad.

Speaker 14 So

Speaker 14 I don't know. And this is just because I don't know how that's going to work with Claire.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I was about to say it's probably going to be a bit difficult for Claire. Different kind of texture.
Two Americas. Two Americas.

Speaker 14 Two Americas.

Speaker 8 With the vacuum cleaner on there.

Speaker 14 That's definitely a two Americas situation. But yeah,

Speaker 14 so that's why that's why I was a little late. I had to get her off to school and do her hair.
But guys, thank you so much for having me. Always fun.
And

Speaker 14 we didn't really talk about it, but I'm a big Ducks fan.

Speaker 10 I had Ducks questions for you.

Speaker 10 We ran out of time. I had so much I wanted to get to.
You guys are going to be a very improved team this year, I think.

Speaker 14 I love our draft. I love our new coach, as long as he doesn't repeat certain things that he did in Chicago.

Speaker 14 And I love Carlson. He's such an exciting player.
And

Speaker 14 we're a fun young team. And once again, I choose the right teams to be fans of because not a lot of celebrity ducks fans.
So they're rolling out red carpets for me. It's been great.

Speaker 8 Well, we're going to get your Ducks update during the season and see how they're going to end up going. And yeah, you're right about Quinville.
Thank you, Brad, for joining us. Wow.

Speaker 8 Oh, special thanks to Brad Williams. That was a lot of fun

Speaker 8 talking to him there about the fact that I didn't know they actually played hockey. That was,

Speaker 8 I wouldn't say it's surprising, but yeah, it's surprising. Sauce Pass King, yeah, yeah, that man got some good sauce on those passes, man.
Uh, but yeah, that was great.

Speaker 8 Uh, Rosie is cutting up this episode as soon as we are done here. Uh, Ethan is on audio.
We appreciate you being on remote and doing your job from wherever the hell you are right now. Chicago.

Speaker 14 I'm in Chicago, Roy.

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah, you're in Chicago.

Speaker 14 Yeah, the train comes by so often you won't even notice any. Yeah, that is not Oasis.
Bittersweet Symphony is not Oasis.

Speaker 14 That is very not Oasis at all.

Speaker 8 Yeah, well, hurry up and get your ass home.

Speaker 8 Danny GQ is a man in the wheels of steel in the other room. We got Danny Benitez and Jason.
I believe Gino is back there in the video room. We appreciate you guys there.
That's David Dork.

Speaker 8 My name is Roy Balami. We will see you next week.

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