Game 1 Of The Eastern Conference Final Was A Nightmare For Carolina

Summary

Empty Netters Podcast

Episode: “Game 1 Of The Eastern Conference Final Was A Nightmare For Carolina”

Date: May 22, 2026
Host: Almost Friday Media
Guests/Co-hosts: Dan, Chris, Zach, Evan

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into the disastrous Game 1 for the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final, dissecting both the on-ice collapse and the psychological ghosts that continue to haunt the franchise. The hosts blend their signature wit, hockey analysis, and inside banter to break down why Game 1 was an unmitigated nightmare for Carolina, marvel at Montreal’s performance, debate the “ghosts” narrative, and riff on everything from goalies and coaching to cursed jerseys and Memorial Day celebrations. Live chat input and plenty of out-of-nowhere laughter round out a fast-paced, loose, and insightful episode for fans of deep hockey talk and comedy alike.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Nightmare: Carolina’s Game 1 Meltdown

• Setting the Tone:

  • The episode opens with the “ghosts” theme and recurring riff about bad omens—“The ghosts are flooding Carolina, and they are not friendly” (Chris, 00:19).
  • Carolina’s history of misery in the Eastern Conference Final is front and center—Carolina is now 1–17 in the ECF since 2006.
  • “Everything went wrong.” - Chris (03:09)

• The Goaltending Disaster:

  • Freddy Andersen’s rough night after a stellar run through two rounds: “I couldn’t imagine being a Canes fan at that game. The ghosts must have been—you must have felt like you were in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.” (Chris, 05:08)
  • Discussion of whether Andersen should have been pulled after allowing early goals, with arguments for and against sticking with the starter for confidence.

• The Rust vs. Rest Debate:

  • Hosts acknowledge they previously downplayed "rust," but admit the Canes looked slow, disengaged, and “out until 7am the night before” (Chris, 22:32). Rust hurt the goaltending most.

• Storytelling: The Game as a Horror Movie

  • “It was like a horror movie where everything’s fine at first—you show up to Camp Crystal Lake…and next thing you know, your head’s getting lopped off by a machete.” (Chris, 06:04)
  • The early Jarvis goal was a “nice day at the lake,” the Caulfield answer was “where’s Dave?”—then, suddenly, it’s mayhem.

Notable Quote

“You can’t ignore this anymore. Look at me, Carolina. Your fans, your team. Look at me. This is real. This is a ghost staring you in the face. There are ghosts in the arena…Stop ignoring it.”
— Chris, in ghost costume, 13:45

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2. Montreal’s Statement & Aura

• Montreal “rag-dolled” Carolina—in speed, finishing, and even psychologically. “They’ve always been so nice to us … they are so fun to watch. Unbelievable.” (Chris on Habs, 03:10)

• The hosts highlight the Habs’ young talent, mentioning Caulfield, Lane Hutson, and Suzuki, and praise Dobesh’s “dog” performance in goal.

• Emphasis on Montreal’s “aura”:
  “They are fueled by aura right now…their top line was buzzing.” (Chris, 53:35)

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3. Spin Zones & Franchise Psychology

• Carolina’s Narrative:

  • Hosts joke about needing a séance, sage, and “acknowledging the ghosts” to break the curse.
  • "Sometimes you gotta acknowledge the ghosts…Why don’t we go out and play a good game?" (Dan, 11:21)
  • Debate over whether keeping Andersen in was acknowledgment of the ghosts, or should have gone to the tandem.

• Montreal’s Posture:

  • “If you win this series, Montreal, your greatest test is the Cup. Those two teams in the West will be a greater test.” (Chris, 34:32)

Notable Quote

“If you lose Game 2, this series is over. There, there will be no overcoming that mental battle.”
— Chris, 24:19

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4. Hockey Fandom, Habs, and Villains

• Discussion of whether Montreal will become “villains” again if they win too early (“Yankees effect”).
• “Now they’re likable. If they win too early do we worry that people hate them too quick?” (Chris, 44:13)

5. Carolina/Vegas Jersey Curses & ‘Stolen Valor’

• Listener Nick points out that teams who wear throwback jerseys (Carolina/Whalers, Colorado/Nordiques) often crash out in the conference finals: “Stolen valor. Karma.” (Chris & Dan, 45:54)
• “You either need to wear the Whaler’s jersey in a playoff game or go out and kill a whale!” (Dan, 46:48)

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6. Free-for-All Friday: Off-Topic Banter

• Jersey Leaks: The Panthers’ new Miami Vice-esque pink alternate gets raves (“looks like a glass of pink lemonade,” 57:03).
• Surfing and Rat Beach: Evan talks about finally feeling Californian. Laughs at “Rat Beach”—either a secret paradise or a place infested with rats (62:40).
• Natural Disasters: Queens flooding; how tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods compare in sheer terror (67:23).

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7. Memorial Day, American Rituals & Barbecues

• Are we “bastardizing” Memorial Day with just barbecues? “They fought for our freedom…and they want us to exercise our freedom by eating hot dogs.” (Chris & Dan, 70:44)
• Discussion of adding more reflection (wreath-laying, flag salutes) before “sucking down dogs and beers.”
• “Salute the flag. Sing the national anthem. Do something. Then…start drinking beer.” (Chris, 73:51)

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8. Teeing Up the Western Conference

• Colorado-Vegas Headaches: Abs fear losing Makar to injury, discuss their own franchise "ghosts of injury" every post-Cup season (78:07).
• Nate MacKinnon’s Role: Needs to go “fully rabid dog” if Makar can’t play. “We should give Nate rabies.” (Dan, 91:22)
• **Marc Stone’s uncertain return for Vegas referenced—if both he and Makar are out, “that’s not allowed.” (79:39)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (by Timestamp)

• On Ghosts, Curses & Superstition:

  • “The ghosts are flooding Carolina, and they are not friendly.” (Chris, 00:19)
  • “Sometimes you got to acknowledge the ghosts.” (Chris, 13:39)
  • “Sweep Caroline!—like ‘Sweet Caroline’—that’s an amazing shirt.” (Dan, 08:38)

• On Carolina’s Play:

  • “That game, top to bottom, was a nightmare for the Carolina Hurricanes. Yes, it was.” (Chris, 03:10)
  • “I couldn’t imagine being a Canes fan at that game. The ghosts must have been…Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.” (Chris, 05:08)
  • “Freddy looked like a piece of Swiss cheese in the first period.” (Dan, 12:02)
  • “If you lose in five or four, I will never speak about this team again.” (Chris, 42:38)

• On Montreal’s Play:

  • “This Habs team is just…so fun to watch.” (Chris, 03:10)
  • “The scary thing about Carolina is if [their depth line] comes down to earth at all—you’re dead.” (Dan, 54:02)
  • “This Habs team is great…their aura is coming out of their pores.” (Chris, 49:58)

• On Mascot Curses/‘Stolen Valor’:

  • “The two teams that have, as their alternates, the old franchise jersey, are now a combined 1-14 in the conference finals.” (Dan, 46:22)
  • “You have to wear the Whaler’s jersey in a playoff game…or go out and kill a whale.” (Dan, 46:48)

• Jersey Banter:

  • “Those are incredible. That looks like a glass of pink lemonade.” (Chris, 57:03)
  • “We need whites to take over the league again.” (Chris, 59:21)

• On Memorial Day:

  • “They fought for our freedom, and they want us to exercise our freedom by eating hot dogs.” (Chris, 71:04)
  • “Every Memorial Day should have a moment—lay a wreath, salute the flag, then the barbecue.” (Chris & Dan, 73:46)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:01 — Opening ghost/curse banter, intro to Carolina’s nightmares
• 03:09 — Complete breakdown of everything that went wrong for Carolina
• 05:02 — Goaltending, Freddy Andersen’s collapse, breakaway goals against
• 06:00-06:57 — “Horror movie” analogy for the game, Camp Crystal Lake bit
• 09:45-10:01 — Rod Brind’Amour’s honest comments postgame, not making excuses
• 13:39-14:16 — The ‘acknowledge the ghosts’ manifesto, sage-burning rituals
• 16:54 — Canes’ 18+ minutes without a shot in the 3rd period: “that’s unacceptable”
• 21:44 — Hosts admit they were wrong about “rust not being a factor”
• 24:19 — “If you lose Game 2, this series is hova. Oh, Dunyans.”
• 34:41 — “Your greatest test is the Cup.” West teams seen as scary
• 45:54 — Stolen Valor: Whalers/Nordiques jersey curse theory
• 53:35 — “They are fueled by aura. Their top line was buzzing.”
• 57:03 — Jersey leaks, “looks like a glass of pink lemonade”
• 67:23 — Tornado/flood/earthquake chat (“can’t believe tornadoes are real”)
• 70:44 — Memorial Day reflections: “They fought for our freedom to eat dogs.”
• 78:07 — Colorado’s post-Cup ‘ghosts’ (injury curses)
• 91:22 — “We should give Nate rabies.”
• 94:04 — Memorial Day weekend plans; call for fans’ barbecue photos

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Final Thoughts & Closing

The episode concludes playfully, with encouragement for listeners to embrace Memorial Day meaningfully before “sucking down dogs and beers,” hopes for a better Game 2 for both Carolina and Colorado, and open arms for fans to submit photos of their long weekend barbecues—while the podcast keeps the live shows coming.

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Summary for New Listeners

If you missed this episode, here’s what you need to know:
Carolina’s ghosts are real, Montreal is for real, and no amount of analytics or coaching can overcome hockey’s brand of exorcism—sometimes you just have to burn some sage, eat a hot dog for the troops, and keep it moving. The Empty Netters bring humor, deep hockey insight, and enough banter to get you through a nightmare game or a holiday weekend.

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Notable Quotes, Memes & Insider References

• “Sweep Caroline”—future t-shirt idea and chat sensation (08:38)
• “Acknowledge the ghosts.” (13:39, 23:15)
• “If they lose in five or four, I will never speak about this team again.” (42:38)
• “You need to finger Carter Hart.” (87:38, referencing goalie confidence break)
• Live chat: “Carolina tropical depressions,” “Carolina thunderstorms” (48:08)

Episode in One Sentence:
A haunted Carolina collapses (again), a swaggering Montreal surfed the aura wave, and no one is safe—not even from the ghosts or the donut-shaped Memorial Day wreaths.

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Transcript

[Dan]

Ice is ready.

[Chris]

And we're back with another episode of the Empty Netters podcast, brought to you by BetMGM. And the ghosts are flooding Carolina, and

[Dan]

they are not friendly.

[Chris]

Not friendly. Officially. Not Caspers in Carolina.

[Zach]

They're fucking poltergeists.

[Chris]

I want to take one quick moment to address. This is not a clan hood. Okay? Not. I am a ghost.

[Dan]

No one. No one thought it was a clan hood.

[Chris]

I don't.

[Dan]

Nobody. Nobody thought it was a clan hood. And then until you said that you

[Chris]

control the story by getting ahead of the story. You got to address it. Here's the deal, folks. The ghosts are real. You're looking right at them. Everyone thought that Carolina would be fine. Actually, maybe no one did.

[Dan]

No, don't do. A ton of people thought Carolina would be fine. A ton of people thought Carolina.

[Chris]

A lot of Carolinas. Carolinas.

[Evan]

Carolinians.

[Chris]

Carolinians. Carolinians. Oh, that's cool. There is. There's one guy that I keep seeing popping up on Twitter who's a big Canes fan, and he's, like, calling himself the Canes Confederacy, and he keeps making all these photos with the Confederate flag.

[Dan]

And I'm like, chill.

[Chris]

That's bad juju. Yep. That's why ghosts exist. The.

[Dan]

I. I can't believe sometimes you get signs.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

When they go, this is what's going to happen.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

The Canes can't win game one. The Canes can't win in the Eastern Conference finals. Rest can't beat rust. All the signs pointing to a Cane's loss.

[Chris]

All of them.

[Dan]

That it felt like there were too many signs that the Canes would have to win.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And then it turns out there were not too many signs. They were. They were the signs. It was a roadmap that they lose that straight aura. Yeah. They lost the fucking.

[Chris]

Or just enough with the aura. We'll get into the aura because you. I hate it. Or I don't hate it. I love it because I love the habs.

[Dan]

You're.

[Chris]

You're right. Their aura is dripping off of. How do you.

[Zach]

How do you love the habs? I mean, aren't they a big Bruins rival?

[Chris]

So that's what's. That's what's actually been funny. Someone. Someone online last night was like, respect so much how you guys love the habs. Shouldn't you hate the habs? And it's. Since the beginning of the Netter show. It was like the early days of them, you know, hiring Marty.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Them. And also, we got Cole Caufield. We've Got Lane Hudson. Like, we've got great.

[Dan]

US players of all time are on the haps.

[Chris]

And then how do you not love Suzuki? I love Dobson. I love Matheson. I think he's one of the most underrated defensemen in the league. Love Fowler, BC guy. And it's like, so you're just.

[Zach]

You're a fan of the players? I just so much the team.

[Chris]

I think they're so fun. They're fast, man.

[Zach]

They're fast and young.

[Chris]

They're fast. They're also. They. They've been so good to us, the Habs, and, like, going to the Bell center, and all the Canadiens fans also, like, they know we grew up Boston fans. They could have been mean to us. They've always been so nice to us. I've got nothing but love for them, but they are just like, I love them, dude. Cause it's just they are so fun to watch. Like, look at that game last night. Oh, yeah, they're unbelievable. But that game, top to bottom, was a nightmare. Nightmare, nightmare, nightmare, nightmare, nightmare for the Carolina Hercules. Yes, it was. I mean, it was like, hey, are you guys rusty? Oh, my God, yes. Hey, remember when we were throwing out all those stats how the top line for the habs can't score 5v5? I think they combined had, like 8 points. Nightmare. And then also remember how you guys have never won a game one in the Eastern Conference final? Nightmare. Remember how you are now 1 in 17 in the Eastern Conference since 20 or Eastern Conference Final since 20 2006. Nightmare. Like it is. Everything went wrong.

[Dan]

Dude, you're leaving out the biggest nightmare of them all.

[Chris]

Don't. You're going to. You're going to sewer him.

[Dan]

Yes, dude. Freddy Anderson goes. I've given up 10 goals in eight games. And I had every Cane's fan on earth in my ear. Like, this is the difference. You want to ask what? Because everyone goes, same old Canes. And they go, no, no, no. We look how dominant we've been through two rounds. That's different. And everyone else goes, dude, you played the 8 and 7 seed in the East. Respectfully.

[Chris]

I know.

[Dan]

So I don't miss me with all your. Look how dominant we are in the sweep. And they go, fine, fine. Who cares? The difference is Freddy. We have. We've always come up short in goaltending in the third round. Freddy is unbelievable. He's unconscious. He's 950, say percentage. 112 goals against. It's ridiculous. Freddy hasn't given up more than two goals in one game. He gives up four goals.

[Chris]

He gave up two in less than five minutes.

[Dan]

He gave up two in four shots. Dan.

[Chris]

It was.

[Dan]

I was like, oh, that.

[Chris]

I. I couldn't imagine being a Canes fan at that game. Yeah, the. The ghosts must have been. It must. You must have felt like you were in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.

[Dan]

Dude, I got a bunch of texts. And granted, there was not a lot of window for this time to even happen, so consider that, but I got a bunch of texts after that Jarvis

[Chris]

goal of just like, oh, my God. I know.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah, I thought. I thought, okay, here we go.

[Dan]

They were. The Canes fans were texting me. Like, people acting like this was going to be a fucking series, you know? Seth Jarvis, 20 seconds in, and they almost scored before that. Blake had the rap, like, dan will score 10 seconds in. And then Jarvis did score, and I was like, oh, my God.

[Chris]

You know what was crazy was. Was like a horror movie where everything's fine at first. You show up to Camp Evan.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Chris]

What's the camp In Friday the 3rd?

[Zach]

Camp Crystal.

[Chris]

Camp Crystal Lake.

[Dan]

Wow. Snipe job.

[Chris]

I knew he would know that. You show up to Camp Crystal Lake. It's a beautiful sunny day, everyone's skinny dipping in the lake. You're playing games. It's fun. And then that's the Jarvey goal. Yep. And then it's nighttime, and you're sitting by the campfire, and someone goes off to get more graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallow. And next thing you know, your head's getting lopped off by a machete.

[Dan]

No, no, no, no. That person doesn't come back because it's subtle at first, which was the Caulfield

[Chris]

goal, but that person got their head lopped for sure.

[Dan]

But we don't know that yet.

[Chris]

Well, the people at the fire don't, but we as the audience.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah, we know. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right. But that's the Caulfield goal. We go, oh, shit, where did he go?

[Chris]

What was funny is that I don't even think the Caulfield goal was fully. The ghosts coming out. The Caulfield goal was everyone at the campfire going, where's Dave?

[Dan]

Yes, exactly.

[Chris]

And then it was the second goal that was like, oh, dear, people are getting murdered here.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I thought after that, after it was tied, that maybe the game would, like, settle down, and then it.

[Dan]

Yeah, okay.

[Zach]

It'll be one. One for a while, and then, like, the Canes will take over.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Zach]

But absolutely did not happen. No, that was crazy.

[Chris]

No, it Was crazy Dan okay.

[Dan]

L. Liz says, are you going to remove the hood? Are we doing the whole episode like this? And Vixen says, is he going to commit to this bit? The whole pod? Please say yes. So I'm not sure what your plan is, but the people are wondering how.

[Zach]

How hot is it getting in there?

[Chris]

It's actually not. That looks pretty sheer. Yeah, it's not that bad. This isn't that heavy of a of. I mean, I don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm not wearing anything.

[Dan]

Yeah, this. He is a ghost.

[Chris]

Well, I am.

[Zach]

You all know that Dan's been dead for 20 years.

[Dan]

Yes he's ever been. He's never even been here.

[Chris]

People are finally learning that. Dude, you go back and watch a Carolina ghost.

[Dan]

Go back and watch old. I dare you all to go back and watch old netters. YouTube. It's just me talking to no one when there's no one here. I've been sitting here by myself for four years.

[Chris]

When. When in 2013. I went to pick up Chris at Duke when he graduated and I died at Shooters in Carolina. And I ever since I've been a Carolina ghost. Yeah.

[Dan]

And then Dan Darren, who I believe is the same guy who said, dude, where's my car? I believe that was Darren. Darren says Dan's not even here. That's the ghost of conference past. Darren's go Darren.

[Chris]

Darren is so come right for the show.

[Dan]

Seriously, Dan, we got a job. We're waiting for you.

[Chris]

Fucking dialed. Unbelievable. I. I can't believe how bad that went. Oh, wow.

[Dan]

This is a great shirt idea. I can't just stole another T shirt.

[Chris]

Okay, what is it?

[Dan]

We've got. We now have another T shirt steal. Thank you. It looks like Antoine. It says Sweep Caroline.

[Zach]

Sweet Caroline.

[Dan]

Yeah, well, sweep.

[Zach]

Sweep Caroline.

[Dan]

Sweep Caroline.

[Chris]

If that. Stop giving us free content. Guys, this is unbelievable. Actually. No, keep doing it. It's amazing.

[Zach]

The great thing about the live is we could just have.

[Evan]

No.

[Zach]

No preparation.

[Dan]

Yeah, just keep going.

[Zach]

Give us some ideas.

[Chris]

That's going to be a great headline for if Montreal does this. I can't believe how poorly that went. And there was someone online who was like, dude, this isn't just rust. Montreal's great. And that is 100% true. And we're going to get all into that. But you cannot ignore the fact that Carolina looked so asleep at the wheel. It was unbelievable. And one big one was what? I think Slaven finished that game Dash four or something. And Rod got asked after the game, someone was like, Tough or, you know, slaving dash for, you know, tough game for him. And Rod was like, oh, yeah, that was awful. I don't think I've ever seen that.

[Dan]

It was like. It was.

[Chris]

Rod's responses were after the first period, Rod was like, they look, they're so fast. It's like he was so honest all game and I love it. He was not making any excuses. He was like, we're getting fucking rag dolled out here, pal.

[Dan]

The fight, it was crazy. Okay, so the spin zone. Oh, actually I wanted to say this to this. We posted the Ghostbusters thing yesterday.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And I had so many people hitting me up being like, wow, that aged well. Looks like the canes aren't going to sweep the habs.

[Chris]

I clapped at those people too, because I was like, can you guys have a more of attention span than a fucking five year old kid also? And just watch the whole clip, dude,

[Dan]

you didn't even need the whole clip in the beginning of the clip is if the canes come. Come to the rink in Ghostbuster costumes. They will sweep.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Did they show up in Ghostbuster costumes? No, they didn't.

[Zach]

Literally was like, when did we post that? Like, in two hours before the game.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I didn't have enough time to source those costumes.

[Chris]

You know what? If someone's doing their job, they could have done it.

[Zach]

They could have.

[Dan]

So I'm like, I never said the canes were gonna sweep the hat. I said they would. They would. If they all came in to go.

[Chris]

The reality, the reality is this. If they had taken this seriously, if they had acknowledged the ghosts. Because Marty always says it. Marty's like, those guys aren't thinking about this. And I'm like, well, maybe they should. Yeah, maybe we should stop ignoring the fact that you are 1 and 17 in the Eastern Conference finals since 2006 and go. Maybe something's going on here.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

Sometimes you got to acknowledge the ghosts.

[Dan]

Yes, dude. Because it would be helpful to you go like this. Hey, boys. This is humiliating. We get pumped in the Eastern army finals every fucking year. And it's stupid. And why don't we go out and play a good game? Dude, I swear, these teams, you know, they should do the thing from the 1980 Olympics when everybody went, why are we playing the Soviets in a scrimmage? And then we get fucking piss pumped 12 nothing. Or whatever it was.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And then everyone's pissed off. But then those. We asked O.C. when he came on the show, we asked those guys. And I think it came up in the new Netflix doc, we asked those guys what they thought about that game, and they were like, dude, I swear that game helped us because the Soviets felt like, we're going to kill these guys, whatever.

[Chris]

They.

[Dan]

You know what I mean? That was actually a win.

[Chris]

The.

[Dan]

The Canes, when or any team that has a long rest like this, you need to schedule some kind of scrimmage and legitimately, like, you need to do something.

[Zach]

Did. Did they not practice or play for 11 days?

[Chris]

They practice for sure.

[Dan]

It's just. And dude, I have never. I have something to say about the goalies we can get to in a second.

[Chris]

We did. This is allegedly. Allegedly. But we had someone online hit us up and be like, I. I'm a cart girl at this, like, course in Carolina. And, like, the entire team was golfing, like, two days ago.

[Dan]

No, but that's okay.

[Chris]

That's fine. He practices. That's fine. I don't care. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying, like, they had so much time off that they were like, we can golf.

[Dan]

Yeah. So I. But. But everybody says you, you need. Especially for the goalie. And again, this. I will get into the goalies in a second. But I've never felt more validated by saying the. The person the rest hurts the most is goalies because you need live rounds. Even your boys at practice can't simulate what it's like. No doubt. And Freddy's only get. Freddy can't get scored on. And Freddy looked like a fucking piece of Swiss cheese in the first period.

[Zach]

He's also, not to disparage him personally, but this is also the goalie that did have some, like, mental health things, right? Is that. Is that.

[Dan]

He had some real health things.

[Chris]

He had a heart thing.

[Dan]

Blood clot and a blood clot.

[Chris]

Yeah, that's right. Freddy's the man.

[Dan]

But Freddie. But Freddie. Ev has been pumped in the third round every year.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah, it's. It's bad. It's bad. I mean, look at it, man. One in 17. There. You. You can't ignore this anymore.

[Dan]

I think. Look at a. Call somebody.

[Chris]

Dude, look at me. Look at me, Carolina.

[Zach]

I can't. You're a ghost.

[Chris]

Look at me, Dan. Carolina, your fans, your team. Look at me. Look at me. This is real. This is a ghost staring you in the face. There are ghosts in the arena. There are ghosts in this round, and you have to do something about it. Stop ignoring it. Stop. Stop acting like nothing's going on here. I'm right here. I'm. I Am fucking haunting you. So you need to acknowledge it and do something. And I legitimately think about how much we talk about how funny the Cane's admin is. You have to acknowledge this, too.

[Dan]

Yes.

[Chris]

This will take care of it. I mean, it's that game two one, three, one four. After three one, we were like, holy shit. You have to take out Freddie for one. I was like, this is insane. Now I do want to talk about that. I actually think. I respect. It worked out. I. I think it worked out keeping Freddie in. What do you think about that?

[Dan]

So. All right.

[Chris]

I thought that was a ballsy move by Rod, and I think it worked out.

[Dan]

I think it did not work out.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Dan]

I would have pulled Freddy immediately. The second. The third goal went in for a couple reasons. And someone just said this, too.

[Chris]

I have. I have a response.

[Dan]

Someone said, and Bussy hasn't played in almost two months now. Which is such a good point because your whole. Like, we have a tandem. I'm like, well, he is irrelevant now because he has also not seen live rouse since. Since January.

[Chris]

I have a response.

[Dan]

Go on.

[Chris]

I think if you. I think keeping him in was the one example of Carolina acknowledging the ghosts. I think if they yanked him, it would have been. That would have been so much fuel for Montreal.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

They go, holy shit, we chased him. We chased him immediately in the first period. And imagine that as Freddie.

[Dan]

Right.

[Chris]

Because no matter what, you're losing that game. You put Bussy in. Who knows what happens? But in my opinion, even if Bussey slams the door and you lose four two, you. You don't start Bussy game two.

[Zach]

I also think they were helped by. Oh, sorry, go ahead.

[Chris]

Well, just to finish.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I think leaving Freddy in was such a good vote of confidence from Rod to him. And he only let in one goal after that. Like, he. He shut down all of period two and gave up, you know, one goal in. In period three. Like, I think it was a. I

[Zach]

was going to say period two. Like, they dominated play so much. Yeah, okay. Like, there's a chance we could climb back in and not do it. I think if it didn't go that way, there was a better chance they would have pulled him.

[Chris]

If period was a nightmare, I think it was a good vote of confidence for Freddy's mentality and it let, you know, let him get some of the rust off, see some more shots, and he played well. Again, I always believe when a team gets that much of a lead, they step off the gas a little bit. But did you see that stat in the third period, I think. Elliot, can you one of you look up Elliot's Twitter feed? He was like, unless there's a correction. The Canes went 18 minutes and something. Seconds. I think it was like 38 seconds without a shot on goal in the third period.

[Dan]

The Canes did.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I mean, dude.

[Chris]

And I'm like, yikes.

[Dan]

So here's. Here's my thing. I think we've seen many times in this playoffs, a team, especially in Montreal games, a team give a bunch of goals, pull their goalie, busy, comes in, shuts the door at 3, and the canes come back and win this game. Yeah, they win four, three, you know, and it's like, not that shocking. So I would have got him out immediately in that moment. I certainly would have taken him out when the fourth one went in. And I'll tell you when I actually, 1 billion percent would have pulled them, Dan. And you're going to laugh when one minute into the second, someone rang the pipe, and it was right before Carolina scored. But I would have been like, dude, it was.

[Chris]

It was Cole.

[Dan]

Yeah. I'm like, you can't save anything, dude. Dude.

[Chris]

And I will say, no offense, Freddy. He knew nothing about that shot.

[Dan]

Yes.

[Chris]

That Cole absolutely nipped that one. That was one of those ones where, like, you. When it hits the post that hard and clean and straight on, you, like, feel it in your bones.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And Freddie turned, totally misread it, and then saw it bouncing out. And you could see his body language was kind of like, oh, did that hit the twine? And now it's bouncing out.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

But then they were like, quick other way transition goal. And I was like, well, was it

[Zach]

Carolina when 1838 without a shot in the third period?

[Chris]

Yes. Yeah.

[Dan]

That is so.

[Chris]

That's unacceptable.

[Zach]

I know. Because you feel like they had so much momentum in the second and because what is it with Montreal taking the second period off? Is it like a French thing where they take those long lunches?

[Dan]

Well, it's just the long. The long change of. Right.

[Zach]

They're just like, let's have a long lunch.

[Dan]

And I'm not going all the way down there.

[Chris]

Do you think there's anything to that second period? Obviously, like, I mean, I feel like there. You can't say there's anything to it based on that third period stat. That is just so unacceptable. But do you think that there was any sign of life from Carolina in the second and the third where it was like, people were like, they're still in this game. If. If that third period had started, and Carolina scored five minutes in to make it 4:3. Everyone would have been like, oh, my God.

[Dan]

Yes. Because Carolina. 1000%. This is their spin zone.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Because the. It finished 5:2, right?

[Chris]

6:2, 6:2, 6:2.

[Dan]

What was the fifth goal?

[Chris]

Couple of emptying or the fifth. Fifth goal was slaps walk, walkadaisy doodle around.

[Zach]

We have a shot of it.

[Dan]

That was nasty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was nasty.

[Chris]

Can I see? I can see. No, that was goal four. That was Demidov. Gross. But then

[Dan]

the. So the Canes fan spin zone is 1000% okay. You were all completely correct. We were extremely rusty.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

That was actually hard.

[Chris]

Take it easy with these highlights act. We're gonna get demonetized.

[Dan]

No, no, it's loop. These are fine.

[Zach]

Dude, we're already demonetized.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah. Because why? Because of the clan hood manhood. Dude, we can't make you think we're making money off of this.

[Zach]

No, it's not a clan hood. You're a ghost.

[Chris]

That's true. Kane's Confederacy Guy loves me right now. The.

[Dan]

The Canes fan spin zone. The Canes team. Fuck the fans. This Canes team spin zone.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Is this our bad? You are 100% right. We were extremely rusty. We jumped into a first period against a team that has been in rhythm, chomping at the bit. They rammed it down our throats. We were asleep. It was 4:1 before we could fucking blink. And then after that, it was one one hockey game where they scored an empty netter. We are completely fine now. We are in rhythm now. We will be ready. Game two. And we're good. That's. That is their spin zone. But it's just. It puts a lot of pressure on game two because now it's. It's fucking wake. Don't hit the snooze button again, pal. Because if you wait, don't wake up for game two, and you lose and you dropped both home games, and now you're going to Montreal where they haven't even been that good. But now you're going to Montreal and you've got the stigma. We said it with Marty. If this Kane. It's the Canes who only get swept if they go down.02 at home. They're going. Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Zach]

Of thoughts.

[Chris]

Let. Let me. Let me say this before. Before we get into the Habs. This is my last ghost comment.

[Dan]

Holy. Is that true?

[Chris]

Oh, geez. CP just got a stat. Let me say this. The. There were a lot of keynes Fans, you know, we're, we're being hyperbolic and having fun on X last night being like, canes are dead, the blah, blah, blah. And a bunch of people are like, you're giving up on this team already? And this and that. I think that they did show some life. I think that they, I think that the rust is so real. And also hand up old. The, the living version of Dano. Hand up. I was wrong. Rust is real. I, thank you. I have spent weeks being like, I don't think rust is a big. Zach, what are you giggling about, dude?

[Evan]

I, I, I, I'm just, I'm just. You went on and on and on and on and on about. Oh yeah, about how Russ was going to be a factor. They come out and pump them. The young kids aura doesn't exist. All that. And, and here we are, you're in a ghost costume and we're talking about demons.

[Chris]

That's he.

[Dan]

You're right.

[Chris]

You're right. R is definitely real. I mean that this Habs team is so good, so young, so fast. But we're, we're acting like guys like fucking Seth Jarvis and Svetchnikov and Keandre Miller don't exist. Like the, the canes aren't this slow. So that was, I thought that was rust on full displays, dude. Like, they, they looked legitimately like they were out until 7am the night before.

[Dan]

Playing guilty.

[Chris]

Playing guilty. Like they were so dead. That was insane. So I think that there is a spin zone. I think that there's light. I think they showed signs of life as they got into the game a little bit more. But to your point, cp this game two is the most game seven I've ever seen in my life for Carolina. And I will tell you what, if you don't do something about the ghosts, if you don't acknowledge me, witness me. Acknowledge it and do something about it. If you lose game two, this series is hova. Oh, Dunyans. So Carolina, like, you better believe it. Oh.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris]

Oh. Acknowledge the ghost. Acknowledge the ghost. Oh, yeah. Carolina, is this, Is this.

[Dan]

What is it?

[Chris]

Yeah, and then you just blow the smoke everywhere.

[Evan]

Get in there. Get in there.

[Chris]

Oh, you're gonna light it with the candle. I like it. We are, we are trying to help you, Carolina. You can also just do that with the lighter. Oh, my God. Yes. Sage. Carolina, this is what you need to do.

[Zach]

Blow it east.

[Chris]

Witness me. Acknowledge my existence. Acknowledge my spirit. Because the ghosts are flooding you. They are all around you and you can't deny them anymore. And I'm telling you. Yeah. If you lose game two, this series is over. There, there will be no coming over. Overcoming rather that mental battle.

[Dan]

That is correct, Dan. And here's what I want your take on.

[Chris]

Should I take the ghost thing off now to talk about Montreal? Sure.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Evan]

Can I, before you take it off? Yeah, I. Dead ass. I just real quick, I got to tell this. So today on my way in, there was two signs and I want to be on your side here. Okay.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

First thing was we're in la. I legitimately, hand to God, Arnold Schwarzenegger passed my car parking today, which was amazing.

[Chris]

Was he on his bike?

[Evan]

He was on his bike.

[Chris]

He's often on his bike.

[Evan]

Yeah, he almost hit my mirror. It was amazing. This the second thing this honest to God did happen. I was on the phone. I have witness proof. The Ghostbusters, it was a van, it wasn't the full plasm, but the van that had like there was a bunch of stuff on top. So it didn't look like the full ecto, but it had the Ghostbusters logo, everything attached to it past me today, out in front of the office today, I am dead ass.

[Dan]

So what do you, how do you feel now?

[Evan]

Because you're the aura God, I'm on with the aura. But I was, you know, I want to see good things happen for Dan and I, you know, I want to see it happen for Dano. And I was like, I was like, that's a sign. Like I legitimately, I saw it, I was like, the Ghostbusters are here, we're ready. And it was amazing.

[Dan]

So, so Canes win game too. For sure.

[Evan]

I, I kind of have the thought philosophy. Yes.

[Chris]

I want to, I want to be very clear before I rip this ghost cloak off. I'm not rooting for either team here. I, I, I really believe in this Carolina team and I, and for them, for the love of God, I would love to see them overcome some of these ghosts. But if you think I'm not fully torqued. Hold on,

[Dan]

you need the mic. You need the mic.

[Zach]

You're going to fart into that mic. Oh.

[Chris]

If you think I'm not fully torqued at the idea of getting to go to Montreal for the final, you're out of your mind.

[Dan]

Well, here's.

[Zach]

Why don't we go for game four?

[Chris]

Don't fucking give me any ideas.

[Zach]

We can fly Tuesday and be back Thursday.

[Dan]

Here's legitimately the problem. I literally think I can't go because. And you are maybe just going to avoid this my passport expires January 6th 7th, 2027. But you aren't allowed to travel if it's within six months of expiration, which is June.

[Zach]

That means we got to go now,

[Dan]

which means no, which means I need to submit my passport now for rush.

[Chris]

Wait, is that June or is that July?

[Zach]

You will. You will absolutely be fine.

[Dan]

January. No, dude, there's a rule.

[Chris]

No, there is a six month rule. Actually, we might need to rely on the chat here, but I'm pretty certain.

[Dan]

And you're right, it's July.

[Chris]

It's July. I think December would be June.

[Dan]

Oh, dude. So we're golden.

[Chris]

We're money. But I will also say this.

[Dan]

Holy.

[Zach]

That is exception.

[Chris]

For that is like the dumbest rule.

[Zach]

Like, three months is fine. Six.

[Dan]

No.

[Zach]

Get out of a country in six months.

[Chris]

Can you imagine trying to go somewhere and being like, here's my passport. And they go, that actually expires in six months. And you go, yeah. Yes.

[Zach]

So.

[Chris]

And they go, yeah, you can't use it. I'm like, what?

[Dan]

What are you talking about?

[Chris]

What's the point of an expiration date if. If we're not honoring it?

[Dan]

And I was gonna say in.

[Chris]

I should be able to smoke this to the filter.

[Dan]

Yeah, dude. The other thing that sucks is when you send it for. When you say, hey, I need a new one, they. The second you hit submit on that, they deactivate your current one.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

So you have this gap of like, that's crazy. I'm waiting for that. I'm like, dude, I. That's some bullshit

[Zach]

drive road trip.

[Dan]

And put me in the trunk, dude. Sneak me in the trunk with the vodka. Put the vodka in the trunk.

[Chris]

And Chris, the content that would come from us road tripping from California to Montreal would be unbelie. We kill each other.

[Dan]

Dude, I know we told the story last live, but I had a. I remember thinking the first time I went into Montreal and I got stopped at the border. The guy goes. The guy was pissed. Sam Mason and. And me. And he goes, get out of the car. We go sit on the bench. This is when we had the vodka in the shin pads. And he goes, sit on the bench. And we sit on this bench and they're digging through my car and Sam's

[Chris]

like, do you think they're going to

[Dan]

find the vodka in our shitting pads? And I was like, maybe. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen if we do. Blah, blah, Bl. And it occurred to me, all you have to do to catch anybody is go. We're going to search your car. Please go sit on that bench and just put a mic on that bench. And then they just sit there the whole time.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan]

And go. Oh, no. I hope they don't find the blank right here. And you're like, got them. Thank you so much. Yeah, that's surveillance, brother.

[Zach]

That's illegal.

[Dan]

Not Canada, dude. Canada. Sneaky communist.

[Zach]

Dude.

[Dan]

We're fine.

[Chris]

I want to. I want to get into a Montreal stroke off session.

[Dan]

Not yet. I got one more thing. So want your take on this?

[Chris]

Okay.

[Dan]

Goalies took off the goalies. I do. I do this all the time. So I'm. I'm hand up. I'm guilty of this. The. That those weren't his fault Take.

[Chris]

Right?

[Dan]

And again, I just all the time. When it's a breakaway, when it's a two on one, back door, one te. I'm like, that's not his fault because it isn't. Right? Like, those are. A lot of those are unsavable. I'll say this. A backdoor one timer is unsavable because you're like, whatever.

[Chris]

But our boy Phil was heavy on that. Like, I was like, this is brutal for Freddy. And he was like, what do you want him to do? Exactly.

[Dan]

And, dude, I. Again, I'm so guilty of this. I do this with Bruins goes all the time where I'm like, it was a breakaway. Like, we shouldn't be giving up point blank shots to Cole Coffield in the slot.

[Chris]

Yeah, that point break was. That was brutal. Breakaway on the second one, Demit off.

[Dan]

I just.

[Chris]

Let me see the third.

[Dan]

The third one was. You didn't like the third one?

[Chris]

I did not like this one.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[Zach]

So, yes.

[Dan]

Just.

[Zach]

Their passing is fucking crisp.

[Chris]

I. I didn't love that one. And I think. I think it was mostly cut. I mean, who is that? Is that slave?

[Dan]

It's Tex. Oh, who got. Who got torched?

[Chris]

Well, he didn't even get torched. He just, like, doesn't even do anything to text. Yeah, I think it is.

[Zach]

He didn't see it.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I mean, that. That. That is harsh. It's harsh to get on Freddie about that one. But to me, my mentality is like, if you. If you were a Con Smythe candidate, which he was going into this game, you got to stop the bleeding, dude. Like, you got to make.

[Dan]

This is my exact point, dude. It's the it. And again, I say this all the time, so I'm a hypocrite. But the. It wasn't his fault. I'm like, dude, I know they're not his fault, but you need to steal those.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

If you're. The whole narrative was like, Freddy. Freddy is dialed. If you're dialed, you stop both those breakaways, and everyone goes, thank God Freddy's dialed.

[Chris]

It's.

[Dan]

I'm like, now you're not dialed.

[Chris]

The canes. Like, even I. No offense. Like, that slap move me, Dan. Like that. I'm like, how does that get under your pad pal? Like, he obviously slapped. Walks the shit out of Svetch. But, like, I'm kind of like, dude, this isn't a great move. Like, how does that get under you? But whatever. I think the. I think the canes need to pull a Ted Lasso on this one, and they need to sit in a room together, watch this entire game on 2x speed with that. Benny Hill music. That's what they gotta watch, and it'll help them get through it. Yeah. Like that. That is what they need to do. Because, like, this was just so bad that it's like, dude, you don't linger on this. This wasn't your game.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

Move on.

[Dan]

Yep. Absolutely correct. Okay.

[Chris]

Wow.

[Dan]

A lot of people saying Canada doesn't. You don't. The six month doesn't apply to us. Canada.

[Chris]

Oh, I believe that. Remember back in the good old days when all you had to bring was a birth certificate?

[Dan]

That was sick. Yeah. A copy of the birth. I show the picture of my phone.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I go, here you go, dude. I was born.

[Chris]

Come on in. Eat all the poutine and drink all of our booze.

[Dan]

I'm like, hell yes, dude.

[Evan]

I can't believe that happened. I was. I. That. I never have. I've been like, man, Yo. But that was like, y' all just brought a birth certificate back in the day.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris]

Yeah. Dude. Isn't that crazy?

[Evan]

That's wild.

[Dan]

I go, dude, I was once born. And they go, come on in. Yeah.

[Chris]

Actually, here's a funny, fun question for you and that your. Your youngins.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Do you have your Social Security card?

[Evan]

Yes.

[Chris]

Isn't it funny? I don't know what yours looks like. Mine is printed on fucking tissue paper.

[Zach]

It's printed on felt.

[Chris]

It's unbelievable. And I'm like.

[Dan]

And.

[Chris]

And they're like, don't lose this.

[Dan]

I'm like, well, it's.

[Chris]

It's gonna catch on fire if it's a hot day out. Like, what the. Yeah. It's insane.

[Zach]

Yeah, it's insanely. It's. It could literally blow away, like, dust

[Chris]

oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A strong gust and it would disintegrate.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Not only blow away, it would disappear.

[Dan]

God. Unbelievable. Okay, dude, the Habs, if you're the halves and you now go, we. We are incapable of losing two games in a row, so that's impossible. That means that you have now officially made it to the cup, because if the Canes win game two, you automatically win game three. If the Canes win game four, you automatically win game five. The Canes win game six, you automatically win game seven.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

You are incapable of losing two in a row. So now you have officially qualified for the Cup. How do you recommend Habs fans celebrate today knowing that they have made the Cup?

[Chris]

This. I mean, I am a. I am a baby. So I. This is kind of my take, always. You. You've heard me talk about this with multiple sports. I get so afraid of bulletin board material that I never peacock.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I'm never one to be like, if I were a Habs fan right now, instead of doing the fucking suck me, Carolina. You losers. You. You're idiots. You thought you were going to do that. I would just gas up the boys. I would be like, look at that.

[Dan]

Boom.

[Chris]

Everyone you know said, Said, said the top dogs couldn't score 5v5. How about that? I would just gas up the boys and not talk because the bulletin board material scares me. And you just don't want to be that guy. Providing receipts. You never want to provide receipts.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

So I would not. I, I. No offense to the Canes, it's only been one game.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

But if you win this series, Montreal, your greatest test is the Cup. Those two teams in the west will be a greater test.

[Dan]

Even Vegas.

[Chris]

Absolutely even Vegas, man.

[Dan]

Okay. Okay.

[Chris]

And you got to save your celebration, because they're going to need you. They're going to need you causing earthquakes.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

So don't. Don't empty the tank now, because I was over here earlier this week saying, I'm. I'm. I actually did it. I'm mashing a future on the Habs, winning a Cup next year.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah. You said that.

[Chris]

And I'm now being like, do they

[Dan]

have a chance here this year?

[Chris]

And we. We. We talked about every.

[Evan]

Who.

[Chris]

What goalie? I think it was Dosh. I was like, dosh is pulling a Tim Thomas here. He's pulling a JS Shiger.

[Dan]

Yeah, I think he might be. He's not.

[Chris]

He didn't face that many shots in this game. But, like, Dobesh is a dog.

[Dan]

He kind of did, too. They got. They Got some shots. It wasn't that many. Yeah, it's not like it wasn't a nine shot game.

[Chris]

Yeah, these Habs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan]

Yes, he is. And he said he could play 40 more, which he can because he's a rookie and he's got young. He's got young knees.

[Evan]

Yes.

[Dan]

He's got young, rubbery knees. And the thing is, dude, they can win. They can win the cup. It's an interesting state. This series is an interesting place because game one, of course, is. Someone actually said it way earlier that they were like, I'm reserving judgment till game two. But game one is. Is overreaction, station population. Everyone on. Yes, always in every series. And the issue is right now, I want to go, holy shit, the Habs. Look at them. They're too fast. They're too fast for Carolina. But there's a very possible universe where the Canes go, we win in five.

[Zach]

Well, here's the thing. I was saying this, like, look, I'm very. I obviously like the Go Haps go. Just because I need to root for something, I cannot just watch clinically. I have to have a stake. And now that my Penguins are gone, I'm going to jump on this bandwagon.

[Dan]

I love it.

[Zach]

However, I was looking at that game, I'm like, yeah, we won game one. It looked great. But like, don't forget that we were literally an overtime goal in game seven away from the not even being in this series.

[Dan]

Correct.

[Zach]

Like, it could have been Buffalo and losing to.

[Dan]

To Tampa. Like game seven, Tampa was. You had nine shots. And I'm like, exactly.

[Zach]

So it's like they. Yeah, they keep getting by on the skin of their teeth, which is cool. But you. You wonder like, is that a game plan or is that just like we're just kind of skating by? You know what I mean?

[Dan]

But sometimes that's. That's how it goes. Right?

[Zach]

Like, the vibes are great.

[Dan]

Vibes are so high. So, yeah, the. The game one. It's hard to say anything, but I gave you the cane spin zone already of. Yeah, man, it's fine. You'll. You'll. You just write that one off to rest. I. I think that they. If this, it would have been a better narrative. Obviously. I'm. This is a dumb take, but it would have been a better narrative if they lost that game. Five, four, after getting dummied in the first and they went, we're fine.

[Chris]

Oh, I totally agree.

[Dan]

We were just sloppy in the first.

[Chris]

Honestly. Honestly, man, even five, three.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

If they. Because they Start the game with the Jarvey goal. Then they get the second goal, which was nasty. But that second period, it felt like Buffalo, Montreal, Game seven, where I was like, how did you survive that period? I kind of felt for Carolina. I was like, you gotta score.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Like, you've got to score here to end this period. But they didn't. And I was like, all right, come out hot. And then they go almost an entire period without getting a shot. Yeah. Even if they had lost 5, 3, 6, 3, getting that third goal, I think would have made them feel so alive. But this is why I'm like, again, they didn't give up or they didn't get any fucking shots in the third period. But this is why I'm like, dosh is fucking nasty. Yeah. And fucking, hey, man, this team. This. This Habs team is just like everyone's. Everyone's talking about how the world was underestimating Vegas. I think the world is underestimating this team.

[Zach]

What if it's Vegas and Montreal in the final?

[Dan]

Dude, it will.

[Chris]

It'll be awesome. It'll be awesome. I do think the Patty Waugh series of Montreal, Colorado would be very nice.

[Dan]

That's cool.

[Chris]

That'd be very cool.

[Dan]

One of my boys picked that in his bracket.

[Chris]

That's it.

[Dan]

And he sent me as an ass guy, and he picked me. He sent that to, like, you know, obviously before playoff started, because he picked the bracket.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I was like, abs Habs.

[Chris]

Okay? Now I'm like, dude, I have two. Two questions for you.

[Zach]

Why.

[Chris]

Why do we think so many fans, so many random fans hate Carolina?

[Dan]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris]

Because I'm seeing a lot of hate online for Carolina.

[Zach]

Is it because they were so good all year?

[Chris]

I don't know. I think it's a. And I'm not even talking about the clowning on Carolina. I get why Carolina gets. We just saw it.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

I get why they got clowned on. But I feel like there's a lot of hate for Carolina, too. I get the hate for Vegas. I don't agree with it, but I get the Vegas hate.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris]

The Carolina hate is very confusing to me. Is it just Southern hockey?

[Dan]

I think it's a combo of Southern hockey, actually. Yeah. I think it's Southern hockey. Small market, Right? Like, it's small market Southern hockey. Not a ton of history. I think they have the one cup, right?

[Chris]

Correct.

[Dan]

One cup and no superstar.

[Chris]

Right.

[Dan]

Like, I don't think they. I can't recall them ever even having a guy that. We all go, oh, my God, you are a mega Star.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

On this team.

[Chris]

Right. It was amazing.

[Dan]

They did have Miko. They did have Miko Ran and what's.

[Chris]

I mean, they had natures too.

[Dan]

Yeah. But. But neither of those guys are superstars.

[Chris]

Yeah. I think maybe Mika nature is pretty. I mean.

[Dan]

No, no, he's not.

[Chris]

He's pretty close to a superstar.

[Dan]

Nope, he is not. And. And they have great players, obviously. Like if you're making team. If you're Seth Jarvis making Team Canada over and over again, you are a stud. But they don't have a. A, A name brand superstar.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Dan]

Small market southern hockey. There's just a lot of reasons to not care about the Canes. And then their performances, the way they've lost just adds all the. I swear they would get so much less without that. Shit.

[Chris]

Yeah. Someone's getting murdered outside.

[Zach]

Those are the ghosts.

[Chris]

The go.

[Dan]

Oh, my God. It's right out.

[Chris]

No, no, no, no. They said we need to acknowledge them.

[Dan]

Acknowledge the ghosts. It's okay. We are. We appreciate you. We will help you finish your business.

[Chris]

I think you are right. I think it's a combination of you just.

[Dan]

They.

[Chris]

They are not taken seriously. Yeah. And they're not taken seriously. And then all year in the regular season, when Kane's fans, Kane's media is like, this team is the best team in the East. All of you need to fucking recognize. People are like, you guys are like, stop trying to tell us that you're serious. And then you do the same thing every year. So I do think that's probably.

[Dan]

And there's some good in the chat here. They. People don't like their jerseys. Ugly logo, ugly jerseys. Which I kind of hear a lot of people from Connecticut stole my Whaler, so I hate that. And then also people saying, oh, David was like, we don't know if they'd have a superstar because of Rod's system. And they play boring hockey for the most part, which is true. So all those things I really compile, I think compile into not liking them. And dude, the. This one will be like the final straw. Like if they get pumped by the Habs.

[Chris]

If we're like, I said this to Chris walking out of Jameson last night. I will never talk about the Canes again. If they get swept in this series.

[Zach]

You were high on them all.

[Chris]

I've been supporting them all season. If they lose in seven, I will not. They do not deserve any shit from anybody because this Montreal team is phenomenal. If they lose in six, kinda. If you lose in five or four, I will never speak about this. Team again. Because I can't. And that's not me being a fuck you. I'm saying I can't. I have no. I have nothing to say anymore.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

I will have exhausted all of my support and adoration because if you get swept or get gentlemen swept, there's nothing to say. We're sitting over here talking about how they're the first team since 85 to double sweep, and now here they are getting absolutely fist in game one again. And I'm like, there's nothing to say.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

So this brings me into my next discussion, and then I have a really fun hypothetical for you. Or not even hypothetical, but something to think about. Okay, my next discussion is this.

[Zach]

Are we.

[Chris]

Are we worried that the Habs are potentially going to win too soon and become Villains?

[Dan]

Oh.

[Chris]

Oh, well, think about.

[Zach]

Oh, you mean win what?

[Dan]

The cut the cup?

[Chris]

Think about it. Montreal, for better or worse.

[Dan]

Everybody loves them right now.

[Chris]

For better or worse, Montreal is a very hated franchise by other hockey fans because 26 cups.

[Dan]

Yeah, they're the Yankees.

[Chris]

They're the Yankees. They have all those cups in the early days of the NHL when there's fucking six teams and everyone is like, what are you talking about, dude? Those cups are fake. Blah, blah, blah. There's a lot of ammunition to hate them. If you were a Bruins fan in the 90s and early 2000s, like, they had a really ratty type team. And even in the peak Gallagher days, like, they were really ratty and it was easy to hate them. Carey Price, best goaltender on planet Earth, easy to hate because he was so good. Now they're likable. They're so likable. I'm over here in love with them.

[Dan]

Yes.

[Chris]

If they win too early, do we worry that people are going to hate them too quick?

[Dan]

Okay. The. The people will pretty quickly go back to hating them.

[Chris]

Yeah. But a.

[Dan]

It'll take a little while because it's. It's kind of takes after two. Once you. If you go back to back or if you win two out of three.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Then. So it'll take a little while. And the Habs fans don't give a. Bring on the hate. Oh, no. They don't bring me all the cups you want.

[Chris]

They don't be all the hate. I'm talking about for me. This. This has no. Nothing to do with Habs fans.

[Dan]

Of course not.

[Chris]

They'll win whenever they want. I'm talking about for me because I'm. I'm over here loving this.

[Dan]

Okay, then for you.

[Chris]

But then if all of a Sudden.

[Dan]

Yeah. You will hate them next year. Win the competition. Don't.

[Chris]

I don't want that.

[Dan]

You will hate them next year.

[Chris]

I want to keep rooting for this.

[Dan]

They'll be leaving the Atlantic.

[Zach]

They're going to get smug.

[Dan]

Yeah. They'll be leaving the Atlantic, and I'm going to.

[Chris]

I'm. I'm going look at my boys. I'm going to look at Cole and Lane, and all of a sudden they're. They're walking around like this.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

Look at.

[Zach]

I'm threaten.

[Chris]

I'm a Stanley cup champion. And I'm.

[Dan]

And I have to be like, they got tattoos now.

[Chris]

No.

[Dan]

Boom, boom. Stanley cup champion right here.

[Chris]

Worried they might peek too early.

[Dan]

Lane's got the cup tattooed right here.

[Chris]

That would be unbelievable. I would actually respect that.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Can you imagine if someone got a full Stanley cup face tattoo?

[Dan]

Dan? Actually, what. What if. What if Lane. What if they win a cup and Lane shows up the next day with a Stanley cup tattoo on his face? But it's like small and right here. Cuz he's like, I had to leave room for the eight that I want to get.

[Chris]

That would be smug.

[Dan]

I would love him even more then.

[Chris]

Okay, now here's something to think about for you guys. Okay.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

This is from Nick on Instagram.

[Zach]

Okay.

[Dan]

Hell yeah.

[Chris]

Nick goes. Longtime listener. This is something you should address. Goes Carolina 1 and 17. The East Conference Final since they. Or excuse me, 1 in 13 in the Eastern Conference final since they stole the Hartford Whalers jersey. Colorado now wears the Quebec Nordiques jersey, and they are now down 01 to. To Vegas. Stolen valor.

[Dan]

Karma. So the two teams that have. That have. As their alternate jersey, have used the old franchise jersey, are Now a combined one and 14 in the. In the conference finals. That is actually crazy, dude. How do they. How do they exercise it? I think, unfortunately, they either have to wear the Whaler's jersey in a playoff game, which I don't know if it's allowed or not, but they either need to wear the Whaler's jersey and just go address the ghost, or they have

[Zach]

to go out and kill a whale.

[Dan]

Or they have to kill a whale. Or they have to go on a harpoon trip and kill a whale.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And. And YouTube live it.

[Zach]

I don't know about the abs, but what is a Nordic?

[Dan]

Yeah, what is a Nordic? You kill one, you kill him. You got to kill a guy, they got to kill a person, dude. Nate's like, no problem. Give me the gun. It's fine.

[Zach]

Brock Nelson looks like he could strangle somebody.

[Dan]

Brock Nelson has strangled somebody and. Oh, no. He probably made me promise. That's actually, I'll tell you off. Yeah, that's off.

[Zach]

He just, he's got, he's got a. Yep. Like a very serious look to him.

[Chris]

Him.

[Dan]

He does. He feels like he has time traveled here from another era.

[Chris]

I, I do believe passionately that there might. There, There might. Maybe not for Colorado yet. Let's see what happens in tonight in game two. But I think very passionately that there. This might be something.

[Dan]

I.

[Chris]

Listen, I've been talking about stolen valor.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And is it a joke? Yes. But is it possibly real also? Yes.

[Dan]

Dude, this is great. This is great.

[Chris]

You might need to put. No, I'm not going to say what I was about to say, but you might need to put one of these Whalers jerseys on something.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Chris]

A ghost. Yeah, make a ghost. Make a ghost.

[Evan]

The comments are amazing right now, by the way, y'.

[Dan]

All.

[Evan]

We got the Carolina tropical storm or tropical depressions. The Carolina thunderstorms. The Carolina almost tornado. This is amazing.

[Dan]

That's so good.

[Chris]

It's like, oh, my God.

[Dan]

Yeah, they changed their name. I like that. Actually, dude, if they get swept, they have to change their, they have to change their team name officially, like for one season at least to one of these. And we'll let them pick. We'll let them pick. Well, submit every single one of these comments to the Carolina brass. And they have to pick, but they are not allowed to be the Hurricanes if they get swept.

[Chris]

Yeah, it might be true. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's, it's, this is tough sledding.

[Dan]

Well, safe Cracker just says how fast the narrative goes from habs don't stand a chance to. Canes are on the edge of a cliff now. And that's what I mean about game one reactions. But also, no one ever said the Habs don't stand a chance.

[Chris]

Yeah, I, I, I think we said Canes first of all. I, I respect that fire. But no one ever said cane cap habs don't stand. Or no one in this program.

[Dan]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Fair.

[Chris]

And, and if you, if you, whoever that is in the chat, if you're talking about some of the other people who are saying that, you're right. Like, ESPN did their thing. So many people had. But some people had a cane sweep. Yeah, people had canes in five. And we were like, that is just crazy.

[Zach]

We did find a picture of BROCK Nelson from 100. 100 years ago.

[Dan]

Yes.

[Zach]

And there it Is, Dude.

[Dan]

See, that's what I'm saying. He fought in World War I, dude, and then now here he is fighting against this Vegas Golden Knights. Yeah, exactly.

[Zach]

Incredible.

[Dan]

It's incredible.

[Chris]

Dude, listen, we th. This Habs team is great. And I. And I think. I think we all reserved the right to say, which we did, if they come out. I mean, I said it last. We were talking about the aura, Zach. I was like, if they win Game one, their aura is going to be coming out of their pores, and it currently is.

[Dan]

Dude. Dan, they. Obviously, when you get this deep, there's four teams left. You know you believe you can win. You know you can win.

[Chris]

You.

[Dan]

Every Marty has that locker believing that they can beat anybody, certainly the Canes. But, dude, I'm telling you, that performance by the Habs, they are. I know they stole home ice. It doesn't matter as much knock, but they stole home ice. But they're. They're even more in the driver's seat than a. A typical game one win. A game one win is always driver seat. They're in more in the driver's seat, to me, because what they did in that game was beat the Canes in. The Canes are fast, remember? Maybe I shouldn't say on the pod, but remember we've talked to guys who have played the Canes in the playoffs that have been like, they're fast, bro. They're so fast. And watching against Philly, it felt like, man, the Canes are so fast. Montreal is fast. They're just as fast as you, if not faster. They can beat you at your game, which no one does. Right? Like, everybody's like, man, the Canes are smothering. When they lose, they get bullied, usually by the Panthers, like, oh, my God, the fucking Panthers are just so heavy. They're kicking the shit out of us. The Habs aren't that team. The Habs are like, dude, we will play exactly your game or we will play closer to your style, but we can do it better than you.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Not. I'm not saying for the rest of the series. I'm just saying that we have that capability and we made you play on our terms in game one in your building when you had all these demons and all this bullshit. So this. That's why I give the Habs so much credit, because they are not scared of Carolina style at all. They are not scared of putting. Putting their stamp on these games. If they had won this game, if they had won game one two one in overtime and it was just a slug Fest. And the Canes outshot them by 15, but Montreal hung on and won. It's still a game one win. It's amazing. But you're like, jesus Christ. Like, the Canes are good.

[Zach]

It's.

[Dan]

You know, that kind of took a lot. Took a lot. The Habs just went out there and said, you. You play how we want you to play, little brother. Fucking rub. Let me rub your belly. And that is. That is scary because now the Canes see firsthand what the Habs are capable of, where I feel like they were kind of seeing it from afar. And I'm sure their narrative was like what you said earlier. Ev. They go, yeah, this Hab seems scary, but they fucking should have lost to Tampa. And then they. They were a bounce away from losing to Buffalo. We're okay. And then they come out in this game and they go, actually, we might not be okay.

[Chris]

It's just like this game, too, is so impossibly important for Carolina for a million reasons, because it just. This is. This is a legacy game, right?

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

This is.

[Dan]

You go down too well.

[Chris]

This is your Joel Embiid game.

[Dan]

Yeah. Bad comp. You are.

[Chris]

You are either going to lose the series after game two, or you are going to work to redefine your entire franchise. And there's just so much on the line here. It's delicious. It's absolutely delicious.

[Dan]

I cannot wait.

[Chris]

Me neither. It's going to be phenomenal weekend.

[Dan]

Yeah. Oh, my God. I can't believe we got a whole weekend of games.

[Chris]

It's incredible.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Do we need more of a Habs stroke off session? I feel like we've stroked them off a little bit. Zach, do you feel sad that we have sat adequately stroked off the Habs?

[Evan]

I feel great. Yeah. This has been fantastic. I've been glad to be a part. And I just need to know that or aura. It's just go. Every single time.

[Chris]

You. You are. You. You nailed that.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I mean, like, this. They are. They are fueled by aura right now. And. And though I think the. The. My. My closing thoughts on that team specifically is how monstrously big it was that their top line.

[Dan]

Oh, my God. Dude. It was amazing.

[Chris]

Was buzzing.

[Dan]

Yep. And they looked great, too. They had a lot of points, but they looked great.

[Chris]

They just won a game and New Hook didn't score.

[Dan]

Dude, someone said this. Yeah. Wow. Someone said this a while ago, too, for ot.

[Chris]

Correct.

[Dan]

Yeah, I probably won't be able to find this. Someone said the scary thing about Carolina. Actually, a couple things here. Someone said a scary thing About Carolina is if the Taylor Hall Blake Stank line comes down to earth at all.

[Chris]

Yeah, you're dead.

[Dan]

And that is true if they don't get picked up by somebody else. And I had said last time we were previewing this series, it is almost a race to whose first line wakes up. To me, it was a race between whose first line wakes up. And if a goalie dips. And you had a two player, two player swing against Carolina where your goalie dipped, the Habs goalie didn't. And the Habs first line woke up and your first line didn't. I know Jarvis scored, but that's how it felt.

[Chris]

Oh, for sure.

[Dan]

So if you don't figure that out, you are fucked. You are fucked.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And someone said this too. I'll find it.

[Chris]

But the.

[Dan]

I know Marty said this doesn't matter which. And he played. He knows it doesn't matter. But that is now the Habs. Now go. We are now 40 against this team and they have not beaten us once.

[Chris]

True.

[Dan]

And I. I know they're like, it's regular season, but I'm just saying. Locker room. You're going like this.

[Chris]

They can't beat us, dude. Shit doesn't matter until it matters.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

And all. All of these things going into the. You've never won a game one. You've got ghosts all over the state. You haven't beat this team all regular season. People go like this, that shit doesn't matter until it matters. And you lose that game. And now you're kind of like, I think it matters. Yep, it's interesting. Okay, guys, let's get into a fry. Free for all Friday. It's Friday. We want to goof around a little bit. Evan, what is your free for all Friday topic?

[Zach]

Well, we have. Are we up for. Yeah, we have the thing we've got. Apparently some jerseys have leaked.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah.

[Zach]

These are the city Remix jerseys.

[Dan]

Oh, shit. I haven't even seen.

[Chris]

Do we do before we do this? Well, I can't wait to do this. Do we feel like this is legit or was this like a random account?

[Zach]

I think this is legit. I've seen it around.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Zach]

No, we. But we can talk about it either way. Okay, Let me try to verify.

[Chris]

I mean, listen. Our beer drinking things weren't real. That was just Dylan.

[Zach]

Right?

[Chris]

And that was a blast.

[Zach]

That's true. I mean, rumored hometown Remix jersey. This is from Ion Eyes. Oh, Isles. Jesus Christ. It's Friday. Ion Isles. They're bringing back the fishermen. But we. We have Panthers and We've got islanders.

[Dan]

Let's.

[Chris]

Can we take a peek at them?

[Zach]

Yeah, let's. Let's look at the.

[Chris]

Let's take a peek at them.

[Dan]

They're what jerseys?

[Chris]

These are the rumors. Remix City Remix. Oh, my God.

[Zach]

Do we love the pink?

[Dan]

I love that.

[Chris]

I love that.

[Dan]

I love the logo because what's. That's the logo they used on.

[Chris]

I think that that is the. Or. No, not. Wasn't stadium series. It was the reverse.

[Dan]

Reverse retro. I love that logo. And it looks like a fucking glass of pink lemonade.

[Chris]

It sure does. The Chiclets boys will go crazy for these.

[Zach]

It's Miami. Miami vibes.

[Dan]

Miami Vice.

[Zach]

Miami Vice vibes. Yeah.

[Chris]

I love this.

[Dan]

The sunset on the fucking circle is incredible, I think.

[Chris]

And you know what's cool is I feel like oftentimes we see that pink with a light blue and the fact that they decided to swerve and go dark blue and yellow.

[Dan]

What color pants, Dan?

[Chris]

Dark blue.

[Dan]

Dark blue pants.

[Chris]

Dark blue pants. Blue gloves with yellow and pink lettering.

[Dan]

Yellow pants, yellow gloves, yellow socks.

[Chris]

Yeah, probably blues. I think the. It's gonna be like the stripes sequencing at the bottom is probably gonna be the socks.

[Zach]

Is it normal for jerseys to have that weird dip at the bottom? Is that.

[Chris]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like. It's the scallop cut. You need it.

[Zach]

Oh, that must be new, because none

[Dan]

of the jerseys I have decided goes the Pink Panthers. It is the Panther, so. Good.

[Chris]

God, the chat is buzzing. I would love a pink bucket, but I'm not going to get it, you know?

[Zach]

You think it'd be white?

[Chris]

I think it's going to be. No, I think it's going to be dark blue.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Those are incredible.

[Zach]

I like it.

[Chris]

I mean, I love those.

[Zach]

I think it takes a lot of balls to wear pink.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I mean, is that just a. What am I looking at? That looks just like a real jersey.

[Dan]

Well, maybe it is. Isn't this a picture of the leaked jersey?

[Zach]

Yeah, this isn't fake. These are leaked remakes.

[Chris]

Guys. I don't know what's AI and what's

[Zach]

not true, that we're living in a. We're living in strange times. All right, let's transition to the Islanders. This is the City remix. Islanders. We're bringing back that fucking fisherman.

[Dan]

Okay, I like this less, but I do love the fisherman or the lighthouse guy. Fisherman, whatever.

[Chris]

Love the fisherman isle so much. I love the font, Chris. The numbers look sick.

[Zach]

The hooks.

[Chris]

Yeah, they're hooks.

[Dan]

Oh, those are so dope. They're hooks. And I love the wavy bottom. That's my favorite part by a mile. The wavy bottom is so clean.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan]

The hook numbers, boys. That is. Actually.

[Chris]

I always love a lace neck, too, on jerseys.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Chris]

I actually like this a lot. I think my only gripe is the white.

[Dan]

Yeah, I wish it was that blue. Yeah, I wish it was that blue color. And the wavy bottom was like white, orange, and dark blue or whatever.

[Zach]

Are we assuming that it's, you know, what versus Islanders?

[Chris]

I think it's way. I think it's been a long time since the world appreciated whites and we

[Zach]

used to be the home whites. We.

[Chris]

Yeah, we need to. Whites. We need to start advocating.

[Zach]

You just have to.

[Chris]

We need to advocate for white's power and just get. We need whites. We need whites to take over the league again. It's been too long, way too long since whites were popular.

[Dan]

This clip. This.

[Chris]

It's been way too long.

[Zach]

Going to end up on a post.

[Dan]

No.

[Chris]

But all kidding aside, I do. I like a crisp, clean white jersey

[Zach]

because it's great for getting blood on at home.

[Dan]

You mean just in general? Okay.

[Zach]

When did they switch from homes?

[Chris]

There are some teams in this league. Why can't I think of it right

[Dan]

now in the NHL?

[Chris]

There are some teams in the NHL that I'm like, I think they're white. Might be.

[Dan]

Oh, that might be better. Yeah. Sorry, I thought you said wear at home white jerseys. No one. No one wears white at home.

[Chris]

Toronto's whites are great, too. Yeah, the.

[Dan]

The league switch. So I. This is, I think, common knowledge, but it was like, the reason darks were on the road a million years ago is because it was harder to do laundry on the road. Teams would go on road trips and they would just wear dirty jerseys. I'm talking like, all, like, way long,

[Chris]

way back when back.

[Dan]

You wear your whites at home because you can clean them. And then you would take your darks on the road because they're dirty and you just play and it doesn't matter.

[Zach]

That's interesting.

[Dan]

Yep. So then that changed. In most sports, I think it's NHL for sure. NFL, I think also. And then basketball, I think maybe not because fans were going, dude, I want our colors are what I care about. Right. Like, if you're the Bruins, it's black and gold. If you're the Habs, it's that sweater.

[Zach]

Right?

[Dan]

I want to see my colors at home. I don't want to just be in the white. Like, send the white on.

[Chris]

This is a twat. Boy, Danny. I'm always like, this is what European football does, and it makes sense. Like, those are your colors. Wear your colors.

[Dan]

So I like it where I'm like, yeah, give me the. Our colors at home. I want to see that. That's awesome.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

But it is kind of sad because I agree, like, baseball, for example, does. Still does the white at home. And I think, like, the Red Sox and the Dodgers, like, crisp white jersey at home. I'm like, oh, yeah.

[Chris]

I think the pants add to it in baseball.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

The full white setup. It looks great.

[Dan]

Looks clean, so I get it. But I am for the. I am for the colors at home, and I hope they don't change.

[Chris]

Hey, those jerseys rocked. I like them both.

[Zach]

Yeah, we need more.

[Chris]

Zach, what's your free for all Friday topic?

[Evan]

Let's see. I'm trying to think what my free for all topic would be.

[Dan]

It was.

[Chris]

It was post lockdown making. Are you making up a topic as we go?

[Evan]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. My free for all topic that I would like to talk about on this Friday is surfing. My first surfboard two weeks ago, I went out to the beach. I've been surfing before prior, and I am, like, now getting up on the wave, so it's pretty sick. But I finally feel like a California. Like, I feel like.

[Dan]

You know what I mean?

[Evan]

Like, I was born here, but I've been away from it.

[Chris]

This is a very wholesome free for all Friday topic.

[Evan]

Yeah, I just felt like a real California. I'd be careful.

[Zach]

Careful what beaches you go to, because some. Some.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Zach]

Real territorial.

[Dan]

Yes.

[Zach]

I. I've heard Point Break.

[Chris]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan]

Zach's gonna be robbing banks.

[Chris]

What?

[Dan]

Dude, Richard Nixon. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chris]

What are. What beach are you ripping at right now?

[Evan]

Rat Beach. Down, like, right there. Palos Verdes down at the base of Torrance and all that stuff. Yeah, I love Rat Beach.

[Chris]

No needles on that beach, for sure.

[Evan]

Yeah. You have to walk through, like, a flower bed. So it's like on a cliff. There's flowers all the way down that you walk through. And then all the sandy stuff.

[Chris]

Who do you think was in charge of naming that beach?

[Dan]

Buddy? There were rats on it.

[Chris]

And there is that. When. When you learn that that beach is called Rat beach there. There are maybe two. Two reasons why it is called Rat Beach. One is there are rats all over it. Two, this is a Greenland Iceland situation. And it's such a great beach that they were like, we can't have people coming here. We got to name it something that will keep tourists away.

[Dan]

Poison Water Cove.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Evan]

I think it was very intentionally Rat beach because of that. Because there's a really nice resort right next to it. But then you have to walk down the hill.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Evan]

And it is honestly the most secluded. Like, I can see at the base of the point all the way down through Torrance. I could see all the way through, like, all the.

[Chris]

So it's an amazing beach.

[Dan]

It's amazing.

[Evan]

Yeah, it's. It's gorgeous.

[Zach]

Original title was Diarrhea. They thought that was too harsh.

[Chris]

Yes. So they landed on Rat beach.

[Zach]

Is like, not quite.

[Chris]

We've got a classic Iceland situation here.

[Dan]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I like that. Let's go surfing. Zach, why don't we all go down to.

[Chris]

What are you riding? Are you riding a longboard?

[Evan]

Yeah, I'm just. I, I. Dude, I took it novice like a little a4wavestorm, dude. Like, this is great way to start, get into it.

[Chris]

So I, I prefer longboarding. Same done both. All my life longboarding at this point in my life, dude, I'm just trying to chill. Just trying to cruise.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

It's unbelievable. All right.

[Dan]

Cp Mine was. Did you see that? New York. Did you see that? Queens is flooding. Queens is flooded.

[Zach]

Do you guys see this yesterday, this natural disaster?

[Dan]

Yeah, dude. Queens, New York City has flooded and people. Dan, people are getting off buses, dude. People are getting off buses and then getting just swept away in the.

[Chris]

No.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

You are joking. How. How. How have I not heard about this chat? Is this real?

[Zach]

Is anybody in the chat currently in a flood?

[Evan]

Yeah, is anybody in.

[Chris]

You're telling me that Queens is flooded?

[Dan]

Yeah, we flooded. Did people getting swept away?

[Zach]

Oh, yeah, it's.

[Dan]

It's. Dan, it's underwater.

[Chris]

That is brutal. Not a city. I mean, listen, when the Knicks start winning.

[Dan]

That's what I'm saying. Zach, I'm gonna send you a tweet. You got to put this up.

[Zach]

All right?

[Dan]

You got to put this tweet up. Dude. You were gonna love this shit. And then it made me think, Dan, that flooding is underappreciated for how terrible it is.

[Chris]

Oh, flood. I thought you were about to say that. You were like pro flooding. Flood is.

[Dan]

Flooding is quite crazy.

[Chris]

Flooding is one of the worst things, dude.

[Dan]

So then I was thinking really bad. I want a power rank. And I know a hurricane would probably get you a flood too. But I was like, I more think winds, you know? Yeah, I know it gets you the water. But I was like, flooding is insane. And then it just sent me on a spiral of making me laugh about tornadoes. I can't believe tornadoes are real.

[Chris]

Isn't that unbelievable? And there are places in this country where tornadoes are not only real, they are prevalent. And people have to be like, this. Just bought a new house.

[Dan]

Hope it doesn't get tornadoed.

[Zach]

Yeah, yeah. Did you see the Twister? The Twister remake?

[Chris]

Yeah. Really? That was. That was a movie.

[Zach]

It was. It was certainly a film. Was it Glenn Powell?

[Dan]

Oh, yeah, of course it was.

[Chris]

And. And Dej, dude, love Daisy.

[Dan]

It's.

[Zach]

Sometimes movies are just.

[Chris]

Well, sometimes movies be movie and sometimes spectacle in that. Yeah.

[Zach]

And that's fine.

[Dan]

But.

[Zach]

Yeah, dude, flooding sucks.

[Evan]

Like,

[Dan]

it ruins everything.

[Chris]

I'll say this, I had an absolute blast. I had a blast with that movie. I don't think those people. Yeah, but the original Twister, that movie rocks.

[Zach]

Oh, Bill Paxton is one of my all time favorite.

[Chris]

He's great, dude, he's great.

[Zach]

He's the best dude.

[Chris]

Phil. Sy Hoffman in that movie too.

[Zach]

That's true.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Wait, okay, hold on.

[Zach]

From the trailer.

[Dan]

It's coming.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Did you put the video up already, Zach, or. No. Okay. I think this person's just already seen it because they were like, the video of the girl getting sucked away is fucking hilarious. And then.

[Zach]

Do you need help?

[Dan]

And then it is.

[Chris]

It's funny that, like, that video hits the Internet and we're all like, so funny. Is she alive? Is she alive? Before we start laughing about it, can we confirm that she's a living person?

[Dan]

Dude. So I. Luna, where are you? Luna says, tornadoes are actually so scary. And Jessica says, I'm in Kentucky and the alarms go off all the time. And I'm like, dude, I can't believe that tornadoes are a literal thing. Like, you're telling me at any point the wind can just start swirling in a vortex and then suck up anything in its past and then it's just gone? That is nuts.

[Zach]

Yeah, it's a. It's an. It's an insane.

[Dan]

Dude. A flood at least. I'm like, oh, yeah, I get it. Or like, the ocean went over the wall. A tornado. I'm like, what are you talking about?

[Chris]

What do we think is crazier, A tornado or an earthquake?

[Dan]

Tornado. Tornado makes an earthquake. I can at least conceptualize that there are places on the earth and they're like, I'm sorry, I had an itch. A tornado. I'm like, squeeze me baking powder.

[Chris]

Yeah, they don't really make sense. I mean, and.

[Zach]

Well, we're not. None of us are, like, you know, meteorologists.

[Chris]

I'm not a meteorologist but, like, I'm

[Zach]

sure there's definitely science.

[Chris]

There's. Oh, they certainly make twisters. They certainly make sense. And like, with earthquakes, with like the tectonic plates shifting and all that. Sure. It all there. I get it.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

But at the same time, I'm like, that is brutal. Why is that?

[Dan]

You know what, though, Dan? I. I will admit on earthquakes, I get when the ones that we have experienced here where I'm like, whoa. What I don't get is when it's like the Earth rips in half and

[Zach]

I'm like, oh, here we go.

[Dan]

Watch this, Dan. Watch this, dude.

[Chris]

Oh.

[Zach]

Oh, my God.

[Chris]

That's a. That's a raging river.

[Dan]

We can't be stopping here. Watch this, Dan.

[Chris]

Oh, no, it's this lady.

[Zach]

Oh, there she goes. It's horrible.

[Dan]

New York City's underwater.

[Chris]

I'm gonna laugh because I imagine she's okay.

[Zach]

Yeah, she's fine. I mean, that's not enough to drown

[Dan]

her, but New York City's underwater.

[Chris]

That was a pretty brutal jump off the bus by her, though.

[Evan]

Look at the second jump. The second guy, though.

[Dan]

Look.

[Evan]

What? So she goes down.

[Dan]

She goes. The blue shirt got out. And then we go. And then. See ya, dude.

[Evan]

Yeah, I think watch the guy jump. Turn around.

[Chris]

Yeah, dude.

[Dan]

Little frog or action.

[Zach]

I really got to leap with that.

[Chris]

That is unbelievable.

[Dan]

Dude. How are we not talking? The bus driver can't stop there.

[Chris]

No.

[Dan]

I don't know what to tell you, dude. Or he's going to pull over.

[Chris]

He's like, this is the stop.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I don't know what to tell you.

[Zach]

Interacted with a bus driver before. They don't give a no.

[Chris]

That bus driver loved every bit of that.

[Zach]

You're so miserable.

[Chris]

Yeah, that's crazy.

[Zach]

I would be too. That's. That's a hard job.

[Chris]

Okay, my free for all Friday topic is Memorial Day.

[Zach]

All right, here we go.

[Chris]

Let me ask you. All right, Evan, quick, rapid fire. What's your favorite holiday?

[Zach]

Christmas.

[Chris]

Zach.

[Evan]

Favorite holiday? Halloween.

[Dan]

Christmas. Okay, if you say Memorial Day, you're a liar.

[Chris]

Both of those holidays, I feel like there's a massive emphasis on the holiday as we celebrate. Are we not celebrating Memorial Day adequately or appropriately?

[Zach]

Dude, we're working on Memorial Day.

[Chris]

Yeah, yeah. We're literally.

[Zach]

We're not.

[Chris]

I just think Memorial Day, Labor Day, these weekends in the US where we get a Monday off, we just use them as excuses to take Friday off work as well and go for like a trip somewhere or just get fucked up. And people are always like this. You Come into my Memorial Day barbecue. Yeah. We're gonna drink a ton of beer. We're gonna eat dogs. And that. I think that's great. But there's a part of me that's like, we are bastardizing these holidays, Dan.

[Dan]

Well, hold on. What is Memorial Day?

[Chris]

Technically, Memorial Day is a day where we are supposed to acknowledge and mourn the fallen soldiers in our military.

[Dan]

That's what I'm eating a bunch of hot dogs. That's what I thought I was going to say. I can't think of something they would want more. I'm dead ass. I cannot think of something that the people that have fought and died for this country would want more than for us to enjoy a day off of work eating dogs.

[Chris]

They fought. They fought for our freedom, and they want us to exercise our freedom by eating dogs.

[Dan]

I literally think, Dan, we celebrate it perfectly. I'm 100% being serious.

[Zach]

My uncle fought on a riverboat in Vietnam, and as his buddy was lying dying face down in the mud.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

He was his last breath. He said, I want your nephew to get hammered on Memorial Day. On Nicolo. Vultures.

[Dan]

That's what he said.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Zach]

Yeah. And I do we. Horse's mouth.

[Chris]

Do we need to be though? Like, I feel like it's 4th of July. Everyone goes out and they buy their American flag bathing suits and T shirts. Like, I think we should be doing that as sure. Or should we be wearing camo all day?

[Dan]

Oh, no, that's stolen.

[Chris]

Should be walking around.

[Dan]

No, that's stolen valor. But I do think salute our troops. I do think we should have more.

[Chris]

I want to be very clear. I'm not joking right now.

[Dan]

I know I have more flags. And maybe there are. I feel more flag.

[Chris]

I think on Memorial Day, I usually do drive by several houses and there's the mini flags everywhere. And I'm like, hell, yeah. Boom. And I want to make sure I do that. I'm going to get some flags, and I want them hanging off my fucking balcony. Because I'm like, dude, Memorial Day, I

[Zach]

think city remix flag.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Pink, blue.

[Chris]

We can. We can still eat dogs.

[Evan]

Yeah. But I. I know you. You don't have an affinity for the place, but last night I was in San Pedro, and it was fleet week, and so they have the, like, destroyers and stuff down in the everywhere. And there was a ton of Navy men and Marines, like, all around, and they were all getting fucked up in their dress whites. Like, they had luau sit on. They. Everybody had drinks out the nines, but they were like, all getting hammered. And I was like, I did that thought cross my mind. And it dead ass did. I was like, this is how they should be exercising it. And I was drinking a.

[Chris]

There you go.

[Evan]

And I said, thank you for your service. This is like. And I was there with my girlfriend's dad who served in the Navy, and it felt like this is the right way to spend this. Like, this is correct.

[Chris]

I like.

[Dan]

You know what, dude?

[Chris]

I like to hear.

[Dan]

So Dan, Megan in the chat just said, I think people do celebrate Memorial Day. I think it isn't publicized though, as much drinking or partying. I know my family goes to the cemetery and visits, gets flowers and wreaths.

[Chris]

Holy shit.

[Dan]

But, you know, but she just gave me an idea. I think it's actually you're correct in that, like, Christmas, for example, is. Maybe Christmas is a bad example, but Christmas has a thing you do as a family kind of where you're kind of like, together before it gets rowdy.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I think Memorial Day, the narrative should be more of a. It's you do something and then rowdy. Then the dogs and beers.

[Chris]

Like, yeah, you gotta earn it.

[Dan]

Yeah, we should. Every Memorial Day should have some. Some family. Whatever.

[Chris]

You choose, lay a wreath.

[Dan]

Something.

[Chris]

Lay a wreath.

[Dan]

Then the barbecue.

[Chris]

Salute the flag. Sing the national anthem.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Do something. Then.

[Dan]

Then exercise our freedom to drink.

[Chris]

Start. Drink beer. Sucking down dogs and beer.

[Dan]

And then I think it's perfect.

[Chris]

What if we get donuts shaped like

[Dan]

wreaths and we eat them? Yeah, I'm into that.

[Chris]

You don't like that?

[Evan]

I. I love the idea. I just. The thought to enter my brain was like, white cross donuts. And I was like, that's like, you know, like the, like the, like the grave site could.

[Chris]

What would you do? What would you do? What would you do if you. If I invited you to a Memorial Day cookout and I opened up a box of white shaped cross cookies with. Would you be fired up or would you be like, this is in poor

[Zach]

taste, accumulated with the hood you just wore. I'd be a little worried you were going to light it on fire.

[Dan]

He puts red and orange sprinkles on them. Oh, dude, dude, dude.

[Chris]

That is not an original idea. I went to an Easter brunch once and there were cross cookies and I

[Dan]

was like, no, you're supposed to eat

[Zach]

the body of Christ.

[Chris]

I was like, is this crazy or is this awesome? I will say this. The cookies were delicious.

[Dan]

Yeah, they're incredible.

[Chris]

I ate several.

[Dan]

That is. All right.

[Chris]

Should we do a costume change and get into the game tonight.

[Dan]

Yep. And then, Zach, you got to get that other tweet I sent you. You got to get ready to put that up, because I don't even think Dan has seen that yet.

[Chris]

All right, folks, we're going to get going here on the game tonight. Game two in Colorado. Game two ABS Vegas Golden Knights CP

[Dan]

Talk to him, Dan. The President's Trophy demons are here. I don't know what a noise a demon makes. Did they screech? The ghost ooze?

[Zach]

They go like.

[Dan]

Okay, I'm gonna try that. President's Trophy demons have arrived, and they are here to stay. And I'll tell you fucking why. Dude, put that. Put that tweet up so it's up when Dan walks back in so he can fucking see the news. And I fucking knew it, dude. I fucking knew it. I don't know how. It was just something in the air. Something was happening. Something didn't feel right. And now something is really not right. Something is actually, like, not good because you're. You're sk. You're scared now, and I know. I'm fine. And the.

[Chris]

The.

[Dan]

They're not that bad.

[Zach]

I can't believe we're doing. We're. Now we're doing another demonic possession bit.

[Dan]

Listen, dude, this is. This is a real issue. There's a lot of going on.

[Zach]

I wouldn't. Should I put my cloak back on?

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

Hey, you can do whatever makes you happy and warm.

[Dan]

I'm telling you, dude, actually, if you think.

[Evan]

Yeah, no, just keep going. I have an idea for this.

[Dan]

Okay. If you think the Canes. Cane's fans are actually. I don't know. Canes fans. I don't know if they're in shambles or not yet. I feel like they're probably like, they're in shambles. Okay.

[Chris]

I think they're. I think that they are. They're not giving up, but I think that they are, like, this is my nightmare.

[Dan]

Because of the ghosts.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Dan]

And I also think. At least remember how we just said. Remember way back when we just said that the. If the canes had made. Had had a little fight, if they had had a little fight, they would have felt a little bit better. The AVS fans leaving game one are going, we did have a little fight. Right. So I think it helps them a tiny bit to cope. The. The. The cup of steaming hot copium that they're having to get through to game two, where they go, it's fine.

[Evan]

Right?

[Dan]

We're home. Put it this way, Dan. We just said game two is Game seven in the Carolina Hap series.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Right. I don't know that the AVS fans totally feel that way. I don't think they're going Game two is game seven because they think we're the apps and we can still win and it's fine. Would you agree?

[Chris]

I think it's fine. I think the ABs could go down. I think this ABs team is so good. They could go down oh two and be not fine. Yeah. But there's nothing that says to me that they couldn't go into Vegas and just went to.

[Dan]

Okay, but do you know this?

[Chris]

Yes.

[Dan]

Kale dead. Kale is literally in the fucking morgue, dude.

[Chris]

I don't know how many times we need to tell people that he is toe tagged, dude.

[Dan]

He is literally in a body bag, zipped up.

[Chris]

You know what scares me is. And I suppose it's his shoulder, right?

[Dan]

I think so.

[Chris]

The shoulder is what we keep hearing. They keep showing him skating and he looks incredible.

[Dan]

Yep.

[Chris]

The guy's flying all around. It shows you just what a mutant he is. This injury must be unbelievable because his shoulder must be completely out of its socket, held together by scotch tape and toothpicks right now.

[Dan]

Yes. Because if he takes one hit.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

It'll be fucked. So that. I think that's the problem where they go, dude, we can't get your shoulder into a place where you are able to take any contact.

[Chris]

He. I don't think we have ever really acknowledged this. He has such good gear. Wear. Kale's whole. Kale's sty is out of control. I think he looks awesome.

[Dan]

Yes. Does he have particular sty, though, or is he.

[Chris]

He's just clean, man.

[Dan]

Yeah, just a clean vibe.

[Chris]

Also, the number 8 on that ABS jersey looks good. I also. I think the A looks cooler on the ABS jersey than a C does.

[Dan]

It does.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

It actually does.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And Dan, I've always been an A guy. No confirmation on this, but. But as in what's going to happen? But Mark Stone skated this morning.

[Chris]

Yes, I did see that.

[Dan]

So if. If Kale is out and Mark Stone is back in and Vegas wins game two, that's illegal. You're right. You're right. That's actually not allowed.

[Chris]

Stone cannot play until.

[Dan]

That's not allowed.

[Chris]

Hey, number three on the sheet. Number three on the sheet. You're both out.

[Dan]

Okay. I like this for Megan. Dan. I actually think teams aren't good as. Or I think teams aren't as good as they are if they rely on a player to be present. And I kind of hear that. I think anyone loses a superstar, you become a different team. But I agree. These. I don't like the comments coming out of Colorado after game one. I lose Kale, you know, he makes the whole ship go.

[Chris]

I don't love the excuses, Megan. Good point. I think you've got, like, you. If you want to be a great team, you have to be able to overcome something like that. But I think this is different because we're talking about one of the three best players in the NHL, and I do just think that has to be a factor.

[Dan]

I think, though, an argument. It did. Playoffs are different, but the Oilers, you know, dry saddle goes out, and the Oilers go on their best run of the year. Literally their best run of the year, and they go.

[Chris]

I do think that's because you also have Connor.

[Dan]

Yes. But they also have Nate. I'm like, step up, dude.

[Chris]

That's true. That's fair.

[Dan]

I'm like, fair.

[Chris]

That's a very good.

[Dan]

Yay.

[Chris]

Well done, sir. That was a good rebuttal.

[Dan]

So, yeah, I'm like, man, dude, the. All of a sudden, the stresses that I feel that the Canes are feeling.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Right now, all of a sudden, the ABS are feeling where it feels like Kale's actually hurt, and they could lose game two. Now, the apps could easily win game two, but if they go down 20 to Vegas, dropping both at home and chaos clearly. Ding. All of a sudden, you're going, I can't believe this is happening to us again. Because, Dan, maybe that's the AVS ghost. The Kane's ghost is just the Easter conference finals. The Avs ghost is always going, someone gets hurt, someone gets hurt, and it's not fair.

[Chris]

Oh, man. They.

[Dan]

They are.

[Chris]

They. We're gonna go Ted Lasso again here. Like, there is a. There is a curse somewhere since they won that cup where they're just like, every year, one of the most important players is injured, and you're like, are you kidding me?

[Dan]

Like, how is this happening?

[Chris]

I. I think that this is a very important game for a lot of ABS fans. We saw the Internet very divided before game two when we, like I said, shout out Colin. Yeah. When we were just going, Kale is missing from this game. That's a huge factor. A lot of ABS fans were like, yeah, fuck me. And then a lot of ABS fans were like, oh, Everyone wants to act like Kale being out's a big deal. It is a big deal.

[Zach]

I love how you have it out for this poor Colin guy.

[Chris]

Oh, Colin.

[Zach]

Gruber, like the guy that like, cut him off.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

392 KFBR 392.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

That's what you're doing.

[Chris]

I. Dude, I was just. I was not in the mood for fucking any fucking twat ism that day and twat Colin decided to get under my skin. But I. You know what the funny thing is now I love Colin.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

He's a fucking dedicated fan. I love that.

[Dan]

But Dan's nemesis calling.

[Chris]

Wait, what's. What's interesting about that is if they win this game, it's such a good fucking jolt. God, it's a jolt of like, I fucking told you. It does. You know, it doesn't matter. It obviously does matter, but it's like we can still win without him. And if you lose this game, it's so annoying.

[Dan]

The narrative.

[Chris]

Yep, the narrative is annoying. So I stand by. Colorado can lose this game and they're still fine. I think this team is so deep, so good, they can absolutely go into Vegas and win two games. You obviously do not want to lose this game though. And a big thing is you gotta. You gotta put a little bit of doubt into Carter Hart because he has been playing so well.

[Dan]

Dude, you gotta Freddie him. He's gotta get Freddie. He's got. Freddie Got Fingered. Freddie got fingered last night. And we need to. Someone. Someone.

[Chris]

Someone needs somebody.

[Zach]

Would you like some sausage?

[Chris]

Yes. I thought we could go to Pakistan and sew some soccer balls together.

[Dan]

How are you guys remembering the quotes from this movie?

[Chris]

I.

[Dan]

You.

[Chris]

You would be aghast to learn how many times I've watched Freddy Got Fingered.

[Zach]

You know that movie's on the Criterion Collection.

[Dan]

Is that strong.

[Zach]

Like you can go into the Criterion closet and be like, I'm going to pull out Freddy got Finger. Directed by Tom Green. Rip Torn.

[Dan]

It is.

[Chris]

It's. It's that movie.

[Zach]

Not watched it recently.

[Chris]

It's.

[Zach]

I don't see that brilliant comedy.

[Chris]

It's. It's an absolute riot. And what's great about Freddy Got Fingered, is it. Who plays Freddy in that movie? Is it. It's the guy who plays Finch from American Pie. Right? Yeah. Finch or Finch physics. Is it Finch or is it Fitch?

[Dan]

I don't know.

[Zach]

Well, let's look it up. There's IMDb for this.

[Chris]

I just know there's that one part where Sean William Scott goes, finch, fist yourself. And it's funny.

[Dan]

But he. And then he eventually gets fingered.

[Chris]

Well, that's a different movie.

[Dan]

I know, but I'm just saying that Saved.

[Chris]

But he didn't get Finger Fred or Tom Green made it up.

[Dan]

Oh, my God.

[Chris]

Yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden, Rip Torn is now being, like, investigated by the cops because they're like, did you molest your child?

[Zach]

Finch. There's no T in it.

[Chris]

Is Finch. Okay?

[Zach]

Eddie K. Thomas is the actor.

[Chris]

There you go.

[Dan]

That's incredible.

[Chris]

I've seen Freddy Got Fingered a lot of times. That was peak. Tom Green, where the world was letting him do anything.

[Dan]

Dude, he remember.

[Chris]

He.

[Dan]

God, I am dating myself here. But MTV used to have the Carson Daly show.

[Chris]

Yeah, there was a Tom Green show.

[Dan]

Well, no, he. He had, like, the top 10 music

[Chris]

videos daily live or TLC.

[Zach]

Right. Do you know who the Carson D.

[Chris]

Is that just TLC I or no. Trl.

[Dan]

Trl.

[Chris]

Total Request Live.

[Dan]

Yeah. So they would do the. Here are the top 10 videos. And it was like, I would tune in and be sad if the song I, like, didn't get one. Like, Flink182. What's my age again? Lost. I'd be like, and Tom Green wrote the Bum Bum Song.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And it. It got on it, like, made seven one week, and then the next week it won, and then it won again. And then Tom Green came on TRL and, like, accepted another win and. And officially retired it because he said he felt bad. Yeah, I actually feel bad that, like, real artists are losing to the bump.

[Chris]

I mean, that it's referenced in an Eminem song. Like, he's like, this Tom Green can go on TV and kiss a dead moose. Like, it's unbelievable. He was out of control.

[Dan]

It's unbelievable.

[Chris]

What do you think Tom Green's doing right now?

[Zach]

Oh, he.

[Evan]

He.

[Zach]

He has, like, a podcast, I believe. Did you know that his. Actually, his podcast that he started years and years ago inspired Joe Rogan to start a podcast?

[Dan]

Really?

[Zach]

Like, Joe Rogan's looking around. There's, like, a clip of him on Tom's podcast. Podcast, like, 15 years ago, going like, so, what is this thing you got? And he's like, it's podcast. And Joe Rogan's like, think I'll start one of these.

[Dan]

I might do that.

[Zach]

But Tom Green, now, he did, like, a farm show. He's got a farm up in Canada, and he did a whole show where he, like, raises chickens and has, like, horses. And it's. He's getting real potential, dude.

[Dan]

Vixen says. Vixen says the Bum Bum song is lyrically generation. It's.

[Chris]

It is. Who said that?

[Dan]

Vixen. I have to go look up the lyrics of this dude.

[Chris]

I. Zach, how Old are you?

[Evan]

I'm 23 years of age.

[Chris]

We're gonna show you the bum bum song after we wrap up this episode.

[Dan]

23.

[Chris]

Jessica. Also, I'm going to say the. This is our official in invitation extension to Tom Green. To Tom, come on the show.

[Dan]

Come on the show.

[Zach]

He's Canadian. I'm sure he loves.

[Dan]

He.

[Chris]

Yeah, I bet he loves hockey.

[Dan]

Where is he from?

[Chris]

I think he's from Toronto. I think he's. I think he's a leaf sp guy. But I mean, he's a hockey guy, surely. And we'd love to talk to you about some hockey. Tom Green, come on the show. We'd love to talk some hockey.

[Dan]

That would be an all time guest. Dude, I'm.

[Chris]

I mean, I'm going to. I'm going to message him right now or right after this and be like, dude, please come on the show. I bet. I bet he's in LA sometimes.

[Zach]

Yeah. But sometimes he's up in his farm in Canada.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

Hey, I got zoom, dude.

[Chris]

I'll come up. I'll come up to the farm.

[Dan]

God, that's.

[Chris]

We could sow some soccer balls. It'd be unbelievable. This game is not that important, in my opinion, as far as. As far as momentum. But I also think you gotta. You gotta finger Carter heart.

[Dan]

To quote, you need to be fingered.

[Chris]

You need to finger Carter heart. I also think you would love to slow down Jack and Mitch.

[Dan]

Mitch, dude, the dock. If you don't slow down the dock, then doctors do. Doctors get a little power crazy like Mitch needs to. If Mitch doesn't get a malpractice suit soon, then the Vegas Golden Knights are going to win because otherwise he's going to be doing whatever he wants. Demanding whatever salary he wants. Writing absolute chicken scratch on the prescription pad. Nobody can fucking read it. But it doesn't matter because it's the doc's world. We live in a doctor's world. That's what's happening right now. And unless. Unless Marner gets sued for malpractice, the fucking Vegas Golden Knights are going to have something to say in this series.

[Chris]

Correct. We just got an amazing shirt made by our Unbelievable apparel team. Would you like to see it?

[Dan]

Yeah, that's great. That's great.

[Zach]

Text it over here.

[Dan]

That text. Great, dude. Dan, do you think that Wedgwood has this in him?

[Chris]

Absolutely.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Chris]

I. Absolutely.

[Dan]

And do you think that Nate, I mean, Nate played so well, but I just feel like Nate needs to. Let me check the points. Let me check the point stats here because what the. What Concerns me a tiny bit about Nate. Yeah. 14 point, but I guess they haven't played any games. That's the thing. I got to keep remembering to be fair to him, like, 14 points in nine games is. Is. Is nasty work. Is 10. 10 games is nasty work. But I was gonna say, dude, what concerns me a little bit is usually when teams, I would almost say, like, without question, for the team that's about to win a cup, it's pretty clear who the Con Smythe guy is. Connor threw a wrinkle in that because it was like, they lost, but, you know, it was like, oh, yeah, he won anyway.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

But it could have been Bob that year. Right. Or whoever. I don't know. But my point is, usually you have a guy who's. Who's kind of firing, and if the AVs are going to win the cup, I would expect to go, Nate is dominating or Cao is dominating or Wedgwood is out of control.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

And none of that is totally happening. Nate is obviously playing great. He's seventh in points, and he's played less games than everybody ahead of him. But I'm like, I almost want Nate to hit another gear. I don't know if there are ABS fans still in the chat, but I'd want your take on this. I almost want Nate to hit another gear if you're really going to do it this year. Like, if he's going to go give me this cup, let me steal this cup. Especially with a hurt kale. Especially with a hurt kale.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

I'm kind of like, dude, I need you to have 20 points and everyone going, wow, Nate is the front runner for Conn Smythe. He isn't even in the top voting percentage of Conn Smythe right now.

[Chris]

Yeah, he's. We're. We're not. We're not seeing fully unleashed dog yet.

[Dan]

And I kind of feel like you need that. Yeah. Because he is playing great.

[Chris]

I mean, you kind of. I. I'm. I'm always a little. They've played so few games, dude.

[Dan]

I know, I know.

[Chris]

And he's got.

[Dan]

He's got. He's well over a point per game, so I'm not mad at him at all.

[Chris]

It's like they have really. I mean, he came in and shelfed that goal from the. From the hash marks against Wallstead.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Just kind of put them to bed.

[Dan]

And point per game, he's only behind Marner, to be fair. Yeah.

[Chris]

So I'm like, he has yet to be been given the opportunity to take over. Now he has It.

[Dan]

Yep. So, yeah, I guess ABS fans chime in. I guess you're probably completely happy. Well, no. Here we go. Someone says he's not fully dogging, but tonight I'm sure he will. I like that. Yeah. With and Mr. Jupiter, if Kayla's out, Nate has to become a rabid dog.

[Chris]

Which is true.

[Dan]

We should give Nate rabies.

[Chris]

Are we sure he doesn't already have it?

[Dan]

He might already have them. I also.

[Chris]

I think Nate needs to pop the goggles back on and go for a swim.

[Dan]

I was thinking the Vegas pool. Pools are incredible. Nate at the Vegas pool party with goggles on.

[Chris]

I would not. I mean, if we want him to get rabies, go underwater in one of those. Pool.

[Dan]

Yeah. That's actually perfect. ABs lose tonight. Go down O2, they go on the road. Nate gets the goggles on, goes in a Vegas pool, gets to swim, gets to stim by swimming. Because he calms down his autism by swimming. And then also he becomes. He becomes rabid.

[Chris]

Yeah. He'll get tetanus, rabies, Pepsi.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Couple other things in those pools.

[Zach]

He needs to go to Rat Beach.

[Dan]

Yeah. That. He goes to Rat beach, feasts on the rats. Now he has a taste for rat blood.

[Chris]

Yes. Now we're talking.

[Dan]

That's interesting.

[Evan]

Can I set you up, please?

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Oh, God.

[Evan]

So we're bringing this bad boy.

[Dan]

Oh, yeah. Okay. This. So this is Marty St. Louis. And by the way, if anybody online. If anybody has this online, we were told in one of the chats that he did this again. Again, I haven't seen the clip yet,

[Chris]

but I'm told Marty is fully Wolf of Wall Street. Marty. Wall Street. Marty of Wall Street. So the shirt had to happen. Habs fan. So if there's any Habs fans still in the chat, we had to make this bad boy for you.

[Dan]

Bang.

[Chris]

We're not leaving.

[Dan]

God. Dude.

[Chris]

Fucking be.

[Dan]

Looks incredible.

[Chris]

He looks incredible. Dude, I love.

[Dan]

I said before, I love that. Barty loves that movie.

[Chris]

Me too. That's why. That's why I keep saying it's why we know he' so good. It's unbelievable.

[Dan]

Okay. And. Yeah, folks. Okay, this is interesting. Dan Vixen says I need an Eichel master class soon. One goal through three series, though.

[Chris]

I know, but it's just like. He just does everything.

[Dan]

I know.

[Chris]

Trolls, everything. He has so many assists. It's like. And. And when Marner is doing what you're doing, you don't need to score.

[Dan]

Yeah. So. But I do think he will eventually need to score.

[Chris]

If they go Down. Yes.

[Dan]

Yep. Because remember, you said that one game you're like, I need I to shoot the puck. This is ridiculous. And then that game, you had 11 shots and I was like, thank you. Like, just do that. Good things happen. We said that in the Duck series. It's like, put the puck on net.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Dan]

It's crazy.

[Chris]

It was that power play. I was like, dude, just fucking spray pucks at the net. All right, listen, we got a big game tonight. Game two, Vegas, Colorado. It's going to be a blast. Have an amazing Memorial Day weekend. Make sure to honor Memorial Day before you start sucking down dogs and beers. We're all doing that together. Maybe lay some wreaths, maybe make some cross cookies. Whatever you want to do. It's going to be great. We're going to watch all this hockey all weekend long. We will be back Monday. Yeah.

[Dan]

Don't worry for while you're sucking down dogs. We're going live that day. We're going live on.

[Chris]

I want you guys in the chat. I want you to be at your Memorial Day barbecue. I want you to set up a laptop and pop us on and I want you to DM us pictures of your barbecue.

[Dan]

I was saying anybody that DMs us a picture or just post it and tag and tags us of you at your Memorial Memorial Day barbecue. Watching the live. We'll post, we'll put up on our page.

[Evan]

Hell yeah, we'll put it up on the live.

[Dan]

We'll put it up on the live. Dude, we'll get it right up there.

[Chris]

We'll, we'll, we'll slowly just seed in all of your MD Dub barbecues into the live.

[Dan]

And then we'll also, we're also, we're going to record again that day. So you have the action for Tuesday morning, right when you wake up back to work, you'll have the response to the Monday night.

[Chris]

I also want to shout out AJ on the Audino family giving me the best Memorial Day weekends of my entire life for years.

[Dan]

And then, and then ripping it away

[Chris]

from, and then, and then stealing it away from me. And I will not be in Montana this weekend because of you guys. Shame on you. We could be doing the show live on Monday from the ranch.

[Evan]

Can we do one thing?

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Evan]

Can we shout out the chat today? Because we had about 500 people in here, the most we've had the entire time. And we just want to say thank you to all of you guys.

[Chris]

Absolutely.

[Dan]

And chat. Absolutely. Buzzing today.

[Chris]

Multiple shout out chat. The dude, the chat is just giving us unbelievable content every single day.

[Dan]

Sweep Caroline.

[Chris]

And also is incredible. Sweep Caroline's incredible. I also want to shout out Zach and Ev. Hey, guys. Three lives in a row. No crashes.

[Dan]

No crashes.

[Zach]

Yeah, baby. No crashes.

[Dan]

As it crashes right now.

[Evan]

Four lives in a row.

[Dan]

Yeah, that's right. Or changed everything to be.

[Chris]

That's true.

[Dan]

Ecuador changed everything. We got costumes, we got ghosts, we

[Zach]

got playout music for you.

[Dan]

Holy shit. Really?

[Chris]

Is this the bombo song?

[Dan]

There goes the monetization.

[Chris]

It's the Benny Hill song.

[Evan]

This is the Cane watching their. The Canes are gonna watch Game one

[Zach]

with this music on in the background.

[Dan]

That's really good. All right.

[Zach]

See you Monday.

[Chris]

See you on Monday.