Hello, everybody, welcome to Episode 306 of Spin Check Checklist presented by Pinkwashing for my friends at New Amsterdam Vodka here in the barstool sports podcast, Family.

What's up gang? Hopefully everybody's doing well. Just want to remind you, in case you've forgotten weren't aware, it's interview only episodes for the entirety of November. We have another pair of interviews on tap for you today. Sounds like everyone enjoyed talking Turk last week. So we thank you very much for listening and tuning in on this episode. We have long time pro Jeremy Yablonsky and we also have Dylan Playfair from the very popular TV show Letterkenny. So we got some good stuff coming for you.

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My next guest is a Saskatchewan guy who played hockey professionally for 13 seasons, though he was never drafted. He did make it to the NHL as a 23 year old with the St. Louis Blues and had a fight during his appearance at the National. He's won both a call, the cup and a Kelly cup while protecting his teammates and both the cost in the NHL. He's also won six Golden Gloves Boxing Championships and up in Canada. Thanks so much for joining us on Spin.

And let's Jeremy Yablonski. Well, awesome, thanks for having me, guys, I appreciate all this. Absolutely not resume like that. I definitely wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley golf club. I'm just really a big teddy bear. I listen to buy something from you.

Yes, I did meet him in a dark alley, but it was the fucking Binghampton Arena.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. We sure had had our boats out on the sets for darn sure.

For you Bambis me the first one and then I'm like, OK, is he baby you. Oh my goodness. And I got the first one out of the way. So I was like, hey, I had my guy, I did my job. And then you fucking ran one of our guys again. And I had to fight you a second time.

And I remember that game too. I think it was a big tall guy on your team more and Mermin or somebody. And he was fine. I mean, I just buried them on the boards and he was I did I knew you were on the ice. And I was like, oh, fuck, this is. And I turned my shoulder Redway. And sure enough, you're right there. I talk about this all the time.

So that was that was the year where they introduced those tighter fitting jerseys. And yes, you're skating around the ice and your head was like a cherry tomato and it looked like a choke chain on you because it was so tight, because you were so jacked.

Yes. They were like literally would fit in Jersey, like, you know, like you get fitted for a tux. They're like fitted on the side. And yeah, they were snug for sure.

Well, thank you so much for coming on. I mean, we've mentioned you, as I said, a quite a few times. Of course, you've got a long, long history of not only fighting, but playing and a lot of different places, Russia being one of them. We'll get into that. But, you know, growing up, I mean, RJ touched on it. Gold Glove Boxer. I would imagine that that's where you got all your skills to transfer over the ice.

Yeah, definitely. You know, I you know, obviously hockey was always my first love, like like probably most of us. But I an coach, Jim Kirby was his name. Jim Carrey passed on a few years ago, but he actually used to train Lennox Lewis the one time way back in the day, you know, before Lennox Lewis actually won the Olympics for Canada. And he he did when he retired and he moved out to metallurgic and he ran the Legion.

And we, you know, one of our blades of ours the was to open up a boxing club. And so we just kind of like, heck, yeah, I'll do that. You know, we're always done with, you know, 12, 13 years old, but, you know, and then just got into boxing. And it was something I did alongside hockey. And I just loved it. And it was one of those things. Right.

And, you know, I can only take it so far. And obviously, you know, getting into junior hockey, you can really keep with it. And it's not that I wanted to make a career out of it. I just like to do it from the time I was able to. Good old Sasebo. I mean, you said Haughey's, you definitely your first love, who is your team growing up? Were you even like a huge NHL fan?

Yeah, definitely.

Why so many lakes were four hours from Edmonton. So, you know, I always cheer for the Oilers, right? Growing up the 80s and stuff, watching the Oilers. So that was definitely my team growing up. Yabo, I want to ask, which boxes did you grow up watching or rooting for? I'm curious, which are you kind of came of age in boxing wise?

You know, I'm trying to think back now. You know, obviously, Mike Tyson was big to watch back then, right? Yeah, he was young. He was coming in. So, you know, watching. It was kind of like kind of an era of the boxing where there were still a lot of bigger heavyweights around. Right like now there there's still heavy weights around. But there wasn't the numbers that were back then, although Mike Mike was know not going to shoot at everybody back then.

But I would love his style. He's just now he was one of a kind. Absolutely incredible box.

Are you still a fan of the sports shadiness kind of push?

You know, I definitely still a fan and definitely still fan. Actually, what's pretty cool is when I go out to Russia, I become very good friends with Alexander and Dennis Lebedev, and that can actually just won the WCB heavyweight championship just a couple of weeks ago when he lost he lost it to somebody previously and then he was coming back for it and he lost a fight to Klitschko. And then this was he had two other fights come back and he won, not again.

So I'm not sure where he's going to go from there. But I definitely, you know, since I know him, root for him.

How did you become buddies with those guys just running around with the owner of Vitez? Yeah.

Yeah. So it's also so awesome because they they they he has a boxing over there in Russia as well. So this is boxing right through that and a little bit of fight out of him. So they're reading Chekhov. They've got a great facility there for boxing. And so when we had a lot of recovery days like at the Bosnia and stuff on Recovery Day, they would always show up. And they're just great, humble guys. They really are.

And both of them, you know, they will sit like tennis. I've seen train the gym and I'm just like, damn, you know, pro heavyweight boxers out a different caliber.

Like, yeah, but you seem like the guy who's always willing and actually excited to get into scraps when you were growing up playing minor and then transitioning to Junior, where you kind of always the guy that was doing that, or at what point did it really turn on in order to be the enforcer on the ice?

Yeah, you know, so obviously fight, you know, a little bit of fighting, you know, before junior hockey. Right. triple-A midget. I played in Prince Albert. And then, you know, when I went to camp, you know, so I was drafted to the WHL, to Kloner Rockets and during a year ago traded to the Edmonton ICE. That was Edmonton who couldn't ice who. We went there later and won. We won the whole CHL that one year there as well.

But yeah, that was it counts, you know. So I was running around. My whole thing was filled with, you know, I can skate pretty quick and I can hit well, you know, I'm definitely not a goal scorer, but that was always my thing. Just work hard, skate hard, you know, be a presence on the ice. So I did it a camp for the Edmonton ice. And so I was I was kidding people and people want to play.

So I just that's what it really turned on in a big way where you're fighting multiple times a game, you know, multiple times a year. That's when it really clicked over to, you know, this is definitely going to be a part of my game. And I truthfully, I loved it. I enjoyed it so.

Well, talking to your former teammate buddy, a good friend of mine, he's been on the show, Josh Hatice, and he was telling you, you fucking Yarbo, he goes, nobody knows.

Everyone knows how tough it is. Nobody knows who's the fastest player in the world. Straight line. He just turned like a tugboat.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know, you know, I could turn OK, but not like, you know, I'm not like Henry or anybody. Yeah. I always win a lot of being an angel or not. So we do like some speed stuff. And, you know, I was always like first or second memory, not always mean and fundamental. We were like one and two. And people are like, you're like fucking 240 pounds are like, you know, that's just I'm really big and fitness and training and I have in my whole life.

Right. So I really got into that big and learning like how to become explosive. Right. That was a big thing I trained on probably two years before I was in Binghamton there. And then, you know, after I you know, I still train to this day. So I really enjoy that part of it.

I'm wondering because sometimes, you know, the stats online you read about somebody can be incorrect, but 99, 2000, did you play anywhere because it doesn't have you listed as is playing anywhere that year?

It was after Kootenay. It was after you played in Edmonton for a year and a dub and then continue for a year. And then two years later, you were on Phoenix Mustangs.

Yeah. Yeah. So, um, well, shit, I don't know how to have that on there. So I played in Edmonton and then they still don't have one game on there. I've seen it a few places, so I was a twenty year old and Kunie, I got a big suspension and exhibition and it was carried over. So I got to the Seattle for fighting and we had a big line brawl, you know, big line ball.

And so I've been up a couple of days, you know, and then I got a little suspension for that and then we had twenty twenty year old. So I got traded to. Seattle to Thunderbirds, and then I finish my suspension play, I play one game there and I shit you not, I scored two fucking goals like and this is why I scored two goals and I didn't even fight. But at the end of the game, I was in the box there.

The game ended and then they somebody ran, somebody raped by our boards and our whole team's on the ice. So then I started, you know, obviously grabbed that guy, you know, give this guy a fucking beating, you know, for what he did. And then the league saw that as like coming out of the box. Then I got suspended for like 12 or like 15 games. And, you know, it was the coach and Dean being a great guy.

And he's like, yo, yo, yo, we have to do I have to bring another 20 year old and then end up going over to Phoenix to play. And that's how I got there.

Could you have ever imagined that it would turn into a professional career, like, did you have that insight or were you over the moon when it kind of snowballed and you play that many years career pro, you know?

Definitely. You know, obviously, you know, things go by fast and they look at I always want to play hockey and I always want to try and make it to the NHL. That was the goal. Right. And I knew I was going to have to work for it. I knew I was going to grind it out in leagues and make a presence year after year and then hopefully get up there. And that just kind of what I did.

And definitely, you know, once I got, you know, got to play a little bit in St. Louis and then, you know, I just kept staying in the American League and just try to keep working my way in and find my way up. Right. And that's just the way it went.

Yeah, but you mentioned that suspension. And I actually reached out to one of your former teammates, Derek Nesbitt, who reminded me of another one. So he was with the idea of Idaho steelhead. And you weren't on this road trip. They went up to Alaska. And I don't know if you were the defending champs, but they were bullying the Idaho steelhead. So they ended up coming back to Idaho on a road trip. And yourself and Matt Nickerson, people got to go YouTube this.

You guys ended up destroying an entire line on your own. You end up getting suspended for the what I think is the rest of the season. And in the midst of that, you line up a UFC fight in order to basically get the whole fucking fan base into it.

Yeah, you're exactly right. To the boys went up. So what happened? I think what really happened, I hurt my ankle a little bit, so I missed like a week off. Right. And then Nickerson, he might have been suspended or they didn't take him on the trip. They go to Alaska and they get a line ball against our team. We had no tough guys in the lineup. And actually our goalie, they give our goalie a concussion, so they cut their next game is back down in Boise.

And, you know, we nicotero both plan. And I'm just like, you know, just I told Nikki, like, you know, just saying we'll find time to do it, you know? And we really went out that that shift. And I was like, OK, if I get a chance, there was some tall guy, I forget his name, but I was like, I'm trying to all this fucking guys. And then we'll do this.

Right? And then so we did it. I mean. Yeah, and it got a little it got a little nuts, you know, we just started grabbing guy after guy. Just try to just destroy their whole line because they are just all a bunch of fucking fake ass guys, right? Nobody. They didn't have any real big heavyweights. Right. And so we're just going to take care of business, old school way, you know, and then and we did.

So the funniest part of the story, though, is you guys end up getting suspended. And by the way, Derrick Nesbitt said it was a big turning point for you guys in the season. You guys ended up going on some crazy run, and that was the year you guys won the Kelly Cup. But what was funny about it is how that ended up turning into your what I believe is your first ever UFC event, which happened during that season.

Could you tell the whole story behind that?

Yeah, definitely. So one thing I've always done in the off season is I've always had boxing as just part of my training. Right. I would always do that when I moved out to Boise because, you know, I played there years ago. And so we had those at home for me for twelve years before I come to Dallas here for the last four. Right. And so when I moved there, I found some guys to train with and they were it was all like these Amami guys.

And so the summer before I was training and just something I always did, like, you know, you have you get in a fight. And I was like, oh, you know, I'm like, you know, contract. And like, it's kind of hard to do that, you know, with hockey. Right. So then what happened then? I was like, well, hey, let me see you all soon. Get in a fight.

Sure enough, I did. I was like they lined me one up. And so that was the first time I actually got in the ring for a for an enemy fight. So it was definitely fun. I mean, they I don't know if it wasn't wasn't much of a fight, but, you know. Well, yeah, you're being modest.

You're being modest. You knock the guy out in 17 seconds. Yeah.

You know, all three of my first flights were like that. You know, they went pretty quick, but it was fun. You know, it's one of those things like we all know in boxing as well. You know, the training's the hardest part. And I got to work with some guys that were amazing, like Nate Pettit. He lives on in Vegas. He trained like with Randy features. He's like his. Kraner, so these are guys like you were in boys, you know, and they've all fought the UFC at the highest level.

And so I got to work with these guys and and they just work the shit out of you. And I got to learn so much from those guys. It was amazing. Eric Smith was an NCAA fucking champion wrestler in Iowa. That guy was like I was 240. He was like 220. And he picked me up and he would just fucking smash me on the mouth like time after time. His wrestling was so good. One time he fucking put me through the wall.

And so parts of the wall, you have the match and then the other mat goes up along the wall. Well, he picked me up and smashed me through the wall through the mat one time and we knocked some of the roof down. And I was like, dude, like he was. And he was a great guy. But I mean, he was just he's just like me and I got to learn so much from him.

So Derek Nesbitt also was describing how they had you promote the fight and they ended up selling the whole arena out, give you like an extra bonus for it. You had all the Steelhead guys walking you out to the mat with their jerseys on and they had your jersey in hand. So after you got you knocked the guy out who, by the way, the guy had an absolute barrel on him, did he? Yeah, he but he was the guy.

He was the Zamboni driver. Yes.

So I actually saw this old Rudy was his first name. I forget his last name. But so at first I was supposed to fight a Russian guy out of a camp in Utah, and that's who they were going to have come down. And they said he did get injured. So like a week out, I didn't even think I was fighting. Actually, I didn't have anybody to fight. And then literally the day before, the promoter called to say, we've got a guy that'll fight it all, say, OK, cool, you know, let's still do it.

And then it was him. And at first I looked at his record, actually, and I was like this kind of like fucking like thirty fights or something. And I'm like, Jesus, fuck. Like who you guys throw me in. That's right. I'm all right. Let's go. But I seen them and I was like, this guy's like got a barrel on them. Right. So but I never you know, you never look at a polling, an opponent.

It's the worst thing you can do. Right. Because I knew this guy had a big karate background. Right. So I'm like, well, I'm going to watch myself with some crazy kick and take my gibbs' out. And there's me.

Yeah. I want to go back to early in your career. You transition your juniors, then you go into pros from the West Coast Hockey League for a bit. Then you go to Peoria on the East Coast Hockey League. I was there any conversation with the higher ups about getting to the NHL? Is that a carrot they dangled? So we just kind of happened to be there at that point.

Yeah, definitely. You know, so at the time, you know, we're the West Coast Hockey League, right? So from my style of play, I want to get called up somewhere. You have to go to the East Coast. That's where the tough teams were. Every team had fucking two or three heavyweights like legitimately. And that's where you're going to make your mark. You know, that was one of the farm teams of the blues, right?

It was them, Worcester and in Massachusetts and then St. Louis right down the organization. Right. So definitely, you know, talk to my agents at the time. Like he adds, you know, you've got all these other offers here in the West Coast now, but he's like, you got to go out. And I was like, all right, let's do it right. And I'm still you know, I'm thankful for Jason Christy, who is the coach there, who I'm so, you know, really good friends with to this day.

But he he did a lot for me in my career at the start of it there to help me get pushed up and do what I had to do, you know, improve in my game as well. You know, planes playing still can be a liability out there. Right. So he helped me. So I gave him a lot of credit, you know, at that time to give me the push, you know, get me called up to us to get my first initial contract.

So I'm definitely happy I made that move. That was the whole goal of that move to. Well, yeah, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

It's going to be I just want to give him props with 154 penalty minutes and 24 games played a little over six point four penalty minutes per game. Just want to give them back to that. Yeah, it was good.

It was good. I definitely knew my role. And, you know, the league was tough over there. That man. I'm telling you, there was guys there's two or three guys on a team, you know, and we had a tough team to shoot. Somebody is to be on that team. But we have seemingly become like brothers. It me, Trevor, Gilly's you. We had this other little worry for Trevor Baker, who could actually play pretty well, but he's just wiry, little skinny guy, probably never even more than a sandwich for a meal in his life and never worked out, but he could really chuck them at Anthony Belleza.

You know, we had a couple of guys that were like we were tough to play against.

Was Gilly's doing those wild warm ups when you were playing with him, where he was just squirting water all over his face, doing ballet against the boards and shit?

Oh, yeah. She always has a routine. He has his routine. And I give him credit. He has his routine. He knows what he needs to get ready. So props to him. I think it's great. You know, he doesn't you know, people would like, oh, let's see, what do you do out there? You know what? That's pretty good, because I didn't change a thing because I know what I need to do to get ready.

So I'm going to do it, you know, and that's that's good. Yeah. He didn't give a shit what people thought. You don't give a fuck you. That's that's good. I mean, you. What are you going to do, what do you do? What do you laugh at me? Come over here, fight me. You know, that was our thing. So many fucking talkers in the game. Even back then, all these fucking guys, one of you, I can talk like there's something that's like come over here and drop your gloves.

You know, I'll fucking embarrass you. And I was like, I'll be your tough guy to right. Like, come and do it. Like, I'm all about action. You want to talk? That's great. You know, but then, you know, and prostitutes, for this example, like, you know, you want to be a tough guy, do the fucking job. You want to talk, back it up. And that's one thing, because I'll give you credit.

You always did. I told somebody else the podcast from me. I mean, you're funny. And I was like, dude, that guy fucking showed up for work every fucking day, without question. And that's the guy that I respect in the game.

Yeah, I got a face for it now. Snout checks were nice, so. Well, hey, yeah.

Yeah. There's so many guys who, you know, did what you did, played a long time playing a tough physical like grind of a game, but you got that NHL game. So it makes me so happy. Like you remember a lot about that day. I mean, St. Louis said Pronger and Karkoc and Doug Wade, it was like full of once elected. I was Brunious.

Fuck how much Al McKinnis was there at the time, for fuck's sake. He wasn't playing. He was still coming back from an injury and I'll never forget. So, you know, I stayed up there for about a month, month and a half with St. Louis. You only played the one game there, though. And there just a guy, you know, we'll see who plays if they dress some tough guys, you're going to play. If not, you know what to do after morning.

Skate is like, you know, you get bags skated and then do your work around the clock. This is the life like. No problem. Right. And I remember so like we know with Wittiness out there getting fucking educated. And I'll never forget that day I would line up the whole blue line of pucks. But, you know, as close as can be any like, yeah, I just have to stand in front of you just fucking rip clappers from the blue line.

And I would try and hit men. I mean, he would do that day after day. You know, everybody wonders know he had one of the best clippers in the league. Right. So I was pretty blessed, you know, to be where I was. And then, you know, I got to meet up with duckweed later in the career with Islander's when I was with those guys. But it was it was definitely a dream come true, schorno, by those guys, you know, for for a legitimate game.

You know, it definitely was.

And your one game, too, you end up fighting. We just had them on the podcast. Todd. Frauke.

Yeah. Profita a great guy, another guy that did his fucking job. Well, you know, I don't like on that team was who the fuck was this year? The guys, the biggest fucking piece of shit. I don't like the guy. He's nothing but a fucking talker. You know what? He didn't have anything to fucking gain from fighting me, but he wouldn't, right? He wouldn't always. I don't need to fight you, you know, and that's the way he was to his career.

I know a lot of guys that played against them. I no longer afford them. And that's how he was like, you know, he wasn't a good guy. You know, I don't want to talk to about the guy, but he's a fucking talker and a piece of shit. You have a job to do. Come on. Do you know the fucking fridge? Come on, get it. He's a guy who likes you. He goes, fuck him.

He goes, all fight us. All right, let's go. Fuck. You know, I hate that. You know, I don't care how old I am. And he fucking young guy want to fight any league fucking rights. I'll throw the gloves off because that's your job.

So that's kind of your mentality. Whereas, like, if you got challenge, you got to go. That's like there's no fucking right.

There's a time and place for like, don't get me wrong. Right. We all know that there's a proper time to do it, but there's also a proper time to do it. Like, you know, I talked a lot of guys coming up the challenge. I'm pro work, right? And they're like, hey, he's like, all right, let's go. You know, he would do that for a lot of guys, right? You know, we all got into those leagues, those positions at one time.

I remember being the fucking young guy in Peoria, then in the American League Challenge and every fucking tough guy. And they're like, all right, yeah, I remember fucking Mel Ingolstadt fucking he was in Portland for the Pirates when I was up in Worcester. And I was like, come on, no, fucking get me go. He's got fucking rich kid. Let's do it, you know? And he fucking he fucking rung my bell that I fucking fucking pretty tough.

That's what Todd Fedoruk was talking about when we had him on interview. He said, Rob Ray, he didn't have to, but, you know, that was his first ever scrap. And, you know, he was he was kind of towards the end, but nonetheless gave the other guy the scrap because it was his job. So I definitely respect the guys who didn't pick their spots. And I don't really I I wouldn't have a run in with Brashear or and or Bonda either.

All those guys are tough.

Son of a bitch. Yeah, yeah, yea, fucking you know, I'm not saying that he's not a tough guy because he's a big, tough guy, but fucking do it, you know, that's just shit like that really pisses me off. I've seen a few guys do that over the years. Right. Said come on, do your fucking job. You know, don't be a chickenshit. You know, don't be scared to lose a fight.

I mean, because that's what it is right there. All What if I can fight this guy? Lose, right. Well, fuck, if you're on your game, you better be on your game, you won't lose. I mean, don't be a fucking bitch. That's one of the biggest things that irks me in all the game is fucking pretenders and guys that pick their spots, you know, fucking just drives me nuts. That fucking fucking garcelon when I was fucking tried to fight him and fucking who's going ahead in Philly?

Neither one to fight. I'm running around like an idiot, fucking crushing their team and they still wouldn't come out and fight. It was fucking hilarious. We had fucking air carriers just fucking laughing at them on the bench. She's like, you fucking pussies, you won't even fight them. You won't even stand up for your own team. It was great. I mean, it was awesome at the time.

Well, I think I also think you're wired a little bit different. I mean, you're even fighting family members on the ice.

Nasty Merici who I didn't realize because I didn't realize you related weight.

So there's this we're not blood related, but, you know, through some marriages, you know, middle everybody's cousins. Right. No joke about that. Yeah. But I'll tell you what though. But that's the thing. Johnny just has the mentality like he likes to fight. He's like me. I like to fight. I like the job. I'm never going to be a guy to come on here on any fucking thing and say, oh, I didn't like my job.

Because, you know what? If you didn't like your job, don't get a fucking different job. You know what you can play in the NHL, make millions of dollars and you're going to complain, oh, I didn't like the fight. Wouldn't go get another fucking job. Whose fault is it? You're going to come on fucking media and pout about it. Fuck you. That's what I say to those guys.

Well, hey, I actually watched that clip today. It was December 19th, 2008, and you're playing against the Syracuse crunch and the period was over and you embarrassed your going like as both teams are on the ice going like crossing benches here to go to your locker rooms and you got the Christmas jersey on. Everybody's supposed to be in the festive mood. And you guys that are teeing off on each other for at least 90 seconds just throw haymakers like were you guys like talking about this before games, knowing that, you know, fuck, I mean, you know, you know, if you watched it.

So if you watch it now, you're right. So, you know, you remember what you played there a lot. So you know how like you have to skate off if you're but the second period. So you're down in hour and. Right. And you have to skate to the other corner and to skate off the ice. Right. So it was started with somebody, whether it was their goal or our guy kind of hit the goalie and then started stirring up.

Right. And we're all just trying to get off of the period. Everybody was right. And then she kind of started and then I was trying to do was a big tall guy that I just just eat. I mean, he wasn't a real big, tough guy. He was a bigger guy that they had there. And I was trying to get him to fight, but he wouldn't fight. And and fucking Johnny come and say, oh, fuck, let's just do it.

I was like, all right, let's just let's just do it right. Because, hey, do it. And then everything can calm down. Right. And plus, obviously, we love the fucking fight. So I mean. Yeah, and it just turned into fucking the longest fight. I mean, I had a sore forehead and had sore knuckles when I was under that fight. Yeah.

I was like la la la la la la la. Oh look.

And and somebody had a picture one time and I wish I could get this picture from somewhere. It was somebody took a picture from up in the rafters or they had a camera up there and it was literally both teams in a big circle around Center Ice and me and Johnny in the middle fighting. I was like, I seen it. I was like, man, I got to find a way to get a picture someday. I never did. But maybe someday, someday you'll come across it.

But it was it was a pretty cool, pretty cool picture.

Well, you mentioned the stands and I reached out to Brendan Siegel, who also played with you, and he said, I don't know if you were healthy, scratched or maybe maybe you're injured, but you were sitting in the crowd one time and you end up getting hit by a puck that came out of play.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fucking missed, like, the rest of the year or guys just flipped it from the end when over hit me in the head. It was it was crazy.

And you thought that somebody suckered you in the crowd. He said, fuck yeah. Oh dude, I fucking turned. I thought somebody suckered me. I turned my popcorn and I turned it over. I swear to God somebody suckered me and all who was a guy like him? Big tall guy Thompson, big tall guy on our team. He grabbed me.

He goes, No, you lose the puck. And I was like, Really? He goes, Yeah. And then we were all laughing about it, you know? And then go find your Dosch, check me out. Had a big fucking black and blue mark inside my head. But then later that night I kind of got a little goofy and then and so, you know how to look at that concussion pretty bad. So I said, oh, the best thing to do, especially my job, like, you know, just tell the rest of your rest.

And that's what I did, right. Know I want to come back one hundred percent and I have to deal with it. So that's what I did.

Oh yeah. But I want to go back to the one NHL game, which, by the way, it's good enough to get you on that hockey reference. Dotcom, you get your own page there. All you need is one which is good.

Was that a situation? I'm guessing it was a call up. What was the deal?

What you remember every little. Feel like everything kind of slowed down or what was it like a business as usual approach? I mean, definitely I remember like it's something I'll remember because, fuck, we had we were in the meritocracy. Obviously, I was in Worcester and we had a couple of games before, so should you not? I think it was so there was two games before that game I had in Worcester. I mean, Gilly's fought twice.

He was in I think lol at the time. So we had two big fights and you know, two really good fights like, you know, Mingo's more will fight to the fucking death as much as we're brothers. I want to knock it fucking teto. He does the same for me. Right. And then the next game is when I fucking Portland came to town and that's when I thought Milingo stats what another guy on their team. And then I formal Ingolstadt too.

And so and now he got the better me. That's like I'll never forget fighting him because we're fighting and I've got a couple of two good shots in. And I was like I thought I was really good and he was come around. I don't even know what's left or right, but he fucking dropped me to my knee and I was just like, what the fuck just happened? You know? So I had a fucking block. I had a lot of marks on my face.

So there's was a night or two later I was going out to meet Terry. Vertue woman, I think we're going to a movie and we're watching the movie and we're just sitting down and fuck, my phone's ringing. Those fuckers grassroots, all coaches call me. He's like, well, fucking go take it. So I went out and called the movie and fucking goes, Yeah. How are your hands? How's your face doing? All right. I'm thinking right away because Philly was we were playing the Phantom.

Philly was coming in like the next night. He's probably seen how I'm doing because they had a fucking shitload tough guys too. Oh, my God, that's good. You know, knuckles are good. Taste is good. He's OK. Then he goes, well, we'll be there in the morning to pick you up. He's like, you're going up to St. Louis. And I was just like, what the fuck? I was like, you know, I was like, holy shit.

You know, it's one of those things pretty surprising.

You remember, like, the most amount of fight you had in one season, pro.

Oh, shit. You know, I truly don't. You you think you ever had forty I mean, at least thirty for sure. A couple of times.

Kobe upwards towards the thirty is right. I mean, that's probably where it was probably around there. I don't think I've ever had more than more than that. Yes.

Any memorable ones where you actually got the. Yeah. The the wrong side of it. I mean, is there one we like. Fuck, I got my ass kicked there. I mean, there must have been plenty that it was the opposite.

It was so out of all my of all my fights, which I fared pretty well over the years, I'll remember the one millennialist Ingolstadt. He got me in that fight back when I was in Worcester. Oh. What's his name. He was playing in Wilkes-Barre before you were. There is no doubt not Barbara Bush. No, no.

I was not knocked down in that seat. David Cossy. He's a.. Not Kosi make. No, he worked for a couple of good fights though. But it was got the better of him. It wasn't, it wasn't a big but he fucking I was watching his face before because I always study the fights and he would throw he would come into fights, throw in the right all the time I think was Borys. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And he would throw the right. I was watching his fights before and he was. So when guys are squaring off I always study fight starting fights and he would fucking come in and he would kind of fake the grab and he would throw that fucking straight. Right. And say, OK, I'm going to fuck, I'm going to want to I'm watching for this. Right. And steady fucking throws out this fucking left like right on the chin. And so I went down and I kind of tried to get back up, but he definitely got me there.

But the most of all of Steve Macintyre, he fucking dropped me like a ball. He walked in.

Was it hard? Hard what it was it was like fighting a bear.

That fucking guy is the toughest guy by far that I've ever fought.

He wants me dead to be the worst person in the world, to want you dead.

Let me tell you, he'd be talking going early. He'd be talking the way that you're talking about the guys who wouldn't fight you on the podcast if we brought him on about it. But we we constantly talk to guys about these Russian stories. And you end up getting to spend two years over there. We asked Josh Hennessy and he basically said, I don't think I could tell you one story that you'd be allowed to tell on the podcast for me about his experience over there.

There's that YouTube video that went viral with with you embarrassed you get getting the scrap against some like Russian mobsters. Like, what do you recall from your entire time there? And are there some stories that you can share from your experience?

Well, first of all, my time there was amazing the first year, especially just for both years. So the first year I was there was great, you know, it was me, rasti. Brennan were there Konarski those those kind of ah, those are American guys there. So definitely different guys that could chuck it. And it was great. I mean. In Russia, you know, Chekhov was a great city, you know, I'm literally still like family, you know, to the people that ran the team, then still talk to them all the time.

But we don't talk about the whole the whole street fight. Right. Well, what happened was so so when they do an exhibition, they'll send like four teams to, like, a city. Right. And then you'll play each team once. Right. And then you. That's kind of the way they do exhibition there. Right. So we were there and looking after the game, you know, Panarin, you know, Fox obviously a star now, the NHL.

He was awesome with us, too. He was young because you guys want to come to like this place, you know, for like you know, I know a lot of Russian that I know Russian now pretty good, but not then. And these guys want to come. It's like a restaurant. And then, you know, kind of like a club. We're like, yeah, sure. You know, we'd love to write. So we go there and he English comes and he goes, oh, it's rented out.

We have to wait for a while. So what happened was there was a wedding party that was there and they rented the whole place. So he goes, you've got to wait for like half an hour or so. We're like, all right. So we're literally standing outside along the wall and people are funneling out, you know, obviously they're coming out and and I don't know what happened, but people started, like, yelling at us like and we don't even know Russian.

And I'm like, hey, I think they're fucking yelling at us. So then we kind of got up. We're like, hey, you know, believe me, I was like, you know, we don't have to fight. Like, there's no problem here. Right? I'm thinking there's a fucking shit ton of people outside. I'm thinking, here we go. I just got here for a couple of weeks and they get shot. So that's what's going through my mind.

And then fucking, you know, shit kind of takes off. And then so we just start fucking dropping people like left and right. And I so I'll never forget we're walking brasses on my right and I'm fucking so I'm trying to keep my back to the wall. Everybody in front of me. I'm like, let's just get out of here. These bunch of guys are laid out and as I'm backing up, I seem to have left my peripheral vision on my right.

This fucking guy tried to come up between the cars and sucker rasti and you fucking followed sucker nasty and fucking you didn't even do anything to him. Fucking boss, you can take a punch. And so he walked right in front of me and I just like unloaded like one shot on him. Just fucking stretched this guy too. And we just kept fucking backing away. It was crazy. Yeah. It's always funny is, you know, we go to fucking you know, in the morning I called Nazeer coach, you know, Naggie love the show.

Down he goes. I heard stuff. You know, it's OK. He goes. So then literally nothing happened for like probably like fucking two or three weeks, nothing in the fucking media. And we were talking we're like, how does fucking this go down? And nobody fucking gets this in the media. Right? And there's somebody if you watch and you to be like, you lost him last year. I mean, you know, he was yelling all this shit.

I didn't know what he's saying. Now, I know he was basically saying he goes, that's just you, Blonsky. Morality's like, don't fight him. He's like, Yo, Yablonski, like an enemy fire. He was like telling these people, I don't fight them wrong.

The wrong door. Wrong door. Yeah. Yeah, right. And so but anyways, the funny thing is I come into one more and I'm coming in and as he's against it, he was laughing at me or coach. Now he's, you know, big guys are all right. He goes all you got to go look at it to go to the TV. And I was like, what? I was like, you know, what's going on?

If I look in the TV, there's we're on every fucking news station. You're a member of the fucking. And it said we're fucking this is the worst part of Russia for you said that we got invited to a wedding and started a brawl with everybody. And this isn't like this was on for a week on the news, like I'm not staying a week for a whole week. It was on like every news fucking station. When we go this fucking wedding, we're like compared to a place for dinner.

Like, it's crazy.

But, you know, it is what it is that we're some other, like, insane cultural experiences from over there. Because, I mean, we've had guys on and they just said, like, you guys were treated like royalty in some cases.

You know, we we were. So I think I think you understand sports in general in Russia is very held highly in regards. Right. Any other sports, although, you know, very old school Russia, still very old school like and that's what I do like a bar like Chekhov, a very old school city, the way Nikolai ran and ran the team, very old school. So I really like that. You know, once you get past the language, you know, the people are great.

It's, you know, the food's a little different, but nothing else falls into place. Right. You just find your basics. But I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed my time in Russia and I planned on going back the second year we got a sponsor that actually mean Gilley's got to play there together, so we got to sponsor that took over and him and him and the owner kind of ran it, you know, fairly. Right. So the sponsor wanted to pick the coach.

So they got rid of Nazaroff, which was too bad they got this fucking other coach, didn't speak English, did not like fuck Igor.

Americans one bit, so, you know, and fucking so I tried to fight them in practice one time, but that's how that's how I fucking lost my shit and I didn't like the fucking guy I fucking freaked out on. But we had a meeting, team meetings that I was fucking we were yelling at each other in the team meetings. I just fucking had no respect for that piece of shit. It either in some of the guys on the ice unpracticed is going fucking great, you know.

Does he have those practices. Sinja just pop in, everybody's fucking pop. And guys were laughing like a little bit like in a good mood, right? Yeah. So he puts his fucking calls everybody to Senate. So so there is talk of the guys and I kind of trenchantly saying I'm not happy about something. I knew that it looks at me and goes. Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? Why are you smiling? I saw coach.

I'm thinking coach practice is great, you know, high paced. You know, I'm still trying to be courteous. Right. But I pace I said fuck it is good practice. And he goes, oh fuck. He goes, you go home and tell your wife to fuck. And I was like, what? And I fucking partied my fucking love. My stick almost hit the fucking assistant coach with it and I fucking went at them and fucking Danmark who's a fucking beauty.

He's fucking crabby and a couple of other guys are like, Jabe don't you fucking kill them. And I chased them off. I can practice. He left ice and then that other fucking piece of shit fucking assistant coach they had, he was standing there with his two hands on his glove behind his face with just his eyes up. And I was in his fucking face, like spitting in his eyes. I'm like, you, you fucking piece of shit.

I was like, I should kick your fucking ass, too. He just fucking stood there and didn't move like he was a fucking statue. It was fucking great. I mean, you know, and the guy's like, well, that's, you know, that's kind of a sane guy. What's different in Russia? And I was like, I don't give a fuck. I was like, I was going to fucking I was going to kill him.

Bastards fucking head against ice because I just I was at a point where, like, you know, the respect for hockey, respect for the guys. And he was like, I don't know what his problem was because practice was fucking phenomenal. Right. And I had a lot of guys a team stick up for me, too. We're great guys on the team that, you know, some shit went down and they're like fucked out. They're like the coaches being an asshole across the line a little bit.

But it is what it is. That's just who I am.

So Danny Markoff was there. Was he still ripping darts between periods when you were playing with a ball fucking hard fucking before the game, during the game and that fucking guy, you know, and you wonder, like, that guy could play fucking two minutes straight and I'll give him credit. That guy fucking plays hard hockey. He's not a fucking I'm going to come out here and float around. He plays his nuts off. He's fucking right. I've got to play with him in Nashville.

So I was in Nashville for the summer training there. That's when Danny was there. And that's the same time I do. I've got there in the summer. And so I remember fucking sitting in the room. She comes in. Yeah. What's up, George? He's like this. Your buddy, he goes, he's going to sit with you this hour. And here I was like, all right. And it was you, all right. And he didn't talk and speak a lick of English.

He's got the worst fucking eighty could ever. Imagine what I mean on the ice. You know, he's twenty years old, but he's fucking amazing trying to, like, take care of this guy's not like take care of him, but, you know, I just take care of him, make sure he's OK. No problem. Drugs. Right, because we're there to train in the summer. What a great time. All right.

All our calls him the warthog. The warthog.

Well this was on a farm animal forever. And then someone, I think really said more. And then I think Warthog just just fits perfect. But I you root for him now. The Dallas is in the final.

Yeah, no, I am. I definitely I'm you know, he's one I was root for guys like a root for teams to root for guys they know or play with. So he's the only guys out there that really played well. So, you know, I'd like to see him win a cup. And, you know, I'll say one thing. He was young, a little wild, maybe at one time. But he's come a long way, I think, with his maturity level, what he's done with himself.

And we've got some other mutual friends, you know, Zubov, another good bye. Those and being with us, they're good friends who kind of got a group of guys and over there. And I'd like to see them when possible.

But I think Danny Markov was the legend who was driving wrong the wrong way on a one way, like on a bridge in Philly.

At one point I think that guy was in and I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't believe animal like he's off the ice.

You Namal, you know, he's he's definitely he's one of a kind and some some of these Russian guys, it's like the rules don't apply to them over there, like just and they're drinking culture is just crazy. Yeah, yeah, definitely so I know a guy I'm not going to say his name, so I got there, I got to Russia and he was playing on a Moscow team and I was like, hey, what's up? He goes, I say, hey, come on, let's meet up.

And Glorioso a and he's like, I mean, I'm in kind of trouble right now, although what happened? And we bought a fucking Bentley and got hammered and drove it through a fucking store one night, I, I'm like, OK, yeah.

Well we'll keep you inside for a while.

They bag skate on one practice like.

Yeah. First off, because I was waiting for this to come on the media but you know, obviously paid it off and kept it under wraps which is good.

So you know, we're just talking about 60000 surrogacies and just got busted in Minsk for doing the same thing. It's just like they yeah. They don't they just don't follow the rules.

They're you know, I know we've all we've all had our fuck ups and done stupid shit as well. Right. North Americans don't get me wrong. But yeah, they it seems that the more they're a bigger percentage of that sometimes.

Do you have any experiences with the infamous Russian gas while you were over there?

No, no. I've heard about people talk about it and I've never, ever seen it and never even really heard about it when I was there. Well, they saw you.

They took one.

Look, we can't give this guy the gas, right? Yeah.

You know, I heard some guys talking about. They said they use it's like a recovery thing, if I'm correct. That was just right.

I think it was straight meth. What from what we've heard, you know, I don't know. It's yeah. Somebody something like we use it for I think it was after the games, if I'm correct, and they they'll use it for like a recovery, it puts you into a better recovery. I mean, that's really all I know about it. But I never I never got to see it. We never had it in Chekhov. I mean, if they did, I mean, fuck, I'd have been maybe I'll give it a rep to see what it's all about, you know, but oh, like.

Oh yeah. Well I don't got much else. Now this is I'll say one thing. You definitely set the record for F bombs on the Checketts podcast. Gernhardt Oh yeah.

Yeah, sure I did.

That's right. So what about since Hawkie entered retirement stuff? How's that gone. What are you doing. Where where are you these days?

You know, so I live in Dallas, Texas right now. I've been here for four years. So do a lot of international work right now. I do some great banking. I got some guys who work with, you know, the surprise in the first place of we do a lot of banking investment. So I got a special way for Mother's Day special. I got some some good guys that I've worked alongside with the government. And I've done a lot of good projects around the world and met some good bankers and stuff.

And we do some stuff like some specialty like Tier one traders and stuff. So, no, I tell you, I talked some groups, different groups, and it's kind of nice. You know, I get to make a little bit offer, but I just make a lot of people a lot of money when they got, you know, a million or two million bucks. And then they invested it with our group and the tier one traders put it to work.

And it's pretty amazing what they can do, like in six months time stuff that I would have never known about this type of bank until you get to a very high level. And I was very blessed to be able to be a part of it. It's something, you know, I'm just glad to be able to do it every day.

Yeah, but you did three separate stints for the Idaho Steelheads. Great name, by the way, located in Boise, Idaho. I think Idaho, maybe one state or province we've never even mentioned on the show before. What's the most surprising thing about Idaho? That people aren't aware of a helping hand?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're talking about is just a classic place. Rocky, Rocky, like the shit. She's still there crushing it on stage. But, you know, Beaubois is a great place. It's a Boise is a city and it's literally a city. And even since I left there, I went back for the alumni game a couple of years ago. The place is growing like a madhouse, like it's full, but it's growing as much as here in Dallas.

And it's not just potatoes and corn fields out there. It's definitely it's the outdoors is just amazing. And the cities are the Boise. The city itself is just fabulous, too. It's almost like a small Denver. Yeah, that's probably a good way to describe it. And going back, going back to the scraps one more time, was that anybody who scared you? No, no, not really. I've never really feared anybody. I've always been on my toes for people.

I've never underestimated people. I learned in boxing I was taught that very young. You don't underestimate anybody. I mean, because they are small. I mean, guys that can fight until punch, you know, it takes one shot to knock you on your fucking ass. And so I really you know, I never had a guy coming in, like even before. And we fought like I probably watched every fight you had two years before every game that we played you guys.

So I knew exactly like how you for what you did and in ways that I could counter that stuff. I did that to every person because I never wanted to, you know, I wanted to always be as knowledgeable as a cannibal who's coming in. I was like, oh, who's just who they got to fight, right? And just go and fight. So I think that's the one reason I did so well is because, you know, I made sure I was always on top of my game.

Maybe I should have been watching guys fighting tapes instead of chasing pussy. Maybe I would want to come back.

Oh, don't kid yourself. Don't don't don't beat yourself. You know, you did your job very fucking well. And I know I know that organization fucking love the way you you know, you played the game very well, too, because you could play the game at a high level, which was good. And you fucking brought that knuckles every time you had to. So I give you a lot of respect for that.

Oh, thanks for coming sex. Yeah. Thanks so much for coming on here. Do to is great actually. Finally chatting with you. I heard a lot about you. We appreciate it.

Definitely. Guys, really appreciate it. Any time. Longlegs, Yobbo, thanks, Yarbo, take care, guys, by. Thank you very much for joining us. Hope you guys enjoyed it was certainly fun to talk to him. Definitely a character. Probably have him back some time at some point, no doubt. Well, gang, I know everyone's been a little bit stressed out lately, and the stress of daily life weighs on all of us, whether you're an elite athlete like this or a regular schnook like me just trying to get through the day, muscle pain and muscle tension is a real thing.

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And next up, we have Dylan Playfair. This one is a biz solo adventure and those are always fun. So now we're going to send it over to those guys.

Ladies and gentlemen, a long time since I've done a one on one interview, I met this kid when his father was coaching me. A lot of you probably know who he is because of an infamous video that went viral everywhere. And we're going to get into that. And he after that, his after his terrible hockey career, maybe even worse than mine, he has found himself in the acting world. He's going to be the next Gordon Bombay, is that right?

OK, but absolutely.

And the new Mighty Ducks and also Letterkenny started as Letterkenny problems, but they've changed it to Letterkenny, a very successful show in Canada. It's kind of like it's got a cult following and probably deemed as the modern day trailer park boys, at least for Canada standards. So welcome to the podcast podcast. Excuse me, Dylan Playfair.

Good to be here. But that was a long winded intro.

But that's how I have to do them because I can't do him like RDM.

No, I like that. You take the pressure off me with the with the podcast. I was sweating, sweating buckets here before I even got on here. So I'm thinking no pressure is off, boys. I'm feeling good. Now let's let's roll with it.

Yeah. I go dash one before you do. OK, so let's talk about your old man quick. Jimmy Playfair had him as an assistant coach in Phoenix and obviously when we signed him, that video of him in Abbotsford and I guess I'll let you describe it.

Yeah. The infamous stick breaking video that actually ended up getting me my first agent. So, yeah, he calls me up. I was trying out for the Dawson's Creek rage. I believe it was a defunct team, the North American Hockey League. And he goes, hey, turn on tips. And I got to show he's off the site. Click on the TV and there's Jimmy fucking snap for it begs on the bench, losing his mind, going Hulk Hogan on the boys.

And yeah, he obviously didn't agree with the call and got vocal about it and broken into eggs and voiced his concerns. And it ended up making like that the SportsNet, you know, top ten spot coach for except for guts or whatever. And at the same time, when I when I was transitioning into into acting, I wouldn't take a meeting with with Keri Wheeler, who's now my agent. And we're about an hour and a half into the meeting.

She's like, listen, I don't need a pretty boy. Hockey player thinks he can act like I'm going to be hard on you. I'm going to be strict with you. I'm going to have to tell you to do things you're not going to want to do. I'm like, OK, hold on. So you're OK just to stop for one second. I got to show you something real quick here. And I pull up Jimmy's video, break into eggs.

I go, so that's the man who raised me. So whatever you think you can throw my way, I can guarantee of I'll be fine.

So. So he was a tough old man. Was he very stern with you guys growing up? Yeah.

You know, he just he just expected us to work as hard as he did because I think he recognized how how hard it is to make the NHL, as you know. I mean, there's a lot of people who dream about it. And it's it's a pretty select few group of people who who get there. And I think he just wanted to make sure that we we put in everything that we could control into into getting to wherever we got to.

And, yeah, he was I mean, he was a ton of fun.

Like, don't get me wrong, I know my dad's one of my best friends in the world, but he's a he's a no nonsense guy. You know, he expects you to perform and he expects you to put in the work. And and that was brought up. So. Yeah, yeah, it was it was it was pretty strict, but that was fun.

You kind of fail to mention the fact that, well, you said he went Hulk Hogan. I mean, he exposed himself to that crowd. I don't know if you could get away with that nowadays.

Yeah, I know. He told me the only reason he stopped he stopped breaking six is because he was losing oxygen because his tie got so tight. If you watch the video, he cinches it right of access to block it out. Yeah, that had a negative effect. He's like losing a fight with himself at that point. But it was classic. And like you said, it's in the top ten every time they're almost on like Center SportsNet of the biggest snap shows by head coaches.

But so you're you're playing career. You played up until Junior. I was kind of chirping a little bit. A little bit about your playing ability. What were your stats like in Junior?

Oh, if you've if you've looked him up, I mean, zero goals. One assists one hundred and forty seven pins. I was I was watching your highlight reels, trying to be the business of the BCS. I just I was I was calibrated incorrectly I guess you could say, but no man I was hired nose. I just I would have dreams about standing in front of an open net and just have fire in parks and them stopping on the goal line like there is a fucking piece of Plexiglas there.

Did it got into my psyche. I could.

That's probably how weak your shot was. I probably wouldn't have gotten there. No talks.

Yeah, it was a tough one, man. It is a tough year. So it's finding out people think that I was like a pretty skilled player because of, you know, the the stock that I'm bred of. But I'm like, no, you guys, you don't get it. My transition into the film is. Pretty obvious for me, I kind of knew it was what was ahead of me for my hockey career, so I made the switch pretty easy.

OK, so let's back it up. When you were in the early ages and even in the high school, were you taking acting classes? Were you always that type of guy or because you were in the hockey world like you? You know, there's a bit of like like, oh, you're acting kind of thing. Like there's a stigma towards it. Obviously, it's not as much like that is now as it used to be. But, you know, were you doing that at a young age?

Yeah.

I mean, I was always like, did the dressing room guy who kind of relieve tension. And I had the boys laughing and all the teen parties, like I was kind of the the role that I assumed for myself. I certainly wasn't, you know, contributing on the ice. I had to figure out a way to be a viable member of a team.

So I always had fun, you know, on the on the bus and in the dressing room. And I really did enjoy doing doing drama and theater and whatnot. But like you said, it's kind of one of the other in in high school. So I really just focused on hockey. But I always kind of knew that it was going to be something that I did after the game. And I was actually watching Friday Night Lights and telling my coach about it, leukapheresis and merit.

And he goes, yeah, that Taylor Kitsch kid he used to play in this league. He played for Langley and catches Tim Riggins big rigs. I don't know if you watch Friday Night Lights, but that's boy band pussy, is it not?

Oh, buddy, that's fuckin that's where I'm getting that vibe.

I'm getting that Bieber vibe. When you said that, I want to rolled off your tongue.

Oh, buddy, that's yeah. That's slippery when wet and it's always wet. So I, I kind of thought, aw shit.

If he can do that, I mean that's pretty, that's pretty close to home. I'll look up his, his sort of journey and I basically mapped out what he had done and kind of followed his footsteps because I, you know, I knew is something that I could I could come into and have success with just based on my my naivete and in my arrogance. So I figured, fuck, if he can do it, I'll do it, too.

And I moved up to Vancouver and ran with it.

I mean, what kind of things were you doing in the locker room where you were getting the boys all fired up like that? Give us I mean, I was coming in with the Mangena sometimes. It was definitely a lot more old school, but what was like the modern day version of being the class clown?

So, yeah, I know. Not too different from your version. I mean, if you watched Letterkenny, we got a lot of the same shit that I mean, that's the beauty of the show and I'm sure we'll get into it. But all the boys on that show played hockey had, you could say, failed three years. As far as as far as we got, we we had fun with that, but we never made the show. So a lot of that stuff that you see in the show comes from our experiences in the game.

Denker Ball was a game that that I myself was a champion of. And it's it's a lot like mangina. But you you jam up your junk and the boys had to have to choose or guess whether it's a dunk or a ball in your in your hand. I mean, that was one. But I was pretty good at accents and voices.

I could always tell that once called thinkable. Yeah.

Dankova Dankova you turn around, you grab your junk whether it's not or part of your Shaf or the tap, if you're really bold and it's like, it's like two birds in the bush like at the dinner table.

But yeah, it's the locker room version. Exactly. Exactly.

And yet to decide whether it's a denker ball.

So was that your what was your big introduction into acting like? How did you how did you originally get started? What was your your first roles?

So my very first role was a music video for AJ Woodworth, which I think is still online somewhere. It's pretty grungy, but I yeah. So I came up to Vancouver as a kid on my team. His dad worked as a production assistant. So he was the guy or not a production assistant sorry, location manager. He would go find locations for the films and TV shows in Vancouver. So he got me a job working as a P.A., just like emptying garbage cans and shit like that.

And every person I talked to, I was like, hey, I have no idea how to get into this industry, none whatsoever. So if you guys know anyone who can help me out, you know, given given my name and through that, I got into a big league team where I ended up meeting Jerry KeIso, and I kind of told him the same story that I saw you guys on. Like Delicates. Guy can do it. I can do it, too.

And he goes, Okay, kid, I love the I love the juice. But don't you why don't you meet this agent that I used to work with. And that was Gary and and I told you that story that I just told you guys about my dad. And she goes, OK, well, if you're serious about it, you know, get yourself enrolled in some acting classes and see some auditions and see if you can do it. And yeah, I got lucky, man.

I was like two months in and I booked my first feature movie, which is called The Grave Encounters, and it's kind of off to the races from there.

You just mentioned one of the guys, one of the creators, Jared KeIso Tierney. What's the guy? I forget his first name, Jacob Jacob Tierney. Jessica Tierney.

He's one of the writers as well. So we're. Are the original guys who created the show, so it was originally KeIso in a powerful Mellissa, had a show or not a show, a Twitter feed called List Problems, so they would just list funny shit from their hometown. They're from a small town, Ontario. And, you know, the the original seed of the idea came from that. And then him and Dale Jarrett and they started shooting these these Letterkenny videos and right around the same time.

So and you, her and I, who play the hockey players on Letterkenny, we had become roommates. So we were pals because he went to school, UBC and I'm a I'm a degenerate dropout. I never went to college. I don't even know if I actually technically graduated high school because I switched to join the club.

I took the grade nine geography to get my diploma.

Yeah, but he's like Billy Madison in there, buddy is. He found out that we both got fifty one percent in our grade ten math and just fucking rode off into the sunset. So, so anyhow he's he's going to UBC and I'm going to acting school and, and we're both auditioning around Vancouver and we booked this, this movie, Mr. Mr Hockey, which is the Gordie House story. So I played Marty how he played Mark. How and where were the children of Gordie.

So we go and shoot this movie in Winnipeg and Jared sees it and it was really fucking cool. And he, he and Jamie Lapoint set up this viewing party for us because of the TV movie. Right. It was on CBC, so there's not really a premiere, anything like that. But he recognized how big of a deal it was for us. So he lays out this red carpet and our whole BEARLY team's there. And we have like the whole like the CBC Sweat, the CBC.

You know, I yeah, the towel. And he's doing, you know, iPhone interviews in the hallway there. We watching Mr Hockey, the Goretti House story. And we just had a real fun time with that. I got banged up, watched the premier, and then the next day Jamie, who plays the ginger in the show, goes, You should bring the hockey players out for a Letterkenny skit. So we link up on the Sunday and do it.

A read of this like two page skit that he had written, just sort of off the off the cuff drive out to Ladner and shoot this Letterkenny skit with the hockey players. And it's like a, you know, two minute YouTube video. And about a month and a half later, Jerry calls us both and says, hey, there's like over a million hits on this video. I think this is this is a gopher series. Boys like this looks really good.

So he chops it out to to Bell and Bell links him up with new metric media and TV. And we're just hoping for, like maybe maybe a chance to shoot a pilot. You know, we're not really thinking much of it, but he calls us for dinner one night and he goes, well, boys, we didn't we didn't get the pilot, but we got six episodes for final episode, very the very next week.

And you guys are the hockey players that I didn't know this at the time, but he went to bat for us like we'd only done the one movie, really. And Bell wanted to audition like well-known actors to play the hockey players. And Jerry goes, If I'm doing it, I'm doing it with the squad that I started with. I'm bringing the boys.

Yeah. Like, I like a dialogue, like an absolute fucking beauty body, like a legend.

So so, yeah, we brought us out to Sudbury and shoot season one and fuck man, we had so much fun and so do the rest is history.

You know, it really it caught fire remembering lines like that. Are you guys a little bit more ad lib, very similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I mean, that was honestly probably the biggest sort of like pressure that Jersey and I put on ourselves, because knowing knowing that element of it, the fact that he really went to bat for us when we got out there. So the whole like every script you see is almost written like ninety nine percent of what you see or hear is written in the script. There's a little tiny bit of living that we end up doing, but it's usually at the end of a scene.

And it's usually like after all the stuff is has been filmed because in a show that quick paced. Right, like if you miss a line or you ad lib a line, you can throw the whole scene off. Right. Because there's so many words, there's so many sentences coming in so fast from so many different characters that there's not much time to to ad lib. So that first season, like, I'm not exaggerating when I say eight hours a night and you and I would run those scenes like we we'd work and work and work because our whole thing was like, we got this one chance.

You know, if we if we do good bye bye, Jared and Bill, then maybe we'll get a chance to do more of it. So I don't think there's anything in my life I've ever, you know, prepared more for.

And then when you when you've got all that stuff locked in and memorized, then you can go into it and sort of have fun with that. It's like if you're a little bit unsure, then you're thinking about it and you're thinking about what you're saying. So, yeah, that's I think where we earned our paychecks was just doing the work before we got on set, you know, to memorize.

And it goes back to the hockey thing. And I tell people I'm always thankful for like growing up in that environment because you're held accountable for even from a young age, right? Yeah. And then you talked about the hard work that your old man instilled in you as well. And you're thinking in this situation, it's very similar to a hockey team because like this guy went to bat for you, similar to maybe your coach picking for the team and you put in that extra work just to ensure that you were going to provide.

And dude, you've obviously worked your balls off to be where you are. So when you when you do this first season, the Letterkenny, and I'd hope you'd be able to maybe explain more of what it's actually about and maybe the different the different characters in the show that are very important. And did you guys expect for it to blow up as much as it did?

Yeah, I mean, like you said, you know, it's a huge part of the success I think comes from where everyone was before the show started. You know, for the most part, like top cast, I think seven of us all played at least junior hockey. So we all sort of had that that makeup in, as you know. And then as far as the characters are concerned, again, we're all from small towns like I'm from Fort St.

James, B.C., bum fuck nowhere north of Prince. George Hersey's from Kingston, Ontario is from Listowel. Jaimie's from he's from the island. He's from a little town out there. And basically that the tribes in the show are people that we all we all knew growing up, you know, like from those small towns. You got the you got the hicks, the skids hockey players than it is the hardcore Christians or the the Mennonites. And I mean, so much of that just comes from reality.

And I think that's that's a huge reason why this show resonates with people, is because it feels like everyone kind of knows someone from Letterkenny, you know.

Yeah. For at least from what I what I hear of it. And I mean, so I was also digging for a little bit of information or so as the show got more and more popular, it won an award and you guys ended up going to award show. I'm not sure exactly what your wardrobe was, but you guys ended up getting to meet Dave Chappelle backstage. Yeah.

Yeah, we did. Yeah. Dave Chappelle, he was that it still is still so surreal. Like we buzzed backstage and there's Dave Chappelle and he walks up to Michelle, his place, Katy, and he goes, You guys, this show, you know, I can't do this.

I said, it's really funny. Good job. You know, like it's all he said. He is really funny. And I'm like, fuck boys. Like, we're good, we're done. Like, I can die happy. They should follow. This gave us the nod of approval. And then a couple of years later, we got the the Brad Pitt nod of approval. I know if you're seeing that, but he was on the hills at the Oscars.

Come on. I swear to God that he was at the Oscars and the Canadian talk show host walks up to him and goes, hey, can I get a quick question for Canada? He was for Canada. Yeah, anything. You bet you what's up he goes. You know, how do you feel about how do you feel about your movie being nominated for so many awards? You guys, I feel a lot better about the show Letterkenny and then Buzz's.

I'm just like, buddy, unbelievable.

And now now namedropping hard. So I'm going on. So on. But Ed Norton just fired us a thumbs up tweet. I'm on Twitter. They're saying that Letterkenny is one of the best shows he's seen. So that was pretty cool. And that came out of Steve Brill, who's the creator of The Mighty Ducks. Like he he actually was talking to one of the other producers on Madox. And when she had mentioned that that she knew me, I guess he got all stoked and was like, well, let's reach out to Dillon for Four Mighty Ducks.

So, I mean, we've got some pretty we've got fans in high places. I guess you could say it's it's wild. Yeah.

Let's get into the Mighty Ducks stuff. Mikey was to me up about it beforehand. So you're the next Gordon Bombay. You bet.

Coming in.

Coming in the clutch flying v DUI started off for what?

Started driving home a couple too many while the pops and. Yeah, no it's it's funny man. Actually it's a really cool, really cool setup. They go for it. So the ducks have become like a you know, like a 60 grand a year prep school and academy. So they're just a bunch of cake eaters. Yeah. Cake. Yeah it's exactly. Exactly. And and I've come in as the young stud coach on his way to the show, taken this development team all the way to the top.

And and I'm coaching against Bombay's squad of ragtag, ragtag boys. So it's it's so cool, man. Like the other day I was standing on the bench filming and I look over and there's a scene where I got a I got to shoot a I looked upon. In Bombay looks to me like we got to fuck you going on and I just do the hair shirt off like your old man, you grab a fork or a book girl, you know, this is Disney, this is Disney.

These ripped his mike off. We can't hear anything.

You said he's, you know. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it's cool, man. It's like obviously my brothers and I like we grew up on on the series. So it's it's so surreal, man. It's it's really cool.

That's with Disney. Yeah. Disney plus. Oh my God. Are you going to you're going to be like the next Hannah Montana we're gonna buy all.

Hey I mean fuck did I don't know if you know about it or not, but I did two musicals for Disney. I did The Descendants two and three. I played The Son of Gaston. I had to sing and dance and sing.

Can you sing for us? Like what was a line that you had to sing in the in the in the play or whatever flavor to get.

You ever heard of gang vocals. No. Yeah. It's literally just like you could sing gang vocals, you know, they could sing gang vocal. I'm a great singer. Yeah I bet you are. Yeah. I should get you on the next track literally.

Oh my thing is that I think literally I'm listed on iTunes is like one of the artists but my line is who am who I am. OK, thanks. You could leave this fucking studio, this loop that you get a credit for that.

And that's not singing is it. Tell me about it.

I know I'm still shocked. Every time I see my name, I could do it. You've motivated me like what's his name? The guy from Friday Night Lights motivated you to act? Yeah, I could sing. Christ, Jesus.

What else do we got to talk about here?

Well, you're almost the coach.

Oh, OK. So, yeah, I'll explain that whole back story. I know that I got asked at two points. Well actually sorry. That was the first I've heard of it then. The other one was when I was going to come in is just like hockey player who was doing blow. And I got asked to do like a little pop up scene in Letterkenny and I asked the coyotes and that was my first year in media. And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, they're asking me to do the show.

And like, I'm ripping rails and they're like, maybe not. Yeah, maybe.

Maybe if we have you not ripping real, maybe that'll be cool. Maybe.

And I'm like, but I've been trained for this my whole life. For this moment. You don't get it. I'll bring authenticity to the role.

I be like Daniel Day Lewis in that role if I can get the plate ready.

Yeah, right. For for a committed character actor. Yeah that was funny. So like I said, like in the early stages, it was really just kind of Jared and and his buddies and that was really the whole sort of Nicolelis of the show. And I was right around the time, like, yeah, like you said, you just started working for the votes. But I mean, I've been following your your Twitter for a long, long time.

I always thought you're like my my spirit animal of hockey players as fuck.

If only I was a little bit, but if I was a little bit less garbage I would have been there. I was I'd fight anyone who asked me, which is almost to a fault. They got the wheels beat off me a couple of times. But you know, you don't ask how you ask how many. And and I, you know, go up against some some pretty big boys. And every now and then I get a little guy, get five minutes with him and keep my ego up.

But anyway, I digress into the end of the Tillie talk about you. So I was pitching you hard. I'm like, fuck, this would be the funniest hockey coach. I think it would fit the vibe really well. And this was around the time they were there are filling out the cast. And I guess they they got an audition from Mark Forward who is obviously the hockey coach now. And he's he's hilarious. He's like one of the funniest guys I've ever met in my entire life.

So I think it worked out really well. Obviously, your your career is in in a very healthy place here with respect and checklists in the OS and whatnot. But they circle back and tried to get in as the as the hockey player. But I think the U.S. put the kibosh on it.

I would have got canned after one week because I can't memorize lines. That's like the hardest thing to me that I can't even read ad reads on this podcast, let alone get through the memorization process of it.

I'd have to have a teleprompter set up the entire time I get the back of the queue. Yeah.

Great Segway to ask you about the Magic Mike. I suppose that's the next Magic Mike. Yeah, what about the next magic wall? This was to say you're a great dancer. Oh, yeah. Oh no, I am a great dancer.

I'll send you some links from from Descendants two and three. I got this move down called the Crocodile, which I think they actually named after me. It's a very seductive maneuver where you start standing and you go to a push up position, but your hips stay above your head and then you slide back up and you move like a crocodile. It's very erotic, very, very sensual, very much.

Make sure you put your name in the hat for the next role for that for that movie you were going to say.

Do I think it's do I know? And yes. Oh, yes, I know. I could.

Yeah. And I put my name on that for sure.

Yes. And Channing Tatum. Well, I guess is there anything else you wanted to mention that I didn't bring up in on your behalf to Boris, that you could do some coaching with Tavaris?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. You hear this story? This is this is so funny. OK, so long story short, a short story long, I guess. I look at it. I'm out and we're in Sudbury and I grew up with the Filipinos. They're really close with my cousins out in Buffalo, Larry Playfair and Mike and Dennis and Gena and and they all live out there and and they grew up with the Folino. So Filipinos have this this charity hockey tournament in Sudbury where they invite out a bunch of NHL guys and raise a ton of money for the children's hospital out there.

And he asked my dad if the boys said Letterkenny would come out to celebrity coaches. Now, this was in between the time my dad was with the Yats and the the Oilers. So I completely unplug from hockey like I was wasn't I unfollowed the Twitter feeds like I wasn't. I deleted the score app off my phone. I just was not into hockey. I was a little bit disillusioned. I kind of get into it and Jimmy's coaching him and he's not.

I'm pretty well focused on on my own stuff. So this is during the Tavaris transition from New York to Toronto, which is like one of the biggest hockey controversies that have happened in a long time, completely over my head. So he's one of the other celebrity coaches because he it is he hurt his knee and training camp or whatever training or I don't know why he wasn't playing, but he was he was standing right next to me. And I'm sitting there hands in my pocket locker trying to make conversation.

Chair sat next to and I look over and I swear to God I got. So, John, when when you heading back to New York? For training camp, it just looks for it doesn't even look if it keeps looking for it, he goes, I'm going to Toronto for training camp.

Oh, and the boys on the bench must have thought that I was playing like like a three level of the game because they said, I can laugh and they're like, this kid just take a shot right over the bow. And Jerry's laughing because he knows he's like, this sounds like you're, you know, a high level master. And after the game, he's like, That was hilarious, man. Like, I can't believe you have the balls to say that.

I'm like Jared.

The worst part is I wasn't even digging on him. I just completely missed the last two years of hockey comp..

So, yeah, like did you apologize for on the spot or a dude?

I didn't even like I didn't even let it sink in. And so because the boys started to laugh and I'm like, I must have said something funny. And so, I mean, if feels listen, sorry, John, I wrote an absolute dagar.

Yeah. Yeah, right. Exactly.

Well, I'm sure someone will tell him now and he won't hate your guts that much.

So yeah. This is pretty funny I think. I think Jared still believes it to be one of the one of the best trips of all time. But I don't know man. Take me out for a while.

Pretty funny though buddy. Congratulations on all your success. Season nine is is coming out of Letterkenny.

You can find it where Letterkenny is on Hulu. Did another movie recently in New York. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it. Odd man Rush. That's on Amazon and iTunes.

And yeah, Mighty Ducks is coming out on Disney plus. So you can catch me playing hockey better than I ever played before on TV.

That odd man rushes with Cologne's buddy, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Exactly.

Pholcodine also. Good luck on all your other endeavors. I know you're a big Disney star now. Just don't don't end up going crazy like some of these kids. Do not let it go to your head.

Yeah, I got I got Jimmy to keep me on the straight and narrow. He's got many more sticks or those other ones came from.

And actually there's actually one more thing I got to bring up. Somebody told me that you have this shooting, the story where I've done it a few times. We've talked about shooting Cindy. I'm pretty sure a lot of people on this podcast are down with the ship stories. I got to hear what happened to you in the situation.

Yeah. So I have my own unique experience with shooting of the pants, and it starts with sobriety, actually.

So I am taking a month off drinking and doing sober October and I buy a six pack of kombucha. You go to this party. I didn't know this at the time. I know now kombucha, when drank in excess, serves as a laxative like a really effective laxative. So I get a six pack of Cambridge. I go to my buddy's party, I drink it all nights young. I'm like, OK, this sober October is overrated. Let's let's get into one.

So, you know, we're about twelve hours into in October and I've already fallen off the wagon, end up getting into one. The next day I'm meeting my buddies and we're going out to my house cabin on the island for the long weekend and we get on the ferry. So I live in Vancouver, we're going to Vancouver Island and it's like a two hour ferry.

What a beautiful ride that is. We got to hop in there. It is gorgeous. Anyone who goes to Vancouver, I recommend if you're going over the island, take that ferry out to Wassan, correct? That's right. Yeah, it's beautiful.

It's beautiful. The bathrooms are you know, the stalls are floor to ceiling, so you can't see who's in the stall. That's a that's a tidbit you're going to want to have as the story progresses, so the boys go to the top deck and they're going to get a breath of fresh air. And I'm walking up the stairs and I and I have what completely disguises itself as a normal sized human fart. And let me tell you this. When I when I release the floodgates on this one, it wasn't a little squeaker.

It was by the time it was done, I didn't even need to go to the bathroom anymore. I just needed to throw out what I was wearing because it was a complete evacuation of.

It was like, well, I couldn't have filled up like a seven hundred and fifty milliliter bottle, one hundred percent or 100 percent.

And it consistency like like a frosty. Just horrendous. Oh my God.

So I'm like, you couldn't stop it. Like it was like Bush gone. Oh it was.

As long as long as it takes to fart like one good one. That was the amount of time it took to fill up the underwear that I was wearing like to the teeth. So I got my hands in my pocket so I can grab the edges of my boxers to keep this from going down into my shoes. Like that's how bad it is. Like this is. I'm not even embarrassed. I'm laughing. I'm like, this is this is a sneak attack.

Like, no. And no one could have prepared themselves for this this event. SEAL Team six, seven of the choppers are landing on the ferry.

This is like this is a full, full operation. So I'm like, boys, you got it. You got to wait for me here. Like, I'll be back. But you got it. You got to wait for me. I'm going to need to aroud after this. Like, hang tight. So mind you, this is the early morning ferry. This is seven a.m. This is like this is starting your day. So I waddle downstairs and I go and I see the first bathroom I see is is the family bathroom, is the handicapped bathroom, whatever, you know.

So I open the door and I walk in and in this particular bathroom on this particular ferry, you walk in and there's like a floor to ceiling door on the one stall and a little sink. So you can't see who's in the stall. I thought it was empty. And I walk in and I swear to God, there are there are two guys in the store. And I'm in there long enough to know what they're doing, and they're they're fornicating, they're making love at seven a.m. in a bathroom stall on the ferry.

Mind you, I've just fully shit myself. So I'm thinking I have two choices to make. Either I stay here and deal with this. Then they come out and we all deal with it or I bite the bullet. I go aside and wait until they're done. And then I go back in and I swear to God, my opinion on the spot would have been like, they can deal with this.

They're fucking in a bathroom, whatever. It's all going to get weird. Let's enjoy the party. My thinking it's about to get weird.

And in hindsight, maybe I should have went with this, but I thought, well, they were here first. You know, I'll I'll let them finish up and I'll and I'll loop back once they're gone because there's no one else on the ferry. Like, I'll, I'll just go in and hover over the seat because I'm not sitting in it. I'm literally hovering. So I'm sitting. I wait.

In the benches and there's a lady two seats up for me, the only other person that I can see on the ferry, and she's in her. Late 70s, maybe, and she's sleeping and this is where it gets crazy, because I smell shit, not my shit, I can smell my shit, I know that I know my own smell. But there's a new one. And this poor woman wakes up from what must have been a nightmare and turns around and looks at me.

And I know in that moment that she's just shit herself. Because she just shit herself in her sleep and she gets up and now I have another choice to make. Am I going to lean over my seat and go, listen, lady, I know you don't know me and I don't know you. And this is crazy because it's daddy and you shit yourself. I shit myself also. But guess what? The same bathroom that you're about to walk into because I know that's where you're going, because that's where I just fucking went in that bathroom.

There are two guys bolted in the fucking store and it's going to shake you because it shook me and I can't yell that at her. She's like, she's this shook cause I was on.

You're taking the gamble that she didn't actually shoot herself and maybe it was just a fart. Maybe it's about right.

So she gets up and she was so I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a fart and she got us into the same bathroom that I just wanted out of. It takes the same amount of time to recognize that I recognized turns around and walks out. I look at her, she looks at me. We both have this understanding of like, this is shit. This is just shit everywhere. So she fucking she doesn't decide to wait. She's going to find another shoe on her way to the other side of the ship.

And these two guys come out and they're having a great time. They're fucking grinning ear to ear. They had a phenomenal morning.

They're like all the swipes on yeah they have their room. And so I saw and you said that. So I will in there, I fucking throw these shorts into the trash. They're gone forever. They're done. Lock the door to see that these guys had not paid. The rest of the patrons on the boat cleaned myself up. Mind you, this is all about a forty five minute endeavor. So by the time we get there, it's a while.

I just sat in that year and all the rest of the trip I thought about how long it would take to swim back to Vancouver, but I was in the middle of the Georgia straight ahead. I had to commit to the boat. So by the time I get back to the top of the shit, my buddies are like, where the hell have you been, dude? Like, it's been an hour. I just tell my boys. When I say this, I mean, you will not believe the shit that I have just been through.

Yeah, yeah. There you go. There's the punch line. And there's the punch line. Dismount. Great dismount. Dylan, that's that's fucked up, dude. I only, like, did a little one on my paper out. One might have been a little bit bigger. Not bigger than yours. Bigger than my my one recently at the airport. But that is that's fucking gross. I would imagine we've lost half of our listeners by the time you got to the fact when it came out.

But a great story. And thank you very much for joining us. Best of luck with Letterkenny and everything else you got going, buddy.

My pleasure. Glad to share it with you boys, Chase. Thanks so much, Dylan, for sitting down with this, that's some good stuff, and if you haven't seen it yet, Letterkenny is currently streaming on Hulu here in the States.

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Well, the world woke up to some shitty news Sunday morning as we all found out that Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek succumbed to pancreatic cancer a year and a half after making his diagnosis public. Alex, of course, was a proud son of Canada that I think Americans sort of adopted via their TVs for the last 36 years. I remember being a 12 year old kid in jeopardy, returned to the airwaves and I was hooked from the jump. He was always a genial fellow, occasionally a mild ballbuster.

But Trebeck was a stranger. He felt like an old pal or a beloved uncle every time he tuned in, as Alex was also a huge hockey fan. And his surprise appearance at this year's draft made auto a selection, the highlight of the draft. I think because everybody knew what kind of shape he was in and the fact that he could do it and you didn't know he was sick unless you were aware otherwise.

Trebek also continued to work after his diagnosis. He was a model of grace and class as cancer ravaged his body. I mean, everybody was watching him every night and just astounded that not only he was still working, but still doing at the high level, he said so long ago. So, you know what have been so much easier for him to just stop work. And he was in his late 70s, you could have said, hey, I'm done.

But he kept doing it. And I'm sure he did it for himself and his family. But he also did it to everybody who fell in love with Jeopardy, the millions and millions of us around the world. And I know I was 80 years old, but I never saw so many people moved by a fellow passing away on Twitter. It's usually someone has something pissy to say, but that didn't happen with Alex. It just such a huge loss for everybody with terribly sad that to see him go Jeopardy was what Alex Trebek did.

And he did it expertly up until two weeks before his death. They are going to run his final episodes. They're going to stop on December 25th for those of you who do watch and appreciate the show.

So on behalf of everybody here, it's because we just want to say thank you, Alex, for doing what he did on personally for comfort and a 12 year old kid via trivia when I needed it, and also for being a model of excellence for the next three and a half decades. So, again, from everybody here, it's built checklists. We send our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Alex Trebek.

He's a legend, no doubt about that.

I did mention the holidays and the holidays are just around the corner and we're going to be dropping some new ugly Christmas sweaters. Gee, what do people have look forward to this year?

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Nice looking forward to these. These are the only sweaters I wear. I'm not much of a sweater guy, but when they're ugly sweaters for Bastille and chocolates, I'm all over them, so. All right, everybody. Well, that's going to wrap up this episode.

Hopefully you enjoy it. And we'll be back in a week with a couple more interviews for you. Have a great week.

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