Hey there, Drinks and Things family, we're back with another laughter-filled episode! Remember that time we went to a Jonas Brothers concert? Relive that experience with us as we reminisce about a recent market visit and how our music preferences have evolved over the years. Let's talk about Panic at the Disco and their incredible evolution as a band. What's your take on it?
We've got some hilarious anecdotes up our sleeves. Ever heard about a cat that snores and sneezes in people's faces while they sleep? We'll fill you in. And how about painting the toenails of newborn triplets to tell them apart? We may also touch upon something that's been bothering us – student loans. Even as we navigate these life complexities, we've found solace in therapy sessions. And oh, did we mention our light-hearted plan to have our future kids born in Manitoba? Sounds crazy, right?
Now, let's switch to the hockey rink. It's been a roller-coaster ride for the Edmonton Oilers and we've got a lot to say about it. We're also discussing our preference for the Calgary Flames during the regular season. And we've got some thoughts on the Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets. Despite the ups and downs, we're placing our bets on Connor McDavid as a strong contender for the MVP. What's your prediction? Tune in for all this and more on episode 37 of Drinks and Things. Grab your Vizzy lemonade, sit back and enjoy the ride!
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Hey there, Drinks and Things family, we're back with another laughter-filled episode! Remember that time we went to a Jonas Brothers concert? Relive that experience with us as we reminisce about a recent market visit and how our music preferences have evolved over the years. Let's talk about Panic at the Disco and their incredible evolution as a band. What's your take on it?
We've got some hilarious anecdotes up our sleeves. Ever heard about a cat that snores and sneezes in people's faces while they sleep? We'll fill you in. And how about painting the toenails of newborn triplets to tell them apart? We may also touch upon something that's been bothering us – student loans. Even as we navigate these life complexities, we've found solace in therapy sessions. And oh, did we mention our light-hearted plan to have our future kids born in Manitoba? Sounds crazy, right?
Now, let's switch to the hockey rink. It's been a roller-coaster ride for the Edmonton Oilers and we've got a lot to say about it. We're also discussing our preference for the Calgary Flames during the regular season. And we've got some thoughts on the Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets. Despite the ups and downs, we're placing our bets on Connor McDavid as a strong contender for the MVP. What's your prediction? Tune in for all this and more on episode 37 of Drinks and Things. Grab your Vizzy lemonade, sit back and enjoy the ride!
https://linktr.ee/DrinksandThings
We also have a buymeacoffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/drinksnthings
Music in intro/outro by Skilsel on Pixabay
Hello and welcome to episode 37 of Drinks and Things.
Speaker 2:A podcast where we drink and talk about things.
Speaker 1:I'm Leisha.
Speaker 2:And I'm Carver.
Speaker 1:What are you drinking, carver?
Speaker 2:I'm drinking a Vizie lemonade. Leisha, what are you drinking?
Speaker 1:I am also drinking a Vizie lemonade, but ours are different. Mine is a watermelon.
Speaker 2:Mine is raspberry. I don't need to tell you what it's like because I already know it's good. Yeah, it's ready. Three of these like 45 times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're pretty good. Wow Hi, it's been a while.
Speaker 2:It's been a good while.
Speaker 1:Sorry, my life fell apart because of me.
Speaker 2:Is that what happened I?
Speaker 1:don't know. I feel like that's what happened, but that's just because I had a breakdown recently.
Speaker 2:No, you just did like massive, this massive, what's it called? What's the word Market? And you were like just going ham sauce on that all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And we made a decision We'll just hold off on the podcast for now. You need to do this because it was like a big market you were going to.
Speaker 1:I saw about a thousand people.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Like over the course of the weekend, and it was a lot, so I was going pretty hard on making things like Christmas cards and paintings and trying not to lose my fucking mind, so we kind of took a little break.
Speaker 2:We're like half ass streaming at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're just doing not a lot. The main reason that we didn't release an episode the last time like the very first time that we missed an episode because we had to suddenly go to Kamloops- that's true. And then we're like, oh, oops.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had to go rescue my brother with his truck because he knows nothing about vehicles, but that's okay, because I can make him come here and work on our house next.
Speaker 1:Well, car is in your name, yeah yeah. So we had to go to Kamloops. We'll just give you like a recap of the last couple of months of our lives. We had to go to Kamloops and then we and you did a market, I did a market. I did a market. I went to the city for like a week and I hated every minute of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you went to the Jonas Brothers.
Speaker 1:And I did go to the Jonas Brothers. I had to leave about 20 minutes before the concert got out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys are having a rough time. After a while I was like chilling in the hotel room just by myself vibing, and you're like come and get me. And I'm like I'm not ready yet, I'm not done laying down and doing nothing yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I felt so sick and just like being in the room, like you could not hear the Jonas Brothers saying over the screams.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I said that was a pretty awful concert for that.
Speaker 1:It was like it was a good concert. They're good.
Speaker 2:Well it's. The problem was not the artist, yeah, the environment, it was the fans. That's what I understand.
Speaker 1:The environment was just like not not Gucci you said, all you could hear is just screaming girls. And the girl beside me knew every single word to every single song, even songs I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've never been like a Jonas Brothers mega fan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was not a mega fan.
Speaker 2:I was just like, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, I'm going to marry.
Speaker 2:Nick, you were never like breathe and sleep. Jonas Brothers, you've never been that kind of that kind Like I am with Fallow Boy yeah. That's exactly what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like I am with Fallow Boy City and Color and Hail Store you know, now that I think about it.
Speaker 2:I don't remember you listening to Jonas Brothers at all.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:When we were like in high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's because I didn't have an iPod, I didn't have my own library.
Speaker 2:Remember, I got that iPod that you listened to and I told you to tell me what you wanted and I put everything you told me that you wanted on there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the thing is, and you never want to ask me for Jonas Brothers. Okay, because I was too embarrassed to say that I like the Jonas Brothers, because I was too cool for that.
Speaker 2:Oh it was, you were a punk girl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you weren't. I wanted to impress you by, like, not putting the Jonas Brothers on there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you listen to other music. I hate like fucking Panic at the Disco.
Speaker 1:Panic at the Disco is not that bad.
Speaker 2:I hate Panic at the Disco. You know that song about closing the door.
Speaker 1:I never played that song around you.
Speaker 2:You played it every day when we were in high school. You played it every day, I know, but I don't play it and I hated it so much I don't play it around you anymore. Good.
Speaker 1:I actively avoid that song.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you. But yeah, like that is probably one of my least favorite songs of all time. When I hear it, I see red. I hate that song.
Speaker 1:To be fair, I don't even like that song anymore.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of songs you listened to and they were fine. Other songs you listened to just as much and they were fine. It's just that song in particular. I hate it. I hate it so much.
Speaker 1:But to be fair, I don't listen to it much anymore on my own.
Speaker 2:I don't think you listen to that song. You listen to some Panic at the Disco but it's not that awful song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's like their newer stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not that awful terrible.
Speaker 1:It's now more like less absurd.
Speaker 2:Well, it makes real music now. It doesn't make quirky music for fucking Tumblr users.
Speaker 1:He makes real music. That's what I mean. It's like it's different now. It's not as absurd. Half the shit that they said in their pretty odd album.
Speaker 2:The issue wasn't that it was absurd. The issue is that it sucked. Okay, because follow up boys.
Speaker 1:just as absurd, followboy wasn't just a favorite and their music doesn't suck. Followboy has a song that it said. Our lawyer told us to change the name of this song so that we don't get sued.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's not that. It was absurd. It said it sucked and his music doesn't suck anymore.
Speaker 1:Although, okay, what is the longest title of a song you can remember?
Speaker 2:It's coming to mind as like the devil went down to Georgia.
Speaker 1:Do you want to hear mine? No, sure. You be the anchor that keeps my feet on the ground and I'll be the wings that keep your heart in the clouds.
Speaker 2:Not as long as I thought it would be Do you know who it's by. Who.
Speaker 1:Mayday Parade.
Speaker 2:Mayday Parade was okay.
Speaker 1:Mayday Parade was. No, you hated them, did I? Yeah, your like. His voice gives me a headache.
Speaker 2:Who is the? Am I thinking of a different band?
Speaker 1:I think you think you give a different band.
Speaker 2:I think I am. I'm thinking of, not Mayday Parade. Who's that other one? Fuck, now I gotta look it up. It's on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 1:Mayday Parade City in color.
Speaker 2:No, no, there's not who I'm thinking. It's another pop punk band.
Speaker 1:Oh, Maroon 5?.
Speaker 2:No, all time low.
Speaker 1:Ew.
Speaker 2:That's something.
Speaker 1:I don't listen to them anymore.
Speaker 2:I don't think you never really listen to them. Back then you listen to the one song. Yeah, and it is an all right song.
Speaker 1:The Backseat Serenade one the like Backseat Serenade.
Speaker 2:No, not that one.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's the only one I know. Ah, we're googling things friends.
Speaker 2:Favorite drive. No, that's not what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1:Favorite drive.
Speaker 2:Karate High School no.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what Karate High School is.
Speaker 2:I mean either Jimmy Eat World is that a pop punk band? Yes, huh, I thought they were just like a normal alternative band.
Speaker 1:I don't know, could be a lot of things.
Speaker 2:I just know that they were on a lot of NHL soundtracks back in the day.
Speaker 1:I like Jimmy Eat World, except for they're considered classic rock now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they play them on classic rock stations.
Speaker 1:That and like, like in Park, like in.
Speaker 2:Park. Well, every band that's that old is now classic rock. That's the truth.
Speaker 1:Makes you feel old, don't it? Anyway, I went to the Jones Brothers. I slept over at my friend's house. He has a cat. I suffered because the cat liked to sleep near my face.
Speaker 2:And you and cats don't get along on a biological level.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm so allergic it's not even funny. Like I love cats, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2:And Boris, that's probably why we don't have one. If you weren't allergic, we would.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like Boris is an angel. He is such a sweet kitty, but my body physically rejects cats, so no cats. So no cats I like. I have to like pop so many anti histamines to just be able to breathe normally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Boris is one of those cats. That's like I'm asleep on your face now.
Speaker 1:Like Zelda, when I, when I babysat for one of my friend's cats, the cat just literally like to sleep right here. That was their spot. It was like right above your head when you're sleeping.
Speaker 2:So it's like the spot for half of cats I've noticed.
Speaker 1:And I like don't enjoy that because, like as much as I love Zelda, I was just like, can you please know what? My aunt had a cat snored.
Speaker 2:My aunt had a cat named I think it was Monty, and she lived on a farm, so all the cats were outside except for this one cat, because it had. It had some kind of problem breathing, like it was always stuffed up, like he always had, like you know, boogers hanging out of his nose. He's like, he's like. He's like that, that little fucking kid in Wind Waker running around with the big bubble hanging out of his nose. You pretty much you probably don't know who I'm talking about, but people who know will know.
Speaker 2:Anyway, that's, that was the cat. And what it would do is when you were over there sleeping at her house, and if you were the one on the couch, it would like, like, as you're sleeping, it would just get right up in your face like sleep on your chest, okay, whatever, but it would like look at you and like what and like. This never happened to me, it happened to, I think, my brother. It was just looking at him and he wakes up and it just fucking sneezes in his face. And it's just cats, not all over.
Speaker 1:Is this the one that's allergic to cats?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. I don't think he ever stayed at my auntie's house because of the cat.
Speaker 1:Oh, because one of Carver's brothers and I have the same problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, except he's way more allergic than you.
Speaker 1:I know and I'm pretty bad.
Speaker 2:Like he will die. If he's around a cat for more than a few hours, it's pretty bad. And I'm pretty bad that's but he yeah, well, he has asthma too. That's the thing. He's allergic and he has asthma. So that's probably the big difference.
Speaker 1:I don't have asthma. Yeah, exactly, but my lungs are not full of cobwebs.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what I imagine asthma feels like.
Speaker 2:Probably, probably.
Speaker 1:So I had this market. I slept over at a friend's house. That was a lovely. I got to hold two out of the three girls that my best friend had. I cried. They literally shoved a baby in my arms less than two minutes into coming to see me at the market and I was like sitting there just like they're like here you go, and I'm like sitting there holding the baby and I was just like like. I immediately texted Carver I want babies.
Speaker 1:I'm just like I know gave me such bad baby fever. Oh my god.
Speaker 2:And you go to her house and she's like she's like my life, yeah, which you can't really blame her with fucking triplets.
Speaker 1:I get snapchats all the time of all three of them just screaming their faces off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because she's. You know, she's there alone because her husband is working.
Speaker 1:They have a nanny.
Speaker 2:Oh, do they? Oh, I was under the impression she was always alone with them.
Speaker 1:No, no, they take shifts and the nanny fills in the gap.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Gotcha Makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently, she's very lovely.
Speaker 2:I'd hope so. Yes, I wouldn't the girls, I wouldn't you know, pay for a sour, oh and I found out.
Speaker 1:It's so cute. My best friend paints their toes so they can tell them apart. So people who don't spend a lot of time with them can tell them apart.
Speaker 2:Makes sense Because they can tell them apart, no problem, I mean you could just like mark, you know, an O on one with some Sharpie and X on the other one's forehead and then a check mark on the other one's forehead.
Speaker 1:But that's more cute, I guess. Yeah, she just paints their little tiny toenails and they're so cute. They have small feets.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, they're babies.
Speaker 1:I had my last market today of the year. Of the day Of the year.
Speaker 2:Of the entire year.
Speaker 1:Of the entire year.
Speaker 2:This is the last, and that's not just a joke till the end of December oh yeah, it's a year. No, like you actually don't have a market now until Until the next time Like. May or something right. Yeah, that's when they start up again.
Speaker 1:They started like April, april, mayish, so I don't have another market planned for a while. I tried and failed multiple times to get to school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, student loans suck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, student loans suck, bureaucracy sucks, fuck the system.
Speaker 2:And now we're. Now you're just going to get like a job.
Speaker 1:Now I have to get another job.
Speaker 2:Thanks, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna try and pay as many bills as I can. You're just gonna save like over half of what you make. That's how you're gonna pay for school now, because student loans aren't gonna fucking work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, apparently. Oh, I'm also gonna try to get my MET card. I've been going to therapy. Anyway, my therapist and I are working on it, because my therapist is not pressuring me into doing it, because I will not do it if people continue to pressure me into it. I mean, it's a it's a matter of okay. This is the reason my therapist and I are doing it is because it's a matter of my perception of my identity.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So if I'm being pressured into getting my my card, um, it's like they're pressuring me into the culture that I'm not ready to be a part of yet, you know.
Speaker 2:I just don't understand how your brain works sometimes.
Speaker 1:My brain sucks.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't, I don't get your logic at all, to be honest with you, but you know what I'll let you have that do it when you need to do it. I don't really care, but do what you need to do, I don't think our kids can ever get one yeah. We'll go to Manitoba before they're born. It'll be fine, have them born in Manitoba Hospital and they'll have all the special Manitoba rights, which will mean nothing when we come back here. But that's okay.
Speaker 1:I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2:No, it's a stupid fucking idea.
Speaker 1:But just like honey, I'm in labor. Cool, we need to fly to Manitoba let's go.
Speaker 2:We're gonna go fucking hard.
Speaker 1:Just ask your boss to borrow his plane.
Speaker 2:His plane wouldn't make it.
Speaker 1:We need to get like uh uh, helicopter to Edmonton and a plane we need to plan when this baby will be born, so that we're at we're in Manitoba at the time, because you know this baby as if we're pregnant. We're not pregnant. This isn't our way of telling you. I promise it will be our way of telling you when it happens, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're gonna be as like cryptic as possible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're just. It's gonna be cryptic, it's gonna be on our podcast, so that only people who listen to our podcast know that we're pregnant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1:We won't tell anybody else. Anyway, we're gonna be in Winnipeg.
Speaker 2:What? Why were you in Winnipeg I?
Speaker 1:don't know if that's the closest airport that I can think of.
Speaker 2:I have Brandon. Probably I'd rather go to Brandon Anyway.
Speaker 1:I've done a lot of art. I got a sunlight lamp because the sunshine goes away way too fast. This has been 20 minutes of us having like fun. I feel like we're talking to like people that like we haven't talked to in forever and we're just trying to catch up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah. Sorry, we're being so laid back and stuff like it's why it's been a week.
Speaker 2:Why do you think they care?
Speaker 1:They didn't care, they wouldn't be listening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I'm not sorry at all, to be clear. I'm not sorry, alicia, I'm not.
Speaker 1:Life has been fun lately yes. I had a mental breakdown over my lizard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 1:My friends are concerned.
Speaker 2:That was really fucking weird.
Speaker 1:My friends think I should go on a stress leave.
Speaker 2:From what I don't know. I don't know how you could go on a stress leave because you barely work.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:Guess just just hang out and be a hermit who do nothing. Is that your stress? Leave I guess. So hanging out in my terrarium with my how is your routine even change At this point?
Speaker 1:You just hang out with my daylight lamp in my little terrarium of a room actually, you know what that might help, because we just got your daylight lamp. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So maybe that'll help. I Also made you go on a walk with me. Well, the Sun was out, so that should help too. Sun is not anymore. It goes down at like 430 Sucks. It's not even the shortest day of the year.
Speaker 1:It's not even the shortest day of the year, yet.
Speaker 2:We've got 10 more days, of days getting shorter not even. No, it's more than that.
Speaker 1:It's 12.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's more than 10. You got 12 more days of this 11, 12, something like that. It's more than 20 first, and what's day the ninth? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 12 days I. Could do math 12 more days of Days getting shorter.
Speaker 1:Shorter, and then after that we're over the hump.
Speaker 2:By the way, the Sun doesn't come up until like 830 either, so it's like up at 830, down at 430 not even. That's about right. It's like 420 now it will be 420 by like the 21st of December I.
Speaker 1:Wonder what time the sunset today? It is currently negative five, that's not sunset was at 435 this afternoon.
Speaker 2:Hooray.
Speaker 1:And it is pretty much a new moon new moon it's like I like new moon Ewwoo, ewwoo. It's at illumination 10%.
Speaker 2:What the fuck does that mean? It's only illuminated 10% oh, like the amount that you can actually see. Yeah, oh, gotcha yeah you know, it's funny when you can see the moon in the day, it's always a full moon.
Speaker 1:That's a lie. I've seen it cross it man. I haven't, I have. Then again, I pay attention to the moon more than you do. It's funny, because you don't even know where the moon is. Half the time I'm like, hey, look at the moon and you're like looking like over here, like the moon will be in front of your face and you'll be like looking behind you.
Speaker 2:I just look at it and I'm like what do you want, moon, go away, go home.
Speaker 1:Oh, I need to be here right now. What happened for you oh. Well, that's basically my life.
Speaker 2:Well, I've been going to work and playing hockey and that's more or less what's been happening. I was, I was working on my motorcycle when you came down. You're like we have to record and I was like okay, so I got on this hockey team. The team I was on last year is defunct at least it is for this year is. Is disbanded disbanded so I was like in a scramble to find another team.
Speaker 1:When your cousin messages you like which one it was a joke like oh.
Speaker 2:I, I would have gotten that if we weren't recording, but because he said that was like what, I threw me off anyway, yeah. So I joined the team and when I joined the team, they're like oh, you have to be okay with sharing the crease with a couple other guys. And I was like, yeah, that's all right, just don't make me play out. And he was like okay, and then I play my first game and I'm thinking, okay, well, I've got a, you know, I'll share now. And like no one else wants to play now. And Then, like a couple of games ago, I was like so when do I have to? Like let someone else play? And they're like, oh, you're just our full-time goalie now. We're not, we're not fucking playing, those fucking dumbasses now. But I guess those other guys like they play out to and goalie, they basically just swapped it out whenever. But yeah, I guess everyone's just decided hey, no, let carver take the net like somebody who's you know Capable Fucking.
Speaker 1:Do this shit.
Speaker 2:Well, someone who doesn't full-time, so I'm now the full-time goalie full-time goalie. And the team is called the moose moose. And it also appears that the If I'm still on this team, next year I'm gonna order a jersey with my name on it, which is cool.
Speaker 1:Ooh, instead of what is it now Appleton?
Speaker 2:No, appleton is a player on the Winnipeg Jets. Yeah, but yours says something similar says Applebee, although my other one's just a generic one without a name on it, so I prefer when we wear that one. We have a white and a blue Anyway. Anyway it's also cool because, like the new pads I got last year were blue and now my team like matches it.
Speaker 2:Really hot and I'm like huh, never had matching pads with the team before, so I'm so you know that's an advantage of the team I'm on now and We've so far managed to tie one game.
Speaker 1:I know you guys are so great I.
Speaker 2:Think the only reason that game was tied is cuz like none of our really good players showed up for it. Like Our best goal scorer currently has issues, like he needs surgery or something, so he's understandably not able to play, and we're like seriously missing him because he's, like you know, really good at scoring goals and we just can't get any goals right now. But the tie was one one.
Speaker 1:Have you won games yet?
Speaker 2:No, not yet. Not yet, I'm sure we will. We have to win at least one or two games this year, though, because, like, when the team shows up and the Good guys show up, show up, the team is good. It's just the only time that those guys have showed up We've been also playing against like the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1:Keep in mind, this is beer league.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a shit show either way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, in Edmundton there's actually like a, b and C beer leagues and shit, like there's some pretty sick beer leagues in Edmundton Anyway.
Speaker 1:Speaking of hockey. That's what we came here to talk to y'all about yes, that's what the episode's about 28 minutes in oops.
Speaker 2:It's. We needed another topic as well, and I guess we filled in the time anyway, so let's go.
Speaker 1:All right? Um, okay, so the Oilers are doing better than they were.
Speaker 2:Oh, fuck the Oiler. Okay, the Oilers is like a tale of two teams this year, like it was so painful, it was so bad.
Speaker 1:They lose, was it?
Speaker 2:8-1 against Vancouver in the first game and it's like, well, that kind of sucks, okay. And then the second game, they lose again, although they they like heavily outplay Vancouver. But Vancouver's backup goalie becomes fucking Patrick Waugh Per a game although he's been pretty good, I guess and then they just lose, and they lose, and they lose, and they lose, and then, and at one point I'm like, why do I even fucking watch this team right now?
Speaker 1:Everyone said the both me and my sister are like damn, we're gonna have to start cheering for another team.
Speaker 2:Well, well, that's where the other half of this comes in, because now, now, like my favorite team is the Jets, not necessarily the Oilers, so I was. I was watching Jets games as well, and the Jets have actually been really fucking good this year. Oh like One of the best teams in the league levels of good, which is pretty amazing considering what was happening last year, when the whole team was imploding after the playoff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when the whole team basically just fucked off.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, last year Winnipeg had an issue with a lot of guys who like did not want to play in Winnipeg and it had seriously like affected the team's culture and really it's I don't know. It's like uh, like the team chemistry was all off and they kind of yeah, they weren't that great, but then they got rid of all the guys like Blake Wheeler and Pierre-Luc Dubois who wanted to, who wanted out of Winnipeg, got some pretty good returns for them. And this year they're like fuck, they're pretty good, like uh, like I said, one of the best teams in the league right now, the second best team in Canada, although I'm guessing they're probably going to overtake Vancouver at some point, because Vancouver slowed down a lot and they beat Colorado last night, which is like a pretty big deal, because Colorado is like a pretty dangerous team.
Speaker 1:So I was like I don't know, I don't watch most of the games because hockey just stresses me out. Yeah, um, I get way too into it, you're way too attached, and it just I just get disappointed, it disappointed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because every time I seem to watch a Noether's game, uh, they lose. I've stopped watching.
Speaker 2:Well, losing is one thing. The way Edmonton was losing at the beginning, though, was like so pathetic, like they just like the goalies couldn't save shit, they couldn't score, they, they, they start losing the game and they just lay down and die. You know that's what would happen. Oh my God, david and dry sidle were like Casper the friendly ghosts they're. You'd watch it and there'd be so many like Edmonton would have so many great A chances and they'd fucking miss the net. The puck would bounce like they had no puck luck. You're just watching this like their statistic. Up until last night, it's like they had six games where they score, where they shot over 40 shots, and every or no what it was is every game Edmonton got more than 40 shots. They lost, and they would like they'd lose and they'd shoot like twice or sometime, or I think at least one time three times as much the other team. They still fucking lose. And then, of course, they were. They lost the San Jose sharks.
Speaker 1:That was rough.
Speaker 2:Thankfully not the first team to lose the San Jose sharks, Although I would say in hindsight it's probably the best thing that could have happened. This is a bit of a wake up call, I think. It was like that because after they lost to San Jose. That's when they started coming back. They won the next game. Fire the head coach. Most people agree it wasn't the head coach's fault, but Whatever Anyway, so they do that, and ever since then they've been like pretty damn good Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:They're almost back up to 500 and like 500 being winning percent. So they've won 11, lost 12 at this point. But until they lost to San Jose they had lost like seven in a row or something. That was so fucking bad. And then and McDavid was injured. He doesn't appear to be injured anymore because he's got like 20 points in nine games or something and thankfully Vancouver has started to Not be so good. Vancouver was like red hot at the beginning of the season, but they're there. They're not as good anymore. I don't know why, but they just can't seem to win as many games as they used to, which is good, because I hate Vancouver and I remember, uh, were we watching a Calgary versus Vancouver game.
Speaker 2:Which one was that?
Speaker 1:And I was like this is the first time I've ever cheered for the flames.
Speaker 2:Oh, I always cheer for the flames in the regular season. I want both Edmonton and Calgary to do good so they face each other in the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's the best thing. It's the best case scenario. I don't know why more people like people care so much about which team is better in the regular season. It's like I don't care about the regular season, I want to, I care about the playoffs. And if they play each other in the playoffs, that's just more entertaining for me. So I wouldn't I cheer for Calgary in the regular season. Vancouver I've just hated since 2011 for various reasons.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And yeah, she had. Edmonton is a.
Speaker 1:On fire preferably.
Speaker 2:I think they've won six in a row now. Yeah, maybe seven. It might be seven after last night, but, like geez, last night they looked like they were going to lose the game for a while. But they, you know, they seem to have this like resiliency. Now they can score goals again. Their, their defense is actually like showing up for the most part and Stuart Skinner is also remembered how to play, which is all you know, kind of coincided with Edmonton doing better. Hyman's got two hat tricks this season now and I think half of his goals are assisted by McDavid, so he's probably pretty happy he's playing with him right now, because he's like man. If I play with him he just gets me the puck and I just fucking fired into the net. Call it good, call it great. And I think Hyman's actually got the most goals for the Oilers right now. They usually got more goals than dry-side.
Speaker 1:Good job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, winnipeg has just been consistently good. Like beginning of the season was interesting because their goalies really weren't playing that well which is usually one of Winnipeg's best performers but like once, uh once, hellebuck started playing like himself again. It's like they're they've just been like a really solid team and they've beat some really good teams and they've been I think they're on their own like four or five game winning streak. Now See how things are looking pretty good for our teams.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about the Las Vegas Golden Knights, though. Why? Because they're the top of the Pacific Division right now. Yeah, they're doing pretty fucking good.
Speaker 2:Well, you'd hope so they just won the cup. Yeah, They've been well. Vegas is weird because they they were amazing at the beginning of the season, but they've been like having trouble lately, like a lot of trouble lately, Like all of a sudden they can't score goals anymore and they've been losing a lot of games.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's talk about how fucking the Blackhawks, who are the bottom of the Central Division right now in the Western Conference, yeah, and they acquired the hottest draft pick of the year.
Speaker 2:Several years since McDavid, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like they're doing pretty bad.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, they only have one fucking player right now and it's called her Bidard and he's now Conor. Baddard is actually doing pretty fucking amazing because he has no support whatsoever on the Blackhawks, Like none. Taylor Hall got injured and he's just by himself and he's still like. He's like putting up highlight real goals and shit Like a few. Get his first couple of games. You know he's getting used to the NHL a bit shaky, but now he's got his swagger and he's just Been a fucking menace. But he's the only guy on that fucking team.
Speaker 2:And then there's the Cory Perry thing with the Blackhawks, which was. I mean, the memes were funny.
Speaker 1:What happened with that? I saw that.
Speaker 2:Okay, so the meme, the meme is the meme. Cory Perry slept with Conor Baddard's mom. Oh my god and that was the rumor and people were making fun of it. It's not true. It's not true at all, but it's just, I mean, kind of funny.
Speaker 1:Isn't that his head coach?
Speaker 2:No, Cory Perry's like one of the was one of the big stars on the Blackhawks for a long time.
Speaker 2:He's like a veteran player. I think he's almost 40 years old, so so the joke was he slept with Conor Baddard's mom and that's why he's off the team. But Uh no, that's not what happened. That is not what happened. Um, he's off for another reason. I don't think they've ever released the reason. This will make yet another. This is yet another Blackhawks controversy not as not as serious as the last one, but Still pretty bad. And now a lot of people are speculating Conor Baddard is probably going to try and get out of Chicago because that team's Culture is still so fucked up.
Speaker 1:But yeah the Bruins, the Maple Leafs. They're saving some lives this year.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:They're fourth in the Atlantic Division.
Speaker 2:It's not good for for them.
Speaker 1:That's better than not.
Speaker 2:Toronto is the same issue as Edmonton. They they're like all offense and nothing else, Although Edmonton's been turning it around and I haven't watched much Toronto.
Speaker 2:But Other people are complaining about more points than the Oilers do well, yeah, but they never had like an awful start the way the Oilers did. They've sort of just been consistently mediocre Like they never. They they've never been as bad as the Oilers were, but, as my understanding is, they've never been as good as the Oilers are right now either. Mother team is kind of has a lot of the same issues.
Speaker 1:Well, if they make it to the playoffs, they'll be saving some lives.
Speaker 2:The Bruins unfortunately seem to be on their way for another president's trophy. So Rip Bruins fans, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1:Rip Bruins fans.
Speaker 2:Although I personally want the Golden Knights to win the president's trophy. That would be the ideal scenario, in my opinion, but you know, boston wants to keep being good, despite losing all their good players every year. Boston's gonna suck, oh yeah, but they're going down this year. No, boston's one of the best teams again, okay. Well, what about the playoffs, which is really Boston's fucking problem?
Speaker 1:They're like holy shit, we made it to the playoffs. And then they're like holy shit, we made it to the Playoffs. Please stop, oh my god.
Speaker 2:They're like we made it to the playoffs, lost in the first round. Yay, the best team in hockey history losing the first round of the Florida Panthers. You know, like, like it happens, I mean Boston when Boston won the cup against Vancouver, the joke was that, uh, van Koen, it wasn't so much that Boston was better than Vancouver, it's that Vancouver out choked Boston, because Boston is like one of the worst playoff chokers Like ever and Vancouver is also one of the worst playoff chokers, at least that team back then was. So it was like oh, who's gonna lose it? And, yeah, vancouver out choked Boston, which at this point I'm happy happened.
Speaker 2:At the time I really wanted Vancouver to win, but now In hindsight in hindsight I'm like nah, you know, they like, they fucking like the riot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a big riot. All the fans were like destroying cars and shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and all the fans are douchebags and I hate them and yeah, anyway, anyway, yeah, this is the.
Speaker 1:I don't think David might not get the. What is it called?
Speaker 2:Which one?
Speaker 1:Vezena.
Speaker 2:No, he wouldn't get the Vezena not the best seeing as he's not a fucking goal.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I don't remember their names.
Speaker 2:Which one are you? He won a lot of trophies last year the, the the. Taylor, what's the trophy for?
Speaker 1:the MVP.
Speaker 2:Playoff at your MVP. Yeah, he might get that one.
Speaker 1:What's it called?
Speaker 2:Are you talking about MVP? Are you talking about the scoring one? Yeah, which one?
Speaker 1:I don't know, he's just the best player in the NHL.
Speaker 2:MVP. Yeah he could get the MVP. Actually, I could still see him getting the MVP, just because you know he was injured. Now, all of a sudden, he's.
Speaker 1:Miraculously cured.
Speaker 2:I mean, it took a while for him to become miraculously cured, but yeah, he's playing like himself again. No, he's probably not going to get the rocket, richard, although I wasn't expecting him to, because mcdavid's not really a goal scorer, he's more of a playmaker, you know. Hence hymen getting two hat tricks, pretty much all assisted by him. Not right now the uh, it seems like either austin matthews is going to get it. Weirdly enough, kyle Conner Is in that conversation, which I'm happy about.
Speaker 1:But he thinks getting the besna.
Speaker 2:Aidan hill.
Speaker 1:I would think it'd be hella buck again.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think it's going to be hella buck this year, because, while I still think he's the best goalie in the league, typically goalies that play on Not as good a teams don't win it because their numbers aren't so insanely high.
Speaker 2:But you know, it's fine. It's all right, though, because Aidan hill is like, probably, if he keeps it up and he keeps playing like this, because he was like amazing in the playoffs, a lot of people thought, well, he's going to go back to earth in the Next season, because oftentimes what happens is guys just going runs in the playoffs Doesn't seem to be the case. It seems to be that Aidan hill is the real deal now and Just working in Vegas, which is good, because they're like no good Canadian goalies in the NHL right now. So we could really use one if best on best tournament happens again. So I'm happy, hell yeah. Actually, most of the guys that I figured would win it, like you see, sarah O'Cerlea, sorokin have been struggling and Shisterkin hasn't been putting up as good a numbers as quick in New York, which is really surprising. But yeah, leon, dry saddle still, babe. Oh yeah, he scored a really nice goal.
Speaker 1:Last night actually he scored a really nice goal last night.
Speaker 2:He scored a really nice goal last night actually in his office classic. It's a classic dry saddle school.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Nuge has been scoring goals too.
Speaker 1:Nuge.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why are you looking at me like that? Don't tell me you forgot about nudge.
Speaker 1:I think that's it.
Speaker 2:It's it for us, that's our update.
Speaker 1:That's our update repainting Watching the NHL is painful.
Speaker 2:Not anymore. It's been pretty good for me. It's been pretty good for me, especially because the Oilers actually started winning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, keep it up, mc David. All right, bye, bye you.