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Speaker 1:
[00:07] The Radio Ronin Show is on the air.
Speaker 2:
[00:10] You know, normally when we jump into our little cloud-based lair, where we do the show, Panda's cranking some music. It's usually Avatar or The Beach Boys or The Dolly Rots.
Speaker 3:
[00:25] Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's pretty standard.
Speaker 2:
[00:27] Yeah, I mean, occasionally we'll get something that'll kind of surprise us, because Panda likes everything. As do we.
Speaker 4:
[00:35] Except country. Except country. That honky tonk, badonk, can go f*** itself.
Speaker 2:
[00:39] Yeah. What Panda said. That's very true.
Speaker 3:
[00:44] Happy Thursday, everyone.
Speaker 2:
[00:46] I was really hoping this is going to go better this time.
Speaker 4:
[00:48] You're welcome.
Speaker 3:
[00:50] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[00:50] It's true though. He's right.
Speaker 3:
[00:52] He is not wrong at all.
Speaker 2:
[00:54] We jump into the feed here and there's no music and it's just Panda looking down. You're wearing it. Your shirt's really cool, by the way. It's another kind of bright florescent one. It's a Terrifier shirt.
Speaker 3:
[01:04] Terrifier.
Speaker 4:
[01:05] I found a whole line of like, they make horror movies into comic book covers.
Speaker 3:
[01:13] That is so cool. That's very cool.
Speaker 2:
[01:16] So he's just kind of looking down, working on something. If I wouldn't know better, plus it's a little late, I would think he was working on his taxes or something.
Speaker 3:
[01:25] He's filing some reports.
Speaker 2:
[01:28] I get into the feed and I'm all hype.
Speaker 1:
[01:29] And I'm like, Panda!
Speaker 2:
[01:31] And he's like, Hey, how's it going? And he wouldn't even kind of look up. What is it that you're working on, Panda?
Speaker 3:
[01:37] Because Chandler would blow his nose.
Speaker 2:
[01:39] I was sitting in here just kind of awkward and that never happens with you. You and I are kind of like, da, da, da, da, da, every time we're in here together.
Speaker 4:
[01:46] Yeah. So one of the things that I like to do whenever I need to kind of shut my brain down a little bit is I like to color. I have a nice set of colored pencils and I like to know this. Yeah. And I like to get the adult coloring books because they've got a lot more, you know, art and depth to them than the standard coloring books.
Speaker 2:
[02:10] By adult, do you mean like Stormy Daniels?
Speaker 4:
[02:13] Uh, well, I mean, I do not admit I may have something somewhere like that.
Speaker 2:
[02:21] Really? You have some nuts?
Speaker 4:
[02:22] No, I don't. I don't even know if they make those types.
Speaker 2:
[02:27] When you say adult, it's like grown up coloring books.
Speaker 4:
[02:29] Yeah. It's a coloring book for adults that's more based off of interests of adults rather than, you know, just standard cartoons, even though I do love coloring a good, you know, cartoon coloring book.
Speaker 2:
[02:42] Yeah, good SpongeBob. I have to be honest with you.
Speaker 4:
[02:45] Charlie Brown ones, man.
Speaker 2:
[02:47] I like how you said adult interest because my adult interests are pretty much the same exact interests I had when I was 15.
Speaker 3:
[02:53] Oh yeah, same here.
Speaker 2:
[02:54] Disneyland, Star Wars, Music, Boobs, and music. Yep, sounds about right. Scooby-Doo. Yeah. It's all the same stuff, it's boobs. So yeah, so what is it? It's a horror themed coloring book.
Speaker 4:
[03:07] Yeah, yeah, so it is a horror movie coloring book.
Speaker 3:
[03:11] Oh, look at that.
Speaker 2:
[03:12] Oh, there's Mike Myers right there on the cover.
Speaker 4:
[03:13] On the cover of it is Mike Myers. It's also got like pinheads in there. You've got Freddy Krueger, Jason, a lot of the classic horror movie characters. Where did you get this? In a lot more detail. Teemu, of course.
Speaker 3:
[03:28] Did you really?
Speaker 2:
[03:28] Is that right?
Speaker 4:
[03:29] Dude, you'd be surprised at how many different adult coloring books they have available on that site.
Speaker 2:
[03:36] And you say you work in pencil rather than crayon, or as we say in Utah, crene.
Speaker 3:
[03:41] Yeah, crene.
Speaker 4:
[03:42] Yeah, yeah, I like a good colored pencil. Um, I've almost thought about going into the because they do make, you know, fine tip markers to color with. Yeah. But I haven't quite gotten to that point yet.
Speaker 3:
[03:57] I'm excited for Panda to break into his watercolor stage.
Speaker 2:
[04:00] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[04:00] You know, get a ray. You know, some some little small round glasses.
Speaker 4:
[04:04] I know.
Speaker 3:
[04:04] Really, really.
Speaker 4:
[04:05] I bring out the finger paints, dude.
Speaker 2:
[04:07] Or maybe we could be like Napoleon and get the big marker set.
Speaker 3:
[04:12] It's yes.
Speaker 2:
[04:14] So, well, that's that's how much was that book for me? Because I know we were going to have some Ronin that are going to be like, Oh, yeah. We get that.
Speaker 3:
[04:20] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[04:20] Dude, I got it for like five bucks.
Speaker 2:
[04:23] Nice.
Speaker 3:
[04:23] See, that's cool.
Speaker 2:
[04:25] So what a way to pass the time. That's actually very cool.
Speaker 3:
[04:27] Yeah. See physical media, people.
Speaker 2:
[04:29] So what was it? What was it that you were coloring when we got into the end of the feed here? What was it? Freddy Krueger? Is that what you were working on?
Speaker 4:
[04:35] No, no. They actually even have a few images in the book that are kind of they're not any kind of horror movie characters. They're just random characters they created. So I started off with one of those because I am very much a person that I will start with the first page and go page by page when I come back.
Speaker 3:
[04:56] Oh, nice.
Speaker 4:
[04:57] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[04:57] So I have to say, speaking of Tmoo, I don't know if Ash, I don't know if he got this, he sent me a gift.
Speaker 3:
[05:03] Oh, hi.
Speaker 2:
[05:05] And it may have come because you have sent me stuff from Tmoo before and it comes in kind of like a Ziploc bag.
Speaker 3:
[05:11] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[05:12] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And unfortunately it hasn't fit, but the shirts are really cool. Well, Ash sent me a pool cider, but it's a Rat Pack Pool Cider. It looks like the artist Shag has done this.
Speaker 3:
[05:23] It's really cool.
Speaker 2:
[05:24] Ash, thanks, brother.
Speaker 3:
[05:25] Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 2:
[05:26] Thank you, man. And I'm happy to report the shirt fits wonderfully.
Speaker 3:
[05:31] Hey, nice.
Speaker 2:
[05:32] It's Asian sizing, so it's like a quintuple large. Yeah, whatever you need.
Speaker 4:
[05:37] Yeah, actually, I'm quite proud of this one, too, because I saw a shirt on Teemu that I'm like, that is an Ash Jenkins shirt. So I bought it for him and, you know, send it off to him. And it says on it in a Van Halen fund, it says, I don't feel tardy. And then it's got the VH down at the bottom of it.
Speaker 2:
[05:57] Oh, nice.
Speaker 3:
[05:57] Nice. That is awesome.
Speaker 4:
[05:59] By the way, you know, for the folks who don't know what I'm talking about with the, I don't feel tardy people, it's the one of the first, or it's one of the lines from Hopford Teacher.
Speaker 3:
[06:07] Yes.
Speaker 4:
[06:08] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[06:09] I don't feel tardy.
Speaker 4:
[06:11] We're the listeners out there.
Speaker 2:
[06:13] I think you need to send this to Ash so that you two can make up. That's what I think.
Speaker 4:
[06:17] Oh no, I already sent it to him, dude.
Speaker 2:
[06:19] Oh, you did? Oh, good job Panda. Nice. Good job Panda.
Speaker 4:
[06:22] No, me and Ash, we've been cool behind the scenes, man.
Speaker 2:
[06:26] Yeah, you got really mad at him for calling you out about Sammy Hagar or something like that.
Speaker 4:
[06:29] Well, I mean, it wasn't so much I was mad, I was just disappointed. Oh yeah. It wasn't because he was throwing shade at Sammy, it's because it was talking shit on something that I loved. That's what that whole thing was about, but Ash and I are good, we're buds, man.
Speaker 2:
[06:45] Oh, that's good. Love you, Ash.
Speaker 4:
[06:46] That's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[06:47] That's one thing I love about this community though, can I tell you? Because people bitch at each other, but then it's very short-lived.
Speaker 4:
[06:54] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[06:55] Well, that's a very cool coloring book, Panda. I think that may have to be a March Madness gift or something.
Speaker 3:
[07:00] That should be. Shouts and Nicolette, she got me a John Wick one.
Speaker 4:
[07:04] Remember that? Oh, yeah, dude.
Speaker 3:
[07:06] Yeah. It's like John Wick's Dead Dog. And you're like, all right, this is fun.
Speaker 4:
[07:10] I still have my Ryan Reynolds one she got for me.
Speaker 3:
[07:13] Yeah, see?
Speaker 2:
[07:13] That's right.
Speaker 4:
[07:14] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[07:14] Hold on a second. Now, wait a minute. It just registered with me. Nick got you a coloring book with John Wick's Dead Dog.
Speaker 3:
[07:19] It was John Wick. It was a John Wick coloring book. One of the pages is the scene of his very bougie house on the Dead Dog Lane on the Gregg house.
Speaker 2:
[07:26] Are you serious?
Speaker 3:
[07:27] I was like, what the hell? You got to break out the red marker for this one.
Speaker 4:
[07:31] So, Chandler, did you lighten up a little bit and just make the the pool of blood a different color just for fun?
Speaker 3:
[07:36] Yeah, he's just taking a nap in his gravy. Yeah, no, it was like, wow.
Speaker 2:
[07:40] Wow.
Speaker 3:
[07:41] It's so random. Thank you, Nick. I loved it though.
Speaker 2:
[07:45] It makes me kind of wonder how come I never got a coloring book.
Speaker 3:
[07:47] Oh, you do need a coloring book.
Speaker 2:
[07:50] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[07:50] It was here all weekend, but it's the Color Me Dong, and it's just all different dongs that you can draw.
Speaker 4:
[07:55] Dude, I bet they make one. I'm going to track one down now and it's going to get sent to you.
Speaker 2:
[07:59] Please don't, Panda. You don't need to do that, Panda.
Speaker 4:
[08:02] Dude, I'll even make my own color book of dongs for you.
Speaker 3:
[08:06] Oh, I love this so much.
Speaker 2:
[08:11] That means I'm going to need a brown pencil and a yellow pencil and a purple pencil. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[08:18] Well, and I'll tell you one thing, too. If you ever need some just good, you know, shut your brain off kind of therapy, you know, coloring, it's a great way to do it, man. That's what I use it for.
Speaker 3:
[08:30] Any art form is great like that. Yeah, I completely agree. All right.
Speaker 2:
[08:33] Let's start the show, shall we?
Speaker 3:
[08:35] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[08:36] Oh my gosh. Welcome one and all to the Thursday episode of the Radio Ronin show. We're so, so happy you chose to join us today.
Speaker 3:
[08:46] We missed you. Yes.
Speaker 2:
[08:48] We have a lot of stuff to talk about. Because we missed Monday's show and we had a bunch of stuff happening over the past week.
Speaker 3:
[08:55] Pretty much everything's changed in the last week. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:
[08:57] The whole world has changed. A lot of stuff that we all need to catch up on. We love you guys. We've missed you guys terribly. Chris is still not here.
Speaker 3:
[09:04] No, he is in Disneyland right now eating churros and sending us pictures of spatulas and doing Chris things.
Speaker 2:
[09:11] He and Brent took some time off. Much deserved.
Speaker 3:
[09:13] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[09:15] So he will be back on Monday's show. Cool. Okay, let's get to it. Show brought to you by Quench It.
Speaker 1:
[09:20] Quench It!
Speaker 2:
[09:23] Quench It makes every single spring day better. How's the weather there, Panda? Is the weather good?
Speaker 4:
[09:30] It's warming back up, man. We've had that continual roller coaster. So a few days ago, weather gross, nasty, a little bit cold, but today in the 80s, baby.
Speaker 2:
[09:43] Oh, we like that. So what you want to do then, and I always hate it when people say, you know what you ought to do, but you know what you ought to do? Yeah. Get in the car, head to Quench It.
Speaker 4:
[09:54] Do it.
Speaker 2:
[09:55] Yeah, do it. Maybe you're going out to do, you're going to the Tula Festival out there at the Thanksgiving point. You're going to go watch some baseball. It's baseball season after the kids.
Speaker 3:
[10:05] Hockey playoffs.
Speaker 2:
[10:06] The hockey playoffs, the hockey playoffs, we're talking a lot about that this episode.
Speaker 3:
[10:10] Coming up, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[10:11] Get to Quench It. 611 North 400 East in Lehigh. Quench It makes every day better.
Speaker 3:
[10:17] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[10:18] Birthdays, Panda, do we have any birthdays?
Speaker 4:
[10:20] We do, yeah. So celebrating a birthday between this episode and the next. Starting off our list is the beautiful Holly Davies. Celebrating a birthday. Happy birthday, Holly!
Speaker 1:
[10:35] That's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[10:36] Cheers to many, many more for Holly Davies. Happy birthday. Who else, Panda?
Speaker 4:
[10:41] Yeah, also celebrating a birthday is our good buddy, Brandon of PopFly Cards. Celebrating a birthday!
Speaker 2:
[10:49] Happy birthday, Brandon. He's my angel, my angel brother-in-law. Yes, our dude. Brandon from PopFly, I love you, Brandon. I hope things are going well, man. We haven't talked in a little bit.
Speaker 1:
[10:58] Yeah, happy birthday, man.
Speaker 2:
[10:59] Happy birthday, dude. I hope you have a great day with you and your family. Who else, Panda?
Speaker 4:
[11:02] And finishing off our list, happy birthday to Kathy Rasmussen.
Speaker 1:
[11:09] Kathy.
Speaker 4:
[11:10] Yeah, Kathy is Taylor Casper's mom. We actually met her at the Ghost Hunt.
Speaker 3:
[11:16] She's been to a couple Ghost Hunts with us.
Speaker 2:
[11:18] Well, hey Kathy, happy birthday.
Speaker 4:
[11:20] Happy birthday, Kathy.
Speaker 2:
[11:22] Happy birthday. So if you want your birthday announced here on the show, super easy. Just send us a message. You can send it to Gregg.
Speaker 3:
[11:29] Yeah, shoot Gregg a message.
Speaker 2:
[11:31] Gregg with two G's at radiorona.com, or Chandler, or myself. It's just Chandler at radiorona.com, Chunga at radiorona.com, Gregg, that's G-R-E-G-G at RadioRona, or Chris, even Chris has one now.
Speaker 3:
[11:43] He's finally in now, finally.
Speaker 2:
[11:45] Our boys growing up, that Chris.
Speaker 4:
[11:47] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[11:47] And we can DM us.
Speaker 4:
[11:49] Yeah, yeah, like hit me up on Facebook Messenger because I see those notifications come to me a lot more often than my email ones do.
Speaker 3:
[11:58] Yeah, right. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2:
[12:00] You'll notice, by the way, that Chandler and I are wearing Golden Knights hockey jerseys, hockey sweaters.
Speaker 3:
[12:06] Go Knights Go!
Speaker 2:
[12:07] Go Knights Go!
Speaker 3:
[12:07] Go Knights Go!
Speaker 2:
[12:08] We're talking with Matt Smith coming up here in a little bit. The hockey player. Yeah, the Matt Cave podcast. Everybody will listen to this podcast. The guy is amazing.
Speaker 3:
[12:17] My brother.
Speaker 2:
[12:19] Yeah, I call him my other son because, you know, last name is Smith. A great guy. He's been on the show forever and ever and ever, and I just love him to pieces. And the guy, quite frankly, would be the best sportscaster on TV in Utah, except for the fact that it's just, you know, it doesn't pay well and it's really hard to get a job now.
Speaker 3:
[12:37] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[12:38] It is. In broadcasting.
Speaker 3:
[12:39] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[12:40] The guy should be on every radio station and every TV station in Utah. He is the voice of Utah sports. So just listen to the Matt Cave podcast, will you?
Speaker 4:
[12:47] Do it.
Speaker 2:
[12:48] So we're going to be talking about, we're going to be talking about the, the Golden Knights and the Utah Mammoth playoffs here.
Speaker 4:
[12:54] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[12:55] It's going to get contentious. We're going to throw shade. You guys are going to throw shade.
Speaker 4:
[13:00] Let me get some popcorn first, dude.
Speaker 2:
[13:02] Come on. Yes. And I love this Panda because you don't have a dog in this fight. You're a Penguins fan.
Speaker 4:
[13:06] I don't.
Speaker 3:
[13:06] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[13:07] And so you guys are pretty much already out.
Speaker 4:
[13:09] Yeah. And sadly, I don't think we're going much further. And I was hoping they were going to do a lot better against our rivals, the Flyers.
Speaker 3:
[13:17] I bet everyone thought they were going to do better than they are.
Speaker 2:
[13:19] What's happening, Panda?
Speaker 4:
[13:21] Well, I think it's just an aging team that's getting a little too old. Yeah. And well, Crosby's not playing up to his full potential.
Speaker 3:
[13:30] Dude, they're the same team from when I was like six years old and I'm almost 30.
Speaker 2:
[13:33] Yeah, I think Malkin's older than I am.
Speaker 3:
[13:34] It's the same team.
Speaker 2:
[13:35] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[13:36] It's crazy.
Speaker 2:
[13:37] Yeah, for sure. Anyway, we've got some hockey stuff because everyone's a buzz about this. So we're talking about that coming up. The Record Store Meetup is this weekend?
Speaker 4:
[13:47] Yeah, dude, this Saturday, man, just a few days away from right now.
Speaker 2:
[13:53] Yeah, yeah, like day after tomorrow or something like that.
Speaker 4:
[13:55] Yeah, yeah. So we're doing our Record Store Meetup. We're going to be doing it at Daybreak Records this Saturday, April 25th at 1 p.m. So come on down to Daybreak Records. That's, and it's in Sandy, even though it's called Daybreak Records, it is not in Daybreak. No. Right, no, they moved. That's where it started there. But yeah, it moved to a bigger location and it's actually a really awesome location that they can expand the inside of the store. And yeah, so that's 940 or 9445 South Union Square. It's in Suite B and it's the lower level of part of this store. So there's a bookstore on top. So if you even want to come down, check out the bookstore. Yeah, absolutely. Or come down to the record store and Daybreak Records, they've got more than just records. They've got CDs there. They've got cassettes. They got laser discs for nerds like me.
Speaker 2:
[15:01] Panda, you're such a bad influence because now I want to do laser discs and I want to get back in to cards.
Speaker 3:
[15:07] So there's a huge push for laser discs right now. And go trading cards is the number one thing. Is that right? The generation of millennials and younger.
Speaker 4:
[15:15] Trading cards are taking off. I actually follow a couple channels now where all it is is people who own their own card shops opening up packs of cards.
Speaker 3:
[15:25] Yeah. And I love it. It's so much fun.
Speaker 2:
[15:28] I saw, who was it? Was it Sydney Sweeney? I think it was Sydney Sweeney. She was at the Oscars. And was was spotted kind of in commercial breaks at the Oscars, opening up Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3:
[15:40] Yeah, that's what everyone's doing.
Speaker 2:
[15:41] Opening up packs of Pokemon cards to kind of pass the time.
Speaker 3:
[15:43] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[15:44] I mean, the Pokemon card craze right now is nuts because there's people robbing stores right now to get Pokemon.
Speaker 2:
[15:52] We have, we have Pokemon vending machines in almost every store around us here in Vegas. And they're always empty.
Speaker 3:
[15:57] Every Albertsons and Smiths, they have lines out the store.
Speaker 4:
[16:01] Co by Me is completely empty all the time.
Speaker 3:
[16:04] Yeah. See?
Speaker 2:
[16:04] It's wild. I love it. It's fun. I think that's really fun.
Speaker 3:
[16:08] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[16:09] I've been collecting cassettes. It's been made. They sound like total shit by the way. But it's, but it's fun to collect.
Speaker 3:
[16:14] Compared to vinyl. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[16:16] Compared to vinyl.
Speaker 4:
[16:16] Component system, man. That's what you need.
Speaker 2:
[16:18] I know. I need to, I need to get, because I'm literally using a $50 tape deck from Amazon.
Speaker 4:
[16:24] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[16:25] A little kind of boombox kind of retread thing. It just sounds terrible.
Speaker 4:
[16:29] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[16:30] So anyway, so anyway, we've got, we've got a fun show. We've got a very fun show. So the Records Store Meetup is, is happening. Give us the details one more time, Panda, so that people don't forget.
Speaker 4:
[16:39] All right. Yeah. So that is this Saturday at Daybreak Records in Sandy. That's 9445 South Union Square, Sweet B. And we're starting at 1 p.m. 1 p.m. till when?
Speaker 2:
[16:52] Nice. Do we have a finish time or no?
Speaker 4:
[16:54] No, just until you're, you're too tired to look at more records.
Speaker 3:
[16:58] Until your fingers have blisters on them.
Speaker 4:
[17:00] Or until you reach your budget.
Speaker 2:
[17:03] Well, that would happen in like a nanosecond.
Speaker 4:
[17:05] I would do like, yeah, you wouldn't believe like, I mean, sometimes I'll go over my budget too, because I'm a naughty boy. I am a naughty boy.
Speaker 2:
[17:14] No, I hear you. Bonus episode, second bonus episode will be recorded this week.
Speaker 3:
[17:19] Yes. Just wait on Chris to get back in town. The Ronin Invasion has been, we'll talk about that in a minute, but.
Speaker 2:
[17:25] Ronin Invasion, my goodness gracious. In fact, let's get to it, shall we?
Speaker 3:
[17:28] Yes, let's do it.
Speaker 2:
[17:29] By the way, if you want to hear the bonus episodes, patreon.com/radioronin, go get signed up, 10 bucks a month on up, you get the bonus episodes.
Speaker 3:
[17:36] They all are unlocked immediately for you, which is awesome.
Speaker 2:
[17:39] You get them all. The next one will be our AMA. It's an Ask Me Anything, the Ronin AMA. You ask the questions we are sworn to tell the truth.
Speaker 3:
[17:48] Yeah. The last one was spicy, so I'm scared for number two. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2:
[17:53] That'll be recorded this week. Cool. So, a new one coming right up. Okay. Can I say something really quick before I go any further? This is on the heels of Ash.
Speaker 3:
[18:01] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[18:02] Sending me this very cool shirt. I'm regularly reminded that you guys are way, way cooler than we are.
Speaker 3:
[18:12] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:
[18:13] Oh, by far.
Speaker 2:
[18:14] That was brought home for Chris and Chandler and myself in the biggest way during the Ronin invasion that happened this past weekend.
Speaker 3:
[18:24] Holy crap.
Speaker 2:
[18:25] Panda, dude, you missed out. This was wild.
Speaker 4:
[18:29] Yeah, way to pour salt in the wound, you bastard.
Speaker 2:
[18:32] Everybody talks about you the whole time, if it makes you feel any better. Gregg was a common topic of conversation.
Speaker 3:
[18:38] Where is he? Why isn't he here?
Speaker 4:
[18:41] I was just over here having the FOMO. I mean, I kind of did it to myself a little bit because I asked people to post pictures of the meet up. And people were doing that. And each one, I got a little bit teary because I just wanted to hug every single one of you.
Speaker 2:
[18:57] Well, if it makes you feel any better, I got a little bit teary a couple of times. I felt very, very grateful. This was the first time we've done a Ronin invasion in St. George. We did a pizza party last time, but it wasn't a full scale Ronin invasion.
Speaker 4:
[19:11] Right.
Speaker 2:
[19:13] And this was the first one that we went to. We've gotten, the show has gotten broad enough that we need to start doing meetups in other places beyond just the Wasatch Front.
Speaker 4:
[19:23] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[19:24] So here in Vegas and Mesquite, Southern Utah, Southern California, the show is getting to the point where we need to kind of start focusing on this stuff. So we did one in St. George and people came up from Vegas and they came down from Salt Lake and they just, it was, you know, I think about these people that represent this community so well.
Speaker 3:
[19:42] Right.
Speaker 2:
[19:43] And there's people kind of right, it's Eric Coleman, Erica Becky Coleman.
Speaker 3:
[19:46] Yep.
Speaker 4:
[19:47] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[19:48] These guys are so awesome and they help so many people.
Speaker 3:
[19:50] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[19:51] And they, I mean, just Ash.
Speaker 3:
[19:54] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[19:54] Phil Johnson.
Speaker 3:
[19:55] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[19:56] Phil Johnson.
Speaker 2:
[19:57] Phil Johnson drove down from Salt Lake, as did Adam and Andrea and many others.
Speaker 4:
[20:02] Adam and Andrea there. It just made it even harder for me to not be down there with you all.
Speaker 3:
[20:08] Oh man.
Speaker 2:
[20:08] But not only that Panda, Brody Pack flew his whole family in.
Speaker 3:
[20:12] From Florida.
Speaker 4:
[20:15] And they all just, man.
Speaker 2:
[20:19] How cool is that?
Speaker 4:
[20:20] Dude. Amazing.
Speaker 2:
[20:22] I looked at Brody and Karen, I'm like, what, what, what, what, what, what did you do it, Terry? What are you doing? And they're like, hey, it's, I asked Brody, I'm like, what is wrong with you? And he's like, hey man, it's Ronin. You know, Ronin for life. We, you know, we, we brought in, we brought in Millie and we brought in Alexi and Millie and I talked ghost-studying for pretty much the entire night. That was so awesome. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 4:
[20:46] Yeah. And dude, that's exactly what's right with them is that, you know, they came in to be a part of the family essentially. I mean, we are family.
Speaker 2:
[20:59] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[20:59] Jeremy came in from Brazil.
Speaker 2:
[21:00] Jeremy and his wife came in from Brazil.
Speaker 3:
[21:03] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[21:05] And hung out with us. Jeremy, it was great to see you and the Mrs. and, and, and obviously the entire Pack family.
Speaker 1:
[21:11] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[21:12] Minus Ainsley, who's on her mission.
Speaker 1:
[21:14] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[21:14] It was great to see you guys. And I want to say a very, very heartfelt thank you to Chris, who organized this. Chris, who's again in Disneyland. He'll be back.
Speaker 3:
[21:25] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[21:25] But Chris did a great job. So did Patrick Dunleavy.
Speaker 3:
[21:29] Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:
[21:30] Oh, hey Patrick.
Speaker 3:
[21:31] And Amy B, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[21:32] Yeah, Amy B and Patrick. Patrick, thank you so much. Patrick and Amy have contacts at the Pizza Factory in St. George.
Speaker 3:
[21:40] Yep.
Speaker 2:
[21:40] And they set up the best thing. A lot of times we don't know how many people are going to show up. We keep it very informal. We want it to stay that way because what we found is that when we ask people to sign up, they don't show up.
Speaker 1:
[21:53] Right.
Speaker 2:
[21:53] If we keep it casual, everybody just shows up.
Speaker 3:
[21:56] Yeah, it's super easy.
Speaker 2:
[21:56] The minute we ask you to actually commit to something, people are like, nah. So it's just, you know, and to a certain extent, I kind of get that.
Speaker 1:
[22:05] Right.
Speaker 2:
[22:05] So we said, look, we're going to have this little pizza party and we'll keep it super, super casual, super informal. Well, what happened was a lot of people showed up. Yeah. And the Pizza Factory didn't know what to expect. And so I want to say a huge thank you to Patrick Dunleavy and Amy B and the Pizza Factory, because everybody descended on the Pizza Factory. There was nowhere to park. It was absolute insanity. And the Pizza Factory, they were just like, I'll tell you what we'll do. Let's turn this into a buffet and we'll keep it super cheap for everybody. And then that way we can just bring out a ton of food. And so Chris and Chandler and I asked everybody, do you want to just do a buffet? Everybody's like, yeah, let's do that. And it wasn't five minutes later, all the pizzas and the salad and the huge breadsticks that they have there at the Pizza Factory came rolling out and everybody ate till they damn near popped. It was so much food, Panda.
Speaker 3:
[22:59] It was awesome. It was crazy. And they were so cool. They gave us an entire wing of the restaurant. Like, no, you guys are going over here. You have all the tables you need.
Speaker 2:
[23:06] Yeah, we have a closed off section just for the Ronin.
Speaker 3:
[23:09] They're like Chunga, you get your own pizza in the buffet with no sauce. You know, they really, really hooked us up and brought out desserts and all the drinks we could ever need. And it was just amazing.
Speaker 2:
[23:19] It doesn't hurt that I've been a huge fan of the Pizza Factory for like 20 years. I love their pizza. Like Pizza Factory and Shakey's are my two favorite pizzas.
Speaker 3:
[23:26] You and CC. DeVille have done some damage.
Speaker 2:
[23:28] We've done some damage to the Pizza Factory. Yeah, we, man, holy cow, we really have, actually. We love the Pizza Factory.
Speaker 4:
[23:35] All right, now my question is, did you guys make Millie and Alexi have a pizza eating contest? Please tell me this happened.
Speaker 2:
[23:43] No, we thought about it. Millie confessed to me that she was genuinely bored. Oh, what? Millie's like, I'm bored. So we basically went through a bunch of our ghost hunting stuff.
Speaker 3:
[23:54] Yeah, old EMPs and videos and things like that.
Speaker 2:
[23:59] The old man in the hospital, the old Asylum 49 video, which freaked her out and everything else, it was fun. But the Pizza Factory, I can't say enough nice about them.
Speaker 3:
[24:08] Oh, they were just amazing, all the way through.
Speaker 2:
[24:10] We're just gonna go there from now on, because they were so cool, so accommodating, and while this was all going on, we had all these folks there, we had a lot of people, and about half the Pizza Factory was just ours.
Speaker 3:
[24:24] Yeah, it was so cool.
Speaker 2:
[24:27] And they were rolling out all this food, and then Chris comes in and he announces, guys, guys, we have spoken with someone who only wants to refer to themselves as Anonymous Three.
Speaker 3:
[24:41] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[24:41] Oh, we've got another one.
Speaker 2:
[24:44] So we've got Anonymous, the OG Anonymous, and then we have Anonymous Two, which we outed as Brody Pack.
Speaker 3:
[24:49] Yeah, that's Brody.
Speaker 2:
[24:51] We outed Brody as Anonymous Two, because everybody was guessing Brody Pack is Anonymous. It's a good guess.
Speaker 3:
[24:56] Yeah, he's not Anonymous One, but he is Anonymous Two.
Speaker 2:
[24:59] So somebody made themselves known as Anonymous Three. And while everybody is hanging out and having a good time, Anonymous Three stepped up and paid for the entire thing.
Speaker 3:
[25:09] For everyone.
Speaker 2:
[25:10] For everybody.
Speaker 1:
[25:11] Same!
Speaker 2:
[25:13] Everybody ate for free, including myself, including Chandler. We all ate for free. Thank you to Anonymous Three. Now I know who Anonymous Three is.
Speaker 3:
[25:23] As do I, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[25:24] And I tried to get Anonymous Three to, I begged Anonymous Three to please let us identify this human being. And Anonymous Three said absolutely not.
Speaker 3:
[25:33] Yeah, please do not. I want nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4:
[25:36] I actually don't even know who Anonymous Three is.
Speaker 3:
[25:39] We'll tell you after the show.
Speaker 4:
[25:40] Actually, keep it a mystery. I like it better as a mystery. I want to try to guess who Anonymous Three is.
Speaker 3:
[25:47] I mean, keep in mind, we had a lot of people there. That was not a small check to pick up.
Speaker 2:
[25:53] It was 20 bucks a pop for everybody.
Speaker 4:
[25:56] 20 bucks a person. 20 bucks for a buffet is not bad.
Speaker 3:
[25:59] No, Pizza Factory hooked us up.
Speaker 2:
[26:00] When Pizza Factory came out and said this, they were like, you want to just do this. Like, look, it's not really a moneymaker for us. We just, you know, we're glad that you guys are here. And we're glad that you chose the Pizza Factory. And so to say thanks to you guys, you know, if you want to throw us some love on the show or whatever, we'll just do 20 bucks a pop. And I was like, what? You can't even get Coke in Vegas for 20 bucks. No, you can't. So we had, you know, we had a lot of people and Anonymous 3 stepped up and paid for the entire thing.
Speaker 3:
[26:29] Man.
Speaker 2:
[26:30] Which was amazing.
Speaker 4:
[26:31] Sussum.
Speaker 2:
[26:32] You know, when people are spending a lot of money to come down from Salt Lake or come up from Vegas or Brazil, it gets a little pricey, right?
Speaker 4:
[26:41] Especially with gas prices right now.
Speaker 3:
[26:44] Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:
[26:45] Thank you to Anonymous 3 for paying for the whole damn thing.
Speaker 3:
[26:48] Absolutely.
Speaker 2:
[26:49] It was crazy.
Speaker 4:
[26:50] We should dedicate the show to Anonymous 3.
Speaker 3:
[26:53] I think we should, actually.
Speaker 4:
[26:54] I don't know who you are, Anonymous 3, but hey, the show's for you.
Speaker 2:
[27:00] It was an absolute honor. Thank you, Anonymous 3. Thank you to the Pizza Factory. And thanks to everybody who showed up. Andy Dally. I'll see you in hell, Andy Dally.
Speaker 3:
[27:10] We're all waiting outside. We see this car roll up and the window rolls down. He's like, I'm seeing you in hell. I was like, oh, there he is.
Speaker 2:
[27:17] For the record, it wasn't just a car. It was a super pimp white Range Rover that was rolling.
Speaker 4:
[27:21] Oh, hey.
Speaker 2:
[27:23] Here you are. It looks like I'm seeing you in hell, Chunga.
Speaker 3:
[27:26] There's Andy.
Speaker 2:
[27:27] Oh, there's Andy. And he looks like a million bucks. And he's just, you know.
Speaker 3:
[27:30] They're looking good, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[27:31] I am regularly going like, what the hell are you doing listening to us?
Speaker 3:
[27:35] I know.
Speaker 2:
[27:36] Why are you guys listening? You guys are way smarter, way cooler, way more beautiful. Honestly, Panic, it was a very humbling thing.
Speaker 3:
[27:43] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[27:43] Oh, I can imagine. To get to hang out with everybody. I'm just very, very grateful that you have chosen us to be your community to be a part of.
Speaker 3:
[27:51] So cool.
Speaker 2:
[27:53] The hardest part for me with regard to something like this is just that I want to talk to everybody. We only had a couple of hours.
Speaker 3:
[28:00] I know. Pizza Factory closed. We only had two hours to hang up before Pizza Factory closed.
Speaker 2:
[28:05] I thought it closed at 10, it closes at nine.
Speaker 3:
[28:07] Yeah. So we're like, oh no.
Speaker 2:
[28:08] We're going to make this a much bigger affair next year when we do this.
Speaker 3:
[28:12] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[28:13] And a much bigger thing.
Speaker 4:
[28:14] I hopefully will be able to be there the next one.
Speaker 3:
[28:17] Come on, Panda.
Speaker 2:
[28:18] Panda, it was so much fun.
Speaker 3:
[28:20] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[28:21] It was a blast. Thank you to everybody who came. Again, thank you to Anonymous 3. Thank you to Amy B and Patrick Dunleavy and Chris for putting the whole thing together. Then after this is over with Panda, the party moved to Vegas.
Speaker 3:
[28:36] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[28:37] So some people left, some people went back to, they didn't continue on to Vegas, but a lot of people did. Nicolette Turner.
Speaker 3:
[28:46] Anyong. Anyong.
Speaker 2:
[28:48] She surprised everybody. We were talking about Jerem coming in from Brazil and all this stuff. Well, Nicolette came in from Hawaii and surprised everybody.
Speaker 3:
[28:55] Aloha, Nicolette.
Speaker 2:
[28:56] Yeah. Then she decided, no, I'm going to come to Vegas and hang out for a little while. So Nicolette was one of the people that came down from Vegas. Amy B came down to Vegas. Amy B came to Vegas.
Speaker 3:
[29:06] Chris and Bren then moved down south more.
Speaker 2:
[29:08] The fun part about this, Gregg, is that we were like, well, what are we going to do while everybody comes to Vegas? Well, there's different things we could do. But as we're having the pizza party, Chandler gets a call.
Speaker 3:
[29:21] Yeah. Oh, in the mid-pizza party, by the way.
Speaker 2:
[29:24] He comes over, he grabs me, he's all sweaty, and he goes, come here, come here, come here. I need to talk to you for a minute. I'm like, okay, I thought something was really wrong. So he grabs me and pulls me aside.
Speaker 4:
[29:34] Yeah, he was a little bit sweaty from sitting on the toilet for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3:
[29:38] Normally, that would be the case.
Speaker 2:
[29:41] Hold on a minute.
Speaker 4:
[29:41] So this wasn't a toilet sweat?
Speaker 2:
[29:43] No, that's what I thought it was. I was like, do you need more toilet paper, son?
Speaker 3:
[29:47] Yeah, is the IPS kicking in again?
Speaker 2:
[29:49] Do I need to go, do I need to run to the Walmart and buy you some Tidy Wipes? Because that's what I was thinking. He's like, I need to talk to you right now. I think that there's a problem. Chandler's pooped himself again.
Speaker 3:
[30:00] Yes, yes. I've never pooped myself.
Speaker 2:
[30:03] This is what he does. So he pulls me, we go outside. We go out in the parking lot and he goes, dad, I just got a call. I just got booked at Live Beach.
Speaker 3:
[30:13] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[30:14] What?
Speaker 2:
[30:15] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[30:15] Yeah. Which for people who are not in the club scene, this is in the top three day clubs in the world.
Speaker 2:
[30:22] In the world.
Speaker 4:
[30:23] In the world. Oh my goodness. I've seen pictures.
Speaker 3:
[30:25] The tip of the spear when it comes to club at life in the world.
Speaker 4:
[30:29] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[30:30] So the thing, here's how it started. So Chandler's first friend in Vegas is a guy named Omar.
Speaker 3:
[30:35] Yeah. One of my closest friends I'll ever have.
Speaker 2:
[30:38] A former member of the US Air Force and he's a CrossFit guy.
Speaker 3:
[30:44] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[30:44] Him and his wife are CrossFit competitors and they own a gym. These are the first two people that Chandler met.
Speaker 3:
[30:50] I ever met. The first two people. It was day two of living in Las Vegas. I met Omar, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 2:
[30:56] Chandler gets asked by Omar, Hey, I'm doing a special fitness event at Live Beach. Will you DJ it for me?
Speaker 3:
[31:03] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[31:04] Chandler's like, yes.
Speaker 3:
[31:05] Absolutely.
Speaker 2:
[31:05] It's a closed event. Chandler's like, hey, whatever, I'm playing Live Beach. But then the guy who is the talent booker for Live Beach goes, oh yeah, Bugsy, DJ Bugsy.
Speaker 3:
[31:15] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:15] I've seen your stuff, man. Hey, listen, would you mind playing two different sets for the public at Live Beach that same day?
Speaker 3:
[31:23] The public day events, like just as Live Beach being Live Beach.
Speaker 1:
[31:27] Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:28] So you did six hours.
Speaker 3:
[31:29] Six hours in the club. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:31] Arguably the number two most prestigious club venue on the planet.
Speaker 3:
[31:36] In the world. Yeah. I mean, if you're, if you're an actor, like this is Broadway for two, to kind of put it in perspective. It's bougie.
Speaker 4:
[31:44] Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[31:44] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[31:46] It's up there.
Speaker 3:
[31:46] I was so excited. I had to hide from the Ronin fan for a little bit because I got a bloody nose. I was so like overstimulated. I'm hiding in the Pizza Factory bathroom, just bleeding out of my nose because I was so excited. And yeah, I mean, it went off. I mean, what a blessing to talk about this. Came out of nowhere. So cool.
Speaker 2:
[32:03] Well, the thing is, it didn't really come out of nowhere. You've been grinding for 15 years.
Speaker 3:
[32:06] You've worked very hard. I've been working with this contact that lived for a year.
Speaker 2:
[32:10] You've been talking to this guy forever.
Speaker 3:
[32:12] I have, but.
Speaker 2:
[32:14] And he hasn't really given you the time of day. And then he found out, oh, well, let's put you to work. Let's bring you in here.
Speaker 3:
[32:20] And they're already asking to do monthly events. Yeah, it went off.
Speaker 2:
[32:24] So good for you, Chandler. Thank you, thank you. Congratulations. But now we all have something to do. The Ronin Invasion now has something to do.
Speaker 4:
[32:32] Well, and Chandler, you know, you, sir, I think you've earned this.
Speaker 3:
[32:37] Oh, slow clap from the panda. Oh man, thank you.
Speaker 4:
[32:41] I only do the slow clap for something special, man.
Speaker 3:
[32:44] I don't think I've ever gotten a slow clap from the panda. That's awesome.
Speaker 4:
[32:47] No, that's the first one, man.
Speaker 2:
[32:49] So, Gregg and I-
Speaker 4:
[32:50] I popped your slow clap cherry, man.
Speaker 2:
[32:52] Yes, you did.
Speaker 3:
[32:53] Thank you, panda.
Speaker 2:
[32:54] And it's much deserved, might I add.
Speaker 3:
[32:55] Thanks for being gentle.
Speaker 2:
[32:57] But panda, you know, you and I go all the way back. We've been in the trenches since before Chandler was old enough to do this.
Speaker 3:
[33:02] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[33:04] This is a lot of hard work. Honestly, it's a lot of hard work to get booked in Provo.
Speaker 3:
[33:09] Oh yeah, to get any gig.
Speaker 2:
[33:11] It's a lot of hard work to get booked in Salt Lake. For every DJ that gets booked, there are thousands that don't. In Vegas, for every DJ that gets booked, there are tens of thousands that don't. One of the bookers that I've worked with forever, a guy named Boff who works at a club called Marquee. He's like every single month, 10,000 new DJs come in. Every month, 10,000 failed DJs leave.
Speaker 3:
[33:37] Yeah. It's a very hard industry to get into.
Speaker 2:
[33:41] It's very tough. For Chandler to make it to this level is nothing short of, I don't want to say miraculous, but because he has definitely worked his ass off to get out to this point.
Speaker 3:
[33:53] Oh, yeah. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[33:55] But yeah, it's a blessing.
Speaker 3:
[33:56] I had a lot of people, and that's the thing I love about this industry too, and anyone who is a DJ or an actor or anything like that, and says, oh, I did this all on my own. It's not true. You know what I mean? Like you taught me how to do this from scratch. I had Omar working. Like I had so many people in my corner helping me make this a possibility. And it's amazing. It's just there are no words to describe how cool this was because the week before, I was there watching one of my other buddies play at Live and Kennedy's like, maybe in a couple of years, that could be you.
Speaker 2:
[34:21] Jelani, a guy that we play.
Speaker 3:
[34:22] Yeah, Jelani, one of my other closest friends in town.
Speaker 2:
[34:24] Substitute teacher by day, by the way. He's the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 3:
[34:27] Yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[34:29] Jelani was amazing.
Speaker 3:
[34:31] But anyways, I was like, oh, maybe in a couple of years, I can break into this. A week later, I'm playing the same gig. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:
[34:36] What in the world is this?
Speaker 2:
[34:39] It was very cool. And so what we were able to do, Live was very, very, very nice.
Speaker 3:
[34:44] Amazing to us.
Speaker 2:
[34:45] We got the Artist Cabana, which is right behind the stage. And we took everybody into the, right behind the DJ booth. And so we took a bunch of Ronin into the Artist Stage Cabana. And everybody had a great time.
Speaker 3:
[34:59] These are usually about 20 to 30 grand a day. They hooked us up for free. Come on in, we got you.
Speaker 2:
[35:05] Right next to us, Panda, this may mean something to you. Right next to us, Dave Portnoy. Barstool Sports and Dave Portnoy was right next to us.
Speaker 3:
[35:14] Right into my set, by the way.
Speaker 2:
[35:15] Yeah, so we had a lot of fun with Dave Portnoy and his people. Great guys, yeah. It was an amazing day all around. And thank you to all of the Ronin who came to support. Joey Snow.
Speaker 3:
[35:27] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[35:28] And Mackenzie and Maggie Snow, they were there.
Speaker 3:
[35:30] Matteo, our dude Matteo was there.
Speaker 2:
[35:32] Our favorite little Italian friend, Matteo was shown up. And we had Amy B and we had Nicolette and we had all these amazing people with us. And it was just an amazing, amazing weekend. Chandler and I played, I think, six gigs in two days. So it was very exhausting.
Speaker 3:
[35:50] We're exhausted. I do have a funny story that I have to tell the Ronin fan because Live Beach is one of the premier of event spaces in clubs, right? And the guy that played right before me the night before I played was David Guetta. David Guetta, the Grammy, the legend himself.
Speaker 2:
[36:05] Huge.
Speaker 3:
[36:06] Number one DJ in the world for like ten years straight. He played the set before me the night before.
Speaker 4:
[36:10] Surprise, man.
Speaker 3:
[36:11] And so I hop up in the booth and I'm soundchecking and I can see his fingerprints and his sweat on the gear. I'm like, man, this is wild. And I plug in my headphones to soundcheck. I nearly pissed my pants. He had the headphones so loud. I was like, man, that dude is deaf. I was like, holy crap. So it was pretty cool to see where he had everything. But I nearly, I'm like, I almost cussed Eddie. I almost pissed my pants and forgot who I was for 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:
[36:33] Did he maybe have the earplugs in? So he had the headphones?
Speaker 3:
[36:36] No, he's deaf deaf. He talks about it. So I blew my ears out thanks to David Guetta.
Speaker 2:
[36:40] So he's French and deaf?
Speaker 3:
[36:42] Yeah, double doozy right there.
Speaker 2:
[36:43] So he's an FSL instead of ASL?
Speaker 3:
[36:46] I don't know, but he's a motor boatin son of a bitch.
Speaker 4:
[36:47] That's for sure.
Speaker 2:
[36:49] That's right.
Speaker 4:
[36:50] Well, I need a clarification too, because me being a child throughout the 80s, deaf can mean a couple of things to me, Chandler. Deaf can also mean cool or awesome.
Speaker 2:
[37:05] He is all of those things.
Speaker 3:
[37:06] He would be all the above.
Speaker 2:
[37:08] Yes, he is very deaf. But yeah, it was a very, very special, special, special day. And to have so many Ronin there with us, with Chandler, supporting Chandler, Nicolette from Hawaii and everything, having Chandler get up there at this just amazing location and do what he does was...
Speaker 3:
[37:31] I cried three times in the DJ booth for the record. I turned around and I saw my parents and my amazing girlfriend and Chris and Bren and Amy and Nicolette and Joey's family. I mean, and my Dave Portnoy, Dave Portnoy and Omar, my first friend that I ever met. I mean, I had my whole gang there, except Panda. You know what I mean?
Speaker 4:
[37:48] And I was just, Chandler, you're going to make me cry right now.
Speaker 3:
[37:51] I was in tears three different times in the booth. Like, how is this my life?
Speaker 2:
[37:54] Oh Panda, I'll make you cry right now. I didn't see one female bathing suit that wasn't a thong.
Speaker 3:
[37:58] Yeah, no, they were asses everywhere. Asses everywhere for you, Panda.
Speaker 2:
[38:01] It was amazing to me how I got to sensitize. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[38:04] I need some tissues.
Speaker 2:
[38:05] Poor Panda, it would have killed you, man. You would have had another stroke. It was like absolutely insane.
Speaker 4:
[38:10] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[38:11] I was like, and the thing that I thought was kind of cool is that, you know, we've got some fairly conservative people that were hanging out in the artist booth with us, the artist cabana, and everybody's like, yeah, man, it's Vegas. Like this is like everybody was like, when in Rome, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3:
[38:26] That's how it is.
Speaker 2:
[38:27] This is how it is. Everybody's naked. That's kind of how it works.
Speaker 3:
[38:30] But I want to say to the Ronin fan, thank you. Thank you for all the years of bash music. Thanks to my first gig. Like Angela's at my first gig at a parking lot. But there were a lot of you that are listening years ago.
Speaker 2:
[38:40] This parking lot.
Speaker 3:
[38:41] Yeah. I mean, that's very cool. So thank you. And I love you guys so much. I think Panda was I think Panda was there.
Speaker 2:
[38:46] Yeah. I believe I was.
Speaker 3:
[38:48] I think you were, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[38:49] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[38:50] It was a very cool weekend, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:
[38:53] It was one thanks to all of you. And thanks to the folks that live and Omar and everybody else. Thanks to all of you. I'll never forget it in my whole life.
Speaker 3:
[39:04] No, same.
Speaker 2:
[39:04] This past weekend.
Speaker 3:
[39:05] And the cool thing is is, you know, coming up this next week, Chunga and I each between, we each have eight gigs within seven days.
Speaker 2:
[39:11] Both of us.
Speaker 3:
[39:12] So 16 gigs in total.
Speaker 2:
[39:14] Very busy.
Speaker 3:
[39:14] A lot coming up. So it's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[39:16] It's great. We have a brand new event called Neon Society that's happening at Pachi Pachi. It's 80s music remix. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[39:23] April 29th.
Speaker 2:
[39:24] We've broken away from the 80s obscure thing and we're playing a lot of kind of your favorite mainstream 80s new wave remix. Oh, isn't that cool? That is Wednesday, April 29th. And we've got a lot of gigs at Pachi Pachi and at Swingers.
Speaker 3:
[39:38] And at Bel Air, Roos Room, Cosmo. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[39:42] If you're coming to Vegas, find us and come to the gigs. They're a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:
[39:45] Come have fun.
Speaker 2:
[39:46] Panda, we wish you would have been here, man. You would have been.
Speaker 4:
[39:48] I would have been too, but you know, I had other things I had to worry about.
Speaker 3:
[39:54] Panda is interviewing for a very awesome job that he's very excited about.
Speaker 4:
[39:58] Yeah, one that our fingers crossed I will be able to announce soon. And especially to announce I finally got something.
Speaker 3:
[40:06] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:07] I will be so happy for you, Panda, because there's a lot of us that don't.
Speaker 4:
[40:11] Yeah, I know, brother.
Speaker 2:
[40:15] So anyway, again, I can't thank you guys enough. What you guys are doing listening to us, I don't know.
Speaker 3:
[40:20] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:21] But you are. And I'm so grateful and thank you. And it was a wonderful event and I can't wait for the next one.
Speaker 3:
[40:25] Yeah. And Anonymous 3, you are awesome.
Speaker 4:
[40:28] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:28] Anonymous 3.
Speaker 3:
[40:30] So cool.
Speaker 2:
[40:30] Anonymous 3, you kick so much ass. I can't believe it.
Speaker 3:
[40:33] I mean, wow.
Speaker 2:
[40:35] It was just awesome and thanks for paying for it. Everybody was shocked when Chris announced to everybody, well, we have just talked to someone who doesn't want any credit for this and they're insisting on being called Anonymous 3 and this person has just paid for everybody.
Speaker 4:
[40:49] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:50] What?
Speaker 4:
[40:50] That's cool.
Speaker 3:
[40:52] It's so cool.
Speaker 2:
[40:52] Very, very cool.
Speaker 3:
[40:53] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[40:53] Yeah. Very, very cool. And then I stole all the food and took it home.
Speaker 3:
[40:57] Yeah. We gorged on those breadsticks through the weekend. It was awesome.
Speaker 2:
[41:01] It was very cool. And thanks again to the Pizza Factory. So, okay. We should probably start the show. There's a lot of stuff going on. Chris, we'll be back on the next show.
Speaker 3:
[41:09] Yes. Yep. He'll be back.
Speaker 2:
[41:10] That should be known. But because Chris is gone, we thought, well, this is a great opportunity to bring in Matt Smith. Oh, Matt. Because right now in Vegas, this is such a huge thing. The NHL playoffs and in Utah, I think it's pretty much the only thing. Isn't it, Panda? I mean, this is like the whole town has gone mammoth crazy.
Speaker 4:
[41:30] Oh, yeah, dude. I mean, this is huge here right now, because honestly, I don't know if a lot of us thought this would be happening this soon.
Speaker 2:
[41:39] Well, I think that's one of the things that we want to bring up is it's been fun. We'll talk about this with Matt, but if Chandler and I still lived in Utah, we would be the most rabid mammoth fans you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 3:
[41:54] Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[41:55] It is only because they came along after we moved that we're not.
Speaker 3:
[41:59] Yes, a thousand percent.
Speaker 2:
[42:00] The Vegas Golden Knights, that's our team because we live here and the mammoth, they weren't around.
Speaker 3:
[42:05] Yeah, well, we were Vegas fans from day one. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[42:07] I mean, come on, dudes, I'm still a Penguins fan, even though the mammoth are here. I love the mammoth, but I'm a Penguins guy all the way.
Speaker 2:
[42:14] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[42:15] Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:
[42:15] Yeah. Well, I love the mammoth too, behind the Anaheim Ducks and the Vegas Golden Knights. So they're down the list a little bit, but because they're playing the Vegas Golden Knights, shade will be thrown.
Speaker 4:
[42:26] Oh, yeah. Please.
Speaker 3:
[42:27] Welcome to hockey, baby.
Speaker 4:
[42:29] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[42:29] I have made some observations, and so we'll share some of those observations. In a way, it's kind of harmless, humorous, kind of needling and shit-talking.
Speaker 3:
[42:43] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[42:44] It's a sport of hockey. It's good ribbing, as far as-
Speaker 2:
[42:47] It's ribbing. Thank you, Panda.
Speaker 4:
[42:48] It's ribbing, man.
Speaker 2:
[42:49] It's ribbing. But I want you guys to, I would hope that you guys would listen to this from Chandler and I long, long, long time hockey players and hockey fans. I think there's a lot that could possibly be learned. Yeah. With Matt and with the playoff hockey being what it is and Panda for that matter. I mean, you've been a Penguins fan since what? You're a little kid, right?
Speaker 4:
[43:10] Oh, yeah. I mean, this goes back to the days of Lemieux and Yager and Tommy Barasso.
Speaker 3:
[43:16] I mean, great team.
Speaker 4:
[43:18] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[43:18] Matt has a lot of thoughts and I've talked to Matt away from the show. And so I think this should be, yeah, I'm excited to hear what he says.
Speaker 2:
[43:24] Matt Smith of the Matt Cave podcast coming in. We have a Chunga Poll on the way as well.
Speaker 4:
[43:27] Oh, very nice.
Speaker 2:
[43:28] Before we go any further, producers, thank you.
Speaker 3:
[43:30] Oh, producers.
Speaker 2:
[43:33] You are official Radio Ronin producers. Each of you are an official producer of the show, which means you can send us stuff to talk about and it goes right to the front of the line.
Speaker 3:
[43:40] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[43:41] Also, you can list, Radio Ronin, producer, radio Ronin show and we will back it up on your resume.
Speaker 3:
[43:49] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[43:50] A lot of you do. You can list it as your job title in your profile on LinkedIn, even though LinkedIn sucks.
Speaker 3:
[43:56] Shut up, LinkedIn, stupid.
Speaker 2:
[43:59] I know. Still have never used it. Yeah. Consider yourself lucky, Panda. I now know what hell.
Speaker 4:
[44:05] Never will I.
Speaker 3:
[44:06] I think Panda is the luckiest man on earth. He hasn't had COVID and he's never opened LinkedIn or a Zoom call. Like that is like the triple combo right there.
Speaker 4:
[44:13] True, man, true.
Speaker 2:
[44:14] Well, the new job, you'll probably do some Zoom calls, but if there is a hell, Panda, and I think there is, if there is a hell, Adolf Hitler is sitting around right now, eating a tomato, listening to Sarah MacLachlan and being forced to be on LinkedIn all day long.
Speaker 3:
[44:30] Talking about his KPIs.
Speaker 2:
[44:32] Talking about his KPIs and his OKRs and Travis Matthews golf shirts. That is hell.
Speaker 4:
[44:37] See, I'm kind of with you all the way there, but man, I love me a good tomato. Yeah, tomatoes are in hell, dude. I'm going to hell.
Speaker 2:
[44:45] What don't you like, Panda? What don't you like?
Speaker 3:
[44:47] Yeah, right.
Speaker 4:
[44:47] I mean, there definitely are things that I don't like. Well, and there's certain things I can't eat, even though I like them, because they just affect me in ways that are not good.
Speaker 2:
[44:57] That all change it. So, when Gregg is sitting in the fiery pits of hell, and a hoochie is chewing on his nipple.
Speaker 3:
[45:04] There it is.
Speaker 4:
[45:06] No, no, no, no. That is hell right there, dude.
Speaker 2:
[45:08] And he's being forced to listen to country music.
Speaker 4:
[45:09] I'd rather take Sarah McLachlan, dude.
Speaker 3:
[45:11] And she's chewing loudly with her mouth open.
Speaker 2:
[45:14] No, no, no. Sarah McLachlan is chewing on your nipple.
Speaker 4:
[45:17] No.
Speaker 2:
[45:18] You're going to be forced to work on LinkedIn all day. You're going to be forced to fill out job applications on LinkedIn all day. But anyway, so if you would like to point out...
Speaker 4:
[45:27] I have a job interview tomorrow. Don't make it so I can't sleep, man.
Speaker 2:
[45:31] I'm going to jinx it. I was talking about LinkedIn for some reason. I can't even remember.
Speaker 4:
[45:35] Producers. Producers. Hey, producers.
Speaker 2:
[45:39] Producers, our Radio Ronin producers are...
Speaker 3:
[45:41] All righty. So these are our super producers. So starting us off at 2001 is Patrick S, who was at the meetup.
Speaker 2:
[45:47] Patrick S.
Speaker 3:
[45:48] Yeah, it's Mr. Patrick Dunleavy. You are the man, sir. Thank you. Also at 2001, I am not putting the knock on dolls. It's just that they are something that have to be... Oh, hold on. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wait, it's just something that you are...
Speaker 4:
[46:01] We've had this before.
Speaker 3:
[46:02] We've done this one a couple of times. Yes, thank you to this person. At 2006, they don't know what they... Oh, wait, they don't know what we know. They know, we know, Nance. That is from Nance.
Speaker 4:
[46:11] Yeah, do we look this one up now?
Speaker 3:
[46:13] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[46:14] Would you mind?
Speaker 3:
[46:14] Can you look that one up, Panda?
Speaker 2:
[46:15] Let me...
Speaker 3:
[46:18] Could you read it for me one more time?
Speaker 4:
[46:19] Because I am not as quick of a typer.
Speaker 2:
[46:22] We could just wait for Chris-opedia.
Speaker 3:
[46:23] We'll wait for Chris-opedia. We'll do that.
Speaker 4:
[46:25] We'll wait until the next one.
Speaker 3:
[46:26] There we go. At 2023, changing my Patreon name to Make Panda Happy. Yes, there we go.
Speaker 1:
[46:31] Thank you, Tim.
Speaker 3:
[46:32] Also, 2023 is Griffin Holmgren. Yes. At 21, that is Hell Yeah, Team Kitties from Pat and Alessio and Josie Rhodes.
Speaker 1:
[46:43] Yes.
Speaker 4:
[46:43] Team Kitties For Life. Thank you.
Speaker 3:
[46:45] Also, at 21 is Ellen B. Schmelin. We love you, Ellen.
Speaker 2:
[46:50] That's nice. I don't do well.
Speaker 3:
[46:51] Also, at 21, Dallas and Wonderland. I believe in the family unit. I believe in the family having fun together, enjoying things together, he says.
Speaker 2:
[46:58] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[46:59] I agree, dude. I mean, whether that's a quote or not, that is great.
Speaker 3:
[47:04] It is still great. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[47:05] Thank you, Dallas. I don't know. That's some Dr. Phil shit right there. But it's awesome.
Speaker 4:
[47:10] Dr. Phil's a sham.
Speaker 2:
[47:12] Yeah. That's a good point.
Speaker 3:
[47:13] Yeah. 2112, we have Alan Horrocks. Alan Horrocks, man. Thanks, dude.
Speaker 2:
[47:18] Thanks, Alan.
Speaker 3:
[47:19] 2121, this guy. That's all it says. This guy. This guy.
Speaker 2:
[47:25] Did you hear that I kind of burped off, Mike?
Speaker 3:
[47:27] I did. No.
Speaker 1:
[47:28] Thank you for telling us.
Speaker 3:
[47:29] Yeah. You hit it well. I think this guy is John Krasinski in the office. Is it?
Speaker 2:
[47:36] But see, John Krasinski was mimicking, I think it was a Budweiser commercial.
Speaker 3:
[47:41] Where he was, this guy.
Speaker 2:
[47:42] One has two thumbs and loves hockey. This guy.
Speaker 3:
[47:45] This guy.
Speaker 2:
[47:46] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[47:46] Well, and two, there's so many movies that-
Speaker 3:
[47:49] I know.
Speaker 4:
[47:50] I think I've heard that before in a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3:
[47:53] Yeah. I could go so many different ways.
Speaker 4:
[47:55] Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:
[47:56] Let's see here. At 2122, we have Gregg and Kelly West.
Speaker 1:
[47:59] These two are adorable.
Speaker 4:
[48:01] Gregg and Kelly West.
Speaker 3:
[48:01] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Adorable. Yeah. 2154, Annie with Sam and Lincoln. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. At 22, we have Isaiah and Megan Fortz. Thank you guys. You're awesome. 2222 is the big Kahuna Rortaz.
Speaker 2:
[48:21] Kahuna.
Speaker 4:
[48:21] Dude.
Speaker 2:
[48:22] I love it.
Speaker 3:
[48:23] Good man. Keep that going. Yeah. 2222, who would win, strippers or clowns? This is from Andrea.
Speaker 2:
[48:29] Well, if you were here this weekend, Andrea, you would know strippers.
Speaker 3:
[48:35] Lots of asses.
Speaker 2:
[48:36] Although I don't remember paying them.
Speaker 4:
[48:39] I don't know, man, because there's lots of factors that could go into this, man. Clowns have got the makeup that could end up places they shouldn't.
Speaker 3:
[48:48] They do have the squeaky shoes too, which would give away their positions.
Speaker 2:
[48:51] The clear heels, man. The clear heels, you can hear them coming a mile away. I know from this weekend.
Speaker 4:
[48:56] Instead of pulling out singles, they would be pulling out that never-ending handkerchief.
Speaker 2:
[49:03] That handkerchief.
Speaker 3:
[49:04] The strippers do have that aura of my cherry pie hanging around them too.
Speaker 2:
[49:09] Cheese my cherry pie.
Speaker 3:
[49:12] That's so good. Andrew, look at you.
Speaker 4:
[49:13] Go on, make the old man cry.
Speaker 2:
[49:14] That's a great song.
Speaker 3:
[49:16] Yeah. 2424, Georgian tape. Thank you, Georgian. Georgian.
Speaker 4:
[49:20] So sorry for the previous talk about strippers and clowns.
Speaker 3:
[49:24] Blame, Andrew, for that one.
Speaker 2:
[49:25] I can't tell you how much fun it was for all of it, with the bottle girls and their bubble guns and you know, they're dressed like slutty cheerleaders and stuff. They come into the artist cabana and they're like, yay, who wants to party? We're like, we don't drink.
Speaker 3:
[49:39] Yeah. They're like, okay.
Speaker 2:
[49:40] They're like, what?
Speaker 3:
[49:42] Nobody?
Speaker 2:
[49:42] Nope.
Speaker 3:
[49:43] It's pretty common in this town now.
Speaker 2:
[49:45] Nowadays, DJs don't drink anymore. None of their posse doesn't. Those port noise though, whoa. Yeah, they were hitting it on the stuff.
Speaker 3:
[49:54] Holy crap.
Speaker 2:
[49:55] Yeah, port noise stuff. They were like pirates.
Speaker 3:
[49:57] Wah, wah, wah. Yeah. 24.91, Jerem Chillin Brazil Thurston, St. GZP to Factory Bread Sticks. Hey!
Speaker 2:
[50:04] Hey!
Speaker 4:
[50:05] Jerem, dude.
Speaker 3:
[50:06] My man right there. That was so awesome.
Speaker 2:
[50:09] It was great to see you, dude.
Speaker 3:
[50:09] It was great to hang out with you, man. $25, that is Kelly and The Freeloader.
Speaker 2:
[50:14] You two are awesome. Thank you, yes.
Speaker 3:
[50:16] Up next at 25 is Gillian Terry. Thank you, Gillian. Hey, Gillian.
Speaker 2:
[50:21] Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[50:22] Up next is Corey Richins at $25. Not a murderer, just super nice. Just a super nice lady.
Speaker 1:
[50:27] Yeah, yeah, we love her. Thank you, Corey.
Speaker 3:
[50:30] Also 25 is a Tire Factory S, oh, Tire and Auto Service mentioned Ronin. Now we're ready. Get $100 off a set of four tires.
Speaker 2:
[50:38] That's like Tire Factory, Point S, Tire and Auto Service and American Fork. These guys are amazing. And they've been proud supporters of Ronin from day one.
Speaker 3:
[50:46] I know, how cool was that?
Speaker 2:
[50:47] I love these guys.
Speaker 3:
[50:48] Go support Ronin Businesses right there.
Speaker 2:
[50:50] Go support Ronin Businesses, get your tires down there. You get $100 off.
Speaker 3:
[50:53] So crazy.
Speaker 4:
[50:54] Dude, that's a tire. That's a, you know.
Speaker 3:
[50:57] It's a free tire.
Speaker 4:
[50:59] A tire plus getting the insurance on that tire as well.
Speaker 3:
[51:04] I know, that's awesome. Also at 25, we have the New Day Podcast with Angela. And Joey Wakefield. Joey. Yeah. Also 25 is Andy Dally, who we saw not in hell but in St. St. St. Andy Dally. And he was like, wearing really bougie glasses and I made him take off a shoe and look at what kind of shoe he was wearing.
Speaker 2:
[51:26] What kind of shoe was he wearing?
Speaker 3:
[51:27] It was a New Balance. It was one of the new fancy New Balance shoes.
Speaker 2:
[51:30] Oh, the New Balance shoes.
Speaker 3:
[51:30] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[51:31] I was like, too. New Balance is like, I love New Balance shoes, by the way.
Speaker 3:
[51:34] So I was like, hey, take your shoe off at the Pizza Factory. He's like, really? I'm like, yes, do it. Also at 25, we have Becky Parkinson. Give yourself the gift of better health and less pain. Go to bkpcoaching.com for more info. Thank you, Becky. Also at 25 is Susan Moore or Super Susie. Super Susie, as I like to call her. Yeah. At 25.55, that is the Duke and Duchess of Worcestershire. Aw. Our relatives right there.
Speaker 4:
[51:58] I love those, too.
Speaker 3:
[51:59] I know, they're amazing.
Speaker 4:
[52:00] It's been a while since I've seen them.
Speaker 3:
[52:02] I know, it's been the cruise was the last time I saw them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[52:05] They went to the, I think they went to the play with Eric, didn't they? With Eric Coleman?
Speaker 4:
[52:09] I think, I think I saw them. I believe they did, yeah. Yeah, and I hope to see them soon because I miss those two.
Speaker 2:
[52:16] We love you guys.
Speaker 3:
[52:17] Right, yeah, love you guys. Love you, Ken. 2802 DG Custom Rail and Fabrication, drgillis.com. A tumble down the stairs is the new mic drop.
Speaker 2:
[52:26] No, it isn't, Dr. Gill.
Speaker 4:
[52:28] I've taken that tumble down the stairs before and hurt me.
Speaker 2:
[52:31] Yes, you have Chris on Christmas.
Speaker 3:
[52:33] Yeah, you gotta dust off the knee brace.
Speaker 4:
[52:36] I didn't like it. Much like the nipple bite, I did not like it.
Speaker 3:
[52:43] Pan-Pan is a zero out of ten. At $30 a month, that is Angela Jensen. Thank you. Angela Jensen, we love you. Graceful as the day is long.
Speaker 2:
[52:52] Thank you, Angela Jensen, for being a Patreon.
Speaker 3:
[52:54] Yeah, at 3333, we have Sid, Em, and Scott. Aunt Sid was there hanging out with us at Pizza Factory, which is great. Yeah, it was very fun to see her.
Speaker 2:
[53:04] She's going to join the Neon Society and come to some music shows.
Speaker 3:
[53:06] Is she coming down?
Speaker 2:
[53:07] Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3:
[53:07] Oh, I think Rory Sinti may come down too, which would be sweet.
Speaker 2:
[53:10] I don't know if she'll make the first Neon Society member meeting, which is our DJ show.
Speaker 3:
[53:14] Yep, that's the number one.
Speaker 2:
[53:15] But she's definitely coming.
Speaker 3:
[53:17] That's awesome. And then wrapping us up here at 3608 is Ben Gunn, and he says, punch it, Chewie. See?
Speaker 4:
[53:24] Dude.
Speaker 3:
[53:24] You were tuned up right there, man.
Speaker 4:
[53:26] You were in it, man. You were in it.
Speaker 2:
[53:29] I'm in there.
Speaker 3:
[53:30] And big shout out to Phil Johnson, who did receive his Chewbacca doll at the-
Speaker 2:
[53:33] It's the product of everybody.
Speaker 3:
[53:35] And I played the Star Wars theme song, as he rose from his seat and walked in front of everyone. He held it above his head and yelled very loudly, and it was awesome.
Speaker 2:
[53:44] And then we signed it. So, Pandy, you still need to sign it.
Speaker 3:
[53:46] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[53:46] Oh, yeah, yeah. We'll get to it, man. I'll see Phil at some point.
Speaker 2:
[53:50] It was great hanging out with Phil. It's always great. Great hanging out with everybody. We went way too fast.
Speaker 3:
[53:55] I know.
Speaker 2:
[53:56] Yeah. Hey, join our list, will you? Join our Patreon family.
Speaker 3:
[53:59] Yes, do it.
Speaker 2:
[54:00] Jump in. Join the Ronin Army, or whatever we call it.
Speaker 4:
[54:04] What is it?
Speaker 2:
[54:04] The Ronin family?
Speaker 3:
[54:04] The Ronin family.
Speaker 2:
[54:05] Join the Ronin family.
Speaker 4:
[54:06] Oh, the Ronin Army.
Speaker 3:
[54:07] We can do that, too.
Speaker 4:
[54:08] Yeah, I kind of like that whole army thing, especially in today's current...
Speaker 3:
[54:12] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[54:13] Should we change it to the Ronin Army?
Speaker 4:
[54:16] All in favor, say aye. Probably not.
Speaker 2:
[54:20] You guys walked me down the Primrose path and then abandoned me? Gregg's a pacifist.
Speaker 4:
[54:24] Of course we did, man. Dude, I'd rather hug it out, man. Come on.
Speaker 2:
[54:29] Join the Ronin fam. I like the Ronin fam. The Ronin fam. Join the Ronin fam. Go to patreon.com. It's patreon.com/radioronin. Get bonus episodes. Yeah. Have fun events. A lot of the events we do, they're for everybody, but we do do events throughout the year that are just for Patreon people. And this was the t-shirt meetups, the ghost hunts, that kind of stuff. Movie meetups, different things that we do throughout the year. Spook alleys and things like that.
Speaker 3:
[54:57] That's awesome.
Speaker 1:
[54:57] So join us, will ya?
Speaker 3:
[54:58] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[54:59] patreon.com/radioronin. Become a producer. Okay, so he's been standing by dutifully.
Speaker 4:
[55:05] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[55:06] A very patient man he is, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[55:08] I have thoughts. Now listen, no one will rage quit this show.
Speaker 4:
[55:11] No.
Speaker 2:
[55:12] I'm telling you the right thing.
Speaker 3:
[55:12] There may be some shade. We may throw some shade. Welcome to the sport of hockey.
Speaker 2:
[55:16] I recognize fully that Chandler, Chris and myself are the villains here in this matchup.
Speaker 4:
[55:22] You're the heels of the show, man.
Speaker 2:
[55:25] Well, I think we have a lot of people that are listening now in Southern California. So they got the Ducks and the Kings and everybody's very excited about that. We've got Ronin that are Ducks and Kings fans. We have Ronin that are Dallas Stars fans. And that's just bad. I don't know how you do that. I don't know how you do that. I know. We have a lot of Utah Mammoth fans and we have a lot of VGK fans.
Speaker 3:
[55:48] Tons of VGK fans.
Speaker 2:
[55:49] Yeah, so here's the deal. We wanted to bring Matt in because we got the first series is the Utah Mammoth and the Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 3:
[55:56] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[55:56] I'm seeing a lot, a lot of stuff online that is there. It's telling me two things, guys. Two things it's telling me. A lot of chatter. I've seen the chatter. It's a lot of Utah Mammoth fans saying a lot of stuff. It's fun for me to get to see that, okay, they're learning how playoff hockey works. Right. Oh, yeah. We'll talk about that with Matt.
Speaker 4:
[56:26] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[56:27] There's a lot of stuff. Just know I'm very proud of the Mammoth. Yeah. I'm very proud of the Mammoth. I'll leave it there. Okay. Okay. Well, until we get Matt in here.
Speaker 3:
[56:38] Yeah. Let's get Matt in here.
Speaker 2:
[56:40] Matt Smith of The Matt Cave Podcast.
Speaker 3:
[56:42] Matt.
Speaker 2:
[56:43] I think one of the coolest things about having the Utah Mammoth is that we can have Matt on, the voice of Utah Sports. Matt Smith, my other son.
Speaker 1:
[56:53] Right.
Speaker 3:
[56:53] My brother. My brother.
Speaker 2:
[56:54] Matt Smith, the voice of Utah Sports. Somebody out there is going to go, really? And the answer is yes. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 4:
[57:00] Because he's kind of my son as well, Chunga.
Speaker 2:
[57:04] He's kind of all of our sons, right?
Speaker 4:
[57:06] Does that mean that you and I got together and bumped uglies?
Speaker 2:
[57:09] He doesn't. Yes.
Speaker 3:
[57:10] Where's the 23andMe kid? Where's our ancestry.com?
Speaker 2:
[57:14] We went heels to Jesus.
Speaker 4:
[57:17] Time to bring back my two dads.
Speaker 2:
[57:19] Yeah, my two dads. That's where I was going. Matt refers to Panda and I as his two dads. Matt Smith of the Matt Cave Podcast, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3:
[57:27] Matt.
Speaker 2:
[57:28] I think the thing that's so cool about having a guy like Matt, graduate of the Dan Patrick School of Broadcasting, by the way. Very prestigious, very elite school. The voice of Utah sports. The fact that we have him here is awesome, but it's also relevant now because we've had Matt in the past, we're always talking about stuff that doesn't really have a whole lot to do with Utah.
Speaker 3:
[57:51] Right.
Speaker 2:
[57:52] That's fine, but because we have so many people outside of Utah listening to the show. Now, more people outside than inside listening to the show, but where we all hail from Utah, this is particularly important. I have to tell you, I think we've said this on the show before. Had we not moved when we did, Chandler and I would be the most rabid, most insane Utah Mammoth fans ever.
Speaker 3:
[58:20] Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 1:
[58:21] Chandler would be the DJ at the games, Chunga would probably be the first with the best.
Speaker 3:
[58:26] We'd be the biggest fans ever, because playing hockey in Utah, for me, it was nearly 15 years. It was a while ago. You played for-
Speaker 2:
[58:34] Well, 20 years.
Speaker 3:
[58:35] Yeah, especially with the Grizzlies.
Speaker 2:
[58:36] Two different stints. In my early 20s with the Grizzlies, I got offered a pro contract, entry-level contract, and then later in life, I went back and was an e-bug, like my good friend Jay Stevens. Did a tandem there for a little while.
Speaker 1:
[58:50] Recipes e-bug. They're done after this series. This season.
Speaker 2:
[58:53] Yeah, there's the Grizzlies. I know, man. I'm just so- Oh, wait, no, the e-bug?
Speaker 1:
[58:58] Yeah, it's going after this season.
Speaker 2:
[58:59] They're not doing the e-bug anymore.
Speaker 3:
[59:01] They're getting rid of them. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[59:02] Oh, man, I got thoughts.
Speaker 4:
[59:04] Well, and I have no doubt that Chunga and Chandler, if they were still in Utah and didn't gravitate towards this love of the Golden Knights, they definitely would be fans. I can't imagine when Chandler's DJing for The Mammoth and right before he drops a beat, he goes, All right, everybody, Tusks up.
Speaker 2:
[59:29] No.
Speaker 4:
[59:30] That would just be cringe, man. Totally cringe.
Speaker 2:
[59:33] Because even though we're biased, I mean, you can totally understand, like so many things in Utah, Tusks up is super cringe. It is pretty cringe. It is. It is pretty cringe. Hopefully, it goes away. This is the thing. Okay. It's been really fun for me, Matt. It's been really, really fun for me. I think I could speak for Chandler, too, to see so many Utahans get behind the Mammoth and now learn the game of hockey.
Speaker 3:
[59:58] Oh, totally. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[59:59] You know what I mean? This first time in the playoffs, it's been interesting. It's been fun watching Utah hockey fans, Mammoth hockey fans react to things that are happening in the playoffs for really a lot of people the very first time.
Speaker 3:
[60:17] Yeah. Utah was definitely a huge hockey town when we were playing, right?
Speaker 2:
[60:22] Big hockey town.
Speaker 3:
[60:22] But to see people who are not typically normally a hockey fan learn the sport for the first time, it's kind of adorable, you know?
Speaker 2:
[60:29] It's kind of adorable. Mammoth hockey fans remind me, this is the Utah Mammoth hockey fan in a nutshell.
Speaker 3:
[60:36] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[60:38] The average Utah hockey fan right now is a juicy fermenting mixture of the town of Springfield in the Simpsons when they got the monorail.
Speaker 3:
[60:48] Very specific.
Speaker 2:
[60:49] Monorail. Monorail. Yes. Yeah. Just how the town went insane for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3:
[60:57] Right.
Speaker 2:
[60:58] So they're a juicy fermenting mixture of the town of Springfield when they get a monorail in the Simpsons, and a Palestinian woman when a car bomb goes off. So they're slapping themselves and just freaking out, and they're shrieking in horror. I have to regularly tell people when they message me about something, or when I see them just going completely bonkers in a Facebook group, or like, calm down.
Speaker 3:
[61:24] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[61:25] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[61:25] It's one game. It's a game, and you know, you can't always, you guys are acting like Oilers fans.
Speaker 1:
[61:35] Oh, don't say that.
Speaker 2:
[61:37] You can't always, you can't always-
Speaker 3:
[61:38] Oh, that is the biggest burn you can have.
Speaker 4:
[61:39] You can't always blame the rest. That's even worse than, you know, oh man.
Speaker 2:
[61:44] I know. But the difference between Edmonton fans and Utah fans is that they'll learn.
Speaker 3:
[61:50] Oh, Utah fans will definitely learn.
Speaker 2:
[61:51] Edmonton fans, this is their first season doing this, really. You know what I mean? So it's to be expected.
Speaker 4:
[61:55] Yeah. And just, you know, like you said, just remember it's a game, folks. Like life will continue going on after these games are over, no matter who wins. And, you know, and if you let it affect your life that much, you might want to consider therapy.
Speaker 2:
[62:13] Well, that's a good point. It's a good point, Panda. And the other thing that I think is fair to note, Matt, I know you're going to back me up on this. Your Chandler already has. Oh, yeah. I know you're going to back me up on this, Matt. While you're all going nuts, I would like you to put something in the back of your head and just remember this, okay? The Golden Knights are going to be the team you're rooting for when you lose. So take it easy. Hang in there, okay?
Speaker 1:
[62:37] Not me.
Speaker 2:
[62:37] Don't hate them that much.
Speaker 1:
[62:39] Not me.
Speaker 3:
[62:40] Not Matt. Not Matt.
Speaker 1:
[62:41] For the majority of Utah fans, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[62:43] Yeah, I mean, that's just saying, it's okay. It's fine. So, okay. So we've got Matt here, The Matt Cave Podcast. Here's what we're talking about. We're talking about the Utah Mammoth, making the playoffs for the very first time. Yes, sir. They're up against, holy shit. They're up against The Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 3:
[63:01] They're recently eight and one right now with our new coach.
Speaker 2:
[63:04] Who is it? For the entire run of their history, they have been a Stanley Cup contending team.
Speaker 3:
[63:10] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[63:11] Bruce Cassidy, the coach, they call him Butch of The Vegas Golden Knights. Apparently, when the team lost to Edmonton Oilers in the first round last year or second round, second round, second round, sorry, there was a rift within the team.
Speaker 1:
[63:24] Yep. Big one.
Speaker 2:
[63:26] There's a, it hasn't been confirmed, but it's widely speculated and kind of, kind of known that the team turned on Butch after that loss. And they came back this season, a different team, and they underperformed because he lost the room essentially.
Speaker 3:
[63:40] Yeah. They were pretty frustrated with his coaching style. They felt like he didn't really empower them the right way. He was very favoritism. How would you say that? He was, he was, he was countryist towards the Canadian guys in the locker room.
Speaker 4:
[63:53] Oh, okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[63:54] Butch was showing favoritism towards the Canadian players on the team versus the foreign players and the American players. And it created quite a rift. That is the speculation.
Speaker 3:
[64:04] Yeah. Aiden Hill.
Speaker 2:
[64:05] But you take a look at that complete, a complete bag of shit, a waste of a person, Aiden Hill. Quite possibly the worst. I mean, they might as well put me in that.
Speaker 3:
[64:16] Oh, you'd be better to say that.
Speaker 1:
[64:18] But I wouldn't want to be in a hotel room with Carter Hart. So.
Speaker 2:
[64:21] Yeah, I mean, good point.
Speaker 1:
[64:23] That's too soon.
Speaker 2:
[64:24] I've seen a lot of Utah fans, Matt, going off about this thing. And the Utah fans, you guys don't know.
Speaker 1:
[64:30] No.
Speaker 2:
[64:31] You guys honestly don't know about the Carter Hart thing. There was there's an allegation of sexual misconduct and of forcible sexual abuse against Carter Hart and all this stuff. If you go back and you read the transcripts, there is a lot of question whether or not he was even in the room ever.
Speaker 3:
[64:47] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[64:47] That's why he was exonerated by the NHL and NHLPA and that's why you have to play it out.
Speaker 3:
[64:51] If you read the transcripts, there's no evidence to him doing anyone.
Speaker 2:
[64:54] But he was even actually there.
Speaker 1:
[64:55] The fan taunting rights itself, though, at that point.
Speaker 2:
[64:57] Yeah, and that's where a lot of Utah fans are like, no, he's not a sexual abuser.
Speaker 3:
[65:02] No.
Speaker 2:
[65:04] He was named by a woman who was, by and large, considered a gold digger that wanted money.
Speaker 3:
[65:09] Correct.
Speaker 2:
[65:10] He was trying to create it.
Speaker 3:
[65:11] Pretend like she was drunk and they have security camera footage of her not drinking.
Speaker 2:
[65:14] They've got all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3:
[65:15] They've got a lot of stuff on her.
Speaker 4:
[65:16] My ex-wife was a sleeping woman.
Speaker 1:
[65:19] Hey, remember.
Speaker 4:
[65:20] What happened? What happened?
Speaker 3:
[65:22] There were no knives involved, though, Panda.
Speaker 2:
[65:24] Remember when she tried to kill you? It was kind of like that.
Speaker 3:
[65:27] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[65:29] So anyway, yeah. Okay. So Matt, let's get into this here. So we've got this team, The Vegas Golden Knights, who with this new coach, legendary John Tortorella, they have turned the corner and the needle has moved and they are now producing at max capacity and near max capacity.
Speaker 3:
[65:47] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[65:49] And they're going up against a very young up and coming team that I think the Utah Mammoth will be a Stanley Cup competing team eventually.
Speaker 3:
[66:00] Oh, I think in the next two, three years.
Speaker 2:
[66:02] I think I give them three years.
Speaker 3:
[66:03] Yeah. A thousand percent. I agree.
Speaker 2:
[66:05] Now, Matt, you did a big thing on the Matt Cave podcast, and I recognize fully that Chandler and Chris, who we've talked about, he's not here.
Speaker 3:
[66:14] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[66:15] Who is a rabid Golden Knights fan, Chris. Might be good to get out of here then.
Speaker 1:
[66:19] We would get in the way.
Speaker 2:
[66:21] Exactly. Because it is a Civil War in his house, because Bren is a diehard Mammoth fan. Yeah. Oh, okay. I love this so much.
Speaker 1:
[66:33] I know.
Speaker 2:
[66:34] This is awesome. I think it's great that Matt is behind, because it's hard being a sports journalist, right, Matt? And being able to throw your weight behind a team that you love.
Speaker 1:
[66:42] Yeah. I was talking with Gregg earlier, and I'm like, I can't say we. I want to say we all the time, but for journalistic integrity, I have to say Utah. I want to say we all the time, but I can't.
Speaker 2:
[66:55] No, you can't. You have to separate yourself from it. But I know obviously you're wearing a Mammoth sweater.
Speaker 1:
[67:00] Yep. Clayton Keller.
Speaker 2:
[67:01] By the way, hockey jerseys are called sweaters.
Speaker 1:
[67:03] Yes, they are. They're not called sweaters. No.
Speaker 2:
[67:06] I'm also in my home. Well, I guess it depends. It could be the road uni. I'm in the white.
Speaker 3:
[67:11] Yeah, that's used the road.
Speaker 2:
[67:12] The road one Chandler is in the third jersey, the gray jersey.
Speaker 1:
[67:15] Yeah, the OG jersey much more than that is my favorite.
Speaker 3:
[67:18] My favorite. Yeah, it's my favorite.
Speaker 1:
[67:20] That's my favorite home sweaters they wore last night. Look kind of cheap to me. You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:
[67:27] I don't I don't I don't like.
Speaker 3:
[67:29] Yeah, I need to be honest.
Speaker 2:
[67:30] Nicolette Nicolette Turner was our house as part of the Ronin invasion. And she was like, I really like those gold sparkly jerseys the Golden Knights, because they remind me of my swimsuit.
Speaker 3:
[67:41] She did say that. And I look over and I'm like, oh, no, no.
Speaker 2:
[67:47] Yeah. OK, so Utah Mammoth, among the coolest.
Speaker 3:
[67:51] I love the colors. I love them.
Speaker 2:
[67:53] Beautiful. Big fan of that. Seattle Kraken. Great.
Speaker 3:
[67:56] Yep.
Speaker 2:
[67:57] The Golden Knights, the gray and the white, I would put up there. And then the and then, of course, the Utah Mammoth. I think they're fantastic. OK, so Matt, on your show, let's get back on point. I'm sorry. So on your show, The Matt Cave Podcast, you broke down game one. Now, as we're doing this show right now, game two is about to have puck drop. In fact, you've got it on, so don't spoil it.
Speaker 3:
[68:21] Yeah, we're watching it late.
Speaker 1:
[68:22] So don't spoil our facial expression neutral.
Speaker 2:
[68:24] I know. As soon as the show ends, Matt, we're going to go watch it. Chris is in Disneyland right now, and we've had to admonish Chris. We're doing the show.
Speaker 4:
[68:34] You mean King Spoilers himself? Do not spoil it.
Speaker 2:
[68:37] Please do not spoil it. He's like, oh my gosh, guys, you're not going to believe. I'm like, stop.
Speaker 4:
[68:43] Yeah, you know, maybe I'll have to just send you like fake spoilers every so often, but it has nothing to do with the game.
Speaker 2:
[68:50] Oh yeah, because it'll help us.
Speaker 1:
[68:50] Mario and Lemieux is coming out of retirement.
Speaker 4:
[68:52] Yeah, yeah. Yager and Lemieux back together.
Speaker 2:
[68:56] Oh man.
Speaker 1:
[68:58] That'd be awesome.
Speaker 2:
[68:58] That'd be so badass. Anyway, okay, so Matt, what did you say on your Matt Cave podcast about this matchup, the Golden Knights Mammoth, Series 1 of the NHL playoffs, the first time the Mammoth are in the playoffs. What did you say? Like, how did you break it all down?
Speaker 1:
[69:13] Yeah, so what I said is it's gonna be a really fun series and Game 1 was a perfect example of it. It was hard hitting, flying up and down the ice. Both teams hate each other. It's what you want to see in a playoff series. Yes, and it is a rivalry. It's being born. It really is the Battle of I-80. So, or I-15, I-15, I-15, whatever.
Speaker 2:
[69:36] The Battle of I-80 would be Utah and Colorado.
Speaker 1:
[69:39] Okay, so that one could build too. But yeah, so the Battle of I-15, it's going to be a really hateful series. But overall, I think Vegas' experience really showed in that first game because by the third period, Utah was tuckered out and Vegas was just pushing them around.
Speaker 2:
[69:57] And they look confused. They look confused and they frankly, they looked a little scared.
Speaker 3:
[70:01] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[70:02] I thought.
Speaker 3:
[70:03] And that's the Golden Knights playbook is first period, we suck, second period, we kind of wake up a little bit, third period, we go off and that's how we've always played. And so to see the Utah team like, uh oh, for it to be that of a much like a physical game, there were like 80 hits from the Golden Knights and the most nights we've had in the entire series before that was like 30.
Speaker 2:
[70:25] Well, this is where I think, this is where I think, tell me if I'm wrong here, Matt, because you're the one with the education on this, right? But playoff hockey is a little bit different in that, when you're playing in the regular season, attrition is a huge problem, just losing players. And so you're not going to see the big hits, you're not going to see that kind of stuff during the season because you're trying to make it to the playoffs. But even in game one, round one of the playoffs, it's on. Like no mercy is shown, you're leaving it all on the ice, every single game, and that's when the big hits start coming out. That's when hockey looks like the hockey that I knew back in the 90s. Yeah. Is, you know, every game was kind of like that. And what I think happened is the Golden Knights came out, you've got guys like Ivan Barbachev, and you've got... Yeah, Doud. The fourth line guys. Barbachev, not a fourth line guy, but you've got a bit, you know, like Kolesar and guys like that on the Knights.
Speaker 1:
[71:20] Kolesar, public enemy number one in Utah.
Speaker 2:
[71:22] Right. Yeah. Why is that? I can't figure that out. Is it just the... He's not even an agitator. He's just a heavy hitter.
Speaker 1:
[71:29] He was an agitator in game one. He really was.
Speaker 2:
[71:32] Was he?
Speaker 3:
[71:33] But that's his job. That's exactly what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 2:
[71:36] It is a role that is played, but word to the wise for Utah fans, Kolesar is a highly educated, very well-spoken person who plays with his head and doesn't play with his heart.
Speaker 1:
[71:47] He's a smart player.
Speaker 2:
[71:48] And I think that's the big mistake that Utah made, was that they came out, they got their ass handed to them in the first couple of minutes of the game with a lot of big hits, and then they started reacting emotionally to it because they were caught off guard. And then you had headbutts, and then you had...
Speaker 1:
[72:03] That was so stupid. That was pretty dumb.
Speaker 2:
[72:06] That was so dumb. I was like, what are you doing? Yeah. People you got to know, Utah Mammoth fans, you have to know, a headbutt, even minor, even a tap is a four-minute major penalty.
Speaker 1:
[72:17] You could get thrown from the game.
Speaker 2:
[72:18] Suspension. Or a misconduct and possible suspension.
Speaker 1:
[72:23] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[72:23] So it's something that is highly, highly not allowed. And then he was like, oh, I got pushed. And then all the Utah Mammoth, they all bought into it. Oh, he was pushed. He was pushed. Bullshit. He headbutted. I mean, just be honest.
Speaker 1:
[72:34] It wasn't really a headbutt either. He just kind of like wanted to lean in for a kiss, I guess. I don't know. Maybe he really likes it.
Speaker 2:
[72:39] It was totally a headbutt.
Speaker 3:
[72:41] The genius of this dude here, I'm going to headbutt. I don't have a helmet on, so I'm going to headbutt a dude with the helmet on. That's going to go well for me. And he kind of like, look, disorienters, like, oh, oh.
Speaker 2:
[72:49] Palestinian, Palestinian woman after a car bomb. Oh, people slapping themselves. I can't believe this happened. This is, this is, but this is what happens when you have a veteran team. Matt, am I wrong here? When you have a veteran team, it kind of pushes those buttons and gets you confused.
Speaker 1:
[73:05] No, yeah. It's the game within the game. And Vegas knows which players to get under the skin of, right?
Speaker 2:
[73:11] Yes.
Speaker 1:
[73:11] Chandler's easy to get under his skin.
Speaker 2:
[73:14] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[73:14] Mikhail Sergeyev, easy to get under his skin. They went after Logan Cooley just to see how he would react. I don't know if they're going to go as hard after Cooley, after how he played in game one. They might rough him up a little bit, but the after the whistle stuff, I don't know if it will still happen with Cooley. But Vegas is a smart team. They know the targets on Utah that will be easy to trigger. That's what happened in game one.
Speaker 2:
[73:39] Speaking of Cooley, there was all that talk about Dowd saying, hey, I'm going to come after you.
Speaker 1:
[73:43] I'm going to F and kill you.
Speaker 2:
[73:45] By the way, can I just tell you thank you Utah. From my heart, I want to thank you. I have not seen the word EFFIN written out in print. Not in print so much since I left Utah five years ago.
Speaker 4:
[74:01] I missed the days of friggin.
Speaker 2:
[74:04] Yeah, friggin is like it's not in vogue anymore.
Speaker 4:
[74:07] Even flipping would be kind of nice to see every now and then.
Speaker 2:
[74:10] But anyway, so Dowd's like, I'm going to F and kill you. And everybody and well, not everybody, but there are a lot of Utah fans that are like, oh, he needs to be suspended. He needs to be charged. Clutching their pearls. Yeah, they're clutching their pearls. The Palestinian woman again, slapping himself. And they're like, listen, I played hockey in Utah, okay, for a very long time. I played a game for the Manitoba Moose. I played for the Grizzlies. I, you know. Oh, you were a Moosen? I was for one game. Yeah, a e-bug, e-bug. And we lost, badly. But I have had my life threatened so many times.
Speaker 1:
[74:51] Every game.
Speaker 2:
[74:52] On the ice.
Speaker 1:
[74:53] Every game.
Speaker 2:
[74:53] Multiple times.
Speaker 3:
[74:54] Every game.
Speaker 2:
[74:55] My son's life has been threatened.
Speaker 3:
[74:56] Yeah, I've threatened people's, that's what we do.
Speaker 2:
[74:59] My wife's life has been threatened. My home, people have threatened to burn down my house. That's hockey.
Speaker 3:
[75:06] I remember at the beginning of the show where I'm like, oh, it's kind of adorable seeing new hockey fans see this for the first time. There's a reason why when they do the miked up thing, like, oh, we've got Nick Dowd miked up on the ice, we're going to cut to it and you hear him like, yeah, good job, boys. Yeah, let's keep it up because they can't show anything else.
Speaker 2:
[75:21] That's the only thing they can do.
Speaker 3:
[75:22] That's not lace with profanity because that's, I mean, I've said far worse things than that on the ice as a 14-year-old.
Speaker 2:
[75:29] Chandler was 10.
Speaker 3:
[75:30] Yeah. I mean, that's welcome to hockey, Utah. That's completely normal.
Speaker 1:
[75:34] That's what I've been saying in the Reddit threads and everything. It's just like, you should see what they don't air. You should hear what they're saying that they don't air. My goodness. None of you played sports before. I played basketball and we said worse stuff.
Speaker 4:
[75:48] And of course, ball. Dude, church ball has the same kind of-
Speaker 2:
[75:55] Talking to my old friend, Gary Michaels, who is a radio DJ in Utah on the air forever until they totally screwed him and fired him. I know, Gary, I know. So I'm talking to him and he's like, man, I just can't believe these people. I'm like, dude, how many times did you threaten my life? That's how it happens in hockey, right?
Speaker 1:
[76:16] That was just over checkers in the locker room too.
Speaker 2:
[76:18] Yeah, that was over who took the hockey tape.
Speaker 4:
[76:22] See, that's why I could have never actually made it as a hockey player because I would just want to give everybody a hug. I'd be like, hey, good game, guys. Good game.
Speaker 2:
[76:32] Well, that's what you do after it's all over with.
Speaker 4:
[76:36] I mean, I'm the kind of idiot too that if somebody scored a goal on my team, I'd go, hey, man, nice shot.
Speaker 2:
[76:44] There have been many times where someone has scored on me and I've gotten up and I've been like, I had no chance. I've said that too many times. You got me. By the way, Chandler has talked before on this show about how I fought an entire hockey team myself and won. That was Gary and his team. Was it Gary? I punched him right in the face. Anyway, enough with the freaking out. Stop clutching your pearls, you candy ass. Is it time? Okay. Now, Matt, what else did you break down? We talked about how they got confused. The Golden Knights wore them out and I have no reason to believe that will change. Game two, although it's about to start, we haven't seen it yet. I'm guessing the Golden Knights will employ a completely different tactic that they don't know is coming. And they will either react to it rightly and they'll change tactics again and confuse them because they don't have the maturity or they'll just overpower them in Steam Roller Room again.
Speaker 3:
[77:43] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[77:45] Hold on, hold on. Update here real quick. Slytherin just scored, Slytherin just scored.
Speaker 2:
[77:50] Oh, thank you, Panda.
Speaker 1:
[77:51] Was it the Snatch or was it just a regular one?
Speaker 4:
[77:54] It was just with the quaffle.
Speaker 2:
[77:55] Good job, Panda. Good job. So what do you think, Matt? Am I right there or what do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 1:
[78:04] Honestly, I think Utah's gonna be playing a much better game because now they've got their feet wet. They know what Vegas is gonna bring. Vegas has one speed and that's physicality. They have a couple of good guys, no doubt. Mitch Marner's really fast, Jack Eichel's really fast. But Utah, in the post game, I watched the post game for both teams and the post game, Tortorella was really talking about Utah's skating ability, their speed, getting out of the neutral zone, into the offensive zone, the Ozone time. So I think Utah, now that they know what it's like, they don't have jitters. I know they all said, we didn't have jitters, it's just hockey.
Speaker 2:
[78:40] Of course they did.
Speaker 1:
[78:40] They had jitters. I think it'll be a more even game. The hitting, Utah's not a physical team. They haven't been, that's not their game. They're gonna get out hit. They're fast. What they need to do, and I don't know if they're gonna do it tonight, I don't know if they're gonna do it in that first game at the Delta Center, probably not, but they just need to get out of those scrums, the little pushing and shoving, where your hand holding.
Speaker 2:
[79:01] And after the whistle stuff, I mean, you nailed it.
Speaker 1:
[79:03] Catching the extra plans, all of that stuff. You don't need to do that. You just get away.
Speaker 2:
[79:09] So can I tell you, when you have a mature team, an older, more veteran team, they'll rely on the physicality because they don't have the speed. Vegas used to be, if you look back to when Vegas was, when they won the Stanley Cup, and they had to go up against Florida, they were a faster, smaller, more agile team, and they refused to buy in to Florida's physicality. They refused the after the whistle stuff, they wouldn't buy into it, and it drove Florida crazy, and they ended up melting Florida down because of it. Now the roles have been reversed. Vegas is an older team, they've been the same group of guys for the most part, core group of guys since the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3:
[79:45] They're a bigger team, physically.
Speaker 2:
[79:47] A bigger, yeah, but they're slower.
Speaker 3:
[79:49] They're way slower.
Speaker 2:
[79:50] Way slower than Utah. That was on full display. Like as a Golden Knights fan, it was highly uncomfortable for me to watch the speed of Utah.
Speaker 3:
[79:57] Cooley's fast, man.
Speaker 2:
[79:58] He's the fastest skater in the league.
Speaker 3:
[80:00] Yeah, behind him.
Speaker 1:
[80:01] He's behind McJesus. Yeah, he's a little faster.
Speaker 2:
[80:04] And I made the comment, Matt, as I was watching the game, I think Cooley is faster.
Speaker 3:
[80:09] Yeah, probably. Really?
Speaker 2:
[80:10] Yeah, because when you're talking about determining speed and you're talking about off the line speed and the way like at the combine, how they test the speed and stuff like that, that isn't representative of game speed.
Speaker 3:
[80:22] No, that's very different.
Speaker 2:
[80:24] I think Cooley is much, much faster than McDavid is. It was pretty scary for me to watch. I was like, they can't touch this kid.
Speaker 3:
[80:31] This is awesome.
Speaker 4:
[80:32] Yeah, you know, and I think honestly, he's probably a little bit faster than McDooshie because McDoosh bag still has that big ego weighing him down a little bit.
Speaker 2:
[80:42] Yeah, he doesn't. No, he had that chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 3:
[80:44] To be honest, I thought it was the lead jeans he's wearing under his pads.
Speaker 1:
[80:47] It could be.
Speaker 2:
[80:49] Or that lacy thong.
Speaker 1:
[80:50] Or that patchy beard.
Speaker 2:
[80:51] I don't know. Cooley is a damn dangerous player.
Speaker 3:
[80:53] Yeah, he's a great player.
Speaker 2:
[80:54] And if he can get his head right and they can strategize the right way, I think he's going to be an absolute nightmare for Vegas to try and figure out. I have to think that Vegas has got a plan. Like, they're just waiting for Cooley to get hot and to turn on, and they'll know what to do.
Speaker 3:
[81:11] They'll smother him.
Speaker 2:
[81:12] But I predict, Matt, I predict Utah is going to win a game. So I think it's going to be Vegas in five. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[81:19] I had Vegas in six.
Speaker 3:
[81:22] I think the run there is respectable, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[81:24] A lot of people around the country, and especially here in Vegas, they're predicting a sweep. So it's Vegas in four or five.
Speaker 1:
[81:30] No.
Speaker 2:
[81:32] I'm saying five, maybe six, if Vegas really, you know, craps it.
Speaker 3:
[81:37] I don't think we'll sweep Utah at all, especially that first playoff game at the Delta Center.
Speaker 1:
[81:41] No way.
Speaker 2:
[81:41] They look so much better in that first game. I know the Utah fans are kind of mad. I went through and took a look at the Utah hockey blogs. They're kind of pissed at the way the Mammoth played. You shouldn't be. They played really, really well.
Speaker 3:
[81:53] No, they played a great game. Yeah, they played a very good game.
Speaker 2:
[81:54] Considering. Matt, would you agree with that or would you disagree?
Speaker 1:
[81:56] 100%. I was really proud of them the entire game, really. Even when they got, you know, Chippy and a little bit of Crybaby going on, you know.
Speaker 2:
[82:03] Yep.
Speaker 1:
[82:04] And one thing I want to call out, if you'll allow me.
Speaker 2:
[82:07] Yes, of course.
Speaker 1:
[82:08] When the player, I think it was Riley Smith, I can't remember who it was for Vegas that was holding on to Keller's stick. I saw so many people whining about that. And it's just like, look at every play. It happens every, all the time.
Speaker 4:
[82:21] Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 1:
[82:22] Just because it happened to the captain, do you think you're going to get a penalty in the playoffs? Right.
Speaker 2:
[82:29] Can I stop you there? Let me stop you there. That's that Palestinian woman thing that I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:
[82:34] Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[82:35] That, what's, you know, for every one of those, it's a selective morality thing. You know, I saw Rasmus Anderson slash about 78 times in the last two seconds of that game. The refs didn't call anything.
Speaker 1:
[82:47] No.
Speaker 2:
[82:48] This is this, and you don't get, that's hockey. Again, that's hockey.
Speaker 1:
[82:53] That's all.
Speaker 3:
[82:54] And they did a thing last year with the Golden Knights, because the Golden Knights are kind of the evil stepchild of hockey, because a lot of people don't think of them as an actual hockey team.
Speaker 2:
[83:03] Because we're in the desert.
Speaker 3:
[83:04] And there's been a lot of bias against the Golden Knights when it comes to refs. And last year, someone broke down using AI and stuff like that. The most missed calls against any NHL team were the Golden Knights. That's just part of the game. That's going to happen. It's going to happen a lot. So you're going to have to get used to it as a hockey fan.
Speaker 2:
[83:19] I will credit you. I do credit Utah. They figured out something really, really quickly with every set of refs. Okay, there's going to be a different game call. These refs made the decision, rightly or wrongly, that they just weren't going to call a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3:
[83:35] It's usually playoff hockey. That's pretty standard.
Speaker 1:
[83:37] They've got the best seat in the house, playoff.
Speaker 2:
[83:39] The refs don't want to be the determining factor in the game unless absolutely necessary. So I think Utah, I think they figured that out quicker than the Golden Knights. They figured it out faster than the Golden Knights did because the Knights came out, they hit hard. Utah reacted emotionally and they started doing really dirty shit. But when they did, they didn't get called on it.
Speaker 3:
[84:00] Right.
Speaker 2:
[84:01] And they chose to continue doing it. And that's why I think it's kind of funny. The Utah fans are like, Oh, the Golden Knights are so dry. I'm like, you guys, you guys were filthy, dirty ass players, the entire game, and it's totally okay.
Speaker 3:
[84:15] That's how it should be.
Speaker 2:
[84:16] If the refs aren't calling it, then do it.
Speaker 3:
[84:19] Let it, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[84:20] Do it, totally. But the problem is, if you react emotionally and it happens after the whistle, you're gonna get a power play. So that's the way it goes. Now, this game, game two, game three, this show will air after game two. I predict that with a different set of refs, you may have very whistle happy refs that wear out the whistles. And the dynamical change, again, that's part of playoff hockey. But kudos to the Utah team because they were able to figure it out quickly.
Speaker 4:
[84:48] Yeah, well, and I don't think a lot of people realize too. I mean, this happens in sports all the time. I mean, refs are also going to miss stuff because they're looking for the more blatant.
Speaker 2:
[85:00] Well, especially with the speed of hockey.
Speaker 4:
[85:02] Yeah. And once you get into playoffs, it doesn't matter what, well, except for basketball because they're a bunch of pussies anyway. Yes. But I mean, you know, in playoff games, they're a lot more willing to let certain things go that aren't like game changing penalties, you know?
Speaker 2:
[85:23] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[85:24] And the thing is, everybody's going to always blame the refs if their team loses. It's not our team's fault. It's the refs. Well, it's not that we play like shit. It's the refs.
Speaker 3:
[85:34] It's the refs.
Speaker 2:
[85:36] Edmonton. Your average Canadian hockey player, a hockey fan in Canada, whether you're with a Toronto fan or a Calgary fan, especially an Edmonton fan, it's always the refs' fault.
Speaker 4:
[85:49] And when you look at the Olympic game of US versus Canada, a lot of people were saying, oh, well, US kept getting away with late line changes, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:
[86:01] Yeah, that's what Canadians do. Utah, don't do that. Panda's absolutely right. Don't do that because the refs are always a factor, but you just, like, I'll never bitch about the refs. Honestly, I know the game. I know this game inside and out. Chandler knows the game inside and out. I played high level hockey for two decades. Yeah. And I counted at one point 20, I think it was like 23 slashes on Utah to towards from Utah, Utah on a Golden Knight that weren't called to the two on Vegas that were conducted and not called. So it was ridiculous. It was very, very weighted. But that's, that's how the game is played. That's how I'm not bitching about it. That's just how playoff hockey is.
Speaker 3:
[86:51] And I can, I think I can speak on behalf of most, most hockey players. We prefer that we want to play the game. We don't want to be called that every little thing. We want to be able to actually enjoy the game and play a physical hockey game because I think that makes it more fun for everyone. And especially when it comes to playoff hockey, that's what you should be expecting at this point. So I wasn't surprised by that at all. So get used to it.
Speaker 2:
[87:11] It sucks. Utah, don't be an Edmonton fan.
Speaker 4:
[87:15] Yeah, and one thing that I've learned, and I especially learned some great lessons from my dad about sportsmanship. And even when your team that you support, I was a very long suffering Cubs fan.
Speaker 3:
[87:31] We're angels fans. Yeah, it doesn't get worse than that.
Speaker 4:
[87:34] It was just year after year, but you know what? My dad, Tom, he's like, you know what you do is, you know, if they don't make it, you just go, hey, you know, there's always next year.
Speaker 2:
[87:44] You have fun watching the games regardless.
Speaker 4:
[87:46] And I will support my team continually.
Speaker 3:
[87:50] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[87:51] Yeah, for sure. So Matt, you know, Matt, The Matt Cave Podcast, everybody go listen to this, cause he did a full breakdown. He did a full breakdown. What are the, so you're saying The Knights in Six.
Speaker 1:
[88:03] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[88:04] Is what you're saying.
Speaker 1:
[88:05] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[88:05] Golden Knights in Six.
Speaker 3:
[88:06] I think that sounds about right. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[88:09] My question is, can the, can the Mammoth fix this at all? I think they can make adjustments. I don't think they can fix it to where they could surprise everybody. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 1:
[88:21] I think it all depends on Vegas. Utah knows the game they can play. The Utah knows that they want to fly up and down the ice. They know they're faster than Vegas. They know they have the skill to be able to do a lot of the stuff they want to do. It's just on Vegas. If Vegas decides to show up.
Speaker 2:
[88:37] It's Vegas' tournament to lose.
Speaker 1:
[88:39] Yeah. If Vegas decides to show up under Tortorello like they have been, then it's Vegas in five or six. If they're going to start showing up like they did before Torts.
Speaker 2:
[88:47] Under Butch.
Speaker 1:
[88:48] Then it's going to be Utah in seven. So that's just how the series is going to go.
Speaker 2:
[88:52] But you're not saying Utah is out, completely out. You think that it could happen.
Speaker 3:
[88:57] Right.
Speaker 1:
[88:58] For Utah fans, the goal was to make the playoffs with this team.
Speaker 2:
[89:03] Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3:
[89:04] And you did it, which is awesome.
Speaker 1:
[89:05] Wild card won even. If they were in the Pacific, they would have won the Pacific. So that's step one. GM Bill Armstrong is famous for saying, you got to learn by suffering. Utah is going to suffer in this series a lot. And I prefer that they go against the Knights rather than McJesus or against the Ducks. Because the Knights have been there. They've won. They've been to the top of the mountain. So you get to experience it. Yeah, you get to experience everything in a playoff series. And then next season, you build on it and you build on it. So I think if you talk to Austin Matthews this off season, I think they will, then they're a season away. If they don't pull the trigger on that deal, they're a couple of seasons away from being a true Stanley Cup contender.
Speaker 3:
[89:49] And one thing I do want to say too, and we've talked about this in past shows, is the difference between a good hockey team and a bad hockey team, it's like one or two percentage points. It's very, very small. If that. It's like, you know, it's a couple like minor little tweaks. There's no bad team in the NHL.
Speaker 2:
[90:03] Except for the Canucks.
Speaker 3:
[90:05] Except for the Canucks. Yeah, I think honestly, if we had Butch in as our coach for the Knights, I think the Mammoth would have kicked our ass.
Speaker 1:
[90:16] You wouldn't have made the playoffs.
Speaker 3:
[90:17] No, I don't think we would have. I think we would have missed it. And so I think this is like the craziest like turn of events that we actually have a chance now, because I fully expected Utah to come in and just destroy us with our old coach. And now we have a chance. I think that's what's making it a really cool fun series.
Speaker 2:
[90:32] The two teams I did not want to play in the playoffs were the Ducks, the Anaheim Ducks, and the Utah Mammoth. We've been kind of snake bit against both those teams. The Oilers, I think we would have destroyed them.
Speaker 3:
[90:45] Yeah, we had a good record. Even under Bush.
Speaker 1:
[90:46] We were really hoping for that, to be honest.
Speaker 3:
[90:48] I was too, to be honest.
Speaker 2:
[90:49] Yeah, as a Utah fan, us taking out the Oilers would have been great, I think, especially with how the teams match up.
Speaker 3:
[90:55] Right.
Speaker 2:
[90:56] But yeah.
Speaker 4:
[90:56] Well, and Chunga and Chandler, you see what happens when a Vegas team pulls their head out of their asses and actually makes the right changes? Now you just need to get the Raiders to do the same thing.
Speaker 3:
[91:08] We may have a chance this year.
Speaker 1:
[91:09] We got Tom Brady running things. How much better can you get?
Speaker 2:
[91:13] Yeah, I think you're going to be surprised, Panda, what the Raiders do this year.
Speaker 4:
[91:17] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[91:18] If they get Mendoza, if they get Mendoza and Kurt Cousins decides to show up.
Speaker 1:
[91:21] I don't think we'll be last, at least.
Speaker 3:
[91:23] I don't think we'll be last.
Speaker 2:
[91:24] I think you'll be surprised. But Matt, I mean, to the Raiders point, to your point, Matt, I think it should be noted if you're a Utah fan that we had been in the finals twice before. We had been late round playoffs before. I think the Stanley Cup, in my opinion, and in a lot of other people's opinion, Matt, you back this up or not, the Stanley Cup, I think, is the hardest trophy to win in sports.
Speaker 1:
[91:49] It's basically a football game every other night. That's what it is. In the NFL, it's one game and you're done, you're on to the next round. In Stanley Cup playoffs, it's seven games. It gets the same guys.
Speaker 4:
[92:00] And it's like nonstop.
Speaker 3:
[92:02] Well, if you look at the teams, like nine dudes had lost teeth and split lips. Game one of the playoffs, you've got how many, like 20, 30 more games to go through to even try and get to the cup at this point.
Speaker 4:
[92:12] It's crazy.
Speaker 2:
[92:13] And the guys are going 30 miles an hour and trying to kill each other.
Speaker 3:
[92:16] Oh, with the razor blades on your feet.
Speaker 4:
[92:18] With the endurance, even being on the ice for like two minutes, it's insane. Like I've attempted to try to even skate that long, you know, without really, you know, and as fast as they're going to, I don't know how they can, you know, keep that going and just not plop over on the ice and die.
Speaker 2:
[92:38] The average shift is anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute. And unless they do extended shifts, which is really, really rare. That's, you're talking like game seven of the finals. You know what I mean? It is absolutely grueling and they do that every other night. This series, the Utah Mammoth and Vegas series is a little different because they're scheduling problems with the arenas. I think there's a scheduling problem at the Delta Center and there's a scheduling problem at T-Mobile. So there's going to be like a two day gap a couple of times.
Speaker 3:
[93:10] Yeah, to make good rest. We'll need it, honestly.
Speaker 2:
[93:12] But to my point, this is the most brutal trophy to win. It is the most difficult sport to win and a trophy to win in all of sport. And so to go back as a Golden Knights fan or excuse me, as a Utah Mammoth fan and go, okay, we made the playoffs. Be happy you did.
Speaker 3:
[93:28] Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 4:
[93:29] Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2:
[93:30] That's really hard to do.
Speaker 4:
[93:32] Yeah, especially with still being such a new team.
Speaker 2:
[93:36] Yeah, and next year have higher hopes. It took Vegas six years and they were in the finals twice.
Speaker 3:
[93:44] We made it to the final in our first year. I'm just going to drop that home, Gregg.
Speaker 2:
[93:48] But that's really the expectation, right?
Speaker 3:
[93:50] So it's really cool to see that I was able to go and Chris and I went to this game. It was the first year that the Utah Hockey Club was a thing and we watched them play at T-Mobile Arena the first time they played the Golden Knights ever.
Speaker 2:
[94:00] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[94:00] I don't like this team. It has no idea what they're doing. And a little backstory, I was scheduled to actually film with the Arizona Coyotes when they got locked out of their own arena. Because I had to deal with them on America Credit.
Speaker 2:
[94:10] It was basically a high school gym.
Speaker 3:
[94:11] And so it was the Utah Hockey Club and the Mammoth. That was the team I was going to be working with and they couldn't even get in an arena and now to see them in the playoffs.
Speaker 2:
[94:17] That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3:
[94:18] That's awesome. What a cool story for them to have. I'm proud of them.
Speaker 2:
[94:21] And it should be noted that my favorite team obviously the Golden Knights, then the Ducks, and then the Mammoth. I really like the Mammoth.
Speaker 3:
[94:27] If the Mammoth beat us, will I be rooting for them in the playoffs?
Speaker 2:
[94:30] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[94:30] Totally.
Speaker 2:
[94:31] Absolutely.
Speaker 3:
[94:31] It's not going to happen, but I'm going to say yes, I will.
Speaker 2:
[94:33] Unless I play the Ducks, in which case, you know.
Speaker 3:
[94:35] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[94:36] So, but I think Mammoth fans enjoy the playoffs, have a lot of fun with it, maybe lower your expectations a little bit in the sense that you want to see them go as far as they can. Obviously, you do, but have no illusions. You beat Vegas, you're still not winning the cup. And that's okay.
Speaker 3:
[94:54] No, that's fine. That's okay.
Speaker 2:
[94:55] It's okay this year.
Speaker 3:
[94:56] Enjoy the process.
Speaker 1:
[94:57] Enjoy the process.
Speaker 3:
[94:58] Keyboard warriors, calm down a little bit, and just have fun with it.
Speaker 2:
[95:00] It's all good. So Matt, let me ask you this. Who do you think is really a serious contender for the cup?
Speaker 1:
[95:07] Serious contender for the cup is my original favorite team is the Colorado Avalanche. They're a wrecking ball Avalanche. President Cup winner. At one point in the season, they were going to beat Boston's point record. They, every line can score, every line can play defense. I mean, Colorado is just on a different level. Like even on the athletic, they have their tiers, you know, the off-tiers of their favorite. They had one called the Colorado tier. That's how good Colorado is. If it's not Colorado, it'll be Carolina. Carolina is that for the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 2:
[95:40] They're heavily, though they're actually in their division. I think they are heavily, heavily favored.
Speaker 1:
[95:45] Yeah, they got best record in the Eastern Conference. They won their division by a lot. So yeah, it'll be Colorado Carolina probably in the final.
Speaker 2:
[95:55] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[95:55] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[95:56] Well, I think when the Golden Knights played the Avalanche near the end of the regular season, John Tortorella, you know, the Golden Knights absolutely abused the Avalanche. Yeah. They beat the crap out of them. And John Tortorella said, this was not by chance, this was by design. We wanted to make a statement. And that pissed off Bednar, who got hit in the face. I think it was in that game.
Speaker 3:
[96:22] It was in that game. It was in the fly puck.
Speaker 2:
[96:25] Bednar, the head coach of the Avalanche, was really not pleased, was really upset that Tortorella said, I'm making a statement here. But I think he was upset because I think Bednar knows that the Golden Knights can beat them.
Speaker 3:
[96:36] We have a good record against them, though, too.
Speaker 2:
[96:38] It's like when I was talking about, we didn't want to play the Mammoth or the Ducks because we're snake.
Speaker 3:
[96:43] We lose every time.
Speaker 2:
[96:44] Yeah. I do think that the Avalanche struggle with the Golden Knights a little bit.
Speaker 1:
[96:48] Just a little push back on that. That game happened after Colorado Clinch lost record in the NHL. They weren't playing Cale McCarr. They weren't playing Gabriel Lansky.
Speaker 2:
[96:56] They didn't have anything to lose. They didn't have anything to lose. So we were the ankle biters.
Speaker 1:
[97:00] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[97:01] Yeah, that's true. That's true. Tortorello wanted to make a statement against a team that had already made their statement.
Speaker 3:
[97:06] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[97:08] But yeah, that point well taken. But what I'm saying is, I think that there may be some surprises in there, but on paper, definitely the Avalanche and the Carolina Hurricanes for sure. In which case, I'll be rooting for the Carolina Hurricanes. Okay, so Nathan McKinnon is the C word, in my opinion.
Speaker 3:
[97:29] Nathan McKinnon is the most hated man in the NHL, just everyone knows. His own team hates him.
Speaker 2:
[97:33] His team hates him.
Speaker 1:
[97:34] That's Vander Cain on line one.
Speaker 3:
[97:36] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.
Speaker 2:
[97:37] Yeah, but he's out. He's out. He's gone. He didn't even have an exit meeting. That's true. The reason I'm saying this is because when we go into the playoffs and then we get knocked out in the first or second round, we always kind of look at it as, wow, what a great season. That was absolutely cool. And I don't see a lot of pissing and moaning.
Speaker 3:
[97:54] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[97:55] Just a lot of, wow, that was really fun. I don't know if it's because there's just a ton of stuff to do here. Unlike other NHL communities where they kind of live and breathe off the one thing.
Speaker 3:
[98:04] Edmonton.
Speaker 2:
[98:04] There's not a lot going on.
Speaker 4:
[98:05] Oh, I have your answer, dude.
Speaker 1:
[98:09] Escorts.
Speaker 2:
[98:11] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[98:12] That's the one reason, Vandit?
Speaker 4:
[98:13] There's a lot of stuff going on here. You got escorts to cheer you up after, man.
Speaker 1:
[98:16] Wait, those are escorts. How can you be mad? I thought they were trading cards. They were handing out on the strip.
Speaker 2:
[98:21] You know, the gig at Live Beach that Chandler played over the weekend, like you get so desensitized to naked bums and silicone.
Speaker 3:
[98:31] Oh, yeah. Oh, you have the cards. Yes, he has the trading cards right there.
Speaker 2:
[98:34] Oh, the trading cards. Got the trading cards.
Speaker 4:
[98:36] Well, these are trading cards, but I'm pretending like they're the escort cards.
Speaker 2:
[98:41] There you go. OK, Matt, so we're going to have you back during the playoffs. We're going to talk with you more if you're willing.
Speaker 1:
[98:47] Oh, absolutely. Yeah, anytime.
Speaker 2:
[98:48] Yeah, we want to have you back on. Everybody check out the Matt Cave podcast. He's going to be covering this stuff much more in depth. And we're giving you kind of the 50,000 foot view. Matt's going to give you that kind of the nuts and bolts, kind of the inside baseball for lack of a better pun intended. He's really going to break everything down, and he's going to take away all the shade and kind of the smack talk and just give you the numbers.
Speaker 3:
[99:10] Yeah, be a journalist about it.
Speaker 1:
[99:12] I'll try my best, but I am Utah slanted. I can't lie.
Speaker 2:
[99:17] I think that's okay. I think especially in sports, I think that's okay to be Utah slanted.
Speaker 1:
[99:21] And I'm the voice of Utah sports, right? I have to be Utah slanted, unless it's the jazz.
Speaker 2:
[99:26] I just, yeah, but are they still even a thing? It's kind of like when I hear Utah jazz, it's kind of like when I hear people talk about the state of Delaware. You're still a thing? Is that still a thing?
Speaker 1:
[99:37] I want to start a petition to call them Anjan Sons is really what I want to call them now.
Speaker 2:
[99:41] Yeah, there you go. I don't know, nobody cares. So anyway, okay, so Matt, thanks for being here at the Matt Cave Podcast. Everybody go check it out.
Speaker 4:
[99:49] Yeah, thank you, Matt.
Speaker 3:
[99:51] Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 2:
[99:53] There he goes. Make no mistake, Matt Smith is without question the smartest sportscaster you will listen to.
Speaker 3:
[100:00] Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:
[100:02] He's amazing.
Speaker 3:
[100:03] He gets pretty much everything right now. His March Bandits bracket, no, but that was by design because he picked BYU for his loyalty in sports. But everything else is easy.
Speaker 2:
[100:14] He's openly biased. I think it's great that he does as a sportscaster and say, look, I'm the voice of Utah sports.
Speaker 3:
[100:22] Yeah, he should be biased.
Speaker 2:
[100:22] I'm going to be biased.
Speaker 3:
[100:23] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[100:24] But I can also be objective and I can be a journalist all at the same time. He's done a great job of doing that. Matt Cave podcast, as heard on the Rona Network, this guy is like, I've got a bunch of friends in the Utah sports community. David Locke, he's my boy. I've known this guy 35 years. I've known Locke. David James, used to be on my show every week. Ron Boone. Ron Boone used to completely melt down my show every day. There's a lot of guys in Utah sports that I just love. As much as I love these guys, Matt is the authority. The guy knows everything, especially about Utah sports. Check him out.
Speaker 3:
[101:03] Yeah, do it.
Speaker 2:
[101:04] If you're outside of Utah, he talks about all kinds of stuff outside of Utah too.
Speaker 3:
[101:08] Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[101:11] So I highly encourage, we're going to have him back like we said on the show.
Speaker 3:
[101:13] Yeah, probably next week.
Speaker 2:
[101:15] Okay. So moving right along the Chunga Poll, we have to do a sports Chunga Poll now.
Speaker 3:
[101:19] After this, yeah, I can't think so.
Speaker 4:
[101:21] For sure, dude.
Speaker 3:
[101:21] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[101:22] Because there was a lot of, there was a lot of smack talking, there was a lot of chirping, as they say in hockey, you know, it's called chirping. There's a lot of chirping. We want to go positive now.
Speaker 3:
[101:31] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[101:32] Yes.
Speaker 3:
[101:32] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[101:33] I don't want to be negative anymore, guys. I want to be positive. So the Chunga Poll for today, who is your favorite athlete of all time? And why? Who is your favorite athlete of all time and why?
Speaker 4:
[101:48] Yeah. Can we give a runner up as well? Because man, this is going to be tough. Yeah. Thank you.
Speaker 3:
[101:55] Yeah. This is a fun one. Okay.
Speaker 2:
[101:58] Favorite athlete of all time and why?
Speaker 3:
[102:00] And why?
Speaker 2:
[102:02] You want me to go first?
Speaker 3:
[102:03] Yeah, actually. I think you should. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[102:05] My runner up favorite athlete of all time would be Steve Young.
Speaker 4:
[102:11] Oh, yes. Steve.
Speaker 3:
[102:13] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[102:14] Steve Young listens to the show. Steve Young listens to the radio show. I was a big fan of Steve Young and I was invited years ago to be on a celebrity softball team for charity. And both of the teams were put together. There were a bunch of organizers, including a former Utah jazz guy by the name of Brian Russell.
Speaker 4:
[102:34] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[102:34] Some of you will remember this guy. I thought he was a fantastic basketball player and I thought he was an even better human.
Speaker 1:
[102:41] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[102:41] And this was all for charity and everybody, because this was the era, they all called him B Russ.
Speaker 1:
[102:47] Nice.
Speaker 2:
[102:49] Brian was a phenomenal, phenomenal guy, great friend, great basketball player. I've since lost touch with him, but he put this whole thing together. And he had a bunch of people on both teams. And Steve Young was on the team opposite of me.
Speaker 1:
[103:03] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[103:04] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[103:04] And I got a hit playing baseball. I got a hit in softball and ran to the first base that was being manned by Steve Young. And he's like, Chunga, Chunga, I have to say, I am like your biggest fan. And I write you emails all the time. And I don't think that you know it's me because I say I'm Steven Young. And I'm like, that's you? The guy I'm ignoring all the time. He's like, yes. He's like, I love your show, man. I love your show. I'm a huge fan of your show. So I'm sitting there and, and I've got my family, like my parents and Shannon and all this, they're all in there like, oh my gosh, Steve Young is talking to Chunga. And down there, he's just like, he knew everything about the show. And I was already a huge Steve Young fan. And then there was a big fight on the pitcher's mound about 10 minutes after, and he hit me in the kidney so hard, I peed blood for like three days. I've never been hit or tackled.
Speaker 4:
[104:01] That guy is awesome.
Speaker 3:
[104:04] That'll do it.
Speaker 2:
[104:05] I played hockey, like we talked about it. I've played hockey most of my life, and Steve Young hit me harder than I peed blood.
Speaker 3:
[104:12] Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 2:
[104:13] That's how hard he hit me.
Speaker 3:
[104:15] That's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[104:15] I love that. So he's my runner up.
Speaker 4:
[104:17] Yeah, I actually have a signed program from back when he played on BYU that my grandma actually got for me because I was a fan.
Speaker 3:
[104:28] Oh, really?
Speaker 4:
[104:28] You know, clear back when he was playing for BYU, I was a fan, and then when he went to, got drafted by Tampa Bay, I actually still have my Steve Young rookie card in his Tampa Bay uniform. And then of course went to my team, the 49ers, which he went on to win a Super Bowl with.
Speaker 2:
[104:48] And let's not forget the USFL. He played in the USFL as well. I think the LA Express.
Speaker 4:
[104:53] I love Steve Young. So I'm right there with you, man.
Speaker 2:
[104:56] So he's my runner up and he probably should be my favorite because I got to throw the football around with him. I got to go to his house, which he didn't even have a lock on the front door, by the way. I'm like, Steve, you have all the money, buy a comb. Come on, man. I will tell you, he opened up a desk drawer at his office and it was full of checks that he hadn't cashed. Oh my gosh. It was amazing to see. It was something to see. Anyway, great guy. And why was I there? Well, I'll tell you why he was there because this is so embarrassing. We were all getting cell phones, our first cell phones. This is no joke. We were doing a public appearance. It was me and Steve Young and Ty Dettmer.
Speaker 4:
[105:43] Oh wow, Ty. Wow.
Speaker 2:
[105:45] And we were all getting our very first cell phones on the same day. And so while we were waiting to do the public appearance, I was at Steve's house with Ty Dettmer and we throw him the ball around and Ty Dettmer was like, Oh, those are a whole bunch of checks that he just had. He just didn't even bother to cash. I said, yes, Ty Dettmer, I think they were. Do you think we could steal some of those? He wouldn't notice. Yeah. He wouldn't have noticed. There's not even a lock on the front door. But okay. So my, my favorite athlete of all time.
Speaker 4:
[106:17] Okay. Ooh, I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 2:
[106:20] Jim Craig of the 1980 Miracle Hockey League.
Speaker 4:
[106:22] Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:
[106:24] Hockey goalie Jim Craig of the Miracle on Ice team. I have followed this man my entire life, even post-hockey.
Speaker 3:
[106:31] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[106:32] Played for the Atlanta Flames in the profession, in the NHL, played for the Atlanta Flames, which were the Calgary Flames and then went to Atlanta, became the Atlanta Flames and then they went back to Calgary, Calgary Flames.
Speaker 3:
[106:44] Nice.
Speaker 2:
[106:45] And the man's bravery, the man's stubbornness, the man's tenacity inspired me when I was watching the Miracle on Ice game, the 80 Olympics. Watching that live changed my life and changed the course of my life because of Jim Craig. So Jim Craig is my favorite athlete of all time.
Speaker 3:
[107:04] I think that's a perfect pick for you. Yeah, I mean, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:
[107:09] Followed by my runner, Steve Young, which I mean, close, right?
Speaker 3:
[107:12] That's really cool, though. That's very cool.
Speaker 2:
[107:13] Okay, who wants to go next?
Speaker 3:
[107:15] Oh, how are you, Pan? Do you want me to go? I can go for it if you need some more time.
Speaker 4:
[107:18] Yeah, go for it. Go for it.
Speaker 2:
[107:20] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[107:20] So my runner up will have to be, like Chunga mentioned, when you're a young kid and you get to experience, you know, sports like this at this scale for the first time, it changed you as a person. And walking into Angel Stadium as a seven year old kid changed my life forever. And that team, when I first started getting into baseball.
Speaker 2:
[107:39] The 2007 LA Angels.
Speaker 3:
[107:41] Sean Figgins, Jared Weaver, Mike Napoli. I mean, I have a full-
Speaker 2:
[107:46] Garrett Anderson, who just passed away sadly.
Speaker 3:
[107:48] Yeah. I mean, an amazing group of guys. But my favorite player was always Tory Hunter.
Speaker 2:
[107:54] Tory Hunter.
Speaker 3:
[107:54] Was my favorite player. Centerfield for the, you know, Angels. And I love this dude. And then, so we go to my first Angels game and we're down there and I've got my glove on. You know, all of my Angels gear that Chunga just hooked me up with.
Speaker 2:
[108:06] We went to batting practice.
Speaker 3:
[108:07] We went to batting practice, Scott, and super early got an Angel dog and just hung out. And, you know, Tory Hunter's warming up and Chunga goes, Tory! And he walks over, starts talking to us.
Speaker 2:
[108:15] Yep.
Speaker 3:
[108:15] And throws me a ball and I lost my mind. Jared Weaver comes over, signs that ball. I still have that ball in my room to this day. Tory Hunter is the absolute man. He's working for like a coaching job. He's trying to get a coaching job with the Angels. Everyone says he's hands down one of the nicest gentlemen you'll ever meet. Just a class act through and through.
Speaker 2:
[108:34] There's trivia to that. I don't even know if you remember it, but when I did the kiss a pig contest with the Salt Lake Bees.
Speaker 3:
[108:43] How can I forget?
Speaker 2:
[108:45] I had to kiss Pepperoni the pig and Pepperoni died right before I had to kiss the pig. You were held by Randall Carlisle, newsman. I can't remember Barbara Barb something or other. She was Randall's co-anchor and there was a young pitcher there who also held you for a short time because chaos was erupting in the dugout because Pepperoni was dying. That young pitcher was Jared Weaver.
Speaker 3:
[109:11] He's signed a different ball, which I also have in my room.
Speaker 2:
[109:15] Jared Weaver, who was with the Bees at the time, held you for a short time during that chaos.
Speaker 3:
[109:20] If I was able to pick three, Jared Weaver would be number three. He's right behind Tori Hunter.
Speaker 4:
[109:25] You can have an extra dude. You can have an extra one.
Speaker 3:
[109:28] Yeah, so Tori Hunter from the Angels. Yeah, gold glove recipient. I mean, an absolute amazing dude.
Speaker 2:
[109:34] He won like 11 or 12 gold gloves, I think.
Speaker 3:
[109:36] Just an awesome dude. But my number one vote, I don't think this will come as a surprise to anyone. It's the one, the only Mark Andre Fleury. He's my favorite athlete of all time. I hated that he played for the Penguins because I'm not a Penguins fan.
Speaker 4:
[109:53] Sorry, Brandon. That's fine if you don't like him, dude. We could still be friends.
Speaker 2:
[109:57] He didn't just play for the Penguins, he won two cups with the Penguins.
Speaker 3:
[110:00] And retired as a Penguin.
Speaker 4:
[110:02] So much ass as a Penguin that I was so mad when they decided to go with Matt Murray. Instead of Fleury.
Speaker 3:
[110:09] No, they screwed him over really bad. But as a young goalie, I would, you know, back in my day before YouTube was a thing, I would tape every Penguins game and dissect every single movement that he would do as a goalie and study the man like crazy. And then when Vegas announced that he was our guy, I was like, well, that's my team then. I will go into the ground as a Vegas fan. Like that will never leave me because of Fleury, honestly.
Speaker 2:
[110:32] Well, we were talking about it when Matt was here. He's considered the greatest Golden Knight of all time.
Speaker 3:
[110:36] He is. And he was the captain because, you know, in hockey, goalies can't be captains, so no one wore a seat. So that Fleury could be the captain, which was really cool. And if you know and kind of study the guy at all, he is absolutely hilarious. He's the biggest prankster ever. He's always causing problems and, you know, stealing players' sticks and putting them through the camera, the holes in the glass where the camera crews shoot through. And he's just being a pain in the ass in the funnest way possible. He's always in Vegas, still doing meetups and signings and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:
[111:04] He practices with the team here.
Speaker 3:
[111:05] All the time. And absolutely hilarious dude. Love playing for Vegas. And yeah, I mean, as a goalie myself, it has to be Fleury. There's no question.
Speaker 2:
[111:13] Marc-Andre Fleury.
Speaker 3:
[111:14] Yeah. That would be it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[111:15] Good choice Chandler. Great choice. Okay, Panda, your turn.
Speaker 4:
[111:19] Okay. Is it okay if I give like two runners up because-
Speaker 3:
[111:23] I mean, I kind of did.
Speaker 2:
[111:24] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[111:24] I guess you could do that.
Speaker 2:
[111:26] Sure, Panda. Go for it.
Speaker 4:
[111:27] Yeah. So I would guess to say like my current favorite, one of my current favorites, which is a runner up because I just love this guy's personality. And every time I see him on camera, especially when he's miked up for games, it would have to be George Kittle. The San Francisco 49ers tied in because he's just a really good dude. Jokes around all the time, has fun, seems like he has such a winning personality that you just want to hang out with the dude. And even though I can't stand beer, I don't like beer, I would have a beer with this dude.
Speaker 3:
[112:04] With Kittle? Yeah. He's a huge gamer too. He always streams his video game.
Speaker 4:
[112:08] Big time, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[112:10] He's a total nerd, it's awesome.
Speaker 4:
[112:12] Yeah, I mean, when he had a season-ending injury, he was playing video games while he's, you know.
Speaker 3:
[112:20] Yeah, just chilling out.
Speaker 4:
[112:22] Dude, just kind of been healing up from it. So yeah, I mean, I love George Kittle.
Speaker 3:
[112:26] Yeah, good pick.
Speaker 2:
[112:27] So Panda, you'll love this. So there is a woman that I was a vocal coach for. Her name is Erin Forsberg. Now her last name is Forsberg. She's married to Philip Forsberg of the Nashville Predators.
Speaker 4:
[112:41] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[112:42] I was her coach when she lived in Utah for a short time doing American Idol stuff. I was her vocal coach. She ended up marrying Philip Forsberg and Philip is best friends with George Kittle.
Speaker 3:
[112:54] Yep.
Speaker 4:
[112:55] Oh, what?
Speaker 2:
[112:56] So yeah, so I got to meet George Kittle and he is one of the nicest, most down to earth dudes you will ever, ever meet.
Speaker 3:
[113:05] Yeah, really I heard that about him.
Speaker 4:
[113:06] I can only imagine and hook a brother up, man.
Speaker 2:
[113:10] Come on, I need to man that's I didn't know you're such a big fan of George Kittle. Oh yeah, I can't say anything, not a single thing bad about that guy.
Speaker 3:
[113:18] That's what everyone says about him though. Like every person, like no one has anything negative to say about the guy.
Speaker 4:
[113:22] He's just awesome.
Speaker 2:
[113:23] Great guy.
Speaker 4:
[113:23] As far as current players go, he's my favorite because I just love the dude. When he's such a workhorse too, because I mean, you know, even when he's not getting the ball dude, he's in there blocking for people. I mean, he's just willing to do whatever it takes to help his team succeed. So that's what I love about him, which leads me into my other runner up, which is a guy who, I mean, played running back for the 49ers for several years, actually got to retire a 49er when they signed him to a one day contract so that he could officially retire as a 49er, which is Frank Gore, who whenever you needed that extra couple yards, I mean, this dude, he was short.
Speaker 2:
[114:10] I don't, I have to look him up.
Speaker 3:
[114:11] Yeah, I don't know the name.
Speaker 4:
[114:12] Oh yeah, dude, Frank Gore was an amazing player. He was there on their run to the Super Bowl when they ended up playing the Ravens in the Super Bowl. I mean, and this dude, like, he was short. So he was a guy who a lot of people never expected a lot out of him, but he knew how to just churn his legs and be able to just squeeze those extra one to two yards out to get that first down.
Speaker 3:
[114:40] I love players like that.
Speaker 4:
[114:41] Amazing, amazing player. Yeah, and a super, super humble guy too because he never let it go to his head that...
Speaker 3:
[114:50] Nice.
Speaker 4:
[114:50] You know, he's just one of those guys that I always loved and appreciated him. So he's my second runner up, but I have to say hands down, my favorite sports, and you know, honestly, hero of all time, Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Speaker 1:
[115:05] Mario Lemieux!
Speaker 3:
[115:06] Oh, no way!
Speaker 4:
[115:07] A guy who made it through bouts of cancer and kicked ass as a player.
Speaker 3:
[115:13] Yeah, yeah. I mean, one of the biggest legends in hockey history.
Speaker 2:
[115:17] Dude. I mean, honestly, to me, he's next only to Gretzky.
Speaker 3:
[115:21] I would agree with that.
Speaker 2:
[115:22] Gretzky has had to beat a lot of these things, but I have to tell you, I really do think that the Lemieux is above Ovechkin.
Speaker 4:
[115:29] Legend, man, legend.
Speaker 2:
[115:31] Gretzky and Lemieux.
Speaker 3:
[115:32] Oh, dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 2:
[115:33] Yeah, and again, multiple time cancer survivor, like Castle.
Speaker 3:
[115:39] Yeah, yeah, actually.
Speaker 4:
[115:40] And Stanley Cup winner.
Speaker 2:
[115:42] And when the Pittsburgh Penguins went broke, rather than allowing the Pittsburgh Penguins to leave Pittsburgh, he bought them to keep them in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4:
[115:51] Dude, just a great guy, I mean. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[115:54] You know what's so cool? When we were actually able to see the physical Stanley Cup in Anaheim, and we're taking our picture and they have like the whole photo op, I kind of like looked down and the first name that I saw was Lemieux's name.
Speaker 4:
[116:04] Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 3:
[116:05] I was like, whoa.
Speaker 2:
[116:06] It gets really real, huh?
Speaker 3:
[116:07] Yeah, when you see his etched name, like etched by hand in the cup, I was like, that's wild, man.
Speaker 2:
[116:11] I wish I would have had an experience like that, because the first name I saw was Butch Goring, who knocked out four of my teeth.
Speaker 3:
[116:17] I mean, talk about a full circle moment for you.
Speaker 2:
[116:19] I mean, I immediately got a pit in my stomach. But yeah, I saw Lemieux's name, I saw Gretzky's name on there.
Speaker 4:
[116:27] Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:
[116:28] Good pick.
Speaker 3:
[116:29] Good pick.
Speaker 4:
[116:29] Hey, thanks, man.
Speaker 3:
[116:30] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[116:31] I didn't realize, I did not think you were, I thought for sure you were gonna say Joe Montana or somebody like that.
Speaker 4:
[116:35] No, no, I mean, I love Montana. I love those days of Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, all of that stuff. I mean, and Steve Young, like, you know, a lot of classic 49ers players, but yeah, I mean, Lemieux, hands down, I mean, you know, talking about a workhorse who just played mostly for the love of the game. And that's what I love to see is the guys who are passionate about the game, they don't care as much about being in the limelight. They don't care as much about, you know, how much money they can make. They're there for the game. And that's what I love.
Speaker 3:
[117:12] I think the players that have the most fun, like that is, the way Flory was exactly that too. Yeah, so cool.
Speaker 2:
[117:18] That's, there's a lot of pro athletes that are total dicks. Jim Kelly of the Buffalo Bills I met, and he was one of the biggest turds I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 4:
[117:27] It's fine that he lost so many Super Bowls too.
Speaker 2:
[117:30] Yeah, good, I'm glad. But yeah, I think, I think Mario Lemieux, my goodness gracious, what a cool guy.
Speaker 3:
[117:38] Yeah, good pick, Panda.
Speaker 2:
[117:39] Well, now it is your turn. Please go to our social media profiles, the regular Radio Ronin Facebook page, the Radio Ronin Fam Facebook group.
Speaker 4:
[117:49] Our Instagram page?
Speaker 2:
[117:50] Yeah, the Insta page.
Speaker 3:
[117:52] Yeah, the IG.
Speaker 4:
[117:53] No, don't do that, don't do that, man. Don't shorten that shit up, man.
Speaker 2:
[117:57] I'm sorry, man. Go to the Insta page and...
Speaker 4:
[118:02] No! It's like biting my nipple, you bastard.
Speaker 2:
[118:05] I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He said Insta and I didn't like it. Anyway, go to any of our social media profiles and tell us who is your favorite athlete of all time? Yes, is it Babe Ruth? Is it Carl Lamone?
Speaker 3:
[118:20] Is it Tom Brady?
Speaker 2:
[118:21] Is it the pasty gangster John Stockton? Yeah, is it Tom Brady?
Speaker 3:
[118:26] If any of you say Peyton Manning, that thumb person from the Spy Kids, that son of a bitch, I'm gonna be so mad at you.
Speaker 4:
[118:32] That no-talent ass clown?
Speaker 3:
[118:34] Yeah, Peyton. You don't dare, you Omaha-saying bastard. Take your ass.
Speaker 2:
[118:39] Anyway, so who is your favorite athlete of all time? Let's find out.
Speaker 3:
[118:43] Nice. Awesome.
Speaker 2:
[118:44] All right, let's, oh man, it's time. It's time to, the show, we've got one more thing to do, but before we do that, thank you, goblins.
Speaker 3:
[118:51] Hey, goblins! Hey, goblins!
Speaker 2:
[118:53] The goblins, they're an amazing breed, the goblins. They're elite.
Speaker 3:
[118:58] Yeah, they are.
Speaker 2:
[119:00] $50 on a $50 bucks a month on up. Those are the, that is the requirement to be a goblin, to attain all the rights and privileges, including the elite status that makes the neighbors jealous.
Speaker 3:
[119:12] Exactly.
Speaker 2:
[119:13] I mean, it's like, it's awesome. Our goblins, thank you goblins for making the show possible, not only for yourselves, but for us.
Speaker 3:
[119:19] Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:
[119:20] And for everybody who listens. Top of the list, Amy B.
Speaker 3:
[119:23] Amy!
Speaker 4:
[119:23] Amy!
Speaker 3:
[119:24] You are awesome, Amy!
Speaker 2:
[119:26] She was part of the Ronin invasion. She came to Live Beach. Yeah, she did.
Speaker 3:
[119:29] She ate breadsticks with us. It was awesome. Yes, she did.
Speaker 2:
[119:31] Amy B, $55.55 a month. Thank you, Amy B. We love you very much. Everyone's $50 until I say otherwise.
Speaker 3:
[119:37] Nice, cool.
Speaker 2:
[119:38] Taylor Casper.
Speaker 1:
[119:39] Taylor!
Speaker 2:
[119:40] Thank you, Taylor Casper.
Speaker 4:
[119:41] Happy birthday to your mom.
Speaker 2:
[119:43] Yeah. Happy birthday, moms. Let's see. A scene on the small screen podcast with Becky and Jake. Thank you, guys. Denver Robbins creative. Wake up. Here come the bikinis. Oh boy, we better synchronize our pacemakers.
Speaker 3:
[119:55] Now, we looked this one up.
Speaker 4:
[119:56] I think we did. I just can't remember what it was. Was it a Muppet thing? I think it was a Muppet thing. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:
[120:02] I think it might have been.
Speaker 2:
[120:03] It might have been, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[120:05] Thank you, Denver Robbins. Thank you. It's Shannon and Sir James West.
Speaker 1:
[120:09] Oh, I love you guys. I still need to go to a concert with those two.
Speaker 4:
[120:12] We missed you guys in St. George.
Speaker 2:
[120:14] Yeah, we did. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[120:15] Lieutenant Daniel Caffe, LT. LT! LT, lots of love, LT, we love you very much. Thank you very much for being a goblin. To Booth Boys, Tusks up to the cup.
Speaker 1:
[120:27] Booth Boys, I love you. I love you, just know that. Just know that I love both of you.
Speaker 4:
[120:32] I love you guys. I'm not gonna lie, I had to really clench my butt cheeks to say that.
Speaker 1:
[120:36] I'm clenching mine right now.
Speaker 4:
[120:39] You know that meme where you have the guy from Community that played Leslie Chao in The Hangover, what else?
Speaker 1:
[120:44] Oh yeah, Ken Jeong.
Speaker 4:
[120:47] Ah, there we go. Royal Highness Miss Jessica Terry.
Speaker 2:
[120:50] Hey Jessica!
Speaker 4:
[120:51] Jessica Terry, thank you. Royal Highness Jessica Terry. Gina and Janae Greene. Thank you ladies. Angel, 50 bucks a month.
Speaker 1:
[121:05] Angel!
Speaker 4:
[121:06] Thank you, Angel. Jody College, I hope nobody ever tells her we're the bad guys.
Speaker 2:
[121:13] I think we can look this one up now, can't we?
Speaker 1:
[121:15] One more, I think, on this one still. Yeah, I think we can look this one up. Remember, we missed a show.
Speaker 2:
[121:21] Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 4:
[121:22] Oh yeah, we did, at good point.
Speaker 2:
[121:22] Thank you, Amanda.
Speaker 1:
[121:23] So yeah, one more show on that. Okay.
Speaker 4:
[121:24] Heather Snow Travel, you're a travel concierge, so you can enjoy planning your vacation.
Speaker 2:
[121:29] Thanks, Heather.
Speaker 4:
[121:30] heathersnowtravel.com, go look her up. heathersnowtravel.com. The college girls, you son of a bitch, you moved the cemetery, but you left the body. Sit and chill.
Speaker 1:
[121:40] Ah, yeah.
Speaker 4:
[121:43] You moved the heads up, but you didn't move the bodies.
Speaker 1:
[121:46] I love it too, because he's saying that line to James Karen, who's one of the characters in Return of the Living Dead.
Speaker 2:
[121:53] That's right.
Speaker 4:
[121:53] Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1:
[121:54] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[121:55] Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:
[121:55] Nice.
Speaker 4:
[121:56] And for the record, those were real bodies in the pool with Joe.
Speaker 1:
[121:59] Oh, dude.
Speaker 4:
[122:00] With Joe.
Speaker 1:
[122:00] I had a bunch of little Skelly men in there.
Speaker 4:
[122:02] Yeah, they were real bodies, and she didn't know it. After filming for three days, she was only told at the end of the shoot, after three days of filming with real dead guys in the pool.
Speaker 2:
[122:10] Yeah, drinking that water. Hey, Milley!
Speaker 4:
[122:17] Milley, Milley Pack, who is amazing, by the way. She said, you lost today, kid, but it didn't mean you... Oh, I see. I was there, man. I was in it. I was in it.
Speaker 2:
[122:25] You were in, you were in in that, yeah.
Speaker 4:
[122:27] You lost it, kid, but it doesn't mean you have to like it.
Speaker 1:
[122:30] Nice, there it is. You know, and there's a potential possible Ronin trip, you know, to that location that took place in that movie, which would be down at Arches National Park in September. No, I just need to nail down and it'll be available for anybody who wants to go.
Speaker 4:
[122:51] Oh, that would be way fun. Ray and Heather Shelton.
Speaker 2:
[122:54] Oh, there they are.
Speaker 4:
[122:57] I love you guys, Ray and Heather. Thank you for coming to my totally messed up gig at the Hard Rock.
Speaker 2:
[123:01] It was not totally messed up. You did great.
Speaker 4:
[123:03] It was kind of messed up.
Speaker 2:
[123:04] No, there's a bunch of people there.
Speaker 4:
[123:06] It was just great having these guys there.
Speaker 2:
[123:07] Yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 4:
[123:09] They are usually around when I'm at my most vulnerable. Yeah, like couch shopping. Which, you know, was it was a vulnerable state for most individuals. Yeah, it was not fun. But they were there and they made it a lot better. Cindy Queen of Bash.
Speaker 2:
[123:23] Hey, Cindy.
Speaker 4:
[123:26] Thank you, Cindy Queen of Bash. 5001, we love you. We missed you in St. George.
Speaker 2:
[123:30] Yeah, love you, Cindy.
Speaker 4:
[123:31] Coming in at 5010, Riach. Riach. Riach, he's a voice actor and a junior high school teacher.
Speaker 2:
[123:37] Yeah, great dude.
Speaker 4:
[123:38] Which we see is a total glutton for punishment in both worlds. Riach, I love you, dude. Angela Plotz, 5010, thank you, Angela.
Speaker 1:
[123:45] Angela, hey.
Speaker 4:
[123:45] Or 5056, excuse me.
Speaker 1:
[123:47] Woohoo.
Speaker 4:
[123:48] AP, we love you very much. Marta Lords and Sissy Echo coming in at 5111. Marta, Marta, I'm coming for you. I'm coming for you the next game.
Speaker 1:
[123:57] I'm going to f***.
Speaker 4:
[124:02] Stanley Cup playoffs.
Speaker 2:
[124:03] Well, you can't say that about Marta. You can't say that about Marta.
Speaker 1:
[124:07] Marta will do your nails, dude. Marta will do your nails.
Speaker 4:
[124:11] Marta. Hey, Marta. Marta. You know that whole thing about the, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 1:
[124:17] No, no, no, no.
Speaker 4:
[124:18] I'm just, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:
[124:19] We love you, Marta. We love you, Sissy Echo.
Speaker 2:
[124:22] Goodness gracious.
Speaker 4:
[124:23] I'm just talking shit.
Speaker 1:
[124:23] Playoffs, Marta. It's playoffs.
Speaker 4:
[124:25] It's Marta. I love you, Marta. Sissy Echo. Sissy Echo. I'm coming for you, Sissy Echo. And when I say, I'm a Sissy Echo, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 1:
[124:38] No, no, no.
Speaker 4:
[124:39] I didn't mean that either. I was just kidding. I, you know, it's just, it's hockey.
Speaker 2:
[124:42] Wow.
Speaker 4:
[124:44] I get a little carried away. Like with hockey, I got to, I got to, Yeah, you got to, you got to, yeah. It's like, it's like, I'm Lancelot and in, in I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:
[124:52] Sorry.
Speaker 4:
[124:53] I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:
[124:55] Huge tracks of land.
Speaker 4:
[124:57] I'm sorry. You killed the best man.
Speaker 2:
[125:02] I'm not dead yet. But father, I just want to, I just want to sing.
Speaker 4:
[125:06] No, no, no, no. I don't know how Echo came to that, but. Yeah, yeah. That's all right. We love you. We love you. We love you, Marta. We love you both. We love you, Sissy Echo. I'm sorry you had to witness that ugliness. And the same goes for you, Lane Hilton. Captain Lane Hilton.
Speaker 2:
[125:21] Oh, yes, Lane.
Speaker 4:
[125:23] Captain Lane Hilton of the Unified Fire Department. Captain Lane Hilton. Unified Fire Department. Thank you, man. 5150.
Speaker 2:
[125:30] For our and those men. Thank you, dude.
Speaker 4:
[125:31] That's a police code for crazy man on the loose.
Speaker 2:
[125:33] It is, actually. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[125:35] Blue Line mom, Krista Windsor. She's at 5151. Less obvious reason. She just wanted to be by Captain Hilton.
Speaker 2:
[125:40] No, yeah.
Speaker 4:
[125:41] So that's why she did it. Thank you very much, Blue Line mom, Krista Windsor. Alexi, that's Alexi Pak. Hey, Chunga, I'll show you the dress photos on Thursday night at the Pizza Factory.
Speaker 2:
[125:51] I saw the dress.
Speaker 1:
[125:52] Did we see it?
Speaker 2:
[125:53] Yep. I saw the dress.
Speaker 4:
[125:54] So I did see the dress. Can I tell you, when you think about prom dresses, what do you think, Panda? Kind of a frilly, almost like a Cinderella type dress. Alexi's dress was like something that, um, it was beautiful. And it wasn't this kind of this princess dress. It was way different. It was white and it had kind of a blue, kind of almost tropical pattern on it.
Speaker 2:
[126:20] It's like what you'd wear to like a really fancy dinner in the Bahamas.
Speaker 4:
[126:24] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[126:24] It was like a really nice restaurant in the Bahamas. Yeah, it was very fancy.
Speaker 4:
[126:28] If your name is Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2:
[126:30] Yeah, honestly, I was like, oh my gosh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4:
[126:32] It was beautiful.
Speaker 2:
[126:33] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[126:34] Like really beautiful. Like Audrey Hepburn kind of beautiful.
Speaker 2:
[126:38] Yeah. I was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 4:
[126:39] All right. Really crazy. She did good.
Speaker 2:
[126:42] Yeah. She did fantastic. I was asking Alexi about the prom and the boy and everything like that. I'm like, what's your pre-dance activity? She goes, Chandler, we don't live in Utah. We don't do that stupid stuff. We just go to the dance and we go home. I was like, oh, all right.
Speaker 1:
[126:58] They don't do like a pre-date for the prom?
Speaker 2:
[127:00] They don't do a pre-date, apparently. She goes, that's only like a cringey Utah thing. I was like, oh, I didn't know this at all. All right, well, sorry.
Speaker 4:
[127:07] I thought it was everywhere.
Speaker 2:
[127:08] No, she said it was everywhere.
Speaker 4:
[127:10] It's on and everywhere.
Speaker 2:
[127:10] She goes, no, that's a Utah thing only in Carrie Pack. Mama Carrie's like, yeah, that's only a Utah thing.
Speaker 4:
[127:16] What?
Speaker 2:
[127:16] Yeah, because you used to live in Oregon too. And they're like, yeah, we don't do that anywhere else. I was like, no way.
Speaker 4:
[127:21] I'm really surprised.
Speaker 2:
[127:22] Yeah, so I got shaded by Ms. Alexi.
Speaker 1:
[127:25] I thought that was part of the ritual.
Speaker 4:
[127:27] Me too, so you didn't know either, Panda. This was a totally new thing.
Speaker 2:
[127:30] There's news to me.
Speaker 4:
[127:32] Well, excuse the hell out of us, Alexi. It's awesome. I went full hayseed there.
Speaker 2:
[127:40] I know, I loved it.
Speaker 4:
[127:41] I should have known, I guess.
Speaker 1:
[127:42] Please at least tell me that the boy asked you by doing one of those candy bar signs.
Speaker 2:
[127:46] Candy bar sign?
Speaker 4:
[127:48] Or toilet paper in your house or, I don't know, graffiti in your car.
Speaker 2:
[127:52] Oh, that's a fun one.
Speaker 4:
[127:53] Yeah. Ken Krueger. The golden voice of Radio Ronin, Pastor Ken Krueger from Mountain Church.
Speaker 2:
[128:01] Love you, pastor.
Speaker 4:
[128:02] Love you, dude. Thank you. Thank you, Ken. I love you, man. You and your family and your weird dog. I love it all. 57, 77. Thank you, Ken.
Speaker 2:
[128:10] Nice. Love you, dude.
Speaker 4:
[128:11] King Richard Drew of Utah County. His Highness King Rich is actually in Vegas for NAB.
Speaker 2:
[128:17] He is?
Speaker 4:
[128:18] Didn't tell. Well, yeah, but then he tell you like springs on me last minute. I'm like, dude, I can't hang.
Speaker 1:
[128:24] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[128:25] I'm like, you gotta let me know these things. He goes like, well, I didn't know I was going to. So tell me as soon as you find out, Rich.
Speaker 1:
[128:30] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[128:31] I mean, come on.
Speaker 4:
[128:32] And he's down here with Lewis too.
Speaker 2:
[128:34] Oh, really?
Speaker 4:
[128:35] Yeah. I love you, Rich. You're the man.
Speaker 1:
[128:37] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[128:37] Love you, dude.
Speaker 4:
[128:38] King Richard is one of my favorite people I'll ever know in my life.
Speaker 1:
[128:40] Oh, same.
Speaker 2:
[128:41] Yeah. The same here.
Speaker 4:
[128:42] Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2:
[128:43] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[128:44] He's an amazing guy. Speaking of amazing guys, the Ronin dentist, Dr. Steve McKiff.
Speaker 2:
[128:48] Hello, Steve.
Speaker 4:
[128:50] Ronin dentist, Dr. Steve McKiff. I am not in danger. I am the danger. I'm the one who knocks. I think there's more that was cut off here.
Speaker 1:
[129:00] What is that? Oh yeah. And that seems like it's from, what's that TV show? Breaking Bad.
Speaker 4:
[129:07] I am not in danger.
Speaker 1:
[129:08] Yeah. I think it's Breaking Bad. Is it Breaking Bad? I am the one who knocks. Yeah. Walter White, I believe, delivered that line.
Speaker 4:
[129:14] I don't really see Steve McKiff as a Breaking Bad watcher.
Speaker 1:
[129:17] I don't know, dude. It was a great show.
Speaker 4:
[129:19] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[129:20] All right. I liked it.
Speaker 4:
[129:22] So Panda is guessing Breaking Bad, Steve. Is that correct?
Speaker 1:
[129:25] Let us know if I'm right or if I'm way wrong.
Speaker 4:
[129:28] Coming in at 62.22, he is the star of Podcast and Screen along with his amazing wife, the very talented Brent, too. It is Brent and Chris, too, at 62.22.
Speaker 2:
[129:40] Yeah. I have to say though, seeing Chris dance at a day club, dude's got moves.
Speaker 4:
[129:50] They both do.
Speaker 2:
[129:51] Yeah. I mean, Brent always works at every gig, right? And then seeing Chris just like, he was grooving, man. It was awesome. It was like sweet.
Speaker 4:
[129:57] They're two seriously talented individuals. It's really cool to see. Let's see here. 65 bucks a month. The legend, Guy Stones, Boultergeist. He's a great guy, guys. So we love you.
Speaker 2:
[130:13] Yeah. Love you, man.
Speaker 4:
[130:14] Phil Johnson was happy to see everyone in St. George. Now to the record store to get Gregg to sign my Chewbacca. Oh, yeah. He's bringing it.
Speaker 1:
[130:24] Dude, can't wait to see you there, buddy.
Speaker 4:
[130:26] Actually, I did it wrong. I did it wrong. Phil, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:
[130:31] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[130:31] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[130:32] I have to go back. Phil Johnson was happy to see everyone in St. George. Now to the record store to get Gregg to sign my Chewbacca.
Speaker 2:
[130:38] There it is.
Speaker 4:
[130:40] 70 bucks a month.
Speaker 2:
[130:41] How you doing, Chewbacca?
Speaker 4:
[130:42] I love you, Phil. Becky and Eric with Pop Culture Pumpkins. We love you guys. popculturepumpkins.com. Now is the time. It's like Obi-Wan said, if you would like to have pumpkins made, now is the time. These things, Instant Family Heirlooms, just, I'll tell you what, just go check them out. popculturepumpkins.com. See how insanely cool these things are. See them backlit. Imagine how cool they would look with your Halloween or your Christmas decorations, on the tree next to your stuff. It's incredible.
Speaker 1:
[131:15] So I actually just had a thought too. I think next time I see both Becky and Eric, I need them to actually sign my pumpkins. I want their John Hancock or their Herbie Hancock on my...
Speaker 2:
[131:30] Easy there. Easy.
Speaker 1:
[131:31] No, no, it's a line from Tommy Boy. Come on, dude.
Speaker 4:
[131:34] Oh, I didn't.
Speaker 1:
[131:35] I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:
[131:36] I didn't place it there, Panda. My bad. I apologize. Actually, I think that's a good idea. We should have them sign a Ronin and we have a Chunga Pumpkin, which is disturbingly accurate.
Speaker 2:
[131:45] I know. It's shocking. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[131:47] Thank you to Becky and Eric. We love you guys. Love you guys.
Speaker 2:
[131:49] Thank you.
Speaker 4:
[131:49] You guys are amazing. Let's see. Coming in at $80 a month, this is what being on Ambien feels like.
Speaker 2:
[131:56] Panda.
Speaker 1:
[131:57] Oh, goodness.
Speaker 4:
[131:58] This is yours.
Speaker 2:
[131:59] Are we going to know this one, Panda? Do we?
Speaker 1:
[132:01] Probably not. This is a Rift Racks version of the movie.
Speaker 2:
[132:07] I like that.
Speaker 1:
[132:09] That was delivered by one of the guys from Rift Racks. Nice. But I hope that you guys have seen this one, but if not, you need to watch this one.
Speaker 4:
[132:18] So, Panda, I was really excited. I got to meet Christine Davidson for the very first time ever. Christine Davidson in St. George. It was so much fun. I feel like I had an immediate instant best friend. Can I tell you her and her husband both?
Speaker 2:
[132:34] Yeah. Awesome people.
Speaker 4:
[132:35] Very cool. I wish I could have spent more time with you guys. Next time, we're going to hang. Maybe it'll be like me and Christine's husband, we can eat at the opposite ends of the breadstick and it's like-
Speaker 1:
[132:46] Oh, Lady and the Trim.
Speaker 4:
[132:47] Wow.
Speaker 1:
[132:48] Yeah. Great people.
Speaker 4:
[132:50] It was a lot of fun. Her husband is interested, he's a guitar player and is interested in DJing. So I was like, that's cool. We had a lot to talk about and we didn't even scratch the surface, unfortunately. Christine, it was awesome to hang with you.
Speaker 2:
[133:02] Yeah, 100 bucks a month.
Speaker 4:
[133:04] Let's see, Accent Doors and Trim is the name of the company. accentdoors.co is the website. Oh. AccentDoors and Trim and accentdoors.co, 100 bucks a month. Huntsky Twins right there with Christine Davidson. So cool. Thank you very much to Andre's mom there. Let's see here, the angel numbers, 111.11 a month comes from Just A Girl Jean, Jean-Marie Hutchinson. We love you. We love you long time. It is, let me see, next up. It's Just Like Grease, The Substance, Not The Musical.
Speaker 2:
[133:36] I think we can look this one up now. We can look this one up now.
Speaker 4:
[133:38] You can look that one up, Chandler. It's Hemmy, it's Denise, Godzilla, Hunsaker and Hemmy.
Speaker 2:
[133:44] Okay, yeah, I'll find this one.
Speaker 4:
[133:45] It's Just Like Grease, The Substance, Not The Musical.
Speaker 1:
[133:47] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[133:49] At 175 a month, that is Spanked with Red Rock Heating and Cooling. Excuse me, senior, may I speak to you, please? I asked for a Mai Tai and they brought me a pita colada. I specifically said, no salt on the margarita.
Speaker 1:
[134:02] Dude, that is an excellent Milton.
Speaker 2:
[134:05] That is a great Milton.
Speaker 1:
[134:06] That is fantastic.
Speaker 4:
[134:09] Thank you.
Speaker 1:
[134:10] Night in the Guacomole. I love that so much.
Speaker 4:
[134:15] Steven Root is a genius.
Speaker 1:
[134:17] He is fantastic. In everything, dude. His role in Dodgeball, holy cow.
Speaker 2:
[134:23] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[134:23] Have you ever seen The Man in the High Castle? It is a great series.
Speaker 1:
[134:26] No, I have not.
Speaker 4:
[134:27] It's a vigil series. It looks at the world as if the Japanese and the Germans and the Italians had won World War II.
Speaker 1:
[134:35] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[134:35] That sounds cool.
Speaker 4:
[134:36] And there is a mythical character, a resistance person, called The Man in the High Castle. And the man in the High Castle is Steven Root. So imagine getting... Imagine a guy's like, I'm leading through this to get the naughty party.
Speaker 2:
[134:51] Oh, man.
Speaker 4:
[134:52] You don't recognize him. He looks completely different, but it's the same guy.
Speaker 2:
[134:56] That is too funny.
Speaker 4:
[134:57] Keep it rolling, you glorious bastards. It's Anonymous.
Speaker 2:
[134:59] Anonymous!
Speaker 4:
[135:02] Anonymous? Can I take a minute and talk to you, my friend Anonymous? I want you to look upon your children, Anonymous, and look at what you've done. Look at the great things that you have done. You have given to the show for years and years and years, and you have kept yourself completely hidden. And now there are more people that are calling themselves Anonymous 2, Anonymous 3, and so on and so forth, and you are anonymously helping members of this community for the love of the community. And I thank all of them, and I especially thank you Anonymous.
Speaker 2:
[135:36] How cool is that? Thank you, Anonymous.
Speaker 4:
[135:38] You touched off something.
Speaker 2:
[135:41] So cool.
Speaker 4:
[135:41] And it's very cool. And thank you to Anonymous 3 for paying for everybody at the Pizza Factory. And thank you for Brody, because we outed him.
Speaker 2:
[135:49] Yes, we did. So Anonymous 2.
Speaker 1:
[135:50] Anonymous 2.
Speaker 4:
[135:51] The first thing Brody says to me, I sit down with him in St. George, he's like, you outed me.
Speaker 2:
[135:56] As Anonymous 2, he's like, really?
Speaker 4:
[135:58] Why did you out me? I'm like, Brody, we had to. It became time.
Speaker 2:
[136:01] Yes. But Anonymous 1 and Anonymous 3, no.
Speaker 4:
[136:04] Yeah, we've been threatened with our lives, so it won't happen. Anyway, Anonymous, we love you very much. Coming in at $380 a month, it is my evil twin, my evil twin sister, Angela Hammond-Crenshaw. Angela. Sis, I love you so much. I hope you're good.
Speaker 2:
[136:20] Yeah. I love you, Angela. I miss you like crazy.
Speaker 4:
[136:22] Thank you for the show. And that is your beautiful, super sexy goblin list. Thank you to all of our goblins. Thank you to every member of our Patreon family. Sign up, will you? patreon.com/radioronin. We have another bonus episode coming out this week.
Speaker 2:
[136:36] Cool. Sweet.
Speaker 4:
[136:37] All right, so Panda, we have one last thing to do here. It is time for Panda's Movie Shoutout. Are we still doing Strange and Unusual?
Speaker 1:
[136:44] Yeah, this will actually be the last of the Strange and Unusual, which, honestly, I could go on for probably another three to four shows.
Speaker 4:
[136:54] Easily. Easily, yeah.
Speaker 1:
[136:55] Oh yeah, because there's so many fun ones, but I really want to eventually get into fun adventure movies.
Speaker 4:
[137:02] Adventure movies?
Speaker 1:
[137:03] Oh, I like that. Yeah, but this will be the last Strange and Unusual, which can also fit a little bit into a fun adventure movie. And like I said earlier, this one's gonna also involve riff tracks in it.
Speaker 4:
[137:17] Nice. Okay, so what is it?
Speaker 1:
[137:20] Okay, so I love sometimes the really crappy, cheesy video game adaptations of movies. So this is riff tracks doing in 1994's Double Dragon.
Speaker 2:
[137:37] Oh, we almost watched this the other night.
Speaker 1:
[137:40] Oh my goodness, you guys need to check this one out because this movie on its own, I went to see this in theaters when I was a teenager. Loved it even though it is terrible, it's bad, but so dumb and so fun that as soon as it hit the dollar theater, I watched this like a billion times.
Speaker 2:
[138:03] Nice.
Speaker 4:
[138:04] All right, so Double Dragon was one of my favorite video games to play. When I was the voice of Billy Bob the Bear and working at Showbiz Pizza, I spent pretty much every paycheck on Double Dragon. Oh, yeah, at the end, yeah, a pizza. That's going to make much. But but I loved Double Dragon and then they made a movie. And I remember seeing it not with Rift Racks, but man, it sucked.
Speaker 1:
[138:27] Oh, yeah, yeah, it's awful.
Speaker 4:
[138:28] It's just horrible.
Speaker 1:
[138:30] It's terribly made. I mean, the the effects in it are terrible. The acting is awful. And the writing in this is bad. But if you look at it through the lens of, oh, yeah, this is so bad that I'm having fun with it.
Speaker 4:
[138:47] Yeah, this is 80s B-movie crap at its finest. It is.
Speaker 1:
[138:52] It really is. So, you know, and like I said, especially the special effects in it, which the line that I did from Rift Racks was actually talking about one of the characters kind of going into like a smoky shadow figure about, you know, oh, this is what it's like being on Ambien.
Speaker 4:
[139:12] Oh, jeez. It's actually a pretty good line based on the way you described it.
Speaker 1:
[139:16] So the premise of the movie, so they made an adaptation which strays way far from the story of the video game. I mean, the video game actually does have a story to it. So the story of the movie is two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman, an evil gang leader, played by the great Robert Patrick, has the other half of this talisman, and determines to get the brothers half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
Speaker 4:
[139:56] Why a white guy like Robert Patrick?
Speaker 1:
[140:00] Well, why all the white people that are actually involved? He was, yeah. I mean, you know him from that, as well as a bunch of other movies. I mean, great actor, you know, in his own right, but playing a super over-the-top villain in this.
Speaker 4:
[140:19] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[140:19] He does seem like a talisman connoisseur. You know, he seems like a... We need more talismans in movies, I think, at this point. That needs to be a thing.
Speaker 4:
[140:26] Yeah, talisman. That was my yearbooks, my Taylorsville High yearbooks. They were called the Talisman. I never got it.
Speaker 2:
[140:35] That's awesome.
Speaker 1:
[140:36] So you've also gotten this movie, Scott Wolfe, from Party of Five.
Speaker 4:
[140:42] Wow.
Speaker 1:
[140:42] One of the two brothers that, you know, had this other half of the Talisman.
Speaker 4:
[140:46] I don't remember he was one of the two brothers.
Speaker 1:
[140:48] Oh, yeah, yeah. He's one of the brothers and he is terrible in this movie. And I love it so much because he's so bad in this. You've also got Alyssa Bolano in this movie. Wow. Kind of leading a gang of hippie rebels. Okay. Yeah, yeah. She's a weird kind of hippie dippy character in this, trying to lead a, well, like, you just need to go see this movie.
Speaker 2:
[141:18] Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:
[141:19] Yeah. You've also got Al Leung in this who, you know, you'll know his face from a billion movies. One of my favorite movies he's in, playing one of the characters in Big Trouble and Little China.
Speaker 2:
[141:31] Oh, very nice.
Speaker 1:
[141:32] Yeah. You'll just know his face. You've also got the great Michael Berryman in this who, you know, he's one of those guys who always plays a villain in everything. I mean, he's been in like The Hills Have Eyes, the original, not the crappy remake. He was even in Weird Science as one of, you know, you'll recognize his face as well.
Speaker 4:
[141:55] Okay.
Speaker 1:
[141:55] And out of all people that they actually have in this movie, Vanna White playing Vanna White.
Speaker 4:
[142:02] Nice. So you got the guy for The Road Warrior and Vanna White, all in the same movie.
Speaker 1:
[142:06] Yes.
Speaker 4:
[142:07] Wow.
Speaker 2:
[142:08] And then there's riff tracks on top of it. Say no more.
Speaker 1:
[142:11] You know, Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Michael.
Speaker 2:
[142:18] Kevin Murphy.
Speaker 1:
[142:19] Kevin Murphy. Yeah. Kevin Murphy in there. And, you know, them basically lambasting this movie, because like I said, I love watching this movie on its own because it's so bad, but hearing them make fun of it.
Speaker 4:
[142:31] Three of the funniest guys I think I've ever listened to ever in my life.
Speaker 1:
[142:36] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[142:36] No question at all about that.
Speaker 4:
[142:38] And Kevin went to the University of Utah, didn't he?
Speaker 1:
[142:41] He did.
Speaker 2:
[142:42] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[142:42] Yeah, he did.
Speaker 2:
[142:43] They're all very learned guys. I think Michael went to Yale. Mike Nelson went to Yale.
Speaker 4:
[142:48] He did both Bill and Michael went to went to Yale. And Kevin went to the University of Utah amongst other places. But he's from Minnesota.
Speaker 2:
[142:56] Yeah, which is so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[142:58] Great guys. I love the riff tracks. Riff tracks are like, we watch pretty much all of them. It's Prozac for me. It changes my whole life.
Speaker 2:
[143:08] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[143:08] Any time I need a good kind of pick me up kind of, you know, any no matter what movie they're watching. I still want to get Chandler to finish dancing. It's on.
Speaker 4:
[143:19] We're gonna do it.
Speaker 2:
[143:20] No way.
Speaker 1:
[143:20] I can't.
Speaker 2:
[143:20] We're gonna do it. I can't.
Speaker 4:
[143:22] It's even too bad for me.
Speaker 1:
[143:23] Just do it for me, buddy. Do it for me.
Speaker 2:
[143:25] It's like back in West Hills Middle School. It's like, gosh damn. I can't. I can't do it. It's too close to home.
Speaker 4:
[143:33] I watched the trailer and that girl started dancing and Kevin's like, oh no, she's doing it again. Somebody get some pills.
Speaker 1:
[143:42] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[143:42] She's doing it again. Anyway, okay. So this sounds wonderful, Panda. I guess there's just really one more question I have to ask before we end the show.
Speaker 1:
[143:52] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[143:53] Where can we watch this, Panda?
Speaker 1:
[143:55] Well, I love with Rift Trax that they make it super easy for a lot of these to be able to find. So you can find this on one of my favorites ever, 2B. It's available there. Also, Pluto TV and Fossum.
Speaker 2:
[144:10] Nice.
Speaker 1:
[144:11] All right.
Speaker 4:
[144:11] Cool. Thank you, Panda. So it is going to be adventure movies next.
Speaker 2:
[144:15] I like the sound of this.
Speaker 4:
[144:16] This is cool.
Speaker 1:
[144:16] I'm going to get into very adventurous, fun kind of movies.
Speaker 4:
[144:21] I hope the Jungle Cruise is in there.
Speaker 1:
[144:25] That was neither adventurous or fun.
Speaker 4:
[144:29] Pretty horrible. All right. Well, that is your show for your Thursday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to everybody who took part in the Ronin invasion. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all of you for listening. Thank you for everything that each of you do to help out members of the Ronin community throughout the week that never are noticed or talked about. I hear about them a lot.
Speaker 2:
[144:49] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[144:50] A lot of you don't want them talked about on the show, like Anonymous 3. But thank you so much.
Speaker 2:
[144:55] Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 4:
[144:57] Guys, I mean, it's hard not to get all Oprah on you. Can I tell you?
Speaker 2:
[145:01] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[145:02] Because it's so incredible. But please know we're very grateful.
Speaker 2:
[145:05] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[145:06] And just a reminder, Bad Meme Friday comes your way tonight at midnight.
Speaker 2:
[145:10] Sweet.
Speaker 4:
[145:10] Friday morning at midnight. Oh, I'm back in, baby.
Speaker 2:
[145:12] I am back in.
Speaker 4:
[145:13] We're all back in. Nice. Everybody's back in. And if you're coming to Vegas, we would love for you to come to our shows.
Speaker 2:
[145:19] Yes, that'd be great. Shoot us a message.
Speaker 4:
[145:21] We have a show coming up on Father's Day at the Hard Rock Cafe. It is the Yacht Rock Brunch. The Father's Day Yacht Rock Brunch happening at the Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip. Reservations are available now and you can go get yourself signed up. The amazing DJ Bugsy and myself will be performing a very rare, very special Yacht Rock set.
Speaker 2:
[145:46] I can't wait.
Speaker 4:
[145:46] Remixed Yacht Rock music and brunch at the Hard Rock. So come to Vegas, have some fun. We'd love to have you come to our shows.
Speaker 2:
[145:54] Next week, April 29th, we're at Pachi Pachi doing 80s again.
Speaker 4:
[145:57] Neon Society.
Speaker 2:
[145:58] Yes, so excited.
Speaker 4:
[145:59] You would like to become a member of the Neon Society, you really would. So more details will be in the Ronin Fam for you there. And the Records Store Meetup happening this Saturday, Panda.
Speaker 1:
[146:09] Yeah, yeah, Daybreak Records. Come on out.
Speaker 4:
[146:11] Nice. Daybreak Records, it's in Sandy?
Speaker 1:
[146:15] Yes, Sandy.
Speaker 4:
[146:16] Yes, Sandy. Details at the Ronin Fam. There you go. That's it. I don't think there's anything else. Just until next time, Gregg.
Speaker 1:
[146:25] We'll see you when we see you.