Florida native, military son and… figurine distributor? 👀 Full episode on our channel!
[Music] Hello and welcome to another episode of New and Blue. Dan, thank you so much for being here with us. Yeah, thanks for having me. It’s uh there’s not a lot of turnover here, so to be the newest guy means it’s a big deal. We are sitting inside a hanger at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa because Dan, you attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for 2 years. Why did you choose to go to college there? My dad was a big military guy and so I just grew up appreciating everything that the military did and so when West Point came calling, it kind of fit everything, you know, and I had appreciated the military, you know, all all in all, West Point seemed to to be a good fit. I’m stuck on figurines. All right, let me explain. So, what I like to do is when I was coaching the penalty kill by myself, I had created a a reward system. So, if you were the there was a defensive player of the month and a forward def uh penalty kill player of the month and I had these figurines. They were like Freddy Krueger, Jason, the Predator, you know, like whatever. There was many of them. And so when you got named player of the month and it would be in front of the team, they’d come up and they would pick a figurine and that figurine would go in their stall so that they could have more figurines than their teammates. So anyway, that’s kind of how the figurines came about. Dan, I am sure the fans are going to love to hear all of that about you, your childhood, your dad, and your love for this state. Thank you so much for joining us here today, and thank you to all those watching this episode of New and Blue with Dan High.
