Florida Panthers Morning Live – 82-0 Pace!

Florida Panthers Morning Live – 82-0 Pace!

Okay, let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Happy happy happy happy Friday. Huh? Happy Friday. How’s everybody doing? So, what do we got? We got undefeated hockey team and uh we got beautiful fall weather. I don’t know how it is where you guys are living. Uh but uh right now it’s probably about 62 degrees outside, nice and clear. It’s too windy to do the stream outside though. So, I I’m hoping maybe next week we can get cool and and nice and and not so windy. So, all right. So, the Panthers are on a 82 and0 pace. And later on, boy, I need I need to I need to shave. Um later on, I’ve got an article here that a friend of mine sent to me over Twitter. Somebody mentioned this during the game last night. I guess it’s an article about the Panthers and Lightning, and they’re trying to draw like parallels between the two teams, maybe even politically and everything. So, I haven’t read the article, but a couple people have brought it to my attention. So, we’re going to do that. We’re going to read the article if I can get my glasses right and uh you know, I’ll and complain about. So, I’ll find something to complain about. So, how’s everybody doing? Bugs Freys, how we doing? Burned oils, good to see you. Would be a real bummer if we won 81 games only to lose the last right. Geez. Craig, how you doing, buddy? Real says, “Maran confirmed postgame to more focused on defense.” Yeah, that that fits. That fits. Beck said it actually was it was uh actually uh Kyle’s fault. Yeah, it would definitely cause fault. I was talking to him for a few minutes. He’s getting ready to leave. His mom’s going to pick him up. So, yeah, I was chatting with him a little bit. Hey, David, how you doing? Straight up flooding. Geez. Uh, I see. I haven’t heard anything on Kulakov yet, but uh hopefully I mean, you know, as long as he’s as he’s okayish, if Binskus has to play for a while, no problem. No, no problem. Yeah, and Adulkovich had himself a night last night. Holy mol, that is that is one way to put it, man. Good lord, that poor guy. Yeah, Marian looks like a leader out there. I want to I want to check the time on ice again, too, actually. Um, hey Dana, good morning because that was something I wanted to that I was uh complaining about yesterday. And so I wonder how it went last night. Let’s see. So, let me look at like like Mackie last night. Do we got a game log here for Mackey? Let’s see. Um, yeah. So, ask and you shall receive. Now, of course, we had a lot more power plays, but let’s see. Um, Mackey had 11 minutes against Chicago. We had 15 and a half last night. So, that’s good. What about the fourth line? I was hoping that the fourth line guys would get a little bit more. What about Cunning? Let’s see. So, almost exactly the same. 809 against Chicago and 807 against Philadelphia. So, I guess that’s that’s what they’re going to get. And um Greer probably got just a little bit more, right? That’s what happened the last game. Yeah. 803. They’re not giving that fourth line a whole lot of time. It’s just not happening. Let me see what else we Who else did I Oh, I want to check Lendell and then we’ll come back come back to the chat. Lundell’s time on ice was two minutes less last night as well, but I don’t know if we didn’t have to kill many penalties. So, it just it seems as though that fourth line is going to get like eight eight minutes a night, not much else. Hey, Mike. Craig says, “Cats have four guys that could be legit seas on lesser teams.” That’s very true. Damn. Hey, Bulmar. Yeah, right. I mean, I I mean, hitting the post on the empty net, the game was over, you know, San Jose beating Vegas in the first week of the season, all the crazy. And then, no, not so much. And then I seen the Sharks on Twitter like, “Hey, we got a point.” It’s like, dude, what? Come on now. Come on. Hold on. Kyle, is that you leaving? Yeah. Here, just come crack this door so she can hear me. I thought I thought she wasn’t going to be here for another half hour. This is a half hour later. Oh, interesting. Okay. All right. Just leave it open so she knows I’m here. Okay, baby. Good girl. Go lay down. All right. All right, kiddo. I’ll see you tomorrow. I love you. Okay. See you tomorrow. Okay. So let’s see here. Yeah, thank you to Ottawa. Yeah, exactly that, too. Vincent says, “Bennett, Mackie, Boquist line should look all right. See no reason not to return. Lendell Marshian combination too much upon quality of hockey happening.” So, so far with the new lines. Yeah. Um, Reinhardt, I don’t want to I’m not like criticizing him, but under these circumstances, he’s really really been invisible. Like I’ve noticed Lendell and loose to Reinham, but Reinhardt’s like not even is he playing? Like I think I seen Barkoff more than Reinhardt last night. And uh yeah, I’d love to see Marshian get get back with those guys as well. And then um was that Bennett with Mackey and Boquist or were you putting E-Rod? That would be all right though, too. I mean, you know, this the speed is what I noticed. We’re we’re using our speed a little bit more. So, but it’s going to be it’s all going to be a work in progress. You know, Maurice, he’s not going to he’s not going to do any of the obvious moves, right? So, is what it is. So, what are my thoughts in Ottawa after getting a big win in Tampa last night? So, Buck says, “Keep real Tampa trash.” What’s going on with Tampa’s defense? That was bad. I mean, I only watch the highlights, so of course it’s highlighting the bad parts, but uh you know, twoonone and three on two and the breakaways. Like Tampa’s defense didn’t look real structured. I don’t know where their head was, but Ottawa Ottawa, you know, they’re not they’re not messing around, you know what I mean? You know, you got you have to take into consideration Brady Kachchuck is Matthews brother, right? And don’t uh don’t underestimate the motivation that he’s feeling to have success in the postseason. Now, you know, I’m sure at this point he’s like, “That’s nice, Matthew. That’s great. He’s kind of getting sick of watching his brother skate around with the cup and his team can’t even win a playoff round.” So, I would not be surprised. The father is is pretty well motivated. Bulvar says, “It’s like the Leafs finally celebrating making it to the second round for the first time in 20 years.” Yeah, and it happened twice. I know. Be says, “Yeah, it’s odd. I feel like there isn’t a ton of offensive hustle with Reinhardt.” So, I I kind of feel like they’re just steadfastly focusing on defense. And I suppose it’s not the worst thing to, you know, it’s not the worst end of the world. I think there’s more offense to be had out of our fourth line. I think the fourth line needs more minutes a night. I’d like to see them get three or four more shifts tonight. They they usually are are playing pretty well. And all those guys is certainly Greer and and Cunning, they can score. They’re not, you know, it’s not some a bunch of gooners that are bereft of offensive talent. I I’d like to see them get on the ice a little bit more. David says, “I would think the Leafs would shove the We want Florida chance for a while.” Yeah, Ottawa’s coming in. Yeah. Vinc says, “Yeah, Rod with Fhagy and Reinhardt is pretty obvious though. what happened before, right? Ottawa looks good. Yesterday’s Panthers would have lost the game to yesterday’s Senators. No doubt. No doubt. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Ottawa beat us. You know, we’re we’re going to lose games to if a team comes in and and really wants to take it to us. I I think there’s going to be a lot of games that we lose this year where we’re just like ah as long as we’re in a playoff spot within a comfort level. I think you’re going to see times when an Ottawa or a Tampa or Toronto if they are if they want to elevate their level of play and get physical and all of that. I could kind of see us just being like what we’ll we’ll see you in April and May. we’ll talk about this in April and May. Like, it’s the only way that they’re going to have a chance at three repeating anyway. We can’t we can’t go out there and get physical with these teams in in October and November. We already are are missing body parts as it is. Go along what it means. Go no longer means what it used to mean. Is that right? Whatever it means now, I mean it the old way. Yeah, Beck’s got it laid out. Bobart says, “Jaw and I are the same. We both have the same first name and our college teams are both 5-0. Miami and Miss. Our hockey teams are good and our NFL teams are one and four in the basement. Yeah, that’s about right. Yeah. Yeah. Only, you know, at least at least uh with the Raiders, it’s like you kind of I mean the Dolphin fans expect it, but we both need new owners actually. BAR both teams need new owners. It’s kind of we actually had the same exact problem with our football teams. Like there’s no expectations because the owners are just like out to lunch. David now come on man. He says, “I hate to break it to you, but we ain’t going 8 and2 82 and 0. Who’s going to beat us?” Huh? run the field. Hey Cade, come on David. It’s it drop that kind of news on a Friday. Hopefully Kulakov is okay. So Goonar means fan of the court. Oh for freaking hell. Oh well, I guess I can’t be using that one anymore. H No, we’re definitely not going 82 and0. Come on. You guys are so negative this morning. I say should someone should have told him to stop being so physical during the preseason, right? Yeah. So, the season’s going to there’s going to be nights the puck doesn’t go in the back of the net. You know, we had some good chances last night, though. Yeah. Maybe 72 and 10. Yeah. The Saints and Fins combined wouldn’t win more than five games. That’s probably true. Real says Gunnar still fits for the Lightning no matter which way you use it. Uh so what happened uh last night in that game? Because while I watched the highlights, they didn’t they didn’t show any of the rough stuff. So, why were there three Lightning players and three Senators players in the box at the same time? Yeah, we’ll go 98 and0 all the way to the third. Oh man. Well, we’ll see. We’ll see. Let’s just get to three and 0. But I know I’m the one that started it. I don’t know, man. They I’m happy if they A night like last night is when we have to stack points, right? because probably Ottawa’s going to be feeling pretty good about having coming in and beaten Tampa. They’re going to be feeling pretty good. And we look I mean to say we look different it doesn’t necessarily mean we look bad or something. Um it’s definitely different though without Barkoff and Kachchuck. So, all right. So, a friend of mine sent me an article on Twitter that I’m going to read, and I have not read it, but a couple people have brought this to my attention. So, I’m going to share this here. It looks like it might be a little bit lengthy, but what else do we have to do? So, I guess this is from the Guardian, and a couple people have said they’re trying they’re talking about the Panthers and Lightning, and they’re trying to uh draw comparisons between the two, including political. And so, a few people have asked me to look at this. And so, we’re just going to read it. And uh I am not responsible for what the Guardian has to say. I’m only responsible for my own uh voice. And so while I’m reading it, I don’t see the chat. So says, “Blood bias in the battle of Florida. How the NHL’s dirtiest rivalry exposed hockeyy’s old boy rot.” Oh, here we go. All right. A southern hockey feud has morphed into a clash of styles, politics, and privilege that mirrors America itself and exposes how deeply the NHL’s power still skews. Oh, geez. It’s going to be like this. Okay. The Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning rivalry was once a regional sideshow. A quirky matchup between two southern expansion teams playing to half empty arenas and polite indifference. But in the space of just a few years, it has mutated into the nastiest, most revealing feud in hockey. One that’s exposed the NHL’s double standards, cronyism, and cultural divide. Holy crap. I’m gonna get a lot of laughs out of this, aren’t I? See, preseason hockey is meaningless by design. A handful of prefuncter tuneups that even hardcore fans barely notice in the runup to opening night when the games finally start to count. Yet, in the past week, the Panthers and Lightning turned a pair of exhibition contests into threehour dreams of violence. 114 penalties totaling nearly 500 minutes in the box. 16 game misconducts and one eject who somehow picked up an assist on an eighth goal that shouldn’t have counted. It was an allout bendum before the season even began, but the uneven fallout has raised uncomfortable questions about the sport. Are you guys having a good Are we having a good time or what? Okay, so here we are. Uh, let’s see. It all kicked off last Thursday when Florida’s AJ Greer sucker punched Tampa’s Brandon Hegel in the head. A call back to last spring’s playoff meeting between the teams when Hegel’s borderline hit on Panthers captain Alexander Barkoff sparked Florida’s defenseman Aaron Ecklad’s retaliatory headsh shot that left Hegel concussed. Greer’s cheap shot, punished with only a $2,000 fine, broke hockeyy’s unspoken code. Never go after a player with a known concussion history, especially one that you’ve already injured. Huh. So, on Saturday, Tampa iced the lineup of AHL enforcers and spent the night exacting frontier justice. The league’s response, heavy fines and suspensions for the Lightning, and none for Florida. Now, which I mean, read read what you just said they did. On Saturday, Tampa iced an AHL lineup of enforcers and spent the night exacting frontier justice. The league’s response, heavy fines and suspensions for the Lightning, none for Florida. Well, and the first sentence of your dumbass paragraph tells you why there were no there was nothing going to Florida. But, okay. The ugly scenes revived an old suspicion that the NHL’s disciplinary system protects its favorites. The Panthers connections only make the optics worse. They’re not going to go Colin Campbell, are they? Yeah, they are. The league’s director of hockey operations, Colin Campbell, is a longtime power broker whose son is a minority owner and assistant general manager of, you guessed it, the Panthers. The head of player safety, George Peril. My god. Jeez. The I the the stupidity. I’m My eyes are going to bleed from the stupidity. The head of player safety, George Peril, since a former Panther himself, what 39 games? A decade ago, Campbell’s leaked emails, showed him berating referees, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. across the NHL. This latest bloodbath looked like business as usual because it was a vivid reminder that hockeyy’s old boy network pulls the strings on a two-tiered system of justice. I don’t know how these idiots even get through life. The bad blood has been ruined for years. For most of their existence, the Panthers were an afterthought, overshadowed by the more successful Lightning, who won their first of three Stanley Cups in 2004. Then they traded for Matthew Kachchuck, a brilliant, agitating forward and hired a coach who encouraged the chaos. Overnight, the franchise became an almost comically ratty heel team, relentlessly annoying, gleefully abrasive, and somehow good enough to win anyway. They ran goalies, took liberties after whistles, and seemed to delight in their role as the villains of modern hockey, which there’s been a team that has done that and been the villains pretty much for the league’s entire existence. It just changes from team to team. This guy would be surprised to hear how Tampa won those two cups. Oh, here we go. Wait. Tampa by contrast. Oh, I’m going to vomit. Tampa, by contrast, has built their dynasty on cool precision. A team that mixed speed, skill, and structure to win back-to-back cups in 20 to 21. To Lightning fans, Florida’s rise represented something else. The triumph of cynicism of hockey as provocation rather than craft. Wow. I am so sorry for anybody that has this person in their life because I mean to go through life with this narrow of a POV to to to insinuate that the Panthers don’t have uh what uh mixed speed skill and structure to insinuate that the Panthers don’t use the structure has got to be one of the dumbest if not the dumbest thing I’ve ever read in any hockey in any hockey publication ever. It continues. The long simmering tensions finally exploded in April’s postseason meeting when Hegel flattened Barkoff with what looked like a clean shoulder check, a hockey play at playoff speed gone wrong. The officials ruled it illegal because Bararkov hadn’t touched the puck. Hegel was slapped with a oneame suspension. The next night, Eglad, who’d already served a lengthy ban earlier in the season for peeds, hunted him down and delivered a full force shot to the head, concussing him, a retaliatory hit that earned just two games. And Florida went to win the series and their second straight cup, while Tampa were left muttering about double standards. So when Greer targeted Hegel again during a meaningless September preseason game, no less, the Lightning saw red. Coach John Cooper arrested his stars and called up six players from the Miners, two known enforcers among them to ice a full lineup without exposing his smaller skilled forwards. Within minutes, 32-year-old bruiser Scott Saborin, if that’s how you say it, leveled Ecklad with a single punch that dropped him to his knees. From there, the night descended into absurdity, brawls after every whistle. So, this is interesting. I would like to point to the hypo hip uh the hypocriticalness. I’m going to pause right here. He admits that he leveled with a single punch that dropped into his knees. But I thought I thought there was the unwritten rule that you don’t go after guys that have had concussion history. Well, we all know ECLAD has a concussion history. So, which one is it, dumbass? From there, the night descended into absurdity. Brawls after every whistle, fights in the penalty box with more than 300 combined penalty minutes, and so many ejections that both teams ended with nine skaters. At one point, Florida’s Nikico Mikla even picked up an assist despite having been sent off minutes earlier. It’s not every night an injected player somehow helps extend an eight to nothing lead before anyone notices. The next day, the discipline meeted out by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety came down squarely on Tampa. Six players fined, two suspended. The organization docked $100,000 and Cooper fined another $25,000. Florida’s Greer kept his token $2,000 fine. The perception was plain as day. The Panthers could do no wrong, and that sense of impunity is what turned a once addyine crossstate rivalry into something much darker, a microcosm of how the NHL still protects its insiders and punishes its critics. And here comes the politics. The defiance fits neatly with the Panthers broader identity. Under vi under owner Vincent Viola, a billionaire financier and a one-time Donald Trump nominee for Secretary of the Army, the franchise has cultivated an overtly MAGA aesthetic. Wow. These people, they they truly have they have um political political uh what do they call it? Trump political derangement syndrome. Everything was politics. Unbelievable. After their first cup win, team executives proudly visited Trump at the White House, presenting him with a custom 4547 jersey. So, um, don’t all the teams go to the White House? I’m just, somebody can correct me if I missed that, but don’t all the teams go? I could be wrong. Wola’s longtime business partner, minority owner, Touglas Sefue, who is our crazy he is our he’s our crazy guy. Every every organization has one. Uh the Panthers vice chairman and alternate governor who also runs virtual financial, the high frequency trading firm he co-founded with Biola. In May, Sefue was suspended indefinitely by the by the NHL after an inflammatory social media exchange with a Canadian fan where he invoked the Israel Palestine conflict and Trump’s 51st state taunts. A move that did little to distance the team from its hardright image. Oh, I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as I am. Geez. This continues across the state. The Lightning’s ownership has taken the opposite tack. Here comes the virtual signaling, right? Removing a Robert El statue from downtown Tampa, supporting diversity initiatives, and hosting some of the league’s most inclusive heritage nights. Wow. So, wait a minute. So, he’s trying to say that the league is protecting the MAGA team and not the woke team. What insanity is What is this guy smoking? and please send me some. In miniature, the battle of Florida now mirrors the United States itself. Grievance and aggression on one side, progressing progressive branding on the other. Both locked in a fight over what the sport and the country should be. My god, it it must be hard to live in these people’s heads. The irony is that is this is all unfolded during what’s meant to be the NHL’s modern age of enlightenment. What league executives boast about player safety and mental health awareness and evolving beyond the blood and guts spectacle of decades past. Yet its disciplinary machinery still operates with the opaque impunity of the old boys club. When New York Rangers owner James Dolan semi-publicly condemned the league’s refusal to suspend Washington’s Tom Wilson in 2021, the NHL doesn’t didn’t revisit the call. It fined the team $250,000 for daring to question it. Commissioner Gary Bman scolded the Rangers for demeaning a league executive and declared such criticism unacceptable. The message was clear enough. Silence is rewarded. Dissent is punished. And the culture that enables violence is the one most fiercely protected. This time though, the silence has cracked. Around the league, executives and players are said to be quietly rooting for Tampa. Not because they condone vigilante justice, but because they recognize the futility of appealing to a system stacked against them. The Panthers may have won the Stanley Cup for two years running, but they’ve become the embodiment of a league that rewards swagger and punishes accountability. And thank God for that because if the NHL ever became the NFL where you literally get uh penalized for taunting your opponent, most of us would stop watching. That’s the NHL’s biggest controversy of the year erupted before a single regular season game had been played says it all. The sport that keeps promising to modernize still can’t stop celebrating its own anarchy. A league where power, not principle, decides who gets away with what, and who gets left bleeding on the ice. Holy hell. In a hand basket. Wow. Holy crap. Yeah. The lightning never played dirty. the idea you’ve got I mean what what’s amazing to me is that on on on the one side like you know you’ve got people the MAGA people all that complaining about you know Pride nights and all of that stuff and this guy thinks that the league is sticking up for the Panthers because of MAGA and Trump. Holy hell. Like the easiest thing in the do the easiest thing in the world to do is is to talk crap about that group of people. You know what I mean? So So to think that the NHL is actually going the opposite direction, that’s wild. I really Who’s who’s who’s this guy? I don’t want to pick on this guy. Let me see. He I I guarantee you I can know exactly what he looks like. Let’s see. Yep, there he is. Brian Armen Graham. Yeah, he looks He looks exactly like you would expect him to look. Hey, I’m gonna You know who this looks like? Hold on. Hold on. I can I can I can say this without insulting him. I can say I don’t want to insult him, but I can I can say this without insulting him. You guys can tell me. Okay. You know who you guys have seen? Uh The Other Guys. Who here has seen The Other Guys? The movie The Other Guys with Will Frell and uh the other dude. He This looks like the guy the husband of the guy Christineith who starts running down the street. Nobody leaves my house unless you make love to my wife. He looks exactly like him with the sweater and everything. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? That’s exactly. Yeah. You get my wife’s name. That’s him. I swear to God, that’s him. It’s his doppel hanger. All shaved. Yeah. Oh my god. That’s funny as hell. Geez. The white the Oh man. All right. So, I don’t want to step in any more than I already have. But that was sent to me. A couple people mentioned it. It was It was sent to me and I figured what the hell, we’ll have some fun. I didn’t see that coming. Like I thought there might be a little bit of hub hub in there, but this guy actually like he’s laying it out there like Yeah. Arie Palmer Alert. Yeah. It’s a great movie. If you haven’t seen the other guys, you got to see the other guys. What’s the other guy’s name? Will Pharaoh? Who’s the other guy? What the hell is his name? Um, Real says, “I think I have to stop watching the Panthers now that we’re just the front for MAGA.” Geez. Now, now, yeah, Marky Mark. Uh, what the hell is his name? Wahberg. Wahlberg. Thank you, Craig. Now, all the teams, they they they go to the White House, right? That wasn’t just the Panthers with Trump thing, right? I mean, they they go, Right. Vincent, how in the hell? It’s just bad blood between the the lightning and I mean what’s interesting he lays out the case in a sense. Yeah. You thinking what I’m thinking? Aim for the Bush. He lays out the case reasonably. He he at least admits that it all started with the Hegel hit on Bararkov. At least at least he had admitted that and and threw that in there even though he’s trying to say it was somewhat of a clean hit. But how he got where he got, I mean, it’s like I think he just had an I he has the idea of how he views the world and he’s just going to use whatever incident he can pluck from to confirm his own narrative, right? Oh my god, that’s wild. Yeah, cuz I mean, sure, Kazuma, right? It’s it’s going to be, you know, I mean, it is what it is. I mean, just by definition, everything’s divided. Whatever you 5050, 55, 45, I mean, it’s going to be people on both sides everywhere, wherever you go. It’s just no. I mean, the idea like the idea that that’s the reason. And then, of course, they got to go for the Colin Campbell thing and all of that. It’s like, what are we still on that? Now, I know the hockey guy put out a video. I didn’t get a chance to watch the rest of it. I think maybe tomorrow morning since I don’t have a noon stream, I’ll watch that and I’ll and I’ll just I’ll just, you know, record my reaction and see because I watch like the first 5 10 minutes of it. Clayton says, “It’s almost like you take two physical teams that don’t like each other, put them in a game where the outcome doesn’t matter and they’re shocked they’re going to take the opportunity to murder each other.” Yeah. Ex. Exactly. Real says, “We need to find the most progressive hockey team.” That That’s got to be the Kraken, right? That’s got to be the Kraken. Yeah. Oh my god. That was That’s That was um That was something. Geez. I feel bad for people that feel that way, though. Like that’s got to be a really difficult way to go through life where I mean if you can if you can find politics in what happened on the ice in those two preseason games like all that that went on if you can some if in your brain somehow it turns to Trump and MAGA you might you might want to stay off the internet for give it a week man just go go to the beach take a vacation like if you were watching all that fighting and somehow got to got to politics. I genuinely I mean it on a human level. It’s like it’s like no man. Come on now. Geez. H Well, it is what it is what it is, man. That’s that’s that that was that was fun. That was fun. Anybody else have any craziness you all want me to have fun reading? Now, I’m gonna clip that part and put it on the video just because just because I like to cause trouble because I think it’s ridiculous. It’s absurd. Now, now who was Biden was president when Tampa won both times? Right. Right. So, so now how did they win? How did they win if because if if if if from this guy’s article, I guess everybody on Tampa would have loved Biden. So if the league is if the league is pushing MAGA and Trump, how did Tampa win when Biden was it? Was it rigged? Oh, that’s what it is, right? It was rigged. Yeah, that would make sense. But why would they rig it? Why would they rig it to help? I I’m confused now. Yeah. Greel says, “Oh, no. We’ve got the red and blue colors, too.” JC says he seems like he lives to be on the board of his neighbor’s HOA. Right. John, I should check out the clip of the Spanish announcer calling Martian at go. Oh, I’d love to see that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, hey, look, it takes all kinds, right? It it t it takes all kinds, man. I don’t care what anybody’s politics are. I mean, I have my views and all of that. I don’t I don’t care what someone Look, I you you do you do you. It ain’t going to affect me. You know what I mean? That’s it. You do you. I do me. I don’t I don’t care what your politics are. You know, it it doesn’t I don’t know. I guess because we grew up like people my age, we grew up differently, you know. It’s like I when I was in hell, when I was some of your ages, in my late teens, I didn’t know what anybody’s politics were. I didn’t care. I wanted to know who when are we going to the club, when we going fishing, and when do I got to motor grass? That’s really all I cared about. David laughing everybody. It’s all a joke. Sticks and stones. I’m a I’m a ball fat guy. Bring it right. Kazuma, it didn’t let me. Uh, it it it it blocked your link. You said, “Here’s the link.” But it it blocked the link, unfortunately. Kazuma, send it to me on Twitter if send it to me on Twitter and I’ll uh in a message. Hold on. I got to take a screenshot of this guy. Should I use his should I use him as the thumbnail or would that be too much? Would that be too much? Yeah, Kazuma. Yeah, send it to me and Sunswine. Yeah, I mean, you know, I hear what you’re saying, but I I don’t even um it it always surprises me like because politics is not in my mind, right? So when when people make stuff political, it always like what I just like it’s totally foreign to me. It’s like the Panthers and Lightning have a lot of reasons to hate each other. They were the dynasty, now we’re the dynasty, but Tampa still wants to be the dynasty, but we’re still trying. I mean, and we’re in the same state, and these guys probably know each other. And I’m sure at least one guy’s wife is flirted with the wrong player from the other team’s husband. You see what I’m saying? There’s plenty of reasons for those guys to hate each other. ain’t got nothing to do with with politics. It’s wild. Yeah, Dante. Pretty funny to see Ottawa beat Tampa last night. Yeah, I’m going to use it. Yeah, that’s that’s the thumbnail. All right, Kazuma, let’s see. This is weird. Every people are sending me messages on Twitter and forever. It’s like it shows me a new message. Here we go. Oh. Um, so yeah, let me uh let me put my headphones on here. Hold on. This is this is Marian. Oh, I can hear it anyway. Oh, wow. Okay, hold on. Let me get it to the front. Okay, hold on. Let me let me let me share it. Let me share it. Vincent says, “If you did care, we could be living in a different world.” My fault, Vincent. I didn’t I didn’t turn. I’m the same dude I was in. I I’m never I didn’t change. I’m the same dude I was at 15 years old. I don’t care about your politics. I don’t care about your color. It’s like, I don’t get it. I don’t know why everybody’s pissed off at one another, man. You know how much fun the 80s and 90s were when nobody was pissed off at each other? It’s like we just went places and had fun and and it was just and we could just like have a fight and then we would share a girlfriend. I mean, it was just it, you know, nobody cared, man. Nobody cared about any of that stuff. Like, I couldn’t tell you anything about any of my friends, relatives, nothing about their politics. I didn’t know anything about it. So, here’s to call Marian’s game winner in Spanish. Can you guys see that? Okay. Yeah. Oh, here he comes. [Music] Oh, that’s that’s pretty awesome. Yeah, that that’s that’s that’s pretty awesome. You guys heard that? I’ll I’ll play it again. Jumper jumper jumper. [Music] [Music] Look at [Applause] Tell you what, Edmonton was close to a two nothing series lead. That’s for sure. Yeah, that’s why you love watching his Spanish. Yeah. Yeah, that’s that’s a cool call. Be cool. Maybe I’ll learn Spanish. They just got all that emotion. You know what I mean? Yeah. The Spanish announcers rock, right, David? Oh, man. Well, it is what it is, right? Hung says, “I’m I’m so glad that I have the option to watch the games in Spanish. They’re so much better than the national guys. It was nice for us to finally have Goldie and Randy last night.” Burned oil. Yeah, it was tough knowing you were close to either come back 1-1 or go back two nothing. Yeah. Yeah, that was that was that was a that was a tough moment. I mean, you know, um, we we had been pretty much invincible in overtime and and until the previous year when the Rangers beat us twice in the playoffs and uh, yeah, it’s kind of the same kind of the same feeling as when, you know, Toronto was up on us two games to nothing. If we would have gotten down to Edmonton two nothing, I don’t know. I don’t know, man. Martin. Exactly. Burn JC says, “All I’m saying is none of this atmosphere existed when bullying was prevalent.” You know, when I think about the high school I went to and I think about the dynamics from the people and I think about how it would be handled today, I went to North Miami Beach Senior High, but I went there before they started busing people from like North Miami and and the Norland area especially. So when I went to NMB, it was like 85% maybe even 90% Jewish. It was mostly the kids from Highland Highland Oaks. Their parents were doctors and lawyers and doctors and lawyers and the whole thing. Um and then there was us kids from ADIs, the poor kids, you know, compared to the doctors and lawyers. And that was basically who went to that school. And it was it was mostly Jewish and there was a few there was some black people but the nobody nobody cared. I don’t remember one time any any racial thing happening any anti-semitic thing happening. Everybody hung out on the weekends. No, nobody car literally. And nobody cared. It was it was we had been raised. It doesn’t matter. And we’re like okay cool. What are we doing? You know what I mean? What What are we going to go do? We’re going to do a bonfire. We’re going to the beach. We’re going to go do wheelies in the Kmart parking lot. Nobody Nobody cared. And what’s what’s amazing is those a lot of the people that are my age from that from that age group when I see them on Facebook and stuff right now that’s all they can talk about is is race and religion and and and like what happened to you? How did how did you did you for I mean we had such a great time. Nobody cared. Nobody cared about it. And so I mean to me it just gets depressing. I don’t understand it because I know how we were raised and and the childhood and the young adulthood that we had. You know, David says, “My nephews are mixed and their friends are the entire spectrum races and they’re brutal to one another.” Oh yeah, the book fairs. Remember the book fairs? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, your mom give you like three bucks, right? You go to the book fair. Hey, Robert. Hey, Rangers. We had a gentleman’s agreement and it didn’t come to pass. My team didn’t even make the dance last year. Yeah. Sorry about that, man. You know, we we try to help you out, but you guys got to get in the dance. You know what I mean? Why am I getting a call from Sudbury, Massachusetts? Now, that’s interesting. This doesn’t even look like a creditor’s phone number. This looks like every once in a while I get calls from from a like there’s a there’s a place that like is reader magnet. They want to they want to they want me to pay to have the book at like some book fair or whatever. I’m like, you think I have any money for that? Yeah, the book fairs were cool. JC says, “I’m not racist. I hate everyone equally. JK says, “Social media algorithms are built to make you mad. That’s how they keep you glued to the screen.” It’s so true. It’s It’s so true. It’s why I can’t stand Twitter most of the time. I’m getting better at at manipulating it a little bit. But you have to force Twitter to not show you politics. And the problem is is that because all what my experience has been has been a little bit of hockey and then Twitter wants to show me rightwing rightwing especially with the Charlie Kirk stuff right they just want to show me right right so when I because I’m just trying to curate a hockey feed and so when I say I’m not interested in the political stuff it instead of stopping to send me political stuff then they send me stuff from the left. I’m like, “Stop. Stop sending me shit.” And so, it’s getting a little bit better. It’s It’s making the feed a little bit better. Captain Paul. No, I don’t think it was Captain I have Captain Captain Paul’s would say Paul locker room, though. Yeah. Yeah. My van’s extended warranty, right? Real says Paul Ree sent the Jets to win the cup last year, but that didn’t work out so well. That good. Man, I’m not happy. I’m happy about that. Hungry says, “The best way to manipulate the X algorithm is to like a bunch of posts on the stuff you want to see in quick succession.” Yeah, never used to have to do that. It’s getting a little bit better now that it’s it’s hockey season. I I have to engage a little bit. You know what I mean? Um but yeah, I have to fight through the damn politics, you know? It’s it’s it’s if if you if first they give you the politics stuff and then if you don’t want that then they give you like um like the the red pill the red the deep red pill stuff. You know what I mean? It’s like why are you like I’ve not I don’t watch it’s not like a carryover from YouTube. I don’t watch this stuff. So I can see where people got annoyed with Twitter. It’s not so bad once you have it under control. Right. Yeah. YouTube, same kind of thing. You watch a couple of videos in a row, YouTube is listening. YouTube is listening. Um, a couple of time, in fact, one time Donna and I were outside with the dog. We had our phones with us, but we were talk, we’re just talking, we having a conversation about a subject. We’ll just put it that way. And we came in and then we both get in our laptops and we’re just hanging out watching watching the videos that we each watch. And sure enough, the first video YouTube served me up was on the topic that we had just been talking about outside. And I turned my laptop and like look at what they just sent me. She’s like, “They’re listening.” I’m like, “Yeah, they’re listening.” So then we’ve tried to we’ve tried to mess with them and see if they can send us some of the crazy we’ll talk about crazy to see if they send us that vamos got those try going for 4,000 on eBay. No, I didn’t see that. Geez. 4,000. Damn. Who bought that? Hungry says YouTube is fickle as af. Watch one video by one of those massive creators and all of a sudden your entire feed will be that one creator. Yes. Yes. But it also depends too. Like I could watch a fullon hockey guy video. Paul from the locker room. Nick from Twisted Wrist. Like I could watch a full video with errors. Leave a comment and everything and then refresh my page. Nothing. Nothing. But the phone knows. It’s also different your device. So like every morning about 8ish, I’m done with whatever I’m doing workwise. Le I make my waffles. I go outside. We have waffles with Leia. She runs around. We play. I eat my waffles outside. And I and and I know I have it trained to where if I log into the Flying Fluffy football account, the first video they’re going to send me is Tobin. He’s one of the dolphin guys on the radio and I I like to listen to him because he’s he’s he’s he keeps it real. It keeps it cool and so I don’t even have to worry about it. I log into Flying Fluffy Football and I know the first video, whatever Tobin last put out, that’s going to be the first video that’s there. But I can’t get any kind of I can’t get that on the desktop. It’s completely different for me. Yeah, Bix. That’s actual technology. It listens and pushes the ads. Yeah, exactly. You’re not a curator. You’re being curated and your mind becomes twisted. That’s true. That’s true, man. The Vamos got those Bob jersey sign going for almost 10 grand. Geez. Yeah, I know. I I I hear you, David. Oh, and the AI stuff don’t I can’t tell. Like now people are like posting like um like somebody was posting something that was supposed to be a Reddit post, a story about something and I and I read the damn thing and then I get to the comments and they’re like, “Hey, is this AI?” Like, “Yeah, AI wrote this.” And like they’re like, “Ask rock, is was this AI?” is like, “Yeah, yeah, I wrote this.” I’m like, “How are we supposed So I It’s like I don’t even want to scroll now because like I can’t I can’t tell. I mean, you can tell sometimes, but sometimes you read the thing and and and I you can’t tell. Mascot got those on sale.” Bob is nine and a half. Montour’s four. Stenland’s 1.5. Jeez. Great. White says, “Jaws, do I believe in ghosts or spirits? I believe it was the ghost of the fluffy that made Leia get that stick.” 100%. 100%. Um, she just completely out of nowhere, like she was racing somebody to get to that stick. It’s wild what she did yesterday. Now, she’s she had her toy outside today. Um, but yeah, what she did yesterday with with the stick. I mean, I showed Donna the video and she’s like, “That’s exactly she because she’s seen the video.” She’s like, “That’s exactly Fluffy’s moves.” Like, “That’s exactly what he would do.” I’m like, “Yeah, I know. It was like It was weird, man. It was really weird, Vincent.” No, that wasn’t quite it, Vincent. But good guess. Good guess. Oh, is that right? Hungry. Jeez. Okay. Scientist says, “My girl asked me if I want to go on a cruise next year. I opened Instagram and the first post was a Royal Caribbean ad.” Yep, that’s true. Yeah, we’re being phased out by AI. I know. You know, it’s it’s it’s kind of scary. Once AI figures out how to use puppets, I’m out of a job, right? You know, how do you guys like that? Two videos. I haven’t I haven’t used the puppets yet. Huh? Nobody’s asking for them either. I did talk to Bob though last night. So, I figure I’ll I’ll when when Bob gets a night off, then he can he can come to the channel. So, all right. Did I miss a super chat? Because I seen I see something here. Hey, thank you, Zach. I didn’t see that because I was reading I was reading the the article. Thank you, buddy. Much appreciated, bud. Thank you, buddy. Says, “People from Tampa are brainless. The next night Ekki got Hegel. Actually, the next night was a day off and the other day the Hegel didn’t play.” Thank you, Zach. Sorry I didn’t see that earlier, man. David says, “I’m so old AI is Alan Iverson to me, right?” No, I know, Kate. We were warned. It’s It’s some of the videos. Like there was a video that I saw. I don’t know was one it was either Twitter or YouTube. It was a short and it was a bear and I guess the bear had been sneaking into the backyard of this this people’s house and they had a swing and they kept the the the camera kept catching the bear falling off the little swing. So they they put like a big like a like a inner tube type of thing, a big ass swing for him. and uh and the the uh bear come out of the woods and gets on the freaking swing and it’s going back and forth and I’m watching it. I’m like, “That’s AI. This is cute.” And it wasn’t. It It wasn’t. And I’m going through the comments and everybody it was it was not AI. I’m like, “How in the hell are we supposed to know when we’re watching something, right?” And then what if something is actually real, but the bots tell us it’s AI? We’re not who who’s going to know who’s gonna It’s just It’s just uh Vincent says, “AI is not phasing us out. It’s about control. Think of which databases they’re pulling information from. It’s just Wikipedia on steroids except it talks to you in person for the most part.” Yeah, that part. Yeah. I’m For me, I’m talking about um content creation and and stories and all of that. Yeah. I’m AI. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, that’s why that’s why I went bald and this is going white and I’m doing a good job. The model is doing a good job of showing an aging an aging Oh, the AI shark videos. Yeah, that’s a pain in the ass. Yeah, Kazuma says AI shorts are becoming dangerous, especially in politics because you’re seeing crazy videos and people can’t tell it’s AI. That that’s true. that I mean that’s gonna be a problem at some point, you know. So, all right everybody, I’m gonna roll. Appreciate it. Nice to hang out. Um there’s no hockey. There’s no hockey tonight. There’s literally no hockey tonight. And uh and Kyle’s not home tonight. So, the Panthers better not do anything. No moves, no trades, no no no nothing. nothing tonight. I want tonight off. I want to be um unavailable. We’ll just put it that way. And then yeah, we got uh well, that’s Leo. We got we got hockey tomorrow, 7 o’clock. So, the members podcast or members stream will begin at 6:30 and then uh yeah, we got to beat the crap out of Ottawa. Yeah. And and that Yeah, there 20 games in one day and not zero the next. I know. I know it. I know it. All right, everybody. Go enjoy your Friday night. Have one for me. Appreciate all the love and support and I shall see you mñana. Yeah, exactly. Kazuma. Yeah. Yeah. We need AI short of Crosby announcing he’s going to Florida. Oh god.

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