SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey Ashley. Hey, how's it going? So good. How are you? I'm good. Did anything big happen with our pod this week? Oh geez. Yes, we hit a thousand downloads. Yay, girl. Yeah, boy. Um, so that means that we're essentially famous.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Basically.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

I don't even know of another podcast that's had a thousand downloads yet. We're so unserious.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

People are like, be so for real right now.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

Google is free.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

Google is free.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

No, we were very excited. So we really are super thankful for all of our listeners. And yeah. Um, you know, we are a little unserious. Like I would say I'm a little more unserious than you.

unknown 0:43

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Yeah. That's just what the reviews have said. Um, but it's just fun.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Oh speaking of reviews, my friend who made that rude comment about my knees, I think is trying to come back and apologize because he said to me, and I quote, your podcast is the best thing about nothing since Seinfeld. Oh, the best show about nothing. That is so nice. I know. I was like, oh, I almost I almost like again. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

He's taking a step in the right direction. Taking a step in the right direction. Not back all the way, but like taking a step in the right direction.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

But I thought that was a really good like I was like, wow, that is quite a bar because Seinfeld. I know. I love Seinfeld. That's the ultimate show about nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Um, dang, should we have named this like New Seinfeld? No. Maybe. No, we shouldn't have. That's fine. I don't know. Um, but it is it is very nice to hear people like say things, like nice comments here and there, like, oh, I listened to your pod this week, whatever. Um, but it it my sister uh sent me a message this week, a Marco Polo, and was this like, I'm out on a walk and I was just listening to your Marco Polo, and I just had to tell you about this. So um I can't remember exactly what episode we talked about. I want to say it was the one about laughing, where I talked about how we went to Oregon and Oh, yeah, we couldn't figure out the shower.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Anyways, my sister and I had said, I am telling this story because I'm gonna like help somebody else in the future. Okay. Um that didn't happen. But you don't know yet. No, but my sister reached out to commiserate with me because she said they also went out of town um and had that similar situation. And she said she did the exact same thing of like crouching down and like like wafting the water at her because she couldn't figure it out. And she said, like, I couldn't even figure out how to um like pull the plug, stop it, or like, yeah, put uh initiate the plug. So she's like, I couldn't even take like you know, a bath.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

Which I don't know if like that was a problem in our org, the organ house or not. But anyways, she was just like, I thought that was so funny. And she's like, and then this week, or she said that happened to her, and then she said, and then this week I listened to your podcast and on that episode, and I heard you guys say that, and she's like, It's such a stupid design. It is really stupid. So whatever.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Yeah, get your life together, get your life together.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Uh faucet company. What I was trying to think of. I was trying to think of even a single faucet company, but I couldn't think of a single one.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

Let's not call them out. Maybe they want to sponsor us one day.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

They for sure. If you want to like recover your name, you better sponsor this podcast. Give us some dollars or at least a new faucet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Um, as far as reviews go, so I just learned that you can't review like text review on Spotify. You can only like star review, which I didn't up before. Okay. But then also, um, any of the comments we've got, I've noticed this interesting pattern where all of the positive comments, like on YouTube, have been women and they've been so kind. And all of the negative comments have always been men.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Yeah, because we're hurting their feelings, which I'm like, it's so funny to me though. Like, laugh at yourself, okay? Because like that's all this podcast is laughing at ourselves.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Just be so for real, man. It's not that serious. Yeah. It's not, it's really not that deep. No. It really isn't. No. Sometimes it is, but it's not though.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

I kind of feel like you and I are serious people in the real world, but like this is our time to just be not serious. So, anyways, yeah. Thank you to those that send positive comments.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yeah, and I will just keep replying to those maybe, but those negative ones, I usually just try to troll the hell out of them and do a good job. Keep talking to them because the more that they talk to us, yeah, the more it ing makes it go up higher.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

Like, well, and then the more it shows up for them. It's like, yeah, you hate us, but yeah, we're gonna keep on. Yeah, yeah, we're living rent-free in that head. Whatever. I love it. Hey, just just chill. Yeah, like just have a laugh. Yeah, go to therapy. Be so silly. For the love of all of us, please go to therapy. Just be so silly. Just be silly. Yeah, get silly. Get silly. I don't know what that was. It's a song. Okay. I'm gonna trust you there. Listen, this wine is kicking anybody. Rat rope.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Let's go. Okay. Well, then maybe this isn't gonna be a a strong start for us, but I'm not gonna tell you what the the episode is about yet. But rather, I'm just gonna like have you imagine something. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna close my eyes.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Okay, so imagine you have this job with the following characteristics, not this job right now. Okay. This pod is not our job.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Yet. Yet.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Um so imagine you have this job and it's like pretty niche. Only a small number of people in the entire world get paid to do it. A lot of people do it, but only a few people get paid to do it.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Um, it's not a nine to five. It more like owns your days and your nights, owns your weekends, owns your holidays. It owns you, okay? Um, all that to say, you can guess the stakes are kind of high if it's owning you, okay? So like at 2 a.m. you're staring at the ceiling because you're replaying the mistakes you've made in your job. Stakes are high, okay? Are you there?

SPEAKER_02 6:06

Yeah, but you're stressing. You're stressing at 2 a.m.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

you're stressing. Okay. And it's intensely physical. The job is intensely physical. And missing work isn't an option, and there's not like a call my friend and see if they'll cover for me situation.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

What is wrong? But it's not porn, right? Is it porn? Porn. The job.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

No! That's really niche. We're gonna have to cut it physically. Yeah, we're gonna cut this. We're cutting this. Okay, it was half a minute.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

You should not have put me. You had to know what you're getting yourself into with this.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

So glad. What do you want from me?

SPEAKER_02 7:04

What was I supposed to think? Very niche. Not a lot of people can do it. A lot of people do it, but don't get paid for it. Okay, okay, fine. Oh my god. You can't call your friend in.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Like, what do you want from me? Okay. Ignore me. Okay. Um, but it's not just brute force, it also requires precision, timing, strategy. If you're off by an inch though, everyone's gonna notice. And you and with this job, you have coworkers that you love, the kind that will become part of your family, and then you have the ones that you just absolutely loathe. So that just kind of sounds like every job. Um the ones that make your lives miserable. Oh, and let me tell you, the better you do in this job, the more money you make.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

So it's uh what what type of job is that? Like commission?

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Yeah, I don't know. Now imagine you're doing this job wearing before I say this next part. I will say we've had to re re-record this section um a few times because Ashley cannot hold it together. So I don't even know what you're gonna say when I say this next line. Okay, hold yourself together. Okay. So I've set the criteria of this job. Okay. Now imagine you're wearing weird shoes. Okay, for this shoe. You should have led with that. You're wearing weird shoes to do this job.

unknown 8:32

I can't.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

This is you now, not me.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Oh, I did not. I did proofread this, but I did not. Proofread it from Ashley's maturity standpoint? I didn't proofread it from a 14-year-old boy standpoint. Hey, 12. Okay. So now imagine you're doing that job wearing weird shoes on a slick surface. It's hockey. It's hockey. Duh. It's hockey. Obviously. Oh my gosh. I love it. Get your life together. So I'm gonna just gonna maybe just go back over this. It's niche. Only the small percentage of people actually get paid to do it.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

It owns your days, your nights, your weekends. The stakes are high. It's intensely physical. It requires precision, timing, strategy. So, anyways, all of that. It's hockey. And I just need to tell you one thing. Okay. It's the superior sport. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyways, that's the end of the episode. Just letting you know that hockey is hockey.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

I'm glad because that was a lot. That was a lot to get through. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

No, I'm kidding. Go on. I am accepting applications for new co-hosts. Ones that can hold it together. No, um, just kidding. We're not we're not ending the episode there. So, in honor of the Olympics and the USA versus Canada gold medal match this um that happened today. Um, for the men, the women won last week. The women USA team won last week, because of course they did.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

And this is February 22nd. Yeah. Just hope everybody has some context. This will release kind of after that.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Yeah. So uh hope that wasn't a spoiler for anybody that is listening a month later. I guess also get your letter together. So yeah. Uh today I'm just publicly explaining why I think hockey is the best sport. Okay. Um, full disclosure, let's just let's just get this out here right at the start. I'm not a hockey expert, even remotely. I have enjoyed hockey maybe for the last two years. Yeah. And I think it's a great time. I still have to Google things. I still have to text, I have a friend that's really into hockey, so I have to text him all the time. And but I but I am actively learning and aggressively invested.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yeah. So listen, I appreciate the enthusiasm of Googling because I'm just there with like all sports, I'm just there for the vibes and the snacks. I love to watch it. Don't have the slightest idea what's going on. But also, is Google free? Yeah, Google is also free.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Google's free.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

Um, so I need a shirt that says Google is free. Oh, yeah, let's do it, girl.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

That could be our merch. Oh. Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

Okay, continue.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Um, anyways, but today I'm here to convince you that hockey is superior to everything else.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Should I have been more like, no, it's not.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Sure, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

No, it is not the superior sport. So, what do you think is the superior sport? Uh skating. I don't know. What is I don't know. Sports? Football? Uh uh football. You love football. I do love the idea of football. I love fantasy football. Yeah, okay. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Football's the superior sport.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

All right.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Well, I'm here to tell you it is not. Um are we fighting? No. Okay. If it is, this is the most tame version of fighting. So um, I do think people are gonna have big feelings about this. So again, I'm not trying to be ESPN. I'm not an expert in uh hockey. Okay, so just like have fun. Guys, just have fun and take a deep breath. Specifically, guys, yeah. It's okay. I don't make the rules. No, the ice does. Oh, that's a bar, man. Okay, so my first argument, and I think this is the biggest, like, or the the key argument of my whole thing that hockey is superior. It's the athleticism. These hockey players are next level. I mean, every athlete is incredibly talented at their own Yeah, at their thing. At their thing, whatever. But like hockey is unhinged athleticism. Um, and I just think it's the most athletic sport.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Yeah, I could see that.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

But let's compare. So football, okay, the one you love, sure, allegedly. Yeah. Um, those are incredible athletes. Yeah. So, but it's like six seconds of play and then a couple minutes of standing around dramatically.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Oh, and what's crazier is if you go to a live game and you realize they actually take commercial breaks too. So if there's gonna be a commercial, they're also just like the good majority of the time, they're standing on the side of the field, they're not really playing.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Which is why timeouts are so bizarre to me, because it's like what what do you need to time out for?

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Have a commercial break.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

You just had a commercial break.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Get me to buy some Doritos. Like, yeah. Get me to buy some AI. Yeah. Like, that's all the Super Bowl commercials were with AI and stuff. Anyways, but they are. Nobody's arguing. I'm not arguing that any other sport doesn't have super athletic people, but I'm just saying hockey just has like all their players are just so yeah talented uh talented in every way. Anyways, uh baseball, it's just quick bursts, lots of spitting, maybe some jayging, some ya. Yeah, some ya.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Uh basketball. We have to stop and appreciate baseball pants though, really quick. Yeah, pantaloons. We love me some pantaloons.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Yeah, those are nice. Yeah. And I like I do like um all the necklaces that the guys wear on baseball.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Because I think that's kind of cool. Yeah. Um I also like in baseball that it's not like a young man's game. Yeah, okay. I never really thought about that, but you're right. And I don't think hockey is either. Like hockey, a lot of the players are pretty long term where that's not the case with football because you just damage your body.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Like a a 40-year-old playing football is considered like a geriatric person.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

They're in the the geriatric league. And that's the same with basketball. Like they're all very young, which is great. Love our young people, but they age out of it really quick because it's like and they destroy their bodies in the meantime.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Yeah. Which it's very interesting because I'm gonna make the point that hockey is also incredibly hard on the body, but these guys stay in for a very long time. So, um, anyways, but so basketball, cardio, yes. You know, that we're doing lots of cardio, precision and accuracy, yes. But it's like all the squeaky shoes. I swear they add in the squeaks just to be cool.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

That's what I think of when I think of basketball is squeaky shoes.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Yeah, squeaky shoes, and bugs bunny, dramatic facial expressions, space jam. That's what you're thinking, right? And a lot of flopping. There's a lot of flopping in the NBA. I don't know what flopping is. Flopping is when a player like exaggerates um like contact with another player. Oh. So like they like kind of tap your shoulder and you like throw yourself to the floor in hopes of getting a foul. But they the NBA is kind of ever evolving in their rules, and they I don't know if they're called anti-flopping rules. I'm sure it's not called anti-flopping. No, guys, I'm not ESPN, but they do like, I think they do get mad at them if they are like overly flopping, right? Yeah, no flopping.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Which if we look at women's sports compared to men's sports, men do that a lot more than women, especially in in soccer.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 15:53

My mother-in-law loves soccer. She used to play. I do like soccer too. And the women's teams are brutal to each other and they don't get fouls called as often as like the men's teams, who just like oui.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Yeah. No, I think the NBA is kind of known for their flopping. So, but anyways, and basketball, like, I'm sorry, not my favorite because and it probably doesn't help that our state team is constantly breaking all the fans' hearts. Like year after year, we're trading out our good players, we're trading out the people we love, um, in hopes of getting a better draft pick. And spoiler alert, it never happens. So it's always like we're trying to lose because we want to get do better in the draft, and then it just never happens. So yeah, sorry, Utah. I'm not interested. Should that be the slogan for Utah? Trying to lose. Yes, because I feel like it's like every year, and it it really is kind of it is hard on the big fans, you know what I mean? Yeah, like there was a there was a fourth of July ruined by the jazz in my household.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Because um Gordon Hayward left the jazz on the 4th of July and it ruined our 4th of July. Oh, yeah. And not my like it ruined my husband's fourth of July. Gotcha. I still had a great time.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Might I suggest a hobby?

SPEAKER_01 17:07

That's not that one. Well, yeah, because it's our it's hard. He keeps showing up like you know, full of support, and they keep disappointing him. It's just like, yeah, dad's not coming back.

SPEAKER_02 17:17

He went to go get cigarettes and milk and he ain't coming back.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

But also with the NBA, it lately feels like all it is is just whoever can sport whoever can score the most three-pointers. Um, so it's like it's only a game of offense. There's like no defense anymore. So, but also who knows? I'm not I'm not ESPN, I might be just completely making all that up.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Um which I appreciate about you. Comparing hockey to soccer, I also really like soccer. It's elite endurance. You are running around for 90 straight minutes. Um but like where are the blades? Yeah. Where are the ice skates? You don't even have ice skates. You're like running on grass with heats.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Let's it's just too hot. We need some more ice, we need some more berries.

unknown 17:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Um, but I will say I think soccer is my second favorite sport. Okay, but probably just because of Ted Lasso.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

Oh, yes, classic.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

But let's talk about why hockey's so good. Okay, they're sprinting basically on knives. Like they are running around on knives on the ice, chasing and controlling this tiny little puck. I don't even know how big it is. Like, I don't know. Size doesn't matter. Size doesn't matter. It's small. Um, and while they are chasing that on their knives on the ice, they are also able to just body check everybody into the glass. I love it. Like full contact, just super hard. So, anyways, have you watched much hockey?

SPEAKER_02 18:37

I have actually. I've gone to our college teams before. Okay. Like one of the ones that's in the area. And then the minor league. I think they're the Grizzlies. I've gone to the Grizzlies, but what's between the Grizzlies? The Mustangs, I think.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

They're like one of the local places around here. I've gone to one there before. And then I would love to go to a Utah hockey club, but the tickets are insane.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Mammoth.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Mammoth, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

No, they are, I will say they are pretty expensive, but they are worth it.

SPEAKER_02 19:07

Yeah. It'd be cool to see a hockey game where like they don't really stop them from hitting, right? Because like if the Grizzlies, they would stop them. They would stop them. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Oh, maybe that's a minor leagues roll that I don't know about. Again, not Google. Um, anyways, but one thing that I noted like um with hockey is they are changing out their line pretty consistently, but it also just goes to show like how that's like how aggressive it is that you really can only play like 45 seconds to 60 seconds, and then they're changing that line, which is just crazy. And yeah, where they just like and it's just like that just seems like chaos. Like, how are they managing that on the bench to be like, you know, you gotta come out, this person's gonna trade you in. And I I'm sure it's probably simpler than I'm than it looks that looks like sheer chaos. They have to be like within like I think it's like five feet or so from the bench before the next person goes in. Because that was one question I had is like, well, like how do they how do they know who's in, who's out? Right, and it but it does look like so flawless and but chaos at the same time. Well, and like when they are switching out, they have to make sure it's not gonna like impede a play or something. Right. So uh, but yeah, it is I have a question though.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

Can they can they do it? Is there certain times that they can do it, or can they just consistently can't?

SPEAKER_01 20:24

I think it just can't impede a play.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Um, but yeah, so hockey is chaos but with respected rules. And I do think like the rules are respected, which I which I appreciate. So are you convinced yet that hockey's the best? Or am I still working on you?

SPEAKER_02 20:38

What do you want from me? I want you to be.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

I want you to say you're I'm still working on you. You gotta still work on me. Okay. Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

I'll keep going. Oh my gosh, there's my arm.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Okay, so the next point is the chaos. Yeah, I love the chaos. So hockey is just beautiful chaos. Um, the pucks move faster than my eyeballs can process, which is just crazy. Like when you're there, it's maybe a little bit easier to track than on TV. And I think they do a great job of broadcasting it, but sometimes I wish they would just zoom out and just let you like kind of watch the whole thing. But maybe if you're zoomed out, that's far too small. I don't know. You see an already small puck. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Well, I mean, if you're on the jumbo, like I don't know what the seats are like out at a professional game, but like if you're sitting up higher, isn't there a jumbotron? Like, are you basically seeing it the way you would see it on TV? I don't know. That's a good question. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Um, but like again, it's it's hard for me as a spectator sitting stationary to like track the puck with my eyes, but these guys are tracking it with a mask on, with their big pads on.

SPEAKER_02 21:39

Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say, like, not only are they sprinting on knives, but they also have a ton of gear on.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Yeah, a lot of gear.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Like that's gotta add a lot of extra weight that you also have to navigate and understand how to move your body in.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Yeah, weight and yeah, functionality, and but they're still just like so agile on the ice. And kind of almost graceful in an aggressive way. Yeah. Um, but you know, like they're hitting they're hitting players into the boards, like the sides, they're hitting them into the glass, and it's like, okay, it's coming. Yeah. It's coming. Get 'em. It's a fight. Yeah. So in the National Hockey League, um, if two players decide to fight, they like flip off their gloves, which is essentially, I think, hockey lingo for like, let's get it on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

Let's get it on.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

It's probably not let's get it on. It's probably like, we're doing this. Same and same. We're doing this. Yeah. Um meet me at the flagpole. You're going down. Yeah. And that was like the one thing that I was super surprised about in hockey because I really hadn't watched much hockey. Um, but it's like the the refs just literally are like, all right, let's let them wrestle. Um and they literally just like skate around them and they don't they don't shut it down immediately. They they let them do it. But um they do pull them apart if one player goes down or if it gets like too aggressive. But it is cool that they're just like, yeah, you can fight. Yeah. Um, but fun fact, you cannot fight in the Olympics. Oh. Yeah. So that's a rule at the Olympics. So we I watched the game this morning and it felt like which is when I learned that they can't fight in the Olympics. I was like, oh yeah, the fights are gonna be good on this, and they're like, oh no, no, no fights. But I felt like they were pretty good at body checking because that's their that was their only avenue.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

So which would be hard if you were a player in outside of the Olympics, and then you got chosen for the Olympic team. You're used to being able to like throw down, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Yeah, well, they're all they're all professional in the Olympics. Yeah. Like all from the NHL or something.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Yeah, but I mean like that's what I'm saying is if you're going from like a normal, like where you can fight environment, and it would be hard to have that mental shift of like, gotta be professional, I guess. I know, gotta it's like me having to use my customer service voice. It's just it's not I'm not an Olympic talker on the phoner.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

There was there was one fight in today's game, ish, fight-ish, but like where I think I can't remember, I think one of the Canadian players was over by the USA bench and they grabbed him and they like started, and so it was kind of like a big like doggy pile. But the refs broke it up, so bummer. Anyway, so but then that leads me to the next part that I really like. So I kind of like the fighting, which is interesting because I'm not like a violence gal. Yeah, not a violence girly. Um, but the penalty box, aka the sin bin. Yes, we love the sin bin. So they don't get ejected, they don't get suspended, it's just a few minutes sitting in that box, the ice box. You go across from your across from your teammates, and you're just like you think about what you've done in your little box.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Yeah, you sit over there. Your glass case of emotion.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

But um, I just I think that's just so fun. So um, if you commit certain penalties like tripping or hooking or high sticking, um you have to go sit in that literal glass box where everybody just has to be like essentially like shame.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

We need to bring back public shaming, actually. Oh 100%. I tell this to my husband all the time when he doesn't use his horn when we're driving. Like that is your only form of letting someone know they messed up and letting everybody else around you know that they messed up. Use it.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

I like the horn, but sometimes it's like sometimes you can't tell if it's like you that somebody was using their horn against or someone around you because sometimes I'm I hear the horn and I'm like, I didn't even do anything.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Oh no, you know. When I use the horn on you, you know. Oh, are you an like do you hold an extent?

SPEAKER_01 25:31

If it's warranted, yes. I'm a I'm a timid horn user. I'm like maybe you're in trouble. If you wouldn't mind just like going because it's green.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

Oh no, I never honk if it's like green. No, I'm talking about like aggressive, like you did something stupid. Oh. Like sometimes people pull out and then just stop while the rest of traffic is going and everybody else has to stop to figure out. Or like what my biggest pet peeve is. Sorry, this has turned into a driving.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

That's actually where I wanted to go with the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Um, when there's a three-lane road and one person stops to let somebody out, but all the rest of the cars are going.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Oh, yeah, and that car is dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

That is really dangerous, and that car thinks like so they come out, like, oh, that's when I use my horn. I just big time.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

I actually just try and avoid or um avoid those situations altogether. Same. There's like a couple of those, like in you know, the nearby town. But that I'm just like, I'd rather just go to the light and have to backtrack just a little bit because trying to turn across three is right, not great. Yep. Um, but why wouldn't you honk and honk at somebody that isn't going when it's green?

SPEAKER_02 26:40

I mean, eventually, if we're sitting there like forever, then yes, I'll I'll give it a good beep. But yeah, for the most part, they eventually like look up and realize.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

It's also the only the job of the second car to honk that first car. Like the other day, I was at a light where they didn't go and I did like a little and like then the car behind me honked, and I was like, I already did it, guys. You guys, I already got this.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

Jeez, shut up, shut up already.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Okay, okay, come back come back to us for your driving tips. Uh, I don't know if you remember where we were, but we were talking about hockey and the penalty box, the sin bin. Yeah. Um public shaming. Oh yeah. Bring it back. So it's just super funny, like sitting in the penalty box, and they have to go sit in there for a couple minutes, it's essentially adult timeout. Um which I need some. But here's here's where I think it gets really cool. So when your team has a player in the penalty box, your team then has to spend or your team then has to play one player short. So there's normally five players or five skaters, whatever, and the goalie. So if you're in that box, you're you're playing down. And uh that is called, I thought this was funny, uh the power kill. So if your team is playing one short, it's called the power kill because you're trying to kill time, you're trying to like do the best you can with only four players. But on the opposite side, if if you're the opposite team and you're playing five, the other team's playing four, it's called the power play. Oh, okay. Because you got all the power, and you know they're gonna do their best to try and gotcha score. So I thought that was fun. Um so fighting is almost a strategy then. Sometimes. Oh, okay. Yeah, sometimes. Well, and you I mean, but you can get it for other things too, and it's not just fighting, it's kind of like I said, like hooking and stuff. Um, so penalties actually matter a lot because even though it's only one player, you think it's like only one player, that's a huge difference. It's like 20% of your workforce coming out, you know? Right. Um, but if you both fight and you both end up in the penalty box, then you don't just both play four players. Everybody keeps five, but those two players are just out and in the shame box.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

So are the boxes next to each other, or do they have to like sit next to each other in the box?

SPEAKER_01 28:47

They don't have to like put on a a jersey with two holes for heads, like they don't have to put on a fight jersey, but they are in the same box, I think, and there's like a person in between them.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

Like a I don't know what that person does.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Referees. It's a mom. It's a mom.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

She like looks out of them.

SPEAKER_02 29:04

She's like, don't even. Yeah. You guys are in time out. But so you're not gonna get your TV privileges.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

But if you are, if it's only one team that has somebody sitting in the penalty box, and then the other team that's on their power play scores, you can go back in, which I think is kind of generous. Oh yeah. Yeah, so you don't have to then sit for the rest of your time. Um, anyways, it's just fun. I like that. I just I just think the fighting, I didn't think I like it as much as I did, but I it's pretty fun. Um and ultimately, like as you said, fighting serves a purpose. If it can be very strategic, it can get so you can get a player out of there, but it also stirs up the crowd, it shifts momentum if like one team is really on like a roll, like get a fight or do whatever to shift the momentum, protect a teammate, um, or just like settle some beef that's been brewing the whole game. Yeah. Which is essentially hockey, is just settle in like those. Settle in the score. Yeah, settle in the score.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

This makes me want to watch um Heated Rivalry. No, I don't know what that is. It makes me want to watch Shoresy, but not Shoresy.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

Oh, Letter Kenny. Letter Kenny. I love Letter Kenny. But Shoresy is also good.

SPEAKER_02 30:17

I've never watched Shoresy, but anyways, I'm sorry. I keep tangenting you.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

If you haven't seen Letterkenny, you need to give it a watch. But it is about Canada. These these people from a town called Letter Kenny, and I think it like the intro says something about all their problems. I don't know. It's really good though. Yeah, it is really good. They're so funny, but they also play hockey. Because they're Canadian. So there are players though on the team that I don't know if this is like literally their job title, but people know that when those players go in, they're gonna start a fight. So there are players that are just there to like start fights, which I think is fun. It's me. They're the aggressor, yeah. Ashley's our fighter. So, anyways, all of it to say iconic behavior. Yeah. It's just chaos. Iconic chaos. Iconic. Okay, next point. Because I still haven't convinced you, right? No, I'm still unsure about hockey. What you're talking about. I don't know if I like it yet.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Okay. The trophy. Do you know what the trophy's called for the winner of the hockey? More teeth. No, it's not more teeth. Good try though. The Stanley Cup. Oh, yes. Okay. So the Stanley Cup is the coolest trophy in sports, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

It's my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

It's my opinion. Um, and I will not be taking questions. I will take some questions about it.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

Is it an actual cup? Like, can you drink beers out of it?

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yes. Oh. So um each year, whoever wins the Stanley Cup, which is a series of seven games, you play the same team seven days or seven games in a row, um that you get this cup, and it's the same cup every single year. So it's not a new one. So it is getting passed. Like the gauntlet is getting passed.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

They engrave every player's name on the new cup, and I think they're on like rings and stuff. So once the rings kind of get full, they retire, you know, the oldest ring to the hall of fame or whatever. But then it but it's like a thing. So like each of the players gets like a day with it, or maybe they get more time with it, but everybody gets like a chance to have the Stanley Cup. That's cool. Um, it has been in swimming pools, it's been at weddings, it's been used as a cereal bowl, yeah, and allegedly it's been used as a baptismal font.

unknown 32:25

No way.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yeah, if you'd won the Stanley Cup, you'd probably baptize your child in it. That's because it's kind of big.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Yeah. I was just thinking, like, you know, like those Corona Ritas you can get. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

unknown 32:37

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

But also it's like, is it just like full of bacteria? Oh, probably. That thing's probably disgusting. Or maybe it's like pretty sterile because it's all metal.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

I mean, maybe. Somebody's probably taking a Clorox wipe in between.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Somebody's mom. Somebody is actually wiping it out after we have some cereal out of it. But anyways, it just has a lot of personality and that is very cool. I never knew that. Yeah, so like other sports, they get their own thing. Everybody gets a ring for whatever reason. I oh, they might get rings, I don't know. But I don't know what the other trophies are called. But the Heisman? Is that one? For football? Yeah. Wow, look at me. Um, but they get a new one every year. But this one is just like, I've been around the block. Yeah. And they'll continue to take it around the block.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

It's like tradition.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

It's less of like a participation thing and more of like a this is the trophy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

And now for the next year, it's ours. Yeah. It is ours. And we want to keep it. Yeah. So I think that's pretty fun. Um, the next point, because I again, are you ready to join the hockey? I don't know. Okay. Um, hockey culture is elite. Oh. Yeah. I love the jerseys. I have a funny hockey jersey story. Oh, okay. Tell me more. So I went to a hockey game a couple months ago, and I just had like my ID in my back pocket. Okay. Because I didn't take in my like purse because I was going to an event, and you can't bring your purses in and stuff. So I just had my ID and stuff in my back pocket. And I went to go to the bathroom, and like I was wearing uh my husband's hockey jersey, and it went down to like I don't know, like right above my or maybe like six inches above my knee. I don't know. And I'm a tall person, so this is a a very large jersey. So I am like pulling this jersey up so that I can go to the bathroom. And all of a sudden I feel something on my back and I like kind of like look behind me and there's a strap. And I'm like, what in the hell is this? But I was like, the strap, if I sit down, is going to go in the toilet. Right. I later found out it's I don't know what it's called, but it's a strap that they um the hockey players use they to basically tie their jersey down so that when they're fighting, somebody can't rip their jersey off their bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

Yeah, so anyways, so I am in the bathroom fumbling, trying to keep my uh hockey tail out of the toilet. Hockey tail? Yeah, I don't know what it's called. Okay. We'll probably Google it. Um anyways, and so I go to sit down and I hear this snap, and my ID had snapped in my back pocket. So apparently driver's licenses snap.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. When you got back, they definitely do.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

But I just thought it was so funny because I was just like, I'm sorry, I was managing my hockey tail. I think that's why I love hockey jerseys, though, is because they're big. Yeah. Like I love them, like oversized like sweater or like yeah, and they have to accommodate or uh people to like have all the padding and stuff at me. But anyways, yeah. So I for a couple months had just like anytime I got asked for my idea, I was like, here. It is real.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

You like hogglue it together.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

No, no, that's the thing, is it didn't it didn't fully break. Like just the the underside was real, the like the hard plastic broke, but like the top was still intact. Oh. Yeah, it was weird. I did get a new one though, which was good because my previous picture was bad. My pictures are always bad. Well, I didn't know where to look. Yeah. There was like two places you could have looked, and I obviously chose the wrong picture. Never correct you ever.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

I was like looking up into space. It was weird. Mine looks like I I was pregnant at the time, but it also looks like I'm having a stroke on one side of my face because it's all thank you. Yeah, so and mine's currently like that. So well, for $28, I think you can get a brand new one. Okay, I don't care that much. It's a later baby. Yep. Probably a teenager or young adult at this point.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

Okay. So back to hockey culture, like missing teeth equals respect. Yep. But also kind of like hot. Kind of. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Do you see a hockey player with like missing teeth? Like, okay in the hockey context, yes. In outside of hockey context, not so much.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

Well, you would probably like because they're they are strapping young men. Oh, I know. And I'm sure I'm sure if you saw a very good-looking man that's dressed really nicely and he's missing a tooth, you'd be like, okay, that's that's curious.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Do you drink soup through that hole?

SPEAKER_01 36:55

You can't ask me that.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Stick a straw right in there.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Yeah, because his jaw's wired shut. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

That's why he's presentative.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Um but you know, like injuries are just the thing. It's a it's the culture. Missing teeth, broken noses. Just tape that boy up. Yep. You get cut by, you know, like a skate, something. Ooh, which happened at the Olympics. No way. Did you see that? No, I didn't watch the Olympics yet. Sorry. Oh, so you're gonna be in a month watching the Olympics and I've just ruined it. Probably. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:28

No, I don't know. I every time we've turned on the Olympics lately, it's just been curling and like no shade to the curlers, but also some shade to the curlers. Like I can only watch someone Swiffer on ice for a little while before I'm like out. So okay and I I fully recognize that me as a adult human person could never do that or have that level of athleticism, but I'm still gonna make jokes about it. I feel like curling though is not athleticism, it's strategic.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Oh. Either way. So what are what are you doing in the Olympics?

SPEAKER_02 37:57

They're being strategic. I mean, I don't know, because like if you see them, they're they're moving like a lot. And making their bodies like in weird situations. Anyways, back to hockey beer.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

Your next episode can be you know, convince me that curling is worth it being in the Olympics.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

I'm not gonna be able to because all I think of is every time I watch it is mopping my floors. Yeah. Which any minute now, Swiffer's gonna hire one of those curling girls to do their commercials for them because we live in capitalistic hell.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

Yeah. Um, but no, there was an Olympic skater like doing the speed skating, and one of them like I think they kind of wiped out, but their skate legit cut another player right below their eye. And they wear like the goggles, but it like hit off the goggles.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

So like Dexter style. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, who knows? Anyways, but if you get cut in hockey, it's just like, let's glue that up and get you back out there. So there's just like a very specific like hockey personality type. So it's like they're masculine, it's super masculine on the ice, but then off the ice, most of them, I guess, are known to be like understated, dry humor, like just zero theatrics. Like they're just kind of there to play their game and play it hard. Yeah, yeah. We love it. Yeah, and you know, it's just like five minutes ago you just slammed somebody into the glass at 25 miles per hour, but now you're over here being like, Yeah, it's like a good game.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

25 miles an hour? Holy, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Yeah, I hope that's accurate.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

I mean, woof. Yeah, yeah, they hit them so hard.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Ouch! That's like a car in a residential area. Yeah, that's a car on a residential street. Jeez, slow down. Woof. But it's but it's so, yeah, it is just like they play so hard on the thing. And you know, you think about you like your whole goal for that for that whole game is just to destroy each other, and then after the game, you're like, and good game. Shake your hand. Yeah. So they're amazing.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

Which you appreciate, and you appreciate that like masculinity.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

They're true masculinity is like sportsmen's, yeah. And sportswomen. Knowing when to be aggressive. So I are you there yet?

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Oh no, I'm not there yet.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

This is really stretching on, isn't it? I swear I'm getting to the end. Okay, so hockey fans, let's talk about them. Okay, let's talk about them fans. You can't casually like hockey. I mean, I can't either people like don't know anything about it or they are like all in it, they are emotionally attached to this team, like all in it. And hockey fans are emotional, like in overtime. So, do you know much about overtime?

SPEAKER_02 40:42

No.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

So it's not a set, I think it is a set time. They do put like a timer up for like 20 minutes. Um, but it's just essentially sudden death. It's just whoever makes the next goal. That's really cool. Which is amazing. Yeah. Because I kind of feel like let's give some shade to the NBA. It's like they throw on another five minutes and we continue to do the exact same thing, which is equally scoring. Yeah, you make it. And then we end up in double overtime.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

Not hockey, it's just whoever makes that next goal, which I think is incredible. Right. So, but those fans, you know, they're hanging in there, they're unwell, they're their hearts are racing because they're there, they're pounding on the glass. They're it's yeah, so it's just so intense. Um, and also you mentioned the beer. I love when they like focus on one person and they're holding a beer and then the other person just has to chug it. So uh Utah just got a hockey team for the first time ever. The mammoths?

SPEAKER_02 41:36

The mammoths, yes. What? The thing that everybody does, the mammoths. Um oh tusks up.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Yeah, that's funny. Inappropriate. It's very inappropriate. But they were saying that like in the very first, like the very first mammoth game, uh, they sold more beer in that game than like any other NBA game ever. And it's just like hockey fans are next level, so they gotta match the player energy.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

I don't know. Should we get season tickets? Um only if like we're gonna let's start making some money off of this podcast, which I don't think we're going to.

SPEAKER_02 42:10

Just maybe make some just put all of the podcast money towards season tickets. Yeah, just for me and you.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Yeah, if we ever, I would love that because it's so fun. Yeah, yeah. Um, another fun, like uh, and this is kind of player and fan-based, but do you know what a hat trick is in hockey?

SPEAKER_02 42:29

I want to guess, but I don't think I'm gonna be right. Wait when they try to like, when they were able to sneak it past the goalie?

SPEAKER_01 42:34

No, it's when they take off their hat and they like hide the puck under it and they're like hat trick.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Get out with you.

SPEAKER_01 42:41

I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

No, hat trick is Let's play the shame shell game really quick. They don't even wear hats, do they? I'm like picturing a top hat and he's like, good sir.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

And they're like, oh no, it's the notorious hat trick. No. Um, it's when one player scores three goals in one game. Oh, okay. But when it happens, it's a big deal, and the fans will then throw their hats on the ice. Cool. Yeah, like like they're just they're legit hats. And then, of course, staff has to pick it up, but you did not get your hat back. So, in a hat trick, you are committing to just like throwing away your hat forever. But it's all in the fun.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

But as we've just you need another hat always.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

What are we there for?

SPEAKER_02 43:24

I love that. I need to go to more hockey games, clearly. I've been to a few over the years, but man, I really need to go see a professional hockey game. Yeah, we should go.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

It's super fun. So overall, hockey's just the bomb. Yeah. And I think another reason why I really like it is because I didn't it like it was I didn't grow up knowing anything about hockey. And so now I kind of feel like I'm like a part of a secret club 'cause I'm like, Yeah, I love hockey. Like it is like the thing 'cause I I mean, I don't know how big hockey is in Utah. I don't think it was big.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

I mean it's it was never big.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

I mean 'cause we never had an NHL team.

SPEAKER_02 43:57

We've never had an NHL team.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

No. I mean we've had some minor league teams, but Anyways, I just like the more I understand it, the more I like it. And I'm like, hockey is elite, and hockey is the superior sport. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Okay. Okay. You've convinced me.

unknown 44:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:11

Are we at the point yet where you've convinced me?

SPEAKER_01 44:13

I think so, but let me ask you at the end. Okay, okay. So here's my final thought on hockey. Um I like hockey because it's not screaming for attention. It's not trying to go viral. It just goes and it goes fast. And the chaos is beautiful. And it's adults throwing themselves in front of these hockey pucks that are traveling so fast. Right. And it's just their normal job. Yeah. That's what I'm here to do. Um, it's spending the entire game trying to wreck each other and then telling you like good game at the end.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:45

Um, it's cold, it's loud, it's different, and like the sounds of hockey versus like the stupid like squeaky quirk. Yeah. Like it's like you're hearing the the puck and the stick hit, and it's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 45:00

There's nothing quite like hearing like the yeah. Yeah, it's good. That's I love it. Especially when you got a beer in each hand. Yeah. Sorry, I'm not an alcoholic, I swear, but I just love a good beer at a hockey game.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Because it's cold. It's cold in there, like, but it's not too cold. Like it's not like you need a beanie or anything. You maybe just want your jacket on sometimes. Yeah. But then when it like, you know, it gets intense, you're warmed up. Okay. So Ashley, are you ready to be welcome to the ice?

SPEAKER_02 45:27

I want to be welcomed to the ice. We'll accept you. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 45:30

Yeah. We're shaking heads right now. So again, that's that is Christy's opinion of why hockey is superior. Um, if you would like to come on our episode and mansplain why it's not, we would love to invite you on the pod. Um, we will also invite someone to mansplain to you why it is superior. We are women to you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

We're just doing like the fun reasons why hockey is the best. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's I'm sure there's a million reasons why technically it's the best. Yeah. Okay. Um, so final segment.

SPEAKER_02 46:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Fake or not. These are some hockey facts. Okay. Um, a hockey puck can travel over a hundred miles per hour during a slap shot. Uh probably, yes. Yeah, it's true. Real? Okay. The Stanley Cup once had to be repaired because someone dropkicked it into a fountain in Vegas. False. Gosh, why do you always know these? You can't dropkick metal.

SPEAKER_02 46:29

You can dropkick anything. Were they wearing stiltoed shoes? Like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 46:35

Yes, they clearly they were. Duh. I'm sorry. You're good at I will say, Ashley's very good at these. I always think I'm gonna get her, but okay, NHL players can sometimes lose up to 10 pounds of water weight during a single game.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

I would think so, yes.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

Yeah, that's true. Because they are plain hard. They are sweating. They're sweating. Um, the fastest hat trick in NHL history happened in under 30 seconds. So again, the hat trick is like three goals. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

By the same player. Under 30 seconds? No way.

SPEAKER_01 47:05

That's apparently true. Whoa. Yeah. Um let me see if I can find that fact really quick. We'll see who it was.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

Can I ask you kind of a question while you're looking at that?

SPEAKER_01 47:15

Oh, sorry. It's Bill Molsenko scored three goals in 21 seconds.

SPEAKER_02 47:21

Nice. Jeez. Um the big miracle on ice game that was between the United States and the Soviets, right? What was the big deal with that? Do we know?

SPEAKER_01 47:35

Um, the movie knows that I didn't watch. Okay. But I've heard it's really, really good, and I'll probably watch it after this.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Like in the future.

SPEAKER_02 47:43

Right.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

Not right after this pod.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

Not like right now?

SPEAKER_01 47:46

No.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

Okay. We shouldn't just quit and go watch it.

unknown 47:49

No.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

I think. Should we pause? Was yeah, maybe. Uh, I'm wondering if it was because so here's an interesting thing. I get um I'm on a daily newsletter for the History Channel, and today I got the email that the American, like that was what happened at this time, however many years ago.

SPEAKER_01 48:08

So that's what I was asking. I was curious about it. Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks, played by Kurt Russell, a demanding coach who leads a misfit team of college hockey players to defeat the heavily favored professional Soviet Union team in the 1980s world or winter Olympics.

SPEAKER_02 48:25

Oh, okay. So it's just because they were like the underdogs.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

The underdogs, but it also says it was set in the backdrop of the Cold War tensions. Oh, the film focuses on fostering team unity and intense training to achieve a miracle on ice.

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Wow. Okay, that's really cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:41

Okay, so next one. The NHL once considered adding heated pucks to increase speed. False. I don't I'm never doing a act or not.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Well, you got me in the last one, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Uh heated pucks would just Yeah, that's true. Um I did read though that uh they will keep pucks like in standby, like cold, because warm pucks bounce a lot.

SPEAKER_02 49:10

Oh yeah. So that makes sense. Yeah. Because they like stick. Uh-huh. Like sticking your tongue on the ice.

SPEAKER_01 49:15

Yeah, you should try it sometime. Yeah. Uh there is a rule that if a goalie loses a skate blade mid-play, the game must immediately be stopped.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

Nah. I don't think they care.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Oh, really? Yeah. I read that one and I thought she's gonna think this one's true. Yeah, I mean I would- Or that one, or you're gonna think it's false.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

I would have assumed that they would just be like, nah, good luck.

SPEAKER_01 49:34

Because if they lose their stick, right, they're just like Oh, when they lose their sticks or break their sticks, sometimes they're just they're just around and they just kind of have to skate around for a minute to for like brute force or whatever. Or or if they happen to run by their um not run, skate. If they happen to skate by their bench, they'll get a new one. I gotcha. But it's cool, and it happens a ton. Yeah, like I I should- Well, because they're smacking the shit out of those things. Yeah, I should have looked up how often like they're breaking and all that stuff, but a ton. Um, let's see. Okay. A team once won a playoff game despite being outshot by over 50 shots.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

Whoa.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

False. True. Damn. So, like on the scoreboard for the hockey um games, it'll show how many shot attempts there are. Oh, okay. So it's kind of cool. So that was saying they still won, even though the other team had attempted 50 more shots. Okay. The first organized indoor hockey game was played with a square puck.

unknown 50:33

No.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

That is true.

SPEAKER_02 50:34

Oh, really? Yeah, weird, huh? Why?

SPEAKER_01 50:37

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 50:37

I feel like that would be kind of easier though, because you have that flat surface that when you let's see if it let me see if I can find anything about it. Easier to hit, easier to catch.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Just they used square wooden pucks.

SPEAKER_02 50:50

Probably just a piece of wood they found somewhere. Yeah, right? Probably played on a frozen lake.

SPEAKER_01 50:54

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Mighty ducks.

unknown 50:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:58

I forgot about the mighty ducks. Um, anyway, so all that to say, hockey is a superior sport. Hockey is a superior sport sport, super fun. Try and get into it, try and get yourself into a game. Also, for those cinema fans, watch heated rivalry. I thought it was really good. I didn't mention that at all in this episode because I don't know, maybe I want to like write an episode about it, but it was really cool.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

I literally have no idea what heated rivalry is at all.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

Oh, so it is a series about some hockey players. Okay. And it is directed by Jacob Turney, who is um the pastor on Letter Kenny. You know that funny? Yes. He's the director. So it's what? It's a book series. Oh, okay. And so they turned it into like a little mini-series. But I don't know. I thought it was really sweet. It's a love story about hockey players. Oh, I love that. So I thought it was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 51:48

Very fun. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

So cool. Which, yeah, maybe I'll do an episode on it, so I won't say what I was about to say, but okay. I loved it. So 10 out of 10. Great. Um, okay. Well, that's the episode. Um, again, remember I'm not ESPN. I don't claim to know the facts. I'm still Googling everything, but I really I haven't resignated with a sport in a very long time. And I feel like hockey, I'm home. Yeah. I love it. So support your local hockey team, go watch. It's an intense sport, it's an amazing sport. Like, you just have to watch for five minutes to be like, wow, these are incredible athletes.

SPEAKER_02 52:22

Yeah. I would like to add the caveat that um we are in the state of Utah, and this is the first time we've ever had a like national league before. So other states around the country are gonna be like, what are you talking about? I know he's always been life.

SPEAKER_01 52:36

Like, also be nice to us because it's like I'm I I even said earlier that I think that's why I like it so much, is because I didn't grow up loving it. And yeah, I now I feel like I'm in this like special club that yeah, because people love it, they live for it. So, anyways, um thanks again for listening. Follow us on all the socials.

SPEAKER_02 52:53

Please comment on our stuff. And if I do a poll on Instagram, please be part of the poll.

SPEAKER_01 52:58

Yeah, if you're even seeing it, who knows? Oh, I can see social media card right now. Oh, really? Oh, I can see. So actually, I can absolutely see. Just just give us a tap, guys. It takes two seconds. Tap that. You could even tap it antagonistically, like, yeah. I don't what was our last poll?

SPEAKER_02 53:15

Um, it was into the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

Yeah, yeah. So be funny.

SPEAKER_02 53:19

Say Yeah, I always include a you I usually try to include a you can't ask me that option. You don't even have to tell us any of your secrets. No. Just choose out of the way. Yeah. But we do want to know your secrets.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Yeah, always. We'll keep them secret. Um, anyways, but not from each other though.

unknown 53:34

No. No.

SPEAKER_02 53:35

Never from each other.

unknown 53:37

No.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

Um, but yeah, so okay. We'll have the episode. Keep listening. Stay human, stay curious, and don't let the robots win.