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HWS 25: In Which the Fourth Line Carried the Team in Chicago
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Jan 31, 2025
In this episode, Mikki welcomes hockey back into her life after a Disney World vacation. She runs down the list of changes over the past week and also talks about Fleury's 1000th game celebration. And remember, everyone is welcome here and in the Hot Girl Hockey Club.
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hello welcome to her Wildside hockey
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podcast I am your Hostess Mickey uh AKA
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hockey she wrote and I am back um I am
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assuming a lot of you follow me on
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social media um mostly Twitter so you
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have probably seen that I was gone in
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Disney World for a week um I posted
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quite a few pictures of myself in
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different
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places just
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because um anyway just you know I'm not
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going to get totally into Disney World
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stuff but I will say that we had a
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really great time uh we both my kids
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like Star Wars my son really likes Star
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Wars my daughter used to she kind of you
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know was off that train but we rode both
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of the brand new brand neish uh Star
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Wars rides and they were amazing they
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were absolutely amazing we also as a
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family love the Haunted Mansion so we
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did that twice uh overall we just it was
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a really nice week away I really wish
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somehow I could have timed it to be the
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same as Allstar break because I did miss
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both games that the wild played last
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last week um to be fair I I totally
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missed the Chicago one and the one
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against the Penguins I
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did I did tune in and watch um flurry's
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ceremony at the beginning for his
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thousandth game and um 552 wins so I did
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watch that I watched the first
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period like I wanted to try to stay up
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and I just couldn't um if any of you
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first of all just being on the East
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Coast was just an you know everything's
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an later which I am so sorry to all of
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my East Coast listeners because that
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really sucks especially when they play
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on the west coast as they are going to
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do tonight as I'm recording it is Monday
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in the Wild play in Las Vegas tonight
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and the game starts at nine o'clock
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Midwest time and that's really late you
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guys to start the game um it feels a
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little bit like last year when the
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playoffs they're you know the wild
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they're playing the stars and for some
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reason all the games started at like
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10:00 at
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night anyway I'm not going to wh too
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much I'm just excited to be home and be
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able to watch uh because I I missed
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hockey I missed it it is really weird to
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go you know more than a week without
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watching hockey and
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obviously they had the All-Star break
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before that and I was going to I'm
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looking at my calendar here because I'm
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trying to remember like did I did I
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watch a
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game
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nope NOP there were no other games like
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before I left so it has been a really
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long time for me without hockey um I did
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watch some pwhl so it's not like it has
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been totally without hockey but just you
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know besides
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having you know NHL or pwhl I we also
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were gone so even my little mini Mite
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guy has not practiced talkie so I mean
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it's just it's been really weird to be
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outside of a rink for that
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long I'm rambling that's okay um so a
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lot of things happened while I was gone
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because of course they did uh and
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actually I'm just looking now at
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my uh notifications here on my phone and
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the mun wild PR just announced that they
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had activated Conor derer from the
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injured reserve list which um we all saw
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coming because he has been practicing
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with them for
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a little while here a couple of days or
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so and they have placed Marcus Felino on
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injured reserve which I do not like to
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see um it's always and that was one of
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those things that I missed because he
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was injured in the second period I
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believe
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of was it the Chicago game no it wasn't
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because that was when he fought the guy
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in Chicago it must have been during the
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Pittsburgh game again I'm just trying to
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get through all of my thoughts here
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because just a lot going on um I'm
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looking to see if there's anything else
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but I don't think there's a lot of other
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stuff going on
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here
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um but also we got word that Pat maroon
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had successful back
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surgery uh we did not know that he
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needed back surgery as far as I know but
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I'm glad that it's successful he'll be
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out for I think they said four to six
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weeks so hopefully he can heal quickly
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and
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um just be back um he's I feel like he's
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just such a large presence and not
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always on the ice although he has been
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so much better than anyone thought he
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would be I'm you know he just he's been
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playing so well and they really need his
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voice in the locker room too because
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they are struggling the Chicago game
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again I didn't watch it I heard that
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even though they won it was a terrible
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game like a terrible game the first and
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second lines like the top lines just
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absolutely did not show up I they were
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still on vacation I guess thank goodness
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for the third and mostly the fourth line
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is who really saved that game that was
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the game where uh Jake Luchini had his
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first goal in a wild sweater which was
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very
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exciting uh and just uh Laria I believe
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also had a goal just having the fourth
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line score is always so
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joyful it was those two in Du and they
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really just pulled the weight of the
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whole team so you know thank you to the
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fourth line and be sure that if any of
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those guys are your emotional support
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fourth liners that you thank them or you
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just you know send them some positive
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thoughts or
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something we also to yesterday they once
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again recalled Adam Beckman and there
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was like a a big uproar so they recalled
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Beckman at the end of the All-Star break
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for NHL and brought him up and healthy
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scratched him twice and then sent him
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back
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down but the worst part was that there
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was this whole big thing about like this
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is beckman's chance this is his big shot
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you know he last year just really wasn't
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able to harness his his power to really
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show what he had and you know spent it
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in Iowa and that's fine he did like he
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played great he was good down there um
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he kind of needed some more time to get
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his footing under him and this year he
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has really he was injured for a little
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period of time but he's really come back
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from that and playing well in Iowa so
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they had pulled him up again they madean
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this big deal how it was his shot this
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is oh he's got to really make an
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impression here and then they didn't
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even put him in the lineup and I do
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understand why because you know in that
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Chicago game like I said the fourth line
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just was phenomenal and if anyone he
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would have been replacing Luchini they
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would have sent lini down and put
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Beckman in and luini played like an
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absolute Pro so there was no way they
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were going to take him out for the
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Pittsburgh game so Beckman got sent back
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down to Iowa they played over the
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weekend in Iowa um and he's back now so
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we will kind of see where he is
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at as I said they have doer back in the
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lineup and Felino
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out uh so let's see trying to quickly do
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all this like arranging in my head here
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it just uh later is also back like I
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said in Chicago you know he had a broken
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foot he is healed from that he's back
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he's doing good um Adam rasa was sent
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back down to Iowa I'm excited to see if
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he comes back because I do really enjoy
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his game too I feel like he just has so
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much energy even in Iowa some of the
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Social Media stuff he is just like
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bursting with energy he just seems so um
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happy and joyful and just kind of a
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positive presence and that you know that
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that's always something that I enjoy to
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see so we also have Dean Chisum who
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should be in the lineup soon I don't
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believe he's going to be in tonight but
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he was the defenseman from the Winnipeg
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Jack Winnipeg
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jets that the wild picked up off of
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waivers right before the NHL All-Star
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break maybe right after again all these
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weeks are blending together for me
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because there was no hockey and then I
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spent time in Disney World where
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everything is
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just I don't know what that's supposed
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to mean but you can take that how you
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want it to but he should be in soon and
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I was just listening to the worst seats
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in the House podcast from this p last
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week so like you know it's probably five
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days old or so and Russo was saying like
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he doesn't really have a lot of insight
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on Chisum but he would compare him
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almost to um like a Carson Lambos kind
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of a style so I'm really interested to
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get him in and see how he is doing I was
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also listening to the um riding the bus
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Iowa wild podcast I have only gotten a
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little ways in so I have not actually
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gotten through the Mason straw interview
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which I really want to listen to right
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after I'm done with this probably but
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will butcher was another was the
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defenseman that they traded for and it
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sounds like he is fitting in well in
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Iowa and he's really um making a
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presence as a veteran you know I'm not
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sure how he's doing on the ice or or
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anything but I know that it is already
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nice to have another veteran player down
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there to help while you know while min
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ort of keeps pulling them up pulling up
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the rest of the veteran guys um and as I
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mentioned Mason Shaw so he is back on
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the ice for his first few games he kind
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of he was lacking speed his normal speed
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he just needed some more time to kind of
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get back up to Pace it sounds like he
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has done that and I think he's gotten
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Four Points in the last like nine games
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or so he's really been a big presence on
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the ice he's gotten that extra step back
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so he's his speed is there and
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originally it was kind of this whole
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like well you know if he takes some time
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to get his speed back he probably won't
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come up to Minnesota this season which
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is fine you know obviously he's back on
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the ice and he's making strides but then
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all of a sudden now he's been
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just Leaps and Bounds you know from this
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surgery he has let's see he scored an
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overtime winner I believe this past
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weekend and just overall it's looking
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more and more like if Minnesota has a
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playoff spot or hopes for a playoff spot
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um and I'm just going to say with my
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rose-colored glasses that I believe they
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will but they will most likely sign Shaw
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to an NHL contract now because with
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Spurgeon out they do have that that um 7
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million six million or so cap space that
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they can exceed the salary cap now so
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they could very easily fit in an NHL
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deal for Mason Sha
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simply because he's not going to you
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know he just came off of his ELC so he's
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not going to you know he's probably
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going to be like just above league
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minimum maybe a little bit more than
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that uh but I would say at the most he'd
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be maybe 1 million now don't trust me
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for um contract uh advice or anything
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just like
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my uh refusal to deal mostly in stats I
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also am first of all terrible at
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estimating anything
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numerical and second of all don't know
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that much about contracts mostly what I
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know is just by reading and listening
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widely and then putting all the
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information together that people think
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is going to happen
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so hopefully you understood what that
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meant I'm just I'm getting back in the
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swing of things with the podcast too you
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know uh so one more thing was that Jonas
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Brodin was sick he he was out he was
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sick um he is back in the lineup now but
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I know that
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he lost weight while he was sick and
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that I mean he's not a guy that has
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weight to lose so I know that was a bit
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concerning but he has looked pretty
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good from what I hear because again I
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didn't watch anyway I'm excited to see
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how he's doing tonight against the Vegas
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golden knights tonight should be
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interesting
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because the knights while they might not
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be I'm sorry I'm shaking this
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camera um the
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knights are still a very competitive
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team you know they have they're going to
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be tough they're going to be tough to
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beat and Minnesota really needs to step
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up their game and thankfully against
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Pittsburgh they did because you know
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Chicago they managed to win but just
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barely now they won against the Penguins
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and that was great but they really need
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step up even
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more so there were and I guess you know
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what I'm going to jump ahead in my notes
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Here not that you guys can see that uh
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Mark Andre flurry he had his 10,000th
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game celebration and celebration for his
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552nd win on last Friday before the
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Pittsburgh Penguins game which turned
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out so well like I wonder when the NHL
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put the schedule together I have no idea
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how far in advance they plan some of
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these things but I wonder if that was
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kind of a on their mind do you know what
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I mean like if they were like you know
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what flurry is going to reach these
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these um big
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milestones and wouldn't it be cool if he
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could also celebrate with his old
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buddies in
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Pittsburgh so let's make sure that we
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can get all that um lined up I'm sure
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that had nothing to do with it and it
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was just a happy coincidence but I'm
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going to prefer to think that somebody
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had that in the back of their mind as
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they were making the schedule
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so uh a few other things this is kind of
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I'm kind of you know what no I'm not
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done not done this
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celebration it was really fun to watch
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the celebration I was actually I've
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talked about this 10 gazillion times but
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I was in the rink for the uh celebration
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for Alex gagos 1000th game and no matter
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what it's
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such there's so many emotions that
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surround these C
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because these really are Elite
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Milestones you know it takes a lot to
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play a thousand games in the NHL and
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that's just as a skater and I've talked
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about flurry and he no one else is ever
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going to reach these Milestones again it
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is not physically possible it is not
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numerically it possible it is not it's
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not going to happen and so having that
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kind of added extra ra layer on top of
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what is already an amazing
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accomplishment
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really just it was special to watch even
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on TV you know I I cried at gooski's
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ceremony when I was there in person I
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cried watching flurry's ceremony on
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TV and you know they pulled out a win
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for him which is really overall
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just just amazing you know and against
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his old team his some of his old buddies
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got to kind of the front row to that and
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in some ways they almost couldn't be
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upset about a loss you know because it
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still meant that flurry
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won and Mark Onre flurry is amazing
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I to still be doing what he does at his
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age and not look like he's missing a
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step you know he had a little bit of a
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slump at the beginning of the
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year but it wasn't a slump because
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because he's aging you know so just
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seeing him win that game and seeing him
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seeing his kids and his wife and
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everyone just so
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excited I don't know I'm just I'm I kind
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of run out of words because it's just
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again so
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emotional and even just watching the
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video that the wild put
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together is emotional seeing his passion
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on the ice and how much he loves the
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game of hockey he is not out there just
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because it's a job he is out there
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because he loves what he
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does I am going to segue a little bit
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because this is kind of a a tangent here
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but one thing that my husband and I were
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discussing while we were away on our
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Disney trip was about how
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much it is a great to see when people
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love their
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job because at Disney for the most part
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I mean everybody is happy all the all
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the employees um everybody you know from
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the people who are cleaning or emptying
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the trash to the security guards outside
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of the park to you know any of the
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character performers or anyone who is
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selling food or souvenirs you know
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everyone is just
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happy and it's just a really fun
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atmosphere but it even went to we had a
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bus driver at one point driving you know
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shuttling us from the hotel back to or
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like from the park back to the hotel or
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something and he was just he would come
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on the loudspeaker and oh he was just
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like having so much fun and we saying
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someone happy birthday and then uh he
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told us that it had been his anniversary
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the day before and so we are all
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congratulating him and uh just so much
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fun and then we also on the flight home
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before we took off from Orlando the
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pilot came down the aisle and any kid
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that he saw he gave them a coloring
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sheet of an airplane a little pack of
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crayons and then you know like the
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little wing pin and he said if you color
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this in and you give it to me at the end
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of the flight then I'll give you a
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little rubber duck so both of my kids
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colored it and I think almost all the
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kids on the flight did and he they got a
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little rubber duck at the end and he was
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telling us that he does this on all of
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his flights and when he retires in a few
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years he he saves all the pictures he
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plans on bringing them all into like the
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Delta headquarters and hanging them up
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and just showing people and it's amazing
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when when you love what you do he's like
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this pilot was just so passionate and he
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also um made two like balloon animal
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hats that had like a balloon airplane on
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the top that he even used like a marker
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to draw um like a happy face on it and
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then like Windows on the sides and I
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mean it like somewhat
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intricate balloon hat I and I'm not a
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balloon
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artist but just the fact
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that he likes what he does so much that
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he brings that those things to work
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every day um we did have a good laugh
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when we were imagining how he goes about
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telling his co-pilot you know if it's a
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co-pilot who flies with him for the
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first time how do you think he broaches
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this subject of like hey by the way in
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the middle of the flight I'm G need you
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to take over because I need to make a
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few balloon hats for the kids um so just
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be aware
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I just I just love that um the visual of
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that so I have already rambled quite a
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bit but I have one two three more things
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so this is starting my oh future
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considerations in a bag full of hooks
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section AKA miscellaneous so first of
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all the Felino Brothers managed to anger
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Taylor Swift
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fans by saying that their wives were
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hotter
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and the fact that that I actually
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angered
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people I hope no one was actually angry
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because they literally just saying like
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we're married and we love our
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wives and again that was a the chag
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again that I didn't watch but I did see
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the fight where folino was fighting jori
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who is like a huge guy apparently and
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then at the end of the fight they they
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zoom in on his brother's face on the
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Chicago bench and he is just
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like just out of it like just staring
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into space out of it and it even this
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thinking of it again makes me
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laugh there has also
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been even more with the coyotes and
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their Arena and moving to Salt Lake City
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and if they do that then that means that
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probably Atlanta will get another
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team which I you know I I don't know do
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we need to
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expand I don't think we need more
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teams and maybe that's just
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me but I mean there are places to have
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two or three
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teams instead of and I guess you know
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not that I necessarily want to move the
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teams but I just it's such a weird thing
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for me and someone else said that
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instead of expanding the league maybe
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they should work with the pwhl to expand
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that
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league and in Tangent with the NHL so
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any city that has an NHL team would also
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eventually have a pwhl team and really
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help grow that game and I like that idea
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a lot
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more because um again on the worst seats
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in the House podcast they were even
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talking about the fact that even if the
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coyotes moov to Salt Lake
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City the NHL still wants to keep a
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foothold in Arizona and so they would
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eventually bring a team back there
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anyway and I know that you know they're
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having trouble with this Arena they're
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playing in mullet Arena they can't can't
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figure out where to build another Arena
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how they're going to build it how
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they're going to get the money
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whatever but it just I think it'd be
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ridiculous to move it and then just put
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a new team
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there and then Michael Russo also had
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some kind of a quip about the social
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media Arizona page gone having gone
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Rogue and honestly they haven't gone
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Rogue I feel like they are the most in
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touch social media page of the
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NHL I think it's okay to do hilarious
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funny memes
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um and the last thing I want to talk
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about
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is the slapshot heard around the
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world and I know this has been talked
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about and talked about I just want to
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mention it because it's a thing that
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happened and it's a thing that uh was
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spurred this conversation that I don't
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think needs to be a
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conversation so Ridley Greg uh senator's
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rookie was coming on the ice
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the um Maple Leafs had an empty net and
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he went to shoot the puck in the net
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instead of just like pushing it he did a
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slap shot and apparently that was so
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egregious to Morgan Riley that he had to
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cross check him directly in the
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face and people are on Riley's
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side
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I I don't get it
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who cares how someone shoots it into an
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empty net
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I I guess I am not an NHL player but I
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still don't think I would even think to
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do that
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now there was
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also Ryan Reeves
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um as I have said ever since he left the
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Wild and he injured grro and all that
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stuff he has been on my
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list and then he comes up after this
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because he's on the leaves I don't know
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if people on the leaves sorry I said
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leaves it's leaves um he's on the leaves
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I don't know if people know that because
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uh he's barely been on the ice but he
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does still play in
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Toronto but he came up with this whole
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like oh back in the day when I
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started
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no that
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he crossed him into the in the head now
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you know what I I get being angry and I
25:34
get maybe going over and starting a
25:37
shavey match or I I don't I don't know
25:39
doing something okay I would not it
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would not condone it but I would
25:45
understand it but like this was again
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such a just wild
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response that no it's not okay and the
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fact that Ryan Reeves is out here trying
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to Bo
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it's fine no it just it's not okay I'm
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going to get off of these tangents now
26:04
because I rambled enough about hockey
26:07
and Walt Disney World and how excited I
26:10
am for hockey to be back into my life so
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with that I have a few closing things
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which is if you are watching the video
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you will see as I stand up that I am
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wearing my hot girl Hockey Club shirt if
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you are interested in any hot club hot
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that link will be in the show notes
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remember we have shirts but we also have
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that's the only reason also if you are
26:53
watching the audio I'm GNA see if I can
26:55
I always forget where it is on my little
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thing here I'm going to put up an
26:59
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27:54
us that was a lot of words but I think
27:56
you got what I meant so anyway I'm going
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to end this recording and I will be back
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in a couple of days with another episode
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and until then I would like you all to
28:07
put the Positive Vibes out for the
28:09
Minnesota Wild and the pwhl Minnesota
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team and uh just you know what you are
28:17
beautiful you are hot everyone's in the
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welcome here and I love all of you so
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until next time I will see you
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later
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