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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Andrews and from Fox Sports, talking about the big NFL broadcasting shake ups, she goes from working with. Troy Aikman and Joe buck to Kevin burkhart Greg Olsen and then Tom Brady. So we get into all that and her contract situation with Fox. A lot of other topics as well. Including Larry David being at her wedding and how that a couple of things from Larry at the wedding ended up becoming storylines on Caribbean and also get into sort of Aaron's role as sideline reporter and the role evolving and changing and what it means it's a good combo with Aaron followed following Aaron train of thoughts with Sal wakata, where we get into a couple of topics about Freddie Freeman and his ties to the braves and sort of getting criticized by Clayton Kershaw a little bit, which was I thought a very interesting story that didn't get a ton of publicity and then we also talked about whether people should stick to sports people in sports media stick to sports against a little conversation about that with Sal. Before we get to Aaron real quick, just in case you missed it last week, Scott van pelt was on the pod two weeks ago, Paul bissonnette aka is nasty three weeks ago, Brian Curtis. If you've missed any of those interviews, check them out the archives, subscribe to the SI media podcast and rate and review. All right, here we go. Erin Andrews followed by train of thoughts right here on the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now from the number one NFL team on Fox and the calm down podcast with Chris Thompson. Old friend Aaron Andrews EA, how's it going? I'm good. How are you? Where are you? I'm home in New York. This might, this might be a 5 minute podcast because literally 5 minutes before we jumped on this zoom ESPN sent me the screeners for the Derek Jeter. Documentary. Can we talk about this? So I have to go watch. So all right, thanks for joining us. I am so excited. When does it come out? July 18th, I believe, is the dream. I am so excited and I obviously you and I share a love for him. You have a way bigger. Obsession with Derek, but I will always hold Derek to such a high standard because of how he treated me and how he was just, I know he doesn't let many people in, but he was so good to me from day one and I'm grateful for that. I looked out for me on certain occasions, which I'll never forget. And when they put the promo out for that docuseries, I was like, wow baby. And then I started following him on IG and I absolutely loved the way he is being so unre Jeter captain buttoned up. He did this whole thing with his daughters or with story when she was counting to I forgot 15. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. About half the numbers. And I'm so glad Derek is allowing people is allowing people to see himself like that. I know it's probably a lot to do with the promotion of the docuseries, but I'm pumped. I hope he keeps it up. Yeah, like I totally get now that if you are a celebrity famous person, whatever brand, then you have to be on social media. Like you almost don't have a choice in some way..
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Great show this week conversation with Scott van Paul who was always excellent and get into Scott doing postgame for the NBA Finals, his interview with draymond green, where he got a little awkward, get into the Liv golf situation, why there needs to be more singing along sing alongs at sporting events, bad beats, a lot of topics covered with SVP and then following that train of thoughts with my buddy salata. Where we get into good discussion about stand up comedy today I watch Ricky Gervais over the weekend and we get into some stuff about that and a couple of sports things as well. Before we get to Scott and train of thoughts, let me just tell you last week, if you missed it, Paul bissonnette is nasty was on the SI media podcast two weeks ago, Brian Curtis three weeks ago, Richard Dutch, four weeks ago, Joe Davis from Fox Sports. If you missed any of those, go into the archives, give them a listen. Download listen, subscribe, rate review. There's a lot there. I know. It's a big ask. But if you could at least subscribe and then maybe review. That would be best. All right, let's get to this week's show. Scott van pelt, followed by train of thoughts right here on the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now, as I media podcast regular, I think I can call him the host of the very popular SportsCenter with Scott van pelt. Scott van pelt, Scott, how are you? Thrilled to be back, Jimmy. I have to say, I'm very, very lucky that I do have a very nice group of regulars who are always nice enough to come on and agree to come on usually. And I will say among those regulars, the two people who despise getting S the most are you and Joe buck. Okay. Well, I'm coming good company. I mean, you guys always do it. You're always great to me. I cringe when I have to send the text. And you guys in the most polite way respond with like, oh, fuck, why are you asking me this? But you do it. So I appreciate it. I never say that. You don't say it. You never lying. When I say to you, we have some school thing. I believe I have a school thing. If I want to do invent it, I would just say I have adjacent, and terminal afternoon ajita. Can't join you. And I'd never do it. But you always do it. You always do it. And I appreciate it. We find a time. We find the time. It's always good to talk to you too. And I wanted to get you on during the NBA Finals because you come on after the NBA Finals and I mean, you're sort of you're the postgame show, and that's got to be a nice little adrenaline rush for you..
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"And my thanks to sala kata for joining me for my weekly train of thoughts segment good time with the fellas. Again, as you heard they on the training first segment, if you leave a review on Apple, we'll read it during the pod and if you missed any recent episodes, check them out in the archives, Brian Curtis from the ringer last week, Richard niche, two weeks ago, Joe Davis from Fox Sports, three weeks ago. Subscribe to the pod and leave a review again if you can. All right, that wraps it up. We'll see you next week right here on the SI media podcast. They say if you take care. eBay is changing the game once again for buying and selling sneakers online. From rare dead stock to the latest release or even carefully loved pre owned kicks. When you buy with eBay's authenticity guarantee, you can rest easy. Knowing that everything down to the box they came in is 100% legit. With millions of sellers all over the globe, the drops never stop. eBay, authenticity guarantee. There's nothing like being in the stands for live Washington Nationals baseball and ticketmaster has your seat. Whether you're looking for seats to next week's game, or today's game, ticketmaster has a wide selection of tickets available at competitive prices, so you never miss a moment this season. From the anticipation when the bases are loaded at the bottom of the 9th to the walk off home runs. Score tickets today at ticketmaster dot com. Ford slash MLB pass ticketmaster dot com Ford slash MLB. This press conference is to let everyone know after years of searching. We finally found it. What? Aliens? Is it Bigfoot? We found reliable and affordable 5G home Internet that runs on T mobile's wireless network, and it's just 30 bucks a month for families with magenta max. But don't Internet providers always Jack up your price after one year. There's Mike, but T mobile has no price hikes. What about termination fees? They'll pay off up to 500 bucks in termination fees if you break up with your provider. That's incredible. Wait, so no Bigfoot? Welcome to Internet freedom. Switch to T mobile 5G home Internet for just 30 bucks a month without pay and 50% off YouTube TV for a year with a wireless max family plan. 5G availability limited four G options also available qualified accounts include regulatory fees and price $5 more per month without auto pay. Keep your monthly rate for current qualified data service exclusions apply up to $500 via virtual prepaid card for termination fee payoff allow 8 weeks. CT mobile dot com slash Wi-Fi for YouTube and other offer details, cancel anytime..
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Lovable fight. I used to love him more than Tiger. I have no opinion. I guess he's just like, I don't know, he should just come out and say, listen, I make it all these gambling gambling that I ought to do something here. Right. All right, let's read some apple reviews. We got three here to read. It came in over the last week or so. Let's hear from the people. And if you leave a review on Apple, I will read it on the pod with Sal. Here we go. This one is Eric and Connecticut. I had to download iTunes just to leave a review after hearing Jimmy say the dinner party was his favorite Seinfeld episode. 5 stars for being the only other person I've ever heard see that. Do you also agree that similar to The Office after Steve Carell leaves Seinfeld post Larry David is pretty unwatchable. The podcast itself is excellent, great guests and interviews, the addition of Sal, definitely helped as well has complaining about family life during football season is very enjoyable. Jimmy, please keep up the fight against the streaming services every time I have to enter a code to log in, I die a little inside. Now, this guy feels like someone I could be friends with. Eric and Connecticut. All right, good to see you. We could have written that better ourselves with that one. Meet me at Sally's pizza, New Haven one day, but we'll Bond. The point about Carell and Seinfeld post Larry David, I've said this a million times. I hated the last, I would say the last two seasons of Seinfeld. I didn't enjoy it at all. I thought it got really over the top. People love that Frogger episode. I didn't like it. I know people love the Kenny Rogers roast as I didn't love it. The Merv Griffin I did like, but yeah, I mean, obviously Larry leaving, I think, hurt the show. I still think it was great. Didn't love the last two seasons. I will never say a bad thing about it. Now I'm not gonna say that those seasons hold up to the prime episodes, but I enjoy them. So I get why people complain about. I never thought that there was a major drop off. You still watch them and enjoyed it, you know? I will say this. You know how here in New York they're on channel 11 every night at 11 and 1130. If they're the later seasons, I usually skip them. Interesting. All right. This review comes from DJ D squared 5 O three. I post this on Instagram if anyone follows me and I think they may have seen it. But I've been listening for a few years now and Jimmy is the angry east coast uncle I never knew I needed. His takes are spot on and I enjoy the guess he brings on Sal has been a great addition as well. All right. Yeah, I don't consider myself angry. Do I complain it yet a lot? Absolutely, but I think of them as observations, not anger. I never, in my life, thought that you were ever angry. No, I just complain a lot. Yeah, but angry. Yes, complaining, bitching, moaning, whatever, but not angry. All right, here we go. Last one. This is from Phil from Long Island. I just finished listening to the May 5th episode of Katie Nolan, another excellent episode. Jimmy always entertains his knowledgeable and keeps it interesting. I've been a listener since he took over today. However, I must say that some of your whining must stop. Your take on too many streaming services is completely valid. There are too many. It costs too much and you need to make your choices. However, whining about it again, however, whining about a game, any that is streaming because you can't flip around as silly. I hope fell in listen to the last segment. This is the future. Keep up or get out of the way. I know it's the future. That's the problem. My other comment is about Sal. The resident liner and yeller on WFAN radio overnight. What a miserable guy. He's the same on radio as on the podcast, at least he doesn't yell at Jimmy. Like he does to some of his listeners, which he calls dopes and says, shut up and hang up. Enough with the complaints about the wife and kid. You knew this before you got married. If it bothers you that much to be missing out on so many sports related shows. Never mind, I won't say it. The interview is a fantastic. There are too many to name here with your excellent listen to the Aikman book interviews. They have freaking awesome. I want more wrestling talk, less MBA. Nobody cares about basketball. Still boring. And the plays today wouldn't stand the chance against the Jordan bowls are 90s nicks. They're soft. Anyway, thanks for reading. If you did, Jimmy, I hope you read this on your podcast. One more thing I get a kick out of your complaints about the LI double R as a fellow Long Island guy keep it up. See, you wrote in to say I complained too much, and then you say you like the Long Island railroad complaint. So your credibility is out the door. Now listen, talk about us complaining about everything. And then enjoys the complaints about the ally double. He bashed us for complaining and Senate review that was full of complaints. All right. See the irony there? His whole email where we do it was a complaint. Every one of them. Listen, he has a fair point about, you know, you complaining on the overnights. Well, retorted that would be you try working at 3 a.m. to 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. and deal with people who call up. And I don't yell at everybody, but if you come on and disrespectful from the get go, would you say something stupid? I'm gonna call you out. That's how it is, especially when I'm cranky. No sleep. This morning. Is shut up and hang up, your go to when someone pisses you off? No, I've been using sometimes I don't even want to deal with it because I do after like, why do I even get into it? But believe it or not, people love that stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they love it. When I call guys a moron, or usually it's that. You're more on or get lost or whatever. Every now and then, someone will call Howard Stern. And he'll say to the guy, I beg you, please cancel your subscription. Well, say, I'm going to call this serious XM office and get your subscription canceled. I don't want you listening to my show. See, I feel that way, but I'm not Howard. So believe me, I'm thinking it. And this guy is just like he said, we can't complain about the apple because it's hard to have the streaming on stuff. Dude, if you don't like it, find something else to listen to. Like, I'm not saying I don't want you to listen to me, but stop complaining if it were that bad or not entertaining. Why would you listen? Go somewhere else. Here's what I like about the guy. He writes in that I wind too, he loves the podcast. I wind too much. You want too much. And then he says, I hope you read this on me. Yeah. I like the balls. I like the balls. That's good. I guarantee you he will love it and continue to listen to the podcast and continue to listen to the radio show, especially now after the shout out. Look, I respect that everybody's entitled to their opinion. But the people, you know what's funny though, you asked for what the reviews. I don't ask for what the callers. I never asked for anybody call me and tell me that they hate me or that I saw it. That's great. Keep it to yourself, unfortunately, might be able to please everybody. No, see, I'll take all the negative. If you leave, you could write a negative review, but leave 5 stars. That's all I ask. Sal, have a good week. We'll see you next week. And stay calm on the overnights. All right, thanks. That was a fun one. I'll talk to you later. All right. Thank you. Oh, Shelby, I'll do the intro outro right on this. I'll keep rolling. All right, I'll see you later. I'll talk to you later. All right, my thanks to business nasty pulp is Annette for coming on the pod.
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Many, many, many, many, many, many years. If you're a sports fan, just be prepared that you are, if you like every sport that you are in for a rough, rough time, because they're putting every single MLS game on streaming. Now, I do believe the games are free. You don't need Apple TV plus. It's just on the Apple TV app. So you're not gonna have to pay. But this comes down to, again, is that how you wanna watch a game. I know I'm old, so I don't, but man, if I was an MLS fan, that would just, can you imagine can you imagine if they put like every MLB game on Apple, and that's how you got to watch it? It would be annoying, but we figured out, I'll tell you this last week, I think the Met's wrong Apple on front. They want to say it was either Friday or Saturday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Friday night. Friday. And you know, I threw it on. And I was thinking to myself, you have to go through it on. Should I really be complaining about this? Like, it's not that difficult. What it is doing though is hurting the older fan. Doesn't know how doesn't care to be bothered. Those type of things. You are right. It's a little different. Get it done. Now on Friday night, the mets were on Apple and the Yankees run Amazon Prime. Now, you being in New York host, I know you like to keep tabs on the Yankees, even though you're a met fan because you need to do that. So did you check in on the Yankee game at all? No, because I was out Friday night after work. And then I got home late and the mets were on the West Coast, which is so that's why it happened. You know, I got home, everybody was sleeping, I was not sleepy, and I threw the guy. I was like, all right, the mess around. Unfortunately, I got to go to Apple TV, but I did it, and it took an extra watt 5 seconds. And I was thinking, I probably shouldn't be complaining about this as much as I am. It's just an inconvenience. That's the only problem that I have. But if it were all streamed on there, that's the way we got to go. Eventually, I mean, I guess. We're headed. We're headed there. I just, I don't know, I feel bad for older people. I really do. Anytime the Yankees are on prime, I go on Twitter, and I just search. To see what people are saying. And people will just like, where's the game? I mean, I have people my age would text me where is the game today? Now, well, that's annoying. And that's my issue with the Yankees is that they're all over. All over the place. They're on cable. They're on yes, they're on prime. They're on Apple TV. What's the other one that streams in there another one out there? Who knows what? Peacock. Peacock, there you go. All right, they're all over the place. So it's hard to keep up. I will say that one of the great devices that I've used for years is the Apple TV box, not the app, the little Apple TV box. Because you just and I know there are other devices that I get to do the same thing, but I'm familiar with this. I love the interface, you download them, the apps are all right there. All you got to do is turn the thing on, make sure your passport is up to date or whatever. And you can just click prime, you could go to Apple TV, whatever. But it's still streaming. It's not how I want to. Perfect example, right before we tape this, I watched you. On S and Y, hosting baseball night in New York. When it's a commercial, I go, let me go see what episode of The Office is on Comedy Central. Then I go back to you. Oh, I'm not into this topic. That's how I watch TV. I don't just watch something and put the remote down. It is funny that you bring up an excellent point. Streaming is for the younger audience. Who have clearly a, they don't have the attention span that we used to have. And when you stream games, you need that long attention span to dive into the game. Like you said, I'm not going to flip them, but you can't flip back. You got to get out of the app to window app, find another. There is no back and forth. So what is weird how it does play a younger audience, but at the same time, they expect to sit there and watch a game straight for three hours. eBay is changing the game once again for buying and selling sneakers online. From rare dead stock to the latest release, or even carefully loved pre owned kicks. When you buy with eBay's authenticity guarantee, you can rest easy. Knowing that everything down to the box they came in is 100% legit. With millions of sellers all over the globe, the drops never stop. eBay, authenticity guarantee. You wanted to see me miss swinton? Have you been hearing about the new government modernization efforts? AI, RPA's data science, things are changing at this agency, and people will need new skills. I'd like you to get some training. Look at this management concept catalog. Wow. Over 275 courses. That's right. In local classrooms or instructor led online classes. We still have budget in this fiscal year, so sign up online. Advance your career with courses for management concepts, get a catalog at management concepts dot com or call 8 three three 5 7 8 84 66. Your home's efficiency is more important than ever, given today's rising energy costs turn to the experts at Griffith energy services for an $88 AC starting check to make sure your AC is working efficiently. Griffith specializes in carrier, but services all brands visit Griffith energy services dot com today. Your local carrier expert that's Griffith energy services dot com licensed over MD HV ACR zero one two two 7 8. Down on dependable. On WFAN in New York, golf is not usually a major topic. When you do the overnight, are you getting any calls about the live golf thing? No, I mentioned it once last week. It basically just saying that, how can you blame somebody for taking 200 million bucks? And I get all that wrong about it, but come on. And nobody called about it. Now this is the overnight. I mean, it's a more maybe hardcore sports audience following games. But no, I'm sure if I went at it a little bit longer, I could have got pulls, but it was not the way that you would assume what that topic. Nationally, I can not believe what a big story this has become. It's been the biggest story of the week basically nationally. And I think it's just going to keep going if more PGA players defect to live. And the only thing is, is the live is not on TV. You have to watch it on Facebook and YouTube. So I don't know. Yeah, my interest in this story will be a C if a network gets in bed with them. I will refuse to watch Facebook. That's where I have a major. I will not go on Facebook to watch anything. No excuse. Did you see just to finish up the golf? Did you see John long, his comments? No. He goes, John. You should watch it. He had excellent. Now he's with the PGA Tour still and gave an open and honest take. Basically not blaming anybody for going to live, but how he's into the competitiveness of the PGA and the history of it and there's 400 million or whatever the money is. Is it going to change his lifestyle? And the answer was, no, what he's doing now is all he ever wanted to do basically, and he could do that with the money he makes to the PGA Tour. I just thought it was a very well thought out answer. But that seems stupid. 400 million will change his life. Maybe I'm off on the numbers there. His point was that he's made an fulfillment in a lost money gambling. He needs that name. Right. That's for somebody who's got is it going to change Tiger Woods life? No, that's why they didn't go. Right. Okay. Well that's right. So same thing for maybe rom where we looked at it and says, who knows what do you mean? Let's just say he earns a 100 million a year. I have no idea. He's another 100 million really going to change his lifestyle one way or another. Probably not. As he said no. Yeah, they need a TV deal or some kind of deal if they're going to really be a player and all this. And everyone got paid already anyway. So for Liv. So if they do shitty and all these tournaments, it doesn't matter. That's what I don't understand from a golf standpoint, but some money grab. I always like to relate things everything, you know, a lot of things back to wrestling like you. We have that in common. The Phil Mickelson hill turn is really NWO ish when he came out the other day all black with the goatee. It was very like Hogan hall at Nash like full blown, like everyone, you know, he knows that people and the people hate him now. And he went from the.
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Come on. All right, you got it. All right, thanks, Ben. Love you, buddy. eBay is changing the game once again for buying and selling sneakers online. From rare dead stock to the latest release, or even carefully loved pre owned kicks. When you buy with eBay's authenticity guarantee, you can rest easy. Knowing that everything down to the box they came in is 100% legit. With millions of sellers all over the globe, the drops never stop. eBay, authenticity guarantee. You wanted to see me miss swinton? Have you been hearing about the new government modernization efforts? AI, RPA's data science, things are changing at this agency, and people will need new skills. I'd like you to get some training. Look at this management concept catalog. Wow. Over 275 courses. That's right. In local classrooms or instructor led online classes. We still have budget in this fiscal year, so sign up online. Advance your career with courses for management concepts, get a catalog at management concepts dot com or call 8 three three 5 7 8 84 66. Your home's efficiency is more important than ever, given today's rising energy costs turn to the experts at Griffith energy services for an $88 AC starting check to make sure your AC is working efficiently. Griffith specializes in carrier, but services all brands. Visit Griffith energy services dot com today. Your local carrier expert that's Griffith energy services dot com licensed over MD HV ACR zero one two two 7 8. Griffith energy services down on dependable. You all right, join me now for our weekly train of thought segment from WFAN and S and Y in New York. My buddy solita Sal, how are you? Not bad. You, everything all right? Yeah, I can't complain right now. You know, summer's coming. It's a dead time in sports, but it's a good time to, you know, relax and enjoy the weather. Now you like this, I thought you liked the winter better. I do. I hate this summer. Well, here's why I hate the summer because I don't like being hot. And I'm already covered in mosquito bites. I like the thought of summer. I like the thought. I'm like, oh, you know what? It's a beautiful morning. Let's get the coffee, go outside, get the iPad. And then in three seconds, I'm like, eating alive, cursing up a storm and going back in the house. It's been very humid to, like, summer is spring is nice. Spring and fall on a summer, it gets too humid around here. But either way, it can't complain because I'd rather have this than dealing with the crap windy freezing cold weather that we've had for a while. So welcome that will open arms. So drew mcgarry, who used to write for deadspin. Many, many, many years ago during the hot clicks days, wrote one of my all time favorite columns about hating summer. And when I read it, I never had a piece hit me like he talked about and you'll notice it's so much worse when you have kids because your kid is still young, but once your kid gets the age where you go into the pool, you go into the beach, carrying all the crap, all that. But he just the way he had everything about everyone takes off. Every schedule, there's no set schedule in the summer. Like your radio favorite radio hosts are usually off half the summer. Nothing's normal in the summer. Then on top of, you know, your clothes are sticking to you 24 hours a day because of the humidity. Kids all over the place. And I used to post it every year and I haven't the last few years, but I should go find it and post it. If anyone's listening to this and they want to read it, hit me up on Twitter and I'll send it to you. But when I'm at the pool, I'm fine. And if I'm at the beach, I'm fine, but other than that, I don't like being hot. I think it's because I'm fat, but I just don't ever like to be hot. Because you have to wear suits, so you have people that go to work with, now it is. I'd rather be cold because you could get warm easy. Heat, it's hard to adjust. If I'm cold, I put on a hoodie and I'm fine. If I'm hot, I could be buck naked. I'm not going to be cool. That's the problem. So whatever. All right, a couple of topics, I want to read some apple reviews, but first and foremost, I know you're a huge, huge, huge Adam Sandler fan. Did you watch hustle yet? I did. Did you see it? I did not. I don't know if I will, so I want you to give us a review. I thought it was good. Now, remember we talked about the, I think you want to talk about the premiere or whatever, and I was like, oh, I had no idea who was even coming out with a movie. And it didn't look great. But then I heard reviews and you know me, it doesn't take a lot to get me. I mean, I watch it anyway for Sandler. I enjoyed it. I thought it was a good movie. My wife checked out. She was not really paying attention to it. But I thought it was, you know, was it a great movie? Was it one of Sandler's best? No, but he was good in it and I found the story entertaining. I enjoyed it. So better, what did you like better? Hustle or something. That's a great question. I would think Uncut Gems was weird. Like it had this dark, this darkness to it. It had to be was a more uplifting story. So a feel good story. So I like this one better than that. Different movies, but I don't like the darker types of especially with Sandler. So this was an uplifting underdog story that I enjoyed. See, I thought like you, I thought on gems was a little, I had some issues with unquote gems. The gambling stuff, especially, but I thought he was tremendous in that movie. I don't know if hustle is the kind of movie where I'm going to think this was a phenomenal Adam Sandler performance. You know, I never thought about that until after the fact. And you know, sometimes I get the same thing with like watching Will Smith during the tennis movie, whatever it was that he just won for. And you know it's him going in, but then you're watching the movie and you forget that it's him. I was not watching hustle thinking it's Adam Sandler. Which is weird. And I know he looks a little different with his beard or whatever, but it's still The Sandman. And so I think that that's a credit to him and his acting job that I wasn't thinking Billy Madison or happy Gilmore. I was thinking what I was in the movie. So you can prepare for that. What is your favorite sandwich movie? I'd probably go Billy Madison. It's gotta be, I mean, I love big daddy was great. I love 51st dates, the weddings. I mean, I love them all, but the originals are, you know, any of those top three or whatever or the first three or my favorite. Mine is the wedding singer and it's funny because my nieces now they'll watch my older nieces especially will watch 80s movies, like she likes The Breakfast Club. The younger one is a much different critic. And the last me every now and again for like an old movie recommendation. And I thought about the wedding singer because I love that movie and I figure it's not too inappropriate. But then I realized they're not going to enjoy for me the wedding singer. It's like all those 80s songs taking back to my they're not going to know them so it's a bad one. I'd like to get them to watch that, but I don't think they'll have the appreciation for it. Yeah, interesting. I didn't think of it like that. I don't watch the MLS. I don't think you do either. But I just want to bring up this apple deal real quick. I've said this for.
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"I would love to keep the podcast going. So where I see it maybe going is because it's got a couple kids and he's going to want to be around his kids more as they keep growing up. So maybe not doing as much as the videos and what I do with them doing on my own. But always doing the podcast to at least we're doing it during the hockey season and hopefully on each show always interviewing a guy because what you find is, you know, I want to get Bret hall on. I want to get Steve eisenman. I want to get Brandon Shanahan and the list of legends goes on. So you still have a lot of guys you want to have an add on. But also the ones where it's like, hey, man, I heard this guy who played in the ECHL for 15 years and he's an unreal storyteller and he's got like 5 iconic minor Hockey League stories. Those guys are the ones that end up flooring you the most. So yeah. There's white whales out there that we don't even know about who we haven't even gotten yet. We had a guy on the podcast Tim Stapleton whose buddies with whip and he's just a little skilled thing and oh man is he a funny bastard and he's got great delivery and it just so happens that at the end of his career he played in Russia in the KHL and the KHL has gotten better but at the time funny you had guys who own the teams who were coming down the locker room and with a machete or like an 8 K 47 done and pointed at players. You missed in Russian. You better wait to fuck up you'd go out there and fight somebody you fucking put like crazy billionaire corrupt owners and guys not getting paid for weeks on end guys taking out the cash or taking their cash home at the end of the year who was a goaltender and stuff their pads full of money to fly it over without having to pay taxes. So he ends up coming on our podcast and lets like 5 or 6 of these unbelievable KHL stories fly about him doing the Russian gas, like one of the drugs that they use to dope. And he goes, buddy, he goes, you feel like you have iron lungs and you feel, you feel the best you've ever felt in your life and no wonder these guys are doing all these vitamins and shit over here. And get me on the Olympic regimen. And then he told he told one about how they gave him they give you a place to live there and how when he was leaving on the road and he would come home. He thought he had a ghost in this place because furniture would always be moved a little bit. And then he came home earlier from a road trip and there was a family staying at his apartment when they were going on the road. So that's why his furniture was oh my God. Yeah, but he had to come home and he had to sleep on the couch one night with them there because he pulled his groin on the road and they flew him home early and this guy had no clue he just assumed like, you know, he's not paying attention to the team. He's just following their schedule when he can live there with his three kids and his wife. So those are the types of guys. So as far as interviews are concerned, I want to keep this podcast going as long as I'm doing anything. And even maybe when I'm done with it all, just to hop on once a week and shoot the breeze with all these funny characters, we maybe don't know anything about it. If it ever ended, you would miss it because you've built this thing into this into this big, big thing with the hockey community. What about I'll let you go after this one. If you could have on any non athlete, who would you want to who do you want to have on? Who would you what celebrity non athlete would you love to interview? I don't think he would I probably wouldn't say this one because I don't know if you would like how much he would divulge. I would love to interview Daniel Day-Lewis. Really, he's my favorite actor. Okay. But do you think he'd be a good guest? That's why that's what I'm concerned about. So that was the selfish answer from the podcast perspective. I would probably say Barack Obama really? Yeah, I just think he's a fascinating guy and how he was able to carry himself through how I couldn't even imagine the amount of stress and the weight of the world on his shoulders being the first black president, all of it, all of it. This is definitely the grown-up is. We've got grown up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think he's so cool. He just the way he carries himself. I think he's witty, and I would just, yeah, I would like to interview. I thought you might go for like a Leonardo DiCaprio or a no because I don't because I think when you're a movie star like that, you see him sometimes he has to do these tours when he a movie's coming out. He looks so disinterested. I think that he could give two fucks about that stuff. That's true. So I think that I think Barack Obama for an hour would be awesome. Now, I would have said Charles Barkley, but he has agreed where he is going to come on our show. So I am so excited for that one. He won't go on mine. He won't. I don't know. I've tried to get him to like four years. He's like, there's another guy though, he's getting asked and pulled in a minute. Yeah, I know. I actually cut cornered him at TNT and I had a knife out and I said you were coming on my podcast. And he said, all right. He probably liked that if you did it that way. So I'll let you into TNT with my badge and corner him with a knife and see if it works out for you. I'll do anything at this point. Give me a Stanley Cup prediction before I let you go. I got abs in 7. All right. If you had a gun to my head, though, and you said life or death, I would probably pick Tampa in 7. I just got an inkling. My heart's telling me abs and 7. I hope Nathan McKinnon wins his first cop. Does it does it hurt a little bit that TNT yet you and TNT are out of it now and it's all ESPN aired the Stanley Cup finals or you're like, you know what? I could use the break. I'm ready to veg out on my couch and no, I think everything happens for a reason. And I think that the emotional and the whole ride itself. I think it ended in a perfect time. And we hadn't really done that as a group together. So I think it's going to give us the perfect experience moving into next year to get it. And yeah, no, I'm happy that we got the time off. I still got to do chicklets though. Check out we still got a couple of weeks here left and bank and some interviews and going to NYC for a couple live streams, which I got one tonight, game one, baby. Be careful when you hear an NYC, if any of those ranger fans see you. I got full team security. Head on a swivel, head on a swivel. I'm wheeling around Mayweather's money team now. I got 7 security guards. Well, you walking down 6th avenue. I would be worried for you. All right. All right. And you're honorary coyote's fan. We're gonna get one coyote's tweet a month, which is not that much. Not as much at all. Right. And you're gonna lead the way if rangers win the cup next year, I'll allow rangers fans to egg me. I'll be there for that for sure. You can hand over the eggs. Maybe we'll do 5 bucks in eggs for charity or something. That sounds good. That I'm down with. Appreciate it. Good luck with everything you got going on. I appreciate you coming on. Barty, thank you for having me. And we touched on it earlier. I appreciate all the support throughout the years. You crush it and I love your stuff as well, man. You're a G and maybe more of the swimsuit stuff, but that's just me. Gotta be careful. There's all this. We got the old man. We had to get a little old biz, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, come on a little.
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"To strip clubs as well. I would, I would yeah, I would say that there are some. I think that I think that what has happened is players have become more so rocket nerds in how they're so hyper focused about the sport. And I also don't blame them for where sports is getting. So I think that especially in the NHL, teams are less likely to sign guys as they get older, where they're more likely to give them the paydays early on. You're not really seeing, if a guy's a superstar, they're not having a sign of bridge deal. They're basically like, hey, pay me now. And by the time you're 30 year old news. And that's why the game, in my opinion, has gotten so fast and skillful, I tend to think it does lack a little bit of experience. They're willing to, but the dollars, the dollars are getting so big that these guys are like, hey, I'm not gonna party and rip lines and do all this crazy nonsense and drink. I'm just gonna dial it in for ten years. I'm gonna cash out and then I can go live 50, 60 more years with a hundred sheets in the bank. I mean, listen, it's a bad example to use because he's the greatest quarterback of all time. But I would imagine every athlete sees Tom Brady getting $375 million from Fox and thinks to themselves. You know, I'm sure you take the top level players, whether it's Aaron Rodgers, LeBron actually I'd give him credit. He came right out and said, hell, yeah, I saw that deal, and now it's making me think about getting into media. That's the honest reaction there. And I would imagine in every sport when they see that kind of money being thrown around to broadcasters, karn athletes have to think to themselves, you know, because you don't want to do anything in your career, obviously when you're playing, that hurts you playing, but you gotta set up, you did it perfectly. You have to set up a post playing career as well. And now the money in broadcasting is crazy. Yeah, yeah, I mean, seeing those types of deals, I mean, football and basketball, you're in a different stratosphere, but yeah, it's amazing. And I think that I think that the problem with maybe where hockey was behind a little bit was there was never enough money in it to entice the Wayne Gretzky's or the Bret halls or obviously obviously Gretzky is doing it now, chelios, hall, messier. They've done it before. But to make them maybe seriously passionate about it, where, listen, if I would have made a 100 million plane and they're saying, hey, for 300 grand, do you want to go put in 50 shifts a year and work hard? I'd say, yeah, lick my nuts. I made a hundred sheets, man, no thanks. I'm going to go hit the links. But now, I think that the former players and the legends are maybe reconsidering it. And maybe want to work to get better at it and invest time doing it. Right. Hockey has never, it was more for guys being like, hey, I kind of have to have a job. Right. Well, I'm glad you didn't make a 100 million because now we got you on TV. And you couldn't tell them to lick your nuts. I talk about chiclets for a little bit. I hope they don't take that the wrong way as if I would have told. You know what I'm saying? I didn't mean to. I'm just trying to listen 300 grand. I got a hundred sheets. No, I'm going to make that an interest next month. I sit here every single day and I am blown away by athletes who make all this money and do all this stuff to promote other things. I mean, Brady's out there, Brady today was doing a bunch of interviews to promote hertz, like, really? Really? Yeah. So I also view it differently, right? I don't know, I think that I don't know why these guys, I think that all of them want to be a billionaire, right? I think they like the billionaire tag. Well, I mean, the minute LeBron did it every news outlet have it. It's like, I think that they want people to know that they're a billionaire. So if you're wanting people to know that to that regard, I think that there's obviously a lot of ego involved. But in the same breath with all those accomplishments, like, yeah, go see where you can bring it and the experiences and the different amazing things and places it can bring you in life. And the sports eventually end, right? So, and Brady's a genius for doing all and getting ahead of all this because he's a marketing genius just as much as he is a football genius. And he's now going to be able to capitalize on everything he's done off the field tenfold and work one tenth the amount. Right. Through the broadcasting side. I have strictly done it from a financial perspective and been grateful about trying to have more creativity and more control over what I'm doing. That's all. Doing it for. You know, for me, what I need to get past is that what really changed the game for everyone. Obviously you know this better than anyone is social media because the top guys are using social media to promote Tom Brady's social media is all about promoting his stuff. So I think it just makes it so easy for athletes to do that. I see you on your social media pitched everything to have a personality that you're willing to put yourself out there like that. 100%. Why Brady's is awesome is because he gained all that notoriety by winning and then he did it. So it was like, well, dude, this guy's got 5 rings. He could be TikTok. And we're all gonna be like, oh my God, there's handsome Tom Brady, TikTok with his kids. This is amazing. And as far as the social media is concerned, he's done a great job and snapping it around by these different types of commercials he's done or Internet viral clips or the golf drone shot. His team, his team is genius. Now he's going after the clothing market. Why wouldn't you go after the clothing market if you're him? I think that I don't know if Lulu lemon was just bought, but I want to say Lululemon's doing like $5 billion a year in sales or that's the projection, at least for the next couple of years. My only point is to create a $1 billion clothing brand. Right. Absolutely. My only point is, do you ever get to the point where you like, okay, I've had enough of this shit. I just want to live my life and not have to deal with it. That's why I said, I don't know. It's hard for me to say because you don't know also when somebody's saying, hey, man, here's a $5 million check to go do a couple hertz meet and greets and you're going to be in this commercial and it's going to air on Super Bowl. I don't know. It's hard to say no and it's like, I'll say it this way. I think that one day I'll be able to walk away and want to pick up golf, but I also don't know if I'm going to be the guy who wants to golf 5, 6 times a week. Right. So some guys, if they're not into golf, what else are you going to do? You're going to go drink with your buddies. Are you going to go make a bunch of money so you can kind of keep the tab running on doing other fun, crazy stuff. A lot of it is once you hit a certain lifestyle you want to keep that lifestyle up. Yeah, I've always said, and I know I got a couple of people close to me who disagree with me because they say that I have to keep my mind going. I'm a maniac. But I always said hundred sheet see you later, you'll never see me again. You'll never, I won't be tweeting. I would hope so. Actually, that's when you should be tweeting. Then you can tweet whatever you want or ramifications. Yeah, but also I'm Canadian and I'm a little bit as much as I go at people and I tell people to fuck off who come at me. I also like, you know, I kind of want to I'm just a Canadian kid at heart. I just want to go back to Victoria and customers and golf a little bit and hang out with my buddies and, you know, live a little. So Canadian kid who was part of one of the most popular podcasts around. Spent in chiclets. You guys get everybody on there. Is there anyone you haven't gotten yet that you want to get on there?.
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"18. 18 games he got the goal and assists in a fight. So he's there's a little nugget for you. But from that coaching mentality, in some cases where he may be noticed that we could improve in some areas, he would speak up and mention it. Even sometimes when we were doing demos, but just collectively as a group just communicating where each guy can improve and I know they made cracks about me in the shot clock, but that's probably just feedback and like, hey, be self aware, like don't take too much oxygen to the point and sometimes when I'm saying boys, I don't think we're going to have enough time in this segment for ace and talk to articulate on their points. If I chime in, I don't need to talk here. You guys kind of take it over because it was your point and I want you guys to drive at home. And or you guys go and I'll just kind of feed off of the back end of it on the third point, just quickly before we roll out. So understanding that the time element, the making sure you're paying the bills, you know, driving the bus accordingly, I'm still learning in motion, but the communication and the help from everybody early on was how we were able to get better and better at it. Yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to watching you next year because I know you'll be even better. I want to talk about chiclets a little bit before we get into that. So what's going on with you in the ranger fans? Because I'm here in New York. I see on Twitter. You could say whatever you want. I don't care. I'm not going to be offended. Like, is it specifically ranger fans? Do you have an issue with New Yorkers? What's going on here? No, I can go back to where the this year I kind of stirred it up. And I like stirring it up with fan bases if I think that they're out of line in some regards. Like I got it with sabers fans about the eichel situation. And I think that we can all admit that any New York fan base just maybe from living in New York is a little bit more wound up and intense than other fan bases to the point where maybe they'll sucker somebody outside of a building. Well, listen, I can't sanction that one. It happened in the lightning series. I don't know if you saw the clip. Of course. It's something that I would imagine happens at like Dodgers games at Yankees games. RA rear admiral, one of our hosts, our host of spit and checkouts. He said that he went to a Boston Red Sox games at Yankee Stadium, and he was told by his buddy, hey, if you're sitting in certain sections, I probably wouldn't be wearing Boston gear. You're not saying that for every fan base. So they're a little bit more wound up than normal fan bases. So on one of the broadcasts and you'll get this for most fan base, if you don't stroke off their fan base on the broadcast, because they're used to watching their home network all the time. Your anti their team. Like I care who wins the Stanley Cup other than a few teams that I'm rooting for. I have no saying this. So I mentioned how they were on one of the broadcasts, how I'm like, hey, they kind of play a little bit of a riverboat gambler style of game where they could score some goals by playing like that, but they sure they sure do let their goaltender out to dry, which is proved by the eye test and analytics. That's why it's just, it is up for the heart and more than likely will win the vesna. And oh man, did they come out? Oh yeah, bragging on the raid. What do you know? You don't watch the rangers. Look at this graph chart, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And a couple that had, you know, 15, 20,000 on Twitter and then you see the reaction, they're getting and all these other people piling on, I'm saying, you're going to freaking get sensitive about me saying that I would be weary about playoff time when you're playing against better teams. So then I said, okay, let's kick it up. So I started calling them scumbags, which some of them are. They're some of their fans are complete scumbags, including the guy who knocked the guy out outside the stadium because he had a Tampa Bay lightning's Jersey on. And then he wore his rangers T-shirt to the court appearance, by the way. And not surprised by that. Not surprised. And just calling them fugazi's because they got completely outplayed against Pittsburgh. I test and analytics once again and relied on and they be the third string goalie in the penguins. So I just kept piling on calling them the fugazi's and they went nuts and that's kind of how the whole thing played out. And then they lost in the Conference Finals and I couldn't. But let me ask you this when the rangers went up to nothing on the lightning. Were you soiling yourself a little bit? I said, I'm like, oh my goodness, this might be a team of destiny and no, they're not fugazi's. They're definitely not fugazi's. Their fans are still scumbags. But I commend this young group to go far beyond expectations in a year where I thought they were probably going to lose. I thought they were going to lose first round for sure. Then I thought Carolina was going to beat him, but they made it to the Conference Finals and hey, all the credit to those players. Adam Fox is a stud. And they're going to be a good team for many years to come and that fan base is going to be a thorn in my side, but I am looking forward to going toe to toe with them. I like reminding them that I think they have one cup in the last 86 years and they needed half of those championship Edmonton Oilers to get the job done with Mark messier and crew. And they can kiss my ass. We need to get you in the middle of Madison Square Garden. I'll make I'll make a bet next year where they end up winning the Stanley Cup. I'll let rangers fans egg me in the middle of Times Square. I'll let you throw the first egg. I'm going to let a ranger fan do it. I don't want to egg you, but I believe that a watch and cover it. You're what Devils fan? I don't really have a hockey team. The only team I really refer anymore in my entire life is the Yankees. As I've gotten older, teams of people. Can we make you an honorary coyote's fan? Sure. Sure. Can I make you care about the coyotes? Care might be a little strong. You know what it is? Let me ask you this. Do you follow other sports closely? I know the NFL do you do? Because I know you're a big packers fan. I think it's hard to ignore the NFL. I don't know how people can like die hard follow four or 5, 6 sports. How do you have all this time in the world? I don't understand. Especially the NBA and the NHL and Major League Baseball are very time consuming, very time consuming. It's every night. I think that they do an incredible job of marketing their players. I just think that where you're seeing hockey thrive is the parody and the way that the league set up from a competitive standpoint. Not as much hopping around where it's more of a traditional sport. I mind you, the personalities, each of the sports, you can't even compare them as far as how massive NBA guys. I'm hoping that more of that comes about. But hockey players are so refined and so afraid to be the individual to stick out and I'm sure I'm sure the NHL players are getting wings and going.
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"That you had the opposite experience this year. Yeah, and listen, inside the NBA, they've won they've done so much. They set the bar and they were, you know, they were the founding fathers of it all. And what they don't do is they don't tell you to tell you how to act or tell you what personality that you are on camera and it's more of a conversation. It's supposed to be fun, and that was the message early on. And just going back to them, they were so nice to us when we were there in the same days. And then also for Charles to jump on that first ever broadcast. I think that he came out in the second segment. And just watching how he carried himself and how he was and the amount of stress that alleviated off us all because we were new to this and we were nervous. It set the tone for the whole year. And right from that second segment on, it was just like, wow, like thanks Charles for kind of setting the tone and it took a big weight off our shoulders and I think that that's why we were able to take a deep breath and have the success. I mean, I don't know how you base that. I had a blast and then I guess they were happy with the numbers. So I guess I don't really know how you based it on if you're talking about that. So tell me a couple of things about you. Was it a challenge at all? Doing checklists where you guys do long form, you can go like two, two and a half hours on a show. And you can pretty much see what you want. You don't really have any rules there. And then you go to TV where even though TNT is giving you freedom, there are still rules. There's still things you can say and do. The segments are tighter. Was it a challenge bouncing back and forth? And how much time did it take you to get settled into the TNT way of doing it? So you talked about them letting us be us. Sometimes I would definitely run long early. I probably still do. I remember one clip, yeah, that went viral. And they were trying to like, they got me the shot clock, and they started ragging on me, which is awesome. I mean, that's what the way it is in a locker room, and that's what should be happening if I'm going beyond my time, but I don't have a problem ragging on myself either. I was taking too long to formulate my opinion because we're talking on a podcast normally, which is two, two and a half hours, we're able to articulate our thought, or so I think, anyway. But that originally I'm French Canadian. I'm like 50 50 English and French. So already I have a difficult time with the English language. So there's one filter that I have to try to run it through. Then there's the locker room where I'm swearing every other word and I've done so a few times this podcast. You're allowed to curse here. It's fine. Okay, good. So I don't want to get you in trouble. So now I have to run it through basically two filters. So I do sometimes get stuck or especially early on was learning. And sometimes I would just say it and, you know, I get peepee whacked in the back after if I maybe went a little bit overboard. And they get me back on track. So yes, there was definitely some adjustments early on and still. How we're supposed to talk over the clips. So after absorbing everything I did through year one, I want to go back and we want to get better and we want to learn how to maybe tighten things up and maybe where I could be better on talking over the clips and maybe not getting so drawn into describing what's happening because the viewer can see that, but keeping it more conversational. So buddy, there's always work to be done and I want to try to keep getting better and that's why I'm so excited is you can't you can't force chemistry and they were somehow able to find that early on and put the misfits together and I think that we were able to at least in year one find a lot of it and everybody seems willing to put more time and energy into making it the show overall better. If I'm not mistaken, I think you only cursed once on the air the whole season too. I dropped a couple by accident like I dropped an F bomb when we were actually in Edmonton live for the conference final. I remember you saying shit, I think on one early show. Yeah, I dropped an S bomb, but so we were in Edmonton and they lost and it was three zero now at that point so we did the show outside at the end of the game to show how passionate these fans were and talk was breaking down a clip and a beer can whizz and buy his ear and hit the desk and I was like and when we came back I'm like round of applause for talk to keep it together while that beer can whizz by his ear like and I said holy and then I was like and nobody really commented on everybody was more flustered by the can so I was emojis maybe they hit the panic button and got it cut out and that's why he didn't hear it, but definitely something that on the podcast I just let fly so I need to learn how to transition it over and I'm still doing so. Now you did good. You did good. eBay is changing the game once again for buying and selling sneakers online from rare dead stock to the latest release or even carefully loved pre owned kicks. 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Yeah, I think the throat the whole year, everybody, you know, it was such a good team, like everybody communicated between me, Liam Anson, when Wayne was there and talk. And I would probably say that talk from just from that coaching background and I know I talked about ace's career. I mean, obviously talk had a heck of a career as well. He's Hall of Fame with the Philadelphia flyers, might be a Hall of Famer by the time it's all said and done. And wanted he actually the NHL leader in Gordie Howe hat tricks with.
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"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Becomes huge monster numbers for that podcast. Tell me though how it happens with TNT, where you shocked they made it an inquiry, how did it all happen? We got the TNT gig. Yeah, so we actually got this guy who came on the podcast once he interacts with us and it's with buddy, his name's foley. He's a prankster and we've joked around a lot about the pranks, he's pulled off on current NHL or his former NHL's. I thought he was emailing me and pranking me. So I sent it to my buddy, Jeff Jacobson, who Jeff has been instrumental in helping me get to places and execute ideas and fun things and he's been had his hands on really everything I've done since I retired. And so he was like, no, I'm pretty sure it's legit and then we ended up lining up a phone call and then talked about coming in for a tryout and we lined up the tryout. I end up going there and you know, it was great. It was fun, right? They explained how they were going for the same type of look from inside the NBA of we don't want guys staring at the teleprompter. We just want personalities talking about the game passionately and it can go off the rails and really doesn't really have too much structure, but it has some direction and it was great. Liam was there and Anson was there. They were the two guys that I think had already solidified their jobs. And you know, they made it extremely easy. And then we did a couple segments, you know, they asked me my opinion and then rolled clips and did everything that you would do throughout a broadcast and threw everything at me and then they said, hey, you know, we'll reach out to you and let you know what goes on and then I heard back pretty close after that that they wanted to work something out and I think that it's not really a surprise in a sense of like I was kind of a wild card. I don't think that they knew much about chiclets. I don't really know how much broadcast experience they thought I had. I was doing stuff with the Arizona coyotes, which I think helped me immensely. Because I was going to ask if you thought Twitter was what they really knew you from then. You would have to ask them, I don't understand, but obviously that my name had come up to somebody in the company who then said, hey, I think that we should at least try this guy out because he's got all these crazy stuff going on online. And I don't know exactly know what the age demographic was for NHL viewership on NBC. I don't really pay. I kind of paid attention to what I was doing with my podcast and I was hyper focused on that. But there was one thing that I was confident. And I said, well, you're going to get a ton of pour over from our chiclets. I think we average about 750,000 listeners in episode. Some episodes go over a million, some hit, you know, 6, 6 50. I think we're hovering right around 7 50 to 800 now through playoffs. And things are going well. And obviously a bounce back effect too from TNT as well. But that's why I'm so grateful that when I got the opportunity, I think that they saw the bounce back, at least socially, where it's like, that's where a lot of advertising dollars are living nowadays too. Like there's an audience there. And if you can catch your attention here, direct them back. So got the call and then I just think that they put this crew together that is everybody brings a different element and everybody's so different. Liam has a soccer background and he, you know, he's obviously been working in network as long as he's been working a network. He has an insane motor, he cares immensely about the product on top of, of course, all the experience I just mentioned. Ace as well had that type of experience talk had done some stuff with Philly, but he really brought that coaches element. So you have ace who has had some great years. We play with the sedans. He bounced around from different cities and he had that experience. Talk brings that coaching element and he's very rough and passionate and loves breaking down plays and where the play went wrong. And then on top of that, you throw in Wayne in the mix who he had a decent career. And fuck does he ever go to a pardon my French? Is he ever good on the mic? Like he's so good. He's so fluid and you know he doesn't skip a beat. He's very polished and obviously he's just he's the best. He brings in that camaraderie and just that he brings it to that next level just like he did when he played and to have him even involved given with I'm sure how many people are tugging at the rope and how many people want him and he's probably like, I just want to go golf and fucking live my life. Leave me alone. How about I done enough for the game for quite a loud? But for him to show up to 24 broadcasts and hopefully more moving forward and it just ended up catching fire and they put an awesome crew together that had so much chemistry and I know I've kind of been long winded about this, but the people at Turner are amazing. They are the best company to work for from a you walk in the door. Hey, hey Ben, did you want anything to eat? Do I want anything to fucking? Okay, all right, cool, that's what I mean. That's one other thing off my checklist. To the runners to the people where they line up the car to come get you to the producers to everybody from the janitors. Everybody there is amazing. Everybody plugs on the rope and makes your experience that much easier and better. And that's, in my opinion, why it all works and it makes it so easy on everybody to just do and execute their job. The cameraman, the makeup girls, like, it's one happy family and I am so grateful for the opportunity and I couldn't be given this more of a double barrel stroke off fast than I can. Seriously. Meanwhile, at the end of the day, it all just comes down to like fetus and we're happy, basically. That's what I took out of what you just said. Give us a meal and we get my Starbucks a lot to pay, right before the show. And maybe a couple of Red Bulls next to desk. I am over the moon here, but I couldn't say more positive things about it, buddy. I called the Z, Michelle, and she's been working there forever. She actually worked for the thrashers. And I've been doing my rounds after decompressing after that amazing season. I said, that was one of the best years of my life, just to be able to do everything, how receptive you guys were to the podcast and how silly we were and how we were able to snap it around and just very grateful, buddy. That's the word I'm looking for. I could sit here and shoot my own horn and say that I basically said every day for years that you were going to be a huge media star and I turned out to be right, but you know, you're the guest, so I'll not pat myself on the back right now. That's why when you reach out, it's like I always want to come back on because you showed so much love a lot of people on Twitter did and he was grateful for the positive people that encouraged me to keep going and doing what this is. I love it. I have a crazy motor and a sense of like I'm hyper focused and I just love it. I get a lot of enjoyment. What I love about it is besides your success at you getting what you deserve and you being entertaining and going on like a large scale, which you already on with barstool, but what I like about it is I like hearing that TNT lets you do what you want TNT knows everyone knows TNT knows what they're doing based off of the inside the NBA show. Now they come up, they get the NHL, they got to put this show together. And it's refreshing to hear that they let you do your thing because so in broadcast television in sports especially, executives want to change people. They don't want any issues. They want cookie cutter. So it's awesome.
SI Media Podcast
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on SI Media Podcast
"Talk about his rise as a NHL media superstar and then we have salad for our train of thought segment that we do every week for this episode. If you missed last week, Brian Curtis from the ring was on to go through the latest sports media news, Richard deutch two weeks ago, Joe Davis from Fox Sports three weeks ago. Mister and he goes, any of those go into the archives, check them out, subscribe and if you leave a review, I'll read it here on the podcast in the train of thought segment with Sal this week. We did read some apple reviews. So you'll get to that right after business day. So let's get right to it right now. Pull this net followed by a train of thoughts right here. On the SI media podcast. All right, joining me now, I could not be more thrilled. We go way, way, way, way back, and now he's a media superstar. Superstar. From spit in checklist, very popular barstool podcast. And TNT's NHL pregame show business nasty Paul bissonette. It's been too long. What's it been at least over a year? Yeah, definitely. Well, you got, you know, you got your TNT gig and now you're in the upper stratosphere of media moguls. Hey, I haven't changed one bit. I love hanging out with everybody. You know I like snapping around and maybe I've changed my Twitter antics a little bit, buddy, but still the same guy that we used to go back and forth with. I remember you used to do the SI, the swimsuit stuff when Jamie edmondson was coming on. I actually was training at a local spot here and she ended up Marion Evan Longoria. Yeah. And he's training in there. What a nice guy, big Tampa Bay lightning fan, so I obviously he's been all jazzed up through this playoff run. Again. So the world's world's collide and it's all coming full circle. He's a great dude, Evan. This is bad for podcasting, but this will be on YouTube. So I just want to point out two things. If anyone's watching on YouTube, one business chair might be the biggest chair I've ever seen in my life. That is amazing. I took it from Shaq at TNT. I actually stole it out of his out of his room there. Even Shaq would be comfy in that chair. Exactly. And then the other thing is I'm a little disappointed. You want what I had. I wanted to see what the dome looked like after you lost that bet. What do we do? It completely. So it's starting to grow back a little bit. I just started fresh clean cut. Now, for those of you who don't even know what we're talking about, I lost the bet. I was so confident in the Calgary flames this year and how they were playing defensively. I thought they had a way better overall team. And, you know, there's something in Canada called the battle of Alberta. There's two teams in Alberta, Edmonton Calgary and Edmonton was really struggling. So my podcast mate who I host spent jiggles with. He bet me that he would get his left ear pierce if Calgary advanced farther than Edmonton. And at that point in the season, they had no goaltending. I think they were even out of a playoff spot. Although they have Mac Jesus, McDavid, the best player in the world, and draisaitl, who's probably like the third or fourth best player. They ended up storming back and they met and playoffs in the second round and sure enough Edmonton ends up beaten Calgary and I had to get the top of my dome shaved on national television from Ryan Whitney. So I looked like a buffoon. I what do you call it? What would you call it, the top staved off? I mean, I don't know what it's. There's an official name. Like, you had the you had the bat wings on the side, and then the middle was gone, which was a tremendous look. It's kind of like the cul de sac and a guy that you love, the George Costanza. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was very George Costanza. It was very, but now you were allowed to shave it all and go full bowl. That seems like it might be breaking the spirit of the bet. No, no, no, so the whole bet was I had to keep it for one week. So I was fortunate. So I ended up getting it cut on national television on TNT and thank you so much to TNT because they were so great at snapping around with the podcast. All season long, because I'm so integrated in the pod and all these silly things that we're doing. It's hard to ignore it, but they were so generous with the airspace and allowed and they helped set the whole thing up and air it. But the bet was to keep it for one week. And if I would have kept it a series would have kept going to game 5, I would have had it for three full broadcasts, but fortunately for me, it was a sweep. Colorado eliminated them in four and I kept it for the full week and I just shaved my head myself yesterday. So I actually kept it for a little bit longer than a week. I have fulfilled my bet. I would do not renege all my bets. Clearly. Now, if anyone hasn't seen it, I had it in my column and you just Google business nasty haircut, you'll see how ridiculous it was. I just want to know one thing we'll move on from that. Did you have any experiences in that week where you either you went for a coffee? You went to get a bite to eat. You had to go, I don't know. I was going to say the post office, nobody mels anything. Dry cleaner is something like that where someone saw you and was like, what the fuck is going on here? So yeah, I was pretty good at not even wearing a hat, 'cause I just had to run around Scottsdale and do my everyday errands. And I was actually hoping to get a tan on the top of my head. You know, get a little sun on it. But yeah, I went to do my dry cleaning ladies. We're kind of like, and I went back to pick stuff off and I was like, yeah, my hair, she goes, yeah, I didn't want to say anything at the other time you were in here. So definitely a lot of that, a lot of weird looks and like pumping gas. Like, what the hell is this person staring at? Oh, okay, top of my head for crying out loud. So tons of that going on all over the place and hey, the humiliation, it's all part of the bet and congratulations to Ryan Whitney. Listen, got you guys a ton of attention, and that's really what matters at the end of the day. We just, you know, much like big cat and PFT, we cover some serious stuff, but most of the time we just like joking about the stuff. It's just a sport, right? You're trying to draw the guys personalities out. You're trying to joke around about the rumors floating around. We try to really stay away from guys personal lives when, you know, the whole Evander Kane thing was going on pretty publicly and we try to just tread lightly and move on. Well, I mean, that might be the most fat. I'm not following every player, but that guy's got some. I'm more fascinated by the gambling stuff more than anything else, but I won't put you on the spot with that. I'm just more fascinated about, I could only imagine how I would be in play, maybe going through that chaos publicly. But holy cow, did he rein it in and play unbelievable? He was on pace. I know I was 45 goal season. I think he's going to end up signing another really good contract. I guess the mental strength to not have to deal with that publicly and then yet put up those kind of numbers. Like, I don't understand how you do that. Yeah, it seems like this controversy with them every day. So I want to talk about you and TNT and with spit chiclets as well. But I just want to know, I want to start at the beginning because we haven't had you on since you went to TNT. And just some backstory for listeners. Biz was an enforcer in the NHL was happy to mock himself for his lack of goal scoring and all that. Give me a huge superstar on Twitter with his nasty, then it was business nasty two. You came back with vengeance. We won't even get into some of the stuff used to tweet about. It was all fun and good behind the scenes. Look at what the life of an NHL player is like. Then you retire, you go to barstool, spit in chicklets.
Spittin' Chiclets
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"To be in a hockey player. It's an art to take a hit. It's an art to get hit. Like it's a physical game. And so we started to sort of preach that. And then we got really lucky, Michael eisner became a huge hockey fan and he had a young son who loved hockey. And his young son wanted to play hockey. And the gist of the story was that Michael after all these games said, I want to own a hockey team. And so he said to me one night at dinner, I'm going to do a movie, the mighty ducks, and I'm going to have an NHL team called the mighty ducks. And I remember looking at him going, I know your Disney and I know you've done well, but the mighty ducks in the NHL because I'm telling you it's going to be huge. So timing is everything, right? And so Michael eisner coming in and then a guy named Gordon Gunn to him in Minnesota, moved them to San Jose and said, okay, I'm going to make hockey work here. And then Mario was in Pittsburgh and Bret hall was in St. Louis and hazer moons in Detroit and Mark Messi went to New York. And so there was just this perfect storm of not only these guys were great players, but they had personalities and they knew how to sell the game, and people wanted to hear what they had to say. And so the game just started growing, so I was one piece of it, but everybody had a hand in that. And that's what's great about our sport. Did you ever feel like you were carrying the game, not just the LA market, but will you call this in, okay, man, this could lead to future franchises in these spots. We aware that that might be a possibility. No, I didn't really think that much, although I will tell you this, I had a clause in my contract that if there was an NHL team within, I can't remember 300 miles of LA that I got a piece of it where I got a compensation for it. And I weaved it when the ducks came in the NHL. I said to Bruce mcnally, I said, you know, I'm not going to do that. But I did have it in my car. I don't even know why. In those days you could put anything in your contract, right? It was a wild wild. It was the wild wild west back then. So, you know, I never thought that way because Bobby orren Gordy, who I idolized both of them and Bobby Hull, they were always saying, hey, there's not one guy bigger than the game. The game is the game. Nobody's bigger than the game. So I never felt just that total responsibility. But as a collective group, you know, like messier and nicer men and the mu and so on, Holly, we all understood where we fit and what we had to do to try to even take the game to another level. I remember one All-Star Game in Philly, holy said to me, okay, we're not going to wear helmets in this game. I don't wear how many anyway, do you see my helmet? He goes, no, no, we're not wearing helmets. This would be good for NHL. And so I'll tell you the whole game with no helmet. I said, I'm not taking my helmet off. I'm going to wear that thing. And I don't need my dad coming down in yellow. Right? We've taken a lot of your time and these long sit downs can get even longer with if you got one more maybe, and then hopefully we'll make a rule here. The amount of years that we spend together at TNT, maybe each year we can get you for one hour. I'm fine with that, you know. My dad, my wife says that I'm like a garbage can you step on my foot and my mouth open. So I don't get a chance to talk to TNT. Yeah, exactly. He's the show. That was actually in my notes here, I said, we're going to do things a little different and I'm going to keep it short and sweet, completely unlike TNT. Not allow, that's okay. But are we going to talk about my lacrosse team at all? So that was the last thing that we wanted to drop the team name and drop the news at the end. Oh, we got a team name? I thought we did, I don't know. You mentioned how important it was in your development and once hockey would end, you would play lacrosse and baseball in the off season and you had the opportunity to be part owner in a vagus lacrosse team. They had not announced the name. We're going to announce it right now. Oh, we are. And you're dying to know what the name is. Yeah. You know before I do. Come on. I paid. See this whole job with you business getting worse. So you own the team with Steve Nash, Dustin Johnson is also a part owner. Any other names that we should show. So Joe sci when Josiah calls you take the call, right? He's a wonderful man and he owns a Brooklyn Nets, loves the cross, grew up plain a little bit across. I think college he played. And he has a passion for the sport, many called me and I said, absolutely. He really has a belief that this board is going to sort of be like soccer and that we can take it to the next level nationally in Canada and U.S.. It's a great game. It's a wonderful sport. And I'm so proud to be partners with Joe and Dustin and I and Steve are going to have fun. I'm not sure I think next year is our first game. I honestly don't know the name of the team. You know before I do? What do we got? So it's ironic because this is how I refer to the coyotes sometimes. It's going to be called the Las Vegas desert dog. Oh, I love that name. I be your hype man. Are they going to send you guys a bunch of stuff? You can come in and be like our Vince McMahon in between periods. I sold Wayne I'll do anything you ask as long as we get that one hour every year. It's good. Well, I'm glad I got to do this. I'll tell you one final real quick story when I started talking to TNT and the vote coming on TV and I was like, oh, okay, my kids are like, dad, you got to do it. And then finally I said, okay, I think I'm going to do it. And my kids were like, okay, you got to get Paul bissonnette on that show. Come on. Yes. So I said, okay, okay, so I called them and they go, we already have them hired. I told my boys and said, that's awesome. Paul's already been hired and my two boys were like, dad, he's going to revolutionize hockey on TV. So there you go. You guys. You guys and talking and aces is doing great. That's fun. It's a pleasure to meet you. And thank you so much for coming. I'm true honor. I'm so happy to be here. And as you can have mine. I thought it was going to be the Las Vegas wayno. I was going to go with Las Vegas. Mister wonderful. Thank you so much for this. The fans are going to oh, thank.
Spittin' Chiclets
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"Marks going into you. Know is high smith going to have a good sophomore year. Can he sure take the next step. And what can we get from all these other young guys. I just i just don't know i know. I know that i'm not betting on to make playoffs. That's for sure. I don't think any of us. I write g no devils playoffs. But i think jack hughes has a monster year input in terms of the whole fan. Base will get on your. Because if i just think i think in in terms of production and i don't think he had a great year last year and i think he has a big bounce back here this year. So when you say monster year sixty five points or ninety points. No i think sixty five points okay. We'll even say seventy points also seventy points all right moving right along. The new york islanders. Last season ended of course. They lost in the semifinals tampa. Four games to three very tough loss. They could have very easily gone onto the cop. They waving goodbye jordan heavily and nicoletti assay and hello to a new bond the ubs arena is finally going to open also bringing and zach parisa richard panik and old friends the dino chara cup odds a seventeen to one. They're also going to have a healthy and lead back. I mean these teams are taught contender. I said they could have just as easily the cup last year. That game went down to the last minute. A tough goal they lost on probably would have went on to win and if they played montreal the island is a right. There obviously get into playoffs. I think they're legit cup contender. Paul bissonnette would you have to say. I mean you pretty much set it. All you talked about guys that they added. I think they get better throw anders in the mix given that he was injured. All playoffs with that torn. Acl to me. They win the division and they. I consider them a cup contender this year. And i and i hate to say it. I'm not on the wagon as as might be moving forward here. Are you part of the fan base. Now it are. You going to succumb to all the peer pressure. Or you still given at the fuck you islanders. Double barrel shotgun here. No i'm not. i'm not a fan. I'm not joining that fan base. I just i just russell around with the idea. There's no chance. But i will say that idear as far as i as hard as i root against that team and i hope they lose and i hope they stink. They're nasty and their heads and shoulders above every other team in that division. I think and i think they win. The division and i do think they can compete for a stanley cup. I'll just be along the way rooting against them. And frankie borelli that piece of shit. But i promise you that this team is loaded and i admit it as a hater to get lee back to have that goaltending tandem and to add shara who can do a job of fifteen minutes and some. Pk and some leadership. They just really do. Have it all to compete for a stanley cup. So nothing would surprise me this year out of them. I hope nothing hapgood happens to them. And i will say this if they go on that thirteen game road trip to start the year and they somehow come back like i dunno like nine and four. Yeah dude daniel. Then you're like holy shit. I mean even that mom even if you can go eight and five just even five hundred right like to start the year. That's tough before the buildings ready to then come home. They could then just go on crazy run but that is a tough way to start the season so as long as they don't come back three and ten or whatever it is and even if that's the case it's enough time to make it all back but it's a little different Beginning of the season but still. It's a great team very deep. They're the best coach team in the division. They got an unbelievable fourth line. There is incredible. They've got a great goalie tandem. And i guess there one issue with how structured they play sometimes it's filmed the back of the net. I just don't see them having an issue with that. I think that bars al gaining more and more experience in him really coming at shell and playoffs last year. This is the team to beat. And i fucking hate to say it. We all agree. They're going to be in. the playoffs. Saw second winning the division consensus on all right a few miles to the west. The new york rangers last season ended. They did not qualify. They were fifth in the east. They made a valiant effort but couldn't get there they're bringing a new head coach and gerard gallant. Also forward buckley. Good row ford sammy. Blais and forward ryan russillo. Get some toughness in there. They traded pas boots to saint louis cup lodge at twenty two one. The rangers were very close to a playoff spot. Last year. i think what disturbing skies fucking dynamite. If he can play up to his potential stay injury-free hundred percent. I got the rangers in the playoffs. This year they're much like columbus to me with having two young studs in net gorgets. The other guy the backup. They're they're taught four incredible with adam fox leading the way and guys like they have enough stars up front to get it done and then you just talked about the depth that they added if laugher near and cockle and up coming out of their shell and becoming what. We think that they're going to be. This team. is going to be fucking dangerous. And i know i said that. Who'd i have is most improved. I kept harping chicago. I had chicago is most improved team over the off season with the additions with with the potential for some of their is in their own lineup and organisation are ready to elevate their play there. Another team i could see as being the most improved hundred hundred percent. I think they make playoffs. If not i think the fucking owners going to blow the whole team up so they have to make playoffs. i. I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't make playoffs gone after one year. There's so that nolan's fucking nuts but he fired the gm after all the unbelievable moves. he made. Who was a gordon. jeff gordon. Yeah they're all i this guy. This guy doesn't give a fuck dude. He's a billy goat. it's worst. He'll he'll wear sneakers with. Suzy doesn't give a shit patrik. Nemeth another defense. And i forgot to mention. They brought in over this season. They signed david. Sky from oakland is going to pf changs every day the billionaire unreal bowl cut so they brought in toughness right the the addition of reeves now. I think there was a lot of people who didn't like the beach. Navid trade because of how good he was and remember. When i thought he was a nissan. Mov shooting the gun even though that was like fifteen return. Yeah exactly. But i still think that this team is right on the cost of playoff so i have a tough time right. I have columbus in the islanders. Not i mean sorry carolina and the islanders no doubt getting in from this division. The next two spots. I think it's between the rangers philly. And i'm sorry right. There's two spots for the rangers. Philly pittsburgh in washington and i'm having a hard time deciding who i think's gonna be other too but the rangers in terms of the young production. That's so important like zebulon pinera and are gonna produce you know that. So stroman great there since he's been but then you look at like this craft soft. He's gonna get a chance the russian and you also wonder so if i'm looking at like gujral and the way he played for tampa you gotta understand like you're not really getting much offense there but can bring the same type of third line energy right like i've seen i've seen lineups. He's playing with that. That hito felipe he'll is. I don't know where he fits in on that on the line up but it certainly shouldn't be like in an offensive role so busy setting capo cocco and lebron and and i think the front as shown a lot more than cocco like i think he kind of explode this year..
Spittin' Chiclets
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"What's up gang one more week till we drop the puck can't wait tonight. We're gonna take a look at the eastern conference and break down all the other shit that's gone down since we last met but of course we say hi to the boys. I mike g producer. How you doing. What's going on guys i. I went to a wedding. This weekend in manchester new hampshire. So i answer various time or big deal. The whole time i was i was out at night. Just thinking i can only imagine. Paul bissonnette going out in this city so we had some laughs but great weekend excited talk. Some occupies a lot of hits around that area about twelve years old. Right now there was. There was a place kitty corner to the rink and it was like a hot spot in town like my month there. Somebody got stabbed. I wanna say they were. They were killed and they ended up dying so that was pretty much. Buzz killington right out here. That's when you came down and we just used to go to dinner and hang out. That's when me and went started cooking up what was gonna end up becoming this podcast and getting the ideas. I think one of the original ideas was going to end up going to a rank going in the locker room. He'd open up our gear bag. And there'd be a six pack and we'd sit there and be a show. We just tell stories. That was kind of the original concept. But what was the sushi. Place called dozo. Always oh a bunch. They go into oni. Aren't even remember the name of the other one but you just shoot on down once a week and we just you know. Hang out chill on the coach grab grab a little dinner comeback and ended up figuring out what chicken to it ended up when ended up being. I don't know how that happened. Then i wonder wanna call. This is bullshit we on the power. Play man you'll get there all. Yeah right taurean bedroom. It looks like i'm in your mom's bedroom only it's all he say he's he's in your mom's bedroom sopranos jesus Yeah this hotel plymouth. I had to switch rooms. 'cause the first room everyone at home.
Boomer & Gio
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"Realize. I thought maybe you say yes for me. I didn't say anything though. This but the way he crafted it was when people come to us. This is what happens with the sales people they craft things. They're always crafting and they come into you and craft something around me. Yeah but they ask you will this guy. Actually because he knows that you're probably not gonna make yourself available for such thing okay. He even put he goes. I have a favor would you and boomer parentheses or just you and parentheses okay record a fifteen second video for something now so you're app right okay. It's just me okay. so then i'll just. I'll put like the digital boomer in there right he could talk for you all right. I'd never know where does go and then neither do i. That's the point. I should start charging for those videos. Cameo they could. Wow no no no. I don't want to do that. I told you something about that. Cameo midst that you've failed in life like you're like a has been if you're on that cameo true but it makes me feel like you're on cameo your really grasping at straws. I don't think so. I think it's Depending on how good your at it you can make quite a bit of money off. Yeah but there's no. There's nobody who's really doing well in our as well if he's a washed up hockey player and married a a beautiful actress got kid stone. Great everybody's i don't think he wants a tv job actually again. Sit here and say that all i know is that he went in there and tested for ten and who knows what he said. Put it this way. If he were still playing he wouldn't be on cami. That's what i'm trying to say. But a be in the height of his plan. Guiso complete nutcase. But here. here's the interesting thing so sean. Avery is Obviously a hockey player and for those of us who love hockey know who he is and the hard thing and all that other stuff you know. The nba has become so popular because of the amount of players that use social media to expand their brand and to interact with fans that that's true. Yeah out of all the sports would you say that. That is the number one. Social media sport in terms of reaching out to the fans are or as football right there with them. I'd say basketball probably is probably number one. There's more football players but believe there's more influential basketball player. Can you name one hockey player. That has really active on social. Paul bissonnette before. He's not a player but he he wasn't the same thing i would. Say about sean. Every you know there was really no social media when they were playing you know it started leader. Maybe the last couple of years of their career. But how about today's player like is there a kevin durant of the of the would be able to increase. The point is risen right okay. Yeah i don't know..
Spittin' Chiclets
"paul bissonnette" Discussed on Spittin' Chiclets
"We've got a buyout. Shocker and many philly grabs a high end demon. We've got a huge double interview. Will latoya two guys at once and i am back on. Us soil. let's say. Oh lots of the boys i produce. Mikey granola in manhattan. What's up what's going on boys. Lots of hockey talk for today. And our i cannot wait to hear some of these colombian stories. So let's get into it absolutely. Let's let's say to the boys. I i'll be paul bissonnette. What's up buddy. Pretty pretty busy week going back to last episode potential. Fight with jake paul. I know dave port was kicking up some dust. I would love to cave that guy's face and he said that he would he. What was this quote. I think that he basically said that he would knock me out because he only wants to fight experienced fighters. Now mind you. He's fighting guys. Who are about a foot shorter than i'm out of shape. Now he's moving onto tyron woodley who's x. Ufc champion now. This guy's obviously a little bit more legitimate than that. Ben aspirin guy but i tell you what man we got. The whole barstool spitting chocolates machine behind this. I would fuck in. I would definitely knock that guy out in a five five round bout. I think that's how how many rounds ego right five. I don't even know if they go three or five. Yeah the line where he said like you have to give me someone experienced. Who sole did he was he. Did he know what he was saying like. He's done exact opposite of that. I don't know but you think a guy worth that much money would Would invest in some or and or face wash. because. I don't know i'd be afraid to fight him. His whole fucking head might explode because it looks like a big giant zet now. Moving away from that Busy weekend we might be adding another member to the family. We adopt another dog. So i think we're gonna have back no all no no no. We went and looked at a dog. And i think we're going to adopt another one so we're gonna get thinner brother now. I'm going to need some help from all you spit spit and chocolates fans as far as picking a name. We have a list of albert. Maverick lloyd let me check out the other ones here too. I got a few more. I'm a big fan of people named dogs like traditional people names. What up fred at walter. Potentially walter you. Wally right right now. Ra archie rusty trip. Moose buck and i don't know if i've said ralphie yet but those are the those are the main contenders right now. If you guys have any names that you want to submit what kind of dog. This is a wired hair. Something i don't. I got these katie's katie's coyote for you found in the desert. Are they in the desert. Katie's the dog person. It's like a wire hair. Something with a lab mix okay. It's a bit of a mutt. But he's a cutie and we're we're thinking about adding them to the family aside from that. Ra another news story popped up. And i know that you're behind this one okay. L. shark shark advocates call for rebranding violent attacks as interactions. So this has to be you behind this given the fact that you're barking about them announcing these shark attacks on the news so keep a lookout for that so no longer. Are they going to be called shark. Attacks or announcing their more of interactions. I'm doing la la land where those people live. they'll be called shark interactions. But the guy who gets his arm bitten off by fuck and hammerhead. do they even bite all stark. A bowl hammerhead spoiled the meanest out there but i said hammerhead i do. They expose a hammer heads. A bad to bull shocks generally knows the worst of the bulls who take it out but if a bull shark bites guy. He's not calling and interaction. Got the name of the dog. It's a wirehaired pointing griffin lab. Mix schlock raced a mouthful pointed griffin their german dogs. Okay so keep that in mind when submitting your names for my god. I just remembered. Was it george. The rocker somebody. I played with her business. Maybe this is your story. I don't know if i'm messing things up in my brain but somebody bought like a very expensive german shepherd from german and then the thing only new german all the doctor and i forgot to why am i thinking that was george. Where like yeah like. I bought out about authentic german shepherd from germany but it didn't know any english My brother has a german shepherd only does commands in german film. Yeah he said it. Understand better but asked uncle chaps what are what are moaning onto your breath for over there. I mean familiar. What world history. At all off england more than germany. I never said that. I said how do your roof england. We didn't get germany to make a final. So i never go. The guys they fought with. Italy did people said i messed up. World war one. Apparently italy wasn't as bad in world. War one is they were in world war two. I'm not a history major. I'm a math guy. Sorry for interrupting. I've done a lot already all right. Good dog ryan whitney. I notice you're back from nantucket. Did you have anything interesting. Go on down there. It was a great time. We go to place there last year And it's nice. We read that. Oh pretty much all year. Keep a couple of weeks here and there so we went down. My parents came and then my brother calling and his girl came. And my other brothers. Out in san francisco. He's all family gathering minus. Sean and his wife casey. So we're hanging. And i'll bring this up because it was a good argument. Now listen like the kids were asleep. And like i think you know from listening to this pod it gets loud like i'll be arguing with people just as my family does a loud group so this is this got pretty heated. And i'm interested to hear your opinions on it. My wife went down the store and she was picking up some stuff. We were in a girl for dinner and she pulls into the law and there's a parking spot open and she sees. This woman is standing in it physically standing in it. And you know she's like what's going on she's like i'm saving the spot. She's like watts. And immediately on my. You can't do that. Gets stand in a parking spot. The cars go in there if a car is double parked. And he's got his blinkers on somebody leaving. Yeah he's waiting for that spot. He's kind of saving a human being. Can't stand in the spot. Well then all of a sudden my brother call and bumps in with his girl. They're both like no no. You could stand in spain illegal move. I said con what. So this goes on where heated. My dad was with me. My mom was with me. We're like no humans can't stand and spot. I said you know what this has to go to checkouts. I gotta get the guys opinions. I gotta get the listeners opinions. Call listen to me right now. You've nevertheless no podcasts. Or you're not listening but if you see this highlight if you stand as a human being in your clothes in a fucking parking spot and try telling people driving by. They can't park there. You're the craziest motherfucker. I've ever met and i'll say this here. And now if somebody is in a spot standing or maybe they're doing like a launch to hold up as much as the spot they can. I needed the spot. I would say i'm getting in that spot. And if they said we're not moving. I would take my phone and i would film the whole interaction as i went. Whatever point five miles per hour and just bumped into them until they moved. You can't physically hold a spot standing up not in a vehicle for somebody. That's coming up. I dare you hit him. What are you guys. Think am i. I'm so stubborn. That if they were standing in the spot i would block the parking space or they wouldn't be able to pull my dad said even when they got there he said oh you know what are you..
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Golden Knights put on surreal pregame show for NHL playoffs
"Yeah our goal is bryn hopi i've been hopi guy since day one so to remind everyone hank bubba and i have a future on the washington capitals so we're hurting just as much as pfc right now sorrows for ourselves we almost got in the shower where we should actually mention that we're in charlotte pf these new york's skype show but we yeah we we were so upset about the capital's letting us down yet again almost showered wow yeah would have to be pretty upset to take a shower well no we almost shower together with our clothes on yeah as usual that's standard operating procedure for us on road trips so the the stanley cup finals are playoffs have started we've had the las vegas nights basically acted out cirque du soleil slash game of thrones season ten on ice before their first game that's fucking weird like that was we should've all it was one of those things where like okay let's give some franchises to las vegas she'll be cool until they get a national stage like oh this is fucking weird like none of us are on now yeah this is this doesn't play hey i got one for your nights verse kings what is searching for bobby fischer oh nice fisher still alive no died right before even bowie yes his soul has been dead for about thirty years yes and then bobby fisher turned into like a hard conspiracy theorist oh yeah oh he's a bad guy back real bad dude we also had ryan whitney who by the way spitting chiklis has added are other good friend paul bissonnette business ryan whitney was dead on the boston bruins look like a wagon they shit pumped the toronto maple leafs that one was a tough one any other games that stuck out to you before we get to mba playoffs well i just want to say that that the ficiating in the playoffs has been subpar to say the least up until now he got guys out there just playing good clean hockey good clean playoff penalties inder gained game is conduct for shoving guys heads into the boards and knocking them out almost killing them hockey did that happen us it happened to us also happened in maple leafs bruhns.
Spittin' Chiclets
NHL - Should the NHL expand its Stanley Cup playoffs field?
"Happy i mean some people like the new way and and some people don't i just i think that's i you know we we went back to the pittsburgh washington shares like i'd rather see that instead of pittsburgh ottawa the third round and he knows there's so much hype towards that talk about rivalries he i think the nhl had great intentions at at the beginning because those divisional rivalries i mean i'm obviously old but i think even like not even the canadians like boston play in the sabers in the eighties like those are some fantastic series brad pock ot game winner so i think they were trying to capture that but they didn't foresee that certain divisions we're going to be so top heavy like the alantic tissue no one thought probably you know tampa toronto boston we'll beat the top not necessarily have that many points so it does throw everything off it throws everything out of whack and the nhl they're not afraid to take their playoff system if you go through the history on the website of nhl playoffs like how how you had to make the playoffs and how things played out it's like finding the aca the fucking covenant it's like it was that crazy to like just to get to a stanley cup final they've changed so many rules so many times i would actually like to see you know i think they did this i want to say in the in the eighties one through sixteen to just see everyone went through sixteen so you just get some wild fuck and match ups and three.