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You've shared a lot of stories about Joe Thornton.
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One of your funniest stories.
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We were playing mini sticks in the basement at one point in the day with his son, River.
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And Jumbo starts calling my buddy Stefano Shtiefu.
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I don't know what where the name came from.
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Hey, hey, Shtifu.
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Stefu, Stefu, grab a twig.
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Come on.
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So Stifu grabs a twig from his mini stick pile or whatever.
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And he's like, he's playing with it.
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For like after two minutes, he looks down at the stick, and it's Bobby Orr's stick, and it's signed on the blade.
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My buddy's like all fired up, right?
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Like, he's a jumbo.
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Like, hey, I'm a jumbo, right?
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Like he's holding Bobby Orr's side stick.
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Like, he's like, what the heck?
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Like, this is unreal.
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Your girlfriend would be fine with the days.
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Still traumatized.
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Please welcome Mario Ferrar to the podcast.
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Um, you're from Toronto.
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What is the most Toronto thing about you?
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Oh man.
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Um that's a tough question.
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Um I'm not really from the city.
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I'm like from the suburbs.
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So kind of like fake Toronto.
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I don't know.
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I'm more um I'm north of the city.
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I'm in King City.
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That's where the city I'm I'm from.
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Um a lot of I feel like there's a lot of Italians there.
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Yeah.
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So more of more of an Italian thing, but I love Italian food.
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That's kind of my thing.
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So I don't know.
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That's I'll stick with that as my identity.
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So you like to like push off the side.
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I'm not actually from Toronto.
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Well, like well, no.
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I'm yeah, I I love Toronto.
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It's a great city, but I'm not like a city boy, so like I can't I feel like I can't relate to like the Toronto things.
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Totally fair.
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Or I guess maybe like I, you know what?
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Like I like Drake, I like Justin Bieber.
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They they represent Toronto, so that's a pretty Toronto thing of me, I guess.
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You you you're with the Sharks for a very long time, lots of rebuilding there.
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What made Winnipeg so appealing when it looked like the Sharks were starting to make their way up?
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I think the biggest thing that made Winnipeg appealing is that um I felt wanted uh in free agency.
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Um, you know, I see the talent that they have in uh years past, and you know how many guys they've had for a long time here locked up.
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And so, you know, even just coming in here uh you know throughout training camp, you can see the how much chemistry certain guys have, you know, obviously, especially Scheif and and and Casey and and the back end with J Mo and Melo and some of these guys have been playing together for quite some time.
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So um I'm excited about that.
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Um but yeah, like I said, coming to a place that I feel wanted that I can provide, you know, um some value and and hopefully help help us win games that was uh very attractive to me.
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Fill in the blank.
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When you woke up July 1st as the unrestricted free agent for the first time, it was like what?
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I was I was excited.
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Uh I was really excited, you know.
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Obviously it being the first time and um it was in a way it was a little bittersweet because you know I've been in San Jose for a long time and I have a lot of respect for that organization and what they've you know uh the opportunities that they've been able to give me and the people that I've met there and the relationships that I've built there.
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But at the same time, you know, I've said this before on in other interviews, but you know, I'm I've at the same time I'm excited uh when I'm waking up in free agency because it's an opportunity to build new relationships and meet new people, um, which is important to me.
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And uh yeah, so it started off pretty great and then it gets a little nerve-wracking as the day goes on.
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It's uh it's a bit of a stressful day.
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I had uh a lot of family with me.
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Yeah, in like a what was that?
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What was that like?
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Oh, I was at my I have a cottage and it's uh it's boat access only, so I was boating back and forth to pick family up that day.
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I have my my parents were there.
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Um I hope cell phone access is okay.
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Yeah, yeah, cell phone access is good.
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Yeah, I had to make sure that we were okay there.
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But um I was I had my mom and dad, my cousins, two of my close cousins and and their um partners were there.
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All of my sisters.
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I have three older sisters, uh, they all have kids as well.
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So it was a it was a busy everyone was there.
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It was like a I got a close family, like we spent a lot of time together, and especially because I'm away for majority of the year, um, you know, we take advantage when I'm at home in the summer.
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And so I kind of not that I regretted them being there, but I think I I should have had them there after I'd signed because it was uh yeah, it was a long day.
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Just uh just take us through that.
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Did the fact that you had so many people around make it more stressful then in some ways, or did you feel more comfortable because you had so much family around?
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I I don't I think I don't think it added to the stress.
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I think it was just that I like to be present with my family and enjoy the time and be excited and jumping in the water with my nephews and stuff like that.
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And I don't think I really was able to do that because I was so dialed into my phone and like and focused on uh on the calls coming in and and decisions that have to be made.
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So um in a way too, I wanted to like I knew that they were there expecting something.
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So I wanted, you know, I was hoping for something to happen and us to have something to celebrate.
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So you have that little bit of I guess that's where a little bit of stress could come in.
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Yeah.
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Where you have maybe a little expectations or you want to, you know, make it a make it a party at the end of the day, right?
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Like something good happens out of it, which at the end of the day it did.
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So we were excited in the evening, because it happened in the evening, but it was like it had to dry.
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There had to be like lulls where you're like, is this what is what have I done?
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Yeah, like it might it might something might not.
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What if it doesn't happen today?
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It might have to wake up and start over tomorrow.
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I got some people that are leaving tonight, so they get you know what I mean.
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So not that that influenced like that rushed me at all.
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Obviously not, but that was just it was a long day.
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So what was the what was the celebration like afterwards?
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Uh champagne, jumped in the water.
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It was also like there were some celebrations, but then I was getting phone calls from organization, right?
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So I still had to like make sure I was professional and ready to uh pick up the calls and like answer the phone to people haven't spoken to for the first time at all.
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So, you know, so that was yeah, part of it.
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But it was a good experience overall, and I'm extremely grateful.
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Like, I mean I'm sitting here right now, so you've shared a lot of stories about Joe Thornton.
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Yeah.
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What's one of what's one of one of your funniest stories?
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Because I I it just seems like a large clearly a larger-than-life individual that you just can't talk about enough.
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But what's a funny story to tell about Joe?
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Oh, there is so many great ones.
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Uh I've spent a lot of I spent a lot of great uh time with him.
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Um, he's also so like outgoing that he invites other people in.
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So I guess that this is kind of a a fun one of my favorite stories.
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I have a buddy from King City, uh, his name's Stefano.
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Uh he uh came up to uh St.
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Thomas uh to uh spend some time with Jumbo and I.
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I was there uh in the summer I went to St.
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Thomas for I think about a week uh just to see Jumbo and his family.
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Great family.
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Um his wife T and his two kids are unreal.
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Uh so they're a great time to see uh great uh people to spend time with.
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And so Jumbo was like, yeah, bring Stefano over, like let him come, we'll play some golf.
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So we had a good round of golf there at a great course, and then um he slept over.
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Like we spent a couple days there.
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We were playing mini sticks in the basement at one point in the day uh with his son, River.
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And uh Jumbo starts calling my buddy Stefano Stefu.
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I don't know what where the name came from, I don't know how.
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He just decided to make up his own little nickname.
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Hey, hey, Stefu, Stefu, Stefu, grab a twig.
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Come on, you're you're you're playing uh you're a player.
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I'm a net, I'm a net, whatever.
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Like so Stifu grabs a twig from his mini stick pile or whatever, and he's like he's playing with it.
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For like after two minutes, he looks down at the stick and it's Bobby Orr's stick, and it's signed on the blade.
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And Stefu's like, my buddy's like all fired up, right?
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Like he's with Jumbo, like hey, that's Jumbo, right?
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Like Bobby Order.
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Now he's holding Bobby Orr's side stick.
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Like, he's like, what the heck?
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Like, this is unreal.
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So that was just a funny little story, but that just like goes, it's just like shows you how like welcoming Jumbo is, and like he doesn't change who he is, who he's around, and like he doesn't care that like he's this guy that's played so many games the NHL, he just makes everybody feel the same.
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And um, yeah, it was cool that he he let my my friend experience.
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For sure, yeah.
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You're an outgoing guy, obviously.
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Were you always like this, or did hockey help you become like this?
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I I think hockey definitely helped.
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Um I think I've always kind of been like I like to, I don't know, I'd like to be energetic and uh just kind of the way I am.
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But I think hockey definitely helped.
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Uh it's a lot of communication, a lot of relationship building.
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And I I I even think like coming into the league too, I was maybe at first a little nervous, but it's even people like Jumbo and like Bernsey and uh Couture and all the guys that we had in that room that are like very have a lot of big personalities that made me realize like this is yeah, you're at the next level, you get to the professional level, and it's it's a serious game and you want to win, but like these guys, it's still they're still like kids in a way.
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Like they still have they still have the passion and like they come to the rink, and yes, they're that intense on the ice, their success and their careers speak for itself, but like they still have fun and um they lighten up the the room and you know they make it a more relaxed environment and and what can be a very stressful career.
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So um yeah, it's it's uh I've learned a lot.
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I learned a lot from those guys, and I just I'm just trying to be myself and make it fun.
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When you come into a new environment like you have here in Winnipeg, do you hold back?
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Because we've heard you've got some Nate Schmidt vibes about you from from numerous players, but how do you decide to how much of Mario you are gonna release on people that day?
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I don't know.
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I think maybe some of the boys might be a little annoyed in in there like who is this guy?
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Who does he think he is?
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But I don't think I held I don't think it really held back much, no.
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Um I've come into like new teams, even though I wasn't at the NHL level um a few times.
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Yeah.
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So I feel I just yeah, like I said, I just be myself.
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I I didn't I don't think I held back maybe a little bit in the beginning.
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They they might disagree in there, so maybe ask them if uh who do you think's annoyed with you?
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I don't need to name names.
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But doesn't that make doesn't that make them an easier target though?
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Because you could tell that you're you're no I don't think anyone like I think maybe they're like jokingly annoyed.
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They're all great guys in there.
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Honestly, like I I said it before, like I I came in, I don't think it really held back much.
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No, I've just been able to be myself, but that's a credit to them.
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Uh they're a good lock room in there, they made me feel welcome.
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So um yeah, I'm I'm very grateful to similar to how it was when I came into San Jose and those characters and them making me feel like I could be myself.
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These guys, you know, they've made me feel like I could be myself as well.
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So um, yeah, I'm grateful for them.
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You mentioned you have three old their older sisters, right?
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Yeah.
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Can you give me a power rankings in the family of how your parents would rank you and your three sisters?
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Well, my sisters would think that I'm number one, that's for sure.
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But I'd like to think differently because they're uh yeah, because I'm the baby, the boy, the only boy, but now they see my parents and they're with them all the time because the grandkids, right?
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So now maybe I might have to throw it back in their face a little bit, say, hey, you guys are around them all the time.
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Mind you, my parents are in town right now.
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So what's that been like having introduced them to a new city and having them in town?
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It's great, it's great.
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You know, that's one of the other things that I'm excited about being in Winnipeg for and like being back in Canada.
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I'm a lot closer to home.
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Um, so it's a lot easier for people to get here.
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Uh, you know, we got the heritage coming, coming up, and I got family coming to that as well.
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Um, my wife's family's in Minnesota, so they're really close.
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Um, it's nice, it's nice to have them here.
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Um it's always nice to get like home cooked meals.
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Yeah, little little things.
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Uh no, but it's it's uh Does mom take over as soon as she comes comes to visit?
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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When did you get the cleaning lady to come?
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And she's like, Cleaning lady, your mom's just been cleaning the house all day.
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I'm like, what we don't ask her to do that, just she just I don't know.
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She she loves doing it for family.
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Where I'm extreme, I get I mean, and you know it's coming, don't you?
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You know it's coming.
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Yeah, I know it's coming.
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It's like she feels like she needs to, but no, this is a vacation for her.
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We try to tell her just to relax.
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But no, it's it's it's amazing to have both of them here.
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And um, I'm excited to get the home opener started, yeah.
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For them to experience a new building.
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A week between games is a little long, don't you think?
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Would you would you agree?
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Yeah, yeah, it is.
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It is.
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It's it's a it's a long time.
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You know, we get some some bonding time in there.
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It's good.
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What about Colorado Springs?
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So uh it was important to the for the organization for you guys to get to bond together.
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What what was that like?
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It was great.
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Uh I I had a great time.
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Um, it's a good opportunity, especially for new guys like myself, to kind of get to know guys a little easier and um get put into situations where you know you're building trust or building communication and you're kind of working on things together uh away from the rink.
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Um so I had a I had a really great time.
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Um but yeah, those those are the the relationship side of it that's important to me and that I I like a lot.
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You build memories like that, like it doesn't always have to be on the ice, so it was cool.
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I like it, it was a good experience.
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Uh paintball.
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You guys did all of that.
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It was bad.
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I sucked.
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Our team got rinsed.
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Yeah, we got rinsed, and it was it hurt.
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So who who was like the best team there, and who was the clearly assassin capability?
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Well, Lauz and his team, he had all the young guys on his squad, and they actually won.
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So they they did well.
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They were bull rushing teams, they were good.
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It was they had a strategy.
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Ours went quite, yeah, they did.
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I think somebody was saying, well, maybe that was P's team, but I think some of the guys.
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That doesn't surprise me that P like P would have strategy.
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I think their strategy was he was like the he was the guinea pig and just kind of ran up the middle, and then everybody else ran around the side.
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Yeah, so P is a human sacrifice.
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Yeah.
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Uh a little bit more about you.
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Um you like camping, apparently.
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Yeah, you drove across the United States with a dog and your soon-to-be wife.
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Yeah.
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Um, acquired another dog on the way.
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Tell that story.
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Yeah, yeah, that was a crazy trip.
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It started in uh San Francisco.
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I actually got engaged on that road trip too, and my uh my sister came as well.
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Uh so she came from so no, so she drove or she flew from Toronto to San Francisco because she had the ring.
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And I got out of Toronto and I didn't want to ship it because I didn't want anything.
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You don't trust it, yeah.
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You can't who can you trust the thing?
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She she flew from Toronto to San Francisco and then we picked her up, and then we we we whatever a couple days in in San Jose, she got to see the rink and stuff like that, and then uh and then we started a road trip.
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We went south down to like Pismo Beach.
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We camped on the sand there, which was really cool.
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They got like off-roading and stuff.
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Uh I got everybody soaked in the car because you had to go through like a little river, whatever, to get to the other side.
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And the windows were down?
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Yeah, the windows were down, everyone was soaked in the car.
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So that was interesting.
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But anyways, then I proposed in uh down south in cut in uh LA or Malibu.
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And then my sister left and we continued the the road trip back up north.
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Okay.
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So we went through like Yosemite and like whatever.
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It it was a long trip.
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We went up up through um oh my god, Oregon, uh up to the street.
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So we went down and then back up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was like we did it because we were planning on going like then across the top because we've done like the I don't know, we've done the Utah and stuff, so we wanted to go way up and then go across like Montana and all that stuff that's more up on the north side.
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Okay, really far still from where we were.
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Absolutely.
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But that was the plan, anyway.
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So then when we got into we were in Portland, Oregon, and we were online, like we were just looking at like other puppies because just as like for fun, because like we were always saying it that Wilder, our our German shepherd has a ton of energy, and like he he needs attention.
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Anybody has one dog that was like they need a friend, yeah.
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They need a friend, yeah.
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So we're thinking it'll be easier than one.
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We went to the breeder, it was in Portland, a little town.
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Uh saw the puppy and thought it it was so cute, and we're like, okay, whatever, let's just do it.
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And we picked him up.
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Was there a window?
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Like, did you think did you sleep on it at all?
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Or did you sleep we we actually we actually did?
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We slept on it, we were camping the one night, we slept on it.
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Then the next day we're like, let's go get him.
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And so we went and picked him up, and then we went, kept our road trip going.
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He loves the car because he was in the road for the hours.
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But we actually went camping with him and we bought like a little like caged area or whatever for him to just like chill in.
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And he was like howling, howling, because like their puppies, like he's not used to it.
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Yeah, and there's campers around, like at night, too.
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Like he was so, but like we needed to start like kind of getting him ready to be on his own.
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He was gonna want to piss in in the tent and stuff like that.
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So yeah, so so how did you break him in?
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Eventually you broke him, yeah.
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Eventually he was good, but it was more at home when he was good.
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Mid-road trip, like my wife's like, We're we gotta go home.
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And so, like, I'm like 45, 50 hours away.
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Yeah, but we just did it.
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I just started driving.
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You just kept figuring out and we got there eventually.
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It was crazy, but like we did some some a couple stops on the way, like at like just rest areas, because I gotta pop up 10, so I can actually sleep on top of my car.
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Um, but yeah, I learned it's a very Al thing to do, so it's not like that uh crazy around here in this locker room anyway.
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That that I was my next question was who would you go camping with now?
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And it's Al is.
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I heard he's the guy, so I'm learning that he's you know a guy.
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Yeah, I know a guy.
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So you survived that trip.
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Um what was your f what's your favorite place to camp then?
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Um that's a good question.
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I I personally love like the Utah desert.
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Like I love Utah.
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I love like just open nothing.
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Right.
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Like I don't know how to like desert canyons vibe, but like just open.
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Okay.
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So like BLM land is what they call it, borough land management, it's like free camping.
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So you can like drive on land and go wherever you want.
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It's like government-owned land or type something, whatever that they let you do that.
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There's a website you can see the places that are available to do that.
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So that's kind of my thing.
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Last summer, like I did that with a buddy and drove from California back home uh to take my dogs again, and he came with me from Toronto.
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We flew down to San Jose and then we made the trip.
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And uh we stopped in in Utah in a random spot just in front of a massive canyon.
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There's nobody around us.
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So that's kind of like what I like to do, where it's like pretty um, pretty off the grid.
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But I don't do it as much because I got a you know, a kid now and kind of cuts into a little bit.
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Can't drive 50 hours.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We don't need to get to that.
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Hey, where are you going?
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Don't be skipping this.
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True.
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Wow, what's the strangest thing you've been recognized for then?
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The strangest video like I've made on there?
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Yeah, like something that somebody brought up too.
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Uh oh, um I don't know.
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Like I've got a lot of weird videos on there.
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Like I would say cringy videos.
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Some of the guys brought it up the other day at dinner and I was like, yeah, I haven't posting the side.
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They did the research on you before you.
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I guess, yeah.
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Well, I the first time it was brought up at the NHL was like Bernsey and Jumbo had it playing in like a pregame skate.
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They had it before our video session, they put my YouTube channel on.
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And I was just like, yeah, I was making videos back in juniors, like they're so bad.
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Some of them are really bad, some I like, but like I don't care.
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Okay, what's your favorite?
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My favorite is I did a I did uh David Goggins four by four by 48 challenge.
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It's when you run like you run four miles every four hours for two days straight.
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So like through the night, yeah, and I recorded it and it's on there.
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So that that I did that during COVID.
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And that was actually like really hard.
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And uh sounds hard.
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It was a challenge, and like I was I'm pretty proud of myself for doing it.
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Like it that's a the way that's the purpose of it to make you feel good.
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And and I recorded it and made a video about it, and I did pretty good on it.
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And so I I think that's the one I'm probably most proud of, or the one I like the most.
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And it's something that I could see myself because I'm not done with YouTube.
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I I want to do it eventually at some point, and I would do it along those lines, like little work fitness challenges, stuff like that.
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So clearly, like the gym, what what's your what are your favorite go-to workouts that you like, and then follow it up with what you absolutely can't stand to do?
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Yeah, I've always done like calisthenics, so I love like I love push-ups, like free weight stuff, like that's like my favorite thing.
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And now, like playing in the league for a certain amount of time, like you kind of get away from the weights a little bit, and it's more like mobility stuff.
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So that's hard because you always like we love lifting, and like, or at least I do, like that's like a part of my game that that I would really take a lot of pride in, like my fitness level in the gym.
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But I think like all like push-up, sit-up, squats, like free weight.
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Like that's what I was doing when I was really young.
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Like, I would have like a chart or a list, and I would just go through these free weight exercises because I was like eight years old, so I wasn't lifting weights.
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That's amazing.
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Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of like my thing.
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That's like what what I always do.
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And I mean, I yeah, it helps you stay fit and it's easy to do.
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Like, you don't need to go to the gym or need gear and like it's free.
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Yeah, it's free, yeah, free weights.
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So, what do you what do you hate to do?
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What's exercise you have to do, but don't?
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Um I mean to be honest, like I love working out, but I love like post-workout.
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Like, I like the challenge, but like they all suck.
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Yeah, like that's like the point of working out.
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Like, it's not like they're not exactly fun, but like you feel good afterwards, so it's a good, it's you know what I mean?
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Like, you guys know what I mean?
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Like it's like you I love yeah, I don't know how to explain it, but like I feel like um I feel like like something like where it's like high intensity interval training is like the worst.
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So it's like when you're squat, but not just squatting, like your squat jumping, and like it goes into like another uh like high intensity workout, like where your cardio is getting up, but it's also working on like your muscle fitness.
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I don't know.
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It's yeah, the whole point is not to be enjoyable, yeah.
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Yeah, so that's like the non-enjoyable, it's supposed to be hard.
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Yeah.
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Uh I'll leave I'll leave with this last true or false question.
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You apparently you do you have a shrine of an old laptop that you used to have?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do you still have it?
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I still have it, yeah.
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I made a video actually on YouTube on this older laptop.
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Yeah.
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And it got like 40,000 views when I was in college, which is like pretty good.
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Like amazing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was like a random video.
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Uh I decided to make, and I still have that laptop, yeah.
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That's cool.
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Yeah, it's kind of cool, yeah.
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It's like an old, like 20.
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It's not that old, but just decided to shrine to it.
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Yeah, just decided to yeah, keep it or whatever.
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That's awesome.
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Appreciate your time and welcome to Winnipeg.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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It's fun.
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You've shared a lot of stories about Joe Thornton.
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One of your funniest stories.
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We were playing mini sticks in the basement at one point in the day with his son, River.
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And Jumbo starts calling my buddy Stefano Shtiefu.
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I don't know what where the name came from.
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Hey, hey, Shtifu.
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Stefu, Stefu, grab a twig.
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Come on.
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So Stifu grabs a twig from his mini stick pile or whatever.
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And he's like, he's playing with it.
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For like after two minutes, he looks down at the stick, and it's Bobby Orr's stick, and it's signed on the blade.
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My buddy's like all fired up, right?
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Like, he's a jumbo.
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Like, hey, I'm a jumbo, right?
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Like he's holding Bobby Orr's side stick.
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Like, he's like, what the heck?
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Like, this is unreal.
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Your girlfriend would be fine with the days.
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Still traumatized.
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Please welcome Mario Ferrar to the podcast.
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Um, you're from Toronto.
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What is the most Toronto thing about you?
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Oh man.
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Um that's a tough question.
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Um I'm not really from the city.
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I'm like from the suburbs.
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So kind of like fake Toronto.
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I don't know.
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I'm more um I'm north of the city.
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I'm in King City.
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That's where the city I'm I'm from.
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Um a lot of I feel like there's a lot of Italians there.
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Yeah.
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So more of more of an Italian thing, but I love Italian food.
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That's kind of my thing.
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So I don't know.
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That's I'll stick with that as my identity.
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So you like to like push off the side.
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I'm not actually from Toronto.
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Well, like well, no.
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I'm yeah, I I love Toronto.
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It's a great city, but I'm not like a city boy, so like I can't I feel like I can't relate to like the Toronto things.
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Totally fair.
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Or I guess maybe like I, you know what?
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Like I like Drake, I like Justin Bieber.
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They they represent Toronto, so that's a pretty Toronto thing of me, I guess.
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You you you're with the Sharks for a very long time, lots of rebuilding there.
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What made Winnipeg so appealing when it looked like the Sharks were starting to make their way up?
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I think the biggest thing that made Winnipeg appealing is that um I felt wanted uh in free agency.
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Um, you know, I see the talent that they have in uh years past, and you know how many guys they've had for a long time here locked up.
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And so, you know, even just coming in here uh you know throughout training camp, you can see the how much chemistry certain guys have, you know, obviously, especially Scheif and and and Casey and and the back end with J Mo and Melo and some of these guys have been playing together for quite some time.
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So um I'm excited about that.
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Um but yeah, like I said, coming to a place that I feel wanted that I can provide, you know, um some value and and hopefully help help us win games that was uh very attractive to me.
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Fill in the blank.
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When you woke up July 1st as the unrestricted free agent for the first time, it was like what?
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I was I was excited.
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Uh I was really excited, you know.
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Obviously it being the first time and um it was in a way it was a little bittersweet because you know I've been in San Jose for a long time and I have a lot of respect for that organization and what they've you know uh the opportunities that they've been able to give me and the people that I've met there and the relationships that I've built there.
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But at the same time, you know, I've said this before on in other interviews, but you know, I'm I've at the same time I'm excited uh when I'm waking up in free agency because it's an opportunity to build new relationships and meet new people, um, which is important to me.
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And uh yeah, so it started off pretty great and then it gets a little nerve-wracking as the day goes on.
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It's uh it's a bit of a stressful day.
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I had uh a lot of family with me.
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Yeah, in like a what was that?
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What was that like?
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Oh, I was at my I have a cottage and it's uh it's boat access only, so I was boating back and forth to pick family up that day.
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I have my my parents were there.
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Um I hope cell phone access is okay.
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Yeah, yeah, cell phone access is good.
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Yeah, I had to make sure that we were okay there.
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But um I was I had my mom and dad, my cousins, two of my close cousins and and their um partners were there.
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All of my sisters.
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I have three older sisters, uh, they all have kids as well.
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So it was a it was a busy everyone was there.
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It was like a I got a close family, like we spent a lot of time together, and especially because I'm away for majority of the year, um, you know, we take advantage when I'm at home in the summer.
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And so I kind of not that I regretted them being there, but I think I I should have had them there after I'd signed because it was uh yeah, it was a long day.
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Just uh just take us through that.
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Did the fact that you had so many people around make it more stressful then in some ways, or did you feel more comfortable because you had so much family around?
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I I don't I think I don't think it added to the stress.
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I think it was just that I like to be present with my family and enjoy the time and be excited and jumping in the water with my nephews and stuff like that.
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And I don't think I really was able to do that because I was so dialed into my phone and like and focused on uh on the calls coming in and and decisions that have to be made.
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So um in a way too, I wanted to like I knew that they were there expecting something.
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So I wanted, you know, I was hoping for something to happen and us to have something to celebrate.
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So you have that little bit of I guess that's where a little bit of stress could come in.
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Yeah.
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Where you have maybe a little expectations or you want to, you know, make it a make it a party at the end of the day, right?
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Like something good happens out of it, which at the end of the day it did.
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So we were excited in the evening, because it happened in the evening, but it was like it had to dry.
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There had to be like lulls where you're like, is this what is what have I done?
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Yeah, like it might it might something might not.
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What if it doesn't happen today?
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It might have to wake up and start over tomorrow.
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I got some people that are leaving tonight, so they get you know what I mean.
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So not that that influenced like that rushed me at all.
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Obviously not, but that was just it was a long day.
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So what was the what was the celebration like afterwards?
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Uh champagne, jumped in the water.
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It was also like there were some celebrations, but then I was getting phone calls from organization, right?
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So I still had to like make sure I was professional and ready to uh pick up the calls and like answer the phone to people haven't spoken to for the first time at all.
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So, you know, so that was yeah, part of it.
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But it was a good experience overall, and I'm extremely grateful.
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Like, I mean I'm sitting here right now, so you've shared a lot of stories about Joe Thornton.
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Yeah.
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What's one of what's one of one of your funniest stories?
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Because I I it just seems like a large clearly a larger-than-life individual that you just can't talk about enough.
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But what's a funny story to tell about Joe?
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Oh, there is so many great ones.
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Uh I've spent a lot of I spent a lot of great uh time with him.
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Um, he's also so like outgoing that he invites other people in.
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So I guess that this is kind of a a fun one of my favorite stories.
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I have a buddy from King City, uh, his name's Stefano.
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Uh he uh came up to uh St.
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Thomas uh to uh spend some time with Jumbo and I.
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I was there uh in the summer I went to St.
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Thomas for I think about a week uh just to see Jumbo and his family.
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Great family.
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Um his wife T and his two kids are unreal.
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Uh so they're a great time to see uh great uh people to spend time with.
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And so Jumbo was like, yeah, bring Stefano over, like let him come, we'll play some golf.
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So we had a good round of golf there at a great course, and then um he slept over.
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Like we spent a couple days there.
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We were playing mini sticks in the basement at one point in the day uh with his son, River.
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And uh Jumbo starts calling my buddy Stefano Stefu.
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I don't know what where the name came from, I don't know how.
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He just decided to make up his own little nickname.
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Hey, hey, Stefu, Stefu, Stefu, grab a twig.
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Come on, you're you're you're playing uh you're a player.
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I'm a net, I'm a net, whatever.
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Like so Stifu grabs a twig from his mini stick pile or whatever, and he's like he's playing with it.
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For like after two minutes, he looks down at the stick and it's Bobby Orr's stick, and it's signed on the blade.
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And Stefu's like, my buddy's like all fired up, right?
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Like he's with Jumbo, like hey, that's Jumbo, right?
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Like Bobby Order.
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Now he's holding Bobby Orr's side stick.
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Like, he's like, what the heck?
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Like, this is unreal.
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So that was just a funny little story, but that just like goes, it's just like shows you how like welcoming Jumbo is, and like he doesn't change who he is, who he's around, and like he doesn't care that like he's this guy that's played so many games the NHL, he just makes everybody feel the same.
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And um, yeah, it was cool that he he let my my friend experience.
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For sure, yeah.
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You're an outgoing guy, obviously.
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Were you always like this, or did hockey help you become like this?
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I I think hockey definitely helped.
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Um I think I've always kind of been like I like to, I don't know, I'd like to be energetic and uh just kind of the way I am.
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But I think hockey definitely helped.
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Uh it's a lot of communication, a lot of relationship building.
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And I I I even think like coming into the league too, I was maybe at first a little nervous, but it's even people like Jumbo and like Bernsey and uh Couture and all the guys that we had in that room that are like very have a lot of big personalities that made me realize like this is yeah, you're at the next level, you get to the professional level, and it's it's a serious game and you want to win, but like these guys, it's still they're still like kids in a way.
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Like they still have they still have the passion and like they come to the rink, and yes, they're that intense on the ice, their success and their careers speak for itself, but like they still have fun and um they lighten up the the room and you know they make it a more relaxed environment and and what can be a very stressful career.
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So um yeah, it's it's uh I've learned a lot.
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I learned a lot from those guys, and I just I'm just trying to be myself and make it fun.
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When you come into a new environment like you have here in Winnipeg, do you hold back?
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Because we've heard you've got some Nate Schmidt vibes about you from from numerous players, but how do you decide to how much of Mario you are gonna release on people that day?
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I don't know.
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I think maybe some of the boys might be a little annoyed in in there like who is this guy?
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Who does he think he is?
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But I don't think I held I don't think it really held back much, no.
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Um I've come into like new teams, even though I wasn't at the NHL level um a few times.
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Yeah.
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So I feel I just yeah, like I said, I just be myself.
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I I didn't I don't think I held back maybe a little bit in the beginning.
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They they might disagree in there, so maybe ask them if uh who do you think's annoyed with you?
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I don't need to name names.
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But doesn't that make doesn't that make them an easier target though?
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Because you could tell that you're you're no I don't think anyone like I think maybe they're like jokingly annoyed.
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They're all great guys in there.
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Honestly, like I I said it before, like I I came in, I don't think it really held back much.
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No, I've just been able to be myself, but that's a credit to them.
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Uh they're a good lock room in there, they made me feel welcome.
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So um yeah, I'm I'm very grateful to similar to how it was when I came into San Jose and those characters and them making me feel like I could be myself.
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These guys, you know, they've made me feel like I could be myself as well.
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So um, yeah, I'm grateful for them.
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You mentioned you have three old their older sisters, right?
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Yeah.
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Can you give me a power rankings in the family of how your parents would rank you and your three sisters?
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Well, my sisters would think that I'm number one, that's for sure.
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But I'd like to think differently because they're uh yeah, because I'm the baby, the boy, the only boy, but now they see my parents and they're with them all the time because the grandkids, right?
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So now maybe I might have to throw it back in their face a little bit, say, hey, you guys are around them all the time.
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Mind you, my parents are in town right now.
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So what's that been like having introduced them to a new city and having them in town?
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It's great, it's great.
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You know, that's one of the other things that I'm excited about being in Winnipeg for and like being back in Canada.
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I'm a lot closer to home.
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Um, so it's a lot easier for people to get here.
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Uh, you know, we got the heritage coming, coming up, and I got family coming to that as well.
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Um, my wife's family's in Minnesota, so they're really close.
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Um, it's nice, it's nice to have them here.
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Um it's always nice to get like home cooked meals.
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Yeah, little little things.
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Uh no, but it's it's uh Does mom take over as soon as she comes comes to visit?
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Oh yeah.
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Oh yeah.
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When did you get the cleaning lady to come?
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And she's like, Cleaning lady, your mom's just been cleaning the house all day.
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I'm like, what we don't ask her to do that, just she just I don't know.
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She she loves doing it for family.
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Where I'm extreme, I get I mean, and you know it's coming, don't you?
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You know it's coming.
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Yeah, I know it's coming.
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It's like she feels like she needs to, but no, this is a vacation for her.
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We try to tell her just to relax.
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But no, it's it's it's amazing to have both of them here.
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And um, I'm excited to get the home opener started, yeah.
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For them to experience a new building.
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A week between games is a little long, don't you think?
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Would you would you agree?
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Yeah, yeah, it is.
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It is.
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It's it's a it's a long time.
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You know, we get some some bonding time in there.
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It's good.
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What about Colorado Springs?
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So uh it was important to the for the organization for you guys to get to bond together.
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What what was that like?
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It was great.
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Uh I I had a great time.
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Um, it's a good opportunity, especially for new guys like myself, to kind of get to know guys a little easier and um get put into situations where you know you're building trust or building communication and you're kind of working on things together uh away from the rink.
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Um so I had a I had a really great time.
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Um but yeah, those those are the the relationship side of it that's important to me and that I I like a lot.
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You build memories like that, like it doesn't always have to be on the ice, so it was cool.
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I like it, it was a good experience.
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Uh paintball.
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You guys did all of that.
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It was bad.
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I sucked.
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Our team got rinsed.
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Yeah, we got rinsed, and it was it hurt.
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So who who was like the best team there, and who was the clearly assassin capability?
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Well, Lauz and his team, he had all the young guys on his squad, and they actually won.
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So they they did well.
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They were bull rushing teams, they were good.
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It was they had a strategy.
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Ours went quite, yeah, they did.
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I think somebody was saying, well, maybe that was P's team, but I think some of the guys.
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That doesn't surprise me that P like P would have strategy.
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I think their strategy was he was like the he was the guinea pig and just kind of ran up the middle, and then everybody else ran around the side.
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Yeah, so P is a human sacrifice.
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Yeah.
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Uh a little bit more about you.
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Um you like camping, apparently.
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Yeah, you drove across the United States with a dog and your soon-to-be wife.
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Yeah.
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Um, acquired another dog on the way.
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Tell that story.
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Yeah, yeah, that was a crazy trip.
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It started in uh San Francisco.
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I actually got engaged on that road trip too, and my uh my sister came as well.
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Uh so she came from so no, so she drove or she flew from Toronto to San Francisco because she had the ring.
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And I got out of Toronto and I didn't want to ship it because I didn't want anything.
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You don't trust it, yeah.
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You can't who can you trust the thing?
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She she flew from Toronto to San Francisco and then we picked her up, and then we we we whatever a couple days in in San Jose, she got to see the rink and stuff like that, and then uh and then we started a road trip.
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We went south down to like Pismo Beach.
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We camped on the sand there, which was really cool.
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They got like off-roading and stuff.
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Uh I got everybody soaked in the car because you had to go through like a little river, whatever, to get to the other side.
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And the windows were down?
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Yeah, the windows were down, everyone was soaked in the car.
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So that was interesting.
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But anyways, then I proposed in uh down south in cut in uh LA or Malibu.
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And then my sister left and we continued the the road trip back up north.
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Okay.
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So we went through like Yosemite and like whatever.
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It it was a long trip.
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We went up up through um oh my god, Oregon, uh up to the street.
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So we went down and then back up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It was like we did it because we were planning on going like then across the top because we've done like the I don't know, we've done the Utah and stuff, so we wanted to go way up and then go across like Montana and all that stuff that's more up on the north side.
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Okay, really far still from where we were.
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Absolutely.
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But that was the plan, anyway.
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So then when we got into we were in Portland, Oregon, and we were online, like we were just looking at like other puppies because just as like for fun, because like we were always saying it that Wilder, our our German shepherd has a ton of energy, and like he he needs attention.
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Anybody has one dog that was like they need a friend, yeah.
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They need a friend, yeah.
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So we're thinking it'll be easier than one.
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We went to the breeder, it was in Portland, a little town.
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Uh saw the puppy and thought it it was so cute, and we're like, okay, whatever, let's just do it.
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And we picked him up.
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Was there a window?
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Like, did you think did you sleep on it at all?
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Or did you sleep we we actually we actually did?
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We slept on it, we were camping the one night, we slept on it.
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Then the next day we're like, let's go get him.
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And so we went and picked him up, and then we went, kept our road trip going.
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He loves the car because he was in the road for the hours.
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But we actually went camping with him and we bought like a little like caged area or whatever for him to just like chill in.
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And he was like howling, howling, because like their puppies, like he's not used to it.
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Yeah, and there's campers around, like at night, too.
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Like he was so, but like we needed to start like kind of getting him ready to be on his own.
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He was gonna want to piss in in the tent and stuff like that.
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So yeah, so so how did you break him in?
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Eventually you broke him, yeah.
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Eventually he was good, but it was more at home when he was good.
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Mid-road trip, like my wife's like, We're we gotta go home.
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And so, like, I'm like 45, 50 hours away.
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Yeah, but we just did it.
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I just started driving.
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You just kept figuring out and we got there eventually.
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It was crazy, but like we did some some a couple stops on the way, like at like just rest areas, because I gotta pop up 10, so I can actually sleep on top of my car.
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Um, but yeah, I learned it's a very Al thing to do, so it's not like that uh crazy around here in this locker room anyway.
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That that I was my next question was who would you go camping with now?
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And it's Al is.
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I heard he's the guy, so I'm learning that he's you know a guy.
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Yeah, I know a guy.
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So you survived that trip.
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Um what was your f what's your favorite place to camp then?
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Um that's a good question.
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I I personally love like the Utah desert.
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Like I love Utah.
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I love like just open nothing.
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Right.
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Like I don't know how to like desert canyons vibe, but like just open.
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Okay.
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So like BLM land is what they call it, borough land management, it's like free camping.
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So you can like drive on land and go wherever you want.
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It's like government-owned land or type something, whatever that they let you do that.
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There's a website you can see the places that are available to do that.
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So that's kind of my thing.
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Last summer, like I did that with a buddy and drove from California back home uh to take my dogs again, and he came with me from Toronto.
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We flew down to San Jose and then we made the trip.
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And uh we stopped in in Utah in a random spot just in front of a massive canyon.
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There's nobody around us.
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So that's kind of like what I like to do, where it's like pretty um, pretty off the grid.
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But I don't do it as much because I got a you know, a kid now and kind of cuts into a little bit.
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Can't drive 50 hours.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We don't need to get to that.
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Hey, where are you going?
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Don't be skipping this.
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True.
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Wow, what's the strangest thing you've been recognized for then?
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The strangest video like I've made on there?
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Yeah, like something that somebody brought up too.
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Uh oh, um I don't know.
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Like I've got a lot of weird videos on there.
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Like I would say cringy videos.
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Some of the guys brought it up the other day at dinner and I was like, yeah, I haven't posting the side.
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They did the research on you before you.
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I guess, yeah.
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Well, I the first time it was brought up at the NHL was like Bernsey and Jumbo had it playing in like a pregame skate.
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They had it before our video session, they put my YouTube channel on.
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And I was just like, yeah, I was making videos back in juniors, like they're so bad.
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Some of them are really bad, some I like, but like I don't care.
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Okay, what's your favorite?
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My favorite is I did a I did uh David Goggins four by four by 48 challenge.
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It's when you run like you run four miles every four hours for two days straight.
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So like through the night, yeah, and I recorded it and it's on there.
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So that that I did that during COVID.
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And that was actually like really hard.
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And uh sounds hard.
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It was a challenge, and like I was I'm pretty proud of myself for doing it.
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Like it that's a the way that's the purpose of it to make you feel good.
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And and I recorded it and made a video about it, and I did pretty good on it.
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And so I I think that's the one I'm probably most proud of, or the one I like the most.
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And it's something that I could see myself because I'm not done with YouTube.
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I I want to do it eventually at some point, and I would do it along those lines, like little work fitness challenges, stuff like that.
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So clearly, like the gym, what what's your what are your favorite go-to workouts that you like, and then follow it up with what you absolutely can't stand to do?
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Yeah, I've always done like calisthenics, so I love like I love push-ups, like free weight stuff, like that's like my favorite thing.
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And now, like playing in the league for a certain amount of time, like you kind of get away from the weights a little bit, and it's more like mobility stuff.
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So that's hard because you always like we love lifting, and like, or at least I do, like that's like a part of my game that that I would really take a lot of pride in, like my fitness level in the gym.
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But I think like all like push-up, sit-up, squats, like free weight.
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Like that's what I was doing when I was really young.
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Like, I would have like a chart or a list, and I would just go through these free weight exercises because I was like eight years old, so I wasn't lifting weights.
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That's amazing.
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Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of like my thing.
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That's like what what I always do.
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And I mean, I yeah, it helps you stay fit and it's easy to do.
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Like, you don't need to go to the gym or need gear and like it's free.
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Yeah, it's free, yeah, free weights.
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So, what do you what do you hate to do?
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What's exercise you have to do, but don't?
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Um I mean to be honest, like I love working out, but I love like post-workout.
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Like, I like the challenge, but like they all suck.
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Yeah, like that's like the point of working out.
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Like, it's not like they're not exactly fun, but like you feel good afterwards, so it's a good, it's you know what I mean?
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Like, you guys know what I mean?
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Like it's like you I love yeah, I don't know how to explain it, but like I feel like um I feel like like something like where it's like high intensity interval training is like the worst.
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So it's like when you're squat, but not just squatting, like your squat jumping, and like it goes into like another uh like high intensity workout, like where your cardio is getting up, but it's also working on like your muscle fitness.
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I don't know.
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It's yeah, the whole point is not to be enjoyable, yeah.
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Yeah, so that's like the non-enjoyable, it's supposed to be hard.
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Yeah.
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Uh I'll leave I'll leave with this last true or false question.
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You apparently you do you have a shrine of an old laptop that you used to have?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Do you still have it?
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I still have it, yeah.
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I made a video actually on YouTube on this older laptop.
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Yeah.
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And it got like 40,000 views when I was in college, which is like pretty good.
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Like amazing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was like a random video.
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Uh I decided to make, and I still have that laptop, yeah.
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That's cool.
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Yeah, it's kind of cool, yeah.
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It's like an old, like 20.
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It's not that old, but just decided to shrine to it.
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Yeah, just decided to yeah, keep it or whatever.
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That's awesome.
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Appreciate your time and welcome to Winnipeg.
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Thank you.
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I appreciate it.
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It's fun.
