Full Transcript for Same Seats Episode 33 | Who's got beef?

used to do to like post baseball highlights. Like put it on in the bag. I'm trying to watch though, so keep it up. but yeah, just not there yet. The the Big Z retirement game was probably the most hockey I've consumed. That and James Hagen Summer League, but that's it. Big Z: He he is buzzing. I don't know. Been think been thinking about thinking about it. I'll leave it at that. Like, there's excitement to be had. I am just like juiced for football. Like to your point, I went outside the other day to let goose out, and it was I was like, this is football weather. Like, Back: Yeah. Big Z: this is it. Are you reporting? No, yeah. She refused the bottle. Start the season: Hi Bri Big Z: she refused the bottle. She had two ounces. boy. We're knocked. Start the season: baby timeout. Dave, go run in there. Big Z: We're not cutting it. could could be a long one for for us here on Tuesday, September first. Yeah, happy September too, boys. What the hell? Start the season: Happy September. Back: là là. Start the season: by the way, I told you guys a little bit earlier in like earlier in the summer that same seeds was gonna be a proud sponsor of the Ducksbury Police Golf Tournament. We didn't make the cut. Big Z: We didn't make the cut. Back: We didn't make the Start the season: I th I I filled out the form to to be a sponsor of a whole. No one ever reached out. Had money ready to go and everything was just nothing. Big Z: Ducksberry P D, put him on the milk carton. Back: Maybe just maybe just an influx of of donors this year. Start the season: Yeah, I I guess same seeds money isn't good enough, I guess. Big Z: I guess our money's not Back: Deluxe Big Z: green. Back: Deluxe just putting the putting the stamp down on us. Start the season: Thought thought something was up when they were driving around with the Ferrari police cars, but Guess we don't need Back: But Start the season: it. Back: we w we were saying that the other day, we were in Mash P. They they got they got like presidential SU blacked out SUVs riding around there. What what's what's the crime that's going on around here that we Start the season: Yeah. Back: need we need the three three rows per police car? Start the season: Executive details. Back: Holy cow. Big Z: Hey, it gets tough over there at the spit in the summer. You gotta watch out for those nineteen year olds drinking. Back: Yeah. I know. I know. It's it's those early mornings, people going to grab breakfast. Big Z: Good God. Yeah, that's Back: Jaki os Big Z: that's that up for echelon. Hey, it Back: Yeah. Start the season: So maybe next year, boys. Big Z: yeah, that's kind of a shaft job. Back: Hm. Yeah, I was gonna say it saves a couple of bucks. It's kinda Start the season: Same saving a hundred and fifty bucks. So I mean I I'm not that upset. Big Z: What do you mean? We're just raking it in over here. I Start the season: Too many ads. Too many ads sold. Big Z: know we we can't keep taking on sponsors. We're getting a full house here. Back: I I know I know we we talked a little we talked a little European soccer last time we were on Start the season: Mm. Back: there. And Yeah, what an experience in England. it's no joke. They don't they're not kidding. They're not there's no no one's kidding. I got I got berated for wearing Everton and in li in Liverpool where the stadium can be seen. It you could see this I could see the stadium and I was being asked why I was wearing that. And it was a quarter zip. And Start the season: Were you afraid? Back: at one bar, it was definitely like they were behind me. They were they were behind me. We were at this bar or pub that it was it was they actually had a paraphernalia of the Titanic, because that was built in Liverpool, fun fact. and they had all the blueprints up, whatever, and I walked in and I could just hear an idea. very scouse accent. What is this fucking kid doing here? And I was like, oof, okay. And then I went and sat down and there's a group of gentlemen behind us that were, they were, they were bad mouthing me. And it was, it got a little testy. Went out to lunch after that. And then the waiter goes, I was like, can I do the fish and chips? And he was like, as long as you take that thing off. And I'm like, okay. Like this, this is ridiculous. Like the I can see the stadium. It's right next to Liverpool. So like I was like, what's the split here? How many fans are Liverpool? How many are Evertonians? And the Evertonians are slim, slim pickings. and then we had the rehearsal dinner, had a little speech, and first thing I called out was any Evertonians in the in this in the the crowd and we were outnumbered again and it it went over like a fart in church. Start the season: You went through with that. Back: Yeah. Yeah. Start the season: Didn't we discuss that you were n y you were kinda workshopping it on here and I thought you said you you weren't gonna do it. okay. You d you just call that out? Back: Yeah, I you I no jokes though. I was just like I was just like any other Everton. Like I just I kept it pretty clean. Yeah. but yeah, that was it was no Yeah. B s sick Big Z: Also, shout out Snake. Congrats, a few clicks. Back: wedding. Start the season: Shut Back: yeah, it was it was unreal. Like the the rehearsal or the the welcome party. They just put like hundreds of hundreds beers out on the table, just grab and go. Just like unbelievable with with some spritz next to it, beautiful venue, beautiful wedding. they had an eleven piece banned the thing was it Big Z: My god. Back: was ripping, absolutely ripping. I had injuries in my legs that hadn't been felt in quite some time. Big Z: Did you break out the knee brace for all time's sake for that one? Back: Almost. Almost. And we when we went over to Portugal. Portugal's just on an incline. It's just like this. And you are just you are hoofing it all over the place. And no there's no gyms anywhere. So you can't really go like stretch at a gym. There's nothing there's no one

no one works out. And no one drinks water. No one drinks water. They don't even know what that is. I don't know how anybody survives without water. we were at we were at a diner and this French woman sat behind us. And she asked for water and the guy came over with one of those like glass ones where you pop the thing off and it's like yours for the table. She said, Too much water. Too much. Never heard of that. No one drinks water. Start the season: Send it back. Back: It's insane. Big Z: Game recognizes game. Back: Absolutely insane. Start the season: Well, there's water and wine and beer and coffee. Big Z: And bear. Back: I tried the wine. I'm I'm I I just w I wish I was more of a wine guy. I tried I like we did we did a Portuguese wine at at dinner and it tasted like fuck like anything I got around here. I don't know, maybe I got a bad palate, but was it nothing? It was nothing burger. No, the Portuguese they make some good food. Make some good food. One highlight was they just put out a honeycomb, like a full honeycomb at brunch. You just go up and scoop a honeycomb. Never heard of that. Start the season: That's pretty sick. With what, like a like like a pastry or something? Back: No, no, it's it's a it's a legit honeycomb. Start the season: what do you scoop it with? Like do you have Back: I spoon. Start the season: something like your j like Big Z: You're just eating the honey just straight up. Back: Yeah. yeah. Straight up. Straight from the source. Yeah, Start the season: It's kinda sick. Back: it was unreal. Big Z: Must be unbelievable. Back: Yeah, it was really, really good. yeah. Hell of a hell of a trip. Hell of a trip. Shout out to Snake. Big Z: God, what a world. So you're just gonna be in for a world of hurt with the Everton thing. Like honestly. Like it's it it Back: I mean Big Z: it's just gonna be a vicious like the two of you, I can't believe the two of you are on the the same page here. Back: You know I don't know. You take a look at the standings lately or Yeah. It's just Start the season: undefeated bitch. Big Z: Yeah, is s six points at the top of the table good for Arsenal. Back: do two do do you typically not want to lose any games? Is that is that what you want to do? Big Z: I mean, is winning the league last year good? Back: I I didn't know we were looking backwards. I thought we were only looking frontwards. Yeah. Start the season: So what have you done for me lately, business? Back: And a couple moves today, three trades, signing. Start the season: Balogun? Back: Yeah. Big Z: Are you guys following that? Like do you I I don't know if you gu like you're starting to follow it now. The Back: I threw it up Sat Saturday morning, threw it on. Goal in the ninety first minute. Tie it up. Big Z: You no free ads. You gotta follow this guy, Fabrizio Romano or something like that, on on Instagram. He breaks down like Start the season: Is he an Everton guy? Back: I know. Is Big Z: he he's just a dude, he's just he's like Elliot Friedman of international soccer. It's unbelievable. And this kid from Chelsea, he was like he he just got bought by Man City for like a hundred and sixty million dollars. Could like imagine the money that's just thrown around. Like that was the second time this kit has been bought for over a hundred million. Back: Insane. And and also, Start the season: I still Back: people in Liverpool Big Z: Nothing. Back: don't hate John Henry as much as we do. They don't. Tried Start the season: Really? Back: to sp try to spark up a conversation and got a little Big Z: That's shocking. Back: got a little fired up. Start the season: Didn't didn't they bring newspapers or signs, whatever, to like a game a a few months ago? Big Z: Yeah. Yeah. Back: That's what I thought too. So I and I got a little f I got a little fired up during the conversation and the guy was like, Jesus, dude, he's not even here and I was yeah, I was like, I know you I was like, I don't Start the season: Yeah, isn't that a problem? Back: think you get it. I don't I don't think you get it. Big Z: Well, because he spends money on Liverpool. Back: Yeah. Big Z: Like they s they're signing that kid from PSG for like a hundred million bucks. Like he's he's not afraid to dish it out there. But I mean Back: The bad guy. Big Z: Yeah, but everyone forgot about him now 'cause Start the season: Bad guy. Big Z: the socks are on a heater. Back: But Start the season: And they had a good deadline too, to be fair. You Back: Yeah, they did. Yeah. Start the season: gotta call that out. Big Z: What have you done for me now? Back: Yeah. Big Z: The the recency bias. But yeah, boys, I'm I'm getting pumped here. Like it's kind of full swing, football starting, hockey's around the corner, October baseball, like where kind of all systems go. Like what you guys like looking ahead the next few weeks, like like what are we the most juiced up about? Like there's a lot going on. Back: I I I gotta be honest, I'm I'm little golfed out like watching golf. I didn't really tune into the championship on Sunday or anything like that. I'm golfed out. I just it's it's I'm I'm I'm baseball and football now. only have so much bandwidth and I got actually so much time that I can request the TV on on a daily basis. So I gotta I gotta pick my spots. Hannah, I mean Hannah's a one sixty two her at this point. Like we're We the we got socks on perpetually. It's so I I can't really dominate the TV. So I I I honestly like I'm don't even tell me that Mickey Gasper just went home run again. This guy's a fucking animal. but yeah Start the season: The mech. Back: s socks. I I I think the Patriots are gonna be good this year. I'm I'm pretty pumped about that. the one thing I had to call out and I had I wanna get your opi you your guys' opinion on. I don't know the the validity of of NHL trade rumors on Twitter. Could be just like an absolute no nothing burger, but tweeted out on actually I don't have the date, but it was it was in the last two

weeks. The NHL the Boston Bruins are very active on the trade market and are looking to upgrade their roster heading into t the 2026-2027 season with a picture of Matt Padra. So I'd like to get your opinions on that. Start the season: My opinion is I've been reading that same headline for the past eight years. It's just Twitter foddle. Foddle? Fodder? Fodder? Fodda? Back: I think it might be fodder. Start the season: Fodda. Faja. Faja. I think it's sh like that's it's the same playbook. It's running the ball straight up the middle for Bruins Twitter is what that is. They're very active on the trade market. We're it we're we're getting in close on signing John Tavares. Like it's it's the same thing over and over. I I don't put any stock into that at all. Big Z: Going back to the first episode, we're inquiring about having Sidney Sweeney on the podcast. Like, that's Start the season: Ha ha. Big Z: literally what it boils down to. Like, we're thinking about having a conversation. It's like, come on. I they you had a good video, B Cam, on it on Instagram and TikTok. It's like either like w why are we just dragging this kid through it? Like just if it ain't it, it ain't it, boys and girls. Like let's just move on and and bury the lead here. Like, come on. And Back: That Dave, that was that was like I was just sitting there and it popped to my head. And I like i I've been thinking about it. And Mikey, like to fill you in, I just said like, what are we doing with Matt Potra? Why are we why are we like why are we like like like holding him and just doing nothing with like just send him to another team? What like what's the what's the point of holding on to him? He's he's Big Z: Get a pick or something. Back: he's not gonna gain any value being done in Providence, and he's not gonna gain any value being on the Bruins this year because he doesn't fit in the lineup. You can't play top six minutes. You can't even play top nine minutes. It doesn't make any sense. Big Z: No. Start the season: I wonder if they're holding on to him as like a like little injury insurance because they know Elias Lindholm's playing with the same back as a ninety four year old. So maybe they see Elias go down earlier in the year and then they're like, okay, let's slide Matty P in there. Matty P has some games. Elias comes back at sixty percent, plays the rest of the season at forty percent, summer for some reason doesn't come out, and then maybe they look to deal Patra. I could see something like that happening. Because they just they love a a fifty percent Lynn home over all the young guys for some reason, but wouldn't shock me one bit. Big Z: See, my whole thing with that is this kid probably wants to play. He's got he's got a taste of it. Like I don't know. Like it's pr it's gotta be time for both parties. I I a hundred percent see where you're coming from, Mike, but like looking at the depth chart here, it's like we got if my computer wants to load here, like we got three f we got three centers right off the bat in Providence that could just slide up. Reichel, Ivan Ivan, hilarious. And then and then the kid that we signed from Switzerland who's gonna save the planet. Start the season: My boy. Back: No, fuck that guy. Big Z: You know Start the season: Omanalov. Big Z: and then Start the season: What's his name? Al Ali Aliskandir Biankinov? Back: I gotta be on that that that interview with No. Not doing this. Big Z: But like Back: That I gotta be honest. Did you catch did you catch the interview with Sturm and Evan, whatever his name is? Big Z: bits and pieces of it. Start the season: Maranofsky. Back: Maronosky. It was kind of infuriating. He's like, Yeah, we got ten defensemen rolling into camp and someone's gonna be pissed off. Then why why are we doing it? Big Z: Why do we have ten D? Back: We get are we getting ready for the season or are we like trying to get under people's skin? Like are we trying to we try to trying to make the playoffs? Big Z: This is this isn't Ed Sini bringing like forty five kids to tryouts trying to figure it out, like Back: Exactly. And and then and then Padra, I hear that he's like working out in Boston, but still like isn't signed. And then and then I got and then I then I see other Bruins content where it's like, should we sign Vladimir Tarasenko? Where are we gonna put him? With you can only keep so many guys on the roster. I feel I feel like I'm taking Start the season: So frustrating. Back: crazy pills with this fucking team. Big Z: Yeah. Well yeah. I was thinking about what you do, right? Because shout out Kale Moneybags, McCarr. Like cleaning Back: Yeah. Big Z: up, right? Like Start the season: my god. Big Z: twenty million bucks. The contracts the Bruins have, they have like a pretty good disbursement of funds, relatively Back: Mm-hmm. Big Z: speaking, to what guys are gonna are gonna be getting paid and like locked up, right? Like McAvoy nine and a half. He's in year five of eight this year. Like you you got pasta year four, four. Start the season: He's already in year five? Big Z: Yeah, crazy. Start the season: my. Big Z: But like the Linholm deal at like seven seven seven, like that's just gonna be like your like three million dollar a year deal in like the next couple years. So like the Bruins are in like not a horrible spot with guys locked up, in my opinion. Now it all comes down to like why do we have Borgan, Yogi Haryu, and Clifton all making on average three million a year? Same player. Peak just signed one by one. Like that would have been a no-brainer if that kid was gonna take. One by one. And then Lorai, who knows? He's making 3.2 and he's in the last year of a deal. Like, do we move off of him at the deadline, depending on how stuff goes, right? So I guess the long-winded way to getting to my point is we didn't pay a guy 20 million. We didn't pay a guy 18 million or 17 million. We have guys at locked in and like Peterka seven, seven year two of five. Like we have guys

locked in at a relatively decent rate. Now, who do you move off of from like a prospect standpoint to make a splash with like I don't know if Larkin would ever come, but like you need to get like guys who were in the league. Like we're not like this isn't like a development stage here. Like you don't really see that happening anymore unless like you hit big on like a top ten pick. Like s like where do you go if you're the Bruns? Like honestly. Back: I have no idea. I have no idea. Start the season: Do you think they're just kind of waiting for some of these contracts to just fizzle out? Because they're probably assessing like where the cap is going. They'll have some guys locked up in like their final couple of years, like McAvoy and Pasta. And then maybe they go for like big ticket guys. Like Don Sweeney kind of saved his job. He probably has Back: Yeah. Start the season: this year. I'd say he's a lock for this year. He'll probably be back next year. Back: Deadline. That's where we're that's when Start the season: Is is he Back: we reassess. Start the season: is he punting on this here? Big Z: Well what do you do with Zaka? Like Back: He's he's but he he like he waves the little fucking stick with stick with cheese on it in front of our face when he's when he trades for Peterka. And we're like, maybe, maybe a sick off season. And then, Dave, you're talking about signing Peak instead of Borgan and and Clifton or whatever. Why are those the options? There's there's other options you can go in on and just grab a bigger name for a a a healthier contract. Like it just I can't like I don't understand why we just We settle for average defensemen consistently. Big Z: Or hear me out. Screw it and call up some prospects and give some touches here, boys. Back: But like who? Big Z: Brune. Start the season: Freddy. Back: Yeah, like that that's fine. I'm I'm down for Brune, but like outside of Brune, who who we we had like four guys on the AHL roster like up until like two months ago. And I I I don't I mean, we're waiting for Pelosi and and what's his name? what's what's the Start the season: Cronewall. Back: yeah, Gromwall and then who's the other one? the the little lefty who was on Team USA that plays out Nodak. Big Z: Zellers. Start the season: Zellars? Back: Zellers. What but the and and Dean Laterno. But all those guys are like three to five years away from even like competing for a roster spot. So what do you do in the in the meantime when you have pasta, McAvoy and Swayman in the prime of their career? You trade you trade for Peterka, that's great, thank you. But we need more. We need more. Big Z: No, I agree. But it's like you had a guy like Aspro making like eight hundred K a year, step in and like he played good hockey last year. Back: Still. Big Z: So like we know the guy can do it. Is getting Clifton and Borgan in here, like really gonna move it? Like the right side here's how old the right side is now, and this is kinda s like messed up a little

bit because like we're older than these dudes, but like Borgan twenty nine, Yuki Hardy twenty seven, Clifton thirty one. It's like are we yet we're we're we're getting older. We're not getting faster. And the youngest guy in the decor is Lorai, and he's twenty five. Back: And who knows if even makes the roster this year. Start the season: L'ORI? He'll Back: Yeah. Start the season: make the roster. Back: I got ten busting for the positions is only don't Start the season: Who's who's gonna beat out? Jordan Harris and Billy Sweezy? Back: I mean, I'm looking at I'm looking at the projected lineup right there and this is Start the season: No sh no shade at Archbishop William's finest, but Back: I g I this is the lineup that was that was produced by I think it was it was a it was a big name source. It was the it was a it was a nice image, but it was so they have Aspirough, McAvoy, Lindholm, Borgon, Zadorov Cliff. Big Z: This what I'm looking at on Puckpedia. You share a screen on this thing. Like I'll have to do this later. here we go. Start the season: It might melt the entire stream down. this is pr this is breaking news here. Big Z: This is podcasting at its finest. Great site, no free ads, Puckpedia. Back: think that might be based on contract value. Big Z: No. Three, two. Back: I know, but I'm saying because w what's what's Clifton making? Start the season: Forty eight bucks. Back: Yeah, two point two five. Big Z: minimum wage. But here's what you're looking at. I don't get excited about what I see here. Back: We're just we're just running it back. Start the season: The the it they're they're Big Z: Literally running it back. This is promising though. Start the season: they're placeholders is what like it it's a placeholder roster for Back: Yeah. Start the season: something to come is what like you have to show up, you have to be somewhat somewhat competitive, you need to fill out the roster. That like Big Z: I mean you have this, you have this, you have this, you have this. Back: Yeah. Start the season: Don't forget Grunwald too. Gronwald they named him Captain at Quinnipiac too. Yeah. Back: Did they? Good for him. Big Z: Shadow Grandma. Start the season: Assistant but still. what do what do you guys Big Z: They don't ask how. How do I stop sharing? Start the season: think Patra will get? It's too late to go to or no, he's RFA, so it's not too late to go to arbitration, right? Or whatever. Back: Yeah, I think it's too Big Z: I don't know. Back: late. Start the season: I could see him getting like one point two. Back: I think they have Start the season: Just to keep up. I I think the contract will say a lot about how the organization views him. If he's Back: Yeah. Start the season: getting above a million, he'll probably get some games and he'll see some time with the team. If they sign him to like 925 though, like you might as well have just let him walk. Back: I know. Big Z: I mean, we got five point three million in calf space right now. So do

you sign and sign and trade? Back: I'm not I I gotta Start the season: Well that's Back: be honest. Start the season: from the pu that's from the Puckpedia roster too. So that's an active projected roster. So it'd be even higher than that. Cause Yogi Ryu's not gonna be on the active roster. He shouldn't be for eighty two games this year. So Clifton should have a lower cap hit than that. Big Z: They play eighty four this year. Start the season: How many we playing this year? Big Z: Eighty four. Start the season: Jesus. Big Z: Guys. Back: I'm not I'm not that down on the forwards and I know I've said it before. I I think it all works if Gustininoff, Hagens and Minton, those are the big three that you need you need some some decent production out of them, at least forty, fifty points plus from each of those three. And I don't know, maybe things happen, whatever. It's more the decor. It's like Swayman Swayman can only keep keep you in games as long as long as he can and I mean, we don't know a D PH. I I'm hoping for the best and I think he'll he'll do really well, but it's gonna be it's gonna be like kinda hold your breath some of these games where it's maybe it's forty to fifteen in shots or something. you just I mean you have you you literally have one puck moving defenseman in that entire group. I guess may Start the season: Hey, I mean there there's still camp coming up too. Like, you know, a lot can still change over the next month. Like throw camp and everything like look at Aspro. Big Z: There's usually there's usually a lot of weird stuff around camp. Back: I hope so. Start the season: Aspro was weird thing that came out of camp and he was like a bad penny, just wouldn't go away. You know, something like that could happen again. Back: Yeah. Big Z: But then there's guys who are getting waived and what have you, right? Like you we've seen weird things, like not like not to say we're gonna pick up someone's someone's garbage, but I don't know, something doesn't work out, someone needs to change change of scenery, whatever it is, get someone over for short ish money. You don't know. or Back: Yeah. Someone might need a defense pen. We have plenty. Show show Start the season: Yeah, and again with with the placeholder roster, once the Oilers lose out again after their big investment of getting Babcock, Dre Seidel's coming over to play for the Bruins. He's Back: I hope so. I hope so. Start the season: one thousand percent. They're legit building Big Z: Os Bruins. Start the season: the the Daes Bruins. I will be in Frankfurt in two weeks, so I'll do some scouting for for good old Leon boy. We're going to Cologne, Back: yeah. Start the season: but regardless, I I think th there's gotta be a longer play down the road, like one to two years away. That they're probably saving up either pieces or money, whatever it is. I don't know, but there there's there's bigger fish on the horizon. I like right off the coast Back: Yeah, because mean f Start the season:

of Newport, Dave. Back: free free agency just doesn't happen anymore. We've we've already called that out. so they so I I don't know. Maybe they're they're hoping for the some of these guys to materialize, but yeah. I mean, listen, I'll I'll I'll still I'll watch all eighty four. I'll be rooting them all in every single game. It's just it's it sucks that we just didn't get like another like legit defenseman where you're like, holy cow, okay, we got some we'll get some dudes. Big Z: It reeked of us getting John Carlson 'cause the Bees love doing that crap. And Back: Yeah, yeah. Big Z: like they love doing that and that would have been a good move in my opinion. Like it would have been a solid move. Back: Yeah, of course it would have been. Big Z: He still got game, you know? But it's just like Back: I know. Start the season: This made me think of something else too. to put us off the rails here, did you guys see the Jalen Brown getting the key to the state of Massachusetts thing? Back: The state. Big Z: Yes, can we talk about that? Start the season: Yeah, what f when I heard that, I was like, all right, that's really weird. Like I get he's done a lot of community stuff and everything, but the dude is very much an active player. And talking basketball, he's good, right? Good player. Is that controversial to say? Back: Playing for a rival. Start the season: He won a f he Big Z: Objectively good. Start the season: f finals MVP with the Celtics, trades him in division to a rival. I don't see Brad Marshon getting key to the state. Back: Good call out. Start the season: Like the it is weird. Big Z: And arguably Marshy's done a lot more for the city or the state than Jalen Brown. Back: Well yeah. Start the season: I don't know, you you might get cancelled for that. Back: Yeah, that might be cancel culture. Start the season: Yeah. Ha ha. Back: But I mean off of pure volume, I mean Martian was was just here longer than than Brown. Start the season: Attrition. but pure attrition, r that's what you meant, Dave, right? Big Z: Please the fifth. But like Start the season: Ha ha ha. Back: General resistance. Big Z: Yeah. no but like why are they giving this dude the key the key to the state? Start the season: It's a it's a crazy move. He's legit gonna come back here and when does the season start? Like November. So he's gonna come back here in November and put up like thirty on them. It with the key to the state just dangling on our nuts. Back: The key to the state is nuts. Big Z: It's kinda hilarious. It's not Start the season: Crazy. Big Z: even the key to the city. Back: I don't has anybody ever got Start the season: I I don't Back: that before? Start the season: know, I never heard of it. I think they gave Ovechkin Big Z: Do they make it up? Start the season: the key to the key to DC, which I guess Big Z: They did. Start the season: you could argue, you know, it Big Z: Is the key to America. Start the season: is wash damn true. But Big Z: I mean Start the season: but Massachusetts, the birthplace of America. We've always said team USA is a Boston team. Who whose key is more powerful? Back: Speaking of USA, what an off season for the for the for the gold medal winners where we got Brady Gachuk moved requesting a trade. We got Larkin who requested a trade. Who knows what's going on over there? Nothing. I I heard there was like two teams in on it like softly. Big Z: Rickets. Back: And then Hellibuck out of nowhere. Personal, personal note on social media. I was just listening to Chicklets before we jumped on here. His family's getting threatened all over the place. And like, calling them out, the wife is getting messages and whatnot. I Start the season: That's crazy. Back: crazy. Crazy. And Big Z: Leave the families out of it. Like Back: then I and then I see analysts being like, or someone said something like, I think it was Joe Haggerty. He was like, really sick and tired of these guys signing long term deals and like r requesting a trade in like year two of it. I don't know, Joe. It's I mean, he he's lived in Winnipeg for nine years. It he might want to Maybe move back to the States and compete for something. I I don't think that's that crazy. They're gonna get a return on I don't Start the season: That's just Subaru Twitter. Back: Yeah, Subaru, whatever it is. Big Z: I'm all I'm all in on the hellibuck train, regardless of where you go. Like the guy has every right to exercise it. Back: As long as it's not in the Atlantic as long as it's not in the Atlantic, I'm cool, but Start the season: We're we're gonna Big Z: Yeah. Start the season: be eating our words when he winds up in Florida, but Back: He's gonna end up in Buffalo. I know it. I know it. Big Z: But like the people, it's like the people that have an opinion about it, shut up and enjoy the league. Like this is just gonna like shake everything up. And if you're sending death threats or like if you're threatening someone's family, it's a game. Like at the end of the day. Start the season: You wonder why he wants to leave. Big Z: Like sh shocker. Shocker. You boot him after like he won gold. Like his own fans and the guy like If it wasn't for him, Winnipeg would be highly irrelevant for the last however long he's been there for. Like the Back: They have some dudes too. I don't know how they can't figure it out. Big Z: No, no I can't. Like Shifley would look good in the black and gold. Back: Yeah. He would he would cost a lot. Start the season: Mm. Always would. Big Z: He would look just magnificent. big dog, relax. Goose has an opinion on him. whoa Start the season: Shadow goose. Big Z: whoa whoa shister's sleeping kitten. Relax. Start the season: Ha ha. Big Z: But yeah boys, I don't know, I've been Back: I have I have another piece of information that I thought was insane. you know how they knocked down Northeastern's rink? Start the season: Mm-hmm. Big Z: Yeah, yeah. Back: I don't know where they're playing in the interim. I think it might

be Walter Brown. I could be wrong about that. Big Z: That's what I've heard. Start the season: Yeah, a and they're they're practicing out of a Bach. I saw the girls the girls team was there last year. They'd sh they were there like before CMJV and I'd see them like walking out like what? Back: Where's Where's Bach? Start the season: In dead Back: You're kidding. Well Big Z: They got the mini sheet in the back. Start the season: Right before Back: I saw Start the season: CMJV hops on. Back: I saw her on Huntington New Huntington News Sports, the construction of Northeastern's new multipurpose athletics and recreation facility has been delayed about nine months. Start the season: I have bumped that up a few few extra months too. It's probably like sixteen in reality. Back: How are they gonna get recruits to go to North Eastern? Start the season: Dude, th so this is actually interesting too, because my old neighbor, he he just signed or committed to Northeastern his senior year this year. He's playing in the USHL for the Rough Riders this year. So I I didn't we this news came out when did it come out? Like maybe two days ago or something. I golfed Back: Yeah. Start the season: with his father, like at the Ducksbury P D tournament, whatever. Would have loved to ask him about it 'cause it like Back: Mm. Start the season: he's gotta play another year of juniors, you would think, right? Like Big Z: Or do you decommit? Back: yeah. Start the season: why why r rush to go to school like that? Are you having a home? Big Z: Or do you just decommit and go, I'm sure another hockey school or any school? Start the season: So his f his father played at Northeastern too though. So I think it's kinda like a legacy thing. So maybe we'll get him on. Our Back: Yeah, that's a tough bounce. Big Z: Nepo. Start the season: the first official guest, Northeastern commit. Back: I'm I'm surprised they didn't just find other property and try like have the overlap of knocking down the building and have the other place going up at the same time. and that's Big Z: Yeah, like are they building the new facility on top of where Matthews was? Back: Yeah, but I mean Start the season: Yeah. Back: dude they're I mean they're they're I mean they're I think they're like seventy a year to go to Northeastern. I think they d they dev and like they have they have money. They can they could they could put up a rank. Big Z: could have yeah, they could have identified another piece of property. Back: Yeah. I mean that's their major sport. So I guess baseball too, but it's Big Z: Interesting. Back: crazy. Start the season: Yeah. Baseball's got a nice brand new field. Back: Do they? Mm. Start the season: New ish, probably like the last like eight years or so. It's nice. Back: I think that's I think that's more or less all I had from my end. I know it's been some time since we chatted. Big Z: I know we've been buzzing here. can't believe summer's over. We're we gotta get back into more of a cadence

as the dog days are, I'm sure the three people listening are like these idiots are just talking about nonsense over and over. Back: also Mikey, I I when we were in Portugal, Almida's everywhere. The name Almida. Just everywhere. It's just everywhere. It's everywhere Start the season: everywhere. How crazy. It's funny. Back: it's everywhere. But I'm I'm starting to think because I learned about Dave's lineage the other day via phone. Almida Dave is actually Dave Mathias, not Dave Almida. Start the season: What? Big Z: Have have you not heard this, Mike? Okay, Start the season: No. Big Z: so gather around, children. Storytime. The Almeda lineage does not go back as far as one might think. My great grandfather came from the Azores, Sao Miguel, and his last name before arriving to Bristol, Rhode Island, was Matthias. So he somehow changed the his our last name to Almeda and so so the name has lived on. Start the season: Wow, my whole life's a Back: Dave with Ice. Start the season: lie. Dave Mathias. Big Z: So David Matthias, yeah. Tough. Doesn't Back: It's kind of a sick name. Big Z: really roll off the tongue, honestly. Back: But no, Almida's everywhere. There's like a there's like a king statue downtown. There's companies everywhere, Almida. I I literally like my head was snapping. I was like, Hannah was Hannah's like, does that say Almida? I'm like, yeah. I don't know what is going on right now. Start the season: Yeah. Big Z: Or everywhere. You probably didn't see one Matthias though. Back: No, nothing. Nothing even close. Big Z: Not one. Start the season: It's on the island. Big Z: That's why they got out of dodge. Back: I did I did catch wind that when I was there, Ronaldo was getting married in a private ceremony somewhere. Big Z: Yeah, he duped people. They said it was somewhere and like thousands of people showed up outside of this church and like he like sent like a put picture of like him sitting by the pool was like wasn't our day today or something hilarious. Start the season: Smart. Back: That is smart. Start the season: Very smart. Big Z: Shout out him. He's like the OV of soccer. Like, just can't stop. Back: Yeah, he was everywhere. He was I mean Big Z: He's gonna score a thousand professional goals. He has like nine hundred and seventy-nine. Back: Crazy. Start the season: Damn. Big Z: Isn't that nuts? Start the season: For soccer. Back: Makes you feel old. Makes you feel old that him and Messi are done with international play. Big Z: We are old. Back: Yeah. Start the season: Messi might have one more in Back: I think he just announced it that he's that he's done. Yeah. Unfortunately. Start the season: is that what it was? Okay. Damn. Big Z: did we talk about this? So LeBron's a sixer Back: Yeah. Start the season: Mm-hmm. Big Z: and there was rumblings of him wanting to live in New York. Start the season: Mm-hmm. Big Z: Did we talk about this before? Back: I think I think he already I think he already dec yeah, I think he's already Start the season: No. He is leaving living in there. Back: decided. Big Z: Alright, unbelievable because we just did the the trip down to Philly this past weekend. Philly. I always thought it was just like a dirt bag city. Like still is. It w I enjoyed it. Like Start the season: It's good spot, isn't it? Back: Yeah, I I I had the same I had the same impression of the city. Big Z: I was like I had no expectations. I was like, it's gonna be kinda like kinda shitty, like whatever. Food was great, the people were wicked Back: Yeah. Big Z: nice, like Start the season: Great bars down there too, right? Big Z: well we we had to go to bed at seven o'clock. I was sleeping by six thirty. Start the season: Yeah, but Back: Yeah. Start the season: you can have a lunch at like a nice like Back: Yeah, a couple of pints. Start the season: like sports bar or something, you know? Big Z: But we hit like this like their version of Cisco almost, but it like half as crowded. Like Great City. Going back to LeBron, that's a brutal ride. Like you got a chopper. Like you have to do something. Back: Well he's he's he's taking yeah, he's taking the healthy. Start the season: Dude he's Yeah. Yeah. He he he he's not driving. Back: Yeah. No, no, no, no. It's not dry. Big Z: But as as like f Philly people are like Bostonians, like where you were you're just passionate about being from Philly. Like Boston people are passionate about being from Boston. Like, how would you guys feel if LeBron signed with the Celtics and he's like, I'm gonna live in New York and go to and from? Same here. Start the season: Well's different 'cause I I hate LeBron, so I think I would be like this scumbag. Guys a scumbag. Not a not a real Bostonian. Back: Yeah. That's like it's like the least surprising Big Z: Set. Back: no. Big Z: Say like McDavid sign with the bees where he's like, I'm gonna live in New York. Back: It it wouldn't make any sense. I mean, like yeah, Start the season: I'd be I yeah, I'd be I I'd be offended personally. Big Z: I'd be pissed. Back: I mean well, why'd you choose this city then? Just go somewhere else and this you can live there. Big Z: Right? Like Start the season: Yeah. Big Z: you're telling me like LeBron couldn't have played for like the Nets or the Knicks? Back: Yeah, you don't want to play for them. Start the season: He said he w he wanted to win though. Right? He said like Back: Yeah. Start the season: I think the Sixers have the best chance to win. So I think it's just Back: Yeah. Start the season: like a one and done. Also, the guy's on the road like half the year anyways, so I don't know, is it really that big of a deal? Like Back: Yeah. It must be a Big Z: True. I don't know. How many home games do you have? Back: it must be a family move. Like, I mean, I I bet his wife's like I'd I'd rather live in New York, like Manhattan than Philly. Like no sho no no shot at Philly, but Philly, I Philly's Start the season: Yeah, pr probably. Yeah. Back: I I I had the same

impression, Dave. Philly's like a a brother city to to Boston. Like it's very similar, like walkable, great food, great people. Big Z: Super walkable. Start the season: Yeah. Back: And then like they set up their sports stadiums fantastic. Start the season: Mm-hmm. That's cool. Back: Like just all the all of them congregated in one area. I th I thought that was great, but yeah. Big Z: I wish more cities did that. I think it's awesome because it's in the city too, which is great. Like Gillette's just a lost cause, right? Like it Back: Yeah. No, I'm out. I think I think I'm done. Big Z: like it's just a complete lost cause. But if you got a couple games going on the same day, like Gong Show, like you gotta like be good at scheduling or like strategic around it. But like what a what a setup it is. Like you got everything right within the same few blocks, like it's going. Back: Couple good colleges down that way too. Start the season: Mm-hmm. Back: Good temple downtown. Yeah. Big Z: Yeah. U Penn, I had no idea UPenn was in Philly until we saw all these these tarps go by and we were like, What the hell? Like U Pen's like right over the bridge? Like, yep. Start the season: There's definitely some shady areas for sure. Back: Mm-hmm. Start the season: Like more than we have here in Boston. It's like an in between of here in New York, I'd say, you know. Back: We went to the frozen four way, way back when it was like I think it was like maybe fourteen or fifteen and we were not of drinking age and we tried to play Hey Mister out of a few different liquor stores and it's at nighttime. It wasn't wasn't our brightest move of all time. We saw some saw some stuff go down where we Start the season: This is in Philly. Back: yeah, yeah, downtown. Downtown, downtown. And we we we we walked it back. We're like it's not worth it. Big Z: Take our ball and go home. Back: Yeah. Start the season: That's a crazy camera. Back: Yeah. Yeah. It was wasn't our brightest move ever. Big Z: I got a hand up confession, I did not get a cheesesteak. Back: You didn't. We talked about it too. Big Z: I know. We we were gonna go to Angelos and the line was down the street and we were about to be Back: Yeah. Big Z: thirty to forty five minutes late for this baby shower if we waited in that line. And I was bummed. Start the season: I got a little confession. I I think it's overrated. Back: Sure. Big Z: I I just wanted to get one to check the box. Like I wasn't gonna go to that Geno's or Pat's or whatever. I just wanted to check the box, see what the hype was all about. Start the season: Yeah, that's fair. I I that that's fair, that's Back: Yeah. Start the season: fair. I I I respect that then that's fair. Yeah, yeah. Big Z: It's like going to Fenway and not getting hot. Back: Well Prez just came out with that inter review out in Bill Ricca. My brother lives out that way. Als. Start the season: Yeah. Have you had it? Back: he hasn't had it. I haven't had it yet, but it looks phenomenal. And that cheesesteak on the on the sesame roll looks fantastic. Start the season: Then like a Back: they're starting to dump like they I mean, Big Z: Sesame rolls next level. Back: between that there was another beef place that he reviewed and and Woolburn, like Mad Max's or something like that. Looks phenomenal. just going to drop the Start the season: Cameron, did you grow up eating a lot of beefs? Yeah. I had Back: yeah. yeah. Start the season: my f my first beef this summer. Back: Would you go? Start the season: what's the the green and white logo? Big Z: Calies. Back: you went to Kell that's you can't no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no bad bad bad bad not a not a not an accurate res representation of a of a beef. Yeah. I mean listen they don't Yeah. Well they're they're open till Start the season: that's that bad? Really? Bad? Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Where where should I go? Big Z: The beef is like hilarious. It's like a fart. Like, you beef? You can eat a beef. Back: like four AM Kelly's is so like that was our late night food spot. yeah, no they're they're they're fantastic. Start the season: It dude, it was it was delicious. It was delicious. I'm not for my first beef, I was like, this is gas. Back: Yeah, dude. Three-way cheese sauce, mayo, James River barbecue barbecue sauce on there. I actually learned a little trick of the trade the other day. you don't go super beef because you want you want the volume, right? You don't go super beef. You have two minis Start the season: Uh-huh. Back: to keep it cleaner. And cider fries. Start the season: Mm too many super. Big Z: You want the volume. Back: Yeah. You want the volume. You know, actually Bish told me about that, Dave, because we have a we have a place in Wakefield called Billy's, which is my number one spot. But They're starting to get a little taller now with a lot of barbecue sauce on there. You gotta punch that thing down. Big Z: Bish knows beef. Back: Bish knows beef. yeah, yeah. A couple times a week. no, because I mean we don't have Start the season: So you getting beefs regularly? S still? Really? No. Back: like when Boston doesn't have really there was one actually in Cambridge where I lived a couple of years ago that we found that was pretty, pretty similar. good beef, but yeah, beefs, beefs are undefeated. Big Z: What makes what makes it a beef though? Start the season: So where should I go to that place Billy's? Back: Well, I mean, where do you trying to think what would be like the closest to actually there's place there's a place are your parents Start the season: I no no matter. Back: still in ducksbury? Start the season: Yeah. Back: There's a place in Kingston that's really good. Brothers, I think. Start the season: Really? But that's a South Shore beef. Back: Yeah, no, but still like they they still do a good job. Brothers, I think it's called. Na Start the season: That feels sacrilegious. Is it brother's marketplace? Back: It's Brothers I think it's brothers

with the like a yellow sign. Let me just say Brothers. Big Z: What makes it a beef? Back: that's a really good question. Brothers roast beef Start the season: Beef. Back: in in Kingston. Start the season: I've heard about that place actually. Back: Yeah, it's it's really good. Pilata put me onto it. Good spot. Start the season: Interesting. All right, good to know. Back: I don't know what Dave have you ever had one, Dave? Big Z: had there's Miller's roast beef, there's Walt's roast beef in Rhode Island. I've had those. I don't know if that's the same vibe. I've had Kelly's, but like what Back: Was it war was it warm? Big Z: yeah. Back: Okay. Big Z: I usually when I go to those places I get the hot pastrami sandwiches. I think pastrami is much more elite than the beef. Back: I like Pastrami. Yep. Big Z: personal preference, a little bit of mustard. How you doing? Seated roll. Now we're talking. Fuck it, nice get a beef. Back: I go onion roll, onion roll, cheese Big Z: that's a sneaky roll. Back: cheese sauce mayo, always. Yeah. Big Z: Jeez sauce, I'd be I'd be dumb and dumber after the laxatives. Start the season: It's your cryptan idea. Back: We'll we'll do we'll do this 'cause w it's a little bit closer. D Mikey, Jim's market in Medford. Start the season: Aww, Jim's is the best. Back: Dude a clogger will set you back a couple of years, dude. They'll send it Big Z: Is that what it's called? Back: Yeah, it's literally called the clogger dude. And it's it's it's egg bacon sausage. trying to think what else is in there. Egg bacon sausage. Start the season: Cash Brown. Back: Yeah. Big Z: Dude, this is a sandwich if I've ever seen one. Start the season: They put the they put the j the James River on it. Back: yeah. We used to have a teacher at MC that used to bring them in once a month for breakfast. You said to put your order in ahead of time. Never never collected a dollar. Just a man and just slam a clogger right before school tipped off. Big Z: That's the farts of that room must have been brutal. Back: All guys school. Yeah. Yeah. Start the season: Dude, you need like a shower after you eat that thing. That's the thing. Like you just feel gross. It's like the perfect hangover, you know. Back: The north the North Shore is just eating the most the heartiest food of all time. Big Z: That's why it stinks. Everyone's just cutting cheeks all the time. Brutal. Well, everyone has stopped listening to us approximately Back: God. yes. Start the season: A stink. And and that was talking beef. Big Z: 20 minutes ago. And then Back: Talking beats. Big Z: the on this segment of beef. Back: Actually Mikey Mikey, you gotta join the the Facebook group message for roast beefs. It's there's there's sixty there's Start the season: my god. Back: sixty thousand people in it. Big Z: That's like the South Shore bar pizza one I'm in. It's unbelievable. Start the season: Dude, that's absurd. Back: It's go Start the season: All right, you Back: they they do a they do a golf

tournament every year. They do they do a March Madness bracket every year on current standing of that roast beef place. It's it's a true like like conglomerate of a of a business. Start the season: That's crazy. Big Z: BKM, you're gonna have to average one beef a week and do a review for the pod. Back: Ooh. Okay. All right. I can do that. Big Z: Or or once every couple of weeks. We need to keep you around a little long a little longer. Back: Yeah. Yeah. Trying to say trying to see eighty. Start the season: The clogger. One clogger a week. Big Z: Then we're gonna get you some cholesterol pills. I'll I'll brightly write you a script. Back: Ha ha Start the season: I need that script too, Bri. Big Z: Get ya hooked up. All right, boys. Well good sesh. Thinking about thinking about hockey. Start the season: That was good good beef, good beef, for sure. Any closing remarks? Anyone want to get something off their chest? Any hot take, just let it fly before we close. Nobody's gonna listen to it anyways. I got a problem with nah, I'm just gonna I'll save it. Big Z: No, go ahead. I got nothing. Back: I don't think so. I got a hot takes. Living a clean life over here. Start the season: I don't have any problems. Big Z: I got nothing. But thick. Start the season: Should I publicly state that I'll fight Yokiharyu on the street if I see him? Just kick my ass. Back: He's probably a pretty big dude. Start the season: I'd probab of course he is. He's too Big Z: He would fold you. He would fold you. Start the season: like a fucking lawn chair. I I feel like I have I would have to say like like respectfully I don't even know. Back: Respectfully, I hate your game. I Start the season: It might happen. Respectfully, I think you're awful. Back: I I would really hope that you would be honest with yourself if Yeah. Start the season: Me too, me too. I'd like to Big Z: You would fold under pressure. Start the season: th Big Z: You would a hundred percent fold under pressure. Start the season: I don't think so. I've never I like I want to go out of my way to be like, Henry. But like, if Big Z: I hate your game. Start the season: if we're both in line ordering a beef, then I'd be like, dude, r respectfully, Back: Ha ha ha. Start the season: I think you are terrible. Back: Just right before he eats his food. Start the season: You couldn't make the C the CMJV team, brother. Back: Just right before he eats his food, just put him down. Just like dude, I Start the season: Yeah. Back: fucking hate your game. Big Z: He he he just slides the beef over with the cheese sauce. He's like, You take this. I'm I'm good. Back: It's like it's like dude, I was just coming here to be my s he's with his family. Start the season: He choke slams me through the hard plastic table. His kids are out. Big Z: He gives you the sea bass treatment, he opens up your bun, hawks the loogie into your beef and walks away. Start the season: my god. Big Z: I l I learned that from my president. Back: God. All right, boys. Start the season: Alright, well what Big Z: No poise. Start the season: do we got for next episod Jesus Christ, I just turned my flash on. What do we got for next episode? predictions maybe? Big Z: Yeah, we're gonna start bringing some hockey talk here. Back: Yeah. Big Z: start ramping back up. We'll come up with some game plans. wanna start getting a little more active here on beacons and hammering and crushing social media with some different stuff. So we'll have some good takes. But yeah, we should come with some predictions and start gearing up. whether next week or the following week, we're gonna get back into regular cadence here for sure. Back: Yeah, I think we can do I think we should do a a like Bruins preview of like what we expect for line combinations, players making the team, yada yada yada. Look at take a look at the schedule, what months we're anticipating, and then we should do like an Atlantic preview too. Just like taking a look at where we think they're gonna slate, and there. And then also should probably do a an episode on like prospects to watch in college and like get get some more or be more active on social media, showcasing those guys too. So I think it's I think maybe the trio of those. Big Z: Agreed. Keep an eye out for some stuff. Start the season: Well rookie camp starts next week too, so at the tail end of next week, maybe some more stuff will come out from like Bruins Twitter and whatnot and we'll get like lineups, not lineups, but like, you know, can't camp roster and whatnot. So we can start chatting that. I think camp Back: Do we get denied credentials? Is that was that the thing? Dave? Start the season: might be free. You might be able to just show up to camp. Should we just show we might have Back: I might do it. Start the season: to just show up? Big Z: Bring the GoPro. Back: I might just do it. Start the season: Yeah, do we have any camera equipment? Big Z: Yeah, we got the GoPro. Back: I think my phone. Big Z: The iPhone seventeen, is that good? Pro. Start the season: If we get a if you put a tripod under a an iPhone and you look legit. Back: Yeah. Amen. Big Z: Metaglasses. Start the season: Bring this microphone in. Big Z: We can im we we can expend some metaglasses. Start the season: Henry Back: I'm okay. All right, we're going off the rails here. All right, boys. Big Z: All right. Yeah. Start the season: All Big Z: All right, boys. Thanks again to the sponsors. Good, good episode Start the season: right. Good job. Good episode. Big Z: here, and we'll catch everyone in the next couple weeks here. Peace. Back: Later. Start the season: Peace.