Listen here you big muncho maniacs, I'm lovin' the show so far.
And you better bet dollars that dog nuts keep it coming or I'm gonna throw you from the top rope.
You're in big trouble, Don Cali. You eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
No.
Welcome back to Breakfast of Champions Season 1, Episode 4.
We made it. Four episodes deep.
Just since last we've kind of joined one another. We've had this idea kind of farting around for a
while and we thought, you know, let's just kind of get together and let's do it. We got some,
you know, introductory equipment and we've been, you know, meeting together in this practice space
that we used to share with our band. And since last we've spoken, we have uploaded two episodes
to the world. Yes, the second episode went live today.
Correct. So yeah, we're super excited. If you've got a platform that you listen to podcasts on,
be it Apple Podcast or Spotify or YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts, however you get
your podcasts, we're on there. So if you're a family member or a friend or someone we've given $20
to, like, share, subscribe, rate, review, all of the tacky things that you hear other people say,
it just helps us out. It costs you nothing. You know, it helps us put the word in there that
we're out there and there are people listening to us. So just kind of a word to that previous
episodes, we didn't have a grasp on like how that all was going to like look or work. And
now we have like a little RSS feed and it's like a real, we're big boys with big boy podcast stuff.
So and you're going to get to hear this spiel every episode for the next
96 episodes, 95 episodes. I don't know how to count. Wow.
Minimum. Minimum. 95 more episodes. So if you've never joined us before, this is a podcast about
breakfast foods and violence in previous episodes. We've talked about donuts. We've reviewed donuts.
We've talked about a little bit of violence, our personal violence histories. I was kind of like
thinking back on that episode after last we left and I was like, oh, there are two big ones that I
kind of left out there. So we might have a part two on that or maybe just integrate those two fight
stories into some other podcasts that we do in the future. So that's kind of the beauty of kind
of like getting to listen back to some of these is going, oh, man, I should have said this, I
should have said that. And that automatically generates content for future episodes. So this
episode, I am again, the second episode, I was just like a little boy, just giddy, but little boy
because I was blessed with Parker's dreamboat donut creations and we reviewed those and stuff.
But I mean, I'm getting just, you know, hit with like the most homemade thing you can make someone
and that is pancakes. So Parker has cooked us graciously, just a big old stack of flat
jacks over there. Flat Jacks, grilled cakes, grilled cakes, whatever you want to call them.
There's some bacon. There's some real maple syrup over there. Straight from Canada. Yeah, man. So
that's going to be kind of the theme of the episode is pancakes, maple syrup, and we're going to talk
hockey this episode. So we'll get into that later. But just just quickly, just touching on it a little
taste into what's to come in this episode, we're going to get into some hockey stuff.
Tell us about what you brought. Yeah. So like you said, pancakes, bacon, maple syrup. When I think
hockey, I think Canada. When I think Canada, I think maple syrup, which then makes me think of
pancakes. So yeah, I just I made some pancakes, which I did some reading, because like,
pancakes also make me think of Canada. Unfortunately, the Tim Hortons here in North
Texas has not opened yet or else we would have gotten some Timmy's. That didn't happen, unfortunately.
But yeah, so I did some research on pancakes. Actually, pancakes were probably eaten in prehistoric
times from the little bit of research I did. But North American pancakes, whether you're in
the US, Canada, it's pretty much the same thing. So yeah, I mean, these are just basic
pancakes. Nice. So nothing, nothing super crazy or special, just homemade pancakes.
Did you eat pancakes a lot growing up? No. Yeah. We kind of talked about this in the first or
second episode. Biscuits and gravy were like the go to carb for breakfast. Sure. Me personally,
I prefer like a really good waffle over pancakes most of the time. Like
pancakes are actually at the bottom of my big three breakfast carbs. Like number one,
number one would be waffle. Number two would be a good French toast. Okay. And then number
three is pancakes. Like as far as like sweet breakfast carbs, like biscuits and gravy,
number one category of its own and then savory on the other side, because that could be a meal
on its own. Normally like pancakes, waffles, French toast, you're going to want like a bacon,
a sausage, you're going to want toast, you're going to want or not toast. I'm blanking out.
Eggs. That's it. That's hash browns. So I do remember speaking of pancakes, you want to,
we don't have any plates here, so we're probably just going to have to do a roll in dippers.
I was going to say we get that lid for the Tupperware. Like we can do that.
Also, pancakes are kind of finger food. That's right. So my dad has a pretty good pancake recipe
kind of in previous episodes. We just got our love of cooking in the first episode. And
my dad has been cooking the same pancake recipe since I was a little boy. He doesn't look up in
anything. It's just all in his head. All of the measurements are in his head. And they come out
perfect every single time. They're big, they're thick, they're fluffy. It's just one of those
things that he usually on weekends, he'll get a wild hair and he'll just wake up and then it'll be
a huge stack of pancakes there. And then he does that short order kick thing where whenever
someone comes to get their pancake, like, how do you like your eggs? So I did grow up eating
pancakes. The other thing that reminded me just now is we had an emo brunch here. Oh, yeah. Like a year ago.
I've actually got the recording on my phone of that. Beautiful. So we as older gents in the punk
rock scene, practice times, you know, get harder whenever there's children involved or whenever
there's like people's jobs involved or even just as the fact that we're going to like we're pushing
40 now and it's like, do I want to be at a practice space at midnight or do I want to be at a practice
space at like 11 a.m. Yes. So, you know, we went with the route of like, well, let's make it fun.
So not only are we going to be here at 11, let's have some like breakfast foods. And so Parker,
you made a blueberry pancakes for us. Yeah. And then we got some mimosas happening. Mimosas, coffee.
Yeah, it was a really good time. And it was probably one of the better practices we had had.
So I think we were all firing on all of them early and we were fueled with carbs and caffeine.
So the other thing I think about when I think about pancakes is like you were saying,
the pancake versus waffle debate, but that leads us to, you know, like I hop versus like
waffle house or Denny's versus, you know, in our pancake house or whatever. And so
what's your favorite like chain pancake? Do you have one? Okay. So like I can taste a Denny's
pancake right now. I'm I hop. Yeah. And I kind of rode off for a while like
here in Fort Worth, we've got Old South Pancake House for sure, which I've got lots of stories
about that place for another episode. Yeah, who doesn't we'll have to have an old South episode.
I've got the perfect guest for this to love breakfast food and violence.
And has eaten a lot of old South with me. Anyway, I digress. So that's like having a
girlfriend from Denton. Like you, you know, like if you're in and around this area, like you've
had a girlfriend from Denton or like if you've gotten into it at the chat room or like it's like
just mandatory Fort Worth bullshit. It's like being way too drunk at Old South Pancake House
and just like hearing somebody get into a fight or you and somebody that you're with gets into it
with somebody or even the staff, they're not the friendliest when it comes to dealing with drunk
assholes that they're in the morning, four o'clock in the morning. So frog fries baby for life.
That actually reminded me of an IHOP violent story in my past when I was 18.
Perfect time to tell it. It's it isn't that crazy. Well, you tell that I'm going to make a little
roll up and dip. Yeah. So so I guess I'll start IHOP is my pancake of choice from a chain.
And then so yeah, the story I was 18. I worked at Virgin Megastore and Great Find Mills.
And all my friends were back in town for Christmas. They'd all been partying and drinking all day and
you know, having fun. I'd been at work all day because it was right after Christmas retail.
And I roll up to IHOP to hang out with them and these dudes come up and just start like talking
all this shit to us. It's not even all that late. It's like nine or 10 at night. And they're talking
all this shit and we're laughing at them thinking they're joking. We're all we train MMA. Like we're
going to the UFC. We're going to kick your asses. We're all a bunch of like kind of scrawny punk
dudes. Or just like, all right, yeah, like why are you fucking with us? Leave us alone. They like
make some noise. IHOP chases them out. So no violence actually happened. It was just a threat of
violence. Yeah, violence and the ether. Yeah. cops show up. They hassle us. Other guys are gone.
I end up getting a minor in consumption. Oh, no. I had just been working 12 hours. Oh, no.
I was like, you can breathalyze me like, no, your eyes are bloodshot. I was like,
I don't do drugs. I don't smoke pot. Like I don't drink. Like, come on. Like, no,
you're underage. Your friends are all clearly drunk. You're under the consent like under
something. Write me a ticket. Tell me if I get in my car, they'll arrest me and take me to jail.
There's a hospital across the way. I go over blood test, breathalyzer, urine test, all of it.
100% clean. Take it to court. Some of the guys who are there who had been drinking
rolled over on everybody else. So they're like, oh, we know you were drunk. I was like, oh,
that's weird. I've got all this paperwork. And they're like, why didn't your friends do that?
And I was like, I don't know. I'm not in their heads. Like, well,
shouldn't have been hanging out with them. Here's three months probation. No way. Yeah.
Yeah. Yep. So no violence. Just bullshit. Yeah, no way. So this podcast is brought to you by
Mountain Dew Baja Laguna Lemonade. It is Mountain Dew with a blast of natural and artificial mango
lemonade flavors. I got this one over at the 7-Eleven. We're celebrating the 20th Baja
anniversary. So grab yourself a Mountain Dew Baja Laguna Lemonade crack one with the boys. Oh, it
just sprayed me in the face. Yeah, it shot everywhere. That was great. Yeah. Okay. Huge
question for you. Bacon. Bacon. Are you a crispy bacon guy or like pliable bacon guy? Dude, I
like it all. There's not. There's no bad bacon in my opinion. If I'm cooking it for myself,
I'm trying to get a nice balance of crispy and then like those flappy fat pieces at the end. I
kind of just leave those be because that's where the flavor lives and resides. If someone just
like completely burns the bacon, yeah, I'll still eat it. But I mean, it's not as good as like well
prepared bacon. How do you prepare your bacon? You have, I mean, obviously you have a skillet.
So did you start in the skillet? No. No. Are you an oven bacon guy? No. Microwave bacon guy?
Microwave this bacon. Yeah, see, that's the thing is like some people, the way they cook their bacon,
you have to like, you have to like treat it, you know, like almost like if they have pets in the
home. I don't know why I'm eating this microwave bacon because it's sacrilegious. No, it's, it is,
yeah, it is sacrilegious. I've microwaved this bacon because I didn't want to fuck the bacon up.
I knew that if I cooked it in a skillet, I would rush it because I was like running short on time.
I was like, I'm going to burn the fuck out of this bacon. So I microwaved it. Very good.
For time sake, because I made the pancakes 100% from scratch. Had you told me that beforehand,
I would have just dirt it in the garbage. I'm a you, you know, I like that you had a mouthful
of bacon when I did that. I'm kind of one of those guys where like, like skillet, flat top,
you know, that sort of thing. I love that sort of bacon. I'll tolerate it in the oven if you're
going to put like the foil down and like put down your little strips of bacon or whatnot, but
microwaved is the worst. You just wouldn't cancer into something that already includes cancer.
It's like, I'm trying to get out of here fast. It's okay. All right. Tonight or? I mean, let's see what
time you know. Well, thank you for the pancake. It was delicious. Did I do? Do I detect a hint of
cinnamon in that pancake? Yeah, I got a few secret spices in there all microwaved.
No, it's the secret. I'm going to divulge any secrets. Let's save it for the Patreon where
you can demonstrate it. Give it away. I'm going to give this one for free for anybody who's making
their pancakes. Free game, free game. It's easy. Free game alert. No, pumpkin pie spice or apple pie
spice. Okay. So like the ginger, the nutmeg, the cinnamon tastes like fall. Just give that a little
sprinkle in into your pancake mix. Even if you're doing like a mix, like a dry mix that you bought,
like a crusty's like pancake mix, just sprinkle that in there and it takes it's just a little bit
over the top. Drop in knowledge. You can make your box pancakes and or waffles tasted that much
better with just a sprinkle of spice. Yeah. And there's red orange peel on this.
God damn. That's really, really good. Thank you so much. It was tasty. I went through this phase
a couple of years ago where I was making, well, I was like doing everything vegan, but like for
family, like on weekends, I was making these vegan pancakes and I had found this recipe.
I don't even know if I can still find it right now, but it was like the best vegan pancake recipe ever.
And we probably went through about 500 of those pancakes. Damn. Because they were just really,
really good. My kids would ask for them and like, it was just kind of one of those things where we
just like went through it for a hot minute. So I love pancakes. I love all kinds of pancakes.
Blueberry is one of those things where it's like you can't when you get a good, fat blueberry pancake.
It's just real good. Some wild blueberries in there. Those big juicy ones.
Yeah. Speaking of vegan pancakes, I've definitely flipped at least between one and 10,000 vegan
pancakes. I would say so. Yeah. That's one of those things where there's going to be somebody
ordering pancakes at Spiral for sure. It just doesn't end. Well, you've got a great hockey
sweater on. I'm looking at a Boston Bruins throwback here, Winter Classic, Yellow and Black
hockey sweater. And so we are both kind of on the periphery of hockey. We're fans,
mostly by proximity of other people that are probably fans. One of my best friends is a huge
pens fan. His son has played throughout high school and college and I've been able to kind of see
him and his growth and be able to kind of vicariously live through that. Just really exciting
to watch a young man start off as like, you know, a really, really young man. And then
to be at the university level now is just something quite cool to see. So hockey, when did you get
into hockey? You know, like I said, we're kind of both novice or like on surface level hockey,
but like when was kind of your first, why wouldn't hockey kind of burst its way into your life? I mean,
honestly, in the 90s, growing up as a kid in the 90s, Wayne Gretzky was huge, but I lived in Illinois,
which you could actually go play ice hockey on the ponds when they froze over. And a bunch of my
friends play Pee Wee hockey and all that. I never got to play on one of those teams. I hope I'm not
very well coordinated. But I did play a lot of roller hockey with friends like pick up games and
stuff and did that a lot like middle school time before I moved to Texas. And then as far as like
interest in hockey kind of took hold of me like early 20s. I was like super involved in like
watched every stars game, watched every Bruins game. Those were like the two teams I kept up with
hard. And so yeah, I was like super into it probably from like 2009 to about 2013, 2014. And
then I just kind of got busy and didn't have access to like watching hockey as often. So kind of fell
off after that. It's an interesting sport. It's one of those things where like as a kid,
it's it's easier to see like basketball and be like, I could do that. I can throw a ball inside
of a hoop and I have access to that that sort of equipment. But like, especially as like a
like a person of color, like seeing a lot of hockey stuff is like one of those things where you
think like I couldn't afford the stick, let alone every other piece of equipment that came with
hockey. But I think the the turning point for a lot of people our age, it was the Mighty Ducks.
Oh, yeah. And so even if you were not into hockey at all, but you were our age and you saw that
first first, you know, Mighty Ducks movie, you probably fell in love with it. And then just
like how cool did did we we got to see something that like went from like a Disney concept to like
a real life NHL team? Yeah, but fuck the duck always always. They're one of the worst, you know,
they're the the sharks are worse than the ducks like fuck the sharks and then fuck the ducks and
then fuck the avalanche. So yeah, that's kind of I was not super into hockey. Like I said,
growing up, I think we did a lot of moving around. Parents, you know, weren't super into that sort
of thing. But the Mighty Ducks was a big huge deal. And then after that, moving to Fort Worth
in 1998 was my freshman year in high school. That was just like right in the middle of like
Madonna fever. And so so you know how there's times in your life where like,
you look back and you're like, no matter how well it was going on, that that was kind of a cool
moment. Yeah. And I I really hated moving here to the area. Like I just my life was super set up.
And like I had gone to like this really small middle school, like we were living in a small
town in Central Texas, and I had gone to a really cool middle school with a like core group of friends
and like kind of had my life planned out like was best friends with high school coaches son who
was a quarterback. And like it was just one of those things where like life was great. We had a
great house with my mom and dad had like bought a couple of acres of land and we had like this
really cool house that they had like basically like handpicked all the designs for everything.
Like it was like just one of the most amazing times in my life. But I didn't want to move here.
I was so sad, mad, angry at the world. And one of the times that I recall being super happy
was watching the Stars Play. And it just was like a new community of people that, you know,
cared about sport and just that time in particular in this area. When we moved here, we basically
sold basically everything that we had owned and moved into a town home on seminary. That's actually
seminary housing. And we didn't have much. I mean, we didn't, we, there were like for that first few
years that we were here, the pleasures of like the jumbo jack being 99 cents just saved our
asses a lot of time. And you know, and so we weren't, my dad was going to school full time. He was
a minister full time and it was also working at the seminary as a grounds person at that time.
And then my mom was also working at the seminary at that time. So it was like one of those things
where like it was just our life. It was our bubble. Like my dad went to school there, worked there.
All of our friends were there. We lived on campus. It was like you couldn't get away from it, but
we didn't have cable or anything like that. And so it was one of those things, like you said, it's
harder to get access to a hockey game than it is to do. Like they're playing playoff games on ABC
just about every night. So can watch it on HBO or Hulu or wherever now. Back then it was difficult.
You had to have, you know, I think it was Fox Sports Southwest or Fox Sports Net or, you know,
even some, you know, sometimes ESPN had the games and if you didn't have cable at that time, you,
so what wound up happening is that there was these huge watch parties going on in the community
rooms of the seminary. And so you had all these like young men that were living by themselves,
kind of like studying the word of God and then meeting up in these small community centers and
popping a bunch of popcorn. And I mean, studying the word of Madonna. Yeah, dude. And so, yeah,
just getting into like where kind of nostalgia hockey that 1998, 1999 Dallas Stars team was a
magical team to watch. It was the first time that my mom and dad really got into hockey and that kind
of brought me along. And so if you're hearing drums in the background right now, we were recording
our podcast live at EMP rehearsal studios. And so you may hear frozen soul or trauma ray or
one of the other illustrious groups that are practicing around us right now. So
pay never mind to that. Anyways, might be hell yeah, playing. So at that time, like I said,
we would go to these community centers and watch these hockey games. And it would just be like a
group of 20 people that didn't know each other that came from literally around the world. Like
one of our best friends, Ziyu, Ziyu Guakukuyu was from Nigeria, a feminist family. And again,
literally they had nothing. They brought like, I think a tape player and like a suitcase worth of
clothing and just like all of these stories just come together and just watch this hockey game.
And so just to shout out some of the names that like I was just looking back at that team, some
of the names that kind of stood out to me, obviously Mike Madonna, Yuri Lytton, he was
you know, a great hockey player, Joe Neuendike, you had Craig Ludwig, the coach was Ken Hitchcock,
the goalie was Ed Belfort, you had Darren Hatcher on the team, Brett Holt was on the team. And
they beat the Buffalo Savers to win the Stanley Cup in a crazy overtime game. I don't know,
do you remember this or? I was living in Texas. So I was like,
I kept up with the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks. And that was about it.
So they were, it was game six, and they were playing the Savers, and they had gone to a third
overtime. It was literally like two o'clock in the morning. And so you can imagine all of us just
being dog dead tired. And the game ended in one of the most controversial goals of all time,
because Brett Holt's skate was in the crease when he scored. And so, you know, at that time,
it was one of those things where like they had called it a goal and then they had reviewed it,
and they had talked to some of the players on the other team, and they're like, what can we do?
There's nothing we could do. So, you know, if you're a Starrs fan, obviously, it was a good goal.
If you're a Savers fan, you know, that that game and that series is referred to as no goal.
So screw you, Buffalo Savers. Brett Holt brought home the championship for us. And that was one
of the times that I had around that same time before then, actually, before we'd moved to
Fort Worth, and I'd gotten into the Dallas Stars. One of the things that we were doing in Central
Texas was seeing a lot of minor league hockey. And so if you're here because of the violence,
and you also enjoy hockey, you got to get into minor league hockey. Oh, the Brahmas from here.
Exactly. So I was living in Central Texas at the time. So the team that I was supporting,
and we went to a lot of games because, again, you know, cheap entertainment,
Central Texas Stampede played the Brahmas a lot. But one of the fun things to do is,
because I'm from El Paso, originally, I was born in El Paso, was to watch the El Paso buzzards come
to town. And, man, it was cool because it was like your hometown coming to see you where you were at.
And, you know, obviously, just like crazy fights all the time in minor league hockey. And just,
you know, that's part of it. It's one of those things where like I was watching
a piece on the Broad Street bullies, and they had said that they're enforcer
the Dave Schultz, the hammer. They said that he really didn't fight until he got into the minor
leagues. And he was like, actually, a prolific scorer for most of his youth. And if it's the fact
that he got into the minor leagues, then they that's where everything went right or wrong.
Exactly. So if you're into violence, but you, you know, you, you know, you can't afford a Dallas
Stars ticket, you know, look around your area, find your minor league hockey games. They're not
going to be as expensive as pro games. They're going to be just as entertaining. Sometimes,
even more so. Yeah. I mean, there's less of, you know, the TV interruptions. There's a lot of
giveaways there. They try to build a really good community when it comes to minor league games. And
and so yeah, just shout out to El Paso Buzzards, Austin Icebat, Central Texas Stampede, Fort Worth
Brahmas. When I was in, I would say fourth through eighth grade, that's the that's the hockey I was
watching. Yeah. And my uncle Bob was a truck driver. And he had stopped by to visit us one time on
his route and El Paso Buzzards were in town. And so we're like, Hey, we're going to go to the hockey
game. And you know, our hometown is coming to town. And he definitely got kicked out.
Uncle Bob's. Uncle Bob got kicked out. He fold it. So one of the things that they had on the,
on every seat that they had was like a calendar that had like a schedule of events. And it was
like every game for the season. And it was like 11 by 17 poster size on card stock. It was one of
those like really nice ones like you could like a show flyer almost. And so he folded it up into
like this really amazing paper airplane. And definitely it made it all the way down to the
ice. They had to stop play for Uncle Bob's airplane. He got escorted out. And my dad was kind of pissed
because I think it was maybe like first quarter between first and second period. It's not quarter
period. Sorry, you can see our fan up here. But he got and my dad was like, No, we're not leaving.
He can stand outside and wait for us. And so Uncle Bob's outside chain smoking cigarettes while they
all pass of buzzards in the central Texas stampede or beat the shit out of each other on the inside.
But you know, that's that's the type of guy Uncle Bob is he's hilarious. And sometimes it takes
it a step too far. And we still love him and care for him. And he's awesome. And so shout out
Uncle Bob, shout out minor league hockey. Love that stuff. So you have anything you want to bring
up hockey wise? I feel like I'm talking now. Now you are all good way too much. Yeah, my wife's.
You know, it's funny. We're on episode four. All of my friends, all of my acquaintances,
everyone have been telling me, Oh, that it's great. You guys sound great. Great job. You guys are
doing great. Not one person has said anything like, you know, you should do or you know, this is
kind of. So she listened to the first episode and she goes, Okay, are you ready?
And I was like, am I ready for what? And she's like, are you ready for my notes? And I was like,
no, I was like, no, please don't tell me what you think of my podcast one episode in like,
I'm not telling Heather that it's live yet. Oh, that's a joke. She knows it's live.
So she's the one person in my life where she was like, I have notes and I'm like,
I'm going to get in my head then if you like immediately tell me like,
so yeah, one of the things that I've been accused of in my life, I'm working on it.
I'm hopefully this podcast will help me be better at it, but it is to shut the fuck up and let
other people talk. So, you know, I also get accused of that too. So this will be good for both of us.
Nice. I mean, really just as far as like, minor league hockey goes, Brahmas or what I,
you know, kind of grew up watching. And again, the violence like going from like a Brahmas game to
a stars game, there's guaranteed to be at least three fights at a minor league hockey game.
Where if you're going to an HL game, you might get one maybe if they're really pissed off. And
also if it's playoffs or Stanley Cup, you're getting, you know, more on edge, which we should
probably talk about because by the time this goes live, we will be in the Stanley Cup finals.
That's correct. So the reason we're talking hockey is because again, the Dallas stars are
in the playoffs right now. They are playing the Edmonton Oilers. The series is tied two to two
at the moment. We're looking pretty strong. And I'm right there with you. Positive energy,
all good things, positive push. Let's go stars. Go stars. One of my favorite things Dallas stars
relate is when they do the Star Spangled Banner and everybody in the crowd yells stars. I did that
at my son's track meet because I forgot where I was doing the Star Spangled Banner and I yelled
stars and everyone turned around and looked at me because there's only one in the stands who did it.
Whoops. They're like, is Ronnie Paul?
But yeah, I forget. That's another nostalgia thing. Dallas stars, Pantera. That's, you know, you
and they still play Pantera. And sometimes they play power trips.
Sometimes you're lucky you catch a power trip song.
Yeah. Did you do you currently so you're currently like he said, you're you're watching a little
bit of hockey throughout the playoffs? Yeah, like I keep up like I'll look like even during the
regular season, like once a week, I'll look, hey, where are we at? Like, where are we standing? If
if I have a night off or time to sit down and access to a game because it has gotten easier
over the years, I'll sit down and watch a game. But like right now, it's playoff hockey. It's
most exciting time for hockey. So I'm trying to watch that. There's there are TVs at my job. So
we've had a hockey or basketball on every night. Yeah, that's been awesome.
Another thing going on right now in DFW sports is as a matter of fact,
you need to check the score on that. But the Mavericks are in the Western Conference finals
playing the Minnesota Timberwolves. I'm pretty sure they're going to close it out tonight. Right
before we came in here, they were up by like 10 or 15. It is a minute 47 and a third. It's 95 to
69. Yes. So the Dallas Mavericks will be in the finals next episode. So that's going to be a great
thing to see. Same for us. We just got a TV at center. I bought the TV and put it in center.
Like I've been making power moves at center just on my own behalf. I bought this TV and then I also
brought my PS5 up there. I need to come hang out with you up there. Just come up there at center.
You know, we'll we'll chill and play some Fortnite and I've got UFC five and Madden 24 and MBK 24
and all that stuff up there. But so yeah, I've been I've been trying to like I'm up there and I play
the PlayStation war because I'm up there because like at home, I just never touched it. And then
I was like, okay, so I'll take it up to work because there are little pockets here. They're
like if it rains Magnolia just shut down. If it's someone or a ring
any day, we'll get a you know, get around or two in on each other up there. And so one of the things
that we've been doing is we've also been putting like classic sports stuff on there. And so the
other night, whenever Luca was playing, I'm sorry, the other night, whenever the Mavericks were
playing, I thought they were going to close it out and go to the finals. But I put on some vintage
Dirk Nowitzki stuff whenever they won the championship. And so we're we put his his game on
how does Jersey featured over there. But we have been putting on just like any of that cool stuff.
But one of the cool things that if you are maybe a younger person, and you didn't know about hockey
is that throughout like the I think it was like the 70s, pretty sure, the late 60s and into the
70s, maybe even into the 80s, there was this like kind of cool thing internationally that was going
on with hockey. And it was basically the Soviets versus the world. So just like every movie from
the 70s days. But what's really cool is that they would have these like super series weekends where
they like the Soviets would come and play like six professional hockey teams in like the course of
a couple of weekends. And so there's some really cool vintage YouTube stuff out there. If you ever
want to see, you know, just the way that Soviet hockey used to be played. It was a really kind
of a graceful thing. They did a lot of like passing and holding of the puck and waiting for you to
make a mistake. And then whenever you were out of position or your goalie was out of position,
they're just ram it down there. And so they they kind of played their game their way. And so one
of the cooler things is that in 1976, they played the Philadelphia Flyers. And brought street bullies.
Yeah, brought street bullies. And so I'm a huge Philadelphia sports nut. My wife is from that
area. Since I was a nomad kid, I was more I grew up idolizing players and not teams. I was big,
you know, Jordan kid wanted to be like Mike, I still do still, you know, every time he releases
issue, I'm still trying to be like Mike. But growing up, you know, I didn't have a home team
per se. I lived in Alaska, I lived in Indiana, I lived in Texas, I've lived in Pacers fan.
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's crazy. Bird's from Indiana. Right. Reggie Miller was a great player
and my dad met Chuck Person, I think, one time at a pizza place. It was really cool. But anyway,
when my wife and I got together, one of the things that her family is passionate about is
Philadelphia sports. And so I was adopted into their family and got a home team. So now all of my
home teams are Philadelphia home teams. And it feels great. I'm loving it. I love that the Eagles
won a Super Bowl a couple of years ago. Yeah, because the Cowboys doing not a damn thing.
As long as Jerry Jones is involved, the Dallas Cowboys will still never do a damn thing. So
anyway, that's my put. Yeah. So you've got I'm a big Eagles nut, big Phillies nut. We go to any
time the Phillies come to town, we go watch them play and we also go see them play in Philly
pretty much every summer because we go up there at least once a year. And so with that comes the
Flyers. And so there's a swath of players that came through the Flyers in the 70s and they were
known as the Broad Street bullies. The Spectrum used to be on Broad Street in Philadelphia. And so
there's a lot of great YouTube footage out there. You can just type in Broad Street bullies,
highlights. But one of my favorite moments of the Broad Street bullies highlights is the fact
that they did play that Soviet team in the Super Series in 1976. And are you familiar with this at
all? A little bit. Preferably. Yeah. So what's really cool is they had this enforcer's name Dave
the Hammer Schultz. This dude is just like huge, built like a tank, basically gave the Broad
Street bullies their identity. They kind of shifted. They were a great hockey team in the late 60s
and early 70s, but they're just kind of smaller and they got pushed around a lot and they were
really sick and tired of that. And so they had drafted some just humongous, just Brawlaka guys
that were ready to go and they really switched up their identity and they came to play. They came
to fight. And so the Soviets came and they're ready to play Philadelphia and right off rip,
Philly just does not. They're just like they're ready to they're one of their players. Super
duper hard. He goes down and their coach wanted like an elbow penalty and actually pulled the
entire Soviet team off the ice like within minutes of the game starting, pull this team off the ice
and tells the referee, if you don't give them an elbowing penalty, I'm we're taking my boys and
we're going home. And the referee, thank God, was not intimidated. He said, if you don't put
your boys on the ice, I'm going to give you a delay a game penalty. And so they went back to the
locker room and they basically were like, we're not coming out. Money talk. So somebody came and
said, you know, you want your money for this whole super series. It's not going to happen unless you
get back on the ice. So they had to come back on the ice. And this is in Philadelphia as well. So
that you they're hearing it from all the fans, you know, all the Philadelphia fans, whether you
love them or hate them, they let the Soviets know what was up and so did so did Philadelphia.
Philadelphia wind up wound up winning that game. I think it was like four to two. It was really
super like decisively a great game. So much so that Rob Zombie actually wanted to make a movie
about it. That's the knowledge I have of it is that he was a big hockey fan. And I think he's
from Philly. And yeah, wanted to make a movie out of it and it never happened. I mean,
which is crazy because you think like, I mean, what a great story. We hate the Soviets, you know,
still to this day. I mean, so you would you would get that be the Rocky Four of hockey movies.
Exactly. And it would, you know, we haven't had a good hockey movie in quite some time. We had
Miracle, which was like not good, but it was like it told that story and it was necessary and Disney
was involved. So it was like a big blockbuster project. I mean, I cried at the end of it. So
so yeah, definitely. Yeah. So Miracles was a great movie. The intro to this podcast includes
some hockey lore. So if you're not familiar with our intro, go back into the beginning of the
episode and listen to it, but it's from the movie Billy Madison. It should be Gilmore. Oh my God.
Phil, I need you to go back and edit this part and make me not look so stupid. Yeah, it's from
Happy Gilmore. Sorry. Happy Gilmore. God. Yeah, it's Happy Gilmore. You got shooting a Gavin in
there. And so happy. The thing is, he's a golfer, but he never really wanted to be a golfer. His
ultimate dream is to be a hockey player. He just couldn't skate. And so yeah, so you have that that
tie in there, the intro there. We did look over this top 10 list of NBA, NBC sports like best
violent moments. And so the three, I'll throw the three that kind of popped out to me. Number one,
the Philly Flyers are like in three or four of the top 10 list. So obviously the Flyers are
notorious for that. But the 2012 game when Philly was playing Washington Capitals and the entire
team basically went at it. Emory the goalie, like you could see the umpires referees, they were
they were pleading with him to stop. And he was like not going to stop until he got the other
goalie down and even the goalies fight. Oh yeah, it's classic when the goalies get into it. It's
classic. And so I'm glad you said that because the next one on my list is Patrick Wall. I mean,
that dude was the epitome of like nineties hockey swag. I mean, like if there ever was like just a
G of G's whenever it came to like the nineties, like you said, we all know Wayne Gretzky. We all
know Mario Lemieux. We all know some of these great names. But when it comes to like swag and
like, I mean, Patrick Wall, his fight with Osgood from the Red Wings, man, he was just like going
at it. There's a couple of them with Patrick Wall in there where he's basically. But the reason I
pointed it out is because we just talked about Max Holloway calling a shot and saying, I want to see
you right here. That's what he did with Osgood. He gave him the Max Holloway. He said, Max Holloway,
he said, right here in the middle and knocked out Osgood. And then the last one is the one the Bruins
fought the fans. That's that's what I want to talk about. That's again, why I wore the sweater
that I'm wearing. Yeah, that's classic. There are two different instances of the Bruins going into
the stands to fight the fans like the opposing team fans. And that's fucking awesome. Also,
after spending a lot of time in Boston, like in the mid 2000s, I just kind of how Boston rolls.
Like I got in multiple fistfights in the streets of Boston just for like walking.
For sure. Like so, yeah, I mean, just brawl on in the stands.
Stereotypes or stereotypes for a reason sometimes, you know what I mean? And there's a lot to be said
for for Boston and fucking mass holes. Yeah. I mean, Joe Rogan's from there, Bill Burrs from there.
Like you can it's you can sell. There's an attitude of people that are coming from there. So
but yeah, so the Bruins just going into the stands and just fighting with fans. And I think it was
in New York, the clip that we saw. And you know, there was people even like fighting with that.
They were even fighting with the cops. Yeah, another fight like Bruins swinging on cops,
swinging on fans like I think that was what 79. Yeah. And then there was another one. I forget
what year it was. It was probably later late 80s, early 90s. And again, I think it was Toronto
swinging on fans and cops cops were getting in between the Bruins and the fans.
So I was looking at Wikipedia about hockey just to get get a little bit more knowledge. And I
thought that this was kind of cool that men's ice hockey is classified as quote a full contact
combat sport. There's actually a link that you can click on for full contact combat sport that
leads you to the definition. That's basically any combat sport that allows attempts to physically
incapacitate opponents. And so just juxtapose that to like, let's say basketball. I mean, like
if the, you know, we've seen fights in basketball, but like if it was allowed for someone like
Shaquille O'Neal to try to physically incapacitate another. Reach. I mean, yeah. I mean, I played
basketball growing like that was my sport of choice. That's what I played. And I played it very
physically mostly because I was just like an angry young dude. But I got thrown out of multiple
games for like laying people out. So yeah, it would have been awesome to like, hey,
give them two minutes, whoever hits the ground first, we're stopping it.
Right. Exactly. So speaking of two minutes, so another one that got sent our way by a friend
was J Beagle versus Aaron Asham. Did you catch that at all? I sent it to your way.
Yeah, I did watch it. Yeah. So that one was very cool to me because I mean, what a G way to knock
somebody out. And basically like what I thought was cool is like he hit him and knocked him out
and had the wherewithal to like guide him to the floor gently as to not knock out his front teeth
as well. Or like, you know, cost-brain skull like very, I mean, I know they're holding on to each
other's sweaters for stability. Sure. But also like if you get knocked out, like you don't want
somebody's blood on your hands because you just drop them face first. Yeah. So so Aaron Asham
got the best of J Beagle and he gave him the little night night symbol on the way to the penalty
box is one of those ones where he just knew like I'm on my way to the penalty box. He gave him the
he gave him like the cross. No, no, thank you. And then the night night symbol and he was in the
he's in the penalty box. And so J Beagle down for a hot minute, there's blood pouring out of his jaw.
And then he gets up and you can just see you you visibly see his face is contorted, distorted,
and his jaw is not where it was whenever the fight started. And he mouths, I'm all right.
And he's not all right. And very quickly, the commentator says he says he's all right,
but he is not all right. And what wound up happening is Aaron Asham served that five minute
major and J Beagle didn't come back to play hockey for 31 games. So this this game is is violent.
It's beautiful. It's brutal. I mean, imagine like the most violent fight you could see and then throw
like blades skates and an ice into that. And so one of the ones that's one of the more
harder ones to talk about one of the more harder ones to watch. And more of more recently is
this Adam Johnson incident that happened. And we're going to talk about it just kind of quickly,
because it is pretty graphic and pretty hard to talk about. So if you've got a weak stomach,
or if you just don't want to hear about this, if you know about the incident, skip forward,
maybe like two or three minutes. But it is one of the most one of the things that I wanted to
talk about in particular when it comes to violence, especially with this podcast, because
when we were younger, we had to seek out that violence online. There was like you would not
just type in yahoo.com and then be inundated with with with violence. The news was kind of the
closest thing that you would get to that. But when we were younger, there was no avenue for
us to just open up and explore explore page and have violence shoved in your face. We didn't have
Twitter and Instagram like where, you know, you might have a warning, hey, this is graphic, right?
Right. Click it and there it is. But what's crazy is I did see this Adam Johnson thing on
Instagram without any warning. And it was probably one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever
seen happen on ice. If you haven't seen it, like I said, we're only going to talk about it for the
next minute or so. But Adam Johnson was a young minor league hockey player. He was he played for
the penguins. Penguins. Yeah. And then he was playing in a European league. Yeah. And he was
over in London playing. And so what happened was there was a his an opponent player came crashing
into him and threw his leg up and sliced his throat with his with with his skate. And so like
I said, just opening up Instagram one day, I was not looking for this. And it really was probably
one of the harder things that I watched. And I really didn't know what I was watching. And I had
gotten too far into it for me to like kind of not know what was going on, because I was like,
well, how is this even on Instagram? And so I forced myself to watch it and to kind of get a
deeper story into that. And so there was kind of some speculation on like, was that intentional?
Was that not intentional? We're not here to cast judgment on that guy. He's obviously been arrested
for his actions, whatever happens to him is for him. But I mean, just one of the most horrific
things that I've ever seen, he immediately dropped down to his to his knees, to his his face and just
the amount of blood of probably just pulling out of him was just just tragic. He couldn't even make
it back to the bench. He got up and tried to skate back to the bench and collapsed. And so
we just want to send condolences to his family, to anybody that had to witness that it was a
tragic thing. But that's a that's kind of the the age we're living in where even if you have the most
purest of intentions on Instagram or TikTok or a Twitter of just like kind of like wishing someone
a happy day and you happen to click the wrong thing, you might you might be exposed to something,
you know, it's right there in your face. So yeah, it was a hard thing to see rest in peace to him.
And that's one of the tragedies that we've actually witnessed. I mean, within the last year,
I mean, just right there in your face. And so hockey is one of those sports that you really,
you know, have to respect. I mean, everybody that plays hockey. I mean, I, you know, I tried inline
hockey for a bit and it's like not only a skating card, but also just like coordination and and
all that. So if we missed out on any of your favorite violent hockey moments, we'd love to
hear from you. Give us a phone call 682-294-0101. Leave us a message. We'd love to hear from you.
Tell us about your favorite hockey moments, violent or otherwise. We just love to talk hockey with
you. If you want to point us in the direction of a good hockey film or documentary, I'm super into
that. The one that I've got on my list is HBO did a documentary on Broad Street Bullies a few
years ago. I've got that on my list. And so if you want to talk hockey, hit us up on our phone line
682-294-0101. Anything else hockey wise, hockey related, you want to bring up? I mean,
we briefly talk about movies, but if we're going to talk hockey movies, violence,
and goon was one of the better ones of the last 10 or so years. I know they did a sequel. I think
I ever saw that. But again, that is a solid movie fictional, but it is written by fans who love hockey.
You can tell that everyone involved was very passionate about hockey. And it's a cool story.
Sean Williams Scott is actually not terrible in it. And yeah, it's got lots of violence.
He was one of those actors that kind of got pegged for like, if he's in it, it's going to be a
just a dumb movie. So yeah, I agree with you. Goon is a great movie. All of the Mighty Ducks movies
are great movies. Miracles a great movie. Cutting Edge. I don't know if you're familiar with that.
I think I ever saw Cutting Edge. Cutting Edge is a romantic comedy where a hockey player
falls in love with a figure skater. Yes, figure skater. I have not seen it, but I've seen the
cover. I can see the cover. Mom and I have watched that many a time. So I was a kid that like,
you know, watched a lot of romantic comedies. I was the only child. So like my mom was watching
them. And I'm like, all right, I'll watch Sleeper's in Seattle for the two years.
That's how I saw Sleeper's in Seattle. That's how I saw Dirty Dancing. Watched a lot of Grease.
Yeah. No, same same story. Only child. Mom watched a lot of movies that dad didn't want to watch.
I watched him too. We love going to Blockbuster and getting those 49 cent deals. Those family
video was ours. Oh, okay. Two movies, seven nights, $1. I love that. So Mom and Pop, video rental
stores, Blockbuster, those were a thing back when we were kids. And you know, if you're younger than
us, we feel sorry for you because the experience of walking into one of those places and just
smelling that wet carpet smell and just begging your mom to let you get a video game as well as
renting a movie. Just need that Genesis game. I need that super booger man on Super Nintendo.
And then like stocking the returns because like you're waiting for someone that just waiting by
the box waiting on the returns just for that next day release to come in. And then you would even
get to the point where you're like, can you call them and see if they're done with that so that
they can oh, it's late? Like call them? What do you think we've been doing? Yeah, I worked at two
different video rental stores. I got lots of fun stories. One was in Denton and it had not been
updated since 1983. We should just have the movies episode. Yeah, I love talking movies.
All right. So thank you hockey for all of the lovely memories and nostalgia. I legit was about to
cry talking talking about the Dallas Stars of 1998, 1999. I mean, like, again, sports is such
a silly thing. It's a romantic thing. It is definitely like, you know, from the Romans like
lions and feasts, fighting and sport and that sort of thing is such a cool thing. And so to be able
to be involved in a community that was able to celebrate a championship like the Dallas Stars
in 1998, 1999 was just a beautiful thing. So hats off to hockey fans and fighters and players
worldwide. We love everything that you're doing. The Dallas Stars will be in the Stanley Cup finals
in the next couple of weeks. The Mavericks are going to be in the NBA finals in the next couple
of weeks. So it is a wonderful time to be a Dallas sports fan. You know, just check us out if you're
from around the DFW area. The Mavericks have a loaded squad. Luca Donchich and Kyrie Irving are
just balling out of their minds right now. So yeah, it's 111.85. We got about seven minutes to go.
Yeah, this is in the bag. Anthony Edwards, maybe next year, not this year, buddy. So before we
take off this weekend here in three days, UFC 302 will be going on. And the headliner for that card
is Islam Makachev versus Dustin Diamond, Poirier. The co-headliner is going to be Sean Strickland
versus Paulo Costa. I don't know if any of those names mean anything to you. I know Dustin Poirier.
Dustin Poirier. That's a household name if you're kind of into that whole thing. So Islam Makachev
is Habib Nurmagomedov's protege heir to his throne. He's a Dagestani wrestler and he's aiming to take
Dustin Poirier down and basically just strangle him. Whereas Poirier, he comes from Lafayette,
Louisiana, and he wants to knock his lights out. So it's going to be a fun fight. The co-man event
I mentioned is Sean Strickland versus Paulo Costa. Sean Strickland had the belt at middle
weight for about a couple months. He got that belt from Israel at Desania and then probably
lost that belt. So right now, he's trying to kind of find his way back up the ranks and he's fighting
Paulo Costa. Now, Paulo Costa is from Brazil. He's the eraser. What's fun about Paulo Costa is
he looks like he's on steroids and many people accuse him of being on steroids. And so he's
just leaning into it. He carries this huge jug that's filled with pink stuff and he's labeled it
Paulo's secret juice. And so he is really, really leaned into the fact that all these people think
that he's on steroids. So he's like, you're going to think that I'm steroids? Fine. And so that's
kind of the storyline is Sean Strickland's like, you got that secret juice. I don't know. Also,
Sean Strickland is kind of an interesting character. He is very much a, I would say,
he's a conservative. He's very conservative. And so he's an outspoken conservative. He's kind of
up shrumps asshole a little bit. But he is one of those guys that when we talked about Dana White
letting you know, someone say anything, he's going to say anything. And so today, the press
conference was very funny. You had Sean Strickland and Paulo Costa kind of going back and forth.
Paulo's English is getting a lot better. And so he's getting a lot quicker with his comebacks and
his trash talking. And so beforehand, it was a little bit harder for you to understand. Sean was
a little caught off guard with that. The face offs were just great. If I just showed the face off
of Vizal Makachev and Dustin Poirier to Parker right before we started this podcast. And those
guys look like they were either going to fight or make sweet love to one another. So looking forward
to the V third to last fight of the night will be Kevin Holland versus Michael Olus J. Chuk.
I think that's how you say it. I don't care how you say his name because Kevin Holland is going
to win that fight because Kevin Holland is from Fort Worth, Texas. Fuck you. And so Fort Worth,
Texas represent Kevin Holland, the trailblazer. Find him on Insta. He's a fun follow. He's a fun
guy to watch. If you have five seconds, look him up on YouTube and just he's literally on his back
telling the guy he's fighting how good he is at fighting. He's like, damn, you are really good.
You just hit me really hard. He's a hilarious fighter. He's always bringing a show. He's always
looking to knock somebody out. And again, he's from Fort Worth. So when we had our Dream Casting
portion of the first podcast, he's a name that I shouted out that I wanted on the podcast. So
let's cheer for him. Let's have him get a win. So that way he's continuing on his hot streak of
being a popular fighter. And let's get him on Breakfast of Champions so he can tell us what
he eats for breakfast. Those are all the fights I really want to talk about. There's some more.
If something interesting pops off, we'll talk about it. Mickey Gall's fighting. He's always a
fun fight to watch. Alex Morono is a very technical fighter and he's a fun one to watch as well. So
looking forward to this UFC fight, USA 302, early prelim cards will be on ESPN Plus and
UFC Fight Pass. The preliminaries are going to be on ESPN 2 and on ESPN Plus. And you got to
spend that cheddar to watch the main card. It is a pay-per-view because these are world class,
world champion athletes. So that wraps up the preview for UFC 302. I see you looking at something
over there. I'm looking, I looked up Kevin Holland because I was curious. Yeah.
He's a fun guy, man. He's super into shoes. Apparently he's a size 13 and has been into
center before. So, Kev, if this makes your way, hit me up at the shop. I got you, center. TX.com.
That's me, my boy Jason. We run the shop in Fort Worth. So I hear your size 13. If you need something,
holler at your boy, Renee over at center. Good luck on your fight. Thank you for the pancakes and
the bacon once again. Sorry about the bacon. Oh no, it's okay. That provided entertainment.
You know, like I said, had I known, I probably wouldn't have indulged, but I didn't know. So,
I had it. It was fine. I didn't die. I'll take my cancer later. So, thank you again for the
pancakes. Thank you again for the hockey talk. We appreciate anybody and everybody that's
listening to our podcast up until this point. We got some lovely mood music in the background.
Oh yeah, really. We appreciate you. If you've heard us before, like I said,
breakfast champions everywhere, 682-294-0101. Give us a call. Let us know your thoughts on
hockey, fights, breakfast foods, the podcast, your favorite hardcore bands.
Holler us just about anything. Thank you, Parker. I appreciate you. We're going to wrap this up.
You want to say thank you or goodbye to anybody? Thanks for listening.
Thanks for listening. Also, we got social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook. If you're
old like us, go drop us a line on there. Give us a follow. Check it out.
Yeah, we'll talk to you next time. Bye.
Bye.