It must be your favourite day of the week because I’ve got a fresh episode of Better Lait Than Never recorded and set to massage your eardrums.
Kicking things off, I started the new episode of BLTN with yet another complaint about winter. While I was thriving under the brown winter, getting hit by a dump of snow and cold over the last few days really ruined my mojo. On the bright side, I did get a new bed amid the deep freeze conditions, and it’s given me a great excuse to do nothing other than sleep all day. Back to business, I started the Oilers talk with a quick recap of last night’s game in Chicago and how that might have been one of the ugliest wins you’ll ever see. While the 2-1 final ended up in our favour, the boys certainly didn’t do themselves many favours on the way there despite going up against a team that is missing most of its best players. Yet, at the same time, isn’t winning hockey games the most important part of the story regardless of how you get there? Winners of 16 of their last 19 games, the Oilers are finding ways to get the job done even when they don’t offer their best effort, and that’s a really nice trait to have given the climb they face to get back in the playoffs. The good news is that the Oilers’ best players are playing like their best players, and it’s no surprise that the success we’re seeing right now is directly tied to those individuals raising their level of play. Lastly, I wrapped up the episode with another Righteous Sack Beating and a fresh round of voicemails to get your take on everything that’s been happening since last week’s episode. Oh, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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Bye everybody bye everybody Welcome to better ah [ __ ] I’m not actually inside a women’s prison at the moment the horniness just went up to like 11: 11 afternoon good afternoon at least say a big [ __ ] you to Nick must go too TI Tai One More Kiss Me he did though the ever with back milk better late than turn it down let’s get started better late than ever episode 125 can you believe I’ve done these for 125 weeks no I guess there’s a couple episodes there there’s a couple weeks
There was multiple episodes in a week I suppose can you believe I’ve done 124 now 125 episodes of this all one take all one take you think I’m stopping in re-recording hell no hell no I was trying to get Frank Sali on the episode today but turns out he’s got bigger
Things to do than jump on a all better L than ever with bag milk I just think that I’ve got we’ve got Frank coming up for the Jasper pond hockey tournament here in a couple of weeks and I just wanted to talk to him about the
Experience we had a blast last year so I’m going to try and get him on maybe next week we’ll see if we can get Frank Sali on or I’ll just start doing the bit like the Jimmy Kimmel Show when he goes and apologize to Matt Dam ran out of
Time something like that you know we’re going to kick off the podcast as we always do with a shout out to the audio department go book some studio time with the AUD department.com studio time right through there I demand that you do it I demand it going to start off with a complaint
Me versus Mother Nature continues if you live in Edmonton you know why do you live in Alberta you live in the Prairies frankly you know why here I’ve been on this podcast for the last handful of weeks glowing thriving pumped about the way there was no snow
In Edmonton the weather was mild take my dog out I said probably I think it might have been last week or the week before it doesn’t matter I said this is the greatest winter I’ve had with my dog so far where we can go out it was like plus
Eight plus n we’d cruise around even if it was Zero Zero’s casual Zero’s cool man outside today I was shoveling some snow Shake Castle milk before I started recording it is [ __ ] cold outside and it drives me nuts drives me nuts matches your cold dead heart though Zing it’s very rude
Satan it just sucks looking at the forecast don’t normally do weather reports on the podcast but when you get extreme cold warning a long period of extreme cold temperatures and windshield this weekend air temperatures could drop up to – 55 minus 55 with the windshell what the [ __ ] is
That no thank you why do we live here why do we live here according to the weathernetwork.com a long period of extreme cold temperatures and wind chills this weekend air temperatures will continue to fall through the end of the week with the coldest values expected by Saturday morning the
Temperatures will drop to near -30° C tonight with wind chills near -40 over the weekend morning temperatures will reach -40° C in many areas wind chills will approach -50 slight Improvement in temperatures forecast early next week but certainty is low uh but certainly is low and below normal temperatures are likely to
Continue not great extreme cold weather warning we were thriving last couple of weeks last couple of months I should say this is ridiculous this is what the audio department pays for you know this isn’t what they pay for this kind of cold weather it’s nonsense it’s nonsense I
Say I just hope it warms up for Jasper you know what I mean Jasper pond hockey tournament coming up the third week of January it is now January 10th as I’m recording this we’re going out there we’re going to the Jasper pond hockey tournament it is presented by our new
Friends that you’ll hear in the voicemail at Booster Juice but I’m excited to go play some hockey it’s great you go play on make lake mrid at the beautiful JPL it’s exactly where you want to be but I’ll talk about that more when I do the plug
For Booster Juice coming up in the voicemail I’m just excited about it all I care about though is that the temperatures heat up slightly give me an extra 10 degrees minus5 minus 10 perfect I will deal with that all day to play a little shinny play a little pond hockey it’s
Going to be fantastic other things that are not so negative I got a new bed finally talked about a little bit last week already congratulated me on the new bed but has finally arrived a king-size bed last night by the way M Miss was staying out at a family member’s place just because
It was b a big a dump of snow yesterday and she didn’t want to drive so yeah stay out there no problem I got the entire king-size bed to myself last night night one it showed up I moved it in got it set wash the sheets set them
Up everything’s nice me and my buddy Frank not saravali the dog by the way I got a new Frank microphone set up here so if he comes around I’ll just switch over now I’m talking into a different microphone over here but this one I’m in fully in control of and it is handheld
So I’ve got a different Frank Mike situation set up just in case he wants to wander on down in here and I’m going to switch back to the main one see what I did there but I got delay in that thing last night Frank and I we didn’t
Even bother touching he’s just like bro I’ll see you in the morning I’m like my guy see you you know what I did did last night just for funsies I fell asleep this way I didn’t mean to fall asleep this way but I did it I slept across my
Bed have you ever done that in a king-sized bed I slept across not top to bottom as you would expect I’m perpendicular baby I slept the whole at least a couple hours like that and I woke up and I’m like what happened oh yeah I’m not in the right
Orientation the configuration for my bed SLS sleep is wrong so I spun 45° but still uh no 90° spun 90° my geometry is not so good it’s so good if you don’t have a king-sized bed you should you absolutely should and free plug shout out to Andy I have some family members
With some Endy mattresses so they’re like you should just go get one so I got one I I got to tell you watching the thing it comes in a box you’ve seen the commercials you’ve all seen them watching that thing inflate over the course of two three minutes very
Satisfying didn’t expect that didn’t expect that but there you go KingSize bed bag milk is happy we’re all happy sleeping better feel good rest up feel young the next thing I wanted to talk about um before we get into the news was my boy quads are you talking about me
I’m talking about you buddy my boy quads if you don’t know him at all quads is our editor and chief of the nation Network he is also the editor at conu army.com does some really good work he’s been a guest on the show a couple of
Times love to have him thank you well anyway what you don’t know about quads is that he is a big Lego guy and in his apartment in Vancouver he’s got some pretty intricate Lego setups set up in there I do he’s been telling me for a while now
That he thinks I should at least buy myself one Lego set just to see what it’s like as a means of something that quads and I talk about sometimes is just like how do you turn work off how do you shut the brain off from pointing at
Direction a just to settle it down and so he goes recommended Lego so what did I do I went on Amazon and I found a Lamborghini Kosh from back in the ’90s you remember those [ __ ] sweet whip that was my Dream Whip when I was a little kid
Lamborghini Kosh Lego set for 20 bones and I started building it last night 282 pieces I started building it last night ended up having a good time with it I don’t know that I necessarily want to turn into a Lego guy I’m not sure that I
Really want to display my Lego around my house quad is very proud of his Lego he and his M are actually very proud of his Lego but my Lamborghini Kosh I’m absolutely going to put up in my office so I’ll send you guys pictures I’ll post
Them on social anyway when I’m done I’m about halfway done the back end of the car is done right now looks real sick probably the only time in my life I’ll ever own a Lamborghini Kos so you know what quads I’m going to play a little
Lego he was very excited for me last night I was sending you cases and ways to stack cars and if you want to be a car Lego guy I was telling you how you can do it and I was also pointing out some Ninja Turtle Lego that you can have
And I was thinking about other things that old people like you might like and I was having a good time I [ __ ] love Lego he does he really loves Lego so anyway my first fora into Lego is that weird by the way my older brother he
Used to love Lego when we were growing up he had Lego all over the places but he didn’t really buy the sets as they come presented now he had a bunch of loose blocks in a big tub and he would just build these cool things cuz that’s
How his brain works mine doesn’t work that way so when I would play Lego with him when I was a little kid I would just build these square houses over and over again he’ be like why are you building another Square House of like me no know how to
Build last night following the instructions very nice very nice I can follow these instructions never built anything like this before though Lamborghini Kos probably finish it tonight don’t mean to brag it’s too cold to [ __ ] go outside these days so what else am I going to do
You know on a programming note before I get to the news I don’t know if I’m going to have an episode of bltn next week and I’m going to Loop you in on why so if you saw the news from is that November playmaker our parent company got acquired by better Collective a
Company out of Denmark so next week on Tuesday I’m flying out so I won’t be on o radio next week either I’m flying to Toronto Tuesday Morning uh lunchtime I think I’ll be at the Chili’s by 7 a.m. um flying to Toronto going to meet the new overlords the new bosses the new
Business daddies so I’m coming back on Thursday so I don’t know if when I’m going to mix in bltm there kind of depends on when I get back on Thursday I might try and knock one out when I get home on Thursday but then the very next
Day I go to Jasper for the pond hockey tournament so it’s a very very busy week for your boy so if I don’t have a podcast episode next week listen to this one twice that’s the way to do it just listen to this one twice got it good IID
Hate to give you a best of episode the third week of January but I might have to I don’t want to but I might have to so anyway expect no podcast next week and if you get one that’s cool that means I worked hard maybe I’ll do
One maybe if I maybe I’ll do one Monday maybe I’ll do one Monday we can do like something different maybe either way I’ll try to figure something out even if it’s just a short one quick one just to say hi maybe I’ll just Loop Jay into recording something with me when
We’re in Toronto maybe either way I just want to let you guys know ahead of time but let’s get to the News the news is brought to you by Alberta Blue Cross there’s only one thing better than sharing memories and that’s making new ones Alberta Blue Cross travel insurance protects your memories and more wherever travel takes you visit ab. bluecross.com Outside and how cold it is you could absolutely join us in Arizona if you go to Nation gear.com listen the Alberta Blue Cross they cover me for everything dental vision sometimes I get a nice massage I’ll because I’m a member Alberta Blue Cross starting off with the news as we record
Today as we record today January 10th 3:30 p.m. mountain standard time the Edmonton Oilers are in a playoff spot yes let’s go baby it’s been a minute it’s been a climb now they’ve been in a playoff spot here for a minute but let’s look at this now let’s break this down
Because currently or’s played 37 games they are on an eight game or eight game heater we know this Seattle’s oddly won seven games in a row but they’re still behind and we have the tiebreaker and we have some games in hand so 37 games played the orders are 215 and one they
Are at 43 points that is two points behind the Nashville Predators with four games at hand for the first wild card spot in the Western Conference have you got are you following me so far are you good excellent looking at the Pacific Though the Los Angeles Kings have lost six in a row including last night’s game they are now only four points ahead of the adinton Oilers remember when that was like 15 points or 10 points or something like that only four now they have played the same number of games so
It’s not like the Oilers have games in hand over LA but if La keeps slipping 3 four and three in their last 10 games the Oilers are going to catch them remember our boys at 8-2 in their last 10 games they have now won 16 of their last 19 games very
Hot very very hot very hot so hot looking at Vegas the others are eight points in front of or behind Vegas and you go bag milk that is quite a sizable Gap but the others have three games in hand behind the Vegas golden knights or over the
Golden Knights so if they win let’s just assume they win those three games at hand right that’s an extra six points so if I go 43 plus 6 that brings me to 49 points and all of a sudden they are only two points behind the Vegas golden
Knights oh my Lord let’s go baby Vancouver though they’re annoying 72 and one in their last 10 begs by the way three and seven in their last 10 they are kind of falling apart right now hate to see it just kidding I love to see it
We love to see it I want you to talk more about Vancouver and how they’re doing wonderfully and nobody expected them to do anything the thing about Vancouver is they are they’re playing really well again 72 and one in their last 10 they’re on a three-game win streak they
Just swept the New York Road Trip um they’re playing good hockey but if you are a Believer and a subscriber to underlying numbers you look at their underlying numbers and you go this doesn’t really feel sustainable their PDO is highest in the NHL by fair margin
And basically if you don’t know p is a is a is an addition of your save percentage your team save percentage and your shooting percentage generally it floats around once so the Canucks are sizeably over that they’re due for a regression at some point just like when
The Oilers nothing was going right for them at the beginning of the season they were due for a regression back to the mean Vancouver probably is too but the thing is they own the tiebreaker over Edmonton they’ve already beat us three times this season very annoying you all
Remember it we don’t need to cover it we’ll move on the point point I’m getting at is I see a roadway I see a pathway to at least second place in the Pacific Division given that we’re not even at the halfway mark yet I see a
Pathway to home ice in the playoffs I see it I see it let’s go baby oops didn’t mean to push that thank you Taylor um it’s an amazing place to be given where we started isn’t it so as we record today the orders are in a playoff spot where a
Month ago Doom and Gloom around here myself included extending the winning streak to eight games nothing solves your problem quite like an eight game heater go check that out go check that out at Nation gear.com against a team that they really should have dominated shouldn’t they yeah they really should have dominated
The chag Blackhawks last night the Blackhawks have basically most of their team on the IR including Conor Bard who was out for 68 weeks with a fractured jaw he had to get surgery that news came out today I actually feel bad for the kid that’s a bummer to have as somebody
Who lost Conor McDavid in his rookie season saw how that affects the team affects just the general morale around a team that kind of sucks or really sucks yeah that’s that’s tough news and I feel for Conor Bard because he’s obviously special player um but I think it was
Tyler that said it on oers Nation radio the other day he’s going to have to learn and he will learn from this because ultimately he’s going to look at cutting into Center getting lit up by a dude that’s twice his size he’s probably not going to do that
Again so it sucks though sucks to see but back to last night’s game against Chicago I’m not going to spend too much time on it other than say that is arguably the ugliest win I have ever seen in my life the Oilers managed to walk away
With a 2-1 win now there was the two disallowed goals in there the first one I had a problem with because I think that if Chris noblock would have challenged it it probably would have been reversed the no goal call that said it was called no goal on the ice they
Would have taken a penalty if it didn’t go their way okay okay the ORS PK is really good though killed off the last 13 in a row I thought it was worth the gamble in that moment I just did Chris noblock come on man come on man throw
The towel I guess I’m just used to when Jay Woodcraft was the coach and we had Jeremy kopal as the video coach and they would challenge everything remember that game where Jerry Jeremy koopal called three challenges and all three of them got wiped off the board who’s the new
Video coach how are we supposed to get excited about you if you don’t even call what are those called coaches challenges doesn’t take timeouts either naby interesting I mean the team’s playing very well so I guess you don’t need timeouts all that much when you’re playing well but interesting to note
Nevertheless I just thought that was interesting and then on the second one flashbacks all of us oils fans we all got flashbacks to the playoffs from two years ago didn’t we Western Conference finals what is offside what is possession there’s a debate apparently because the NHL doesn’t really know what
Their rules are who knows what is NHL offside anymore you would think that based on a standard set by the kale Mar goal review two years ago in the playoffs that what Leon dry Idol did last night where he did a little Dipsy in a doodle at the Blue Line maintained
Some semblance of possession would have counted as a good goal right no that is not right that is not how it went in fact everything about that just was frustrating we had to sit through about a 10-minute challenge for the NHL to not be able to figure it out definitively
And since it was called a goal on the ice I don’t know how you can go ahead and wave it off just because you feel like it maybe there was a pixel of a frame that was super blurry that made Leon look offside but there was no angle
That was definitive for me and the NHL again just cannot get out of their own way cannot do anything right and it is increasingly frustrating to watch them do these kind of things and I don’t even know what else to say about it other than that you know I just
Don’t it’s incredbly frustrating when the rules just don’t matter or you don’t understand what they mean or they just you don’t know what’s going on ever and I think that it just needs to change it needs to change and no better example of it than seeing Conor McDavid
Get frustrated last night by that call Cuz again it just goes to what is offside now who is offside how can we even know right here’s what Connor said goal years ago do you have an opinion on the dry cidal one that all similar what did you
Think of I I do I mean obviously if it takes you 15 minutes to to determine if it’s offside or not um it probably doesn’t really matter um you know um you know I talked to the lman after ultimately it’s not not their call I guess you know obviously they said it
Came down from the league but you know you zoom in you zoom in and you keep zooming in until you can’t zoom in anymore and I guess it’s offside so um you know what um these are calls that uh you know change games and ultimately it didn’t go
Our way you know that was a big call um what really really hurt them and um I thought it should have been on side I mean it’s kind of possession too right like the argument of possession um that whole debate can start again um you know
It was such a close one you’d like to see it you know I think the NHL uses the analogy dead wrong right you know if it’s it’s dead wrong or something like that I don’t know what they say like they want to be clear and obvious right
Um that one’s certainly not clear and obvious Conor McDavid a little spicy don’t you love it I love when he sticks up for himself and sticks up for the Oilers and just speaks out because his voice carries weight so to see him with that opinion I you know he must have been rattles
That’s Conor Matt you know you know anyway the NHL can’t get anything right it’s very very frustrating so with that I guess I will just uh I guess to the NHL rule book I’m just going to shoot the rule book because it doesn’t really matter okay watch me
Go fatality thank you see what I did there I shot the rule book like I’m Kid Rock something I don’t like remember when we shot those Bud Lights [ __ ] weird time to be alive anyway last night’s win over Chicago I think I said this on after
Dark last night with Erin I just say you know what you take the points you get on the plane you get the [ __ ] out of Chicago that’s the only takeaway from last night’s game outside of steuart Skinner was excellent last night so that’s the last thing I want to
Kind of touch on by the way Zach kimman two goals disallowed for all time sake for the culture uh but the other thing I want to touch on is steuart Skinner over his last 15 games got it 50 over his last 15 games he has a save percentage
Of 929 and a goals against average of 1.93 those numbers are electric good isn’t it amazing what you can do when your goalie is stopping a bunch of pucks and right now the Oilers do not win that game last night against Blackhawks without Stuart Skinner full stop he was
Great last night he was the best player on the ice and again without him the ERS do not win that hockey game so I just wanted to give a quick salute to steuart Skinner for the work that he’s done recently and just the work that he’s
Done like I said over the last 15 games the other thing that we’re talking about around here is getting Zack Heim into the All-Star Game hilarious that he’s on Pace for over 50 goals 55 goals remember his career high in Toronto was 41 points never had a hatrick ever he’s
Now got four with the Oilers he’s got three this season it deserves to be an All-Star and to send him back to Toronto as an All-Star with the Oilers hilarious got to happen so vote for Zack hman to go to the all-star game let’s make a big push here over the next month
Or whenever voting closes I don’t really pay attention to this stuff but Zach Heyman to the All-Star Game you deserve it just for the ls even just for the ls looking at some of the guys who are going Conor McDavid already going last night picked up a point extended his
Point streak to eight games he’s got 14 points over those eight games McDavid doing McDavid things slowly climbing up the leaderboard though those boys up top they’re they’re not giving it up lightly are they the other guy who’s certainly heating up Leon drle now has seven goals
In his last 10 games overall he has goals in eight straight games against Chicago I said this last week and I’ll say it again now it does not get better for the Edmonton Oilers than to have Leon dry Sidle heating up the way he is down the stretch when they absolutely
Need him right right of course and that’s where we’re going to wrap up the news for our friends at Alberto Blue Cross visit ab. bluecross.com that’s making new ones Alberta bluec Cross travel insurance protects your memories and more wherever travel takes you travel is going to take us to
Arizona and I’m excited about it I’m excited about it I’m excited about it you’re listening to B late and hugus your podcast for all of Scotland’s needs he Scotland food we we do some haggers hey come on how Scotland better late than haggas right better late than haggus sure for
Our friends at betway provided that you are 19 plus and could do so responsibly which I am it’s time to talk about a little betting and last week I was bragging about how hot I am or was was being the key word there how hot I was and when you’re Sports better and
Especially when you bet on your favorite team that is the Edmonton Oilers things can swing on you in a hurry and last night that was the case as I got cleaned out last night against Chicago Blackhawks I had Oilers to win on the puck line so that means winning by two
Goals or more did not happen I had uh Oilers to win over six and a half total goals and Ryan nen Hopkins to score that was a juicy one that I thought I was going to get no dice I had Oilers to win and Leon dry cdle to score two points I
Was like easy against Chicago come on man he did not the only thing I won last night the only thing I won last night that kept me alive kept me afloat I bet on Conor McDavid and Leon dyle both to score at plus 250 so a $5 bet turned into
$17.50 that was the only thing that kept me alive so I’m actually down 250 on my bet for the night better down 250 than down all of them you know also just as a bonus bet on Oilers Nation radio yesterday I bet on Connor Brown to score
I was just like if ever there was a situation when Connor Brown is going to score it’s got to be against a Blackhawks team that doesn’t even have an NHL roster on the ice they’ve got their AHL roster on the ice and here I am betting on Conor Brown and what does
He do nothing I wasn’t planning on using you Satan but I appreciate that you what you wanted you had dark thoughts about Conor Brown you might as well just let me say them I watched your face as you lost your money he had a couple opportunities
To at least get a shot on goal and you didn’t get squat Mister that’s life of a sports better sometimes I suppose again I want to give a shout out to our friends at betway provided that you were 19 plus and could do so responsibly the pendulums she
Swings my friends and this week it is ice cold guess the [ __ ] what you’re listening to bettered late than ever brought to you by bag milks Alfa Romeo barbecue and foot massage you want to see a man boy I’ll show you a man kick me in the Jimmy Rous sa meating
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Course the sponsors of the righteous sack beating the reason that this segment exists and for me what annoys me very very much lately is the trend that every major company has on Earth which is Robo customer service now I guarantee you have called company ABC D does not
Matter who it is and you do not get to talk to a person you have to talk to a robot and it goes to one of those things where it’s like if you would like to leave a message or speak to a real person put their extension in now and
Like who knows the extension number I’m not anybody’s family I’m trying to get some customer service here and then you have to jump through all these hoops you got to jump through all these different kind of measures and levels of where the menu is and if you don’t pick the right
One it Loops you back to the starting point and so what I end up doing is I just start hammering the zero key over and over and over and over and over again and just go until eventually I go somewhere and then I’ll get one of those things where
It goes your entry is invalid please start again and then it sends you to the main menu of that same Robo customer service agent and you start back at at item one this past week all I wanted to do was check on my TV package I wanted
To get rid of a couple of things I want to swap them out for a couple of different things so what happened was the the TV station Paramount I paid for that channel for a long time just because it was part of my package and I noticed recently that they pulled it out
Of the package I have because they want you to subscribe to Paramount plus which in itself is another righteous sack beating that there’s everything is just a streaming service now nobody wants Paramount plus nobody and yet instead of having your own channel which you did which was Spike which was TNN before
That you just take it off the air and you go subscribe to our shitty streaming service so my point is I’m going to swap that channel out that I pay for for a different one or I’m going to get a cheaper TV package that’s all I want to
Do but if you thought that I could make an easy phone call and speak to a person that could help me with that impossible you’ve got to tab dance these voice voice robots for 15 minutes before you actually get to talk to a person and guess what once I spoke to somebody they
Were very helpful they solved the problem very quickly but to get to them took forever and I don’t know why this is a thing I myself have worked at a couple of different call centers in my life as a younger man one of them when I was in
Australia by the way this was just a quick aside when I was in Australia I worked at a call center and my job was calling people to convert their gas and electricity provider I would call them up I’d be like hey can we talk about your gas and electricity and people like
Oh [ __ ] off Mate A lot of people thought I was American they would tell me off for stealing an Australian person’s job I’m like no no I’m actually in Australia but I’m from Canada and they go yeah all right and they would hang up on me fine
Eight hour shifts of getting hung up on over and over and over again I get it that sucks man but on an inbound call why do I have to jump through these hoops is there so few people that want to work at those jobs that we can’t have
At least somebody directing traffic this reminds me of that episode from the office when Pam kept directing the guy away the one who wanted to Institute the rooc callar or else she would lose a job is that what happened do all these companies are they just trimming their
Bottom line so that all of us collectively that our customers have to suffer that’s what it feels like that’s what it feels like when you have to dance these Robo Tunes I don’t know the steps I don’t know the moves just let me talk to a person man you want to see a
Man boy I’ll show you a man kick me in the Jimmy you’re listening to better late than sleepy the podcast for all your sleeping oh [ __ ] I’ve got the wrong podcast wake up L the voicemail the voicemail the voicemail the voicemail brought to you by our friends at Booster
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Tournament in the meantime however I will be going to my nearest Booster Juice location and pumping and I mean pumping strawberry Sunshine’s down my gullet maybe a mango hurricane those are my two favorites now should we look through the menu at Booster Juice and see what they have is there anything
That’s new that I’m just I always get the same two items all the time I just do strawberry Sunshine mango hurricane so let me look at some of the other ones that we’ve got here oh they’ve got some nice juices just some nice apple juice a carrot
Juice a ginger Hammer what is in ginger Hammer apples carrots and ginger Hail to the kale kale apples gingers lemons B that sounds lovely Heavenly Horizon ooh apples lemons Ginger pineapple the funny thing about having ginger in these is like I always go ew ginger in there
Really I think of Ginger when I eat sushi right that’s kind of where my mind goes it’s delicious trust the artists at Booster Juice that is my that is what I’m saying to you that is what I’m saying to you but when we get to over to
The the Smoothie menu this is where I really shine this is really really where I shine Hawaiian sunset is also another one that rules raspberry banana mango passion fruit guava and vanilla frozen yogurt come on man but here’s my jam mango hurricane mangoes strawberries guava passion fruit yogurt maybe get
Them to throw some bananas in there sometimes if you’re feeling frisky come on shout out to Booster Juice for joining me as the host of or the sponsor of the voicemail I’m very very grateful looking forward to going to grab some Booster Juice later Nick we’re going to
Start off with you hey B I just want to clear my righteous sack beating from last week talking about the like my my credit card not working at Subway and the movie theater in the states ah yeah so if you remember Nick was having issues down in the states with his
Credit card and I felt like he had a [ __ ] credit card there was something I was weird about here where they go we can’t take this here we’ll get your Canadian funny money out of here there’s something like that so I’m looking forward to this followup because Nick I
Was very confused very confused indeed um I’ll just say this like most every place I’ve gone to except canting credit cards like it’s not not a problem all right it’s only a few I’ve been to Subway and so we’re calling out this one specific Subway location okay movie
Theater M which I both add cinemar is a National Corporation in the states I don’t interesting that they wouldn’t work there it’s not like you were at just some random Ma and PAW theater you know what I mean interesting go on I don’t [ __ ] understand I guess they just have old
Ass machines because you know Montana’s kind of redneck they just got these old ass machines that aren’t programmed to accept creating credit cards or maybe just have a blood Vengeance with RBC maybe they have um now I’m thinking about this maybe they have some kind of fee some kind of
Uh transaction slon conversion fee that they get charged on the credit card side of their business and I wonder if their margins are thin and they just don’t want to eat into that margin with an additional fee from the credit card company like if you buy depending on which credit card you use
For varying situations the fee that the vendor gets charged for your use of that credit card varies um so I wonder if there’s something in there maybe but it’s just really [ __ ] annoying once that happens yes and then you start second guessing yourself and you’re sitting there like well I’m gonna
Go buy this [ __ ] or I’m going to go sit down at this restaurant well what if my Visa doesn’t work yep what if I eat a good meal and I’m sitting there and my Visa is not going through because it’s a Canadian credit card I’m like do I have
Enough cash in my wallet to cover this probably not and then you start thinking about all this stuff and it’s really [ __ ] annoying which is what the righteous sack beting is about is these Meer annoyances and yeah that probably doesn’t happen to most people but the fact it happened is pretty [ __ ]
Annoying how the hell does a Canadian credit card not work so I think what we’ve learned here from Nick is that there’s just a couple of specific instances where his card didn’t work he got really worked up about it I was accusing him of having a shitty credit card now I’m wondering I’m
Thinking it through is there some kind of vendor fee that those te those guys don’t want to pay that’s what my guess is that’s my new guess is there’s a vendor fee of some kind Ben you’re up just listen to one of the episodes um and I have heard that the uh Alpha
Romeo Alpha Romeo has been so it has been sold Ben we say goodbye to my beloved Alpha Romeo stalia wherever you are I hope the new driver is treating you well personally sorry that’s just my brother uh we’re all Brothers out here brother uh this is a really sad te goodbye
Um Arnold will also be very sad yep give a moment of silence quickly thank you goodbye Alpha Romeo thank you Ben yep my beloved Alpha Romeo stalo it’s out there somewhere someone else is on a day like today using the hand warmers and the seat warmers and they’re enjoying them
With the lumbar support I miss you Alpha Romeo I miss you good afternoon hello it’s Dary day here in the northeast of England it’s the veritable true righteous red and whites against the Saudi Arabian oil Twan of Newcastle who we hate everyone hates them come on come
On Sunland it’s Dary day we’re going to fight everyone um let’s not fight let’s fight if you hate Newcastle clap your hands if you hate Newcastle clap your hands if you hate Newcastle hate Newcastle hate New Castle CL hands and that’s one of the better songs we can actually sing
Which is betterly than never acceptable the thing about soccer fans sorry football fans donkey some of the chance you guys have are unbelievable unbelievable some of the European football soccer fan chance like when my favorite one was not my favorite it’s weird to say it that way
But when Queen Elizabeth died and the Irish fans had Lizzies in a box as their chant when they were playing against some english team I was just like oh man it’s cold over there you guys are cold as ice maybe you send me a DM in the old
Group chat and let me know some of those uh less than Savory chance that you guys might have maybe some of the ones that don’t want to play here you know good afternoon I’ve just eaten a packet of German sausage H that was it if I’m
Going to eat a German sausage I would like a review or if you’re going to eat a German sausage I would like a review you can’t just come and humble brago your eating I wouldn’t just be sitting here being like oh man this fictional burrito that I’m enjoying
Is so lovely and I just I I really made it to Perfection and it’s grilled nicely and there’s a nice Bean to write to meat ratio that is just unbelievable that is more acceptable to me donkey than just being like I I ate a great burrito I want to know about the sausage
What happened with the sausage don’t [ __ ] hoard your sausage Knowledge from me donkey come on man okay B milk long you or actually uh Ben this one sounds like [ __ ] bro so I’m hoping I can hear it but if I can hear it we’re just going to we’re going to move on Just that’s what it sounds like to me long do you think it’s gonna take David to reach a thousand points that I that I can that I can solve uh we’re GNA skip that message Ben I see you got another couple on the board here so
We’ll be okay but I you know before the season started I would have said this year I think he needed like 160 points or something to get there I would have said it this year I don’t know that he’s going to get there this year though I’m
Not betting against him if you had odds for me today can Conor McDavid get to a th000 points this season and it was like juicy enough to chase I would absolutely be all over the yes 100% I believe he can do it if anybody can do it he can do
It but my guess is probably the first 10 games of next year that is my that’s my bet that is my bet unless I get offered a better bet which I will bet on that bet as a hedge on my other bet got it good Ben you’re back again okay so the
Oilers are something like 15 and3 was not Lu and now back to their former s um what do you think gross happened with wickcraft do you think he just lost confidence from like some of the players he wasn’t playing like the third and fourth Ling guys I think
That legitimately like I thought you were G to say where’s Jay wof now if I’m Jay wof right now I’m on a beach somewhere spending the Oilers money and I am not watching any hockey I’m just dialed into getting better as a coach maybe he’s watching other teams I don’t
Know I actually love to know how much hockey’s watching right now is he watching any Oilers games does he skip the Oilers highlights like if he’s watching sports center and the Oilers highlights come on does he watch it love to know that but I I just think
That at the beginning of the year everything that was going wrong was going wrong and while some of that is probably Jay woodcross fault I think that it was everybody was up their own asses with all of the all of the pressure and the expectations and sometimes we’re people and we forget
That and I think that I really do I don’t know that they would have rebounded in the way that they have under KN block with Jay wraft obviously I don’t know that but they probably would have because the team was way better than their results were early in
The season now I’m not complaining we’re not looking backwards we’re looking forward I’m a knobby man I’m a knob gobler and he’s doing a great job Ben that’s why they were bad or what do you think think personally I think kind of lost confidence in those
Lower line people and there’s that and I think that some of those guys weren’t playing as much as they probably should I think that wood Croft was fighting for his job he knew he was kind of on the line so he’s playing Connor and Leon a lot unfortunately Connor and Leon
Weren’t Connor and leyon the way we expect them to be and when those guys are producing at a lower rate than expected by themselves Plus some of the other players newon Hopkins was uh not performing at the level he needed to be Matias atol wasn’t playing at the level
He needed to be buard wasn’t producing like Bard today steuart Skinner wasn’t anywhere close to the numbers I read off earlier all of that Death By A Thousand Cuts it was Conor said it earlier in the season Death By A Thousand Cuts and I really believe it and
Uh I think the team maybe just needed a spark and it’s like Wake Up Now y you got to go but I just find it weird because Woody has been such a good coach and then obviously I started sucking I just think that Woody is going
To be a good coach wherever he ends up next Ben I really really do wherever Woodcraft ends up next he’s going to be a very good coach for that franchise and it’s going to bump me up because I still love the guy but again I’m not looking
Backwards I’m a knob goobler now and I’m happy about Chris noblock the guy gets his haircut every other day as far as I’m concerned you can set your watch to a haircut like that and I respect it and I think that he’s doing good on the ice and he’s building confidence and I
Actually I’m going to do it again I’m apologizing to Paul coffee for not thinking he was going to do anything productive with the defense but he is you’ve got guys that are playing much much better on the back end and I think Paul coffee deserves a lot of credit
There too so the spark like you said was clearly needed now did they pull the pin on Woodcraft too early my opinion is yes but the results prove otherwise so what the hell do I know you know I know you’re always wrong so that’s what I know
Big milk um I I got a question for your company sure and I don’t know where to ask it so I’m asking you um feel free I am the company I will speak on behalf of all of our employees in the entire organization Nick are you ready I’m
Ready let’s go as far as I know this was never addressed um and I’m not even sure people know it exists um better late than never is tied for second my second favorite worlders Nation Podcast thank you second that’s pretty good it’s real life oh I was I was wondering if you’re
Going to say real life or onr so I do three if if you’re just listening to this and you don’t know what else I do I do three podcasts for the nation Network onr Oilers Nation radio that is the one I started probably 2016 I’m going to guess probably 2016 I started that
Podcast real life I’ve been on forever um and then this one as I mentioned earlier is now 125 episodes deep so back to you Nick my favorite podcast was W’s world I thought W’s World died there is not been a new W’s World uploaded to Apple podcast since mid November um
There was that notice that came out and said hey subscribe to the new W world but no new W world ever came to the platform I thought it died I thought it became the new North by North gretz oh nice poll by you North by North gretz
That was the very first podcast I did for the nation Network a thousand years ago as it feels like do I find out that hey today there’s like seven new episodes of W’s world only available on Spotify now I don’t want to sign up for that for multiple reasons one my credit
Card’s [ __ ] but I don’t want sign up for a platform to listen to One podcast when it should already be available on the my other podcast yeah it should like I just so I’m asking you um do you know or can you check is there like a
Specific like valid reason why W’s world isn’t on Apple podcast and only on Spotify or is it just like Brett forgot or something um because I’m no business major but I know if you have a product and you’re not making that product available to a large chunk of the market
You’re failing um thank you well I’m glad you brought this to me uh as somebody who does not do any work on W’s World whatsoever I am the perfect person to ask the question the answer is I don’t know I honestly it should be on Apple podcast
There’s no reason why it shouldn’t be so what I’m going to do is I’ll send a message to Brett Brett is the producer of W’s world and I’ll just ask where the Apple link is I I just I honestly don’t know what the answer is
So yeah I I I couldn’t tell you why it’s not on Apple podcast what I can tell you with certainty though is that he records W records new episodes of W’s world every Thursday every Thursday afternoon after real life gets recorded So at Nation HQ the The Studio B schedule is
Real life from 1:30 to 2:30 or 1:30 to 3ish 245 is depending on how long we go for and then starting at 3 is W’s world 3: to 4 3 to 4:30 whatever they do so he has been recording episodes why are they not on Apple podcast you’re going to have to
Stop uh and ask Steve Jobs if he does not respond to your text messages you’re going to have to reach out to Tim Cook and if neither of those two know the answer we’re going to to find out for Brett so those are three options I’ll send a message to Brett
After I’m done recording here Nick there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to find it I just don’t know the answer I’m not going to lie to you and say that I do what I do know is that they record I see them record I see them record
Those episodes so good question fair question I’ll last breath for you FIFA Las Vegas you up FIFA Las Vegas are we recording audio here so what’s happening here on my screen and I’m just going to we’re going to ride this out together FIFA Las Vegas has
Left a voicemail that is 20 38 seconds long so far we are 9 seconds in there’s not been a single sound other than just kind of like pocket dialing did you pocket dial the voicemail FIFA Las Vegas let’s see 27 26 25 24 still nothing can I hear background noise a little bit
Nothing coming through FIFA Las Vegas an attempt was made but it did not work thank you for chiming in we’re going to continue on with the Booster Juice voicemail with a uh who do we got here we’ve got Ari Ari what do you go what you got going on Ari Conor McDavid
Postgame bag milk off the top rope like he’s Logan Paul in the Royal Rumble just burying the league are you talking about when did this come in oh this came in last night so yeah about the uh the offside review Ari I agree back to you
We played it a little bit earlier when Connor like I said when Connor’s spicy and that is arguably as spicy as he gets at least in the media anyway people tend to take notice so Ari I’m with you so far what else you got to say about it I
Am following on with baited breath you zoom in you zoom in until you can’t zoom in anymore man it was a great answer by him actually it was really good I haven’t seen him that fired up in a while yep but I don’t know what offside is and I
Don’t think anyone else knows what offside is it’s funny right like I said the same line earlier it’s what is offside all of us that have either played hockey or watched hockey for any length of time you know what offside is supposed to be what it is that’s a different
Question entirely that is just a completely different question entirely and it’s all the League’s fault [ __ ] Matt Des Shan was 15t offside 10 years ago now we have to sit through these ply little frame by frame frame Recaps on a tiny iPad is just completely ridiculous
Ari I agree with you a th% what is offside who knows the Booster Juice vo continues what say you random caller also with the um Chicago game can we finally say that our goalie stole us one yes because I think Stewart Skinner stole us that game to be honest with you
100% he did Ste without steuart Skinner last night the Oilers lose and that would have been way more embarrassing to me than the loss they had against San Jose earlier in the season because at least in that game against San Jose they were pumping the shark and Mackenzie
Black would just stood on his head and did what some goalies do from time to time last night the Oilers only mustered 15 shots on net in Chicago against an AHL team had it not been for steuart Skinner who made some 10 Bell saves throughout the game they’re talking
About what is arguably one the end of a win streak two and one of the most embarrassing losses of the Season unbelievable again you take the points you get out of town you start thinking about Detroit tomorrow I was doing the snow and I I was listening to
Onr man those cutter go jokes are so annoying I’m sorry it made it hard to listen to I’d really like to know who the hell names her kid cutter anyway oh man so if you missed onr that was me making all the annoying cutter goch jokes sometimes I love a pun and
Sometimes when Tyler’s hosting especially when Tyler’s hosting the podcast so back up on Tuesday the cutter Go News came out and we were talking about it and I was making endless horrible cutter goch jokes I like to do it when Tyler’s hosting the podcast cuz
It throws him off and it kind of rattles him and that is a big part of it to me so while I was having fun making fun of cutter Go’s name I was also having fun derailing Tyler so bringing you behind the scenes on some of my horrible bits
That I tend to bring up there Spencer is leaving a voicemail have we ever spoken before Spencer welcome to the show Welcome to the Booster Juice voicemail hey B milk what’s up uh listener since day one [ __ ] yeah D first time voice mailer hang on you’re going to get a button for that
Spencer Spencer back to you sir uh I won the sweater so thank you for that um I’m just calling uh not Oilers related I’m getting married in August and I’m just kind of starting to think about the Stag and uh we’re coming to Edmonton and I don’t
Know a whole lot about the city I usually come there once a year for games but uh just want to do some new things some fun things of course uh I’m just curious about the Craft Beer Market all the boys love the beers I love the beers
So U I’m just curious if youve ever been there what you think about it but uh just looking for some ideas from a guy that lives there so um yeah curious to hear what you have to say thanks well thanks for listen I love you I just love
You in general Spencer what do you think about that um yeah so Craft Beer Market is legit if you guys are into just all of the beers you can handle that is a great great pick um I myself am not so much a craft beer guy I have been to
Craft beer market though and it is one of those ones where for me personally I just look at everything that they have available I think it’s like a 100 plus micro bruise or something like that like that they advertises something like that I’m just doing it off the dome but to me
That is incredibly overwhelming I I just like I’m very basic Beer Drinker so I just walk in there I go oh my God oh my God can I have a sour of some kind they’re like we have 43 sour I’m like oh no so yes craft beard Mark is legit you
Got to go push the bat around on 97th Street imagine all the boys out there on a stag pushing the bat around you’re going to have a great time go see the Talis balls across the land on the side of the white mud you’re going to have a
Good time now don’t don’t tell the boys to get stuck in there we had a problem with that in the playoffs the guy got stuck they had to cut a chunk of the Talis balls out it was a whole thing they had it wrapped around f with a
Fence for a while it is a problem it also depends just legitimately um to answer your question for real for real where are you guys staying like if you’re staying downtown you can kind of make your way around the problem is when you’re here in the winter Edmonton in
The winter is not all that fun it’s just not and while I would love to tell you there’s going to be all kinds of things to do there is always some kind of like festivals of lights and there’s like ice sculptures and all that garbage but
That’s not what you’re there for a St you’re not you’re here for a stag right I would maybe like if the boys like golf there’s always a bunch of indoor golf things where you can go I always go to the one called long shots on Stony Plane
Road um my buddies and I we just go there to hang out food is good beers are cheap just hack away balls for a little bit if that’s something you’re into it’s fun it’s a casual place to spend a little bit of time West Edmonton Mall
That’s the cliche answer you can go kill hours there if you want to go check out the replica of Christopher Columbus’s boat it’s sitting there why who knows doesn’t matter um it really depends right keep your eye on things like explore Edmonton explore Edmonton’s got a really good handle on some of the
Events again in the winter if you’re coming into Edmonton there’s only like a handful of things to do one are you going to an or’s game you already mentioned that that’s what you’re generally here for are you going to an or’s game do you have tickets to a show
Are you interested in a show do you want to play like some of those gaming kind of Pub things in which case you go to GR and you’re going to have a great time we did Greta for the nation Christmas party last week and we
Had a blast it’s about uh you know what you guys want to do as a group what you guys want to do as a crew but if you’re here to just kind of drink and Bop around maybe set up a pub crawl for yourself you know there’s all kinds of
Things hit up the Nino hit up the casino at Rogers Place it’s fun to go to the casino at Rogers place because it’s just kind of like it’s just there sometimes you leave a game you drop a you you know play quick game of Blackjack come on bet
It all on red come on I’m not very good help with this I do live in Edmonton but like when people always ask me this question I get asked a lot I don’t know what to I don’t know the good answers for you because everybody’s so different
In what they want to do like what I want to do in Edmonton in the winter is one I’ll go to a comedy show two I go to Oilers games three I’ll go to like concerts and that kind of thing that’s what I tend to do don’t really want to
Be outside don’t give two shits about a Lights Festival don’t give two shits about like um about ice sculptures those kind of things so I don’t know man it’s it’s a it’s a tricky one for someone like you and when your boys are on the Stag so I would just kind of
Like try and take a temperature of what the group you’re with and then we go from there like if you’re looking for some good restaurants that I know like restaurants around the city that is one of my favorite things to do in the winter is just eat again we’re talking
About a stag so it’s not really the thing that you’re after you want to go to the Rippers you know you know they’re around you can go find some how greasy do you want to get so Spencer I don’t know if that answers your question
But that’s just kind of the way it is you know surveyor Brett for real I haven’t seen you in forever Where Have You Been yo big milk can we get some new hashtags trending how about um hashtag get Conor Brown to the allstar game my now you’re just being mean surveyor
Brett I haven’t seen you in forever now you’re chiming in on my podcast to make fun of Conor Brown that’s my job just kidding go ahead Allstar hashtag goals are overrated hashtag Rogers Rock what the [ __ ] is that actually serve Brett now I’m confused I’m confused about all
Everything that’s going on let me see I’m gonna start this message over again yo big milk can we get some new hashtags trending how that sounds like Nick now I’m all confused here I am ending off the Booster Juice voicemail in a state of confusion and I don’t like it I’m
Being Bamboozled on my own podcast not not the first time you got Bamboozled on that podcast way to press the wrong button to trigger the same voice too dum dum I’m trying my best out here man why don’t you go finish your Lego you’ll feel better quad I don’t want to hear
From you either I do want to hear from you though so leave keep leaving the voicemails um the link is in the link tree the voicemail link is in the link tree and all of my social uh social feeds so jbn bag milk on Twitter hi my
Name is bag milk on Instagram and threads starting to chip away at threads again subscribe to my YouTube channel got a bunch of good stuff going on there including radio hits clips from the show just some random Frank stuff Frank’s pick is all up there if you want to see
Them subscribe to my YouTube channel I’m thinking about doing another hoodie giveaway Spencer brought that up earlier in the voicemail so I’m thinking about doing another one of those so stay tuned for that maybe we’ll get a little game going of some kind maybe we’ll get
Something like that I think that we have a little bit of fun and if I don’t talk to you guys next week I’ll be back after that or if I do talk to you next week better late than ever it’s the name of the podcast kind of is also going to be
Applicable for when I actually record as well until then though until then why won’t you kiss me Tyler won’t you kiss me why won you kiss me on the mouth T don’t be so cold put your hand in M let have ni time
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strawberry sunshine (with extra strawberries subbed for the banana) forever!
with the odd canadian colada thrown in there