The Jason Gregor Show - September 10th, 2026 - Hour 2

0:00sports 14 40 sports 14 40.ca YouTube Facebook X Instagram while the Rangers just taken a two nothing lead over the the Mariners and if the the Rangers are victorious, they will move and just makes the the wild card race even closer as they would catch the the Jays and both teams would be 73 and 74 one game back of Cleveland. The Toronto blue Jays, the remaining schedule has them taking on Baltimore, starting tomorrow, then Detroit, then they're in Texas and Baltimore. So nine of their next 12 games for the Jays are against teams that are right battling for that ballcard spot with them. So they control their own destiny. We'll see if they can take advantage or not. Cleveland meanwhile has got Minnesota starting tomorrow. Texas has got Arizona. That'll

1:01be tough one and then the white socks for Cleveland, Boston for Texas. So Toronto has a little bit of an easier skid as they don't face any teams currently in a playoff spot. The remainder of the season. Welcome back. It is the Gregor Show presented by play Alberta dot C a where if you like variety, they got it instance lottery live dealer sports casino all in one stop at play Alberta dot C a the the injury report for the the green and gold. You know, some other like starters. Jordan Murray is the one starter that I think is is doubtful likely not going to play. Um, then we'll see like Brock Mugansson. Um, he's out and he'll probably out for a few weeks. Uh, Carter Ketter got banged up in that game. And so, uh, you know, he's doubtful for the game on Saturday. But ativa Moga Clements was a full participant again in practice. This, you know,

2:08so that's a few days who was doing it last week and he could be, uh, he's getting close. He could be eligible to play and come on and help them. So we'll see, uh, we'll see what goes here. So starters, probably Murray might be the only change on the offensive line. But you could see some, some special team roster changes and it'll come out tomorrow for the green and gold 833 414 4083341440. So where you can, uh, text us as, uh, we get to, uh, Terry Ryan brought you by Ack Shun electrical 54 years in business. They become the most diversified electrical contractor in Alberta, project service testing and solar. Check it out at action electrical dot net, uh, T. R. Is it going to, uh, Jordan? Oh, we'll get it all connected here in a second, but he'll be up momentarily. Meanwhile, get to some of these, uh, text messages.

3:09A Gregor awesome interview with Mac. I love that he didn't hold back. Quote, I'm freaking ready for the rematch. Well, hey, you know, players are fired up as they should be, man. Yeah, you're winning team. This guy has always ever known as playoffs. So I think to come in and and have guys, you know what? That is, uh, that's pretty darn good. Hey, Gregor, what did you say the projected crowdside is, um, well, right now with the ticket sales and everything, it's projecting to be over 30,000 out, you know, the weather looks good. And we'll see kind of what the walkup is. You know, it's a rematch game. And, uh, the Elk sir first place, they're nine and three. They are, uh, you know, there's a, there's more people talking about football than I can remember, probably for close to a decade. You gotta go back like 2017 for sure. And, uh, and T. R now is with us. Uh, Terry, how you doing, my man? Oh, not bad. It's a fairly busy day, but, um, all interesting stuff over here. My

4:09daughter's first day of school over here in Newfoundland and getting ready for the hockey season and everything else. Well, great. Is she going into now? 11 11? Okay. All right. Nice. Well, yeah, getting up there now. Yeah. Do you ever, uh, do you ever have to go to parent teacher interviews to you? Oh, yeah, I like going to them. I like creating. It's nothing. I like them early. If nothing else, I like to create the imagery in my head. I'd like to, you know, when I, I mean, I like to get to meet the teacher, but see every class just she's in and everything. I, I'm not sure why I'm not like totally hands on as a parent. She comes, I'll help her with her work and stuff. She gets great marks. We got somewhat of a routine. I'm not overly strict. I don't have to be, but I like getting in there and just seeing the set up and, you know, what goes on day to day. Yeah. All right. Wait. Now, were you, were you good in school? I was, I was good in school. My parents really made that a point that that was forced

5:12or the more so than hockey. Yeah. I really, yeah, yeah, really. I mean, my dad, my dad, you know, grew up poor for lack of a better way to put it and, and you know, he quit pro hockey early. I mean, you look at his stats. He was doing really well. In pursuit, I suppose, of the NHL, but he, he left here in pursuit of a degree because no one in his family had ever had one and, you know, money was scarce. And, you know, when he, if you look at me, he played here in the WHA and set the record, which stands of short handed goals. Gretzka, I think, tied it with six. Right? He'd be really only played short handed and, you know, sparingly on the fourth line, but he did. He got six. What was it? I think 19.6 goals, 13 assists. And went back and he was an NHL All-Star, the next year. He got drafted to both leagues, but once he got into the degree, which was early on, he gave it up. So that was always on my mind. I think he, he didn't press it, but I just knew about it because I could see his family. I saw where we came from. You know, his dad was great,

6:18but his dad drank too much and gave it up five months before he died. And, you know, that, that was hard for my dad to deal with as well. And I mean financially, and I'm not getting in there, everything else. But, you know, like, there was a lot going on. So that was really, and so much so that I wrote growing up. I tried, like, it doesn't surprise me. I ended up in, in this world and acting and thing. I never, like, straight up did that, but the creative arts, yeah, we had to take standardized tests at the beginning of every year. And the top, like, say, 1% would get to go to a special school called the enrichment program. And I got in there every year from grade five to grade nine. So we'd go in what I specialize in creative arts. But we have to take all the courses. So say, you know, one day a week, again, a bunch of us from each all schools would go and take, you know, like astronomy. And like if I like English, then I, they'd introduce me to like Shakespeare and like break it down in grade five and six, as opposed to grade nine. I'd go in and we'd take like finance, political science in grade like six and seven.

7:22So that was always not only like, I don't want to say forced on me by my parents. But, but like what was forced on me was okay, a half hour a night, you have to read, or you have the right. You can be rolling stone night. That was forced on me. So by that and being an only child and so much literature around and even like album jackets, we had thousands of those, it doesn't surprise me that I gravitated towards that. So yes, school was always really important. This just coming down and I always love these type of stories as Braden Bowman from the Vegas Golden Knights. He was undrafted forward, played with golf in the in the Ontario Hockey League, then signed a contract with Vegas coming out of when he was a 20 year old, spent two seasons in the AHL, well actually only one season in the AHL. And then last year, started out in the A had 26 points and 20 games got recalled, finished the year with 54 games,

8:24had eight goals, 26 points. He just signed a six year contract at 3.4 million bucks. So you go from being undrafted, 20 years of age and a few years later, you got a six year deal and you're making basically 20 million bucks. Yeah, 12. Oh yeah, it's amazing. Like good for him, right? And it's just another I like to bring these up because there's all these examples. Hockey is a still a late developing sport people on a reminder, the examples are there all the time. And I say it because we're into minor hockey and the lunacy that I see, it seems to be getting worse at you nine and you 11 and you 13 because I'm going to tell it doesn't matter what what tier they play at. Parents are freaking out, they're getting mad, they're writing emails, oh my son got caught, my daughter, I'm like, why? Put if they got caught from that team, then there were a cusp player. Let them be one of the best players at the tier below. It's not going to matter at all other than you're setting them up for failure because it's like, well, you know what? Everybody's out to get

9:28you. You should have made the team. They'll just say, hey, guess what? You're here. Awesome. And here's another example of a kid who got overlooked in the draft for three years. Didn't matter. Signed as a 20 year old, played a year and a half in the AHL, got to the NHL, and now he signs a deal, six year deal, over 20 million bucks. Good for him. I love it. So it's just I hear it and I see it all the time, man, and how kids talk about it and you know, it's like, Jesus, if I'm not on the tier one team or the double A team at a young age, it's somehow I'm not I'm not a good person and I'm like, give me a break. It's just too much. It's the worst Jason and people get way to involve. We say it every year, but it seems to multiply and you look at just look at the success rate. If you were to go by, if you went top down and you went to each NHL player that actually succeeded and by the way, and top down, there's a long way on the way with NCAA and pro hockey that's considered success, right? I mean, that's in the eyes of the

10:32beholder, but I'm just saying if you were to ask all the NHL players and go down from there, you would notice that a lot of them played multiple sports, a lot of them exactly. Ryan Closen example, I'm right here. I watched him. Ryan Clos ended up being one of the most complete Newfoundlanders, Atlantic Canadians. You could stretch that to Canadian hockey players. The guy could fight, hit, do it all. 60 out points, couple of years, 25 goals. Ryan never made all start till midget. He went away, played junior B. Why? He made the junior A team. He went and played junior B because he played every single shift that he wanted to be out there. And then he went and made Ramuski in the rest of his history. And I could tell you a ton of those and people don't want to listen. They want their kid to be on the top team when they're nine or ten years old. And I've constantly said it. You don't have to be a genius. You can look at the kids out there skating, but you don't have to be a genius to just know the basic law of I guess you could say physics when it comes to young hockey

11:33players. More time with the puck means you're going to get better. If I don't have the puck on my stick and I don't have that space, I'm not going to improve the other things. So you're exactly right. I didn't improve until that exact thing happened. I never complained about it either. I don't remember it being a big thing. I remember my dad saying, well, you know what? You got to play on the beat team this year and it might be good for you. And that was it. I never said anything else. We went and played. And halfway through, I thought maybe I should have got a shot with the A team, but I didn't mind scoring three goals a night. And then I improved at a rate that everybody else around me grew with me. And you know, I'm just I'm saying me, but this happens all over and look at every successful team and in all these divisions. And all those players didn't just so right through it. Wasn't a nice throw butter getting up. You need the puck on your stick. Doesn't matter how fast you are either. It's not always about speed. You need to have speed, agility, learn those skating. And now now all of a sudden I got the puck on my stick and I can do a lot more with it because I learned how to play with time and space. But if I never have it, I'm never going to

12:37learn that. Yes, 100%. So I like it. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back to Jason Gregor Terry Ryan and more. It's the Gregor Show presented by Plaleberta.ca. Con or howling Declan Krugerterry Ryan with you sports 14 40 sports 14 40 dot C a YouTube Facebook X Instagram. Thanks as always for listening watching the show. There's lots going on in the sporting world is we're going to go around the NHL now brought to you by Mick Donnells for rich smooth and delicious star to your morning or just keep you going during the day. A small premium roast coffee at McDonald's is only a dollar plus tax right now at McDonald's. And of course that we're going to a Montreal, the team that drafted to you are back in 1995, the the Montreal Canadians. There's lots of excitement around the Habs as they get close to a start of another season. They got boat loads of cap space right now over $9 million. Arbor Jacki is the only skater unsigned right now. Chris Crider is a

13:42free agent. Could he be a fit? We'll see Eric Engels be reported for the Canadians at sports net joins us and Eric, let's start I guess with it with Jacki. What are you hearing on contract negotiations? Do you expect to see him and camp? It's a good question. He's one of two players that are unsigned. Zach Bulldoop being the other who they traded for last summer. And Jacki's circumstances look, you know, he obviously was scratched from 17 games last year and 40 of 60 played under 12 minutes. He wants to know how he's going to be used, especially on a deep blue line where it's an overflowing and there's also some young guys like Engstrom and Rhymebacker pushing per space. You know, if it's as a forward, if he's even open to that concept of playing on a line with his brother potentially and wreaking havoc and vicious Atlantic division that seems to have a lot more brawn to match some of the skill that you see around there, I think he'd like to know that he'll have runway to try that, you know. If he would agree to it and that's a big if. So I think he's also just kind of been waiting to see him mode, right?

14:47Where a week away from camp, you mentioned the cap space they have. There's some trade potential. We know that Kent Hughes has been trying hard all summer to improve the group and forward. Potentially that means trading from a surplus on defense. So I feel like I just set a lot in a little bit of time. So I'll leave it, leave the floor back to you guys here. I'm the like Jack I, you know, he's a unique player, but his physicality, especially in that Atlantic division is something that they need. Do they not even in the regular season might not be a regular in the playoffs, but in the regular season they probably need them. Something that they need and need more of and I would suggest that in the playoffs, he proved how valuable it can be. He played really well despite missing a few games. You know, he missed the Carolina series. He missed game seven against Tampa Bay, which I'm sure hurts, but you know, he plugged back in for a bigger team against Buffalo and I know Tampa plays that rough and tumble style and played really good hockey in the playoffs. So it's very

15:48difficult to move forward without it. I like that. I think the Canadian's volume and feel he's very important, but he needs to feel valued and he needs to feel important and I think it's only normal for him to kind of wait and see how this shakes out. Now there's a limit to waiting and seeing, right? Like I think missing all of training camp could go against them a little bit, not in terms of his standing with the team, but it's very hard to jump in while the train's already moving and I think history kind of bears that out for guys who end up sitting out camp. So I don't think he'd like to do that. I think he'd like to figure this out sooner than later, but a lot of it is contingent on what the Canadians plan on doing with the rest of their roster. Eric, the Habs are in a great place and seem to be more solid by the minutes, but even so, what do you think would be the first thing on their wish list right now? Claire to play with Ivan Demadov, right? You know, the head class Kowski do it for about 30 games

16:52last year and he was able to bring up the level for both Demadov and Capin and he were playing his rookies, but if you can get a legitimate player next to Demadov to compliment a line of coffee old Suzuki and Slave Kowski, which is obviously one of the best ones in the NHL, well now you're cooking with gas. So I think that's been the goal since the off season started and it remains the goal and the reason it does is because these guys, and when I say these guys, I mean Kent Hughes and Jeff Gordon, they're not just shooting for well, let's just get somebody who's talented who fits the bill. It's they want to get someone who's going to grow with their core and be and be someone that they feel is going to help them win year over year, at least content to win year over year. And that's why a name like Carl Marchenko has been involved with the Canadians for a long time, not just a skilled guy, but the right age to grow with this core and players like him are, you know, there's not a lot of them that are potentially available. And so if the Canadians have to wait whether it be for him or somebody else that fits that kind

17:56of mold, they will because they have built very responsibly and they have the luxury to do so. Are there any other prospects saying it in any position that are not going on the door to make the team this year and have an impact? Oh yeah, I think there's a bunch. I mean, talked about Jack guy's brother. He's won for sure. He's put on weight. You would think, and muscle I should say, not weight in terms of waiting a bad way. You know, he brings the elements that you would want a player to bring and that the Canadians need more of as you discuss with Arbor. You know, you've got Owen Beck who took strides last year and is a really smart professional hockey player. He's a really mature player and he can kind of shift up and down the line up just like Florian Jack guy potentially could. You've got David Ryan Bacher who's had a bunch of injury situations since being drafted fifth overall by the Canadians. If Michael Hage weren't going back to Michigan, he would be ready, in my opinion, to be a top six forward in this week.

19:00Alexander Zorowski's spaking in Russia and could like those two guys that I just mentioned could be here by March April. So, you know, the Canadians have, if you look at cores under 25 role players, you'd have to put them in the top three or four in the league. And then, if you look at the prospect pipeline and guys knocking on the door, quote unquote, they're probably in that category as well, which is a good place to be when you just maybe use certain confidence pile. Eric Engels joins us from sports net in Montreal as we are basically less than a week away from start of training camp rookie camps. We'll get going tomorrow. The Canadians are in a great financial situation. You look at their cap, you know, they've got a lot of their best young guys signed a long term, you know, like Denou Anderson and Kirby Dock are guys who would be a UFA's next year, you know, Alexander Carrier, you know, nobody who's like, you know, gonna break the bank, I wouldn't think by any stretch of the imagination. But you talk about all the pieces they have here.

20:04The challenge for Montreal might be is, you know, knowing if they're looking to say, okay, we'll give up one piece to get something else is if they, you know, make sure that they trade away the right piece. Is that going to really be their challenge here as they try to fill out this roster to win? It's adding what they need. And then who do they think is the right guy to move out to get the piece they need? You can view it as a challenge it certainly is, right? Like every decision you make is you get further along and closer to your contention window becomes that much heightened in terms of the pressure on it, right? And the wrong move at the wrong time can set you back. And these guys have done such a good job of putting one foot in front of the other. The last thing they want to do is take a step backwards. That said, they have kind of had a pattern in terms of how they've made their moves. Whenever they've traded, even if it was a good player like an Alexander Romanov, it's from a position of surplus to address a position of need. So I don't see them breaking that pattern necessarily. And I don't think it's too challenging to not break that pattern. If you,

21:12you know what I mean? So you're in one respect, you're right. It's, it is the biggest challenge moving forward because you don't want to make the wrong move. But in another, when you have the luxury of having so many good prospects and so many good young players, you can be pretty selective about who you're bringing in and who you're taking out. What do you think they're going to do with their goal? Are they going to carry three goalies again this season? Now Jacob Fowler could go down to the minors. I think he doesn't, well, he doesn't require waivers. So, you know, and where do you think Sam Montombo is? Like, this guy was, you know, one of the three goalies at the Olympics and now, sorry, at foreign nations. And now suddenly, you know what, he lost his starter's job and Jacob Dolbisch got the new contract and everything like that. But like, he can't just fall enough a cliff that quickly, as he. Jeez, what a guy's an admin to know about. Goaltending volatility. Yeah. This, this is, I almost cursed on your airways. I, this is voodoo. The stuff is voodoo. Like,

22:18who can predict what's going to happen with a goal tender from one year to the other? Sam Montombo a year ago was fifth in the league and goal saved above expected, which is a, to me, the most important goal tenting category, right? Is he saving you goals that you're going to net? And then last year, as he fell off a cliff, this year, who's to say he's not to return to form and be an important part of what they have going on in Montreal or somewhere else? I don't think it's something they have to solve going into camp. I don't think they want to go through the entire season with three goal tenders or with Fowler in the minors for that matter for the whole season. So, I can't sit here and tell you exactly what's going to happen, but I don't see a long-term future for Sam Montombo in Montreal. And the other two guys, you know, Dolbisch was if you look at from trade deadline through the third round of the playoffs, he was easily one of the best goal

23:19tenders in the world. Now, the cautionary tale is what happened to Montombo. So, like, who know, I'm the last person that's ever going to make a prediction about a goal tenders performance and what to expect out of them this year. I'm sure people in Edmonton are saying the same thing about the guys that are there, but the Canadians have three and they have three that if all three of them are at the height of their abilities are really good. So, I wouldn't sit here and say it's over for Sam Montombo and he'll never be good again because judging his whole career development arc, there would be no way of accurately saying that. So, we'll see what happens. Yeah. The other factor for the Canadians is, you know, you look at their line combinations and you see Suzuki and coffee, a lot of Steve Virkwell, they had Slav Kowski there. Do you see like, who's the ideal line mates you think for Demadov? I think Alex Nuuk has a job to lose in their top six,

24:25right? He was fantastic in the playoffs. He's finally at that age where it's all kind of come together for him. He got off to the best start of his career last year through 17 games before fracturing his ankle in this four months. And then when he came back, he hadn't missed the beat. And then, you know, okay, adrenaline wore off and there wasn't a bit of catching up to do, but what he did in the playoffs showed, you know, there's been all this talk for three years here, like how are the Canadians going to find a second line center? This guy could do it. It's up to him to prove it now. I mean, he's stepping into his prime. It's a contract year. He's coming off an excellent playoff where he scored some clutch goals, series winning goals, two of them in a row. He can play up in down the line up. He's got the speed. He's got the sparts and he's really just found his rhythm. Who's to say it's not him? That said, they still need somebody else. And I think Oliver Capinan has been undersold. 22 gold rookies season in the NHL's, not a joke. That's a very good

25:28performance from a first year player in the league. I think he has the ability to be a middle six player who moves his way up the top six, but in an ideal world that have an upgrade. So you ask me who's the best player to play with Damodog. You might not be on this roster, but with what they have, they can manage it until they find that player. Yeah, that's fair. Do you think like, now I know I've heard Boston and New York and like Chris Criter when I just look at the player and the size and the speed and everything. I'm like, this guy could fit into that top nine, but you know with Bull Duke, maybe they just have too many. So they're probably not going to look at him. What do you think? I don't know if it's about them, although partially it could be. I think Boston makes almost too much sense in this circumstance. On the ice, he's a fit. Here's a guy that is big. He has not lost too much of a skating stride, making them like, obsolete at his age. You can find a pretty friendly deal that's bonus

26:31laden. Wood fit one of the cap. Also nodded a stage of his career where he demands to be on the first unit of the power play, which there wouldn't be space for him there. No. But you know the Canadians could use more of the profile of this player. So I can't sit here and say it's not going to happen or it's impossible or it wouldn't be a good idea. But I do think there's other places where it's more likely. And I also, I know it's taking time here before something gets announced or done, but I can't help but feel as though he ripped up his contract knowing there's something else that's probably done. And unless I'm being misdirected, I don't think it's with Montreal. So we'll see. Yeah, I kind of agree to see on that one. There would seem to be like to walk away from four million bucks, you had to be pretty confident. There was another deal out there in a similar price range. Maybe not the exact same. I think I think I don't know if this

27:32is 100% true, but I believe he was given the opportunity to speak to some teams. Okay. Oh, there I would make sense. And I, hey, they they're up against it, right? So it would make sense. It's being talked about for a while. They had to get rid of one of their, you know, six million dollar guys. And it turns out that it's a it's Chris Criter. Eric always great to talk to you, man. Rookie Camp coming up and then main camp and boom, shortest preseason ever. I love it. And then then we'll be right into the season in under three weeks. So I look forward to it. The best thing that ever happened to all of us. No, I didn't preach. You're in the top. So I agree. All hard. Awesome. Thanks Eric. Have a great day. See you. There you go. That's Eric Engels from Sportsnet in Montreal. Take a quick break. Well, return speed things up on the Greggershow presented by Plumberda. It is your one stop shop. And of course on Thursdays, the daily grand, a thousand dollars a day for the next 20 years. Total is $7.3 million. Now you can be boring. Take it all at once or you could just relax and get

28:32a thousand dollars every day. Wake up in a good mood. Boom. Geno coming my way. Love it. That'd be fun. Get your tickets. Play Alberta dot C a as it's time now for the race and report brought to you by can torque made in Canada made for Canada. Workstream isn't theoretical. Find your solution. It can torque dot com and welcome a gentleman who who did end his seven-year drought. Got a win. And then quickly a few weeks later got a loss. It's rare that you lose to a ladder, but Livingston's got a few scars here to show it. Later one calling zero. So I'm going to I'm going to field test this. I came up with a line the other day and it's one of my better lines ever, but you know there's there's headbangers and there's headbangers and I was the ladder. I think that's pretty good. I sent that to my ex-wife and daughter and they just kind of grown. But when I'm when I'm bringing that material on the road, it seems to hit pretty well. So yeah,

29:37yeah, just just be really careful when you're operating equipment. Yeah, yeah. It it did not feel good. I don't advise it, but yeah, a little fall from 11 feet. Fortunately, my face broke my fall. Wow, there you go. Yeah, good story. Good story. Now, um still the champion though. Yeah, I'm not taking that. They cannot take that away. That's not coming away. Doesn't matter what happens on or off the track. You are still a champ for sure. So as long as they don't drug test, I'll be fine. Yeah. So before we get into lots of the other racing stuff, big weekend for you guys last weekend. Of course, tag then you guys now you want to race. Well, I actually won two races. Correct. But then I noticed you got disqualified after the second one on like a technicality. How does that work? So I don't want to, you know, talk about the specifics, but I will say that we had to make a modification to our car after it was received from the factory.

30:37There was a, you know, a defective component. We came up with a fix because we didn't have time to bring in, you know, the proper parts. It was a non-performance component, but it was not within the rules. It's the kind of thing that, you know, I think the majority of our team largely forgot about because on one side of the car, we had one thing on the other side of the car. We had the factory thing and, you know, absolutely didn't put any more thought into it after the first weekend because it was totally chaotic. Somehow the series noticed it. They said, hey, this isn't, this isn't a spec and the second one was taken away. Now again, it wasn't a performance, you know, enhancing component. It wasn't something that made the, you know, car more dynamic, more powerful, more durable, more, any, it just made the car work is all that we did. But

31:38rules are rules. And, you know, it's not the kind of thing, you know, I can't speak for Alex because I didn't get to see him after the DQ was announced, but I know it's the kind of thing he wouldn't have put like five seconds of thought into. So how do you get the piece, though? So now you've got to get the proper piece. Correct. Yeah, but we've got all winter now, like the cars have come apart anyway, everything we get put back properly, you know, learned a lot this year, with, you know, where we started with the car and the development that the whole tag one team did with, you know, our engineering staff, the mechanics, the crew chiefs, you know, the feedback that Alex gave on track are other drivers, you know, in the last two races, we had two cars running. Oh my goodness, we were probably running within about three tenths of a second in both races, like the cars were really, really, really good. They were very competitive. It was great to show

32:40our second driver on the weekend, Antoine Sennichelle was able to keep up with Alex, you know, if people are paying attention and are considering where to put their money next year, they should have been able to see that, you know, if Antoine's able to get up there and run with Tag, he's obviously got equal equipment. Yeah. You know, so yeah, I mean, great season all and all. It was nice to get a couple of wins. I finally made it to my first podium and radical on Saturday because it was actually within, it was within walking distance and most of the time it's like, you know, a 25, 30 minute walk, but yeah, really, just really quick diversion before I forget, you know, with our friend T.R. And the the the reach that Shorzy starting to have now, you, you know, Mandy Greger, but my girlfriend is a teacher and she started the school year with each of her classes starting with

33:43guys. Welcome to the class. Here's what we're going to be doing this year. We got to set the tone. She's used in that to start, start molding the the the next generation's mind. So bravo to the Shorzy crew. Wow, now bad. I really appreciate that. Tell her, she might have a sign pick coming her way. Maybe even a couple of tickets to the Shorzy classic promoting it on air like this. Colin, by the way, congrats. I mean, that must have been a really interesting summer. Is there anything? What what what what could you prepare racing fans? What surprises? What's exciting on the horizon coming in the fall and winter in the racing world? Well, now we're basically down to Formula one. Obviously, there's other series out there, but Formula one is where we kind of focus. This weekend, the series moves to a brand new track returning to Madrid. This is going to be very, very, very interesting. The the computer simulations that have been run

34:49are not encouraging the feeder series. So Formula, Formula racing gets broken into a couple main categories. There's obviously Formula one, which is the top of the food chain. Formula two and Formula three. A couple of weeks ago, Formula three tested at what they call the mad ring. Yeah, it was like a red flag extravaganza, wasn't it? 19 red flags during their practice. And those are, you know, to put it into perspective, those are cars that aren't as high performance. So they should be easier to keep under control, but the drivers aren't at the same level as a Formula one driver. But Formula one cars are much bigger and much more powerful. So there's going to be even less room for error. I saw some comments from a couple of the drivers that said for them to put together a lap, even in their own simulator, would have taken hours, like to put to put one complete lap together without making a mistake. So this is going to be, I think it's going to be

35:52a very, very expensive weekend. Again, you know, I can keep saying I make a prediction. I'll qualify it by saying I hope that I'm wrong and that the weekend goes off without a hitch. Yeah, wouldn't you say expensive means bring me a lot of crash? Now, I will say, and we had to Nellie in a track we didn't see a lot of passing. The guy came in like past 18 people. So that was pretty impressive. But in the last race, there's more controversy and Ferrari. All right. You had LeClaire ran Hamilton wide on the lap one. I don't know how much that impacted probably a little bit. He ended up finishing sixth. LeClaire later ran wide himself, hit the wall and now it was questionable if he's going to race this weekend or not. Do you think, is this just normal racing? Is there something that's going on behind the scenes in Ferrari? Is there a cultural problem there? They got to fix. From the outside, I have definite opinions that for the first time in LeClaire's career, he's being challenged by a better driver. And

36:56he's seeing that and they know within the team that Lewis has been very instrumental in helping develop the car. It's something that Charles is just not capable of doing. He's capable of driving the car. But when it's not right, he doesn't have the skill set. He doesn't quite have the tools to tell the team like, you know, Lewis would make comments in his last years with Mercedes. They tried this concept where the drivers were way far forward. And like when I say way far forward, they were like four or five inches, which is, you know, in driver terms is, you know, miles. And he was talking about how they'll never get the feel of the car because they're sitting on the front axle where they need to be further back. You know, Lewis has an amazing ability to feel and to analyze and to, you know, deconstruct the car to let the team know exactly what's going on. But Charles has had kind of, he's been, he's been the the cock of the walk. He's been the,

37:58the top of the food chain for a long time. Even when science was there, the team was largely built around Leclerc as their long term driver. But now he's starting to see that Lewis's impact is is real and that he's been outperforming. So, you know, like we've seen with Max, he's starting to over drive and he's starting to, you know, you know, get a little bit too aggressive that on lap one, the rule is, you know, forget about the lap one, they tend to let more things go. The rule is if a driver is beside or ahead at the apex, you have to give that driver room. Now it's double important when it's your own teammate. Sure. You know, Lewis got up beside him, gave him room through turn one, they got to turn to Leclerc, just drove him off the track, drove him into the gravel, you know, sent him back to about 10th place, which compromised Lewis's race. Making things worse than on lap two, Lecler made a mistake, pushing a bit too hard, got just,

39:05I mean, I think it was about three inches, four inches too wide, where the track kind of falls off to a drainage area that's painted as he's trying to load that left rear tire. It's spun and, you know, with 60G impact kind of scrambled his brain. And now, you know, they're not really sure they've got Joe Van Leclerc can't get into the car safely. So, yeah, it's a very, very bad situation. It was the kind of thing, you know, Lewis referenced Mercedes. There were two or three times where Lewis and Rosberg made stupid contact. And this is when Mercedes, they couldn't lose if they dropped two cylinders. They were killing everyone. So it was always a fight between the two drivers for first and second. And when they wiped each other out, you know, total, total head conversations.

40:05I mean, I think it actually got to the point that, total started sending the drivers repair bills to say like, you idiots cause this, you idiots are going to fix this. So, you know, I think they maybe need a firmer hand. And now, of course, with that, they're starting to bat names around as to who might replace Fred Vessour, you know, who might be a better fit. I don't think they're to that point. I think Freddie's done a good job. But yeah, it's going to be interesting. I mean, there's a lot of strife with him Mercedes because you've got to, you know, the 20-year-old Kimi challenging George and, you know, basically wiping the floor with his teammate. And that's really the benchmark that you have because you're in the same cars. So you can't compare what Max is doing right now with what Lewis is doing or with, you know, what Kimi's doing because they're not in the same equipment. But yeah, I mean, you just can't be taken your teammate out. Like it's going to be hard to beat Antonelli. They're right. It's going right now. He's looking,

41:06he's looking really good. So we'll see quickly. One other change in NASCAR Canada that Rick Ware Racing is going to part with DJ Kennington starting next year. And so, you know, he's going to run a different number. Is that right? Yeah, DJ. Why does he have to change numbers? It's a great question. This only got posted about an hour before. I left the shop. DJ has run the number 17 forever. And he's been associated with Castrol for, for, you know, as long as I've ever known him. So whatever the deal is between, you know, he and Rick Ware, Rick's always run that 51 number even when, you know, they made a, they made a tiptoe into NASCAR Canada a couple of years ago. They worked with Andrew Ranger. He was the 51 car back then. So, you know, that's obviously the deal. I think it would, it would have to be financially beneficial to DJ to accept that because,

42:07you know, numbers to drivers are kind of, everything. So, players, athletes, general. But yeah, we'll, I'm off there tomorrow. I'll see those boys on, on Saturday for our last race in NASCAR Canada. Awesome stuff, Colin. Drive safe and watch out for the ladders. Heads up. There you go. It's CGR. Colin Livingston, the race report brought to you by Cantor T. Are you ever falling off a ladder? Yeah, yeah, you asked me these questions. Did you, did you know that? No, it's just cause Colin fell off a ladder. That's why he's all cut up. So, I was just curious, when did you fall off a ladder? Well, I, what, the problem, I didn't fall off and I felt through it. I should have gotten a new ladder. And one of the, I was almost, and I hate heights. Like I started to get scared. I'm like, like, and it's scared is the wrong word, but like, my, my body vertigo. Yeah. But that wasn't the problem. I was almost up on the roof. I just had to help with the roof. That's it. I was helping my dad. And I went right through the stair. It was

43:12probably three or four from the top. Long, you know, extension ladder. Yeah. And I, on the way down, my, my chin went right into the top step. So I bit my tongue and it, yeah, it was an awful situation. Saying, biting your tongue real, real hard. And the chaos that goes with that and then tasting your food a bit of month later. So how old were you in that happened? I was back from getting drafted and just about to go to Montreal. So probably 18 or 19. Oh, Jesus. Right after your draft, you, it was there. It was during that time. There's one of the pictures I have with the haves. I have my mouth is closed. Yeah. Bad luck. I mean, in the next summer, I knocked my teeth out playing roller hockey and hence the tooth story. But, yeah, yeah, it's two, two summers in a row. I couldn't taste my food that bad. But the, as bad as not in my teeth out felt, the tongue was just, I just can't even put it in the words just right

44:14after. They're just put my, they're just put my, I've never, like, put my clothes in my eyes, being at the hospital and just going, okay, like this is going to be over in two months. You know what I mean? When you say, oh, God, you're getting, you're at like food poisoning. Okay, it'll be better in like eight hours. This was like, okay, like there is going to be a light here two months from now. It was horrible. Yeah. Oh, no, by any, like, anybody out there, you've bit your tongue or the side of your, and it hurts. But like, that's just like kind of like a nibble compared to when you're falling off a ladder and you come down and you crash down on it. So, yeah, you're some, actually, surprising bike ride through it. Take a chase and get some go. Well, I nearly did. That's a thing and you can kind of see it. I'm, but I went through the step and my chin hit the step up top. Then I fell backwards. I'm out of my key. I went to camp. Right? I fell backwards like 10 feet. Oh, geez. That's what I mean. Like, my foot went through and my chin hit and everything came down on it. Like, that was up near the top of the house.

45:15That felt backwards. I mean, lucky thing. I just reflexes, I suppose. But like, can I hit the I hit, but the injury was to my face. Yeah. There you go. There's a graphic story about losing more, you know, fall now for later. Oh, buddy. It's a good way to end it. Love it. Appreciate it. Yeah. It's good enough. Well, hey, happy birthday to, uh, to senior tonight. Have fun with that. Thanks very much. We're going to celebrate it Friday, Friday's his day. So we're going to sell it tomorrow. Okay. Awesome. Well, we will we will chat. Maybe we'll chat some training camp stories tomorrow because of course, uh, or on Tuesday because training camp officially goes, uh, although they don't really do that many physicals now, but they do the eye test, you know, make sure that you can see and smell and hear and everything. But we'll have some fun with the TR's, um, uh, testing that you had to do way back when because you don't really have a lot of it anymore. So we'll talk about that. I can't believe it. Yeah, I can't believe it. I figured we were we were never going to, you know, that was going to keep trending and getting harder and harder and harder. And now there is none. It's like it's 1962. Bring it. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Awesome. TR. We'll talk to you on

46:19Tuesday. Okay. Thank you Edminton. Thank you, Connor. Thank you. Jason. We'll talk to you guys soon. There you go. That's, uh, Terry Ryan, another cheese. A lot of guys have fallen off ladders here. We'll have to see if the con man or Declan, uh, uh, I did, I didn't fall off once, but I had, uh, I had a ladder experience. Um, luckily, never fell off of it, but involved a B's nest. So good times. We'll, uh, we'll take a quick break. We'll come back after Connor, Halle and his sports 1440 update brought to you by Sean Cunningham of remax real estate. Get the home team advantage for your next move in the Emton area. If you're thinking about buying or selling a home, call or text Sean directly 780265 0165