The Kevin Karius Show - Mar. 10th, 2026 - Hour 3

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1:00Hi, this is Pablo Torei from Pablo Torei. Finds out. Today, I want to talk to you about boost mobile, because we spend a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places, and so on, but those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster. Sometimes, they're in your own monthly expenses. Boost mobile, says switching to their $25 unlimited forever plan, can unlock up to $600 in savings a year. That's $25 a month for unlimited data, talk, and text when you bring your own phone. If that money is trapped in a pricey phone bill, it might be worth a second look. Visit boostmobile.com to learn more. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience lower speeds. Customers pay $25 per month, as long as they remain active on the boost mobile unlimited plan. Savings claim based on a January 2026 boost mobile survey of a thousand Americans with single line unlimited plans, comparing average annual payments of major carriers to 12 months on the boost mobile unlimited plan. For full offered details, visit boostmobile.com. All right, welcome back to the big program. 903 in Edmonton, Kevin Carrey's Duke of

2:03Dubber, Josh Fenwick with you here on sports 1440 AM radio presented by sports selector with us here. Our number three on the Kevin Carrey show on sports 1440. The AM radio we're streaming on YouTube, X Facebook, Instagram, and even Twitch. IMAX really given me the gears. We were talking about tandem skydiving with Laurie Ann Munzer and IMAX texting me and saying, no way, it might do in tandem with a dude strapped to my back sort of thing. He said he did the day course to jump solo. May not have been the free fall, but it was awesome. Well, I didn't have the opportunity to take the day course and things like that. I'm sure that you probably have the shoot that pulls automatically to IMAX if you're just to do a day course like that. I think it just as soon as you come out of the plane, it just opens up basically within a second or two. But we had, I was telling IMAX, a 13,000 foot free fall.

3:09And it was a 45 second, 45 seconds in total, which was very, you're just floating, man. It's wild. And then once you pull the shoot and then you feel comfortable that you're going to, you're not going to just splat on the ground. So we've been talking about it at the Paralympics underway in Milano Cortina, our sledge hockey team beat Japan by a score of 14 to nothing. So not much of a game. All-ren held better from Calgary scored four times. He had three assists for a seven point performance. The head coach of the team is Boris Robolka from cameras. And Boris, he tells it like it is in his interviews for sure. Canada will take on the checks, I believe, coming up at 10 o'clock. Now it's 905 PT, so 10 o'clock our time. Following the win over Japan,

4:14Robolka had these comments and got to mention too, as Cam Tate said, that Brandon Crowe is asking the questions in Milano. All right, coach, big victory here. Second consecutive win at the Paralympics. What did you like from your group here through three periods of play? You know, I thought we were consistent and that's a big thing. We saw that in all three zones, which we were and at the end of the day, there's the win. And now we move on to check you tomorrow for another game seven. You've seen it in your career. A save at one end usually leads to a goal at the other. 15 seconds in. Your team was in trouble in your own zone. Kingsville makes a big save. You go back down and score. Talk about that quick change in momentum early in the hockey game. That was huge and that's what's great about King. He was focused and a little fumble the puck and our own guy kind of ran into him and then out goes the blocker and he keeps the puck out. And as you mentioned, down we go, it's one nothing and then that's just kind of started. So that's why we have solid goal tending. You need it and then you never know when you're going to need it. Over 100 shots offensively in two games. But

5:14the key I think is the lack of shots given up. What have you liked defensively? That's huge. That was something that we worked on right from the get go back in August. We revamped the D zone. We revamped the neutral zone and revamped the 4 check which ironically all ties in the good solid defensive play. So that's been a huge positive and other guys believe in it and it shows on the ice. Even around a long time, certainly not. A lot of games get that spread apart in terms of goals. How do you keep the focus on the bench when the score kind of gets out of hand? You know, we talked about it as just state consistent. If it's depositing the puck, continue to get the puck wide, you know, delay coming in the zone. So the guys we're doing that and it's always that fine line where you know, if you've got a wide open shot, obviously you've got to take it. But they did those little things that we asked them to do and you know, hitting the late player coming in. So I thought they did a very good job of just staying focused. Bussie, check you tomorrow. What do you expect at that matchup? Physical. They always try to be physical against us. But I think one thing people found out

6:19the Canadian players like physical play and we love physical play. So we can kind of go like that boxing match toe to toe and however you want to play and we'll be ready to go. Thanks, Bors. Thank you. Bors Rabolka, head coach of the sledge hockey team in conversation yesterday at the Olympics. Ian Italy and again, that was Brandon Crowe asking the questions for Cam Tate and thanks Cam for lining that up. Obviously known Bors a long time Cam has and Cam doing some great reporting here on the sledge hockey team. So I think it'll be a little tighter of a game today than the game against Japan 14 nothing. But we'll see exactly what happens here and about an hour or so. Text line 833401 1440. Brad Texan, I think Ingraham is better than Cal Pickard. I think Jari is better than Skinner. But right now, and this is the discussion we've had over the course of the morning.

7:24Brad says I think the Skinner Pickard ceiling was kept the last two years. I'm not sure if that's reading it correctly or typed in properly, Brad. I think the ceiling with Jari and Ingraham is higher. Okay. So that remains to be seen. The thing that you cannot deny here is that Stu Skinner and Cal Pickard in the last two years took this team to the Stanley Cup final. Are you confident right now, the way that Tristan Jari is playing and the way that Conor Ingraham is playing that that can happen again. Well, the possibility is there. And now before everyone starts texting in about how the team plays in front of the gold tenders. You can discuss that last year as well. But to say that right now, Ingraham is better than Cal Pickard. I don't know where you get it from, Brad. I mean, last year Cal Pickard's goals against was 271 and he had a safe percentage of 900. He played and basically the sample

8:32size for Conor Ingraham this year is exactly in half because he's played about 970 minutes. So his goals against is 278. His safe percentage is 892. You can't say that he's better. I could say there's some equivalent there. But I mean, there still has to be a lot of improvement from both gold tenders and more so, more so on Tristan Jari. And spec feels and Ingraham is going to get the start tonight. I think you're right. You're riding the winning goalie now. That's the way it goes instead of trying to pick and go for a feel here. And I understand that a lot of people are saying that Tristan Jari needs to find his game. The others aren't at that point where they can allow a gold tender to try to find his game here. They're going with whoever is, gives them the better chance to win. And if that is Conor Ingraham right now, that is Conor Ingraham. And that's

9:35the way it is. And then you go on a back-to-back with Dallas and St. Louis with Jari Ingraham. Also had a text a lot earlier. Where was it? Yeah, this is from Scott. It's great, text. Thanks Scott. Hey, KK, what are your thoughts on goalies not playing back-to-back? Why can't they go back-to-back these days? It was a different time. But what about guys like Glen Hall playing 502 consecutive games with way less protective equipment and way less levels of fitness and training? I'm just curious why it's taboo for goalies nowadays to go back-to-back totally with the here Scott. I mean, our co-host for the first year and some here on on 1440 was Grant Fier. He wanted to play every game. And there's no reason that like, when he was in St. Louis, and even you know, when he was here in Edmonton, yeah, there was a tandem and with Andy Mogue and the likes there. But especially in St. Louis, I mean, Mike Keenan ran him out for 78-79 games.

10:42I don't understand it. I've never got to it. I've never, I mean, the players are going every night. I understand that it is the toughest position to play. And there's the pressures in St. You can talk about what is the toughest position in all of sport. Well, it's either a quarterback in the NFL or it's goal tender and hockey. But I've never really understood that. Scott, and we've talked about it many times, many times on the show. I mean, Vass left, he didn't play what? 65? Sure. Fair? Is that okay? Out of all the goal tenders. Like, if Schisturken wasn't hurt, he'd be at 65. That's fair. Okay. So Rolken's going to be there. But, you know, after that, like, Wedgwood and Black would have been, you know, basically a tandem.

11:43One guy was hurt earlier, right? But I mean, between if Schisturken wasn't hurt, he's up there. That's left. He's the only guy for me, right? Well, who else? Currently, the actual league leaders in games started as a Karel Vamelka, who is at 49. Then you have UC Sarros, Logan Thompson, Dustin Wolf, Bobrovsky, and then Vassilevsky. He's currently six, actually, with 42. So those are starts. Yeah. Those are starts. Yeah. I totally get where people are coming from, why can't they? I think it's more of just an asset protection issue because in the topic that often comes up in this conversation is how much more they practice and how much more rigorous practices are and the up and the down and some of the the way, like, there's no argument who made that, like, back in the 80s, like, we're using grant fears are our most recent example because we've talked about it with him firsthand. Like, they were athletic in there, right? They didn't have the big a gear and they're moving around,

12:47but, and they're flexible and all these things. But the game was very different in terms of the physical, how, how demanding it was physically. And I just think it's from the team side of things. It is does seem a little taboo. I'm not saying you should do it every time you have a back-to-back game. But you, you essentially never see it. Yeah. Never. Barring, like, emergency situations. Wesley Snipes, our buddy, Texan, and this is a fair comment. Is there less of a gap now between starter and backup? I think that's definitely true, too. So the, the worry of teams on a back-to-back saying, okay, we'll roll in our backup out. It's guaranteed loss. That doesn't really isn't the case anymore. It happens when maybe you have a guy hurting your backup as a call it from the miners or at times when you're really paying up your rolling out two guys that don't have a ton of experience or aren't having success. But it's a fair point. Imitation, Tom says I didn't imagine the extra equipment would make it harder to move in more taxing. Probably the opposite imitation, Tom. If you go back to all the guys that said about leather

13:51and deer hair pads that got wet, basically, they were like hauling around a 20-pound sack of potatoes on each leg here, Duke. They were heavier, for sure, but also smaller. They didn't repel water. Like, equipment nowadays, it doesn't get wet. It doesn't soak, like, obviously you said, the old leather pads did, but the gear's bulkier, which does make you bigger, and your movement is a little more restricted. You're kind of talking just purely in hypotheticals on this. I understand that, but also it's more difficult to move, not from a weight perspective, from a bulk perspective, and that makes your movements more restricted. How high can you lift your shoulder above your head, Kevin, when you've got a pair of shoulder pads on as opposed to not? Now, take those shoulder pads and turn them into football pads. No, turn those football pads into goalie, a goalie chest protector. The same principle can be applied

14:54to the leg pads, the pants, everything. So to totally dismiss it, I think, is not a appropriate. I got to find you tear those old pads, Duke, from the 80s. Where am I disagreeing with you that they were heavier? Well, don't get mad. But you're just totally discounting that as if it's a total non-factor, and I don't think that's the case. I'm not saying it's a non-factor, but this is back to you. Kevin just loves to deal an absolute only 100% or enough. 100 per, Duke, 100 per. MTR says it's funny. Those guys had those old school guys had to fight commercial, didn't they? Well, for Glenn, all he was on a train. So, hey, when we come back, this is going to be a great conversation, really looking forward to it. Brendan McKay, Olympic bronze medalist from Italy in free ski half pipe, also the World Cup Champion from 2023. He'll guess with this,

15:56coming up right after the break on the Kevin Care show, presented by Sports Select with the Duke Adalbert and Josh Fenwick on sports 1440 AM radio. We're streaming on YouTube X Facebook Instagram and Twitch. Hi, this is Pablo Tore from Pablo Tore finds out, and today I want to talk to you about boost mobile, because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places, and so on. But those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster. Sometimes, they're in your own monthly expenses. Boost mobile says switching to their $25 unlimited forever plan can unlock up to $600 in savings a year. That's $25 a month for unlimited data, talk, and text when you bring your own phone. If that money is trapped in a pricey phone bill, it might be worth a second look. Visit boostmobile.com to learn more. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience lower speeds, customers pay $25 per month as long as they remain active on the boost mobile unlimited plan. Saving is claimed based on a January 2026 boost mobile survey of a thousand Americans with single line unlimited

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17:58start now. Growtherapy.com slash start now. Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan. All right, welcome back to the big program. 920 in Edmonton, the Kevin Kerri show is presented by sportsselect. It's so easy to play. Just visit sportsselect.com, generate a QR code, and then you can check the videos. It's a step-by-step instruction. It's 100% legal. Check it out at sportsselect.com. You got to be 18. Plus, please play responsibly. Excited to welcome you in our next guest of the show, Brendan McKay, Olympic bronze, free ski, half pipe bronze, medalist, morning bread in your with Kevin Kerri. Thanks for jumping on sports 1440 this morning. Really appreciate it. Yeah, morning, Kevin. Thanks for having me. So I would imagine, Brendan, that you're still on cloud nine here after picking up bronze, metal. I suppose it never gets old looking at it or talking about it, but what's I guess the last little bit that been like for you since you want it? Yeah, I mean, it's been really amazing. It's

19:02something I've kind of dreamt about ever since I started competing in skiing, you know, almost 20 years ago. And yeah, so having earned an Olympic medal is pretty incredible. And yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing is just the amount of support and outreach I've had from both family and friends and also just from Canadians far and wide. I've heard lots of cool stories about kids who watch the event at school just because of the timing. It was a night event in Europe, so yeah, super cool. Let's start with that support. Brendan, you mentioned it just with your friends and family, how much they've meant for you to get where you are today. Yeah, I mean, yeah, to be able to, you know, achieve something like that takes so much help from so many people. I mean, my parents drove me to the ski hill like every day on the weekend growing

20:06up and after school, I was riding at our local hill in Calgary every evening, pretty much throughout the winter. So my parents, you know, put so much energy into getting me out skiing as much as possible. Like right before the Olympics, I was in Calgary and I was trying to get some extra training in and my coaches worked in Calgary at the time and I had friends who are coaching, you know, kind of lower level, you know, non-competitive teams who would come out and help me with my training. So, you know, really so many people have helped me over the years to get, you know, to achieve that result. Brendan McKay with us on sports 1440. Why did you make the switch when you were a real young guy? It's probably close to 20 years ago now, to go from ski racing to freestyle. And was it a hard decision for you, Brendan? No, it wasn't a super hard decision for me at the time.

21:09My older brother, I'd say, led the charge. I was probably around 10 and he was, would have been around 12. And I think we found, like in the afternoons after we'd be skiing gates or racing we'd wanted, we'd get to go free skiing with our teams. And we found that more enjoyable. And maybe kind of less restrictive. There weren't any rules. There wasn't a right way to do something you could kind of just go and have fun with your friends and really do whatever you wanted and could imagine. And so really my older brother led the charge. And at the time, I just, I found it more fun to kind of go free skiing, go get in the park, go right around the mountain. But definitely having grown up racing helped my like fundamental skiing a lot. So cool. When you went to Beijing in 2022, how much did you learn from that Olympic experience that enabled you to reach the podium in Italy? Yeah, for sure. I think having gone to a previous

22:13games and it didn't go super well for me in Beijing was was huge for my performance in Italy, both both just mentally. I knew that there was there's a lot more to go into the Olympics and to the Olympics experience than just results. So I was really trying to take the pressure off and not put you know, put too much pressure on myself to like achieve a specific result because I knew the most important thing was going out there, you know, representing Canada the best that I can and enjoying myself. And then also at the previous games, I because I was putting so much pressure on myself, I really, I guess took more risks than I think I should have in hindsight. And so in Italy, I decided to kind of somewhat dial it back and play it a bit safe, which ended up paying off. So how do you kind of walk that line, Brandon, in the sense that, you know, you want to have the

23:13best complete, you know, tricks and program, everything that you can, but you also want to run clean. So maybe just discuss that that fine line of sort of teetering on either edge here. Yeah, totally. I mean, the cool thing about half pipe skiing and and also slope style skiing is you get in finals, you get three chances and they just take your best run. So you can definitely take some amount of risk. But normally I'm normally I'm the type of competitor who would like to land my first run and then build into my second run and then maybe on my third run go all out after having landed two pretty good runs. That's that's my approach, whereas a lot of a lot of the, you know, some of my best competitors would just go for a run that maybe they have, you know, less than a 50% chance of landing, but after three runs, if they land it, they'll have a really good shot of winning. And so that's kind of the alternative approach with

24:14that I usually don't take. However, at the Olympics, you know, everybody wants to be on the podium. People are willing to take more risks, including myself. And so my plan at the Olympics was to the run I did, which I ended up only landing on my third run. I wanted to land that on my first run and then actually build into some harder tricks in my second and third run. But I ended up, you know, making mistakes on my first two runs. I think both the pressure and we had done our qualification that morning. So we were all pretty tired, kind of got to me. So I've really ended up doing what I'd call my, my safe run. And I really for that last run, I was talking to my coaches about like I wasn't sure if that run would be enough. I knew if I did a harder trick or two more harder tricks, it would be enough. But I after Beijing, I knew I just, I wanted to put down a clean run because after Beijing, I was really frustrated. I didn't put down a clean run.

25:15Brendan McKay with this Olympic bronze medalist on the Kevin Kerri Show in sports 1440. When you say that you learn from your mistakes in the first two runs in Italy, Brendan, but also in that same sense, now the pressure is on because you're down to your last crack here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, even though I was kind of calling it a safety run, the run I still did was the hardest run with two tricks that I haven't kind of done back to back, which were the right side 1620 and to the left side 1620. So it was both a safe run, but still kind of the hardest run I had ever done up to that point. And so on my first two runs, I'd done them back to back for the first time, but just had, you know, maybe popped a little hard, landed a bit funny, didn't fully trust myself. So on that last run, I really had the confidence to, you know, trust myself, land the

26:16tricks properly and kind of execute how I wanted to. Yeah. You know, when you, when I listen to the commentators and with all their, you know, the switches and the numbers and everything, it's hard for for me to keep track and sort of, you know, to kind of comprehend it. Do you have certain signature tricks that you like performing more than others? Yeah, I'd say the very first trick I do is probably kind of the trick I'm most well known for. And it would be my signature trick. So I, I drop in backwards into the at the very top of the pipe and I go switch alley. So that means you're spinning upwards in the pipe instead of downwards. And I do a switch alley. You double flip, and it's, I spend 900 degrees. And I, I really enjoy that trick because usually I'm able to go like really high out of the pipe. And I get like a pretty like distinguishable grab in it.

27:20And it just, it feels really cool to do. And it kind of, I feel like it's, it's as a real wow factor for especially someone who hasn't watched Half-Pay before. It's like, wow, that's, that's big. That's cool. Yeah. How cool was it to Brendan to have your fiance, I guess, competing in Milano Cortina as well? Yeah, that, that's amazing. Such a, such a cool moment that we'll, we'll remember forever, we've traveled together and competed together for a really long time. And I'm not sure if we'll, if we'll be at another Olympics together, we're, we're definitely both near the tail end of our careers. So kind of getting to get to go together and like support each other through the process. And also, you know, be together in the athlete village, be together training that really makes, really makes it a special experience. So I guess what does the future hold for you here, Brendan, because you know, he had such great success. Obviously, when in the crystal

28:23globe and the world championship in 2023 on the tour, a four-year cycle is a hard commitment. We hear about it in curling all the time, but what's the initial plan and goal here for you? Yeah, I mean, yeah, the four-year cycle is a huge commitment. And I think, you know, when I, after the last Olympics, I was pretty committed to doing another four-year cycle. For this time around, I think I'm going to just take it year by year. I do plan to compete again next season. And there's some pretty exciting competitions on the horizon in freestyle skiing outside of the World Cup circuit. There's some other kind of new half-pipe competitions that are like X games should have multiple stops. And then Sean White's created a new competition series with a new format called the Snow League. So I'm super excited for those competitions next year. But then after that, I'll be taking it kind of season by season, seeing how my body's feeling,

29:25seeing if I'm still motivated to kind of go up there and put it on the line. But I do look for it getting back out there next season and competing some more. Oh, that'd be great. Brett and McKay with this Olympic bronze medalist from Italy on the Kevin Kerry show. Do you have a favorite stop on the World Cup tour? Yeah. Yeah, that's a great question. I really love the half-pipe that we get to compete in in China, which China's probably not my favorite stop because it's usually pretty cold. It's kind of like Calgary and Edmonton. It can be really, really cold there. But it's not the fun as competing when it's like minus 20. But the half-pipe they build in China is beautiful. It's perfect because it's so cold they can make a ton of snow and they bring out one of the best builders in the

30:26world. So I always find I can ride really well there even though it's usually pretty cold. Well, Brennan McKay with us in sports 1440. So just looking at your bio as well, Brennan, I mean, you're not exactly having trouble with school either. Just looking at what you've taken at the University of Calgary and then pursuing your masters of science in physics at the U of C. So, you know, how did this all come about? Why is this a field that you want maybe your career outside of skiing to take a turn at once, once everything's done on the hill? Yeah. I guess I'd largely attribute studying physics to like a really good teacher I had in high school. My high school physics teacher, Dr. Light, was great and he got me really excited about the subject. And then more generally like in Canada, there's a very big push from sport

31:26Canada to have athletes looking into and kind of giving athletes resources to look into things outside of sport because often the transition both after the Olympics and also retirement from sport can be super challenging for athletes like at all levels because usually being an athlete is such a large part of your identity. So for me, having that outlet in school has been massive both both during the off season or when I have injury or if I want to take some time away from competitions, it's giving me something else to focus on. And it also helps me stay kind of less stressed about skiing because at the end of the day, you know, skiing even though sometimes it feels like, you know, you're at the Olympics, it's the end of the world. It's really not. There's so much more going on and so many more important things. So having a different outlet I think for

32:27for kind of all athletes is a very, very good thing to have. Well, you're a perfect guy, Brendan, to try to help figure a problem out that, you know, we've been talking about and we talk about every four years. Unfortunately, we don't talk about it enough between Olympics and that's funding and that's training that are both available to athletes going to the Olympics, but not near enough. So could I just maybe get a comment on from your perspective on what it's been like with limited funding and training possibilities that could be a lot better than what they are? Yeah, I mean, it's both. We're both super privileged in Canada because we do receive support from the federal government, which a lot of nations don't receive. And so, you know, when I look at my competitors, Canadians aren't definitely at the worst off, but at the same time, I know the cost of training and the cost of being competitive at

33:29something like the Olympics and pretty much all the sports I'm aware of is going up. Like in Halfpipe skiing in particular, the costs have really increased even over the past five years and federal funding hasn't increased. So it basically means athletes are either paying a lot of money out of pocket, which, you know, can be difficult to raise or alternatively, a lot of Canadian athletes just aren't receiving the same training that athletes from other countries are receiving. And in the long run, what that's going to mean is that Canadians will be less competitive on average at events like the Olympics. So it's definitely, you know, if you want, if you want to see Canadians out at the Olympics, bringing home medals, you know, winning at all the major events around the world, we definitely need a ton of support to do that. There's no way around the need to train and unfortunately, training in most sports is very expensive.

34:32Hey, Brennan, really enjoyed this conversation. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Best of luck in the future to you and hope you can ski many more years and maybe bring up bring home another world championship or even another medal at the Olympics for our country. Thanks for coming on. Take care and maybe we'll chat soon. Yeah, thank you so much, Kevin. Appreciate it. That's Brennan, McKay, Olympic bronze medalist from Italy in freesky, half pipe, and Duke, we've talked about my lack of knowledge and physics a few times that I was just thinking, man, he could have really helped me out here. Could have tutored you. Could have got you that grade 10. If I could do the, what is it, the GDP? Is that what it's called? A GED. GED. I think it has a, we caught on and we're talking about the Celer Day, actually. I think it has a different name now, but yeah, the equivalency. Right. And I brought up the, you mentioned the Seinfeld episode. You were watching in the rack last night where Jerry gets the bad haircut. So Kramer has to go in the bachelor option and Elaine's reading off all the accomplishments

35:33of the other bachelors. And it's like Harvard graduate first in class law review or whatever. And it's like, now we have Kramer list his height and weight. He has high school graduate. Oh, sorry, high school equivalency. That's, that's essentially you, Kevin, when you go to all your celebrity functions here around the city falls off the stage. Yeah. So he graduated, Brendan McCay graduated from the University of Calgary in 2024 with a bachelor of science with a physics major and a math minor. He's pursuing his master of science in physics at the University of Calgary, researching experimental physics in the field of quantum technology. Is that something you might be interested in, Kevin? Well, as I said, if I ever try to get this physics credit, I'll be calling Brandon and say, can you just help me out? I just need to get the 51. A little tutor. Yeah, a little tutoring. Oh, man. But wonderful career. He's 28 years old. So

36:34at four years cycle, as he said, it's going to be tough because, you know, there's so many young skiers. It'll be probably 10 years younger than him at the next Olympics in 2030. So anyway, wish him the best. That was a lot of fun. And I love doing interviews where like that's another sport that I'm not like, I mean, I watch it every Olympics, but to watch it at the World Cup and you can, it's tougher to find it on, you know, mainstream TV and things like that. So, but that was a cool conversation. Hey, when we come back, we're going to go in or out with the Duke Adele burn on a Tuesday on the Kevin Carri show presented by sports select. We're streaming on YouTube X Facebook Twitch and Instagram. Hi, this is Pablo Tore from Pablo Tore finds out. And today I want to talk to you about boost mobile because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places and so on. But those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster. Sometimes they're in your own monthly

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39:40the Winter Road brought to you by Pro Solutions. If you need fast air conditioning service, Pro Solutions offers expert repairs, tune-ups, and installs with flexible financing. Book your appointment now at prosolutionsinc.ca. 1440. I thought you would go, I meant Bob, we would have had a really cool moment, but you kind of ruined the whole thing. All right, dude. Well, let her buck. Game day. They have its noise down in Colorado, taking on the avalanche from Denver. It's been a little bit of a topic this morning. The goal-tending situation and we're not going to dive into, are we better off

40:42being the oilers in this context today than we were a year ago? Let's just focus on tonight's game, and I think it's, I don't think it's much of a question at all. Connor Ingram should be getting the start between the pipes. We don't want to dive into that, dude. We've talked about it enough here. Yeah, listen, and we've got enough runway that we've got plenty of time to dive into that a little more intensely. You're right with that with plenty of time left. I think I'm going to be in. You know what, every time that we discuss who the starting goal tender is, it seems like it's a 50-50 chance that Chris Norblock goes the other way, and that's happened several times, not just this year, last year as well, but just something about where they're at right now where if you win and you're allowing, man, if you're allowing through your lesson, you win unless the goals that you're letting in are totally egregious and stinkers. That's going to be good enough right now. Probably playing the next game, unless there is a back-to-back. I also see the other side of it where you got to get them in there.

41:46Got to get Jari going. And I think that's the only real dilemma that is maybe facing Chris Norblock and the coaching staff right now is this idea that you expect to need Trish and Jari here, man, at some point or another, right? Because there aren't throwaway games where the others are at right now in the standings. You can't roll a guy out there regardless of if he's expected to your starter or two years left at five plus million bucks or Cal Pickard at a million bucks. There are no games that the others can afford to give away anymore. They've kind of peddled along at 50-50 ball too long this season to have that affordability right now in the final quarter of the campaign. So the way I would be executing this Kevin and obviously tonight's result would play a little bit of a factor is I'm going Conor Ingram tonight. I'm going Conor Ingram and Dallas and I'm rolling Trish and Jari out on the second half of the back-to-back in St. Louis. Well, whoever starts tonight is playing two out of three. We know that. Right, right. And so as a result, that's why I'm going with Ingram again tonight and giving him the

42:46tougher that they the on paper tougher. If they were to win tonight, even if they don't win tonight, as long as as long as Ingram is respectable, respectable, perfect way to put it. I don't need him to be a bar and burner, but if he has a stinker, then yeah, maybe I'm reconsidering and trying Trish and Jari against the stars. But as of right now, I think you have to give your put your best foot forward, give yourself the best chance to win. And I don't think it's much of a debate that right now that's Conor Ingram. So, so the other thing too is Duke that I think as a coaching staff prior, like going back to when when stewed like for the last two years, let's go back to the two years. I think for the most part, the coaching staff when Chris Noblock arrived, when he would look at the the calendar and look at the schedule, I think for the most party kind of knew which direction he was going. I think right now he has no clue. I think he's just going okay. Very much game to game right now. It is totally game to game. So sticking with tonight's contest from my Ohio, just a game day prediction. The other night we saw the others get some contributions from lower in the lineup, something that has been a little bit

43:50of a rarity this season. I think that continues. Or there's get another goal from their bottom six, but sort of be negative. Nelly pessimist here on a Tuesday morning. I do think they ultimately lose tonight's game to the avalanche. I don't think many people are what's first of all? Is it over under six and a half? Oh, yeah, I'm sure it is. And is it some most games are only a half goal, right, Duke? Yeah. And is tonight is tonight one and a half? Let me just refresh my sport select page. Open up. Well, that's NBA. I mean, there definitely you could say that Colorado is the heavy favorite tonight for sure. So goal from the bottom six. Yeah. Why not? Why not a goal from the bottom six? Yes. The line is six and a half over at sport select. And yeah, the oilers are pretty, pretty heavy dogs right now, a 2.85 as underdogs. You know, you got. So voice technically in the bottom six, right? Because he's right. He's with Dickinson and Captain. So, you know, that adds a little more oomph there. Fredericks got two in the last four. I mean, Captain

44:55scored the empty netter. Dickinson's, you know, you can see, you can see what Dickinson, how he scored 20 plus goals a couple of years ago. It's something there. So, yeah, let's get some banging going on those bottom two lines, get another goal. I would probably say that Colorado is the favorite to win tonight. So, what do you think in, you got a score prediction? Well, I'm going to go, I think for some reason, I'm going to go like four three. Okay. And maybe it's an overtime goal. Hey, the point would be go a long way. Go a long way as you always continue to joust in battle for, hey, listen, Pacific division championships still very much within their reach. I'll go, I'll go similar, but I think it's, it's maybe not an overtime. I'll say five three for Colorado. Five three. Oh, five three. We'll get you from the point with an empty netter, with an empty netter. Triple C and a truck just sent that five three oilers though. Five three oilers. Triple C ever the optimist. He's essentially my, my county art on that front. Get some,

45:59gives him the business. Exactly. Switching over to the NFL, for agency tampering period, of course, opening yesterday, just in our final hour of the program. And it was with a bang, 25, what was NFL comms 30 top available players are off the board. Some, of course, with new homes, a couple resigning with their current team, the most impressive offseason for any single team so far. I'm giving it to the Carolina Panthers with a couple big ads to their defense and looking to make some noise inside the always competitive NFC South. Do you know how much money was doled out yesterday, Duke? I don't want to know. And I can, and not all of this is guaranteed, but, you know, how the contracts work. Yes. And I think this ended, they ended it at around eight or nine at night. And then there was a few more deals overnight and into this morning, even as well. And what I got 2.3 billion, 2.3 billion. That's the NFL for you, I guess, hey, nine players with a AAV of 20 plus million, nine of them, including Malik Willis in Miami.

47:05So, so let's stick there for a moment, because it was a topic of conversation yesterday. We talked about with Rifusan, our guest talking NFL. You got into it a little bit. I'm sure we'll talk about it with Connor Halley. Like, so the number doesn't end up coming in where maybe we were originally led to believe it could closer to the 30 million mark. But am I, if you're the dolphins, the dolphins who want to lose, is that a wise spending of your money? Well, it's funny when you say that they want to lose. Everyone thinks that Malik Willis isn't going to win anyway. So, what's the big deal? But, so, so if, if you're, if, but why give it to him? Why not just keep two for another year. You could cut him, cut him after that. And I believe that the repercussions salary cap and dead money wise would be quite a bit less than what they're faced with now. So, I guess the question is, if you take basically money out of the picture, who would you rather have a quarterback for another year? Malik Willis or Tua? Well, most people would say Tua. Would they not?

48:10Like, I mean, you're also, again, the 99 dead cap would change up to a state. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And now you just gave 60, what is it? 66 million? Yeah, it was I think like 2023 million or something per season. 22 and a half. So 66, call it. So, I guess, even for one more year, because as you say, you, you want to have a decent pick for the 2027 draft where all the quarterbacks are. That's what I mean. And so if you stick with two another year, this is a week quarterback year. Next year is expected to be much stronger. Even if you're not picking first, you maybe can still get a guy that you have a little more faith in. Yeah. Two, two, I think either way, Willis and Tua gave that opportunity. The difference is, now you're tied to Willis for those extra years. Then we know football, you know, there has always seem to be a free pass on at least a couple of them to cut them loose. But I just don't know why the dolphins in to say, you know what? To a run back out their another year and then maybe, hey, if he plays better, that's better for him in the long run. And he still is laughing because he gets all that money anyway. And he finds a new home immediately

49:11in Atlanta, which is a weird move by the Falcons. That might be a conversation for another day. We'll stay back to Carolina. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, for Jalen Phillips and Devon Lloyd to come in, Phillips is at what four years and 120. Yeah. They believe and they have him tipping out to be a top 10 edge rusher, you know, moving forward. And the money given out, it is a big number. But then I was doing some reading on our article this morning, that actually when you when you hash it out, like relatively to other past rushers like this wasn't a deal that reset the market. Like nobody's paying him like he's a top five guy. It actually comes in way lower than that. And and he's not a top five guy, right? But he is effective. And so between him, what Lloyd can bring, I think this is a huge addition to this defense that showed like they played pretty hard last year at times, but lack talent. I think this is a big change. And I'm might be getting a little heady on the panthers. So we set off the top thing about it. You got a quarterback that's trending. Yeah.

50:13You got a wide receiver in Ted McMillan that is while he was a rookie of the year offensive, right? You know, and then in the backfield, you know, maybe Jonathan Brooks comes back. But between between Lloyd and and Jalen Phillips hands down for me that that was they were top notch yesterday. You know what team actually came close to taking this category from a cove? Who's the Raiders? Oh, just because of the big center. Well, I think you get Linderbaum in there to help out with your rookie quarterback, your run game where you've invested a lot last year in genty. But I keep circling back to this decision to move on from Max Crosby and net yourself to first round picks. It's a great offseason so far. A lot of people that I read last night Duke felt that Linderbaum was just they liked the player in great player. Obviously, but the 81 is high. Oh, it's it's it's so rich of it. I think it's the richest contract for for center ever. Reset the market. We've seen lots of centers on the move already. So far, let's offseason. But hey, when you're a bad team and I think oilers fans maybe know this better than a lot. When you're

51:18a bad team, you usually have to overpay to get people to come play for you. When you become a championship contender, then you get players keeping on on team friendly deals and, you know, chasing championships. That's not where the Raiders are at. If they want to short things up, they had to overspend. And maybe they did so on Linderbaum, but I still like the move. Still some good names out there in the field, including quarterback Kyler Murray, some good alignments still on the board. But I think the most intriguing name still on the market is Juan Jennings, the wide receiver. And because of Mike Evans going to San Fran. That's why I think his he's done there. Like Mike Evans comes in as your new incumbent number one because the IU saga, however it ends up shaking out, he's not going to be playing there. They still have Ricky Pearceau. They got some other fringe guys. I think Evans comes in. They expect him to be their de facto number one. I bet MTRs thinks that IU could still be a reclamation product project. Sure. Send them to no in San Fran. Oh, yeah. Yeah, keep dreaming

52:22there. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Who else would you have on your list here, Duke? Um, well, I think Kyler Murray is a name that still interests a lot of people. That's a fair comment too. But like when I look at Jennings, it's kind of funny. I thought he had a way more productive season last year than he actually did. He only had 600 and 43 yards on 90 targets, but he had nine touchdowns. And at times he looked like he could be a number one receiver. Now he's never hit a thousand yards. Last, the season previous, 975 was his career high on 77 receptions. But is it just him and he's 29 now. So he's no spring chicken. Like is this just a matter of getting opportunity? Is he destined to be in a pretty solid number two behind someone else? And there's also if you remember Kev a couple different instances last year, if we get into it with some players in scuffles and people say in that he's a little bit of a dirt bag. Yeah. Some of the things he'll say or do inside the scrubs. So is that maybe a little bit leery for some of these teams? And then the other name out there, I think is the obvious one for still remaining. It's great. Hendrix obviously is the past rusher,

53:25right? So if he, I'm surprised that he's still available. Maybe his camp is waiting for better money or if they're overestimating what he can get in the market. I don't know, but he certainly seemed like a name that would have been snapped up a lot earlier than this, even though we're not even 24 hours in. So like I know, so Hendrix and also had the surgery, right? For what do you have? Right. Or whatever, somewhere in the abs or whatever you want to call it. I like, there's something about him that doesn't just, there's this little stink to it for me on Hendrix. And maybe it had to do with him wanting more money and since he and wanting to be a top paid Russian, where people said, well, no, you're not in that category. You're not, you're not miles, Garrett. You're not like a person. You're not like, you're not, yeah, what? You're not these guys. Yeah. So maybe there's something smelly with this guy that other teams are just sick of dealing with. And I think that is is very much in the realm of possibilities. So we'll see if

54:28either any of those names we just discussed or others continue to fly off the board today. It's, it's amazing how quickly it all happens. And what was, what was your number, Kev two point some billion dollars, a two point three. And that would have been added, that total would have been added for deals that came in like a separate game and stuff like that. How about MTR? Jennings can kick rocks. He's slow as hell. He's going to get 20 million a year by by Evans one year, 16 million bargain. I thought Evans signed a three year deal. Did he not? Oh, I don't off the top of my head. I'm not sure what the final verdict was there. But he signed a three year deal. If you're Mike Evans coming off this injuries that you've had a couple seasons now. Does the San Francisco substations scare you? How could MTR not know that? No, he's over the 20 million AAV too. Oh, well, yeah, he's still being paid like a real number one, right? How could MTR not know that? Wow. It's shame. Bad fan. Bad fan. If you don't have those with those facts and figures. Oh, he's only 16 million guaranteed dope head. You can be cut next

55:31year. No problem. If you say MTR, but you're saying that he's the next Mike Evans baby. He's the next. Yeah, what about the substation? Can you imagine now? What do you have last year broken collarbone torn hamstring or whatever pulled hamstring? Yeah. Bye-bye MTR. Finally, today marks the 10th when you scrolled that out. We've broke this topic before. It's Mario Day kev. I thought I thought it was going to be Lemieux. Mario Lemieux Day. No. Super Mario. Iconic series of video games going back to 1985 when Kevin was just finishing up his second semester at Mount Royal College. Not quite dude. Oh, oh, am I off by a couple years there? Sorry, my apologies, but lots of great characters, whether you're playing Mario Party, Mario Kart, the actual Mario Brothers game itself, lots of fun characters. I think the most underrated in the universe of Super Mario Brothers is dry bones. And that's the one that's in the castles, the turtle, the Cooper trooper, that's just bones. You can't kill him. He just bounce

56:37on him and he gets back up to terrorize even further down the level. So here's a question, Duke, for you, because for, okay, for one, I think I've told you that I had an addiction to video games when I was young. Pong. No, no, no, no, no, no. It was a little more advanced, Duke. Sega Genesis. But I was making really good coin when I was a kid, like big time coin. For your ice cream. Yeah. Dickey D ice cream. So I would go to the arcade every day. And it wasn't, it was the dumbest thing I ever did as a kid, because I blew all your quarters. I blew in there. 20, 30 bucks a day. No matter what. I did. I believe you. And Duke, this was in the 70s. When the game, when the games were only a nickel, a piece of quarter a game, you know, pinball, I was a pinball. Still a quarter really. I was like a pinball. How many balls? Three. Three balls. Yeah. They were the best pinball. There was an old pinball game back in the day, Duke called the dragon. And I would put a quarter in and I would win 10 to 15 free games and then sell it

57:38for a dollar to some unsuspect. What an astute businessman. That's the only thing that was good about it. But anyway, going back. So like the arcade games, and I'm sure. So, so you're saying that Super Mario. And I remember it a little bit. Yeah. As an arcade game, because arcades were starting to fizzle out a little bit more, you know, right? It. Well, yeah, the home consoles were when you had the NES and then Super NES and 64, the PlayStation into the turn of the century. So I could see it. So the question that I had originally, so when Donkey Kong and was like right before Super Mario, I'm betting, right? So Donkey Kong would have been 80, 1980? I don't know, maybe a bit before. And then so Super Mario, the concept was almost similar to me. Like, how they were jumping around and going from level to level. Okay. Am I totally out to lunch here? Like similar to what? Donkey Kong? Yeah, Donkey Kong. What Donkey Kong was 81? Okay. So

58:39Super Mario to me was just like the extension. Well, it was was the character in Donkey Kong, not Mario. Well, okay. That's what I'm trying to get at, Duke. So to me, if I think it goes back to the Donkey Kong stuff, all right, for the best character. So you like Donkey Kong? Underrated character. You see solid. I don't know a whole lot about this dry bones. Well, he doesn't do much. And maybe I know he's a playable character in some of the newer Mario Kart games. Yeah. And it's fine. He's he's got a lot like Koopa Troopa in terms of his like speed and stuff. Donkey Kong. I hated using a Mario Kart because it seems too big to corner. He's bad cornering and slow acceleration. Ski ass. He's all brawn, no skill as Josh just whispered over here. Yeah. I'd like to say it is the same for the Bowser world. Bowser's sweet. But I just so Donkey Kong's cool. And he got his own is his own entire franchise of games and spin-offs and Diddy Kong and the barrels and would you ever have Duke like an arcade size game in your condo here?

59:44Like like like a stand-up one like a Pac-Man game in the corner of my heart. Something like that. I mean, most like the most popular one I think for a guy like yourself would be golden tea. Right. What I have one of those in my apartment. I don't think that would be the best allocation of space probably not. Now down the road if I ever am you know in the spot where I'm owning a home and I've got a spot in the basement where the the corner quote man came in the big screen TV and maybe a pool or poker table or something in the corner there golden tea game. I'd be on board for that for sure. Okay. But at this stage of my life I think I'm like I don't play video games anymore. I don't have a console. I had blast when I own as a PS3. It's still at the farm. Not like Connor Halley who we can talk about. He just got himself a new got a PS5 for his birthday this year. Really? So he's full back into the video game scene with football and golf in the rest. Well, exciting stuff there, Duke. No question about that. In the 10 o'clock hour we'll

1:00:45get to some of your texts. We'll probably bust down a little bit more with the NFL. What happened yesterday? I think just a couple minor moves today that I could maybe just look at. We'll talk about the world baseball classic a little bit and then get Connor Halley into the mix of 10, 20. Before all that time now for sports 14, 40 update brought to you by AWS welding supplies in NISQ product sales, servicing, calibrating and free same day delivery of in stock items to the Duke NISQ and South Edmonton. Your one stop shop for all things welding a WS welding dot CA. Here is the Duke. Hi, this is Pablo Tore from Pablo Tore finds out and today I want to talk to you about boost mobile because we spent a lot of time analyzing inefficiencies in sports, overvalued contracts, money tied up in the wrong places and so on. But those inefficiencies aren't just on a roster. Sometimes they're in your own monthly expenses. Boost mobile says switching to their $25

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