The Lowdown with Lowetide - September 4th, 2026 - Hour 2

0:00And community driven, we're making it easy. Visit Wolf GMC Buick.com. A country twang here today from my friend, Declan, as we gear up for a long weekend, Friday afternoon, Jason Gregor will join you at two o'clock today and we'll have the blue jays after Jason Gregor show. We're brought to you by Wolf GMC Buick and our headliner of the day is brought to you by Favour our headliner is Steve Lansky. And this city knows what a comeback looks like. If debt is holding you back, Favourites licensed insolvency trustees can help create your financial comeback, book your free consultation at favor dot CA F A B E R dot CA. Join now by our friend Steve Lansky. How are you, sir? And are you looking forward to the long weekend? I'm great. And yes, where are you going to be? Are you going to be in Vermillion or Guam or Paris? No, I'm going to be in Calgary editing the podcast inside the truck that we recorded yesterday with Jackie Redmond. So I will be plugging it out on the weekend. That'll be really good. I'm sure that's going to be a very interesting

1:01interview. She's a very fascinating personality. You have no idea how fascinating she was. It's a must. Let's see. Well, I know that she takes a lot of crap from people online and she gives it like she doesn't give it back, but she she puts people, she tells them what's going on. And I appreciate that about her that she doesn't back down. She talks about that in the interview. That exact thing. Yeah. Well, I think she has courage. And I respect that. All right. So a few things to talk about. And let's start here with Elliott Friedman not sign yet. And we're like, we're not far away. I mean, I know it's there's most of a month ago. But these things are usually nailed down far before now. Elliott Friedman not signed Kevin B. Exa not signed Ron McLean signed. And Kelly Rudy being told that he's not part of the future at the broadcast at sports net. From a PR point of view, it hasn't got embarrassing yet or has it? No, I don't I mean, I don't think so.

2:11Honestly, they could sign them the day before and they be ready to go for the season opener. So I think it's just a public perception thing for the network. They really don't care. They they'll just take as long as they need. And it's just a public perception that would be the problem. And I don't even think that's an issue. When do you when would they consider it like or do they have a backup plan? That's a loaded question. I know I know. I'm going to say yeah, I'm going to say they haven't had a backup plan since they got the first contract 12 years ago. I don't I don't think they would have a solid backup plan. I think they I think the high forehead would have sat around in a room and said, you know, and it of course, it depends how far apart they are in negotiations or whether they do want to replace Elliot or not or whether they just try to play hard ball or there's a million things that you couldn't know unless

3:14you were in the room. Because even if Elliot told you he might not be, you know, privy to everything that's going on behind the scenes. But I think you would have a loose backup plan at this point unless you knew for sure that neither one of them was coming back and you thought there's no way we're going to reach an agreement in which case you are scrambling to come up with a backup plan. Would there be a little bit of panic in that they've already secured McLean with the idea the other two are coming back and if they don't come back, they they may have wanted to go in a different direction. Absolutely not. McLean is the linchpin. I think I put this on X a little while ago. You and I also may have talked about it. Ron McLean, we're at the point now where Ron McLean produces that studio show. He produces it from the chair. I guarantee you they walk in and he tells them what he thinks should be in that show. So really he's the he's the pivot point for them. Anybody sitting around him, Ron will

4:16have said, I can work with anybody. Not a problem. You can work with anybody because you never shut up. So that'll be easy. It doesn't really honest to God. The other three could be cardboard seat pillars and Ron would think he's done a great job with that studio show. So it's all hinged on him at this point. That's why he got time for it. You do need to bring in fresh blood though. Tony Braar, leaving the Ableton Oilers organization, a very fine broadcaster and I don't know where he's going. I don't think it's been made publicly available. But my first thought was put him on television on a network. Like sports net because he's exceptional. He's very well spoken. Looks good. Has a brain in his head. He can do a lot of things. You no matter who you hire, if you hire the same guys you had 12 years ago, you still have to have new players coming along and build them up and make them famous, right? Do you though? Do you like you and I might, but I don't

5:20see it. I've got to be honest with you. Like I was thinking about this before we came on. It's spectacular how many meetings I've sat in and the short-sightedness and lack of creativity, liberally almost scared me to the point where I passed out. It's scary how much forethought is not played and how much creativity doesn't exist. It's frustrating to sit in those meetings because these people would tell you they have lots of foresight and they're creative and they are not. You'd think there'd be a bunch of new people in place. You'd think that and if I dropped you in the room, you'd look at me after about 45 seconds and go, what the hell is this? I wish I was kidding, but I am not. Steve Lansky, our guest from inside the truck podcast on sports 1440 and the low down with

6:22low tide. I remember when the sports net won the contract and they spent a lot of money on it and they spent a lot of money on it because they wanted to beat out TSN and the people who committed to it and spent a lot of money on it were soon in Europe. They were gone very shortly after because the realization came that recovering the money was going to be almost impossible. The original sets that involved the goal tenders net and various other props and mega things that were looked real. I thought really good at the time. They sort of went away and we've had what I would consider to be more of a skeleton group except for the number of personalities that are on the desk between periods on Hockey Night. How much of this is the network and the states being interested in Alliet and how much of this is that the sports nets on a strict budget and they may not be able to go much farther than they already are. You know what? I think you hit the nail on the head. It could be a bit of both. Again, I'm not in the negotiations, but it could very well be

7:26Alliet saying, look, I can get to get to see what have tons of contacts in the United States. I can get X, Y, Z from here here and here. I need you to match this and sports and it might be saying, well, we obviously can't match that. Now, would Alliet want to move? Would he want to fly somewhere once a week? Like, how would that all play out? I don't know, but it could be a bit of both of that because, you know, there's just no way to know unless you're on the inside. And if I had to bet right now, my guess is they're both back and they announce it with like a week before the season. That's my guess. So the other network is a Wednesday broadcast, right? Could they not do both? Like the Saturday is Alliet in Canada and the Wednesday is Alliet in the States? Yeah, absolutely. Jen Bottertl has done that. Cassie Campbell has done it too. Yes, absolutely. It's not conducive to a marriage or to a family or to any sort of life on the outside. But a lot of those

8:26guys have have resigned themselves to the fact that from September 10th until June 15th, everything exists but a puck and a stick and skates and a bunch of arenas and some studios. And some people can do that. I was not great at it. I did it before I was married, which really helped. But when you're married, I mean, that's tough. Like my podcast partner, Paul Heming, just spent two years in Utah doing mammoth games. And he's now doing Carolina hurricanes games where he's going to sleep at home 62 nights in the year. And he said to me the other day, he said, dude, you have no idea. I said, well, I have some idea. I have, I have a lot of idea. And his daughter is at the age where he wants to be home. And, you know, it's, it's a big deal. It's especially when you reach a certain point in your, in your life and your career. Steve, I'm a trusting person. I'm not at all cynical. And I don't believe that anybody would, would, you know, do something for publicity. But that sounds

9:31like a book right now. But this has been good publicity for Elliott Friedman. And, and really, if he goes back to sports net, for sports net, is there any part of you that thinks maybe they, they, you know, fell ass over T-cattle into something that is good for them because there's a buzz going on. And maybe they are continuing it beyond what is a normal parameter. Or am I just making stuff up now? No, you're not making stuff up. I would say in this current scenario, I would say for them to have even had an inkling of doing that would be spectacular because I don't see that with this group. It is a thing. There's no doubt it's a thing. Just do something crazy. Let's get in the media. Let's, I get it. And it works for many, many people. I don't think they would have done that because I got to be honest with you. It's like going into a kindergarten classroom and asking them to do astrophysics. I just don't think it's, I don't think it's possible for this group. Oh, Lensky, you're, you're a laugh ride on a Friday. You just are. All right, let's change

10:39the subject. How excited are you about the Toronto Blue Jays? You know what? I'm not unexcited. I think it, so they win the season series against Cleveland. So if they're tied, it's them. They win the tie breaker. I'm, I'm excited. I mean, they're not going to get in with more than like, you know, 80, 83 and 81 record like, or I guess that doesn't add up to 162, but they're, they're not, if they reach the postseason, it's not going to be with a sparkling record, but it doesn't matter how is Dylan C's pitching, you know, how is Soriano pitching? How are the, how are the key players playing going into the postseason? I'm pretty excited about it because I don't have it in front of me. 21 games left, 20 games left. Like, something like that. Yeah, like, you can't really ask for much more than that. And quite frankly, it's more than, it's more exciting than if the team was, you know, 15 games out in front. And we're just playing out the string here, waiting for the postseason. Somebody could get injured, you know, all those crazy things could happen. This is, this is fantastic to me. 83 and 79 as an ex-post fan. I knew all

11:44the numbers around 500 every year. 82, I just, I'm not that quick. I could, I just couldn't do it that fast. I know it had it at up to 162. I knew that. Unless that back when I was a kid, the white socks and Milwaukee would always finish, you know, with 159 games because nobody was going to their games anyway and the commissioner would go, there's no, they're not in the pennant race. Why would they play each other? And they would just cancel three games. That happened. Or we wouldn't, we wouldn't make up rain oats either. Yeah. Like, they're, they're out of it. Now they will for the money, right? Yes. But yeah, back in the day, yeah, look at the standings from like whatever, yeah, 1972, not every team played out in 62 game. Yeah, no, because they didn't want to turn the lights on them anyway. Yeah. Enough about them MLB owners. I'll be yelling at them all in 2027 all year. So there is that. So Labor Day, did you ever work a Labor Day game in the CFL? Absolutely. The two years I did CFL football. I worked the Labor Day game each year. And the thing about working a holiday on CBC at that time, I think you

12:48got double time in a nice, nice. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Yeah. I think people don't realize, you know, when I worked in Regina, I used to drive over to the CBC building, get clearance in a little pass. And I would walk down a hallway. And I would read three, 30 second commercials. And I would be paid over $400 for it. Like the CBC pays well. And so in the industry, I think that people don't understand why CBC is loved so much. That's the thing I remember. If you said to me, what was it like working on holidays? Well, we worked on Thanksgiving. We worked on Labor Day. We worked on Canada Day. I can't remember. There are always about four that you were always doing a CFL game on one of those dates. And it was not a bad thing. Right. You like you're like, okay, you know, hopefully it goes to over. No, you just got so like, yeah, like for sake of argument, instead of getting $300 that day, you got

13:49like $1,250 like that's that's that's that's the bad. That's that's that's the good living. So what are you up to? You got a long weekend. Are you heading anywhere? Are you just going to sit down and edit that that puppy? I'm just I'm just going to edit this podcast. It was, I don't want to give anything away here. At points, it got emotional. So when I edit, I want to make sure that breathes properly that Paul and I said the right things. So it's actually going to take me a while. It's going to take some creativity to have a little wee bit of. It's going to take some creativity to make sure everybody sounds the way they're supposed to sound on this podcast because I want everybody to be happy, but I still want it to be entertaining and fun and revealing and all those other things. What I'm reading is from what you said is you want to take the dumb stuff you set out. Oh, this is such a hard thing to answer. I'll just go with yes. Yes, that's right. I want to take the dumb things or I said I said. Oh, that's right. The other thing

14:51that could be possible is you said something that was quite poignant, but may not have gotten the answer you wanted. That's something else I would consider when you say you've got to edit and make sure it sounds right. I asked some very sensitive questions, but I need to make sure they have time to breathe and the answers have time to breathe because live, they sounded fine, but I can do a better job in editing. I can give you time to listen and go, wow, that's interesting. Wow, that's interesting. Did your guest, who is an outstanding guest or your co-host at any time call you with Jackass? Oh, that's a good question. I don't believe so, so that makes it two out of 59 podcasts where I have not been called a Jackass, which is outstanding for me. Well, you're really improving your average. All right, listen, you have a great weekend. I thank you and enjoy the long weekend. I can't wait to listen to that interview. It sounds like it's going to be great. I think it's going to drop on Tuesday. I'm not positive, but if you have a

15:53calendar, which I'm sure you don't because you don't want to run a computer, but if you did have a calendar, put it in for Tuesday morning. All right, Lansky, you have the last shot. I'll allow that. Have a good one. You too. Steve Lansky, I will listen to that interview. They get really good guests on that show. Inside the truck podcast, if you ever have an opportunity to listen to it, and their archives are available too, go back and listen to, well, what must be more than several dozen now. They've been at it for some time. All right, it's 117. During the process of talking to Steve Lansky, you were texting in a lot of things about the Oilers, Cassie Campbell, what Lansky said, and we'll go through all of it next. Lowdown with low tide on sports 1440 in YouTube, brought to you by Wolf GMC Buick. Them out Wolf GMC Buick.com. We're into our final hour of the lowdown

16:56for the week, long weekend around the corner. Jason Greger coming up at two o'clock today. Six, it's the Blue Jays in Kansas City. A huge series as they attempt to make the postseason as the last wildcard. Cleveland currently it owns it, but the Jays now have the tiebreaker and they're a half game behind. We also obviously have the Big Monday game, Labor Day game in Calgary as the Edmonton Elks look to further their lead in the Westman division and hopefully finish in first time in a long time in the West. Very evil, very nice as I was just reading an article 15 minutes ago that said, part of the hold up in sports net does not want a Friedman to do any prime games. That can sometimes happen. Friedman could work both, but both networks have to agree to that. If sports net doesn't want it, then he has a choice to make. They have time, obviously. We just heard from Steve that he said they can do it very close to the edge and it wouldn't impact

18:00too much, but I imagine they want to have everything done within a normal amount of time and get everybody ready in the studio and probably do some run-throughs. Make sure everybody's hair still works. Lansky is an absolutely amazing guest. That's from Coach Sheldorke. Well, I like Lansky because he, like, it wouldn't occur to Lansky to give me the easy answer. Like, it sometimes he'll mull and I know what he's mulling. He's like, should I say, should I say what I want to say or should I say what was close to the edge, but not over? And inevitably, he ends up saying what he wants to say. And that's what makes for Greg Radio because you know, you can tool around. You can check anywhere. You can't get a better guest than Lansky above media. He knows it well and he has opinions. Maybe on popular opinion, but I think Ron and Elliot need to leave.

19:03I keep Biasca, Biexa, but change the tone. Respect both, but I'd like to hear new voices. James Duffy would be fantastic in McLean's role from Trab. One of the problems is how many people can do that? You know, Canada is what, 35 million, something like that. Duffy can do it. David Amher can do it. Ron McLean can do it, but it's a, it's, it's a very unique set of skills because, well, Ron or David or Duffy are talking out loud and making sense to the people in front of them and also listening to what they say. Somebody's in their ear telling them, you know, 45 seconds or something that they've got to react to pick up on and not show you that they're doing. And it's a multi-task thing. Not everybody can do that. It's tough to do and keep it moving because you want to be interesting, you want to be compelling and you need to be on time. TV is obsessed with timing. And it's a lot. And, you know, McLean could do it. I worked with Ron in the early

20:0880s at CKRD television and radio and he was a natural. He just, you could throw stuff at him. Well, he did all of those things and he would just knock it down. You know, he was just born to that role and is exceptional at it to this day. And I do think there is a, an elapsed time where it becomes too long at the fair. But as I say that, you know, I'm in my mid 60s and I'm still working in media. So maybe on the wrong guy to call out that particular area. Yeah. Can you ask Lansky what his connection is to the Bonneville Pontiacs? I will next time. And he wants to know if you watch Matthew LaJoy, likely in NHL pick from HD. I will next time. Okay. Because I mean, he's there and he's such an obsessive sports fan. He can't drive by an arena in August and let it go. He has to go in there and, you know, walk on the

21:10floor, you know. So Lansky has been in that building I guarantee and he's seen the Bonneville accident guarantee that he probably hasn't been on that young man. Bring back the killer bees, BX and Bauderill would like the F-True too for Raro and Friedman. But they're gone. Big dirt. Respectfully, I know the others pay the bills. But when you go from super fun segment of best upsets to talking about me, David's plus minus on September 4th, I know it's time to get out of the truck and go back to work. Ha ha. Keep up the fun personality showcase stuff thought from Kev Media York. Well, the segment was done from that point of view and I had something I wanted to respond to. So that's kind of how radio works. I mean, I could, I could say something to Josh about the the Bengals and, you know, how they'll be really good until their quarterback gets hurt

22:14in the first quarter of game one. But I won't because he'll just spit on the microphone. Just cold take house house. Who's the backup in Cincinnati? I know they signed Joshua Johnson of NFC title game fame who's been on I think almost every team in the NFL at this point. But they're true back up. I know Jake Browning left. So allow me to double check the depth chart. Oh, how could I forget Mr Elite Joe Flacco? Oh, winning quarterback. I didn't know he was in still in the league. Yeah. Unfortunately, we have no second string right tackle, but I'm sure everything will be fine. Well, what do you need a right tackle for for crying out loud? That's this, that's the side he can see.

23:20Spending your money on the blindside guy. Bad captain said, LT old guy random thought of the day. I remember watching wide world of sports and coming across hurling. They did a lot of weird sports and that poor guy on the on the the the the skier who was coming down any crashed and it was just, you know, awful. It really was clearly badly injured. That was the agony of defeat, I believe. Jim McKay and he did time X commercials, I believe. Going back many many years. But wide world of sports was where I watched my boxing when I was young. They had great boxing that this was before pay per view and they'd have fantastic boxing matches. And I do think that boxing is not as famous now because it's on pay per view when it was on wide world of sports. We all watched it. Everybody watched it. It was extremely compelling. Those were great boxing matches.

24:23Tuck, tuck. It's not the back nine. It's the second nine. No, it's the back nine. I agree. I always call it the back nine. Yeah. Or really what I should call it is when the wheels come off of my game. Yeah, I'll do it. Gerhard here. How about when the Polish national volleyball team beat the heavily favorite Russians for the gold medal of the 76 Olympics? I watched that. It was spectacular. Ah, me and Josh weren't watching that one. Yeah, who was alive then. Unfortunately, hey, just really quickly, by the way, you were talking about wide world of sports. Like they had some of the most high profile boxing matches for like a decade plus at least. Like all these fights sugar ray Leonard beat Tommy herns. I think on the wide world of sports, like they did an amazing job. It was it was like so good and they covered it well. But they like everybody watch. They

25:27everybody had a B C exactly right now. It's not like now where where you know, it's just a different world. And then you know, was Larry Holmes have been the first boxer to do pay per view like the heavyweight division? Well, because they also had CCTV right. So I don't really know what the timelines like I'd look into it. That's a good question. I don't know. Larry might have been a touch early. Yeah, you might be the next generation. Like Tyson was definitely the first pay per view star for sure. I remember when they talked about really early on with Tyson, he had like four or five boxing matches that lasted like 25 seconds. So it was hard for him to get publicity. So his his manager spliced them all together and sent them out. And then all of a sudden he was like the guy. And from then on, he was being paid reasonable money for what he was and I mean, he had terrible handlers. They nobody took care of Mike Tyson. Nobody. Yeah, like Don King was his manager.

26:33No, just atrocious. You know, Muhammad Ali, you know, he ended up being having a brain injury and that was sad. But the people around him, they bled for him. They wanted him to be okay. They didn't want him to fight. Tyson was like just an asset, man. He was like a guard you put in the machine. And I really resent how he was handled by by his management. They they did not do him any favors. Don King did that to a lot of fighters. And he's like Don King is he's over 90 and he's like still doing it. Well, it's embarrassing that that you know, like somebody's got to get a harness on that. These guys need protection. A lot of times they come from very poor families. And they don't know like they're the atmosphere. The the world that they grew up in is is you know, not necessarily the word that the world they're going to live in now. Somebody needs to prepare them and protect them. Yeah, funny story about Don King is like he was just getting his feet in the promoting game and he did the Ali Foreman match, the rumble in the jungle. But he like didn't really

27:36know how to stage a boxing match. So he like reached out to the king of Zaire or president and like that's why the fight ended up in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Well, it's pretty wild stuff. I mean, they and I know they let anybody in and I know the boxing commissions are kind of weird and they are all different or whatever at least they were. But I I you know, some of the stuff you see in boxing is really, really sad. You know, and it does not benefit the guy who's getting the brain injury in the ring. And that's too bad. But I love boxing when it was on wide world of sports. My dad and I would sit and watch it and those are some fun memories that I had. You know, I loved Fraser. He was so powerful as a fighter. Ali, I loved in a different way. Ali was like so famous that he wasn't really a boxer. He was sort of a star who boxed. That's a really great way to like he was elegant. Like his quote, everyone knows the quote, but it was so apropos to Muhammad Ali float like a butterfly,

28:36sting like a B. Your hands, your eyes can't what? Float like a butterfly, sting like a B. Your hands can't hate what they can't see your eyes can't hate what's something like that. That was really who Ali was. Yeah, true. And in 1975, I think it was time or news week, maybe time. He was the most recognized faced in the world, Muhammad Ali. Like his fame was as big as it gets. And everybody loved him. I mean, he just was a very compelling personality and his is like the weigh-ins or his media veils were just like they were theater, you know? I have a quick question for you. Sure. Who do you think is the more famous athlete? Because I think it's clearly these two all time when you tell, maybe not. But I was going to say Ali versus Jordan. Oh, that's a good one because they would be the two names that I would pick out. Like I nowadays, I had to stop myself because like I do think guys like Ronaldo and Messi have probably surpassed them. But like between those two, I would say Jordan because he was very famous when the media landscape was morphing.

29:40And I think that he probably affected. But now that I say that back when Ali was going on, you could only get him on three channels. So maybe he was more famous. But I agree with the two the two choices. I think those would be the most famous. But Jordan started playing when the NBA was on tape delay and basically stopped that. Well, that was a little bit more burdened magic to be fair. I guess so. But then also it wasn't a global game. Then you had people in China that were like Michael Jordan. Oh my god. Same with like London. Yeah. Well, I mean, I it would be an interesting, I don't know how you'd go about answering that question, Declan, but it would be interesting to find the answer. You know, like Jordan, if they did a how many how many movies or TV shows have they done on his life? Well, he's like a really, really private guy kind of now all things considered. Like doesn't like to get in the limelight too much. So really like the last dance is kind of the only big one. Do they have a lot of on him not being in the curveball for the white socks?

30:46That was in space, Jam. I was also in I think Jordan Reds and Bus. They snuck that into space, Jam. I remember I remember Ray. I used to buy baseball America all the time in the sporting news and it was all over. He's gonna do it. And then I'm like the first month he's hitting 120 and I'm like, okay, well, that's not gonna work. But good for him for doing it. And then he went back to basketball right and he had another another run of and he was part owner of Charlotte, right? For a time. Yeah, sold it relatively recently, okay, made a couple billion dollars. Boy, wouldn't mind having half of his bank account. I'd be in Josh territory. Yeah, I wish. I wish I was in low tide territory. You know what I'm saying? Oh, well, here's something that nobody tells you. You probably have as much walking around money as a lot of guys my age because when you're my age, you've got stuff that, you know, when you when you start taking it out, it'll feed you until you are 95. But you're either feeding money into that or waiting for that,

31:52you know, birthday, whatever it might be. So you're probably you're probably fairly flush, sir. You know, nope. And you can make and you can make good food on a budget, which means you're ahead of 90% of the males out there. You're a catch on a budget. Don't know if that fits. But is anything on a budget anymore? I don't mean I don't get down the medial. All right, low down with low tide on sports 1440 and YouTube brought to you by Wolf GMC Buick. Check them out at WolfGMCbuick.com. Final segment Jason Greger on the way to kickstart the weekend with you. Gonna be a busy one. Last I checked Detroit Cleveland have a double header today and they're still in a rain delay. They were going to start the game earlier and last I checked it wasn't going on. So there may be some late night baseball. They've got to get it in. Those are, I don't know if Detroit's still in it. Man, they've been bad recently, but definitely Cleveland has to play a bottom of the first now to try to four one over Cleveland. So maybe Cleveland wishes that came to the start.

33:00Good news for Jace fans. Yeah, well, it's hard to win both ends of a double header. So it should work out okay, but if Detroit were to win both, that would be ideal. If you're a Toronto Blue Jace fan, they play tonight against the Kansas City Royals. And on Monday. But even if they split and the Jace win tonight, they'll take the wild card spot, I think. Yeah, let's see if I have a game or yeah, well, math was never my favorite. Okay, so this is fantasy football draft season and our friend Josh had his draft or one of them yesterday. You had the first overall pick. I did. I know you got what you wanted, but what happened after that? Kyle Pits first overall was very pleased. No, I took Jameer Gibbs. Obviously I was very pleased Kenneth Walker III came to me at the turn. Didn't know if you'd be there. Do you like that a lot? I liked that a lot. I was very happy about

34:01this. And then I got Nico Collins as well. So I was very pleased with my first three picks. Then I ended up with yeah, DJ Moore. I like Luther Bird in the third. I'm very heady on him. So I was happy to draft him. I ended up getting Tucker Kraft pretty late in the draft. That was pleasing, but everything sort of went downhill around like I don't know pick around 11 or so. The backup tight end I wanted really got snaked out from under me, picked beforehand. So I wasn't too pleased about that. And then I was like, oh my god, like what am I going to do? So I have RJ Harvey on my roster and Kashon booty. I am this is this is oh and Jerry Judy. We can't forget about Brown's wide receiver one Jerry Judy, who is not going to be good. But I did also end up with Kyler Mary as my backup quarterback. So that's pretty good. I don't mind it at all, especially if he's good, then I can end up trading them to some team that needs better quarterback or something. Gotcha. Come come trade deadline season. So what's your what's your need?

35:07What do you need right now? Well, let's see, I got drafted. My draft grade was a C. So I actually I feel pretty confident in my squad, provided everyone stays healthy. You know, find that when you do a draft and the assessment is positive, then you're screwed. Yeah, the better the score you get the worse your team is. No. The worse the score, the closer you are to winning a championship. You know what I mean? So I'm right in the middle. So a couple of well placed moves. I'll be very pleased. Okay, so as well. Are you done or you coming up on a draft? Declan, I have two more. Okay. I have one on the eighth, which is a new redraf league. My friend started 12th team super league. I have the first overall pick in that draft. I will be taking Jamir Gibbs. Unless he like breaks his leg or something in the next five, four days, then I'll take B. John. And then I have one more league that's drafting on the sixth,

36:09which is this Sunday. Still don't have the order for that one. Okay. Is there a like a universal number one pick because you guys are picking two different players? Are those the two guys or? Yeah, I think Jamir Gibbs is the universal one one. There's a universal one two and maybe even as an extension one two three, but definitely one two. And that would be Jamir. Be John. Okay. And you took who? I got, I got Jamir. I had the first overall pick in my draft. All right. I want to make sure you guys do well because I'll know if during the year I come to you and you got to want to talk about. Yeah, you know, because you how emotionally attached are you to your fantasy football team? I'll be pretty emotionally attached. Is there one you like more than another like your home? I only have the one fantasy football team. So I really live and die on that vine. Yeah, it's a bunch of people who if you're way behind, they will mock you.

37:13Correct. I have known I would say 10 of the 12 guys in my league for at least a decade. Okay. And you're young. So that's half your life. Yeah. I went to while yeah, when I was 12, I went to junior high. And so I met a bunch of guys. What grade is junior high? Where you live? Seven. Seven? Yeah. Grade seven, eight, nine. That's junior high. That's that's an Alberta thing. We went grade one to eight and then nine to 12. Nope. We had a nice little in between or there. One to six, seven to nine, 10 to 12 here in Alberta. Most of the time turns out my girlfriend just did she was six to one to five, six to eight, nine to 12. That was weird. But that's how they do it in the States also. Okay. I guess I was in an outlier province, although, um, Saskatchewan curriculum at that time was fairly advanced.

38:18I mean, you had to get good marks, but yeah. Okay. For those two advanced for you is what you're saying? Well, I moved from in grade four. I moved from British Columbia to Saskatchewan. And I almost got failed. That was so far behind. They were so far ahead of me. Yeah. Sorry to hear that. Well, I mean, the, you know, the like the commissioner of my league. I've known him since kindergarten. So whatever that is, 18 years, 17 years, were you a, were you ever either of you, the class clown or the, the, the, the spokesperson like the, the class president during anything like that? No, another one of us know. No. We were just in the, what about you, Declan? Uh, no. I don't think we had a class president. I say like Declan every day, my dad was class president. Would have gotten up on the desk, put a towel on his back and played Superman or something or Captain

39:18America in elementary school. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you a really quick funny story. I remember one time in kindergarten. I kept acting out in class. I was jumping up, making a scene trying to be funny. And my teacher said to like, Declan, if you do that one more time, I'm kicking you out of here. And I did it one more time and she kicked me out. And I went out into the hall. And this was kindergarten. And the big scary grade sixers were doing something in the hall. And I begged and pleaded to come back in that room because I was so scared of the older kids. And she said, no, I'm not letting you do that. And I just just sit out there. The beginning of that story sounds like how I got a technical coaching basketball. Except instead of jumping, uh, replace it with talking and like, there we go. When, um, I was in grade, I think seven, um, seven or eight might have been grade eight. Um, I got in trouble, uh, for using double entendres, uh, in class. And the teacher said,

40:20go down and talk to Mr. Eyedness, who was the principal. But pop eyedness was the easiest mark on the planet. So like, you know, I could just say I said something bad. And go, oh, you know, do that son, you know, and then he'd pat me on the back and send me back, right? But Mrs. Eyedness was the vice principal. And she was there. And you had to tell her what you did, right? And it was painful because she was, she'd seen a thousand of me, right? And so she put me in my place and she sent me back. And I never did that again because she was tough. There are some scary vice principles out there. They're always scary than the principal. Very true. Yeah. Very true. I had a different vice principal, like basically every year of my schooling until high school, who was then you broke all of them, did you? No, not me. I didn't get sent to the office. I was a good kid, uh, but Mrs. Porter, she was my grade seven vice principal, or my vice principal when I was in grade seven. And then she was the like my grades vice principal.

41:26So like in our high school, we had three vice principals, but they were assigned to a grade, like when they came into grade 12, and then would be your vice principal until you graduated. And then like they would go back to the beginning and get a grade 10 class. Wow. So yeah, Mrs. Porter, great lady. Love her. She's very nice. No. Scary as hell though. When I was in grade one, my grade one teacher was Mrs. Norman. I loved her. I thought she was the best thing ever. One day I went out for recess in the hallway, and she walked by and a grade four kid said there goes iron pants, and I cried. I was so upset that people called her names. Mrs. Norman was the sweetest lady alive, and I can't believe those mean mean boys did that. Iron pants? Yes. Crazy. Right. And said it loud enough for her to hear. I'm telling you, the sixties were tough. My grade one teacher, Roka Yard stick over my back because I was talking to much of the eighties from Dr. Dick Richard. I don't think they can do that now. In the seventies,

42:29when I was growing up, there was some, you know, I remember, you know, not me, but other people kind of getting thrown against the wall a little bit, but that sort of ended, I think, in the seventies. Yeah, right. That would not fly these days. Right. I remember we had a vice principal, a substitute teacher got fired because that's one kid totally had it coming. Totally had it coming. He was just a, you know, he was not a pleasant kid to be a teacher too. And so he was, you know, given him the gears, whatever. And so this sub walked up, and I think grabbed him by the throw. Oh, geez, that's not good. And that was it. Like this was all we heard about it. And like most of us were like, yeah, that kid had it coming like no doubt, you know, but you can't do that. Like just as for the substitute teacher, but yeah, he was fired. He was, he was old too. Like he hadn't been a teacher before. And then, you know, half retired and became a substitute. Worst event in my whole school life was a guy named Ryan Viglis. And he was in the, um,

43:35weight room, like lifting weights. Yeah. And he dropped the weight on his foot and there was blood everywhere. And it was like, like I remember that to this day about however it was just like the worst thing ever. Absolutely the worst thing ever. And I used to, he was a tough guy, but that was painful. What about you, Declan? Anything painful happened, Mrs. Andrews? Nothing like physically. I, yeah, nothing physically. It was all just emotional. It's a sad. She might have been the toughest teacher in the history of man. No, she really was. Like jokes aside, she really was. Anybody who says to a great one kid, yo, it to your family is breaking on a different level. Yeah. And then like I remember one time I wore the wrong socks and she kept me and my friend Cody from recess for wearing the wrong socks. It was like gang affiliation or something. And I didn't even like just wore a wrong. She was, yeah, shut it up for me. She, she, she, she is like, you could write a sitcom and make a bazillion dollars. Can you call it Mrs. Andrews?

44:39I should. Oh, fuck you. Right. You're a hood. Poor little great one kid. Oh, God. I'm sorry for laughing. I'm sure it's emotionally difficult for you and I'm laughing. And I don't mean to. But damn, it's funny. All right, Jason Gregor on the way. Thanks for tuning into the lowdown. Please enjoy your long weekend.