Russ Courtnall

Yeah, that's how we open the show, folks.

That's, of course, the one and only laughing llama, Russ Courtnall and me, Jungle Jim.

We got my daughter, Sid, who's like the army, right? She will not stop.

Nothing will hold her back.

There, I see that, yeah.

Anyway, Russ, like I was saying.

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Uh, for sure, for sure those guys are gonna win the n- the, uh, 2023 Super Bowl.

I wrote a teaser.

We, we started teasing a couple months.

I f- you know, I said, "Russ, you wanna do it again?" You said, "Sure.

Yeah, let's do it." And, uh, I said, "God, he's nice." And then we tried to do a couple days and I said, Ru- Russ is, Russ is, that's a, that's a nice happy side of Russ until we got a text saying, "Okay, fuck off.

Um, a, a, a, a market where there's a lot of expectation and a lot of pressure put on these kids.

And at 18 years old, he now also becomes, I believe it was the youngest player to record his first NHL point with the Leafs since Russ Courtnall.

Now, check me on that, because I think the Leafs' PR came out with a tweet later that said it was Darby Hendrickson, but we'll have to go back and kind of solidify that stat for sure.

Um, as you know, if you've been following along the podcast for a long time, we have a show tomorrow as well, live with Peter and myself, so it won't just be me talking at you.