Greatest Canadian Athletes with Rachel Bonnetta

I'm gonna tell her because I don't want her to. Just can I bring our guests on gosh our guests today, gotch I'm a fan, I'm a friend. Um, she is on Fox Sports, as I was reading today, the youngest on air person for Fox Sports. Well, which is incredible. And uh one of the hosts of Crookds Hall of Shame podcast and for this episode specifically a Canadian. Please welcome Rachel Vanetta. Thank you so much for having me. I'm loving the chaotic energy already. This is where this

is good for us. We're so what's up with the there's people recording a podcast in your girl? Just people? Another couple another husband and wife. Oh my said, I was like, this is truly embarrassing. If anyone was to see this going on, they would be like, we wouldn't be embarrassed. I think l A would be embarrassed that there is two couple podcasts recording in with and I sent her two options. We have like a patio and the garage, and I said studio one or two is yours.

Whichever and whichever you need have been why this is this is? I did, like you mentioned I have a podcast on crooked I did, I think maybe two episodes with my podcast partner in studio and all of the other ones have been like this over zoom and like, thankfully we get along because if not that would have been really messy. That's tough though, to just do the two in person. And then I didn't know each other before, so you're like literally building chemistry over zoom during the

course of this year. Do you have any do you have any ship you need to get off your chest? You know that. I'm like that I should tell, well, you know, any greement this is to air. She doesn't turn her mike on sometimes it's pretty fucking right. Well, and like my heart obviously really cares about the quality. But I was about to be like Crooked really cares about the quality. They both care. It's just hard, like it's hard to yet we have no we have no.

I remember we the week that everything shut down. Love it was gonna have us and where does he do his comedy show in l A And the Improv. He was gonna have us on his show at the Improv and we were gonna like we were planning on getting very drunk. Oh I get very drunk, and so that show got canceled. So I was just like, Okay, let's just get drunk anyways, like in the studio and like

all uber homes. So I remember packing like something stupid, like white cloths or something like that, put in the car, and we showed up at the studio and everyone was gone and everything was silent and there was Clorox wipes everywhere, and everyone was kind of just like should we just like go home? But it was such a weird. It was that week that everything got canceled and everything was just very scary, and I was like, I'm just gonna go drink this whole hole by myself. You were like,

I just want to get drunk. I don't care what the location show about, you guys, but I have been getting drunk a lot. I got addicted to weed gummies. Weed gummies every night for the last four months, and I just only in the one this is what this This will be week two of not doing it on the weekdays. Oh yeah, I mean we're not even setting tough goals for Yeah, I've been smoking a lot of weed.

I'm a nighttime I can't do it during the day, so I at least like I'll wait until below deck bachelorette time to really get my exact like no, I I like I would drink a couple of times a week, but now I just find myself having and it's not it's not a time like I'm having one or two glasses of wine, but I've never done that before. And now I just feel like my body is a trash can. So I'm trying to same as you guys. I'm trying to like kind of just stay on the weekends. But

it's hard, I know. And now and now it's the holidays, and like the holidays for me, so just like I want to get high and watch bor At with my mom. You know, that's what I want to do to do that. I haven't seen the original boor apt chapter one. What I don't know, you gift right to chapter two. Yeah. I think it came out when I was in college and there were just like enough men around me doing

the voice. And you know, I went to a very conservative leaning school and I fought with men all the time, so like and the men I went to college with, I was like, I'm not doing anything you're into, and so I swore it off that way. But that's a good call. Yeah, no, I but the second did you have? You guys watched I laughed, Um, but I'm going to laugh at it. I had a great time. I was like, I thought, this this woman is a revelation. She was fantastic,

so funny and like. And then we were watching it with a friend and her friend had auditioned for that part. And I always love like those stories of like what did they send? And she was like, oh, it wasn't because sometimes you'll get I very rarely have this happen, but they'll send what's not the script because they don't want it's like so secretive and yeah, that she was just given kind of like a blank piece of paper and then told to just like yell out things in

an Eastern European acts. God, that's so funny. I would never audition for that that movie, Oh my god. And I was watching her. I was just having such anxiety watching her do these things because it's like I would never be able to do that. It's just so brave. I Um, I was on a prank show. I was on an MTV prank show, and it was truly it took years off of my life. I mean really just high stress. Yeah, and like I don't like people being

mad at me. I don't know why. I thought this was going to be like an enjoyable experience for me. And also because I look so, you know, just kind of middle of America in New York City. People were like, oh, she's not tricking me, and then I was fully tricking them and people tried to fight me a lot. Yeah, it was tough. It was tough. Oh what it was called be Like Once a girl yelled at me, bitch, I'm from Chicago, and that's like yeah, then I was like,

oh okay. Security security and security Security quote unquote was the one man on the show who is a very flamboyant hilarious opera singing comedian named Mateo Lane and they would like say in my ear. They'd be like, Mateo's got your back, and the Mateo would look at me and be like, no, I don't know. I'm not helping you. I can't fight these people. I might have to go and watch this show. This sounds absolutely insane. Well, there were supposed to be ten episodes and there were only eight,

so you can breaze right through it. Tho, it's weird. You will never tell me where I can watch them, Megan, Um, I think, Sarah, I know you can watch them all right. We've never seen any of them. I've seen clips and then I'm just like, well, yeah, I don't need I don't need to know all of this. I don't need to see all of this. I was listen. I made the most of a tough situation, but I was afraid a lot was very afraid. That's like hard acting. Yeah, I would like I have to tell men that they

I mean yeah, I was like pretending people cheated. It was it was yeah, it was bad. It was bad. I would I don't think i'd be able to sleep the night before that ship, Like I would just have such crazy. I've done one prank in my life before, and I hated every second on it. We sent somebody, we sent somebody on a radio show and had they had a fake heart attack, like yeah, when you're like, yeah, that's I wasn't my idea. I just had to go along with it. And it was the worst experience of

my life. Didn't get a lot of views, views and yeah, well the guy, the guy, so hold on, oh god, this I shouldn't have brought this up. This guy to an audition. It was with a sal who you've met I do my show with, and um, so we were trying to we like put out a casting call for like you must be old and like be able to fake a heart attack and all this stuff. We had to go sal and I to sit through multiple auditions of old men, thinking oh my god, oh my was atrocious.

And then we landed on one and he got stage right and so he had a heart attack and it lasted for like five seconds, and he was like, oh, it was not successful at all. It was bad. I would love to see the casting tape. If men pretending that I've got the head shot, okay, listen, I'd into

those two. This just reminds you real quick. I know we're talking too much about pranks, but there was one of my favorite vhs is growing up was this NBA like prank video and their number one prank was Minute Bowl or Charles Barkley putting his head Like they cut a hole in the table, Charles Barkley went under it to put a tablecloth over it and put his head through a hole, and then they put a platter cover over his head, which is like in the eighties I

think was like the height of pranks, I say today, and then they're like, hey, Manute Bowl, go over there and get a snack from underneath a platter and he lives. Wait, so it was just NBA players pranking other nbah. I'd watched the ship YouTube. Just look up NBA pranks Manu Bowl and you'll see a whole rep. You'll go. You know, another another sports icon. O J. Simpson had a prank show, Yes he did. He had This was post murder trial.

Me had an O J. Simpson prank show. Yeah yeah, what would he just know he was prank he was pranking people or it was just I think it was like him and the cast, Yeah, bron everything. It was it's a it's a strange choice to try and rehabilitate your career. That's not a good call. Yeah, Rachel, we are so excited to have you. I brought up that you are Canadian because today's topic is by popular demand. To people have been, oh, I don't. I don't believe

listened by popular demand. I mean two or three people okay have asked him been like, can we get a little Canadian love? So we are doing greatest Canadian athletes? And where are you from? You have a Raptor's shirt on right now? Perfect. I thought you guys were going to be like decked out in Lakers gear. I follow both of you, and I know that you guys are both huge basketball fans, and so I was like, okay, I gotta bring some heat. I love that too from

this new company that I wanted to wear it. So I'm sorry, okay, wow, I had I had a pitch. You don't really love your I had a pitch today, So I'm looking better than I usually do. But yesterday C and I had on inadvertently matching Lakers shirts, So you just missed us by one day. You guys are sports couples goals I mean, we have gotten in a fight because I said he doesn't care about the cults enough. Do you have a basketball or a football team? Oh,

I mean, I guess it's the Rams right now. But it was to say, I mean it is the Colts, but I adopted. Yeah, we we got in a fight and I said I didn't want to watch the Colts game. And that was the wrong thing to say. I forgot. That cuts deeper than most things that we ever getting fights over. I just have adopted so many things that you love, but I always love the best thing. That's like me being a front runner. I know, but I'm saying the best thing is the Colts. Why don't you holler? Okay,

thank you? But where am I from? I'm sorry we got We're getting so off topic. I am from a very very small town, like two and a half hours outside of Toronto called or No. My high school was on a highway and people used to ride their snowmobiles. There was like a snowmobile parking lot at my high school. We were like out in the boonies and um, all my friends had babies at seventeen basically, and I was

the only one that escaped. Yeah, so is that. I mean, I honestly did not know you were Canadian for a while because you have almost no accent. Because I got made fun of so much when I first moved to the States. When I first moved to the States, I was working for Major League Soccer. I want, okay, so I'll try and tell this story very quickly. I don't have So I was going to school for broadcast journalism.

I hated it. I didn't want to do sports, I didn't want to do news nothing, and so I dropped out. And I was just like, I want to be an actress, Like improv was my favorite class at journalism school. So it's like I'm doing the wrong thing. So I dropped out, and I was so broke that I was stealing toilet paper from the sushi restaurant down the street. Like that's what That's what the mood was like in my life.

And so I started applying for all of these jobs while I was waiting to go back into school, and I saw on Facebook this ad for the Toronto FC dream job. Toronto FC was our major league soccer team. Did not watch soccer at all. I played when I was younger. I was like, always played sports, but so I applied for it not knowing anything, just like bullshitted my way through the bio. I don't even know how I got chosen into a smaller category because the way

I don't shouldn't even tell the story. But the way that I led my opening sentence was like, besides my love for balls, like I thought, it was like my attempt at trying to be like I think is going to catch their attention. I think we know how you got to the second round now, I think they were like, okay, top of the The first round was just like a little bit about yourself and I went to school for like being on camera, so um. And then the second round was like send in a video of why you

should have this job. So I wrote a sketch, um. And then I got top five and I was just like I should not be here. And then I fucking won. I just swear on this pot. Yeah yeah, yeah, I won. I won. I beat out over five people. I remember when I went in for my interview, I had the captain's name written on my hand and pen like I was so so out of the loop. And then I learned everything that I could about soccer and like being on camera. I was like shooting all my own stuff.

It was like when YouTube was first happening. So I was shooting all of these sketches and like funny bits. And then Major League Soccer and the head office in New York City emailed me one day and they're like, we've been seeing your stuff. It's really fun and like weird and different. Would you ever consider working in New York City? And I had been in New York once in my life before. I had a Carnegie Delhi napkin on my desk, like on my little bulletin board and

I was just like, oh my god. Yeah, And so it took a little while from my visa to go through. And then I went and worked in New York and was like in a I was the only female in office with like thirty five dudes, and all they would do my It was so embarrassing. I do all my

hits in front of the entire office. It was when I first start that I had a serious like Canadian twang and um so every time I would say like tomorrow or sorry and like so I had to fix it so quickly because I was like this fucking sock, So did you do dialect or you just like no, no, I just there's there was really only a couple of words that really came out with it's just fixing a

couple of owls um. But yeah, thankfully I was able to kind of get rid of it, because I think that that's kind of help if I was super Canadian. I mean, like Jay and Dan, who are huge Canadian sports broadcasters, they came to the States and they didn't get rid of their accent, and that was like one of the things that a lot of people talked about it. Yeah, so that's insane. That is really insane, Like that's awesome

that you you fixed it. I mean I feel like even saying fixed it is like yeah, it's like it's five voice. It just it sounds a little like honk, like honky tonk, like Canadian Canadian accents. Sometimes when I go home, it's it reminds me of like a southern drawl. Like if I'm home and I started drinking and I'm around my brothers and like my cousins, like I really start to sound a little bit like a hillbilly. And so I think I kind of wanted to fix it

because I didn't love the sound of it well. And they always say this, like, even if you're from the South or the Northeast and you want to be a newsperson on camera there like you need to, especially like a Wisconsin, Minnesota those places too, They're like, watch these Midwestern accents and then that is what they want people to have. So even if you have like a drawl out here, they're gonna they're gonna beat it out of you.

But well, even I mean being wanting to be an actress to like, I couldn't just go an audition to be an American girl with the Canadian accent, so I had to get rid of it. Well it sounds great now, but I'd love to hear drunk around your cousins too. Oh yeah, it gets pretty nice. My boyfriend's just like you. It gets fully turned off. I sound a little country sometimes, you sound very much from where you're from. Okay, wow felt Oh yeah that sounded really okay. So so excited

to do this. My grandmother was Canadian. My parents are from Niagara Falls, New York, but like spent their whole I love doing stand up in Canada. It's like one of my favorite places to perform all over. Just lovely wonderful people we could learn a lot from. Okay, So for our purposes, you are going to start with your number three, and then we'll go in sending. I can never remember, um, but are you ready to lead us up with your number three pick for greatest Canadian athletes? Yes?

I am ready. Okay, So here's the thing my brain. When you guys asked me top three Canadians, my brain instantly went to my three favorite athletes who have played sports in Canada. But that's definitely not Canadian. No, But I'm just saying I have a bunch of honorable mentions that I count as like honorable Canadians. But I did come up with three, uh, three solid Canadians. Okay, so you want my number three, I'm gonna go for three. I didn't want to go all hockey because you could

easily do that. I think I'm going to land on like a Steve Nash situation. I think he's a pretty solid a Canadian that I can be proud of. I'm gonna Nelly for Tato song. There's a lot of things, but he is hands down the most famous Canadian basketball player, and so I also think that makes him probably the most famous Canadian athletes outside of kind of the one we're probably all thinking about. But basketball is so huge in America. It's much bigger than hockey, and so Steve

Nash is really the Canadian poster child. I think so. Yeah, I mean I kind of wish he's never No, he didn't play for any Canadian team, so I kind of wish I kind of wish he did. Like my number one on this list was Vince Carter, Like I wish that he was Canadian so much because he is the Canadian. He really is the Canadian basketball camps, even though Steve Nash exists, like he is the number one Canadian basketball player. I was obsessed with him. I honestly want to kick

Steve off the list. Yeah, that's interesting, Like do people ever fault these Canadian stars that come to America. I mean he played in Phoenix to like Phoenix is the antithesis of Canada. I was thinking about this today and I was thinking about the Lakers and like how you guys are always able to get these like rad players, and how you were able to build a team around

Lebron James. Because so many people want to go and live in Los Angeles, nobody wants to go and play a basketball season which goes through the winner in Toronto, Like Toronto in the summer is sweet. But like the thing about the Raptors is like we kind of have to get lucky with like a rag tag team like we did, because we're never gonna get this. Like if we got a huge star, I'd be like, I ship my pants, you know what I mean, Like I'd be like, why,

how how did this happen? But with like he was the first star that we had, like three years after our team started, and he was who like brought us to the playoffs for the first time. And he's like what the Raptors stood for. And like, you know, when you think of the Raptors, you think of Vince Carter like that he is, he is the Raptor And so I feel he, you know, he's just like the king of Canadian basketball in that way, I think, And we're not We're probably never gonna have one like that again.

And so he was fully adopted and beloved for sure. If he gets into if he stayed longer, I think, yeah, it's um, you know, it's funny you brought up like Toronto and you know, players going to play in whatever city do you want to live in. So, I mean, the rumors right now are that the Raptors may play in Tampa, which is just so confusing to me because of what's going to go on with We're gonna like bring everyone the Canadian governments like, don't send your dirty, breathing,

fucking citizens up here. We're good, thank you. I think the Toronto was like elegant, diverse, like you know, it's it's still it's a great city, and people pretty much trust me. I can sell anybody on the city. The city is sick, Like the food scene is amazing, the women are beautiful, Like the music scene is really cool, and the summer is awesome. But I just know a lot of Americans think, like I don't want to go to Canada, but I think you won a championship, right,

it's a little bit more attractive now. But I just don't. I can't ever see, Like I remember a couple of months ago, it's like, well maybe we'll get you, honest, and it's like, bitch, I'm gonna go from Toronto, gonna get my hopes up for that stupid You're stupid, Okay, great, you want me to go next Okay. I was like, I know that there's some athletes that I must not know about. So I kind of used this episode to expand my horizons a little bit because there are sort

of those core too. One of them is already the mentioned that pop in my head. And so my number three pick is an Olympian. Her name is Clara Hughes. She's very famous in Canada. She is so incredible. So these are some of her accomplishments. She's a six time Olympic medalist and she's one of only two athletes since World War Two to win a medal in the Summer and Winter Games. In the Summer Games, she won two bronze medals in cycling, and then she has since won

four medals over three Winter Games in speed skating. One of them she's one of bronze and silver and a gold, and she's a badass. I can't imagine being able to be an Olympic cycler and an Olympic speed skater. I guess they're kind of on the same track. I don't know, but it seems like difficult to be one of only two.

And and then it made me be like, oh, I almost like forget about Canadian athletes until the Olympics happen, you know, like honestly, yeah, Like I was a little worried when you asked me to do this podcast because I was like, oh, Ship, Like who am I gonna Who am I going to know? But she is. It's funny because there are so many Canadians that are so famous in Canada, and as soon as you crossed the border, people are like, I don't know who this person is. Like going back to Jay and Dan, a lot of

people probably aren't gonna know who they are. But when I found out that they were at Fox, that's why I chose to go to Fox. I hadn't offer at ESPN and Fox at the same time, and I chose l A and Fox partly because they were there, Like they were so cute. I remember seeing Jay in the street one time and I was in a cab and I hit like I didn't want him to see me, like he didn't know who I was at all, but

I was. That's that was my reaction. I was like, oh my god, this person's too famous, Like I can't look at them. It was so But it's the same with athletes and Claire. He's so huge. She had this cute little gap in her tooth. I know exactly who this person is. She probably couldn't walk down the street without getting recognized, and a lot of people probably don't

know who. And the same thing happens in stand up too, because there's they'll be like, this guy is the the Seinfeld of Canada and we've truly never like a man who is like a famous Canadian in insulted me in like a not nice. It was a part of a roast, but I was like waiting with him, not the puppet he was. In Australian I had to roast a puppet a puppet and I had a roast battle and I lost to the puppet and one of the judges was this Canadian guy who came at me and I remember

being like, bitch, i've never seen you on TV. But then he is very famous in Canada. In Canada, I could never do a roast. I'm way too sensitive. I would always get my feelings hurt. I am totally fine with them. I will say, if you're listening, I suggested not doing a roast with an inanimate object because they don't have any feelings or steaks, so it's not really you know. I mean, when a puppet brings up your abortion, it definitely hurts, you know, got it? Got it? Oh boy,

Randy felt Face. But but the man and the man is so nice. But if I see Randy felt Face the puppet, I'll kill him. But the man is a terrible name for a puppet. Man who Man's Randy? I like, okay, you go, but you know that's the same person. But that's why it sucks, because I I channel all my negative feelings towards Randy and my positive feelings towards the actual person. Yeah, okay, my pick. I'm going to continue

in classic CJ fashion where these aren't the greatest. But I just I mean, I had to look it up. I did do some research. One of the highlights of the Bubble. This guy plays for the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray. Yeah, he was on my honorable mention. I mean, to me, it's like he's probably on his way to being one of the greatest Canadian athletes. And yeah, I mean he's been on my radar and been on people's radar for the last few years. But like what he did in

the bubble. Okay, so this this podcast we cover like actual performances, but also pop culture. The dude got He accidentally went on I G Live while getting oral sex from his girlfriend and hold on, this was like back in like April April, or it was like before it was how does one act? He said, he got hacked. I mean, it was a whole thing. And then of course everyone started looking up the girlfriend. Who is this like really hot blonde volleyball player And it became a

pretty big a pretty big big. There must have been a pandemic or something like that. It was competing with the rest of which, again, it was one of those stories. Had it happened in any other year, there was like, you know, it would be every late night joke would be about Jamal Murray. So I didn't at the time that happened, I didn't have a face for Jamal Murray. I had heard his name, and then when the bubble started and he was just I mean, he was incredible

and especially layoffs. And then someone referenced it and I was like, that's my Jamal, Like I had to put two and then the image flash before my eyes again. I'm like, oh no, I can't believe I've seen this man's pubes and I've been rooting for him with hold on, hold on, hold okay, without getting to like where was the camp The camera was from his eyesight down? Oh so was he trying to record it? And he went on Instagram Live. Yes, okay. And my theory is, and

I don't know if you guys have done this. It's like you don't know. You know, you see a picture, you want to take a picture or something, and you go, oh, yeah, should that go on Instagram story or what? So you kind of just used the camera within the Instagram app. I feel like maybe he like has that decision making in his head and he accidentally opened up the Instagram app. And Instagram is like you have to that's it. You would have to like roll it out with a computer.

You had to say, like go live if I think yeah, but but who is that dumb that they would I should we just do a whole podcast. I knew this would happen. And no, thank you for that, jem, I didn't know that that was you know, he loves this woman. This woman loves him. You know she seemed very good. Okay, good for him connect to learn to not do these kinds of things like sure, that's a lovely thing to have on your phone, probably for him, especially in the bubble,

but like maybe just you know, don't do that. I think they get a rookie seminar not to do it. But you know, you just see, you get in the moment and it's fun. It's fun. Yeahs connected to his performance. You know, the rule was in the bubble that family members and friends could come in the second round and his yeah, he started making head but then everybody was like is she here? Is she here? And they're like, oh,

she's here, She's here. And he went to school in the States, like c J. Do you know about how the recruiting process us, like, because you know, there there's high school boys that you follow. Are you are you going to teach me birds? I hope that gets clipped out. You know, there's high school boys that you're a fan of. But then like, so how do they find these incredible

high school players in Canada? Oh, I mean it's you know, they have a use, they have you know, and they have like Northern scouts, like guys that really shine and tournaments and stuff like that, right because I mean they're in the last five ten years, there's been a big uptick in Canadian players Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, all guys definitely aren't gonna be on the list, but yeah, there's a big contingent for basketball. I feel like Wiggins was

so hugely didn't you go Number one? In the draft that people are close close to that at least I think people were probably like, oh, let's start like kind of keeping tabs on because he was so shining, uh, such a standout that they're probably like looking more into it.

Are there universities in Canada that are like, oh, these are like is there a duke of Like, oh, well, I don't actually know college basketball in Canada too well, but I will say, if you want to be in the NBA, you're not going to play college ball in Canada. And they're kind of dare I say it kind of takes away from their Canadian nous a little bit if they go and play college ball in America, because like, college in Canada is um there's something very American about

colleges in America that sounds so stupid. But you guys have such a crazy college experience and we don't really have that. What do you mean don't like you don't have to and like you know, it's not like college football players and like Hottie mccotterson, he's like got a beer gut and probably like hunts deer on the weekend. Like that's Canada. So I feel like they become more Americanized.

Like I didn't know Jamal Murray was a Canadian at first until somebody until he was like in the thick of playoffs, and then I found out and I was just like whoa, um, so yeah, but he's he's he can be honest for eighteen to twenty two are also extremely formative years. Formative years. I mean we've all met like a girl who did study abroad in Italy for one year and it's like, I'm Italian, you know, so

like you can fully like embrace a culture like that. Okay, we're gonna take a pickbreak and we'll be right back, and we are back, Rachel, you want to give us your number two pick? Yeah, So I'm gonna surprise you guys with this one because I feel it it's probably number one for y'all, but I'm gonna put Wayne Gretzky into makes your number one even more interesting. I'm gonna

put Wayne Gretzky at number two. I know he's like the great one and like did all these amazing things with his NHL career and was just a fantastic hockey person. But did you guys know this is maybe one of my favorite facts about Wayne Gretzky that his wife was involved in a highly illegal gambling ring involving multiple NHL coaches and a Philadelphia crime family. Yeah, you guys, and Wayne Gretzky may or may not have known about it.

Have you talked about the Sun Hall of Shame? We did a full episode on Okay, so everybody go listen to the episode, But then, Rachel, can you give us like cliff notes of Okay, let's see if I can remember because it was early on in the season, but it's basically like, okay, so this was when sports gambling was illegal and it still isn't a lot of places.

But they were a group of very wealthy people, including I want to see, like the Flyers head coach, Philly Flyer's head coach, and Wayne Gretzky's wife and a couple of other people were placing these like massive bets apparently not on hockey but on the Super Bowl, and like they were like millions and millions of dollars um. She like really liked to gamble apparently, and then they got caught. The bookies were like this Philadelphia crime family was like

a little bit of a dicey situation. This this the head coach of the Flyers got caught and he had like all these fancy watches and like all these TVs in his house and it was crazy. But the speculation is that Gretzky's wife took the fall for him, so that it was actually Gretzky that was involved. But since he's Wayne Gretzky, she took the fall for him. So did she Did she get arrested? No, I don't think she got arrested. I think she got fine um and

they had to pay money. But yeah, it was really spicy and I'm pretty sure, Yeah, he can't cheat on his daughter, freaking got the jack Paul Justin Johnson. Yeah, yeah, bore her own green jacket this weekend. I've got I have a oh that yeah yeah yeah, because I remember people would be like at some point she was being referred to as like Dustin Johnson's hot girlfriend or something, and so whenever that is, I'm like crude, these hat

And then it's like, oh, your dad's Wayne grit Sky. Okay, well that's really like, of course, yeah, you just get to be hot for the rest. You're already rich, and now you're marrying this man who had a coke problem and can play golf. This is incredible and apparently broke up a bunch of relationships across the PGA. Did you guys here about that Dustin or she gets slept, No, he slept with some lay um because he looks like he's a dirty dog. Yeah, he looks like I got

to look. She looks sometimes a beard. Look. It would be like if a guy that you went to high school with was like hot in high school and then was like still hot now and like really get a golf and wins the exactly you Okay, that is a great pick. He's my number one. He held sixty one NHL records when he retired. It's really incredible. Okay. My number two pick is a hockey woman. Her name is Haley.

So you know, there's a debate about who may be the greatest male hockey player, but they say, without a doubt, Haley is the best female hockey player ever. She was on the Canadian national team for twenty three years. She has four gold medals and a silver medal, and she also this is incredible to just just like Clara. She also represented Canada in the Summer Olympics on the Canadian softball team. Oh, I didn't know that. That's really right. I have this memory of which was very cool. Actually,

I have this memory of my school shutting down. Canada was playing in the Olympics for the gold medal match. I want to say it was against the U S. Maybe it wasn't, I can't remember who cares um and they pulled us all into this gymnasium and put the game,

the final gold medal game, up on the TV. And just being a young girl, my my dream was to play in the w n b A. When I was younger, I loved school so much, and seeing this whole school, the entire school, every single grade, boy and girl in the gymnasium watching women's hockey win a gold medal was like so cool. It was like and that was when I was in elementary school, like so so long ago.

That was so cool. That would probably not happening. Yeah, Like so is that sort of the equivalent like the women's national team because the like the US women's soccer team is celebrated here equally, if not more than the men because they're much more decorated. Um yeah, I mean you can celebrate when you win, you know, so it's easier to celebrate them. Is that sort of like the national women's hockey team in Canada, it's sort of the

same vibe. I think it's different because the men's hockey team is good, whereas the US men's national team has not been good for a long time and didn't make another the World Cups. That's probably why every relationship ships on them. They're good now. But um oh yeah, so no. I but I think that that's also what makes it cool. It wasn't like, let's wait for the guys game. It's like, no, the women are in the gold medal match. Let's shut

down the school and everyone watch. I know. So it was I know only one girl that I've met my entire life that played hockey, and it seems like I played hockey for five years. It's the most fun sports, So I don't think they encourage girls to play it here in the States. Well, it was weird when I first came to the States. I remember my first time on TV was filling in on Calling Coward Show. You like sit in the booth like fifty feet away from him and like, uh ask him questions every so often.

And the first time I did that, they were like, no, hockey, don't mention hockey, don't talk about hockey. We don't do hockey in the States. And I was just like okay, Roger that, um, yeah, I just don't think it's a thing here in a lot of places where we're like literally born, this is gonna sund We're like literally born

with the States, hockey is so massive. I remember I went home a little while ago, like sometime last year, and I went to this restaurant, this like chain restaurant, and they had a menu for hockey players, like in the in the menu was a special menu for hockey players. And this was like a massive chain restaurant, like they're just everyone places. And was that like portion specific or I think it was all like healthy stupid stuff, par athlete,

you should be eating salmon. Yeah. Here, it's like ye a year, ESPN wheels out, Barry Melrose and then that's it basically, you know, And like Linda Cone will sometimes get to talk about it, but it's so. I mean, I on the bubble machine. We did like the stats and I didn't. I think I mentioned NHL twice and part of that is because I didn't grow up in a city with hockey. But yeah, it's just it hasn't no, it really, it's really insane that it's not a it's

not bigger here like every time. Oh yeah, it's really exciting. We both lived in Chicago during that Be Your stretch when the black Hawks won three Stanley Cups and it was and comedy shows everything canceled, like it was just as big as if if the White Sox were It was bigger than if the White Sox weren't. So we've seen it, but like that, like Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, they feel kind of like the outliers. Yeah yeah, I think that you would love, Megan, if you ever want to

try and give it a whirl. It's really great. It's a great way to take out frustration like I used to just hurt girl. Wow, I would swear at them like I you become a different person on the ice, and it's a very nice way to like then, okay it and we can make it a couple thing. I'll dress up as a goalie and you could take shots on I would love to. Yeah, it's great, a great way to get your anger out. I always like talking because it just looked fun getting all that gear. I mean,

I liked football and getting all this stuff. Belase I went, you know, free skating and all that stuff. But then also to then in high school, I think all the all the hockey player dudes, we're rich and hot, and got all of my crushes. But then their their feet smell so bad. Oh my god, it was. And I was like, I played football, My stuff doesn't smell its bad because I got aired out. But I think hockey players kept it in their bag and then they would

still skate with what they used for playing. And so I remember this kid who was like, I had all the hottest girlfriends. He'd opened up his bag and like, I like faintest, like in a cartoon. Yeah, it's so gnarly. My brothers used to like the gloves of the worst for some reason, the gloves of the most disgusting thing. You have to like soak your hands in acid after

my brothers after a hockey game. I have three older brothers, which makes a lot of things make um they used to take their bare hands and just like my face after a hockey game, and like I was, my brothers are a lot older than me and a lot bigger than me, so I would just have to deal. I would just be like, pretend I'm dead, and like it was the worst c J. What would it do to your ego that such smelly men were winning? It was

more about that. I mean, I was already battling other things, being the only Filipino kids in Pennsylvania, But you know, it was one of those things. But yeah, it turns out, Hey, hey Clara, I'm one of a kind. Um you want to give your number two my number number two? Pick Um? Again, I don't know much about hockey, but I just know

this guy is just massive. Sidney Crosby and yeah, Sidney Kidd And I remember too, because so I moved to Pittsburgh for my first year of college film school at Point Park University didn't work out, left after one semester um, but I moved there in two thousand five when Sidney Crosby his rookie year, and so I remember just like doing a little bit of like and just sitting on Sports Center like this young kid I think he was eighteen seventeen or eighteen playing in the n h L,

and it was kind of like a Lebron situation where kid was prodigy, like he's going to be the greatest ever and to then live up to it. Three Stanley Cups stayed on the again, like to stay he's in. He's been on the Penguins his whole career, right, Yeah, and I love when guys just have one team. That's my favorite. The thing the cool thing about said, it's like, yeah,

prodigy for sure. I remember seeing highlights of him when he was young where he would be behind the net and he would pick up the puck on his stick and scoop it over the top and it would somehow go in. Like this guy was just so insane, he was so gifted, and like, you know, maybe once he retires, he's going to be like the next I mean, if he's not already the next Wayne Gretzky, I think he's

probably pretty clear. Yeah, the fact that he's still playing definitely means that this his like legacy can only continue to grow. Yeah, his numbers are going to be like just as impressed is he hot? It doesn't restrate me so many so many, like so many famous win then in the United States, Mary hockey players, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Duff, Aaron Andrews. Like, it's a lot of blonde if you're

famous in America and blonde. Boy. Here's the thing. I feel like Canadians are automatically attracted to men who play hockey. So Sidney Crosby could be like mediocre, um, and I think I'd still be very attracted to him. But I do think he was cute picture I like it. Yeah, he's cute. He's got little rosy cheeks. I love that, but he's not like sometimes you see these hockey players and they're like ounks, you know, and then and then they've bought no teeth, and I'm like, I'm even into that,

Like the less teeth, the cooler. So Jenny Taft, he's on Fox Sports and hosts on Disputed. She's this beautiful, stunning woman. She's so smart. She covers college football and does on Disputed and all this stuff. And I meet her husband, who is like very handsome, um, so gorgeous, and I'm like, oh my god, you guys are like the perfect pair. And he's like, hey, I'm Matt. Nice to meet you and he's missing like a bunch of teeth,

and I was just like, this is fantastic. It just that and he's that that's how he's out meeting people Like good for him. It's just like I'm huge and hot whatever, I'll look just like takes it if he knows he's gonna eat, like we've been out to dinner. If you know he's gonna eat, he just takes it out. It takes those slippers out. I just think that this party trick. Yeah, Okay, we'll take one more break and then we'll be back with our number one picks and

we are back. I am at first rate till we have you go last, because you're our guest and you're our grand finale. Um. As I said, Wayne Gretzky was my number one. I knew, you know it just sort Wayne Gret's the great one like that is that's kind of I don't even think you need to say. Yeah, I do have some honorable mentions. I have two hockey players on here, so I'm not going to say them

because I'm guessing one of them is yours. So the honorable mentions that I will say I had Sidney Crosby, I have Mike We're a Master's champion who is a very famous golfer. I did not realize he was Canadian, because you know, Canadians look American. You just you know, he's got a he's got a golf tan line where his forehead is pale and the rest of his face is tan. And to me, that looks like he could be for from Tampa, you know. But Mike, we're also

I did not realize that Lennox Lewis is Canadian. He has dual citizenship, so he was born in the UK, but then he was educated basically sixth grade on in Canada. And he's a three time heavyweight and I didn't Yeah, so I guess he did. He boxed in the Olympics once as a Canadian and once as as a UK citizen. It's kind of I have problems with that. Well, if you go into the olymp x ones, you can't go back and change your It's kind of complicated too, because

Canada is a like British Commonwealth colony. Yeah, what have commonwealth? I don't know, I have a queen. I don't know the queen is on the money. So it's like, well, yeah, I guess if you're it seems that's a very Yeah, it's a thin um. It's an easy cross. It's an easy cross. It's an easy cross people. Because there's a Jamaican born sprinter who then ran in the Olympics as a Canadian, and I'm like, he's Jamaican to me, I

know that. Well, there's a lot of there's a lot of there's a a really exciting new guy on the Canadian men's national team for soccer. What's his name? Anyways, he was born in Ghana. But because we welcome all of these people from all of these countries, not like some other countries, a lot of people claim citizenship in Canada, so they represent our country in the Olympics and stuff, which is really cool because our Olympic teams are always

incredibly diverse. It's amazing. That is yeah, because when I saw these sprinters, I was like, where are they from? And they're just Jamaican said moved to Canada. My grandmother. She had a dual American and Canadian citizenship and she would only travel on her Canadian passport. She was like, people are just nice ser to you. If you show them an American passport, They're like whatever, Um, here's your mayonnaise. Uh so yeah, those are those are my picks. And

I was so happy to learn about some Canadians. See, I'm worried I'm gonna take I'm taking Rachel's here, and I don't know much, so if I do, feel free to chime in. But Mario Amile, oh not mine right? Used to where is jersey? Used to wear? Is jersey love? Yeah? I mean, and and feel free to to fill me in here. But like he was the only hockey player I knew growing up again. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, which was two hours outside of Pittsburgh, and he was

just the Michael Jordan's. So then when there was like posters where it was like every best player of a league, it was like Jordan's Lemieux, Emmett Smith and whatever. But like Mario lemiue and I did a little bit of research the other day when I didn't know we were gonna do this topic. But he played a long ass time and then I saw that little gap and he had cancer and then overcame it and then came back.

When he came back pretty amazing. So I'm gonna yeah, he is my number one pick for for greatest Canadian athlete. That's great. I don't know why. I don't know why I had that jersey. I think that was a hand me down from my brothers. But I used to wear it during practice and I always remember my coaches whenever, like my shift was up, they would just like yell at your name, and they never yelled my name. They always go Mario Mario Lemieux. Is that how you say?

I mean, it's a it's a classic name to like, it's it's a classic Canadian, French Canadian name, and like you hear that name and you're like, oh, yeah, no, I know who that is. Even if you're not like, oh he won three consecutive n HL m vps, it's like, oh, Mario lemie was famous for sure. And it sounds like pep probably as it totally sounds like, yeah, probably top three sports mullet too, in my opinion. In his early career, well, I'm looking at this photo, which is a very I mean,

he's just a lot of good mullets in hockey. Yeah, he scored one of the most in Canada. He scored one of the most common air goal. Yeah. Well, because the thing is as cold, you gotta keep the back of you. I'm stupid. I need to grow mullet always, like my neck is freezing. Have you ever seen an Asian person with a mullet? An Asian person in the mullet? I don't know. That's the question. Seems racing. I'm gonna look it up. Okay, Rachel, you bring us home with

your number one pick. I can't wait for you to school our Yankee asses. Okay, Number one on my top Canadian athlete list is the one and only. I think he's actually the most Canadian of the Canadian athletes. His name is tie Domi. Okay, I was thinking you were gonna say Gordy how no no, no, no, no no, that's boring. Tie Domi. It was known and is known to be like the ultimate fighter on the ice. We did this on our podcast as well. But there was one time, so he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

I don't know if he played for other teams, but that's what I know him as he played on that team for a really on time. Um, there was one time that they were in Philadelphia playing the Flyers, and these two teams like hated each other for whatever reason, and he got put in the penalty box as he does because he's always fighting people. And um, there was a fan that was like chirping him because they hated the leafs, and he grabbed water and went over the

penalty box and poured the water on the fan. And this fan, like a psychopath, came in like was singing on the glass and fell into the lion's den the penalty box and tie Domy just went to town on this guy. This fan had to be escorted out by security, had to get stitches in his forehead, and I don't I know, he played the rest of the game. He wasn't even kicked out, so and that's like one story in his career. Like this guy will never pay for a drink the rest of his life. He's such a

scrappy like just he's like a he's a fucker. It's just a sucker, and you just always want to cheer him on. He's just so he's he's Canadian through and through. My my sister's boyfriend when I was growing up, it was always like my sister had the whitest boyfriends ever.

This this one in particular, Doug Smith, and he was like, I'm going to teach you how to fight in hockey, like Tie Domey And so that's when I first learned his name in like second grade and was like pulling the shirt like over the head and like yeah, I mean yeah, that's how I knew his name. And I think he was like referenced in Goon a Bunch to me, and so I was like, yeah, he's like the slap shot,

Yeah yeah, those like big fighting. Yeah, I mean that's how I basically learned how to fight back against my brothers. Like we would have these nasty we we would just like I would just fight them all the time and we would do like they drop the gloves thing and they would like pull my jersey over and I was

just like swiping at them. But yeah, he's great. When you go see hockey and there's not a fight, I like leave disappointed and I hate fighting, but I'm always like fighting too, But there's something like you feel better about it with hockey because you know they're at least somewhat protected because they've got the pads on. It's like it's hockey, Like it's so scrappy game and there's like there's some things are allowed. You know, you can't whip

a stick at somebody like they've got fouls within. Do you want to tell us your honor Yes, I've got a couple of Some of them aren't Canadian, but he said that, Like I said, okay, So Vince Carter is my number one honorable mention. I think he's an honorable Canadian. Jose Abautista major honorary Canadian, Joe Carter major honorary Canadian. One of them is Canadian. And I have a fun story.

There is this, um I promised, I don't think that you guys would know who this is, but there's this guy named Milos Brownitch who is a very famous Canadian tennis player. Yeah. Yeah, like curly curly hair. Like. I was out at this like benefit one night and um I met him and he was huge at the time. He was like on this amazing run and everyone left him.

He was the celebt that was at the benefit, and um I went up to like, I was drunk clearly, and I went up to him and started talking to him, and then I gave him my number, and um I went back into my office the next day. This was when I was working for Toronto cy and I told all my guy friends, like I met Milos last night and I gave him my number so like I might quit and become the first first lady of Canadian tennis.

Like just you guys, watch and these fuckers in my office started texting me pretending to be Melos round Edge for like a week and a half and like planning a dating guys. I was mortified, mortified, franked you and I was like just out of a really bad relationship. So I was just like, oh my god, like what an upgrade? Like I'm going to date TenneT Being a tennis girlfriend or wife is the best because they cut to you all the time and you're sitting in the

box like just who all? I that was like my dream. I wanted someone to run over I was. I was like, I'm not gonna win Wimbledon, but maybe I can make out with someone who did you know? That's that's what I hope Forgize it was. It was so devastating, you guys. But it's fine. I'm onto bigger and better things. But yeah, you guys, shoutows Megan. You had all the women that were on my list. That was great. But yeah, I think that that was I had Gordy how oh, Terry

Fox do you guys know who that is? So Terry Fox. Um, we have a Terry Fox run every year. There was this guy that I believe had cancer and had to have his leg amputated, and he ran across the country with his leg amputated and had like a prosthetic leg. He ran across Canada, so like Forrest Gump with a prosthetic literally Forest style before he was Forrest Gump before Forrest Gump existed. And so now every year there's a Terry Fox run and people go on like a five

k and raise money for cancer. Amazing sign up. Sorry, I forgot I was gonna say. I was gonna say Tom Green. Remember, Oh yeah, you were going to say Tom and he was a professional skateboarder. Yeah. I mean it's loose, like Jason Lee was a professional skateboarder. It's like if you have a flannel and can do a kick flip, you're a professional. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we got Tom Green in there. Count Rachel, thank you so much.

Where can people find you? I host a podcast called Hall of Shame on Crooked that comes out every Monday, and I also host a show on Fox Sports every day called Fox About Live. And it's on a two pm Pacific every day. A daily show is a grind, it's a lot. I bet, well, thank you so much for doing this. This is so fun. Thank you guys for having me. This was awesome. We needed a real Canadian to like tell us what's what you know? So yeah, I hope people will find like I feel like a

lot of people are like Canada. I don't want to know anything about that. Oh I don't think so. I think, especially right now, our listeners, I would hope are going you know what, maybe we should look around the world and see what other people are feel other We've my boyfriend and I aren't married, but we've had many conversations like okay, if Trump gets reelected or if she hits

the fan, like can I come to your country? And I was like, we, I guess we we can't go to the Philippines because they have a dictator as well and typhoons. But yeah, I remember being like, see, can we go to the Philippines. It's like they shoot people in the streets. So yeah, yeah, we're stuck here. They have Tanner Trump over there, tan Trump. Okay, we're in a good place now, we're good we're moving forward. We

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