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Here are your hosts, Brian Hanna, Brad Criscoe, and Evan Lopsinger.

Well, we have our next piece of Wingwheel podcast branded merch that we know we have to make for a special run.

And it's also, much like the flannels, the Mickey Redmond flannels, this is also going to be Mickey Redmond themed. It's Wing Wheel Podcast Remotes. Extra smashable. Really, and it's going to smash, like, you know how movie glass shatters in a way that's safe. It's like sugar or whatever. It's, the remote's going to do the same thing. It's going to be super satisfying, but not in a way that's going to be dangerous. So it's safe to use around your kids. But every time the Red Wings blow a lead, you can just take it and you can throw it through a window. You can throw it against a wall. You can throw it on the ground. And it's just going to shatter. We'll have some cool sound effects. So maybe like when it explodes,

there's a one-use, Mickey Redmond sound activation that goes, bingo or something like that. I'm telling you, may as well lean into this. It will have to sell them in like 10 packs because people will go through those quickly with how often the Red Wing's blow leads. That's what I was going to say. we're going to have to offer bulk orders.

Everyone knows. quickly with how often the Red Wings blow leads. That's what I was going to say. We're going to have to offer bulk orders. Everyone always asks, hey, when are you guys going to make this your day job? And it's like, the answer is genuinely, it's not even close. I promise you. Like, it's podcasting at the end of the day. We do it because we love it, unlike the watching the hockey right now.

That that feels like pain, I think, for everyone.

But bulk orders of wingwheel podcast, Mickey Redmond, smashable remotes, quit our day jumps.

You'd never see me again.

I bet we can get Michigan area Costco to carry it.

I think we could.

Sam's Club, where are you at?

We're open.

That's about the only joy that we can derive from the Red Wings because all they needed

to do was just go out with what little respect or dignity they could salvage over their

last two games.

But that, that expectation was silly.

And I don't even know if I had it or would have reasonably expected that.

But anyone who had that expectation was silly because that season ended in the most perfect,

horrific way for the Red Wings.

I was trying to think of some sort of analogy to describe how it all went.

You know, when you, like, something's happening and someone's just like, they're torching their life, basically.

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