I'm I'm Hey, everybody. How's it going?

Well, that's good. I'm Charlie O'Connor, and this is the PHLY Flyers podcast presented by

Bet365, whatever the moment. It's never ordinary at Bet365 and presented by your local Ford

store. We are broadcasting live today from the Xfinity Studio, and I have a very special co-host today, the man, the myth, the legend, Anthony Gargato. Charlie! Anthony, the Cuzz! It's great to have you on. Thanks, buddy. I was excited when you said, listen, we have nobody else. So would you mind doing it? I'm like, yeah, man, I'm in. I hope that wasn't. No, I'm just teasing. In reality, I wasn't even going to ask you because I'm like, well, Anthony's got his 9 to 11 show. He's real busy. And I was asking a couple other producers. And you come run and you're like, well, I'll do it. I'm like, well, if Anthony will do it, that's great. Well, A, I love you. I love your work. You know that.

B. and you're like, well, I'll do it. I'm like, well, if Anthony will do it, that's great. Well, A, I love you. I love your work. You know that. B, I love the Flyers. I'm a, you know, it's funny, I'm a true, when I say four for four, which I have coined years ago, it's real. Like, I enjoy, you know, and it's weird.

I love the sport.

I like sport itself, right?

So you put me in front of an NFL game that's not the Eagles, a college football game,

baseball, the same thing.

And in hockey, I love, it's like a guilty pleasure of mine. And I'm truthfully a fantasy hockey player, right?

Like, so I love watching games. And I'm truthfully a fantasy hockey player, right? So I love watching games. And

last year, I really fell in love. Now, part of it is I feel a strong connection to Jonesy and

Danny and like, you know, having known those guys for a long time. And so I root for them because I know they're good people

and I want to see them to succeed. And I know they're good hockey people. And then I fell in

love with Mitchkoff. Like I, if I told you that it was one of the things I look forward to,

every game was just watching Meetskhov.

There was the Sunday. You remember this Sunday? It was an NBC game. It was early. It was like a noon start. And towards Benzschevof. Yep. And I remember going, oh, dude, you're killing me, man. Like, all I want to do is watch this kid play. That's where everybody was last year. You're right. Like you're taking away the thing that we all want to see. And I do think he brought a lot of people back into the fold

because finally there was something that people could just get excited about that wasn't colored by

all of the bad from the previous few years. Well, listen, I know today's about optimism.

Right.

And I thank you for having me on the optimism day because I think that's kind of what I am

I'm most comfortable with because I like to look at things.

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