I say this because Ben Raby and I joked about it, but it is the Passover edition of the Capitals

podcast. Happy Seder, Ben. You just finished saying you were not going to lead with that or go with that,

and I don't know, the opening opening few minutes first words out of his

mouth here we are I as I started talking I thought what's the funniest thing we could really lead with

and I thought you know Passover what's not funny about Passover I mean it's not as if it was going to be

the first night of the Stanley Cup playoffs we're going with it's the first night of Passover. Oh, man. That, that, the fact that the playoffs would be starting now. And we're going to, look, we had a Zoom conference call with John Carlson. That's the point of the podcast to. Yes, we're not just two old men in a deli here, schmoozing for the...

The reason behind this, yes.

There's an old man.

He's angry that day.

See, he was angry that day, my friends.

Um...

The, the, um, so we'll get to John Carlson's Zoom conference call with the mass media

of, uh, Capitals media crew. That's why we're doing

this. But yeah, someone, someone, I guess it was yesterday, said, when were the playoffs have started?

I was like, oh, man. So yeah, you'd be prepping for that. I was like, yeah, we'd be like getting hotels

ready and getting air flight. Like those couple of days between the you know

the end of the regular season you now know the who then usually by like late saturday night or

sunday you know the the when and the where and then that that crash to get yourself ready

and get hotel rooms and whether or not you're traveling.

Usually in TV, it's fight to say why we should be traveling and all those things.

Like, what a bummer that that's not going on because it's the most fun time of year.

Exactly. And to pull the curtain back a little bit to what we do, so set the scenario,

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