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Talk Is Jericho

The Atrocities of Graham James - Worst Scandal in NHL History

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s the biggest sex scandal in hockey history, and it started in Canada’s famed junior hockey league, and arguably contributed to the death of Jay Macaulay, a former high school classmate of Chris Jericho’s who died of drug overdose in April. Winnipeg Free Press reporter Jeff Hamilton details the unbelievable story of disgraced ex-Western Hockey League coach Graham James, and how he was able to sexually abuse junior hockey league players (some who went on to become Stanley Cup winning NHL professionals) for years and years across multiple teams and territories. Jeff recounts all he uncovered in his years-long investigation into James including the multiple coverups and enabling by some of Canadian hockey’s top officials. Jeff shares the NHL players stories who came forward to ultimately take James down, and why the predator only served 18-months before being released to live his life.

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0:00.0

Talk is Jericho, baby! Talk is Jericho! Talk is Jericho, mama! Talk is me!

0:13.5

Welcome to Talk is Jericho! It is the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll.

0:17.4

Let's hear what Death McKagan has gotten in store with us with his panted joke of the week.

0:22.5

Chris Jericho, top of Caden College. Listen, I'm back in LA. Skate the 110 degree weather

0:30.5

up in Seattle. Rehearsal in Guns of Rosen. Rehearsal, a lot. And listen, I have an Envogue

0:39.5

joke for you. I got an Envogue joke for you. You're never going to get it. So you're never

0:46.0

going to get it. Thank you, bye.

0:47.0

That was excellent. That's a top, that's a top 10. Tough joke for me. I love it. Oh, you

0:55.0

never going to get it. Oh, you never going to get it. Which of course was Envogue's biggest

1:00.0

hit. But if you have to explain the joke, then you didn't land it, but he landed it huge.

1:05.6

But he's rehearsing hard with Guns of Rosen as they get ready to hit the road in July.

1:09.6

Pennsylvania, I'm going to be there. And don't forget Fuzzy starts up next week. We're

1:13.7

doing a few festival dates starting July 14th in Iowa City at Wildwood, July 14th, like

1:20.4

I said, Wildwood in Iowa City. And that's almost sold out. It might even be sold out as

1:24.4

we talked. So if you want to get the last few tickets for that, go to Pfizerock.com.

1:28.6

Then we got the good dot rock fest on the 15th Jacksonville, the Taco Festival at Daily's

1:32.7

Place. I return on July 17th in Shaboygan, Brat Days in August 7th. And then of course,

1:38.8

to save the world tour gets underway on September 2nd. You get tickets once again at Fuzzy

1:43.6

Rock dot com Columbus, Ohio on the 2nd, Julia, Illinois on the 3rd Belvedere, Illinois

1:50.4

on the 4th, Kansasville, Wisconsin on the 6th, Harrisburg on the 9th and a Potima

1:55.7

Tox at the Blue Ridge Rock Fest on September 10th. The list goes on and on and on. We finish

2:00.5

up October 9th in Orlando. Johnson City sold out, Flint Michigan sold out, Pittsburgh

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