The Heartless Leafs and an interview w/ Olympic hero Jack O'Callahan
Dropping the Gloves
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4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | John Scott, you're talking about |
| 0:10.0 | John Scott the family man |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you for listening to dropping the gloves with John Scott |
| 0:20.0 | Good morning, everybody, welcome to another episode of dropping the gloves with John Scott. |
| 0:22.1 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to another episode of dropping the gloves. |
| 0:25.4 | Nice day here. |
| 0:27.8 | Nice Wednesday morning, January 28th. |
| 0:29.3 | I appreciate everybody joining us. |
| 0:31.1 | We got a good interview coming up in a second. |
| 0:40.1 | Jack O'Callaghan from the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey teams joins the show. They're doing a kind of a press junk at all those guys. The Netflix did a documentary on the team with the upcoming |
| 0:46.3 | Olympics. I think it's the 30 some anniversary for 35th anniversary, 45th anniversary of that |
| 0:51.5 | gold medal. So I got the opportunity to sit down with Jack. It was a great |
| 0:55.4 | talk. He was a big part of that team. Obviously, he won a national championship, player of the year, |
| 0:59.8 | those sorts of things. So he's an incredible hockey player. He had a good NHL career, I think 300 plus |
| 1:04.3 | games, but obviously what he's known for is the movie A miracle, but more importantly, helping |
| 1:10.0 | that team win gold against the USSR, just in a super... |
| 1:14.4 | You think, well, I guess today's political climate's pretty amped up right now, but back then it was just World War III talk, the USSR, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, all that stuff was kind of coming to a culmination in |
| 1:30.6 | 1980. The games were almost called off and USSR decided they were going to come and they were |
| 1:36.1 | going to stick it to USA and try to win as many gold medals as they could. And the one they thought |
| 1:40.8 | they had in the bag was men's hockey. And that's kind of, as, you know, |
| 1:44.9 | winter Olympics go, is that's the best sport. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a hockey |
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