I'm I'm Hey, everybody. How you doing? Well, that's good.

Welcome to PHLY Flyers. I am Charlie O'Connor, and this is my final day hosting before our fearless leader,

Bill Mats, comes back.

I am very, very happy.

This is my final day hosting for quite a while.

You're so comfortable in that chair.

Quite a while.

I don't, I want to go back to what I'm used to and what I know I'm good at.

You want to be on this chair.

You want to be on this chair.

But taking my chair one more time is the. You want to be on this. I do. I want to be in the color commentary chair.

But taking my chair one more time is the great Steve Jaco. Steve, Steve, thanks so much for coming back on the show this week. My pleasure, Charlie. I love coming on, love talking to you about hockey. Double Steve week. Double Steve week. And I was on last Friday. So that's three times. You guys went a while without me and that it was three times in two weeks.

So there we go on that front. But yeah, I'm happy to be back. You've been crushing it this week, by the way. Fantastic work. Loved seeing Jim Jackson in the studio yesterday. Always good to have Jim Jackson in studio to be sure. I interviewed Jim Jackson like way early in my podcasting career when podcasts were barely a thing. And like for him to come on and talk to me for an

hour plus for a nothing person on a nothing burger of a show, just what a guy. Like he's a fantastic

guy, super nice. And just, it always makes me feel so

fortunate to think about the great broadcasters that we have in the city. Like, we had

Jehart and then we got Jim Jackson after him with Tim Saunders on the radio. It's not even to

talk about the other sports. We're very lucky people, but great conversation with JJ yesterday.

Yeah, he is a, he's, it's very, very nice of him to come into studio. Like he could easily just be like, ah, you know, I'll call in for 10 minutes, 20 minutes, whatever, I'll be on a stream. But no, he's like, yeah, I'll come in. And the show not only had no trouble hitting the hour. I mean, we went nearly an hour 20. JJ just like, once you get him going, he just can't stop. I could talk to him all day. Yeah, yeah. He's just telling stories. He's reminiscing about working with Bill Clement. We ran the gamut of Flyers' Top. So if you haven't checked out yesterday's show, if you missed it live, or if you didn't watch it afterwards, definitely check that out. It was a great show. But we have a great show

for you today. It is, of course, F-Round Friday, and we will get to the fun in just a few minutes.

But before we start, I want to do some housekeeping, hit that like button. We're only at 21 likes so far. That is, those are, those are rookie numbers. They're rookie numbers. They're rookie numbers. They're terrible. Come on. I mean, Charlie's been crushing it all week. A like is a clap for their job Charlie's been doing all week. Come on. So do those likes. Get those likes up. There we go. There we go. And yesterday, I think we, we, we easily clear 200 live. I think we were coming up on 300 by the time the show finally got them. I tuned in and liked. So I was in the chat a little bit. I saw that. I saw Steve Jeko in the chat. Yeah. So, so anyway, so, uh, do that like button. We got some, we got some effing around to do today.

We do. We do. We do. And hit that like button first so we can get to the, we get to the good stuff.

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