Chris No. 2 of Anti-Flag on Penguins love, punk and NHL (Podcast)
(WARNING: STRONG ADULT LANGUAGE AND HUMOR. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.)
PUCK SOUP is the hockey podcast on the Nerdist network from Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski and Dave Lozo of Vice Sports, Uproxx and The Comeback. This is a hockey podcast, in the sense that the talk about hockey, both on the ice and about fan culture. That’s the “puck.” This is also a podcast about movies, TV, fast food, life lessons and general idiocy. That’s the “soup.”
In Episode 35, Greg and Dave welcome Pittsburgh Penguins fan Chris Barker, a.k.a. Chris #2, from the punk band Anti-Flag to talk Mario Lemieux, how hockey is punk rock, his sneaky plans to get punk music at NHL games and what art is going to look like under the Trump administration. Plus, we rank the NHL All-Star Game skills competitions, discuss our new book “The 100 Greatest Players In NHL History (and other stuff),” finally review ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, discuss the finer points of Limp Bizkit, debate the best donuts and food combinations and offer our take on NHL entertainment. Sponsored by Seat Geek!
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And now, a handy synopsis of the show:
OPEN: Greg and Dave talk about their new book (an actual book, not a bit) called “The 100 Greatest Players In NHL History (And Other Stuff): An Arbitrary Collection of Arbitrary Lists,” and then talk about Gary Bettman as Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, and then about the book again.
14:30 – Snarking on the Sirius/XM Top 100 players list.
26:00 – Chris Barker, a.k.a. Chris No. 2 from Anti-Flag, talks about the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mario Lemieux, the history of punk politics in Pittsburgh, the NHL as punk rock, Donald Trump and the sneaky ways he gets Anti-Flag music into hockey games.
1:13:00 – Reaction to the Puck Bunny Confessional podcast.
1:16:00 – Ranking the NHL skills competitions, from worst to first.
1:27:00 – Punching Nazis.
1:36:00 – Puck Soup mailbag!
