Steve and Adam full out screaming at eachother and Jesse just sitting there with a smile on his face sipping his drink is such a mood lol

Can hottakeapalooza become a yearly thing? This was hilarious.

Adam coming out of left field with a Megan Trainor take is Wylde

Podcast starts at 4:57

Banger episode, Steve and Adam screaming about driving tests while Jesse sips his coffee was my absolute favorite 😂😂

I like how the most heated debate was the driver license one. Definatly the best part of the show.

Adam gives me the impression he would've protested the seatbelt had he been alive when the measure was put in place in the 70s.

That steak take from Jesse was baffling

As a delivery driver, Steve's license take is stupid true. There are some horrific drivers

I love the driving test take lol. That’s awesome.

Just a heads up for Adam and all other fellow Toronto folks. There's actually a bylaw in Toronto that requires all residents or Buisness owners to remove snow from in front or behind their place of occupancy within 12 hours of any snow or icefall. The bylaw even carries a fine. Rarely enforced but still a thing here in Toronto. Toronto Municipal Code: Chapter 719 for anyone that wants to give it a read

The license debate was one of the best pieces of entertainment I've ever witnessed.

Gotta make this an annual event. This was hilarious.

Hi! Video game developer here, with regards to Jesse's hot take. The big reason you don't get that return period is exactly what mentioned. Most folks are gonna finish a game within 7 days. Which is why games have shifted to external purchases or long term play solutions like daily rewards. In addition some companies allow a 2 hour grace period where you can try a game. Additionally the games industry has been immune to inflation for about 30 years. A new game the year I was born could cost up to 100USD, looking at you Super Mario World. The fact that games have only gone up to 70USD is a miracle. The final reason is that compared to a movie, tv show, book, ect. games take YEARS to make. With all sorts of disciplines, plus these days launch is just step 1. If you want something less expensive you can always look to smaller developers, that may not be what you want but its an option.

"wicked witch of the east, bro" vibes from the driving convo lmaoooooo

I've been watching this show religiously for 3 years and this right here is the best episode yet. So entertaining, you guys have amazing chemistry when you argue

Adam and Steve yelling at each other should be front page clip for this youtube channel xD

Tape absolutely matters, but only in two ways, 1. where on your blade is taped, one common example is taping the toe, there is a huge difference between a taped and un-taped toe. 2. As mentioned if you tape in a way that affects how you old it. a knob is a decent example of this, or some people do the candy cane with a rolled up length of tape thing... more grip I guess. Also wax actually does an incredible job at keeping water and snow off your stick.

Jesse sipping his mug at the 45:50 mark, with Steve and Adam loosing their respective shits is hysterical!!!!

You can't have the "tomato is a fruit" argument during a debate about vegetables being bad if you're also including eggplant in the vegetable category. Eggplant is a fruit as well, and technically tomatoes and eggplants are both fruits and vegetables.

Do another one of these in the summer. It's the only episode I watched from beginning to end in quite some time.

If I were on dating apps, “What if I had a big metal knob at the top of my stick?” Would absolutely be my tagline

Loved this episode 😅. Definitely need more of these

steve! ive been advocating the same damn thing regarding driving tests for years, glad to hear im not the only one on board!

Someone living in ottawa here.. getting ready for the game isn’t the part that takes all day, it’s actually getting to the arena that takes all day. At home sports wins

Got a question for Steve about his HoF take: Should a player like ‘Tiger’ Williams be in the Hockey Hall of Fame. I think his name is more renowned than Henderson. Henderson is on display at the hall FOR that goal. His stick that scored the goal is on display. Does his whole career need to be laid out or just that one moment?

Awesome timing. Was just scrolling through old episodes to watch!

this has been an amazing podcast 😂

Jesse's steak take gives off strong teenager vibes. He might as well have argued that lunchables ham and Jamon Iberico are the same.

“The only guy that scores in Buffalo”. Buffalo literally leads the league in goals lmao

More of this please, this was brilliant!

Simply an amazing episode boys

Steve was absolutely right in all his takes. And I can safely say that Jesse has never had real steak.

1000% yes to the license stuff. Although I think it should switch to every year whenever you qualify for a senior citizen discount ANYWHERE

Jesse's take about steak is so epically wrong. Hamburger is ground beef. That is completely different from filet mignon. You can't call them the same.

I'm very impressed with how disciplined you gentlemen all were once that timer went off. Moved on shockingly quick!

I want a supertake of the old episodes of people saying scoring goals are the most important thing

This should be a yearly tradition. Let them vent from the year they had for our amusement. Then they can go enjoy the holidays and ignore us till the new sdpn season.

Absolutely hilarious episode And I agree with Steve about driving tests every 5 yrs. Absolute complete agreement

42:00 - Most of Europe has mandatory re-testing for their drivers license. It's truly moronic that a North American drivers license is a lifetime appointment.

This is probably my favourite show in a long time .. please do this more often. Ps I agree with both Steve and Jesse about retesting .. maybe in Toronto it’s different but in a small town it’s not just 2% drivers are absurd

57:21 a burger is like a coffee from Starbucks... you bury it in things and it covers up the taste and say wow that's an amazing experience for $12. My grandfather raised cattle for beef. There's a BIG difference between what goes into a "patty" and a thick Ribeye. Burgers need ingredients and fat (beef talo) to stay together... a steak doesn't and a McDouble... dude Jesse, that's not beef, no matter what the picture looks like

34:13 To quote Kentucky Ballistics, "Eggplant smells like a mixture of bird poop and a wet ashtray"

Eps. Triangle, all trivia, and hottakeapalooza. Are epic i need to finish most recent one

"People go..WHaaaAAAaaaAAA.. what is this...bullshit" 😆 Also I really enjoyed the holiday off topic of hockey episodes, great job on that content!

I didn't know the arena experience in north America is supposedly so bad. In Europe I always want to go to the arena, especially just to meet your people and feeling the atmosphere.

saying a burger is a steak is like saying a hotdog is a pork chop/pork loin

right on guys, had me chuckling in the new year, thanks eh

So far this ep and last 2 were the best

Great episode lads!

Hottakepalooza every 6 months would be a 💎

this is an epic pod!!!

I loved live games at maple leaf gardens,the fans now are so quiet if you try to get loud and they tell you to be quiet the true fans that get loud are highest up seats.i loved being in the greys at the gardens it felt like you were closer to the ice even though you were in the greys.

Steve doesn't bring up a Green Bell Pepper in this and I am shocked.

Lol I love the angry Steve rant about driving.

The still at 45:52. Jesse just laying back and assessing the argument lmao

One thing about the stick tape. If you tape it from heal to toe when you're shooting the puck it will ride "against the grain" when leaving your stick when it goes from the heal of the blade to the toe of the blade upon release.

I have been a fan of the Lightning since 1992. #1 reason, Manon Rheaume, inspirational. 100% agree with Steve's take.

Omg I’m old and I’ve made that drivers license argument for decades. I’m with you Steve.

I gotta quell the baby carrot slander. Baby carrots are not genetically modified to be that shape. They are either 1. regular carrots harvested before they're fully grown, or 2. "baby-cut" carrots which are regular carrots cut to that shape. They are no different nutritionally to regular carrots.

The Keg is like the McDonalds of steakhouses

When steve and adam were losing it on one another and jesse smile while watching i was in complete joy.

As a beef producer. Good steaks only come from young finished animals. Making them more of a commodity. Ground beef is from all the trimmings, and can be from any older animals. Like anything over 3 years becomes tough and virtually the whole animal is for ground beef. Meaning an 8 year old bull, weighing 2200lbs sells for around $1.00 a pound live. And yields 6-700lbs of ground beef. Same goes for any cows. They’re not suitable for roasts and steaks. That’s the price difference. ✌️

Loved the episode while in Estonia! Please explain further the freezer pants @adam. I know you said you don't wear jeans often anymore. But what did you used to do and more importantly WHY???

"It's a gazebo" I caught that Steve. Fuckin hilarious.

100% agree with Steve re: the 5 year drivers testing, and it should be done on winter roads.

Drivers should have occasional check ups to prove they are safe

The wax actually does help a bit, less snow buildup on your blade which helps with passing, shooting, and handling.

I guarantee that Adam has never had Punjabi eggplant bharta. That is one of the most delicious things I have eaten.

I think the Lindros thing is legit. We're not talking about some super mystical wrap technique. We're talking about a Hall Of Famer teaching a rank amateur how to not tape his stick like a rank amateur.

As a Penguins Fan, Steve Dangle is honestly one of the few people who respect Sidney Crosby the amount he really deserves. His game is far better than Ovechkins he’s better at everything else

Yall need to do this every year for Festivus. Make it the celebratory Airing of Grievances and put a pole in the back

I love how I had the exact same reaction Steve had outloud by myself to "eggplant is the most disappointing vegetable."

As a former junior goalie, goaltending is easily most difficult. You can do everything right and still get yanked in the first period. A half second lapse in judgement can lose a game, you might get to make 2 or 3 mistakes a game before you lose the net. Shutouts are significantly rarer than hat tricks for that reason. A goalie can steal a game his team had no right to win, a goal scorer can’t. Follow Steve’s example and get in the net Jesse, you’ll change your tune 😂

Jesse, my brother, those smash burgers you’re saying are just as good as the best steaks are made from ground beef (mostly). Ground beef makes up approx. 200lbs of the beef you get from a single animal. On the other hand, each animal only has TWO tenderloin filets that probably make up 1-2lbs of the entire cow. And that is why they charge crazy money for the filet mignon at fancy restaurants. It’s because of the cut of the meat, and the yield from the animal! PS great episode, love the concept!! 💙

the tape thing is so accurate, 100% mental. thats why i used flame tape

Most fights are Austin Watson type fights. 2 guys spinning in circles, grappling, zero punches landing and then they fall down. I agree with Steve. Brady Tkachuk vs Jacob trouba at center ice throwing hay makers earlier in the season was such a treat. But it's so rare.

This was spicier than I thought it was going to be

This just in, the boys forget the days of renting games

Fighting went back up this year. If we got by the penalty being called and and not what we think is a good fight to watch.

40:59 I agree with Jesse’s point about don’t be angry that someone didn’t consume something but I am allowed to be surprised.

Jesse obviously didn't grow up in the 90's/early 00's where every tape/CD you buy is a mystery surprise aside from a song or two that played on the radio. And those things were NOT cheap back then.

The wax is to help stop snow from sticking on to the tape and building up

Does Jessie know steak burgers exist? Best of both worlds ! But yeh . Coldest take I’ve ever seen .

That driving take from Steve is actually 100% correct. We need people to take more than 1 driving test in their entire lives.

Steak = processed ground meat is objectively worse for you, and perhaps you can't taste the difference as well as you think? Stick tape : different techinques make huge differences on grip and for goalies ability to pick the stick up off the ice. Blade taping less significant, but I agree with jesse that rituals in and of themselves are valuable to players.

Adam had the most BASED take about the government and adding more driving tests 😂😂

Adam's opening argument against the driver licence debate is that it is too tough a task to manage. The heart of Steve's argument is around safety through continuous education. When I was a kid, I would hear collision reports on the radio and would think "wow, another one." As an adult, I see how people drive and think "how are there not more collisions?" I like when Adam and Steve got heated about whether 2% of drivers were the problem. This is a silly way to look at it. Any one of 100% of people driving can have a bad day. And people still drive when they have a bad day because alternative modes of travel do not come to mind. It stands to reason then, that we are not trying to weed out a few bad apples, but rather a systemic problem. And that's where we need Steve's point.

Back in the days, there was a place where we could pay around 3 to 8 bucks to rent a game for 3-7 days and try it before buying it. It was great. Now the digital side of things offers is less efficiently with 7-days trials.

its funny how the "you only like what's on it" rule applied for the vegetables but not during Jesse's burger argument. Also Jesse getting to use everything in the burger experience but not allowing for the same thing on the steak (demi glace, compound butter etc) was a little ridiculous

I honestly miss the days of unboxing a new game and you get that fresh game smell. It was magical.

59:21 I feel like this take should be in the NHL. Because as someone who watches and covers a ton of ECHL hockey. Fighting is very much still in there. In my opinion it happens way too much in the ECHL which is insane bc the league has rules that if you get 10 fighting majors in a season you begin to get game suspensions. For a league that doesn’t pay the players a ton to begin with; I thought those suspensions would scare off the fighters in the ECHL. It did not. On the team I cover we have 2 players whose game is mostly fighting and one of them wears an “A”

Jesse's take on steak is gonna be my next tattoo. Amen, brother.

Who wants to tell them that almost all foods they like are covered in something to eat it lol

I'm an Islanders fan who lives in New Jersey. I take the train in, which leaves a little after 3 PM, which gets me to the arena for 5 PM, so I have 2 hours of tailgating before the game. This is fun once or twice a month, but I wouldn't do it every game.

I never thought I'd see Adam call Steve Joseph Stalin lol

jesse missed his calling as a lawyer

I eat veggies and salad with no dressings or dip. They taste pretty good but not sweet like fruit. Am I a sociopath? I don’t know what that has to do with anything.

Between this and trivia the SDP has peaked

Jesse, baby carrots aren't any more genetically modified than other vegetables, they aren't grown as baby carrots they are cut down from bigger carrots.