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Big [Applause] PA all right how you guys feeling BS Nation you guys look amazing what a crowd Kobe what an amazing crowd here for our uh third bolts block party live here at the Cigar City Tap Room powered by your friends at highight we had Julian breea on to kick off the season
Then Victor Hedman uh last month and then now Nick Paul back once again what now ex I’ll get to it in a second I do want to remind you guys you have question cards on your table and now that you know Nick Paul is our guest
Please feel free to uh fill out your question cards uh let us us know where you’re from your name as well put it on the cards we’ll accept those pretty much up uh for the next 15 minutes or so so you guys have a little bit of time Nick
Paul will answer any questions any you want to throw out there he’s he’s open book right yeah nothing’s off the table but uh Nick it’s been exactly one year to the day that you were on the bolts block party so exact I mean it’s pretty crazy thank you thunderbug thank
You um so I went back KOB we got to make this an annual thing we should it’s like an anniversary make sure the NHL guys know that this is like Nick Paul podcast day so they don’t schedule a game or something been declared pregame you know
Uh so I went back uh and Kobe and we looked back at the episode from a year ago so wanted to kind of recap some of the things that we talked about last year and fast forward to now and where things are at so I wanted to start first
With the stats and where you were at this time last season you had 13 goals eight assists she had 21 points on the season at this point last year just a little bit behind that right now 10 goals six assists 16 points however your Faceoff percentage has gone up 5% you
Were at 51.4% last year at this time up to 56.4% I think it’s actually a little bit higher after last night’s game uh but uh let’s talk I mean about your game and how it’s progressed and uh you know where you’re at today and how you feel
About your game right now yeah uh feeling good lately um you you know Glenny coming to the team he’s a right uh rightand shot so for the faceoffs uh it’s definitely good to practice I think that’s been a huge help cuz my uh my weakness was kind of on the right-handed
Centerman so having Glenny in practice has definitely uh boosted their centers that’s for sure um yeah a little less points but I mean the biggest thing is probably the minuses sure uh it’s been pretty cold this year with uh minuses but we’re working on that slowly um but
Yeah you know the season’s going uh all right right now you know for the team I think uh it’s just a little bit of a push push here at Christmas time and get on a roll um and just start playing good Bulls hockey every single night and not
Every one or to two nights Paulie so last night and I correct me if I’m wrong but was it the first time that you played with crav and point on the first line yeah so that was my first full game I had one game my when I got traded here
I had uh one period with them which was great yeah um so when you come in when you come in in the morning and you see the the lineup and you see that you’re on that spot you’re in the left wing with those guys and especially cooch the
Way he’s playing right like what are you doing are you just like yeah like yeah I hide it and then I go buy a lottery ticket at the gas station after two no but uh and it’s great and uh I I I kind of know my role on that line when
I’m going there as well you know I’m getting to the net I’m getting pucks I’m getting putting it in pointer in cooch’s hands and um I’m trying to make the game easy for them and easy for myself and just play playing simple okay so one of the things that you’ve been a Mainstay
With those guys is on the power play this year and it’s been well talked about it you’ve been excellent in front of the net down low on the goal line I just kind of wanted to know and I we know how much um a student of the game
The KE is and how much he studies it what kind of instructions does he give you like how how does that go yeah see that’s when I first got on there I didn’t know how that was going to go at all um you know cooch is a great guy and
Uh he he like you said he loves the game so he always telling me pointers and um telling me things I’m doing good and things I can improve on um mostly just position wise you know a lot of the things like uh beginning of the year uh
There was one two games ago as well is um there’s certain reads you make on the power play and when you see a play coming I go to back door to expose my stick cuz he’s going to One Touch no look back door so if I’m not in the
Right position I’ll miss it so just different reads like that um in battles where the outs are where he’s going to be um you know he loves rims on his back hands cuz he works on it all the time it’s unbelievable how he he controls it
There so a lot of it’s just positioning um the things he likes me’s doing and uh yeah he just says have a little more Poise you know if I need to take it to the net and and cause guys to to come towards me uh to do it so he he’s been
Awesome you know we went our video he pulls the laptop out kind of shows me positioning and um where his head’s at which I mean I’m still trying to think the game like that I wish I could but um it’s good when he communicates like that
It definitely makes it a lot easier so what are some of the components that you feel I mean obviously you’re on the ice that have contributed maybe to some of the up and down nature that we’ve been dealing with this season so far yeah
Um in in terms of just the up and down I just feel uh our breakouts uh have been the biggest cause of that um you know we can’t break the puck out we’re stuck in dzone and then we get frustrated and then we’re trying to make extra plays to
Make up for it um and then from there it just kind of snowballs but I think when we’re playing our best hockey and what we want to get to is a simple game you know moving the puck North working hard we have the effort we have the skill um
It’s more so of just utilizing that by putting oursel in good positions which would be putting the puck in the offensive zone creating plays um changing offensive zon so we get good lines you know you’re out there with the third fourth line Quick Change get cooch Point stammer out there whoever it may
Be but um you know you can’t score from the dzone so uh we can’t always rely on vassie even though he’s been playing unbelievable lately um but yeah just just having the making the simple plays and and and utilizing our skill in the ozone so I don’t want to really steal
Your question cuz you’re you’re the media guy now but I almost want to steal your question can we get some Round of Applause for br cob for being on Valley Sports now with Paul Kennedy look at the love from thunderbug and on the radio broadcast as well but I want to kind of
Touch on your media question because his answers are just very eloquent yeah yeah so when you watch Nick Paul in interviews and I think you guys would agree with me he’s very well spoken he seems like he’s enjoying the interviews which you know as an athlete sometimes
Is not always the case you know there’s the classic like how many cliches can an athlete throw out there right so that’s the big joke but and Nick you are excellent at it is that something that is important to you or you work on or or
How did that whole thing come about yeah you’re really good at it uh honestly I just talk way too much in the room I got a lot of practice talking um yeah well you’re a good bser I know that yeah personal experience it’s always just whatever comes to mind though but
No my dad uh when I was younger he put me in drama camps and I used to hate it I used to go up and do acting and do all that stuff and uh I just kind of got me comfortable like public speaking which uh has actually turned out to be a huge
Thing and obviously when you first get in the league you’re always nervous you don’t want to see the wrong thing so you’re just sticking to the cliches like you said and just keeping it simple but now that I kind of feel comfortable you know Comfort myself Comfort W to am in
The NHL it’s just uh it’s just easy to speak my mind in what I’m thinking all right I’m glad you brought up Drama Camp okay did you know what did you research this well that might be a fact or fiction later so Nick Paul is in the Stanley Cup finals and they’re shooting
A movie and we need a Nick Paul movie character who’s playing Nick Paul in the movie Vince Von Vince Von why why Vince vau I don’t know I like Vince vaugh he’s tall he’s funny he’s awkward I just feel like I fit that fits the bill I’ll agree with the
Awkward part all right so also uh things we talked about uh a year ago uh and you had mentioned was you were getting married and and you got married in July congratulations to you and your wife yeah thank you thank you talk to us about that day I know the ladies want to
Know about that day I mean let’s let’s walk through it how how amazing of an experience was that tell us about it yeah it was stressful I’m not a very organized person I didn’t have my vows written down uh printer was broken wasn’t going to memorize it so I uh
Knocked on my neighbor’s door 30 minutes before leaving to get married and uh he helped me uh print out some vows did you did you chat GTB your your vows no I just yeah no I just went to his place and I emailed him when I had
Joted down 40 minutes before that and uh you know one thing I know is the girls out here they like a weal thought out so I I’m sure your wife was very happy with yeah no they were still good uh yeah they were gold right from the heart uh
Yeah I know took the bus over there we it was like real quick I as soon as I got there they’re ready to go uh she was still that’s what happens when you’re late you know yeah I think it was on time I didn’t want to wait around so
Yeah I know it was good walked down um it was it was awesome the venue was off awesome perfect day it was all windows sun coming in uh photographer was really well so yeah it was a great day pictures looked amazing did any of uh our guys or
Any of your uh teammates get too Sauced at the wedding honestly I think I was a little too sauc to notice that’s awesome at least you were having a good time man that’s what it’s all about so um one thing we and again we were just talking
About it uh you scored in your first game right which you said took the pressure off and you felt that your confidence has been high ever since one of the words that you kept mentioning over and over again was the word opportunity and you mentioned that numerous times how has your consistency
Availed you more of those opport unities like being able to play on that first line yeah I just think uh when the coach trusts you in in uh any kind of situation you get put in a lot of you get a lot of opportunity and that’s one
Thing that I was uh when I was going up and down through the AHL and NHL it’s how can you create more opportunity for yourself and that was getting good at faceoffs you know as a Winger didn’t really take a lot of draws so I started working on draws got opportunity there
Was able to get on PK PP through there um second one was uh uh accountability uh are you you able to learn from your mistakes are you are you going to point fingers are you just going to soak it and be better uh reliability are you going to be able to
Go on last two minutes of the game block shots do the right things um you know if the game’s 61 or six nothing and the goal is looking for a shut out are you going to dump the puck in and and not and give up your your point or are you
Going to try and make a move and have it go the other way and and and have an opportunity for your goal way to lose a shut out so just little things that build up uh a lot of uh things that coaches trust and in the end of the day
It’s opportunity you know whenever I talk to to to people that are trying to go up and down it’s it’s what what can you bring to the table and how many things you bring to the table Yeah so so Paulie talking about opportunity one of those teams that gave you an opportunity
Early in the NHL was the Ottawa Senators and they’ve had um a little mix bag this year they fired their general manager and that’s what happens when you trade this guy right here you get fired of course and they fired their head coach so what’s your thoughts on on that and
Them a little bit cuz I just kind of wanted to pick your brain we we’re we love the game we love the NHL we love the lightning but I just kind of wanted to have your feelings on that a little bit yeah uh I mean that’s a that’s a
Young team um I think they had a a a good recipe with their work ethic and everything but you know sometimes it just doesn’t work out and it needs a little bit of a change uh you know they brought in a lot of players they signed
Uh a lot of guys to some some uh some good contracts so I mean that’s what they thought it was to win and uh they brought the players that they thought were going to do it um but then obviously you don’t get the result and you just can’t keep doing the same thing
And expecting something else right what makes this league so tough It’s just nothing’s nothing you have to everything has to be earned it’s nothing’s guaranteed right that’s a fact do you have uh more than one pair of loafers now yeah I have two you have two pair yeah okay cool you’ve upgraded since
Last year sneaker game you got any more uh additional drip I know we talked about the sneaker game you said you were trying to get to a different level yeah I’ve been wedding planning you know I planned the whole thing it was me all my time no wedding planner no we had a
Wedding planner wow you got a lot on your plate GRE Greg the funny thing about this being the oneye anniversary is I look back at the pictures and and it appears Nick’s wearing the exact same thing he wore year yeah it looks it looks like sweat that thing been worn for five weeks
So where are that’s why we’re sitting this far from the crowd cuz there might be a wafting yeah they’re lucky I’m not you and uh your wife you said H Halloween’s like your biggest holiday we didn’t see pictures this year so what did you guys do for Halloween the yeah I
Got lazy that’s on me okay so it was just nothing crazy November and I was like do I post it now but uh oh so you do have photos yeah we were ET uh we got a shopping cart from the rink I sat in
It with uh so you were ET and she was Elliot yeah and she was pushing me a little heavy I mean we would like to see pictures of that so if you and the shopping cart’s too small I uh I almost didn’t get out oh well that wouldn’t have fairw with
Coach so so those are the pictures I would have wanted to see instead of the pictures we saw in Tampa magazine um that you you were featured in a big H magazine yeah man you dressed up in your suit and your loafers and uh your two
Pairs of loafers um was a good I mean it was a good look for you man is how is that and is is uh is Vogue up next have they been calling it’s during the season so I’ve just been ignoring all the calls but they’re there um no it was it’s an
Offseason thing right yeah exactly no it was good I’ve never done anything like that you know I’ve always been told I’m a hand model so to actually get pictures of the face was a little uh a little different but yeah I mean photoshop’s amazing you know yeah it it I mean I
Wish they put the eyebrows down a little more but we’ll work with it um there’s only so much the computers can do buddy yeah I mean it’s asking a lot so did you feel comfortable though I mean in that environment know it’s uh trying to look
I don’t know how they try to give you direction of looking good into the camera I just feel like it’s not what I do you know it just looks weird so I thought you look great like so you don’t have a Zoolander look like no I don’t
Have like this is my sexy face you know it’s kind of just like what you get is what you get I saw you with your stick it looked like you were kind of making love raised the one shoulder I’m like I don’t know this is it what are you
Thinking the whole time are you thinking the boys are just going to kill me for this yeah I knew that was coming and I kind of loved it uh you know it was hanging up in the trainer yeah it was uh I got it a lot that’s the fun part
Best thing is those pictures never go away no they do not so another question because we see the the photos every game night now I’m sure you guys don’t see it cuz you’re in the locker room but the lightning Vision crew on game nights as we’re you know starting the game they
Have pictures from our social team of you guys walking into the building Sharp Dressed Man the whole n that’s where we saw you with your loafers one common theme we’ve noticed with every single player is the cup of coffee are you guys stopping for coffee every game day is
That a part of the routine or are you taking it from home with the cup in the top like what’s the deal with that bought a brevel okay best thing ever okay wife makes the coffee same time every single day okay so it’s routine now routine but I just switched it up so
Uhoh she uh got caught at the nail salon oh boy last game and I wasn’t very happy but now you yeah so good things have happen new routin has start has started you got a goal and two assists you know that kind of that’s the way it goes yeah
I mean you’re playing on top lines I I can see it so you guys also just had uh the dad’s trip uh your dad went on that trip talk to us about that whole experience with you and pop yeah that was awesome um what did you guys do
Besides I saw you went to the Denver Broncos game like talk talk to us about the whole situation yeah uh Broncos game was awesome uh we got to go on the field uh before the game watch some warm up different it’s just completely different seeing those athletes uh up close in
Person how explosive strong everything they are um definitely different bodybuild than hockey players uh just a little bit uh but yeah know it was awesome just spending time with your dad kind of showing them what you do what your routine is uh what you go through uh and
Just spending some time you know uh it’s hard seeing your family uh life gets fast in the Summers uh I live in Ottawa they’re in Niagara so obviously I go visit as much as I can but there’s nothing like just spending some time on the road with all the dads and kind of
Seeing not just my dad but just seeing everyone else’s dad and I was gonna seeing the resemblance and it it’s pretty cool so I mean the first night we were there um the lightning hosted a dinner for for us and all the dads and
It was a it was a great night is there any dads you see that you’re like yeah that makes sense actually Burger his dad is they’re twins trainer but uh yeah I’m trying to think Stam looks like his dad I feel like same voice if you don’t hear if you
Don’t see them and you hear them talking you don’t know who’s who if they called you on the phone you’re not sure which one sure yeah also I saw uh you you were part of coup’s catch and uh looked like you caught one of the biggest fish of
The day did you catch the biggest fish of the day that day or if you’re asking me know well I mean I’m asking like what was the official who loaded question load question let’s talk about fishing oh you got I got this fish last week it’s a monster let’s go on record who
Has the largest catch that day on record uh he’s like I don’t remember I don’t remember at all but it wasn’t us okay that was a massive fish you guys didn’t see on his Instagram was it Ross Colton it wasn’t one any of the players
I know that it was it was a group okay so the whatever the group uh group was cuz I feel like someone on the boat catches the fish sure how big was the fish I’m saying well how big was the one you caught oh it was I mean yeah it was
It was a good huge I I honestly I’m not a numbers guy okay he’s not a numbers guy he’s almost as big as my body so Nick Paul’s not playing hockey and you got a couple days off what is Nick Paul doing in the Tampa Bay Region oh well if
We can get on golf definitely try to get out there um not good at it so that’s why it’s fun uh you have a favorite course that you like to play uh probably Pelican okay yeah I saw your name on the wall there for worst round yeah congratulations Kobe uh forever inur
It’s a record most golf lost most people hit uh caddy quit mid round it it’s just a fantastic day but yeah um and then just walking our dogs around you know we love uh Sparkman we love um what’s the other one we ar Armature Works we go there a lot yep um
Davis an we just got a golf cart so I mean that’s that’s nice the golf cart uh yeah going for a couple rides there and then uh yeah cooking did you get to experience Gasparilla last year all I saw I saw the on the way I saw a lot of
Drunk people on the drive to the rink last year uh it seems at the end some people that didn’t look like they should be drinking I feel like with your your dress up skills that you exhibit at Halloween you’d be a great pirate I mean
Oh Sparrow for sure for sure I mean h you remember Hy dressed up he was amazing but it seems like the NHL every year for whatever reason decides to look at the calendar and go when’s that uh Tampa a day because we don’t already have traffic issues to tr get to the
Let’s Gill on the same day I don’t know what’s going on with that each year but uh we’re in the holiday spirit yeah right and so well I am well you are we all are in the holiday spirit so two things I wanted to bring out the first
One was there was a video of you and Wy when you were with the Senators and you guys went to go buy uh toys for you know what this is he did not cross me up I would take back he already knows where I was going with this so in the video If
You guys haven’t seen it uh he and Austin Watson go to a toy store to basically buy hockey gear and toys for kids and needs that that you know do this time of year and it gets to the subject of basketball and Watson basically tells him I will destroy you
In a game of basketball this American player is going to teach you a little something about basketball and then they start trying to cross each other up in the aisle so my question to you is has that been accepted since that video was shot have you guys like settled it on
The court and if you haven’t can we make that happen sometime in the back of the at the building we shoot around at at the rink a little bit uh but we haven’t gone one-on-one yet out right now dude yeah we need to settle this maybe for
Points by Paul’s charity and maybe you know we could we could get it going let’s do something you guys you guys are invited to watch that happen too by the way I’m putting it out there right now he’s Undercover like he’s he’s yeah he is he’s long and lanky yeah yeah I just
Think I got his knees all day I just I think they’re a little wobbly I think I mean he’s not here to defend himself so I’m definitely going to hear about let’s pile it on right all right let’s pile it on um also I just noticed you went to
Advent Health uh with pointer uh for the teddy bear program got to deliver some holiday cheer to the kids and uh obviously last year visiting the crisis center of Tampa Bay with points by Paul talk to us about both those initiatives how important that stuff is for you yeah
It’s awesome I always say uh life’s bigger than just a hockey game um and when you can uh help and and uh reach out as many people as we can and we get the opportunity to do um it’s definitely something I like doing um you know going
With pointer there and just seeing uh how happy they’re to see us and what they’re going through and those Warriors there man uh they’re tough you know that’s that’s that that that’s something that uh it’s not easy it takes a lot of strength and a lot of uh a lot of
Courage and then they’re doing that every day um you know just so going in there and just bringing as much life as we can sure um we played some Uno with two little girls which was awesome pointer had a plus two so the little girl couldn’t win and I was telling him
To throw it but couldn’t do it couldn’t do it so you bring your 10 watt humor to the kids they’re excited uh one of the great things about you Nick is you got a A Rolodex of dad jokes I was wondering if you have any dad jokes you want to share here that
Are uh K friendly cuz my son’s over there his son is here so tighten it up um I’ll steal one I’ll give credit to hags on this he told me this the other day and it was actually pretty funny um hold let me think of
It I love how you build it up you’re a true comedian let me build up the suspense here it was uh knock knock who’s there Madame Madame who my damn foot’s caught in the door terrible it was awful That’s a classic D J though that is a classic dad
Joke that was awful all right so do you guys have questions from the the crowd Mr breean that you can bring up here cuz obviously like you said uh we don’t want to take too much time for just me and Kobe we want to give some questions to
The audience all right Kobe this one comes from your son what is your favorite video game oh it’s a good one cuz I saw in the uh the Players Lounge what you got you guys are playing old school do you guys play those games in there no those are
Antiques those are just say CU like 2K7 2K8 I’m like wow they’re playing some throwback games in here no okay it’s weird it’s the game stammer was on there’s like 20 of them just I wonder put those in there right he brought them in no uh favorite video game uh well we
Recently just got back on Call of Duty so probably Call of Duty okay good at it I’m a good calm guy you know just yelling out wh everyone is but gotcha okay not doing anything about it all right this one comes from Haley and Amelia uh who was your favorite uh player
Growing up oh it’s tough cuz uh hard to admit this I was a Toronto fan growing up oh boy he forgot where he was for a second yeah um so I was buddies with Max doy so we Ty I’d always see Tai go to his house
And everything so uh Ty Matt Sun Dean and then Jerome ainla those were my three like big whooped his ass just wanted put that out there you just want to throw that I just want to throw that little Tampa Lightning jab in there uh all right from
Jen and Katie uh what is your favorite Christmas memory or gift favorite Christmas memory um or gift favorite gift I would say was I always wanted to like snow or skyboard okay or what the heck was that I wanted to ski or snowboard okay and uh sorry someone’s calling my phone’s ringing my
Mind’s just all on a pretzel all good um yeah so then I came downstairs and I had a snowboard wrapped up pretending like I didn’t know what it was big snowboard in the corner but uh no I think that was probably my favorite and we had this like little hill by my
My house was probably like here to the ground and I would just use it over and over again and then went to the bigger Hill wasn’t good at all but uh yeah just something I know my dad you know meant a lot for uh for him to kind of get that
For me and make it happen so uh that was a big one for great memories Madison and Tampa here wants to know and this was our question last night for our hot takes is Die Hard a Christmas movie no you’re wrong Nick Paul is it
You are wrong and I can tell you why because I had a research this last night the actual writer of the movie himself said that it is a Christmas movie it takes place on Christmas Eve the whole story is the dad trying to get home to his kids on Christmas Eve his wife’s
Name is Holly the movie takes place at a Christmas party so can I change my answer you can so yeah all right just wanted to make sure I didn’t I didn’t know the facts behind it that were coming everybody loved me everybody Lov me just saying now you know it is a
Christmas movie all right Miranda and Ethan if you were not a hockey player what would you be um I’d try a little standup comedy gig I try the let that crash and burn a little bit and then uh I don’t know no other desire skills to fall back on accounting Zamboni
Driver yeah I don’t know I professional figure it out probably trying to go into business take people to dinner and get paid for I don’t know nothing wrong with that uh who other than Tanner Jano would you least want to fight on the team oh probably I mean Wy I was going
To say yeah uh we’re going take that out Court think an undercover we don’t how many lefties yeah probably Wy okay fair enough he’s got no teeth so uh you don’t you don’t mess with guys with no teeth Candice wants to know uh what do you see yourself doing after
Hockey good question uh I’m trying I’m doing some uh business courses right now uh maybe work into some real estate we’ll kind of see uh yeah I’ve taken some personality uh tests and what are my strengths are and um obviously don’t want to focus on it now cuz I got
A long list a person personality test and you fail turns out I don’t know myself um but yeah no uh I like real estate a lot so maybe try and get into real estate after you you already got your headshots from the South Tampa magazine so you’re good to go there uh
Joe and Nancy Erikson said game three you took a brutal hit did you hear him yelling you are a mother effing Warrior that was awesome by the way yeah I don’t know if he heard it or not but uh love the uh compassion there Morgan uh who’s your best friend on the team
Your BFF oh I mean who you hanging out with is this going to be aired cuz I don’t want to have to deal with this in the locker room after said in this room doesn’t leave this room right sure I mean yeah what if you could pick a group
Let’s just say the Rat Pack what we just say you have no friends on the team yeah we’ll go [Laughter] I mean I sit beside haggy me and haggy hang out a lot okay we uh hockey talk jokingly a lot which is a lot of fun
Sure of course uh wty I known wty from Ottawa we uh we were in Ottawa together for the summer and played golf every day together so I mean that’s you learn a lot about someone there uh Celli yeah I mean all the guys are pretty close I
Don’t know if I can pick one sure fair enough all right Julie wants to know this a good one why do you feel it is so difficult to con consistently win on the road as a team is it the environment is it just the routine is different yeah I mean
It’s definitely uh like the warmup and and everything that goes into it the travel um the time period between between games for rest and everything but you know I think the biggest thing uh which shouldn’t be which we’re actually working on right now is just uh line matchups you know they get last
Change and they get to kind of put who they want out but I mean it shouldn’t be is Big we we should be a lot better on the road I think it’s just an us problem and uh us figuring out how to be consistent and not do too much and
Shoot our in the foot sure Thomas wants to know do you feel that there’s any uh pressure on you to fill the Gap that was left when killer left do you feel any pressure at all yeah that’s actually a good question you know filling into the
Power play Spot y um working that second third line um but yeah no I I I don’t really feel pressure at all you know killer is a great player um but I mean I just focus on playing my game and and helping the team win uh as much
As I can you know taking face offs and being a center a good Center that can drive the line um but yeah I mean that’s definitely uh someone who I looked up to and and was definitely really close with when I was here so I learned a lot from
Him so yeah it’s going to be interesting seeing him across from you guys on uh the 13th when he’s back here in Tampa with Anaheim all right final question from the crowd how do you keep your hands from being injured in fights and didn’t we ask wty this cuz like you’re
Like Tanner like you’re literally like punching towards plastic and like there’s just more risk involved right where Tanner seems like he’s always he’s going up for your jaw but like how do you PR I mean you know that that’s what you’re getting into and that’s what
You’re punching again so how do you like protect yourself yeah uh I mean a lot of it’s just luck uh sometimes you just catch him on the helmet and it hurts a lot and uh yeah yeah I mean it just depends like this year when in my fight I scraped
Like all the skin off my off my uh my Knuckles there but it didn’t really I’d rather that than a bone or or something but the biggest thing is just getting the helmet off and preferably Just Landing face shots I’m G to keep my comment to myself not that
I oh my God sorry I’m getting choked up all right Kobe you have anything else before we get into Factor fiction Let’s do let’s do so one of our favorite segments that we do on each uh block party is Factor fiction presented by highlight I don’t think we did this uh
When you were on the show a year ago it’s kind of a a new uh segment that we added so these are pretty much true or false right so you really got to pay attention cuz some of them might be skewed just a little bit so first up
Fact or fiction Nick Paul you lived in Florida two years before getting traded to Tampa true what so where and where did you live and how did that work in a sterile where’s for two summers is that like Orlando yeah it’s Fort Myers Fort Myers
Okay so South for 2 years yep what so why just total curveball I’m just wild I didn’t know what I was doing I fireworks down there I thought there was a good deal and I bought it and I’m like oh wait this is not in Canada
No okay so that is fact um you played piano for a dozen years fact I don’t know where you’re getting this but yeah that okay so not any a little classical guitar too really yeah so do this not something you still do or is that no I wish I I just was not
I wish I bought into it it was more my dad he’s like if you use both your hands it’s good for both sides of your brain sure and it coordination slash smarts which didn’t really translate yeah but I mean I did that for for a while and then at the end
I picked up guitar and yeah all right so on the on the on the music theme okay uh last time we had you on the podcast you told us your cousin was the rapper Big Pun yeah and we did some digging and we found out that you know Big Pun rest in
Peace but uh that he is your godfather now your cousin really we’re asking is that fact or fiction it’s fact or fiction I thought you were telling me play along here I thought you were like telling me it’s an.com now I know that this is made out from the last time we
Did this interview false he’s my cousin he’s your cousin for real yeah we had no idea then my uh my mom and dad did the uh I guess he pricked the finger something an thing or whatever and then it had a whole line that they didn’t know she didn’t know about and you’re
Related to George Washington too or yeah I mean there’s a couple in there but yeah he’s one of them okay Factor fiction that’s awesome uh Kobe got a hold of the figure skating photo of you as a kid from your parents and is holding it for ransom I hope that’s
False that’s one we’re not going to reveal so yeah no I know there’s one going around I don’t think that has been exposed but we’ll see so true so that’s fact it exists okay not necessarily if you have it so we did some digging on
Some pictures of you when you were a kid so fact or fiction you didn’t discover that t-shirts actually had sleeves until you were about 20 years old they they have sleeves false you a l is there a lot of photos out there that exist of Nikki Po from
Back in the day well I I you know when you first start working out you feel a pump and you think they’re bigger than they are you know just cut the sleeves right off yeah not a good look good stuff man all right so uh we are almost
Out of time here at Kobe guys can we get a round of applause here Nick Paul on the block party so here’s the deal we have two autographed items we have a puck I believe and a Jersey that Nick is going to sign live right here
Right now and I do believe we have some raffle ticket number so if we call your number you are going to be the winner of these two items so uh we’ll do that and uh I guess we’ll sign off here Kobe and well thank you Nick this has been always
Fun awesome to have you always one of the block party’s best guests yes side note we just got back from Calgary and my room just reminded me of you oh yeah the Calgary flip I still owe you yeah if you guys don’t remember that from the first episode uh Braden uh kind of
Revealed a secret he had been keeping for many many moons uh that he actually you call it flip in a room back in the day when the bubble I I snuck into his room and I took all the furniture out of his room and moved into a
Hallway and then Nick gets out told anyone never told him that it was him and Nick gets out of the the elevator and is walking in the hallway he’s like what idiots all their stuff is out in the in the hallway not realizing it was his room and all his stuff and finding
Out on the block party it was Kobe that did it to him so and the whole time I’m telling Nick oh you know what I’ll help you find it that’s just that’s brutal who would do that so now uh yeah December 20th is officially uh Nick Paul
Block party day so it’s an annual show so thank you to our friends at highi Cigar City Tap Room the bolts block party Greg and Kobe we’ll see you guys soon
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Pauly’s a great guest and he does give great media interviews too!! Congrats Nick on your wedding and great episode guys!!! LFG BOLTS!!!! 💙⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
For anyone who has been to the podcast live, does the ticket price get deducted from your food & bar tab at Cigar City? Do they do any giveaways or specials for Cigar City or the Bolts?
Great episode! Love that you open it up to fan questions.
nice