Episode 1: Adam McQuaid

Former Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid joins Cue the Memories to look back on Boston's 2011 championship run, his Darth Quaider nickname, and his memorable mullet haircut.

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Cue the Memories Podcast Episode 1

Introduction (0:00) 

Russo: Cue the Memories presented by Bud Light 

Russo: What’s up everyone, and welcome into the inaugural episode of cue the memories presented by Bud light. I am Bruins digital reporter Eric Russo, and I will be your host over the next couple of months as we celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the 2011 Stanley Cup champion, Boston Bruins. Hard to believe it’s been ten years since that magical team, that magical run, but we will mark that anniversary and I will have along side me for the duration, former Bruins defenseman, 2011 Stanley Cup Champion, number twenty-one. Follow him on Twitter @furknuckle Andrew Ference. 

Ference: Even the proper pronunciation Russo, the old Furknuckle loves a good walk down nostalgia lane and even though we’ve stayed in decent touch with some of the old guys it’s gonna be nice to hop on Zoom and have this podcast and r reminisce about the good old days, ten years ago that actually is quite unbelievable but looking to this. 

Russo: Crazy, I’m excited to I know I’ve told you this before, you’ve heard me say it, I know you just had a birthday recently so I’m not gonna try to make you feel old again, but I was only  senior in high school for that run in 2011. I remember rushing out of graduation to get home in time for game four against the Canucks, so that summer and spring hold a special place in my heart, so I can only imagine what it’s like for you guys so I’m just so looking forward to hearing some of those stories and those behind the scenes memories from you guys in that run that I’m sure I would have loved to know as a seventeen-year-old kid.

Ference: I think that there’s a lot that’s been told there’s a lot of stories, probably most of them exaggerated by us, which is fine but there’s a lot that’s untold right and I think that’s the part that I’m looking forward to, dig a little deeper into probably some stuff about my teammates that I didn’t even know about. We got to know each other, we’re brothers, we spend everyday of our lives together for a few years while we’re playing together as teammates but there’s probably still a lot that I missed and a lot about them that I don’t know and that’s the part that I’m really looking forward to is actually selfishly just like I said reminiscing but just getting to know some of my buddies that even better. 

Russo: Over the next couple of months, we will welcome in a new member of the 2011 Stanley Cup Championship team and this week our inaugural guest. One of your former defense partners number fifty- four Adam McQuaid, and how we’ll start every episode is you and I will share a personal anecdote of our guest so what do you have about Mr. McQuaid?

Ference: We did spend a lot of time together me and Quaid were partners for most of the season, from a fans point of view your up in the stands watching Quaider just destroy guys, drop the gloves, he’s always in there quick for a good fight and he’s lighting guys up with big hits, and he’s just a good big strong defenseman. But Quaider is to me as a teammate, this dude from Prince Edward Island who’s so polite and so nice and friendly and just the opposite of the dude who’s just pummeling some guy off the Canadians with a good fight. So the funny story I have about Quaider or when I think about Quaider is probably just his first year, second year we’d go out there and have a shift and we’re just each playing as hard as we can and we’re trying to do as good as we can as a pair out there on the ice and you know there might have been a bouncy pass or something like that or some kind of like tiny mistake and I could always guarantee that Quaider would come off and first thing we would do is apologize to me, he’s be like “sorry there Fer, sorry, sorry that’s a bouncy pass.” He’d be out there apologizing for some minuscule mistake that we probably made fifteen of in the same shift, and so you know driving his niceness side of him was my number one priority like as a veteran and him being like a young guy like dude you gotta stop being so nice, you gotta quit apologizing for like every mistake because then I feel bad because I gave you a bad pass and there’s no way you’re gonna get an apology out of me so that’s what I think of Quaider. 

Russo: That’s what I think to, one of the great guys that I have had a chance to work with my time with the Bruins, when I started full time in 2016, he was one the first guys to really embrace me and make me feel welcome and part of the group. One of the first guys to learn my name and get to know me a little bit so I’ve always appreciated that it’s always been great to be around him and even these days now that he’s retired always a great guy to talk to and we will talk to him right after this on the inaugural episode of cue the memories presented by Bud Light. 

Russo: (5:00) 

 Welcome Back to the Inaugural episode of cue the memories presented by Bud Light as we celebrate the 2011 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins and joining us now, we’re so happy to have alongside number fifty-four Adam McQuaid. What’s up Quaider thanks for joining us. 

McQuaid: Thanks for having me, it’s gonna be cool. 

Ference: Quaider, how you doing buddy?

McQuaid: I’m good Fer, it’s good to see ya. 

Ference: It’s so nice to reconnect and obviously one of my favorite guys, because we spent so much quality time together but one of the nicest guys I’ve ever played with and I say that with all sincerity. Ference: They bring him up in Prince Edward Island and I know it’s a real pleasure we’ve talked probably about a month ago and got caught up on a bunch of things and why don’t you let us know where your at, what’s going on with Quaider’s life, you got a family now your all grown up, I think you look better now then you did back then minus the mullet and what not but your looking great and life is good right? 

McQuaid: Life is good, I’m just trying to keep up to you, you set the bar high but yeah I’m doing good I’ve been living in Boston, we had a son in the new year and getting to spend a lot of quality time with him and been really enjoying that part of my life right now and we’re back in Canada right now hoping to get through our quarantine here and enjoying this time right now as a family.

Ference: One of my selfish goals for this is to try and get to know some of my buddies a little bit better because you know you’re in the locker room talking about a very limited number of things so we’ll touch on maybe how you get from PEI to winning the Stanley Cup, but man it’s been ten years since we won the cup it’s insane, I threw in the DVD the other night for the kids and had some reminiscing it was pretty cool, Looch sends me YouTube clips of like highlight videos for some of our games from that time and it’s been a blast and have you been down memory lane, is that like, is that in your style of like going back and just reminiscing and thinking about the good times and if so what have you liked to watch and what have you been digging on it. 

McQuaid: When I was playing I recently retired its been almost a couple years since my last game and really it wasn’t until around this time last year we they started playing all the reruns of the 2011 playoff run I had really watched the games and allowed myself an opptunity to reflect because I kind of felt when I was playing I just kind wanted to keep looking forward I thought it might make me complacent if I thought to much about those things but it’s been really cool to think back and in some ways like you said it’s been ten years so in some ways it’s like wow it seems like a lifetime ago but them you rewatch things and you can put yourself right back in those moments those feelings and for my like watching back the games I think obviously that Montreal series was just like going down 2-0, crawling our way back, going to Lake Placid in between games in Montreal, hanging out with the guys there, being on the ice when Horty scored in game 7 to beat the Canadians in the first round that feeling watching it I got that feeling back again and then when Marshy but the fourth goal the empty net goal to seal game seven in Vancouver I think that for me, I don’t know about you but until that goal went in like there was still in the back of my mind like “okay you gotta keep playing, it’s not over it’s not over, “ when he put the fourth one in with a couple minutes left I was just like okay this is gonna happen so uh those were a couple moments where that really stood out to me and I don’t know, not that I’m done playing it’s just like so neat to have been able to experience that like not everyone get’s to go through those things. 

Ference: I totally know what you mean that empty net goal for me, I tell people what’s the best part about winning the cup and I say that last whatever it was two minutes or you know two and a half minutes, whatever time was left on the clock after the empty net goal until the final buzzer went was my favorite time of the entire thing because that was the moment we just all kinda let our guard down and actually just let emotions come in. Get excited and then it kinda just built on it like an avalanche, your looking around and you’re going through this childhood dream come true and then you look next to and oh my god Quaider going through the same thing I am and Hoods is behind us as a D coach and he’s going through the same thing and just this collective oh my god that collective minutes on the bench until the final went was just my favorite time just to look around and see everyone going through the kinda amazement that I was going through. 

McQuaid: Yeah it’s just like everyone like “ah ha” moments like this is really gonna happen and for me some ways after it when we got Boston it was like oh so who do we play next, it took some time to just, cause that was just like on to the next, we’re not done yet we have work to do, that kind of focus but it was pretty neat to do that. 

Ference (10:00) : So you know obviously you win the cup pretty early in your career and you know not to compare against all the other teams that you played for but we were for people who play this clip I’m wearing a t-shirt, a very special t-shirt for our inaugural broadcast here and it’s a very little known fact that the Harvard Lampoon named the 2011 Boston Bruins the best sports team ever, and I gotta say it’s the best sports team I ever played on so maybe they had something going but man the bar gets set so high and I know like for me it was a little bit more towards the end of my career so you know I had other teams that I used to compare it to and I’ve been different places and but early on in your career you win the cup, you’re on a team like is like so close, now looking back, you know you’ve been on different teams and different groups of guys and sometimes the chemistry was great, sometimes it doesn’t meld like what set that team apart, obviously other than Tim Thomas standing on his head a few games for us and having some pretty clutch performers but like in that room looking back on your career what do you think what was it? What was the secret sauce? 

McQuaid: I was kinda oblivious to two things right, because it was like first, really my first fully season and I just kinda assumed that was probably how it was, like it’s easy to say there’s just so much veteran leadership like a heard a little bit with what you said in the intro about how I would come to the bench and you know “oh sorry Fer” and you were so important in my career early on because you gave me confidence. I kinda felt like I had to apologize because you were a guy that had such experience in the league and maybe I wasn’t quite as confident and your know your just like “dude just play” like “I make mistakes, your gonna make mistakes” and it was kinda just almost like on an equal level, you know things like that, where Thorty telling me like “you can take that guy”, and I’m looking at him like “dude are you serious, I’m not that tough” and he’d be like “oh no you got it” like things like that, I think ultimately it came down to it was just a group of guys that if we were doing something, everyone was doing it, not everyone’s cut from the same cloth, everyone has different interests, and different likes but we were able to find common ground and respect everyone and also jus a willingness to want to do what it took to win and really ultimately it came down to playing for one another, it’s hard to go through a playoff run and to do the things that you need to do, the sacrifices you need to make, from a physical standpoint or now that I have a family of own, I couldn’t imagine, families make sacrifices, and it’s tough to do those things with your doing them for yourself and to be able to do them for one another kinda set us apart. 

Russo: There’s  lot of teams that have good chemistry and good veteran leadership, and a good veteran presence but when did you know that there was a special part of that team that you could you know win, you could win the cup? When did that sort of set in during that season?

McQuaid: I mean honestly I didn’t really know, my personal focus was just trying to stay there, I was just a daily come to the rink try to earn my spot, try to soak up what I could and I think it was interesting the year before, where obviously everybody knows with the Philly series, being up 3-0 and losing and they went to the finals and I think they lost in game six and that year was when I played for the first time, played a few games, played some games in the playoffs, and you know before that I just kinda watched really as a fan, and watching that year before and man we were right there with Philly, we lost in game seven, we were up 3-0 that could have been us in the finals and its interesting you start realizing how you close you can be and the margin for error, I think once we got past Montreal, like that was a pretty big weight off our shoulders like going down 2-0 and crawling our way back and winning in overtime I think we were kinda just playing with house money from then on, like lets just go do this, like we got nothing to lose kinda thing and we obviously had something to prove playing Philly again in the second round, so there were moments like that. 

Ference: So we get all the way to you know having that special team but we get to you know, game seven of the Stanley Cup finals which is like insane right for anyone who’s experienced that is a pretty wild feeling to your point you’re a bit robotic at that point you know your almost become, I’ve described a sociopath, right your locking away your emotions and in a really good way of saying it is not to high, not to low but really they can just become a sociopath that’s perfect that’s what we want you to be for the playoffs. 

McQuaid: I haven’t heard a term that way, but I would agree with that. 

Ference: It’s hard not to have the moment where you are going into game seven of the finals, did you have anybody in the stands in Vancouver?

McQuaid (15:00): Yeah my parents, my brother and sister flew in, the team was awesome to fly in you know guy’s families and stuff. It was really neat to have them there, I’m not gonna go into the whole thing but you know people obviously know when you have moments like that, the sacrifices that family members have made in the past, especially your parents, it’s a lifetime really of going to practice and paying for registration, and tournaments and early morning skates, hocket schools and all these thing so one of those things where you share it, right you share that moment with your family, because they’ve supported you , and everyone has gone through their highs and their lows to get to that point, and the thing with my family, they were there to help me through the lows and celebrate the highs so I can remember like searching for them, because you always watch as a kid when guys would be celebrating on the ice with their families and doing an interview and like you know maybe have their arm around their mom or their dad, or sibling or a wife or whatever the case, the kids, it’s just seeing such a special moment that was everything that I thought it would be. 

Ference: When the Zamboni doors opened up, and you found them and like you remember, was it, did you ever have words, what did you guys do?

McQuaid: My mom and my sister were, I could tell they had been crying, their eyes were red and hugs all around and kinda like a can you believe this, can you believe you know, can you believe where were at right now and what we’re doing and obviously you have the initial moments on the ice with the guys and then as soon as that kinda pass, my thought went right to kinda like where’s my family and even afterwards like when we went into the dressing room, I like I was just a little, I was probably maybe just a little in shock of the whole thing but I spent a lot of time with my family in the dressing room, kinda just step back and try to take it all in and then obviously scurry out cause of the riots that were going on but. 

Ference: And that’s better than me, I think I was pouring champagne over Nauko, but I don’t know. 

McQuaid: Part of me is like ahhh.

Ference: You’re a better man then me, like I said your just so nice like why do you make us all look bad? What did you do for your cup day, did you go back to PEI, and you fill it up with some potatoes? Have a great day at the house?

McQuaid: I did actually, I did. I did fill it up with potatoes, that is one thing that I did. Yeah so we brought it back, brought it back to PEI, and it was a full day, like it’s one of those things where I mean if I could go back an do it again I may have tried to slow the day down bit but it’s funny because it’s one of those things where like people, people always give the advice after like a big day, like people say it on your wedding day or the birth of a child whatever like, big moments in your life, graduation, take some time to like step back and soak it all in and you can’t do that like, there’s so much going on, so we did a bit of a parade through my home town, shared the cup, got pictures with a bunch of people, took it out, something really special for me was took the cup out to where my father grew up, Riverdale Prince Edward Island, just kinda basically farm country more or less there’d been four generations that had lived there and so me I was just kinda like I felt the family history, when I was there and just was really neat to have the cup there, I couldn’t help to think back like, oh I wonder if my great grandfather, my grandfather ever imagined you know that the Stanley Cup would be on the property and that there grandson or great grandson would be the one to bring it there and I always felt a lot of pride where I grew up and to be able to bring the cup back home was really really special for me. 

Ferecne: Well like, how many people from PEI won the cup? Are you the first one?

McQuaid: There’s been, no, there’s been a, Brad Richards, you know I don’t know the exact answer. 

Ferecne: But like a couple. 

McQuaid: Yeah, not many

Ferecne: That’s really Special. 

McQuaid: Yeah, not many, and that was the cool thing, I got to know Brad a little bit, since but he’s not that much other than me, but I was sixteen I think when he won the cup the first time and brought it to PEI and if I was twenty-five when, or twenty-four so it was eight years later when I had the cup myself and it felt like just the day before that I was in that crowd like watching him with the cup, so to be doing that myself. Like it was surreal. Like it really was. 

Ferecne: Yeah, it’s fantasy world. 

Russo: I believe you were you responsible for a certain t-shirt and maybe a certain nickname that was associated with Adam McQuaid that year?

Ferecne: I was looking for it, as opposed to this one, I should have worn my Darth Quaider shirt, it’s probably in the laundry somewhere I wear it every week. You know I actually had it on earlier this year. 

McQuaid: I know you have it. 

Ferecne (20:00): I have it, I just can’t find it. I don’t know it’s in my closet or something but the Darth Quaider, obviously you know Adam probably like usually do the mullet, it’s like super tough right so I think a lot of fans associated with the mullet it was a lovable mullet, it looked good you know you spent a lot of time conditioning it, in the shower, the hair dryer out to fluff it up and so as any good teammate would, you know stands the time of history you gotta make a t-shirt out of the mullet but uh for Quaider like we didn’t really have, I think we just called you like Quaider like just because, hockey players you know are inherently, you know uncreative we just add an “e” to somebody’s name and like we don’t have a very inventive nicknames so you know Quaid, Adam McQuaid just turned into Quaider and for whatever dumb reason I don’t know, we never called him Darth Quaider, or anything like that I think it just kinda crossed my mind one day and I thought it be a funny T-shirt and I think I had like a crappy version of photshop on my computer and the internet was emerging ways to to like custom anything and you could put in a custom T- shirt order so yeah, I think I just showed up with a Darth Quaider shirt one day, you were my partner right so I thought it be funny. 

McQuaid: Fer you were, Fer was the ring leader on things like this, like he would show up with something to like lighten the mood, you know get a laugh out of the guys, bring guys together, so I can remember when he showed up with that just like I nearly died, it was so funny, and we should probably still touch on the fact that like you’re the one to thank for the mullet. 

Ferecne: Yeah, did I encourage that? It’s back in style now too, you should probably bring it back. I head the other day that it’s actually back. 

McQuaid: I’m married now , so I have someone who give me proper advice, I’m not on my own to make poor decisions like that anymore. But, I don’t know if you remember this but East Down and Down, Kenny Powers right, that was the popular show at the time, my hair was like kinda longer, curly, and you were like “dude you would have the perfect Kenny powers hair, you’d be perfect, you should cut your hair at the top it be perfect” and then I can’t remember exactly it was some kind of, some kind of bet or something and then we go the cuts for a cause and you were like “dude just, this is the chance, just kinda shave the top, leave the back, you can shave the back off later, just so see what it looks like” and of course I’m like sure why not, then we end up winning and I’m like I can’t not cut my hair. 

Ference: it was a hit, it was a hit man, and we should all recognize that we probably shouldn’t strive to  be like Kenny Powers other than the hair. Not to many redeemable qualities other than the hair but I actually forgot about that, I was like some subtle peer pressure, so I hope you actually liked the mullet cause I would feel bad if you were kind of resentful but that think was beautiful. 

McQuaid: No resentment, I just think it’s one of those things where people, all the guys were just like yeah, awesome, it’s awesome cause it’s you not me, one of those things but 

Ference: A hundred perfect. 

Russo: I mean it lives on, it lives on if you follow our social channels, fans love it, they want it back when we were doing the watch with the bruin, last spring, a lot of the comments wondering when that mullet’s coming back and I’m sure those T-shirts are alive somewhere to. So my final question for you Quaider is obviously you were a factor in huge on Horty’s goal there, when your pinching down the wall are you thinking at all about the pros and cons or are you all in at that moment when your pinching down the wall there? 

McQuaid: I mean my job, I remember my job off a faceoff, if it played out the way it did was to, was I was supposed to pinch down the wall forward was gonna cover me, so I didn’t think about it, like I watched the back and I’m just like man I’m so lucky like that puck did not get by me, like I wasn’t thinking anything other than in the moment thankfully and Looch passed it over to Horty and he puts it in and that was super exciting to be on the ice for that goal and that’s a memory that sticks out in my head when I think back on my career. 

Ference: I think you are lucky because I honestly don’t know if Nathan Horton knows how to skate backwards, so I would say good job with that puck and keeping it in. 

McQuaid: Yeah, I do not even know what I was doing on the ice to be honest with ya, I remember I go thrown over I think like I was out there with Z, Looch, Kretch and Horty. I think like their top line was on the ice, Cammalleri, so I do not even know how I ended up out there, thankfully it worked out, it worked out in my favor. 

Russo: Certainly did. I think we’ll finish with some rapid-fire questions here what do you think Fer. 

Ference: Yeah, hunred percent man let’s do these rapid fire, this gonna be like an ongoing thing I think so hopefully by the end of this we’’l all have the same dumb answers because we’re not creative or we’ll have wildly entertaining ones. But the best thing is at least you get to go first so it’s not like your repeating somebody else. 

McQuaid: Everyone’s copying me 

Russo (25:00): There was the night at Foxwoods, everybody knows, everybody’s heard of, who was the one ordering all those Bud Light’s that night?

McQuaid: Probably Johnny Boychuk. 

Russo: He was the big Bud Light guy?

McQuaid: He was the big everything guy. 

Ference: Accurate. Alright, your still in Boston so you should have a good one for this. The go to spot in Boston to get away from the grind. So, it can be back from 2011, it can be current it’s your choice. 

McQuaid: For me, throughout my career in Boston was , I would go down to Mike’s Pastries. Got to know the owners there pretty well, hangout with them, talk about life, and then on quiet days even though theres not too many quiet days around there for them, that’s one spot for me I kinda was able to get away and just kinda relax I guess. 

Ference: Yeah, it’s always easier to talk about life when you got a good cannoli in your mouth. 

Russo: You may have touched on it already but your favorite 2011 goal, your favorite goal from that run.

McQuaid: It’s hard to say I guess for me, me personally being on the ice for that game seven overtime winner against Montreal first round, but then it’s really hard to top Marshy put the fourth empty net goal in, kinda felt like it sealed the deal, so those are two that stick out for me. 

Ference: Alright this is probably the toughest one, but the unsung moment from the run, lots get the highlights, you know people tell the stories, you know makes the book, but like for you something that maybe didn’t get all the fan fair. 

McQuaid: I’ll give you two guys, I’ll give you a shoutout for the game seven against Tampa. 0-0 game, Tampa was playing you know super ridiculous boring forecheck and you kind came back and cuuroawled the puck, came up the ice and made a nice pass to Kretch, kinda broke there forecheck and he went in and obviously made a nice play to Horty but I think it all started with you there and obviously a 0-0 game and it was a 1-0 win, 0-0 at that time so the big play. 

Ference: That game was insane, I might be doing that podcast later but this would be my rapid fire but god that was my favorite goal, that game was so crazy, it was probably my favorite hockey game of my entire career, and the crowd was absolutely deafening for the last however many mintures, there was like 10 minutes or something like that left in the game, something like that but it was insane. 

McQuaid: The atmosphere of the garden was I mean that run was, nothing we do will ever replicate it like that experience, that feeling it was just so cool. Like do you rember just sitting in the dressing room putting your skates on and hearing the crowd, like chanting like lets go bruins, just like I don’t know if they were stomping there feet or what it was just like the place was gonna cave in, do you remember, I don’t know do you remember that.  

Ference: I honestly felt like I was living in a movie like every single gameday like I would usually walk, I lived in the north end I would walk to the games so like I pass Boba’s and you know Pizza Regina, kinda I had my little route and you’d see a lot of the people on the way from like the neighborhood you know like I would be living in some movie, “yeah let’s go bruins” people just be yelling out and you know seeing people that you know and they would walk with you for a block and kinda give you a pep talk and this and that and you get closer and closer to the Garden and there would be more people and then yeah, the whole gameday experience was such a trip and sitting in the room like you said like not only do you hear it, you kinda feel it, the building theres like vibrations, like people stomping on whatever and your trying to play it cool but man it was hard to play it cool, it was incdedible you get like goosebumps and what a feeling, absoutley amazing like you said, look luck ever trying to replicate that such a unique moment. 

Russo: well from someone who was in the stands for a couple of those games it’s good to know we had a little, maybe a little bit of an effect of what went on during that magical run. 

McQuaid: Oh, one hundred perfect, one hundred perfect. 

Russo: Certainly, tough to replicate the atmosphere  in that building during that time and the magical run that it was, Adam it was great to catch up with you in here, so many of those great memories, we appreciate you taking the time. 

McQuaid: Hey thanks for having me, this was a lot of fun, great to see you guys, always fun to catch up. 

Ference: Thanks, Quaider, enjoy PEI pal, 

McQuaid: Thanks Fer great seeing you buddy. 

Ference: Love ya man, cya 

McQuaid: Cya. 

Russo: We’ll be back to wrap up the inaugural of Cue the memories, presented by Bud Light, right after this. 

Russo (30:00): Alright we’re back to wrap up the inaugural episode of the cue the memories, Andy that was great, it was great to have Quaider on as our first guest, again there’s just so many great memories from that great run and just hearing you guys recollect and talking about the fans and being able to hear the ruckus TD Garden before the game, that stuff’s so cool, it was awesome. Can’t wait for more here as we go along here. 

Ference: He’s such a nice, genuine guy, he really is, he’s so nice, I love that guy and he’s one of those guys that you know he just appreciates it everyday that he was in the NHL he just appreciated every single day right he got it, he just understood how special it was yeah so to hear him kinda recollect about you know sitting in the locker room and hearing the fans like he wasn’t one of those Jaded kinda guys that would be like “yeah whatever I’m in the NHL, like they should be cheering for me” he was just so pumped to hear that and experience that. I really liked hear him as a kid, seeing other people win the cup and seeing the families come on the ice and I can really connect with that feeling, of living out this kinda like dream of seeing other people do it for your whole life and then you get the chance to do it and you know seeing the mom and sister who had the red eyes had been  crying cause there so happy for their boy and just amazing to hear guys like relive that cause it’s truly a once in  lifetime moment. 

Russo: Absolutely and such a special group, and we’ll hear from more as we go along here on Cue the memories and that’s episode one. Episode one in the books, thanks Fer, we’ll see you soon. 

Ferecne: Cheer’s buddy.