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Christmas is days away and Zac and Murph close out the year in full holiday spirit. They dig into the traditions and cultural differences that shape the season on either side of the border, and the things that genuinely keep them up at night this time of year.

And because it's Maple Glazed, it turns into hockey — the Christmas break, the World Juniors window, and why the holidays hit different when your whole December is scheduled around a rink.

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The Christmas season is hectic, but Zac and Murph are leaning all the way into it — sugar, hot chocolate, full holiday mode.

As the year winds down, the guys go back through what made Christmas special growing up: family rituals, the specific foods, the things that only made sense in your own house. Two different countries, two different sets of traditions, a lot of overlap they didn't expect.

Warm one. Good background listen while you're wrapping presents.

 





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Murph just spent a few weeks in New York and it left a mark. He gets into the culture of the city — the unfiltered, say-it-to-your-face nature of the people, and why it feels less like another city and more like another country entirely.

He also shares a behind-the-scenes story from the New York Rangers side of the trip.

 





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Fat season is officially here. Thanksgiving week lands, and Zac and Murph break down how Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving actually differ — the timing, the scale, the food, and why one country treats it like a religious observance and the other treats it like a long weekend.

Murph is heading out of town for the holiday but brings stories anyway. Zac makes the case that American Thanksgiving is, functionally, a cult.

An annually relevant one — good listen every November, from either side of the border.

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Murph is back after a few weeks away and he's got news — including an update on his brother, Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Connor Murphy. He talks about the family side of having a brother in the NHL and gives his read on where the Blackhawks season stands.

He also recaps his Halloween party, which went about how you'd expect.

Meanwhile Zac is dealing with post-Halloween blues and heading toward Autumnfest in West Virginia.

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Listener questions kick this one off, and they get technical fast. Zac gives a scouting-level breakdown of the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns' defense, then walks through where the European League of Football is expanding next — Istanbul, possibly London, Amsterdam, and Paris — and what that growth means for American football in Europe.

If you follow the ELF or you're a coach curious about the European game, this is the episode. Zac has coached over there and talks about it from the sideline, not from a highlight reel.

Second half turns into Halloween movies and Murph refusing to commit to a single favorite.

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We made it to episode two, barely. Zac and Murph break down the Saudi-backed Newcastle United takeover — goodbye 1980, hello unlimited money — and what it actually means for the club and the Premier League.

Murph defends his questionable Chelsea allegiance. Zac describes what a real English matchday looks like from the inside, including a bar that ran dry by 8:30. Then the conversation turns into a full argument about analytics and whether the numbers have taken the soul out of watching sports.

Also: European McDonald's, and why it's better than it has any right to be.

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The very first Maple Glazed episode, recorded with no script and no real plan. Zac is an American offensive line coach. Murph is half-Canadian and grew up on hockey. They sit down to figure out what this show is and end up covering roughly everything — including where the name "Maple Glazed" came from, which is exactly as dumb as it sounds.

If you're starting from the beginning, this is where the whole American-vs-Canadian dynamic gets set up. Everything after this builds on it.

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