130 episodes
The Parking Lot - A Beer League Hockey Podcast Taco Tom McLean
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5.0 • 27 Ratings
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A beer league hockey podcast. Follow along as we talk about the basics of learning to play, gear, chirps, and the fantastic stories told in the parking lot.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 128
Dave Shepard, a local beer leauger, joins the show to tell us about "The Fad of the Day", rowing/crew, and some beer league hockey. It's a good one. Enjoy.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 127
Jeff Brubaker joins the show to tell about his long career spread among 20 plus teams and 7 leagues, coaching, and his business listing/purchasing company. The boys recap the week and get into the weeds of NIL and the Transfer Portal. Its a good one. Enjoy.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 126
The one and only Terry O'Reilly #24 from the Boston Bruins joins the show to tell us about growing up as the milkman's sun and 13 straight years in the NHL with the Big Bad Bruins. Its a good one. I apologize for some of the edits and outside noise. We are still experimenting with the mobile rig. Enjoy.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 125
Joey Walsh joins the show to tell us a little about youth, high school, junior, and beer league hockey in and around Toronto, Ontario. He tells a bunch more about his hockey gear company HockeyStickMan.com. This is an excellent one. Enjoy.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 124
Wes Sprecher from Swamp Cat Brewery joins the show to tell us a little about his life growing up in the Burg, high school hockey, and some beer league. He tells us a lot about starting up a City Community Focused Beer Garden. Great kid, great show. Enjoy.
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The Parking Lot - Episode 123
Will Nguyen from Deez Nuts HC joins the show to tell us a little about beer league out in Anaheim, Ca. This is some good stuff. Enjoy.
Customer Reviews
All hockey leads to the beer league
As a 20+ year beer leaguer these stories hit close to home. Beer leaguers are the same everywhere. Great friends, great characters, great stories. (Marginal hockey)
Keep it up fellas!
Want to know what beer league hockey is all about???
Taco Tom hits the nail on the head with this podcast. Hear authentic interviews with the guys that live and lived the life in “beer league” hockey. Listen to the real locker room stories, the playing resumes, the legendary trips , the friendships and lifelong bond that comes along with the brotherhood of the “beer league” . This is the real deal !!
Great stories from beer league hockey players.
I started listening to this podcast about a year and a half ago after looking for a beer league hockey centered podcast. The show is formatted with an introduction segment with the hosts catching up on what happened in their beer league games that week along with some topical discussion. That leads into a long format interview with someone who has or currently plays beer league hockey. Then it ends with a short wrap up segment.
The hosts are Thom McLean and Jeremy Puckett. Thom started playing hockey later in life, and can speak about learning to play with people who have been skating since they were kids. Jeremy Puckett is a goalie who has played competitive roller hockey and now plays ice hockey. They both can be rough around the edges and the content definitely is 18+ material. I’d caution that there is a lot of “locker room talk” that some will enjoy and some will be put off by.
The show is based in Florida, but it does a good job of talking to people from all over the United States and Canada. I’d say it heavily features interviews from Florida and Boston, but they do interview people anywhere from California to Toronto to New Hampshire. They generally interview people who have been playing for quite a long time and most are 40+ years old.
The show is a fantastic listen and I greatly enjoy it, but if I had to be picky there are a few things that could be improved. The sound mixing could be changed so the guests are louder. Sometimes the guests who are calling from a phone are quieter than the hosts and can be difficult to hear in a loud environment. I’d like to see some interviews with people who maybe started playing only a few years ago and what their experience has been and what they expected when they started playing. (This is coming from a 30 year old guy who is newer to playing hockey, so I may be off from what other listeners want).
-a listener from Columbus, Ohio (Go Bucks!)
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