Gritty Is Beside Himself, With Lauren Theisen

We need to be adults about this: Hockey is real. The NHL's playoffs are in point of fact going on right now. There is just no sense in hiding from it. While I wouldn't say we were hiding from the reality of our current Hockey Situation in recent weeks, it is true Drew and I have talked much more about baseball, basketball, and even football than we have about our fourth and coldest major sport. It was with remedying that in mind, and also because she is a delightful person to talk to, that we had Defector Hockey Headmistress Lauren Theisen on the podcast to talk hockey this week. After the usual prefatory buffoonery and accent work, we discussed Lauren's recent adventure in New York City real estate and remembered some shitty apartments. This bit was brief, but it is fair to say that it has it all: an uninsulated and worryingly cold bathroom, a secret room high above Lauren's kitchen, sneaky touristic visits to fancy furniture stores, the works. But, cards on the table, it does not contain any hockey.