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Hi Ira Glass! I only found out about This American Life from your last AMA and I thank you so much for doing that! My GF and I live an hour apart from each other so I drive quite a bit and your podcasts are the perfect length. I'm Canadian, so my question to you is: What is your favorite story involving Canada or a Canadian, either from TAL or any other anecdote you wish to tell!

Bonjour Steve, Plusieurs questions

1. Parles-tu encore beaucoup de francais? Ou as-tu perdu la langue un peux?

2. You had a big Career with Los Angeles. They drafted you and you stayed for five seasons. How hard was it to be traded from that organization? When you went back in 1998-1999, just to get traded to Philadelphia AGAIN, were you like wtf guys, we just did this 9 years ago. Did it ever get easier to be traded? Or every time was it emotionally and logistically painful?

3. Do you have a team captain that stands out as extra awesome?

4. You played a season in Quebec. That must of been sweet to play in your own province. Even though you were traded before it happened, were you sad to see the Quebec Franchise leave? Being a province Native and having played there, do you expect a team could return and do well?

5. Your moved around a lot. Of all the teams, do you remember the most heated Rivalry? Ottawa/Toronto? Quebec/Montreal? Detroit/Colorado?

6. It must of sucked to win the Stanley cup. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

Thanks a lot for doing this. I asked a ton of questions and I am sorry if they are overwhelming. You can pick and choose which ones to answer as you please.

The Montreal Screwjob for those who, like me, were unaware. Pretty interesting read actually.

Just for fun, in your opinion what has been the worst GM move your dad has made?

He was loathed as a coach and Assistant GM during his brief stint due primarily to relationship building and the need for total control.

http://articles.courant.com/1994-05-21/sports/9405210429_1_pierre-mcguire-whalers-general-manager-paul-holmgren