James Duthie

So, you know, half of each chapter would be long quotes of whoever the central figure in the chapter may be telling part of the story.

And then I'll slip in here and there.

know to fill in gaps and so the difficulty for me this the thing that you never do in broadcasting is try to speak in someone else's voice imitates people right i mean at that point you're acting and it's not easy to reenact uh bruce boudreaux uh mid-game right right well there was only i mean i didn't try to do people's voices or anything i don't think i'm nearly that talented enough one chapter that was the exception

was there's a chapter about Brian Kilray, who is a famous junior hockey coach, the winningest junior hockey coach of all time.

People in Ottawa know him well.

He's a legend.

Maybe not as well in the rest of the hockey world, but he is in the Hall of Fame.

And, you know, kind of the point of the story was Kevin Weeks is a junior hockey player looking to get a break and looking to get traded, and Killer calls him.

to tell him that he's been traded to him and Killer bellows in this voice.

And it was the one part of the book where I said, I'm going to have to try to imitate Killer.

You know, I'll do a disservice in an audio book if I don't try to do this Killer voice, which is this kind of voice like this, where Kevin, we've just traded for you.

And so I found myself, that was the one chapter where I kind of tried to do an invitation.

I probably failed miserably, but I felt it was kind of necessary for the chapter to work.

And that was one of my favorite chapters.

Yeah, so I'll backtrack a little to the concept.

It's, as you mentioned off the top, I did a book called Beauties about six years ago.

And it sort of came to me, my day job, of course, which is not really a day job, it's a night job, is to host panels and do intermissions and pregame shows.

And over the years, we've had a ton of ex-coaches or players, current players, ex-players who've guested on the panel with me.

And they're always very relaxed.

And you have a lot of downtime because you're watching the games.