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Joey T is the most agreeable man in the world!

I’m an awful public speaker. Words are fumbled, my vocabulary drops from a fifth to a third grade level and my hands tremble like a typical day in Haiti.

Then we’ve got Joe Turpel. The man with honey in his chords and a lifetime of stats in his noggin. A loveable know-it-all who offers digestible prose to the layman. The yin to Potter’s yang.

In this episode of the Occ-Cast, Joey T joins the ’99 world champ in a reunion of sorts. Y’see before it was Joe and Pottz in the booth, Joe and Occ were the ones dueling mics, and their chemistry continues to sizzle. From this interaction it could be inferred that Turpel would prefer the fun-loving and unpredictable approach of Occy to the bullish and hard-nosed Potter.

This program covers a myriad of Turpel-related topics, from his origins in professional commentating (2007, women’s ASP), the most memorable call of his career as a commentator (somehow NOT the Mick shark encounter), and his infatuation with music (punk-turned acoustic, but even he gets stage fright!).

So, do you like Joey T? His voice is a little high and he’s the commentary equivalent of The Inertia but, is he also not lovable in his own little way? Every great analyst team has softball character to smooth over any internal squabbles, and Joe fills that role with gusto.

Think about this: have you ever heard Turpel argue with anyone? No! He continually bites the bullet for the sake of our viewing pleasure. That’s gotta be worth something.

While we’re on the topic, who should replace Ross? Is it Barton Lynch? And what do we think of the weirdly aggressive Kaipo, besides the fact that he’s weirdly aggressive?

Enjoy the Occ-Cast!