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This week on The Produce Stand, Al, Tanya, Mat and Victor begin their long-requested coverage of Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, the Canadian miniseries starring Jared Keeso as one of hockey’s most recognizable and controversial personalities.


We cover the first half of Part One, following Cherry from his stubborn, blue-collar childhood in Kingston through his years chasing an NHL career. Along the way, we meet Rose, witness Don’s brief shot with the Boston Bruins, and enter the wonderfully unhinged world of hockey legend Eddie Shore.

But this is TPS, so we’re also watching through a YEWniversal lens. The gang digs into the surprising number of connections between Cherry’s story and the characters, hockey culture and storytelling of Letterkenny and Shoresy. Is Don Cherry essentially part of Shoresy’s origin story? And did Keeso borrow more from this production than we realized?

We also discuss Keeso’s uncanny performance, the fantastic period production design, the origins of Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Hockey, old-school hockey insanity, and how Cherry went from struggling journeyman to captain of the Rochester Americans.


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