The Cake Eaters - 10. Game Changers Episode 10: State of Play

Episode Date: August 3, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss the best team names, bonehead celebrations, parenting grades, the ambiance of PF Chang's, Space Jam 2, unsanctioned street fights, and then break down the rest of Episode 10 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+.   Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod)   Email us at [e-mail]

Remember, it's not worth winning if you can't win! Here we go, Heath. Season finale, episode 10. I'm pumped. I'm ready to rock. I've got my junior Goodwill Games Team USA versus Team Iceland t-shirt on. I am ready for this. I am also feeling the heat, Brandon.

I love it. Nine episodes down. We're on the 10th. I have the original Wayne Blue Ducks t-shirt on. We were quacking, and I'm still quacking to this day. I got it out of the system before this finale. This is what we've all been waiting for. There is states. States.

States. I love that you're wearing the Blue Ducks shirt because that brings us into the first little snapshot of the show that we get is some of

these team names that are participating in the Minnesota Youth State Championships. We have been very critical of the Don't Bothers team name because there are so many other options out there that you could have gone and literally have a list. Yes, and the other team's names are made up of literally everything else. Anything and everything under the sun.

Should we just get into these names because these are delightful. So to paint the picture, so we're at States, right? Because these are delightful. To paint the picture, we're at States. We're ready to go. The first scene of this episode is them getting off the bus and they're walking up. They go into the Minnesota Igloo, which is the rink that the States are at. Right when you walk in, there's the board

that has the bracket. That's a fancy bracket. The magnetic team name. The magnetic team so so they the magnet thing team names throw me threw me off because they show the same don't bother thing moving from round around so they only had one don't bother magnet whereas if you look at the ducks the ducks name is in each round so they had multiple ducks magnets so i think they were not entirely anticipating the don't bother is winning the first game so they had multiple ducks magnets. So I think they were not entirely anticipating the Don't Bothers winning the first game, so they were like, let's only get one

magnet. We're not going to waste our money. We're not going to bother with these kits. Exactly. But I did love because, yeah, it's a huge fancy magnetic little bracket that shows everything. And underneath the championship

game, big letters presented by target i saw that too wonderful ad placement again we're all about the ad placement here and you know target the target center was the original name of the arena where the minnesota timberwolves play i saw bon jovi there when i was in high school yeah i think target dolls open it was a great concert great google dolls Dolls opening for Bon Jovi. Top of the line. The Minnesota Twins, the baseball team,

they play at Target Field. Target Minneapolis Company. Maybe St. Paul Company. Twin Cities Company. That's a safer bet. One of the two. I don't want to offend any of, Twin Cities company. Yeah, that's a safer bet. One of the two. I don't want to offend any of our Twin Cities people.

They're kind of the same city, but they're definitely not the same city. So they walk in, you see the whole bracket, and while this is going, you have MJ with the wraparound podcast. She's setting the scene. She's talking about we have 32 teams here for States. It's a big tournament. Yeah, the Ducks are the favorites. So 32, and they mentioned multiple times in the previous episodes,

you get two teams per – do they call it districts or leagues? Two teams per league. Yeah. So 16 leagues total throughout the state of Minnesota. Numbers check out. 32 is a nice round number for a bracket. I was hoping they were going to go like basketball style where it was like, you know, they have 17 teams in the tournament

and then you got to figure out, you know, how many buys does that work out to? Do we have a loser's bracket? Is there any of that? But no, just a straight 32-team single elimination bracket. If they would have gotten basketball bracket,

this whole show would have gone so wildly rogue. Could you imagine Nick doing psych outs before a slap shot challenge or something. He's not going to be mean though. He wouldn't be able to pull it off. That would have been his psych out. He would have killed him with kindness.

He just would have FaceTimed his mom and been like, listen to my mom's encourage you to take this shot. Or he calls their mom and their mom's like, you know what? Our kid's an asshole. We're supportive of you. Psychological warfare.

You're our new son, Nick. So let's get into some of these team names. This was my favorite part of the episode. I spent probably a good 30 to 45 minutes freeze-framing this bracket and trying to figure out all of the team names so to start off so now unfortunately it only showed the left side of the bracket the don't bother's left side of the bracket clearly to where you can make out the names so we have we know 16 17 plus the ducks and then it showed the ducks opponents so 18 19 20 so we know 20 for sure we know 20 of

the 32 team names and boy are they amazing just just amazing well because and we can start with like it zooms in on who the ducks play first the maroon marauders i love the alliteration not only the alliteration but maroon marauders rhymes with don't bothers. Yeah. And hearing Mary J, like, just the acting chops on that girl to be able to pull off the line, the don't bothers are playing the Maroon Marauders without, like, messing up. Getting tongue-tied. Getting tongue-tied or just straight-up fucking laughing. Like, great acting. Great job, MJ.

Great job. I loved it. That was a great team name. And I didn't necessarily. straight up fucking laughing like great great acting good great job mj great job i loved that that was a great team name and i can't i i didn't necessarily not only did they uh i i didn't have them in order not a solid order but not only did the marauders have a fantastic name they also so that's the first game the the jump ball is playing they show that a little bit later the uniforms that the maroon marauders are wearing i I don't know how familiar you are with hockey uniforms, Heath. I am very familiar. One of my passions is hockey uniforms. Okay.

And so they are wearing a – it's not an exact replica, but it's a nod to like the mid-2000s Vancouver Canucks alternate jersey where it's a navy base that gradient fades into maroon, which it's a very interesting jersey to nod to or model one of the teams after, especially because that by far is one of the better uniforms in this. The Don't Bothers uniforms are fairly good. They're just modeled after old Bossa Bruins

uniforms. The Ducks uniforms I think are great updates of the older ones. The other teams they show that the Don't Bothers and the Ducks play have some terrible trash uniforms. They're just basic.

I appreciated the Maroon Marauders uniforms because it was actually it looked like a hockey uniform you know yeah but uh but so you have the maroon marauders underneath that so you have maroon marauders uh don't bothers above that on the same little uh bracket prong i guess what you call it was the caribou uh who they the don't bothers they play next and they the caribou were playing the storming bears that was one of my favorite names the storming bears and once again just shows that the don't bothers could have gone anywhere with yes i and i do i did i did find it interesting that it was storming bears the full

word right storming it going all the way through ending with ing whereas i feel like most sports names storming yeah you would have tried to be in extreme and you would have taken the g off and put an apostrophe storming but they didn't they kept the g showed a little restraint so you had that and then under underneath that underneath those four was the marmots great name too i like the marmots marmots and they were playing the blue polars which had like a polar bear as their logo yeah and then lumberjacks you had lumberjacks They were playing the flying Cougars. I love, listen to fly.

Once again, the flying Cougars, Cougars. I don't think of anything that can fly less than a Cougar. It just, they, they just went, have you ever seen a Cougar?

Like, like jump, like pounce, like jump and pounce on a prey. You know, do the pouncing Cougars not the flight like do you think they're do you think their logo was a cougar with wings because that's what i kept imagining it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't with wings they show with all these team names you get like

a small um glimpse of the logo you don't get the full logo because like the bracket thing is like cutting off some of it but it was a cougar in pouncing formation so you had like the claws coming forward like it was jumping at you they were flying towards their prey exactly um so lumberjacks flying cougars beneath that you had uh what my one of my favorites which was the nova stars yeah the nova stars like that is an excellent one complete with ice otters yeah that would be adorable like an adorable little otter logo not necessarily intimidating but i was like i was picturing water on that i was picturing like uh the game of thrones like the the night walkers but like just an otter instead of a oh so you were going a little more into it. I was thinking of how otters, when they sleep,

they sleep on their back and they hold hands so they don't float away from each other. That's what I think of when I think of otters. Well, I mean, if they're on ice, they don't need to do that. Yeah, but I just think they would go nicely ice skating together. Maybe. I was thinking like Death Nightwalker otters. So they play the Nova Stars. And then underneath that you have, these are two great ones too.

You have the Arctic Devils. Excellent. Because that's contradictory just in itself and the name. Yes. It's like if the devil got iced down exactly they are they're iced devils and i love so it's a it's a very tried and true minor league uh not just hockey especially in hockey but in in minor league sports around the country and or even college sports as well it's a tried and true method to just tack on a fucking adjective to

something to a noun and call that your team nickname like the blue devils the arctic devils the you know and so and especially in hockey red storm the red storm in hockey you get a lot of ice stuff like ice otters ice tigers stuff like that um but so you had the arctic devils and then they were playing the river vikings yes yes which is fantastic and so then so that's uh the bottom half of that so if you go up uh towards like pat go back up the bracket past the don't bothers above the caribou team was you had renegades which is the the third the third team that the Don't Bothers play. Renegades, and they were playing the Ice Broncos. Excellent name there. And then above that, you had...

Now, these two names make no fucking sense to me, but I love both of them. At the top of this bracket, you had the Blade Rockets. Now, what do you think a blade rocket is, Heath? Because I'm picturing a rocket ship just with razor blades attached all to it. So, go the other way

around. Think of an ice skate with booster rockets attached to it. Blade rockets. Wouldn't that be like rocket blades, though? But they're blade rockets. Like't that be like the rocket blades, though? But they're blade rockets. Like, what's on your blades? Rockets. They're blade rockets that I put on there.

But I... I was going... The second word usually is the noun, though. Like, the thing you were talking about. So, like, the first word's usually the adjective. So I was assuming it was, like, a rocket that either had a bunch of razor blades or like one giant razor blade going down the the side that's what i was thinking i mean i don't

know what the purpose of a rocket with a razor blade attached to the side is but that's terrifying defense it's defense is what it is have Have you ever seen Star Wars, Heath? That razor would come in handy. Wow. Like, I feel like that's an American missile right there, like a blade rocket. We're just going to cut fools up. Yeah.

Or, yeah, yeah. Now we're talking. So if you have a rocket missile that you shoot, and whenever it hits something, it explodes, and then inside of that is a bunch of razor blades that just go shooting out it's like buckshot now it's all the hunters out there it's like buckshot exactly see that now i'm on board now i love the name it's it's not and then so then the blade rockets are playing the steel runners that makes no sense I was trying to think

because it's steel as in like steel like the the component like steelers like the Pittsburgh Steelers it's not they're not stealing anything it's S-T-E-E-L

they're making steel and then they're running with it they're creating the steel then they're running with it. Yeah. They're creating the steel, then they're running to production to build whatever they need, whether it's like a trailer, maybe a tank, who knows? See, I wonder if Steel Runners is like a job title. You know, like the Green Bay Packers were named after meat packers. I wonder if at a steel mill, you have the runner, the steel runner. Like a steel runner takes it from the poor to the cool down. Exactly, yeah.

That's the only thing I can think of. That's what they were going for. But long story short, there were some amazing team names here. So many options. We got more. We got more. I stopped my list after this. My ADHD kicked in. I couldn't handle it anymore. So that was

the left side of the bracket, the one that the No Bothers were on. So that was the 16 teams. It shows glimpses of the teams that the Ducks play on the other side of the bracket. So you have the Ducks' first round matchup is against the Fireblades. Not to be confused with Blade Rock matchup is against the Fire Blades. Not to be confused with Blade Rockets.

These are the Fire Blades. And so this one, the logo was a skate with fire coming out the back. Okay, so they have that same logo. It didn't get close enough to see the Blade Rockets logo, so I couldn't tell what that was. Okay. But this one was for sure a hockey skate with fire coming out the end. And then the second

round matchup for the Ducks is the Mustangs, which is very traditional. Very restraint compared to everybody else. And then the semifinal matchup that the Ducks played, they played the

Black Pumas. So that was all they showed for the left side of the bracket. But then throughout the episode, there's scenes of the arena. And in the rafters, they have little banners of each of the team's logos. And so you see there's a couple more logos that are that you can see that we didn't get in the bracket there was a scorpion logo uh so maybe i'm assuming scorpions is their name there was a a knight logo and it was like red and black so i'm assuming maybe like black knights red knights scarlet knights like rutger or something like that yeah then there was a frog logo oh the fighting frogs i like that yeah then there was a beaver uh and he looked like he was

like carrying like maybe an axe or something like some sort of uh weapon um i didn't see the full thing so i it was just like i the only thing i could make out was the beaver head and then him holding something so maybe it's a woodchuck maybe Maybe. Or maybe he was holding a hockey stick, doing a slap shot. Something like that. And then another one was an owl. You saw an owl head and then wings. And that one was silver and yellow, I think.

And then the last one that you kind of see, which ties back to episode nine, because Episode 9 we had our boy Xander, who was Maya's love interest. He was wearing a jacket that said Viper Freeze. Yeah, and we were hoping it was an energy drink sponsorship. Sounds like it was just a team logo. So I was hoping it was going to be a team name i was hoping it was going to be a team name because that's just the dump that's that's almost as bad as don't bother it's viper freeze um but i was thinking it was either a team name or maybe he maybe you know he it was like a

weird energy drink that you know xander's so good at hockey he got sponsored by but with it so the last logo that you can kind of make out is a snake head. I'm thinking that's got to be the Viper Freeze. They're there. I really hope that's a team name. I know we're never going to get any confirmation unless maybe we can get the writers on here or something

just to confirm that that team's name is in fact Viper Freeze because these names are just... They're trying too hard. Could you imagine being a well-respected Disney writer and then coming on this podcast and getting grilled about the random team names? That would be awesome.

So what I was thinking throughout this whole process is because they have, they have logos for every single one of these names and more, I'm assuming for the other half of that bracket that we haven't seen, they have logos, professionally done logos. And it looks like with the style that they're all in, I guarantee you it was all done by one like graphic designer or graphic

design team. Cause there is very similar design styles. Looked like it was all done by the same person i would love to talk to that person we need to figure out who designed those logos and be like so they came to you with these list of names what the fuck were you thinking like how do you how do you how do you make a logo for a team called Blade Rockets? What is your storming bear? How do you make a bear storm? Is it like coming at you in a tornado?

I don't know. Well, so for that one, you got a good look at the storming bears logo. It was just a bear's head, and then it had the name storming, like storming bears written above the bear head. So it wasn't like a bear in a tornado, though. That would have been fucking sick though. That's my homework. I'm giving myself that

homework is to figure out who they hired to design those logos and I want to talk to that person. The other thing that I thought about the banners is the price and the cost of putting together 32 banners for a state tournament. That's a that's a pretty pricey

endeavor yeah but it's i mean it's minnesota it's hockey they got good partnership they got a lot of surplus they got they got they wrote they wrote that in the budget for sure and they're think of all the the money they're making from the gift shop you know nick nick single-handedly paid for these banners he he had a Benjamin in his hand, and he got everything that gift shop had to offer and a little bit more. Yeah. They had a ton, too. They had the hat.

They had the T-shirt. I saw a mug. I saw a glass. I saw pens and pencils. I saw, I think, erasers. They had everything, everything you could imagine. Everything you would want. Yeah.

But anyways, after the names, are we done with the names? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's enough of the names. But so then they, after they're looking at the bracket, then they walk in to look at the rink. And so they're at the top of the – They bask in the trophy too. They bask in the trophy's glow.

They see how big it is. Then they walk in the rink and the banner's showing. So I loved this line because they go in there and they're like amazed in the rink and the banner so i i loved i loved this line because they they go in there and they're like amazed because the rink's huge it's like a it's like a it's it's a minor league hockey arena is what it looked like so it's it's it's seating you know 10 000 8 000 people something like that probably more like four to five i don't know it looked pretty big and it has like an 8 000 person arena? Like a smaller 8,000-person arena? I would guess... Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it,

definitely more than four. I'd say seven and a half. Okay. Because they had the upper deck level, so I would say seven and a half. So they're basking in how big it is. Do you remember what Lauren says? She says, like, holy... She says, holy

banoodles. Banoodles, that's what it is. And it's not her. It's MJ. Do you remember what Lauren says? She says, holy... She says, holy banoodles. Banoodles, that's what it is. And it's not her. It's MJ, because then Nick looks at her and he goes... Oh, it was MJ? I thought it was Lauren, my bad. It was MJ, because Nick looks at her and he's like, ah, my love, you have such a way with words.

I was going to say, holy cow, that's big. But you said holy banoodles. No, I'm pretty sure it's Lauren that says holy banoodles, because the you have a way with words line is not till not till later no this is it no i guarantee you i guarantee you the you have a way with words line is not till later i would bet my life on it heath holy holy but noodles mj you heard it here first folks i'm gonna pull up i'm gonna pull this up right now i'm guarantee you it's it's it's's – I don't know if it's Lauren for sure, but I know the you have a way with words line is not until later on in the episode.

I know that for a fact. Because why would MJ be walking with the team? That doesn't make any sense. She walks in with the team and Nick. First of all, the podcast already – Oh, shit. No, you're right. It is Lauren, Holy Banoodles. Dang it. See, the podcast already has a bias problem with Nick being on the Dope Ballers. We're going to throw MJ canoodling with them as well.

Yeah, that's true. That's true. Lauren, Holy Banoodles. Nick says, oh, you have such a way with words. Holy Banoodles. I was just going to say, wow, that's good. He doesn't say you have a way with words, Heath. Are you sure? That's how I know you're lying. The way with words he does say to MJ, but it's not until. He doesn't say you have a way with words, Heath. That's how I know you're lying. The way with words, he does say to MJ, but it's not until later on in the episode.

Damn it. Sorry, Brandon. I didn't mean to get you all fired up there. I got my episode mixed up. It was more... I'm more still fired up about these team names. Like with most things in life, it was about something else, Heath.

It's never your fault initially, but so holy noodles there, they're freaking out. So are you tired? So then, then Bombay says, don't worry guys. An ice rink is an ice rink.

80. I forget exactly what it is, but like 80 feet wide, 200 feet long, something like that. 85 feet wide, something like that. And Logan goes,

why does it look so much bigger than our rink? And's when bombay goes oh well it is bigger than the ice palace by about 20 feet so you just need to let that go but what so so the ice palace is does not have a regulation ice ice hockey rink no so what how why are we allowed to play in that? How did that not come up? Do you think that that's part of the state inspection that was failed? That they didn't qualify to be considered competitive? I don't think that's – I think the inspection was like structural damage. I don't think they cared about how big the rink was. My favorite is how quickly Bombay tells Logan to just move on.

Like, yeah, you know what? Just don't worry about that. Move on. But I just, I would love, why, I just, how do you get away with a non-regulation rink? That's probably why they started winning games is because everybody was like, this rink's too fucking small. I can't, nobody can skate on this except for the Don't Bothers. They know all the special tips and tricks to this rink's too fucking small i can't nobody could skate on this except for the don't bothers they know uh they know all the the special tips and tricks to this rink like the dead

spots in a basketball floor exactly dribble that if you're the home team you know not to dribble there exactly yeah but so that fucking drove that threw me for a loop i was like why are we allowing this team to play on a non-regulation rink. It literally goes from that to the most action-packed two minutes of a television show. This episode goes fast. It goes real fast.

It goes through all three rounds? I think it goes through the first two rounds before the intro hits. I was absolutely confused just the first the thing goes through the first two rounds yes before the intro hits before it blew i was absolutely confused at what minute mark i was at when that intro hit after this montage i was like holy crap we're only at the three minute mark and we're already on like we're already almost to the semis yep because we get the the maroon remote the maroon marauders that is

such a fucking tongue twister. That's a mouthful. We get that game and then the Caribou game. Yeah, and Sophie hits the game winner against the Maroon Marauders. We see that. And then the second game, we see something we haven't seen yet, which is winning with shut down defense.

Maya and Lauren are shutting them down. I loved that sequence because you have MJ giving the play-by-play and she's like, yeah, they're shutting it down with, or they're winning this game with shutdown defense. And then the clips that they just showed

of Lauren and Maya were clips of them doing nothing. Yeah, they were just everyone, all the clips of the kids skating were them just like skating by themselves in a rink yeah and then i think it's i think it after she says shut down defense i think it does show a clip of like kube making a save yeah he's a glove save for the win he does a glove save and i don't bother to win because then it goes to the third game right away which is the renegades yes and it highlights the different approach where she's like you know

the ducks are still winning with their traditional way that don't bothers are winning with fun yes exactly and and they're mixed with these these first two games and the first three games it's showing crowd reactions of the parents right yeah so this is when we get more glimpse of i think we talked about it last episode of the team merch yeah Yeah, we see some more team merch. We see t-shirts, we see hats. Yep, more hashtag putting fun for shirts, hats. Yeah, so we're fully in the merch game now with these Don't Bothers. Yep, I saw Nick's parents and Lauren's mom all had the stocking hats on. Still, though, Sophie's parents not rocking any of the merch.

No, but they're swinging the t-shirts like they're terrible towels for the steel for the pittsburgh steelers okay i'll let it slide then i guess but again but again they're they're they're just cheering for sophie they're not cheering for the don't bothers yeah they don't care about the rest of the they're like coach t they don't care about the rest of the riffraff they're just they just care that sophie's carrying them to the title uh i also they showed sam with like some really nice oh yeah he had two goals right yeah so the next goal the renegades one goal the one of the previous games in the lumberjacks he goes he gets one of the lumberjacks uh which is coming up but in the reneg, he pinballs off of two people, falls down, and then sticks it in.

I think that's the go-ahead goal there for that game. Wait, so... And then they do an NFL-style celebration, and Sam's laying on the ground, and someone grabs him with his stick and spins him in a circle. Oh, yeah. And then that's... And then I think that's where... Is that where they cut to the game against the Lumberjacks or something? I don't know.

So the games go, they play the Maroon Marauders first. They play the Caribou. Caribou's the shutdown defense. And then Renegades. Renegades. And then Lumberjacks. Yep. But they're celebrating with Sam by spinning him in circles Then Renegades. Renegades and then Lumberjacks. Yep. Yep. But they're celebrating with Sam by spinning him in circles with their stick.

I love that. And then once again, I think they have another last-minute goal to win against the Renegades. Like it's the last second. Yeah, it's Evan's slap shot. Yep. Yep. And then it cuts.

So they beat the Renegades. Then it cuts to like – And then, and then it cuts. So, so they, they beat the renegades. So we're, then it cuts to like, and then it's the intro and then it's the intro. And you're like, Holy shit. They just played three games before the intro. Um,

and then it's the parents and then it's Sophie's parents telling her like, Oh my God, this is going to look so good on a college essay and taking the underdog to the championship. So a lot of pressure, a lot of pressure. And then she kind of limps away. Her knees still bothering her.

And like they mentioned in the, that that's going to be a thing for sure. Like they mentioned in the preview after last episode, the preview for this episode, they mentioned her knee. So that's going to come back. And then they're kind of hanging out. They mentioned Coop's parents.

They feel sorry. Like that was kind of like a sad day. Like they're just like, geez, feel sorry for Coop. His parents never come. You feel for Coop a little bit here. You feel for Coop.

It was just weird that they would throw that in then. Because there's, there's when the hockey mom episode, we don't see Coop's mom. And there's zero mention of it at all. You think that would be the time where they would bring up like, you know... Oh, Coob's parents just aren't participating. Coob's parents never

they would bring something up, and then this episode you get another mention, and then Alex does something like, yeah, I've reached out to them like five times. Yeah, so poor Coob. Poor Coob, we feel, but then MJ walks in. Oh, oh this is you're right this is where nick because she comes in and she's like hey the ducks are in the finals uh they're

gonna play for the whole shebang you can possibly play them for the whole shebang and that's where nick i got it confused that's where nick's like oh you have such a beautiful way with words shebang yeah uh yeah so we get that and then and then Bombay's talking to them about – because they need to – so the Ducks are in the finals. We're playing the Lumberjacks. Bombay's saying – Get rested up. Yeah, get rested up because the Lumberjacks look like Lumberjacks.

They're huge. They are yoked is what he says. They are fucking gigantic. Yeah. But, yeah, so you get that. And then, yeah, he's like, rest up. Everybody rest up. And then we'll meet.

And then I think that's it, right? I don't think there's anything else. The team's just go get some rest. And then it's time to move on. Because then the next thing that happens is Bombay and Alex screaming at each other from across the rink. Because they have their pregame jitters before they play the Lumberjacks. I didn't really pay

too much attention to this because it was just the conclusion that they love each other and like, oh, I saw the Ice Palace and I just had a feeling. What made you come to me? There was not much in this episode. I do have two takeaways, though. Like you mentioned, they have their jitters. this is the night before they play the lumberjacks

um it's the middle of the night and they're in the arena which we've established is a bus ride away from the hotel how did they get in there too like yeah like within i understand with the ice palace even hendrix arena being able to get into those but like yeah this with the state tournament they're not letting people in and out of there outside of ours. So yeah, they're sitting there. They are sitting on opposite sides of the ring. They're yelling at each other. And then they finally

cut scene and they're next to each other. Two things that stuck out to me was one, they're reminiscing. They're talking about they're a little flirty and they're talking about the good old days. And Alex mentioned that, you know,

this whole thing's inspired her hockey inspires her. She's very thankful for it. She inspired her. She's going to go back to law school. And Bombay says, yeah, I think that's a great idea. You would make a great low lawyer.

It takes one to know one. And she goes, Oh, that's right. I forgot you were a lawyer which i love because that does get lost uh especially last episode when they had the whole lawyer thing and it doesn't come up at all that he could have you know he could have done all that himself yeah if he has the drive and the motivation it was just a weird fucking thing to like be like

oh yeah i forgot you were a lawyer and then the other thing is like you said he mentions so she had to find ice time for the don't bothers and he he he mentions to her he goes how did you even find the ice palace which again goes back to bombay's business iq here why would you why are you making it hard for people to find your ice palace, Bombay? Why do you not want business? A, it's an ice rink. B, she needed an ice rink. Why are you confused that she found you?

She does a really good job of explaining why. I mean, even before that, it kind of just yeah said itself like she was making up a hockey team they needed ice yeah i think i think they did it was like phrase really weird i think i think what he was trying to say is like what made you choose the ice palace yeah instead of like how how did you even know i had how did you even know the ice palace existed it's like come on bob a it's a it's an ice rink in minnesota everybody knows you're there but they were just trying to like it was destiny for them to meet she was doing horrible work for the company and then she heard the truck backing

up and it was just fate for her to find the ice palace yeah you know and then they're going my the only part of that interaction that i took from it was Bombay was like, you know, after this, I'm going to go to the winter Olympics as a Zamboni driver. Yeah. I was like, otherwise it was like,

cool. They like each other. They found each other. They helped each other grow into better people. Yep. Yep. I do love that. He's gonna,

I mean, he, that vintage Zamboni would probably be a big hit at the winter Olympics. Oh, absolutely. There'd be some real hockey fans there where they would have a deep appreciation for his Zamboni game. Yeah. And he's the, he's the fucking godfather of hockey. You know, imagine the fanfare. If he shows up at the winter Olympics,

the medicine of miracle man. Whoa. Get out the caution tape. You're going to have to hold people back. Nobody wants to see Yarmir Yager or Wayne Gretzky. We want to see Gordon Bombay. We already established this. Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe. I don't even know who those guys are.

It's Bombay all the way. Yeah. Isn't that a chant they do in the second movie, I think? It's USA all the way oh usa all the way that's what it is because we're going all the way bombay all the way works too though i like because then i think that dennis comes in and he's like you're going down bombay actually a pretty solid uh pretty solid wolf the dentist but i think that that's that's a t-shirt we need to make those bombay all the way He's actually a pretty solid Wilson dentist.

But I think that's a T-shirt we need to make, though, is Bombay all the way. Yeah, okay. Team Bombay all the way. Once we start busting out some Cake Eater merch, we'll get that. That'll be one of the first shirts we have. But then that's it for that interaction, and so we jump to the Lumberjacks game,

and they do a really good job of establishing just how much bigger the Lumberjacks are than the Don't Bothers. They look like they're 21-year-olds. Yeah, they look – because they show the one – the kid he's taking the face off with, you can see his face through the helmet. And he legit looks like a 21-year-old. And he's like eight inches tall. I'm pretty sure he has like a beard yeah and he's like his like wife is like is that his girlfriend or his wife and it's like an old lady no no no no it's not not as no it's not it's not is it his girlfriend or is it his wife he's like shouting at uh uh like a

35 year oldish lady in the stands and she's like oh i love you good luck and then evan and nick are talking to each other and i go is that his mom or his wife oh there we go is it his mom or his wife just and spoiler alert we never find out no i i assume it was his wife yeah oh yeah there was a there was a lot of sexual tension in that i love you you know that wasn't they were together forever. She was there to support him. Maybe it could have been a stepmom. We're not getting into that.

Good God. I'll probably just cut that out. The Lumberjacks come out hot and are just absolutely destroying the don't bothers. They are throwing their weight around. MJ calls out the refs. She's like, are the refs even watching this game? It's very, very reminiscent of the first Iceland game in DT

where they're legit just it's check after check after check. These little kids are getting just fucking the shit kicked out of them by the lumberjacks. And so the second period ends and little kids are getting just fucking the shit kicked out of them by the lumberjacks yeah and so the second period ends in it's two two right at the end of the second period we get the goal from sam we get the goal from sophie where she hits the knee into the board right yes i think that i think

that's the isn't that the game winner though or oh, you're right. That is the – no, no, no. The game winner is – Oh, it's Coop making the save is the end of the game. That's for the Renegades. It goes Sam, Logan gives them – or no, that's the Ducks game. I'm getting some of these games mixed up. There's a lot of games in a short amount of time. But the end of the Lumberjacks game is Coop makes the save on the goal line.

That's the end of it. Oh, yes, that's's right because it looks like it went over it looked like a goal to me i don't know maybe i just it has it has to 100 go over it's not it's not like football where you break the plane you have to like it has to cross the full line completely okay but you're right so it is two to two and then sophie's goal is the go ahead goal when she gets rammed into the, when she gets rammed into, but before that happens, they're in like the, the they're in halftime and they do some, some,

or no, that's not halftime. They're just trying to milk the clock to get into the finals. Right. Well, so, so Sophie gets that third goal and she gets, she like loses her footing and the,

the lumberjack guy pushes her into the boards and she hits her knee. And then they go defensive. They go defensive. And Bombay, so I had the subtitles on and this line caught me. I was flabbergasted by what the fuck he means by this. In the attempt to run out the clock to play defense,

to go to prevent mode, he tells Maya and Lauren to choke the clock. Choke the clock choke the clock is that is that a saying or that sounded so fucking weird to me choke the clock it it was weird but they did it they did it i just that threw me for such a fucking loop i was like what is he talking about you know what threw me for a loop was sophie going in to dive bomb and celebrate with the team on coop she has a banged up knee and she was on the doggy pile celebration at coop i was very concerned about her you gotta i mean you know you gotta celebrate the wins you never know that never know. That could be the last win she ever has.

You got to celebrate it. Got to celebrate. What's the – it happened in like the early 2000s. I think it was one of the Grammatica kickers. I think he was either on the New York Giants or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but he makes a field goal that got him into the playoffs, and then he starts jumping up and down and tears his ACL. Yes, and then he – I think he got cut. Yeah, I don't starts jumping up and down and tears his ACL. Yes. And then he,

I think he got cut. Well, yeah, I don't think he ever came back from the ACL tear. That's, that's hard to do. If you're a kicker is to come back from that. Yeah.

That was your ACL is incredibly important when kicking a football, that celebration and Heath Schuller head, butting the wall and hurting his neck. Those are, those are two are the most boneheaded celebrations ever yeah yeah so but we win the don't bothers win we're the championships in the championship it's the ducks are fighting to hold the crown and the don't bothers are fighting to belong that's how mj kind of sets it up for us.

So, yeah, so you get, MJ is doing play-by-plays for all these games throughout this, like, quick hitting fucking montage. Yeah. Because, like you said, this goes, this episode is just non-stop. It's fast action. We've already gone through three games in, what was like, what,

12 minutes, 15 minutes? Not even, yeah. And, but so you have mj doing the play-by-play with terry we don't we don't get any terry lines though which i was very upset about no but there are some fun interactions it's later when she's like oh this one's a nail biter and terry's over there biting his nails next to her there was some good stuff there like if she would say like the crowd reaction, Terry would be doing the exact same thing as the parents in the crowd. The way they have

it set up, and I think we mentioned this with some of the other episodes, where when they're showing MJ doing the play-by-play and they cut to her and it's her and Terry, and it always feels like Terry's about to say something, and then they cut

away and he doesn't say anything it was very similar with this to where they showed him a couple times and i was like oh we're gonna get a sick ass fucking terry line but they cut away so i feel like when they had him with mj they they had him up there and they were just like just feed off of mj just like improv because the dude who plays Terry, his name is Mark Chavez, is a legit improv comedian. I think he's got his own podcast and stuff and he does a lot of work with Paul F. Tompkins, who's a famous improv guy or whatever.

So he's a legit improv comedian. So I feel like that's what they did when they had him do some of these scenes where they were just like, you and MJ, let's just riff off each other. But then they cut it all out. They didn't end up putting any of it in there. I would love to see some B-reels, some deleted Terry

scenes, because I feel like there's gold in there. He had that one gem where he's like, it feels like tax season in here. Exactly, yeah. He's had some great lines. He's had two or three good lines. And so I would love to see the deleted scenes, the B-reels for Terry uh i would love to see the the deleted scenes the the b reels for for terry i would love to i would also love so he's another one i want to get i would

love to get on the podcast interview to talk with him some of these real side characters to talk about what it was like being terry the best dad ever because he's not driving his daughter around to play in these games. He is taking time out of his accounting practice to drive her to call games on a podcast. Let that sink in, everybody. Let that sink in. This kid is not playing in the sports, in any of the sports leagues. She has a podcast.

She's a 12-year-old who has a podcast about other 12-year-olds playing hockey. She does that in her free time outside of school you might have less listeners than our podcast doubt it but no no I wish we were as talented as MJ you know if only we could be the second most popular podcast in southeast Minnesota

exactly but so like I would just so she you have your kid is just like the weirdest fucking nerd and has a podcast about other 12 year olds playing ice hockey in Minnesota. And you, out of the kindness and the A plus parenting of your heart, are driving her to each and every single one of these games so that she can do play by play. And then not only are you doing that, then when her partner bails to play hockey, you hop in, you get in the booth, and you're doing the podcast with her. A plus,

Terry. A fucking plus. There's no social skills with that account. He really steps out of his comfort zone. He's stepping out of his comfort zone. He seems like he's got good social skills. He does not strike me as somebody who has great public speaking skills to where he'd be comfortable on the podcast.

There we go. And he does not strike me as somebody who cares about hockey in the slightest. No, no. He's not a sports guy. He's not a sports guy. He might be a numbers guy, though. Yeah. But so he's hopping in and doing something that he does not want to do with his kid and talking about something he has no knowledge of.

But he's crushing it. So back to Brandon's parenting corner, 10 episodes deep, I think that the conclusion is that all the parents out there, if you are looking for someone to emulate in your parenting style, be Terry. So I would go – Here's how I'd rank the parents throughout this show so far. You got 1A and B. I'll call it 1A and 1B.

1A and 1B is Nick's mom. 2, Terry. For sure. And then everybody else gets Fs. I feel like Lauren's mom could be like a three. That's true.

Lauren and Maya's mom both seem solid. That'll be three. 3A and 3B, Lauren and Maya's moms. And you only have to do a top three. That's fine. I'll give Alex, Lauren Graham, I'll give her a D+.

I'll give her a D+. I'll give her a D+, I'll give everybody else a D-, and then Logan's dad gets an F. Logan's dad just didn't do very well. But you know what? Logan is stronger for it, so that's okay. But I'm glad

that you were able to set the rankings of the top parents of the show. And hopefully we can get Terry as well as Nick's moms, not only on this podcast, but on Parenting with Brandon as well. There we go. Like a dual podcast book. Yeah, crossover. And so like the crazy thing, once again, like this episode moves so fast because as soon as that game's over, they're right into Coach T and Bombay.

This is kind of a funny interaction where they're doing the pregame Coach glare. It's basically just a staring contest between Coach T and Bombay where Alex is like, why is he staring at us like he wants to slash our tires? And they're cutting back and forth between the staring contest and the kids in the locker room. Because in the locker room, Nick has another gem where he's like, listen, I don't want to jinx it, but can I call first custody of the trophy for the summer? Last year at sleepover camp i cried a lot and i'm

looking to rebrand this year fantastic and i love how he he asked if he could get custody of it as if it's the stanley cup to where they like give you a week with it or whatever i don't think the the minnesota youth hockey association is giving you giving a 12 year old custody of their trophy for a week. Exactly. Well, cause like they, they wink at that a couple of times cause like Bombay is like, yeah, you can't even drink out of the trophy. Yeah. Yeah. I love that line. Yeah. They nodded to it a couple of times. I thought that was great. It's like, I need to rebrand.

I cried a lot at sleepover camp, sleepaway camp last year. And then Evan's like, okay, okay vote on it i don't care because he's like where in the hell is sophie why is she not in the locker room with us he turns around her knee looks rough like they did a good job with like showing the crazy bruising that you would get with like a full speed collision into the boards and evan does the right thing he's like whoa you can't play on that like that looks terrible that's disgusting that's a rough looking meat yeah yeah and then so sophie like begs him not to tell anybody she's like she's like i can get through the game we're fine don't don't and then

fucking evan two-faced evan turns around fucking dimes her out yeah mom bombay jumps in we need we need i need you to talk to to sophie he breaks up the staring contest i don't know if you saw that oh yeah he kind of like gives a little uh fist pump and he's like yeah beat bombay he like calls bombay away and bombay is like, God damn it, I was winning. And so they call out Sophie. And it's a great lesson to the parents because Sophie is feeling so much pressure from her parents. This threw me off, okay, because the way they set up Sophie's parents to be, you know, it's not worth winning if you can't win big style yeah and then even they know her knee has been hurting since the beginning of the season they know that it's been brought up it's in their

intention they know what's going on because they ask her about it multiple times like is your knee okay is your knee okay yeah but still within that thing they're like win win win win win but then now all of a sudden it's like they they do a complete 180 and they're like no you can't play and it's like this is it it was such such a turn so quick they it threw me off and it just reinforced their their d minus parenting grade well the reason they changed the tune is because of two words permanent damage i think that when they heard the doctor saying there was potential for permanent damage that's when it scared them if they didn't think there was possibility for permanent damage when she's been limping for

fucking three months then that's that's on that's on them for not understanding what's going on beforehand yeah but the the fall is what took a slight sprain to the next level i mean i don't know if it's a slight i don't know if it was a slight i don't know if it was a slight she was limping for like three fucking months well that's true but like you used to when i was playing basketball like i'd roll my ankles constantly like i had to get yeah but it was but it was but you would you would roll your ankle you would limp for three days or two days or whatever you would stop and then you go play the next game not having limped for a day or two you'd roll it again and then you do the but the key there is you stopped limping and it's a new sprained ankle this she had been limping

from the same knee for like three months however however long the fucking season is. Maybe longer. Who knows? I'm not trying to defend Sophie. I'm trying to defend Sophie's parents a little bit just because they wanted to honor their daughter and let her play. But you're right. They should have been a little bit

more aware of this. They wanted to honor her and let her play. They were begging her to play. They told her her Harvard admissions depends upon it. Depends upon this story. But let that be a lesson out there. She was going to hurt herself to please her parents because they put so much pressure on her. Yes.

And that's the thing that I think drives me crazy. And I'm good that she kept that kind of mentality going because I think that that kind of pressure pressure you can't unlearn yeah on the like the turn of a dime you know like like her parents they switched they switched attitudes real quick but that pressure is still in sophie and it's going to be in sophie till she's probably dead yeah because she saw what happened with her brother and what they did with him. And if she doesn't live up to that expectation, you know, and that's where, you know, we get, that's a whole different podcast, but poor Sophie, that's a, that's a lot of pressure,

but Sophie's frustrated and she's sick of it. Like she doesn't want to be responsible for the team not being able to play because all of a sudden their right roster is a burden and they only have 10 players the minimum amount of people to play Sophie's like I still need to play I don't want to let anybody down but everybody else

Evan is like you cannot fucking play her parents do a 180 and they're like you shouldn't play if you can risk permanent damage and then Bombay is the same way he's like coming from somebody who's had multiple knee surgeries don't do this it's not worth it and then your age yeah and Alex the same way

she's like you don't we do you don't need to fucking play we don't want you to play but so then then that's when you find out so they have 10 players and apparently for this fucking stupid NCAA sponsored another rule you out of the hat, you have to have 10 players.

And I'm assuming, so they don't really explain this all that much. So you have to have 10 players dressed for the game, 10 active players. I'm assuming, based on the way this whole thing's going down, all 10 have to play. Yes, that is what I assume, because otherwise you could have just hid Sophie on the way this whole thing's going down, all 10 have to play. Yes. That is what I assume because otherwise you could have just hid Sophie on the bench. But since, since they alluded that she would have like had to play and she couldn't

just like fall it. I think that that's part of part of now. So I go with me though on this, right? Okay. This is what you do. If Sophie's up to it, but she probably would be up to it. Cause she's a, she's too hardheaded, but what you do. If Sophie's up to it, but she probably wouldn't be up to it

because she's too hard-headed. But what you do, you put her out for the first face-off. You put her on one of the winger positions that's right next to the bench. Take the face-off, and Sophie immediately changed. Boom.

She played for one second, and then you just go on with the rest of the game. And then you can do that at the start of each period. I don't know if they'd be that stickler to where she would have to play each individual period. Well, that's what I thought. Like, you could have just somehow hit her. But what happens is Sophie kind of is like, nope, I'm going to play.

They go, and she's like, hey, players only need it. And she shuts out Alex and Bombay. And Alex is like, oh, I think I did that to play. They go. And she's like, Hey, players only need it. And she shuts out Lauren or Alex in Bombay. And I was just like, Oh, I think I did that. Sorry. Oh yeah. I think I taught her that. Yeah. I think I taught her that. And so now she's, she, Alex, did you do that? Sophie's a big letter Kenny fan. She knows all about the play play rolling. Of course. Bardownskis. Yeah.

And so she comes in and her and evan are arguing back and forth and then finally evan turns and he's like all right guys so here's the deal and everyone's like yeah dude we just heard you argue we are not idiots it's context clues yeah so his knee is f isn't that well because nick is like oh yeah we know what's going on and i think it's lauren that says yeah a lot of context clues. Yeah. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put these two pieces together. But then Sophie's like, no, I'm not going to be the one responsible. And so Evan.

I get that. I get that. I've been in that situation before. You don't want to be the. You never want to be the person that causes your team to lose. But you know what? I realized that this episode, Evan's a lot like Stan in South park where he always is the one that like

delivers the message, you know, at the end, he's like, Hey, you know what, Sophie, if you're not, if you don't want to be the cause I will. And so they have another Rudy moment too, where Evan picks up his stick and then he drops it down. I thought that was annoying. I thought it was annoying because they were definitely going for a rudy moment but it doesn't land i don't think because so the rudy moment is very symbolic very famous if if nobody understands what the rudy moment it is look up

the uh the great movie rudy it's about a walk-on player at Notre Dame University. There's a scene where they're going to cut Rudy, right? The new coach is going to cut Rudy and so all the team goes to his office. They go to his office and they hand the coach their jersey, which is a very

symbolic thing because that's what you do when you leave a team is you hand in your jersey. I did not care for this Rudy moment in the Mighty Ducks because all they do is they drop their stick, which, I mean, you could just pick it back up. Yeah. They also did a similar version of this when they all got mad at Evan and they all took turns skating away from him saying they were mad at him yeah that's true so so this is the second time they've tried to pull something like this but yeah then sam comes up and he's like no i'm not doing it either you know and so and then the the check

kids get up and don't say anything and just drop their stick or something like that right yeah yeah and so those the check kids they do this they do have a line later on though which is i mean finally yes i i loved i wrote that down too but they for me i was kind of like caught on my heels because like they brought it in for the hug and then all of a sudden they're presenting the trophy to the ducks and it's like that's it this is This is over. States is over. All this buildup, all this hype, and it ends like that. That's just – that's tough. That was a tough ending for the state championship tournament. I do love that they're all sitting there watching the ceremony,

the trophy ceremony. And Nick comments because the Ducks already have championship hats. Yeah. He's like, how did they already have those? No surprise there. And so Coach T is given the number one. Stephanie's down there. They're posing with the trophy.

And then they're all leaving. And Coach T comes in with the worst burn ever. Like, oh, hey, do you guys happen to know an engraver? Why would you win anything? Which is a fair point, though, because even the participation trophies that Alex gave out before the first game were not engraved at all. He commented on this. They have no idea what these trophies are for.

No, no idea. And it's because she doesn't know a good engraver. I think about this scene before we dive into the meat of the scene. One thing I thought was super fucking weird was so they're at States, right? Yeah. And we've established that states had the banners for all the team logos right you have the bracket all the teams but when they're in the locker room and they're they're cleaning out all their stuff and they're walking away from the

locker room you see in the background banners for the teams but only the teams from the ducks and the don't bothers leagues there There's a Hawk banner. Hey, and there's a Cardinals banner. There's a bears banner. I think there's a Huskies banner. It's all the teams and logos from their own specific league. Oh,

I didn't see that. I didn't notice that. Didn't make any fucking sense to me. Why those would be at States when those teams are not at States. I don't know. It's just, it was a weird thing that, that threw me off anyway,

back to the seat, back to the scene, coach t with the engraver burner my favorite is he's like i'm sorry this trophy and 200 pf chang's gift card says a different story so i i would love to know if everybody got a 200 pf chang's gift card or if just the coach did. That is – so I thought the same thing. Is this a – because like it can't be for the team because $200 is not going to be even close to enough to feed a team at PF Changs. Depending on your drink situation, you could maybe feed three people with $200. No, it's not that bad. They sometimes have like a nice dinner for two type of situation at PF Chang's.

I love PF Chang's, by the way. It is a little overpriced, though. It's very overpriced. Just go to Panda Express. And the food court? Some food court at Panda Express? Or they have drive-thrus now. Did you know that?

Oh, wow. Yeah. But like the ambiance of P.F. Chang's. We won't get too caught up on P.F. Chang's. The ambiance of P.F. Chang's. What a... This is the dumbest sentence I've ever heard. Get the lettuce wraps.

It's like... I will say the lettuce wraps are fucking fire. Yeah, see? But you can't say the ambiance of P.F. Chang's. It's the most watered-down white person nonsense I've ever fucking seen. Okay. Have you chang's it's like it's the most watered down white person nonsense i've ever fucking seen okay have you ever it's like olive garden that's like saying red lobster pf chang's like olive garden one of the greatest italian restaurants in america olive garden is fantastic the the breadsticks and salad oh yeah it's fantastic i don't think they do it anymore

but they're like buy one take one deal was a steal Cheddar bay biscuits at Red Lobster That's how you knew you were But again you're not talking You're not talking about the ambiance The ambiance at all of those restaurants is garbage It's amazing No it's

Let's move on let's go Anyways And then Bombay starts giving them the business about so i compare this for any nba fans out there i compare this to the 1999 spurs when they won the nba championship in the lockout shortened season after mj michael jordan retired where the Spurs played the Knicks in a rock fight, like 71 to 68 NBA finals. And it was a disaster, terrible ratings, all that kind of stuff. And so that is an asterisk championship for the NBA. I thought you were going to talk the last championship,

the Mickey Mouse tournament for LeBron's champion for LeBron and the Lakers championship. Listen, I am not going to be the person that tells LeBron that championship isn't real. Him and his media crew, just like Disney, can personally take us down. That's true. This is a Disney sponsoring the vaccine situation all over here yeah i'm here for it though lebron and his mickey mouse championships you know if you don't like this lebron lebron if you don't like it come on the pod and defend yourself that's a challenge yeah

i don't want to say it but i'm not looking forward to Space Jam. I'm nervous for Space Jam 2. It's not even going to come close to living up to the first one. I was... Speaking of LeBron. I was nervously optimistic about it when I first heard it. I was like, okay, this could be good. It could be okay. And then I saw the trailer for it, and I was like, there's no possible way this is going to be good at all.

Because it is completely devoid of any and all charm. Yeah. Especially with like – so the beauty about, I think, the original Space Jam – and granted, I will say it's a very flawed premise. It's a flawed movie, but it's like The Mighty Ducks. It's not it's it's but it's you know it's like the muddy ducks like it's not it's not a good movie but i love it it's fantastic it's it's nostalgic for me but the beauty of the original space jam is its simplicity simplicity you go in there the only thing you need to know about that entire movie is bugs bunny michael jordan basketball that's

what's going on that's what you need to focus on. I watched the trailer for this new one and they're like the bad guys are like all these weird CGI pop culture references. There's just so much pop culture references that they

jam into that trailer. There's like a Game of Thrones logo. There's fucking there's just so much like popones logo there's fucking um there's just so much like pop culture stuff to where like if you were to take a eight-year-old kid to this space jam movie he would have no idea what's going on he doesn't know what game of thrones is he has no idea like all of these pop culture references you're throwing in this are only gonna land with old people that only that like

religiously watch and pay attention to pop culture yeah you're you're gonna you're not going to catch any of these kids with this like the original did because it was legitimately just cartoons and michael jordan which every fucking eight-year-old knew yeah so you're all in this there's just gonna there's two there's too much stuff in this new space jam is no way it's going to be good. There's no fucking way. And don't you for the best, expect the worst.

And it's, and it's, and it's the premise is he has to save his son. Right? So it's like son gets kidnapped. That's too, that's too high stakes. So sorry,

LeBron. We're, we're not necessarily feeling space jam, but back to it. Asterisk championship. Bombay is needling Coach T with this. He is. And Coach T falls for it.

Falls for it hook, line, and sinker. If I'm Coach T, though, I just, you know, just pack up and move on. I wouldn't even. Oh, my championship has an asterisk. Whatever, Bombay. See ya. Yeah. Sorry you couldn't field more than 10 people on your team.

That's your poor organization. Yeah. It's not our fault. Just keep it moving, Coach T. I wouldn't have even said anything about the engraver. I would have just moved on and gotten out of there. I might have done a little one-liner, but then you just keep walking. Don't even stop.

You say the one-liner as you Don't even, don't even stop. Like you say the one liner as you're walking, you don't even stop. My, my favorite though is so Alex, they, they get coach T and then Alex goes all Highlander on coach T and she's like, come on, meet us at the ice palace. We skate at dog. And he's like, what is this? A duel? And she was like, no, okay. You're right. I guess we can do it at a more reasonable hour. Yeah, she doubles down.

She's like, let's – because Coach T is like, there's no asterisk. We would have beat the shit out of you anyway. And Alex is like, well, prove it. Let's skate. Let's play tomorrow. Bombay says, like, no cameras, no crew crew no whatever but i mean mj and terry show up to to call the games no media but except for the consistent don't bothers me yeah um yeah let's let's settle this mano a mano on the ice coach t raises the stakes yes he wants them to

go from the don't bothers to the don't exist love that line yeah yeah that's that's how he he's like fine we'll play but if we if the ducks win you go bye-bye yeah like go away i want you to go away you are you have been annoying me since episode one when you told me to not bother and you made me go viral because you were a lunatic. Get out of my life. And then Bombay is like, okay, so if you win, we go away. But if we win, we get your team name. Because you guys do not know what it's like to really be ducks. And then they start quacking.

Yes, they start quacking. And I absolutely love that yeah and then so this this this is we we've been talking all this is the yeah talking about how on earth they pull the switcheroo and we get because the name of the show is the fucking mighty ducks the good guys have to be the mighty ducks at some point yeah they can't be this isn. This isn't the Don't Bothers game changer. We knew this was coming sometime. Yes, and so we were just trying to figure out how they do it. This is how they do it. Honestly, I would have...

I mean, it's not a bad way to go about it. I would have preferred they play the championship game, though. Same. That really kind of left a mark. I would have loved for... So, like, Sophie doesn't play in the championship game. She sits. The game still goes on though.

And because of like the emotional toll of losing Sophie right before the game, the Ducks cream the Don't Pothers, right? They just fucking light them up. And then the end of the game and Coach T is like fucking living it up he's lighting it up whatever and then then you get this little exchange where bobby and alex are like you have an asterisk let's play again let's do this again and then the i i think that would have been a better and then even even the the when they play the second game the next day they still don't have sophie i yeah i don't want sophie to like miraculously heal for the next game or whatever no but you know they have time to prepare their

motivation from the last loss and then they you know they eke out a one goal win i think that and they get the name i think that i would have liked that more than them not even playing the championship game i my ideal conclusion was very similar but i so i wanted them to play the final game as well but my thinking was like they play the final game they're out there first period sophie goes down can't continue and then the officials come in they're like hey you only have nine players sophie's hurt sorry we got to call it and that's it and they it kind of ends the game there and everyone's like wait what in the heck is happening and then very similar they're going back and forth hey i challenge you i challenge you let's meet in the ice tomorrow let's let's meet at dawn we fight

okay i like that too yeah i would have liked either way it was kind of weird not playing the game it just kind of had a weird vibe not playing the game. But it was an okay solution for them to buy over the name. Like we established, first of all, because they say that they want to play the next game at the Ice Palace. Like we've already established, that's not a regulation rink. It's 20 feet short. That's a home ice advantage that should not be legal.

And Alex knows this. So, like, she's already manipulating. Coach T is very emotional right now. Do you think Coach T knows it's not regulation? Oh, absolutely no way he knows. Otherwise he would not have stood up for that. Do you think that's how – I would love if that's how season two starts is Coach T like suing them in court because the –

trying to get the name back because the rink wasn't regulation size. Just like how Stephanie won the Slapshot Challenge for the moms on her technicality. Yep, exactly. It would go down the same. Disney, let us write this fucking show. That would be a great first episode of season two. Reach out to the show. So my favorite part – so we go to like that ends and we gear up

it's going to be ducks versus don't bothers in the ice palace and we go to the ice palace and they're singing the national anthem but not only are they singing the national anthem Coob and his voice of an angel is just the most moving rendition of the national anthem. But I was laughing so hard when the crowd starts to like clap. Cause they're like, geez, that was really good. And they're fired up.

And then every, and then he just holds the note for like an extra 30 seconds. Home of the brave. He holds that for a while. So I love the, I thought Coob fucking crushed it singing it again with his national anthem. And then another thing I noticed, so when he's singing the national anthem,

they're like panning from the rafters down onto the flag, and then you see in the background like championship banners in the Ice Palace. And so I got to thinking, you know, I was like, I wonder what these championship banners are for because palace and so i got to thinking you know i was like i wonder what these these championship banners are for because obviously you know the the ducks are at henry's pavilion our good old hawks are not playing at the ice palace what are these championships for so i paused it and i like zoomed in and freeze framed it there's none of the banners are from later than 1959 all the ones i could make out were from 1956 through 1959.

There was a couple good ones. There was multiple ice dancing championship banners every single year. Powerhouse, right? Powerhouse ice dancing team was coming out of the ice palace. And then there was a real fancy looking one

for 1959 for compulsory figure skating. And that was like a bigger one. It had like a fancy design. It looked very important, you know. And then the other ones that I saw were, there was three junior curling championships. One for 1956, one for 1959, and one for 1958.

Or 56, 57, 59. So the Ice Palace was a training ground for all future Winter Olympians, it sounds like. I didn't see any hockey banners, though, so it looked like it was strictly curling

and ice dancing slash figure skating were the powerhouses, but a lot of championship banners. It's, it's amazing. Was, did we miss where Coop's parents, was that the lumberjacks game when Coop's parents showed up? Did we miss that part? We did. Yep. That was lumberjacks.

Just, just for, for the listeners out there during the the Lumberjacks game, before Coop made that really sick save, because we talked about it earlier, they mentioned that his parents didn't come, and Coop was taking a break, and he looked up, and Evan's like, man, Coop, did you see a ghost? And he's like, oh my God, they came.

My parents are here, which was a very nice and very moving moment for Coop to get the parents. He got the shot, the Evan, the Evan juice. I'd say he turned into that with his dad where, yeah, once he saw his parents, he was like, let's fucking go. He turned into Patrick Wall and was the best goalie ever. And then he, so they showed up to that, and then

during this game, the Ducks game, they're seen in the crowd as well. So they're here. So then not only do they get to see him play hockey, but they get to see him perform one of the most lovely versions of the national anthem. We got to get Coob on this podcast because we were hard on Coob with this

goaltending, but that necessarily wasn't necessarily his fault. That was more of the coaching. We were critiquing the coaching because they needed to either teach him or pull him one way or the other. Yeah. You know, but now we want to talk to Coob because, you know, being one of the most beautiful voices, but also playing hockey, how does he find the time to balance

both being in theater and playing on the team? I mean, I think you got the, your answer to your question right here when you sing the national anthem at your hockey game. That's how you play double time. Yep, exactly. So beautiful entrance. And then it's, and then it's game time. Yep, exactly. So beautiful entrance. And then it's, and then it's game time.

And the game kicks off with like super intense hockey. Sophie's like, you got it, Mauro. I will say super intense hockey. And I will say the hockey scenes for not only this game, but the other state championship games were great. Looked way better. There was everybody in the scene was moving. There wasn't anybody like standing randomly in the background this game but the other state championship games were great looked way better there was it everybody on the scene was moving there wasn't anybody like standing randomly in the background or just like

laying on the ice it granted they were amazing hockey scenes but they looked way better than the ones we got earlier in the season yeah they look like legitimate hockey interactions and real scenes so that was like one of the first things I noticed. This game, the hockey scenes were really great. Evan hits one off the crossbar right away to open things up. Then they go to a random weird Koob save where he just

falls forward and trips the guy with the puck and everyone's like, good save, Koob! He just fell over. He poked at the puck in front of him that's like a thing you do uh like poking the puck away from uh an oncoming player the thing goalies do but he did it in like a weird dramatic way just didn't make it look very graceful yeah yeah it looked like it just i was like man he just kind of tipped over there but i'm glad he made the save yeah

so but then uh right after that happens we've got our boy wild card sam who has really come on like he has really come on and he has some uh slick stick work and is able to do another goal where he's kind of like falling down and gets it around trevor and so after that goal hits which everyone's celebrating coach t is over over it. And he's like, listen up, pheasants. There's only one ref out here. Does he call them pheasants? No, but he should have. That was another really big missed opportunity.

I can't believe I missed it if he did. No. But come on, pheasants. There's only one ref. You're bigger. You're stronger. You're more powerful. He has a great line.

I love it. He's like, there's only one ref. Let's fucking do this. And I think it's Ruby who's like, he's like, are you telling us to play dirty? And Coach T goes, it's not dirty. It's hockey.

That's another t-shirt right there. It's not dirty. It's hockey. And so Ruby, this is the second time Ruby has questioned Coach T. Yes. In the last two episodes. Last two episodes. And then also, right after Sam's goal, Coach T is yelling at the team again. And he's like, you guys need to do better.

You need to get motivated. Do you want to lose our team name? All the cool names are taken. What do you want to be? The fucking sea monsters? Or sea monkeys is what he said. Sea monkeys. You want to be the sea monkeys?

I would love to be the sea monkeys. That's not a bad team name. It's better than the don't bothers. That's true. It's much better. I'm surprised there weren't any Minnesota mosquitoes there because mosquitoes are wild in Minnesota.

They land at 10,000 lakes in the summertime. You're going to get bitten up. You need that bug spray. So Coach T tells them to play dirty. It's not dirty. It's hockey. So they come out and they start checking all crazy again. And they're tripping penalties everywhere. Yep.

That's hockey, Heath. It's also youth hockey, too. Most of it's unintentional tripping penalties. Or people just tripping over their own skates. Ruby is very strategic. She trips up Evan, grabs the puck, hits a goal. She's sliding down. That's the second one.

The first one, she gets a clean goal. Someone else, I think, knocks him down. One of those goals that they score during when they're playing dirty threw me off because it was a classic coob goal so it was right after he didn't move he didn't move at all she's yeah boom just didn't even didn't even have to put any power behind it just glided it through a five hole and i was like god damn it goob god damn it just just right he fell into some so that actually makes sense because he fell into some bad habits he fell back into some bad habits during this game yeah yeah i assume he just panicked and was like you know just froze classic coop but But considering she questioned the tactics, Ruby

jumped right in there and leveraged those to score two quick goals at the half. She's just doing her job. I did my job. I feel like Ruby is just a chip off the old block with Clark. She has too much

Clark. Stephanie needs to just remove... I guarantee you She has too much Clark. Stephanie needs to just remove it from us. I guarantee you. Actually, maybe I don't guarantee you. I would imagine Stephanie, Ruby, and Trevor

join the new Ducks. The Don't Bothers. Absolutely. I actually thought they were going to do it at the end of season one. I thought Stephanie was going to be like, you know what clark's out of here we're old ducks now i'm gonna make my kids be good guys yeah they're not gonna be i was gonna say are you almost guarantee it but then now i'm thinking like trevor with trevor and kubi run into like a you know a julia the cat goldberg scenario to where they would never do that. We got two goalies.

Maybe you transition – because like they end up transitioning Goldberg to defense, don't they? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, in the third movie, right? I think a little bit in the second too, like the second Iceland game. I think he plays defense a little bit. So maybe they do that with Trevor, transition him to a D-man. So they're down 3-1.

Ruby hits those great goals, hits halftime, and they go into the locker room. It's not halftime. What do they call it? What do they call it at halftime in hockey? There's no halftime because there's three periods. You can't cut it in half. So they're intermission.

Second intermission. Second intermission. I used to work for a hockey team, but it's been like a decade. In order for it to be a halftime, it has to cut something in half. The viewers got the gist of it, Brandon. No, they didn't. They were completely lost. They thought I was talking about football all of a sudden?

They were like, wait, when did I turn on the Little Giants podcast? Oh, we should do the Little Giants. So second intermission, the don't bothers are not feeling good. They're feeling pretty down. They're ready to quit. They know they're toast. It's over.

And Alex is trying to give him a rah-rah speech and she's like hey you guys we always at least we'll always have this ice palace we can always come here and be together it's like what does evan say oh it's hard to cut you off but what does evan evan say in one of the earlier episodes when he's trying to convince sophie we're the good guys we either win or we learn lesson. And this is the lesson for them to learn. Bombay hits a killer line after Alex is like, but we can always come here.

And Bombay's like, yeah, as long as you pay for ice time, you're always welcome. Ever the opportunist, he is not letting those little shitheads in his ice palace for quick start. He can't afford it. No, yeah, the ice palace is minutes away from bankruptcy. We can't be giving away free ice time.

This is not a charity. Yeah. Somebody's got to pay Winnie's salary, you know? And so, exactly. We can't have Winnie going on unemployment because Bombay has just given out ice time willy-nilly to the next mom that he wants to get with. We've already talked about some of the business operations, but at least he's putting his foot down. He needs to get paid for that ice time. So we can get that. And so the team is

looking for any win and Sophie comes in and she she's like you guys we've already won it doesn't matter what happens in this third period we've already won the ducks are losers because they don't want to win the right way they don't enjoy what they do it's a business we've won for this so then they do another thing where everyone goes around and takes turns saying what why they've won yeah by being a part of this team we get logan gives the sad dad talk he's like listen i'm a divorced kid and you guys gave me a reason to get away from my sad dad yeah he said it exactly verbatim yeah this was an interesting scene again it goes one kid kid by kid another like rudy type moment they're trying to yeah i did like nicks of course because he's like you know you guys gave me a

chance to play and all of a sudden i realized i'm actually average i'm an average player and that's cool that's a win yeah um that was good you got maya and lauren talking about how they're best friends with each other and Coob put on pants. That was his big win. He's like, hey, I used to be a basement dweller. Now I put on pants. Look at me. Sam said he finally found something useful to put his craziness towards

or something like that, right? Yeah, and then your favorites, the Czechs, the Czech mates. The Czech mates. Yeah, I forget what the tall guy says. We like it here. That's right. And the short kid stands up and goes, Thumb up! Thumb up!

And then Nick goes, Well said, Czechmates. Yeah. And then Maya and Lauren, they're like, Oh, I'm winning because I'm making this awkward for Maya. And Maya's like, Oh, I'm winning because Lauren's my friend. And I don't have fake friends anymore. And then Evan gives his Stan speech like, you know, after being cut from the ducks, I was like really sad.

And I won because I found the dope ballers and I have a great mommy. Yeah. She's not that great, Emma. She's not that great. But he loves her to death. So they're thinking no trophy. But they're like, you know what? Doesn't matter.

We're going to win. Let's go have some fun. Let's go have some fun. But wait. Bombay has a surprise before they hit the ice. How did you feel about this Bombay surprise? I kind of enjoyed. I enjoyed.

I loved it. I enjoyed the idea of it so so yeah so he he has a box that he says some friends left behind for him and it's the the original ducks jerseys now so what so i like the idea that uh i love the i i love throwing on the old the original ducks jerseys where it loses me is that it's the original ducks names on the back as well it's not it's not the actual fun part it's interesting it's it's interesting i i get it um but because the ducks the original ducks left though like we're led to believe after season six the original ducks left all those jerseys behind for them to wear. And that's why they got distributed.

There's no way any of those kids are fitting into Fulton's size jersey. Or do you think these are like the jerseys were just in the basement of the Ice Palace? No, these are brand new, specially made jerseys that they just decided to put the old people's names on.

I thought it was X. I wish I would have seen who was each of the old people because Nick was – I have the list. You do have the full list because I know Nick was Averman. I know that. Yeah. But so before we get to that, the other thing that weirds me out about these things because they do the same thing in the second movie. Do they do it in the third movie as well?

Where like after two periods, they're like, let's just change jerseys. Yeah, they do. And the third movie, they become the ducks. Remember?

I don't, I don't. So I don't understand the logistics of any of this at all. A it's gotta be a rule where you can't switch jerseys in the middle of a game. But B, if you have the jerseys at the. A, it's got to be a rule where you can't switch jerseys in the middle of a game. But B, if you have the jerseys at the third

period, 99% sure that you had them at the fucking start of the game. Just start the game with them. What are we doing here? It doesn't provide that extra little piece of motivation. It could. You would just do it

at the beginning of the game and then you wouldn't be behind in the first place. Wouldn't have been down 3-1. Yes. This is unsanctioned though, Brent. Remember this is an unsanctioned game. So I wrote that down because I love that MJ called it an unsanctioned game because it reminded me of

wrestling with the unsanctioned matches. This was a street fight. This is an unsanctioned. This was a street fight. This is a Philadelphia street fight. Absolutely. Like, oh, the trash can lid. My God, he broke them in half. One of the greatest street fights ever is the Philadelphia street fight.

You know? I mean, there was fantastic. There was some. I think there's been multiple Philadelphia street fights. The Philadelphia street fight I'm thinking of was like Mid 2000s in good old TNA Wow

Between the Dudley Boys And Beer Money Philadelphia street fight That is a deep reach wrestling So many Beer bottles being smashed on heads Wow I think of like the Chicago street Beach wrestling. So many beer bottles being smashed on heads. Wow.

That is – see, I think of like the Chicago Street. There were a lot of Chicago Street fights. Goldust was in one with like Ahmed Johnson. Rowdy Roddy Piper was in one. I think Legion of Doom were in one. Like there's all kinds of Chicago Street fights. Yeah. Yeah, good old Street fight though. This is a Street fight.

We have a great moment. It's a heartwarming moment, Brandon. street fight though. This is a street fight. We have a great moment. It's a heartwarming moment, Brandon. It is great. They have the original music going too. It's a great moment. They all come out. Coach T is fucking furious. And then Bombay says, what's he say to Coach T?

He's like, let's see who wears it best or something like that. Yeah, let's see. But then – But I got the list for you i got the list but this i do have to say before that it it kind of ruined the moment when it went back to our gripe of like the terrible hockey clips like it went back to like in showing individuals or like the team just like stopped moving when they when they were playing with the ducks uniforms yeah um yeah the hockey well because then they were playing with the Ducks uniforms. Yeah. Yeah, the hockey – well, because then they were, like, focusing on –

after that, it was – they were, like – because they were trying to show each individual kid, each individual kid's doing something. So, yeah, it was, like, focused singular shots. And so because of that, you know, nobody's moving in the background. Before we get back to the game action, let's go through who is wearing which jerseys because I'm excited to hear this. So I got the list.

So you have Evan, which is wearing Charlie Conway, the captain. That's a given. You got Sophie on her crutches on the bench wearing Banks, obviously. Not a surprise there. And then Coob, of course, is wearing Goldberg.

And then Nick is Averman. You have Lauren is wearing Connie's. I was You have Lauren is wearing Connie's. Okay. I was wondering who was in Morose. I couldn't tell if it was her or Maya. That's Lauren. Okay.

Sam is wearing Russ, knuckle puck kid. Oh. Kenan. Okay. Logan is wearing Kenny, Kenny Woo. Okay. Woo, woo, woo, Kenny Woo. Yeah.

And then we have Maya who's wearing Julie the Cat Gaffney. Oh, interesting. I like that fit though. And then we have the tiny check kid is wearing my boy Guy. Okay. Double zeros. And then the big check kid is wearing Fulton. Oh, wow.

I'm glad you caught all those. That's it. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Yep. why do you call all those that's it five six seven eight nine ten yep that's all of them that's it wow you got every single one of them there's a lot of a lot of pausing and rewinding to make sure i caught everybody and like you mentioned you with with connie and maya they don't so i'm 95 sure that that Lauren is Connie and Maya is Julie the cat. There's a small chance maybe that's flipped because they didn't really show the faces. And so I think I saw – I couldn't tell who was which. I couldn't tell fully.

I think I saw Lauren's, like, red hair with Connie's jersey though. But that one might be flipped. But so we get back into the hockey action after all this throws down and we have you're probably a hockey moment that you love it's Nick and Evan passing the puck back and forth randomly and Evan's like Nick you do it and he's like no Evan I can't handle this moment you do do it. And Evan's like, no, Nick, you're my best friend. You shoot it home. And Nick is so hashtag blessed to hear that Evan called him his best friend.

He fires a wrister, catches Trevor flat-footed, gets it right by him. I believe it's stick side. Yeah, I think so. I think he hits it stick side kind of like because trevor's moving glove side and nick fires one over and hits it back stick side catches him flat-footed yep i think that's right yeah yeah and then he uh then they evan comes over they start celebrating and nick doubles down and he's like now that we're friends, you want to have a sleepover? Not the best time, but I am so glad Nick goes for broke because that's, that's so on brand for him. Like, wow, you just said we're best friends.

Let's seal this with the sleepover that I always wanted. Just one-on-one. It's fantastic. It's amazing. And then it goes to another kind of montage of an epic goalie battle. Koob and Trevor back and forth. And MJ kind of calls it out. And then as this back and forth goes, Alex grabs Logan LaRue, which we find out Logan's last name.

Logan LaRue. I mean, you can see the back of his jersey. It's like whenever they got the jerseys, episode two. Well, I never paid attention to it. It's very Marvel of him to have, you know, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, everyone has an alliteration name in Marvel. It's a very, very, considering he's from Toronto, it's a very, like, French-Canadian last name, Leroux. Yeah. You'd think he'd be from, like, Montreal or quebec something like that sometimes i feel like

they try to make him french canadian but either way alex teased him out because alex is looking for her chance to bury the hatchet with logan she's like hey logan it's time let's uh let's get that spatula going it's time for your your specials the pancake special. You know what time it is, Heath? Nucklepuck time? Wait, what time is it? Order up time. It's not a knucklepuck. Order up.

I love that they do that for every fuck. They do it for knucklepuck time. He shouts it every time he's going to do it. The flying V, they shout it every time they're going to do it. Order up every time they're going to do it. Order up. He got it. And he just knocks it home. And then we see after Logan knocks it home,

they're kind of playing a little bit. All of a sudden, we're down to 30 seconds left in the game. It's tied up 3-3. Wow. For all the marbles. They get their timeout. So is it after Logan's move or is it right before when they do the blindfold? It's after the timeout.

Okay. So Logan scores a goal. There's a timeout. They go over to the ben the bench what's the score right now i'm sorry three three three three okay the score is three three because they go over and this is where they're like oh we've got i've got something for the play and evan uh sophie's like evan come back and evan skates back and sophie gives a kiss yeah yeah but i don't think they do the blindfold and the flying V at the same

time. Oh, you're right. The blindfold? I think they do the blindfold and then they pass it and get it to Logan and that's when he does order up. That's it. You're right. You're right, because that's where I was getting annoyed with the hockey game.

Because it was like, oh, the blindfold time. Yeah, fuck the blindfold. It doesn't make any sense, but they get it to Logan. They didn't even keep their eyes closed that long. Lauren was like trash talking. Was it Ruby? Do you ever heard of blindfold hockey? Yeah.

That's stupid. Then she makes one pass and then everybody opens their eyes again. Okay, so you're right. The blindfold hockey and then Logan does the – We did skip over – in my confusion, we skipped over the kiss. So, yes. So, Evan – so timeout. Timeout.

So, he comes over to the bench, and Sophie's like, I got something for you. Yeah. And then – Because they go – they start to skate back out, and Sophie's like, wait, Evan, don't go. And he comes back, and she lifts his helmet helmet and she gives him a kiss and all I could think of is like not the best timing I'm for it did you did you hear did you happen

to catch what Evan says afterwards I loved it yeah he's like oh so we're doing that now see he's not thinking about hockey in the last 30 seconds he's trying to process what just happened. They've taken the next step as a couple. They're now kissing.

His head is no longer in the game. He is still in that moment where his helmet was lifted up. He gets right back into it. It takes him no time at all. I mean, he's an emotional player. We've seen this before. I just don't know how it's going to rattle. This is going to pump him up. You up you think this is dad pump up this is so so much more of a pump up than seeing your dad

in the stands okay so that's i thought i went distraction i thought evan was going to be distracted because he spiraled over that text where he didn't know what was going on well yeah but now he knows what's going on and it's what what he wants, and it's reassuring. And it's sealed with a kiss. Exactly. It's been sealed with a kiss. So it's a beautiful moment, though. I've never been the biggest fan of the show, but it's okay. I'm not going to sit here and say Sophie can do better because I like her character so much more,

but don't think that this is forever, Sophie. Don't think this is forever. If it ends, it ends. I'll say it. Sophie can do way better. I was trying to be nice to Evan, but his character has bothered me throughout. Yeah, his...

His character is not the best, but... I don't know. I feel like you're following in Charlie's footsteps. I feel like you're following in Charlie's footsteps. I feel like that's big shoes to fill. Whereas the side characters, they get a little more leeway

because you're not comparing them to really anybody. Whereas in the back of your mind, whenever you see Evan, you're like, yeah, but he's not Charlie. Yeah, I think that's it. I think that is what it is. It's not charlie yeah he's i think that's it i think that is what it is it's like man he's just no charlie he's no joshua jackson yeah he doesn't have the the you know the the charm the the je ne sais quoi of a pacey yeah i mean joshua jackson also crushed it in skulls that was a great movie is that the private school one yeah yeah that's a great one he's a joshua jackson is a fantastic actor i love almost let's say i would wait you

to say i love all of his stuff i can't think of anything that he's done that i wasn't that i didn't like um he's all fantastic skulls shutter was a good little, like, like a little horror movie that he did. Uh, Dawson's Creek, obviously. Um, what was it?

Was it a fringe? The, the TV show. Did you ever watch fringe? I don't think I ever watched it, but I know what you're talking about. I think you'd like it. It's like a weird little,

like sci-fi TV show. Uh, he was the main guy in that killed it. Little fires everywhere. He was fantastic in that with that with Reese Witherspoon. His new show that was the reason that he couldn't come back for the reunion episode, Doctor Death.

It's him, Christian Slater, and Alec Baldwin. Looks fantastic. Yeah. We're going to have to check that out. Yeah. That one, I think, drops probably by the time this gets released and everybody's listening to it, listening to it. I think it would have already dropped. It's on a Peacock,

but don't get started on Peacock. What they did to the WWE network was a travesty. It's, it's impossible to find a Philadelphia street fight now. It's extremely tricky to find what you want. I was trying to watch all of the Monday night Ross and pay-per-views in chronological order starting in 1993. The way they

reorganized this completely disrupted that. Each WrestleMania is not a new season, Peacock. Reorganize the WWE Network on your platform, please. Sorry, sorry. That was a weird random tangent. Let's get back

to the show. That was a very that was a weird random tangent let's get back to the show that was a very that was a complaint that i have lodged regularly every time i pull up the peacock network and i try to watch when you say it's a complaint you lodge regularly you just mean talking to the talking to yourself about it right or kelly kelly has to hear this a lot kelly kelly who is my partner you're not you're not formally filing these complaints. I'm not formally filing these complaints. I am formally filing them with Kelly every time I pull a peek on them. This sucks. What'd they do to this?

Why'd they ruin the network? The patience that Kelly must have is just astounding. She's just sitting patiently waiting for me to finish recording this so bless her so so to get back to the game we're in the timeout evan sealed with the kiss he's in love and then we get to the game they win the face off they're behind the net and all of a sudden your favorite play brandon the flying v flying v although i will say and i will say this in the first couple movies there was not a lot of puck movement within the flying v and that's where iceland came and blew it up on this version

you saw the ducks attempting to grab the puck from the different areas of the v and the puck was moving back and forth that's that's the the puck was there was more puck movement um between the ducks a lot of passes back and forth crisp quick passes. But that's the number one thing you cannot do with the flying V if you're trying to defend it, is to try to skate around and pick it apart. You have to do what Iceland does. You just line up. They're lined up in a V.

You line up in a fucking L right at the center line and just fucking stay there and run them over. Yeah. They're in a V, you do a line. Or do it the V the other way where you're just covering each person. Just go running around chasing

the puck. Go man to man and just fucking line them up. The Ducks lost all discipline on that last play. Yeah, I was fucking furious watching them try to go around in the back and I was like, what the fuck are you doing try to go around in the back. And I was like, what the fuck are you doing? Terribly coached blast fly.

Yeah, well, at that point, I feel like Coach T is, you know, he's on his last limb here. He's panicking. He really fell apart. Yeah, he's in panic mode. He can feel everything slipping away. And I don't know if you noticed this, but the goal that Evan scored off the flying V, it felt very similar to when, I think Jesse

is usually the one that scores off the flying V in the first movie. It looked fairly similar, like the way he kind of does the fake and then the secondary shot. Yeah, okay. I think Jesse does score the majority of the flying V goals.

It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a couple – it's been some time since I've watched it, though, so I'd have to go back. I did watch it like a month ago, and I'm pretty sure Jesse scored the first flying eagle. Yeah. I watched the first one a month, maybe a month and a half ago. It was strictly a viewing for pleasure, though.

I took zero notes and I paid about as little attention to it as I could. I did the exact same thing. I put it on after episode six when they did the reunion episode. I was like, well, I'm not doing anything. Kelly was out of town. I fired the original Mighty Ducks movie on immediately after I watched the episode of Game Changers. I just threw it right on. Didn't even hesitate.

Didn't take more. Just went for, you know, a quick break, a water break, and then was right back into it. There you go. That's all you need. Yeah. So, but anyways, they win. They're excited. They're celebrating.

They're now the Ducks. Yep. They get the Gatorade showers well first coach t is pissed he's like no this isn't happening oh yeah coach t flips out and he says you know he starts crying fallon he's like this isn't it's an unsanctioned match none of this is real you can't have the name um i don't even have the the authority to give you the name or something like that and stephanie comes down and he's like yep coach t's right he doesn't have the the authority to give you the name or something like that and stephanie comes down and he's like yep coach t's right he doesn't have the authority to do this and coach t's like yeah

listen to this woman she fucking knows what she's talking about and then but then stephanie you know we talked about uh alex's like heel turn in episode eight stephanie hits us with the full face turn here she's a face turn yeah she is now and and you know in wrestling terms the heel is the bad guy the face is the good guy stephanie we saw it building because she's shedding the dead weight clark yeah is the we now found out it is solidified stephanie has been awesome she's got a heart of gold. Heart of gold. And every time Stephanie was the worst throughout this series, it's directly linked to Clark. I think it's safe to say that.

That guy sucks. Yeah, he's the fucking worst. Dead weight. Get out of here, Clark. But anyway, Stephanie's like, hey, I'm on the board. I say a deal's a deal. You guys are the ducks. Boom.

We're going to be the maniac mosquitoes. That's going to be us. Like we said, I think Stephanie's Stephanie and Ruby and Trevor are going to be Ducks next season. They're going to...

We need more than 10 players because we can't go through this shit again where if somebody gets hurt, we're out. You know? They have to add new players for season two. We need at least two more players. The Don't Bothers team name has bothered me the whole show, and I guess it makes sense now

why they just stuck with such a terrible team name. It was going to switch over. I'm honestly surprised they made the hats. I'm surprised they actually started doing merch. But that's a memory that will last a lifetime. Hey, when they're 50 years old,

Evan and Nick, they're in their backyard. Their kids are playing together. MJ and Sophie are chit-chatting. They're just having a good old time. Remember when we were at the Dumb Bothers? MJ and Sophie, you think both of those relationships are going the distance? No, I

don't think so. I think that Nick and MJ have potential. There's no way Sophie is going to stay with Evan this whole time. As much as I like Nick, I don't think Nick and MJ they're too close with all of their endeavors in life. They're mixing business with all of their endeavors in life.

They're mixed in business with pleasure. You know, either one of two things has to happen. Either they break up or Terry takes over full-time for Nick podcast. I don't think you, I don't think you can do, I don't think you can successfully run the number two youth hockey podcast in Southeast Minnesota with your significant other. There's just going to be some friction. There's too much baggage there. Yeah. There might be some differences of opinion,

maybe some different direction, artistic directions that they want to take the podcast in. Eventually, they may not see eye to eye and that's where the ultimate falling out could take place. There's zero chance Sophie and Evan last.

Like we said, Sophie can do better. She's a fantastic hockey player. She's an A-plus student. She's going to get into Harvard. The world is her oyster. The sky is the limit for Sophie. She's got to go find herself a Zac Efron, not an Evan Morrow. You have no idea how high she can fly.

There's a little nod to Michael Scott for the listeners out there. You miss a hundred percent of the shots. You don't take Keith, Michael Scott, Wayne Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky, Michael Scott. But it's, it, I don't know. The ending was fine. It was like the conclusion that we thought. I did like how at the end they showed Bombay driving out on the Zamboni and very, very quickly he got the ice updated to the home of the Mighty Ducks. Ice Palace, home of the Mighty Ducks. Yes, yeah.

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original the best, anyways. It's yellow and green, and is it purple? Purple, yeah. Yellow, green, purple. With a little bit of black in there, too. Yeah, I like those jerseys better than the second and the third ones. But I imagine that's

probably what it is. It's some kind of copyright thing. I did like the updated Coach T, the updated Ducks logo and jerseys. I thought those were solid. Yeah, Coach T's coaching polos and the three-quarter zips and everything,

those were really nice merchandising. And like you said, with the way it's like the hockey mask, but with the duck bill and everything and like sticks behind it it was a great logo yeah yeah i thought it was fantastic um i am i like like we like i mentioned earlier i am very interested to see because stephanie ruby and trevor they're gonna make the jump i would imagine to the to the new ducks and so i'm interested to see how they play this switch out i'm wondering if do you do you just do you make the full switch right so we come back well obviously no he's that's not gonna happen because he's he's

zamboni in the ice palace i was gonna say do you make the full switch and if you're stephanie and you're the the board of directors at the ducks do you just you fire coach t clean house you just bring the don't bother us over and so that's hendrix pavilion you redo the logo because bombay wants the old logo um and you do that but if he's already i don't know if bombay in that case bombay would need to sell the ice palace um i don't think and as we saw he's he already changed the ice i don't think he's gonna do that so then now do you so then that raises the question so i'm assuming that stephanie will leave the board of directors her Her, Ruby, and Trevor will come over to the Ducks. And then, you know, does Hendrix rebrand the team?

Do we get a new name? Do they still fire Coach T? I assume he's still going to get fired because he lost the name. Like, you lost the fucking name. You can't come back, dude. My hope is that which which scares me because i don't want to lose coach t i don't want to lose coach t i hope that coach t takes over the hawks yeah switches their load their color scheme back to the black and and blue

and then coach t bring takes half of the olducks over, and then they get really good, and then it's the Hawks and Ducks next season. So I would love one of these two things to happen. Like you just said, I would love if Coach T – the old Ducks fire Coach T, and he finds refuge with the Hawks. And some of the players go over there because they're Coach T disciples. Yeah. They're loyal. And then he brings the fucking Hawks back to prominence,

you know, I would love that. Or, but, and the second thing they'd have to do more, more like legwork and more explaining stuff more. You'd have to have more coach t scenes before you get to this point but assistant coach t you know under bombay i just i i don't want i don't want that character

to disappear you know i don't want a season two without coach t i am not excited about no that's a very very sad day so i think they bring him back somehow to kind of i hope they do to bring back some sort of rivalry i'm all i'm very curious to see how this plays out for season two because i wonder i think they're gonna reset like i think they're gonna do like a full kind of like reset like hey now they're in the 13 14 year old or do you think they're still in the 12 13 bracket next year they're in the 13 14 year old or do you think they're still in the 12 13 bracket next year they're in the the bracket if i remember correctly from the first episode it's 12 to 15 is that 12 to 15 oh okay so they they would still stay in the same bracket so do you think they just

kind of like come in reset season two or do you think they lead off with like hey you guys are the ducks now here's the fallout of everything that happened and do like a quick montage with like here's everything that happened after the name change no i think i think you just i think it's just a reset i think you you reset you have uh the the new ducks in the Ice Palace. Same age bracket. Everybody's just a year older. You get Trevor and Ruby and then you have

two or three new kids, 12-year-old kids, the younger kids that are now in that age bracket. New characters. That way we're working with 15 kids. We got like a fucking, you know, a real team, a real team.

Yeah. When I, you got Trevor and Kubi got two goalies. That's crucial. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, you're not dealing with these. If one player gets hurt, you got to throw away the season kind of thing. I don't, I think that's just what you do i think you

can start right there i don't think you need to do any explaining and and even so so i was thinking so if you have coach t go to the hawks even that you don't have to explain away you just you you do your reset you have the the ducks going you don't even need to mention coach t until the hawks game and then it's like okay we're playing the hawks they are undefeated too like we're both undefeated or maybe it's the first game of the season you're like we're playing the hawks and then you get to the rink and then boom that's when you're like oh fuck it's coach t you know recognize that guy and that beautiful head of lettuce or maybe maybe he goes outside of the league and and maybe you go through the whole season. The Ducks are struggling because you can't have them be like a powerhouse.

That's not exciting. You need some ebbs and flows here. But they make it to States. They're in the championship game. And who's the fucking coach of the Maroon Marauders? Coach T. I think that either you have you gotta bring him back he's you he's too good of a actor and too good of a character to just let fall

by the wayside you either either he needs to be uh again another season-long villain or like a random pop-up villain maybe not even maybe not championship game maybe maybe first round, but some sort of random pop-up. Maybe the winner of states plays nationals next year, and then the Ducks win states, and they play Coach T, who went from Minnesota to Wisconsin. And he is now a part of the Badgers of Wisconsin. Either way, we've to bring Coach Steven. We got to keep him.

Yep. Yep. For sure. But all in all, so season one, it's over and done with. We've spent 10 episodes talking about this show. Wasn't the greatest show in the entire world. Not necessarily something that's going to go out and win an Emmy like we talked about before. But I do have to say,

the highlight I think of the show is how well the child actors did. Like everyone that played the 12-year-old actors, I was extremely impressed with each of them and their, like the way they kind of held up and the way they were able to develop their characters. I was impressed with all the kids. I thought they did a good job casting. I would say, yes, I would say

casting was by far the thing they knocked out of the park. Like, they nailed it. Grand slam, home run, perfect casting. Top to fucking bottom. I don't think, there's nobody that I would change. Even Evan. I think,

Even Evan was well crossed cast yeah absolutely brady noon i think this is is the actor's name kill he kills it it's he he's fantastic in it it's just you know he's not evan's not the most at least for me he's not the most likable character he just was an hour cup of tea but he wasn't supposed to be this like super duper likable character like he has he has some flaws yeah yeah but yeah top to bottom everybody was cast perfectly um there's not a person i would change um

they yeah they all fucking killed it i think it was fantastic all the kids uh emilio uh lauren graham uh the girl who plays winnie m haynes i think is her name uh terry paula all the moms. I think, yeah, everybody was casted and fucking acted their asses off.

I think it was fantastic. Especially because the production of this was in the middle of the height of COVID. So the fact that they pulled this off, I know they got delayed a little bit because of that, but they were still relatively on time. There was no glaring production holes or anything like that. The fact that they pulled all that off, everybody was able to act and crush it

even when you've got face masks on when you're not on camera and you're six feet away. It's a very complicated process. That's a tough task. We talked about that before the only thing imagine how hard it would be because like with acting chemistry is everything yeah like off-screen chemistry with your with your your acting partners is uh crucial and imagine having to build that during covid where you're everyone's wearing a mask you can't hang out afterwards you can't hang out on the set no because i imagine when you're there

and you and you're on disney's clock you're either a in front of a camera or b they quarantined you in your hotel room yeah you're not getting out to you're not exploring the town you're not getting drinks you're not you're not doing anything. Yeah. So the only gripes that we had was some of the plot holes and the writing just didn't connect, and sometimes it went a little bit off. But the casting and the crew, wow. Yeah. Great crew.

Some of the writing plot holes, as well as through the middle part of the season, them focusing too much on Alex And Bombay Because these last few episodes have been Fully kid focused Outside of Yes and those were the

Fantastic great scenes Like we've been saying all season long Alex and Bombay You don't need to Dedicate that much time to Alex and Bombay, you don't need to dedicate that much time to Alex in Bombay. Focus on the kids. Build up the kids. Because that's where...

That's how you're going to get the kids watching the show to get invested is they got to be able to connect with the kid storylines. A 12-year-old kid that's watching the show doesn't give a

shit about Alex and Bombay. No, they went way too deep into that. Because they should have done what they did in the first movies, where it was there, it happened, they kind of moved it along, but they spent maybe 10 minutes out of the movie on it. That's all it needs.

Or if you're going to focus on it, the way you focus on it is it's all it needs yeah or if you're gonna focus on it the way you focus on it is with evan and bombay talking about it not alex and bombay you know uh like they did with charlie like all like all of the outside of the in the first movie outside of the the date scene where they go to like the weird like ice sculpture nonsense him and charlie's mom outside of that all of the relationship between him and char Charlie's mom. Outside of that, all of the relationship between him and Charlie's mom building is done with Charlie in the room. Yeah.

So. Yeah, that's our only beat. But anyways, it was fun. It was a fun series. It was exciting to do. This got me way into it and made me watch the episodes many more times than I ever would have. I probably would have just watched them all once and called it a day.

But I'm glad we did it. I'm glad we went through it. The nostalgia. Obviously, episode six was my favorite. It was my favorite part because it brought in all the things we were going to watch. But it was fun. I'm glad they did it. I'm glad they brought it back and they brought the quacking back.

Yes. And I'm excited to see where they go with with future seasons yeah maybe even more movies i don't i mean they could do honestly they could do whatever the fuck they want um going forward they always do whatever they want but they really you do have a good point though because they they could go what they do in season two is going to be exciting they did a nice they had a nice ender for season one that's kind of like, hey, how is this going to resolve in season two? It may not get you super fired up and a countdown clock for season

two, but you're going to be intrigued when it kicks back off. It was a good way of a cliffhanger without a cliffhanger. Yeah. I'm excited for it. I look forward to talking about season two whenever it happens uh and uh granted i'm assuming they do season two i don't think anything's been confirmed yet but you know they'd be fucking idiots not to exactly and you know worst case

scenario hey now that the game changers is over it's time for us to start revisiting those movies here very soon. Yes, stay tuned with us. We're definitely going to be talking movies. We'll be talking all three movies. We'll be talking animated series eventually. We'll be talking anything and everything related to Mighty Ducks, including talking about the actual NHL team, hopefully get some of that talking. So yeah, we'll,

we plan on sticking around and talking about everything. I think our plan coming up is to just start tackling the first movie though. Right? Yes. Yes. We're going to, we're going to break up the first movie into an extended series of episodes to really, really delve deep into that cinematic masterpiece. Yes. Yeah. I'm pumped. I'm pumped for it. It's going to be wonderful. And things to look forward deep into the future is, you know,

you might be out there saying, Oh, what happens when they run out of Mighty Duck stuff? There's limited Mighty Duck stuff. Oh, don't worry fans. We are going to jump right into the other projects that these actors have done as well. Yes, yes. So that's, yeah. Cast and crew, anything that's even

loosely or remotely connected to the Mighty Ducks, we're going to talk about. So, you know. I will have to say, I think that out of all the movies that all the different Mighty Ducks actors are in, the one that I'm most looking forward to doing is Heavyweights. Starring Goldberg and Karp from the first movie. I think that is going to be great.

So not only does Heavyweights have Goldberg and Karp, but I am am and let me double check this i am 95 percent sure yep so i am just confirmed so steven brill is the guy who wrote the the original i think he wrote all three mighty ducks movies and he's the director of heavyweights so so that makes sense yeah yeah so yeah not only is it goldberg and carve but yeah the guy who created mighty ducks was the the director for that i don't know if he i assume he wrote heavyweights as well let's double check that but that's that's that's one yeah yeah oh yeah him he co-wrote heavyweights with jed apatow oh wow no wonder it's such a great movie yeah and then uh and then directed obviously um so yeah we're definitely gonna talk heavyweights yeah that's

that's an easy one and then obviously there's a ton of other movies out there like i think we were talking brandon you and i way back this might have been like a few weeks three or four weeks ago but we were talking about carp is now kind of like a, more of like a model and he has a very small role in guardians of the galaxy too. He was, yes. He plays the face model for the, for CG, for the CGI, for a young Kurt Russell. Yeah. Wow. That's a hell of an accomplishment to suddenly become young Kurt Russell.

Yeah. And like you said like carp's like uh like i if you've watched heavyweights and or the original movie carp was a an overweight little kid but he is like you said now he's like a model he's lost a ton of weight he's ripped he looks like uh he looked he would fit right in with the lumberjacks and and so for the har the Harry Potter fans out there, he had a Neville Longbottom type of transformation. The actor that played Neville in the Harry Potter movies started out as like this short chubby kid,

and now he has gone on to be a model as well. So there you go. A little hope for everybody. Yeah, a little hope for all the short chubby kids out there. Still waiting for my transformation at 30 years old. Maybe one day. Don't give up hope, Brandon. So anyways,

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