The Cake Eaters - 11. The Golden Cakies Awards: Game Changers Season 1

Episode Date: August 10, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss their thoughts on Game Changers Season 1 as a whole and then hand out awards for the first-ever Golden Cakie Awards! See who takes home the Season 1 awards for Best Parent, Best Team Name, Pheasant of the Team, Best Flow, Team MVP, and so much more. 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! Hello everybody and welcome back to the Cake Eaters podcast. We have a special episode for you guys this week. We're doing our recap award show for Game Changers Season 1. That's right. We're doing the Golden Cakeys Awards. We're going to be... Heath is so excited he can hardly contain himself. We're going to be giving out a handful of awards. About 16, I believe. 16 different awards to uh our favorite

characters and moments throughout the season one of the game changers and then we at the end of the episode we have a couple uh rapid fire um like yearbook superlative awards i think that's the correct term that he's prepared um so we're gonna we're gonna rapid fire those for you guys at the end before we get started i just wanted to do a couple housekeeping items um so we're doing the award show that right now this week next week we have a super special show we have a special guest that we're going to be interviewing for uh for everybody he is uh i was going to try to keep it a secret but i already said he it's too late now um but uh i'll i'll i'll keep you, you'll, you know, it's a man,

but I'm going to leave everything else a secret until, until the next episode. But we have, it's not fully out of the box, but he has peaked. Yes. Um, but so we're going to be interviewing,

uh, somebody that's been involved with, uh, game changers season one, uh, next week. So, uh,

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doing it i love it as you know i already have my copy coffee cup hot and fresh coffee in my cake eaters mug this morning nice yeah i have my mug as well. What I need to get next, though, is because they have the little tumblers. Oh. Tumblers is the right term? The leaf? Yeah. A little travel mug.

A travel mug, yeah, that keeps it warm. We have our logo on that, so that's what I need to get next. I take too long to drink my coffee. It gets cold just sitting in a mug. As you know, living very near the beach, my next purchase is the beach towel. Going to get that going. It's going to be nice.

But with all that being said. Let's get this the golden – the first – not annual because it's not going to be every year. But the first recurring Golden annual because it's not going to be every year, but the first, you know, recurring Golden Cakey's award. Number one, Golden Cakey's clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. Golden Cakey's clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. Here we are. It's time. Ladies and gentlemen, it's now time for the golden cakey awards and then like you know

you can imagine like the disco right in the background prodigy right or something or maybe like that y'all ready for this little jock jams action that's how that's how i'm feeling right now brandon i i love jock jams don't get me started on jock jams especially like like like techno techno kind of talk jock jams those are my fucking favorite i don't listen to i don't listen to like techno music or like uh or house music or edm or any of that kind of stuff but if i'm watching a basketball or a hockey game and some fucking jock jam house music comes on dude i'm i'm in it i'm loving it pump up the jam classics i love jock jams i had them that was my era we had those or or some some sandstorm

right that's what it's called yeah Yeah, sandstorm, for sure. So that, I don't know why, but I think that song was on a hockey video game I used to play or something. Because anytime I hear that song, the first thing I think of is hockey. It's like the quintessential hockey song for me, and I have no idea why. Okay, so I worked for a minor league hockey team, and I'm pretty sure that's just how you start every third period. Yeah. With Sandstorm. Yeah.

There's a bunch of teams. Sandstorm, and there's the other... I always blank on the name of the song. There's another really famous techno song that every sports team plays, you know? Yeah. Why can't I think of the name of it? Oh, whatever.

Somebody go Google it. Even though I gave it, that's all I have to say. But those golden cakeys, those two songs are, they just, you know, they scream hockey to me.

I love it.braska has serious i think it's called that they always come out to when the when the huskers come out oh man do the huskers have a hockey team no uh well i think they do but the the uno university of nebraska omaha that that's uh that's the team that's usually competing. Go Mavericks. Yeah, the great hockey team right there. And, you know, shout out Huskers, Lincoln, Nebraska on game day. All the glory right there. Anyways, all right, let's get into this, Brandon.

It is Golden Cakey's time. Yeah, start us off with the first award here, Heath. Let's get this going for our very first award we have the golden cakey for best easter egg i'm gonna kick things off honorable mention this was one of my favorite things that recurred quite a bit and it was charlie's minnesota sweater he wore that yeah his hoodie uh he wore that hoodie in the first couple games for his district five games and then evan had it on uh and then alex wore it a couple different times so i i enjoyed that that call back to charlie wearing that gophers hoodie yeah that is such a good one and i know that they don't wear like evan both evan and Evan and Alex's Minnesota sweaters are slightly different than Charlie's original one. There's an updated logo.

Updated logo. Alex, I think, has a gray one that she wears, whereas Evan's and Charlie's is usually maroon. But yeah, yeah, even though they're not the same, it's still the same essence. They're trying to, you know, call back to good old Charlie boy. Love that. Yeah, and it's just a it's just a great looking hockey sweater it's great anytime you're playing hockey and you can throw on a minnesota golden gopher shirt or a sweatshirt you're doing it right you're gonna command respect

exactly coming from a hockey place all right so so that was your honorable mention for this award, mine is, uh, the Fulton introduction in episode six, where we get another, yet another Gordon Bombay smashed window from, from Fulton Reed. Just this time with a jackhammer instead of a hockey puck, but just as good. And they even call it, they call it out later on in,

in their conversation. Bombay says, I'd really love to hang out with you. Fulton, uh, just one time without you breaking one of my windows. Just one time. Absolutely.

You know, and you can just, you know, he fits it right. Fulton Reed, just a kind, simple blue collared kid. Number 44.

Yeah. Number 44. Yeah. Cause he, so, so, so he, so he,

and that's, that scene was so great because he hits the – he's jackhammering, hits a rock, and it smashes Bombay's window. As soon as Bombay gets out of the car, Fulton apologizes like right away. He takes no time at all. He's just like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. He runs over, and then that's when he realizes it's Bombay. And he goes – he introduces himself as his, as his number,

you know, classic. I love it. How else, how else would your coach remember you all these years later? Yeah. So, you know,

it's not like anybody else was ever wearing number 44, you know, I love it. All right. And so those were our honorable mentions. And now it is time for our winner the best easter egg of course because of this podcast we love this so much it is the cake eating of gordon pompeo yes man that was epic just kicking off the show episode one episode one rushing old birthday

cake not birthday cake not once but twice he does it twice old sheet cake not once but twice great like you know it's those walmart sheet cakes because you can get like a really nice like iron man or spider man like really easy in in wal Walmart and just pick one up and take off. And so it's probably already been sitting there for a few hours. And then it's just sitting there for a few hours. So Bombay was a bad way to kick off the series. But that was my favorite Easter egg by far. Yeah.

Episode 1, we catch Bombay at probably his lowest he's ever been well maybe not not not he will he's not dui low so but um he is living in a condemned abandoned but not abandoned a condemned ice palace um and eating hours old uh children's birthday cake and he even asks what i think it's before the second one, before he starts chowing down on the second one, he asks Winnie how long has this cake been sitting out? And I think she says like four hours. And he's like, perfect.

It's aged at that point. It's gotten just a little bit of crispness to it. But yeah, absolutely amazing Easter egg. Golden cakey to bombay eating cake easter egg for our second category the golden cakey for the best character kicking off honorable mention again real quick just for you here brandon it's uh i have bombay he comes back he's we just talked about it he was he was hurting he was down but we see him slowly rise he transforms coob he

transforms logan he gets back to back to his game again and he he brings the don't bothers with that pond hockey episode from the darkness to the light yep that's a good one yeah he does have a a real uh a phoenix kind of storyline rising from the ashes yep which is nice yep and then you know he he triumphs at the end he gets he gets his name his name back he gets the ducks back quack quack quack so for my honorable mention i went with uh sophie on this one i think her they they did with her and evan they had a real specific i think like character box and you know archetype archetype that they were trying to fit them in you know evan's the new charlie and sophie is the new banks and i think it fell a little flat with evan being the new charlie at least for me just because i hold

charlie in such high regards so i was like it's just a con it's a constant comparison that evan is just never gonna win never gonna live up to those expectations it's like it's like someone trying to be the new jordan sorry yeah yeah it's never gonna work just trying to compare people to exactly um but i did think they did a really really great job with sophie's archetype i think she fit into the banks role without being too banksy yeah and i think and and i think uh uh the the actress sway batia that plays her did a fantastic job and i think they that was one of the characters where the writing team i think did a did a fantastic job and they kind they kind of gave her a three-dimensional personality. And you really got to dive in with her a lot more than you did with the other kids.

So her character was a little more fleshed out. So yeah, I'm going with Sophie. That's a great choice. She was the heartbeat of the team. Without her and her goal-scoring ability, they're not making it as far as they do. We saw it in states. We saw it in the tournament. Without her and her crushing those goals, it just wouldn't have been.

No. Yep. She was the – yeah, she killed it all the way through. Yep. She was even the best player on the Ducks when she was on the Ducks. Yep. Okay. so who's our winner here, Heath?

Who gets the award? The Golden Kiki Award winner for best character is Nick the Stick. Yes, and I doubt this comes as a surprise to anybody who's been listening to the show. We have been

singing Nick's praises all season long. He's by far the best character. By far, just, yeah, he crushes. He's a league ahead of everybody else. He just fucking crushes. He steals literally every single scene he's in. He is the absolute showstopper every single time he comes into a scene we love it his comedic timing his quick little one-liners the great

quips it's just you know in his heart of gold ah nick you you love it he has a favorite lamp i mean we'll get into some of the great quotes later right like he just half of what he says goes into our you know uh his his great move that he had for putting your arm around someone you're talking about the frozen girls being very independent you know it was just when when he started going to town and and buying all the merchandise possible at states oh yeah that's just ah man what does he what does he say when uh evan is dancing with mj he goes i don't know what's worse watching my best friend dance with my my girl or watching what my best friend thinks is dancing that's exactly what he says that's exactly and man the stick, he was unstoppable during the show.

Yeah. The best, the best part of every single episode. There's a couple episodes in the middle where he has like two or three lines in the whole episode. And he's still the best part of each of those episodes. Yeah. Like,

like when Maya and Lauren are feuding and, and he's talking to Lauren and she's like, Oh, is that, is that me and Maya made a tick tock? is that it and nick's like oh i uh you're not gonna like to hear this but no it's not you and and you're also not gonna like to hear this but it wasn't as cool as this one uh anyway so yeah nick the stick absolutely crushed is it uh let's let's move on the next golden cakey award goes to best supporting actor supporting character best supporting character

is what i meant to say best supporting character though um i will so we'll start off with my honorable mention for best supporting character yes i have for my honorable mention the what i feel is the heart of of this entire show what i feel who i feel really you know encapsulates what the Mighty Ducks means. And that is my girl, Winnie. I think Winnie is the best supporting character. Even if they never acknowledge that she's part of Han's and Yan's family, in my heart of hearts, I know that that is actually what's true, that she is part of that family.

And she is the rock and the wise advice giver of the show and you know i'm hoping i'm hoping we get even more winnie in season two because she's she's the best the sage of the ice palace and i really i really i think i mentioned this in one of the episodes i I really, they, if even, even if she's not a part of Hans and Jan's family, I need to know how her in Bombay, like how that relationship started. I need, I need to know where they met. If like,

if was she already at the ice palace when he, when he got it, I need to, I need to know what's happening there. Even if she's not part of Hans and Jan's family. And I, if she's not part of Hans and Jan's family. And if it turns out she's not part of that family, I'm going to burn this whole thing to the ground, Keith. You know, they also had the potential of, you know, we talked about going with Mr. Wilson. What about Mr. Feeney?

You know, they had it set up right there, too. You know, Mr. Feeney shed so much wisdom upon all of us during TGIFs, you know. And they even had it set up right there for the Feeny call. You know, Winnie! Oh my God. That would be fucking amazing if they had a Winnie call. Like when things are really starting to go astray, Nick will just call out to the heavens,

Winnie! And she will come running. Or Bombay just starts shouting that to you. Yeah, and all of a sudden, wisdom shall be brought forth upon you. Yeah. Oh, God. They need to do that.

Yeah. More season 2 potential. We said this a lot throughout the season. Rather arrogantly and unfounded. But they really should bring us on as writers. If nothing else, bring us on as

a character consultant specifically for Weddy. You know? Just how to build background characters yep all right who's who's your honorable legend my honorable mention is the one and only stephanie what a great character she was from beginning to end she also had some great lines uh she was talking a whole bunch of shit about the manatees when they had the when they had the ice gala um you know they went from their prada to their parkas all the all the fishes with the sweat the mighty duck sweatpants all the

fishes wearing the little duck sweatpants and all the credit taking all the credit for all of alex's work uh she absolutely does so great. And, you know, let's call it out, too. She's finally shed her dead weight husband, Clark. And so, you know, season two is going to be the season of Stephanie. You know, we're going to see her in a whole new light, fierce, independent and ready to rock and roll. Yes, I am excited for that because i think her character her like personality is such a good and easy transition because now that she's you know she's

she's on the good guys presumably she'll be on the ducks with with alex and her and her kids will be on the ducks with evan and so she can i think it will be real easy to shift her into that sassy best friend role. Just boom. And then even more great one-liners. I love that. Sassy best friend Stephanie. Yeah. Because imagine if you had that passive aggressiveness and that you know unbridled confidence on your side

backing you up you're gonna you're gonna have no fear ready to take on the world sky's the limit all right so those were the honorable mentions but now the winner of best supporting character is coach t yes no surprise coach fucking t no no pheasants on this podcast brandon yeah again talk about some great fucking one-liners he has the the pheasants call back to letter kenny why is she in the clown suit the clown suit the uh what's it i like laughing at clowns not when they laugh at me are you asking us to play dirty coach t it's not dirty it's hockey and then when he's when he's talking to evan he's like hey i know what it's like out there for single moms i've dated a lot of them. Yeah. When he's talking to,

when he's trying to get Evan back on the ducks and everyone's like, why do you want me back? You cut me. No, I didn't cut you. I challenged you and you rose to that challenge. You rose to that challenge. And when he's talking about Sophie, Sophie leaving,

he's like, Oh no, she, she failed. She failed me. It's like, no, I think she stood up for herself. She didn't have it in her, I think is what he says, something like that.

Didn't have what it takes. But yeah, Coach T's fantastic, and I really hope he's in season two. Yeah. Disney, bring back Dylan Fairplay. He absolutely killed it in Coach T. I think we talked about it last episode.

Even if he's not a regular recurring character in season two, I think you need to bring him back for at least one cameo. Have him be the – because I assume the former Ducks soon-to-be-renamed team are going to fire him, right? You can't lose the team name and then come back. That's not going to happen. It's over and done with after that. Yeah, but even if he's not a regular recurring character,

I would still love for one of the teams that they play in state next season that he pops up as a coach. Even if it's just like a little cameo like a little one scene cameo would be tight to have him back yeah you can't he's just such a great character you can't lose him you can't and he's such a big part of the show yeah i would love it if they would slide him in as like an assistant to bombay and then he could do a similar thing that step did where he comes back. He sees the light.

He sees the errors of his ways. Good little subplot. His own version of the Don't Bothers. And then they have another battle for the name. And then, you know, it's just... That's how every season ends. Seesaw back and forth. From Don't bothers to ducks.

All right. So the next category is the best one liner. There's so much to choose from here. So much to choose from. Hit us with the hard one. Hit us for your honorable mention though. My honorable mention though. My honorable mention goes to my good friend,

Lauren, her character development throughout the show was most excellent. And it comes from the episode where we really saw the ducks improving a lot. I believe this is where Alex was starting to turn super mean, but the ducks were all wearing their socks to, to give themselves improved game. Coop talked everybody into it. And while they're talking about this, Maya, they're trying to talk Maya into it. And Lauren says to Maya, well, I do believe salamanders do have some magical properties.

And I loved everything about that line. Lauren, that was amazing. And I bet some salamanders do have some magical properties and i loved everything about that line lauren that was amazing and i bet some salamanders do and harry potter there's like fire some kind of like fire salamanders that just like to to hang out in fires yeah uh i am 100 with her i believe salamanders do possess some magical properties um i thought that whole scene is great um from lauren because before that she's talking about uh like crystals having healing powers healing stones healing stones so so yeah of course she believes in in magic socks lucky lucky socks, you know, it makes perfect sense. Yeah. So my, my honorable mention going back to, to our supporting our best supporting character here,

coach T is I think it's episode nine. Cause it's right before the, the weird little dance thing they do. Yeah. And he's given his, they just got to the hotel. He's given his, his speech to the,

to the, the old ducks. Well, not the, to the, the middle we'll call them the middle ducks's given his speech to the old ducks. Well, not the... We'll call them the middle ducks. The middle ducks. He's given the speech to them because they're all huddled around him and he's telling them,

we got to prepare for the states here. We're not waking up at 5.30 tomorrow morning. We're starting our run at 5.30 tomorrow morning. You got to be in the lobby at 5.30. We're not waking up at 5.30 tomorrow morning. We're starting our run at 5.30 tomorrow morning. You got to be in the lobby at 5.30. We're running. Winners.

So that means you only get one hour at the dance. Between 7 and 8, I think is what he says. One hour at the dance. Shut up, Stephanie. We're not worried about what. Yes. So it's Ruby. Stephanie's daughter.

Ruby, sorry. She turns to Trevor,vor i assume and goes everybody's gonna think we're such losers and then coach t rips back and he says no they're gonna think you're champions i don't need you mingling with all the riffraff boom riffraff is such a great line you could throw riffraff the phrase riffraff riffraff into any any context conversation whatever you want and it'll be the greatest thing you've ever heard yeah well it's just as long as it's not the rapper he's just okay mediocre at best like rapping wise mediocre but he's uh he's a crazy character you know yeah he's funny yeah yeah

he's got yeah i wouldn't go buy a cd now well you know what he's buying cds he's it's fucking it's 2021 you know sorry i just bought a new disc man i gotta break out the cassette player you know my walkman yeah got it fired up just bought some new some new double a's energizer going on in here all right anyways all right okay let's go the winner best one-liner winner and the winner of the golden cakey for best one-liner is nick the stick and this is when Nick the stick is he's both. Is he talking to Winnie or is he talking to Logan? Oh,

should I forget which one it is? I think he, I think he's talking to Winnie. He's talking to Winnie. Sorry to Winnie because they're talking about why everyone thinks he's good at school. And it's because Nick, Hey,

I have a math face yes yes it's it's the scene where uh bombay is teaching logan how to skate and nick gets upset because he's like great now logan's going to be better at everything than me the hockey better at hockey was the only thing i had over him and when he goes i'm sure you're better at other things than logan you're you're probably really good at school, right? He goes, no. Why does everybody think I'm good at school? I'm a B-plus student.

I think he says C-plus student. No, it's B-plus. Is it B-plus? Yeah. B-plus student, yeah. And he goes, it's probably because I have a math face. And you can now, I feel like we could take that and turn it into an insult, too. Like, dude, get your math face out of of here i don't want to talk to you i think he meant it as an insult to himself i think you know now you can you can use it on other people now too it's a dangerous weapon i don't think he wants to be told they have a math face i say i don't think i don't

think math face would ever be considered a compliment. No, not, not ever. Unless you're in the accounting firm. Like, Hey Bill, got a sick math face, bud. Even, even then I feel like that would be,

you know, because even when you're like, uh, I think Bill at H and R block wouldn't want to hear that when you walk in the office? Well, maybe from like a non-accountant. But if you're like at the accounting firm and another accountant says you got a real math face, that – nobody wants to be – everybody in the accounting firm wants to be the coolest accountant. You don't want to be the one with the math face. Oh, so those are fighting words. You're going to throw down your calculator and your ballpoint pen, and it's about to go down.

I don't know if you get too many fights. Accountants aren't real confrontational as a species. Going to get an unkindly worded email. The next category of the golden cakeys is the best goal. Brandon,

go ahead. Let us know. What is your, in your opinion, the best goal? Oh, shoot. And of course I wrote two answers in my notes so now i gotta figure out which one i want to go with so my honorable mention for best goal i'm gonna go with uh with uh the the new signature shot that was developed for logan order up the order up yep the spatula wraparound and then with the order up catchphrase

fantastic i still can't believe that nick the stick attacked that that stack of pancakes with no syrup it's just the the grave injustice to that just going dry well and the cakes that's the worst part was the there was a fucking syrup bottle right next to him yeah and i i understand in dire situations where there is no syrup available yeah you would go you would attack that dry but there was a fucking glass artisanal bottle of maple syrup right next to him just pour a little bit on there dude we can't forgive that you know what would have been good like you know one of those like little maple breakfast sausages you roll it up in the pancake and then dip it in the syrup that would have been nice that's it i'm sorry that's for the

spinoff podcast of uh delicious shit that i eat okay what's uh what what's your honorable mention here for my best goal? Best goal. Mine is Sam's pinball goal where he's bouncing off ducks. Boom, boom, falls down, hits the goal. This one. Yeah. He falls down,

hits, hits it as he's like falling down. And this is in the, where they're playing for the name. Yep. You know, when they're, I think,

I can't remember if it's the first or the second, but I just think, you know, the amount of hand-eye coordination he showed to be able to bounce off of two different people, hit the puck while he was falling down, you know, the wild cards, Sam, the X-Factor. Yeah, great. There it was.

Great goal. And he really comes to his own. Yeah. Great. Great goal. And he really comes to his own. Yeah. Comes into his own in that game. Cause that's where he is. Is it that game where he takes a shot off the chest? He blocks a shot. No,

that's right after the episode. Yeah. Where he's, he's really depressed and tries to put the don't bothers, but then they call him the X factor and he's back in. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I was misremembering, but in they call him the X Factor and he's back in. Yeah. Okay, yeah, I was misremembering. But in the final episode, he has that goal in the final game

and then he has another goal in one of the state finals games. And then that's when they celebrate by spinning him around on the ice. Yeah, that's a great celebration too. That's why it's also part of the best goal. Well, that's not that goal. That's the state final in the state finals game that's not that goal that's the that's the state in the state finals game oh dang it you're right well whatever all the same tomato tomato yeah exactly none of this matters okay so what so who's the winner best best goal

who's the winner heath and the winner of the best school Cakey, is what we call the friendship goal. Yes. Set this one up, the friendship goal. Because it's like true love is sealed with a kiss. A true hockey friendship is sealed with a goal. With a goal and then a high five. A high five. The a high five. A high five. The ultimate high five.

Yes. So to set this up, it's the, again, same game as your goal, same as pinball goal. It's the last game against the Ducks. They're fighting for the name. It's the third period. So this is right after they get the OG Ducks jerseys. So they're coming out.

Nick is rocking the Averman jersey. Evan is rocking the averman jersey evan is rocking the conway jersey they're going down the ice and so the the first half of this goal i don't care for because they they start off the play with the the blindfold hockey yeah that was but then none of them even close their eyes though it doesn't make any sense why like they just kind of slowly scoot along the ice. Brandon, we must move past. We're going to skip past that.

So, so Nick and Evan skating down the ice, right. And they're, they're on a, they're on not a breakaway, but they're on like a two on one or two on two, something like that.

They're passing the puck back and forth. And Evan is trying to get Nick to take the shot. He's like, Nick, I want you to take the shot. You take the shot. And Nick goes, no,

this is way too much responsibility. You take it. I don't want to have anything to do with this. And Evan says, I want you to take the shot. You take the shot. And Nick goes, no, this is way too much responsibility. You take it. I don't want to have anything to do with this. And Evan says, I want you to take it. I want my best friend to score a goal. I want my best friend to take this shot. And he passes it to Nick, and Nick goes, best friend? And then, boom, wrister for the goal.

Fires it home. Yep. And then Evan comes over. You get the high five. They seal the best friendship. Yep. Celebration is on. You can feel it. You can just the elation, you know, this is what Nick has been dreaming of for the entire series.

It's a, it's a beautiful moment. It's a great goal. Yep. Fantastic. Couldn't, couldn't have been any better except for the blindfold part. We ignored that. Yes. Okay. So let's go on to the next one. This next one, my favorite category, Heath.

Yes. My absolute favorite. The next category is best team name. Brandon, this is your favorite category. Kick it off. So we talked about this in the last episode about how fantastic these fucking team names are especially well really only when you get to states because the the normal district names are very you know straightforward and don't don't get us started on don't bother us again but the states the teams at states have the best the best fucking names stuff like what was it

ice otters ice otters ice storming bears storming bears that's what i was trying to think of storming bears blade rockets blade rockets rocket blades rocket blades that's what it was it's yeah what the maroon marauders no it was blade rockets and rocket fire rocket flames yeah Yeah. Flame rockets? We can't... Yeah. So my honorable mention for this, I'm going to go a little off, a little side tangent here.

Not really a side tangent. I'm going to go off the beaten path here because my honorable mention was never confirmed to be an actual team name, but there's no other explanation for why this existed. So you have Xander, who's the, the love interest of Maya in the last two episodes,

the last episode nine. I don't think he pops up in episode 10, episode nine. No, just episode nine, episode nine. He is. So this is when they're at States,

they're at the hotel. They're talking, all, all the teams are there. Everybody's wearing their, you know, their gear, gear their their jackets that say their team names on it and xander happens to have a jacket that says viper freeze on it which i i honestly there's no other explanation for that that those words and that jacket to exist unless it's a team name. Now, we never got confirmation because we couldn't figure it.

We couldn't find that name on the actual bracket. But there was 14 or so, 13 or so team names, unnamed teams that we could not confirm nor deny. And I believe Viper Freeze is one of those names. And so Viper Freeze is my best team name on a role mention because what a fucking sick-ass name. It's a solid name. It sounds like an energy drink that you would want to crush before your hockey game.

Yeah. Or it sounds like the best team in all the land. That's what it sounds like. I don't know. Step aside, Tampa Bay Lightning. Viper Freeze is here. best team in all the land that's what it sounds like you know i don't know step aside tampa bay lightning you know viper freeze is here the tampa bay viper viper freeze that's what's gonna happen now do you think we could start a petition for the the the newly crowned stanley cup champion tampa bay lightning to change their name to the viper freeze let's make it happen the tampa bay viper freeze that's a fucking mouthful uh so my honorable mention is the arctic devils and i love it because i was a wayne blue devil

myself but this is just the hockey version of my high school team the hockey yeah i mean if arctic devil if you i'm pretty sure that the logo was blue right i think it was a blue yeah exactly like a white blue devil yeah but then you would have him like kind of looking frozen you know like it's some icicles hanging down from uh hercules but like if he was like mixed with the snow miser from a year without a santa. If you mix Hades, that's your logo. Can't be mad at that. The Night King? Yeah.

Cross between Night King, Snow Miser, and Hades. Boom. Arctic Devils. There you go. We got to make a team somewhere. Where is a league with an opening for a minor league hockey team? Oh, I think Savannah might actually need a team name.

I need to write to someone. Does Savannah have a, a minor league hockey team? I know they're going to get one. Oh, are they? Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Let's get in there. Let's get in there. Arctic. We got to figure this out. Arctic devils or Viper freeze, or we can pitch the, the winner of the category as well he's with the winner in the winner of the best team name golden cakey is the nova stars yes this you can do so

many things with this team name it's so good it's epic so like everything about like you could just i don't even know where you could even begin between color scheme designs like you could go in a million different directions whenever i hear this though i always think of the amazing fox show firefly like i feel like this is something that you know the the crew of serenity would go pass out there in the verse be like oh hey on our way to persephone we got to watch out for the nova stars see i was this i was thinking you were going to go somewhere else i was thinking you were going to say it reminded you of uh xenon girl from the 21st century the disney channel original movie protozoa with his song

supernova girl i was just gonna i was just gonna ask what the name of the song like is it i i forget how it goes but yeah that song was epic that's that movie oh man i mean it's not the best disney channel original movie no no no hands down is brink whoa i'm gonna stop i'm gonna stop you right there brink is top three for sure. Number one, though, is My Date with the President's Daughter. That's hands down. That's a really good one, but Brink, Team Poppin' Sides versus Team X-Blades? Oh, come on, Soul Skaters.

My Date with the President's Daughter has its own fucking theme song, dude. So good. Isn't that Eric from Boy Meets World? Yeah, it's Eric from Boy has its own fucking theme song, dude. So good. Isn't that Eric from Boy Meets World? Yeah, it's Eric from Boy Meets World. Feeny, bro. Feeny. Feeny! It's him, and then, yeah, it's so great.

So fucking good. I love that. My Day with the President's Daughter is not just the best Disney Channel original movie, but it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Listen, agree to disagree, but Brink. Brink is a close, a very close second. Very close. The dude that plays Brink also is in this made-for-TV movie on ABC Family, Christmas Every Day.

Oh, I haven't seen that one. Oh, it's very good. I try to stay away from ABC Family Christmas movies, though. What? Because they're garbage. They don't hold up to the Hallmark or the Lifetime standard.

Alright, we're not even going to get into the Hallmark Christmas movies right now. But the Nova Stars. Excellent team name. You can go a million different directions. I go space. We both go space, but you just go Xenon.

I go Firefly. That's just where we're at in our lives. Okay, so let's move on to the next one here. Now, this is my second favorite category. This is a category that's near and dear to my heart. Hit us with this one, Heath.

The next golden cakey category is for the best parent. I can start this off. Yeah, hit us with your honorable mention first here, Heath. My honorable mention happens a little bit later in the series, but I think, and she was also my honorable mention first here he's my honorable mention happens a little bit later in the series but i think and she was also my honorable mention for best supporting character single mom okay you know i think that what she's going to be able to do with the twins minus clark is going to be a very big deal because that guy is such a monster addition by subtraction you know exactly the definition of addition by subtraction with his douchebaggery out of the way trevor might simmer down a little bit ruby's not going to be worrying about what the riffraff are thinking about her

and attending a dance who cares about it doesn't matter you're trying to win states so anyway single mom stephanie addition by subtraction uh it's gonna do numbers for the twins okay okay i like that that's that's a that's an oddball that's like me with viper freeze that's an oddball one going going a little left field there but i like it i like it all right what's yours brandon so my honorable mention so this was tough for me because everybody you know we all know how much i love parenting it's one of my passions brandon's parenting corner yes and and so this this this series kind of left a lot to be desired for most of its parenting choices alex uh lauren graham even though she's been a parent

in like 15 different um tv shows she was a teen parent in gilmore girls she was there yep she she was a she was a parent in parenthood the show um but even with all that experience some of her her parenting choices throughout the series were a little a little, they left a lot to be desired. Yeah. And then you had, you know, the train wreck of parents that were Sophie's and then Stephanie, we,

Stephanie and Clark, not too, not too hot either, but there were a few standouts and it was tough because I had two, I had two choices for this. And we ended up going with one of them for the actual winner so my honorable mention fell just a little short but it's just as good i would say of parents as the winner i'm going nick's moms paula and sherry they crushed it as as nick says countless times they're always encouraging they're always supportive you know they uh they

had one little minor choice that i didn't agree with was was when they took everybody's phones at the sleepover but you know it's your house your rules whatever you want to do and then um yeah then they bonded they bonded with um other people's kids as well they should have brought all the parents together They brought all the parents together. They brought all the parents together. They made merch. They were very interactive with Nick and his team. They were very supportive. They were at every game.

They shared a heartwarming moment with another kid, Coob, when he sang Les Mis for them. That was beautiful. I think they crushed it throughout the series i agree and they would have been my choice for honorable mention but i wanted to give this one to you brandon because i know how you feel about paula i appreciate it i appreciate so i did that

for you but you know if you ever want a delightful and encouraging conversation get nick's moms on the phone they're there for you. Oh, yeah. Always. Get to that phone with Evan as your lock screen. Exactly. Okay. So hit me. Winner. The best parent.

The winner of the Best Parents Golden Cakey Award goes to Terry. Yes. Our boy, Terry. award goes to terry yes our boy terry our boy terry on the grind of parenting this guy is putting in the work in the best parent category yes and so i i think we talked about it in one of the episodes yeah we do where he is just he's traveling to these youth hockey games so so yeah so his son here son his daughter mj sorry i was thinking nick his daughter mj is uh has the number two youth hockey podcast in southeast minnesota and she's and she's 12 years old that's yeah astonishing and so not only is he supporting that that, he's buying her the equipment.

He's buying her all the stuff, everything to actually produce the podcast. He's also – Santa Claus is not going in cheap with podcast equipment. Oh, no. I can tell you from experience this shit is not cheap. And then – and so he's doing that, and then's and he you know he's a full-time accountant he's got that going so he's he's juggling all this we don't know if he's a single parent i assume he's got a wife because they but they don't ever mention her but so yeah but you know

tax season is definitely gonna line up with the end of hockey season so that's true he's really pulling double time there he's juggling a lot of balls in the air. So not only is he supporting her dream financially, he's also transporting her. He's driving her to and from all of these events. Gas money. And events that she is not participating in. She's not playing hockey. She's just going there to report on it for the podcast.

So that's amazing that he would transport her there through all the to every every single fucking game she's at every single game then she and then he takes her to states every single game for states and then you throw on top of that when nick when uh her her podcast partner nick uh leaves the podcast to go play actual hockey there's an empty seat right there's a void that needs to be filled who fills that terry he goes you know what not only will i transport you and financially support you through this podcast i'll join in i'll hop in even though our boy terry on the mic get him because he had a few one-liners but i know you're gonna get into it he had some great one-liners but what was our issue with those one liners, Brandon?

Yes, we need way more because they did a bunch. The way they cut some of the scenes made me think that there were a lot more Terry one liners that he said that were that the writers wrote that he said that he delivered and then they just cut away didn't make the final cut i i imagine there's you know there's a good 10 minutes of terry one-liners on the cutting room floor and so we're huge missed opportunity missed opportunity we're important you disney release the tapes release the terry tapes give like release terry in season two because think about think about the most popular some of the most popular instagram accounts you know middle class fancy rad dad you know like all these different things you get terry with some of those brilliant one-liners like it's feeling like tax day in here oh yeah you can you can give give terry some stuff to work with uh he's gonna he's

gonna steal the show every game and maybe that's what they were worried about they don't want terry some stuff to work with uh he's gonna he's gonna steal the show every game and maybe that's what they were worried about they don't want terry steel on the show every game they want that maybe they want us focusing on the action on the ice because he did he had so many he had a he i was thinking back he probably had what five lines throughout the whole the whole show um but they were great lines and they were and he just the the guy the guy who plays terry mark chavez just his the comedic timing and his like dry pan humor just fucking crushes every single one of those lines like the tax day line is not like a funny line written but delivered it was hilarious and then one of my other ones is when they're playing the cardinals in the first game and it's like 12 nothing and uh he goes well a whole lot of red out there and then another time he yells uh cool he just like does the the goal yell that is uh

i also loved when he was like one team will be going to states and the other team will not be playing hockey anymore she's so good kills the game yes yes he's a great parent put in the work yeah he's a podcast he's calling on the podcast now he's on the mic you know he came up in mj's time and it's what parents do great great dad great dad all right okay god now i got me all riled up with that but let's let's let's move on to this next one here he's the next category for the golden cake is his the best returning character and so so to clarify this we're we're talking og ducks for best returning character for for season one of game changers the original because i think there's there's not any other are there any other returning

characters besides the original ducks and and bombay of course but yeah that's it no one that i noticed at least unless someone was like weirdly in the background and we didn't see him but i don't think so no no mc gainey just hanging out no that would be awesome though it's like he was working for mc like averman was working for mc gainey's limo company oh that's that's a missed opportunity right there yep okay but so yeah so we're talking we're talking og ducks okay yeah well. You went first last time. I'll go – I'll hit you with my honorable mention. So again, like with the last category, the winner and my honorable mention real close. I was torn between both of them. But for my honorable mention, I'm going to say my boy, Guy. Because he's coming.

He's your favorite character. Yeah, he's my boy. Love that guy. and when he comes back you find out that all of his dreams have come true he married connie like middle school sweethearts they went they went the distance good for them and i'm happy for him you know you love to see that i love love it's like on workaholics you know i'm talking about when adam's like hey i used to cut myself to dashboard confessional i love love. It's like on Workaholics. I'm talking about when Adam's like, I used to cut myself to Dashboard Confessional. I love love.

Yeah, and if you love love, Key and Connie, that's right up your alley. Middle school sweethearts. They've been together forever. They're winning championships and falling in love along the way. Boom. Not just championships, but international competitions as well.

Yeah. Junior hockey. It's beautiful. Yeah, Guy was great. And you know what? He was a great contributor, solid contributor for every single Ducks team. Yes. He's consistently one of the – he's consistently like the top four player.

I was going to say the second best player, but I would argue the second best player throughout two and three is Julie the Cat. With the first movie, Conway was pushing for Guy to take the last shot instead of Charlie. I was like, no, no, no, Charlie's going to do it. I will defend to my death that Guy is a better hockey player than Charlie Conway. Oh. I think that's for when we break down D1, but I can't wait. Hey, listeners, if you like some Charlie Conway versus Guy Germain back and forth, tune in.

Banks has got to be Julie the Cat, although she plays goalie so it's a little bit different. Banks is the best player on the Ducks. Yes, hands down. And Jesse too. Don't sleep on Jesse. He was rock solid throughout too. Just a little bit of temper.

Just some emotional stuff sometimes. Yeah. And Jesse was definitely easily fl that. And Jesse wasn't – yeah, Jesse was definitely – he was easily flustered. And Jesse – so I'm going to say this, and it's going to contradict my Julie the Cat stance, but Jesse wasn't in the third one. So I think that's why Guy edges him out just based on longevity. There you go. That makes sense.

Yeah. But, I mean, Julie wasn't in the first one, but I don't knock her for that. She was living in Maine. She couldn't have been there. Yep, exactly. All right. My honorable mention, I have his jersey on. I wear it for the majority of the podcast.

He is my favorite duck, Adam Banks. My favorite duck, my favorite cake eater, my favorite hawk. You know, you name it, favorite cake eater my favorite hawk you know you name it adam banks is a is a goal scoring he's your he's your quack and son of a gun he's your favorite hawk though even over the the i did my job guy i did my job i do love that guy you know so so just in case anyone forgot in the first movie the guy checks banks from behind knocks him into the goal knocks him out and he's like carried off in a stretcher and the other the shortest one goes up to to this kid is like what did you do? And he looks at the kid and he's like, I did my job. Because Coach Riley put a bounty on Vince. Yeah, he's just

being a good soldier, Heath. He's doing his job. Josh McDaniels would have been proud. And who's the Saints coach? Greg Williams, the bounty gate? Oh yeah, yeah. He was the defensive coordinator at that time yeah he would he would have been down for that too yeah but so so bank banks is yours

yeah that's a good and he's a he's a lawyer now and he's fighting for the little guy so followed in bombay's footsteps became a lawyer fighting for the good guys had the great cake eater lines all throughout you know like it's just like banks is riding high right now yes he's he's living in fulton we're close behind too because averman is is definitely a great character and then fulton you know fulton was great in the movies but you just you'd like to see him you know he's probably making good money as a construction worker though in minnesota yeah and i i think i, and I think you said this in the Spirit of the Ducks episode, but Fulton had blue-collar townie written all over him.

He was, you know. One thing I did love, though, that they did with the OG Ducks. Great, great. Well, so far. Maybe they do this with one of the ones that didn't come back this time but comes back later but they didn't make any of them nhl players i thought that was good i thought they made them real people real because that's real more realistic exactly and i think if you make like it and banks obviously would it maybe julie the cat well now yeah maybe julie the cat but banks is the only

one that kind of had a chance to to be an nhl so i'm really glad they didn't like make him like an nhl player because i feel like that that like retroactively takes away from like the minnesota miracle man yeah you know because like it you know if you're coach bombay and you take this ragtag group of kids to uh a peewee championship and the goodwill games whatever and then like four of them turn out to be nhl players your coaching job doesn't look that good anymore you know you get four four fucking nhl players you should have won yeah that's rough yeah all right and now the winner of the Best Returning Character Golden Cakey Award goes to Connie. Yeah.

So this was the one that I had. It was between Connie and Guy is what I was thinking about. She's definitely the most successful. Connie gets the edge and is the winner because, yes, she's the most successful. She's a state senator. And then same things with Guy. She married the middle school sweetheart. They have three kids.

Doing great. And, yeah, she's by far the most successful, killing it. She delivers that great speech when they're trying to bring Bombay back. And, like, you could tell that she had been giving political speeches like that in the past because she delivered a nice one. Yep she gives she gives a great speech at the gala. She calls out Bombay when

they're at the pizza place and he's like dodging everybody and she's like come on bro is it going to take another fucking court order for you to be friends with us? Like what's the deal here dude? The voice of truth. Yes. So yeah Connie Connie Moreau. Connie Moreau. be friends with us like what's the deal here dude yep the voice of truth yes so yeah connie connie moreau connie moreau all right what's the next one here he's the next golden cakey category is best ongoing storyline a little clarification on this like with the last one so this this is

we're thinking stuff that they played out throughout each throughout not necessarily each episode but from episode one to episode 10 kind of throughout the whole series so like you know like the one little the singular episode storylines don't really fit in here you know yep okay uh you want me to go first i can kick this off go ahead kick us off my my honorable mention uh for the ongoing storyline is nick and his constant strive for friendship he just needs a best friend he just he wants evan to be his best friend more than anything in the world yes yeah he's just it's constantly on his mind he's constantly asking people for advice. The sleepover episode was a great one. Yep.

He goes to Winnie multiple times asking for advice on how to get Evan to be his best friend. Yeah. Asking if he should save a seat for Evan next to him at the movie. Yep. Yep. So, yeah. I just love it. Just very earnest and heartwarming, I was was nick nick's struggle for friendship

and then evan at the in the last episode the friendship goal finally you know acknowledging it given given nick is due absolutely and the the best part is so he's he's striving nick is striving for this friendship with evan throughout this friendship with Evan throughout the whole season. And he picks up even more friends along the way. Him and Coob are close. Him and Logan become close after he stops being mad at him for being good at hockey. He interacts with the checkmates the most out of anyone. Yes, yep.

Him and the checkmates are good buds. And then he finds love, him and MJ. It are good buds you know yep and then and then he finds love him and mj ah it's a beautiful story nick the stick yeah uh so for me mine is kub coming out of his shell and we see it slowly evolving and slowly happening um i'm not gonna sit here and defend his goalkeeping throughout the first seven episodes. We've talked about that in depth. It was terrible. But, you know, when we saw the sleepover episode, we saw that beautiful rendition of Les Mis when he was forced to put his phone down.

He was able to interact and have an adventure. And he had so much fun. He wanted to go round two sleepover. Yeah. Friday and Saturday night. Whoa. Cool. Pump the brakes, bud. and have an adventure and he had so much fun he wanted to go round two sleepover yeah friday and saturday night whoa coop pump the brakes bud yeah that's a good one coop and then by the end he's singing the national anthem he's just talking about how he never put pants on his parents are now leaving the house thanks to his push of being in hockey they finally they finally came and

watched him yeah as a cube had some great character development and i hope we see him continue to thrive and become a leader of the don't bother the artists formerly known as the don't bothers exactly yeah and i like like you mentioned i i've i have ripped intoob countless times throughout this podcast, specifically because of his goalie techniques and lack of skill. And he seems to have fixed that. Bombay gave him a little tutelage. Now he's a more than adequate goalkeeper. And so now he's not dead weight.

And then with the whole personality blossoming, he's singing everything. Yeah, I hope he continues to flourish in season two. Yeah. I would love to get Coob throwing down on maybe some Wicked. Get him defying gravity. Are you shitting me, Brandon? Coob defying gravity.

Oh, that would be beautiful. I also – I've got to some love for the Wicked soundtrack. It's pretty nice. Yeah. Yeah. Popular. Yeah, that's a good one. Like on the episode of New Girl where Winston sings Wicked in the car.

That's great, too. That's a great one. Winnie the Bish, dude. The Bish with the wish. That didn't go on too much of a new girl tangent but that i forget what season or what episode it is but uh jess jess is calling and leaving a voicemail for uh cc and when he's like no no no let me do it and he grabs it and he's like aocc this is your boy winnie winston aka, a.k.a. Winnie the Bish, a.k.a. And then he goes on for like five minutes.

A.k.a. A.k.a. A.k.a. I think he ends with brown thunder. Brown thunder, yeah. Or brown lightning. That scene is fucking gold, dude. I love that scene.

Yeah, Winston and his cat is how I feel Jenkins and I are. It's a very close similarity. Yeah, I could see that. I could see that i could see that yeah for the listeners jenkins is my little havanese dog who also doubles as my shadow yeah he's got a he kind of looks like ferguson too like if he made ferguson into a dog kind of looks like jenkins he's got a longer snout though he doesn't have that pushed in sound havanese you know it's a little bit longer oh yeah very small and fluffy though yeah same color yeah yeah okay uh all right hit us in the winter hit us with the

winner the winner of the best ongoing storyline golden cakey is the gross mismanagement of the ice palace yes and so this is something we talked about i think although we've been talking about always since back since the first episode because we were trying to figure out how the fuck bombay why how why does he own why does he run this place why is he in charge of this why are there so many guys that deliver like why are there delivery guys for every single product that you sell in the ice palace you've got a cocoa guy a hot dog guy a pretzel guy a pretzel hot dog guy which honestly i wouldn't get down on one of those because i bet it's like you know a hot dog which is like you the the big pretzel filling wrapped around it you hit that with some nacho cheese have you never had a pretzel hot dog before no really i don't think so maybe i have i don't know a little nacho cheese that'd be delightful

just go go to like uh wetzel's or auntie ann's whatever pretzels things at your local mall they have that guarantee mall guy i'm i'm an amazon guy i don't like to go out in the public there's too many people out there but yeah so the grossest management of the s house we've been talking about this to go out in the public. There's too many people out there. But yeah, so the grossest management of the SOS, we've been talking about this forever. Well, I mean, they even have moldy bread. Remember that episode?

Yes. Where Bombay is fielding a phone call from Winnie where they're talking about donating nachos, cutting the ends off of bread and still using it he's serving moldy bread to the children of minnesota i mean it's it's condemned let's talk about all the different colored final notices in the mail that he's been receiving and ignoring it's been condemned i mean the ice palace is in rough shape to say this oh it's not even regulation size no that's the biggest thing that i they brush past that so quick in the uh in the final episode and nobody nobody has any follow-up questions for bombay he just says oh yeah it's 20 feet

which is a lot that's a good amount yes and so now that now that they're the ducks they've got to start they got to start pumping money into the ice palace to get this some of these issues fixed they got to get a regulation rink in there right yeah now that the don't bothers are the ducks we gotta we gotta get something going they've got to expand the ring but like that's gonna be a serious undertaking to expand the ring that means you're gonna have to update the bleachers i mean that's a there's a lot of stuff going on and and if it's condemned due to foundational deterioration i mean we just saw what happened in miami i mean like man you gotta be you gotta be careful with that stuff yeah it's and so what i was thinking before the

end of the that last episode where they have the Ice Palace logo with the ducks and everything, I was thinking why not – why don't we just – since Stephanie is on the board, why don't we just fire Coach T and then bring everybody over to the middle ducks as we call them. Yeah, mid ducks. That way you get all the facilities. We can move winnie over there she can be the snack girl at hendrix yeah you know and then we can officially retire the ice palace um since it's about to you know collapse yeah there you go but that's not what they're all the problems that's not what they're gonna do though so we gotta i wonder if they ever bring up the fact that it's 20 feet shorter than anything

if they ever bring that up ever again or if we just got we just gloss past that like it never even happened i think somehow when we kick off season two we see a nicely renovated ice palace where's that money coming from though heath well there'll be some kind of bombshell dropped in episode one bombay found some money just just a duffel bag full of bombshell dropped in episode one. Bombay found some money. Just a duffel bag full of money in the basement of the ice palace. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Jan left this for me.

Something like that. Okay. Okay. What's our next one here? The next golden cakey category is Best Episode. Yes, Best Episode. We can do this one together because we have tied for our honorable mention. So you go first with your honorable mention because I can change mine since mine's the same.

Oh, okay. Sounds good. My honorable mention is Head games which is the the dance one that definitely episode nine episode nine that was definitely far and away my favorite episode uh there was great interactions with nick where he falls for mj great interactions with evan and sophie and then sophie ends up with trevor You get some great side character stuff too with the support from Sam and Coob and Logan along the way. You get some great Coach T and Bombay interaction. I didn't like the Bombay kind of like,

oh, you can't coach anymore. Oh, just kidding. You can resolution in five minutes. I thought they could have, you know, we talked about that. They could have gotten a much funner, like a cooler direction with him and Coach t but that was my uh that's my honorable mention okay yeah and so that was my number my honorable mention as well because yeah i think that's a great uh episode for all the ones you mentioned and the fact that we we had been clamoring all

season long for you know a specifically kid oriented episode and like seven eight nine and ten is kind of when they started to give it to us yeah they finally let the alex bombay storyline kind of go away yeah but so uh to to all go with my numbers my third favorite episode is my honorable mention then which is um to be episode 10 season finale, which is State of Play, I think is what it was called. Yeah. And, you know, for all the team names alone, I think it's a fantastic episode. I mean, just. And the ultimate culmination.

We got our resolution. You said it a long time ago that the Don't't bothers were eventually going to become the Ducks. We just couldn't figure out how in the world it was going to happen. And we figured out how it happened. Yep. We finally got the resolution to that. We got one last wave of nostalgia with everybody, all the kids wearing the OG jerseys. Yep.

And I love the jersey assignments. I thought that was very telling. You know, Nick is Averman. Most of them that was very telling you know nick is averman most of them that were telling some of them were a little weird like one of the czech kids was fulton which seemed a little weird but and i i i was a little not weirded out but i was a little it threw me off that they were wearing you know the og ducks names um i feel like you know i think you're just a hater brandon that was yeah well that's very true and delightful and it still would have been heroes it still would have been all of those things if they would have

just had their own names on the back you know they didn't have time to do that because the old ducks left their jerseys they did not the old ducks did not left they dropped them off there's no there's no way bombay said they dropped them off brandon is you call him bombay a liar yes because there's no way any of those kids would have fit into those jerseys that's they yeah they would have they would have been big i don't know and yeah whatever whatever let's move on i am calling bombay a liar though

and now the winner of the golden cakey for best episode is the spirit of the ducks obviously you know that was obvious every episode i feel like we don't need to do much explaining here reunion episode duh you know a lot banks calling everybody cake eaters woo woo woo kenny woo yep you got kenny woo doing some fucking ice skating yep he's still got still got it. You got, uh, Connie showing Lauren and Maya,

you know, how to elbow and all that. Averman driving the limo on the ice. Averman driving the limo. Even at his old staff. Yep. Even at some great Stephanie moments in there. Yeah.

All around. Great episode. Yeah. Great. Some great codes. Great coach. With the cutouts, which is,

you know, calling back to Bombay with his cutout. It's great. Yeah. Obvious winner there. Obvious winner. Yep. All right. And now the golden cakey for best couple. Do you want me to start off?

Yeah. All right. I will kick things off. This is my personal honorable mention. It is Winnie and Mustard Tim. Because, and I know this might be a little out of left field, but Mustard Tim brings Winnie back to the light. He brings her out of the sadness of Coco Chad.

And by doing that, he also gives hope to Nick, knowing that he can get a girl as great as Winnie. If a guy like just a regular ass dude like Mustard Tim can get her. Yeah, well, Mustard Tim looks exactly like Nick, just 20 years older. Mustard Tim is giving hope to all the regular dudes out there you can get a beautiful girl like winnie just you know be yourself be true to your heart exactly although winnie and mustard tim don't last very long though because that's when she she leaves mustard tim and that's when she starts dating the pretzel guy and then the hot dog guy and then the pretzel hot dog guy yeah and if it wasn't for mustard tim none of that could have happened no yeah she's been wallowing

over she's in a rough place rough place that's all thanks to mustard tim that's a great one great one uh any any any answer with winnie involved, I'm all for. I thought you'd like that one. My best couple honorable mention goes to the same honorable mention from my best parents. We're going Nick's moms, Paula and Sherry. Yeah, that's

pretty easy. The bedrock I believe the bedrock of their fantastic parenting is the love they have for each other. Absolutely. They are just creating and facilitating a home that is just encased in love. They're encouraging that you can be yourself. You can bring your true self home with you every single day.

That allows you to grow and thrive and become the person that you were always meant to be and that's what paula and sherry can can give to you yes i'm hoping season two we get some a little more some more lines there's they they have like a handful of lines in the hockey moms episode yeah we are going to so many far farmers markets. Yep. They're tired of going to farmers markets. They're thankfully to finally have Nick doing something that they can go support.

They can go watch. Yep. And then they're the ones that make the merch and so putting fun first. Yeah. So they have a couple lines in episode eight. Yep. But other than that, you just seem in backgrounds and then what Nick says about them.

So I'm hoping season two, just like with Terry, I hope season two, we get, we get more Terry, we get more Paula and Sherry, you know, I think.

Yeah. I think that's what, that's what the world wants. And I think frankly, it's what, it's what the world needs. Heath. Absolutely.

It's beautiful. Brandon. Who's our winner? Heath. Best best couple and now the winner of the golden cakey for best couple is mj and nick yes yes and so this uh this one came as a shock to me honestly the love that we never saw coming and Evan called it out. The most secret love that he's ever seen. It's because they don't talk to each other. They, all they ever did was podcast,

but I guess there was no social interaction outside of that. Well, no, yeah, you don't want to mix, uh, business with pleasure. Yeah.

You don't want to mix business with pleasure, but now that he's playing, Nick's playing hockey and he's, he's off of the podcast. Yeah. Now they're pleasure to mix business with pleasure. But now that Nick's playing hockey and he's off of the podcast, now their pleasure is ready to go forward. Oh, my gosh. Once again, going back to Terry being such a great dad, him taking over for Nick on the podcast allows their love to blossom.

Yeah. Wow. Yes, and they have a – like you like you said like you mentioned evans it's not really talked about in some of the the head games episode where they're they're having the love triangle or whatever um but there's so many lines in that episode and then in in episode 10 too where you know it's uh the couple is fantastic they're they're a fantastic couple together yeah when they i forget what they say but when they walk by each other in the hallway it's just it's electric yeah it's electric and then uh what mj says mj mj says you guys you guys have

to play the ducks for the whole shebang and then nick's like guts you have such a way with words it's beautiful it's beautiful it's beautiful love but we're hoping at least i'm hoping i'm hoping they have a a similar you know trajectory of of gee and connie i'm hoping these these middle school sweethearts can make it last yeah absolutely whereas and and i think the reason the reason i can't just speak for you but i think the reason evan and sophie don't make this list and alex and bombay don't make this list is because those those relationships aren't lasting those exactly the ticking time bombs those relationships the next golden cakey category is best friendship I can kick us off with this one and so my best friendship

honorary mention goes to my girl, Wenny and her young mentor-y, Nick the Stick you see countless times throughout the series, Nick goes to Wenny for advice, along with many others Nick goes to Winnie for advice along with many others.

Alex goes to Winnie for advice as well. Yeah. You know, and they, I think if their, their relationship started off their friendship and relationship started off real weird with episode three, when Nick.

The flowers away. It was like, Hey, i hooked up with my babysitter but you don't have that kind of game so give her the flowers so she quits being sad and i have to do all the shit yeah nick nick being obsessed with her in that episode was real was kind of weird but i think they the the show did a really great job when we talk about it in that that episode recap they do a really great job of having Bombay tell Nick that, hey, this – your obsession with her, your lust for her is not cool. You need to bring it down a notch. Yeah, take it down a notch.

Yeah, like it's not going to happen. And so – and I think from then on, it's great, uh, he, he gets over his obsession. He becomes, he becomes just a friend with her and he, he sees six advice and wisdom from her kind of like a mentor. And I think it's a, it's a nice heartwarming, you know,

mentor, mentoree kind of relationship they got going. I great. I can't, I can't disagree with you. It's a solid friendship. of relationship they got going. Great. I can't disagree with you. It's a solid friendship. For me, my friendship goes to, my honorable mention, goes to Trevor and Ruby, or as you call them, double trouble. Double trouble.

Oh, you know, I mean, the the twins they may not be our favorites they may be bullies at times but they're always united they always bring a united front it's a you know ruby supplies the offense trevor shuts him down on the other end supplying the defense i mean when you look at a tandem brother sister two sister, two best friends, twins, I mean, they're the total package. And now that Clark is out of the building, the side of Trevor and Ruby that's kind of the worst. He's not out of the picture, though.

We hope that Stephanie wins as far as custody battle goes and that Clark just gets minimal weekend visits and that way we can really start to bring ruby and trevor along and see some character development in a good way just like yeah it's it's we gotta trevor and ruby got to be careful with this with this divorce they need they need each other now more than ever because when they're seeing what's happening with logan and his sad dad yes and and now that they have to spend some time with just clark you know his his awfulness his douchebaggery could rub off tenfold if they're not careful if they're not careful he could possibly get even worse yes um wow but you know that's what that's what you have twins for to support to support each other.

That's why you have your best friend. Exactly. If if if anybody can do it, it's those two. Yep. They're tough. All right. Who's the winner here? And now the winner of the Golden Cakey's award for best friendship is lauren and maya yes this is hands

down the best friendship um from start to finish you know absolutely the the tiktok where they said elvish in or they said elvish they said coffee and elvish and then they uh maya did it with her trucker accent or not her new york accent yeah it sounded like a trucker you like coffee it's a terrible terrible new york accent but um but yeah that was great that yeah they bond um but then the the conversation it blossoms oh yeah the conversation they have about salamanders and and healing stones yeah you know and then and then at the last episode when they're when they're the they're trying to you know they're having the the the rousing speech before the third period and they're like you know

we don't need to win this game because we've already won and maya and lauren both say yes i've i've won a best friend in the other one i don't need to this game doesn't matter yeah and and that's for life that's nwo style for life too sweet too sweet um no that's all they should they should uh they should start having them do the the wolf pack thing the wolf pack where they kiss it off that is yeah that is a great one but no they they also are great on the ice two main parts of the double helix yep they're they're both uh defenders they play defense both of them yep and they they helped them win that one game between them and Coop, remember? Yes. Shut down defense.

Shut it down. Yeah, absolutely. They shut the caribou down. Yeah. The caribou didn't stand a chance. No. So, yeah. They're best friends and best line mates on defense.

They're killing it. Yep. Kill them. All right. The next category for Golden Cakey is the pheasant of the team. Okay. It's certainly inspired by coach T. Yes.

Yes. And letter Kenny a little bit. Of course. Yep. This, this is, would be the least valuable player for, or at least valuable part of the team.

Yeah. For, for, for those of you that are not familiar with the term pheasant. Yep. I can go first on this one. Okay. I was very passionate about this in,

in previous podcast episodes where I let my feelings known about Evan and him bailing on the team and him convincing Sophie to come over to the ducks only to go to a practice and then deliver the worst apology apology I've ever heard in my life. Like, Hey guys, calm down. It was only one practice.

Like relax. It was only one practice. It just, it was uncool. Yeah. You may have had that one game where you went off because your dad was there but you sandbag and son of a bitch where was that the first four games it's just you know evan it was a great kid you know he's a great the guy that plays him he's a great kid but as far as the the

character goes you know just evan you almost cost the don't bothers everything with your shenanigans yep he uh he had he had some real some real down moments where he was he was fucking shit up you know and uh so so my honorable mention the i i went so the thing i was thinking of i can i can my number one thing i convinced you to put as the as the winner so that's the one i'm most fired up about my honorable mention i had to go with i had to go with coach i had to go with alex lauren graham because she never once learns anything about hockey you know she she starts so many YouTube videos she could have watched. Yeah. She starts off as a terrible coach. She becomes an even more terrible coach. And then Bombay comes in, and then they start winning, and then she becomes an even more terrible coach.

And then that's the end of it. Yeah. Like, I mean, they win a little bit, and she turns into a monster. She's having them do two-a-days in the middle of the season, and they just barely have enough people to make a roster. What a bitch already has a knee injury. Like, what are you doing? What is she teaching them in one of those practices, let alone two? Yeah.

The blindfold fucking bullshit no one needs to learn that listen i don't even get me started on the last play of the game and closing of the eyes and the team being like what are they doing why are they closing their eyes like you know like feel hockey the blindfold stuff was fucking infuriating. Although I did like Nick just taking huge swings behind the goal. That's how you play hockey. Just up in the air. Massive swipes up top. Just from Nick.

But yeah, okay. So that's a great honorable mention. Are you ready for the winner? Yes, hit us with the winner. And the winner of the pheasant of the team golden cakey award is the team name that don't bothers yes now we this is another thing this should be no surprise to anybody this is something we've been talking about since episode one this dumb dumb fucking name worst name. No one would ever want to wear a t-shirt that says, don't bother on it.

No. No. So we figure out in episode 10, we figure out at the end when they want to switch to the Ducks. I guess we don't figure out. I'm assuming this was their thought process.

I'm assuming they were like, okay, at the end of the season we're going to switch names to the ducks so we need to come up with just a bland fucking no nonsense name that people aren't going to get attached to you yeah which i would argue you don't need to do that because ducks is such a even if you even if you named them some something cool as fucking shit like nova stars yeah and then at the end you were like we're gonna play you for the ducks names everybody would understand they'd be like okay because it's the fucking ducks i get it yeah you could have you could have been anything you you could

have been the thunder you could have been the lightning you could have been the minotaurs it could have been the centipedes i thought thought you were going to break into an Imagine Dragons song there. The Thunder and the Lightning. I don't know. I mean, just, you know, when the thunder rolls and the lightning strikes. You could have played that Garth Brooks song every time you took the ice. Top five songs ever written. Thunder Rolls.

Love that song. Big Garth fan? I'm not a big Garth fan uh but i i i fuck with thunder rolls that song is fucking legit you're not calling baton rouge no or is low friends in low places is that him no no that's uh is it randy travis i don't know that but but yeah thunder rolls is the only garth brooks song Brooks song that I fuck with. But it's a great song. Like I said, top five songs ever written.

Thunder Rolls. I was wrong. You were right. Friends of Low Places is Garth Brooks. Okay. That's a good song too. I fuck with that song too. But that song doesn't hold a candle to Thunder Rolls.

Thunder Rolls is amazing. Legitimately an amazing song. Agree. Very touching music video. Oh, yeah. All right. Okay. Worst team name ever.

We'll move on. Worst team name ever. We've talked about it enough. We're good. Yeah. And the next Golden Cakey Award is the biggest missed opportunity. Biggest missed opportunity biggest missed opportunity so my honorable mention for this is and we we talked about it you you meant you were the one who brought this up when i was going on my winnie rant a couple of uh like episode five episode four something like that

yeah um is winnie's background the fact that you don't don't we don't tie her to yon or han's family is i is a huge missed opportunity and it was a missed opportunity i didn't even think of until you brought it up yeah i'm a genius in other words you are and i i think i said in that uh the episode you bring it up in like i'm gonna that's such a good idea that i'm gonna be fucking furious if it turns out that it's not true and so and it up in, like I'm going to, that's such a good idea that I'm going to be fucking furious if it turns out that it's not true. And so, and it's turning out like it may not be true,

but it should. Yeah. I mean, as long, as long as they don't specifically call it out that it's not true, I'm going to cling to the fact that it is true. You know, you're just going to hold on to hope.

And I feel like it would definitely be like granddaughter age or great-granddaughter yeah i mean you could do like great-great-niece i mean she doesn't have she could be like fucking like distant you know fucking i like i like great-great-granddaughter great niece like 17 times removed i'd be fine with that yeah you know but somehow it goes back and that's why she's working at the ice palace or maybe not even like family but like like a family friend like her like her grandpa or great-grandpa was like best friends with yawn or something like that so some kind of tie-in um but yeah some correlation with honey preferably it would be like yeah great-granddaughter um i think that's that's just

such a fucking no-brainer especially with like the little tidbits of like advice giving that they set up throughout the whole series with it was going there alex going to her you know yeah it's there for the taking and the and again it doesn't even have to be it doesn't even because i get i guarantee you i'm the only person who fucking cares about this guarantee the only person who cares about this but i would love it if uh it doesn't even have to be like a direct specific call out like you don't have to be like yeah she's his great great granddaughter you could just do something like i think we were talking was it last episode or two episodes ago something like that we were talking about how you could just do like a little

skate like a skate sharpening scene and have her pull the cat the ketchup, something like that, we were talking about how you could just do a little skate sharpening scene and have her pull the catch-up trick. Something like that to where it's subtle and short and sweet, but the people that would get it would get it. That would be... The catch-up trick would be hilarious. Yes.

Something like that, I think, would be fantastic. Like having her get Nick now that they're buddies yeah so yeah you know to have a razzing nick a little bit and i'm still i'm still pushing i i'm going till the day i die i'm gonna push for disney to give me and you some spin-off uh show of this and we and centered around hans's skate shop we We could even call it Hans's skate shop. That could be the name of the show. And you have Winnie who's running the skate shop.

Yeah. Yes. That's it. That's I'm going to pitch that. I'm pitching that to Disney until the day I die. Cause I think that would be fantastic. It's like Lizzie McGuire meets a home improvement. I'm not sure where you're going with that.

I don't think that's exactly what I had in mind. You know. Where she's a combination of. Mr. Wilson. And then. But like she's Mr. Wilson for all the kids. And their interactions at middle school. No.

No. This would be a spinoff. Completely separate of the kids oh well we can cut this out yeah we can workshop this later but you know we'll put that into beta testing yeah it's not our full pitch you know we haven't we haven't solidified the elevator pitch we're working on it yeah but it's it's there yeah it's hans hans skate shop starring m hayne Yeah. It's Hans Skate Shop starring M. Hain as Winnie. Yeah. That's all you need to know. Yeah.

Okay. What's your honorable mention? I could talk Winnie all day, Heath. My honorable mention is actually something that you brought up in one of our past episodes. What could have been if Evan was the ultimate bad guy. And all along, him getting Sophie off the ducks was just a conspiracy to get himself back on the ducks. And not only that, because he all of a sudden starts playing really, really good out of nowhere when his sophie

is on the bag and for sure and then all of a sudden coach t wants him back on and then you know bada bing bada boom evan on the duck sophie's off evan's mom and sophie are just like what in the hell just happened and then evan is you know basically one of the more evil people in the world yeah i would give it would give you a legit villain to like you know rally around and then it would set up so like so sophie as the new charlie essentially yeah um oh yeah i think that would be a very interesting way to go about this and like nobody nobody would have fucking saw that coming yeah that would have that would have been a massive twist that would have been a red wedding type of shot yeah i like how both of our honorable

mentions are the other person's idea yeah i know oh man we. Yeah. And we know that about each other. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Who's the winner? What's our biggest missed opportunity here? And the winner of the biggest missed opportunity, Golden Cakey, goes to more Coach T and Bombay Interaction. Yes. And so I.

We got a little bit in episode nine, but not enough. In 10. 10 they have a little bit. Yep. Because they have the stare down. But yes. And I would take more just interaction between them like talking. But I would also – I also would have loved for them to have like some sort of history or something.

Like a storyline. I would have loved it there were so many storylines happening all around it it would have been cool to get more of like a focused storyline like you had to take in some of the the bombay and alex love stuff out and put in some coach t bombay to build up more of like bombay as the coach and coming back as the coach and like getting that competitive spirit back to get out of the basement of a condemned building yeah and I think it would have given a little more depth to coach T because I they gave a little bit of depth to him in episode 9 but then they ripped it away when he, you know,

that whole, the bar scene where him and Bombay are bonding. I thought that was super fucking nice. And then they ripped it away when he just went, dimed him out. Yeah. You know? So I would have liked more of those interactions or more of like a

history backstory between them. Like maybe, maybe coach she was on was a player for Bombay or maybe, you know, it doesn't have to be that directly of a direct of a backstory connection but yeah i would have liked more between those two because i because i think they they fed off of each other real well i think they would it would have been hilarious and um moving if if you got some more coach t bombay because like uh and some good back and forth and they could have built off of more of that and like with d2 uh this is on my mind

because i just i just recently we rewatched d2 but d the best parts of uh some of the best parts i shouldn't say the best parts some of the best parts of d2 are bombay and wolf the dentist the iceland coach oh yeah going back and forth those scenes are fucking fantastic and so i would have loved a little more of that with like coach t i love when the dentist interrupts uh bombay's uh press conference and he's like you're going down bombay yeah i know i said that in the last podcast but it's one of my favorite moments. The best part is at the end when they're kicking him out and he's like, what? I thought this was America.

Free speech. And they've got like the polar bear, the Hendrix polar bear going on. We're Team USA and we're going all the way. Yeah. Only places you're going is down bombay but yeah i think i because those are yeah that's such a good part of d2 is is wolf the dentist dancing and bombay going back and forth you have the rivalry that the rivalry you have the little one-on-one session they play where he hurts bombay's knee again there's the weird scene where uh bombay is talking to the trainer girl the iceland trainer and uh wolf comes in and

interrupts him and like bombay's having like a full conversation with him but he's only giving him like one word answers yeah and then he he he calls him a typical america he calls bombay a typical american because he's so i forgot about that interaction yeah those scenes are so good and so i would have loved some of that with bombay and coach t because like the the one in the the little scene in episode nine where uh you know they went back and forth yeah coach he's trying to trying to bombay gets like him out yeah yeah yeah that was great i thought some more of that would have been great yeah and and even the staring contest was great yeah yeah like that was that was gold yeah and then like when when uh then like when Evan came running back out, Coach T like did the fist pump.

Yes. Got it. Damn it. Damn it. Yeah. I'm like, God, why? No, that's excellent. All right, cool.

And this is our last category. No, we got two more. You skipped one. We got two more. Oh, did I? Oh, yeah. I didn't skip one. Two more.

Two more. The next golden cakey is Team MVP. one we got two more oh did i we haven't done it yeah i didn't skip one two more two more the next golden cakey is team mvp yes you want me to go first i'll go so my honorable mention is because yours is insane because it's oh it's so good my honorable mention is coach t coach t is the don't bothers team mvp because he created them is that where you're going with this because he is responsible for every good thing that ever happened to him so he is solely responsible for the don't bother is even existing if he if he doesn't cut evan or if he's not a fucking dick about cutting evan the don't bothers don't start okay so they don't even exist you don't bother sir yeah you don't bother if he does if he cuts evan in like uh like if he doesn't do it in

the middle of the fucking ice in front of everybody if he waits until after practice does it in his office or the locker room and it's like hey evan i'm sorry we have to get rid of we have to cut one person and that person's you i I'm sorry. And then doesn't do it. It never happens. Yeah. Evan goes home and he's like, Hey mom, I got cut.

And his mom and Alex is like, Oh, thank God. No more of this fucking bullshit hockey. Yeah. And they, you know, nothing,

nothing ever happens. But so he does that. Don't bother start. Then the next couple episodes, he runs Sophie into the ground. The fucking demoralizes her at to her breaking point and so she breaks quits the ducks and then goes over to the don't bothers coach t is responsible for that again there you go wow and then you know throughout the yeah throughout

the rest of the episode then he he he tries to poach evan which kind of backfires because they after the pawn hockey episode, they rally around, they become a team again. They get more pumped up. Now everybody's the captain. It's a real nice team moment. You know, now they're,

they're pumped up, ready to go. And then in the last episode, he's fucking talking shit. And he's like, all he had to do was fucking walk away, walk out of the goddamn building. Coach T you won on a,

on a disqualification. Cause they couldn't play. Walk out of the fucking thing, Coach T. You won on a disqualification because they couldn't play. Walk out of the fucking thing. Don't start trash talking. And then you put your team's name on the line and you lose. Never fall for Bombay's bait. No, no, never. It's an interesting theory. Every single good thing that happened to the don't bothers

now the new ducks was because of coach t which is why they should bring him on as an assistant coach i would love that coach t and bombay assistant coach and coach next year there's a ton of potential there there's a in like a breakup like you can do a nice coach t and bombay breakup and coach t goes to the hawks and revives that program and then they battle to see who then the top two again and then it's hawks and ducks again it states all right disney call me up um i'll run that by you we'll put that on the drawing board we'll get some beta testing going. Let me give you my honorable mention while we're at it. Mine is going to go to Nick the Stick. He was the heart and soul of that team.

He brings the checkmates in and always interacts with them, has the sleepover, becomes bonded with Coop and Logan he's he all of a sudden he's getting some nice playing time he's scoring goals and key games you know Nick really came through and he was through a very up and down season highs and lows Nick always brought that positive energy uh and you know he he was going to keep them going throughout. So I think we needed to give it to Nick. I think he should have been captain after Evan pulled it off his chest. Sophie, you know, she had a good point, right?

Like everyone's a captain. But I think it should have gone straight over to Nick. He deserved it. And then he's going to come back strong to sleep away camp next year because of this oh yeah yeah yeah i think that's good yeah because you definitely see him throughout the season get get better and i think a lot of that has to do with his confidence his confidence gets higher you know he's starting to get friends that boosts him up you know he scores a goal he gets a girlfriend you know he went he wins the ducks

names back yeah now he's fucking he's he's feeling he's doing great and he's gonna just fucking slay at sleepaway camp yeah they're not gonna know what hit him there he's gonna come back flying high yep oozing confidence that's what it's all about it's all about the confidence yeah exactly yeah all right all right team mvp who's the who's the winner here heath and now the winner of the team mvp golden cakeys is sophie that's easy obvious choice best best hockey player by far she doesn't she doesn't factor into the final game other than being you know moral support and you know all that on the bench but it was a miracle that they won without her oh yeah she is the primary goal scorer she was the best player on the ducks like you said best player on the don't bothers it's easy everyone knows it they would say the exact same thing remember alex was like hey we really got to

focus on just giving the puck to sophie yep pass it to sophie yep that's it that's their offense revolves around her and it should and and the episodes that it didn't that was goes back to your honorable mention for fencing and the team. That was the coach not getting the star player involved enough. Yeah. And not teaching the role players to get the star player of the puck. Classic Coach A. Comes full circle. But yeah, Sophie, team MVP, hands down.

Zero question about it, I feel. Zero question. All right, moving on. To our last KK's category before the rapid fire ones. The cakey for the best flow. Now, I don't know anything about good flow anymore, Brandon. Mine has been slowly thinning for quite some time. But, you know, here we're holding strong using my Nioxin shampoo.

And here we're holding strong using my nioxin shampoo and here we are but i go first or do you want to go first for the for the best flow you can go you can go first um i just want to point out that i i also have zero experience with with good flow i have i have less authority on the matter of best flow than i do parenting so i mean i i do have experience with a pretty sick bowl cut uh that i rocked very hard all throughout elementary school there you go i i did the uh when i had hair which is was like all the way back in like middle school i rocked uh i had a pretty sick faux hawk going sometimes like like sixth and seventh grade was was faux hawk brandon yeah do you have some jinkos too some jinko jeans listening to corn and limp biscuit i did not have jinko jeans and i wasn't listening not at sixth and seventh grade

i wasn't listening to limp biscuit but like fourth grade fifth grade brandon was just chocolate star fish and hot dog flavored water on repeat oh see i'm i'm five years older than you and so like for me in seventh grade uh it was nookie and like you know break stuff like i got that i bought that cd in eighth grade i think okay yeah i think chocolate starfish and hot dog flavored Water came out when I was in fifth grade, fourth grade. Something like that. Like the title of that CD. Are you kidding me? I have no idea why my parents bought me that CD.

I had no business listening to it. It was the explicit version, too. So he was dropping F-bombs every other fucking line. Great album, though. Great album. Great album title. All right. I'll kick us off best flow for me uh it was mentioned by mj in the very first episode yeah coach t he has beautiful flow he's working on it he's rocking the mullet he's had beautiful you know

uh dylan fairplay has had beautiful flow since he has been rocking that in Letter Kenny. And, you know, we're big Coach T fans, and we're big fans of his hair. And it's just, you know, all around Coach T. Yeah, yeah, Coach T. Sorry. I meant to mute while I was, like, messing around with my mouse so it didn't get all loud, but I accidentally hit the video instead of the mute. Yeah, you're an idiot. So everybody still heard my mouse, but Heath just didn't see me for a little bit.

Coach T, beautiful hair. Who's your honorable mention? Coach T's got great fucking flow. He's got fantastic. Like you said, he's always had great flow. Going back to Leonard Kinney. That's why he's always getting the big city slams. Yeah.

He's catching big city slams with the flow. Yeah. But my honorable mention, because Coach T t goes without saying great flow my honorable mention though is uh bombay hairlines holding up well hairlines holding up well it's got that the little like ron swanson poof you know yeah um yeah it's looking great he's i i don't know if we ever talked about this but he looks fantastic for for for it being what 26 years 20 years how long has it been 30 years now since the first episode since the first movie 91 yeah 30 years yeah 30 years um jesus yeah looks uh looks fucking fantastic um yeah he's looking he's crushing it still got the flow

still looking great you know he's rocking the the brand in fashion now so he's looking he's crushing it still got the flow still looking great you know he's rocking the the brand in fashion now so he's looking even better style the flannel the flannel with the with the jeans can't can't go wrong yeah bombay holding up well yeah yeah so yeah he's my he's my honorable mention and he looks and sounds so much like his dad it's fucking crazy yeah after you said that i re after re-watching there's a few scenes where i'm like oh my god he he really does look a lot like his dad yeah there's a couple times where like all like when i'm watching this i'll like like look away to take notes and then i pop back up and i'm like oh shit when did west wing come on i didn't watch that show you didn't watch west wing no it wasn't watch West Wing? No, it wasn't for me. Yeah.

It's a, yeah. Not for everybody. It's, yeah, it's a, it's an acquired taste. It's a great show though. If you're, if anybody's into like, you know, like, I don't even know what I, I don't even know what you would describe that as. Isn't it a lawyer show? No, West Wing's where his dad, his dad plays the president. Martin Sheen plays the president.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I was getting that confused or whatever that like anyways but it's a if you're into like like political political drama i guess is what that would be like political drama shows um definitely give it a shout out it's you know it's not like it's not the most thrilling or exciting show, but it's great TV. It's great TV. I just watch New Girl. That's fair.

That's fair. There's definitely there's no Winnie the Bish in the West Wing. That's for sure. No, no, no Schmidt. I could take a leave Schmidt. It's all it's Schmidt is a great character and new girl. And later, later Schmidt's OK. Oh, douchebag schmidt is my favorite oh have you seen my shirt my shark skin laptop case or my shark skin laptop sleeve

there is uh his driving moccasins yeah my driving moccasins uh i don't talk about my t-bono like that brandon i could take a leap schmidt though winnie the like later winston is great like season seasons one and two winston is garbage but like season three and on winnie the bish is fantastic and nick biller is is great nick miller's best absolutely and his what's it what's his buddy, the old Asian dude that he becomes best friends with? Tran. Tran. Yeah.

I love that. Like when he goes and dunks him like a baby. Anyways, all right. Let's hit the winner for the best flow. And now the winner of the best flow golden cakey goes to Logan. Yep. I feel like it was between him or Coach T. And I think we give the edge to Logan.

Even though we had a bad hair day in one episode, a bad hair day for him is a good hair day for everyone else. Oh, it's the best hair day of my life if I had that. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. What I wouldn't give. But yeah, Logan, he's got great flow.

I think you mentioned it a couple of times. He looks just like the Brink guy. Yeah. So yeah, it's crushing. And he does a great slow-mo kind of head turn to get the flow going. Like he has that down. So yeah, shout out, Logan. great hair ah makes you miss it all right so that was the first ever golden cakeys yep we broke down those categories and i have some superlative categories yeah before we get started on that

though for for because there were 16 yeah categories right so i i think our our tentative plan right now is to do a golden cakeys after we tackle each kind of so we did one for season one here once we once we start talking about the first movie we'll go all the way through that and then at the end we'll do a golden cakeys for just the first movie and then we'll talk about the second movie and do a cakey's for the second movie and then the third movie so on so on so we'll definitely have some more of these um and um i think the goal is to try to keep those 16 categories pretty consistent yeah a quick message from our friends at Broken Forest Collective.

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mj okay mine is sophie the solid one too solids it was between mj and sophie i'm going mj just because she's fucking 12 years old and she has, you know, the most, uh, the number two youth hockey, uh, podcast in Southeast Minnesota. She's already on solid footing here. Yeah. Yeah.

She see. And I went Sophie because her parents have her whole future laid out. You know, we saw it with her brother, you know, he was, she might, she might crack under the pressure here.

No. Because we saw that she's capable of making high-level decisions for her future by going away from the Ducks because she saw that path of herself cracking and she moved over to the don't bothers, kept things a little bit lighter in sports. So she focused on academia as well. Yeah. little bit lighter in sports unless you focus on academia as well yeah but that you know what happens when she's you know 20 years old she's under she's an undergrad at harvard and she's like this is crazy insane i don't know what i'm doing you know what since i have the the ability to make these high level choices for my future my high level choice is to drop out of Harvard and go live as a beach bum in Sydney, Australia. She wouldn't do that.

She's smarter than that, Brandon. I don't know. She's delivering speeches at parent coffees. I just, I don't feel Sophie. You think she's doing that out of her own volition? She is handling this with absolute grace. I think you are doubting Sophie way too much. She is a mentally strong young woman, and she can take on the world.

She could, but I'm saying some people just don't want to. And I feel like if I was in her shoes after 20 years of taking on the world and my parents, I would be like, you know what? I'm going gonna go be fucking carefree and i'm gonna chillax on a fucking beach well what she's gonna do is she's going to in school invent some form of you know thing that allows her to you know not work a day in her life because she's doing what she loves. Maybe. I feel like... Because she's smart.

Brandon, you're not going to win this one. Sophie's going to succeed. Don't hate on Sophie like that. She's definitely... I mean, I'm not saying... I'm not saying being a beach bum isn't succeeding. I'm saying she's not going to be like a doctor or anything. I'm envisioning successful Sophie.

She's 28 years old and she pulls a paul walker in into the blue right she moves she moves to the bahamas and she teaches people how to scuba dive and that's what she does okay that would that sounds like fucking success to me whatever you say brandon the next superlative golden cakey is the most likely to commit tax fraud it's got it's a tax fraud it's got to be bombay right he's i guarantee he's already committed tax rent so i went clark because clark sucks you know he's like a financial investment guy so and i definitely feel like he would pull some tax fraud stuff. Bombay would do it out of just sheer negligence. Clark would do it maliciously.

Yep, exactly. That's the difference. Bombay does it because he doesn't check his mail. Clark does it because he's trying to work over the system because he sucks. Yeah, that makes sense. I got you. All right. Golden Cakey for Mr. or Miss Congeniality. Okay. over the system because he sucks yeah that makes sense i got you okay okay all right golden cakey

for mr or miss congeniality okay and congeniality is just like nicest right it just means like okay i gotta go logan then he's canadian oh that's actually really good i should have put logan i put nick you know because he's always warm and bubbly and kind but i think you're right though like logan would win because he's their puppy dog uh he's i mean i forgot about the puppy dog he lives up to all things canadian yeah okay i like nick though nick nick fits nick fits golden cakey superlative award winner for most likely to survive the hunger games oh survive the Hunger Games. Ooh, survive the Hunger Games.

I'm going to say Maya and her big city attitude. Okay. Yeah. Maya's bringing some attitude, so you think she can survive? She has survival skills because she survived on the mean streets of the city. Exactly. And I think she would be able, with her psychological warfare, she would be able to round up the weaker-minded kids and have them be like her army until they got picked off

or until she needed to pick them off. Yeah. And she would be so convincing and so manipulative, they would just fall on their swords when they were done with her bidding. Exactly. Wow. That's a great choice. So I'm going Sam because I think –

That's a good one too. Not only is he an X factor, but he's kind of like a calculating X factor. He talks about defining the relationship. He has a lot of life experience like that. And he's a little dark and brooding. We saw that on the pond hockey episode. So I think you'd want to watch out for Sam because not only is he calculating, but you never know what he's going to do. He's a fucking X factor, dude.

He's an X factor. So I think Sam would win the Hunger Games. Okay. That's a good one. The only thing I would worry about with Sam is making a poor decision an emotional choice I was gonna say I'd worried he maybe he'd get he'd get too sad for for like just a second too long you know he will because if he had to kill someone he would feel really bad about it yeah and we saw we saw the whole first half of the pond hockey episode he's just he's depressed yeah and pouting the whole time i feel like if he yeah if he got too sad for just a

little bit too long during the hunger games you know that's bad news the the shorter the games the better for sam because then he can just ride high on that adrenaline and he's not going to overthink the decisions he's making. There you go. Yeah, that's good. Golden Cakey Superlative Award for Class Clown. Class Clown. There's not really a bunch of jokesters. Like, there's no Averman with this group. No.

I guess Nick. I guess Nick. I think you're right. Because even they paired Nick with Averman with this group. No. I guess Nick. I guess Nick. I think you're right with like they – because even they paired Nick with Averman's jersey. Yeah, yeah. And he has all of our favorite lines because they're not like jokes, but they're like quick, witty one-liners that always kind of get you giggling a little bit yeah even from the very first episode when he's talking to alex and um he's like talking about how she embarrassed herself he's like can i come over and she's like no and he's like okay i'm coming over yeah yeah he's yeah like you said it's real quick wit it's it's like uh it's like officer it's it's not like classic joke funny though or like prankster funny it's just timing. Yeah. Yeah.

Whereas like Averman was like, just like, he was like goofy voices and like jokes and yeah. But yeah, yeah. I gotta go with Nick. So I probably would have gone with Nick too, but I'm going to say my backup is the checkmates.

They, they, they don't talk, but they do give thumb up. Yeah. Yeah. That is a great fucking scene thumb up thumb up um so but i can i can definitely i bet they're hilarious in czechoslovakia i would say i i i like that because granted yeah they haven't they've had like one or they've had a very few lines they've mainly just given gestures and then like broken english lines but the the scenes and stuff they've shown where you can lines. They've mainly just given gestures and then like broken English lines, but the,

the scenes and stuff they've shown where you can kind of like glean a little personality from them. They seem like jokesters. They seem like, like happy go lucky guys. So I could, I could see class once, hopefully in season two,

we get more from them. We get more, you know, they've learned English. They've gotten some duolingo going. Yeah. I mean, I mean,

they don't even necessarily need to, to, to learn English. I would, they just need to be, cause I mean they don't even necessarily need to learn English. They just need to be – because I mean they came in halfway through the fucking show. So hopefully season two, they're there the whole thing and we can get more personality from them. Even if it's broken English or just hand gestures or – Something. You don't need to speak English to do pranks.

They could do a bunch of pranks. Oh, that would be great. Yeah. Office pranksters yeah yeah all right and our very last category of the show the most likely to grow a playoff beard okay i'm i'm gonna go with bombay because he had in episode 10 he has it's not a it's not a full beard but he's got the the goatee and a bunch of stubble going. So I think he's trying to grow the playoff beard for States.

And he talks about being on the road, right? And they're doing all that kind of stuff with the team. Yeah. So it's not a bad choice. I went Coop because we got the socks episode. If he's willing to put gross, dirty socks inside of his helmet for a whole game, he's definitely willing to grow a beard. Exactly. Exactly.

And I bet he would grow a nice beard once he gets old enough to grow beards. So, yeah. Well, there we are. Thank you for joining us. First annual Golden Cakey Awards. Yes. It was a pleasure, Heath. It was a pleasure he's it was a pleasure you know and i

can't wait for these to start overtaking the oscars and and different award shows like that they just won't even be able to compare yep watch out guys watch out we're coming for you yeah golden cakeys are here to stay exactly it's a great great first uh first golden cakeys are here to stay. Exactly. It was a great, great first, first golden cakeys. And like I said, we'll, so after this, we will have, we have a special,

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