The Cake Eaters - 17. D1: The Mighty Ducks - Part 5

Episode Date: October 26, 2021

Heath & Brandon dive into the original Mighty Ducks movie! Today’s episode goes over minutes 81 through the end of the film. They discuss the power of the infamous Bombay Solo Skate, more Coach Reilly trauma, the emotional minefield that Banks must maneuver through, continued poor goalie performance, Brandon's time in the world of figure skating, and what's next on the docket for the podcast. 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! Welcome back everybody to the Cake Eaters podcast, your definitive Mighty Ducks podcast. Today is the fifth and final part of us breaking down the original Mighty Ducks movie, D1. Today, we're going to talk about minutes 81 through the end of the film, the finale, the climax, if you will, Heath. And we start off, boom, right out the gate. The ending of the last minute marker was the newspaper that shows the state championship we have the face-off poster Bombay coach Riley winner takes all wow what a feeling what a moment we're about to have a quacking good time here at

the podcast I don't know about you but I'm to get quacked up right up here in your face, Brandon. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just, I'm fired up. I can't, I'm just, I'm feeling it. I'm feeling froggy at the moment. That was, that was, that's very aggressive. Was that, was that too aggressive?

I'm going to get quacked up right in your face. Right up at, right all up in your grill. I've never seen quacking like this before, man. You have no idea what's about to... Anyways, I'm sorry. I'm fired up. It's the final episode. I'm fired up too, yes.

We're at the climax. We're at the championship game. The 1992 Minnesota State Peewee Championships. Now, we won't. They do a fantastic job of ignoring the Division I and the Division II things that they mention in the article. So we're going to ignore those as well. This is the Minnesota State Peewee Championship for all the marbles. Yeah, this is it.

Hawks, Ducks. But before that, we start the episode. We pan in, and we see Bombay. He's skating on the ice. He's in the open lake. He's at night. And guess what? The Hawks are fucked right now because this right here,

this is where the Minnesota Miracles get sprinkled into Bombay because we see it here. He's out skating on the lake. We see it in D2, right? D2? Any time that Bombay is alone with himself on an ice rink doing a solo skate, you're in trouble. You're in trouble.

Like, wave the white flag, my friends. Like, Bombay is about to stick it to you, and it's about to stick it to you real good. Donezo. Donezo. It's over. Anyways, I'm over anyways i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm just i'm way too fired up today but we've got bombay skating and all of a sudden we

kind of we kind of like zoom kind of back in and then all of a sudden we have little gordo and we have riley just reliving these horrible riley berating little like his pep talk to Bombay is absolutely terrible where he's just like, you know, it's not worth playing if you can't win. That's what he has to say before he skates out there. Yes, that's that's that's some crazy. I it's yeah, that's some crazy psychological tricks to be doing to a kid. I get it, though. You know, it's it's, yeah, that's some crazy psychological tricks to be doing to a kid. I get it though. You know, it's, it's like perfection. It's like debilitating perfectionism. You know, if you can't, what's the, what's the quote from the, from the office that where Ryan's talking about

being a perfectionist and he's like, I'm so much of a perfectionist that if I don't think I can do it right, I just don't do it. And I, I get that. I, I think I can do it right, I just don't do it. And I get that. I deal with that a lot. It's just like, I know I can't do this perfectly, so why even try? I'm dead. I'm out of here.

But anyways. That's the psychological hurdle that everybody has to get over. And Bombay, 20 20 years later is finally getting over it you know 20 took 20 years but he finally he finally got there but before like as gordon is skating to center ice riley hits him with a really big all right all right all right classic riley and then you you mentioned this in the first Hawks game when you pointed out that everybody in the stands is chanting Banks. In this flashback, as Gordon's going to take the penalty shot,

did you hear the crowd? No, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't pay attention to that. They were chanting Gordon. Gordon. Gordon. Well, that's no pressure there.

Man, you could just make a kid crumble right there. But anyway, so, so, but also did you see, so it pans in and we see Gordon in center ice and then it goes to the Duluth East goalie and he looks straight from eighties slasher movie. The old school like goalie mask that Jason wears. Yeah, exactly. In my notes,

it looks like he grows up to lurk around summer camp murdering teenagers. That's what it looks like this goalie does in the future. No wonder he missed it. That's some psychological warfare coming down. guy's gonna grow up to

stab you yeah anyway so but riley looks confident as as gordon's state skates up he's ready to shoot this he's skating out he hits him with the one the two the three the triple deke and then boom off the post and then off off the post and this confirms to the left because the three, the triple deke, and then boom, off the post. And then off the post, and this confirms to the left, because I know for everybody that's not aware, this is essentially the same flashback, just with other parts peppered in from the beginning of the movie. And I know we were kind of debating back and forth

on whether he missed left or right. This confirms he missed left. Yeah, hit that bad boy left and then the goalie skates off like he just won them the game which it's still tied and then gordon collapsed so this bothers me a little bit so bombay collapses looking devastated but we still have overtime that we have to head to right and? And so this is- Yeah, but I mean, coming back from this emotional letdown, there's no way the Hawks could pull off a victory. But this is where the coaching comes in.

You know what I mean? I'm going to stop you right there. Are you besmirching the great name that is Coach Riley? The Hawk legacy that he built? Listen, we have been known Hawks apologists, but I, in my notes, but this is bad.

I stand with coach Riley. This is a thousand percent Gordon's fault. No way. No, you, you run out there as a coach. You run out there, you pick him up,

you dust him off. And you're like, Hey bud, we still got an overtime to play like go fucking score really quick in the overtime and end the game in a person like no man like no no no no i i i'm not siding with coach riley as much as i want to i'm not going to say the coach riley but i was going to say in a in a perfect world you wouldn't have put so much pressure on the kid to where he collapses after he missed it you wouldn't have to run out there and pick him up he would just skate back to the bench so like shit i missed it well we got we got overtime we still got a we we still have a chance you know yeah we didn't lose the game

yeah just oh man that was just that was that, listen, once again, Hawks apologists over here for a long time. I will defend coach Riley way more than I should, but I won't defend him here. Yeah. That was bad stuff. Like you gotta, you gotta run out there. You gotta dust that killer. Cause he's a good player. Like go have him go score. He's your star player. He's your star player. And now he's all shook up. He's rattled. The team's rattled. You put too much pressure on him so they clammed up dead dad down you know i mean like geez louise

this is this is rough business right here riley come on man yeah look yeah it's a coaching fail for sure he coach riley dropped the ball you know listen when he's when he's pointing his finger brand Brandon, guess what? He's got three pointing right back at him. That's all I'm saying. Oh, Riley. We need to get it together. Anyways, okay.

We see Bombay letting everyone down, and then boom, we come in, we've got the final game. It is showtime. I got a question about this, because like you said, it cuts into present-day

1992 Pee Wee State Championship. We're in the arena, they're playing the National Anthem, we have the line, both teams are lined up, and they're like staring daggers at each other. Oh, it's intense music too. I put that. Very intense music.

And did you see Jesse is lined up right behind Adam Banks and just staring daggers into the back of Banks' head. Yeah, just watching fucking Banks. What are you doing, man? He does not trust Banks. I actually have broken down who stares at the staring and what happens.

Before we get to that, though, I have one question. Okay. Because plastered all over the rink on the ice, on center ice, and then on banners and on the wall and on the boards are the letters n and h can you tell me what those those letters are standing for i just i mean my brain immediately went to new hampshire but that would make sense if we were in new hampshire but this is this is minnesota definitely not new hampshire i don't know um maybe like uh maybe like what's a minnesota city with the letter h i'm totally blanking i i have no idea oh do you think it's like this like the city initials okay that i don't i don't know any minnesota nh with within nh but that would

make sense if it was the city because i was trying to i was trying to wreck my new haven minnesota i don't know if that's an actual place i just made that up but that's okay that could potentially be i'll i'll accept that then we'll accept that they're they're in a city with nnh any any of our listeners from minnesota if you know an NH city hit us up because because I was trying to wreck my brain I was like national hockey just national hockey like I I just I couldn't I I don't know what what on earth NH would stand for well I think that you also have to come to the realization that they maybe didn't shoot this in Minnesota. But, but, but those letters are specifically put there because also on the ice.

So, so the N and H is in center ice. It's, it's, it's on the center ice logo, but on the opposite sides, I think it's on the opposite sides of the blue lines, or maybe just outside of the center ice,

you have the ducks logo and the Hawks logo on the ice. So they like they had the budget and specifically put made the ice what they made it yeah and then again it's all on the it's it's it's on the wall it's everywhere i was just trying to figure out what nh means but like well it's a terrible sponsor though if you don't even put your full name there how am i supposed to know you know i don't know i i will accept i'm going to accept your theory that it's the city and that i just don't know the city that it's in and they don't mention it that's the only logical explanation that i can think of for why it would have nh there but anyway yeah we can move on i was just very confused about that um so so

we're in the line we're listening to the national anthem who's who's staring at who he's all right so as we're going down the line we see carp growling we see terry making weird faces at a dude um just like a blonde guy from the hawks uh We have Averman turning and giving it a stare down. Charlie's kind of like staring down someone forward, but not giving them like a real stare down Fulton kind of giving a side stare banks, his little friend. I think this one is Larson. Larson's the big one.

No, no, no. McGill's the big one. Oh, is it? Okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. And then McGill, big Larson, small. I had it in my notes here. uh larson's the big one no no no mcgill's the big one oh is it okay yep yep yep and then mcgill big larson small i had it in my notes here uh but he's he's kind of like looking pissed and like looking back at banks kind of unsure banks is a fucking traitor yeah and but banks is like he's not sure what to do and he's kind of looking he's he's banks is in the like a huge moral dilemma here yeah you know because he's he he spent at least half the season with the hawks he was with them

i'm assuming last year he's been with them for a while his brothers played for them his brothers played for him his dad is still wearing hawks gear and on the Hawks side of the arena. We will get into that. So we will, we will get into that. Right. He's Banks is trying to navigate this. He's like, do I play it straight up?

Do I go for the W? Do I throw it for the Hawks? I don't think you could ever throw it, but yeah, he's, he's confused and he looks down and Jesse, like you said, is just looking daggers at him and sees him kind of like hesitating and looking down because the big friend McGill gives Banks like an evil smirk.

Like, see that you're avoiding my stare down, bud. Yeah. Well, I mean, they had a weird little go back to I forget if it was the last part or maybe part three, when they're at the North Stars game and they see McGill and Larson there and McGill and Larson are like staring daggers at Banks from across the arena there. So this is, they're trying to, they're playing mind games with Banksy here. Also,

I want to shout out the crowd really quick because we saw a great effort from the stands singing the national anthem. Yeah. And did you, did you see all of the merch? Not like ducks and Hawks merged. Everybody was wearing at least a t-shirt, if not a t-shirt and a hat.

And those, those crew necks, that crew neck that Jesse's dad had on. Yeah. That was nice. All I could think about was snagging one of those. Yeah. All the hats looks pretty legit too.

You know, like 90, like 90 snapback hats. Oh yeah. Those are awesome. I just, it's tough to get like cold weather gear like that now, you know,

like it's just, I only have like 30 days where I get to wear it. Just it's a bummer. Yeah. I've the, the only times you miss a cold. Yeah. It's, it's easier to, you miss the cold yeah it's it's easier to you miss seasons when they don't happen and then like it snows and you're like oh fuck this dude i don't miss the

snow yeah i do miss the snow i don't miss like snow storms like anything that's like you know you know more than any snow that's more than like six inches seven inches i'm like nah i'm out but you know and that's a little that's a little flurry it's always you know i'm a sucker for that anyways yeah it just started to be fall here uh in atlanta i don't know if you have you guys caught the fall uh the the last two the last two mornings here have been like 67 degrees like in early in the morning which is so fucking nice compared to like you know a week ago was 105 degrees at nine at 9 a.m and you're like what the fuck is this dude well and so we did catch a little bit of that today it was like 68 70 with humidity and you know it's just it has felt like you are living in a boiling pot here for the last like

two months it's been it's been hot yeah and then you know i don't know anyways i'm not sold on atlanta's weather because it's either 110 degrees in the summer and just ridiculously humid or winter comes along and it just thunderstorms 24 77. It's bullshit. What the fuck is that about? Some shit weather, Atlanta. Anyways. Although, we're hitting the end of tourist season in Savannah, so it's like

it's prime to go places and start doing things. Except for this weekend. Stay put because it's Labor Day. But now that the goddamn tourists are out of here. Stay put because it's Labor Day, but now that the goddamn tourists are out of here. I completely forgot it was Labor Day weekend. It went right over my head.

Oh, I keep forgetting. It's Labor Day weekend, man. I'm having the next day off. I keep forgetting that. Anyways, so the stare down ends with Bombay giving Riley a shitty grin. And Riley, they have a little they have a little mean mug in them.

They have a little coach stare down all Bombay and Coach T. Yeah, I'm so glad that they represent. I think Bombay wins this one, right? Because Riley looks away first, although he does it in like a smug, arrogant way. So I don't know if Bombay really wins it. But because riley looks away and he's like let's go and then but then right and then bombay steals the all right at the end so i don't know i don't know how riley felt about that with bombay hitting someone with the all right yeah he just he just has that patented and so then we have the hawks hitting it hitting the ground with the all right yeah he just he just has that patented and so then we have the

hawks hitting it hitting the crowd with the win win win win you know getting everybody getting everyone fired up and then bombay is like all right you guys let's get fired up and the team's like all right let's get fired up and boy do we get a fucking quacking session like none other, Brandon. This is like gives you goosebumps, I guess, duck bumps, I guess, for this one. This is probably the second best quack. I'm going to call it a quack attack. The second best quack attack throughout all of the movies and the and game changers do you think the first one is the first one no i the the i think the first the top quack attack little chant they quack chant they do for me at least like goosebumps and like feeling wise

is in the third movie when when coach coach, when coach Orion is finally like, we can be the ducks. And then he starts the quack chant. I got, come on. That's great, dude. Cause he spent the whole,

the whole first half of the movie being, being like ducks fucking suck. You guys can't be ducks anymore. And then he finally cave in, caved in once Charlie stopped being a fucking idiot. And he was like, okay, we can quack goosebumps, dude.

So we will, we'll debate that at a later date. Cause I'm also, I'm also a huge, as for, for as much as I love coach Riley, I also love coach Orion, coach Orion, coach Orion could coach fucking circles around every other coach in this, in, in this franchise. I'm not going to argue with you. He was the only actual hockey coach. He makes Gordon Bombay

look like a fucking idiot. He had the X's and O's down, but you... You don't need a flying V when you can play defense, guys. Come on. All right. So anyways, we have the most epic quack you could ever want. So anyways, we have the most

epic quack you could ever want. I mean, I had chills. Talk to me on the second best. You're in that fucking third movie, dude. I don't even know what to say to you right now. You're going to upset me. When we get to the third movie and you

finally watch it, you're going to be like, Brandon, I got it. I get it. Okay. Listen, I're going to be like, Brandon, I got it. I get it. Okay. Listen, I'm going to agree to disagree at this point in time because, listen, it's the first one ever and then this one and then the one at the end of the Team USA, that's the third. The one at the end of Team USA would be my third one, too. I would go but i'd

still put i'd put three up all right so anyways best top notch just everyone is getting the crowd gets into it the crowd is just i put everyone is getting their quack on, boy. That's what I put in my notes. I was fired up when I was watching the movie. Oh, I put that afterwards. I put I'm super fired up. This quack got me real fired up in real life.

So anyways, we just finished quacking. We're going into face-off. But before we get started on the game i do want to point out again again uh well before before before what you're gonna say i don't know what you're gonna say but before you get in there i will i want to point out just how fucking sick the hawks uniforms are and how amazing they look and how it's such a goddamn travesty that game changers change the colors

yeah if they don't rectify that in in season two i'm gonna be very upset well we'll just have to like is there like a disney plus feedback channel i've been looking for a place on peacock to give feedback about the wwe networks like i'm still really fucking pissed about that maybe we can maybe we can talk to mark because because season two got green. Maybe we can talk to Mark because season two got greenlit so we can talk to Mark and be like, hey, Mark, I don't know who we need to talk to or who you need to talk to, but can you do us a favor

and be like, this is one thing we need changed. I feel like our new best friend, Mark, will do that for us. Yeah, just listen, man. For the love of God, we've got to get the Hawks colors changed back because that is a fucking travesty. We do need to, we do need to once, once season two gets kind of close to air and we,

we definitely need to have Mark back on. Oh yeah, for sure. Oh yeah. We gotta, we gotta do some, some lead up episodes. Like I was anyways, we'll, we'll talk about that later, but anyways, so we're gearing up for the face off, but before we get to the face off, Brandon, we get Jesse throwing banks and cake eater shade like hey don't forget what side you're on yeah whoa and then bombay is like hey jesse uh he's a duck jesse he'll play like a duck yeah i mean

good one coach i don't know man like like dude jesse, Jesse, what the fuck, man? I mean, I get Jesse's skepticism. His aggression, very uncalled for. But I get his skepticism. Because like I said, Banks is dealing with just a crazy moral dilemma. Yeah, he needs support. has his back and is as confident as he is that Banks is going to be legit. But if I was in Jesse's shoes, I'd be worried too. I'd be like, come on, bro. You got to show positive support though so he knows that you got his back. Do you? I don't know. I mean, well,

anyways, we got McGill. Because I mean, spoiler alert, Banks plays his heart out. He plays like a duck. And maybe it's because Jesse was such an asshole to him, scared him straight. Listen, I don't know. But either way, you know what happens?

It kicks off, and Banks gets lit up by his boys. Right out the gate. Right out of the gate. McGill and Larsonarson and this is a theme throughout the oh they they double they double team him constantly and they are just roughing him up and and and right off the bat um it gets a nice cringe from from charlie's mom and and terry and jesse's dad and hans and man mcgill is just that mcgill had kind of like taken over the team as the leader and they've like taken on his style of play i feel like you know like

much more aggressive much more physical since he's now the star with thanks out yeah he's he's setting the tone you know he's he's he's the he's the spark plug out there he's he's setting the tone he's showing everybody how to play. And then, like you said, multiple times they double hit, double team, crash fucking Banks hard. And then you get a shot of Banks' dad in the stands decked out in Hawks gear. Oh, wait, hold on. I've got just a couple moments before that because that just

that really chapped my ass brandon and i have a whole tirade to go on for it um because before that um when they're lighting the decks up out there riley this was an awesome moment from riley he's like that's a good hit that's the way i want you to play it and then he looks at bombay and pops the collar after he lights him up oh man i just i love it and there's some really good there's nothing more intimidating than like an eye contact collar pop dude oh man and with coach riley hitting you all right collar pop dude you're toast you're intimidated and so like they're kind of going back and forth on the ice. Larson skating with it.

Banks fires into the zone, you know, all this stuff. I do want to point out, I do want to point out now that we're, we're, we're talking to the game wise. I want to point out who we have playing for everybody because Bombay does a

terrible job in this game. And so does coach Riley. They do a terrible job of shift management. Yeah. Because. Same people play the whole game. Pretty much the whole game. And so on the first.

Dude, this Brown guy gets a couple goals. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But so for the Ducks on the first line, the main line, you have Charlie at left wing, Banks at center, Jesse at right wing, and then you have Averman and my boy gee playing d so that's that's that first line and like yeah like i said they they play the vast majority of the game yeah um or at least the the parts that they're showing you you know yeah that's uh and and they were yeah because the bench is the exact same.

I actually put a comment later in the, in the notes where it's like, it's just the same people on the bench cheering the whole time. Connie and carp and Peter, those guys Fulton, they're all, they're on the bench, but there's, there's two people that get, that get a little bit of action outside of those guys is Fulton. And then my favorite is fucking Tommy gets in there. And that's my favorite because he is so much smaller than everybody else. There's other scenes with Tommy. He's like fucking a good foot shorter than everybody else and just looks so out of place. There's another moment where a small guy gets crushed and loses

the puck and i just assume it's peter because it leads to a hawk school i actually have that now that was that's tommy that's time that is tommy oh man that's that's a tough one but anyway so banks gets crushed on the boards it leads to a hawk school and when the Hawks fans are cheering who do we see but we see Banks' fucking dad in the stands in Hawks gear and like this just pissed me off to no end because

it doesn't make any goddamn sense why would you not support your son in his hockey game it wasn't his son's fault. You know. He could have not played. He could have not played.

Just absolutely the most absurd thing that I've ever seen in my life was his fucking dad not supporting his son. It's supporting the team over his son, Brandon. Banks could have. Oh, I'm assuming that's the team he played for when he was a kid too. And then his other two sons,

which are clearly more important than Banks. Banks is the right. And Banks didn't have to play for the Ducks. He could have sat out the year. He could have done the right and honorable Hawk thing to do and he could have sat out for this year

and then waited until they redrawed the Lawrence.ords i just i can't disagree with you more because even even kelly came in when i was watching the movie and i was all worked up during this part and we had this debate okay and she was like okay because i'm from nebraska and she was like okay if if you had a son and he went and he played for Iowa, which like, I mean, God, I mean, kids make bad choices. They get, they get hooked on meth. They decide to go play football. I don't know. Like kids do stupid things. reason that happened, I would still go to those games and I would go cheer on my son and I would wear

the colors for four years and you would wear Iowa colors. If my if I had a child. In Banks dad's defense, when Banks starts, he gets a breakaway. His dad does cheer for him. He does. He stands up and

he goes go banks go wear neutral colors wear neutral colors okay i'm just i mean you know you know understandable or something like a gray shirt i'd go wear like a packer shirt or something no i'm kidding but like you know like i still would because i guess your kid you know what i mean like they get hooked on meth you go and you support them and you take them to rehab they go and make an insane decision to play football in iowa and you you know you have to wear gold black for four years and then you just pretend like that never happened well you are you're you're a stronger man than mr banks obviously that guy sucks i'm pissed at him like he oh man that just I was really fired up.

Kelly came in here, and she was like, geez, you're kind of fired up. I was like, yeah. This guy's a real fucking dick. It is. Support your kid. It is a bold fucking move. Bold fucking move. It's just, I don't know.

It's your kid. You just go support him. It wasn't his fault. He didn't choose to go play for the Ducks. He did choose to play for the Ducks. He did choose to play for the Hawks. He could have shut out. He chose to play hockey, Brandon. I don't know.

I can't disagree with Mr. Banks more. I hated everything about that. It was a fucking dick move. Brandon's parenting corner? You're telling me in Brandon's parenting corner you can, you can let this guy escape by without heavy criticism. Oh no. But he, I mean, this is, this is, you know, at the, this isn't,

this is the guy who has a laundry list of terrible parenting decisions. You know, this one is, is, is neither here nor there. It's just, just add it to the list. It's not even worth, it's not even worth bringing it. Okay. Sorry. It's just, just add it to the list. It's not even worth, it's not even worth bringing it. Okay. Sorry. It's just, man, it's just really chapped my ass. I saw him sitting in that Hawks gear. Just like, Hey, asshole.

Like, it's where you get. Yeah. And then the only reason he, yeah. The only reason he like changes his mind is because Riley takes fucking banks out. What in the WTF? Before we get to that, though, I do want to point out that the first goal that gets let after they cream banks, steal the puck, and they go and score.

I mean, I felt like I was back watching Game Changers the first couple episodes with this because Goldberg's goalie play throughout this game was straight up garbage yeah it was tough he's he's like skating five feet out of the crease and just lunging what are we doing goldberg are you like come on dude that second goal was bad like every every every single goal he let by he he could have stopped. He was five feet out of position on that second goal when they did the wraparound. Yeah. He dives way too early, and then just fucks himself over. Yeah.

Just be patient. Wait, Goldberg. Be a man. Okay? We went through your whole circumcision for the championship game, and then he's just going just gonna fucking forget everything we did you know that was really aggressive too but you know you know what i put you know what i put my notes though i was like yeah i bet it's like when you go to the championship game and like the really experienced team is playing the underdog and so like the underdog is going to come out maybe just a little bit rattled they're not used to that stage they're

not used to those nerves where like the experienced team, they're going to be fundamentally sound. They're going to be crisp. They're going to come out. They're going to score a couple of quick goals. Yep. And they do the, the, the Hawks at a, at a, at a bunch on, they go three, they go up three, nothing, right.

They score the first three goals, right. Because McGill hits a wraparound and then he also gets one off the face off and then hits it five hole. Yep. After each of the first three goals,

the only thing right after that in my notes were all three goals is fucking Goldberg. Just letting us down. Sorry. Yeah, it was brown and brown scored two goals so like this brown kid um i i actually put a quick note here it's like it sounds like it's very like alabama-esque on the hawks because oh for shit next man up dude next man up man they don't need banks yeah he stepped right into that bank spot and it's just lighting them up right now. You know, just I say Alabama, but in my notes, I put like the Huskers in the 90s because, you know, like even especially after the way this year started, man, we really got to hold on to those 90s.

Yeah. Hold on tight. That's a lesson to all you successful teams out there. Like, don't take it for granted. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hold on tight. Oh, yeah. Cheers to out there. Don't take it for granted, okay? Oh, yeah. Hold on tight. Oh, yeah.

Cheers to those moments. Ebbs and flows for sure. Ebbs and flows. Anyway, so we have the Ducks in a staggering 3-0 deficit. We're down 3-0. Yeah, into the first. I do want to point out my boy Guy had a real solid elbow check in the first period. He looked like a Connie elbow.

I think he's taking notes from Connie, learning how to be a bash sister, laying some wood. That's the only good thing that happened for the Ducks in the first period. The rest of it was He cleared it out of the zone a couple times for him. He was a solid defense rough. He cleared it out of the zone a couple times for him.

Got it out of there. He was a solid defenseman. He was solid playing D. But, I mean, the onslaught of the Hawks was just too much. Especially with Goldberg diving out of the fucking goal like an idiot. And you know what I put in my notes? It's like, hey, this 3-0 deficit, this might be hard to come back from. Unless you've got a little Minnesota miracle up your sleeve. 3-0 deficit, this might be hard to come back from unless

you've got a little Minnesota miracle up your sleeve. We go into the second period. Bombay's telling them, don't be scared of them. That's what they want. Let's fly. Let's fly. I wrote down in my notes because it reminded me, when he was saying that, when he was telling them to fly, Brandon. Let's fly. So I wrote down in my notes because it reminded me,

when he was saying that, when he was telling them to fly, it reminded me of Lord of the Rings. So in my notes, I just wrote down, fly, you fools. Yes. Listen, I love a good Lord of the Rings reference. You know, the hawks shall not pass, Brandon. Nope. Nope.

Not in here. Not if Bombay has anything to say about it. But did you? And then Riley hits him with a pressure, pressure. And then he pulls Larson and McGill aside. And this is where. Do you have what he says? He says, I want you to drop banks like a bad habit

i want him out of it i want him out of the game finish him off you got it like a bad habit what a fucking 90s phrase drop yes drop him like a bad which doesn't make any bad habits are notoriously hard to drop i thought the exact same thing when he said that. I was like, you know, that phrase is actually contradictory because those bad habits, that's why they're bad habits. Like, it's stuck. You know, it's there. It's going to take some effort. But Larson is looking a little skeptical, but McGill's like, yeah.

And then we get a another really intense all right all right all right all right he hits him with four all rights and like you know that's that's when you know the hawks are rolling when riley you know why he hits it with four though right because he wants that fourth goal so he wants that get him handle four all rights. That makes sense. And then what happens immediately after this, we get a face-off. We get a duck steal. We get Banks on the breakaway. The team is cheering him on. He gets past the blue line.

This is where his shit-head fucking dad stands in there, and he starts cheering like he should be the whole goddamn time, you asshole. And sorry, it's just I don't mean to yell so much. It just doesn't make any sense. Like, be nice. Support your kids. But anyways, he's cheering for him. And then McGill checks him from behind and Banks falls over. He scores the goal. But as he gets pushed in, he just clocks himself on the side of the goal post.

And then he's out. Yeah, knocks himself out a little bit. TKO. And so Larson looks scared because he's like, Adam, are you okay? And then my favorite moment of the movie is, what did you do? And then McGill looks at him and he goes,

my job what a great fucking line what a real fucking shithead kid what a thing for a fucking 10 year old to say to you yeah doing my job yeah like just following orders he's being a good soldier he's the ultimate riley disciple like he is just picked up on every single tendency. I would love to know what he's up to. What's McGill and Larson? What are they up to nowadays? Are they still in the Twin Cities?

I bet McGill has a drinking problem. Couldn't figure out how to unleash that aggression as an adult and so he drinks yeah he definitely he's yeah he's he's definitely not going to be a well-adjusted we saw we saw what coach riley did to bombay and that was like that was that was like best case scenario yeah he wasn't even taking people out yeah um but the but the refs ref is like hey get the paramedics in here well and he gives he gives uh mcgill a two-minute minor which is not you know especially when you when you factor in uh the later on the penalty he gives later on to fulton, this two-minute minor is not enough. Yeah. Is it blatant cheap shot?

Yeah. Just blatant shot from behind with the stick. Yes. And he knocks out Banks. Banks is there to bring about a fucking stretcher. At the very least, five-minute major. Yeah. Yeah. At the very least. I mean, I

would have given him a game misconduct. You know, send him out. But whatever, you know. And then that also that's a clear path push down because he was for sure behind him, right? Oh, yeah. He checked him from behind.

So now I don't know the rules as far as if the puck still goes in, but I feel like that should also be a penalty shot. Yeah, well, I feel like if the puck goes in, it's probably not going to be a penalty shot on top of the goal. Why not? Then you get two for one.

Two for one special. I mean, that would be a fun rule adjustment. But did you – hold on. Did you see the, like, sneaky, terrible thing Riley did? He like sneaks over to McGill. Oh, he gives him the fist bump. He gives him the. The fucking fist bump.

Yeah. Wow, man. Just what a real piece of work that Riley is. I just, man. But then poor Banks is all wrapped up. Like that's got to be traumatic for these kids. But, you know, smart move for the potential neck injury. And then they give Banks, you know, like the real core of the team gives Banks a nice sendoff.

Did you notice that? I wrote them down. It's Jesse, Charlie, Averman, and Guy. Those are the leaders. Everybody that was on the ice yeah um and then uh but the most important one is jesse jesse yeah he realizes banks banks was playing like a duck he finally he finally gives in well because banks is like did i score and jesse's like yeah and banks is like jesse do me a favor kick some hawk butt and then jesse's like

all right cake eater ah just a real real touching moment between a couple teammates becoming best friends yep they finally bond you know and and then and then we just hear like hey we better go get some x-rays and then his dad's's like, hell of a job, son. Fuck that guy. That's what I put in my notes. That's what I put. Like, I just. Anyways.

So that score. But, like, brings us up to 3-2. Or 3-1. Sorry. Yes, that puts us at 3-1. But so we got the goal from that. We have the two-minute penalty. 3-1. Yes, that puts us at 3-1. But so we got the goal from that. We have the two-minute penalty.

So the Ducks are on the power play right now. So Bombay calls everybody over. He's like, we got to take advantage of this power play. Because Fulton's raring to go. He's like, let me fucking hit somebody. And Bombay's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're better than that. Yeah. Well, I jumped ahead, but

that's when he goes up to... So after they scoot Banks off on the stretcher, Bombay walks up to Riley. And we get the culmination of this face-off, if you will. Do you know what he says? Yeah, he goes up to Riley

and he says, I can't believe I wasted all that time worrying what you thought. You're going down. And those Hawks players are like, oh, damn, Bombay's talking shit to Coach Riley. The one to like just to the right of Coach Riley, his face was cracking me up. He was like, oh, fuck. Yeah, that's it. Like they were they were all like, oh, damn.

OK, like Bombay kind of rattled the team when they've never seen someone talk shit to coach riley before yeah but then that's when yeah he's like let me go after him coach he's like no we're gonna play smart hockey we gotta take advantage of the power play yeah hit him where it hurts the scoreboard branding yes and so this is when they finally finally put somebody else out on the ice we get fulton on the power play yeah and averman is doing some player coaching he's like hey coach they're gonna rush him and so bombay's like jesse give him some time and then did you did you wait hold on this is this is one of my favorite stupid ass sequences i've ever like so

um averman's like coach they they're going to rush him. And then he's like, Jesse, give him some time. And then Charlie goes, yeah, Jesse do good. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks Charlie. Yeah, sure. I'm going to do good.

Yeah. I got real great, real great bench interaction. But anyway, so they're all fired up there. They get to the face off and then boom. Here it comes. Well, my boy, my boy Guy coming in clutch wins the face off. Yeah. To face off, you got to win.

Yeah. You got to win. And then we get it back to Reed. Kicks it right back to Fulton. And then you get Jesse committing multiple interference penalties and just knocking people over. Just clearing out two guys. To give Fulton some time.

Yeah, wide open shot. And so Fulton shoots it. It fires through the crowd. It hits the goalie in his stomach and pushes him back through the goal. Like it was going a hundred miles an hour and then boom, lights it up. Brandon, that is a goal. Ducks are back in the game, hits the goalie in the stomach, goes through the goalie through the goal.

Yep. How did you feel about that goal i like i actually put that in that notes in my notes i was like i need to ask brandon how he feels about this goal because this has happened is this there's no way this happens okay no no there's no way no there's absolutely no way that would ever happen where a shot came from 50 miles an hour and probably would have caused at least a broken rip driving the goalie through the goal at that velocity it would have to 50 miles an hour would not do anything the the yeah nhl uh players their their their slap shots are like you know like 120 130 miles an hour and you. It just hits the goalie and bounces

off. You're not knocking anybody. To knock a goalie down backwards through the net, you're talking like 300 miles an hour. Well,

either way, we have the Ducks are back in the game. Yep, it's 3-2 we have the ducks are back in the game yep it's three to two three back in there yep and then this is this is jazz everyone's everyone's yelling and screaming hold on um and bombay is like needling riley because he's like more fun more fun and then riley let's bombay get under his skin because he's like of all the sloppy ass ladies they don't need our help out there and then gives his team a sarcastic an angry color pop oh fuck you color pop wow so the team i want that fulton reed covered not another shot and then so like this could be why we have the downfall of the Hawks because he says, if we lose to this team, nobody makes the team next year.

If we blow this game, nobody makes the team next year. Yeah. I mean, that could be the beginning of the end. Maybe he does follow through on that. Because now the team is tight, you know? That's not what you want. But we got some back and forth physical hockey. This is when Tommy comes out on the ice.

He's on the ice for a little bit, and he's just so much smaller than everybody. I thought it was Peter because maybe I just – because Peter's always – he's a lot shorter maybe I just Because Peter's always He's a lot shorter than everyone And he's always making shitty comments I forget what Tommy and Tammy's last names are But it has It has that

It's not Daniels Is it Tommy and Tammy Daniels I can't remember I forget what it is But that's what's Tommy's the one who's on the ice. Well, either way, they lose it, and then we get Blake again going through the slot with the backhand, and he scores.

So we got this Blake kid with the hat trick, I believe. Or you mean Brown? Oh, no, this is Blake. Okay. So it wasn't a hat trick. Brown and then McGill, and now we got Blake. And so we got four to Hawks. And Bombay is like, hey, he's doing some Miracle Man coaching.

Stay fired up. It ain't over until it's over. And then, hey, Tammy and Tommy, let's show the Hawks something really different. This is the goal I have more issue with than Fulton's goal. Fulton's goal is bullshit anyway. But this one I have. In my notes, I just have how and why. There's no reason for this to work.

I don't know about you, but if Tammy came out and started figure skating. Duncan. Duncan's their last name. Tammy Duncan. Oh, yeah. Tammy Duncan. If she's out there figure skating the heck out of it,

I would be distracted too. Just enough for Tommy to dish her the puck for that. Wouldn't you be... So my thinking is... So they're passing the puck around. She goes and she sets up shop just outside the crease of the goalie and starts doing fucking

spinning around all figure skating like yeah pirouettes are those pirouettes or is that uh ballerinas i i think pirouettes are ballerinas um i don't know though she's just a triple triple sow cow right isn't that something that's that's something that's not what she's doing though she's just spinning um she's just spending the second there's the axle the triple axle yeah that's oh yeah that's definitely one i mean well of course you remember that one yeah yeah but uh um the triple axelson i used to i used to know a lot about figure skating one of my like real good childhood uh friends big nancy kerrigan fan no no he uh his his uh older sister was was like a legit like competitive figure skater um shout out to the kurtz family emily emily was the figure skater doug doug was one like my my elementary middle

school like childhood friend or whatever shout out to the kurtzes um but i would spend you know like all like all i would spend you know like all like all i would spend like all summer all school year with them hanging out with them and then would just like tag along to her like figure skating competitions so there was a there was a while there in middle school where i like knew way too much about figure skating um but all that information is is gone now wow that's gone to the ether really boring and it also sounds like are you kidding me t Tanya Tanya Hardy. Dude, are you kidding me?

Dude, it like throughout middle school, it was the greatest thing ever because she was older. So she was, she was when we were in middle school, she would have been like junior. Very good looking. Yeah. It was just like, yeah, it was, it was the greatest event to go to as a middle school boy. It was just surrounded by, by fr freaking hot, slightly older figure skaters. Are you kidding me?

It was the greatest, greatest time of my life. You're very observant. Yeah. Brandon, you know, you don't have to come with us to the ice skating events. Oh, I know. I know. I'll be right there, though. So anyways, we get Tammy and Tommy with the epic figure skating goal.

And we've got a 4-3 game. Tammy is celebrating with some nice pirouettes. These are not pirouettes. She's literally just spinning. I don't know what it's called. There's probably a fancy name for it, but it's not a pirouette. She's literally just spinning in a circle. Well, either way, she gets taken out by McGill,

and that causes Fulton to say, I'm on, coach, and he scoots over. This is after the goal, right? Yeah. Okay. I thought we were still talking about the goal. No, she rocked at home she was spinning yeah oh i was not done with my tirade about that oh sorry i was like i i don't i don't get how because my thinking is so she's there she's setting up outside the crease she's

just spinning right yeah would you not be distracted by like would you not pay more attention to her when she's doing that? Yeah. You would be staring at her, but you would have your, maybe your, like their guard is down. They're just kind of looking over her at her.

Like what in the world is she doing? And so when she stops and gets the puck, they're like, Oh shit, she has the buck. And then they react to, to wait. I think maybe,

maybe that's a thought maybe this also got me thinking about d2 uh because because kenny woo does all his like figure skating moves yeah do you think the the that the figure skating moves were written originally for tammy and then you know for whatever reason she just didn't come back for the second one um so then they then they gave it to kenny woo maybe or maybe they just wanted to bring in i would have liked tommy more diverse cast uh well for sure yeah but i remember tammy's tammy she's a girl that's you know diverse and you wouldn't like you wouldn't not have kenny woo if tammy came along yeah well you needed to bring in players from like other areas with specialties.

So it just... I'm just saying Tammy and Tommy would have been nice for them to be in D2. But yeah, so then after she scores the bullshit goal, so now we're what? Three to two? Or four to three? We're four to three.

Yep, four to three. And then, yeah, McGill gives her a little shove while she's celebrating. Knocks her down. And then Fulton gets pissed off. Yeah. And he's not having any of this. This is a funny sequence, too, because he just goes, I'm on, coach. And he skates over, dumps McGill up over it, like grabs him from behind,

turns him over, and then dumps him up over the bench. Puts him up and over into the bench. And starts picking a fight with the whole team. And then the ref grabs him and he's like, Gabe, misconduct, you're out of here, son. And then he just goes, I'm off, coach. I love the I'm on and then I'm off. And then the great part is.

He barely touched him. what are you talking about he barely even touched him bombay gets real squeaky with his voice there you know just oh man um and then bombay is like all right well there goes fulton and then he he's inspired he goes all right oreo line you're going back up. Going back to the basics. Back to the basics. You got to stick with what got you there. Exactly. Remember what you learned.

Ducks stick together, right? Let's see it. Show me the flying V. So my question here with regards to the flying V is. Get those V's visa like Vader. So my question is, this is the first time they mentioned the flying V, right? They don't mention it at all earlier,

right? There's no, they don't, there's no shot of them practicing this. Yeah. They just do it in the game. They just go, they don't mention it.

They don't mention it at all in practice, which is like such a weird, I never noticed that before in my like previous rewatches until this one to where like they we up until the last the up until when they do it nobody had brought up the flying v at all like it's such a weird thing to like never never bring up your super special play. It was a super secret special play that we didn't know about. So then we get it because we got to get a full line change too, Brandon. Do you know that? Did you see that? Line change.

Then they skate it back behind the goal, flying V. They don't think they're saying it but oh yeah they shout it oh does he shout yeah oh yeah because bombay is like they do that a couple times or like they say something on the ice and then bombay shouts it or like the announcer says it and then bombay shouts it it's funny well that's it that's the other thing that threw me for a loop is so they they do this move right they come out in the flying v and the radio announcer automatically knows it's called the flying v he's like oh they're doing they're doing the flying v you know the thing nobody's ever heard of before they're doing that thing yeah flying v

but then they come flying out with that flying V and we get Terry to Jesse. And then as they're skating out, Jesse comes down the slot right in front and he shoots and he scores. Well, so yeah. Well, so with the flight for, yeah. For, for people who are, this is their first time watching this, the flying V they come out in a, in a V shape. Well, yeah.

In a V shape. Jesse's the very first one. He's the head of the V and then everybody else has lined up. Then you got Terry behind him. Averman. And did you see who the other one? I forgot who the, it was probably Charlie.

Yeah. But so they're, they're coming out. And then essentially what happens is they cross the offensive blue line, and then they break apart the V, and everybody goes and commits an interference penalty on one of the Hawks players, and they knock them down, and then Jesse just shoots the bucket. And scores. And boom, we have four, four, four, four game.

The crowd is quacking up a storm. I actually, there was like a weird, excited, like mom and son, like, like, like, like it looked like he was maybe like 18 and he was like quacking very, very excitedly in the crowd. I don't know why. Randomly, he drew my eye, and I was like, geez, that guy is really fired up with his quacks and pumping that fist. But 4-4, 55 seconds left, Brandon. Bombay and Lewis are high fives all around on the bench.

We forgot to mention MC Gey is on the bench for this he's on the bench not only is he wearing his very own ducks jersey which i'm assuming has his name on his name and number on the back but he's also has the sickest leather jacket over top of the jersey yeah just crushing it crushing yeah he's just lewis is the heart and soul of this team right now you know it's a shame he didn't come back for for more of the movies yeah it's been great i'm still i still i still need a lewis cameo in game changers we need it we need a game that's the other thing when we get market we need the hawks change their colors and we need an mc gainey cameo for season two got a wish list yep um but so we've got a 4-4 tie and the announcer is like

4-4 tie next goal decides the championship tremendous pressure no team can afford to make a mistake which is i mean it's a so that call threw me off because it's a ballsy call and so when he says the next goal wins that's such a ballsy call there's still some it's a, so that call threw me off because it's, it's a ballsy call. And so when he says the next goal wins, that's such a ballsy call. There's still some, there's a lot of time and all that stuff. Well, I mean, yeah, yeah. There's a chance two goals get scored, one for each team. And then we go to overtime. Then, you know, there's still quite a bit of time left,

but when he says, when he says next goal wins, it like pans to the scoreboard and you see 23 seconds 23 seconds left yeah which i mean i guess for peewee hockey that's i mean you it would be a little shocking for them to score two goals but yeah crazier things happened you know but what happens when we come down i love the the camera work there because when they pan down from the scoreboard mcg is playing a little hero hockey, skates into a big group of ducks, and they all go down. And so when that comes over, going for the winning goal, they kind of like break up. And then this kid named Morgan shoots, and we get a big save by Goldberg.

And then Bombay again yells a big save by Goldberg. And then Bombay again yells, big save Goldberg. And then he says, we'll get him in overtime. He's playing for the tie. Come on, Bombay, you're better than that. Yeah, we'll get him in overtime. But then all of a sudden we get a steal. Conway out on the breakaway. Wait, Spazway.

Spazway down on the breakaway. Wait, Spazway. Spazway down on the breakaway. He comes down the Hawks line, down the middle. He could win the game, but then he gets hit with a very obvious hooking penalty from behind. Yep. And Bombay, hey, where's the call? And then ref, boom, penalty shot. Boom. End of game.

Anyone on the ice can take it. Right as regulation ends, of course. Yeah. Right as regulation. Two, one, penalty shot at the goose eggs. And anyone on the ice can take it because of that. I don't know if it's because of that. Well, either way, anyone can take it. And then i don't know if it's because of that well either way

anyone can take it and then bombay turns and he asks the ducks all right guys who should take it and everybody smartly says let gee take it yeah because gee is the greatest hockey player to ever live so everyone wants gee but then bombay says what about char, I mean, it should have been Guy and or Jesse. I could – because Jesse's got – even though one of his goals he stole from Guy, Jesse's got multiple goals as well. So Guy or Jesse would be the obvious choices. Well, I think more importantly, let's – Peter, the ultimate piece of shit in that moment goes, Charlie, all he does is fan. Oh, yeah. What a dick.

Yeah. Not the best timing. No, no, no. That's almost as bad as don't let your dead dad down. Yeah. Like, geez, Louise, Peter, like, figure it out. But then Bombay is like, hey, let's let him finish what he started. And so now Charlie is doubting himself.

He's like, listen, coach, we've got a chance to win. Let's let him finish what he started. And so now Charlie is doubting himself. He's like, listen, coach, we've got a chance to win. And then Bombay's like, hey, Charlie, damn straight we do. You've been practicing that triple deke. Here we go, Brandon. Some Minnesota miracle mother-loving magic coming on. Because if you've been practicing that triple deke, you're all set. Maybe you make it. Maybe you won't.

It doesn't matter. What matters is that we're here. Who would have thought we'd make it this far? That's the speech that he wanted. Who would have thought? One, two, three. Triple deke. Take your best shot. I believe in you charlie win or lose boom wow

it's a great beautiful great speech it's a lot better than uh i wish your dead dad could see you let me down yeah like hey i know your your dead dad wishes he could be here and watch you miss this goal you fucking peasant like jeez louise riley like take it once you say don't don't be a fucking goat out there yeah don't be a goat yeah thank goodness for goats getting repackaged you know but but instead we get bombay giving charlie the pep talk that he should have got and so then then charlie what does he say thanks coach, coach. He's ready. He's locked in. But Bombay still looks nervous AF. That's what I put in my notes. Yeah.

As Charlie skates out there. But, you know, the team, they're like, listen, we believe in Bombay. They're cheering him on as he gets out there. And he skates out there with no helmet, which is very, very weird. Do they usually do that? I thought they wore their helmets for penalty shots. Yeah. You were where your helmet.

Well, nowadays you wear your health. You're required to wear your helmet all the time. Especially in NHL. You're if your helmet comes off, you, you either have to, like,

if it's, if you can pick it up and put it right back on, you're allowed to do that. But if you can't, like it gets kicked or whatever, you can pick it up and put it right back on, you're allowed to do that. But if you can't, like it gets kicked or whatever, or something breaks and you can't put it back on, you have to immediately skate to the bench. You're not allowed to. Yeah.

But with that being said, so this was 1992, different time, especially because. It's the end of the game. Well, it's the end of the game, but especially because in the NHL, I don't know about youth hockey or anything like that, but in the NHL, helmets were not required until like the late, the mid to late 80s, if not the 90s. And you were grandfathered in when they made that rule. If you had not worn a helmet previously, you could continue to not wear a helmet.

Well, why would you want to yeah well like you can you can go and watch like like late 80s uh like mid to late 80s nhl games and there's people not there's people not wearing helmets sometimes you can you can go and watch like like like set games from the 70s and there's goalies not wearing helmets listen man i would headbutt a puck in the goal like soccer guys do. Just headbutt it. Off a slap shot. All that to say, Charlie not wearing a helmet in 1992, I guess I could see them not really caring.

But anyway. It's still not what you should do. So we have Charlie at center ice. The referee says, wait for the signal good luck bombay gives him the minnesota miracle nod that's what i called it it gives him the nod charlie gives him the nod back that he's ready the team is chanting charlie charlie which like i don't know about you but i feel like that's a lot of pressure with the team chanting my name. But anyways, that's neither here nor there. I was trying to pump them up.

Bombay is too focused. You got a real thing against people chanting people's names. Don't you? You're just not a fan of it. So we get Bombay is too nervous to even chant because Goldberg is staring at him. And then we get the ref going up to the goalie. Don't leave your crease before he touches the puck.

Good luck. You know, so we get the full moment. Then we get the whistle blown, and it is time. We get a deep breath. We get Charlie giving a couple lappers around the puck there. Yeah, building up some speed. Yep, getting that old momentum going. And then some really great graphics because as Charlie hits the puck,

it kind of hits this slow-mo moment, and we are brought in, and he is skating down center ice. Got the music going. Oh, the music's going. We've got the one. We've got the two. we've got the one we've got the two we've got the three sorry oh we've got some motherfucking triple d so i do i do want to point out he does about nine deeks in this the lead up to this this shot he does like nine wow and so just if you guys felt that that was brandon just grabbing a fun sponge and just sucking all the fun out of this he did charlie game winning i'm not i'm he did

the triple triple deke is what he did triple deke on steroids i don't know shit about triple dekes man but then the triple deke what does it do it goes it hits the post and instead of going out brandon what does it do goes in oh son of a gun just very reminiscent of his talk in the diner with bombay where they're talking about just a quarter of an inch the other way and that's what charlie's does it goes a quarter of the a quarter of an inch the right way it's supposed to goes in the team is celebrating riley can't believe his eyes these pheasants have won charlie's mom is throwing popcorn everywhere the bench the bench clears the stands clear we rush the. The scoreboard lights up. Five, four.

Oh, yeah. Goldberg is jumping on Charlie. Bombay looks like he almost loses his footing. Did you see that when he was running out there? When him and Lewis were coming out, they almost fall. Charlie and Bombay are hugging. Oh, man. Pumping fists. And then get the the moment everybody's been

waiting for the charlie bombay hug no i was talking connie kissing oh yeah i don't give a shit about charlie and bombay it looked like a very sloppy first kiss i said because it looked like he was out it almost took a spill they're 10 years old and they're on ice skates it's not gonna be the best look. It looked like Guy almost fell. He got too excited. He got a little overzealous. Did you see Goldberg's face? Because Goldberg's standing right behind him and he has

the most 10-year-old shocked face. Oh my God! They're kissing! And then Bombay gets down with Charlie's mom right there on the ice, you know. That was forward. We end this game with a double kiss.

Double fist kiss. Yeah. Gets an excellent handshake from Hans. Like a real, you know. A hearty. Fatherly. Yeah. Real hearty man-to-man shake.

Yeah. That handshake speaks volumes, you know. That's a handshake has, it speaks volumes, you know, that's, that's, that's a handshake that says all the things that you just don't need to say. That's, that's the handshake.

You gotta, you gotta love masculinity, you know, you just gotta, it's, it's the best. Why, why,

why talk through your feelings and you could just get a nice firm handshake oh gosh anyways and then um we get a big ass trophy coming out and there yeah that's fucking huge yeah it's it's big we get we get ducks ducks ducks, ducks. They're chanting. And then all of a sudden, Brandon, we're slowly fading out of the game. And what are we fading into? We see a bus, and we see Bombay saying goodbye to the kids. And I've got the whole team's goodbyes. Are you ready for this?

You want me to run this? You're going to run everyone back? They're all terrible except for Fulton. Fulton has a good one. Peter starts it off. He says, don't take any bad dives, okay? He made them all dive at the beginning. Do you get it? I And so in Bombay.

Do you get it? I got it. Bombay gives him a nod. And then Jesse says, keep your head up, man. And they do like an old school fist bump. Not like the. Up and down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where the up and down fist bump, the old school 90s one. And then Banks looks at him and just goes, cake eater. And gives him like a real hearty tough guy shake. That's a good one. And it looks as if Banks is fine. He's fully recovered from his scare. Healthy. X-rays came back negative.

Banks looking good. Terry is just looking sad in the back. Shakes Goldberg's hand. And Karp is also in the back just giving him like a sad face. Fulton says, strength, not concentration. See, I thought that was good. That was great. Bombay's like, right.

And then Tammy and Guy were in the back. I saw them. Averman ends it with, for God's sake, soft hands. And then he's like right anything else um and then charlie's like yeah have fun out there coach and then they give a big old stepdad and and son hug and it's it's great he's like i must be crazy trying out with the minors gonna be going up against kids half my age and then we we see Charlie's mom, Casey's there with that stupid fucking red

hat again. God, I hate that hat. I hate that hat. You don't know shit about fashion, Brandon. I don't, but I know that hat's not good. I'm going to go buy one. Wear it when we record. Please do.

But what does Casey say? Him and Casey have another moment. Another nice goodbye. Another kiss. She's like, just have a good tryout, Gordon. One step at a time. One step at a time. Then they kiss.

And Charlie's like, ooh. And the kids are like, ooh. And then he's like, all right, I'll call you when I get there. And then for some reason, I don't know if you have the subtitles on, but it didn't make any sense. Somebody yells, Banks is first in line next. Someone yelled that. Somebody yelled that?

Maybe for triumphs? I don't know. Or to kiss Charlie's mom? I don't know. I just, I would love, I wrote it down specifically because I was like, okay, I had the subtitles on and I ran it back a couple of times and I couldn't tell where it came from, but someone yells Banks is first in line next. It's gotta be for tryouts, right? It's gotta, that's gotta be what they mean. But then he comes back out and he's like, Hey Ducks, ducks no matter what happens we'll see you next season we got a title to defend a title to defend and then and then we've got the bus leaving and we've

got the kids chasing it down the street and and and the sickest fucking outro music i said the same thing like the most epic 90s ending track ever oh man, man. I was all sorts of in my feelings with that. It's The Outfield. The Outfield is the name of the song. I wrote it. Winning It All by The Outfield. That's the song that takes us out. Such a great, like what a great fucking song.

You got to love The Outfield, dude. Yeah. What an ender to the movie. I mean, just, you know, what a journey we came here brandon yeah just and then it's a powerful journey and that that freaking winning it all power ballad plays you out while the credits roll just so you know that's that's the 90s right there that's exactly what i needed in my day i can tell you that dude i'm i'm gonna start playing that song all the fucking time now it sure gives you a nice little pep in your step oh yeah yeah it's it's it's a great it's a great ending

song it's a great it's a great power ballad i mean you can't go wrong with the outfield you know you can't go wrong who wouldn't love a good like power ballad you know i've always said if i like if a genie were to grant me three wishes, one of my three wishes would be, I would ran like one day out of the year, I would randomly wake up and my life would be a musical. And like that, like, like a nice power ballad to start the morning. Jeez. Yeah. You're having a good day there. I'm telling you that. Especially if it's, especially if it's winning at all by the outfield. Oh my gosh. And like, I'd like to, you know like to think that maybe me and Jenkins, my little Havanese, my little Havanese shadow, him and I would have a nice duet in the morning, starting off the day.

Maybe Cat Jesse and Josie also have a nice duet. They've been doing a lot of battle lately. He's been bullying her. Wow. You've got gotta stick up for yourself yeah he just she she lays in the entryway and he just like walks over and like meows all up in her face really aggressively strength not not concentration he's yeah real dick move it's a real hawks move yeah cat jesse plays for the hawks Oh yeah yeah Coach Riley Disciple for sure

Oh for sure Anyways no I mean end of the movie Although I will say like The first thing I thought of Was like I really like the ending of this movie But like the ending of D2 I really

Love that ending of D2 where they Where they sing we are the champions Yeah Oh man that's really love that ending of D2 where they sing We Are The Champions. We'll talk about that ending more, I guess, with D2. This was a great one. That is a good one. He's going to try. It's Bombay trying out for minor league hockey.

I'm assuming this is Basil McRae's doing. He set this up, right? Yeah, that's exactly what happened. That whole thing, I still don't understand. And it was adorable to see the kids kind of watching the bus drive away and watching Bombay follow his dream to go play for a minor league team. I mean, that's a beautiful moment

right there right yeah it's okay yeah it's good i mean it's it's i don't really care for the the again he has no business trying out for minor league hockey the dude hasn't the dude hasn't played since peewee hockey you know that part doesn't make any sense no and then they then they treat him as a fucking the godfather of hockey, right? The game teacher is fucking bullshit. Movies like this from the 90s are what made people delusional and thinking

that they could actually play professional sports. You know? Like, they just, ah, man, you know, if it wasn't for that one blown knee in high school, I'd be playing in the pros. I can tell you that. Yeah, almost.

Yeah. The blue on my shoulder, you know, I love those stories. They fucking crack me up. Blown shoulder away from the show. Brandon, as somebody who has blown a shoulder, I was not. That was not what was keeping me from the show. That was that's what kept me from like junior being, being on varsity in junior year,

but there's no way I would have made the majors. You know, there's this, the shoulders. I want to hold, held you back guys. Yeah. You know,

you don't get many small town, Nebraska in the big leagues, but yeah, yeah. Every once in a while, once in blue moon, Once in a blue moon. There's a couple Metro Denver people. Roy Halladay, I believe, was the Englewood, Colorado, something like that.

You know, there's every once in a while. Well, it definitely wasn't going to be me, though. That's for sure. Yeah. Well, i sure thought you had a chance brandon but anyways we get i appreciate that we get the end of the movie it's the ducks they're they're still flying together they're quacking um but that's you know next year they got a title to defendlast the fast fashion trends. They also plant a tree in Boulder, Colorado for every product sold. Visit brokenforestco.com and use the code cake eaters 15 for 15% off your order. Even though it's the end of the movie, we are not quite finished with this movie yet. Right, Brandon?

No, no, no no no no we we we not only do we have another another rendition of the golden cakeys to hand out we're also uh and i think the golden cakeys will be the next episode we'll do a little recap with the award show and then after that we're going to do a bunch of deep dive episodes yeah because we have some tangents to go on like i'm yes we may have to add banks's dad being a piece of shit in there too okay i just i mean god that like what's the deal with that anyway sorry i've already gone on on that enough but yeah we're getting some deep dives we got a couple more more hawks talk lots of a lot more yeah because i mean do you think brandon that this moment in time 1992

this is kind of like the pebble that starts the avalanche of the hawks downfall i would assume so it has to be right like they're just shaking after this i would assume i would assume that if not if if if not after this season then after you know a couple more seasons coach riley gets pushed out for sure like because riley riley cuts everybody no i i i assume if if he doesn't get pushed out at the end of this year give it like one or two more years and parents push him out because he's just a, people start realizing he's just a fucking asshole, you know? Or like, or like another kid, like their kid does like a cheap shot and they're like,

coach told me to do it. Coach Riley told me to do it. Somebody, somebody gets seriously injured and or killed. And then they're like, okay, coach Riley, you know, you gotta, you gotta pack this up you're out of here bud yep and then that's what that's what forces the downfalls once once coach riley leaves is you know that makes sense sad days sad days it's a rough business out there brandon you know it's like i mean it's like it's bobby knight all over again. And look at the University of Indiana now. Just good to see it.

But yeah, tons of deep dives. Tons of Hawk deep dives. I could talk Coach Riley for another five hours. Really dig into that Bombay DUI. Yep. There's quite a few topics

we'll dive into uh hopefully we can get another interview lined up or something uh we'll keep everybody updated on that if that happens and then um after we kind of do the deep dives we'll also start talking about we want to talk about a couple uh non-ducks movies um that the cast and crew have been in um you know we have some treats ahead for those cast and we'll we'll let everybody know ahead of time what movie we're talking about that way you can you can watch it again refresh it or watch it for the first time if you've never watched any of those movies before yeah because we're gonna do four right brandon we're going to do four, right, Brandon? We're going to do four movies that the cast and crew are in, in between

D1 and D2. That's the plan for now. Tentative plan. With the schedule wise, I'm not sure exactly how it'll line up, especially with Game Changers coming back. Whenever that drops,

season two drops, we'll do we'll do we'll be doing like weekly recap episodes for that um so that that may interrupt some of this um everything's a real tentative plan but just follow along on instagram at the cake eaters pod uh and we'll we'll keep everything uh or the website the cake eaters pod.com we'll keep everything everything up to date there so you can follow along and see what we're going to talk about next. It's going to be either way. It's going to be a heck of a journey and a heck of a ride. You know, clear eyes, full hearts, and you can't lose with the Cake Gators Pod. Eat, sleep, quack, repeat.

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