The Cake Eaters - 2. Game Changers Episode 2: Dusters

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Heath & Brandon get confused by a real simple hockey term, play a game of Outside In, talk about the great Peter Forsberg and his missing spleen, then break down the rest of Episode 2 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

Remember, it's not worth winning if you can't win! Welcome back everybody to the Cake Eaters podcast. On this week's episode, we're tackling Mighty Ducks Game Changers, episode two, titled Dusters. In this episode, Alex really, really starts to realize that she's in way over her head with this hockey stuff. And I believe Evan comes to grips with the fact that this is not going to be a fun season. So with that said, my name is Brandon. I got my co-host Heath with us. comes to grips with the fact that this is not going to be a fun season.

So with that said, my name is Brandon. I got my co-host Heath with us. What's up, Brandon? Episode two, Dusting is happening. I'm not quite sure I understand the name of the episode, but it was a solid follow-up to episode one. And I think that, like you said, Evan is realizing that not only do they have to learn how to skate, but they have to play against another team very soon. Yes, and they are going to get run over. And I'm glad you brought up the episode title because that was really throwing me for a loop. I watched this episode like two or three times.

Still don't know what dusters means. Don't know where that's coming from. Maybe the coaching position is leaving Alex in the dust because she's in way over her head coaching these youths. Maybe. I'm wondering if it's like

some sick hockey lingo that we just don't know. Maybe that's on us. Some sick hockey lingo that we just don't know. Yeah. Maybe that's on us. I'm no hockey expert by any means, but I sure do like to bandwagon onto the abs when they start making playoff runs.

Yeah. I mean, maybe we should have done... Maybe it's like a... I got nothing. I was trying to think of some hockey lingo or something that would work. The only thing I could think of was like a, like a broom duster,

but that would only make sense. Is anybody using, nobody's using a broomstick while they're in the practice, are they? Cause they're definitely using some weird ass equipment. Wouldn't be surprised if somebody had a broom. There is such a thing as like broom ball where they, you play like at the ice rink where the,

you know, you cut the ice in half, but no, the, the broom dusters is just an old new york hockey team in binghamton i'm pretty whenever whenever we release this and people start uh listening to it and they send us feedback they're gonna light us up because it's probably the most obvious name of the episode. And we just can't connect it for some reason, but that's on us. That's our bad. And you know what? We're, we're human. We're not, we're not dialing in on this podcast because we're knowledgeable experts. We're doing it because we are passionate ducks because we eat, sleep, quack, repeat. And I will say it over and over again, my friend,

eat, sleep, quack, repeat. That's what we do. So if our facts are wrong, you can just shove it up your ass, my friends. No, I'm sorry. That was too aggressive. I didn't really mean that. They can suck it though, Heath. They can suck it. back to the okay so that's a great rewind back to the to the episode we we pan in on our personal favorite nick the stick who just absolutely run away best best character in the show so far and and he's doing a quick recap as still part-time podcaster, he's still part of the podcast, which sounds like it could be a huge conflict of interest. Which he does call out to his benefit. He makes

it known in the podcast that he's in bed with the Don't Bothers. He's part of the team. Fully embedded in the team. Yes. And so his analysis is definitely going to be a little biased, but I guess it's that that's, I guess it's okay because they're only the second best Southeastern Minnesota

youth podcast. That's probably why they're number two is because they're a little bit biased. Exactly. You know, their, their views and opinions will skew to that personal bias. That's what happens when you're number two, you know, you're just not going to bring, bring all the heat like that. Number one podcast. Yeah. When you're number two you know you're just not going to bring bring all the heat like that number one podcast yeah when you're number two you got to find your ditch you know sometimes that's catering to a specific viewpoint and i mean i really love the fact that he's just going to walk around recording himself on his iphone constantly it's definitely

not going to help him in the friends department but personally i would love for someone to do really nice recaps of my life into their phone. Yeah. Well, when he's doing the phone, he's providing great color commentary on not only the events that are happening, but the emotional state of the people that he's with. Not to jump too far ahead, but at the end of the episode, he's after the Ducks, excuse me, after the Don't Bothers first game. I'm already messing stuff up. After the Don't Bothers first game,

he's in the locker room, and he's doing the podcast again, doing a little quick recording of it, and he's talking about the emotional weight that just happened for the entire team. He delivers.

That's all I have to say about that. And then why also I have this, why does every coach have to be like coach first letter of their name? Coach A. And I love how the team just instantly, hey, it's coach A, and everyone's like, no. I love that they didn't respond to, it's Coach A! And everyone's like, no I love that They didn't respond to that

It was the same thing With the end of the first episode When Lauren drops the Don't bother name and Coach T just brushes it off Like, whatever Terrible name Really embarrassed The same reaction

Are you sure you want to call yourself that? Okay. Cool. Can't wait to see your logo. We do get to see the logo, though, in the second episode. She brings out the jerseys. Not a great logo. Just this word mark that says, Don't bother us with a hockey stick that underlines the logo.

What else are you going to do with such a terrible name? She literally had no options. It was either that or if you want to get old school with it, you could do an interlocking DB, but that might not land as well. People wouldn't realize it stands for don't bother. They'd be like... Dumb bitch. I was going to say district district b but

easily mistaken in modern nomenclature that's true that's true especially with these these 12 year old kids and how vicious they are they would they would absolutely call it it stands for dumb bitch. I'm also not super sold on the color scheme. It has a very like 1950s Packers where it's like the yellowish and brown, right? Is that what it was or am I colorblind? Yeah, yeah. It was like a yellow and brown.

It's a real soft yellow though. It's not bright. It's like muted, I guess is what you would call it. But yeah, and then like a dark brown. Very similar to, for the hockey fans out there, it's very similar to some of the old Boston Bruins jerseys. Even similar striping as well. Either way, tough uniforms, tough logo. But that's what happens when you're a don't bother.

You don't bother to have a good logo or mascot. But, okay. I'm honestly surprised they got those jerseys. Because they look like great quality jerseys, you know. They even got, they all have matching socks as well. So that little youth hockey surplus she found, really doing wonders. Yeah. I mean, between the ice time and those uniforms, she did excellent.

We'll get into the equipment later and the amount of theft that went into it. And as an adult and a parent, the jail time that more than likely would have taken place. But we'll get into that in a little bit. Can you get jail time for that? I don't know. Because you steal stuff that people lost. Yeah, because once something goes into the lost and found, I feel like there's no owner anymore.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law here, Heath. So they're stealing from the rink. That's the rink's property. Yeah, stealing from the ducks. Because you know why, Heath? The ducks can suck it. That's why. She did double down on that.

Okay. So speaking of Alex and questionable coaching decisions, let's jump in to this first practice. Because this is my first tangent. And it is one of my favorite parts of the episode actually. And it started right away and it was, uh, so Evan is fired up, ready to get on the ice, ready for the team to get ready. You know, let's go, let's get to skating. And mom, Alex follows that, you know, excitement up with, Hey, today we won't be touching the ice, but we will be breaking the ice.

Absolutely one of my favorite lines of the episode where she then has them play a game called Outside In. Outside In, but she also refers to the game as a passing drill because she has what she what would she call it? The puck of truth or the puck of honesty, something like that. The puck of truth. Puck of truth. And then they're passing each other and then completing the outside-in game.

Where they're saying something on the outside that people observe, but then what they don't always see on the inside. Am I getting that somewhat right? That's spot on, yeah. Spot on the inside. Am I getting that somewhat right? That's spot on, yeah. Spot on, okay. And so, I mean, you know, between the two of us, Brandon, I do feel like for the hundreds of listeners out there, maybe we should play a quick game of outside in. I don't know if you have it.

I do not have anything. You go first, though. Give me some time to think about this. Okay. I also didn't put a lot of thought into this but i will say that on the outside i like to think that people see a mixture of a wizard and a dwarf and maybe also like part wookiee in there too that's what people see on on the outside um that those combinations of characters uh but on the outside those combinations of characters but on the inside I hope that they see

maybe some version of Zac Efron you know circa Baywatch filming because I think that that's how I feel on the inside and I feel like you know that's the perception that people should see when I'm running down the beach on Tybee Island.

Okay, that's pretty solid. Pretty solid. I see where you're coming with the Wookiee slash dwarf. You lost me a wizard, though. You lost me a wizard. I just feel like I'm magical. That seems like more of an inside thing, though, not an outside thing.

That's true. All right, let's have that inside show on the outside. Oh, gosh. For me, I would probably go on the outside. People probably see a slightly taller than you would think leprechaun. And then on the inside, I feel like I'm just a tiger ready to roar, I feel like. Are you one of Carole Baskins?

No, absolutely not. No, I'm a free-range tiger. Free-range. Wild, as not. No. I'm a free-range tiger. Free-range. Wild, as some would say. That's how I prefer my wild cats, is free-range. Yeah. Like a Shere Khan vibe, except I'm planning on not dying in a fire. Spoiler alert for the jungle. I actually saw an article.

There was a free-range big cat roaming through Houston, I believe, which is no surprise there. I used to live in Houston. It's super, super ratchet. Does Mike Tyson live in Houston? Was that his? No, but there was a free-range tiger just moseying through a neighborhood. That's pretty sweet.

Yeah. You don't get that anywhere. I feel like Houston, Vegas, you could probably... Miami, you might get it. Outside of those three, I don't think you're getting wild tigers roaming around. But with the outside in-game too,

we had some nice answers from the team when they started passing around the bucket trip. Absolutely amazing. Way better than ours. Yeah, it's almost like ours weren't scripted or written down by someone that does it professionally. We got to get a script writer. We should work on that. Yeah.

If anyone wants to donate their services, we're open. Yeah, send us an email. Thecakeeaterspod at gmail.com. But I think we can start with Nick the Stick. Didn't he go first with the Puck of Truth? Because he had... No, Nick was last.

Nick was last. First up was... I think Lauren went first, didn't she? I think Lauren did. No, it was Sam, the wild card. Because he started... Again, I'm messing up her name. I was thinking Alex, Lauren Graham.

The fact that there's a kid whose character's name is Lauren, really going to trip me up here. But yeah, Sam's the first kid to go. Yeah, because he talks about his spleen and how it's not there anymore. He's the wild card. They set it up in the first episode.

They're going at it again. They're letting us know Sam is a wild card. On set it up in the first episode. They're going at it again. They're letting us know. Sam is a wild card. On the outside, he's a little bit crazy. On the inside, he's missing his spleen due to a stop sign accident. I guess it's not an accident if it's purposeful. Well, the act was purposeful. The result was the accident.

The result of losing the spleen. Yeah. I'm no doctor, but I feel like losing your spleen at a young age could have some reciprocal effects into adulthood. I don't think so. I'm now granted not a doctor, but I'm fairly certain spleens are just utterly useless. Oh, okay.

Well, cool. Then it's just a great story. Bringing it back to hockey, the reason I know the reason I know I shouldn't say I know because, again, I'm not a doctor. The reason I'm thinking spleens are absolutely useless is because

I forget exactly what year, but the Colorado Avalanche had a player called Peter Forsberg. One of my favorite players of all time, arguably the greatest Swedish-born hockey player to ever live. But I forget what year it was, but sometime during the playoffs, it was in the middle of the playoffs. He gets hurt.

His spleen ruptures. He has surgery to remove his spleen. And then like two weeks later, weeks later he's back and he's playing in the the playoffs again oh okay perfect so spleen is pointless especially in hockey you definitely don't need your spleen for hockey definitely so so he has license to carry on being the wild card if anything this is going to make him a better hockey player because he's closer you know in makeup to Peter Forsberg. He has something in common

with Peter Forsberg, so he's going to be better off without a spleen. Think of all the extra weight he just lost. How much faster he can go. And so after our friend Sam minus the spleen, it goes over to Maya, I believe.

And Maya. Terrifying Maya. Oh, absolutely crushes it. Great insight onto what horrifying little creatures youths can be these days. But she starts it off on zeroing in on weakness and destroying the person. And just immediately tease up on Alex with her puppy best from 2017. And my favorite bit that she did, I would just, from now on,

start just saying things from 2017 at you. Fidget spinners, Lego Batman movie. Well, then Alex was like, wow, that movie would psychologically just like slowly chip away at you just like every time you meet this person, just yelling something

from 2017. Well, then Alex responds back and she's like, well, this is like my favorite Puffy Fest because it's got so many pockets here, so many useful pockets. And then Maya goesa goes wow i guess pockets were big in 2017 yes just just puts a nice exclamation point on the fact that like yes i do know what i'm doing here and i will destroy you and she's in alex's head like i'm sorry she's in Alex's head. Like, I'm sorry, she's in her head. Oh yeah, it comes back around later in the episode, fully in her head. Fully in her head.

And then you mentioned Lauren before because Lauren also does an excellent outside in where Lauren, female warrior, everyone thinks that I'm aggressive. She says for her outside, similar to you calling yourself a wizard on the outside. She mentions that on the outside, everybody sees that she's a female warrior. She is like, I get Lauren in a very big way here.

Just absolutely crushing it. But then she, she rounds it out by talking about um on the inside she used to be scared of death until she realized that everybody is just walking to we're all walking towards vast nothingness just waiting for us whether you're popular or whether you're a nerd doesn't she make eye contact with maya when she says whether you're popular or whether you're a nerd. Doesn't she make eye contact with Maya when she says whether you're popular or not? Yeah. Just walking towards a vast nothingness. And I absolutely loved every second about that.

And then Alex is like, holy shit. Okay, Lauren making us aware of our own mortality. Like trying to like, all right, let's go to the next person. Keep it moving. The next one is no better. The next one's Coob. Oh. Who delves into a Matrix rant.

Oh, even better. Even better. On the outside, he's a gamer. On the inside, he feels like we're all a series of ones and zeros living in a simulation. Which he may not be too far off. You can't sit here and tell me honestly that there's not some conspiracy theory out there with their version of proof that there was a glitch in the matrix and that's why coronavirus happened last year. So if anyone wants to research after they've listened to this

and they want to send the podcast, Conspiracy Theory. Don't open this can of worms. I'm kidding. I was living in a simulation. But no, Coop's answer was yes. Yeah. Oh, he was fantastic. Yeah.

To go from Lauren to Coop was just, just a real, real dark for, for a kid's show. It went in a weird set. And then, and then Evan brings it back to reality and, and, you know,

kind of a little bit, it feels like a buzzkill because the other two were so insightful, but in reality, like, you know, we talked about on the last episode, some of these kids can barely even skate so you know evan's got a point when he's like hey evan i like hockey i want to play hockey

we should go play hockey we should go skate like hockey yeah because there's when you when you've put together a team a hockey team full of kids who can't skate the best course of action is to not let them skate just we don't even need to touch the ice. We're fine. I mean, but Alex was not wrong. They did break the ice because there was some excellent stuff.

Logan comes in next, and I loved his lines too. He's got a solid head of lettuce, which it's been a long time since I felt the thrill of the solid head of lettuce but you know i never never had that thrill never yeah you know i i back in the day now it's just a solid head of clear hair um rocking through there uh but you know we we learned that uh that logan loves dogs um his parents are getting divorced because his mom cheated on his dad

yeah he got real personal there yeah and then and then he rounds it out with he also loves cats kicks it off with loving dogs finishes it off with loving cats so we got an animal lover and logan that's true that was the classic uh, bad, good sandwich. He did that. He really hit the sandwich method with loving dogs. Parents are divorced because his mom cheated. Cats are cool too. Then it kicks over to Nick

who has my favorite answer. I forget what he said. What does he say on the outside? I forget exactly what he says. He has two moms who surprise him every day in the best way possible. And he's a huge hockey fan, something like that. Oh yeah. He's glad to be playing again. And then he hits you with the inside.

And then he gets on the inside. I, uh, I look like Logan, just probably a little bit taller. Which obviously inspired my Zac Efron answer, but it absolutely was the best answer. Make the stick, bring in the comedy gold. He's got excellent timing

throughout it. I need to scope out his IMDb to see you know what really led him to be able to just take over this show oh yeah I'm yeah I'm real interested to see what else he's been in because I haven't looked at that either but I would love to I would love to watch more more of this kid's

acting chops he's fucking killing it and then and then while after after this is going on after after nick absolutely crushes it you see evan vacate to go plead with bombay to just like he goes he goes into bombay's office and bombay laying on the couch with a pillow and a blanket on clearly living there again. He's for sure living in that office. That was the first thing I thought when you brought that up. I was like, okay.

Yeah, confirmed. Brandon was right last episode. It's confirmed. So he's munching on all the snacks. He's definitely living there. Yeah, he has to be. So he goes and pleads to Bombay. He's like, hey, my mom's crazy. She's trying to coach us to play hockey without us actually playing hockey.

Can you help us out here? Like, is this going to work? Please tell me it's going to work. And Bombay is like, no, it's definitely not. Definitely not going to work. And I'm surprised because Evan has everything that Bombay wants. It's just like, hey, Bombay, my mom is single. I play hockey. When else see me?

Yep. That's the Bombay double special right there. Oh, absolutely. That's his triple deke with the ladies What would be a double deke? You need a You need a third move for it to be a triple deke But he goes

Evan says something like Like come on you could help us You could turn us around What do the ducks have that we don't have The old ducks have that we don't have And Bombay literally goes they had me yeah that's what exactly what he says to him they had me i uh i like just just straight up till i guess because he was like you know like they they weren't so bad but to be fair to the original Ducks, these don't-bothers are much worse than the original

Ducks team. Carr would have absolutely crushed this starting lineup. And Goldberg, even though he was very scared of the puck, was much better than Coop. Yes. Well, they were absolutely better because they were all already on a hockey

team. Whereas these kids, they scrounged up. were all already on a hockey team. Whereas these kids, they scrounged up. None of them really know how to skate. They're not actual hockey players. And they're not playing hockey in their first practice. The only one who didn't know how to skate in the first movie was Fulton. That was the only one. Everybody else was already on the team, already playing, except for I forget their names,

but the kid from The Adventures of Pete and Pete and his older sister. They were ice skaters, so they knew how to skate. Already a million times better than this team. But she knows

that she is in way over her head after this like when when evan's like mom what are you doing we we need to practice and she's like oh crap we we probably should because their first practice all that it reminded me of is it was it's just modern corporate america orientation day yeah orientation day it's just like it's like oh my gosh someone is gonna have to say uh what what their superpower would be i was i was honestly waiting for because inevitably at least for me i don't know if this is just my own or my own experiences but in every single like corporate orientation day i've had at least because they do it in groups like like this one i've had at least one person like bail at lunch in every single corporate orientation day i've had at least because they do it in groups like like this one

i've had at least one person like bail at lunch in every single corporate orientation i've done it happened uh it happened at uh at zillow the first day somebody bailed at at lunch um it happened at my current job too first day somebody bailed at lunch um so i was waiting i was waiting for one of the kids like just to get up and be like, I'm done. I'm gone. It would have been Evan if his mom wasn't the coach. That's true.

I'm like, you know what, guys? I don't think I can do this. Everyone knows she's in over her head. I love that Bombay just steadfast. You're okay. You need to figure this out on your own. As Evan leaves after he has his little bombay talk and then alex goes in um like literally right after him yeah um and tries to convince bombay to help but yeah he's shutting

it down he's like you're on your own you know you you asked for this you got this i hate kids i don't like hockey leave me me alone. Yeah. Because isn't she... She's like, but what do we... We don't even have equipment. Yeah. Is that yet? Or no, that's after the next one. That's after the next one. Yeah, they have a second practice where

they actually get on the ice because Evan finally talks her into being like, hey, our games this weekend, and we haven't even touched the ice. We need to talks her into being like hey our games this weekend and we haven't even touched the ice we need we need to get this going so they finally they finally get on the ice and she she dropped she gives them one puck one puck for the whole practice and she puts it down she goes okay guys before we get started i want you to know this is a tiny little black circle of death yes just like she's just trying to scare everybody so they don't they don't end up hurting themselves i i absolutely love that and and before they jump into this

next practice they also did a quick reminder to everyone uh that stephanie is the worst but like the probably the most relatable character in the entire show. Besides Nick, she's my favorite. She's crushing it. She's the worst. She does such a good job. Every single person in America knows someone exactly like Stephanie. And every single person in America right now is like, oh, my God.

Yes. And that person is the worst. And it's just you tolerate them because they get shit done but you don't want to have them come over because listening to them talk or two years yeah oh and then speaking of stephanie you mentioned in the last episode um that the the girl at the lunch table that like throws the gatorade bottle was her daughter and i shut you down i said i don't think that's, she has the son Trevor, but confirmed in this episode.

Cause she's talking to Alex and she goes, Oh, the twins are going to miss Evan. So the girl was her, what's her daughter. She's got two, she's got twins rocking the twins. Yeah.

So my apologies, Heath. That's okay. You know, I just, I didn't want to, you know, you're not a pup. So I'm not going to um you know i just i didn't want to you know you're not a pup so i'm not gonna you know shove your nose in the accident that you made in the apartment

but just just remember uh that that i do tend to always be right no but i i love stephanie she's great um but then um great. But then she takes a little jab at her, and she's like, you know, it's very nice of you. It's just going to be these next 10 weeks, so you can leave early for practice. And Alex is like, well, what if we make states? Well, Alex, so this is what threw me off. Alex asks if she can leave early at 5.30.

5.30 is her leaving early. Like, I get lawyers work a lot of hours, but come on, guys. Come on. What's that about? You need to find a better job. Exactly. Yeah.

That is brutal. She throws the... Yeah, Alex is like is like well not if we make states and what does she as Stephanie responds with oh well only the top two teams make it but I guess you wouldn't know about that or something like that because she is the most condescending person

ever Stephanie is just her nose at everyone and it's why everyone beats her. She's like the Vince McMahon from the mid-90s attitude era of the show. Couldn't you just see Stephanie

for all those wrestling fans out there? Stephanie doing the Vince McMahon strut down to the ring. She better break out that walk in one of these episodes. That'd be fantastic. That was an interesting interchange.

It's setting up the rivalry. But then it basically just cuts back into them practicing. Them on the ice. Yeah, it cuts back into them practicing. Them on the ice. Yeah, they're finally on the ice with the black circle of death.

And the equipment. Yes, well, the equipment's fantastic. It's ridiculous. You got Kube with the football helmet again. Just laying on the ice. Not even in goal. Yeah, just laying there, getting ice down, because at least it's cool, it's cold and wet.

Lauren, the female warrior, with a boomerang attached to a stick for her hockey stick. Excellent. Yeah, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. I thought it was just like a hockey stick, and then when she flicked it, it broke. But no, it was a boomerang taped to just a stick. Yes, a boomerang taped to a stick.

And just the ingenuity there to make it to make a hockey stick. I mean, that's excellent. But it wasn't going to last long, though. No, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. So you had her and then you had Maya's equipment is probably my favorite of all of them. Is this her horse riding helmet? Yeah, she's wearing a horse riding or like a polo helmet. And then she has a field hockey stick.

The short little nub little field hockey sticks. And then you compare that to Evan and Nick, who actually have actual hockey equipment. Although Nick's wearing his old jersey from when he was six years old. Yeah, Nick is wearing his peewee jersey. It may need to be cut off him after practice. What was the team name on it? Ice Tigers? I think that's what it was on there. Nick and the Ice Tigers.

And then, of course, Logan. Logan with the $900 skates and decked out in the full Toronto Maple Leafs uniform. Well, and he's a tripod because he can't skate, so he literally has to have his stick with him at all times. He's just standing there the whole time. He can't skate so he literally has to have his stick with him at all times and he's just standing the whole time he can't move yeah you see you see it a couple times

you see you see it a couple times like right when he like gets onto the ice usually the kid that's behind him is like pushing him for a little bit just to get his speed going get some momentum get him to the middle let him sit but Let him sit. But we didn't even mention it's a little bit of an Easter egg too where Alex dumps the beach balls out onto the ice for the practice. Got the beach balls. No

eggs though. No passing eggs back and forth. That would have been pretty solid. But yeah, we got the beach balls. Yeah, she throws a bunch out there, has them skate it around and try to shoot it in the goal. And she says everybody's stick has to touch it before it goes in the goal.

But yeah, a little Easter egg. She's wild card Sam, slamming into the boards. Is that when he tries to grind the top board? He tries to grind the top of the glass? Yeah. And then in the top of the glass. Yeah. And then in the middle of practice, they

cut over to the exchange between Evan and Bombay, and it's terrible. It's a terrible exchange, and I think they were going for some comedy. I don't know if you remember this, where Bombay's like, you know who else doesn't care? This guy. Which guy? This guy. Yeah, you know who else doesn't care? This guy. And I was like, well, which guy?

Like this guy. Well, yeah, you're going to have to be more specific. Which guy? This guy. It's like, listen, no, it wasn't funny. It's just like, I don't know what it was. We get it. You guys need some help.

You need the help from a real coach. But I guess it helped draw him out a little bit. Yeah, it was just more old man, old grumpy man Bombay. But definitely not needed. The joke kind of went out. So you have that practice where they

at least get people on the ice. People are starting to skate. Everybody's equipment is nonsense. And then it cuts to, I believe it's like when it cuts to the pizza parlor. And Alex has the fantastic idea of giving out the season awards before the season starts.

Yep. More participation trophies. Although Evan makes a remark to Nick because Nick is excited that he's going to get a trophy. And Evan says, dude, it's not even a participation trophy. You haven't participated in anything. And then Nick shuts it down right away.

He's like, hey, man, I don't get recognized for a lot of stuff. So let's see what she has to say. And they're tiny little hockey trophies. But she doesn't, they're blank. There's no engraving on it. She just went to, I don't even know, she probably got them from the dollar store. They were very lackluster awards.

After the unis and everything, there probably wasn't a ton of budget left. If she's doing preseason awards, the engraving was probably just, you know, they tend to charge per letter. She probably was just going to shut that down. The awards she was giving out were very

lengthy. A lot of words, a lot of letters. Yeah, they all seemed to be working titles. Yeah. But I mean, if you're going to do something, do it right. If you're not going to engrave the trophy, why even hand it to me? It didn't even have their names on it.

It was just completely blank. Kicking it off right, too, with Nick. Nick's most improved since yesterday Yeah But like at least get their It just feels nice to be recognized Yeah it gives a great acceptance speech I'm still upset about the non-engraving though

At least engrave their names on it I mean I get it Like every medal and stuff that you get As a kid in those It's why Evan is just straight up like, no, this sucks. Yeah. Or either put their names on it or just put

the Don't Bothers. Put his team name on it. Something. The year. You know? Something. That's a good point. That could have been the cheapest one. You know what? Put Don't Bothers 2020 on there. 2021.

When Nick's 57 years old and he pulls that trophy out of storage, he's not going to remember what it's for. It's going to be meaningless. It's going to be another trophy in a long line of second place podcast, hockey podcast trophies. And then Logan got best attitude. So it must have been a heck of an attitude for those two days.

Yeah. He does have a fantastic attitude, though. His charm level is through the roof. And then Sam gets most likely to give Alex a heart attack. And then Maya's is great.

This is where the vest comes back into play. Maya gets most likely to make me buy another puppy vest, which she did. She's like, which I did. It's right here. How do you like it? And she doesn't say anything, right? She's like, oh. Yeah, I don't think

I think she just gives like a weird Maya just like gives her a look and she's like oh yeah i don't think yeah like i think she just gives like a weird just like gives her a look yeah like oh shit i messed up on buying this vest too and then and then evan gets his and is just like i can't i can't deal with this shit anymore mom can we go talk over here yeah well evan's award is the person who cares the most, I think. Yeah. And he's like, okay, this is... We gotta change something, dude. This is ridiculous. Like, mom, our goalie is wearing

an oven mitt. That was that. That was the other equipment thing. Yeah, Kuv had the football helmet and then an oven mitt for the glove. And I'll say, I'm trying to build a team and a family. Yeah.

This is where she throws the line. She doubles down again about how stress-free she wants us to be. How like, this doesn't matter. She doubles down. She's like, the stakes could not be lower. It's youth

sports. And it's like, that's a nice sentiment, but why are we playing if you're not even going to care at all? You gotta care. You gotta put some effort forward. And they're about to get a very rude awakening

in this first game when it comes in down the pipe. We've got some more action before we get to the game, but oh my God. It's going to be so bad. There's not too much more action before the game. You have another Easter

egg. You have the Bombay solo skate. It shows a scene of Bombay. He puts the skates on. He gets the puck and the stick. He goes out there and he's skating around. He's shooting the puck. He's remembering.

Circa gearing up for the first game. First Ducks game against the Hawks. I think it's the second game. It might even be the second or third game in the first movie because it's after they get blown out. The Hawks and then Hans. In the first one and then in this one too,

he puts the skates on, tries to remember what it's like to love hockey again. It's a nice little throwback Easter egg there. Love that. And then Alex is in the stands, empty stands, sitting there contemplating. Yes. What the hell did I get myself into?

She's sitting there before Bombay comes out. Yeah. She's sitting there. Yeah. Just mulling things over. Just terrified of this game that's coming up. And then. Done.

So she goes. The inevitable disaster. So she, so Bombay comes out, he does his little skate, and then she shouts at him. She's like, what are you doing here? I own this place. What are you doing here? I live here. Exactly. I live here. This is my house.

And then, so she's talking with him about like, I don't know if I'm in the right place. I don't know if I'm doing anything right. And Bombay gives her a little bit of a pep talk, and she's talking with him about like, I don't know if I'm in the right place. I don't know if I'm doing anything right. And Bombay gives her a little bit of a pep talk. And it's like, you know, you're sitting here in the dark thinking about hockey. Sounds like a very coach thing to do. I think you're in the right place.

Gotta work out those demons before the big game. Exactly. I love that he calls, I love that he called them demons. Gotta work out those demons. Before the 12-year-old youth hockey game. Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's an understandable coming...

I was just saying that the demon, him calling them demons is understandable if, for his, because the first movie, you know, he's coming off a DUI, he's clearly an alcoholic. He's legit got some demons he's trying to work out so he can not ruin these peewee hockey players' lives. He's a narcissist, alcoholic.

It's rough. Yeah, he's got some demons for sure. I don't know if Alex has too many demons per se, other than just not caring about anything. Well, she cares too much for her kid, and it's probably a little bit of a pushover. Yeah, she's just too worried about everything. Worry ward, that's her demons.

But yeah, he gives her a little pep talk, and then Alex brings up the equipment, and is like, hey, do you have any spare equipment here? He burned his. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I threw away all the hockey equipment and burned it. Doesn't he? He says that earlier, I think.

Yes. Yeah, that's right because he goes she asked him if she has any uh spare equipment during the second practice when they're they're all skating around and he goes to the boomerang and yeah and he goes no no no i burned all that uh when i gave up hockey burned it all and she like gives him this crazy look and he goes that wasn't even the most that wasn't even the darkest thing I did that day. That was an excellent line. So again, clearly, Bombay's got a lot of demons. He's got some issues. He's in a bad place.

Yeah, yeah. He's in a bad place. Yeah. I mean, the only time he's not in a bad place during all these is the third movie when he finally is not in a bad place. Yeah these is the third movie when he's like finally is not in a bad place. Yeah. Goes back to being a lawyer. He's successful.

Comes back and tells Charlie he's being a big baby and he needs to suck it up. Yeah, because the first one, alcoholic. Second one, he gets swept up in the fame fighting those demons. Air Bombays. You can't blame them. I'm one of them. You got to bring those. Nike. Where's Nike at? I hope they're listening. Let's get some Air Bombays, you can't blame them. I'm one of them.

Where's Nike at? I hope they're listening. Let's get some Air Bombays going. We'll rock the loafers. I would kill for some Air Bombays. Air Bombay loafers? Give me Air Bombays over PF flyers any day. Any day. Air Force

what? So Bombay suggests petty theft in order to take care of their equipment problem. Yes. He mentions that the Ducks facility has a lost and found and that they can find some stuff there. So Alex rounds up all of the 12 year olds and brings them along on a little petty theft spree in which, so they go there, there's the front desk lady. And so Alex's great plan is to have Evan go in and ask to see the lost and found because he lost a helmet or something. So he can get into the lost and found. she says once the lady comes back that's when logan

our heartthrob our golden boy charm her away he her suggestion is to whore him out she goes you go in there flirt with this like 45 year old reception lady and just, you know, give her the bat, some eyelashes, give her the wink and distract her, which he does, which he does. And he pulls it off flawlessly. Cause she,

the, the, the 45 year old receptionist falls for Logan right away. Hook, line and sinker. She's all in all. She's ready to risk. Ready to risk it.

She just hasn't had that much attention in a very long time. I have two very quick things for this segment as well. We can't forget about Lauren bringing nunchucks to the operation just in case she needed some backup. And Maya also mentioning that the receptionist glasses were so 2009. Yes. Well, so before we whore out Logan, Maya is like, I can go in there and I can tear this receptionist down. I can just belittle her, make her cry, get her all distracted,

which honestly I think would have been a better plan than whoring out Logan. And I'm for sure. That's better distraction. She's going to break down crying more than likely because, you know, under plan than whoring out logan and i'm for sure it's better destruction she's gonna break down crying more than likely because you know there's some insecurities there you could tell she was way too glued to that phone the receptionist when they when they came so i agree with you 100 like maya destroying her much better than logan going in there and trying to do some winks and some flirts we're not We're not catching any pedophilia charges

You know Keep it clean Honestly I think the best plan would have been the nunchucks Let Lauren go in there Female warrior style Pop a lady receptionist in the head And then you go on your way One chuck to the head

And you're in And you can take your time. You don't need to be quiet. Logan does distract the lady for an awful long time. They're rifling through. So the plan was to go distract him and then everybody sneaks into the lost and found.

Which, by the way, when they're doing some sneaking and she's getting ready to turn her head and Logan brings her back. Is she blind? Because there's no way you're not seeing 10 people moving in your periphery.

She's blinded by the flow, Heath. Blinded by the flow. That beautiful head of lettuce. Exactly. You can't look away. It's like a train wreck. But they get in there. They find Evan's magic wand. His old stick that he lost that he nicknamed the magic wand.

The nicknames and the names in the show are just the worst. I'm also curious why that was thrown in there. It's like, cool, that was his magic wand hockey stick. Okay. It doesn't come back. It's like, cool, that was his magic wand hockey stick. Okay. But my favorite part was... It doesn't come back. It never comes back. It's just a dumb... It's a throwaway line.

Yeah. But my favorite... At least call it something cool, like Excalibur or something. You know? That would be a great name for a hockey stick. When Sam does the distraction while they're in the everything's going well and he like just starts knocking stuff over causing a distraction i got you guys

um and and they immediate did you like how they immediately cut to them just loading the stuff in the van because there is no possible way they could explain them getting from the equipment room with huge amounts of equipment back past the front desk. She's not at the front desk anymore because Logan had her take her on a

tour, take him on a tour of the facilities. That's right. She wasn't at the front desk. They could have easily snuck back out. That one's facilities. That's right. Yeah. So she wasn't at the front desk. They could have easily snuck back out. That one's fine. I'll let that go.

So they get the equipment. They're able to sneak it back out. Nobody's wearing horse helmets or football helmets anymore. We're all ready to go. Real hockey equipment. Yes. Ready for game one. Ready for game one ready for game one game time and the game starts out just in the best way possible with our this podcast favorite podcast

the wraparound right like yep not only were they Not only were they doing a live podcast from the Ducks practice, but now they're doing live broadcasts, I assume, of every game. Although I feel like for PeeWee, wouldn't you have games going on at the same time? Yeah, they might have to pick and choose certain games. But why would you pick the Don't Bothers first game against the Cardinals? I think that maybe it's a nod to her former partner and companion,

Nick the Stick, getting that first team game. Again, just straight away with the biases. There's no filter now. They're not a hockey podcast anymore. They're a Don't Bother podcast. But before, I jumped the gun because before that lauren or not lauren alex had an excellent another excellent uh pre-game speech where she is like

today you're gonna fall down probably a lot that's just like right away comes in hot hey team this isn't gonna go super well you're probably gonna fall down a lot but we're gonna have fun yeah it's gonna be fun yeah you have to wrap around doing the the broadcast they come out and just right away well wait wait wait before they come out we got to talk about the last second terry oh yeah good friend yeah wraparound terry good old terry what a great job filling in for for the wraparound podcast um her dad terry i believe did they did they is he and he's an accountant right yes yeah she. Yeah. She, so Mary, Mary Jo, who's the other half of the podcast with Nick, um, they're doing the broadcast and since Nick's playing,

she has her dad Terry fill in and she introduces him. Um, what does she say? She says, here's Terry, um, taking some time out of his busy accountant accounting schedule to, to fill in for us. And he got with just like the most monotone voice you'll ever hear, he says, oh God, I'm so excited. It reminds me of tax day. He absolutely crushed it with that line. The environment in here feels like tax day.

So I'm assuming there's a lot of There's a lot of adrenaline But there's also a lot of dread Happening at the same time You know there's adrenaline Because it's exciting it's the first game But we all know what is about to take place Oh Terry knows Terry's done his homework

He's scouted both teams He knows this is not going to end well Of course he's done his homework He's an accountant Exactly he's goted both teams. He knows this is not going to end well. Of course he's done his homework. He's an accountant. Exactly. He's got, he's got the spreadsheet breakdown. He knows what's happening.

And, and I love that. The don't bothers are so diplomatic that Evan's like, you know, Hey, you know what, Logan, you,

you want to take this space off? Cool. That's not, that, that, that diplomat, that's the Cool. That's the worst decision Evans ever made. He goes, you know what would be a great idea for our very first game is let's let the guy who can't skate at all take the face off. And so, of course, Logan loses the opening faceoff, and within two seconds, the Cardinals score.

Fast score. Yeah. And then they go, everyone goes up to Logan. He's like, dude, what happened? And he goes, you didn't move your stick at all. And Logan goes, well, I can't. If I move it, then I fall down. And then, is it Mary Jo calls him the human tripod? jo calls him the human tripod nick calls him the human

i think mary jo does call him that later on though the human tripod oh my god and then and then it just keeps getting worse because then they got coob over there who just he never moves he moves. He moves his glove hand slightly, but never moves his feet, never moves his stick. He's just standing there. The worst goalie I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. And we also get a nice little taste right away of what Coach T, right?

Coach T was talking about where it's full contact you know like they're about to get reffed up so then and and and you got alex on the bench like hey that boy's not nice yeah just asking for the ref to arrest people that's a that that brings up another thing i want to talk about though that happens um in the first in the movies as well, is there is in these movies, in this TV show, there is so many two player hits.

You know what I'm talking about? Where instead of one player checking or hitting another player, it's two players on the same team, smashing in and checking at the same time, the player on the other team. in and checking at the same time the player on the other team yeah that happens so often and that hardly ever happens the only time that happens in like actual hockey is when they're against the boards and somebody else comes in and even that's not like a full-on hit these ones that they're showing in these shows are like it's two people legit

full speed running at these kids yeah it just doesn't make any sense and would absolutely be a penalty. It would be a charging penalty right out the gate every single time. Yeah. But honestly, the biggest surprise to me was that the first cut, like when they did the first cutaway, like towards the mid end of the first period, and it was only five zero.

Like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense at all. It doesn't make any sense. The first goal took five seconds. These guys literally, the don't-bothers can't move. No one can move or follow.

And the goalie can't move. They're just like fishing a barrel, shooting those up. So the fact that... I didn't catch it, but did you see if it mentioned how long the periods were? Did it show anything on the scoreboard?

I think they're 15 minute periods because I think it showed 14.55 when they scored the first goal. Which it wasn't five seconds. It was wasn't five seconds it was maybe third i mean like maybe a a half a second at the top um but then one of my other

favorite parts of the in-game uh series is when they cut over to coob and you just hear him kind of mumbling he's going x x x x and like naked emma likeop, what are you doing? What are you saying? He's like, I'm saying X. It's kick save in the game. And then Nick goes, oh, but not in real life, Coop. Not in real life. You gotta move your feet, which he absolutely can't

do. No, he's useless. He's completely useless because he doesn't move. He just stands there. Like you said, it's a miracle that it was only five goals a miracle and like they they also cut to nick absolutely getting destroyed in what what you were just saying like the two-person like double team hit on nick but i guess if if like they're so immobile that like they probably could just like hey let could just like, hey, let me just skate over here and wallop this kid really quick and then we can do another fast break.

Yeah. Well, another thing that I forget if it happens in the movies a lot, but I've noticed in this game for sure is whenever they're showing a hockey scene or a hockey movement or whatever whatever there's only ever two people moving in the shot yeah it's whoever's like got the puck and then one of the defenders or on occasion another teammate is moving too but when they go in those wide shots it's like in the background it's just five people five hockey players just staying there. It doesn't make any sense at all. Move. Why are we... Another one of my

favorites from the game footage, which actually is kind of damning Alex, is like, hey, you keep trying to say that you're the nice team and you're the nice team. She was booing the other team while they were skating by her. Boo, boo, boo. Like, come on. You're better than that,

coach. Alex, those are 12-year-olds. Boo, boo, boo Like, come on, you're better than that, coach Alex, those are 12-year-olds Yeah, you're telling the Ducks to suck it We're booing the Cardinals Like, come on And I also, I did love that they played the Cardinals Because I'm pretty sure that was the first team That the Mighty Ducks faced

When they were, they might have been District 5 Or no, they got crushed by the Hawks But then they definitely played the Cardinals. They did play the Cardinals. It wasn't, yeah, so it wasn't their first game. It was like their third or fourth game because they bring Fulton in later. He's not on the team right away,

but it's Fulton's first game. And that's where he hits those crazy slap shots. Yeah, and everybody just runs out of the way. But, you know, all things considered, they didn't hardly skate at all. They couldn't move. Total disaster. Did you see the final score?

Yeah, 12-0. 12-0, that's it? I thought it was going to be at least third. Yeah, the fact that Kube can't move at all, every shot should have gone in. So the fact that Coop can't move at all. Every shot should have gone in. So the fact that they're only getting 12 shots is ridiculous. For a team, playing a team that can't move. Outside of Evan and Nick, nobody can skate.

Everybody's just standing still. The Cardinals should be embarrassed. Yeah. They should have absolutely destroyed them. But so, I mean, 12-0, they did the don't bothers a favor, and they didn't run them up. Maybe they just – maybe they just like – the coach was like, hey, just quit shooting it in.

Just go skate around with the puck for a while. They kind of like dribbled out the clock a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. That seems like a classy – that's a Cardinal move for sure. Classy Cardinal move. So postgame, once again, Nick the Stick postgame crushing it with the hot take recap. Yeah.

Just emotionally and physically beaten is how he describes it he can't feel anything under under his armpits or below his armpits i i wrote that down too i and i can't feel anything below my armpits and then alex comes in and she goes so that was rough guys um we definitely did she said something about what a rough loss and then Coop Coop shouts from the back he goes wait we didn't win?

I'm sorry I blacked out there for a while which would explain his goalie technique if he was just blacking out it's why he wasn't moving he went to his zen place. I know this is esports and the whole spirit

of the don't bothers is to doesn't matter if we're good or not. Yeah, to give everybody a chance, but get him out of here. He's dead weight. He's bringing zero to the table. He's not even a good locker room guy.

You can have some players that aren't the best, but they get the locker room going. He's not a happy-go-lucky guy. If anything, he's a drain in the locker room with his freaking Matrix rants. Real depressing. I mean, I think we have to cut Coop a little bit of slack. There's not a single other individual.

Your sentence went on too long. We need to cut Cube, is what your sentence should have been. No, some slack. No one else on the team could survive in the goal, and he takes up the most width. Yes, but that does not help you.

It kind of helps you. I bet Nick would have been a better goalie. You know who would be honestly the best goalie? It's Sam. The fucking wildcard daredevil. Not afraid of the puck. Wildcard. You put him in there and you go, hey Sam,

every puck that you get hit by, we'll buy you a skateboard or some shit like that. Incentivize him. Dare him to get hit by you get you know we'll buy you a skateboard or some like that you know incentivize them or just dare dare him to stop ever dare him to get hit by every puck that's what you do you dare him you just gotta dare that could it that could have been a cool storyline hey sam i dare you to not let it go and then he's just like because there's you know like rapid fire taking pucks off the chest yes because Because there is something to it to where especially there's –

to want to be a hockey goalie. Goldberg mentions it in the first movie where he's like, is this insane to anybody else that I'm just getting hit by pucks? So there's a certain level of of insaneness of of you know just throw of being a wild card that you have to have in order to want to be a hockey goalie sam would fit that perfectly and he's he's nimble he's quick he can move granted we haven't seen him skate very much so god knows if he can translate that to ice skates but in theory he's quicker he's nimble and that means more hockey goalie wise than just being big if you look at like a lot of the the

professional goalies in the nhl they're real lean um they're tall so a lot of them are tall like you know um but they're lean they're able to move quickly. They're flexible. That's really the keys you're looking for with a good goalie is somebody who can move. Size doesn't really – size is – it helps if you have the other stuff, but the other stuff is more important. But do those other folks have the type of saves that Coob has in NHL online gaming because that's the thing that they're missing.

They're not crushing saves online in their basement all the time. Yes, because that obviously is what translates well. You would think after Nick told Coob that, hey,

the X button doesn't work in real life, that that would click with him. Maybe getting the video game guy to be the goalie wasn't the smart idea. Maybe that's where we messed up. Yeah. Nick and Evan should be rethinking their decision in the recruiting process. Yeah, that and the recruiting process. And then the decision to let Logan take the face off.

What are you guys doing? You're sabotaging yourself. Self-sabotage. I think we're identifying a need for a player personnel type of position within the developers. Evan should definitely not be captain. I don't know why he has this.

Part of the jersey reveal, part of the jersey reveal is Evan has the captain's patch which I guess makes sense in the fact that he because he gives the most facts we get it, he cares the most yeah but he's not like he gives all the shits

he doesn't have the coaching mentality that Charlie had I mean later Charlie Charlie in the first movie shouldn't have been a captain either that's a whole other thing that Charlie had. I mean, later Charlie. Charlie in the first movie shouldn't have been a captain either. That's a whole other thing. But Evan should definitely not be this team's

captain. Evan's not a boring leader. I think you see Nick. Yeah, Nick should be captain, for sure. Yeah. I agree. But one thing I do have to say about the post game that i had to comment on where is when nick yells at his mom he's like it's not fun getting your ass kicked

it's like evan yells at his mom he's 12 years old if i yelled it's not fun getting your ass kicked well when i was 12 years old it In Evan's defense, he doesn't really yell it. Alex says something about... Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. He drops the ass word, which on a Disney Plus show, I was not ready for that. That was a shocker.

That and the suck it line caught me way off guard. Like a whole lot of bad attitude coming from the Maro clan over there i mean he has he has a point though because alex talks about like you know we're not in it to win we're in it to have fun which i mean he's absolutely right losing 12 nothing is not fun at all even in the slightest i agree with him 100 and i think we talked about this on the last podcast too where it's like hey these the the roosters are going to come home to,

to hatch here very soon. And it's going to be, is that the right phrase? No, it's the chicken. No, I fucked that up. The chickens come home to hatch or something. Isn't that something's roosting and something's hatching. chickens come home to hatch or something. Something's roosting and something's hatching. I think it's the roosters come home to crop. No, that's not it either.

Somebody, somebody let us know. Somebody let us know what the phrase is. Anyway, go ahead. You're the, you know, the, Oh, it's a Let the chickens come home to roost Chickens come home to roost, okay Yeah, so that's definitely What they did, the cardinals came home to roost In this episode Cardinals came home to roost I can't believe he got away with it

My mom would have grabbed me by The back of the head Drugged me out of there And just started walloping for that amount of disrespect. But he does kind of offset the disrespect. Like, okay, it was frustrating. But then he's like, hey, let's go practice. Like, we should finally actually get a real practice.

Let's finally teach people how to skate. Let's start there. Let's start properly. That was his first smart captain move. He didn't even, honestly, it wasn't even that great of a captain's move because he didn't invite anybody else. He just went back on the ice and started skating

and everybody else was like, well, if he's going to do it, we might as well do it too. The captaincy, you need a little more communication to be a solid captain there, Evan. Yeah, he has been botching the captaincy very heavily. And what does Alex say? Well, I guess I got to learn hockey now. Yeah, she goes, I guess I actually have to learn,

or I guess I have to learn actual hockey now. Which, why, this is just dawning on you now? It's way too late in the game for her to just be having this realization. That should happen before the first game kicks off. Yes. Did you hear the old

kind of like ducks melody in the back, though, when they were doing the skating around and they were practicing? That music coming back, it brought all the all those good feelings from my youth yes the soundtrack for the show is fantastic because

that's one of the multiple times they've brought back it's not exactly it's not the exact same music it's like it's remixed and redone it's a little slower than usual more dramatic but it's the same melody for sure remixed and redone. It's a little slower than usual. More dramatic. But it's the same melody, for sure.

And they played it... I think it started at the very beginning of the first episode. And then, yeah, they played it at the end of this one. And I think a couple more times throughout these first two episodes. But yeah, yeah. Getting the nostalgia, the goosebumps going.

That was Because it's A good reminder of how good the movies are Because right now, you know Just initial first two Episode assessment I think we are living in A state of mediocrity When it comes to this

To this series And I think that's where we're going to... That's the wheelhouse. There's nothing... It's not really going to... I just feel like it's not going to peak any higher than the first two episodes. I enjoyed the first episode. The second episode,

I enjoyed less. I think what we said last episode, where this is stretching it's a good show it's definitely not going to be a great show and i it's it yeah at no point am i expecting any of these episodes to be great even even for like a when they like those leaked photos of like the reunion episode even when that hits i'm not expecting it to be fantastic so yeah i'm expecting mediocrity with maybe a slight blip into good for for some of these probably not even a whole episode but certain scenes will probably be good but i think this is

as good as you can do something like this and like the more the more I... These first two episodes, if the format keeps going the way it is, it honestly didn't need to be a series, the story they're trying to tell. It could have easily...

I'm assuming it could easily have been cut down to an hour and a half, two hours. Hour 45. Movie. And then... I'm assuming it could easily have been cut down to an hour and a half, two hour, hour 45 movie. And then, but yeah, I, I agree. Series are more profitable now.

It is fun to, to live back through the nostalgia with the Easter eggs and, and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, speaking of, speaking of Easter, speaking of Easter eggs,

we missed, missed this on the first one, but it pops up in this other episode as well, is the middle school that all these kids go to is District 5 Middle School. Oh, yeah, you're right. How could we miss District 5 Middle School? I don't think they ever say it.

You see the sign a couple times district five middle school yeah um oh when you know and and like going just one last thing on the show there was a a secret this one of the sequences where she was just like hanging out in the office chit-chatting with bomb. It just went on a little bit too long. And I think I even, uh, text you or told you that like, I accidentally stopped paying attention and had to, uh, run it back really quick. Cause I, I busted out Instagram really quick to aimlessly stroll and scroll on about like, like once it went onto the next scene, I was like, Oh shit, I'm supposed to be paying attention to talk about the show. So I had to go back and rewatch it because they kind of lost me a little bit. But

I still think that Nick the Stick is going to be able to provide some solid gold for us in the coming episodes. Yeah, I think Nick the Stick's going to be good. They're definitely going to play the love interest, both for Bombay and Alex.

It's going to happen they they planted the seeds with the uh the whitney houston scene um at the end of the first episode there wasn't too much other than other than the solo skate actually had a little bit a little bit of romantic tension yeah there was some flirting there's a little back and forth going on there. That's definitely going to happen. I'm interested to see that. I like Maya and Lauren. I thought they did a good job of building their characters. Like Lauren, the female warrior,

that is going to have an existential crisis. And then Maya playing up the mean girls aspect. Maya was probably my favorite this episode. Yeah. With the 2017 lines and then her ridiculous equipment. She killed it in this one. Yeah. So there,

and I think that hopefully that'll be the benefit of the series is you build the kids characters a little more. Whereas in the movies, other than Charlie Banks and and fulton and fulton those are really the top three that get kind of like that get actual character development everybody else is there's no character development it's every minute saverman the whole all three movies you know goldberg's goldberg all three movies there's no real big character development for any of these so hopefully with the series and the longer runway they have, they can build these kids up a little more.

I agree. I think, I mean, no matter what, we're in it for the long haul. So let's, these ducks are going to fly together. Or I guess if we're the Cake Eaters podcast, do these hawks fly together? It's not worth winning if you can't win big. Somebody teach that to the Cardinals so they'd run up that

fucking score. Well, I mean, they don't have anybody bashing their head with their helmets with hockey sticks. They just don't make them like Coach Riley anymore. They don't. Oh, God. RIP. I miss Coach Riley. I have a soft spot for Coach Riley.

That's why I'm so heartbroken with these stupid Hawks colors. I'm still upset about that. I'm never going to let that go. How do you change the Hawks colors? It's goddamn bullshit. What does possible sound like for your business? It's having the spend to powers your scale with no preset spending limit. More cash on hand to grow your business with up to 55 interest-free days. And the ability to reach further with access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide.

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because we finally get the ducks matchup. They're playing the ducks. If we thought 12, nothing was bad. It might be 100 to nothing by the end of this text. Cause you know, coach T I mean, do you,

do you think coach T is wants to bury them? Or do you think they are so insignificant to him that he can't even like be bothered with them? Like he is not bothered. Or do you think they are so insignificant to him that he can't even like be bothered with them? Like he is not bothered. I think, I think he's, I think he's going to run it up. Yeah. He's definitely, I, I would not be shocked if coach T is from the coach Riley coaching tree. Oh, okay. That, that makes sense. Like he, he came,

he former Hawks assistant. Yes. You know, he probably, he probably played for the Hawks, you know? Okay. Yeah. I, I, he, he's got that, that vibe to him. So he's, he's gotta be a, he's gotta be in the coach Riley coaching tree. Okay. I would love it. I would love it if they, they got, I would love it if they made some sort of reference to that. And they went into that? Or what if he's like Riley's son?

Or grandson or something like that. That'd be pretty sweet. Or bastard. Bastard child. Bastard love child. What if... Oh, what... I don't know. This would be too many things to unravel. I was going to say what if he was Riley's bastard son

and Bombay's half-brother? So like Coach Riley banged Bombay's mom and then Coach G popped out. That's like a mid-day soap opera. The days of our lives plot. Yeah, that's too many things going on. But he's going to run it up. He's got it.

He's got it. All right. So they're playing the Ducks. You think Coach T's going to run up? I think he has to. It's just in his nature. It's in his character. Yeah, yeah. It's just in his nature. It's in his character. Yeah, it's definitely in his character.

It's going to be something ridiculous, I imagine. It has to be worse than 12-0. It has to be. It's probably going to be... They're probably not going to get too carried away. I bet it's like 25 or 30. Yeah.

It's going to be something bad. I don't even know if it'll be that much. It's going to be something bad. I don't even know if it'll be that much. It's going to be worse than 12-0 though. It's going to be worse than 12-0. We'll see. I'm intrigued. I don't know if they'll take it into the 20s. Our original prediction for this

Cardinals game was 30 or 40 goals. And they only did 12. It's going to be worse than 12-0, but i doubt they'll go into the 20s but so so uh quick little uh rundown of the the next episode here um so they're playing the ducks um a Alex is determined to become a real coach. Evan is turning on the Sophie strategy again. Him and Nick are trying to get

Sophie on the team. Based on the little preview or whatever, we're going to get a little Bombay backstory. I don't know how deep they're going to dive into it, but we're going to get a little bit of Bombay, of how Bombay got here.

We got, so we got a Ducks blowout. We've got some Bombay backstory. We've got Alex realizing once again that she made a terrible decision to coach this team. Yes. So I'm assuming Alex realizing how terrible of a coach she is, she's going to go to Bombay. She's going to plead with him to help. Then that's when we get

he's going to be more old man Bombay. Then she's going to be like, what the fuck happened, dude? This mysterious thing is getting real old. This old codger routine is not charming anymore. Do you want to get with this

single mom or not yeah yeah we're you're not getting in my bed unless you get behind the bench bobby yeah uh i i mean we'll see there's some there's some intrigue there i I just, like, is there any way Sophie's parents would let her on this disaster of a team? Because, like, I get deep down, you know, like, who would, you know, when you're on the bad guy's team and you don't fit in with the bad guy's team. But I don't know. I just think there's no way. Dad cheering at the first practice. There's no way that guy is.

He was cheering at a practice The first one Yeah I don't know It depends on I guess it depends on how strict They want to be about League rules and stuff College applications Well I mean like the show

Runner like the plot Not necessarily her parents. In the first movie, they force Banks onto the ducks. His dad's vehemently opposed to it. They force Banks onto the ducks.

This one seems like they're not following district lines or anything like that. Maybe you don't need parent permission. Maybe she can just lie and be like, oh, I'm hurt. I can't play hockey anymore. Although I don't know how she'd get

away with that lie. They seem like too overbearing to do that. But maybe she just hops over and is like, deal with it, bro. We'll see. We will see the recruiting strategy hopefully they they do better than the position the the position that they did uh that's if she even hops over i'm kind of hoping she doesn't at least not yet i feel like if you're not going to do it in the first episode

you should i feel like you episode three is too early you know yeah well but with them playing the ducks maybe there's a breaking point you know maybe yeah maybe maybe coach t flies off the handles or start smashing kids with with hockey sticks you know yeah well and maybe he goes uh headhunting you know like the hawks did and he's like would you do my job do you remember that i love that scene real real real uh sociopathic kid there um so yeah but i'm he's just following orders he can't you know he's being a good being a good soldier i feel like our preview chat here got me more excited for episode 3 than I initially was so I think I'm geared up

I think I'm ready the embarrassment that is Alex's coaching philosophies to continue to be on full display and you know she's going to rue the day that she told Coach T to not bother hopefully hopefully they draw out you know, she's going to rue the day that she told Coach T to not bother.

Hopefully. Hopefully they draw out this terribleness a little more. I have a feeling, like, after – they're definitely going to lose to the Ducks. You can't – the first time around, you have to lose to the Ducks. Yeah. It's just like they did with the Hawks, just like with Team Iceland, just like with the rest of the. It's like with any trilogy movie or whatever, you

lose the first battle and then you come back and you win the second battle. So they're going to lose this game. That first battle, that's where the lessons were learned and then the finale. Like Infinity War. You got to lose first so you can win. Or Empire Strikes Back, all that stuff. You got to lose first so you can win.

Or Empire strikes back, all that stuff. You got to lose first. The Empire has to strike back before the Jedi can return. Exactly. So they're going to lose this one. But I'm hoping, I don't know, I feel like after that, there's going to be some bullshit magic answer to why they're

all of a sudden a great team now. And then they're going to win every single other game. But hopefully it's not that quick of a turnaround. You know what it is? All of a sudden, Logan, the light clits, he becomes the greatest skater

in the Twin Cities somebody needs to teach that kid to fucking skate how are we not like at least all the other ones except for Coob somebody needs to teach Coob how to fucking skate too but all the other kids at least have shown that they are able to skate but Logan and Coob they don't move at all somebody teach

them how to skate somebody teach those kids how to fucking skate embarrassing well episode 2 was awesome Somebody teach him how to skate. Somebody teach those kids how to fucking skate. Embarrassing. Well, episode two was awesome. I'm ready for episode three, Brandon, and I'm ready for us to break this down because we're really going to see this 25-nothing bloodbath with the Ducks.

Can't wait. Can't wait. With that, we'll talk to everybody next week. Have a good week. you