The Cake Eaters - 40. D2: The Mighty Ducks - Part 6

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

Heath & Brandon dive into the 1994 classic D2:The Mighty Ducks! Today’s episode goes over minutes 51-59. They delve into a quick Junior Goodwill Games Tournament update, more Hollywood Bombay™ troubles, Team USA has a good ol' fashioned Players Only Meeting, how beneficial some Schoolyard Puck can be, who "Mr. Alley Oop" really is, Brandon challenges CP3 again, and how James is knitting this team and this country back together. Then we prepare for a magical solo skate in part 7. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

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Let me hear some noise Cake eaters in the house Jump, jump, rejoice I don't even know how to start in after that It was a great rendition I was left speechless That's how good it was, Heath. Listen, Brandon, there's a party over here.

There's a party over there. Wave your hands in the air. Shake your derriere. I couldn't have said it better myself, Heath. That's how I'm feeling about this episode. I don't know about you. This is a great episode. This is a part six.

For everybody that's listening, this is the Cake Eaters a great episode this is a part six for everybody that's listening this is the cake eaters podcast my name is brandon you've heard heath give us a very very great rendition of uh of tag team there whoop there it is which features prominently in this part uh of our breakdown of d2 it's part six. For people just joining in, we're doing this in 10 parts, about 10 minutes of movie time a piece. And so today we're picking up just after the 51st minute, right after we just got,

Team USA just got creamed by Team Iceland. Don Tibbles told Bombay either ship up or ship out. And so then we're picking up. Did you bombay either ship up or ship out and so then we're picking up do you just say to ship up or ship out yep that's exactly what i said that's well it's uh shape up or ship out but i love where your head's at i thought it was ship up or ship up or ship out is that not right no it's shape up or ship out you You know? I like ship up or ship out. What does ship up even mean? Anyways, all right. Keep going.

We just got rocked by Iceland. 12-1. Pathetic. Yeah, that's shipping down. That's what that is, Heath. Whatever you have to tell yourself, Brandon. Fool you once, shame on me. But so Bombay is heading back into the locker room right after right after a 12-1 loss to iceland heading back into the locker room and everybody is is everybody is upset everybody's

pissed off feeling feeling real down down in the dumps. As they should be. They got thoroughly outplayed and even more thoroughly outcoached. Yep, outcoached, outclassed. Iceland made them look like idiots out there on the ice. And we get Bombay kicking this off, Brandon, with another trash pep talk. He comes in, he says, 12 to 1. You know what word comes to mind when I think of that? Pathetic.

You guys were brought here to play hockey. And then Jesse comes back. He says, well, what about you? And Bombay gets real defensive, which he should because he hasn't been absentee. And he says, what about me, Jesse? And this is where our girl, Julie the cat, Brandon, what does she say? She says, coach Stanson knew everything about us.

They were ready for us. And then Luis comes in and he says, you spend your time driving around in convertibles, talking to those sponsor fools. Wasted time. Wasted time. Wasted time. Zero coaching done. Up until this point,

zero coaching done. Putting in maximum effort with the sponsors and minimal effort with his team. And he's got that bass-ack words. That's what my mom would say. And then Fulton says, or hanging with the iceland lady we saw you two saturday night yeah yeah here come the cock blocks yeah and portman eating ice cream with the enemy huh coach and portman somehow got kicked out of the stands but found his way back into the locker room

was he back in his uniform i don't know i don't think so no i think they kept him in his street clothes okay i couldn't remember that'd be amazing to put the uniform back on that would be hilarious like just totally fucking up the movie continuity like really hard i mean i should look at the imdb page it's just the the continuity errors are so long unbelievable it's hard to get through and so i was like you know what it's i'm just gonna chalk that up as perfectly imperfect you know that's how i speak speaking of continuity errors i feel like maybe we should take this time this time to do a brief uh a tournament format breakdown if you will since we just okay we just we just lost the first our first game team usa just lost

their first game so we're two and one two and one this is a double elimination tournament which is broken into groups for some reason but so so before we played Trinidad and Italy, we already knew both those teams had one loss, right? They were 0-1 and 0 based on the screenshot of the standings that they gave us right before we played Trinidad. Yep. So we know Trinidad's gone. They were eliminated when Team when team usa beat them

italy same thing done so gone team usa get out of here italy so now in our in our group a we have iceland who has not lost we have germany who uh i don't think they've lost yet um i i don't think they've played iceland yet um And then you have us with one loss. And then group, who the fuck knows what's going on with group B? No idea. Doesn't matter. So that's where we are right now. So we are – Team USA is on the brink of elimination.

Trinidad and Italy gone. Donezo. Get them out of here. And Bombay is feeling the heat from our boy tibbles so what does he do just like they talk about this you know you know what he you know what he does you know what he does he does he ships up he doesn't start shipping up what he's doing is he's taking all that punishment that tibbles laid out on him and redirecting that back to the kiddos you know just like when you have a stressful day at work

and you come home and make everyone else have a bad day about it. Yep, yep. Same thing, you know, just typical psychological stuff. You know what they say, Heath? Happy Bombay, happy life. Happy, that's, well, he hasn't, there has been a lack of moms around the the team so he hasn't been as focused you know i feel like if there was a little bit more do you think maria is a mom

i don't know no definitely never never fully established what do you think i don't think she is okay no no but uh what about miss mckay do you think miss McKay? Do you think she's got a kid? I don't think she's a mom, and I also don't think she digs Bombay very much. She was a little skeptical at first, and then he turns into Mr. Big Stuff. And so she's skeptical at best. She needs to see him do better. Well, yeah. She's got a thing for Bombay, but she hates Hollywood Bombay.

It's one of those things where she's got a thing for Bombay, but she doesn't have a – she hates Hollywood Bombay. It's one of those things where like she's – Exactly. So she's not going to give up the treats if she's not liking Hollywood Bombay, Brandon. I don't know why, but hearing you say give up the treats made my skin crawl. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean it like that. But like it's just – she's not going to – How did you mean it if you didn't mean it like that?

Well, I didn't mean for it to sound creepy i just you know like she's not gonna she's not gonna give bombay any love if she's not feeling him because he's being kind of a jerk to these kids you never you know like bullying kids is never a good look no definitely not a good look it's not a good look but she yelling that your head off at them yeah she she can see the you know the the good person buried underneath hollywood bombay but you're right she in this particular stretch we're going in right now her and bombay are uh feuding you know yeah we're just not seeing eye to eye on how we're running the team. Nope. Nope.

It's a, they're, they're having some back and forths, you know, they're, they're jibber jabbering with each other, but there's a, there's a, there's a mutual respect there.

Yeah. But back to Bombay in the locker room, Brandon, we have him saying, ending the conversation with Sam, Hey, what I do is none of your business. Is that clear? And everyone's like, Oh, whatever. And they start taking their pads off. And he goes, Hey, don't take those pads off. Everyone stay in your gear. We have practice Goldberg's like tonight. You got it after the post-game practice brandon that's like borderline child

abuse right well you you know what we're doing right we're doing sprints all night till they shut the lights off uh you know what that is right no this's right man i haven't seen the movie miracle in a while well yeah so so so it's an homage to that but this again shows how disconnected bombay is from reality because they're uh it's that you can that's what he's trying to do is he's trying to have that moment, right? But it's completely the wrong context because the way it happens for the 1980 team, for those that aren't familiar, the 1980 U.S. hockey team that won the gold medal, they famously beat Russia to advance to the gold medal game.

And they were severely – they were the severe underdog not only throughout that tournament but specifically in that game against russia but what happens was the the what this scene's taking from is before the olympics start i think it's like a month maybe a couple weeks before the olympics start that year team usa travels to nor to play team Norway. They are, they beat team Norway handily, right? But throughout the game, uh,

coach Herb Brooks, um, who's the, the, the famous 1980s, a hockey coach, one of the greatest hockey coaches of all time. He notices the team is not paying full attention to the game.

They're while, while they're destroying Norwayway they beat norway very handedly but throughout the game nobody's paying attention they're not listening to him you know they're just kind of coasting by on on their pure talent so he sees that and he decides to wake the team up with a after game sprint session and it's it's famously known because the uh the norway arena like because they're doing this in norway they're skating back and forth doing uh like ice sprints all night the norway arena ends up shutting off the lights and locking the doors so that the staff can leave but team usa is still in there doing sprints um damn for a whole time so that the staff can leave but team usa is still in there doing sprints um damn for a whole time

so that's that's what bombay is going for he's trying to get that wake up moment to be like hey but it's a completely wrong context because it's we didn't lose to iceland because we're not paying attention we're losing to iceland because you're a shitty coach bombay yeah and they weren't properly prepared for the game and so they went in with a big head like his attitude to wolf the dentist right before the game started said it all right where he was like good luck coach you're gonna need it like in the team completely picked up on that attitude we saw it with the interview goldberg gave averman before the game like they were not focused and ready for the game they just just thought it was going to be another Team Italy cakewalk.

And no, it was far, far away from that. You know who should be skating these sprints is fucking Bombay. Yeah, I agree 100%. And Charlie, what do you think about this Charlie interaction here too, where Bombay is blowing the whistle and Charlie is like, this isn't very much fun, coach. And he's he's like well who said it was supposed to be fun you did when you coach the ducks i don't see any ducks here charlie no all i see is team usa one loss away from elimination 20 more sprints the ducks ducks are dead, Heath.

Yeah. Donezo. Gone. You can go get the quack out of here with that duck stuff, Charlie. Take your communist ducks and get them out of my America. I forgot about that. The communist ducks. Get the freedom-loving eagles in here.

That's what we need. America. Rock flagging eagle baby but so that's how that the and then he he tells yeah 20 more sprints i'm a god knows how god knows how long they actually do the sprints for you know yeah it's obviously quite a while because when we cut next we the camera spans them in their desks and miss mckay's classroom and we just got everyone falling asleep we've got prime early 90s fashion in full effect um luis is sleeping on his jackets mumbling saying not my best um i love how i love how the only scene we get of them in the the tutor class is of them all sleeping not learning anything fantastic yeah and she just

she just lets him go home and then cancels practice because well we get bottom before she cancels practice yeah that's messed up that's that's an overreach for sure i don't know i wrote in my notes i wrote miss mckay coming in clutch because it's it's a bit of an overreach but it was a needed overreach you gotta she holly absolutely had to make that happen you can't let hollywood bombay fucking run you know rough shot over over this you got a real yeah i agree i agree i mean she she overstepped because it's not her place to cancel practice she should have talked to him first but i understand her methodology where she was like okay i can tell him to cancel practice but he's not going to do it so i'm just going to do it and then tell him what's what and you know he would have never can't

yeah he would have never can't yeah he would have never canceled it because they need to win gold because if they win gold they can go on to bigger things he's yeah and she and she calls it out though too she's like you've been running those children ragged they can barely stay awake in class they're calling you captain blood i love that captain blood i love that too i even as like a kid when i was watching it i always thought it was funny that the kids called him captain blood but then he he follows it up with uh i'm preparing these kids for battle can you understand that we win the gold we go on to bigger things and and this is where miss mckay calls him out she

should call she should have honestly called about more like bigger things that's this is where miss mckay calls them out she should call she should have honestly called about more like bigger things that's not for the kids that's for you you selfish asshole yep you know because the kids aren't gonna go like that yeah the kids can get like you know some scholarships or something like that or get putting on the radar of recruits but the stuff that he's talking about the bigger bigger things, that's all for him. That's air bomb bays and Hendricks endorsement deals and coaching. You know what I mean? Like Charlie is not,

Charlie's not getting any cut from the air bomb bays. That's for sure. Yeah. Like, like none of this is helping Charlie go to the next step because all we see is him, you know, fanning the goalie to end the game exactly and if

anything even though i just i i kind of feel bad for charlie though i feel like they did him no justice in this movie like i always loved charlie conway the character but they kind of did him yeah this movie banks this is where banks he's got over as my favorite character. So like first movie as a kid, Charlie was my favorite. Now it's definitely Averman. And then second movie, still, it's Banks all the way. Banks is the best. I think – is it – I can't remember if it's earlier. I think it's earlier in the movie.

I think somebody – one of the team – somebody on the team refers to Banks as the captain, don't they? Oh, do they? I mean he's he it makes sense like he he understands the game he's their best player you know like he just he kind of deserves that seat having he's not much yeah he's he just doesn't i don't know if i would make it i don't know if he's he's captain material just because he's not much of a he's not much of a leader well that's where like maybe because don't they have an a right like the a yeah yeah he would happen so he would be he would be he would be my my first assistant you know yeah yeah and then exactly you got to get someone more vocal as the captain. Exactly. That's where Charlie slides in.

Maybe he is getting more vocal, though, because he sticks up for Julie the Cat when Portman demeans her and talks down to her. That's true. He does. I don't know if that was leadership material or him just trying to. Having a little crush on Julie. Yeah, trying to get on the good side of Julie the cat.

That makes sense. He loves some hockey and she loves some hockey, and so it might be a little middle school crush there going on. Imagine their kid. He would be the next Wayne Grayson. NHL dude for sure playing in the NHL. Hands down.

Anyways, Miss McKay calls him on his shit brandon and she said you said it yourself it's a game game should be fun yep but that's how we end as as we establish here it's not going to be fun because there's no ducks here anymore he ducks are dead yep get the quack out of here but then we cut cut to one of my favorite things in all of sports. He's stretching. That is now players only meeting. Oh,

because they're stretching on the quad. I was like, Brandon, that is the weirdest thing you've said to this date on this podcast. So your favorite thing is stretching. No one likes stretching. I was getting like gearing up to actually yell at you about that and i do i do love a good stretch though dude there's

there there is something good about like especially if you haven't had it had one in a while like you're all tensed up you get a good stretch and you just feel like on cloud nine afterwards but but your favorite thing? Well, no, no. I would say my favorite thing is a players only meeting. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Players only. Players only meeting. That makes a little more sense. I was just like, all right, Brandon, why are you so jazzed up about them stretching? I don't get that. And we see. We see. Doing some warmups. We see in this.

Because from what I can gather, this was Portman's idea. Was to get everybody together on the quad to stretch and run and all that. Get loose for the game. If Portman wasn't such an emotional hothead, that's some good captain material. But he's way too hot, even for an assistant captain. He's way too hot. Yeah, absolutely. You can't have someone that like your, your leader needs to be able to calm the troops,

right? Like kind of, you gotta, when everyone's really elevated, you gotta be able to regulate emotions as a, as a captain. Yeah. Yeah.

That's a, that's, that's leadership. One Oh one Brandon. You can't got to stay cool, cool and collected. Yep. Like a cucumber, you know, can't. You got to stay cool, cool and collected. Yep. Like a cucumber.

You know, can't ride the waves with the team. You got to make sure you stay above that. Exactly. Exactly. So anyways, yeah, we're stretching on the track, and they're all questioning. And then did you get this? Because as they're working out before the game, getting loose,

Goldberg just says, listen, I say mutiny. Who's with me? And Dwayne says, Goldberg, I'm too tired to mutiny. And I love that. Yeah. And once again, here's some more leadership from Julie the cat, like her leadership and like the the way that she understands the game they just uh they they really missed the ball there because she says come on you guys it's not

like we couldn't use the conditioning and this is where portman's like speak for yourself babe and then my boy banks mvp and the team says her name's Julie, not babe. And this is where I like Portman. He's like, don't tell me how to talk, rich boy. Yeah. I thought that was great. I should have called him a cake eater. That's what I was hoping for.

God, I put that down too. Like, man, that would have been the perfect time to steal that from Jesse and call him a cake eater. But he's from Chicago, so he's a rich boy that's true but uh julie the cat you're right her her like we established in the last episode her emotional her ability to regulate her emotions top notch always cool as a cucumber she understands a lot of eq there brandon a lot of emotional intelligence from julie the cat she understands the game so not only is she a better player a better goalie than Goldberg but

her mental capacity is a million times better than Goldberg's as well he's trying to start a mutiny and he was trying to start a mutiny against Portman not even against Bombay he was like fuck this yeah absolutely he tried to mutiny

a player's only muting get this motherfucker off the team okay that is unacceptable you can't mutiny against your own players get your teammate think about the shenanigans that that's a cp3 move that's a chris paul move goldberg oh my god leave chris paul alone brandon he's about to take enough lumps this summer for his terrible playoffs. I felt so vindicated about that. I will never stop bashing Chris Paul. Okay, that's fine. Hold on.

Let's talk about Goldberg for five more seconds. Come at me, Chris Paul. I'll fight you. I'll fight Chris Paul. I don't give a shit. Yikes. I didn't know if I'd go that far. He is a professional athlete.

But hold on. I'm going full Paul brothers. I'm challenging Chris Paul to a boxing match right here. Let's do it. I would love everything about that. I would fly to anywhere that this happened just to be a part of it. I would give it. Me and Chris Paulul let's do it

set it up internet do your thing internet do your thing okay hold on so i just have to say this last thing about goldberg because he is like the captain of shenanigans thinking about the feather trick the rodeo drive stuff kind of getting the team out and about all the the interview with averman the when he was talking all that trash to italy you know what i mean like goldberg is kind of uh the ground zero of all these ducks negative shenanigans happening you know before the turnaround yep he not only is he a terrible goalie he's's what's shaping up to be a terrible teammate. Just a bad influence on the non-Ducks. Bad attitude, bad influence.

You know, he's just bad all around. Yeah. So, then upskates our boy, the one and only Keenan. And he says, yo. Yeah, Russ is back, baby. Yo, Team USA, what are you going to do today? A million jumping jacks? Come on.

Got him. He just, he absolutely got him. Yeah, classic Russ. But this is my favorite. Portman's like like this kid's even crazier than me forget about him look i was in absolute tears and he said look that kid's even crazier than me and he had some shit to say to fulton after fulton tried to break him and banks up that was i loved that i thought that was so, man. This kid's crazier than me.

But then Jesse's like, hey, man, I'm getting sick of you. And Keenan gets him good. He says, I'm sick of seeing Team USA represented by a bunch of whining babies. Yeah, a bunch of fucking babies, dude. Yeah, quit crying out there. And that's what Jesse's like, too bad you can't back up that mouth and keenan he was ready he said me and my boys anytime anywhere he's got the boys waiting on deck heath yeah he's got him waiting grab your gear and let's go play some schoolyard puck

i love that he calls it schoolyard puck i did i did too i thought that was awesome because that's what they were doing too you know playing in the school yard um and then he calls out what charlie said he said or maybe you forgot what it's like to play for real pride yeah there you go playing for real playing on the streets yeah school yard puck like we've established with all with all these all these types of kids sports movies the only way to find your your roots again to find why you're doing this is you got to take it to the streets yeah you got to go back to the schoolyard even uh little big league remember he played some stickball little big league yep it's a sandlot nothing but yep schoolyard uh ball

you know it's uh it's the best way to do it it's the best way to reset refocus get your head back in the game um and then this this kind of ends in another great way with russ where the dude is like hey you got a pass he pass. He's kicking him out. The security guard kicks him out. Yeah, and he's like, get off me, man. And then he's yelling at the team. He's like, come on. It's not too far, you little wimps. He's like, you coming or not?

Let's go. I love that. They had the security guard like, hey, you got a pass. Oh, I thought that was awesome. And then Russ is just like yelling at them as the security guard is like scooting him back with the skates on. So good.

Oh, great. And then they, and we team USA takes them up on it. They, they, they go, they go to the schoolyard.

Yeah. I love, I love this. I love the first interactions they have with him and, and Russ and Kenan's brother, Russ's brother. Yeah. They don't give a name for Russ's brother. And maybe it's in the – they don't give a name during the interactions. I need to look at the IMDb page, I suppose.

Let me pull it up here real quick see if okay to grab russ's brother because this is this is one of my this is easily my favorite scene of this whole movie is this oh street the street puck is fantastic especially when you play woomf there it is it's fantastic god i mean you and then you get there's so many there's so many good little one-liners and little things going on in here um throughout that are just fucking fantastic so let's see james james is his name. All right, James. So we've got James, and he says to the team, he says, my little brother Russ here has been telling me that you've been choking big time.

And Jesse's like, well, your little brother's got a big mouth. And then everyone gets real quiet like, oh, he just. And there's a helicopter going over by. And then the brother brother i love this too this is just there's a helicopter going by and then there's sirens in the distance too yes and then he's like and then he looks at him and he's like he does doesn't he and rest just like gives a smirk and a shoulder shrug and everyone like goldberg's like, whoa, I thought we were about to get fucked. And then is this when Kenan hits him with the, we know you guys can do photo shoots and take interviews and stuff like that.

Yep, yep. He's like, you can talk to the press and sign autographs. And Luis is like, we can do more than that. Back it up, Luis. And then Russ's older brother is like, we can teach you how to play like the real Team USA. Yes. And then Portman says, what would you know about that? And then we get party people.

Well, you get the smirk. The smirk's the best part. James gives you the smirk the smirk's the best part james yeah james he's whoever that actor is does a great job too oh he's fantastic it's uh yeah he absolutely crushes this i don't know if he's in anything else but i i loved him in this role he's not he's not in a bunch of other stuff he does a little like some some character acting work he's not a yeah but yeah he crushes this uh this role him and russ keenan they're fucking killing it and then i'm gonna i'm gonna butcher his name here but i think it's vaselius shannon that's how you say his first name nice i love that but yeah so it looks like he uh oh he was in the yeah it's just like

small roles in movies he's in the hurricane with denzel oh okay that's right i love that movie and that's a great song too little bob dylan and then this is and then yeah a bunch of hurricane and then it looks like a a bunch a bunch of tv series as like a character actor a couple episodes of csi a couple episodes of sons of anarchy anarchy jag 24 all that kind of stuff okay

i like that well yeah he crushes this role james honestly james is an american hero he saves team usa he forget bombay and his turnaround. This is what makes the difference is the street puck, the schoolyard puck. Absolutely. I actually wrote that down where Bombay is going to get all the credit

for the turnaround after the Iceland game, but Russ's older brother is actually the person who coached them the most during the time where coached them the most during the time where they needed it the most. Like we mentioned in the previous episodes, I've started taking interest in my coaching abilities, my hockey coaching abilities. My first move when I inevitably get hired as a hockey coach

is to bring vasily shannon on as my assistant coach yeah he's at the very least he's going to give you some some motivate motivational speaking because right out of the gate he checks portman up against the fence and he's like you got to earn every inch he has some great one-liners you gotta i wrote a couple down so yeah earn every inch uh then he says something like the the no whistles here you keep playing you keep playing until you score that no whistles out here you got to keep digging until you score that goal yeah and then russ hit russ's hits us with a great one liner where he he says yeah after somebody i forget who scores but i think he does right he scores and then he does a wraparound yeah and then he's just like

skating by the everybody that's sitting down for team usa and he's like and then you slug some water you get back out there and you do it again yeah and he tosses the water to charlie by the way i loved all those water bottles i remember like yeah being a kid when i first when i saw that and i was like i need that fucking water bottle dude yeah those are awesome with the the big old fucking straws and you just oh those were the best you just give it a squeeze and it and it jumps in your mouth because you can't be putting your mouth your mouth on that stuff man that's everyone's everyone's you know especially nowadays post covid yeah yeah now well we always uh we

always had our names written on them it always pissed me off and i'd go in like my water bottle is empty it's like hey give me one from one of these shitheads in the end of the bench but you know that's just me but anyways still in people's water. Way to be a team player. Come on, come on. And then after Charlie gets the water bottle tossed to him, the older brother is like, what's his name? James, he said, right? James, yep. James is like, don't just stand there. Come and get it.

And Luis is like, don't mind if I do. And he goes flying into the fence. And I absolutely love this line where the guy helps. So good. He's like, so good. He's like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, use the brakes, baby. I love that so much. The way he says it to use the brakes, baby.

I love it because it was like so smooth and like it just looks like L.A. Cool, right? Like it was like, hey, that's the brakes, baby. That's Hector. Love that's hector okay hector gives some great advice to louise just you know there's breaks on those rollerblades man that's that's what i would use um and then and then we get uh fulton hits a rocket off the trash can goalie, flies up, shatters some poor dude's windshield. And, you know, that's bad news. And he's really nice about tossing the puck back over to them. I would have been furious.

That's not his windshield. So if you – because I thought that at first too. I was like, he's real nice about this. But then – so upon further watching, that's not his car. So he's just walking by. He's walking by, sees it happen, and then throws the puck back to him. Because you can see – because he keeps walking after he throws it. He keeps walking.

And then at the end of this, when TBSA – You see him with another dude talking animated. It's two different guys. It's not the same guy. It's two new guys. Yep, it's two different guys. It's not the same guy. It's two new guys. It's one of their cars, not the guy who was walking with the bag.

I was wondering if it was like a Laker because he yells alley-oop when he throws the puck back over. You were wondering... Heath. You were wondering if it was a Laker, like a player on the Lakers.

Yeah. Rodney Lewis Johnson is Mr. Alley. You, that's what they call him. Wait, what? That's what they call him.

And the Mr. Alley. Oh, that's what he's credited to this. Okay. Rodney Lewis. Yes. Rodney Lewis Johnson, not a laker um not a laker no so i i would love to you have to be so condescending about me asking that brandon it's a normal question no no it's no no it's not because i want to get back to this i want to get back to your thought process over this were you thinking

so in your thinking were you thinking that the guy walking through south central los angeles in the middle of the day where this is it's where it is it's south central i don't know that it's it's gotta be within striking distance of the junior goodwill game so i assumed it was in like orange county what orange county is not within striking distance of do you know your los angeles do you not it's close enough it's not that far like disneyland isn't that far away from or it's all and it's all within striking distance brandon you get to you get this it's in south central los angeles, which is way closer to the LA Coliseum than Anaheim is or Orange County. Whatever. But they're all over that whole area because the – whatever.

But anyway, it's in – they've established it's not in a good area because there's helicopters and police sirens in the background of every single scene. Oh, that's true. I didn't think about that. But why else would he say alley-oop when he threw the puck back over? Why else would he say – Because that's what it is. It's an alley-oop to him. He's throwing it up for him.

All right. I guess. I just – I was just trying – It would have been fun if that would have been a Laker that said alley-oop. Well, so my – What I want to get to is what you – did you think it was a Los Angeles player in the middle of south-central Los Angeles just walking through? Or did you think it was – were you thinking the guy who's playing him maybe is a basketball player in real life? Yeah, that's it like i was thinking like they it's a movie so they were like hey

you know what'd be funny is to have a laker throw the puck back over and say alley you okay gotcha okay that makes more sense i thought you were figuring right that that that dude with the with the the shitty gym bag walking through south central la he was going he he is a laker in the movie he's he's walking to practice i thought wow no wonder you were adding me that was geez i was like why the fuck are you getting so aggressive i just thought that they would cast a laker to be quote-unquote mr alley-oop that's a missed opportunity yeah broadney rodney lewis johnson as far as i know is like you know what would have been awesome is vladi vladi divas body vladi divas right there throwing that fucker back you know little vladi daddy we like to party

that would have been pretty amazing seven foot tall slavic dude just walking through you need this alley-oop but yeah he called so he called so he calls it an out he called he shouts alley-oop calls it an alley-oop throws it over into the arena charlie gets it boom scores a goal right away right off the alley-oop which makes it 2-2 i kept makes it 2-2 and is foreshadowing he's keep that in mind keep that in mind as we as we progress through the movie um because right after that we get introduced to the one and only knuckle puck oh yeah what does he say he says it's hard hard to keep accurate, but drives goalies crazy. Yeah, yeah, because Fulton is like the most shocked out of everybody, so he runs over to give Russ some love.

Imagine, if you will, Heath, just imagine, if you can wrap your head around the beauty of this, imagine a Fulton knuckle puck. Wow. molten knuckle puck wow i mean the velocity plus the the knuckle pucking man that would have been that would have been pretty intense that's a game changer that's what that is yeah absolutely because i like the indian rest is like ah you like that that's my knuckle puck it's hard to be accurate but it drives goalies crazy and if you i 100 got even though there was no hockey available to ever be played in nebraska i asked my parents for a hockey stick after this movie so i could try out the knuckle puck and i would try and shoot it into trash cans

and after i realized i couldn't rollerblade my my hockey days were very quickly numbered and like i said there was literally no opportunity for me to play unless i would like drive to like sioux city or something did they do do they did did you have like roller hockey available no no wayne was not even that okay yeah no wayne was way too small you barely had enough warm bodies for 11 man football yeah because that that was pretty big in uh when i was growing up in denver well i don't know about denver but out in the burbs it was pretty popular to to join uh roller skating teams or not roller, roller hockey teams. Um, as well as, um,

I, ice hockey was just like with kids. It just started, was starting to take a hold when I was growing up. Now it's like crazy popular. Um, yeah. Oh my gosh.

And like those hockey moms are wild. Oh yeah. Hockey. I mean, hockey, you get a weird because it's it's such a hard sport to get into because of like the the time and the money that it takes like if you quit man if you're if you're middle class or below you're not it's like it's impossible to play hockey to a set aside

have your parents set aside all that time and then be able to like financially afford it it's ridiculous so you get a lot of a lot of weird you get a a very specific type of hockey parent um that is involved in that and it's they're they're not the they're not the sweetest they are for sure die hard like they will they eat because they're spending that kiddos hockey because they're spending so much time so much time and effort yeah it's a it's like you better you better fucking make the pros kid yeah it's an actual investment in their in their child so yeah but yeah they get they just get really really into it yeah and that's that's honestly hockey's biggest problem that they need to address somehow is the hurdles it takes to actually get into the sport. They need to start making it more accessible to poorer families.

The only people that make it – Well, we see it right here, right? Like we see like Russ and his older brother could easily – and we know Russ, but like james he could have easily been out there with the with this oh he's right running circles around all these kids yeah but yeah just didn't have the the funds or the or like or the accessibility cloud yeah a quick message from our friends at Broken Forest Collective. Built on a passion for small batch and handcrafted products, Broken Forest provides high quality casual wear and lifestyle goods that are American made and built to outlast 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. Post-knuckle puck, though, after we see Russ rip that in, Brandon, we get our boy Kenny Wu get some sweet skating moves and rips a goal in on him. Yep, rips a goal in. Post-goal, we see James kind of give a little smirk like let's let's see what we have here and he says sweet moves kid oh you done messed up now come on come here i'm gonna get you come here junior it's such a weird

the way he does it it's like he's talking to a dog. He's like, come here. Can I get you? Come here. I'm going to get you. Come here. And Kenny's just like, no, man. And looking at him like a deer in the headlights, it's like, what is happening right now? And he's like, listen, I'm just messing with you, okay? But when a guy comes at you like that, like I just did, do this.

Stick, gloves, shirt. Boom. It's the best. Like, that was awesome, too. And then Kenny's like, all right, all right. Now my turn. Stick, gloves, shirt. And, you know, we just, everyone is loving it

and they're jumping for joy. High fives galore, Brandon. They're just, they're super jazzed up about this 3-3 tie that we got for our street ball. Because I did some scoring. I like how you kept track of the score. But yeah, this is the, again, to James's credit, scoring and i like how you kept track i like how you kept track of the store of the score but yeah but so that this is the again to james's credit james saving the country here this is the uh

the the impetus is that is that the correct term right the start i don't know i did you just call him impotent no the impetus that's weird brandon that's it's a weird thing to say yeah impetus oh okay i just i i heard it different impetus the force that makes something happen this is the impetus of our third bash brother yeah oh yeah okay yeah that's right i i the the third bash brother he teaches kenny to stick up for himself exactly a bad man we wouldn't we would only be stuck with just two bash brothers if it wasn't for james dude yeah oh my god and jane like he just he did some real this is real coaching and like what russ this is real this is real psychological work that James is doing for these fucking yeah and like what Russ says where he like it's like okay cool you scored a goal quit

celebrating just grab some water get out there and do it again score another one quit dancing around like you've won the world when you're you know it's just one game. Yep. Act like you've been there before, Brandon. Exactly. Slug some water and do it again. Well, God, James and Russ really turned the tide for this team. Yeah. They, they, they're American heroes. They saved the country.

Absolutely. You know, that's a, that was a heck of a, I just, we need just need to take a second and look back on that sequence of events that we just went through and appreciate it for what just happened. Not only did we get some great street hockey, some great one-liners, but man, this is where the turn of the tide happens you know this is this is like in the battle of gondor when they see gandalf you know coming up over that hill and they're charging and they just start crushing orcs you know that's where we're at the turn of the tide brandon thank you james that's all you gotta say yeah yeah he just he deserves he deserves a a medal that the you know for for this victory but he's never gonna get it and that's a shame no i do love um so we're gonna wrap it up at the 59 minute mark the last thing we see here right is the team usa gets on the bus they wave goodbye they're leaving they drive off this is when you see the two people around the car that got smashed the window they're arguing oh yeah but james james is up there from

looking down and he he he says go get him team usa go get him uh and that was yeah i i the waves for some reason it always stuck out to when they're all waving like Portman's like fist bump and then big wave. Like, yeah, we'll go get them guys. Like, I don't know. I just felt like Portman was like, oh, I should, I need to get my shit together. You know, they got, they got their mojo back. Yeah.

They, they got it back. And then, like you said, like, I don't know. I kind of pulled at my heartstrings when, uh, when James James said that because he's like, go USA, go get him. Because you know he would do anything to be out there, right? Like he would give anything to be out there on the ice skating for the US of A. Sure as shit wouldn't want to be a duck, Charlie. He would just want to be a freedom-loving eagle of America, just going out there crushing Iceland fools. Rock-flagging eagle, bro.

Rock-flagging eagle. America! America! What's – why am I blanking on it? Team America when they're like, America, fuck yeah. Yep. I didn't even play that in the background. Portman coming out.

America. Fuck yeah. Amazing though. But so, so that's where we'll, we'll, we'll end it 59 minute Mark. So for,

for next time, the next thing we got, we got a little more Hollywood Bombay. And then we have another game. I believe we have, I think Team Germany is coming up. That's what our next one is. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. I'm pretty sure it's Team Germany. So we'll look forward to that.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch. Yep. So for everybody following along, we're ending here at the 59-minute mark, picking up, I believe, the first scene that we see is Hollywood Bombay interacting with some yawn. Yawns his back. Yawn took the red eye out to go check Bombay and get his head on straight. So hopefully we can right the wrongs of Hollywood Bombay. So that's where we'll pick up next episode. Thanks to everybody that's following along we've dropped uh some more merch in our merch store though the

website's thecakeeaterspod.com you can find links to all of our episodes as well as the merch store if you want some sick ass shirts and want to support the pod hit that up oh dude these shirts are the the fucking fire as the use would say too we got some some junior goodwill we got some coach bomb bay we got some team usa ducks some iceland i mean it's just you got a little bit of everything we got some some game changers stuff in there we there. We got it all. There's game changers inspired shirts, D1 inspired shirts, and then a bunch of D2 inspired shirts that we just released. And then once we tackle D3, there will be some D3 inspired shirts. So go get some sweet shirts and help us out a little with that.

Support the pod. Especially some of these D2 shirts, Brandon. You know, Mike, you're going to be looking fly as hell when you walk up and people are like, wait, does that shirt say Conway Banks? God damn right it does. Fucking dynamic duo. Changing the country. Yeah. Yeah. Man.

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