The Cake Eaters - 45. The Golden Cakie Awards: D2: The Mighty Ducks

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

Heath & Brandon recap their thoughts on D2: The Mighty Ducks movie as a whole and then hand out awards for the third edition of the Golden Cakie Awards! See who takes home the awards for Best Goal, Best Friendship, Pheasant of the Team, Best Flow, Team MVP, and so much more. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

Remember, it's not worth winning if you can't win! It's the Golden Cakeys Hello everybody, this is the Golden Cakeys episode for D2, the Cake Eaters podcast. That beautiful rendition of the Golden Cakeys theme song was brought to you by my co-host Heath. Riddity-Doo-Doo Cakey's. Like Andy Bernard, Nard Dog. Riddity-Doo-Doo. So that's Heath. My name is Brandon.

We have a special GoldenCakey's episode for you guys here today. If this is your first time listening to the podcast, not familiar with the Golden Cakeys, it is essentially our moments of the movie, favorite characters, missed opportunities, areas we think they can improve on, all that kind of jazz. Yeah, this is it. This is what Boys to Men was talking about when they were singing about the end of the road. Here we are. What a long, strange trip it's been.

Just like if we were in high school in the 70s, that's what we would have written in everyone's yearbook. You know what I always wanted? I always wanted a Boyz II Men Bone Thugs crossover where it was like the end of the crossroads. Now you're speaking my language. I don't remember if we talked about this on this episode, but that was my first ever CD.

Bone Thugs in Harmony, East 1999 Eternal. We talked about – we did talk about CDs last episode. Okay. I may have cut it out though. I forget. Okay. Wow. That's hurtful stuff.

Last episode we went on lots of tangents. I had to cut it down pretty hard. Cause we, we started talking about Hollywood video for like 30 minutes. I cut that out. That had to go. There was a lot of edits in that last episode. So I may or may not have left in bone thugs. Wow.

Okay. Well, for all of those listening at home, my very first ever CD was bone thugs and harmony East 1999 eternal. I bought the parental advisory CD. It was awesome. My mom hated it. I bought the Parental Advisory CD. It was awesome. My mom hated it. I was obsessed with The Crossroads.

Favorite song? Oh, it's one of the best songs ever. Absolutely. But so we're diving in for our D2 cakeys here. We have 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15 categories. Yep. 15 categories. six eight ten twelve fifteen categories yep fifteen categories and then heath as always we do a little superlative rapid fire at the end of the golden cake he's so he's gonna hit his my

favorite absolutely the best part of the show so let's uh let's not waste any time here heath let's uh get going with the first category and And the first category of the Golden Cakeys is Best Easter Egg. Here's your honorable mention, Brandon. Yes. So, yeah, good shout out, again, for anybody first time listening. Golden Cakeys, the way we do it, we each have an honorable mention, me and Heath, and then we've decided on a solo winner solo winner to take home the the trophy the golden cakey trophy um and we will be mailing golden cakey trophies out to every single winner

congrats yep keep an eye out uh in your p.o box for those yeah we have everyone's addresses yeah we're we got the disney connection so you know we got all that um uh best easter egg though so my honorable mention is going to be the hawks the hawk kids they bring back at the beginning uh when fulton just obliterates them in between canoes we have larson we have mcgill and then we have a third kid that i don't think was in the first movie yeah um i don't remember him but larson mcgill the hawks would have been would have been even better if coach riley was like mobbing around in the background yeah like he was instructing them like hey guys go get a tripwire going really injure them we want to

see some road rash on these on these bastards Watching back that tripwire as an adult, I was like, they're going to kill somebody with that fucking tripwire. Or like some real dental surgery is going to be required when everyone's front teeth are knocked out of their faces. And they do it in the middle of a busy park. God forbid anybody but the ducks hits that. A cyclist is toast. Like upended. No helmet, brain damage. Those Hawks kids playing with fire, man.

Well, thank God for Fulton. What a hero. They won't know what hit them. Frankenstein's monster. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So for my honorable mention, it was keeping that sweet, beautiful Ducks music from the original movie. Because son of a gun, nothing makes your heart flutter or fly like that original score.

And when it hits, it crescendos there at the end. And my God, Brandon, we're getting quacktastic. We're getting quackalicious we're doing all those quacking things there at the end with this music just leading us and bringing us into it it's a beautiful moment makes it makes me my heart sing the mighty ducks theme from because it's in all three movies they they bring the music through all three movies it's fantastic and then on top of that their their soundtrack choice for the rest of the music in this movie a plus fantastic yeah yeah queen yeah queen mr big stuff who do you

think you are it's one of my favorites it's just hit after hit on the soundtrack including including um the the song i told you to listen to last time, Mighty Ducks of America. That's a banger. Yeah, I forgot about that classic. I still haven't listened to it. I need to. I need to. I forgot.

I forgot my to-do list. All right. It's as good as you think it would be. Should we announce the winner? Yes. So our winner for best Easter egg is going to be, and without a shadow of a doubt, it's the Bombay Solo Skate. 110%, but you didn't let me do the announcer intro for it, Brandon. Oh, that's right, I forgot.

And now, the winner of the Golden Cakey for best Easter egg is, as Brandon ruined the Bombay the bombay solo skate yep and it's on a beach this time on this classic step oh you can't beat the bombay solo skate there's just no there's no way around it it's uh it's magical yeah it truly is it's the source of his magic. That's for sure. Yeah, 100%. That Malibu beach has just been hashtag blessed from this point forward after that Bombay solo skate. That's where any and all hockey magic originates in California. I forgot. That's the whole reason. Yeah, I'm trying to remember.

Yeah, that's that i guarantee you every stanley cup that's ever been won by a california nhl team you can trace that back to the bombay solo skate malibu done because there there were no there were no stanley cup champions in california before this movie that's for sure yeah just just mediocre nhl hockey that's all they had but uh i dude i forgot that the solo skate was on a beach for this one so when we when we came back and we started watching this for the podcast i and it was on the beach i lost my mind i was like there's no fucking way that's a yeah couldn't think of a better setting for a Bombay solo skate. No wonder they came back from such a deficit from Iceland to win that.

That's just, you know, that's the magic they're going to have. There was surprisingly, because when I was going through this category, there's surprisingly not a lot of, other than it being a direct sequel obviously and returning characters there's not a ton of easter eggs back to the first one they don't mention really anything there's no there's like nothing there's no like little things in the background um other than pave the way for the new ducks oh you know what should have been my honorable mention was uh them skating through the mall yeah but it was a different mall this time yeah yeah that's a fun callback mall skating oh well all right they do they do love them they do that in all three

movies too they love the fucking mall skating man yeah mall skating what a world what a world what a life all right there's no there's no chance you could mall skate today no chance no you're definitely some some form tackled by a security guard. Some bum-ass security guard making $12 an hour is going to hip check you for sure. Oh, 1,000%. And maybe it's a former golden gopher from Minnesota and you're getting form tackled into the fountain. That's true. I wonder if you – so you i so i think thinking

out loud here this is why our kiki's episodes always end up so long but thinking out loud here do you think you can rent out the mall of america just to do some skating in it no i'm thinking if you go if you you need to find a place that does not have any that is not a hockey hotbed okay not a hockey hotbed and not on the coast because i'm thinking for sure in cal like coastal california especially southern california you're gonna run into people who rollerblade a lot because that's you know that's the thing so you need to find a non-hockey hotbed not on the coast where roller skating is like what the weird kids do. And then you go to that mall. So like find the mall in Oklahoma city.

Yeah. Or like Fayetteville, Arkansas. Nice. I was going to say Birmingham, Alabama. So we're just, yeah. So go to, go to that mall and then you could probably skate. You could out skate those, those security guards for sure. I love that.

You heard it here first folks. Go check out three three top three cities to go to a mall skate yep fayetteville arkansas oklahoma city and what do you say birmingham alabama you got it top three done oh man okay so i'm gonna move to our next category brandon and that next category is best character best character this one was real tough yeah because you got all the you got the new ducks that that all come in hot and then you got the classic ducks who are is holding their own yeah um for me my honorable mention i'm going with russ i'm going with keenan thompson i think russ brings it because that's a the first half of the movie he's in the stands he's razzing everybody he's giving them the what for you know talking shit mad shit even talking shit to bombay remember when yeah bombay was like show me you want it son go and then rest is like yeah show us you want it son go no nobody's safe

from russ he's coming for everybody um so that's great and then the second half we have him and his brother save america with the soul. And then he joins the team. Starts fucking blasting knuckle pucks. Yeah. He's the goalie for a hot second. Yeah. It was absolutely a hell of a debut for a duck. Like it was from end to end. I'm not even going to argue with that because I love some Keenan and some Russ in this bad boy.

Yes. And it's Keenan Thompson. He's a legend. Absolute no-brainer. Keenan and some rest in this bad boy. Yes. And yeah, and it's Keenan Thompson. It's a legend. Yeah. Absolute no brainer. So for mine, I've got Goldberg locked in because Goldberg is absolutely the villain here in your D2 Mighty Ducks story.

Goldberg, you know, outside of that one Iceland game, is absolutely locked in, carrying him through the tournament in between the pipes, Brandon. He is the vocal leader of the locker room where he encourages them. He leads them through all their shenanigans, through all the camp shenanigans, through the rodeo drive shenanigans. I mean, this guy is an absolutely underrated leader for this team.

The vocal leader. The irrational confidence guy. I think you forgot the part where the vocal leader of your team calls for a mutiny. He didn't call for a mutiny from bombay he called for a mutiny from the other team telling them what to do when he just wanted to take a quick nap not any better i do like i do like how you phrase that though that goldberg is my villain i'll own that he is my villain yeah that's if. If the character is so good that a co-host on a podcast loves to hate them, that's a great character.

I will say for as much as I don't like the character – as much as I don't want Goldberg – as I would never want Goldberg to be my goalie, like you said, the character is great. It's fantastically written and sean weiss nails every all three of these movies especially this movie this movie he fucking crushes it so yeah sean weiss kills it the character is very well written um so much we forgot him starting his marshmallow on fire that was good stuff too it's the marshmallow on fire the mutiny one fucking that thing That cracked me up We found his trash talk to Italy That's great

He gets humbled in the Iceland game Or when he Gets turned around And gives up the easiest goal in the world And then he turns around and yells at the defenseman I can't do everything myself guys Well that's It's true he can't it's a team

game brandon that's all he was trying to point out oh goldberg he is my he is my villain yeah that's but anyways yeah that's a great great character goldberg crushes it but now the winner for the golden Cake Keeper Best Character is... Portman! So, yeah, this one was tough. I think Portman... All-round kind of brings it in. I think...

I don't know about you, Heath. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I think if Julie plays a little more i would have thought about putting her in here yeah 100 and the original ducks they all contributed but no one really like stood out you know what i mean no outs they focus on banks just because of because of the injury and because he's the best player so obviously you need to focus on him but outside of that the old ducks kind of they they take a a background seat to the new ducks in this one which is is good banks and goldberg and then charlie's weird coaching line but you know we can't have as much as i love charlie in the first movie you know you can't have the his weird coaching storyline be the best character right it's just i don't know doesn't doesn't vibe with me but let's run through portman like i said portman

all around from beginning to end it's just crushing it you haven't let's run through those highlights brandon you haven't like yeah you have him show up in a sleeveless hockey jersey. Okay. And introduced singing, don't you know that everything's on fire. And he's knocking ducks over while he's singing it. Doesn't he? He's knocking them over. And then doesn't he pick Kenny whoop and put them on top of the goal? Goddamn right. He does,

you know, and then, and then we get him just ripping and owning that legendary fart when they were all tied together you know just let everyone bask in that for a little bit um you know him and fulton dancing in the locker room he is the locker in the dorm in the in the dorm room that's right that's right man they got their shared dorm room with all the the the 90s rock posters uh they're listening to uh shit what song was it they were listening to some some song you ain't seen nothing yet right there jamming out he's got the tattoo on the arm he may or may not be 40 years old we're not. He wipes out the ref and then has the most epic temper tantrum in the history of temper tantrums in the locker room.

That stool break, that was something of legend, right? Tries to hop the penalty box in street clothes to fight Sanderson. I mean, the list goes on and on, my friend. He scores a goal for sure when the Bash brothers are introduced. I mean, the list goes on and on, my friend. He scores a goal for sure when the Bash brothers are introduced. I mean, we're just adding points. And then all the Bash brothers stuff, too. You got the fist pumps. You got the bandanas.

They're out there double clotheslining people. They're bonking heads on the bench. Or Portman. And Portman is just, he's great, right? And probably would have been the captain of the team if he wouldn't have been such an insane hothead and he can maybe i don't think i don't think there's if we're subscribing to the multiverse theory i don't think there's a single universe out there where portman isn't a crazy hothead

that's exactly yeah that's what i'm saying so you can't put the c on his chest that's who portman is that's his essence you know yeah but yeah such a really great character and you know a character that goes on to you know star in two of the great unheralded movies of the 90s the newsies and a goofy movie sport the the one thing that knocks portman a little um not in this movie but just in the grand mighty ducks universe is he is uh relatively non-existent in d3 he only shows up at the end which uh was a bummer yeah because and because you know we're discussing it right here. Portman, he's kind of a, he's just an awesome badass that you want on your hockey team.

You know? Yeah, exactly. That's, that's a guy you need. You need someone to bring out the crazy in everyone else. Wait. Oh, also last Portman thing. When Russ starts talking shit and he's like, forget that guy. He's crazier than I am.

Listen, Fulton. And then Banks tells him her name's not Babe, and he freaks out. Don't tell me how to talk, rich boy. Oh, yeah, that's a missed opportunity not calling Banks Cake Eater right there, though. Yeah, but Portman's from Chicago. He might not know the phrase cake eater. Yeah, that's true. Good point.

Good call. Does anybody get called a cake eater in this movie? No. I don't think they dropped that line once. No, it's a travesty. Damn. Yeah. Well, we got to rename the podcast now.

No, geez, never. No, it's too late. It's too late. I already bought the domain. It's too now. No, geez, never. No, it's too late. It's too late. I already bought the domain. It's too late. Yeah, it's on. But you know, Brandon, with every star, we need a supporting actor. Every superhero needs his.

You got to have Robin. Yeah, Batman needs Robin. You got to have robin yeah batman needs robin you know you gotta have that supporting character so the next category of the golden cakeys is best supporting character and again for those new to the podcast um this so the differentiation between character and supporting character is basically just main ducks and everybody else. Yep. Is kind of our delineation. Yep.

And that's how it should be for everyone watching the movies. Get it together. Yep. I didn't think I needed to say it, but just in case. I don't know. There's a lot of idiots out there, Brandon. I'm just kidding. I'm not calling our listeners idiots.

Our listeners are amazing. I mean, I'm not afraid to call him an idiot, you know? Well, it's... Honestly... We've discussed this a lot, Brandon. You are a hater, so that makes sense. I'm definitely not. Adds up.

Not a hater. Adds up. The opposite of a hater. I'm a lover, Heath. I'm not a fighter. I'm a lover. You put the eight in hate. It doesn't make hater. I'm a lover, Heath. I'm not a fighter. I'm a lover. You put the eight in hate. It doesn't make any sense.

I know. I'm just saying it. Life's not about making sense, Brandon. This is showbiz, baby. It's exactly what a hater would say. Don't gaslight me. Okay. It's a supporting character my honorable honorable mention yeah honorable

mention i'm going with jan okay he's no hans but he's still pretty solid you can't say jan is your honorable mention and then try and besmirch him within the same line jan is just a different kind of hockey magic remember h Hans and Jan distant cousins of Santa Claus, but they just specialize in the hockey magic section, you know, like that's just a different version. There, there are other family member,

family member, Winnie, of course, can't forget when exactly it's, it's all, it's all getting passed on generation to generation. But I mean, Jan is the ultimate. Not only is he giving Bombay Sage wisdom, but he's also helping him level up about yon is when you look like you needed a friend not that no no is when it's not anything he does it's when tibbles is is uh pitching bombay to to join the junior goodwill games and he's like so mind you bombay just injured his knee he just

left minor league hockey maybe a week maybe a week ago right yeah and tibbles comes up to bombay and he's like bombay we need you to be the coach your friend yon has been pitching you to me for months yeah months which means yon is sitting back in minnesota while gordon bombay is playing minor league hockey and he's thinking to himself this dude's gonna fucking fail for sure. It's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time before he comes crawling back. I got to get this guy a goddamn job.

And so he starts pitching him as the coach for the junior goodwill games. He's a yawn thinking ahead. He's a planner. He's, he's not reactive. He's proactive. Brandon, it's called being a professional,

you know, yawns yawn, watched him go through it. And like you said, he's spirit guiding Bombay through this whole movie. And then the kicker, the kicker is Jan out here in the second intermission of the championship game. What does he do, Heath? He's got new jerseys. He's got new jerseys. Ducks fly together. Yeah. what does he do heath he's got new jerseys he's got new jerseys together yeah because when new

ducks and old ducks unite they unite under a new banner and again that's planning that's i mean he probably could have planned a little bit better and given it to him before the game yeah but that's neither here nor there it's planning that that's inclusivity because he's like we got new ducks yeah we got old ducks we can't use the old duck logo we need a we need one that that brings everybody together you know yeah yeah he called bombay my favorite right like you know when when he's hollywood bombay you look like you just got out of the shower yep he's uh just like hans he's not afraid to call bombay out on his shit you know yeah well now now he's not um they did let him get way into his shit as a alcoholic lawyer but that's yeah well and that's why he naturally started planning ahead just in

case there was a fall from grace for minor leaguely cocky he's got to have that backup ready to rock and roll just you always need a plan b on deck for bombay always exactly exactly wow that's we almost made the case for yon to be the winner but not quite um no right up here definitely not uh right up here with Jan is like the anti-Jan. It's Tibbles, who is my honorable mention. While Jan brings that wholesome, good Minnesota magic, Tibbles brings out the ever-lovely Hollywood Bombay. But Tibbles is a great character.

Think about he takes a puck to the dome. He's got that sick dancing scene. Remember that when he's up in the stands with Miss McKay? Remember when Jan is teaching him to skate? Some great physical comedy when he upends over the boards. Goes over the boards, yeah. Man, do you know all the intros that he gives Bombay? You know, gives him the pep talk of a lifetime

that Hendrix didn't bring him there to lose. Need to get his shit together. Otherwise, you're back to palookaville yep palookaville minnesota get out of here bombay yeah but tibbles tibbles is a great great tibbles is great and like he said he him and yon are like the the yin and yang of bombay you know know? Yeah. You need both of them to, to make it work. Yep. Absolutely. Ah,

man, Tibbles and Jan. But now Brandon, the winner of the golden cakey award for best supporting character is Wolf. The dentist Stanson. Obviously there's no, there's no world in which Wolf, the dentist is not the best supporting character. Is Wolf the Dentist Stanson. Obviously. There's no world in which Wolf the Dentist is not the best supporting character. You're going down Bombay.

Like we said back in one of the previous episodes. I forget which one. Part 4 or 5. Whatever it is. When Stanson shows up. Everything about Stanson is amazing everything especially when he so like he guarantees victory we hear from the reporter that he's guaranteed victory before the tournament even starts fantastic love it he shows up in an all black suit with his hair slicked back with his team behind him in the middle of Team USA's press conference and starts shouting at Bombay.

You're going down. Then he invokes free speech. He says, what is this? I thought this was America. I can't talk. No free speech. Yeah. Amazing.

Then we get the background story that he collected more – he was punching everybody in the in the nhl when he was there for i think he was only there for a year right yeah so for a year he collected more teeth than goals he got he got into a fight with his coach punched his coached out and then julie the cat says everybody hated him so much they deported him back to iceland ah amazing and then tibbles comes in and tibbles is like you know what he's just wound a little tight oh that's my favorite is when tibbles says that you're going down bombay so good everything about stanson and that's just that that snippet that i just gave you was just from his entrance that's just yeah the five minute entrance when he comes in after that it gets even better he's pop he they

interrupt tms's practice He pops a beach ball. He slashes Bombay in his injured knee. He calls Jan an old geezer. He's just – everything Stanton does is on point. It's amazing. When he's getting in Bombay's head, he's like, cocky, American. I like that. Make our triumph even greater yeah it's so the the

most epic knee slash of all time when he just cripples he's trying to just absolutely maim bombay for the rest of his life when he's after he tells bombay that uh bombay is a cocky american and it'll be amazing to beat him and he starts walking away and then he gives them the fucking finger guns too. Yeah. Classic stuff. There's your absolute classic. He's he, Wolf is by far my favorite character in all of these movies,

in all three of these movies. He's, it doesn't get any better than Wolf. The dentist answer. The way he screams the goalie. The goalie! When he just seeing his like championship flash before his eyes. That's great.

The other one when he first plays Russ and Russ comes off the bench, he like leans over and he points at him and he's, Shooter! Shooter! Yeah. I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm shot. Destroy! Remember when he says that? All his fucking pep talks are great. At the end when he tells Gunner, You lost it for me.

It's so good, dude. He's the best. And it's only made better by the fact that Iceland is such a weird country villain to have. It's it's he's mysterious, you know, he's they mentioned he's in the NHL. So he's he's the only NHL player ever from Iceland. Is Pat Riley here?

Classic. Pat Riley here. The all black suit. I love it. But what a what a great antihero to Bob. Oh, it's fantastic, dude.

Our next category is best one liner. This one was real hard. Cause there's so many good one liners. Yeah. There's so many good one liners. Russ. Russ. I whittled my honorable mention down to three.

Okay. My, my honor. I have mine. My honorable mention down to two. Okay. I have my honorable mention down to two. Okay. Okay. You did better than I did. My first one, which I was really thinking about putting as like fighting for this to be the winner, is –

Oh, it's close. During the soul skating, right, you have – we've established Luis is slow as hell and can't stop. Oh, my god. Brandon, he's the fastest thing that's ever happened to you, Taki. But so he skates – Get it right. We're in the soul skating. We're with James, Hector, Russ, and the soul skating crew.

And Luis blows past everybody and runs into the the fence the chain link fence and hector hector comes up and he pulls him off the ground dusts him off and he goes use the brakes baby use the brakes baby so cool hector it's soul skater for life it's great advice for luis and honestly it's just great life advice you know like similar to to hans in the first one where he tells uh bombay to wear thick socks yeah i think you can uh use the brakes baby that's you can apply that to anything yeah it's someone's spiraling he's the brakes baby should i make that a t-shirt too use the brakes yeah that would be a good one all right keep your eye keep your eye out on the merch store maybe

i'll throw a use the brakes baby shirt in there um but so so that that one i love so much and then my second one is it's the it's i forget which intermission it's either the first or the second intermission of our first iceland game yeah so things are not going well we're getting blown out and bombay is like you know what time it's you know what time it is it's pep talk time so he pulls get him motivated brandon he it's right after the the period buzzer he pulls everybody on the bench and do a huddle and he's like hey um jesse you need to start doing your best uh wait no that's what jesse says jesse says oh yeah we're doing our best coach that's true he pulls everybody in and he's yelling at him he's like you guys suck you can't

score you're not you're not stopping goals you need to do better and then jesse is like we're doing our best coach and then bombay hits us with probably the most inspirational line i've ever heard and he looks jesse dead in the eyes and he goes maybe your best isn't good enough yeah oh my god if that doesn't make you want to go out there and start skating start flying start making some shit happen on the ice i don't know what will you know have you made that into a motivational poster yet we talked about this last last time yes i did i sent it to you i sent it to you and you ignored it so i ignore it i'm pretty sure i still haven't gotten it i don't think so you need to get your shit together brayden learn how to text granted i do have an iphone 8 so that could

also with the home button that's your that's your problem right there that's your problem yeah my iphone 8 with the dude i don't know what i'll do without the home button though That's your problem right there. That's your problem. Yeah. My iPhone 8 with the – dude, I don't know what I'll do without the home button though. I need to get a new phone but I'm just real reluctant. You do? Okay. You get used to it real quick. It's been – I got my iPhone in 2016. Mine's a little old too.

I think I have the 11. I think I have the 11. I think I have the 11. Oh, well. I had to get it because I lost my other one when I got just like blackout drunk at karaoke. Classic Heath. Yeah. Classic. Classic Heath.

But I have made that inspirational poster. Love it. That's right. That's right. Sorry. Thank you for reminding me. I did it on – because I thought it would be fantastic if I put that over a picture of the beach skate, the Bombay solo beach skate. But it's incredibly hard to find –

Like a high-res picture of that? High-res picture of that scene. So like I have – I made like a little one, but it's like, you know, the photo is not great quality. I don't know how well it would blow up to a poster size. So I haven't done that yet. I haven't printed it out.

I'll have to see. What's your honorable mention. I have, we could do Prince. We're good. Okay. So we're still doing this. All right.

It's, it's on the way. I could only get mine down to three. And I will go from three to one. Number three is, hey, Goldberg, but if that puck were a cheeseburger, you'd stop it. Speaking of your honorable mention for best character, Russ, that is one of the best lines in the whole movie. So many good one-liners, dude. What was the other one?

My little brother could play better than you guys. And Jesse's like, well, why don't you go bug him then? Joke's on you. I even got a little brother. That can be your third honorable mention, Brandon. I love that line so much. That line is so, man. That can be your third honorable mention, Brandon.

I love that line so much. That line is so fucking good. Just like the planning to set that up, to say the one thing, and then you're banking on him mentioning the brother again. Yeah. So good, dude. Classic. Classic Russ. Love it.

So my second line comes from our boy, Bob Miller, a.k.a. Chet Hunson, when good old Kenny scores that goal and he goes, woo, woo, woo, Kenny, woo. That just was one of my favorites when he said it as a kid still favorite to today that's a great one and i believe if i if i'm remembering correctly that's the first uh that's the first goal that they score in the iceland game right you got it you got it that's exactly what it is a much good stuff a much needed goal but the winner is big mike's favorite line from the movie when i was a kid and it has become my favorite line as an adult and when it's it's when

cowboy duane during the best locker room scene in the history of cinema cowboy duane hits us with when the roosters are crowing and the crowd and the cows are spinning circles in the pasture ducks fly together. Good old cowboy Dwayne. Big Mike would always get a nice kick out of that. Yeah. That whole, the whole ducks fly together scene is amazing. And like you said,

the greatest halftime or inner, the greatest locker room speech that's ever been uttered. Yeah. It's not our best one liner, though. He's. No. Although you could make an argument for it. Yeah.

It's not. But this one will do it. And the winner of the Golden Cakey's Award for Best One-Liner is... Connie Moreau! And what is she saying, Brandon? She says, I'm no lady, I'm a duck. Ugh. And then she socks him.

Sucker punch. Yeah, she just socks him in the belly. And then Dwayne hits her with, like, way to go, you little filly or something like that. Oh, man. But Connie, that line after just being a badass the whole tournament, she's doing things. She's playing hockey the right way. She's making the right passes. I'll talk about Connie a little bit more later on.

But man, this line is classic. Classic Connie Moreauau it's fantastic it's not only is it um you know team team inspiring getting everybody on the same page it's also dare i say he's uh empowering yeah it might it might be the most uh feminist empowering line and it's said in any movie yeah oh that's not hyperbole at all remember the little girl how fired up those little girls are when connie's out there kicking ass yep i do i do love those scenes where when connie's scoring goals and they they flash the scene and then in the 30 for 30, remember that – went back to that episode. That was a while ago when we did the 30 for 30.

Yeah, great callback. And she quotes this, the professional hockey player. Was it Megan Duggan? Something like that. Yeah. I think I accidentally kept calling her the same name on accident, like Hannah or something. I just remember that. Yeah, you definitely got, like Hannah or something. I just remember that. Yeah, you definitely got her name wrong, and now I'm forgetting it.

So we're not the best here. But yeah, but she brings that up. She said she loved that line when she was a kid. I bet you 100% she used it when she ran for local office. Oh, Connie? Yeah, when she ran for local office. Oh, Connie. Yeah. I forgot she's a Senator now. State Senator, right?

State Senator. Yeah, she probably does. I'm no lady. I'm a Minnesotan. Something like that. Something like that. No. Classic. That's what I want to see next time.

I don't know if I might just cut this out, but next time there's a women's march, and I want to see that sign in photos. I'm no lady. I'm a duck. I want to see those signs out there. Just like last episode when the United Ducks of America. Exactly. the united ducks of america that's that's the sign you see when someone's carrying the banner for united ducks of america yeah that's all right so um the next category is best goal best goal again a lot of choices for this one yeah they do uh for me i'm even though i'm pretty sure

we i'm pretty sure i tore apart the logistics of this goal yeah um i know for sure you did uh during the the episode but i'm i'm going to pick our first knuckle puck, our first Team USA knuckle puck goal. Not the soul skating one, although that one was tight too, and not the goalie one, but the first one. The goalie. The first one, which I believe was against Russia. Yeah. When he hops out on the ice,

I believe that's his first time out on the ice too. At least that's how our friend Bob Miller makes it sound. Yeah. It's his first time out on the ice, and believe that's his first time out on the ice too. At least that's how our friend Bob Miller makes it sound. Yeah. It's his first time out on the ice and boom, right away. Knuckle puck goal. Beat, beat Russia.

Listen, it's not very realistic. The shot was a very poorly shot, like puck on a string twirling towards the goal. But you know, it made me want to go try it as a kid. Cause I was like, Oh, this seems normal. I could totally do this. And then, you know it made me want to go try it as a kid because i was like oh this seems normal i could totally do this and then you know the the hockey stick just collected dust in the lawn shed

you know shortly thereafter but yeah it's a it's a it's a fantastic goal it's a great it's a great kids movie goal because like it makes no sense it's got a sick name it looks weird yeah it's it i mean the knuckle puck and the ducks go together hand in hand exactly the knuckle ducks yeah knuckle puck also i think i've mentioned this before in the pod. Knucklepuck, a great band. Sure, they're great. It's like a Midwestern emo, pop punk kind of stuff. Check out their album, Copacetic. Great album from start to finish.

Top notch. I've been listening to a lot of a band called Wookie Foot. Wookie Foot? Yeah, mostly because of the name. But then their music isn't bad either what kind of what genre well you had enough hippie for you brandon it's uh kind of like folk jam band okay you know i can get behind that yeah you know you know i like a little little i'm i used to be white collar wook is what you would refer to my music taste as, you know, like a little jam band, like a little heavy bass music. But, you know, I don't fit the wook description in public. You absolutely do.

What? You absolutely do. I've never once put on patchouli oil. Okay. And I don't have put on patchouli oil. Okay. And I don't have enough hair to have dreads. No, you don't have dreads, but you got the beard going, you know? Well, I just haven't shaved in a while, so I got a sick neck beard going right now, too. Anyways, I can't believe you just called me a wook.

That hurts my feelings. You just don't dress like a Wook. But if you put your current look in Wook clothes, it would not look out of place. Fit right in at a fish show. Exactly. All right. Anyways. So for me, in my honorable mention for best goal, I'm going to do, you know, I'm a basketball guy, Brandon. And so I was naturally drawn to the alley-oop.

And it's when our boy, Cowboy Dwayne, for the first time ever, does something well and pops that puck up in the air. Charlie calls the play. Banks ricochets it in as he gets tripped down oh my god ricocheted he bats it out of midair yeah i mean even better we're talking about the m banks it's got basketball baseball hockey all together what more could you got mr mr hockey adam banks is just out there fucking making shit happen for the ducks in front of the goal yeah he's uh you know he's a he's a goal machine yeah and you know the origination when vladi divac he flips it up and they divas what do i say i've said it

wrong a thousand times i'm just never indicate his name right. You put like an H sound at the end. Vlade D-Vach. That's what it is now. It's not how you pronounce his name though. All right. Well, then when Vlade Dade, he likes to party.

All allowed that. Put a little snoop. You know, the original... The alley-oop goal is great. You know? Originates in the street soul skating hockey just a clarification for for people again i don't know why this would be you're the first episode you listen to but if this is the first episode you're listening to vlade divas is not in this movie just a heads up he's not no but my dream scenario of when this alley-oop originated from the street hockey

was that they would have a guest appearance from a Laker, and the best Laker of that time was Vlade. Yeah. Until he got traded for, who did he get traded to the Hornets for, Brandon? Kobe. He was part of the Kobe deal. There it is. There you go.

I have two Kobe rookie cards. How does that make you feel terrible i opened them up in 1996 for my birthday i remember it 96 a great year for sports sonics made the nba finals packers winning the Super Bowl. Gotta love that. Those are the only two examples you got. Yeah, that's the only two that matter. What else happened in 96? I don't know. Someone won the Stanley Cup and someone won the World Series. The Avs would have won the Stanley Cup, 95-96. That would have been...

June 1996 would have been their Stanleyley cup there you go another yeah with joe sakic that's right patrick um who won the world series that year was it the braves braves were 95 so it would have been the october prior 96 was probably yankees yankees maybe was that jeter's first year? No. What? It would have been right around there. I'm not exactly sure of the year, but it would have been like mid-90s would have been his debut for sure. That's a – anyways.

Either or. Sonics almost taking down Jordan's Bulls. That would have been epic. Yeah. As we know, if anyone is our return listeners, I was a big Sonics fan back in the day. 1996 also would have been when the Eden Hall Junior Varsity team beat Varsity. Cool, Brandon. That's when Charlie and Fulton bail on the team like jerks i like to think that was 95

that they bailed on the team and then towards the end of the school year 96 then they're back in you know let's just we'll talk about that movie but it's just i never could get into that movie if it does it make you fulton we're jerks does it oh yeah yeah does it make you feel better though that the reason that what they end up doing after they bail on the team is rollerblading through the malls i mean i do love that and then they they barf they like munch all that food and then they go on the roller coasters and barf that's classic classic ducks all right but the winner of the golden cakey's award for best goal is fulton concussion goal yes and so this is the the shootout goal championship game against team iceland Fulton takes the shootout puck from center ice.

He's skating up. He does a complete stop. I never understand why they do this. But he does a complete stop. Slapshot. Hits the Iceland goalie in the head. I was trying to remember. I don't think we know his name.

It's fine. Iceland goalie is good. Iceland goalie. Hits him in the face knocks him unconscious i'm pretty sure because he falls down lifeless and then the puck uh falls back down just past his head and uh bounces off of his mask bounces bounces off his mask and then scoots scoots past the goal line oh god it is the epitome of all things ducks fulton slap shot you know we saw what his slap shot did to the goalie the first time around when he left that massive indention

in the palm of his hand left a well you know yeah absolutely and so here we go now we just follow it up with a little brain damage, a little CTE for the goalie there. Classic, classic Fulton. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's,

and you know, we couldn't, there was a lot of really good goals. It's just, you know, there's, you got Kenny skating under the Trinidad and Tobago through the guy's knees.

Yeah. The Trinidad and Tobago goal itself.'s knees yeah the trinidad and tobago goal itself right from bella fonter yeah um and the steel drum celebration and then you have you got um when kenny woo does his triple double axle sow cow with a camel camel hump he does a triple aerial, double Hamill Camel with a pure – Half-toe touch, pirouette. Well, pirouette. It's something pirouette and then a half-toe touch to finish. I liked mine better.

Yours didn't make any sense though. Neither – Kenny's doesn't really make any sense either. Those are all great goals, but I just – I like the finishing touches of Fulton cracking that one home. Can't beat it. All right.

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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. Next category is best goal or no, sorry team name yeah you're going backwards best team yeah it's also why it takes so long one step forward two steps back best team name this is so this is a holdover category from game changers because game changers has the best team names i've ever we've ever come across we did a a whole, we did it because it, I think it's episode nine.

Yeah. Of season one of game changers. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back and listen to it because we go over all of the team names and their fan fucking tastic, the best team names ever. So for all of the flaws of game changers, season one,

many, many, many flaws that is single handedlyedly the greatest thing they've contributed to this universe is the team names. So this is a holdover from that. Since these are all countries, we can blow through this pretty quick because they don't really have team names necessarily. So my honorable mention is because Iceland is is referred to as the vikings which is pretty tight so iceland viking great jerseys great some of the best jerseys although i mentioned to you earlier they're missing one side of their sleeve numbers for some reason they

only have it on one side doesn't make any sense but that's fine but the jerseys are fantastic black and blue just like the hawks yeah can't beat it remember we we talked about this off air but budget cuts were the reason that they could only do the number on one i don't i don't think that's why there's so there's we don't have you don't know shit about accounting there's no evidence to support that you are you're not a numbers guy don't even talk to me about budgeting all right so um are you ready for my honorable mention or do you want to defend yourself? Defend myself? I don't have anything to defend myself for.

But not being a numbers guy? Ah, I don't care. All right. But my honorable mention, and this was never said and I just made it up, but it is the Trinidad and Tobago Steel Drums. And the reason I say that is I needed an excuse to talk about the best celebrate goal celebration in the history of the junior Goodwill games.

I hope they did it for every single goal. I hope that they at least got an upset victory or two in, in the, in the tournament. And they just were, you know, playing those steel drums, dancing on the ice.

They did not get an upset victory because if we remember, the Junior Goodwill games were double elimination. And when they played Team USA, they showed the standings right before the game and Trinidad had already lost a game. So then losing to Team USA, they would have been done-zoed. It's a travesty, but the trinidad and tobago steel drums keep keep on celebrating folks and talk about great jerseys the tie-dyes dude yeah the tie-dye jerseys classic classic stuff absurd but amazing wait hold on that's another team store get a trinidad and tobago t-shirt jersey on there i don't know with bella fonte's name on the back i don't know if you could do tie dye for threadless figure it out figure it out if you can the colors aren't gonna match either

so man just figure it out brandon god damn it don't let's just figure it out all right and the winner of the golden cakey's award for best team name is the USA Ducks. Yep. Pretty self-explanatory. Yeah. You know, we started out as the USA freedom-loving bald eagles of America, and then we slowly transitioned to Ducks. We started off as Team USA much to the chagrin of one Charlie Conway.

Yeah. He wanted nothing to do with it. He wanted nothing to do with America. He was ducks all the way. And of course, you know, Charlie always gets his way at the end. But you know what? That when, when, you know, when our boy Bob Miller is like, wait, who is that?

Is that team USA? Well, they're the USA Ducks. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. And it was perfectly legal for them to switch their unis at intermission. It was legal, but it was not patriotic. No. No.

But then we started getting, we we will we will quack you we got we will quack you and then we have like i mentioned before the end credit song mighty ducks of america so yeah we are the united ducks of america brandon okay so yeah there's our team name that's good stuff next category is best parents this is another holdover from game changers from game changers and the first one because because we get a lot of parent interactions in the first one oh shout out terry and jesse's dad mr hall mr hall best of the best of the best. So best parents in this situation, because we don't get any parents. No. Ever at all in D2, which is just a real shame.

I would have liked Mr. Hall. Would have at least been would have been a better chaperone than the shenanigans we got. That's true. And in the first movie, he was prepared to take over his coach yeah um so why is bombay not bringing him as an assistant coach into the goodwill games but so my honorable mention is going to be uh yawn because yawn is he's bombay's parental figure yeah hired charlie when charlie's mom was out canoodling with her new boyfriend exactly yeah he says uh charlie's mom remarried and then the apparently because charlie hates the his stepdad

he spends all of his time at yon's skate shop so he had to hire him yeah that trope is tale as old as time but we did establish he hired charlie but he's not paying him. Yeah. So. Child labor laws are skirted in Minneapolis. In Palookaville, Minnesota. Yeah. In small town America, they don't care about child labor laws. Yeah, exactly. Just ask Big Mike. I was working when I was like 10.

Listen to this though first job i was like 11 or 12 and i was vacuuming mopping and sweeping on like non-conditioned like hallways of these apartment buildings in the middle of the summer that's rough let'll learn you some work ethic there brandon yeah i was i mean my i don't know first job maybe is a little uh loose but, uh, cause my dad owns his, uh, has owned his own business for as long as I've been alive. Um, so as soon as I was able to, to pitch in for stuff, you know, I was helping, helping out, you know, just doing small things around the, around the workshop. There you go.

Yep. Cutting some wood, sweet, sweeping up the, the sawdust. There you go. Yep. Cutting some wood, sweet, sweeping up the, the sawdust. Oh my God. I bet your broom broom works second to none. Dude. Yeah.

How do you think I got so good at hockey? It's the broom. Brandon is still available as a youth hockey coach. If anyone's looking for one. That's true. And then my surprisingly Heath, I have not been hired yet. That's fine. That's true. And then my honor. Surprisingly, Heath, I have not been hired yet. I find that shocking.

I set my LinkedIn availability to available and still nothing. Well, all right. Well, we'll keep looking into that. But my honorable mention best parents, and we never meet them. We have no idea who they are. But it's Julie the cat's parents because that young lady has better emotional intelligence than bombay she calls him out on his trash coaching remember when wolf the dentist was prepared she handles just horrifyingly bad coaching decisions from bombay with grace on a very

consistent basis she tried to address it straight on and she learned that from somewhere brandon and we're assuming it's her parents so great job for sure julia cat is a very great young lady and a great reflection of her parents to add on to that uh when both her and portman get kicked out of the iceland game portman losing his mind julie the cat cool as a cucumber. You got it, but she's feeling it inside. She mentioned support. And I know how you feel,

but I'm an adult and I can handle this, you know, shout out Julie, the cat. But the winner of the golden cake is award for best parent is James. So this is, uh, we're going with James. Because A, he's the main catalyst behind Team USA turning around. You have what is clearly an incredibly respectful relationship with his little brother

russ um he's the leader of all the soul skaters right yep 100 james james is out there being a father to at least 30 kids yeah yeah and doing he probably doing a bang up fucking job absolutely like james probably goes on to like open like in a community outreach program for troubled youths helping you know like south central los angeles right where they're at probably does a ton of like hockey crossover coach like mentorship so you know I'm just projecting this onto James, but I see him as a real community leader as well as a parent. Yep. Because he's doing great work with James,

and he's going to all of James's. James is doing great work with Russ. James is doing great work with Russ. He's going to all of Russ's games. Yep. And then he really, not only does he teach, he reinvigorates the, the hockey love for all of these, these team USA ducks, but not only that, he's also doing, you see him

do like, you know, fatherly give fatherly advice to, to all of them. He's in there. He's talking to Portman. Yeah. He's like, Portman, you got to give it a hundred percent. Well, he gives Portman gives him a big wave and a big fist bump. like, fuck yeah, at the end when they're getting back on the bus. Yeah, yeah. He tells Portman, you can't take 100% all the time.

You don't stop until you hear the whistle. Yeah. He's out there. He's helping Luis, him and Hector helping Luis. He's telling them to use the brakes and then he's he's instilling some some confidence in kenny woo uh which toughness which he needs it is the catalyst to him becoming the third bash brother yeah he's out there parenting the shit out of these kids yeah he's he's the leader the team needed. Not the parent we deserve, but the parent we needed.

Yep. James is what you'd call the team dad. And now for the next category, it is Best Cameo. A lot of choices for this. They really threw in every single celebrity they could get Yeah loved it I loved it I loved everything about this

I loved Steve Brill You know Steve Brill Telling Bombay two words Pat Riley Yep Steve Brill's great With his little cameo He's always great with all of his little cameos

As well I guess In the first movie it's not really a cameo because he's he's got you know he's like multiple scenes yeah um but yeah he's great for my honorable mention i'm gonna go with because we mentioned um in the last episode or maybe it was the episode before that christy yamaguchi the craze that was christy yaguchi yep get that Wheaties box I bet you can get it on eBay exactly yeah yeah and then the wheat the whole Wheaties connection yeah um and Yamaguchi shows up during Bombay's little party scenes um with Greg Louganis uh another another Olympian um but Yamaguchi uh she's she's, she's my honorable mention. Nice.

That's a good one. I don't know about you, but like I, growing up, like I mentioned, growing up the, the Yamaguchi, it was legitimately like a craze that it went through with Chrissy Yamaguchi. She was a huge celebrity, um, for being, um, for being a figure skater. I don't think anybody's ever, I don't think anybody's ever gotten that big as in as a figure skater just from like figure skating you had mike you had tanya harding and uh all that but that was they got they were they're more known for the the illegal shenanigans. Yeah. The attack. Well, I mean, you think of Nancy Kerrigan, you think of why?

Yeah, yeah. Why? Nancy Kerrigan. I was blanking on the other name involved. Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding. Yeah. Tonya Harding was the mastermind behind the attack. Yes.

Yeah. So they're famous for the attack, not necessarily their figure skating. Yamaguchi was famous just for figure skating. I'm like 80% sure. I mentioned this in the last podcast. I thought it was a Sports Illustrated for kids card, but I think I actually had like Olympic cards from like the 96 Olympics. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sure they have. I'm sure that's it. I'm pretty sure I still have it. Let me, I'm heading back to the good life again soon. And I'll double check that in the old childhood bedroom. Okay. Wait, from the 96 Olympics? Yeah.

They're probably, there's not, if you're going to, if you're doing that to find a Yamaguchi one, I think you're going to be. Might be 92. Yeah, she'd be the 92 one. I'll double check. We'll see. Cause then, you know, like they do do they did like uh olympic legends got you that's fair yeah they could pull from um the past anyways my cameo is going to be the great one wayne gretzky and it's 100 because of a line you had in a previous episode where

um he takes a picture with the kiddos and everyone yells hockey. Um, and now I like to think that the great one says hockey for every single picture. He never says cheese. He just, ah, yeah. Cheese. Get that cheese the fuck out of here. Hockey only. Yeah. Yeah.

Cause he, he only does, he's got a cameo real quick. I think it's like, it's one scene. It's one scene, maybe 10 seconds top and it's tops and it's him walking in uh charlie calls him the great one and then they take a photo wayne's fine yeah wayne's fine what waynathan waynathan uh anyway so but the winner of the golden Cakey's Award for Best Cameo is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Luau Cinder, baby. Why, Brandon? Tell the listeners why.

Oh, because he's talking Air Bombay. That's why. I thought you were going to. I thought you were asking me to explain why he changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Oh, no. Geez, we don't need to get into that. I don't know if I'm the best person to speak to that. No, no, no, no, no.

Like let's Google that. Let's tell the listeners why Kareem is our best cameo out of all the cameos. Yeah, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Well, A, because it's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, of all the cameos yeah kareem abdul-jabbar well a because it's kareem abdul-jabbar one of the best basketball players of all time fantastic sky hook baby yeah um you couple that with the fact that he's so freaking tall that whenever he's around other people it's just a it's a funny look you know yeah it's like when you see shack with other people and you're like that's why they had him sitting down because emilio is tiny yeah well they the first time you see him before they do the sit down he's standing up and he's

standing i think i think it's all the hockey players um that he's standing next to um and so to see that to see like yeah standing next to other professional athletes and he's a fucking foot taller it's amazing it's just there's some there's something great about seeing really tall people stand next to short people it's amazing i know it's like it's like work from home right like i've met a whole bunch of my team members and everyone's like god you are a lot taller than i thought you were because everyone's the same height on zoom yeah and i'm not that tall six two isn't that tall but like when you're just staring at someone in a screen all day, you just assume.

Yeah. I automatically assume everybody's 5'5 unless proven otherwise. That's a little extreme. But anyway, so the main reason it's best cameo because he's talking shop. He's talking Air Bombay's with Bombay. And he has the great line because bombay's bombay mentions it's uh shoes for kids who want to coach yeah and kareem has a great line where he looks at him and he goes are there are there really that many kids that want to coach absolutely

absolutely oh my god well especially if they have a pump like what do you think it was kareem he was talking to on the phone or do you think absolutely yeah he just called the crit like listen yeah absolutely with the no no i don't think i don't think he called kareem i think kareem called him yeah yeah he's like listen gordon i got an idea with these air bomb bays what about a pump oh absolutely the pump sounds great well no what bombay says is he says no no no no no it's not a sneaker it's a street shoe and then he ends it with like yeah pump pumps pumps we could put pumps on it or something like that the air bombay loafer for kids who want to coach perfect can't beat it and then

and then you know what you do is you do a marketing bundle where you buy the Air Bomb Bays and you get a free clipboard. Or Whistle. Whistle would be more cost effective. Both. You do both. We'll see. See how much we spend on the marketing before we start budgeting.

You need a clip. You know how easy and cheap clipboards are it's like a little piece of wood you i guarantee you could get a custom and because if we're if we're manufacturing shoes we're doing massive amounts of units right we're doing a lot we're doing so much quantity so you i would bet that i would bet your marketing budget's going to be pretty high there you wouldn't need need – for the clipboard, you wouldn't need the marketing budget. The clipboard is going to be manufacturing budget. Okay. But the clipboard, if you're doing so much volume like you would if you're going to package it with shoes,

I guarantee you could get a custom-printed clipboard for like 15 cents each. All right. I mean I like your style and then like the the clipboards like black with a Nike check and says Air Bombay. And it's just like the Jordan guy dunking a clipboard. Exactly. Exactly. So anyways, all right, let's keep let's keep on cruising. We're really starting to go off kilter again. But next category is best ongoing storyline and so for this it might be a little confusing for for people this is essentially like a like subplots background storylines that are going on um outside of the main plot of team usa and the goodwill games so my honorable mention is going to be the background subplot of Russ joining Team USA. Because you have him show up.

He's cracking jokes, like we said. Giving everybody the what for. Yeah. Then he realizes, dude, these guys fucking suck. They could use my help. Brings him into the Soul Skaters. And then Charlie, he becomes good friends with Charlie. And as a result,

when banks goes down, he joins the team. And then he plays such a fine role on the team that when banks comes back, Charlie's like, you know what? You're a better hockey player than I am. And banks is a way better hockey player than I am. Why don't you take my spot and I'll be Coach Conway?

I love when Russ is talking trash and the security tries like kicking him out and he's just like, like he's just rolling him back on his rollerblades. And also when Russ is sitting next to Jan after like the first game after the soul skating before before banks goes down team heistling game right no team germany team germany there we go yeah because they they do they do the soul skating while bombay is doing his solo skating figuring it out so germany germany is the first game back and that's also the game where bombay doesn't show up to the third period. Yeah. Jeez. We'll get into that later. But yeah,

that's, I love it too. Keenan. Great addition. We've talked about Russ was like the, you know, just what a, what a star,

what a breakout star Keenan Thompson, Russ, my honorable mention. And we've talked about him quite a bit already too, but it's just the ongoing progression of Wolf being the bad guy bad guy wolf i love it love everything about the interruption of the uh the press conference god i couldn't think of fucking press conference for a second thing good god um so the way he always cuts off maria from talking to bombay and like shoes her away it's a bad guy move yeah he's uh he's just wound a little tight eve yeah tibbles i mean he's just

wolf the dentist and like i just the progression of him being the bad guy is just it's good stuff yeah so i culminating in him talking shit to Gunner. Yeah. So I was watching. So watching back this morning before we recorded this and get this is going to be my bias because Wolf the dentist is the fucking best. But I good he's not much of a villain he's not doing like evil he's not like like we mentioned he's not like riley he's not telling people he tries to cripple bombay now if you okay fair that's fair but i will maintain like i did when we we talked about that part of the the movie bombay was asking for it bombay was being a fucking dick dude he he was he was really pushing his he he was talking shit to to uh to to wolf unprompted yeah he's telling him oh the only thing short here is your nhl career okay uncalled for bombay yeah and then considering bombay didn't make the pros exactly and then during the game he's like uh you know he's he's showboating he's triple deacon um he's doing all that and then

he's talking shit in the midst of it too uh you know i'm unbelievable i i it was it was a dick move by Stanton to do that, but I would say it was warranted. All right. Well, and on that note. And then he talks shit to Gunner too. That's another thing. That was a villain thing. He's talking shit to Gunner at the end. But other than those two instances, he doesn't really do a lot of evil things or bad things.

He's just a hard-nosed coach he's a little withdrawn you know not very uh he doesn't show his emotions a lot but that could just be a cultural cultural difference you know yeah and i mean he's not as bad as riley like trying to like do mental mind tricks with bombay talking about his dead dad and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Bringing up past trauma. Talking about his dead dad, getting him fired, telling people to hurt banks purposefully. Yeah.

You know? He did his job. All right. And the winner of the Golden Cakey's Award for Best Ongoing Storyline is Hollywood Bombay. And and see this is the true villain of the movie hollywood bombay the true villain of the movie it's over hollywood bombay was the the main center point of all bad things that happened to the ducks that is the true villain of the movie is hollywood bombay man put it down put it in you know put it in writing just etch it into marble that's wow that's something else that's and that's that's probably facts i mean hollywood bombay it starts

with the press conference when cnn wants a one-on-one with them. You get the Mr. Big Stuff model photo shoot. You get the celebrity parties out there, the Malibu home. With that view again, my god, that view. Come on. Who wouldn't get a big head? The penthouse removed from the team. I think that's a huge.

I think that's what starts the dissent is he's not around the team. Got to love. But Hollywood Bombay, man, the ultimate wake of destruction left in his path all the way through. The next category is best couple. Best couple. through the next category is best couple best couple and so this uh for my honorable mention i'm gonna go with the tried and true the staple relationship of all of these of all of everything mighty ducks and that's gi and connie we don't we get a small glimpse at the very beginning when they're about to kiss and then charlie fucking cock blocks it um but outside of that there's we don't we don't see we don't get a lot of gee and connie interacting other than

in this in the scenes that they're in um they're always like sitting next to each other um on the bench they're sitting next to each other so you can see the the relationship's still there we just don't get a lot of insight into it during this movie other than right at the very beginning but there's still it's still the uh the hallmark of uh any i'm gonna say any cinematic relationship yeah i agree that's this is uh ross and rachel who give me gian connie you know well good god that's like apples and oranges that's true ross and rachel is pretty toxic yeah i was just gonna say gee and connie is consistent and pure i couldn't think of any is one of the worst tv characters oh yeah ross is garbage i couldn't think of any other any other uh like real big couples though you know jim and pam oh jim and pam do you want to talk about toxic

jim and pam are kelly kelly like that we re-watched it and she was like you know i don't know if pam is that good of a person oh no pam sucks yeah you don't realize until you like kind of re-watch it again but jim sucks too just in a different way what about uh fine a a couple as good as jim and angela yeah i'd say jim gives me ross vibes for sure where he's he thinks he's a good guy but he's not you know uh ross is just ross just annoys the shit out of me though i don't know what are their um i the the notebook i can't remember their character names, but they got nothing on Guy and Connie. Notebook, old couple. Yeah.

Their relationship was a little toxic as well. That's true. Guy and Connie is – okay, we're just reinforcing our point that there is no better love story in any television movie franchises as pure and as gold as Guy and Connie. Exactly. So for my honorable mention, I have Bombay and the Iceland trainer because 99.9% of the reason why, Brandon? Because Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is very nice.

I do like the, the ice cream scene. I thought that was pretty cute. The ice cream scene is, is what gets it to me. Yeah. But that's the, that's the last we get of it.

And which, which leads me to believe, and that's right before the Iceland game, the first one. That leads me to believe. Oh, she was like a spy, like a double agent? I don't think she was a spy. I think she was just messing with him, you know? Well, I guess double agent would work.

But, yeah, she's taking him out to ice cream just to mess with him, you know? Getting his head. Really get that Hollywood stroke, that Hollywood Bombay ego. Because you know what uh stanson is doing while maria and bombay are out for ice cream he's preparing yeah he's in the lab he's doing the work yeah x's and o's baby and then bombay is out for ice cream we see fulton and portman are out doing god knows what at that hour running around harassing poor little ladies on the street so yeah exactly um but the the controversial winner of the golden cakey's

award for best couple is goldberg and the store model goldberg and the model who winks at him yep because i'm pretty sure they grow up and fall in love we're assuming she winks at goldberg um they don't they don't really show who she winks at there would have been averman could have been could have been jesse could have been dwayne but goldberg was leading the charge during that whole thing so i'm i'm i don't think it's safe to assume she's winking at goldberg well and goldberg kind of does a little dance number after she winks at him that's true and he does yeah he does a little dance and he and he like looks over i think averman and they yeah and he's like do you see that yeah just met my future wife um and so yeah and you know what rumor has it they're still together to this day so yeah i know

i know we talked about it extensively when it happened but that wink was it made me so uncomfortable so uncomfortable didn't have a lot of couples in the movie um is is what that equates to but yeah there weren't a lot of couples except for Guy and Connie. Ignore Goldberg and the winking model. Focus on Guy and Connie, the true romantic heroes. The next category is best friendship. Best friendship. And I think – I mean this is pretty – I think everybody can guess who the winner is going to be for this. But my honorable mention, Charlie and Russ.

Like I said, during the soul skating, you can see the blossoming of the friendship. They're getting to know each other. Then Charlie invites Russ to the games, officially invites him to the games. He's been going, but now he's officially invited. He's sitting next to Jan, who's Charlie's other best friend. Do you think he made Charlie an honorary soul skater because they both know how to skate for pride?

Remember when Charlie said it like a lame and he was like, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I think all of the ducks were made honorary soul skaters. Okay. All right. Kind of jumped them in during the street hockey session. I like how we're calling them soul skaters. They were never once referred to as soul skaters in this movie

but uh i think everybody knows what we mean yeah james and the james and gang yeah we're the soul skaters if you don't if you don't know what a soul skater is go watch brink yeah go go take a go take a lesson from team puppins heads yeah and ignore the bad guys team x blades just it's a it's a metaphor for you know corporate america brandon it actually is a pretty solid it is a pretty solid come in and ruin everything damn it okay um capitalism don't say that brandon um but then uh charlie and rest that's a good one that is a and then a new awesome blossoming french yep when banks gets hurt he pulls him into the team and then he even gives up his spot once banks is back so best friends and then they they they you see their their their friendship blossom and get even better in d3 spoiler alert yeah well there you go um

my honorable mention is goldberg and the new guys um i you know goldberg brings cowboy duane along with the adventures on rodeo drive they're raz're razzing Cowboy Dwayne, him and Luis and Kenny. I just assumed that Dwayne was snoring. And so they are razzing him, hitting him with the shaving cream. I've mentioned it before. Goldberg is the voice of the locker room. And so he really brought the new ducks in. He tried to unite them under a mutiny when Julie the cat was trying to make them stretch like a psycho.

I'm just kidding. We love Julie the cat. But no, Goldberg and I think Goldberg did the best job of accepting the new ducks in. For sure. I agree 100%. Yeah. And so I don't think there's. you go yeah let's that's who's our winner goldberg true leader um and the winner of the golden cakey's award for best friendship is

the bash brothers obviously i don't think we need to explain this at all literally i mean just uh brandon you ain't seen nothing yet that's all you gotta say when they're just jamming out or when their first check in the iceland game party and then they just crush that dude in the boards that's it that's all you need the double clothesline they're wearing matching bandanas amazing god the fist bumps it's just and then and then they bring in their honorary bash brother woo woo woo kenny woo and you know it's just that party in the penalty box i think that period i think that second period that speaks to their their their bond and their friendship is that they are immediately accepting of Kenny Wu being the third Bash Brother.

There's no hesitations. They're both like, yes, come on in. Absolutely. No insecurity, no hesitation. Ready to go. Saddle up, partner. You're ready for this rodeo. All right.

What's our next category? The next category is Pheasant of the Team. Okay. I think my honorable mention is going to be very obvious. It's Goldberg. Yeah. 100% of the time, always Goldberg. Get him out of the net.

Definitely needs to work on not getting himself so far out of position with the tiniest of fakes. Yep. He gets juked out of his skates, I should say. Juked out of his with the tiniest of fakes yep he he gets juked out of his shoe out of his skates i should say juked out of his skates constantly yeah um my honorable mention does not get enough hate but like duane pass the fucking puck dude that guy gets wrecked in both iceland games making the same mistakes he's just out there dicking around with the puck, trying to get it showing off his dirty dangles past the rock.

I need some fundamental hockey, Dwayne. Get it together. The dude is a liability on the ice. That is for sure. 100%. And you know what that means? Ample playing time from Bombay. Speaking of Bombay. Which brings us to the the winner the winner of the golden cakey's award for pheasant of the team is gordon bombay like we like we said earlier hollywood

bombay is the true villain of this movie and so because of that bombay is the pheasant of the team he is woefully unprepared throughout the entire even when they're winning still woefully unprepared uh they were miss mckay stopping at the concession stands on her way into the game away from forfeiting out of the tournament because that fucking asshole couldn't show up on time unbelievable that yeah we talked about it he almost betrayed america we talked benedict benedict bombay brandon we talked about it during that part of our of our breakdown where how do you he doesn't show up until the third period which is insane especially when you don't have an assistant coach you know because then yeah they're like you said if miss mckay

is anywhere in the arena besides right next to the bench they have to forfeit that game yeah he went on a crazy bender post solo skate, woke up in a gutter, had to dust himself off, finally made it there by the third period. I think that's the most infuriating part for me is that he wasn't in a bender. He had just figured everything out and was in a good mood. He just didn't show up. Oh, man. oh man but that hollywood i would i would maybe understand if he was in a bender and they found him in a gutter like yawn finds him in a gutter and is like come on you gotta go you gotta go but that's not what happens he he just had the solo skate he just had his talk with yawn

he should be turned around uh and then when he comes in in the third period he's he's calling the duck call he's he's living it up he looks he's got a giant smile on his face and he's like guys i'm back and it's like well okay couldn't you have been back an hour earlier yeah you know first period would have been nice simple time management yeah you know i think i forget what episode it was when we talked about like Bombay. I think it was last episode actually. But Bombay spends 90% of his time getting ready instead of being ready. And that leads to shit like this where he shows up two periods late. Yeah.

Just do better, Bombay. Time management. Be better. That's the key to life. Time management. If you're 10 minutes early you're late according to mama mama d were you gonna say mama bombay i almost accidentally said mama bombay for sure amazing that's who that's who i'm sure she said that she's from the midwest oh yeah it's

it's a midwestern staple if you're 10 minutes early you're late exactly and that caused a lot of issues for me like in college and later in life going to meet people for brunch and i'm there 15 minutes early and everyone else there's 30 fucking minutes after the agreed upon time yeah so i'm the same way i show up uh like 10 minutes early to everything at least five minutes um but like you said like once you get to know your friends a little more like i'm gonna name drop the killmans on here i wasn't gonna say it i wasn't gonna say it the killmans you be you have experienced their tardiness with me or as well as i have uh so i know i know whenever i'm hanging out with the cumans that i need to show up 30 minutes late and then i'll be five minutes

before they show up you know so that's you just gotta you gotta get to know the friends and be like okay these these are the these are the non-punctual people these are the people that are going to show up like because otherwise like you said i'm sitting at brunch for 30 minutes by myself looking like an idiot you know yeah holding the table down like winston and new girl remember yeah exactly i got a table of eight people none of them are here yeah or if it's a place that won't seat you until your full party's there and you're just sitting there like an asshole at the you know at the by the entrance because it's hot outside you don't want to wait outside but anyways you know shout out here we are shout out to the killmans although to be fair the last time i was in denver i flew in and i took

a took a pretty wicked nap and showed up like two hours late because i i just crushed a nap at my airbnb instead to the Killmans? Yeah. Oh, that's fine. You know, just that's repaying the favor. Anyways, yeah, like you said, shout out Killmans. If it was anybody else, I'd be like, come on, Heath. You can do better than that.

But it's the Killmans. All right. So anyways, next category is Team MVP. Okay. So for my honorable mention, we've talked about him before, the soul skater, the head soul skater, James. James is the catalyst for everything good that happens to Team USA. He's an American hero, and he's not even on the team but he's a team mvp because of the the effect that he has on team usa when he's leaning on the fence and he

says go get him usa just tugs at your heartstrings god and then and then he's showing up at every game. You know, he's supporting them. He taught them. He taught all of them not only valuable hockey lessons, but invaluable life lessons. Yep. You got it. Hit the nail on the head. My MVP is Connie Moreau. Connie equals consistency is what I put in the note here, Brandon, because if you look at this tournament from end to end, you see Connie's fingerprints on a lot of these

goals, whether it's assists, the hockey assist, right? You know, she's in there with the old school ducks lineups. I mean, she's the, uh the what I like to call first follower, what corporate America likes to call first follower. You know, she's always in there encouraging them. Come on, you guys. Quack, quack, quack. You know, let's do this flying V, Jesse. Yep. Connie is she has multiple goals in this.

She has multiple assists. She had the one little hiccup on the boards when she almost got ran over. But we can let that slide. Yeah, that wasn't her fault. That was the writers in the movie people trying to, you know, bring some. Yeah. They couldn't just naturally bring the drama. So they had to manufacture it with something insane like Dwayne Ropen Sanderson.

All right. But the winner of the Golden Cakey's award for team MVP is Adam Banks. Again, obviously, it's Banks. Banks is the best hockey player on the Ducks. Arguably the best hockey player in this tournament. Maybe Gunner, just as good. I would probably put Banks just a notch above Gunner, though. When healthy.

When healthy. When healthy. Healthy Banks is, you know, he's taking you to the to the gold yep he's got the triple deep down yep you know that alley-oop goal we talked about it before midair and say yeah banks all the way yep um cool so let's move to the next category next category is biggest missed opportunity yep and so for my honorable mention biggest missed opportunity i've been saying it since the beginning heath you got to play julie the cat how you don't play julie the cat is beyond me it doesn't make any sense especially when she is a brick wall we get

introduced to her being a brick wall and Goldberg falling over doing the splits. Yes. And they build it up throughout the movie where it's like, you know, she's a brick wall. Goldberg's being terrible. She's asking for more planet time. They're building it up throughout the movie that the payoff should have been more than just one fucking shot. I think ideally what you do is you play her. If you still want to have that buildup,

ideally you play her from the get go right away. Cause Goldberg's terrible. But if you still want to have that buildup of will, will she play? Won't she play at least put her in at the start of the Iceland game? You know? Yeah. Rev staff, Julie,? Yeah. Ref stuff. Julie, the cat.

RIP. Not really RIP, but she just got, she is alive and well. RIP playing time. Julie, the cat. My biggest honorable mention missed opportunity. I mentioned it in the episode, but this would have been absolutely legendary. Brandon, when Bombay hops into the limo with tibbles after they round up the ducks and they're quack, quack, quack, they're chanting quacking on the street.

Bombay hops in that limo and he says, oh, I used to ride around in one of these. And right then, that little partition window should have come sliding on down. MC Ganey whips around. Hey, boss. Classic. That would have been amazing. Legendary, legendary spot. That would have been amazing.

Because I guarantee you i i may be a little biased because i do love mc gainey but i'm i'm gonna go out on a limb and say every movie ever made would benefit from just a little bit more mc gainey agreed 1000 percent thousand percent yeah um but the winner of the golden cakey's award for missed opportunity is the continuity at the junior goodwill games yeah and we definitely talked about this before at the start of it uh with the double elimination tournament that doesn't make any sense uh because it's broken into groups and And then they just abandon it. They show you the standings at the beginning and then abandon it and don't show it to you ever again.

It's just they didn't give really any thought to the tournament format. They were just like, we need a tournament. We need it to be at least double elimination because we have to have the loss first. You have to be able to lose one to Iceland. That way you come back um so yeah it's weird i think i think it i don't know i think yeah there's there's just there's multiple different ways you could have done this better as far as tournament format goes they didn't even get a trophy you know when they were celebrating at the end they didn't get a

trophy we talked about the the issue with the the flag posters yeah um it was summer and winter games at the same time remember that yeah i didn't have an issue with that i didn't have an issue with that just because i did it's the goodwill games well no come on man it's these are never combined the olympics aren't combined but i mean i you know i don't like it no no yeah i could convince me to like it brandon i think that's the least egregious thing about the goodwill games well that's true but i just they just they i'm saying they messed it all up end to end i'm more upset about the yugoslavia flag sneaking its way in there okay let's not let's not get back into brandon's fun with flags with brandon and sheldon i will say i will say when i watched it this morning i made a point too because during

the games they have the flags of each team on the the ends the ends of the arena i made a point to watch the trinidad and tobago game and pay attention to see if they had the correct flag there and they do they do they do have the correct flag there but just not on the poster for some reason because well there you go why not you know whatever whatever we need whatever disney whatever get your shit together uh classic stuff but now we will our final category brandon before our rapid fire final and i will say most important category well i don't know i feel like as a couple balding dudes this one just you know it's like a like salt in the wounds that's that's fair i was gonna say as as a couple balding dudes we have the utmost authority to speak on this well i i mean we have much more appreciation for good hair exactly exactly so but the uh the category is best flow and my honorable mention he's got he's

got the pat riley look he's got the sleep back here looking perfected, looking fresh. It's never throughout the whole entire movie. Even when he's playing hockey, never a hair, never a hair out of place. No, he has perfected the Riley.

I agree. It was classic hair Bombay. It was so good. Bombay tried to copy it. Exactly. Exactly. That's that's that's a seal of approval right there where imitation is the highest form of flattery brandon so the dentist crushing it with the flow you know he he carsten norgaard mentioned that he

used pat riley as as the uh inspiration for that role and he nailed the hair fucking nailed it nail hammer nail on the head anyways my honorable mention because there wasn't a ton of good flow but it reminded me of every school teacher in the 90s and she played a tutor miss mckay um if you put if you put miss mckay in one of those like jean dresses right she definitely taught at wayne elementary school in the 90s if you put her in one of those bad boys and so that's where i'm gonna give miss mckay some love for that 90s teacher here the winner of the golden cakey's award for best flow is Gordon Bombay. Yes. We mentioned it in the very first episode, I know for sure,

because when he was playing minor league hockey, the flow was unreal. It looked great. Fantastic. Just going out a little sweaty from playing the sport, but still looking great. And then you see, I think the thing that gives bombay the winner for this movie is you see the versatility that his hair has you see it when

he's when he's when he's sweaty and he's it still looks great when he's sweaty then sports hair yep then you see it uh when he's just lounging around yon's a skate shop looking great casual hair yep and then when he copies the dentist you see it flick back hollywood bombay style looks great then too you know hollywood hair yep and then he comes back down to earth goes back to the regular uh classic bombay flow and it's just you don't get the versatility you see how it how it works no matter what shout out emilio emio! So those were our regular categories, Brandon. Are you primed? Are you ready for a little bit of rapid fire?

Same categories as we did in the past. Rapid fire, quick answers from you. Follow-up answers from me. Yes, I am ready. All right. Most likely to succeed i'm going to i'm going to go out a little left field here okay this is i mean i just completely took the rapid fire out of it but i'm going to go a little left

field here because the guy had previously failed before right you know he while he succeeded for a year and then he failed pretty hard he got deported he collected more teeth than goals but i think from this point on stanson is primed to succeed he he brought he brought team iceland who is not a hockey power in the slightest brought team iceland to the finals of the junior goodwill games and he lost to the minnesota miracle man which everybody was going to lose to anyway right you can't beat the minnesota miracle man and he took him to a shootout too against the minnesota miracle man he learns from the minnesota miracle man right at the end you see the mutual respect. He's

gained an understanding of what it truly means to not be a goon. I think... If his team knew how to have a little bit of fun, they wouldn't have gotten tight at the end of the game and choked it away. If Gunner wouldn't have lost it for him,

he would have... I think from from here on out stanson is the most likely to succeed he's he's learned from his failures and he's ready i mean that was out of left field but i understand where you're going with it i went the layup answer i said banks this kid has nothing but success ahead of him. He's a true student of the game. He's a student of life, and it sounds like he is probably a future lawyer, according to Game Changers. Way to think outside the box.

Thanks. I'm creative like that. Next category, one of my two favorites, most likely to commit tax fraud. And look out because the IRS is expanding. So, you know, better fucking pay those taxes, Brandon. Tibbles is committing tax fraud for sure. Yeah.

Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. It just successfully goes to his head and then he starts, you know or maybe like times get lean there at hendrix and they start cooking the books to survive exactly they start you know sponsoring youth uh youth hockey stadiums the hendrix pavilion you know yeah and then they they think they can use that as a tax write-off but the irs not gonna let you do that so i i went the exact opposite of where you went with wolf the dentist stanson i say wolf falls apart after this loss to team usa he becomes a global uh a global tax

fraud criminal he is just an underground market helping like he is just out there he hasn't paid taxes in any country he's ever lived in i was gonna ask how many other people i was gonna not pay taxes i was gonna ask how he becomes a global tax fraud criminal but okay he's he's living in other countries too and not paying taxes there okay so he's he's like like a quadruple citizen and just not paying taxes anywhere not anywhere and then he assumes fake identities definitely not paying taxes then um so you know wolf the dentist really falling apart unless you're looking at global tax fraud and then he's succeeding yeah then he's the star of the game you know yeah anyways um the the next category brandon mr or miss congeniality okay and it can't be sandra bullock uh this one i'm gonna put julie the cat though because like you had mentioned previously with her her great upbringing the eq the emotional intelligence

is off the charts you know so she would be i think she'd be able she would win miscongeniality for sure in the same tone i said connie you know first follower connie always encouraging she scored that one goal and was telling everyone how great of a job they did setting it up you know she's just uh she's a winner and she's a nice kind individual and is a great leader for the state of Minnesota. Awesome. I agree. Next game, my favorite category, who would win the Hunger Games? I'm going to say...

I'm going to say Olaf. I'm going to say Sanderson. I'm going to say... Obviously, one, because he's the biggest, he's the biggest kid. He's fucking eight feet tall. Um, he weighs 150,000 pounds. He's a big kid,

right? He's strong. He's he's, we see him almost kill banks twice. Um, but we also see, cause I know you're going to bring up the hothead stuff. Um, that he's too hotheaded.

I'm going to point you to two scenarios here. The first one is when he gets put into the penalty box, and you see how calm and cool he is when he's getting put in the penalty box. He's like, that's a love tap. In my country, that's a love tap. Two minutes well worth it and then portman comes screaming down the stands tries to jump into the penalty box and pick a fight with him and sanderson just stands there and he doesn't do anything and he's like you know what i'm good wear yourself out portman so i think he he's able to reel in the hotheadness and then the second scenario I'm going to give you is when Kenny Wu is beating the shit out of the Iceland goalie.

Yeah, throwing haymakers. Which is a perfect time for Sanderson to go there and just obliterate Kenny Wu because that's the number one rule in hockey. You don't touch the goalie. But he doesn't. He hangs back and he's like, I'm going to give Kenny Wu this penalty and let him eat that time. All right. Well, you're taking the rapid fire out of this as well. But that's a good explanation.

But I also – I said Gunnar Stahl because Gunnar Stahl is the leading – That's the other Iceland guy I was thinking of. I also was thinking maybe leading. That's the other guy I was thinking of. I also was thinking maybe Maria. That's true. I don't think Maria has some savageness. I just think Gunnerstall, leading goal scorer, top athlete of the entire game. You can't score a goal in the Hunger Games, though, Heath. Believe me, Heath, I've tried.

Anyways, yeah, Gunnerstall. old in the hunger games so he's believe me believe me heath i've tried anyways yeah gunner stall he just he would do it he'd be the winner he's the mvp yeah that's a good one too i like next category brandon class clown oh class clowns russ for sure the cheeseburger and the little brother lines yeah amazing yeah when when they're talking trash and he's kooky enough to come up with a knuckle puck yeah yeah that's true that's a good one i i'm pretty sure this is my uh winner last time around too but averman yeah you know he's got the line where uh he's talking trash to gee and connie He's like, Guy, he's very good looking, isn't he? Yeah, that's a good one. And then when he, I think it's the start of the second period of the championship game, and he skates up to Gunner,

and he's like, any chance you guys could take it easy on us? Yeah, or when he's talking to Bombay, and he's like, great suit, coach. Do you come with two pairs of pants? Yeah, and then after Bombay tells everybody their best isn't good enough, and he goes a rousing what a rousing speech that was yeah uh averman that jokester so that's a good one um averman's fantastic i fucking love averman yeah i don't know i don't know if i say it enough because there's there's just there's just so many good characters some of them get lost

you know and i think averman averman gets lost for me, I think. But I love him. He's fantastic. And you forget how he plays a lot too. So I agree with you. I'm a Banks fan. God, I love some Averman. The reason he plays a lot, though, like you mentioned,

is because he's a liability. Yeah. Anyways, next category, Brandon. Most likely to grow a playoff beard playoff that's got to be gunner i'm gonna go gunner on that i feel like gunner is fresh-faced brandon i'm gonna two reasons why gunner is the most uh hockey player he's Banks is probably a slightly better hockey player, but Gunner is like, Gunner is in his soul, he's a hockey player, you know?

And so he's gonna subscribe to the playoff Beards of Superstition for sure. And then my second reason is because Scott White, who plays Gunner, rocks a beard all the time. I follow him on Instagram. I believe he's currently rocking a beard so sounds like uh scott white needs to get a restraining order because you're obsessed with him i am scott white is a he fucking kills it in this movie and in d3 and he's also um a fantastic voice actor um i love scott white scott white's a fucking badass

there you go uh mine is portman and you already mentioned it previously you when you said that dude is basically 40 so there you go 40 very obvious choice portman yep the you know what would look great with the playoff beard slee Sleeveless hockey jersey. Done. And a hockey tattoo. All right. Two more categories, Brandon. The next one is most likely to become a travel blogger. Travel blogger. Oh, I always forget about this one.

Travel blogger. I'm going to say Miss McKay. Just out of no other good options really um and i feel like her her tutor her teacher vibe would uh would translate well to a blog you know she wants to get out and go see uh the world outside of duluth minnesota exactly and she she just went to la she can blog about that yeah that's that's the springboard to her future exactly well i said maria the iceland trainer because her comments of greenland or uh yeah iceland is very nice and greenland is covered in ice that caused her to go viral and now she is a she's a world-renowned travel blogger

okay i love that i love that because if i came across a blog that was titled greenland is covered in ice and iceland is very nice i'm clicking on that 100 jumping right in yeah yeah and now she's like got sponsors everywhere so everyone's been asking me about my face skincare routine. It's like every blogger. Anyways. The last and final category, Brandon, the most fun at recess.

Most fun. Oh, this is, it's, it's, I'm going to go Dwayne because uh i'm getting we're playing i don't know if there's an actual name for what that we're we're playing ropes he's roping everybody during recess like he like he does at practice would you would you call that roping cattle would

you call that roping cattle i yeah i called it playing ropes i don't know if that's that sounds good sounds like uh sounds like something in for the bedroom brandon let's call it roping cattle that sounds like a bedroom activity too anyway um i say goldberg he is the king of shenanigans we've talked about it a million times um the the man the myth the legend the leader g Goldberg. My only concern about Goldberg at recess. You're going to get in trouble. No, it would be that he would not be up for any physical activity. As soon as he had to run, he's bowing out.

That's true. That's true. If you're an active recess guy greg goldberg not your guy if you want to just have some cheeky fun goldberg yeah yeah that's see that's what you do you you go out to recess right first half you're out there you're roping cattle with twain and then once you burn off some calories you waddle over to the the you know the table or the little area where everybody's sitting down and Goldberg hits you with some jokes.

Yep. Yep. Stand up, stand up comedian. Well, Brandon, that was our last category. The golden cake is for D two mighty ducks. We've, we've came, we've saw we've conquered, we've conquered it all. It's, you know, we are here united under the banner of the United Ducks of America. We've been quackalicious. We've been quacked up. It's good stuff.

You know, no hyperbole. We've said it once. We've said it twice. We will say it a thousand times. It is the greatest sequel in American cinematic history. Absolutely. And next episode, we have Game Changers Season 2 coming at you. Because when this episode releases, Game Changers will have been, I think we'll probably be like four episodes in to when the season started, Season the season started season two so we're a little behind forgive us everybody but so next episode we're going to talk episode

one season two game changers and then go through all i think there's 10 episodes uh go through all the episodes talk game changers and then after we wrap up game changers we're going to come back to d2 because even after 15 hours, we're not quite done. We're going to do. There's a lot of sidebar moments that we really need to dig into. Still lots ahead. Stay with us. Next episode, Game Changers, episode one, season two.

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