The Cake Eaters - 5. Game Changers Episode 5: Cherry Picker

Episode Date: June 29, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss The Twilight Zone, Disney vaccines, terrible teachers, their Winnie theories, and then break down the rest of Episode 5 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+.   Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod)   Email us at [e-mail]

It's not worth winning if you can't win! Alright, all of you amazing listeners out there, this is the Cake Eaters podcast. We're bringing episode five of the Mighty Ducks Game Changers to you. Right now, I think it's safer to say this is episode five, Mighty Ducks Gilmore Girls crossover starring your good friend, Lorelei Brandon. Yes, it's an exact plot line of the Gilmore Girls, I'm pretty sure.

Minus the hockey, but an exact plot line. I mean, Lauren Graham is in this show, and no offense to her, but she gets typecasted a lot. In every show she's usually in, she plays Lorelei Gilmore in every single show she's in. Same character. Absolutely. I agree with that 100%.

My personal favorite character of hers is when she plays the ex-military principal in the wonderful Vin Diesel film, The Pacifier. Crushes it. I totally forgot she was in The Pacifier. She just does a great job. What a fantastic flick. We'll, she just does a great job. What a fantastic flick. We'll have to do, we'll have to cover that in an episode.

We'll get the pacifier. We'll bring the pacifier in. But as, as we mentioned this in the last step, in the last episode, this is one of our least favorite plot lines, but you know, if you are a fan of Gilmore girls, if you love a little bit of, you know, a three-way father drama, I could have said that in a lot better way. Some baby daddy drama. Maybe leave the phrase three-way out of it. That's probably where we lost her. But, yeah, so she's, in this show show she's definitely doing a lorelei-esque character

it's definitely written in the same vein as that character and then this episode especially because it's it's a plot line exactly taken from the gilmore girls you have the the baby daddy drama the love triangle which like you mentioned is my i mean i don't... I'm sure I'm not alone, but I don't care about Alex and Bombay. Not really in the slightest. You know? It's the most boring plotline they have going. So...

But here we are. And it's even more of a letdown because of who Evan's dad is. Because they built it up as such a mystery in the first episode with the background noise popping up and we can't hear what she's saying, what is she saying, who's his dad, that kind of stuff. And then to just have it be just a random musician.

The C-Gen wannabe musician. Yes. He's like mid-40s probably. And he's still touring just the little midwestern you know the iowa minnesota nebraska wisconsin corridor he hasn't gotten out of that yet you know he's still he's he's a musician he's not a rock star he's definitely not a rock star he's a he's a struggling musician and it's just it was a letdown i was i was hoping for more i wasn't expecting more but i was hoping for more all right let's let's get into evan's dad here in just a second

because we did kick off the episode we kick off the episode and we have a real don't bothers practice there's a real don't bothers hockey practice they're coming up with with a play they're coming up with a play that I don't think Bombay did. I think this is all Alex slash the kids. This is a standard hockey play, you know, and I forget the name of it, of course. They called it the Double Helix, which. Double Helix, that's right.

Not mother branding. I love the sound it sounds real it's a real play brandon but um i also i also love that she gives two directives and then hits them with a and then let it rise um hits them with the the baking joke oh i didn't even catch that she said Oh, I didn't even catch that. She said, let it rise. Didn't even catch it. Two hockey directives and then let it rise. And it's like, mom, I think that's baking. But you're doing great.

Same principles, though, you know? It's the same kind of, like, discipline, you know? It's all about discipline. As our boy, what was his name, Clark, Stephanie's husband, you know, it's the same, it's the same kind of like discipline, you know, it's all about discipline as, as our boy, what was his name? Clark, Stephanie's husband, you know, hockey teaches you discipline and you need that in the baking, the baking world. You need, you need just investment banking, like all that,

all that stuff. And Alex also has a nice little line where she's like, and let's give it, let's work on giving it to Sophie. I have an emphasis on giving. Let's give this to Sophie. There's full understanding that they need to siphon the puck towards Sophie, their sharpshooter. So they mentioned that at the beginning about getting it to Sophie. I'm fairly certain that's the – no, it's not.

So she's in – Sophie disappears in this episode. I don't think she has, she doesn't even have a line, I don't think. Well, we'll get to that when we get to the game because I have some coaching notes for Coach Alex about what took place in this game versus the Hawks. So we will get to that when we get to the game film because that was a disaster of a game plan by the Ducks. Or not the Ducks. It don't bother us.

Damn it. But then we get Bombay asking Alex to the wild game in there real quick. Like, hey, do you want to go to the wild game? Did you catch the team they were playing? Yeah. The Oilers. The Oilers. Who are still a team even though you forgot about them.

Still. Whether I – listen, this is what happens when – if you're a Canadian team, and I'm sorry, but they just – they've changed those Canadian teams 100 times and I lost track. They just they've changed those Canadian teams a hundred times and I lost track they really haven't though they've changed maybe two maybe two too too many yet the the Montreal Canadiens have been around for like 115 years or some some nonsense that's true and the Maple Leafs I'm sorry if we if we have any Canadian listeners I'm sorry I really do love Canada and I appreciate the Canadian hockey

teams it's just they changed up a couple of the teams and I got confused I really really really felt your your admiration there for our Canadian listeners yeah hey listen I was watching an old WWF pay-per-view that took place in Montreal I believe um was it It was either WrestleMania 5 or 6. And I listened to... The Montreal Screwjob? No, that was 97. But I listened to the entirety of O Canada. So if...

I listened to Robert Goulet sing O Canada. So if that doesn't... That's as Canadian as it gets. That's what I'm saying. If that doesn't say that I respect the Canadians, I don't know what does. But yeah, so Bombay asks, finally, like legit asks Alex out.

We're kicking off the romance. She makes a, trying to remember one of the wild players, she makes a Gorgonzola joke, which I love some Gorgonzola cheese. So I appreciated the joke. It landed with me. I love how her, her, her like first thought when trying to think of a hockey player's name is to start listening to Italian cheeses. She couldn't have like thought of

like you know some something canada related you know anything um but my i my favorite moment is like bombay goes out to ask uh ask her on the date and she it suddenly it turns into a research field trip it's not a date brandon it's a research yes yeah they're studying they're studying the coaching coaching techniques studying the tape you know not a date definitely not a date yeah that's the classic bombay move though a date that's not a date yeah just hey let me let me just come over and congratulate congratulate you with some pie wink the classic the the pecan pie move classic and so and so after that delightful interaction we have evan's dad makes his entrance like a total d-bag yes just comes comes flying in you know like you know the best here comes ev, like in the middle of practice. Like,

why are you introducing him? You know, the best way to say hi to your kid that you haven't seen in seven months is to scream at him in the middle of his hockey practice. Yeah. Dad of the year. I'm going to scream an introduction. Oh, wait. And he also just did the exact same introduction at the ducks practice yes did you hear him say that and so i have to ask you because i could not stop thinking this when i was watching what did coach t say what was coach t's reaction to that fucking asshole coming in and yelling about his least favorite player and not only his least favorite player, his least favorite mom out of everyone in the Twin Cities area. So I have to ask you,

what is Coach T's reaction? I would have loved to see that scene to see Coach T's reaction as well as Stephanie's. I would love to see what Stephanie did. Stephanie's eyes would have disappeared into the back of her skull permanently because she would have rolled them so

incredibly hard. I guarantee you that's what would have happened. I guarantee you Coach T called him a pheasant, you know? I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm like, who's this pheasant yelling about Mauro? He's not even on this team.

Get out of here, pheasant. He plays on the clowns. Get out of here. You're looking for the clowns practice at the ice rink or the ice palace. I gotta say it's a spot-on Coach T impression. You sound exactly like him. You've got the clowns on ice practice

at the ice palace. That's Coach T's the ice palace That's Coach T's exact reaction That's all I could think about When I was watching that part of the episode It's like, Coach T is just like Who in the actual Fuck is this douchebag

That just ran in Yelling nonsense Wannabe rocker dude Get out of here get out of here i didn't even i you know i'm gonna be honest with you i totally didn't even pick up on his name the whole episode because it's rob rob rob of course it's like a just a knockoff rob thomas that's that's exactly what they what their band is is a knockoff matchbox 20. i was trying to find a exactly what their band is. It's a knockoff Matchbox 20. I was trying to find a sound for their band, but

nothing fit. But now, knockoff Matchbox 20. That's it. Definitely didn't sound anything like Matchbox 20. Oh, yeah. For sure. He comes in, does the douchebag entrance of the year, and then he rolls over to

Alex in Bombay, and that's when you find out he's a musician. He hasn't seen Evan in seven months. He rolls in like two times a year, takes him on a weekend trip, and then that's about it. So yeah, father of the year.

I do have to say another thing that bothered me. this is i'm sorry go ahead with yours because you go ahead well i was just gonna say emin just kept yelling at his dad in the middle hey dad watch this you know like uh oh yeah two-year-old is like hey watch this and they kind of like do like a jump kick spin and you're like, oh, cool, dude. You know, he's disrupting, you know, you're practicing, you know, be respectful. Don't be yelling at your fucking dad. You're in the middle of the double helix.

Pay attention, Evan. Yeah. Like get out of here with yelling at your dad. So, so coach A, coach Alex needs to shut that down, you know, and she's just over there chatting with Bombay. Yeah, she's not paying attention to the practice at all. And I understand that, you know, we needed that moment. It's the inmates leading the asylum here with this practice.

Yeah, she's just letting Evan take control. And this power is going to, he's just, Evan at this point is intoxicated with power as the captain of the team. Mom's letting him go rogue, yelling at his dad during the practice. She's chatting it up with Bombay. I don't know. I just – I know we needed it for the storyline,

but the don't bother's practice is falling apart a little bit. Yeah. Not only is she chatting it up with Bombay, but she's giving Bombay every information about her relationship with this guy. Like she did with Winnie at the snack bar. Just spills her guts right away. Just classic overshare. Yeah.

Alex is just a classic overshare. And she jumps right in to an awkward story about her having to rub Albo. Oh, yeah. Poison Ivy. Goes into a poison ivy story yeah which then spread to her and so she and then it went into her poison ivy story yeah it's just you know not not necessarily the best story when you're when you're flirting it up a little bit at the at the hockey rink no No, definitely not. So Rob comes over and he's talking to Alex

and Bombay and he keeps referring. A, he never asked Bombay his name and he doesn't recognize the Minnesota Miracle Man at first. Unbelievable. He doesn't ask him his name and then he just keeps calling him Guy. He calls Bombay Guy like four times.

I don't know what you're talking about, buddy. Just the disrespect right to Bombay's face. Ask him his name. Or Alex, introduce the guy. Hey, listen here, Chief. Don't be talking to him like that, buddy. He'll call him

whatever he wants, guy. Maybe he's part Canadian. That was a South Park joke. Well, he doesn't call him buddy. He just calls him guy. I know. I'm just kidding. But that is incredibly rude of him to not ask Bombay. Or just a light intro.

Just like, hey, what's up? Nice to meet you. I'm Evans. Especially because... So he mentions that he has a gig tonight That's why he's in town Because why else would you come see your kid unless you got a gig Exactly He mentions he has a gig

And had already told Evan that he can go And then asked the mom To put her To pin her in a situation Just a classic deadbeat dad You know Right from the deadbeat dad. You know? Yeah. Oh, it's good. Right from the deadbeat dad playbook.

Exactly. Like she mentions it when she's spilling her life story to Bombay. That, you know, he swoops in two times a year, becomes the cool parent, and then leaves her with all the responsibility. Yep. And now he's inviting Evan to a show at a bar well and bar and restaurant bargain tito's bar and restaurant shout out to tito's is that a real restaurant i don't know if it is though you know that'd be dope yeah it'd be great it'd be great research on disney's part

the wings looked pretty solid you know but uh so solid. But she can't do it. She's actually thinking about it, but she can't do it because she has to work. She's got to take care of some depositions. Stephanie always has her in the weeds, in the business. So she can't drive him. And that's why she's going to decline this for Evan.

Yes, but that's when you get good guy Bombay who uses every single mom trick in the book he's got and he offers to take Evan to the gig. Bombay gets it.

He knows he's done this before. He knows if he wins over the son, he wins over the mom. He is not shy. He is not new to this move son, he wins over the mom. Like this is, he's, he is not shy. He is not new to this move. This is the Bombay. It's what it's called. Exactly.

There's a, there's a reason he sleeps with so many moms. It's because he's good at it. He's got it down to a formula. He's got a PhD. Exactly. But so, and then that was, that was the time. So he offers to take Evan to the gig, and then Rob, the dad, says, awesome. Thank you, guy.

And just calls him guy again. It's like at that – like I get it the first couple times, but at that point after he's offering to take your kid somewhere, learn the guy's name. Learn the guy's name. That is true. But, you know, hey, guy's night, Evan Stokes gets to go hang with his roommate. He makes a girl's night joke.

What's he say? He says, yes, can I please do a guy's night? Because we have girls night every night. Every night. When it's just me and you. And so we know that Alex constantly overpowers her son and they do what she wants to do every night. Oh, absolutely. She

rules the roost. And then she makes a throwaway joke about, watch out, the last time I went to a bar with him, I got pregnant. And Bob Bane's like, I won't have to worry about it. No, he says that probably won't happen to me, is what he

says. Not ruling it out. Not ruling it out. He left the door open. Just in case. It was a soft no, not a hard no. We don't know if there's a potential twin spinoff. Exactly.

Maybe they rope in Danny DeVito or Arnold. Arnold takes a break from governing, from being the governator, and jumps into his twins spinoff with Emilio Estevez as Gordon Bombay. I hope Disney's listening. Oh, they are. They're listening to everything. They sponsored the vaccine. You just don't know.

Everything goes back to Disney. Everything. Could you imagine if this is ground zero of a new conspiracy theory where Disney secretly sponsored the vaccine? You heard it here first. The Cake Eaters podcast. Probably just going to cut this out just to be safe. I don't want to

open up this can of worms. This sounds dangerous. I'm so pleased. That can be on the director's cut I don't want an HBO documentary Made about us How this little conspiracy Theory started Because after that We can't

Hold on I don't Hold on That was I don't know Brandon That was an awesome tangent This is It's so stupid But people would believe it Oh they absolutely would

Absolutely That's why I'm so terrified right now It's like wildfire Yeah I don't want to be put on a list Heath Alright Let me get my shit together So we can try

Okay So then his shit together. Okay. So then after Bombay offers to give the ride, then it cuts back to practice for a little bit. Finally, we get some Lauren and some Maya back and forth.

Hopefully a little character development with them. Yeah. What do they... and oh because she she loses the she can't find her cape that's what it is misplaces the cape really quick when they're when they're gearing up after practice uh i loved how she like was freaking out and was like misplaced her cape and then maya walked up and within 0.2 seconds was like are you talking about this one like that like that happens constantly like

moms hang their hat on always knowing where she is because they always pull that move like every mom that is their bread and butter you're like okay i've looked all over my room i cannot find my notebook and then you know mom walks in and it's like oh it's it's just right there it's like damn it i looked in that corner four times but there it is did you know he like oh it's it's just right there it's like damn it i looked in that corner four times but there it is did you know he did you it's it's magically it's magically right there i would love to hear mama d's side of that story to figure out if you're telling the truth here heath i don't think he looked in that corner i don't think he did we're not gonna bring her into this because we know that she is always right. Like that's okay.

You've met her before. Yeah. You know, lovely lady is always right. Yeah. And she's the best. She is the best. Shout out Mama D.

Huge shout out. Got to do another chicken days. Shout out Wayne chicken show. But we, I love that we get some background on the cape too yes um i was not just wondering not just the cape i was wondering if we were going to get background or not um and i think it's a nice background you know what i mean like like it just shows like lauren's um dentist parents are good parents you know nervous about the back brace. Dad's like, hey,

people might make fun of you for a back. Would you rather get made fun of for a back brace or get made fun of for a cape? I choose cape 10 times out of 10. Yeah, that's fair. Do you think... So I was thinking, do you think that's what... She mentioned she was in third grade, right?

I think that's what she said. Third grade, scoliosis, back brace. Yeah. Was she into D&D before that? Or do you think that's what spawned the fantasy fandom in her? I bet that spawned. There may have been some lurking there. Because second, third grade,

you're playing with Power Ranger toys and that kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Power Rangers don't wear capes. Well, you're right. I'm trying to think of Iron Man suits.

That's true. Color coded? Yeah. I don't know too many shows with capes. Iron Man's a badass. He's no Pink Ranger though, that's for sure. She doesn't wear like a superhero cape. She wears like an

elven cape. Yeah, it's got faux fur on one side, silk on the other. It's a cape to keep you warm not to look fashionable yeah like she's she's wearing that in middle earth she's not wearing that on earth so that that's that's i think that's the difference with the cape and that's why it's tricky to find you know she's not getting that from a comic book yeah that's fair

but that's dentists she's getting it from a real book. Exactly. Maya comes in, clutch, finds the cape. We get the Lauren backstory. I love that she has conjuring stones. She found the cape under the conjuring stones. Lauren's a badass.

She got the conjuring stones Lauren's a badass. She, uh, yeah. So she's got the conjuring stones and then, then, then they, they decided to make a tick tock, right?

They're like, Oh, cause they bond over. Cause Maya goes, Oh, third grade. That's when I moved here. People made fun of me too.

Cause I'm, I'm from the city. She doesn't say the city this time. She says New York. Yeah. And she sounds. And she talks like a New York truck driver. Yes, she says that's why people made fun of her because she had the New York accent, real thick.

Yeah, but I love the New York accent. It's as good as you can get from a kid trying to do a New York accent. It sounded like a truck driver. Yeah, yeah. She sounded like a truck driver yeah yeah yeah it sounded she sounded like a new york truck driver yelling in traffic yeah it was it was it was interesting not super authentic but you know what

shout out maya you did a great job yeah so it's as good as you can you can expect from it from a child actor for sure. But yeah. And so then they shoot a Tik TOK, which I'm going to, I'm going to come out and I'm going to own this. I know nothing about it. Okay. I thought you were going to, I thought you were going to profess your love for Tik TOK right there. You caught me off guard. No, I, I weirdly sometimes Kelly,

who is my partner and will show me the, some TikToks. But my, my main knowledge of TikTok is mostly just knowing that it's just people like all doing the same dance. Like they're just all doing different variations of dances and they're all kind of doing the same shit. Dancing is, so I, I know very. Charlie person, Charlie, there's Charlie. Charlie does the dances on TikTok. I don't even know who Charlie is.

I know very... Not as good as I am, Brandon. I know very, very little about TikTok. But I do know, yeah, there's... Dancing is the big thing, but there's also like... There's funny work ones. There's niches within TikTok. So you have dancing TikTok. There's likees within TikTok. So you like the,

you have dancing TikTok. Corporate America ones. You got corporate America TikTok. You got teacher TikTok. You got, you know, there's all sorts of little, little niches.

Okay. So I, I don't know anything about TikTok specifically, but I have gone down a few like Instagram real. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Funnels and stuff like that and that's just people posting stuff from tiktok to instagram so it's it's the same say it's the same videos you get on tiktok but and and so i actually got i actually got real you got i say i actually got real like deep deep into teacher tiktok a couple times and let me tell you those those teachers are crazy oh yeah teachers are wild cards have you ever partied with teachers oh yeah yeah it's the just okay here we go another side uh tangent here to get us into parenting with brandon don't trust your teachers don't don't kids' teachers. They're garbage human beings. They should not be trusted with kids. That's not true.

Teachers are – like teachers treat summer vacation just like the kids treat summer vacation. So they're a lot of fun to have. Teachers treat every single night like it's the last night in Vegas. They're just going balls to the walls. And that's who I want molding the youth of America. Real people that will come out, go to a show, have some whiskey Cokes with me. That's what I want.

That's what I want teaching the youth of America. They're not just doing whiskey Cokes, Heath. They're doing other Coke as well. They're doing lines. Lines off the bar. Savage teachers. All I'm saying is parents just check the teachers a little bit. You know, let them know you know.

They all have secret Instagrams. Exactly. Finstas, right? Isn't that what they're called? Finstas? They all have Finstagrams. All right. So Maya and Lauren shooting a TikTok video. They're doing a dancing one. Yes.

And we see – They do the voices first because Maya – Lauren wants Maya to do the New York accent. And Maya says, only if you do a voice too. And that's when we get, that's when we find out Lauren is not only a cosplayer and a D&D fiend. She is all, she also knows Elvish. Yeah, she's fluent in Elvish. Just a, just when I didn't think I could like Lauren anymore, she goes ahead and drops the bomb that she can speak Elvish.

And so they, they throw out a fire Tik TOK where we see the Elvish word. I don't know if I'd call it, I don't know if I'd call it fire. Oh, uh, the, the dancing is,

is a little slow. Well, I mean, obviously it was a first shoot. That was a first take. All I'm saying is I could have done it better. That's all I'm saying. I think there's no need for you to hate on that delightful TikTok

that Maya and Lauren made with the LH word for coffee. With Maya's dope New York accent and her authentic self, Brandon? I'm not hating on it. I thought overall it was a solid TikTok. I'm just saying I could have done the dance better. Okay, you're right. The dancing was just okay. That's why we find out in the end it didn't make the cut.

That's true. Maya, after they do it, Maya says, she exclaims, this is awesome, I'm going to post it on my page, and then does not do that. Yeah. We think, we are led to believe that this is a true, this is, you know, Maya and Lauren have a moment that our poor boy, Nick has just been dreaming of having with Evan and we see Maya and Lauren have this moment and you know, in his heart of hearts, Nick is just longing for to have this with, with Evan. Yep. Yep. Cause even after the sleepover,

you know, it's not... The best friendship between Evan and Nick is not fully sealed yet. It's not cemented by any means. We got some loose concrete there. I don't know what the... You know how you seal a date with the kiss, right? The kiss at the end?

I don't know. What do you seal a best friendship with? A dope handshake. Okay, yeah. So they haven't done that yet't they haven't sealed it with a handshake this is a secret handshake hopefully we're getting close hopefully um and so so after after we see that interaction because that's that's the storyline that's the backup storyline right like we had the the sleepover last, and so now we've got Lauren and Maya, which I'm glad. I'm glad Lauren and Maya are getting some more.

I'm glad it's going. I'm glad we're getting some more background, especially on Lauren and Maya, because I think we mentioned in the last episode, they're two of the better characters. The characters with the most potential, I think. Especially if you pair them together and they become best friends i think that's fantastic i think that's a good way to go yeah um real good dynamic duo right there yes the the only thing i'm not

caring for and it happened in last episode of the sleepover is it seems like each episode they're only focusing on two to three kids and then the rest are non-existent yeah they like they drop the kids and the and the worst part is we're getting all of the hockey team like the mighty ducks are in the background because we've got this whole alex bombay love story that is just getting a big spotlight yeah it's it's very much much Alex. Alex is the main character of this show is what we're, is what it's these last couple episodes have fully cemented is that it's, it's not Evan. It's not the kids.

Alex is the main character, which. It's fine. Yeah. It's not terrible, but she's not the most compelling character, you know, especially because it's just a,

it's a retread. It's a retread of Gilmore girls. It's a retread of, of parenthood, you know, no, no offense to Lauren Graham. You know,

she's a fantastic actress. Yeah. And one of the very kind person. Yes. But you know, we've, we've seen this before. This is,

this is Gilmore girls all over again. Let's, you know, focus on the kids. Focus on the hockey team. You know, let's delve into that some more. At least if she would have become like a badass after crushing the Slapshot Challenge.

But, you know. Well, yeah, it would be one thing if she like went all in, kind of like Bombay does in the movies where she actually learns how to become a fucking hockey coach. But she's not doing it. Like becoming a dynamic character. Like becoming a dynamic and engaging character. No, she's not doing that.

Or at least they're not showing it. They're not giving us her rocky training montage of becoming a coach. It's just, I'm sure in like four episodes, we're just going to blink our eye and she's going to be a fantastic coach, and they're going to be winning every game. I would like some more reasons why. Show me her in the lab doing some work.

Without a 30-second coaching montage, we are completely blind to the improvement she's made. We had a quick 10 seconds where she got two out of three hockey terms correct, and then she let it rise. Yes, exactly.

And missed some marks. But anyways, so next up is one of your favorite moments of this episode, and it is where the Bombay's r bays rickety ass truck comes pulling up to pick up evan which i don't know how i'd like the most overprotective mom in the entire world lets her son get in that broken down hooptie truck i don't think she saw the truck i don't think she's aware you know how or she may have like seen the truck but she's not aware that one of the doors doesn't work and he keeps the glove box shut with a with a hockey stick pressed up against it though you know to be fair i feel

like a lot of miss midwest families have like just in like a like one shitty ass car to get around in you know like you it's. Our family always had one. They had an old Jeep. Yeah, but that's not your only car. This is Bombay's primary mode of transportation. That's true. Granted, I don't think he has that many passengers to where he would need to reassess his situation

because the passenger side door doesn't work, so Evan has to scoot through the whole, from the driver's side door all the way to the passenger side he has to hop while he's scooting he has to hop over half of a hockey stick that's pressed up against the glove box to keep it shut yeah that's honestly honestly i love the glove box stick honestly evan was probably the first passenger that bombay had in his car in at least five years at least that's that's probably a very good point because you could tell in the moment he had forgotten that in order for someone to sit there the hockey stick would have been an

issue oh yeah he didn't even he didn't even remember until evan went to move it then he lost his mind don't touch that don't touch that i i loved it like it's like that's You know what I bet the truck also came with the ice palace I was going to say If you thought the ice palace and the Zamboni Were the only things that were falling apart In Bombay's life, you're mistaken

It's everything I'm pretty sure he inherited that truck Oh yeah I was going to say I would love to see his apartment But we have seen his apartment because he lives at the ice palace i love it um it's it's rough seeing senior heroes fall you know it's it's rough that's why they tell you never to meet your heroes yeah but that's usually because they're dicks not because they're they live in a in an abandoned ice rink one of my favorite uh don't Meet Your Heroes episodes on television is the episode of Community where Troy doesn't want to meet LeVar Burton.

He just wants an autographed picture because he can't disappoint a picture. That's one of my favorite episodes of television. That's fantastic. So shout out to LeVar Burton. You know,fly in the sky I can go twice as high LeVar Burton strikes me as somebody who would not As a hero that would not disappoint though

No I just You cannot be Star Trek reading Rainbow You know You can't be on those shows And not be a nice guy Exactly And then play such a fun character On that episode of Community You can't be on those shows and not be a nice guy. Exactly. You know?

And then play such a fun character on that episode of Community. I honestly, I don't know if you remember this, but I had a former coworker, Brianna, and I may still have them on my computer. I was all about, you know, LeVar Burton for president. Was he running? No, I was going to support him. I was in a running a rogue campaign. You're going to write him in writing campaign.

Set phasers to presidency. Did that, does that gain any traction for you? None. None. Zero. Did you even, did? None Did you even write a man Or did you chicken out at the last second? No I felt guilty for not making my vote matter There was voter guilt

Because I may have as well just thrown it away If I did that. You've got to be careful with that, especially depending on the state you're in. You've got to be really careful with those votes. Then it would have been in Colorado.

You had a little more leeway then. You probably could have got away with it if you would have just thrown him in. Yeah, but you know... How in Georgia, though, don't do that. That vote counts. But in my heart, I will always support LeVar Burton for president. And, you know, they brought back Reading Rainbow

for a spell. You can watch Reading Rainbow on Amazon Prime. Is it back? I read a while ago that they were bringing it back. I didn't know it was already there. I don't remember if they brought it back, but you can watch the old episodes. Oh, they have the old episodes. So what I read was that

they were rebooting it. I don't know if they ever fully went through with the reboot. I think they may have. The old ones are up there. Yeah, if you want to go find out what happens when you give a mouse a cookie, jump on Amazon. It's a thrill.

It's a thrill ride. See, when you give a mouse a cookie is probably a very poignant book for Coach A here. I feel like she could learn a lot from that, you know? Yeah. jay here i feel like she could learn a lot from from that you know yeah because you know we're seeing evan's intoxication of power is coming from this exact scenario the intoxication of power with with evan as well as how she handles uh baby daddy rob you know you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so we cut scene, speaking of Rob, we cut scene over to the chorus of his song. Yeah, the Matchbox 20 song.

The Matchbox 20, the Matchbox 20 knockoffs. All my friends are going out tonight. All of my friends are going out tonight. What'd you think about that? See, it didn't strike me as Matchbox 20. What I thought was it was a blatant rip-off and retooling

of, and now I'm going to blank on the song title, but the Hank Williams I think it's Hank Williams Jr. song from Monday Night Football. All My Rowdy Friends. I thought it was a blatant rip-off of that. I thought you were going to go Nickelback knockoff

there for a second. Essentially, they took the lyrics and the essence of All My Rowdy Friends by Hank Williams Jr. and then they turned it into a Nickelback song, essentially. Wow. Congrats, Rob.

You are a Nickelback knockoff, a mix of the Monday Night Football song, Nickelback and Matchbox 20. The big three. Touring small town

Midwest venues. Congratulations. Good. Small town Midwest for sure. He was talking about davenport like it was fucking las vegas and no no no shade to davenport iowa don't don't shade davenport because i had to go there for work one time and they had an excellent arcade bar where i was shredding some skee-ball. Okay. So, you know. I've never been to Davenport. I've been to Des Moines, though.

Des Moines is a solid town. Des Moines is solid. The hotel that I stayed at in Davenport was also very fancy. It had a bidet in the hotel bathroom. Was it haunted, like Rob's hotel? No. That was also one of my favorite moments of the episode when Creepy Barry, the night manager. I was trying to remember the name. Creepy Barry.

Creepy Barry, the night manager, shuffling his feet outside of the room doors. And Bombay says he thought he got arrested. And so I wouldn't. No, he says. He doesn't say He thought he got arrested And so I wouldn't He says He doesn't say he thought he got arrested He says I thought they found him guilty Meaning he was arrested and charged for something What was he

What was he found guilty of? Was it some sort of stalking? I'm assuming he killed somebody in that hotel. Okay. But we don't know. You can't prove it because he's out free. And he's still shuffling around. Allegedly killed somebody in that hotel.

Oh, and sorry, to set this up, we were in the bar. Rob's playing. Rob finishes playing. Must have been an opener too because that seemed pretty early. If Evan has to be home by nine and Rob is done playing

in enough time to eat and have drinks, he's going on at like six and he's off at eight. So Evan ends up staying later. The show probably ended at like 8. Okay, maybe that's it. The show probably ended at like 8.30, I'm assuming.

8, 8.30, you know. But like we established at the beginning, this guy, he's not a rock star. He is. Amateur at best. Yes, he is scraping along by the edge of his teeth. Is that the right phrase? By the skin of his teeth. Skin of his teeth, thank you.

Yeah, he's not a he's not a successful rock star i would imagine he's not paying alex any child support not helping out at all no that's definitely not happening he's definitely gonna get sued later but but again this is a this place he's playing at is a bar slash restaurant. So they were probably the only band playing. At a restaurant, when you have live music kind of like that, it's usually just one band. And then they're shutting it down early because the staff wants to go home.

Yeah, well, yeah, depending on the establishment. But him and Bombay start bonding Yes because Bombay Stayed at the same hotel in Davenport That's how he knows Creepy Barry Yeah they bond on road life With Rob being the musician And Bombay with his

Minor league hockey Again he talks about minor league hockey Like Again, they talk about the mind. He talks about minor league hockey. Like he was playing for fucking years. It was only a year. If, if that, it probably wasn't even the full year.

Cause there's just, they're, they're mixing up this, this minor league hockey timeline way more than they need to. Yeah. I do. I do have to comment on something. He says that just,

I couldn't get over when I was watching where Bombay talks about them making the bus toilet into a beer can. Yep. And then if you had to go, you had to go out the window. I don't know if you have ever used a bus toilet before. But tell me this right now. There are certain levels of cleaning that it would have to go through before you would want to put a beer keg in there. And you're not going to get that on the road where they're at.

I just can't even believe how foul that is. To give Bombay the benefit of the doubt, he was on a minor league hockey team. I'm just going to, for his sake, I'm going to assume the hockey team bought a brand new bus. Maybe it was broke. Maybe the toilet's been broken for forever. Yeah, or a brand new bus.

Yeah. And then they were like, nobody fucking use this because we're going to turn it into a beer keg or beer funnel. Did he call it a keg? That's not the right term. Maybe it's a funnel. I think he meant like a beer. Did he say keg or beer funnel did he call it a keg how that's that's not the right term that wouldn't have maybe it's a funnel i think he meant like a beer did he say keg maybe he meant he probably he meant bong it's a beer bong is what he's talking about even worse even worse because there's no way you'd be able to turn it into a beer keg whatever they did to the toilet like

any type like i don't even like taking my beer into the bathroom when I go to like a game in the arena. I will, if I have to, but like, you know, it's just. No, you don't want to know those air particles floating around. Exactly. That's, I don't know if you've ever seen the episode of the league where they have the shower caddy. Not the shower, the bathroom caddy. Bathroom caddy. not the shower the bathroom caddy bathroom caddy yeah like i would i can totally get on board with the bathroom caddy like no one wants to take their their beer into the bathroom yeah but then and then they start talking about like um the then they get into the food eating contest where bombay eats 50 mini tacos which i

i gotta be honest with you i feel like I could do 50 mini tacos. I don't know. That's a lot. You don't think so? Do you think so? I don't know. Big Mike. Big Mike could definitely do 50 mini tacos.

When I was like 12, I could probably do 50 mini tacos. I could probably house, maybe even up to like 15, I could probably house 50 mini tacos. We need to get Big mike into one of these eating competitions because that dude will spend a good two hours at a buffet and not stop eating the whole time it's unbelievable watching him so so they meant bombay mentions he ate 50 mini tacos in one sitting for uh an old minor league hockey eating contest. And then he proceeds to challenge, well, I don't know. I think Rob challenges him to an eating contest, right?

Wing eating contest. Real man, you know, dick measuring, pissing contest. In defense of Tito's bar and restaurant, the wings look pretty solid. They looked good. I thought the exact same thing. Like those look like solid wings you know not nothing too crazy not like the big hormone injected ones you know actually think

about i think i actually won a eating contest i won a sausage eating contest i think i think i had like 10 or 11 and i did not feel good afterwards yeah if you win if you okay yeah if you win any eating contest where the winner only ate 11, that doesn't count. I feel like you've got to hit 30 at least for an eating contest to count. Did they say how many wings? 42. They tied at

42. That's a lot of wings. I think they only stopped because Evan got a call from the mom, from Alex. They doubled down on the hot sauce, too. Yes, halfway through. Halfway through. And so, like, I can't even imagine the heartburn that those two old guys were about to get after doubling down on the hot sauce, 42 wings.

What did we – how old did we figure out Balbae was? 59, something like that? Yeah, something like that. Yeah, he's – yeah, the heartburn is out of control oh heartburn's the worst i just like within the last year have started battling with heartburn and it's the worst thing in the world you just i used to i used to scoff at like people that would be like oh i got heartburn i'd be like okay fucking wimp and then now i have it and i'm like oh my god this is the worst thing ever i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. They would

be eating all the tubs for 24 hours. Oh yeah. I also love that Bombay steps up to escort Evan to the car. I don't know if you call it a step

up. He realized he's probably an hour behind schedule here, and he's like, oh, fuck. I ruined this. I got to do damage control with the mom here. Yeah, and dad is just laughing. I love the quote. Yes, I love the quote.

He comes back. Bombay comes back to Rob, and he's like, wait a minute, just let me walk into the bus stop, bro. Just bro-ing it out real hard with Evan's dad. Well, then he asks for advice. He asks for dating advice on how to woo the mom from the ex-husband. Or I don't know if they were actually married, from the dad. I don't think they were married.

Like anyone, like how is it, it like bombay the player of moms how does he go to an ex for advice that's like 101 never do that why would you want to go to they're an ex for a reason why would you want that clown's advice i don't think i think it's because i mean i think he's a little perplexed by alex he hasn't he hasn't cracked her yet you know yeah if this was char like he he he was already on like you know date five or six with charlie's mom at this point i think he's he's used to working quicker you know and at this point he's like i don't know what i'm doing wrong here i need some you know usually i've already you know i've already ghosted them by now i've already gone on to minor league hockey yeah exactly so we get we get that excellent dad and Bombay bonding interaction, and then we get the game of the century.

Yes, well, we have – yes, so it cuts to Evan, and I think it's the night after – it's that same night, right, with Alex and Evan. And Alex is – Oh, that's right, that's right. Alex is – they're talking about the game tomorrow, which is against the Hawks. And then the utter – just the utter Hawks disrespect

throughout this episode, because they mentioned they're playing the Hawks and they're the second worst team in the league. You know? And then I think... One in four. One of them, yeah, one in four. I forget which, if it was Alex or Evan,

one of them says they're about to be the worst team in the league or some snide comment like that. Like you don't, you can't, you haven't earned the right to trash talk the Hawks here. Okay. I mean, they're a,

they're an institution in, in Southeast Minnesota youth hockey. They were, they were. It seems, it seems they've fallen on hard times. I think there's only one clear and true explanation for this and it is comeuppance for the color scheme change yes if they were still black and blue

with those sleek uniforms they would be hard nose dominating doing their jobs out there, whether it's taking out cake eaters that have gone over to the Ducks. You know, those are the Hawks that we remember. Now they're orange, you know? Like you were talking about Coach T talking about clown suits. That's what the Hawks have right now. Don't bother is in there yellow and brown. And we've got the freaking Hawks in orange now. I don't know which coach made that adjustment, but, you know, poor.

Whoever did, that was for sure the catalyst of the downward spiral. Yeah. There's no other explanation. Yeah, it'd be like if the New York Yankees came out in like, you know, like a lime green uniform. And you're like what are we doing here this is you're just asking asking to be the worst team in the league exactly it's like hey guess what the red socks are now purple it's just as as a hawks apologist it's very

it's heartbreaking to this this episode was heartbreaking yeah it was it was hard to watch i almost turned it off out of disgust. I was very upset. Yeah, and it's like they forgot that it's not worth winning if you can't win big. Exactly. There's a reason we play that at the beginning of this podcast is because the Hawks are an institution.

They deserve to be treated with respect. They taught us how to win. They taught us how to sustain excellence. Exactly. You know how you get a participation circuit is when you disrespect the Hawks and everything they fought for, you get this stupid participation circuit that Nick was talking about. Yeah.

And you get Hawks with orange jerseys. You know what I've never seen in real life is an orange Hawk. Never. Exactly. And I wanted to say that I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed, but you know what? At this point, I'm mad. I'm mad for the Hawks.

I'm mad for all the youths in the nineties that bought their Hawks, Adam Banks, Jersey. Cause they were like, Hey, I'm a cake eater too. And now, what are they doing with those jerseys? They're just, they're no good. They're, you know, they're cool throwbacks. Yeah, they're vintage now. Vintage.

Coach Riley would be Coach Riley would be turning over in his grave at this episode. He's Unspeakable acts have been committed to the Hawks. They deserve better. Coach Riley deserved better. R.I.P. Hawks. R.I.P.

Color changes to blame. We've got Evan being real. I actually liked, this is the first time I think I liked Evan, where he was like, all right, Mom. Like, I know Dad is a huge disappointment, but let me just kind of believe he's going to be there. I just, I need this. Let me have this.

She's trying to lessen the blow of the terrible dad. And Evan basically like sits her down and is like, mom, I'm not stupid. I know dad. I know dad sucks. You know, I can see I have eyes. I see what's going on here, but you know, let's just, let's humor it a little bit. Let's see.

Give him a chance. Let me believe. Maybe he pulls it around. Let me believe. And then we get a nice cut, right? We cut to Nick and Coob and Sam at the lunch table because they have officially completely fallen into the background of this episode. But luckily, they still get at least one liner with Nick, where we've got Myers. Just Nick.

Logan and Sam, silent throughout the thing. And Coop, silent. I don't think Coop's even in that. I don't think Coop is up there. Oh, he's not? Maybe he's not. I think later in the episode he is. But we see. Yeah, because he is later in the episode because he's giving up I think later in the episode he is. But we see.

Yeah, because he is later in the episode because he's giving up goals left and right. Again. But Maya's got a cool new TikTok with one of her popular friends. And Nick's digging it. They're liking it. And Lauren comes up. She's like, oh. I guarantee you Nick is the type of person slash teammate that he has followed everybody on, on every single social media platform. And he's liking and sharing every single post, every single one. Absolutely.

He's looking out for his boys. Nick is a great hype man, but probably like one that after a while it's like hey hey bud you gotta pump the brakes a little bit I mean I appreciate it though especially the social media hype man you know you like post

you post stuff on like Instagram or whatever who am I kidding there's always the one person that watches every story you post that likes every photo. And you know, I see you, I respect you. Thank you. Thank you for doing the internet needs those people so that people like us can have a podcast with three followers. Exactly. Yeah. We, we,

we appreciate you. We appreciate you. And we And we love you I don't know if that TikTok was in fact cool We established that I cannot verify It was another dancing one And again I could have done it better But it was solid I was curious if it was actually A popular TikTok that people do

I'm assuming it is Or maybe they just made it up I have no idea I would not be able to tell you if it was actually like a popular TikTok that people do. I'm assuming it is. Maybe they just made it up. I have no idea. I would not be able to tell you. But then we get Lauren coming in and we know what's about to happen here when she starts saying, oh, is that the one that Maya and I did? He's like,

oh, no. And she's like, oh, well, what about ours? Not even on the page. Not posted. Not on the page. And then she's like wait what and nick's like well you know i can tell you but you're you're not gonna like it yeah yeah lauren asked why why wouldn't she post it you know why why wouldn't she post our video like well i could i could tell you but I am small and you have nunchucks. So I don't want to say anything.

Nick just steals the show yet again, knowing full well that Lauren can kick his ass with those nunchucks. I think he has that line. And then he has a line at the end or towards the end of the hockey game. Yeah, it's a good talk. They're both the best lines said in the entire

movie. He only has two lines and crushes it. Yeah. This dude deserves a fucking Emmy. We need more Nick, less Bombay Alex love story. Yes. Yes.

More Nick. More Nick family dynamic because I'm still curious about him and his moms. The moms better come back. If that was the only glimpse of the moms we get, I'm going to be very upset. Yeah. We need more there. I need more Paula in my life and and so lauren walks over to maya's because lauren's like oh this will not stand you know yeah she's not one to be trifled with she's not gonna let you go she's she's gonna

confront you right away no one's over no burying feelings with this with this lady she's a strong elven warrior you know like she doesn't need to fuck around with that and so she goes right over to maya hey maya what's the deal with no tiktok like you think you it's not cool to be nice to me and then ignore me when all these normies are around i love that she called her friends that was that was a a good line. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I like this scene because, yeah, she makes the point where it's like just being nice to me when you're not around your other friends doesn't make us friends.

Which is solid life advice for kids. You got to be careful of the people that are only nice to you when it's just you guys. Yeah, exactly. And like she even says, hey, it's a hockey game. Yeah, Maya scoots him away shushes like to kind of shushes lauren to get her away from the popular girl so she doesn't cause a scene yeah very very embarrassed to be seen with lauren

yeah so so that's it that is a nice job setting up but then we cut to another one of my favorite scenes of this episode are you you talking about the Stephanie? Yes. Outside of Nick, I do need more Stephanie. I want more Stephanie. Stephanie dropping off was like... Stephanie is one of the better characters. I need home life

with Stephanie. I need to see how she is with her kids. I want to do a whole parenting corner with Brandon episode on Stephanie and her kids That's what I need Because I hope She just rules that place with an iron fist That's what I want Stephanie to do

She's just My absolute favorite And so she comes in hot With like God I have to go to this fundraiser We gotta save the manatees. She starts off this conversation by making fun of manatees. That's how she starts it.

And so like, I love Stephanie, but what the fuck is your deal, like your issue with the sea cow? Like, be nice to the sea cow. They're just floating in the water. They're not hurting anything they they do need to be saved they're a precious creature in the sea cow it's just bobbing along aimlessly not hurting you like save it stephanie god it's weird that i mean granted i mean i don't know about all

of the save the manatee efforts but it's's weird that, like, in the middle of the Twin Cities, there's a Save the Manatees fundraiser. They're about as far away you could get from any kind of manatee habitat. The highly questionable humanitarian efforts from Stephanie and her husband. Yeah, well, yeah, and they're only doing it for, based yeah well yeah and they're only doing it for based on her attitude they're only doing it for the clout they don't actually give a shit about these manatees i think she doesn't she mention under her breath at the end of this conversation that she wouldn't care if they all died yes because they're just fat things if you find

up to see just ate them up it's not not a big deal um and i also love that like stephanie is like trying to razz um kind of like you rattle their cage a little bit and calls alex out it's like hey what happened to the the badass from the slap shot challenge i thought you're gonna ride some of that momentum but you're going to just be in the same meek little thing that I bully all the time. What's up with this? Yeah. Why are you letting me bully you? I thought I was going to get some back and forth.

Yeah. I think Stephanie was pumped to have a little back and forth. Stephanie wants a challenger. Exactly. She doesn't want someone to walk all over. She has her husband for that. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Her and Clark. That's another thing. yeah oh she probably oh my gosh her and clark i that's another thing i would love to see more of her and clark just by themselves not trying to

you know out out dick another couple you know yeah but well i probably wasn't watching phrases but watching her like watching her emasculate clark over Clark over and over again would be really fun. I would find a lot of humor. I would love to see the interaction between her when Clark leaves the toilet seat up.

Yeah. Disrespect in front of the kids too, so Trevor's like, fuck you, Dad. Get the lady her chopped salad. But yeah, she does. She challenges Alex. She's like, you know,

I thought you were going to be this big badass bitch now, but you're just back to little pouting little pout and little alex yeah and so and so she goes into some very like they do such a good job because this was poetic passive aggressive take downs and that's what westerners are known for so i wrote this down this is bread and butter i oh stephanie is the best at the passive aggressiveness. I love it. So she goes. Oh, your life is so colorful. Yes. So Alex is talking about how the dad's back in town and there's all that kind of drama there.

And what does she say? She's talking about how Evan was at the bar super late. I had to stay up, all that kind of stuff. That's when Stephanie goes, I'm so jealous. Your life's so colorful. And here I just had to fall in love with the steady, you know, solid, like, titan of industry types. Like, I just, and you just always love the wild cards. Yes.

Yeah, she says I always, she goes. Bad boys, the bad boys. Yeah, the, I think she does call them wild cards. boys the bad boys yeah the the she's i think she does call them wild cards or the wild bad boys or something like that the unpredictable ones you always go after the always go after the wild cards i love that she refers to her husband as a titan of industry yeah she's like i i just like the the the nba titan of Industry type. Shut up, Stephanie. Based on the few interactions we've gotten with Clark,

I don't think he's a Titan of Industry. No. He's a simp. I think that's what the youths call them. I don't know. Did I use that right? I may not have used that right. I honestly don't know. Is that, did I use that right? I may not have used that. I honestly don't know,

but I I've heard simp before and yeah, I mean, if I see, I saw it on a mean. Yeah. I'm not exactly sure what it means, but Clark's for sure. A simp.

Clark's a simp. I use context clues. That's what it means. Yeah. He's definitely, definitely not a Titan of industry. He's not making any moves at whatever company he's at, whatever investment he's doing. He's definitely not a titan of industry He's not making any moves at whatever company he's at Whatever investment he's doing He's taking orders

And doing the grunt work Yeah he's the office bitch Everyone knows that Just like he is Stephanie's bitch at home Oh I found I made the note of what The throwaway line Stephanie had Right before they cut away from the scene She's like alright time to go drink Prosecco and save fat animals.

That's what it is. Great line by Stephanie. Just when you want to hate her, she throws out a line like that, and you're like, okay, I'm back on board. Stephanie's all right. I'm in. I'll go drink some Prosecco and save fat animals with you too, Stephanie. I would love to go to some kind of high class gala slash event with

Stephanie. I feel like that would be a riot. Cause you know, she's, she's pounding Prosecco. She's getting, she's somehow going to get drunk off of champagne and then just fucking ride out the night. Yeah. Call Clark. If I mean, I guarantee you, Clark's not going there. I guarantee you Clark's not going there I guarantee you Clark's at home And she's going to call Clark At like 1230 1 o'clock and be like hey Clark

Come get me bro come get me And he should She deserves that She earned it She's a fucking world class lawyer She's killing it So after we get a quick spell of Stephanie throwing the best passive-aggressive

Midwest barbs I've heard in a long time, we get Bombay making just the most boneheaded decision of a long time. Comes with some stupid-ass unicorn. Yes, well, because that's the advice that Rob gave him. He asked for advice for Rob on how to fix, you know,

how to make Alex happy again. And Rob's dumbass fucking idea is to give her a stuffed animal. So it's a bad idea. Like, number one, it's a bad idea to get advice from the ex. Number two, it's a bad idea to give a stuffed animal as an apology and say you're sorry. Like, what the fuck is that? Well, because Alex says that

Rob did it every time. He got her a stuffed animal every time they got into an argument. That's so many stuffed animals. No one wants that many stuffed animals as an adult. It's creepy. Yeah. Where are you going to store this?

And that many stuffed animals on your bed makes people uncomfortable. As an adult. It's creepy. Yeah. Where are you going to store this? You know? And that many stuffed animals on your bed makes people uncomfortable. And I imagine the worse the argument, the bigger the stuffed animal. Yeah. So what am I going to do with a two-foot zebra? There's no fucking place for it. Or like a life-size panda bear. But another great part of the episode is where she's complaining. Alex is complaining, saying, I fall for all the same guys.

To Winnie? Winnie. So we get confirmation Mustard Tim's out of the picture. She's two or three guys. She's two guys. No, three guys past Mustard Tim because she mentions hot dog guy, pretzel guy, and then pretzel hot dog guy. Yeah. Yeah.

She goes through because they're all different. It's like, oh, no, I date all different guys. I date the cocoa guy, the mustard guy, the pretzel guy, the hot dog guy, the pretzel hot dog guy. But I think we have to revisit something we talked about last episode in the absolute disaster. That is Bombay's ice palace inventory management. This is just, I cannot even begin to tell him how silly it is for him to have. This is five guys and we're not even covering half of the

condiments and snacks that he needs. Can someone get him a fucking Cisco referral? Like just come on. What's going on here? Is he doing this for the sake of Winnie? Is he supporting small town businesses? Like those are things that I can

get behind. But if he's just doing this because he has no idea what he's doing, I'm worried about it, man. Get him hooked up with Cisco. Get one fucking guy that comes every two weeks. I don't think he's doing this out of any kind of altruistic

motivations. I don't think he's trying to support small business. He's definitely not trying to help Wenny out. Maybe Wenny is doing it, though. Wenny might be in charge of that inventory. Maybe she's just like... That's where she gets her guys. That's her tender,

is the delivery guys of Southeast Minnesota. The snack food delivery driver hookups of Southeast Minnesota. Like they say, most of the time you meet your

significant other at your job, at your workplace. So Winnie's just taking that to the next level. That's where she's getting her pool of fish. So listen, I know Bombay is in a bad place right now. We're seeing that. He's trying to dig his way out of it.

But to allow her to run away and grossly mismanage the snack bar this badly, it's just, you know, we got issues here. I'm just going to say I just have issues. I want to talk about Winnie. Winnie is one of my notes in this episode because I – so from what I've gathered from this episode last episode and then the episode with all of these episodes i think except for episode two i don't think she's in episode two or she's very rarely in episode two all of these episodes she is constantly for some

reason the go-to for advice yeah evan i think nick goes to her for advice multiple times alex goes to her for advice multiple times she is somehow the rock of she's like the the guiding force of this show is it norm from cheers right like she's norm from cheers yes and so i i imagine and i hope to god one of these episodes touch it because touches on the winnie bombay relationship because i i guarantee you i guarantee you winnie is doing so much emotional lifting for bombay the dude lives in this ice palace he's been miserable i don't did did we did they give a date on when he left saint cloud state like how long has i don't think they have yet but how long they haven't been just wasting away at this ice

palace bombay would i guarantee you bombay would be dead without winnie if winnie was not there holding his ass up the ice palace would be out of business and bombay would be on the streets and or dead yeah and because there's multiple times that she gives advice to everybody and then there's also there's a scene at the end of this episode where alex is going up to talk to rob at the end and then rob takes a phone call so she kind of backs away and then she overhears you kind of what's going on and like the, the true nature of, of, of what Rob did and his true motivations. And so, and then as soon as she hears that she immediately,

immediately turns and looks for Winnie to like, look for her. And like, when he gives her like the nod, like, you know, like the reassuring, like you got this nod.

When he is, when he is holding all of these people's lives together, she, I need, I need more Winnie. I need more Winnie. I need more Winnie and I absolutely need more. I want to see Winnie and Bombay's relationship because I need to know how that works,

what's going on with that. I would love to know how it started. I need more information. She's probably like the niece of Han or Yan. I mean, she's got the Scandinavian blonde hair. That's possible. That's possible. I bet she's a long

lost niece of Han or Jan, but you're right. She's a big player. Honestly, I would love it if he like niece, granddaughter, great granddaughter. I would love it if she was somehow in that family because that would make so much sense with what's going on because Han and Jan are

the rocks of the original movies. And so that would make perfect sense for this what's going on because Han and Yon are the rocks of the original movies. And so that would make perfect sense for this. I hope that's what it is. It's good. If I just dropped that bomb of a twist out there, I'd be okay. I'm going to pat myself on the back, but I think that's it. But now if it's anything less than that, I'm going to be fucking furious.

I set the expectation way too high. Yes. She better be a part of that family that would make so much sense with all the the weird little because like there's no that little scene like i get the advice stuff um kind of like coming from her but the little scene at the end where the first thing alex does is she looks for Winnie. That's the first thing she does. She turns around and tries to find Winnie because she's the rock. And so it would make so much sense if she was part of Han and Yan's family that I'm certain she probably is not,

and I'm going to be heartbroken when we find out that she's not. And so after all that interaction, Alex bails on the wild game she's like you know what bombay yes i'm not gonna she's terrified she's terrified she's terrified that she's gonna fall in love with the the same type of person terrified yep exactly and then we cut over to um to maya a little bit of guilty conscience goes up to Lauren. Hey, I'm so sorry. I was not cool earlier. And then all of a sudden, we realize that Lauren is one of those people. society and the internet the individuals who will yell and scream that they are being mistreated and

then turn around and do the exact same thing it's the age old it's the age old testament people are alike all over everybody everybody's the same everyone is the worst yep that's a great great uh twilight zone episode though shout out people are like all over great episode really wow i'm not a big twilight zone fan but oh my god you gotta watch dude twilight that's one of my favorite shows of all time i love the twilight zone a lot of life lessons little little brandon learned so many life lessons through through the twilight zone the people are like all over the monsters are due on Maple Street. That's another classic.

Most of the episodes are on Netflix, I believe. Go take a peek, guys. Shout out to Twilight Zone. All right. Hey, let's get it. Sponsor the pod. Hit it on Netflix. I did think it was really funny when

Lauren was like, like listen it's not that i'm embarrassed but like you don't even know the difference between a long sword and a rapier so she says she said that and my instant reaction was does he know the difference between those two things and if so can you tell us because i i absolutely do not I mean, the funny thing is that a longsword is more – so, like, when you think longsword, think longclaw from Game of Thrones. Jon Snow's sword that he gets from Commander Mormont. Just like the fucking massive? Yeah, like the big, big thick two-handed sword.

And like your rapier is like, it's like the one I think with the hand protector. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Where it's got like the little hand protector thing over the knuckles. Like I think more of like And they're like skinnier?

Yeah, like medieval type of like dueling, you know like dueling you know like if you were like fencing for higher stakes with a reef and if i'm wrong hold on let me google that real quick um oh yeah yeah it's a it was like a military sidearm and it's got like the little hand protector okay for duo yeah so i was right that was my first my first instant thought was like i bet you heath knows he knows the difference yeah and and what a what a great opportunity to be able to throw out a game of thrones reference and they're like wow that was that was awesome i just went all the way back through it so it's

also a great reminder to all the shows out there do not fuck up the last season because it just like i just re-watched all of game of thrones and like i couldn't even like really it took me a week to start the last season because it gave me anxiety because they just the disappointment was just so great i've i've thought about going back and re-watching it for sure granted i was real late to the game of thrones bandwagon i don't think i started watching till season six was over and then i just like binge watched one through six like i think i did it in like a week it's just boom right through and then uh but yeah like i've thought about going back and re-watching it

but each time i think each time i go to like the button, hit the play button on like season one, episode one, I'm like, am I really, do I really want to start this knowing how, how terrible it ends? I don't think so. And I do,

I do the same thing with some of the other, like the office and parks and rec. I feel the same way. Great to parks and rec less wise. Although I stand by the fact that I despise the last season of parks and rec it's garbage get it out of my face i don't want it and so when i go oh that is a bold statement but i agree like the office is tough after it i i some people might hate on me for this but like how i met your mother um i thought that that that final season i was like oh well i could have just like if you just end it the season before,

it ends on a cliffhanger, but at least you're not ending with disappointment. Yeah, that's fair. I was never, never How I Met Your Mother fan. Can't see it. Ted Mosby has to be the worst fictional character that's ever, ever been written. When you go back and rewatch it it a lot of the shenanigans that Barney got into would not fly on today's television well it's not like even

well everything from the 90s every program from the 90s Celebrity Deathmatch do you remember Celebrity Deathmatch? that was a classic I was going to say even Friends doesn't hold up that well. There's a lot of homophobia and nonsense going on in Friends.

This is going to be a very controversial moment in our podcast because I'm not a big fan of Friends. I missed – That's understandable. I missed the timeframe to get into it. Like I didn't get into it when I was that – like when I was younger and it was on and everything. And so by the time I started watching it, I was like, yeah, I don't know.

It's okay. See, I love Friends, but because I have that nostalgia, like emotional attachment, the the same like the same reason with mighty ducks like mighty ducks is a flawed it's a flawed series it's a flawed movie it's it's not it's it's not great but i have that that nostalgia and that emotional attachment same with friends like friends me and my sister got super into it when i was in like late middle school early high school and she was in middle school. That was like all we watched as like a brother,

sister was just friends on repeat. We had all the DVDs and stuff. And so I love it from that, but I can't, but it's one of those things where like, I know, I know for a fact, if I hadn't done that and I came back, you know, and watched it either now or even a couple of years ago, I'd have been like, what the fuck is this? Couldn't even get into it. So anyways, Maya and Lauren, they're fighting.

This is how girls fight. It's very passive-aggressive, very back and forth, not usually direct and confrontational. They're very... I will say it's more direct and confrontational than I was expecting. That's true. Girlfriends are intense. They are. Lauren and Maya do a good job of at least letting the other person know

and acknowledging like, hey, I'm upset. It's not 100% passive aggressive. They're like, hey, I'm upset. I was like, well, I did feel bad, but not anymore. What the fuck was that? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, true.

You can't chastise somebody for being a fake friend, and then you go and do the same exact thing. Exact. Hypocrite. Yeah. So anyways, we get that in there. That's culminating. We got some serious friction between them.

And then we cut over to – oh, sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, yes, some serious friction. They did not resolve anything during their little thing, yeah. They added a little fuel to the flames. And then we cut to Bombay hanging out with Evan's dad. Now they're buddies. This is second night in a row. It seems like that Evan.

It's the next, it's the next day. I'm assuming it's around like lunchtime though, or, you know, like 4 or 5 PM, something like that. Early dinner.

Well, I guess they're not hanging out. This is a set, right? Because well, he Bombay goes back because he, since Alex canceled the hockey date he realizes the stuffed animal didn't work so he goes back to rob and is like bro the stuffed animal didn't

work what are you doing like what that's the worst advice i ever got well then he asked him if he wants to go to the wild like hey do you want to go to the Wild game? He's like, oh. He asked Rob. I forgot he asked Rob. And he's like, oh, no. And then Rob gets all stoked because he's got a gig in Madison. Yes, Madison. It's a college town, dude. This could be huge. That's how you get into Milwaukee.

Yeah, straight shot to Milwaukee. And then he starts talking about the future, but he stops himself because he doesn't want to get too excited. He doesn't want to get ahead of himself. And Bombay gets it. He's still chasing the dream. Yes. Bombay is still chasing the dream. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

So he has to... The Don't Bothers game is that night. It's like in an hour or so. But he has to get the gig. He has to go to the gig at Madison. He has to be there by nine tonight. And so he's like, okay, I got to leave.

And Bombay's like, well, are you going to tell Evan? And then Rob is like, no, I'm not going to tell him. I don't want to mess him up right before the game. And then Bombay is like, okay, whatever. I'll drive you to the airport. I'll take you. We'll get you to Madison. And that's when he says, yeah. And so that's when Rob is like, okay, whatever. I'll drive you to the airport. I'll take you. We'll get you to Madison. And then that's when he says, yeah.

And so that's when Rob is like, dude, I love you. You get it. Chasing the dream. You know, 50-year-old. I'm going to be a rock star. Let's do this. All I need is Madison. It's okay to miss all the stuff as long as when I show up, it's big.

He'll be able to remember coming to my show for the rest of his life like what that was the shittiest comment ever like you suck he's not gonna remember that you're like you suck as a dad and you're not that good yeah we established what the band is already yes and then we get we get some good emotional bombay he starts talking about his dad and it you know he's talking about how you and evan still has you you're still in his life i'm super jealous because my dad died when i was 10 and then i missed the you know the famous penalty shot for the hawks but and then bombay, but I remember all of those games that my dad came to

and they were the best days of my life. And so he's like trying to, you know, will Rob into not going to Madison, but Rob's not having any of it. He's like, you got to turn here for the airport. But Bombay misses the turn and he's driving

Rob back to the Don't bother's game because as we know as we found out earlier his car sucks and you can't get out of the passenger side so rob is stuck in there i would love to know how rob got in there in the first place did he scoot along the the whole front seat like evan did he had to. He had to scoot along the seat. I wish they would have showed that. I wish they would have showed that. That actually would be amazing to take the extra half a second

to show an adult man sliding across the seat. And then he goes to touch the hockey stick and Bombay's like, don't touch that, don't touch that. Hold the glove box up. But while this is going on, it's like interchanging with them at the game too right and so like yes they're at the game and evan evan has to be the most emotional hockey

player i've ever seen in my life he looks up into the stands even after last night the night before when he's telling his mom i think he turns a corner with his speech to his mom yeah before and he's like, I get it. It's fine. I'm going to, you know, I see what's going on. You don't have to baby me anymore. Then cut to the game. And clearly, Evan, we still have to baby you because you're so

goddamn emotional. He looks up at the stand, sees his dad's not there at the start of the game and starts throwing a fit. And immediately, I think before, was it before the puck was dropped or right as the puck was dropped? He cross checks a Hawk player and gets a penalty right away. And immediately, I think before, was it before the puck was dropped or right as the puck was dropped? Right before it dropped. He cross-checks a Hawk player and gets a penalty right away. Like, the piece of shit move should have been thrown out of the game.

Yeah, that's a Tom Wilson move for sure. Any hockey fans out there will get that reference. That's a Tom Wilson move. Just an absolute trash move. And our good friends are calling the podcast. Our boy Terry is still on the mic. Although he doesn't have any lines this episode, which is very upsetting.

Yeah, they keep cutting his lines and that's a bad move. The part that was driving me crazy is they would cut to him and Mary Jo. I think it's Mary Jo, right? That's the girl's name? Mary Jo. They would show them. Mary Jo would say something and then it would look like terry's getting ready to say something and then they'd cut away and i'd be like oh come on so you know there were lines yeah yeah he was

yeah they recorded something they just didn't they didn't make the final cut but yeah it was like you could see him like his eyebrows started to raise he was like getting ready to say something and cut away i was like oh why why you got to tease me like that? And this is where we hear that the don't bothers are 0 and 5. So there were more games taking place than we've seen. Yes, well, we get a little bit of that at the end of the last episode because she mentions we've lost all our games and we got lost on the way from the locker room to the ring

which wasn't in one of the episodes so clearly a game we hadn't seen that would have been the game to watch I'm interested do you think how many games do you think Sophie's been a part of this because she just officially joined at the end of last episode probably only like one okay so

this could potentially be her first game as a don't bother. I hope not. They don't use her at all. She's not in the game. You see her on the ice. We can dig into that right now because we've got 0-5 versus 1-4. We have Mary Searle calling out that get ready for some not great hockey.

Battle for the basement, I believe is what she called it. Battle for the basement. Get ready for the not great hockey battle for the basement i believe is the battle for the basement get ready for the not great hockey um so and we have to call out coach alex because that was such an amateur move by evan to just be such a baby knock the guy down should have been ejected from the game forever coach should i don't care if it's your kid. You sit their ass down. They don't play for the rest of the game. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That's it.

Like, that was such an amateur Bush League move. I don't like it. I don't like it. Just when I thought Evan had turned a corner, now I'm off. Evan, you're done. Least favorite character. Yeah. So, it's just so emotional.

And you see it even later on. So, so after he gets the penalty the game keeps going and then it shows a couple uh hawks goals with kub letting in you know every fucking shot left and right just being garbage kub again and we're down four nothing don't bother and i'm screaming to the tv, where is Sophie? Yeah. They don't show Sophie at all. And then, so 4-0, third period, five minutes left, or just under five minutes, I believe. It was like 4.50 something. Yep.

And that's when Bombay and Rob, Evan's dad, show up. They get in the stands. And again, Evan being the emotional weirdo that he he is he sees his dad in the stands and then instantly becomes the greatest hockey player in the world and he grows grows five inches yep goes in the beast mode he starts like he starts checking everybody left and right which should have been penalties again yeah so many interference calls he there two of the kids are like pressing him up against the board and he elbows him in the face. That's a penalty. He goes from being the smallest player on the ice always

to being large enough to shake off two players larger than him. Yes. So it's just – And you can't even feel good for him because he was such a baby. Like you can't count the first two periods. Five minutes left and all of a sudden playing like a rock star. If you're capable of doing this, do it all the fucking time. Where was this for the first five games?

Yeah. Or the first two periods, you know? Like what? Why was this not happening like like where was it like you're so rattled that you just like you're so mad that you're just gonna get ejected for like you just oh cool i'm gonna sit in the penalty box for 10 minutes and now yeah it's ridiculous i hated every second of it couldn't and so all of a sudden we see evan go on a tear and score four straight goals he scores minutes yes he scores a

goal a minute yeah goal a minute and they're all world all of a sudden evan maro all world i just so so one of them every second the first one right after he sees his dad he wins a face off and then runs over like two or two people and then slap shot score. Second one I think was like a wraparound, or maybe that was the third one. Because he did the one where he elbowed the two people, turned and slapped it and scored too. Right, so I think that was the second one. The third one, the hat trick goal, that was the wraparound where he got by the net.

And then the fourth one was a tip. So he's battling in front of the net. I didn't see who shot it. Maybe it was Sophie. Hopefully it was Sophie. If we're not giving Sophie the puck, I don't know what we're doing. But so she hits it. So somebody does a slap shot from the blue line.

Evan is sitting in front of the net. He tips it in. So that's his fourth goal in four minutes. And then Alex, I believe, calls a timeout or there's some sort of stoppage of play. There's, I believe, 30 seconds left, something like that. Yeah. And we get – Evan wants to do the double helix.

He's like, let's do the double helix. We practice this. And that's where Luna – not Luna – Maya and Lauren, they're a little friction because they're, they're two, they're integral parts of the double helix. They're the two defensemen on this play. They do a lot of the,

the, the puck handling and they don't, they don't want to do the play. Cause they don't want to work together. They're like, no, I don't want to do that. And that's when we get should be team captain.

Nick gives a rousing speech. Yeah. Well, cause he's never been in a clique. He's always wanted to be. He's, he's tried a few times speech. Yeah, well, because he's never been in a clique. He's always wanted to be in one. He's tried a few times. He's gotten some nibbles. He's gotten a lot of nibbles.

No bites. But no bites. That reminds me of, reminded me so much of, spoiler alerts for some MCs. Forget the spoiler. We've spoiled so much stuff already. So Thor Ragnarok,

when he gets stuck with – is it Krog? Is it Korg? I always get – the rock guy. And he's like, oh, Thor, how did you end up here? He's like, well, I tried to start a revolution, but – what's he say? He says, I tried to start a revolution, but I didn't make enough pamphlets. Pamphlets is what he says, which is also a great rock, paper,

scissors joke. Yeah. Paper beats rock. But that reminded me of that so much. It was like, I tried to start a click, but it didn't work. No,

a lot of nibbles, no bites. A lot of nibbles, no bites. And my boy, Evan's dad is here. So we need this win. Yeah.

He's like, he's like, knock it off. My best friend needs your help. Fucking sack it up and let's go. And so that kind of knocks him into shape. And it's nice to bet like Lauren and Maya are key pieces to the team. You know, like two of the better stick handlers,

like they're key cogs in the team. And so we're seeing that right here. Yes, yes. We're getting somebody do other people doing stuff besides Evan. And well, Sophie's only done stuff for the Ducks, but somebody besides Evan doing some stuff. Sophie can score 10 goals against the Don't Bothers, but for the Don't Bothers, she is not featured.

Which is, I mean, such... I feel like that is such a glaring air in this episode, especially coming off of the, the, for lack of so much importance for lack of a better term, coming off the high of last episode where we finally get Sophie on the team to not even show her in this hockey. A she's not even in the episode.

She has no lines. She's on camera three or four times, twice, maybe something like that. Just in school lunch scenes. Yeah, not to feature her at all in the hockey thing. I don't know. It was just such a 180 from what we've been building up to. Yeah. So anyways, we get Evan scoring the game-winning goal.

Yeah, okay, five goals in five minutes. Get out of here, Evan Morrow. You're not that good um like let us just sprinkle some haterade on this because you don't get to check someone throw a cheap shot like this is a cheap shot before the game and then come in and play and like and i think the thing that bothers me the most about it is that they played five games. Where in the world was this? The first five games.

Yeah. Sandbanging on your teammates. That's not what a captain does. No. Nick, the stick needs that C on his chest. Yeah. He's far and away the true captain of that team.

He's the heart and soul. You know, Evan is – I mean, hopefully he gets a little turnaround because it's very similar. Although Charlie didn't have the C at that point. I was going to say it's very similar to early Charlie where, you know, he's not – you know, he's not, you know, he's upset because he's being asked to take falls and he's like not playing well. And he's, you know, what are the spaz way they call them? Yeah. It's very similar to that. So you think there was some,

there's some trajectory here where Evans just he's getting better because he's playing loose. And then his dad being there lit the fire he didn't know he had. I guess. Lame. I guess that's what they're doing. I just don't care for it. Yeah. But so anyways, the game's over.

They're celebrating. Then we see Alex coming out to say what's up to dad and thank him for coming. And she overhears him. She thought Rob came on his own. Yeah. Well, not on his own. He came with Bombay,

but she thought that it was his choice. He came because he wanted to see Evan play. So she was getting ready to go eat crow and be like, Hey, thank you so much for showing up. It really meant a lot to Evan. And that's when he's on the phone. She overhears the conversation and Rob said,

I guess somebody's talking to his manager. Yeah. And he's like, I got kidnapped. Yeah. He's like, I got kidnapped. Some weird guy wouldn't let me leave.

I'm sorry. I couldn't make it to the show. And that's, that's when she, Alex like looks around for Winnie and she's like looking for that, that reassurance. Like, okay.

And when he, when he, when he when he when he makes eye contact she gives her the nod like i i see you and so and then that's when she realizes the it was bombay bombay did it and then she goes and finds bombay yeah but she's like oh i want to go to the wild game now and then evan plays or not evan but Bombay plays a nice little, he plays a nice card and he's like, well hey I was gonna ask Evan That was pre-planned That was a slick fucking move

He nailed it Just when we thought Bombay was slipping, he just got starry-eyed with her ex, he got wrapped up in it just like she did and now we got our bombay back he knows the moves for these single moms yep the way to their heart it's through the kid you got

to get to the kid you get you get that kid to sign off your goal yep you're in yeah in like flame exactly and so and they get a quick little flirt you know bombay calls her coach and she's like me coach yeah which like you're not that good like we're seeing the proof is in the pudding you just let your kid throw a cheap shot and then didn't do anything about it yeah and you're not using your best player you're not using sophie the the misuse of Sophie Is an injustice that will not Stand on this podcast We just spent a whole episode We just spent a whole episode

Trying to get her on the team Where in the hell is she? Not featuring Sophie as the key member of your team Is worse than starting Goldberg over Julie the Cat Way worse I agree with that 100% Just when I thought that the dunks could do no dirtier than what they did to Julie the cat especially um in that second movie when Goldberg was failing it is surpassed by what like you go to Sophie spitting all this money ball nonsense

and then she's out here not scoring a single goal in this game, not even getting a touch. Like I'm not even seeing any touches on the puck. So you've got a start shooter that can run circles, and now these are dead weight teammates. This is what Sophie's mom was talking about. Yeah, exactly. You're not going to score more goals

and you're not going to look better because the person passing you the puck is 30 times worse than the player on the Ducks. You're only as good as your teammates, right Heath? Yeah, exactly. Team, together everyone achieves more. Read it. It's on a thousand middle school basketball shirts

what was uh what was kobe bryant's favorite or famous saying he was like there's no uh there's no i in team but there is an me yeah yeah and that's and that's obvious you know kobe and i were great friends we We had dinner together in Orange County. Yeah. Like actually together or were you just in the same restaurant? We were eating dinner at tables near each other. Okay. That's what I figured.

And so you can say it was a very intimate gathering. So now to end it, we've got, we got to end it at the heartwarming scene. We've got the don't bothers hanging out at the lunch table. We finally get some Sophie. This is where we finally get some Sophie in our life. Yeah. Well, she's actually on camera. We see the don't bothers and Sam gathers our attention and says, Oh my word,

look over here. And we can see our girl Lauren in some hip clothes. I think she calls them um brandy melville clothes yeah i'm i'm assuming that's a like a a young uh young teenager clothing brand yeah that's what i assume that a brandy melville is is a cool type of clothe that's that was my assumption i think it would have been cooler if she would have came out like some gucci stuff you know or a little uh juicy guitar yeah she's on that juicy that gucci gang exactly you got the gucci belt oh that would have been fantastic and and then we have uh maya coming out in Whisper Silk, which I actually didn't know what Whisper Silk was.

And so I thought that was great, but it is a very excellent, you know, definitely looks, once again, like kind of elven, you know, kind of Middle Earth type of gear. Okay. Do you think she got that from the city? Obviously. She had to do her New York truck driver accent. And so we have a great moment where Maya's like,

and I'm not even embarrassed. And Lauren's like, well, I'm a little bit embarrassed, but it's okay. I'll get over it. And then they skip along. Yep, best friends. Howie and Marilee, best friends. And we think, oh, everything's looking good, looking great,

and Evan's walking away. This is when we turn it around. This is the turnaround point right here. The empire is striking back right here. Yep. Darth Vader is breathing heavily heavily we get our boy trevor big trev big trev who's uh who's so evan's leaving the lunch table he's walking and trevor comes up beside him and he goes coach t was at your game, which great job, Coach T, scouting the enemy. Yeah, exactly.

You got to respect the hustle. You know who's not watching other teams' games? Coach A. Yeah. Yep. Not putting in the work. You know what she's doing? Probably some random disposition,

probably displacing more tenants on behalf of her corporate conglomerate, not doing the people's work. That's for sure. No. She's hurting the little guys is what she's doing. So, and we hear it. We hear it loud and clear. Coach T wants to talk to Evan.

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Like, how do you handle having this, this one good moment and, you know, it's going to say a lot about his character moving forward. Absolutely. I love, I love this from coach T. I love it. I love it. A, I love this from Coach T. I love it.

I love it. A, I love the fact that you're putting in work. You're scouting the other teams. You're going to other games. You're doing – you know, you're doing – you're going – you're putting in work. And I also love the fact that, oh, you're going to take Sophie, my star player.

I'm going to flip it around. I'm going to take Evan back. Let's throw some fucking gasoline on this fire let's get things going I am going to steal this mother's son right out from under her what one thing that I want to talk about

before we move on to next week is there were like zero easter eggs that I could figure out in this episode except for an easter egg that I think was directly meant for me. So they filmed the show in Vancouver, right? Vancouver, BC. a city called Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia, which is home to the most famous Colorado Avalanche player of all time, Joe Sackick,

often fondly referred to as Burnaby Joe, because he's the greatest thing that's ever come out of Burnaby. And when Rob and Bombay are driving, when Bombay is driving him to the game, they stop at a stoplight

and the street they stop at is Joe Sackick way. So that Easter egg was specifically built in for you, the Colorado Avalanche fan. Yes. And or anybody from Burnaby

because I imagine they would have lost their mind at that too because they love Joe Sackick there. He's their homegrown treasure. And you can't blame them, because you don't get a homegrown treasure like that very often. And so, yes, the cliffhanger that we left off on is Coach T talking Evan joining the Ducks, trying to snipe. Yeah.

Which, like I said, I love this move by Coach T. Yeah. Psychological warfare. Worst case scenario, you plant the seed of doubt in everybody. You add gasoline to the fire. Because, I mean, I doubt Evan's going to – there's no way Evan makes the switch. I mean, you're not going to I doubt Evan's going to, there's no way Evan makes the switch I mean, you're

just causing inner turmoil that's what he's doing let them fall apart from within exactly, the classic Zemo technique you know this is, to go back to Game of Thrones

this is Tyrion Lannister Tyrion Lannister waiting it out while the North fights amongst themselves right before the Red Wedding. Exactly. A lot of MCU and Game of Thrones references. Let's see, what else

does the thing say here? We got with the... Oh, yeah, spirit of the ducks so he's gonna look at it possibly joining the ducks and then we get the next episode's the reunion episode spirit of the ducks so we get the original ducks are back in town

Evan and Bombay and then it says Evan and Bombay each consider where their loyalties lie so it sounds like Evan's gonna at least give it a thought to go back to the ducks yeah and Bombay, is he still a Duck or is he just a

don't bother for life? Yeah, I'm interested to see what they do with the Ducks. I can't wait. I can't wait. So the leaked photos showed you had Kenny Wu,

Averman, Banks, Connie and Guy, Fulton, and I think that was it. I think that was all the leaked photos showed. I love that Kenny Wu ran him.

I love some Cowboy Dwayne in there too. He has my favorite line of D2. When the roosters are crowing and the cows are turning circles in the pasture, ducks fly together. Yep. Dwayne would have been solid. No Charlie.

No Charlie. No Charlie. He was not in any of that. So the leaked photos showed those. Did I name six or five? I think I named six, right? There were six of them? Yeah.

I don't know. But I'm assuming the leaked photos is all we're getting. I feel like they would have leaked more people if they were involved. So I think we're only getting those people. We're not getting Charlie. And I believe from what I can gather, it's because Charlie had scheduling conflicts. He was filming something else while they were filming this,

so he couldn't come back. Which is sad. Yes. That's a bummer. No Julie the Cat. That's a sad day. No Julie the Cat. No Portman.

No Portman. No Jesse. That's a sad day. No Julie the Cat. No Portman. No Portman. No Jesse. Jesse would have been nice. Yep, yep. Jesse was a mainstay in that too. No Keenan. I'm surprised Keenan didn't come back. Because I know they – It's knuckle puck time. The actual Anaheim Ducks, the NHL team, have done reunion nights in the past.

I think they've done like one or two Ducks reunions. And I know Guy's always at that. Okay. Keenan has been at a few. I know – what's the kid from – what's the character – the kid from Pete, Pete, and Pete. That guy... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He plays the little brother. The little brother. He's been at one of the Anaheim Ducks ones. Connie usually goes back. But I'm surprised Keenan wasn't involved. Maybe he couldn't get away from SNL. He's got a new show on NBC, too. Oh, does he?

Okay, that might have been why too. But yes, but from what I can tell, the Charlie, I don't know. I don't know about anybody else, but from what I've read, the Charlie not being there is purely schedule conflict. It's not that

he didn't want to be there. So I would assume next season. You have to get a Charlie. Charlie's got to I would assume next season, you got to get it. You have to get a, Charlie's got to come back for next season. Even if it's such at this point, even if you just get him to like,

you know, zoom call in, you got to bring Charlie, you know, somehow, some way you do the fast and furious, like Paul Walker thing where you like, you CGI his face on somebody else's body.

Yeah. Yeah. And show him driving off into the night. Yeah. But with, with no Charlie, I got to imagine they'll bring him up at least, even if it's just for like a quick passing thing, you know? Yeah. Cause he's, he was such a huge part in like the fact that it was a scheduling. Yeah. Yeah. The fact that it was a scheduling conflict is, is kind of a bummer you know yeah um but i think it still is gonna bring back all of the nostalgia uh that like all the

nostalgia that you want from this kind of a show it should hopefully bring it all back yes this is the one i'm most excited for yeah it's gonna be fantastic i'm excited to see how they weave it in with the don't bothers. Yeah. Cause it's not gonna, you know, you can't just bring them back right away and you can't cause they're ducks. You can't like bring them into the, and I'm assuming without Bombay hates hockey and hated hockey again,

I doubt he's kept in contact with these people. You know, if he's hate, if he hates hockey that much, I guarantee you, as soon as he threw his hissy fit and quit St. Cloud state, he stopped talking to all these people.

He stopped. Yeah. He, he, he, he got super depressed. He cut everyone out of his life, you know,

except for Winnie, except for Winnie. He became a hermit, but that's how he always was. Whenever he, you know, got sad and he cut everyone off, Han or Jan were always there to kind of talk him back off the ledge, right? And so we talked about that earlier. That's Winnie's spot now.

So I don't know. It's going to be interesting. I can't wait for this one. The nostalgia is going to be there. I can't wait to see how coach t and stephanie interact with the old ducks yes um if they if they interact at all let's hope let's i like i we need some coach t and bombay interaction when is that going to happen we need we need some of that yeah they haven't talked at all have they they haven't yeah no oh yeah we need that if we

can get some coach t and bombay interaction for the next episode, that's excellent because that would be some great banter. And then you can get some, what is it, the snipe wheel sellies. You can't snipe before you wheel, Heath. It's a wheel snipe sellie. Wheel snipe sell you wheel, Heath. It's wheel snipe, Sully. Wheel snipe, Sully. Awesome. Well, I think that's a nice wrap for the preview of the next episode.

Episode five, we pushed through it. We got through the love triangle. We made it on the other end. Now we get the payoff. We did the time. Now we get our reward. Spirit of the Ducks coming up next week. This is it. This get the payoff. We did it. We did the, we did the time. Now we get our reward spirit of the ducks coming up next week. This is it.

This is the one. This is the episode to end all episodes. Yes. It's going to be fantastic. Can't wait. Can't wait. thanks for listening everyone please remember to follow and like us on instagram at the cake eaters pod on twitter at the cake eaters Pod, on Twitter at The Cake Eaters. Also reach out to us via email, thecakeeaterspod at gmail.com or visit our website, thecakeeaterspod.com.