The Cake Eaters - 56. The Golden Cakies Awards: Game Changers Season 2

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Heath & Brandon wrap up and put a bow on Season 2 Game Changers! On today's Golden Cakies episode, the boys talk through their favorite and least favorite things about Season 2. They discuss the importance of Dale Earnhardt, Heath's small-scale betting strategy, Brandon's plans for naming his future daughter, how great Coach T is, and Brandon talks about his strict No Busch policy. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

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cake-ies that's you with the hey yay yay's Brandon I can't do the hey yay yay's I'm not a singer Heath and I said cake-ay yay yay yay's I'm not a singer, Heath. I'm not a singer. And I said, with this little beautiful bit of inspiration and the song has been stuck in my head ever since so it's a great song it's a great song who is is that is that four non-blondes

you got it yep four non-blondes it actually reminds me of my good friend from houston heather castanon she used to she used to just absolutely rip that song in fucking karaoke we did a lot of karaoke it was weird i don't know why we did it but she would just rip that song in fucking karaoke we did a lot of karaoke it was weird i don't know why we did it but she would just rip that song it was always really good that's the song we should have played at the camp shout out heather instead of instead of fucking landslide should have played some of that oh my god yeah could you imagine coob hitting the hey yay yays oh he would have absolutely crushed it that would have been maybe uh you know the hot fire is the you'd say actually i don't think that you'd say the hot fire anymore i saw something that

they say uh like have you heard of the term riz brandon yeah yeah i heard that's like a that's like swag or some shit like that did you know that somebody yeah somebody who's who's riz is off the charts i know what riz is oh okay i heard it for the first time this week i was like what the fuck is a riz i thought they were like razzing each other you know like oh it's with the good riz you know that that dude's got the riz oh okay i mean we were weird as kids too so i'm not gonna you know no judgment here i just had no fucking idea what it meant i thought they were just razzing each other i i was not a weird kid you speak for yourself dude i was i was out there crushing it in my ginkgo jeans i actually we did not get we did not get our ginkgo jeans bar crawl fully planned i'll have to create a agenda somewhere we'll take that offline we'll take that offline not for the listeners i mean it's it's it's it's denver you don't need to plan a bar crawl you just fucking

you just step outside and you start walking everyone orders their jeans we meet sometime in may in denver and there we go see that's all you need all right well let's talk about some golden cakeys brandon because this is the last episode yep we're wrapping up season two our our favorite season of the Game Changers. As everybody knows. Wrap it up, baby. Yep. If you've been following along for the last 10 episode recap, you know we love this show. We've been doing nothing but singing praises from the tops of the mountains. Disney writers have been at the top of our list of favorite people when it comes to Mighty Ducks.

I sent them Christmas presents because they did so well. Oh, nice. What did you send? The glitter bombs, a couple glitter bombs. Oh, nice, nice. Like for the people that are stealing packages from your porch? Yeah, but this was specifically for the person who got delivered to you though you know nice love that it's beautiful glitter bomb all right so brandon um tell the listeners break

it down how do the golden cakeys work oh gosh it's been a long time since we've done a golden cake yeah yeah and just just for the listeners actually you know we uh this is our actually our first time it's our first time back together for a while man like this is it's the first time recording for in a while but there's been a lot going on there's been a lot going on you're back in denver i'm back in denver lost 10 pounds on my latin american cleanse you know like it's been a whole journey yeah i take it back though that we haven't done a golden kikis in a long time we did one like literally 11 episodes ago yeah but it feels like a lifetime ago it with going through the game changers right after dt after that precious beautiful gem that is d2 the mighty

ducks it's been it's been really arduous you know it's been a it's been a hard journey you know watching these are the trials and tribulations we will tell our children of in the future yeah yeah watching season two of game changers was rough to get through yeah watching it back again it fell it felt like vietnam is what it felt like brandon what the fuck i mean we're not even going to go into it but anyways so for the listeners golden cakeys we've got categories we've got honorable mention we've got winners we go through them we end with my favorite part rapid fire um what it was rapid fire fire superlative questions like if you were um you know at the end of the year in a yearbook in middle school yeah like like most likely to succeed you know class clown that kind of stuff um yeah like most

likely to be the smelly kid exactly uh we have 15 categories i believe either 15 or 16 and uh yeah we'll give each of our honorable mentions and then the official winner all right so should we jump into this first category after we've just spent five minutes of just absolutely garbage nonsense it's yeah this is gonna be a rough episode guys We haven't done this in a while It's gonna be Not only are Excuse me Are we rusty post move After this

You know it's just It's rough content It's been a minute You know just Bear with us and shut the fuck up Okay here we go We gotta be nicer to our listeners First category

No I refuse to be nicer to our listeners. First category. No, I refuse to be nice to anybody anymore. Okay. All right, Brandon. The first category of the Golden Cakeys is Best Easter Egg. What's your honorable mention? This was a tough one because they... Because they, not only was this season incredibly lacking in the former Ducks category, there was hardly any Easter eggs. No callbacks.

They tried to blaze their own trail, and they got lost in the jungle, my friend. Yeah, died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail is what happened. Oh, goddam damn it that was so much better thank you for bringing that but so my my my honorable mention um and i guess you could call it an easter egg i'm calling it an easter egg is when uh episode 10 when we're playing team canada and they break out the uh the reverse retro jerseys of the actual anaheim ducks that's my that's my honorable mention they're out there they're donning the the mighty ducks logo um but they're in the the anaheim duck colors of orange black and gold which kind of taints it a little bit i was just gonna

say that brandon like the reverse retro was too orange for my taste you know it just yeah left a little little too much orange in my palate that it makes you know sense for the actual anaheim ducks but i think i said it during that episode like the i'm fine with the actual anaheim ducks rocking orange and black and gold but for the movie the movie the movie ducks it's got to be eggplant and jade. Yeah, it's got to be done. Or the old school Kelly green, yellow, and purple. You got it. Done and done.

Easy. No orange. It's tricky. Especially last season when we made the hawks orange. What the fuck was that about? Yeah, what's the deal with the ducks and the orange? I mean, i get it maybe because the bill is that is that why i guess but i feel like most most duck bills aren't really

orange though like most wild ducks they're like uh some some sort of grayish color so yeah i don't know well anyways it's it's a good easter egg and it's fun um let me hit you with my honorable mention the best we got you know it's the, anyways, it's a good Easter egg, and it's fun. Let me hit you with my honorable mention. It's the best we got. You know, it's the best we got. It's not the best we got, but it's a good honorable mention. I put the picture of D3 in the hallway. It makes me excited for us to talk about it because I mention it a lot.

I have not watched D3 in decades, and I am refusing to watch it until we break it down. And I'm only going to watch it as we go through the clips. I'm not going to get too far ahead of myself. And so that's what, that's what I'm fired up for that. Brandon, it's going to feel good. It's going to, it's going to be a nice palette cleanser after this. Yeah. I know we have more D2 to talk about but once we get there you

know once that journey gets here it's gonna be it's gonna be a good one it'll still be a little ways till we get to d3 but uh yeah yeah and the the hallway the hallway that was littered uh on the way to the locker room in the honda center that was littered with pictures from the mighty ducks movies that was a nice little Easter egg, too. I hope to God that that is an actual hallway that exists in the center. That would be amazing. I hated the knuckle puck stuff. We won't even talk about it.

I know what they tried to do, but the way they turned the knuckle puck into a heat-seeking missile, I just couldn't get into it. I also couldn't couldn't get into it i also couldn't it was just there's just no way that a professional hockey team is going to touch the puck of a junior goodwill games um usa team from the 90s there's just no way that is gonna continue to happen i just i couldn't do it they lost traditions that you know like if you look at like college football clemson when they right before they run out onto the field they touch a rock a stupid fucking rock you know yeah a golden knuckle

puck is better than a rock but like it's a junior goodwill games like is it just team america it's like i don't want to argue am i gonna argue god fucking damn it i'm gonna argue with you about this just because it's not worth it because just it you know it doesn't make sense they would not touch that they don't give a shit just like they wouldn't give a shit that they ate duck before a game what the fuck i hate yeah that that storyline didn't make any fucking sense why and why does the coach why is the coach handling pr you know i don't know and for the listeners if you don't remember the what like they couldn't meet with the coach because they he was dealing with a pr disaster because they served duck at a dinner he was handling pr because they the the team ducks

ate actual duck so fucking stupid anyways all right so in the winter of the best easter egg is Easter Egg is the Bash Brothers returning. Yes, this was fantastic. It's the only good part. This was the best part of the entire series, and it happened within the first five seconds. I was just going to say, one and done, baby. That's all it took. First episode was all downhill from there. In and out, quick.

Yep. Just a quick hitter, but it was awesome. It was. We got the bash brothers doing construction the construction brothers on the construction brothers i love that construction brothers rebuilding the ice palace we knew it was crumbling stumbling crumbling the ice palace i think you and i talked about this potentially offline or maybe in an episode previously. Is Bombay still in the basement while the construction's going on?

That's the real question. Where is Bombay while all of this is unfolding around him? Because last we saw, he was just barely getting back up and now, whoop, knocked right back down. Thanks to a cocoa machine fire. I feel like that's, you know, that was the pebble that started the avalanche at the ice palace. Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know? That's what, yeah, that's what Nick says. Nick says the cocoa machine caught fire, and then the place got condemned. Yep. It's all over. And you know Nick is the one who started that fire. Just grossly misusing the cocoa machine.

Yeah, he's the only one that ever used the cocoa machine. And you think Marnie just got sick of making him all those cocos and just was like, here, do it yourself. First of all, you mean Winnie. And then he fucked it up. Winnie, don't. Put some respect on her name, okay? Did I say Marnie on accident? You said Marnie, yeah. Not only are you disrespecting Winnie and name okay did i say marnie yeah no no that's not you you're

disrespecting winnie and then you're disrespecting marnie double disrespect listen that doesn't count that was just a pure accident that happens you gotta unacceptable no no that's it that's an easy they're basically same but different character in this season. Wow. Marnie is this season's Winnie. You know that. You know it's true. Well, yeah. She's the comic relief.

But, I mean, Winnie had a certain, you know, je ne sais quoi. Je ne sais quoi. You can't put, you know, a price tag or, you know or you couldn't define it. She's got that it factor. All right. Whatever you say. There's parallels. Shout out to M. Hane, the girl who played Winnie.

One of our many fallen soldiers from season one to season two. Yeah. And if you see Brandon on Instagram, go ahead and block that account when it follows you. Joke's on you. I got backups. All right. Anyways, you ready for the next category? Let's do it.

The next category is best character. Best character. And so for our rationale for this one is the main cast of ducks, right? Mm-hmm. So like. Like your main players, your main action. We're not looking at side characters, supporting characters. That comes. Side dishes at fries

You little bitch So my honorable mention was And he doesn't He starts off as a side character But then he becomes the main Cast of the Ducks So I'm going with With the main dish

AJ Lawrence the main course the entre can't can't can't falter there one bit brandon i loved aj his progression his acting his one-liners you know he almost due to poor writing he kind of stole the spotlight a little bit from nick the stick in a few moments right just because like nick's birthday right when he was like they turned him into a sad boy being weird about his birthday yeah that's not nick they didn't make dirty there um yeah but yeah anyway connor connor the guy who plays aj crushes it like he said he took the absolute garbage writing they gave him and weaved it into something something that truly touched all of our hearts yeah do you think he like da woo like that's what like people do for his nickname like that's his de wolf and they like to woo probably yeah he strikes me as a howler

you know yeah i feel like that'd be a fun nickname yeah i feel like if yeah if your last name is wolf yeah you gotta you gotta howl a couple times yeah or like it or like when he scores a goal oh now we're talking okay yeah yeah think about that when he's up in the minors and then it's just echoes throughout the arena that'd be pretty fun yeah we're on to something you think he gets drafted And then it's just echoes throughout the arena. That'd be pretty fun. Yeah. We're onto something. You think he gets drafted? All right. My honorable mention is Coop.

His acting chops. You're going to have to remind me of the dude's name that plays him. But he. Oh, gosh. It's Lucas Islam or something like that. He really stepped up like that. He, he really stepped up this season. He did a great job.

Um, his, his professionalism, his delivery, um, not Lucas, Luke Islam, his,

his delivery, his timing, all the above could have used a little bit more, um, of the music from his soul, but that's neither here nor there. Um, other than, Other than the little

landslide at the end where everybody is singing, does he sing at all? No, and he needs a ballad. Like, what are they doing? Like, give that guy He was on America's Got Talent for God's sake. Give him a fucking song. Jesus, give that guy some Barbara motherfucking Streisand, dude.

Like, and let him stretch those pipes remember when he did a personal concert for Nick's mom that was amazing and it was beautiful and I'm pretty sure wasn't it Barbara Streisand then too I don't know I can't remember that's too deep

why would you go back and watch season one? God, this is not worth it. But anyways, he was he's also in a musical that just came out last year on Netflix called 13. The musical. So go check that out. Yeah. All right. Well, the winner for the best character is Nick the Stick.

I believe. Outside of when, outside of his birthday episode, they did him dirty, but he was great all around there. Loved his interaction with the bartender at the Hampton Inn um when he went there right wasn't it oh yeah no it was uh oh hilton garden hilton garden inn yep and they wouldn't give that great product placement well although like listen if i'm hilton garden in i'm like listen you just made my front desk lady kind of look like a jerk she refused water to a young man who was this and lost and afraid and a cookie just what if you had low blood sugar or something right like what is this is the bartender came in clutch though what was what the bartender said he said if you if you stop talking i'll give

you a sprite or something like that yeah yeah that's exactly what he said. If you stop talking to me, I'll give you a spray. Good stuff. But yeah, Nick the Stick. Returning champion. He won the award for season one. Yeah. So returning champion. That Lightning McQueen birthday cake was pretty rad.

You know, Nick had a lot of good one-liners throughout again. You know, he's always quick with the quip Yep, yep He gives Rich Eisen a run for his money at the end there Oh, one No shocker to this podcast That Nick is a little more elevated than Rich Ooh, I'm gonna change

Here we go I'm gonna change one of my One of my honorable mentions down the line here. But anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nick the Stick, he's the best thing going in the show, obviously. Two seasons running, best character, champion. Maxwell Sims is the guy. Is it just Maxwell Sims?

Yeah. Get a little freestyle from him, too, when they're spitting. Maxwell Simpkins. I knew there was something else at the end of his last name. Simpkins. When they're in the stands. Crushes it, dude. When they're in the stands.

Crushes it. Nick starts spitting some rhymes, some mad dirt and grimes, Brandon. Did he rap last season? I know Maxwell Sims is like a – I think he put out like a rap album, if I'm not mistaken. Did he rap in season one? I have no idea. I can't remember. I don't think he did But yeah Like you were saying

Spirit of the Ducks Part 2 when they're in the stands He breaks out a rhyme A couple rhymes Starts talking about Jace and Sophie Going at it Yeah Phrase it different Anyways alright well

Let's move on to our Next category Brandon best Supporting character phrasing different but anyways all right well let's move on to our next category brandon best supporting character yep so here's the supporting the side characters um i'm gonna i'm gonna go a little left field with this one all right i'll be right i feel like i say that with every for every category so i'm gonna do something a little weird here, but so my best supporting character, even though she only gets like two or three lines in the entire show, she has,

and we don't even realize we don't even put a name to her face until like episode eight, but I'm going, I'm going with Rambo. Yeah. Justice for Rambo. Yeah, justice for Rambo. Free Rambo from the sidelines of this show. We saw some real promise in the little bits of interaction.

We saw some leadership. Yeah, she only had like three lines, but those three lines are fantastic. Nailed it. Rocked them. And she has one of the best character introductions by Nick the Stick, if you think back to right after the draft day. You got it. Nick's talking about all the other teams, and he goes,

one of the girls' legal first names is Rambo, which is a great fucking name. Love it. I'm stealing that for my future daughter. I don't know if I'll go first name. Love it. I'm stealing that for my future daughter. I don't know if I'll go first name. First name's a little aggressive, but middle name Rambo? Dude. Think someone's going to sign off on that? Yeah.

I'll just... She would have just given birth, okay? And she'll be sleepy and tired tired and she'll make the mistake of of letting me fill out the birth certificate information and i'm just gonna throw rambo in little name little little ramby little baby ramby you need to find yourself like a girl from a small town whose dad was like obsessed with rambo and made her watch it all the time and she'll be like we were we were just talking about we were just talking about how my type is midwestern art art teacher

so you know done yeah there her that that lady's dad is clearly obsessed with Rambo yeah easy you know who else loves Rambo big Mike give you oh goddamn right yeah has all of them has all of them has all of them on blu-ray or not blu-ray i think maybe i know he actually has he has them on dvd actually that i thought you would say 4k but he's no he's rocking that dvd set yes but he usually usually the vhs collection no just the dvds Wade's still there on Amazon Prime, and then he can hit his Alexa with the request, and it'll just pop right up on the TV. I got him a Fire Stick, you know what I mean?

There you go, yeah. I need to re-watch Rambo. It's been a while. Yeah, it's kind of a wild premise, honestly. Oh, it's a great map. Yeah, it's crazy. You watch it back, of a wild premise honestly yeah yeah it's great you watch it back and you're like wait what what's happening here who's the bad guy i don't i don't understand this um anyways all right so that's a good one um but let's get colonialism that's the bad guy god damn it okay and the winner for the best supporting character is you didn't you didn't give your honorable mention he just skipped right over

oh god damn it sorry brandon sorry listeners uh my honorable mention was fully right field and i said the rv uh the meth lab rv where they sold meth on their drive out to california to help pay for the camp and we're all crammed all six of them crammed into that rv or is it made it there made it home shout out rv did it make it home i don't think we ever we don't get confirmation that they made it back to minnesota well the show got canceled so maybe not yeah maybe that's they didn't get back oh shit they didn't get back oh shit they didn't make it because because right the last thing we see is them driving away we don't get any oh and then maybe we get like a real lord of the flies lost in the woods what's that

what's that isn't there a showtime show about that yellow jackets right maybe this it goes from breaking bad theme and on their drive out and then they have the camp that we see on disney and then on the way home their story turns into yellow jackets where you know you just got to survive in the woods by any means necessary brandon sometimes people die you know who's surviving in the woods is fucking rambo goddamn right but she's not in the in the bus in the rv maybe she you know who's not maybe alex maybe she's stowed away you know hiding in the the luggage compartment yeah anyways all right well sorry i skipped but the winner is marnie. Very anti-climactic. Great character. Great job. Great job.

Yeah, I fucked that up. Sorry. Marnie is awesome. She's the best. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Yes. You've done it. You won it.

She was one of the very, very few bright spots throughout the entire season. She crushes it. If not the only. Great comedic relief. And then, you know, we get a little love story at the end with her and Jauby. And we love love here on the podcast we do that's a fact that's a fact i have a i have a speaking of loving love i have a um going on a hinge date after this i gotta break out the uh what's the one minute of uninterrupted eye contact see please please do see if that see if that rattles um your upcoming hinge day make sure you lead with the podcast so that you can really make her question her decision what she did what she chose to spend her afternoon doing. I make it a point to never mention the podcast

when I'm going on hinge dates or talking to new prospective Midwestern art teachers. A wise choice, my friend. A wise choice. That's the information you drop when you're a month in. By the way. It's a bit too late for it to be a red flag Right? Exactly

We got a dope ass podcast That like 500 people Listen to So very generous Very generous So many listeners the millions and millions of listeners like the rock yeah greatest thing that's ever happened to the world i don't know about that that's a bit well i've heard he's kind of i heard he's sometimes not very nice which is sad because

god he's just he's so good we've talked about is sad because, God, he's just so good. We've talked about this before. He has the whole beef with Vin Diesel. He had that weird little— A lot of feedback recently. He had that weird little beef with Kevin Hart, but I think they're friends now. It's one of those things where, like, after the fourth time you have an issue working with somebody, you're probably the problem. Yeah, that's facts but speaking of the rock and kevin hart and we will move on from here central intelligence is one of my favorite movies ever i fucking love that movie it's a pretty solid

movie it's it's no jumanji welcome to the jungle have both of them on amazon video i've actually been doing this thing where because i have to buy buy like all my dog food on amazon i just buy everything on amazon but it has this little feature that if you wait like an extra two days they'll give you like little digital credits yeah um and so i just stack those digital credits and i get like little half price movies. So, you know, central intelligence, Jumanji actually just watched Jumanji last night as I was falling asleep. Brandon, there you go.

It was great. Jack black actually steals the show in that movie though. We may have talked about this, but it just, he absolutely steals the show in that movie. I fucking love Jack black. He's one of my, my favorite school of rock classic. One of the greatest movies.

Saving Silverman. Yep. Orange County. You know who Gulliver's Travels? So bad. I love it. Oh, my God. You know what's a ridiculous movie that I watched a couple weeks ago?

It's Shallow Hal. Oh, my God. That movie is absolutely ridiculous you know who you know who hates jack black though kelly why wants nothing to do with that guy weird yeah no jack i feel like he would be right up her alley he's a you know no i i have to rock the Jack Black movie solo. I'm going to watch them, you know. Jack Black's just fantastic. Even Tenacious D, great band. You know what?

Tribute is a fucking banger, dude. It's a banger and a bop and a jam all rolled into one. I sang, what is it? Like the Fucker Hard song to kelly not a big fan not a big fan of of that rendition that i because i we thought that song was just a song of songs in high school and middle school and so you know we would just be in the car and that was like the funny thing right you just you got a mix cd going and you're jamming and you know it's like bon jovi and then dmx you know and then all of a sudden you kind of mix cd are you making with bon jovi

and dmx you gotta you gotta keep people's senses guessing at all times when you're in that ride you know keep them moving keep them guessing you got to keep the people you know keep them keep them grooving obviously you didn't gravel travel very much as a kid brandon put a little case of beer in the i did you know what i'm travel i know i don't know about yeah yeah you put the case of beer in the trunk and you've got the like the i had the grand prix so you could put the the center of it and it reached back into the the trunk and so then you know your back seat would deliver the brews and you would gravel travel to the depot which was the 16 and over yikes dance club um in Norfolk Nebraska nice and that was

awesome we used to we used to do the the, uh, which is still going strong in Denver. There's like, I mean, there's like toad bridge and stuff like that too. You just gravel travel. You, you know, you pause places. The church was the, the church was the 16 and older club that we went to. What was your, what was your first cheap beer of choice when you first started getting drunk my first cheap like of choice that i that i chose or that was yeah just foisted upon me no no one that you were like fuck yeah let's go get this well i'm a comic colorado boy so it's

cool it's light through and through oh okay rocky rocky mountain water if you if i if i get a chance for rocky mountain water i take it we were eighth grade going into freshman year and we were all about the 30 racks of stones yeah so that that's that's usually what um you know like if i'm going to a if i was going to a party or whatever, um, and, um, you know, we're doing beer pong or whatever. And that's what everybody always brought was the 30 pack of stones or, uh, or,

uh, if you were, if you were, if you were slumming it with, with, with the poor kids rolling rock. Uh, that natty,

natty lights, but honestly, case of Bush is pretty much where you, any, everywhere you go in the, in the good life, you know, case of Bush Pretty much everywhere you go In the good life I hate Bush life I hate Bush in general Alright, sorry, we got a little off track I do though

George George W Kyle Kyle Bush The NASCAR driver Dude actually Have you been I hate them all

Have you been betting On the NASCAR I have a strict No Bush policy You're so stupid I hate you so much but like have you have you been have you been betting on the nascar races no no oh dude it's awesome you can do like top five top three winner you can do they do like you the verses like so you can okay you can do like a parlay of driver versus driver, whoever finishes higher in the pole. It's a lot of fun actually.

And then, you know, you just put that bad boy on your phone, you know, like I've got Fubo TV. Cause I, I had to have the red zone channel. You know what I mean? It just, it was too much. football games offered in southeastern united states were not you know especially early on when the jags were terrible and losing all the time before they went on that winning streak and the falcons and panthers and it was just you know got a little old so i hit red zone so i could get some good teams there you go in my viewing so anyways but that's what um you know kelly and i watch tv and then i'll just have

like the nascar race up on my phone there you go i went to the daytona 500 with my sister it was so much i would actually love to go back to a race and i would encourage every single person to go to a nascar race not only is it the greatest of all people watching that you will ever like, there's that number two, you can literally wear anything. Just maybe don't wear like a, I support Biden shirt, right? Like that's just, let's, let's be mindful of our surroundings. But other than that, all bets are off. Doesn't even no one, no one cares, you know, like it's, you can wear anything.

Then number three, you can bring your own cooler. Yeah. Yeah. We made vodka gummy bears because Heidi's a genius. There you go. I never. I was so drunk. It was insane.

I've never been to a NASCAR race, but I used to, when I was growing up, I used to go to, I don't even know if it's still around but there there was there was like two or three speedways out in uh out in the boonies of colorado you go to those yeah there's one up north that was like dirt track just some fucking demolition racing that's where it's oh that's fine that's Well, this was awesome though. Cause like, I mean, well doing anything with Heidi is really easy. Cause she's like, like she is so good at organized and detailed and planned fun. And it's, it's so awesome. And so she got us the tickets that came with the noise canceling headphone. And it was like, it looked like a game gear because do you remember game gears and and

you could use that to switch back like you could either listen to the broadcast that was like on fox or you could switch through to all the drivers um pit crews and stuff like that and you had the hand noise canceling headphones but like you know you could do you could there was like a setting on it where like you could like it was like not fully noise canceling so that people could talk to you and stuff um my only feedback was the lines to the bathrooms like people are bringing in their own coolers like you gotta gotta become equipped yeah you know get the get the troughs longer. You bring in a second empty cooler. Use that. Oh, God.

That's gently frowned upon. But I can tell you this. There was a lot of threes in the air for Dale that day. Woo! Yeah, dude. Because Dale Jr., I think that was like one of his last years when I went. I was, you know, go fast, turn left, NASCAR! Dude, praise Hale, praise hail praise dale oh god damn i just got a dale shirt t-shirt actually i remember when that happened dude

that was a heartbreaking day that was yeah actually so i paid zero attention to nascar and i cried that day well it was probably because i was like five years old you know i just cried about everything so i don't i don't know if i ever told you this i've told you pieces of this story but like you know i i worked for a minor league baseball team they were they were formerly known as yeah and named after dale earnhardt but like the fans there's this old lady who has been a season ticket holder since they were they were the piedmont boll weevils before they were the canapolis intimidators and she would like tell stories and she'd be like oh yes you know what that was that was the year we lost dale i'll never forget that absolutely that was the year we lost dale young man just an absolute tragedy yep there's there's when you're down in the south

there's there's two time frames you got to pay attention to before dale and after dale yeah yeah i also met jeff gordon with heidi we heidi heidi is a big jimmy johnson fan so we went to like that you could go to like the what is it hendrix was it hendrix or something like that anyways i said yeah it doesn't matter it doesn't matter and anyways we were there and we were taking pictures and i was like and i was like elbowing her and she's like what i'm taking a picture and i was like well i don't know that's jeff fucking gordon right there jeff Jeff Gordon's a northern boy, though. He's from fucking Indiana. Oh, I thought he was from California.

Is he? I just know he's not from the south, so a lot of the NASCAR people don't like him. I thought he was a California boy, and that made it even worse. Is he a California boy? Oh, yeah, that driver from California. I ain't supporting him, Brandon. No way, no how. You you're right my heart will always be with dale i thought he was from indiana but he's from vallejo talk about fucking yuppie

yep so anyways what is what is this the oc he was he was very very kind though brandon he was like hey guys you had some autographs and a picture and And we were like, yeah, that'd be cool. Vallejo's not in OC, by the way. That was the joke. Oh. It didn't seem like he got it. Vallejo is Northern California. I don't give a shit about your joke, Brandon.

I mean, apparently you skipped right over it. Anyways, I digress. Where were we? This is, damn it. this is what we did with the back end of these episodes we don't want to talk about cake eaters so we started talking about nascar we've gone through three three categories all right we gotta go fast we gotta go fast we gotta go fast all right then the fourth category is the best one-liner. Let's just speed through this. Let's get this over with.

Okay, so my one-liner honorable mention is AJ when he's telling Evan about how he's going to go run 10 miles before he sleeps. That way he can dream about running too. And then Evan does what he does does what he always does says something stupid and then aj responds with you say some you say some cool captain stuff man and then he runs away really good stuff i agree you say some cool captain stuff man i love it captain stuff we might be hearing more from aj again later mine Is for mine is from Or AJ The artist also known as Troy

And some early cake Eaters episodes You got that wrong so often It was ridiculous I know I was listening back I was like geez Louise Like how could I not get his fucking Name right there was like Two or, Louise, like, how could I not get his fucking name right?

Anyways, there's like two or three instances where I just let it go to you. I was just like, just whatever. Let's just keep it. All right. So mine is our boy Portman talking about our favorite place. Ice Palace. He says, yeah, dudes, I'm new on the job, but buckling is a bad thing. Know what I mean?

He went from Chicago bad boy to L.A. stoner boy. He's always been a stoner. I didn't pick up on it as a kid. Well, yeah, not as a kid you didn't pick up on it, but go back and watch the beginning scenes when he gets introduced in D2, and it reads read stoner 100%. Are you sure? Where's the eyes bloodshot? I don't

know if they went that far, but you know, the way he was dressed in the music he was listening to the dude was smoking weed. All right. Well, not to judge a book by its cover, but stoner not to not to judge, but just to judge. All right right and the winner of the best one-liner is

aj again saying commenting on the second pick damn it sorry i didn't know it's a working title it gets uh it's it's when aj gets passed up for the first pick because nick gets picked first right nick gets picked first by alex because she's the worst and then what what does aj say he turns to evan right does he turn to yes no Yes. No, it's just random kid. And he's like, ah, second pick. It's called adversity. Now I've got a chip on my shoulder. Yep. And that's the last thing you want to give a kid like AJ is.

Absolutely. Some motivation. Don't fuel his hate fire, baby. Bulletin board material. There you go. Oh, baby. Bulletin board material. There you go. Oh, man. All right. You ready for the next one?

Next one. Let's do it. Next category is best goal. This one was real tough. There's not a lot of great goals. A lot of the ones are just normal shots that they breeze right through. Because they only show, what, 30 seconds of hockey throughout the whole fucking season. Um,

so I just, out of default, the only one that like I can remember actually happening is Coop's dumb ass goal where they all pile in. And then he skates. Cause what does, what does he go? He goes up to the spirit of the ducks episode.

And he skates up to coach Alex sideways would be for the goalie to score. Right. What if I scored? And then I can't believe you picked that goal. It's the only one that I can remember. Name another goal. Yeah.

I don't know. I can't believe I just, you know, I was offended by that goal. You were offended by that goal. Like every person that hockey know I was offended by that goal you were offended by that goal like every person that hockey's was offended by that goal anyways you know what is a different goal it's even better Sam and his headbutt goal

that is a good one during the icebreaker that one that should have been him displaying how great he is as a goalie and not a goal scorer though so well let's see they're here nor they're still a good goal and the winner of the best goal is team canada flying v this was i loved it that was this was a great goal, although if I remember correctly, they were offsides when they did this. But it was great seeing somebody just give Coach Alex the finger and be like, fuck you.

I was just going to say, it's a beautiful thumb of the nose to Coach Alex from Coach T, and I loved it. I was fully there for it. I was rooting was fully there for i was rooting for team and i just i was i was rooting for coach t the entire time um and i just remembered he had a good one liner after that too when alex is like what are you doing the flying v on us for and he goes you don't own a letter or whatever he says good stuff fucking coach team man team canada flying v though that was, I love that. That was by far the best goal. Yeah.

All right. This next category, we can go quick as well. The next category is best team name. My honorable mention is again, coach T and his team, team Canada. Great name straight to the point.

Patriotic. Love it. Oh, Canada. great name straight to the point patriotic love it oh canada the names i know we we spent yeah like 30 with the episode where they tell us the names we i think we spent like 30 minutes talking about how terrible they are but they really are the fucking worst names. This was this, this category sprung from season one when they had the sickest fucking names, the best names in the goddamn world. And then to go from Nova stars, Nova stars, the Maroon marauders. My God.

What was, uh, I'll go back to, uh, so yeah, Nova stars is what won for season one. And then your honorable mention was Arctic Devils. And then we had the whole controversy on whether or not this was actually a team name or not.

Viper Freeze? Remember Viper Freeze, dude? Oh, dude. Made up name, but dope as fuck. It was either a team name or an energy drink i think that's what we we decided on yeah energy drink sponsorship is what i was really rooting for um that's what we that's that's what we need to throw on on uh i don't know it'll it'll probably tell us to take it down with a cease and desist but we need to throw a viper freeze t-shirt up on the on the merch store hell yeah oh dude they would never know um that's true my team name honorable mention

is dominate there's just no other option so there you go either that or accountability you know yeah or you know and so then the we can just the winner by default is mighty ducks because it's the only it's the only thing that was actually a team name. Yeah. All right. And not a fucking, you know, what's a core principle or whatever the fuck they're called. Yeah, exactly. And.

Goddamn corporate America ruining everything. And if they were going to have Alex call them the Mighty Ducks and all of the other team names should have been like team names and not like core values it just i do love how i i do love how in that that episode every everybody is like oh my they're like waiting with with bated breath like oh what's she gonna call her team name and it's like you guys made jerseys and hats for everybody you know what the fucking team name is why why do why at at worst marnie no marnie's the only one who knows and we we've we we have evidence throughout the whole season she's a blobber mouse she would have told everybody that they were the mighty ducks it's anyway that doesn't matter that scene where every single coach shouts the team name and then puts the hat on is so, so awful that it's pretty amazing. It's one of those things where it's like so, so terrible that it's hilarious.

I mean, I hate it. It's all terrible. And just to preface, the next category gets no honorable mentions because we just didn't even have any. So we're just going to rip through this and give it the winner. I was prepared to not award it this year, but then you brought up the scene that saved it, which is our Best Parent Award goes to Nick's Moms again. Got it. to nick's mom's again got it because of the lightning mcqueen cake and and them sending pre pre pre filled out birthday cards for his friends to just give to him and i mean the dedication the support the shipping costs for the summer it was they had to do that second to none

had to have dry ice or something to keep it cool. Yeah. Like, think about that. You know, we're going from Minneapolis, Minnesota to the greater L.A. area, right? Isn't that where they were at? They're in California. I assumed L.A., yeah. That's no shipping cost to sniff at, you know? No, no. And you know they're overnighting that, FedEx overnight or UPS overnight, you know no no and you know they're overnighting that fedex overnight or ups overnight you know absolutely so that's well we talked about it earlier but they've got to have some kind of

like i don't know if they own like a like a little fedex shop or something or if they get some kind of you know maybe they have an etsy store where they're shipping a lot of stuff i could see that and so they have a large scale um shipping supplies thanks to their etsy store yeah or they got a connect somewhere you know somehow but they're great people so that made would make sense oh yeah absolutely friends in high places for sure yeah all right um and the next category is best returning character. I think I've said this for every single category. There's not a lot to choose from here.

It was very tough picking good things to give awards to. This is tricky. So best returning character, my honorable mention, it's got to go to Portman, even though he was there for five seconds at the very beginning and then never showed up again. But it was fantastic to see Portman because he wasn't in season one when they all came back. So it was great for him. That was a nice little Easter egg to show up. I agree. I agree. was a nice little easter egg to show up i agree i agree um mine in that same boat is seeing fulton

back as a construction worker um now leading the job this is dude the construction bros coming in clutch i love it construction brothers you know they even did the they even did the chest bump too it was great yeah gotta gotta love it okay so and the winner of the best returning character is coach t this is obvious yes i fucking i lost my mind when he showed up at at the end i just wish they would have i wish they would have given him a little bit more. He was only there for an episode. I loved his little missed opportunity. I loved his little

Winnipeg backstory. That was nice. I think he should have been nicer to Canada. He was really mean though about Winnipeg. He was projecting. He's very bitter about what happened to him. And now he's projecting his anger on everybody and everything in his way.

He was just living large, poaching Twin Cities moms. Two at a time. That's a tough wake-up call. That was another great line when he was like, I had to dump both of my moms. Two at a time. That's a tough wake-up call. That was another great line when he was like, I had to dump both of my moms. Or both of the moms I was dating. He was dating his own moms.

Just to chip off the old Bombay block, huh? He was. I feel like even last year, even not last year. We could have done so much better. Even with season one, they like Coach T, because we talked about this, about how they have they have a lot of great ideas, but they just never get fleshed out or they're executed wrong. Coach T is another one of those where it should have been. It should have been more. It was mishandled for sure um and so next category is best ongoing storyline there was not a lot to choose from brandon but

what do you have no they they did a this season i feel like they did a really awkward and weird job of having everything in that episode get kind of resolved in the episode like there's there's not a lot of like long-term storytelling it's all very episode episode by episode so ongoing storylines was tough but i picked um something near and dear to my heart heath which is the dead mom, Jace's dead mom. Because as we find out at the end of the fucking season, they spent 10 years ignoring the entire situation, which is mind-boggling. How you don't address a dead family member for 10 years.

No wonder the dude's a sad boy. Yeah. As a child child you know like you gotta get a get that stuff out you know if that if you bottle it up you're gonna combust a little bit maybe even have a glitch in your shot yeah get the yips you're uh you're gonna be the brett maher you know. Remember that guy's yips in the playoffs? Yikes. I was thinking, what's like the famous –

You did the Nebraska Cornhuskers dirty there. What's the famous baseball one? Oh, Chuck Knobloch, right? The yips with Chuck Knobloch. I think he's like the most famous case. He quit being able to throw the ball to first base again, right? Something like that, yeah. From third?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. All right. My honorable mention is just the evolution of Marnie as, you know, gracious and loving secretary.

And then it blossoms into a love story with the weirdo Toby. You know, she, she aids in a beds, Alex and smuggling the children out of the camp and then throws Alex under the bus. And that was great. Oh no.

That's what Alex said. Remember the person you're mad at? Yeah. Oh, she had another that i now i now i wish i would have put this as my one-liner but she had one during that conversation with coach cole where she goes uh what does she say something along the lines of i did what i did and i can't be blamed. Yes. Great woman. That's really good.

But yeah, that's my honorable mention. And then the winner of the best ongoing storyline is Coach T's redemption. Or failed redemption. We love a good Phoenix rising from the ashes, Brandon, but not quite rising all the way. Rising about halfway from the ashes and then getting burnt again. But yeah, again, like we talked about, Coach T is fantastic. And then, yeah, him coming back at the end was great. Again, I wish they would have done a little more and handled it a little better, but it was still a great great uh great ongoing storyline best

one for sure absolutely brandon um not much to add there coach t love him um and the next category is best episode so my another tough one yeah my honorable mention is episode nine summer breezers um again because it's the the dead mom episode which was just that conversation was ridiculous and unbelievable you know they don't he doesn't how do you not talk about your your dead wife dead mom for 10 goddamn years 10 years and then then he drops the bombshell where he's like you know why i put the camp right here by this lake because it's your mom's favorite spot and jace is like why the fuck would you never tell me that that's it's just stupid i hate it communicate people talk to each other for the love of god my honorable mention is the coach classic um i just thought it was hilarious that maya

obviously learned horrible gambling habits from her dad who was yelling in the garage um and i bet you i bet you maya's out there betting on nascar for sure well listen brandon as a low stakes gambling expert um i could have taught these kids a thing or two while this is all going down that's all i said they they were they were not low-stakes gambling. They were betting the farm. Yeah. Well, they ate the farm is what happened instead of... Oh, it's good stuff.

But that was my favorite. I thought that was kind of just a fun, charming episode, even though, you know, it was very... Nick came and saved the day. Yep. Classic Nick. Yep. Classic Nick. And the winner of the best episode is Lights Out. So this is the season finale.

Coach T, the game with Coach T and the Scouts, Team Canada versus Team Dominate Ducks. Would have been better if Canada had won. Ooh, there we go. The Duckinators. Why didn't we call them that the duckinators but yeah it would have been would have been better if coach t had truly gotten his full redemption but but best episode out of the bunch because you got coach t got all that and it was the end it's over you know we don't have to wrap in this wrapping this bad boy up and spending no more time on it is the best thing that could have happened exactly you know let's there we go all right uh the next category is best couple best couple for this one i went with uh for my honorable mention i went with gertie and sam

they had a nice blossoming uh friendship that towards the end i think kind of took on a little bit of more of a romantic aspect yep sam's gonna go visit alaska that sounds tight yeah hopefully he has two two to three weeks to get there yeah Yeah. He's got to carve out some time just in case. Because what did Gertie say? Like you go to the – you fly in. You go to the dock. Yeah, you got to wait, right, for the mail. The seaplane.

A, you got to wait for the pilot. And then she said something along the lines of you have to wait until there's a more there's more passengers enough to fill the plane god knows how long that's going to take yeah could be it could be a week there with seaplane captain you know jim she did she gave she gave him a name i forget what the name was it wasn't jim but it was something well whatever either way doesn't matter good pick my honorable mention um a little bit right field here again it wasn't Jim, but it was something. Well, whatever. Either way. Good pick. My honorable mention, a little bit right field here again, is Nick and Pucky.

You know, we really saw that friendship strengthen and that bond grow through the trials and tribulations of being way underqualified for an elite performance hockey camp. Yep, yep, yep. Nick was in way over his head, but thank God Pucky was there. Yep, exactly. And the winner of the best couple is Marnie and Toby. Oh, yeah. True love blossomed, Brandon.

Hashtag couple goals. That date that they took over that they they put on and so they took over yeah it's beautiful it's hashtag romance one minute of uninterrupted eye contact man it works please please do that technique as much as possible. Start doing one minute of Kelly loves it. She makes us do this sometimes of like, we do eye contact things. Yeah. I'm all,

I'm all about eye contact. I just don't know if you start off the first date with it. Yeah. Yeah. That might be a little aggressive. Yeah. That's more of like a, you know,

that, that, that's something I would do after I mentioned that I have the podcast, you know, like one, two months. so that's deep. That's deep in the,

in the dating. You know, we're at six months here. Don't want, don't, don't want to give, give any excuses to slide out of the DM. All right.

So the next category is best friendship um so this this one i have uh my honorable mention barney again crushing crushing these these cakeys here pod fave and coach cole her and coach cole's relationship i thought it was nice um i loved their little dynamic that they had back and forth. Yeah. Especially, like, the – whenever she has the conversations with him and she thinks she's in trouble, those are all great. The I did what I did and I can't be blamed line, fantastic.

I mean, she was the heart and soul of the elite performance ice center like that place is not running even though and anyone could have made the mistake of sending the invites to the wrong ducks like that's anyone could have made that mistake that was very confusing but think about like the way marnie came in clutch with the food fight cleanup. Food fight cleanup. Get over here, people. This is what we've been preparing for. Fully prepared staff.

Thanks to Marnie. Yep. Yep. And then she was. A sort of best friend does for another friend's elite performance. Ice Center. Exactly. And she's not afraid to to tell coach cole when he's

wrong you know like there's at the i think it's the summer summer breezers the ninth uh episode where they skip out on the they all skip out on the final game and they go to the lake there's a scene where coach cole and marnie figure out they're at the lake and coach cole's like marnie you need to go over there you need to yell at them and you need to tell them to come play hockey. And she goes, no, I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to go sit in the shade, look into my boyfriend's eyes for one minute and have the time of my life. I'm going to, I'm going to go full coach Alex on you and just have a mutiny. Boom. Done. All right.

My best friendship is Nick and Evanan they'll always be best friends no matter what they go through they're there for each other boom done that's fair that's fair and the winner of the best friendship is aj and kube and this is a good one this is a good one. This is a great one. And again, And they fucked it up. We needed more. Let's be honest. Yep. The blossoming friendship

of Coob and AJ after he had Coob pay for his autograph. Amazing. So much missed opportunity in there. The amount of things that they waited

until the 8th, 9th, and 10th episode to do is insane. Think of all the duets we could have had. Yeah. All the one-liners we missed out on. All the, you know. It's just heartbreaking.

But a great friendship. Great friendship. Yeah. We loved it. Singing Landslide together, dude. Well. Took my love and you took it down what more do you need in a friend other than a landslide partner that's you know i just see my reflection

okay let's go next one next category is pheasant of the team so i originally and we we made this up because everyone sucks yeah yeah so it's pheasant of the team is the the least valuable player the worst person on the worst guy on the team but so i originally had kube as my pheasant for honorable mention because Coop is the worst goalie that's ever, ever lived. Raised youth hockey. Ever lived. But in the midst of this episode, this conversation we're having, I'm changing it. And my pheasant, my honorable mention for pheasant of the team is rich eisen you really got i hope we can get rich on

the podcast so you and him can just clear the air and he can and he can give you the why as to why his publicist or whoever i think it was whoever from his team signed on for this travesty i think it was the last episode when i bring up the fact that, I mean, my ill will is not towards Rich Eisen, the person. Because, I mean, I'm not going to fault you for taking the job, taking the bag. You know, go get your money, Rich. Do it. Props to you there. Going to get that Disney money.

Exactly. But, like, I mean, it's the character of Richard Eisen that he's playing in the show, you know? And he should have given feedback and been like, you guys, this character. You're making me look like a fucking jerk, dude. Yeah, like a huge tool. And kind of a weirdo. Why does he know the middle school gossip? Why the fuck does he know what's going on?

Exactly. Like, this is Disney grooming all over. Exactly. And he stole. Rich Eisen involved in children's social lives. Yeah. That just didn't make any sense at all. I can't.

And he stole. Go ahead. He stole. He stole this job from MJ and Terry. Our true friends of the pod, MJ and Terry. Shout out to Leah and Mark. I need some justice for those. Friends of the program.

You know, near and dear friends. Yeah. And they got robbed by fucking Rich Eisen. Yeah. Sick bastard. All right. your friends yeah and they got robbed by fucking rich eisen yeah sick bastard all right um my honorable mention i receive rich eisen if i ever see rich eisen in person i'm gonna kick him in the shins oh my god you're gonna get arrested for an assault why would you take him in the shins and then you look him in the eye and you go you know why rich you fucking know why but but he wouldn't and so that's just damn it all right so my honorable mention is fries you are a pheasant if you are a side dish and not an entree boom done roasted boom roasted

okay who's our winner who's our who's our pheasant and our winner is unfortunately nick pick the stick i mean he doesn't good at hockey nope he doesn't be honest he doesn't get any better throughout the season no and then at the very end he gets hurt and everybody's like oh thank god you got hurt just yeah like gtfo yeah what does he say what does he say when he's like sophie's trying to uh uh comfort him and he's like you need to sophie's like you need to do what i did and you just you know sit it out and relax and he goes what are you talking about everybody everybody did a mutiny when you got injured and they threw the sticks it's like throw throwing your sticks for me right now throw them in let's go pheasant of the team as much as much as we love Nick, what's he say in the first season?

He's got more of a podcast body. Yep. Yep. And we see it really shining through. You know, when it's him and Jace down at the end, it's just, you know, it's a sad day. Great character. Not the best at hockey. And sometimes that's just how it goes in life in a middle school.

But the opposite of the pheasant is our next category, the team MVP. And so for your pheasant on the team, you pick the side dish. For my team MVP, I'm going entree, main course. AJ Lawrence. You think he's like a T-Bone with a little bit of like a pad of garlic butter on top of that bad boy melting down? He's a tomahawk steak. Tomahawk. Ooh, okay.

Anyways, all right. Team MVP, yours is AJ. Of course, he's the best hockey player at the camp. He is the best actor in the show. AJ's awesome. Mine is Rambo, just because she showed a lot of leadership in Team Dominate and

really, really showed through when they helped pick the captain. She's a solid player and should have gotten more run. She should have. Rambo. Fucking Rambo. And the winner, kind of a shocker is evan yeah i mean he evan showed the most growth as a hockey player you gotta give him his due he dedicated himself to hockey he really got he got the most out of this camp yep he put in the work. He quit talking about it, started being about it.

Exactly. He dumped his mom. He dumped his girlfriend. Dead weight. He found a new girlfriend. Hockey. Rambo. Oh. No. I don't think so. Was there any? No, no, no. Yours is

great. I just guessed Rambo, but I didn't see where you were going with it. He says that to – when he's having that heart-to-heart with Nick. That's right. He's like, maybe I should just date Hockey. Hockey's my new girlfriend. Yeah, you're right. So, yeah.

And then he scores the game-winning goal, shootout at the end. So as much flack as we give the character of evan he did you know this season he did the best he did the thing he did the thing and didn't he talk to that d3 school too right like a little d3 school in minnesota and i love that journey for evan i think it was wisconsin yeah but like a like a scrappy D three hockey player is the perfect journey for Evan. Yeah. Loved it. Dude.

I would have, I would have fucking loved to play D three sports. I was been fucking crushing it out there. Yeah. What about crushing it on and off the court or actually I would have been, I would have been playing at some like, you know, school in the middle of fucking bumfuck Kansas or Oklahoma.

Moorhead State. I think that's in Minnesota. That's Kentucky. Moorhead State. All right. And the next category is the biggest missed opportunity. And this is the entire series, but we can narrow it down to three go ahead well yeah this one we could talk for for days about yeah we may just have to do an episode about like how this whole series in itself was a missed opportunity yeah like collectively season

one was good season one was good enough it wasn't great yeah it got through but like this last season was absolutely it was hot garbage it was a chore it was a a a spit to the face of all ducks fans in america yeah in the world across the world it was a shit kick that's what it was yeah yeah disney just pissed in all of our cheerios that's what they did that's what they get paid to do that's it all right um what's your biggest one honorable mention so i have two i have two written down um so i'm just gonna say both of them uh and we already mentioned my first one a little bit which is the coach t redemption arc again i wanted more coach t you know have him come in maybe a couple episodes before the last episode give us some more meat to chew on with coach t and what would have really

been great although now that the the series has been cancelled to end it like this would have been terrible you would have for sure needed a season three if you would let coach T win at the end let him fucking beat him let him get his redemption I agree

you would need a season three for you know the old trilogy thing. The rubber match. Yeah, the rubber match for the Ducks to win again. Yeah, exactly. Or fuck it. End the whole series with Coach T and Team Canada beating the Ducks.

End it right there. I'd be fine with that. Disney had the framework. Talk about a fucking curveball, dude. Season two is, you know, when the empire strikes back yeah it's a classic trilogy uh story yeah we're on the in the second part you lose you get knocked down yeah and then you gotta get back you know you gotta be fuck this is exactly what one of the greatest bands of all time chumpawumbaamba, was talking about, Brandon.

When you get knocked down, you must get up again. And they're never going to keep you down. Well, I mean, now that it's canceled, they can't get back up. They're forever down. But that was my first honorable mention was was the coach t redemption my second one which we've talked about as well is god damn where the fuck is mj and terry i feel like you talked to you you belabored that enough i feel like i feel like they didn't bring them back as a personal slight to me and you they were like love. It's not to me. It's no skin off my back.

No offense. I love them. You know, big fans of the podcast. You know, friends of the podcast. Friends of the program. Mark Chavez. He did us all a huge favor and he came on and talked to us one of the episodes, which if you haven't listened to that, go back and listen to that. It's easily our best episode

because Mark's fucking hilarious and the best. he deserves a better heath okay right he deserves better than rich fucking eisen um my biggest missed opportunity is that they had an opportunity to actually do money ball with the last pick in the draft and follow the framework and like bill like think of how much better that team like that storyline would have been if they actually built a team of scrappy underdogs using money ball and the statistics that coach cole built against him and so they work hard they put in the effort and then they scrap their way to the top they did i i agree with you this speaks to a lot of their missed opportunities and a lot of the issues with this this season is they bring they have a good idea and they they implement it but then they either immediately backtrack or forget about it.

So they have the draft day episode where Nick's like, oh, I can moneyball this shit. Let's do it. Then they don't do it. They spend half an episode and then the first game, which is what? Which is the next episode, right? Episode five is when they do the first game. And they get destroyed like 12 nothing and nick walks into the locker room and he throws away his binder and goes well i fucked up guys

and it's like well now like let's why are we giving you so quick like you just didn't actually do money ball you just drafted all the fucking ducks yeah it. It's one of the. It's not money ball. Yeah. They just. Well, they use money ball for like fry. The money ball theory for like fries and Gertie. But like. Two people.

Two people on the team. Cool. They don't flush it out at all. They have like. I hated it. A solid idea. And then they ruin it. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyways. Fucking rich. All right. idea and then they ruin it yeah yeah anyways fucking rich all right and the winner of the biggest missed opportunity is the duckless tv show so it wasn't completely duckless obviously we had portman and it was two duckless at the pride of the ducks yeah we had two ducks but they were only there for five seconds at the very beginning of the show and then not a single duck after that and they talked about the knuckle puck non-stop and they didn't have fucking keenan yep yeah they had disgrace a true disgrace they had coach coach alex teach him the fucking knuckle puck and it turned it into a heat

seeking missile and just anyways and who she who taught her the knuckle puck nobody ever taught her the knuckle puck how does she know how to do it just doesn't make any sense how do you not have any goddamn ducks in and how does alex have no hockey skill and then she can teach a hyper precision specialty shot? Yeah. It's, yeah. How do you have an episode entitled Spirit of the Ducks and you don't have any ducks? You don't even have Fulton Portman come back. Yeah.

It's disgusting. So, anyways. Unbelievable. Anyways. All right. In our final category, we can get this over with is, and I'll arguably the most important category coming,

coming from a couple of ball guys, like us coming from people, two people with the worst hair. Yeah. Let's talk about appreciation for it. The best flow. And so my honorable mention um is and this is i think this is the first time we're talking about him uh is is good old paul remember paul i'm no not really but remind the listeners so paul isate. Okay. He shows up for a little bit.

You see him in the practice scenes for, you know, right before Nick's birthday when Evan's being a fucking weirdo. Yep. You see him a couple times there. And then his real shining moment is in episode nine when they're doing the food fight scene. And Sophie freaks out. And she's like, why are we being terrible to each other? This is summer camp. real shining moment is in episode nine when they're doing the food fight scene and sophie freaks out and she's like why are we being terrible to each other this is summer camp we should have been being best friends like take a look at this guy and she points to paul and she goes what's your name paul paul's your name paul paul could have been a fucking what does she say the best

man at her wedding i don't think that's what she says but that's what she knows is the best paul could have been made of honor. Maid of honor. Yeah. Exactly. Man of honor. I don't know if the titles change. I don't. Who knows?

Don't get into that. But Paul. And then you see he's in a bunch of other scenes in the. Like he's in the background of a bunch of scenes in the last episode. But he's got a great, great head of hair. It's, you know. It's bouncy. It's shiny. It's shiny.

It's, you know. Love it. Bounces off the light. You know, I'm bouncing off the walls again. Whoa. My honorable. Anyways, my honorable mention is Maya. No dry shampoo there, Brandon.

That is just, you know some some great uh you know beautiful maybe use some pantene pro v right is that a or herbal essence right like is that a good that's a good shampoo right i used to use that as a kid those ones was that the one with like the incredibly sexually suggestive commercials oh yeah oh yeah in the shower and it smelled like a whole like rainforest in the shower i was all about those herbal essences shampoos my dad used to make fun of me but i loved them so did you get it as much out of those shampoos as the girls in the commercials did heath no no um but they did smell delightful good that's good so and the winner of the best flow is coach t cleaning up coach t he was an honorable mention uh for season one for best flow and now um he's taking home the taking on the cakey because he's got fantastic fantastic here

technically four with the flying v logan or cakey's logan who won this last season um is gone so that freed up freed up that spot for Coach T. Team Canada. There's a reason he's dating two different moms. You know? Yeah. And it's the flow. It's the flow.

It's the flow. And as the kids say, Heath, the Riz. Got it. Love it. The Riz. Riz Biz. Okay.'s that's those are our categories we got through it we figured it out let's let's rip through these rapid fire superlatives and let's let's end this with a little bit of pizzazz unlike the show you ready? Let's do it.

Superlative category. The first one is most likely to succeed. Rambo. 100%. Easy. That's an easy one. Okay. Mine's AJ. You know, second overall pick chip on his shoulder. Nothing's

going to hold that dude back. That's fair. That's fair.'s fair yep uh next category most likely to commit tax fraud i forgot about this this is my favorite category i'm gonna go i'm gonna go rich rich goddamn eisen because he steals everything else in life you you listen to this government yeah irs you know start checking the beefed up irs now they're going they're going beast mode yeah 87 000 new agents go check out eyes and ink yeah that's where you start that's the tip of the iceberg uh mine is toby okay yeah that that's he's cutting some corners he's cutting some corners Mine is Toby. Okay, yeah, yeah.

That checks out. He's cutting some corners. He's cutting some corners. But he would get out of it with one minute of uninterrupted eye contact. He would flip that IRS agent real quick. Yeah, any detective, he would shatter their minds. The next category is Mr. or Miss Congeniality. And for me and for the listeners clarification this is just like the nicest one right yeah okay yeah um miss miss congeniality like the the movie with sandra bolak uh my can my miss congeniality mr miss congeniality is Marnie. Good choice.

Mine is Nick. Nick and Marnie. Imagine Miss Congeniality, the movie with Stephanie Weir is her name, right? Stephanie Weir. Yeah. Oh my God. She would just run circles around Sandra Bullock.

I think Sandra Bullock did a great job in that movie. I'm not a fan of Sandra. You know, Big Bill Shat Daddy, he crushed it in there, too. Don't use that name. That's the worst nickname ever, dude. It was the worst nickname. There's something on the wing.

Something. Dude, I fucking. He should put that on his gravestone. I love that fucking Twilight Zone episode, though. That's so good. I'm a sucker for Twilight Zone, though. You know who was on an episode of the Twilight Zone? Who? though that's so good i'm a sucker for twilight the twilight zone though anyway you know you know who was on an episode of the twilight zone yeah friend of the program mark chavez terry oh shout

out yeah check it out i forget it's he's he's on the one with uh topher grace same episode i forget i forget the name of the episode it's one of the newer ones so the next category is who would win the hunger games is this even a question fucking rambo oh that's a that's a good answer i said coach jack first the first coach jackie would fuck people up coach jackie's pretty solid but the the first rambo movie first blood i'm pretty sure is a Hunger Games. It's a Hunger Games scenario. He's running through the woods. Rambo. Killing all the army dudes.

Rambo. Love it. Coach Jackie and Rambo. That would be a pretty sick fight to the death. The next category is Class Clown. Class Clown. Class Clown. It's got to be Nick.

And I said Marnie. And that's interweavable Class Clowns. I think Marnie might win out. Nick might be able to drop some sicker rhymes. But Marnie had some better quips. Marnie was way more of comedic relief in the season than nick was um but nick you know nick's hilarious yeah so all right and our last category is most likely to grow a playoff beard playoff beard i gotta go with i gotta go with my best flow honorable mention again here. I got to go Paul.

Yeah, the flow into the beard. Flow into the beard. He would look like a lumberjack. What's the big myth lumberjack? Paul Bunyan. Paul Bunyan. That's what I was going for. His name's even Paul. It's Paul, too.

Perfect. Paul fucking Bunyan. Paul Bunyan. That's what I was going for. His name's even Paul. It's Paul too. Perfect. Paul fucking Bunyan. There you go. I said Coop because he didn't wash his socks last year. He sure would grow a playoff beard once he can. Yeah, that makes sense. He's got, he's super, although he was not very, he was superstitious last season. But not very stitious.

Yeah, he was just, just stitious this season. Yeah, he was just stitious this season. A little stitious. A little stitious. So, anyways, all right. That is the Golden Kinkies. That is a wrap on Game Changers. Well, actually, it's not a wrap. We're going to talk next episode because.

Cancellation. it got it got canceled along with a couple other disney plus shows game changers is a risky tweet from the early 2000s it's fucking canceled boys boom so we're next episode we'll talk about that uh kind of go through it and then i do want to do one episode heath where we we maybe pitch some ideas on how with with how with season one and season two going exactly the same how you would fix game changers so like do you have like ideas for a pot for our season three maybe even more maybe even season 10 well this season if the ice palace would have collapsed upon bombay and leading to his tragic demise would have been a much better way to start it and then having the kids sell meth out of the rv on their way to the camp to pay for it and then on their way home yellow jackets they get lost in

the woods you know kube hunger gets eaten because rambo style like kube trips breaks his leg it goes sour they realize he's not gonna make it there's a lot um you know there's a lot of meat on those bones and he becomes a snack that is my that is my and they end up having to eat coob and then season three they have to like fight through the trial and there's like trauma flashbacks as they're on the ice and they keep losing and getting the gifts in Michigan. They should be on trial. That's what we do. Season four, we do your pitch for season three.

Season four, we have a Game Changers Law and Order crossover. Get Mariska Hargitay on here. Ice tea. That's season four. And they have to go through the investigation and the trial while they're in the middle of the hockey season Thanks for listening, everyone. Please remember to follow and like us on Instagram at TheCakeEatersPod, on Twitter at The Cake Eaters. Also reach out to us via email, thecakeeaterspod at gmail.com or visit our website, thecakeeaterspod.com.