The Cake Eaters - 59. D2: An Ode to Team Iceland

Episode Date: June 6, 2023

Heath & Brandon continue their D2 deep dive conversations. For today's episode, the boys are talking about everyone's favorite villain, Team Iceland. They talk through why Team Iceland was chosen, how Disney fudged up the player names when it comes to the Icelandic language, Bombay and Maria's love affair, the one-two punch of Gunnar Stahl and Olaf Sanderson, Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson's beach ball crushing intimidation, and then Heath gives us a bunch of fun facts about our friends in Iceland. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

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We're back to D2. We went through every painstaking second of D2 before we switched over to Game Changers. And now we're circling back. Painstaking is the wrong word, Brandon. That's fair because it's a fantastic movie. But we're circling back, Heath. We're circling back because we left some meat on the bones. So we're going to do a bunch of deep dives for D2, intermixed with some side movies from the cast and crew.

But today's our first episode deep diving into D2. What are we talking about, Heath? We're talking about Iceland, Brandon. You know, this D2 is like an X you just can't get rid of. We are boomeranging right on back to it. An X you don't want to get rid of. And, you know, to quote Andy Dwyer from Parks and Recreation, Iceland?

Bad guys from Mighty Ducks ducks 2 i don't think so it wants to be germany they've never been the bad guys they've never done anything wrong no no but no brandon that's we're talking about that scene in parks and rec is fantastic because he brings up she's like uh she's like you want to be she say you want to be Japan and he's like the bad kids from Karate Kid 2 no thank you yeah and then he ends up

policing everyone for their lions and holds all of the world's lion resources that Model UN episode is probably the best episode of Parks and Rec it's up there for sure. It's so goddamn good. He's facing lions. Didn't he trade or was it April

that traded the moon? Right? I don't know, Brandon. But for this episode of the podcast, we're doing just a quick dig into the bad guys from mighty ducks to yes it's iceland the iceland vikings it's a hot topic people people were very confused when it

came out and i think i still still are very confused as to why and how it's iceland yeah tell us brandon why when was it Iceland well because Iceland's fucking badass first of all they're god damn Vikings but no the reason they chose from the research I've been able to do the reason Stephen Brill chose Iceland

he was originally thinking Canada but I think he got some pushback on that initially i believe because this movie thinks about the canadians as a bad guy anyways and the movie is going to come out it's a hockey movie it's going to come out in canada you want the canadians to watch it you don't want you know that's that's alienate your audience it's a good chunk of your target market right there you don't want to you don't want to alienate them and so they needed somebody besides that and that's i think that's

why they also left canada out altogether just to avoid that i didn't want to cross that bridge because i mean it is weird that you don't have canada the country of canada in a hockey movie and you got fucking trinidad and tobago, which honestly great choice. Amazing. Because this came out the same year or a year after Cool Runnings, right? I think Cool Runnings was 92. So to not to take us completely off the rails

right at the beginning, but in our Trinidad and Tobago hockey movie to make the Junior Goodwill games, they upset Canada in the finals, and that's how they make the final the final qualifying yeah yeah yeah to qualify for the junior goodwill games and so that's why there's no canada in this junior goodwill games because the powerhouse that was Trinidad and Tobago in the 90s. Took them down.

The David Slade Goliath. The giant was slain. Yeah. Took them down. Get back to Iceland. That's why Canada's not really in the movies because they didn't want to alienate a good chunk of the target market. And so Steve Brill was

trying to come up with another villain and his roommate at the time him and his roommate at the time had a friend named maria and uh i think she lived in they were the really good friends where they lived in the same apartment complex something like that my facts are askew but essentially but maria was born and raised in iceland and so uh they just happened to be best friends while they while steven was writing the second movie needed an antagonist you already got maria right there and she can be your your go-to resource for all iceland throw them in there and then she's in the movie too gets a nice nice part in the movie

great choice in the end like it's even though it didn't make sense i think that the end they did a good job of portraying them as bad guys because they did the dentist is like the greatest bad guy coach outside of coach reilly they did the perfect build up within the movie like within before you even get to the first iceland game they did a perfect build up within the movie like within before you even get to the first iceland game they did a perfect build up of making it believable that they were the they were the top dogs because you had everybody was like oh iceland oh iceland yeah you know and when we get introduced to portman who is just knocking everyone around and he is brought onto the team specifically because of iceland so that's already putting a little worm in there. You're going to need the goon for Iceland is what Tybalt tells Bombay.

Yeah, so that means they're big and nasty. But yeah, so they did a really good job of making it, at least within the context of the movie, making it believable that Iceland is the big powerhouse. And I think long, I think like long-term wise, I think it worked in their benefit

that it was such a weird choice. Yeah. Because I think the controversy keeps it interesting. And everybody's like, oh, why? I think if you put Canada or if you put even like russia it's like as a bad guy yeah yeah i think it doesn't have the same

intrigue as like what the fuck is israel doing here yeah like look at these just big bastards because now we'll we'll dig into my fun facts in a second let's start with a breakdown of the team, though. Okay, go ahead. Because, so we have, obviously we got Wolf the Dentist Stanton, head coach, leader. You're going down, Bombay. I thought this was America, Heath. What happened to free speech?

But, yeah, Wolf crushing the beach ball, fantastic. Greatest, one of the greatest sports sports villains in cinema description of him he oh so good you know knocked out more teeth than goals he was banished from the league he's not allowed like you know banned from the country i think yeah yeah that's what it is it's it's just the the mysticism behind him he's just the perfect perfect the Pat Riley hair yep it's just all the black suits black suit yeah so slick back hair black suit looking menacing yeah so you have him and then you got his his two right hand man you have the the great Gunner stall yeah he's the the captain and the the

leading forward for for team iceland good game captain duck played by played by scott white so you're gonna stall then you got um the muscle olaf sanderson oof bad guy the one-two punch with gunner and olaf was was great yeah it really was because sanderson was just a mean son of a gun sanderson i think is is the like the true villain the underrated one i i would say i would say looking back james and sanderson are the two most underrated aspects of this movie yeah because i think they they they get lost in the shuffle with all the other ducks and all the other people but those two i think are incredibly pivotal to how this movie goes yeah because you need sanderson on the ice being that bad of a bad guy in order to like bring the drama like committing assaults yes and because like just making the ducks feel like

really undersized underdogs you know that have to rally to do it so yeah yeah sanderson and then so and then we also have the they those are the only two iceland people uh or iceland team members um that we touch on we got coach stanson Maria, who's the trainer, right? I think she's the trainer. And then we got Gunnar and Olaf, but there's also a ton of other Iceland people that we, we see and we interact with inside the game, but they don't really have any lines, but I'm going to run off. I'm going to run off the rest of team Iceland for you. Okay. You ready?

Yeah. So we, we started with, with number nine, Gunnar Stahl. We had number 27, Olaf Sanderson. We also have number eight, Wessel. Number 74, Ubrjavik. Number five, Amslik. Number two, Bergman. 37 is Bayer, and that's B-A-J-E-R. I think that's how you'd say it, Bayer, right?

Yeah, I don't know. 32, Thorson. 28, Stedersen. 22, which is Vries. That's V-R-I-E-S. I think Vries is how you'd say that, right? Okay, yeah, maybe. Number 15 is Hort. That's H-O-O-R-S. I think Vries is how you'd say that, right? Okay, yeah, maybe. Number 15

is Hort. That's H-O-O-R-T. Ooh, Hort. Number 3 is Segi, and I believe that's the goalie, is S-E-G-G-I, Segi. Yeah, because that's who Kenny Wu beats on a little bit. And then there was also a number

42 that I saw running around, but I could not confirm the name on that. But that's Team Iceland. You'll notice that maybe three of them have something that could pass as an Icelandic name. Yeah, they weren't super on the nose with like authenticity but they just you would think they have names you would think they had maria right there she could you know help us out try to you know get us a better understanding of the icelandic language

and the culture around names because yeah stall makes no sense that's more Swedish than anything and then there's a bunch of like Slavic like any all the X like Uberjavic Amzalik that's like Slavic there's only like Sanderson kind

of works although to be officially Icelandic you need another S need another S in there Stanson, Wolf Stanson fits perfectly though that's an Icelandic name through and through Thorason follows the rules

so to break it I'm going to break down the rules break down the rules so i break down the rules but i also think you just get you get caught up in some of the weirdest fucking semantic shit when we do these movies like thinking about like some of the breakdowns we've done brandon and like the flags and like these are things these are things that like i don't even think about thinking about while we're watching it let alone like spending time researching to time. It's just,

it's wild. The stuff that you, you know, when you, when you spend 10 hours watching a movie, this is what happens. That's true. All right.

All right. So just anyway, that was just, that was just my aside. This feels very much like the flag breakdown. This is incredibly nitpicky for sure. Go ahead. But it's the, it's, it's the Icelandic language. We should, you know,

pay some respects. But the rule, the rules are, so they have, so in, in Icelandic culture, the tradition is to introduce people by their first name only, or by their first and last name, you would never ever call somebody by just their last name or introduce them by just their first name only or by their first and last name. You would never, ever call somebody by just their last name or introduce them by just their last name. It's just not

part of that culture. I think their coach, I think Wolf never always calls them by their first names. I think you're back now. So keep going. Yeah. I can only remember him and Olaf. I don't think he calls out anybody else

but um but so they have they have two versions of how your last name kind of goes right so essentially you're named after your father okay so like if you're if my dad was named John, my last name would be Johnson with two S's. Or if that's for men. For women, the last name would be John Dottir. I think that's how you'd say it. D-O-T-T-I-R. So it's your father's name and then the gendered suffix. So son

if you're a man, dotir if you're a girl. I think in the last couple years they introduced a non-binary version. So you can do that with your names. There are in some cases you can substitute

your mom's name for your dad's name or substitute your dad's middle name like you can you can play around with it it's not a hard set dad whatever but that's the traditional go-to yeah and then um usually uh the other thing i found is usually when when icelandic people move outside of the country, they tend to adopt whatever country they move to's name and style. So if they moved to America, then the last name would just stay the same throughout.

This way, everybody's last name kind of shifts. You don't have a family name. Usually the... And so all of these names... Gunnerstall doesn't fit. You need a son. Olaf Sanderson would work.

But like I said, we need two S's on son. So you'd have to throw another S in there. Thorason. Perfect. Great Icelandic last name. Stidnorsson. Great last name again. And then Stanson. Wolf the dentist.

Again, perfect Icelandic name. Everybody else got lost in the weeds. Like I said, it's very nitpicky, but we have Maria right there. Run it by her. She'd be able to fix all this for you i mean i don't even know how to

comment on this brandon it's just it's i'm just saying if you google um mighty ducks to iceland this is one of the big things that comes up is people are very upset about the name oh really about the names yeah i mean it does sound like they did a trash job, though. It's just, you know, it's lazy. Let's do better next time. Next time we have Iceland as the bad guys, we're going to call Heath and Brandon for some naming. I would call Maria. I wouldn't call me.

I'm not Icelandic. I got all Maria. I wouldn't call me. I, I'm not a scientific. I got all that. Yeah. Yeah. I would not use me as your source. But all right. So, and if we think about the top moments of Iceland in the movie, Brandon, I think press conference first when Wolf, the dentist jumps in to start intimidating them right off the bat. Right. And then I think the first game with the absolute bloodbath that is ducks versus Iceland, or I guess, sorry, before the first game.

Oh, I skipped one of my favorite parts. It's the Maria day where we get Bombay and Maria on the ice cream date where, you know, we learn that Iceland is very nice and Greenland is covered in ice. You and that fucking quote, you bring that, that quote up every time, every,

any chance you get, any chance you get. I have to, it's my favorite. So then we get the Maria date and we get Portman and Fulton eavesdropping. Ice cream with the enemy. I will get to that later, Brandon. Hold your horses on that.

So ice cream with the enemy. I know we talked about this when we were doing the breakdown, but let's delve into this a little bit here. Do you think that ice cream date was on the up and up, or do you think there was espionage going on? I think it was on the up and up. I think it was two good-looking individuals out

in California, and, you know, Bombay is Hollywood. Just before he turns into Hollywood Bombay, he's got his Miata convertible. He's got his beach house on the water, you know. He's got his contract coming in hot for the air Bombays that you can tell her about. Do you think he brought her back to the townhome or the condo or whatever it is? Do you think he sealed the deal?

Listen, I don't know if he did, but you know it was at least pitched. You know he threw it out there. I don't know if he closed said pitch, but I know he at least was at least trying to throw something at the wall see if it's there and it ends up being a very key moment in the movie whether it was

espionage or not because i'm with you i'm with you though i think it was on the up and up i don't think it was espionage Maria seemed very sweet you know there's the scene later on the practice scene where Bombay's got his arm around

Michelle right? and it cuts to Maria and she's looking heartbroken yeah real salty i said that in the breakdown salty as hell is what i mean i would be too we had a great freaking just we had a great night out on the town getting ice cream and then you fucking you know don't be at the first chance got your arm around the tutor get the fuck out of here and i think you brought it up too there's there's no chance that like bombay 100 ghosted her there's

no chance that he had a conversation where he was like i don't think this we should we should end this he just straight stopped talking to her yeah he just she was just like i thought we had something and he was like had what yeah he's like we we got ice cream literally two days ago bombay what's going on yeah man it's bombay's for sure a ghoster yeah and that leads into the first game because portman and fulton are pissed and that first game is an absolute train wreck that's where we get some of our favorite moments with julie the cat that's where we get our favorite moment with portman where he's cracking that stool. That's where Gunner and Olaf, hey there, need some help with your pads?

And they draw the penalty. Orbin comes back out into the penalty box. Tries to fight Olaf in the penalty box. Two minutes, well worth it. And so we get that line from Olaf. That's great. That first game is an absolute beatdown of your boy Goldberg, too. They make Goldberg look like the worst thing that's ever happened to hockey.

I agree. He is. I agree. Just garbage. They made him look that way. isn't he ends up doing okay in the membrane i will say leader the leader goldberg you need bombay left him out to dry in this game yeah he should have been pulled a lot quicker and you know julie the cat just unfortunately she let the gunner and olaf get in her head

well i mean she's been she's pissed she's been sitting on the bench the whole time and it's like the only time you're gonna put me into the game bombays and we're already down 12 to nothing yeah that's true i i get where the frustration's coming from you know yeah exactly um but then after the first game we we get the uh before the last game we get the practice skate with the this is this is the thing i always think of with wolf is when he's when he crushes the beach ball like a boss dude yeah when he this is when he becomes like a real bad guy though when he takes the cheap shot. Wolf takes the cheap shot at Bombay's need when they're playing the three posts. We talked about this on the breakdown.

They're playing the three posts, and Bombay is being a real piece of shit. He really is. He's being a real fucker with his trash talk. Real sore loser. He's being a sore winner. A sore winner, yeah. He's being a real, because he his trash real sore loser sore winner yeah he's being a real he's up at that point Kelly claims that I'm a sore winner but I think

she just doesn't appreciate my subtle trash talk no you're a sore winner I'll double up Kelly you're a sore winner oh my god i'm actually offended by that i'm kelly continues to not listen to our podcast and never hears this because that validation is not something she needs i did i tell you i won our family monopoly game it was glorious i set up a murderer's row so yeah you the when you told me

that story your eyes got big and you started smiling when you were talking about how much you destroyed your poor mother yeah mama d was just she was left with nothing oh god it was glorious um but yeah the crushing of the beach ball and the also fantastic wolf fully established as and that's where like olaf is a chip off the old block with Wolf. Wolf and Olaf. That's the one-two punch of ultimate bad guy. Whereas Gunner starts out as like being all bought in, but then he sees the duck way in the end, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. Cause at the end, Wolf essentially blames him for missing the shot. He's like, way to go, dude. You lost it. Yeah. And Gunner's like whoa whoa whoa Let's slow your roll here Dentist okay Yeah Collected more teeth than goals

Brandon that's just how we do Yeah I do I was a little upset that they doubled How They like watching back I was a little upset how they doubled how they like watching back. I was a little upset how they handled Wolf at the end. Yeah, because it was just weird because they had him double down on Gunner and be like and put the blame on Gunner and tell him how terrible he is. But then like two seconds later, him and Bombay have like a moment, like a closure moment moment where they're like we're not we're not too different and just it felt weird for him to double down on gunner and

then go back to listen brandon let me clear this up for you the double down on gunner and then gunner's response to the double down is what was the aha moment for wolf and at that moment that was that grinch moment where his heart grew three times that day he was like man if gunner my guy is gonna say these things to me maybe he's right maybe i am being a little bit of a a dick i i get that i just wish they would have let that breathe a little more or give us a little more. My issue is it was just too quick of a jump.

Daenerys Targaryen all over again, right? All of a sudden, she's just murdering women and children endlessly on the back of a dragon. First of all, not all of a sudden. If you go back and you rewatch that, she's been murdering people the entire fucking time. was never dead she was never the good guy when she i forget it like you forget that she literally like crucified yeah the entire like by the by the time ruling

class she by the yeah by the time she meets up with uh with p Peter Dinklage What's his name? What's his character's name? The guy Peter Dinklage plays By the time she meets up with them She has committed at least She has committed at least three genocides She did have a few War crimes

For sure Every once in a while you have to crucify the ruling class to make sure people know who's in charge brandon that's just tail as old as time i know i'm waiting i'm waiting let's do this sorry all right so and then like the we kind of talked about the last game already but the last game the final standoff where iceland is icelanding the entire first half and then the usa ducks come out and oh my goodness the circus comes to town man yeah well the circus comes to town in the second period and that's where um you know kenny's fighting the goalie and that's you know that was the turning point, though, Brandon.

Kenny got in the goalie's head right there, and that goalie, Segi, never recovered. We mentioned it multiple times, or I mentioned it at least, where, yeah, Kenny goes after Segi, and not a single motherfucking Iceland guy comes to his defense. Like, where's Olaf? Where the fuck is Olaf? Kenny scoring a goal and then punching the goalie

multiple times. Kenny should have been destroyed by Olaf. That's the one time where I'm like, Olaf, if you want to commit assault, that's the moment you do it. Kenny humbled them very quickly, though. And that goalie never recovered

and he got lit up after that that was the turning point for the goalie for sure the other turning point was Dwayne roping it up oh roping Sanderson Sanderson never knew he was rattled after that did the rope come

before Kenny Wu? I'm wondering if that's why. I'm wondering if that's why. I'm wondering if Olaf was in the penalty box, and that's why he didn't go after Kenny. Do you think that was? Probably.

I'd have to go back and double check, but that would make sense. Yeah, I think you're right with that. But either way, it's just, you know, the goalie never truly recovered after getting the one-two punch from K. He had a – and he had a – poor Segi, dude. He had a rough game. It wasn't just that. He got the –

The ice shower. The ice shower from Luis. Again, that's another – that's another – Olaf, go commit assault. That's another fucking warrant right there. And then he – it's in the shootout,out right where Fulton slapshots him in the dome and he falls down. That poor goalie. Poor goalie.

But yeah, that last game and then Wolf the dentist comes around, but those are really our four players from. We're missing one of the best parts from the last game though with the knuckle puck in Stanson.

They're goalie! So good. The way he screams that is amazing. That's... Oh man, and just absolute terror as Russ pops out. Watching the Junior goodwill championship

yeah it's just it's all falling apart from there but it's really good stuff in the end but yeah that's maria wolf gunner olaf those were our four key players as The core four, as I call them. I like that, actually. The core four. The core four, the Iceland bad guys. Do you have any other top moments of the hockey breakdown? Otherwise, I have 15-ish

really amazing facts about Iceland. Team Iceland was fantastic. Fantastic bad guy. Wolf, we beat this to death. Wolf the Dentist Stanson is the best villain

of all of these movies. The creme de la creme. As much as I love Coach Riley. Wolf is better. Wolf is, yeah. The slick back hair, the all black dude the the beach ball dude the beach ball is what does it and like the that's how you that's how you know that they know they're a bad guy is when they crush a beach ball well he he has like tall tales made about him

like that's how that's how legendary he is that he literally has like the youth tales that that take place the elementary school fables you know um and and that's why he will forever be a legend yeah um well are you ready for some of these fun facts brandon because this is good shit yeah break us down some Iceland fun facts here Heath so we know um from my idiocy in a previous episode that the official language of Iceland is Icelandic but did you know that in Icelandic there are over 100 words for wind that makes no sense so it has to be super windy there i guess like i should have done a lot more research on iceland like i mean i didn't really get into like you know top topography and and geography and all that good stuff and and the weather forecasting but like

you know it's i'm assuming that it must be windy because it's an island kind of in the northern area. So that makes sense. It's an island. It's a relatively small island, relatively. Like, it's not as big – it's definitely not as big as the British Isles, I don't think. No. Or Ireland. So, yeah.

A soft wind, a hard wind, a wet wind. Yeah, I imagine that's what all the Yeah, it's just like Different describers Different adjectives thrown in there But a hundred different ones Do you have some examples? No, no, it didn't give any examples

It didn't even give a link to it But speaking of it being a small island Guess what the population is Roughly, 2022 census. It's not very big. I want to say it's like 200,000, right? Something like that? Close, but a bit short, 387K-ish.

Ooh, okay. So, I mean, thinking about that, though, that's smaller than Omaha. Yeah, that's real small. Remember when they made the World Cup? Fascinating. I mean, thinking about that, though, that's smaller than Omaha. Yeah, that's real small. Remember when they made the World Cup? Fascinating. That was the highlight of my life. Dude, how can you not root for Iceland after some of these fun facts? The only indigenous land mammal is the Arctic fox.

And I don't know if you've ever seen an arctic fox picture before but they are adorable like that is that is something that rich people turn into a pet and you're like okay i see why but is that okay like we're not sure but geez they really are very cute yeah so um you know i love the videos where they're like uh they're like hunting rabbits in the snow and they're just like jumping like no like a dive bomb into the snow and yeah they like pop out with like a little mouse yeah like like sonar hunting with their ears for you know exactly where it is uh it's it's really great. That's the only

indigenous land mammal though? Yeah. Weird. The best known Icelandic musician Bjork. Yeah. Do I know Bjork songs?

I remember it was... Didn't Bjork wear the swan at the mtv movie awards and like she was like the first person that wore an insane outfit at the mtv movie awards not everyone just wears insane shit all the time she yeah that's the swan dress i don't know if that was the first weird dress but all right well it's the first year that was that was definitely her um you would you would know songs though okay i just have to i just have to google it a little bit deeper um this next fun fact ties back to detail and i loved everything about this an ice cream date is considered the

perfect first date so bomb so doubling down on maria being super salty at bombay just ghosting her he took her in the eyes of a beautiful icelandic woman he took her on the perfect first date to have an american take you on the perfect icelandic first date in california brandon how could you not fall in love dude's about to have his own fucking sneaker coming out bombay really did maria dirty now that i think about it man i'm just it's all because she's just you know she wasn't a mom yep it's the only reason why um this fun fact will go down in history is my favorite fun fact that i've ever found i love christmas brandon my family loves christmas my my parents house is like santa's workshop vomited at every inch of it. Every room has its own custom decorated Christmas

tree that matches the color of the room. Like that was my Christmas growing up. That's how much I love Christmas. But the Icelandic Christmas, dude, we might have been missing the mark on our Christmas. Because in Iceland, they have roughly 13 Santas. 13? 13 Santas. Because the children get visited by the 13 Yule Lads. Is it like Hanukkah where it's like a separate night? Yes. Or does it all come at once?

Okay. No, no, no. They are visited on 13 separate, 13 days. So the children place a shoe in the bedroom window every evening, 13 days before Christmas. And every night, one of the Yule lads will visit, have to like Find pictures of them Because I feel like I need like 13 T-shirts of like the 13 Yule lads and just like that's Going to be like my new tradition of pre

Gaming my way up to Christmas Is the 13 Yule Lads this is really Fantastic shit um are You excited to hear me butcher these Names yes yes absolutely because i so one of the yule lads his name is potas liquor potas liquor okay hot liquor and he likes to steal leftovers.

Nice. So fucking look out for that dude stealing your leftovers. Like this is like that dude is the shittiest roommate that you've ever had in college. Just taking your leftover pizza that you were looking forward to all day at class. That's who fucking Botezlica is. I'm saying these with like german pronunciations so yeah you're you're getting real german with it and then there's and then this i only had two examples um and then there's uh or something like that and this is an individual who likes to slam doors during the night okay there you go i was wondering if any of them were going to be um spooky like if they're like a krampus level evil i mean i don know about you, but having some asshole running through my house slamming doors in the middle of the night is a little creepy.

I would scare the shit out of me. If you were a kid waiting for Christmas and you knew that. Suddenly it's just. So it's, it's, theyming door so it's they're visited each a separate night yes do they come in a specific order or is it random I didn't

get into the order but I'm assuming it's a specific order because each Yule lad has their own personality in like idiosyncrasies like steal leftovers slam doors like they each have their own shtick that they go through um and then that's reflected in the gifts in the prank so like the dude slamming doors maybe he gives you a doorstep dude stealing leftovers you get a shoe full of potato mashed potatoes if you've been you've been

bad all year ah fucking shoe full of mashed potatoes again damn it shouldn't have gotten sent to the principal's office so many times but if they're if they're coming on a specific day it's like like if you know if you know the door slamming guy is coming tonight you can yeah yeah you're like okay we're gonna get some door slams but if it's like random and you're like fuck which night's door slamming guy just and and to never know when your leftovers are gonna get stolen that's a it's a real bum deal. What happens if there's no leftovers?

Does he get like fucking pissed? He'll probably eat your face. I don't know. It's the only, it's the only next logical step. I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to look more into this. Cause I,

I love, I love Christmas. Like the, you know, Hallmark Christmas movies. Like we talked about before. Yeah. And I, I really love Like weird

Folklore around Christmas Because every like country Or like region has their own Has their own like Krampus figure Like the opposite of Santa Claus That's there to fuck shit up I love those little folklore legends I bet you

One of these Yule lads is just like Like he'll if you were a terrible person He's gonna slit your stomach open or something Yeah oh yeah dude You'll wake up and he's like peeing in your mouth Oh That was too much That was too much

That wasn't Wait wait wasn't it Dwight when he sings about like The kid sucking it's thumb And then the dude cuts the thumbs off of the kids when Dwight is reading the children's stories of his old German?

I agree with what he says, but yeah, it's like warning not to suck thumbs. There's also the weird little nursery rhyme that he says where he's talking about getting eaten in your sleep. Yeah. And Michael's like, quit scaring the kids with your sleep. Yeah. And Michael's like, quit scaring the kids with your Nazi

grandma stories. The Germans with Krampus, that's like the best one. The best anti-Santa. There's some fucking scary ones, though. A lot scarier than just getting beat in the mouth.

That was, like, not scary enough and way too gross. The suggestion. Got a little weird here. But, like, in all seriousness, like, I love Christmas, and usually, like, our Christmas traditions are we just, we do our own, like, 25 days of Christmas. It's all Christmas movies and TV shows from December 1st until December 25th. And then it's usually really fun.

Kelly's mom sends us like a fun package of gifts and we open those and we do all that. But now we've never had anything leading up to Christmas. And now you got the the 13 yule lads dude you know you know who would hate someone running through the doors the house slamming doors in the middle of the night kelly she would she would really not like uh hurrah skiller don't don't invite them in are they like vampires do you have to invite them in no no they like vampires? Do you have to invite them in? No, no. They're just coming, man. They're just coming with gifts and pranks. So saddle up, partner.

Do you think they'll make the trip out here, or are they strictly island bound? We don't know that. We don't know the route or the bounds of their magic. magic but this this this christmas you should you need to you need to like set up an inviting like you need to get like uh you need to make it look like they're welcomed into your home um maybe do some more maybe do some more research on exactly what each one does before you invite them into your home but but you like make it as you know like like if you get authentic as possible yeah like do you want to see you an. Yeah. Do an authentic Icelandic Christmas. Yeah. And see if that, if that, if that like baits them over here,

if they come over and say, hi. Well, I can't do it super authentic. Cause I, I am going back to Nebraska for the first, my mom has been counting the years that I have not been back. It's been like, I think we're at seven or eight. And so eight it's been like i think we're at seven or eight and so eight it's i think it's at eight and eight years is too close to ten and ten years not being back for christmas is too long yeah yeah so there you go so kelly gets her first uh christmas in wayne nebraska she gets her first

white dog christmas kelly might experience a hallmark christmas movie well i mean she could if she wasn't you know with you oh that's true that's true that's i forgot maybe we maybe we fall maybe we fall deeper in love than we ever have been before right like it's like that's a better suggestion than i would i was gonna say maybe you do like a ross and rachel break oh geez brandon no this is where like you know it's you you've been living in the city and doing the hustle and then that's true you got you should you should have like a little tiff before you before you go out there just yeah like yeah it's like a big fight and it's like oh what's going on and then we get back there and we realize that love is little little mistletoe under the white white dog door you know

oh my gosh the mistletoe at the white dog christmas that's where love fucking happens right there man that's what i'm saying uh anyways uh but it leading up to wayne america christmas for kelly and i we're hitting up the 13 yule lads there you go that's what it's gonna be all about um all right i've got like five left five or six left are you ready for these okay yeah yeah sorry um they love books that was a that was a fun fact that popped up multiple times people from iceland love to read and they love to read books so interesting okay yeah i haven't read a book book and well i guess the last like book i read was 13 rings or 11 rings sorry um the phil jackson oh yeah i love i love like 13 i meant 11 rings is this some weird Lord of the Ring oh dude I wish that'd

be awesome that was the last book I read I've read a lot of graphic novels like the darkest night I didn't really count that as a book you know we got some really sick graphic novels but they they love books so okay um it is the safest country in the world makes sense yeah and i mean there's only a 387 000 people like yeah there's not a lot to police on an island There's probably a lot of self-governing as well. If I remember correctly, it's very consolidated, too. Yeah. There's like two or three cities. And then you have the little rural farms and all that kind of stuff.

But mostly everybody lives within those. Do you have any food fun facts on there? I didn't do any food fun facts. What's their dish? Google that while didn't do any food fun facts. Like what's their, what's their like dish. Google that. Well, I give you this next fun fact. Google the,

the main food of Iceland, because this next is how to ask for a refill in Icelandic, because they say 10 more drops, Brandon, that's how you want to coffee, a beer, anything, 10 more drops. And it's called

Teodropartak. Teodropartak. Okay. And that's 10 more drops. Give me a refill of this beer. So I thought that was fun. There's a

mountain of natural hot springs and pools. So you're there. They're world famous for the springs. Yeah. You're swimming there all year round. Have you ever did you go to the hot springs out here? In Colorado? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's fun. I went to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Don't sleep on that place. It's actually it was like Vegas in like the 20s, like during like the pool houses it's got tons and tons of pool houses for the hot springs and like people come from everywhere with like massive jugs to fill up the water out of the hot springs and it's delicious water you know you can't blame them but um but yeah hot springs arkansas it's surprisingly a. And so there's like all kinds of like soap shops and stuff because it's got all the bathhouses. It's good stuff.

But really, the bathhouses, you're just, you know, it's like a hot tub with a whole bunch of people. I'll say a bathhouse is not my thing. Yeah, but it was fun. Like it was it was it was fun times. You know, it's a it's a weird little place to go visit. So I would recommend. Did you get the food of Iceland yet? I got some here, yeah.

Yeah. So it's a lot of lamb and sheep. Okay. That makes sense. Sheep's head, smoked lamb, sour rams testicles little like Rocky Mountain oysters stuff there and then it's and then a lot of seafood

so like fish stew dried fish which looks real weird I don't know how I feel about dry fish I'd have to try it though I mean dry fish Icelandic delicacy I bet it's great I love trying new stuff I'd have to try it, though. I mean, dry fish. The Icelandic delicacy. Yeah.

I bet it's great. I love trying new stuff. I'd love to cover it with salted butter and then eat it like you would a movie snack. Okay. Oh, interesting. I kept thinking of it with some crackers or something. No, because it's dried fish. So you wouldn't need to crunch. Yeah, it has its own crunch. They look like little straws. Yeah. no because it's dried fish so it's like so you wouldn't it's like a like a little yeah yeah it

has its own crunch it's like a they look like little little straws yeah yeah yeah like little minnow or whatever yeah um fish stew lobster all that kind of stuff that makes sense that makes sense um well i only have one last fun fact for us, Brandon. And it was that celebrities are meh. Like no one, no one in Icelandork is sitting in the coffee shop with them doing the exact same thing is a very normal practice or like the mayor writing his, like all of their like high profile political officials will just ride their bike down the road. Nope. Sweat. Like, you know, there's, there's no celebrity. No one cares. Sounds nice.

It does sound like I wish that people cared a lot less about celebrity here. Yeah, they care too much. And then they also put people on a pedestal because everyone sucks. Yeah, real quick to put people

on pedestals. Yeah, everybody sucks. Especially celebrities. Yeah, especially people in power because they didn't get there the nice way no well celebrities athletes like if you don't think that that person is kind of an asshole like some of them are nice i'm sure but the 99 percentile everybody sucks anyways that's uh that's all my fun facts but the the christmas the 13 yule lads if that is let me know reason enough let me know how that goes i want to see if any let me know if any of them stop by the the next stop on the list i feel like is you know now that my passport has

been stamped and punched a few times in latin amer, I feel like it's time to just get Iceland in there. I really want to go to Iceland, too. Got to do it. And check it out. All right, cool. Well, and on that, everyone go out and I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy 13 Yule Lads. Thanks for listening, everyone. Please remember to follow and like us on Instagram at TheCakeEatersPod, on Twitter at TheCakeEaters. Also reach out to us via email, TheCakeEatersPod at gmail.com or visit our website, thecakeeaterspod.com.