The Cake Eaters - 6. Game Changers Episode 6: Spirit of the Ducks

Episode Date: July 6, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss Coach T's single mom seduction, the acting chops of former Ducks, a proper unicorn pancake, wedding invitation etiquette, how to handle failure, and then break down the rest of Episode 6 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+.   Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod)   Email us at [e-mail]

Remember, it's not worth winning if you can't win! Welcome to the Cake Eaters podcast. It's tarps off time, boys. Let's get some top shelf bar down skis while we're out here playing. Always those bar down skis for sure. Maybe when we're at it, maybe crush some sandals. Happies and slappies, boys. Let's do this.

Fur da. Pitter patter, let's go. Welcome back to the cake eaters podcast uh if you are not familiar with the show letter kenny we just blessed you with some beautiful sweet talk from riley and jonesy in honor of one of our favorite characters the beloved coach t the new bad guy coach of the ducks who was featured in just a great way. Coach T and Stephanie. We get some shining coach T moments throughout this episode. He's, he's, he's fully focused on. It's great.

Which I was not, I was not expecting because the, for those that don't know the name of this episode, Spirit of the Ducks. So we're talking, it's the reunion show. All the old ducks are coming back. So I was not expecting any, I was not expecting a lot of coach t but i'm glad it happened yeah it was great we saw some great coach t shine we saw coach t and stephanie teaming up what an unstoppable duo of shitty persons it's just it's it honestly was it's so great they're two of my favorite characters the show oh they them and nick have to be that it's them nick and winnie those are the the four shining characters for me those are my top four when he's when he's just okay but man stephanie brings the

heat in every scene that she's in and like like, she's so good at like every scene. She's just like, God, you're the worst. Yeah. You want to, you want to punch her in the face after every, every interaction.

And that's how, you know, she's killing. That's how you know that she's, she's out there doing her job. Exactly. But so, so this,

this episode starts off with, because the cliffhanger of the last episode was Evan possibly rejoining the Ducks. He got – Trevor let him know that Coach T wanted to talk to him about the Ducks. And so that's how the episode kicks off is Evan going to the Ducks facility. And we get – I loved it because the way they set it up. I don't know if anybody else got this. They set it up. They set it up.

They, they set the, the, the way the scene unfolds is exactly like shot for shot. The exact same way that the, the end of money ball goes down when Billy bean is interviewing at the red socks. He's like walking in and he's looking at the state. Evan's looking at the facility all by himself.

You see coach T up, up he's looking at the state. Evan's looking at the facility all by himself. You see Coach T up top looking at him. He's got coffee in the little press box. It reminded me of Moneyball to a fucking T. I love everything about that, and I hope that was the writer's intention throughout it. I hope that was their inspiration for sure. So they're back up top. Yeah, so we got Evan walking in.

Number one, shouldn't even be there. No. Shouldn't even be there. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I would – you got to take the meeting. You got to take the meeting. You got to hear him out.

Dude, your mom is the coach though like that's that's like but but she's the worst coach it doesn't it doesn't matter she's out here like embarrassing herself every night that they play and this ungrateful little son of a gun is she's about to jump ship on her. She's not embarrassing herself. She's not embarrassing herself. She sits in the bench and doesn't do anything. She doesn't embarrass herself.

She does sometimes say hilarious things because she doesn't know what she's talking about. But she's hitting her stride. But Evan, you know, he got a taste. He wants to taste the realness. I did love the Coach T red carpet treatment. They got coffee, protein bar, organic green juice. And then Evan's confused. Why am I here?

What am I doing here, Coach T? You cut me. This conversation is great because Coach t is not having a conversation with evan he's just talking at him whenever whenever evan responds with a question coach t does not answer it he just moves on and ignores it it's just classic gaslighting exactly and one of my favorites is like, he addresses Sophie or Sophie, Sophie, handsome bot. Yeah. She choked. She stood up for herself and left the team.

She couldn't cut it. That's. He doesn't even respond back with couldn't cut it. He immediately changes subjects. He doesn't even address what Evan said. He's just like, boom onto the next thing. That's right. And then the other person gets hurt and he says he's they're wearing one of those things with velcro and we in hinges and a hint yeah with velcro and a hinge on it uh so yeah it's not looking good coach t coming in bringing the heat right coach t says because evan asks if if the kid who got hurt is okay like how is it looking and coach t says well he's got one of those crazy contraptions so it's not looking good

but it could be looking good for you evan because i got a spot now if you want to join the ducks you want to you know get get back together with the boys take the the tarps off, we can get this going. Yeah. And I also love that Evan, he had a nice rebuttal where he was like, well, we're on a winning streak. I like the don't bother us. We're on a winning streak. And Coach T correctly goes, one game, Evan, one game. Yeah.

It was wrong. Shouldn't have cut you. I think it's later on in the episode when they're talking again and Evan is like, he's like, why'd you cut me? You cut me. Why do you want me back on the team? And Coach T goes, no, no, no, no. I didn't cut you.

I challenged you. And he rose to the challenge. That was so good. That was just a master manipulator. Oh, classic. That was such a great line. I challenged you, and you rose to that challenge. Exactly.

You led your team to the W. Your season's almost over. And I love how he's like, listen, you can qualify for states with the Ducks. And Evan, for a second, is like, maybe we can do it with the Don't Bothers. But it seems like no, no, no. Coach T throws in a final haymaker talking about college listen i know college is expensive it's hard for single moms oh yes a lot of them killer line right there yes he says i know what life is like as a single mom i've

because i've dated so many of them which dated plenty of them. I mean, granted, do we know if – have we gotten any backstory on if Coach T and Bombay have ever interacted? I'm not sure if he would have played for Bombay because when they listed when he played for the Ducks, it feels like it wasn't that long ago, but it maybe was some of Bombay's last years, but I'm not for sure. Yeah, they say he played three years for the Ducks, which makes sense when he was 12, 13, and 14. They don't mention what years.

I would love to know if Bombay was his coach. I doubt it. It doesn't seem like it. They don't seem familiar. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, because – There's not that familiarity and, like, there's not that acknowledgement.

And so I think it's just a sim. There were two ships passing in the night. But, I mean, it would have made sense if he played for Bombay, you know, and comes from – if he would have came from the Bombay coaching tree. Yeah, because he is a chip off the old block. He knows. Oh, he's got the single mom radar dialed in. Just like Bombay.

Just like Bombay. He's playing his cards right. He knows, okay, single mom, potential star player. I mean, like Flam. Exactly. For playing time. But he's been there through the good and the bad. You know, he's seen the stresses.

So he knows how hard it is to pay for college. And so getting those scholarships is where it's at. And so, you know, he's given Evan something to think about. And I just, I want to hate Evan for this, but you kind of feel bad for him. Like you're kind of like, you can kind of understand it. He's a kid, and Coach T is a master manipulator. Yeah, and like I said, if you're in Evan's situation,

you at least take the meeting. You at least go, you chat with him, you see what it's about. My favorite thing is how he just continuously talked down to evan like he wasn't like a real person that was my i also uh like did you hear the part when evan was like yeah i mean my mom still checked and comes in the middle of the night to check to see if i'm breathing. Yeah. And doesn't Coach T, right after that, I think Coach G says, you know what? You get it, Evan. I like you.

It's like, I like you, Morrow. We go back. That's right. He always calls him by his last name. Classic coach move. Yeah. I like you, Morrow. We go back. We have history. Yeah, and that's what he's talking about. The season's going to end.

Their team's done. And he's like, just one practice. You'll know. So he's planted the seed. He's officially – he's tilled the earth. He's planted the seed. He's watered it. Maybe sprinkled a little fertilizer on there.

And he wants to see this seed grow yes because evan evan does not say yes or no right away he says i need to think about it and then that's when coach t says okay come to a practice yeah you know feel it out you'll know yeah yeah you know which at that at that at that point that's when i that's when i judge evan a little bit yeah i don't know if you i don't know if you go to the practice i think you got to make your mind At that point, that's when I judge Evan a little bit. Yeah. I don't know if you go to the practice. I think you got to make your mind up before you do the practice.

Well, that's what I was saying at the beginning. Like, number one, just shouldn't have even been there. Like, he should be loyal. You got to take the meeting, you know? It's just good. You got to figure out what you're missing, you know? This isn't a new job opportunity. It's exactly what it is.

It's a job opportunity. This is a job. This is 12-year-old youth hockey where he just convinced a whole bunch of kids that were very happy to be staying in their basements and not playing hockey. Heath, you're so brave to not think this is a job. So brave. Classic Alex move. Don't talk to me like that, Seth. The college counselors would say to you,

the college counselors would tell you this is a job. Okay, Heath? This is going on the resume. You got to treat it like a job. And therefore, if you get a job opportunity, take the interview, at least take the interview. I just, okay. I mean, you know, to each their own, I just think that he needs to have some respect for his mother, have some respect for his teammates. And you know what, Evan,

you need to have a little respect for yourself in this situation too. Okay. Don't fall into their trap. They're manipulating you. They don't have your best interests at heart. They have their own. Oh, yeah. Coach T is just such a perfect, it's just such a perfect example of gaslighting

and manipulation that he does in this episode to Evan. It's fantastic. Even the part, not to jump ahead, but Evan does not join the Ducks. Not to jump ahead? You just went to the end. But I'm saying it's not the end. It's not the full end. He does not join the Ducks.

Spoiler alert for the end of the podcast. And when that happens, Coach T does the classic gaslighter manipulation move. He freaks out. He turns to Stephanie's twins, and he asks them to take a bounty out on Evan's head. Listen, he goes full Chad. He just crushed a monster. He goes full Coach Riley. Full Coach Riley.

No, he goes full Chad, crushes a monster in vodka, and punches a hole through the drywall. He didn't either. Because he was gaslighting. But he didn't do either of those things. It's a metaphor, Brandon. Yeah, but the way you said it, I feel like if somebody hadn't watched the episode,

they would have thought that he actually did that in the episode. Oh yeah. He didn't do that. That was a metaphor for her gaslighting in college. You said that as, as if that's like a common metaphor that everybody knows. And it's definitely, it's definitely not people,

people, people know if you look at a meme on Instagram, you know, all right. So end of that scene cut scene we move on we have winnie hitting up bombay as he is cruising down the street in his beautifully put together truck still rocking that hockey stick um uh and the hockey stick keeping the glove box together and we have winnie giving him the business about what we have talked about multiple times the gross mismanagement of the snack bar in the ice palace uh don't get us started on this but she does so she's like some of this stuff is actual nonsense so this once again is watching this with subtitles was oh did

you you got exactly what she said okay so i got exactly what she said and it didn't make sense so she talks about she talks about we have too much cocoa butter to fit. What are they using cocoa butter for in the ice palace snacks? Snack stand. Well, so it may not be entirely the snack stand. Okay. Or what are they using cocoa butter for? I don't know.

At the ice palace. So anyways, they got too much cocoa butter. Maybe to like, I don't know, maybe to like moisturize the skates. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I'm not sure why, but that's what they said, cocoa butter. But what she's talking about is not necessarily all snack bar stuff because they are, they have skates, they have the whole operations. Okay, so ice palace operations.

Yes, and even later in the episode, you see the skate sharpening machine is in the kitchen of the snake war. So they don't have a lot of space to work with, but they're doing it all. So we have some folks that failed their facility management college courses running the ice palace. But anyways, so she – their facility management college courses running the ice palace but anyways so well later on the later on we get a lot more information about the ice palace that makes perfect sense yeah we'll get to that and and so we get uh too much cocoa butter to fit

can we donate the nachos i like we it doesn't there's no yeah there's no context before it's just like warble warble can we can i donate these nachos um and then she starts yelling about like and then all this moldy bread in bombay oh yeah just yeah just cut the mold off we can get two more days out of that bread um so i loved everything about that quick interaction on the phone of winnie screaming about the ice palace horrifying mismanagement has her go in early and it's just a disaster in there no place for the cocoa butter and so that leads so he's driving and talking to her on the phone and he comes to a construction zone and he's forced to stop while the construction is going. And that's when a rock kicks up from,

was it a jackhammer? I think there was a jackhammer. Rock kicks up from the jackhammer, smashes his car window, you know, uh, smashes his car window. And then he comes Bombay's furious.

He, he rudely hangs up on Winnie, runs out of his car. And that's when he goes to yell at the jackhammer construction guy who just broke his window. And boom. Who do we have? Fulton Reed. Number 44.

That was my favorite. He identified himself by his number to his former coach. Hey, coach, it's number 44. Fulton Reed. Yes. Yes. Between identifying yourself as the number and then Coach T always referring to everybody as their last name, spot on, like, coach culture they got going here.

That's exactly what they do. Those are the weird interactions. Because, like, you know, my mom still works at the school and so i feel like when i see old teachers they're still mr or mrs last name like i just i i'm i will never call them by their first name i'll be thousand they will be a hundred years old i will be 50 years old and i will still address them as a teacher there's nothing I can do about it. Yeah. It's like, it's like you always address even former presidents as president because they, you know, that's, that's what they were.

Can't take, can't take that away. No, can't put Pandora back in the box. But, uh, so we get our, our first, our first whole duck sighting, full read working construction in the Twin Cities. Did you start quacking? I did not start quacking. I did love the breaking of the window again, though, because that's exactly

how they met in the first movie. So, great Easter egg. I loved that. That was an excellent one. Bombay even calls it out when he's talking to him. He goes, man, I'd really love to hang out with you without you breaking a window or something like that.

Yes, yes, that is exactly like, can we do this without you busting out my window? Yeah. They hit the nail on the head with the reintroduction of Fulton. Love that. Now we have Fulton bringing up a little, like you see a little bit of an awkward

kind of reaction from Bombay when Fulton's like, hey, 25th anniversary. You had to have gotten this invite. You couldn't have missed it. It had glitter in it. Yeah. I love that he called out. Stephanie's head of the gala planning committee.

You think she's not going to put glitter in an invitation, Heath? Oh, that's exactly. Like, obviously, we know Stephanie absolutely scoured Pinterest, Etsy, created some nice boards. She went hard. She blew this. She blew this out. she blew shit out absolutely 100 stephanie it is in defense of stephanie the gala did look beautiful it looked fantastic i listen if i'm planning a gala stephanie is the number one person i'm going to like she will

be cutthroat in pursuit of perfection to make sure that gala goes off without a hitch and that's who that's who you want that's who you want behind your event pushing that through because you think people are going to decline her invitation yeah right at your own risk well i don't know we there is somebody that did decline the invitation. There is somebody. We find out later on. Yeah. So Fulton is – he brings up the gala, and that's when Bombay looks shocked because he doesn't know about the gala because they didn't invite him. They don't want him there.

He kind of plays it off. He kind of plays it off. Yes, he plays it cool. He plays it cool. He's like, I – it's probably in my stack of mail. I just didn't get to it. He kind of plays it off. He plays it cool. It's probably in my stack of mail. I just didn't get to it. There is a weird little... I think it's before Fulton brings up the gala.

Gala? Gala? Vase, Foss, tomato, tomato. But Fulton brings up... Because Bombay is like, what have you been up to? You look great., oh, so what have you been up to? You look great. Like, you look fantastic.

What have you been up to? And Fulton's like, I've been in the city. I've been in the Twin Cities this whole fucking time, bro. Where have you been? Where have you been? It gets kind of defensive. Yes, yeah. I mean, rightfully so, but he's like – he brings up the St. Cloud –

well, he doesn't name St. Cloud – or St. Paul State, excuse me. St. Cloud State is an actual university in Minnesota, so I don't want to mix that up. St. Paul State, where Bombay coached. He brings up that. He brings up the fact that once Bombay stopped coaching, that he fell off the earth. Because classic prideful

Bombay, when one thing doesn't go his way, he shuts everybody off from his life like a fucking maniac. He shuts it completely down. Great coping mechanisms. Fantastic. Bombay is who you want as a coach, not as your moral

compass always. I wonder if he's drinking again. They haven't showed him drinking, but I bet you know i wonder i wonder if he's i wonder if he's drinking again they haven't showed him drinking but i bet you he's fucking drinking or he was no he's he's actually not because in when when we get to the reunion um there were some waters and there were some beers and bombay was one of the waters that okay that's good for him stay stay staying on the wagon right right? Staying on the wagon? Staying off the wagon. Well, no, because you fall off the wagon. Isn't that what they say when you start drinking again?

So he's still on the wagon. Yeah, so he's wagging it. You know what? I'd rather just be off the chain. I'd rather be off the hook. It's off the hook, and I'd rather be off the hook it's off the hook and i'd rather be so anyways fulton bombay he's like hey we're meeting at twin city slice be there be square because as we know ducks fly together yes yep we get the call back and and fulton mentions that a bunch of people are coming into town.

A bunch of old ducks coming into town for the gala. This is the moment we have been waiting for. The payoff. The main reason that most of us have watched this show. Goosebumps. Or should I say duck bumps all over this episode? Quiet. Quiet.

No, I just, there were so many moments, so many instances when there was opportunity for quacking. So then we cut seed. Great introduction. It got us jazzed up for the reunion. And I love that Fulton's the first one he meets. It's very fitting. And I love that Fulton's salt-of-the-earth guy that he is.

Construction worker, blue-collar job, staying at home. You know? I like all of it. I love it. It makes perfect sense. Fulton had blue-collar townie written all over him through those first few movies. And I loved it as well. Like he's, he is salt to the earth, Midwestern boy right there. And, you know,

they had to start it out with him because out of everyone, he had the best acting chops out there. You know, he had, he had the best acting chops and he also has outside of Charlie, he has the closest, throughout the movies, he has the closest bond to Bombay throughout those movies. That's true. He's Bombay's number two, right behind Charlie. And just like Josh Jackson is probably number two. Connie is a close third for successful movie careers post-Ducks.

I would say Joshua Jackson has had way more success than Fulton. He's number two. My apologies. I thought you were saying Josh was number two. No, Josh won. Dawson's Creek.

Did you ever see the horror movie he did called Shudder? That's fantastic. No. He was in Little Fires Everywhere. Did you ever see the horror movie he did called Shudder? That was fantastic. No. He was in Little Fires Everywhere. Did you watch that? No, I didn't. It's on Hulu with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Oh, that's supposed to be really good.

It is really good, and Joshua was in that. He plays Reese Witherspoon's husband. Kills it. It just crushed it. Kills it. Josh for sure has the biggest acting chops. But, yeah, second would probably be Fulton. Maybe Fulton, Connie, a tie. it it just crushed it kills it josh for sure has the biggest acting chops but yeah second would probably be fulton maybe fulton connie a tie um because connie's done a bunch of tv roles

you know she's been a a regular in a bunch of a bunch of shows wet hot american summer parenthood i think she was in gray's anatomyomy, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, she's been killing it. But yeah, so we got to tease. We're ready. But now we cut scene. And are you ready, Brandon, for the celebration of the first win of the Don't Bothers? Yeah, we're watching film again, studying the tape. Always studying the tape, these Don't Bothers. Although I will say every time it's a

mental game. Yeah. But every time they're studying tape, Alex is nowhere to be found. She's a terrible coach. Well, listen, she, she may be hyper present as a parent, but she is an absentee coach and it's, it's, you hate to see it folks. You do hate to see it because we're starting to root for Alex, but she has let the don't bothers down. They're going a little rogue, and you can feel it. But listen, they don't have a party. They're throwing down on some candy pancakes, Brandon. Did you see they got some gummy worms, some Kit Kats?

No two pancakes are the same, Heath. Unicorn pancakes. Wild card Wow. Unicorn pancakes. Wild card pancakes. Unicorn pancakes. These are amazing. Like, I mean, listen, that Kit Kat pancake that they described, sign me up. I'm there for it. Kit Kat gummy worm.

Okay, I don't know about that. Yeah. Well, that was the pancake your girl Lauren got. It was Kit Kat gummy worm. Well, that's no surprise. She's a warrior. And they're not using plates. Logan's the one who's making the pancakes and putting just random candy in them.

And he takes it off the girl and just throws it at her. She grabs it with her hand and no plates. Everything about that is amazing. Like what a great don't bother celebration. I sign off on it. Get those candy. Kids, if you're out there listening to this, parents, you know, end up on Brandon's parent corner because you let the kids throw down on some great candy pancakes. I'm all for the candy pancakes, especially after to celebrate a win.

I'm all for, I should rephrase that. I'm all for the idea of candy unicorn pancakes. I don't know if they would taste that great, though. But it would be a fun thing to try, for sure. Oh, like, listen. You got to bake them right. Like, they went a little rogue with the gummy bears. But you get some nice, like, Kit Kats or, you know, maybe like a Hershey almond in the pancakes.

Like, I could get down on that. I don't know about Hershey. I feel like a Hershey almond in your pancakes. I could get down on that. I don't know about Hershey. I feel like a Hershey almond. That's too much crunch. Have you ever had pecans on your pancakes? Come on, Seth. Well, you'd have to finally crush up the almond in order to get the same effect that you would with a pecan pancake.

And you're not going to be able to do that when it's in a Hershey bar. You got to think these things through, Heath. You are just crapping on my dreams, dude. Just imagine biting into a pancake and getting a whole almond. Well, have you ever had a Hershey almond bar? They're not whole entire almonds.

Yes, they are. They 100% are. Okay. So I need to do better at choosing my damn pancake candy is what we've established. You got to keep in mind

texture, Heath. It's very important. Listen, we're not thinking texture with candy pancakes. We're thinking possibilities. You have to weigh texture in. It's a key component. Don't put our candy pancakes in a box, Brandon. Let us live. Let us be free.

Let us fly. Okay. That's right. I got to let you take my own parenting advice. I got to let you make your own mistakes, Heath. You got to let me make my own mistakes with my own pancakes. But Evan's getting this run down.

He seems like he's okay with the pancake party that's going down. But he's like, hey, guys, Coach T has gotten in his head. Now he's desperate to make state. wants he needs to make state and and that's why he's like hey guys let's practice and then all of a sudden and then there's

one of my favorite moments wait who are these two guys and so so he's like oh hey yeah we just got these two kids they're on the team and evan's trying to interact and he's trying to say hi and she's like oh they they don't speak English. They're from the Czech Republic. And then Nick calls them the Czechmates, which is a fantastic name. Throws it down. Shout out to Nick. He always comes through in the clutch for us. The best part is Evan

doesn't react to it. He just gives Nick a weird look and Nick then tries to over explain it. He's like, it's a chess move. Whatever. It's funny. You don't get it whatever it'll get there yeah and i i love evan's like sincerity it's like you know with with nine in a row we have a shot at state we have a real chance and everyone just looks at him like yeah like our goalie can't move. Yeah. What do you expect? Yeah, it was a statistical anomaly that we won the first game, Evan.

It actually, and then Nick comes through with another amazing line. He's like, listen, if you want nine more wins, you may as well just watch this bad boy nine more times because that's the only way that's happening. And just shout out to Nick yet again, stealing the episode. He's our, he's our favorite character,

you know, with, with coach T and again, he's, he's only, he's only in this episode for a very small amount of time, but though he makes it count, he kills it.

We need to free Nick in these episodes. We need a free Nick. He needs, he needs some screen time. We need to free Nick in these episodes. We need to free Nick. He needs some screen time. We need a full just Nick episode. Just dive right Nick, Paula, I forget the other mom's name.

Let's take a trip to the farmer's market with him. Yeah, see how that goes. And he brings Evan as a plus one where they seal their best friendship with jams with with the handshake with the secret handshake with uh with where they exchange jams that they bought for each other at the farmer's market um and so but so before we move on i want to talk about these two random fucking Czech kids. And I feel – Out of nowhere, no background story. You don't know if they've been signed up.

Where did these ringers come from? And I feel like the sentence I just uttered and the tone of that sentence is going to be taken out of context. I have no problem with them being Czech. That's not the issue. Okay? I realize I said that a little poorly. I want to make it clear. I don't mind that. Some of the best hockey players that have ever played the game

are from the Czech Republic. Jaromir Jagr? Zdeno Čara? That's all I got right now, though. We love Jaromir Jagr here on the podcast. Oh, yes. He's the best. He's easily top five favorite. He for sure has the

best hockey mullet ever. If you're not familiar with Yarmir Yager, look up Yarmir Yager 90s mullet. It's amazing. Amazing. Makes Coach T look like a little baby. He's got nothing on my clear hair.

But my problem is it's it's two random two random kids that they pull through they pull in halfway through the first season and then you make it you make it so they don't speak english and they can't talk so now we there's no chance we're ever going to learn anything about these kids they're just there for numbers they're Like it's pointless. Why even bring them into the show? Well, I think they realized halfway through the show that it was a very clear

impossibility for this team to win any games with the people that they have on the team. And so this means. Do you think they're going to play though, or are they just going to be on the bench? Oh yeah. We've solidified both the front and the back line. I'm sorry, Nick. You're going to be heading to the bench. Our boy Nick the Stick is probably going to be riding some serious pine.

I feel like, you know, Logan, you know, with his skating issues, is probably also going to be taking the biggest hit for playing time with the two new checks coming in. So you think they're going to be taking the biggest hit for playing time with the, with the two new checks coming in. So you think they're going to play? Cause we don't see them. We don't, we haven't seen in this episode, we don't see them actually do any, any hockey related stuff, right? They're just going to be filler. They're going to be filler. They're filler to fill out the bench. They need, they needed them.

At least give them lines, give them a personality. You don't just like don't make a like i don't know that was just the i just don't get why why you would bring two new characters in and then make them make it so they can't talk it was very random and and weird and we just moved on and actually that's it moved on real quick it was like five second scene of them introducing and then boom we we're over it. At the end of the episode when they came back, I actually forgot. I was like, who are these people?

Oh, yeah. I totally forgot about these guys. I guess that is true. We do see them do some hockey stuff because of the practice at the end. Nothing memorable. No. And so then... keep moving through.

They can actually skate though, right? I believe they can actually skate. Yeah, but these are real hockey players, and that's why they're on the team. That's why they're going to slip up by the front and back. Just because they're from the Czech Republic doesn't mean they play hockey, Heath. No, this isn't another Logan situation. They feel like they insinuated that these guys can actually skate and play. Who was it that... It was Sophie,

right? Sophie found them? Or they found Sophie? Yeah. Okay. If Sophie says they're cool, I'll respect that. Yeah, this isn't Coob bringing them in and dodging for them. This is Sophie. Sophie knows what she's

seeing. Okay. I'll let it slide for now then. Hopefully they can get past the they don't speak English thing and hopefully we get... Granted, you can definitely show personality and all that without them speaking English or talking to the other kids.

You can still get... So hopefully we get some personality from them. We get a little more you know... I don't want them to just be two kids that we never hear from again, that are just in the background of shots. You know, all you have to do is put them in a room with Nick and it'll be gold. There'll be plenty of personality in that room.

I honestly, I honestly would not be shocked if Nick spoke Czech. It seems like something he might do. He has such diverse interests. Yeah, exactly. But anyway, anyway so so after after we see uh that kind of sets the tone for evan though like oh boy is this what i want i want to go to states yeah but then we he's trying to figure out if he wants to if he wants to win or if he wants to have fun yeah does it does he want to win win win no matter what does he wants to have fun. Yeah. Does it, does he want to win,

win, win no matter what, does he want to put his hands up in the air and have him stay there? We don't know, but we're going to find out. Not even going to acknowledge that. Yeah. Thank you.

It cuts to Alex, Alex and Bombay in the office, and he's desperately searching for the invitation because he thinks maybe he did actually lose it in the mail. Just desperately rifling through mail. Yes, and we get some gems. We get a lot more information and confirmation about the Ice Palace. We get full confirmation that Bombay is living in the Ice Palace. Yes, place of residence, the master suite in the basement.

Yes, his place has 15 showers. Can't beat that. 14, but he's counting. But he, yeah, I mean, how can you say no to that? He could get an epic waterfall effect for his showers that you can't compete against. Get a nice steam room going, I bet. But they can't find it, and there's no way they're going to find it. We learned that in the state of Minnesota, the utility bills turn different colors the later they get.

That was an interesting fun fact. I wonder if that is actually true. It's got to be. Why would they lie about that? Why would they just throw that in there? But so we know the Ice Palace is in trouble. We're very late on utilities.

Very late on utilities. And then Alex finds a thing from 2012, like a... What's the word? Zillow person, what's the word I'm looking for? It was like an inspection. What's it called? What the fuck is it called? Well, they failed the inspection.

Is it just called an inspection? Yeah, they failed the inspection. And what they found out is that there is structural damage that needs to be repaired. Well, well, well, back in 2012, there was,

yeah. Bombay does say, you know, so these things do have a tendency to fix themselves. So by this time it's fully repaired, structural damage, gone. Your kids are safe at the ice palace. Go buy some cocoa. So by this time it's fully repaired Structural damage gone Your kids are safe

At the ice palace Go buy some cocoa I love that he got that in 2012 But he has proceeded to not only Sleep in the building But sleep in the basement Of a condemned building since 2012 And continue

To rent it out to the public. Yeah. To the public? To kids? To the children of Minnesota. This is probably more irresponsible than him driving out on the ice in the first movie. Absolutely. Letting these kids come into a condemned building.

Actually, I take that back. I don't know if it's condemned. We don't know the extent of the structural damage. If it's condemned We don't know the extent Of the structural damage If it was condemned they would have kicked everybody out Yeah exactly I don't know anything about Minnesota

You know building laws Maybe they're fine with letting If they condemn it There's no way they would let them in The building Minnesota if any place were to do it It's no way they would let them in uh the the building but minnesota if any place would do it it's minnesota they've you know they love love buildings falling apart it's their favorite thing it also depends on what type of structural damage like you know how messed up

is the foundation of this building is is that what it is is it something with the pipes hopefully it's not like some kind of like rusted out pipes and they're drinking poison water. But, you know, what we find out is that the Ice Palace is in even more dire straits than we initially anticipated. Like we knew it was rough, but we didn't quite expect it to be this rough. Yes. Yeah, we did not think structural damage and we we for we called the living there though we called that right away and it was nice that he confirmed it and you know shout out to him living on the couch in the ice palace it's better than the box in the alley

honestly i if i was in his position I would do the exact same thing. You know, I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. I don't have any responsibilities outside of the Ice Palace. Why would I pay another mortgage on top of

all the debt that he has from this fucking Ice Palace? He's doing the financially responsible thing. I do not fault him for this at all. And... Plus, I mean, granted, now, because he's like 50, 55 years old,

something like that, it's not that great of a look. But, you know, early Bombay, you know, if you're in your mid-20s living out of an ice palace, that's a conversation starter. You're the hit at the ball. You could make that work. And then you're coaching.

Like, hey, why don't we go back to my place? We can have a skate. Oh, wait. Yeah. I was going to say, if you're dating, hitting on the hockey moms, you know, hey, you want to come back to my place? Oh, wait, we're already at my place.

Let me show you the master suite. So we realize Bombay is a little bit of a disaster. They fully cement that fact in this episode. And then we have a cut scene. They do. There's another. Speaking of Bombay being a mess there's a there's another scene later on i forget exactly how far away it is oh it's right after this next scene so i'll

wait till then to get to it but go ahead so we we cut scene we we see we come in and it's stephanie's office and we see her watching her own interview, which is just the most Stephanie thing. Love it. Fully comes out like, oh. And she points out her own joke and then proceeds to laugh at it. And the person that's interviewing her is like, you are youth hockey. And it's like, oh, please.

You're too kind. And then it's time for us to step out of our parkas and into our prada the worst beautiful oh my gosh and then like you said she points it out to alex and alex is like oh that is very funny oh yeah though the worst fake laugh i've ever seen in my entire life disaster and and so we find out that you know last episode we called it out stephanie smelt blood in the water she was like oh alex challenged me she won i am someone to compete against here she's like okay she's still the same old alex i'm gonna keep needling her and pushing her around i'm the boss yeah even though even though she built she beat me in the slap shot challenge she's still not gonna stand up for herself so let's let's lean into it even more now. Because now we know we can get away with it. Exactly. And she's the head of the planning committee.

So if anyone didn't know, she is the head of the planning committee. That's what she's doing. And so Alex calls her out, right? She's like, oh, speaking of the gala, what's up with Bombay's invite? How come he's not coming? He's the heart of the Ducks. And Stephanie lets her know, we're done with Bombay. We're on to Coach T.

It's not necessary. We want to remember our heroes at their peak. He's not the best of the Ducks. Never meet your heroes. Great advice. Honestly, we talked about it. It was. Never meet your heroes. Great advice. Honestly, we talked about it. I think it was last episode. Never meet your heroes.

And so that's what Stephanie is protecting people from. She's protecting them from Bombay not being at his pinnacle. You know, he is a long ways from the Air Bombays. Yes, exactly. Those Air Bombays are a distant memory at this point and and then i love that alex kind of pushes back a little bit she's like oh come on bombay and and stephanie just kind of shuts her down it's like well thank you for your feedback thank you for your feedback i have that written down it's a great fucking line thank you thank you for your feedback and then we get into like some real juicy juiciness

where a cargo vessel sinks it goes missing in the ocean and there are 372 duck sweatpants that have been lost at sea the travesty. And so Stephanie turns around. It's like, Alex, hey, this is perfect. My favorite person. I just have a teensy favor. Some slap shot revenge. Just a little teensy favor. Well, teensy favor.

It's like 372 teensy favors. Yes, because she wants Alex to buy 372 new pairs of sweatpants. Matching sweatpants. Find a screen printer a local screen printer. Have them print the Ducks logo on it and then bring it to the gala.

She does it. She pushes back initially. She tries to fight it first but but then classic Alex, she rolls over. And so now she has a new assignment. She is out to find some sweatpants for Stephanie. And she does find them. She finds them, and then she piles them all into her car, which I think was a tiny little, like, it was like a Prius,

but not really a prius and she so she heads over to with all 372 things in her car she heads over to the ice palace to talk with bombay and that's when we get so i love this scene because so bombay is getting ready to go meet the the the ducks that are coming into town at the pizza place with Fulton. Yeah. So he's going to meet there. And so Bombay decides he's going to dress up. And you know what he wears when he dresses up? When he gets fancy?

A button down. But before this all goes down, we forgot Evan's at practice. Evan hits it. Evan goes to ducks practice. They gas him up at practice. Coach T is laying it on thick at practice. He is gassing him up, but they're recording it too. That's the big thing that happens at practice

is that Stephanie's twin daughter is recording Evan participating. Her name's Ruby. Put some respect on the name. Ruby is recording Evan participating. Her name's Ruby. Ruby. Put some respect on the name. Okay. Ruby is recording Evan during the practice. And then Coach T invites Evan to the Spirit of the Ducks because Evan's still like, hey, great practice. Had fun.

No thank you, Coach T. You know what, Evan? Don't say that just yet. Why don't you come to the Spirit of the Ducks? It's going to be excellent. Yes. Okay, so now cut scene. Now we're back.

Bombay dressed up. Before you rudely interrupted me. Before I rudely interrupted you. Had to get everyone up to speed. Bombay dressed up, looking fly as hell. Brandon, break it down. Bombay, what's he doing? So he's dressing up to go meet the Ducks.

And what does he dress up with when he's trying to be fancy? Which is like, this is a complete 180 from the Bombay we know from the first movies. And even air Bombay, because he was a lawyer. He was always in a suit. He was real fancied up. But now how far Bombay has fallen is he has come into my fashion world, where when he needs to get dressed up, he throws on a button-up flannel t-shirt,

tucks it into his jeans with his freaking work boots on, and then puts just the meekest looking coat over it, and he calls. He's ready to go. He's ready for a night on the town. He is absolutely

killing it with... Honestly honestly he looks he looks fucking fantastic i don't know if we've touched on i don't know if we've touched on this but emilio emilio both emilio and lauren graham look fantastic they look great emilio is he looks exactly he looks and sounds exactly like his dad. Now it's like the older he gets, the more he, he, he looks and sounds like his dad.

And I love it. That, um, his dad is, his dad's Martin Sheen for, for anybody that didn't know Martin Sheen. Great. I love,

I love the Alex is just like roasting him about looking put together for the first time. She's just, she's just needling him so perfectly. It's exactly what my friends do when I've put on a button up flannel t-shirt. They're like, Oh, where are you going? And I also like when she comes in there, she's like, okay, so I have to, I talked to Stephanie about you coming to the Ducks gala. She tells him exactly what she says, which is, I mean, some bedside manner here, Alex.

You know this dude is living in the Ice Palace. He's hanging on by a fucking thread, and you're going to tell him exactly whathanie said just absolutely throws it down my favorite before she does that though she's like stephanie said she's stupid yes she should have just left it at that like honestly yeah yeah and just you're right like soften the blow a little bit of eq like for for all the time that they spent breaking the ice instead of skating on the ice not not a lot of emotional intelligence was gained by alex that day because she came in here way too hot with a very fragile bomb bay like you said he's holding on by a threat he is living in a building that could collapse upon him at any second,

you know, depending on how severe the structural damages and then renting it out to the youth of Minnesota. I mean, this guy is holding on by a thread and she just comes in hot, throws it down. Hey, you're not a good representation of the ducks anymore.

So they don't. And, and right before he's going to meet other ducks like he even says he even says like when she first gets here she's he's like i'm going to meet the ducks i'm super excited because the best times of my life have been with these kids and then so he's riding high then she just fucking rips his heart out yeah and of course he acted the way he did when he was there because he just got kicked in the nuts right before he went and met them.

Like not just like he got kicked in the nuts by Adam Vinatieri before he went and met the ducks. And it's just, you know, he's not feeling good right now about life or things. And it was just a real shit move by Alex. She could have waited and called him the next day. Yeah.

Yeah. He saw him looking good. She didn't need to drive the ducks. Yeah. He saw he was meeting the ducks. You drove there. So it's like, Hey,

you know what? I'm going to pump the brakes on this. It looks like he wants to go have fun. I'm going to let him go have some fun and just tell him I found out. Oh, Hey, just talk to Stephanie. I'm going to pump the brakes on this. It looks like he wants to go have fun. I'm going to let him go have some fun and just tell him I found out. Oh, hey, just talk to Stephanie. I'm so sorry. She doesn't like you anymore. Stephanie is the worst.

Who gives a shit? Yeah. Yeah. Say it like that. Boom. Easy. Yep. Not feeling bad.

Yep. Yeah. Doesn't make the old ducks feel bad. Yeah. Does it ruin the guy's night? Yeah. Doesn't ruin the guy's night who feel bad. Yeah. Does it ruin the guy's night? Yeah. Doesn't ruin the guy's night who then goes on to ruin five other people's nights.

Because that's exactly what happened. So we cut scene and we, the excitement is here, Brandon. Here we are. Yes. Yes. If we're back,

quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, go ducks. They're back. They're back. Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack. Go Ducks!

They're back. They're back. And you even get, right when Bombay walks in, he flings the door open and he asks where the hell District 5 is. And they, you know. A resounding, we're here. Yeah, right over here. And so we get the look at everybody, all the original ducks that come back.

You have Fulton, of course. I do have to say for the District 5 joke, it didn't land with Kenny. He was recruited in the second movie, but we will breeze past that. It was funny for him. Yeah, Kenny was there. He's obviously not a District 5 kid. He wasn't in the original movie. What are you going to say there?

What else do you say? You can't say, where are the ducks? Because he's currently embroiled in a hot rivalry between the Don't Bothers and the Ducks. That is a good call out. Also also i do have to

call out real quick before we completely move forward um before this happened we see the confrontation between evan and his mom where he comes in stephanie stephanie drops off all the bags and is like hey you're a duck now here you go and just piles on she yeah she says the she gives her more work says this isn't a favor anymore this is part of your volunteer hours which what the fuck are those for for hockey you know hockey parent volunteer hours get the fuck out of here with that insane and if my if my when my if my kids ever joined a sport and they're like oh yeah since they're on the team, you have parent volunteer hours.

I'd be like, okay, we're not on the team anymore. Yeah, so Stephanie drops off the bag. The Edmund confrontation happens after the duck thing, but Stephanie drops off the bags, high fives her. Hey, we're on the same side again. I forgot about the most awkward high five. Gosh, she's the same side again no that's i forgot about the the most awkward high five gosh she's the worst i love that okay and so now we're back to the ducks what's up district five bombay comes in hot loving it you know we've got cheers excitement you know adam banks is just

ecstatic you can see the joy in his eyes when you see when Bombay comes in. You know, it was just, it was great. The crew together. They're back together again. So we see Fulton's there, obviously, because he was in the beginning. Like you mentioned, Kenny Wu's there. Banks. You get Averman.

And then you have my boy, Guy. And and then of course connie is there as well and we we find out that gee and connie still together rock strong married three kids although gee says it feels like seven yeah he i i love how he could benefit he could definitely benefit From listening to Parent Corner With Parenting Corner with Brandon Absolutely But I love that dynamic Connie's crushing it, she's a state senator Guy is killing the game, stay at home dad

Take care of the seven kids Just absolutely living the dream That's my dream, that's my goal Oh yeah, come on Especially if you're married to Especially if you're married to Especially if you're married to Connie Like That was

Every kid's childhood dream Growing up was to marry Connie Absolutely, and then One of my other favorite moments Was Averman They got him talking Averman, that is such an underrated part in the first movie, on the very first moment when they're playing hockey.

He just completely stops playing, stops and starts calling the game. The just maester passes it to the cart man, gets it to the Conway. Do you still talk like that? No, no. I thought that was it. I thought that was really good thought he was like no i was doing it because i know you loved it so much yeah like coach yeah it's no i love bobby's response he says something like we remember that time very differently or something like that

and then he and then he calls he called later on he calls averman annoying yeah because every like every team has an aver Yeah, because every team has an Averman. You know, like every team has their own version of an Averman. Everybody loves him. The annoying little baseball, yeah. Yeah, he's just the goofy guy, but you love bringing him along. I also, did you catch where they threw the sticks down, tossed the gloves, and pulled the jersey over the head.

Yes, you get a great. With Fulton Reed and Kenny Wu fighting. Yeah, a great Bash Brothers reunion. Yes, yes. Because on the wall of the Twin Cities slice, you have photos of all the original duck. So there's a photo of Guy and Connie from the first movie, where I think they were sitting on the bench together.

There's a picture of Averman. I forget what movie – what picture that was. And then there's a picture of Fulton from the second movie where he's wearing the Team USA jersey. And that's when he turns around and goes, god dang, I miss fighting in hockey so much. And then Kenny Wu comes up and does the whole routine, the bash brothers routine from the second movie stick shirt or stick glove shirt. I forget the exact phrase. Yeah.

It's sticks. Cause he, you drop the stick, you throw the gloves in the, in the stomach to kind of like catch him. And then you pull the shirt. Yeah. Tarps off boys.

Tarps off. Tarps off. But yeah, so that was great and then so there was yeah just a bunch of nostalgia right there right out the get-go for it it's fantastic and then then it cuts to where does it go after that this is this is where it goes to evan walks into the door oh wait wait alex is before before we hit that though i do want to i do want to say oh because we get we have the whole Dux Bombay blow up confrontation.

We got to talk about that. Well, no, that's after the after the. Oh, that's after this? Oh, OK. But I will say the I loved the the music choice for when Bombay is coming into the Twin Slices. It was playing These Are The Days. Great, great song choice. The subliminal message i

love it okay so yeah that's right that's right because it cuts back but it cuts over evan walks in alex is piecing together all of these insane gift bags yes that will so that was the the additional work that stephanie gave her was not only do you have to finish the sweatpants, but then build the gift bags that the sweatpants are a part of. The whole time, how does she not just want to throw one of those gift bags at him when he walks in the door?

That's his fault. It's his fault that she's doing all this. This is when she realized, well, Stephanie brings it up that Evan went to the practice, the Ducks practice. She had no idea that he did that. He went rogue. So this is the first time she's fighting about... Et tu, Brute?

Yeah. Yep. She's fighting about the betrayal while she's getting work dumped on her. So not a great night for Alex. But she's pounding the red wine. She's getting through it. She's putting these gift bags together.

And she's honestly a part of the parenting corner with Brandon. She does a great job, I think, in this scenario. Because Evan goes up. She confronts Evan, and she's like, hey, look at me. I'm putting gift bags together because i'm part of the ducks now why am i a part of the ducks again yes did you not see what i did to the coach yeah you don't bother sir like what the fuck evan that was just five episodes ago yes and so then evan comes to her and he's like i don't know know what to do. They want me to join the ducks again.

Should I join the ducks again? Or should I say what the don't bothers and Alex scholarship. Yeah. He's like, I can get a scholarship for real again. I know how hard being a single mom is. Coach T told me all about it. Yeah. No,

it's hard for you out here. Yeah. And he, he essentially asked her for advice. He's like, what should, he's like, what should I do? Be my mom and tell me what to do. And she does a brilliant parenting move where she goes,

I know what you should do, but I'm not going to tell you. You got to figure this out on your own. I trust that you're going to make the right decision. And I love the exchange because Evan is basically like, well, fuck you then. He says it much nicer, but he's like, well, you got to please help me out. And she still refuses to.

So then he gets up mad, walks up to his room and she shouts at him while he's walking up the stairs. Love you. And he responds back. I don't care. Very Han Solo of him. You know, I love you. I know.

But yeah, so I thought that was, she redeemed herself a little bit with, she redeemed her parenting skills with this interaction. I know. I thought that was... She redeemed herself a little bit with... She redeemed her parenting skills with this interaction, I believe. Two thumbs way up, A plus grade from Brandon's parenting corner for Alex on this episode.

We don't grade on thumbs up, though. I don't know. I'll work on the grading scale. If it was a thumbs up, five thumbs up would. We grade up. It's, I don't know. I'll work on the grading scale. If it was a thumbs up, like five thumbs up would be an A. One thumbs up would be an F. No, we,

I don't know what our scale is made up of, but I know it goes from negative two to 7.5. That makes sense. It's real. All right. So then we cut scene. We're back at the pizza parlor. We're talking about what everyone's up to. What's everybody up to? What's going on?

We find out that Banks is a public defender because he found out from an early age, you know, you want to work for the underdogs. Yeah. Fight for the good guys. Yep. We got to for the good guys. Yep. We got to be the good guys. That's where we get Connie, the state senator, Guy, stay at home dad. They're crushing it, but they're disappointed. They're not mad.

They're not mad, but they're disappointed that Bombay did not show up and ignored their wedding invite. What's up with that? Yep. Didn't even get a card in the mail? Like, dude, Bombay, you got to i didn't even get a card in the mail like dude bombay you gotta send them 20 bucks 50 bucks in the mail if you're not gonna go to the wedding this is where i i have sympathy for for bombay where bombay as just like with his fancy outfit

you know i feel like me and bombay vibe in this scenario there's many many weddings that i have uh not invitations that i have not responded to so i get where he's coming from it was i will say that it's not done maliciously you know me and bombay are not doing this we're not we're not doing this out of spite we're just the worst people and we're lazy and we're we we lack any sort of any sort of follow-through no that's fair because like when like we we've moved around a whole bunch so our friends are in different places and it's hard to travel back for weddings he's in the same state he's down he's he's like 20 minutes away yeah that's that's the issue that i have he's like 20 minutes away he's not he's not three time zones away.

I mean, I have, I have not responded to a couple, a couple of local wedding invites as well. It just, you know, it gets lost. It gets lost in the shuffle. And I, I, yeah, I, I fully, I fully own that. Me and Bombay are for sure the worst, but you know, life happens Heath. Life happens. We also can't forget that we have Averman just dropping the hint that he's cruising in a limo to work every day. That's it, though. Doesn't divulge any more than that.

He's playing it cool. They ask him what he's up to, and he says, I take a limo to work every day. And then leaves it at that. No other explanation. Did they let Kenny say what he did? I don't think we touched on Kenny. No, I don't think

Kenny talks about what he does. Because they move over to Connie and Guy and they start calling him out for ducking stuff. And they start asking him. Great term. Yeah. He for ducking stuff. They started asking him. Great term. Yeah, he's ducking them.

No pun intended. Not at all. But he's too proud to say he's not invited, of course. He's ashamed that he didn't get invited, and he doesn't want to tell the ducks because they're asking him why he's not going. This is the 25th anniversary. You are the ducks. Why are you not going. Like, this is the 25th anniversary. You are the Ducks.

Why are you not going? And Banks has a great line. He's like, hey, what's it going to take? Another criminal court order for you to spend time with us? Connie says that. Connie says that. Oh, does Connie say that? Connie has a great line.

Yeah. No, Banks. And then Fulton hits. Yeah, well, Banks talks about him being Bombay acting like he's too good for everybody. He says, you know, you've been acting – what are you, too good for us or something like that? And then that's when Connie hits with the court order line. And then Fulton comes in. Don't tell me Charlie was right.

Boom. Whoa. Hidden where it hurts. And Bombay. Dropped a bomb. Bombay is shocked at this. So you can tell by his reaction that he doesn't know that Charlie is not a fan of him anymore. Which just speaks to the narcissistic Bombay.

Where he just, he had one little mishap at the college and then just out of pride or embarrassment just shut everybody out. And Charlie says why should he show up if Bombay never shows up for them?

Exactly. Because I guarantee you just like Connie and Guy, Charlie sent Bombay so many fucking letters probably called him so many times and Bombay is not answering any of them. Exactly. Because I guarantee you Charlie sent, just like Connie and Guy, Charlie sent Bombay so many fucking letters, probably called them so many times that Bombay's not answering any of them. You going to this? What's going on? You used to bang my mom, dude. We used to be tight. What's going on?

Yeah. He was like a father. Shut down. You can see, I mean, it's just such a... Another parenting corner with Brandon, yeah. You can see, I mean, it's just such a, another, another parenting corner with Brandon. If any kids are listening, I'm going to parent you right now.

This is, this is the exact opposite way that you should handle rejection or failure and, or any kind of embarrassment is to just shut everybody out. That's not the way to go. It's a terrible coping mechanism. Yes. Talk, talk about people are there for you. Talk about things. That's the greatest advice that I can give anybody

is just talk about stuff. Don't bury. Your people are here for you. Yes. Otherwise you'll end up a grumpy old man like myself. And no one wants that. You don't want to be an old codger at 35. No. You're going to end up sleeping

in the basement of a condemned building just waiting to die. Yeah, and heart attack at 55. Yep. So don't do it. Don't do it. So, but then you know, they're going back and forth. Bombay does the Bombay

move. He shuts it down. Peace. I'm out of here. He shuts it down. Peace. I'm out. Yes. He's up. Cause he does. He does again, his fucking pride.

He doesn't want to let them know that he wasn't invited. So he just starts being an asshole. Yeah. And all he had to do was say, you know what guys it's, it sucks, man. It really sucks.

But the ducks have changed. And unfortunately they don't see me as part of this change anymore so i'm they i didn't get invited and you know what they would have backed him a thousand because he's not in yet yeah you know just be real with your friends there man and and they got your back and so that was that was a great life lesson he should have just came because it's all about messaging he could have messaged that just fine and they should have just – because it's all about messaging. He could have messaged that just fine, and they would have digested it, accepted it, and moved on from it. Exactly, yeah.

And become solution-oriented. So anyways – There's no way they would have thought less of him if he would have been like, I wasn't invited. It's not – they don't give a shit about that. It's not a – they would have been perfectly – like you said, they would have stood up for him. It would have been perfectly fine

instead of shutting everybody off and just being an asshole to him. Yeah. And so we get the former Ducks drama leading into something big and we cut scene. We're back to school, hanging out at the yard. We have Logan who is distraught and logan just never thought it could happen to him and let me tell you something real quick logan your bad hair day is a great hair

day for others so you better shut the fuck up and just enjoy that hair while you have it my friend don't even talk to me about that hair, sir. No, I'm kidding. You know, so Logan's having a bad day. Didn't think it could happen to him. Nick has another great line. Listen, Logan, if that's your bad hair day, it looks simply stunning. Yes.

Logan just killing the hair day. Ever supportive Nick Coming in clutch for his friends Yep He's supportive and I support him Being so supportive But then we see in our periphery We've got the twins lurking

Stephanie's twins They're lurking in the background Double trouble Oh yes Little double trouble there for sure I bet they are hellion lurking in the background. Double trouble, as I like to call them. Yep. Oh, yes. Little double trouble there for sure. I bet they are hell to handle because they probably have all of Stephanie's attitude and all of Clark's douchebaggery.

So, I mean, it's not a fun house. No, definitely not. And so Evan locks eyes with them. And he's like, Oh, Hey, I've got a, I've got to go.

I've got to throw this bottle. And Nick has another great line. Hey, thanks for the update on the bottle. I've been this guy, you know, their best buds. Now that's what you do with your best buds.

You razz them. You kind of, you razz them a little bit, get them going. A little repartee, but Evan isn't buying it. because he's nervous. Okay. And so he gets over there and Ruby, I believe he said her name was.

Ruby and Trevor. Hey, mom's got a part of us. I believe it was to go to the event. Are you coming? And so Evan, we find out, Evan gets added back in to the group chat, the Ducks team group chat. Ruby and Trevor add him back in. If you're on the team, you're in the friends group. If you're not on the team, you're out of the friends group.

You're out. And they're playing Evan just like Coach T. Like Coach T coached them on how to play Evan. Because they did it perfectly. It's definitely a concerted effort. Absolutely. Yeah. Because they're like, yeah, that was really uncool. But their mom has a stick right to the event.

You should come to us um okay cool i'll check it out and then he kind of like yeah yeah cool cool cool we'll talk soon and kind of tries to shoo them away a little bit yes because it's out out on the the i guess the playground i guess or whatever but like you mentioned and so yeah everybody is within eye shot and they're watching he's trying he's he's trying to talk to the Ducks without talking to the Ducks, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. And so he goes back, lies to Sophie and the team outright,

lies to their faces and tells them, oh, no, they were giving me a hard time. Yep. When really he was invited the spirit of the ducks. And then the team starts mean mugging Trevor and Ruby. And he's like, Hey, you guys want to throw down? They're sticking up for Evan because Evan just told them they were being

dicks to him. So great teammates, great teammates. Listen, the don't bothers. You want them to have your back. Those are true friends. They're thick and thin.

You know, Evan could learn a thing or two being the fickle little shit that he is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Everybody could learn a lot from Nick. Nick, if you ever find yourself a friend like Nick, you hold on to that. You hold on tight but they did back down instantly as soon as things were going to throw it up so that's that's true they they they had the spirit but not the uh not the muscle and that's okay because they know who

they are they're not gonna they're not gonna outstretch themselves and that's smart that shows intelligence you know they're gonna be they don't don't start a fight you know you can't exactly they may not be the most physically gifted team but you know what they're going to make it up with that mind that that hockey know how now that they know how to skate mostly yeah some of them coops coven and logan still do not i even so i even speaking of coob not knowing how to skate there's this the practice at the end of the episode when um they're like getting off the bench and everybody kind of gets off and skates away coob walks he gets on the ice and walks across the ice i was like the still doesn't know how to skate yeah that's god damn it coob god damn it i i that's that's at the

end we'll get to it because we had some we had some good moments in the skateaways you know like the skate when they all individually it was like it was like in rudy when they all went to the coach's office and they turned in their jerseys like you're not kicking rudy rudiger off the team he carried frodo to fucking mount doom um just but but we did see a little bit that so so we got some more background to fucking Mount Doom. Just kidding. But we did see a little bit of that. So we got some more background in what is going to be some drama between Evan and the Domebobbers.

We're seeing it. We're feeling it. And then we cut to the gala. And oh boy. No, no, no, no, no. Before that, we cut to, there's one more scene with Evan and Bombay. Evan goes to the,

so Evan comes back, comes to the Ice Palace. He got zero help from his mom. So now he's looking for help from Bombay. And this is a great Easter egg scene as well because when Evan shows up to the ice palace, Bombay is sharpening skates and he comes up to Bombay and is, is getting advice from Bombay while he's sharpening skates, which is exactly what Bombay did with Hans.

Anytime you needed a advice from Hans or Jans, they were sharpening skates. Yep. And this, this is when you run nice. And this is when you find out that the ice palace has the skate sharpening machine in the, in the kitchen,

right behind the snack bar. Listen, they're just surviving out there. You know, it's, it's, we, we had a pandemic.

They're just out there trying to, I'm sure it was originally in the basement. And then once Bombay moved in, he had to move it upstairs. You know, you don't, you don't want to sleep by the, the skate sharpening machine. That's too dangerous. You don't, well. You don't want to sleep by the skate sharpening machine.

That's too dangerous. Well, you don't want to sleep where you work. It's just you've got to separate the office. You've got to separate the office. And Bombay gives great advice. No, he does not. Bombay gives the worst advice. Listen, you've got to take care of yourself

because no one else gives a shit about you, kid. No one cares about you. So take care of yourself. That's smart. No one cares about you. It's layered. It's layered. The worst advice to give to a kid.

The worst advice. No, No way. In today's modern age where everything is selfies and they think that the world cares about what they're doing. No one cares. I'm telling you right now, no one cares. Move on. It's not a big deal.

No, no, no, no. That's not the advice he gives. He doesn't give it's no big deal. No, no, no, no. That's not the advice he gives. He doesn't give it's no big deal. It doesn't matter. He says his advice is fuck everybody because they're all assholes. Do what you want to do. That's the advice he gives.

Everyone sucks. Look out for you. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself. No one else cares. Take care of you. The worst advice. Hans and Jan are rolling over in their grave at that advice that he gave while sharpening skates. They're fucking furious.

No. To be honest. This is where he should have found Winnie. He needed to find Winnie. Winnie would have gave him the guiding light, would have told him exactly what to do. You know? Bombay gave him the other avenue

to really press Evan to make the right choice. No, I'm kidding. It really was terrible advice. He's pissed and he lashed out, but that's a Bombay move. He does that. He does that every time. When Bombay is in a dark place, he brings everyone down there with him.

It was such angry, bad advice that Evan kind of goes, oh, okay, maybe I should actually care about people and stick with the Dome Ballers. Yeah, exactly, because it's so aggressive. But Evan also finds out that Bombay didn't get invited. Stick with the Joe Paul. Yeah, exactly. Cause it's so, it's so aggressive, but he also, but also, Evan also finds out that Bombay didn't get invited. And, and so he kind of like, cause Bombay, Bombay lets it out. And so Evan, you know, Evan probably picked up like, Oh, okay.

He's, he's in a, he's in a weird place. Yeah. He's in a weird place. He's been in a dark place this whole time. I've walked in on him eating leftover birthday cake in his office alone. Dude's taking naps on his couch at 3 p.m. He's in a rough spot.

Yeah, and that's pretty obvious. So Evan picks up on that and then gives the I actually put a note in here gives the bad advice that you have to just look out for yourself yes after that though we but i wanted to play devil's advocate yeah i get it i get it i so then it gets to the gala which looks awesome it looks like stephanie

did it it looks good there's balloons there's an ice luge with the logo yeah fantastic it's gift bags bells and whistles you know the hors d'oeuvres are absolutely delightful too like that i saw some sliders going around there you know those are prime they probably have some nice like if they open bar probably oh of course open bar that's a no-brainer maybe some bacon wrapped dates oh i love some of those bacon wrapped dates and That's a no-brainer. Maybe some bacon-wrapped dates. Ooh, I love some of those bacon-wrapped dates. And that's how you know you've made it with maybe a little Gorgonzola on the inside. I'm getting hungry. Anyway, so it looks amazing.

And then this is another – God, Stephanie just absolutely crushed it in this episode because we hear Stephanie with bullshit corporate speed where she's giving like a typical kind of like networking story. And she's like talking about how the ship got lost at sea with all the ducks' sweatpants. And she's like, I just like to sit and imagine all the fishies with their little ducks' sweatpants on. God damn it, Stephanie. You're the worst. And then she walks by. So after that little story, she's walking by the gift bag area, like showing people all around. And she goes, here's all the gift bags.

I worked so hard on these. Right in front of Alex. Yeah. And Alex was supposed to be at the party because she's a mom but it looked like she was just positioned at the gift bag station to hand them out so she actually maybe didn't get invited to the party she was working well she yeah that's part of her volunteer hours heath you you're able to come and enjoy the party, but you know, you got to put those volunteer hours in. The gift bags aren't going to hand themselves out, Heath.

That's not what they do. That is true. And you got to regulate. You can't have two pairs of sweatpants going to one person. They were hard enough to get at. Now the fishies have a whole bunch. And then we get to another amazing moment where we have a cutout of Coach T for folks to take pictures with. And Coach T is over there with someone, and he's like, hey, no, get out of here. I mean, that's enough with you.

Just me and the cutout. Just me and the cutout of myself. Yeah. Coach T, just all the Bardownskis Yes And so Can't be taking photos with pheasants You know

Yeah Never again And then we get the Ducks rolling in To this awesome event And Banks delivers an excellent line Where he's like man The Ducks have become cake eaters excellent line where he's like man the ducks have become cake eaters and averman's like oh throwback burn and then uh it's either gee or connie i think that calls him the the original cake eater gee yeah he's like you were the original cake eater banks

and then banks goes uh taking a i mean i i did the same exact thing that banks did he says he hasn't had a piece of cake in 25 years yep same here i loved i can't i can't eat cake to this day because of this movie that was one of my favorite interactions of the of this episode just obviously right you know it was that That interaction was made for this podcast. Yes. My boy Banks, I like to rock his jersey, what we'll call him this. Today, rock and throwback Ducks t-shirt,

but usually the Banks jersey. I love the cake eater throwback talk. It was beautiful. It was a beautiful moment. I got to get on the internet here. I got to get a soundbite of that. Cut it out and we can try to work that into the pod somewhere.

The soundbite of him calling the Ducks cake eaters. Yes, it was just it was so amazing. And then Coach T asked the Ducks if they want to pick with him yes he comes yeah it comes up he's like oh hey the original ducks and they always want a picture with with

not and they're like oh it's the cutout guy yeah you guys want a picture with the real thing and they're like no we're okay hard. They shut him down really quick. And then we see Evan. He comes through. You know, he's looking good. Evan comes through. He sees Coach T, and he's like, Coach T's like, Evan, I see you. You're excited.

Evan doesn't beat around the bush. He's out. Yes. Hard, no. Hard the bush he's out yes hard no hard pass he's out thank you for your interest but i'm gonna take my talents elsewhere yeah exactly he's taking his talents to south beach and so and and so coach t reacts in a very professional and very calm way by turning to the twins and putting a bounty on Evan's head. I don't know what that means because they've already played each other,

but oh, man. Is it a bounty at school or is it a bounty for the games? I think it's for the games normally. The bounty would be on the games. But in this context, I think what he – what initially – what ends up happening is Ruby posts the photo on Instagram of Evan practicing with them. That's essentially the bounty. He's like,

he essentially turns to them and goes, ruin this kid's fucking life for me, please. No way. I'm going straight Saints bounty gate. Like, he put a price on his head. Someone's going to light that kid up. For sure. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, his exact words are, he turns, looks at Ruby and goes, put a bounty on that kid's head. Which, yeah, it's essentially, it's the saints. It's what the Hawks did with Banks. It's what Iceland did with Banks. You put the bounty on him, you go, you take him out. I did my job. Exactly.

Just good soldiers following orders you take him out i did my job exactly just good soldiers following orders take him out and so yeah we've we've got a bounty but we get we get commentary from alex who is definitely a very awkward individual and she has a very awkward interaction with a stranger where she's celebrating her eavesdropping on her child's decision to make the right decision in the end. Yes. And so we have that super awkward little interaction. And then Evan sees his heroes, the ducks. And this is actually pretty good too, where he's like super jazzed up to meet the ducks um and and he's like oh yeah i google i google your guys's names all the time it's it's because i'm a fan it's not weird and like the averman and everybody they're like it's it's a little weird dude well averman

like why are you googling us we're unsuccessful adults averman's into it though he like averman's into it he looks at he looks at Everybody else and he goes oh we got fans Yeah I just thought that was so good Cause like It's just like that happens right Especially in like high school sports That happened to me when I went back one time

Like a kid was at the bar And he was like oh Heath I remember when you played basketball And I was like Jesus I'm fucking old but like that that that really does happen but it was good to see him but then he drops the bomb to the ducks they had no idea and they realized they're like oh my gosh here we are just being ever so salty you know we may as well be McDonald's fries. We're that salty right now. And we're being salty to Bombay

and for no reason. We didn't get invited. Yes, Evan tells them. Well, Evan tells them, he's like, you guys need to go get Bombay. And they're like, absolutely not. The dude's a fucking dick. And he goes, and Evan goes, you know, he is a dick

for sure, obviously. But he's a dick. goes you know it's he is a dick for sure obviously but he's a dick have you ever talked to him recently but he's a he's a dick because he didn't get invited and that's when they're like oh they you know they that's when they like they would have if he would if bombay would have told him that in the first place they rally behind him they're like okay let's go fucking cheer this guy up let's go get him and so you get another fantastic easter egg you get averman and his limo driving out on the ice at the ice palace and like and averman came out hot with that with that limo spin like i had to take that was some nice that was some nice driving uh on on ice. And they're quacking.

That was my thing. Quack, quack, quack. Here they come. They're coming out guns a-blazin'. And they're there to pick him up for the party. And Averman drops the bomb. He's like, oh, yeah, did I tell you I drive the limo for a guy that makes a lot more money than me? And Bombay's like, all right, you know what? guy that makes a lot more money than me. Yeah.

And Bombay's like, all right, you know what? Okay. You guys, you guys sure are nice to come pick up your old coach. Yes. And he lays the line on Averman. He says, whoever taught you it was okay to drive a limo on the ice, which is a great, great callback. Yeah. Great, great, amazing, amazing call.

Like that was, that's like one of the best scenes in the first movie And like when the kid steals all of the driver's candy And the driver is like Hanging him upside down Dumping all the candy out That was a very underrated moment in the movie That people may not have picked up on

So So We get them picking up on thing What's up? Do you think MC Ganey will make an appearance in any of this? He's the actor who plays the limo driver in the original, MC Ganey. I would bet no. I think that's – and while we're on random tangents,

I'm honestly thinking the reason Bombay is in such a bad mood all the time is that, you know, with his age and him sleeping at the Ice Palace, he may not have the proper lumbar support in his mattress to get a good night's sleep. Like he's too old to be sleeping on couches or futons full time. Like he has to get himself, you know, like a nectar sleep mattress. I just bought one of those. Very nice for that lower lumbar. I was going to say, do you think he's actually sleeping on a mattress in the Ice Palace? He's definitely on a futon

or a couch. Listen, I slept on a futon for a hot minute in college. Even then, in my early 20s, I was 21. It was still rough on the back. It didn't last very long. Those futons will ruin you. Absolutely. early 20s, I was 21, it was still rough on the back. Oh, yeah. And it didn't last very long. So, I mean, just this guy. Ruin you.

Absolutely. So, no wonder Bombay is always a little bit cranky and a little bit tired. Kids, get yourself a good mattress. It pays for itself. Yes. It's key. It's very key. Some little life advice

section. But anyway, so we picked him up. up we have we get back to the gala we have stephanie gassing up coach t she's introducing him we've got a we got a three-time state champion two-time captain coach t represents the real spirit of the ducks yes And he is about to get the first Lifetime Achievement Award. Yes, the opening Lifetime Achievement Award. And so this is where we figure out that we find out that he played for the Ducks as well. And so that's when I was thinking, maybe he comes from the Gordon Bombay coaching tree.

Maybe he played under Bombay. But yeah, there's not enough. We don't get enough. The interactions that they've had together in the series do not scream that they knew each other beforehand. You know? Yeah. So, although I would have loved,

that would have been a fantastic little subplot to kind of delve into, you know? Like, maybe you have Coach T as kind of like the second coming of Charlie, you know like maybe maybe like a like you have have coach t as kind of like the second coming of charlie you know and bombay sleeps with his mom that's why coach t is starting to sleep with everybody else's mom you know a little you know the abuser becomes the abused becomes the abuser situation and and coach and and coach t usurps bombay's power as his assistant takes over. You know, it was a mutiny, and he took over. I don't know if I'd go.

No more having fun. I wouldn't go mutiny. That's too far. That's too far. Coach T wouldn't lead a mutiny against Bombay. The way I would play it would be like how Bombay's played it with everybody else. So you have him leave. So Bombay's coaching the Ducks.

He coaches Coach T. Then he leaves to go take the college job, right? St. Paul State. it with everybody else so you have him leave so so bombay's coaching the ducks he coaches coach t then he leaves to go take the college job right st paul state he leaves to go to st paul state coach t has been his assistant coach for a year or two or something like that takes over that job then you have the whole recruiting scandal the you know the walk of shame and bombay shuts off and he shuts off from coach t just like he shuts off from everybody else and Coach T being scorned from Bombay shutting off, that's when he's like, fuck this, let's just win. It's time to, you know, it's, you know,

tarps off, boys, it's go time. Tarps off, it's go time. And now he's part of the Coach Riley coaching tree. Exactly. Well, that's not how coaching trees work, but yeah. I know. I think that would be a fantastic

little subplot to sink at least an episode into. Did you feel bad for Coach T getting his Lifetime Achievement Award party usurped? That was kind of fucked up i was like as much as like coach t is the worst going in and interrupting his moment like that he's probably

been like looking forward to for a really long time wasn't necessarily the right thing to do but it did make some some compelling television because it did when they walk in, they walk into the Flying V. Flying V, baby. Absolutely. Flying V comes in. They interrupt. Like you said, I did feel bad for Coach T.

It's a lifetime achievement award. It's something he's been working his entire life for. He played for this team. He coached this team. This is his night. Even if he's been working his entire life for. He played for this team, he coached this team, and this is his night. Even if he's an asshole, just to have that ripped away from you would be rough.

It's not like he's only been doing this for a couple years. Maybe I'm assuming too much that maybe he played on some of the 10 straight and didn't go through them all. I think Stephanie has a line about that. He they've had 10 straight,

but coach T was only the coach for some of those. Like he has, he hasn't been the coach. Yeah. He hasn't been the coach for all 10. I don't believe, but just the last handful or so. We know he won three as a player. We know he won three as a player. But even if he wasn't there for the full 10 as the coach,

Lifetime Achievement Award, he still won multiple state championships in a row. Nothing to sneeze at, even if he does it in a scummy way. At the end of the day, a win's a win. Yeah. They don't ask why.

They ask how many. Listen, Bill Belichick is not going to win Best Friend of the Year awards, okay? He's going to win football games, and that is what Coach T is going to do. He's not there to win best friends. He's there to win games.

I did mess up my saying, though. They don't ask how. They ask how many, Heath. There you go. But so the flying V, the Ducks come in. They take over. They take over the stage. Yes.

They take over the stage and then proceed to insult everybody. I was just going to say, and then Banks throws in a nice zinger. He's like, would have fit in pretty good here, though, after saying he wasn't about that duck's life. So he goes, when I was a kid, I was a terrible human being until I met Coach Bombay. But back when I was the worst person in the a terrible human being until I met Coach Bombay. But back when I was the worst person in the world, I would have fit in so well here. Wow.

Did not pull any punches there. Just straight up told everyone they suck. Yeah. Which is a bold move by a public defendant because a lot of the people he's going up against are probably in that room. Yeah, that's true. That's probably true. Stephanie's law buddies, you know? Yeah. And if he, you know, yeah, most of them are probably lawyers. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyways, that's a rough career move by banks, but that's okay. I respect it though. Going balls out for Bombay, you know, risking life and limb to defend Bombay. He's selling out for Bombay. And then Connie, of course, she shows you why she's a politician because she gives a delightful speech to really tie a nice bow. She really did. Yep.

And ducks fly together. Ducks fly together. And then, of course, you get Averman starting the Bombay chant. Bombay. Just touching back on what Banks said when he said, I would have fit in right here. Then they cut to Bombay, who lets out the loudest fucking laugh. He's like, ah.

But he's the only one laughing. And he looks around. So awkward. He's like, it was funny. I don't know. I don't know what you, what you want from me, you know? And so, um, a really nice moment. And then we cut and we're back at the ice palace and we've got the don't bothers. They're going to, they're going to play some hockey.

And then all of a sudden, coming through, we have the Ducks. And we have a great moment where we have Ducks and Don't Bothers scrimmaging, playing, having a grand old time out there on the ice. And all the Ducks are wearing original jerseys. You know, the old green, yellow, and purple. Even Kenny Wu's got one, even though he never wore that jersey. I love that they had an honorary Kenny Wu District 5 jersey. That was beautiful.

I need to figure out where I can get that Gi jersey. I need a Gi jersey. I've told you before, Heath, you have your Banks jersey. I have a Charlie jersey that my sister bought for me. It's like five sizes too big though. It's not wearable. I'm definitely going to – my plan though with that is to have Joshua Jackson sign it, and then I'm going to frame it.

There you go. If we ever get him on the pod, I need you to sign that for me, Joshua. So I do want to buy another jersey that actually fits me and that I can wear, and I really want a Gi jersey, but nobody makes the Gi jersey. He's the unsung hero of the team. You know, he was the backbone of that front line. He was a solid, consistent contributor throughout.

Yeah. Consistent contributor throughout. Because remember, they wanted Guy to take the shot in the first movie instead of Charlie. And Bombay overruled them. And Bombay was like, no, no, no, Charlie Spazway is going to do it.

I don't think Bombay called him Spazway. I know. Of course he didn't. It was a kid in the middle of a game. That would have severely ruined his chances of sleeping with his mom if he would have called him Spazway. Exactly. Bombay would never make that mistake.

Not with a mom on the line. We had some nice moments on the ice. What did you think about your boy Kenny Wu? That looks like him he has still got like that did not look like a body double that looked like really him and he was out there so i'm showing those kids how it's done i will say it it looked like him yeah it looked like him because i'm fairly certain there was no body double in the second movie he was doing all

the figure skating moves i believe yeah correct me if i'm wrong but i believe he was doing all those and so and this one yes 95 percent of it looked like him the the first little go around there's one little like crazy spin that's done at the end that kind of looked like it might not have been him so that one might have been when his head when it because i thought the same thing but the way his've been, it looked like it when his head, when it, cause I thought the same thing, but the way his helmet fell off, it looked like it was him. And then he like kicked his helmet back down. You know what I mean? And so,

yeah, but yeah, he was doing the vast majority of it for sure. And still, still got the moves. Kenny Wu. Still got the moves. Still got Wu,

Wu, Wu, Kenny Wu. That's one of my favorite calls from D2. When the announcer jumps in with that. Goosebumps every time, every time. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful moment.

And then we have another great moment where we have Connie showing the dynamic duo of Maya and Lauren how to take out fools. Like how to bust dudes in the chest. The elbows are her move, right? From the previous movies? Yeah, yeah. The elbows are her move, right, from the previous movies? Yeah, yeah. The elbows are her move. Yeah, exactly. But they're hitting too high. You know, we learn right away in football, if you hit them high,

you're going to get knocked back down. But if you get that low center of gravity, especially in hockey, you're going to upend them over the top. And you want to go low, especially if you're throwing elbows, because you want to get them just under the rib. You know? You don't want to hit – Knock that window.

Yeah, you don't want to hit chest plate. You know? You want to hit just under the rib. And so I hope that comes back around in a game where, like, Lauren and Maya just take somebody out based on Connie's instructions. Or do we have the Bash sisters? Is that what we're working on right now? If we get, listen, don't tempt me with a good time like that.

Don't even. Don't even float that out there because there's just no amount of things we can do to bring me back from that level of disappointment of not getting the Bash sisters. One thing we didn't get that I would have loved to see. Because she hits – she lights up banks, Brandon. Her and Reed. Her and Fulton light up banks.

She lights up banks in the glass. She hits him in the glass and he's like, oh, and then Fulton takes him out into the bench and completely knocks him out. It was a great moment. One thing I would have loved to see that we didn't get to see was them doing the stick glove shirt with one of the kids. But, you know, fighting's not allowed anymore, so they wouldn't have done that. Like, even if we do get the Bash sisters,

it's not going to be as goony as it was before because there's too much violence in that. That's not going to fly nowadays. Exactly. There's no place for hockey goons. They will settle things off the ice. Maybe they'll sit down. They'll get a feeling stick out.

Maybe write each other thoughtful notes so that they can work through it. The puck of truth. Pass the puck of truth. The puck of truth will go back and forth. Like I said, maybe a thoughtful note where they express their feelings. Yeah, exactly. Express your feelings.

This is how your actions make me feel. And I don't know why. So modern day Bash Sisters I hope that they set it up Because it would be great to see Lauren Especially Lauren She already said she's a proud female warrior She used to be lighting fools up out there

Yeah she's a proud female warrior And then Maya's got the New York attitude You know How Portman had the Where was Portman from I forget Chicago

So he's got the big city attitude Maya would fit that bill perfectly You got that New York attitude That'd be perfect Yeah and also I feel like Maya's Spirit animal is like An angry New York City truck driver, just like her accent. So I feel like, you know, like deep, deep inside she has some rage for sure.

Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And so we got some, because we're gearing up, we're getting close to the end here. But Alex is all in. Because this is – now, gentlemen, if you're listening to the podcast, this is how you have to go. You got to get the friends saying nice things about you to win over the girl because the Ducks were just chatting up Alex, gassing up Bombay. They know Bombay's move. They's move they know this is a single mom they've seen it first i got you they've seen it firsthand their whole lives they they know what's

going on they know how to play the cards so they're talking to and so you know win over the friends have have friends of this person go tell that person because then you know what they're going to keep you around if the friend group can tolerate you the girl will keep you around yeah absolutely but yeah so they talk him up a little bit some love advice you're welcome and then you get alec yeah so alex comes back and she's like talking to bombay and she's like oh my god i've heard so much good stuff about this guy that was at the gala last night. I forget exactly what she says, but some weird, awkward flirting going on. Yeah, like, hey, you used to be nice.

Remember that? Yeah, you used to be nice and a hockey coach. Hopefully that guy comes back, I think is what she says. Yeah, and Bombay is like, hey, I like hockey again. Is the assistant coaching job open? See, that's where they lost me. He's the assistant. No.

Why is Bombay the assistant? He's the ass man. Why is he the assistant coach? He should be head coach. I don't know. Get Alex out of here. She has no business being a hockey coach. Listen, he is here to merely support her supporting her son's dreams to bail on his friends

and play for a different team she's not supporting anybody's dreams she's actively crushing dreams i'm pretty sure with her coaching styles um but yeah so we get the flirting but he's in he accepts it i like listen brandon whether you like it or not, Bombay is officially a don't-bothers assistant coach, cementing his ever, ever so far, how far he's fallen from the top. Now he's definitely not going to be allowed back at the Ducks facilities. He's persona non grata for sure. Yeah, he may as well just finish it because an assistant coach on the Don't Bothers, you're blacklisted.

You're done. Done. And so, but then we end with Sophie taking a selfie. And of course, we got to put it on Insta right away. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't do the same thing if I'm taking a selfie with the ducks. I'm posting that everywhere. As someone

who loves a good selfie here and there, you've got to put it right on the Instagram as soon as you take that. You've got to strike while the iron's hot. It's just like making a soy. Sophie, as she's browsing Instagram,

she actually comes across this video of Evan. The betrayal. The video of the betrayal is on Instagram. She's not pulling any punches. Evan, what the fuck? What's going on? Tell us. He does a terrible job of defending himself too by the way yeah oh yeah just the worst job and they go from

zero to 60 on the anger scale real quick they just had the the the day the best day of their entire lives skating with the original ducks and now they are furious at Evan because he betrayed them. And deservedly so. Like, he deserves every ounce of the anger that this team gets because he convinced them to join this team. They didn't want to. Kube would still be happy in his basement starring as a goalie on his NHL live team as he's streaming this. Like, he would be starring right now on that team.

Instead, he can't move and he's given up 25 goals a game. You know, like he's just, he's a disaster. And Evan goes after Evan, talks about like all this friendship and his first sleepover. Wow. Like there's just not enough strength to dig the knife out of the back

that Evan just jabbed into every single one of his teammates. It's devastating. It's devastating for Team Moreau. Like I said earlier, I completely understand and encourage Evan taking the interview with Coach T. The practice is where he fucked up, though. Went too far. Yeah, that's way too far.

He can't go practice with the other team. And then you saw it, dude. He saw her recording him. Yeah, that's way too far. Can't go practice with the other team. And then you saw it, dude. He saw her recording him taking that shot. Yeah. It's one of those things where if you're going to – once you go to the practice, just rip the Band-Aid off and go to the Ducks. At that point, just quit and go to the Ducks. Exactly.

Like what are you doing there? So, like, the team is pissed and they deserve it. So, but I think my biggest takeaway from like, when the team was like really pissed and started skating away. Oh yeah. They do one by one skate off. Logan just, Logan just scooted right off the ice. There was no, he wasn't using a prop stick. He wasn't moving really slow. Evan hit the ice from the bench and he went right across the ice.

That was my biggest takeaway. Okay, making some progress. Evan or Logan, Logan has made some serious progress when it comes to skating. So that's why we're seeing the on-ice product pick up a little bit. Coop did not, though. Coop was struggling. He legitimately walked, like stepped one by one, one foot right after the other, stepped across the ice.

How do you still not know how to skate, Coop? How has nobody – how did one of the ducks not teach him how to fucking skate? What are we doing? Did we just ignore Coop? You're teaching people to hit and fight, but you're not going to teach Coop how to skate? This is what happens when Julie the Cat Gaffney, the voice of reason for the modern Ducks, is not involved

because she would have sat Coop down. That's true. There was no goalie. Neither her nor Goldberg were here, so you didn't get the one-on-one kind of goalie teaching that is desperately needed with Koop. And, yeah, Julie the Cat would have helped, for sure. She would have saved this entire team.

And as much as I prefer Julie the Cat over Goldberg, I feel like Goldberg may have been a better mentor in this particular position with Kube, maybe not as confident, a little bit bigger guy, not always feeling really good, maybe not always feeling confident about what he can do. Because I feel like with Kube, they need to do like what they did with Goldberg, where they just like strap him to the goal and start shooting stuff at him and just be like, hey, you need to move around and make this happen. So I don't think you're going to get him,

I don't think you're going to help him learn how to move around if you strap him to the goalpost, Heath. I know, but he just needs to learn that he needs to get in front of the damn puck, like however he can get in front of the puck. Yeah, but like strapping him to the thing, strapping him to the goalpost, his thing is not, he's not afraid of the puck like Goldberg was.

Goldberg was afraid of the puck. He could skate though and he could move he why are you shooting yeah i love the i love his line in the first one where he's like does this does this seem crazy to anybody else that i'm just standing in front of the puck which is spot on because you have to to be be a, to be a goalie, you gotta be, there's a certain air of crazy that you have to have, which is why, like, I think we mentioned, I think we talked about this exactly in one of the episodes. Crazy. We talked about it. Sam's your goalie. Sam's your goalie. Get Coob out of that. Retire Coob. Especially now that you have brought in some depth. Retire Coob.

Put him out to pasture. put Sam as a goalie. Now we're going to win some games. I do have to say, because I know this is basically the end of the episode, but you wanted the Czech kids to not just be forgotten about. This is where we were reminded they were still on the team. They don't have any lines, but they give a resounding thumbs down to Evan. Oh, that's right. Before they exit the ice.

Deservedly so. They did not. Deservedly so. Deservedly. They can't speak English, but they do understand enough being spoken that they know Evan is not cool at this moment. Yes. And they understand American mannerisms to do the thumbs down. I guarantee the thumbs down, what it

means in America is not what it means in the Czech Republic. But they came back. We didn't forget about them. We got everyone skating out. So now, you know, end scene, we end the episode. Great episode. I love this episode. Well, of course, anytime you bring in the original Ducks cast,

this is going to be the highlight episode of the entire season. The issue is that where do we go from here? Because it's all downhill for them. You know what I mean? Like no offense to these kids in the show and the Disney writers, but I'm sorry. You've hit the pinnacle. We have banks. We have Fulton.

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But I need more Nick. I want more... I need a Sam backstory. I need to know more about Sam. We do need more Logan and Sam outside of hockey practice. I want what we talked about in the last episode,

where just like a team focus, where it's just like we go through all the kids. Like, who are these kids? Yes. What are they all about? But now that Bombay is an assistant coach, I feel like we're still going to have a lot of Bombay Alex love saga

through the end of the episode. Or is Bombay eventually like, is Alex eventually going to pass the don't bother baton over to Bombay? When does that happen? With him coming on as just the assistant

coach, it'll be interesting to see where and when they make the switch if they do i would imagine they do um but so i know they they the ducks just left after that practice the original ducks just left after that practice do you think anybody's gonna stick around do you think they it was all of the og ducks just left after that practice do you think anybody's gonna stick around do you think that it was all of the og ducks it was just this episode or do you think maybe maybe because fulton is in town i think he mentioned everybody else came from out of town but fulton's in the twin cities do you think fulton fulton comes on as the second assistant coach do you think we gave... Fulton's never

been the coaching type. I think if anyone... Do you think... He's got seven kids to care for. It's only three and he can... It's only three. He can use some... Maybe not an assistant coaching job, but

do you think any of these other... Any of the OG Ducks make another cameo? Or is it over and done with? I think it's over and done with. I think that they played the cameo hard. They played it up hard. And that's why I made my comment that I did before. I think that it might be all downhill from here.

We got our moment of truth in the halfway point and i think that they they kept us on right they kept us they kept us wanting more and we know this episode with the ducks are coming back we hit it and now what do we do is it because if it's going to be more alex and bombay storyline they're going to lose folks right they might even lose kids right like the kid viewers don't want to see this Mighty Ducks gossip girl mashup. I would love, I would love to figure out like the, the, the data and the analytics behind the viewership for this. I don't even,

I would imagine it's gotta be possible, but I, I would love to know if kids are actually watching this cause there's so much Alex in Bombay stuff so much i just don't know if that's you know hooking the 13 year old or the 10 year old i don't think they they i don't think it's registering with them there's not there's not enough there's not enough kid development kid storyline honestly for it to be a kid successful kids sitcom like it's no family matters that's for sure yeah it's yeah it's no family it's it's it's no yeah no one can keep up with the windows so like it's just carl carl had a great house but i think you need yeah there's just so much Alex and Bombay stuff

that hopefully that dies down a little bit. I think it'll need to in order for them to kind of keep this going with the kid demographic. Yeah. I think we might see, like, especially like episodes like 8, 9, 10. I think we're going to see a lot more culmination of

the hockey season. So we might see more like back and forth and like some school stuff like back and forth, getting ready for the game, psyching people out. Do you think they make state? I don't know. I feel like there's going to be like some things obviously going to be on the

line for the Ducks at the end of the year. I feel like they're going to be in the running for like if we win this game because this other team just lost. If we win this game, we can win eight out of the nine and make it to state. But we have to beat Team X. Or maybe they

have to beat the Ducks to make it into state. And then the Ducks beat them and they don't make it to state. But they're going to come back next year and the Don't Bothers are here to stay. That's my prediction. Do you think the Don't Bothers are here to stay. That's my prediction. Do you think the don't bothers are here to stay though? I got to imagine at some point the Ducks can't be the bad guys anymore.

You know, it's called the Mighty Ducks. At some point they have to merge. I don't know if it's at the end. Do you think they absorb the don't know if it's I don't know if it's at the end You think there's They absorb the Don't Bothers And Bombay takes over the Ducks again And That's gotta be where it goes Yeah I mean that's a good prediction too

I don't think you can keep running Don't Bothers can't be a standalone team No not with a fucking name like that You can't It's a terrible name The show's called Mighty Ducks So at some point No, not with a fucking name like that. You can't, you know. It's a terrible name. The show's called Mighty Ducks. Yeah.

So at some point, again, I don't know if it's this, because I know, I don't know. I imagine they're going to string this along, at least for season two, and possibly as many more as they can. So three, four, five, who knows? So maybe. I feel like three, four, five, who knows? I feel like three, four seasons is probably the max, right? Yeah.

Maybe at the end of this season the Ducks are still the bad guys. It's still Ducks don't bothers. But somewhere season two, midway through the end of season two, there's got to be some sort of merger or something to where Bombay is back taking over the ducks.

I think, but yeah, I don't know. It's, I'm definitely, this was what I was looking forward to this episode. And so now that it's gone, I'm, I'm a little, I'm a little weary. Yeah. Like listen, this next episode, we got weary. Yeah. Listen, this next episode, we have to be we have to go into it with open minds so that we're allowed

to digest and process. Yeah, we can't lose if we come into it with that. You know, our Friday night lights watching these episodes will be just that. But it's going to be interesting. I don't think that it's, I mentioned, like I said, how I feel before, where it's probably not going to live up to this amazing Ducks episode.

Unless, unless they hit us with with an okey-doke and they bring in some more cameos. Not necessarily more cameos, but we see more of the Duck cameos coming back. Like you said, we see Fulton come back. We see maybe a spot where Connie is the state senator,

so maybe she does something for the Dumbbottoms, gets them to state. Finds another surplus, you know? You never know. Yeah, I think... Yeah, I think they gotta bring... At least for me, for me to care

about these last couple episodes, I need something more. I don't necessarily know if it's a cameo or if it's, like you said, if it's one episode where it's full kids 100% of the time. Maybe that'll get me back in. I just...

Like I said, I just don't care for the Alex Bombay thing. They're dragging it out way too long. The whole will-they-won't-they that works in an hour and a half movie. But when you string it along over 10, 30 minute episodes, it's, it's a lot of, it's a lot.

I mean, there, and there are no JD and Ellie, you know what I mean? Like they're not going to keep us on the hook. No Ross and Rachel. It's just not going to work that way. Should we preview the next episode now and see, see what we got. Remember, remember clear eyes, full hearts. Can't lose if we go into this next episode with open minds and a positive attitude. A can-do attitude. Can-do attitudes for episode seven.

Episode seven, which is titled Pond Hockey. Okay. Yep. So back on a pond, which the original i know we're so the the little synopsis here says with the team mad at evan and alex unsure of her coaching skills bombay brings them somewhere new which i'm assuming is the pont so getting out of the ice palace that's probably the first time bombay has left the Ice Palace in years. So everybody's still mad at Evan.

So they're not going to let that go. That'll be interesting. Hopefully with that and then Bombay bringing them to a pond, hopefully this will be the full kid episode. We get kid, kid, kid all the time. We kind of delve through their, you know, how they're feeling about Evan, how we can get over this, that kind of thing. Because that's what it should be, right?

Like this is a very key point for the team. Where do they go? How do they move on from this moment in time? Can they come together, unite, and overcome? Or is this the stone that starts the avalanche? Are they going to let Coach T tear them apart

from the inside? He did a hell of a job. Shout out, Coach T. When he puts a bounty on you, you ain't getting away from that. You know? So hopefully... Just fur to...

And then it says, Alex unsure of her coaching skills. Maybe, hopefully she learns how to be a coach finally. I don't know. Maybe, I hope to god they finally teach Coop how to skate on this fucking pond that's got to be the first thing to go right they have to do some goaltending drills something has got to give with coob yes and this will be good because this will be so bombay is taking

them to the pond it's going to be bombay actually coaching for the first time getting back to his roots he's getting this is that's what this episode is you know he's at the pond those are Bombay actually coaching for the first time. Yeah, getting back to his roots. That's what this episode is. He's at the pond. Those are his roots. That's how he skated. That's how District 5 practiced out on the pond. And so let's hope that this brings back Coach Bombay and we get some nice development from the kids

and we see them unite to overcome this adversity that Evan caused by being selfish yes i imagine we'll get a a little montage similar to what we got in the first episode when he finally decided to teach them how to play hockey and not just take falls so i imagine the fall get hurt act indignant that's that's what the team chants yes yes exactly but so once once he he gave up that and he started actually teaching them how to pass and then goldberg how to be a goalie hopefully we get a little montage of that where with these kids kube finally learning how to be a goalie maybe logan get some more skating for Logan. Who knows? Yeah.

And then all of a sudden we really do have a chance at States. And that's where this becomes believable because Bombay sprinkles a little bit of magic over the top of these, these don't bothers. And all of a sudden they've bothered to learn how to play and everyone else is in trouble. Look out. So, yeah,

this will be the, the catalyst I imagine. So, yeah. Here we go. This will be the catalyst, I imagine, for their nine-game win streak that they'll inevitably go on. I think they do make it to state. I think they will make it to state. They're going to go on a nine. There's no way they can't go on a nine-game winning streak. I hope they don't make state, but I assume they will. I really they will. If Evan can score five goals in four minutes,

then they can win nine games in a row. This show isn't about worrying about unrealistic happenings. Yeah. I just hope they actually show a little bit of teaching montage. Because that's my biggest gripe so far is there hasn't been any effort put forth to show them actually learning how to play hockey. Yeah, there's no eggs.

There's no skating and stopping before he takes out the tower of soda cans. There's none of that. So I agree. Yeah. So hopefully we get a little more hockey stuff here. More hockey stuff, more kid, you know, background character development, less Alex and Bombay.

That's all I'm hoping for. No, because we're going to get a full crescendo on episode 10 where Alex and Bombay are together. She leaves the hockey to him. He leaves the lawyering to her. We'll see how it all turns out. I think that we have to resent our expectations as to where they were when we first started this out,

where we're going to be open-minded. We're going to be excited about the episodes. But we're going to hope for the best and expect the worst. Exactly. My expectations are back to rock bottom to avoid any kind of disappointment. Because we both know there's not going to be

any Bash Sisters going on anytime soon. So I really want Bash Sisters. I really, forest. I, so I, I really want bash sisters. I really, for the life of me, I need more Winnie. That's so that I didn't mention, I mentioned that earlier,

but when talking about what I, what I want going forward, I need more Winnie. And I swear to God, she better be a part of Hans and Jan's family. That needs to happen. It's such a no brainer that it needs to fucking happen. It's such a no-brainer that it needs to fucking happen. Thanks for listening, everyone. Please remember to follow and like us on Instagram at TheCakeEatersPod, on Twitter at TheCakeEaters.

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