The Cake Eaters - 8. Game Changers Episode 8: Change On The Fly

Episode Date: July 20, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss locker room hygiene, the benefits of therapy, American Hero Guy Fieri, laundry tips, possible spin-off shows, and then break down the rest of Episode 8 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+.   Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod)   Email us at [e-mail]

It's not worth winning if you can't win! Welcome back everybody, this is the Cake Eaters Podcast. Today's episode, we're going to be going over the eighth episode of Mighty Ducks Game Changers, titled Change on the Fly. This episode, we get a fantastic heel turn, very reminiscent of the famous Hollywood Hulk Hogan NWO heel turn from the, what was that, like 2000s? Late 90s, Heath? Help me out here. You're the wrestling guy.

I believe it was 96. 96. There you go. Late 90s. Bash at the Beach for sure. Bash at the Beach. I believe it was either 95 or 96. And the amount of trash that was thrown from the crowd that ended up in the ring was just,

it's insane to watch that. That's what this episode was missing. The kids should have started throwing trash at Alex is what should have happened. That would have been the greatest ending ever. But so anyway, I'm Brandon. I am Heath. We're going to talk episode eight here,

change on the fly uh game changers absolutely you hit the nail on the head we have not seen a heel turn this quick and this dramatic since the season finale of game of thrones when we saw a favorite character to many go on the craziest heel turn and start burning down an entire city including women and children and innocent old people um and so denarius targaryen's turn in game of thrones where she just decides to scorch people um what felt like out of nowhere but they do a few things to set it up it's very subtle that's exactly what this is with alex all of a sudden yeah what in the world what happened to the mom that was telling coach t to not bother maybe that was the foreshadowing like deep

deep in inside coach alex there was a winning dragon yeah she just she started drinking her own kool-aid i think is what happened she got she got swept up i feel like so before we get too far ahead i feel like for those of you who are not wrestling fans i feel like we should probably clarify what a heel turn means so in wrestling there's there's terms a face and a heel a face is the good guy the heel is the bad guy in the storyline and so the heel turn is when a good guy becomes a bad guy and so just to clarify for everybody in in case we lost you, confusing everybody with hockey sling wasn't enough. We threw in some wrestling for you.

Yeah, absolutely. We're going to teach you a little bit about wrestling because that Hulk Hogan heel turn was very dramatic when the eat your vitamins and say your prayers brother went Hollywood and started attacking people and spray painting them yeah it was it was very epic and that's what we saw here with alex also the um i never skipped the preview or the recap from before the recap for this one holy cow did it just foreshadow and set up the entire episode. It basically played it all out for us.

It pulls stuff from episodes two and three. It pulls everything. The recap pulls stuff and tells you exactly what we're going to focus on in this episode. We knew exactly what was happening in this episode. And I said in the last thing she said, which was a terrible line that you commented on, mom, who? Call me coach. Yeah. So she fully dives into coach mode. Yeah. So we, so we, but like, oh man, the start to this episode. So we've got the heel turn, but that's later. So we'll put that on the back burner. It's simmering on the back burner.

You know, we're going to let it kind of settle a little bit. That's our taco meat on the back burner because right now we are gearing up for Nick the Stick. Yes. First goal ever, and we've got an intense montage. These fucking slow-mos and, like, scans they do are the dumbest thing i've ever seen because so they they they set it up so it's like you think it's in slow motion but it's not because in the background you can see people that are moving in regular speed like there's when they

show nick and they're like zooming on nick in the background you can see alex clapping in full speed i i love the nick thoughts that they go to that was the best part of the scene it's like oh wait i'm open why am i this open yeah obviously they're covering the people that they think are going to shoot the goals um but then nick starts to melt down what is he what is he saying like oh i can't move my body i'm shutting down as as he has the puck on his and then alex uh pulls the the bomb bay line that makes no fucking sense from the hockey moms episode where she goes what is what is it like arms legs arms and legs like a cannon or something like yeah yeah that's exactly that's exactly it and then bomb base you can do it and then boom first goal in the five hole yeah um and then tells evan hey don't do that to me again yeah don't you ever pass me the puck again yeah but

at the same time he's living it he's feeling the glory because oh it's got right after the game a couple puck bunnies up in the stands yeah couple puck bunnies some some puck bunnies in the stands but then but then evan and nick are throwing out the awkward bro vibes and they don't they don't want those guys they don't want the nice guys yeah well they want the heart drop nick makes the mistake of standing right in front of logan And then when he sees the Puck Bunnies, the Puck Bunnies, he thinks they're looking at him. Because he's like, oh, he's got that first goal mojo. You know, everybody's feeling it. But actually, they're just looking at Logan.

He's right behind him. Brandon, let's be honest. This is me and you when I first moved to Denver and we would go out on the weekends. I take full offense to that. Whenever I go out, it's just puck bunnies galore staring at me. I can't, I can't, I have to beat them off of the stick. He's smooth like a Fox. Okay. Then, then I'll just, I'll just own being,

being awkward as fuck. But, but yeah, there's a reason I'm still You know I'm not married yet Because there's too many options I gotta beat them all off But with a stick You heard it here first ladies Get a number You're like a

Brandon's a New York deli you better take a number If you want some of that salami Get in line Say get in line it's gonna be was too inappropriate. I said, get in line. It's going to be a long wait. I took it too far. I took it too far. But that's some foreshadowing, right?

Because that's some of the resentment that is starting to build up in Nick towards Logan because he's tired of being the second best. He's the second best podcast. he's the second best podcast he's the second best uh player on the team and and he just logan is stealing all the show he's tired of being the sidekick he wants he wants superhero time yeah and and they they next move over to uh some some ego greasing where nick's moms we we get another visit from Nick's moms who absolutely beautiful Paula, beautiful.

And she just, she hits it with makes the hashtag of put fun first, put fun first. And, and Alex is like, Oh my God, that's so cool. Can you put it on a mug?

And so we see the ego and Alex starting to, we see that dragon. Because all these other moms are enablers. Yeah. You know? Well, and Nick's moms aren't being enablers. They're just the most, we saw that last episode. They're feeding the beast, Heath.

If you want an encouraging and supportive conversation, then you pick up the phone when Nick's mom's call. That's exactly what's happening. But be careful you got to be careful if you're somebody who is incredibly encouraging and supportive you have to be careful because there's some people that you should not be encouraging and supportive to you gotta you gotta know you gotta know your audience they should have they should have read the room a little better but alex has not well i guess it is it takes a lot of ego for her to go walk out onto the ice and heels and yell at a coach that cut his cutter side yeah or to to to take to still be the head coach when you have gordon bombay the godfather of hockey as your assistant coach. The Minnesota fucking miracle man.

An icon of hockey as that dumbass fucking paragraph said. That paragraph is still so upsetting to me. He transcended youth hockey, Brandon. That's a beautiful thing. I just don't – I'm not even going to start. I don't want to – Don't even get him started. You're going to get me all riled up. I can't. I'm triggering even going to start. I don't want to. Don't even get him started. You're going to get me all riled up. I can't.

I'm triggering Brandon right now. I'm triggering Brandon with the Bombay talk. Okay, so we get Nick's mom stealing the scene. They got the hashtag on the shirt. And then we go over to Coob, who, like, this is kind of a fun nod to insane sports. This is great, especially with hockey. insane sports this is great especially with hot yeah this is great especially to hockey players because hockey hockey players and baseball

players are the two most superstitious absolutely sports superstitions are crazy and this stuff they do with the socks is not far off no that definitely absolutely happens and then evan even mentions the the the most commonly yeah the most commonly known superstition for hockey players is the playoff beard. So once you get to the playoffs, you don't shave or trim your facial hair until you are eliminated from the playoffs. Yeah, and like a lot of the superstition aspect is routine, like in baseball.

Like pitchers and batter batters they go through their exact warm-up routines when they enter the batter's box they tap certain spots of the plate do one practice swing then they're ready you know what i mean like these are these are now i do have to say i have been in a locker room where like you know like someone doesn't wash their basketball practice jersey for like a month and that is it is oh it's rough it is a foul smell that you will not believe i can't imagine the goalie socks yeah that's got to be just this if if it's he still has his skates on and smell is coming from those skates that's that's rough That's rough bits. So one thing I didn't care, one thing that threw me off

with all the superstition stuff was maybe this is just me. Maybe other people do it this way. Bringing other people into your own superstition is, I feel like that throws it off. You know what I mean? That's what kids do for the team. That's what teams do, right? Like when you're 12 years old and

that's when everyone starts wearing headbands or everyone starts wearing wristbands. Yeah, but I get that, but what I'm saying is Koop was wearing his old socks. He didn't wash them in between games. They won both games.

He wore old, unwashed socks for two games. They won both games. He's now like, okay, this is a fucking thing. Yeah. Sam jumps on the bandwagon. He brings everybody else in, but in doing so, you're throwing off what they did for those two games.

You're throwing off their routine. My thought process is it's not the same now because other people are doing something different and so it's going to throw the juju off you know it's called being inclusive brandon that's what it is being inclusive at the the detriment of the w, you know? Listen, I'm playing devil's advocate. I am totally on Maya's board. Wash your socks, dude. They stink. That's nasty. If you are listening out there, I am all about superstitions and routines,

but do not have it be where you are not washing your clothes. That's nasty. We just went through a fucking pandemic. Wash your clothes. You know what i'm saying but um i love when maya is trying to get this is lauren once again yeah okay so we talked about this lauren crushes this scene where maya's like lauren you're you're with me right and she's like well i gotta be honest with you i believe in magic spells I believe in magic stones I believe that salamanders have magical

properties certain magical properties certain magical properties and so Maya is like cool everybody buys in Sophie buys in Evan buys in Nick's in

the two Czech kids, the Czech mates that don't fucking say anything. The Czech mates that don't talk, but listen, they're great listeners. Oh, fantastic. Every friend group needs listeners. Nick had some great lines in this scene too, when

Evan brought up the playoff beard. Nick says something like, yeah, I do that too. I don't shave my – what does he mention? Is it between? He doesn't shave his beard between Hanukkah presents. If he gets a good brunt of Hanukkah presents, which is another fun wrinkle that I forgot because in the first episode

when he's talking about Evan and his mom, he's like, they're nice because we have them over for Passover. They're our only non-Jewish guests. Yeah. He says, yeah, Nick says, I don't shave at all in between Hanukkah presents. And then Evan fucking roasts his boy out of nowhere. He goes, mainly because you don't have any facial hair.

Yeah. Boys roast boys. You know, that's just how it is. That didn't seem like a – his tone did not say joking roast. His tone said, hey, Nick, you don't have any facial hair because you suck. Yeah. I mean, Evan's not the best. Like Nick is looking in all the wrong places for a best friend.

Yeah. You know, Evan's not it. Evan's emotions and his heart are with Sophie. That is not only his best friend, but maybe closer than best friends. Right. And so Nick is barking up the wrong truth there. He doesn't need to settle for Evan. Nick can do better.

There's just not a lot of great best friend-wise. I would say he should... Trevor? Good old fucking Trevor. Trevor and Ruby, double trouble. Nick, I was going to say Nick should probably go after Logan Trevor and Ruby, double trouble. Nick, I was going to say Nick should probably go after Logan because Logan,

his parents buy him everything. He's got the little spoiled thing going on. He is a fantastic pancake chef. He was making the candy pancakes. The boy knows how to cook. That's fantastic. That's a great

personality trait or great candy pancakes well and the boy knows how to cook that's fantastic that's a great great um personality trait or great trait for your best friend to have is to be a good cook but he's gonna learn soon that like he's gonna he can catch girls using logan's orbit right exactly that's the other thing yeah yeah but the the downside is that you're gonna get and we get a lot of it this episode is is you get sad boy Logan. He's going to depress the shit out of you. Yeah, yeah. He's, hey, but like, let's be honest.

Don't be too hard on Logan. Like, that dude is carrying his fucking, we've talked about Logan's sad dad. This is true. Like, someone go check on that guy. Nick's mom's, go check on that guy. Nick's mom. Go help that dude out. He's in a bad place.

Get him and Logan over for dinner so Logan's not fucking cooking all the time. Yeah, yeah. Both Logan and his dad need to see a therapist. Yeah. Some family counseling is much needed, but we won't go into it. Not even just a family not even just a family not even necessarily a family counselor they just need they need somebody to talk to so i i'm a huge huge proponent of therapy for any and everyone even if you i i

seriously i am i highly recommend it for anybody about shit yes exactly um talk about these two these two definitely need it, though. Yeah. Like, I don't like to comment on people's, like, emotional states and tell them that they need therapy, but these two need it. Oh, you see mental health red flags all over the place in this episode. Like, this is not just a skate. There's some help that is needed. But it doesn't take long and that

the the locker room clears out yeah so bombay bombay comes in here cat jesse here getting in for for those of you listening in i'm like our good friend cat jesse has made an appearance he is currently purring into the microphone, if you can hear that. Yes, he's made an appearance. But we have We get, like, prime Coach Bombay. Like, original movie, we get some good rowback Coach Bombay. This is

Charlie and Bombay in their heyday in the first movie. You know what Logan has? Yeah. Single mom. Well, his mom, I feel like his mom's still in Canada. Yeah, his mom currently lives in Toronto,

but playing the long game. She's got to come visit sooner or later, you know, come see a game. Exactly. Eventually, Bombay will have his chance if he runs out of patience with Alex. Yeah. Well, by the time Logan's mom comes, maybe Alex ran out of patience with Bombay. Maybe, you know. That's true.

Maybe that ship sails. But, yeah. But it's good, too, because we wanted more background from Logan. So we're getting some. We're getting some background with Logan. Yeah, because he, outside of the Czech kids, I think he's the last one we haven't got like a, and they did a disservice with Sam's episode.

We needed more Sam. We didn't get any setup or background to it. We just got him being sad in the corner and no one likes the sad kid in the corner. They just want you to get over it. So anyways, but he laments to Bombay that he's the only player that hasn't scored all season. He's not contributing.

Yes, now that Nick finally got the goal. Yeah, Nick the stick scored. And so Logan is jealous of Nick, right? Dude, I'm just – I'm the worst. I don't even skate in practice. Remember, I pointed that out in the last episode. They don't even let him play. They don't let him play. don't even skate in practice. Remember, I pointed that out in the last episode. They don't even let him play. They don't let him play. He doesn't skate in practice.

He's literally just a prop on the bench to make sure they have enough people. So he's feeling it. He feels like a loser. And that's kind of sad. I love that Bombay, I mean, it's like there's some girls outside that disagree. They just ask me what your situation is. He's like, what's that? What's the situation? If he's got any love interest, if he's seen somebody.

Bombay is about to start hanging out with Logan so he can pick off moms. Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea, man. And so, and I like i like these studies like yeah but they only like me for my hair and my smile and my good looks it's what else do you want well he mentions he mentions he wants to be like he wants to be liked because he's good at something and bombay has a great line where he goes well that's actually going to take some work you're gonna have to work at that. Yeah, with the looks and everything else, you can just stand there.

But this, you can't just stand there and watch everyone else ice skate. Yeah. We got to, so Bombay, we kind of end it where Bombay is going to find Logan's inner hockey player that is living deep, deep, deep, deep, deep inside. And then we get cuts to Alex, right? Yeah. It cuts over to Alex and you predicted this. You predicted this in the last episode where you said Sophie's parents, and I forgot about this as soon as they did this. I was like, Oh my God,

I didn't even see this. Like they lived at ducks practices. So of course they're going to be at the ice palace all the time. did this i was like oh my god i didn't even see this like they lived at ducks practices so of course they're going to be at the ice palace all the time and you're starting to see some of that influence like you call it feeding the beast like that dragon inside alex that ego is about is about to shine uh because you know she turned the the team around. She's got a catchphrase now where she's putting the fun in winning. I just – Put fun first. Put fun first.

I think it's putting fun first. Either way, don't have a catchphrase. Like if you're a coach, don't have a catchphrase. Don't make your own catchphrase. When you get a catchphrase, it's something that you accidentally say over and over again. Like Josh McDaniel screaming, do your job. That's a great catchphrase.

Yes. Those are catchphrases. But you don't make your own. It just makes you come up as a pretentious asshole. Well, in her defense, she didn't create it. That was Paula. That was Nick's mom was the one who put it on the t-shirt doing something nice to support a fellow mom who was achieving at both work and on the rink like that it makes sense for them they didn't think they were enabling they were they were supporting just fellow female warrior. Just like the person who posted that famous clip of Josh McDaniels

screaming, do your job. He didn't think he was creating this beast. He was just putting a video up to make fun of Josh McDaniels. And then now it's his mantra. Now he's going to be a head coach again sometime. And I also love their interaction because um sophie's parents come in they're getting there hey let's spill the tea oh yeah stephanie t stephanie oh she's got hey listen i've got some tea from spin class with the other duck moms which why is she why is she

spinning spin class with the duck moms. Just because your daughter – Eating ice cream with the enemy, that's what that is. Listen, we will get into how ridiculous those boys not supporting Bombay with the beautiful Iceland trainer getting a little ice cream. Like, come on. He wasn't betraying. If anything, he's throwing off the other coach by hooking up with their trainer. Maybe.

I don't know. That's just me. It's hard to tell motivations, Heath. Okay. But anyway, so we get the parents, and this is like the ultimate – well, it's not the ultimate feed to the ego in this episode. That comes later. But we get something where we hear Stephanie says that the don't bothers could be a problem stephanie's feeling

the heat yeah and and alex loves it so much that she needs them to say the exact words of what stephanie said so that then she then she goes and proceeds to repeat that to everybody who's within earshot. Winnie goes to the trouble of making her a fucking latte at the ice rink. I wanted to comment on that. Like, okay, with the mismanagement

of the concessions and the facility... I guarantee you she just made the hot chocolate extra foamy and called it a latte. Or just warmed up the milk. She made cocoa with milk and warmed up the milk in the microwave before

mixing it in. There's no way they have latte materials. But it's a great Winnie sighting. Unless you think that's Winnie's new, Winnie's new boo thing is the latte delivery guy? That could be it.

Cause they have those machines, like, you know, like you see in the gas stations with the cappuccinos, the lattes and all that stuff. So it's probably still a machine. She's not, she's not hand making that.

It's not a stock. Obviously. I mean, I still have doubts that Bombay would buy that machine, but. But my big thing was, you know, what you always wanted. You wanted Winnie to be the source of knowledge, a mentor, like Han and Jan. And if Alex stays for just two more seconds,

she would have understood Winnie's comment when she was like, is that a good thing? Yeah. Like where she was going to, is being a problem a good thing? Like it doesn't sound like it. Yeah. Sit down and think this through, Alex. And since we've talked about a little bit of wrestling at the beginning, I actually, in my notes, commented on Alex's McMahon strut.

And after she talks to Winnie, she gives a check you later. Then she starts doing the McMahon strut on over to Sophie and Alex and Sophie sees it. And she's like, Oh, W T F instant red flag. Yeah.

She sees it all over the place. The only thing that could have made that scene better is if Alex would have accidentally torn her hamstrings doing the McMahon strut like he did at the end of one of the Royal Rumbles where he had to just sit in the ring because he tore his hamstrings. That's the only thing that would have made that scene any better. I would have loved a more pronounced McMahon strut

and I would have loved if Alex worked in something like... I don't know how she would have loved a more pronounced McMann strut, and I would have loved if Alex worked in something like, I don't know how she would have done it, but worked in like No Chance in Hell. No chance! And so, because he also did the You're Fired. He did a

different variation of Trump's. I think he was way before Trump, though. That was the original. The original You're fired. He did a different variation of Trump's. I think he was way before Trump, though. That was the original. The original, you're fired. Exactly. His was more angry, though. Like screaming at it, whereas Donald Trump's was like a... Like a pompous asshole.

Yeah, it just sounded like he was exhaling. And so we see that. And so this is Bill. It's setting up alex for for turning into the worst she is becoming a problem yeah she is and and not the good guy no and so um we cut scene and it also confirms because we see it in clear duckworth law firm is where where they work we see it clear um and so we have um stephanie talking about hey let's cut this meeting short alex jumps in doing the research like she does

like she's done so to set it up a little bit so they're they're working on they named the case that she's that they've named a couple times in the previous episodes that alex is like working on in the background. I forget what it's called. But essentially, it's the apartment complex. They're tearing down and building a luxury apartment complex. Yeah, the one that she kicked everyone out of and gave them a free gym membership. But so I loved this meeting because – so essentially, I'm assuming a Duckworth lawyer, a Duckworth guy,

he essentially goes, so we have to scrap this whole project because the taxes are going to be too high. Stephanie says something along the lines of great, now all this work is, all the work that I have taken credit, all of Alex's work that I've taken credit for, down the drain.

And may as well cut the meeting short. Exactly. Let's get out of here. Leave the muffins, throw the drain. Down the drain. And may as well cut the meeting short. Exactly. Let's get out of here. Leave the muffins. Throw them away. Nobody wants them. Yeah. And then so Alex is in the meeting.

This is the first time we've seen her in an actual meeting. But she's not at the meeting table. She's tucked up to the side in the back. But she speaks up. In the assistant corner. Yes. But she speaks up and she says there's a new zoning thing or whatever. She found a zoning loophole. A loophole in the zoning.

Where if you dedicate one of your floors to affordable housing, then you get a bunch of tax credits. But before she says that, Stephanie brushes her up like, yeah, yeah, Alex, we all read the – We all know about zoning. Yeah, we all read the – We all know about zoning. Yeah, we all read the zoning thing. Yeah. Yeah, idiot.

So Alex says that, and then Stephanie shuts her down again and goes, I don't think that'll work in this situation. And the lawyer, the main guy leading the meeting, he's like, no, I think that would work. But my favorite line is he goes, I think that would work. Granted, they'd have to build a separate elevator for the affordable housing people because god forbid they share the same elevator he god forbid don't interact get your get your poor people out of my fucking elevator

i i that was right and then and then he's like hey congratulations you get him you get some mini muffins you you earned yourself a muffin go ahead take two take two and she does and she does and so the whole time and they're setting this up too because like stephanie is shocked so there's going to be payback for this and he's kind of like giving her the eye while she's talking like don't you fucking do it don't show me up don't do it and then she shows her up and so boom the ego this is the this is the roof yeah this is this is kerosene a a bottle of kerosene and a bonfire that's what just happened like the bonfire was raging and just threw a whole thing of kerosene yep light. Lighten it up. Lighten it up.

And so end scene, great job setting it up. And now we have, once again, prime Bombay. Yes, prime Bombay. We get a great Nick Winnie scene again coming back. Yeah, great Nick Winnie. So first we have Bombay and Logan. They're on the ice um he's he's kind of pulling logan around teaching him how to skate but does some jedi mind trick gets logan distracted talking about um honestly all the sad shit going on in his life sad boy logan for sure

he starts he starts asking about his dad um yeah he starts talking about but like that's it's like actually really sad like you know there's probably so many people though obviously with the divorce rate there's so many people that relate to this where you know like it makes me fortunate right that my parents are awesome and badass and are still rocking and rolling but so many people where they get caught up in this conflict between their parents and so there's a competition to just i'm gonna buy you this i'm gonna buy you this i'm gonna buy you this but like it's just empty gifts and and so no one taught logan how to play this amazing guitar that he has yep nobody taught him how to skate yeah yeah he has all this all this cool

stuff that he doesn't know how to use. Which I mean, Logan, man up. YouTube. Go on that little YouTube tutorial and figure this fucking shit out. What are we doing here? There's no excuse for the guitar. You're completely right. We live in an age where you can learn anything on YouTube. There's literally a thing where you can just, like, dad, how do I?

Where this guy just posts on a whole bunch of stuff to help you fix your apartment. You know what I mean? Like you can do anything on YouTube. You can put your mind to it. You can easily learn how to skate. Just watching YouTube videos. You know, not to,

not to go back to the mental health part, but the poor kid is probably not feeling very motivated because he's having to cook for, you know, he's, he's carrying his dad through the divorce. Like he's, his back is a little tired

From carrying that son of a bitch Through this So yeah Like you said classic Bombay He gets him distracted Starts talking about his family And then next thing you know Logan's skating

He's got it And then Bombay lets go It Logan's skating. He's got it. And then Bombay lets go. It's a beautiful moment. He's skating. And then no one taught him how to break. Yes. He falls into the goal. Yeah, he freaks out.

He's like, wait, how do I stop skating? How do I stop skating? Smashes into the goal. And then what does Bombay say? He says, oh, that's one way to do it. Bombay being a – like he, that's one way to do it. Like Bombay being, like he has to be savage like this. There shouldn't,

when there's heartwarming moments for Bombay, it just isn't as authentic as these like really sarcastic funny moments. Like he's just a really sarcastic person. Let him lean into it. Yeah, exactly. Throughout all the movies, let him be sarcastic. Yeah, he's still as good as good of a person he has become he still has that he's still got the the alcoholic lawyer in him you know he's still got the the witty repartee yeah he's snarky yeah

there's nothing wrong like personally i like to think that i'm nice most of the time but i can be very snarky. Yeah. Same here. I'll hit you with a Midwestern passive aggressiveness real quick. Just give them the one, two that's going to hurt. Not then,

but a day later. So it cuts, it cuts to Nick and Nick and Winnie. They're at the snack bar. When I, when this, when this scene popped on, I was like, Oh my gosh, this is brandon i need a mighty ducks game changers euphoria i need a whole show of just

nick and winnie just like like fighting crime you know and so it starts off with winnie being delightful these are my free hot cocoa for the for the first goal. Free hot cocoa. And Nick. He brushes off his shoulder. Not only does he brush off the shoulder, he's like, I went five hole. Top shelf is a little played out. Acted like he scores goals all the time. Yeah, he wanted to go five hole. He refused to go Bardowski.

He wasn't about that life. That's because he knows. It's played out. it's talked about like they played it out on letter kidding so we're gonna go five hole from here on out and oh and then we've we've all been there when he does his awkward snort oh yeah right after he brushes off his shoulder he gets right after right after he's feeling cool jay-z go on brush your shoulder off and then hits it with the awkward snore we've all been there champ go ahead and brush that shoulder off again you'll recover and then he he starts talking to winnie about uh because he's like oh what's logan doing here yeah oh he's he's came here early bombay's teaching him how to skate

and then nick like freaks out he's like damn it this is the one thing i have over logan is that i'm a better hockey player now i won't even have that now he's going to be so much better and when i love this so much this is one of my favorite lines when he goes well you you got plenty of stuff that you're better at than logan you know like like school right and he goes he goes no actually I'm like a solid B minus student. But everybody thinks I'm good at academics or something like that. I've got a real math face is what he says. So I am totally going to bring that back as an insult.

Like, hey, bud, don't look at me with that math face now. The academics thing comes back later in the episode when he's talking to logan one time though and logan goes dude you you're crazy good at academics and all that stuff and nicks is like why do people keep saying that i'm not good at school his his line about having the math face was my favorite part of the episode but you know i gotta be honest with you, Winnie was shocked to hear the resentment that he had towards Logan because I think we all were shocked. The same thing with her and Alex when she's like,

is that a good thing that you're a problem? Nick is really upset that Logan's getting good at hockey. And when he correctly goes, why is that a bad thing? Yeah, that should be good you know and and you know what nick nick's mom raised him to be supportive you know like as supportive as they are to him i feel like their expectation as a parent is for him to reciprocate that support to his teens yeah so But he saved all of that disappointment with calling

himself, like saying that he has a math face. I am going to begin using that in my daily life. Go stand over there. You got a math face. Such a great line. Such a great line. And so once again, Sophie's parents hanging out at practice again, complimenting Alex.

She's on fire. But then now they're starting to plant some like their philosophies into Alex. Got to get the superfoods. Got to get the superfoods. We need the intensity. Two to get the superfoods. Got to get the superfoods. We need the intensity. Two a days. Superfoods. Annoying.

We got to whip these pheasants into shape, Heath. But it's just, I mean, I'm so glad that my parents didn't try to regulate my diet due to athletics. I would literally eat like a loaf of bread's worth of French toast on Sunday before church. That is not an exaggeration. You can dial up Mama D. She will let you know. I grew so big, so fast. I would literally eat a loaf of bread before church on Sunday. So like the thought of just having- Just a loaf of bread? You're not- No, we turned it into French toast.

I would eat enough French toast that it would be a full loaf of bread that would be gone through. They would have to have five or six in the freezer. I was huge as a small child. I was almost six foot and seven frames. Just pounding

French toast. Just pounding French toast. And it was delicious. I can't wait to go back and get some Mamadi French toast, but that's for another time. That's for my foodie spin-off podcast where I talk about good shit I eat. We got superfoods and then Alex. They planted the seed.

Because we cut back. Sophie and Evan, they're playing video games. And Alex drops the bombshell. Yeah. She's going on TV. She's getting a news interview, local news, local access. This is a human interest piece. There's interest in there for humans.

I love how she says the don't bothers are going to be on the news. And Evan and Sophie are like, oh, awesome. That's so cool. We're going to be on the news. And she goes, no, they don't want to talk to you guys. They just want to talk to me. She's taking the Bombay D2 dark side of the Air Bombays to just a whole different not healthy level. At least Bombay was getting Dark Side of the Air Bombays to just a whole different, like, not healthy level.

At least Bombay was getting some, like, real endorsements. Yeah. This human interest piece on the local news. Yeah. And then she, good old Nick's mom's, they made that mug she asked for. And, of course, she brings it on the interview. Yeah. Wait, before we move on to the, because like the next,

next is the interview winning streak montage. But before that, the brachos, the grave injustice, the first telling them they're going to get nachos, where Sophie never gets good food. She has to eat. She doesn't get cake. She gets spachos at home.

She gets spachos and you. She gets spachos and you're bringing... There's not even any cheese on the broccoli. There's no toppings. There's no fucking nachos. It's just broccoli. Just steamed broccoli, dude. What's wrong with you? I'll eat some broccoli, but I like a little cheese sauce on it. Come on.

Or at least some ranch dressing. I don't know. But that's what sophie is like oh sophie is just like alarm bells yeah red flags everywhere sophie's like oh i'm i just left this shit what's going on why am i back in this and so this is where the team is like fed getting fed up with alex because we get the interview montage mixed with the uh the winning streak so we got we start off with some we got game footage of kubes still being patrick waugh kubler still happening but before so sophie's parents mentioned this when they're

talking about superfoods same conversation they mention the don't bothers have won three in a row yeah and they and there's six games left they have to win all six to get to state they mentioned that yeah yep and then yes and then that's when we get the montage kube rock starring patrick waugh coupon O. And which, thank God, finally, finally that happens. But so I think I asked you this in the last episode, like schedule-wise, are we going to get to play the Ducks again? Yeah. I don't think they would.

They don't in this episode. But we get in the montage, they play the Cardinals and the Hawks again. Yeah. So there's definitely some scheduling discrepancies. But both of those games were at the Ice Palace again. They weren't at – they were home again. So there's definitely some scheduling discrepancies that we saw because I actually jotted that down too.

And also just the disrespect to the hawks man like wow just really burying a legendary peewee hockey team like i guess the 80s and 90s never happened out there in southeast minnesota because the hawks just it's the color scheme it all goes back to the color scheme change and they now they're they're clowns in their orange yeah yeah we had to see the the bullshit fucking orange jerseys again and then all right coach riley yeah it's a disaster and then the don't bother is running up the score i forgot what the score was but there was like five to one or something like that seven to one and and and we see once again the the heel turn. Alex is becoming Coach T,

where she refuses to put Logan in during a blowout. Yeah, bomb it. Or he's in. He's in. And he shoots the slap shot the wrong way. And Alex is pissed. He's like, why is he in there? It's the wrong way.

Yeah, because he's fixed the skating, but we haven't worked on puck handling yet. So, yeah, he accidentally hits it the wrong way. And, yes, Alex freaks out and then refuses to play him after that. Yeah. And so we also have the interview. There was also a sweet Lauren hip check that she laid on a Hawks player, I think. It was either a Hawks or a Cardinals player.

Just a sweet hip check. Shout out to Lauren. Yeah, and shout out to Connienie for you know showing more than i have remember that was under connie's tutelage that they learned those moves to light folks and then we get a we get a great maya like wraparound goal that she scores and then she she like hits it off the boards like hits it off the boards past the dude grabs it back and shoots a little wrister in yeah fancy stick work yeah and that so that's so in intermix with this like it's the fucking socks yeah well so so intermix with this she finally caved and she put the she started wearing her old socks she finally caved uh you get that intermixed with them drinking everybody

drinking like super green uh like broccoli shakes or whatever it was. Superfoods. Nick makes a comment that it feels like he's drinking grass. He's like, he's like, I've always wanted to know what it was like to drink my backyard.

Yeah. So Maya puts the socks on. She scores the goal and she's like god damn it it's the fucking socks yeah they work it works um it's the socks but the biggest thing in this is that we basically have stephanie 2.0 alex is morphing into a mini stephanie yes for the news interview yes she's for the news interview and she. And she's doing like the whole Stephanie thing where she's trying to show off her terrible mug. Yeah, she's like turning it, making sure it's facing camera.

She turned it to face the camera. Then she put her hand over the first part of the sentence. It drove me crazy when I watched it. It's like, if you're going to be an asshole, grab the handle, you asshole. Why did you grip the mug and put your hand in front of it? I just, it made me like, I'm sorry. I, once again, I, she plays the best mom in every movie and show that she's in, but for the love of God, this was the episode where I was, I was out, out on Alex, 100% out on Alex, like, oh dude, just, it just went, but super healthy. And you see where Evan got, oh, dude, it just went.

Super heel team. And you see where Evan got. Like, you know, we're sitting here wondering why Evan went back to the Ducks practice. Well, now it's making sense. We'll chip off the old block. So, yes, through that montage, they win five games. Yeah.

The news interview goes off. And you see her being a hypocrite and the team calling her out. Because Lauren's like, okay. Yeah, because throughout this montage, throughout this episode, she has completely abandoned putting fun first. Now it's Coach T with win now mode. And they're doing suicides. Suicides two a days.

But throughout the news episode, she keeps saying putting fun first. I just want it to be fun. I'm not worried about winning. And the kids are in the background watching this. And that's when you get Lauren go, that's a little fucking bullshit. Yeah.

SMH. They're shaking their heads yes um and then so after the little montage where they win the five games so they have one game left to win to make it to states it cuts to evan and alex at the at twin city slices our favorite pizza place yeah and we get a little little coach t coach pizza place. And we get a little Coach T. Coach T signing finally. We get a little Coach T. He wasn't even in the last episode. Or if he was,

it was too brief. No, he wasn't. Real quick before we move on, we even had Bombay telling Alex to chill out. Like, hey, you're pushing these kids a little hard. They're tired. Yeah, yeah, chilling out. And then she also starts, she picks up this thing where she starts hitting Bombay in the arm.

Oh, I wrote that down. Like, as she gets more aggressive on her heel turn, she starts to hit Bombay more within their interactions. I thought that was a great wrinkle yeah he calls it he calls it out like two times where he's like you need to stop that you've really got to quit doing that and then she hits him again and he goes yes that thing stop that i love it and and i i don't want to i don't want to move forward without giving borin proper justice on her one-liner because she she always has them And she was like, what a load of crap. Yeah, yeah.

Right before the cut scene. Right before, like, I think it was, like, right before the cut scene. Yeah. So that sets it up that, like, the crowd is buying into this heel turn. Like, the team is like, hey, we started this being terrible. And, like, now just because we've gotten better you're being an asshole like we still want to have fun i don't want to eat a whole bunch of broccoli i want my i want my uh cheetos which you can't blame them cheetos are awesome yeah i like the regular ones

and the puffs you can't go wrong with either yeah so yes coach t at the at twin twin city slices Yeah. Anyways, we got Coach T. Coach T at Twin City Slices. And Alex, of course, feeling herself, goes up and confronts Coach T and is like, you're scared, aren't you? You're scared of us. And Coach T is like, why the fuck would I be scared of you? The Ducks are an institution. You guys, even if you guys do make state, you're going to get obliterated when you get there,

which fair points all around. And then, and then he, my favorite part is he, after he calls the ducks an institution, he turns and goes, have you seen the special board? And there's the mighty duck special. Oh, so there are so many gems in this interaction. Let me break it down for you real quick, because I took pains taking notes of this interaction.

So it kicks off with Coach T saying, so, heard you're on a little win streak. You know, he's needling her. And, like, Evan knows what he's doing because he's watched the Ducks talk shit just like their coach for how long. So he knows what's going on. And so Coach A comes back with a very just like hacky response. Don't call her Coach A. Sorry. Alex comes back with a very kind of like hacky kind of response.

And, well, she comes back with what she said at the end of the interview where they're just taking it one game at a time for their wins. And he's like, yeah, I saw it. Like cuts her off. Like won't even let her say, yeah, I saw your stupid interview. But then he has the balls to turn to Evan, look him in the eye in front of his mom coach and say, hey, still should have joined the Ducks.

You'd already be packing for state instead of just trying to play in it. Loved every single thing about that. And he's right. He's absolutely right. He's absolutely right. But, oh, the audacity to do that in front of Evan's mom coach after all the practice betrayal drama. But then Alex, you know, is just, she's feeling herself, like you said,

way too into it. But she has an epic line where she's like or are you feeling like it don't bothers our rearview mirror where objects are closer than oh yeah that was the worst thing ever just evan is just like oh my and coach t he's like oh i'm in her head yeah that is a disaster evan's like what what the fuck mom so not only are they an institution they have a special at twin city slices brandon do you know what do you remember what that special is it's a it's salad and breadsticks with with a pizza something like that you buy a pizza and a salad and you get a free breadstick okay that's what it is and and alex tries to talk shit about

the breadsticks yeah she puts breadsticks down which is fucking bullshit so she was so wrong in so many ways coach t have you had their breadsticks here they're delicious like that's so that'd be pheasant these these breadsticks are delicious and's like, it's redundant to pizza. I'm sorry. Have you never eaten pizza before? If you are not shoving yourself full of gooey breadsticks, or if you know what you're doing, cheesy breadsticks, then you're not eating pizza correctly.

I couldn't disagree with her more. It's just like the chips at a Mexican restaurant. So you end up taking half your pizza home. Then you have a delightful midnight snack or breakfast, lunch the next morning. Exactly, yeah. The breadstick hate was infuriating. I was just, yeah. I couldn't believe it.

Although it was funny when she was like, they're redundant to pizza because she had a point. They are redundant. It's just pizza without the toppings, but it's different because you get like the parmesan sprinkle over top. I love pizza with regular breadsticks. Just because the base of it is also bread doesn't mean it's redundant though. It's just bread and sauce,

but it doesn't mean it's redundant, like you said. So anyways, um and and so evan is is trying to talk to his mom about how the team hates her all while she's making this 20 times worse with the with the the epic fail that was her attempted trash talk with Coach T. Yeah. Like, you can't. She's doubling down. Yeah. And she's losing to a legend.

And so, Evan's trying. And Evan actually does a really nice job. Like, he shows a lot of EQ when he has this difficult conversation with his mom where he's like, hey, we don't want to forget where we came from. We're doing that. He's two-a-days. That's not what we do. You know, we don't – we choose to watch our wins instead of practicing

following the game. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's the don't bother sweat. And it's working. The stuff you're starting to do now, it's working now because of the stuff we did before. Exactly.

That's Alex's defense is what we we did before. Exactly. Alex's defense is what we're doing is working, but it's like, well, yeah, but what we did before was what's working. You're changing a whole bunch of shit now. She's an addict when it comes to winning.

Because she gives them the line. It feels good when we win. She caught the high. You know, she's itching her neck. You know, Dave Chappelle. That's what I'm thinking about. That's Alex when it comes to winning is that Dave Chappelle's skin. Yeah. Peanut butter and crack sandwich.

So, anyways, nothing landed. It did not land with her at all she basically she brushed it off her head is too big it's it's rebounding any logical sense that's being thrown her way yeah she's not not listening at all she's she's fully involved in winning she's she caught the high like you said she caught the high yeah and then so after that it cuts to uh some more logan bombay yes this is a great scene too logan behind the behind the snack stand again yes he's he's cooking pancakes again cooking some blueberry pancakes for for bombay because he he's loved that he helped him yeah and that's how can is Logan. Like they do such a good job with this,

like making him Canadian in this moment, because to say thank you to someone for putting in the effort, even though he's hasn't shown a lot of improvement, cooks him a delicious short stack with some nice looking maple syrup. Did you see the topper on that maple syrup? I did. Yeah. That was artisanal maple syrup. And that see the topper on that maple syrup? I did, yeah. That was artisanal maple syrup. And that was not a short stack.

That was a tall stack for sure. It was like pancakes. And to add the blueberry, he had to have brought the blueberries from home, but I love some blueberry pancakes. He brought the blueberries and the pancake mix from home. Also, I'm 95% sure he brought the little griddle as well. There's no way they have a griddle at the Ice Palace.

But, yeah, it's my favorite, though. Bombay has another great line. He's like, hey, what's the bacon situation back there? Yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, you didn't have to do that, but since you already made some pancakes, what's the bacon look like? Because a short stack without bacon is just a lie. It just doesn't quite live up to what – don't get me wrong. Stand-alone pancakes are fine, but a little bacon with that short stack

really sets it off. Oh, for sure. Yeah, Logan the perfect Canadian. Yeah, and Nick shows up a little bit after that and is talking with Bombay and Logan. That's when

Logan starts showing off his spatula skills. He's got some fancy spatula work going on. Really flipping the cakes around. Just flipping cakes like a son of a bitch. Just showing some real, like, we haven't seen spatula work like that for a long time. Probably since Guy Fieri was crushing Iron Chef. Yeah, maybe even before that. Listen, no one can compete with Guy Fieri was crushing Iron Chef. Yeah, maybe even before that.

Listen, no one can compete with Guy Fieri, Brandon. I don't know. Logan, he's got the – he's nailing it. He's flipping those cakes. Brandon, Brandon, Brandon. I'm sorry. Listen, I love Logan, but you are talking about the mayor of Flavortown. I'm just saying.

The captain of our ship of diners, drive-ins, and dives. No one can compete with Guy Fieri. I'm just saying if you break it down, if you get him head-to-head, mano-a-mano, you get the tarps off, you let him start cooking, Logan's going to give him a run for his money. I love. Just on pancakes. Nothing else I love. Just on pancakes. Nothing else though.

Just on pancakes. I love your optimism, but there's no way you're going to convince me. Guy Fieri is an American hero when it comes to food and no one is going to convince me otherwise. Yeah. I, I,

I respect that. I'm like Guy Fieri fandom. Flavortown, dude. What I'm saying is Logan could be the Canadian hero of that, though. You know? So, okay. So you're seeing more of a partnership where Guy Fieri takes Logan under his wing. No, no, no, no, no, no.

And creates a Canadian version of Flavortown? No, no. I'm saying, no. That's not at all what I'm saying. He doesn't need – Logan doesn't need Guy Fieri. He's got Bombay. He's got Coach Bombay. I'm saying in a pancake flipping contest,

mano y mano, tarps off, let the boys play. Logan is going to give him a run for his money. Let's make it happen. Disney, we're going to reach out to you. We want a Logan versus Guy Fieri special. That's another season two writing idea we have. If you get us on the writing team, that'll be an episode. That's right.

We got Guy Fieri versusgan cooking competition for season two because you know how you set it you know how you set it up is it's similar to it's it's the next year it's season two the ducks and the don't bothers are still going and we have a little hot like hockey mom uh cook off yeah well so we have the Hockey Mom event going on, just next year's Hockey Moms. And the Ducks are having like a full event. And guess who they have catering? Guy Fieri, right?

And then Logan comes in with his own branded spatula, and he's like, I got this, guys. Doing some slick work, kind of like you're getting some hibachi. Exactly, yeah, yeah. And he's flipping those cakes, ripping them. And then that's how the showdown with Guy Fieri starts. He's pancake ripping. Yeah.

He's pancake ripping. Okay, so I would love to see it. Let's make this happen. So Disney needs to hire us as as writers and we and we will get that going but so so Nick inadvertently assists Logan with finding his hockey glory because he's always if only you could flip on the ice and then you can't give bombay obscure ideas because he's gonna make a fucking star out of it and and nick knows what he's done as soon as it's happened people know the minnesota miracle man well enough by now to know what he can do yeah with with skates

and a spatula you give him you give bombay an inch he's taking a mile. Guaranteed. Absolutely. And so he's setting up a pancake bowl. He tells Logan that once he sees Logan ripping those cakes, he says, Logan, get your skates, meet me on the ice,

leave the pancakes, but bring the spatula. And you see it in Nick's eyes. He's like, oh, boy. Yes. I fucked up. I did this. You know what it reminded me of when they were out there doing it?

It was like when, was it Luis and D2, when they had to set up the pop cans for him to stop? Yes, yeah. Luis, yeah, with the pop cans, yeah. Yeah, okay, yeah. It's very similar. Yeah. yeah yeah okay yeah it's very similar yeah it's a this this was a a very established bomb bay coaching methodology you know you take you know what i want to see happenings

and turn it into hockey you know what i would love to see i would love to see a duane-esque practice montage where instead of roping the players um logan is out there with a spatula ripping cakes at him ripping pancakes that would be excellent i wish they would have brought and then they're like skating catching catching pancakes eating them you know oh that's the move although again again let us write let us write this show please the only issue that you're going to get there. And it's an issue that I actually have with Nick is he just goes to town on some dry cakes.

He doesn't put syrup on there at all. You have an obvious artisanal syrup. It's right next to you. Right next to you. It doesn't even have a label. It's that good. Like doesn't have a label and it's made of glass it's made of glass no label do you see the stopper logan is from canada you know that that is probably going to

be some of the finest pancake toppings that you could have wanted you could and he just lets it sit that that syrup i guarantee you is so good you could drink it straight from the bottle oh i just i could not believe it when he just went in with that fork and knife dry on those cakes i just i was appalled and he was he was using fork and knife i don't so i i i immediately judge somebody when they go at pancakes with a fork and a knife it was to be fair it was a plastic fork. That's true. If you press too hard on that, you're going to end up with a little piece of plastic fork in the pancake. You're going to end up ingesting plastic. Okay, I forgot about that.

That's fair then. But if you have a metal fork, you don't need a knife with those pancakes. If the pancakes are made correctly and they're fluffy as fuck, you don't need a knife for those pancakes if if the if the pancakes are made correctly and they're fluffy as fuck you don't need a fork for or you don't need a knife for that you just go straight fork just slice in your mouth slice in your mouth exactly if you have a fluffy pancake with a good syrup ratio then you don't have to worry about the knife because it's not tough you're not needing to saw you can just kind of stab and pull through because that cake is just falling apart it's that delicious you know so i you know we won't critique um we love nick here at the podcast he can do no wrong so you know he was in a bad place not feeling very good emotionally broken yeah he was just understandable

and when we stress eat sometimes we don't think it through. Yeah, you make some bonehead choices. Yeah. So that was a monumental scene. We know it's setting up for something big because – Well, I'll say – because they cut from there, and then they show the work, right? They show him actually – so Bombay tapes the spatula to logan's

stick and it starts off with that and he's flipping he's flipping the puck a little bit with that then he moves just to the hockey stick and he starts learning how to do that and then he teaches him this was this was interesting he he teaches him instead of like teaching him how to like do that like on the on the ice like puck handle on the ice he teaches him quite possibly one of the hardest moves in hockey which is which is to lift the puck up with with your stick so it's it's uh you have it just balancing on the blade and then to skate the wraparound ish shot, and then you flick it in top shelf. Which is – Very difficult move.

Yes. It's almost like you're carrying the puck almost like you would like a lacrosse stick in a lacrosse ball. And then you're – But you don't have like a little net. No, it's just resting on the blade. Which is – that's a definite move that has been done in the NHL and done successfully in the NHL. But it's quite possibly the hardest fucking move to get a goal out of. And that's what he starts teaching, Logan.

He starts at the hardest, and then we'll work our way down. Yeah, listen. Actually, they don't even work their way down. That's all he teaches them. He doesn't teach them how to shoot regularly. He's like, here's the one... It's like the fucking knuckle puck. Here's the one move that anybody who knows

that you can only do this can very easily stop. But you're going to do it. And that's all you need to know how to do. It's a flawed strategy, but because he plays so little, it just might work. It'll work the first game. Similar to how the knuckle it just might work. It'll work the first game.

Similar to how the knuckle puck in D2, it'll work the first two times, and then people are going to be like, this is all this motherfucker does. So once he gets the puck, just stop him from doing that. But they just need one. They just need that one goal to boost his self-esteem to feel like he's contributing. That's what they're going for. They're not going for the long.

They're going for quick. That's if he can get in the game. Alex is not playing him. He's, you know. Shutting it down. She did not see any of this. She hasn't seen what they've been working on. Classic Bombay with his great coaching style of not talking to the other coach. No communication. Why talk to each other? Why fill each other in on what we're doing

you know let's just let's go in blind every single game exactly and so now that it was it was a great moment between bombay logan and then you kind of see like it's it's the nickLogan situation is getting ready to kind of hit its peak. Like you mentioned, it's a great Logan-Vambe scene. And like you mentioned with Luis and the Popcans, it's a great callback and a great glimpse into proper Coach Vambe. What he's teaching is batshit crazy, but he's teaching it well. He's connecting with these kids. And he's giving is batshit crazy, but he's teaching it well. He's connecting with these kids. He's giving them confidence.

He's bringing out his inner hockey player. It's just like what Stephanie said in, was it the last episode? When she was like, he brings out miracles. He has a knack for bringing out the best and the undergifted.

And that's exactly what he did, right? It's a beautiful thing. So we cut to the game and it kicks off with our girl Mary Jo and Terry. Terry's back. Terry's back. I love this part too because the winner goes to States, loser goes nowhere, and he gives a very typical accounting joke, dad joke, where he's like, well, the loser will go somewhere, just not to a hockey game.

Such a great line, dude. And Barry Joe just looks at him like, are you shitting me? I don't pay you to talk. Like, what is that? Are you going to do me dirty like that? We're on air, Terry. God damn it, we're on air. That may kill at the accounting firm, Dad,

but to these listeners at the second best podcast in Southeast Minnesota, that shit's not going to count. They're expecting better, okay? They're expecting better. She's not mad. She's not mad. She's just disappointed. Should have talked that through.

I love Terry, though terry was that was a great that was a great moment uh and then we go to the locker room where we just have i just have to say sad boy logan again fucking sad boy logan sad but well before that we get the culmination of the nasty sock staff oh that, that's right. Yeah, yeah. We got the culmination of the socks storyline. They're so gross and disgusting that they've started to itch when you put them on.

That's how unwashed and gross these socks are. Now they're causing your skin to itch when you wear them. Listen, John Madden right now is rolling over in his grave because no one is going, boom, tough acting, tenacting. Imagine. Because the athlete's foot in the locker room.

Imagine. Oh, my God. The athlete's foot in that locker room for those nasty-ass socks. That's bacteria. That's terrible for your feet. But, right? Like John Madden, boom, tough acting, tenacting. You remember those? Like, John Man, boom. Topo, tin, tin, tin. You remember those?

Oh, yeah. John Man, I'm so sorry. Disney apologized to him for that nasty athlete's foot storyline with those gross socks. Because I know the Ice Palace has showers, but do you think these kids are showering at the Ice Palace? I would imagine they're probably not, right? They're going home and they're showering. I think they're going home because I don't see the ice palace

they're mixed locker rooms you know what I mean yeah yeah but imagine imagine how rampant that athlete's foot's running if they're also showering in that oh my gosh it's it's just everyone has it people are barely skating because of the itching and the pain

it's just and Sam got dumped due to this. Oh, yeah. So, like, Sam – So, why is he – is he wearing his socks other places? Yeah, that's what – so, like, that's what I picked up on, is that they were not only – like, towards the – I thought they were just wearing them at games,

and all of a sudden Sam dropped them. Well, that's what – Oh, my God. That's what Coop – Coop was for sure only wearing him at games and all of a sudden sam dropped that that's what i got that's what coob takes coob was for sure only wearing him at games because he mentions uh he mentions when he's talking about it at first that he forgot like he forgot them in his bag he like forgot to wash them in his bag so he wasn't he wasn't wearing them 24 7 he only wore them in games i assume that's what everybody else was doing until sam drops that line to where he doesn't have a girlfriend anymore because he his feet smelled so bad well and then lauren drops that line to where he doesn't have a girlfriend anymore because he, his feet smelled so bad. Well, and then Lauren drops the line of, I can't tell where skin

ends and sock begins, which is, Ooh, that's a terrible, terrible image. Yeah. And so, especially as we're talking about the athlete's foot, so I'm sorry to the viewers over there for that imagery, but it just goes to show what a gross storyline that was and so maya who's the the wonderful person of reason in this is like okay i've had yeah this is gross she's done yep everybody else kind of joins in except for kub everybody else shook the look on his face he shook up he's like oh my god we're about – these lunatics are taking their socks off. But then they force him back, and they take off his socks. And they should just like – They hold him down and rip his socks off.

And they rip them off, and it's like hold – it's so stiff. It's like holding his perfect foot shape when they take it off. Just disgusting. Disgusting. I hope they threw those socks away and burned them all they did they did not he well i know spoiler alert spoiler group socks i met everyone everyone ever although to be fair uh we just back to back to mama d's house but when she's a little bit of a hoarder and the last time i was there we were trying to get rid of some shit in their house and i went through the sock drawer and they're like all these socks from like that i

looked at and i remember putting on for like middle school football practices where like the elastic didn't even exist and they were still in the sock drawer and so we just went here and threw away all those nasty like they were like crisp and hard from like the amount of like washings and stuff from these socks. So we had to throw them all away. So I guess I kind of related to that, but like everything was always very washed and very clean in Mamadi's house.

She would have rolled over, she would have died with wearing, you know, she doesn't even like wearing jeans more than once. And I was't even like wearing jeans more than once and i was like everyone wears jeans more than me no one's doing that kind of laundry that's crazy no no anyways with jeans you got to be careful with with how you wash them too you could ruin them real quick depending on your jeans yeah exactly so just you know wash them every other week yeah make sure you make sure wherever you bought them from they should be listing you know care

instructions follow those follow those keep keep care of your denim guys come on and you know what else skip the dryer it's it's hard on your graphic tees it's hard on your denim buy a nice little mini rack uh yes i'm like one harder target hang shirts. Hang dry everything if possible. Hang dry. Because I had to throw away the rack when I did the cross-country move, and so I had been throwing shirts into the dryer for the last year. Some of my graphic tees, they're toast. They're gone. So just some laundry tips.

Heath and Brandon's laundry tips for the kids out there. Listen up and listen good. Yes. All right. So we got a set. If you are going to throw it in the dryer, turn it inside out. Inside out is key. Yep.

Good call. In a low. Low. Yes. Low. Inside out, low. And when you're washing stuff as well, cold water. No hot water.

No hot water. You don't need that. You don't need hot water unless you want to shrink cold water. No hot water. No hot water. You don't need that. You don't need hot water unless you want to shrink your clothes. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's going to shrink them for sure, and it's going to ruin your graphic tees. Exactly. And if you're like me and your dad bond fluctuates from big to small,

you can't risk shrinking those xls because when you need them to be xl they're they're else and that's yeah and then you're and then and then guess what you're taking the l there so anyways so we lose we we lose the sock bit and then two lockers over, we have the final battle between Nick and Logan. Nick is trying to be mean, which is wild, but then he calls it out and he's like, you know, not only are you better looking, you're better with the ladies,

but you're also a better friend because I'm being a jerk and you're just being so nice. But Nick forgets he's Canadian. Not trying to stereotype all Canadians as being nice, but I've never encountered a person being Canadian. There's a reason that stereotype exists. Exactly. And so Nick is forgetting this and he's

just chalking up to Logan being a better friend when really this is just Logan's nature. Yeah, you can't out-nice a Canadian. That's not going to happen. And Nick sees the writing on the... He saw the knuckle puck. He knows what happens when you get a signature shot.

Everyone else shuts down. Sky's the limit. Sky's the limit for Logan now. We see it with the flying V. We see it with the knuckle puck. We see it with Fulton's slap shot. We've seen it here. The triple det. We see it with Fulton's slap shot. You know, we've seen it here. The triple deke. The triple deke with Charlie.

Banks in his wrist shot. Well, Banks around the goal. Automatic. Come on. Don't let Banks in front of your goal. You're going to be down. You're going to be down. Yeah, you got to push that guy away from the net.

You can't let him get too close. But this is where... What you got to do is you got to smash his wrist. That's what you got to do. I did my job. That's the Hawks taking out the original Ducks.

When the Hawks weren't a joke in Orange. That's probably the thing I'm most heartbroken about. The thing I'm most upset about is still that fucking paragraph where it's called Bombay's Godfather of Hockey. Wayne Gretzky who? Yeah. Just because some guy won one fucking Minnesota Youth Championship, played one game

on the minors, all of a sudden he's a fucking hockey icon. Bobby or who? The Yarmir Yager disrespect is... Oh, God. The podcast's favorite player. Yeah. For sure.

So, but we get some... You think we get Yarmir Yager on the podcast? Well, let's reach out to him because he really was in the early 90s when he played for the Penguins. And I had no idea what hockey was. You know, it wasn't super prevalent. But Yarmir Yager was my favorite player on the Penguins when I was eight. Oh, yeah.

He's fantastic. He's one of the Penguins when I was eight. Oh yeah, he's fantastic. He's one of the best players ever. I know, did he make a cameo in Mighty Ducks 2? I know Wayne Gretzky was in it. Was it Mike Madonna? Because I thought it was the Stars. Mike Madonna, that's the first one. Mike Madonna was the first one.

The second one was... Luke Robitaille. Luke Robitaille, Wayne Gretzky, and I think there was one other NHL guy. Oh, there's two other ones. Chris Chelios and Cam Neely were the other

NHL ones. So yeah, Yarmir Yager was not... I always forget Kareem Abdul-Jabbar NHL ones. So, yeah, Yarmir Yarger was not. I always forget Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in that. Yeah, that's it. That's who he talks about the Air Bomb. I was just going to say Kareem is who he talks about with the Air Bomb Bay. The loafers, you know. Also, before we move on, I just have to point out that I think it's – I love the consistency for the Pittsburgh sports teams

that they're all black and gold, black and yellow, every single one. It's great consistency for the city sports team because then when you're a fan, your merchandise, it can just – you don't have to buy something for each team. Yeah, you can wear your Pirates shirt to the Penguins game and you fit right in because it's the same colors. Exactly. Genius. So the Penguins actually had a departure from that,

departed from that a little bit during the mid-aughts, the mid-2000s. They went to like a Vegas, like a sand kind of gold instead of the classic yellow. They've recently, I think 2017, 2016, they reverted back to the classic yellow. So now they're back on board. They had a small departure, but now they're thinking clearly again. Zach Lowe on ESPN does really great side pieces

on the breakdowns of like the jerseys that the NBA does. He has some great insight into NBA jerseys. That just reminded me of. The NBA jerseys now are too much. They're getting a little out of control. The other night, the heat were yellow for some reason. It just made no sense. Yeah.

Well, they let Nike take over. And so Nike is just doing whatever the fuck they want. They're just making the NBA Oregon jerseys. They're just trying to strike on that. But anyways, we're back to Nick and Logan. Logan is sad. Nick's jealous. But then Logan kind of sets him straight.

But this is where Logan brings back up. But yeah, Nick, aren't you good at school? Why does everyone keep saying that? Surprisingly, no, I'm not that great at school um but then this is where you like queue up the um the sitcom like family matters full house like you queue up the sitcom music and logan says, you know, I don't cook because I enjoy it. I cook because my dad is a disaster of a human being. If I don't cook, I don't eat. Well, it's like, listen, we are tired of SpaghettiOs and Kraft mac and cheese. So I'm just I'm at least cooking some blueberry pancakes for us to get some.

So I can't imagine the nutritional value at that household has to be in, in very rough shape. So, so, so his dad's a mess and, and poor Logan sees through his window, which is kind of creepy, but it's okay.

We'll let it pass. He does a lot of looking through windows. There's a lot of looking through the window. Like we've got some, some peeping tendencies that we may want to talk about in the next family therapy session that they go to, to, to get through the divorce because he is showing some red flags here, but he sees Nick and his moms through the window. They're, they're laughing. They're talking. Nick's a disaster with spaghetti all over himself.

Yep. And he's like, hey, don't take that for granted. And I was like, geez, this guy really had me like reflecting back on like how I was very lucky and my parents are very nice and very supportive and work very hard. Like all that stuff. I was like, wow, man, I am lucky. I did not expect to have that sort of reflection during the Mighty Ducks game change. I got a little too real for me. I was like,

just, just anyways. Yeah, cheers what you have, Heath. Cheers what you have. Yeah, cheers what you have. Don't take it for granted. So that was, okay, that was kind of like this,

them kind of, like Nick is like, oh my gosh, I didn't realize. I'm sorry I've been such a but I didn't realize. I'm sorry. I've been such a butthead. Yes. That's very sad, Logan.

I'm here for you. Yeah. They come together. Nick lets his grudge fade away because he's like, okay, you know, I, you may be better looking and better at hockey than me, but your family sucks. And mine's pretty fucking awesome. So, you know, you win some, you your family sucks. And mine's pretty fucking awesome. So, yeah, you know,

you win some, you lose some. So Nick's feeling better. Wow. At least I have two very supportive and awesome. Yeah, exactly. And so, and then,

and then we also, right before they hit the ice, which is kind of like Evan, Evan thinks that it went really well talking to his mom just shows his no i i think no he realized that talk did not go well oh that was sarcastic yeah i don't think it was sarcastic i think he was he was trying to save face with sophie because sophie was like so how did it go did you talk to her and he was like oh yeah i definitely talked to her. It, it went well for sure. She was definitely receptive. Yeah.

So saving face with Sophie. So we know this is leading up to, to some, some dramatics here, right? Yeah. Because we also have Bombay on the bench. Like when they're gearing up for the game, he's like,

Hey Alex, I got a trick shot for, for Logan. And she's like, are you shitting me? Yeah. He's like, he's like,

I've been working with Logan. You know, he, he can skate now. We got the six shot that he can do. And Alex is like, are you shitting me? Yeah, he's like, I've been working with Logan. He can skate now. We've got this sick shot that he can do. And Alex is like, no, you're both garbage. Stop talking to me. Why are you suggesting plays to me, sir? Yeah.

And then that happens throughout the game. Bombay is like, put Logan in. Everyone's tired. You've got to get people out of the we only have we only have so many players we gotta we need fresh legs like six players for that's like and that's the the key again showing alex doesn't know a fucking thing about hockey still that's the the key in hockey is fresh legs and the the nhl the the their shifts are like 40 seconds max any more than 40 seconds and that's when people start running on fumes because it's

hockey is like it's it's a dead sprint for those 40 seconds that you're out there on skates it's it's like a major part of nhl coaching yes it's getting shift changes it's shift like aligning your shifts so that like all of your best players aren't in certain ones and you're able to mix it in like it's just like the aligning your rotations in the nba and alex is instead just not only running two a days in the middle of the season yeah i'm sorry that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard you're in the middle of the season absolutely gassing your players and so like but we're seeing an epic back and forth battle you know the the don't bother score we're playing the huskies that's right yeah playing the huskies

don't bother score husky score it's It's a back-and-forth con. Was it the Huskies? What was the team in the first one that got measles or whatever and had to bow out? Was it the Huskies? I can't remember. Okay. I'm going to look that up. You keep talking.

All right. So, the team is gas. Bombay begging Alex to take the team out, and we're getting closer towards the end of the game. It's kind of shown the back and forth throughout. We're getting close to the end of the game. The team is so exhausted, and you see this a lot in hockey, where the team's tired, can't get the puck out of their zone.

The Panthers were the measles team. Ah, the Panthers were the measles team. Ah, the Panthers were the measles team. So, they can't get, the Huskies are just dominating time in possession. What if they would have had that, what if they would have had one team that got coronavirus

and had to sit down? That's what they should have done. They should have given the Huskies coronavirus, and then that's how we get to states. Oh, my God. That would – oh, once again. All right, so Disney, you have our email. You have our info because one of the teams having to bow out due to coronavirus health protocols.

You had it right there. Yeah. Maybe – is it too early? Is it too early to – I mean, I see insane Netflix coronavirus movies. There's a Hulu movie they just released about COVID-23. So I don't, I think it's probably too soon, but. But it's getting capitalized on nonetheless. Yeah.

And I, yeah, that probably wouldn't work here because I think in order to pull that off, you would have had to have people – we would have needed to see people in masks or some mention of it before. Because they filmed this during the coronavirus outbreak. That's why it got pushed back a little because they started filming some of it. Then the outbreak happened. And then they kind of resumed later on. Yeah. But I'm assuming we're in this universe where it's a Corona-free universe. There's no coronavirus.

No, coronavirus-free, I should say. I hope they still have the beer. If they're living in a Corona-free universe with no Corona beer, that seems dark. That seems not too dark for anybody. This is not going to be a popular opinion, but if drinking the beer requires you putting a lime in it,

I feel like it's not that good of a beer. No, I don't know. It's not that good of a beer. But the lime, it's like Tecate. Tecate sucks, but you put a lime in that. You put a lime in that and you're on like a patio in the summer or if you're lucky enough to be on the beach

and you got yourself a Corona, let alone a bucket, an ice bucket of Corona with limes and you're chilling on the beach, that's heaven, my friend. That's heaven. Listen, I you're chilling on the beach, that's, that's heaven. My friend, that's heaven. I live because you can't minutes from the beach. You can't drink heavy beers on the beach. You can't drink an IPA on the beach. If you're drinking IPAs on a beach, you're a fucking sociopath. No. Okay. So that is a good point. You have like,

there's just a nice light beer, not heavy, not a lot of hops, but I'm telling you right now, if you are cutting limes on the beach to put in your beer, you're going to get sand in your beer. Well, no, you cut the limes beforehand. Still, when you reach in to pull the limes out of the baggie, sand infiltration happens everywhere when you take stuff to the beach. It's just like a sand gate. Well, that's going to happen regardless if you have stuff to the beach. It just, like, you're going to sand gate. Yeah, well, that's going to happen regardless if you have limes or not. You walk to the beach with a bucket of, you know, Bud Light, you're getting sand in at least one of those Bud Lights. Yeah, so.

That's just, that's, you know, a hazard of the job. That's, it's the price of admission, Heath. Listen, it's not a big deal. It's just that, personally. You know who loves Corona since we were talking about this earlier? Heath. Okay. It's not, it's not a big deal. It's just saying personally, you know, you know, who loves Corona since we were talking about this earlier, the fast and the furious crew. Okay.

Vin Diesel is a huge Corona guy. They're in every single movie. Okay. So I, you win this argument. Vin Diesel is rolling over in his grave right now because of this argument. Listen. R. I. P. Vin Diesel is rolling over in his grave right now because of this argument. Listen. R.I.P. Vin Diesel. My favorite are, and I know this isn't very nice, but like,

the memes that they make out of the fat Vin Diesel. Oh, yeah. We're bulk recording this right now. God forbid Vin Diesel actually passes away before this gets released. Would be ridiculous. Yeah, don't do that. But so we're going through, and then they can't get the puck out of the ice. We get a timeout, 30 seconds left, and oh boy, it must be 4th of July on the bench

because there are fireworks popping off between coach alex and the team yes yes because bombay is fighting furiously for logan to go in and then the rest of the team is backing it up they're like yeah everybody plays that's the whole point of this team that's the and i'm fucking exhausted let me sit down yeah and but once again this goes to show you just way in over her head because it should have never gotten there if she was managing the rotations correctly yeah because he would have had evan spell someone for like 20 30 seconds in small spurts in like the first and second period then you let everyone give the rest in in the third but you know and we we have we have enough kids now before it was a little tricky because they didn We have enough kids now. Before, it was a little

tricky because they didn't have enough kids. With the Czech kids, there's 10 kids, 9 kids, 11 kids, something like that. Plenty of kids for a nice rotation. They've got spare

bodies. Some of the pushback, they're like, hey, this isn't what we're about. My favorite is she was like, we have to prove winning isn't everything. It's a very Coach T type of thing. We need one win to prove winning isn't everything is what she says.

Just the hypocrisy flowing. Yeah. The other surprising thing is that Nick just the hypocrisy flowing. Yeah. The other surprising thing is that Nick, Nick the stick is getting consistent crunch time minutes here in these last few games. So like, well,

once you got the goal, you know, now he's in it. He's flying high. So he pulls, he pulls the captain move. Cause he, he,

now that he's captain now that nick is part captain he shows some excellent leadership because the team's something like hey we don't this is how we roll like we would rather tie with this team than not let logan play for the game so nick master nick pulls a great move because he knows to feed the ego of her. He says Michelle Obama used her hashtag. I thought that was an accident. No, keep scrolling. Keep scrolling.

Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. Head nod. Wait, why are you on the bench? Oh, sucker. Yeah, Logan's in my place. Yeah.

Pull the old switcheroo. Yeah. Just, it was a great move. And so we have, I actually, in my notes, Evan, or Nick, great switcheroo. Nice. So that's exactly what I was thinking when I was watching. Like, ah, the old switcheroo. Gave her the old one two step

although it's just i have to say it's just it's surprising that he his phone was so accessible on the bed yeah why is he well because you know he just in case for the podcast if he's got to record something you know you know what that makes sense in case he's got some food for thought for for the podcast that probably makes a lot of sense um And so we got, we got Sophie and Evan. I think it looks like either, I can't remember who does what, but they, one sets up the other. I think Sophie passes or passes to Evan or Evan has the puck and Sophie gives him the nod.

Yeah. Sophie passed. So Sophie gets it off the face off, passes it to Evan and then like gives Evan the little point to Logan. Like, Logan's open, hit him. Yeah. While this is going on, the Huskies are nowhere to be seen. The ice basically is comprised of Sophie, Evan, and Logan, and the Huskies goalie, and that's it at this moment in time. So we don't know where they're at.

But we saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Sophie passes to Evan. Evan passes to Logan. Logan hits the spatula special shot. He's set up in his office. He's in the corner. He's ready to go. He's ready.

Yeah. So they hit him with it. He pulls the little cross spatula move he picks up it picks up the puck and then goes around the net top shelf wins the game my favorite thing my favorite thing though is when right before he puts it into the net top shelf he says order up great order up just like it's knuckle book time exactly yeah and then uh mary jo hits the epic call the don't bothers win if you would have told me this at the beginning of the season i would have slapped you in the craze across the face and said you were a liar yeah her dad's just like oh okay yeah that's and then and then

kube is just hitting the finger the finger point dance and the goal um you have nick's moms and sophie's parents with the awkward parent high five exchange i thought that was great yeah everybody loses their mind they're throwing gloves they're jumping up and down it's it's like they won the championship yeah and and so they're excited um we get to the locker room nick and logan have a great exchange you know the hatchet is officially buried yep you know logan says hey, I couldn't have done this without you. And then Nick, having the emotional intelligence of intelligence of a full grown adult sees the time it's time to seal this friendship with a hug. And he is,

he is looking for best friendship in all the wrong places because I feel like that hug just sealed a Logan and Nick bond and Evan is just going to get in the way as a third wheel. Yeah. We mentioned earlier maybe it was last episode I forget about how

Nick is looking for Evan as his best friend. Really he should be looking somewhere else. Evan's not. He doesn't seem like the greatest of friends. And he's occupied with other things. He's trying to win Sophie over, all that kind of stuff. Logan, if he wasn't such a sad sack of, you know, if he wasn't crying all the fucking time, would be a great best friend. He lives across the street.

He's a cook. You know, he's got it down. Imagine Logan with Nick spending some additional time with Nick's mom's having them influence his attitude rather than his dad. I think we could whip that sadness right out of him. Yeah, they would just pull that away. But we do have to just, like Logan's dad, we feel for you. It sucks. But you got to step it up, dude.

Get your shit together. You are the father. You are in charge of children. I get it. You're sad. You moved your kid to another country. He doesn't have his mom. You got to do something here, bud. Go see a therapist and get your fucking shit together,

bud. Yeah. Or let Logan go spend all this time across the street your fucking shit together, bud. Yeah. Or let Logan go spend all this time across the street with Nick and his badass moms who are going to help him not be such a sad sack of bones.

We don't need it. And so while they're celebrating, they're super excited. Oh, wait, we have the ultimate culmination with the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Oh, yeah. we have the ultimate culmination with the most disgusting thing I've ever seen. Oh, yes. We did it without the socks.

We did it without these socks. That's when he pulls off his goalie mask and on top of his head that he wore throughout the whole game were those fucking socks. So how did he survive the stench?

It just... Couldn't tell you. It makes me sick to my stomach thinking about how horrifying that is. And Kub, just, oh, I hope he took, like, a three-hour shower. And, like, took a bath and then took a shower after his bath. Like, he needed to double time. It was gross.

But that was a nice team moment. They bonded. They're feeling that camaraderie. It's really fucking gross. But then Alex comes in hot. Yes. hot yes she is like so we have at like stephanie you know used a very palpatine darth vader type of jedi mind trick where all of a sudden anakin skywalker aka stephanie is no longer there to protect the white side she has gone over to the dark side she's been doing it yeah

like i don't know what else people want from us. We are coming up with fantastic analogies. Daenerys Targaryen, Hulk Hogan, NWO. I don't know. It's classic stuff. Alex comes in fucking way

too hot because she's furious that they put Logan in, that they didn't listen to her. She says, what would Coach T do if didn't listen to her. Yeah. Yep. She says, what would Coach T do if you did this to him? Yeah, and calls out Sophie. Calls out Sophie. And then she goes, Coach T would probably kick a trash can, and then she kicks a trash can.

Coach T would probably just knock all these sticks down, and then she knocks all the sticks down. If I would have been in the locker room, I probably would have laughed. I would have broken out laughing for sure. Because that was hilarious. Like, listen, it's a good try, but you need to get your shit together too. Like, what happened?

Like, you are a monster. Yeah, and like for her to say like, Coach T would do this. And then Nick brings, of course, Nick. Oh, look, the great line. Listen, I was going to ask everyone to go to Dairy Queen, but I feel like the great line here listen i was gonna ask everyone to go to dairy queen but i feel like the mood in here has changed yep because alex just came in and yelled about them making it to states which like that is like the absolute worst thing humanly

possible she could have done in that moment which is like cementing the fact like we hate you we don't just like dislike we we now hate you and there is no turning back from our hatred because you just ruined our celebration of going to states like that is fucked up that is some like high ego crazy stuff it's exactly like Coach T freaking out over the one goal in the 17-1 victory freaking out I'm honestly surprised

she didn't call him pheasants I was waiting for it and then Sophie even after Alex breaks everything in the room and then leaves Sophie turns to Evan and she's like this is exactly why I left the ducks. Like I can't do this. And then they have This isn't the don't bothers I love.

Exactly. And then Evan has the realization. He goes yep, you're right. I gotta fire my mom. What does possible sound like for your business? It's having the spend to powers your scale with no preset spending limit. More cash on hand to grow your business with up to 55 interest-free days. And the ability to reach further with access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide.

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of a person but then you root for her in the boardroom but she just um and like she let all of the the kids success go to her head it wasn't because yeah because the insane thing is like literally just the episode before she had the realization that like it was bombay's play it was evan chad that hyper motivated him like yes i'm not doing anything it's like all these other factors and then the next episode 180 she's taking full credit for it yeah it's crazy and that's it you know like no one likes a hypocrite that's just that's the one thing and so now it's like well what does what in

the world are they gonna do to get her fucking character back on track because how do we like this character ever again after this episode she was so mean to these poor kids yeah I don't yeah I don't know Logan did not deserve

the public shaming you put him through. You created these weird philosophies and then you made him ride the pine when you didn't have to if you would have set up your rotations correctly. Exactly. It'll be interesting to see where

these last two episodes go. Especially because we have States We're in States We're ready to go The Ducks are in States And then I'm excited to see States wasn't a thing in any of the

Original movies They just had the league playoffs So I'm excited to see What They have in store. This is like the junior hockey stuff, right? They would have been playing in states in D2.

If they wouldn't have done the junior Goodwill game. Yeah, they would have been in this age bracket because D2 they probably would have been like 12, 13 years old. I think Portman was like 35 years old I think Portman was like 35 years old though. Portman was 40.

But this isn't quite junior hockey. Junior hockey is like 15, 16. I think junior hockey is 16 through 19. Traditional junior hockey. This is like one step below or one age

bracket below. Maybe, yeah, yeah. Have they said how many teams make it to states? Is it a 16-team tournament? Is it an 18-team tournament? Do we know? No, we just know that it's two per league. The top two teams in each league.

So Minnesota is a big state and this like really didn't these teams i think are all within the the the twin city area yeah um i would assume there's probably like classes too so they're probably like you know a higher class if they're from the twin cities and some of the smaller towns would have various it's just like they do in high school. Yeah. I mean, I mean,

high school, usually the classes are built around the number of people. At least that's how it was. Yeah. That's how it was in Colorado for like for a club team. I don't know if you would, you would break it down that way. That's true.

Cause theoretically, yeah, that's right. This is like club hockey. Yeah. Yeah. So I, it'll be interesting be interesting i'm gonna say it's probably like 32 maybe yeah i'd say it's probably like 32 there's probably like 16 leagues um they haven't mentioned though i assume when we get to states there'll be like some big bracket in the background yeah like they're probably not going to show it or anything but you'll be able to see.

Or they might zoom in on just the don't bothers. But there'll be one scene with the whole bracket in there. Like basketball, where they show all that. I would love it if it was that kind of crazy, weird, all these buys in there.

I would love it if it was some insanely complicated bracket. Basketball is a very underrated sports film. The one liners in that show, in my youth, we loved that show in Wayne Middle School.

That movie in Wayne Middle School. Lots of great quotes. Lots of using their psych outs while you were playing some pickup games. That happened a lot. Yeah. Basketball is a classic, dude. Such a classic.

Your mom's going out with Squeak. The psych-outs were so good. So good. And then, yeah, I love the little playoff. Steve Perry. That was a psych-out. Just Steve Perry. And then, yeah, I love the little playoff. Steve Perry. That was a psych out. Just Steve Perry. And then I loved, like I mentioned, like the crazy brackets.

And then they have the scene where they're talking about all the relocations. And they're like, the Lakers are in L.A. where there are no lakes. The Jazz are in Utah where there is no jazz. They don't allow jazz music. It's such a great scene. Excellent. So, yeah. So, anyways, episode eight.

Yeah. I didn't know how to feel. We ended it with them firing Coach Alex. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They don't. They're wanting to. They want to. It ends with Evan being like, crap, I need to fire my mom.

So they haven't fired her yet. It's a cliffhanger. It ends on a cliffhanger. They're gearing up towards it. And so, yeah. What's the description for episode? For episode nine, we have, so the title is Head Games. Whoa.

Yep, yep. And it says, don't bother us. Road trip to states. So that's exciting. Get a little road trip. Oh, I love a good says, don't bother us. Road trip to states. So that's exciting. Get a little road trip. Oh, I love a good road trip. Those road trips are fun. Like we'd have to drive to Lincoln for MIT.

So that's it. Those are always fun trips. Then you get the overnight and everything. Very fun. Okay, keep going. Yeah. I imagine there's going to be some hotel scenes, you know, little late night hotel scenes, little sneaky rooms.

Yeah. scenes, you know, little late night hotel scenes, little sneaky rooms. Maybe you drop in a little shampoo in the fountain, in the lobby. Like, there's going to be some form of shenanigans going on in the hotel rooms, if we get hotel rooms. I imagine this never really happened

at any of the sports tournaments I went to, so maybe this isn't going to happen. But I was thinking along the lines of – because you mentioned for MIT you would go to Omaha. What's MIT? Lincoln. It's like the –

Or you'd go to Lincoln. It's like mid-something tournament, and it was just like – Oh, so it was for sports? Okay. Yeah, it was for basketball, and it was like every town like for sports okay yeah it's for basketball and it was like it was like every town like that was like a big tournament and it was like serious brackets did they have like parties or like events for that so so i was thinking because i now that i like started thinking about it out loud for the sports things we never had like events or parties

like that stuff but i remember in high school, I was part of all those stupid – I don't know if you know what DECA is. It's some stupid marketing club or whatever. So essentially, you just met – it looked good on your college resume. You met once a month with all the other kids. And then two times a year, there would be competitions or events. And so for those, we'd go to like, like we would go to like Denver or I think one time we went to Salt Lake City. And essentially you go there, it's like regionals, but it's for like, it's like a marketing competition.

So like you go there and they'd give you like some weird like marketing prompt or whatever. And you'd have to like come up with something. But for those, when you'd go there, there would always be like a party, like an event on one of the nights, like not like a dance, but like, you know, like I was thinking there was going to be something like that. But now that I am thinking out loud, they don't do that for sports stuff.

So maybe there won't be anything like that. No, I know what you're talking about though. Cause we, I was also, not only did I put, I'm from a town of 5 000 people way in america so not oh you do everything there right so not only was i playing sports but i was also in the band and played trumpet and so we went to kansas city played at worlds of fun and then you there was like events going on while people were playing and then you'd go run around the park and you know the hotels there's

all kinds of craziness so that's exactly i know what you're talking about there i don't know maybe maybe i also didn't do the aau circuit you know um wayne nebraska seventh grade basketball doesn't do a lot of travel yeah yeah i yeah for like, I did a lot of travel baseball in middle school and up through like freshman, sophomore year of high school. And then I, then I blew out my shoulder. So that was, that was the end of that. From the travel that I did with there, now that I'm thinking about it, there was never any like events or anything outside of that. It was just strictly the tournament. And then, you know, some,

some hotel shenanigans, which I'm hoping we get a little bit in that little you know just kids being kids yeah because and i'll be curious right because it like maybe it's the road because we have to do the fallout of alex turning into a monster so we have to have the fallout of that before state and then we have to go getting to say because you would assume that like episode 10 is like states yeah episode yeah i wonder i wonder if you'll get a game or anything in nine that might like maybe you might just get a first round game in nine and then maybe maybe a first round game maybe the maybe they'll save it all for like a episode 10 montage. But so the, the preview says don't bothers road trip to States.

Okay. Teen drama unfolds. So I think that'll be the, the hotel shenanigans. Okay. Alex is left behind. So maybe they actually do pull the trigger and fire her. Whoa.

And then the last thing is bombay reveals a secret what what in the color me intrigued because i that is what a description there's a lot of bombshells there i feel like for the first time since we've started this series i'm anticipating the next episode i'm not just like gonna watch it because it's the mighty ducks and i'll do anything that the mighty ducks do but i'm anticipating this because i want to see what happens i i'd love to see the banishment or it is like do they banish alex and then in episode 10, she comes back just like Bombay does with the duck call. You know? Yeah.

I don't know. It'll be – it says Alex is left behind. So that leads me to believe – She doesn't even make the road trip. No, no, no. She doesn't make the road trip. I'm listening to me about that. But the phrase left behind leads me to believe that if they do fire her, it's not a, she'll probably come back, you know?

Yeah. Like it may be, or maybe they are get to chicken to fire her and they have the team bus leave before she gets there. Leave her at a gas station on the side of the road. All clear. Everyone's here. She's just running behind the bus, waving her arms. Bob Day!

That would be pretty solid, though. Oh, my God. Once again, I just, like, no offense to the Disney writers, but there's just, we got some potential for you guys for season two. We got some storylines. We can help you with. Or give us full reigns of another spinoff, you know? Like, give me a show dedicated to Winnie.

Let me write that. Let me get you a Winnie as the granddaughter of Hans. Give me that show. What about the Ducks reunite to help someone win their

beer league hockey tournament or hockey league because the business that they're competing against is really, you know, they're bad guys and this is the bad business because I can't remember what they all do, but like

maybe there's a competing limo service and Averman gets the Ducks back together or imagine showing up to a beer league with the fucking Mighty Ducks. Mighty Ducks. The kids who won the junior Goodwill Games.

Imagine facing off against that. They're just toast. I feel like the beer leagues in Minneapolis might be a little more competitive than maybe other states. Yeah. Those are all those people that are in those beer leagues. They for sure played college hockey. competitive than maybe that's that's a fair point those other states yeah that's they've those are all those the people that are in those beer leagues they for sure played college hockey at least at least or at least played like juniors and something like that right yeah that's that's my spinoff uh that i would like to do is the ducks playing in a beer league hockey. They bring Bombay pack. He's he's 80.

So what if we do so? Okay. So I'm thinking I would have, I would have loved some sort of reference to the skate shop because I'm wondering what happened with that. But to kind of merge our spinoffs together, what if we do the skate shop is still going or it started up again so we got hans's skate shop winnie being the granddaughter yeah is the head of that so

she's she's running the skate shop right yeah okay and she starts a beer league hockey team like sponsored by hans skate shop you know and she brings in Fulton, team captain. Obviously. Then he rounds up some of the ducks. We get a couple new characters in there as well. It's not all old ducks. We get maybe a fun spouse,

maybe a crazy uncle that's wasted and you have to try to clean him up before the game. You can go a lot of ways with this. There we go. That's our show. Disney, give us that show. Give us the reins. What do we need? 10, 20 mil in budget?

I don't know. I don't know anything about film production or TV production. Let's go 100 mil and the producers pocket the remainder of the balance it's not used. I'm down for that. Look at those negotiating skills. And the producers pocket the remainder of the balance it's not used. Okay. I'm down for that.

Look at those negotiating skills. And then we'll have a million-dollar budget. Yeah. Create the worst TV series ever made, but we're rich for it. Exactly. One and done. One and done. We don't need

a long list of credits. I don't need my IMDb page a mile long. I just need one that's going to make it big. Yeah. I would love that though. Give us that show. I just really want more Winnie. Winnie is the heart and soul of the show, for me

at least. Personally, I feel like Winnie is a great guide. She is a moral compass, but I feel like Nick, the stick, is the star of the show. Oh yeah, Nick's for sure

the star of the show. But like you said, Winnie is the sage old guide. So even on the spinoff, she's managing the skate shop. She's not going to be the focal point. Fulton's the focal point. She's giving all these crazy old dudes advice. Like, Averman,

quit talking like... If you wouldn't have talked like a dork when you were a kid, you might not be driving limos for a living. Yeah, exactly. Like, Averman, you're better than me. Guy, you only have three kids. Stop crying, okay? It's not seven kids.

Your wife's a state senator. Get over it. Like Jesus, you know? Yeah, I wonder what Charlie's doing. Do you think he's... Yeah. I really hope he makes an appearance in season two. As much as we shit on this show,

hopefully there's a season two. Hopefully there's a season fucking seven. Hopefully they keep doing this. It's not good, but it's... It's entertaining. It's worth the watch. It's worth the watch. It really is.

It's worth the nostalgia that it brings is it's worth the nostalgia that that it brings back watching bombay kill it you know the the if we could have gotten two of the throwback episodes like a like a two-part throwback i would have liked that a little bit some of the throwaway storylines but there's there's gotta there's gotta be there's gotta be a cameo in the 10th episode you got to imagine right in the last episode surprise cameo in the 10th episode. You got to imagine, right? In the last episode. A super surprise cameo. Yeah. Or maybe not even a surprise cameo,

but like one of the people that were, one of the ducks that was in the sixth episode. Somebody's got to, you know, like Fulton, maybe Fulton shows up for a scene or two or Guy and Connie. Yeah, Connie and Guy come back and Connie pulls some, like Alex works with Connie to pull some strings on some trademark or copyright laws. And then all of a sudden the don't bothers become the ducks because Gordon Bombay owns it. Yeah, there's got to be another wave of nostalgia for that last episode you got to imagine right i would i would be shocked if there wasn't even if it's not like a cameo some sort of mate like again i don't know how they would do this with the with the the ducks name but maybe

they throw maybe they throw on the old the the old jerseys you know the the vintage ones because they were wearing the five because the what Because the original Ducks were wearing that when they were at practice. Yeah, they were wearing these fat boys. Maybe you just rip the Ducks name off the bottom and then they wear that. So there's got to be something like a cameo. They throw on the old jerseys.

I'm trying to think what else. There's got to be one last little wave of nostalgia, whatever it may be, that hits you. Because you can't end it without that. I don't think, you know, it's it right in the fields. Yeah.

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