Listen to us on Stitcher. Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome in Brad Perry, who was a stunt person and hockey assistant in D2 and D3. Brad talks about the crazy hockey tricks he dreamed up for Dwayne, finding enough black people for the Trinidad and Tobago team, and more. Show notes Go to bradperryhockey.com. Here is the YouTube video that Mike discovered Brad in. It's been viewed over 250,000 times. The vine was looped more than 3,000,000 times before it was taken down. The trick is also being featu...
Mar 03, 2016•35 min
Listen to us on Stitcher. Mike and Tommy (no Kevin today) welcome in Jane Plank, who played Tammy Duncan. Jane reveals some information about the original Adam Banks, talks about what why she wasn't invited back for D2, and tells the story of how Paula Abdul affected the filming of the Mighty Ducks. Show Notes Go to JanePlank.com. A young Jane Plank: This is the scene Jane auditioned to: The person who replaced Tammy, Mr. Ken Wu: Jane mentions that her best friend on the set was Jusse Smollett. ...
Feb 25, 2016•30 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin take a #QuackQuestion from @crimdelacrim3_3 and turn it into a full episode on the hypothetical street fight between the Sandlot kids, the Goonies and the Mighty Ducks. Who wins and who is the MVP? Show notes Thanks to to @crimdelacrim3_3 for the #QuackQuestion that started it all. The full roster for the non-Mighty Ducks. (You should already know the Mighty Ducks roster by heart): Goonies -Andy, the cheerleader girl -Brand, the older brother -Chunk, the tubby kid who does...
Feb 10, 2016•34 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin take a deep dive into Dwayne Robertson and track his journey from how he started playing hockey down in Texas to his rodeo on ice/hockey trick team after Eden Hall. They also take a #QuackQuestion from their old friend Donald Cooper NOTE: There were some technical difficulties with the first six or so minutes. I tried to fix them as best as I could. It gets better. Show notes Thanks to @garrettgreen for the topic suggestion. Dwayne wearing his Crockett jersey. Crockett, Te...
Feb 03, 2016•31 min
Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome back Mighty Ducks newbie Charlie Scudder, who is fresh off watching D2 for the first time since he was a kid. Scudder gives his top moments, rates the film and explains some confusion regarding Gunnar Stahl. Show Notes Thanks to Josh Luecht for the theme song. You can listen to Charlie Scudder losing his Flying V card in Episode 51. Check him out on Twitter: @cscudder You can check out Justin Umberson's redesigned USA TODAY front page featuring Russ Tyler here. Char...
Jan 21, 2016•34 min
Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome Mighty Ducks technical advisor and hockey trainer Jack White to the podcast. Jack shares a number of stories about training the actors, what he remembers about the original Adam Banks getting kicked off the film, how he became an actor in all three films, and more. Show notes: Paul Michael Glaser in all his glory: Eric Strobel, for those who aren't familiar with him. The original Adam Banks fired a puck at his chest. Touch and Go is a story about an ice hockey star ...
Jan 13, 2016•29 min
Winner of #QuackQuestion of the year 2015, @joyceeng61 joins Mike, Tommy and Kevin for this epsiode. The crew reads an all-time classic email, gets the other side of the winning #QuackQuestion and trades Mighty Ducks origin stories. Show notes: Donald's email in full: Congrats to @joyceeng61 for #QuackQuestion of the year. The full results: @joyceeng61: 48% @tknauff_: 24% @wolffchele: 16% @katshan23: 7% @timminer: 5% You can listen to the all the #QuackQuestions, including Joyce's, in Episode 67...
Jan 06, 2016•30 min
Mike, Tommy and Kevin draft their own hockey starting lineups using players only from the Mighty Ducks universe. Everybody from the Ducks to Iceland to Varsity to the Hawks are in play. They also take a #QuackQuestion on the best fictional Phil Banks. Show notes The full player list we went off of: GOALIES Greg Goldberg Julie ‘The Cat’ Gaffney Scooter (Varsity) Wiesel (Iceland) Wise (Hawks) SKATERS Gunnar Stahl (Iceland) Uberjavik (Iceland) Olaf Sanderson (Iceland) Johnny Reilly (Varsity) Cole (...
Dec 31, 2015•34 min
In a special best of episode, we replay the best #QuackQuestions of the year and open the call for voting. #QuackQuestions were selected based mainly on two criteria: A.) Was it one of the best questions? And B.) Did the question generate a lot of discussion? Show Notes The eligible #QuackQuestions: @tknauff_: "Who would win a Mighty Ducks Hunger Games?" (From Episode 60) @wolffchele: "Is anybody on the team secretly gay?" (From Episode 45) @katshan23: "Did Banks live in Bombay's old house?" (Fr...
Dec 17, 2015•28 min
Asad and Robert from the Jocs and Docs podcast join Mike, Tommy, and Kevin, to discuss every injury in the Mighty Ducks. Could Banks really wake up and have the pain be gone? What happened with the Panthers and the measles? Could the Ducks have killed the varsity with their fire ants prank? Show Notes Check out the Jocs and Docs on Twitter, give them a five-star review on iTunes, and listen to their podcast. Karp's injury: According to the CDC, there was between 1-4 cases of the measles in Minne...
Dec 10, 2015•36 min
Mark Irwin was the director of photography for D2. He talks with Mike, Tommy, and Kevin about how shooting porn gave him the connections to move up in the film world, how he dealt with cardboard cutouts as crowd members, his knucklepuck rig, and more. Show Notes This is Mark's website, where you can see some of his work. Here's his IMDB page. Some photos Mark shared with us from his time on the films: The famous Sam Z. Arkoff that Mark mentions. Mark's career took off after Blood and Guts turned...
Dec 02, 2015•42 min
In part two of his interview, Steve Brill explains the crazy writing he had to do for D2, the possibilities of a D4 getting made, how the Edmonton Oilers ruined Adam Banks, and how some of the other Ducks' lives have gone since we last saw them. Show notes: You'll want to listen to Part 1. Steve Brill’s IMDB The new Ducks, including a Julie 'The Cat' Gaffney, who Brill uses to justify as the reason this terrible team can compete for the national title, even though she didn't play until the end. ...
Nov 25, 2015•29 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin have harpooned a white whale. Mighty creator Steve Brill stops by for part one of a two-part interview. Brill discusses how his original script had an interracial romance, how he had Charlie originally missing the penalty shot and who would actually win a Hunger Games full of the Mighty Ducks. Show notes Steve Brill's IMDB The Time Magazine oral history of the Mighty Ducks. Read it if you haven't. It gives the whole story about how Steve Brill wrote the script in his apart...
Nov 19, 2015•31 min
In a historic two-guest podcast, Shaun Weiss, who played Greg Goldberg, returns and brings along producing partner Sean Adair. The duo talks with Mike, Tommy, and Kevin about their new project, Weiss getting free drinks as Goldberg, Adair getting rejected from the Little Rascals, negotiating with Ron Jeremy, and more. Show Notes: Shaun Weiss's IMDB and Sean Adair's IMDB Weiss was on Episode 53. Here is their Patreon link: patreon.com/whynotweiss. Here's their pitch video as well: Greg Goldberg i...
Nov 12, 2015•36 min
Mike and Tommy (Kevin is on a self-imposed suspension) talk to composer David Newman who wrote the Mighty Ducks theme and scored the music for D1. Newman gives an insight into Hollywood and explains why the theme wasn't that hard to come up with. Show notes David Newman's IMDB. And his Wikipedia. And his website. Alfred Newman's Wikipedia. David's father did this: The summary for Critters, the first movie Newman got hired for, which also happened to have eventual Mighty Ducks director Stephen He...
Nov 05, 2015•36 min
Mike, Tommy and Kevin turn a #QuackQuestion into a full episode as they look at how a Mighty Ducks Hunger Games scenario would play out? The gang looks at who aligns with who, who gets killed first, who wins, and a controversy involving Adam Banks erupts. Show Notes Thanks to @tknauff_ for the #QuackQuestion that spawned this whole topic. Mike did screw up the intro. It's may the odds be ever in your favor. The ground rules: 1, All 19 Mighty Ducks are involved. 2. This hypothetical situation com...
Oct 28, 2015•40 min•Ep. 60
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin welcome D3 costume designer Kim Tillman onto the podcast. Kim explains the epic amount of equipment, uniforms and clothes she was responsible for, designing Eden Hall's jerseys and the fight she had over Guy Germaine's scarf. She also talks about her reunion with Steve Brill on their most recent film. Show Notes: Thanks again to Kim Tillman for coming on. Here is her IMDB. You can see some of her work on her website, kimtillman.com. Kim spoke a lot about working with produ...
Oct 21, 2015•33 min
Mike, Tommy and Kevin try to determine what Mighty Ducks would go to jail and which ones would write a book about the experience. They also take another #QuackQuestion on an alternate universe with Jake Gyllenhaal as Charlie Conway. Show Notes Thanks to @timminer for the #QuackQuestion that started it all. Kevin argued that Connie was playing Guy the whole time in Episode 4. Guy was the lookout in D3: Kevin talked a lot about Con Air. Watch it. Or at least read the synopsis. This is the scene Ke...
Oct 14, 2015•36 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin return to take a deep dive into what the kids were doing before they became the Mighty Ducks. The trio also blows the lid off of what happened when Bombay told the limo driver to drive onto the ice. Show notes I couldn't find any information on when the first pop-top can, but I did learn a lot about the evolution of beer cans. The first pull-tab beer can came in 1962, but it looked nothing like the pop tops Tommy was talking about. This is the part in Dennis the Menace tha...
Oct 08, 2015•30 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin go step by step through the Varsity vs. JV prank war, from the assembly through the fire ant ordeal. Who won? Did either of the sides go too far at any point. They also take a #QuackQuestion on the Air Bombay loafer. Show notes We talked about the JV/Varsity dinner in Episode 40. The beginning of the prank war: The Ducks crashing the assembly: Step 2: The horse turd brownies: Step 3: Varsity throws the Freshman clothes in the shower. Step 4: Freshman puts the liquid nitrog...
Sep 23, 2015•35 min
Mighty Ducks producer Jordan Kerner joins Mike and Tommy (Kevin is out of town) to talk managing a movie set full of kids, kicking an actor off the film, Gordon Bombay and Casey Conway getting their lips stuck together, and how Disney is preventing Mighty Ducks 4. Show notes Here's Jordan Kerner's IMDB. Fried Green Tomatoes was Jordan's ninth credit, but one of his first non-TV movies. Here's the trailer: The Jake Gyllenhaal story for those who don't remember. The moment when Emilio Estevez and ...
Sep 15, 2015•26 min
Matt Doherty (Averman) joins Mike, Tommy, and Kevin, and gives what he knows about D4 in the first five minutes. He also talks how he was cut out of Home Alone, how his dad was mistaken for a homeless man on the Mighty Ducks set, and more. Show notes: Matt's IMDB. Here's Episode 1 of South of Sunset: Here's Matt's music. And here's the trailer for Ganymede Pan: Matt was also in a horror movie called Hollows Grove. Here is the trailer: This is Gary Marshall. This is Anna Chlumsky. She plays Amy B...
Sep 03, 2015•45 min
Shaun Weiss, who played Greg Goldberg, joins Mike, Tommy, and Kevin to talk about how he was originally cast as an Eskimo who had one line, why his mom locked a producer in trailer, how he had diarrhea during his favorite scene, and much more. Show Notes Shaun Weiss' IMDB. Here is the first episode of Why Not Weiss: You can view the episodes as they come out here. Atuk the Eskimo. Jack White is indeed Coach Wilson in D3. This is the picture Shaun saw as a kid when he went to a different movie be...
Aug 27, 2015•43 min
Jim Burnstein, the primary writer of D3 and the Director of Screenwriting at the University of Michigan joins Mike and Tommy to discuss how he got involved in the film, why he originally had the Ducks losing, how Disney made him change it, and much more. Show notes: A little profile on Jim to get to know him better. Here's his IMDB. Here's a look a Renaissance Man, Jim's first movie. Ted Orion, who was originally Ted Hunter. For the uninitiated read all about Ted Lindsay and Orion, the hunter in...
Aug 19, 2015•41 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin welcome in Charlie Scudder a.k.a Chucky Scuds, a man who has never had never seen the Mighty Ducks before. Scuds discusses why he had never seen the film and his thoughts after watching before he hears some Quack Attack theories. Show notes Shoutout to Angels in the Outfield. Angels in the Endzone was a TV movie. It has an audience score of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes and no professional reviews. Jack Reilly popping his collar: This is the 30 for 30 Scudder was talking about. W...
Aug 05, 2015•37 min
Jake Gyllenhaal recently revealed he was picked to play Charlie Conway in the Mighty Ducks before his parents made him turn it down. In light of that Mike, Tommy, and Kevin decide to re-cast the whole movie, starting with Gyllenhaal as Conway. Show Notes: Here's Jake Gyllenhaal talking about the Mighty Ducks: For the record: Here's the sports site Mike was reading the quote from. This story says that Gyllenhaal was picked to play Charlie Conway. Eddie Murphy's list of characters in The Nutty Pro...
Jul 29, 2015•37 min
Casey Garven, the actor who played Hawks player Larson joined Mike, Tommy and Kevin for a podcast about how he was supposed to play Banks, which of the actors were pompous, Mighty Ducks groupies, and the one time he was recognized for being Larson. Show notes: Shoutout to Casey Garven for being an awesome dude. You can hear the jingle Casey's grandpa wrote in this Hamm's beer commercial: Here's Larson before the state championship game in the scene Casey talked about. This is the legitimate I-wi...
Jul 23, 2015•35 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin discuss whether Fulton Reed made a mistake in forgoing football and whether any other Mighty Ducks would be good at other sports. They also take a #QuackQuestion on the Ducks' former District 5 coach. Who was he? Show notes "Is it true what they say, about the scholarships and how they won't let you play hockey?" We talked about pro potential in Episode 7. The conversation on Fulton starts at 20:59. This is The Program for those who didn't know. Dwayne Robertson's roping a...
Jul 15, 2015•31 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin explore the five original Ducks who didn't make the Junior Goodwill Games team. Why weren't they included on the squad? Were Jesse and Terry secretly fighting over Tammy? Could they ever reconcile with the rest of the Ducks? Show Notes The five original Mighty Ducks left of the Junior Goodwill Games: 1. Tommy Duncan 2. Tammy Duncan 3. Peter Mark 4. Dave Karp 5. Terry Hall The five players they add for the Junior Goodwill Games (not including Russ Tyler, who comes later): 1...
Jul 01, 2015•38 min
From participating in the dog poop prank to his giveaway in the state finals, Mark plays a understated but critical role with the Mighty Ducks. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin explore all this and then figure out what happened when the Ducks moved on without him. Show Notes The speech that Peter Mark confused: Karp looking to Peter Mark during Bombay's speech that forms the Ducks: Also, notice Peter automatically flipping his stance on the Ducks as soon as a couple other people decide to be Mighty Ducks....
Jun 24, 2015•39 min
