Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin review the documentaries to figure out which people had the best edits and worst edits versus who they really are. Was Bombay's portrayal correct? Is Conway not as bad as we give him credit for? Could Karp actually be semi-smart? Show Notes Coach Reilly and Bombay. How much was cut out of this scene? Is it really Conway's fault the Bears took it from here, went all the way down the ice and scored in 10 seconds? Watch this ...
Nov 17, 2016•31 min
Mike, Tommy, and Kevin break down Kevin's turkey leg challenge, and look at the point at which the new Mighty Ducks and old Mighty Ducks unite together. Did Gordon Bombay play a rope-a-dope in the first Iceland game to get his team motivated for a comeback? Show Notes Shoutout to Scott Kilmer, who is teaching Kevin how to replace a radiator via YouTube A scene from True Life: I'm a competitive eater Was tying the team up effective? Let's do some random jumps guys! Kevin talked about Miracle. Wat...
Nov 10, 2016•39 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. (Note: This time Mike's mic malfunction mid-episode. We looked after the episode and discovered it's a problem with a USB port. We should have it fixed by the next episode.) Mike, Tommy, and Kevin take on another Mighty Ducks minute. This one revolves around Fulton and Charlie's trip to the Mall of America in D3. The crew breaks down Charlie's mental state, the mall itself, Eden Hall's teachers, and more. Show Notes Go to the store! Free shippin...
Nov 03, 2016•37 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. (Note: Not sure what happened to Kevin's mic. It sounded fine when we tested it, but it just seemed to freak out. Just an FYI, it's not his fault.) Mike, Tommy, and Kevin welcome Quackolyte Luke Ewbank, who literally spent hours creating the Mighty Ducks as a football team in Madden. Luke gives a rundown on how the Ducks have fared. The four then field a #QuackQuestion on the best Ducks jerseys. Show Notes: Thanks to Luke Ewbank for coming on. F...
Oct 27, 2016•29 min
A lot of fans chimed in with notes and reaction to Episode 100's plot of D4. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin go through the listeners' notes one-by-one to determine whether they'd work within the story. They also take a #QuackQuestion on Olaf Sanderson. Show Notes You're going to want to listen to Episode 100 before you listen to this one. Thanks to @AirLemaire, @mvhaller, @joyceeng61, @bberg19, @Totally_Offside, @LukEwbank, and @MariaPianelli for their suggestions. Our cameo actors: Macaulay Culkin does...
Oct 13, 2016•34 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. In their 100th episode extravaganza, Mike, Tommy, and Kevin announce their latest giveaway and get to the main event: their plot of D4. Learn what happens as Charlie rounds up the group for one last shot at glory at the pond hockey national championships. Show Notes The beginning of the movie: The scene from D1 of Gordon Bombay walking up to Hans' Sport Shop: Here's the scene from MacGruber that Kevin talked about: The guy from Space Jam is Wayn...
Oct 06, 2016•56 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin tackle (pun intended) one of the great philosophical questions of our time: What if the Mighty Ducks went to football? What if, instead of Fulton coming to the Ducks, the Ducks went to Fulton? What would that team look like? Show Notes People talk. Don't mean nothin'. Shoutout to Fulton, the Mark Chmura of the Ducks: (Mark Chmura for those that don't know.) Boobie Miles, from the movie Friday Night Lights, which is based o...
Sep 29, 2016•35 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin profile Tommy and Tammy Duncan. First and foremost, they try to figure out what exactly is the relationship between the two. Then they examine their spots on the team and what happened after they left the Mighty Ducks. Show notes Tommy and Tammy: Here is where you can find the wall art for any of our store designs. Background on the Duncans provided in Episode 16 and Episode 47. Here's a definition of Irish twins if you're...
Sep 22, 2016•32 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike and Kevin (Tommy is sick) welcome Melissa Keller, who played Mindy the head cheerleader in D3, to the podcast. Melissa explains how she became a cheerleader, which actor was a dick to her, how she went from D3 to Sports Illustrated, and more. Show Notes Thanks to Melissa for coming on. Check her out on Instagram and see some of her photography work at artlesscoporation.com. Melissa in action: Christopher Orr played Riley. Kind of dick to Me...
Sep 15, 2016•26 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Thanks to a #QuackQuestion from @ACarlson701, Mike, Tommy, and Kevin discuss which Mighty Duck they identify with the most. They start with a discussion about who they identified with the most as children and how that's changed as they've gotten older and realized how much of a douche Charlie was in D3. They also put out a call to the Quackolytes to see which Ducks they identified with the most. Show notes Thanks to @ACarlson701 for the #QuackQu...
Sep 01, 2016•42 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin go through another iteration of the Mighty Ducks minute, this time breaking down minute No. 284. They talk about Charlie's hot dogging, Hans' failing heart and even spot Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle at one point. Show Notes Previous Mighty Ducks minutes: No. 284, No. 65. All the movies mentioned on the podcast besides with Michael J. Fox and nudity because I don't know what it's called: Last of the Mohicans, John Q, Re...
Aug 25, 2016•32 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Aaron Schwartz, who played Dave Karp in the Mighty Ducks, joins the show and opens with the story of how he got into acting. It involves Michael Keaton. From there, he discusses the Mighty Ducks, his acting hiatus that sent him to Israel, and more. Show Notes Thanks to Aaron Schwartz for coming on. Follow him on Twitter, on Instagram, and on Facebook. Para bailar la bamba: A sampling of Karp being right next to Bombay: Aaron spoke about Jordan K...
Aug 18, 2016•37 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. In the wake the of Ty McClary (Dwayne) revealing Kenan Thompson (Russ) was his best friend, Mike, Tommy, and Kevin try to figure out which players were best friends with which. Are the Bash Brothers three-way best friends? Who can be best friends with Charlie? Show notes We talked with Ty McClary in Episode 90. Something about a shrinking sphicter: "Like lamb and tuna fish" "Yes Uncle Remus, I know the catfish are huge." Kevin's USA TODAY cover:...
Aug 11, 2016•33 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin expand on the very popular theory from last week's episode claiming that Bombay was dead the whole time in D3: The Mighty Ducks. After reviewing the film the three look at the sticking points in the theory and try to work them out. Show notes: This theory was born in our last show, Episode 91, with Mighty Duckling Charlie Scudder. Quick note: Bombay also gives the speech at the beginning of D3, so it's pretty likely he was...
Aug 04, 2016•36 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mighty Ducks newbie Charlie Scudder comes on after watching D3 for the first time and completing the trilogy. He talks with Mike, Tommy and Kevin and how much Charlie has changed, cardboard cutouts standing in as fans and Hans possibly killing himself. Show notes: Thanks to Charlie for coming on. He's as cool as he's ever been. Follow him on Twitter: @cscudder. Charlie's previous appearances: Episode 51, Episode 71. By the way, Mike meant 400 Tw...
Jul 28, 2016•38 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Ty McClary joins Mike, Tommy, Kevin to talk about almost quitting acting before he became Dwayne Robertson on the Mighty Ducks, how his roping ability was written into the script, why his dad become Kenan Thompson's legal guardian for a while, who was the easiest to rope & more. Show notes Who's ready to play some puck? Ty now: So honoured & humble to be invited for the #WylieEducationFoundation Dinner @WylieBulldogs & meet Ty "O'Nea...
Jul 14, 2016•41 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. The second installment in Mighty Ducks Minute series takes Mike, Tommy, and Kevin to minute No. 65. They evaluate Bombay's class room speech, determine whether Karp really understands sarcasm, and go deep on chalkboard symbolism. Show notes If you like Star Wars, listen to Star Wars minute. If you like us, listen to our first Mighty Ducks minute, Episode 82. Shoutout to random.org. "Our class loves to READ READ READ" Conway falling in love and G...
Jul 07, 2016•33 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. With Iceland in the quarterfinals of the European soccer championship, Mike, Tommy, and Kevin connect the dots betwen the current success and Iceland's loss in the Junior Goodwill Games more than 22 years ago. Show notes Shoutout to Leia Burns. Follow her on Twitter: @leia_nog. Tommy made his prediction way back in Episode 2. The first Iceland rise: The second Iceland rise: The Iceland economy was actually quite good during the 1990s. Heimer "Th...
Jun 30, 2016•32 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike and Tommy (no Kevin) welcome Harve Cook onto the podcast to talk about his days as Trinidad coach/camera assist operator in D2 and D3. Harve talks about the racist thing he was asked to do but said no to, what happened to his dreads, and more. Show notes Thanks to Harve for coming on. You can follow him on Twitter here. Here is his IMDB. Way to go, man! Way to go! Shoutout to Jerry Lewis: Team Trinidad: Here's more on Disney's racism. For t...
Jun 23, 2016•28 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy and Kevin take a deep dive into Mighty Ducks training camp in D2 and have plenty of questions for Gordon Bombay. Why didn't he know who any of his new players were? Why did he create an instant rift amongst the old Ducks and new Ducks? Show Notes The first date of that we have on a USA TODAY paper is after the U.S. beats Trinidad and Tobago. The date: March 1, 1994. Mike was way off. They would've all still been in school. Here's the...
Jun 09, 2016•33 min
An extensive #QuackQuestion leads Mike, Tommy, and Kevin down the road of the 1973 Duluth East peewee team, the club that beat the Hawks when Gordon Bombay missed his penalty shot. What if I told you a peewee team in Duluth could turn into local legend? Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Show Notes Thanks to @ak2themax for the topic. The moment that will live forever in Duluth: Before 1973 the Duluth high schools combined had five tournaments and one championship. Total they now ...
Jun 02, 2016•35 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Thanks to some requests from Quackolytes, Mike, Tommy, and Kevin spend an episode breaking down Dean Portman. The group discusses how he was discovered, whether he was a leader of the team, what he was doing during the one hour, 15 minutes of D3, and more Show notes Thanks to @denys152denys and Leia from Australia for their Dean Portman love. We talked about Don Tibbles picking kids based on marketing basis in Episode 21. For more info, listen t...
May 19, 2016•39 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy and Kevin welcome in producer Martin Huberty to talk about his experience working on the first Mighty Ducks film. Huberty explains why the name was changed to "Champions" overseas, what happened when the ice melted while filming, whether a D4 could theoretically happen in this movie landscape, and more. Show notes Thanks again to Martin for coming on. Here is his IMDB. Less Than Zero's IMDB and Fried Green Tomatoes' IMDB. Casey Garve...
May 12, 2016•31 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin rip off the idea of Star Wars minute and apply it to the Mighty Ducks, going in-depth and breaking down one minute of the film for the entire episode. They also reveal the winner of the Quack Attack's first ever t-shirt contest. Show Notes Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest. Congrats to our shirt winner. You can get your own shirt at our shop here. Shoutout to Star Wars minute for giving us the idea. Give t...
May 05, 2016•38 min
Listen on Stitcher or the Google Play Music Store. Mike, Tommy, and not Kevin tackle three different topics in this grab bag episode. Was Linda using Charlie to get the Warrior name changed? Who do the Mighty Ducks root for? What would happen if Mighty Ducks/Hawks super team went to the Goodwill Games? Show Notes Thanks to @kreeves53, @Totally_Offside, and @jarrodbeasley for the #QuackQuestions that made up our grab bag. Here is our last grab bag. This is Charlie in the moments before he meets L...
Apr 21, 2016•31 min
Listen to us on Stitcher Mike, Tommy, and Kevin dive deep into Luis Mendoza's life. They examine how he was discovered in playing hockey in Miami, his emotional reunion with his estranged father Benny 'The Jet' Rodriguez, his career as a short-track speed skater and much more. Show Notes: Here's the link to our store. Listen to Episode 78 for the whole Luis Mendoza/Benny The Jet connection. Luis Mendoza and Benny the Jet. Quite the resemblence: Mendoza not stopping: Cardinals receiver Larry Fitz...
Apr 14, 2016•34 min
Listen to us on Stitcher Mike, Tommy and Kevin take a listener question and turn it into an entire episode on the Mighty Ducks' proms, from a Guy and Dwayne pull date switcharoo, to Karp and Portman finding their way in, to whether Goldberg cries the most. Show notes: The whole #QuackQuestion email: The cheerleader that Mendoza is hooking up with is Mindy: Guy the ladies man: There are a total of 13 Ducks at Eden Hall by the end of D3. Paulina Gretzky was born December 19, 1988. She would've bee...
Apr 07, 2016•29 min
Listen to us on Stitcher. Mike, Tommy, and Kevin examine Gordon Bombay's younger years and look at how the loss of his dad coupled with him missing the penalty shot drastically altered the course of his life. They also investigate what happened to Gordon's mom. Show notes The Ducks are 0-11-1 when Gordon is talking to Hans at the Sport Shop: They then forfeit to the Flames and beat the Huskies, giving them 14 regular season games. 198/14 = 14.1 goals per game. Even if you assume the Ducks play t...
Mar 31, 2016•28 min
Listen to us Stitcher Mike, Tommy, and Kevin break down Russ Tyler's eight-man street hockey crew: how they started, how they got team U.S.A. to play them and what happened after. In the process they reveal the tragic story of Russ and his brother James and how Hans fits into the whole situation. Show notes: The crew: Hector in D2 (played by Noah Verduzco) versus James Madio. James It was Steve Brill who revealed that Russ has a sporting goods store. We gave the Hans theory in Episode 11. In the...
Mar 24, 2016•30 min
Listen to us Stitcher. In honor of election season, Mike, Tommy and Kevin discuss each Mighty Duck's presidential candidacy. They break the Ducks down by party and then discuss which Ducks make deep runs in the primaries and who wins each party's nomination. But YOU have to vote for who wins the general election. Show notes The party affiliations: Republicans (slogan): Adam Banks ("Adam take it to the Banks') Charlie Conway ("It's either Conway or highway") Tommy Duncan ("Tommy "going to drop ou...
Mar 10, 2016•41 min
