I Am Officially The #1 Mighty Ducks Fan in the Entire World.

By now, everyone who knows me knows I am a huge fan of podcasts. In fact, I subscribe to over 30 shows and figure I listen to well over 10 hours of content per week. Earlier in the summer, I stumbled across a show called 'The Quack Attack Podcast, the Official Mighty Ducks Podcast.' Each show is dedicated to one or more particular scenes from each of the three films, and needless to say having grown up with these movies, I was hooked. During one episode, hosts Mike, Tommy and Kevin announced they would be putting together a trivia series to search for the world's biggest Mighty Ducks fan. All those who wanted to sign up had to sign up as first come, first serve and I'm quite certain I was one of the first to express my interest. 

It's pretty rare when a normal person is able to recite the exact lines from three movies in its entirety, in fact when I was bored in high school I would sit in class and write out the scripts from each movie to help pass the time. When this trivia series was announced I was fully confident I would win the whole damn thing (not to throw spoilers so early in the blog, but as of last night I indeed won the whole damn thing. Eat your heart out, ladies.)

Four rounds, a handful of questions and next to zero stress released whatsoever, I found myself clinching the championship in the final round of the trivia series against, of all people, a Benihana chef from Los Angeles, aka home of Russ Tyler. I thought of it as Boston vs. LA, but it felt more like Julie "The Cat" Gaffney (pride of Bangor, ME) vs. Russ Tyler, founder of the deadly knuckle puck. For my series-clinching question, I had to identify what Yan called Hans from Mighty Ducks 2 in the opening scene with Coach Bombay. After belting out the incredibly harsh name of "Strudel Head" I claimed victory and gave out a nice little yell in my house. I was now deemed the king of Mighty Ducks trivia. What did I win? Well, check that bad boy out (total value, about $8. Sick).

So, why is this so important? Well it's not that it's important so to speak, but at least in my mind I thought it was pretty damn cool. The reason I find this to be so cool is that six months ago, I had no idea this podcast existed. Once I discovered this show, I reached out via Twitter to the hosts of the show expressing my interest in the show and gave them props for carving this niche for all who are fans of this cult classic. Going back and forth via Twitter turned into recording episodes for the podcast, texting, connecting on LinkedIn, etc. etc. Although I've never met the guys live in person, we are now connected online and follow each other on social media. They have an e-com store where they sell merchandise to help fund their show and have done pretty well for themselves. I myself have thought about starting a niche-like podcast, although I don't anticipate a lot of dudes subscribing to a 'Fans of Laguna Beach' podcast or hosting a trivia series about how well someone knows 'The O.C." But, then again, if the Quack Attack pod has showed me anything, nothing it out of the question. Ducks fly together.