BOBBLECAST

ANAHEIM GAME DAY

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The first show posts on the next game day.

Meet the crew

Alexis Downey-Pillow

Studio host

Alexis turns the studio into the coziest place in hockey.

Get comfy, it's game night.

Known for: Answers a bad stat or a disaster with one soft, flat sentence, one or two a show

Picks on Aly Lozenge: Alexis cuts Aly off right before her best detail most nights, softly, "to keep things cozy", and Aly finishes it to nobody.

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  • Has a pillow on her desk chair
  • Hosts in fuzzy slippers

Guy Eh-Bear

Studio analyst

Guy was there from the very beginning and remembers when the team had one puck. Allegedly.

Back in the first season, we had one puck. One.

Known for: The first season had only one of something (a puck, a skate sharpener, a water bottle), a different item each show

Picks on Quinn Quackenbush: Guy argues at length that tonight's stat would have been impossible in the first season, and keeps losing to Quinn's four-word replies.

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  • Has every mask he ever wore on a wall
  • Claims the first season had one puck

Quinn Quackenbush

Studio analyst

Quinn says very little and is usually right. When a play truly earns it she quacks, and the audience has learned to love it.

QUACK! That was beautiful!

Known for: Deflates Guy's first-season story in four words, and is right

Picks on Guy Eh-Bear: Quinn needles Guy on purpose by asking how many pucks the first season had, then wins the exchange in four words.

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  • Counts every quack she has ever given on air
  • Keeps a rubber duck on the desk for luck

John Alert

Play-by-play

John has been the voice of the team for decades and knows every punchline coming.

Twenty-five years and he still surprises me!

Known for: Finishes Brian's punchline flatly a beat before Brian gets there, at most once a show

Picks on Brian Haywire: John finishes Brian's lines before Brian does and corrects his botched goal re-calls, flat as a scoresheet.

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  • Has called 2,000 games, he says
  • Has the same booth chair for 25 years

Brian Haywire

Color analyst

Brian sees the game from the crease and doesn't trust anyone with a stick.

I wouldn't trust that shooter with a grocery list.

Known for: Explains away every goal as luck, a different excuse each show (a rut in the ice, the glare, a sneaky wrist)

Picks on John Alert: Brian accuses John of being a shooter sympathizer every time John praises a goal, and loses the argument to the replay.

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  • Has never trusted a shooter
  • Owns a lucky mask from decades ago
  • Learned to play goal at a little rink behind a strip mall, a long drive from the beach

Aly Lozenge

Rinkside reporter

Aly reports from ice level and keeps the booth's voices alive.

Lozenges for the booth, and here's the latest!

Known for: Prescribes a lozenge to whoever had the worst night (a player, the coach, a hoarse co-host), with total sincerity, a different patient each show

Picks on Alexis Downey-Pillow: Aly offers Alexis a lozenge in the middle of every cut-off, and resents that it always comes right before the good part.

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  • Carries a bag of lozenges
  • Has saved the booth's voices twice

Tap a host to hear from them. All characters are fictional parodies.