“You know the golden hour at about 2 a.m. when you and your pals have been laughing and shrieking at each other all night, after a day spent being rowdy while window shopping and ordering every appetizer on the menu, and your voice is hoarse and your stomach hurts from how hard you've been laughing (and also possibly how many mozzarella sticks you've eaten), and you are all draped around each other in a blanket pile and you know you should go to sleep but you're filled with a warm glow of love and fellowship and the knowledge that you can Get Weird about the things you love in front of these people and they will still think you're wonderful? That's the vibe of this, the ONLY sports podcast I will probably ever follow. Prior to You Can't Do That, the only things about hockey that spoke to me were the punching and Soviet defection stories, and I felt guilty about liking the first part. Getting to follow along in real time as the hockey coven lives through a historic playoffs season for their family, the Washington Capitals, is an incredible treat. I love that in addition to experiencing the camaraderie, I'm actually learning about sports psychology and sociology and cultural differences within hockey-playing nations and key historical figures in hockey. (Keep those defection stories coming, guys.) Finding out that sports fandom can be joyful and weird instead of dour and math-obsessed and full of gatekeepers has been a gift.”Read full review »
lilah80 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/26/18
“This podcast is the most delectable morsel for your ears. It is the softest blanket you have ever dramatically draped over your shoulders while pretending to be some care-worn matriarch of a great but declining empire. It is, without doubt, the shining star in a sea of lesser hockey podcasts. I...”Read full review »
eclairhen via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/09/18
“This podcast is like listening to a kitchen full of my tipsy aunts gossip about people I’m only vaguely familiar with. (I have to google every single hockeyman referenced here and the results surprise me every time.)
This podcast made me more invested in a sporting event than I have ever been in...”Read full review »
kaythebold via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/16/18
“i never thought i would listen to a hockey podcast ever, because despite my startling knowledge of hockey players and their lives (i'm a canadian woman, alright) the idea of listening to men drone about Sports evokes a feeling like flames on the side of my face. but here is the podcast i...”Read full review »
alexandelljones via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
04/18/18
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