The Outer Banks, Duck Doughnuts, and Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 9

Hi Everyone! Anne and I are recording this episode on the top floor of the Torg Family Vacation Rental in Duck North Carolina, a town in the Outer Banks. On this episode we’re going to use our powers of description to talk about the Outer Banks, a local favorite that made it big Duck Doughnuts, the talk that athletes should keep their mouths shut about politics, and more from Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 9.

We’re in Duck, NC. The first Duck Doughnuts opened in 2007. Take a guess as to how many there are now? 126. Click here to read more about Duck Doughnuts.

My Duck Doughnuts rankings for the six I tried:

1. Peanut Butter: like it comes off a fancy dessert menu. Peanut butter cookie dough or right out of the oven.
2. Chocolate Explosion: dominant dark chocolate.
3. Bacon- just like when my syrup, bacon, and pancake all run together. A little weird coming from a doughnut.
4. French Toast.
5. Straight Glaze.
6. Coconut.

Let’s talk about some of the other beaches we have been to as a way of getting into the beaches we’re seeing at the Outer Banks. My list:

1. Cape Cod. Quite a bit of variety. Provincetown. Mayflower Beach near Dennis, MA. Chatham.
2. Lots of variety on Maui too.
3. Myrtle Beach. Folly Beach. Wrightsville Beach.

Season 3, Episode 7 titled “The Strings that Bind Us”

• This episode starts with all of the businesses in Richmond coming to life. Then we get short shots of all of the characters starting their day. Wonder why this was something we were given steadily throughout the episode?
• Nate looking in the shop where Jade works.
• Jack and Keeley. Sense and Sensibility first edition. People come on strong to Keeley.
• Sam at his restaurant. Sam’s restaurant booked months in advance. He asked for a special table. The chef seems to be a great leader / coach. Sam’s father is coming from Nigeria. They were talking crap about Prime Minister, immigration stuff. Huge topic today.
• Coaching staff introduces Total Football from the Netherlands.
• Beard gives a good presentation. He worked in a funny line about Jamie. Reminds me of what I heard about Phil Jackson and Tex Winter. Might be where the idea to do a presentation like this came from.
• LOL: Beard lists a line of greats including Gaga and Pinter.
• Roy: you turn those frowns upside down because we’re f’ing doing it. Coach Ted: hush your butts.
• Barbara takes some jabs at Keeley for dating Jack. She is a pretty funny character.
• Ted and Beard continue to tap glasses and then tap the table. Maybe this: a sign of respect, a way to acknowledge the bartender, or a form of “cheers” to the group. It can also be a way to settle the drink, like beer, and make it easier to finish quickly. 
• Ted invites the three bar guys to come to training.
• Roy still yelling whistle. They commit to the little gags!
• Jack says they are two consenting adults and she is get away with murder rich. Jack anounces to the office they are dating.
• Lots of throwing up. Jamie’s not tired.
• Rebecca tells Keeley about what happened meeting the boat guy. Rebecca introduces the phrase “love bombing.” Keeley says maybe we’re “love blind.” It’s an emotional version of color blindness where a person interprets red flags as giant green go flags. Jack gets the meal.
• Nate’s sister’s birthday party. How do you tell if a girl likes you or is just being nice to you? Show him the map. So much pressure on one date.
• Sam tweets a political statement.
• Nate goes to ask her out. EMO moment! He doesn’t spit. He rushes out.
• Total football: What does this situation need right now? Changing places. Dani and Issac pretty good switches. Jamie doesn’t switch with anyone.
• The friend fans switch positions. The one guy says Paul has unwavering positivity.
• Sam gets the “shut up and dribble.”
• LOL: It’s like taking a hike with Robert Frost. It could go either way.
• Keeley an office full of daisies. Ted connects them all with red string.
• The crowd is starting to grow in the stands.
• LOL: Will picks up the string with a tool.
• Sam calls the political person a bigot.
• Nate makes a box for Jade to ask her out. (is he doing his job now?) Jade waves at Nate. He trips and his box gets run over. He asks her out anyway.
• Sam’s business is trashed.
• Trent is writing his notes and he wonders what #4 is to play total football? #4 has not revealed itself yet. Ted says, “Sometimes you gotta leave space to let God walk into the room.”
• EMO: Sam is going off to the team about his restaurant. And his dad calls out his name, “Samuel.” Sam’s dad: Anger will only weaken you. If you want to make them angry, forgive them. Big Whoop, says dad. Don’t fight back. Fight forward.
• Richmond at Arsenal. Hornby’s team. Fever Pitch. 3-nil lead for Arsenal.
• Halftime speech. Roy says he hates what Ted has done to him. He says the ZZ Top Cover Band would have been called Sharp Dressed Men. Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Says he has a Foxworthy. Makes the guys laugh. The right idea is just sitting behind a couple of wrong ones. Jamie tells them how to play.
• Immediate goal for Richmond. Tartt in the role of conductor. The Lasso Way. total Football. Crimm says it’s going to work.
• Nate waits for Jade. Jack knows the term love bomber. Sam and his dad go to the restaurant. Dad seems to know about Rebecca.
• The team asked themselves what does this situation need and they are cleaning up the restaurant. Sam’s dad didn’t know the place was named after him?
• Do we learn Simi and Sam are a couple? Ends with Sam and his dad cooking dinner.