Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Who's on the line right now? There are two guys excited to talk about Miracle, the Boys of 80 Netflix documentary about the miracle on ice, one of the greatest American sports moments of all time.
Chapter 2: What is the Miracle on Ice and why is it significant?
And we've got the captain of that team, Mike Aruzioni, and also filmmaker and boomer buddy, Mark Chardy. Guys, good morning. How are you? Good morning.
Good morning, guys. How are you guys doing? We're doing great, Mike. It's always great to talk to you. And, Mark, of course, you too as well. And, Mark, you put me in the game plan. And, of course, that shot right up to the top of the chart. So I'm expecting that the same is going to happen here with this story.
It's an amazing story for those people who don't really remember the 1980 miracle on ice, which is what it was. Now, this particular documentary, Mark, is a little bit different than that. It tells more stories about the guys, talks about the geopolitical times around that time and how –
We as a country rallied around the 1980 hockey team because this amazing, amazing performance against the Soviets.
Yeah, it was it was so fun. Twenty something years ago doing the film. And obviously that's an adaptation. This was a documentary. This is in the guy's own words, bringing them back to Lake Placid, telling their stories.
and and just hearing them talk about it and and showing you know ioc footage had never been seen before so you got a really just a different look of that same story uh and and mike of course was was amazing and he's the captain and the same dynamic uh from 45 years ago exists and it was great getting the guys back together and boomer hope you have your sag card still so
I do. I'm actually still getting checks. I appreciate that. You know, Michael Ruzzioni, I got to tell you, I got the chance the last couple of years to go play a hockey tournament myself up in Lake Placid and play in the building where you won that game. I couldn't believe how small the building was, first and foremost.
I was probably in the same locker room as you, by the way, because they have not improved the locker room situation there, I can tell you that. But, you know, I know you personally, we've done a lot of different things together over the years. Why is this different from all the other things that we have seen when it comes to your guys' accomplishment?
Well, I think Mark touched on it. I mean, you can hear some stories, you know, that how we ended up there, how we grew up. Kenny Morrow's got a great story about his dad and Kind of the behind the scenes that people don't know. You watch us play a game, but how did you get here? How did I end up on an Olympic team? How did Kenny Morrow end up on an Olympic team?
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Chapter 3: What makes the 'Miracle: The Boys of '80' documentary unique?
Well, I think when someone's playing you, you go in. And I was better than him. It's more interesting, I think, when my kids watch it. You know, somebody playing their father was kind of strange for them. Did you really do that? Did you really say that, that all these things happened? So it's kind of strange in that regard. Now, this is different because this is us telling the story.
There's no actors. There's nobody playing anybody. This is us reliving. and talking about, but going back, sitting on the bench in the same spots that we sat during the Soviet game. And here we are, you know, 40-something years later, sitting on that bench and talking about what we did 45 years ago.
You know, it's amazing. And everybody's point of reference was the movie. Now you have the documentary.
Yeah, I was going to say, you and I were at the University of Maryland when this took place, and we didn't even get to see it live, by the way. And I was trying to remember whether or not I saw the game or knew that the game we had won. I don't think I did. I remember watching with a couple of the teammates in our dorm, and I remember just how proud we were given the geopolitical opportunity
Crap that was going on back then. We were right in the middle of the Cold War. I guess Jimmy Carter was in his last year, and President Reagan was going to take over the next year. There was so much intensity surrounding this. Are you guys able to capture that with this documentary?
Oh, I think we definitely did. You know, I was in Ritchie Coliseum watching the game, and I remember it was not live, and you didn't get the – you heard they won, you heard they lost. So when we watched, and everyone went crazy, the whole campus and the whole country. So, yeah, Mike, I mean, you know, you lived it.
I mean, I know you've got – and you talk about it in the doc about that experience.
Yeah, the interesting thing, guys, is we didn't know – We had no idea the country was watching, the world was watching. We were, as you know, like you said, Boomi, we were up in Lake Placid in a small little town. I call it Pleasant Hill. And you're in this small little building. There were three TV stations. There was no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. We won.
We knew people in Lake Placid were excited. We knew family and friends at home were excited, but we didn't have a clue. that the world was watching the way they were until after the Olympic Games when we went to the White House and it was like, oh, my God, you people watched. So, you know, what happened then will never, ever happen again just because of the social media aspect of it.
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Chapter 4: How did the 1980 hockey team prepare for the Olympics?
But the two things I've always said to people about a coach, if you don't trust your coach and if you don't respect your coach, you're in trouble. And we respected her and we trusted her. And this is what he was going to do in order for us to be successful. He was going to drive us. He was going to make us believe. And he pushed us and pushed us and challenged us.
But we understood that's the way it's going to be. I'm not going to quit. You can yell at me all you want. I'm only going to deal with you for a couple of hours.
Chapter 5: What personal stories are shared by the team members?
And as he said many times, there's a method to my madness. And when the games ended and we won an Olympic gold medal, you sit back and go, wow, he was right. Everything that he did, all the buttons he pushed were dead on.
Hey, Mark, is this available, like, right now on Netflix? Or when can we be looking for it?
It drops today. I think it's live right now. I haven't even looked. But, yeah, I think it's up Friday. Perfect.
It better be up. I got 60 people coming to my golf club today for a party.
Yeah.
That was good. I wish I had an invite to that party. I got to tell you, Mike, it's always great to talk to you. Mark, always great to talk to you as well. Good luck with it, and I can't wait to watch it.
Yeah.
I just pulled up Geo.
It's live. Good. You guys can watch it.
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