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Show #297---Caps Come Home to Another Struggle.....
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54:26Recorded November 16, 2025 It was another less than stellar week for Our Caos and Anna and I break it all down for you... The recent tension amongst all Caps fans has boiled over and has thusly moved your host to preach....to the choir. Agree or not. Enjoy or don't. Either way you might learn something. Prepare your HIgh School aged child for finan…
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Recorded November 9, 2025 Welp. Another week another sub .500 performance for Our Caps.... BUT.....instead of complaning too much or offering, uh....helpful suggestions we're just going to recap the games as only we see them, And offer our own commentary. Ok so there might be some suggstions in there.... Also we give a shout to a (not nearly comple…
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Show #295---The Mermaid iS BACK....to see the Caps lose.....
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53:12Recorded November 2, 2025 Anna has come back! Too bad Our Caps couldn't have played better..... We welcome back our wayward Mermaid and introduce her to any new listeners....then we get to the bad stuff. Three games, three losses and only 1 standings point for the week. What went wrong? What needs fixing? (Besides the obvious). Tune in for our uniq…
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Show #294--Caps Week 3 2025-26 Guest Co Hosts Cheryl Anne Forster and Jini Clausen
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1:21:00Recorded October 26, 2025 C4 and Jini anre back to go over a wild week for Our Caps. To say it was an interesting week would be putting it mildly. We begin with an update regarding the Mitch Love situation. Empowering Education is dedicated to teach High School age financial youth the nuances of how to manage one's finanacial health and wellness. C…
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Show #293---Caps are Winning Early and Ugly with Guest Co Host Jimi Clausen
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1:11:10Recorded October 18, 2025 Ms. Jin-dependent Jini CLausen joins us again to go over a KICK ASS week for Our Caps. Not to complain but it wasn't without its flaws, some of which we go over in detail alongsinde the break down of this 4-0 week! Yes we will be discussing the power play. No we will not be completely nice about it. If you are listening be…
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Show #292---Season opener for 2025-26! Guest co hosts Cheryl Anne Forster and Jini Clausen
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1:04:40Recorded October 10, 2025 Welcome back, Caps fans! We raise the curtain once more for another Caps season here at the PPP. Helping things along for this opener are two of our star co hosts from last season---C4 herself Cheryl Anne Forster and Jini Clausen. Anna will be joining us in November. Before we get into things in full we announce a new elem…
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Show #291---End of the Road for 2024-25
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1:28:00Recorded May 18, 2025 As unfortunately the Caps could not get past the Carolina Hurricanes, so another season of coverage comes to an end. Jini Clausen joins us again for this last regular episode of this season. We begin by recapping the final 2 games of the series and talk about what went wrong. Next, the Mermaid offers up a.......unique evaluati…
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Show #290---Our Caps Navigate Rough Playoff Waters in Round 2
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50:36Recorded May 11, 2025 WARNING---THIS EPISODE IS NOT EDITED FOR STRONG LANGUAGE! As you read above, yes I have let loose the lewd language! Listen at your own risk!!!! Anna and I evaluate the first 3 games of the Caps series in Round 2 against the Carolina Hurricanes. Yes we're pissed. Yes we're bummed. No we will make no effort to hide it it during…
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Show #289----When One Round Closes, Another Opens....
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44:44Recorded May 4, 2025 May the Fourth Be With You!!!! In this Star Wars-themed episode, Anna and I go over the final 2 games of the Caps' first round series against the Montreal Canadiens. We also give a brief, non-specific preview of their next round series against the Carolina Hurricanes. Sorry we're not being more specific, but, muchlike Coach Car…
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Show #288---2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 vs Canadiens begins
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1:01:30Recorded April 26, 2025 Happy Playoffs! Anna and I recap Games 1-3 of the Caps first round. Yes every gory detail...the good and the bad. And while there was quite a bit of good there was also some bad. Bad that may prove to be quite the obstacle. BUT...we remain optomistic while reminding a certain team that, in professional ice hockey, there are …
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Show #287---Playoffs Here Come the Caps 2025
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53:14Recorded April 20, 2025 Happy Easter! The Mermaid and I bring the curtain down on 2025 regular season for Our Capitals by recapping the final 3 games. One good game, the others......not so much. Curtain up on the chase for the Stanley Cup. A scaled down preview of the playoffs follows. The Caps opponents the Canadiens pose a serious challenge. But …
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Show #286---Greatness.....and Grating Play with Special Guest Co-Host Jini Clausen
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1:28:48Recorded April 12, 2025 Get comfortable my fellow Caps fans....this is a long one. We begin, Jini and I with a review of Alex OVechkin's record-breaking goal against the Islanders that happened last Sunday. No, we will not break down the actual game. Yes, we will tell you what we believe it means to us. The next segment is dedicated to the only gam…
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Show #285---Stumbling Humbly....into Greatness Special Guest starring Jini Clausen
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1:19:04Recorded April 5, 2025 The Mermaid and I are joined by Jini Clausen who quickly finds some common roots with Anna. Ever hear a podcast done with a guy and two Bay Area ladies? You're about to..... We go on to recap all four games, two of which were, admittedly, hot garbage for Our Caps. And then came a most epic night of greatness. I don't think I …
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PPP SPECIAL EPSODE 1 for 2025: Witnesses to Washington Capitals History.....Special Guest Starring Pete Fischer and Brian Szabo
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39:57Recorded April 5, 2025 This standalone episode is a conversation between myself and two very good friends of mine: Brian Szabo abnd Pete Fischer. Brian and Pete were in the building and saw the moments when Alex Ovechkin came within one goal, then tied the Great Gretzky's goal record. Hear them describe in their own words, the atmosphere, the elect…
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Recorded March 29, 2025 With a quick schedule this week we go over two game--both losses--with out sharp observations in both. Suffice to say with both games there was plenty to be unhappy about. Even with our Caps doing relatively well this season. Our final segment is this month's Young Blueliner's memories. This one takes to the Spring of 1986 w…
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Show #283---Caps Clinch Playoffs, Blueliner Clenches Fist
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1:03:07Recorded March 23, 2025 Three games. Three wins. And at the end of it all, an earned playoff berth. Earned by a team playing for one another. A team (and their fans) who endured a ton of disrespect. Disrespect that has been heaped on by know-nothing fans and so-called journalists with an agenda. We've been collecting receipts.... It's payback time.…
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Recorded March 16, 2025 The Mermaid is back and she tells us all about her birthday trip to the Turks and Caicos islands to begin the episode. We go on to talk about the three games played in California....the two wins and the one frustrating loss. And a bit of a telling statistic. But not unlike a certain disease, if caught early enough, it can be…
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Show #281---Caps are Still Coming with Special Guest Co-host Jini Clausen
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1:23:24Recorded March 9. 2025 Jini CLausen joins us again to go over four Caps wins in another glorious week of hockey for the League's most hated team. Speaking of which. we begin this week's episode with an answer for our haters. After the recaps--including a game attended by your podcasters--- we go over the activity during the Trade deadline that brou…
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Show #280---O is for Ovi, not 0 Caps wins.....
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1:02:04Recorded March 2, 2025 Anna's back for the week after recovering to commisserate regarding an unusually bad week for Our Caps. After our customary recap of all three games, we go over some potentially unpleasant business concering what may happen with the Gr8 chase. To close, we go over even more potentially depressing (depending on your point of v…
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Show #279---Back from the Break in a BIG Way!!!
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1:06:22Recorded February 23, 2025 First time guest Jini Clausen joins us this week in the Mermaid's absence to go over a GREAT weekend of Caps hockey action! After giving Jini the talk show treatment and finding out her Caps origin story, we get right into the two games where Our Caps kicked ass! With the Trade deadline and other events looming this seaso…
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