I love the implication that doug has been actively hunting down journalists to speak to.
That first interview, he was prepared - standing in the right spot, the journo must have asked them if they wanted to talk to the camera, and chatted to them for a minute or two to check they aren’t going to say anything too crazy while live.
which means that during that quick talk, doug was doing a convincing performance of a nice, upstanding citizen, who loves his sport, yes, but is still civil and friendly about it. Convincing enough that a journo, whose job requires her to ensure there’s no swearing by the drunk hockey fans she interviews, bought it entirely.
and then the second it’s live, and too late, he launches into his speech. And Mitch is also there. And very supportive.
and then when they cut him off, he goes and finds another channel!! Despite the fact that the journalists and cameras often are in the same area as each other, and will share intel with each other (like, “hey, there’s this balding 50-something who is trying to steal the microphone and make Martin Luther look like a runner up in a children’s public speaking competition, look out”) he manages to feign tact and classiness and get in front of a camera again. Icon. Legend. He doesn’t think of himself as bisexual, but only because when he hears bisexual, he thinks of freddie mercury, and doug doubts he could ever live up to freddie mercury.
Doug is a man on a goddamn mission. He made a plan of action and he fucking executed it. He is such a Specific Breed Of Man in my head and I am so fucking obsessed with him. I like to imagine he has a high achieving daughter studying biochemistry at McGill and she turned on her tv to find her father talking about how he recreationally sucked dick in college. Man of the goddamn year to me
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