Halford & Brough in the Morning - Big Chicken Got To Halford

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

In hour three, Mike & Jason are joined by BC Lions radio play-by-play commentator Bob "The Moj" Marjanovich live from Cabo (1:28), the boys tell us what they learned (20:00), plus it's Ask Us Anything Friday (27:00)! This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

It's the Moch. I did not eat four burgers. Yes, it's the Moch. I don't want to go to Winnipeg. Nobody wants to go to Winnipeg. Yes, I love food. It's the Moch. I went online and kind of did a little surfing. It's a millennia.

Yes, it's the Moch. Halpert's fine, but, you know, Brough is just grumpy all the time. I'm too old for that. 803 on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody. Sweet, sweet Friday. You're listening to the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Halford & Brough of the Morning is brought to you by Pacific Honda, North Vancouver's premier destination for Honda vehicle sales and service.

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We are coming to you live from the Kintec studio. Kintec, Canada's favorite orthotics provider, powered by thousands of five-star Google reviews. Soar feet, what are you waiting for? Kintec, that's what you're waiting for. Our next guest is a presentation of the Clayton Public House, and he joins us from Cabo. How nice. Bob the Moj Marjanovic on a bye week here on the Halford & Brough Show

on Sportsnet 650. What up, Moj? Good morning, gentlemen. Sitting on a cot probably about 75 yards away from the Sea of Cortez. So, yeah, this beats next week's location, which will – well, no, actually we play in Winnipeg on Thursday. So we'll be home by Friday morning. What's Cabo like in July?

That sounds really hot. It's probably about 30 degrees every day. It's not stupid hot. It's not stupid humid. It's really nice, actually. Are you – What kind of place are you staying at? Are you doing the all-inclusive thing? Do you have a friend's place? What's going on?

All-inclusive, yeah. Nice. All-inclusive, which is pretty nice. You don't have to worry about anything. You just kind of chill and relax. Like I said, it's just very relaxing. You just wake up whenever you want. You eat whenever you want. You go to the pool whenever you want. You drink whenever you want. It's all good what is your what is your day drink drink at night what is your

drink of choice are you just uh cerveza or you know margarita how are the margaritas at the resort sometimes the all-inclusive resorts can have bad margaritas oh no the margaritas here really good um so margaritas a couple of pina coladas every so often and every so often just because they're so sweet. I just sprinkle in a shot of tequila. And are you going to work out at the gym there, buddy?

By week. By week. By week. You got to stay in shape. I probably started like I got back into spinning and I was doing these interval programs.

I was spinning like five times a day and then resting for two, so I'm not spinning on the weekends, I swear. I lost, actually, believe it or not. Stephen Chang is a Lions photographer, and I made a wager. He needed to get 210 for a weightlifting competition, and he weighed 227. I was at 267, and I wanted to get to 250. I was down to 259.

I actually lost like eight pounds. And we made a wager. So whoever hits the target first, it was the other person dinner on the road. I have probably regained all of that weight. Between the tacos and the pina coladas and the margaritas, it's all back. And they'll be taking Steven out on the road.

It's funny you mention that. And we're going for a big meal. When I was working at Bodog, we did a Bodog fight down in Costa Rica. And they held the fight. They rented out an all-inclusive resort in Costa Rica to house all the fighters. And they built a ring on the beach. That's super cruel. Because they all got to cut weight, don't they?

So we had an all-hands meeting before. And they're like, does anyone want to bring up any potential issues and i'm like yeah are you gonna put fighters in an all-inclusive reserve i feel like it might be like counterintuitive to like getting in shape for the fight it's like hey you know what we're gonna surround you with is unlimited food and alcohol prior to your fight i watched i watched a guy cut 20 pounds. In how long? Like 13 hours. It was ridiculous. Did he do the garbage bags in the sauna? He was in.

No, there wasn't a sauna. It was just Mexico? No. Oh, Costa Rica. Sorry, yeah. He was in his hotel room. He made a steam bath in his bathroom. And then he was in there intermittently going on the bike with the garbage bags on.

And then just trying to sweat out everything. He only ate ice chips for 12 hours. He made weight, but he was so weak. I was like, I feel like we've got some... There's actually a series of guys that do that. They lose 10, 15 pounds. They make their weight.

And then they gain it all back. Right away. Do you get 24 hours after your weigh-in? Yeah, I mean, this one was a little... We skirted around some of the sanctions when it came. Basically, you had to weigh that weight at one point in your life. That was it, right?

If you could hit that weight at one point during your existence, you were good to go. Okay, Mojo. It's kind of like being a Canadian in the CFL, right? Your mom flew over Newfoundland when she was pregnant. You're Canadian, you're good to go. Okay, Mojo. It's kind of like being a Canadian in the CFL, right? Your mom flew over to Newfoundland when she was pregnant. You're Canadian. You're good. Oh, yeah.

That's how you end up on the national soccer team as well, right? Giving some of these guys. Anyway, I wasn't here last week, so I missed all the ramifications in the follow-up from the loss to the Stamps, a disappointing one. What was the talk before you took off for Cabo following that disappointing loss to the Stamps? Well, I think was the talk before you took off for Cabo following that disappointing loss to the Stamps? Well, I think it was just a game of opportunities lost.

I wrote about it on my column for Black Press this week. I mean, there was like four or five times in that game where if you make a play, you probably wind up winning the football game. Even a minute and a half left, they've got that second and seventh game. They could get the ball back, get in the field goal range. They let him off the hook. And immediately following that play. They try

Philpott fumbles the football, and Seattle T. Evans dives on it. There's no one around him, and he just dives on the ball, and the ball just squirts out to two Calgary champions. Then it's Philpott that recovered his own fumble. It was just a game that they had opportunities

to... Here's the funny thing. I always talk about this because, you know, I hear coaches talk about the process, and I just wanted to bring this up. Because in that game, they really didn't follow the process for victory. And yet, had they found a way to win, you know, everyone would have been talking about, oh, what a great effort on the road. Oh, they did this, they did that. You know, they managed to find a way to win.

Well, guess what? They didn't make that play. That didn't occur. Now you look at the game, that entire body of work the different way. You're looking at it from a negative perspective. So sometimes the loss is a good thing. Just ask the Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, here's a team last year, if you remember,

what were they, 11-1 at one point? And then they just completely fell into the tank. And I remember talking to a couple of people at the big game, and they were like, you know, the reason the Eagles just, they weren't following the process. Despite the fact they were 11-1, they weren't playing good football, and it eventually caught up to them. The Owls in the big game yesterday, the battle of the 5-1 team,

the Owls beat the Saskatchewan Rough Riders to move to 6-1 on the year. So that's the best record in the CFL right now. How good are the Montreal Alouettes, considering they did that without Cody Fajardo, a quarterback? I think their quarterbacks, pardon me, their defense is really good. Make no mistake about it. Now here's

the thing about their quarterback play. This is what kind of cracks me up, because everybody talks about how great Cody Fajardo is. You know, last night, Davis Alexander. Here's the key to Montreal. Their wideouts are really good athletes and if they get the ball in place, they will burn you. You have to tackle

against those players. Even looking at the numbers from last night, I just woke up this morning and took a look at it. I think they were well over 60% in terms of yards after catch. So what they're doing is they're getting the balls, getting the footballs in the hands of those receivers and a three-yard

catch is now a 12-yard gain. So the big key for any team against Montreal is to tackle those guys to minimal gains, but instead what they're doing, because they're so athletic, they wind up breaking these spring hitches in the flat for like 15, 20, 25 yards. It's something that we're seeing in the CFL as well.

I remember asking P.J. Lee about this recently. And the Lions have had difficulty defending that play as well. And he said what teams are doing is they're trying to expose the tackling abilities of defensive backs. So that's maybe a trend that you're starting to see in the game. And as a result, people talk about sacks being down. Well, that's one of the big reasons why. It's because so many of these passes now are these quick hitting plays

where you're really testing the tackling ability of a DB. We're speaking to Bob the Moj, Marjanovic, here on the Halford & Breff Show on Sportsnet 650. Hey, Moj, how much have you been paying attention to what Nathan Rourke's been going through at New York Giants camp? Yeah, well, not that much this week. Not that much to pay attention to. That's the thing.

Yeah, we talked to Nathan. He was at the last home game, and we had him in the booth for a couple minutes, and he's optimistic. But, I mean, he has to be optimistic. He has to go out there and just – he can only control one thing. He can control what he does, right? If he gets the opportunity,

we'll see what happens, but there's, you know, he can't control, you know, the amount of reps he's going to get, the amount of snaps he's going to get. All he can control is how he plays, and I think if he gets the opportunity, he'll surprise some people, so we'll see what happens with the Giants. Well, I mean, the issue right

now is that he's the fourth quarterback for the Giants, and Brian Dable came out the other day and, like now is that he's the fourth quarterback for the Giants. And Brian Dable came out the other day and clearly defined him as the fourth guy behind Daniel Jones, Drew Locke, Tommy DeVito. I mean, I guess he played last year, so he gets the nod there. But it just feels like Rourke made a decision to go to Jacksonville, and then it kind of felt like he got sold a false bill of goods to a certain degree. Like he thought he was going to get more of an opportunity and he didn't. And now he's almost at the whim of all these NFL clubs who are picking him up off waivers or, you know, scooping him when he becomes available. And he's not really landed in the situation that's beneficial for him.

And that's got to be frustrating because there are situations in the NFL where he could probably get a better look than being the fourth stringer in New York well I'll give you one case in point of you know how the NFL operates I remember when Dave Dickinson's on with San Diego the Chargers back then um they didn't have a quarterback on the roster and a couple of weeks they drafted a guy named Drew Brees and they signed another guy named Doug Flutie right so you're thinking're thinking, hey, you signed this contract. There's an opening. There might be a competition here. And, you know, within 14 days, you have a guy like Flutie there. And, you know, they draft a high pick like Breeze. I think the thing with Rourke, too, is, you know, it's interesting.

Coaches in any sport, they want to be able to trust their guys, right? And to trust their guys, you have to prove that you've performed in those situations before. So Locke has NFL experience. DeVito has NFL experience. Guess what Nathan Rourke doesn't have? He doesn't have NFL experience. So when you look at a depth chart, of course Rourke's going to be at the bottom of the depth chart behind guys that have played in the national football league. And that's probably his biggest challenge is getting to an organization and finding that opportunity and finding someone who trusts him and if he does get into a game well then things change who was the last cfl quarterback to go make it big in the nfl probably garcia yeah just off the top of my head i think right can you think of anybody since jeff garcia Not that went down and made it big.

And, you know, I think one of the big reasons why, too, we've seen so many whole bunch of quarterbacks do that over the years, go down and, you know, get an opportunity. But I think what you're seeing now is the death of the pocket passer in the National Football League. You don't see pocket passers anymore. They want quarterbacks that can run. And a lot of those quarterbacks that would be playing

in the Canadian League, it's funny, we're talking about this with Wally Bono the other night, named off. But Wally talked about the fact that a lot

of those quarterbacks are now in the National Football League. They're not in the Canadian Football League because the NFL is looking for the athletic,

smaller, more mobile quarterback. And as a result, there's been a drain of talent of those players, those athletes coming to Canada. What else did you chat with wally about we got into a whole bunch of stuff we just you know it's interesting you know um far-handed an interview with him and he talked about what his if he was commissioner for a day

or whatever what's the one thing that he would do and I know that he's always been a big proponent of just having one division, getting rid of the East and the West. But apparently his idea is to expand it in the U.S., right, and get the U.S. markets involved again, right? So that was kind of an interesting take. And I think if he did it, I don't think I would, you know, go into southern towns like they did before, like Birmingham or Memphis. I would try to stay along the border, maybe get a team in Montana or North Dakota.

You know what I'm saying? Teams that are in close proximity to the Canadian border probably would have a better... You'd probably have a fan base that might understand the Canadian game a little bit better. So I think if they were to do it, I think that would probably be the way to do it. And I wouldn't go crazy. I'd have maybe like max four teams if I was going to do it.

But, you know, the other thing, the big problem with that is, you know, how you handle the ratio, right? I mean, the American teams would have all Americans, so they'd have a bit of a competitive advantage. Moj, I got to ask us anything to let you go here. Love it. That's part of the program. Specifically for Moj, from maybe our most valuable

listener, Justin in East Van, who does tireless work for this program. He's asked us anything for Moj. What's a road trip snack that you always get at the gas station? A road trip snack I always get where? at the gas station? A road trip snack I always get where? At the gas station. I couldn't hear you. At the gas

station. Oh, at a gas station? Yeah. Okay. Like jerky, chips, chocolate bar. No, Red Bull. I don't even think Red Bull's a snack. No, no, no. That's a good answer. It keeps me awake if I'm driving. Right? I mean, like if you're driving, you just, snack but it keeps me awake if I'm driving so I mean if you're driving

if I'm driving and I'm going up to the interior or driving around going to Whistler or whatever it's always the Red Bull just to make sure that I don't fall asleep at the wheel good choice Moj I like it okay go enjoy the rest of Cabo thanks for doing this today have a Red Bull yeah have a Red Bull and a couple of

Margs hey next, next week, next Thursday, we're in Winnipeg. That's enough said. Soak in the sun, buddy. Soak it in. When I come back Friday, we'll be back in Vancouver, so it'll be all over, but just wish me well. Good luck, buddy. Have fun.

Later, bud. See you, dude. All the best. Bob, the Moj Marjanovic live from Cabo here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Moj in an all-exclusive. All-inclusive. All-exclusive. All-inclusive. That's something different.

Would be like you would make friends with him real quick. Oh, yeah. Moj would be the guy. I went solo to an all-inclusive once. I remember. For a week. Didn't talk to anyone. Yeah, it was weird.

It wasn't weird. It was weird. It was weird. It was weird. It was awesome. It was weird. Why was it weird? I bet Moj is solo there. Sorry? I bet Moj is solo there.

Yeah, Moj probably talked to people. Yeah, I didn't talk to anyone. Yeah, yeah. I would just, I had my book and I would wake up every morning, go down to the pool or the beach, read my book, get a little drunk. Yeah, that's weird. And go to bed. What, that, isn't that amazing?

Wasn't that what a lot of people would call amazing? It's just like you did, you went to an all- I'm comfortable being by myself. I know, but you went to an all-inclusive to do that. You could do, you didn't need to go there. Why? Well, you could have done it anywhere. The all-inclusive part is, I think, inherently,

is that you can just sort of mingle with a bunch of different people at these no it's not okay it's just ease it's ease the all-inclusive is easy you don't want to mingle with a lot of people at the all-inclusives well moj does well because he's moj right he's so gregarious uh at the at the end of the at the end of the his mojas week i bet there's like's rumors that that guy won the Super Bowl once. Because there'd be so much confusion about him. He starts the rumors himself. Yeah, yeah.

That was Bill Belichick, I think. Who told you that? Bill. He's over there. I have a what we learned. Oh, okay. I learned that- Oh, no, this is a different one. Sorry.

Okay. Can I just? Well, you teased the Barkley one. I thought this was that, but then we did the Barkley thing. My bad. I learned, and this is through the Associated Press, that chicken wings that are advertised as boneless can have bones in them, according to the Ohio Supreme Court. And it was a close vote, four to three ruling.

The Supreme Court said Thursday that boneless wings refers to a cooking style. And this all came about because some poor guy, I guess, had, go to the, go to the hospital because, um, a bone got stuck in his throat after eating boneless chicken wings. And I have to say, I very much disagree with the Ohio, uh, state Supreme court here.

Um, and the, there are, there are three dissenters and. It was a narrow vote. It was a narrow vote. And the dissenting judge who wrote the dissent said, the question must be asked. Does anyone really believe that the parents in this country who feed their young children boneless wings or chicken tenders or chicken nuggets or chicken fingers expect bones to be in the chicken?

Of course they don't. When they read the word boneless, they think that it means without bones, as do all sensible people. Right? That would straight up happen to me. Nobody. If I was inhaling boneless wings and there was a bone in there, I would die No one thinks that Boneless wings are

A quote unquote cooking style They think that the stuff You're getting doesn't have Bones in it. Hence the name Boneless. That's a good lobby right there However. The wings are boneless, repeat, boneless I also kind of agree With the overriding

ruling big chicken got to these judges clearly the lobbyists are paying halferd listen to this though this makes sense to me common sense dictated that the presence of bone fragments in meat dishes even advertised as boneless is a natural enough occurrence that a consumer should reasonably expect it and guard against it. Big chicken got the help. Hey, you're on your own, folks. You're on your own. If you go to McDonald's and you got nuggets, chicken nuggets, do you like carefully eat them? It's like, oh, there might be a bone in there.

No, but I understand the inherent risk. You don't understand the inherent risk. You are definitely going to bet your life on McDonald's. If you're ordering something that has the word boneless in it, you shouldn't have to expect that there's a bone in there. Reasonably expect that there might be a bone fragment. No, you shouldn't reasonably expect it. You should expect that the restaurant or the producers of the boneless wings have taken reasonable care to make sure there's no bones in them so they can call them boneless chicken wings. When I go to McDonald's and I bite into something,

I'm reasonably expecting a lot of different things. Alfred, you've had many weird take in the time that I've known you, and this is one of the weirder ones. This is one of the weirder ones. This is a Supreme Court ruling. How can it be? Is that weird? It's a weird ruling.

Yeah, it's stacked with people that have been influenced by the chicken lobby, which is massive in Ohio, I imagine, right? Big chicken. They own the town. Yeah. At any rate, give me a moo cow. We need a chicken sound. Some sort of chicken sound.

We couldn't even get the right barnyard animal. Anyway, okay, here's what we're going to do. Final half hour of the program, we got two contests that we're running. The first, the best what we learned, is going to Final half hour of the program. We got two contests that we're running. The first, the best, what we learned is going to get the last pair of tickets that we got to see Billy Idol and platinum blonde on July 30th at Rogers arena. That's for the,

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Okay. What we learned, part of the reason why my computer was blaring music coming back from break there is because I am on the wait screen to hear Toronto FC coach John Herdman address the media. He's going to be speaking today, Friday, in the midst of the Canada soccer drone scandal at the Olympics. We spoke

earlier in the program. Hour one, as a matter of fact. Download the Hour One podcast now. I am only taking questions about our match against New York Red Bulls. That would be pretty great if you did that. No, no question about Red Bulls. Okay. be pretty great if he did that. No, no question about Red Bulls. Okay.

John Herdman out. I don't know. So when we talked to Gareth Wheeler in our one from one soccer, we ended the conversation by me asking him, how does this story end? Not for Bev Priestman, but for John Herdman. And Wheeler said,

you know, honestly, I don't know because it's very clear, very clear that what's going on and what's transpired over the last 48 hours has its roots in John Herdman's previous coaching stint, both with the Canadian women's team and then the Canadian men's team that spying and drone usage and espionage were all sort of baked into the culture that Herdman built

over the course of I mean a decade yeah or more so coaching both programs I don't know if there will be any significant ramifications like losing his job at TFC. Initially, my gut reaction was that feels like too much, like a bridge too far. Yeah, it depends what his bosses think, right? I mean, that is a key part of it. His bosses could be like the stains of what you did in the past.

They're not rinsing off. At the risk of comparing scandals, right? Like Joel Quinville was with the Florida Panthers when the Blackhawks came. Yeah, you're not they're not rinsing at the risk of comparing scandals right like joel quenville was with the florida panthers when the blackhawks yeah you're not comparing the scandals you're comparing the the ramifications of a scandal yeah they can fall i don't want to say one thing is bigger than the other one we obviously know yes whatever anyway go on yeah um i just wonder what herdman's going to say because one thing that he's always been adept at is speaking publicly and dealing with the media. He's always been very smooth, very smooth. And he's always sort of done it with a twinkle in his eye.

And when he was talking about the Honduras drones back in 2021, there was a little- But the twinkle in your eye turns smug when you're under attack. Yeah, and maybe a little bit sinister. Stop twinkling at me. This is serious. And then you're like, how can I stay mad at you?

Twinkle in your eye. Let's get him a present. Yeah. I don't think they'll do that today, though. He might get fired. Anyway, we'll see what happens with John Erdman. We'll be off the air at that point, but I'm sure that his comments will be played repeatedly

because, one, the investigation into Canada soccer and their history with these practices is ongoing. And two, I almost forget this. The Canadian women are still in this tournament, still playing, beat New Zealand. Whether the drone footage helped or not, they beat New Zealand 2-1 in the opener. Mission accomplished for what they want to do. Get out of the like that was a big win for the i want them to win the

whole thing so yeah just just for the story see sometimes i think that things happen to teams where they something there's there's adversity or there's negativity and they're able to rally around it and sometimes coaches very privately will be like i wish that would have happened to us not necessarily a spying scandal but something you could rally around that isn't forced and isn't you know it's not the coach putting it on you guys it's something us versus them kind of something and it just galvanizes and rallies the team i'm not sure this is that because this feels more like a distraction and a nuisance and something that will bring the team down rather than

lift them up I would love for the women on this team to go out and win gold and defend their championship in the face of all this adversity I just have a hard time seeing that anyway there's always awkward moves on this show this is an awkward one but Mukau that entire little rant

Laddie who is being spoken to right now, moo cow me, Laddie. Laddie can't moo cow right now. No. He's talking to an engineer. Yeah. Okay. Let's, Laddie, we need a moo cow?

No. There you go. Okay. Do you have a what we learned? I do have a what we learned, actually. Okay. What we learned, there was a no hitter yesterday in Major League Baseball. We haven't talked about it yet. Yeah, do you have a what we learned? I do have a what we learned, actually. What we learned, there was a no-hitter yesterday in Major League Baseball. We haven't talked about it yet.

Yeah, we haven't talked. I played the clip in the intro. But yeah, he's known actually as a guy who got really close to a no-hitter. Because he came one out away a couple years ago. And his actual teammate now, Luis Uribe, was the one that broke it up with two outs in the ninth inning. So who was the guy that got the no-hitter? Dylan Cease is his name. He's now with the Padres.

It's the second no-hitter in Padres history. But I have the list in front of me here of other former pitchers who got one out away from a no-hitter and then got one later on in their career. Dave Steve is obviously the big one that Jays fans think of. But Roy Halladay actually did it as well. It was his first year in the big leagues. Then he actually got sent down, came back up, and then got a no-hitter of course with the Philadelphia Phillies later in his career Tom Seaver also did it Jim Maloney and Larry Dierker is the full list of

pitchers who got one out away so agonizingly close to a no-hitter and then got one later has anyone ever gone through the least impressive no-hitters? Like, are there no-hitters where there were no hits but, like, 12 walks? AJ Burnett had, like, 10 walks or something in his no-hitter. Right. Have there been guys that have lost no-hitters? What do you mean? Lost the game. Oh, like lost the game, like won nothing?

Yes, there have been, actually. Not common, as you can imagine, but it has happened in Major League history. Do you know how many no-hitters there have been actually yeah uh not common as you can imagine but it has happened in major league history do you know uh how many no hitters there have been in blue jays history just one that's it i have yet to witness one dave steve's the only one that's it and the padres went uh decades without one and they've had two 52 years i think it was without one and then they've had two in the last four years yeah i'm holding out hope musgrove was the other one right uh musgrove was the other one, right? Musgrove was the other one, yeah. Okay, let's get into,

let's mook out of that and then get into the Dunbar Lumber text line because we're going to announce some winners. So, Halford, why don't you start with the winner

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I learned that Andy's 10 liter of water for Wolverine trick is like when Homer pinched back all his back fat to look skinny. It's all an illusion. Okay, look. There were actual weight lifters, weight trainers. I myself used to be one of these back in my acting days. I did. I had to look fit. I know it's hard to believe now.

You're joking, John. Back in the day. Anyways, but there were quite a few weightlifters and weight trainers in the text inbox yesterday that you yourselves could read that agreed with me that this is an actual thing that they do for training. It's not BS. It's not all steroids. It's a mixture of diet and training.

And it involves dehydration. Every guy that looks good now, I'm just going to be like, he's just dehydrated. Takes 10 seconds to Google it. Just Google Hugh Jackman Wolverine dehydration diet. It'll come up for you right away. Looking at you now, can I safely assume that you're properly hydrated or perhaps overly hydrated? He's very hydrated. Very hydrated.

Very hydrated. It's a fine line between being hydrated and over hydrated. Hydrated, in my lane. I'm just sloshing around over here. You make a sloshing sound when you slosh. It's like that Louisis ck bit like this like a quarter cup of water in there um so this conversation came because brough the other day asked hey when these hollywood actors you know they have these crazy fluctuations in weight where

they get gigantic and they're they're swole do they do steroids and i mean i think there's lots of anecdotal even just i wasn't saying that some there was no steroid usage by the way i'm sure there's lots of it in lots of movies i was specifically referring to what they call the marvel diet where all these marvel has the regime their regimen or whatever that with the disney guys trainers, and they come and they do this stuff for all the actors. And like most things in the Marvel universe, it's fantasy. Like, what's his name? Do you think Jake Gyllenhaal's on steroids then, A-Dog?

I have no idea. Yes. I have no idea. Maybe. So here's the thing. He is terrific. He's in great shape. I have no idea.

He is actually. He just drank a lot of water. A super underrated actor, by the way. Oh, he's fantastic. I wouldn't say he's underrated. He's done a lot of really high profile. I just started the Apple TV show, Presumed Innocent. Oh, I hear it's good.

Yeah, it is really good. Yeah, I wanted to wait and make sure for all of them to be released. No, he's got acting chops, like Nightcrawler. He's done some amazing. Some of those movies that he makes, though, are underrated, I think. Yes. Nightcrawler was incredible. He's kind of one of those actors, he makes, though, are underrated, I think. Yes. Night Fowler was incredible. He's kind of one of those actors,

like a lot of the arthouse actors, where they'll do a few big movies for the money, pretty much. Yeah, yeah. Like he did one of the Spider-Man movies.

Yeah. He did the Spider-Man movie and made millions and millions of dollars. Then he'll go and do six arty movies in a row just because he likes the scripts. A lot of actors are like that,

especially the good ones. That's the old one for me, one for them. Yeah. Nothing wrong with taking a job for a paycheck. I mean, it happens. And then there's Franco.

It's one for them or one for me and then five for nobody. By the way, Mickey Rourke did a bunch of roids in the 90s. No kidding. You don't say. Among other things. And I forgot. We should have brought this one up because we love Major League so much. Cork did a bunch of roids in the 90s. No kidding. Don't say. Among other things. And I forgot, we should have brought this one up because we love Major League so much. Charlie Sheen was on the juice when he was Rick Vaughn,

the wild thing. Oh, really? Major League, yeah. He actually looked half decent as a pitcher in that. It looked like he kind of knew what he was doing. This is a good segue into sports movies, which we're going to talk about in a sec here. Here is the winner of the aj's

gift card because i think this is a really good question from joe ask us anything hey guys here is my question in your opinion which sport has the best roster of movies to name a few examples motorsports would have lamans ford versus ferrari Football, Friday Night Lights, Rudy, any given Sunday, boxing, The Fighter, Cinderella Man, hockey, would have Miracle, Goon, The Mighty Ducks. Thanks, guys, and happy Friday. Thank you, Joe, for a great question. It's got to be baseball, right?

I would say boxing. Boxing probably has the most volume, I would say. Baseball has the most famous movie movies. I mean, boxing is probably Baseball has the most famous movie movies. I mean, boxing probably comes with Raging Bull and Rocky. A lot of dud baseball movies. But outside of Raging Bull and Rocky, I guess there's like, what are Hurricanes?

The Fighter. The Fighter. Creed. Million Dollar Baby. I count Creed as part of the Rocky movie. The Creed trilogy is awesome. Most valuable primate, the boxer. That one was strangely R-rated, that one.

I don't know why. Very violent. So my favorite sports movie of all time. You should see The Primate now. It's hard to watch. You think he was on roids? He was. I was just drinking a lot of water.

Look at that monkey drink water. It's on the dehydration diet. My favorite sports movie of all time is Friday Night Lights. Yes, we know. But I think football has the least good sports movies. No, it's hockey. Hockey's got very few. Most Americans don't even know what hockey movies are.

They think of Slapshot and that's it. What about the Inbox Golf? They don't even think about Mighty Ducks or Mighty Ducks 2. I think it's baseball. You think it's the best? It's the best one. Yeah, I'd agree with that. But I think boxing is a close two. I think boxing's baseball. You think it's the best? I think it's the best one. Yeah. Yeah, I'd agree with that. But I think boxing is a close two.

I think boxing's one. Just the quality of the movies. What's the best baseball movie? The best baseball movie, in your opinion. You know, it might be recency's bias, but I think it might be Moneyball. Yeah, Moneyball. You want to take Field of Dreams over Moneyball? It's so sappy. Okay. I found it kind of i mean it's not i don't think it's bad i don't think

it's a bad you know what ruin just wants to play catch with his old man i'm not ruined what you know what ruined field of dreams for me what was the john mulaney bit have you seen that where he tries to explain the premise of field of dreams oh when he's yeah i mean it does sound like he's having a psychotic breakdown right like he's hearing voices and there's a ghost and a little girl chokes on a on a hot dog and i'm like oh he's not wrong the movie does have some holes yeah um yeah i don't know if you build it he will come like that is a threat right yeah is this a horror movie i know know. It got awfully scary. I mean, then baseball has Sandlot. Let's not forget Sandlot.

You guys always forget Sandlot. Still haven't seen it. Angels in the Outfield. That's bizarre to me. You're a sports radio host, and you haven't seen The Sandlot. Sandlot's a great movie. Watch it with your kids this weekend. Like, it's the perfect family.

No, really. Yeah. And every listener in the inbox will text in right now agreeing with me. Okay. Sandlot is the perfect family sports family sports do you have a favorite hockey movie oh mighty ducks okay i mean it's because i was a kid when you have a favorite real hockey movie oh hey hey because you know what i want you know what i always watch it's in the pantheon of like anytime that it's on i'll stop what i'm doing and watching it is the first goon yeah the more i watch it's pretty good yeah the it, the more I'm like, this is actually a really, really good movie.

It is. Yeah, it's very funny. Yeah. There's the scene where Liv Schreiber's in the diner smoking in a diner, which I really respect. And the kid comes up to him and he's trying to get like words of wisdom on being a goon. That's like a borderline, like chill scene. It's good.

There's, there's like 50 or 20 seconds of dialogue where it gets really real. I'm like, Oh, that was an odd turn from an otherwise lighthearted comedy. Anyway, it's, I really,

that's, it's a great movie. I really, I mean, Slapshot is like, obviously the most famous. There's just, there's not enough hockey movies for there to be real competition.

That's the problem, right? Yeah. Like there's just not, there's not enough volume. There's, there's movies for there to be real competition. That's the problem, right? There's just not enough volume compared to baseball and NFL and boxing. With Slapshot, though, there's a big Slapshot is overrated sentiment going around of this generation. It's definitely been criticized for giving hockey

this image that, not to say it wasn't true in that era, but it definitely I don't know if it positively affected the game at least for people that don't know it. From Rager, here's an Ask Us Anything. There's a planet-destroying asteroid going to hit Earth in two days.

One, would you want governments and scientists to tell everyone? Two, what would you do for those final days if told? I'd rather not know. Yeah. The world would turn pretty bad.

That would be a not enjoyable final two days. If there's no way of stopping it. I don't think the golf courses would be open for me. I can't golf. What? You might be able to golf for free at that point. I mean, they might just all be open. I would say that I'm not going to pay for this warm-up bucket of balls.

Yeah. Because the earth is coming to a close. Yeah. I think the answer is I wouldn't. And I'd also be like, I don't think anyone's raking the sand traps right now. I definitely wouldn't want to know. If there's no way of stopping it, they wouldn't say anything. You wouldn't want to know?

I wouldn't want to know. I don't think I'd want to know either. I'm a big ignorance is blisky. You know when you see it coming, though. I think about a day for it to arrive, right? Well, maybe you wouldn't want i don't think i want to know either i'm a big ignorance is bliskey you know when you see it coming though i think about a day for it to arrive right well maybe you wouldn't know but but like you that's a whole premise of it like sometimes you just have to uh suspend belief don't look up premises don't look up like laddie you're always trying to find loopholes in these questions like the premise is the premise you're inherently ruining ask the rotation of the earth is at this degree here So here's the premise, right?

If you don't know, what are you planning on doing in the next two days? Probably nothing important, right? If you do know, at least you can say goodbye to family and friends, right? This is the part of the show where it gets real, like in that part in Goon. Yeah. Are you getting chills yet? You know what? I don't like it.

No? I like it better. I'd rather I'm with Halford. Ignorance is bliss. Yeah. Are you getting chills yet? Yeah, you know what? I don't like it. No? I like it better than you. I'd rather I'm with Halford against his bliss. Yeah, yeah. Big time. I think I would probably choose the same thing.

Because it's not just you going away. It's everyone going away. No, I know. Yeah, it's a little different. Like, who am I saying goodbye to? The same person that's going goodbye.

What do you mean? Of course you're saying goodbye. Yeah, but you still want to say goodbye, wouldn't you? Well, it's not like you're leaving them behind. Do you know something on the other side that we don't know? It's all over, right?

I think it would be a different vibe. Yeah, but don't you still want to say goodbye? But I think it would be a different vibe. Well, I think it would be a different vibe too. It wouldn't be a good one. Let's just get that clear. It's a bit of a different scenario. Yeah.

Yeah. It would be like, you know what? I wonder if my last thought would be like, huh, the Canucks never did win the Cup. I was just thinking that. My last thoughts would be, oh, man, I never saw a Stanley Cup for the Canucks. This is brutal. Yeah. What a waste.

What's this all been about? My last thought is like, I wish AV would have pulled him in game three. Kaboom. Probably AV's last thought, too. that's what he went out with peter in cloverdale ask us in this was when moj was talking about uh being down in in cabo do you guys work out on vacation i will try to get some type of workout done so i don't feel guilty about the eating and the drinking um i did i last time I was in an all-inclusive, I ran 10K on the treadmill

because someone said I couldn't do it. Oh. And I nearly couldn't do it. They were pretty much right. Yeah. They were pretty worried about me, actually. I've always done it reflexively. It's not like a proactive exercise

where I'm trying to maintain health. It's like I feel that I've done so much damage to my hotel gyms i hate them because they're new and you don't know where everything is and the equipment's weird yeah and sometimes they're really small and it's not properly ventilated it's just it's just a different experience going to a hotel gym i think what peter and cloverdale's all sleep partially getting at here is like you're on vacation from everything including but exercising makes me feel better i know that's a tough one like I think what Peter and Cloverdale is all sleep partially getting at here is like you're on vacation from everything, including. But exercising makes me feel better. I know that's a tough one.

But I think there's no better beer for me than the post hockey beer. Sure. Right. And part of that is because you've just had some exercise and your body is feeling good. And then you drink 12 beers and you feel even better. Yeah. Mike and Bert. And just negate everything that you just did. Yeah. feeling good and then you drink 12 beers and you feel even better yeah uh mike and burr and then you just negate everything that you just did uh mike and bernie mcdonald's and then you go home and watch tv until four in the morning because you're still jazzed from the game and then you

lose sleep and then your weekend shot and then you got to come to work with you and it's just a nightmare and all because you got exercise not on on Monday, pal. That's right. Mike Invertavy with an Ask Us Anything. How difficult is it not to talk about politics or world events on your show, especially considering how slow sports have been and how dramatic things have been in the world in the last couple of weeks? Oh, something happened in the last couple of weeks? It's not difficult. Not difficult at all.

It's not difficult at all. Yeah, it's actually very easy. Yeah. I brought up the, so when, bev priestman had been pushed out yeah i brought up the whole like very quickly i was like the woman who was running the secret service right now what happened with them recently well it was ridiculous that it took her that long to resign that was my point right and i just felt like it was going to go the same way with Bev Priestman. I just like, I couldn't see any way how she could keep her job through this.

Yeah. I was in. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know if you heard about the Secret Service. JFK was shot. What? Yeah.

Jifk? Yeah. Oh, my God. So I was down. Actually, the timing of it was truly bizarre but i was in america both the day of the assassination attempt and the day that biden uh recused himself from from the Democratic leadership. And it was, I was like, I should get back to Canada. That's all I thought about.

Yeah. I should probably just get back to Canada. My first day in Denmark, I was like, oh, it'll be nice to not hear about American news. I look at the Danish newspaper, huge picture of Biden on it. I'm like, oh, I can't. So close. We got a text in that said, you guys didn't even mention

Bryson and Trump's golf game. I watched that thing and I have to say, Trump played pretty well. He has got the weirdest putting stroke. I was going to say,

what's with that putting stroke? So his putting stroke, it feels like someone has told him, make sure you don't decelerate on your putts, which is good advice, but he's kind of taken it like way too far.

So he hits the ball and then he kind of like flips his wrist. Like it's really weird, but the putts that he hit, they were good weight and he was putting most of his drives in the fairway. Not to throw you on the spot, but maybe I should know this. Why is it called breaking 50? So they play a two-man scramble, Bryson and whoever his guest is, and they try and break 50. Oh, okay.

That makes a lot of sense. So they played this course from the red tees, which is up. So for Bryson, pretty much all the par fours were drivable par fours. So you're essentially going out there and try to make a ton of eagles and birdies, and you're trying to shoot 49. And I think they shot 50. So they didn't quite do it, but they came pretty close. I mean, it's pretty, yeah.

I mean, it's pretty, believe it or not, Bryson is doing most of the work out there. What? No. What did you make of Trump parking his golf cart on the tee box? I noticed that and I said, when you own the golf course, you can drive your cart wherever you want. That is one of the perks. That is one of the perks.

Mark with an Ask Us Anything, as we're just about out of time here. Weird question. That's okay, Mark. We love weird questions. But why are the producers on your show on the air so much? On most radio shows and podcasts,

the producers speak when spoken to and, well, produce stuff. You got a problem, Mark? On your show, they seem to be constantly interjecting and even interrupting the hosts. Yeah! It's because we're awesome.

That's why. The dogs are an integral part of this show. We probably... Yeah, Mark, you would want to listen to this show if we weren't here. Let's be honest. I mean, let's be honest right now. Okay.

A-Dog's the real show here. You're going a little too far in self-praise, but in all honesty, as I head out on vacation, the dogs are terrific to work with. They work very hard, and they're an essential part of the fabric of the Halford and Ruff show. And they're poorly trained, and that's why they talk too much sometimes. There's a mess in here you got to clean up after the show. They are rescue dogs

and they lived on the streets for a few years and they're not even housebroken. So they're the best we got though. And we love them. Please stop peeing inside. Okay, we got to go. I'll see you guys in a month. Breath will be back on Monday

and the dogs will be back whenever they're back. I won't be back. Okay. I'll be back in two weeks. We've got to get out of here for now. Enjoy the next four weeks, everybody. Signing off, I have been Mike Halford. He's been Jason Brough.

He's been A-Dog, and he's been Laddie. This has been the Halford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.