Halford & Brough in the Morning - Comedian Gerry Dee + What We Learned

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

In hour three, guest hosts Jamie Dodd & Josh Elliott-Wolfe chat with comedian Gerry Dee (1:20) ahead of his PNE show on August 24th, the boys tell us what they learned (14:56), plus we hear from the humanoids (33:45). 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.

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He is performing on August 24th at the P&E as part of the P&E Summer Night Concert Series. He is comedian Jerry D. Jerry, thank you very much for doing this today. How are you? My pleasure. Yeah, good to be here. So how does it feel to be the first ever comedian to be a part of the P&E

Summer Night Concert Series? They had never allowed a comedian to perform until they booked you, Jerry. I never knew that. There you go. That's flattering. No, I'm excited. I mean, I love... I've been back and forth to Vancouver quite a bit lately with a show I'm on called Animal Control.

Love the city. I'm never there very long, unfortunately, because it's in and out, but always look forward to coming back. And, you know, this is a special event, as you said, and I'm excited to be a part of it. You know, I know you were on tour earlier this year, and you've been doing some shows like this as well, kind of around the country. How's being on tour? How's kind of, you know, getting to see all these different events around the country been?

I love it. I mean, stand-up's the first, well, you know, in entertainment, it was where it started for me. I love it. It's like, it's the truest form of comedy for me is stand-up. And I, you know, it's the first thing I did when I got in the industry. So anytime I can, you know, get back and do that,

I love it. It's, yeah, it's like, you know, I love acting too, so it's hard to pick one, but I love having both, and this is just one half of what I do. I was going through your Twitter and a lot of tweets about Canada at the Olympics. What did you think of Paris 2024 and everything going on there? I really liked it. I mean, I'm such a sports fanatic.

I always miss it when it's done, And, you know, I'll watch cycling. I'll watch, you know, synchro swimming if Canada's in it, right? It's just, I don't know. I just remember being a kid and that was just kind of what I did. So I was really into the beach volleyball, obviously, with, you know, my kids all play. And the first time that, you know, Brandy and Melissa had ever, you know, they were in the gold medal match.

We'd never had anyone go that far, and it was exciting, and it's an exciting sport, and I think any time, you know, like summer and swimming, like any time you can do that for the sport, it just grows the sport for Canada. So, and we had a lot of, you know, I think we had 20-plus medals, 27 or something I saw, and we had a lot of, you know, I think we had 20 plus medals, 27 or something I saw. And in various different sports, you know, throwing the hammer is our thing now.

That's our thing. So you're going to have a bunch of kids throwing the hammer now. Like, it's great, right? I'm a big believer in kids and sports, and I think the Olympics just helps with that. Break dancing maybe may not take off as quickly. Well, I was going to ask you about that. I mean, we won the gold medal on the men's side,

so that's pretty special, but what did you think of the debut and possibly also the last appearance of breaking at the Olympics? I think it's unfortunate because you saw the real breakdancers there, and Reagan, unfortunately, was not. And I didn't watch all of them so maybe there was others but she certainly was the worst of the worst and uh when i saw the best of the best i'm like yeah that's what i expected and um you know it was a skill i grew up with and i could never do it but it was kind of broke out with when i was in high school and

so i loved seeing it and and sadly it's gone is Is it a sport? Uh, no, it's not, but it's certainly, you know, it certainly takes all the, the difficulty and attributes of, of a lot of sports. So maybe it is a sport, right? Like, you know, it's got a lot of components of things. Um, you know, but shooting, uh, is shooting a rifle a sport? I don't know. Some people would say is golf a sport? That's my favorite sport. People would say it's not a sport. So

I think the definition is very loose of what the sport is. To me, break dancing is incredibly difficult, artistic, you know, as a creator, I love the you know, the creation of it. That's what Ray Gunn said. She was like, I'm not about the skill and the physical moves. I'm about the creativity of it. That's what Ray gun said. She was like, I'm not about the skill and the physical moves.

I'm about the creativity of it. Yeah. We noticed, we noticed that you're not about the physical moves. Yeah. Who knows how to do a kangaroo post? That's hard to do. I got excited there.

When you said you grew up with breaking, I thought you were going to reveal a hidden talent that the world didn't know about Jerry D. No, no, I couldn't do it. I remember guys doing it, and I couldn't. This is always a fun kind of hypothetical that we kick around around Olympics time.

What would be your Olympic sport? Like if you were forced, okay, hey, you're going, you're competing in something, what would set you up for success the most at the Olympics? Golf, probably golf. That was the closest. That was the one I was probably got the closest, not the closest, that was the best. Like if, you know, I would, I would probably not look too out of place, but, um, hockey in the winter Olympics, but never to the level of these people, like not, not, not even close. So, but if I could go in one, it would be,

uh, the only one would probably be those two. I don't think there's anything else I would even be remotely good at, like even some of the lesser-known sports. Break dancing, I guess, if she did it, maybe break dancing because I was probably as good as her. It's about the confidence in break dancing. You just got to go out there and look like you know what you're doing. It's not even.

It's the confidence of her was fascinating like you know it's just like the belief that like she's like what is everybody talking about like that was great i love people like that i'm fascinated that people that you know you see it in comedy too like comics will go up and just bomb miserably and they're like oh man that crowd was rocking i like, what crowd did you see? And it's like, it's just anything, actors, dancers, singers, like people don't see themselves, you know, honestly. And that's, she, she exemplified that. She's probably walking around very famous now i don't know

yeah infamous famous who knows infamous yeah i think australia isn't uh super high on raygun right now but yeah that kind of attitude is something that i mean i feel like a lot of athletes have or have to have really like noah lyles to to an extent too and obviously he backed it up but yeah i i think it's too much i think even noah lyles and he does back it up i just come from a bit more of a world of like what do you gain if you don't win it like yeah yeah but sometimes people like that just don't care and you know i saw an interview with andre degrasse talking about noah lyles just saying like you know what he's good for the sport and i can can see that angle too, right? We're all talking about it.

I come more from the world of like, even with my kids, like, you know, you want to pump your tires in front of me better because I'll tell you, you were terrible. Like, don't stop acting like you're good. You weren't. And I just think you got to be self-aware at some point. Same with standup.

Like, I can't come off the stage and go, I killed every time. I got to be honest and go, that did not go good especially when i was starting yeah i mean i guess you learn from that right if you're honest with yourself especially it makes you better it makes you go get better if you always think you killed like why are you trying to get better yeah so for me bombing was like okay i gotta get better because i i i the self-realization i bombed i knew okay that was bad. But those comics will look at, like, right now I did a couple dates

with Nate Bargatze, who I think is the best right now, out there, and those comics would go in front of Nate and go, I'm better than him, I don't get it. Like, that's a lot of comics, sadly. It's like they don't have a self-awareness. How did Jerry D make it? He sucked. He sucks.

You see it in hockey in Canada. How's that guy in the NHL? I was way better than him. It happens all the time. That's the way it is, I guess. As you mentioned, you're a sports fanatic. I was combing through your Twitter feed a little while. I guess this would have been right around when the Stanley Cup final ended.

And you called your shot. You called a Leafs-Oilers-Stanley Cup final all-Canadian matchup for next season. Are you sticking with that? Yeah. I mean, obviously it's really hard to predict the two finalists, but I think it's a reasonable guess. You know, it's like they've got to be. Obviously the Oilers have proven it's a reasonable guess. You know, it's like they've got to be. Like, obviously, the Oilers have proven it's very reasonable.

The Leafs, some have got to change. Like, they just have too much talent on that roster, and maybe the coaching change. You know, I know Vancouver, I don't know how they ended up and how they're building for next year, but I would just love a Canadian final. I'm not an Oilers fan, but I was cheering for the Oilers,

right? Like it's just, I just think an all Canadian final would be so good for, for the country. You know, it would be like, there'd be chirping, there'd be back and forth.

There'd be so many people focused. It's great for the, the bar industry and the restaurant industry and the industry itself. So I just think it's great when you don't have a Canadian in the final, it really kills, uh, kills the buzz of hockey. So glad we had one.

And of course, being a leaf fan, I'm going to throw shade on stuff and go, Hey, leave soilers. And then I got to watch all the hate tweets come and that's fine. As a, as a,

as a leafs fan, how do you feel about the, uh, the captaincy switch? Auston Matthews getting the C now. I don't think. I mean, I'm sure they handled the process very well. I'm sure Tavares is very aware of.

But I don't think. Are we winning now because there's a different C on a player? Like, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't think it's going to. I think it says a lot. You know, was Tavares all for it? Probably.

If he wasn't, then it's weird. But I'm sure he was like, no, this makes sense. And, you know, it's maybe, maybe it's a good thing. Maybe Matthews is more like, okay, now I got to, like, I'm the leader now. And, you know, and I think of the best captains in hockey. I think of, you know, Isom and Messier, Stamkos. Like, I think of I got to, like, I'm the leader now. And, you know, when I think of the best captains in hockey, I think of, you know, Eisenman, Messier, Stamkos. Like, I think of guys like that, right? Lidstrom, I think he was a cat.

Like, just guys that got you to a cup final or got you a cup. And you need that presence. So maybe Matthews will, you know, he's the best player on the team. And a lot of times that goes hand in hand. But Tavares was, he was good. There's no no i had no complaints about it uh so jerry as mentioned you're going to be performing august 24th at the pne for people who haven't had a chance to to see you doing stand-up uh just tell us a little bit about

what uh what they can expect of the show it's uh you know i've been working on a lot of new material so i've been in vancouver in a while so it'll feel like a very different show if you've seen me there in the last you know five six years so that I'm excited it's again it's always fun to go back to a city I haven't been to in a while and you know I'm not a dirty

comic I don't really swear so if you're worried about that you don't have to and not that there's anything wrong with that it's just sometimes I do a little but for the most part, I'm trying to go the other way even more now. Just kind of comedy for everybody type thing, but it's a little edgy. So don't bring your 10-year-old. 10's probably too young.

14. 14, I would say. 14 and up. That's fantastic. Hey, Jerry, really appreciate the time. Looking forward to having you in Vancouver. Thanks for doing this. Thanks. Okay, bye. Thanks, guys. That is comedian Jerry D,

who, as mentioned, will be performing August 24th at the P&E. First ever comedian to be part of the P&E Summer Night Concert Series. You can get your tickets now. And, yeah, Jerry D, add him to the list of not big fans of Ray Gunn gun who would have thought

i thought i thought she'd leave with more fans now i kind of love her now i can't verify this stuff but i've seen it starting to percolate on social media that she basically set up there was no like there's like a conspiracy yeah like i don't do you know if this is true have you done the research i I have not. But I'm going to just spout off about it anyways. So basically what it is is that like she figured out a way to like basically make it so she was the one going to the Olympics despite other people maybe being more talented. Because the way it works, right? There's there's, you know, there's basketball Canada.

There's swimming Canada, right? There's governing bodies for all of the sports in the countries. They have some sort of qualification process for who's going to the Olympics. Breaking is so new, not traditionally considered a sport. There wasn't one in Australia, as I understand it. So she kind of set it up and she was like, I'll be the governing body. And also I'll go. I did see a community note on one of that was fake that this was like there was more vetting done.

OK, but also I wouldn't be surprised. surprised yes the whole thing is a little shady and as i said australia they take the summer olympics very seriously so she was putting herself uh in the crosshairs for this one uh i love that we're still talking about ray gun the story on turn the olympic this is all part of her plan this is all part of her plan. I know how I'm going to make myself very, very famous. All publicity is good publicity. Exactly. Even if it's publicity for being the worst performer at the Olympics. Go get that, Pub.

Okay. That's Halverd and Brough for your Sportsnet 650. You can text in. You're what we learn. That's coming up at 830. 650-650 to the Dunbar Lumber text line. Still a chance to get a good submission in that we will read in the final segment before we do that we'll do some of our own what we learned here and i'll start which is that josh has a very very hot baseball

take that he debuted to me before the show we were going on air about to go on air i'm glad you did this james we're about to go on air and j'm glad you did this, Jamie. We're about to go on air, and Josh turns to me and goes, you know who the most overrated baseball player is? I don't know if I said most. I might have said most. You did. You definitely did.

I'm trying to walk it back as much as possible. You definitely did. You know who the most overrated baseball player is? I was like, no. He goes, Aaron Judge. What are you talking about? He's at worst the second best player in the game today so i'm not saying currently i think he's a very good player when we're talking about

like careers i've seen generational players thrown around for aaron judge i don't think he's that i think people forget he's 32 yes and when we talk about guys who have a, like, let's just go wins above replacement. For players his age or younger, there's Mike Trout. There's Mookie Betts. There's Manny Machado. There is Nolan Arenado, who's like a year older. Jose Ramirez. Bryce Harper.

And then you get to Aaron Judge. And so for me, I'm like, okay, I think he's a really good player. I think he gets a lot of publicity from the Yankee stuff. Also, it lot of dingers people love dingers i i have no problem with that but i just think he gets a little more hype and it's natural because home runs yankees fine whatever a little more hype than he deserves so he established himself a while ago now 2017 now it was a little bit of a late bloomer situation he was 25 25, really, when he broke in and established himself as a regular player. But he was phenomenal at age 25, hit 52 home runs. Yeah, injuries, missed some playing time, didn't play 150 or 160 games the next few years.

But I think the generational – and look, I am a Yankees hater. Died in the world Yankees hater. So it brings me no joy to do this. But if you look at what he's done over the last few seasons right you go back to the uh the 62 home run season in 2022 again missed time last year but was still really productive at the plate and then the season he is putting together this year I think it's fair to use generational maybe not for his total career and we'll see where he ends up, right? Like, if he's able to have another year, like, you know,

where he goes over 50 home runs again, right? And he's on pace to have his third 50 home run season, which is incredible. But if you just look at his peak, the peak that he is putting together right now, and it's a little later than normal, sure, like, this is a generational-type peak. There's not a lot of players who have been this productive over a three or four year span in baseball history as aaron judge has so he's well rated as being a one of the best players in the game who's having a generational type peak at the plate i will say the more research i did this was like an off-the-cuff take i had before the show and then the more research i did during the show i was like maybe i'm wrong and you know what

i respect that Josh I'm willing to accept that I was wrong sometimes you got to admit a mistake but I was just so floored the most overrated player Aaron Judge pardon me I think the reason is I kind of forgot that he did start so early because I

only remember after the injured years but I do remember 2017 he came in he had the monster season right 52 home runs and yeah like it looked like his career was maybe going to be waylaid by injuries largely but then bounces back in in 2022 and then this year so i think it hasn't been as consistent as you would like to see but the peaks have been just so phenomenally high that i think he's earned that generational label if not from you i don't you I still don't know if I'm going generational Josh is holding out really good give us a mook

out there Ben one second we're on the music page wow last there we go final 40 minutes of the show and it's like I'll get to it when I get to it well I wanted to play my favorite rejoiner for the last rejoiner I get to click

I was like this is important here. I'm glad you got to do that. Don't we got to play the What We Learn music, though? That's a special one, though. Oh, I see. Oh, you mean the one we just played. He needs to, the one he gets to have a choice in is what he's saying. I got you, I got you.

The other one's mandated. Yes. Andy will get very mad at me. I miss a mookah by two seconds. It's a glimpse. I don't play that song. He will kick you out of that control room he will bring peanuts

into the room my what we learned is that Ben is leaving basketball Ben is leaving for everyone asking he's going to law school doing the reverse doing the reverse Jamie that's right probably the smarter direction to do it and I'll be perfectly honest so this one probably makes a lot

more sense congratulations Congratulations to Ben. We're going to miss you. It was great working with you. You were a pleasure to have around. Thank you. I do have some inspirational quotes for when you leave the job. Oh, wow. I'll just read through them here.

Best wishes in your future endeavors. Screw you. Nailed it. This one. Every exit is an entry somewhere else very literal in this in this instance leaving a job is not the end it's the beginning of a new adventure leaving this job is the first step towards my dream career that one i don't like that one the best is yet to come there you go wow see these sound like you're trying to cheer up somebody who got fired yeah not yes

saying goodbye to somebody who's making an affirmative choice to like follow their career here we go this isn't goodbye it's a new hello an emotional roller coaster of closing one chapter and starting another is this just like the hallmark website yeah this doing from sanjes.com so shout out it's pretty reputable site but anyway i'm gonna miss ben we're gonna miss ben and i i've said this on the past in the past but uh he brings some like much needed athletic credibility to the station as the like an actual high level golfer that has real insight into it so we're gonna we're gonna miss you we're just gonna call you miss that i call you? We're going to miss that. I'm not going to take no offense to Jerry saying on the interview

that golf's not a sport and that he would choose golf to be his Olympic sport. To be fair, he said also like he loves golf. So he wasn't slamming golf. He was just like some people say that golf is not a sport. But at least he chose it. A little bit of a hot take. Some bridges are better burned so we can blaze new trails in life. Are you burning this bridge, Ben?

Absolutely not. Oh, okay. I can't go all the way back. You're going to come crawling back? Yeah. You're doing the reverse Jamie now? You're going to do the regular Jamie later? Double agent.

Guys, this was a mistake. All right. I appreciate that. Give us a moo cow there. A dog. Yeah. I learned. Alright. I appreciate that. Give us a moo cow there. A dog. Yeah, I learned Okay, first of all, the backstory to this is our beloved boss, Cam Barra, is going

to be giving us a bunch of McDonald's breakfast stuff, like, you know, the Big McMuffins and all that jazz. In honor of Ben's last day, we're going to have a nice McDonald's breakfast. Now, I learned that the youths, so Josh and Ben in this case, don't call McDonald's Mickey D's or McDicks.

What do you call McDonald's? What's the slang the kids say these days for McDonald's? Don's. Don's. Don's. So Cam was texting me about this yesterday. He was like, hey,

like what should we do for Ben? I was going to do like baked goods, but Ben's allergic to peanuts. And like, is that a dangerous path? Should I just do McDonald's? I was like, like Don's is probably safe.

And he was like, what do you mean Don's? And so this is how it came up. And I guess Jamie had never heard this either. I have never. You've never heard this. So when you and your buddies go to McDonald's, you're literally in the group chat.

You're like, hey, guys, let's go to Don's. Yeah, you want to grab Don's? I have never heard anybody call McDonald's Don's. The amount of times Josh and I would work like a post game or something late together and say, okay, what's the order from Don's on the way back? Don's on the way home. Quarter pounder with cheese.

Quarter pounder with cheese. When did kids decide to change McDonald's slang from Mickey D's to Don's? Well, I think what happened here is it's a texting thing. Because Mickey D's, you're not going to text out Mickey D's, but Don's is actually way shorter. So if you're constantly texting, classic Gen Z, always on their dang phones, if you're texting all the time, it's just easy to shorten it to Don's. And it feels like it's piggybacking off tim dawns sounds like some sort of yeah it's like tim's gangster owned

delicatessen or something you know like it sounds like a criminal it sounds like a criminal enterprise or something you know what i mean it doesn't sound like a fast food franchise i don't know but if there was like an actual diner named dawns i would be confused because i would assume you are referencing that you were talking about mcdonald's that is very strange but it is a very clear because even cambera was like what are you talking about yeah you're like don's he's like what what is that i don't know what that is like i'm getting old what's happening i just thought it was a normal thing to be honest see i though have i'm very happy that i've reached the stage over the last few years of my life where i don't care now when kids, the kids,

the dang kids do something different. You know what I mean? Like some people are still very anxious about it. Like, oh my God, I didn't know they called it Dawn's. Like, oh, am I getting old? I am getting old and I don't care about it anymore. I mean, I've entered my, we've come to accept that we've entered our Grandpa Simpson phase, I think, where it's like we used to be

with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what we find is it is strange and confusing. That's where I am at. On social media, 90% of these memes and these tweets, I have no idea what the hell they're talking about anymore. I'm just like, I don't get this at all. I'm so out of the loop. It's scary.

20 years from now, some kid's going to be like, oh, you're going to Ilds? And I'm going to be like, what's that? And they're like, McDonald's. Somebody says, I'm sorry, but you guys are old. I'm 29. Almost everyone I know calls it Don's. That's because you're under 30. This is what we're saying. That's what I'm saying. It's a generational divide. None of my friends

are under 30. None of my friends, and I'm 40 now, so all my buddies in my age range, none of us call McDonald's Don's. And again, what the hell is that? I'm trying to keep you guys up to date. And that's okay. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, Josh. I don't really care, but thank you anyway.

See, this is something we don't get from Halford and Brough because they are so old. No, certainly not. Absolutely not. You've got to teach them about this. Brough would just start crying right now. Halford would start watching TV. He'd be so confused. Go to his comfort zone.

Start trying to fix one of his computers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right, give us a moo cow there. We'll take a break. Final segment of the show coming up. Hit us up with your What We Learned's final segment of Basketball Ben's Sportsnet 650 career here on Halford & Brough Sportsnet 650.

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we do that, we've got one more to get to from us, and it is from Basketball Ben. So what I learned is maybe a little bit cheesy, but this really was the job of what dreams are made out of. We just talked like for five minutes about what we call McDonald's.

Like, how is that even a thing? So to all the listeners, especially the texters reading your guys's texts, like makes my day. It's unbelievable. The content we get in to you guys and everyone at the sports net, six 50 radio station.

This has been an absolute blast. So what I learned is that when I signed up for this thing and got on board i was like this is gonna be really cool maybe and it was so had the time of my life and really appreciate all of you guys and everyone listening in everyone who's a part of this so you guys are the best and and thank you well said that was good feels a little awkward to do the moocam we would have played green day's time of your life but some of us have a bad association with that song so we're're not going to. Maybe not. Maybe not. Can you pick your favorite coworkers before you go? We'll release a podium later today.

It's obviously Josh. Yes. I'll take Jamie. Oh, wow. Okay. That's nice. I'm trying to build the chemistry. I'm glad, though.

I'm glad to hear you say that. It feels like bragging, but it is a great job. And as you said, I agree with you. Getting to interact with the listeners in the text inbox, the best part of the job. So good shout on that one. And let's do some more of that. Let's print out some listener submissions for what we

learned. Oh my god! We're having a fire! Plan! Nailed it on the last day. Nailed it. Okay, I wanted to do this one. It wasn't technically submitted as a What We Learned, but I'm going to change it into a What We Learned.

It's from Ringer in Langley, and it's related to, or maybe fishy in Langley, but it's related to your Aaron Judge take. He says, How's this for a hot take? I work with someone whose hot take is that Connor McDavid is overrated. It's one of the hardest discussions to have with him because I have no idea

where he's coming from, even when he explains it. Never made sense to me. This is one of those things where I understand the Oilers are intense rivals of the Canucks. But again, the Yankees division rivals of my favorite team, the Jays. Yeah. But I'm able to see past that and recognize when they have a legitimately

really good player on the team. I think Aaron Judge is really, really good, by the way. With Connor McDavid, I get it, guys. He's a superstar, and maybe you feel like he's overexposed, and it's annoying to have to play against him. But you do not have to prove what a hardcore Canucks fan you are by pretending that Connor McDavid is overrated. He's the best player in the league.

He is so, so incredibly good. And I actually think you're cheating yourself as a hockey fan a little bit. Not that you're ever going to. If you're a diehard Canucks fan, right, especially they played against the Oilers in the playoffs, I get it. There's going to be a level of animosity. But I also think you should try, maybe in the games you watched that he's not playing the Canucks, to be able to sit back

and appreciate what he's doing. Because as you said, he's the best player in the game. He's got a chance to go down as one of the best players of all time. He can do things on the ice that very few, if any, players in NHL history have been able to do. It sucks when he does it against your team. I totally get that. But you also kind of, you've got to been able to do. Yeah. It sucks when he does it against your team. I totally get that.

But you also kind of, you got to be able to appreciate that as a lover of the sport. Yeah. If you like hockey, you're like, man, this guy, I hate that he's on the Oilers. I wish he was on almost any other team. But also, it's cool. He does cool things. And it's just, you can't overrate the best player in the league.

When I talk about Aaron Judge being slightly overrated, it's because I think there are guys that are better than him in the league. When we talk about a generational player, I think there's only one at a time in major sports leagues. And so Connor McDavid is clearly that in the NHL. Can't see how he's overrated. No, he is absolutely, absolutely properly rated. 650, 650, what we learned,

won the hot sauce and Pepto-Bismol quality control agent. What we learned, you know it's the dog days of summer when a junior lacrosse coach is on the show. He was good though.

It's the Minto Cup. It's a historic event. And like, I'll be honest, obviously if it's the, you know, if the Canucks are in the playoffs playoffs we're probably not doing that interview yeah but i one of the things i like about the summer is that you get to cover more of the local sports stories there's more room to kind of give those stories a moment in the spotlight right because both of us we work on like i produce canuck central you host canucks talk obviously very canuck centric

shows so for both of us 90 of the year especially the hockey season is all canucks and slight you go like slightly onto different hockey topics at times but it's always hockey but i mean you look at it just this week right we started the week we had the fraser valley or the vancouver bandits now owner on to talk about his team right we did the Minto Cup today I believe we're talking to somebody from Vancouver FC tomorrow right from the CPL you know you go back last week when Izzy and I were doing it we got to talk to a bunch of different people about Olympic sports so to me that's one of the nice things it's like and again it has a time and a place obviously but again the Minto Cup like that has a long long heritage in in Canada. It's in Coquitlam.

I think it's fun. It's one of the fun things about summer sports radio to be able to shine the spotlight on places we wouldn't normally get to. Juan also adds that he's done a lot of fantasy football prep and that he did well. Good for him. Congrats, Juan. Good job, Juan. For that one.

650, 650, of course, is the Dunbar Lumber text line. This one from Justin and his van who has rebranded himself now per our orders to Justin, the East Van parking attendant. Okay. What we learned,

Happy Gilmore 2 will not be filming in Vancouver. Although the original 1996 golf comedy was filmed in Vancouver, the sequel starts shooting next month in New Jersey. What a downgrade. Tough break.

Big, huge, huge downgrade as well. But what was the course it was at? Swan Asset. No. No? No, it was... They did part of it at Swan Asset, but they did somewhere else.

It was on the way to Whistler. Furry Creek. Yeah, Furry Creek. Exactly. Iconic. That's the Bob Barker Whistler. Yeah, Furry Creek. Exactly. Iconic. That's the Bob Barker scene, right? Is that Furry Creek? Some very interesting holes over there.

But it's beautiful views. Beautiful views. Way to crap on Furry Creek on your way out. I said interesting. Interesting. Interesting can be nice. A compliment. Did you mean it in a nice way?

It's interesting. Are there nice courses in New Jersey, Ben? Oh, there must be plenty are there yes all right fine fair what do you have against new jersey it's new jersey i don't know have you been there yeah i haven't been there i have never been there i wouldn't describe it as scenic yeah i can't say i want to like go to new jersey i want to go to new york i mean i'm sure it does have some nice areas i I haven't been everywhere there. This text comes in from Colin in Tawasin. What we learned, we're missing the Halford Premier League preview this week,

including general discourse about Leeds' dismal chances and other obscure soccer talk. We are going to do noted soccer experts. Me and Josh are going to do a Premier League preview tomorrow with James Sharman. So we're going to do our best. We're going to, you know, this is a good reminder. I'll ask about leads in Halford's honor. I do always enjoy listening to Halford and Brough where you can tell, like, if it's a golf guest, just like eight Brough questions in a row.

If it's a soccer guest, it's like eight Halford questions in a row. If it's a soccer guest, it's like eight Halpert questions in a row. They're like, you know what? You just take this one, man. It's all good. You go nuts.

Ask about leads. I'll be over here hanging out. We talk a lot of soccer on the show, like all year. Well, this summer, especially like this was all year. And sometimes listeners are like,

could we go back to the Canucks game last night? And Alfred's like, no, EPL. Manchester United is annoying. What we learned, Mike the Urologist from Brockville. Josh has done an excellent job teaming up with Jamie this week. Thank you.

Both of you doing a good job covering a quiet week in sports. However, Josh lacks a discerning palate when it comes to Blizzard consumption. Cookie dough is both an unnecessary and uninteresting Blizzard ingredient. The kind of ingredient ordered by spoiled Gen Zers who had their NBA team win a championship within mere years of starting to cheer for them. I had cookie dough gelato two nights ago. What? Gelato? Cookie dough? That's a Gen Zer.

I don't know about that one yeah it was delicious i like a good i love a cookie dough blizzard and that's my go-to and i'm not gen z don't don't put that on me this is why his texts get red though like that's so that's a good interesting and like sparks conversation i'm uh so what's what's everyone's go-to you guys might have done this you said we did it on blizzard day last week could you but mine was mine was cookie dough what was yours anything that has heavy chocolate i'm a chocoholic so like chocolate fudge or triple chocolate or chocolate brownie like anything like that it's it's a safe bet that's my go-to mine is and i responded to mike saying that mine

is reese's and then you add cookie dough so not reese's pieces but like the chunks of reese's that they put in there ben Ben, you love it. Same. That's actually pretty good. It's good. That sounds good. Somebody texted in, half Oreo, half Smarties. Take that to the bank.

I feel like I'm just not adventurous enough. And I said this last week, but like I stand there, I'm looking at all the selections and they all sound really good. But then I'm like, but I know I like cookie dough. I know it's going to be good. See, I'm the opposite. I'm the opposite of you. Why risk it? I like cookie dough. I know it's going to be good. See, I'm the opposite. I'm the opposite of you. Why risk it?

I like taking the risk. I want to try something new every time, and even if I'm not going to like it, at least I know then. The area I try. And what if I love it? It might be my new favorite. That's a good life philosophy. Yeah, I always go to the new thing first.

At least you gather information. Because I'm a curious person by nature. I want to know what it tastes like. I may hate it, but I still need to know what it tastes like i may hate it but i still need to know oh curious a dog my uh the the area i try new things in is anytime i'm walking through like a 7-eleven and they have a new pop or soda yeah i'm trying 100 i'm like that was cereal yeah cereal too cereal is a good one seriously it's uh like anytime they have a new coke i'm like hey you know what this is getting a shot same thing i'm for sure i'm a slave to

marketing like i'm i admit that i'm stupid that way like if i just see new on a box so you know they got me it's like i'm the target audience we're taking advantage of this idiot this is new wow now with ketchup see i See, you know the, what do they call them, the freestyle machines? Like they have the movie theaters and stuff. Yeah.

They have like 500 different varieties. You forget like a tropical Coke. Cherry Coke every time. Okay. I will say I go cherry Coke every time. It's cherry Coke. It's the best. I don't need to mix it up.

It's unbeatable. I went to a movie last night and they had the freestyle machine, cherry Coke. Cherry Coke. I see those machines and I'm like, this place deserves plus two points for that.

You know what I miss? And I don't know why I'm thinking of this all of a sudden. I guess because I'm thinking of soft serve now and the make your own soft serve machines. They would always have it like the buffets. You guys are probably too young to remember this, but Jamie, do you remember the Sizzler? I do. When we were kids? I sure do.

The Sizzler buffet. There's a Sizzler. And I know it's still a big thing In the states Buffet style eating And I know it actually I guess it kind of Did go away with COVID But I miss like A really good buffet

Yes Of just Of not like a specific Style of food But just sort of All encompassing Like North American cuisine Like Chinese or Japanese

Like European Like whatever Like it's just like A smorgasbord of All sorts of weird and cool stuff. I miss like a really good buffet. I do love... I don't know if they exist anymore. I can't say I've ever been

to a buffet outside of resorts. Wow. Yeah, like resort buffets, sure, that's a comparable... Yeah, or like a hotel breakfast buffet. Yeah, you love that. I'm talking like the Sizzler Buffet, for anybody old enough to remember that, was the goat buffet.

Didn't Pizza Hut used to have the dessert buffet when you would go and actually sit in the restaurant? Well, they had their pizza buffet. Did they have that too? I think they had a dessert buffet too. People did that? At Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut had a sit down place for you guys?

Yes. It was like you go and you sit and they have- Oh my God. We talked about this last week, didn't we? Or a couple weeks ago. It was a couple weeks ago. And they had the shaker of chili flakes and the oil on the table and the Parmesan. And you'd sit and they'd come bring out your pizza.

Back in the day, Pizza Hut had sit-down restaurants with the actual triangular hut rooftop. And you can still see them. Which is still, they're all different businesses. Yeah, it's like a dentist's office converted from a pizza hut, but it still has the Pizza Hut roof, that kind of thing. Those were the actual, you'd go there, you'd sit down, and they would have their pizza buffet. It was, I mean, it's no AJ's, and we got to give love to our sponsor here.

Of course not. This ain't gourmet pizza we're talking about here. This isn't like AJ's, which is like the best pizza in the city. It's Pizza Hut. You know what you're getting. But they did have that sit-down buffet, which was- This is wild to me. Yeah.

Oh, man. It was a big thing. It was a big thing in my childhood. It sounds good. I would love to try just a pizza buffet. When was the last time you went inside of a Don's and sat down? And sat down? Oh, a week ago.

But actually... Yeah. What are you talking about? I think the... You're asking me when the last time I was depressed was? I was at a softball tournament like two weeks ago, and I just went and sat down and ate my food. Okay.

I go in a lot because we were on a road trip as a family a few weeks ago. Oh, you have kids. You've got to do it. The two-year-old, we're not trusting her to eat on the go. Where we are, we are stopping. Also, do they have a little play area? Yeah. Going into McDonald's as a kid is one of the magical experiences of childhood.

The play area. We introduced them to the play area. They're like, oh, my as a kids is one of the magical experiences exactly the play area we introduced them to the player and they're like oh my god this is amazing it's like i know guys you guys have been holding back what is this i want to do it it's very very special i can't believe you guys didn't know about the pizza hut that's wild we're learning some good idea the generational divide exactly on the show today uh that's bringing back memories uh speaking of the generation divide ch Chris from Brook Mountain says, what we learned, I learned is that I'm old and triggered by the mention of Gen Z.

That's the end of the alphabet. There's nothing left after that. This is the end of civilization. It does feel a little bit like we've boxed ourselves into a corner. Now, like they used to have names. I guess Gen X, but Gen X wasn wasn't like it wasn't like a sequencing

thing it was like they're kind of caught in the middle and they don't know what they are really right but like they used to have names based on the actual circumstances now it's just like give them a letter gen z when the next one's alpha right it's alpha i wonder if they wasn't there something about like it being the internet generation or something like that? Something related. But how does that relate to Z? Well, I don't know how it relates to Z. I think there were multiple names and Z caught on, unfortunately. Do we have to say Gen Zed in Canada?

Or is like the official name Gen Zed? It's just Gen Zed. I like the rapper Jay Zed. Yeah, fair enough. It's exactly that. Never mind. Yeah, no, it's exactly that never mind yeah no it's it's just uh it's just gen z but yeah we're we've uh we've reached the end the end of the alphabet i guess we're going back to

welcome guys i will say i mean the whole generational thing it's so arbitrary you know what i mean like it's like what like first of all if you actually include like 15 years technically it's so far apart yeah yeah but that's ridiculous exactly i know i'm right on the borderline i do not and like i didn't call it mickey d's you guys are nuts yeah you don't you don't remember a sit down pizza you can't be a millennial if you if you didn't know about sitting i didn't go to blockbuster all that much yeah yeah i know clearly oh god you missed out no i know i'm like because I went when I was a kid. What? Was that a lot of pressure?

No, you can't. And blockbuster. Oh, my God. That's a lot of pressure. Give me your millennial card. It was fine. It's been revoked. Dude, that's the best part.

That's the start of the weekend. That's a classic example of nostalgia run amok. No way, man. It's awesome. You go in there, and you're walking around, and you're like, I've seen this one. I've seen this one. No, it's the best part. I want to see this one, but they're all gone. I can't do it.

Fine, I guess we'll do this. You're there for like 45 minutes. Nothing excites you. It's overrated. I would like to rate it as an experience. Now that's a hot take. I think it's just like, so I did go when I was a kid at times, but I never went as like a teenager. Blockbuster was awesome. Movie rental in general,

like the local ones by your house. Like we had one in Lynn Valley called Super Video when I was a kid. Like it was awesome going to the video store and like looking through all the videos and the games like, all right, what am I going to watch this weekend? Yeah.

It's way better than sitting on your couch strolling through a streaming service. Like no tactile experience there. I don't love the streaming experience either, but the Blockbuster experience is overrated. Overrated. Not that great. You guys aren't missing out.

Okay, fair enough. Well, we learned Waka, the dishwasher in Merritt, for a change, the Blue Jays won, and I was able to watch them, and it was fun, and they did a good job. It was also nice to watch them on the West Coast because they didn't start at four. That is always nice.

It's nice when I'm, like, just trying to find something to watch at seven o'clock and look mariners games aren't always on tv yeah i i have no problem watching mariners games i enjoy the mariners but it is nice when you just turn on a blue jays game at seven o'clock our time and it's not about to end or near like it's great when a team you want to watch starts at a time that's convenient for you do you think so the blue jays next game is against the cubs wrigley field do you think it's a thing in every sport where if you're playing in a certain stadium no matter how bad the team is

since you're playing in that stadium you kind of get up for the game a bit more like you're playing in madison square garden, I think so. What's the NFL stadium? Like Lambeau? Lambeau, probably, yeah. But even then, it's like if you've done it a lot, then I'm sure it loses its shine. You know what I mean? But yeah, I think... Like going to Wrigley or like... Yeah, certainly for the

first time or the first few times. Or if you're a team like the Jays, who doesn't get there a lot, right? You're not there that often. I'm sure it would... It'd be a special thing. like for the jays to go to fenway they're probably just like yeah whatever we're here all the time so it doesn't matter that much to us the first time you go though they do like the the bullpen guys do the signing of the inside the the green monster so i think for them it's cool but yeah that's cool going after i i'm sure once especially like you mentioned jays going to fenway they go there

so often eventually it's just another field and it's cool you're still playing in the majors or whatever but it's not as uh crazy as probably the first time you're on fenway narks field yeah for sure or i think like as you said madison square garden certainly for basketball and i think for hockey probably a little bit as well although that hockey it's probably i don't know if it's the building so much as like Saturday night in Toronto, Saturday night in Montreal. Right.

And those aren't historic buildings anymore, but still the spotlight, the city, I think probably culture behind it. Exactly. For a lot of guys, uh, six 50,

six 50 Dunbar lumber text on a lot of texts about the pizza hut buffet pizza hut buffet was the best for birthday parties. That's from Todd and Michael Riddick. Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good shout. Good place to have a birthday party, for sure. More pizza places should just have a buffet option. Ah, Chuck E. Cheese, man. I mean, I guess we don't want to do the trek, but Chuck E. Cheese, that was the birthday place.

I did love, like, an arcade birthday. Oh, the best. Just, you know, go to a video arcade. Do video arcades really still exist? We were laser tag. Were you a laser arcades really still exist we were laser tag were you laser tag yeah i did i did a couple times i think um growing up in chilliwack there was a lot of castle fun park birthday parties that was always fun yeah wide variety of things you can do at a castle fun park i love castle fun park big option uh jeff the metal surgeon from mission what we learned jerry d's hottest take Was saying that Messier was a good captain

On a Vancouver radio station yeah I mean I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna jump in there And hammer Jerry D Hold on a second Jerry he's such a nice guy Right he's like a mild mannered he's Just a big sports fan should have just hung up How dare you get out of here With that talk in Vancouver

Good one good one Get out of here. That's exactly right. All right. I think that's going to do it for us today. Thank you to everyone for texting in. Thank you to all of our guests. And of course,

we've mentioned it a few times, but a big thank you and a big shout out to our guy, Basketball Ben. Final day at the station. We do wish him all the best in what's next. Shout out to Basketball Ben. We're back tomorrow. Last show of the week and ask us anything Friday.

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