Halford & Brough in the Morning - Euro 2024 PxP Man Peter Drury

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

In hour three, Mike & guest host Josh Elliott-Wolfe chat with iconic sports broadcaster and the voice of the Premier League and Euro 2024, Peter Drury ahead of Sunday's England Spain final (3:00), the boys tell us what they learned (20:00), plus we hear from the humanoids (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.

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To the phone lines we go. You heard him yesterday on the call for England's dramatic victory over the Netherlands. You'll hear him on Sunday for the final as well. Joining us now, very excited to have our next guest on the program, Peter Drury joins us here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Good morning, Peter. How are you?

Good morning to you. Good afternoon from Berlin. I'm good, thank you, and I hope you are too. We are very well. Very excited to do this and very appreciative of you taking the time. What a match yesterday. I have to ask right off the bat, you're calling the match as a play-by-play and you're looking down the road and you've seen how England has played, especially going to penalties against Switzerland in the previous round. Were you anticipating extra time and penalties before Ollie Watkins smashed home to win the match for England? There's a very short answer to that. Yes.

Yes. It felt as though it was a near certainty. England have played a game of jeopardy throughout this tournament, taking everything to the very edge and leaving us with our nerves frayed time after time. So in that sense,

I guess it was a relief it was all over. I have to be a little bit careful about how I articulate this because I was and am and continue to be a neutral commentator for the global feed of the game. So in no sense was I trying to view the game as an English supporter, but as an observer of the England team, it would have come as no surprise at all to see that go

to extra time and penalties. Well, on that note, what is it like watching an English national team have these big heroic moments in pivotal moments, win on penalties, in clinical fashion I might add, and pull

results out of games, especially against Slovakia where it looked like it was all done for. It's almost the inverse of everything I know about the English national team prior. And it's all coming together in this run at this tournament. Well, that is exactly right. I mean, you sort of define the history of or at least the history of the last half century plus of the English national football team really nicely there in one sentence. You know, we've been used to these moments going against us. We've been used to building ourselves up as would-be champions of the world

and would-be champions of Europe and finding that when the event comes around, we're not quite there. But in the last four, five, six, seven years, under the current coach, Gareth Southgate, who is a terrific individual, we've got closer and closer. We've been in semifinals, we've been in finals, and we're in another final.

And being somewhat of my age, I wouldn't want to take for granted necessarily that your great Canadian audience would follow English football, obviously, in the way I do, but they may or may not know that England's only triumph was winning the 1966 World Cup. We've won nothing before and nothing since, and I was born in 1967. So, you know, like everybody of my generation, I would love to see something happen, you know, whilst I'm treading the earth.

And, you know, we've got a chance that that might happen on Sunday. You mentioned Gareth Southgate there, and we've spoken about him at length throughout this show. We played his post-match media availability, where he was incredibly gracious to all of the England supporters that had made the trek to Germany, and many of whom probably had the knives and the cleavers out for Southgate at certain points during this tournament.

What have you thought of the job that he's done, both tactically in terms of making adjustments and changes on the pitch, but also how he's dealt with the criticism throughout this tournament? He is a man of immense dignity. I mean, extraordinary dignity, because I'm sure you have parallel posts in Canadian sport, the ones who hold the role about which everybody has an opinion. And for many, many years, we've spoken of the England football manager's job as the impossible job. You know,

in England, we have a population of something like 60 million and that 60 million opinions of what he should have done, what they would have done, who he should have selected, what formation he should have adopted. And of course, he's the only one who picks the team. And I don't think he or anyone else would argue that for the first two or three games, four games, England weren't great. They weren't great, but they did enough. They got through. And during that period, they attracted immense criticism from within our country.

And all I can say on behalf of the coach now is that he's won. He's won. And what's so great about him is that he isn't someone who, when he sits down in a press conference and addresses, as it were, not just the press but via the press, the whole nation, he isn't someone who says, told you or i'm right you're wrong um he he has a great self-awareness he um understands that the people who come to watch england

want england to win and he understands he he feeds off their support and the team feeds off their support and and he has to nurture that relationship And for the best part of his tenure, that relationship has been very good. But it has been frayed at times over the course of the last month. And the diplomatic manner in which he kind of re-engaged with them last night following a triumphant evening was, for me, typical of the man. We are speaking to Peter Drury ahead of the Euro 2024 final on Sunday here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Peter, as we do another brief history lesson,

we spoke earlier in the show about Southgate, how he was forged for this moment. And it came from his playing days and, of course, the infamous penalty miss at Euro 96. And I do wonder if going through those tribulations as a player maybe uniquely forged him to be able to handle the criticisms of, as you mentioned, a job that everyone has an opinion about and everyone has a criticism of.

I think that's undoubted. And it's given him not just an empathy around those pressure moments. And of course, as you'll know, England lost the last European Championship final on penalties. And so two or three of our players went through the same sort of experience that he went through in 1996. But it's not just that empathy. It's created in him, if it didn't already exist, a kind of emotional intelligence that is so much better than average. He gets people. He manages people. He relates to people.

There's nobody he speaks to disrespectfully. There's nobody he thinks he's above. He has, as you say say felt the most crushing of crushing sporting moments and i think we always have to be careful to frame this correctly because sport is only sport you know it's only it's only kicking a football around a you know park um it really isn't the end of the world but sometimes it can feel like the end of the world. And that time he missed the penalty in 1996, the English nation was at a

point of delirious euphoria. You know, it was our home competition. We were playing superbly, whether we were going to win the thing. And then he missed. And the weight that must have fallen down upon him then can only have impacted on him him then can only have impacted on him.

It can only have done. You know, he is a very human human. And it will, without question, have formed the man he is now. I do want to turn our attention to Spain, who have been the best team in this tournament. They've won all of their matches. I believe they're one goal away from matching France's total from 1984,

which remains a European record. You, in the early days of this tournament, called the 3-0 victory, if I'm not mistaken, where Spain really dominated Croatia in one of the early games of the group stage. When you saw Spain at that moment, early days of the tournament, did you already get the sense that they might be a force to be reckoned with and someone you might be seeing in the final? It's really easy to sound smart after the event.

Just go for it. But I'm going for it because A, yes, and B, listen, I am the worst tipster in the history of sports and sports broadcasting. But I've got to say to you, somebody said to me before the first ball was kicked, OK, who are you going for? And I said, Spain. So I'm quite proud of that, funnily enough, because normally, you know,

normally whoever I tip has gone home, you know, within a week. So, listen, they've been terrific. And we've talked about the trials and tribulations of England, but a lot of the major nations have had those. You know, the French public haven't been thrilled with the French. The Portuguese public weren't thrilled with the Portuguese. The Dutch public, even though, you know, they gave England a very good game last night,

weren't thrilled with them. Italy obviously went home much sooner than they expected to go home. And there's a lot of criticism. Really, the only major nation who've come here and delighted their own people throughout without reservation have been Spain. And without question, that renders them favorites in Sunday's final. They've got a fabulously entertaining team. This kid, Lamamin Yamal, who scored that wonderful goal

in the first semi-final on Tuesday. I mean, he's special. He is special. And there's a beautiful innocence about the way he plays and the way he looks. You know, he looks like a boy who's 16. He actually turned 17 on Saturday,

the day before the final. So he's almost an adult. But they tell me, and I think it's true, that he's brought his school homework with him on this trip. After training, he goes and sits down and does his maths homework. I mean, it's crazy stuff, but it's a beautiful narrative. And I don't think anybody anywhere would begrudge Spain winning it because the football they've played has been delightful. And maybe it's too early to draw this comparison,

but 2008 for Spain was the start of a really good international run in tournaments for them. How does this team compare, and is there a comparison to be made around this team and and maybe everything surrounding them well there's always a comparison to be made isn't it i mean this is this is the very stuff of sports conversation we we we love to make these comparisons um whether they're valid or not i suppose time tells um you know as you say 2008 kicked off a spanish era um and only if this era lasts as long and successfully as that one, will we really know. But, you know, that Spanish team of Xavi and Iniesta,

two of the most beautiful ball-playing midfield players the world has ever known, you know, was remarkable. And they won the European Championship, and then they won the World Cup, and they won the European Championship and then they won the World Cup and they won the European Championship again. And, you know, people use them almost as a yardstick, you know, whether the team is Spain or another country.

Are they as good as Spain were in 2008, 10, 12? And I do think that this Spanish team has a chance to be that good because it's not just, you know, Lamar, it's Williams on the other side, and Fabian Ruiz has been terrific in midfield, and they have a set and stable back four. Actually, they won the other night

with two of the back four missing through suspension. But, no, they're a really, really good team. And I think if I strip away any sort of partisanship, or if anybody strips away any sort of partisanship or if anybody strips away any sort of partisanship, if I was watching or preparing to watch the game from Mars, you know, it would be hard not to favor Spain in every way because they've decorated the thing. It is a very compelling final for that reason, but also all of the history that England brings into this. So there's the chance to atone for that heartbreaking defeat to Italy a few years ago. It is the first time, as you mentioned, to win a major trophy since the World Cup in 1966. It's also the first title match on foreign soil because 66, and then obviously the last loss was at Wembley as well. So there's a lot going into this

Peter as you prepare for the final what are sort of the some of the things that are running through your mind and the things that you're looking to see play out both in terms of a narrative and on the pitch well the narrative you've nailed I mean the historical narrative from an English perspective is that stark. The history, the context is huge. I mean, it's absolutely huge. It's very nearly 60 years since England won anything. As you say, also, the first time they've attempted to win anything, as it were, by being in the final, outside of our own country. Everything we've done or come close to doing has happened at Wembley. So this is very, very big for English football

and for the individuals involved and for every supporter. And that, in a sense, is the narrative. Although every sportsman I've ever worked with and spoken to has constantly reminded me and they're all right that when the ball rolls for the first time history has absolutely nothing to do with it it was it's not this bunch of english players who haven't won anything for 58 years uh you know some of them were born after the year 2000 you know so so this is their moment this is their chance um but but none of them met bobby moore who lifted the world cup in 1966 um for them it's fresh and actually one of the thrills is that we do have young people in the team, Kobi Mainu, Bukai Osaka, whose conduct and whose profile

is somehow so fresh and so invigorating that it kind of throws off the baggage of history. And that would be a lovely thing if they were able to see it through. From a Spanish perspective, obviously, we've just mentioned that that within the living memory of most spanish supporters not all but most um there is and has been a great great team so maybe there's a greater weight on their players shoulders maybe there's a there's a more sort of current awareness of the bar they're attempting to reach or pass.

But again, ultimately, you know, you and I, we're both in the same business. We're in the business of talking about it and hot air and discussing it and theorizing and so on. When the game kicks off, it's a game. It's a game between two teams, each of whom has at least a puncher's chance of winning it, and it will create its own narrative and find its own place in history. Sunday will be great, and this was also great as well. Peter, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to do this. It was a highlight for all of us here to get you on the show and to be able to talk ahead of such a monumental final.

Best of luck with the call on Sunday, and please enjoy it. And thank you once again for doing this. Well, thank you so much. It was a real pleasure chatting to you. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Peter. That's Peter Drury, who will be on the call for the 2024 European Championship Final on Sunday when England takes on Spain.

It's a noon kickoff. That was pretty cool. What a wonderful sounding man. Yes. Man, I'm pumped up now. I'm fired up. You said beautiful innocence, and I was like, whoo-hoo. Yeah, I got a shiver to my spine. My heart fluttered. Peter, could you record a voicemail for me?

Right. Call him back. Can you say brilliant for me? Very distinctly the voice for a lot of people of football, soccer, footy, whatever they're going to call it. Like you hear his voice and you're like, oh, that guy. Yeah. That's what happened to me yesterday. Admittedly, not the biggest soccer person. And I'm like, people are really reacting to this.

Peter booking right now. And I started listening to the highlights. Oh, yeah, of course. So I get it. Just to go behind the scenes a little bit here uh we've got a a virtual rolodex no one has an old rolodex anymore it's all in andy's phone and he was given a list of chases from a variety of producers and he's like why don't i try peter drury and i scoffed i'm like andy peter drury is probably not going to come on our program he's a he's an important dude also he's probably been asked by thousands of producers around the

world to come on there he's also in the middle of calling yeah the European Championships for the world feed I would like to point out like he made it very clear at the beginning he's like as you can tell by my accent and my luxurious voice I I am English, so I'm an England supporter, but there has to be that put aside when you're trying to do a game, not necessarily as a neutral, because I think the accent might give it away where he's from, but trying to understand that you just want to capture. And I got, I hate falling back on this.

You're going to capture the moment of the thing, no matter what side you're on. If Spain scores a dramatic winner in the 91st minute, Peter Drury's task was sharing the exact same excitement level it had at the Ben England. Yeah, he's not going to be disappointed if Spain scores. You know? Levine Yamal runs the length of the pitch in added time

and slots home a winner to make it 1-0. He is capturing that moment. Yeah. It would be funny, though, if he's like, Oh, man. Spain comes down to pitch. Oh, not again. Lamal scores. Game over. Yeah. Yeah. It would be funny though if he's like, oh man. Spain comes down to pitch. Oh, not again. Lamal scores.

Game over. Yeah. It's like the walk off wild pitch. That was great. And it's wild pitch and the game is over. Well, going back

to what you said though, I mean, as Michael Scott said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. So thank you. I had to take my shot and I was glad he said yes.

It was a wonderful guest. So we can do a couple quick what we learned here before we turn it over to the humanoids on the other side of the break. There are a couple of results that I actually didn't get to as we were doing what happened and everything else. And since we've done so much football, I may as well put an ass or sorry, put a not. It was going to be asterisk. OK, relax. You're going to be asterisk. Okay, relax. You're going to put a what? I'm going to put a period on the end of the sentence.

A sun fummer out there? I'm going to put a period on the end of the sentence. There's two results that we haven't passed along yet. So in the other semifinal, the non-Canadian semifinal of the Copa America, Colombia, 10-man Colombia beat Uruguay 1-0 yesterday in a match that was marred by the same very chippy, very card-friendly play that we've seen throughout this tournament. So for those of you that are saying,

I can't believe the officiating in the Canada match, you should have seen how it was in the Colombia-Uruguay match yesterday. It was very, very testy, very feisty. There was a red card in seven yellows and it spilled over post-match because some of the uruguayan players alleged that while they were trying to get their families down to the field post-match they ran into a group of unruly colombian supporters and a fight ensued yeah among those throwing punches darwin nunez the liverpool man uruguayan striker uh was caught up with a bunch of fans

they said it was due to a lack of police presence entirely that it wasn't uh secured enough from again either police or security staff so that was what happened there we're waiting to see the fallout because i'm not going to compare it to like the 2005 malice in the palace between the pistons and the pacers it didn't reach those levels, but anytime a player gets into a physical altercation with a fan, there's going to be some ramifications. The only reason I bring this up is because Uruguay still has to play a third place match against Canada on Saturday. And I don't know what sort of sanctions are going to come down on the

Uruguayans. So that happened. Also the Vancouver Whitecaps who are in the midst of their Canadian championship. They played CPL side Pacific. That's the one from Victoria, by the way. They played at Starlight Stadium in Langford yesterday. Whitecaps won 1-0.

That's a two-leg semifinal. I don't think they played a second leg for like another 47 days. The schedule is very bizarre. It was, um, I, well, I had it. Oh, I lost it. That's okay. I think it was August 27th, if I remember. You're right, actually.

It is August 27th. Wow. remember correctly. You're right, actually. It is August 27th. Wow. That's a long time between legs. They're going to actually forget that they have a second one to play. A really interesting result happened in the other semifinal because a lot of people have already penciled in Toronto FC to get through that semifinal and possibly meet the Whitecaps in the final.

Well, hold the phone. They lost to a CPL team, Forge. They were forged. Hamilton,ge. They were forged. Hamilton, baby. They were forged in Hamilton. That's right, laddie. Big upset there. 2-1.

That's a two-legger as well. So there's more than enough opportunity for Toronto FC to make up for it. But they didn't do a very good job in the first leg. We'll see what happens in the second. Who needs the tie cast when you got the Forge? Yeah. So how close do you keep ties to Hamilton? You got still buddies back there. You keep in touch with them. So what kind of presence does Forge. Yeah. So how close do you keep ties to Hamilton? You got still buddies back there?

Do you keep in touch with... So what kind of presence does Forge have in Hamilton? I wouldn't say huge presence, but there's a group of diehard soccer fans that will go to all the games. I have a few friends that are part of it. Okay. I wouldn't say it's overflowing at Tim Hortons Field,

but it is... Overforging? Overforging. Well, let's forge is their slogan, by the way. Okay, so moo-cow me on that. That's my What We Learned. We're going to go to break. We're going to come back on the other side.

I will go around the table here and see if Josh and the dogs have anything that they've learned, and then we will turn it over to you, the humanoids. Dumb Bar Lumber text line is 650- hashtag it wwl let us know what you learned over the last 24 hours in sports it's your chance to be on the radio and it's coming up next on the halford and brough show on sportsnet 650 hey it's big nazar have your say and join me on the people's show with big takes and even bigger bets weekdays three to four on Sportsnet 650 or wherever you get your podcasts. Now for my favorite part of the show. What'd I say?

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Hour 3 is brought to you by Campbell & Pound Real Estate Appraisers. Trust the expertise of Campbell & Pound. Visit them on the internet at campbell-pound.com today. That was a master class. That was great. You knew you had to read that quickly to get it in there, and you were focused, you were dialed in. I got it in there.

And you nailed it. Channeled is Peter Drury. Yesterday was Campbell dot Pound dash. I forgot about that. Never mind. Never mind. You've completely redeemed yourself. Ah, Campbell dot pound dash. I forgot about that. Never mind. Never mind. You've completely redeemed yourself. Ah, to hell with it.

And I threw my papers up in the air like a young Harry Doyle. Okay. We're going to go around the table here. It's what we learned time. Our version. So we're not going to fire up the dot matrix just yet. Josh Elliott Wolfe, who I learned is the world's only Josh Elliot Wolfe. Yeah. I did a Google search. We were talking about

unique names. Mine is not. There's many Mike Halfords out there. I'm assuming there's some Greg Ballocks. Yeah, there's one in England and one in Australia. There's about 9,000 Andy Coles. Yeah. But Josh Elliot Wolfe. That's why I'm never, I can't drop one of the names because I'm the

only one. Didn't Brooke Ward do that for you? Did he just keep referring to you as Josh Elliot? Well, you would go back and forth. Sometimes it was Josh Wolf. Sometimes it was Josh Elliot. Depends on how he's feeling, you know? Was there an economy of words that week? Sometimes it was just Elliot Wolf. He's like, Brooke, I know you like to

you know. Yeah, Brooke is like, I'm old school. You get two names. That's it. You can have three. I'm only thinking two of them two names. That's it. You can have three. I'm only thinking two of them. Yeah, that's it. Okay, what did you learn, Josh Wolf? You know what I learned is that today is July 11th. You know what that means?

I don't. It's 7-11. Oh, yes. You know what that means? Free small Slurpees. Oh, baby. Free advertising. Really?

Yeah. I mean, I knew that that was a thing. I didn't know it was still a thing. Oh, baby. Free advertising. Really? Yeah. I mean, I knew that that was a thing. I didn't know it was still a thing. Oh, yeah. Still, every year. You feel with all these gigantic corporations scaling things back to rip off the consumer that they wouldn't give away stuff.

Well, it used to be you could bring whatever you want and fill it up. Like, I used to bring, like, a giant suitcase and just fill Slurpee into it. Or like Josh's Canteen. Exactly. Oh, man, this would have been perfect. It's like $70 worth of Slurpee right there.

7-Eleven eventually got wise to this. People taking advantage. Like, sir, you can have been perfect. It's like $70 worth of Slurpee right there. 7-Eleven eventually got wise to this. People taking advantage. Like, sir, you can't fill that tank up. I feel like they still do that, but it's a different day. And now they have limits, though. They make you put it through a board that has a circle on it. You can't put it in a gas tank. So what's the promotion exactly?

It's a small Slurpee on 7-Eleven? You go in, you get a free small Slurpee. Wow. I guess that's great that they still do that. Yeah. I expect there to be an asterisk. It's like conditions apply. And it's like you have to buy eight pounds of beef jerky.

But that's how they get you. That's how they get you. Okay. When you get in there, you'll want to get eight pounds of beef jerky. Laddie, you're up. I'm up. It's my turn. Yes.

What we learned. There was a great moment yesterday for the Chicago White Sox organization. Michael Kopech, he was the first White Sox pitcher since 1923 to record an immaculate inning. Oh. Which is nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts, and then you get off the field. The last White Sox to do it, you guys, was the classic Sloppy Thurston.

Oh, it's Sloppy. Back in August 22nd,, was the classic Sloppy Thurston. Old Sloppy. Back in August 22nd, 1923. Old Sloppy Thurston. Sloppy Thurston was the last one to do it. Real name Hollis. Doesn't really roll off the tongue as well as Sloppy Thurston, though. I kind of wanted to read that to say the name Sloppy Thurston on the air. I know you kids like them sloppy.

Back in 1923, they did. Sloppy Thurston. John, or Hollis John Sloppy Thurston. sloppy back in 1923 they did um sloppy thirst john or hollis john sloppy thirst we need more of these we do that's the um what's his name shane gillis bit oh curly there have been some better nicknames i gotta say in the last five or six years like for a while there there were dreadful nicknames every nickname was awful, in the last five or six years. For a while, there were dreadful nicknames. Every nickname was awful. They were all hockey nicknames. But recently, I think it's gotten a little bit better. People are getting a little more creative with their nicknames. It's just gotta be like basic

descriptions like that, though. Like, ah, that guy's sloppy. So we're gonna call him Sloppy. Mook, how'd that slop? He wasn't very sloppy when he was immaculate that one fateful day. Back in 1923. Adog, I know you're furiously working. Are you clipping a Peter Drury

video? It's already up, yeah. I'll do my What We Learned quickly. This is because it's Simpsons related, so I'm very happy about it. We talked about this, I want to say, three or four months back when it was first announced, but Cypress Hill are completing this Simpsons joke set all the way back from 1996. Laddie's got the clip ready, and I'll just play it,

and let me know if you remember this. Do you know what's saying in the brain? We mostly know classical, but we could give it a shot. Put the wine on the flam, boy, you tell me Just toss that ham in the frying pan Now this I like Homer Palooza. One on the flam, boy, you tell me I just tossed that ham in the frying pan. Now this I like. Homer Palooza.

Yeah, so Cypress Hill are set to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra as their Simpsons prediction comes true 28 years later. That's right. Wednesday, July 10th, the band is set to take the stage with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. That episode has at least 10 standalone jokes. Billy Corgan smashing pumpkins. Homer Simpson smiling politely. That's a great one.

Who ordered the London Symphony Orchestra? Homer, nothing means more to me than the health of my freaks. I'm taking you to a vet. Moo cow. Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix, man? Yes. Pick up your puppy. Rover Hendrix?

Yeah. Rover Hendrix. Okay. Yes, pick up your puppy. Rover Hendrix? Yeah. Rover Hendrix. Okay, I got one more. You know what? A lot of these are non-sports related, but this one is a civic public announcement. I have learned that Lime Scooters are coming to Vancouver.

It was Kenneth Chan at Daily Hive yesterday. Lime is a brand. You need to explain to the people. Also a color. Scooters made of lime. And it's a fruit too. Lime is the brand of electric scooters that have infiltrated many North American cities over the last few

years. I've talked about them at length, having gone on vacation and used them. My favorite anecdote is one time when we were down in San Francisco, we went and go watch Monday night football back when Baker Mayfield was the quarterback of the Browns. That's how long ago this was. And it was my first sort of indoctrination to the e-scooter world. Yeah. So one night, maybe after a few beverages, me and the two guys that I went down with uh took scooters home to the hotel and

then when i woke up in the morning and realized we had to go like back out and get on with our day i was like oh guys this is perfect there's three scooters right here and then i opened the elevator and we had left the scooters in the elevator oh like they're right here this is perfect anyway it's so convenient still that they were there That anecdote plays into this because a big issue with scooters in a lot of the North American cities is that they're scattered everywhere. It is urban litter where you can just quite literally park and drop them anywhere. All you have to do on the app is just take a photo of it showing that you put it somewhere safe.

You can lean it up against a building, a stop sign. You can just put it on its side on the road and someone else just comes and picks it up they do have kickstands right but i'm here's the thing uh when you combine late nights and maybe some imbibing with scooters they're not treated with the most care and just people being jerks in general here's the key for vancouver they're gonna be the first all docked electric scooter city in North America, meaning you can't just leave them on the streets.

They have to be returned to a docking, which I assume would also be a charging station. So they're going to roll them out this summer. We're getting lime scooters in Vancouver pretty soon. That probably saves lime some money too, because if I'm not mistaken, the one I use them in Denver and I believe they went around actually and charged them manually like someone's job was to go around yeah collect them and make sure that they're charged the last time i used

probably saved the last time i used one was when we were in calgary they had lime and bird so they and there's scooters everywhere in calgary and they're convenient to get around though i gotta say oh they're great it was just the the littering of them everywhere was kind of annoying and i could see why if you were in a downtown core you'd be like i don't love this right but if they're all docked it's good so the initial rollout is gonna be a thousand scooters and it's eventually gonna be bumped up to five thousand scooters but you got people whipping around on scooters now and obviously not wearing helmets most of the time i wonder where that's the fallout's gonna be of that we've got bird bikes in Surrey, and they're all docked. They have little sidewalk station things, and they work pretty well.

It's neat and orderly. And I think they have a helmet in the basket for you, too, so you have to wear a helmet. So the other thing, my buddy that lives in Calgary, he told me that he moved there shortly before the summer where the Lime and Bird scooters were introduced to the general public, and he said that ER visits skyrocketed like 9,000%. I would have to assume.

People are taking zero precautions because they're not going to take a scooter. Those drunk people that litter downtown, they're now traveling 30 kilometers an hour on a scooter with no protection. Yeah, weaving in and out of traffic without a helmet. Devil may care attitude. So anyway, that's our last What We Learned mookowit. Fire up that dot matrix. Print out some humanoid submissions for What We Learned. Let's just, you know, fire away.

Oh my God! We're having a fire! Plan. All right. We will start with Justin in East Van and update what happened yesterday during what we learned. For some unexplained reason until now, my computer started talking at me yesterday. Yes.

My laptop just started talking. It was wonderful. And you guys were all laughing at me. I was doing the read for you. You guys were all laughing at me because I was awestruck by the fact that my computer became like a sentient being and we're just having a conversation with me. And while you guys were laughing at me, I was trying to unearth the mystery. I'm like, what is the make computer talk button?

How did I do that? How do I do it again? I couldn't make it happen again. I didn't know how. Justin and Ysvan with a What We Learned. What We Learned, the Windows narrator screen reading app can be enabled if you press the Windows logo key and enter. Hopefully Mike has his laptop speakers

muted this morning. Are we ready for this? I'm going to do this live. Okay. Oh wow, you're testing the theory. Do you have to have something highlighted? Yeah, did you highlight something? I think you have to have text highlighted. I do have text highlighted. Sorry Justin, your trick doesn't work. One more. Try control Windows button enter wow really dialogue okay it worked alt plus l heads up narrator keyboard changes we've updated

the narrator keyboard layout so this is great radio by the way the boomer figuring out now it'd be funny you can't turn it off. She won't stop talking. Goes for the rest of the day. So thank you, Justin. I figured that out live on the radio. I had no idea. I'm going to make my computer talk all the time.

And well, it's probably better if you didn't. Maybe not during the show. And take your job. I actually said that when we went off the air. I'm like, look, you guys, there is a button that makes the computer talk. And I i kind of need to i stayed here for a half hour after the show he's not lying you think he's making a joke people it was justin that saved the day for me on that one uh we've got multiple texts into the dunbar lumber tech message in basket talking about the peter drury interview my buddy reed just texted me said it was one of our two best guests ever, along with John McEnroe.

What Peter Drury and John McEnroe have in common is that Andy Cole had no idea who they were. You got to go into every interview request with the confidence of not knowing who someone is. I think I've discovered the secret to booking these big guests is just not knowing who they are. Andy rolls in with a certain devil may care attitude. This is why I'll never book Wayne Gretzky. Just treat them like normal people. That's all celebrities want. He called Peter Drury Pete.

He said, what's up, Pete? You want to come on the show tomorrow? Hey, it's PDD on the line here. He's like, this guy must know me. I should do this hit. Oh, my God. Anyway, it was a great hit. It was a great interview.

If you go to Sportsnet 650 on Twitter, you just put the clip up right now. Yeah, a bit of it's up. And of course, it'll be podcasted within the hour. Right, hour three podcast will be available in about 20 minutes time. Apple, Google, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Who else has one? You gotta stop saying Google. Those don't exist anymore. Google podcast is done.

Oh, so just Spotify. A few months ago, I guess. Apple and Spotify. Apple and Spotify and the Sportsnet website, of course. Canadian Tire, Petcetera. Wherever you get your podcast. Is Petcetera still open? 7-Eleven podcast Tire, Petcetera, wherever you get your podcasts. Is Petcetera still up there? 7-Eleven podcast form. Did Petcetera go the way of Google? I don't even know.

Well, Google is still thriving. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. This one. So what we learned, there's round three of the BC Amateur, and this is from BP out in the Valley, by the way. Okay, thank you, BP. Round three of the BC Amateur is happening at Ledgeview Golf Course today.

These kids are smashing the ball around. The next young gun from Ledgeview, Max McKenzie, who's 15, tied for eighth. Also, 650 tie, our very own basketball Ben, Ben Besron, playing in the tournament. I'm trying to find him. I'm scrolling a little. He said he was in the tournament. I'm trying to find him. I'm scrolling a little. You said he was in 37th. Yeah, he's currently playing. I'll try to find him.

Oh, there he is. He's tied for 37th still. Tees off at 9.50 a.m. today. Three over. Go, Ben. Go, Ben, go. Sean the Belt Guy. He's a big belt guy.

Sean the Belt Guy. Like, what belt guy Sean the belt guy like what is like he wears multiple at once I don't know he just owns a lot of them maybe he's really nice buckles he's a belt manufacturer oh that's true

he could be door to door belt salesman he buckles like a belt I wonder if Rick Tockett's a big belt guy hashtag hashtag WWO

what we learned from Sean the belt guy as a Canucks 49ers and Dutch supporter I am destined to have my heart broken and always be the close but no cigar bridesma As a Canucks 49ers and Dutch supporter, I am destined to have my heart broken and always be the close but no cigar bridesmaid fan. Canucks 49ers and Dutch.

Yeah, so the Dutch had a very, very legitimate gripe with yesterday's match because a lot of people, including our first guest, Ian McIntosh, if you want to download the Hour One podcast, he said that just wasn't a penalty. That whatever Harry Kane managed to procure from the referee and VAR was not a penalty. It should not have been called.

And that got it. Not only did it draw the score level for England, but it was so quickly after the Javi Simone's goal that I think it really turned momentum in a fundamental way. It took away some of the zest from that early dutch start so uh but alas sean the belt guy maybe the canucks will get it done for you this year dare to dream dare to dream uh next one noah from east van what i learned is netflix's receiver series dropped yesterday starring davante adams justin jefferson george kittle debo samuel and scoring Devontae Adams, Justin Jefferson, George Kittle, Debo Samuel,

and Amon Ross St. Brown. So if you're a Packers fan, you're probably going to hate it. There's a lot of ties there. Not in a good way to the Green Bay Packers. Did you watch the other one with the quarterbacks? I watched the quarterback one. And how was it? It was decent.

It was definitely a good peek behind the curtain. I'm trying to remember i i feel like kirk cousins was unexpectedly like the the most fun part that was the time yeah i i just read the reviews i didn't watch it i just didn't have the bandwidth with how busy my life is not really um it was kirk cousins who's really leaned into the dad of the nfl Yeah. Right? And, you know, I think he sort of became the unexpected star, but the biggest issue they're going to have,

because Netflix is full on in with the sports things. The sports documentaries. Yeah. Well, it's the ones that they can, not necessarily script, but they have some

editorial control over, as opposed to like Hard Knocks, which is more like, we're just going to have a million cameras and see what unfolds. Like you can kind of tell a story because you're narrowing the scope with quarterbacks and receivers. And you can tell the stories that these guys want to tell,

as opposed to having the stories told to you, but it's a lot of content. And the content is turned around really quickly. And I'm going to be dead honest. Sometimes just filming something doesn't result in a great product yeah and i i do i honestly a lot of quarterback is kind of forgettable and that's why i'm like trying to remember some of it um but i do remember it being longer than it needed to be and there being a lot of fluff and i i've been like i watched the the drive to survive

i was a big fan of yep um what was that there was the golf one to full swing i liked yep but i don't know it might just not work as well with these these team sports and everything that goes into that um but i haven't watched receiver yet so maybe it is good i'm a vikings fan so justin jefferson i would be happy to see. You'll watch it just for JJ. Yeah, I mean, he was injured last year, too, so it might just be bad. It's going to be light on Clemson for him. We got Jordan in Coquitlam with a What We Learned,

an update on the introduction of Lime Scooters to the Lower Mainland, to Vancouver specifically. Jordan writes, What We Learned, To add to the earlier, they already have Lime Scooters here in Coquitlam what we learned to add to the earlier. They already have lime scooters here in Coquitlam, but on my way to the gym in Port Moody, people leave them right outside because the range ends. So there are often 15 to 20 scooters along low heat highway at the Port

Moody sign. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Like, I understand that there's going to be docking stations and it will be sort of part of the process to put them back. But I also know human nature, which is like when I'm done with this, I'm going to drop it wherever I go. Go to any grocery store.

Look at the carts. Exactly. Right. Yeah, I do kind of want to. All I know is that I've been to about three or four large North American cities that have them and they were described as urban litter. And it's the perfect way to describe it because they're just strewn about. They're useful, but it's also like just drop it anywhere instead of the appropriate receptacle, which is where the litter thing comes in. So do we think this is going to work well now that it's going to be... I mean, look, I drove downtown yesterday between Gastown being partially closed off

and not being able to cut through the Port of Vancouver through the back road. It's chaos. And people have pointed out the construction as well. I feel like adding another mode of transportation to an already congested downtown core might have its issues. Nah, I'm sure it'll be fine.

But I'm no urban planner. They're not going to call me on City News to ask for my opinions on this. Well, they'll be riding on the sidewalks most of the time. Which is also like... Keep your heads up. Yeah, which is also a bit of an issue, right? Colin and Tawasin, hashtag WWO, what we learned.

I learned that yesterday's Uruguay versus Colombia match and post-game made Canada's games at the Copa America seem like a calm and gentlemanly affair. Yeah, it was chaos. That entire match, which I watched, was played at a furious fever pitch. It was super intense. You could tell that getting to the final meant a ton for both teams, including Columbia. I think it's the first time they've been back to the final in 23 years.

Everything about South American football was on display. The dark arts, the fouls, the cards, the feuding supporters' bases and fans afterwards. It was a very, very, very testy affair. I do wonder what the runoff is going to be on Saturday because they've got that stupid third place game, which I hate. Canada is going to be playing Uruguay, who's obviously incredibly disappointed not to have got to the final,

whereas Canada, I think, has the mindset of like, we could finish third in a Copa, which would be a great thing for us. Hopefully that's how it plays out because I would like to see Canada finish third, even though I fundamentally don't believe in third and fourth place matches. You said it yesterday, but there's always a team that goes into the third place game that's like, hey, this means something and we want to win.

And there's a team that's just disappointed to be there. And it does feel like Uruguay is now the team that is disappointed to be there. There's some off-field distractions too. And that's going to play into it. And Canada, yeah. And the other part of this too is new coach and all that. And you're still trying to implement some things. Yes.

So good opportunity. Yeah, there are definitely things that work in Canada's favor that no other national team is carrying at the moment, right? And one of them you astutely point out is that Jesse Marsh is far from having a finished product on his hands.

He's like, we still need to work on a lot of the things that I wanted to bring in three or four weeks ago when I started this whole thing. You got another one there? This one, what we learned unsigned. Gary? Gary. That's what it is?

It is. There was a 6.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Vancouver Island at 8 a.m. A reminder to be prepared. You never know when the big one will affect us. That's very good. I appreciate that. We got a lot of... Preparation?

Is that what that was? I've been so... Maybe not irrationally, but ever since I was like seven years old, I was just like, one day. One day. Northquake is going to hit us

and we're going to fall apart. I live in Ladner. Yes. Below sea level. You live near a slough. I do live near a slough. You mentioned that yesterday. We all know what a slew is

mosquitoes in the slew we got one here and I didn't fact check this exactly because it's very finite but I'm going to read it anyway so what we learned it's unsigned it's from Gary don't you forget about me was the goal song on 80s night in December of 2021

which was Bruce Boudreaux's debut as Canucks coach and it continued on because of his seven-game win streak to start. Since the song is still being used today as the Canucks goal song, I'd say his history, his status, and his legacy are looked upon fondly.

Wow. The general sentiment that we got, because we were addressing Canucks cult heroes and trying to come up with a Mount Rushmore, and then we dovetailed off just talking about Bruce Boudreaux and I was like you know now the time has passed what are everyone's memories and your your final thoughts I guess on the Boudreaux era and almost universally the listener said uh remembered fondly uh like uh you knew it was a fun relationship but he was never going to be the one and hey you had a chant named after you so you've always got that

so I guess at the end of the day Bruce Boudreau really is a cult hero in Vancouver which is nice good for him we got one final show for the rest of the week that's coming up tomorrow it's an Ask Us Anything Friday Friday we're also giving away a $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway for the best Ask Us Anything.

You can start getting them in now. Dumbbell number text line is 650-650. Josh and I will be back at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Our final show together of the week. It'll be fun. We'll do our usual hijinks on a Friday. It'll be an Ask Us Anything Friday Friday as opposed to an Ask Us Anything Friday Monday. Friday.

Friday. It's good that you specified that. Yeah, thank you for telling us. I like doing Fridays on Friday. Ask Us Anything Friday Tuesday. It's an Ask Us Anything. Friday. Friday. It's good that you specified that. Yeah, thank you for telling us. I like doing Ask Us Anything Friday. It's an Ask Us Anything Friday. Friday. We got to get out of here for now,

but we'll be back on Ask Us Anything Friday on a Friday. Signing off, I have been Mike Alford. He's been Josh Elliott-Wolf. He's been A-Dog. And he's been Laddie. This has been the Alford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.