Halford & Brough in the Morning - Moj Talks Lions & Canucks + What We Learned

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

In hour three, Mike & guest host Jamie Dodd set up Sunday's BC Lions road matchup at Hamilton with Leos radio PxP man The Moj (3:00), plus Moj gives us his thoughts on the Canucks free agency, the boys tell us what they learned (20:00), plus it's Ask Us Anything Friday! (27:00) This podcast is produced by Andy Cole and Greg Balloch. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate.

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Yes, it's the Moach Halpert's fine, but, you know, Brumf is just grumpy all the time. 8.03 on a Friday. Happy Friday, everybody. Halford Brough featuring Jamie Dodd, Sportsnet 650. Halford Brough of the Morning is brought to you by Pacific Honda. Pacific Honda is North Vancouver's premier destination for Honda vehicle sales and service. They have a friendly, knowledgeable staff that can help with anything you're looking for. Sales, financing, service, or parts.

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Google reviews. Sore feet? What are you waiting for? Kintec, that's what you're waiting for. To the phone lines we go. Bob the Moj Marjanovic, a presentation of the Clayton Public House here on the Halford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. What up, Moj? Good morning, fellows. I'll tell you what. I don't know, doing broadcasting for 20, 20, well, 25 years now.

Yep. Usually when there's a substitute host, you kind of say, hey, so-and-so's in for, you know, whatever, right? I've never heard the term featuring. Yeah. Using the tagline. Is that like Dodd being the lawyer? Is that something that he negotiated? It's kind of like when you go watch a movie, right?

They go through the credits and featuring Jack Nicholson. You're right. It's like you're not the star, but you're not... You're a big enough name that we can't just put you at the end of the credits. We have to give you a little extra bump. I think I've graduated from a mere guest host on this show to feature it.

I'm all about the amplification of my co-hosts, or dare I say Alfred's pumping my tires here. It's like a rap track. He's the added voice. I had like a punch card and after I did it like 10 times, I got elevated from guest host to featuring.

There you go. I love it. How's Hamilton, Moj? We leave for Hamilton tomorrow. Looking forward okay, nice. Looking forward to it. You know, one of my favorite stops in the CFL, little Hess Village, the place we went to last time, I think we're going to go to again.

It's called The Mule, great Mexican place. So, yeah, Hamilton, plenty of character, love the hammer. It's an 0-4 football team, but the Lions have gone up against a couple of winless teams in the last couple of weeks, and they've been difficult challenges. What kind of challenge do the Ticats present on Sunday? Well, I mean, here's a team that's much like Edmonton, played

a lot of close games. I think they've only the four losses, three of them have been by eight points or less, so a single score every time. I think the big thing with Hamilton is just getting on them and getting on them early. Don't allow them to get any confidence just getting on them and getting on them early. Don't allow them to get any confidence. So if you can jump on them early and, you know, take a 14-0

lead or something like that, they'll probably kind of start thinking, here we go again. But, you know, when you have a team that's struggling, you just don't want to give them any life. So I think that's one of the big keys for the Lions is dominating the line of scrimmage. And as Rick Campbell says, no negative plays. Don't turn the ball over. Don't get sacked. Don't take penalties until they'll be in good shape. When Lions do that, they play some pretty good football. Lions with a couple of close wins in their last two games. Just overall, how would you say this team is performing right now? On a scale of 10, I'd probably say maybe a six and a half or a seven. I still think there's plenty of room for improvement. And if you talk to anybody with

the organization, there is defensively. I'm still thinking they're trying to figure out what to do against the run. And certain situations with the pass, they're not really passing towards Gary Peters and Manny Ragumba's side, but the other side's still a work in progress that features, well, Jordan Perryman, Ronald Kent, and Seante Evans. So they've got to get that cleaned up. But offensively, I think they still want to establish the running game a little bit more. They've improved the running game, but I don't think they have the running game where they want it to be. With regards to the injury suffered by linebacker Josh Wood, so he's out for the year with a knee injury. How

big a loss is this going to be? I know anytime you lose a guy, the heart and soul of the linebacking crew, the middle linebacker, it's tough, but what was Wood bringing to this team and how difficult is it going to be to replace? Well, I mean, they were expecting a big year from Josh Wood. They moved him inside. He gained 10 pounds in the offseason.

And talking to Josh, he preferred playing inside because you're a little bit more active inside than when you're on the outside. And, of course, he tore his ACL. And we talked to him the other day. He was in good spirits. He knows what's ahead of him. He tore the ACL in his other knee. So he knows what he has to do.

He feels very confident that he'll be back, but you got Ben Holatic, the UBC product, moving back into the middle where he started last year, and you have a veteran like Bo Lacombo now playing on the outside, and the other thing, too, is that Ryder Varga's working his way into the mix, and Ryder has a lot

of potential. They really like what Ryder Varga brings, the kid from Saskatchewan so he'll probably be getting more reps and the thing is with Ryder too he missed a lot of training camp he had mono so he was basically out of commission for a couple of weeks but he's starting to to get more reps and feel 100% the other thing too is they have a kid named Ace Ealy who can play the middle as well and Ace is a bit of a specimen although he still probably has to get a little better at some of his reads. We had defensive coordinator and assistant head coach Ryan Phillips on the show last week,

and he was talking about, I asked about Christian Covington, right? Sort of a high-profile, big-name acquisition on the defense. He said it was coming along. Curious to get your thoughts on what you've seen from Covington so far. Yeah, I think probably the same. Number one, he hasn't played in a year, so he's getting up to speed. He was on a practice roster last year in the NFL. And it's a different game, right? It really is.

It's kind of funny. I was talking to Christian the other day about, you know, getting after the quarterback. And, you know, a lot of times when you play that position, basically you've kind of got a couple of responsibilities. But, you know, he said there's only a couple times in games where he felt like he could just go after the quarterback. The other times, you know, he had to kind of play run first.

But it's a transition, right? I mean, people forget it's a different game. That yard off the line of scrimmage is different. The 22nd clock is different, right? The downs and distances, for the most part, are kind of different in a way, right? So it's a transition, and I agree with ryan he's coming along and that's when i look at this team and i say it's like playing at a six and a half or seven this team has the potential to get up to a nine or nine and a half right and like i said there's still a lot of work left to

be done to get there but there's this team could play with ed christian coming to being one of them there's a lot of players in this team that could play at a higher potential or probably a higher level yeah how much of a higher level can Vernon Adams Jr. get to? Because he's playing at a pretty high level right now. He's just one offensive player of the month. He's on pace for 6,000 yards, but I've got to ask, is there more there? No, I don't know if there is more. He's been really good.

As they say in football slang, he's a dude. He's just firing on all cylinders right now. And wait until he gets Keon Hatcher back. That's the good news for the Lions as well. Even though they lose Woods, Keon Hatcher and TJ Lee are probably going to suit up for the Calgary game in a couple of weeks. So they're already practicing with the team. And it's amazing the recovery these guys have had from the Achilles injuries they both suffered in the playoff game against Winnipeg. But once you get Keon Hatcher back,

man, it's just going to get scary. But yeah, I mean, in terms of VA, I mean, he's just unconscious sometimes. Sometimes things that really impress me and things to look for in his game are not necessarily like hitting Alexander or hauling streaking down the sidelines or whatever, but a lot of times teams are bringing

numbers. Sometimes they're bringing eight guys, the Lions might only have six or seven a block, and he is hitting that hot receiver, and they haven't been sacked in three games. A lot of that's on Vernon, too, because of the fact that he's getting rid of the ball extremely quickly and finding

that hot receiver, and also his mobility i mean there's a couple of times where he's pulled a little bit of a houdini stunt and gotten out of trouble so again when you look at what he's doing oh man i don't know if there's much more you can ask for them and mojo i know um you'll be taking stock of the canucks as well and now that the dust has settled a little bit on what they did in free agency. So what do you think of the moves they made? Have they improved based on where they were last season? Well, it's kind of funny.

I put that out on Twitter. And, you know, is this a better connect team than the one that ended the season? And it came down to, I don't know, something like 534 votes, and it finished 50-50, right? Wow. Literally 50-50. So I wrote my column, and I guess the gist of the column was

I'm Kevin Costner and Swigwalt. So I kind of thought to myself, how am I going to go about this? So I looked at the team and talked to a couple of scouts and I guess when you look at DeBrusque up front, he does so many good things. Everybody loved the addition

of DeBrusque. Talked to a couple of scouts. They loved Sherwood and what he brings to the team and the energy. They say if he can take his hockey IQ to the next level, he's going to be a really good player. And the one thing, though, is defensively. I mean, losing Zdorov,

you lost him in tangible. Losing Cole as well, I don't think Cole as much, and I'll get to that in a sec, but with Zdorov, you really lost that main streak, right? A big body. They got a couple of big bodies back in Forbert and DeJarne, but they just don't have that mean streak that the Doroff plays with, and they're not capable of playing maybe second pairing minutes. So now I think you're putting a little more pressure on Tyler Myers to play second minutes.

And I think the other thing, too, when you look at Cole, he's a guy that really brought a calming influence to this team last year because he'd been with teams. And I remember the one line that I was told, it was like this team, you know, when he first got there, the Canucks would have some issues and they'd lose the game. It was like a trauma unit in here some nights, right? I mean, guys that didn't know how to react to losses.

But as the season progressed, you know, Rick Tockett and his earned-a a day mentality and that reset mentality that they had really kind of took over and i think i think they'll be fine without cole in the sense that now they've got guys that have been through a couple of playoff rounds that have been you know playing under tocket for a year and know the routine so i don't think that one hurts as much but i think losing losing Zdorov hurts. Moj, before we let you go, it's sort of an ask us anything, but I just need to follow up. You just texted Andy about the – Andy, reset this for me.

What Moj texted you on our conversations of the biggest dad moves. Yeah, he just said kids in shopping carts. Explain. Well, it's not really a dad move the more I think about it but it's something that my dad did with me so when I was a kid right and we went out to whatever we always used to shop at the Safeway in New West okay like anytime I was with my dad was always I had to walk right I could never like you know ride in a cart or this or that, excuse me. And like, now when I go to a superstore or wherever, especially the superstore,

I see these kids in shopping carts that are like freaking 12. Yeah. Like they can barely squeeze into the cart. Their parents are wheeling them around. I'm like somewhere. My dad is rolling over at his grave. I'm like, I'm just like, it's just, it's, it's insane. Like, I'm like the kids 12, he can barely fit in his grave. I'm like, I'm just like, it's just, it's insane.

Like, I'm like, the kid's 12 and he can barely fit in the cart. Hey, okay, let's put you in the cart like a little toddler. I'm just like, that blows me away. I don't know if it's a dad moment, but there's a part of me that almost feels like young at these kids and saying, walk, right? Get out of the cart. So you're saying I shouldn't get in shopping carts? Is that a faux pas? Put you in the shopping cart when you're saying i shouldn't get in shopping carts is that a faux pas put you in the shopping cart when you go yeah i mean it's like these kids in shopping carts like the kids like

eight nine ten years old sometimes like i said they can barely fit into a shopping cart they're just like oh man give me a break when they become too large for the pre-existing seat by the handlebars and they're actually sitting in the physical cart where you put the groceries which i have seen that's when you know that you're too big to ride in a cart anymore. And you need to do it on foot. That's what I'm talking about. It's not the kids that are like in the little where the handlebars are. I'm talking kids

literally riding in the body of the cart, right? It's just too much. Moj, enjoy Hamilton. Fly safe there. Fly safe back. And we'll do this again next week. Okay. Have a good one, fellas do this again next week. Okay. Have a good one, fellas. Yeah, you too.

Thanks. That's Bob the Moj Marjanovic here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Featuring, yes, featuring Jamie Dodd for the last time this week. Obviously, it's Friday, so there's no more shows. But next week. The last time until, like, a couple weeks from now. Yeah. When we're doing it again together.

You're back with him, not next week, but the following Tuesday, I think you get a reprieve before you come back to feature on the show again. So next week, um, I'm going to be doing the show. Now I, sometimes I say I'm doing it solo,

but I'm not, I'm doing it with the dogs. And actually we hadn't asked us anything. Uh, will the dogs ever serve as co-hosts? So Monday and Tuesday of next week, uh, Andy and Greg and I are going to do the show as a triumvirate.

We're going to be the three legs of the tripod together. We're going to do the show. Three stooges. Yeah, right? And we're going to do it together. That's how I want this to be. Monday and Tuesday. Monday shows are always fun.

I don't know. It sounds like a lot of work. It does sound like a lot of work. Andy? Every time we talk about hosting the show or co-hosting, that's the first thing that Andy always says. I don't know. I don't know. A lot of work, man. I'd like talk about hosting the show or co-hosting, that's the first thing that Andy always says. I don't know. A lot of work, man. I'd like to see one of you

do the Kintec read. I'd like to discuss the hosting pay scale please. And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday next week we are about to embark on a new challenge, a new beginning, a new initiative for the Halford & Brough

show is that Josh Elliott-Wolf, young up-and-comer, I believe initiative for the Halford and Brough show is that Josh Elliott Wolfe, young up and comer, I believe he's the youngest on-air host here at Sportsnet 650. Sure. We're changing the name of the show to Zoomer and Boomer. We're not going to do that. Yes, we are. Well, you don't have any choice. I don't even know how to change it back because I'm a boomer.

It's on the computer. Anyway, Josh is going to host a few shows with me and then he's also going to host a few shows with Brough. That's going to be later on in the month when I go on vacation.

And then at the end of the week, he's going to tell us who he likes working with more. It's actually the end of the month. It's going to be an interesting dynamic because with me, he'll play more of the brough role where he's not necessarily doing all of the steering of the boss but when he hosts with

brough he is going to be tasked with that so he gets to be the halford and the brough i gotta say i'm a little concerned i thought i was like the de facto younger could work with either of you come in have some fun for a few days josh is going to be featured on the health and brough show soon once you acknowledge that you did the rotisserie chicken dad dinner you were out of the running for being the young up and coming host that was it we ordered you a pair of air monarchs younger relative to you two not not relative to society at large we thought about about it. We're like, what if we had a young up-and-comer sub-30

category. Inject some youth into this. Yeah, step into the role. We can offer him a contract. He's in the age of 30. Anyway, so that's all happening next week on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. We got a little bit of time before we go to break here. Let's dive into the Dunbar Lumber text message in basket. Do some asking, sending. Sorry, before you go, I's dive into the Dunbar Lumber text messaging basket. Do some Ask Us Anything.

Sorry, before you go, I'll reset everything. Dunbar Lumber text line is 650-650. We're giving away a $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway for the best Ask Us Anything. Hashtag it AUA. Text line is 650-650. We will award that in the final half hour of the show. Capitol Hill, Ron, Texas.

Good morning, gentlemen. In honor of the Rolling Stones in town tonight. They're playing at BC Place. Are you going? First of all, he says, have you ever been to a Stones concert? What band current band would you want to see most? I'm not going tonight. I saw the Stones.

I want to say it was in 2005 in Montreal. Great show. Awesome. In terms of what band I most want to see. So speaking of me being an old show. Awesome. In terms of what band I most want to see, speaking of me being an old dad, I'm a... Here we go. I'm a massive, massive Bruce

Springsteen fan. You are old. Are you also a journalist by chance? I did not hear that coming. Are you Alan Walsh? I love Springsteen. He's coming in November, I believe. Tickets are through the roof expensive. I've been like hemming and hawing over it.

I tried to convince my wife. I floated to my wife. I was like, we can get tickets. It could be like our joint anniversary present. She was like, I'm not that into Springsteen. This is not a thing. What are you talking about? I was like, yeah, okay, never mind.

Good try, though. How old are you? I'm 38. like, yeah, okay, never mind. Good try, though. How old are you? I'm 38. You're very, you skew young for a Springsteen fan. Yes, but I'm old at heart. That's true. And old of ear, apparently. I don't, yeah, I'm not going to go.

The Stones for me are like, I understand the cultural significance, and I would like to go to a show without having any sort of diehard affinity for them. I always tell this story, but when I was in Pittsburgh for the Stanley Cup final, Sean Gentile, who had on the show yesterday, told me and Wyshynski,

he's like, I got dirt cheap U2 tickets at Heinz Field. I'm like, I don't even like U2. Yeah. I went, it was like 25 bucks.

It was stupid cheap. It was awesome. I had an amazing time. I think I spent like three times the amount of money on beers than I did on tickets.'re a belt now like i know a good show i know most of the songs because they've been like sort of i've been inundated with them over the last year like it was great but i have no affinity for them whatsoever that's the same level that i would put the stones and springsteen at right now um you know who i one of the best concerts that i ever

went to that I ever went to that I would love to see again, I don't even care how old this is, I saw the Foo Fighters open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Wow. Pat, it was then GM Place.

This is about at least 20 years ago. And for some reason, Cool Keith opened up for both of them. I don't know how he fit in. Natural fit? I don't know how he fit in. One of the best concerts I ever saw was SummerSlam in,

I think it was 2000. The wrestling? Yeah. Or summer something. Mick Foley beat The Rock. It was a great concert. It was at BC Place. And Foo Fighters played Deftones.

It was Smashing Pumpkins' last concert ever with their original lineup. Who else was there? Sum 41. And they weren't even a known band then. I think it was one of their first shows. Dude, that was... Oh, Our Lady Peace played. Such a sick concert. Foo Fighters, so good live.

Yeah, the one that I really regret, actually, and it came through, it was when I first started at 650, and I took my job more seriously, so I didn't go out on school nights. So there was a Sunday night show, and it was the Pixies and Weezer. And actually, the guy had tickets for me,

and I'm like, I can't go. I can't do a concert the night before a show. My, how that conversation has changed. I'm there. Yeah. I can phone it in. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. Repeatedly. And with a plum, I had a bucket list concert ripped away from me recently. I had tickets to go see Neil Young and he had canceled the rest Of his summer tour Because he got sick Ripped away is a harsh Way of putting that

But I get what you're saying Well I had the tickets They were in my possession And now they're gone A part of me also Is kind of curious Like Bob Dylan Still tours

And I don't think Like he plays like Casinos and stuff He doesn't do like Big venues He's doing the Gordon Lightfoot Towards the end of his career Yeah and

Obviously like He's pretty old I don't you know He's never much of a singer To begin with So I don't know how But like Ifoot towards the end of his career. Yeah, and obviously, like, he's pretty old. I don't, you know, he's never much of a singer to begin with. So I don't know how, but, like, I saw someone posted one of his set lists the other day, and it was like, he covered multiple Sublime songs. Like, he covered Santeria. Really?

Yeah. And what was the other one? It was like, I want to say, it wasn't Great Big Sea, but it was something like that. It might have been great. Oh, no, it was Real Big World. Was that it? Real Big Fish. Real Big Fish. Real Big Fish.

Covered Real Big Fish. I was like, what? So I kind of just like morbidly curious about what Bob Dylan is up to. I've heard people that went to Dylan shows be like, I didn't recognize even the normal songs that he played. He's just so out there now compared to what it used to be. Since it is what we learned and we can correct what we might have learned. Andy, the concert that you went to, did you call it Summer Slam?

Summer something. Summer Salt? Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, did you call it Summer Slam? Summer something. Summer Salt? Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, there you go. Summer Slam is wrestling. Someone just texted me Summer Salt. I think Hulk Hogan was there for some reason. Summer Slam. Got up on stage with the foos. Really weird. What is happening on that stage? What a concert! This is so innovative. Ray Mysterio Jr. just doing a bunch of flips

all the time. They don't even have instruments up there. Okay, we're going to go to break. When we come back, it is the final half hour of the final hour of the final show of the week. We're going to give away a $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza on East Broadway. For the best, ask us anything. Get them in. We still haven't chosen a winner.

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Visit them on the internet at campbell-pound.com today. We do have a couple of what we learned here. Laddie, because Jason isn't here and you are free from the shackles of bruffdom and you won't get yelled at, you have a Korean baseball one. He's going to text me yelling at me. I don't think he's slept since

he's gone to europe he's not listening don't worry he's texted me multiple times at all hours of the day i don't think he's slept yet uh i won't tell him about this it'll be our little secret and the tens of people that are listening anyway what uh what did you learn about korean baseball well i want to play a clip for you it's about about 20 seconds long. And I want you guys to try to decipher what happened in this play between KT whiz and Hanwha. Of course, there was a play. It's very exciting as you'll hear.

And I want you guys to try this just to set it up. The clip is in Korea. It's in Korea. So unless you understand, we may have a few listeners that understand Korean. Got it. Big stumbling. Got it.

Okay, let's go. You guys do not. I'm ready. Let's Got it. Big stumbling block. Got it. Okay, let's go. You guys do not. I'm ready. Let's hear it. Now, my Korean, granted, is a little rusty. It's been a long time since I've been fluent, but that clearly is a guy hitting a home run off a bunch. Yes.

How did you know? I told you. It was a little league home run in professional baseball, which I know you see it a lot probably in your kids' games. Given my fluent nature, I only hear it. I don't see it. But, yeah, there was a bunt laid down, and, yes, it was a couple errors thrown around,

but a guy got all the way around for a three-run homer. Good old-fashioned Little League home run. Yeah. All the Little Leagues locally, by the way, are in their provincials and districts right now. So shout-out to all the Little Leagues going for provincials this weekend. Hopefully you can turn a bunt into a home run, just like you were

in Korea. I'm rocking my little mountain hat. Go little mountain. They also do the bunt competitions in the Korean League, right? So they're clearly very good at the bunting. He came in, Jamie, of course I'm talking about, not the Korean bunter. Jamie came in the other day, he's wearing his little mountain hat.

I'm like, that is a gorgeous hat. The evolution of Little League baseball gear from when we were kids is shocking. Shocking. The amount of swag that these kids get. The notion of having a pro-fit hat when I played baseball as a kid was not in the cards. When I was in Little League are nor your normal team you just

got like a snapback or whatever the reward for getting on the tournament team was a pro fit hat yeah and it was like a big deal it's like oh it's a pro fit hat wow no I had trying to think back to the uniforms I had going on man there were some bad ones I had the old mesh hat with the foam front that was like Bob's big boy presents Burnaby baseball. See, that sounds amazing. Yeah, and the pants were pinstriped and eight sizes too big, and you looked like, it looked like the Bad News Bears.

My high school team used to hand down the jersey. You didn't get to keep your jersey, right? Yeah. And mine had a burn hole in it. Like an actual burn, not from sliding. Someone put a cigarette out on it. Someone put a cigarette out on it. Someone put a cigarette out on it. Yeah, that's good.

It was in the dugout. I don't know why I had. It was a different time. K, Moo Cow. So we are getting hyped for the Olympics here at the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Spent a little bit of time talking about the hammer throw earlier in the show.

Canada, obviously. BC being a hotbed of hammer throwers. ADOG is on the chase to get somebody from the Canadian breakdancing team on the show next week ahead of the Paris Olympics. But the big one for us going into Paris is the Canadian men's basketball team. And this weekend, their group at the Olympics is going to come into shape because, believe it or not teams and very good teams are still going through the rigorous qualifying process to get to the Olympics if

you're unfamiliar with it qualifying for the Olympics in basketball is insanely difficult it's much more harder than it should be uh but there's only a certain amount of spots available 12 and that means some really good countries get left on the outside looking in. So right now, there's a tournament going on in Greece that's got Giannis Antetokounmpo and the host Greek team, Luka Doncic and the Slovenian team. And they're going to meet in the semifinals on Saturday to decide who goes to the finals to play the winner of the Dominican and Croatia.

Like it's just, it's an, it's a crazy tournament. The winner of that quartet will go into Canada's group. So too will the winner of a tournament in Spain and Spain is heavily favored to win that one. I can't remember the teams in that one. I think it's the Bahamas,

Lebanon and Finland. And Spain is expected to go. Canada's group is going to be super difficult. They've got Australia in there. And then whatever goes on in these tournaments. I will say this. There's expected winners in these tournaments. You never know. Don't expect anything. FIBA basketball

is so screwed up and so weird. The ball is all funny. It's got different colors on it. It's like shooting a Globetrotters ball. Guys get thrown off by it. You can pick the ball off the rim and it's not goaltending. It's very strange. So all I'm saying is that, thank God Canada got in through the World Cup and didn't have to go through this weird backdoor tournament.

Remember that debacle in Victoria a few years ago? I would love to see some of the big name star players go, but I'm not going to be heartbroken if they don't and don't have to end up in Canada's group.

We will find out everything this weekend. So, Mukau that. Anybody else got what we learned? I don't, but I'll go back into the inbox for some Ask Us Anythings. Okay, hold on.

We have to do the printing instead, of course. Jamie. Come on, Jamie. We have what do the printing. Oh, right. Of course. Jamie. Come on, Jamie. We have what we like to refer to as administrative nonsense. I was so close to getting through the show without screwing up at the break. We looked at each other. We were like half hour left.

We were working for the weekend and our weekend begins at eight fifty five on a Friday morning. OK, you know what? Even though we don't have a read anymore, I love the drop so much. Just do the get fire plan. Oh my God! We're having a fire plan! It's always good to have a fire plan. It is good. Even if it's sponsored or not. Just in general, right? Whether they're sponsoring

it for $200 or not. Yeah, I mean, at least it's like a PSA type thing that you're giving away for free. You're not just like plugging a private product or something. So, you know. Protect what matters matters most with a comprehensive fire safety plan with great fuel economy comes great responsibility um russ and olympic village texan if you could sign any athlete from any sport excluding hockey to the canucks who would it be and why? So if we're having to teach them to skate here, which presumably. You've already gone too far afield.

No. Oh, so you're like taking a figure skater. You'd have to take, well, or a power skater, like a speed skater, right? You would have to take. Mine has always been find the fattest guy you can and put him in net. Because my thought, sure. Where he's bigger than the net. The sumo guy.

My thought. He doesn't have to move. Was Miles Garrett. Just like, I want the best, most terrifying athlete I can find and we'll work on everything else. Miles Garrett is going for flag football? No, for hockey. For the Canucks. If you could sign any athlete.

Oh, it's Russ in Olympic Village. I thought it was an Olympic athlete. No, no, no. My bad. That's just where he lives, Michael. Sorry, sorry. If you could sign any athlete from any sport to the Canucks, who would it be and why? Okay, so you're saying just get the craziest athlete.

I'm just saying against the biggest freak athlete. Well, J.J. Watt plays hockey, right? Yeah, he's retired. He's old. Okay. Well, Kelsey's played hockey. In his prime, 6'4", like 275 he's listed at. Just a monster.

Teach him to skate. Put a stick in his hands. Put him in front of the net on the power play. So you're working within the context of you have infinite time and ability to hone them into a hockey player get him tuned up quickly put him in a power skating class because the biggest thing for miles garrett i would be presumed probably not a strong skater right no we're gonna work on the basics that'd be the big thing would you take an inherently great skater like a speed like a speed skater and then be like okay we can work with this

because you've got the baseline tool right because i mean the thing is is like it would take a long time to get a non-skater up yeah speed skating is the hardest skill to learn that's always the difficult thing with the cross sport comparison to hockey is the skating is just such a i feel like you would need to grab someone that inherently had one of the components down. Right. Like maybe a field hockey player. They would have that sort of or a bandy player or something. Is that the sport bandy?

I don't know. Ring it. I have no idea. Ring it. Yeah, maybe. Right. That's what I'm kind of wondering. This person texts in.

This is a good one. Prime Mike Tyson. Need an enforcer. You know why? I'm a scarier than that. Kind of don't hate it. Domi versus Tyson back in the day, that would have been a spectacle. Oh, man.

Austin and Langley. Here's a good one. After game 82 of the Canucks season next year, will Jake DeBrusque have played more games on a line with Elias Pettersson or JT Miller? I'm going to say Pettersson. I think this is a clearly defined move for Pedersen. And I think it's a clearly defined move

for the playoffs for Pedersen. Because it's always comforting when the things that you blather on about on the air are somehow validated. And I do feel like the DeBrusque signing validated a lot of people's, that second part of the Pedersen conversation where it's like, well, in his defense, line mates, right in his defense, Micaiah, his defense, DJ set Bay Lafferty, everyone else that would miss these chances. I think that DeBrusque was signed exclusively at the onset. I mean, when Patrick Alvien, who doesn't offer much up in his media availability,

when he says, I envision him playing with Pedersen, it's a pretty good indicator that this is a serious move for Petey. And we know Talkett is a duos guy, right? So he's got his duo with Miller and Besser. Would you say he's a big duo? I think he's a huge duos guy. They're going to do everything they can to make DeBrusque and Pedersen work, right? I get that it's alluring

to have DeBrusque as a fit with JT Miller and Besser, but they are going to exhaust every possibility to make sure it works with Pedersen and DeBrusque. Jay in OK Falls would ask us anything about dad rage, which we've all experienced. Jay writes,

my 13 year old son has worn the same t-shirt and shorts day and night for the last five, maybe six straight days. I find myself cycling through rage, dismissal and acceptance multiple times a day watching this. Yep. That's not ideal. It's right.

You're right in the wheelhouse where a lot of different things are going on. Puberty, which comes with the need to change the clothes, but also the inherent laziness to not change them. That's kind of the big one. Deodorant becomes a major game player. Game changer. Sorry on this one. You're going to need to introduce that real quick. I will say I don't have a problem with shorts five days in a row shorts are okay pants in general you can put summertime of course you're

wearing shorts no no no but like the same pair of shorts oh sure yeah exactly oh sure the shirt shirt is an everyday change yeah shirts and everyday change you can do shorts shorts pants you can you can ride those up as man. As a fully grown adult, not as a 13-year-old child or boy or girl, but not child, what's the max that you're willing

to re-wear a pair of socks days consecutively? Oh, I change them daily. I change my socks. Would you go... Socks stink. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying.

I'm constantly taking my socks off. No, no, no. That's explaining the smell. I put on a pair this morning that I wore yesterday because I couldn't find a clean pair. Did you smell at least first? No. I just, well, the decision was made. I mean, the rule, I guess, is if you smell them and you don't blackout, you're fine.

Smell or no smell, the decision was made at that point. I am wearing these. Don't risk the smell because this is your only option. I mean, you didn't pass out, so clearly it's okay. Yeah, I just, I knew what I was doing. I knew that. What you did is wrong. Especially in summer where if you're wearing socks and you're walking around, they're getting sweaty.

That's like, even if I take them off when I get home and then later I'm going out, I'm putting on a fresh pair of socks. Really? I'm not going back to the office. Even if you only wore them for a couple hours? That's it? That's all the usage you get out of that pair is a couple hours? I mean, it depends. But I'm talking if I've been walking and they're sweaty.

If you're a big laundry guy. Big laundry guy. Big laundry guy. Big laundry guy. Chris in Richmond, ask us anything. If you start a new TV show, let's say five episodes in, and you realize that it's not very good, are you the type to quit watching, or will you just keep watching because you've already invested the time into it?

I'm currently going through this with season three of The Bear, which is not good. Not good at all. I've heard that. It's testing my patience. I've never seen the show, but everybody talks about it. Seasons one and seasons two were very engaging. Season three.

What is it, just like Ratatouille? Yeah, it's exactly. Pretty much Ratatouille. Except with the bear. Swearing and smoking. Yeah. Is there a real bear in the show? And the rat's brother killed himself at the beginning of the show.

Other than that, it's pretty much ratatouille. It's trying. And I stopped after four episodes. I'm undecided if I'm going to go back. I will not slog through a TV show, especially now. There's so many TV shows that are so painfully slow such a slow burn it's like oh it really gets good at the end of the first season it's like

I don't have time to devote eight hours before it starts to get good just putting in all of the like work and the and the setup and the prologue into it so if it's not catching your attention and if it's not holding your attention I agree like even because this is you know the texture asked if you're five episodes in it hasn hasn't hooked you, do you stop?

Yeah, absolutely. But I think you make a good point as well. If you have a show you've really enjoyed and the quality flags, you just say, screw it. I'm out. You don't have you have no obligation to stick with it and slog through it. Once it's not entertaining you, kick it to the curve. Be done with it. Yeah.

I mean, I am again. I'm undecided if I'll go back. I'm leaning towards no right now, but seasons one and two are good enough that maybe I'll give it another chance. We got a couple of pizza related. Ask us anything here. This one from Matt, not on the island, who says, ask us anything. The Vancouver Canadians have the famous sushi race where wasabi usually

wins. If there was a pizza toppings race race who would be the favorite or who would be the dark horse so pepperoni would be the wasabi equivalent pepperoni the fan favorite pep in their step face yeah pep in their step he would be the the regular winner i think this would be perfect to have a uh a villain a heel character which would be pineapple the controversial defensive they have to win sometimes now I like pineapple on spoken so I'd be willing to cheer for them but I

think you'd get a lot of booze you have pineapple I feel like the olives would get a lot of booze too not a lot of people like olives on the anchovies could be a villain there as well

he comes in and kicks people's like heroic pepperoni would have to defeat all of these guys it's a piece of pineapple with an eye patch or something healthy that's how you know it's evil

what's like healthy you can put on your pizza? Get that out of there. That's true. Kale? Yeah. Get out of here, vile weed. Ask us anything unsigned. Good morning, guys. Good morning. I forgot

my lunch today. Only option is the gas station. What's your go-to gas station food? And then he brackets obviously a dr pepper first off let's start there because there's been a lot of love dr pepper time for your love of so somebody actually texted in we'll get back to this question in a second but peter and cloverdale i wanted to read this it's not an ask us anything but he said jamie i'm a waddy water coffee or beer slash tequila guy those are the the only things I drink. I was across the line gassing up, saw the Dr. Pepper.

Because of your passionate speech, I had to buy a Diet Dr. Pepper. You are right. I can see why it's the number two soda. That's from Peter and Cloverdale. So I'm one by one. Diet Dr. Pepper? I mean, look, I get it. Some people do Diet Soda.

It's not for me, but I understand it. At least he's still. You know Diet Soda is worse for you than normal soda? Dr. Pepper is a big tent. I need that sugar. stand it at least he's still where it's a bit so it is dr pepper is a big tent all right so anyways i was i was thrilled that i converted him to dr pepper at gas station food if you're looking for a real meal it's got to be beef jerky like to fill you up if you're like i need sustenance straight up meat is awesome beef jerky has to be i'm always big on setting parameters on

these ones so this can't be one that's got a restaurant inside of the gas station. The Tim Hortons inside the SLA. Or the Triple O's. What's the old bakery that they used to... They had the sandwiches and everything. Not an old bakery. Dang it. That one with the sandwiches?

That bakery with the bread. I know I did a bad job of describing that in the moment. I get that. Bread Garden. Bread garden. Bread garden. Thank you. You know, the one with the... It was the garden.

They have all that wheat garden and bread growing out of it. Anyway, it has to be standard gas station fare, right? That being said, I was on a stag once and we fill up the gas station fare, right? That being said, I was on a stag once and we fill up the gas station. The guy walked out

eating a California roll from a gas station. I'm like, enjoy the food poisoning that you are going to get from that. I can't believe you did that. Oh, dude. The one time I've ever had pizza from 7-Eleven,

and we just lost a sponsor if we ever were to get one. That probably wasn't going to happen. One time I ever had pizza from 7-Eleven and I was hospitalized because of it. I'm not kidding. Not kidding. Yeah. It was awful.

Even if I was at a normal gas station, they do have like sandwiches wrapped in saran or whatever. I'm still going beef jerky. Easily over those. Beef jerky is a safer option. Yeah. And you know what's not? It's not awful for you either. They look not good for you,

but it's like not the worst thing in the world. Health tips with Ada. The sandwiches though that are wrapped up. I remember learning that because I was like, I always thought beef jerky

was like the worst thing you could possibly ever have. And there was like, there was an article or something like way worse things to have than beef jerky. The sandwiches always look good,

but they never live up to how they look. You take one bite and you're just like, oh, that's not what I was expecting. They get all soggy. In my earlier younger years, possibly while

inebriated, the hot dog on the rotating metal cylinders. You relate to that. It glistened. The glizzy glistened. I couldn't. Take it from someone that's toured Canada maybe 30 times. Yeah, you've eaten at a bunch of these. I mean, sometimes you're driving for four to eight hours and there's nothing other than a gas station and you've got to eat and you have to go to a gas station and eat their food.

It's generally speaking not great, but sometimes you don't have a choice. I was driving once through upstate New York with my wife and it was like desolate. And it was just like we hadn't gone through a single town, like fast food restaurant we're like we got to do something so we pulled over to gas station and it was beef jerky they had cheese curds in a bag for some reason so it's beef jerky cheese curds and potato chips nice that's the meal which is strange because it's like a makeshift poutine you got going on there i never associate the u.s with desolate either because like that you always are hitting things so much quicker than in Canada. Whereas in Canada, it's just like literally nothing.

And you drive and you see a fast food place and you pull over and it's like, no, there's nothing here. New York's got some spaced out areas. Craig in Campbell River asked us anything. Does England or Canada have the better chance to progress in their respective tournaments this weekend? I can't read the rest of it. Yes, I can do that. I almost't read the rest of it. Yes, I'm not going to do that. I almost read it. You almost got me, Craig.

I think it might be Canada. I don't have a lot of faith in what England's done. In Switzerland, dog walked Italy in the round of 16. I'll say this. There are some, there are some that have said that this moment of magic that Jude Bellingham pulled out at the end of the Slovakia match and then Harry Kane scored shortly and that it might be the sort of pixie dust that'll somehow turn

this pumpkin. And I'm getting all of the fantasies mixed up here, but it'll turn this pumpkin of an England team into something great in the remainder of the knockout rounds. I'm not buying because they just haven't looked good. I think that Canada has a lot going for it tonight, including a favorable matchup.

In a very weird way, the Buchanan injury galvanizing the guys and giving them something and someone to play for. We've all seen these countless moments in sports where a tragedy or something negative happens and the team is able to use it as a rally. Right. I think that Canada gets to the semifinal and takes on Argentina. And I would not be surprised if at 9 a.m.

and in the subsequent hours on Monday or Saturday morning, it's very sad for England fans and England bows out of this tournament with a loss to Switzerland. So there you go. There you go. Canada over England advancing today. Melissa with a broken foot in a helicopter. Great handle says if the four of you opened a pizza place one,

what would it be called to who would be the chef, the bartender, the server and the dishwasher? So I think I'm going to nominate a dog for chef what do you think about that a dog steak I eat cereal for a living you are on the dishwasher

who's worked in the kitchen before I have where did you know what I remind it now that you remind me of it you blocked it out up to this point you know I actually now that you mentioned I did make pizza what a fitting way to end the week. It was almost 20 years ago.

And it wasn't like I was making the dough. But it was like a fast, casual place or whatever. And in the end, Jamie realized he was the answer all along. I was the answer. So you're the answer to that. I guess I'm the chef. Yeah, I worked at Red Robin and I worked at Steamworks. Oh, my God.

You worked at Red Robin? I did, yeah. Do you know that Jason Brough's favorite restaurant? Is Red Robin? worked at Red Robin and I worked at Steamworks. Oh my God, you worked at Red Robin? I did, yeah. Do you know that Jason Brough's favorite restaurant? Is Red Robin? It's Red Robin, yeah. I did not know that. The amount of times I've been dragged to Red Robin. You could have cooked for Jason at some point.

Yeah, maybe. If he ever went to the North End Red Robin when it was still there. There's a great chance. The honor of cooking for Jason Brough. The name of the restaurant would have to be something. I know you don't want to put dogs in the name of the name of a restaurant right but it could be it could be bros and dogs anyone bros and dogs we'd have to sell hot dogs that landed with a part of the yeah i was trying we're gonna do the dog pound yeah oh that's not a bad dog pound pizza is not bad that's not bad i feel like death row records

would come after you but and that's not a good thing, but I think- Bring it on. Anyway, the music is here, thank God, because it means that this is over,

but it's been fun. Thank you all for listening. Thank you all for contributing. Our winner has been selected. A-Dog will reach out to you off the air for the $100 gift card to AJ's Pizza

on his Broadway. It's been fun. Thank you very much. We will be back in a couple weeks, Jamie and I. I'll be back solo on Monday to recap everything that happened over the week. But, Jamie, thank you very much for doing this the last few days. My pleasure. It's been a lot of fun.

Signing off for now, I have been Mike Alford. He's been Jamie Dodd. He's been A-Dog. He's been Laddie. This has been the Alford and Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.