Halford & Brough in the Morning - The 2025 Halford & Brough Holiday Spectacular

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

Happy holidays from HalBro and the Dogs! 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.

You're listening to the best of Halford and Brough. Happy holidays, everybody. Lane Kiffin coaches at Ole Miss. That's a university in Mississippi. He left that job to take the head football job at LSU, which is a bigger, more prominent program, but it competes in the same conference, the SEC as Ole Miss, their rivals.

And it's not like Ole Miss is a small job. The crazy part is that. he took the job while coaching an Ole Miss team that is going to be participating in the college football playoff. They're a very good football team. One lost team, I think. Yeah, they're a surprise that they're this good, but they're still very good.

Kiffin wanted to continue to coach Ole Miss, having already taken the LSU job. And Ole Miss said, no, you're part of the enemy now. You're our rivals head coach. cannot coach us while also trying to work for one of our chief rivals in the SEC. And Kiffin didn't like it. There's a lot of other backstory here about the sort of lawlessness of college coaches and how they can go wherever they want and take whatever sort of money they want.

They're not really regulated by anybody. There's NIL money in the changing landscape of college football. There's also the Lane Kiffin's story because Kiffin's kind of been a snake in his past. Then he got knocked down a peg or two and took the Ole Miss job. And I think a lot of people there thought he's a chief. changed man. Yeah, he's been humbled. Now he'll have loyalty.

And the first chance that he got to stab him in the back, he stabbed him in the back and went to LSU. I enjoy when he blamed the, was it the athletic director that he blamed? Yeah. So he basically portrayed himself as the victim because he wanted to continue coaching the team, but the athletic director wouldn't let him.

So he's like, I wanted to do it. And then leave. I definitely wanted to leave because the LSU job pays a lot. And Brian Kelly, I mean, he got fired after. a few years and he just got to keep a lot of money. You know how we say the Canucks often want to have their cake and eat it

to. Yes. Lane Kiffin is exactly that. He wanted to take this shiny, new, glamorous, very expensive, well-paid job at LSU, but he also wanted to stick around Ole Miss. And Ole Miss was like, are you insane? What are you out of your mind? Yeah, we're not going to let you do that. By the way, there's video floating around yesterday.

If you want to get an idea of how passionate Ole Miss fans are, at the airport, hurling insults at him on the tarmac, while he boarded a private jet. It's awesome. Brings a tear to your eye. It's great. Ole Miss is on my bucket list for the tailgating experience.

Yep. A lot of hooch. You know, wear my nicest sundress. Were those Maui Jim sunglasses? All right. Clipping that out of context. And wear my nicest sundress. Well, I need a window seat because this flower is wilted.

Oh, Lord. Mike with what we learned Quinn is just as exasperated by this team as the rest of us just let him wallow like us too and maybe we're holding him to a too high a standard it's not like

it's not like when we're asked about the Canucks we're super optimistic that's kind of where I'm at I'm like yeah I can get his frustrations one one texture was like maybe he's playing 40 chess and doing this on purpose so when he just read that one oh damn it's okay

it was from Plop oh that was the Plop one yeah I mean it's It's true, though. Maybe he's doing that. I just said, I don't think he... I think he's just genuinely like, this sucks. And I get it. We do it every day for three hours.

Why would you think that? I don't know. I keep hoping that maybe the light at the end of the tunnel is that he'll stay healthy enough and not play 31 minutes a night and go to the Olympics, have a good time. They energize the refresh. The Connucks should hire someone to speak to Hughes right before he has to do post-game press. Like, it's another loss for the Canucks, but there's someone that goes up. to Quinn and goes, don't forget to smile.

Do you think that would help him? Turn that frown upside down. Yeah. Energy. Don't forget. You're here forever. Can you imagine? There's some guys like Quinn. I know you guys lost eight to two, but don't forget to smile. We'll kill you to smile. A sweetheart, lighten up a little.

This one is sign Rick's smart TV, which I assume is a Rick Dollywall reference. Hashtag WWO What We Learned Has there been any analysis Between the final notes Of the O Canada Saxophone performance In the San Diego

And the Halbro's saxophone Goat Song Oh crazy horns Yeah Did you see It was I didn't mind I thought the saxophone was fine

Yeah He went for it in the end And he just got there So okay Just to set the tape For those that don't know What we're talking about The San Diego

Vancouver MLS Western Final the anthem was played by a saxophone. Oh, why'd you stop? So I've seen guitar anthems before. I think we saw Metallica do it one time before a shark's game and it's Stanley Cup final.

Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah, they've tried them before. I've seen violin, fiddle, all of them. They try, right? It's a different spin on the anthem. I like it. It was okay. Yeah.

Yeah. It looks funny. It just looks funny. Can I get to my take? from it, San Diego lost the game with their anthem. Yeah. Because they had just everyone sing

the American anthem. It wasn't great. It was awful. It wasn't great. It was terrible. And the energy just got sucked out of Snapdragon Stadium. You think you're going to Snapdragon Stadium? Push us around. What is Snapdragon? Is it cloud-based technology?

It's got to be some tech thing. There's a flower? It's a dragon. It's an actual dragon. It's a place is home of the Snapdragons Something, I don't know See the text of the Mookal Colosseum Yeah, that's a great name for the area By the way, someone tell you was it

Greg and Ladd Wasson texted in and said His kids Got some elves For not real elves Because they're not real Well yeah they are Largely because they're not real They're magical

And they named The kids named them Halford and breath Their mom gave them gifts Because December 1st It's like an early Christmas present Oh no it's probably in their advent calendar. Yeah.

Anyway, there were two little tiny toy elves and they were named Halford and Brough. It's the biggest honor we've ever got. We've worked in radio for eight years. It's the biggest honor we've ever got. We also got sent a video of a kid singing the What We Learn song. Yes. And he demands it every morning.

Yeah, it was pretty great. He hates Fridays. Three years old. That's honestly our target demo right now at this point. My daughter loves the moo cow. That's her go-to. Yeah. We do, we...

I think they're on to something then. Mucal Coliseum, we should explore this. Some people say that it's... Some people say... Redding rights couldn't cost that much, could they? No, no, no. It's like, Disney on Ice tonight at the Mucal Coliseum. I mean, what are the branding rights? Like, 50 bucks? We could pool that together.

The Disney on Ice Booker is like, where are we going? I mean, it's one banana. What could it cost? $10? The Disney on Ice Bucker is like, we've been to worse. Yeah. Our Buter's Omar, what we learn from leadership to... the play on the ice, this team needs to be

bigger than Quinn Hughes to be successful. Quinn Hughes is becoming a vacuum on and off the ice. Yeah, this whole season has been about Keep Quinn. Everything right down to the head coach. Keep Quinn happy.

We have failed. He is not happy. Operation Keep Quinn happy at the start of the year has gone horribly wrong. There's a boardroom with all these flowcharts and it's just like everything's going down. Nothing is worth. He's not happy at all. Arbutus Omar, hashtag WWO, what we learned.

The NHL just might have to ban its players from all domestic and kitchen-related activities. So yesterday, we didn't even mention this on the show. And it happened during the show. Blues announced that Alexei Torpchenko had a domestic injury at home,

scalding burns to his legs. Jim Montgomery was asked about it, actually. I saw the interview yesterday, and he declined to get into specifics. But Torupchenko goes on the list with Jack Hughes, who had an injury while eating dinner with his team. And then is it Itu Lus de Rhinan? In Florida, burned himself while barbecuing. You've got a fun little thread on Twitter going about this, right?

Yeah, it was just the three so far. Do you like to make fun of people that have serious injuries? Well, as long as they're funny. I mean, if the serious injuries are funny, then yes. You know what we should do to you We should cut your finger off Burn you And then just just roll in the laughter

I would laugh It would be pretty hysterical You know like if it's a cartoon style injury You gotta laugh at it But the thing is these are real humans That are suffering these injuries Not cartoons They're millionaires, they're fine

Like the two bandits from home alone They basically this is what's happened here They've suffered all those injuries This has to be a turkey related incident though right The rule of thumb is an injury is fine As long as it's fine The scalding burns You think a turkey related

Well, it was happened during Thanksgiving, right? I like to think that he ran a pack. Putting it together? Yeah. Putting two and two together. Do you think he tried to deep fry it? Yeah. Yeah.

That's my... Yeah. I watched a compilation video yesterday of guys dropping their turkeys into the deep fry and then a huge fire in the aftermath because I guess the oil goes over the side and then that ignites. Is that what happens? Is that what happens? That's exactly what happens. Oh, I was like, is the turkey flammable?

My God. I will also say... You know what I thought right away is he ran a bath too hot, jumped in, scalding. Now, you need to go all the way back to 2012, and the craziest injury of the mall was when Dustin Penner, then of the L.A. Kings, sat down to eat his wife's delicious pancakes, which wasn't a euphemism for anything. They were just pancakes. And he threw out his back. as one intends to do what he said

I threw up my back eating my wife's pancakes I'm like what Sagan pardon I've heard that saying before didn't uh TANov have a crazy injury

or was it Brent Sopold bent over to pick up a cracker right when he said that story I was like why Brent so plow out too much why the cracker part

like I don't and also just lie lie about how you got injured yeah is that maybe why the NHL is so secretive about the injuries is because there's a lot

of embarrassing injuries She started to wander. More and more injuries are just so stupid. They got alive. All the NHL players are like O.J. Simpson's character and naked gun. Yeah. What happens? We're not going to get into it.

Man, OJ. Great actor. Yeah. Some other stuff, too. What happened? I don't know. Jay with a what we learned, 30 years ago today, Patrick Waugh, gives up nine goals against the Red Wings before being pulled walks past Mario Tromblay

and tells Ronald Corey, it's my last game in Montreal. And then Jay says, I wonder if Biddington was inspired by this anniversary. How many years? 33? 30 years ago today. I'm going to have to trust Jay's math on that. That's timeline. That was... I remember that.

That was incredible. If that had happened now. And remember how the crowd of the form? Like there was no glass. No separation. There was just like that nice usher. Smack the coach in the back of the head if you wanted. Yeah.

And then so he... he like stormed past Tromblay. He was with all his goalie equipment and he's like going over there and then the broadcaster was like, I think he just said something to Ronald Corey. Yeah. Man. Could you imagine if that happened now

where a guy just in the moment demanded a trade and then didn't back down from it? Found the owner in the stand? That's the best part. He's like, no, I said it. I mean, it was crazy that they left him in there for nine goals. Yep. In hindsight a mistake. A little bit. Soccer mom from T-Town

texted in and she writes I have an overgrown toenail okay and every morning I wake up and look at it

I think I have to trim it as it's pressing into my shoes causing discomfort when I walk but then I think if I cut it

the white caps might lose and then soccer mom from Tetown goes on I'm not superstitious but I'm willing to suffer

through another week like this as I really just want the white caps to win whatever it takes I responded to her and I said I think you might actually be superstitious

a little stitious at the very least that's that's a lot must be painful jamming into a shoe all the time but like she writes whatever it takes no pain no gain what are you doing? Yeah what am I doing sorry not to go back to last topic but a text or texting in to remind us Sammy Sallow got bitten by the only

venomous snake in Finland remember that I remember that Sammy, the Finnish Rattler. One mistake in Finland, and it got Sammy Sallow. The Patrick Wawa incident, my bit of trivia is always, do you remember who came in to replace Patrick Wawa in that game? I have no idea. Might be the reason why they kept him in for nine.

Pat Jablonsky came into play. That is a great trivia. That is a great trivia. He was the one that was waiting on the bench. Pat Jablonsky just sounds like a guy that's going to let in some bad goals. That's true. Just like, ah, that one beat Jablonski. Jablonsky

Javonsky. Javonsky Zutalors. That's what they were thinking. Yeah, that's the one you know when they would announce player names at the forum and it would be an English name

like a player in saying like French, French, French and like Pat a Jablonsky. Yeah, it's tough to Francophone that one up. It's really tough. I like how they did Frenchify some of the names. Like when they announced Matt's Nasselan that scored.

Yep. It was Matt's. A Nazloon. Nazlund, yeah. You can't do anything with Jablonsky, though. And then they were like, Mike a Smith.

Mike Keen. Yeah, Mike Keen was a man. Mike Akeen. All right. Play the music. God, this is he not good, are we? Mike Akeen.

That's pretty good, actually. Is you saying Akeen? No. All right, we got to get out of here. We will be back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. And thank you all. for contributing.

A lot of names coming in. Gonsu and Delta. Bobby Smith. Bobby Smith. Tweet came across my desk. There's a Daniel Sprong situation brewing at CSK Moscow, you guys. I saw this.

The powerhouse team is on pace for their worst season. They're off to a 14, 14 and 4 start. Sprong leads the team with 31 points. That's good. The next closest player on his team has 20.

yet he was a healthy scratch for their loss yesterday. That's bad. So I don't know what's going on, but it sounds like Daniel Sprong has rubbed yet another team the wrong way. His head coach Igor Nikitin says, points don't matter. His stats aren't helping the team as a whole. That's amazing.

Daniel Sprung, everyone, on the outs again. But this time in the KHL. It's amazing that you could be such a defensive liability that the KHL is like, no. And he's like a top 10 player in the league, right? He's producing like no one else. It's where Daniel Sprongs are supposed to go. They're like, your game doesn't translate to North America.

However, there is this other league out there. There's also a clip of him going around. He scored a goal. I think it was on the power play, so he was stationary. And then he fell to the ground. And then to celebrate he was doing the swim on the ice. And I'm like, aren't you like 30 years old? Like, I understand if you're a rookie and you're new and you're young.

He's excited to score a goal. But he scores a bunch. It can't just be the defense, though, right? Like, it can't just be about the defense. He's producing. There's got to be more to the story. I think he's a unique personality. It has to be.

Nick in the Ridge, what we learned, the Canucks might have the captain of Team Canada at the World Juniors this month. Coots is teeing off in the dub and looks poised to have an unreal tournament for Canada, hopefully wearing a sea. Remember when they had Braden Coots on the team? Thank God they got him out of this mess.

Yeah. That would have been terrible for his development. He's like, why do we lose all of them? Do you see some of the close of him down in the dub, though? He's just like running around out there. Just explained, I'm not a prospect guy. He's doing what he wants out there. Is he?

We'll put it that way. That's awesome. And he might carry with it. Is it though you want to have a bit of a challenge? No, pile up some points. Don't play at the world juniors. Come in with some confidence, Nick. Cook.

Remember early in the season, put together a line of Coots, Lecker, Emackie, and Drew O'Connor? Yeah. Guess what happened? I didn't know who. Didn't go away. You know what the most interesting part was, trying to figure out who I felt most sorry for on that line.

Because everybody had a case for it. It's like you're Brady and Coots, you're 18, like, who have you got on your line? Well, Drew O'Connor, who's having a bit of a struggle at that time he was, and then Jonathan Lechromacki, who is young and talented, but it's definitely not going to be able to drive play. And then if you're Drew O'Connor, you're like, that's not cool for you because you're the babysitter of the line, right? You're there, make sure no one chokes on anything.

and then Lechromacki's like I need something I need something to work with here So all three of them It was like well those guys looked together Looked okay in the preseason Oh but this isn't the preseason Here's the difference

Leaf with what we learned Hashtag Double what we learned Halford and Brough's 12 days of Christmas Was longer than Daniel Sprong's Canucks career That's good That's right Oh man Can you okay

People have texted in about this and when I saw yesterday, Laddie, that the Toronto Blue Jay signed the most valuable player and star pitcher from the Korean Baseball League. I was like, I could not think of something that was more suited for Laddie to tell me. You must know.

Tell me about this, please. Well, what do you want to know? Who is it? What does he do? He kind of flamed out in his MLB career. So he pitched in Major League Baseball before. And then he went over to Japan and then he went to Korea.

and he just was amazing in the KBO last year was the best pitcher in the entire league. 17 and 1, I think, was his record. Cody Ponce? Cody Ponce. Sub 2 ERA. He broke the league's record in strikeouts. Is it Ponce?

He's not Ponce. And yeah, he's got a fastball. I think he hits it up to 98. Really good pitcher. Apparently, based on what I read, that was the thing that kind of revived his MLB chances was that he's a huge dude. He's 6-6-2-3.

50. But he almost like learned how to throw faster. Like his velocity improved while he was in Korea. Yeah, he made obviously some big changes, added some new pitches. Crazy. He was with Ryu in Korea. That's my favorite. Yeah, I love Ryu. We are coming to live from the Kintech studio.

Now's the time to maximize the benefits of custom orthotics. Before the year runs out, visit Kintech.net. Yeah, you've got to look at your benefits. The year is running out. Alfred, have you had all your massages? Not yet. I haven't went today. I've got like three booked for the month.

They're like, sir, this is wildly unhealthy. You should not have this many massages in this short a period of time. We highly recommend 24 hours between them. I'm going to line them up. I'm going to go three to four, four to five, five to six. Your muscles are like jelly. Could you just do like one really long one and that counts as like three, four? It's a good question.

The room for like four hours. What's the longest massage you can get? It's like a three hour massage? Yeah. Just barely walk out of there. You just slither out of there. Yeah. What's the sludge moving across the ground?

There's no bone mass whatsoever. Oh, man. Anyway, I don't recommend any of that. We're not doctors here on the Halford and Brough Show. We just love massages. To the phone lines we go, our next guest is a presentation of bells and whistles in the Fraser Hood. It's Randip Janda here on the Halford & Bruff Show on Sports 9-650.

What up, Brandeep? What's going on, boys? I'm not doing four massages at once, but I'm very late on this stuff usually, so I've got one book for New Year's Eve. So I'm legit That is awesome. Good for you,

Randee. Getting it in right before the deadline. It's 11 p.m. Sorry. Come on, go, go.

Celebrating New Year's at the massage place. That's great. Can we bill before it hits midnight? Oh, man. Ask us anything.

What is the least amount of money you would take to get kicked in the nuts hard? I would, take a thousand dollars that's from stewie in richmond congratulations first of all i don't know but i've ever seen adag more tickles by a submission i laugh so hard especially this is the second

line i would do it for a thousand dollars like just he knows he set his goal that sounds honestly that sounds high to me it depends so like well are we talking like do they have a running start yeah uh footwear footwear and you mentioned who is the who's doing the kicking yeah is it like is it the cowboys kicker obrey because that scares me i'm going to be on I mean, $1,000 is great, but you also might die. Or is it just some, oh, no, you're not going to die. I don't know if you get kicked in the table. Died from being kicked in the nuts?

It's really hard. Professional football kicker, maybe. I'm no doctor, but I think it's possible. So here's the thing. The other part is, I think my price probably lower, because I'm done having kids. Lower than a thousand or lower in general? More than probably the average person. Wait, how much would you do it for?

I don't know. I don't have a number in mine. Oh, come on, pick one. But definitely a thousand dollars. Would you do for a moment? Would you do for a thousand dollars? You could have serious medical problems. Would you do it for a hundred dollars?

No, not a hundred dollars, no. Two hundred? Keep going. Two-fifty. I don't know, maybe like seven. I'm just wondering if we get all pooled together and film this maybe. Like, you seem pretty open to the ideas. No, I think probably a thousand dollars.

You get some donations for sure. I mean, it's, it's cheaper. In fact, you make money than like paying for a private vasectomy. So you look at it that way. You'd be crazy. You'd be crazy not to do it. I wouldn't do it for less than 10 grand. 10 grand, are you kidding me?

Yeah. If I offered you $9,000 to let me kick you in the nuts, you would say no. Actually, no, I would take that. Exactly. Come on. We're going to get Adog down to a grand by the end of this. We're going to find out he actually sent in the submission. He's trying to make some money real quick.

The whole time it was 1,000, guys. Yeah, it was 1,000. Anyways. Female listenership completely too down. I'll be honest with that. So if you ever see Stewie in Richmond? Yeah, I just made me laugh. You got $1,000.

Hey, buddy, here you go. We have never had a question like that texted in before. I've never actually thought about it before. And it made me really laugh. So thanks, Stewie for that. I appreciate it. Shout out to Stewie and Richmond. Okay, here we go.

Mike the urologist from Brockville texts in. I'm a doctor specializing in nuts and you can't die getting kicked in the nuts. Read the text below it, though. I don't want to read that I haven't been able to fact check it someone saying that Terry Sautchuk died I don't know if that's true or not

I don't think that's what it was I don't think that's true someone says you guys obviously haven't been kicked in the nuts before I've been like not punched in the nuts but I've had like a soccer ball pretty square to the nuts Pretty hard slap shots to the nuts.

Adrian Beltray called. He left his jock at home, and he wants to play third base. Do you know that goalies in the NHL actually were three cups? They wear a player's cup underneath and then the goalie cup on top, which is actually a double cup. Okay. I don't blame them. There's three. That's how much precaution you want to take.

I mean, Jamie wants to take that kind of damage for $700. Googling it, it has happened, but it is obviously incredibly, incredibly rare. Incredibly, incredibly rare. A man was charged with doing it. during a break in attempt back in 2013 in Ohio. He was in 2013, he was charged for kicking a...

No, he was charged with murder because the guy kicked in the nuts died. Sorry, hold on, hold on. Who died? The guy breaking in? I think it was the guy, yeah. Correct. So that's... A self-defense. Yeah. I thought this was America. You can get charged with murder for kicking the guy in the nuts?

Only if you use a weapon. This is Canada. Oh, I thought it was Ohio, though, you said. Yeah, yeah, it is. Yeah, so that's what I'm talking. It happened in Ohio. No, but that's what they would say in Ohio. That's true. So a guy breaks into your house.

You kick him in the nuts. He dies. He dies and you get charged for murder? Did you go to jail? That I don't know. I didn't read further than the subject. It clearly wasn't your intent. If all you did was kick him in the nuts.

No, I'm just in, it's probably like getting struck by lightning rare. You know, like it never, it's very, very rare. Point zero zero zero one percent chance of it happening. I'm just saying if an NFL kicker did it to you, though, it increases your odds exponentially. That's probably. true. Connolly in Vancouver says one time I got shot in the nuts with a paintball gun, unbelievably

painful. That sounds truly horrible. You had be going in the first half there. That sounds truly, truly horrible. J-Rock in the Okanagan says, I'd take Mueller from the caps, I'd do it for $1,000. See, if you're talking about professional soccer player, you got to jack that

price up. Yeah, I wouldn't, any professional athlete doing this away. That sounds absolutely horrible. Imagine the accuracy and the force involved in that? No. And Mueller's a winner, so you know he's going to go for it. That's right. He's a competitor.

Yeah. He's like, I'm getting my money's worth. Yeah. I'm going to really sock it to you. TableSlaw James says, what we learned with Halford and Bruffaway, somehow the intellect has actually dropped a notch or two. Amazing. Hey, we set out, we set up an impossible to ask. And we did it.

And we did it. And we did it. Really? Bruff would have said no to that? Halford would have been all on board. Well, we still would have read it. I'm just saying Bruff would have had a part of the entire time. Right. I see.

Justin and East Van has put together a compilation of a compilation of Halford saying Whitewalk. That's out there. Oh, yes, Whitewalk. That's out there. My favorite place. No one else is brave enough to do Woodley's read. I'm always doing it.

Please come out to White Walk. You know what? All it doesn't help is Hyundai or Hyundai for some reason afterwards. Because you're overthinking it. I think so. I'm trying to hit. Because Woodley's very precise about how you pronounce. Hyundai.

Yeah. Hyundai. I'm always thinking about that. White Walk Hyundai. And he's like, you know what you should focus on is rock. Mm-hmm. Anyway. The tough word.

Laddy has a lot. For those about to walk, we salute you. I'm sure that's on an apron somewhere. Yeah, totally. Walk with Yan. Yeah. Take a walk on the wild side. That's a good one.

Yeah, okay. All right, here's my walk. All right, let's walk and roll. Ooh. The NBA G League, every year in Toronto, they do a game at Scotia Bank Arena, the home of the Raptors leaves, where they take them and they give all the tickets away to schools. I did not know this. And I saw a picture outside of the building where it was just buses lined up, basically

from the arena all the way to the CIS, where they were. tower. It was just loaded with kids. Listen what happens when the Raptors 905 got to 67 points. Capital City in this game coming in from behind and poking

the ball away. 905 up 13. The fans going wild here at Scotia Bank Arena. There you go. 67 to 54 was the score. and they were all waiting for that moment as soon as that bucket was scored

the crowd went nuts you know I'll give the kids the youths credit man this thing's got staying power the attention span normally of gerbils they've got real staying power with six seven it's been going on since the summer what's the most six seven thing you see in sports

like is it someone who's six seven yeah height or just a score at that white caps game I don't know if I said this on the show at that white caps game against LAFC when it went to the 67th minute I swear to God kids in my section were taking pictures of the scoreboard

in the 67th minute like it was like a very good game and then there was a real buzz around the 67th minute so 67th minute is a great one do you know the Ottawa 67s just had their teddy bear toss that's pretty great that must have been chaos

yeah no kidding I thought the Ottawa 67s would be more prominent and prevalent in this fad. Have they leaned into it at all? I don't know. You think we would have heard of it. All we do is pay attention to sports. You think it would have come across a one of our bests. A friend of mine works for Oshawa, and they actually had a school day game themselves as well against the Ottawa 67.

So you can imagine how it went with all those kids. Their brains exploding. There's a team called the 67s. I also learned something in this NBA clip, you guys. The free throws, they just do one. It's worth two points. In the G-Lie? Yeah, they just toss it up there.

It's saving time, apparently. It's making up new rules as they go along. I don't mind it. By the way, I think the most common one, though, is the height, because that's the origin story. I think it's a little Mello Ball was 6-7. That's kind of one of the origins of the whole 6-7. Right, okay. Yeah, so I think it's the height.

Anyway, good fine, buddy. Way to ingratiate us to the youth. It's Mook-Haw-us. Make everyone driving their kids to school in the morning. They said it. They keep saying it. That's why we love Halper to Brough. Hey, it's Jason Brough.

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Visit them online at Sands dash trustee.com. This is way too good to be unlicensed. This is pretty impressive. Way too good to be on license. Bring it up a little bit for me. I might listen to this unironically on Christmas. Imagine you're the musician recording this. Oh, I mean having a blast.

Really? Oh, it's amazing. Do you think at some point you'd be like, this isn't what I dreamed of. I'd be like, they're paying me to do this? That's awesome. That's true. They're paying me to do this, and the answer is not really. Yeah.

It's unlicensed music. That's true. Don't put my name to this, please. Yeah. I want to start with Greg. You've been sitting on this one all morning. Like a mother hen on her eggs. Just sitting on it, waiting for it to hatch.

Now's the time. That's the weird way to put it, but yeah. It's not weird at all. It's a circle of life, buddy. Look it up. Go to a farm sometimes. So apologies in advance. to the people driving in with kids in the car.

It's another 6-7 what we learned, you guys. The fast food chain in and out. Familiar with their work. Is retiring the numbers 6-7 from its ticket system following disruptions from teens and children swarming the restaurant to film employees announcing their order number. There's a clip right there of a crowd of people in and in and out just waiting for those two numbers to be,

announced next to each other so they can do that. Have you been doing it in and out before? A long time ago. So when you go in, it's organized chaos because it's always packed. There's a million employees working, but it all seems to make sense because of the number system. I don't know what they're going to do now that 6-7 isn't going to be available. None of the numbers with those numbers next to each other are going to show up when they

ring in a bill. So there you go. It totally takes that out of the question. You know what else I don't like? In and Out, and Chick-fil-A does this as well. When they have the humanoid standing outside in the drive-thru to speak with you, instead of you just either speak to like a screen or a window. Oh, like the old school, like the person on a rollerblades comes up to your window?

Not rollerblades, but close. So they have a plastic menu, like attached to their belt. It snaps off and they can show it to you. And then you have to sit there. You know those moments where you're not sure what you wanted to drive-through? imagine someone's staring at you the entire time waiting

and then casually looking over their shoulder this line that is growing larger and larger have you guys been to a restaurant where there are no cashiers yet or whatever you call them at a restaurant the order takers fast food restaurant I've been in

and I was standing there I was standing there for five minutes and then I realized oh in a minute the only option is this screen over here yeah I'm such an old man And I'm like, could somebody help me here? I went to this donair place the other day, and there was no cat.

It was one guy in the whole thing. Yeah. He was making the donnares in the back. And I'm like, can I get a donair? He's just like points at the screen. Like the screen. I'm like, what? Oh, I got to do this myself through the system.

It's very strange. I was okay with it, to be honest. But there was a person handing you your food, correct? Yes. It was a robot. Thank you for shopping. Yeah, no, there was a person that handed me the food, but there was just this big iPad-looking screen at the front. I just looked right past

because, you know, technology confuses me. There is a... It will be destroyed. What was that? I mean, thank you for dropping at McDonald's. I'm going to get the details probably wrong here,

but there is a store in downtown Vancouver now that's entirely staffless. So... It's called BC Place. Oh! Hey! Got them! I'm not going to finish a gag now.

That's perfect. Mook out that. I got some guy at BC Place List. right now like single the Pavko robot what do you know

you're a robot oh man okay I really want society to bring back the comb over because I think

it's one of the funniest things ever we don't see enough of them we need to see more combovers yeah it's such a desperate hair

everyone just goes to turkey now and gets that's that's the thing right no one ever embraces the last vestiges of hair right

they were used to be an honor manipulating it and maneuvering it. I saw a post who's the coach of the sharks? He's like the last true hero. Yeah, he's trying. He's trying. That hair's hanging out for deer.

Apparently there's a Reddit group or community where it's for balding men. And it's always just guys posting their hair being like, is it time? And then everyone in the reply is going, brother, it's time. Shave it off. That's sadder than Canucks Redd. I was going to say, we finally found the Reddit worse from that X Reddit. Quinn Hughes, this is as his first game and post-game media availability as a member of the Minnesota Wild. How involved were you quick just in this process and coming to Minnesota?

Jim made it sound like he wanted to accommodate you as much as he could. Yeah, honestly, I mean, I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, but I have the ultimate respect for Jim Rutherford and Francesco O'Colini and the Akeleini family. I mean, they were first class with everything that was going on. Obviously, it was a tough situation, but it felt like it was time, and I think Jim did too. But Jim was, you know, Jim and Pat Pappersaw, my agent, he was, you know, obese. I'm very lucky to have him, but they were kind of talking a lot about places I might feel comfortable. And, you know, Jim was amazing with that.

You want, you know, he cared about the person. He wanted me to go where he thought, you know, thinks I would be happy. and yeah So there's a dynamic that we discussed on Friday's show and I think as we get more details coming out about how this trade came to be it's becoming really apparent

that Patrick Alvin has entered what do you say you do around here territory because on Friday for those that missed it Patrick Alvin did a Zoom call in which you asked about the culture the potential culture problem or perceived culture problem

and then he came on SportsNet 650 and did an interview with Jamie and Bick while all that was going on Jim Rutherford was also conducting his own individual media availability with select reporters including SportsNet's Dan Murphy so when we got on the air at 7 o'clock

how many reporters were on that call? Three. Three? And then a fourth joined after. Oh, it was like Murph, IMAQ and Farhand and then Harmon Dial from the Athletic joined right after. So it was exclusive company We didn't get the invite to that

Did not we didn't get the invite to anything Except to come on the air and work for free Which we did by the way if our bosses are listening So Now that you're bitter about it right We're not bitter I just Exciting I was gonna make a joke

I'm like we're only doing one hour today On the counter we did two free ones on Friday Excuse me I'm at the theater Also known as the elementary school play How many of you're watching is Beauty and the Beast right How many of you're watching Beauty and the Beast right now? Anyway Jim Rutherford as that clip suggested

as the countless anecdotes that have come out in the aftermath of suggested and as his media availability suggested was the driving force the move maker when it came to conducting the Quinn Hughes trade which I will remind you is probably the biggest trade in franchise history

how does that work he said something like Patrick had a lawn on his plate I was cackling but I heard that Patrick had a lot on his plate, so I'm going to take this franchise defining trade off your plate, and I will just handle that all by myself. Patrick, you look kind of busy right now, so let me just deal with this slight little problem that we have. Just do the rest of the stuff. I'll handle the used thing.

Don't worry about it. It's fine. You keep, I don't know, searching for a two-see or something. You keep doing your thing. So, yeah, Noon and in Richmond just texted in. Didn't Jim say that Patrick had too much on his plate for this trade? He did. He absolutely did.

So when we came in on Friday and played the audio of the gym. Jim Rutherford Media Availability. I was like, this is the guy that should have been fielding all the questions. This is the guy that should have been fielding the question about, is there a culture problem? Why did Quinn Hughes want to leave? Because you apparently were dealing with this more than anybody, right? And it is a, it's always been an interesting dynamic,

the Rutherford-Alveen dynamic. Well, we've had always been interesting. We've had guys like Frank on the show that said around the league, people wonder, who should I talk to? too. And that's a fair fair thing because at times over the last four years. There's a there's like a receptionist that's like

do you want to talk about Quinn Hughes or Kiefer Sherwood? Okay, Sherwood's an Alveen Right. It's like the office thing. Remember the office episode where they ended up having two managers, co-managers? Yeah. And like Michael Scott was the big picture and then like Jim was the day to day. That's what this is. This is that office episode.

It's very much what it is. Yeah. Now Alvian handles day to day. J.R. Big picture. But it gets a little confusing when the cornerstone of your team, Norris Trophy-winning defensemen, and Captain, who you could argue, is very much in the day-to-day because he's playing every game, is also, that's almost beyond the scope of the day-to-day general manager. You know, you know what, I'll say this, though. It's a good return. It is a very good return. A couple of people texted in talking about Quinn Hughes referring to Pat Brasson as a beast when he was talking about the trade and how it was orchestrated.

So in the break, I was like, you know, this is very common hockey player parlance. And then I found it. Remember when Mitch Marner's wife gave birth recently? And then he was talking about her going through labor while he wasn't there. And then he's like, she was an absolute beast through the whole thing. Remember that? She was a wagon. That was bitch.

That was Mitch. The one time he talks about his wife in public and he's calling her a beast. You were an absolute unit. I just got to give a big shout out to my wife She's just a unit out there She's just a unit out there She's sitting there This precious tiny baby in her arms

Looking up at his beast of a mother To the phone lines we go He's hugging You're such a unit To the phone lines we go Sat joins us now on the Halford & Brough show on Sports at 650. What upset.

I can just imagine how my girlfriend, you're such a unit and just the look you to get. I feel bad because I know how these guys are. Like, they're wired to talk in one particular way. And then when they're asked to go outside their comfort zone a little bit,

they just kind of rely on hockey jargon. But in these instances, it is pretty funny. Anyway, let's talk more about the trade. I want to know your immediate reaction when you heard the news on Friday night because to say it caught most of us off guard as an understatement. Brough was it a grade six version of Beauty and the Beast,

if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I was like, stop the play. Yeah. Beauty in the unit. Beauty in the unit. Beauty in my wife. Song as old as rhyme. Beauty and my wife.

Okay, let's fire up the dot matrix. Beauty and. And my wife I'm never going to get sick of that Could you imagine That might be the best thing Lattie's ever made I was dying when he played that during break Could you imagine if someone

Tuned in It's completely out of context And they heard that As we played the first time I made sure the context was in there That's even better out of context One more time please What? Do it

Beauty and My wife The beast All right Hold on Your wife is not the beauty That's bold Do we print it out

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of the website where you can order large custom orders for your parties. Absolute wagon of a pizza place. Wagon. Jerry and Abby, what we learned, it's been a busy calendar year for the outdoor banner guys at Rogers Arena. A lot of Quinn Hughes stuff coming down. You know what I...

We just finished DJTing this place. Now we got to dequin it. Dequinify it? Yeah. I also saw... I go on Facebook Marketplace, quite frankly, way too much. so I was on there yesterday I never buy anything

I just like looking the number of Quinn Hughes jerseys that hit Facebook marketplace over the weekend was in the hundreds yeah in the hundreds some of you I can tell you you're asking a lot of money you're asking a lot of money

I don't think you understand how the market works but there's a flood of those things out there right now you're not going to get what you want how is that you go over to someone's house and be like I'm going to buy I know I've used it but I'm just talking about this specifically.

It just seems weird to go over to someone's house and buy a jersey off them. I like the transactions where they leave it in the mailbox, so you never actually have to interact. Right. Because, you know, it's like, especially with something used, it's like you wore this, right? That's what I'm talking about. I don't like meeting.

Can you imagine if someone's just wearing it when you take it off? Just take it off. Sorry, I just went for a run. Yeah. What you're on the shirt on? What's going on here? Can I interest you in some pants? I mean, right?

No, I know. It's very strange. So usually... They make you take it off. Why don't you come in for a bit? This is getting really weird. You know what I don't want in the jersey. You can keep it.

So, yeah, no, I've often tried to set it up ahead of time that, like, just leave it in the mailbox and I'll put an envelope with money in there. Or I'll transfer you the money ahead of time. I'll take that risk. I'll take that risk. The risk of not having to meet you, I will give you the money up front. And the moment is not necessarily. the reason why Quinn Hughes is leaving.

I still think there's a good percentage of his decision that is based on the same thing it was based on for Matthew Gitchukh. He wanted to play in the States. He wanted to be closer to home. Like, these are things that they can't compete with. But there certainly wasn't a counter argument made by this team based on the culture, based on the results on the ice,

that would compel him to stay. I know there's definitely people around the organization that believe if the team was better, he'd stay. so I mean there's something to be said for that but I do think that there's other other forces pulling him in a different direction and the bottom line boys is that like now that we know the timeline

and you know Rutherford said a year and a half Alvin said a year now that we know the timeline of when they started to believe that Quinn wasn't going to resign this is malpractice what they've done with this team from the long term contracts to hiring Quinn's guy

as your like all of that stuff in service of desperately trying to make the case to have him stay when a year and a half ago you started to believe he wouldn't is insane for this franchise. Yeah, I'll say I tried to give them a little bit of leeway or leverage by suggesting that going into this season with Adam Foote as the head coach, who may have been personally selected by Quinn Hughes, and then the moves that they made was the old one last college try.

Like, we've got to give it one more shot. so I can understand that logic but whatever the case even if you appreciate the effort it still failed spectacularly so you don't really get that much credit for trying and failing miserably I'd say they get no they get no credit

this is like finding out your ex-girlfriend got engaged and then buying her a car it's insane it's absolutely bonkers if they went down this road you know listen I think they did good on the trade I really do like I think William's great

both from a non-ice perspective and an off-ice perspective all the people now coming out of the woodwork and criticizing Quinn for how he handled himself as captain in the community and all this nonsense will love Booiam because I think he's an absolutely charisma machine off the ice I think Rossi is a good top six center the wild didn't like him for various and sundry reasons

but I think he's good and then you know the first and ungrim I mean it's a it's a really good return for them being behind the eight ball on Quinn but it's just the kind of thing that should be of a piece with what is already should be a rebuild that's in motion and I know that, you know, Rutherford finally will allow the words to emerge from his mouth

or at least his pen in a press release but these wheels should have been turned a year ago and so that's where the franchise is. Do you see my new ride this morning? I saw you're riding on a caddy. That, my friend. I'm just one dope boy in a Cadillac. Okay. I think you need to add the decal to the honest.

So, it would come. There was no ducal. This is a temporary ride. I am currently driving the 2025 Cadillac Optic. Now, I had to get the proper pronunciation because all the new Cadillacs. They have an IQ at the end of the name. Okay. Vistic and Optic.

It's not optique? Right, because IQ, of course, means it's smart. So I see what the Cadillac people are doing. I got you. This car, you know, I've said this. before about certain cars, namely all of them. It's too good for me. It's too good of a car. Yeah. What does it have that's

too good for you? Two words, my friend. Massage seats. Does it really? Yeah. Yeah. It was actually... Wait, what? Yep. The seats have two different built-in massage functions. They have the rolling one in the shoulders in the upper back. It also has a rolling lumbar massage.

What? In the lower back. Yeah, it's crazy. I know. No, you're not allowed in. It's crazy. After the show. It's a remarkable... Five minutes. Are you sleeping in the car? How long have you been in there? It's a very cool ride.

My brain right now is, don't make a happy ending joke. Don't make a happy ending joke. Oh, he kind of just did. Sir, do you know why I pulled you over? Well, what is going on in there? I've got an idea. You're kind of weaving around a little bit there.

Barry Manalo in this week? What do you do? Anyway, some candles. If you ignore the last 30 seconds of this conversation, this wasn't an otherwise glowing review of the 2025

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Sleepy when he gets here. It's so worth it. He's smoking a cigarette. Hey, it's Jason Brough. Hope you're having a great haul. You've been listening to the best of Halford in Brough.