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My smart decision for today is decision that the Seattle Seahawks and John Schneider made

in giving Jackson, Smith, and Jigba that monster contract,

which caught the eye of some people in the football world for the amount of money spent

on the star-wide receiver because it was a lot of money.

It's a record deal making him the highest paid wide receiver in football.

But according to the general manager, John Schneider, it's all cool,

because Jackson, Smith, and Jigba isn't just a great football player, Jason.

He's a great person, too. I got the quote here.

This is a really exciting day for the Seahawks organization.

This is me being John Schneider right now.

Say hello with a little more gravita.

When you go to ownership and you ask for an investment like this,

you always have to be cognizant of who the person is.

And I'm just so proud of Jackson, Smith, and Jigba, and who he is as a person.

Then he turned to Jackson, Smith, and Jigba and said,

your parents did a great job of raising you, man.

People forget how young you are.

That was nice.

And then Jizz and his parents were like, can we have some money?

You got some now.

24-year-olds, a rich, rich dude.

Now, do you ever feel like this entire show is just about pity?

Everything's weird.

Oh, is that where you were going to go with this?

Everything we talk about.

I was going to put it in.

Or the culture of the connox.

It's everything.

We're talking to Parker Burgess about the culture of the Vancouver Giants

and deciding between talent and all the buying in and all that sort of stuff.

And it's just, it all seems like, what do they call it?

Sub-tweeting, is that the thing?

Well, that everything is about that.

Like, I mean...

Well, you're sub-tweeting right now.

Because you're making that so deep.

So that didn't come up in your mind?

No, I'll tell you what that is.

Because someone texted in...

Because I think I know what he's sub-tweeting.

Okay, someone texted into the show this morning.

It was an unsigned text, but it said,

John Schneider's, J.S.

and press conference yesterday, had some interesting comments.

He said, you better be sure about a player's character

before you present a monster contract to your owner.

Yeah.

Well, you know why?

Who do you think that was about that text?

Well, the text, yeah, but that's because we're in Vancouver

and it's too myopic in scope.

We're only thinking about, I guarantee you, John Schneider,

I bet he didn't think once about a Leus Petter Day.

What are you deciding to contract?

How can you be sure?

I'm going to go out of your mouth.

How can you say that?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm not even just talking about person.

I'm talking about like J.T.

I'm talking about everyone.

Anyone that connects side to side.

Okay.

Like they better be damn sure about their character.

Well, let's not talk about hockey.

You know what he was doing here, right?

John Schneider.

You don't.

I think he was talking up as a player.

No, he wasn't.

This was when you talk about sub-tweeting someone

or trying to get one in on the slide,

he's talking about the also 24-year-old star-wide receiver

of the Seattle Seahawks' fiercest divisional foe,

the Los Angeles Rams.

Oh, yeah.

And he's talking about...

You're stuff going on with Puka.

Do you think it's coincidence?

Let me ask you, caustic listeners, out there.

Do you think it's a coincidence that on the day

where Jackson Smith and Jigma meets with the media

to announce that he signed the richest contract

for an NFL wide receiver ever

that John Schneider uses the remarks he uses about

how he's a great person and your parents

did a great job of raising.

What a man you've turned out to be.

While that's going on,

a woman in Los Angeles files a civil lawsuit against Puka Nakuha

alleging that the Rams wide receiver made a quote-unquote

unprovoked anti-Semitic statement

and later bid her on the shoulder.

Now, the backdrop of the Nakuha situation, of course,

is that given that he's the exact same age

as Jackson Smith and Jigma.

He's longer tenured in the NFL,

but he is also in line for a monster contract.

Maybe even more than JSN because

for his greater way, JSN has not bid any women that we know of.

And he's looking good.

And then he checked his phone.

He's like, yep, can't confirm.

No whites.

Yeah.

So I think here, obviously, because of the rivalry

between the Seahawks and the Rams.

And, of course, I don't know if you all remember this or not,

but the Seahawks defeated the Los Angeles Rams

in the NFC title game to advance the Super Bowl.

And then I don't know if you remember this,

but the Seahawks won the Super Bowl

on the strength of a great year by Jackson Smith and Jigma.

I like to think that maybe there was a little bit more

than just praising your guy that went into that.

I don't know.

I think Schneider was still referencing Pety.

Yeah, or are you just talking about Pety?

Or are you just talking about Pety?

Yeah.

By the way, confusing with multiple John Schneiders.

I don't like it.

Very.

Yeah.

I don't like it.

There's a lot of John Schneiders.

There's a Blue J's fan on the West Coast.

It's very confusing.

Yeah, Laddy perks up when he hears John Schneider

and then he's like, that's about the Seahawks.

There's a lot of him.

John Schneider.

Okay, so this was what a smart decision

to not bite women on the shoulder.

That was what your conclusion was.

You know what, he's right.

That's always a smart decision.

Don't do it.

Don't bite.

Don't be a bider.

Don't be a bider.

I think he, I think I was like,

we don't like this smart decision.

It works for toddlers and NFL wide receivers.

Didn't they say something like,

Nikoas, Nituah, whatever you remember?

Pukin' Nikoa.

Nikoa, didn't he say the representative was like,

yeah, it's just a little horse play?

Yeah, he did.

Horses do bite sometimes though.

You would know.

Maybe it's true.

Ah.

He did.

He did.

Yeah.

It's possible.

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We've got the entire hour open here.

So if you want to weigh in,

Dunbar Lumber text line is 65650.

We're going to do what we learned all hour, correct?

Okay, can I do whatever you want?

Share some anecdotal.

I'm going to share an anecdotal story.

Okay.

Yeah, right?

It's just an anecdotal tale?

I think it's just an anecdotal.

An anecdotal.

Can you have an anecdotal story?

Right, okay.

Isn't that like a story story?

Right.

Okay, first of all, my brain was bogged down

with like, don't say antidote, you know?

I was like, I wanted to get the story thing, right?

First of all, you're sharing an anecdotal story.

What about artichoke?

I have heard from multiple people

that they are cancelling their connox season tickets.

Oh.

And I'm always skeptical when I hear these stories

because I was like, I'm pretty sure you told me that

last year that you were going to cancel your season tickets.

A little performative perhaps?

And then, and then, you know, they obviously don't.

But I'm really, really curious about this off season

in terms of the season ticket holder base.

And you know, there's an article up right now

on citynews.ca that you can read in the headline

is connect season ticket holders

outraged over price hike next season.

Hey, we're a little late on this story too, by the way.

A lot of people were talking about it earlier in the week.

No, I know.

I don't know what we were talking about.

I know, but I just find, I find some of it,

it's hard to report on because there's some,

like the, the silent or the loud minority

will be just be like, I'm cancelling my season tickets

and I'm outraged.

But there's a lot of other people that are like,

I'm not happy about the price upgrades,

but I love hockey and, you know, if you're a business,

you're just like, I want to take my clients to games.

But I really do wonder if there's a couple of things

at play here.

Number one, they're just upset of the way the hockey team

has operated over the last little while.

That's fine.

And number two, the people that I know

that have season tickets, usually they don't go

to all the games, right?

Like, I mean, it's a lot, 41 games or whatever.

It's a lot of, a lot of hockey.

41 on the button, right?

But what they do count on is being able to unload

their tickets on the secondary market,

or at the very least, being able to give them away

to a client or a friend or whatever.

They make a nice little gift.

And this year, it's been hard to do.

Yeah.

I've got a, I've got a buddy that, that is like,

I can't get rid of my tickets.

Like I, and he's spending time texting people like,

do you want to go to the Knax game?

And then it's like, I'm washing my hair tonight, right?

You know?

And he's like again, you're like, yes.

And if you're, if you're, let's say you have these

tickets for business reasons, right?

Yeah.

It's so easy to just buy them on the secondary market now.

And if you're not paying a lot of money

to buy them on the secondary market, then why wouldn't you?

Yeah.

It's interesting, right?

Because the escalation and price of,

and it's not just going to the game,

I think that's a big part of it, is that if you say,

like, especially if you're gonna give the tickets

to someone that's got kids or something,

if you're not, it's not a, it's not a free night.

It's very expensive to go.

Well, that is true.

Like if you get gifted tickets, like, that's great,

but it's gonna be expensive.

You gave me a bill.

Yeah, you gave me a bill.

It's like the George Costanza Super Bowl ticket thing.

Like you're giving me a bill for $2,000

to give me these Super Bowl tickets.

I gotta get a flight, accommodation, food.

Yeah.

So there's that, there's that part of it for sure.

And it is, I mean, I sympathize with everyone

that has to bring even just another person

or multiple people to the games,

if you think you're gonna sympathize with it.

I do.

You gotta watch what's on the ice.

You gotta pay $28 for a beer.

You can't kill it everywhere over here.

But, why is it expensive?

Look, I do generally want to,

genuinely want to know though, like,

why would they raise ticket prices this year?

Cause they can.

But, I mean, well.

Maybe they filled it can.

But after the season they just had,

I mean, and if they are worried about attendance,

I mean, maybe they aren't, I don't know if they are not.

But, if they were to say be worried about attendance,

why would they justify raising the ticket prices?

They don't, I don't know if justifies the right word.

They just, they just know they can do it.

Yeah.

But, but.

So they're not, I guess they're not worried

that about attendance.

No, they're probably not.

I, I disagree with that.

I bet they are.

I mean, I don't know.

I genuinely ask.

Aren't you making a calculator gamble

when you, or when you set prices for anything in a business?

You're like, well, I hope, I hope this works.

Like I get raised in the prices after their playoff run.

Obviously, because there's a lot of hope

around the franchise.

People are like, hey, there might be a future here.

Hey, we understand what you're talking about.

When the team is good, you can set high tick prices

when it's not going to be lower.

But, but it's also, it's not as simple as that in Vancouver.

They, they know that they are still the biggest show in town.

And people can text in and say like,

oh, the white caps are, you know, the lions are,

they're like, no, they're not.

They're not close.

They're still, they're still, they're still,

there's still something to be said for going.

And maybe it's not even watching the connox,

but you get to go watch, you know,

Sidney Crosby, or Conor McDavid, or McLean Celebrity,

or any of the stars that come through town.

And there is a, gotta hate using this word.

But there is a premium experience to go into a connox game

that others can't sell in this market.

Two words, but point taken.

I just, I just hate that.

Well, to be end of the phrase,

to be premium experience,

because we're going to hear a lot.

But to be fair to them, I mean,

their in-game presentation is excellent.

I mean, it always has been quite good.

And it's definitely even improved over the last five or so years.

I think it's fallen off the last little while.

I think it improved and then it's stale.

I think we need more skits.

If I could criticize this, my one criticism would be

bring back the organ.

And I don't say that jokingly.

I miss the hockey arena organ.

Can you tackle him for a bit?

That's just like, take him down.

Am I not right?

Wrap the knee.

Do you not miss the organ?

Can I follow up with a question though?

Oh my God.

I feel like we're strained.

Because this is a legitimate question though.

This is a legitimate question.

Close or not?

I'll bring it back to on track here.

We appear to be getting off topic.

Gag, go ahead.

It's not antidotal.

You're seeing a lot of headlines saying,

even though they're in the midst of a rebuild,

the connox are raising ticket prices.

Is this the specific reason why they were so reluctant

to agree to the word rebuild?

Because of this exact moment where they raise the prices.

Of course.

The rebuild gets thrown right back in their face.

But that's just obvious.

So you get to sell it the right way.

Now winning the draft lottery and having Gavin McKenna

would be a big battle.

But you talked about the in-game presentation, everything.

I saw a discussion the other day online

where they just talked about a complete rebrand of the team.

And even when you go to the game like they kind of play

the same music, there's a same rhythm to everything.

And I think over the next couple of years,

I know they got a lot on their plate right now,

but I don't know about uniforms or anything like that.

But I think they've got this opportunity to rebrand.

Yeah, re-identify.

Yeah.

I still feel in some ways like I still feel 2011 vibes

sometimes when I go to the game,

just with the presentation that they have.

I mean, every year they make the same,

in my opinion, kind of like weird video

where the connox are like superheroes or something like that.

But they need to edit 100 times

or at the end of the year.

I know those are kind of created.

Yeah, but do you need it?

Well, once, I mean, I don't have, exactly once.

But I know they do that sort of stuff for kids,

but I think they might just want to like rethink everything.

That's about the way they operate.

I like the playoff run.

Like they had the string quartet to start the game.

Like there's some cool stuff that they did during the play.

Well, look at the golden eyes we're doing.

Look at what they're doing in the game presentation.

It's a totally different vibe when you go to one of those.

Yeah, yeah.

You can completely change the mood of the building

just from your presentation alone.

I like the playoff run too, Adog.

Yeah, you know what?

That might not be something they can bank on

in the next little while.

So to bring it back to center here,

the conversation about season ticket holders

and ticket prices and not having an organ

and not having an organ,

the three biggest issues that are facing the club right now,

there is a very interesting dynamic at play

because you talked about the loud minority saying,

I've canceled my season's tickets.

Look at the screen grab of the email that I sent back

to my ticket representative at the Kinox.

And that's great and everything.

But there's still probably a large quiet dare I say

silent percentage that are just going to buy them again

because that's what you do, right?

It's like on their credit card.

It's set to auto re-new.

It's like you're any subscription

you have your streaming device baked into

the business plan is they're not going to check.

Yeah, some people have more money than us.

If you make it difficult to cancel

where there's like three steps involved,

you're probably going to get a renewal

because it's a lot to try and cancel.

So there's that part of it.

The other part of it is there are people out there

that are bending over backwards to take screen grabs

of crowds and attendance figures and use it in the sort,

you know the vein of the conversation

I always goes with this sarcastically.

Vancouver won't support a rebuild

and then they show a full building

or people cheering and everything else, right?

I disagree with that.

What do you disagree with?

That fans wouldn't support a rebuild,

especially season's ticket holders.

They're the ones that have been one in the rebuild

for the last 15 years.

I'm sure you're quite picking up what I'm putting down here.

What I'm saying is that there's still people

that are actively going to the games and paying money.

There's still support.

Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying.

Which is the reason that you could raise ticket prices

and not worry about the fact that you're asking people

for more money to watch a team that won eight games

at home this year.

There's not that inherent fear.

I don't think it's there.

And I'm coming from the at this from a perspective

where if you look at, for example,

some of the bigger European clubs,

when it's not going well,

there's almost a full-scale revolt, right?

And people will, I mean, like throwing flares

at the owner's box is probably a bridge too far,

but people will respond in kind by not showing up to matches

or actively saying, we are not happy with the product.

We are not going to give you our hard earned dollars

to continue to put this Dreck out on the playing surface, right?

That dynamic doesn't exist here.

It just doesn't.

There will be some people, but again, I think you're right.

It's a loud minority who are like,

not another dollar towards this product,

not a penny out of my pocket.

No way.

And that's great.

And it's very demonstrative and everything.

But I think the majority of people are like,

it's still a pretty fun time.

I know I have a hard time unloading my tickets in March,

but at the beginning of the year when there's still optimism

and it's still kind of cool and it's still a night out

and it's still, dare I say it, a premium experience.

For some people, it's a bit of an ego thing too.

Like, I have seasoned ticket holders.

I am very successful in life.

It's a big part of North American sports

is you go to the game and you have the tickets.

Yeah.

And until that completely,

in a very dramatic way,

widows away to almost zero

or way below where you're budgeted.

But I'm still curious to see how this off season goes

because from what perspective?

From the ticket selling perspective.

Yeah.

I don't think it's got, I don't,

I think it's a bit of a dangerous assumption

to say like, oh, the building's still gonna be full next season.

And a couple of thousand makes a difference.

When you go to games and you're like,

oh, this, there's, you know what,

you know what, where do you hear swaths?

Swaths of empty seats.

Certainly so.

There is that risk.

The way you make up a little.

I hate a big swath.

The way you make up for those swaths of empty seats

is to raise the prices.

Is that how it works?

Which I've done.

Actually already.

So check that box.

I don't know.

I mean, I'll be curious to see what it looks like.

In the future, there'll just be 500 seats.

But each ticket will be $100,000 for the premium experience.

That's the way society is going.

It's true.

In our K-shaped economy.

I think that's socialism.

Is that how it works?

I think that I saw that on Twitter yesterday.

I think, I think that's the opposite.

Oh, right.

Oh, whoops.

No, but you know, where this conversation leads

and where the interesting inflection point will be,

is it the start of next season?

Because I will say this,

when the season starts in October,

everyone's got a certain level of enthusiasm.

This hockey's been gone for a long time

and everyone's excited to get back in.

The idea of starting at zero is,

even if you're going to be the worst team in the league,

you still have some optimism

at the beginning of the year.

Like, you never know, that kind of thing.

Who's the guy that we were talking about?

God, who's the guy, a couple of years ago,

he came here and he ended up lasting like eight games,

but he scored in his first game.

Oh, God.

What, I'm just forgetting his name.

The Dutch guy.

The Dutch guy.

He has no wrong.

Daniel's wrong.

Yeah, there's always a Daniel's wrong.

You can sell hope for.

God, you know?

I just would do that again.

We spent a lot, not me, particularly,

I revolted again.

But it might work for us.

Yeah.

What about Daniel's wrong?

I'm like, what about him?

Daniel's wrong.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's a few texts that are saying

that ticket prices increases from A covering the seat cost

and B covering the, I guess, soon to be announced

practice facility cost.

That is.

And maybe another game is going.

All right.

I'm trying not to mouth-bruff here.

That is the dumbest thing I have heard of.

Having seats is not an add-on.

They're expensive.

It's part of the business.

Those seats were well-passed.

They're useful life.

You should be lucky we're not used to it down.

This could be standing room only.

The whole idea of selling the we got new seats,

and like, are they going to have a 30 for 30

on the new seats at Rogers Arena?

You own an arena.

You should have seats that work

and the practice facility is another thing.

It is part of doing business.

You're not just like, not yet.

Well, if you want to practice facility for your NHL team,

then you're going to pay for it.

The ticket prices are going up.

That is the dumbest argument I can possibly think of.

You have a practice facility because you want to win.

You want to win.

You have seats because you don't want

mice living in your seats.

You don't want broken seats.

It is part, do you think other arenas

in North American pro sports are like, guys, I know a lot of you

have been injuring yourself sitting in our seats,

but just for you, because you're so special,

and we love you, we're going to get new seats.

There will be a $10 service charge for every game.

You will pay for them, but we're going to do it

because we care about you.

I don't ever want to hear about new seats ever, ever again.

And I want them to get this practice facility built

so we don't ever, ever have to talk about this.

Again, a place for the players to practice crazy luxury

in this billion dollar business.

I, on the other hand, I want to see them

try and spin new seats into the premium experience.

Yeah.

Again, it's got a cup holder.

I mean, that's memory foam.

Are we living in the future?

How expensive those cup holders are?

Could you imagine getting memory foam seats?

Who was sitting here?

It's like we got new seats.

Unfortunately, each seat costs us $50,000.

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It doesn't technically count that you've stuck the landing

if you take a pause, then do the rest of the read.

It was still graceful.

No, today has been atrocious.

I got like 20 minutes of sleep last night.

I have not set a single thing right on any of the read.

What the guy said?

Like a dunk truck?

Oh, it's true.

What's a good thing Adog's been so involved on this show?

Yeah, I don't worry.

I've taken over guys.

There was every day where I needed Adog to interrupt consistently.

Hey, people are agreeing with me about the organ, okay?

That's great.

Did you go to an organ?

That's what I heard.

It's an organ.

Oh, I can speak on this show.

The organ.

The worst part is we had maybe the preeminent broadcaster,

Dan Shulman, who is a maculant in everything that he does.

And then I'm on the hearsay at Happity

and the Health of the Bluff show.

I can't say a thing, right?

I love the Health of the show.

Yeah.

Health of the show.

I can't do anything, right?

Health blue.

Health blue.

Health blue is all right.

We can have amateur hour all morning.

It stinks.

It stinks.

Oh, thank you.

No good.

So we got to talk more about the seats or what?

Adog's like, a lot of people are saying it's justified

because you get new seats.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Think about it.

Somewhere to sit.

How are the seats at your movie yesterday, by the way?

You want to see Project Hail Mary?

I did.

Were you like, did you tip the seats?

You're just like, yeah.

You leave $5 because they were so good.

Oh, yeah.

You got to annoy the person behind you.

That's part of the movie going experience.

What movie did you see Project Mail Mary?

Was it good?

Oh, it was great.

Yeah, it was really good.

Yeah.

I'm not gonna lie.

It's a little emotional.

Did you cry?

No.

You cried a lot.

I got to have a lump in my throat a couple times.

I didn't fall in love with that rock.

And you'll see what I mean when you watch it.

It's all the same.

Don't spoil anything.

Dwayne Johnson.

You fell in love with the rock.

Yeah, he fell in love with the rock for a long time.

That's the spoiler.

He's in it.

Yeah.

Yeah, he's the puppet.

Let's do some while we learn here.

I'm going to start.

It's me and Laddie.

We're Laddie and I, I suppose.

Tom Brady has done the research and he's asked

and can confirm the NFL is not interested in having

an individual that is both a player and an owner.

Oh.

So as you all know,

was he thinking of doing it?

Let me work.

Let me cook.

Tom Brady.

No, that's a joke.

Tom Brady, as you know, is a minority owner

in the Las Vegas Raiders.

He owns 5% of the team.

Now the NFL has had issues at times with him being a part owner

and a broadcaster.

So Tom thought, why not push the boundaries even more?

And he asked the NFL about the possibility of coming out

of retirement and returning to the NFL.

He went on to say that the league, quote,

did not like that idea very much.

All of this comes shortly after Tom Brady took part

in the recently completed Fanatics flag football classic.

You might have remembered this thing, this initiative.

It was supposed to be played in Saudi Arabia, a hotbed

of flag football, obviously,

and then got rerouted to Los Angeles for a variety of issues,

not including the war.

So Tom Brady participated in this along with a handful

of other current NFL quarterbacks,

which he's apparently was trying to become.

Jalen Hertz was there, Joe Burrow, Jay Daniels,

and then the other team was the representative

of the US at the upcoming Olympics, the actual football team.

Tom Brady apparently was spinning it pretty good.

Throwing the pigskin around, I believe he threw

for two touchdowns.

He looked pretty spry for a 49 year old guy.

To the point where he went out and acquired with the NFL,

if he was to entertain a comeback, would it be cool?

And the NFL said, absolutely not, you are done.

You are not coming back.

Now part of the reason that he asked to was,

Terry Pugula was also just like, man,

I guess I'm not gonna be quarterback either.

He probably can't do it.

Yeah, Arthur Blank.

I'm probably too old for this anyway.

Does Brady have like a son he wants to play with or something?

Or is he pulling a little brun here?

No, you know what happened was last year, of course,

we saw the magical Philip Rivers comeback,

in which Philip Rivers, who hadn't played in five years,

came back and, you know,

fared reasonably well, given what he was working with.

He was a little bit younger than Tom Brady, of course,

but that kind of opened the door of opportunity,

which the NFL then slammed shut yesterday and said,

no thanks, Tom Brady.

Stay retired and stay an owner.

So that's what I learned yesterday.

Moo Kami.

Laddie, you're up.

What I learned, nothing is sacred anymore.

You guys, Dodger Stadium.

It's been Dodger Stadium as long as you can remember, right?

What are they doing now?

They have changed the name.

It is now unique flow field at Dodger Stadium.

Maybe good clothes.

But now you gotta say that whole thing.

Does anyone gonna say that?

There's a big sign in the outfield now.

Yeah.

Uniclow Stadium.

Nope.

Do they make good clothes?

Uniclow Field at Dodger Stadium.

That's how they get around it, right?

They name the field, but you keep the stadium there.

They did it in that barely.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

Don't love it.

I've lost track of a lot of them.

Like, there'll be times where I would,

like, if there's a particular team

that I haven't paid attention to in a couple of years,

and then you go back and they've changed names

not once, but twice, right?

I will say there wasn't a lot of hype

to this announcement.

They kind of just sprung on everyone on opening day.

So I wonder if they were expecting a little bit

a blowback from that announcement.

Has anyone been to Dodger Stadium?

It's one of the ball parks I haven't been to yet.

I have not.

My wife has.

It looks chavez-rivi.

It still looks really.

I mean, I know it is old, but have they done any rentals?

They've done it.

What's the luckiest situation there?

Because you would think for the Dodgers

who spend so much money,

and actually, what's the, have they got new seats there?

Super old seats.

Yeah, they have to.

You have to have a team like that on the field, right?

You got to pinch Penny somewhere.

Yeah.

Seats.

Out of the budget.

I've always just been curious about Dodger Stadium

because to me, like, I'm not complaining

because it looks cool, looks like a throwback stadium,

but it looks really old.

For a while, you couldn't walk around the entire concourse.

You get to the outfield and you'd be stopped,

but since the renovations, they've changed that,

but even 10 years ago, it was a super old, old stadium.

Right.

And it is still.

Okay.

All right, give us a, give us a move-cow on that.

Ah!

By the way, the leader still of the greatest name,

Dorena, in all of the major professionals.

Crypto.com.

No.

The Smoothie King Center.

Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah.

I also like the slush-poppy center.

That's good too.

It's in Quebec somewhere.

Yeah, that's not as big.

Smoothie King Center actually houses an NBA team,

which is hilarious.

They love Smoothie King down there.

Okay, let's, uh, fibed it out, Matrix.

Q and O's submission.

What we learned about you is always by A.J.'s pizza on East Broadway.

From corporate events to special events,

there's no order to large, order online at A.J.'s, that pizza.

Okay, this one comes from Plop.

What we learned, Iver Stenberg.

I know.

It's from Plop.

Iver Stenberg didn't even make the top three

in Craig Buttons top prospects list.

And he slated Mattis Preston of the Giants too.

Craig always liked to throw some curveballs.

He's got McKenna first, Carson Carroll's,

the Prince George defenseman second.

Not to be confused with Carson Karen.

Chase Reed, OHL defenseman third, Stenberg is fourth.

And then Keaton Verhoff is actually the third ranked defenseman

on Craig's list.

And he's got Veeho Bjork, who I really like.

And I think everyone who watched him in the World Juniors

was like, that guy's good.

He's got him sixth overall.

I'm not sure I'd have him sixth overall.

He is not big.

Did you work on the pronunciation of that first name?

Is it Veeho?

I thought it was Veego.

I don't know.

Do we know?

It's V-I-G-G-O, right?

Yeah.

Veego?

Well, Veego Mortensen, the actor.

I have no idea.

Do we know?

Does anyone know?

I bet Veego knows.

Or Veeho.

I think it's Veego.

Veego?

Whatever.

I think the Gs are silent.

Well, the Gs are actually an H.

Can you imagine how to explain that?

It's like the first G is silent.

The second G, however, is extremely hard.

Sarah from Edmonton, what we learned,

John Cooper needs to write a book

and share his trade secrets.

It would also just be a good book.

Yeah, I'm sure he's got some good stories to tell.

And you'd read it and be like,

man, it's a little preachy.

Very long-winded.

I just can't believe that.

The introduction was 19 chapters.

Who doesn't love Cooper?

He's just such a good speaker.

And I think, you know, look, it's important.

If you're the coach, the communicator is very important.

If you're a communicator.

Yeah.

I think it's been a problem for the last few years.

And I'm not just talking about the coach.

I'm talking about communication.

Jim Rutherford likes to talk,

but sometimes he talks too much.

I remember the first time I heard Jim Benning talk.

I was like, this is the guy.

This guy?

It left something to be discussed.

He talks like me.

He talks like a valley girl, you know?

Oh, with the likes and stuff.

And stuff?

Yeah, I've been trying to, yeah.

We're gonna retool in a hurry and stuff.

You have three.

You have in stuff.

Say like quite a bit.

I say like a lot.

You still, um, yeah.

But it's fine.

It's part of your personality.

The lack of radio training.

Yeah, really?

Well, that's been on display.

Shining throughout the show.

Well, one of your problems is you say dumb stuff all the time.

Don't get into the show.

Like, where'd you guys go to radio school?

And I'm like, what?

Are you a what now?

Radio school.

They have schools with them?

Yeah.

Uh, by the way, are you just lashing out

because you've had a tough show

that you decided to pick on me?

I see.

You brought it up.

Yeah, but I didn't, I didn't bring it up for you too.

Like I said, yeah, you do suck.

There's other things that you do.

No, this is self deprecating.

I don't want you to deprecate me.

Yeah, it's self deprecating.

Just don't pile on.

Don't deprecate on me.

It's supposed to be.

Well, on, especially with your added weight.

He said deprecate, right?

I hope so.

Dug in the chef.

Well, we learned if San Jose can stay the course,

the connects will be picking 33rd

and possibly 38th overall.

Of their 13 games remaining,

they play six to seven non-playoff teams.

So it's going to be tight.

Welcome, rock twins.

If San Jose can stay the course, I don't understand that.

Bro, he missed it.

That would be the keeper sure would pick.

How for did the six, seven hands?

Oh, okay.

Do you see the goal scored in the...

The women's college game with 6.7 seconds left

and they all started going crazy.

That was pretty funny.

I thought it had jumped the shark.

The kids, you know, I don't think they do.

But you keep doing it at 6.7.

Well, if you're doing it now,

it's definitely jumped the shark.

So the idea here would be that the connox,

if San Jose continues to hit the skids,

they're having a major way.

I guess, Macklein said,

Macklein said, even though he's got

a relentless motor and energy,

he's probably tired at this point.

He's had to do a lot of heavy lifting.

I knew he would have to lift the sharks.

I didn't think he'd have to carry Canada at the Olympics,

but by the end he was.

Yeah, he tired himself with all those shot attempts.

Security.

Security.

Anyway, but so on of which went in, Macklein.

Yeah, picked a bad time to go cold.

Brett with what we learned.

I was doing some digging

and found an incredible potential World Cup scenario.

Okay, Brett, go on.

If Canada were to qualify from their group

as a third place team decently likely

and the United States were to win their group

likely as well,

it would set up a round of 32 knockout matchup

between Canada and the US in Santa Clara on Canada Day.

Okay, so I tried to double check this.

Is your source on this answer?

And I couldn't do it because the...

It's too confusing.

It is confusing with the third place teams.

And I think he's right about the US path,

but the third place group,

I'm not exactly sure how they slot them all in.

Yeah, I'm with you.

Like maybe it's possible, I think it's possible,

but I don't think it's as...

It may not be as much of a given

as Canada just qualifies out of third spot

in their group and they automatically go to that.

Yeah, no, I know exactly what you're saying.

It's possible knockout stage based on ranking.

Right, of other third place groups too,

so you don't really know yet.

And then I think because the points will be pretty similar,

there's gonna be like gold differential that plays into it.

I get, in spirit, I get what Brett is saying.

I think it is within the realm of possibility,

but I think the realm of possibility is pretty wide.

I think there's a lot of different options there.

Mike with the while we learn on the same night,

Adog watched Project Hail Mary.

I read the first 23 pages of the book.

That's an accomplishment for our listeners.

Mike goes on and says,

gonna have to rip off another few hundred pages

before it's out of theaters.

I definitely need to see that thing in IMAX.

I concur, see it in IMAX.

I mean, it is one of those movies.

It's just visually stunning.

Especially since it's a very little CGI.

Can I just say that IMAX is too much for me.

It's too big.

What?

It is the optimal way to watch it in the end of the IMAX.

It's too big.

I saw Oppenheimer on IMAX.

I was like, this is too much.

Okay, that's a wild take, but okay.

That's the most old man thing you've ever said.

No, it's not.

It's much more old man thing.

That's crazy.

The screen is too big.

That's the point.

It's too, it's what.

You sit further back then.

No, sit so close.

What are your seats?

No, but it was the,

when you sit in the front row,

or is that what we're getting your neck?

It wasn't BC place.

It was just, it was a theater in my seats.

We're just normal.

They weren't, they weren't really close.

But, okay, so you're sort of in the middle of this.

I was in, I was, and I was like, it's too much.

That's, okay.

It's sensory overload.

I'm kind of with them, because it's a mass of screen.

And that's the point.

That's the point.

You just, like, put me in a nice,

like, can you turn it down please?

Comfortable theater.

Just a scooch.

I am that guy at hockey games now.

I'm like, why is the music playing so loud?

I didn't have a conversation with the person beside me.

I mean, they're probably happy, but turn it up, they say.

I don't know.

If I could see a movie and I'm,

if there's the option to see a film and I max,

and it was filmed specifically for that format,

it's different if it's not filmed for it,

then it doesn't really matter.

But if the movie is filmed using an I max camera,

you gotta see it on that screen.

That's what I was meant to be viewed.

This, he's got a very old man point here, though,

because I've had the similar complaints.

As you get older, everything becomes too much.

So I max is too big and too loud.

Well, just sit further back at the...

I've said it about, like, there's too many TV channels now.

I have the same complaint about all the streaming services.

There's too much content.

There's too much stuff.

Yeah.

There's just too much.

It's an overload.

You know what I found?

I spend way too much time doing.

Although they seem to have changed it on the Netflix app.

I used to like just going to what's coming.

And like, you know, like, okay.

So...

Oh, dude.

I see the couple movies like that.

Yeah.

Back up.

If I talk about a radio, but...

What?

It's a pizza guy.

But you know the previews?

I like seeing that.

And I'm like, oh, that looks interesting.

I'll never watch it.

But, you know, I've got five minutes to kill.

So I'll look at the previews.

Right.

I mean, all you need is the preview sometimes.

I bet it's the plumber.

Okay.

Robyn Surry, hashtag...

Always seems to be the stepbrother.

Yeah, that's right.

What's he doing here?

Robyn Surry, hashtag www.WhatWeLearn.

What I've learned is that for stadium names,

nothing beats the Bojangles Colosseum.

We're not only do the checkers and hornets play,

but the Abbotsford Canucks won the Calder Cup there last year.

Good pull, Rob.

Bojangles for those that are unaware

with the variety of fast food chains

we don't get in Canada,

but are very prevalent in America.

Bojangles, it's very popular in the Southern United States.

Great name.

They had a commercial with,

it was one of the greatest commercials I was,

this is how old I am and it is.

It was Jake DeLom and Steve Smith

while they were playing for the Carolina Panthers

driving in the Dukes of Hazard Carve.

What was it called again?

The General League.

The General League.

I think I got canceled.

I think you got canceled.

I think everything about that commercial,

but I can't.

Yeah, and they were just,

they were racing to the fried chicken place.

Bojangles, of course, that's what they did.

They fried chicken biscuits and all that Southern food.

And it was a hilarious commercial

because it was about as Southern as you could possibly get.

And now I think two thirds of those things

when I commercially can't do anymore.

Yeah.

I used to love the Dukes of Hazard.

It's a good show.

It was a good show.

Yeah.

It's like, what's a boot leaker?

What we learn unsigned here,

and I think that's because this person

didn't want to sign their name to this.

Oh.

Speaking of horses and biting,

which is a text that makes sense

if you have listened to our show.

It tracks.

When I was around 10 years old,

I was at a petting zoo with my brother and grandparents,

and I was bitten by a donkey right on the nipple.

My younger brother and granddad made up a song

to the tune of O' Christmas Tree

and called it O' Donkey Bite.

It has haunted me for the last 30 years.

I feel like a lot of people have bad experiences,

a lot of kids have bad experiences at petting zoos.

Like the animal will get,

I might bite you on the nipple,

or it might just charge at you a little bit.

Sure.

Kick you.

I can never go near a chicken coop again, that's for sure.

Why?

What happened in that chicken coop?

I was stamped, stamped on by a flock of chickens.

Stampied on?

Yeah.

Beaks of fury pecking at me.

They can smell weakness, you know?

They can.

Well, they smell fear, that's for sure.

And this happened when I was an adult.

Have you ever been, have you ever been,

have you ever been hissed at by a goose?

Oh, every day, walking home.

I live in Canada, goose central, man.

It's the West End.

I've seen some kids.

Oh, they hiss at you, nonstop.

They'll hiss at you.

And they'll charge at you with their wing.

Oh, yeah.

Can't hit you.

Can't hit you with hard jerks.

They just don't want you going over them,

to be like, what's up?

And it's like, I'm just going to hiss at you a little bit.

Yeah.

They're protecting their young too.

They'll walk into traffic.

They'll cause traffic jams, they'll stop cars.

They're a menace.

That's crazy.

Man, it's just a side.

You got beaten up by chickens though.

Yeah, well, they were, this is a week ago.

20, 27.

Were you a kid when this happened?

I mean, I may have been a little aggressive

in trying to pet a chicken.

And I guess, how old chickens did not take too kindly to it?

And they charged me.

How old were you?

I don't know, six.

Okay, you were six.

And have you been eating chicken as revenge ever since?

I love chicken.

Bojangles.

Rob, there's another one from Rob.

hashtag www.whatwelearnwhat I've learned

is after going to five Kinox games this season,

it's significantly cheaper to buy tickets on Stubbub

than it is to buy them on ticket master at face value.

So I've used, does anyone ever use the game time before?

Yeah.

I think I've looked at it for like a last minute stuff.

Yeah, it's really good for last minute tickets.

I don't know about way in advance.

Does anyone ever scour Facebook marketplace anymore

for tickets?

What about Craigslist?

Does anyone do the Craigslist?

Yeah.

Looking for a late night meetup or something?

Yeah.

And two tickets.

The tickets were free.

Okay.

This is still existed.

Yeah, it still exists.

There's still a ticket like category in there.

Interesting.

Yeah.

I wouldn't be comfortable with,

oh, I guess Facebook marketplace.

I've never met anybody that's freeing of tickets.

I just want, I've never met anybody that likes Facebook.

I've never met anybody that likes Facebook marketplace

as much as Halford.

I don't ever buy anything on it.

You're the person I know that likes Facebook marketplace the most.

It is amazing the amount of stuff that's put on there.

It is the true flea market for the people.

It's unbelievable.

The amount of vehicles that people buy and sell

on Facebook marketplace is staggering to me.

There's certain purchases that I feel like need like

some level of security,

legitimacy, security, professionalism.

I feel like buying a vehicle is one of them, right?

Like not some guy that lives in pit meadows

who's like just come by the house whenever.

Yeah.

And then you show up and he's like,

there's the car.

Like that seems weird to me,

but I guess that's how it works now,

because it's used cars, right?

Yeah.

Do you have the papers for this car?

No.

What now?

There's a screwdriver jammed into this.

What's going on here?

Are those bullet holes?

Put it in an H.

All right.

You're going to have a big sports day today.

Yeah.

I'm going to have a big sports day today.

What are you most excited for?

Is it March Madness?

Is it the Cuxen?

Cuxen the Kings.

Is it some of the soccer games today?

Honestly, it's the soccer game.

You can't really match the drama and theater

that you're going to get today,

because this is do or die.

This is your World Cup life.

22 countries still in the mix to make the World Cup.

For six spots.

For six spots.

Yeah.

It's amazing theater.

22 nations facing off.

Not against each other, though.

Okay.

The music means we got to say goodbye.

Someone say mercifully after how they show up.

I'm sorry about the show today, everyone.

Yeah, it's fine.

We'll be back tomorrow.

I'm not.

Chances are to be worse,

because there's a whole lot going on around here.

Turn in tomorrow to find out what's coming.

Yeah.

For now, though, we got to say goodbye.

Signing off.

I have him, Mike Halford.

He's been Jason Bruff.

He's been A-Dog.

He's been Lattie.

This has been the Halford and Bruff show on SportsNet.

650.

Can I just say that I'm Axe is too much for me.

It's too much.

What?

It's too big.

What is too much?

That's okay.

It's sensory overload.

I'm kind of with him.

It's a massive screen.

That's the point.

That's the point.

That's the point.

Blasting at you.

Blasting at you.

Turn it up.

Turn it up.

Blasting at you.

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