Podcasts about Argonauts

Brenden Escott is joined by Ben Grant from TSN 1050 in Toronto and the Xs and Argos podcast to tee up the second meeting of the CFL season between the Edmonton Elks and the Toronto Argonauts. Both teams are coming off victories and are hard charging toward the playoffs, despite dealing with injuries. We get you all the details on the Argonauts and how they intend to slow down Elks running back Justin Rankin following his 204-yard rushing performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Grant and JB are here to get you through Toronto's second bye week of the 2025 season - one that couldn't have come at a better time. At the heart of this episode is the looming quarterback question: Nick Arbuckle is on a six-game tear, completing 74% of his passes for 2,137 yards, 14 touchdowns, and just two interceptions - a pace that would put him in Doug Flutie territory over a full season. But Chad Kelly has teased his return on Instagram for Toronto's next game. If he's healthy, is there a debate to be had about who gives Toronto the best chance to win? The guys dig into what's fueling Arbuckle's hot streak, Kelly's intangibles, and whether Coach Dinwiddie risks upsetting team chemistry with an abrupt switch. They also set the table for the final six games of the year, including a playoff path that runs through Saskatchewan and Calgary. Off the field, the Argos announced a special tribute: on September 13th vs. Edmonton, the team will honour John Candy, with the first 5,000 fans at BMO receiving a commemorative t-shirt. Ben and JB share memories of Candy's legacy as an owner and a Canadian icon. Plus, as always: Pick Six, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag.

A Company of Wolves (1984), Nightbreed (1990), Errementari (2017) As horror fans, we might not really think about the amount of horror elements that are in other sub-genres, such as fantasy. Sure, we all know titles like Conan the Barbarian (1982) that has a guy who turns into a giant snake, or Legend (1985) where one of the main characters is some sort of demon or devil, do those elements make it a horror film? We all know that horror is used in many different genres of films, even some where the filmmakers themselves go out of their way to make sure to define it NOT as horror. But we know. But when it comes to Fantasy / Horror, that's where the story might be based on fairy tales or folklore, and definitely has some elements of horror in there, either in content or maybe just characters. The line can get kind of blurry. But we also know that if its entertaining, then does it really matter? Take a listen as we discuss 3 titles that we all felt hit the Fantasy / Horror sub-genre, for a variety of reasons. Tune in and find out why. Titles mentioned in this episode: Army of Darkness (1992), Beastmaster (1982), A Company of Wolves (1984), Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), The Crying Game (1992), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Errementari (2017), Eyes of Fire (1983), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), Häxan (1922), Hellboy (2004), Hellraiser (1987), In Dreams (1999), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Krull (1983), Legend (1985), Lord of Illusions (1995), Masters of the Universe (1987), Nightbreed (1990), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Phantasm (1979), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Sword and the Sorcerers (1982), Suspiria (1977)

What. A. Finish. The Argonauts stunned Hamilton 35-33 in the Labour Day Classic with a last-second field goal, capping one of the wildest endings in Labour Day history. The Ticats looked to have stolen it with a touchdown in the final 18 seconds, but Jake Herslow sparked the comeback with a kickoff return to the Toronto 44. On the very next play, Nick Arbuckle heaved one up for Dejon Brissett, who made the catch between two defenders and raced down to the Hamilton 3-yard line, stepping out with one second on the clock. That set up the game-winning kick. Ben and JB break down every detail of a wild Labour Day Classic with the full radio replays from TSN 1050 included.

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you set for the Labour Day Classic as the 3–8 Toronto Argonauts head down the QEW to face the division-leading Hamilton Tiger-Cats. It's been a busy week for the Double Blue: Four signings, including 2024 East All-Star WR Makai Polk, QB Max Duggan (2022 Heisman runner-up), NT Joe Wallace, and OL Dre Doiron, two releases, including LB Jordan Williams, play Mark Milton was traded to Ottawa, and two quarterbacks were added to Toronto's negotiation list: Clayton Tune and Bailey Zappe. The guys also debate whether there's cause for concern in Toronto adding Duggan plus two NFL quarterbacks to the neg list, and what it means for the future under centre. And of course all your favourite segments are back: Pick Six, Game Preview, Injury Report, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag. And since it's a holiday week, Ben counts down his Top 5 beers from Something in the Water Brewing - with Longboat Hazy Session IPA still holding the top spot.

The Labour Day Classic takes centre stage on Monday as the Tiger-Cats host the Argonauts. On this Sportsline Podcast, veteran Hamilton Spectator columnist Scott Radley was asked if the meeting between Toronto and Hamilton is the CFL's top rivalry.

The Secret History of Gold comes out this week. Here for your viewing pleasure is a fim about gold based on the first chapter.“Gold will be slave or master”HoraceIn 2021, a metal detectorist with the eyebrow-raising name of Ole Ginnerup Schytz dug up a hoard of Viking gold in a field in Denmark. The gold was just as it was when it was buried 1,500 years before, if a little dirtier. The same goes for the jewellery unearthed at the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria in 1972. The beads, bracelets, rings and necklaces are as good as when they were buried 6,700 years ago.In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, there is a golden tooth bridge — a gold wire used to bind teeth and dental implants — made over 4,000 years ago. It could go in your mouth today.No other substance is as long-lasting as gold — not diamonds, not tungsten carbide, not boron nitride. Gold does not corrode; it does not tarnish or decay; it does not break down over time. This sets it apart from every other substance. Iron rusts, wood rots, silver tarnishes. Gold never changes. Left alone, it stays itself. And it never loses its shine — how about that?Despite its permanence, you can shape this enormously ductile metal into pretty much anything. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long or plate a copper wire 1,000 miles long. It can be beaten into a leaf just one atom thick. Yet there is one thing you cannot do and that is destroy it. Life may be temporary, but gold is permanent. It really is forever.This means that all the gold that has ever been mined, estimated to be 216,000 tonnes, still exists somewhere. Put together it would fit into a cube with 22-metre sides. Visualise a square building seven storeys high — and that would be all the gold ever.With some effort, you can dissolve gold in certain chemical solutions, alloy it with other metals, or even vaporise it. But the gold will always be there. It is theoretically possible to destroy gold through nuclear reactions and other such extreme methods, but in practical terms, gold is indestructible. It is the closest thing we have on earth to immortality.Perhaps that is why almost every ancient culture we know of associated gold with the eternal. The Egyptians believed the flesh of gods was made of gold, and that it gave you safe passage into the afterlife. In Greek myth, the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, which Hercules was sent to retrieve, conferred immortality on whoever ate them. The South Americans saw gold as the link between humanity and the cosmos. They were not far wrong.Gold was present in the dust that formed the solar system. It sits in the earth's crust today, just as it did when our planet was formed some 4.6 billion years ago. That little bit of gold you may be wearing on your finger or around your neck is actually older than the earth itself. In fact, it is older than the solar system. To touch gold is as close as you will ever come to touching eternity.And yet the world's most famous investor is not impressed.‘It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place,' said Warren Buffett. ‘Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.'He's right. Gold does nothing. It does not even pay a yield. It just sits there inert. We use other metals to construct things, cut things or conduct things, but gold's industrial uses are minimal. It is a good conductor of electricity, but copper and silver are better and cheaper. It has some use in dentistry, medical applications and nanotechnology. It is finding more and more use in outer space — back whence it came — where it is used to coat spacecraft, astronauts' visors and heat shields. But, in the grand scheme of things, these uses are paltry.Gold's only purpose is to store and display prosperity. It is dense and tangible wealth: pure money.Though you may not realise it, we still use gold as money today. Not so much as a medium to exchange value but store it.In 1970, about 27 per cent of all the gold in the world was in the form of gold coinage and central bank or government reserves. Today, even with the gold standard long since dead, the percentage is about the same.The most powerful nation on earth, the United States, keeps 70 per cent of its foreign exchange holdings in gold. Its great rival, China, is both the world's largest producer and the world's largest importer. It has built up reserves that, as we shall discover, are likely as great as the USA's. If you buying gold or silver coins to protect yourself in these “interesting times” - and I urge you to - as always I recommend The Pure Gold Company. Pricing is competitive, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe or you can store your gold with them. More here.Ordinary people and institutions the world over use gold to store wealth. Across myriad cultures gold is gifted at landmark life events — births and weddings — because of its intrinsic value.In fact, gold's purchasing power has increased over the millennia, as human beings have grown more productive. The same ounce of gold said by economic historians to have bought King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 350 loaves of bread could buy you more than 1,000 loaves today. The same gold dinar (roughly 1/7 oz) that, in the time of the Koran in the seventh century, bought you a lamb would buy you three lambs today. Those same four or five aurei (1 oz) which bought you a fine linen tunic in ancient Rome would buy you considerably more clothing today.In 1972, 0.07 ounces of gold would buy you a barrel of oil. Here we are in 2024 and a barrel of oil costs 0.02 ounces of gold — it's significantly cheaper than it was fifty years ago.House prices, too, if you measure them in gold, have stayed constant. It is only when they are measured in fiat currency that they have appreciated so relentlessly (and destructively).In other words, an ounce of gold buys you as much, and sometimes more, food, clothing, energy and shelter as it did ten years ago, a hundred years ago or even thousands of years ago. As gold lasts, so does its purchasing power. You cannot say the same about modern national currencies.Rare and expensive to mine, the supply of gold is constrained. This is in stark contrast to modern money — electronic, debt-based fiat money to give it its full name — the supply of which multiplies every year as governments spend and borrowing balloons.As if by Natural Law, gold supply has increased at the same rate as the global population — roughly 2 per cent per annum. The population of the world has slightly more than doubled since 1850. So has gold supply. The correlation has held for centuries, except for one fifty-year period during the gold rushes of the late nineteenth century, when gold supply per capita increased.Gold has the added attraction of being beautiful. It shines and glistens and sparkles. It captivates and allures. The word ‘gold' derives from the Sanskrit ‘jval', meaning ‘to shine'. That's why we use it as jewellery — to show off our wealth and success, as well as to store it. Indeed, in nomadic prehistory, and still in parts of the world today, carrying your wealth on your person as jewellery was the safest way to keep it.The universe has given us this captivatingly beautiful, dense, inert, malleable, scarce, useless and permanent substance whose only use is to be money. To quote historian Peter Bernstein, ‘nothing is as useless and useful all at the same time'.But after thousands of years of gold being official money, in the early twentieth century there was a seismic shift. Neither the British, German nor French government had enough gold to pay for the First World War. They abandoned gold backing to print the money they needed. In the inter-war years, nations briefly attempted a return to gold standards, but they failed. The two prevailing monetary theories clashed: gold-backed versus state-issued currency. Gold standard advocates, such as Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, considered gold to be one of the key pillars of a free society along with property rights and habeas corpus. ‘We have gold because we cannot trust governments,' said President Herbert Hoover in 1933. This was a sentiment echoed by one of the founders of the London School of Economics, George Bernard Shaw — to whom I am grateful for demonstrating that it is possible to have a career as both a comedian and a financial writer. ‘You have to choose (as a voter),' he said, ‘between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government… I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.'On the other hand, many, such as economist John Maynard Keynes, advocated the idea of fiat currency to give government greater control over the economy and the ability to manipulate the money supply. Keynes put fixation with gold in the Freudian realms of sex and religion. The gold standard, he famously said after the First World War — and rightly, as it turned out — was ‘already a barbarous relic'. Freud himself related fascination with gold to the erotic fantasies and interests of early childhood.Needless to say, Keynes and fiat money prevailed. By the end of the 1930s, most of Europe had left the gold standard. The US followed, but not completely until 1971, in order to meet the ballooning costs of its welfare system and its war in Vietnam.But compare both gold's universality (everyone everywhere knows gold has value) and its purchasing power to national currencies and you have to wonder why we don't use it officially today. There is a very good reason: power.Sticking to the discipline of the gold standard means governments can't just create money or run deficits to the same extent. Instead, they have to rein in their spending, which they are not prepared to do, especially in the twenty-first century, when they make so many promises to win elections. Balanced books, let alone independent money, have become an impossibility. If you seek an answer as to why the state has grown so large in the West, look no further than our system of money. When one body in a society has the power to create money at no cost to itself, it is inevitable that that body will grow disproportionately large. So it is in the twenty-first century, where state spending in many social democracies is now not far off 50 per cent of GDP, sometimes higher.Many arguments about gold will quickly slide into a political argument about the role of government. It is a deeply political metal. Those who favour gold tend to favour small government, free markets and individual responsibility. I count myself in that camp. Those who dismiss it tend to favour large government and state planning.I have argued many times that money is the blood of a society. It must be healthy. So much starts with money: values, morals, behaviour, ambitions, manners, even family size. Money must be sound and true. At the moment it is neither. Gold, however, is both. ‘Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men,' said former Republican Congressman Ron Paul. As Dorothy is advised in The Wizard of Oz (which was, as we shall discover, part allegory), maybe the time has come to once again ‘follow the yellow brick road'.On the other hand, maybe the twilight of gold has arrived, as Niall Ferguson argued in his history of debt and money, The Cash Nexus. Gold's future, he said, is ‘mainly as jewellery' or ‘in parts of the world with primitive or unstable monetary and financial systems'. Gold may have been money for 5,000 years, or even 10,000 years, but so was the horse a means of transport, and then along came the motor car.A history of gold is inevitably a history of money, but it is also a history of greed, obsession and ambition. Gold is beautiful. Gold is compelling. It is wealth in its purest, most distilled form. ‘Gold is a child of Zeus,' runs the ancient Greek lyric. ‘Neither moth nor rust devoureth it; but the mind of man is devoured by this supreme possession.' Perhaps that's why Thomas Edison said gold was ‘an invention of Satan'. Wealth, and all the emotions that come with it, can do strange things to people.Gold has led people to do the most brilliant, the most brave, the most inventive, the most innovative and the most terrible things. ‘More men have been knocked off balance by gold than by love,' runs the saying, usually attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Where gold is concerned, emotion, not logic, prevails. Even in today's markets it is a speculative asset whose price is driven by greed and fear, not by fundamental production numbers.Its gleam has drawn man across oceans, across continents and into the unknown. It lured Jason and the Argonauts, Alexander the Great, numerous Caesars, da Gama, Cortés, Pizarro and Raleigh. Brilliant new civilisations have emerged as a result of the quest for gold, yet so have slavery, war, deceit, death and devastation. Describing the gold mines of ancient Egypt, the historian Diodorus Siculus wrote, ‘there is absolutely no consideration nor relaxation for sick or maimed, for aged man or weak woman. All are forced to labour at their tasks until they die, worn out by misery amid their toil.' His description could apply to many an illegal mine in Africa today.The English critic John Ruskin told a story of a man who boarded a ship with all his money: a bag of gold coins. Several days into the voyage a terrible storm blew up. ‘Abandon ship!' came the cry. The man strapped his bag around his waist and jumped overboard, only to sink to the bottom of the sea. ‘Now,' asked Ruskin, ‘as he was sinking — had he the gold? Or had the gold him?'As the Chinese proverb goes, ‘The miser does not own the gold; the gold owns the miser.'Gold may be a dead metal. Inert, unchanging and lifeless. But its hold over humanity never relents. It has adorned us since before the dawn of civilisation and, as money, underpinned economies ever since. Desire for it has driven mankind forwards, the prime impulse for quest and conquest, for exploration and discovery. From its origins in the hearts of dying stars to its quiet presence today beneath the machinery of modern finance, gold has seen it all. How many secrets does this silent witness keep? This book tells the story of gold. It unveils the schemes, intrigues and forces that have shaped our world in the relentless pursuit of this ancient asset, which, even in this digital age, still wields immense power.That was Chapter One of The Secret History of Gold The Secret History of Gold is available to pre-order at Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. I hear the audiobook, read by me, is excellent. The book comes out on August 28.Hurry! Amazon is currently offering 20% off.Until next time,Dominic This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Special Guest Host Andrew Hoskins (Turf District Podcast) joins to discuss the Elks three-game winning streak, the aerial circus that was played at BMO Field between the Argonauts and Lions, how Calgary is surprising the league and whether the Stampeders can maintain their pace.  Three games make up Labour Day "Rivalry" weekend, does Montreal vs Ottawa deserve an inclusion?  (CFL on CBC theme music used with express written permission; podcast recorded August 24, 2025).

The Secret History of Gold comes out this week. Here for your viewing pleasure is a fim about gold based on the first chapter.“Gold will be slave or master”HoraceIn 2021, a metal detectorist with the eyebrow-raising name of Ole Ginnerup Schytz dug up a hoard of Viking gold in a field in Denmark. The gold was just as it was when it was buried 1,500 years before, if a little dirtier. The same goes for the jewellery unearthed at the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria in 1972. The beads, bracelets, rings and necklaces are as good as when they were buried 6,700 years ago.In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, there is a golden tooth bridge — a gold wire used to bind teeth and dental implants — made over 4,000 years ago. It could go in your mouth today.No other substance is as long-lasting as gold — not diamonds, not tungsten carbide, not boron nitride. Gold does not corrode; it does not tarnish or decay; it does not break down over time. This sets it apart from every other substance. Iron rusts, wood rots, silver tarnishes. Gold never changes. Left alone, it stays itself. And it never loses its shine — how about that?Despite its permanence, you can shape this enormously ductile metal into pretty much anything. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long or plate a copper wire 1,000 miles long. It can be beaten into a leaf just one atom thick. Yet there is one thing you cannot do and that is destroy it. Life may be temporary, but gold is permanent. It really is forever.This means that all the gold that has ever been mined, estimated to be 216,000 tonnes, still exists somewhere. Put together it would fit into a cube with 22-metre sides. Visualise a square building seven storeys high — and that would be all the gold ever.With some effort, you can dissolve gold in certain chemical solutions, alloy it with other metals, or even vaporise it. But the gold will always be there. It is theoretically possible to destroy gold through nuclear reactions and other such extreme methods, but in practical terms, gold is indestructible. It is the closest thing we have on earth to immortality.Perhaps that is why almost every ancient culture we know of associated gold with the eternal. The Egyptians believed the flesh of gods was made of gold, and that it gave you safe passage into the afterlife. In Greek myth, the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, which Hercules was sent to retrieve, conferred immortality on whoever ate them. The South Americans saw gold as the link between humanity and the cosmos. They were not far wrong.Gold was present in the dust that formed the solar system. It sits in the earth's crust today, just as it did when our planet was formed some 4.6 billion years ago. That little bit of gold you may be wearing on your finger or around your neck is actually older than the earth itself. In fact, it is older than the solar system. To touch gold is as close as you will ever come to touching eternity.And yet the world's most famous investor is not impressed.‘It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place,' said Warren Buffett. ‘Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.'He's right. Gold does nothing. It does not even pay a yield. It just sits there inert. We use other metals to construct things, cut things or conduct things, but gold's industrial uses are minimal. It is a good conductor of electricity, but copper and silver are better and cheaper. It has some use in dentistry, medical applications and nanotechnology. It is finding more and more use in outer space — back whence it came — where it is used to coat spacecraft, astronauts' visors and heat shields. But, in the grand scheme of things, these uses are paltry.Gold's only purpose is to store and display prosperity. It is dense and tangible wealth: pure money.Though you may not realise it, we still use gold as money today. Not so much as a medium to exchange value but store it.In 1970, about 27 per cent of all the gold in the world was in the form of gold coinage and central bank or government reserves. Today, even with the gold standard long since dead, the percentage is about the same.The most powerful nation on earth, the United States, keeps 70 per cent of its foreign exchange holdings in gold. Its great rival, China, is both the world's largest producer and the world's largest importer. It has built up reserves that, as we shall discover, are likely as great as the USA's. If you buying gold or silver coins to protect yourself in these “interesting times” - and I urge you to - as always I recommend The Pure Gold Company. Pricing is competitive, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe or you can store your gold with them. More here.Ordinary people and institutions the world over use gold to store wealth. Across myriad cultures gold is gifted at landmark life events — births and weddings — because of its intrinsic value.In fact, gold's purchasing power has increased over the millennia, as human beings have grown more productive. The same ounce of gold said by economic historians to have bought King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 350 loaves of bread could buy you more than 1,000 loaves today. The same gold dinar (roughly 1/7 oz) that, in the time of the Koran in the seventh century, bought you a lamb would buy you three lambs today. Those same four or five aurei (1 oz) which bought you a fine linen tunic in ancient Rome would buy you considerably more clothing today.In 1972, 0.07 ounces of gold would buy you a barrel of oil. Here we are in 2024 and a barrel of oil costs 0.02 ounces of gold — it's significantly cheaper than it was fifty years ago.House prices, too, if you measure them in gold, have stayed constant. It is only when they are measured in fiat currency that they have appreciated so relentlessly (and destructively).In other words, an ounce of gold buys you as much, and sometimes more, food, clothing, energy and shelter as it did ten years ago, a hundred years ago or even thousands of years ago. As gold lasts, so does its purchasing power. You cannot say the same about modern national currencies.Rare and expensive to mine, the supply of gold is constrained. This is in stark contrast to modern money — electronic, debt-based fiat money to give it its full name — the supply of which multiplies every year as governments spend and borrowing balloons.As if by Natural Law, gold supply has increased at the same rate as the global population — roughly 2 per cent per annum. The population of the world has slightly more than doubled since 1850. So has gold supply. The correlation has held for centuries, except for one fifty-year period during the gold rushes of the late nineteenth century, when gold supply per capita increased.Gold has the added attraction of being beautiful. It shines and glistens and sparkles. It captivates and allures. The word ‘gold' derives from the Sanskrit ‘jval', meaning ‘to shine'. That's why we use it as jewellery — to show off our wealth and success, as well as to store it. Indeed, in nomadic prehistory, and still in parts of the world today, carrying your wealth on your person as jewellery was the safest way to keep it.The universe has given us this captivatingly beautiful, dense, inert, malleable, scarce, useless and permanent substance whose only use is to be money. To quote historian Peter Bernstein, ‘nothing is as useless and useful all at the same time'.But after thousands of years of gold being official money, in the early twentieth century there was a seismic shift. Neither the British, German nor French government had enough gold to pay for the First World War. They abandoned gold backing to print the money they needed. In the inter-war years, nations briefly attempted a return to gold standards, but they failed. The two prevailing monetary theories clashed: gold-backed versus state-issued currency. Gold standard advocates, such as Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, considered gold to be one of the key pillars of a free society along with property rights and habeas corpus. ‘We have gold because we cannot trust governments,' said President Herbert Hoover in 1933. This was a sentiment echoed by one of the founders of the London School of Economics, George Bernard Shaw — to whom I am grateful for demonstrating that it is possible to have a career as both a comedian and a financial writer. ‘You have to choose (as a voter),' he said, ‘between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government… I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.'On the other hand, many, such as economist John Maynard Keynes, advocated the idea of fiat currency to give government greater control over the economy and the ability to manipulate the money supply. Keynes put fixation with gold in the Freudian realms of sex and religion. The gold standard, he famously said after the First World War — and rightly, as it turned out — was ‘already a barbarous relic'. Freud himself related fascination with gold to the erotic fantasies and interests of early childhood.Needless to say, Keynes and fiat money prevailed. By the end of the 1930s, most of Europe had left the gold standard. The US followed, but not completely until 1971, in order to meet the ballooning costs of its welfare system and its war in Vietnam.But compare both gold's universality (everyone everywhere knows gold has value) and its purchasing power to national currencies and you have to wonder why we don't use it officially today. There is a very good reason: power.Sticking to the discipline of the gold standard means governments can't just create money or run deficits to the same extent. Instead, they have to rein in their spending, which they are not prepared to do, especially in the twenty-first century, when they make so many promises to win elections. Balanced books, let alone independent money, have become an impossibility. If you seek an answer as to why the state has grown so large in the West, look no further than our system of money. When one body in a society has the power to create money at no cost to itself, it is inevitable that that body will grow disproportionately large. So it is in the twenty-first century, where state spending in many social democracies is now not far off 50 per cent of GDP, sometimes higher.Many arguments about gold will quickly slide into a political argument about the role of government. It is a deeply political metal. Those who favour gold tend to favour small government, free markets and individual responsibility. I count myself in that camp. Those who dismiss it tend to favour large government and state planning.I have argued many times that money is the blood of a society. It must be healthy. So much starts with money: values, morals, behaviour, ambitions, manners, even family size. Money must be sound and true. At the moment it is neither. Gold, however, is both. ‘Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men,' said former Republican Congressman Ron Paul. As Dorothy is advised in The Wizard of Oz (which was, as we shall discover, part allegory), maybe the time has come to once again ‘follow the yellow brick road'.On the other hand, maybe the twilight of gold has arrived, as Niall Ferguson argued in his history of debt and money, The Cash Nexus. Gold's future, he said, is ‘mainly as jewellery' or ‘in parts of the world with primitive or unstable monetary and financial systems'. Gold may have been money for 5,000 years, or even 10,000 years, but so was the horse a means of transport, and then along came the motor car.A history of gold is inevitably a history of money, but it is also a history of greed, obsession and ambition. Gold is beautiful. Gold is compelling. It is wealth in its purest, most distilled form. ‘Gold is a child of Zeus,' runs the ancient Greek lyric. ‘Neither moth nor rust devoureth it; but the mind of man is devoured by this supreme possession.' Perhaps that's why Thomas Edison said gold was ‘an invention of Satan'. Wealth, and all the emotions that come with it, can do strange things to people.Gold has led people to do the most brilliant, the most brave, the most inventive, the most innovative and the most terrible things. ‘More men have been knocked off balance by gold than by love,' runs the saying, usually attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Where gold is concerned, emotion, not logic, prevails. Even in today's markets it is a speculative asset whose price is driven by greed and fear, not by fundamental production numbers.Its gleam has drawn man across oceans, across continents and into the unknown. It lured Jason and the Argonauts, Alexander the Great, numerous Caesars, da Gama, Cortés, Pizarro and Raleigh. Brilliant new civilisations have emerged as a result of the quest for gold, yet so have slavery, war, deceit, death and devastation. Describing the gold mines of ancient Egypt, the historian Diodorus Siculus wrote, ‘there is absolutely no consideration nor relaxation for sick or maimed, for aged man or weak woman. All are forced to labour at their tasks until they die, worn out by misery amid their toil.' His description could apply to many an illegal mine in Africa today.The English critic John Ruskin told a story of a man who boarded a ship with all his money: a bag of gold coins. Several days into the voyage a terrible storm blew up. ‘Abandon ship!' came the cry. The man strapped his bag around his waist and jumped overboard, only to sink to the bottom of the sea. ‘Now,' asked Ruskin, ‘as he was sinking — had he the gold? Or had the gold him?'As the Chinese proverb goes, ‘The miser does not own the gold; the gold owns the miser.'Gold may be a dead metal. Inert, unchanging and lifeless. But its hold over humanity never relents. It has adorned us since before the dawn of civilisation and, as money, underpinned economies ever since. Desire for it has driven mankind forwards, the prime impulse for quest and conquest, for exploration and discovery. From its origins in the hearts of dying stars to its quiet presence today beneath the machinery of modern finance, gold has seen it all. How many secrets does this silent witness keep? This book tells the story of gold. It unveils the schemes, intrigues and forces that have shaped our world in the relentless pursuit of this ancient asset, which, even in this digital age, still wields immense power.That was Chapter One of The Secret History of Gold The Secret History of Gold is available to pre-order at Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. I hear the audiobook, read by me, is excellent. The book comes out on August 28.Hurry! Amazon is currently offering 20% off.Until next time,Dominic This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Action Film Face-OffEpisode 84: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) vs Swiss Family Robinson (1960)Welcome to the 84th episode of Action Film Face-Off - RETRO REWIND!Our randomizer - set to pick years in the range of 1950-1969 - selected 1963 & 1960, so here are our contestants:Jason and the Argonauts (1963) vs Swiss Family Robinson (1960)Who will win - Harryhausen effects or Disney magic?  Find out as they battle for 6 rounds in our videodome!Be sure to check out all the other Longbox Crusade shows at: www.LongboxCrusade.comLet us know what you think!Leave a comment by sending an email to: contact@longboxcrusade.comThis podcast is a member of the Longbox Crusade Network:LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/longboxcrusadeFollow on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LongboxCrusadeFollow on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/longboxcrusadeLike the FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/LongboxCrusadeSubscribe to the YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/4LkhovSubscribe on Apple Podcast at:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longboxcrusade/id1118783510?mt=2Thank you for listening and we hope you have enjoyed this episode of Action Film Face-Off.#actionfilm #actionmovies #moviereviews #moviereview #movies #JasonandtheArgonauts #1963 #SwissFamilyRobinson #1960

Action Film Face-OffEpisode 84: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) vs Swiss Family Robinson (1960)Welcome to the 84th episode of Action Film Face-Off - RETRO REWIND!Our randomizer - set to pick years in the range of 1950-1969 - selected 1963 & 1960, so here are our contestants:Jason and the Argonauts (1963) vs Swiss Family Robinson (1960)Who will win - Harryhausen effects or Disney magic?  Find out as they battle for 6 rounds in our videodome!Be sure to check out all the other Longbox Crusade shows at: www.LongboxCrusade.comLet us know what you think!Leave a comment by sending an email to: contact@longboxcrusade.comThis podcast is a member of the Longbox Crusade Network:LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/longboxcrusadeFollow on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LongboxCrusadeFollow on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/longboxcrusadeLike the FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/LongboxCrusadeSubscribe to the YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/4LkhovSubscribe on Apple Podcast at:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-longboxcrusade/id1118783510?mt=2Thank you for listening and we hope you have enjoyed this episode of Action Film Face-Off.#actionfilm #actionmovies #moviereviews #moviereview #movies #JasonandtheArgonauts #1963 #SwissFamilyRobinson #1960

The Argos exploded for their biggest offensive night in a long time, taking down the BC Lions 52-34. Nick Arbuckle was electric, throwing for 430 yards and three touchdowns while adding another on a QB draw. Jake Herslow chipped in with two touchdown receptions as Toronto's offence rolled all night. The defence made big plays when they had to, with leaders Wynton McManis and Benji Franklin stepping up to stop BC's surges. With the win, Toronto climbs into third place in the East, holding the tiebreaker over Ottawa and keeping their playoff hopes alive. With JB literally stranded on an island, Ben Grant is joined by special guest Adam Gosse, the voice of the Argos at BMO Field, to break down all the action.

BC Lions Quarterback Nathan Rourke joined OverDrive to discuss his season with the Lions, excelling in the role with the team, the connection with Keon Hatcher and the ideology with his wide receivers, the matchup against the Argonauts, the transition from the NFL, the team's season and more.

TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joined OverDrive to discuss Taylor Elgersma's possibility to make the Packers' roster, Micah Parsons' conundrum with the Cowboys, the Roughriders leading the pack, Nathan Rourke's prime season with the Lions, the Elks' winning ways, the Argonauts' tough year and more.

While Andrew was on a cruise back in March, MK snuck into the ARGonauts studio to talk to Marn about that one time the Rusty Lake/Cube Escape games they'd been playing together on Twitch invaded the real world. Useful Links: Moonshot Network Marn and MK play the Rusty Lake Series Recommendations: XX Hunger's Bite Contact Us! Our Patreon Our Merch! Email: ARGonautsPodcast@gmail.com @ARGonautsPod

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you set for CNE Week as the Toronto Argonauts host the BC Lions in a must-win matchup at BMO Field on Saturday. This week's episode covers it all including a deep dive into why Toronto can't close out games, how Brandon Kemp looked at left tackle, how difficult the road to the playoffs is, and a scary moment at practice Wednesday. Plus, your favourite segments return: Pick Six, Game Preview, Injury Report, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag.

In this episode of PSP, host Nii Wallace-Bruce welcomes Paul Woods, CFL author and historian, to discuss the Toronto Argonauts' challenging 2025 season after their remarkable Grey Cup win in 2024. They delve into myriad issues such as player injuries, significant losses in free agency, and strategic gaps, which have led to the team's disappointing performance. Off the field, they also scrutinize the coaching decisions (07:22), the impact of the ownership change with Rogers taking full control of MLSE (13:24), and the future implications of the upcoming FIFA World Cup relocation (16:31). Furthermore, they explore broader CFL topics, including league management and community engagement (25:19). The episode provides a deep dive into the challenges and potential opportunities for the Argonauts and the CFL at large.-------------Paul Woods:TwitterInstagram---------------Check out our website#NoSportLeftBehindLeave a review and let us know what you thought!Opening and closing music courtesy of Jeremiah Alves - "Evermore".

Join Michael DiStefano and Dave Feschuk for Hour 2 on OverDrive! TSN Baseball Insider Steve Phillips joins to discuss the Blue Jays' series against the Pirates, Jose Berrios' uncertain role for starters and Bo Bichette's contract outlook in Toronto. TSN Football Reporter Farhan Lalji joins to dive into the headlines from across the CFL, Nathan Rourke's leadership for the Lions and the Argonauts' team struggles in Toronto.

TSN Football Insider Farhan Lalji joined OverDrive to discuss the headlines around the NFL and CFL, Canadian Taylor Elgersma's shot to make the roster with the Packers, Nathan Rourke leading the pack with the Lions, the Argonauts' relocation for home games and the foundational team issues and more.

Its a Monday edition of The Nielson Show coming at you this morning! The boys open the show talking about the Creed Concert tomorrow then we dive into the Edmonton Marathon that some of the boys ran yesterday. Dusty and Lt.Eric then get into some Elks talk as they took down the Argonauts on Friday in the Morning Announcements for Rundle Park. After the sports update, we continue the Whipping Boy Bracket with Horcoff vs Lucic in the Off-Season? What Off-Season! for GCL Diesel. Then to wrap the hour, we got The Good, Bad & The Ugly for The Seven Eighty.

Graham Mosimann, PA announce of the Edmonton Elks, & Wil Fraser hangout with Matthew Iwanyk talking Elks, their weekends and whatever else their conversation takes them to. The EST Hangout is presented by Sentinel Storage!

The Argos dropped another close one, losing 28-20 in Edmonton and falling to 0–6 in games decided in the last three minutes. It was a night of near-misses and bad breaks. Nick Arbuckle threw for 382 yards and a touchdown, spreading the ball to seven different receivers with over 20 yards apiece. But the Argos came up short on key moments: Arbuckle hit the uprights on what looked like a touchdown pass to Dave Ungerer III, Janarion Grant was tripped up by a shoestring on what could have been a return TD to end the half, Kevin Mital dropped a ball in the end zone after it appeared he was contacted early, Arbuckle fumbled in the red zone, and a high snap on a punt proved costly. The loss also came with concern: injuries to Wynton McManis, Deonta McMahon, Damonte Coxie, and Jonathan Edouard will need further evaluation. Ben Grant and JB break down all the action and revisit the missed opportunities.

During Hour 1 Edmonton Elks RB Javon Leake joined the show discussing his season and tonight's game against the Argonauts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Didier et Marc-André font un survol de division Ouest de la NFC. Didier lance la serviette sur les espoirs de voir Kyler Murray s'améliorer. On s'entretient ensuite avec le secondeur des Argonauts de Toronto et grand partisan des 49ers de San Francisco Brian Harelimana pour décortiquer son équipe. Puis, l'ancien joueur de la LNH, Georges Laraque, nous parle de son amour des Seahawks et de ses doutes envers Sam Darnold. On termine avec l'analyse des Rams en se demandant si Matthew Stafford sera à son poste au début de la saison.  Pour nous suivre sur nos nouvelles pages Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lesacduquart Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/lesacduquart Pour vous inscrire à notre pool de football : https://fantasy.espn.com/free-prize-games/sharer?challengeId=265&from=espn&context=GROUP_INVITE&edition=espn-en&groupId=7432da3a-385b-4d71-8036-7c4cab8a8448 (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:38) Classement 2024 NFC Ouest (00:01:42) Cardinals de l'Arizona (00:25:35) 49ers de San Francisco avec Brian Harelimana (01:00:44) Seahawks de Seattle avec Georges Laraque (01:38:11) Rams de Los Angeles (01:57:08) Classement des forces

An amazing Week 10 of CFL football that provided much drama, intensity, and nailbiting finishes.  Montreal quarterback McCleod Bethel-Thompson struggles again, is placed on the six game injured list; can Caleb Evans right the offence?  What does Edmonton's win in Montreal, BC's in Hamilton mean for each team?  Argonauts' Head Coach Ryan Dinwiddie still wants answers for his team's performance.  (CFL on CBC theme music used with express written permission; podcast recorded August 12, 2025).

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you set for “Must Win Week” as the 2-7 Argonauts travel to Edmonton to face the 2-6 Elks on Friday night. This week's episode features a breakdown of Coach Dinwiddie's fiery postgame comments on “pretenders in the building,” the plethora of transactions the Argos made which include the release of Khalin Laborn and Brandon Calver, and the signing of an exciting potential starting Sam linebacker, Toronto's spot at the bottom of the Power Rankings – and where they really should be, and the road to the playoffs for the Argos. Plus, your favourite segments return: Pick Six, Game Preview, Injury Report, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag.

The Argos dropped another heartbreaker, falling 46-42 to Ottawa in a wild game that saw Toronto jump out to a 22–1 lead after the first quarter. Now 0-5 in games decided in the last three minutes and sitting at 2-7, the Boatmen will need to string wins together quickly to stay in the playoff hunt. Despite a defensive touchdown from Jordan Williams on a long scoop-and-score, the Argos' defence allowed Ottawa to throw five touchdowns in the final three quarters. Special teams added to the frustration, giving up multiple big returns. The bright spot was an outstanding offensive performance. Toronto's offensive line was brilliant, and Coach Ryan Dinwiddie crafted a masterful plan to keep Nick Arbuckle upright - moving the pocket, mixing in creative misdirection, and designing plays we've never seen from this team. Arbuckle delivered, but the Argos still finished one score short. Ben Grant is joined by guest host JC Abbott to break down all the action and bring you radio replays from TSN 1050.

Send us a textA group of survivors of the gherkin virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers the secrets, wonders, and horrors of an encounter with alpha cock Samson. On Episode 680 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss 28 Years Later from director Danny Boyle! We also engage in the infected vs. zombie debate, ponder whether clothing would stay intact for 28 years, and spend some time hanging out with Kraven Buttstuff! So grab your field guide to plant medicine, stay away from the Track Suit Mafia, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Tasty Flesh, Jaws, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 20th Century Fox, who's the smartest man alive, original release date for 28 Days Later, when will then be now, this day in horror history, A Haunting We Will Go, Invisible Agent, The Wonder World of the Brothers Grimm, Jason and the Argonauts, Heavy Metal, Tarzan the Ape Man, Condor Man, Student Bodies, 1981, Masters of the Universe, Raising Cain, John Lithgow, Abby Cornish, Alexandre Aja, Charlize Theron, Aeon Flux, Monster, Charlotte Lewis, Embrace of the Vampire, David Duchovny, Wayne Knight, Seinfeld, Jurassic Park, Basic Instinct, John Glover, Smallville, Tobin Bell, Boogeyman, Billie Burke, Superman's first appearance, Kraven Buttstuff, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Slumdog Millionaire, Quiz Show, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, 28 Years Later, Monkey Man, Dev Patel, BRB Going to Flavortown, picking people out of a lineup, The Crazies, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, water fountain or bubblah?, the great infected vs. zombie debate, Sydney Sweeney, clothes that wear down and fall off, Count Orcock vs. Alpha Cock Samson, Alfie Williams, Chi Lewis-Parry, Land of the Dead, Nia DaCosta, The Invisible Fight, rabid wolverines and honey badgers, Films on Film, in a way we're all Kraven Buttstuff, Ebony and Ivory, Jim Hosking, Rocky from Knowman, Elijah Wood, Ralph Fiennes, the Track Suit Mafia, The VVizard, She's Got Sammy Davis' Eye, The Ghost of Bruiser Brody, Gurkins in the Grass, 24 Points of ar-dick-ulation, No One's Coming To Get You Barbara, and The Further Adventures of Alpha Cock Samson.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joins OverDrive to discuss Bo Levi Mitchell's amazing bounce-back season. Naylor details the importance of the next stretch of games for the Argonauts, and he talks about the mood from Bills camp regarding James Cook's contract situation.

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you set for Week 10 as the Argonauts return to BMO Field to take on the Ottawa Redblacks in a Saturday afternoon matchup packed with meaning both on and off the field. This is the Purolator Tackle Hunger game, and a special one at that as Chris Schultz will be honoured as the newest member of the All-Time Argonauts list along with Nick Volpe. It was also the busiest transactional week in recent memory for the Argos, and the guys break down every move: from the acquisition of RB Spencer Brown, the signing of MAC Offensive Player of the Year Peny Boone, and reinforcements on the offensive line in Ryan Sceviour and Brandon Kemp. You'll also hear a breakdown of the offensive line's struggles and what needs to change, which includes this week's Pick Six question: Why haven't the Argos brought back Isiah Cage? Plus there's the game preview, injury report, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, Challenge Flag, and Something in the Water's Ticket Giveaway.

The Argos dropped the second half of their home-and-home with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, falling 40–31 in a game marked by brutal early mistakes and a missed opportunity to complete the comeback. Ben Grant breaks down a game that started with one of the worst halves in recent Argos history, as Toronto gave up three non-offensive touchdowns - a pair on special teams and one on a sack-fumble return. The offensive line struggled under relentless pressure, the run game was abandoned early (finishing with just 8 yards), and short yardage issues re-emerged. Despite it all, the defence kept Toronto alive, coming up with three interceptions, including a pick six, and twice giving the offence a chance to win the game in the final minutes. Demonte Coxie turned in a career night with 9 catches for 187 yards and two touchdowns, but it wasn't enough to overcome the early damage.

Join Orpheus aboard the magical ship, the Argo, from Iolchus en route to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece.  Jason leads the expedition, but can he keep his team of heroes and demigods united as they face untold dangers? For the full back story of the Golden Fleece, listen to our Aries episode. The constellation of Argo Navis was one of Ptolemy's 48 but now exists as a grouping of 3 constellations. Written and directed by Bibi Jacob. Sound and production by Geoff Chong. Featuring: Tercelin Kirtley as Orpheus, Ciaran Cresswell as Jason, Sophie Helsing as the Argo, Doug Rand as Heracles, David Stanley as Polydeuces and Glaucus, Kester Lovelace as Castor, Additional voices by Anton Antebi. Original guitar compositions by Fredi Shehadi: ‘Starfish' in the opening scene. ‘Sail Away' instrumental version as the Argo sails towards Lemnos and the full song with the credits: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FPRZQJVEeXg Original guitar compositions by Tercelin Kirtley: ‘Hoffman 1968' when the Argo sets sail. ‘Solovibrato' when Orpheus is grieving Eurydice. ‘Fastest Cars' in Lemnos. ‘Fire' when they meet King Cyzicus. ‘Fragix' when Orpheus talks about his lyre. We recorded in the SACD podcast studio, Paris and the Argo was recorded in Mikaël Sundin's studio in Stockholm. Thank you Micke!

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you ready for the second half of the Argos-Bombers home-and-home as Toronto heads to Winnipeg looking to leap into a playoff spot. This week's episode covers the big news: Chad Kelly has been placed on the six-game injured list, leaving the offence in the hands of Nick Arbuckle – but has anything actually changed? For the first time in weeks, the Argos seemed to avoid any major injuries, but that didn't stop them from adding two veteran Canadians in Jordan Herdman-Reed and Felix Garand-Gauthier. The guys also dive into playoff crossover scenarios, and the unwritten rules of practice roster poaching in this week's Pick Six. Plus, you'll get a full game preview, injury report news, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, Challenge Flag, and more.

Toronto Argonauts Head Coach Ryan Dinwiddie joined OverDrive to discuss the Argonauts back in the win column, the victory against the Blue Bombers, Nick Arbuckle taking over the reigns at quarterback, Chad Kelly's injury timeline and missing the next six games, maintaining the Grey Cup culture in a down season and more.

The Argonauts bounced back in a big way, taking down the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 31–17 at BMO Field in a dominant three-phase performance. Ben Grant and JB break down every angle of the Argos' most complete game of the season, featuring seven forced turnovers, explosive offensive plays, and a statement performance from the special teams unit, including a huge play from Kevin Mital to stop a fake punt. Toronto's defence held the Bombers to just 10 points while consistently flipping the field with takeaways. The offence, and their ever-changing offensive line did allow sacks, but found ways to counter Winnipeg's pressure. Plus, hear radio replays from TSN 1050.

Hey folks! Welcome back to the show! We're here this week bringing the world episode 264! This week we have another "variety topic open". The guys talk about the Steelers resigning TJ Watt, some random wrestling & movie talk, and sneakers. Then, we bring yet another "Fridays At Midnight"! This week's a unique "Double Feature" with "Jason and the Argonauts" and Indonesian horror icon Suzzanna in "Queen of Black Magic". Come party at the lagoon with all the fam to close out the episode! Please enjoy responsibly!PRESENTED by CHURCHILL PICTURESTimestamps:00:00:00 - Intro: Steelers Resig TJ Watt, some random Wrestling & Movie Talk, and Sneakers00:37:52 - Friday's at Midnight: Jason and the Argonauts (1963)00:53:01 - Friday's at Midnight: Queen of Black Magic (2019)01:03:57 - Goofs R GoofsThanks for Listening!

TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joined OverDrive to discuss the headlines around Shedeur Sanders' role with the Browns, the AFC North trajectory, the Bills' outlook for the season and the depth of the roster, Tua Tagovailoa calling out Tyreek Hill, Chad Kelly's injury timeline with the Argonauts and more.

Join Bryan Hayes, Jason Strudwick and Frank Corrado for Hour 1 on OverDrive! The guys discuss the acronym the Toronto Transit Commission for Provincial Offences Officers with POO, the Browns' employee falling off the platform in their helmet reveal and the Blue Jays' win streak snapped against the Yankees. TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joins to discuss the Bills' overview for the season, Tua Tagovailoa's viewpoint on Tyreek Hill's relationship with the team and Chad Kelly's injury timeline with the Argonauts.

Week 8 of the 2025 CFL season kicks off this tonight, and we've got your comprehensive preview of all four Week 8 matchups! In this video, CFL betting experts Andrew McInnis and Bobby Dubeau preview Week 8 of CFL action – find out what their best bets are NOW!Introduction & Week 7 Recap 00:00Week 8 Opening Numbers 02:59ATS Records 04:30Alouettes vs Stampeders 06:32Elks vs Roughriders 11:30Blue Bombers vs Argonauts 18:07Tiger-Cats vs Lions 24:36

Ben Grant and JB are back to get you set for a pivotal Week 8 showdown as the 1-5 Argos return to BMO Field to host the 3-2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the first half of a home-and-home series. This week's episode dives into the latest on Chad Kelly, after TSN's Farhan Lalji reported he could return as early as Saturday. The guys also unpack a fresh wave of injuries and transactions, including a season-ending blow to OL Anim Dankwah, and the additions of OL Shane Richards, RB Jyran Mitchell, and DT Ricky Correia. Is this game a must-win? Should the Argos consider sitting Wynton McManis to help his knee recover? Ben and JB weigh in - plus your favourite segments return: Pick Six, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, Challenge Flag, and this week's Ticket Giveaway courtesy of Something in the Water Brewing.

The Argos were in full control... until they weren't. Toronto blew a 25–7 lead in the second half, falling 26–25 to the Montreal Alouettes in one of the most heartbreaking collapses in recent memory. Ben Grant and JB break down what went right for three quarters, and what went horribly wrong in the fourth. From missed opportunities to late turnovers, they cover every angle of the loss and what this means for the 1-5 Argonauts going forward.

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Ben Grant and JB are back to get you ready for Week 7 of the 2025 CFL season as the 1-4 Argonauts head to Montreal to take on the 3-2 Alouettes. There were plenty of roster moves this week as the Argos begin to get healthier, and the guys break down each transaction, including the releases of Kevin Brown, Donald Rutledge, and Daniel Kwamou. They also dive into a tough question: how soon is too soon to bring a player back from injury? That discussion includes updates on Chad Kelly, Wynton McManis, Jack Cassar, and Deonta McMahon. Plus, they hit all your favourite segments: Pick Six, OCDC, One Thing, Put Me Down for 20, and Challenge Flag.

Join Jim Tatti, Dave Feschuk and Michael DiStefano for Hour 2 on OverDrive! Former Blue Jays Outfielder Jose Bautista joins to discuss the Blue Jays' incredible run, the importance of the culture and the memories of the triumphant teams in Toronto. TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joins to discuss the headlines entering Week 6 in the CFL, the Argonauts' pursuit of success in the skid and the NFL training camps approaching and they also play Yes Guy, No Guy.

TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor joined OverDrive to discuss the headlines around the CFL, the brawl between the Alouettes and Lions, Nathan Rourke and Tre Ford's showdown, the Roughriders' undefeated streak, the Argonauts' tough start to the season, the Steelers in the spotlight and more.

TSN CFL Reporter Matthew Scianitti joined OverDrive to discuss the headlines around the CFL, the Argonauts looking to gain momentum against the Tiger-Cats, Nick Arbuckle stepping up in the role for Chad Kelly, his status in the return to the field, Nathan Rourke back for the Lions, Canada Soccer moving forward from the Gold Cup, Jonathan David signing with Juventus and more.

Week 5 of the 2025 CFL season kicks off this tonight, and we've got your comprehensive preview of all four Week 45matchups! In this video, CFL betting experts Andrew McInnis and Bobby Dubeau preview Week 5 of CFL action – find out what their best bets are NOW!Introduction 00:00Week 4 Recap 01:00CFL ATS Records Update 06:50Blue Bombers vs Stampeders 10:15Tiger-Cats vs Argonauts 17:17Lions vs Alouettes 24:474th of July Blowout Special!! 35:30Redblacks vs Elks 37:15

In this episode, Matt Kelly and I review Jason and the Argonauts (1963) -- quite possibly the Greatest Movie EVER!

TSN Football Analyst Luke Willson joined OverDrive to discuss the headlines around the CFL, the Argonauts looking for their first victory on the season, Chad Kelly remaining out the lineup, his bicycle adventures and more.

Join Bryan Hayes, Jeff O'Neill and Jamie McLennan for Hour 1 on OverDrive! The guys discuss the Oilers' team next steps, Stan Bowman's priorities to improve the lineup in Edmonton, Brad Marchand's sweepstakes around the league and the Jets signing of Jonathan Toews. TSN Football Analyst Luke Willson joins to discuss the headlines around the CFL, the Argonauts' winless start to the season and his bicycle journey.