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Tony and Jodie Banter: Trudeau Separation, Meta News Ban and Long Drive Competitions
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This week, Tony and Jodie re-connect after a few weeks away and cover off the recent Trudeau family separation, Meta's ban on Canadian news links and a reflection on the Endless Summer long drive golf tournament.
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Podcast Return and Listener Engagement
00:00:00
Speaker
And another thing. And another thing. And another thing. And another thing. Welcome to another episode of And Another Thing, the podcast that continues to set the bar in the world of podcasts. My name is Jody Jenkins. My name is Tony Clement.
00:00:30
Speaker
And here we are. We were setting the bar and we were away for two months. I know. I actually had a guy stop me the other day in downtown Belleville, uh, actually like two days ago and said, are you guys doing another podcast? What's going on? What's going on there? Just taking the summer off.
00:00:53
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. And Michael, Michael, he messaged us on Instagram and said, are you guys done podcasting? I said, no, there's one coming soon. And he said, looking forward to it. Oh, I didn't know that. Was that like a comment or was it an actual message? No, it was an actual message, like a DM message. Yeah. Nice. So, and I guess who else asked about it? Steve Paken.
00:01:22
Speaker
No, he did. Yes. I was beginning to wonder about him because I didn't hear. I think I scared him off because whenever I made that comment that I would get an email from him and then I did not get the email. Well, no, he's still a fan. Jodie, don't worry.
Travel Insights and Movie Discussions
00:01:39
Speaker
We still have fans out there and we're glad to be back. I know it's been a bit of a hiatus. You've been busy. I've been busy. Congratulations on the tournament, of course.
00:01:49
Speaker
And, uh, that was a big success and, uh, the international long drive competition. Congratulations on that too. And, uh, I've been busy too. So there you go. It happens. Well, you've been, you've been an international traveler, a globe driver, if you will. I had five separate overseas trips in seven weeks. It was quite something. Do you, uh, you must rack up the air miles for that.
00:02:16
Speaker
Yeah, a couple of them, I actually spent air, air miles on aeroplane points. So I didn't rack up anything, but the other three, yes, yes, I did. And, uh, I, but I don't, I don't typically, uh, use a business class. Um, I tip because I don't sleep anyway. There's no point in spending an extra a thousand bucks or whatever it is for business class when I, I'm not asleep anyway. So I just sort of scrunch up in economy class and hope for the best.
00:02:47
Speaker
So that's like your pro tip right there. Unless you're planning on sleeping, don't do business class. Yeah. And don't forget to curl your toes. Curl your toes. You don't know what I'm talking about. No.
00:03:00
Speaker
So one of the opening scenes of Die Hard when McLean's on the plane, the other guys tell him, you know, take off your shoes and curl your toes. That's how you get rid of jet lag. And so that sets up the scene when he's in the Nakatomi Plaza and he's barefoot because he's curling his toes. And so for the rest of the movie, he's running around killing people with broken shards of glass everywhere barefoot.
00:03:28
Speaker
No, I didn't know full disclosure. I've never watched Die Hard. Best Christmas movie ever. I think we've had, we've had discussed that because that's one of the ongoing arguments every time Christmas rolls around, right? Speaking of movies, speaking of movies, I did watch Guardians of the Galaxy 3 the other night. I thought that was very good. Good. Yeah, it was kind of sentimental, wasn't it?
00:03:56
Speaker
It was sad. Yeah. But it was good. It was good. And have you seen Barbie yet? No, I'm not going to go see Barbie. You're not? No. I saw it. I mean, I have like zero interest in seeing that movie. I thought Ken and Ken slash Ryan Gosling stole the show. There's my hot take. Okay.
00:04:20
Speaker
There you go. It's probably not a good thing to say because that means I'm part of the patriarchy, if I say that. Yeah. I honestly haven't been following anything about Barbie. I know there's been people posting stuff, but I'm sure there's some sort of
00:04:37
Speaker
I don't know, I don't want to say conspiracy, but I'm sure there's something that in the movie that people are saying there's some sort of angle that they're, you know, something to something that the woke crowd can grab on to, I'm sure. Oh, yeah. I purposely just not interested, not interested at all. What about Oppenheimer? Have you seen that yet? I have not.
00:04:59
Speaker
The funny thing about when I went to see Barbie in the next theater over was Oppenheimer was playing. So at various scenes in Barbie, I could hear atomic bombs going off. It actually made Barbie a lot more entertaining. Interesting. It happened. I heard Oppenheimer ends with a bang. Look at us. We're back into it. Should we thank our sponsors, do you think?
Sponsor Acknowledgments and Media Commentary
00:05:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, we should thank John Mutton and the team at Municipal Solutions, of course, our presenting sponsor each week. And I've had a couple of conversations as of late with John, probably not as many as you have had. But John's going strong this summer. And I know that you can share a little bit more about what
00:05:45
Speaker
He does have municipal solutions for sure. I certainly can, Jody. And yes, you're right. He is our presenting sponsor. He does want us to do a show in his man cave basement with all of the sports paraphernalia there. But in the meantime, he is, of course, Ontario's leading MZO firm, municipal zoning orders, a great firm for development approvals, permit expediting, planning services with municipalities.
00:06:13
Speaker
They really engage municipalities in a very positive way. Engineering and architectural services, even things like minor variances or land severances and just getting those old building permits done, you go to municipalsolutions.ca and John Mutton and the team will help you out. So thank you for being our presenting sponsor. And then as part of our Guan Store ad, remember that, Jody, I've got a little copy here. Let's switch gears. A,
00:06:43
Speaker
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00:07:12
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want to add a dash of future to your wardrobe, head over to www.guan, and that's G U A N dash store.com with Guan store. You'll wear the future without looking like a sci-fi extra. Give it a look folks. Well done. Well done. I tell you, we'll do anything for sponsorship money. Won't we Jodi? I was just looking at their website and uh,
00:07:42
Speaker
You can get the Smiley T-shirt, Complex Creation. You can get a Surf Retro 70s T-shirt. You can get a Rock and Roll Vintage T-shirt. I'm surprised you don't have that one. There's a lot of good stuff on here, actually. Of course, I've got the Puffer Jacket. They sent that one along. There's a Teddy Roosevelt T-shirt, it looks like. I don't know.
00:08:07
Speaker
You can tell it's AI that does it though, because the rock and roll t-shirt has a picture of a jukebox, which I guess fits. It has the Hollywood sign, which I'm not really sure how that fits into rock and roll. Route 66. Oh, yeah. I see that one. Yeah. Yeah. And Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe. Yeah. So I don't know. AI maybe 30% right on this one. Yeah. They all put it into an AI.
00:08:36
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system and it comes up with that. There you go. Yeah, I think it's kind of, it's kind of interesting though.
00:08:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I know they're, they're going concerned. So we're thank we're thankful that they're sponsoring a program as well as John mutton and the gang do every year. If we do an episode from John's, uh, John's man cave, uh, I wonder if he'll let us choose one item each of memorabilia. Ooh. That'd be cool. Well, you know, which one I choose. He's got the Jason Alexander baseball card.
00:09:16
Speaker
No, no, I don't think so. He's got a lot of Green Bay Packers stuff, a lot of Yankee stuff. Uh, yeah, I know he's, he's got quite the basement there. So.
00:09:25
Speaker
We're very glad John's part of our lives. So that's what we can say about that. So yeah, lots to talk about. Obviously we can go through a whole host of things. I don't think we're going to delve into too much detail about Justin Trudeau and Sophie breaking up. That's just a sad story.
00:09:43
Speaker
But it certainly has I love you can let me just once say one thing about this. I love how Canadian media Who it's like it's like catnip this story, right? So but but they but they say here's how they say it and I've listened to a couple of podcasts on this as well as other commentaries They say well, you know, this is a private matter. So we're not gonna we're not gonna engage in
00:10:08
Speaker
in any commentary or any rumor mongering about Sophie and Justin. That's not what we're about. That's totally, and people should not engage in that. And then they proceed to engage in it. Yes. Because of course they want the clicks, right? Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's hilarious how many, it's like you said, I mean, I watched, I mean, I don't watch CBC a lot, obviously, but
00:10:38
Speaker
You know, I was watching CBC and I was watching how they were handling it and some of the other major networks and they all did the same thing. Like you said, like really focused in on the respecting their privacy, but we're going to take the next two hours of the panel, break it all down. Right. Come on guys. Like let's move along, you know,
00:10:59
Speaker
I did think it was funny though. I did see a picture of Sophie with someone at Photoshop. She's walking with Pete Davidson holding his hand. I saw that one too. I thought that was funny. Yeah, there's a lot of humorous stuff out there, but of course it's not a humorous situation. No, not at all. It's almost like it's
00:11:22
Speaker
It is a sad situation, but I don't know about you, but it's almost like it's, it's something that I know you've heard about it. I've heard like it's, it, this is something that's been rumbling for years though. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that kind of deadened it a bit because it's almost like.
00:11:36
Speaker
Like the, even the media world, it was like, oh, finally it's come out, right? Like, or, you know, now there's closure on it because, you know, I mean, I saw Robert Benzi, he has been a multiple guest on our show and he was, he was on a, I think he was on CBC talking about it and he kind of made the same comment. He's like, you know, the rumors have been there for a while. He says, I mean, I'm not going to speculate on rumors, but it's like, they all talk, they all knew about it. They're all talked about it behind,
00:12:03
Speaker
you know without putting stuff out there um so i i don't know it was kind of like a a weird story but not a surprising story but certainly got them talking for a couple at least a day anyway it's it's playing differently than uh his dad when pierre and maggie broke up uh you're too young to remember that i'm not
00:12:27
Speaker
I am, thank goodness. Yeah, but there was a lot of sympathy for Pierre in that situation. There was, eh? Oh, yeah, and rightly so, but won't delve any more into that, but it's an interesting
00:12:44
Speaker
you know, juxtaposition that. Anyway, we'll see how this plays out. I don't want to dwell on it. And there's lots of other politics that will occur over the next few weeks and months, I'm sure, including the fact that no one's going to be accessing media on
Media Laws and Long Drive Event Recap
00:13:03
Speaker
on Facebook or or Google, it looks like because of the because of the liberal online News Act bill and all of its consequences. So that's another thing that will probably have journalists tearing their hair out. So yeah, but don't you think on that item, though, that, you know, I've talked to some people in the media world and obviously you have as well, but most of them that I've talked to have said like they fully expect it'll end up
00:13:32
Speaker
was it Australia where this happened and then it wasn't too long after that some sort of deal was arrived out and they got their news back out on social media world. The difference is the Australians cleverly put in their own bill the fact that you had to designate
00:13:52
Speaker
media who are going to designate platforms that would be subject to the bill. They didn't designate Meta and they did not designate Google as part of the bill. Basically, they gutted their own bill
00:14:10
Speaker
And then Google and Meta said, okay, so we won't go ahead with shutting out Australian news. So they caved, right? The problem for the Liberals is they didn't put that clause in their own legislation. So Meta and Google are designated. I'm not sure how you get out of that.
00:14:32
Speaker
I've been told that it's part of the legislation rather than part of the regulation. So unless I'm wrong on that, I don't think I am. Michael Geist is saying the same thing, that you can't do what they did in Australia in the Canadian case. So they really are. They are screwed. They've scuppered themselves.
00:14:54
Speaker
Well, to the best of my knowledge, there's only one individual who can solve this for the country. And of course, I'm sure you already know this, but it's Mark Garretson from Kingston. That's a good point. Yeah. Mark is, he's, he's due, he's due to ride to the rescue. Thanks for pointing that out. That's... Yeah, he's been, he's been quiet. What kind of post, what kind of post did Mark get in the shuffle?
00:15:18
Speaker
Oh, that's minister of threads. Yeah. Yeah. Minister of threads. Exactly. Minister of X. Yeah, exactly. Has your icon on your phone changed to X? Oh yeah. As soon as I did the update, it did. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yours has or has not. It has it just a couple of days ago. Yeah.
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah, you have to update. You had to update it probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's there now and I'm active on threads. So we will be posting this podcast on threads as well. If they let us, I'm not active on threads. I am barely active on Twitter or X. I should say I'm somewhat active on Facebook. I'm much, much more active on Instagram for sure. Yes. Yes. That is your, I don't, I, I rarely post on X.
00:16:09
Speaker
Yeah, so anyway, there's a lot going on and I did want to congratulate you again on that successful long drive tournament. I was totally impressed by the international caliber of the participants and you're raising money for a great cause, but it was, I think our audience should know you successfully pulled off an international golf tournament for crying out loud.
00:16:36
Speaker
Yeah, the Long Drive Championship, Endless Summer, World Championship as it was known.
00:16:44
Speaker
was, yeah, I mean, it exceeded my, my expectations. I know Tony, you were down for like two or three days and you were a supporter of our music component for the state. That was fantastic. Yeah. We'll chat about that in a second. But you know, like you saw me, I mean, I, to me, the couple of the three days was a blur. I know that we encountered each other and I, I don't know if you noticed, but like, I was like, I wasn't really there. I was there, but I wasn't there because I just, my mind was racing a mile a minute.
00:17:14
Speaker
Oh, you were so busy and uh, I I hung out with your wife a little bit and uh, she was she was busy, too There was a lot going on man Yeah, that's I think that's what kind of hit me is is there's a couple things like that the fact that When I look back and I saw the the stands Uh for people that you know weren't there haven't seen any pictures. We had a long drive championship We had the best hitters
00:17:40
Speaker
in the world. These guys are elite hitters. They flew in from all over to compete in Belleville of all places, which is funny. It's great, but it's kind of funny. And we had these bleachers that hold 300 people. I was hoping maybe if we could get 250 there, I'd be happy. We ended up having over 400 people there for the long drive event. And
00:18:02
Speaker
We had a concert the night before with the Abrams where we had almost, I think, 225 people there. And it was just, it just surpassed my expectations and it was just a busy, it was just a jam-packed couple days. The feedback I've heard from everybody is that they've never been to anything like that and they just enjoyed it so much.
00:18:24
Speaker
I mean, I know you were like you, you were there and hopping all over and it was, I mean, you, you, I don't know where, where were you sitting during the long drive event? Were you in the bleachers or?
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah, I sat in the bleachers kind of midway up for a couple, for, I don't know, an hour and a half or so. And then, and then I just, I just went down to where you were just to hang out with you and to see it from your vantage point. Yeah. Yeah, it was, you know, we had it all lit up and yeah, it was, it was quite amazing. And we've had, I fielded a bunch of calls from,
00:18:56
Speaker
You know, well, World Long Drive, one of the biggest tour, well, the biggest pro long drive tour in the world. And we're in talks right now about what 2024 might look like because they saw it and they were like, they were very impressed. And we had a great team and we had great supporters.
00:19:15
Speaker
You know, it's it was it's funny because, uh, you know, we had all these hitters and competing there and you got to play with, uh, who did you, did you play? It was Sam Judah. You played with Sam Judah. Yeah. From originally from Alabama. I think he's in, he's in Austin now, Austin, Texas. And I've been telling this, I've been dining on the story whenever I've been playing golf about Sam driving the ball from the tee, 441 yards off the tee.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah. Cause you guys, he, I mean that, that like Sam is an elite player and he's, he's got a baseball background as many of them do, but you, I'm sure you had your eyes open to just what these guys are capable of doing. And you're just like,
00:20:00
Speaker
Holy smokes. I believe the hole that he hit 441. What, correct me if I'm wrong, was that, was that the par five 11th hole or do you recall what hole that was? It was a par five, 530 yards. So we were, we were like, uh, like 80 yards from the hole. It's not the first shot. It was crazy. It's, uh, it's wild. And how are the rest of your teammates? I know you had a good group there.
00:20:27
Speaker
Yeah, they were, they were fantastic. Some, some friends of mine came in from Toronto to experience it. So they, they enjoyed it. They loved it. Yeah. They thought it was, they thought it was great. I mean, our jaws were when, when Sam hit that ball 400 yards, 441, our jaws were on the ground. Like you just, you'd never seen anything like that.
00:20:50
Speaker
Was that his first drive that you saw him hit or had he hit prior? I think that was his second or something. That was so impressive. The funny thing was he didn't win the championship. The Japanese guy won.
00:21:06
Speaker
Yeah, well, you would know this, but Sam that day, they got points for qualifying holes, which ended up putting you in the finals at night. Sam was in the finals. Sam actually had the most points, I believe, out of both. We had a morning wave and an afternoon wave. I believe Sam had the most points out of every hitter.
00:21:30
Speaker
So he was obviously putting balls in play, but yeah, it's, but that's, that's the nature of this, this game, right? The key is you've got to hit it long, but you also have to hit it accurate. Yeah. And that Japanese guy, he was accurate all like he was, but I mean, he was still hitting at 390 shots, right? Like he was, I thought, I just thought that was the coolest thing. I was, I was rooting for him actually.
00:21:52
Speaker
Yeah, no, he was very impressive and, uh, he didn't have, and this is where I was wrong. He didn't have the body type that I thought could power the ball, but obviously he could. And he didn't look like he was swinging near as hard as the other guys. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
00:22:10
Speaker
I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, how do they, but anyway, it's about, it's about making the most efficient use of your swing. But anyway, endless summer 2024 is going to be huge. I think I, I easily think we can have over a thousand people there to watch. And I think work on getting it televised and you know, the Abrams were amazing. Great band, great band from Kingston.
00:22:33
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. They did a wonderful job and it was just so many great people, so many great supporters. And yeah, it was a sight to see and I'm excited for next year, but it was great. And we've got some other tournaments coming up, right? We're playing. Yes. September or something. Yes. September 12th, I believe in Muskoka. And Grandview.
00:22:57
Speaker
at Grandview and you've brought a long driver there for that for another charity. I think it's for Christine's Place, which helps new moms who are single or what have you, don't have the support. And so that's what that is all about. And I know you have lined up a long driver for that competition too.
00:23:20
Speaker
Yeah. Ryan Greg. No, we'll be there. He's the top ranked Canadian in the world. I believe he's ranked number 12. Um, so he'll be, he'll be coming in. He's from Kitchener area, uh, excited about having him down. And you know, it's, uh, it's going to be good. He's a big boy. He hits bombs too. I don't know if you remember who Ryan is, but very, uh, very big, larger than life character. So it's, uh, I'm sure people are going to love seeing him at balls and.
00:23:50
Speaker
Those guys seem to be great guys. As I say, Sam, who was on our foursome for the day, was just fantastic. Obviously, they do the circuit together, right, Jody? Yeah. It's like a PGA tour or anything like that. Yeah. You get to know everybody, right? Yeah. No, for sure. It was a great time. Looking forward to it. Again, I fully expect bigger and better for next year. I think we're going to have a lot more people that want to be a part of it and coming in from all over the place.
00:24:19
Speaker
It's, uh, it's slowly, slowly gaining traction all over Ontario and, and definitely into the, into the country. So we might have to get some federal representatives there next year. Sure. Who are you thinking? Mark Gerritsen.
00:24:35
Speaker
I thought you were going to, okay, we have a few federal conservative friends too, they should either. I know. Yeah, we could get some, we should, well, we should, you know, in reality, we should, I mean, next year I'm going to be focused on having conversations with like the ministers of sport and tourism, because I think it warrants, I think it warrants a look for support, to be honest. Sure. It's a national, it's a national sporting event, so.
00:25:03
Speaker
Absolutely, with international competitors. And again, everyone talks about economic development and the impact of these events. Sometimes I'm like, what do they really do? But I can tell you, this was just a short one. I mean, two, three days, right? But we had
00:25:23
Speaker
We had hotel rooms filled. These guys were at the casino all the time. Not that I endorse going and gambling all the time, but they were loving the casino. Seriously? Oh, yeah. They love the casino. They love these guys. I mean, in essence, what they do, this sport is kind of like gambling on yourself, really. Right.
00:25:45
Speaker
I mean, they paid entry fees to hopefully hit a ball and play and hit it longer than. But yeah, no, they really enjoyed themselves in Belleville, which is a growing community and the restaurants were busy and we had lots going on. So I think it was one of those things where it's like,
00:26:06
Speaker
You know, I almost visualize, imagine if I could, you know, do four or five days of that where we bring in some, uh, cause I'd like to, I mean, I'd love to have women competing, you know, there's, there's senior divisions, there's amateur divisions. Like we could have like a week long event. Right. So interesting. Yeah. You can, you can build it up from what you had. That's amazing. Yeah. We could have, uh, the Tony Clement day where if you out drive Tony, you win something or.
00:26:32
Speaker
Okay. So everybody's going to be a winner. That's great. Chicken dinner. Well, again, congratulations on a job well done. And I know that took a significant part of your time and effort and money.
00:26:47
Speaker
And you raised a lot of money for a great cause obviously in the community, so good for you. Yeah, because we supported the shelter there at Greyskin and of course they were on site. They had their display going and they got a lot of great awareness.
00:27:04
Speaker
It's good. Again, it's still a blur. We've got lots to grow on and lots of places to go with this. I'm excited for next year. Speaking of, congratulations for great events. I saw your Instagram not that long ago. I want to congratulate you on another wonderful Key to Bala event. I saw you had organized a bunch of concerts there.
00:27:28
Speaker
Yeah, it was actually for the Huntsville Festival of the Arts.
Music Event Sponsorship and Concert Ticket Frenzy
00:27:32
Speaker
And so it wasn't at the key, but although I did attend the key. I thought you, I thought you, I thought you organized the key to ballet each year.
00:27:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah, no, no, that's not me. And no, no, but I did see the glorious suns there. And I saw a former guest of our show, Kim Mitchell there, who put on a great performance again. But I also sponsored a concert at Algonquin Theatre in Huntsville with the band The Lowest of the Low. You may remember that. Remember that band. Yeah, sure. So I was the sponsor for that.
00:28:02
Speaker
And I'm also sponsoring the Muskoka Music Festival, which is taking place in a few short days in Ravenhurst. And Lorena McKennett will be the featured artist at one of the shows. So yeah, this is what I do, you know, post-political. Jodi, I like sponsoring things.
00:28:23
Speaker
through my company and and getting my company's name out there but it's just if i can help live music thrive that's that's one of the things i like to do so and you're too humble to say this but i know you were
00:28:38
Speaker
more directly responsible, but pretty darn close for getting Taylor Swift to do six shows in Toronto. That's right. My daughter is going bananas right now trying to get tickets. It's just- I'm assuming that you're probably going to go.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yes, I definitely will. It's all over the news today, but I heard today that if you want tickets or seats down on the main floor, like 13 grand.
00:29:12
Speaker
She is the biggest thing in entertainment right now, and I think they're going to be able to sell 250,000 tickets in Toronto alone, so you can just start to do the math. This tour, the era's tour, will gross, I think it may even net over a billion dollars, Jodi. What is it? I don't understand. Don't get me wrong.
00:29:37
Speaker
She's a great performer, but I'm not a Swifty, so I don't know. She's just, for some reason, the people have just gone nuts over her. She does three-hour plus long concerts, so they're extra long. It's called the Erez Tour because she goes through her whole catalog, and every night there's a different kind of selection.
00:30:00
Speaker
from her various albums. The Swifties are comparing notes. She played these songs in Seattle, which may be a completely different set list from Portland. It's a machine. I think the tour is so successful. She gave bonuses to her workers, her entourage of like $44 million or something. Did you hear that?
00:30:27
Speaker
So I did not do that. $44 million in bonuses. So yeah, it's a phenomenon. And I have seen with my daughter Taylor Swift three other times, but it's nothing like this. This is, this is like,
00:30:42
Speaker
off the charts. So yeah, I'm going to go see her. Why wouldn't I? I think she's a tremendous performer. I don't listen to her music otherwise, but I do respect her as a performer. So what if the tickets are like five grand? You're gone? No freaking way. No. I got to find another way. My daughter had me join the Taylor Swift fan club so I could be randomly for the lottery. Anyway, whatever.
00:31:10
Speaker
Well, I got to find a way to get decent tickets at a decent price. Wish me luck. I think Lizzo tickets are dropping in price. They're dropping. We'll have to see whether our friend Ben Bankus has any commentary on that. He's having a rough time of it right now. Did you know that? No. Why not? There are various cancel culture forces are trying to cancel all of his shows. Oh, seriously? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's growing ahead anyway, so he's finding alternative venues or whatever.
00:31:40
Speaker
So they're actually trying to stop him from going to certain locations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Either they're threatening the venue with boycotts or I don't know what they're doing. But Ben, Ben is out there after his unsuccessful attempt at running for mayor of Toronto. He's, he's bouncing back. So, Hey, it's when they stopped talking about you that you got a problem. And then another guest is running for liberal leader, Bonnie Crombie.
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And, uh, we've just got so much happening with our former guests. It's, it's, it's, it's incredible.
00:32:09
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Yeah, no, it's it's been a busy summer. And I mean, I don't even know what else to say here. I'm sure. Is there anything else you want to touch on or? No, no, I think we're going to, as you know, we're trying to set up another we've got another guest who's going to be coming on. And so we'll set that up as soon as possible.
00:32:27
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for our audience and just thank you for hanging in there. I know it's been a rough couple of months because we haven't been around in your lives, but in all seriousness. In your lives. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sure most people wake up each day. Where are Tony and Jodie? Where are Tony and Jodie? Yeah, exactly. Just like, lonely. Hi, Mr. Lonely. It's great.
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but we appreciate it. And we certainly appreciate the sponsorship of a John mutton at municipal solutions at municipal solutions.ca and the guan store, www.guan.com. So those are our, you're in your radio station is probably just giving up on us. They haven't mentioned anything in particular, but I'm sure they miss us.
00:33:17
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I've gotten a couple emails from the production guy there. Seriously? Yeah. I think they've just been running some of our older episodes, but I'm sure they can only do that for so long. We're coming back. Don't worry, folks. We're back and better than ever. And better than ever and still.
00:33:35
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What's our tagline? Set in the bar. Yeah, we set world records. We should just say that, you know, even jack up our listenership or maybe it wouldn't because it might not be the right demo, but we're going to give away a pair of Taylor Swift tickets. Oh yeah. Okay. We're not. We're not going to do that. No, we are not doing that.
00:33:55
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No, but maybe we can find some Lizzo tickets or Ben Bankus tickets. That's right. We should. So he'd appreciate that. I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure he would. So anyway, we appreciate the support each week and we're looking forward to the next show and tell your friends to listen on all their podcast platforms. Stream it nonstop. Tony will do this again in seven days. Yes, sir.