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Lucha Libre and Remembering Leaders: A Mexican Adventure and Honoring Legacies
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Join hosts Jodie Jenkins and Tony Clement on this week's episode of "And Another Thing" as Tony recounts his exhilarating trip to Mexico and his unforgettable experience at a Lucha Libre match. From the colorful masks to the high-flying acrobatics, Tony shares his firsthand insights into the world of Mexican wrestling.
In a somber turn, Jodie and Tony also pay tribute to the passing of two influential figures: the Honourable Brian Mulroney and Daryl Kramp. They reflect on the legacies left behind by these leaders and their impact on Canadian politics and society.
Tune in for a captivating blend of adventure and reflection on this episode of "And Another Thing" with Jodie Jenkins and Tony Clement.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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And another thing And another thing And another thing
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Speaker
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. And I'm Tony Clement.
Super Tuesday and Democratic Speculations
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And here we are on the heels of Super Tuesday by the time that this is released to the general public.
00:00:39
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Trump and Biden continue to duke it out, and I guess another good night for Donald Trump, all things considered. What are you making of this, Tony?
00:00:52
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Well, Jody, I think that Trump is sewing up the nomination. And I think Nikki Haley will be soon out of the race. She might start running out of money or she certainly doesn't have enough delegates to defeat Trump. But I was saying to you, I still think there's an outside chance that Biden will not be the nominee. We'll see. Yeah, I don't. I just I don't know. I think if that if that did happen, that would be
00:01:21
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That would be quite a story, wouldn't it? Because something like that hasn't happened in a long time. Yeah, it's been like, I don't know, three generations or something, 60 or 80 years. But the fact is, like the Democrats, like any political party, Jodie, they want to win and they have an innate interest in survival.
00:01:43
Speaker
The polls keep showing that Biden can't beat Trump. There was a New York Times poll that came out this week that showed Biden five points behind Trump, which doesn't sound like a lot, but that's impressive because I'm sure Biden would be ahead by 30 points in California and 20 points in New York. So you factor those out.
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in the swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Nevada, I guess, then he'd be much further behind, right? So I think there's going to be increasing pressure within the democratic circles if this continues to have Biden say, look, I'm not healthy enough to be president anymore.
Canadian Politics: Trudeau and Jevani
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He'd be the first incumbent since Lyndon Johnson. That's it. Since Lyndon Johnson in 1968 to decline the nomination and not run even though you're president, right? So, yeah, that would be big news. But I keep saying, outside chance, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, Democrat,
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He'd be the guy to beat if Biden is out of the race.
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Now, would he be getting set for like, I mean, would he be assembling just in case like a guy like that? Yeah. Oh, he's he's definitely and he he he says the right things. Oh, I I'm here to support the president and I'm fundraising for the president. And but there's no there's no question that he's doing a shadow campaign just in case Biden cannot do it. And here's the kicker, Jodi.
00:03:30
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if under the U.S. Constitution, the presidential and vice presidential candidates can't be from the same state. So if Newsom is the nominee, it means Kamala Harris, who also is from California, cannot be on the ticket. That's true. Clean, cleaning house, really. Exactly. Exactly. So then what's the early discussion or what's the prediction on a vice presidential candidate then?
00:04:00
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Well, something like good news judge or like, you know, he's from California, which is a, which is a solid democratic state. So maybe pick somebody from one of the swing states that they have to win. That's another possibility. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. And drawing parallels. I wonder if Justin Trudeau is feeling the same pressure to step down.
00:04:26
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Well, you know, our past guest, Jamil Jevani, racked up a convincing win in the Durham by-election the other day. And it was the largest margin in that particular riding in 20 years. And yeah, I mean, it was 57%, I think he got. And the liberals were not, they were so far behind. It wasn't even funny.
00:04:56
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So that's a big win. Uh, Jamil is now, uh, an MP elect until he's sworn in that he's an MP. And, uh, yeah, I mean, um, you got to wonder what the, what the liberal insiders are saying when they, when they see results like that. And that, you know, Durham is not a, an urban writing. It's a suburban rural writing, but Hey, you know, you got to win in the suburbs.
Sponsorship Announcements
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of the GTA if you want to form a government and Trudeau and the Liberals are not looking good.
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Interesting. Well, we'll have plenty more to say on that in the next little while when we do this show. But I want to thank, first of all, our presenting sponsor each week, John Motten and the team at Municipal Solutions. Of course, John is training hard outside of his regular day to day work. He's training hard in jujitsu. Yeah, he's got a big master's event coming up in April, I believe.
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It's training hard for that. It's coming up. Yeah, I think it's the end of April. You're quite right, Jody, but he is also the founder and CEO of Municipal Solutions, our presenting sponsor. They are Ontario's leading MZO firm and they also provide development services and project management, help with development approvals, permit expediting,
00:06:24
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in Muskoka every Saturday morning. They have a slew of podcasts, uh, that they, uh, repeat or replay, uh, on terrestrial radio, including, and another thing podcast. And we thank them for that. And then Jodi, we're looking for more sponsors because a couple of the other sponsors we had that their contracts are over. So if anybody's listening out there and wants to be a proud sponsor,
00:07:14
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of, and another thing podcast. We'd love to have you.
Cultural Insights: Lucha Libre in Mexico
00:07:18
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Yeah. Maybe we shouldn't use lines like if anybody is listening, but okay. All those listeners out there, if any of you are interested, yes, out of the tens of thousands that are listening or of the millions listening, if there's one of you or two of you who desire to be a part of the show, please reach out to our agent and we'll treat you right.
00:07:42
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Yes, we will have you on, you know, all that good stuff. So it's been a it's been an interesting couple of weeks since last we chatted. I know you've been to you've been to Mexico, which, by the way, I want to I want to talk a little bit about that just quickly, because I saw some of your posts. You actually went to a big time wrestling show, Lucha Libre. Your eyes were open to that. I guess you didn't.
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You must have known what Lucha Libre was, but you didn't realize how intense it was and how woven into the culture it is there. It's huge. It's so huge, Jody. I knew what Lucha Libre was, which is kind of the
00:08:26
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the culturally, you know, it's Mexico's version of pro wrestling, I guess is the way to put it. But it is so over the top. We were in, it was my first day in Mexico City. We spent five days there, went to a, we were at there for a wedding of a son of good friends of ours. And Lucha Libre was at Arena Mexico, like in the center of Mexico City, 5,000 seat arena.
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And it was just popping like people were, I don't know how to describe it. They were, they were cheering their heroes and booing the villains. And you know this, but our, our audience may not know, but a lot of the wrestlers wear masks.
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Not all of them, but a lot of them do, and that's part of the culture as well to have these masks. And they have their personas. So my favorite Jodi out of all the, I think we had seven different rounds, multiple rounds, but seven different matches. But there was a guy there, his nickname was the Blue Panther Jodi. And he must have been 65, 66 years old.
00:09:40
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And so he was, he was out there and, you know, he'd be thrown out of the ring and he'd climb back in, you know, and, uh, the crowd was loving him. He was an icon, I think. And, uh, the other thing that was crazy about, uh, that form of wrestling is there half the match is outside the ring. Yeah. They'll throw, they'll throw them out there out of the ring and they'll start fighting.
00:10:06
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There's a buffer area before the stands, and they're jumping from the third rope onto somebody, body slamming them outside the ring. I gotta say, it was so much fun.
00:10:22
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Yeah, with that type of wrestling, I believe when you went and watched CMLL, that was the name of the organization. They actually have a deal with AEW right now, all elite wrestling, which would be, I guess, second to
00:10:40
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wwe at this point in the sports entertainment world but yeah so lucha libre high flying those masks they're more than just like just masks like it is it is generational it's handed down family to family and they just they live it those masked wrestlers they typically you will not see them without their mask and it is it is a
Travel Plans: Japan, Mongolia, and Sicily
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Huge thing if a mask is ever taken off Of a wrestler. Yeah, usually usually you will see like one of the biggest ones angles I ever saw, you know personally now I'm not around in Mexico So I'm sure there were others but Rey Mysterio who is a you know world famous? lucha Libre wrestler and WWE and been in all over the world and
00:11:21
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At one point, he lost his mask in a match, which was like the worst thing that can happen to a lucha libre. Now, it was all part of an angle, but it would have been something that he would have definitely struggled with doing, but he is back to wearing his mask again now.
00:11:37
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I mean, his son is a professional wrestler. But so I say all that to say that that Lucha Libre goes deep in the Mexican culture. And what a what an opportunity to see it up close and personal. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I didn't regret it at all. We had a hoot and there was one round that was female, all female wrestlers. Yeah. And Jodi, you probably know WWE far better than I do, but
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The female wrestlers in WWE tend to be books and blondes, if I can put it that way. These ones were built like tanks, I'm telling you. If they jumped on you from the third rope, you'd be a pancake, I'm telling you right now. It was crazy. Yeah, and did they have any of the midget wrestlers at all? Yeah, they had two midget wrestlers. One was dressed in a devil suit, so he had a long pointy tail. Okay.
00:12:32
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sort of threw them around a little bit too. Oh my goodness. It was something else. It was a real cultural open wide moment for me for sure. And who was in the main event? Do you remember? The main match? Oh, don't ask. I don't know. I mean, it was all coming so fast. But if you rattle off some names, I could probably remember whether they were there or not. But it was being televised. I saw the
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Announcers, they had a little box in the stands and they were doing their bit to describe the match. So I know that it was being televised. And I tell you, people just got right into it. And the crowd was, I'd say 60, 40 male to female. It was quite balanced, I thought. Yeah, that was very interesting as well. That's awesome. Yeah.
00:13:28
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So the other thing I was going to ask you, you've been all over the place again. Like I don't you have a cruise coming up again. Is that correct? No, we can't. We cancel the cruise. We're just going by land. It was a long story. It was a COVID cruise that was a cruise that we booked before COVID to Japan. OK. That that was postponed twice because of COVID. Yeah. And then when it finally got reorganized,
00:13:57
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For whatever reason, we canceled it, but we've decided to still go to Japan with one of my daughters. And so we're going to be there for two weeks in April. And but we'll go by bullet train different places. So I'm actually looking.
Tributes to Political Figures
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I think we'll see more of Japan that way than if we were on a cruise anyway. So I thought you were going on a disco cruise again, though. No, that's next year. Oh, next year. You skip a year for those. Well, they didn't have it this year.
00:14:25
Speaker
They didn't have it this year. I guess you don't want to go to the well too often on that one. Well, I guess I don't know. But anyway, Cool and the Gang is going to be back next year. They got nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Can you believe it? Okay. That's so weird. Anyway, Cool and the Gang.
00:14:43
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bunch of other acts. So we'll be back doing that in February of 2025. Okay. But this year we're, we're doing a family trip to Japan and, um, and then I come back and then I go away again, Jodi, I'll be in Mongolia for a week.
00:15:06
Speaker
Of course you will. Of course I will. You should just change the show to like your travel adventures. Yes, right. I mean like you've been to like Mexico, Mongolia, Japan. Sicily. Sicily like and that's like in the span of six months. I know. It's so bizarre. But anyway, some of that's business obviously and there's a democratic, there's a conference on democracy going on in Mongolia. So I'm going
00:15:32
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on behalf of the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. I knew he'd ask that, so I thought I'd let that out. How long is Stephen Harper going to be there? He won't be there. I'm going on his behalf. No, he's not going to be there. No, no. You're going on his behalf though? Yeah. Oh, shoot. You're the, uh, you're the anointed one. I'm the, I'm the nuncio. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:54
Speaker
Um, other news in the last couple of days, obviously that we should touch on. And I know it's been covered extensively and, and of course it should be as the passing of, of, uh, the honorable Brian Mulroney, which obviously you can speak more to that than I could. I mean, you knew him much. Well, I don't actually, you know what, I don't really think I ever met him. Is that right? No, I don't think so. Did you go to any of his events or rallies or anything like that?
00:16:20
Speaker
No, because I think that, like, that was like, so he was, I did some reading up and won't surprise you on any of this stuff, but his, uh, 1976 was the first time he challenged for the leadership against Joe Clark. Of course he wasn't successful. That was also the year I was born. And then, uh, he, in 83 or 84, he was successful for the leadership and then 83. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. And so then, you know, and then he was successful with his, uh,
00:16:50
Speaker
campaigns from there and had a majority as well in there at some point. But yeah, no, I, uh, he had the biggest majority in the history of the country in 1984. Yeah. But I mean, I, I know I never, um, obviously it was, you know, before my time in terms of being able to vote or politics. So I know I didn't attend anything.
00:17:10
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where he was and I honestly didn't follow it a lot. 10 years. Shockingly, when I was eight years old, I wasn't really following it. No, of course. Of course. Well, everybody's been saying he was a consequential prime minister because
00:17:27
Speaker
He always swung for the fences, Jody. He thought, if I'm going to be prime minister, Canada needs some changes and I'm going to go for it. I'm going to try to do those changes. Some of them work very well, others were very unpopular, but you can never accuse him of just sort of
00:17:46
Speaker
hanging out in the job and not trying to do anything. And a lot of them had big consequences like free trade is the one that comes to mind and tax reform and change and making Canada more competitive. And then, of course, his international influence at the waning period of the Cold War. He was hugely influential with US presidents like Reagan and Bush and with Margaret Thatcher and
00:18:17
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Francois Mitterrand in France. And he's been quite rightly celebrated for helping to bring an end to apartheid in South Africa by rallying the Commonwealth against the apartheid regime. So there's a lot there, man. It was two majority governments. He's the only prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald, who was a conservative, a conservative prime minister.
00:18:47
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who got back-to-back majorities. So that's quite rare for conservatives to do that. In 1984, 1988, as I said, the 1984 one, he won 211 seats, which is the largest majority ever. So, yeah. And then by the end, everybody was sick of him, as we usually are with our prime ministers. And he left the stage.
00:19:15
Speaker
And then things kind of fell apart for the conservative party until Stephen Harper. So there's a lot that went on in that period. And I just want to say he was always very good to me, always there to provide support. And, uh, he once did a fundraiser for me when I was an MP traveled all the way up to Bracebridge to do a fundraiser for me. Um, if you want to read one of the best, um,
00:19:43
Speaker
autobiographies, memoirs of any Canadian prime minister, you'd read more Rene's memoir. It was that good. He was a big man in my life, but more importantly, he was important for Canada and its history.
00:20:02
Speaker
And I'm very glad because he did have controversies, but I'm very glad that a lot of the commentators are looking at the big picture. And the big picture was that he accomplished a lot of change that needed to be done. And quite frankly, a lot of people are saying that, you know, we don't have that kind of leadership right now in this country. So.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's interesting. Words that were used a lot in articles about his passing, statesman, family man, passion, those were consistently coming up and it's not lost on me.
00:20:39
Speaker
that it was only, again, in the political world, I think about a week and a half, two weeks prior to Mr. Mulroney's passing, that we lost another good friend of the show and a former MP, a good friend of mine as well, Darrell Cramp, who has passed. And again, just a giant of a man as well locally and also
00:21:02
Speaker
On the hill and I know that you served alongside him and I did I've heard some great stories Jeff Watson and I were sharing some stories about him when this when this news all broke we were going back and forth and Jeff was sharing about some of the things he one of the things you'll never forget about Daryl and maybe you can
00:21:20
Speaker
expand or maybe you've heard these stories. But I guess Darryl took, you know, was it was one of the calm collected individuals when the gunman was on the hill back in that situation, if I'm correct. Yeah, I yeah, I was there, but I was the four of us left the caucus room. Yeah. And so I was holed up in the speakers, the speakers office.
00:21:49
Speaker
uh, with three other people. So I missed the kind of the drama inside the caucus room where they, where they hold up and, you know, barricaded the doors and everything like that. But Darryl was a former cop, right? Yes, that's right. So he, he relied on his training, which was great, you know, to have that. Uh, and what else did he do? He, he did a bunch of different things, didn't he? Yeah. Like he was a former municipal politician. He was a restaurant tour. He had a,
00:22:17
Speaker
a wonderful place called Two Lunes Restaurant in Maydock. It was just the place to be. He ran that with his family and good friends and great staff there in the seafood buffet, I'm told. I only went once because, again, a little bit before my time, but seafood buffet was like off the charts. And of course, he was also an MPP. He was elected as a member of provincial parliament with Doug Ford's team there. He shared the provincial conservative caucus, didn't he?
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was a, people looked up to him for sure.
Cultural Nostalgia: Sam the Record Man
00:22:51
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A mentor and, and just someone you could, I mean, he was honestly just a, you can't say enough good things about the guy. Like he didn't, he was just a great person that it didn't matter what party you were from, what walk of life you were from. He was going to treat you.
00:23:10
Speaker
the way that you deserve to be treated and that's with dignity and respect. Good man, good man. Of course, he's got a great legacy with his family and his daughters, of course, Shelby being an elected official now. Yeah, she's the MP, right? Yeah, yeah. But Terrell and Kerry, they're all doing amazing things.
00:23:30
Speaker
Carol Ann, of course, his wife, and I had, I was able to go to the visitation. It was, it was, it was nice. I mean, nice in the sense of it was, it was nice to talk to them and just see the outpouring of support. I saw another one of your colleagues, it was a couple, couple of people in front of me, Mr. Scott Reed. Oh, Scott. Yeah. I didn't know he had like a ponytail. Yeah. He's, uh, he's changed his appearance a little bit over the years. Yeah. Kind of looked like a Sumo, like a man button thing there he got going on. It's, uh,
00:24:01
Speaker
It's from Landryk. He's a Landryk. I know. I know. I just I yeah. No, I he's I've met him a couple times but his he's an interesting cat too. He ran for leadership. Did he not? I don't think so. What did he what was he running for at one point? I thought something to do in within the party or something or was he?
00:24:22
Speaker
Well, I think he ran to be chair of caucus at one point. Maybe that's what it was. Yeah. Maybe that's what it was. I just, I feel like, I feel like he's not one that shies away from rocking the boat. No, he's very outspoken in caucus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We send our condolences to the Mulroney family and the Cramp family and. Yeah. And then, I mean, the other heartbreaking news in Bellville, of course, is the loss of Sam, the record band.
00:24:52
Speaker
That is true. It's on a different level. I know. We send our condolences to Mrs. The Record Man. It was the last Sam The Record Man in the country. When I was growing up, Sam The Record Man was the place to buy
00:25:12
Speaker
LPs, vinyl records, I mean, and then eventually cassette tapes and so on. But that store on Yonge Street was iconic, you know, where you went to get your music. And then they had all these stores all throughout the province, at least I don't know about the country. And then they one by one, as people moved away from vinyl, they closed shop and they were gone from Yonge Street and so on. And somehow in Belleville, they
00:25:39
Speaker
They survived, but I guess the, the couple that was running the store, if, you know, they want to retire, I can, I can get that. So unless somebody buys it up, uh, that that's the end of that.
Career Paths and Work Life Evolution
00:25:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's interesting because, um, there was the gentleman that owned Sam, the record man. This was a while ago. I don't know if he owned it right till the end. Spencer Destin, um, from Belleville. Uh, he, even in 2017, there was an article I found online where he was,
00:26:07
Speaker
He was working because at that point as well in 2017, it was the last Sam the record band still in operation. He was trying to make the Quinte Mall store, his store where he was, an official Ontario tourism destination. He had made an application to the ministry and it was rejected because of different criteria.
00:26:30
Speaker
As you said, it was at one point, Sam's had over 140 locations across Canada and Destin said that Sam's accounted for about a third.
00:26:41
Speaker
of the country's vinyl sales in the seventies. Wow. Incredible. Interesting. But now, I mean, I think somebody should buy the store because quite frankly, vinyl sales are on the upswing, as you know, and they've already surpassed CD sales in this country. So maybe there's a- Yeah, but I mean, the location in the mall, like you mean by the brand or what are you talking about?
00:27:07
Speaker
By the, the platform by which you listen to music, vinyl sales, like of all records. Oh yeah. But I mean, like, are you, but are you saying by Sam the record man as a brand? Cause like, I mean, they're just, they're just going to close that store in the mall and just clear everything out. Yeah. But I'm just saying that if somebody was smart, they would, they would pick up the brand and, uh, and run with it. Well, who owns it now? If that was the last one, who owns it? I don't know. I don't know who owns it. I know the guy, the guy who bought
00:27:36
Speaker
HMV, which was a rival record store, uh, not only in Canada, but worldwide. Yeah. Uh, they went out, they declared bankruptcy years ago and they were bought up there. Their locations were bought up by a Canadian and he kept them going. And now they're, they're going crazy. I mean, people are going in there by droves because the vinyl sales are, are again, the big thing.
00:28:05
Speaker
Interesting. So I'm looking at this other article. So this was a recent article. So it was still Spencer Destin who owned it. Oh, wow. He owns these. So he owned the Quinnie Mall store as well as the independent music stores in Kingston and Oshawa. They've been doing it for 45 years, having the retirement sale and they're looking at all of their options to keep the stores open. Wow. So I mean, it's it's very interesting. Says the business is going well. They've inquired a lot of inventory.
00:28:35
Speaker
But they just don't want to do it anymore. No, of course. I get that. Well, maybe there's anybody in our listening audience. Maybe there's an opportunity there. And I know there's lots of people listening, right, Jodi?
00:28:47
Speaker
Yes, and I will say this just because on the heels of mentioning how they were doing that for 45 years, I read an interesting article today that talked about the non-linear approach to careers and how things are changing in the workforce and the days of, again, probably not a surprise to you, but the days of planning out your career in terms of knowing exactly what's going to happen are pretty much by the wayside and there isn't a straight path in terms of
00:29:16
Speaker
jobs anymore and changing jobs isn't going to be viewed as just getting sick of a job and just hopping jobs for the sake of hopping. It's just that non-linear approach to working because
00:29:30
Speaker
the typical day, the days they're saying of the 30 working at a, uh, somewhere 30 to 40 years are coming to an end. And because people are living longer, it's going to be soon. People are working for 60 years. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's what this article is talking about. It was in Forbes. Incredible. Well, I mean, look at, look at your career and look at my career. It's not been linear for either of us. Oh gosh. No, my mind's resembled a, uh, like either a ping pong game or, uh,
Upcoming Sports Broadcasting Deal
00:30:00
Speaker
Pickle ball, pickle ball. No, not really pickle ball, but maybe, um, yeah. Are you willing to, I know we've, we're almost out of time, but are you willing to say a little bit about the tournament coming up and the big news about who's going to be broadcasting it? I can't really, I can not at liberty to say that yet.
00:30:19
Speaker
Oh, you're not at liberty to say, okay. It will be broadcast, which I don't know if I had said at all, but now that you've let the cat out of the bag, but I, uh, broadcast by cable. We don't know. We don't know. Could've been broadcast by TikTok.
00:30:36
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay. We'll have some exciting announcements to come and I'm working on nonstop. I know. I know. Congratulations. I know I don't want to jinx it, but I'm very proud of you. And I think this is such an exciting tournament here running here. You're excited to play in it. I can tell. I am. I am. I've been talking about it. I even talked about it on Humble and Fred last time I was on.
00:31:01
Speaker
Yes, I do know that now who, um, you do have a team in the, in the event. Do you, are you able to share your thoughts or do you have early contenders to be on your team? Are you going to, you know, try some people out or get them to audition to be on your team? I've got a, I've got a realtor from Toronto so far, Sean, Sean. Yeah. So I've got to, I've got to fill out the rest of the spaces.
00:31:22
Speaker
Nice. And now will you want to, because as you know, you can have the opportunity to play with different players. Oh, yeah. I know you had a great experience with, was it Sam Judah last year? Judah, yeah, Sam Judah, yeah. Is that a guy that you would want to play with again? Or is that, would you be looking to maybe, you know, switch it up, try someone new?
00:31:42
Speaker
might be try somebody new, but he was fantastic. What a great guy and really enjoyed spending some time with him. The nice thing this year is we're going to have a absolutely stacked field. We had a stacked field of pros last year. We had some that we had applied to pull double duty because we were short. We had more teams than pros, which isn't the worst thing to have happen, but this year we're going to have
00:32:05
Speaker
uh, 48 of the best male hitters in the world and 12 of the best female hitters. And we've got 60 teams coming and I, uh, I should mention that I was in Ottawa the past, this past weekend at the golf expo. Wonderful, wonderful event. I was up there with Ryan Greg, Nall and Cody Billinghurst.
00:32:21
Speaker
two unbelievable, uh, world long drive athletes. And we put on a show and we had a couple of teams from the Ottawa area sign up to play, which is where's our goal for going there. So we're excited to keep this thing going. But, uh, I, uh, I could talk for another half an hour, but I'm not going to do that. Well, we're going to have time and future broadcasts, uh, podcasts rather to, uh, alert our audience on how it's going, but, uh, it's going, it's going well, my friend it's going well.
00:32:48
Speaker
Yeah, because actually, you know what, speaking of that, we are going to have Zane Smith from World Long Drive. Right. He runs it. He's going to come on the program once we're in a position to officially announce who is broadcasting our events and three other of their televised events. Yeah, we'll be able to expose that.
00:33:08
Speaker
share a little bit more and pick Zane's brain about the world of long drive.
Sponsors and Future Themes
00:33:13
Speaker
Fantastic. Can't wait. Can't wait. All right. Well, we got to thank John and the team at Municipal Solutions once again for their support each week as a presenting sponsor. You can find them online at municipalsolutions.ca as well as Hunters Bay Radio. And do you have a show coming up there soon? I do. Yes, I will have one in a few days time. Oh, this weekend.
00:33:38
Speaker
Uh, not next weekend. Oh, what's the theme? I haven't figured that out yet. Oh boy. You're slacking. I got it. I got to put the nose to the grindstone, come up with something exciting. Well, it's, are we going to be, well, I'm assuming you're probably going to do something closer to her. How, when, how often do you do the show again? Once a month, once a month. So you're going to have to do something on St. Patty's day. Cause I brown St. Patrick's. Now that you mention it.
00:34:02
Speaker
Lucky songs. It's the day before St. Patty's Day. Now you got me going. There you go. It's going to be a St. Patrick's Day theme. Lots of Irish, you know, U2 and Dropkick Murphy's. Oh, I can make that work.
00:34:22
Speaker
It's been 12,000, 15 days. There you go. Thank you for giving me my theme.
Conclusion and Next Episode Teasers
00:34:30
Speaker
I figured it out now. Jeez. You can thank me. Well, yes, you did thank me. You don't have to thank me later. I'll probably mention you on the radio broadcast. All right. Hunters Bay Radio. You can catch us every Saturday morning, I think at eight o'clock. I don't know. Yeah. I think around eight o'clock. Yeah.
00:34:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not usually up in the Muskokas to go listen, but I do appreciate their support. Yes. And yeah, we'll do this again in seven days. You got it.