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This week on And Another Thing, hosts Jodie Jenkins and Tony Clement dive into the political pulse of Canada and beyond! They break down the latest results from the British Columbia and New Brunswick Provincial Elections, dissect the latest twists in the Trudeau leadership saga, and take a close look at Donald Trump's growing momentum in the U.S. Don’t miss this lively, insightful episode!
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Spotify's Engagement Efforts
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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.
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And off the top, Tony. Yes, sir. Spotify has been sending, I don't know if you get these emails, maybe you do, but Spotify has been sending out a lot of communications as they've been really ratcheting up their podcast platform. Now, there are numerous podcast platforms out there, right and we are on i'm I'm assuming we're on all of them with the exception of YouTube. We're not on YouTube. No, not yet. That is yeah not yet. That is something that is in the works. But anyway, going back to Spotify, they're really amping up the ability for listeners to interact with podcasts, which is yeah increases engagement, increases longevity of
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listening to specific episodes and and whatnot. So the reason I bring this up is because we have a bunch of loyal listeners and I wanted to drop a couple names that have been very good at commenting and keeping in touch and this by no means this isn't like the only list but there's a couple names that we hear from quite frequently and if you want to be on this shout out list then There's an easy way to do
Listener Shoutouts
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it. Just drop us a line more frequently. Yeah, exactly. weekend But anyway, I got to give a shout out to Brock Kostiak. I think that's how you say his last name. OK. He's a very engaged individual who is always commenting. So we appreciate Brock. Thanks, Brock. yeah His comments. And then Mike Stiff. Oh, yeah, Mike. Yeah. Who is in Prince Edward County. ah He's a good listener. Great listener. Yes, he is. yeah I owe him a coffee. Probably owe him a three course meal, actually, by the
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The amount of times I just haven't been able to connect with him, but a wonderful listener. And then I think one of our most proudest, our proudest listener in the Quebec, the province of Quebec, Evilo Ivanoff, who listens to Montreal. Yeah, that's amazing. We're, we're, we're national and international. He has a woodworking business and a great guy. And yeah, so anyway, we really appreciate all of our listeners, but this is, this is great feedback.
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Yeah, but Spotify doing a ton of stuff these days. Yeah. It's kind of nice. The podcast milieu environment is just growing and growing and growing. And Jody, I know you're feeling as sad as I am that we almost got Donald Trump on this program, but Joe Rogan just pulled the carpet from under our feet and he got them. So he's doing Joe Rogan? Yes, he is. Yes, he is.
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Okay. I didn't, I didn't realize that, but yeah, Donald Trump is doing Joe Rogan and he didn't call us first. Well, we were, we were in the running there, but, um, alas, joe rogan does and Joe Rogan has a few more, a few more followers than we do. He has a little bit more pull. Yeah, exactly. Just a touch. Just a touch. Just a touch. But and, you know, but speaking of Joe Rogan, who is a comedian as well. Yes. And it got me thinking good we got to get Ben Bankus on. because I know I've been. Listen, I tried about a year ago and he he just he's exploded in the last year and a half. You know that. a And yeah and I've sent you some of his his bits as well, because I follow him on Instagram and he is one funny guy like and he's like really quick.
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Like on the stage, like it's not just sort of setups of of bits that he's practiced and practice. He interacts with the audience. He's very, very good. We gotta, we gotta bring him, we should actually, I know we've talked about this, but literally we should bring him in somewhere to a location.
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and present it by, and another thing, podcast. We'll do a little intro panel discussion and then roll into his set. We gotta do something like that. Yeah, he lives in Austin now, though, too. Texas? Yeah, he moved to Austin. Oh, shoot, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in Austin. He does a lot of Canadian touring, though, but he lives in Austin.
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Well, he's gonna have to pay- That's the capital. Yeah. Yes, that's the capital. For stand up. Yeah, for sure. Well, he'll have to pay his own way here, but- Okay. We'll try and get that into his pocket. We'll get him and add another thing, coffee mug. Yes. And a young Tony sweater. A young Tony sweater. All right. Well, we've got lots to get to on this episode.
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the banter episodes. he He loved our guests. And I was accepting all of this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And then I thought, you know, about a day later, you know, ah would you like to be a sponsor? And anyway, they've ah they've taken us up on that. We're very appreciative to have the Canadian Bankers Association as our newest presenting sponsor, Jody. Nice. Let me just say a few words about them. You know, Jody, having spent years in government,
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I know we're at the eight minute mark already. Look at us. But anyway, we really do appreciate the CBA coming on board. It's a real thrill. And and we also appreciate all those sponsors that have been there for long periods of time. It's just ah it's it's a fun part of it to to know that people want to access ah people ah through through our show. And we appreciate it. Yeah. And before we get into our main topics, Tony, I did want to say, too, that we had a lot of positive feedback about having ah Tim O'Connor talking about his book, Unstuck.
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So it was, that was a cool one about the Gulf. and I did get some feedback on that too. Yeah. Tim was, that was great to have him on the show and we really, really appreciate it because he's a busy guy, as you know. yeah he's He's got a great story to tell through that book. It's wonderful. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, ah and when I'm done with my copy, you can borrow it. So. Okay. There you go. Yeah. Good. So I might even buy my own copy.
Canadian Election Insights
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How about that? That's even better. That's even better. um So I wanted to start, there's been a, I want to start with some political things. There's been,
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You know, a lot of interesting things that have happened in the last week and a half, ah including a lot going on federally here and in Canada and of course, south of the border. But one of the things I wanted to mention and get your thoughts on was we had the BC election, which is, you know, at the time of this recording is, I i mean, I don't want to say it's not deadlocked, but essentially it is deadlocked. The last that I saw was that final counts would be this Sunday. We're recording this on Friday, so it would be this Sunday. um We had the New Brunswick election, was which was a complete liberal blowout. That's right. And I was i was having flashbacks of 2015. That's what it felt like for me when ah the Liberals pulled the same trick here federally.
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That's kind of what it felt like. but Yeah, I know. It was a decisive result for ah the new premier, Susan Holt, I think her name is. Yeah. Yeah. So what just start with the BC one. I don't know how much or how, how closely you followed it, but yeah, I did that one. That one's like super tight. Like what do you, what do you anticipate happening here?
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Well, I mean, I think the way that they would like to have it happen is the um the governing NDP with the EBE, the the ah premier are at 46 seats and the conservatives went from Zero seats won in the last election to 45. Now, the issue is the Green Party have two seats, there yeah but there are, I think there was like tens of thousands of ballots not yet counted because they were mail-in ballots. And there's at least a couple of ridings where it could make the difference, including a Surrey riding, which was an NDP hold so far. but So if the Surrey riding flips, then it's 46, 45 for the Conservatives.
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who And again, I want to mention again, they they they were not a real party. like They had 2% of the vote or something like that. and how many So how many seats did they have at dissolution? or Well, at dissolution, they had a couple, because a couple of guys crossed the floor from the from ah BC United or the former BC Liberal Party. But they they had not won seats.
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That's crazy. Prior to that. So they went it from zero to 45. 45. That's amazing. BC politics, man. Yeah, exactly. so so it And don't forget, you have to elect a speaker, right? So if you're presuming you own a speaker from your side of the house, you you lose a seat, right? so ah now the greens are problem Now, here's the thing about the greens. They're they're ideologically aligned to the NDP. But the the NDP kind of screwed them over.
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a couple of elections ago where they had ah they had um an agreement to to govern ah together. And then when the NDP saw an advantage, they jettisoned the Green Party called an election and got a majority. So so the Greens are saying, yeah, you know all of all of your promises don't mean a hill of beans. Fool me once. Exactly. So there's that dynamic as well. So there is ah literally an uncertainty. um you know It could go either way, I guess. I think it's more likely to stay with the NDP.
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But you've got this strong ah conservative party opposition now that
Trudeau's Leadership Challenges
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didn't exist before. So that's that really is the story of the election, for sure. Interesting. And then in New Brunswick.
00:13:27
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Yeah. Everyone I've spoken with, this was a change election. That's literally what it boiled down to. Yeah. And, and um you know, everybody's trying to read the tea leaves, the federal liberals, oh, you know, a liberal party can win and ah blah, blah, blah. And, you know, and let's face it, ah the ah Blaine Higgs and his his gang, the PCs, they They were controversial and they had some issues that didn't go their way and and these kinds of things so so the accumulation of that in government can can kill you. But ah i think for PR Poly of.
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the lesson of that is that the Liberal Party, first of all, had nothing to do with Justin Trudeau. They wanted nothing to do. I think Susan Holt said that she never met him. She's never met the Prime Minister. So she really wanted to be as far away as possible with Justin Trudeau. Secondly, I mean, she focused on bread and butter issues, you know, jobs, the economy, healthcare. care yeah ah you know These are the issues that are the bread and butter issues. So that that actually I would argue, is a lesson that Pierre Poliev has already learned. Correct. And he's not going on any of these extraneous issues. No. He's know's focusing in on, you know, the bread and butter issues that people really care about. So, yeah, but change election, you're right, to Jody, in New Brunswick. And we've got the Saskatchewan election that is ongoing right now. That's right, yeah. And that one is is a nail biter for ah Scott Moe the of the Sask party. So, you know, the NDP is coming on coming in hot on that one.
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Um, so yeah, lots, lots going on on the provincial scene right now. And of course, federally, do you want to mention the big showdown at the okay corral last week with ah Trudeau and his caucus? But, uh, it really didn't amount to very much, but, uh, everybody was breathless about it for a few days anyway.
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It was funny because I saw a meme today or a clip. what i don't I can't remember what movie it's from, but with Leonardo DiCaprio, is it wall not Wall Street, but what's the one where it's all about Wall Street, though? It's called Wall Street, I think. Isn't it called Wall Street? was oh i no no they yeah the yeah yeah that's right No, that's Gordon Gekko. What was this one with Leonardo DiCaprio? Wolf of Wall Street. Wolf of Wall Street. that's yeah yeah um Do you remember that clip where he's like in front of the group of everybody and and it's like as it's been used in many means and all of a sudden there whatever and he just goes real quiet is like.
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I'm not effing leaving. No, I didn't see that. I've never seen that part. You've never seen the movie? No, I've never seen the movie. You've never seen that clip? I got to find this now. Hold on. I feel like I might've sent it to you today, but maybe I didn't. But that's alluding to Justin Trudeau. Yeah, not leaving or whatever. Yeah. He doesn't want to leave. It's pretty clear. No, it's- He does not want to leave.
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Very, very, very clear. So anyway, I'm going to try and find that that clip because it's pretty funny or whatever. But what do you so what? Yeah, he's not going anywhere. right No, no, he's not going anywhere. And it was a kind of, you know, there what there wasn't.
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This is hard to do, especially
US Politics: Trump vs. Harris
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when it's not i a ah vote ah private vote. right yeah They had to stand up and say your piece, whereas if they had adopted the rules, the conservatives did, you could have ah you could have a vote.
00:16:56
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you know we're you're you're quietly marking your ballot, whether you want the leader to stay or go. That's how they got rid of Aaron O'Toole. But in the liberal context, they they rejected those rules for their caucus. And so yeah actually you actually have to stand up and and then basically torpedo yourself with the the prime minister in order to take a stand. So they they only had, what, a couple of dozen that were willing to do that. And so they didn't have critical mass. I thought it was kind of amusing how ah couple I don't know if they named them or not, but they did some interviews that I saw in some articles where a couple of the liberal caucus members were saying they wish they wish they had those mechanisms. Yeah. Well, they have the option to, every caucus, the first caucus meeting after an election, they have the option to opt in to the Michael Chong rules. They're the rules that Michael Chong devised and and to give caucus some say and not be bullied by the leader so much. And the conservative caucus has always adopted those rules and the the Liberals and NDP have never adopted those rules, which is too bad for them.
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And the other interesting part about this whole discussion is it it just brought me back to the whole Aaron O'Toole thing. And to a certain extent, the Andrew Scheer, but you know, and Aaron's been getting a lot of airtime too, because people have been reaching out and they've been talking to him about this situation, but it just, it It seemed like so long ago, but man, when you think back to when when Aaron was removed, that happened so fast. So fast. smoke And he And he thought he was in the clear. I know. But you see what what people say to your face yeah and what they do and the privacy of the of the balloting station could be two different things. And so, yeah, because I remember even that day,
00:18:46
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There was some that were uncertain that it was actually going to happen like that. And then, of course, like you said, obviously, people were not being forthright. You know exactly like what they say out there versus what happens when they're making the vote. But I was going to say to you, what do you think would happen? Let's say the Liberals did have this in place, that mechanism, or they accepted it, adopted it. Do you feel that given a private vote that Trudeau would lose. 100%. Yeah. Yeah. He'd be gone. Yeah. In an instant. He knows it too. He knows it too. Yeah. But I mean, he's got a certain sense of bravado around him these days. but
00:19:21
Speaker
It's mile wide an inch deep. um so and And it's only going to get worse for him, I think. ah so um that's But they they they don't have the mechanism to deal with it. And the other point, Jodi, is ah let's assume they have a leadership race, that some something happens, he he decides to retire or what have you. They don't really have ah leadership contestant rules that work.
00:19:44
Speaker
in the 21st century because you don't even have to be a member of the party to vote for the leader of the Liberal Party. Yeah, I know. So so anybody like you, me, anybody, ah you know, half of Hamas, whatever, can can sign up and vote for a leader, yeah which is a stupid, stupid, stupid system. I'm sorry, it's ah you should you should at least have a mechanism so people have to pay their 15 bucks or whatever to join as um as a member of the party, I believe.
00:20:15
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Yeah, and it's, uh, no, you're so right. And it's interesting though to see the liberals and make, make some policy changes of the immigration one this week was very, I thought that was very interesting, yes reducing the immigration, including temporary, um, student visas and and all those types of things, which.
00:20:33
Speaker
Again, i think is I think it's a long time coming. um And as you know Trudeau says it the only way he can, it's like, ah you know we have to we didn't we didn't get it quite right. Quite right. yeah you know it' like you know Quite right. It was like off the Richter scale wrong. Yeah. so And you know even their own supporters said it was too much. Yeah. it's it's you they they They went through that phase of trying to be all things to all people. and And as we can see, that does not work. So it'll be, uh, they're trying to, they're trying to write the ship right now. Jody will see whether it's enough. I don't think it will be, but, uh, you know, there could be months and months to go before an election. So, yeah, I know. I don't, I don't, I thought it was going to happen sooner, but just looking at it, it doesn't look like it. So it doesn't look like it. Yeah. and exactly And by the way, most people, most Canadians don't know that there's, there's absolute gridlock in the house of commons right now. Nothing's getting done.
00:21:28
Speaker
Really? Eh? Yeah, nothing. No bills are being passed. No debates on bills are taking place because the conservatives smell a rat. Oh, because of the motions
Playoff Baseball Excitement
00:21:40
Speaker
you mean, the non-confidence stuff. No, no, not that. They're convinced that there's a lot of liberal corruption with these green contracts that the government let.
00:21:52
Speaker
and they've been ah they passed a motion in the House of Commons which passed the House of Commons demanding more documentation from the Liberal government on these these green contracts and the Liberals are refusing to interesting deliver those so that the House is is completely shut down. but it's It's still operating, still question period and so on, but there no no bills are being passed or debated right now. It's all on a motion. Gridlock on Parliament Hill.
00:22:22
Speaker
But you know what, you know who has the answer for gridlock? Doug Ford. Doug Ford. Because you know what causes gridlock? Bicycles. like ah yeah know He's getting a lot of very positive feedback on that. And he's actually going to dismantle some of the crazy bike lanes in Toronto. And I applaud him for that.
00:22:40
Speaker
And our our friend, a former guest of this program, Prabh Sarkarya, who's the transportation minister, is in charge of that. And though there's also a new announcement by Doug Ford ah cutting out all the international students from the medical schools. Did you see that one? Yes, I did see that one. Yeah. So getting more Ontarians and Canadians into into our medical school system so that they can practice medicine here. I think that's a very positive thing that he's done.
00:23:07
Speaker
ah So yeah, he's he's he's got he's hitting the nail on the head on a lot of these issues right now, don't you think? Yeah, no, it's ah it's interesting. i do I do think it's kind of funny because only because he's
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our he's our local MPP, but it was Tyler Alsop who was recently elected in the by-election. And he's getting a little bit of grief here locally because of the bike lane announcements, which I know is obviously geared towards like Toronto urban areas, not so much Belleville, although you know, in theory, if they put through that motion or the policy, then and any area could adopt it. But right Tyler owned a bike shop. oh tyler tyler like Tyler was a huge advocate for bicycling in the community. so And now he has to go out. And yeah, so he's getting some heat from
00:23:55
Speaker
some city counselors currently about how he squares up, on calling him nasty bike lanes when he owned a bike shop and was a huge advocate for cycling. That's hilarious. Well, welcome. Welcome to politics. Welcome to the big leagues.
00:24:11
Speaker
no slow yeah Hey, no so the border. Sorry, go ahead. yeah yeah No, no, I was going to say, let's go. Let's go around note to the border. Yes. And we try. You and I follow this in different ways, but yeah for to me, and we were taught chatting about this before we started the show, to me, it appears that Donald has come up in polls as of late and is actually starting to overtake Kamala and opinion polls. Now, when I say that, I'm not saying like,
00:24:39
Speaker
five six seven points ahead it's like no no one point half a point here what you know what i mean very incremental but i would definitely say the momentum is on trump's side. It's gonna be very interesting and there's a couple across currents possibly at work here one is in these polls it's it's all they're all within the margin of error particularly in the swing the seven swing states like michigan pennsylvania.
00:25:03
Speaker
Arizona, Nevada, et cetera. ah Georgia, North Carolina, I'm missing one. Wisconsin, there, I named all seven swing states. ah So so you know very within the margin of error and within all of those states, but a couple of cross currents, obviously there could be some women who are concerned about abortion rights, who are quietly going to vote Kamala without telling their husbands they're voting Kamala. There could be some of that. And there's traditionally some people that don't tell their friends and neighbors they're voting Trump. Correct. So I don't do they cancel each other out or is one more prominent than another? They are starting to analyze the voters. ah There are millions of voters have already voted, Jodi, as you know.
00:25:50
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, and the advanced voting that they have going on there, which didn't happen in 2020 because at the, you, you probably forgotten as many have, but Trump at the time said that there was something sinister about, uh, voting early. And so that's right. A lot of his supporters didn't do that, which was, I think a big mistake by Trump at four years ago. Talk about this last time, because now he's saying vote, vote early, vote, vote vote early, vote early, vote often. So as some of that analysis indicates that his vote is turning out and that to some of versus 2020, multiples of Republican voters have already voted in certain precincts that hadn't voted before. So yeah, i I think having said all that, I think it's obvious that a lot of the momentum that Kamala Harris had at the beginning right after the Democratic National Convention has dissipated. Yes. ah Weird stuff like the
00:26:45
Speaker
The Washington Post, which is a big liberal newspaper in Washington, has declined to endorse a candidate, which is the first time. Oh, when was the last time? First time? That's a wrap.
00:26:56
Speaker
Well, it's the first time since the sixties anyway. Wow. Maybe the fifties, maybe they, John F. Kennedy in 1960 and, but they didn't do it before that. So things like that LA times is not endorsing anyone either. So, I mean, not that newspapers count for anymore, but it's just an indicator that all is not right in the democratic camp. And then you and I were talking about this beforehand.
00:27:19
Speaker
the the The tone of the Democrats has markedly changed from joy, happiness, you know positivity to the other guys are fascists, you know which is never a good sign that everything is going okay in your campaign. Well, I also know that and another thing, which historically is a left leaning podcast, true has also declined to endorse anyone. We're not endorsing anyone. We want to make that clear. We're just reporting the facts, man.
00:27:48
Speaker
Yeah. We're not endorsing anyone, but me, Jody, I can't speak for Tony. I'm i'm predicting Donald Trump to win. You're predicting a MAGA victory. be there I think I called that like a long time ago. Months ago. Months ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Even maybe close to a year now. And I've kind of tri trimmed my sails. Sometimes I agree with you and sometimes I wasn't. Depending what show you're on. Yeah, exactly. Gotcha. But no, it's a lot going on. Now, are you following the World Series at all?
00:28:17
Speaker
Yeah. I love, you know what I will say? It's funny to bring that up because there's nothing like playoff baseball. I love football. Don't really like basketball until now. And even then I'm not really into it because it's like there's, don't get me wrong, crazy athletes, but it's just, it's just back, forth, back, up and down. Love playoff hockey, but football and playoff baseball. Can't touch it. Like October baseball can't touch it. Yeah. Yeah. So Otani judge, like it's, this is like, are you a Yankees guy then? No, I hate the Yankees. Seriously? Yeah. I'm not a fan. Yankees fan. Okay. Okay. no learn You're in the same division as the J's. I'm diehard J's fighter guy. So it's, uh, you know, whatever, but my second team is the Dodgers. Oh, is it? Okay. yeah I don't have a second team. yeah and I love Otani. I think he is literally the.
00:29:10
Speaker
greatest of all time. so Wow. Okay. Well, it's very exciting. Uh, as we're recording this game, one is taking place. So, uh, we'll see what, uh, the, the early, the early results are, but, uh, yeah, it's going to be an exciting series. So I mean, I like that. predictions in I think the Dodgers, the Dodgers have only won three out of 11. They've, they've been in the world series, the Dodgers and the Yankees 11 times so far.
00:29:39
Speaker
Yeah, the last time was in the 40s, I think. No, I think in the 80s or 80s. No, no, no, no. Come on, seriously? Last, yeah, no. Because they've they've had 11 World Series at the Yankees and the Dodgers. Last time Yankees were in the World, the Yankees and Dodgers World Series was Hold on. When was the last Dodgers? Oh, no, you're right. 1981. My bad. now There we go. I thought it was it was OK. And they were the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 40s, too. Don't forget that. So yeah, they weren't in los Brooklyn, but they moved to Los Angeles in 58. That's right.
00:30:12
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Yeah. So, so yeah. And so this is the 12th one, but I think the Dodgers have only won three of those matchups. Yeah. I'm taking, I'm taking Dodgers in this one. Yeah. It's changed too. I'm not a huge fan of the way these games break down from a pitching perspective because it's now it's like, let a guy go three innings, get your bullpen in there. I don't like that. I want to see guys go six, seven, eight innings, but I, they don't do that anymore. They don't do that anymore. No. So it's kind of, it's all the analytics, bud. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Uh, and, uh, yeah. And, uh, the hockey season's underway. Uh, my team is not doing so great, but, uh, we don't, we're still happy to see them play. So I have, yeah, I have two things for this season. I'm following cause I'm a big Ovechkin fan. So I want to see great Gretzky's record this year. You want to see him. You're the only guy in Canada who wants to see him. I just, buddy, that's going to be history.
00:31:13
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To be able to say I was, I saw Gretzky's record. I, the goal, I think that's amazing. I love that. Okay. and He's like, he's on it. What? 20 goals away or something like that? Uh, 30, no, 39, 39 to tie, I think 40 to beat it. So, so you're predicting he's going to do it this season, like I think so. He's definitely going to do, I don't know if it takes him two more seasons or whatever. yeah And then, uh, my son is a huge Rangers fan. who So I don't really have a team in hockey other than following Ovechkin. So I think we're going to follow, I'm going to,
00:31:41
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I'm going to see what happens with the Rangers. They got a great team. Yeah, they do. Yeah. They beat the, they beat the Habs yeah in the season. Great goal. Tending was just Durkin and, uh, some great players. I watched part of the game and they looked impressive for sure. yeah So that's, uh, that's my plan for the hockey season, but we, uh, we should wrap it up. Yes. Another great episode. Always a pleasure, Tony. We got some guests coming up, including I think Brian Lilly yeah ah from the sun will be a guest in the next couple of weeks. And we got some other exciting names as well.
00:32:09
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00:32:41
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Tony, always a pleasure. We'll do this again in seven days. You got it.