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Tune in to this week's episode of "And Another Thing" with hosts Jodie Jenkins and Tony Clement as they delve into the hot topics of the week. Join them for a lively discussion on the latest Trump-Biden debate, the rise of Pierre Poilievre, and the phenomenon of "Endless Summer", Canada's biggest long drive golf championship. It's an episode packed with insights, analysis, and plenty of laughs!
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Podcast Introduction
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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. And as
Spotlight on Municipal Solutions
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always, this show is brought to you by, well, I should say it's it's brought to you by a lot of people, but our main presenting sponsor, is the team, the incomparable team at Municipal Solutions. Of course, John Motten and the crew doing amazing work there.
John Motten's Achievements in Jiu-Jitsu
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And John, recently, you probably know more about this than I do, but I did recently see that he's like a jiu-jitsu champion um in in his age category. I know he was recently awarded with some medals there. Do you know much much more about that than I do? Well, it was it was in Vegas.
00:00:51
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And they had an international competition and he won his age category. So he's, he got a whole chest full of medals. So good for, good for John Mutton. Well, and he broke, he broke the Cardinal rule too, because apparently what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. Well, he posted it on social media. So I guess that was pretty quick that I left Vegas. But yeah, congratulations to John and his accomplishments. Very cool to see him. Very cool. Yeah. Good for him. We should give it a lot of training we should get him on the show. He's anxious to come on, so he's one of our two sponsors that would like to be on the show and we'll we'll get that set up as soon as we can.
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Contacting KWM Consulting
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Tony Clement's Role at Hunter's Bay Radio
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Speaker
So we'll get that set up. And then finally, our friends at the terrestrial radio, Hunter's Bay radio, Hunter's Bay radio.com. Every Saturday, they've got a whole suite of podcasts, including ours. And you're welcome to
00:03:06
Speaker
Listen to it again or even get introduced to some new podcasts as well. So those are our sponsors Jodi And you must be like the president of Hunters Bay Radio by now or? No, I'm the vice president. Vice president. I didn't know if you'd like rolled into that presidential role yet. No, no. ah Jeff Carter is the long serving and hardworking founder of the radio station. He he literally did. I mean, the the call letter C-K-A-R had been around for decades, but and They had fallen into disuse and he resurrected a radio station. It was at first an internet station and now at 88.7 it's a terrestrial radio. So are you slowly like building a team behind the scenes to take a run at his position? or
00:03:51
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I do not want to be the head of that radio. Now let Jeff work the 80 hour weeks. Thank you very much.
Jody's Summer Adventures
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So earlier in the week I was talking to you and you said you were golfing ah with an individual who brought up the fact that I hadn't been on the podcast in like two months and was saying, we got to get Jodi back on there and yeah we miss having Jodi. And my first reaction was why are you golfing with my dad? I know it was not your dad. But not but yeah, it's been a while since I've been on with you busy. I've been busy. Well, I'm not and I'm not going to lie. i'm I'm freaking tired right now. And yeah three kids were in the, you know, the beginning of of summer vacation or summer break, I should say. And it's ah it's a lot going on today. Most of my day today was spent.
00:04:43
Speaker
assembling a massive above ground pool in our backyard that will give our family some sort of normalcy or relief in terms of not only the heat, but just something for the kids to do so. And did you successfully accomplish that task, sir? It is up. um We got to figure out the pump because it's kind of it's quite a big one. Like it's not just like a small little above ground. It's like it was pretty intensive to get it up. And it's a lot bigger than I thought. And now we got to fill it, of course. And we got to get them yeah the pump going and stuff. and
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Speaker
and all that. But yeah, it's been it's been busy, and not going to lie. and And yeah, I just wanted to touch on that. You know, ke I feel bad because Kelly Mitchell, I don't even think I got to meet him. Did I met Sean? Sean Mahoney, right? Yeah, I met Sean. I think I met. Did I know I didn't who I didn't meet John Snowball and definitely didn't meet John. He was part of my foursome as well, John. Yeah. and But I felt bad. I just didn't get to you were just running around like a headless chicken. that I let let me. Let's get this on the record here at and
Endless Summer Charity Golf Tournament
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another thing podcast. I want to congratulate you and your team, your wife and all the other volunteers who put on such a successful endless summer, um you know, charity golf tournament for the shelter and then attached to that, which is like all the moving pieces of getting this international long drive competition going both male and female categories.
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Speaker
ah was unbelievable. it was it was the kellyley was still I saw Kelly a couple weeks later. He was still talking about how amazing that was and how he wants to come back next year. so in debt Definitely, this is on the summer circuit, not just for the long drivers, but I think for anybody who does the charity golf tournament circuit, this this one is one that you never want to miss. and Congratulations to you. I know how hard you worked on this. and it From the outside observer that I was, everything worked very, very well. There was no real glitches. Everybody had a great time. You raised money for the shelter. ah You gave a
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a platform for these amazing athletes that can do the long drive and 400 yards for men and 350 yards for women or whatever it was. ah just Just incredible. So congratulations. Well, I appreciate that. And yeah, it was a wonderful event. It was great having you and and your crew there. And of course, you're right. We had a lot of great feedback and um obviously some areas where we'll get better moving forward. But that's you know that's kind of comes with the territory. You always find something that, oh, I want to change that. or You know, we can, we can do something different there and the feedback from having people outside of the event is great as well. Like even Sean in your group, I had a great chat with him and he had some excellent feedback and it was nice to hear because like, you know, the first six, this is our eighth year, the first six years, seven years we've had, you know, uh, most of the core players are returning year after year, which is great.
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And this year we had like a big influx of um individuals that have never been there. um Your team is an example. I mean, you've been there before, but like your foursome, three of them
Golf Tournament Highlights
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had never been there. And it was ah it was definitely something that ah we welcomed their feedback. And I want to hear how was what it was like. You guys had a very interesting long driver with a kind of a cool background, an Australian kid, right? Yeah, Matt matt Stubbs matt stubbs stubbs and and now he's living in Nashville, ah kind of say ah but he is from Australia. And yeah, he sort of gave us his life story about, you know, starting out on the circuit and ah and finding it to be what he wants to do with his life currently anyway. And he
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He goes around, you know to i mean he was in Dubai recently and ah goodness knows where where else they have these tournaments all over the world. and ah Great guy. and ah what i What I found interesting, Jodi, having him as part of our crew, and he was there for all 18 holes. and part and The way you set it up. some of the holes like four or five of them were qualifying holes for, uh, to, in order to get into the finals for the long drive that evening. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, he took that part very seriously, but in the meantime, he was driving with us and like, I mean, you know, driving the ball and, uh, he would do approach shots and putts and and he was a very good golfer. It wasn't just the long drive.
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You know, and i was I wondered whether these long drivers are so specialized that they can't actually function doing 18 holes of golf. But yes, they can. Believe me. And he was a great addition to our team. We had a lot of fun with him. It's great to talk to. And that that's now two years in a row where I had a long driver as part of my foursome. And they're just great guys, like really interesting to talk to. It's cool when they make it into the the finals or the qualifying that night. Like I know Matt, Matt was in the qualifying or he sorry, he made it through the qualifying and got to compete.
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on Saturday night. So you guys had a little bit of a vested interest in in watching him and and seeing how he did and how was it was. I'm assuming obviously he had some big balls. And do you remember though like where where the guys like holy smokes like did he hit him that you were like wow. Yeah, I know he blasted one 350 yards. yeah And ah Kelly looked at me going, holy crap. And that's accurate as well. they have to be It's not like you can slice it off the woods. It's got to be in the fairway to count, folks. So ah just incredible. And ah congratulations on having a ladies long drive as well this year. That must have been interesting.
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Uh, I saw some 300 yard drives from the ladies too. So that's great. Yeah, it was, it was, I think the ladies actually stole the show, to be honest, like there was, they put on one heck of a show on Saturday night. And, uh, of course we had qualifying on Friday. That was kind of cool for people that, uh, wanted to stick around or come in early and watch that, which I know you were able to check out some of that as well. So overall it was great. Uh, we're excited for 2025.
Planning the Endless Summer Event
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We're going to have some. You know, hopefully some big news coming up on that. I got some great meetings to to work on. And yeah, lots of lots of great partnerships. I've already spent like a couple of thousand hours this this year. on It's to be honest.
00:11:24
Speaker
It's like, yes. And, and literally it literally is almost a full-time job. I'm not even joking because you see, you see it like it's hard to explain over the airwaves or whatever, but to see it and experience it and, and you have seen it like you've seen it last three years. or Right. I've seen it grow. Yeah. So year over year, just like holy smokes. Like as an example, this year on number one. where all the action kind of takes place in terms of the hitting for the long drivers. you know we've got We went from you know three years ago, we had no bleachers. Last year, we had a set of bleachers. This year, we had two sets of bleachers, a DJ stage, tents for World Long Drive, and a VIP hospitality area. right So it literally was, when you came up on that hole, you would have had that experience. You walk into number one, year it's like you're kind of like in an amphitheater at the PGA Tour or something about to hit off.
00:12:18
Speaker
Yeah, and there's music all the time and and i did ah I did make it to the VIP tent. I was invited to into that and ah lots of good food and you know people who were enjoying themselves as well. And even I sat in the bleachers and that was, ah you know, the crowd was really into it, really into it. Yeah. So so they were cheering on people and, you know, getting, getting and I think the goals of those long drive golfers, they get like, they feed off the crowd, just like any performer, any performer or athlete or musician does. yes And when they were hooting and hollering, the crowd was, it it helped them, you know, get psyched up to do a long drive. So that was interesting to see as well.
00:12:58
Speaker
Yeah. So anyway, overall excellent time. We're looking forward to endless summer 2025.
Travel Stories and Calgary's Water Issue
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Speaker
And, um, if you are hearing this for the first time and you're interested in being a part of the event, uh, definitely, uh, we'll connect and you can find out, you can, you go to endless summer golf.ca and there's information about this year's event, but obviously we'll update that with next year's info and kind of go from there and. It's ah the planning starts now, Tony. So the plan the planning starts now. I can tell. I can tell. But then you took ah a little bit of a break off after that. And I don't begrudge you that you got a little bit of time with with your family, your kids and your wife. And yeah that worked out well. Yeah. Got away for 15 days. And, you know, you went to what, Paris in that time frame or? Well, I went to Paris for three days. OK. Well, but then you didn't you go somewhere else before that or?
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Um, before that, I was in Mongolia in April. Okay. this That was a lot. I feel like you've traveled more. but but Okay. Maybe not though. Yeah. What are you off to the stampede? And then, uh, yeah, I'll be off to the stampede that starts this week and, uh, goes for a full 10 or 11 days, I think. Um, and, uh, so they've got the drinking water in Calgary again. So I was very happy to hear that you i know, that story, don't you? no bit Oh no, they they had a huge water main break ah ah a a month ago, Jodi. And it took them 26 days to get that fixed. So people in Calgary were
00:14:34
Speaker
not having showers and they didn't have drinking water available, like tap water, I should say. ah And it was quite an issue. And I think the mayor, the mayor of Calgary, her her ratings are like single digits after this debacle. That Gondak or whatever her name is. Yeah. Yeah. So she's not very popular right now, but they, as I kind of predicted, I figured that they'd go all hands on deck and make sure that the water main was fixed enough anyway yeah for the couple of million people that are going to be in Calgary for the stampede, right?
00:15:10
Speaker
So I think things are back to normal, but it does show the fragility and frailty of Canada's infrastructure. yeah You don't expect like a main city like Calgary to have a water main problem. no that no You can't have tap water or you can't have a shower and you can't water your plants and do all the things that city folk like to do. so Speaking of Alberta, I saw that Uh, then the latest, um, leader of the and NDP up there, Nahid Nenshi. then she Yeah. He was flexing on social media the other day. Cause I guess he was getting some, uh, getting some barbs and insults thrown his way by the UCP and.
00:15:52
Speaker
Now he was basically saying, bring it on. You know, I'm not scared, blah, blah, blah, but he's a bit of a showman. I've known him since he was first elected Calgary mayor way back when I guess over 10 years ago. Yeah, he's a showman. And so the NDP, and he was not really, he was a progressive leftist, but he wasn't really aligned with the NDP okay when he was mayor. So this, and I know that the federal liberals courted him assiduously to try to get him to run federally. for the liberals, but he didn't ah didn't take that bait. So, um yeah, now he's provincial and NDP leader and, ah you know, let the games begin. I'm sure Danielle Smith, whom I'm sure I will see at the stampede somewhere along the line, ah will be up to the challenge. But I mean, one of the things that commentators are saying ah ah about Alberta is that it actually is a competitive political system now that you you had four decades where
00:16:48
Speaker
the Progressive Conservative Party rolled the roost and no one came close to defeating them. And now you've got you know two strong parties. You've got the UCP, the United Conservative Party, and you've got the the NDP. So you know in ah in a sense, that's good. I mean, you want to have a legitimate political system where you know that there's a real contest. um So I guess we'll see what Mr. Nenshi can do. interesting times, and obviously we're going to get into some of the other bigger political stories
Kevin Wong and Alberta Politics
00:17:23
Speaker
in the world right now. But one other one I did want to touch on, and just because we had kind of gone, well, sorry, I had kind of gone back and forth with him was the ousted liberal MP of days gone by, Kevin Wong, or Vong, I don't know how to say his last name, and who he recently announced that he's going to seek the nomination to run for the Conservatives. Isn't that right?
00:17:45
Speaker
Well, he he the last I heard was I didn't hear that. I heard. I thought that's what he was doing. I thought he said he was wanted he wanted to run as a conservative. So he put that out there on in in the public and the conservatives. said No, that's what I had thought that he was going to try and seek the nomination. I guess he could try. Yeah. Nothing stopping him. But it's not as if he's going to be blessed to run. No, no, no, I wouldn't. Yeah. see yeah No, he he he intends to seek a party nomination in a greater Toronto area riding.
00:18:20
Speaker
I see. OK. That's ah he did. He did express that he was interested in being a part of the caucus or sorry, of being a part of the ah the team there. But the team. Yeah. Yeah. So is is he still interested in coming on the program, Jody? have't I don't know. I should reach out to him again. Yeah. We should try try that one again. See what see what they want to do. Yeah. there's ah And of course, i I helped out a little bit. I'm i'm not going to. say that I was there every day or anything, but I did i did get into St. Paul's and Toronto St. Paul's riding for the by-election and ah spent spent an afternoon with Don Stewart, who was the
00:18:53
Speaker
It was now the newly elected MP for the conservative party in Toronto, St. Paul's. So, uh, that was, well, you're too, you're much too humble. I mean, obviously Tony won't say it, but he single-handedly delivered that writing for the conservative. like yeah Oh man. He, he worked hard. I'm telling you, he would have had to, because i yeah there's no question he would have had to. And and that's one of those examples of like. he's going to, yeah he's probably so tired and just like yeah he would have been wiped after that. Yeah. No, he, he, he did work hard and, um, you know, he he had a great team and, uh, you know, a lot of MPs, uh, conservative MPs helped him too. And, but he had a lot of people in Toronto that helped him. And, um, you know, we hadn't the, I should say the conservatives hadn't won that seat. The last time they actually won the seat was in 1988 with Mulroney, right at the helm.
00:19:48
Speaker
Yeah, and there was a lady by the name of Barbara McDougall, who was Foreign Affairs Minister for a while under the Moroni government. Interesting. And i know I know her well, and she's still she's still with us. um But the the the point is, ah and then 1993, of course, the conservatives lost everywhere except for two ridings. And ah so 1993, it was carried by a liberal, Barry Campbell, who held it until 1997. And that's when Carolyn Bennett won for the Liberals and she held it until she got appointed the ambassador to Denmark. So she vacated her seat and is now in Copenhagen. And that's what precipitated the by-election.
00:20:35
Speaker
Man, that's, uh, it's interesting. And of course that triggered all types of conversations about Trudeau and stepping down. Will he stay? Will he go? And of course that leads into Joe Biden, but yeah it looks like neither of them are going to go. No, looks like Biden's definitely staying in the the closest thing I've heard or the most um kind of speculation on Trudeau is that, you know, because I was listening to, I think CFRB the other day and they were talking about this and the one guy mentioned, you know, he like, he didn't really, he didn't really say he wasn't going to run. He answered it in a way that kind of gave him an out, but they were just kind of saying, maybe he's just going to do the barbecue circuit.
00:21:17
Speaker
for the summer and then step down if that was, if that was what he was thinking. But I don't think he's going anywhere.
Speculations on Trudeau and Biden
00:21:25
Speaker
And I don't i don't think he wants to go. Yeah. But I guess at some point, maybe the pressure's too much. But I mean, what like I don't know. And even with Biden, like Biden ain't going nowhere. No, no, no. And to if when you're a leader in that position, whether it's President Biden or Prime Minister Trudeau, you know, somebody comes up to you and says, look, are you considering leaving? The answer of both of them will be, well, if I leave, who's as good as or better than me, they can replace me. Yeah.
00:21:58
Speaker
And I think that both of them have a decent argument to make that you know there isn't anyone who automatically is so head and shoulders above everybody else no that that it it makes sense to replace the current leadership with a new leader. like you know You can go through the list in in the Liberal Party of Canada, Kristia Freeland. I guess Mark Carney is the name that everybody likes to bat bad around. Mark Carney's never run for anything in his life. yeah you know And ah and you know other cabinet members in the Trudeau cabinet, Melanesia Lee and
00:22:39
Speaker
uh, champagne and all these guys and gals. Well, you know, ah either nobody knows who they are or outside of, you know, or they've got some detractors as well as some promoters, you know, so, uh, so Trudeau would say, well, okay, you're going to replace me with what, what exactly is better than what I offer. You know, I've, Won three elections in a row and ah you know, I've beat every conservative leader. They've thrown at me So, you know be careful what you wish for is probably true what Trudeau is saying and his surrogates are saying inside his party. So yeah i really truth over facts and That's right, thank you, Donald
00:23:18
Speaker
so that was joe that was joe Oh, that was Joe? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was Donald. Yeah, that's right. that was ah Did you watch the presidential debate, Jody? Yeah, yeah. Reminded me of this member of this exchange. with I'm not going to answer the question answer that because the question is radical left. Shut up, man. And that was the that was from four years ago. I know. I know. That was those were better days. Those were better days for Mr. Biden. Yeah, I got it. I got to be honest, though. So we watched it earlier um you know last week or whatever it was. And I actually was like probably like most people, if if if everything's to be believed that you read and the feedback was like I was just watching it. My wife and I and we were like, is this real right now? Yeah. like First, like Joe Biden's response is his look. I was like, is this.
00:24:08
Speaker
Is this seriously happening? And then they're, they're, you know, them going back and forth. And, but you know what? Honestly, I was thinking this week, I'm like, we're almost at a point now where it's like, it's almost like elder abuse or elder shaming and like, seriously, like putting them out there. And I, I feel bad now about making fun of the guy. or No, I know you know. It's, it's, it's a bizarre, bizarre situation. Yeah, yeah. and And unless he decides to go, there' is it's it's impossible. I'm going to say it that way. It's impossible to actually dislodge him. Yeah, I know. I was reading all about that. It is literally pretty impossible. Did you read the the point, and I just learned this last week, that the Democrats are having a roll call vote ah to nominate their nominee a week before the actual convention?
00:25:00
Speaker
Yes. I had heard about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't there talk about, wasn't there? to Remember, we talked about it was something about by the time the convention happened, he, the nom, like there was something going on about his nomination or something, right? Yeah. Yeah. Like has something to do with Ohio or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have to do it a week before. So there there cannot be a convention floor fight that's right at the Democratic National Convention to nominate somebody else. It's so it's already done and dusted by then. Yeah,
US Political Scene and Trump's Prospects
00:25:28
Speaker
yeah. So it's a it's a very bizarre situation. I mean, I don't think I don't see anything that that would hinder Trump from becoming president. honest I just I don't see. But of course, I called that. We can go back on the tape. We can go back to the tape. And I said he was going to be the president. and So and you know, someone made a good point. and This is exactly what I was thinking.
00:25:54
Speaker
when I was watching the debate and take if if you're just an average person that doesn't follow everything in politics, knows who Trump is, but doesn't really know all the ins and outs and the behind the scenes stuff, which I would say a large majority of people would fall into that category. If you were watching that debate, you would literally go um Donald Trump seems like he knows what he's talking about, right? yeah like well It's crazy. And people have said this, Jody, that the the the way CNN ran the debate actually helped Trump. 100%. Muting those mics, muting those mics just ruined Joe even more. I thought, i know I was like, wow, they're really just giving this to Donald on a platter.
00:26:37
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. There's a great site for our listeners. It's called 2702win.com. Do you know about this one, Joe? No, no. No, because you you know that the US s presidency is decided not by popular vote, but by each state's ballot, right? Yes. The electoral college. And so this looks at a rolling average of polling state by state. And it's constantly refreshed as new polls are done. So this is what I this is what I I look at. And since the first of all, the national polling, which again doesn't mean much, but Trump is ahead by three point six percent over Biden as of July the third. Yeah. ah Nationally, which is the first time that's happened. So it's forty six to forty two. Then the next one they have is Nevada.
00:27:27
Speaker
Uh, which, uh, is 47 to 42. So Trump is up by five. New Hampshire is next, which is a blue state. yeah That's our Biden state. Trump is ahead by 2% in New Hampshire. oh yikes's He's ahead by two and a half percent in Pennsylvania. He's ahead by 1% in Michigan. He's even beating Joe in New Jersey. ah which is a blue state. yeah you know Texas, he's ahead by six. Georgia, Trump is ahead by 4.8%. It goes on and on, right?
00:28:02
Speaker
yeah you know Arizona, he's ahead by almost 5%. Anyway, you get you get my drift. yeah Something has to change radically for Joe Biden to get back in the game. That's all I can say. Yeah. And this and this it is the whole thing about, yeah, well, we've talked about it ad nauseam before, but it's literally, I still, I still believe that the sentiment of I'm not going to tell people I'm voting for Trump, but I support a lot of the policies and, you know, maybe again, you might have some issues with his character and that's whatever that is what it is. But at the end of the day,
00:28:37
Speaker
clearly, even based on the numbers you were just sharing, people are going to vote for him and they certainly aren't telling, you know, a lot of people for free, you know, because it's just, I mean, face it. You mentioned it and all of a sudden you're just like, tired and feathered, really. so Right. Yeah. you're yeah who Who needs political arguments 24 seven, right? Yeah. so and And I get that. And that that's the thing about Trudeau too, because, you know, he's he's reached a point where it is it is not only what people believe about Justin Trudeau, that his time has come. But it's also now fashionable to say it, which wasn't wasn't. Oh, yeah. No, no. There's like, you know, I don't know anyone that that literally is on side with him. I know hardcore liberals that are absolutely done. Yeah. So maybe yeah maybe Mark Gerritsen should give the leadership a go. There we go. It's Mark's. It's Mark's time. Yes. it' He should come on the program.
00:29:36
Speaker
Yeah, and if they lose Kingston, that area, oh yeah boy, wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something yeah, what is that is actually speaking of like 270 to win? What is the one isn't it like one? What is it one? No 338 338.com Yeah Okay, I want to check the same same same deal. It goes through riding by riding There's 338 ridings in the new parliament. There'll be 343 by the way Okay, but but but I guess they're using the old the old parliament boundaries right now, but uh
00:30:11
Speaker
Yeah, I mean that those projections have ah Pierre Polly ever, you know, anywhere from one hundred and ninety nine to two hundred and nine seats out of three hundred and thirty eight. Yeah, this one's got latest update June 30th. This one's got the conservatives at forty two percent liberals at twenty four percent. Yeah. So and yeah, actually it's got on the high end. Sorry, on the median, it's two hundred and eighteen seats on the high end. Two hundred and thirty seven seats. Yeah, that would be
UK Labour Party's Victory
00:30:39
Speaker
crushing. Could you imagine? But, I mean, it's it's happening at the UK election, which has happened when this podcast is- That went labor, right? which Yeah, it's labor. ah Big, big, big, I think the Tories lost 170 seats or something like that. Oh my gosh, wow. so So, you know, the change changes a foot, Jodie, not just in Canada, but France as well, Italy. um this is ah This is a worldwide trend post COVID.
00:31:09
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so yeah Yeah, I'm actually sorry. I'm just looking up. the I want to see if they have the seat projections for Kingston here. I just want to take a look. Yeah, please. think Because what is that riding called? Is it just Kingston in the islands? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it should be. Well, they actually have it as a toss up still. Hmm. So well, that's I mean, it's supposed to be a solid. Yeah, that should be a liberal, liberal safe. Yeah. Yeah. What's a it's, you know, but I mean, like. Even I'm just looking at some of these. Yeah, there's not many red, red safe seats.
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Episode Wrap-Up
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no. Well, we have a lot to talk about in the weeks ahead. So we want to thank our listeners for for hanging in there where we've got Jodi back after his holiday and a lot of his ah work, work life. And I'm back and refreshed as well. So there will be more podcasts. This is the two hundred and first episode. So congratulations, Jodi, on the me reaching that 200 episode marker and not too many podcasts that can say that. And yeah, we've got great sponsors, municipal solutions, as I mentioned, and KWM Consulting and our terrestrial radio sponsor Hunter's Bay Radio. Excellent. Well, Tony, we'll do this again in seven days. Enjoy the rest of your week. You too, buddy.