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Tony and Jodie Banter: Ben Stein, Disco Cruises and the US Midterms
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Tony and Jodie are back and banter about several different topics including Win Ben Stein's Money, Disco boat cruises and yes, the U.S. Midterms.
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Introduction and Broadcasting Styles
00:00:00
Speaker
And another thing. And another thing. And another thing. Welcome to another episode of And Another Thing, the podcast.
00:00:22
Speaker
that continues to set the bar in the world of podcasts. My name is Jody Jenkins. Hello, I'm Tony Clement. You always like, you know, I come in with this like, I don't want to say when I was in college, we used to call it Ron Radio, where you try to like be over the top with your
00:00:41
Speaker
radio broadcasting voice because as young, you know, broadcasters, we thought that's what you had to sound like. So it's like, Hey, how are you? Right. So I'm not saying I'm Ron radio, but I come in with like, you know, a little bit more of an aggressive opening every time. And then you're always just like Mr. Politon demure. Yeah. No, it's, it's kind of, is that who Tony Clement is? It's the real Tony Clement, but I, I also use that
00:01:09
Speaker
kind of approach when I'm introducing my television show too. Okay. Boom and Bust. Nobody calls you out on that? No, I just say thank you for joining us here at Boom and Bust or welcome to another episode of Boom and Bust, one of those two. The producer on the floor isn't like from the corner or from a distance yelling, hey Clement, take it up a couple notches. No.
00:01:32
Speaker
No, no. You're sick of that approach. Yeah, no, it's, I'm just allowed to do my own intros and that's what I do. And I formulate my own questions and it usually works pretty well.
00:01:47
Speaker
Do you feel like you're kind of Chris Farley-ish in the sense of, remember when he had his talk show, the Chris Farley show on Saturday Night Live and he'd be sitting there interviewing someone and he'd be like, so do you like stuff? Yeah, sometimes it's like that. Sometimes we get like, we almost get two extremes of the chatty Cathy's who I have to,
00:02:14
Speaker
uh, you know, uh, pound into submission so I can get to the commercial break because they're very strict on commercial breaks. They have to be at a certain point in the broadcast. So I have, if they're, I just have to interrupt somebody if they're, if they keep on going, uh, say, sorry, I have to stop. Uh,
Sponsors and Personal Anecdotes
00:02:31
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we'll, we'll pick it up after the commercial break, whatever. Like I've got five second window to go to commercial and that's three times in the, in the broadcast.
00:02:39
Speaker
So I've got the chatty Kathy's and then I've got the ones who are almost monosyllabic in their responses, which is the worst because I, I try to, uh, prepare eight or nine questions for a 22 minute show. And if I had gone, if I burned through all of those questions with 10 minutes to go, it's like, I'm just grabbing stuff out of the air. Like it's like, it's like that one guy, um,
00:03:08
Speaker
I don't even know if he's alive still. Remember that he talks in a very monotone voice and they had a game show. It was like winning. Was it Ben Stein winning? Ben Stein's money or I don't remember that show. No, I don't. Oh my gosh. You're going to make me look this up. Yeah. You don't remember that guy, the way he taught Ben, then something. Hold on. Winning Ben Stein's money. Yeah. Winning Ben Stein's money. You look up Ben Stein. Okay. But what year is that Jody?
00:03:36
Speaker
That game show? Yeah. That's... Oh, there was 715 episodes, six seasons. Wow. Started in 97, went to 2003. Okay, I didn't watch game shows at that era. Presented by Ben Stein, Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel, really? Yes, yes. Ben Stein. If you saw Ben Stein, he talks like he's just very, you know, just very monotone.
00:04:06
Speaker
Ryan Reynolds was on Jimmy Kimmel the other day. Of course. Talking about Biden, talking about Biden. The Iowa Senators. Yeah, exactly. I'm going to do my, I'm going to close this bit we're doing right now with a, I'm going to be Chris Farley interviewing you and I'm going to be like, remember that one motion you made in parliament? That was awesome. Oh, thanks dude. Oh man, stupid, stupid, stupid.
00:04:36
Speaker
That's good. This show is brought to you by the team at Municipal Solutions, John Mountain and their crew are presenting sponsor each week. We certainly appreciate what they've done for this show and we thank them for their continued support. And Tony, you can share a little bit more about what they do and how they're helping municipalities.
00:05:00
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I can do that because I have to speak on behalf of John Mutton because he's at yet another Raptors game. Come on. Yeah. And the night before he was at a Leafs game, so he's busy, but he's also participating in the sports culture of Toronto. But in the meantime, Municipal Solutions, they are all about development services and project management.
00:05:24
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They are there. They are Ontario's leading MZO firm. That's municipal zoning orders. So they do planning services with municipalities.
00:05:32
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That means engineering, architectural services, also do the stuff like minor variances and land severances and getting those permits, building permits approved. So they've got
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the whole package for you and you can find them at municipalsolutions.ca. And then our new sponsor, Jodi, they're back. Halton GR. Oh, it's starting already. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Halton GR is back. Steven Sparling and his crew at haltongr.com, your West GTA GR firm.
00:06:01
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So, I guess municipal solutions, well, they do everything. They're all over the place. But, of course, John's in Bowmanville on the east side of Toronto, and Stephen's farming is on the west side of Toronto. Wait a second. Wasn't it Halton GR Pro? No. Why did I have pro in my head then? I don't know. I knew it was Halton GR, but I thought it was like you called him pro or something. He's a pro, obviously, though. He is a pro. Well, there you go. Okay. Maybe he's going to start using that now.
00:06:30
Speaker
You're just like you're you're being I'm Godzilla versus Bambi here, Jody. I got to get through what they're all about. OK. If you want to get paid, that is, I don't know. Well, yes. OK, so they specialize in sourcing land for development, acquiring ideal land, obtaining zoning permissions and by law modifications. They keep the project going through the process and they're great at putting together the financing as well. Their slogan is let's get this done.
00:06:59
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go to HaltonGR.com. And finally, of course, we are on terrestrial radio, huntersbayradio.com every Saturday morning at 8.30 AM. You can tune in there as well. Excellent. I'm looking at HaltonGR. I'm looking at their website right now. Very nice. Yeah, good. I don't know if I've ever seen a picture of
00:07:23
Speaker
Stephen Jay. Is it Stephen Jay? Stephen Jay. Yeah. Yeah. That's him. Yeah. Good for him. Oh, he was a regional counselor in Oakville. Yeah. How come we haven't had him on the show? We could. Okay. Oh, you guys, you guys share a lot in common. Conservative fund of Canada. Yeah. He was on the conservative fund in the past. That's right. Albany club. Yeah. Blue Jays foundation. Were you ever part of that? No, I was part of the raptors foundation though.
00:07:52
Speaker
Okay, nice. Was he ever a mayor anywhere or just counselor? I think I just did. Yeah, just a counselor. 10 years, holy smokes. That is a president of the Chamber of Commerce. This guy's the real deal. He is. Michael Sparling, any relation? Who's that?
00:08:11
Speaker
another employee. I'm assuming it's his son. It's his son. Yeah, probably. I think his son's called Michael. Yeah, I was going to say. Oh, that's what I'm saying. You're bad. It's a joke, Tony. It's okay, Steven. Don't worry. You're getting your money's worth here, I promise. Wait, that's a big assumption. You're assuming that Steven listens to the show. He better. He'd be the one. You're the one, Steven.
00:08:40
Speaker
Oh, actually, you know, actually, sorry, you're the second too, because we know that Steve Paiken, sorry, Robert Benzie. Yeah, we, you know what? We have so many loyal listeners. We do have loyal listeners. It's not even funny. It's not even funny. They're great. Steve, Steve Paiken was nice enough to send an email about your mesmerizing comment. Yes. And, uh, yeah. Does Steve golf at all? I don't think so. Oh, okay. What like owner, we just got to invite him down for lunch or something.
00:09:07
Speaker
Yeah, we got to do that. He's a big baseball guy. He's, uh, he's, uh, I know, I know that baseball in the winter, but yeah, let's go to Dominican or something as a group. We'll, we'll figure something out. We gotta, we gotta reward our loyal listeners. We do. You're absolutely right. I'm just, hold on, rewarding our loyal listeners by going to lunch with Steve Paken.
00:09:28
Speaker
By rewarding them with our presence, yes. You mean rewarding our loyal guests. We'll order food and then consistently for like 25, 30 minutes, we'll tell Steve over and over again.
00:09:42
Speaker
You know, Steve, Tony and I went to a lot of effort to get here. A lot of trouble. To be around you. Exactly. I think his book is finally out, by the way. I saw a picture of him delivering- Maybe he'll sign a copy for me. He might well do that. He delivered a copy to Jill's Turner, John Turner's wife. Obviously the book is about John Turner. I think I've asked this question before, brought it up, but I'm looking at
00:10:09
Speaker
a picture of David Peterson autographed on the wall here to my grandfather. Nice. And do you think, do you think Steve has enough to write a book about David Peterson or would David Peterson warrant a book? That's a good question. I think they, every premier warrants a book. Yeah.
Disco Cruise Plans and Music Talk
00:10:29
Speaker
Unless you were there for a very short period of time.
00:10:35
Speaker
But maybe that's maybe that makes it even more interesting. Yeah, exactly. David Peterson was premier for five years. So that's you know, you're going to say five minutes. No, no, five years. He was there from 85 to 90. I know. So there you go. Yeah, it's I'm looking it up right now. Yeah, because he was there. He said 85 to 90. Do you know how long he was a member of provincial parliament for?
00:10:59
Speaker
I think he got there, what an 82 or something like that. No, no. Seven. You got the, he was in, uh, was it 75? It looks like. Okay. So he was, he was elected in 75, served till September 6th, 1990. He was elected liberal party leader in 82. Okay. 82. I knew there was an 82 in there somewhere. Yeah. And he was leader of the opposition in on February 21st, all same days. He was,
00:11:26
Speaker
So he, he took over after Stuart Smith got thrashed by Bill Davis in the 81 majority election. And then he deposed Frank Miller, Muskoka and became the premier. And who came in, who came in after, after Peterson, who was the next leader? The next leader would have been after 1990, uh,
00:11:56
Speaker
Who do you think? You know, I would be Lynn, Lynn McLeod. Let's see here. Is that? Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. No. Is that right? Yeah, pretty sure. No, I don't think so. What do they say? He this gentleman was the leader of opposition from November 20th, 1990 to July 31st, 1991. Oh, OK. Who's that? He was for one year.
00:12:26
Speaker
He's a son of a former premier. As a son of a former premier. Did you really serve in Ontario? A son of the former premier, a Kennedy or, oh no, of course, Nixon. Yes, exactly. Nixon, Bob Nixon. So he would have been interim leader. Yeah.
00:12:49
Speaker
No, but Nixon, Bob Nixon did contest an election. Did he? I don't know. I'm just looking- In the 70s. He was Peterson's finance minister. Yes. Well, he was actually the, he was a deputy premier. He was a treasurer of Ontario, leader of the opposition, leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. Yeah. And then obviously just a member of- Yeah, Bob Nixon. I remember him. Yeah, he was an impressive guy.
00:13:15
Speaker
Yeah. He was like a rural, these were, you know, he was a rural liberal. They don't, they feel they're a few and far between now. Well, wasn't Hugh, wasn't Hugh O'Neill kind of a rural liberal? Yeah. Yeah. Because back in the day, the liberals were a rural party and, uh, the, the PCs were the urban sophisticates, if you will. The elitists? Perhaps they were, perhaps they were globalists even before their time. Were you an elitist?
00:13:44
Speaker
Well, I don't, I don't, I didn't get, I didn't get led into too many clubs. So your hair was probably too, your sideburns were too long to be an elitist. That's right. You were like, uh, you were like, um, that Simpsons episode where, uh, what's his name there? Smith, not smithers. What's the, what's the guy? I can't even, uh, terrible is this. I can't think of the guy that runs a nuclear plant.
00:14:03
Speaker
Montgomery Burns. Yeah, Mr. Burns keeps telling Don Mattingly, trim those sideburns. Remember on the softball team and his hair was shaved right up to the top of his head. And Montgomery Burns is like, shave those sideburns.
00:14:21
Speaker
That would have been you getting chided for your long sideburns. You're just like, dig it, man. Enough about Tony. Enough about me. Hey, but you know what I was doing a little bit today? I was planning our family holiday for late February. Have you heard about this yet? You're talking about me or your own family? My own family. Okay, yeah, because I was going to say I didn't hear anything about that. Where are you going?
00:14:49
Speaker
So get the, we're going on a disco cruise. Come on. Yeah, I know. Your whole family. No, me and my wife. Oh, just you and your wife. And we're going with two other couples that we know. So I'm going to have lots of stories about this as we lead up. This is going to be a thing for our podcast about me prepping and planning for a disco cruise. Are you going with Mark Garretson and his wife or?
00:15:16
Speaker
No, I'm not. No, he didn't want to go. Did he? He did not. No, I don't. Was he a bouncer at a disco? Was that where he was a bouncer? Yeah, he was. I don't know if he was a bouncer. I thought he was a bartender. Bartender. I think he might've done both actually, but mostly bar. I remember when I was, the place was called Stages, he was a bartender. Yeah. So Mr. Bartender. I'm going to get my bell bottoms out and, uh,
00:15:39
Speaker
So obviously there's disco acts on there. Who's there? The headliner? You want to hear the headliner? All right. I shudder to think, but yes. Casey in the Sunshine Band. Come on. I'm serious. Oh, my God. They know that they're on the cruise. Oh, my word. So, yes, my wife is very excited about this, very excited. So we're going on this disco cruise around the Caribbean. Yes.
00:16:08
Speaker
Holy geez, that is something else, but I know there's actually like there's for wrestling fans. There's wrestling cruises like Chris Jericho, you probably have heard of obviously, of course, Canadian guy, but he, uh, he has a rock and rock and wrestling cruise, like rock and roll wrestling cruise or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a heavy metal cruises. There's everything. Oh, yeah. You can get anything you want. Yeah.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah, but I'm going on the disco cruise, apparently. Nice. So there you go. So I'm just imagining you getting down on it, you know? No, they don't say get down on it. That's cool and the gang. But what's one of the Casey? That's like their big song. That's the way I like it? That's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh. I like
US Midterm Elections Analysis
00:16:52
Speaker
it. I didn't clue in. My daughter was watching some show on Netflix.
00:16:58
Speaker
And this guy comes on and I'm like, he looks kind of familiar. He's obviously an older musician. Anyway, it was Charlie Wilson. Oh. And so they're taught. Anyway, long story short, I did not realize that Charlie Wilson and his two other brothers, we're in the speaking of disco, the Gap Band. Do you remember that group? No.
00:17:24
Speaker
And they sang, you dropped a bomb on me. Oh yeah. You dropped a bomb on me. That's them. And now Charlie, obviously Charlie Wilson went on to a solo career, but yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, uh, you're acting like you're interested. Well, I, it's just, I'm just trying to remember it all. You don't know, like you don't know, remember the gap band.
00:17:44
Speaker
I do remember the name. I was not a big disco guy. I must admit, I was more into the punk scene. And you're going on a disco cruise. I know, I know. Here, listen to this. You should be able to hear this. Remember this song? Here, hold on. It sounds vaguely familiar. Wait for the lyrics. Remember that? Yeah. You were probably cutting a rug in Ottawa at that time.
00:18:15
Speaker
down the road. Is that disco duck? Is that what that is? Or maybe even in Ontario. It was probably like you and Lincoln Alexander out on the dance floor or something. He was a, Lincoln was a good guy. He was a cool guy. You could probably cut a mean rug. I would think so. I feel like you'd be able to chop it up right good.
00:18:31
Speaker
Yeah, he was an impressive guy. I believe you don't know that song. You go to every freaking concert there is with bands that the majority of people have never heard of and you don't even know that song. No, I don't know that song. That makes no sense to me. I know. I know. It's very selective. My musical tastes and knowledge. You're not selective because you go to every concert. I don't, but I went to that concert the other day and I told you it's the best band you've never heard of and you were not impressed.
00:18:59
Speaker
Yeah. Well, did you go to fire festival or fire fest or whatever it's called? No, I didn't. But that would be cool to go to just because it was such a train wreck. I think it'd be funny if you had just like, you didn't say anything and then I'm randomly watching that documentary. They're just like wandering around. They're just like in a serious doc voice.
00:19:21
Speaker
Former politician Tony Clement ended up on the island. And then I'm there with my ham and pastrami sandwich. You're like, uh, I was totally thinking it was going to work. Okay. So midterm elections. Yeah, let's change the subject. So I got to be honest. I, um, I was pretty braggadocious with a lot of my friends cause I thought, I thought the Dems were going to get wiped out. Um, Republicans flipped some.
00:19:52
Speaker
flip some seats. I will say this and in hindsight, even though, I guess what they're saying is the Dems maybe overperformed. I'll use this example. There was a lot of heat on Herschel Walker as an example in Georgia because of some of the comments he made and people saying he's a terrible candidate. But you look at like, first of all, that's a
00:20:19
Speaker
probably a tough nut to crack. I'm assuming in like Atlanta and some of those places.
00:20:25
Speaker
Like, I mean, he matched the guy. They basically went shot for shot, like 50-50 pretty much. And like, I mean, that says something, right? So, I mean, I don't think that's it. I actually don't think that's bad for him to take a guy with like zero political experience and march him out there to take on what appears to be, you know, someone who's got a lot of experience, that Warnock, right? Well, Warnock, I mean, he was a pastor at Martin Luther King Jr's church for crying out loud.
00:20:52
Speaker
So there's two religions in Georgia. There's religion and then there's football. Yes, yes, exactly. And of course, Herschel went to the church of the church of the gridiron. That's right. Anyway, I honestly, I honestly didn't think it was that bad. And I think, like I said to you before we started the show, I mean, one thing that last night showed us and you're going to give your comments, but I mean, like the country is like clearly.
00:21:17
Speaker
split down the middle,
Republican Struggles and Future Leaders
00:21:18
Speaker
like divided. No, I don't mean state wise. I mean, just in general, it's pretty pretty divided. It is. I mean, look, there were far more Republicans were on defense early on in the Senate because they had more seats that they had to defend. Just the way that it worked in terms of the seats that were up for grabs this time around. But
00:21:43
Speaker
I got sucked into it too. I thought that the Republicans were going to do really well because the economy is so bad. Biden's ratings are so bad and crime is so bad. If you can't pick up 30 extra seats in the Congress and four extra seats in the Senate with that kind of a backdrop,
00:22:08
Speaker
then in my mind, something is terribly wrong. They're probably, at the time of this recording, they probably will obtain control of the house by a sliver, and then we'll be looking at the runoff election in Georgia to see who has control there, the way it's working out. So you think it's going to come down to that Georgia one? I think so, yeah. Yeah, I think so. I mean, do you think Herschel wins in a runoff?
00:22:35
Speaker
I don't think he does. No, because because if you're not there, there's 2% that voted for the libertarian and he drops off the ballot. So it's just the two of them. Warnock and Herschel. If you didn't vote for Herschel in the first round, why would you vote for him on the second round? The way I look at it. Well, maybe you're not, but maybe if you're a libertarian, though, are you really wanting the Democrats in there? I just think that the libertarian was just a way to park probably some Republicans who were pissed off at Walker as the candidate who wanted a place to park.
00:23:05
Speaker
Gotcha.
00:23:06
Speaker
And so if they're not going to vote for him on the first round, I don't think they will on the second that I could be totally wrong, but that's that's the way I see it. Now, last time, two years ago, Trump screwed it all up in Georgia by saying he kept talking about how, you know, his race was the fix was in on his race and therefore he drove Republicans away from voting in the runoff because they had two runoff elections in Georgia two years ago.
00:23:36
Speaker
for the Senate. And so maybe if that doesn't happen this time, maybe that will help the Republicans. But I want to be honest with you, I was very disappointed and I blame it all on Donald Trump. I think he picked the wrong candidates in the wrong states and back them and then didn't back them enough with his money. He just backed them for their when they won their primaries and didn't back them in the election.
00:24:05
Speaker
And I think it all rests on his shoulders. I really do. And I'm a, I'm a big believer in, as a, you know, as an observer of the Republican party, I think there are better choices. Ron DeSantis as, as
Sports Talk: NFL Teams and Players
00:24:16
Speaker
a nominee. And you must've been watching CBS all night. You sound like Lester Holt. Oh, seriously? Oh, I didn't know that. But I, I just think that, uh, you know, I think DeSantis will now run for the nomination. Whereas before I thought that was going to be pretty iffy.
00:24:33
Speaker
to go up against Donald Trump, and I think DeSantis will win the nomination against Donald Trump. That's going to be interesting. I mean, there was a couple names that Mike Huckabee's daughter there, she got in. Yeah, she did, Sarah. Beto lost to Abbott in Texas, so that guy's...
00:24:53
Speaker
That guy doesn't have a good record going for it. Stacey Abrams lost in Georgia again for the governorship. Dr. Oz lost. Dr. Oz lost. The one that I was surprised that I thought was going to be closer was the one in New York there with Zeldin. Everybody was saying it was going to be closer and it wasn't. Everybody was saying crime was the big issue. What do you think happened there then?
00:25:16
Speaker
Trump. Is that what you're saying? That's a good example. I think, I think, I think there was a big Trump factor and, uh, we, you know, I think the Republicans didn't see it. Uh, and, uh, a lot of people stayed away or, or just, uh, you know, they couldn't, they couldn't vote for fear of juicing up the chances of Trump being, you know, running for the nomination and winning again. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't totally disagree, but at the same time,
00:25:45
Speaker
You can't deny, like Trump, these rallies, they still massive amounts of people. It's crazy. I don't think there's any doubt unless something changes dramatically by next week that he's going to jump into and announce that he's gonna run again. Oh, he's running, yeah. No question, no question. Yeah, he's running, but I thought that if Trump
00:26:15
Speaker
Decided to run while he was gonna announce he was running and i thought that was gonna scare away a lot of people i think it's gonna scare away fewer people now i think i think people like the santas are gonna say you know what i think i can beat this guy and i did you know he did so well in florida killed it in dade county for crying out loud i mean.
00:26:35
Speaker
which is chock full of Hispanics. He was 15 points ahead of, uh, of Christ. So, uh, Hard to believe that Florida was a swing state at one point. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's, it's crazy. And Ohio is a, again, uh, that that's big Republican territory now, whereas before it was quite purple, but Pennsylvania is shifting the other way because as a, as a big Cleveland Browns fan, I feel more comfortable going there now. So yeah, display it on here. There we go. And Cleveland is doing okay. Aren't they?
00:27:06
Speaker
Well, they're better than the Raiders. Better than my Raiders. That's not saying much. No, but yeah, we're doing all right. We got a big game coming up against Miami and then we have Buffalo next week. Although, you know, with elbow, the Josh has got a little bit of an elbow problem for the bills. So yeah, maybe that'll last for a couple of weeks.
00:27:25
Speaker
Well, uh, you know, he's, uh, he takes a lot of chances at the quarterback, doesn't he? Alan, I'm talking about. Yeah, he's a, he's a little bit, um, I mean, his elbow issue was a sack. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, no, I know someone's like, they slapped the ball away from him, but it was like not.
00:27:41
Speaker
not self-inflicted, but he does take a lot of risks. And I'm sure his coach is looking at him and going, Hey, Josh, maybe don't hurdle over the 300 pound linebacker. Yeah, I know. I know. It's like
Canadian Politics and Media Critique
00:27:52
Speaker
you're wincing every time you're seeing the plays he's making. It's pretty intense. Yeah. Yeah. Well, good luck to the Browns. There's no point wishing the Raiders luck.
00:28:01
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, we don't even care who the Raiders play. It doesn't matter. Just out of it. Canadian politics. What's anything since the last? Well, I guess the the oh, I want to mention to you, obviously, the big thing is it continues to be this commission hearings on the emergency powers. But so at the time of this recording, Pierre Poliev was in British Columbia.
00:28:29
Speaker
Uh, and he decides that he's going to do a media availability. Uh, and I, the, the story that I saw out of that from Canadian press, they did a whole story, Jodi, on how Pierre Poliev hadn't been open to the media. And this was the first time in two months that he'd been open to the media. And, uh, they didn't even cover anything that Pierre Poliev said during the media availability, except how they're pissed off that this was the first media availability in two months.
00:28:58
Speaker
Does anyone really care? You know what I mean? Like, this is the thing. I feel like, again, could be because I'm connected to some conservative outlets and stuff like that and obviously conservative social media, whatever, but I honestly feel like he's doing, if he's not getting media coverage, then they're doing something, right? Because I see stuff about him in the media all the time. So, I mean, whatever they're doing, I say keep doing it.
00:29:27
Speaker
No, absolutely. And he made it clear during the media conference that he thinks that the Ottawa press gallery is too Ottawa-ish, but by that, I mean not the city of Ottawa, but just on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, and that they don't understand the real concerns of Canadians. And he's going to talk to Canadians. That was his message at this news conference. And I think that's the right message. He's connected to Canadians' concerns.
00:29:57
Speaker
Uh, one of our former guests, uh, I know you're, you're a good friend, Melody Paradis. She, she was right on on this children's, uh, uh, this lack of, uh, of children's Tylenol, et cetera. And it's becoming a big issue for a lot of moms and dads. So, and, and Pierre Polly have raised that in the house of commons. So good on him.
00:30:17
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Yeah,
By-Election and Closing Remarks
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so we'll continue to watch what happens. And then I saw what's his name there, former liberal MPP, is it Charles De Souza? Yes. Jumped in the race for the by-election in Mississauga. Lakeshore. Lakeshore. Yeah, and he was Kathleen Wynn's former finance minister. I met him a couple of times because he was in there when I was on council. Yeah. And not a fan. I remember meeting with him a couple of times at
00:30:48
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Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the meeting's up in Toronto, and we used to get one-on-one, or sorry, I shouldn't say one-on-one, but our municipality would go in with some issues and we'd have some FaceTime with the ministers of the day. Right. And he just came across as like, do you know who I am?
00:31:09
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It's funny, I saw him the day before they announced him as the candidate, because he was in Toronto for the Empire Club speech that Pierre Poliev gave. Oh, really? Interesting. And so I went up to him and I just went rapid fire. I didn't even, I said hello, maybe, but that was about it. And I said, so are you running? I heard you're running in Lakeshore. Are you running? Are you running? And he said, oh, I can't, I really haven't decided. I've got to talk to my family more and, uh,
00:31:37
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It's really a tough decision. And like, like the next day, yeah, it's like so full of it, right? Let's get him on the show. Perfect. Yeah, exactly. Perfect for our show.
00:31:48
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Interesting. All right. Well, I think that's all we got for tonight. I know that some of our listeners would love for us to go back and forth even more. They do say that. Why buy the cow if you're giving the milk away for free, right? Absolutely, Jody. Come on. You got to wait till next week.
00:32:08
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That's right. So, all right. Thanks again to John Mutton and the team at Municipal Solutions for their continued support. You can find them online at municipalsolutions.ca. Also, lunipolitics.com. Use the code PODCAST to get 50% off an annual subscription and get access to exclusive content that you will find nowhere else. Once again, that's lunipolitics.com. Tony, you can do the last couple of ones there because you're better equipped than I am.
00:32:38
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No worries. I just want to thank Halton GR, Steven Sparling for coming back as a sponsor. They've returned. You can find out about them at haltongr.com. Let's get this done is their particular catchphrase. And then you can find this podcast and others at huntersbayradio.com. We're particularly on at 8 30 in the morning every Saturday.
00:33:02
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Excellent. Well, enjoy the rest of your week and we will talk to you again in seven days. Sounds good.