John Bolton - Cory Morgan - On Alberta independence, moving forward and can we win？

00:00:00.240 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. Now it's just after 11am

00:00:05.240 on the 28th on Wednesday. You're seeing this on Thursday morning. Thanks for being here

00:00:10.340 on the channel. I do appreciate it. We've got a special guest with us today. I'm really pleased

00:00:14.960 today. Oh, by the way, big blue mug of coffee. Tell everybody I've got my mug. Everybody asks

00:00:20.440 about that. Corey Morgan joins me today. Corey from the Western Standard, as you can tell,

00:00:25.640 I can see it right behind his head there. The Corey Morgan Show and the author of the

00:00:30.380 Sovereigncy's Handbook as well. We're going to talk about the Alberta independence movement

00:00:35.060 today. And Corey, thanks so much for being part of my channel. I do appreciate it.

00:00:39.320 Oh, happy to be on. I've been loving watching your shows.

00:00:41.920 Well, thank you very much. I wanted to start off by talking to you and asking you what you

00:00:47.420 thought of the throne speech yesterday. And if there was anything in there that made you

00:00:52.840 think that the federal government was going to be friendlier to Alberta or if you didn't hear

00:00:57.320 anything at all? I didn't hear anything at all. I saw or heard, I guess, kind of what I expected

00:01:04.020 to. I mean, I understand you're not going to get specifics in a throne speech. It's high level.

00:01:08.700 It's fluff. It's sort of setting a tone for a session. But you do talk about some goals.

00:01:15.980 We wanted to make it clear that, you know, Canada is a sovereign nation. He certainly reiterated

00:01:20.340 that. But he never touched on the fact that we've got a unity issue going on in this country

00:01:24.620 and throwing a bone to the West to try and make them feel a little more comfortable that something

00:01:31.320 might change. I didn't hear any of that. He wasn't speaking to Western Canada with that throne speech.

00:01:36.400 And that was something I was thinking about. I've heard, I haven't heard him say much of

00:01:40.300 anything. I know he was on the CBC yesterday. He was asked about Alberta independence. I just quickly

00:01:45.300 jotted it down here. He said, this is the greatest country in the world. And this is a country that

00:01:49.820 works. And then he went into his Alberta spiel about him living north of Edmonton and living

00:01:55.620 around the oil stands. But he's never really committed to doing anything about building

00:02:00.820 pipelines. The fact, even with the fact that Daniel Smith has been very, very clear on what

00:02:05.640 she wants from the federal government.

00:02:07.920 Yeah, he's dodging it like the plague. And he's got a balancing act. There are a number of members

00:02:13.360 in his caucus who are virulently opposed to pipelines, more than just Gilbo, who is a lunatic

00:02:18.100 and he always will be opposed to the pipelines. But he's got a balancing act. I mean, he has to some

00:02:24.440 degree, or at least in perception, pulled the Liberal Party to the right. And Trudeau had spent

00:02:30.360 10 years pulling that Liberal Party to the left. And he's got a lot of the leftovers of Trudeau in that

00:02:35.260 caucus. And he doesn't, he's got to try and figure out how to balance it in keeping them happy

00:02:42.420 while trying to keep Alberta happy. And I think he's going to side as usual on the side of Central

00:02:48.100 Canadian leftists and just talk out of both sides of his mouth, but nothing is going to get done.

00:02:52.880 Do you see, well, let me just say, I see pipelines as almost a symbol of the independence movement out

00:02:58.900 here a little bit. I think if we had a logo, we could put a pipeline right through the middle of

00:03:03.020 it. I mean, Alberta, a lot of our wealth is because of oil. A lot of the wealth in Canada is

00:03:07.120 because of the oil. A lot of the wealth in Quebec is because of Alberta's oil and people resent the

00:03:11.980 fact that we give so much money to the East and we're disrespected. They really don't care much

00:03:16.960 about us. They didn't win hardly a seat here during the election. And very little is done about this

00:03:23.020 from the federal government, Mark Carney. Do you think he can change? He's Mr. Net Zero, this guy.

00:03:30.500 I mean, he is anti-oil other than buying a few when he was with Brookdale. Pipelines, I mean.

00:03:35.920 Well, that's it. He's just clear in his book. I mean, he's an ideologue. He wants net zero. He wants

00:03:42.080 this electric transition. With all of them, they bring in that cognitive dissonance over the fact

00:03:46.940 that we just don't have the ability to transition to an electric world, even if we wanted to. We

00:03:52.180 don't have the generating capacity, the transmission capacity. And they will just continue to,

00:03:58.140 they seem to think if they can shut down conventional energy enough that new energy is just going to

00:04:03.800 blossom like a daisy and replace it. What it's doing, unfortunately, is turning Canada into an

00:04:09.620 economic basket case while we lag in productivity and GDP per capita versus other developed countries

00:04:15.060 around the world. They aren't in reality. They won't face that reality. The banker refuses to face the

00:04:21.800 fact that Canada is becoming one of the poorest developed nations on earth per capita, and he won't do

00:04:27.660 anything to change that trajectory. We've got the resource right here. We've got oil and gas. The

00:04:32.060 world wants it. And he's dragging his feet. It would be so easy for him. He's enough of a pragmatist

00:04:37.980 just to say, we're going to get it done. That's all he has to say. Like, just say it definitively.

00:04:42.440 We're going to build a pipeline and we're going to do it in short order. We're going to get rid of C69. 1.00

00:04:48.100 We're going to lift the emissions cap. And the fact that he's giving nothing but weasel words just says,

00:04:53.080 no, he has no intention whatsoever doing any of those things. Would it matter to you if he did?

00:04:57.720 I did a video the other day saying, I really don't care what Mark Carney says. I'm an Alberta

00:05:02.200 independent. I know you don't want us to use the other word. You said that in one of your videos.

00:05:07.560 And I agree with you 100%. I mean, it's become a dirty word and people use it like a dirty word

00:05:11.780 online when it comes to people talking about independence out here. But does it matter what

00:05:15.380 Mark Carney and the Liberal Party do at this point? If they gave everything to Daniel Smith,

00:05:19.120 does it make a difference to you when it comes to the independence movement here? I know you've

00:05:21.820 been, you wrote a book on it, for goodness sakes. Yeah, to me, it won't make a difference. I've

00:05:25.880 been on this for a depressingly long time. But my issue is with the system. And that's what brings

00:05:33.080 me to the conclusions I have. It's a fatally flawed system. And at best, when we change parties or more

00:05:39.720 favorable parties, it's just a temporary bit of reprieve from a system that's still going to keep

00:05:44.160 serving the central part of the country at the expense of the others. But I, you know, and yourself,

00:05:49.800 when we speak on these, we're speaking now to getting close to into the 40s of percent of people

00:05:53.720 who agree with us. If he came around and did some of those things, we'd be speaking maybe to 20% again

00:06:00.300 of the population. Like it's people like me, they're not going to convince, but they're convincing

00:06:04.740 what's getting close to a tipping point of Albertans that this system is broken. And that

00:06:09.360 is where they've got to pay attention. But nothing's going to change my mind. But he could deflate the

00:06:14.100 movement. He most certainly could.

00:06:15.280 What does it say to you? I think Daniel Smith even said that. I read an article with him the

00:06:19.900 last couple of weeks saying if he were to come out and, you know, give a little bit to Alberta,

00:06:23.700 as far as the demand she's talked about, that it would deflate the independence movement out here.

00:06:29.180 What does it say to you that he hasn't done that? And he, I call it the liberal shuck and jive,

00:06:33.160 basically. And that's what he's been doing recently regarding Alberta or oil and gas industry.

00:06:37.340 Yeah, well, it shows that reality of that system. He doesn't, even if he personally cares what Alberta

00:06:44.640 thinks, even if he really agreed with those things, it's not politically wise to bend to demands from

00:06:51.760 Alberta, because you need to gain your votes in Quebec and Ontario. It's just math. And the House of

00:06:59.500 Commons has followed that math for generations now. And that's why nothing ever changes substantially.

00:07:03.900 Do you think, they talk about trade barriers coming down between the provinces. Do you think

00:07:09.260 there's any chance of, I think it's an easy thing to do, an easy thing to say, but I think there'll

00:07:13.980 be some holdouts regarding different goods. I think Quebec will be a huge holdout. We've heard David

00:07:18.180 Eby and BC talk recently. He talks about CO2 and not about pipelines. Do you think that those trade

00:07:24.380 barriers being dropped will help at all with this movement out here, or at least Alberta's place in

00:07:30.340 Canada, I guess the best way to say it? No, he doesn't have the courage to take on the provinces.

00:07:35.700 Supply management, they, you know, there's a speaking of the words that must not be uttered.

00:07:39.460 That's one of the worst, most odious on many levels of policies that we have. But it puts huge

00:07:48.820 roadblocks up from province to province to province in this country. And he won't touch it with a 10 foot 0.81

00:07:53.220 pole. So if he doesn't have the courage to say that he's going to get rid of that rotten policy,

00:07:58.500 then he's not going to fix anything. He's just, you get a tinker with a couple of things. Oh,

00:08:02.180 we'll, we'll make sure BC can sell a little more wine in Alberta and we'll, you know, move a couple

00:08:07.620 of minor things. But if you're talking real barriers, he doesn't have the courage to take

00:08:10.900 on three years with that. Let me ask you, how do you feel right now as somebody who wrote a book on

00:08:15.780 this? Um, you're somebody who was actively looking for independence years ago and for the lack of a

00:08:24.100 better word, you failed doing it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Long time ago because you didn't know what to do.

00:08:31.060 I listened to your book when I was out in my garage last year, working on my bikes. How do you feel

00:08:35.060 things are going right now? Do you think people have learned? Do you think people maybe read your book

00:08:39.780 and are using as a bit of a guide or do you think that some of the failure is, is continuing right

00:08:44.180 now? Uh, a bit of both. I mean, the book has been selling fantastically. I was quite surprised,

00:08:51.700 you know, for a book that I thought did I'll write a couple of years ago and I, I sold more copies of it

00:08:56.100 in the last month than I did in the prior two years, uh, which is not, not unexpected considering the

00:09:01.700 climate, but the fact that people are drawn to it, that that's what I'm hearing from people that's

00:09:06.020 different this time around. People are saying I'm there, but what do I do? And I'm off, I'm

00:09:11.380 offering what I know at least. And I don't have all the answers as I like to say often. I just,

00:09:15.700 I'll show you a whole bunch of things not to do anyways, so we can avoid going down that path.

00:09:19.940 And I do certainly provide some things I think we should do, but the appetite for people is help me

00:09:25.860 so I can get on this, you know, teach me to become active. That's, what's been really fascinating.

00:09:31.780 Some of the rallies I've gone to meetings, I've gone to non-political people coming up to me.

00:09:35.780 I'm used to seeing the same old faces, but here's ones that people have never been politically

00:09:39.860 active in their life. And they're saying, I'm going to get up and I got to go out to something

00:09:42.660 and I'm going to ask and see what I can do. So, but the movement itself, uh, there's no central

00:09:50.820 leadership, no consistent messaging. Uh, some of the messaging to be blunt is outright abrasive

00:09:56.900 and actually probably doing damage to the movement. Uh, that's atypical. That's not new as well.

00:10:03.540 Uh, and I don't have a quick, quick, clear answer on how to solve that yet. Uh, this has to evolve to

00:10:10.980 somewhere with a little more of a, uh, defined path for people. As I said, they're asking, but I'm

00:10:15.700 having a hard time pointing and say, well, join this or do that. I mean, the Alberta Prosperity

00:10:19.620 Project, they've done some good work. They've done a lot of groundwork and, and other groups, but at the

00:10:23.540 same time, they're going to cap out and, uh, they don't appeal to a large enough number of people,

00:10:29.140 I think yet. One of my concerns are this. I mean, I've got a little bit of political fatigue right

00:10:34.180 now. I don't know whether you do. I certainly do after the election campaign. Um, it's summertime.

00:10:40.420 Uh, I, I'm more interested in going on my bike than talking about politics right now. I'm wondering

00:10:45.300 if there might, some of the momentum might be lost over the summertime. And as we get further away from

00:10:50.020 the election, uh, into the fall, I think September 15th government comes back, but

00:10:55.620 people are just going to lose interest in this. Do you have that feeling or are you, does that kind

00:10:58.980 of, are you fearful of that? I guess is the way to put it. Um, not exactly. I, I think it might

00:11:03.860 almost be kind of what we need a bit of a cool town. People are tired. Uh, they're angry. Give them a

00:11:09.220 break because I mean, we still got to keep at it. Those are us who are active with it and the political

00:11:14.580 junkies and the issues are important and the groundwork has to be done. I mean, if we're looking at a

00:11:18.980 a year before a referendum, it's going to go fast, but all the same,

00:11:24.420 a lot of people too, are also not just tired, but they're giving a bit of a wait and see.

00:11:27.940 I mean, it's just been the throne speech. The session's just starting, uh, by fall when,

00:11:33.620 you know, when, when finally it looks like a grudging budget is going to be released,

00:11:37.220 even though I didn't want to, that's when it's really going to be driven home. I think though,

00:11:42.580 as I'm expecting, very little is going to change. There's going to be no more excuses anymore.

00:11:47.780 People are ready for another political season. I guess you could say the summer's over,

00:11:50.580 they've done the barbecues, they've been out in the RV, they've been riding the bikes

00:11:54.180 and they're ready to put, uh, put their heads back down on things and they're going to be rejuvenated.

00:12:00.100 And, uh, hopefully the movement will have evolved itself a little better to capture by that point.

00:12:03.700 You talk, you talked about the abrasiveness. I think, um, you know, being critical of the

00:12:10.340 government's fine, but being critical and disrespectful to the flag in Canada. I think

00:12:14.660 you've mentioned that. What do you make of the Republican party of Alberta? They had a get

00:12:20.100 together just a few nights back, a thousand people showed up there. They seem to be,

00:12:24.100 I've heard them described as the PPC of Alberta. What do you think about that?

00:12:30.340 Yeah, kind of. And I actually was at a gathering the other night. I spoke with Cam Davies. I've

00:12:38.260 known him for quite a while.

00:12:39.300 Yeah.

00:12:39.700 A smart guy, a good communicator. As I said to him the other night, I just don't know what you're

00:12:46.980 trying to do. He gave some of the lines just saying that there should be an option out there,

00:12:53.540 something to keep the provincial government honest and to fill the void and things. Okay. But I just

00:13:00.260 don't share the notion that that's a good idea right now. We're into an interesting spot with,

00:13:07.860 with the old Stinsbury by-election coming up, they're going to run in it. And it is just,

00:13:14.180 I think out of good fortune in a sense or bad, who knows, but that's the strongest

00:13:19.860 riding in all of Alberta for Western independence support. It is the one and only that ever elected

00:13:24.420 in a Western independence MLA. So if anywhere, the Republican party might come in at 20 or 30%

00:13:32.660 with frustrated Albertans in there, but I think it would show a false showing of strength for that

00:13:37.460 party. You're taking them during a by-election when nobody's afraid to make a vote because it's not

00:13:40.980 going to disrupt the government. It's a good time to send a message. It's the best waters to fish in

00:13:48.180 for that type of vote. But we have to remember that's the absolute best in the province you're

00:13:53.780 going to get. So if they're getting 20% there, it's going to be 10% elsewhere. I worry. I worry a

00:14:00.100 good showing would actually ironically be bad for the independence movement.

00:14:03.060 Do you see somebody like a Cam Davies leading this movement or is he just

00:14:07.700 too much of an outsider or again, maybe somebody who's kind of throwing a monkey wrench into the

00:14:12.900 works?

00:14:13.140 I can't understand his motivations.

00:14:15.780 Yeah. I don't either. And that's what I've been trying to figure out. Yeah.

00:14:18.820 Yeah. I'll put it at that. I mean, again, he's smart, well-spoken and knows the things. He's an

00:14:23.700 organizer, but no, I can't see him take, and just to be blunt. And I mean, the thing was too, with Cam,

00:14:30.980 he was at a meeting where people were pretty rough on him there. I mean, the guy's got the skin of an

00:14:35.940 alligator and I'll give him that. You need it for this type of world, but he's just, they're garnering

00:14:42.900 some support in some areas, but for the most part, people are kind of pissed with him. So again,

00:14:48.500 I'm not sure why you're just plowing on ahead. By the same token with the old Stinsbury riding,

00:14:54.260 though, if they come in with a real terrible show of support, it's going to be bad for the movement as

00:14:58.100 well because people say, well, geez, if you can't even do well there, you're not going to do well

00:15:02.580 anywhere, which it's because, and that's kind of the hypothesis. It's in my book. It's what I keep

00:15:06.980 talking about because the party approach isn't the bloody way to do it. And so now, no matter whether

00:15:13.140 they do well or they don't do well, it brings a whole new pile of hazards to the movement itself,

00:15:18.260 but there's, there's nothing to be done. It's a free province. And that's the, the name of the game.

00:15:22.820 If you can start a party and get out there, then go to it, I guess. And it's an unfortunate name of a

00:15:26.980 party too. It's dividing within an already divided movement. It is. What do you, what advice do you

00:15:34.580 have for the average person who's independence minded like myself? What should we do?

00:15:40.340 Boy, you know, you know, aside from what's in the book and educate themselves, I just,

00:15:44.740 I just keep encouraging people to build the grassroots around themselves. The old way,

00:15:52.820 the old way of the reform party coffee meetings where it's five, six people at a time,

00:15:56.820 get together with some friends, get together with some coworkers at the soccer game. Don't

00:16:00.660 turn into an annoying fanatic. We've got enough of those, but this is where the discussions really

00:16:04.980 start. You know, I've said it before, a person trusts a friend or a coworker, or even a bar buddy

00:16:10.500 one-on-one much more than people like yourself or me or Cam Davies or Daniel Smith, for that matter.

00:16:16.020 That's where real hearts and minds get changed. So if they're convinced this is the route we want to

00:16:20.260 go, then that's great. But start to spread that word, then do it on the ground and get it out there,

00:16:27.140 moving amongst others. I mean, till the more formal organization comes along.

00:16:30.820 Do you, I have one more question after this, big question. Be prepared. Do you think we can win?

00:16:40.500 Yes, but I think it's a long shot. If you'd asked me even a month ago, I would have said no,

00:16:46.340 not a chance. But I still feel pushed for it. I mean, it's, it's steps and steps. I know I'm

00:16:51.620 getting grayer, but if I have to wait, you know, five years, 10 years before a winning

00:16:56.740 referendum, so be it. But I mean, if it could be next year, that's even more brilliant.

00:17:00.100 I mean, the Ipsos read poll was shocking and it's amazing. It says so much on how silent the

00:17:05.220 legacy media has been on this. An Ipsos read CTV poll finding 47% of Albertans thinking favorably on

00:17:13.940 independence. This should be rocking the nation. And the silence is deafening.

00:17:20.180 But I saw that poll myself. I looked at it, Corey, and I was concerned about doing a video on that

00:17:25.060 because it was a nationwide poll of less than 2000 people. I think the sample in Alberta was about 171

00:17:30.980 people. So it was small. So you can only read so much in. And there's also a world of difference

00:17:36.740 between responding to a pollster saying, you know, I support the concept and actually putting your

00:17:42.580 head down on a referendum when crossing the line. Let's say though, it's even at 40. That's

00:17:49.060 significant, very significant or, or the, the prior poll, I think it was Angus Reed and that showed it

00:17:55.300 at 37% was it? That was a large sampling. That was a good solid poll. So these are numbers done

00:18:05.700 despite ourselves. These are numbers that are coming up without a widespread organization. And I know

00:18:11.300 some APP people will get upset with me and no, I know they're working hard and they're packing rooms

00:18:15.540 and they're holding great meetings and they're doing a lot of really good work, but reaching new

00:18:19.780 people is difficult for them. So that, that 37%, I mean, a portion of that could be attributed to

00:18:26.580 the organizational work of groups like the APP, but a whole lot of it's organic. It's just people

00:18:30.580 coming up with it to that conclusion on their own because of current events. So if it can be harnessed,

00:18:36.500 if it can be organized, then no, it's not impossible. I'd still say if I was a betting man,

00:18:43.380 I'd have to take some odds before betting on getting out 2026 or having a yes vote. But boy,

00:18:49.060 it's definitely within the realm of possibility now, most definitely within that realm.

00:18:54.500 I hope so. You look at 95 and the referendum, Quebec got so close. They haven't had one since.

00:19:01.140 Uh, if, if it's 30 years before I see another one here in Alberta, I probably won't see another one

00:19:05.620 here in Alberta. I'll be too old. I'll be gone. Probably. I'll be 90 years old.

00:19:10.420 We'll see. And ironically, you know, one of the worst things that can happen is a really close one.

00:19:14.820 I mean, I, I think if it's going to come and we vote, I, I, I mean, Hey, I want to see a win,

00:19:19.700 but if it, if it is 50% plus 0.1 of a percent, oh boy, we're in for a mess. Like you got a kick

00:19:27.940 for the goal here. This has got to be beyond 50% comfortably. Okay. I have one more question after

00:19:33.460 this one. If, if it were close, would Alberta be in a position like Quebec has been in? I mean,

00:19:41.060 they've held the, the referendum, the separation thing against Canada for decades. Um, of course,

00:19:48.100 the votes are much more important in Quebec, uh, to the people in Ottawa, but do you think

00:19:52.420 it would help Alberta if it was a close vote for separation here?

00:19:55.620 I absolutely do. Because if we're, if we're looking at 45% in a, I mean, does you know that

00:20:01.860 we're not talking about a general, you know, CTV poll or a poll held by the standard or something

00:20:06.980 like that, that was people on the ground campaigning that's getting really close to the goalposts on,

00:20:12.500 on this measure. I think it will shake up the country. It will wake people up and realize,

00:20:18.180 even though we don't understand those Albertans, but okay, they're pretty turned upset. We've got to

00:20:22.420 change something like this because if we don't change something, that number will continue to

00:20:27.300 grow. Uh, they didn't just leave Quebec alone the day after that close vote. As you said, I mean,

00:20:31.860 there was a lot of work, a lot of concessions, uh, a lot of pandering, which ironically led to more of

00:20:37.300 the unity issues on this side of the country, but it would serve as a heck of a wake up call to the

00:20:42.100 rest of the nation that, yeah, if you really want to hold onto that concept of a whole and united Canada,

00:20:47.140 you got to start doing something radically differently and soon because it's going to keep growing if you

00:20:52.180 leave it alone. I I've been critical and you brought it up here saying that there's really no leader.

00:20:57.460 Um, that's something I think we need. We need that figurehead. I saw Jason Kenney. He's been popping up

00:21:01.940 talking about this a lot, of course, and the head Nancy, the head of the NDP by election for him. Uh,

00:21:07.860 he's going to use this against Danielle Smith, but he's a voice against the independence movement here of

00:21:12.420 two big names here in the province. For sure. We haven't got that person right now. Uh, Jeff Rath,

00:21:17.460 certainly doing some good work. I appreciate what he's been doing. Smart man, lawyer, Cam Davies,

00:21:21.700 whether you like what he's doing or not, at least he's a face out there talking about this issue.

00:21:25.540 Wild Rose independence party. Uh, you're the guy who wrote the book on this, you know, this inside out.

00:21:30.500 Have you ever considered maybe leading up this movement? You wanted to do it years ago.

00:21:34.900 And I've changed and I've grown things I've learned a lot about and being around a lot of actually,

00:21:42.340 you know, politicians and folks over the years now and things I thought I wanted to be and realizing

00:21:47.060 I'm not the person for it. Uh, a leader is much more than the one who gets to the podium and can

00:21:52.740 speak to the crowd, which I can do. I like to think fairly well and speak to the movement and things

00:21:57.940 fairly well. And I want to continue to do so, but leading takes a different sort of organizational

00:22:03.860 skills and interpersonal skills, that ability to, uh, run committee meetings and, and, uh,

00:22:11.060 Kiss babies and shake hands. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot to it. And I don't have all of those skills.

00:22:17.220 I'm aware of it now. And, uh, I like to think I have a role in this movement and I want to be as

00:22:22.580 vocal and expand on it as much as possible. I'm comfortable saying that a spokesperson for the

00:22:26.980 concept by all means, but for an outright leader of some sort of organized, uh, uh,

00:22:34.100 function of some sort, I don't think I could quite hold that role very well. Communicators, sure.

00:22:39.300 But, uh, the one manager, not so much. I, I, this isn't going to be a very popular thing when you say,

00:22:45.940 I wouldn't want to be a politician. I think they have to work too hard and people are going to say,

00:22:49.220 you're not shy. I said, no, I drove with a, I drove with an MPP of mine from Cornwall, Ontario to, uh,

00:22:55.940 the legislature in Toronto. I spoke with the minister of transportation there, a five hour

00:23:00.980 drive, never said a word to the guy. Cause he was on the phone working constantly on a Friday night.

00:23:04.980 I couldn't do it. And I, people complained about poly being a politician for 20 years. I don't know how

00:23:09.860 you can be a politician for 20 years. It's a constant job, constantly working and working with the

00:23:15.220 public. I just couldn't do it. I've been asked to run before, and there's no way I could do that job.

00:23:19.620 Just much too much. No, it takes a special person. It really does. So, uh, I want to send people your

00:23:26.580 way. I think if people want to get information regarding, um, really how to answer the questions,

00:23:32.420 go to your personal YouTube, Corey Morgan, of course, Western standard, go subscribe to the Western

00:23:37.220 standard. Uh, one of the few places in the country that really, you know, has our thoughts and our

00:23:43.620 feelings in mind when it comes to presenting the news, giving us information. So go over there as

00:23:49.300 well and get your book. I guess the place to get that is at Amazon probably, right, Corey?

00:23:54.260 It's the easiest spot, unless you catch me at a function. I'm always carrying an arm load.

00:23:58.580 Sure. Uh, but again, I appreciate this very much. Um, I'd like to chat with you again in the future.

00:24:05.220 I appreciate you being here on my little channel. Um, I'm, I'm a great admirer of you. I've been

00:24:10.260 watching you for years and how are the bees doing by the way? I was just, uh, just wondering.

00:24:14.100 Oh, they're doing well. I managed to get myself stung the other day and

00:24:19.300 messed up, but that comes with it. But no, I really quite enjoy it. It's a, for,

00:24:22.980 you know, a little bit of time each week, I'll get away from politics for a little bit. I think

00:24:27.140 it's good for the soul and the mind. I do. I've got political fatigue. I really do. Corey,

00:24:31.940 thanks so much. Thank you. And thank you very much for watching. I do appreciate you being here.

00:24:37.380 If you liked the video, give me a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for

00:24:40.580 notifications, and I will see you in the next one.

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