John Bolton - January 03, 2025


Pierre Poilievre Is A Beast


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

187.46967

Word count

1,545

Sentence count

140

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Pierre Polyev is a beast. He's been around for 20 years, and he's had a mission since the first time he was elected back in 2004. And he has been unrelenting when it comes to running for Prime Minister.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 Hi there, it's John and welcome to the channel. Great to have you along today. It is Friday,
00:00:04.640 January 3rd, 4.59am with the big blue mug of coffee this morning. And I feel like I'm living
00:00:10.320 in bizarro world this morning. I woke up thinking about what I would chat about today on this
00:00:16.700 channel and I thought I'm going to do a video on Pierre Polyev. And I'm going to do a video
00:00:22.320 and I'm going to call it Polyev or Pierre Polyev is a Beast. And that's why you clicked on this
00:00:27.860 today. And that's what I've called this video. So what do I do? I get up to feed my cats. I open up
00:00:33.020 my YouTube channel. And the very first post on my YouTube channel today, here it is on the screen,
00:00:38.640 is an interview that Jordan Peterson has done with Pierre Polyev. An hour and 41 minutes. And I've
00:00:44.460 watched about the first 15 of it. I'm going to watch the rest of it today. And I thought, wow,
00:00:47.640 that's kind of odd. So I come down to my office here in the basement, open up X on my computer.
00:00:52.360 The very first post I see this morning is Elon Musk commenting on Jordan Peterson's interview
00:00:58.400 with Pierre Polyev. Now, why do I say Polyev is a Beast? Well, because I think this man has had a
00:01:04.200 mission since the first time he was elected back in 2004. And he has been unrelenting when it comes to
00:01:12.720 running for Prime Minister. Let me show you right here. I got this sign at Spruce Meadows. Now,
00:01:18.900 Spruce Meadows is an equestrian center here in Southern Calgary. As a matter of fact,
00:01:24.920 as the crow flies, it's less than 10 minutes from where I'm sitting right now. And back in April of
00:01:29.680 2022, Pierre Polyev came to town. And at that point, he was not the leader of the opposition. Here's some
00:01:35.020 pictures, okay. And a video of what happened at Spruce Meadows that day. And he was running for the
00:01:41.320 leader of the Conservative Party at the time. And it was unreal. This is a huge building. And it is
00:01:48.880 filled to capacity. It was a traffic jam, getting in and out of Spruce Meadows. And people really,
00:01:54.740 really like Pierre Polyev. And they like his message. So when I started watching the Peterson
00:01:59.780 video this morning, the first question that Peterson asked Polyev is about what he's been
00:02:06.760 doing. And here's a little bit of that video.
00:02:10.560 I'd like to hear about your day-to-day schedule and your week-to-week schedule. Like,
00:02:14.200 lay out your job.
00:02:16.700 Basically, we have two parts to my professional life. It's very bifurcated. There's the Parliament
00:02:23.320 Hillside, which is, you know, early morning meeting with my leadership team, House leader,
00:02:28.160 deputy leader, whip, etc. to plan out the day, the battle plan for our parliamentary committee's
00:02:35.960 question period, etc. That is punctuated by one weekly caucus meeting. And just the daily prosecution
00:02:44.060 of the government, which is the quintessential role of an opposition leader. And then the other part
00:02:49.260 to my life is touring. I asked my assistant today how many events we had done over the last year. And
00:02:57.120 he said it was exactly 600. I mean, a few weeks ago, it was 570-something. So we've done 600 events.
00:03:05.260 So in addition to being the leader of the opposition, the leader of the Conservative Party,
00:03:10.860 holding the government to account, doing his regular day job in Ottawa, having a family. He's
00:03:15.460 got a wife and kids, after all. The guy has done 600 things in a year. There's only 365 days in a year.
00:03:21.180 So you have to wonder when the guy sleeps. The man is an absolute beast. And I think he's had this
00:03:26.840 plan since he was first elected back in 2004. You have to understand, he's been around for 20 years.
00:03:32.640 A few years ago, he had an opportunity to run for the leadership of the party. But it wasn't quite
00:03:37.560 time for him because he had a young family. And he wanted to wait a little bit longer. And now is
00:03:43.140 the time. I first met Pierre Polyev at least, I think, 15 years ago. And please excuse me if I've
00:03:49.760 told this story before. But I used to have Guy Lozon into my studio in Cornwall. I was a radio
00:03:55.400 announcer. And I did a lot of interviews. Now, Guy was a Conservative and was the MP for Stormont,
00:04:01.500 Dundas, and South Glengarry. Now, Cornwall is an hour from Ottawa. And Guy was very often in my
00:04:07.160 studio because he had a riding that was close to Ottawa. And one day, he brought a young man in to
00:04:12.420 my studio and introduced me to him. And his name was Pierre Polyev. He said, John, this is Pierre Polyev,
00:04:17.980 future Prime Minister of Canada. So I think this has been Polyev's plan since the beginning. And he is
00:04:23.480 outworking Trudeau and Singh in a very big way. Not only that, I think he's a man of his time.
00:04:30.720 I look at what Trump did during his election campaign. And he did unusual things in order
00:04:35.880 to get people to hear his message and vote for him. And I think of Joe Rogan. He went on Joe Rogan's
00:04:42.360 show unscripted for, what, three hours. Harris wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole. And that
00:04:47.860 drew people into Trump. Because he had a good team working with him. And I think Polyev has
00:04:52.560 got a good team working with him as well. I don't know if you saw Wackos the other day,
00:04:56.140 the video. What is it? 14 minutes long. Incredibly entertaining. Very interesting. I mean, he's done
00:05:01.860 long form documentaries, 14, 15 minute videos on housing and economics that have hundreds of
00:05:10.940 thousands, if not millions of views. And he's made them entertaining. So this guy is an absolute
00:05:16.160 beast. And not only that, he's getting international recognition. I mean, I can go back to the Apple
00:05:22.020 video where he's standing there munching an Apple while he's being asked stupid questions by a left-wing
00:05:29.400 reporter. And, you know, you watch the video and you think, this has had to be scripted. This can't be
00:05:35.740 actually happening in real time. But it was an actual, authentic video that got people talking about
00:05:42.240 Pierre Polyev. Ask somebody in the United States who Stephen Harper is, they would have no idea.
00:05:47.600 But I'll bet some of them know Pierre Polyev. I mean, he even got recognition on Joe Rogan's show
00:05:53.040 because of that video. He's eating an apple. And he's talking to this reporter. And the reporter
00:05:58.980 keeps asking him really stupid questions. A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page
00:06:04.400 out of Donald Trump's book. But what are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you give me a page?
00:06:08.860 So we're living in unusual times right now. If you're a conservative in Canada, you're seeing
00:06:13.400 something quite extraordinary. You're seeing a guy who is just relentless on the campaign trail and
00:06:21.060 really wants to do the job for you. You know, I remember talking to a friend of mine a number of
00:06:25.760 years ago. He worked for a senior minister in the Harper government. And we were talking about the
00:06:31.960 upcoming election. And he had a prediction that the conservatives were going to lose. And I said,
00:06:36.380 why is that? He said, John, because what happens is parties that are not in power want to get into
00:06:44.060 power so badly, they work and work and work. And when they finally get the job, they work very hard
00:06:50.380 for a while. And then they become complacent. I think the liberals are that way. I don't think
00:06:56.760 they've done a very good job for a country. I think Trudeau has been a disaster for Canada.
00:07:00.960 But they're just complacent. They really just don't care anymore. And I don't think they care
00:07:06.640 about the people who live in this country and how they're harming people. I think Pierre Poliev
00:07:12.480 really does. I think he's a good person, a good man. And I think we could be on the cusp of one of
00:07:20.360 the biggest wipeouts in Canadian history. 29% lead right now in the polls. Liberals at 16%.
00:07:28.300 What are you thinking about liberal and NDP voters right now? Why are you not on the conservative
00:07:34.080 train? You should be because good times are coming to this country. And you need to get involved and
00:07:40.540 be part of it. I think Pierre Poliev is an absolute beast. I think we're lucky to have somebody like
00:07:45.820 him right now. And let me put it to you this way. The last two elections, I voted for the People's Party
00:07:51.040 of Canada. Because I just didn't like the leaders of the Conservative Party. I did not like Aaron O'Toole.
00:07:57.840 And what I really hated about Aaron O'Toole was his stance on carbon taxes and global warming.
00:08:02.560 It drove me crazy as a conservative. Pierre Poliev speaks for me. And he's speaking for millions in
00:08:08.400 Canada. He's an absolute beast. And I'm glad we've got him. Thanks for watching. See you in the next one. 0.97