John Bolton - Thank you

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Sunday, July the 19th. I hope you're

00:00:07.580 having a great day today and a fantastic weekend with the big blue mug of coffee. I might have

00:00:13.040 to keep this short because my voice is kind of shot today. And because my voice is very

00:00:18.060 tired, I'm going to take the day off. And as much as I'd like to do the independence

00:00:22.800 calendar today, I'm going to leave it for another day. I wanted to take this opportunity

00:00:27.780 to thank everybody for an incredible day yesterday to the best of my knowledge uh the alberta

00:00:34.100 telethon the telethon for independence raised 135 000 i counted the numbers i think it might

00:00:40.420 be more than that be great if it was up towards 150 but that's the latest numbers i've got right

00:00:45.540 now so if you're watching this and you haven't made a donation you can go to albertatelethon.com

00:00:51.180 and you can contribute right now be great if we could get to 150 000 i want to i want to show you

00:00:56.880 something here. I was thinking about this when I got up this morning. I posted this on X, but I

00:01:01.700 wanted to show this to the people who aren't on X. The event yesterday cost $10.98 United States

00:01:09.200 dollars. That's it. $10.98 in U.S. dollars for a website, albertatelethon.com. That's all that

00:01:18.380 event cost. Now, certainly there is volunteer hours. Certainly there is some hard work in this,

00:01:23.840 But the people who put this on yesterday and the hosts and the tech people and everybody involved in this did this freely, volunteered their time, and it wasn't work.

00:01:34.600 It was working together towards a goal.

00:01:36.580 There's some people I'd really like to point out right now from a technical standpoint.

00:01:40.480 First off, my friend Jaeger, who helped us out immensely yesterday.

00:01:44.920 My friends at Critical Compass, to Mike and James, what a great set you guys set up.

00:01:49.460 They were sitting in a bed and breakfast in Edmonton, and it looked so pro.

00:01:54.300 It was just fantastic, and I want to say hi to Max.

00:01:57.880 I want to call Max Super Max today because Max is just an unbelievable character.

00:02:03.500 Everybody knows Max and the movement.

00:02:05.200 I've said it a couple of times.

00:02:06.300 I'm going to say it again.

00:02:07.480 There are people like Cher and Prince and Madonna.

00:02:10.280 Max is a one-name guy, and that's all he needs.

00:02:13.100 It says everything, so thanks to my friend Max.

00:02:16.740 Now, to the hosts, I'd like to thank all of you for being there yesterday.

00:02:22.780 I've said it a couple of times during the telethon yesterday that I went to people and said, would you be part of this?

00:02:29.580 And speaking about the hosts here, I said, would you be part of a telethon?

00:02:33.580 And they all said yes.

00:02:35.440 Not, I'll let you know later.

00:02:37.460 They all said yes.

00:02:39.640 And they were so helpful in getting this thing together.

00:02:43.520 it was so easy to schedule this thing. They all took part in Zoom calls. They did a wonderful job

00:02:50.120 yesterday. $135,000 in the event cost, less than $11 in United States cash. Unbelievable.

00:02:59.500 To the third-party advertisers, thank you so much for being very helpful yesterday. I was

00:03:04.140 bugging them all day to try to get updates on money. I really appreciate it. I met most of

00:03:09.840 them last night when we were at Paul's Pizza and they were all just grinning ear to ear. We all

00:03:16.180 were. Some of them made 40 times in a day what they would normally make, which is just incredible

00:03:21.800 and it'll go a long way to help them do what they're doing out there and doing such a great

00:03:27.400 job. I want to say hi to Mr. and Mrs. Albertan and John talking to Albertan specifically for

00:03:33.520 setting up that thing and being part of that event at Paul's Pizza last night. It was truly

00:03:38.860 remarkable. Who else do I need to thank here? Well, I'd like to thank all the Alberta Patriots

00:03:44.580 out there. I met many of them last night at Paul's. I got there very late. I was very tired,

00:03:48.480 but everybody was in such a great mood last night. But I want to thank all the people who

00:03:53.240 contributed. As I said prior to this event, we're going to need a lot of money to win.

00:03:58.460 We still need more. I've already got a couple of ideas for some more fundraisers. No more

00:04:04.060 telethons before the end of this. Okay. It's a lot of work. And I think you can go to the well

00:04:09.020 too often with something like that. But I've already got a couple of other ideas I'm working

00:04:13.280 on. A few of them are sitting on the desktop here on my MacBook at my house. So hopefully we can

00:04:18.540 raise some more money, but we will need more money. By the way, the website, albertatelethon.com

00:04:24.580 will continue to be up. It will be up until the referendum. And if you'd like to top us up and

00:04:29.520 get us to $150,000, you weren't able to contribute yesterday or you missed out, go to albertatelethon.com

00:04:35.560 and click on one of the links or many of them if you can and help out the great third-party

00:04:40.800 advertisers. Now, I want to talk to some of the people that I wasn't able to include in this.

00:04:46.640 There was a lot of moving parts in this event. You have to understand, this is a 12-hour event.

00:04:51.400 It was incredible from a technical standpoint. I had no idea. So that's why I thanked, you know,

00:04:56.180 Critical Compass and Jager and Max off the top. There are a lot of things going on here. And

00:05:02.060 it got to the point where there was a lot of noise around the outside coming from the periphery,

00:05:07.980 inside people who wanted to help. And I wasn't able to respond to everybody. For that, I apologize.

00:05:13.920 And I wasn't able to include everybody because it would have just made things far too confusing

00:05:19.100 and difficult to do. A lot of the third-party advertisers I picked way back in the beginning

00:05:23.600 of June. Many of them got in early. Those were people I knew. They were the ones I really trusted.

00:05:29.840 Not that the ones I didn't choose for this event I don't trust. I do. I know some of them. I wanted

00:05:34.840 to help them, but it just made it less complicated to do what we did yesterday, and I want to help

00:05:41.100 you if you'd let me. So please contact me if you can. If you've got my number, please contact me,

00:05:47.920 and I'd love to have you on the channel, and we can raise you some money so you can do the good

00:05:51.600 work and continue to do the good work that you want to do leading up to the end of this referendum

00:05:56.160 this was a great day it was a wonderful day uh thank you alberta patriots you know this is the

00:06:01.180 kind of thing this is the kind of thing alberta can do when it hasn't got bureaucracy in the boot

00:06:07.980 of uh you know an over an overseeing federal government with its boot on our neck if you know

00:06:16.380 what i mean these are the kind of things that can get done when you don't have bureaucracy and

00:06:21.100 regulations in the way. We just did this organically, and it worked out great. I'm so proud

00:06:26.660 of what we all did yesterday together. Thank you very much for doing this. It was just a great,

00:06:32.780 great day. Had a lot of fun. Pretty tired, so I'm going to take the day off today.

00:06:37.420 But thank you to all of my friends and more friends that I've made through this event.

00:06:42.740 Again, to the hosts, to the tech people, to the TPAs, to everybody who contributed here.

00:06:48.300 less than $11 US for this entire event. And we're at $135,000 and counting. If you want to

00:06:56.560 contribute, albertatelethon.com. I hope this wasn't too rambling. I'm taking the rest of the

00:07:01.720 day off today. I really appreciate you. I love you. I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - July 19, 2026

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