00:07:33.680you see and jean and rebecca schultz a press conference in calgary about an hour ago
00:07:40.400saying the ndp's promise of putting alberta into a net emission zero plan for 2035 is going to cost
00:07:50.26084 billion dollars according to two studies and that would make it the most expensive
00:07:56.080of political campaign promise in Alberta history and our real estate expert Mike Thomas has a look
00:08:04.640at the real estate markets in the two key areas of Vancouver and Toronto and the real estate there
00:08:13.780is purring along just fine. Rachel Notley just wrapped up a press conference in Edmonton so
00:08:19.300Arthur Green will be filing a story on that shortly and lots more good stuff to come
00:08:24.680of this afternoon, Corey. Right on. Well, I can see you're, well, I know you're busy as hell in
00:08:30.360there with this election going on and everything else. So I'll let you go back to it. Thanks for
00:08:34.040taking the time to check in with us, Dave. Thanks, Corey. That is the Western Standard
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00:09:16.860getting onto the federal scene. Let's get back because I like to keep reminding people of this
00:09:21.200because this keeps bubbling and going and bubbling and going, yet we don't seem to be getting any
00:09:26.640resolution. And that's the Chinese interference in Canadian politics, the latest revelation.
00:09:32.300You know, I mean, we keep seeing people on social media saying drip, drip, drip, because
00:09:35.260you see that steady dripping of somebody is leaking from CSIS, these reports, all of this
00:09:41.080stuff where they've been raising alarm flags for years and years about how the Chinese Communist
00:09:46.220party has been influencing Canadian politics. This latest one is quite a bombshell. Yet,
00:09:51.860of course, Trudeau dismissed it. That's not to be surprising. So Conservative Member of Parliament
00:09:55.720Michael Chong apparently sees this had been tracking that the Chinese government had been
00:10:02.120making potential threats to his family who reside back in Hong Kong still, because Chong had been
00:10:08.600very critical of the Chinese government over here. Like, think of how huge, how scary, how brutal
00:10:16.340this is. A foreign nation intimidating our elected officials because they don't like the policy0.99
00:10:22.480statements they took here. And it's not impossible again to think of China wanting to do that. Of0.86
00:10:27.000course, that's the sort of thing China does. They aren't a nice country or a nice country that the1.00
00:10:31.860government is terrible. They're communists. So yeah, the Trudeau government was warned of this
00:10:37.020years ago. And what did they do about it? Nothing, nothing. They didn't think it was important
00:10:43.360enough, I guess, to deal with. And that's essentially what Trudeau said. He said that
00:10:47.940he felt that CSIS just didn't feel this was a big enough issue to have to deal with. Meanwhile,
00:10:52.560Chong didn't even know about this going on. Now, there was a diplomat, Mr. Wei Zhao, who was
00:10:58.120involved in this. He was part of the one with the communications. He's the one that the CSIS had
00:11:03.580been tracking and watching this diplomat from the Chinese Communist Party in Canada. Well, guess
00:11:08.420what? He's still approved by the Canadian government to work in Canada. He's still an
00:11:12.760active diplomat here. He's been working on interfering with our elected officials,
00:11:18.560threatening their families back in China. That's how that government works. It's not just that they1.00
00:11:23.240can't control the people here. They control them through threatening their families. Many of them,
00:11:31.460if there's new Canadians or Canadians with Chinese family, they can threaten them from1.00
00:11:35.260where they're back home. You know, threatening phone calls, things like that. That's been1.00
00:11:38.140documented as well. Yet nothing's getting done about it. Trudeau keeps kicking the can down the
00:11:42.320road, appointing his friendly uncle-like figures to be special rapporteurs. The Trudeau Foundation,
00:11:48.440more stuff is leaking about how they were taking Chinese money in. This corruption mess is getting
00:11:54.040worse and worse and worse, and nothing's getting done. Jagmeet Singh, of course,
00:11:57.720he holds the power to change it. Won't do a thing. One of the most cowardly leaders in Canadian
00:12:02.380history, that man. And I just, you got to wonder what the heck is it going to take? Meanwhile,
00:12:08.940so, I mean, it got heated in the House of Commons. Pierre Polyev brought it up, wanted to speak about
00:12:13.580it, wanted an emergency debate. And he got threatened from the House Speaker, threatened
00:12:21.440to eject him from the House for persisting on it, because he shut down the debate, the Speaker,
00:12:26.620the speaker who's supposed to be impartial, but I mean, the speaker is a liberal member of
00:12:31.120parliament. Thus, they won't discuss it any further. I just got to wonder how many more
00:12:37.120leaks is it going to take? How bad is it going to have to get? It sounds like they've interfered
00:12:40.600with multiple elections of ours now. And then they've got that other story, you know, down in
00:12:46.200the States, there's Chinese police stations that were set up. We had them in Canada too.
00:12:50.920And Canada's prime minister of lies. And you know, every show I talk about Marco Mendicino and his
00:12:55.980lies because he lies about everything. The guy, I swear, he's pathological. He lied and said there
00:13:00.780were none of those police stations operating in Canada. Well, it turns out, yes, they are. Yes,
00:13:05.960they are. And, you know, these were, they call them police stations, basically their little
00:13:11.400toeholds of the Chinese Communist Party within our country that are here expressly for the purpose of
00:13:17.620influencing Canadian policy. Should we not be concerned about this? I mean, yes, but this issue0.88
00:13:23.520just seems to be dragging out to this strategy on the part of the prime minister to just keep
00:13:28.780kicking down the can down the road is working. And I don't know what it's going to take to hold
00:13:33.500them to account. I really don't. You can see why people give up on politics sometimes. I mean,
00:13:37.640it just feels futile sometimes. I don't know. We'll see what the release for next week is going
00:13:44.420to be when that one comes up. I mean, speaking of just some other fun idiocy in the world of
00:13:51.020the woke and many other things. Bud Light, yes, they still make the news now. And then
00:13:55.600their sales dropped 21% in the past few weeks, 21% after their collaboration with a transgender
00:14:04.460activist, Dylan Mulvaney. And again, I don't care. The company wants to, you know, go with0.94
00:14:10.580social media influencers and different types. Good for them. That's your business. It's your
00:14:14.260company. But I'm just astounded when it comes to this, because like, no, your market guys,
00:14:18.840these are guys at rodeos. These are guys, you know, in country bars. That's your main market.
00:14:25.440If you wanted to change your market and ease into it, fine, do so. But do it carefully. Don't jump
00:14:31.300right in with this. Boy, are you ever taking a spank over this pointlessly and without need.
00:14:37.400I don't know, but it all comes down to that ESG trend and almost fanaticism on the part of
00:14:42.840corporations. I guess recently Coca-Cola had their own shareholders stand up and tell them to cut it
00:14:47.380out because they were getting pushed to take a stance and boycotting states that aren't providing
00:14:51.820ready enough services for abortion. Let the corporations be corporations. It doesn't matter0.98
00:14:56.900what side of the issue you're on. Quit this ESG garbage. Their role is to make money for their
00:15:01.400shareholders. They shouldn't apologize for that. And they got to quit dipping their toes into the
00:15:05.580water of social justice activism because as the saying goes, go woke, go broke. So yes, a 21%
00:15:11.480sales drop in one of the largest beer brands on the planet. That's nothing to sneeze at and it's
00:15:17.280going to take them a lot of work to get that market back. All right, let's get into some
00:15:21.300more domestic politics and talk to our guest, Professor Tom Flanagan, and talk conservatism,
00:15:26.900politics, elections, and all that good stuff. We'll bring him in and see how it's going.
00:15:33.300Hello, how are you doing? Hi, Corey. I appreciate you coming on to talk to us today. You know,
00:15:39.200we got this election going. It's going to be clearly already a heated and an ugly one in a
00:15:44.880lot of ways uh but what i kind of want to start with is you know it's so close it's neck and neck
00:15:52.000well there's no conservative split for the parties right now there's uh not even it's not even a
00:15:57.600liberal uh party on the other side that you can say is ostensibly centrist it's ndp like albert
00:16:04.320is supposed to be the bastion of conservatism what happened well the main thing that's happened
00:16:09.960over the long term is the collapse of the liberals and the migration of their support
00:16:15.460to the NDP. The perception of Alberta as an overwhelmingly conservative province was always
00:16:23.480a bit misleading. It was based on the vote splitting on the left. If you went back and
00:16:30.600looked at the voting results for all the years that the conservatives were in power,
00:16:35.000it was only a couple of times that they got more than 50 percent of the vote uh usually their their
00:16:41.600vote was strong uh but not actually a majority there was always a lot of voters that were looking
00:16:47.720for an alternative to the conservatives well now they have one and so our politics now looks pretty
00:16:52.900much like that of the other western provinces in which you have on one side a conservative party
00:16:58.980with you know in each province it's a different name and a different different history and then
00:17:04.440on the left, you have the NDP. And so we're very, our politics now is very much like that
00:17:11.100of British Columbia or Saskatchewan or Manitoba. And so, as I say, the perception that Alberta
00:17:18.260was different was a bit misleading. It was based on the, on the split between the liberals
00:17:24.100and the NDP, which has disappeared. Okay. So what can be done about it? I mean,
00:17:30.620We see the UCP, for example, though, is definitely trying to recapture, I guess, some of that center-right or softer conservative vote.
00:17:38.540I mean, it's a very high-spending campaign they're going on so far, and they're certainly backing away quite often or trying to avoid what would be considered old meat and potatoes conservative issues.
00:17:48.620Do you think they're going to be able to pull that vote back to them by the time Election Day comes?
00:17:56.840I mean, here's a situation for the UCP.
00:17:59.660Four years ago under Jason Kenney, they did win an overwhelming victory and they did get more than a majority of popular votes.
00:18:06.960But then they had the internal splits within the party.
00:18:09.880Jason resigned and new leader Danielle Smith, who's got into power mainly on the strength of the, you might call them the further right elements of the party, sort of a populist rural version of conservatism.
00:18:26.580These were her her main supporters. So now to to hope to win the election, they have to soften that image and perceive more to what in political science we call the median voter people who are kind of in the center of the distribution.
00:18:44.120There simply is not enough support for the populist right, even in Alberta, to win the election.
00:18:53.340They could win control of the UCP, but to win a general election, they're going to have to appeal more to the median voters.
00:19:03.260So that's what Danielle has been attempting to do.0.97
00:19:06.140She has downplayed some of the edgier positions that she took, like her Sovereignty Act was watered down, and she's opening up the purse strings, funding a new arena in Calgary, promises for improvement of the health care system.0.98
00:19:24.820All this stuff costs money, and it's designed to appeal to the median voter who could be swayed to vote in either direction.
00:19:33.140And they're not firm supporters of the UCP, so they have to have inducements.0.99
00:19:38.160So that's the strategy behind what she's doing.
00:19:40.980And it's a tried and true strategy of campaigning in Canada, as in other countries.
00:19:46.540And what she's doing is pretty standard.
00:19:52.320So, I mean, I guess some of the element of fear of the unknown with the NDP is gone as well.
00:19:57.800I mean, Alberta had never had an NDP government.
00:19:59.820It was always assumed it would be far, far left if they ever got their hands on things.
00:20:03.740And, you know, they certainly were a left-wing party when they were governing for four years,
00:20:08.400but they weren't as extreme as some might have feared they'd be.
00:20:11.900So it's not, people won't feel it's the end of the world if they got in again.
00:20:15.320So that's where they become, I guess, more into consideration for a common voter than they used to be 10 years ago when they were kind of a mystery.
00:20:22.000Yeah, well, you know, elections are largely determined by fear and loathing, as great journalists put it.
00:20:31.080I think the UCP should actually be doing more to stoke that.
00:20:38.140I think their best line of attack against Rachel Notley would be, and they are doing this to some extent, and I think they probably need to do more of it, to highlight her association with Justin Trudeau.
00:20:50.920And you could even throw in the leader of the federal NDP for, you know, for keeps, for a bonus, you know, put a picture of the three of them together and maybe have to manufacture the picture and say, are these the people you want running Alberta?
00:21:08.440Because Trudeau is very unpopular here and the federal Tories have no trouble sweeping the province.
00:21:15.780So, you know, I would say you want to associate Rachel Notley in the popular mind with Justin Trudeau and point to episodes in the past where the two of them were on the same page.
00:21:30.240For their part, what the NDP is doing, I think this is a very effective attack ad.
00:22:12.520You're trying to you're trying to provoke debate, but you're not running for office.
00:22:16.440Well, it's hard to move from what she has done as a media commentator to running for office, because now you have all this stuff that you said and it's all online.
00:22:26.480So anyway, the NDP is is their fear and loathing is with this line of attack.
00:22:33.040So that's part of the election. Negative advertising is an essential part of campaigns.
00:22:39.960some people say they don't like it but it's an essential way of bringing out facts
00:22:44.180well yeah i mean people people complain about it but there's i mean if any area of marketing has
00:22:51.040been more studied and checked and tested before its political campaigns the reason it's done is
00:22:56.000because it works and and whether you like it or not you can't pretend to play a high road and stay
00:23:00.960out of it or you'll get the floor mopped with you from the other team it's it's an unfortunate
00:23:04.560trend but it's a reality in politics today yeah i you know i've managed campaigns for different
00:23:11.000leaders and uh different leaders when they were new in the job and without exception leaders when
00:23:17.520they're new say well no i'm going to take the high road no negative advertising uh well they
00:23:22.840paid a price for it um i remember in 2004 the conservatives got creamed by the liberals with
00:23:30.120a barrage of negative ads well in 2006 we were ready for him and we had our own barrage of
00:23:35.320negative ads you have to balance the balance the ledger so i think danielle has learned that less
00:23:41.480should have learned that lesson and from the past um so we'll see if she's if she's ready to respond
00:23:48.440in kind to what the ndp are are attempting to do to her uh so that's a big feat it's an interesting
00:23:55.720campaign both both women uh which is how nobody even comments on that anymore it's become so
00:24:01.800accepted that women have leading roles in politics um but i think they're going to have to use these0.99
00:24:09.880and they are already starting to use these older techniques of campaigning well and you know you1.00
00:24:16.200mentioned that it's both women and one of the things that sort of went really poorly for for
00:24:20.120uh premier prentice during the his election when he lost to the ndp was during the debates and it
00:24:25.720it really was an impression of bullying you know it was the taller man standing up talking down to
00:24:31.080to a more you know a shorter woman and that imagery really soured a lot of people uh premier
00:24:37.800smith isn't going to be accused of misogyny or bullying if she jumps into the the mix on the
00:24:44.280the more negative front uh like a male leader would in a sense it's yeah that's a good point
00:24:48.360corey yeah she she doesn't have to worry about that uh so i say let you know let them go at it
00:24:59.360The biggest advantage that the UCP has is the fact that they get more bang for the buck
00:25:05.640for their votes in that the rural ridings in Alberta have smaller populations.
00:25:12.180So, or in other words, they elect a few more members than they would if the constituency
00:25:18.340boundaries were strictly proportional.
00:25:20.360So that's the advantage that the UCP has. Whether it's enough to carry them over the finish line, I don't know. They will probably lose. They'll be lucky to elect two or three or four members in Edmonton. They'll sweep the countryside except for urban pockets like Lethbridge.
00:25:38.520um calgary is uh you know contested and both parties will win seats in calgary i think but
00:25:46.440uh just a case of do you get quite enough to get you over that 50 plus one number of seats
00:25:53.840uh every seat counts you know i mean so this battle has to be waged everywhere even if the
00:25:59.460ucp isn't strong in edmonton the two or three seats they they could win there might be the
00:26:04.840margin of victory uh so both parties have to contest everywhere well absolutely and i mean
00:26:10.640you get the donut around edmonton which are there's actually some strong ucp support there
00:26:15.240but it's swing and if you neglect edmonton too much i imagine that could hang over and you could
00:26:19.620lose some of those marginal seats absolutely yeah even if interior edmonton looks like a lost cause
00:26:24.700so i mean a lot of it's laying on trust and they're really bringing that to a head with
00:26:30.920Premier Smith, the NDP, against her and saying you can't trust her. You don't know what she's
00:26:35.180going to do. I mean, Daniel Smith has always been prone to impulsiveness. She is more of an
00:26:39.240idealist than a pragmatist, I think, when it comes to a lot of things. I think she's learning
00:26:45.240about that quickly now. But as you said on my show, if I were to run, and I know better,
00:26:50.600that's not going to happen. Of course, the opponents are going to dig out all sorts of
00:26:54.740quotes and things, and they'll pull them out and let them out slowly all the way through the
00:26:57.980campaign we know that's going to happen it continue to happen with premier smith is there
00:27:01.820any way though she can head that off or is she going to keep suffering this death of a thousand
00:27:05.760cuts every day uh the best defense is a strong offense uh if you're playing defense you've
00:27:12.260already lost so that's why i say that the the ucp has to should have its own strong negative campaign
00:27:18.880against rachel notley uh don't bother trying to explain away things that danielle may have said
00:27:26.320in the past. I mean, she's already dealt with that, for example, on health care. She said there
00:27:32.080won't be any fee-for-service health care. There's other ways you can point things that she has done.
00:27:40.260That's enough. Now you go on the attack and, you know, make it all about Rachel Notley's ties to
00:27:47.440the federal politicians who want to destroy Alberta's economy. That's the best defense.
00:27:53.460So one other thing before I finish up with you is something kind of different around this time.
00:27:58.180I mean, there's always been some hot spots, but the rift between kind of both parties and the media in this election and trying to control their messaging going out.
00:28:05.740In the case of Rachel Notley, there's just certain outlets, including ours, that she just won't even talk to whatsoever.
00:28:10.660They won't even send us press releases.
00:28:11.940uh and uh premier smith is won't take follow-up questions at conferences and is trying at least1.00
00:28:18.120to reduce the the amount of messaging going out when she goes into those uh i mean normally0.99
00:28:23.540politicians are beating your door down at election time to try and talk to the media as much as
00:28:27.480possible right now they seem to be kind of almost trying to avoid it yeah this is again unfortunate
00:28:32.500but i guess an inevitable trend of the polarization of media uh you know at one time there were fewer
00:28:39.000media outlets and they had some pretense of objectivity and neutrality in politics today
00:28:46.360that pretense is largely gone and all the media are identified with one side or another and
00:28:52.760politicians inevitably then uh take side this is not a new development uh for example when i was
00:28:59.480working for stephen harper uh he made strong attempts to to speak to local community newspapers
00:29:07.160uh in preference for wasting his time with the toronto star for example uh joe biden you know
00:29:14.600he's very selective and in the questions that he will take um it's it's just a fact of life
00:29:23.560so uh we have to get used to that and uh you know i know it'd be frustrating for
00:29:29.960and I'll do like Western Standard if the NDP won't talk to you.
00:29:35.700So go and talk to the other side and let them speak.
00:29:59.820So I guess we just have to live with it.
00:30:02.480So, you know, we used to think there'd be a neutral media that would let both sides speak.
00:30:06.680Well, both sides are still speaking, but now they're speaking through their own outlets.
00:30:12.460NDP has press progress and other house organs that they can speak through.
00:30:17.560Western Standard is a conservative voice.
00:30:21.680You know, I guess it's not the ideal, but that's the way it is.
00:30:25.340Yeah. Well, I guess I hope that some outlets on each side managed to hit the middle of somewhere and inform the voters. That's all we can hope for. All right. Well, that went fast, but there was just a lot to cover. I really appreciate you coming on to talk to us today, Professor Flanagan. It's going to be an interesting few weeks to see how this develops. I mean, it's close races in Alberta are actually something that have only come about in the last 10 years or so.
00:30:47.480Well, because of the – I have to go back to the big structural factor that is determining everything else is the collapse of the provincial liberals, migration of their support to the NDP, the emergence of a two-party system in Alberta, a true two-party system in which you have two large parties contesting for government.
00:31:08.140These are all relatively new developments in our history.
00:31:11.680We never had them from 1905 up until, as you say, the last 10 years.
00:31:15.520So a lot of our sort of conventional wisdom about politics is outdated. It goes back to an earlier era. But now we have a different configuration, which seems likely to last into the future.
00:31:31.540i don't see any sign of small parties uh reviving liberal provincial liberals are dead the alberta
00:31:37.460party seems to be dead the greens never got anywhere in alberta the further right parties
00:31:43.380have been wiped out by the the further right takeover of the ucp then that took the wind
00:31:49.620out of the sails of the provincial wild rose party so all these small parties are are non-entities
00:31:55.540now so it's just a big two going at it and it's different for people with memories that's quite
00:32:01.220different uh than alberta politics used to be but i think it's going to be the the way it will be for
00:32:06.260the future yeah well we'll watch them punch it out for the next few weeks and see what happens
00:32:11.700so thank you again i hope we can check in with you again perhaps before the end of the election
00:32:16.020or right after it okay vote early vote often bye-bye thank you bye again that was yes professor
00:32:23.460tom flanagan who has been very involved in politics in canada for quite some time and
00:32:27.460pointing out some very good points. And that change, you know, that true evolution into a
00:32:35.320two-party system, I think it's a bit, it goes in cycles to a degree though, right? Like when we
00:32:41.280look at Saskatchewan, a news story that came up recently, the Sask United Party. I mean,
00:32:47.740Saskatchewan kind of went to a point where they had a few things going on. They used to have
00:32:51.060progressive conservatives and Grant Devine sort of blew that up. If you remember that old term for
00:32:56.520what, to err is human, but to truly F up is divine. And he really did do it. He basically
00:33:01.480annihilated the progressive conservatives in Saskatchewan. It led to a long period of time
00:33:05.980with the NDP in power of Romano. And they sort of, they had a liberal party on the scene as well
00:33:13.600and things. And the liberal party in Saskatchewan sort of seems to have gone to the wayside. And
00:33:17.780it turned into a bit of a two-party system. But now you've got this United Party coming from the
00:33:22.660right. And is this going to be a repeat of Alberta though? Is there going to be a risk of Saskatchewan
00:33:27.980putting a NDP government back in power because the right splitting? And I, you know, when you think
00:33:33.720of it in Alberta, yeah, we had the NDP and the Liberals splitting things on the left. Now look
00:33:38.440at the federal scene. That gets a little more concerning altogether because we still do have
00:33:42.620a number of parties up there. But as far as the House goes, they're only splitting things on the
00:33:47.460left. You've got the NDP and the Liberals. And yes, they've formed an agreement, you know, not a
00:33:51.360formal coalition, but something of a coalition, and they're maintaining power based on that.
00:33:56.440But how do you break that? I mean, that means if the NDP and the liberals are one of the two
00:34:01.640collapses, or if the two ever formally merged, they would become even more powerful and intractable.
00:34:06.960Like in a two-party system, if it really was just conservative, just liberal in Ottawa,
00:34:13.160I think we'd have liberal governments forever. Perish the thought. As part of why I do think,
00:34:19.240I look along the lines of sovereignty and independence and provincial autonomy so we can adapt to those regional differences because changing things within the current system is going to be exceedingly difficult.
00:46:12.460So the UN is brokering a grain corridor out of Ukraine, which is important.0.89
00:46:19.000But more importantly, if the war moves from Ukraine soil to perhaps Russian soil, as we've seen last night, there's a drone attack on in Russian soil.
00:46:29.920So it would have a larger impact on the grain markets.
00:46:57.560that we keep our eye on that for sure.
00:47:00.480Then outside markets, you'd said some other stuff on that.
00:47:04.080I mean, these things impact, of course, the domestic things as well, and need to be watched, such as the crude oil markets these days.
00:47:10.520Yeah, you know, it's always important as a producer, as a farmer, to pay attention to more than just what your local commodities are selling at.
00:47:22.020Because you look at crude oil, it's been in a free fall for a few days.
00:47:27.480It's actually dropped below $70 a barrel this morning.
00:47:29.920and actually another one that I find of interest is sugar and I'll explain the reason why sugar's
00:47:36.280actually been on the upswing it's corrected over the last few days but it's actually quite strong
00:47:42.320so we would look at energy markets as sort of your industrial energy and sugar as sort of your
00:47:48.600food energy so between the two of them they will have impact on the crops that you're growing
00:47:55.560um we we tend to think of the food or the crops that we grow on the prairies as typically just
00:48:02.460food or maybe feed stock that we grow well they're actually energy stock as well if you look at the
00:48:07.860ethanol industry the biofuels industry a lot of the commodities that you're growing do end up as
00:48:13.540an energy product somewhere along the line so keep an eye on those outside markets as well
00:48:18.580well there's a lot to track and that's where you guys specialize uh so where can people find more
00:48:24.940information about your organization? You've got it listed right there. We're always available.
00:48:30.860Marketplace commodities, give us a call at the office. We have a team of dedicated traders that
00:48:35.560are looking to help you market your grain. We are buying and selling grain across Western Canada,
00:48:42.460across Alberta and Saskatchewan specifically. It's where most of the volume comes and we'd be happy
00:48:47.880to hear from you. Great. Well, good to check in with you again, Jim, and we'll talk to you again
00:48:52.860soon. All right. Thanks, Corey. Take care. Great. Thank you. Okay, guys, that kind of runs up our
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