Western Standard - January 06, 2021


Jan 5, 2020


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The great snowbird scandal of 2021 continues to rage in Alberta. Derek Fildebrandt and Dave Naylor pick up where they left off yesterday and discuss the political fallout from Jason Kenney's decision to let six of his own MLAs go on the "vacation" while the rest of the caucus is on vacation. Plus, a Black Lives Matter activist and candidate for City Council in Edmonton joins the show to talk about an exclusive story from The Western Standard.

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00:02:30.000 Hello, I'm Derek Fildebrandt. You're watching The Pipeline on January 5th, 2021. I'm joined
00:02:43.620 today by Cory Morgan, podcast editor and columnist with the Western Standard. Good day, Cory.
00:02:48.280 Good afternoon. I don't know if it's eight minutes into afternoon, I guess. Yeah.
00:02:55.680 Dave Naylor, news editor of the Western Standard. Good day, Dave.
00:02:59.280 G'day, Derek. Still morning for me out here in soggy Vancouver.
00:03:03.780 Indeed. Well, today we're picking up where we left off yesterday.
00:03:08.140 The great snowbird scandal of 2021, as we are dubbing it now, continues to rage.
00:03:17.340 There was a ministerial resignation yesterday.
00:03:20.180 Kenny fired his chief of staff and gave a small slap on the wrist to some of his
00:03:26.840 vacationing Tories despite the government's own lockdown. We're gonna
00:03:33.140 talk about the political follow-up of it. Have the heads that have been served up
00:03:37.340 and wrist slaps, are they enough to appease the anger of Albertans right
00:03:41.660 now? And what is gonna be the long-term fallout of this? We're gonna discuss it.
00:03:45.860 we're gonna discuss though I think very importantly did Jason can really not
00:03:51.860 know about this as he claims we've got a bit to say about it and we've got some
00:03:58.640 documents we're gonna share with you today and as well a Black Lives Matter
00:04:03.080 activist and candidate for City Council in Edmonton cheering the death of a
00:04:10.220 murdered Calgary police officer we'll we'll talk about that an exclusive story
00:04:14.960 from Dave Naylor at the Western Standard. So let's hop into it again with the great snowbird
00:04:21.400 scandal of 2021. We're jumping back in where we left off yesterday. Dave, Kenny accepting the
00:04:34.840 resignation of Tracy Allard from Cabinet, firing his chief of staff, Jamie Huckabay, and then giving
00:04:41.560 pretty minor slaps on the wrist to the other six UCP MLAs and then I think no
00:04:47.500 sanction at all towards the press secretaries Dave we've been put you've
00:04:51.960 been closely following the fallout of this is it looking like this is going to
00:04:56.560 be enough to satisfy the bloodlust of angry Albertans right now or do you
00:05:02.620 think there's more to come well I don't think it's anywhere near close enough to
00:05:07.180 satisfied the bloodlust. Derek, all the political columnists and all the major mainstream media say
00:05:13.800 it isn't. Not that they should be listened to, but, and certainly the phone calls and the emails
00:05:20.360 and text messages that I'm getting from Wild Rose supporters, they're just, they're just,
00:05:25.900 they're just still living. And, you know, now we're getting to the point in the story where
00:05:30.520 people are coming forward and saying, hey, did you know this person was there? And hey,
00:05:36.020 did you know that press secretary was was out of the province over here so these are all the leads
00:05:41.540 that we're we're following up as quickly as we can but uh still uh nowhere near the end of the story
00:05:47.780 and uh i think as you hinted at there derek the uh the question now becomes what did the premier
00:05:54.340 know and when did he know it indeed uh corey do you think uh i i mean perhaps this uh would have
00:06:02.980 gone down better if Kenny had made these actions when he held his now widely lamented press
00:06:11.180 conference January 1st. He acted instead yesterday, January 4th, when this scandal seems to have
00:06:18.700 gotten out of control. Do you think this is going to be enough or do you think it'll be pretty much
00:06:22.860 died down by this time next week? I honestly don't know. I mean, I don't know how much more
00:06:28.380 he can do. Well, we know things that people are calling for. I mean, some are calling for Kenny
00:06:31.700 to resign well it's not going to happen and the ndp is going to call for canada resign every week
00:06:35.700 over everything it doesn't really matter anyway um can he really kick six members totally out of
00:06:42.580 caucus i know he's kicked members out of caucus before and uh for what things that perhaps could
00:06:47.300 be considered lesser uh offenses than this but losing half a dozen and it's playing catch up
00:06:54.820 right like he's in a terrible position he's put himself into it uh friday he put out that conference
00:07:00.500 and did nothing but it also does tell me i i guess it's mixed either maybe it's a bit of both
00:07:05.300 he didn't realize just how bad this is which again shows some of the disconnect they have
00:07:10.500 with the mindset of grassroots and populist type of supporters and also he didn't he didn't know
00:07:17.700 how many guys were still out of the country and perhaps you shouldn't hold a conference until
00:07:20.940 you've had a head count on every one of them because that's part of what killed him too
00:07:24.500 he thought i could do this on a new year's day get it out put it to bed people will forget about it
00:07:28.800 but unfortunately over the next two days more of them got exposed which just poured gasoline on
00:07:34.140 the fire and then he was forced to do something by Monday what he'll be able to do though to put
00:07:39.640 it out is broken trust I don't think any more punishment is going to change it the only thing
00:07:44.740 you can hope for is one of two things one is something big and coming and pushing it down
00:07:48.700 the news cycle for him which is out of his control and the other thing is just time you've broken
00:07:54.080 trust and it's going to take time to regain it if you can. Yeah, and I think you're right. I'm not
00:08:05.020 sure that more heads will solve it at this point. And while people might say that they should all
00:08:10.240 be tossed, you can offer up the heads of maybe one out of caucus, maybe two, but it is tough
00:08:20.740 to fire uh seven or more uh members of your caucus uh and he didn't really know apparently
00:08:30.100 how many there were although i've not i think for the backbenchers they didn't know but uh
00:08:34.100 i have a pretty good feeling they knew how many members of cabinet were out of the country
00:08:38.020 uh and i'm not sure that the public does yet i have a feeling it was not just tracy allard even
00:08:42.900 though she's the one who's paid the price so far um but i think where this where this story is going
00:08:48.340 now is not just um what those guys did and kenny's reaction to it i think it's um jason kenny's
00:08:56.580 statements about what he knew and when he knew it um dave uh this is uh something you've had
00:09:04.820 some breaking stories on uh you know uh you've been working i think 14 hour days in our media
00:09:10.580 sweatshop here uh why don't you tell us where we're at with the with the memo and some of the
00:09:17.540 revelations we've had uh about when he knew and when he knew it yeah derek what happens when a
00:09:24.260 cabinet minister goes on holiday is they fill in a basically a vacation request form which they give
00:09:30.420 to their chief of staff uh the cabinet minister's chief of staff then gives it to the premier's
00:09:37.380 office and it's not just a case of okay minister a's going on holiday they have to figure out
00:09:43.060 who's going to cover for minister a so they have to give minister a's responsibility to to minister
00:09:49.220 x so it's not just a case of uh of rubber stamping now we've talked to a senior senior tory party
00:09:57.460 insider a former tory cabinet minister and a confidant of the premier jason kenney and he
00:10:04.900 says it's quote inconceivable unquote that the premier did not know that one of his cabinet
00:10:12.020 ministers uh you know had been gone for a month um and he points out the fact that you know kenny
00:10:19.380 is such a hands-on guy a hands-on command and control as he put it very much like stephen harper
00:10:26.020 used to be with his prime minister's office he just points out the fact that there's no way kenny
00:10:32.020 didn't know when we published this exclusive story last night on the western standard uh derek we got
00:10:37.860 an email from the premier's office within five minutes of it going up when's the last time we
00:10:42.820 did that holy cow we can't even get a question in at one of their press conferences but uh
00:10:47.940 you know on the bright side it shows they're reading us uh and quite closely and that uh that
00:10:53.300 press conference was just a reaffirmation saying look you know that that memo came into uh the
00:10:59.300 premier's office but there's no way it got to uh kenny's hands the premier did not see it well
00:11:05.060 well let's kind of go into that for a second here we've got uh so we've got this memo uh we're gonna
00:11:14.020 we're gonna pull it up here in a second um but we've got this memo from tracy owler the
00:11:20.100 now former minister to jason kenney and uh you can all see it here uh reads please be advised
00:11:26.900 that i will be on personal time december 29th 2020 until january uh 10th 2021 inclusive rick
00:11:33.300 McIver will take over yada yada yada uh that's from Tracy Allard you can see in the upper left
00:11:39.940 to the Honorable Jason Kenney Premier and copying Jamie Huckabee Chief of Staff um as well as Rick
00:11:47.540 McIver and the Chief of Staff to Allard uh now uh as uh you've said Dave uh once we put that up
00:11:57.540 the um uh a spokesman for jason kenney says oh he didn't read it
00:12:02.500 uh now let's just put this in context tracy allard was the chairwoman of the
00:12:09.300 government's coveted 19 emergency response committee
00:12:12.180 these which is the nexus of the entire government right now this is the most
00:12:16.260 important cabinet committee around and jason kenny is a well-known
00:12:20.660 workaholic even his critics admit that he's a hard worker
00:12:24.100 and he is a control freak he has his hands on everything he knows what every minister is doing
00:12:29.380 and we are supposed to believe that the premier of alberta during a lockdown did not read a memo
00:12:36.260 from the chair uh the chair of the coca 19 emergency response committee informing him
00:12:41.860 that she would be away we are supposed to believe uh that uh he didn't read this
00:12:49.220 I mean, we weren't in the room. So I suppose it is theoretically possible.
00:12:59.820 Corey, give us the over-under on what are the chances are that Jason Kitty did not really read
00:13:05.520 this? I think it's extremely unlikely that he didn't read it. I mean, to give a little bit of
00:13:12.780 benefit of the doubt, he may have read it though and thought, okay, she's going to visit her sister
00:13:18.360 in Saskatchewan or Edmonton or something and took the presumption that she'd be smart enough not to
00:13:25.460 leave the country at a time like this. I mean, there is a little bit of that wondering, but again,
00:13:29.580 he's on top. You have to wear it. So you can't apparently assume that your caucus is all smart
00:13:36.420 enough not to step into this mire because they did. And they shouldn't have had to have been
00:13:41.900 instructed not to but but the mess is all now on his lap he may have read it it's i'm sure he
00:13:48.700 probably did read it i i'll just try to be a little kind of think maybe he just assumed though
00:13:52.680 that it meant she was taking a break and not that she'd be leaving the country
00:13:55.400 uh yeah weight of the vaccine rollout and she is the minister in charge of it now uh what he said
00:14:05.980 is when he held his uh you know uh widely panned uh press conference of january 1st
00:14:13.100 uh he said i well we've got the actual wording here um well we've got it elsewhere uh but he
00:14:19.500 said i became aware of this on the 29th of december this memo is dated the 13th of december
00:14:26.860 uh that's a fair bit of time and he also said during that press conference we have had virtual
00:14:32.940 cabinet meetings so she's been and he meant to say oh she's been working it's
00:14:36.600 not like she wasn't actually doing anything while she was on vacation she's
00:14:40.180 been working we had virtual cabinet meetings so you had these long virtual
00:14:45.840 cabinet meetings and it never came up that she was about two hemispheres over
00:14:51.260 that is increasingly difficult to believe and again it's not just the
00:14:56.920 actions of the scandal here it's the cover-up of it it's what art is he
00:15:01.740 telling the truth of it to trying to extract himself from any blame um maybe you you've got
00:15:07.980 to wonder what allard was using as a green screen right maybe she's got a snowbound grand prairie on
00:15:14.380 it as opposed to her her lying on the beach but i i think you know kenny's blundered this from the
00:15:20.060 beginning i think cory hinted about that that friday performance was a fiasco and he's now
00:15:26.220 what in today four or five of radio silence so he's getting some bad advice i'm not sure who's
00:15:32.380 left to give him advice as he's you know he fired his chief of staff but he's getting some bad advice
00:15:37.820 and now you know it's the worst thing you can do because then you got the media screwing around for
00:15:43.260 stories well let's talk about the chief of staff more um i mean i suppose it's theoretically
00:15:50.460 possible not to know where a minister is even if you're on conference calls with her and she is
00:15:55.340 now the essentially the most important minister in the government right now
00:15:58.700 chairing the COVID-19 emergency response committee. Let's grant them that but
00:16:03.980 let's talk about the chief of staff. Now when I was in politics I had a chief of
00:16:08.060 staff and I can tell you I know if they're taking a piss. I know where they
00:16:12.160 are at all times. There is no one more important in your organization and I was
00:16:16.900 leading a pretty small political party. I was not the premier of Alberta so my
00:16:21.180 chief of staff as important as that person was there's a hell of a lot less
00:16:24.960 important than the chief of staff to the premier of a province, a major province.
00:16:28.840 You know where your chief of staff is at all times. Now Jason Kenney said I guess
00:16:37.200 is trying to have us believe that he did not know where his chief of staff was
00:16:41.820 for weeks on end while they were overseas during one of the biggest
00:16:48.600 crises a government can face. Well, Dave, you spoke to someone last night who has something
00:17:00.480 to say about that. They spoke on condition of anonymity. Why don't you run us through
00:17:04.940 what the likelihood is that Jason Kenney was telling the truth about not knowing where
00:17:09.580 his chief of staff was? Well, it's like you say, the chief of staff is your right arm.
00:17:16.640 right on with the cabinet minister. He's the one that gets him to all the appointments. He's the
00:17:20.520 one that tells him where he's going. He's the one that tells him who he's speaking to. You know,
00:17:25.160 he's the one that buttons up his tie and makes sure he's looking okay before he goes to, you
00:17:31.300 know, before he goes in front of the press. So, you know, to claim that he didn't know his chief
00:17:37.180 of staff was in the United Kingdom, as our force says, is inconceivable. Well, let's get into
00:17:45.840 that a bit more here um so you spoke to a senior uh he was a former senior minister uh conservative
00:17:53.200 minister and he is a close confidant of jason kenney we can tell you people this is not thomas
00:17:58.080 lukasik uh but this uh former minister and close confidant of jason kenny spoke on condition of
00:18:06.640 anonymity um he says uh when you go away every minister fills out a form the form goes to the
00:18:13.840 the Minister's Chief of Staff, then the Premier. It is, quote, inconceivable that Kenny wouldn't
00:18:20.100 know Allard was traveling. Well, when people close to you start speaking to the media,
00:18:28.400 that's probably a good reason to be worried. Corey, is this a sign that the wheels might
00:18:35.600 be falling off a bit here? Well, I imagine there's a lot of turmoil going on inside right now. I
00:18:42.020 mean everybody's scrambling they want to save their own butts uh they're they're pointing fingers
00:18:47.340 uh you know but again i i think what it all comes down to i mean kenny is a a smart guy you know
00:18:55.180 nobody could deny that it shows that that disconnect i mean with the chief of staff i
00:19:00.620 don't recall kenny ever directly said he didn't know about where uh huckabay was i think he's
00:19:06.060 been kind of silent on that one because it's just too much to believe that is as you said his right
00:19:10.740 man is uh has been gone you know out off the continent and he wouldn't know about it what it
00:19:16.100 does say though is they really didn't realize uh just how profoundly bad these actions were they
00:19:23.440 didn't realize how it was going to resonate with albertans uh that's a sign of the the elitism
00:19:29.060 that you get stuck with you know as they say dome disease or ottawa syndrome for the federal ones
00:19:33.860 and things like that but they they they don't even understand how they've offended everybody yet now
00:19:39.000 that it's really blowing up in their face, they're getting a really good understanding of it.
00:19:43.260 But I think the reason they didn't try to cover that earlier is because they didn't even realize
00:19:47.880 they were doing something wrong. And that's kind of a whole different level of disturbing.
00:19:51.700 Now, what's making it worse, Derek, at this moment is the federal liberals, right? Everybody's
00:19:56.840 bogeyman in the West. And their MPs who have admitted that they traveled are voluntarily
00:20:03.580 stepping down. Even before it was made public, they're coming forward and saying,
00:20:07.560 I visited this sick grandmother I visited this person and I'm stepping down from my role as
00:20:13.440 parliamentary secretary to this that and the other we're doing it voluntarily far worse less terrible
00:20:21.900 circumstances resignations were unnecessary I mean one went to a memorial service or funeral
00:20:29.760 in Washington State another one went to see a dying relative in Delaware I am not terribly
00:20:36.420 outraged about that uh and the thing is they admitted it voluntarily and they took their their
00:20:42.900 job cuts voluntarily the prime minister came out this morning first time he's been seen in ages
00:20:48.260 outside rito cottage and he scolded scolded uh politicians you shouldn't be traveling at this
00:20:53.460 time of year uh you know so when the liberals look smarter than the ucp does it's a big public
00:20:59.140 relations image uh this uh this confidence of uh premier kenny's last night described it as
00:21:05.540 like the dying days of uh allison redford's uh premiership so uh you know i'm not sure if kenny's
00:21:11.780 gone into the bunker uh uh yet beneath the dome but uh it's it's a pretty bleak for him at the
00:21:18.740 moment and unlike cory i really don't know what he does to try and get out of it indeed okay well uh
00:21:26.340 let's move on uh dave you're just a bloody machine um breaking news stories um the latest
00:21:34.580 is a black lives matter activist and defund the police guy and candidate for edmonton city council 0.87
00:21:40.980 uh why don't you tell us uh what's what's going on with this oh derek reporters aren't supposed
00:21:47.460 to get personally involved in their stories but i i just found this disgusting it made me uh
00:21:52.900 made me sick to my stomach um this is a gentleman called abdul hakim dolla he's a edmonton uh
00:22:02.740 community activist he calls himself a community activist and he's uh he's a politician up there
00:22:08.660 he tried to run for the ndp in the last federal election but uh didn't make it through the
00:22:15.060 nomination uh process he's now uh said he's running in ward seven in the election and he
00:22:22.340 celebrated the death today of calgary police sergeant andrew harnett who was killed in that
00:22:27.540 horrible horrible hit and run and he was responding to a tweet about Prime
00:22:33.460 Minister Trudeau not you know publicly acknowledging the fact that Harden had
00:22:39.420 fallen in the line of duty which the the Prime Minister has done on you know
00:22:43.740 every time a soldier or usually another police officer does fall in the line of
00:22:48.600 duty and Dalal came out and answered that tweet by saying quote cuz he was a
00:22:56.820 a corrupted police officer, unquote.
00:23:00.100 And then he followed it up with five smiley emojos.
00:23:05.360 Just, you know, no matter what side of the argument you're on,
00:23:09.500 there's no excuse for that.
00:23:12.500 This is a gentleman who has repeatedly said
00:23:15.820 he will defund the Edmonton Police Service
00:23:18.640 if he gets elected and has been quoted several times
00:23:21.780 on Black Lives Matter social media articles
00:23:26.260 in edmonton and uh i debated whether myself i mean you know this guy's certainly on the fringe
00:23:32.020 derek i debated with myself whether or not to write the story but within a couple minutes of
00:23:37.700 writing it i heard from two police officers and one edmonton politician who basically said you
00:23:42.980 know thanks for exposing this guy we need to know what kind of people are running for office so
00:23:49.540 even the black lives matter people will not be happy about this uh focusing a spotlight on them
00:23:56.820 Corey, how do you think the whole BLM defund the police crowd will have to respond to this?
00:24:03.420 I don't know. To be honest, if you look at their history, this is typical of them. This is not, 0.84
00:24:08.740 like I'm tired of people treating the group of extremists with kid gloves. There are a lot of
00:24:14.120 quotes, extremism, hatred, promotion of violence that have come from Black Lives Matter for years.
00:24:21.380 And it does hit the news a little bit. It's just in this case, it's much closer to home. And I
00:24:25.820 just so vile as to dance on the grave of an officer who's recently died in the line of duty
00:24:33.100 i i don't think they'll condemn them they might just distance themselves a little from this guy
00:24:37.820 but this isn't new out of these people and and uh i should watch the these people statement uh
00:24:43.500 the the extreme activist element uh and uh uh it's just sickening i'm very happy dave called
00:24:53.020 them out and i i think i want to write on this further because black lives matter i mean people
00:24:58.220 are concerned there's real issues there's certainly some police cultural issues to work on
00:25:03.180 uh when people marched on mass when things were first happening a lot of moderate people around
00:25:07.740 the streets with concerns but when the mainstream and the moderate people move aside that extreme
00:25:13.580 element of blm leadership remains and and it's just over and over again and again these guys
00:25:19.420 have to be called out and in my view disbanded or at least sidelined as an extremist band of nut
00:25:24.860 cases and if somebody wants to put together a rational police reform type of group or or
00:25:31.260 addressing systemic racism assuming it is there it's time for a new one because blm is is just 0.88
00:25:36.700 garbage yeah i want to point out derek that at this very second thousands of calgarians are lining 0.97
00:25:43.100 the route along memorial drive and into forest lawn for a funeral not a funeral procession but 0.96
00:25:48.300 but the procession of Sergeant Harnett's body
00:25:51.260 from the medical examiner's office
00:25:52.840 to the funeral home in Forest Lawn.
00:25:56.240 This has hit a chord of sadness in Calgary.
00:25:59.340 It's the first police officer to die
00:26:00.820 in the line of duty for 20 years.
00:26:03.960 And this, if he was trying to make a point,
00:26:07.400 it certainly backfired in his face, I think.
00:26:10.460 Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
00:26:13.920 You know, it really is sad.
00:26:15.920 the BLM defund the police movement I guess those two movements have kind of
00:26:22.340 merged into one more or less it's unfortunate because it takes away from
00:26:28.080 the need for real real police reform you know we've seen video of absolute
00:26:34.060 goons of police officers in Gatineau violently forcing their way into a home
00:26:39.500 without a warrant as far as we know in Gatineau Quebec and violently dragging
00:26:45.320 man out because he was one of six people having supper on new year's eve uh absolute goonery
00:26:52.520 uh now these cops are acting under the orders of the politicians and the politicians are
00:26:56.760 ultimately responsible but uh there is you know we do have a problem with uh with police uh you
00:27:03.320 know we saw the two um keystone cops in calgary uh failed miserably to take a man down for playing 0.68
00:27:10.840 hockey uh threatened to fucking tase him uh the absolute gong show of that we do have a problem 0.75
00:27:18.840 with some adrenaline junkie cops going around uh demanding people respect their authority and uh 0.98
00:27:25.880 there is a need for reform uh and police to know that uh it's their job to keep the peace not to
00:27:31.960 uh enforce uh government proclamations uh so there's a need for this uh but it gets really
00:27:39.720 hard to advocate reasonable police reform when uh when we've got these people coming out screaming
00:27:45.800 defund the police and the most extreme elements of them uh not all of them i think it's fair to
00:27:51.000 say but the more extreme elements of them cheering the murder of police officers so
00:27:57.880 uh so uh for all of you watching members and non-members we need your help we are going into
00:28:05.320 the field today we have contracted Main Street research one of the most
00:28:10.840 prestigious and credible polling firms in Canada to do a poll of how Albertans
00:28:16.920 feel right now we want a snapshot of how Albertans feel about this what they
00:28:20.980 think is the appropriate reaction we want to know do Albertans think that the
00:28:26.620 resignation of a single minister and a chief of staff is enough or does there
00:28:29.920 need to be more we want to know has this affected how Albertans intend to vote
00:28:34.400 are they gonna are they just gonna kind of get over this or they talking about
00:28:38.940 our Albertans feeling now that they're gonna start shifting how they're going
00:28:41.540 to vote we don't know that yet we need good hard scientific data on it and we
00:28:46.420 have contracted Main Street research just an hour ago but it's an expensive
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00:29:29.020 other issues we're going to pull on how people feel right now about things like
00:29:33.460 Alberta independence or Western independence questions at the mainstream
00:29:37.200 media don't often ask too often or ask very fairly we're going to be asking
00:29:42.940 about a lot of these important questions that get ignored by the mainstream media
00:29:46.060 so please kick in give what you can those of you who are already members of
00:29:53.020 the Western Standard thank you very much for your support if you're not yet a
00:29:56.740 member please go to westernstandardonline.com click on membership
00:30:00.500 sign up um you know the good folks of the western standard here are working
00:30:06.100 in a media sweatshop we pay them very little
00:30:08.420 and they are working ridiculous hours right now
00:30:10.660 breaking stories uh ahead of much of the rest of the mainstream media
00:30:15.060 so uh if you can please uh uh please do what you can to contribute become a
00:30:20.820 member and also help uh help us crowdsource this poll to to get
00:30:24.980 some uh important information on how albertans are really feeling right now uh but with that
00:30:30.500 we're going to wrap up today's show we thank you all very much for for joining and especially
00:30:35.060 to dave and corey for your contributions today thank you very much hey this was fun derek if
00:30:40.340 the news continues we should do it again tomorrow and we just might okay thank you all very much
00:30:48.420 uh stay stay safe and have a good vacation