Western Standard - Just how lucky can Trump get？

00:00:00.000 Good evening, Western Standard viewers.

00:00:20.060 Yesterday, President Trump, former President Trump, survived a second possible assassination attempt.

00:00:28.060 It is the big news of the day.

00:00:31.620 With me today is David Knight-Legg, who is an international banker, an Albertan who has

00:00:40.780 born here, raised here, educated here, and then spent most of the rest of his life working

00:00:46.980 overseas in a highly professional, highly competitive industry.

00:00:52.140 He is probably what Stephen Harper would call an anywhere person who can work anywhere in the world, as opposed to the rest of us who are someplace people who are kind of deeply connected.

00:01:06.360 And yet he has deep connections in Alberta that have caused him to move back from the Far East and take up residence here.

00:01:13.440 Welcome back.

00:01:15.000 Thank you. Good to be back.

00:01:16.980 Of course it is. Alberta rocks.

00:01:20.260 So, David, you know, you are very focused on international affairs.

00:01:30.680 In such a time as this, the U.S. election,

00:01:34.180 what do you make of what happened at the golf course there yesterday?

00:01:37.600 It looks, to all appearances, like just another nutter on the loose,

00:01:42.000 like the first one in Pennsylvania.

00:01:45.240 but you know

00:01:47.560 there Trump was slightly wounded

00:01:49.540 and frankly who knows what might have

00:01:51.620 happened if the secret service

00:01:53.460 the much maligned secret service actually

00:01:55.500 hadn't had somebody on the ball

00:01:57.720 on that case and they

00:01:59.300 took this guy out before he could do any

00:02:01.640 damage so

00:02:03.280 how safe

00:02:05.140 is Trump if a professional

00:02:07.580 gets assigned to

00:02:09.560 this task by powers

00:02:11.720 outside this country perhaps

00:02:14.080 Yeah, look, it's hard to imagine if you run scenarios of somebody who's a professional assassin and, you know, adversaries to the West feature professional assassins.

00:02:23.580 Day of the Jackal. 0.94

00:02:24.580 Yeah, well, the Russians are famous for it and they usually have a victim every couple of years, you know, and they're creative with it. 0.97

00:02:32.260 but i think the issue is going to be when you've got uh amateurs able to get this close to the 0.61

00:02:38.420 president and get a shot off what happens if you've got somebody that's uh part of a deeply

00:02:44.100 embedded very smart we are we are right to call this guy an amateur are we i look i i don't i

00:02:50.340 don't know that the the secret service uh have already released profiles of him he's known um

00:02:56.420 surprisingly there's actual tv interviews with this guy i mean it's it's extraordinary when

00:03:01.300 these things come out how these connections get made it's one of the things that lead to conspiracy

00:03:05.060 theories well he's been approvingly quoted in the financial times in the new york times and a number

00:03:09.460 of other places i mean how do these guys get started i know that the the kid who tried to

00:03:15.940 shoot the president uh off the roof was in a black black rock commercial um stunning yeah yeah i mean

00:03:23.300 so but i think that i think that uh the issue the broader issue maybe you call it the meta

00:03:30.260 issue is that you've got a dynamic in U.S. politics that's incredibly factionalist now,

00:03:37.460 and that factualism can lead to violence. And I think the language that's been used about Donald

00:03:43.700 Trump is alarmist. I have a very good friend, a reporter here, Andrew Coyne. And the two things I

00:03:50.180 disagree with Andrew on routinely are truckers and Trump. You know, I think he misreads them.

00:03:54.580 I think he's I think that United Empire loyalist conservatism in the in Ontario and Montreal sometimes, you know, privileges, peace and order over just about anything.

00:04:07.600 And Trump is a disorderly, disruptive candidate as a conservative.

00:04:12.020 And I'm sure Andrew would say he's not even a conservative.

00:04:14.920 The truckers were disorderly.

00:04:16.760 But I think that in both cases, they're conveying a message that needed to be heard to a tired, sclerotic, desiccated bureaucracy, both in the United States, that Trump is challenged and will certainly challenge in his next term if he wins, and that the truckers challenged very directly here.

00:04:38.520 And here the truckers, you know, the challenge from the truckers did show that the tendency of the federal liberal party and the government was to invoke illegally and unconstitutionally acts that denied Canadians their civil rights.

00:04:54.680 I think that there is going to be a real moment of figuring out exactly how this situation with these guys in coots and the situation with the freezing bank accounts using FinTrack terror legislation illegally by Christian Freeland goes down.

00:05:12.400 I think we have to go through the process of evaluating what happened in COVID and what happened in these situations.

00:05:17.260 And I think the U.S. is going to go through the process of what's happened and some of the reaction and the responses to Trump.

00:05:22.340 Some of the reactions to Trump, the lawfare, the skullduggery with the FBI, the use of sort of the politicization of the state, FBI, and CIA on the letter about the Hunter Biden laptop turns out to be a completely false, knowingly false letter.

00:05:42.720 Those are things that because Trump tested the system and put tension into the system, highlighted some of the latent corruption in the system by people that we expect a lot more of.

00:05:53.860 And I think the same thing happened with the truckers here.

00:05:57.320 So I think at a meta level, that's part of what's happening that we're seeing.

00:06:01.420 I think the Secret Service, especially after what happened in and the Butler rally, is now technically, you know, covering Trump in a way that should have always been covered.

00:06:13.480 And in this situation, you know, they got this guy immediately and actually shot back at him.

00:06:20.220 So he's lucky to be alive.

00:06:22.520 Yes.

00:06:23.180 Well, it'll be interesting.

00:06:24.560 It will be interesting what happens in going into November the 5th, because this is the second second time.

00:06:30.880 Well, do you think that this incident gives Trump a significant boost?

00:06:36.880 We've got everybody pretty much lined up either either for Harris or they're for Trump.

00:06:41.280 There's 10% in the middle who are persuadable.

00:06:43.800 Yeah.

00:06:44.860 And maybe some will be by this out of sympathy.

00:06:48.020 But do you think anybody's going to walk over from the Harris camp and go with Trump

00:06:52.540 because somebody took a second shot at him?

00:06:54.860 So so when I when I was doing my Ph.D. work, I had to do a lot of demographic analysis to make the points that I needed to make my Ph.D.

00:07:05.120 I was studying separatism and how laws and policies affect separatist movements around the world, how governments react both militarily, sometimes, sometimes with policy, etc.

00:07:16.000 And when you look at something like a separatist movement or you look at the dynamics around a U.S. federal election, the thing that's very interesting is the correlations between issues and the way that people represent themselves as either Democrat, Republican or independent.

00:07:35.220 it. And what's very interesting when you look at the data, if you dig into the data, there was a

00:07:41.340 great poll that was released. And I actually put the data link on my Twitter feed when I made a

00:07:47.320 point because I'm having, I have some open bets with some friends. I think Trump will win this

00:07:51.380 election and they think there's no chance. And so I'm posting up things that I think that I see in

00:07:57.460 my, here's my thesis for whatever it's worth. My thesis is that increasingly one of the meta

00:08:04.200 of trends that's been occurring for the last 25 years in both Canada and the United States

00:08:08.680 is more and more people are saying, I'm not going to tell you what color political card

00:08:14.740 is in my wallet. It might be blue, it might be red, it might be orange in Canada, or it

00:08:19.140 might be blue or red in the States. But an increasing number of people are saying, I

00:08:22.920 don't have a card in my wallet. And of the people that do have a card in their wallet

00:08:26.900 where they're a member of a party, they're saying, actually, this time around, I like

00:08:32.260 my party, but I like the local guy who's running for the other party better because he's somebody

00:08:36.560 that I think speaks for me or makes me proud or is endearing, right? And so what's really

00:08:42.380 interesting is the loyalty that people are expressing to their party and the number of

00:08:48.340 people that are just saying, I'm not loyal to any party has been growing. And so what you've got as

00:08:53.440 it's happening is you've got two very interesting trends. One trend is the liberals and the

00:09:00.300 democrats of the states are becoming harder left in their base the people that animate that party

00:09:05.120 and its policies are becoming harder left same thing on the right same thing in the middle in

00:09:10.940 in other words pox on both your houses and so people are becoming more polarized but as a result

00:09:16.080 of that polarization more and more people are saying i'm actually a person that will vote

00:09:19.860 my interests in a more uh sort of unusually unpredictable way than used to be the case

00:09:27.720 If you buy that, and there's some debate around whether or not that's true, then one of the features of this election is that independents matter more than ever before.

00:09:39.420 And if you look at the polls in the eight states that will determine this election, the swing states, the states that aren't already governed by majorities that are either Democratic, California and New York, or clearly Republican like Texas and Florida,

00:09:54.380 When you look at the eight states whose electoral college votes will determine the winner, those eight states have very high marginal numbers of independents.

00:10:04.140 And within the independents, they're breaking right now 60-40 for Trump.

00:10:09.300 The independents that are saying, we're going to pick.

00:10:12.280 This is a post-debate number?

00:10:15.400 This is a post-DNC convention number where Harris didn't get the bump.

00:10:23.180 And this made a lot of news in the States.

00:10:24.460 People said it's very surprising.

00:10:25.540 Every time somebody has their convention, they get a bump of a few points.

00:10:28.340 And the bump didn't occur for Harris.

00:10:30.260 I think the reason the bump didn't occur is because Trump did a deal with RFK Jr.

00:10:34.820 that they had an almost theatrical presentation of, where RFK Jr. came in and said,

00:10:41.820 I'm here to make America healthy again, M-A-H-A, Maha, which is a play on make America great.

00:10:49.160 Trump didn't just take the endorsement.

00:10:51.580 He actually said, I'm going to appoint RFK Jr. and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, as well as Tulsi Gabbard, to my transition team, along with my sons.

00:11:01.540 We're creating a coalition and a team of rivals.

00:11:04.400 And they're going to go off and they're going to focus on this message of make America healthy again.

00:11:09.480 Now, you're not seeing this message play out very much in Trump rallies.

00:11:13.040 I mean, once in a while, we'll come on.

00:11:14.720 But here's what's interesting.

00:11:15.660 When you look at Nicole Shanahan's account on Twitter, YouTube or Instagram. 0.92

00:11:20.500 now for those who don't know nicole shanahan is rfk's uh she was yeah the vice presidential

00:11:26.180 candidate people forget rfk in the spring was polling as high as 15 nationally and higher than

00:11:32.580 that in the 20s in particular states the independence that that's the highest third

00:11:38.180 party candidate polling since ross perot the independents are an extremely important cohort

00:11:44.500 and the three themes that the independents that are former democrats rfk nicole shanahan and

00:11:50.500 um tulsi gabbard and others are hitting are number one what happened with the pandemic and

00:11:57.460 what is it about vaccines why are why have kids gone from having five vaccines to now having 30

00:12:02.740 right and what's what is that doing for a series of uh negative health outcomes for children

00:12:08.180 it's a lot of conspiracy stuff around there's a lot of debate around that but the point is

00:12:11.940 it matters greatly to certain people and a lot of the people it matters to are independents

00:12:17.380 they don't affiliate with the other party um so trump has a chance trump is better than a chance

00:12:23.460 when you look at and and i'll you know i'll send you uh the the tweet that i put out because my

00:12:28.740 friend said you're you're crazy um uh harris is pulling four points ahead of trump and i i said

00:12:35.380 send me that that that poll they sent me the poll i'll tell you what was wrong with the poll first 0.96

00:12:40.420 thing was wrong with the poll registered voters right registered voters is like trying to pull

00:12:45.620 the entire country. Just like Canadians, a minority of people vote. So if you just take 0.52

00:12:54.600 registered voters, you're getting a preference. If you take likely voters, you're taking people

00:12:59.300 that not only have a preference to vote, but have a history of voting. And they control for that by

00:13:03.380 saying, have you voted recently? Did you vote in the last election? How do you identify?

00:13:07.060 So they'll find out, okay, is this just somebody that's an American that's registered to vote? Or

00:13:11.180 is this somebody that actually tends to actually go out and put their money where their mouth is

00:13:15.200 cast a vote. When you use likely voters and when you read polls, look if it says RV, which is

00:13:21.120 registered voters or LV, they'll list the number of people and then they'll put RV or LV to indicate

00:13:25.960 the degree of correlation between intention and outcomes, right? Second thing that happened with

00:13:32.680 the poll that I was sent was it's a national poll. And national polls tend to run a selection

00:13:39.540 around cohorts that are similar to the cohorts that have voted in the past.

00:13:45.200 And so one of the reasons that the last election between Biden and Trump was so miscalled by the pollsters is because they were overweighting when they were doing polling.

00:13:53.780 They were overweighting traditionally strong Democratic voting cohorts when they asked people, how are you going to vote?

00:13:59.880 So if you if you ask a lot, it'd be like running a poll in Edmonton saying, how are you going to vote in the next election?

00:14:05.500 And then turning around saying the NDP have a way better chance than we thought.

00:14:09.000 and then running another poll down where I come from in Southern Alberta and saying,

00:14:13.620 how are you going to vote in the next election?

00:14:14.940 Saying, look, the conservatives are going to take this thing in a landslide, right?

00:14:18.120 The places and the people you ask those questions have determined the kinds of outcomes the polls give you.

00:14:23.780 I would have hoped that the pollsters were more sophisticated than that, David.

00:14:28.480 They're sophisticated, but what happens is it's a very tricky thing.

00:14:31.520 You've got to try and model polling.

00:14:33.240 They underpolled Obama because they didn't expect such a strong cohort of African-American voters

00:14:37.460 when Obama actually was elected president.

00:14:40.140 And then they underpolled Trump because they expected them.

00:14:43.600 They were still sampling based on the last two presidential elections turnouts by demographic sample.

00:14:49.620 And they overpolled African-Americans as a result, which showed a preference for Hillary Clinton that didn't play out in the actual 2016 outcome.

00:14:57.980 So let's say that you are right and that you collect from Andrew Coyne. 0.94

00:15:05.580 A bet.

00:15:06.160 A bet.

00:15:06.720 You're right.

00:15:08.640 It's out there in the public.

00:15:10.220 What's writing on this?

00:15:11.900 Well, I usually go for bottles of wine, but I've learned the hard way.

00:15:15.860 When people lose, they tend to send you really bad bottles of wine as an outcome.

00:15:20.700 Andrew Coyne would never do that.

00:15:22.280 No, Andrew's a scholar.

00:15:24.600 He's a scholar and a gentleman, and we disagree on things out of conviction.

00:15:29.120 And I think he does know why.

00:15:30.720 So here's the question.

00:15:32.900 He says that if Trump wins, I think his exact words,

00:15:38.180 do not remain calm, a second Trump presidency really will be that bad.

00:15:43.800 That's Andrew Coyne's view.

00:15:46.140 I interviewed Brian Lee Crowley here a few months ago,

00:15:48.900 and he said, no, nothing was going to change.

00:15:51.320 And so what I would ask you is the same thing.

00:15:54.400 What are the implications for Canada of a Trump victory or a Harris victory?

00:16:01.180 Harris first.

00:16:02.220 Look, I think that they're pretty clear on the differences in their platforms, right?

00:16:09.640 So, and it's just a classic difference between sort of left-right as it plays out.

00:16:17.320 So Trump is going to cut taxes.

00:16:19.880 He is going to be more protectionist, which is an unusual thing to say about a conservative government.

00:16:26.100 He's not so much a libertarian as a nationalist.

00:16:28.260 But his protectionism is deeply pragmatic. And you saw this with the CUSMA replacement of NAFTA. Bob Lighthizer is very specific. He's written a great book on it. There's, you know, no trade is free. And they're very clear about what they want to do and how they want to do it.

00:16:46.940 Now, some of what Trump brought to the process has now become embedded institutionally in the way the U.S. operates.

00:16:54.220 So the idea that you want to replace multilateral agreements because they tend to be too watered down and weak and have structural defaults get exploited by a variety of partners and replaces bilateral.

00:17:07.260 That's now become part and parcel of the way that a lot of of Americans think across the political spectrum.

00:17:13.120 So some of these things that are differences between the Harris and Trump teams, when it actually comes time to implement these things, you're going to see a fair amount of symmetry.

00:17:24.200 If you had said to somebody, you know, like we'll use Andrew, if you'd said to Andrew, you know, Harris is going to come out swinging for fracking in America, he would have told you to take a hike.

00:17:36.320 You know, I wish I would have bet a bottle of wine on that.

00:17:39.620 You have to support fracking in America now.

00:17:42.080 Energy independence is now part of the storyline of what America is going to be as as a nation.

00:17:48.860 Right. It's that debate is actually over with apologies to all my hard green alarmist friends.

00:17:54.380 They've lost that debate. Right. And the fact that Harris has got to say that is because she wants to win in Pennsylvania.

00:18:02.440 But and I'm not sure that she or the cohort like Biden, I'm not sure that she will be in control enough of of a Democrat based White House. 0.59

00:18:10.960 to be able to resist all of the green exclusions that they're going to want. But the fact that she

00:18:17.280 has come out at the forefront of her campaign saying, I support fracking and I support a border

00:18:22.100 wall, sort of shows you that the opposite of what Andrew says is true. Trump and Harris are going to

00:18:29.380 have more things that look the same than things that differentiate them. And part of the reason

00:18:35.220 for that is the way that the American system works. You have a deep division of powers between

00:18:41.040 the judiciary, the Congress, the Senate, and the White House, the governors, you know, and you've

00:18:49.340 got emerging consensus. The problem with illegal immigration in the United States, very similar to

00:18:54.920 the runaway immigration in Canada, has created an untenable situation economically that people have

00:19:00.200 connected for themselves. You might like it or not like it, but your party is never going to win 0.99

00:19:03.920 unless you say we're going to we're going to deal with it. Kamala Harris hasn't come out and said

00:19:08.180 we got it right on immigration and everyone should relax. She's come out and said it's broken and it

00:19:12.320 was Trump's fault and we're going to fix it and I'm going to build a border wall. She's had three

00:19:16.380 and a half years to fix it. How is it Trump's fault? The Trump campaign is not doing a very

00:19:22.060 good job in my humble opinion and I ran a campaign so I used to hate it when people would give me

00:19:26.880 free advice from the sidelines you know they're not interested in my advice but I think that

00:19:33.320 They've done a terrible job litigating what Kamala Harris is accountable for based on her role as vice president in the Biden White House.

00:19:41.540 I think the Harris campaign has done a great job of creating a brand new constructed candidate that has very little to do with the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate, which is how she was regarded when she was there.

00:19:57.120 And they've somehow managed to erase things that she's on the record of that are very extreme.

00:20:01.920 uh transgendered surgeries right she's very she was very extreme and on the record on well let's

00:20:08.540 be fair she's had some help yeah yeah the media uh is you know the people in the media in the

00:20:15.940 united states are more than 90 percent rec you know recognize themselves as democrats and i

00:20:21.220 think they wanted somebody that they knew could replace biden and the democratic party has done

00:20:28.560 a very effective tactical job of replacing president biden with his vice president without

00:20:34.780 going through a um a normal democratic process oh it's an astonishing thing that she's allowed

00:20:40.060 to run without answering the question madam the president biden has been a walking wreck

00:20:47.660 for at least 18 months and possibly longer you knew why didn't you act that i i don't know what

00:20:55.180 her answer would be, but nobody has really answered that question. I think that she has

00:21:03.540 gotten a free pass on a lot of things. And you'll notice, I have two reasons for thinking that Trump

00:21:09.040 will win. The first reason is that his deal with RFK is more important than people are thinking

00:21:16.240 about. And people aren't seeing the power of the RFK, Shanahan, Gabbard, social media

00:21:22.860 assault on key Democrat constituencies and independents. And I think that is being missed

00:21:30.220 by the media. I think it's the most interesting political story happening right now. And I think

00:21:37.060 that the second thing that is not well understood and is very important is in every single

00:21:43.200 era of US presidential politics, there's a moment where one of the two candidates does a far better

00:21:49.740 job than the other candidate at mastering whatever the communications media of the day is.

00:21:55.260 And so very famously, when JFK, you know, RFK's uncle, ran for president against Richard Nixon,

00:22:02.660 people listening on the radio, which had been the standard way that you would engage in politics,

00:22:08.360 presidential debates at the time, thought that Nixon won hands down. But everybody that saw

00:22:13.080 this newcomer on TV thought that JFK had won. And JFK's team had been very careful about

00:22:19.460 giving him makeup, preparing him, shaving, resting him, right?

00:22:23.140 And Richard Nixon just showed up for the debate on TV

00:22:25.720 and treated it like it was a radio debate,

00:22:27.160 and he was unshaven and looked sweaty.

00:22:30.280 And sweating.

00:22:31.140 Yeah, and sweating.

00:22:32.640 And so what people have observed,

00:22:34.980 and there's a great book by a guy named Neil Postman

00:22:37.460 called Amusing Ourselves to Death,

00:22:38.720 talking about the power of television

00:22:40.060 and the way that it affects the way that we think things are happening,

00:22:43.640 even though it's a simulation in many respects.

00:22:46.140 JFK won the TV thing.

00:22:47.580 FDR won radio, when you flash forward,

00:22:54.400 Ronald Reagan, people forget won direct mail.

00:22:57.140 He'd figured out a new communication medium

00:22:59.120 very effectively to target people.

00:23:02.360 You had President Clinton won email,

00:23:12.280 President Obama won Facebook, Trump won Twitter,

00:23:17.580 right so what's the nuclear weapon this time the nuclear weapon this time is podcasts

00:23:22.860 not just because wrong one not just because you run this ragingly successful popular one

00:23:29.820 it's podcasts so here's what's interesting about podcasts and again this goes to my first point

00:23:34.380 podcasts appeal very much to independent voters because podcasts are the place where you go to do

00:23:40.220 long form thinking about very particular specific issues in a deep dive format

00:23:45.260 where no questions are off the table well yes you do but what percentage of people who are going to

00:23:50.620 vote are deeply diving into podcasts this is the point the percentage that's doing this is the only

00:23:58.300 percentage that matters which is the five to eight percent in the eight key swing states that are

00:24:04.140 going to determine the next president and those people that have already said you can't buy me

00:24:08.860 off as a democrat and you can't buy me off as a republican are are going to see lex friedman

00:24:14.940 They're listening to Joe Rogan.

00:24:16.940 They're listening to there's this there's this entire pantheon of people that are very focused on podcasts.

00:24:23.380 And, you know, the the number one feature of a lot of these podcasts, it's not nerdy stuff like we're talking about, like, you know, who's going to win the election.

00:24:31.460 Why? It's life hacks.

00:24:33.680 How to how to lose 20 pounds you always want to lose.

00:24:36.300 Why sleep is so important, whether or not your kids should get a vaccine or whether some vaccines are correlated with autism.

00:24:42.160 So this is a huge, raging debate.

00:24:44.280 In the mainstream media, everyone's looking because they've only got two minutes to see the news, and they're doing it for a production cycle.

00:24:53.480 They get told by their editor, we're not going to endorse some crazy conspiracy theories, too much crazy stuff.

00:25:00.440 Ivermectin is bad.

00:25:02.360 It was horse dewormer.

00:25:03.280 It turns out that's not true.

00:25:04.400 Ivermectin is good, and ivomectin was horse dewormer, not ivermectin, right?

00:25:08.540 We know these things now.

00:25:09.660 But what happened is the mainstream news is like, well, it turns out some weird conspiracy theorists want you to take a horse to you.

00:25:14.880 How embarrassing. Everyone laughs and everybody that watches TV gets told, you know, wow, I'd be dumb if I went and tried to find this alternative solution.

00:25:24.640 Podcasts took off during the pandemic.

00:25:27.980 And now these podcasters have viewing audiences that run into 30, 40, 50 million people.

00:25:34.180 And people have forgotten how powerful these people are. 0.76

00:25:37.220 And the difference is that candidate Harris, Vice President Harris, is not allowing herself to get anywhere near deep dive textured interviews that ask wild questions. 0.99

00:25:51.140 She's super nervous about her team, super nervous about it.

00:25:54.140 Trump and J.D. Vance are on these things all the time, but so is RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, people that have come out, Peter Thiel, people have come out and said,

00:26:05.080 I'm actually going to endorse this guy, and I'm going to work for him.

00:26:08.040 And so I think that podcasts and the distribution of the number of surrogates that are willing to have deep, textured conversations,

00:26:16.080 and people can listen to them and say, you know, I agree with about 80% of what he said.

00:26:19.340 20% sounds a little crazy to me, but I like that 80%.

00:26:22.400 Those are the people that are sitting in that cohort that are going to make the difference in this election.

00:26:26.640 So my prediction is it's going to be independence.

00:26:29.860 When you see exit polls, it's going to be independent reference people that decide the difference between Trump and Harris.

00:26:35.080 They're going to split Trump and Harris about 60-40, 70-30.

00:26:39.860 And that cohort is going to decide the election in the eight swing states.

00:26:45.360 I have your phone number.

00:26:46.660 I have your email.

00:26:47.560 And we shall talk again.

00:26:48.740 Well, it sounds like you want to put a bottle of wine.

00:26:50.940 I'm a bad idea.

00:26:51.960 Put me down for red or white.

00:26:53.780 Okay.

00:26:54.640 Let's go red.

00:26:55.440 Let's go red.

00:26:56.500 Okay.

00:26:56.820 I have a time.

00:26:58.560 Mind you, the trouble with this bet is that in order for me to collect, I have to lose.

00:27:02.700 So that's not the best outcome.

00:27:05.080 But anyway, we'll work that out.

00:27:06.600 Thank you very much, David, for coming in.

00:27:08.820 My pleasure.

00:27:09.160 Great insights there.

00:27:12.660 For the Western Standard, I'm Nigel Hannaford.

00:27:29.300 If the name Ted Byfield brings back fond memories,

00:27:32.500 well, we've got a party coming up for you guys.

00:27:34.080 On September 25th, Toasting Ted is what it's called. It's going to honor a great conservative

00:27:38.920 who published Alberta Report News Magazine. It's going to be bagpipes, singing, live auction

00:27:44.120 stakes, speeches by Premier Smith, Preston Manning, Stephen Harper, quite a lineup.

00:27:48.140 The Western Standard is the final incarnation or the latest incarnation of Alberta Report that

00:27:53.080 Ted Byfield founded. And I mean, he was a great Albertan. He really made his mark on this province

00:27:58.520 and this evening of celebration for him is really going to be outstanding. You get there,

00:28:01.820 toastingted.ca. That's the website. You can get your tickets. This one's going to sell out. I mean,

00:28:06.880 again, if you want to see Smith, Manning, Harper, all in one spot, one night, be sure to get there.

Western Standard - September 17, 2024

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