00:21:04.060If you get a chance to watch his war series on YouTube, it is on there.
00:21:10.280Basically, what he said was the main thing about military strategy is that there is no military strategy.
00:21:18.300You can learn the rules, and you can do everything right, and you can still lose.
00:21:23.860And that appears to be happening to the Russians.
00:21:26.240And again, the Russian soldiers are probably perhaps not as well-trained, not as well-motivated, and they are in a foreign country. No one's helping them. They have no place to sleep.0.78
00:21:45.100Their logistic lines have been overextended.0.97
00:21:51.240They're in dire straits right now because the Ukrainians are resisting way more than everybody expected.1.00
00:21:58.100Even I didn't. I thought they would have been in Kiev in two, three days.
00:22:01.520Well, that's not going to happen. That is not going to happen.
00:22:04.460And they've slowed them up. They've slowed them up.
00:22:08.360And that is absolutely amazing that the Ukrainians apparently have a much better military with better leaders and so forth.
00:22:19.380And the other thing that's coming out that I've heard is that a lot of Russian troops didn't really know why they were being sent in.0.96
00:22:28.820They only found out that, you know, hey, we're supposed to kill Ukrainians.
00:22:33.080I mean, a lot of them are saying we thought it was a drill.0.99
00:22:38.360So they were lied to, they were not told the truth. And also, as far as strategy goes, and planning goes, I don't think this was very well planned. I think this is all Putin. I think this is all Putin. And with, he currently relieved his top general, he relieved the top general, Gerasimov, I think was his name.
00:23:00.920And I think this suggests that all those generals under him are afraid to make a decision.
00:23:09.060And that this was just a Putin adventure gone wrong.
00:23:13.580Yeah, well, I've seen some interesting speculation, too, though.
00:23:16.720I mean, perhaps it reflects a bit of the motivation, too.0.52
00:23:19.440Like, we do know that the Russian military has the ability to just completely, you know, shell the crap out of and obliterate Ukraine from a distance if they wanted to.0.77
00:23:28.340But they want to occupy, they want to take Ukraine.0.86
00:28:56.640You know, I mean, again, I've had the good fortune of never having been in a war.
00:29:00.800You know, I've been to some war zones, actually, in my younger years of traveling that, but I wasn't a participant.
00:29:05.200I can't imagine how terrifying that is and the difference between whether you retreat or fight.
00:29:10.680But, you know, a friend of mine who was he came from Slovakia when it was under communist rule and what they would do with the mandatory services, they would transfer you to an area.
00:29:19.620So, of course, you're never putting a gun against Slovakians.0.90
00:34:10.600I don't think Putin means he can't be trusted. He's a liar. We can't trust him. I don't know what reason he had for that to make himself look like a peacemaker or some bloody thing. Or maybe he doesn't want to spend any more money on this needless war. I don't know. But exactly. I think, you know, the Russian people are just I mean, they're just like us and they're very similar.
00:34:35.400i mean they're not much different i have russian friends and and and and and so does my daughter and
00:34:41.480and every one of them every single one of them does not like what's happening none of them are
00:34:47.160for it none of them they don't see us as enemies and we don't see them as enemies you know they're
00:34:53.320like everybody else in the world i'm sure if you've traveled i've traveled you know you know
00:34:57.640what it's like everybody wants a big screen tv everyone wants good food uh good uh good drink
00:35:04.120and and and and uh to have their kids grow up in a safe and have a future that's all we want
00:35:10.360and for putin to go in this wild direction is just it it does you know it's it was a mistake
00:35:17.960and now he's overstretched himself now i think he's overstretched himself and uh like i say i hope
00:35:24.120I don't know where it's heading, but it's not good. The whole thing is not good.
00:35:29.640So as Cheryl Dawn, a commenter, pointed out, Ukraine signed on to join the EU. It's not part
00:35:34.760of NATO, but does that impact things? That puts neighboring nations under the EU under some
00:35:41.080obligations and treaties and things like that. That's part of a mistake perhaps as well. Just
00:35:45.560because Ukraine wasn't part of NATO doesn't mean other nations aren't going to stand up for them.
00:35:49.320Yes. And again, it's quite admirable. I'm shocked. I'm absolutely shocked at the support. And I think, well, Putin's two mistakes, two mistakes. One, underestimating Ukrainian resistance. Holy man. I had never, I thought they would, like I say, I didn't think it would last that long.
00:36:08.800they are just incredible uh uh the and again and and uh the second thing is is is that uh he did not
00:36:22.080uh uh uh expect the the world to make him a pariah and to join i mean even non-nato countries
00:36:34.000are joining in this, and they are being just reviled around the world for this action,
00:36:40.100which is irrational. It's irrational. It's unhinged. There was no need for it.
00:36:45.800And to those who say, well, NATO was on the doorstep, yes, but that can be figured out.
00:36:52.040And also the situation in Donbass and Luhansk could have been handled better by Zelensky in
00:36:58.200Ukraine, should have been handled better. I think those people deserve some autonomy.
00:37:06.440They should have gotten some sort of benefit from being, you know, it's not worth going, like you said earlier, it's not worth going to war over.
00:37:16.460It's not worth killing, destroying cities and killing innocent people.
00:37:21.180It's not, it just makes no sense today.
00:37:30.360In some ways, it's not looking good, but we are seeing things differently. As you said, we wouldn't have thought that, you know, that Europe and the rest of the world would rally quite like this. We certainly didn't think Ukraine would last this long. And to settle in for a long game, a lot of the, even though it won't be worth, you know, direct intervention, a lot of sanctions could really start putting a lot of pressure on Putin in the long run here.
00:37:51.480As you said, it's a very expensive exercise.
00:37:53.740Doing this isn't necessarily easy aside from the human cost.
00:37:57.280There's a dollar and cents cost that he's got to incur,
00:37:59.720and maybe he might lose out of this in the long run.
00:38:03.400I mean, we just hope, I guess, it comes to a resolution somehow
00:38:05.580with the least amount of bloodshed possible.
00:40:26.940As Dave also said, I mean, there is some problems going on on the eastern side of the Ukraine
00:40:32.620where perhaps some independence should have been warranted and the Ukrainian president cracked down.
00:40:36.260I mean, I'm an independent supporter in Western Canada. It doesn't mean that the United States would be justified to come into Alberta and take us over to help liberate us from the nation. That doesn't work that way or it shouldn't. So we'll be watching that unfold.
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00:42:11.540get on to talking about some lacrosse and things, those who read the Herald, maybe some of you went
00:42:16.620over there when I put the teaser out. If not, you really should. And it's one of those things you
00:42:20.380read and you'll be enraged by, but it's worth reading because holy cow, this column by Heather
00:42:25.280Campbell on the convoy protests was just beyond the pale. It was something else. I'm just going
00:42:30.760to read the first paragraph of it. Okay. This is where it started and it gets worse. The recent
00:42:35.760blockades in Canada were not about COVID-19. They were about white supremacy and extremism. The
00:42:40.720blockaders are not patriots, nor are they oppressed. The blockaders are an irrational mob of thugs
00:42:44.700upset about injury to their individual entitlement and panicked about the erosion of their white
00:42:49.420privilege. That's paragraph one, folks. And as I said, it only gets worse from there. I won't turn
00:42:55.840your stomachs by reading the rest of it, but you probably should have a look at that. Like, wow.
00:43:01.600Why? What is this obsession with trying to tie a non-racial issue into racism all the time?
00:43:09.520I'm sick and tired of it. It's called race baiting. It's divisive. It's bad for all of us. It's bad for society. And it's not saying that racism doesn't exist to say that these protests aren't racially based. It's just because it's just saying the truth of it. You don't have to agree with the protests.
00:43:28.740You can say the people at the protests are conspiracy theorists, are crazy, or, you know, they're putting people's health at risk.
00:43:34.800You can claim those things by all means, but there's no evidence at all that these were racially motivated.
00:43:40.140Yet the Herald runs this garbage column, and it was garbage, smearing the whole thing.
00:43:46.660And those people out there, I've gone to these in person.
00:43:49.360I've been critical of them before, especially when they were smaller.
00:43:51.800I thought there were some pretty out there people who were managing these protests in the early parts of it.
00:43:57.400And I, I was critical of it, but I didn't see any evidence of it being a racial thing. Why have they
00:44:02.280got to throw that in there? I mean, a number of the people at those aren't white. So these are
00:44:06.780really terrible white supremacists, these guys. I mean, I don't know how the white supremacist
00:44:10.820membership book works, but I'm pretty sure if you're not white, you probably can't be a member
00:44:14.860of their club. Yet somehow they're participating in these protests. You know, you say, oh, but most0.86
00:44:21.360of the people at the protest are white. Well, yes. I mean, go to a hockey game in Calgary at0.96
00:44:24.700saddle to them. Most of the people in the audience are white as well. It's demographics. It's not
00:44:28.480racism. To have that put in there. And you know, so I'm the opinion editor here at the Western
00:44:36.060Standard. It's opinion. I mean, people pointed out, hey, they put it at the bottom of it. They
00:44:40.380said, this is the opinion of the writer, not reflecting of Calgary Herald. Fair enough. That's
00:44:45.280what Heather Campbell wrote. It certainly doesn't reflect the entire editorial board of the Herald
00:44:49.580at all. But we have a degree of standards when we get some stuff sent to us that I don't run.
00:44:57.200I choose not to. It's not that I want my slant on things. I've posted and edited columns that
00:45:03.760I didn't agree with whatsoever. But they were the other person's reason point of view. So we
00:45:08.500could put it up there. But if somebody sent us something as inflammatory as this thing was,
00:45:13.240as purely unsourced, you know, lacking in fact, and actually destructively intended.
00:45:22.380I mean, we take it very seriously. If we're ever going to spike a column, I would have to go to
00:45:27.140Derek's office and we would talk about it. I suspect we would never publish anything like that.
00:45:31.340We just wouldn't. So what was the Herald thinking, putting that piece of trash in their publication?
00:45:38.980You know, that's when you say to Heather, you know, geez, you know, take a day and think about this.
00:45:46.080And if you really want to write on this, you know, cut this out into something a little more rational and come back to us because this is just garbage.
00:45:55.160And to a degree, then, that does land on the Herald.
00:45:58.140As I said, you know, we don't want them censoring.
00:46:00.160I mean, hey, opinion writing is pretty boring if there isn't an opinion on it.
00:46:03.500but you've got to have a degree of standards. And this was an irresponsible, in my view, hateful
00:46:09.620piece. It smeared people who were going out who just had concerns about medical freedoms,
00:46:16.000individual freedoms, and this is the crap they got from it. Furthermore, the Herald on the weekend,
00:46:22.580they did actually go out and cover some of the thousands of people who've been coming out every
00:46:26.840weekend in Calgary and demonstrating against restrictions. But what did they report on?
00:46:32.200Well, there were 35 counter-protesters. 35 out of thousands who come out every week that the Herald didn't even bother to report on any other weeks. They write a big write-up on the 35 people who came out to complain about the protests. One of the things I found kind of funny when I read the story about it was they talked to one of the counter-protesters and asked, you know, were you afraid when you saw them all approaching? And the counter-protesters said, no, not at all. Of course not, because it's a peaceful protest. They weren't going to hurt you. At worst, you've got people glaring at you.
00:46:58.020Somebody apparently threw a smoke bomb somewhere, but nobody knows who actually threw it or why.
00:49:46.920in the budding and small sports department
00:49:49.540to the western standard hey there jake how's it going it's going well cory how are you very good
00:49:54.780thanks um you know i was talking to dave and i mean i've been looking at your stuff and i've
00:49:59.400heard about it and i said geez i've really got to study up on lacrosse before i i talked to you
00:50:03.500because i don't to be honest know a heck of a lot about it and then he says well why you want to do
00:50:07.260that just ask jake that's the point and you know what geez dave you're right so yeah and it made
00:50:12.660me look forward to this you know i mean i i hear about it it's canada's national support sport but
00:50:16.960I don't know enough about it and it's really been growing no it really is and you know you're in such
00:50:22.360you're not in the minority and not knowing about um lacrosse there's so many people that are unaware
00:50:27.500of it and it's got such a huge following actually in Alberta and it continues to grow and you know
00:50:32.840I've been presented with this cool opportunity where I get to write about something that I'm
00:50:36.340passionate about um it's a league that I played in it's a league that I loved playing in I have
00:50:40.920many connections there and stuff and you know the opportunity just kind of came up where it was like
00:50:45.380we have this market here that's not really being tapped into what can we what can we make of it
00:50:50.140there so I guess I was kind of fortunate to be in the right place right time and you know I got my
00:50:55.340broadcast news diploma from state and there was just kind of an opportunity where James Finkbeiner
00:51:00.060was talking to me and was like this is this needs to happen here and so we were able to work
00:51:03.600something out but yeah I've got a couple pieces up so far obviously the cross season hasn't rolled
00:51:08.300around yet in Alberta so things are a little slow it's definitely going to pick up a little bit more
00:51:11.940as we enter the summer and there's a little bit more to talk about as the season starts we're
00:51:15.600going to have a little bit more um pieces opinion pieces coverage on individuals and stuff like
00:51:20.480that but yeah i'm very excited to be a part of it yeah and james finkbiner he's our operations
00:51:25.340manager and he's been very involved in lacrosse i think he coaches a bit on the side if i recall
00:51:29.040yeah he actually uh he owns one of the i don't know he doesn't coach he owns one of the junior
00:51:33.900b tier one teams in calgary yeah the calgary chill which i was uh actually was a member of for two
00:51:40.160years which is where me and james began our relationship there and then now seven years
00:51:44.100later he kind of got me into this as well so it's cool you know the connections that you make in the
00:51:48.560community of the sport so the roughnecks which is calgary's big team there and that's part of
00:51:53.840an international league uh you know so that's a league uh what's their season run at like i noticed
00:52:00.260they were seeing stats of upwards of 10 000 people come out to those games and and it's great they're
00:52:04.380having a really good time so uh what's the basis of that league the kind of season and the amount
00:52:08.580the games they run yeah so the nll is the professional indoor uh box lacrosse league
00:52:13.820and it runs it starts in december this year's been a kind of bit of a tricky year with covid
00:52:19.540cancellations and stuff and all the games postponed and then it typically runs for about
00:52:23.320four months into the beginning of april um and then the playoffs are usually like finishing up
00:52:27.960around april i'm expecting that we're going to see that maybe get pushed back into june um even
00:52:32.860may or sorry may even june um depending on how they do with the postponed games they're trying
00:52:37.760to make it work with a lot of back-to-back games on weekends and stuff like that but uh it's about
00:52:42.360a it's about a four four and a half five month season there and it's cool it's only on weekends
00:52:46.540so you know um one part about lacrosse that's unfortunate is that people don't have um it
00:52:52.000doesn't have the following yet to pay the athletes full time um so that they can just pursue lacrosse
00:52:57.040as a career so everybody playing in the nll has second jobs that they work during the week and
00:53:01.120stuff and then they'll fly out on the weekend so it's a very cool job and it's very cool league
00:53:05.880And the fact that, you know, Saturday after a game, both teams will be there for the night and then they'll hang out and go for drinks after.
00:53:11.340And it's such a small, tight-knit community that so many guys on the teams know each other and stuff like that.
00:53:15.360But, yeah, it's a really cool league and it's expanding, it's growing.
00:53:19.460And, you know, Calgary's got one of the bigger markets in the NLL where they get a good following out.
00:53:23.600They get a good fan base out, close to 10,000, 12,000 people out every game, which is awesome to see.
00:53:40.540Their motto is come for the party, stay for the game.
00:53:42.940And so they do a great job of marketing it and bringing out college students and people there that are just wanting something to do where it's fast-paced, it's entertaining, it's rough, there's a lot of goals, there's a lot to cheer for.
00:53:54.060So I think NL is doing a great job right now.
00:53:56.580Yeah, well, you don't have to have NFL-type salaries to have a good sport going on.
00:54:00.240And I remember a long time ago when I was in my 20s and I was working out in the field, in the oil field, there was a seismic crew and they actually had in wintertime, there was a CFL player who worked seismic in winter because, you know, they only paid so much.
00:54:10.620You play football for the season and then you go out to the oil field to pay your bills in the winter because, you know, they just didn't have that kind of salary, but they still put on a heck of a product.
00:54:19.120I mean, people love going to their football games and have a very loyal fan base.
00:54:22.760So, you know, this lacrosse ability to have, I guess, a professional, but still, you know, I guess part time in a sense is a manageable model.
00:54:30.240absolutely and you touched on it there it's uh a lot of the guys you know you're not playing it
00:54:34.920to make money you're you're doing it because you love the game and you know a lot of the guys are
00:54:38.680trying to grow the game and so i'm just happy to be able to do my little part in that um just being
00:54:44.440able to write about a little bit bring some attention there uh just kind of drawing more
00:54:48.200eyes to it maybe somebody read something that they never read before and be like oh that's
00:54:51.660kind of interesting i might want to check out a lacrosse game or i might want to put my kid into
00:54:54.560a lacrosse game like that so yeah you don't get into lacrosse for uh to make millions of dollars
00:54:59.000that's for sure but you do it because you love the game and it's such a beautiful game and there's
00:55:02.520so much depth to it and once people start to really get into it and understand it it's hard
00:55:06.760not to fall in love with it. I see a commenter Ken Finlayson is saying lacrosse is growing the
00:55:11.480USA as well he says his grandson Houston is in his second year of athletic scholarship at Weber
00:55:16.620University in Florida with it so getting into the entry level of lacrosse you know kids students
00:55:23.080people are interested I mean are schools starting to run lacrosse teams or is this mostly
00:55:26.860uh extracurricular sort of things that they get involved with like how does one get into lacrosse
00:55:31.420in canada well so that's that's interesting and weber i've heard of it i know it's a great school
00:55:37.740um so it's interesting because in canada we play box lacrosse um it's primarily indoor lacrosse
00:55:43.820there is a couple field lacrosse programs um that operate during the fall and sometimes the winter
00:55:49.740and the field lacrosse is what they play in the united states so a lot of you'll see a lot of
00:55:53.260of canadian kids um play that field across and then go down to the u.s for an ncaa scholarship
00:55:59.480um i know i did it i've had a bunch of friends do it and it gives you an opportunity to continue
00:56:05.300your education and you know save mom and dad a couple bucks if you can get a good scholarship
00:56:09.180there as well and then you get to go play lacrosse and then when you're done usually typically
00:56:13.660canadian players we don't love the field game as much um it's a little structured but some guys do
00:56:18.500but for the most part you'll see guys come back and then they'll continue to play box across in
00:56:22.200the summers and then they'll leave in the leave in the beginning of the school year head down to
00:56:25.960the states and go play some lacrosse there um all outdoor during the year and then they'll come back
00:56:30.060and do it all over again it's a really really cool circle um if you get into it at a young
00:56:34.020enough age where you can kind of grow that development understand both aspects of the game
00:56:38.840because it's unique in the sense that there's indoor lacrosse and outdoor lacrosse and they're
00:56:43.220very different games but they're played the same way with the same stick same same motions and
00:56:48.000stuff like that so if you get into it at a young enough age and you can kind of understand how to
00:56:52.000operates then there's definitely a lot of opportunity to go places with it and having
00:56:56.160the ability to go um you know pursue a college career is something that i think if if you're if
00:57:02.260you can do it as a child i highly recommend do it i did it and it was one of the highlights of my
00:57:06.040life so far it's an absolute blast to be able to go somewhere new play lacrosse have 45 best
00:57:10.600friends on the team automatically it's it's well worth it yeah so it's a physical fast-paced game
00:57:16.000that one too i mean i've seen little bits of it as i said i don't know a lot about it but actually
00:57:19.160the times i catch it like wow these guys are really going at it out there and and uh it's a
00:57:23.980kind of a high scoring game is the breakdown of a game though similar to hockey like in a number of
00:57:28.760periods or the length of time that a game is played or i'd actually probably compare it more
00:57:34.140to basketball um it's broken down into four quarters and um it's played on the hockey rink
00:57:40.400with turf put down and the nets are four feet by four feet and instead of ice you got turf but um
00:57:46.160as far as systems go and as far as understanding the game of box across it's uh they gave up the
00:57:52.800one breakaway it's two breakways one goal before they got on it it's very great oh i still got
00:57:59.560it's definitely it's definitely uh it's definitely more similar to basketball with
00:58:06.140picking rules the way the system operates there's stuff so it's very yeah you got some highlights
00:58:10.740up here now yeah it's very cool um as far as system structure it's more similar to basketball
00:58:17.060but there is that physicality of hockey and football and you get the slash you get a little
00:58:21.220bit more there as well so it's uh it's a combination of the two for sure i was great yeah
00:58:26.100well it's just looks like a fun good sport now something that's really developed gotten very
00:58:30.660large over the last few years is women's hockey is there much of a woman's presence in lacrosse
00:58:34.500starting to build up guys it there really is something that's not really noticed but uh
00:58:40.820there is definitely the women's lacrosse is growing and especially in the states um the
00:58:46.340opportunity for people for women especially to get scholarships and a lot of a lot of the women
00:58:55.300that play in alberta and canada get accustomed to that box across style and that makes them such a
00:59:01.380a better field lacrosse player as well so when they go to the colleges they're able to get those full
00:59:05.700rides you want athletic scholarships to go to a house and go to an ivy league school even so yeah1.00
00:59:11.700we're definitely starting to see a lot more women involvement in lacrosse in alberta and across0.88
00:59:15.460canada there it's really cool great yeah and it is as some others are pointing out you know ashley's
00:59:20.100been saying and pamela it's a sport that's been around for actually hundreds of years and and uh
00:59:25.140you know it's just a great kid's sport for developing skills socially physically all of
00:59:29.220it like any sport it's good to see more options you know I mean you can't all be hockey players
00:59:33.780but there's a some great stuff going on there so uh oh I'll just be yes but the uh sorry we just
00:59:44.220had a bit of a technical issue there for a moment no problem yeah but uh it's so the season gets
00:59:50.900going I imagine the ticket prices is sort of like um with CFL and things such is that the uh
00:59:57.040it's probably more affordable to take a family out for a day and then catch one of the games and1.00
01:00:01.560get there in person yeah absolutely roughnecks are really good with um formulating ticket packages
01:00:07.180to make it affordable they have discounts for student night for college students if you show
01:00:11.540proof of id there uh you'll get i think your tickets are 10 or 15 bucks but even so i think
01:00:16.900you won't be paying more than 20 bucks for a ticket um to go to the game and then you know
01:00:21.240they got that beer prices on as well and 20 bucks like you can go see a movie for the same price and
01:00:27.140You get to sit with your friends, have a good time, hang out.
01:00:29.240But then in the junior ages, the tickets are five bucks to get into a game, which is really important because, you know, a lot of these teams, they don't make a whole bunch of money.
01:00:37.900And that five, ten dollars for ticket sales for a junior B team coming in can go a long way with helping them pay for road trips and stuff around so that the kids can continue to play.
01:00:46.600And then they can also keep the fees down in order to continue to grow that game and have that involvement and make it a game that everybody can play.
01:00:53.680And that's one thing that's really good about lacrosse is that the community is really good at making sure it's affordable and it's able to have kids that want to play be able to play.
01:01:03.320Great. Well, and so I appreciate you coming in.
01:01:05.720Where else can we, I mean, you're writing for the standard and you're going to be tracking the Roughnecks games and reporting on them and lacrosse in general in coming days.
01:01:13.420Is there anywhere else where you report or write on these issues?
01:01:21.900I'm working my way up there right now.
01:01:23.680I was drafted this year and then released in training camp due to some unfortunate circumstances, but I'm out playing in the Arena Lacrosse League, which is a new league this year.
01:01:32.120It basically is acting as like the AHL to the NHL, where it's a feeder league where kids that are people that are trying to make it into the NLL can go play and stuff like that.
01:01:41.780So I'm doing that out there. I do the color commentary for all the games that I'm not playing in.
01:01:46.560I've been asked to help blow with the media and stuff like that.
01:01:49.700So I've been involved with the media with the ALL as well.
01:01:52.060and then yeah mostly just kind of focusing on the western standard focusing on lacrosse in
01:01:56.640alberta um it's been a little bit slow you know i'm trying to do an article a week um but as the
01:02:02.300season picks up it's definitely going to be a lot more than that and we're going to be kind of
01:02:05.300looking at everyday um kind of recaps of what's going on and we're going to do a lot of previews
01:02:09.860of the season and stuff going on so yeah definitely if you're looking to keep up with uh keep up with
01:02:14.280lacrosse in alberta then this is the place to find it uh like i mentioned earlier there's not a lot
01:02:18.620of coverage for lacrosse in Alberta, and it is such a beautiful sport
01:02:22.040and a beautiful game with such great people involved in the community
01:02:24.800that it's really awesome to get involved in.
01:05:53.520I mean, a lot of us had a hard, bloody time this last couple of years, too, due to restrictions and our businesses being crushed and things like that.
01:06:00.600So maybe you can't afford a Flames game and stuff like that.