Western Standard - The Pipeline-April 28, 2021

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00:02:30.000 hello i'm derek phildebrand publisher of the western standard you're watching the pipeline

00:02:54.560 today on April 28th, 2021. Thank you very much for joining us. We've got an exciting show today.

00:03:02.940 Today, we're going to be talking about the latest federal polls. Where are the federal parties at?

00:03:09.720 Big spoiler alert, Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole has completely tanked in these polls

00:03:17.040 following the announcement of his new carbon tax plan. We're going to be diving into that.

00:03:22.800 We're going to get into also what the party across the aisles from him is up to, introducing

00:03:29.280 the liberals, introducing sweeping new regulations and censorship of online content, no longer just

00:03:36.500 going after professional content producers like the Western Standard or the mainstream media

00:03:41.640 companies, but now going after everyday people just posting to YouTube. We'll get into the

00:03:48.020 details. And of course, we've been talking about it regularly. The Rogue Rodeo in Bowdoin, Alberta

00:03:54.640 coming up this weekend. We're going to talk about what we can expect from the provincial government,

00:03:59.420 from the police, and from the rodeo itself. We'll bring you all of the details. Before we get

00:04:05.960 started, though, I want to thank all of our Western Standard members. We are blown away by the support

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00:04:30.160 and today's show is sponsored by end uh albertalockdown.com and albertalockdown.com

00:04:38.080 is uh running an advocacy and lobbying campaign trying to force the provincial government to end

00:04:44.560 provincial lockdowns, and other of the more hardcore restrictions and albertalockdown.com

00:04:53.600 for more information. Well, so joining me today, I've got Western Standard news editor Dave Naylor

00:05:00.880 coming to me from an undisclosed location in British Columbia. How are you doing, Dave?

00:05:04.880 I'm doing well, Derek. Thanks.

00:05:07.000 And joining me in the Western Standard studio today is Corey Morgan, Alberta political columnist and host of The Corey Morgan Show.

00:05:18.020 How are you doing, Corey?

00:05:18.640 Very good, thanks.

00:05:20.060 Well, let's jump into it.

00:05:22.500 Aaron O'Toole support is way down in recent polls as well as support for the Conservative Party of Canada as we stare down the barrel of a potential election.

00:05:31.860 Dave, why don't you fill us in?

00:05:33.880 This is a new Abacus poll that came out yesterday, Derek, and when we saw the results, I think we

00:05:39.340 were certainly both shocked. Abacus went across the country and asked people to name who would

00:05:45.420 they prefer as Prime Minister. All party allegiances aside, just who would you prefer?

00:05:52.600 31% of the people said Justin Trudeau. Only 18% said Aaron O'Toole would make the best Prime

00:06:00.960 Minister, 18%, less than one in five. And Justin, or not Justin, Jagmeet Singh was right nipping at

00:06:08.840 O'Toole's heels with 17%. So he's only 1% behind O'Toole. I think the only good thing that O'Toole

00:06:19.860 could possibly take out of this poll is that 28% are still undecided. So his only hope would be to

00:06:27.460 get most of those undecided voters, Derek. Nationally, when you do put in the party

00:06:34.120 allegiances, Abacus found that the Liberals would get 36% of the vote, the Conservatives 29%,

00:06:43.000 NDP 17%, the Green Party 7%, and the BQ standing at 30% within Quebec. So I think, Derek, it's

00:06:52.100 just another case of the hits keep coming for O'Toole ever since he did the

00:06:56.500 carbon tax flip-flop a week or so ago it's been nothing but bad for him yeah

00:07:04.280 these are not some pretty numbers actually maybe before we go to Corey

00:07:08.760 can update us on the other numbers we've got impressions of Aaron O'Toole that

00:07:13.340 was a poll that came out just a few days earlier you know for all the leaders

00:07:17.660 they add up the people with a positive impression of a leader and the negative impression they come

00:07:24.060 up with a with a net approval uh this has seemingly gone from bad to worse why don't

00:07:31.340 you fill us in on that sure this is strictly about leader uh leader impressions again trudeau

00:07:38.620 enjoying a much higher rate than O'Toole. Trudeau is at a 37% positivity impression,

00:07:47.780 negatives at 42% for a net score of minus five. Then when you throw O'Toole in, he's only got a

00:07:55.360 positive ranking from 20%. Let's go back to that one in five figure we talked about earlier.

00:08:01.540 Negative impressions are at 34%.

00:08:04.780 So that's a whopping net score of a negative minus 14.

00:08:09.920 Singh, on the other hand, is having a bit of a bounce.

00:08:12.820 He's got a positive impression of 33% of Canadians polled

00:08:17.280 and a negative impression of 26%, Derek, for a bump of plus 7.

00:08:24.720 If forced to choose just between O'Toole and Trudeau,

00:08:28.060 Most are choosing Trudeau, 60%.

00:08:31.140 Only 40% would pick O'Toole over Trudeau if that's the only choice you have.

00:08:38.040 And interestingly, Trudeau would be the preference of 62% of block supporters and 55% of green supporters, 76% of NDP supporters, and 64% of the undecided.

00:08:51.900 So extremely bad poll numbers for O'Toole all around.

00:08:58.060 Yeah, not a lot of good news in there. You know, actually, I read one poll a little bit differently than you. You said that the only good news was that there's so many unsure. If we look at those numbers, though, unsure is beating O'Toole. O'Toole is in third place, almost tied for fourth with Singh. He's losing terribly to Trudeau in the preferred prime minister numbers, and he's even getting his ass kicked by unsure.

00:09:28.060 I'd be interested to know how many of those people voted conservative in the last few elections. 0.98

00:09:34.280 And then within the margin of error, just one point ahead, nearly tied with Jagmeet Singh.

00:09:39.220 I'd actually say that the only positive news for Aaron O'Toole in that poll

00:09:44.040 is that he's ahead of the People's Party leader, Maxime Bernier,

00:09:47.660 and the Green Party leader, whose name I still think is Elizabeth May, regardless of who.

00:09:54.600 I don't care. It'll be four elections from now.

00:09:57.080 Elizabeth May will still probably be thought of as the leader of that party.

00:10:01.760 Corey, not a lot of good news for Aaron O'Toole.

00:10:04.360 What do you think is driving this?

00:10:06.420 Well, particularly those polls, they're about who you would want to see as prime minister.

00:10:10.580 So that's pretty broad.

00:10:11.940 It's looking at the individual, not the policies and things like that.

00:10:15.180 And I think he took that gamble with the carbon tax and lost, and lost big.

00:10:21.440 Not only, I mean, we'll see more.

00:10:23.040 What's going to be more telling, I think, is the polls and who you would vote for versus

00:10:25.720 who is the leader.

00:10:26.460 but you lose credibility as a leader when you throw your supporters under the bus like that.

00:10:30.560 That's trust broken and it's showing. That's what's showing right now. People say, well,

00:10:34.960 why would I want to look at that man as a prime minister if he's so willing to completely go

00:10:39.120 back on something he'd been so strongly in support of or against not so long ago? It's

00:10:43.820 hard to trust this man and envision him as a prime minister. And Trudeau has been in for quite a while.

00:10:49.400 The luster should be fading from him. And I think it is, that big undecided. There's a bunch of

00:10:54.240 people they just don't like any of them but that means the up-and-comer has got to be the one

00:10:58.180 filling that void it should be O'Toole that's starting to dig into that undecided and he's not

00:11:03.280 and it's this is very bad news. Well if we look at the trends over time things were already bad

00:11:09.200 for Aaron O'Toole so you can see his numbers really started to part from kind of a balance

00:11:17.280 of net, essentially a net zero of negative and positive impressions in around mid-November.

00:11:25.280 And then around mid-November, you can really see his net negatives increase over his net

00:11:31.300 positives.

00:11:32.700 And then they've just continued to spike up to a net negative of 34, his positives down

00:11:39.440 to 18.

00:11:41.360 That follows the announcement of the carbon tax.

00:11:44.440 Now, not everything is the carbon tax.

00:11:46.080 i don't think he was particularly liked well before um i think a lot of people didn't really

00:11:50.960 know who he was outside of the conservative party in the media class uh but now people are starting

00:11:56.480 to figure out who he is and i don't think they like what they see there's i mean nine times out

00:12:00.800 of ten in canadian politics if um if you've got the liberals offering liberalism uh and you've got

00:12:08.560 the conservatives offering liberalism well they're going to go for the real thing why not uh i mean

00:12:14.000 I mean, if you're interviewing for a job in a position, let's say I'm interviewing for a position

00:12:21.380 and they're going to do the same thing, but one of them likes doing it and says,

00:12:28.480 I really believe in doing this job.

00:12:30.120 Well, I'm going to hire that person 10 times out of 10 over the guy who says,

00:12:33.800 well, I'm just going to do the job because I need the job.

00:12:36.260 I'm going to go for the guy who's enthusiastic about it.

00:12:38.000 And that's the problem with conservatives doing this kind of thing.

00:12:40.520 I think it's gone from O'Toole and the conservatives being a lesser evil to

00:12:45.200 just as bad. I really just don't see any point in electing the conservatives at this point if

00:12:50.920 they're going to be doing virtually the same thing on every file. And can we really trust

00:12:55.220 them on anything else he's saying? He's flip-flopped on, you know, regardless with how

00:13:00.900 you feel about this, he was supposed to welcome social conservatives in the party. Well, he cut

00:13:05.400 their throat, threw them out. He was supposed to be true blue. He's going to be a fiscal 0.99

00:13:09.840 conservative well he's not even promising to balance the budget until the end of three majority

00:13:14.320 terms in government and as we discussed i think last week there hasn't been a three-term majority

00:13:19.520 uh conservative prime minister since sir john mcdonald so good luck with that and now the

00:13:24.000 carbon tax on all these equalization they support the liberal policy uh on all of the big files

00:13:30.480 especially for westerners there's really just no discernible difference at this time

00:13:34.800 so uh you know i think it's actually better for the conservatives to lose this election

00:13:39.120 learn some lessons, and try to come back stronger next time. I don't think they're at any real risk

00:13:45.120 of winning the election as it is, but I think that's actually in the conservative movements

00:13:49.120 and the conservative party's interest to lose this election and to lose it badly.

00:13:52.320 Well, yeah, the only question now has gone to whether Trudeau is going to get a minority or

00:13:56.720 majority. The only thing saving O'Toole right now is that the vaccine rollout has been so blundered,

00:14:03.040 and again, it doesn't seem to be impacting Trudeau in the polls, but it's enough that

00:14:05.840 they won't pull the pin right now they're not going to go into an election while infections

00:14:10.800 are raging in quebec and ontario and alberta so he's probably bought reprieve until fall

00:14:16.640 but uh you know he's got a whole lot of ground to somehow make up between now and then and yeah

00:14:21.680 trying to out liberal the liberals along the way isn't going to work no okay well uh let's switch

00:14:27.920 it to uh what the other liberal party is doing uh justin trudeau's government with uh oh i can never

00:14:34.560 remember his first name but uh jabot uh stephen stephen jabot uh liberal minister of heritage i

00:14:43.360 always thought that was a curious title for a department normally obsessed with destroying our

00:14:48.080 heritage um is introducing sweeping new censorship laws beyond the very dangerous censorship laws

00:14:56.160 we've already got in canada here uh dave why don't you tell us what's going on i'll talk about doing

00:15:01.520 a flip-flop here's a another perfect governmental example derek back in november stephen gilbo said

00:15:08.320 there was no way that he was going to regulate youtube and we all know how popular youtube is

00:15:14.000 and i'm not sure how you would go about regulating it to begin with but the the the liberals did a

00:15:19.280 flip-flop uh on friday the heritage committee voted that yes in fact the government would

00:15:25.920 censor uh and regulate uh youtube and now they threw up their hands and said okay no don't worry

00:15:32.560 individual people it's not going to be you uh where it's going to be the you know the the

00:15:38.640 basically they're making youtube in charge of their own uh destiny and so that any crtc complaints

00:15:45.360 youtube would be called they're not individual people but you know again derek it's just

00:15:50.560 it's another government flip-flop from a couple months ago and they said they weren't going to do

00:15:54.320 it uh in the commons yesterday uh uh gilbo uh under questioning by from the opposition uh you

00:16:01.520 know said he was going to do it and uh uh something that has to be done uh the tory opposition said it

00:16:08.560 was a you know just a breach of charter charter rights of canadians uh freedom but youtube is

00:16:15.520 just the start of it we're waiting to uh hear what else he's going to do in terms of regulating

00:16:21.280 news online regulating comments online uh you know he's gone so far as to say that you know hurtful

00:16:28.080 comments uh need to be uh uh reported and and taken off immediately uh beverly mclaughlin the

00:16:36.640 former uh chair of the supreme court uh said that uh there needs to be a process in place where

00:16:43.840 this can happen in in in the space of a minute where if i see derek has has offended me on

00:16:49.280 something on twitter i can press the emergency button it gets called up at a in a e-court in uh

00:16:55.440 in ottawa and then somebody says yes that's wrong or or no it's right it can stay it's uh

00:17:01.920 we don't say anything offensive around the office no exactly exactly you don't need to worry at all

00:17:08.560 but uh you know what it's uh they've changed their they they've moved the goal posts

00:17:14.240 as corey is likes to say moving those goal posts they've said they weren't going to do it now they

00:17:19.680 say they are so i think we just need to wait for the other shoe to drop to find out where they're

00:17:24.880 taking this um well you know i mean this this is a classic case of trying not throwing the frog

00:17:33.200 into the boiling water but but turning up the heat this is all this is the way censorship always

00:17:38.720 works. You never start with just banning oppositional newspapers. You start with some

00:17:45.240 regulations around the edge, and then those regulations become more severe and more severe

00:17:49.120 and more severe. Then you start with outright deplatforming and banning certain more extreme

00:17:56.380 publications. And then over time, they move closer and closer to banning mainstream publications

00:18:01.680 or censoring mainstream publications that disagree with government. This is what happens

00:18:07.920 when people are stupid enough to trust government to be able to regulate opinion and thought. 1.00

00:18:12.700 Sure, there's always extreme and, you know, nasty opinions out there that we wouldn't like to see. 1.00

00:18:20.680 But by censoring those people, you're opening up the door to censoring reasonable people. That's

00:18:25.620 why you have freedom of speech or you don't. There is no such thing as moderate freedom of

00:18:33.040 speech, or to use a very Canadian term, reasonable and justified free speech. If it's not advocating

00:18:41.320 physical harm to someone or slander, it's free speech. Where do you think this is going to go?

00:18:51.240 I mean, the good news is the Conservatives are opposed to it. The bad news is the Conservatives

00:18:56.000 are probably going to adopt it like they do almost every other Liberal policy within a few years.

00:19:00.260 it's just a matter of time until the Conservatives support this. As I say, you know, if you want to

00:19:04.500 know what the Conservatives are going to be five years or ten years from now, look at where the

00:19:08.500 Liberals are today. So the Conservatives are opposed to this now, but I'm not sure that

00:19:13.220 that opposition is going to last in the long term. Corey, where do you think this is going to go from

00:19:18.900 here? Well, it's going to be a long cycle. I mean, they're getting to the point that's where a lot

00:19:23.220 of people in the woke and the snowflakes out there want to see it illegalized to hurt people's

00:19:28.340 feelings. I mean, that's really what it comes down to. As you said, nobody should be able to

00:19:32.000 get out there and threaten somebody or tell people to commit a crime or truly propose hate

00:19:37.960 against identifiable groups or slander somebody. But they could be an arsehole. I mean, I won't 0.99

00:19:42.500 make it 10 minutes on Twitter by the new standards. I'll be done. Oh, you're in. I'm not going to say

00:19:49.140 anything. I've never pretended to be a nice guy. Hey, if you're following my account, be ready for

00:19:53.240 a jerk. That's what I do. You know, people lose that whole thing of if you don't like what I'm 0.99

00:19:58.220 saying, don't follow. It's not that complicated. But no, they want the state to intervene. And

00:20:02.620 that's where you get this really ugly, fuzzy, blurry line. As you said, you've got to keep it

00:20:07.300 clear. No, the speech is paramount. Live with it. Block the person, move on, kick some dirt on it

00:20:12.680 and walk away. But that's not where we're at. But I mean, it is interesting that maybe this might be

00:20:19.780 what leads to the breakup of the social media giants and monopolies because i mean it is a

00:20:24.260 game of whack-a-mole sure youtube and twitter and facebook are the dominant ones out there

00:20:28.280 but i mean people are determined they will squeak off to rumble and they'll move off to twitch and

00:20:33.460 they'll move over to other platforms and it might finally start chipping at these heavyweights a bit

00:20:38.940 and but this is a long run game yeah i don't know it's dangerous doesn't seem there's much we can

00:20:45.040 to stop it uh the federal ndp under seeing have indicated that they're likely to support this

00:20:51.120 amendment to the government's own bill the whole bill is bunk and should be scrapped the government's

00:20:55.440 got no business regulating the internet regulating broadcasts at all i mean the beginning of this is

00:21:01.680 just the crtc the canadian radio and television uh canada it's uh or commission sorry and uh like

00:21:08.720 that's been around forever and people don't know this but that is controlling all of even the

00:21:13.760 private sector so-called private sector broadcasters in Alberta there's limits to what they can say

00:21:19.760 there's limits to what they can do they're subject to all sorts of things if the government doesn't

00:21:23.840 like what you're doing they're going to pull your license they don't like what you're doing in your

00:21:27.040 new like sun news network was they just won't give you a license on par with what all your

00:21:32.160 competitors have so the government already exerts massive control over broadcast now they're coming

00:21:37.760 in to regulate online broadcast but they said we swear it's going to stop at you know regulating

00:21:44.320 ctv and cbc maybe regulating western standard no now it's going to go down to uh corey just

00:21:53.680 posting an angry rant on his private youtube page that's going to be illegal too uh it's going to

00:21:58.800 be under their regulation so it's it is wickedly dangerous stuff that we're doing and it doesn't

00:22:04.560 seem to be, I mean, the conservatives should be prepared to burn the place down over this, but

00:22:10.720 they're speaking in opposition, but they're not going to really go to the wall because they're

00:22:14.300 terrified of being labeled apologists for hate. Well, and the liberals have got a de facto

00:22:19.760 majority anyways. I mean, Jagmeet's Trudeau's little puppy dog. He doesn't want to trigger an

00:22:24.200 election right now in the midst of the pandemic either. So Trudeau can put any bill forward he

00:22:28.820 wants. It's going to get through. Jagmeet will stomp his little feet and then he'll support it.

00:22:32.620 I hope it wouldn't be considered too offensive saying he'd stomp his little feet, but that's the sort of thing that they, it's amazing what, you know, I mean, you look at the net, how insane the woke are, they're insane. And that's who is going to be deciding what we're allowed to say and what we aren't. And this is not somewhere we need to go. 0.98

00:22:46.880 This is 2021. Well, let's bring it to something much more fun, much more uplifting.

00:22:54.320 This weekend in Bowdoin, Alberta is the end the lockdown rodeo. The Western Standard is going to

00:23:02.960 be there. We'll get into the role we're going to play in a bit here, but let's just talk about the

00:23:07.280 event itself. Dave, tell us what's happening in Bowdoin this weekend. Good time, Derek. A good

00:23:14.400 time will be happening it's uh it's going to be a rodeo put on by the the northcott family

00:23:19.760 they're a historic alberta uh ranching family going back uh several generations and and their

00:23:27.120 business has been absolutely devastated by uh by covet and and all the lockdowns and and they've

00:23:34.240 just they've just reached the end of their rope derrick they they cannot lose any more money they

00:23:38.720 cannot take this lockdown anymore so they are having an end the lockdown rodeo and it's

00:23:45.920 it's going to be a full competition rodeo over three days they've got camping they've got guest

00:23:52.080 speakers uh hell they've even got cory morgan going so i mean it doesn't get uh much more fun

00:23:58.480 than that but uh it's going to be interesting to see uh what the politicians do alberta health

00:24:04.320 services already sent them several nasty letters saying uh don't do it till you'll be in big big

00:24:10.640 trouble but what what are they going to do derek you know in theory there could be several thousand

00:24:16.400 people there enjoying themselves on a long weekend and i can't see the rcmp coming in uh in mass and

00:24:23.200 and ticking into everybody nor can i really see them doing check stops on the uh on the highway

00:24:28.640 out of town on sunday so it's going to be an interesting event and it's going to be supporting

00:24:34.160 a long time alberta family that has just reached the end of their rope well actually it's not just

00:24:40.320 cory going cory was kind of the impetus behind this whole thing with us but it's um i i'm going

00:24:45.680 to be there i'm bringing the trailer up for the weekend uh i might bring my smoker and make uh

00:24:50.480 make a brisket uh an illegal brisket i guess uh uh we're gonna ones taste best yeah all right

00:24:56.880 we're gonna have james and daryl there we're bringing up a good crew from uh from our calgary

00:25:01.280 headquarters to uh to this rodeo uh dave i guess you're gonna miss it because you're absconced out

00:25:07.200 in uh in lotus land there for a bit but uh yeah sorry derek i do encourage everybody that's going

00:25:15.120 keeping keep an eye out for those uh those new western standard uh jackets you guys will be

00:25:20.160 flaunting oh yeah we've got all sorts of new swag coming up uh we're at the western center is

00:25:25.520 actually a sponsor of the rodeo this segment we're doing right now though is not sponsorship

00:25:29.520 we're just doing this because this is interesting this is something we're doing um well before we

00:25:35.520 get into what western standards can be doing at the rodeo um corey why don't you tell us about

00:25:41.760 you know what did you hear from ty norcott uh you know i guess he's kind of the patriarch of a very

00:25:47.520 famous uh rodeo family in central alberta uh why don't you tell us just how why is he doing this

00:25:54.320 what's going on what can we expect yeah well it's backs against the wall i mean it's business people

00:25:59.040 don't think about a lot you know these are specialty businesses there's not a whole lot of

00:26:02.800 them you know i mean it's quite a unique sort of industry and that's why there's only a handful of

00:26:07.120 families do it you know you hear of the north cuts the kesslers and some of the others that

00:26:11.360 that raise these specialized animals or as ty refers to them as animal athletes and it's not

00:26:17.600 like like they've been shut down for over a year they haven't had any productions it's like any

00:26:21.040 other business you've got to get out there and these are livestock you can't put them on a shelf

00:26:26.240 and just store them for a year they cost money to have even if you're not using them they cost money

00:26:30.400 they age they need training they need feeding they need veterinary care this herd is way smaller than

00:26:35.360 it used to be already and it's not like this industry can just start up again if you let these

00:26:39.680 herds and this livestock run down these are specialized animals you can't go down to the

00:26:43.280 milk barn and grab a couple of cows and make a bull riding event out of it or grab some of these

00:26:47.920 old trail horses and use them for the saddle bronx these are specialized animals so he said

00:26:52.400 enough he's either going to look at having this family as he said his father was in the business

00:26:55.760 his wife's father was uh in the rodeo business as well like this is deeply steeped in tradition

00:27:01.760 and he said you know we're just going to hold it we're going to hold it no matter what we've got

00:27:05.360 to pay our bills we've got to save our industry i got nothing to lose and uh you know i interviewed

00:27:10.480 him last week and he's just said i don't care you know do what you want we are holding this

00:27:14.800 we have to do it and it's going to be a really good time because this is what he does and the

00:27:18.480 opportunity i see in this though is so many albertans weren't quite sure they might not

00:27:21.760 want to go to a park to a rally or they might not want to go to city hall things like this but here

00:27:26.160 come on out go out on a weekend enjoy a rodeo a family event have some fun get into some fresh air

00:27:33.280 and at the same time you're making a statement telling the government that's enough we're moving

00:27:37.360 on yeah uh you know and i encourage people to be reasonable uh i think i don't think it's any

00:27:44.240 secret that you know we're pretty anti-lockdown and i'm against most of the a lot of the restrictions

00:27:51.040 that are out there but we should still be careful uh don't make out with random people uh you know

00:27:56.800 don't uh we use some comments like the only thing that would keep me from going this saturday is if

00:28:01.440 i woke up in the morning and i wasn't feeling good and you know what if i wasn't i wouldn't go i'm not

00:28:04.720 gonna go there and spread something around but other if you're not yeah if you're not feeling

00:28:09.040 well don't go please i mean this should be a responsible event uh don't let this become uh

00:28:17.280 what its critics uh believe that it is uh so don't play into their hands be responsible uh you know

00:28:24.240 try not to crown crown around people unnecessarily but you know go if you want to go go if you don't

00:28:30.240 want to go don't go that's that's the beauty of choice here and i've been there it's at the boden

00:28:34.560 rodeo grounds right in town there you know just an hour and change out of calgary there's lots

00:28:38.400 of room for people to spread out and enjoy themselves you know you can still talk from

00:28:42.400 uh whatever your comfortable distance is like it's a good event for this sort of thing and

00:28:46.640 we've seen it from the doomsayers before you know we saw that with super bowl we saw it with that

00:28:50.960 baseball game in texas they all you know we saw with silver lake last summer they always say

00:28:54.240 there's going to be massive infections after what it never happens it doesn't happen so don't sweat

00:28:59.040 it just just just be responsible don't don't let this be what uh what the pro lock what the

00:29:04.880 what the lockdowners say it is let's just be reasonable what will we do there speaking of

00:29:09.760 being there uh the western standard is going to be there in force um i'm bringing the trailer

00:29:14.400 up spending the weekend as i said a bunch of us are um the western standard is uh we're going to

00:29:22.080 try no promises yet but we just began discussions around producing a live broadcast of the rodeo

00:29:29.280 itself so not just us talking on the camera about being at the rodeo but

00:29:33.840 actually streaming the rodeo live if this is something that viewers and

00:29:40.320 listeners are interested in please let us know in the comments section or you

00:29:43.900 can email us at membership at westernstandardonline.com send us an

00:29:51.600 email let us know if you support it it'll be fairly expensive we'd have to

00:29:55.580 actually buy some new equipment equipment that we could use actually to

00:29:58.720 spruce up our studio here better cameras better uh better video audio prettier yeah well no one

00:30:05.540 can pay for that that's uh that's well that'd be an expensive job um but uh you know we would need

00:30:13.260 some upgraded equipment so if you're if you're interested in us doing this uh you can consider

00:30:18.780 uh chipping in to help us buy some new audio visual equipment and we would need some pretty

00:30:23.340 good stuff to be able to live stream a rodeo like this. We couldn't just do this on a phone

00:30:33.180 if it's going to be worth watching. So if you're interested, send us an email membership

00:30:36.640 at westernstandardonline.com. If you're interested in making a contribution, if you're not yet

00:30:42.260 a member, go become a member. That'll help kick in towards it. We will let you know if

00:30:46.860 we're going to be doing this. This is, again, no promises, but it's something that we're

00:30:50.720 interested in doing and uh and covering live there i should yeah just expand a bit so if you're on

00:30:57.060 facebook just whether i mean it's preferred if you come in person that's the best thing you're

00:31:00.240 making the statement but uh the information is there at northcott northcott rodeo if you look

00:31:04.640 it up and he's got all the competitor lists they filled up fast i mean you can't forget all these

00:31:08.840 athletes these competitors they've been sitting for a year like they need to get out they need

00:31:12.120 to train so he's got a load of uh well barrel racing going on and an astounding amount of

00:31:17.540 bull riding going on on Saturday and Sunday. It starts at one o'clock just to get that info out

00:31:22.840 there. You know, you go to the Stampede, I mean, you'll see seven bulls at the end of the run and

00:31:26.120 everything. Well, if you like bull riding, you're going to see all kinds of bull riding going on

00:31:29.640 this weekend. It's going to be a hoot. Yeah, it's going to be great. Actually,

00:31:32.880 it's an easier way to even find more information because he's got, like me, he's got a difficult

00:31:37.680 last name to spell. If you go to the Western Standards website, you can, you'll see an

00:31:44.720 advertisement on the side. You can just click on that. It'll take you straight through. We've got

00:31:49.180 a comment from Cheryl. Dawn here says she'll chip in for a razor. Ooh, la la. My legs are pretty 1.00

00:31:57.100 hairy, too. You can't see it, but Corey's actually wearing no pants beside me. He's a very hairy man.

00:32:04.260 Thank you very much, Dawn. If you're interested, you can email Corey,

00:32:08.540 uh c morgan at westernstandardonline.com uh let him know where uh he'll give you an address where

00:32:14.540 you can ship some razors that's that's chipping in real grassroots style right there be efficient

00:32:19.020 around here user participation uh i've been in bc too long i've got to get back to get you guys

00:32:24.940 under control i had to get the dry cleaning done and i had to come downtown i mean we were covering

00:32:30.220 a lot of ground at once this is efficiency well there we go well this has been uh an interesting

00:32:37.500 broadcast today. Corey needs to go put some pants on and shave. And Dave, I know you've got to get

00:32:44.460 back to the newsroom. So thank you both very much for joining me today. You guys have a great time

00:32:49.160 this weekend. Well, today's show again was sponsored by EndAlbertalockdown.ca. That is

00:32:55.680 different from the End the Lockdown Rodeo. Yes, I know everybody who's fighting against these

00:33:01.520 things seems to be advertising with the Western Centre in one form or another. But you can check

00:33:06.120 out endalbertalockdown.ca for more information about what you can do fighting against

00:33:10.280 government overreach and lockdowns. Again, we want to thank our Western Standard members. If

00:33:16.320 you're not yet a member, go to westernstandardonline.com slash membership, sign up,

00:33:21.220 try it free for 15 days. If you like it, keep going. If not, enjoy the CBC.

00:33:28.440 Well, thank you all very much for joining me today. Make sure you tune in tomorrow morning at

00:33:33.140 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time or 9 a.m. Pacific Time for Nathan Gita and the Mountain Standard

00:33:44.720 Time show. He's got some great guests coming up. I don't remember him off the top of my head.

00:33:49.920 There's so many damn shows, I can't keep crack of it. But check out Nathan Gita on Mountain 0.90

00:33:54.340 Standard Time every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10 a.m. Mountain Time. And of course,

00:34:01.000 Cory Morgan, check out every Monday and Friday at the same time, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time,

00:34:07.640 9 p.m. a.m. Pacific for the Cory Morgan Show. Thank you all very much for joining me today,

00:34:14.360 joining all of us today. God bless.

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