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Let's get this party started. Oh,

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I love the party. I'm

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having a party. More

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of a party atmosphere. A party for

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two. We're having a big party. And

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joining me is the party table, the host of

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News Talk Tonight weekdays from 7pm to 10pm. Jim

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Richards, good morning. Hey Jerry, sorry to interrupt you

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Jerry. How are you doing? Well, I'm

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happy to hear you're eager and ready to go.

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I was just arguing with your producer. I don't

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know what's wrong with him. He

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says that Joe Bowen's not insinuating

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that the fans at Scotiabank

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should make more noise. I'm pretty sure

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that's what he's saying. It's embarrassing that

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all the rich people get to go

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and they sit on their hands. No,

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no, no. Classic Jim and Darnie. He's insinuating.

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He said they need to step up. Listen,

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Joe Bowen made the comment he was blaming

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the audience for the lack of noise and

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things, but he wasn't outright going after a

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specific group. If you want to... A specific

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group? If you want to

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say that's what you believe he's saying, that's

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fine, but that's not directly what he said.

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No, please. Alright. But I don't understand how

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you could... What do you think that he's

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saying then? I'm

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just saying that's what he said, right? If you

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want to extrapolate that and say, I think what

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he's getting at is X, Y, and Z, that's

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fine. But that's not what he said. He

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didn't say, oh, all these rich people are

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ruining things. No, but he said something. What

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do you think it means if it didn't

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mean that? Yeah, because that's who has the

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tickets. The real crowd, the real fans are

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standing out there in the elements cheering in

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front of that outdoor television. That's what's going

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on. In

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fact, Jim, this was a

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number of years ago, but my brother for some

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reason in Winnipeg got it in his head suddenly,

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like that day, that he was just

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going to book a ticket and fly

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to Toronto and see the Jets play

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the Maple Leafs. And then he was

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going to fly back that night. So he didn't even ask me

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if he could, you know, he could have stayed at my house.

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I was surprised he didn't. He was just going to go right

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back, but he bought two tickets until... Me to the

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game and we went to the games and

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you know sheath he goes to a lot

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of games in Winnipeg. he was at the

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one know the other night or the with

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the white out that they do and when

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a pagan alone now he's really into a

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and after we were about five or six

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minutes into the game he looks at me

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because what's wrong with these people ah ah

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well we'll know it doesn't look good because

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they're gonna come. They come back from the

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break, their Swedes under the stands for the

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lower bowl and they're still on their seats.

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and Alex I we don't care. But anyway

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yeah. On So what do you

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make of Olivia Chow saying I literally

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inherited this mess when she's talking about

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sidewalk litter bins and now John Tory

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coming out. So although the new bins

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are already underway under my administration, I

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guess I thought she was just making

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a joke because she's standing next to

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Amass. But if you John Tory probably

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you've heard enough of that kind of

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staff and this is something. I guess

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Astral is paying for all of it

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and it's not coming out of taxpayers.

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And yes, these things probably don't appear

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in a nowhere. so it's believable that

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day. And they were in the works

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of over a long time ago, so

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I guess that it makes sense. Cities

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upset. he started a lot. Yeah

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well if I can only hope for

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his sake he doesn't hear it as

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long as my parents did. Ah said

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So true. Yeah that as soon as

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he probably well though you know he

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he probably well and I guess again

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speak out about it. But ah yes.

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All right. So electric vehicle sales have

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actually slowed down Mercedes said. but they

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are backing away from production right now.

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They're not saying that they aren't part

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of the future, but they just can

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sell as many as they could. Have

3:39

made So they're slowing you down to think

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B M W stop doing it all together

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So so if you take that and then

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you hear that billions and billions and billions

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of our dollars are being sold out there

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to subsidize Stevie A battery and car market

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not you feel about all of us. It's

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not a good luck and at what point

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do they start making more like a get

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inside and of these. Become a center

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section where you can buy because they didn't

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make even though you want to buy but.

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I think at a certain point here

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we have to get to where member

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the flat screen was an affordable at

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one point and then now everybody's got

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a flat screens and get them for

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next to nothing. Hopefully this industry wool

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of will will be able to find

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that sweet spot where people are going

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to be a incentivize on are no

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has to come through or hopefully just

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a price on on the. On the

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vehicle and not necessarily through incentives

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from Us or the government, but.

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Something's. Gotta give because he can't be

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born. All this money and all of your

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eggs in one basket is Mark Carney said

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yesterday about what's the Trudeau government is doing

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and die at. Blob your face young are

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you? Just made me think of another example.

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my brother in law's kind of a math

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geek and this goes back many years. but

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there was something he really really really wanted

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for Christmas and so he said this is

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my my in laws were not poor people,

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but they said to war with that's as

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you want to not set you've got one

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package to unwrap. okay ah and he

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said okay because that's how much he

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wanted at near what was it him

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school isn't a calculator ah as as

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a good old days he asked the

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so stuff yes they may become a

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more efficient price wise own will see

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mans meanwhile and this does tie in

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there some pedestrian advocacy groups and they're

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trying to get manufacturers to say it's

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still just make smaller vehicles can say

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thank you know trucks and s u

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v said gotten so huge that sometimes

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the driver can't even see the passengers

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to think the right i don't think

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the right well first of all i

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don't think they're gonna get anywhere may

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be because of their activism they can

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change awareness and get streets to are

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like the way we haven't downtown toronto

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right now where the walk sign starts

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like serve under no five seconds before

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the green light goes so you know

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that people are going to be in

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the intersection and they're not going to

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be nailed. Maybe it has to be

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through urban planning like that, but I

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don't know if you're going to get

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somebody who has a big SUV to

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settle for a smaller SUV. I saw

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this picture, Jerry, if you look up

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like a pickup truck in 1990 and

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look up what the same model looks like

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now, they look like

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they're on steroids. They're huge. And

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right now I'm driving one of

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them, but the difference is stark

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and it's amazing. What are you

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driving? I'm driving a Toyota

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Tacoma. Okay. I went to an auto show once

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in Chicago and just the thing wasn't even going

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to be for sale. So I don't know how

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much money it cost them just to make a

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one off. But what Ford had

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there on display was a Ford F650. It

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was huge. Oh my God. Like you needed

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a ladder. It was like a piece of equipment

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that they use in open pit

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mining, it looks like. Yeah. You can set a pickup from

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1985 in the back of the pickup today. Yeah.

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Well, you know, the marketplace speaks.

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That's really what's happening there. Yeah. I know that

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is what's happening, but I get it that, you

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know, if you have a small

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person driving one of these things and they're higher

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up and they're not, you know, doing their due

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diligence, man, the car can beep when somebody's

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in my blind spot. Can't it

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beep when somebody is, I don't

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know, some pedestrian is around? Well,

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I guess all kinds of things are possible. I looked at

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this story from the New York Post and I thought, boy,

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this has got Jim Richards written all over it because I

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think you've liked these kinds of stories. And

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it is this, experts say the

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daily shower has no proven health benefit.

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Dismissing the dousing as a socially accepted

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practice geared towards staving off accusations of

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funkiness. They're saying, and I'm sure this

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depends on how you spend your day,

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you don't actually have to shower every

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day. I think

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the people on public trends had heard this message

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a long time ago. I

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hate to say that and I'm one

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of them usually, but I don't know.

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It's funny, Jerry, after like. four

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years of people saying like a

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pandemic wash, wash, wash, wash, wash,

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wash, wash, wash, wash. Now

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it's like, Hey, yeah, not so much.

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You know, the only benefit is from

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some dude at Harvard that you don't

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stink. Okay. I don't think we

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needed to go to Harvard to find out that

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that was a good reason why you want

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to shower. But I guess, you

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know, the history of mankind says that

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we didn't have showers indoors in North

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America until the 1920s and then in

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Europe until the 1950s. So

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it's a relatively new thing. Sure.

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But I also depends how you spend your day.

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I mean, if you, if you're an athlete or

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if you, if you work in construction, you work

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physically, then you probably need to shower every day.

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Those people you're talking about on public transit, that was

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funny, but I mean, I think those people got the

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memo that they never shower at all. I think that

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that's the issue there. But if

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you, if you woke up, you woke up in the

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morning and you showered and the hardest

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physical thing you possibly did that day was

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a radio show, Jim. I'm not sure

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by next morning you're too funky. No,

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you're probably not. Also, you know, there

9:05

is a, there's something special about an

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evening shower and then getting into a

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bed with fresh, clean linen. That is

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something else, man. That is one of

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the pure joys of life, Jim. Do

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you prefer a morning shower or an

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evening shower? I

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shower in the morning, but

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maybe a special treat sometime.

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Probably the environmentalists aren't listening.

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I don't think they listen to the show, actually. Yeah,

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I do like an evening shower. Yeah,

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I prefer that. But then of course you don't,

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I mean, your, your day is different than mine.

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So yeah, the first thing in the morning, I

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just want to get going. So I prefer later

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in the day. Yeah. That

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makes sense for you, not for me. Okay. And

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the need of one right now. Yeah. Maybe

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in the middle of the day we could just shower together, Jim. Sounds

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great, Jerry. Okay. That's crazy,

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crazy stuff. Some people are saying

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council in Pickering limits delegations to

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residents. and business owners only. So,

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a quick comment on that before

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I talk to Councillor Holiday about

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it. Well, this woman that is

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at the center of it, she was dropped

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as a candidate by the conservatives in 2021

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for racist tweets has been a bit

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of a, you know, what show. She's

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the Marjorie Taylor Greene of Pickering, having

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people come in and threaten council. I

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mean, there might be just needed because

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of this one councillor, but I don't

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know why you would need people from

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outside of town, unless they're an expert

10:29

in the field of something that's going

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to be in town for the

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first time. Well, that's a good point, but thanks for this.

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You're welcome.