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AM800 CKLW Roundtable with Dan MacDonald, Shane Potvin, Jada Mallott, & Jon Liedtke - July 9, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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Well, hey, good morning and welcome. It's Dan McDonald and welcome to
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the Dan McDonald show. Happy Monday, the Monday edition. It's going to
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be a hot one today too. And also I just want to know before
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we dive into a roundtable, it was like the perfect most classic summer weekend
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ever yesterday. There was so much going on all over the city, different
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different areas. I was at the beach yesterday. It was incredible, so
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much fun. Just I'm loving this weather, I'm loving the mugginess. I'm
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loving all of it. It's a great summer so far. Welcome to our
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roundtable chair of the Ford City b i A. I was actually walking through
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that neighborhood as well. Shane popn Shane, good morning, good morning,
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how are you very good? I'm still I cannot wait. I have it
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marked on my calendar as seventeenth. Yeah, yes, we don't mention this
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word. Oh oh okay. I was like, did something happen dropped on
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Drew Lard. I cannot wait. I'm so looking forward to it. Six
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weeks six weeks away less. Yeah, I want to have you on closer
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to it to to really break it down and do a deep dive in a
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dropped undrew liner. Yeah, I will talk. I can't wait. I
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can't such a fun festival. Community advocate, third year political science student and
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no stranger to the show. Jadam a lot Jada, good morning, Hello
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Dan, thanks for having me. I gotta say yes. Last time we
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were on the roundtable, we were talking about driving habits, and you said
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to all of us, you were like, slow right turns. Yes,
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once you talk about it, you're gonna notice it. Oh my gosh.
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Right, every time I got behind a slow right turn, I was like
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Dan McDonald, Oh my gosh, it's my pet peeve. And it's getting
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worse. People who do just a refreshment listeners. People who whether you're behind
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them and they have a right turn and they have the right of way and
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there's no one obstructing them, and I swear it's like they they roll the
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turn at two kilometers an hour, and I'm just like once I even counted
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because it was so ridiculous. I got to eight Mississippi before he completed his
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right unobstructed turn, like eight Mississippi in my car, and I was it
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was like an endurance test not to just land my horn. I didn't because
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I don't like to do that, but I'm like, hey, Dan,
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just let this feed your patience, just let it grow your pishuy in the
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city. I would have very calm demeanor. But inside a boiling volcano rage
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I do. There's a yes, eternal rage. I just turn the music
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up and breathe. That's all you can do, right, I'm down with
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Yes. I would totally be down with Savenya. We should play some ny
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Will coming back last, but certainly not least. Mister John Lidkey, host
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of Rose City Politics, host here on AM eight hundred as well. John,
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Good morning, Good morning Dan. Great to have you in as always,
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and I apologize for the last minute with the topics, but I appreciate
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you going on as always. And there's a lot of John topics here today
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as well, one in particular the newspool this one. Since we're talking about
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driving, this is a good way to kick it off. Is there a
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parking lot or intersection that always has you thinking, well, this is it?
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This will be the place where I get into an accident if ever I
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do. Windsor Essex Police reveal we're revealing Windsor's most collision prone intersection for me,
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it's the two that are by my house Walker in Ottawa. I've never
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had a close call there, but more often than not, when I'm walking
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the neighborhood, i will see a fender bender in progress and it's it's very
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often at that that corner. The other parking lot is the little plaza at
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the corner of Ottawa and Walker as well. There's like a an l CBO,
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a burrito place, a pot store, and a Canadian store. That
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place, I don't know, so spontaneously coulbust pulling in and people are pulling
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out and it's so tight. I'm like, if I ever get if I
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ever hit somebody, it will be in this parking lot. That's and I'm
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not going to win. I don't want to manifest that, but that's I
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think it's a bad one. It's like three lanes turning. There's no rhyme
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reason. Yeah, going towards the el CBO. Yeah, you don't,
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no, you don't know what to do. Yeah, that's why that intersection
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is problematic for me. Shamee. Do you have an intersection? Yeah,
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And as you know, I'm in the Fort Drew Lard a lot, so
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when you're approaching from Richmond. If you're driving down Richmond to drew Lard and
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you are turning left, it's pretty terrible because the cars park a little too
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close on either side so you can never see and it's always cars parked all
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the way along, so you can never see the cars coming. So you
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just have to guess and gun it and go like far out and then turn.
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You got it like a Tron turn. Yeah, So, I mean
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it's always been sort of bad. That intersections pretty bad. People drive down
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drew Yard really fast. We're actually in the process of getting we just got
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a proof for We're getting the flexi ballards the middle of the road, middle
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end to the edge of the road like the parking area. So we're getting
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H three like both intersections at Richmond, Welton, Trenton and Ontario within like
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the next like month. Ok. Yeah, and we're getting a speed sign.
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So I think it'll help a lot because buses are gonna have to weave
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kind of through these things. You got to slow down to go through them.
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I mean, your car can fit it, just it's just it's intimidating,
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right, Yeah, feel comfortable. So that intersection is probably my my
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least favorite. Yeah, No, the good one that I had noticed a
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problem there as well Ford City and Drew Lrd Road in particular, a lot
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of speed demons going down there. Jada, do you have a intersection or
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a parking lot that you're like, oh boy, this will be where it
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happens. Yeah, this is a funny question because I'm the kind of driver
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where I will avoid areas that I don't like driving in. Like I'm the
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kind of girl who instead of making an unprotected left hand turn, I'll turn
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right as many times as possible find a light. Or I'm just gonna be
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I'm just gonna pull up my GPS and I'm gonna like please reroute me because
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I'm not even gonna try, or like I'll circle the block so I don't
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have to parallel park. Like I'm sorry, but I'm a very safe driver.
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I bought my car so it's my baby and I try to take care
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of her. Yeah, but one of the worst intersections for me. I'm
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an East Windsor girl, so I think a lot of people will resonate with
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Forsky Drive and Compsy Road East. That one is pretty ugly. I've seen
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three car accidents in that intersection in like the past two years alone. Parking
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lot is definitely the LCBO on Lowson Parkway. That one is wild, like
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you have to lok in like I'm like fighting in the trenches for my life
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when i want to park at the LCBO on Lowson Parkway. I'm trying to
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thing. Is that is that where the accident was the bike? It was
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not far from there. Is this the one that's in the little plaza or
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is this? Yeah, it's in the to come see mall plus right and
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yes one. That intersection is pretty bad too, because going towards the water.
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What weighs that. I'm so sorry north going north, if you want
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to turn right going north on the left hand side, it's a it's a
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like a right hand turning lane, but it looks like it's a third lane,
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so people are turning right thinking they're turning into a third lane, but
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it's a second lane. So there's still cars coming. Like I've seen a
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lot of crazy stuff stuff happen there too. But yeah, I'm an avoid
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I will I will avoid avoid avoid because I like my car. What else
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makes me nervous is when you come out of the windsor Detroit Tunnel, like
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back into Canada, and then you make a left and you want to make
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a left onto a let there's two lanes, and it feels like if there's
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a person next to you making the left lane too, it's like, ah,
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we can't both make this at the same time. That always kind of
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messes with you too, because you can't really see the other lane that one.
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Yeah, I think I'm still messed up that you can turn right there
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now? Yeah, Like come out. I'm always like I can't do this,
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but I can. And that's the same as pitt and University, like
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we're yeah, now you can go down there. Yeah, no, one.
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I've been there three times in the past six months and there's always someone
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driving on the wrong side of the road by the media plex kind of thing.
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I was once on like doing what I know you couldn't do before going
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down that street, and somebody gave me a like you're going the wrong way
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and I'm like, no, I'm going the right way, like they were
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ingrained that it's a one way John. Do you have any problematic intersections any
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roundabout in the city? Yeah, it is. And then what Victoria at
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win Dot Victoria. There's four lanes and two on the far on the left
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and the right end up turning. That's a one way going south right,
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yes, yeah. The other two have to shift into a three lane street
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with one lane parking, and so if you're in the middle lane, you
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have to sort of go to the right. But people on the left don't
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know that they're on the right, don't know that they have to go far
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to the right, and many people don't. You're just constantly like there is
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going to be a car just driving into me and then yelling at me,
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going I did something wrong. I'm sure there's not more accidents at that one
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should be well should there shouldn't be shocked, there's not a few here.
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Well, somebody did agree with you, Jada. I can't stand the people
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that not only make the slow right hand turn, but but make it unnecessarily
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wide, like you're driving a car, not a bus. Calm down,
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this person says, there you go. So this is I actually have my
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old G license test on Friday in the morning, so hopefully I can get
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that out of my mind because I don't want my drive test instructor to look
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at me and I'm like, is there anything you're nervous about for your test?
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Honestly on the top of my head. No, maybe just okay,
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Like I'm not gonna can we like scratch my name out on the radio so
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that they my drive instructors like, oh, this is the girl who said
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that she has a lot of bad habits on the road. You're well,
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I don't really I don't like okay, sorryone, but I don't really check
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my blind spots. I have like a blind spot mirror. Shane, I'm
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so sorry, I'm twenty, I'm funny. Don't cancel. Shane is also
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your driving instructor, just so you know you'll be with you. So I'm
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so sorry. If any of the drive test instructors are listening, my name
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is not Jadam a lot, it's not me. Well, you know what's
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funny though, with the checking the blind spots. Now, my I have
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a new car too. I just got a new car too, for the
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first time in I don't even know how long decades. And uh it does
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so many bells and whistles, like there's so much I don't have to do
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anymore, Like, but it will like notify me if somebody is in my
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blind spot. The mirror will flicker and a little bit goes and it has
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the backup camera. It has like a lane assist. It does all these
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things where it will tug you into the lane if you start to stray on
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the back. Yeah, I always wanted to see what nineteen sixty five looked
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like. Somebody else did hear the intersection where match it Prince and to Comesy
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Road West meet. Oh, that is a tricky one, it's all.
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It's almost round. Yes, that's a that is a bizz. I never
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know what when I'm in either there. Uh, they said, I don't
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understand the drivers that put their left signal on to go straight through the intersection
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from Tacomcy to match it. Yes, because it looks like you have to
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turn right. But yeah, totally see that. People that pull to the
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left to turn right. Someone said, huh, and people go left a
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bit to do a wide. Oh the wide, that's what that is.
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And then they almost go and you're lane right. That's I totally want that.
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I'll geting off the expressway at Walker. That happens a lot. Walker
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and Niagara like Walker and Niagara, Like we live on Niagara kind of close
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to Monmouth, and that street's really bad because everyone everyone blows that stop sign
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right in front of like behind the Walkerville eatery. We're actually we just got
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a proof for speed humps. So we're getting speed humps from walker all the
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way to Lincoln. Good there they need them back. Everyone just guns through
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that and then they just they speed and there's a church and a school,
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two schools. Yeah, it's pretty dangerous, it is. We had take
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a really quick breaker to come back with John Lydkey, Jadam a Lot,
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Shane Potvin, don't go away, it's the dam mcdonald' show. Want to
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eight hundred. There we go feeling a little bit of road rage. Have
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you a car in front of you that is making you upset? Right back
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up just a little bit, because that's the comment. It is, how
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can you be angry if this is playing a little Enya? Yeah, Yanni
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would be good too, but Nya is very peace She's very peaceful. And
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she also struck the jackpot with this song at nine to eleven. Remember that
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this song was everywhere? Was it? Yes, this album came out.
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I had it before nine to eleven, like I could be still litill spoiler
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it. I'm an Ennia fans that just came out of the bad that just
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came out of the bag. I've always loved Enya, so I bought her
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the record. Yes, stan Hart's for Life, Yes, no, but
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I bought that record. And then it came up maybe about six or seven
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months before nine to eleven, and then nine to eleven happened, and that
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song was used in every montage that they were of people getting through it,
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and and her album. Everybody wanted to know what is that song that's been
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playing? So her album like skyrocketed to number one because that song was such
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a it was it was being so used, so interesting little tidbit about NYA.
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Most people. You did not need. Most people when they hear that
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song, just think of a nice little uplifting, uh song that invokes relaxed
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this and Dan nine eleven. It's not like that at all. You're twisting
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by word. I think you said those words in that order directly. I
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guess I did. It was a fact. I have an overflowing cup of
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knowledge when it comes to any music. So it's best me to still talking
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about it. And it was a thing. Though this is a really,
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this is a this is a fun one. Actually, this one here actually,
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you know, I want to save this. It's a think about this
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now. It's it's tell us the best spot to visit in Windsor, Essex
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this summer. So think about that. And I want to ask listeners to
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think about that too. If you were planning a staycation or you did a
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staycation, just give me a good experience. Hit this place, go here
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and go here. What is a good state vacation? What's a good place
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to visit here in Windsor. But the one I do want to talk about,
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we only got a minute and a half, so I'll just tee it
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up here. The first LCBO strike in the history of Ontario that has begun.
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We just got through the first weekend. And did it affect you at
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all? Do you plan to adjust your shopping habits if the strike continues for
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an extended period? And you know what impact do you think the LCBO strike
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will have on consumers across Ontario? I also do think, and we'll take
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a break after this. I do think an LCBO strike where they shut down
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would have bet had a different impact twenty years ago than it does today.
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And I support the strikers. I saw them last night. That what the
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employees, and we gave a little honk in a wave, but I think
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there was a lot less options for people who the one to buy supplies twenty
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years ago than there is today. So I'm wondering what the impact is going
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to be. I want to get the roundtable's thoughts when we come back.
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Keep it here. It's the Dan McDonald Show on AM eight hundred time.
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Oh hey, you know it's Monday when we're busting out the Yanni as per
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request Jane Podvin. This this might be a first for AM eight hundred.
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Yanni and yare just to say same, same musical DNA for sure. This
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though this music is I'm very responsive to music. This would give me anxiety
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and road rage if I was driving, like and you would call me.
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This would just freak me out. Anyway. Yeah, this is like that's
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with skrillic's Like what's that music called for? Like eed M kind of stuff?
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Dumbstads, Oh, dumbstats. I just used to get all I hate.
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Yeah, I don't think it's hot anymore. No, I think yeah,
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I might have had its day like Yanni. Well, hey, welcome
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back everybody. It's Dan McDonald, Jane Potvin, chare the Ford City b
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i A. John Linkey, host of Rose city Politics and a host here
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on Am eight hundred c l W and community advocate and third year political science
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student jadeam a lot in the studio. So the first LCBO striking history of
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ONTI, it's on. We just got through the first weekend, a beautiful
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summer weekend as well. And I will say in my walks and journeys around
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town this year, every time I passed on LCBO, I did see some
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people either trying the door or walking away with a disappointed look on their face.
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I saw the employees out to who were striking, gave them a little
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beep beep of support every time I saw them out there out in the tacom
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S area. But do you plan to adjust your shopping habits? How much
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has the LCBO strike impacted you as a person this summer, Jada? Have
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you been impacted at all? Yes? I have. I mean, I'm
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twenty. I like to drink. Not like that that sounds really bad,
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but you know, I like to have a casual I'm still kind of exploring
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alcohol and what kind of drinks I like. So I like to have one
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every once in a while. And my habits have already changed. I went
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to a grocery store, and then I also went to the beer store per
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my boyfriend, Thank you, Alex. A very cool experience in the beer
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store. I never been in there before, Oh wow. But I think
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think going forward, it's a kind of a good opportunity for windsor Rights to
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explore the other options that we have, especially the local options, Like I've
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never been to a winery before, Oh wow, and I just recently have
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been to walker of a brewery for the first time. So I think it's
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a chance for us to try and support local beer and wineries. So I
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kind of trying to look at it from a positive lens, and then maybe
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hopefully we can start getting them in convenience stores as well, because I think
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it would it would definitely be convenient for people that are my age. So
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you would like to deven in convenience store, Yes, I would. I
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have a lot of local convenience stores around my home and I and obviously there's
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a it's a pretty young demographic in East Riverside where I live as well,
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so I would like to see them in convenience stores. Yes, Because I
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always forget when it became a thing where you could buy alcohol and grocery stores.
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I still to this day, we'll forget. I'll pass by the aisle
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and be like, oh, yeah, you can do that. Now.
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That's the thing. Did you notice it was busier at all when you went
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to the grocery store? Yeah, yeah, it definitely was. Yeah,
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it was definitely shorter than their stock usually is, but it was it was
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Okay. I wonder what it's going to be like in a few weeks from
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now when people everyone realizes that the LCBO is closed. But you can also
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order online. I believe the LCBO you can have it delivered to your door.
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So yeah, I think it's just a good chance for us to,
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you know, go to I was just at Peelee Island and I learned that
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they had a winery and that's kind of on my boocket list is to go
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back and go explore the winery, just because I've never been to one.
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Oh that's one of the nicest ones. To the pavilion on Pla Island,
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and it's beautiful. You can sit in an old barrel if you want,
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have a courtyard, then the little upper area where can it overlooks the whole
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courtyard. It's beautiful. Wow, it's really really nice. One of my
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favorite wineries, probably my favorite winery is on Peely Island. Cool. That's
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exciting. See I have something to look forward. Yes, you will love
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it. John. Where your plans up ended it all by the LCBO strike?
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No, nothing was up ended. But I mean, look, things
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are a lot different now than they were. Just prior to COVID. Access
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to alcohol has been immensely expanded, and just before that we went into grocery
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stores. But I mean during COVID, I ordered a margarita from Poco to
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Light and it came with like a margarita drink and one of the smaller bottles
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at tequila and a couple of lemons, And it was like thirty bucks,
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and it was way too expensive, quite frankly, but it got me what
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I wanted at the hour. And I think that if I were the Union
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right now, I'd be considering long and hard, like how long do we
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want this to go on for? And what are the gains actually going to
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be? Because the fact of the matter is, right now there's a lot
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of access. You can still go to LCBO convenience outlets that are selling.
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They're gonna still be stalking bars and restaurants I mean I heard one PC MPP
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saying, look, every every restaurant and bar is now a de facto LCBO
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convenience store. You can go to any bar owner and ask them, hey,
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can you order a bottle of whiskey for me? And then they can
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you sell? They can sell like beer now like the bars, yeah,
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battle whiskey or I've never bought a bottle whisky. But my friend we left
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a bar a restaurant and my friend said, you know, LCB is clothed,
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can I buy six white claw off of you? And the guy said,
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sure, here you go. It was a bit, it was a
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bit more than what you paid the liquor store. But she was, well,
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it's it's eleven PM and this is my only option, So get yea
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and you can order online and have it delivered. So I mean, I
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just I was forwarded a link by one PC MPP. They put together at
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the like Ontario dot ca a slash booze or whatever the yeah, and it
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shows you, like click on your city and it shows you where everything is
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available. So the point is is I think that the government is in this
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for the long run, and they offered some pretty serious gains. They said
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Look, we'll transfer four hundred, five hundred people that are part time into
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full time positions. I think that public sentiment is not going to be on
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the side of these workers as he is. The premier is out there saying,
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look, I want to put this in corner stores, and now they're
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making it harder for you right now. So I'm sympathetic. I don't want
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to see nine thousand, ten thousand people lose good banging jobs. But I
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don't know if public sentiment is going to be on their side and windsor absolutely
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we're a strong name union across the province. I don't know. Yeah,
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it will be interesting to see what are your thoughts. Yeah, there's like
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we don't I don't drink like liquor. It's visually just beer, so it
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doesn't really affect us. We you know, we'll buy beer at the Cookie
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Bar and Ford City, we'll buy it. The beers like it. I
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kind of ride my bike past too. I used to work at that beer
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store for years, the one over on Walker. Yeah, there for like
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eight years. Yeah, and so you know there was always Walker Richmond or
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Yeah Richmond. So I mean the beers has always had kind of corner the
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market on the beer sales and the things are changing. I think the liquor
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thing needs to probably seek a level similar to that, maybe, but yeah,
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we don't. It doesn't really affect us. We don't really drink liquor.
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And you can buy wine at the grocery store, right that the wine.
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But I can see that you canfect a lot of people, right because
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it's there are a lot of people depending on you know, other other types
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of alcohol altequila and maybe not dependent, but I mean that that's their choice
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of drain. Kid. Well. Yeah, during the pandemic, there was
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a lot of hoopla about LCBO being one of the essential services that stayed open
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and remember that, and people were saying, well, how is that essential?
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For a whole bunch of reasons, it was essential, but it is.
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It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the
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impact this will have. And that's why the access is still being maintained as
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much as it is during a strike. I mean, I can't think of
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a strike where access has been as available as it's delivery, free delivery.
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I don't even know how they're going to handle that sort of maybe, but
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yeah, I don't know if they have their own distribution, or if they
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contract out the distribution, so they're able to just go and say, like,
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look, hire more drivers for the time being. We want stuff to
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get out quicker. But it's like, if people aren't going to be impacted
22:48
by a strike, other than you're making things a little bit more inconvenient for
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me. I mean, this isn't like you're a striking teacher and I can't
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put my kid in school for the day, right, This is just you're
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gonna make it an extra hour and a half for me to drive out to
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McGregor, or to go to a winery, or to yeah, go to
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the States, Like I think a lot of people in Canada and Windsor specifically
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buy their booze. If you're drinking lots of booze, you're buying your whiskey.
23:18
And Detroit it probably party store. You're going to the duty free fun
23:22
story. One of the promoters of blues Fest back in the eighties, the
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beer store was supposed to go on strike, so they cut a deal with
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some US beer distributor, probably like Cores or one of them, and they
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cut a deal with w CSX radio station, and they were going to bring
23:40
a big palette of beer across the border on an helicopter. Wow, Like,
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just we're the only place in the province where you can come and buy
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cold beer because there's a bucket beer back then, Yeah, and it really
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would have been and been. The Ontario Ministry of Finance called them up and
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said, if you do this, we will be auditing you every month,
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speak everywhere, So don't seppen. Are you guys open? Like you guys,
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what is your view on it? Moving to convenience stores and now to
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the liquor store model. I mean, I don't know. I'm like,
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I love the LCBO because I think it's good paying jobs for people. So
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I like that. And I'm just I'm trained. It's ingrained in me to
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always go to the LCBO, So I don't see it as like for me,
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it's not any more convenient because I just go to the LCBU anyway,
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So it's not even a thing. I've got to live on the edge.
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I hate d have that taken away from me. But I don't know,
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Like I think to the US, where they do have it in every convenience
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store. Talk about downtown Detroit. I went into one. It was a
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dry convenience store, So they didn't sell any alcohol, uh, and it
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was like a typical convenience store that you'd see here. Then my friend wanted
24:47
to get some supplies. We went to one about two blocks away, same
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area, and it was one that sold the booze. Holy molly, Oh
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yeah. Was the vibe different like the other one was like walking into any
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seven to eleven at eleven at night. This one there were a lot of
25:02
drunk people hanging out. There are a lot of more people ask you for
25:04
money to buy booze, asking you to buy booze. It just gave you
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that Well, was it safe. Of course it was safe. It was
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fine. But that was the perception of safety. We talked about that a
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lot. It was not the perception of safety. If you didn't know which
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one do you feel safe for going into, You're gonna pick the one without
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anyone loitering in front of it. Not this one. This was the one
25:22
where it's like, okay, go in and just kind of ignore what people
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say to you. So, I don't know, I don't want to see
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that starting either. No, you know what I mean. Every process is
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like that. Other than Ontario, right, you can buy booze anywhere and
25:33
they seem to do it fine, right, Yeah. I think what I
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was saying earlier is kind of showing my age. But I have seen online,
25:40
like in convenient stores in the States, they do actually, like they
25:41
get pretty creative with their booze sales and comedian stores like they do. They
25:45
have like jugs and they'll put like whatever, they'll put like juice, and
25:48
they'll put like a couple like flavored liqueurs, and then you can get a
25:52
bag of ice and you can make like a mixed like big cocktail drink at
25:56
home, right like, And that's honestly, that stuff I think is pretty
25:59
cool. Like if I could see that in a convenience store, I mean,
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I'd probably throw the best parties ever. But yeah, yeah, I
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think amongst everyone my age, like in their twenties, I think that they
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would say, yeah, that's pretty cool. I'd like to see then.
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I think that it's good support also for small businesses like convenience stores in the
26:18
area. I think that it would it would do them well. Oh yeah,
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but yeah, amongst people that are twenty, I think they're all going
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to agree with me and say, yeah, that would be pretty cool.
26:26
It's convenience convenience is king like you know what I mean, it does rule,
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the easier you can make it for me to get something that's always what
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people just naturally lean towards. I gotta take a really quick break. Some
26:36
interesting quotes here about the LCBO strike too. I'll come back and read some
26:40
of those, and I want to talk about staycations as well when we return
26:42
with Shane Potman, Jayam a Lot and John let keep don't go away.
26:48
Well, Hey, good morning and welcome back. It's Dan McDonald. Thank
26:52
you so much for tuning in and welcome back to our roundtable as well.
26:56
Shane Potvin Chare the Ford City via Jadam a Lot, third year political science
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student and community advocate and host of Roast City Politics. John Lidkey in studio.
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Okay, so, best spots to visit in Windsor Essex this summer and
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aside questions to that, does anyone here attend any of our local beaches?
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Why or why not? I went to Standpoint Beach and normally for me,
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sitting on a beach is something I say for like Grand Bend or elsewhere.
27:21
I never did it before, not since I was a kid or a teenager
27:25
in Windsor. I don't know why, but it hit me yesterday and we're
27:27
like, we're thinking, oh, i'd be great to go to Grand Bend
27:30
and just lie on a beach and soak up and some I'm like, or
27:32
we could go to Sandpoint and do it here? Why not? So we
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did and we're like, wow, you can do that here too. It's
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amazing. Is it incredible? We just did it yesterday and yeah, my
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wife and I went to Kingsville for the night. Are our tenants at Sawyer's
27:51
bought last year and did we kind of helped them out, so they bought
27:52
us like this weekend in Kingsville a year ago and we've never really had a
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chance to do it. So we did it this weekend and went to Banda
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Goose, you know, stayed at the hotel there, you know, just
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hung out in Kingsville and it was really cool. And then yesterday's Sunday,
28:06
we were like, let's go to the beach. We brought like some umbrellas,
28:08
which I've never had before at the beach and it's a game change.
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We have a little like you know, steak in the sand umbrellas and it
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was so nice, Like we went to Cedar Beach, which is near Kingsville.
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I've never been there before. It's an amazing beach, just maybe five
28:23
ten minutes outside of downtown Kingsville. And it was it was awesome. The
28:27
beach was big and it was packed, and we just like put up our
28:33
umbrellas and we swam and laid in the shade like I've always never I've never
28:37
gone to the beach where I've in shade ever, like laid on the go
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and then and then by the time you're tired or too hot, you leave.
28:47
But yeah, we had a blast. And we're like, why don't
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we do this? We live in a we live in a region surrounded by
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beaches, like we could have went to we were going to go to Seacliff,
28:56
but they had a like an equal eye advisory and then we have Standpoint,
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which is ten minute drive. Yeah, it's great. It's a you
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know, how was it? It was good? I didn't swim, I
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just like I but I did. It was it was great, Like it
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was it was like this is lying on a beach like what I'd be doing
29:11
in Grand Bend. We had a little speaker of music on, like you
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know, a decent level, very fortunate that we live with the access and
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I don't I love water. Like we bought one of those pop up pools
29:22
during COVID, like with the metal frame, and we used it all COVID
29:26
and then it's just unless you swim in it every day, it goes it'll
29:29
turn or right, you know, it just doesn't it gets too hot.
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But now there's like public pools, like the Lanbery pool just opened beautiful,
29:37
which apparently is yeah, gorgeous, and it's like, I don't know why
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we don't just yeah ride our bike down and go for swim. And I've
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rediscovered beaches and it's going to be a thing now from this summer. It's
29:47
the summer and I was like, oh, we just did it yesterday,
29:49
Yeah, unlocked it even I even went out and bought like a Hawaiian shirt.
29:55
That's how that's nerdy. I'm going to be about this like and I'm
29:57
gonna get you still be on this. Relatives have the zinc and like,
30:02
yeah my glass to like drink my drink in. Yeah yeah, but don't
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touch the water. Are you a beach person at all? Local beaches?
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Not really the local beaches. I'm more of like I like to tannel my
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deck. But I will say that I did go to Peelee Island a few
30:17
days ago, and it was it was just beautiful, like it's so quaint
30:21
and quiet at night. The stars, like you can see every single star.
30:25
It was beautiful. And I didn't know that you could also see Cedar
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Point from Seely Island, so that was pretty cool to see too. Yeah,
30:32
so not only would station kind of get away. Oh yeah for sure,
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Yeah, sure, that's always mine to. I recommend people Peelely Island
30:38
for an adventure and you have to get in a boat. Your phone doesn't
30:41
work that great either. Oh it didn't work, but I love that.
30:44
It's not even use my phone, it was but my phone was in the
30:45
car because we're going to the beach. I just it was really kind of
30:49
a cool experience because we just we just were gone for we were there for
30:52
a couple hours. Yeah, brought some snacks and really relaxing. It was
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yesterday. It was like the perfect day. It was benny and breezy and
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like not super hot, but the water was warm, and even the sounds
31:04
of the beach, like there's seagulls, there's kids like playing, there's people
31:07
playing music. One kid started squawking the which kind of annoyed me a little
31:11
bit. But that's a whole other thing. No kids on the No Fun
31:17
beach, it's like just me. No. But Peelely Island it is like
31:19
private beaches everywhere. Yeah, it was like you're very Yeah, there was
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there was one right where we were saying. It was just gorgeous. It
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was beautiful. It's just the exact kind of like quiet that you need.
31:30
And like the smell all your clothes smell like fire. Yea, that's like
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it's like the best smell though. Yeah, I agree, agree John.
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Are you a beach guy? Yeah, beaches are nice. Petchi Island is
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gorgeous. Ooh love that. Did you do a little boat referry right out
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there? No, I want to. I want to cross with my dad
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and an inflatable kayak. Getting there. Getting there was excellent. Sometimes getting
31:53
getting back we spent about three hours paddling against the current and we didn't make
32:00
any progress for three hours. We were just going into this like the same
32:04
spot. Finally we ended up getting close and we got to uh the marina
32:08
and they got the big break wall and climbed up the emergency ladder and just
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loved this inflatable kayak and walked down and we tried to get in, but
32:17
they're all locked because you know, nice fancy boats. And someone took pity
32:22
on us and was like, do you want me to open up the emergency
32:23
access for you? And we were like yes, dear God, please,
32:27
oh yeah, And then we had to walk by the back of Harbor House
32:30
with it inflate all the kayak. Yeah, just like not even wet,
32:36
but just like ragged from the heat. And so if anyone saw that two
32:40
years ago during the summer, that was me who had the two pirates.
32:45
Someone's trying to break into the back of Harbor House in the most ineptly planned
32:49
breaking ever, but they've got the getaway vehicle. They're going to the bridge.
32:52
I did the Peely Island Shrek once to in a kayak and getting there
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smooth, sailing, beautiful, And the minute we left up Yesh, sorry
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Pesha. The minute we left Patch it was like crossing over into hell.
33:04
Like a storm hit and like the waves are really bad, choppy. It
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was really choppy, and I'm like this We were fine, we were completely
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fine, but I'm like, this is not for everyone. All the time.
33:13
Never tranqu well like you we went. When we went, it was
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very choppy and kind of scary, like you felt like you were going to
33:19
fall off. And then you turn into that little cove with the bridge and
33:22
you're like, it's not just like going to the middle and likes all those
33:29
lily pads everywhere. It feels very Yeah, it cuts you right off from
33:31
reality kind of that cool spot it is. Yeah, I'm a big,
33:36
big fan. We always end with a segment we call plugged In. You
33:38
can plug in anything you like, anything you got going on, Jada,
33:42
what would you like to plug in this morning? Okay, So this upcoming
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Saturday on the thirteenth, from one to three pm, Andrew Dowie, Member
33:51
of Provincial Parliament for Windsor to come See, is hosting an ice cream social.
33:54
So it's at Lansbury Park. You can get a free or sorry,
33:59
I have to a correction. It's Lakewood Park, Lakewood Park. I always
34:01
make that mistake. Lakewood Park, Lakewood Park. From one to three on
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Saturday at the ice cream Place, you can get a free scoop of ice
34:08
cream. We have princess and superhero characters, Jangles the clown doing balloon animals
34:15
and we have some face painters. So come on down to Lakewood Park from
34:20
one to three this Saturday and come say hi to your MPP if you live
34:23
in Windsor to come see and get some get your face painted. Phenomenal.
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Love that Lakewood Park. Love that. That's one to three this Saturday.
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Yes, excellent, love it. Shane, what would like to plug in
34:32
this morning? I'm just gonna plug it again. We already talked about at
34:36
the beginning, but dropped on Drew lard Is. We are six weeks out
34:39
on August Saturday, August seventeenth, from eleven am until ten pm. We're
34:46
in the kind of the last stages of final planning of it. We're going
34:51
to have probably forty to fifty vendors, food, food trucks, you know,
34:54
tons of food options as well as you know, our local businesses.
35:00
Neighborhood's grown quite a bit. We love Drop because it feels like it's our
35:02
yearbook, right every year. Every year it's different. Every year something's changed
35:07
and it's like, you know, maybe things are gone and then something something
35:10
is new. So you know, we have we have a bunch of new
35:14
businesses. We got you know, bunch and Cookie Bar and Petrella's new sandwich
35:19
shop, which is awesome. So we're really excited. There's gonna be music
35:22
all day, DJs all day, and lots to do. I don't know
35:27
if you can say what's happening or night yet, but I last summer I
35:30
spent the bulk of my time at Dropped on JEWELRD, at Pressure Drop,
35:34
and I know Pressure Drop is no longer there, which is heartbreaking. But
35:37
anything going to happen with that space yet, do we know? I don't
35:38
think so. They're in the process of I think renovating their properties. Okay,
35:43
that's what. Yeah, I drove bias some stuff going on it will
35:45
I think they are selling it the building, but I think that's just taking
35:50
some time to do some work. So unfortunately it won't be open for Drop
35:54
this year. But we'll have a lot of really great patios as well.
35:59
So Cookie Bar, Cooky Bar's beautiful. Yeah, they've got you know,
36:04
tons of beer on tap, lots of like non beer options, right and
36:07
then they always do food and so yeah, they'll have a big paddo this
36:12
year. The DJ booth will be kind of next to them. It's sort
36:15
of at Richmond and Drew lard and then we'll have a big stage down near
36:19
the community garden, but I shall stake out my spot at the cooky bar.
36:23
It's written last, but not least, mister John Linkey, what would
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like to plug in this morning? Oh? Just roastity politics. Be sure
36:30
to tune in. That's it. Keep it simple. Anywhere you get your
36:34
pot, Yes, anywhere you got them perfect Rose City politics. Check him
36:37
out, mister John Lincky and a host of other fantastic people and many familiar
36:40
names as well. More conversation is on the way, Shane, Jada and
36:45
John, thank you for a great round table. Keep it here. It's
36:46
the Dan McDonald Show on a eight hundred