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The Rundown with Stephen Murdoch and Jon Liedtke - May 15, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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  Speech black Jesus. This is News Talk Tonight with Jim Richards on the iHeartRadio
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  Talk Network. It is just that, and thank you very much for your
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  times, the time and your times, yes, the good, the bad,
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  and the indifferent. Steve Murdock is with us tonight. He is vice
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  president of Enterprise Canada, which is a PR firm. Steve, thank you
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  very much for your time. Thank you, Jim. I just Steve,
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  do you? It says Steven here on the page. Do you ever go
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  by Steve? You can call me what I view want. I've been I've
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  been called a lot worse, all right. And John Lydkey joins us as
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  well. He is a radio and podcast host from Windsor. You should check
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  out his podcast called cavec John. Thank you very much for your time as
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  well. Thank you. I've also been called a lot worse. We're going
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  to start right there. John, you uh tell everybody what you did.
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  I don't want to explain it. I want you to explain it. Well,
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  okay, great, ex I love this. I purchased a hat and
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  a shirt that said the F word and then hamas because you know you made
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  them like you. I just purchased it. I went onto Amazon and like
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  there was a whole thing and it was funny. It got it got held
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  by customs. I imagine that they were like what's this all about? But
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  I took a photo and I put it up on the web and I got
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  brigaded so quickly by I don't know if I want to say the pro Hamas
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  crowd, but I think, like maybe that's the only way to put it.
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  Last I looked it had like two and a half million views, and
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  I where did you put it? Twitter? Twitter? It's the worst place.
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  Is it a video or just a picture? It's just a picture,
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  Jim, and like, don't do this, don't do it, like it's
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  not worth it. But like I put it up there, and I have
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  been getting the most victory messages, the the the public sharing of it.
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  Like it has gotten to a point that like I can't believe in Like I
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  didn't say anything about Israel, Pales, Time, Gaza, the war,
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  anything. It was just again, you know, it just said f Hamas
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  And is it so hard that we can't come together here as a country and
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  celebrate in you know this saying publicly of you know f Haamas. They are
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  a registered terrorist group. We don't have to like them. And were you
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  shocked at the like was it anti? What kind of reaction did you get?
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  I mean, it doesn't sound like you're shocked by the reaction. I
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  think some people might accuse you of trying to just you know, trolling to
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  make a point or what were you doing. The messages that I got were
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  some of the most vitriolic anti Sentenism that I've ever experienced. There have been
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  so many thing It's been shared so many times with images of you know,
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  your most vile Jew looking face that could exist with like the big long book
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  to nose and whatnot. But you know, my point is that I'm not
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  going to be deterred. I'm not going to be scared. And as a
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  Jew, I'm gonna tell you I'm not going to be that Jew who goes
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  silently into the night. I'm going to be that Jew who upsets people because
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  I'm going to speak loudly about this kind of thing and it needs to be
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  pushed back against. It's disgusting, and we're going to have to deal with
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  this as a society because I don't think that this is what anyone wants to
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  have to deal with, let alone live through. We're better than this.
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  Any thoughts on this, Steven, I mean, I guess John, you're
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  willing to put yourself out there and you kind of knew what kind of response
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  you were going to get because you want to get I guess you want to
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  make a point, and it sounds like you made your point. But yeah,
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  I think it's great what you did because you're you're sticking, You're standing
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  up for a point that you want to make. But I'm also not shocked
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  by the reaction because most of them, with the ugliness of the anti Semitism,
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  I'm guessing we're from a fake profile. No, maybe maybe maybe so.
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  I mean, I I can't speak to that specifically, but I would
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  love to hear what Steven as said Stephen and John. Yeah. John,
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  first off, I'm sorry that happened to you. There's no call for that.
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  But this is social media, and we see the ugly side of people
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  and we continue to see it. I'm not surprised I had I had a
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  tweet go viral talking about Biden many many years ago, and people started personally
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  attacking me about something I tweeted about Joe Biden and a pressure lease I was
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  put about his dog and people started taking personal attacks at me. Uh and
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  this is this is social media today. And then it's unfortunate that John had
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  to had to go. And I can John for standing tall. John,
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  Yes, I'm sorry you had to see that ugliness as well. Thank you.
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  Let's move along here. On the iHeart Talk radio network Quebec, the
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  court is rejecting McGill's injunction request to remove the encampment. I don't know.
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  I think this could be the case in several on several campuses. Stephen that
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  if these kids aren't going to a level where they're making people feel uncomfortable,
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  Jewish students feel uncomfortable, if the discourse isn't hateful, and they're just hanging
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  out on this point and we're not talking about them until there's you know,
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  this court injunction was rejected. I guess the court's saying, hey, they're
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  not really doing anything and you haven't really made a case here. Meanwhile,
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  we see places around the country that have moved in and forced them out.
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  I would argue that there are Jewish students and other people who are most undoubtedly
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  uncomfortable in terms of what's happening on these campuses. You know, that being
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  said, it's a freedom of expression and they have every rate. And I
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  think once you cross the line of a personal safety and health concerns, you
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  know that's a real problem. But you know, I just I don't understand
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  why you would want your fellow colleagues at a campus to feel uncomfortable when you're
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  at an institution to learn. For me, I will never understand that.
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  Listen, they might think that they have fantastic arguments, but I don't know
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  to put a gun to the head of an organization and expect them to in
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  this day and age, you have to jump and you have to agree with
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  us, and we're not going to have any reasonable discussions with you. I
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  don't even know why you capitulate and have a discussion, to be honest with
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  you. But what seems to be the answer for a lot of these universities
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  down in the States is they agree to have a talk at a later time
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  to review some of the things that they're doing, which is like a lot
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  of nothing. John, you know, I don't understand what that what the
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  heck is going on right now? I'm sorry you we've already had We know
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  that McGill called the police and asked them to come clear it, and they
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  did it. Then there was the injunction that was filed by two students with
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  McGill as a co signatory, and it was denied. Now we have McGill
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  doing it and this injunction has been denied. Like could you imagine you're sitting
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  in your house someone's breaking into it and you call nine one one and they
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  go, no, we're good, thanks, all the best. I hope
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  everything goes well. Like what the heck is going on? I mean property,
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  It's that's very interesting because I'd like to talk to a maybe we should
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  talk to a lawyer about that. But it's one it's your property, right
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  right. You would you would think that you would be able to say,
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  listen, time is up. But you know, if the city isn't on
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  your side and isn't going to be acting as a part of the greater community,
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  then I guess this is where you are. It's it's it's it's it's
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  it's it's the funneling. I don't understand how this is occurring the way that
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  it is. I thought that we live in a country with law and order.
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  I feel like George Costanza right now, going we live in as the
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  society folks come on. Yeah, all right, okay. There's another story
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  that we saw from Saskatchewan that we got a kick out of. It's a
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  guy who is at a drive through. I'm barely even moving, I'm just
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  rolling, and I go like this, open up my McDonald's app and I
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  look in my rear view mirror and there's a motorcycle copying That happened when Mason
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  Prima left work to get some lunch. He wanted to use up a free
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  lunch that he had earned on his McDonald's app. The officer came to his
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  window. Sure, I'm like, I'm on my McDonald's app. I'm floating
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  up the code right now to get a free meal. I did think he
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  was just gonna let me go because I'm just trying to get a free meal.
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  Turns out to be a very expensive lunch, very expensive lunch. The
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  ticket is six hundred bucks. Provincial laws may vary. When we come back,
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  we'll get our panel to way in on that. Steve Murdock is with
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  us. He's a Vice president Enterprise Canada. John Lidkey is a radio host
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  and a podcaster from Windsor. He has got a podcast called cavech. We'll
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  take a break and come back with that and much more, including whether or
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  not the NFL should weigh in on somebody who has some views that perhaps some
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  might not like. That's next on the iHeart Talk Radio Network. Welcome back
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  to news talk tonight with Jim Richard's on the iHeartRadio Talk Now. We're all
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  said, folks, it is the iHeart Talk Radio Network, and coming up
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  at about fifteen minutes time, I'm lowering interest rates. We'll find out if
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  an economist agrees with me, we will lower them in fifteen minutes time.
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  I'm not sure if I have the power as a radio host to do that
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  single handedly, but I'll be giving it a shot. John Lidkey is with
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  us right now. He is radio host and podcaster in Windsor, checking his
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  podcast called COVEC. And Stephen Murdoch is with us from Enterprise Canada. He
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  is a vice president there. That is a PR firm. Does anyone this
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  happened in Saskatchewan, so from province to province the legislation might differ. This
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  guy is in the parking lot of a McDonald's. I'm verly even moving.
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  I'm just rolling and I go like this a reenactment, folks. You got
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  in the car for the TV people and reenacted his getting a ticket. End
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  That happened when Mason Prima left work to get some lunch. He wanted to
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  use up a free lunch that he had earned on his McDonald's app. The
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  officer came to his window. Sure, I'm like, I'm on my McDonald's
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  app. I'm floating up the code right now to get a free meal.
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  I did think you was just gonna let me go because I'm just trying to
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  get a free meal. Turns out to be a very expensive line from province
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  to province. I don't think in Quebeca and Ontario you can give that ticket
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  because it's private property. But it makes me wonder whether or not we need
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  distracted driving being rethunk, because if you're getting dressed steven and driving, or
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  you're eating a burger or pasta, or who knows what crazy things people have
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  done while driving, you're more distracted than picking up the phone for two seconds
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  at a red light, where you'd get a ticket. One hundred percent.
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  I've gone down the QW so much and I've seen people eating a bowl of
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  cereal, watching watching a video like a movie or something on their on their
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  phone doing their makeup. Mind blowing. So the question is number one,
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  did he offer the officer McMuffin the first thing He should have said his officer,
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  what can I get you? Yeah? Yeah, it literally been the
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  first thing. What can I get you? Sir? Man? Listen,
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  I'm I'm guilty of this. I I frequent Tim Horton's. I have the
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  Tim Hortons app, and I bring up the app and I get it scanned.
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  Uh. And let's be honest with each other. You look at a
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  drive through, whether you're driving through or you're walking, you're walking by,
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  Uh, people are looking down at their laps. And it's not if they're
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  not looking down at what's on their lap or at their at the that area,
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  it's they're looking at their phones. It's it's common you're in a drive
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  through, everybody's heads go down. It's uh. And maybe we do have
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  to figure out, Uh, how do we move forward? Do we want
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  people doing this? But I'm guilty of it. I've used my I've used
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  my app on severally. Man. I mean, to the letter of the
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  law, this guy, if you use Apple Pay, you got to grab
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  your phone while you're behind the wheel to pay for your coffee or your burger,
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  breakfast, sandwich or whatever you're getting. But again, from province to
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  province, this is going to vary on what qualifies as distracted driving. I
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  just think we need to do a better job of defining it and going after
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  somebody because of this for six hundred bucks isn't solving any problem. This is
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  this is insane, Like this is the most nonsense story that I've seen in
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  acquitted while, And to be honest, that's incredible. Like, listen,
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  I get it, like nobody wants to have someone in a parking lot driving
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  around like a maniac, you know, doing donuts and spinning around and doing
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  wheelies or whatever the heck it could be. But someone in a drive through
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  in the lane using their phone because they need to utilize it to be able
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  to purchase the food that they're buying is not a problem. And this,
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  this is the kind of thing I think that turns people into like, you
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  know, crazy far right conservatives where they go, I'm so tired of the
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  government, get out of my life. And in this case, I go,
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  yeah, you're right, that's fair. I wanted to talk about this
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  guy Harrison Bucker, Butker, who is the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs
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  a very very good kicker. So I like the Blue Jays when they had
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  a guy who talked about his faith and wasn't in line with pride, where
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  it was easy to get rid of that guy because wasn't great. This person
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  is a very good kicker in the NFL, so it's hard to get rid
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  of them. But I also don't think they should. Despite the fact that
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  I might not agree with some of the things he says, including women should
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  basically stay at home and be homemakers. He has some things to say about
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  pride, and that's just a little bit. He also goes on to say
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  that the importance of masculinity says it makes says less violent. I don't know.
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  I guess I'd be interested to see how some dudes define masculinity. But
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  here he is talking about pride. I'm certain the reporters at the AP could
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  not have imagined that their attempt to rebuke and embarrass places and people like those
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  here of Benedictine wouldn't be met with anger, but instead met with excitement and
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  pride, not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated
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  to it. But the true God centered pride that is cooperating with the holy
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  ghosts to glorify him. I don't know, Like, if the guy's going
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  out on the field every day and preaching, maybe you want to get him
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  out of your other way. But if he's just he's got different beliefs than
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  other people, I don't care. Like I don't care if he plays on
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  my team and he's good and he's not harming anyone else then and I guess
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  that's up to the people to decide whether or not these words are harmful to
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  people. But I didn't know his beliefs up now, and I'm a huge
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  football fan and he's been the kicker for the Chiefs John for the past three
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  Super Bowl wins. I think over five or six years, everyone's entitled to
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  have their own views. I don't have to agree with you. I don't
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  have to accept that. But like you're a this guy's a professional athlete,
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  and if that's the team that you like, I don't know why you would,
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  you know, think of like boycotting or not watching or anything. I
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  disagree with it. I think that those views are you know, not quite
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  in line with where we're at in a modern society. But don't you know,
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  I don't like this idea that we're getting to a point in time and
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  place where we have to draw a line on the ground and I'm not allowed
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  to see someone like that. I'm not allowed to talk to someone like that.
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  I have to say that someone like that is the wrong kind of person.
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  Like the whole point of living in a democracy, in a civil society
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  is that we are supposed to be democratic and sibyl And you know, I
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  can disagree with people, but also, you know, I hope still,
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  you know, sit down a patio on the beer. Yep. Like the
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  guy could go on this rant, a twenty minute rant not down with the
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  LGBTQ community, says that women have received diabolical lies and that they should basically
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  be home and barefoot and pregnant that sort of thing. I don't care.
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  Can you win me a game unless you're doing something that would harm people.
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  I don't see where there's an intersection where it affects the the fact that the
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  Kansas City Chiefs are put together to win football game. Stephen, Yeah,
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  he has every right to expose his views. It has nothing to do with
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  how he plays on the field every Sunday or every Monday. If you're the
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  coach of the GM, you might want to gently sit down with them and
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  say, you know, we have fans both here in Kansas City and across
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  North America that don't necessarily align with your conservative Catholic views, So keep that
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  in mind. Is it going to change him? No, but at least
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  you can see I had a conversation, but I agree with John at the
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  end of the day, I don't agree with him. My values don't aligned
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  with him, but at the end of the day, he has every right
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  to say how he personally feels. Yeah, we're going to talk about it
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  a little bit later on about in a half an hour here on the iHeart
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  Talk radio network and find out what our listeners think. And finally, down
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  in the United States, Judge has discerned that tacos are sandwidges. This came
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  about because I guess there was a mall that wanted to be it wanted to
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  have a certain clientele in the mall, and they said they would only have
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  sandwiches. I don't know if they didn't want ethnic or Mexican food, but
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  tacos. This guy took it to court and he's found out that tacos can
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  be considered sandwiches. Is a taco with sandwich? John, I don't like
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  these conversations. They make them very upset. A sandwich is a sandwich,
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  and we all know what a sandwich is, like, how dare people try
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  to go and change things? What is like? Where were we going to
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  go? How far is this going to devolve? Is pasta a sandwich because
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  I a lot of the meat sas into the noodle? Like, how dare
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  people like, come on, we know what sandwiches are. Give me a
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  good corn beef sandwich. I'm a happy man. Okay, what about you,
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  Steven? Tacos are absolutely not a sandwich, thank you. It is
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  very very black and white. They are not sandwiches. They are you know
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  what tacos fit under the taco category? Taco category? Well put both of
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  you. The contract, by the way, was designed by them all to
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  prevent They didn't want fast food chains in there, so they included tacos.
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  But apparently tacos are not our sandwiches, so you can do that. But
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  our guests have discerned that tacos are tacos, which is a good point and
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  obvious. Stephen Murdock is with Enterprise Candidate. He's a vice president there and
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  John Lidkey as a radio and podcast host. You can check out his podcast
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  Cavec. I'm Jim Richards. This is News Talk Tonight on the iHeart Talk Radio network