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Newstalk 1010: Jerry Agar Show - Party for Two with Jon Liedtke - Aug 16, 2024 · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Let's get this party started. I love party.
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  Speaker 2: We're having a big party.
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  Speaker 1: And join the radio and podcast host and Windsor, Ontario
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  Speaker 1: business consultant former entrepreneur John Lidkey, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning. How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well? Former entrepreneur? Why not? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got to say I'm still a current entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, it's easier to say that it was
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  Speaker 2: former because now I'm trying to do the broadcast thing
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  Speaker 2: like you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: I see, okay, well, I'm happy to have you. I
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  Speaker 1: guess Justin Trudeau and his pals took a look at
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  Speaker 1: the polls stubbornly for the last year and a half
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  Speaker 1: and they have sided at about forty two percent for
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  Speaker 1: the Conservatives and twenty four percent for the Liberals. And
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  Speaker 1: so they've got a brilliant new idea, John. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to shuffle the cabinet because that'll change our minds.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, listen, if you you go and bring
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  Speaker 2: the backbenchers up to the front bench, I guess it'll
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  Speaker 2: change the tune for a little bit. But I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: if you know, still being associated with Justin Trudeau is
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  Speaker 2: the best strategy. And I don't think a cabinet shuffle
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  Speaker 2: is going to actually do anything. Quite frankly, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think most people could name maybe more than who's the
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  Speaker 1: Finance Minister while it's been the same person for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and she's sort of the assistant Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 1: Christoph Feeling. But you know, I'm looking at this and thinking, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to give me a new person to be
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  Speaker 1: the minister in charge of Canadian Heritage and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to suddenly vote liberal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think it's going to do anything whatsoever. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it helps, like in my municipality here of Windsor,
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  Speaker 2: and you appoint Eric Kuzmerchik, who is one of our
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  Speaker 2: members of Parliament and he gets a portfolio. Maybe it
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  Speaker 2: staves off him from not getting re elected, or it
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  Speaker 2: gets some reelected. Excuse me, but I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to change the tune. I think people are really
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  Speaker 2: upset with this government right now. I think people are
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  Speaker 2: upset with the time that we're in. And I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not endorsing the Conservatives whatsoever, but they are different.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chain. People don't like what's happening, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how you can fix that by just you know,
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  Speaker 2: shuffling chairs on the Titanic.
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  Speaker 1: Marine Land is ordered to pay eighty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: after three bears kept in cramped quarters for months. They
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  Speaker 1: were given warnings to change it. You know, John Lidkey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of person who thinks zoos should
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  Speaker 1: be shut down that kind of thing, but it's horrifying
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  Speaker 1: to me to understand that Marine Land kept two bears,
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  Speaker 1: not just one, but two bears in a forty eight
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  Speaker 1: square foot enclosure that's seven feet by seven feet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not great, and I'm not here to defend
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  Speaker 2: marine Land by any means. I think that there was
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  Speaker 2: some stuff that happened during COVID where we can all
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  Speaker 2: accept that there were, you know, exceptional circumstances that happened.
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  Speaker 2: But they've got a pretty bad track record these days.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like you, I like a good zoo. I like
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  Speaker 2: to go see animals, have some fun, enjoy it. But
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  Speaker 2: like also like, let's make sure that the qualifications and
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  Speaker 2: the caliber is as high as possible, because nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to be participating in an endeavor that is exploitation, that
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  Speaker 2: is dangerous, that is harmful. So yeah, no, a horrifying
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  Speaker 2: stuff and They're like, we need to need to shut
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  Speaker 2: this down until we can figure out what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think even if you don't care about the
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  Speaker 1: welfare of the animals and you want to take the
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  Speaker 1: family and enjoy Marine Land, as I think people have
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  Speaker 1: over the years, I don't know now why you would go.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm looking at their web page right now, John,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what I'm reading. Marine Land will offer a
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  Speaker 1: modified experience. What does that mean. Well, they tell us
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  Speaker 1: here's what it means. Certain attractions and facilities will not
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  Speaker 1: be available. What does that include land, animal exhibits, amusement rides,
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  Speaker 1: the Hungry Bear restaurant, the aquarium, the Penguin Palace, and
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  Speaker 1: educational presentations. Well, what's left a bear in a box?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they going to ride? I think you can go on,
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  Speaker 2: swing you around a little bit. But no, I mean listen, man,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're hitting it right on the head here. If
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  Speaker 2: they're not able to deliver an experience that is safe, enjoyable,
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  Speaker 2: and makes me feel comfortable actually coming to it, then
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  Speaker 2: you know, shut it down because this is a very
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  Speaker 2: real problem. Nobody here wants to be part of an
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  Speaker 2: endeavor that isn't productive. Isn't the right word, but nobody
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  Speaker 2: wants to be part of something exploitative.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, The Canada Border Services Agency plans to
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  Speaker 1: implement an app that uses facial recognition technology to keep
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  Speaker 1: track of people who've been ordered to be deported from
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  Speaker 1: the country, so that they don't turnstyle themselves back into
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  Speaker 1: the country. Do you think this is fantastic or do
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  Speaker 1: you find some of this kind of stuff creepy?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got no problems with privacy implementation or
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  Speaker 2: whatever at the border, Like this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: situations where I don't have a right to go across.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any right whatsoever to go into the
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  Speaker 2: United s America. My dad's American. He gets to cross
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  Speaker 2: whenever he wants, but that's because he has the vested
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  Speaker 2: rights as a citizen. So I have to deal with
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  Speaker 2: the issues that come up when you cross the border.
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  Speaker 2: Would I like it to be less ownerous? Of course.
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  Speaker 2: I live in Windsor, Ontario. We had to deal with
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, We had to deal with stars, We
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  Speaker 2: had to deal with ending smoking quite frankly inside of
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  Speaker 2: our buildings. So like I wish the border crossing was
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  Speaker 2: easier and more feasible, but it's you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: my choice. Last time I checked, I can't get elected
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  Speaker 2: as a congressman. I got a good friend who lives
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  Speaker 2: across the street from my parents, who is an elected
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  Speaker 2: member of parliament, and he gets some special treatment and
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  Speaker 2: consideration sometimes when he crosses the border, only because they go, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: you're like an important person that matters. But like I
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  Speaker 2: wish to gosh, we could all have that, but that
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  Speaker 2: ain't the case right now.
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  Speaker 1: They've never said that to me, And you're right, I
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  Speaker 1: have Even though I lived in the United States for
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  Speaker 1: a long time and I have children who are American
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  Speaker 1: citizens and a wife was an American citizen, I am
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  Speaker 1: not and I can't. I can't demand to be allowed
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  Speaker 1: access to the United States. And when I show up
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  Speaker 1: at the border coming back out of another country, which
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  Speaker 1: I have done numerous times, I'm going to be stopped.
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  Speaker 1: They can't deny me access to Canada, but they can,
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  Speaker 1: and they should make sure I am a Canadian before
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  Speaker 1: they do that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to sound too much like
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  Speaker 2: a right wing conservative here and from the US, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you can't control your borders, you can't
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  Speaker 2: control your country. So I agree with you one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent on that track. We need to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you know, entry to our country is safe, secure, protected,
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  Speaker 2: and I expect nothing less from any other country. Albeit
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  Speaker 2: it would be nice if we were maybe more like
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  Speaker 2: the European Union and we could just, you know, step
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  Speaker 2: across boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's how it used to be back before nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven. You could go back and forth across that border.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to have a as for it, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a nice thing between two countries. But it
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  Speaker 1: will never come back.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think it will, and it's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate. I was just a little tiny children with
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  Speaker 2: child when that happened. And you know, I think I
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  Speaker 2: was in grade eight, grade seven when September eleventh happened.
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  Speaker 2: But it changed everything, and again here in Windsor, Ontario,
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  Speaker 2: it changed things for us. I mentally, we watched our
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  Speaker 2: downtown core where we used to have on an average
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  Speaker 2: Friday or Saturday night, twenty thousand American citizens across the
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  Speaker 2: border and quite frankly contribute to the economy. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a tough situation not to have that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our elective officials would like to have that again, but
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  Speaker 2: those aren't today's my friends. So we just have to
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  Speaker 2: figure out, like what are we going to do? And
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  Speaker 2: secure borders is probably the smarter things these days than
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  Speaker 2: it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're not that far from September eleventh, And since
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  Speaker 1: you bring that up, it wasn't on our list. But
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  Speaker 1: you're in Windsor and you were a kid. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember how you felt that day? Did you understand what
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  Speaker 1: was going on? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you my story about this? I love
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  Speaker 2: this one. I was a crossing guard my friend, and
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  Speaker 2: it was about eleven twelve o'clock. I was doing the
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  Speaker 2: lunch shift on a street corner and a big burly
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  Speaker 2: guy was crossing the street and I said, hey, did
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  Speaker 2: you hear about what happened? And he went, no, what
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  Speaker 2: are you talking about? And I said, well, these two
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  Speaker 2: planes they went into the towers. And he reached into
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  Speaker 2: his pocket and he pulled out one dollar US bill,
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  Speaker 2: which to me was an amazing thing at that time
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  Speaker 2: because I imagine the currency of change rate. Then he
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  Speaker 2: handed to me and he said, I have somewhere to go,
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  Speaker 2: and he pulled out of his chest dog tags. He
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  Speaker 2: was an enlisted member of the US Armed Forces and
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  Speaker 2: he said thank you, and he literally started running north
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  Speaker 2: towards the border. I have never seen anything like that before.
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  Speaker 2: This is the level of commitment.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, you just reminded me of a similar story that
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  Speaker 1: was told to me by one of the sales guys
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  Speaker 1: I worked with Raleigh, North Carolina on talk radio when
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  Speaker 1: when that happened. And my friend's father was I think
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  Speaker 1: of World War two era, and he was an elderly
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  Speaker 1: man in a senior citizen's home and he was unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: you know, edging toward I guess dementia to a certain degree.
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  Speaker 1: But nine to eleven happened and there was all of
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  Speaker 1: the it was all over the TV. And a nurse
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  Speaker 1: came down the hall and walked in and the man
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  Speaker 1: was standing there. He had put some of his clothes
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  Speaker 1: into a pillowcase and he was standing at attention beside
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  Speaker 1: his bed and she said, what are you doing, sir,
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  Speaker 1: And he said, waiting for the call my country needs me. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that incredible? I mean, there is a level of
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  Speaker 2: service and dedication to duty that Americans have. I think
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  Speaker 2: that is far more than us up here. And hey,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we've just got like the beautiful benefit of the
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  Speaker 2: doubts that we don't have to have those thoughts. But
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  Speaker 2: when you hear those stories, my friend, you just think,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could embody that spirit well.
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  Speaker 1: I think, when when needed, Canadians to step up. John
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  Speaker 1: Lidkey podcast and radio hosting Windsor, Ontario, appreciate having you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much, always a pleasure. Thank you till next time.