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AM800 CKLW Roundtable with Brian Yeomans, Shawn Lippert, & Angela Yakonich · Kvetch & Release

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Hey, good morning everyone. Hope you're all doing well. John Lidkey here
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on a eight hundred ck, i'll you filling in for Dan McDonald. Hard
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to believe it is July the twenty fourth, nine oh six, starting off
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the show. It is the Wednesday round Table. I am glad to be
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joined to the left of me Brian Eyewman's community advocate and director of sales at
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FHC Hotels. How you doing, Brian, Good John, good to see
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you again. Good to see you too, Thanks for joining us here.
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Also across from me, Sean Lippert, co owner of Scarehouse Windsor. Glad
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to have him in the city in the studio today. We'll talk about that
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in a moment as well. Yeah, it was. It was a rough
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ride from about Sunday till the other night getting home with flying from Florida who
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just was not in the cards. Well, we will dive into that in
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just a moment. And I'm going to screw it up already again. I
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know that I will. I'm sorry. Angela your conage, good job.
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Yes, there we go, Executive director, Windsor Family Homes and Unity Partnerships.
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Thanks for joining me here in the studio. Good morning, Good morning.
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Okay, Sean, let's dive into this because by all accounts, you
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almost weren't supposed to be here today. No, we were in Florida.
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We're having a great time. Was there with my family and eleven in the
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morning, mind you. The glitch, the Microsoft glitch, happened like Friday.
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Friday. Yeah, yeah, So I'm like, okay, so technically
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it was like Thursday because I was getting information at from Australia right, because
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it was like the next day, right, because they were running into all
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the problems first, and then I was like whoa, and then it started
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to spill over to us as we started to wake up. And then Sunday
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morning, we got a message says, oh, you can check in,
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So we checked in. Everything was all good, and then all of a
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sudden, at eleven am, it said all flights canceled, and I was
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like flight like and then all of a sudden you go to the board and
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you look and it says everything's gone until Tuesday. So you couldn't even get
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out the same day the next day. So basically what they did is they
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just blew it all up to start over because they just couldn't catch up so
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we were scrambling trying to figure it out. I just kind of looked at
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my brother and I was like, hey, listen, I like, just
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maybe we get a car and we just drive home. Well, my mom's
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in our seventies and we have teenagers, and you know, like, so
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we started looking for cars and we ended up finding a Malibu like oh boy,
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yeah, and we jumped in the car. There's two of five of
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them in one car and four of us and we started our our journey home
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and it took us thirty hours coming home. So we got in really late
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the other night. It's crazy that there's still the spillover effect of it.
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I couldn't believe when you said to me yesterday that like it would still be
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impacting today. But then I know, driving in today, I heard on
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IM eight hundred that people on Delta are still dealing with this issue today.
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It's still happening. I saw one funny thing though about how Southwest was able
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to run through the whole thing without any issues whatsoever, and they're like,
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why is that? And then I was, well, Southwest never updated after
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Windows three point one. They're running like thirty five year old sop. Have
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you ever flew Southwest. No, it's on a bus. It really is
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the best. Yeah, Like they just like they go like okay, and
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they zone you on and then you get on and then you just go wherever
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you go in a seat. So if you're like later in the zones.
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And we did this, my wife and I we went to LA and you
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just sit next to people that on that flight, I was sitting next to
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this little kid. You know when they stick the sign on the kid and
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he says, you know, traveling alone. Yeah, And then I had
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to take a responsibility and for the flight. And then soon as I saw
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I just looked at the kid and I was like, what's in the bag?
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I know, your mom's got some good stuff. And then you open
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it up. It was like all this candy and it had a game boy.
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We became best friends. The flight attendants on Southwest are so funny too.
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Why so oh they'll like crack jokes and when they do their little commentary
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at the beginning, they make it super fun. Well that's good then,
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I mean, listen their planes fly, you're having fun. I don't know
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if I would ever want to have to take stewardship for a child on airplane.
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That seems like, wait, I don't like when they're like, okay,
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you're in the emergency seat. Everyone's lives dependent, it's like, but
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don't like personify it with like this life specifically, that's like what's your name
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ability, Like, oh this happen. It was nerds and Tetris for five
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hours. It was awesome. That doesn't sound that bad at all. Able
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to just geek out and shoot back candy exactly, nothing wrong with that,
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Angela. You have any harrowing traveling stories since we're on this topic, not
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really. All of our travel has been pretty smooth, to be honest.
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Well that's good. Yeah, listen ideally now that you said that, it
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probably won't be so blame me sorry about that. Something about Florida. I
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mean obviously every times about Florida, but I mean like it's always been some
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type of something. I mean, we have a house down there, and
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getting over the border we couldn't for two years, right, and then so
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when the border opened, like we had economic reasons to get down there and
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check on things, and that was like an adventure too because that was right
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after COVID opened, and like it was it was nuts. So like I
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pretty much. Every time I go to Florida, there's always like something like
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awesome to make you know, like we could talk about it on a round
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table. Uh, you know, I traveling Florida is such an interesting place.
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And I went to the beast of the or the belly of the Beast,
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like like right down there, right, I mean, like talking about
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this is We went in there two days after the assassination, right, like
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yeah, So then I was down there and like it was like fresh on
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everybody's mind. Uh, it was mixed. There was like I could hear
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conversations and it was a little it was a little surreal, right because everybody's
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talking about like what would have happened if you know, the like if it
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did happen. And I don't know because like some of the ways that some
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those people down there were talking, They're like, let's see them try that
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down here, and I'm like, whoa. There was a very defsive like
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there are two worlds. That was truly one of those moments where you go
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like, who if the tides were a bit different, if the wind was
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a bit different, we would be in a different universe right now. And
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I don't I don't know how that country would have dealt with an outcome.
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I don't think very well from what I was experiencing down Florida, because I
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came from here. We're up in the Northeast, and then all of a
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sudden, I went down to the Deep South, and there is like there's
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a distinct political line. I don't know where it starts, but it's definitely
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there. But yourself, Brian, let's uh, we don't have to continue
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with the assassination. We veered into a little bit of a weird place from
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our travel conversation. But I understand that's what you heard there, Sean.
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And you have any bad travel stories, any good travel stories, bad travel
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stories. I used to work for an airline, so I used to do
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a lot of familiarization trips. So I would travel down to like Mexico and
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the Caribbean and take a bunch of travel agents down to see the resorts that
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we sold and see the you know, the sights and so forth. And
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there were a couple of times where you know, flights get delayed. You
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know, you do ten flights a year, You're going to get it.
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You're going to be on one of those delayed flights, and it's a charter,
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so you're kind of stuck there until, uh, the plane either gets
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fixed or they bring no because it's our plane, like we gotcha, we
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charter it, and if that plane goes out, then they bring another one
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in or they bring in a repair person to fix it, and we're stuck
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in Puntakana at the airport. And that's almost you're stuck at the airport overnight.
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It was a nice so they they had a wind speed thing wrong,
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like there's just a little thing. The indicator tells you that wind speed is
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what it is, and so it was broken, and so they had to
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bring in a new plane. And so we get on the plane twelve hours
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later, and the flight attendant was like, you know, you'll notice this
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plane if you can get in as quickly as a you can. I know
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you want to get home, but if you'll notice on this plane that the
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overhead compartments are a little lower, So watch your head, and you notice
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on the next plane that comes in, the carpeting will be And I just
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thought that was pretty funny. He tried to make light of the situation.
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Got you know, you get you get fifty travel agents laughing after being in
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an airport for twelve hours. It was it was fun. Did you like
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that job? I love that job? That was that was choice. I
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think you I could see you being pretty good in that role. It was
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fun. You're very personal. Oh shucks, man, have you exude it?
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Okay, we're gonna take a quick break right now. When we get
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back on the other side, we will keep our round table going. John
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Lidkey here on AM eight hundred table. Hey, good morning, we are
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back. It is the Wednesday round Table. I'm so glad to be joined
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with so many great people. Sean Lippert, Brian Yeoman's Angela Yakanach And let
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me tell you this is a really interesting topic. The AM eight hundred LW
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News poll question which US presidential candidate would be better for Canada. You can
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answer that at amade hundred KLW dot com or you can text us at five
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one nine, seven nine two kl W. We will get to those throughout
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the rest of the show, but right off the bat, Hey, Brian,
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I'll bring your voice in on this one. Who's better Trump? Harris?
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What do you think I suppose you can go for like the other candidates
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to who are running? But the newspoll was pretty clear about those two.
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No, I would I would be very confident to say that Harris would be
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better for Canada. Do you want like explanations here? I mean, this
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is like it's it's your opportunity to discuss here on the radio if you want.
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You can just leave it at that. Nothing, nothing in the last
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fifty years has divided a world as much as the the vitriol that came from
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the first Trump candidacy, the hate and the anger, and the division between
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the left and the right, which was was never that angry, has not
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stopped, and unfortunately it's spread not just into Canada but around the world.
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That division the left and the right and the you know, it's He has
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been nothing but a negative impact on our politics, not just here but around
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the world because he made it sound like it was okay to spew hate,
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and it's not so to me. That is why I would say Harris any
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day. They are very different candidates, There's no doubt about that, in
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terms of style and in terms of tone. Sean, I mean, as
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you were saying, you were down there, so I guess you can add
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a little bit more perspective from what you were discussing. But who do you
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think we are the best for Canada? I don't know, but what it
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did remind me of, like knowing the difference is of like their politics and
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our politics, and I guess I could be more appreciative of our politics because
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we're party first. And I remember a conversation that you had, John,
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and it actually kind of clicked practicely whatever, because like they were talking about
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sports or something, and you were totally out of the conversation, right,
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you completely, and then it came into politics, and all of a sudden
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you're like, bam, you know, coming in and then I forget who
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it was. But you explained it the best, and you said, listen,
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the way that you go over sports and stats and numbers and everything is
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the way that I perceive politics. I go over stats like through politics.
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And that kind of clicked in in my mind because I am a sports guy,
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but I also I dabble in the politics of not so much like who's
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running or whatever, but I'm fascinated about the process and that's what really interests
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me. And it's fascinating to see this happening in the States, and you
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know, like I mean, you could go as far as you say,
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oh, like you know, Trump is bad for this or Harris is bad
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for that, and oh, it's never been like this. Then you got
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to kind of think about history, like real history. I mean, I'm
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actually I was kind of excited because I thought maybe they might have like an
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actual, really a convention. And I remember like following stuff some of the
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conventions that they would have, and there's fistfights on the convention floor, like
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brawls, like straight up bottles over the heads, like you hear some of
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these crazy stories. And I was kind of disappointed that they're not going to
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have something like that because I was like, that's old style politics on the
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American side, because that's how they do it. But I don't think they're
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gonna end up doing that now, but I thought maybe it might just might
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happen. But that style and learning that and understanding that we're party first,
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like we don't really get to choose who our leader is. We choose who
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are politics are. We choose that way, and then they elect the leader.
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So I really don't have a horse in the race. I really don't
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care because it is America. But I guess if I had to lean somewhere,
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I would probably lean probably fiscal conservative. Where does that put me,
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John Tommy, where's it put me? Yeah? It makes you a US
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Democrat? Is that where it puts me? Yeah? To the most part,
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I mean Democrats are pretty well right wing conservatives up here in Canada.
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I mean it's like our politics is so interesting because like we have like we're
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right in the middle, Like we're pretty well both mid left. The Liberals
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are mid left, but like conservatives are mid right for the most part.
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Like I wouldn't say they're far right at this point, and I would say
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the meter is, but I don't know if the party has completely pulled that
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way. We have, but it's not like down South. We have to
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if we're comparing to the States, and we put our politics in there,
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so we lean to the left. So we're technically even though we would say
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that Pierre is conservative and he would lean right, but he's still left of
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the meter to the American uh Republic. Yeah, although I'm sure there are
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a lot of liberal roles and NDP who are listening right now who would take
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a lot of umbridge with what we're saying, because they would say that he
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is very much far right. So listen, we all have our different perspectives
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on things, and I don't really want to go into that debate right now.
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Quick, frankly, let's just put a question. Angela saved the conversation
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here. Who do you think is going to be best for our country?
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Neither neither. I just you know what, it's become such a show.
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And it's like Brian said, how Trump has divided the country is very frustrating
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to me. But I live here, so I try to avoid watching as
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much as possible because it's just frustrating. I saw a meme once and it
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said, watching American politics is the way that the world watched Tiger King on
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Netflix during COVID. We're looking in coming in that way. I mean,
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yeah, that's how I watch it. I'm like, oh, like,
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what's gonna happen next? And I really do, really mean, like I
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enjoy like every year at President's Day, I watched the HBO series Adam Smith,
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and I love that process of like how they started their country and how
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they did it, and you know, learning about how influential Ben Franklin was
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and and and how thirteen guys sat into a room and basically just shouted and
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yelled at each other and and developed their systems that they're doing, and as
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as violent as we could say that it is now, it is nothing compared
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the way the history was back then. I mean, for God's sakes,
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they had a civil war about it. You know, Like, so you're
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comparing Kamala Harris to Carole Baskin, right, like Tiger King. Yeah,
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if there is a time the Joe, that would definitely, I mean,
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there's no time about that one. You can't wait for the next episode to
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start. You're like, oh man, well I got one more. I
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think that's what scares me the most is the media is is like, Okay,
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bring on a Trump presidency. We want to watch chaos. It's like
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people are dying because of him. Well had some people. And that's that's
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what I'm saying, is like, yeah, let's wait until see what's next.
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It's like that's not what we should We are looking at humanity here,
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not at at what's what's playing well in the news. What's happening is totally
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different, right Yeah. Yeah, So that's where that that scares me the
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most is that you know, everybody talking about when Joe was running, Oh
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he's so old. He says that. It's like what about the liar.
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They talked for an hour and a half on the on the debate, didn't
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nobody called it out on any of his lines, you know that why he
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wasn't that called out in all these things. He kept talking about how bad
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Joe did on the debate. It's like, you could do great if all
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you could do is lie for an hour and a half. There was a
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part in that series documentary series with Adam Smith, uh and it was he
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was reading about sorry not John Adams. Even he's reading a flyer from back
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of the day right reading it and he was reading it in their newspaper and
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he was like John Adams, who's fat and like missing teeth, and like
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they're reading that through there now. And I saw like commonalities from then where
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they're showing it in in the series versus what it is now. It's just
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that it's not as easy to see that, right, So that was very
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localized. And you know, if the politics of the day and they're calling
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them fat with no teed, you know, well, in the paper politics,
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we've decided on a form to elect leaders through a democratic process that is
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without violence, and hopefully it remains that way. But throughout history it was
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decided by like swords and axes and murder and bloodshed, and this is about
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it. We've got a better listen right now compared to you. I mean
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going back to January sixth and the insurrection. You know that too, but
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I mean that one guy died there versus like thousands the system. I like
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the peaceful transfer of power. I hope that we can keep it going.
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We got to take a quick break. One message though that I will read
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out loud here that we had someone Sunday and you can text us let us
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know your thoughts. Five one nine seven nine two ckl W. You lefties
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are whiny. More on more on that after the break. John Lyddy here
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on AMA hundred. Hey, we're back. John Lecky here on AM eight
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hundred, ckl W. It is July twenty fourth, nine thirty four in
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the morning. Hope you're doing well. Wednesday roundtable joined around it right now.
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Executive director of Windsor Family Homes and Community Partnerships, Angela Yakanach. How
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you doing good? Great to have you here. We also have Brian Yeoman's
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community advocate and director of sales at FHC Hotels. Brian, you did doing
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well, still doing great. Glad to hear that. And Sean Lippert,
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co owner Scarehouse, Windsor, Sean, great to have you around the table.
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Anything to get me out of the Haunted house because it's so dark in
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there. But we're building and ready for this year. I can't wait.
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It's always such a blast. Okay, here's a story that is I don't
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know, really a blast, I suppose, but we still do talk about
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it. We've had a lot of conversation about housing in the city. We
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know that we're in the midst of a housing crisis, not just here but
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throughout, you know, really the whole country. For the most part,
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rents or skyrocketing mortgage mortgages are difficult to attain. House prices are supposed to
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be like settling around five hundred and eighty thousand dollars average house price by October,
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and it looks like they'll just be going up and up and up from
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there, don't I've been hearing that doesn't look like they'll be going down,
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which is why people were pretty excited when the federal government said, Hey,
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we're gonna open up the Housing Accelerator Fund money again. Windsor, you guys
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didn't want to apply the way that we wanted you to the first time.
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You lost out on that thirty to forty million dollars. But hey, here's
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another shot. Well we find out winsor start put out. The mayor held
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a press conference. We've been time out of here. We said, no,
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we're not interested, we don't want to apply this time. We don't
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want to allow four units by right, even though we we already have three
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units by right allowed across the entire province. Brian, I know that this
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is one that really irks you. You mentioned it right off the top when
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we walked into the studio together. What were your thoughts when you saw this
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hit the news yesterday? You know, I read the article and you know,
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hearing things like, oh, it's going to cost a lot of money
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to redo the proposal. It's going to it's going to cost a lot.
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You know it helps with those costs, is you know, thirty or forty
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million dollars. I'm I thought, shame on the city for turning it down
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the last time we were in a housing crisis. Our mayor is the head
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of the Affordable Housing Coalition for Ontario and his own city. He has turned
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down twice the opportunity for thirty or forty million dollars in financial aid to help
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accelerate affordable housing. And I'm so disgusted and ashamed that this is happening.
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Yet again, nothing, nothing, not everything has to be a mad in
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winsor we can actually ask for help and get it. It's frustrating because when
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we sit here and we nickel and dime over projects in our own city,
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unless it's a legacy project, in which case there's always another couple million dollars
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to throw around. But we sit and we go, oh, we need
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to you know, try to maintain you know, a zero percent tax increase
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or whatever it looks like. And we get into these long protracted debates at
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council over how to shave one hundred thousand dollars off of this or fifty thousand
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off of that. Meanwhile, thirty to forty million, we can just you
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know, scoff and wave our arms away at I mean, Sean, it's
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it's a frustrating one because we know we're in a housing crisis. See,
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like everybody knows us as the scare house people. Actually we're builders, like
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that's our real day job. It's not as sexy and it's not as exciting,
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you know, saying that you on a haunted house. But we build,
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and we've built a couple three by rights, just because we know how
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it's done. And the selfish side of me is like, oh yeah,
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for by rights. You know, because I'm an entrepreneur, I have there's
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an opportunity, you open up another lane, I'm gonna take it. So
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I'm kind of wishy washy on this because I'm speaking out of both sides of
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my mouth, because like, I do have skin in the game. But
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at the same time, I also know that you just can't build a floor
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by right. It's like it's it's almost impossible. The money is it's not
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doable, Like it's doesn't make any sense for the amount of money. So
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I'm like, there's free money on the table, but that doesn't work for
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the politics going back of like like what what that looks like? You know,
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even though nobody can do it, it's impossible. It's the amount of
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money it's not there. For example, like say you bought a house that's
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one hundred thousand dollars, but it's gonna cost you three hundred thousand dollars to
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do to the do the work. You're not going to get that amount of
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money back on your refi or even even on your rents. It's not there
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because the houses cost too much money to build or they cost too much money
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to purchase. So like, take the money, just take it. I
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mean, it's it's easy money. Uh. If it's on the table,
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I say, take it. Yeah, but I mean I guess. And
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there's one There'd be one situation out there where there was like a piece of
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crop property and somebody got it for like next to nothing, and then they
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built a four plex and everybody I told you this would happen and be like,
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you know, it's it's I mean it's probable, but almost impossible to
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do. So like that. That's that's kind of like how I see it.
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Well, you know, we had people that were texting in yesterday going
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I don't want to have a four plex next to my house in because it's
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single family dwelling where I live. And I said, well, next door
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you could have a three plex and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Yeah, and you thank Doug Forward for it. Look at your property next
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door to you, You're that can be a triplex two day, the one
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next to you that can be a tripex and you don't get you know,
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on this street that cause that won't happen. I'm like, yes, and
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you don't get to say anything, like you know, there's no planning committee,
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there's no appeal process. I think there was twenty three permits at the
24:04
time. I can't remember. It was like twenty three permits over eight months,
24:07
and we were one of them. You were so you were a sick
24:11
which we had a year four that right, So how about yourself, Angelo,
24:17
when you see this story and the fact that we've said no, not
24:19
once but now twice. Well, I work in housing, so I think
24:25
from a community perspective and people that don't want fourplex there's this misconception that affordable
24:32
housing means community housing or social housing in that it's going to cause some sort
24:37
of chaos. But we need more affordable housing, period. Do we need
24:41
more social housing? Yes, of course, I mean that's that's a given.
24:45
It's frustrating to say the least, because I see it every day.
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I see the we do. My organization does take people from the Central Housing
24:55
Registry list. That list is ten thousand applications long right now, it's it's
25:02
or ten thousand people long. It's insanity the amount of people that don't have
25:06
a place to live. So we're you know, I hear people talking about,
25:08
well, we're going to take home most people and put them in these
25:11
homes. That's not how it works, you know, It's just we need
25:15
more housing. Another thing I can speak to. We're talking about having the
25:18
battery plant come in twenty five hundred jobs. Twenty five hundred people are not
25:22
going to come from Windsor to work there. Where are the people that are
25:26
going to inevitably have to move to windsor live There's all kinds of reasons behind
25:30
the fact that we need more houses. I got three electricians right now that
25:33
are staying with us, and they're looking to they like winzor they like like
25:37
windsor. I think total, we're about seventeen temporary workers that are within our
25:41
like stable, and three of them are like, I really like it here,
25:45
and they're looking and like, tell me that it's a nightmare to define
25:51
a place that fits what they need for them and their family. They're young,
25:55
right, they're in their twenties, so well, you know, I
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had a place that was in Victoria Park Place just I don't know before the
26:02
pandemic twenty eighteen, I think, let's say, and it was a nice
26:06
place, one bedroom, it was nine hundred and twenty five dollars a month.
26:07
I liked it. I ended up moving out and looked and I saw
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it went to go to another place there not too long ago, and it
26:15
was a smaller unit and it was going for eighteen seventy five and has the
26:19
rate in that building right now? And then when I went to check the
26:22
next day, it had jumped up to twenty two. And then I checked
26:26
a week later and it was at twenty five, and I was like,
26:30
but wait, how is how is how is it increasing in rent? As
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it's not getting rented. I mean, that was to me just wild taking
26:40
them in. They're taking bids. It's it's the market. Rant units that
26:44
I do have are actually affordable, Like we're still nine to thirty five plus
26:48
tell one bedroom. That's for a one bedroom. Yeah, that's smart,
26:51
but I mean, but that's still I remember my rent saying like four hundred
26:56
bucks nine dollars for a one bedroom, like going back five years ago,
27:00
that was six fifty. Yeah, now a room is six fifty, So
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I mean you can. There's just too much pressure. I think that's coming
27:07
in. You're lacking room six fifty. That's the thing that you're mentioning at
27:11
room being six fifty. We have people that are renting out you know,
27:14
three plexes or single family dwellings to students with you know, improper licensing,
27:22
improper house housing abilities or needs. For those ten people that are living in
27:27
a in a two bedroom or a three bedroom house, there shouldn't be allowed
27:30
to be, but that's being allowed to have happen. I know that the
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the council's trying to make that you know, stricter, But if we had
27:37
more housing, we wouldn't have those problems as much. Yeah, it'd be
27:41
harder. I'll give you per example. We call them coyotes. So a
27:45
coyote is somebody that's come in. They prey on like some of like the
27:49
weaker. So they're coming in over from overseas. They're understanding the system and
27:55
how it works and what they'll do. And we've caught a couple of people
27:56
that try to rent from us for the single family home and then all of
28:02
a sudden they loaded up with ten people. It's actually not the landlord it's
28:04
the person that has the initial lease. So what they'll do is they'll do
28:08
that. And then if you don't know as a landlord, you don't know
28:12
how many people are actually living in there. And that's where I think Fabia
28:15
is trying to figure that out. Right, He's going through it, and
28:18
I can't think of a better guy. I mean, even though that's one
28:23
of those few times in where my mind frame is, my ideology is that
28:29
government control. In that situation, there's got to be some type of parent
28:34
in the room because it could have happened to me. Where we come in
28:40
and we actually we call them again. We give him a negative name,
28:42
like a coyote, so that we can communicate. I go, I think
28:45
that's a coyote. We don't want that guy, because if you're not vetting
28:48
it and going through the system, because it could happen. It's so easy.
28:51
John. If you have your house, I think you live downtown somewhere,
28:53
right, and all of a sudden you moved out and you're like,
28:55
oh, I'm gonna move in downtown. You find some guy and you go,
28:56
oh, yeah, I'm going to rent the house. He checks all
28:59
the boxes, You're good, Boom and then there's ten people in there and
29:02
you're just taking your check. You don't know that there's nine other people town
29:07
yeah, coming in right. So then the problem is you have a lot
29:10
of these people are you know, maybe English isn't their first language, they're
29:12
not aware of what their rights are, taking advantage of the cultural vetting from
29:19
that area because oh yeah, Sandor he knows what's going on, and I'll
29:23
go with him. Next thing, you know, you get ten people.
29:26
I've seen some crazy stuff because we're always looking to buy houses and we're looking
29:30
for opportunity, and I've walked in some of these houses and I'm like,
29:32
oh, Like one time, I went, like my wife calling you,
29:34
why don't you come with me, We'll come in. We're gonna go look
29:37
at this house. We walked into the house and she started to gag.
29:41
It was that repulsive to her. I mean, she tries to brush her
29:44
teeth and she starts to gag. But I mean she's got that. She
29:47
just couldn't stand it. She didn't like it. But those are the sum
29:48
of the situations that I find myself going into, and it's it's it's frustrating.
29:53
Well, this is why, you know, there's been such a push
29:56
for the rental licensing by a lot of ensure that the situations do get brought
30:00
up to a acceptable standard. But we got to take a break right now.
30:03
It's nine to forty six. When we get back, we'll keep this
30:06
round table going. There is one thing that I do need to mention right
30:10
now is that we will be airing the Joe President Joe Biden address live at
30:15
eight pm tonight on the Night Shift with Shane Hewitt. That is, at
30:19
eight pm President Joe Biden explaining why he decided not to run for re election
30:26
for President of the United States. Nine forty seven. John Lydkey here on
30:29
AM eight hundred. Back after this. Hey, we're back. John Lydkey
30:37
here on AMA eight hundred. CKLW. It is nine point fifty. We're
30:40
continuing our round table conversation. Well, it's always interesting when something gets deferred
30:47
at city Council. In this case, council has put off a decision on
30:52
whether to end cash payments at parking meters. Staff recommended that we modernize our
30:59
on street parking space by switching to app only, although it was revealed that
31:03
the app that was adopted in twenty eighteen only makes up twenty seven percent of
31:08
the city's parking revenue, so it's a minority of people are using the app,
31:14
but Admin's saying, let's switch entirely to it. They also say we're
31:18
gonna keep the parking meters on the street. They're just gonna become signage posts.
31:23
Everything feels like we're nickeling and diming in this case in this city,
31:26
Brian. I mean, it's just like what we can't even get rid of
31:30
the old parking meters. Now we're gonna put a bib on them and try
31:33
to make them look like they're you know, actual signage and historical artifacts.
31:37
I suppose it's like the pace, the beacon or the beacon. Sorry,
31:42
sorry, I I'm not against the app. I use the app. However,
31:48
I travel to all different cities on vacation, and I'm not going to
31:52
download the app every single time I go to that city to pay for parking.
31:56
So if they don't have a place where I can pay for parking,
32:00
they may I may not go to that neighborhood. That is the same situation
32:06
that we could be facing if we are trying to get more tourism and people
32:08
back into the city. They're not going to download the Passport Canada app so
32:14
that they can pay for parking in the downtown Windsor BIA or the Ottawa Street
32:17
BIA or Walkerville. They're not going to be downloading the app. So having
32:22
a station, I think having one of those stations, a pay station where
32:24
it says you're which zone are you in, same as they do in downtown
32:28
Detroit where you put your credit card in, doesn't take cash, but it'll
32:30
take credit card or debit or whatever. That would make sense. I'm fine
32:35
with that. But getting rid of any sort of any other payment other than
32:38
the app, I think is absolutely asinine in my opinion. I think it's
32:43
gonna cause problems. Like we already have a hard time getting people, Brian,
32:45
you know this more than most. We have a hard time convincing people
32:47
to come downtown into the core. What is the one big thing that people
32:51
always say, Well, it's more parking. We can't find any parking.
32:53
There's lots of parking. But if you now go and take away the ability,
32:57
I'm thinking to like my grandfather when he was alive, like from putting
33:01
a buck in a meter, he's never gonna come downtown. He wasn't he
33:05
wouldn't download an app, It wouldn't ever happen. I just I feel like
33:10
I'm taking crazy pills sometimes, Sean, when it comes to this kind of
33:14
stuff here, to me, it probably comes down to the entrepreneur side of
33:17
me. I'm like, Okay, how much does it cost us to get
33:20
the money out of the thing versus how much it like, I don't someone's
33:23
got to be making those decisions, And I would hope that there are some
33:28
type of uh thinking that, well, it would be cheaper or we'd save
33:32
more money by not sending that person to go out and get the money.
33:36
But I don't think that's exactly what's happened. They're just kind of knee jerking,
33:38
like, hey, this is an easy fix to move us forward.
33:43
That's what I think might be happening. But I just don't know, right,
33:46
I don't know. I mean in Florida, I mean, I just
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pulled out the credit card and I hit the parking. But you can't.
33:52
You can't do so if you get rid of it, you won't be able
33:54
to do that. Yeah, And you know, to be honest with you,
33:58
if I wasn't downto Florida and I couldn't pay it. I probably wouldn't
34:02
because, like you, I guess I'm not going to go to that independent
34:08
business. I'll drive to the Chili's that's five. I wouldn't pay it.
34:13
Oh you give me take it? Can you get the best of both worlds?
34:19
How about yourself, Angela? When the app never works on my phone,
34:22
I've deleted it, reloaded it multiple times. So I need to be
34:25
able to put money in somehow. And there are people that don't have access
34:31
to smartphones to be able to use it, elderly people who have to choose
34:38
between a vehicle or a cell phone bill every month in order to get places.
34:45
So it's really putting a damper on people who don't have access to the
34:47
same technology that we might have access to. Agree with you on that.
34:52
Okay, we've got to briefly switch into our plugged in segment. Brian,
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what do you think needs some promotion? Well, I don't think it really
34:59
needs a little promotion. But this weekend, just Friday night, is the
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Warkerville Night Market. My wife, part owner Whiskey Jack Boutique, is gonna
35:07
have a booth there. It's always a good time, live music, DJs,
35:13
pop up food trucks, and lots of vendors. It's always a fun
35:16
time. And yeah, so that's that's gonna be a fun one coming up
35:20
this weekend. Love me a night market? How about yourself, Sean,
35:24
I'm just gonna promote scare House. We're opening up Friday the thirteenth. How
35:30
convenient, huh? Yeah, September tickets aren't on sale yet. Can they
35:34
go on sale August first? But yeah, so that's there our big opening
35:37
day. We got a lot of stuff that we're adding, and we've added
35:40
some dinner rooms this year. Cool because that's that's the big thing for us
35:45
is the haunts always the staple, you know, but the dinner rooms kind
35:49
of caught us off guard. About four years ago. We kind of fell
35:52
into that through COVID with a friend of ours. We said, I want
35:54
to have dinner inside your hunt and okay, we'll figure it out, and
35:58
it spun off into this whole thing. Now. The latest dinner room we're
36:01
building can hold fifty people at one time, full show things happen in the
36:08
room. We're really excited about it. And yeah, so that's going to
36:13
be Friday the thirteenth we open for this season. So that's actually not that
36:15
far away. If you think about it, September thirteenth, it's like less
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than what seven weeks or seven weeks or so rapidly approaching. Very cool stuff.
36:24
Freak out the build team right now, and how about yourself, Angela.
36:30
As always, Kids First Food Bank is in desperate needs of donations.
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We're at nine hundred Howard. With summer here, our numbers in our food
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bank increased dramatically because kids are home, so people are going through food quicker.
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So that's basically we're in real need. Well, if people can help
36:49
out, that would be great. I want to thank you all for joining
36:52
me here for our Wednesday roundtable. Executive Director Windsor Family Homes and Community Partnerships,
36:58
Angela Yakanac, Brian Yeoman's community Advocate and director of Sales at FHC Hotels,
37:04
and Sean Lippert, co owner of Scarehouse Windsor. I am John lid
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Key. You are listening to the Dam McDonald show here on Am eight hundred
37:12
CKLW. We're going to take a quick break and we're back right after this