The Impression That I Get

0:00Today on the podcast for the start, we had our monthly visit with Mayor Scott Gillingham, one of the things we talked to him about, was a survey released by Lia's own strategies with whom we spoke as well, about how Winnipeg has the weakest net safety score among the 15 cities tested and its safety reputation has gotten much worse. Also, ahead of the Labor Day Classic, we visit with Tourism Regina. Alongside the lousy pizza, they have a great offer for those of us making our way there, including GMAC on the G-Wagon, and inspired by a random turkey impression that was sent to us on Wednesday, we asked you, if you do, any impressions. I'm Brett McGarry, alongside Greg Mackling. We are Mackling and McGarry. This is the Thursday, September 3rd podcast for the start.

1:09Hello, it's Mackling and McGarry. SAFHIR is brought to you by Booth University College, lead with purpose with values-based leadership and social enterprise management, MBA programs designed for working professionals visit BoothUC.ca. Before anything else, can I just open with a completely, it's going to seem random question, but it's based on something I witnessed outside about a half hour ago. Okay. Have you ever heard of a social media account called Influencers in the Wild? I don't think so. It's a fun follow, because what it is is it's people who are taking videos of people who are taking videos of themselves or of... Okay. Many of them are people trying to do sexy things and sexy poses. So that video, the person featured in the video from the right perspective, that video probably looks good, but when you get the shot from the wide shot, you just see how ridiculous

2:13it can look and how sometimes these influencers in the wild are genuine like detriment to all the people around them. I have found set account on Instagram and this is very interesting. This is here. There's a young person here on the beach pretending to be a mermaid. Looks very natural. Sure they got that on the first take. Here's somebody dancing in the streets of... I don't know if it's Milan. I don't know where this is exactly, but okay, I think I might have a new second favorite account. So the reason I ask you this is I went down for a vapor on 530 and I almost took a video like that because there were two young people in our courtyard. We've got a patch of green carpet out there, like pseudo grass.

3:16Yeah, artificial turf. And they were golfing on it. They had 530 this morning. Yep, they had little kids, plastic golf clubs. And they were going back and forth. At first I thought, what is happening here? And then I saw one of them had a cell phone. So it was a young man and a young woman. And they were trading the phone back and forth and trading the club back and forth. I don't know how long they were out there. I didn't end up taking said video, I kind of wish I had, not to mock them or anything. They appeared to be... I don't know what they were up to. It was just so bizarre. I don't know if they were... There were some other interesting characters outside. So maybe they got their content and fled for their own safety. But what a strain. Like, of all the things I expected to see this morning at 530 in the dark in downtown when a peg was two people playing plastic... with plastic golf clubs to shoot video content. Now I want to know, where is that content going to live?

4:17I really wish you would have taken that video, whether you'd posted it or not. A whole other conversation. But I'm really upset I missed this. Because the list of the usual things we see in the middle of the night, all around the city, on our way into work is very long. And I would love to have added that to my personal list of things that I've seen before we crack the microphones at 605 every morning. Should have gone and talked to them as well and just asked, what's going on? What's going on? Who's in charge? But I was just so mystified by the transaction that I was witnessing. So anyway, interesting start to our Thursday. All right. And you are approximately just over 48 hours away from going to experience Regina. That's correct. Yeah, about 51 hours. If I'm getting there 51 hours from now, I'm 10 minutes late.

5:17Apparently we're leaving 90 am sharp on Saturday to make our pilgrimage to Regina to cheer on the blue bombers on the Labor Day weekend, the Labor Day classic. Derek Taylor hates the fact they call it the Labor Day classic because it's on Sunday. Labor days on Monday. So the Labor Day in parentheses weekend classic. We're going to go to Regina this morning. Virtually we've been hammering on Regina style pizza. I've been hammering on it all in good fun. And we're going to learn a little bit more about Regina style pizza. And tourism Regina Brett is all in on the on the Regina style pizza. They even have t-shirts celebrating this. I'll put in quotation marks delicacy. And we'll also find out about a program that tourism Regina is launched this weekend for Winnipeggers who can collect up to $120.

6:20And I'm going to call them Regina bucks to spend around town while we're there. You got to visit six different places. And that's all I'm going to tell you right now. You'll learn more this morning. Okay. That sounds fun. Can't wait to learn more about that and continue to have some fun with this rivalry, which as Greg pointed out is all in good fun. And if you haven't seen the post yet, the bombers put up a couple of days ago on their social media, ripping on this Regina pizza. It's hilarious. Historic Canada has released a new heritage minute honoring the small town of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador for the way it helped thousands of stranded air travelers following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. I saw this yesterday, Brett, and I had tears in my eyes about 12 seconds in. Global's Heidi Patrachak reports on the short film with big meaning and how it stars

7:25a familiar face. American 101 in 60 seconds. The heritage minute shares a pivotal Canadian moment from the terrible day now known simply as 9 11 38 planes. It's a story about Canadian values and those values being put into action when needed. Residents in Gander in this surrounding area, a population of about 12,000 stepped up and took in the more than 6,000 stranded passengers who landed at the Gander International Airport on September 11, 2001. I think to take away is we can do good things together. Not only can we, but we know that because we have and this is an example of that. There's only one thing we can do here. We're going to ask people to open their doors. A familiar face, Rick Mercer plays Gander's mayor at the time. Everyone else you likely don't recognize, but their residents of Gander who were there when it all happened. The producers and production crew too, all from Newfoundland and Labrador. I think it's just a really special kind of moment. We felt a lot of pressure obviously, but it was a real labor of love to do it.

8:30It was great to be back home and to talk to so many people. So really, really rewarding and impactful. Historic a Canada held a community viewing party Wednesday at Gander's Airport, so folks could see both the minute and a special behind the scenes feature at. I have a box spring of mattress and a cot in the basement. Giving Karen Mills and others a chance to recall what it was like, housing passengers from all over the world. The whole thing, the way they put it together and to see everybody, it was nice. It was wonderful. That is a wrap on Gander and your soul. It was important 25 years ago. It's important today and it'll be important in 25 years time. We're in Gander. As Gander prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of 9-11 next week, it's enduring story is now immortalized in a minute. Heidi Petracek Global News, Hello Facts. I count and I know where, here I go. I come from away as one of the most powerful seeing that play in person as one of the most

9:34powerful experiences of my lifetime. When I saw this production yesterday, as I said, I was misty-eyed almost immediately. This story, as was said right at the end there, was important 25 years ago. It'll be important in 25 years and it might be as important today as it's ever been, right? Yeah, I've come from away and I saw that production as well. Were we there the same day? Yes. Okay, at Royal MTC and we didn't know what exactly we were walking into or what we were getting into. We did have the opportunity to speak with the show's creators who are Canadian and learn about this show. It's funny, I guess time of year popped up in my algorithm. Have you heard of NPR music, Tiny Desk concerts?

10:34No. So they take whatever musical act the beaches have been featured in the one. And they essentially jam them around a Tiny Desk and it looks like it's in a little bookstore or something. So it's just a very small intimate show with big time performers and I stumbled upon one that had the cast from coming from away. Oh boy. So it was 12 of them are so essentially it was doing like an acoustic set and they had a couple of people playing the instruments with them. So it was a unique way to consume that show, which they like to describe is it's not a 9-11 musical, it's a 9-12. It's really the story of 9-12 of what happens after 9-11 when these 38 planes had to land in Gander and double or triple the population of the town. And it's it's truly remarkable show. If you haven't seen it, you can watch it on Apple TV plus they did a recorded the one of the Broadway performances that I think was the first show back like with the after pandemic

11:40stuff. There's also a great documentary called You Are Here on Crave. It's terrific and we had the honor to meet Irene Sankoff and David Hine, the writers and the directors and when we met them, once again, how were we to know what was to come when they came to visit us? It was in retrospect a magical meeting and what a wonderful opportunity. If you've never experienced this on any level, Brett just gave you so many ways to go and experience it and I understand it's come back to Winnipeg to the stage. I'm not sure when, but I've been told that it's on its way back at some point over the next several months. One of the songs, the opening song and the closing song from Come From Away which we

12:53were discussing last half hour and we've got an actually an update on a production that is taking place in Manitoba next week. But we, something just fell into our lap courtesy of Listener Scott B. Because it pertains to Newfoundland and school scribblers. Yes, so I heard about this yesterday. It was in passing and it didn't make it into my notes for myself that I send to myself throughout the day. I will send myself text messages. I will send you text messages. Always, always, always thinking about things that we should be speaking about and discussing on the show. Got to feed the beast. I forgot about this. I heard about it and it was an inopportune time. So Scott, you saved us. Scott texts us every morning, handful of times every morning. He is so on top of things. He's one of the funniest guys in our text group and our radio family and he reminded us

13:55that Hill Roy is apologizing for leaving Newfoundland and keep Bretton Island off the Canadian map on its glossy notebooks. Forever they've had the Canadian map, right? On the front of their Canadian company, by the way, they're scribblers. Notebooks? You called it a scribbler, didn't you? I did. Yeah, that's what we called it growing up, a scribbler notebook. What's a notebook? A scribbler. It's a scribbler. I will always be a scribbler and it looks like they also may have left the Hattiguaie islands off the coast of British Columbia off their map. On the cover of these scribblers, a spokesperson says that they're aware and they are addressing the omission as part of its correction plan. This is a Canadian company. Yeah, how does I wonder? My first thought was were they trying to go for some sort of post-modern abstract artistic

15:02vision for Canada? And once again, this ties into some of the things that we've been discussing. We had the bomber thing that went on their social media and they had some fun with the fact that they said we posted four words and it was actually six words. We're honestly Regina style pizza is terrible and we had this situation recently with the golf content creators called Good Good and they did an ad with Callaway where they tackled a woman and the backlash was swift and vengeful and you have to wonder how many levels of marketing did this go through to get approved. And now we have this hill right thing where it makes me wonder how many eyeballs saw this before they sent it to the printing press. It's a great point.

16:02Every time I hear a terrible commercial or watch an awful television program or similar, I ask myself the same question. How many people said yes to this? Who wrote the check? Who said, yeah, this is the way we're going to, this is how we're going to smell, sell more widgets. Why widgets? Well, I didn't want to pick on anyone in particular item, but there are so many bad messages out there just in terms of the attempt to get your attention, let alone an omission like this, a glaring omission, I won't call it unforgivable, but it's borderline unforgivable. Yeah. And as far as Newfoundland is concerned, we were talking about come from away, which is a musical production that details and celebrates the events following 9-11 when 7,000 passengers were stranded when they closed the American airspace and it was a smash hit Broadway production.

17:07It's been to Winnipeg several times and Greg had mentioned that it's coming back to Winnipeg and it's so we hear, so I Googled come from away Winnipeg and landed on one production that's happening next weekend, Thursday through Sunday, in Brandon, Mecca Productions presents come from away at the WMCA, the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium. So there are shows on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. And you can get more information at mecca-productions.com. So once again, that's at the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium in Brandon. And we are also hearing that the artistic director, and I'm only, because this is second-hand, so not that I don't, more than trust our listeners, but until we hear it from the artistic director of that really big outdoor theater in a park in Winnipeg, a word is that next

18:08summer, they will be producing Shrek and come from away. Oh, God. That's what I heard over the weekend. I just couldn't put my brain on exactly what I'd heard and where it was going to be playing, et cetera. So how about that? And now it all makes sense, because a bunch of people I know went to the production and it must have been announced. So there we go. It's all coming together. And as far as ACCO brands, they do have an ACCO brands, Canada. It's the parent company of Hill Roy. Apparently, they're not even Canadian anymore. Oh, according to one of our listeners. So that's what happens. See? You had sold off to a multi-company conglomerate or multi-country conglomerate and you forget where you're from. And this is what happens. Maybe they're trying to say that Newfoundland is, and Labrador is the 50, now the 51st stage. And I don't belong in the Canadian map.

19:10Oh my God. Hills are fighting, weren't they? So anyway, there you go. Hill Roy is the best. Come from away. Facing Brandon next week. Yay. As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Good morning, Chats. A for reliable heating and air conditioning family. Strong reliable, strong Winnipeg. Strong visit them at reliableheatair.ca. We have tickets up for grabs for the banjo bowl today and tomorrow on the start. You can also win tickets for the banjo bowl on the news with Richard Klucce today and tomorrow as well. And this is what we're about to discuss as a follow-up from what we were talking about yesterday. Yesterday we asked you, what is a mundane, just kind of everyday thing that you do that's not a competitive endeavor, but something that you think you're pretty good at and that you would compete in. And what was that inspired by, Mackling?

20:10Oh boy. The parallel. That was the parallel parking competition that they had in Portland as part of a neighborhood festival just last weekend. And so yeah, we've praised Sarah's parking prowess. And so we thought we talked about that. And then our good friend Sylvia graced us with this. She said, I do the best turkey gobble you've never heard. And Greg said, well, show us. Show don't tell. Send us a voice memo. So she did. That's pretty darn good. How did she do that? And this is a woman who... She's been on a radio station a number of times over the years. She's just one of the most positive people, one of the most elegant, eloquent people you've ever met. So this one really caught us off guard. He didn't talent for Sylvia. So what God is thinking, let's use her impression for today's topic.

21:14Do you do an impression if so? Are you brave enough to share it? Or maybe there's a spin. You've got a story where you tried to do one and failed. Or maybe you got hoodwinked by somebody doing an impression. Oh, yes. Yeah, that's a great one. So Macling, do you want to start us off? I could start us off, sure. I'm nervous to play this. So okay. So back in 1993, Buffalo Sabers, Boston Bruins are in the playoffs and an unlikely hero emerges. And now late, the always great Rick Generat, the long time play by play voice of the Buffalo Sabers, had this call from, uh, from 1993 pardon me, I have a trigger finger. So fast forward to the early 2000s, late 1990s.

22:33And my brothers and I are at a win a win a win a pick Jets Freudian slip Phoenix coyotes Calgary Flames game at the Saddle Dome. We happened to sit with Shane Dones family, who was longtime captain of the coyotes. My brother likes to talk to everybody. Any long story short, we end up going down into the dressing room with the dome family to meet Shane for the first time and say hello. And Brad May has subsequently later on in his career joined the Phoenix coyotes. And my brothers tell me that I have to do my Rick Generat imitation for Brad for Brad May. Come on. I tried to replicate it earlier this morning. I was wondering what you were recording in, and I said, I'll be next door for a minute.

23:44And I can hear it through the wall. So I thought, okay, he's having fun in there. That's good. Sarah, what about you? Mine's nowhere near as fun. I don't really do impressions or any of that sort, but I kind of went with this in a different direction, just an impersonation of a character. And outside of Roger Center, my very first Blue J's game I went to, there's all sorts of people busking or dressed up or doing different things of the sort to get some cash. And there was, I swear, the best Spider-Man impersonator I've ever seen. So random outside of Roger Center had the suits. It looked exactly like it, probably from the Andrew Garfield era of Spider-Man, because this was like a couple years ago, a decade ago. And he was doing his thing and he sounded exactly like, I'm Peter Parker. See, I can't even do that. I'm Peter Parker. I'm just like, I had all the quick little wits about him with that. And then to top it off, he was like, come here, come over.

24:44And like, he just all of a sudden picked me up out of nowhere, like off the ground and we just posed for a picture. And then of course, had to give him some money. But then to top it off though, he picked up my dad. So my dad's not a small guy. He's six foot, 200, whatever pounds. And he was on his Spider-Man's back. And just, yeah, so we gave him a good tip, but best impersonator of Spider-Man. All right, Spider-Man. Way to go, Spider-Man, your friend, the neighborhood Spider-Man. Forty-A, what about you? Okay, here's a goat. Nah. Okay, that was a terrible one. Nah. Nah. Nah. Okay, okay, I can't do impressions, okay? How about a crow? How about a crow? Oh, that's pretty good. That's better than a bull. Okay, and better than your recording playing. The goat died, the goat died, okay? Like, I'm getting full died. I can't do it. I'm too embarrassed right now. Performance anxiety. And Tyson, what about you? Well, I mean, first of all, Rick Jennerette is an all-time legend.

25:47And the May Day one's good, but you can't forget the, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, laugh on tape. Yeah, so that's classic, as well. But mine never met Pat Laffon tape. Fair, fair. But mine is, I can't do it, but it's my favorite impersonation. And it comes from the 2001 version of Hard Knocks. And it involves Shand Sharpe. And I'll just play it here because I can't do it justice whatsoever. Special HBO, School of Hard Knocks, when Sarah Goose is at locked the tight ends in the room. You humiliated me, dude. Oh, that's your television. So I won't restitution. Well, yeah, I knew that Goose has it. I knew you had something to do with that. And I told Goose then, I said, Goose, I won't my restitution. You never know. And Chris, that's the way he says restitution. I've incorporated that into my everyday life from a young age where you just got every time something bad happens, like I'll my restitution. I love when Shand Sharpe was at Rabu Cannon and he called out at the Super Bowl. Are we friends? No.

26:48If his car was broken down and not running on the side of the freeway, would I pull over and help him? No, I would not. Are we friends? No. Shand Sharpe. That's so classic. Classic lines over the years. It's Mackling and McGarry. Thursdays mean small town salute at 735. We are going to learn about something called a pyro musical competition. It could be the first of its kind in our province. It's happening this weekend, just south of Morton at Shadow Valley Raceway. Never heard of Shadow Valley Raceway in my... All the years on this planet. Same. Can we learn more about this? Yeah, I was really excited when I found this event on Travel Manotoba's website, but that's the fun stuff. Right now, this may be a story you have not been following until today. The European Union is grappling with how to respond to an attempted drone attack last

27:51month at a journey airport, which officials have blamed on Russia. August 4th, a drone lead with explosive was found near Ukrainian aircraft at the Leipzig airport. You four ministers and member nations are showing support for Germany, and while many are considering more sanctions against Russia, they also must remain cautious about escalating tensions with nuclear arm nation. I guess this morning served in multiple squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He has retired major general Scott Clancy. Scott, good morning to you, sir. So this attack... Do we call it that? I think so, absolutely. Under the guise of what the Russians use is hybrid warfare, which is basically attacking the entire state as a system, this attack. It wasn't just one drone. The German authorities found three drones, one that had explosives right beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft, an Antonov aircraft.

28:53One that collided with an actual aircraft in the air, another one found within the vicinity. They've done investigations for a month. They've identified the people associated with this, and they have ties directly to Russian state authorities in Russia and in Belarus. So I think I know the answer you might have just answered my next question, Scott, and just the idea that we're seeing this on slot of reaction just now. Of course, clear, Germany has taken their time to be certain about what this was and who was at the source of it. And I think this is exactly how the Europeans want to react, because they have been seeing what we would call these activities and hybrid warfare across Europe for a long time now. And European nations, Poland especially, have had Russian drones flying through their airspace on route to Ukraine that they have been shooting down. So although those of us in the West, we think this is contained to Ukraine.

29:57It's not. And even our brigade group that's in Latvia has been the subject of Russian either cyber attacks or political attacks that are insulated by Russia. So because it's not new necessarily, but it maybe is now in the public eye a little bit more, does that reduce the reaction we should have to this or does this indicate that Russia is becoming a little bit more brazen and willing to go deeper into Europe with these sorts of attacks and these tactics. So I think what you're seeing is the tip of the iceberg, which is why, you know, to your previous comment, I'm really happy that the Germans took their time to look at this from a criminal perspective and do the investigation as opposed to just making it a political thing. The idea here is that the Russians are going to target NATO, each NATO state as a system, to try and reduce the willingness to resist.

31:00And what I mean by that is without and especially without the huge amounts of weapons that were coming from the United States, they still send some, it's diminished. Ukraine depends on Europe for the majority of its weapons and support to carry on its conflict. By going after other European nations like Germany, this is what Russia is trying to do. It decreased their willingness to supply weapons for Ukraine for willingness to resist. So what do you think is going to happen? Do you think that Russia is, if that goal is to put pressure on to maybe stop helping so much, do you think they'll succeed in that goal? So it's very difficult to say because you would have said, if it was six months ago, I would have said, you know, I think Europe's waning in their support and what Russia has been doing behind the scenes to try and influence political decision making and public confidence, especially using its cyber attacks and tactics to sway public opinion against

32:08governments and change election results, did not result that way in Germany. The recent election of Merz as the president of Germany, he's even more outspoken about his support for Ukraine and has been so since his election. So I think this is backfiring on the Russians. And you see it in, you know, their dismissal, this dismissal of this, you know, in a statement from Kyrgyzstan where he's at the Shanghai conference. Literally, you know, they're making this up this and this is the way that Russia deems all of those things. I don't think that this is going to work. I think Europe is coming together as a sovereign entity independent of the United States. The problem is whether it's going to manifest into continued increased monetary and military support to Ukraine. Scott Clancy retired, major general Royal Canadian Air Force is our guest in Scott. So when we look at what's going on in Iran and the conversations around depleted resources

33:08on the military front for the United States, the high tech missiles that they use to shoot down lesser expensive, less expensive drones from Iran and some of the things that we're seeing in that part of the world is that emboldening Russia to sort of test the limits here a little bit about what reaction might look like from the West. So short answer is, absolutely. The balance of support to Ukraine and the war that the Americans have undertaken with respect to Iran has depleted not just for the Iranians, but for everybody who's using specific air defense missile systems that draw those resources from the United States. And I'm thinking of the Gulf states that have been countering beyond slot of Iranian drones and missiles coming across the Gulf. Defeats overarchingly the stocks that are available for the Americans everywhere. But even more impression is the military support that is given to Ukraine is going to

34:14be used in Ukraine. The Western nations to be able to be strong, Canada included, have to build up their military capabilities. That includes stockpiles of weapons. And that's going to conflict with the ability to provide those same stockpiles to Ukraine. This is why everybody is saying we're not ready for a war with Russia. And the balance here is how much do you support Ukraine versus how much do you continue your own build up of your military industrial capability? That's why the supply chains and the build up of defense spending is really focused on building companies and capabilities, not just buying a piece of kit for the Canadian forces. Feels like the exact opposite way this was supposed to go with regard to Russia and Ukraine feels like we might just be getting started on another level of conflict here, Scott. The world of Ukraine, Scott, which is my favorite book and I quote from it all the time, would be that from the very beginning we have not been ready as a NATO ally to do everything

35:19that in our power to defend Ukraine like an ally would. We're ready to leave them. We didn't give them all the air defense systems that they need and all the aircraft at the outset, which fundamentally might have changed the way in which those counteroffensive work. Now we're saying, oh, yes, now you can strike deep within their in a stalemate with a significant amount of Russian forces on the ground being supported by China and North Korea. The world of Russia and Scott is we should have told that battle group not to go to Latvia. Canada should have told that brigade group to go into Ukraine and start fighting alongside the Ukrainians because that's where the war is right now. And if we want to support them, that's where we should be. Now, that's going to put Canadian servicemen in harm's way in a conflict right now and it's going to put a NATO nation up against Russia. Yes, you're risking escalation. But if you don't do it now, history has shown us that this is the way you have to counter this kind of adversary. Ready or not, this conflict is coming.

36:20Retired Major General Scott Clancy, thank you for your time, sir. Much appreciated. You guys have a great one of big day. That's Maclinga McGarry. This hour of the start is brought to you by McDonald's one metal lands drive, West St. Paul, Vanilla Cones are just one dollar each in the McDonald's app. Mayor Scott Killingham joins us at 8.35 for our monthly visit first Thursday of the month. And then later on this morning at 9.35, we're going to follow up on the Regina style pizza that the blue bombers were, we're in poking fun at on social media. You got a hold of tourism Regina. I did. And we're going to speak with staunch defender of Regina style pizza, director of destination stewardship, teal orbin. And teal played football for the Regina Rams once upon a time. He was a quarterback. So they've actually embraced this Regina style pizza. You can buy t-shirts celebrating this delicacy.

37:23I'll put in quotation marks online at tourism Regina. We'll get to the bottom of that. And something really cool Regina is doing for those of us visiting Regina this weekend. Okay. And that includes Greg Macling on the G wagon with a 1930 crew, sold out three buses. So that should be a raucous time. As mentioned, the mayor is going to join on a set 8.35 and we'll have to add this topic to the list because that's a topic. Most of us would sooner not discuss. Yeah, not because it's not an issue. You just wish it were not an issue, safety. And the perception of safety in our city is a gigantic concern and has been for some time. When a peg has the weakest net safety score among the 15 Canadian cities tested and its safety, reputation is worsened since previous study was conducted in 2017. Liaison strategies is the company responsible for said study. David Valentin is a principal at Liaison and joins us now.

38:25Good morning, David. Nice to speak with you again. Good morning. We appreciate you making time for us and this the 15 cities tested. I'm guessing these are the largest cities in the country. How far from the top or how far from the bottom was when a peg in comparison to some of the other cities that you surveyed? Well, interestingly, it's not the 15 largest cities in Canada. What we wanted to do was get a regional composition. We asked about Charlotte Town in Prince Edward Island. We asked about Vancouver and Victoria. So some big cities in there for sure, but also at least one city per province. So we can have an understanding of how people conceptualize other parts of the country and win a peg, unfortunately, at the very bottom of the list. Okay. So how did you, like, what sort of questions were asked to come up with this? Yeah, this one was pretty straightforward. We talked to 1,500 Canadians and we asked them how safe or unsafe do you think each of

39:27these cities are? And then we just went ahead and did it one by one 15 cities. Everybody got all 15, one city at a time. And then we were able to take their sports, model it towards the demographics that we know are existing Canada via such as Canada and go from there. Really some disparities in a lot of places between how people think the safety of a city is and what the actual crimes of this big show. So let's dig a little bit deeper then with regard to Winnipeg. Our net safety score is minus 28, which is, I mean, so here's the thing. I did this study nine and 10 years ago and Winnipeg was always at the bottom of the list. But it used to perform better in terms of the net safety score by about 10 points. So not only are we seeing it still at the bottom, we're actually seeing the numbers get worse. And how much of this is just based on reputation? You know, Winnipeg kind of takes it on the chin from much of the rest of Canada.

40:31So how do you sort of sift through what people might just have preconceived notions about the city? That's a good question. And I think, you know, if you were to do the ranking of the 15 cities based on crime, I hate to say this, but Winnipeg actually should be dead last. However, there's lots of places. Monkton for one is a good example. You know, Monkton has a bad crime rate, depending on which much you're looking at. They're second worst, third worst, fourth worst, but they score so much better on the perceived safety because people just don't have it in their head, but that's a dangerous place. So really, Winnipeg, not getting the benefit of the doubt, despite the fact that maybe it could or maybe it should. So that minus 28 rating, you did this survey back in 2017. That number was better, still not great, but it was better just nine years ago. That's right. It was better by 10 points in terms of net safety.

41:33And for those at home who don't know what that means, it means we take every single person who says they think the city of safe. And then we deduct the people who say it's unsafe. And you're seeing that minus because there's more people who think Winnipeg is unsafe than it is safe. Yeah. And in terms of the perception, we talked about how the perception might actually align with reality and Winnipeg, but I see as well, Toronto, there is a bit of a gap there in terms of the perception. Yes. Yes. So in Toronto, we have sort of the opposite problem, which is that, and I'm here right now, which is that people really think the city is unsafe, even though if you were to do the ranking of the 15 Toronto would be four for fifth on the list, depending on how you wanted to measure it. So Toronto has a reputation problem too. And again, you know, these, the crime rates are important, but let's keep in mind, these are relative to the populations. If there's, you know, 10 or 20 high profile incidents, those can really color perception of the city and of the community,

42:35even if they're not representative of what's going on every day. Well, David, and that's why we brought you on to discuss this because it's not to be salacious. It's not to be self deprecating. It's not to look inwardly at ourselves and go, see, I knew it, but it's because the perception is important. And no matter what we're being told, the fact, no matter what the stats bear out, no matter what we're being told, the bottom line is when a pegas don't feel safe and don't feel their city is safe. That's right. And listen, this is part of an ongoing series of research we've been doing on crime. We're looking at how people perceive different types of crime in their community, how they perceive crime, you know, in Canada as a whole, what things they want to see take place to address it. But there's real implications for a city's reputation because of course, when you're thinking about wearing Canada, you might want to visit for tourism, you're going to want to go someplace that you feel safe. You're not going to want to go someplace that you think you might get mugs or have some horrible consequences happen to you.

43:40Right. And so the reality is, even though Monkton, very unsafe place, if people think, oh, there's nothing wrong. It's out in Atlanta, Canada, that's a great place to go visit. They'll go there, but if they go and have it in their head, something might happen to me in Winnipeg, then maybe they don't book that trip. All right. We'll leave it there, David Valentin, principal at Lea's own strategies. Thank you very much for joining us. We appreciate this. Of course, anytime. Take care. And we will discuss this with the mayor as well, the perception of safety. We're dead last out of 15 cities that were featured in this survey from Lea's own strategies, but they also say that the perception kind of meets with the stats back up. It's Mackling and McGarry. This half hour is brought to you by the cooperators, Protect What Matters Most, with insurance you can count on, visit cooperators.ca. Mr. Mackling, the first Thursday of the month at 8.35 means what?

44:41Well, it's probably the last time we'll have the mayor in this capacity before the election at the end of October. What did you call him? His worshipfulness? He doesn't like it when we've heard him as your worship. And that's a Han Solo calls Princess Lea at one point. He's being smart with her. He says, Oh, I'm sorry here, worshipfulness. So, well, we don't mean in a smart, fashion in any way, shape or four. He's just the mayor. Scott Gillingham joins us in studio. And before we put you under the spotlight and turn on the hot seat, Brett's wearing a beautiful hat as he often does, honoring the one who picked sea bears. And we haven't spoken to you since the sea bears captured the CBL championship. No, it's my first time on since the sea bears had the great championship win. So, a huge congratulations to David Asperer and the entire coach and the entire outstanding sea bears team. I was able to be at the game, the championship game. What an exciting, exciting game and a real thrill for

45:43the sea bears fans across Winnipeg and throughout Manitoba. So congratulations again to the sea bears. Well, why don't we use that as a jumping off point unintentionally? But as I think about it, it was really an opportunity for Winnipeg to shine on the national stage. That game, that championship game, as it turned out to be a single game championship circumstance. Winnipeg on the map, Winnipeg on several platforms online, CBC, TSN. And Winnipeg looked really good on TV as it often does as it did last Friday, when the bombers beat the allowets, when the jets play in the playoffs, there's a, we do a pretty good job of painting this picture of Winnipeg being a great sports town. I think there are people that look at Michael Boyd. I'd like to go in a, a tend to game there. However, in our previous half hour, we had this conversation about perception of crime and actual crime, and Winnipeg leads the country in the wrong way on, on both fronts. And, and that is a work we continue

46:47to tackle. You're right. Statistically, the crime stats are going in the right direction of Winnipeg. Violent crime is down and is down in the downtown. But perception matters in our own perception as a community and perception of others across the nation matters as well. We have added, and we keep adding more police officers, more police cars, more investment in the downtown community safety partnership. As you know, because I was on air with you several times, the work I did with other mayors on bail reform, getting the bail laws in this nation change to keep repeat violent offenders off of our streets. In fact, the day that they announced it, Minister Sean Fraser, the federal minister looked into the camera nationally and said, I want to thank Mayor Gillingham for the work on this, this, this, this bail reform. So we have more to do. We've done a lot. We have more to do. But you also talk, you know, I think you referenced it about perception. And I think we have more to do to tell the good story of Winnipeg, not discounting in any way. We've got

47:48work to do and there are problems. But there is so much good that is happening right now right now in the downtown. There's over a billion dollars of new investment in residential properties and you know, you think of Portage Place with through North Southern Chiefs organization. Many, many residential projects in the downtown, more people living in downtown Winnipeg will also be important to public safety. I could go on and on, but we have to continue to tell the good story of Winnipeg because there's a lot of good stories in Winnipeg. So we talk about this billion dollars worth of investment. And I'm with you. I think that it's the type of investment that needs to be done. However, skeptical me. Greg Maclin who left Winnipeg, not once, not twice, but three times because it didn't feel it was going in the right direction. You can call me Connor Hellibuk if you want. But I did come back and was happy to be back. But the same things keep coming up over and over again. Downtown revitalization. Portage Place was supposed to fix the problem and be the catalyst to

48:50correct what was wrong with downtown. And then, you know, MTS Center, now Canada Life Center has had a tremendous impact. We know about the ills of the pandemic and how that sort of maybe stops some momentum. What makes you certain that these big level investments are going to work this time around? I'm confident because people are big entities, big private investors, big developers are choosing, intentionally choosing to invest in Winnipeg. They're not running the other direction. As I said, it's not just government funds or some government funds for sure public funds going into some of these projects to kind of incentivize it, but it's private investment that is it all thrown downtown. And in other parts of our city, that are showing that people believe in the future of Winnipeg because they're making investment. I was just in Sage Creek a couple of days ago, meeting with Frank Kapasal, kind of the, you know, the Sage Creek Resonance

49:53Association leader. And we met in a brand new area, all new development as a new 55 plus development. It's beautiful. This is private investment. That was no money, no federal provincial or municipal dollars at all in that project. People are investing in Winnipeg right now. We're growing, we've grown by 80,000 people in the last four years. We are outpacing every other major city in new housing starts. We're up 40% over last year, where other cities are dropping. And in this, since I've become mayor in this in the same time frame, we've added 50,000 jobs to the Winnipeg, Winnipeg in the metropolitan area. And so there's a lot of good signs of growth and development and progress. We are building Winnipeg. We need to keep building Winnipeg. I want to switch gears to talk in campments. And I just, I was just sent moments ago, a report on encampment protocol implementation update from the city of Winnipeg. I haven't had time to even scan through it. But I want to just

50:56run something past you that a friend of mine told me. He had some family in from out of town last week. And he thought, oh, you know what? I'll take him on a river tour. We've never done that. So they went and took one of those boat tours. And he said, and he acknowledged, look, I know encampments are not unique to Winnipeg. But he said the river banks were lined with encampments. And seeing multiple people relieving themselves on the river bank, river banks are covered in trash and grocery carts and couches and you name it. And he said it was a really bad look for the city of Winnipeg. We've got these river tours that are meant to showcase Winnipeg. And instead, there were things that you just could not bear to see. So where are we on encampments? Well, I've been on those river tours as well. I was my wife and I were on the boat this year. Last year, I went up with the Winnipeg Police Service, their river patrol service as well, and I've seen those encampments. There's still a lot more work to do. But we are making progress.

51:59And again, statistically, it shows that we're making progress. The number of people living in encampments this year, this time this year compared to this time last year has been cut in half. Last year, there were over 700 people living in encampments in 100 encampments. This year, there's less than 300 in about 70 encampments. So it's heading in the right direction. And in a large part because the city we have partnered with, the province of Manitoba, in a cooperative project work called the Year-Way Home Project, the Year-Way Home Program, which is a provincial program, and to date, over 260 people have been housed with 85% of those people remaining housed. The biggest choke point is that there's just not enough housing at this moment. So the city continues to work hard to get more housing built and to help the province of Manitoba with permits or whatever the case may be to get more housing made available as quickly

53:00as possible to give people off the river banks into housing with wrap-around supports. We're making progress. There's more work to do. So we're going to ask you to take off your mirror hat and put on the guy that wants to be the next mayor hat because this is the last time we'll have a chance to speak with you on this front about the campaign and the future. And the word vision is something that I champion. I love this city and I can only imagine what comes next. You mention all the people that are moving here. And there are organizations that are successful in spite of themselves. And I just can't help but imagine and wonder how much better Winnipeg could be if we had a big city transit system. And I've been harping on this since the day I met you the first time you sat down. What's the vision for transit? You promised as a candidate almost four years ago the extension of chief peg was trail and to expand route 90 and replace the St. James bridges.

54:03Is that the vision of Winnipeg that remains for candidates? Scott Gillingham? What is your vision for what's next? Yes. Yes. And yes to all three of those projects you talked about we have changed our transit system and the new change that we made with the new transit network which by the way our numbers our ridership numbers are back up to what they were before we made the change last year to the transit network. The new spines will become the LRT routes eventually. I believe that's what's going to happen but we had to make this change so that we can accommodate the eventual future of light rail. But that's down the road. Yes we've put money as a city into Keniston route 90. That is that is my number two priority right after we land the money for the Northam plant. That is the number one priority in this city. It unlocks the future of Winnipeg. We have to get that Northam plant built. We're very close to the federal money. The

55:04premier has already said there are 500 million are in and chief peg was trail extension. Both of those all of those route 90 and chief peg was trail extension are important for the future of Winnipeg. But they necessitate the mayor having a good relationship with the provincial and federal governments. I have that. I have built that over the last four years and it has shown results. All the things we talked about a moment ago from being very close on on on on the funding for the Northam plant, the funding for housing. All of that comes out of my relationship with the prime minister and the premier. The work on homelessness. It all is born out of a relationship. So there's more to come. In my platform, I'll be talking more about bigger vision, other items that are really important to this city, but you got to stay tuned for those. And that's all the time we've got with the mayor or monthly visit mayor Scott Gillingham joining us live on 6 ADC J.O.B. Mr Mayor, thank you for the

56:07time and goal bombers go this weekend and next weekend 848 with Macling and McGarry. We always had heavily more questions, but time is always against us. Macling and McGarry this half hour is brought to by Winnipeg Shudders, Protect your storefront with professionally installed rolling security shutters visit winnipegshudders.ca. In a moment, we're going to talk about the e-bug in hockey and the change that happened this year. In our next segment, we have tickets to give away for the banjo bull and our question of the day before anything else for Mr. Fernos don't call them first. You'll see why call Mr. Fernos 2048326243. We just had the mayor on our monthly visit first Thursday of the month after the 830 news. And we didn't have time to get to this with him. The Scott Gillingham Kevin Klein race for mayor got a little ugly on Tuesday with the two of them trading barbs. How do you feel when candidates go negative 70 70% say I hate it stick to the issues just under 22% say they do it

57:11because it works and 8% say it's fair game. You can still cast your vote on that at cjob.com but we'll hopefully have a new question of the day up for you soon. In the meantime, this week I heard learned a new term a new acronym. I knew of this thing. I just never heard it described as an e-bug. Stands for emergency backup goalie in the Winnipeg jets have hired their first ever full time e-bug. The jets earlier this week announced assigning a Valtona's Cole Kler to be their full time emergency backup for the upcoming season Tyson Rwyck e joins us in studio now co-host of jets at noon. And I just said to Brett like 30 years ago this would have been my absolute dream job. I was a terrible goalie. But this would have been an amazing way to make a living. What is the big change here? Well now for this season and moving forward after

58:13this season teams all need to have an emergency backup goalie for all 84 games. And so they'll be traveling with the team and accompany the team everywhere they go. I mean they'll take some practice as well when one goalie isn't able to be on the ice for whatever reason. Maybe they have an off day or something. But it's going to be a major part of the the team moving forward. And it practice. So I'm guessing they're not staying at a red roof in or at a super eight or something like they'll be traveling with the team on the charter staying in the same hotel eating the same like come on. You're living the life of an NHLer without technically really being an NHLer and I've eaten it. It's a great opportunity for some of those guys who you know played at a decently high level to kind of just continue their career and continuing honing their craft. And there are some restrictions when it comes to who can be an emergency backup goalie. Like you can't have played a certain number of years at a certain level of hockey. So there is a little bit of a of a guideline that you need to follow. But for the most part I mean these guys have guys who have

59:18played solid hockey and they just get to continue their careers. And it's just a cool thing. I mean I remember when David Ayers went in that for the Toronto Maple Leafs and I was watching that game with my dad and I'm not going to lie. The hurricanes were down by three goals I believe when David Ayers had to come in and I was like oh just I'm going to bet a ton of money on the hurricanes to come back here. But then they didn't and the air still made some saves. There was also the Chicago one I believe his name was Scott Foster. He was an accountant. Yep. And baked some save made a big save on Dustin Buffling in a game that it was pretty close. And it was I think an important game down the stretch. Yeah, absolutely. So it's all it does is that it's good stories at the end of the day. And you get to hear a little bit about these guys and learn some things about them and their path to making the NHL. I guess you could see even though it's a little bit unconventional. It's still just it's cool to see and it's a good thing for the league and it's also just great for these young for some of these guys to get get some action and also hey maybe you get a

1:00:18pretty good story out of it. You feel there's not a lot of pressure if you're an emergency backup goalie and you have to go into the game because no one's really expecting you to stand on your head. How did it work before the change like let's say when the jets went on the road like was there did each market have an emergency backup goalie for the visiting team? Well, so I remember there was a game between Florida and I'm blanking on who they were playing but Verlo Longo was hurt in the game and then Almontoya came in former jet goalie and that he got hurt and there was a big confusion going on about who are we going to throw a net at Almontoya can't go in and actually forward Scotty upshall was putting on some equipment in the in the hallway just getting ready to be like I might have to go in here. I haven't played since I was 12 but yeah there wasn't as much of a contingency plan for some of these teams and so it was kind of just hey you can toss

1:01:20someone on your team and net if this happens and so after it started to happen a little bit more frequently and over the past 10 years or so I think the league was just like we can have a situation like this happen again where we might have to throw in a forward be down a forward or a defenseman just so that we could have someone playing in net. So I think it's obviously at the end of the day it's just a contingency plan but something that is probably lawn overdue. I was just thinking and speaking with Brett off the airboat Byron Spraggs sort of a friend of the show who we've had on a couple of times over the years with work that he does with mental health and and athletes and hockey players and the general public and he was the the Jetsie bug for some time played for the University of Manitoba bison's and I can only imagine what a thrill that would be but now this added element of being with the team for the entire season just completely changes this role I can only imagine how many resumes they got or did they just go ahead for this guy.

1:02:23Well yeah and that's the kind of tricky part too right because you can't just get a goal that you maybe was elite in the western hockey league and then had an injury or something and just never panned out like that's that's not allowed so you do have to kind of do a little bit of research and find out exactly what these guys were doing in in their juniors and high and you know just minor hockey careers but to be able to go on an NHL charter be a part of the team it's just it's so cool I don't I'm jealous maybe if they need it then maybe I should have brushed up on my goal telling if I would have known that this would have been an option later in life but I don't know I just really like it you get good stories out of it at the end of the day it's no negative on the league whatsoever it's only positives Tyson Ruecki morning sports anchor co-host of Jetsett Noon joining us live on 680 C.J.O.B. as we learn more but the changes that have happened with the E-Bug great name that's a great acronym your all crisis

1:03:26you trunk monkeys E-bugs all sorts of windows open here this morning I couldn't find the environment Canada so here we are one of our colleagues at power 97 I was looking at his computer one day and I got anxiety just looking at like right now I have maybe 10 windows open and I do like separate windows but some people go with tabs of the tabs he had like 50 no yeah like they were so small you couldn't even tell what they were by looking at the tab no other like about 15 but that's a lot for me yeah I usually get anxiety when I have more than six same yeah I'm looking at it right now it just looks like clutter because my apartment is cluttered mess so I feel like well that I've lost I've lost that battle which is clean

1:04:31that sounds like a the start to winning strategy for outspread so we're asking you this morning can you do an impression if you if you can maybe you can win banjable tickets one of our runners-up here is Barbara who does eat it bunker that's pretty good we got one from Carter who he sent us a couple including Squidward from SpongeBob pretty good it is pretty good yeah and then we had we had a person here who says I'm pretty much known for being the imitation machine it works okay you might turkey and then my air horn oh gosh the turkey's better than the air horn actually like they're both really good can you do it again sure I go in second here I like the turkey better but the air horn is good yeah those are

1:05:39pretty good Joe and Churchill well he I think he just explains himself right off this hop hello good morning CJOB it's me Ray Romano well not really Ray Romano but I hear you're looking for impressions so I'm gonna give this a try you know how everybody loves Raymond well you know what people love more than Raymond is banjable tickets Deborah Deborah let's go to the banjable Deborah that's pretty good solid yeah it's very solid but this morning we're we're going with the person who kicked this all off actually this was yesterday we were asking you what's something that you in your everyday life like just a mundane thing that you do like parallel parking there was a parallel parking competition at a community fair in Portland and it was intense

1:06:40and it was super fun so we thought what's something that you do in your normal day-to-day life that you feel like I could compete if there was a competition on folding towels I could nail that competition folding t-shirts you're good at folding t-shirts as well aren't you yeah yeah actually quit I worked at bootlegger for one shift it's right remember the story though and I didn't go back because they they demanded I use the folding board yeah and I said I don't need that and they didn't this was like 20 years ago I it was and it also been a long time since I'd worked in retail and I forgot how much like my foot my feet were dead by the end of that day yet you I forgot how hard it was on the feet so I just said and I'll pass so sorry to everybody who who's time I wasted there but so Sylvia sent us a text saying I do the best turkey gobble you've never heard so Sylvia you kicked this off we've had a lot of fun with it today you're the OG so you win fantastic

1:07:51and thank you to everybody who sent in their imitations via audio we would love you to kind of jump all over that technology and send in your thoughts send send in your your commentary that way to us so that we can play it on the air that that was my favorite part of doing that contest this morning yeah if you send a text there's should be a microphone icon right there that you can or some sort of sound wave icon that you can record yourself versus sending out the text but in the meantime we'll love reading your texts and love hearing them as well Sylvia you win the banjo bold congratulations it is the second most anticipated regular season game of the cfl season for fans of the winnipeg blue bombers for many it is an annual pilgrimage is hundreds of blue bomber fans headwast for the labor day classic to experience rejana we apologize in advance for the ear bug euro vote to inherit

1:09:17we're joining i love it i love it so much i do too turrets of rejana is inviting those out of town visitors to explore the city and score some free spending money free we got free in anatoba teal orban is director of destination stewardship at tourism rejana and joins us live now on the start good morning teal good morning guys i appreciate the intro song thank you so much you're more than welcome how just how big a deal is this weekend for rejana and southern Saskatchewan in an overall sense because i know they're overflow visitors staying in moose john other communities are around the queen city yeah absolutely it's huge you know i know that you guys mentioned as a big weekend for bombers as is obviously a huge weekend for rider fans like you said we have overflow traffic and i think that now you said hundreds i think we're expecting thousands and it's just you know it's it's our favorite weekend of the year here what are the best things to do in rejana over a weekend

1:10:23yeah well we're really excited because we have a whole activation plan to welcome bomber fans we're gonna cheer against you but we want to look into your to our city so we have a large map pins that are popping off all around the city um some are the attractions some are around local restaurants um and so that's what we're encouraging our bomber fans to come visit so if you're here with you know uh your crew um who's you know the boys or the girls and you want to kind of hit the breweries uh then it's just suggesting that on the warehouse district there's a local market to take up one of these promo cards that you talk about hit some of the breweries and some brush runs around there uh if you're a family then um we have pins at like our rsm which is our where i was in Saskatchewan museum um our Saskatchewan Sign Center same kind of thing grab promo cards go in they have kind of an enhanced visit for you um that you can yeah take your family into enjoy and uh yeah and just have a have an awesome weekend um it's where it's where in the city well that's a good list it's a

1:11:23good start um i'm a big fan of things that go on on the uh other side of the train tracks i guess in the warehouse district after the game before the game uh lots of things to do in the city uh teal i'm not expecting that you've ever listened to six eighty cjb but uh i'm i'm sort of uh contancorous when it comes to Saskatchewan i like to insult Saskatchewan in overall sense but most of it is born out of jealousy because Saskatchewan is doing some some things right and it all started with never moving your clocks and it's just gotten better from there from the ring road to the bypass and some of the things that rejina does really are um kind of above their weight class rejina is a lot more cosmopolitan than i think most mana tobans give it credit for why appreciate that i haven't listened to the the show but obviously now you're going to be my number one station that i'm listening to um you know i grew up in rejina all i knew was rejina um and kind of yeah like the older i got the

1:12:27the more chance i got to travel and the more appreciation i got for this city um you know when you can build something on a grid traffic's perfect you know you can kind of get around anywhere in seven minutes um and this was really cool you know we're kind of two of them we're just kind of you know pumping that up right like whether you're staying in moose straw or you're staying in the south end or the north end you know you can um go around and and kind of explore the whole city um and i appreciate the compliments and i hope that contained this like i said well like you said um you know there's a mutual respect there too and so obviously we're we're excited to see you guys come in and cheer your boner fans well we're cheer on the riders well and another thing that i like about Saskatchewan i mean we're not we as i says on our license plate friendly manitoba and of course we have lots of friendly manitobans here but i have never met a person from Saskatchewan who i found anything less than super nice like it not pretentious like i met people from kebac i got no problem calling out that province there are a lot of snobs and Quebec but uh

1:13:28Saskatchewan people are really just genuine good people well i appreciate that i won't speak to other provinces but you know that's i'm glad that's how you feel and that's our goal like we're just working really hard to be the most hospitable city um you know match your friendliness um and just be as welcoming as possible um like i said with it no no matter which set it was all we're on all right okay enough of this mushy i love you we love you bs uh what is the deal with Regina style pizza teal what what it's sort of a barmination is this well first off we've all seen the bomber post we're all deeply offended um and so you guys can you know rest easy knowing that perfect but yeah Regina style pizza um the greet greet family came in like 55 years ago started a wonderful restaurant um and then uh created this um kind of somewhere between deep dish and kind of you know detourized all pizza with uh yeah it's kind of like a a

1:14:33breadier crust and then you know stack the toppings high and uh yeah it's uh a constant here you know the constants in Regina are death taxes you love the riders and you love Regina style pizza and uh yeah we're or huge fans of it and you know we wish you guys were two but well you know what i i i have had it i'm gonna say it sucks i think it's terrible but i love the fact that you guys are all in on it because you even sell t-shirts celebrating this uh this disaster of a food well of course uh of course have to sell t-shirts yeah we just launched our new i love Regina line and we were just uh yeah trying to dive deeper into you know what we love uh about our city and you know pizza it was sort of the first thing that we're like well we've got to celebrate this because you know we all have this mutual love for it so um yeah we got t-shirts we got t-shirts for you if you guys want one so um you know even if you're not eating it you can at least wear it right yeah well i wash my car by hand so i will be happy to accept one of those t-shirts deal

1:15:38what do you have right on okay so once again there's gonna be six different giant pins throughout the city QR codes and that will allow uh manitobans and uh other folks from out of town to get some deals right absolutely and the last thing i want to say is because we have so much respect for you we have also tourism or giant will have a uh blue bomber safe space in rider land park on sunday that we want all the blue bomber fans to come and visit you can get another promo card there we've got waters and possibly on ice go also has some honeydale sauce because we know you know we love Regina's up pizza and we know how much you guys love honeydale so teal this has been great and i only meant half what i said about the Regina style pizza and i appreciate that i do have to clarify the sauce is not ketchup that is the one commonly see on that i might need to clear that off okay well that's good to know it's a traditional sort of pizza sauce isn't it yeah absolutely yeah delicious fantastic okay teal you'll be at the

1:16:40game yeah you're because you're didn't choose to uh you used to chuck the rock for the rounds back in the day didn't you have memories there's me correct i did i did and the and uh the one our best year the only thing better was the bison so you know i still have whatever feelings about that well i've got your phone number now i'm gonna text you because i'll be there this weekend and uh it would be my pleasure to buy you a pilsner at mosaic stadium on sunday if we can make that happen okay my friend that sounds awesome right on thanks for making this happen teal okay thanks so much guys teal or ban joining us live in six eighty cjob director of destination steward ship service regina and tourism and uh great sport lots of fun and we've had a couple of people suggest you know how the bombers screwed up the word count uh that almost that i can't remember if we mentioned this yesterday where they said these four words and it turned out to be six words uh part of me was

1:17:41wondering like it feels like such an obvious error would that was that done on purpose just for the sake of uh prompting more engagement an accidental text on purpose yeah mm could be i would go with that even if it wasn't yeah yeah uh but lots of fun way to go blue for jit for kicking off this discussion it's been a lot of fun and i've had the for i've had verons pizza once it's regina style pizza i believe and quite liked it so i might have to try it again uh another one talking about four j you were you were mad at us yesterday for talking about pizza did you end up getting yourself some pizza no i sent Brendan downstairs to grab me uh who's it a picker ol burger from five to nine all the five two nine burger place yeah wow that was that that's a pivot well i could i couldn't i couldn't hold out until i had to send Brendan was like i'm hungry could i get me something i had someone describe regina style pizza yesterday as a casserole meat casserole

1:18:47in a in a piece of bread they were Italian so i i i been i'm going with that at least until i'm proven different that's a wrap on the start on demand the very best of the start right here on the start podcast Greg Macling on behalf of brit miggeri thanking you so much for spending some time with us in this format if you like what you hear why don't you join us monday through friday six a.m till ten a.m live on a.m. radio six eighty in winnipeg or anywhere around the world if you're away on vacation or perhaps you're a former winnipegger living elsewhere you can catch up with us and tune in live on radio player canada app or i heart radio catch us monday through friday six a.m. till ten a.m. on six eighty cjob and if you like the podcast let your friends know subscribe really appreciate it

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