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Today on the podcast for the start, much discussion on how arrests have been made in Manitoba
and Nova Scotia concerning potential plots to attack high schools.
So we heard from Global's Marnie Blunt, who did a report on this.
We also heard some audio from Richard Cluche's show, The News, as he spoke to a couple of
experts.
One of them referenced the loneliness crisis.
So we later expanded on that discussion, particularly as it pertains to young men.
And inspired by something crazy that TSN's Claire Hanna has to do when she's at the
Saddle Dome, we asked you about buildings with weird quirks.
I'm Brett McGarry alongside Greg Mackling.
We are Mackling and McGarry.
And this is The Thursday March 19th podcast for the start.
It is Mackling and McGarry on this Thursday March 19th.
And before we discuss anything, is this going to be the end of your TV commercials?
It is.
Yes, gratefully.
I'm not saying I'm done, I'm tired of seeing them.
Oh, well, you're the only one.
I was actually, as a doctor's appointment yesterday, walked into the lobby, went to go sit
down.
You're the waiting room.
And a gentleman who I found out later, his name is Alan said, are you following me now?
In order to sell me tickets to the St. Boniface Hospital lottery, I just, I just laughed.
I said, well, and I went right into pitch mode.
I said, well, we're only 76% sold.
I said, I'm really sorry.
I said, yeah, I said, I'm out now out in public tracking people down one at a time and
asking them to buy their tickets.
I said, and I said, do you have your tickets?
You said, I do have my tickets.
I said, okay, on to the next.
Okay.
So I had a good chuckle at the doctors yesterday with Alan.
Good morning, Alan.
He listens every day and a little bit of fun.
So yes, this is today, midnight, the final deadline.
And you don't have to see my mug on television for another nine months.
Okay.
There you go.
All right.
So we're going to learn more about that at 905.
We are going to speak with a grateful patient, Lionel Moore, from St. Boniface Hospital,
at 905 to tee up this final deadline.
And also today, we have our small town salute at 735, Prairie Connect is something we're
going to be discussing.
It's a new conference with central mental tourism.
So that's coming up at 735.
But we have much to discuss this morning, Mr. Mackling on Sarah's top story involving
this dual school attack plot that reaches from Manitoba to Nova Scotia.
It's startling.
And when you hear these sorts of things, I don't know if it's anything that we typically
associate with Canada.
We start hearing organizations like the FBI and Interpol advising and alerting RCMP and
other police forces across the country into these activities of these two teenagers.
That's startling.
So it begs the question, who's watching what we're doing online?
Thank goodness that they are.
What are they watching for?
What should we be watching for if you have a teenage parent?
What should you be concerned about?
Not all of our kids are going to go down.
Very few kids, thankfully, go down this road.
But how do you do your best to ensure that it's not your kid?
We'll have some conversations.
Thanks to our friend, Richard Cluche, who interviewed two highly qualified individuals to comment
and give advice on those topics.
We'll share some of that audio with you coming up at 635.
And we'll have more from Global's Moni Blunt in our next segment.
And on a much lighter note, when it beggets back in action tonight.
So I guess they're hitting the road.
Right.
They have hit the road.
They've hit the road.
I think it's three in a row.
They're embossed in tonight.
And then they have back to back games on the weekend.
I believe one game is against the Rangers.
And I can't remember if that's Saturday or Sunday.
I'm really going off a memory here.
The point is, they're away for three straight.
And the first game is tonight at 6 o'clock.
And I pre-gave, oh, Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Saturday, New York Rangers, Sunday.
I think our broadcast.
I think the game time on Sunday is 11 a.m. our time.
Really?
I think so.
What the heck is that?
12, 12 Eastern, 12 Eastern, 11 o'clock.
So 9 o'clock on Sunday, our pre-game coverage gets underway.
I was in Lorenzo's office the other day.
She's got all the games on this giant whiteboard because it, you know, got a schedule around
these things.
And then game time on Saturday against the pegwinds is new.
So 10 o'clock.
No couch potatoes.
I know.
I was just thinking the Jets didn't ask the couch potatoes for clearly not.
They did not get clearance clearance.
So that means the couch potatoes won't be airing Saturdays or Sundays.
Good thing you're on Friday night at 11 a.m.
There you go.
The glamorous time slot of Friday night at 11 o'clock.
And of course, the couch potatoes exists in podcast form.
And we will have that podcast released by hopefully 130 this afternoon.
Last week, we put it out.
And then I was realizing that, I think I mentioned this, but I realized that there was,
I had made a mistake and had to pull the podcast and go back in and do some surgery on the
recording, which was added a, it wasn't the end of the world, but it added an additional
hour to my day.
And I was really frustrated with myself because it's just something simple.
It was, it would have been so easy to catch the mistake ahead of time.
And then there would have been no additional work.
But instead I blew it anyway, and possibly didn't probably didn't even need to change
it.
Yeah, really?
Because it was all convoluted in terms of when that movie was coming out, right?
Yeah.
Project Hail Mary is the big one this weekend starting Ryan Gosling, but it had a goofy
release schedule where there was like a sneak preview this Monday.
And that was like open to the public.
It wasn't one of those where you win tickets or get an invite to the, the, the, the preview
release.
It was a literal sneak peek.
Yeah.
Give us your money, buy your popcorn and your beverages and come and see this movie first.
Oh, I guess that's why Ryan Gosling was hosting SNL.
Oh, oh, no, was that, was it Harry Styles last week?
I must have been, I think it was Gosling two weeks ago in advance of this movie, I think.
Okay.
Yeah.
I should watch more Saturday night live.
It's on global, but I just, I, I never get around to watching it.
Do you still watch Saturday night live at all?
Oh, that's the sleep by then.
No, not that that's an excuse any longer.
You can see it on demand whenever you like.
I see the clips on social media.
Some of it's funny, but Ryan Gosling said he is set to light the box office on fire this
weekend with Project Hail Mary, so we'll have more on that on the couch potatoes today.
As we've been learning since yesterday afternoon, police in Manitoba and Nova Scotia say they
have foiled plans for violent simultaneous attacks on two schools and arrested two teenagers.
Blue Hills RCMP and Bridgewater police and Nova Scotia said in separate news releases
Wednesday.
Both contacted by the FBI and Interpol on March 13th regarding a concerning online conversation
between two Canadian teenagers.
Global news reporter Marney Blunt has the detail of 14 year old from rivers Manitoba and
a 15 year old from Bridgewater Nova Scotia are now in custody.
Police in both provinces alleged the two were planning to harm other students through
plotting violent simultaneous attacks at Rivers Collegiate and at Parkview Education Center
in Bridgewater.
The Bridgewater Police Service and Manitoba RCMP say online conversations on the attacks
began in late February.
Bridgewater Police Service Deputy Chief Danny McFee says the FBI and Interpol alerted
them to online activity between the two teens on Friday.
They were both at the early planning stages of school attacks in their old home communities.
No fire for located at our search.
But other items were found when police searched the teens Bridgewater Nova Scotia home, including
handwritten plans, imitation weapons, a roughly made imitation pipe bomb and assault rifle,
electronic devices, and clothing with hate symbols.
Corporal Melanie Rusen with Manitoba RCMP says the other teen here in Manitoba was arrested
on board a school bus Monday.
So we pulled over the school bus.
We wanted to intercept the youth prior to him attending school and so we heard we received
information that the youth was already on the bus.
So we pulled the bus over on road to 250.
The 15 year old from Nova Scotia is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and uttering
death threats.
While the Manitoba team is only facing charges of uttering threats, but police in both provinces
say more charges are possible as the investigation continues, including for hate crime related
offenses.
There are plenty of questions which come out of situations like this, Brett.
How do kids get involved in discussions like this in the first place?
Interpol and the FBI alerted Canadian officials to these online communications.
So who is watching?
This is Phil Gersky, CEO of Borely Alice, threat and risk consulting.
He's formerly with Ceasis.
When I was at Ceasis, we looked at radicalization from a jihadism perspective.
And yeah, the online environment was really important, but it's equally important that this
is a solvable social relationship.
And yes, some people are vulnerable, but what we found is that it was people talking
to people.
And nowadays, as you've said, post-COVID, they're talking in a virtual environment and they're
sharing ideas and they're sharing frustration in their sharing plots.
This is what appears to have happened to Nova Scotia Manitoba and the challenge from
a security intelligence and law enforcement is only of 20 resources.
We can't monitor everyone all the time.
And so we need to come up with ways to identify these people before they act and end up taking
innocent lives.
Our parents watching our kids closely enough and who is taking advantage potentially of
our kids.
As you likely have heard by now, police in Manitoba and Nova Scotia say they have
foiled plans for violent simultaneous attacks on two schools and arrested two teenagers.
These comes on the heels of the mass shooting in Tumblr Ridge BC.
Canadian police said in separate news releases yesterday, they were both contacted by the FBI
and Interpol, March 13th regarding, quote, a concerning online conversation, end quote,
between two teenagers more than half a country apart.
This is Phil Gersky, CEO, Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, formally with Ceasis.
What it shows is that there's these relationships that we here in Canada have crafted for decades
with our partners.
We often talk about the five eyes relationship that, you know, the intelligence partners
within the Anglosphere, but we have these relationships with these agencies.
They're sharing information on a real-time basis.
They know what to look for and most importantly, they know what to share and when to share
to prevent incidents like this from happening.
So I think it points to the fact that at the operational level, whatever is happening
at the political level, at the operational level, this exchange of information is working
as it should.
It works as it should when you have agencies like this monitoring where I still wonder
is whether or not it's third party providers that we are on their apps.
There's still holes in that, I reckon.
Oh, I think they're absolutely.
And we're seeing a lot of, you know, put dragging, well, it's freedom of speech, it's freedom
of thought, it's freedom of expression.
And I'm frankly, I don't know what you were, I don't put a lot of stock in that.
If we're talking, if people are talking about things that are violent in Asia, even
if they don't have any capability of doing so, that should be reported ASAP, the most local
law enforcement agency in the jurisdiction, better to be safe and sorry.
And I'm getting sick and tired of people saying, well, we can't disclose this information
because it's privacy.
No, we're talking about potential acts of violence and that has to be stopped.
That's Phil Gersky in conversation with our own Richard Klucche and Klucche went on
to have a conversation about radicalization and can take several forms.
This is Kelly Sunberg, criminalologist and associate professor at Mount Royal College
in, I guess it's university now in Alberta and the Department of Economics, Justice and
Policy Studies tells us how this is occurring.
Myself and a colleague of mine in Australia, the university down there, we've been looking
at what we call algorithmic immersion radicalization.
So we're looking at how social media use, especially since COVID, with the loneliness
crisis we see, how many not just youth, but many Canadians are increasingly developing
their worldview and thoughts based on what they're consuming on through social media.
The issue is, social media is not a reliable source of information.
One more bombarded with messaging and as we have these selector algorithms that drive
more and more extreme content our way, trying to invoke an emotional response, people
who are susceptible to the influence that social media can have on the way that they see
the world, this can lead to radicalization and violence.
It's a major concern.
We do see countries like Australia where my colleagues are that have taken this very seriously
looking at not just the technologies and the saw where we have technologies being used
to identify the trend in real time, which is wonderful and it's the other guest you have
that's being on.
But we also have to think of digital hygiene.
We have to think about the issue that we're seeing where people are spending on average
two plus hours a day on social media.
I mean, if you spend the same time reading books, that's over 100 books a year, I'm
going to be a better, more informed person being on social media or reading 100 books a
year.
You know, this is where we're at today and it's a new threat.
What are the tell tale signs of radicalization, Kellyanne, how do parents try to get ahead
of this?
I would encourage your listeners to read the anxious generation or John Hite or some
of their work that's around this when we think about our kids and all of us where our
social environments now straddle the real world and the digital world and what our research
is showing is that the symbolism, the language, the beliefs carry forward between the two and
they actually, you go online, it becomes reinforced, then you join groups and you see people
that share your imagery, your clothing, your symbols, your language, and then it gets
more and more.
But when people are spending all their time, even in a real life situation, people are
on their phones more than they are talking to someone or looking them in the face of
having a discussion.
So it's time we get away from the social distancing and actually that we get in COVID and get
together and actually start speaking with one another face to face instead of through
screens.
And I see this agent Phil Gersky tells us if adults are exploiting children on this
front and Richard Klucce at an important question for Kelly Sunberg.
100% we certainly saw when I was with the service about adults identifying teens because
they're easier, easier to manipulate for the reasons your guests are at least pointed
out.
They're not as knowledgeable, they're not as intelligent and they can be more easy let
it's true.
So I would also add that there are only authenticators, we each call them behavioral indicators,
and behavior that people can pick up on.
It's not a perfect system, but if you're a parent and your child has changed significantly
in a short span of time from eight is dead, if nothing else that's worth looking into,
it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to have a serial killer or a mass shooter, but
it's something you need to look into it because there might be something more there than
just having a bad day at school kind of stuff.
Kelly has Tumblr Ridge changed attitudes in this country, even law enforcement that's
something that would have quietly been handled, perhaps not pulling over the school bus,
given Tumblr Ridge, we're taking these threats even more seriously in this country.
Sadly, I don't think we are.
We say, will we talk about the capacity of our law enforcement, our security intelligence
and our military, our, frankly, our country and our government as sadly ignored our national
security and public safety infrastructure and at age and season capacity for a very
long time.
And this is, you know, thank God we, we, someone I'm imagining the Americans were able
to, to give information on this, but it should be nice if Canada had the, if we put the
same resources into our public safety and security as it seems other countries are doing.
Phil, last word is yours.
Yeah, no, I agree with you guys.
I mean, I work in Intel for 32 years and we don't take national security public safety
seriously and I take, if it takes Tumblr Ridge to take it more seriously, a tragedy,
I, I hope so because we need to pony up, as you guys said, we need to put more money
resources into it and then it's about time we did that.
Lots of revelations in those conversations, Brett, that have a pit, have created a pit
in my stomach and maybe the phrase that jumped out for me in all that conversation, the loneliness
crisis.
Indeed, I haven't quite put it or heard it put that way before.
So global news reporter Marty Blunt is on her way to rivers this morning and you can
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We have tickets to see AC DC at the power up tour September 20th, Princess Auto Stadium.
And today's chat has to do with quirks in buildings.
And this comes from a post from TSN's Claire Hanna that popped up on my Instagram, it looks
like she posted this about a week ago, but she was saying, you ever wonder how we get
to our rink side spots?
She happened to be in the saddle dome in Calgary and I can't believe what I was watching.
In order to access this sort of little spot that that is clearly designed for reporters
and camera people to be to get that shot right beside the the the rink, they have to crawl
under the stands.
And then she so you see her, she's kind of, you know, not quite crawling, but she was
able to access it.
But the camera guy had to essentially like roll through it with his camera.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, well, it's not the most ridiculous thing at the saddle dome.
Is it Cam?
Well, yeah, I mean, I used to go to games are all the time in the press box and there's
the infamous catwalk where you're suspended.
What feels like five thousand feet above the ice surface and it's rickety and maybe
nervous every single time I hate it.
So yeah, I'm not listening to someone sad that the saddle is going.
So what we want to ask you this morning is, is there a building that jumps to mind
for you that has some odd design quirks, whether it could be your home, could be a potential
home.
You looked at, like I looked at an apartment at the Roslin, those old apartments.
Oh, yes.
Osborne and Roslin and the first suite they showed me, they took me up and they've got
the cool old elevator with the great instead of, so you can see the floors as you're going
to look down.
But then so you take, it takes me down this hall and then, and then he takes me outside.
Like I had to cross, so he opens this door that goes back outside and I had to cross this
little bridge to the other side of the building over top of a courtyard.
I've never seen that before to access that part of the building, which I assume was
perhaps for, like, servant quarters back when the, because the building's old, right?
I love servant quarters and it was a tiny suite and then they showed me a suite in the
basement where the bathroom sink wasn't even in the bathroom, like a hotel, so it was
weird.
They were on to something.
Yeah.
They were out of their idea.
They were out of their time.
So your building quirks, Sarah McCarthy, you want to kick us off?
Sure.
Just there, not too long ago, but I was at one of my favorite hole in the wall, like
sushi places, not in Winnipeg, I will say.
And I've never used the washroom at this place until the last time I was there, usually
just get take out what not don't need to.
And let me just say it was the oddest adventure to get to this bathroom.
First you go down, it's downstairs in, like, the basin part of the restaurant and you
go down a very steep, short set of stairs.
I'm five, six, five, seven at most and I'm almost hitting my head on the roof.
So you're, that's to start it off.
And then you take a quick left and you're basically in a corner and then another quick
right and you're going down this dimly lit long, scary hallway.
It's in the basement, it's darker and what not and got to the washroom and it was perfectly
fine, perfectly clean, but it was just like, this is, I'm a little creeped out and it
felt like minutes to get to this washroom just by myself going, ah, something's going
to pop out here or something, but they have the best sushi.
So.
Well, if you ever went to the bathroom and collect this back in the day, I was going to say
that too, like, it was creepy down there, it'd go downstairs and, like, it's like dimly
lit and like, am I going to get killed down?
Yeah.
Amongst, amongst the sack of potatoes, you were, you mentioned, you were, God, you mentioned
you were an extra and season on the brink you skipped school years ago when they filmed
that with back in the late 90s, I was paid extra in that movie and was in several scenes.
And we shot a scene with Brian Denny at Collecas' restaurant.
They kept us, they sequestered us at the Polish hall just a little bit further up Main Street
for a little while.
Then they took us into the basement at Collecas' amongst the sack of potatoes as we sat silently
as they shot a scene upstairs.
It was replicating a community hall or Kinsman hall or something in Indiana, where Coach
Bobby Knight was making this speech and you could hear him, you know, infatically making
his speech.
And then we had to go upstairs to be part of this group that he was addressing, but that
hour in the basement at Collecas' was a little unnerving.
I so want a burger right now.
So good.
What about you, Poetry?
Such fond memories of the French fries.
I was speaking of Calgary, came into this talking about Calgary.
I was at a friend of mine's place and their apartment and it was in the belt line, Kahnod
area, which is just off 17th if you're familiar with Calgary.
And they had this, they said, okay, where's the bathroom?
All right, just down the hall.
So I walked down the hall and I opened the door and it was like, it was like there was
a door to nowhere.
Inside was, I swear about six inches of space.
And I, I'm the kind of person who's just like, what is this?
He's like, I don't know.
And it was nothing in there.
It was too small to be been used as a closet.
So I don't know what happened there.
The guy's like, say, well, what is this?
And the guy was like, well, I don't know, I just, you know, I just moved in here.
I don't know anything about that.
It's just a door that we don't even use.
I didn't even put anything in there.
So I think my theory is, is that there was a bigger unit at one time.
They shrunk it.
They shrunk it, added another one.
And it was too expensive to move the door so they just left it there.
That's my running theory.
But of course, I can't confirm that, but it was just, it was just ridiculous.
And it makes more sense.
Just take it off the hinges.
Just leave it as like a little enclave or something, but now they left it with the door.
So 204 780 6868, we want you to tell us about a quirky building design.
Like, and Sarah mentioned having to crosshels have acre to get to the bathroom.
I think of, have you been inside the courtyard building on Osborne at River?
Not, yes, yes, yes, yes.
So I don't know if you're a while though.
I don't know if you went to G Martini's when it was open, but if you wanted to go to
the bathroom, you had to go down a hall and then you had to go down into the courtyard,
which is a lovely, oh, amazing, but you have to kind of cross this path and then down
these stairs.
And then the bathroom is kind of tucked away.
Yes.
So that felt unnerving because you're all alone in this big, wide open space, depending
on what time you're at the, at the bar.
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This morning for a chance to win tickets to CAC DC, we are asking you about buildings
with really weird quirks design quirks layout quirks doesn't have to be in Winnipeg, but
Gloria in Gimli points to what is now known as the Palomino Club on Main Street, just
near Portage and Main, but in her day, and in my day, it was known as the Empire.
And Gloria says crazy design is to get to the washroom says it was like a maze to get
down to the lower washroom.
You almost expect to be trapped somewhere.
And then of course you add in alcohol.
Yep.
It could be an adventure trying to get down there.
And it's funny that the Palomino Club is there now because at the old Palomino Club,
it wasn't a maze, but I hated the fact that you wanted to use the washroom.
You had to go down stairs because there have been maybe one or two times where I've been
there and walking down the stairs after a couple of hours at the Palomino Club proved
itself to be a unique challenge.
That was a wide staircase though.
Yeah, at the Palomino Club.
So that wasn't an issue, but at the Palomino or the old Empire, you have those stairways
are absolutely claustrophobic in terms of how tight they are and how steep they are.
Yeah.
That's quite the challenge.
There's some grandfathering going in, going on over there with regard to building codes
for sure.
I guess so.
Yeah.
And I spend the part of the thing with that place too, now that I think of it as if you
are downstairs because it's a space, basically, it's a full bar downstairs.
But if you want to go upstairs to the main floor, there's always the collision.
There's always people who are coming down.
Oh, there's that page point, yeah.
There's people going up and it's so tight.
And I guess that's part of the experience of going there.
But it, yeah, claustrophobic is definitely the word to use.
The Empire wasn't almost like three club sort of, like there was the lower level front
room.
Yeah.
That was, it tried to be a little quieter.
I don't know.
Was there a pool table in there or was it just sort of more like a lounge?
Ah, there might have been a pool table.
I can't remember.
And that was, that was more of just like a relaxing kind of part of the club.
And then on the other side of the wall, they had a bar, didn't they have an oxygen bar
there at one point?
They did.
Yeah.
That's right.
I think when it was, I think it went after the Empire, was it whiskey decks that it
became?
It, I think that was the transition.
Yeah.
And then it became the pal, I think it was the whiskey place that brought in the oxygen
bar.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
That's like, I would have started going to the bar and I might have been just before
2000.
I can't remember when it stopped being the Empire because gang violence became a problem
there.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
So anyway, it was, it was a challenge to get to the Washer with your coming from upstairs.
It is time for our small town salute brought to you by Travel Manitoba.
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Our guest to tell us all about it and this part of the province, June Letgeman, General
Manager for Central Manitoba Tourism, June.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How are you doing this, this fine Thursday?
I am doing just great.
Thank you.
Good.
I saw on global news this morning, Melida, I know is a little further west than you.
I think getting up to 13 degrees.
I think Morton and Winkler and the seven to eight degree range.
Tell us about this new conference.
How did it come about?
Well, it was a new idea.
We decided to promote tourism at Throttar Central Manitoba Tourism.
We think of it as a community tourism showcase.
A place for municipalities, art museums can get all their come together to highlight
incredible experiences our region has to offer.
So what's going to be happening at this conference?
Well, we have it's at Morton Events at Morton Access Event Center and it's Saturday
March 28th from 10.04 and we have a great community band hired.
They're called beer jammers and their local entertainers are really going to be good
and we'll have food available and drinks available and non-alcoholic, of course, just coffee
tea and water.
But that's okay and it's going to be a fun event and we want everyone to come out to join
us and see.
What we have to offer in central Manitoba lots of unique things.
Well, I was just going to say just under the roof of the Access Event Center in Morton,
you have some, well, two of my favorite tourist attractions in the entire province, the
baseball hall of fame and, of course, the incredible museum in the basement.
That's correct.
And both of them will have just plays in the event center, yes, that day.
And then if they feel like they're right there, they can tour the place too.
So where'd you grow up, June?
I actually grew up in the Leibold South Creek area.
Okay.
And now where do you live?
I live in Plot Toulies, a great community.
And what is it that you, you know, if you're telling somebody, you know, you're singing
the praises of central Manitoba, what is it that you love about this part of our province?
I love everything about it.
There is so much to see.
There are such hidden gems that we have that are available for anyone to visit, like our
museums and, and like our dinosaur museum, that's things like that.
But also the people, the people are great.
They're very, it's a very generous people and it's just a great place to live.
Tom Cooley has the elevator museum if I'm not mistaken.
Do you remember what Peter Warren used to say about Plum Cooley back in the day, June?
I sure do.
I know he used to send people to Plum Cooley if he didn't like them.
I'm going to put you on a bus and send you to Plum Cooley.
Yes, yes.
I know.
And actually, we invited him to our Centennial in 2001 and he replied, he said, why in
the world would I want to come to Plum Cooley?
That's outstanding.
I know.
Thanks for sharing that with us.
June, just a week removed from our 80th anniversary, you're on 680 C.J.O.
B.
I'm so glad you remembered that.
Centril Manitoba Tourism, just, there's something powerful about local and localizing
all the things that are available because Manitoba, let's face it, we have lots and plenty
to offer.
So, it's nice to consolidate things within a region, isn't it?
It really is.
And we really do have a lot of things to offer.
It's amazing.
You all you have to travel through Southern, like Centril Manitoba and the little towns,
every single town has a gem that you want to visit.
And that's what we're trying to attract people to come to all these little gems.
Are you hoping that this will perhaps become an annual event?
Does Prairie Connect?
Yes.
It's our first attempt at this.
But yes, we are hoping if it is successful, it certainly will become an annual event.
And we want to always hold it in more than it will be held in other parts of our catchment
area.
And as far as, you know, the interest that's been shown so far, are you expecting good
attendance?
I hope so.
Yes.
We've done our own.
We've tried to get the word out there so people know about it, and I really appreciate
this interview this morning.
This is big for us.
Well, we appreciate you joining us.
So if anybody listening who wants to join and be a part of Prairie Connect, how do they
sign up?
They will have to sign up, well, if they want to be a part, our registration form is on
our website.
Just go to our website, centralmbeterism.ca, and then under Prairie Connect, you will find
all the information there, and you can fill out the registration form and become part of
it.
All right.
Well, June, let, Kim, and thank you so much for your time this morning.
We really appreciate this.
Well, thank you.
I really appreciate this opportunity.
Thank you very much.
June, let, Kim, and the GM for Central Manitoba Tourism, once again, the event is called
Prairie Connect.
It's happening in Morton on Saturday, March 28th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., new conference
bringing together municipalities, tourism businesses, and community organizations from across
the region, and it's designed to help communities share their work, promote local attractions,
and build new connections.
So many wonderful places to visit in that part of the province all along the highway three,
have a 14, plum coolly.
That's so happy, June, remembered, that Peter Warren story, Altona's got all sorts
of things to do, Winkler, Morton, the golfing.
I don't need to tell you holiday mountain, the variety of different opportunities to explore.
And if you've never been to the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Morton, and you
even just have a tiny bit of affection for baseball, it is worth, it is worth the drive
alone to hit that museum.
But it's not by itself, you also have the Canadian Fossil Museum in that access, Morton.
There's arenas there, I think the McDonald's, they have a McDonald's in that access.
Really?
Yeah, but downtown Morton's got so much to offer, some really neat shops and architecture,
they've got some incredible parks and Winkler, and Morton, you can really make a weekend
of it, and you don't have to wait for the corn and apple festivals to do it.
There's pie plugged for that part of the province.
And they get some great bands who participate in that corn and apple festival.
That's a massive summer festival.
So once again, thank you to June for joining us for our small town salute, which is brought
to you by Travel Manitoba.
Does your heart need travel?
Visit travelmanitoba.com, and that's the website where we found out about this event.
So way to go.
I think it's for ACDC, we're asking you about building quirks.
What's a quirk in a building you have familiarity with.
And Mr. McLean just ahead of sports here, we've got one about the old barn for Mike.
Yeah, the Winnipeg Arena Casm.
I don't know anything about this, Mike.
I landed at a part-time gig with a buddy at the old Winnipeg Arena in the early 80s.
We were ushers for concerts.
Of course, as an usher, we had to get there early.
Once we passed security, we were walking through the main concourse.
Then we stopped, shocked by what we witnessed.
Above one of the many large beams, which crossed the concourse diagonally,
was a head popping out and looking at us from a top-set beam.
The top of the beam was approximately five feet high as we stood there.
This person climbed out and ran away from us down the concourse.
Then more people started jumping out, one after another, jumping out, running away.
There must have been 10 to 20 people hiding in this chasm.
Once everyone emptied my friend and I just looked at each other and laughed.
Do we tell security?
No!
You know why?
Snitches get stitches.
We are true north-anders.
So we know the rules of life.
Hoping others will confirm this unique work from the old arena.
Right on.
And that's Mike says courtesy of your friendly neighborhood surveyor, Mr. Pros.
Right now, we want to revisit a discussion we had earlier as pertains to this
school attack plot in both Manitoba and Nova Scotia.
At 630, we played some audio, which was featured yesterday with Richard Klucce on the news.
That's right.
And there were a couple of different conversations going on about, first of all,
Interpol and the FBI.
Who's watching these communications?
The fact that they then reached out, they being FBI and Interpol reached out to RCMP and other
police authorities across the country to let those authorities know what they were
observing online and sharing that information with them.
The whole idea of what's going on with our younger people and the impacts of spending so
much time online, radicalization, the potential for that are adults taking advantage of young people
that are online that are maybe looking for something to connect with, belong to.
And Kelly Sunberg is a criminologist and associate professor at Mount Royal University,
now Berda Economic Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies. Forgive me.
He joined Richard Klucce as you mentioned, Richard. And he brought up a terminology that I'm not
sure I'd heard, but I knew exactly what they meant when they said it.
Myself and a colleague of mine in Australia, the university down there, we've been looking at what we
call algorithmic immersion radicalization. So we're looking at how social media use, especially
since COVID, with the loneliness crisis we see how many, not just youth, but many Canadians are
increasingly developing their worldview and thoughts based on what they're consuming on
through social media. Loneliness crisis, what did you think when you heard that, McGarry?
Well, I hit home right away because we've been talking about the increasing loneliness that those
are feeling, but to hear that it's a crisis, yeah, it makes sense because I know the pandemic is
well behind us, but the lingering effects from that specific perspective might take years to heal
and some people may never heal from that. Their young people are young people who are now
in their adult years, early adult years, who missed out on certain rights of passage, younger
adults who are now approaching their their late 20s and into their early 30s that also missed other
rights of passage might be in the midst of this crisis. And so it got me thinking about a, the fact
one of my boys in particular does like to go out and he likes to go to the same places that I
used to go to in particular, the pal. And he went out two or three times over the last several days.
And I was like, good for you, man, you need to get out. He went out with one group of friends,
one night. He went out. He actually went by himself one night. I was concerned about that,
but then he told me, oh, not that. I know lots of people there. I always bump into people that I know.
So got me thinking about Professor Scott Galloway. He is a awesome commentator. He has a great
podcast. You'll see him on a lot of different talk shows. As soon as we play, if you don't know his
name, you'll recognize his voice. Absolutely. People need to be in the company of strangers more
and more. And I think young men are sequestering. We're turning into a different species of asexual,
socially isolated, lonely people who become these citizens. And when women don't have a romantic
relationship, they reinvest and work and their friends when men don't have a relationship, they
tend to just go down a rabbit hole. I think young people need to drink more.
We think about that comment. I mean, not drinking is not for everyone. And this is not an
endorsement of irresponsible behavior before we go any further with this conversation.
When I first heard this a few months back, I think it was at least in the context that I saw
and making the rounds. People were sort of having fun with it in the sense that all the prescription
is more booze lol. But hearing the hymns say if women aren't in a relationship, they tend to
sort of dive into their work. Whereas if men aren't in a relationship, they tend to go down a rabbit
hole. I think that is a little scary. And even for me, people often ask, why aren't you dating?
Because I've been single now for, geez, six and a half years. And I don't care. And then
sometimes I wonder, should I be concerned about that? Like, is that problematic that I don't care
that I'm single and I have no interest? It's not out of bitterness. Right? Like I'm not an
in-sell. Right. If anything, I'm a vol-cell, voluntarily celibate. It's not a protest. I just don't
care. Vol-cell is an increasing group of men. Is that okay? And in-sells are, you know, that can
be very problematic. And you do your research on that. I don't want to derail our conversation
because we've got a really fine point we want to dive into here. Then carry on. No, I want you
to continue your thought because I didn't want to derail it. Oh, okay. Well, essentially what I
was saying was I, I just sometimes wonder, is it, is it a problem? But the another concern that I
do have is that since, and I've referenced this, the fact that I've become this hermit who doesn't
go out nearly as much as I used to. And I talked about this in November with the great cup festival
when we had the media passes. And maybe I could have used that to access the festival. And I was
going to try. And I couldn't. Social anxiety prevented me from even going out the door. So I
still have that badge hanging on my door knob as a reminder to try to push my, now to be fair,
I was going by myself. So I think I'm going to an event where I have no idea what to expect.
Venturing into the unknown with no backup. So I think that was part of the problem. But the other
part of the, my fear was just I didn't want to be around people. So that, so the fact that I'm
not in a relationship, but I'm not getting out and doing things is having an adverse effect
on my ability to be social and be social bull, right? Like I'll go to the pub Fridays after work
for a couple hours. And then after that, I generally just want to be left alone for the next 48 hours.
So that's scheduled, right? That's part of your routine. And when I think back to my late teens
in early 20s, I had some routines as well. As one of our listeners says, my routine was based on
the drink specials at the various bars around the city. And there was something to that.
Dollar drinks at the Oak on Mondays, right? 25 cent draft night at scandals,
bucket drink here and there on, on different nights of the week. It was not uncommon to go out
three, four, four nights a week and the live music obviously lent itself to having a better time
in my opinion. But the point is this, we would go out, we would let our hair down and let the
cards fall where they may make a series of poor decisions and it led to creating the people that we
are. And a young man, I think, and I think part of it is us as parents from the generation
who made those mistakes, who went out and did stupid stuff. We don't want our kids to be doing
and making the same mistakes, but they need to. The more I get into this, I realize they need to
and Professor Galloway agrees. The final thing I love that you said in the book to men drink more
because safety is, you know, this is one of the problems I have with certain people who make
everything about safety. Safety is important, you can't overdo drinking. It is also, as you point
out, a lubricant to get to that place where you are talking to other people and socializing.
It's not too excess, but yes, it's so, drinking a little bit, maybe sometimes a little too much when
you're adolescent is probably better than sitting in that basement. The second worst thing to happen
in a young people is remote work. One in three relationships begin at work. This is where you find
friends, mentors, and mates, and especially young men need the guardrails of a workplace. But in my
view, the worst thing that's happened to young people is the anti-alcohol movement. I've had
Hubert Menon, who I'm a big fan of, and Antion, and my point is that the risk to your 25-year-old
liver or risk are dwarfed by the risk of social isolation. In sum, think of all the amazing
relationships you've had in your life and be honest. Did alcohol play a role? In sum, get out,
drink more and make a series of bad decisions that might pay off. That is not an endorsement
for drinking and driving, over-consumption, anything like that. But I think it's a serious
discussion which needs to be had. I know all sorts of people are going to disagree with that point
to view. Do you? 204-7068-68. In response to what we were just discussing, the loneliness crisis,
and a professor Scott Galloway telling encouraging people to get out with your friends, drink more.
Don't be irresponsible about it, but go out and be social. And what does Dorian say to that,
Mr. McLean? Drinking or not, you got to get out there. It's okay to listen to the raccoon on
your shoulder every once in a while. The raccoon on your shoulder? I don't know what it means, but I
think I'm getting what he's saying and I love it. I dig it too. So thank you very much for that.
And if you want to win tickets for ACDC, we're asking you about weird quirks that you are familiar
with in a specific building. Like Sandy says years and years ago, I lived in an apartment in
downtown Winnipeg at Colony in St. Mary. That was young, poor, LOL. This apartment had one of those
fold up beds that go into the wall. It was a bachelor apartment, real small, weird design, long,
tiny, skinny kitchen, one room bathroom red at the end of the hall near the front door. But when
I think about it now, what an odd type of apartment is simply for the Ick factor of having a bed
that who knows how many other people have rented. But I was young and just happy to have something
I could afford. Certainly not the most comfortable environment when you had company over though.
Oh, I'm kidding. But yeah, the bed and the wall thing, anytime I see that in a television show
or a movie, I don't know, there's just something like almost adventurous about it and weird.
My aunt and uncle lived in, what was it called? The apartments on
the west end. It was like, it looked like a mansion, but I think it was a bunch of
bachelor apartments in the west end. Doesn't matter right now that I can't remember the name of
the street. But the point was their bed went into like a cabinet in their living room into what
was like a closet. And so they closed that bed. It didn't, it's not a Murphy bed that folded up.
You pushed it in, but you can see there was a closet in behind in the mattress with, of course,
sort of go up sort of in a, in a J shape. Oh, and they had, so they put their TV in their stereo
on top of the bed cabinet, had their couch there and it looked like a normal living room like a
really good sized one bedroom apartment. The only trick was the one bedroom was in the middle of
the living room. And so when you had company, you had tons of space. Wow. Yeah, that was, I was like,
I always wanted to live there when I was younger. I think it's condemned now.
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about that throughout the afternoon. We're about to speak with a grateful patient named Lionel Moore,
who joins us now live on 680 CGO. Be a good morning Lionel. Good morning, guys. How are you doing?
We're doing great. Thank you very much for joining us. And perhaps the question is how are you doing?
Well, I'm doing really good. You know, I was listening to you guys before nine. You got about all the fun
you had when you were younger, you know, and you're still having fun. You're having fun on the
morning show. And that's how that's what keeps us healthy. I think we all got to have fun, you know,
even the young or old, the older we get, the more fun we got to have.
Completely agree with you, Mr. Moore. Talk about your experience with St. Boniface Hospital.
You've had a couple of valvary placement surgeries 2010 and then again in 2018. Tell us how
that all came to light, my friend. Well, I was blessed in that I had not had a heart attack,
but my family doctor years ago found out that I had a heart murmur. And we just watched that
for a lot of years. And it turned into a valve that was becoming defective. And I got to the point
where this aortic valve had to be replaced. Unfortunately, it was elective surgery. It wasn't
one that I had to have done immediately. But when I went to the hospital, I was taken care of and
got a new valve. And my second valve, well, the first one lasted eight years. The second one,
I had to have done because I was not feeling quite right. It was leaking. And when it was leaking,
it had to be replaced. So I had to have another one done. And that wasn't fun. That wasn't fun.
And I had a carotid artery that became plugged over the years. And I had that repaired at St. Boniface
Hospital. So I'm blessed with the care and service I got at St. Boniface Hospital. You can't
ask for anything better. They're just the greatest group and we have to keep them going. And the
way we keep them going is funding the St. Boniface Hospital foundation. I mean, they do
so much great work. Guys, you know, it's not just cardiac research they do. They do research
on mental health and cardiovascular food sciences, stem cell research, aging, which is good for me.
And neurogeneral condition, it's just it's great. We got to keep supporting them. And a million
bucks would be nice to win, wouldn't it? It would be indeed very nice. And am I understanding
correctly that, you know, when the second surgery was needed, you recognized symptoms while you
were wintering in Texas? How scary was that? Well, that was scary. I used to go and play cards
early in the morning and I'd take my bike down to the hall and, oh, I'd have to sit on a step
for a while because I couldn't get a good breath. And over the years down there, we had met this
ER doc who became a friend that I went. I told him and I said, hey, Doc, why don't you go to see
and he said, what's up? And I said, you know, anyway, he called me in and I, you know, he said,
I think this valve is leaking and that happens. And he said it'd be in your best interest to get
home and have it taken care of. So we had to come home early and got ahold of the hospital and
the doctors and the tests and it was very quickly taken care of because that was a more serious one.
That was not elected. That was one that had to be done.
Many people listening right now are going to remember and recognize your distinctive voice and
although you applied your trade elsewhere on the dial, Mr. Moore, just 30 years in broadcasting,
just very quickly. What was it like for you to grow up and to do what you did in this community
on radio on television? Well, I'll tell you, it was the greatest job in the world and I'm sure
you guys will agree. There wasn't a day you went to work that there wasn't something different going
on, you know, and I did the morning show for a lot of years too and yeah, I was tough getting up
in the morning but once you got there, it was like four in the afternoon. You just had a great time
and 31 years, I met a lot of people I never would have met in a job that I had that was a different
job than media. It was just a great experience. 31 years was great and it went by fast, you know.
Well, I'm looking at your picture right now at stbhf.ca and you can find Lionel Moore's story
online there. You look fantastic. You haven't changed a bit. We're so glad that St. B was there
to help you in your time and need and we appreciate more than we can say. You're willing
to share your story with us this morning Lionel. Well, thank you very much. I just want to, can I
tell you one more thing? Just another couple of seconds. Our heart is only about the size of your
fist and nobody really thinks about this and the average heart beats about 60 to 80 beats a minute
but let's say 72. If your heart beats 72 times a minute, that's 4,320 an hour. In a 24 hour day,
it beats over 100,000 times which means in a 10 day period it beats over a million times.
So we got to take care of that thing. You know what? I know you guys will try and figure that out.
You're nothing is way better than our magic Lionel. I just figured out 72 beats a minute,
then an hour, then a day and then 10 days and it's over a million beats. So we got to take care
of that little motor, you know. Well, we appreciate you joining us Lionel. Thank you so much. It's
been great to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time and don't
forget to support the St. Bonneville Hospital Foundation everyone. Lionel Moore joining us live
grateful patient of the St. Bonneville Hospital. Once again, Mr. McLean, how do we get tickets?
Online STB or SAP MegaMillionChoices.ca by phone 204 256 7203. If you're out and about today,
London Drug St. Patel Center and their new store, Polo Park, Red River Co-op food stores and both
Winnipeg and Selkirk. And of course, the main street pharmacy. You can also get your tickets
at St. Bonneville Hospital Foundation on campus at the hospital or right inside the main
entrance. There'll be people there selling tickets in the St. Bonneville Hospital ever at Atrium.
Inspired by TSN's Claire Hannah posting last week, I just saw the video for the first time.
But in order to access her rink side spot for the, you know, where she gets the, you know,
the camera guy is shooting her with a rink behind her. You got to crawl under the stands.
It's ridiculous. So we're asking you about weird quirks in buildings. We got a lot of great
apartment stories this morning. Like listener says, many years ago, I rented a part of a house in
Osborne and it turned out to be the old coal room in the basement of the house. To enter the
basement, you had to use the coal shoot. Those are the 80s. So anything goes. My clothes always
smelled like coal as did my bed. But back then, you did what you had to do. Those were the days.
LOL. My basement bedroom on Golding Street was also formerly the coal room. Really?
Disassembled it. Yeah. Disassembled. Disassembled. When I would forget my key, I would crawl
in through the window. That was the, the old coal shoot. What's the point? It really? Far too
off. All right. But our winner, Mr. McLean is Mike P. What does Mike say? Many moons ago, my buddy,
probably bought his first condo. The place was the size of a shoe box and poorly laid out to get
to the only bathroom. You had to go through the main or master bedroom to get there. He invites
all the guys over to watch a hockey game, which was great. Until his fiance comes home from work,
locks the bedroom door and goes to bed. What do we say? Where was the bathroom?
Mm-hmm. It was on sweet. After more than a couple of beers, this became a serious issue.
The urgent trek to the washroom now became an eight-story elevator ride and a two-block walk
through the snow to an A&W that was about to close needless to say. We watched the rest of
the game at a pub and never went back to said condo. I wonder if that was the plan.
Maybe. Maybe that's what this person wanted. Guys, I'm breaking up with you.
The A&W, by the way, was a apparently near-reportage place or the condo was near-reportage place.
So there you go, Mike. You're the winner. I can't imagine what I would do if I went to my buddy's
place and that was the... I would say, you didn't think to tell us this might be an issue?
I gotta go to the bathroom, man. Who would have brought a four-liter jug?
Celebrating community is at the top of our list of priorities at 680CJOB and our next conversation
brings together young people, innovation, and one of our city's most visible brands.
We want to tell you about the full throttle challenge presented and spotlighted by our friends
at Princess Otto here to tell us all about it. Heather, Turnbull Smith, Senior Vice President,
Talent and Corporate Communications at Princess Otto Good Morning, Heather. Good morning.
Great to make your acquaintance. Great to have you in the studio with us this morning.
So the full throttle challenge. Who is this aimed at? Who are you engaging with?
We are aiming this at high school students, grades 11 and 12 that are in vocational programs for
automotive, electrical technology. We've had some great responses from our Manitoba high schools.
So this involves building and go cards? Go cards. Yeah, we went with a bunch of different concepts.
We were fortunate enough to build some relationships through Skills Canada with some of our Manitoba
high school teachers and they came in on their summer and worked with us to help build a program
that would give them great hands on learning. We went through a few iterations and we landed on
go cards. So each of the schools are going to get, so there was a competition you had to apply to
be part of it. We selected seven Manitoba schools and they each received a go card and a gift card
to go on a shopping spree at Princess Otto so they can trick out their cards and build something
amazing. So Arty Parker Collegiate, that's in Thompson, yes. It is. The Lord Selker, our CSS
better known as the comp is part of this competition, Garden Valley Collegiate,
TechVoc, Go Hornets, Steinbeck Regional Secondary School, Maples Collegiate and KE,
Coldone and East Collegiate, all part of this competition. So how long is there defined amount of time
that these groups have to work on it or can they work on as much as they want and what are you
expecting and what will be the culmination? Where will the public be able to see these works of art?
Awesome. So they received their go cards in January so it was further a second semester
and what they're doing now is coming up with their ideas. They've a lot of the schools have
different vocations working on it as well. So graphic design and different lighting and electrical.
So they've got a lot of kids throughout the school working on it. They have come up with some
crazy designs. I can't tell you what those are right now because they are a highly competitive group.
There is trash talking happening between the teachers. I know we were chatting a little bit
before I came in here. If you know our customers, they are incredibly innovative and creative
in the designs that they come up with. I can say that the future is bright with the young students
in grades 11 and 12 and their teachers because they have come up with some designs that I'm like,
whoa, that's that's kind of crazy. So they're working on it throughout the second semester.
We will collect their final projects in May with the intention. I don't know if you've heard we're
opening an amazing new store on Pennet Road on June 2nd. It will be the biggest store we have
ever opened. A lot of experiences within this store and we wanted the kids to be part of it.
So they'll be showcasing their carts during our grand opening week on June 5th.
Wonderful. Now you've got this neat component to this
fantastically wonderfully large gigantic store, not even nine minutes from my house. So thank you
for that across the street from 515 Pennet Road. I love to spend as much time as I can. This new
store is going to have something called the shop as a part of it. Tell me what that is, Heather.
That's kind of where so if you know Princess Otto, you know that we are our customers are trades,
farm, agricultural and so we've been very involved in giving back to the trades. That's part of our
community connection. Another community connection that we're building into our new store is called
the shop. So if you imagine the coolest place to come and hang out and use tools and build stuff,
that's what's going to be there. Think of it as a little mini maker space. There's going to be
a little CNC machine in there so you could build welders, plasma cutters, all the hand tools you
can imagine, a powder coating oven so that once you create something on the CNC machine, you could
actually powder coat it later. Wow. And so it's going to be a pretty cool space. Not everybody has
space or all of the tools to work on the projects that they want to. So this is a place to go and if
you know anything about our customers, they love to help each other out too and see what everybody's
working on. So that's part of the curiosity of it. So this fit well with the shop. Imagine high
school kids being able to come in and work in there on their weekends or off time and just continue
the creativity and of course all of our other customers, people who don't know how to use a welder,
you'll be able to come and learn. People who are experienced, they'll be able to show everybody else.
We'll have experts in there but it's going to be a pretty cool space.
Well, and it almost sounds like like a bit of a reward really for your customers because
Princess Auto customers are some of the most loyal customers. That's what I've come to learn
over the years. I have never been to Princess Auto. I'm not a tools guy. I'm not a handy person.
I haven't been but whenever it comes up or if we're talking about, I need to get my hands on
some kind of a device. Princess Auto ultimately always is the first thing to place people name.
They love the store and now I'm guessing you're giving them a reason to love it even more.
Absolutely. We might have a lot of partners out there hating us too because we have guys that
will spend hours in the store just hanging out because it's a dude's Disneyland for anybody who's
technically inclined and this is going to give them more time or more reason to want to hang out
there. It's a pretty cool space and you have to come down. I would love to take you for a tourist.
We could show you how to use a few of these things. We could make this work.
It's a place for people who are technically inclined or those who imagine themselves to be.
Actually, my mom loved that store. I remember I think she went with my dad and
she figured she'd be bored but it turns out my dad was the one waiting in the car because she
liked doing crafts and stuff and she found all kinds of neat little things to help her with all that
stuff. Absolutely. Rotary tools. Yeah. Different lighting. There's lots for everybody to see there.
Is there a place that we can keep up on what's happening with regard to the full throttle challenge
or do we just have to put it in our calendars for June the 5th? Well, actually, we are working on
filming some segments with some of our Manitoba high schools because we want to build a relationship
with them. We're going and checking in. That's how I know that they're trash talking each other.
There is going to be some social media on Princess Auto that is going to tell a little bit of
the story from the kids' perspectives as we're going through, talk about their ideas, how they
built it, the challenges they've had. Stay tuned on social media and you'll be able to see some
of those stories. You can't tell us if any of these go-karts will be equipped with banana peel
launchers or turtle shells like super Mario Mario Kart. No, I can't tell you. I can't tell you.
It's they they've been pretty funny and oh my goodness, so creative. I'm looking at the
renderings for the new store and the parking lot looks spectacular and all I can see is an F1
circuit here. Is there going to be another type of competition with these cars?
And well, I all I can tell you is that some may look a little less go-kart like in the end.
Boy, you are really good at this tease thing. Yeah. Well, I'm protecting our competitors here
because they really do not want to reveal what they're working on. Trade secrets.
Okay, this is fantastic. Heather, thank you for this. Congratulations on this engagement.
Congratulations and good luck to the schools that have been selected to participate in this.
And we look forward to seeing these go-karts. I put it in quotation marks. That doesn't really work
on radio, but I can't wait to see what these students come up with and I can't wait to see the
new store June 2nd. Looking forward to seeing you there. Looking forward to hosting you.
Listen to Connie says my husband is not allowed to go to Princess Auto unsupervised.
Why do I see Connie's husband there all the time? He's at the coffee corner every day.
Heather, Turnbull Smith, Senior Vice President, Talent and Corporate Communications for Princess
Auto. Once again, the full throttle challenge showcase will be hosted on June 5th as part of
Princess Auto's new Winnipeg eStore grand opening at 500 Panet Road from 930 AM until 12 PM.
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend. Pleasure to see you. Thanks for coming in.
Thanks for having me.
