Pod-A-Thon

Today on the podcast for the start, you're going to hear from not one, but two young entrepreneurs

who are part of the ramp up pitch weekend that Greg hosted on Sunday night.

One of them, 10 years old, the other 16, you're not going to believe what they have come

up with.

Also, the annual cut-a-thon in support of the Dream Factory is coming up on April 26th.

We talked sports with Bob Irving as it was a good weekend, bad weekend, good, because

the Masters was awesome, but it was a bad weekend because the Jets are junk.

And inspired by the cut-a-thon, we asked you, what's an a-thon that you are part of that

isn't an actual marathon, because running is stupid.

I'm Brett McGarry alongside Greg Mackling.

We are Mackling and McGarry, and this is the Monday, April 13th podcast for the start.

It is Mackling and McGarry, and Brad New Asco are, uh, most of your bureau chief is

in today for the vacationing, Jeff Fortier, who's off this week.

Mr. Mackling, good morning, Brett.

Boy, we sure our weekends were at a tail of two sides of the coin.

Why is that?

Because you were non-stop wall-to-wall busy, and I was just essentially incapacitated and

laid up.

Well, I'm sorry to hear you, you were in that circumstance, but that meant you got to

watch the Masters.

Yes.

Holy man, strange things happen on the way to coronation.

Saturday morning, when they teed off, what Rory McAroy had a six stroke lead, and

really the only question seemed to be, by how many strokes could he win this thing by?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was intense.

I really, I mean, I, it's probably the most I've ever watched from that tournament, and

not that I have anything against the Masters.

I just tend to enjoy there a couple of other tournaments.

I have more fun watching like the Phoenix Open and the players championship.

But this year, I decided to pay a bit more attention and gain further appreciation for

the course.

It wasn't until Bob Irving told us after he went to the Masters.

He said, you can't really see it, you can kind of see it on TV, but until you're there,

you can't really understand how topsy-turvy and undulated that course is.

Like there's barely any flat surfaces up and down and up and down, and so I again,

an appreciation for that.

But yeah, to watch Rory McAroy's lead evaporate on Saturday, and then yesterday to watch

him drop, I think he was down three shots at one point.

Oh, goodness.

And then he fought his way back, and it was a crammed leaderboard, and guys were making

charges.

They were coming out of nowhere.

I think Colin Moorakawa had five birdies in a row on the back nine, because his score

earlier in the day was not even close, and then suddenly he was just a couple of shots

back.

So yeah, it was lots of terrific drama at the Masters.

Ultimately, Rory wins his second green jacket in a row.

Yes.

After failing to do so over a storied career now, all of a sudden he has two in a row,

way more traumatic than it ought to have been yesterday or should have been, so that's

pretty cool.

Yeah, I had something every night, I had two things Friday, ended up at a, went to a wedding

social with a group of people, some of which I hadn't seen in over 30 years, so that

was terrific.

I want to say good morning to Monica.

Monica is a very loyal listener to our show, so she was very excited to connect with

me, but more so she has some, she says she has a few people in her life.

She thinks would be perfect for dating you.

Okay.

So we can talk about this off the air, but I've got prospects for you, McGarry.

Okay.

Sure.

Yep.

I'm not kidding.

My friend Tracy's mom, Tracy Wardell, who I've known since I was 15 years old.

Her mom just had a stroke as in hospital.

She listens to our show every single day, but Tracy's mom's back at home recovering, so

I just wanted to give Tracy's mom a shout out this morning because she'll be listening

to us.

All right.

All right.

Morning.

Long.

May your recovery be swift.

We're doing that, Mr. Mackling.

Also today we will have keys to the game.

Why?

At 8, 11.

What game is this?

We're going to pick Jets.

All right.

See, I told you the door, hope is a door to despair, and that door of hope was open just

a little bit when we left here on Friday, as we're getting excited for what the Jets

might be able to do in their last four games, and what other teams might do.

That needed to happen in order for the Jets to sneak into the playoffs, well, all hopes

were dashed.

They weren't dashed.

They were obliterated on Saturday night.

I haven't.

I was at an event Saturday night.

It was a RWB gala at the Manitoba Museum, incredible event.

Very formal.

Yeah.

It's a masquerade ball, a mask and all this stuff, and I was masquerading as someone who

wanted to be there, because I charged up my auxiliary battery for my phone.

I found the most ear buds that I could put in, so like most FBI agent like ear buds, so

I could listen to the game in Cognito and nod knowingly at people, oh, good evening.

Nice to see you.

Nice to see you as well, and it turned out I needed that for less than about 20 minutes

of the night, because after Philadelphia opened the score and the Jets quickly tied it, then

Philly went back in front, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, 1, 7, 1, aah, gross, haven't seen

a single highlight, haven't recapped it in any way, shape, or form.

So I will be of zero help in terms of trying to figure out what the heck happened.

Like Scott, our NEO said next to nothing after the game, we weren't ready to go.

Yeah, no, you do you think?

No kidding.

Anyway, we'll leave this up to Bob Irving at 835.

We'll join us to recap the masters and talk about the Jets, and Kelly Moore has some thoughts

in terms of how this might be a little bit of a mixed blessing for the Jets.

And the fact that the playoffs are now, their hopes are now dashed all except for mathematically.

I see Kelly also is using the word humbling to describe that loss.

I would suggest that Kelly is being quite diplomatic with that language.

That was pathetic.

And I was texting, we have a mutual friend who's an Euler's fan, and I was texting him saying,

come on, they can't even score ogle because they lost to the Kings.

Oh, on Saturday?

Yeah.

Yeah, it all started on Saturday afternoon with the Kings and the Oilers with the way things

were laid out.

The Kings were in that final playoff spot, and the Jets needed the Kings to surrender,

like they could only get three points in their last four games, or because it was at five

points.

Yeah, they could have got five points in their last four games, but their most loosable

game was to the Oilers on Saturday, and the Oilers can score a single goal.

The reasons for hating the Oilers seem to mount by the month.

And now they've clinched a playoff spot, and you know what ended up bothering me the

most about that Jets loss, is we gave away tickets all of last week.

So now I feel guilty.

We sent people to this disaster, sorry, sorry, I'm sorry, team, I feel like we let you

know.

Stay up, won't you?

And it's a late start too, nine o'clock.

I'll be fast asleep for it starts.

Same here.

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Pierje, Jolie, and this has to do with a thons at 935, Mr. Macling, we're talking about

a cut a thon.

That's right.

We've told you about this event.

I think for three or four years now, my hairdresser, Marina Cabrell at Evolure and her

team Donate an entire day, and there's another salon now that's on board.

When you go and you get your hair cut for 25 bucks, all the money goes to the dream factory.

Marina's connection to the dream factory is very personal.

We'll share that with you at 935, and so we thought we would use this as inspiration

today to start some fun conversation about what's an a thon you were a part of other

than an actual marathon.

They don't count today, sorry, we love you and we're proud of you and well done to everyone

who's attempted and or completed a marathon, but keep your marathon stories to yourself

today.

Yeah, we don't want to talk about your running, but we mean that in the most polite way,

possible.

Honestly.

Well, you want to kick us off, Macling?

Oh, the 24, it was something called the labat 24 hour relay, and I want to say it was

1990.

I think it was 1990 or the summer of 1991, and I was held out at the University of Manitoba,

and it was a big fundraiser, and you camped out at the university and the university stadium.

You set up your tents and everything, and you had a team of 12 people, and basically you

just had to run like every, like every three hours, you had to run a half an hour and

just switch off with people.

And so I went out there with the full intention of being a very valuable member of the team,

set up my tent, had a couple of beverages, and slept through both my shifts.

So you didn't have to run in the end?

No, out of way.

Victory is yours.

Absolutely.

And apologies to City Councilor John or Orleco, I was on his team, really.

I let him down, sorry, John.

That's great.

Sarah McCarthy back in the saddle after a week away.

Welcome back, Sarah.

Thank you.

Lots of people last week, by the way, we're checking in on your well-being.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, my voice's totally gone, glad to be back and talking again.

But yeah, that's exactly what I wasn't doing last week running.

I was laid up and probably watched many, many hours, 60 hours probably, or something like

that of TV.

And we don't have to talk about my trash reality TV shows that I watched, but there was many

hours of that, probably more than half of that.

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, anyway, nothing wrong with trash TV.

It's good, especially when you're sick and just, I don't know, you throw it on, I'm half

asleep.

But a TV show I binge watch, two seasons, eight episodes, paradise on Disney Plus, it's

a hulu show, really good.

Just quick synopsis, I guess it's a secret service agent for the former US president

and things are not as they seem after a little Doomsday event, so yeah, it was very good

and I look forward to the next season and hopefully I just don't have to watch it when I'm

sick.

I finally know someone who, someone else who has watched that show.

Yeah, it was good.

Season one was good and season two was great.

Yeah.

So if you haven't checked that out, make sure you give it that a look.

What about you, Poiters?

It's so, actually, I find it's more and more rare that the second season is better than

the first season and now, nowadays.

Because it seems like they have like an initial idea and then as soon as that, sort of

Peter's off there, they're like, oh, we got to put the second season together as a big

head.

Try to figure a thing out.

Well, there's only one, there's only one marathon to rule them all and there's only

one worthy of that title and it's to watch every single episode of the extended edition

of Lord of the Rings back to back to back, start with the fellowship of the ring, then

the two towers, then return of the king.

And I admit this Brett McGarry, I have not completed it.

I have only gone as far as the end of the first disc of return of the king, groaned, groaned,

the orcs outside of ministerial, the shout is the big battering ram that goes towards

the, goes towards the big gates and Gandalf is looking at it from afar.

That is as far as I've gotten.

I have not been able to complete it.

And I like, I literally, my, I was mentally dilapidated by that point from sitting there

and staring at a screen like I just could not focus.

I'm like, I mean, every intention of going through the whole entire thing, but I had

to stop at the end of the first disc of return of the king.

I've never completed it.

The fellowship of the ring extended edition is three hours, 28 minutes.

The two towers is three hours, 43 minutes.

And the return of the king is four hours, 11 minutes.

Yeah.

I tried it once and I was determined to get through it.

And I had my whole day mapped out.

I had to start, I think, at something like 10 a.m., if I wanted to finish by midnight

because I was factoring in, I was accounting for bathroom breaks, smoke breaks and time

to run upstairs to fix myself, perhaps another beverage.

And I fell asleep, I think, maybe with 45 minutes left.

I think, I saw it almost made it, it's, it's, it's really hard, it's, it's really hard.

It's not easy, folks, I'm telling you, try it and they've come back to me.

They've had those in theaters, like back to back to back, the way I could do that, I could

barely sit through return of the king in theater once.

Yeah.

What about you, Braden, in for Jeff Fortier?

Oh, yeah, no, I couldn't do that.

I'm too anxious all the time.

I got to be moving.

No chance I'm sitting there for like 13 hours or whatever the heck you guys are doing.

We do a, it used to be like a once a year thing.

Now it's like, I don't know if we haven't done it in like two or three years.

But me and, and some buddies, we would all, we would hit up every mall in the city.

And then we would also, over like a weekend, we would also eat out every single day and

it wouldn't just be like, oh, let's go get McDonald's.

It's like, let's gorge ourself this one weekend.

So it was like a marathon of eating and driving to malls for no reason.

And we just like no shopping, no shit, well, you did, but we didn't buy anything.

So you just look around and you just like walk around the mall and maybe hit one of those

massage chairs or something, you just waste the, the waste the weekend away, yeah.

Every, every mall in the city, every mall in the city and every meal is a eating out

somewhere.

We usually go like four meals a day for the, for the, the weekend.

Yeah, it's, it's going to be four meals a day.

Yeah, it's complete waste of time.

And you just gorge yourself.

Oh my God.

And for, so four like take out or like eating out meals per day.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And not like a McDonald's, like you're going to eat an entire pizza by yourself for one

of those meals.

How were you alive at the end or how could you walk even?

You don't feel good.

I did that in Toronto while I was on vacation, but I did that in Toronto one time when I

was there.

I just, it was just, it was again, yeah, it was just graceful, how much?

Yeah, you feel like greasy afterwards.

Well, yeah.

Well, on the opposite of eating, has anybody here ever done the 30-hour famine for World

Vision?

I did it when I was in Drayton Valley working at a radio station there.

Oh, you're an Albert.

I did it.

Yeah, I did it while I was at radio station.

Yeah.

Yeah, we, there was, it was cool when we did it in high school, like we actually slept

at the high school.

Yeah.

So it was super fun and we were playing basketball late.

We were actually burning off way more energy, which was really sort of counterintuitive when

you think of it because we couldn't, we weren't, we were not supposed to be eating, but

it was super fun getting us asleep in the school and they set up a super Nintendo and people

playing Super Mario.

Yeah.

No, I do it every year now.

I like it.

Well, it's only 25 hours for Yum Kippur.

I fast.

So I get kind of a pro at it now.

Oh.

I know the tricks.

I know when to.

It's tough guy.

I know how to do.

No, no, you're not.

Well, I don't, but some people do.

Okay.

Good for that.

That's the, the tough part for me.

The worst is the coffee.

It's me the caffeine.

Me the coffee.

It is Macling and McGarry coming up at 735, Global's Mackenzie Gray joins us by election

Monday, three pivotal seats up for grabs at the federal level and then our Monday

Jets report with Kelly Moore at 755 as he looks back at what was a dreadful performance

by the Jets on Saturday as they got slaughtered 7-1 by Philadelphia.

And then we have the keys to the game with Cam coming up just after 810 as they play

Vegas tonight and Bob Irving joined us at 835 to talk hockey and of course the masters.

The Bradenewasco in for Jeff Force in master control all week and I think Monday as well

next week.

Braden is Tyson or Wiki in today, are we going to have to put up with him today walking

around?

Yeah, sadly.

With his chest out, the Philadelphia Flyers fan that he is, he won't let us forget about

it.

Man, I really care for Tyson, but I may not be, I consider my work son, but I may not

be able to even look at him today.

No, he, I'm surprised I didn't get text messages.

I didn't get any either.

I think I, the scoreboard spoke for itself, I guess.

All right, Braden, good to have you on board, I'm glad it's not Tyson in there this morning.

Right now we want to introduce you to an aspiring entrepreneur who is using her love for animals

as a springboard into business.

My first name is Pascal and it's P-A-S-C-A-L-E and then my last name is Gal Garpelko which

is G-A-L-A-U-G-H-E-R and then P-E-L-K-A.

Okay, is there a hyphen there, is it just a space?

Just a space.

Okay, so how old are you, Pascal?

I'm 10 years old.

Do I get the sense you like horses?

I love horses.

Tell me about your love affair with horses.

So basically I have this one who has his name as Aula and he's really sweet, but he's

really lazy and once I kept kicking him and he started bucking, which is like running

super fast and like kicking his hind legs up.

So yeah, and then I fell off, but I was fine.

I just wanted to play that little piece of audio just to get a sense of just how colorful,

how energetic young Pascal Gal Garpelko is.

She is the youngest person to ever present in the 17 year history of an annual pitch competition

organized by North Forge.

Canada's only startup incubator accelerator with fabrication lab.

That took place over the weekend, the University of Manitoba.

Today we're at the ramp up weekend and you presented a really neat opportunity for horse

trainers and horse owners to buy treats.

Is it like a subscription box for treats for their horses?

Yeah, so basically you can get a subscription where you get monthly orders of the cookies

and stuff or you could just buy it in like separate things.

So you called it Pascal's Magic Box?

Why is it magic?

Because it helps them.

Yeah?

How does it help you?

How does it help the horses?

Because like when you go to shows sometimes it can be like really stressful and they might

like run out of jumps or like be like really scared and like spook and like calming stuff

will like help them be less, be less riled up.

So do you make these, where do you make these treats?

At my house.

Cool.

So does your, what's your horse's name again?

Outlaw.

What does outlaw, does outlaw like these treats?

Yes.

Okay.

And has, have other horses tried these treats?

No, not yet.

You talk to a lot of trainers this weekend, didn't you?

Yeah.

So I think, I think I'm just going to like, we're just going to like keep a bunch, we're

just going to like make a bunch of cookies and stuff and then we're going to like bring

them to the barn to like test on the horses and like give them to like give some to like

owners and stuff for them to like test on their horses.

So these are better than apples and carrots?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mom, I see you with your ear around the corner being a horse person takes a lot of commitment

but now this business side, are you ready for this?

I don't know.

I mean ramp up was a big, a lot of, I was 50 hours, it was a big stretch, it was a big

push for everybody and it was like working for Steve Jobs here, but no, I think she

really loves baking and that was part of it too is she really likes to get in the kitchen

and mix and notch the different ingredients and treats and decorate them.

And now I think what I realized over this weekend is she, she does have a bit of perseverance.

I mean she was there in the room the whole time working on the slide decks going to the

barn interviewing people, she's not going to ride her too, but she went to Greenhawk and

asked them what they thought of different products.

So she was like in it for the long haul, she was baking last night at 1130 at night in

it to win it.

So she's got some, she's got an entrepreneurial gene or something in there that I wasn't,

I wasn't aware of.

How did you find out about ramp up weekend?

So my mom, she was just like, Pascal, do you want to start a business?

And then I was like, yeah, sure.

And then she was like, okay, let's go to ramp up weekend and I was like, wait, what is

that?

Well, like next week and I was like, okay.

So what do you think of the whole process?

Did it feel like work or was it just exciting?

It was really exciting, but like I, like my legs were like hurting and like I felt like

I just had to like get up and like run around a lot.

So yeah.

So you managed, a bit you managed it all and you did a presentation in front of hundreds

of people.

You're all set.

Anything they throw at you at school now is easy peasy, right?

I didn't feel like that nervous really because at school, there's like 350 people in our

school.

And they make us like present stuff in front of the whole school in French.

So this was like, not that bad because it was in English.

Pascal's horse magic, 10 year old Pascal, a Gallagher pelka and her mum Jolin that you

heard there in the piece.

Now their website isn't live yet this morning, but I keep checking and I've been told I'll

get a notification when they get this website up and running 50 hours over the weekend.

There were 30 groups involved in this competition and then 12 of them presented last night.

The winner was something called linked AI.

They are going to go out a team of experts and help businesses learn AI and how to implement

AI in their business.

They've already got customers over the weekend.

They've already got people signed up.

The second place winner last night has created this new much more secure bike locker.

Some of the bike lockers that you see around the city apparently are not all that great.

These ones look to be next level.

And in the nine o'clock hour, we will introduce you to a 16 year old entrepreneur who led

the group called field IQ, helping farmers keep track of all the receipts and expenses was

quite the evening last night.

And wait, I look forward to learning more about it at nine o'clock.

Thank you so much for sharing this story.

What an inspiring 10 year old makes me wonder, what have I done with my life?

It is Mackling and McGarry in a couple of minutes time.

We will be, we hope to be joined by global's Mackenzie Gray on those by elections.

The federal by elections that Sarah was discussing.

But on the subject of reservations for cabins, yurts and group use areas this morning, one

listener says, I missed the announcement that it was today until you mentioned it a few

minutes ago.

So I didn't get a year, however, they have made great improvements to the system.

Making it much easier to see there was no availability in just a few clicks.

Seriously, LOL, it's so convenient now in the summer, I can start looking for cancellations.

And you were trying just out of curiosity, right?

Yeah, I was and that was my experience.

It was pretty quick, pretty easy to get on to the site first and foremost and then to

get into the park that I would have been interested in.

Unfortunately, all the weekends are gone already, but you can at least see the dates

where the yurts are available and then you could maybe adjust your schedule to that or

as this listener says, get on the cancellation list.

So and they have an in-person option, Sarah was just mentioning as well, which is great.

1181, Portage Avenue, but that's from 830 until four Monday to Friday, non-tally sure

how that helps if the, if the online booking starts at seven.

Well, if you're not, if you're not fluent in computer ease, I guess, if the online booking

system isn't your cup of tea, at least there's an opportunity for somebody to do it for you

in person.

And I think there'll be some people who really appreciate that option.

But what I mean is if they're already gone by 830, because like Don for another listener

Don says, we all, we couldn't get a year, it's we, when we started, we were in line at

number 4,661 and all hope was lost when we finally got in, only single night stays.

Sure.

So there are staggered starts in terms of when you can get in for which parks and which

services.

So that's also something you need to keep in mind as well.

Camp sites at Bird's Hill Winnipeg Beach and Grand Beach go up for grabs tomorrow as

the the rollout begins as we get excited for summer.

By the way, Winnipeg Jets Kelly Moore report coming up at 755 after that awful performance

on Saturday.

And then their back in action tonight in Vegas, cam's got your keys to the game coming

up just after 810 and then Bob Irving joins us at 835 to talk all things weekend sports

including the Winnipeg Jets, which were terrible on Saturday and the masters, which was awesome.

All weekend, Rory was awful on Saturday, it is Jets imitation on Saturday, only to mount

to come back really in the last 910 holes yesterday, it was something fast, maybe everywhere

I went, I had my, I had my phone with me, but I had earbuds with me so that I could listen

to the masters on serious XM and it's incredibly gripping as good as it is on TV.

I really enjoy, I love sports on radio, but that's where it was brought up and working

to radio station, probably a little bit of a bias towards that.

Did you find that there was more color presented in terms of painting that picture?

I've never listened to golf on the radio.

It's quite a talent to actually paint that picture in terms of where the ball is and

even write down to maybe even how the golfers dripping the club or holding the club.

It's different, but I enjoy it.

Bob Irving joins us at 835 to talk more about the masters.

But just over half of Canadians want the federal liberals to win enough seats in two days

by elections to give Prime Minister Mark Carney a majority government.

New Ipsil's poll conducted exclusively for global news, found that 53% of Canadians want

the liberals to form a majority while 47% are opposed to the idea.

In 13 hours or so, we should know exactly how these three seats land joining us now from

Global National McKenzie Gray.

McKenzie, thanks for making time.

Today, tell us about these three seats which are up for grabs and why are we in by-election

circumstances with them.

Well, two of them were done because Liberal MPs quit, Christopher Freeland and Bill Blair

quit.

I'm sure a lot of your listeners know Bill Blair is now the High Commissioner in the UK.

Those are two seats in Toronto.

The Liberals look very good to win those seats, areas where they've won for a long period

of time.

Definitely strong holds for them.

They'll get them to 172 seats in the House Commons.

Not enough for a majority government.

And so we're watching for that.

The polls close.

We're on 730.

Your guys time.

So we should know relatively quickly in those two rottings, how things play out.

And if you're Mark Carney, you're going to be sitting back, watching the results, and kind

of hoping that you'd actually won that majority when the election happened last year.

But largely based on the floor cross, not largely, you know, 100% based on the floor crossers

because these are just liberal seats that are being replaced by other liberals.

If it plays out as we expect it will, he's going to get that majority government via those

floor crossers.

Here's another by-election taking place in a running called Terabon, that's just outside

of Montreal.

And that's a much, much closer, a so close, that the Liberals won it by one vote in the

last election.

But the block of Ecuador, the main challengers in that situation, found some folks who had

mail-in ballots that had the wrong postal code on it because elections Canada screwed up

and when they sent them their ballots.

So it was actually the Supreme Court that ruled, yeah, you know what, we need another by-election

in that situation.

So that'll be a super close one.

The Liberals spent a lot of time and effort in Terabon to try and get that.

And of course they just have their convention, their annual convention in Montreal.

So a lot of liberals have stayed behind in that area to help get out the vote in Terabon.

And which will be a much closer race.

But they don't need that seat to get that majority if they win at least one of those

two seats in Toronto tonight.

And in terms of the floor crossings, we've heard so much discussion and had many discussions

about should there be an automatic by-election when somebody crosses the floor.

So just moving forward, do you think that maybe that's where we'll end up one day in terms

of the making changes to say, okay, yeah, you can cross the floor.

But then that seat is sort of vacant and you've got to have a by-election.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to be legislated in any fashion.

You know, there's been a lot of outrage from the Conservatives in this situation.

But we saw under Mr. Harper there were some floor crossers and in fact some quite prominent

floor crossers who went straight into cabinet in certain situations.

David Emerson comes back in 2006, that's really much more dramatic than what we've seen

with the Liberals in this situation.

And I'm sure Mr. Pauliev, if he was able to garner a bunch of Liberals coming over, he'd

be thrilled to do so and wouldn't be particularly excited in them having to run in a by-election

here.

There's certainly some hypocrisy with it.

There's no doubt about it.

Marilyn Gladu, the latest floor crosser, she's from Sarnia, Southwestern Ontario area,

had posted online written articles in her local paper talking about how, yeah, there should

be a by-election of someone crosses the floor while, you know, that didn't happen in the

situation.

I asked her about that.

It went through all the liberal convention.

She gave some gobbledy group answer about how there's different things and there's

no legislation so I don't have to do it.

So I don't think that's going to change anytime soon because it's really not in the interest

of either of the two major parties.

But what could change is the composition of the Conservative caucus, I've talked with

the cabinet minister who says they believe there are going to be more conservative floor

crossers who come over.

I've recently talked with the Conservative MP saying, yeah, you know what, I do think we're

going to lose some more members to the Liberals in this situation.

Which would make the leadership of Mr. Pauliev even more challenging, you know, if the Liberals

had won a majority government on election night after the massive lead that the Conservatives

have blown, Mr. Pauliev losing his own seat would have been extremely challenging for him

to stay on.

Because it was a minority government, I think that really helped them get back into parliament.

But it does change the calculus in terms of people who might be thinking about Iran or

organized group to try and push Mr. Pauliev out, the timing, you know, not having an election

till 2029 might change that calculus.

But we should say that, you know, nothing we've heard so far suggests that there is within

caucus or outside of caucus kind of an organized group forming to miss a push, Mr. Pauliev

out, despite the fact that there is a lot of unhappiness about his leadership and potential

for more floor crossers.

I think with the amount of time that Conservatives would have now to potentially do that, that

could change the calculus around that.

Any evidence that Mr. Pauliev is accurate in his accusations that the Liberals are coaxing

and using quote unquote dirty backroom deals to bring conservatives across the floor, Matt?

Well, yeah, for sure.

I mean, but that's how this works.

I mean, Mr. Pauliev managed to get an MP to resign his extremely safe Alberta seat for

him to get back into parliament after he lost his own safe conservative seat here in Ottawa,

which actually after redistricting became even more conservative in this election relative

to previous elections, took out some suburban areas and added more rural areas.

So that's politics.

Mr. Pauliev knows that, that there are ways to induce people to come over, and I'm sure

if he had higher poll numbers and ways to induce people to come over to his side, he would

do the same things.

He's a lifetime politician.

I do think there is kind of a moral question from Mr. Carney and the Liberals about whether

or not it is the right thing to do from a moral perspective, to really change the composition

of parliament from a minority to a majority government via floor crossers, and whether

or not that is the way things should be done.

Is it legal?

100%.

There's nothing that has been done here, that is illegal, or it's not appropriate, that

is how our system works, MPs after they are elected, or allowed to change parties across

the floor vote, ever how they want in this situation, that's how the system works.

Is it the right thing to do?

Does that accurately represent what voters want in those writings, to have such a big change

from a minority to a majority government?

That's a different kind of moral question.

I think Mr. Carney is certainly going to have to answer that point, and once these by-elections

happen tonight, and if they go the way they think they are and the Liberals have majority,

I think that will be something that he has to talk about.

The way the conservatives are talking about it, saying that Mr. Carney is seizing a majority

government, referring to the deputy leader saying that it's very anti-democratic, that there's

all these backroom deals.

We should say that there certainly have been things that have been done to get people

across the floor.

Michael Maw, one of the conservative MPs, he was on the trip to China with Mr. Carney, Matt

Genreau, he was on the trip that I was on covering to India, Australia, and Japan as well.

Mr. Carney generally isn't bringing large groups of people on these trips, too, so they were

certainly sticking out a little bit in that situation.

Lori Idleout, one of the NDP MPs who crossed the floor in the budget, they have a lot of

money in there to build a new university in none of it, which is the writing that she

represents.

So yeah, there's definitely inducements in these situations, but to say these are dirty

backroom deals.

I mean, that's how politics works here, and Mr. Pollyeth, who's been a lifetime politician,

certainly knows that.

Well, the nationals, Mackenzie Gray, we'll leave it there.

Thank you very much, sir.

We appreciate it.

Thanks, guys.

And I was speaking with somebody who's had involvement, or the weekend I was speaking

with somebody who's had involvement with the conservative party in various capacities.

And they said, after watching Carney speak at the convention, they said, I fear the conservatives

will never win again.

Oh, my goodness.

That's what I said.

Really?

And this is a staunch supporter, so to hear that kind of thought process really sort

of caught me off guard.

But many thanks to Global Nationals, Mackenzie Gray.

And many thanks to you, Mr. Mackling, for putting the pieces together, because we had

somebody asking, what is happening on memorial?

I drove by this morning, because I usually what I do is I'll turn right off of Osborne

onto Broadway, and then left a memorial, and then right on York, so you can turn right

on red lights if need be.

And memorial was cut off to me, and there were some trucks set up, and I thought, that's

not a sight I was hoping to see this morning, but it's for much better news today.

It is the FIFA, the World Cup trophy is in Winnipeg today.

It's a presentation of Coca-Cola, and it's going to be on display Desiree Scott as part

of that today, 10 a.m till 10 p.m. at Memorial Park, but you have to go online, and the tickets

are free, but you have to register to get a ticket.

So I'm in the middle of doing that right now, so that I can see exactly how that works

for everybody.

It is Mackling and McGarry.

Cam Boydress has your keys to the game coming up in a few minutes' time.

Is it Winnipeg?

Jets are an action tonight against Vegas.

Our pre-game coverage gets underway around seven o'clock with game time around nine o'clock.

But before that, if you're like me, and you're wondering what the heck is going on in

Memorial this morning, when I drove by, it was blocked off, and there were some trucks

set up.

I didn't have time to stop and investigate, and I even knew what was going on.

I saw the notice yesterday that this was happening, and just morning cobwebs did not

connect the dots.

It was Mackling who brought it up and confirmed what's going on.

The World Cup trophy is here.

Yeah, it's doing a national tour, and today's it's stop in Winnipeg, and so they're setting

up.

I can imagine that it's a fairly elaborate installation today, 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Although on this website, where you can go and try and book tickets had a nine to ten

a.m. slot, the point is this, if you don't have tickets, and if you don't have a time

to go and see the World Cup trophy today, I think you're out of luck.

One of our listeners confirming Beatrice saying, yep, no more tickets, all the tickets

are gone, and included a screen shot from her experience in trying to book tickets.

No more tickets available.

Tell us if you'd like to be notified of tickets.

Do become available for your location feeling lucky come down to the event the day of you

never know what last might availability might pop up is something they're saying as well.

So I'm not going to tell you not to go, I'm not going to tell you to go, just telling

you what it said on the website for Beatrice when she tried to get tickets today.

And if you got yourself some tickets, let us know at 204 780 68 68.

Listen to Jeff says, you're definitely not the only one having problems with the FIFA

World Cup trophy registration.

I tried a bunch of times last night, I tried this morning, either the site wasn't working

or all of the slots are full.

So Jeff, thank you very much for that.

And it was just last week that somebody was pointing to some kind of a World Cup map

of events across the country, and there was nothing in Manitoba.

This was just added, was it just over the weekend we found out that this was happening?

When did this get announced?

You know, I found out about it, and I just in passing, just in the last handful of days,

it was I think late last week that I heard something about it.

Okay.

So when that listener was asking, I bet you that's what it is, is the World Cup installation

and the trophy coming to town.

But yeah, I certainly hadn't heard about this weeks ago or anything like that.

Yeah.

So hopefully you get to enjoy it.

We also, by the way, we'll be discussing more sports at 835 with Bob Irving.

We'll talk masters, we'll talk hockey.

And at 935, we're going to talk about the annual cutathon and support of the dream factory.

And this morning we're asking you about anathon that you were a part of, not a marathon.

Like Shana, who says when I was 11 or 12, the small town I lived in had a skateathon.

My best friend and I were so excited that Laurie Mustard from Switchback was going to be

a part of it.

I made a huge banner to promote it with a hand drawn picture of him.

My bestie was a great artist and made him with a huge head and nose and a tiny body.

And he told us he loved it and boy, oh boy, did we fangirl?

He was the most famous person that had ever talked to us.

And the skateathon was a huge success.

That's amazing.

Love it.

My parents never sugar coated anything or shielded me from anything.

I remember my first skateathon, I was, I would have been six at Vimeerina.

And I had to phone all my relatives and ask them to sponsor me.

There was none of this my mom going around and asking on my behalf.

I had to phone my grandparents, I had to phone my aunt, I had to phone who else I would

probably four or five phone calls I had to make.

Some fake aunties and uncles asking if they would sponsor me for this skateathon.

I don't know what we were raising money for.

Didn't go in my pocket, but it was the first a thaw and you know, at the time, it's like,

why are you making me do this?

You're five, six years old.

Why are you making me do this?

That's my first cold calling.

It was great.

It was great experience.

It broke the ice on a couple of different things for me.

So parents should make their kids do more hard stuff like that.

Cool.

I'm sorry.

How old were you?

Six.

Wow.

Good for you.

Yeah.

Maybe if I had done something like that when I was younger, I would be better at things

like small talk.

I'm a terrible salesperson.

When I tried outbound telemarketing, I was fired within a month, didn't even make it

to the end of the probationary period, it was awful at it.

At one time, we had a dust cover for our turntable, and probably my mom left it on

the ground upside down, and it probably sat there way longer than it should have.

And I thought it would be a good idea to step inside of it.

Don't ask me why, but I stepped inside of it and I cracked it, picked it up, put it

back on the stereo.

Quickly it was discovered that it was me who had created this problem and cracked it.

My dad handed me the yellow branded yellow pages and said, you're going to find phone

five places and ask them if they have this dust cover for our stereo and find out how

much it costs it when we can get it.

And I was like nine.

Nine or ten.

Yeah, I did.

That a boy.

So some punishments do pay off.

But right now, Mr. McLean, who's on the line?

Well, he's a legend, not in his own mind, but in hours, Bob Irving, legendary broadcaster,

you're on 680 C.J.O.B.

Long time voice of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

And one time, a 10D of the masters in Augusta, Georgia.

Good morning, Knuckles.

Good morning, you guys.

How you doing?

All right.

My brain, I think, is going to be enjoying the break.

It's going to get over the next little bit, not having to calculate all the different

things that need to happen in the NHL standings for the Jets to make the playoffs.

Because that ship sailed Saturday night.

Just want to play a quick clip for you here, Bob.

Scott or Neil took responsibility for the Jets 7-1 loss against the flyers on Saturday

night, saying, and stop me if you've heard this before, admitting that his team wasn't

ready to go.

That led to this question from the athletics, Marat Attesh.

Why?

Why would they want you to go?

Don't worry about it.

Oh, that's mine to the team.

We will talk about that.

I haven't told them yet.

We've talked a little bit after the game, but I haven't told them yet.

We'll have our discussion.

We'll go through our review of the game, and then we'll talk about it when we get to Vegas.

Scott or Neil, Winnipeg Jets since 81-82 played with the moves, coached the moves.

He's a Winnipeg or through and through.

I know you have affection for Scott or Neil as do I, Bob.

Is that an acceptable answer following a loss like that Saturday?

Well, I guess it is.

I don't know, Greg.

You hear this.

I don't know how many hundreds of times I've heard this over the years from players and

or coaches.

We weren't ready to go.

So whose fault is that?

Is it the coach's fault?

Is it the player's fault?

You can pick your pick.

Scott, I think, fell on the sword there a little bit saying it was up to him.

I don't agree with that either.

I think it's up to the players.

They know what the situation is.

In terms of his answer, obviously he has some thoughts that brought a little bit deeper.

I think he wasn't prepared to reveal them at that point.

Was it acceptable?

I don't know.

I guess we could argue that, but it's just I get tired of that answer while they weren't

ready to go.

What do you mean they weren't ready to go?

These guys have paid millions of dollars to play.

How could they not be ready to go?

But this stuff happens, right?

I mean, they looked disorganized.

They didn't look mentally sharp to me in the first period.

They gave up three goals.

They're down right away.

And you know, it's going to be an uphill battle.

The flyers look much sharper than the Jets did.

And Winnipeg has been playing all these must-win games now for about three or four weeks.

And I think they just kind of hit a wall and I'm not trying to make excuses for them.

But this happens in pro sports.

And then we make it more complicated than it is in my opinion.

It just happens.

And teams that are eliminated from the playoffs will sometimes knock off teams that are fighting

for playoffs.

We see this all the time.

So I don't want to get too deep into this or make it psychologically complicated because

I don't think it is.

I just just stunk on Saturday.

They stunk.

And whoever's fault that plus, you can make your own decision on that.

And maybe we can just admit this morning that the whole that they dug for themselves

simply was too deep to get out of.

Well, sure.

We knew that all along, Greg, didn't we?

And yet they fought hard and you have to give them credit.

We've applauded them so many times in the last two or three weeks.

They've gone on the road and won games that looked like they were going to be tough to win.

And so I think as much as they had a horrible season in terms of expectations, they fought

hard to the end.

The end is in sight and it's either going to happen tonight or the night after or whatever.

And then they'll be officially eliminated.

So I think it's time to sort of look ahead to me anyway and ask the question, what are

they going to do about this?

What are they going to do for next season to make sure that they have a team again that

is a playoff team and that can make the playoffs without having to fight the last two or three

weeks against all odds to get that final spot.

Let's switch to golf, Mr. Irving, how much time did you spend parked in front of your

television, consuming the masters over Thursday to Sunday?

Probably too many.

It was, it's a, it's very compelling.

I watch golf tournaments all the time as you guys know, but the master's is special.

We all know that and of course it's the only tournament, the only major that's played

on the same course every year.

So you get to know every hole really and I was there four years ago with my son, Kyle

and it's just a different for me watching it now because I know these holes and I know that

some of them are uphill and some of them are downhill and all the rest of it.

But and yesterday, you know, the one thing you can be assured of when you're watching

Roy McElroy play is you'll be entertained.

It was a chaotic, thrill-filled wild final round with Rory looking like he was,

you know, he was self-destructing.

I had a lead and then he's two shots behind and you go, oh my god, he's done now

and then before you know it, he birdies 12 and 13 and he's back in front of Gavin and he plays

the 18 toll and and you know, he got the 18 with a two shot lead, right?

So I'm thinking because it's more worries of wild driver, you know, he's a good driver,

but he can also hit them sort of where you don't want to hit them and I'm thinking,

what if he had an iron off the tee?

Because you can control, he can hit a four iron 240 yards right down the middle.

You can control your iron more than you can your driver.

Really pulls out a driver and hammers it way off to the right and luckily for him,

he had a shot and he was able to make a boogie and win the tournament.

So it was just, he never makes it easy, right?

But tremendous win, he's now the fourth player to successfully defend a master's title,

Nicholas Faldon and Tiger Woods, the only ones who've ever done that.

He's won six majors now, two masters and yeah, his career just moved up another level in terms

of achievement.

Well, and you mentioned his driving accuracy off the tee, there was a stat that I saw after

the second round that said that the person who was 91st out of 91st, so the worst

ranked person in terms of their driving accuracy was in 91st place in the standings and the person

who was 90th was in first place and that was Roy McAroy. Like he was all over the place and he just

kept getting himself out of trouble. It was, it was an unbelievable clinic in scrambling as it's

called. He was like my, one of my buddies, I call him the mad scrambler because that's how he plays.

He hits it, he always hits the ball way out of town and but he's never in trouble and that was

Roy. He was never in trouble. Well, Roy said afterward that his scrambling saved him during the

course of the week and the master's Augustine National is one course where you can get away

with a lot of wild drives because yeah, there's trees on every hole but there's there's note what

we call engulf jail. You can't really get in jail at the masters. You can hit it offline, you can

hit it off the fairway. The chances are you'll have an easy chance to chip it out and certainly

advance it toward the hole and that's that's why you can get away with wild drives at the masters

and that's why Roy got away with it. But yeah, in terms of some tournaments you'll play in some

of the majors in particular, if you can't drive it in the fairway more often than he did on the

weekend, there's no chance he will win, no chance at all. To me, one of the exciting things to

about yesterday was the charge scotties sheffler made. He was 12 shots behind after two rounds and

yet he hadn't given up. He knew he still had a chance if he had a good round Saturday at Roy

stumbled a bit which is exactly what happened and then he finishes one shot behind with another

charge yesterday. So yeah, I was pretty dramatic. It was a great fun to watch and it'll be the same

again next year. I can guarantee you that because it's always the masters. Bob, why don't we leave it

there? Such a wonderful reprise of what happened over the weekend with the with the masters and then

yeah, I think a lot of questions begin if not today in the next few days about how the Winnipeg Jets

approached this offseason. We've said it several times last few years. This is the biggest summer

in the history of Winnipeg Jets 2.0. This in fact could be just that. It will be intriguing to see

what management does from the coaching staff right down through the player ranks. What are they

going to do because the status quo as we all know is not good enough. Bob Irving, joining us live on

680 CJ will be always a treat, Bob. Thank you. Okay, guys, anytime. And I like this assessment from

DJ on our text line. He says, the Jets passes were not crisp and we were out of sync. And I said,

that's a diplomatic way to put it DJ. Like Bob said, the Jets stunk and DJ went on to add, well,

I do work in sales. So you got to find the way to put it as nicely as possible. You have to polish

certain things sometimes when you're in sales. Let's just leave it like that.

Now, Mackling, you were the MC of the ramp up weekend pitch competition last night.

Earlier, you introduced us to a wonderful 10-year-old entrepreneur, Pascal Gallagher-Pelka.

So what have you got up your sleeve for us now? Well, one of the 12 pitches came from another

well, this is a teenage pitcher. And of course, not pitcher as in baseball, but Pascal at 10 years old

was the youngest ever pitch participant in the 17-year history of North Forge's ramp up weekend.

This young man I'm about to introduce to you is no stranger to pitch competitions. His name

is Gabriel Aiken. Tell us a little bit about your presentation, the group you were with today.

I got really lucky. I got a great team. So what we were pitching today is called Field IQ.

So one thing I noticed on his farmers, when they're putting together their planning for the year

or bookkeeping, there isn't really one place where they can do that. They have to use all sorts of

different platforms. So that's why we're introducing Field IQ, which would be the first ever integrated

platform using both sides of the planning and the bookkeeping. And then with that AI scan feature,

even though there's competitors, there's none that are integrated into agribusiness bookkeeping,

which means that we'd be the first in that space saving that time. And then the tax saving feature,

of course, giving farmers the maximum tax revenue with the AI analysis of their bookkeeping and

the full picture is really important. One of the things now for listeners that weren't here tonight,

the ability to easily scan and file receipts like that come out of a till. Every receipt that's lost

is right off that just disappears, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, GST and PSD are

climbable in a lot of farm items. And then in addition, you can claim expenses such as equipment

and upgrades to buildings or new buildings for your farm. So giving that recommendation and helping

balance revenues and expedentures is a big feature of the platform wants to add because it saves your

accountant and your self-time. And then you're also spending less money. So did you come here with

this idea or did you just hook up with a group? Tell me about your journey to ramp up weekend.

So this is I've been working on this idea for a year. This is my second time pitching it. I

pitched it at the high school event. Got almost no votes. Came here and when we came to the voting time,

okay, we got 39. That's how we got in the top 10. So it's been something I've been interested in

for a while. And that's why I found like I founded this and then the team really came together nicely.

Yeah, he doesn't sound 16. No kidding at all. Just the way he rambled off was able to share

right off the top of his head, no notes, anything about the pitch that he'd presented in front of

hundreds of people. He was directing a group that includes several adults. It was very clear that

he was large and in charge of this program and of this business idea. So I wanted to ask Gabriel

his thoughts on entrepreneurship and what the keys are to nurturing more entrepreneurs.

Business, I've been interested in it since grade four. My friends and I started a little company

at our school selling comic books and we were working on coding a video game that didn't quite

work out. But this is my fourth business pitch competition. I started at the high school ramp up

and then I've done two other high school ones. First time at ramp up. My uncle is an entrepreneur.

He owns a few businesses. My dad, he most is a hobby as a small mobile bike shop. So it's just

something that I've been around and I had experience with for a while so that's just kind of how it

came naturally. So do you think that's mandatory for entrepreneurship to be around it or can it be

fostered in other ways? Absolutely not. I think it's something it's just if you have the nature and

you're someone that likes innovating and creating new ideas, helping solve problems, I think it's

something pretty natural. I think everyone has it in them. You just got to find it. What advice would

you give to somebody that maybe has that inkling but they don't know where to turn. They don't

know where to reach out. I mean places like North Forge are really great incubators. I actually

one lady came up to me after this event and was telling me about one and Saskatchewan and AgriTech

innovated like a lab they have to help you ramp up your business. So that's kind of there's all

sorts of places you can go lots of resources. You just have to look up, you know, where's the local

incubator or program that can help me learn and get started? That was a message I got loud and

clear last night. That was part of the message I delivered in my opening remarks. Yes, I get

invited to do a bunch of MC and a different event says you do Brett and that's because of the role

we play here on C.J.O.B. But I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I've been since I was a kid and the

lessons that I've learned over the last 40 years or so of starting and running to varying degrees

of success, mostly lack thereof, is that guidance and having a resource to help you take you to

the next level, to warn you of the pitfalls, to get you prepared for the things that you need to

know, the must-nose. And what I said to aspiring entrepreneur's last night was don't hesitate to

reach out to people. Grow your circle of influence. Speak to individuals that you think might be able

to help you. Don't be shy to speak to anybody because you just never know, like just knock on one

more door because you just don't know which door is going to be the one that ultimately opens

wide and allows you to walk right in and find your calling and to connect with the people to get

you to that next step you're searching. Now Gabriel, not only is he an entrepreneur, but he's active

politically. You're in high school still? Yes. Where do you go to high school? Oak Park over in

Charleswood. Okay, and you've founded another organization for young people to get involved in

politics. Can you tell me about it? So is Ashkilt Canadian Youth for Fiscal Responsibility? So we're

a non-partisan organization advocating for balanced budgets, reducing the national debt and

provincial debts, and then just maintaining responsible fiscal practices at all levels of government

and educating youth and politicians about that. Fantastic. Fantastic. All around. Gabriel,

you are terrific. So many fine examples of people on the rise try and make their dreams come true

here in Manitoba. So way to go Gabriel, Aiken and Pascal Gallagher,

Pelka at the ramp up weekend pitch competition.

It is tea time with Maplewood. We've got a voucher for golf and cart for two to give away in this

morning inspired by what we're doing at 935 with the annual Cutathon in support of the Dream Factory.

We are asking you about anathon that you were a part of. That was not an actual marathon.

And one of our runners up here is Jake the trucker and his has to do with golf. And oh, pardon me,

I grabbed the wrong one. Oh, no, no, this is right. Jake says it was a few years ago for

a teen challenge. Had a golf marathon for fundraiser and you raised money per hole and it was 100

to hole marathon for one day. It was tiring, but it was loads of fun. I did that three years

in a row. I got to take part in one many years ago now with the Lions Club.

But they sort of let me come participate kind of last minute. Just, you know, I mean, you and I

might have interviewed them. I can't remember if it was me and you or if it was before that. But

anyway, I went for 27 holes. And we ripped through 27 holes and had larders in like an hour and

45. Oh, my word. Yeah. Because it was kind of the format was like, if you want to get through

100 holes in a reasonable amount of time, it was like speed golf. So we each got a power cart.

Okay. It was just two people per hole. And they just it was a shotgun start, which means everybody

was at a different hole to start. And they said, okay, go. And so we would just each hit our ball

as quickly as we could and we would then get in our carts. And there was no waiting for the other

guy to go with just just play and then get to the green and race to finish. And it was I thought

it would be weird. It was it was weird, but in a good way. It was a lot of fun. And that's like fun.

I was sad I had to go. I had to go to work. Stupid work. Stupid job.

Do not this one. Not this job. Darleen says I was in a smile of fun back in 1980. It was put

on by the dental association. I was 16 at the time. You had to show your front teeth the entire

time. It lasted eight, nine hours. We got breaks every so often. And Darleen was the runner-up,

says she's still smiling over it. Yeah, that's right. Permanent smile. I couldn't imagine

smiling that long. But because as Brett pointed out, the RBF, the resting breath face is strong.

It would actually hurt me to smile both not just physically, but emotionally as well.

I can't I can't smile this much on so many levels. Our winner is GI Joe Robert.

Rob says back in 1983, when the Lions Club held their yearly telephone on TV, there was a roller

thong associated with this. We were roller skating for 18 hours. Nice. And I was one of the top

fundraisers that year. And the grand prize was a trip to Orlando. And they also had a bonus drop

for a trip to Florida for the top fundraisers, which I was a part of. So we went on stage where

our for the acknowledgement of our fundraising abilities. And when it came time for the draw,

Loan will hold. I was the winner. And we had a great time in Orlando with my fiance now wife.

Very cool. What I want to know was that at Saints, wheelies or at the old Winnipeg roller ring.

Oh, and 83 Robert way to go Rob. So Rob is going to be offered the Maplewood T time voucher

for golf and cart for two Maplewood, by the way, is in St. Pierce, O'Leah. And it's awesome. If

you've never been there, it's a really good time. And they've built a new clubhouse. They've

made some terrific improvements over the last few years. And we'll have more of those vouchers

to give away through the week. And we'll be doing giving the rest of those away at 715 Tuesday through

Friday. We want to tell you about something that's happening on Sunday, April 26th, as

Evalueur Salon and Spa in partnership with Violet Salon and Spa will host their annual

cutathon in support of the dream factory, which is a manate of a charity dedicated to fulfilling

dreams for children battling life threatening illnesses. This has become an absolutely regular cannot

miss event here in our city and particular in the north end of North Kill Donan and into Bird's Hill.

This event holds a personal meaning for at least one of the organizers of this event that will

meet this morning owner of Evalueur Salon and Spa. Marina Melo Cabral. Good morning Marina.

Good morning. You didn't bring your scissors. I was hoping you'd bring your stuff. So you give me

a quick trim. Yeah, you're looking a little shaky too. I know. I come and see you this week.

And Candace Olberg Violet Salon and Spa also with us as she was last year. A great to have you

here again, Candace. How are you today? I'm great. How are you? I'm so good. Why are you involved in

this? It's just to give back and it's really great to be part of Marina and her Salon and doing

something good. What is it about Marina and her sphere of influence and why is it so easy to get

caught up in that? Oh, it's just Marina. We love her. Oh, everyone loves her. We love you.

We love Candace too. Yeah. Well, Candace, not going to start crying.

Well, geez, if you're going to, we might as well take get right into this if you're already

here. Why do I do that? Marina comes in. Met her downstairs. We'll let you behind the shroud of

secrecy behind the curtain. So to speak, Marina says, please don't ask me why I do this. I don't

want to cry again. I cry every year, but it's the why is so important. And so if you're crying over

Candace's affection for you, we might as well just jump in. We know why it's so important, but for

our listeners that don't know, why is this such a big deal to you? Because, oh, there it goes.

My little brother passed away in 2009 to cancer and was granted a wish by the dream factory

when he was 15. And it was probably one of the best moments he had during his

fight to live. And every year that passed after he passed away, I just said, one day,

I'm going to give back to this charity. And this is how I know how to do it. So

grateful that I have an amazing team, Candace and her team doing it with us and proud to say that we've

raised $103,000 altogether. Wow. What was his wish? He wanted a whole new gaming system

computer. And yeah, so he got all of that to keep him busy. That's amazing. And so you honor your

brother in this way. And you do so much work to help other kids who now are looking for their own

dreams and talk about your association with this organization and just, you know, just how awesome

they are. The dream factory? Yeah. They're wonderful. Non-profitable organization.

All they do is give to these kids and the hope and the excitement that comes out of their faces,

even just walking into our event just to see how excited that they're there for them. And

yeah, it's very important. And how long have you been involved in this now, Candace?

This is our second year. Second year? So how was your participation in the first year?

It was great. In your first year last year? Yeah, it was really great. Our staff, the staff was

very excited and it just felt like a great day to, you know, help out and volunteer. And we had

lots of volunteers and it's just, like, felt like a great day. How many cuts? We had a lot of

haircuts, but just a lot of people coming in. But we have a little bake sale. So like a

island auction and the hot dogs and drinks and chips, like even somebody walking down the

parking lot, they would just buy a hot dog for $20 or just to donate. So it's just nice to see how

people give. And I just wanted to add that with Violet joining us last year was our biggest year.

So we got to top that this year, but we made $19,000 last year. It's an incredible number in one

day. And it comes from, you know, volunteers, everybody getting together, the community coming out,

you can put on the biggest event in the world if the community doesn't come out. It doesn't matter.

Exactly. Right. So there's been a tremendous amount of buy in from the community overall. What have

you got planned this year? And you've got a special guest again, right? Yeah, I think it's an

annual for us, but we're very lucky that Brady Oliver will be there with us or meet and greet

as well. And the kids get super excited to see him. And he's all about the dream factory now as well

since involvement with us. And it's just nice to see that these celebs come out to help as well.

That's awesome. Yeah. In terms of the, I asked Candace about the number of cuts. I won't ask you

specifically for the number of cuts, but in an effort to get in as many as possible,

do you ever find yourself thinking, I didn't do it? I didn't give that person the best haircut

that I could possibly give them. No, haircut, for sure. Do we feel bad that we're not styling or

washing? Yes, but haircut, they're getting a good haircut. Yeah. No matter what.

So you never felt like, ah, I rushed through that one. No, no, I work fast. She works fast.

There's no rush in our game. You just make sure it's done inefficiently.

Cool. I can attest to that. Yes, absolutely. And so, now, what if people can't make it out? Is there

a way for people to connect a way for people to donate and just say, hey, I would love to be there,

but I'm going to be a way that weekend, something like that. Yeah, they can go off of our,

either our social media. There's a QR code that they can scan and donate and it'll go to either,

either salon. So, E-V-O-L-U-I-R, search that in your Google and then you'll find all of marinas,

social media, and then for Candace, it's Violet, Salon, and Spawn. Where are you located, Candace,

for those that don't know? We are North Maine. We're not, we're in the Sobi strip mall.

It is kind of by shooters, so that way out. She has a way better parking lot. Yeah, it's, we have a

very big. You brought it up. It's the truth. You brought it up. Marina cringes, every time we have

a conversation about the worst parking lots in Winnipeg, because I inevitably bring up the one

that is attached to where her spa and Salon is. But you still come. But I still come. I always find

a spot and you will too. Invite everybody else one, one more time, Marina. Yes, please join us

Sunday, April 26th at Evalor or Violet, $25 haircuts, all towards charity. And if you don't

want a haircut, just come and get your face painted, have a hot dog, have some fun with us,

and be a part of a big deal. 25 bucks, but bring more cash in that. Bring lots of cash.

We need to make a, like, book an appointment if we want to get our haircuts specifically on

that day. Is it just for us to come for a serve? First come for a serve. Yeah.

Did you have to turn anybody away last year? No, we didn't. We had six chairs and

it was, uh, it doesn't take like a dry haircut takes about 20 minutes. So okay. What was it?

Was it like fun? Exciting? Yes, it was very fun. Like a different sort of atmosphere than usual.

For sure. Yeah. And it's just, yeah, there's lots going on. It's a happy day. There's lots,

lots of good feels and yeah. I'll wash my hair at home. I'll come with a wet head and

that'll, you know, there you go. We'll be all ready to go. Yeah. Thanks for this, Marina.

Congratulations to both of you for being involved. A modern, incredible number. Remind us of that

number. We've raised over the years again. It's over 100 grand 103, 103, 19,000 last year. If

you want to contribute to that, get involved 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It's coming up on April 26. That's

a Sunday at Evalor Salon on Henderson Highway. What's the address there? 1413 1413 Henderson Highway.

And then the address for for you, Candace 26. Oh, five. Put it in your GPS. There you go. Main street

north. Yes. Perfect. And once again, the big day is Sunday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The annual cutathon returns to support the dream factory. And that's why we've been talking about

a thons this morning. So we thank you all for weighing in on your various non marathon marathon.

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