Like, is, is it that bad or, um, is it just a retooling because the government says they're gonna hire 1,000 new people?

Well, fantastic, but it wasn't supposed to change.

I mean, the interim one was supposed to be fantastic and do all the same sort of things.

So listen, I do think it's garbage, and I get it that we get mad at governments when they lie.

But this is a clear lie.

That building did not have to be demolished.

I know it's hasn't been demolished yet.

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I think this is a good move.

I do think it's a good move.

Uh, I don't, I don't really have a problem of it if it's, uh...

I, I, I s- I wonder how big of a problem it is.

If it just makes us feel good because gosh darn it, these freeloaders, uh, they're getting too much taxpayer money.

Uh, I, I hope that it's a big problem that we're solving, not just some sort of feel-good thing because people have a problem with immigrants.

And sometimes the illusion that they're walking around with so much of our money, uh, I think is, is, is probably wrong.

Yeah.

Yeah.

47, uh, trips a month is 1.5 a day, and I don't, like, at the bare minimum should be expecting you to go to and from work.

So why isn't it two rides a day instead of a ride and a half a day? But anyway, I, I, I, if, if they can convince me that the math of this gets more people riding it so they make more money, then I would be down with it.

And if, I, I would assume that that is the idea.

Because if it's not, and in the same week yesterday when I talked about this, I played the a-ha clip from Ma- um, Jamal Myers, who's the head of the TTC, when he is asking for money from the f- it is true, as much as people might hate streetcars and hate buses and hate subways, that, you know, per, uh, capita per rider, we are underfunded if you compare us to any other American city or, uh, Canadian cities outside of Ontario.

Touchdown!

I, I don't, uh, see, I, I don't know what works with Donald Trump, but if he is getting all sorts of pressure from the, uh, the Kentucky bourbons and the, uh, California red wines, then that should be on him.

And I, I wonder when he's at 36% approval rating in the United States approaching the midterms, he thinks all of this kind of stuff is going to work for him, that if we're playing the long game, maybe we're playing the long game and have it, uh, again, affect even more poorly on him down in the United States.

I'm not lending anybody anything in your neighborhood.

I think it's pretty normal that you'll lend somebody something.

I remember I was cleaning out my house, doing a spring cleaning, getting rid of all of my CDs because I use Spotify now.

And so I was getting rid of all of the CDs, noticing some of them that I had just capped.

And this is how long ago it was.

I called up the person who I hardly know anymore.

And I was like, do you want your Mr.

Emergency Preparedness.

Uh-huh

... on behalf of one of the premiers that she represented.

But that's the right move.

That is 1,000% the right move.

You could be picky and say it should've come earlier, and I guess it should've.

But as I said yesterday, this concept to Jerry about police forces, there was a report that I read, it's called the, uh, the bad apples theory, directly proportional to the leadership and people knowing what they can get away with.

If they do- don't think that the leadership is going to, uh, really come down hard or is monitoring s- these kind of things to make sure that people are in line, then you're more likely to have this kind of stuff happen.

Mm.

Touchdown.

But, but my touchdown is only because of, uh, I think optics, it, it's a win.

But as you laid out, unless you can get a big company excited about these things, these things are not going to happen.

And, you know, to show up at Calgary Stampede and show some unity, that might be, in a snapshot in time, a win, a touchdown.

But as you laid out, it's a pipe dream, and we might bury the 401 before we do this, Jerry.

And, but, but now where I live near Islington and, and Queensway, I can walk to all kinds of cool places.

I've been to some of these allegedly fancy places, because I don't think that necessarily have to, you know, have to be dropping a, b- uh, you know, a whole bunch of money.

But what I think is interesting now, if I go to my local pub and I have wings and a couple of beers, and then you think, "Oh, that, you know, mom and pop small little restaurant there, it's probably expensive.

What's on your mind, Jim Richards? Hey, do I have to say right off

the bat what's on my mind? Well, I guess I have a lot of people asking me, you know, there's a saying about vegans.

How do you know somebody is vegan that they'll tell you? And I feel like that's the same way with I say, I guess I'm sober now because the thing about.

me being sober and everybody being amazed at how...

First of all, you run into people who think, oh, I never thought you had a problem.

And then there are other people who are like, yeah, I thought it was probably about time for you to do that.

That I never quit drinking.

Like it is an honest answer.

Uh-huh.

Yonge-Dundas Square is a dumb idea.

It should be named after a prominent Canadian who or whoever.

Tr- calling it Toronto Square is one thing.

And I guess, you know, we like politicians.

I- is it fair to say that if a politician changes his mind based on new information, that you can't say they're a flip-flopper or just going any way the wind is blowing, which I, i- is, is an argument, uh, for Brad.

I do think that he, he's a little greasy, so I don't know if I'm gonna entirely give, give him that.

What do you think?

I would love a week to be able

to just do that.

There's I worked.

I did so many different things at the end of the day.

But also I am.

I'm just so I know I've mentioned ADHD a couple of times, but I'm honestly start one project.

take an off-ramp to another project, take an off-ramp to another project.

The fact that you

Why don't they show a replay of something like that? I'm guessing there's some

sort of protocol.

I mean, Joe Theismann would be the one that's talking.

turned the corner, I think.

And I guess, and I know there's been several other where, you know, the next day, the big thing is, why did they show that so much? They showed it a million times.

I can't think of those other instances off the top of my head, but I know that I've experienced them and it's been in talk radio, the conversation the next day, and you can't please anybody because here we are today going, why didn't they show it? And I guess there was one clip where they showed it right up until the point of contact and then And they cut away.

Yeah.

But Jim Richards, touchdown or fumble? Fumble!

But, I mean, that's the only argument and the only group of people that I think will, at their core, be impacted by

this.

Yeah.

The discussion about sports now is like, okay, I'm going to have to get, you know, Apple TV, or I'm going to have to get Amazon, which is where some football is going, or I'm going to have to get DAZN, which the CFL just signed with.

So how many streamers am I going to have to get? This is not that.

So this is not people like, I mean, if you're watching hockey right now and you're a fan, you're watching some games on our sister station, TSN, and you're watching a lot of games on Sportsnet.

So there was a point where I think this was the original intended way they were going to do it before they basically, what's happening right now is that Rogers has an infomercial about Saturday night on the CBC.

Do you think there will be any replacement or do you think it's just will be Sportsnet streaming?

What's your take on all of this?

Uh, anything is better than what we're doing right now.

The idea in that article, and I hoped we would get to this five years ago, and I don't know what it would look like, Gerry, but we need to be raising kids knowing that the Internet is out to get them.

And I'm not joking when I say that, that the algorithm is out to get them.

It is dangerous for their mental health.

It is dangerous for them wanting to, I don't know, accomplish anything around the house.

And, uh, I do think it's really, really dangerous.

Yeah

Yeah

... what do you wanna go by? Does the c- court of public opinion wins more often than the, the court in terms of you pursuing your livelihood if you are a public figure that was convicted in the court of public opinion versus a nor- normal court that may have exonerated you or said that you were innocent.

The court of public opinion is quite often much stronger, and I d- what do you do about that? Do you go and boycott businesses that won't hire somebody who had an accusation levied against them? I, I don't, I don't know what you do.

Okay.

And John Tory Jr. called me in the middle of my show yesterday when I was calling him out on seven hours.

John Tory pointed out that his crew probably is packing guns and have to go through security like the rest of us.

So it probably is not just like getting on a private jet.

But here is my problem, Doug.

But Jim Richards, touchdown or a fumble?

Uh, thought it was a touchdown, Gerry.

Whoo.

[upbeat music] Touchdown.

Oh, man, those touchdowns, I really love it.

Here's why, Gerry.

I'm not too sure why, uh, some people don't believe that two things can be true at the same time.

Yeah.

No

...

they basically say, Gerry, that if there is not great, strong leadership, that void will be filled around...

And, like, this would go with any organization, right? It could be a bad coach.

It could be any number of things, that if there is not clear leadership and people are, know what they need to do, know that it won't be tolerated, that th- that that vacuum will be filled by corrupt cops or, "Hey, we can get away with this." And if that's, uh, seen to be believed anywhere, when you know that you could go astray, then that's more likely to happen.

Probably any org- organizational.

This was done strictly on police forces.

Uh-huh

And I'll let you fill in the blank on that but.

Well, you know, I had this passion, uh, to go where the gospel had never been preached.

And, uh, that, that, that's quite a, a, a, a daunting task because some version of the gospel has been preached pretty much almost all over the world.

But, uh, so I started going to oth- you know, other countries doing these, doing what I call jungle crusades.

And this would be, this would be where I would hike off into the jungle somewhere and, and, uh, you know, we'd get some guys with some motorbikes and megaphones, and they would ride through the mountains and through the jungle saying that, uh, "Bring the sick, bring, you know, bring the cripple, bring, bring the blind, and, and they're gonna get healed." And so a jungle crusade, you know, it- when you do a crusade in like a, a capital city or something, there's gonna be thousands of people.

A jungle crusade, a phenomenal dru- jungle crusade is 1,000 or 2,000 people.

Uh, but most jungle crusades just have 500 or 600 people.

Talk about that for a minute.

Uh-huh.

I can't believe that somebody is, and maybe they are, but in terms of driving and getting there, that's a no-go.

Taxi driving o- and dropping off, still a pain in the butt.

So do I understand what you're saying that, yes, it's a, it's an airport and everybody should be able to use it? Yeah.

But it is a, just a disaster to get to, unless when they put the Ontario Line, they need to almost extend that tunnel under that intersection.

I'm s- being serious.

Like-

Yeah.

Right

... and I think a lot of people are excited about it.

And like the Blue Jays or the Raptors, when you're living anywhere across this vast country, eyeballs will be on teams of young boys, or in this case, young girls, in Vancouver or Montreal or Atlantic Canada.

When it's the only game they see, they're probably gonna see the Tempo more than people in New York City would see the Liberty.

That's the women's basketball team in New York City.

If you think it's working for her, you can give it a touchdown, again, by voting at newstalk1010.com. Or you could be Jim Richards and vote right now.

Oh.

I don't think in the environment that we're in right now down at Queen's Park, I don't know who's, like, outraged when it gets to this kind of stuff.

Where do you go? Do you go with Blue Jays in celebrating? Do you go with Leafs and player changes? Do you go with train lines slower than runners? Where do you go in

Toronto for the year? The story in Toronto would have to be speed cams.

being ripped out of the city by the premier.

And I say that just because it just seemed to be a never-ending story of different jurisdictions.

Not just Toronto, but Toronto, I think, turned out to be the bad guy in it when what is intended to keep kids safe was overutilized.

And I don't think it ever was a cash grab, but certainly...

When these places would pop up and maybe rightfully so, but like everybody's like, there's not a school near here, but you know, all of the kids from that school would kind of empty out to a different street that would have more cars on it.

noticed that you can disappear in your own little community and not realize you're inside the big city.

And the boom meant there was money to spend.

I've never seen a wall of money coming at you like that, that you were s- it was insisting [laughs] that you spend it.

Normally, it's completely the opposite.

All of the sort of restrictions that might have been there from quite an Islamic country weren't there.

It was the, the, the drinking and the sort of free living and the fast and loose lifestyles that were going on.

Felderhof and Walsh agreed to meet a month later at a hotel bar in Jakarta.

There'd been a, a long time between drinks for those guys.

I think there'd been some pretty tough projects, and nobody had ever made...