North America

And so, uh, I was taking photos, again, uh, kind of at aid stations and so on, and that was when Taggart was running.

Yeah, Taggart got the, uh, fastest time for the, in North America that year for the 100-miler.

Yeah.

And Chad happened to get a couple really great photos of him coming through aid stations.

Yeah

... who, who might not even get contracts to play in North America.

Backe Olsson, we've talked to people who think he could get the, the fourth line center job if he, if he really impresses.

Now, uh, Steven Holiday is our guy and, and will be, in our opinion, the guy, but could he be the fifth center on the NHL team? That's a very, very realistic projection.

No, totally.

But I'm n- I don't wa- [laughs] I don't wanna put that be- being like he's, he's getting disrespected by being put in this.

I'm more trying to say, "Hey, this is an opportunity for you to play on North American ice.

Get familiar with some Belleville guys." Like it, it's just, it's just an opportunity.

Uh, but a lot of elites were going down there at that time, including, uh, John Kerry on election day in 2016.

You think he'd have better things to do campaigning for his party in North America, but no, he's down in Antarctica as Secretary of State.

So a lot of weirdness regarding this hole in the ice, Admiral Byrd's diary, and what it exactly is under the ice.

Right.

Well, I am well, but I think about, uh, tragedies of various degrees happen to us as human beings.

And what happens is, for those of us who survive, it is, um, a, a time of grieving and mourning, and we pick ourselves up and we move on, and one day we re- we realize we've come back to normal.

But do you think that we, as North Americans, Canada and the United States, have come back to the normal we thought we had on September 10th, 25 years ago?

No, we haven't, and we won't be able to get back there, at least us here in the United States.

Uh, that is not something that...

And that consistency I think is a good thing because when he speaks to American audiences, Pierre Poilievre is actually very effective and, and hits the right notes, I think.

He, he talks about how free trade has benefited the economies of both countries over the decades, and how tariffs correspondingly hurt both countries.

He has a great, uh, example that he used again yesterday, uh, about how the Ford F-Series pickup truck has been the number one North American selling vehicle for 40 years.

Mm-hmm.

Because I learned from him kind of the same things I learned in my first experience I went to Germany is I will never, ever not help a European who comes to North America and may struggle with the culture.

Because I was in Germany trying to figure out the difference between cottage cheese and sour cream.

And the same thing went with how I then accepted hockey players coming into the TSN studio or coaches coming in the TSN studio.

Right.

You know, certainly not in, you know, the interior of North America, you know, outside of, you know, Mexico.

Yeah.

A little strip in the center of Mexico that was occupied always throughout, you know, human inhabitation by giant populations, you know, and everything around it was a lot less arable.

Like, um, obviously like Mesoamerica has, you know, a long history of habitation and, you know, great civilizations that rose and fall.

Um, But, you know, had different kinds of technology, different kinds of food, different kinds of life.

In North America, you know, we have these mounds everywhere, most of which were destroyed.

You know, so the mouth, you know.

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But when you get into the details, like different categories of different unmet needs and what we see is that like as we invest in solving some of those unmet needs, they respond well.

And so, for example, I saw a question in the chat is how do we know North America is getting better? How I look at it is we have a cross section of cities and categories that we compete in.

and you look at things to do we've been growing things to do quite strongly for strong double you know strong double digits for several quarters now and the unlock there for us was you know we needed to really improve the purchase experience and the redemption experience we enabled that through uh doing connectivity and bookability and and making those investments allowed us to serve those merchants better which allowed us to get more of them onto our platform and stay with us longer uh and and then we were able to offer that selection to the consumer side And so like this is where these marketplaces get to be, you know, really exciting businesses.

But it's tough because for us, like to solve the marketplace, you have to solve it at the level of where it happens, which is the customer and the category and the merchant.