And so when you learned about it, how did you feel?

I think one of just to set the stage, like one of the ways in which I have learned about September the 11th has been through different documentaries.

One of the ones that I watched that really gave me a new sense of perspective on it was a documentary called Inside the President's War Room.

It featured a number of different people who were working with George W. Bush and kind of took you along the day journey.

for the president starting out at that elementary school in Florida and then going to the different bunkers and stuff and setting up secure lines of communication.

And for me, the reason why I started to then feel that almost immediate connection is because some of the people in this documentary who were involved uh, in kind of, you know, the president's day on nine 11, if you will, they are some of the same people that I've interviewed, like former white house press secretary, Ari Fleischer is an example of this talking to him and realizing he's a political analyst, but he also, uh, you know, can speak to just the tragedy of this day.

So for me, I think like when I first learned about it, it was actually, I was very lucky to be able to ask people directly who were, you know, had some type of, it had a big impact on them, right? Because they were on Air Force One, they were involved with the day kind of and how the president was operating on that day.

What other reports do we have tonight, Wyatt?

Let's listen.

I just wanna start out, you obviously know Donald Trump very well, and, uh, the tariffs that he's been putting in place, uh, on Canada have been pretty inconsistent.

He has put in place tariffs.

He's taken off tariffs.

He's...

I think really, in some cases, people believe that he's making some of these decisions on tariffs solely, you know, day by day based off of what he sees a particular Canadian official, you know, saying on television or whatever the case may be.

Um, what do you know about Donald Trump that perhaps can explain his rationale behind lashing out at Canada like this?

Okay, and what did you learn from Peter Mansbridge about this Canada-US relationship?

So do you think it is due to his tough stance on trade?

I do.

I mean, you saw this in a number of examples, but the most, uh, you know, noteworthy one was Mark Carney, and the fact that the liberals federally were trailing when Justin Trudeau was leader of the party.

And I think when Mark Carney came in, he was not going to be prime minister if it wasn't for the Canada-US trade issue, where he kind of cultivated his entire campaign around this issue of standing up to Donald Trump.

He was able to use something that is, I guess, universally, uh, something that people are standing against in order to unite people in Canada.

And Doug Ford is doing the same thing in Ontario right now.

Donald Trump is not even popular in the United States, let alone in Ontario with these tariffs.

Do you think that he sees himself as at war, uh, with the country he hopes to take over? Do you think it is actually that serious?

Does it feel like he's pretty much healed and now coming forward with his own message?

I think so.

I also think for him, it was in 2014, healing obviously for that type of thing can take a long time.

I think it's easier for someone like him who is now an advocate and who sees his daughter becoming an advocate as well.

And so he recognizes that there's a greater good here and that he's contributing to that greater good.

And he's been given a platform, not just by people like me, he's been given much bigger platforms by a number of people to speak and to give his perspective and to bring awareness to these types of things.

Because one of the things that he said in a different interview, not with me, but one of the things that I had heard him say was that like, you never expect this to happen.

Yeah.

How did you get this interview?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, well, I mean, your listeners, I'm sure, have seen him doing interviews with basically the who's who of the podcast world.

He sat down with literally everyone, from Jennifer Welch, who is extremely leftist on the progressive side, all the way to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, obviously on the far-right side.

And so I thought if he's sitting down with all of these people, obviously they have much bigger platforms than I do, but I thought he is obviously willing to sit down with a wide variety of people, so let me reach out, see whether or not he's willing to do it.

And, uh, he said yes, and he was very nice, very gracious.

It was a great interview.

Did you ask him what, what made this time different?

Tell us what it was that was revealed on that show and what you've learned since.

Yeah, so for your listeners who don't know, I'm going to keep doing it.

You're going to have to keep correcting me.

So not this Saturday that just passed, but the one before that.

That marked six months since Nancy Guthrie, who is the mom... of today showing her savannah guthrie was abducted from her home in tucson arizona and so as that day was approaching i thought you know i haven't seen the sheriff who's the lead investigator in this case do a lot of interviews and i thought that's you know pretty puzzling, if you will.

He's the lead investigator.

People have a lot of questions.

I just have to say, hey, can I buy you a beer?

But what led up to the interview? Uh, give us some background.

background.Yeah.

So I mean, most of my listeners and viewers will know that I'm primarily political content.

That's the type of interviews that I do.

But I've started doing more and more true crime interviews as well, just because it's part of the news, and the Nancy Guthrie case in particular has a very strong connection back to media with obviously Savannah Guthrie.

And so I thought Chris Nanos being the lead investigator in this investigation would be a great interview, but I had spoken to some reporters for big US networks who have told me, you know, repeatedly that he's not doing interviews.

He turns them down all the time, but I thought that's not the mindset that's gotten me interviews with the people that I have gotten them with.

Um, did it take you by surprise, the comments in the moment?

Sir, it is on

yours.

is that Gen Z is not prioritizing marriage as they once were.

And so there's a new survey that found that only 37% of members of my generation, Gen Z, believe that marriage is essential to achieving the American dream.

a lot of young people young adults specifically things like financial stability owning a home building a career all of those things now outrank getting married they rank ahead of the prospect of getting married for a young person and so Usually, traditionally speaking, the mentality has been marry first and then kind of build together as a family, whereas Gen Z is now looking at this a lot more as let's build up individual lives and then look towards marriage later on.

The second one has to do with salary transparency.

I was always taught when I was growing up from my mom and from my dad that it's rude to ask someone how much money they would make.

I wonder, in the marriage research, in the marriage survey, there's a breakout of men versus women.

... successfully do on this thing.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously we're coming up, as you said, on the July 1st deadline, which is a, a mandatory review that we have to go through.

Um, if the three countries, Canada, the US, and Mexico, can't agree, um, to extend the a- agreement, then it's going to, of course, continue, um, to operate.

But I think instead of extending CUSMA for, you know, another 16 years, let's say, it's important to kind of point out that, of course, the parties would want to meet every year to review it until they can either agree to extend it or until it reaches the, um, scheduled expiry, which would not be until 2036.

So that's kind of the logistics here.

But I do think, to your point on Mark Carney, um, it, I think, you know, there should be a, a desire, yes, obviously, to reach a trade agreement.

I'm gonna get you a deal by July 1st, 2026." He was going to do it, and he can't.

Wyatt, good morning to you.

Yeah, I think based off of what we know so far, of course, it's being done under the guides of the Digital Safety Act.

And I think what we've discovered from countries who have tried to do this in Australia and in Denmark, young people have been finding a lot of loopholes through things like VPNs, through simply lying about their age in a number of cases as well.

And so I think, you know, leave it to young people to find the most sneaky, effective loophole for something that they want to do.

And I think this bill is not erasing the incentive of young people to use social media, but it is erasing the ability.

Wyatt, let me ask you, if a social media ban won't work, what do you think the government should be doing? If a ban's not going to work, what should the government be doing?

Yeah, I think certainly it would be looking towards maybe regulating these platforms or making it so that social media companies have certain rules or guidelines that they have to follow.

I think the most damaging part right now is the algorithm and the way in which young people can be induced to spend hours on the algorithm.

All right, so young voters are not gonna show up in the California elections?

I'm not so sure about that.

I think right now what you have from Spencer Pratt is someone who has a similar kind of political cadence to that of Donald Trump in a sense.

He is very much a political outsider, and we see that that resonates with, to some extent, all demographics, but in particular Gen Z. I think in particular when it comes to Spencer Pratt, part of the reason, as you pointed out there in your introduction, that he's doing so well is because he's competing for and within some of the same social media algorithms that young people are in on kind of a daily basis.

So I'm not so sure about... that when it comes to the L.A. mayor's race in particular, when it comes to the race for governor, it's a little bit harder because you have more kind of institutional candidates.

There's no one who really stands out as the Gen Z candidate when you look to someone like Javier Becerra, who was, of course, a Biden-era cabinet secretary who not a lot of young people are familiar with.

Steve Hilton, I don't know if he's exciting a lot of young people either, but the mayor's race is certainly one to watch.

But again, when you look at Becerra, why is he not just surging with them?

So the guests you talk to, Wyatt, who are Alberta related, what was their take on all of this?

Yeah, I mean, one thing that Nahed Nenshi said that I do kind of agree with and that stood out to me was that regardless of what happens in this referendum vote, people aren't going to necessarily be voting with exactly what they believe.

A lot of people are planning to vote not because they want to leave Canada, but because they want to send a message to the government of Alberta and in some cases to the federal government in Ottawa so you have a situation because this isn't an immediate vote to secession where you might have people who are voting in favor of separation but because there's not that immediate trigger it might not be as accurate as it perhaps otherwise could be and so kind of complementing that if you have a situation where people aren't voting accurately and therefore you might have an inflated number of people who are looking to leave Canada and who are looking to separate then Danielle Smith is going to be forced to go into an official referendum perhaps later on.

And she might not be able to do that because, of course, the Alberta election is next year.

She might not be able to do that for over a year, maybe even two years from now.

So a lot of people are talking about Danielle Smith's political career and how risky this is for her in terms of the kind of pathway that she's going down right now.

So I think really kind of underscoring that and that there could be some pretty serious consequences regardless of which way the vote goes here.

Do you have thoughts on Navdeep Bains running for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership?

Tell us a little bit more about that.

Yeah, I think with my generation and Gen Z in particular, it's become kind of the stereotype and the norm, so to speak, to either not care about this issue or to just kind of take what you see on social media and kind of form your opinions kind of surrounding that.

So for me, I was invited to go.

It was important for me to go kind of cover what was happening.

see what different influencers involved in this kind of issue and space we're saying, and then also some key experts and geopolitical people in that field as well.

Because I think right now society has a conversation problem where people aren't really talking with each other.

There's a lot of kind of talking at each other, especially on some of these really polarizing geopolitical issues.

How do you interpret this headline? Do you see a difference among the elder Gen Z like me, right, and the younger Gen Z like you that there's differences in the voting trends?

... what's the strategy? I'm curious to know.

Yeah, I mean, I think the launch of the show, just to kind of first set the stage, was built out of a feeling that obviously very few people in general, but specifically in my generation, are sitting at the couch at 6:00 with the TV, watching the traditional news broadcast.

And so a lot of that is because news now, you know, people get notifications on their phone.

They find it on social media.

And so it becomes kind of repetitive for people to sit down and watch the standard, typical news broadcast.

And so what the show is, is less of a, you know, here's the headlines and more of a holding kind of the people in power accountable.

And so I think for young people, when they're watching a show like this in terms of on YouTube and on TikTok, they really want to get their news in ways that don't necessarily feel as linear as ter- in terms of, like, how traditional broadcasts have presented it in the past.

I mean, there's a lot of people, there's a lot of perspectives, but generally speaking, uh, what have you observed of, of how the Trump re- uh, presidency is, is landing, uh, with young people of your vintage and the impact that he's having on the next generation of voters?

What, what's the, what's The Sharpe Exchange about?

Yeah, so, uh, for people who don't know, I started in journalism and politics when I was about 11, and ever since I was 11 years old, I've been doing interviews with politicians and elected officials in Canada and in the United States.

And I originally posted them on YouTube, and then I had started doing some cable segments, and really, this new show is kind of a combination of what I've been doing since I was 11.

But also, what's kind of special about this new show is that it really focuses on including Gen Z voices in the conversation, and what that means is having weekly panels with Gen Z voices where we talk about affordability, where we talk about energy, and just some of those core kind of kitchen table issues that are impacting young people perhaps more than other demographics right now.

I don't know if that's true, but what do you think?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's certainly fair to say that she [laughs] hasn't really stamped that out totally.

If you have been to LA recently, I think anyone would know that that's not entirely true.

Um, but I also think, like, to that point, one thing that people kind of have made the mistake of doing consistently in American politics is dismissing the underdog, whether that's Trump, whether that's Mamdani.

So so why? He's just making life 10 percent more expensive for Americans.

yeah and it's interesting because just to kind of tell people and set the context even of what happened here this was kind of tariffs that were being justified by aipa which is the international economic emergency powers act and what the supreme court ruled today six to three was that that is what is unconstitutional and so trump's rhetoric now in his line of reasoning is well i can start to impose tariffs i'll impose global tariffs i'll do all of these things because it's not under this aipa framework that it was before so that's kind of where people are drawing the line here as it relates to why trump is now coming out and imposing more tariffs and doing more things but one of the things that i was hoping to ask him about that i didn't get the chance to was just about what this means for kuzma for the relationship with canada because as you point out you know when you have members of you know your own government supreme court justices that you appointed like amy coney barrett who is among the most conservative of those on the supreme court many people might say When you have those types of people starting to speak out against you, it really comes down to a question of the movement is no longer united behind using tariffs as leverage to try and win over countries like Canada or I guess make Canada pay their fair share.

So how how then does he then claim the power to to tariff the globe? If the globe is made up of countries, I don't understand how you can do that.

Exactly.

And it's, yeah, exactly.

And I think the other thing is a lot of his tariffs right now, the White House has been using as leverage with respect to, in Canada's case, using it so that Canada can live up to its 2% GDP commitment.

With respect to China, he has said in previous instances that he is using it, making sure basically that China cares more about the national security and doesn't commit these sorts of human rights violations.

if you don't have the leverage over countries in the context of what his tariffs were previously intended to do then all of a sudden that reduces their impact and then to your point about the global 10 tariff to me that suggests that they're trying to override the supreme court ruling in some ways they feel as if maybe you know the supreme court ruling is irrelevant or is invalid and you know that's really what the white house has been saying for the majority of today is that they don't really care what the supreme court is saying they don't really care what these Republicans in the House or in the Senate are saying.