The Premier Who Might Have Been | David Brazil | H&H Ep. 45

Hmm.

Well, let's hope we never have to go through it again.

And for the listeners and viewers, at the time we're recording this, there's some concerning news coming out of Russia, uh, that, uh, I hope really doesn't progress any further.

Um, but, uh, David, uh, I want to talk about where these political conversations are happening now.

Because earlier you talked about somebody you speak with about politics and your people you're connected to, and that's at McNiven's.

And you mentioned McNiven's.

I think many of our, uh, listeners, viewers will know that that is a pub that you co-own, uh, and which I will mention that All Newfoundland and Labrador reported was coming months before any other media.

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Uh, and, uh, fun tidbit, the 88,000th and 888th company registered in the registry of companies in Newfoundland and Labrador.

So, uh, some seriously good luck may be brought to you.

Um, you know, aside from the fact that we'll have to push for a live show to be done there someday, uh, what's that been like? You know, business owner now, uh, you know, having a pub in the neighborhood in which you live, and is it, you know, full of those political conversations all the time? Is it a good place to go to chat about politics?

It, it, it is.

You know, if somebody asks me a question about what do you think about, you know, a certain issue now, I'll go, "You know what? Here's, here's my view on it." But my view is based on the 15 people, you know, who may sit around the, uh, the bar having a conversation, and they range from, you know, retirees who are bureaucrats to retirees who are business people to people who are now, you know, uh, professionals.

There's people there who work in every- from truck driving to ferry captains to fishermen to farmers to every, uh, you know, background and every nationality.

And we have a good conversation.

Uh, and, and the thing is it never gets heated.

It's, it's such a friendly environment, uh, that people can have a serious disagreement and never raise their voice, never make a derogatory comment about that person's view, but just, uh, outline their view in respect to it.

And in a lot of cases what I've noticed, people will say, "Well, explain to me.

Tell me why you think that's the way it is." So there's a lot of information, uh, shared there.

It's, it's, uh, it's great.

You know, every now and then if, if I happen to be siding with a policy that's more progressive conservative, somebody will say, "Well, Brazwell, you're a, you know, you're a PCer." I'll say, "You know, but here's, here's the, the data, uh, based on that." And then when they come back with an argument on a policy from a liberal point of view and I agree with it, they go, "How come you're agreeing with it?" Because the data supports that.

I mean, that's, that's simple.

So we get a lot of people who debate, uh, the issues, but they have a grand conversation.

And when you're having a cold beverage doing that too, when it's in a friendly environment, um, it, it comes across honest.

You know, I always used to joke the most honest people are gonna be somebody who's sitting a be- uh, sitting having a beverage and are not asked a direct question, but get an opportunity to put their view in, uh, in the masses when it's a conversation.