Well, folks, welcome back to Michael and us. I'm Luke Savage. Will Sloane and we are using the same mic on this episode.

Should just say that off the top.

I don't know how the sound quality is going to be.

It might be good, it might be bad.

Might be vintage.

Imagine you're listening to this episode on an old record you found in a crate somewhere.

Imagine you're listening to like a Robert Johnson blues album.

You know, it's a little crankly, but it's got the soul.

Yeah, sorry, it's my fault fault I brought my microphone but I left the

cable at home so we were in the studio with one microphone. We're in the Dalton McGinty

headquarters this week we're not at the Gore Lieberman Studios and the

Dalton McGinty headquarters only had one chord for one mic so that's the

current situation but listen it'll be it'll be fine we played it back it sounded okay so Luke what's on your mind well

i've had a note for a few weeks uh to talk about the state of Canadian politics on the

podcast take off to the great white nor.

Ooo, now that song is, that song is banned.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I hate it when we use that,

although I know many listeners are a fan. But look so it's been a while since we've had a I don't know an update on Canadian politics on this podcast and I made a note a few weeks ago of a particular clip in a question period which is you know the

daily grilling of the government that happens Monday to Friday really it's Monday to Thursday

because no one important ever shows up on Friday.

You know, it's always basically a performance, but it is a good way to get the tempo,

kind of get the mood, get a sense of kind of what the state of play is, what narratives,

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