The Andrew Carter Morning Show (Thursday November 21, 2024)

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This traffic, this is the good kind of traffic, right? Traffic demand. Our traffic issues in Montreal have gotten worse. The Montreal Chamber of Commerce, President yesterday, said the numbers have abandoned orange cones down by half, but congestion and the coordination of construction work gone from bad to worse over the last couple of years.

CJAD 800 Wall of Fame traffic reporter Rick Lechner is on the line. How you doing, Rick? I'm fine, Andrew. How are you? I'm not sitting in traffic, so that's good. Yeah, okay. Many people are, however, even at this hour. Yeah, I know. Now, you've seen traffic increase and change patterns over the years. I mean, watching for the last almost 50 years, I guess. But like, was it ever going back to... What year did you start paying attention to the traffic?

October 1960, well actually with CJD, October 1969 for a couple years, I was faking it with another radio station before, right? Right, okay, no, I get it, I used to do that too. But the, like here's the thing, like even during the last so-called boom, like in the late 60s, when everything was being built around here, was it this bad? I don't, I think the issue now,

Not this bad. It's this bad because there's more people and obviously more construction, which happened with the construction boom. Some of that construction was not done properly. There was great deterioration to our infrastructure and the reason we're facing all of this is because it's got to be fixed. So, you know, you're stuck when they're building the Tercot, which stayed in the new properly. You're stuck when they're building the Champlain Bridge. You're stuck when they're redoing part of the carry-in teaching. There's a lackity circle plus all the city project. Would you believe that today?

because I went on the city's map. There's 495 projects or worksites just just in the immediate downtown area. There are thousands across the island. It is mind-boggling and the problem is as

pointed out by michia zabzah is that not a hell of a lot's being done. You know, I make noise, other people make noise, but it's just it's like you're talking to deaf ears, unfortunately, because there are things that can be done, which are not being done to make it better for Montrealers.

I'm just wondering about some specific areas that don't seem that well designed. We've had different ones over the years, but 20 westbound, like going now through the Turkot interchange towards the Mercier bridge. When all these lanes go in funneling, it's traffic almost 24-7 now. You're a thousand percent correct because they spent

tens and tens of millions. Now that's, to be fair, that's Quebec. That's not Montreal, right? This report addressed issues in Montreal, which there are plenty, but the one you just mentioned is probably the top issue because we went through years and years of interruption and they did a horrible job on the design because if you listen to the traffic reports, it's always congested. It could be any time of the day between, I'm going to know in first avenue and the same pier because as you just said,

You've got all these lines funneling into two and it just doesn't work. What's to be done about the downtown stuff? Is this just something we continue to suffer through? Are people finally taking this seriously? Those in charge? Some people, unfortunately, are just staying away from downtown. The people are being affected seriously, I believe, are the merchants.

The report from the Chanda Kamehres is spot on, but Mr. LeBlanc, depending who you speak to, he will or will not run for mayor of Montreal. He denied it when he did this, issued this report the other day. But with respect, the Chanda Kamehres has got to do more than just bitch a little bit. You know, they've already got to put some pressure on, get the Montreal business community because the mayor who's got another 11 months left and who knows who will replace her and what the

policy it will be, but we're still living through this. So there needs to be constant pressure, not just an annual report by people in power. And I'm talking about business people to try and get something done because there can be corrections. And I'll give you an example. My poster child for problems is Jean-Claude DeCarrie. You know, I listened last night. Coach, they look at their, they unveiled their master plane

for the next many, many years, it was just three and a half hour meeting. And most of the people are talking about traffic. It's just how bad it is everywhere. And Johnson on to carry is a plug that just isn't being pulled and affects everybody trying to cross to carry at many times during the day. So things can be done, like better configure it without sending millions of dollars, just better synchronization of lights, removing some cars from streets where there's parking, where there shouldn't be. But it falls on deaf ears.

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Shall we call him disgraced? Former cabinet minister Randy Boysono? I guess you could say that. Fake native, real liar, proud Canadian. Yeah, well, Joseph Fecal is, you know, he's not one to mince his words and he really takes the gloves off today in the journal of the Morial. He is, he's just lacing into everybody who is tied to this affair in one way or another, including Mr. Trudeau.

uh... he really goes after blossom although and and says that uh... it's just despicable what it how he is uh... latched on and uh... made these false claims that he has indigenous backgrounds but he said it's not uh... he says and argues in his uh... in his piece that uh... it's not surprising

because of the system here in Canada where if you want to get government money or subsidies, all you have to do is claim to be indigenous and that money will come into you. He said it happens not only in politics, but in the sphere of the entertainment industry and things like that.

So, and in academic circles as well. So he says, you know, you can claim to be whoever you want to claim to be and no one will check. And he says that what the obvious solution is that we have to stop relying on what they say is an oral tradition and make some checks on when people make these claims.

In the Montreal Gazette, who thinks that Donald Trump's choice for health secretary in the States, Kennedy, is a danger to health care here, too? Well, this is a gentleman by the name of Ray Watt Denaudian. He's an epidemiologist and associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa.

His argument is that the pseudoscience that seems to be a boost to RFK Jr. and that he is using to make his claims could be harmful here in Canada as well, mainly because if there are policies adopted because of this, because of what RFK thinks.

If there are policies adopted in U.S. agencies, that Canadian governments will be hindered by not being able to go as far as they can because they're so closely tied to the U.S.

Okay. National Post, so long eagle man. What's this? Another, you can't go very far without finding a column about Randy Boasano somewhere. This is Michael Higgins, and he says that Boasano has become a laughing stock in Parliament. It's time for him to go.

And basically his whole premise is that Trudeau took too long to act on this. He thinks he should have been more decisive. He should have acted more quickly. And he just, you know, he goes through all the things that have happened to Boasano over the past little while. And he said the Prime Minister should have acted quickly and decisively, but instead allowed Boasano

the Wassano drama to fester and foment and allowed a minister to become the butt of parliamentary jokes. Beginning of the end of the war in Ukraine. This is an interesting take on this. This is Andrew Hammond writing from London. He's an associate at the London School of Economics

And he seems to think that with the Biden administration allowing Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles that it may lead to talks becoming more fruitful between Ukraine and Russia,

and that he said it's not going to happen very quickly, but he said he can see this being a beginning to the end. Of course, he paints a very bleak picture of what's going on right now. He says, Europe and Canada, Japan, Australia, all have to get involved in this, but it could be the signal of the beginning of the end.

A different look at the world of entertainment with John Moore. weekday mornings at 720. The voice of Millhouse on the Simpsons says she's stepping away.

Her name is Pamela Hayden. And you have to be mindful of the fact that the Simpsons have been around for 35 years. So, you know, some of the people who participate may be a little tired. She's been doing, she's 70 now. She's been doing Millhouse, Rod Flanders, Malibu Stacey, amongst other characters. And incidentally, I don't think she ranks amongst the top earners at the Simpsons, but the top earners, the principal actors, make $300,000 an episode.

Wow. So you're sleeping outside tonight for a charity in Toronto, are you? I am. Yeah. You know what? When I got to Toronto, I went looking for something that sort of resembled Donut, because I always thought that that was such an incredible organization.

And I fell in with this place called Covenant House. And it's not just a shelter for kids who are homeless, but it, you know, takes them in, gives them a meal, gives them a roof, but tries to support them for as long as it takes in order to get them back to a real life. And it's tremendously successful at that. There are graduates who become lawyers and doctors and chefs and all kinds of stuff. So twice a year they do the sleep out. Where are you sleeping?

Where are you sleeping? I'm somewhere on the campus at Metropolitan University, apparently. Like in a tent or under a stairway? Under a stairway? Under a stairway. You frown on tents. You sleep out in the open. They give you a cardboard and a sleeping bag. And that's it. And a friend of mine, who I was talking with yesterday, who's done this several times, said, the only thing I can tell you is don't go too close to the buildings because that's where the rats are.

Oh, that's pleasant. Now, I know you've been laser focused to probably over less. As soon as you knew you were doing this on where you're going to poop, right? Where are you going to go to the bathroom? Tell me, tell me. I'm pretty sure you're thinking about it. You've been thinking about it. I'm pretty sure if I poop before I leave home, I really do.

Oh boy. So in the Bizarro world, a crypto rich crypto guy who nobody understands crypto. Nobody understands this banana art. You bought it for 5.2 million US, is that it?

No, actually, that was originally what they thought it was going to go for. But actually, it ended up going for 6.2 million dollars. Well, yeah, no, it was 5.2 million plus the bonus that they get for the commit. Yeah. And for those who aren't familiar with this work of art, making quotation marks in the air, it's a 35 cent banana.

Yeah, and it's taped to a wall with duct tape. And the buyer says he's actually going to eat the banana. Because of course, when you buy this particular work of art, what you're buying is the right to continue to reproduce it. I mean, it's very abstract. It has a lot to say about the value of art, I guess. But at the same auction, it's now a Rene Magritte sold for $121 million. So he's now one of 16 artists who will sell for over $100 million routinely.

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I think it was an auction in... I was looking at an auction last night. I don't know when the auction happened. There was... Rossburg, what's the name of the author? The artist... Anyway, it was facing... Rossco? It was two lines, like a blue and a yellow with a white thing in the middle, sold for $225 million.

That's probably a Rothko, because what he's most famous for, what you can see in London, is an entire room with gigantic paintings that are all red. Yeah, no, it made no sense. In real art, though, an Emily Carr painting found in a barn sold for a lot? Yeah. Emily Carr gave this painting to somebody who lived on a farm in the US, and they hung her painting in a barn. When they died, it went up for auction, and somebody bought it for $50.

And it just sold for two hundred ninety thousand dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Mark Rothko with such such titles as Untitled Orange and Yellow, Orange Red and Yellow, Black on Gray and Red. You have a great day, John.

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Yep, here you are. I want to say the same thing to you. You're not Donald Trump. Nope. But he's still the guy.

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I'm still looking at your name. I'm looking at your name here, Tom. Pete Hochstra is the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada, just a wealth incoming just minted by Trump. And we've all been drawing straws and Canada. One, I mean, I guess Trump must have run out of lunatics because Pete Hochstra, as you just heard in that clip, is astonishingly normal. Immigrant to the United States, interestingly enough, his family immigrated when he was a kid from the Netherlands.

And in his first term, Trump had named him ambassador to the Netherlands. So not only is he an experienced Republican congressman, he's an experienced diplomat. He won't be breaking any furniture as he walks in.

And he's got an understanding of the Canada-US relationship because he's from Michigan, a border state. So I think this is a win-win-win for us. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy dealing with Donald Trump on trade issues. In his announcement of Pete Hochstra, he was saying he's going to take care of hard-working American agricultural families. So this is something we've talked about, that they're going to be going after our supply management system. That's on the table. But at least we've got somebody who seems

really experienced and capable and his expertise is, I think, going to be an asset to us. And what are going to be, of course, very, very difficult times. Yeah, perhaps, yeah. The, OK, the city of Montreal budgets about 7.3, 7.2 million, a billion dollars came out yesterday. The value plant says she's leaving the city in great shape.

In her two terms, the rate of inflation has been about 20%. The taxes have gone up 38%, and spending has gone up 32%. Yeah, that's the key. I mean, that's the thing. She's been completely outspending inflation, and it's got to be real back in. Now, it's been an easy thing for her because she's had not paid much attention to the business world in Montreal. All you got to do is drive downtown to know that.

But at the same time, she's got a strong base. And when she says she's leaving the house in order, she's leaving her political house in order first and foremost. Because see what you want about Valerie Plant? She's a good politician. She can change her mind and come up with a completely different policy and try to smile it away as she did on Mount Royal. But overall, what she's done is made sure that her base, which is what?

Community groups, the unions, her strongest backers. They're not going to be going over to any new candidate that pops up because the Chamber of Commerce says this is your new mayor. So this is going to be a big fight for the heart and soul of Montreal in the next election. She has done an abysmal job of managing the purse.

of the city, but she's done a great job leaving the political house in order. So this is the legacy of Valerie Plot, a devastated downtown corp. And again, all you got to do is drive there. I guess the downtown corp is a very, very big place these days because

those orange corn cones are everywhere in the southern part of Montreal. Whoever takes over from her is going to probably promise to do more of the same, but whether it's the 1,800 managers who all got bonuses or the bloated salaries that are being paid that make it almost impossible to manage the money, somebody's going to have to come in and clean house. Of course, they're going to be told that they're bringing in austerity, but they might actually be bringing in a little bit of management, which has been sorely lacking.

Okay, so Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, is to announce today part of a multi-billion dollar package designed to provide some relief to families. It would be a two-month vacation for the GST on some things like diapers, children's clothing, some food items, perhaps your phone bill. We're not sure exactly what, but what's his slogan going to be, axe the tax? Is that what he's going to come out and say?

Yeah, sure. That'd be great, actually. I'd love it. Just a little sidebar. You know where Acts the Tax came from? From an NDP campaign in British Columbia, when the liberals were bringing in, wait for it, a carbon tax and the left-wing NDP fought the carbon tax, which is still there in BC.

with the slogan acts the tax I kid you not so welcome to Canadian politics hey so yes I mean Trudeau this is Canadian politics right you know which of hey buddy come here you want some diapers

I'm sorry. I saw it. So we're talking about like, here's the first thing that occurs to me. I mean, I know this is this is welcome, you know, any kind of relief is welcome, but it's not a great number. And we're already what? Almost a $50 billion deficit. So why do we try to curry favor with? Well, he's trying to curry favor because this isn't one of the things that somehow, you know,

checkmate Singh is still finding it. We keep supporting Justin Trudeau, so the government doesn't fall. And last week, Singh was on about wanting reductions in the GST. So when Trudeau announced this, right away, you know, Singh was online saying, oh, this is typical to the Liberals. They're doing what they have to do, but they're not doing it for long enough and on enough products. So this is

the left of Canadian politics, the center left liberals in the left leaning NDP, looking at all of this and tut tutting and saying, well, we've got to do more, which is fair enough. But you just mentioned the $50 billion structural deficit. It's called structural because it ain't going away. There's nothing you can do to bring it down right now unless you really start hacking away. And this is what Trudeau doesn't seem to understand. It's about the economy, stupid.

and he can talk until the cows come home about big issues that he thinks should be on people's minds. What's on people's minds is the cat pay their taxes and the cat. Hi, I'm Jennifer Reed, host of a Woman Like You podcast. Big thanks to our partners, CTV News, Shopping Trends and Amazon Canada for making this show possible.

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Speaking of places where the cover to spare, the Quebec government is presenting their economic update today. What's an economic update? It's not the budget, the budget that comes in the spring, whether it's in Ottawa or here, and we have a very different system from the Americans.

You know, governments fall if their budget is defeated, and that could well be when Trudeau gets his comeuppance. But what happens in the fall is that all governments have to show the books. They predicted an $11 billion deficit in the spring budget. Are they on track for that? They will be able to say, Andrew, I will safely predict that they're on track for that. And even doing it, it's better.

But they're doing it by sleight of hand, it's smoke and mirrors. So we talked about the fact that the new head of San Techo Beckman MB home has been handed an order to reduce spending by well over a billion, close to a billion and a half dollars. So how's she going to do that? Well, she sent out an order saying you've got to stop fixing your hospitals, stop fixing the leaky roof on your CLSC and so forth.

And anything that you thought you'd already had as deficit spending, you're going to have to cut to cover that. So this is a real example. In the gas bay, they had already deficit spent 38 million. They were told that they were going to be able to forget about 28 million of that. It would be absorbed, but they had to find savings to cover the extra 10 million. Now they're being told they've got to find savings between now and the 31st of March for the 38 million. It's one example

amongst hundreds across the province. So this is going to be a smoke and mirrors statement by Eric Girard, our finance minister, where he says, I have cut.

1.5 billion in healthcare. But it's not true because in Gatsby, they're not going to be able to actually cut that money. So when we get to the 31st of March and they consolidate the books and they look at everything and say, oh, lo and behold, they didn't deliver what they were supposed to do at Sante Quebec. And we've got an extra billion dollars, but they have to get past this mile post today. They have to show the markets that they're on track. And the reason they have to do that is what's called the credit rating. You know, it's like, if you want to get a mortgage and you've been very good with your money,

The bank might give you a half a percent or a percent less on your mortgage rate. It's the same thing with provinces or countries. You have to go to the markets and say, here are our books. We're doing well. And then they keep you where you are, or maybe they give you a better deal. Or if you're not doing well, they'll raise the percentage that you have to pay when you borrow money. For Quebec, that would be an absolute disaster. We already owe a ton of money.

And we keep borrowing, but we would be borrowing at a higher rate. And that would bring in a death spiral for us economically. And it would lead us to the door of insolvency, which is actually where we are right now and go back. But the makeup effort today is going to be to say, no, no, it's not that bad. Look, we're actually doing better than we were. We're getting faster. We're getting, oh, it might be less than $11 billion. That's the game that's going to be played.

Don't miss the two-minute checkup with Dr. Mitch weekday mornings at 750. Hello. Good morning to you, sir. OK, so what's the bad news here? Even if I work out regularly, if I'm sitting all day, I'm going to die soon. Is that basically? Well, no, but it's built on things that we've been talking about. This is adding us, giving us more information so we can make better choices for our lives. This is from the American Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

And again, from that massive database out of the UK, 90,000 people, they put an accelerometer on their wrists, they measure their physical activity during a day, how much time they slept, how much they were seated, how much time they put into moderate or vigorous physical activity, then they followed them. And lo and behold, as you guys already know, the more time they spent sedentary, the worse the risk for them in terms of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, and strokes. And in fact, the inflection point seemed to be somewhere around 10.5

hours a day of being sedentary. The key method here is, as we've already learned in our previous conversations, standing doesn't help, so standing desk doesn't make a big difference, but moving is important. And so I think this reinforces the importance of about every 30 minutes getting up, and look, you may not be able to walk over to your neighbor's little cubicle, you may not be able to go to the water cooler because it doesn't exist or the coffee room or anything like that,

Maybe you want to look into what we used to call desk exercises, squats, chest, wall push-ups, things like that that you can do easily at your office, get your heart rate up without looking like a silly person. I was going to use a more colorful language, but we'll just say silly person. And without sweating so much that you can't continue to do your day. But the key message here is one,

move around, don't stay seated. And that's tough, think about it. How much time do you lose every day in your commute? Either seated on the bus or the metro or seated in your car. So that already put you at disadvantage. So anything you can do at work to kind of move around about every 30 minutes is worth doing. The other interesting thing is they looked at basically three different groups of people. Couch potatoes were sedentary, obviously did the worst. Next bad, but better,

was the group of people who weren't couch potato to work weren't couch potatoes they were sedentary work yes but they were also also physically active in other words they got up the exercise they did something like that so they didn't do is well as people who weren't sedentary but exercising well didn't erase all of the badness from being sedentary certainly was a positive certainly made things better

And then the best group were the group that weren't sedentary and were active at the same time. And we're moving and exercising. So, message is simple. Try not to be seated for long periods of time at a stretch. Exercise, sure, but don't count on exercise by itself to undo all the bad effects of if you're sitting for too long. And the best is to be active, not to be seated for long periods of time and to exercise on a regular basis.

Now this is all just reinforcing stuff that you've all heard, but it just adds additional evidence and gives it a specific number. In fact, one of the things they found is for every five or 10 or 15 minutes of being sedentary that you substitute with some degree of moderate exercise, dramatic change in terms of your cardiovascular risk, your risk of heart attack or stroke. So you're not hopeless, you're not helpless. There's stuff that you can do. Small changes do make a good difference.

And so there is hope here not to give up. Do something. Don't be sedentary. All right. Thank you. A pleasure. You have a great day. You have a great day.

That's a doctor's orders. That's a Dr. Mitch Schulman company. Whenever news breaks, you'll get it here first. The Andrew Carter Morning Show, CJAD 800. It is 8-11. You may remember last week Premier Francois Legos, that his government is prepared to force doctors trained in Quebec universities to begin their careers in the province's public system.

That comment doesn't sit well with some. My next guest says that instead of forcing doctors to stay put, there are other ways the government can make it more appealing to stay in Quebec. And Dr. Caroline Esman-White doing her residency training in surgery at McGill University. And is on the line. Good morning.

Good morning. How are you? I'm fine. Thanks. We are fascinated by your, uh, your opinion piece in the, in the Montreal Gazette last week where you talked about when you add up, uh, all the time you spend and the, and what you're being paid at this point, what your hourly rate you figured would be. How much you're making per hour, you figure?

well it varies week to week depending on that how much overtime i do but i calculated for the week before last which i i worked at one hundred and twenty six hour week and it was paid six dollars and seventy four cents an hour for that week are there either that was that was good i was that i made in the bank of Montreal pay mailroom in about nineteen eighty one it was uh...

That's what wasn't a bad to deal that but okay, so I didn't even know first of all that there were 126 hours So we have a problem here with apparently a perceived problem with some doctors graduating that in subsidized programs and then moving either moving away or moving into the into the private sector What would be a better way to deal with this problem? far as you're concerned

I think it's a few factors that play into this. In general, it's a carrot versus a stick issue. What Logo is proposing to do is more of a stick, but I think we should focus more on the carrots for retaining residents in our Quebec public health care system. One stick would be fair pay, as we've already alluded to, just by comparison, residents in Quebec

In our first year, we make nearly $20,000 less than our counterparts in other provinces like Ontario. So I think fair pay is something that most residents would advocate for. I think also there's a component of technology that needs to be addressed. As I mentioned in my article, I regularly use address-a-graphs, carbon copy, paper, fax machines at every hospital on the daily. And so I think that moving to a more full-service electronic medical record system

Because it, you know, it's better for patient safety. It has less errors than handwritten and faxing handwritten orders, for example. And I think a lot of physicians feel more comfortable working with newer technology just because it's more efficient. It saves us a lot of time as well. So that's one thing. I think we're kind of outdated here in the Quebec system. You know, additionally, I think that, you know, the increasing language polarization in Quebec contributes to, you know, I can only speak from

I'm in the English side with McGill University. Obviously, I speak French and I speak French with my patients and all of that. But I think that as English first language, it's alienating to many of us to be in Quebec right now with the increasing restrictions towards French speaking. Okay, so you're among your cohort that you've come up with. What percentage of them have a tendency just to leave once they graduate? It's a little bit hard to say.

You know, among the, I'm in a surgical specialty and among the surgical specialties, many people tend to leave even temporarily to do fellowships. They go to the States, they go to other provinces, but that's not necessarily to not return to go back. That's to get further subspecialized training. In terms of family doctors, I know that, you know, recent data has supported that, you know, 60 to 77% of doctors may leave to go to Ontario and to the States.

So, you know, it's hard to say like, I'm still in my second year out of five years of surgical training. And so at this point, I haven't seen so many people leave. But that's because I haven't been, you know, in the system for so long. Well, I've always wondered, you know, if things are so bad, why do people stay? Is it, is it they fall in love? They fall in love with the city. They just can't be bothered to leave. Like, why, why would people stay? Well, I can speak to my own experience because I did.

I lived in Montreal previously for my undergrad and my master's degree, and then I left for Medical School, Ontario, and I decided to return to Montreal because it's a wonderful place to live. I love Montreal. I love the culture, the community here. I love the opportunities here. I love McGill University. So there are a lot of reasons to say. I think people want to stay. It's not that we don't want to stay and serve our communities. That would be ideal. A lot of us set down roots here. The presidency is a long time. It's at least a few years for us five years.

And we're all, you know, most people during residency are in their 20s and 30s. So I think people would love to stay, but sometimes they feel pushed out. So you're going to, you're, you're studying to be a surgeon. Correct. Yeah. And what, what do you want to, what, what special, just general surgery or what specialty are you? So I'm in plastic and reconstructive surgery. And I personally want to work in the hospital system doing, you know, hand surgery and burn, that sort of thing.

Oh, really? That is very interesting. Now, were you ever squeamish at any point in your life? Not really. It doesn't really make for a very good moment. No, I would think. I would think not. It is fascinating, though, and I hope things look up for you guys in that you decide to stay here. Thank you. And I appreciate the opportunity to speak about this, the topic near and dear to my heart. No, it's my pleasure. And I hope I never have to run across you in a professional setting.

I hope so too. From the bedroom to the bus stop, the kitchen table to the car. Thanks for starting your day with us, the Andrew Carter Morning Show. CJAD 800. By the way, this Canadian lunar module that they're trying to name, I got some great, this is a fantastic, the Looney Rover. Huh? Doesn't that make Mooney McMoon face? Keith Moon? Explorer? No? Okay.

Marketing Pro, Dorvahy grad Tony Chapman is on the line. Good morning, Tony. Good morning, Andrew. Good morning. So I'm going to play you a little bit of the beginning of a TV report on the Coca-Cola artificial intelligence commercial controversy. Just listen to this. One of the most iconic brands, ringing in the holiday season.

But take a closer look at the new Coca-Cola commercial, and you might notice that it was made with artificial intelligence. Social media certainly caught with. It shows how lifeless that Christmas commercial is. It was supposed to be a reimagination of the iconic Holidays or Coming campaign from 1995.

Yeah, so that basically gives you the taste of what people are having problems with. I've seen this commercial, and it's funny, Tony, there is something still lifeless about what artificial intelligence-generated animals or people look like. But at the same time, from a marketing point of view, is this a fail or a pass for Coke? Because they're getting all sorts of free advertising.

Yeah, it's a great question, Andrew. I think for the artistic community, the advertising community, everybody's up in arms, for good reason. It's taken away a lot of jobs. I'm not sure the consumer's going to go that deep into it and analyze whether that's done by AI. They'd come out and say, here's a CGI ad. Nobody would be talking about it. They would just be saying, that's the kind of cartoons and animation I'm seeing in theater. So I think it really comes down to this whole sense of job loss.

I think they're getting a lot of free press. I personally don't think it's a great ad. And the reason being, one, it kind of reminds me of Lion King. The music holidays are coming. It's kind of like the Lion King music. And all their animated creatures come to life. But second thing is they're putting too many things in it. And that's what AI does. It goes out and says, OK, let's get all the iconic elements of Coke. And we'll put it all together in one ad.

Yeah. And I think they missed, but here's the thing that we've got to be realized. AI is not going away. It's going to get better and better. And criticizing this attitude, like criticizing the first cars, belching down the road as you're riding by a mental horse. And this is just the sign of things to come. And it's a sign of society having to come to terms with machines are going to do a lot of things that we used to take

uh... as our jobs isn't interesting though that this doesn't it just doesn't do it to give you the same warm feeling that some of those old uh... you know the canadian tire the coca-cola commercials some of the great christmas commercials we have with you even if you know coca-cola polar bear as you know they were done because he was really a story

And a story has to lead, and I think this is just an expression of the media. So again, I don't grade it well for ads, but if the artistic community thinks this is gonna stop marketers from using AI as a way of not only finding efficiency, but also taking advantage of the imaginations of creative people and bringing them to life, this is the future of marketing, and it's gonna get better.

And a lot of jobs, just like studio musicians lost their jobs when computers could take a songwriter like Ed Sheeran and say, OK, let's play bass. Let's play drums. Let's bring in horns. It's the same concept. And it's just the reality of what we're going to the existential question is.

I can replace you with AI. Will it be as good as you right now? No. But in five or 10 years from now, that might be you coming to individuals' homes based on their preferences of what they want to hear. And there'll be 10 million versions of the Andrew Carter show going out. And that's the future of where this technology's going. And again, it comes back to what I fear more than anything else with AI is, what are we going to do?

when all that work is done by others. And I think that's going to be how history is going to mark these times in terms of how fast we're abandoning humanity in favor of technology. None of those robots would have the sweet chocolatey goodness of the real Andrew Carter Morning Show.

Well, there's no question, but I guess AI, I could actually put your show out right now in 80 languages with your voice. So I could take the show you're doing right now and literally stream it in 80 languages with your voice.

I'd like to hear you imagine. I want to see your sweet chocolate. I want to see your cheap sweet chocolate Mandarin or German, you know, the kind of languages that don't really don't really they don't say love like the Latin languages. I would love to see how you come off screaming at people about it.

so tell me about uh... your guest this week on ten of them at seven-year-old girl like loving life school everything is seven-year-old does apparently guess what we're going to go on a sailboat adventure for the next three years we're going to follow captain cooks voyage around the world drag her out of school everything she knows puts her on this boat

Three years turns into a decade. They get lost at sea. They almost lose their lives at sea to fund a trip. They take strangers on at sea, literally living in a hammock right beside her. And she's even an outcast with her in her family. And the only way she escapes is by learning online. And at age 17, she literally abandons the boat with no idea what she's going to do in life. Today, she's an Oxford graduate, a CEO and chairman of major corporations. Wow.

It's an incredible, it's an incredible adventure. It literally should be a Swiss family Robinson kind of adventure, but God bless her for finding her way out through books because she was losing her mind on that ship. And her name is Susan Haywood. She's Ann Haywood, yeah. And what's your takeaway from this?

You know, my takeaway with her is she found something that at least gave her a sense of normality, which was learning. And despite being teased by her parents and her brother because they were such a nerd, she stuck with it. And sometimes even if your passion goes in face of society norms, just continue to chase it because that's what makes you happy versus others judging what should make you happy. Yeah, beautiful. Hey, thanks very much.

Tony. All right. I can't wait to do you in German, brother. Well, I know I want to hear that. I would pay to listen to that. Tony Chapman, chatter that matters wherever you download your fine podcasts. Listen to the Andrew Carter Morning Show Live Monday to Friday, 5 30 to 9.