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Jeff Rubin is our guest for Part 1 of this episode. Jeff is the #1 best-selling author of “Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller” and the former Chief Economist for CIBC World Markets. We are going to talk about his new book “The Expendables”, and his argument that the middle class got nothing out of globalization ... except the bill. And how the blowback to all of that is changing the developed world.

Part 2 of the pod, is the comms and campaign gurus you’ve grown to LOAVTH – which is a brand new word I just invented that combines LOATH and LOVE. It’s a complicated feeling, I know ... our Political Panel with  Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! We’ll pick up on my discussion with Jeff. We’ll continue to talk about government response to the 2nd wave of the pandemic and growing COVID comms confusion. We’ll tell some stories of spouses and family members “contributing” – and I’m doing the air quotes fingers right now – to campaign strategy. And we’ll debut a new segment near the end of the Panel we call, “HEY YOU!” ... Here’s how “HEY YOU” works: each of us will throw a single question out into the social media ether ... for a politician or public figure. Will it be entertaining? Yeah, I’m pretty sure it will. Will somebody take the bait and give us an answer? We’ll see. Will somebody else create a burner account, and masquerade as that public figure to try to fake us out? Seems like a lot of work, but sure. Go for it. Anyway, stick around for “HEY YOU!”

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