A Daily-Double episode.

For Part 1, we have Adrienne Spafford as our guest. Adrienne is CEO of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, and she has a long history as, not only a seasoned healthcare leader, but a senior advisor in government. We’re going to be talking about the impacts of COVID on mental health. We'll also chat more broadly about our system and strategy for addictions and mental health care. What are we getting right? And where can we do better?

Part 2 of the pod is a special edition of the Political Panel, with our comms and campaign gurus, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid! Today we're doing an ALL-MAILBAG show, answering all your burning political questions and sharing some questionable stories from our past.  And don't miss our new segment at 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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Greetings, congenial Herle Burly-ites ... top of the podcast to you!

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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Today’s show is one of the 2-parters you’ve come to expect from The Herle Burly – still the only podcast that combines 1970s breakfast cereal references with pandemic social-economic theory.

For Part 1, Peter Weltman joins us today. Peter is Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer. That means he heads an office that provides independent fiscal, financial and economic analysis on the state of the Province's finances ... plus trends in the provincial economy. We’ll talk about the choices made in the last Thursdays’ budget. Ontario’s ongoing financial capacity and its deficit. And where the province goes from here. B-T-W, Peter is also an avid listener to the podcast, who just reached out one day and took me to lunch. Which tells all of you Herle Burly-ites ... I can be bought. A decent cheeseburger will probably do it.

Part 2 of the pod is our ever-lovin’ Political Panel, with strategists Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. They cuss, they say smart things and tell funny stories, they fight like aggressive wallabys, and then they blow each other kisses from their ZOOM CUBES and make up. We’ll pick up on the Weltman conversation. Plus, we’ll talk a little about what’s going on down south right now, the heightened focus on Georgia’s Senate seats, transition issues, possible recounts, and we’ll share some of our own stories.

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Back on the podcast is Averell "Ace" Smith. Ace is one of the great American political strategists for Democratic Party candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.

In 2018 he joined The Herle Burly podcast to discuss the midterm elections and his book, "THE PITCHER AND THE DICTATOR" about baseball legend Satchel Paige. He joins us now for an analysis of the 2020 presidential election and what we learned about American voters.

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After little or no sleep, David, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid sit down for a reaction to the US election.

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It is our immense good fortune to have Stuart Stevens on the pod. Stuart Stevens is the most successful Republican Political Operative of his generation, spending decades electing candidates at every level. From Presidents to Senators ... right on down the ballot. He was Mitt Romney’s Senior Strategist in the 2012 election.

A prominent Never Trump Republican, he the author of 8 books – his latest, “IT WAS ALL A LIE: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump”, became an instant New York Times Bestseller. And he is also a member of The Lincoln Project.

There are 700,000 eligible US voters living here in Canada who are closely following the race. And millions more of us who just can’t take our eyes off the shit show. So, we’re going to talk about what Stuart’s book tells us about the rise of Trumpism and how to defeat it.

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For Part 1 today, we’re going to dive into the B.C. election story, and John Horgan’s historic, “Orange Wave” 55-seat majority, with Mike McDonald. Mike is a brilliant guy and good friend of mine. He’s the former campaign manager and Chief of Staff to Premier Christy Clark. Currently, he’s Partner and Chief Strategy Officer for Kirk & Co., one of the leading communications and public engagement firms in Canada, and a senior research associate at Pollara Strategic Insights. And you can read about what’s on his political mind at https://rosedeer.blog/

For Part 2, we’ll bring on our Political Panel, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid.  We’ll pick up a little bit on the B.C. election ... And we’ll devote the rest of our time to topics and stories spurred on by your Twitter suggestions over the course of the last week.

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Alright, curious and passionate Herle Burly-ites, time for today’s 2-part pod. It’s a great one, and I’ll tell you why:

For Part 1, we’re welcoming back two guests whose first go ‘round with us happens to be the number 2 most downloaded episode in the long, dubious history of The Herle Burly podcast.

Keith Boag and Neil Macdonald are here.

Both of these stellar CBC alumni spent years working in the U.S., observing and reporting on the condition of American democracy and political discourse. We are 2 weeks away from election day. Most polls look bad for President “I won’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power”. What the hell is going to happen on November 3rd . And in the weeks following? When will we know who won the damned thing? What is the future of the Republican Party? And where do Trump voters go from here?

For Part 2, we’ll bring on our Political Panel, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. We’ll pick up a little bit on the U.S. election stuff. Plus, we’ll chat about the fight in Ottawa over special House Committees.

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Today, we have a 2-part pod. Part 1 is Jennifer Welsh. Jennifer’s CV is longer than my COVID-hair. So I’ll abbreviate it just a bit. She hails from Regina! Just like me. Unlike me, she is a Rhodes scholar, earning her Masters and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford. She is currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security and serves as the Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies at McGill University. And so, today we are going to talk about Canada's place in the world.

Part 2 is our consistently entertaining, always gorgeous Political Panel. We’ve got Jenni Byrne coming to us by way of Jenni Byrne and Associates, by way of Doug Ford’s office, by way of Stephen Harper’s inner circle, by way of the Reform Party of Canada, by way of the Fenelon Falls IGA. Next to Jenni in his hazy yellow ZOOM square is Scott Reid: Principal at Feschuk-Reid communications, former Director of Communications to Paul Martin, senior advisor to many federal and provincial Liberal leaders, noted media commentator here on planet earth, as well as all across the multiverse. We’re gonna talk about a few things today:

• BC election roasts
• Doug Ford's authenticity 
• WE
• Trump

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Part 1 of today's pod is John Stackhouse ... making an almost unprecedented RETURN to The Herle Burly. Besides being only the guest other than Ken Dryden to be a repeat guest on our show, our original interview with John is one of the top 10 most-listened-to episodes in our podcast history!

John spent close to a quarter century at the Globe and Mail. As a foreign correspondent, editor of Report on Business and then finally, Editor-in-Chief. Today, he’s a Senior Vice-President, office of the CEO, at the Royal Bank of Canada where he advises leadership on emerging trends in the Canadian economy. He’s also the author of a new book, launching tomorrow called, “Planet Canada: How our Expats are Shaping the Future” in which he argues that our country’s greatest untapped resource may be the 3 million Canadians who don’t live here anymore. We’ll talk about that, plus, we’ll dive deep into the COVID and post-COVID economy.

For Part 2, we’ll bring on our Political Panel ... those creators of memorable strategies, and utterers of vivid expletives ... Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid. Not shockingly, we’re gonna do a lot of Trump talk today. The garden party seems to be over for the Trump campaign. We’ll discuss what Team Trump might do to stem the bleeding (besides jumping in limos and having impromptu hospital parades), plus we'll discuss Annamie Paul and what the exciting new leader might mean for the Green Party of Canada.

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