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Zain: is the Strategist episode 1857. My name is Zane Velji. With me as always, Stephen Carter. And oh, look who decided to show up. Oh, it's Corey Hogan.
Zain: Candidate
Carter: Candidate
Zain: Candidate Hogan. Do we refer
Carter: Hogan. Do we refer to him as the Corey Hogan now? Like, what's the deal? Like, sir? Do we have to go with sir? Oh,
Zain: Oh, sir. Have you been knighted? Is that how much the Liberal Party has access? That you've just automatically gotten knighted as part of your candidacy package? Oh,
Corey: part of your candidacy package? Oh,
Corey: Oh, so it
Zain: so it was Sir Thomas Keeper, now it's Sir Corey Hogan. Is that how it is?
Zain: Yeah, that's exactly right. Are they going to keep his knighthood?
Zain: Hey,
Corey: Hey, as
Zain: as a new candidate, is the previous candidate going to have his knighthood kept?
Corey: as a new candidate, is
Corey: kept?
Corey: I'm going to have to check with the party office on that. That's my answer, by the way. Such a meanian charter. that's my answer to every question going forward for the
Zain: the way. Such a meanian
Carter: meanian charter. that's my answer to every question going forward for the party oh my god god
Corey: oh my god god
Carter: god you sticking me down
Corey: you
Corey: you sticking me down zane has mark carney opinioned on it because if so that's my opinion that's oh this
Zain: oh this makes sense carter he's like i want to do i want to do a strategist youtube page we're like why less is more and he's like no no people need to see my face they need to get more I want to wear suits during this. I'm like, why? Carter, I never put the pieces together. But this motherfucker had a plan the whole time, okay? No, listen. I knew it the whole
SPEAKER_03: more
Carter: knew it the whole time. I'm so good at strategy. I would have bet that
Carter: that on April Fool's Day, he was going to announce his candidacy.
Carter: That's how I would have done it. I would have bet that. By
SPEAKER_05: That's
Zain: That's how I would
Corey: would
Zain: would
Corey: would
SPEAKER_05: would
Zain: By the way, do you want to confirm or deny that you are the candidate right now? No, I don't want to do that. Put it in unequivocal terms for the people. Because I'd say there's a good 50%. 50%. It's down the middle that don't believe you're the candidate. So, Corey, I'll give you this opportunity right now. This is Corey Hogan, Liberal Party of Canada, candidate for Calgary Confederation, telling you that he is indeed that. Go ahead, Corey. People,
Carter: No, I
Corey: I don't want to do that. Put it in unequivocal
Carter: unequivocal
Corey: unequivocal
Carter: unequivocal
Corey: unequivocal terms
Corey: Because I'd say there's
Corey: middle that
Zain: People, it's
Zain: been reported I'm the candidate.
Zain: Sounds convincing to me, Carter. I feel like I'm sold.
Corey: sold.
Zain: On
Corey: On April 1st.
Carter: April 1st. Yeah,
Zain: Yeah,
Corey: Yeah, that's pretty good. On April 1st. On April 1st. I thought that's how you create a buzz. You know, you create a little excitement. I think that the launch, like the press release also referencing how I won an Irish stew competition. Yeah. Maybe people had some questions.
Carter: that's pretty good. On April 1st. On April 1st.
Zain: Yeah. Maybe
Zain: Carter, let's jump right into strategy mode. How would you go after Corey's late launch here? Irish stew? How would you undercut the fact that Corey Hogan is a Liberal Party candidate in Confederation? Go ahead. Yeah. As a good friend and personal advisor to Corey, can you broadcast how you would actually undermine his campaign go?
Carter: a good friend
Carter: Undermine Corey's campaign. That's
Zain: That's right. Yeah, I want you to do it.
Carter: Well, I think that the actual answer was you got to focus on the candidate.
Carter: Right?
Carter: Right? Like, you know, candidate strengths and weaknesses ultimately matter a lot in politics. And this is where, you know, Corey's probably pulling, what, 20, 25 points behind Mark Carney right now. so focus on focus on the fact that you
Carter: you know cory hogan is running i mean thanks
Corey: thanks appreciate you i
Carter: mean cory hogan's unofficial slogan and and it might be his actual official slogan is you could do worse so let's
Corey: mean cory
Carter: let's test that premise you know and here's the premise this
Zain: you know and here's the premise this is where i question cory's candidacy because you could do worse sure but the thing is they had worse worse you had worse right you had worse and now you have cory right this is this is why you need the brain power of someone like me on the campaign garter we can't just be you all the time no
Carter: no i let's be clear we've asked you to be on the campaign um we've asked uh i think 17 times uh will you be on the campaign which the answer has been seems
Corey: you be on the campaign which the answer has been seems a light i'm
Carter: i'm pretty busy i'm pretty busy well i've got a new show can i can i launch my new show are we
Corey: we all just talking are we just Is this launching things today? You can go to whateverthisis.ca.
Zain: we
Zain: You can go to whateverthisis.ca. It's very good, I've heard, and I've been told to say. Unfortunately,
Corey: Unfortunately, I did tell you that. It is very good. Whateverthisis.ca? Whatever
Carter: Whateverthisis
Zain: Whatever this is. Not a joke. Did
Carter: Not a joke. Did I make it through a whole episode? No, I have not. It's three minutes an
Corey: Did I make it through
Zain: through a whole
Zain: have not. It's three minutes
Zain: an episode.
Zain: You can make it through. I
Carter: I can't. I've tried. It's a brown man yelling at you for three
Zain: tried. It's a brown man yelling at you for three minutes, okay? I've
Carter: I've tried two times. You've worked in the Northeast. You know
Zain: You've worked in the Northeast. You know what this is like. This
Carter: This is missing two people that would have made this thing. Absolutely. It's really pumped. It's
Zain: Absolutely. It's really pumped. It's you really take the quality elements of the podcast and or the ones that are not leaving the podcast and you then isolate them. Carter, this is what I should have done years ago.
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Zain: realizing I limited my career. Yeah, Zane's basically a joke aggregator. I guess it's a breakup episode with Carter, right, Corey? Is that where this is going? Am I out?
SPEAKER_04: I
Corey: joke aggregator. I guess it's a breakup
Zain: Is that what happened? No, no, no. You're the only one that's in. Oh, I'm the only one left.
Corey: Is that
Carter: that what happened? No,
SPEAKER_03: Oh,
Carter: Oh, I'm the only one left.
SPEAKER_03: left.
Carter: left.
Zain: It's not you. It's us.
Carter: It's not you. It's us.
Carter: Corey, I
Zain: I
Zain: I was confused. One of the reasons I haven't joined is, you know, I respect you, but I do think at this point you are the flare airlines of candidates, right? You're late and excessive baggage is part of the issue. Thank you. Appreciate that. I'm prepping him, Carter. Carter, I'm prepping your boy for
Zain: for what Jeremy Nixon will throw at you, okay?
Zain: Yeah, that's what's going to happen. You know, going
Corey: You know, going against one of the Nixon brothers is pretty exciting. Hey, listen, one
Carter: going against one of the Nixon brothers
Zain: brothers
Carter: brothers is
Zain: is pretty exciting. Hey, listen, one
Corey: one of the things you learn as a candidate is sometimes you don't swing at every pitch, Zane, you know? You just let it go. You've not been schooled in the same school that Carter and I went
Carter: things you
Zain: you learn
Carter: learn
Zain: learn
Zain: You've
Zain: went to. Corey, do you want to tell us what happened here? Because I think there's people that are still – I think we've reduced the number. I think at the end of this episode, our core objective is to convince 100% of listeners you are indeed the candidate. Now, I think your statement helped, but
SPEAKER_05: Corey,
Corey: Corey,
SPEAKER_05: Corey, do
Corey: do
SPEAKER_05: do you want
Corey: want to tell us
SPEAKER_05: us what
SPEAKER_05: Because I think there's people
Zain: don't think it went all the way. Do you want to actually tell us more to this fiction to give us a sense of why you're the candidate?
Corey: Do you
Corey: Yeah, I mean, so on Friday, I got a call that the candidate that did exist in Calgary Confederation was going to be leaving that post and that that was going to be happening pretty soon. And then I was asked, can
Corey: can I put your stuff forward to be a candidate for Calgary Confederation? And I talked to my wife about it and thought, yeah, I mean, look, let's even step back from there. I think like most Canadians, I've been pretty
Corey: pissed
Corey: pissed off about everything Donald Trump's been doing, what's been going on in the United States, the Americanization of our politics, all of that. And in January, it kind of came to a head, like we've got this lunatic down south calling us the 51st state. We've got these tariffs looming. We've got trouble going on with Russia. Like the world is just such a crazy, dangerous place. And it just felt like something had to give, right? And who knew that all we really needed was a central banker. But that, you know, Mark Carney really changed the game in the conversation. And so it started thinking in
Corey: in probably February, March, like, well, is there other ways I can be helpful? So when the call came, I
Corey: I took the call. I thought that's interesting. Talked to my wife and it's been kind of whirlwind since Friday, if I'm going to be totally honest.
Zain: It's one of those things where it feels at times
Corey: times like it's moving way too fast and other times where it feels like it's moving way too slow because it's like making a major purchase. It's so easy to commit and then the paperwork, all of the things you have to do in order to make it real take days. and you've got to interview with people and you've got to wait for them and they're going to go on the timeline of ottawa and ottawa doesn't really it's
Corey: it's not that they don't care but you're one of 340 some writings and they're just doing their thing and take
Corey: some time and then on monday night get the call like yeah you are you know claimed as candidate and so then
Corey: we're off we go that's what happened cleaned up all of my files at work yesterday carter
Zain: carter jesus christ i didn't realize this is gonna be fucking sponsored content i didn't know either i mean holy fuck me it's the longest i've ever talked
Carter: didn't know either i mean holy fuck me it's
Corey: it's
Carter: it's the longest i've ever talked
Corey: talked
Carter: talked
Zain: talked
Zain: talked without you interrupting me
Corey: interrupting me
Carter: me
Corey: me
Corey: me yeah that was
Zain: was all
Corey: all
Carter: all right like ottawa doesn't
Zain: like
Corey: like
Zain: like ottawa
Corey: ottawa doesn't care
Zain: doesn't
Zain: care oh
Zain: oh what does it not care that's a good campaign slogan come
Carter: oh
Corey: oh what does it not
Corey: on
Zain: on it's
Corey: on it's
Corey: it's just come on
Zain: on
Corey: on what
Zain: what
Corey: what are you trying to do to be here
Zain: shorter why did you want to open-ended questions questions the The more we tear Corey down, the greater his poll numbers will be, Carter. It is
Corey: did you want to open-ended questions questions the The more we
Carter: is an experiment I want to try. I think that's a great, great hypothesis. I
Zain: an experiment
Zain: I think he should be coming here every week for a shit-kicking. For a shit
Corey: shit-kicking.
Zain: -kicking. Keep me humble. Yeah.
Carter: humble. Yeah.
Corey: Yeah.
Corey: That's
Zain: That's good.
Corey: That's
Zain: That's really nice. Can we call it the humbling, which is you and I? The humbling of Corey Hogan. Yeah.
Carter: nice. Can
Corey: Yeah.
Zain: Great.
Carter: Great.
Zain: Great.
Carter: Great. I see what Trump is doing, and I alone can stand against him.
Zain: Great. I see
Corey: see
Zain: see
Corey: Listen, asshole. Here's what I'm saying. It's worth
Carter: asshole. Here's what I'm saying. It's worth
Carter: worth
Corey: worth fighting
Carter: fighting
Zain: fighting for.
Zain: shit, day two of a candidate and you're calling people assholes?
Corey: shit, day two of a candidate
Corey: The people will understand. No, I don't think they will.
Zain: No, I don't think they will. I think they will. I don't think they're very generous
Corey: generous
Zain: generous with context.
Zain: He calls all white men asshole. By the way, a constituent.
Carter: calls
Zain: You called a constituent an asshole.
Zain: This is really
Carter: This is really coming in handy that we live so close to one another now. Hey, we're all located in one federal riding. This
Zain: we're all located in one
Corey: This is feeling like our entire friendship has been a mistake. Maybe I'll reverse on some of this stuff here.
Carter: This is feeling
Zain: Yeah, he does get final cut of the end. I do
Corey: I do get final cut. Yeah, like it's been my executive producer, right? It's a very Blake Lively situation. In
Zain: Blake Lively situation.
Corey: Hey, man, Blake catching strays, that's more complicated. Why are you defending Blake
Zain: are you defending Blake Lively? There's no Blake Lively constituency within Calgary Confederation.
Carter: I'm Blake. I'm on Team Blake.
Corey: Okay. I,
Zain: I,
Corey: I,
Zain: I, too, am on Team Blake. I'm hardcore Baldoni all the way. So, appease me, Corey, as a constituent. What do you got for me? My
Corey: I, too, am on Team Blake.
Carter: I'm
Carter: So,
Corey: So, appease
Corey: What do you got for me? My
Corey: My
Carter: My
Zain: biggest issue with this election is Justin Baldoni. What do you got?
Zain: is a huge mistake.
Carter: huge mistake.
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Zain: Not for me. I'm having a great fucking time.
Corey: time.
Corey: You know what? Sometimes you just nod and say thank you very much and move on. I just, you know. Carter, his lack of
Zain: Carter, his lack of response is actually convincing more people that this is indeed real. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah.
Corey: that's right. Oh, yeah.
Corey: Carter,
Zain: Carter,
Corey: Carter,
Zain: Carter,
Zain: where are you at with this?
Zain: Oh, my God. We can take this multiple ways. Do you want to reflect on what Corey said? Do you want to discuss the future business plans of the podcast and open the books on the pod? We could do whatever, really. Oh, good. There's many directions we could take this.
Carter: God.
Zain: I'm
Carter: I'm quite certain that he's not going to be able to accept media payments from the Strategist Media Corporation. So this goes from being a three-way split to a two-way split.
Zain: split. I am
Carter: I am pretty excited to record every day this
Zain: excited to record every day this month, every
Carter: every day, you know, let's, let's curse the politics, this fucker, let's go, let's, let's, let's monetize, monetize, right? Yeah,
Corey: Yeah, just listen,
Carter: just listen, this, this was, this has been a whirlwind for all of us. So, you know, this, you know, we weren't going to be involved in Calgary Confederation's campaign up until, up until 24 hours ago, really. And now it's been, you
Carter: you know, making sure that we've got all the little things done. Literature, signs, you know, buttons, T-shirts, door knocking crews, signatures. All
Corey: door knocking crews, signatures. All
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Corey: All of
Carter: of this is coming through. And the volunteer team that's rallying around this is significant. We even had people.
Carter: This is going to shock regular listeners of the podcast. We had people from the podcast actually go and sign Corey's nomination papers, which feels like, frankly, you're letting the whole fucking podcast down. You know who hasn't signed his nomination papers? Me and Zane. We have not signed, and we will not sign. That's true.
Zain: That's true.
Zain: Because this is not real.
Zain: I let people know. This is not real. And to prove it, Corey will say something blasphemous right now.
Carter: I
SPEAKER_03: I let people know. This
Zain: great. Carter, how do you think we're doing convincing people that Corey's actually indeed the candidate?
Corey: how do you think we're doing convincing
Corey: I mean, I think you're convincing me I'm not
Zain: not the
Corey: the candidate
Zain: candidate
Corey: candidate
Zain: candidate
Corey: candidate at
Zain: at this point.
Carter: point. You
Zain: You
Carter: You
Zain: may not be for much longer. That's just what I'm saying. Just print the new guy sign. Just new guy for Calgary Confederation. You had worse twice. I
Zain: I literally sent
Carter: literally sent
Zain: sent
Carter: sent
Carter: sent a note to the campaign today. Don't worry about us. We'll be well behaved. And here we are. Here
Carter: Here we are. Here
Zain: we are.
Zain: Here we are recording. Carter, you, like myself, and Corey, you too, probably got a lot of people saying that this is not real. including media, questioning the veracity. One of the reasons is you launched on April 1st
Zain: with the domain, which I believe is now live, april1.ca.
Corey: Well, april1.ca will bring you to... To be clear, not April 1st. We don't own April 1st. We do own april1.ca. The number one. Yeah,
Zain: Yeah, so if it confuses people, for Corey's campaign, you go to april1.ca, not april1.ca. And if you're confused by that, as a fallback, we also own
Corey: Yeah, so if it confuses people, for
Zain: april2.ca, which will also take you somewhere but
Zain: don't go to aprilfirst.ca yeah
Corey: yeah don't go to april do you want to defend
Zain: do you want to defend purchasing the url the cra is politically motivated any thoughts
Corey: purchasing
Zain: on the canada revenue agency that
Zain: you might have i
Zain: use a glass of water
Zain: carter i i've had enough i don't know if there's anything else you want to talk about No,
Carter: No, listen, this is great. It's as I'm doing all the work I did yesterday. So thank you for that, Zane. Very grateful. I have more work to do today that is probably not going to go to naught because we're going to get Corey kicked out of the candidacy before we even get started. So this has been
SPEAKER_05: this has been
Carter: a pretty great day for all of us.
Zain: Yeah.
Zain: Yeah.
Zain: You're feeling good, Corey? You
Corey: Listen, honest to God, it's going to be a good campaign. It's going to be big.
Carter: to be big.
Carter: it's going to be a great campaign. How did the Jesperson interview go?
Corey: it's going to
Corey: Oh, it's good. I took very few shots at you along the way. Not zero, but a couple. Let
Zain: Let me read you a quote. Let me find a quote. I'm just going to locate it here because I wrote it down because I thought it was excellent. Here we go. Where is the quote? You'll find it on my phone, Stephen Carter. It's about you. I'm glad
Carter: It's about you. I'm glad you did Jesperson. That made me happy.
Carter: Doing middling podcasts is what we're all about here at The Strategist. So Jesus Christ,
Zain: Christ, Carter,
Carter: Carter,
Zain: Carter, come
Carter: come on. You're associated with
Zain: You're associated with the campaign. You can't be fucking talking like that. So, Carter, you missed the interview. I found the quote, OK? Yeah, I did not
Carter: did not listen to the interview. Yeah,
Zain: Yeah, here it is. This is a quote by Stephen. I'm sorry, but I'm just going to play the two of you. This is a quote about Stephen Carter by one Corey Hogan. OK, this is a liberal candidate in Calgary Confederation,
SPEAKER_05: a liberal
Zain: which
SPEAKER_05: which is a real thing he's doing.
Zain: OK, this is great. Quote, he will be around to a degree that makes sense for me and Stephen. Steven.
Zain: The question was, how much will Steven Carter be around the campaign? And the answer was he will be around to a degree that makes sense for me and Steven. Ready
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Zain: That doesn't sound like a lot. Just to be clear. I think one of the things taken away is a lot.
Zain: Yeah, no, listen,
Carter: Yeah, no, listen, me going and working for Corey Hogan, it's
Carter: it's
Carter: it's not on my bucket list. It is – I think that that quote works for not just him, but it's for both of us.
Corey: Optionality is two keys, right? It's a two-key system. Yeah. It's two keys. Speaking of Carter,
Carter: Optionality
Carter: Yeah. It's
Zain: It's
Zain: Speaking of
Zain: Carter, Corey, how big of a, let's just call it what it is, liability was Stephen Carter during your vetting process?
Corey: right. So I won't
Corey: won't go deep, deep in the weeds, but they do. So when you're becoming a candidate, they vet you, right? You've got to provide financial information. They've got to look over things like your credit history, make sure you don't have a criminal record, disclose anything like that. And then they ask you a bunch of conversations. There's an interview. interview my interview was about 75 minutes long nice fellow colin lalonde was his name and uh colin is asking me a bunch of questions and
Zain: sure you don't have
Corey: i would say the bulk is about my punditry right that's that's where i think insofar as anybody is gonna have concerns about my vetting it's what have you said in the past and colin says to me you know i haven't listened to the strategist it's pretty clear that he thinks it's three guys in a basement talking to an audience of their parents uh because you know that's how it is but he says but i listened to the first five minutes of your most recent episode and uh your co-host steven carter uh he called all of the voters stupid and i kind of chuckled and said yeah it sounds like steven you know that that definitely tracks i'll bet you he did say something like that which is you know not
Zain: because you
Zain: that's how it is but
Corey: not really i think uh what steven believes in his soul but maybe he has extreme manifestations no
Carter: manifestations no i was i was at an an advanced poll yesterday here in vancouver and i can assure you my
Corey: i
Zain: i can assure you
Zain: my steven
Zain: hey colin you're definitely listening to this episode nice to meet you i
Carter: colin you're definitely
Zain: i am zane i'm also on the show i heard i heard my name didn't come up in the vetting and i want you to know i've got a new show at whatever this is dot c hey colin oh my god it'll invalidate me for candidacy for any political party but i want you to know you're welcome and thank you for subscribing do you Do you think he's going to subscribe to the Patreon? He probably should. He
Carter: my god it'll
Corey: He should. He probably should. It's only $6 a month. Is this going to be a Patreon or
Carter: only $6 a month. Is this going to be a Patreon or is this going to be a Gen Pop? No,
Corey: No, I think this is Gen Pop. I think this is Gen Pop. I like I can talk directly to your campaign vetter through this podcast. It actually makes me happy.
Carter: this is Gen Pop. I like I can talk directly to your campaign vetter
Zain: vetter
Corey: You're the one who named him.
Corey: He's a nice guy. I like talking to him. He was a good guy. Good. We got a new listener.
Corey: I mean, I doubt it. I doubt it. Yeah. I don't
Carter: I doubt it. Yeah. I don't think this is going to be something that- Based on the five
Corey: be something that- Based on the five minutes. Because he didn't say, I listened to five minutes and I was just really excited to listen to the rest on my way home or anything like that he said he listened to five minutes and that was the end of the commentary see colin for most
Zain: see colin for most people who listen to the show it does become their home it
Zain: is their family nice
Corey: is their family nice right
Zain: right yeah um he's he trust me yeah he's gonna tell him about the discord cory
Carter: gonna tell him about the discord cory okay
Zain: cory let's let's put you out of your misery here um do you yeah great phrase you keep going yeah no for sure uh
Zain: do you have anything sincere to say to to the to the people listening um because this is the indeed the uh sponsored content portion of the show we actually starting a new segment called sponsored content for candidates uh which is anytime we have one of the three of us running for public office we give you the the airwaves of the strategist podcast uh for a full 90 seconds to make a play and carter this applies to you too if you ever run for public office we will give you this portion at the end of this show it's just kind of like the public service that we're that we're able to do yeah yeah
Corey: carter this applies to you too if you
Carter: we're able to
Carter: yeah no every everybody thinks i'm gonna run for public office yeah
Zain: yeah yeah i think so no for sure yeah yeah you do
Corey: do really well
Zain: well So,
Corey: So, Corey,
Zain: Corey, please.
Corey: Ah, yeah. Look, I think that this is an important time for the country. It's not one person holding up the weight of the world. It's the fact that a lot of us need to make sacrifices and try to do what's right for all of us. And so I'd encourage anybody who thinks strongly about this election like I do to come on out and volunteer, vote, donate, tell your friends, get involved in any other way you can in your community, put together groups of people. If you're in Confederation, I'll probably come talk to them. and you can get a hold of us all by going to um april1
Corey: april1.ca that's
Zain: that's
Corey: that's
Zain: that's
Corey: that's beautiful and just
Zain: just i
Corey: i
Zain: i know there's going to be some people put a bed of music
Carter: people put a bed of music underneath that like that would be fantastic yeah no and i hate to kind of
Corey: music
Zain: yeah no and i hate to kind of be like the footnotes to what that but once again april1
Zain: april1.ca it's like we own april
Corey: own
Corey: april first we do not own we couldn't get it we also don't own april the word one spelled out it's just april the number one so don't yeah oh that's actually true yeah
Zain: oh that's
Zain: yeah we
Corey: we don't don't
Zain: don't
Carter: don't
Zain: don't mess that up um
Corey: don't mess that
Carter: that up
Corey: up
Corey: um and
Zain: and
Zain: and
Carter: and for those who are vetting uh cory we do not own cra is uh politically motivated.ca that's that
Zain: that was that another strategist jump ball that we're gonna release to the masses no
Corey: no it's uh it's um it's not a jump ball let's not do that let's not do the jump ball let's
Zain: let's
Corey: let's not do it you
Zain: let's not
Zain: want
Corey: want
Zain: want to end the podcast with let's not do it is that the energy g1 yeah can i give
Corey: okay let's do that again okay let's do it again i'm not giving
Zain: okay let's do that again okay let's do it again i'm not giving you another 90 seconds i'm giving you another 30 this is we're not fucking charity here okay yeah i'm not registered with the cra as a charity which could be politically motivated okay
Zain: okay
Zain: okay
Corey: let's
Zain: let's
Carter: let's
Zain: let's
Carter: let's try that again
Corey: let's try that again yeah
Carter: yeah
Zain: yeah okay go
Carter: go ahead yeah
Corey: let's do it let's fucking do it let's get out there and let's make calgary confederation a liberal seat that's
Zain: that's a wrap on episode 1857 of strategist my name is Zane Velgey with me as always, Stephen Carter and your newly minted liberal candidate for Calgary Confederation, Corey Hogan. And
Zain: And we shall indeed see you next time.
Corey: Look, I think that this is an important time for the country. It's not one person holding up the weight of the world. It's the fact that a lot of us need to make sacrifices and try to do what's right for all of us. And so I'd encourage anybody who thinks strongly about this election like I do to come on out, volunteer, vote, donate, tell your friends, get involved in any other way you Kennedy community. Put together groups of people. If you're in Confederation, I'll probably come talk to them. And you can get a hold of us all by going to april1.ca.
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