Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the Bulwark here. We were live in Toronto. That's how you say it. Toronto, Canada on Friday night. It was rowdy, it was fun and it was great. The people of Canada obviously have given a pretty skeptical glance to us Americans these days. Their elbows up for the Americans, as they say, ready, ready for a little brawl. And wasn't true for us. Arms open for the Bulwark. They know we're one of the good ones. We're the ones trying to patch things up, you know, trying to keep the liberal, small l Liberal alliance alive between our two great countries. And it was a delight to be there. We discussed some about the Canada U.S. relationship, of course. We discussed some of the big news. The Jim Comey indictment had happened before we went on and you know, a bunch of the other parade of horribles we've had over the last few weeks because it was a Friday night. We also did some games, was a rendition of the national anthem you might enjoy. We did some Canadian trivia.
B (1:04)
I won.
A (1:06)
There's some jokes, there's some laughs, jovial. The Canadians aren't as humorless, as beady eyed as you may have heard. They're actually quite wonderful and couldn't have enjoyed it more. And so I hope that we'll have a chance to get back there soon. I was there with my colleague Sarah Longwell. Stick around for her, create a core at the end of the event. As well as Sam Stein who has been welcomed into the bosom of Canada even though he teased them a little bit, causing some consternation earlier this year. So Sam Stein, Sarah Longwell, me, live in Canada covering the news, having some fun. It's going to be an enjoyable watch. Stick around for that. We'll be coming to a city near you soon. Go to theborg.comevents to see what our schedule is and we'll talk to you later.
C (1:54)
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
A (1:57)
Hello.
C (1:59)
Hi. Hey, how are you, Canada? Amazing, guys. Thank you for being here. We're so excited to be here. So is this woman wearing a Gavin Newsom shirt right in the front row just to troll me. Just to troll me. Where's jbl? Where is jbl? You know, it's not a long story actually. JBL was too chicken shit to cross the border because he genuinely thinks that they're not gonna let a couple of podcasters back into the United States.
A (2:46)
And.
C (2:46)
Look, I understand guys. Shit is weird and bad, okay? Somebody told me in that we did like a little VIP thing in the beginning and so people were coming up and taking pictures. And one woman was like, yeah, you're not rooted in reality, Sarah. You're just your optimism, whatever. And I was like, nice to meet you, ma'. Am. I thought all Canadians were nice. No, but I get it. Sometimes I can be more optimistic than people. People like. But JVL thinks that we still, we no longer have freedom of movement, which I think is like bleaker than we need to be at the moment. I don't think we have to be that bad. But he is sad that he's not actually. I'm lying. He's not sad. People he takes. So I do a lot of live shows with JVL and before a show he takes two Xanax. And so at live shows he's barely himself and he lets people touch him and he gets kind of sweaty and glassy eyed. So. Yeah, but it's okay because we have Sam Stein with us tonight. I think it's funny you guys are all clapping because as best I understand, all that Sam has done is insult Canada and the Mounties and I think you guys should give them a hard time. But it is his first live show actually. So you love Sam. Yeah. Okay. Okay, that's fine. People have their choices. I just had to stand next to Tim while all of you fanned out over him. That was cool. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not. Whatever. I'm not thirsty, I'm not fishing. I'm just saying there's a whole thing with Tim. Here's the thing I want to say just before we get started, which is this is our first show not in the United States. And yeah, it's cool. And I gotta say, we didn't even know how many Canadian fans we had. We were like, well, look, we should go to Canada because we're all gonna need to live there someday and we should scope it out. We should just check in and see what's happening. And so we were like, well, we'll get like, you know, 450 person venue. It'll be great. And we put it online. We're gonna go sells out in 24 hours. And we were like, oh no. Oh no. And so we had to add a second show. So tomorrow another like 350 people are coming for a Q and A brunch thing that we added just because we didn't want to leave any Canadian behind. Because we need you guys. We need you guys. So I just wanted to thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for supporting the Bulwark. Thank you for not giving up on The United States. We know. Oh, I'm sorry. Have you given up? Okay, okay, okay. We'll talk about it. We'll talk. It's all right. Here's the thing, though. Just to kick it off, we do have a special treatment, a special performance. And so I would like to invite to the stage to sing the Canadian national anthem, Tim Miller. Yeah.