Bob Stauffer

anyways then when i went up to work north in northern alberta northern bc back in the day the one thing we had no matter what was hockey night in canada and cbc for all the games didn't matter you didn't need cable right you go in a bar most of the bars that gable but you know i watched the orders win the stanley cup in steen river in 1988 with my man james bell and we went into this wonderful family's home and

They're sitting there on the same tree platters.

Oh, they got the only TV in town, and they got the game on, and we're watching it on CBC.

I don't know if people, you know, with how crazy and connected the world is today, people realize how impactful it is.

This is like a 90-year run with CBC, isn't it?

So was CBC, like, I mean, certainly there was a time when you were the executive producer of Hockey Night, right?

You were the executive producer, were you not?

For a while, or a senior producer?

Oh, yeah.

No, executive producer.

It was a huge...

Was cash call, was it not, for the CBC back in the day?

By the way, do you recall who was in The Nature of Things?

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink?

Wasn't it our pal David Suzuki?

Oh, yeah.

Got an honorary degree from the University of Alberta during the time that Rachel Notley was premier here in this province.

And then subsequently, it was an amazing thing.

But several of the largest contributors to the University of Alberta, all of a sudden, the guys that go out there and try to get money in terms of endowments, found that some of the biggest companies in the province of Alberta said, no, we're not going to continue.

It's amazing how that happens, right?