Meal plans for a harvest crew. Diagnosing a broken combine. Auditing hockey ice time for an entire rural league. Lesley Kelly's actual list of AI use cases doesn't look like anything from a tech keynote, and that's exactly the point.

The Skeptic and the Power User

Kelly explains what AI still gets wrong, and the habit that catches it. Jimmy Zoubris lays out why he's kept AI at arm's length by principle, and the one unplanned use that made him rethink that stance entirely.

Billion Dollars Gets You a Shortcut

A national summit aiming to attract a trillion dollars in private investment includes a perk that neither guest can get behind: faster tax processing for anyone spending a billion dollars, while small operations wait years for basic answers. Zoubris draws a comparison to a controversial citizenship-for-cash program that neither guest expected to bring up.

Topics: AI in agriculture, small business, national investment summit, tax fairness, Canadian red tape

GUEST: Jimmy Zoubris

GUEST: Lesley Kelly | highheelsandcanolafields.com

Originally aired on 2026-09-14