Shaun Newman Podcast - #1002 - Quick Dick McDick

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Quick Dick McDick is the stage name of a Saskatchewan-based Canadian farmer, stand-up comedian, and popular YouTuber. He runs a channel with over 140,000 subscribers, dishing out irreverent, often profanity-laced comedy sketches, rants, and observations about rural prairie life, farming, hunting, small-town antics, and everyday absurdities—delivered with a thick beard, thick sarcasm, and a clear warning that if you're easily offended, look elsewhere. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: [e-mail] Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

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All right, let's get on to that tale of the tape. Today's guest is a Saskatchewan farmer, stand-up comedian, and YouTuber. I'm talking about Quick Dick MacDick, so buckle up, here we go. Welcome to the Sean Numa podcast. Today I'm joined by Quick Dick McDick in studio folks. Q. My man. What's going on?

Good to see you too, man. Yeah, it's always, man, it's always just awesome swinging in through Lloyd Minster here. It's, uh, I love this town, man. That's so many good friends and people. It's one of them stops where you're, like, you're crushed for time to try and see everybody, you know? Like my older brother lived in this area for years right back to the Maidstone days when he was over there. And like, man, you get into a community. and like it's you got to move fast to try and get to see everybody you know what I mean

and then you feel guilty because these are people that you've known for so many years you're like well I need to spend at least a night with you kind of thing and how about we do 15 minutes you know what I mean so okay well in studio there you go oh buddy have a one ounce silver coin this is awesome thanks man so all the guests who come in studio now I'm going to have a little tell everybody a little story everybody's been hearing this over and over again I've been in and out of the hospital a bunch And so I toured the new studio with Quick because it is like done done. Oh, man.

Except I have been so like, let's say preoccupied. Is that a nice way to put it? Yeah, that's a good way to put it. That we couldn't record there. So we're recording here in the, I don't know, the current studio. And so I'm like, part of my soul is like, come on, Sean. But part of it's like, I don't know, what are you going to do when you got that still sticking out of you? Yeah, you can't mess around when you got that going on.

Honestly, man, when you got going on, what you've got going on to that studio, you don't rush anything. It's a work of art. You do your thing. And once you're settled in there and do it, I mean, the place is incredible. Now, silver, does an old farm boy like you collect any silver? Like, I'll tell you what, when you're, like, rummaging through old farmhouses, like, running into old, like, belt buckles and stuff like that or whatever, it's pretty neat, right? But speaking of silver, like, I do every year, actually, I'm wearing one of them. So we do big buckles for little britches, and it's a fundraiser for the children.

hospital in Saskatchewan. And I get Olson Silver in High River to make like five unique buckles every year. So every year it's a different buckle. And then with the help of Steph's auction and Jason LeBlanc, we put it online on their platform and it's just an auction on the buckles and all the money goes to the Children's Hospital. Right. And I was like, how cool would it be to be able to like show everybody like how they make these buckles and everything? And I was getting all geared up to do it like a YouTube episode on it and everything. And these guys had old and silver are like fantastic. And they're just like, yeah, we don't really do that anymore.

And I was like, oh, but like when you think about it with what silver's worth and everything that's going on, he's like, we try not to attract too many people to our location. It's like, okay, I get it. Yeah. Well, the price of silver. I mean, it's, uh, as we're sitting here, what did I just see? I think it's a buck. Not a buck.

Sorry. A hundred and a buck. 103. So it's down. It's, it's funny. like yeah it was nick moriano's from silver gold bull who called uh silver silver silver's a wagon and i was like i keep using that i'm like you watch the silver price and it is a wagon it's all over the place and so and i check stay on for the ride that's right it's it's 103 103 right but it was like a day ago

it was one 112 104 115 right back and forth got as high as 150 so it's it's been interesting i can imagine trying to put silver in a buckle the price of one of those things has gone up considerably. Yeah, they've, they've risen, but I'll tell you what, those guys do some incredible work, and they do the stuff all by hand, and it's just, it's really cool. And, like, man, that's, you get into that, that area of Alberta, down into that high river, you know, I'll be doing a show in Nantan tomorrow night, and over when you're in the foothills of the Rockies. I mean, it's just different ranch and country, and it's still very, very much cowboy country, and I love that. Like, nothing against anyone in Saskatchewan. I mean, there's people

have horses and do all the rodeo things and everything, but, like, people live more of a cowboy life in the foothills because it's the lifestyle there. A lot of us, we've switched over to quads and stuff like that because it's what we've got the time for and blah, blah, blah. It's not a lifestyle anymore to be in horsemanship, right? Not saying that there's not people in Saskatchewan to do it because I've probably got a whole bunch of horse people mad at me already for saying that. But I'm just saying the lifestyle that's there, it's just super cool.

As kids, we grew up going on cattle drives on horseback. It's awesome. When everything goes good, it's awesome. Yeah. Well, I mean, true. It's just like one of those memories you have where you're like, that was a lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, you know.

But then again, there's lots of things you do as a kid where it's a lot of fun and probably you don't realize the work the parent is actually doing to make sure you don't kill yourself. 100% man. Yeah, you're completely oblivious to the lifestyle that your parents are giving you when you're a kid, you know. And like, I'd say that's a sign of successful parenting because I think back to when I was a kid and I don't ever remember like thinking that we were hard done by. Like, sure. I didn't get a Nintendo when they first came out and everything, but we were used to that. But I mean, like, I never remember as a kid, like, thinking, man, this, this sucks.

You know, we were always happy. We were always doing something. Man, we thought a great vacation was going to this place called Stony Lake and we camp for the weekend. And, like, this was just amazing. And now when I look back on it, Stony Lake was four miles away from home. But we were like, we're going on this big magical vacation. So, I mean, it's, you know, that's a parent's job.

And you look back on it. Now looking back, like, mom and dad didn't have. much for money. Dad was a cowboy saying that there's no cowboy life there. He was a working cowboy. And mom did the hard job of staying at home and raising the kids. She drove school bus eventually when we started going to school. Mom and dad didn't have any money. And we never would have known. We had everything we needed. They did their job, man. And it's like, I got a lot of respect for parents that give their kids the life that they need with a lot of sacrifice that comes with being parents, right? Huh? I wanted you to ask you about Grand Prairie.

You'd mentioned, you know, like, as we sit here recording this, I hate to give out too many details because we're, you know, it won't get released here for a few days, but it's the day the 1,000th episode releases, right? And congratulations, by the way, man. Such a cool milestone. Well, yeah, it's just, you've had some interesting milestones. I was watching, you know, when my hat's off to you again

for coming and doing the fundraiser for the children's playground at Mel's school. And I was watching you, you know, get ready for that show. And I was like, man, Quito has done some things different, right? He's starting to evolve or progress or whatever word you want to put it. He's just changed. He hasn't taken the same show that worked maybe five years ago.

How many years have you been doing it? Yeah, man. Like, yeah, this is year four and change here. Yeah, like wild. This is year four, coming up on year four of full-time podcasting. It's crazy, man. Full-time. Man, right?

Time flies, hey? Time flies. Anyways, as we say, here in the thousand you were talking about um grand prairie now i knew a bit of the story before them but you were going back to grand prairie and uh we're looking forward to it i don't want to mix up the story but just that you talked about it back in lashburn when we were sitting there having a chat and then you know when we wrote out and looked at the new studio you brought it up again yeah i thought that's a cool story you should tell people about it yeah uh so like i i worked 16 years in

Grand Prairie oil and gas. I did three years in Brooks fracking and then went up and kind of started working the transportation side of things. And yeah, like 16 years is a long time in your life, you know, and you make a lot of friends like I call them my family up there, you know, because that's where your life is, right? And I just remember being up there and I remember going to, it's called the Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Center. It's in the GPRC. And if nobody's seen the GPRC, it's pretty incredible. The whole building is done through masonry. And there's no straight walls in it. And that's how it was designed back in the day. I think it was built in the mid-80s. And it's a very impressive building, considering when it was done and how much

effort must have gone into it. But they've got a theater there, the DJC. And I, like, I remember, like, I've gone and bought tickets to see some of my hero country music artists there. You know, like, I've seen Ian Tyson there twice. And, like, seeing Ian Tyson, especially in that venue doing an acoustic show. I'm such a fan of acoustic shows because you really get to see who the artist is, right? I would take all the lights and all the smoke away from it and just show me who the artist is. And I've seen Corb there a couple of times. And Dean Brody is another one that kind of jumps out at me who put on like a really great feel vibe of a show kind of thing. And I just remember sitting in that theater at these shows being like, this place is an amazing venue. Like it's just

incredible. The acoustics or something else. And like just there was a moment that kind of had this epiphany that hit me. When I left Grand Prairie, I was kind of a very, like, depressed person. I was mentally not in a good place. I feel like my life had kind of been broken there by a lot of different things. And the reason I left is because I needed to make my life right again. And so here I am. You know, I was 2019 when I left there and it's 2026. And there's just that surreal moment where I stood on that stage. I was all set up and sound checked and ready to go. And I was just standing on the stage. And this show. had been sold out for quite a while.

And like, could you ever imagine a time in your life that is so surreal that all of a sudden you're the guy that's down on the stage that you used to watch from the crowd and you sold the place out and you got people that are coming to see you? And the comedian that's in me came from the healing part of this life where I needed to be a better person and better in my head because I remember telling the person that I worked for and I was leaving. I said, I've lost who I am. lost my sense of humor. I don't laugh anymore and I need to find my laughter again. And I did.

And like that moment when I was on that stage, it was the most surreal moment in my life because it's just like completely full circle where you come back and you're like, I almost felt like a victory lap. And we blew the roof off that place. And just telling jokes, man, I made jokes about Fox Creek. And it hit that crowd because everybody wants to make a joke about Fox Creek because it's kind of a dive. Anybody that's in Fox Creek, sorry. but it is. And it was just incredible, you know. And you look out in the crowd and there's a bunch of familiar faces down in the crowd

that paid money to come see your show is unreal, man. Yeah, really was. I have two trains of thought. One is we can keep it on the positive train. We're eventually going to get to politics anyways. Of course we are, yeah. The other one is, is like, I don't know. Have I ever asked you about leaving GP?

I don't know. Because when you talk about your loss, your laughter, and like, I don't know, it must have been something pretty heavy then. It was just like I was the operations manager for transportation company there. And there was a lot of, there was a whole bunch of different things going on

that I'm not going to wait into because I don't owe it to the situation to hang anyone out to drive because it was just a collusion of events. But I was in a bad relationship and work was killing me. And like to the point where there was, there was no help. My phone was going off 24 hours a day and no one was phoning you to tell you

that things are going right. They're phoning you when something's wrecked. And I just remember I was getting really run down. Whenever I'd go on days off, it wasn't days off. I was on the phone constantly trying to put out fires and everything. And I remember being on a motorcycle trip with my brothers and we'd stop for fuel. And like every time we'd stop for fuel, somebody else would fuel up my bike for me because I'd have to be on my phone. And like, that's not a vacation, you know. And then it's just there was a TSN turning point. I just remember, man, this is a talk that I kind of did at Agrivision's a couple years ago. But there's a TSN turning point.

I'd been out all night. There was a truck in the ditch blocking a lease road on the Forrester trunk road. And we had to get a tow truck out there and get our winch truck and get it sucked back crossroading out of the ditch. And everybody's losing their mind. And we finally get this all done. And I got back to GP and I just crawled into bed. And my alarm went off to get up in the morning to go into the office. I'd get up at six every morning.

And I swung my legs out of my bed and put my head in my head. hands and I said I'd rather kill myself than go to work and like that was a serious thought like I thought to myself I'd rather be dead and long story short my dad had gone through some of these thoughts back when he was a younger guy working a stressful job and like he'd sat down and talked to us about a 10 years later about some of the warning signs that he missed leading up to it and everything and like that talk with my dad made me realize at that moment in time that I was headed down the same path that he was if I didn't change things. So yeah, it was, yeah, and it was just, I didn't leave immediately, but like I set a plan in motion that, hey, I'm in six months, I'm no longer going to be here because

I got to go get figured out who I am again, right? Yeah. And I think I made her. Yeah. And I owe a lot to my dad for, for having that talk with me, because had he not had that talk with me? Maybe I would have, maybe I would have off myself. I don't know. I hate to think about it, but you got to be able to talk about it too, right? So it was just, yeah, there was lots. It was a heavy deal leaving there. And then slowly, I just kind of started putting my life back together and found the things that made me happy and found my passions again, which is agriculture, cattle, being part of a community, and making people laugh. And man, that has really gone into orbit. It really has. That's, I appreciate you sharing. Yeah. Jeez, I almost fucking teared up there a little bit.

I was shaking a bit trying to get through that. I got to tell my, my old man, uh, I, Well, it was before I got sick, so I don't know, maybe two weeks ago. I did a video for my 1,000 episode. Yeah. I was like super proud of it. Yeah, that's the one you sent out to everybody? Yeah, it was awesome, man. So good.

Well, I didn't know how better to do it. I just went through the guest list, and I'm like, it's a perfect way to do it. Send out an email, nobody can see who each other are and just say, thanks for being a part of this. Because I don't plan on stopping, but at the same time, you don't know what the days, weeks, months bring ahead. and and anyways Jericho show to Jericho young kid in town

and talented and I kind of gave him a general idea of what I wanted and he's a guy who mastermind pretty much all of it minus maybe the script I think I developed no I know I developed most of the script myself

but like watching that I got to watch it with dad he was one of the first ones that got to see it and my dad's a bit of a crier and he was fighting him back and I said Dad, it's letterback, right? And I was walking away, and I was like, nope, that's not how you're leaving it.

So I put my phone back in my pocket. I walked back, knocked on his window. He was like, yeah, what's up? And I said, you just want to say, you're a really good dad. Yeah. I'm very, very appreciative that you were my father and still are in all the lessons you taught me, because it's brought me into this realm. Yeah.

And I approached people, hopefully the same way that he's always approached people, right? And, man, you know, I guess you talking about big mustache. in the similar light, although, you know, obviously a more sensitive subject, still an important one, right, of the roles fathers play in their son's lives. Yeah. And not discounting, you know, my mom at any point in time either. No, goodness gracious. If it wasn't for her, dad wouldn't have made it through that, right?

Yeah. But the thing wasn't, and it's kind of funny. I can't remember where I was talking, but like my dad would always be the guy that would be, you want to cry, I'll give you something to cry about, you know, when we were back a little cowboys. And like the funny thing is, is like later on in life, I did a talk at the Alberta Beekeepers Convention a few years ago when I talked. I told the story about, you know, suicide awareness and mental health and everything, which is something that people don't expect to hear from quick dick, right? Yeah, which is why it's important for me to talk about it.

But like, there was a couple of very emotional guys after the talk that couldn't even like talk to me because they were like, like, I needed to hear what you just said. And I left there and like I was overwhelmed with emotion. And like I'm driving back. I actually, I think it was coming to do a show with the Bick from that. And I'm driving down this way. And I, like, I had to phone my dad. And I phone my dad. And I just, if there was a video or a recording of it, I just hope it never shows up.

Because I was just like, I couldn't, I was just full on like just letting it out. I was just like, I was like, we really helped someone today, you know? And then dad starts crying on the other end of the phone, which never happens. And it was at that moment, then I start laughing. And he's like, what's so funny? I was like, remember when you used to tell me, I'll give you something to cry about? Like instead of an ass beaten this time, it's like you're helping people. So it's just, yeah, it's, I found humor in that, right?

And here I'm all of a sudden I'm laughing and we're both laughing. He's like, yeah, I guess I did give you something to cry about, right? So, yeah. Well, the, what's on the wall is Joe Rogan, whatever time you have attacked, like you're trying to save the world. And, you know, I don't talk about it that much anymore and hardly do I think about it. But, you know, on your conversation about men in particular, right? Not taking anything away from moms or women. or anything.

Joe Rogan is interviewing Annie Jacobson, and she brings up men stuck in quiet desperation. And then Joe corrects her, being a thorough quote, I believe, if memory serves me correct, and then has this three-minute kind of like impromptu speech where he talks about getting stuck in life. And so when you talk about having your first suicidal thought, it's funny, not a, not in a funny way, just like, yeah, I've had a suicidal thought. I remember when it caught me, like, you knew it was real. Yeah.

And when it caught me, I'm like, it can't, I can't believe I just thought that. Yep. And, you know, like, it's a real gut check time, you know? Mm-hmm. But the terrifying thing is, is there's some people out there, and it's, it's no fault of theirs that don't have the ability to be able to recognize that as a red flag or an issue. and we lose too many people to not being able to recognize that thought

and that's something we desperately need to continue to try to work to change and like how we I'm sure we'll get into it all but I mean how we change a lot of things in the world how we make it better is always the tough thing everyone's always got different opinions of how we change it and how we make it better

and all I know is I just don't want to I just don't want to lose people to anything you know because we're we both agree on getting in a room together it's better like this than over a screen screen's better than nothing yeah but at the same token uh you know getting in a room with people is better you know like you live on social media i mean i don't mean actually live on it yeah no i get you're a big uh a big name in social media i sit on social media and i try to you know i was telling you after i watched social dilemma i think most people remember that

documentary four or five years ago uh where executives of i want to say instagram and facebook specifically that's right yeah we're talking about how they make addicting yeah and i remember watching i'm like this is this is it's terrifying this is terrifying yeah and so i put on a whole bunch of things so that you know like do not disturb happens at five so it you know it doesn't mean i can't go on my phone it just means it's not going to be dinging at me right yeah and you know and now you fast forward and you look at i mean how you got to do is walk into one of your shows i'm sure and you can see how many people are on the phone yeah it's insane and like so like i like i talked at agrovision's last night and that's the first time I've ever done that talk and a guy that puts like I'm a content

creator you're a content creator and I'm a guy that's a content creator and people find me and see me and laugh at me on social media and my whole message last night was to get off social media and like if it means that everyone lives a better life and I never get another view on a YouTube channel or anything I don't give a shit so the social media part of things just keep meaning less and less and less to me and doing these in person things mean more and more and more you're organizing the Cornerstone and a bunch of different live events that you do. It's important to get people together.

And that's what I tried to say last night. You know, it was a room of 600 people there last night. And like for 600 people to actually be like come out and get across the table from each other and just talk and interact with people. All of a sudden, Diane Finstead, the MC there last night, she was having a hard time trying to get the crowd to listen because everybody's together with their phones down,

talking with each other. Well, that's what you find at the forum every year, the Cornerstone Forum. is I got to come up with clever ways to break through the conversations. I love it. I love the buzz that starts happening. But you got to figure out clever ways because people want to sit and chat. And that's a great thing.

Yeah, absolutely is. Like it's a fantastic thing. Yeah. The problem with you, you talk about social media now, rise at AI, like some of the stuff that's coming out of AI right now, you're like, is that real? Was that a real video? I'm like, and we're at the tip of the iceberg. Yeah.

Oh. Five years and 10 years from now. I mean, some of it, you're like, that's totally fake. like we, you know, bots. Like how many, I stopped. I, I, I'm almost stopped interacting on any social media at this point. Yeah. I probably should interact more.

I'm like, I can't tell who the hell I'm talking to. Yeah. You can text me. You can give me a phone call. At least I know I'm talking. I think at this point to a human being, you know? Yeah, I itself even like I just had, I just had a picture when I was doing the show with the Vick here, my last show that I did the Vick.

I just had a picture of myself with the lights. It was a cool picture in the quick dick logo in the background. And I had a buddy that I'm on Snapchat. with his name's Evan McGee and like he he grabbed that picture and made an entire AI video of me singing a song and like he sent it to me and it was remarkably even I knew I was conscious of the fact that I was watching an AI generated video and I know for a fact that there are thousands of 65, 7 I wouldn't I wouldn't even maybe put it past my mom or my dad looking at that and being like why would you say something like that in a song because it legit looked at.

like me. And I'm looking at it knowing that it's AI. And I'm like, that's scary. You know? It's hilarious at the same time. But like there's a scary. Have you ever done the, the Oculus goggles or anything like that?

Yeah. Yeah. You like those? No, I don't. What you're talking about with like visual, looking at the AI of yourself and being like, I know that's not me, but that, man, that is scary. Yeah.

I did, what was it, Peregrine glove. I'm spacing on how to say that, but regardless, it was a technology here in Lloyd, I think it's now in Calgary, if memory serves me correct, where the gloves, you wore gloves and they hooked up to the, so now you could use your fingers instead of joysticks. Yeah.

And I was playing like some game, like shooting stickmen off a castle top, right? Yeah. The bone arrow. And when I came out of that, I had to sit there mentally for probably 10 minutes. It was a long time. to be like, this is real. This is real?

It really messed my mind. Yeah. And you think in the future, we're going to have more of that. Yeah. Full stop across the board, because more and more people are starting to go into these virtual realities. I mean, two farm kids, it's like, you never, you were just happy you had an N64 and. N64, you lucky bastard. We got the Atari pass down to us from my rich cousins.

Their dad worked the railroad, so he had money. Atari had its time. It was a fun. Stampede on Atari, best game ever. Stampede, eh? Yeah, that's the one where you're on a horse and you hit the button and you'd rope the steers. Oh, I loved it. Yeah, it was great.

Last good cowboy game that was ever made. Well, I guess I just go in the future. When you're talking about getting off social media, the thing that's going to become very interesting is what comes in, like, the years ahead with, you know, like social media has been a very interesting tool for news, right? Yeah. I just think, what do I use X mainly for? I just want to see what's happening. Yep. I'd say I'm the same way.

I'm not a big, oh, I need to have everybody's opinion on it. I just need to, oh, that's interesting. And it's very quick. Yeah. Right. But in the future, it's going to be like, did that actually happen? Yeah. But like, I'm already there.

Like, it's not a, did that actually happen? I'm just like, okay. Now I've got to start looking and see if I can find a different video angle or something else from a different news organization or this or that. and I need like it feels like I need to find four or five, six different events that are people that have posted on this event before I make it my mind and I meant I got caught really fast in a couple instances where I'd see something and right away like I'd have my opinion formed on what went on and then you're three days later and you realize that what you saw was just

one clipped version of what happened and then you circle back around you're like oh my god like yeah it's it's like it's a terrifying place social. media is to because it you can see one thing and it can set you off right away and like we like we all would have learned in the social dilemma that's that's what that's what that's what they're trying to do media wants you to do correct they want you to be emotional and they they want you to be angry and I said it last night like I am I found myself in a spot where if I'm running through comments on my YouTube channel I am more compelled and I caught myself doing this I'm more compelled to respond to somebody who's made a negative comment on my video versus somebody that's made a positive comment

this lady, she, her name's Granny Ma is her username. And she always writes this big rhyme. And it's, it's amusing.

It's funny. And she's always a big supporter of the channel. And like, I found myself, I'd scrolled past that to somebody who'd said something shit in me

and I was going to light into that person who was talking shit instead of being like, thank you, granny ma for that great rhyme. You made me laugh. I hope you have a great day. So here I am the guy that's,

well, you've got to find a way to do it in rhyme, though. Yeah. Exactly, right? Yeah. I don't have that much time, but to make it rhyme some of the time.

I hate to steer into too many heavy. But I'm like, okay, we got a couple of things gone. I mean, you got Tumblr Ridge. Yeah. Like, that's a heavy one. You know, I mean. Oh, man. 10, 10.

I don't know if you've seen a different number. 10 dead. So I've seen nine. But like, see, this is the problem. Fair enough. Nine, 10 dead. Yeah. And like, I haven't.

So before I say anything, I have not. dug in or got to the bottom of anything. It's all just been cruising past some stuff. And then I was watching CTV news on the TV the other day and then I heard eight or whatever. So I don't know. All I know is that there's a bunch of people

that were gunned down and it's heart wrenching. It's terrible. And it makes me want to puke. That this stuff still happens in society. Well, I agree. What I find always curious about Canada. specific well i mean it goes elsewhere but cana specifically right you see the chief

you're talking about like what it was the first term i heard gun shooter gun person gun something no gun person i think where they weren't where they weren't saying what what gender it was and you're like what the hell does that matter how does it matter how does it matter give a description of the person with the gun well it does matter when you realize they're trans that full stop right As soon as you realize that's what's going on, then they're, whoa, what do we say here? But I mean, it's, and like that's on both sides of it too. Like, like, it's on the police side of things and on the other side of things.

All of a sudden, people are like, well, I don't know if we want to say, like, we're all uncomfortable to say, like, if there's somebody that's out there with a fucking gun, give a description and, and get it figured out, right? But, but like. Well, the state of Canada right now, we're too worried about, like, hurting the not the victim the the the culprits feelings right

they say there she it's like oh you you can put that in there but at the end of the day you just got to give the name what they look like the fact that they're dressed like a woman sure that would be helpful sure right so it would but I mean take

uh you take the trans thing away even but like the like media releases on criminal say active shooter or high-risk criminals or whatever. They even, like, if it's a person of color, they won't want to say that because there's a chance that they might be being racist when they say it kind of thing.

Instead of just being like, listen, here is the description that we have of this person. Skin color, height, age, gender, hair color, weight, all the stuff that you need to be able to identify what is going on. They're wearing a dress, they got big prosthetic boobs, you know, like, Sure. Or they're just in jean shorts in a in a muscle shirt. I don't know.

I'm just ad-libbing here folks of different descriptions because it would just make sense. So the question, you know, so then, you know, you got, what the heck is going on in Canada? And how do you fix it? Can you fix it? I know Alberta independence folks who are listening to the show are going to say we're trying. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I wish I had, I wish I had the answer.

I'm like, here's how you fix it. I don't know how a lot of this stuff gets fixed. I really don't. I know that it starts with people sitting down and talking like we're going to be talking here right now because I've had a lot more candid conversations that have gotten somewhere with being across a table from people instead of just trying to do it in the public town square on social media. I think it's a lot easier because like we've said this before,

like there's consequences for something that I would say that's inflammatory towards you being here in person, right? but also body language. You can hear the tone of my voice. You can tell if I'm being sarcastic when I say something by how my face moves when I do it, right? And these are important things that exist that we kind of just don't have anymore.

I don't know how we put this, if you want to call it, putting a genie back in the bottle here, but there just seems to be this big, big huge gap and two big divided sides that, like, let's say we want to call it the trans issue on where people just want to be so divided on everything that's happening. If anybody wants to go do whatever they want to do, I don't have a problem with that. It's not my cup of tea, but I mean, there's some firm lines that I'm going to draw on the sand.

If I've got kids of whether you're a guy with a beard that's going to come and address and read a story to my kids, I'm like, actually, no, that's not going to happen. You can go be you and do your thing as an adult out in an adult society. And if my kid sees you walk in a dress, I'm going to explain what's going on or whatever. But that's as far as it needs to go, in my personal opinion. And when it comes down to, to, like, how we're actually identifying people in the law. And, like, and there, of course, we're this person to still be alive and be convicted and charged with this, now we've got to figure out which prison we're going to send them to. And there's a good chance that if they identify as trans and they're male, that they're going to be going to

a female's prison kind of thing because that's all the person chooses to identify it. At some point in time in our life, like, where do you draw that line? and I think that there's a pretty empty argument on some sides of it where a person is playing the system, if you want to call it, to be able to get better treatment for themselves just by playing this little set of quote-unquote rules that we have in society that you can identify as whatever you want now. I get, I've dealt with family members that have had, you know, gender dysphoria, but like getting into the age over 18 years old, right? When we're down and younger people like this, how we handle our youth is probably one of the most, important things that exist. And we just finished talking about how we were raised kind of thing, right? My parents, I said this last night. My parents did their job. They taught me how to fail.

They taught me that there's no such thing as a participation award. You don't get awarded for being the loser. You get to learn from it. You can say, hey, good job. You showed up and congratulations, shake hands and everything and try harder next time. And what does that do to you as a person? It makes you try and be better. And we should always be trying to be better as humans. It might they would give you the skill set or help you try and improve your skills for the next time you're going to a curling match or a ball game or something like that. You know what sport still does that with kids? No participation medals? No sport?

What sport? Cross country running. Really? Really? Really? Uh, Shade it two years ago. So he was, what, like seven years old? Maybe he just turned eight.

And he runs in his first meet. And they handed him a six place ribbon. Okay. And I was like, you guys, dude, you give a note, yeah, first, I think first 10. And I'm like, what happens to the rest of them? Nothing. And there was tears everywhere. I'm like, oh, my goodness, isn't this?

And you could see my son go, wait a second. I got six. I'm like, yeah. He goes, you mean I can get first? I'm like, yes. And so then he's like, oh, oh, I got this. Okay. Yeah.

And the next race, he gets first. Perfect. Because it actually means something instead of just like, well, yeah, you place first, but everybody's getting the same ribbon. Yeah. Yeah. Um, even, uh, you know, watching like a karate class or something like that. I did karate when I was a kid.

Of course you did. Taekwondo or whatever, right? And, uh, and like you, you had to go for your belt test. And we would go, uh, to, to Yorkton an hour away. It was a big deal. And each kid would take their turn. You would go in front and you'd be judged by three sensees. And you had to do your kata perfectly.

And you would have to know how it's doing. You have to key eye at all the right times and everything. And, and demonstrate. that you knew how to do it. And they would score you on it. And if you did it properly, then you were advanced to the next belt. And you got your belt awarded to you,

and then you would start learning your whole new set of techniques for your next level. And I've seen a few nowadays where they say before they even do their final test with the group that there are no losers and we're all winners and you watch half the kids that can't do it, and then everybody gets their belt. Yeah, it becomes meaningless.

Yeah. And I'm like, so what's still like, What's the point? It just like holding ourselves to a higher standard is what continues to make us better human beings, right? But I just, I guess if we were to start fixing anything, that's where I'd start. It's, you know, I come back to the Alberta independence push here in the signatures because it's, you know, a lot of the videos focus on the economics of it, right? There's just, we'll be a rich country. I'm just going to simplify that, right?

but there's there's a bunch of things that I don't think they get missed I think they get talked about kind of on the periphery and that is the values that we're losing right you talk some of the things you've brought up but like Canada is just not recognizable to me right now you know there's just things going on where I'm like that doesn't mean I don't like this or that doesn't make sense to me or not's not how we were raised in this part of the country you know Jamie Sinclair once again I always thought you'd met Jamie Jamie told me this back in the first time he was ever on the podcast that western canada and eastern canada just have different values and that if you if you just separate them in western canada and eastern canada you could probably live pretty amicably and just be neighbors now i realize it's way more technical and complicated than that but you know as time goes on i'm like he's not far off like there is we both know this because i've been across canada you've been across canada you've been across gather there's wonderful people all all over the place but the values that the current government is pushing forth do not they might represent somebody in the big city they don't represent me yeah

i i look at it and i'm like i don't get this anymore i don't get what we're doing here yeah i'm waiting for the conservative party to become more of what i am and at times i don't see it there either so i'm like okay wait wait so both federal parties who have a shot at winning don't represent what I want the country to be Alberta independence looks a heck of a lot more appetizing on top of the economics well sure as far as the economics part like I need to do more digging into it and like I I haven't been spending a lot of time on it right but I and in fairness like one of the your gifts to the world quick dick is watching you on stage you do have this way of bringing humor out.

I mean, for the people listening, I thought, I watched, I thought it was hilarious. You're on stage at Lashburn at a school fundraiser, and you did the land acknowledgement right at the end, and I could see 50 bodies just tense, right?

Sure. Because they're teachers, and they deal with First Nations, and they deal with land acknowledgments, they're a part of the government system. Yeah. And I could see them all tense. Yeah.

And then I watched the belly laughter of the entire entire crowd over how ridiculous it has become. Yeah. And I'm like, that is one of your

absolute gifts if people have never watched you live. It's a wonderful thing you do. So to hog tie you into Alberta Independence, I guess I'm just... No, no, it's fine, but like I,

like going back to it all, like we said this earlier, but I mean, obviously Mike's brought, but like, like, if I was given the opportunity to sign a petition

to go forward with a referendum, be it Saskatchew in Alberta, I would absolutely sign it because I, completely believe in democracy. And we should put it to a vote. If this is the thing, let's get voting and let's see what everybody wants because that's how this is supposed to work.

We just do what everybody wants, right? That's how democracy works. Everybody gets one vote, one voice and then the majority wins, right? But when it boils down to an Eastern versus Western Canada, we've talked about this a little bit before, but every time I get out on tour and I'm going to doing these shows, like I spent two days in the city of Edmonton. And I understand why Edmonton, city centers, Saskatoon, Regina,

I understand why they vote how they vote and why we vote how we vote. Because there's a completely different set of problems that exist within cities versus what exists in rural Canada. And I think if we're really going to fix what's going on with stuff that we don't recognize anymore, that's how we have to start looking at this. is the lifestyles of people that are in central cities are completely different from people

that live outside of the city by 20 minutes because I don't go to work in the morning and trip over a homeless person that's tweaking out on drugs with no clothes on in the middle of the street. I don't. There's people there that do. And that's an issue to them. To me, it's not, it's a non-starter and I don't even want to talk about because I don't know that it's an issue that exists. Like, fuck did my eyes get open.

downtown Evanton in the middle of the day. I'm like, how is this a thing? How is this even a thing? I thought city people were all just a bunch of suits walking around with their $10 macchiatos, which it is. It's just they're tripping over a bunch of homeless drug addicts. It's insane. I've never seen anything like it.

And there's like there's garbage everywhere in the back alleys and like, and this isn't just Edmont. I'm not just picking on Edmonton. But we can pick on that. Yeah, sure. But like anybody ever been downtown Regina? Well, downtown Calgary. Downtown Saskatoon and, the into the

calendar I went for I went for a coffee with a buddy of mine I hadn't seen since high yeah since high school we played ball together and he said where are you parked and I'm like

whatever street it was he said oh yeah don't move your car closer to here like what it's like 3 30s like yeah you don't want to you don't want to be over there once it gets a bit dark and I'm like really

and this is just life yeah right and in the middle of the day what did the what of the fire guys used to call them Daywalkers. I think they called them Daywalkers where it just, it looks like zombie land. This is the second time I've heard that term. Yeah.

Well, they're just, you look around and you're like, that guy's high, that guy's high, that guy's high. One guy was walk around, he had a bone sticking out of his shit. I was like, did I just see that? Yeah. I come back to my vehicle, three people smoking crack at the tire. Yeah. I'm like, this is strange.

This is Calgary? Yeah. So like, I guess the point I'm trying to make here is, and I'm not trying to profile too much, but there's no way to do this other than profile. but like if you profile the I'm not trying to profile but if you profile you know a lot of people that you see that are vehemently against separation and you can see them trying to fight the fight on social media it's it's not hard to figure out where they live like not specifically their location

but you know there's their city center there's very why do you think the cities hate it so much I think it's just because there's a lot of policies that come from the federal government that they feel is going to help them that's why they continue to vote for the for the federal government. I don't know. I don't know what they are. But in theory, in theory, you know, okay, you get a brand new country. Okay. Now your capital is

Eminton or if they switch it to Calgary, whatever, it doesn't matter. It's not like you lose government. You're still going to have a government. They're still going to lobby for keeping the streets cleaner and safer and everything. It just becomes, instead of asking some place that's 4,000 kilometers

away, it's now 200 kilometers away or maybe in the same place. Everything is localized. Wouldn't it would you, like if you're sitting in the city going, like I don't want to change anything because it's so good right now. Meanwhile, you're talking about, you know, like, I mean, once again, this is in Alberta, but Surrey, state of emergency, Toronto, the seven police officers. Absolutely.

Montreal, the gang violence. I'm like, I bet if I do enough research, I'll find it in Eminton and we'll find it in Calgary. It's like, what are you talking about? Like, don't we want our cities to be somewhere where you're proud? You can walk around. The streets are clean and it's safe and, you know, all the things. Yeah.

And I'm not saying you can get that with a referendum. I'm just saying at the same token, staying the status quo doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to me. Yeah. And like that's, and honestly, and it's a great point. And like I said, I've said it before. I fully support going to a referendum and doing it. And if that's, if the majority says, then let's do this. Well, then let's go strap your boots on and let's make it happen.

Right. I'm just not confident that no matter who runs the show is going to be able to pull society, quote, unquote, out of where it is. I think we need to deal more with the rural urban divide of what happens and what makes our societies tick and how we can make our societies work better together. I'll tell you what, if I could just somehow carve out the RM of 276 where I live and make that a country, we'd have a lot of our problems solved really fast. International state. Yeah, international state. but like I want to take over health care. I've talked to guys that were on board with it and we had some stuff priced out and let's buy the health center that's in foam lake and everyone in RM of 276 gets to come to this facility.

We'll have our two doctors. We'll house them. We already raised the money for and replaced the digital x-ray machine here and we did that all on our own because there was no provincial help or federal help from it. So we just went and did it as a community, right? And now all of a sudden we got no staff to run it because now we're relying on. the province to put the staff in there to do it so i needed an x-ray on my elbow a while ago and they're like we just we can't get you in i'm like what do you mean you can't get me in we just spent how long fundraising to get this digital x-ray machine and it's in and now yeah we don't have anybody to run it i was

like well put me on a waiting list we we can't the list is full and we just don't have the text available from the province to do it and i'm like well what was the point in raising all this money if we got a big shiny dick in there that doesn't get put in anything you know what i mean like I don't. So I was like, and that's where I was like, there's got to be a better way. But as soon as you start talking about trying to even privatize a health facility in your community to try and make it better, you've got a massive group of people that are just pissed about it because somebody told them that semi-privatized health care is the devil.

I don't know. Like, how do you, how do you fix all? And this isn't just healthcare. This is one tiny little piece of the puzzle. And I don't know. I wish I had. I was like, well, this is how we fix it. I'm just not convinced that if we even were to break down Saskatchewan into our own country,

I still think that this boils down to a leadership problem no matter who it is. One of the things I've always appreciated, this was a conversation that never aired because it was just over the phone, right? We had our differences in COVID. And we've had our differences along the way. But we've always been very cordial. It's what I love about you, man. Right?

Come in, do different things, really respect some of the things. You got better values than a ton of people. Like, there's stories I could share that I won't share just that showcase some of the things that I really admire about you. But regardless, we had our differences in COVID. And after COVID, I went off on this trek of like, okay, how do we fix this? Yeah. Right? Politics.

Right. And then you start looking at politics, right? Like, holy man, that's, and then you look at it for it closer. You're like, that doesn't make any sense. Like, why are they doing these things? Right? And then you, okay, so then you look at Quebec, right? And you're like, well, Quebec, I mean, we can love or hate them,

but I mean, they're fighting for Quebec. Yep. Right? And what did they do? Well, they put it to a referendum. Yep. And they don't sign on the things. They don't want to sign.

They don't give a damn about the laws. They stand on the podium of the national leaders debate saying, I'm not going to answer that question. I don't want to be prime minister anyways. And it used to annoy me. Now I look at it a different way, and I'm like, the heck are we doing it? Why don't we do that?

Why aren't we doing that? Yeah. And so then you fast forward to like, how do you fix it? I got no illusion. I have no idea what a referendum looks like, whether it's 20%, 72%, no clue. I'd like to see it. Sure. I'd like to see it.

I'd like to see the country have to deal with the West going, maybe we don't want to be a part of this. Sure, absolutely. But like this is, we're in a relationship, right? if you want to call Canada a relationship, and I would call it a toxic relationship. So you either leave the relationship or you fix it, right? And I preferably would like to fix the relationship because I've got a lot of people in this country

that I absolutely fucking love and want to be Canadians with. But yeah, you can't just continually be abused either, right? And I think that's where people get me backwards thinking that I don't want anything to go to a referendum. I want nothing more. Do it. Because as soon as you start stirring up some shit, maybe you're going to get something back from it. Well, a squeaky wheel gets theories.

Sure. Yeah. But like my problem again just boils straight up down to leadership. And I've lost a lot of faith in all forms of leadership. Like right even like I said, just down to a municipal level kind of thing where we see it falling apart there. And you're like, well, how are we not even controlling this rate here? But when it comes down to everything that's happening here in Canada, we've got to get figured out how to fix it or how to make it better. If we just keep moving where we're going here right now, I don't know what gets fixed or what gets better.

And I don't know what the answer is to it. I really don't. I do find interesting. I was going to, you know, so right now the petitions are being signed, right? And from COVID, I've searched out a lot of different avenues of maybe that could work. Maybe that could work, right? A lot of that met with failure or just like, no, that's definitely not working, right? Like, I mean, when you, just the last federal election in general, it just gave lost a ton of, oh man, we're in for some hurt.

One of the things I landed on. So I'm like, okay, where is the smallest group of people where you could have the largest amount of impact? And I landed on an RM of Saskatchewan. Okay. And I started thinking about that. And I'm like, it actually could work. I mean, an RM of Saskatchewan is, I don't know, maybe you know how many square miles, they're all different. They're all different, yeah.

Roughly six counselors, a reeve, you know, and I don't know about your area, but I'm like, is it, is it 10 people to get voted in? Is it 50? You know, it's a pretty small number. And then you just start doing things differently in your RM, not the country of a foam lake, but I mean, at the same time, you have municipal laws that are in your RM. your jurisdiction, just like Daniel Smith saying, hey, federal government, stay out of our way. That isn't your, your, your, your lane. Yeah. Where, you talk about privatizing your hospital.

Did that work? Or did, or did it fall off? Oh, no, that got shut down, shut down immediately because the province isn't going to sell that to you. Because they won't allow it to happen, right? Oh, interesting. Yeah. But like, could you go maybe build your own? You're starting to talk about a whole different game that we probably can't afford

anymore, right? But could the RM go build their own? Possibly. Right? If you got, I don't know. This is completely, I'm throwing stuff against the wall. But like all of a sudden this turns into privatized Medicare. And like, and I don't know federally or provincially where that's going to land at.

I just know that that asset was not going to be allowed to be sold. So you could get, I've heard of people buying like old folks homes and stuff that they'll buy or their RM will buy or whatever and like privatized extended care homes. And they work. They're expensive to run, but they work. But the whole theory. that we had behind making this thing work is you would have you would have your rate payers that exist in your RM but then what you're going to need to do to put the nail in the cough and assign this deal is you're going to need to exempt them from the X amount of tax dollars that go to

the provincial and federal government for health transfers and say actually you're going to leave that in our pockets and we're going to manage it ourselves get a government to sign on to that for you it's not happening man it just one of the things that frustrates me the most part canada is the harder you try and find a path out of it, the more you realize how many red tape, bureaucracy, everything is just hanging over us. I'm sure I got people screaming at the radio right now, I'm going, 10 different things we're missing.

But I'm like, that's why I come back to this petition signing is going to be very interesting to watch. Because if it does meet threshold, you just watch the temperature in Canada go up 50 degrees. Of course. And good. Yeah, no, absolutely good, right? But like, just back to that healthcare thing once more,

And there were some people that were against me for talking about this, that, well, then it's just people in RM276 that can come to the hospital, right? And I'd be like, well, essentially, yes, unless you need emergency care. We don't deny emergency care to anybody. We facilitate the emergency care, and then we send a bill for that care to the province. And then the province can pick up that bill. And that's technically a privatized health care that's being done within our community kind of thing. And a lot of people would be like, no, that doesn't work. and there's one person specific that I'm not going to name that's just like you just can't

privatize health care. That's all there is to it. And this person just finished telling me a story about how they paid $5,000 to get an MRI done for their dog so that their dog could get the health care that it needed to get back. Got an MRI like that. And I was like, wait a minute, you just finished telling me that you don't support privatized health care and you're telling me that your dog is okay to go to privatized health care, but not your grandma. Can you make that make sense to me? Well, I just, we live in this world where we talk about having free health care. It's not free. Right?

We're paying for. Nothing's free. And then we talk about, well, we don't have privatized health care yet. And I'm like, yeah, we do. You just got to, you know, for most, but you got to go out of country. And people are because the waitless are so long. Like, dad's backed up for a shoulder replacement. I forget now, is it been, is it close to two years, dad?

Like, sorry, I should know that on top of my head. It's a long time. And you're like, we already have it. You just have to have very deep pocket. to go get it. And in some cases it's cheaper. But like I know people that have gone to not only the states, Mexico, uh, overseas to, I want to say, um, Vietnam and where was the other one? There was a strange one in there, almost like Japan or something like that. Like people are going a long, freaking way. Sure. So it's already happening. Yeah. We've got to stop acting like it. This isn't,

it's whether or not you want people to stay in Canada. Yeah. And you got to start treating them right. When we have people leaving to go get that care, then we're giving the money that you could profit off from that care to another country, right? It's, you know, it's health care. It's a lot of things. But, like, if you want to talk something, I think that's more specifically East versus West would be like the closure of these AASC research facilities that we have going on here. Now, it's another big one, right? Where we've got to, this is the part where I want nothing to do with the federal government anymore, that we've got to get this figured out and reworked in Canada because we got a government that's going to spend. they say it's, you know, $7,800 million that they're spending on this gun grab.

It's going to be upwards of $2 to $5 billion by the time they try and get this whole thing done. If they can even get it off the ground, which they haven't been able to do yet, they got the money to spend on something that's going to offer absolutely no solutions to any gun violence problems that we have in Canada right now, and they're going to blow that cash out their ass. The money that they're spending on this program to try and take our firearms away from us would fund all of those research labs for the next 40 years. And we're going to take away food research in Canada because we can't afford to happen.

This is shit that you can't make up. I meant to ask you about C-F-I-A. Yeah. Changing the rules on traceability. Traceability. So, again, another one that I haven't been right up to my elbows in. But it was published in Gazette 1. And who reads Gazette 1?

Nobody. We're supposed to have the Canadian cattle. Association, Saskatch and Stockbroors Association, like everything that we pay check up for, these are the guys that are supposed to be representing us at this level when we, when government changes are made. And the changes to this is availability, I'm probably not going to hit them all. I wasn't really ready to talk about this, but I'll talk about it anyways, but when are we ever ready to talk about anything, but numbers of CCIA tags that, that you, that you're, that you are issued and reporting of births and deaths. There is some, there's, there's, there's, there's,

what would you call it, exemptions that are written into these because a lot of people were concerned about going to 4-H competitions and visiting to your vet and everything where you'd have to report all these movements and you'd have to report all these movements of your animal within three days of the movement happening. And then when you sell them, there's extra work that goes on to the transportation company

that's moving them that has to report what they're doing. And then when they get to the sail ring, the sailoring actually kind of already does a good job of that. But eventually, at the end of life of the cow, is where, like, that's where you CCA tags currently recorded, right? It's just, it's a whole bunch of extra red tape. And I'm not interested in telling the government how many cows. Actually, I'll say that differently.

I already tell the government how many cows I had born and how many died. And I do it on my tax return because you have to report inventory to revenue Canada. That's where we do it. And they want to push this as a traceability thing. We're going to make our traceability system bettering in the case of a disease outbreak. We already have it. Every animal has got a CCIA tag in it that can be traced back to the premise ID of where it came from. Your premise ID is your location of where the animal is called its home.

So it's already there. And I'm not going to go, if I'm taking an animal to community pasture, I'm not going to spend three hours on my fucking computer getting every single tag number and every single this into a spreadsheet form and uploading it onto a government database so that they know exactly where my animals are at. You want to know where my animals at. Come to the farm and I'll show you. Simple.

We're creating a whole much more red tape with all of it being hid in the shell game of what's just traceability. You don't need to trace them any closer than we already do. We got a good system. And what's going to happen is if they trade this over to this system, you're going to have mass noncompliance. And then you have a system that's a complete failure

that you're trying to show to our customers worldwide where we export our beef to. And you're like, here's this great system that we have that nobody's fucking paying attention to and doesn't work. Well, what's the point? There is no point in it. What we have right now works. We go to, we should, let's process more beef in Canada. There needs to be no traceability once you have beef into a box situation when it's gone through a CFAA inspected facility that you're sending south of the border or over to China or whatever. So let's process more here.

Let's export less live cow. Well, if we're going to need to do that, we need to have a business friendly environment in Canada where businesses can actually do business, which we don't have. Yeah, good luck. Yeah. I mean, you're starting to sound like common sense again. Common sense in this country right now. Yeah.

But, like, you know, even with the price of beef right now, there was a lot of people that were upset with this latest, you know, trade negotiation that was made with China, that we were going to resume exports, beef exports to China, and everybody's upset, which I understand, about the high price of beef that exists in the store right now. And beef's at an all-time high. Beef's going to stay expensive because this boils down to cow-calf operators just retiring because prices are at an all-time high. And we unfortunately live in a society now where there's not a lot of people that want to get into the cow-calf industry because it's hard, brutal, fucking work, right?

And not to mention expensive. Sure, yeah, of course it is. You've got to have land. You've got to have equipment. You've got to have everything. And I get that people are upset that there's beef maybe moving to China again here now. But one thing we really need to do is if we want to keep that here and keep it affordable, we need to change our diets a little bit. People need to start being okay with eating cow tongue and flank and skirt and liver and all this different stuff because that's essentially the larger exports that go to countries like China because the Asian delicacies are completely different than what we've become accustomed to here.

When you go to a restaurant, you go to chop in the city, they're like, what do you want? you want a ribby or you want a tomahawk or you want a top sirloin. Well, I mean, those are great cuts, but there's not very many of those cuts that exist in a carcass of beef. This shit's got to go somewhere, right? And we'd all be healthier for it. Of course, man. Yeah.

So, yeah, there's lots of changes that we can and should try to make here. But when people get upset that we're resuming some beef shipments to China, we can keep it here. We better start eating some cow-tong sandwiches, you know, which can be delicious, by the way. I got the only, I don't know if I've had cow tongue. Oh, guy. I've had moose tongue.

If you got the right people cooking it, like any piece of meat is good. Like, I've had some of the best liver I've ever had in my life. Like my mom is an absolute champion at cooking liver. And like, I love liver. There's people that are, oh, it's organ meat, blah, blah, blah. And like I get it. Everyone can have their own health decisions that they make and what they want to do or whatever. But I love liver.

It's delicious. And I, like, I don't want to leave it for the caites to eat. I killed an animal. I want to eat every part of that animal that. I possibly can. You know, Big Brother's wife there,

like she's gone into this hole. She does, like, she does my beard bomb and she's got all this natural stuff and she does like a tallow whip. So anytime we butcher, she wants every ounce of fat

that comes off of that cow so that she can make these beauty products or whatever, right? Like, we need to do more of that. We need to set the conditions if you're Martin Armstrong. You need to set the conditions

for business to thrive. Absolutely, right? Yeah. I mean, I'd love to say I could see that in a Canada, But right now the way Canada's head and where it's head and, I mean, we just seem to be focusing on the wrong things.

Correct. Yeah. I think we do that in a lot of, in a lot of areas, federally and provincially. We just, we need to just do what's good for us. Everyone's just so fucking worried about what Trump does and says every day. Like, it's our fault that we're in the position that we're in, so why don't we fix it? We can't deny the fact that we have to trade with the U.S. there are largest trading partner like by leaps and bounds and there's a group of people that exist both in

Alberta and Saskatchewan. I could take Canada out of it that don't want to trade with the U.S. anymore because of Trump's Arrangement Syndrome because that's what the media has told them to be afraid of and what they need to fear next and how much higher to put their elbows. Well, where else are we going? We got to deal with the largest populations on planet Earth, which is going to be India. China and our largest land border partner to the states, which is the largest economy that exists in the world.

We have to do business with them. You cannot like some of the things that Modi does. You can not like some of the things that China does. You can not like some of the things that Trump does or that any other administration is going to do in the states. But if we're going to boil down to not trading with anybody based on what they do, then we're going to have to get some serious shit figured out in Canada. And we're going to have to build a lot more refineries.

We're going to have to do a lot more slaughter plants. we're going to have to do a lot more food processing facilities. And where does the cash and people to work these things come from to do it? Q, thanks for being in studio. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's always good to see you, buddy. Yeah, well, next time we'll do it in the new studio. I feel like I keep saying that.

But I mean, like, I mean, I'm like, come on. How could I write this right now? You can't. Yeah, you can't, man. But yeah, I hope you get better and keep killing it, man. It's always good to see you.