Shaun Newman Podcast - #227 - QDM

Episode Date: December 20, 2021

Quick Dick McDick is back - we talk Trudeau, COVID, Gender Identity, Comedy tours & Yellowstone.  Let me know what you think  Text me 587-217-8500 Like the podcast?  Support here: https://www.patreon.com/ShaunNewmanPodcast

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So buckle up, here we go. This is Quick-Dick-McDick from Tough Mill Saskatchewan, and you are listening to the one and only Sean Newman podcast. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast today. I'm joined by Mr. Quick QDM, the Quick Dick, McDick, you all know. I mean, this is your fifth appointment on this show. Is this number five? Yeah, welcome back.

Shit, right on, man. That's awesome. Yeah. And I know I can say shit right on because we're on the Sean Newman podcast. Let's get things going. Sorry, Mom. Yes. Sorry.

I had a lady suggest Andy Frizzella. I don't know if you know who that is. It doesn't matter. He swears a lot. And I was like, yeah, it would be a ton of fun. And the first thing she says, but you'll have to apologize right at the start to your mom. I'm like, yeah, you're probably right. Right. Like back. I thought that was part of the course. Isn't that just what we do or what?

Pretty much, pretty much. How things been, man? The last time I was saying this, I had, I had twos on the podcast. Geez, I don't know what that was. A few weeks ago anyway. I caught it actually. I'm so behind on everything. It took me a little while, but like I saw that you two's wrong. I was like, I got to catch that episode or whatever. And I was like, I was driving. and I was like, I got to catch it and see what the boys were up to there. See, that was good. It was a good listen. Well, did you like his bundle of wood sneak in there?

Like, I thought that was common knowledge to everybody. I just like, I kind of remember that kind of be in a way that you would get out of saying certain words. Look at me. I still have a hard time saying it. I'm just like, I was at a dinner party the other night and I threw it out there. And everyone was like, I was like, completely offended. And then I was like, this is why. And they're like, oh.

Playing it. Yeah. Oh, I wonder how that got to be so derogatory. Yeah, so I mean, I don't know. At Big Mustassel Ventures here north of Toccal, Saskatchewan, we actually started putting wood in old crates that used to be toads just to avoid that whole topic. You know what I mean? We're very woke north of Tocon. You know, speaking of words, did you see the CBC article a few weeks back about not using certain terms?

I think I started reading the title and then decided not to read it because I was like, this is just going to be a complete waste of my time. Well, one of the words was brainstorm. Brainstorm is a word we shouldn't use. Oh, what's the replacement for it? I don't know. I was hoping you can be. The weather event, is that what we have to call it?

Let's all sit together and have a mind weather event. Let's have a mind atmospheric river. Let's have a mine Alberta clipper. I don't know, man. It sounds good, doesn't it? It might be a good shirt for you. New merch idea is coming in hot. It's time for a mine to atmospheric river.

Well, the last time we sat was when we did the bike trip. And we did it from, yeah. Like we're almost ready to put ice in the Tuffel rink right now. We don't start until January. it's that's that's just it that's when you start whatever right so uh don't tell anyone at the top no curling rink but i've been kind of cheating on them a little bit and i've been curling a little bit in foam lake as a sub on people's teams if they curl like past 8 p.m i can actually make it and uh i'll tell you what man i'm my lead game is strong i've got a really good guard weight and uh you

know i can draw pretty close to the eight foot uh not bad i'm getting in there man yeah i suck it curling Mike. I do too. It's okay. I think the curling's the one sport you just don't have to be good at as long as you drink while you're doing it. It's going to be just fine. I'm not one of those guys that like commentates and over going to the guard free zone and if you can just bring it into the forefoot and this and that and that I'm just like, I have no idea what you're talking about. But I can throw opposite turn to the way you're holding your hand out and try and put it in a general area of where you're at. And the worst that ever happens is if you hog it and don't get it over the hog line, just got to buy everybody a drink, which, just be honest, I was probably going to buy everybody a drink anyways, you know what I mean? So, yeah, I'm, I'm going to be the drunk guy that you still don't want on your team. You're like, that guy, that guy can't even figure out which way to throw the rock, let alone slide, let alone get the thing on his foot the right way, right alone was sweeping, he's sweeping off the ends. And we're like, what are you doing? Okay, but have you seen the guys that that have the push stick now that you curl with?

So, which is, it's a great invention. So it's for like older people and maybe some people that are a little overweight that can't get down and actually throw the rock. It's like a stick that you can throw the rock with standing up. And I'm just against it because I'm like, when did this turn into shuffleboard on a cruise ship? You know what I mean? This is curling, like at least getting the hacks and two foot it in the hacks if you have to.

You know what I mean? But for knee injuries and a few different things, it makes everybody included. So that's good, I guess. Darrell, if you're listening, sorry, I'm busting your balls a little bit. I can't wait to use this stick.

And we're going to have quick dick down, have a game of curly. I'm going to come rolling out. Could we call it a quick dick stick? Is that where we would be at or what? I don't know if I should be using the quick day. I didn't invent it so I should not be responsible for actually looking after it. Bashing your own stick.

Yeah, we're getting into some really weird territory here. You know what? With the name Dick, it's just everything turns into everything's a dick joke. Every selfie's a dick pick. It's just kind of the way it goes. Did you ever, do you regret the game, name it all? Now that you're like, you know, I don't know, how many years were you into this now? Like, man, what?

So it would be like a solid two years now, I guess. But no, I don't. I mean, it's just, it's endless jokes, basically, is what it is that you can run off of it kind of thing. And it's super funny because, like, I've kind of got on the road a little bit in the last little while. And you wind up, like, hanging out with one of your buddies and say, like, I was at the, in the Breeders Barns, that agribition there or whatever,

and I'm hanging out with one of my buddies. And he expects because he knows who I am. and thinks I'm kind of a big deal, which is not the case at all. He expects everybody else on planet Earth should know who I am, right? And he'd be like, do you know, do you know who you're talking to right now? And I'm like, don't, not just don't do it. He's like, you're talking to quick dick, make dick. Listen, if they don't know who I am, telling them my name is not going to make it any better.

You know, I mean, like, no, we have no idea who you are. And now that your name's quick dick, McDick, I'm going to be like, I'm sorry, what the fuck did you just say? So, no, I don't regret it at all. It's fun, man. You know, probably the best part about that bike trip was telling people we're going to Tufnell, Saskatchewan. Half the people still who bikeed to you still don't know where it is, still have no

idea where we went. And then the other thing was like telling people, what are you doing in Tufnell? Oh, we're going to see a guy named Cook Dick McDick, they're like, like the look on the face was, yeah, that's price. I'm sorry, did you just have a seizure when you were trying to tell me who you're going to see? Yeah, that's how it works most of the time. And there's been another thing is when apparently people want to like take pictures with me,

which I've actually gotten comfortable with kind of thing or whatever. I'm like, yeah, I don't be dealing with a picture. Let's do a picture kind of thing or whatever. But I've noticed there's people that are shy about asking to come for a picture, right? And I don't want people to feel intimidated when they meet me because there's no reason for it. I don't know if you know or not. I'm a pretty friendly guy. I get along with pretty much anybody, right?

So I've started like picking people out of the crowd, be like, you can see they want a picture, but they won't come and ask me like, do you want a picture? And they're like, yes, I want a picture and they'll come up and take a picture. But then there's that 1% of people that I'm picking up the wrong vibe off of and they have no idea who I am and they don't want a picture. And I'm like, hey, you want a picture with me? And they're like, no, what the fuck would I want to picture you? I'm like, never mind.

Let's just forget I ask the question. Because then you don't go and introduce yourself. Well, I'm this guy. I'm named Quick Dick. And if they don't know, just be like, oh, sorry, I guess I misread that one. And you probably think that I have a van outside that says free candy and whatever. So there's things that happen, right? Quick Dick the petto.

I mean, it kind of fits a little bit with the name. I'm not going to lie. It might actually. And I guess some people call my beard icky too. You know what I mean? So maybe, I don't know. The shoe fits wear it, I guess. I don't know.

Maybe I should condition. straighten it a little more. What are you drinking again? You're drinking vodka waters. Vodka water tonight, yeah. Yeah. You know what? I get less of a hangover of vodka water, man.

I don't know why. You know, there's days where I'm just like, yeah, I'll crush a beer. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. But if I'm just like sitting down and I'm going to drink, I just kind of switched on to the vodka water thing. Maybe I'm getting old and I just need to drink more water with what I drink.

I mean, there's lots of water and beer. so I'm always like, hey, I'm drinking beer. I'm drinking. I mean, you know, at least 75% water kind of thing. Well, I'm stealing the last to twos bohemians, so they taste rather nice. And somewhere he's listening and pounding the dash going, you bastard. So for the record, I'm not shocked that twos would stroll in with boat. You know what I mean? And that's not a derogatory slam against him or whatever. I knew that he was always that high caliber kind of guy that would roll in with bow. You know what I mean? Yeah. That says something. roll in with Bo or Old Vienna, anything other than Great Western, of course. So you roll into that.

I mean, you're like, yeah, you're kind of a high class. Some bitch, aren't you? You know what I mean? Yeah, real high class. Yeah, I had my questions about twos. And then after he rolled in with Bo, I was like, yeah, I don't think I got any questions left. Yeah, it should be good. You know, on a completely different note, you're making, you know, Sunday nights, Sunday nights, it's been pretty big deal in my household. Oh, that's your little Kevin Costner, a little Yellowstone. Yellowstone. It's a Yellowstone night. That's right, too. Yeah. I'm like not one of the fanboys that's like waiting for it to drop and I'm watching it live as it comes out. Usually be like three days later. I'll be like, what the fuck day is it? It's why it's oh shit there should be Yellowstone out or whatever kind of thing, right? There's a craze. There's a craze on that show, right? Oh yeah. Absolutely. But I feel like so it's kind of like there's the drama part of it that's pretty good. Okay. And there's some action and everything. But Yellowstone is like, uh, uh, Yellowstone is to ranchers as ice road truckers is to actual commercial truck drivers. You know what I mean?

Did I just use a simile? I think that's what I just used. Yes, he did. It's been a while since I've been to English 30A or whatever it's called. But yeah, there's some stuff on that show where you watch it go on. You're just like, yeah, no, but it's still a cool show when it's Kevin Costner or whatever. And, you know, Rips got some pretty good one-liners. And Beth is, she's something too, whatever, you know what I mean?

She's Beth. I noticed there's a lot less skin scenes with her in, like, the new series or whatever. So maybe she drew some lines in the sand kind of thing. I don't know what went on there. But all in all, pretty good show. But, I mean, there's a lot of hype over it. You know, when I saw you guys all over Twitter talking about cutting the fence to get the calf back in, I was like, ah, come on.

Just like live, you know, just let the show be the show. And then I started thinking about, I mean, this is, this is a kid show. but Mighty Ducks had their TV show come on, right? Hockey show. Okay, yeah, yeah. And I watched, like, you know, I had Gordon Bombay come back in, like the coach from, you know,

Emilio Estavest. And I was like, oh, sweet, right? Like, this is going to be awesome. And then, like, they picked a bunch of kids that couldn't skate. Like, literally couldn't skate. And I'm like, the show's about a group of hockey players. And I'm like, I just don't get it.

Like, here you got this great idea. I think it can fly, you know? I think. It can fly. I think it would be a decent show. Mealy, like fly in a V. or a mansion.

100%. Meanwhile, like, and they got some good characters, but none of them can skate and you can tell it. You're just like, yeah, they're like,

this is all wrong. There's absolutely nothing. So when I saw, when I put myself in that position, I'm like, well, at least with Koster and Rip and Beth, you got a pretty good mixture of like,

all right, well, we got something here, right? Yeah. Even though they're doing things that ranchers go, we would never do that. That's stupid.

Like straight up and so be it. And you know what? I think it's cool that there's a show out there that's got people into like watching stuff about ranching and whatnot. If anyone out there's listening that that doesn't really know what happens on ranches, which I assume there's not or whatever. But I mean, we're usually not running around with a bunch of fully automatic weapons and everything too. You can't get them in Canada anyways. You know what I mean? but there's this one scene where somebody drives up and rips, rip goes to that stay right here and he's going to go out and see who it is. And then all of a sudden you got him with this, like with this SWAT style assault shotgun with the,

with the tactical light on it and everything. I'm like, holy shit. Like, where this guy get this shit, right? Yeah. The wife's eyes almost popped out of her head when they were jerking the horse off. Like collected semen? I was fucking dying laughing because I'm like, well, that's, you know, they do that.

The thing about that is like, that was the one part on it. I'm like, well, that's not really that far off of what actually happens when they're collecting Stephen from a stud, you know what I mean? I was actually shocked that that they got Jimmy in there. I don't know what his name was an actor. Actually got him in there grabbing a hold of this horse's weapon. I was like, shit, that's a commitment to acting right there. If you're not into that stuff, you know what I mean?

You know, but like when he does his, when he does his resume and it's like, what have you done? One of it is going to be jerking off a horse, right? Like, I literally collected semen. Like, that's what I did. I think it would be very important to put that into context, though, because like, you know, well, did you jerk off a horse on stage in Mexico somewhere? Or did you know what I mean? Like, there's a few different ways, I guess, that you could go about something like that. But yeah, it was, it was pretty good.

but I've never actually been in that situation. We're immediately following the event, the lady that was heading it all up. I actually tried to ask me for a date afterwards. But I mean, I guess a guy can always dream. You know what I mean? Yeah.

That was odd timing as well. Yeah. I mean, you know, I guess that's the only single person that's around kind of thing. You just got to do what you can. I mean, I can relate and top. I mean, and all the single people.

How many times you sent your resume into Yellowstone, hoping to get a guest appearance just to be like the never i don't think i's ever made for the big screen more like the like phone size screen kind of thing or whatever actually i don't even think i was made for that to be perfectly honest uh no like i mean it's it's cool what they do but i mean it's still same thing like you even watch like if you've watched like license to drill and and ice road truckers and all these other reality shows or whatever you're just like yeah i feel like they could write you in as the dumb canadian you know like how they always have the dumb can't who just says something stupid and you're like,

why do they got to make it sound so stupid? You know what? It's just... And I'm not saying you're stupid. I'm just saying they could write you in because you kind of look at. You have actually hurt me deeper than I've ever been hurt, Sean, actually. But you know me well enough to know that I only have one feeling and that you can't really hurt it.

It's a tough one to poke at pretty hard. But no, it's cool that everybody's kind of watching it and doing their thing. And it's neat to see, you know, some ranching and Western shows. If that's what you want to call it, get going out. I was a huge fan of Hell on Wheels. Did you ever see Hell on Wheels? Yeah. It was so good.

And like, I mean, I can imagine if there was some guy from the 1800s that was watching that being like, that's not what it was like when we were building the railroad. You know what I mean? But then, I mean, he would have to have found a time machine and come back to when they had cinematography and motion pictures and stuff like that too. So, Ansson Mount or sorry, Anson Mount, and Comin are probably pretty safe from criticism with that show because it's probably not a lot of people. alive that actually helped build the railroad left.

You know what I mean? That was actually really good show. It was. It was so good. And like, there's not a lot of shows that I get like, you know, hooked on. And it was good. But like I like I like westerns. Did Toos tell you he was in that? What?

Two's made an appearance in Hell on Wheels. How the hell? Too's, you're listening right now. I know you are. I'm pissed. How hasn't that come up? So I get full creds. We had an exchange on DMs and Twitter, like when I first kind of came across Tews.

And somehow Hell on Wheels came up. And he's like, oh, you like Hell on Wheels? And I mean, I won't give the story away. I'll let him tell it. But yeah, man, twos is on film in Hell on Wheels. He's kind of like this man of mystery, eh? I know, right? And so I guess I can't actually.

tell you what scene and where he was or who he was because then it would give away his Clark Kent identity that he's trying to keep secret. You remember when you were doing that? You didn't want to give away your name? Yeah. But you know what? Like it didn't last that long because it was, it was pretty early when I had things going on and I got on.

I was in studio with Gormley. I was just passing through Saskatoon and I was like, hey, you always said to look, yep, if I was coming through Saskatoon. I'm coming through SaaS too and he's like, do on jump on the show? It's like, sure. So wept in the studio and jumped on the show and like we kind of didn't really know each other that well. And I go walking in the studio and he's like, hey, so how are we going to manage this? And I was like, oh, no, like open book. Like we go my name, Dixon the alarm, da, da, da. And he's, it was like a sigh relief for him almost kind of thing or whatever. But it's, I've never really

carried it much farther past the point when this first started or whatever is. I just wanted to make sure that everybody in my family and whatnot knew what I was up to and that everybody was comfortable with what I was doing before. I was like, hey, this is who I am. Because to be perfectly honest, people really want to know who you are. They're going to find out anyways, right? Like it's, it, you can't really keep a lot of stuff perfectly secret with the day and age that we live in kind of thing, right? Especially when you're doing weekly videos that talk about where you're from over and over and over and over and over and over. Eventually, you can just go to the Tufco Post Office and talk to the postmistress there and she's going to let you know who I am.

you know what I mean. But yeah, but it's, yeah, I really don't worry too much about it anymore now. And it's kind of a, it's a, it's a kind of a funer part of the story, actually is what I've started doing with a lot of things that I wind up doing live or, you know, Zoom stuff into different places. I'll actually, you know, tell the story of how it all started and kind of how it turned into what it is kind of thing. And everyone's always like, where are you headed with it?

What's your end point? And I'm like, well, I guess I don't really have an endpoint. I'd say there's a moderate roadmap that I'm kind of bouncing along kind of thing or whatever, but as far as an endpoint, I, I don't really have one, I guess. You know what I mean? Main goals just keep people laughing and just kind of go from there. You know what I mean? Well, we're in, we're in strange. Me and you, I think I've said this on multiple, like, I should have, you know, normally I get people introduce themselves, but you've been on here so much, I just assume the audience knows who you are. But like, if people really want to get a feel for

our friendship and how it's grown, just go back to episode 72, 104, 151, 180, and now, I believe it's 227. Holy shit, man. You kind of get a feel, you can get a feel for how things have kind of moved along, right? Yeah. I think the coolest thing that I mean probably, you know, progressed, you and I getting to know each other and me and pretty good friends was the bike for breakfast thing. And it was just, it was, it was super fun.

But we'd known each other for quite a while at that point in time. And that was like the first time that we'd ever actually met in person, which is pretty crazy. And that's been a very cool thing about, you know, what's been happening with a lot of different things that I've been doing lately is actually, you know, meeting people in person. And it's a little bit of a reality check, I think, to go from like, you know, not per se knowing somebody online because I don't really know a lot of people online. There's a lot of names and usernames and stuff to try and keep track of which I mean, I can't keep track of myself most of the time. but to try and keep track of them and then you have kind of certain interactions there's a handful of people you know online or on social media that you'll be like okay I like I know who this person is and when you meet him in real life you're like oh a good example would be Dan Cognit that I met and

Rob Stone uh Tanya Cugnant a few people that I met at agribition or whatever like there are people that when I meet them I'm like I know who they are online and I'm not trying to sound like a pompous asshole or whatever kind of thing but I like have a bigger following on a lot of lot of it's hard to keep track of who's who you know what i mean well you got a bigger you got a bigger following than me online uh by far but i still i still run into people like yourself and now twos like i'm at two's in person and i mean geez i sound like i'm doing a promo for twos i'm going to stop right now yeah hey enough enough uh free riding for two's here that's right but i mean the the the the it's a weird world online everything's going more online and what i was going to say is you know after the last time um

We sat down. I was looking back, you know, I do this every time you come on. I kind of go like, okay, so where are we at? What do we talk about? Okay. Oh, that bike trip. And then what's happened since then? And like, I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know in the last,

I don't even know what it was. That was June. So what does that put us at? Six months almost. Yeah, I guess. Since we, you know, lots has gone on. Lots has changed, you know? Yeah.

I was just listening to I was just listening to Premier Moe on Friday talking about booster shots again and I know I said this to you probably a month of half ago let's not talk about COVID and yet fuck here I am and it's just like it's no more no matter where we go it just comes up yeah well like it's straight up and you know the gig I like I told just before I'll talk about anything I don't get shit

I know I know you do well I'm curious Q because I like your brain I like the way you think. Obviously, multiple times you've come on, right? Yeah. I like how you're using humor and everything else. What do you think about the booster shots? Because in the beginning, and I'm just going to just, the one conversation we had offline,

I wish we would have had online way back. I was driving and we were talking about the vaccine. What was I doing? I was hauling hate, wasn't I? Yeah. And I was heading out to. You were driving. Yeah.

And we were talking about it. And that's one of my, geez, we should have put that online. Because it was a really good conversation. and two very different views on the same subject. Yeah. Now here we sit six months later and they're saying three months after you get your vaccines, you're eligible for a booster again. Yeah.

What's your brain thought on that? I mean, eligible for it, right? I mean, they're not saying, hey, everybody go out and you have to go get your booster kind of thing or whatever. And I think there's a lot of people that are going to take it to be like, oh, yeah, we'll give it two months and it's going to be your fax status or whatever. and like to like I'll tell it to you right now I'll tell it to everybody to listen I don't agree with Vax passports or anything that's going on I get the theory behind it and what's going on but I I don't agree with it but as far as a booster goes I like there's been a lot of people I've had

conversations with a lot of people on this stuff here too is one guy specifically was like well why do they call it a vaccine if it doesn't completely protect you from this or whatever I was like is is the name changing of what's going on going to change your view on what's happening? If you just call it a shot, let's just call it a shot and not a vaccine or whatever kind of thing. Is that going to change your opinion? Well, no, it's not. I was like, well, then why are you focusing on the name of it? If that's kind of the game, right?

I like, I get it. Everyone runs back through. I mean, once a year is where we're down to with a flu shot kind of thing. If that's the kind of thing that you do to try and boost your immunity and help people that are, you know, immunally compromised to a few of these things or whatever, I get it. came out it was never a silver bolt that was saying hey you know we're just just going to end it we're never going to see COVID again if you get this you're going to be able to carry it still you're going to be able to transmit it still the theory is here is we're just trying to keep everybody out of the

hospital because our fucking health care system is shit right has that been fixed or is it going to be fixed throughout this probably not i mean and this is in no way shape or form i i have full respect for all of our health care workers and i can't imagine having to wear all the shit that they got to where to go to a hospital trying to protect themselves to do what they're doing kind of thing and i i just i respect the hell out of me you know this i have i have people that are in health care in my family very close family uh that i would i would die for him i love them to death you know um booster shut yep it's if it's if it's going to help and try and keep things going forward here if you if you lose your little bit of your capability of immunity towards this or uh you have a little slight decrease in

antibodies or whatever it goes on. To be perfectly honest, I haven't looked into the science or literature and a lot of this stuff in a long time because I've just kind of shut that part of me off because I'm fucking tired about hearing it. It's all you hear about when you turn on the news. It's all you hear anybody talk about it anymore. And I've started muting words on Twitter and social media and just because I'm just done with everybody being drunk with it. You know what I mean? But I get it. If we have people that are older that you can boost their immunity and help stay out of the hospital and keep their symptoms low. if it's going to work and science is saying that that's going to work well go fucking do it then

you know what I mean and if you're concerned about going to do it not going to go do it have your reasons that you're not going to go do it well I mean I'm I'm not going to bash you against the wall for not doing it you know yeah I I feel that sentiment with a lot of people right like I think we're all tired to talk about it right like let's just move on but there is a segment of the population that isn't allowed anywhere pretty much anymore right and you know this about me i got young kids and i really really really now this is my personal thought and i've listened to a bunch of the fda's panel talk about making it available to young kids because i got a five four or two right so obviously two of them still aren't eligible but

you can imagine it's coming and uh to me i just i don't understand it like i follow along as closely it probably more closely than I should just because like you know I got to think for him like got to have a good reason not to get it or to get it in my opinion that's that's my own opinion right and the longer this goes on I just go like oh man like when are we going to get off this train when are we going to you know and Nadine Ness on last week and I really liked her thoughts because you know here's this here's this pregnant lady mother of three soon to be four former. Former. Arsneedneux and P officer, and she just talked about, you know, we got to find a way to come back together as a society because it's really divisive, right? I mean, the vaccine versus unvaccinated is one argument. I mean, that just, I mean, rightfully so is blowing things apart because, I mean, you got community rinks that won't allow people in. You got all these different places that won't allow people in. And, you know, at some point, I just don't know how to get off this train. And I keep waiting for the world to kind of get off the train. But it's not.

Just, no, Omitrons, the next one coming through. Yeah. And I, I think, I think we've lost, not we've lost, but we're very slowly losing the, you know what, this might be a segue into something a little bit different, but I'm just, I'm just going to go with it on this thought of people talking to each other. We're slowly losing the ability to be able to sit like you and I, like, you and I are going to sit here and have a conversation. And both of us might agree or disagree on vaccine.

on vaccines or anything like that. But I mean, I know you well enough and you know me well enough that it's, it will never stop us from sitting down and crushing a beer and, and hanging out and not worrying about it because we can be open and honest about our opinions and where each side is coming from. And 99.9% of the time, I'm the kind of person that can sit with you. You're the kind of person that can sit with me. And you can be like, yeah, yeah, fuck, I hear your side of it, man.

I get it. You know what I mean? That's something that's leaving society at an exponential rate. a lot of it has to do as far as I'm concerned with political division and a lot of this stuff being politicized but I mean that's been government from the start of time the government's job is to is to get themselves reelected by any means possible and I think we saw a worst part of that from the Trudeau government in the last I knew you were going to bring up Trudeau it's it's like you knew I was going to say Trudeau or whatever right and it was it was gross and disgusting the fact that

that guy got elected with 18.2% of the eligible voting population is, is something that should concern a lot of meetings. I actually have a really good joke in my live show about that. But I've always been the guy and I really hope that people can find this in themselves. I know when I'm dealing with somebody online, that I'm not dealing with the real person of who they actually are. And in case and point, I won't use their names just because obviously I don't have their permission to use their names or to talk about the interaction that we had. But it was at agribition and it was it was two members of the official opposition government in Saskatchewan that nobody ever in their life would ever expect me to

sit down and talk with kind of thing. And we were at the Bud Light Loading Shoot beer gardens. I just finished a thing with the cowboy shit guys. And I was just walking by. And the one guy stood up and was like, hey, you know, quick dick. I am. And I was like, I finished his sentence because I knew exactly who he was, right? And he was like, yeah, he's like, I just, I just wanted to tell you, I really enjoy some of your, some of your uploads and some of the things you do. And I was like, well, thanks. Like, I appreciate some of your opinions too.

And I turned around and he was sitting with one of his colleagues and she didn't expect me to know who she was. And I knew exactly who she was. And I called her by her, Ms. called her by her name. And I sat down and had a beer with them. And we had an exchange, like three. regular normal human beings. We grab pictures with each other. And both of us say, you know, I don't always agree with your opinions. And they don't always agree with my opinions or whatever.

But all in all, we're all just humans. And it's okay to disagree. It didn't stop us from sitting down and having a beer with each other and having a good time. And we left on the on the best of terms. Not that we started on bad terms, but we left on great terms. And it was a great exchange. And that's missing from from our world today, Sean. And that's been a big reason why. I've started to try and tune myself out from a lot of the things that are going on. I've seen some social media is probably one of the biggest things that fuels the fire on a lot of this stuff. Social media is the biggest problem. But it can be the biggest tool to help men.

Absolutely. Like I mean, there's the positives and negatives of it, right? But it's just that that ability to be able to just put it, put all the, if you want to call it garbage, if you put all the garbage aside that you've seen post. Because like I'll be the first two of them. But there's some stuff that I post that's just kind of garbage. It's to make people laugh. You're either going to get it or you're not. And we just go on from there kind of thing.

You know what I mean? But that's like, that's missing. And I've started handling people that I deal with online with, with the vision of, this is not the person who they would be if I was actually sitting across the table from having a beer in real life kind of thing. And I think more people need to try and take that approach when you're dealing with somebody online. There's going to be times.

and I'm just as guilty. There'll be times where I'll jump off and be like, no, you know what? I'm going to have a go with you on Twitter or something like that or whatever kind of thing. But eventually I'll just lose interest and mute it and go on to something else or whatever kind of thing. But it's important that people remember you are dealing with a person on the other end of the screen. It's just they're kind of being a little bit of a screen warrior. And that's dismantling a lot of who we are as human beings, you know. And I think you see it a lot in kids now too.

When you sit with a kid and try and have a conversation with a kid. kid. There's some that are out there. I'm not saying all of them are that way because I know some some young kids around this neck of the woods that you can sit and feels like you're having a conversation with an adult. But there's some that just can't do it and need to be on their phone and can't hold a conversation with you kind of thing. Right. See it's yeah. And I think I think we're getting web like tangled up in that web and COVID's kind of a thing that's that's maybe if you want to call it the fly in the web that everybody's trying to get or that everybody's fighting over kind of thing. You're just like, holy Lord. Like we we need to go. We need to

somewhere from here and it's got to be up. I don't want to see us go any farther down. You know, I mean, well, the thing, the thing about COVID, you know, when I think about it, I'm like, ah, I just got to stop focusing on it, right? Like, it's not that hard, except it is that hard, you know, like in one breath, it isn't that hard. And then in another breath, it is that hard because, you know, to play senior hockey, right? Foam Lake Flyers, ranked number seven. I know you don't care, but they are ranked number seven. I heard they won last night. I heard they won last night.

You still haven't gone to a game? Haven't gone to a game. I haven't gone to a game. I haven't done a thing on them yet. I'm waiting for you. What if I asked you every fucking time, quick, do something on, do something on hockey. Okay. But here, like I'll be honest with you. I was actually at another hockey game in Canora, actually.

I was watching a young girl, the guy that owns the bar our ranch there. I was watching his daughter play hockey. It's the first hockey game. to all year and I went and watched them play and and and you might not think that's a big deal but to get my ass into into into a big deal to watch hockey like I won't even watch it on TV drinking something you know what I mean and it was good I enjoyed it was fun yeah so so anyways going back to it though I want not look at it but to go into rinks to I mean now it's it's been passed pretty much at every actually I know the school division here the Northwest School Division was the last one so now it's

you know vaccination right all these mandates coming down And so it's like, you actually can't run from it. And now with the booster coming on, it's like, I mean, if you go back to the start of this, a booster, I think if everybody would have been like, this is where it's going to be, everyone, like, oh, oh, but in saying that, you got your shots. Now it's a booster. Okay, it's, okay. Yeah, it's not that big a deal.

Except then they went from six to three and you're like, okay, well, now it's like, everybody wants to move on with life. It's like, but we just, COVID is dictating everything we do. I mean, just look at the NHL, right? I love my NHL. I want to watch Jayne. What are they doing? They're shutting down games because they got COVID outbreaks everywhere.

And you're like, yeah. And that won't go off without a hit. Yeah, I think when it comes down to that and like that's, I think when it comes down to reporting statistics, which is another thing that I've really, I've just started distancing myself a lot from because everyone's always, and I hear that lots with a lot of other people I talk to. How many cases?

How many cases did we have today? How many cases? I don't I don't fucking care how many cases we had today. How many people got sick and got put in a hospital? Okay, how many people are in intensive care? That's probably what we should be focusing on because the goal of what we're trying to do to get out of it now that COVID is endemic is we're trying to get to the point where we don't overwhelm our health care system, which last time I checked was the whole reason we tried to do this whole thing off the start was to keep people out of the hospital, right? So if the NHL's got to shut down, our team's got to stop and going to quarantine and do their thing to keep this from spreading or do their thing. and they're just trying to contain it.

Okay, yeah, I get it. I mean, I'm not going to lose sleep if I don't see the Calgary Flames play tomorrow because Well, nobody's going to lose sleep if the Calgary Flames played about. I think we just, yeah, we just unofficially got to dig at the Calgary Flames, yeah. But yeah, I mean, as long as we're trying to manage it, but I mean, that's the thing. You get one of these, one or two of these things here, whatever, and then all of a sudden it just gets blown up. This is what happening.

This is what's happening. And then you see that I started changing, like, yeah, I started blocking words on Twitter and a whole bunch of different shit because I woke up on morning, this is all that my feed is full of or whatever. And I'm like, I'm, I've fucking had enough of this. And I think that's where a lot of people are at kind of thing. Now, like, I get the fact that we need to try to do something to contain this and to keep this from overwhelming our health systems and whatnot or whatever. But like at what point in time are we like, Omicron, everybody goes crazy over Omicron kind of thing before we even know what it is. You know what I mean? And it's not going to be the last

variant of it. It's going to be like the flu. It's going to be like, I'm not a horologist. I'm not a doctor. Like I can't even like literally. I shouldn't even really talk about it because I really don't fucking know. You know what I mean? It's just, I, I listen to my doctor. My doctor, I think that was you and I had this talk before. When I go in unconscious bleeding on a on a stretcher, I'm like, well, I don't say it because I'm unconscious, but I'm like, okay, well, I guess my life's kind of in your hands and you look after me kind of thing. And I treat it the same way, now is I'm just like, hey, what do I got to do to do? This is what I got to do. This is what I got to do.

You're my doctor. Yeah. Okay. That's what I'm going to do. The only thing, I'll argue with you on that is when you're, I agree with you. When you got a bullet in you, hopefully never, Yellowstone, maybe. Yellowstone, you probably got eight in you. You know what? Me and BMA were citing in a 22, 250 here the other day. And I'm not going to go in any specifics or whatever, but I mean, be sure of your target and beyond. You know what I mean? Nobody got the first rule of hunter's safety. In those scenarios, all I'm getting at is when you're in a car wreck, you're in, you're in, like, you're in bad shape. Yeah, 100%. But here me and you, too healthy guys. Like, there should be at this point two years in options, quick. There should just be options. There should just be like, like, we're not, we're not on death's doorstep by any stretch of the imagination. Literally, I just, you know, God, you know, you try not to read two. much of it but then just articles get sent you in you're like yeah do i want to read stupid now okay i'll read stupid right and like it's just now with the omicron thing all over again is the the the

asymptomatic and treating healthy people like ooh right and it's like man how do we get off this thing here's a question for you here here's a constructive question for quick sure how do we get out of this i don't know i think yeah i i don't know i think yeah I think I mean everyone obviously keeping a little bit of an open mind kind of thing but when when you see this these things keep happening kind of thing when you like okay so you were talking about you know we're both healthy guys whatever yeah I get it and there's I've heard of a I've heard of a handful of people already that you know they're just they're asymptomatic and there's no big deal and they didn't even know they had it kind of thing and that's good

and there's going to be people that are going to get it. One has been a very good buddy of mine who was quite vocal against getting vaccinated or whatever two that got it. And fuck me, that guy was down for 14 days. And there was parts. He didn't wind up in the hospital. He's healthy and he's tough. But like it's the same thing.

If you find somebody that was in that situation that wasn't as good of shape him, they're going to have. But I'll say this right now. And I'll be very clear, right? And I sometimes don't do this with all the guests I have on. I'm not making light of COVID. I'm making light of the fact that we don't discuss all the option. I just literally had Peter McClellan, and I've had multiple different variations of that same doctor.

We talk about, you know, like there was this thing called ivermectin. And I know we'll go down that side thing and the horse dewormer and all that. I'm just saying there's like to act like, man, I can get over this. I got those buddies too that got a hammer by this. I also got the buddies who just took the preventative measures early and quick, they got over it. Like they just moved on with their life and that's fine too. I'm not saying don't like this isn't, I don't, I'm not sitting here saying like, hey, don't do anything. Just sit at home and it'll be all right.

We've all got our, in this area at least, got buddies who've been hit by it pretty hard. And if they took it seriously, in my opinion seriously, but seriously doesn't equate to me. to going and getting the vaccine. That's not what I mean by serious. That can be one of the options, but there's other options, right? I just think two years in, there's like so many different options.

The other options are just suppressed and it's odd. Yeah. And like, to be honestly, man, I like, I can't really comment to any of them because like straight up, I haven't like dove down deep into it

and been like, this is this and this is that because I've just stuck with what my doctor told me to do. You know what I mean? And I don't know. like I've been okay and I've just stuck with that and I like I'm not saying that it was the right thing to do what I did or what my doctor recommended or whatever but it's just the path I've always taken that's got me to the right place right yeah but at the end of the day um everybody's got to do what's like my man I you did what you thought you should do yeah I've done what I thought we should do that's that's what the phone call you know once again I'll talk about this phone call because none of the listeners got to hear it right so therefore I can I can I can very very very all different things. But it was,

it was like, it was like really enlightening on how two different brains looked at a problem. Like if I could think back to it, man, I wish we would have recorded him, put it out here because you would have really got to see, um,

you know, you're the guy who went and got his shots, did the video and, like there's nothing like me. I'm like, okay. Like I admire you for doing it quick. I'm like,

huh. That's an interesting. That's interesting thought. And then four days after, After, not four days, within the same month of biking to you, I interview a doctor, and I've changed past, and I've gone a different way. And now all I see is like, you say that we need to find a way to get people talking again. And what really unnerves me about that is, is I feel like the future I see for my kids and for us moving forward is more online, which means

there's going to be less interaction of people talking about their views and how they come together. Yeah. Which means we're in for some real wild times because there's less and less of people talking. Yeah. Yeah, there really is. And I wish people would talk more. You know what I mean? I think people get nervous or get worried that when they go into a conversation or are going to go talk with somebody that, well, what if I don't have an answer for something somebody's going to say or What if I can't, you know, back up my opinion of what I'm saying or blah, da, da, well, like, what, what is a conversation? Is, is even a conversation with another human you trying to win against the other human? That's, that's not what a conversation is.

A conversation is like what we're having now. What we had on the phone kind of thing. Any conversation I've ever had with you? Any conversation have with anybody? I'm just talking to somebody. If somebody talks to me and they're making sense of what they're saying, I'd be like, yeah, that's actually, that's, that's a great opinion. You know what I mean? I try my damnedest.

Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes. But I try really hard just to look like, obviously we're having, I think, a constructive back and forth because I've wondered your thoughts now for like, you know, like think about it. After I sat down with you, I literally interviewed a doctor in the studio here who I just went, huh. And me and you had the phone call, you were going to get vaccinated? I wasn't.

It was just simple as that. And we all both went, okay. Yeah, don't mind that. All right. We'll see where this lands, right? And we've just gone about 180 at all. Still good people, still believe in the exact same things that brought us together in the first place. Just one choice in this world we currently live in has made it. People want to make it feel like it's this giant divide. Social media wants to make it feel like it's a giant divide. Of course they do. And that's it's a big problem with social media. And even like I've done a couple of you want to call them social. experiments or whatever on Twitter, but you'll send out one tweet specifically on one, then you'll put something out. You're like, well, this is a little bit politically spicy here or whatever. You know before you send it, which one's going to do better if you watch how a tweet does or whatever.

That's because Twitter's job is to keep people's face buried in Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or whichever one of them. Yeah, whichever one it is that you want to use. YouTube's no different kind of, excuse me, no different kind of thing, right? And that is in social, social media. as you say, it can be a good thing and it can be a really, really terrible thing, too. And that's, uh, I, yeah, I go back to the, the politicization of, of COVID as well, too. It's just it's when you, when you're using that as as, you know, fuel to a fire, even during

an election or something like that, that's, that's just not okay. You know what I mean? People need to be able to talk to each other a little bit more. Um, and, you know, I, I think we've even said this in this podcast here, whatever, but like I, like, it hasn't changed whether I would sit down and have a beer with you or whether we could hang out or whether I wouldn't come on a podcast with you because you've done some things that are, you know, alternatives to vaccines and stuff like that. That's not the kind of person I am.

I'm going to sit in my ass down. I'm going to talk here on this podcast just like we always fucking have because we're human beings that respect each other's opinions. You know what I mean? I'm, I'm not going to sit here and be like, yeah, well, you jump down this well or whatever and you're just getting bad information and everything. no, that's not. It's just, to me, it's not how the world should work kind of thing. You know what I mean? I think it's, it's important for people to sit down and just have reasonable conversations with each other.

And, but like you say, it's, it's probably more important now than ever for, for us to teach our kids and, and encouraging our kids and cultivate in our kids to have personal conversations with themselves with, with no phones and no nothing. And you talk to a lot of people and you can see it now, even, you know, kids around here that are, between the 12 to 14 years old range that have full access to social media and different things. You're going for another bow, aren't you? Yeah, I'll keep talking because you're away from the mic. I knew you were. But it's so important for kids to be able to have conversations with each other. And I think for parents to limit the amount of time that their kids spend on social media,

which is it's a little bit of a ball that gets rolling down a hill because then it causes conflict between kids and their parents because their parents will only allow them to have so much time on social media because all these other kids are allowed to be on social media and do all these other things or whatever and uh i can see how all all things considered uh how it would be a very challenging time to be parents right now you know and in in my live show i make quite a quite a bit quite a bit of fun of parents nowadays kind of thing but at the same time uh it i can see how it would be very tough to to be parents nowadays right being parents back in the day when we were raised by our parents they had their own set of struggles.

And since a lot of those struggles have been replaced with the, with the, you know, luxuries of, of technology and whatnot, but those luxuries of technology now have brought on a new set of challenges to parents nowadays that might not be faced with, you know,

physical or financial hardship kind of thing, but now faced with a different kind of hardship of how do you manage social media and your kids, you know, a vision of themselves and they're, you know, they're feeling about who they are and how they put themselves online and what can do to their, you know, they're triggering anxiety and a few different things of what you get

from this whole new set of challenges. Back in the day, it was like, well, how the fuck do I make this bottle of formula to the right temperature? Well, now we have curigs that make fucking formula to the right temperature, but I can't keep my 12-year-old daughter from fucking hating yourself because of social media. You know what I mean? So it's, we're trading what makes things tough nowadays, right? Yeah, well, and that's always going to happen, right?

Yeah. As you as you roll through time as time marches on, things are going to change. I wife really didn't want me to talk to you about this one, but I'm going to bring it up anyways. I was at a dinner party the other night and I've become, I've become, I don't know, the tough guy to be around or the fun guy to be around. I don't know. But what came up was gender identity in kids. Yeah.

And I was saying, I'll see if I can. word this right so I don't get canceled from everything. I was saying like I think as parents, leaders, adults, we've done a disservice. Like I get the inclusion part. I get like everybody gets to be who they want to be. Completely get it. I just, I have a struggle really, really hard and specifically having young kids. I struggle really hard that my child one day is going to go to school with somebody who identifies as a wolf. Let's just use a wolf. wolf. Sure. And they're going to want to be called a wolf. And I know exactly what my son's going to want to do. He's going to, can I be a wolf? You can, but I'm going to have social services called

on me when I feed you raw meat and you're living out in the backyard in minus 30 because I don't have a wild animal in you. Right. And I mean, like, we can joke about it. And I can feed a wolf. You got to make it hunt. That's right. That's right. We'll leave you wild on the streets, right? I just, to me, I'm like, you know, like by trying to make everyone feel like welcome. What we're actually doing is we're going to put a lot of odd conversations, questions on the kids that, honestly, like, you want to be a wolf? Wait until you're 18. Wait until you can vote. Like, let's just, let's like, we're putting all these tough choices on kids.

Why the hell will we do that? Honestly. Yeah. Yeah. That's a tough one. Yeah. And again, like, that's, that is one hell of a challenge for parents to face right now. And I guess I would tie that back to social media again, not just social media, but also like, you know, let's say even classrooms and there's going to be some stuff.

Like I know they do, but and I know any of the ones that I know are fantastic, but I hope teachers know the very important role that they always have and are playing in kids lives nowadays too, right? But that's a tough one, you know. and you have you have kids that are not you know developed or haven't even reached puberty to a certain point where hormones start playing a factor and I'm by no stretch to the imagination a child psychologist or anything like that we don't have to be a child psychologist no no you don't and like I've never held my opinions back from anybody for anything I think anybody who I am wouldn't know that well enough but I think kids need to grow up before they can decide what what what they want to be or who they want to be kind of thing and I'm not

even against it. Like, you know, I say it and I sound, I know I sound like a jacket. I know there's going to be people like, you're like right on, but there's going to be people that's going, you sound like a jackass right now. That's fine. I think I could sound like a jackass on my own damn podcast for once where I just go like, probably all the time. But I just, I look at it and I just like somewhere along the way, I feel like we've lost a little something here. Because I just look at it and I go, I was sitting around with these, these lovely people. You talk about teachers. I'm married to a teacher. She is a wonderful woman.

God bless her. I wouldn't be able to do her job. I wouldn't be. I wouldn't either. Let's get that out there. 100% right. And so like I trust her with with my kids' lives to navigate these tough conversations. Because I just look at it and I go like this is a really tough conversation.

Why can one kid tell and say he identifies as a wolf and now my son wants to be Batman? Because that's exactly what I would have wanted to be. And I'm like, Christian Bail Batman or Michael Keaton Batman? Actually, have you seen the new preview for the new Batman with the dude? No? No, I haven't. I don't even think I've seen the one with the guy with the weird stuff on his face.

I don't know. I can't keep up on this shit, man. Come on quick. Would I ever lie to you, Sean? I don't think I've seen all the Batman's start to finish. I don't think I have. You just went down a pig. I'm going to keep trying to climb back up those pigs.

I'm just going to do it again. well what's it what the heck is his name i don't i got to find it damn it uh because i'm going to butcher it's the guy from twilight which you're going to go twilight is being batman uh robert patinson robert patinson's coming out to new one and it looks good and he looks good oh yeah i'm just saying it was it was hard for me to get past the one where uh was it was it heath ledger that did uh the joker and that was like that was a pretty amazing performance of somebody that's completely disturbed. Listen to me.

I'm telling you, when we're done with this, I want you to go watch the Batman trailer. Just do me a favor. You text about me after. And when you watch it, you're going to go, geez,

that feels like it could be as good. Probably nothing will ever come to close as Heath Ledger. I mean, like, how are you ever going to top that? I don't know if you can't. No, what was the one I,

what was the one with that Walking Phoenix did? Oh, that one? Oh, that one's messed up. That was the Joker. Yeah. Oh, man. And, like, I saw the trailer of that. And I watched it.

I was like that, man, that guy might be a little bit of a wing nut there when you see him on interviews and a bunch of different stuff. But you watch him do a performance like that. And you're like, that was pretty fucking good. You know what I mean? It was great acting. It was a messed up movie. Like, it was just like. That's something you're never watching again.

You watch, watch, you're like, yeah. Yeah, I haven't been back to do that one over again, you know what I mean? Nobody's going to be back to do that over again. You're like, that was enough on the old psyche. Now, we went from gender identity to the Joker, man. That's, uh, we do that from time to time, don't we? I just, I have a hard time with the kids thing. I just do.

I always have, right? Like, I just, I just, I can see, I feel like I can kind of see what's coming, right? Like, you know, when we were kids, you know, we had to worry about certain things as kids. And I sound like an old man right now. But like soon it's, there's going to be things they're going to be privy to that I've never even had to remotely experience. So like I guess when I think back to my childhood, I mean the, you know, the you would be, it would be homosexuality would be like that would maybe be like the hot topic kind of thing if that's what you want to call it. kind of thing, right? And I don't really remember, and I mean, like, everybody can say what they will, but I mean, I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. It's a little bit different than growing up in a city

kind of thing. And there's people that'll hold that against people that grow up in rural Saskatchewan, that you're racist and hillbillies and all the stuff or whatever. It's just, it's how you grew up. And excuse me, it was, there'd be a few people in school here or there that, you know, would maybe lean towards that side kind of thing or maybe try and experiment, do this, do that kind of thing or whatever and there's there's a couple of guys that I grew up with in school that that that are homosexuals today and I still want to touch them awesome fucking dudes or whatever yeah well that doesn't make you or wrong like one of them you could pick it off and I remember you could pick that off when he was going to school I was like yeah that that's probably going to be that way for that guy

or whatever and the other ones you never would have guessed whatever and it's no big deal and that would have been the hardest that things I think would have probably swung when I was when I was a kid you know learning about these different things but yeah now there's there's gender identities and a few different things that are going on now and it's just there there there keeps to being different things and different things all the time hard thing to keep up with but I think like from from an outside perspective looking in um I think participation trophies are kind of the you know the start of it all so that's what you want to call it and I'm just like I I'm not okay with a fucking participation trophy there's you win first second or third in the field

meet and that's it. And if, and if you don't, then that's just the fucking way she goes. And that's your incentive to do better next time kind of thing. And if you're a kid that doesn't do sports or whatever, well, that's why you get 99% on your exams or whatever you're doing. I guess I'm profiling academics, which I'm not trying to do right now. But, uh, you know, it's just, it's, it's, it's something we're losing. And there was a, this will be the second time that I brought them up, but I just try and catch it in the tractor most of the timer but gormly did a little segment here a little while ago on uh on on on masculinity and manhood kind of thing which is another it's kind of a bug in my ass a little bit all the time you get call you're full of toxic masculinity and you're a misogynist

and all this stuff is a lot of the stuff that i get online which i'm neither neither of the above kind of thing i was i was just raised to to be a man and and going to manhood and manhood is you know to me it's providing for your family and a few different things. And it's not, I don't need to have a big, huge jacked up diesel and ripping around and people saying, well, that's because of toxic masculinity. Well, is it or is it just because I like a jacked up truck with a diesel engine? That's just kind of what yanks my crank. The same as a guy that's driving a fiero with a loud stereo in it down the street or whatever.

I don't give a fuck what floats your boat or whatever, but you do, you all do me. It's no big deal kind of thing, right? but you just trace all back to this this fucking participation trophy shit or whatever it's okay for you to experience failure and somebody that that is that is better at something to you because it gives you something for it right and if you're not striving towards a goal um you really really start to to to self-destruct if that's what you want to call it if you're never trying to be better at something or you're trying to improve something or self-improve. I can think of 10 things off the top of my head that I always try to improve about what I'm

doing. And if you don't have that, what is it that you're striving for? You turn into a person that's just kind of floating through life a little bit. And floating's okay. But as humans, we need to challenge ourselves because it's what makes us better. And it's what gets us out of bed. And it's what makes us, you know, take that extra 30 shots at the end. hockey practice to try and make it so we can hit the top corner or the net better.

I just tried a hockey reference. Did I do good? I don't know how it went. Yeah, pretty good. Like, yeah, you didn't do that good. You know what I mean? But it's just you always got to try and do better. And that's as far as I'm concerned, what makes us better as human beings. It's better for ourselves, right? Well, it gives you, it gives you meaning in life. Motivation. Floating through life is, I don't know, in my opinion, is pretty dangerous thing to do. absolutely it is. Accomplishing a goal, setting a goal and accomplishing it. How important is it to accomplish a goal that you set? You're not going to accomplish all of them all the time, but it feels pretty damn good when you do accomplish one, right? And that feeling that you get is

the feeling that you strive for when you set your next goal. Like, I'm going to get there someday and I'm going to do it. When you do it, you're like, that was awesome. I did it. Now I'm going to set my bar here and I'm going to try that. And I see you do a lot of that stuff with setting goals for yourself and accomplishing them and moving on. And that's that's what that's what, that's what keeps us moving. That's what keeps our fire going as humans, right? So then here's a bit of it. We've been on a deep discussion here for a bit. We are deep in the well here. That's all right. That's always where we wind up anyways, isn't it? Pretty much. I listen and I go, so then what you're saying is, you know, because everybody wants to go back to the good old days. You know,

like I act like we had the good old days and my parents act like they had the good old days. And we, you just can't stop. The time marches on, right? Like we're going to move. So when I listen to all that, I go, so gender identity is going to be something that you cannot stop is what you're saying? Right? Like that's a big question to throw on you quick. I just mean like, no, it's not. It's not, Sean.

Cannot stop. I don't want to stop. It's not of my business to stop any of that if that's a thought that somebody has in their mind, right? But we can both agree, I think, that gender identity, totally fine. Honestly, I give, like, I'm fine with all of it. I just go, when it's young kids in school, I have a problem with that. I really do. Like, we can all agree.

Like, this is kind of a, it's a bad joke. But I remember girls in school, you know, make it out thinking maybe. And then, you know, they grow up a little more. And then they go on to marry, have kids and move on with life, right? Yeah. And what I feel like right now when I watch it, I just go like, hmm, are we putting a lot of pressure on these kids that they got to know who they're supposed to be at 14 or 15 or 16? Like I was a dummy at 16. I'm still a dummy at 35, right?

Like I mean, but at least there's some perspective there. At 18, I thought it was the smartest guy on the world. I got this figured out. I'm not listening to anyone. I'm out of here. I'm going to live in my own place. I'm getting a job. I'm carrying on with life.

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Yeah. We all have the same story. So as a kid at 16, you give them all the power, they're going to think they're the smartest human being in the world, too. Yeah. Except you're not. They're just not.

Yeah, and we, yeah, we've got a long ways to go from when we're 16. That's why we don't vote at 16 right now, right? But, I mean, I guess we're trying to change that too, aren't we? Well, we are. Aren't we? And apparently there's a reason that we have the Young Offenders Act, too, is because we don't have figured out exactly what we're doing until we turn 18 kind of thing or whatever, right?

There's a lot of things that we have in place to protect people under the age of 18 kind of thing or whatever. And yeah, and your life, your body, your choice kind of thing I get. Like, say, it's, I don't know how you'd actually handle that as a parent going through that because it's, it's like gender identity has turned into the fucking yo mega when I was going to school. It was just everybody had to have one and that's all they talked about. And this was the new thing and the new trend. And I feel like it's, if you're going to be accepted and be cool. and doing what you're doing, then this is maybe you maybe want to identify as this or identifies that kind of thing

because that's just trendy and that's what's happening right now kind of thing. Or I want purple hair and I want to do this. Well, I mean, whatever fucking color hair you want, I don't get shit. You know what I mean? But I think there's a dangerous point. But it's always been there. It's just kind of been something different where kids want to jump on the next biggest thing that's happening.

And if it turns into gender identity kind of thing, that's the next biggest thing that's happening. yeah that might that might be a little bit of an extreme of a trend to get on because it can actually be something that can that can alter the path of of of a young person's life that they don't fully understand how the past being altered at the time right um yeah it's uh let's say i uh i i make a lot of fun of parents uh nowadays but but there's yeah there's a lot of stuff out there that uh that i'm not sure exactly where it's going to take us you know yeah I wonder where we're heading all the time because I just like, you know, it's, it's a big, big, big questions, right?

I just, yeah. So, you know what? I'm going to interject on you a little bit because you wonder where we're heading. I try not to think about that too much. Why not? Because it's just, humankind is going to head where it's going to head. And whether we destroy ourselves or not, I mean, I don't know if there's anything that that all of us can do enough to keep something like like that from happening kind of thing. you know we've been around for just a tiny little blink for for the existence of this planet kind of thing you know and yeah you know what social media might be what just dives us straight over the edge or we might get blasted by an asteroid here I don't I don't even I don't even think obliteration I just think we're setting ourselves up for things that maybe we you know I just wonder I guess the the the way I look at it is we're on the Titanic. Me and you both know, there's icebergs.

Call it five hours ahead. If we do something now, it doesn't even have to be that big. We just got to divert it a bit and we miss them. Right? Yeah, for sure. But what we do as a society is we don't think about it. We go, let's just get on with light. It's fine.

We'll carry on. It's going to be good. You know, and then all of a sudden, the warning bells are going off, but you can't steer no matter how hard you want because the machine's way too big and we're going right into it and boom we might already be there already i just i go i look at it and i just like frig like you know if we can prevent the sinking of the ship or we can prevent you know i i talked about soldier ninson quite a bit a long time ago um but he was the one who went through gulag archipelago right and he just talked about it early on

you got to be vocal you got to speak up and i was like i wonder if that would have changed you know I always think, like, I wonder if that would have changed anything, right? Oh, I mean, it just some days it feels like, man, maybe proofs in the pudding. We're finding out because there's a lot of vocal people every right now. Social media is allowing it. On one side, social media is allowing a lot of, I don't know, bad, bad, whatever it is. Everybody's got their term for it. But on the other side, it's allowing a lot of different things too.

You wonder what's going to win out and where we're going to go. And I don't know. You're right. Maybe a guy shouldn't think about it too much. Yeah. I mean, yes and no to a certain extent. But I mean, it's just like I, if you were to ask me what concerns me the most about society nowadays, it would be the amount of power and influence that social media has. And there is a very select group of people that control social media. You know what I mean? That's, that's concerning to me in a big way. And I mean, it was it was a very, and it's funny that it was on Netflix or whatever. But the social dilemma is one of the best watches that I've had on how social media works for quite some time, actually. Turn off all my notifications, every single one.

You know what? I haven't had notifications on for, I don't know how long. I mean, I did it pre-watching social dilemma because my social media had kind of gone a little bit crazy and just got to the point where it's just like enough is enough. And consciously now, especially in the last of a while, it was a big reason that I really, I kind of started turning down. a lot of stuff that I do online for, you know, Zooms and, and whatnot or whatever just because it was very important for me to get back out and start seeing people in their faces and leaving my phone alone,

leaving the comment section alone and just detaching from that a little bit and getting back to like talking to people and being able to. Well, the studio is always open quick, you know, if you want to make it here, I'm just saying, it's always open. Well, we'll buy you a fresh case of Bohemian. I went to, I did a quick spot at PDR in Edmonton, the PBR finals. And I was actually coming through Lloyd.

And I was like, man. You did not. No, wait a minute. Hold on a minute here. You get it? So I got a big brother there. And I actually stopped at my big brother's place from, from 2 to 3.30 p.m. in the afternoon on my way home because we were

break testing cattle the next day. So I took that hour and a half and spent it with my brother instead of you. I still don't forgive you. I still don't forgive you. I thought I was going to get away from that. by saying that but you came through my town yeah i didn't drop me in line you know i did yeah and it's just send you to the train station i know i know i know i know uh but like i guess kind of shipped in gears a little bit here i'm not trying to hijack your podcast yeah give her uh one of the coolest things

that i've done in the last little while is has actually has actually been this comedy show uh that i've gone out and started doing and it's been i think maybe more beneficial for me than for anybody else. But it started off as a fundraiser kind of thing or whatever that I actually wound up running around and doing. And it's just it started off as an hour of just me talking about how like what it's like to grow up in rural Saskatchewan kind of thing. My goal was when I went and did this that I would do no politics talk, no COVID talk. I was like, there's got to be humor in everything else in life other than what everybody's talking about. And that was kind of the goal when I when I wrote this. and I've taken this,

I've taken this show to a lot of small towns, to a lot of small halls and to a bunch of different places. And it's been awesome. It's the strangest thing because I was always like, it's really cool to do the stuff and put online videos out or whatever, but eventually you get tired of videoing yourself and coming up with stuff and then responding to comments and whatnot. You get in front of a live audience where people can,

heckle you and if it's going really bad, it's going to be like put you in a spot where you're really vulnerable. I think that's a situation everybody should always put themselves in because it kind of checks you out for what kind of a person you are. And if you're comfortable with yourself, you can put stuff online and record it and do this and you can edit it and clip it and do a bunch of different things. And if you don't like it, you just won't post it. Nobody will ever see it kind of thing. But if you want to like check out who you are inside, if you're really comfortable with yourself, go jump in front of a crowd of people. and with material that you think is funny,

that you just don't know how they're gonna react. First time I ever did this show was that the thanks for farming tour in Leffbridge, Alberta. And it was right after they lifted all restrictions or whatever. No mask, no nothing, no anything, away we go, right? I go down there and this guy booked me at a farm trade show. And I've got this show, every second word in this show was fuck. And like, there's a lot of inappropriate reference.

references in it. I'm talking about semen testing bowls and a whole bunch of different shit or whatever, like no filter, right? I go to this show and, uh, this guy puts me on stage from three to four p.m. at a trade show. And, uh, I'm like, okay, whatever. I drink beer while I'm doing this. So much like I'm drinking vodka right now, but I drink beer while I'm doing the show on stage or whatever. You need to stay sharp, you know, it's a little less, uh, I just, I just want to be in my zone, you know what I mean? I go walking on to this stage at three o'clock in the afternoon. and the trade show was was fairly slow for a better part of the day and I said, geez, I wonder how this is going to go. My audience is 100 hutterates.

You want a reality check? Go out in front of a bunch of people, I open up with a bit about Tinder and a whole bunch of different stuff or whatever. Like, I bombed so bad when I did this first show. Like, there was barely a snicker in the audience. And I thought I was coming with an hour of comedic gold, right? And what do you do? Like, I just went, I was like, well, fucking. I'm just doing this.

And I just went through the whole show as fast as I possibly could because I knew nobody was going to laugh at it. Kind of thinking I finished. And the guy that actually booked me came to me the next morning. And he's like, so did anybody talk to you about your show? And I was like, no, not really. And he's like, yeah, if you're thinking of taking this on the road, I don't think it's going to work out for you. I got to do that show again that afternoon at three in the afternoon. And this is the only review I've got in my show is that you're actually blowing your life out your ass right now.

And I'm like, oh, my God. So I go on to the stage that afternoon with the only review that I've got is like, this is the shittiest show I've ever seen in my life. Like, like, how's that for a confidence builder for you when you're going to go back on stage with a show that you've learned on the way to Lethbridge in your pickup truck or whatever? And there's a bunch of people that actually followed me had showed up that day on a Friday. And the show went really, really good. Like, everyone was laughing.

Everyone was having a good time. And all of a sudden, the show took an hour and 10 minutes. of an hour kind of thing or whatever, right? And he came up to me after the show. And he's like, you remember what I said to you this morning? And I was like, yeah, he's like, forget it all. That actually went really good today. I was like, okay, thanks, man. But I think that's something that people should really do a lot, is to challenge themselves and make themselves vulnerable in front of people because I think that's a back to this social media thing. That's a problem with social media is you're really not vulnerable to anybody because you can really control what's

happening with what you do kind of thing. You know what I mean? But it's a good reality. for for for for who you are and if you're comfortable with yourself or not right people should start a long form podcast and say what's on their brain and see what comes of it because at times it's not that comfortable i hear you man and that's okay it's it's best to get out of your comfort zone a little bit if you're talking about stuff that makes you uncomfortable that's that's a good thing right i mean to a certain extent if i would have went back to episode 72 when quick dick first came on and if i would have said gender identity i would have shit a brick. And then you fast forward, and I mean, Tews has been making an appointment on this

dang entire episode. If I dropped the word- Is he pain in you or what's going on here? No, he isn't. But if he had dropped the word, a faggot of wood on me earlier, even at 200 episodes, I was still shocked. Like that one, I was like, oh, that's a tough word, man. I don't really like that word. And then he gives me the backstory and now I've said it again. And I just like, I'm uncomfortable. Now your entire audience or whoever's listening is like, who, what did he say? I'll go look into the history of it. Yeah.

And you'll be like, hmm, interesting. So, yes, the, I can't imagine being in front of an audience like that. No, I'm not, I, but I don't have, I don't have a beard, you know, that's been going for 20 years. You know, with leftovers from last week in it. I didn't even shower before we started this. I literally walked in the door. More to this comedy show thing that I've been doing is get in front of people is I didn't realize it, but it's it's turned in almost a little bit of an addiction for me. And I'm okay with admitting it.

But I spent a lot of time. I'm pretty sure we've talked about this, but like leading up to what came into me being quicked it because I spent a lot of time very unhappy in my life. and I couldn't find laughter and I couldn't find happiness. And I've slowly found it through bringing happiness and laughter to people through my YouTube channel and a few different things. And just one minute stuff that I'll do that I'll post every now and then. I like people being able to watch my stuff and laugh at it. That's the reason I do it. But this is taking it to a different level when you actually go into a crowd of people.

And what I try and do at the end of my show when I do it is I try and go down and sit at everybody's table. and I want to try and have a beer with everybody. Now, I don't remember everybody's name, but I try and ask everybody. Just because you're hammered by the end of the night. Yeah, you know, I'm drunk most of the time. A beer at everybody's table. There's 20 tables.

Yeah. But I mean, we're talking to a town like East End, you know what I mean, which there's only about 150 people total in there. It's about eight, nine tables kind of thing. But you go down and talk to people and like,

this show started doing a lot better in small towns. And it's got to the point where it's actually, it's good. I worked with it. Craft. It's a bit of a craft, I guess, which was, I watched a, it was an episode of Vance Crow's podcast there where he'd interviewed a comedian and she was talking about how she worked at a joke for a couple of weeks and polished it and kept running it by her friends or whatever. And it's like a, you know, not even a two and a half minute bit. And I was like, three weeks on a two and a half minute bit. Like I couldn't connect the dots. But after I've done it in front of people, I make this tiny tweak every time I do a show. And now I've got to the point where I can feel how an audience is laughing or reacting

to your show or which way you can take it. You know what I mean? You'll have an audience that you'll, like, I got a little way that I try not to do politics in it, but you know there's a crowd that it's just waiting for quick dick to just roast Justin Trudeau in this show. And you can almost start to feel it. And I got these little things that I'll just poke them with a little bit and see what kind of reaction you get.

and then I'll jump into that side of it kind of thing. And it's just turned to this whole different thing. And when you go around and talk to these people after the shoulder, they're like, this was my favorite part. And that you described my childhood and like, I just about peed myself doing this or whatever. And it's just that there is something to that that I cannot describe. It's almost turned into almost a drug for me.

It like I, it brings so much joy into my life of being able to bring happiness and laughter to other people. You ever think you'd be a comedian? Like a stand-up comedian? Like, did you ever think you were going to... I don't feel like I am, to be perfectly honest. But then I guess, to a certain extent, I guess I'm...

Literally roaming the rural communities of Saskatchewan, and I assume a little bit of Alberta, and you're doing shows where you stand up and make people laugh. You know, I got to go back to Judy Reeves, episode 110, where she goes, you're literally going around interviewing people. what do you think that is? And I say something and she goes, it's a journalist, you jackass. It's a journalist. Start calling it what it is. You're sitting there going, you know, I'm just, I don't really call it that. It's like, well, I don't know what you want to call it, but that's a comedian.

That's what that is. I never, I never ever would have actually ever would have thought of it. I never would have thought that I would get the feeling out of it that I do kind of thing. And it's, it's just, I think I connected to earlier when I was just so damn miserable in my life. and it's just like going to every one of these shows. I know they're not all going to do perfect. They're not all going to be great. But a majority of them have been really good. And it's a good feeling to know that for that hour and it's turned into an hour and a half now is basically what it is for that hour and a half.

There's one person in that audience that is sitting there that has got a lot of bad things going on in their life. And it's building on them and they are stressed. and my I feel like it's a job I go in there with the job is my job to take an hour and a half out of that person's life and I want them to completely forget about absolutely everything that's going on in their life and I want them to laugh I want them to listen to what I'm saying and I want them to be like that's yeah that's it and I want them to realize that some of the stuff that's going on in their life maybe we can laugh at it too instead of well up inside of us and and and and take us to places where we shouldn't be as humans. And it has been the, it has been the coolest thing. And I, I actually,

I really want to do more of it. I've actually got a lot of gigs book January, February kind of thing. I can't after February because we start calving. There's this whole pesky side gig agriculture thing that I've got going on in my life. But I just want to do a lot more of it. And it's, it's been really neat.

It's been a neat experience. And, and, I'm very, very honored and privileged to be able to go and have the opportunity to do that to people because I don't think everybody gets that opportunity. And it's just been fucking cool, man. It's, it's been a real change in, you know, in the norm of what's become normal in my life. And I fucking like it.

I bet I would bet you a thousand bucks that it isn't one person in the audience. It's actually the opposite. There's one person in the audience currently in this day and age. It's just loving life. The rest need the laugh. That's true. Yeah. Need the unplug from going to wherever and, you know, man.

Like, how, if you were told me two years ago, when we first sat and chatted, this is where we'd be sitting and this is what we'd be talking about? I would have been like, I know, man. Yeah. It's crazy. This has been a very, very crazy ride. I think probably for both of us, but really like, like, we could say the same for you. Would you say when we chat it two years ago, would you think that this is where you were going to be at?

No. Like, I say it all the time. I just want to, like, I tried, the only guess that's ever failed me that I never got was Wayne Gragsy on 99. I wanted 99 on 99. That would have been cool, man. Yeah. It would have been awesome.

And believe me, in my opinion, I threw everything I could possibly get at getting them. And I got within a phone call of them. Like, that's how close I can. game. But it was just like, yeah, you know, he doesn't do. And I was like, that's fair. I'm fucking nobody, whatever. And I should have, I should have bared some teeth and fucking try grilling some of those guys. But whatever, it doesn't matter. But back then, that's what was after. Ra McLean's, you know, and Rahm McLean, you know, it's done, Don Cherry's and,

and, you know, all these guys. And where I sit right now, I've been having, this has been the most fun I've had on the podcast at the beginning, because I feel like, and I could be wrong on this. And I'm sure a lot of listeners will disagree, agree, it doesn't matter. for me it's turned really into conversations that truly matter like actually matter actually are moving in at least my daily life the dial because i got a lot of things going on between the years that i think about and i want i'm like you know and i've held a lot of that back because that's what society wants us to do i want us to talk about things and want us to you know and for a long time quick lots of things didn't actually didn't really affect us so you just were like yeah whatever

now that's good whatever but now i'm like starting everything's starting affect us i'm like well we better start talking about it because we don't talk about it we're not going to get through the things that we're thinking about and so i yeah the last probably 40 50 episodes listen when i'm thinking about it we're going to talk about it because i'm like what the hell's the point of hiding away from it like yeah i'm thinking it other people are thinking it so when you say you go out there and you're you're giving the one person nah you're giving the 99 people something that just gives them a chuckle and some light, you know, it's one of the things I think you've done extremely well because, you know, like, why did I bike to tough? I wanted to do something good in the middle of

the shit. And now, and now, to me, the shit just keeps stacking up. And you've probably felt that a little bit tonight is the shit just seems to keep stacking up. And what I do admire about you is you've found a way to keep putting humor into the world. Just, I mean, Justin Trudeau makes it really fucking easy. But still. He doesn't make it kind of easy. Yeah. But I mean, still, you've you've told a line, you've continued to try and make people laugh.

I admire that. I appreciate it, man. Thanks. Yeah. And it's, but I mean, it's, but same thing. Like, I mean, it's, it's important to have conversations. And that's what you're trying to do with what you're doing is just to try and have conversations kind of thing.

And I think, I think open and balanced conversations are great things to have. And yeah, it's, yeah, it's something that's definitely missing from society. And there's a lot of people. And I even know, I know within my community, there's a lot of people that that won't have conversations with each other because they have a differing opinion. Well, what's what good does that do? You know, it doesn't. I know a lot of people that are very dismissive that if somebody has a different opinion than them, they don't want to talk to them. How the fuck does that fix anything? It fixes absolutely nothing. All that everybody needs to remember is you can sit and have a conversation. to somebody and that's where like man we got to find the things we agree on we keep focusing on everything we disagree on like if we started focusing on all the things you agree on i bet you we'd find out most people agree on a lot of shit absolutely yeah no 100% man um it's uh yeah man i i i hope i hope things can uh can get somewhat back to normal and i think conversations are maybe one of the most important parts of it. But there's, you know, there's, there's people that I know that I'm quite close to or

whatever that are actually, they are open to open conversations and a lot of different things. But if you pick one or two specific topics, they'll be very dismissive immediately and be like, no, that's fucking not listening to that. Well, okay, well, that's not helping. You know what I mean? But it's, yeah, it's just weird where things go. The thing is that we both have in common is through this, channel, I talk to a lot of diverse people. Through your work, you talk to a lot of diverse people.

When you do that, there's no conversation I'm not willing to have because even if they're bad shit crazy, I still kind of want to see what bad shit crazy sounds like. Man, man, let's have the conversation. I'm curious. I can sit there. It doesn't hurt me, any. Send you to a couple of my ex-girlfriends. You know, we've waited a long time. I got to ask you because in the time I saw you, and now Justin Trudeau flies across the country you know where I'm going with this

I think I do but please continue Sean A National Reconciliation Day A day they make too like Once again I think we're both sitting here going Yeah it makes sense yep totally Love it yep Okay And then he's in Tafino

Yeah Like Paul How can somebody still fucking support him Is that your question? Yeah. Yeah. I don't get it. And that's where, like, I, yeah, I have this joke.

We have an ass hat leading our country that we really do. Yeah. Like, even, even the biggest of dummies can't mess that up. And he did. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's really, it's, it's really bad, you know. And, and that, and now he'll go on and like, Evan Solomon's going to have him on,

excuse me, tomorrow, whatever. It is, obviously the interview's already been done. They're leaking a couple. different things or whatever. And he'd just be like, well, we have a lot of work to do it. We, we, we just like, can't you even be a fucking man to sit there and be like, yeah, I really fucked that one up to you guys actually. I really shouldn't have done it.

But he can't even say that. You know what I mean? It's just it's the whole rules for the and not for me kind of thing. It's the biggest reason why I covered what I did on the last toughmill at 10. I hadn't done a top mil of tan in a long time and I just pump one out or whatever because I was just like, these fuck wads are going to take 300 of them and fly across the fucking ocean in how many different fucking planes and run around in fucking motorcades that are burning diesel everywhere and fucking blow a thousand dollar a night hotel rooms and thousand dollar meals and run around with no mask,

no nothing, no fucking anything. Talk about how they're going to fix the fucking world. Catherine McKinnah, who's not even fucking in the fucking house of competence or an MP, is going to go over there too. And she's going to zoom across the fucking hallway and all this shit. But there's people that still lap this stuff up for breakfast thinking that they're helping things. but they're not. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that we,

there's things that we can do that are going to make things better so that we use less so that we are more efficient with what we do. But I mean, I'm not willing to bankrupt country. I'm not going to look at something like that and be like, this is actually okay that these guys are creating a bigger carbon footprint by going over to talk about this than any of the cattle that we have on our farm will ever fucking create and farts in their natural born fucking life.

But there's a cult that is going to follow and be like, this is okay and this is what we should do. It's just not. And I see a lot of people that have been like, oh, I'm tired of hearing the argument of their emitting more by going and doing this. The argument is so old. The argument is old. Does that mean it's not fucking relevant? Like, are you just calling it old because you don't want to defend a fucking piece of shit argument anymore kind of thing? I don't get it. It's terrible. I don't understand how this guy could possibly keep getting elected. We need electoral reform. So fucking bad in Canada, it's ridiculous. We'll never get it because a government's only job is to get reelected. You'll never get it. Never's one word

I don't like. Okay. Yeah. You know, fair enough. I will take that back. It's not something that I see in the near future. And yes, never is the wrong word to use in basically any way, shape, or form. There's a few things that I could say never about for me personally that I know I will never do. But I mean, yeah, never is, I guess, the wrong word to use kind of thing. But yeah, we've got we've got some issues that we need to work through as a country in in a big, big way, you know, I think we talked about this a little bit before, but I mean, it's been a really cool thing with a lot of the things and people that I've been exposed to. I've gone down some different trails where I've found some cool stuff about, you know,

EVs and electricity generation and a few different things or whatever that have been good, but it's because I've been willing to have conversations with people and not just be like, fuck you, I'm completely dismissive about what's going on. This is my opinion. I'll never change it. It's opened me to a different side of a few different things, but I still look at it. And I'm like, it hasn't changed my opinion is that that's not the way for us to completely head. But I didn't realize that these different things were happening in that sector.

And that's good. That's good information to people to get. You know what I mean? Because it helps you form a broader opinion of what your opinion is. But to your point, I have no fucking idea how this clown is who's leading our country. I just don't get it. I can't make sense of it. If there's one thing that I would like change tomorrow, that would be it.

Yeah, he, whatever he's got behind him, whatever he's drinking, whatever he's doing, I think when it comes to a lot of us in the working world, we're like, whatever he's doing, I'd like to take some of that because if I did that, I'd be fired, like on the spot immediately. imagine getting caught on like i just how do you dig yourself out of that we like what do you walk back into your your group of you know oh you're got caught bad boy it's like you're an you and i both know that the only time that that guy's ever going to say any fucking thing about how he regrets it or anything's going on as on camera he's going to go back to his fucking rich buddies or whatever and be like as if i fucking care you know that's what he's

saying behind the scenes. They'll just never say it in real life kind of thing, right? It's, but like, that's where you ever think we'll get to Western separatism? I mean, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a topic or whatever. And I don't, I don't know if we'll ever get there. But I think the reason I don't know or think if we'll ever get there is because Quebec still hasn't separated. I mean, they're technically, I guess, a different nation within Canada right now. But I don't know if we'll get there. I think there's a lot of people that are starting to get very tired of what's going on. And I think that number is growing exponentially kind of thing, you know, but I think a bigger thing we need to to work on as a whole, as a country of Canada is a urban rural divide, I think is a bigger problem that we have is

East versus West, you know? And I think that's that's kind of turned into a little bit of more of a goal, if you want to call goals of what I've got going on. Well, I've done a lot of different kind of productions that people would maybe think that they wouldn't see me do kind of thing. I did a video called beefing around where I didn't swear. It wasn't really full of jokes or anything. It was just, I just kind of did a little tour of the beef farm and like how we use beef to our advantage and waste as little as possible and try and help reduce our carbon footprint by using them. And And I'm hoping that by doing a video like that where I don't cuss and swear and come off as a real jackass the whole time, is that the people that would not typically watch one of my productions will actually watch it. Or maybe it might make its way into a school classroom here or there kind of thing.

And if you can change two or three people's minds with every video that you put out, well, I'll just keep putting videos out and trying to change two or three people's minds at a time kind of thing, right? But I'm not saying that we can't always work towards something better or continue to work towards. using less kind of thing, but at the same time, we can't undermine the backbone of what's feeding us and just, spoiler alert, there's some oil and gas stuff coming up or whatever, but like, you can't, you can't just turn the valve off tomorrow and everything's going to be perfectly fine. You know what I mean? Well, that was, that was pretty much. And there's people out there that are brainwashed to the point that they think that it's

okay, just tomorrow, we can just never use oil and gas again and we'll be fine. And I mean, we're probably going to live in a world where we will use oil and gas to the, to the end of human civilization to a certain point, it will just be continued to be less and less and less and less as we create and develop different technologies, right? But it's just not something that we can just start charging people to use and think that that's going to take them off of it or get the world off of it, you know? Yeah, that was a very unnerving thing to stumble upon was the rural urban divide. Yeah. 3.3% I think it is of Canadians live in cities. And it's a very unnerving thing. I mean, us too, Yahoo's grown up in small town, Saskatchew.

I mean. I like what you called me, Yahoo. I actually stand by that name. Well, you just go, we're a minority. And we're going to be increasingly, you know, you go back to the Depression, 1930s, and it was almost in Saskatchewan, 50-50, which means, can you imagine if we had 50% of people living on farms right now? Like, some of this crap wouldn't fly.

I mean, I just mean crap, just in general. Yeah, no, I definitely get your reference. I talk crap. You grow up on a farm. There's just certain things that aren't around the kitchen supper table. Like, I mean, you just don't have time for it. Yeah, that's right. And now knowing that, you know, as time has gone on, the cities have grown.

I mean, that makes sense. And so now the population lives and resides there, which means the rules are made by cities. what they don't, what you're pointing to is what they don't fully understand is how they live their lives is fully developed by the other 17% or just a smidge under that, 16%. And that's where food come from. That's where energy comes from. That's where a whole lot of your life comes from. Natural resources basically.

I think one thing that's been really shocking to me throughout the course of the pandemic here is, is that there's been, there's still a really severe detachment from the fragility of our supply chain. And we are experiencing huge, huge disruptions in our supply chain right now. And I still don't think that's hitting home to a lot of, a lot of urban centers of just going down to the, to the store and being like all of a sudden, like, well, I can't get, you know, a set of flip-flops or a iPad or whatever it is, I want kind of thing. And why am I paying $50 for the stakes that were $26 yesterday kind of thing or whatever? And it's just that connect is still not there. You know, the connection is still not there.

Which makes me wonder what's it going to take for people to just be like, okay, can we really figure out why this is happening kind of thing, right? And that's and that's boils down to a lot of our, a lot of our dependency on foreign manufacturing and what. not and why I'm such a pro made in Canada guy. And I was hoping to see a bigger swing, which there's been a huge swing into people coming back into try and source things made in Canada or at least made on the North American continent or whatever kind of thing. But it's just, it's just not where I thought it would be. And I really hope that we can continue

to work towards. Well, Sean Newman podcast would certainly like to talk to you offline about sourcing things from Canada because we had a discussion early on where I was like I just don't know if I agree with you and now where I sit I go I get it I'm glad to hear that man yeah I get it's yeah and it's it's it's not an easy feat and it and it's tough and it's expensive and there's a lot of different things but it it's kind of like a the social structure or wherever and yet and yet there's a pride when you throw on a QDM hat it says made in Canada and you go yeah I paid some money for this but I also paid some crap money for that. And look at the crap that China's doing

in the world right now. And honestly, fuck them. Yeah, straight up. I may disappear tomorrow for saying that. I don't think we will, but I mean, if we do, there's things that I'll say and disappear for and not think twice about it. And that would be one of them is like,

I am not okay with forced labor and I am not okay with genocides and I'm not okay with communism. So I'm okay with saying fuck China. nothing against Chinese people, whatsoever, more the Communist Party of China. Yeah, I know what you mean. So,

but yeah, which actually has been really cool, you know, like to dive into that well and be like, okay, how much work is it to get stuff made in Canada or what's it going to cost and what's different? And a cool thing has been actually not so much

in the clothing part of it because it's impossible. But when you get into the equipment manufacturing side of things, I'll tell you what, man, that's actually kind of renewed my faith in what we actually make in Canada for what we can do here. And been a bigger reason of why I am so, so upset and have, and I'll tell you, I don't hate many things, but I, I hate the government, the federal government that's running our country right now and what they're doing to business in Canada with a lot of their, with a lot of their climate charges and plans. and it's it's a punitive a punitive thing against any industry that's in Canada, who is a very, very small contributor on a global scale to greenhouse gas emissions. And I think that's a, that's a, that's a very poor move of our government to do to punish, let's see, I mean, S3 and Swift Current, I've actually got to know a lot of people there,

whatever, that that do a lot of implement manufacturing and a lot of different things right in the, in the city of Swift Current, that are, that are just being. being bombarded and gouged by, you know, carbon charges on natural gas that they use to run their kilns and a few different things in their forges. And we've got Brandt, we've got Daigleman, we've got Mandako, we've got, we've got so many manufacturers that are trying to make a go in Canada where we have labor standards, where we have environmental conscious on what we do with, with our production. and we're trading that for pissing the ocean on greenhouse gas emissions and to try and outsource stuff to people that have no fucking labor laws and will fucking enslave people to make computer chips and shit. Drives me crazy. I had no idea until I started looking into it. Cabota tractors are made in Canada.

Versatile tractors are made in Canada. There's a whole line of John Deer Swathers that are made in Canada. You start looking into the egg part of this stuff. And I know I'm missing out a whole bunch of people and there's a whole bunch of different. businesses that are doing things in Canada. It's tough and it's expensive, but when you actually get into it and see the people that are behind some of this stuff, look at Borgo that's in St. Brew in Saskatchew and here that are a huge manufacturer of equipment.

I, I am fucking proud when I start, I pull a bail processor high line knowing that it's made in Canada, and I feel good about it, knowing that I'm pulling something that was made by a Canadian here in Canada. And they have a family that they're supporting. and the dollars that I paid for what I'm polling is putting food on the table for them in a roundabout way. And I will do that every fucking day of the week. Spoiler alert, Borgo is going to be a sponsor in 2022. Just a-

Shit, really? Yeah. Good for you, man. That's awesome. That's awesome. Fuck it. Okay, let's plug Borgo then. There was a guy that had a Borgo drill and it was an older drill.

And he was actually, he had a pin that had cheered off. on them and Borgo did not one have had did not have one in stock and it was in the middle of seating and they pulled a guy off of the assembly line and had a machine the pin that this guy fucking needed. This guy sat and waited in St. Brew for that pin. They pulled a guy off, made the fucking pin, gave it to the guy and they were like, get back out there and get seating. I will tell you what, that is a fucking company that I will fucking push to the end of the fucking world because when you do something like that, you're looking after a customer that looked after you by buying it.

That's what's missing from the world nowadays, buddy. That's pretty cool. I might just clip that and throw it out on social media forum. That's our, fuck, make sure Borgo sends me a hat or something. No, don't send me a hat.

I've got a million hats. But there's a lot of cool guys. Fuck, mandacos are great guys too. They actually even go as far as making sure their hoses, hydrolyics and everything are made in Winnipeg, which is some guys will skip that step and just go with the 52% of the cost occurs within the country, Canada, which means you can label it made in Canada kind of thing.

Mandako doesn't do that. They go, they get their hubs and their discs and their everything. And like, that shit gets me hard, man. I fucking love that shit. You know what I mean? But I'm starting to be- A girl wants to talk dirty to Q. Just talk about made in Canada.

Hey? Yeah, that's right, man. Hey? Is that what we've learned tonight? I maybe, yeah. I don't know. Yeah. If you're a lady out there that's looking for me,

just start talking about how it's made in Canada, right? Well, let's wind it down here. Let's slide into the the Crude Master Final Five. Oh, I was getting nervous on these. Oh, actually, they're pretty light tonight. Okay. Shout out to Heath and Tracy McDonald, supporters of the podcast at the very beginning.

Thanks, Ethan Tracy. We've slowly twisted the final five into the final five for the fans. Oh, shit. Very cool. I like that. We're messing with it right now. So now I'm going to, I'm always going to ask this question because I got to ask. As time goes on, who would you sit with Quick in Saskatchewan right now to pick their brain any which way you want it?

Who? In Saskatchewan? Yeah. You're the Saskatchew. You're Mr. Saskatchewan. I am. I would sit down with Ryan Miley. Ryan Miley, really?

The leader of the official opposition. Oh, okay. Well, I tell you what, he got called out on last episode, so why don't I just see if I can pull that off? All right, fair enough. Sure. Okay. We all know who will be listening to that if I do.

All right. Thomas DeNone says T-Bone or Cernloin. Oh man. T-bone, man. T-bone every day of the week. If I don't get a rabbi as a choice, I'd take a T-bone. Reason that I go with T-bone is everything's better with the bone in, Sean. Okay, now that we got that out of the weight, honestly, when you cook any kind of meat no matter what it is, you see what I did there, right? Yeah. When you cook meat with the bone in actually keeps it a little more tender and you get a little bit of the food. flavor and especially with a beef is you get some of the good stuff that's in the bone that'll actually lead you into your meat or whatever you get a little bit of marrow in there whatnot or whatever and it's just that it it brings the flavor up to a different level and the other part is you get a little bit of the backstrap of your loin in a T-bone and then on the inside of the T-bone you get your

tender line there too or whatever right so you kind of get like the best of both worlds so I like your first answer better I like your first answer better all right I mean me too you know what I mean Mr. Mertie Bose wants to know if the Mick Dick is Irish. Okay, it's not. I do have Irish in my family, actually. On my mom's side is very thick, thick Irish descent. But on my dad's side, it's very French. Hence, my last name is DeLorm, right?

And if you follow anything to Saskatchewan, I mean, there's a chief Cadmus DeLorm of the Cowus's First Nation, has been a big name that's been floating around a lot. And I actually have a lot of. indigenous, like we're, like, very heavily Métis on my dad's side of the family. So like with my last name being DeLorm, very like much on the French slash Métis side, which doesn't make any sense because my dad being mostly French and my mom being mostly Irish, wouldn't think that those would be two things that would collaborate kind of thing.

So basically whenever we have a family reunion with both sides, we all just get drunk, beat the shit out of each other. So the guy who's been the guy who's been making appearance all through the show 22 minutes. Yeah, damn it. Does he ever get off of this podcast? I don't think so this would be the last time we talk about him. You know, he's never coming back. How long has the soup strainer?

I think I've asked this before. But anyways, how long has the soup strainer been growing for? I started rocking this on June 1st, 2019. And I know because that was my last day employed in the oil field. and I just threw out all my razors kind of thing. But I keep it at this length. I gotta be honest, I think you've been trimming it, though. I feel like you've been grooming it because I think if we went back

and I took pictures of all the interviews, in the beginning you look like a homeless man. Now you kind of look like you got it together. Okay, you know what? Have you been paying for somebody to deal with your beard? There's only one person that's allowed to touch it. and her name's Mandy Helgeson. Oh, shit.

Well, whatever. I said her name. I don't think anybody's going to know what she is anyways. But she's at the talk of the town in Foam Lake. And her brother's got, her whole family's got huge beards. And she's the only one I trust to touch this beard. But yeah, eventually it gets to the point where, like, there was a whole pizza talk on Twitter, I think, or whatever.

But, I mean, it's just, you got to keep your mouth available so that it's just, if you let the stash go down and everything gets to a mess. So, yeah. I got somebody that looks after it because I'm not capable of doing it myself and I get trimmed up once a year whether I need or not. Well, then your final, your final one from 200. Before you go to this one, I got to talk for two more seconds about the beard. Sorry, Sean. No, no more big talk.

Coming up, because I want to give everybody the heads up on this, I'm going to be teaming up with the gray gotten break at a Yorkton. And we are going to do a thing for close cuts for kids. I believe we're going to do it this spring and summer. where I'm actually going to be putting my beard on the line for cancer research. And we're going to do two pages. It's not going to be one to donate to it. I'm going to be calling it to save it or shave it. So you can donate to page one if you want to keep Quick Dix beard and you can donate to page

two if you want to see what. We'll make sure we're putting some money and get that thing shaved off. I don't know what you're going to look like bald on the front. Like I mean, I've got a little dimple in my chin. Just a warning. Here's your final one. All right. You know, 2020 sucks.

That's what the handle is. You know, I can't make this up. He says, how do you stay positive during an authoritarian takeover? I guess I don't refer to it as an authoritarian takeover. Straight up, I look for ways to be able to make other people laugh. actually and I mean it's maybe even I don't know if I'd call it a crutch, but it's kind of turned into a little bit of crutch of mine of what I use. Because if I have something that's got me upset and I'm not happy with it.

And it's been the easiest thing, especially with equipment breakdowns and a bunch of different things that happen. I'll find myself with a blown turbo line on a combine. And all of a sudden I'll be like mad. And I'll catch myself. I'll be like I'm in a really bad frame of fucking mind here right now. And all of a sudden I'll come up with a little rhyme in my head to be like something about a turbo. line, turbo line. And before you know what, I've got an entire sea shanty put together called

farming in Saskatchewan that started off with me blowing a fucking turbo line on a 9770. And I'll be like, I'll just show a whole bunch of shit that's all fucked up in my day and try and make people laugh about it. And that one turn make me feel good about it. I just turn the bad into good. Is that what you're saying? I find what upsets me. And I try and spin it and make it funny and make it relatable and put it to other people is what I do. And that's going to be actually my next, my next upload here, whatever, which I'm going to do one more before Christmas, hopefully on Wednesday, I think, depending on how things go. And it's going to be super fun. And it just started off with one thing that

was fucked up. And I was like, no, this doesn't need to be fucked up. We can make it funny and everybody can have fun with it. So, yeah, hope that's a question. Thank you, Q. Thank you to the quick Dick, Mick Dick for shopping in. My pleasure is always, Sean, man. Thanks, for having me. And yeah, it's it. I will not bypass you next time I come through your stomping grounds. Okay. You're fucking better not. You do that again and you're going to have to like, you're not going to sleep at night. I'm just throwing it. I totally understand. And I get it. The powers of B, if Quick Dick McDick goes missing, you should probably search his travel log and see

if you went through Lloyd Minster. That's all I'm going to say. I always good, always good chatting with you, Mr. Mann. All the best to you and the family and the holidays and whatnot. Yes, as well to you. We'll catch you in a pretty new year here, Rachel. Yeah, you bet. Thanks, quick. Appreciate it. Take care, man.

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