Shaun Newman Podcast - #298 - Quick Dick McDick

Episode Date: August 5, 2022

QDM returns fresh off a ball injury. We discuss the impact on farmers of a total emissions reduction of 30% being targeted by the government, November 5th when the Q will head to Lloydminster & doing things that push you out of your comfort zone.  Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500 Support here:⁠ https://www.patreon.com/ShaunNewmanPodcast⁠ Link for more info about August 8th https://www.facebook.com/ucpvermilionlloydminsterwainwright

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Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. I am joined by Mr. QDM. I'm glad you weren't pulling my legs. The listener never knows about this, you know. First off, thanks for joining me, sir. I should start there. Matt, it's always a pleasure to sit down,

hang out for a little bit, man. You know, we're supposed to do this Sunday. And this episode comes up Friday. So anyways, it doesn't matter. It was supposed to come out earlier than that.

Anyways, we were supposed to do it Sunday. And then, you know, for the listener, I get a text after I've been texting, Bueller, Bueller all day long.

Like, where's quick deck? You know, he goes, you know, the ball tournament gets away from me. And I'd seen your post on it. And now you got broken,

you got broken ribs or cracked ribs, sorry? Yeah. I've got a six and seven are fractured and seven's displaced. I don't know which number, ribs or which or whatever, but that's what the doctor told me anyways. And so full disclosure, like my booking agent is a real asshole.

And he's hard to deal with. He's got a beard. He thinks he knows everything. And, yeah, apparently we had a miscommunication. I thought we were going to be sitting down Monday. It turns out it's Sunday.

And then, yeah, like so I'm, of course, a top of sports day. not that we drink any beer there at all whatsoever. And yeah, like wasn't paying attention to my phone. And yeah, you got like, like three texts from Sean being like, so are we doing this tonight or what?

Well, don't feel bad. The reason I wasn't worried about it one bit. And I think if you've been falling along with this show for, well, since the beginning, you know this story by now. But my producer is a bit of an asshole because if you recall the first time we sat down, we sat and we talked me and quick, you know, getting to know each other. And we, uh, we talk for like two hours, right? Oh, thanks, quick. That was amazing. You know, and it was quick Dick's first podcast and I was just like over the moon like click out of it and all sudden I didn't press record like none of it was recorded. Push the go button on it, man. You know, so. You try to make me feel better about this. I appreciate it. You're saying you're

booking agents and asshole. I'm just saying my producer. He's a real dick. We'll get those two guys in a room and and teach him a lesson. Maybe they'll maybe they'll get themselves figured out. but yeah so anyways yeah it was at the south mill sports day and uh i guess i don't know my mind figures i'm still 20 years old and my body's closer to 40 and uh yeah i went uh trying to motivate the team to have some fun and carry on and i just went i sold out right over the home run fence to try and catch a ball missed the ball landed on a rock uh yeah a couple of fractured ribs tried to keep playing and then uh missed uh i was at the home plate taking a swing and I just kind of ticked the foul ball.

And, of course, you're swinging for the fence on every swing you take in slow pitch, right? Never. And yeah, man, that was the end of my baseball career this year. I only play one day of baseball every year, slow pitch, and that was it. That ended it. That ended it. That may have ended a career or you'll be back next year. Oh, no, I'm hoping we're healed up by next year. Actually, I'm hoping this is healed in like four or five days because I'm not getting a lot done here lately.

So I don't know if you know me that well, but I don't do very well. all sitting around. Sit around? I chuckle because when you're like, you know, you're just, you're just getting old or, you know what, my body's getting old. I, um, so I'm nursing. I, uh, I tore, uh, one of the, was it ligaments, whatever, in my knee. And, uh, you know how it happened playing hockey quick. All right. And nobody touched me. Not a single person touched me. I did it to myself. And, uh, and I've been, I've had a bum knee all summer. So I've been, I've been like, when you say, I feel like I'm 20.

The body is telling me you're an idiot. You ain't even close to 20 anymore. It feels like just yesterday we were sitting down to podcast, Sean. Now look at us old in the retirement home, eating metamusel, drinking insurer, talking about our injuries. I went out, we went out for our anniversary and went out with some of the other family members. their anniversaries are all already in the same time. So all of us went out, right? And, you know, we went out and we're the only ones that have kids.

Oh, that's a lot. One of the other couples has kids. So we go out. Anyways, we're having a grand old time, did a little dancing. I haven't done that in forever. And the wife decides we're going to have some shots. So when you're dancing, are you two stepping? Or are you like getting out and doing the old hands in front of your side stepping kind of thing?

Or where are you asked with the dancing? Actually, it was a little bit of mix. Everything there quick. I did a little two stepping. I did something that maybe really. resembled some odd dance. And then I had a couple of them fine shots that my wife wanted to have. You want to do some shots? I'm like, oh, we're feeling young tonight. All right. Let me tell you the next day, death. I felt like death. I haven't ever, I can't remember the last time I wanted to

puke. Like I'm literally where you, you know, you drink too. Oh, I was at it. Too many shots. Yeah, it means you had a fun night, man. Oh, we had a grand old night. That's hilarious. But what is it about shots? It just make you a better dancer, though. You know what I mean? Confidence. You think you're a better to answer. You think you're better to answer. Yeah. Now. Been there.

Been there. You know, we were talking about Rex Murphy before he started. One of the, I feel like this is a throwback to, I can't remember how long ago it was. You know, I should have looked this up when the first time I had you on. It's been a while. But it was, it was the vegan protester diet or something along those lines. And I, you know, as soon as I saw it, I'm like, it's time to have quick on. you're the key name fertilizer band video i was like i need somebody to talk to about this i can't

think of anyone better than yourself the only guy better is the guy we're talking about i think one guy can one up you that would be rex murphy i think he would be an excellent conversationalist on this but uh i don't know man you you that's your world this is attacking your world i know you use humor and everything else on it but uh you know i'm curious what are your thoughts Well, it's, I mean, first things, first, it's not a fertilizer ban, right? It's a targeted reduction in emissions. Emissions, 30% emissions ban, total emissions. And I'm, you know what, I'm actually, anybody that doesn't know this, I'm not a professional in farming.

There are people that have been to school and spent 20, 30, 40 years in the agriculture industry, learning things on how genetics work and how different chemicals and fertilizers and whatnot work. And I guess one of the things I tried to highlight in that video was that we might not be complete and absolute professionals, but we work with professionals because the first thing a farmer, believe it or not, we'll do. They're not 100% sure what they're doing is they'll ask a professional's opinion kind of thing, right? Which is why we started doing a lot of work. And I work on the bar ranch with Mark Rogers, right? This guy's been at this for a long time. and this targeted total reduction in emissions is it is an attack in a sense and that's why I say in

this video is that it's not a ban on fertilizer yet but what we've seen I think from this government for a long time and we look at carbon tax and a whole bunch of different things is the government overreaching and trying to take maybe one statistic that they get in one part of Canada and then blanket apply it to the rest of the country. And where we really get lost specifically in agriculture is there's not a one size fits all solution for anything that happens in agriculture on anybody's farm because we farm just outside of toughnil, we're halfway between foam lake and toughnil.

And we farm differently than guys that are five, six, seven miles away from us, Sean, let alone 700, 7,000 miles away from us kind of thing. soil conditions are different, weather patterns are going to be different. Absolutely everything is different, everywhere that you farm. And when you see the government start to come in

with a lot of these things that they're proposing now, which are just targeted emissions reductions, there's a lot of people that are already doing what they're targeting, which is what I tried to explain in this video. And we get a, as far as I'm concerned, a dangerous rhetoric coming from the government because you get the message out there

from your government being like, well, we're emitting too much from using specific fertilizers in agriculture, and we're going to change that. And I'm not the kind of guy that likes, we've talked about this a little bit before, too, and a few different podcasts. I don't like going out and calling people

a bunch of ridiculous names like an insane climate cult, but it's time to call out what's happening for real here because it's, in my opinion, it's getting dangerous to start having these conversations out there that modern agriculture is killing the, the world and that we're the stuff I've seen in the comments that we have burnt soil that's just an obscene amount of chemicals applied to our food that are growing out of burnt soil and you have a lot of people that are talking about using, you know, chicken manure and a few different things

in your garden to make life better. Well, like that's fantastic. If I support a lot of those things, but that doesn't change the fact that we can't organically use enough chicken manure on a 4,000 acre farm to be able to make things viable here, right? And I think that's a big problem with what the government's up here. This is a big blanket total reduction in emissions. Well, that's great, but you can't blanket agriculture because it's different, absolutely everywhere, right? And I see a growing trend of trying to apply one solution that may work in a certain area, vicinity, and this goes beyond agriculture, and trying to use that one solution

to go across all Canada, you don't even need to go that big, across Alberta, Saskatchewan you get the point. And I mean, just like every farm's different, every life is different. I had on Jocelyn Berziak, First Nations lady, construction company, every First Nations area is different, right, when it comes to trying to put out one solution to fix all of their problems. it's not that simple. It's a complex system. It's one of the things I loved about your video is it really broke down, like, how complex

this is. And then on different parts, how, you know, what they're targeting and what Canada has to offer, like, there's just, it's hard to wrap my head around. Yeah. How we can be at this point where you're like, well, this could be, this rhetoric could be extremely dangerous. I don't think it can be extremely, I think it is. And I'm actually like, honestly, here in Canada, I think,

I think it's Rex Murphy's article that says, you know, these type of things aren't going to end up hurting Canadians. Probably it will a little bit. What he's talking about was, you know, you start reducing the amount of food we produce to the world. Who suffers on that? Not people in Saskatchewan, prices probably go up. But the people where they don't produce food and now there's famine. I mean, geez, like we're in this weird world of like energy food, all these different shortages. is flation going weird like or going up not weird you know like just like the world keeps getting

stranger and instead of our leaders and maybe leader uh changing his tune he keeps marching the same old drumbeat here and that's what's getting strange almost not even marching the same drumbeat but like doubling down harder on it yeah yeah yeah that's maybe better yeah yeah which is uh it's very confusing to me and that's a big thing even if we look at energy um you know with uh with with running an emissions cap on our oil and gas sector and then basically, you know, the next week being like, we really need to increase oil and gas production and exports kind of thing, right? Same thing. We start talking about increasing wheat production and food production in Canada and then in the next breath being like we're looking for a total reduction on emissions on fertilizer kind of thing,

which is I feel like the point, hopefully that I got across in the video is that for a lot of agriculture producers that already work with the, the best land stewardship that they possibly can and the newest technology who are already reducing, you know, their footprint sometimes by 30% or more. It's just like, can you imagine being the person that's there being like a government saying, hey, this is what we're going to do after you've been, you know, carbon tax to death and whatnot with your operation and anything that you are spending your money on trying to make your business run more efficient and use less input than you have a government being like, we're just going to go for a total reduction. The problem is that you're like, okay, yeah, we're already doing it, the chances of us getting credit for the

amount of, you know, low to zero till that a person's done for the last 20 years or anything that we've done up to this point in time to, you know, to mitigate waste, be it on inputs or be it a lower emissions target that we wind up hitting just by mitigating waste running our business more efficiently. You start to get worried when a government says something like this because it's what they like to do is to paint everything with one brush. and be like, we're going to take it down this road. You can be like, guys, I'm already there. And if you want to come with a brush and paint all of Canadian agriculture with the same brush and say,

this is what everybody needs to do, the people who've already invested hundreds and thousands of dollars in equipment and technology to try and get their targets where they're at right now, which is what I say in the videos. So are we going to take what we've done and all the progress that we made and then be faced with yet another target that we have to hit that we can't because we've already trimmed all the fat off our operation that we can. That's terrifying. A lot of people were very upset with me because of how I named the video and they're like, well, it's not a fertilizer ban.

Yeah, no, I know. That's literally the first thing I say in the video, right, is that this is not a fertilizer ban. A lot of people have accused me of this being like a clickbait title in a few different terms that they want to use of what it was. But I can tell you one thing is there's two people that I want to talk to. You know this. We've gone over this a lot of times with the great conversations that we've had in the past

is I don't care about views or likes or clicks or anything. And I might be one of the only YouTubers out there that doesn't start off of being like subscribe to my channel and make sure to like and leave a comment and all this shit. Typically what I'll say is if you don't like what I'm saying, go down and give me a thumbs down. You know what I mean? Like, because I don't get a shit. But there's two people that I want to talk to when I made this video. Sorry, I'm getting out of breath with this whole ribs thing.

there's there's two people that I want to talk to when I made this video and the first people that I want to talk to are the people that think that this is a fertilizer ban because it's not so when somebody sees that they want to jump at and be like yeah the fertilizer ban quick dick's talking about it first thing hey this is not a fertilizer ban and the second thing is people that are hearing that it's a fertilizer ban in Canada are going to look at this and be like that's what I want to talk about so what I try to do is to be like yeah let's talk about this fertilizer ban and how this is not a fertilizer ban, but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be concerned about it. Right. And so hopefully I broke down everything enough to the point where

people are going to be like, okay, so this is kind of where things are at. And maybe at best what the government's going to do here is spend millions and or billions of dollars, maybe just even trying to quantify what we actually do right now and see if that just hits our target by itself, which I would be willing to bet that if we started quantifying what we actually sequester for carbon versus what we emit for greenhouse gases, last study I could find was that we were negative 33 megatons carbon negative in the agriculture industry in Canada. A short-term sequestration because when you send- Why would you do that?

If you're sitting as the government quick, and I mean this in the best possible way, the guy named quick- The best possible way about our government? No, well, no, I mean, Quick Dick McDick sitting out in Tuffinle, Saskatchewan can figure out that, holy shit, actually, we're probably doing more than our part with our ag industry right now. Why go down this road then? Of not a fertilizer, thank you for clarifying, and emissions target on the ag industry. Why go down this road if you already know with a couple of phone calls that we don't. need to do this. That's a very good question, Sean. And I think I'm not a guy that plays into

the to the whole huge, huge W-EF controlling the world conspiracy thing or whatever, right? But is it, but at this point, is it, but at this point, is it, and I don't mean, is it that it's not that big of a conspiracy theory when Schwab talks about having young leaders in all the different things and Canada having a big part in the world. economic form. It's, I think it's where you see, um, a lot of influence, uh, coming into politics of different countries, right? Because like, I'm not going to sit here and say that Trudeau and a lot of his accolades haven't drank the Kool-Aid and, and are pursuing a lot of these grander ideas of, you know, a globalism kind of thing, right? Um, but like I, I honestly,

like, I honestly don't believe that, that, that Klaus Schwab is like hands on behind the scenes, just pulling the strings of everything. This is an idea, I think, that people have been exposed to that are like, yeah, let's jump on this train and let's see what we can do to make things different, which when we start talking about globalism or making the globe a better place, that's why policies like this make absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, which is what I tried to explain in the video, is if we were all in this really to globally reduce greenhouse gas commissions. Well, we need to be doing a lot more with our oil and gas industry instead of capping it and doing less with it, right? Where I made the, you know, the comparison of how we

could lower 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions just by replacing coal firepower generation with Canada's LNG, right? But then when it comes down even to our agriculture industry of what we have the ability to environmentally friendly produce here in Canada, like you say, feed the rest of the world with if we're trying to meet this 30% reduction goal on top of what we're already doing, there's only one solution and that is to use less fertilizer. And if we start using less fertilizer, we get less yields. And if we get less yields, yeah, we're always, well, hopefully always going to be able to provide Canada with the food that we need to eat.

Yeah, but when you start, when you start, sorry, when you start talking like that, you can see where the dominoes go, right? Like it's not that far to go. Oh, if we start using less foreign and then we produce a lot of, food and if you're producing less food, what happens to you all your exports or maybe you need to keep, you know, you just, you start throwing around you. What ends up going on there? It's, it's a, I don't know, does that happen overnight quick? You're, you're better. I always think that something like that is something that the average person probably doesn't like, can't just

see like a bomb dropping in the city and you can visibly see it overnight. You're like, oh my God, did you see, did you see the hail last night and what the damage it did? This is something maybe that has a little bit of a slower trickle, I would guess. Whether or that's a... To a certain extent. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And it's, it's, there's just so many different facets too. And that's what I tried to tie in the fuel, clean fuel standard with it a little bit because this is another place where, you know, we talked about food grade crops, which, you know, I use canola for an example. But I mean, there's corn and a few different crops,

whatever that you would want to derive ethanol from and use, using biofuels and whatnot. But, uh, I've had a lot of people come back to that. me and be like, yeah, but canola is not a food. And I'm like, we don't eat canola. I had one guy saying, I was like, I'm going to stop you right there. Okay, so have you ever had margarine? Maybe they don't. Or maybe they don't eat fried foods.

They never had a French fry in their life or they've never had a chicken binger or something like that, right? Like these are places where we use canola oil even in frying foods or whatnot. And there's a big thing at the Tuffel Sports day here the other day. We were talking about how much you guys selling? and a half dozen progis here for. They're like, well, $3.50. We're like, are you guys making any money at that?

They're like, no. Like our friar oil has quadrupled in price over the last little while. Well, really, hey? Like, isn't that just magic how that works, right? So, like, I feel like this is just a really big disconnect between rural and urban. And, like, everyone keeps saying it's a left, right, divide that's splitting the world apart right now, which to a certain extent I'll agree with. but I really feel like our urban versus rural disconnect is is really what's fuel in a lot of this stuff

where Trudeau sit down and make a policy that somebody just brings up to him just based on the fact. He's like, yeah, well, this kind of fits this little group that we've got together here where we're trying to, you know, do a lot of these different environmental policies and whatnot. And yeah, that sounds, that sounds like it'll, you know, it'll work for our voter base. Because the government's job isn't to run the country properly. They can give a shit about running it properly. their job is to get reelected. That's it. It's the only thing any government's ever there for, right? Well, I don't know if me and you have talked about this or not, but I've brought this up a lot on this podcast, that the rural urban divide. I'm sure this was way back when when me and me first sat down because I talked to, now I'm thinking about this, this is where you talked about the, maybe your grandfather working on the government pasture land, building,

fences and that type of thing. We were talking about that way back when in COVID. Anyways, rural urban divide. I mean, it's 83.2% I think in Canada. And you go, you can understand why there's been a disconnect on how our foods growing, you know, even what oil and the energy sector, how that runs, how many safety environmental standards have been put into there. And it's just, it's just a disconnect. There's no, whether or not there's no education on it or not quick. It's almost like cities or that,

I don't know who it is. They just don't care. They don't care that safety is still not good enough. But what, at what point is good enough? And then on top of that, all the stuff you use in a day, I use it a day.

I don't have to put it on anyone else. I'm like, I can't speak out about pretty much anything at this point because like pretty much all of it comes from people, that I respect, that are doing things that are ag, energy, oil and gas, that type of thing. And it's so more complex. And if you go back 50 years, the 70s, till now, it's like night and day in Canada, at least, how these things are produced. The stipulations and, you know, like farming is, man, like watching farmers now, it's almost,

you could have, well, you do, you, you do a show on it. But I mean, like, you could literally make a TV show on how scientific it is now to get the best yields, to do the right things, to make sure crops grow properly, to make sure the soil is good, to make sure this. This is crazy. So like, like, like, coming to you from the, from the inside of agriculture, like just staying within, you know, like I'm, I'm nowhere near the, in the lane that's, that's so many people are. I'm in the farthest outside lane in agriculture. there is. I'm still learning so much every day, every day, every day. The technology and knowledge and how people operate in agriculture, which is why I tried to highlight just a few small things

that we do in this video. So is it, sorry, quick, you think it's, do you think from farm, you know, we talked about, when you're on with me and two, as we talked about cattle for a quick second. And do you think it's just like a poor job of cattlemen, farmers in general? Cattle people. Cattle people kind. Right, right. People can. That's right.

Of like not getting ahead of it, but you can kind of see how it's going. Everything's getting attacked. Everything that should not get attacked is getting attacked. Is it a poor job of letting people understand or people don't want to understand? I think it's probably a combination of the two. And like, let's say look at my situation. For example, I've been given this unique opportunity to be able to make these productions and have high viewership on them. But even the crowd that my content reaches typically is a crowd that already knows what I'm trying to talk about.

And they enjoy viewing it. And I get that viewership because they find it entertaining, right? And we've kind of touched on that before. but the more important people that you need to reach are the people that really have no idea of what's going on. And a lot of times, like I will say, even on the fertilizer band video, I, like, I go about it in moderately the wrong way of trying to connect to the audience that really needs to hear it. But at the same time, it's so crucial that the audience that doesn't want to hear that we're chasing emissions reduction can know that they can feel good in doing the work that they're

doing. They don't need to feel like there's a boot on the back of their head. They need a pat on back and just be told to keep doing what you're doing and let's keep moving in this direction kind of thing. The federal government can handle this so different. When we have Marie Claude B. Beau come in front of a bunch of agriculture producers and be like, I realize that the target we're setting is ambitious. Can't we, pardon my French, but can't we be fucking realistic? Can we just say, you know what? Let's quantify what we're already doing and let's see where we're at and then go from there. But we want to have this woke narrative running around being like,

we are going to reduce these emissions, which is another thing that I tried to point out in this video is right now, we have a best guess of what we emit for nitrous oxide from fertilizer right now. It's a bullshit equation that uses estimates from different temperate zones in Canada, which there are how many of it. It's just, it's completely asinine that they would do something like this on estimates. They're like, yeah, you know what?

I think that I shit about four pounds in the morning, but I'm not sure. And we're just going to use an estimate on the displacement of the water in the bowl versus how hard it flushes to get figured out how much you actually shit in the morning. Well, I've got an idea. Why don't we come up with a figure if it's really important to us weigh how much shit is there instead of just using a bunch of numbers that we're using best guess on? It's insane. I was having a conversation.

a day or two ago about in politics and I don't mean this to every politician because I certainly know a few good ones out there but in politics you can fail and still be promoted you can you know but when you're in

blue collar industries when you're farming if you don't produce a field you're broke If you got a, you know, if you're a mechanic, but you can't fix, you know, an engine to save your life, you're broke. You know, if you're a woodworker, but can't put two pieces of wood together, you broke, you know, and it's like pretty damn quick. These policies are being made by mostly people who have never stepped a foot in a field or, you know, extrapolate that to wherever you want to go. And I just go, oh, yeah, fire.

Like, I have a great amount of respect for people that have gone to school and got degrees in their, in their specific genres that, that they want to be experts in. I have a lot of respect for that. And I realize it takes a huge financial commitment, a time commitment and a commitment to Zee was a person. But, Sean, like, what you're saying, man? Like, we've got a government right now that can't seem to organize anybody getting a passport or moving traffic through, through airports. And I feel like it was one of many important points that I tried to make in this video. But if we have a government that's running a country into debt by $145 million a day at $1.17 trillion debt load right now, I'm really not interested in taking business advice from them or how we need to start managing on farm fertilizer use.

Because if you can't display to me that in any way, shape, form, or capacity, you can make one thing work within government, even getting yourself fucking paid, what business do you have of trying to tell me how I need to manage on farm fertilizer use? I want everybody to listen to envision Rex Murphy saying this because I'll do, I'm not going to even try. I'm just going to read his words.

Okay, here's what. Here's what Rex, okay, yeah. Here's what Rex Murphy says. Toronto. Always yearn to be the world renowned city, but not in this way, has had its main airport deemed the world's worst. The government of,

of what should be a great country is buying lawn chairs for citizens stranded in endless lines waiting for passports. A democracy-minded woman for medicine hat is sitting in an Ottawa jail over highly technical breach of bail conditions while volatile offenders wander freely outside in the summer error. Increase into possible interferences and massive police investigations in the first time implication the emergencies act are stumbling along with questionable effectiveness. That was the opening paragraph of his article. And I mean, that isn't even, there's more. There's more things going on in Canada. It's just, we're in a, we're upside down in Canada right now. We can't get fast enough to the next election. I hope where he is out, I don't see how this, you know, but I didn't see

how the last time, I mean, you've talked about that. But it seems like, you know, I'll read one more. He goes, and as a recent national post editorial noted, Justin Trudeau in the face of all of this, as I just listed, has been floating around the country like a butterfly flitting in and out of one venue after another, but of course exempted by virtue of his status in the government jet from the tribulations, anxieties, and turmoil of our now famous Pearson holding port. The guy really does socks and dingers. And he's like, he's my kind of poetic as well. I like how he uses the English language to lamb-based some of the stuff. He does a great job of it. But it's just another problem. And like, there's a lot of true.

supporters that blindly support, you know, the Liberal Party Canada and Justin Trudeau that trying to defend the use of the amount of private jet setting that the guy does in his carbon footprint. And everyone's like, I'm getting really tired of this debate by conservatives and everything that's, you know, this. Me too. I hate having to just keep bringing up the most obvious thing on planet Earth of a person that doesn't give a low-hanging, the low-hanging fruit.

It's the lowest hanging, but the most obvious fruit. And that's why I've had a lot of guys approach me trying to help promote, you know, selling carbon offsets as farmers and getting a lot of these programs that are coming back in to our limelight again. And I'm so against them because all that that does is it takes stewards of the land that work as hard as they can to, to work with Mother Nature and our environment and our land to, to ensure that we're going to be able to keep producing safe and sustainable food for generations to come. I don't want to provide the ammunition for Justin Chardot to be able to go on television. And when someone asks, well, aren't you polluting by flying your jet here and you'll say, well, I actually bought carbon offsets for it.

I don't fucking care what you bought for it. It doesn't matter what you buy for it. Buying anything is just, it's completely lucrative. And it's just another setup for a bunch of different companies that actually make a commission off of selling the hard work that farmers have done to sequester carbon to a bunch of high. flute and rich fox that don't care about the environment that have the money to buy these credits and just be like, well, it makes us feel okay about this. You think he goes to Costa Rica just to get away from being yelled at? Have you seen any of the latest?

I feel like everywhere he goes in Canada, he's being chased by somebody angry with a phone just screaming obscenities. I think he's being chased in a lot of places. And to be honest, I don't see the value in it. people film themselves grossing out Justin Trudeau, shouting obscenities at them. I'm just like, you're really making the case worse for everybody. Do you if that's what you got to go do kind of thing? I mean, and I'm by no stretch of the imagination innocent.

I have obviously roasted Justin Trudeau on my channel. But I mean, I'm not standing there in person in front of the guy doing it. You know what I mean? But to be honest, Matt, like I don't give a shit that Trudeau went to Costa Rica. I don't give a shit I don't give his shit either but I do find it interesting that he just jetsets

He's like I you know like I have a rough day at work Or when I used to have a rough day at work You know I go sit on the back deck Drink a cold one Hop on a podcast with Quick Dick Make get made fun of for drinking American beer And just enjoy myself I'm drinking water tonight

I'm drinking water tonight That could also be equivalent of an American beer Anyways besides the point But when you're in his role, he's like, I literally can't go. I could be wrong on this. But I literally don't think he can go anywhere in Canada at this point and sit outside and have a beer. That's how bad of a job he's doing. Like nobody's sitting there going, hey, Trudeau, great job.

The only way he gets that is if he books a private party and says, listen, there will be no cheering and no yelling or no nothing. It's going to be quiet. It's going to be a mausoleum here. We're going to walk around. and it's going to be like you're on the golf course and nobody's allowed a soft applause, that's it. No, like, absolutely. And that's, and like part of that, in my opinion, looks good on them

because that's what happens when you play identity politics and you are one of the most divisive prime ministers in Canada's history. You're going to reap what you sow. And like, to my point of being like, I don't care that he's gone on vacation. Like, I don't care who you are, everybody deserves a vacation, go have your vacation or not,

but do not have the audacious. to talk to me about emissions from my operation when throughout the course of one week you will emit more CO2 into the world's air than I will in eight years of growing crops and raising cattle. But that's the issue that I have here. And to me, it's the lowest hanging fruit that's out there. It's what all of the Truonon cult just runs around being like, I'm really tired of having this debate and I'm like me too because it is just so fucking obvious that your whole group just

doesn't care. If you cared, you would not be having natural gas in your furnace. You would not be driving a vehicle that burns gasoline and you would not promote a prime minister that spends how many days in July did this guy spend in the air on his jet? Total. I just heard it and the numbers escaping me, but it will blow your mind. And I'm the, I'm the criminal for driving a eco-deasel to to a comedy show that gets 30 miles to the gallon. I'm trying to do my part. You know, hell, fuck,

did you see what happened with Donna Harpower? Chartered a plane for eight grand to fly to North Battleford to have a conversation about the budget after we're broke. Like, it's not just federal. You can't make this shit up. Like, I mean,

fuck me. Two's, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, here. Summer twos is laughing because we've literally talked about her going to North Battleford and like breaking that death.

I'm like, geez, you know, we could probably make a new company. If I go back to that, I think me and twos are talking about getting a limo, a party limo, drinks Saskatchewan beer. And, you know, now you get the four-hour drive and luxury and it still wouldn't come out to the $8,000 of fly privately, you know, their back. You're right on me, these guys, but they're, you know, over 200 grand in catering on Mary Simon's fucking jet. You never heard of a 24 pack of beer, a pack of bologna and some cheese? I can promise you we're going to have just as good of a time, if not better. We're going to have a better time. We're going to have a better time.

But like that's, it's just, there's just, it's very, very obvious that there are, you know, several classes of people in Canada. And I just, I am getting to the point where I'm very, very fed up and full of a lot of this woke shit. that is just completely irrelevant. They just cancel every point that they try and make with every move that they make. I'm just like, am I the only one that sees this?

Or like, am I just getting to the point where I'm like, I can't even talk about this shit anymore because I just keep beating the same drum over and over again. Because nothing changes, nothing fixes. They just are the most hypocritical individuals I've ever seen in my natural born life. And nobody else sees it. Like there's just a blind group of supporters that keep propping people like this up.

And I honestly, you know what? I can't wait to actually meet Donna Harpower in person because fuck, do I want to talk to her about that flight? Like Donna, for 500 bucks in a case of Pilsner, I would have drove you. I'll drive you. I'll drive you.

And we'll have a lot of went and got drunk with my brother and Marshall that night. And then I would have drove your ass back home the next day. What's a hotel room for fuck sake? you want me to run the numbers on this shit for you folks? You know what, let's buy a fifth wheel. And I'll just pull it around. You can have booze in it. You can get drunk while I drive you everywhere.

You can do whatever the hell you want. Just ask a bunch of small town sass boys how to fix this. A sober driver, a case of booze, and we'll get you fixed up. You have more fun. We'll save the budget. Sean, we've been in training for this profile. for years, man. You know, they've got advisors and assistants that book this stuff or whatever.

We're like, fuck, we've trained for this shit all our lives. My dad taught me how to keep it cheap. You could still get wasted and have just as good time. You just got to lower your standards for what you eat and where you sleep a little bit. You know what I mean? A bunch of pretentious bastards. You know, I don't know if I've mentioned this aloud. Maybe when you were on with me in twos, but November 5th,

you come to town. Gold Horse Casino. Which I'm super pumped for, by the way. So to the listener, I got to drive by. I said, that was good. That I forgot all about the flight to North Battleford, to be honest. Me and Two is doing all the headlines. I swear to God.

I got to get caught up on mashup. I'm so far behind this. You cannot believe how many ridiculous headlines and things are going on each week, pretty much in Canada. I mean, there's other things going on. It's just like, we cannot be this stupid. But that's what happens over and over. Anyways, whatever.

I can go on about that. I do it every Tuesday because I'm just like, I don't even know if I want to talk about them spending so much money on a plane again. Like I literally just talked about this every single week. It's just, it's going on. Anyways, November 5th will be a ton of fun because you and two's both come to town. Lloydminster, Goldholy Horrors, casino. Ticks actually don't go on sale until September 1st, so nobody can go grab one just yet. But I'm selling window.

I like it. Well, I don't know. It's two months. I look at it and I go, I don't know what I'm doing two weeks, little alone two months in advance. So November 5th, though, a Saturday in Lloyd, that'll be fun. I bet you there'll be a few Pilsner drank that night. Several.

There will be several consumed. I'm actually looking forward to, man. That's going to be a great time. Well, I know Tew's, as he's listening right now, I'm going to tease him a bit, but a little fan boy and I'm will be excited to sit down and across from you. But I think there's, like, those nights are fun, uh, just in general because, uh, I, for two years, we didn't do any of it, right? Like we got away and now to get in a room with a group of people and share some laughter, which I don't think we do enough anymore either. Everything is

so, so serious. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of seriousness out there. And we got to be serious about a lot of things. And we got to, we got to uncover all the corruption that's going on and, and talk about all the stupidity and, and some pretty, nefarious happenings. Damn, it feels good to have a couple chuckles from time to time queue. And at times your shit makes me, well, it brightens the day. I think it does it for a lot of people. Well, I appreciate that, buddy. And that's like we've talked. That's the point of me doing what I do. I've started going around. I've ran this. It's called the creation of QDM. It's an hour long talk that I do live. I've done it, you know, a half dozen times in, in real life,

in actual, uh, like, uh, wouldn't be a town hall kind of thing or whatever, but at different, uh, gatherings kind of thing.

You know, I did it for the Surrey Watershed District and, uh, a couple of times of the thanks for farming to or whatnot. It's booked a few more times. Dude, like I literally, I've got like a PowerPoint presentation set up in a projector and a screen and I

go through and I just, you know, I talk about how this character got created and, and, uh, you know, my dad and, and the whole story when we were kids and how we grew up.

and like what it means now and what it does. And dude, there's just nothing that replaces being in person with people and getting to meet them and get in to have conversations. And I just, I appreciate everybody so much that watches and has fun with my content. Because the people that appreciate it are usually like super fans. Like if somebody likes Quick Dick, like they're all in. And it's not just like they won't just be there for one political post

that I do. The best thing that's happened to me in the last little while is like I put, I intentionally put this video out small town Saskatchewan that it just did about this low pitch tournament in the Aurora Beach Car Show on Monday is kind of a, it's just kind of a maybe a warning video to everybody that is like I gained, you know, somewhere around 15,000 subscribers when I, when I did the fertilizer ban video. But I think a lot of people jump in thinking that all I do is just bash the government and talk, which is not. And you know, and you know, better than anybody, Sean. Like, that is not what we do here. Like I talk about anything and everything. We might talk about shit in your pants one day. We might talk about a slow pitch tournament one day.

We might talk about, you know, small town rumor mills and shit like that. It's just like a variety show. And the people that are in that are all in, I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of them in person over the last little while. And it's awesome. That's why I'm looking forward to November so much is to meet people in person. you shake a person's hand and hear their story and talk about, you know, how some of their struggles have helped them connect with some of the material that I put up or something that I put up has helped them through it. It's why I do what I do, man. And I just, I can't get enough that there are a lot of really awesome people out there that follow a guy.

There's some assholes too, but that's okay. No, they always come. Well, it'll be a fun night because, you know, I'm, I get nervous about these nights every single time. I've only done one of them, but I got another one coming. coming up on Monday, I'm actually doing a roundtable with four of the leadership candidates for Premier in Alberta in Vermillion. And I'm like partially terrified of that, but partially like extremely excited.

Just because there's always opportunity for failure, right? Like what your idea of something is, you sit down. And maybe it just doesn't translate into good listening, maybe what the audience wants out of what the people are, right? I think about it a lot, right? With you and two's coming, I think about that too, right? Like, I've never done a comedy show before. And although I know you will be great,

and I actually know twos will be great, not to pump his tires too much. Yeah, he will, man. Though you two back to back be a lot of fun. It's actually the last part where I sit down and we do a bit of a roundtable podcast in front of a live audience that terrifies me because to me, I find it super interesting.

But what happens if nobody else does? and that nightmare will plague me until we get done it. And well, people are the plot and go, that was a great fucking night. That was a cool ending. I'd never seen that coming. Or you get the, yeah, it was okay. And you're like, okay, dagger to the heart.

Okay, we'll have to revise that. So I don't know. That's the inner voice having a little bit of fun with me because the more time that's out there between you and the event, the more time you have to think about it, I guess, is all I play around with. Yeah, for sure. but I think the opportunity to fail is something that makes us better as human beings.

Because if you just knew that you were going to do good, I don't think that you would get your best material or have your best events. If you just rolled in just knowing things are going to be okay, I think that unknown and the uncertainty of how it's all going to go is a great challenge to us personally. I think it keeps us honest. and I think it makes us strive to do better, to have better material, to have more engaging conversations. I said it in the fertilizer band video, but I truly believe it is not just in crops.

It's not just in every batch of calves that we have. Every time even that I do a video, or if I write a new piece, or if I do an interview or do a podcast or whatever it is that I do, I want to do better on my next one than I did on the last one. And, you know, I've got different areas. is that I'm just like, you know, I think it can improve on this.

I think it can improve on that. And if you constantly challenge yourself and strive towards improving every time, no matter what it is that you do, whether it's making a sandwich at Subway or whether it's growing a crop or maybe you paint vehicles or something like that, that is just that is what makes us human and it makes us better as humans is to just challenge yourself, you know? Yeah, actually, Vance Crowe was asking. me, you know, Vance, was asking me how full-time podcast was going. And I, I, I kind of like,

stumble on my tongue every time it comes up, because I'm like, well, it's going good. He's like, oh. And I'm like, well, you have to, you know, once you get into it, you're like, well, now what? You know, like, now I have to, now I have to make sure that I don't become complacent. And I think it kind of goes in line with what you're saying. I, I need to do things that scare me a bit, you know, like there's definitely possible for failure in this and therefore I best put a lot of effort into making sure there's no failure there or you've given it all you can and if it does fail then at least you can take a step back and go oh this didn't work this didn't work and I didn't realize about this so then you can move forward right and that's that's the UCP debate or roundtable

as I'm calling it that's quick dick two's comedy comedy show who knows it could be a home run Maybe what comes after this, quick dick, is like a year-long comedy tour across Canada where I'm not doing anything. I'm just the producer. I'm just trying to prove. And now up to bat QDM folks. Give it a round applause for QDM. And I just sit back down and I drink Pilsner and I don't know. That sounds like a very nice evening away from the farm.

It's, you know what I found with comedy is comedy is always. kind of going to be okay. And there's going to be shows. I've done shows where I mean, they go okay. And then I've done shows where they really, really bomb. And then I've done shows where you just blow the roof off the place. You know what I mean? And you know, you can't take something away differently from each one of those experiences that you have. But I think, I think the UPC roundtable is a really good challenge for you. Because it's, you know, it's for high profile guests that you would have and your job as like you I guess in that situation be the moderator kind of thing. Your job is to is to keep that going and flowing right. So that because what

you're going to want and I know what your goal will be off the start of this whole thing is you want your audience that's coming to see this to see the different platforms that these candidates have to offer and what each one has to offer Alberta because a guy like you, I know that you're going to be you're going to see something in each candidate that you're like that's really good. And maybe I can help them bring that to the public kind of thing. Or you're going to have an issue that you know is contentious and you're going to be like, here's this issue. Why don't you guys see who can do the best with it kind of thing?

I think that'll be really good for you. You can see you doing really good at that. And you're going to have a good audience. That's, uh, that's, well, that's, here's,

here's, here's what I'm hopeful of it. Because when I watch the debates politically, uh, what really, really hurts me is, is like you got 30 seconds. You got a minute and 20. You've got this.

Oops, you're cut off. Bob, blah, blah. And don't get me wrong. I don't got five hours to sit and have this long drawn out discussion with three people and whatever. Got an audience to retain, right? That's right. But at the same time, I feel like you can have a roundtable in such a way that the four candidates will get to say what they want to. Let's be honest.

Politicians are going to want to talk. The bigger issue is going to be having to rein them in when they try and talk for 12 minutes. No, no, no, we have to. I want to hear his opinion. and allow him time to discuss. But it's not so much about here's the new question, although there will be time for that. And let's move on to this person and move on to that.

We only got 30.m. It's going to be more about, I'm hoping, a discussion amongst four people that everybody's looking at going, who do I want to be leader? I always use this idea. And I'm not sure this is bang on quick. Hockey player, you know, leave me alone. But anyways, in hockey we don't pick a captain.

by beating up on our teammates. I mean, maybe some team would vote that guy in because they're scared shitless. But every hockey team, for the most part, that I've ever played on, you have a preseason and you vote the guy who is the best leader. And then you have some others that are voted in or maybe the coach of points because they can help said leader. And I go, they're all on the same team. This isn't the NDP versus the conservative party versus the green versus the green versus as the liberal. You get the point. This is conservatives versus conservatives in like two short months,

two and a half months. They're going to be working together anyways, no matter who's voted in. I just feel like the cream's going to rise to the top. It's a hockey team. Let's see what they have to say about giving issues. The audience is going to be able to pick up the bullshit better than I ever can because the audience always does. And all you need to do is get them talking and make it feel comfortable and talk about some certain subjects, the audience certainly wants to hear about, right? It's going to be Vermillion, Lloydminster, Wainwright, area.

Yeah. Well, what's in there? Tea drinkers and, you know, actually there are tea drinkers. I don't know why I said that, but you get the point, right? Farmers, ranchmen, ranch, human kind, people kind. People, kind, ranching, people kind.

Yeah, I hear you, man. And that's, I think, it's really good. I feel like it's, It's a lot of what is missing from, you know, even the conservative party candidate's leadership race right now and whatnot. I get really sick of, you know, divisive politics and candidates within the same party just taking time to slag each other. And I get, I get so tired of that shit. I just get to a point where I'm just like, please, for the love of God, just tell me what you've got that's good, what you're going to do, that's good. I already know what I don't like about Choray.

I already know what I don't like about Atchson. I already know what I don't like about Polly. I've already know what I don't like about Lewis. Tell me what you're doing that would make me want to support you. Don't tell me what would make me not want to support somebody else. I'll make that decision of my own. You know what I mean? But it just seems like that's the only route that we go down now.

And that can get pretty tight at the point of where you want to stop watching leadership. But I think that I think that's been the way to go for a long. time, right? And there's just never been, maybe I shouldn't say never. In my short time and what I've heard from people talking about prior to me, that's the way it's been. That's been the culture. And maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, we could build a new culture that is like, you know, like this is how you get ahead in politics. I don't know. I'm too rosy glass glasses. I understand that. I just go and tell you try and it blows up in your face. I mean, you really, don't know. I don't know. I've never seen anything what I'm about to attempt, which I don't

think is rocket science. I'm not trying to make that out to be what it is. But when was the last time you saw four politicians sit down side by side and have a meaningful but hopefully cordial discussion, other than a debate where it's kind of weird. Yeah, 100%. I hope you can hold it to that. And I hope you have that, obviously you will, but have that conversation with them of like, you know, guys, like, here's the structure of how I want this to go and how I feel it will benefit this audience for all of you. You know, let's talk. Let's talk about what's best for Alberta and how you can bring that out, not what's the worst about your contender kind of thing or your competition, right? Well, I'm working on my opening speech for it just about that, you know, like I'm actually, but I don't know.

You know, like best laid plans, Q. Oh, 100%. Like, you know, best late plans. Either way. Either way, it's going to, it's going to be great. I know you'll do fine. And people are going to be able to take some stuff away from it kind of thing. It's just, that's all we can do.

And I think that's a good thing for you to do. You know, even in regards to jumping back to this video that I just did, like, you know, there's ways I could have gone about it maybe differently and not, you know, slag liberals so bad or a climate cult so bad kind of thing. But there does come a point in time where you have to call a spade a spade, fucking spade. There always comes, there comes a time,

yes. Yeah. What's, how about this? What's, what's new on Q's world? What's coming up for you that you're looking forward to? Or,

you know, maybe you got something that's, you know, you're a little bit of nervous of. What do you got coming up that people can pay attention to? I've got, actually the entire month of August, which turns out good because I can barely move here now,

but actually I have no shows booked for the month of August, which is neat because I was getting stretched. pretty thin with, you know, back-to-back shows in Winkler, and then you're over here, and then you're down in Hartney, Manitoba, then you're back up over and Steen and Saskatchewan and everything, and you,

Mark, if you're listening, which you're probably not, but if you ever do, man, any podcast or radio interview I've ever gone on to it, just a huge shout out to Mark Rogers, the guy that owns the bar ranch that I work for and run my farming operation underneath the umbrella of his, the guy's a machine,

and he puts up with a lot of my shit, being gone and whatnot, you know what I mean? But I was actually looking forward to August to being able to get some of my own stuff done and even taking a little break from uploads just for a little while to get back on top of the agriculture operation that I'm a part of because it's kind of important. You know what I mean? Like this whole quick dick stuff is a side gig. I'm pumped up for a few more of these talks.

I'm actually doing a it's a women and egg presentation. that's coming up in in November, I believe it is in Saskatoon, which I think is going to be intimidating because I'm actually going to be in front of an entire audience of women talking about how I created my character. And I've got a really neat story about my mom and how she supported my dad through some of his mental struggles that he went through. And I have a whole part of this presentation where there's a stigma out there. And you hear it lots where you hear, there's a behind every.

good man stands an even better woman kind of thing. And the point I try and drive home is that my mom was never behind my dad anytime we ever grew up. My mom and dad worked together as equals. And nine times out of ten, my mom was a stronger one out of the two than my dad was, maybe not physically, but emotionally, you know, and it's, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm nervous about it at the same time. But I'm looking forward to it just because it's, same thing. You're out of your comfort zone and you're either going to do good or you can do shitty. You know what I mean? I think that that's cool. I'm glad I asked because I think from the outside looking in, Q, you look and you go, you're having tons of success. That's what it looks like.

It looks like, you know, you just have a way with videos. They just do. It's super cool to watch. and then you see you start doing comedy and you know, you go, like it isn't that far of a stretch that you're going to be going to call me. And last time you're on, you talked about some of the struggles like one night I bombed the next night.

You know, well, maybe there is a future here, right? Yeah. I think it's good for people to understand that even QDM, the master of disaster himself, can have some things that he's just a little unsure about. And that's okay. actually that's probably better than okay it's probably really good right like those things are what

what a person kind of marks on the calendar like okay this is going to be interesting yeah they're totally good for you as a person that being said like I'm not saying uh I guess I'm not really nervous about it uh you know and I don't know why and I've experienced that every time I've gone in front of a crowd now no matter what I'm doing I don't get the nerves with it really you know yeah I don't know it's weird. I can, for some reason, just jump in front of a crowd of five, six, seven hundred people. It was, what was there? There's 1,200 people at the field of stars event in Langham there. I'm just comfortable. I don't know why. I'm just fine. Maybe it's just because I'm just in my head. I'm just like, yeah, well, I'm probably never going to see 90% of you fathers again.

You're an old. You're an old soul for the stage maybe, eh? Maybe in a previous life, you're a rock star. I did get to hug Jess Mosculow. I saw that. I saw that. I can basically, I can basically, I can basically quit now and I've achieved all the goals I ever wanted to. She was, you performed in Kids Scotty and the event before that I actually made, she was the headliner and she was phenomenal performing in Little Kid Scotty Hall. I don't know how many people were there, maybe 300, I want to say.

And like, I didn't, honest God, I'll put my hand up. I had no idea who she was. And she started rocking. I was like, oh man, this chick can sing, right? like obviously she looks the part but great performer she's got a great voice too and it was so cool to see charlie major play there too because the the last best cabaret that i was ever at uh was actually grand prairie at stampede and i'm talking this is 10 12 years ago and it was charlie major that played and i remember being intoxicated enough that i would sit back down at the table after dancing my best two step and like

incorporating some pretty serious spins apparently i was intoxicated it intoxicated enough to the point where I would sit down and bring my foot kind of up to my chest and blow on my boots like they were on fire. So it was a very proud moment. Very proud. Very proud. Charlie Major is it. How old would Charlie May, like is he looking? He's got to be mid-60s. God, I could just look that up. Still put on a good show. It's kind of hilarious. Comes out backwards hat. Charlie Major, if you're listening, I love you. You put on a few pounds since I seen him last, which we all do kind of thing. But that guy literally came out,

like chewing a piece of gum with a backwards head on or whatever. And like he walks up to the mic chewing his gum and right before he starts singing. He just stops chewing his gum and starts singing. And I was like, man, like that's talent right there.

Like that's almost like Christoperson is walking up to the mic with a dart or whatever and then taking the dart out and singing or whatever. It's pretty badass, you know? He's 67. He's 67. So he's still rocking it out. You know,

the guy back when stage 13 was a thing, that'll date. myself that was back close to cameras and one of the guys there that year was George Thurlgid and I was I was I was only 17 at the time and so I of course being a good I don't even know was it's a scasher boy is a small town is it having a dad who was a truck driver I can't remember why I knew exactly who George Thurlgood was but on came his final song was one bourbon one scotch one beer. We all know how long that song is. It was phenomenal. And he passed out on stage with like a Texas Mickey of, I don't know, whiskey, rye, doesn't matter what it was. And he was partying like he

was 20 except it's George Thorogden. I'm a sandbag because I wrecked a couple of ribs as a 39 year old. There's George Thorogood like just getting drunk like he's 15 again. You know what I mean? And let me tell you, that song did not sound terrible. And he passed. like he was done at the end. It still sounded electric. I mean, you're just like, here's this dude just rocking it.

This is unbelievable. The funny thing about that is though. I think that we don't understand is like, you imagine how many times in his life that guy's played that song. Oh, man. Too many. I think that's one of the hardest things about entertainers is to go in front of a crowd

and try and make it look like it's the first time you've ever played or sang this song in your life. When there's parts inside of them, Like I've heard Corb Lund say he's like, if I ever have to play cows around or truck got stuck in front of a live audience, he's like, I hate those songs. He's like, I love him because it made me a lot of money. He's like, but I just, I just hate him. It's like I wish I never would have wrote the cow's song, which is hilarious because it's like one of his trademark songs. But yeah, eventually you're going to get tired of playing him, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever on a side note, well, it's George Thorogood. Have you ever tried one bourbon, one scotch, one beer? uh like no i get well maybe maybe at the odd wedding or whatever but i mean on my brother's maybe in that order maybe not in that order you got to you got to i tell you what you got to try it in that order so on my brother's 40th road trip this is a couple years ago we went to vancouver and back a group of like uh i'm gonna quickly do that i think it was eight guys in a van we drove to vancouver from

Lloyd Minster and back in the course of like four days. Yes, it was that stupid. And on the last night, road trip. That's right. We had a grand old time. And on the last night, we were in, uh, uh, uh, hinton, Alberta. Oh, love him. This little tiny bar walked in and we'd just been listening.

What bar were you? Was it the Timberland? Was it two? Was it woodcutters? I can't remember. I'm not, I'm not even going to say a name because I can't remember. It doesn't matter. All right.

dad used to drive a truck everybody if you go back to his episode you can hear about you know almost losing the farm and things like that and he he talks about listening to george thoroughgood and whatever i'm like oh have you ever tried the one bourbon one scotch and he's like well actually he had the same look at your face actually no i don't think i have so we ordered it i'm not saying it's not for the faint heart but the the the the one bourbon the one scotch and the beer that's all you need all night like you have one of those each and it just warms you up. Yeah, you drink the beer. It calms everything down. You go to bed. You sleep like a just. So was it neat bourbon? Neat bourbon, neat scotch and like a warm

beer? And a beer. We had a cold beer. We had a cold beer. We had everything neat. I'm putting that on the list. I got to put that on the to-do list, man. I'm telling you. I haven't some things you just go, yeah, we've never tried that. Dad's listened to it for how many years and he never tried. it before, right? Like, it's crazy. It's crazy. I, uh, I like, I could sit around and talk about dads forever. Like, man, I've had such a good time with my dad in the last of a while. Um, just super awesome, man. Every day that I get to go out and hang out with that guy and spend time with them and, and just do anything with. I just really started appreciating a lot of that in the last little while, which has been the, one of the coolest things about me being

back home. And the fact that so many people have been looking for BMA and my, videos and the last couple of uploads here, whatever, is just awesome. I love that people love my dad as much as I do. I'm going to, I already asked you about this so we can talk about it here, but this is going back because I actually haven't done it yet. But I'm coming to Tufnal. And the next time I come to Tufnell, which will be soon enough, it's not for QuickDick. It's for Big Mustache Al. And we're going to sit down and have it. We're going to have a conversation me and him because, A, I love doing the archive episodes that there's so much history tied into it. But two, I'm kind of just, I'm kind of interested, like what your dad thinks at this point,

when you can go to pretty much any small town in Western Canada and there's a good chance. There will be a QDM hat, hoodie, you get the point, walking by and everybody knows who Quick Dick is. And saying that, where I'm at currently, every time I say I'm having Quick Dick on, they're like, you're having who on? And I'm like, don't worry about it. I hear you, man. He's a Snapchat guy who made it. in and they're like oh yeah it sounds really interesting i'm like it is really interesting you'll make you laugh it's uh it's it's super it's super weird still even especially now going out into public and stuff like

yeah yeah i was in york in the other day and i was just coming back through from manitoba and i just snuck in i knew i was going to miss the liquor store and foam lake so i was just like i just snuck in grab a couple of boxes of beer and a couple of things on my way home and they keep trucking and like walk in and like a lot of people don't recognize me now because the beard's like slowly coming back or whatever. But like just different hat, sunglasses on, walk in the liquor store, grab a couple boxes, is a great Western, pay for them, come walking out. And I hear from behind me, some young lady be like, hey, have a good weekend, quick dick.

No idea who she was or what's going on. I was like, hey, thanks. I appreciate that. Can I get a picture with you? Sure. Come on over. Can you get a picture with some random stranger that knows you? and then leaves, do you want to, do you want to hear the craziest, are you quicktick story?

Sure. Sure. So I did this show in Maidstone, right? For the, for the kinsmen and Kenettes there in Maidstone. Great time, great turnout. It was absolute blast. That's the first place as QuickTick that I have signed women's breasts, I guess, which was neat. Didn't have any fun with that at all. And then so the next day, I'm moderately hung over, go figure.

And I've got another, it's a swimming pool fundraiser in Maple Creek, but I've got to get to. And that's a pretty good hike from Midstone, you know what I mean? So I'm like, I got to get my ass down there. I'm running behind. Obviously, when I hang out and have some time with my brother. So I bugger off and I'm hauling ass. I get selfed kind of kind ofly.

And I'm doing like 120. I got my go to town truck. And my license plate on my go to town truck is QDM. because why not, right? Why not? So I meet RCMP. I'm like, oh, great. But I look in the mirror,

and they're not stopping and putting cherries on chasing me. So I'm like, well, whatever. I guess I'm fine, right? And then I looked back up and I meet another member of the RCMP. And he cherries right away, wheels around, comes and gets me. I pull over. I got my driver's license ready to go. I realized that I did not print out my registration last time.

I renewed it online. I'm like, oh, yeah, this will go really well. And, like, I'm freshly shaven from the cuts for cancer thing or whatever, right? And this member of the RCMP comes up to my door, and he's like, license and registration, which I had ready to go kind of thing. I handed it to him. He's like, you know, the tint on your windows is illegal. Like, sorry, officer, I guess I didn't know it was 100% illegal, but I know I probably shouldn't

done it. And he looks at my license, which has got me as, Quick Dick with a beard and everything on it. And he looks at my license. And then he looks at me and then he looks at my license and then he looks at me. It's like, I, I know you from somewhere. And I'm like, well, I've got this, like, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, I've got this online character called Quick Dick McPick.

This guy's like, holy shit, you're a quick dick. Okay. You know what? You were going a little fast. Okay. You were going a little fast. Okay. So when you meet one cop, he's like to slow down.

That's all we ever asked, you know, but you were kind of under my threshold. And yeah, you know what? It's an option rate underneath it when you renew it online. You can just print your insurance off at every registration. It's no problem. He's like, I'm, I'm going to write you up a warning for your tint on your windows. Okay. I'm like, that's fair.

officer. No ticket, no nothing comes back. And he's like, you, please keep, keep doing what you're doing. Except this. This isn't going to wind up on the internet. Is it? I was like, well, I can if you want it to. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. But so to that officer. And they say celebrities don't get, get away with things. Hey, that officer, that let me off the hook. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I will never disclose your name. I feel like I've said that, you know, how was going with no beard? A, that was super cool of you to shave it off. Um, thanks, man. You should You should let, in case people don't know, give them the backstory of that just quick. So they understand what you did there.

Because, I mean, if you are watching this, you're going, quick dick, trim his beard. And if you're listening, you have no idea and it doesn't really matter. Yeah. So I came across this last year, the Braden Ottenbray close cuts for cancer fundraiser. Greg and Leon Ottenbray do it at a Yorkton every year. And they actually lost their young boy to a terminal fight with cancer. I believe he was five when he passed away. And they started doing a fundraiser in his memory every year since kind of thing

and where they just get a group of people together. And just the thing is, is it's going to be a head shave and you just do your fundraiser as much as you can. And then you shave your head and kind of thing. They all get together and do it all at once. And for guys like us, man, it's like shaving your heads really. As a dude, it's not that big of a deal. Like, I mean, let's be honest.

It's a bigger deal for a girl. because you know your hair and whatnot is kind of your you know it's your look it's your thing it's what you do and gregg's wife last year leone actually shaved her head which is as far as i'm concerned is so brave for women to to do for guys to shave their head it's great thank you guys but we're just a bunch of ugly bastards anyways and hair grows back really fast right uh but i just knew that there's a lot of people that uh that that were attached to my beard and a lot of people that i'd seen in comments and whatnot that, uh,

that did not like my beard. And I was like, you know what? This be a really good opportunity. I'll shave my head no matter what, but, uh, why don't we just let everybody decide whether I keep the beard or get

rid of the beard kind of thing. So working with us, uh, the cancer foundation of Saskatchewan and Leone and Greg, they actually, they did all the, all the footwork forward of setting up a page where you could donate to the specific URL and you could pick whether you want to me to keep the beard or

shave the beard and whichever one raised the most money won. Um, And we wound up, we wound up racing just over $57,000, just over a couple of YouTube posts and whatnot. And Team Shavit won by just over 10 grand. And there was some big donations from a lot of people. And it was just fantastic.

It's just for a bunch of Canadians that were coming out of a, out of a pandemic and people that maybe don't have that much cash kicking around. There's people that rate from $2 to, you know, $2,000, anybody that donated. Just thank you so much. I've been very fortunate to be able to get into a few different fundraisers. This was a great one and I think it was a lot of fun. And dude,

it felt really good when the beard was gone. Head, beard, gone. It was just super weird. I didn't realize how much I did this with the beard because the first couple of times, like you'd almost like choke yourself because the beard was missing. Because the beard's missing. Yeah.

But it's even weird. You'd like look at your shadow on the ground. You'd be like, who the fuck? Oh, that's me. Yeah, never mind. Well, A, super cool. You know me. I think anytime you do things for your community that's bigger than yourself and certainly doing something that took away one of the things that made Quick Dick, I thought, you know,

like the big beard was just kind of your personality. It just kind of went with everything. I saw that that was super cool. Yeah. But I actually where I was going to. Oh, no, fire. This is a get of this. It's kind of a part of.

I'm such an asshole with a lot of this stuff, but it's the reason like that I, that I did the small town Saskatchen upload. It's the reason that I did the beard thing. I say, like I don't do this for, for a way of life or as a living kind of thing. And when I get people that are like,

you know, oh, nobody's going to follow you or listen to you. You're going to be nobody without your beard kind of thing. Yeah, but that's ridiculous. As soon as somebody says that to me, I'm just like,

I'm shaving my fucking beard. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I like taking people that say that you're going to fail at this or this isn't going to work for you. just like, oh, really? And I'll just jump head first into it.

But you know what I'm getting. It's your hallmark. Your beard was quick dick, right? Like when we met each other, I was like, holy shit, there it is. You could see, I'm like, there's the beat. Like, you know, it was just like, that is you. And where I was going with, you've shaving it off, is you kind of get to do what I get to do.

Now, I'm not, by no means putting myself folks on the same level as Q. But I have been sitting in places where I'm, all I'm doing is talking and somebody will walk by stop, look over and go, are you Sean Newman? And I'll be like, yeah. 100% man. Oh, recognize that voice.

I'm like, wow, that's really weird. I mean, that's really cool, but that's really weird because I don't have a radio voice or whatever. I don't, you know, it's my voice. It's just a matter of opinion, yeah. But as soon as you shaved your beard, you could probably have walked in anywhere. And, you know,

you talk about being in Yorkton and people recognize you. But having no beard, I feel like in no hair, you probably could have walked in. of places and people wouldn't have had any inkling that it was quick dick mcdick. Dude, it was, it was kind of a relief to be honest. And like I'm by no stretch of the imagination, consider myself a big deal. You know that of anybody.

It's a regular guy. Puts my pants on the exact same way everybody else does every day. I put them in a specially crafted stand and jump off the back of the couch into them, just like everybody else. But it was, did you hear Paul Brandt talking? I talked to him before. I interviewed him and I told them something along the lines. And who was that told me?

I think it was Wade Gartner, the guy I rent my office or the studio off of. He's like, oh, he just puts his pants on the same way you do. And I said that Paul Brandt, he just started howling, right? Because he's like, yeah, certainly, right? Anyways, keep going. I've decided no. But that's, I, yeah, I don't know. It's, I don't know if it's a thing that you ever get used to kind of thing of people, you know,

coming up to you and whatnot and it was it was a relief i could just kind of sneak in and out of a few places and i guess i didn't realize you know like how much you get stopped and people want to see you kind of thing uh but at the same time i i i had a chat with a like with a fairly popular radio personality and i was like i was like this is really weird that people stop me all the time and and get pictures and it doesn't make sense to me it's like when you think about it you're part of their family. Like people will get up in the morning and have coffee with their spouse and watch your video on a Monday in their home at their kitchen table.

Subconsciously, they feel like you're there having coffee with them kind of thing. And just like same thing. If a family sits down to watch your upload, we're having supper together. If somebody's drinking in a shop at night and they put quick dick, make dick unlimited on there, all of a sudden you're there drinking beer with them.

So people think subconsciously that you're just kind of part of their family or friendship or whatever kind of and i never ever looked at it that way until she said that to me and i was like you know i've never looked at it that way um but like that being said i'm i'm i'm so humbled and honored every time somebody stops me and just wants a picture with me or wants to say hi or hey quick dick or something like that the fact that people take the time out of their day and their lives to watch what i do or hopefully share laughter with me and whatnot um i don't know imagine something that i would ever get tired of it's it's very very humbly.

Imagine being like, you know, part of people's lives. Imagine being like Don Cherry then or something that's like, you can't go anywhere, you know? You do have to, you do have to go, you got to get on Trudeau's planes and go over to Costa Rica to just get away. I mean, that fanfare is a little different, but you get the point, right?

Like you literally can't go anywhere. I totally get it. And I think everybody that would know me through your podcast would know exactly how I feel about Justin Trudeau. At the same time, go take a break, get away from people or whatever. I agree with nothing. The guy does. I like nothing about the guy.

I mean, we all need to break from our lives sometimes and just kind of is what it is. Dude, I was walking down Main Street, foam lake today because I tried to go for a walk to get out of my house a little bit or whatever. And I went to buy a bag of apples. And three people from Vancouver who are out here visiting their family literally stopped me on the street. And they're like, we're just your biggest fans. and we get a picture with you.

And I can't believe so many people watch me. And I just appreciate everybody that does. It means the world. It's cool, man. It's freaking cool, at least from this side. I don't know. Heck, I'm just, I think it's cool. But I just go back through like the iterations that I've talked to you, you know?

Like, I remember you saying to me a podcast, I don't know if I got enough to say for a podcast, right? and I chuckle about that every time, especially after, you know, like episode zero of me and Quick Dick, I don't record, you know? Like, it's the most ridiculous freaking thing ever. And then, you know, the best podcast we ever had will never be seen. Never be seen. Never. And I can't even bring it up for anyone. Like, it's just not there. Imagine I, you just don't click the button. Oh, man. The two best conversations you and I have ever had will never be seen. We had that one. And then when I was hauling bales and I called you on the phone. Yeah. What a great conversation. Asian, man.

Yeah, yeah. It's been a fun. It's okay. Some things the world doesn't need to see either. 100%. It's cool to have stuff like that too, man. Yeah. It's been a funny, just watching you progress.

Honestly, it's been a cool, cool to see that goal. I wish it was more about you, man. Well, I appreciate that. I just wish it was more in person. So the next time you're visiting your brother. Yeah, what the hell? Yeah, we got to get some in person shit going on here.

I guess it's probably, let's be honest with each. it's going to be the 5th in November but that's fine well actually i think it's going to be before that because for some reason i feel like i'm coming to see big mustache al before then um but just in my and he's never usually far away from toughn well here let's end let's end with this i don't think you've done this one yet so correct me if i'm wrong we do the the the final question brought to by crude master it's had many yes it's not the final five anymore it's the final one or oh it's called it was called it was the final five that it was the final five minutes and it's iterated to make it less confusing because I confuse people on this all the time.

It's going to be the final question brought to you by crewmaster. All right. Here it is. Okay. Heath McDonald's been on the podcast. He said, if you're going to stand behind a cause that you think is right, then stand behind it absolutely.

What's one thing QDM stands behind? I would stand behind the importance of community. And when I see community, I don't mean like just, you know, a community of Topnell. I would say a community of people, even what we're talking in right now to your podcast audience is a community. What I have on my YouTube channel or social media platforms is a community. What I have in Foam Lake is a community. I think that standing behind and or with what you would consider your community is one of the very few things that we're

we have the ability to do very strongly as Canadians. And not just Canadians. You know, there's a lot of people inside of yours and my community that we have going now that are by no means Canadians. They're Australians, New Zealand, maybe they're from Denmark, you know, different places. I think it's very important for communities to stand together and be with each other's causes. But at the same time, it's important for communities to be able to respectfully disagree with each other with each other. and hold each other accountable to your views and to your beliefs.

And I think if there's one thing that I would stand behind would just be to make sure that there's open dialogue within your community of what you have. And I can't say enough about communities of people because that is what is going to take us to where we're headed next. and I feel like I have a very strong community people that are with me that support me, that share my ideas, that share laughter with me. And I think community is just one of the most important things on the planet. Well, Q, as always, it's a ton of fun sitting with you.

And I look forward to November 5th, if nothing else, big mustache out at some point. And certainly getting to shake your hand again, share. a cold beverage and I look forward to it and appreciate you hopping back on. Guy, I'm really looking forward to it as well, Sean. And thanks as always for having me on. It's always great to sit and have a chat with you, man. And I'm not as electric tonight as I usually am, but I'm just kind of hot-shin, breathing shallow. It's crack grips.

Yeah, you know, it's diving over fence for balls. Yeah, take care of yourself. All the best to you and the family and looking forward to the 5th and November, my man. You bet. Thank you, sir.