Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #15

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

222 Minutes hops on to discuss the weeks headlines which include Hockey Canada sex scandal, Deena Hinshaw bonus, Chaco Taco's no more & Tim Horton's caught monitoring you ... so have a free coffee on us. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Welcome to the Tuesday mashup. I am Sean Newman. And I finally am getting to it. I had two show up here on time and then I wasn't ready. And so here we go. So, Tuesday, thanks for being back. The 15th installment, I want to say, 15th, number one, five. It's, we've got a few kind of hidden on, not hidden on the internet, but just where nobody

could find our first four or five or whatever. But this is the 15th one that we've done. Have we, we skipped one? week maybe? I think we missed one week. Yeah, just as we were transitioning a couple things. Yeah, that's right. We spent one week just figuring out what we were going to do and we started putting it on the actual podcasts. Yeah. And then other than that, it's been a weekly gig. Yeah. What did you think of Monday's episode? I'm curious. You had a truck. Yours. Yes, yes, Boyd Anderson. Boyd Anderson. Wow. So that's Sean Newman's podcast that released this morning.

and it was three straight hours where Sean talked for a grand total of about 45 seconds maybe. Maybe. And that guy never even took a breath. The funny thing was, so Sean and I were talking this morning because we had so much stuff to go over. I wanted to touch based on it real quick. And I didn't have a chance to ask him. But when I saw the picture come up in Spotify,

I was going to say, do you know if that guy's a golfer? I have no idea. Because I recognized him from when I used to work at the Willows. Really? yeah yeah and i was like well i mean it was forever ago maybe i could be wrong and then he brings up the willows a half and you know different times and i was like no way okay that is the guy i don't remember anything about him i just the the face struck a cordon in in my mind and made the connection

so did you did he sell you on the largest gold heist ever he didn't really sell me on much of anything in that but Jesus it was so interesting to listen to to have a guy just repeatedly rapid fire go through all of that stuff and have it tie back to five goals

he scored a junior hockey like it's this international cabal that's been going on for centuries and the culminating point was when I was 17 and I had a really good game maybe but but his his theory is

is that the numbers meant more to the other people, and that's why he was allowed in. Yeah, and then I, the point that he really lost me was where he saw the announcement, he was sitting in the Willows Clubhouse, and he saw the announcement about the Malaysian flight disappearing, and he immediately phones a guy that he absolutely ghosted and hasn't talked to in years,

and he says, you did it. And the guy says, yeah, yeah, I did it. Like, if I had made an entire, jet disappear full of people and I got a phone call from somebody that I hadn't talked to in years asking me if I did it. My first response would probably be no. But I think what he's trying to point out maybe, I don't know, I'd love to have Boyd and twos go at it. That'd be interesting is I think he's, you know, if you take a step into that lane, you go, these people are so powerful, they don't, they don't care. And for whatever reason, if you go,

even a step further and you go the numbers add up to what he's trying to sell. That means they really truly believed he was supposed to be a part of it, which is about as wild as it gets to's. And we're sitting here and people are either going, I got through it all and I still don't know what or they're like, what the heck did I miss on Monday? I tell you what, you want to start your Monday with a little bit of a pizzazz three hours of it? Go back to 296. Okay, but it's not that hard to just come up with a bunch of ways that your numbers all come together. I'd started monkeying around with this today because I had the day off. Yeah. And I was like, well, right on 222 is depleted uranium. Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born on August 8th, 1901. He went on to invent the cyclotron. August 8th is the 22nd day of the

year. Do you know what else happened on August 8th? Nixon resigned. And when he did his famous, I'm not a crook speech, how many fingers was he holding up? That's right. Two hands holding up two fingers each two two maybe you stumbled on something to's maybe you need to look into that maybe i am the leader of this great cabal and i don't even know it either way it's what i do on the podcast is i try and bring on as many guests as possible to spur on a little bit of hmm well that was something and uh boy definitely was something it's it's worth checking out for sure but I mean, it's not like you're going to walk away from it and be, you know, like it's, yeah. Tews isn't a fan.

Okay. Well, it's not that I'm not a fan. It's just that it's just really out there. And yeah, you could just smell the crazy coming through the headphones. Well, let's start this sucker. Chaco tacos. You want to talk about craziness? Let's talk about traco tacos are gone for good.

A victim of tough decisions. They were selling too many chaco tacos. You know, we go from how numbers and this and that and that being crazy. This is about the craziest thing I've heard. You're selling too many. It's putting too much supply constraints on our other products. We can't do it anymore. Imagine that.

Your Klondike, what would you do for Klondike bar? Apparently they have these thing called Chaco tacos. I didn't know about this, but I got a U.S. connection. You got, yeah, you probably are well versed in that as well. I literally went chaco taco taco. I'm reading the headline. I'm always like, Chaco tacos.

What about them? I'm like, they're going out. And she's like, they're going out. Chaco tacos are going out. This will be a whole other thing that I've just a butterfly affected on my own family. Anyways, carry on.

So they're waffle cones, ice cream, chocolates and peanuts. And an ice cream bar company can't get enough from those and they're discontinuing them. And so everybody was saying, well, no, I bet you it's just that they wanted to get away from, from, but they wanted to get away from cultural appropriation or accusations of cultural appropriation

because Mexicans are known for their ice cream tacos. And so they just decided to be proactive with it. And then the thing is, is that routers did a fact check on it and said, nope, that's not it at all. And at first you're wondering, you're like, okay, well, maybe they just made some boneheaded business decision or maybe there's something I don't really know about it. But then as soon as it gets fact checked, you're like, okay, well, that means it's true now. because that's the way it goes.

Whenever some crazy thing gets fact-checked, like, oh, well, it's got to be true now because it's part of the message. Well, Troco Tacos. Yep. Yeah. Man 59 charged after Muskego, Lakes, Marina, damaged by Excavator.

I love this. I don't know what the story is. I don't know what the background. They're not releasing any details, but there's just a video. of this guy with an excavator. Destroying. Yeah, just swinging it around and just wrecking this entire building. And it reminded me of this.

When I first heard about it, I thought it was, I don't know, like a. The Netflix documentary. Oh, I never saw it. They did a Netflix documentary on the killer dozer. Oh, no way. Oh, yeah. I thought it was, I thought it was like an urban legend. No, two hours of just like, oh my God.

Oh my God, this is wild. And then video of it and like everything. Like it is a wild story. As soon as I saw the, as soon as I saw the story of the guy tearing down the marina with the excavator, I'm like, this totally reminds me of the dozer. And then I saw underneath it, you had the dozer link. And I'm like, yeah. Yeah.

So I just found out that the dozer thing was real a few days ago. I thought it was an urban legend. But yeah, the dude spent a year and a half plating up here. his bulldozer with he was pissed off because he felt like the powers that be the old families of the town he was in were basically screwing him over and so what he did was he bought an old dozer put it in a shop and for the course of like you know whether it was a year whether he's a year and a half he still played it everything and then went on a rampage destroying all the said families that uh basically uh ostracized him from the town.

And to make it even more ridiculous, it was hooked up with cameras and stuff. So the cops literally couldn't get into it. Like for like, here's a slow moving excavator going around town just smashing buildings. And they couldn't do anything with it. Yeah,

this guy was so fed up with the bullshit government that he was dealing with that finally he just said, screw it, took matters into his own hands, built this absolute tank. They were trying to shoot at it and they couldn't get through because it was all totally bulletproof.

and he welded himself in. The man had no intentions of ever getting out again. He ends up shooting himself. Spoiler alert. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways.

I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things. There was a quote they found in his house afterwards. Can we talk about what? Tuse is going to get a dozer and steal it up. Anyways, side note. How about our government? I'm going to give you a little extra time on our government waste money on stupid shit.

That isn't a headline. That's a Tuesday headline. Let's start with it. It could be a recurring theme. Well, that's the thing. I literally told Tuesday this week. I'm like, how would we just, we just push all the stupid shit in the one headline? We'll start with Dean Hinshaw getting a bonus of $200,000 after getting paid like $500 some thousand through the last year, 2021. So her salary is 363 and change. And she got a bonus of just shy of 228,000, which comes out to just shy of 600 grand. Do you know how much Justin Trudeau makes he here?

How much of 171? So this is just a stupid amount of money. Her monthly bonus was like 19 grand. Like what's the most money that you've ever made in a month? and has it been about $50,000, Sean. Oh, the podcast is booming, didn't you know? Like, I'm just rolling in it. Nice.

You know, got that Rogan money. Going to spend it all on DMT and elk meat. I just want, I just want her job for, you know, like, give me a year. I'll make it rain here, you know, get up on stage. They're perfectly safe and effective. Get your kids done. Oh, there's a kid that died. Oh, wait.

He wasn't actually. Uh, mm-hmm. And get a bonus. for it. Like, stupid shit, our money, our government spends money on. How about seven? Absolutely unreasonable. How about severance packages for retiring mayors, counselors that will cost Ottawa taxpayers 500 grand? Oh, there's a provision in there that says that they get up to six month salary for a transition allowance whenever they quit or decide not to run. What was your severance package when you quit your old job to come podcast and

time. How much of a severance package did you get? Zero dollars to zero because that's what happens when you quit. Yeah. That's what happens. Zero dollars. Unless you work for the government. In which case you get this. But this isn't just them when the conservatives got pretty much swept in 2015. The government paid out millions in severance packages to these guys who'd just been old establishment assholes forever until they finally got booted. And so it's standard across the board. There's multiple levels of government that do this. And it's silly to just say, okay, well, you're quitting your job. Now you're going to make a bunch of extra money on your way out. Yeah, I just don't, I don't understand that part of it. Because if you're quitting,

you're quitting. Last time I tracked quitting. Yeah. But imagine that you are the person in your company who decides how much money you make and under what circumstances. Why wouldn't you put that provision in there. Yeah, that seems just like conflict of interest. Well, it does. It does, doesn't it? It's like six years after Canada became a country, the MPs all voted to start taking the summers off.

Funny how that works. And they're the people who make the decision and we've been doing it ever since. It is. Now Trudeau's in Costa Rica, which is very, very interesting because he keeps going back to places for vacation that don't have extradition. And it just makes me hopeful every time, but maybe it's a one-way ticket. Maybe this time is the time. I know there's one more in here.

There's a whole one. There's like five of them. I know, but do you want to rattle them off? I feel like you, you know, I feel like Ted. At this point, maybe we just rattle them. Does it start with, it ends with Lynn? All right, we start rattle them off. Brandenland, Terry Lynn.

I feel like you're about to start rattling them off like, like Ted. Anyways, carry out. Okay. The airport example. For example, I thought you'd laugh at Ted. You know, the Teddy bag. I didn't quite get the. reference. You know, he's, he's talking about the girl. And he, and, and, and Mark Wahlberg's like,

all right. Oh, I want to start rattling it off. Yeah, if you, if you'd have done a Boston accent or said something about Thunder buddies. Come on. Oh, my God. You're going to make some obscure reference to a movie from 15 years ago. I'm not going to always get it unless it's, unless it's, you're better than this. Step brothers. You're, you're, you're better than this. That's all I'm saying. Okay. Fire away. You got, you got a few, you got a little of time. You got it. You got a couple more. Air transit bailout. Air transit. bailout, which goes through a Crown Corporation, which puts it under a different layer of scrutiny, than it normally would, with other bailouts and stuff that just directly come from the government,

you get hard to believe, but slightly more transparency on it. This one's just a black box. We'll see what actually comes out of it. Deputy police chief in Calgary retired, started collecting his two pensions, was rehired the next day for his $250,000 a year salary. Now he's triple dipping, which technically, okay, so it's not shady because that's the way it's set up.

That's the way their contracts work. They're working within the system. But shady is how those system got created in that way and how they tried to backdoor it. Because, I mean, there's nothing wrong with just saying, hey, this is how it works and this is what we're doing. But they tried to sneak it out and then it accidentally got put into the wrong memo

and that's how everybody found out about it. And somebody whistled blue on it under the condition of anonymity because they're scared of it affecting their career because doing stuff like this doesn't affect your career negatively, telling the public how the money gets spent is what fucks your job up.

Correct. Can we talk about the Rivecan app? You know, the suspicious There's been a whole bunch of people on Twitter noticing this. This hasn't been a news article yet. But they're saying, Why does the Arivecan app? by show hands from our listeners and I can't see any of them.

How many of them think the Rivecan app is just a wonderful piece of human ingenuity? I can't see any of them. Yeah. Think it's wonderful. How many of them think it's worth a five-star review? And how many of them think it's completely normal and reasonable that this app that is one country specific

and has been around for a very short amount of time and is noted for sucking a giant fucking thorn? Before you say the number, I'm going to give the audience a couple seconds here to think of a number in their head. Just think of how many people you think have gone on and rated the arrive can app. Here's your time. All right, twos. Finish the thought.

500,000. Rating compared to 100,000 for Facebook's app. And the overwhelming majority, the average of these 500,000 plus is four and a half stars. Four and a half stars. That seems totally reasonable. Totally reasonable. Yeah, that doesn't smell like something we spent a bunch of money on. You know, they just hired a bunch of people to go and give it a great five-star rating.

You know, like, you talk about, you talk about the stupid shit we spend money on right there. You know what we need to do? We need to get a whole bunch of people paid to go leave a good five-star rating on that. I got to move on from spending money. The spending money thing is just the head scratch. This one, this one will really get the people going, okay? Tim Horton's to offer a free coffee donut to app users involved in a privacy lawsuit. Because you know once you started using their stuff, they were tracking you.

Yeah, this is almost the most quintessentially Canadian article you could possibly imagine. This is invasion of privacy. Tim Hortons, shitty offer to pay out, not an admission of guilt. The only thing it's missing is a moose and equalization payments. The best is the end of the article is like, yeah, we're ready to proceed offering everyone affected a free coffee and a donut. And they valued the coffee at $6.19 and the donut at $2.39. And there was just waiting for a judge to sign off on it.

You can't make this one up. Like I was like, this is something else. Yeah, so definitely go and download that app and give it five stars while you're at it too. Pierre Pollyev is the latest iteration of the long history of the made in Canada populism. And just so I have it sitting here somewhere. I pulled up the definition of populism. I think you had it in there as well. Any time you hear the populism written in the CBC,

it comes off as is like really negative connotation. It's a slur, right? It's always be like, oh, they're the conservatives in their populism viewpoints. And you're like, what is that even mean? Or Ducobor. Well, Manitoban kind of, you know. Anyways, a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by establishment elite groups. Yeah, like, for example, the establishment elite groups that make $600,000 a year or the establishment elite groups that take the summer off to go on vacation to Costa Rica after we spent $12 million fixing up the summer home that they could go on summer vacations at.

or the establishment elite groups that retire and then get hired back the next day so that they can double dip a pension while making their quarter million dollar a year salary. This is not anything that's crazy or the establishment elite group that hires to the tune of $1.7 billion a year, a media establishment to be their cheerleaders and say things like populism is bad. Populism is a good thing. You give me that definition and you tell me, When we look at all this stuff we talk about every week,

how populism can possibly be bad. Am I supposed to say something here? When you read the definition, I go, I feel like what a politician is supposed to do is what the people want, isn't it? Isn't it? Yes, but that's the thing, is that when you look at what the people want,

it's different from what the elites want. Yes, what the establishment wants. Yes, certainly. That's the biggest concern right now is the establishment is holding back doesn't want what the people want. The people want some accountability and transparency and like a whole bunch of simple things.

You know, like maybe listen to what our concerns are. Absolutely. But when the media talks about it, like populism is a way of speaking about politics that pits people against each other by framing us as the true people and them as the evil elites who control everything. Such rhetoric is untrue, but it has the psychological appeal of feeling right. How many fucking examples do you need before you say,

you know what maybe they got something here maybe we're you know if you run into an asshole first thing in the morning you ran into an asshole if you're running to assholes all day long you're the asshole how about should we be naming heat waves like hurricanes oh this is just the happiest news article ever i just saw this after last week when we talked about how they they did the the heat wave warning about when it hit 30 degrees in the summer and then this is their follow-up article again from CTV news. And I think it's a wonderful idea. It would just drastically simplify things.

If we just started naming heat waves after people, right? Because you think like, okay, if it, if it was, if it's really hot, but it hasn't been very hot for like 10 years, you could call it Brittany. And if it's unbelievably hot, you could call it Selma or Scarlet. What if it's, what if it's? it's going to be okay no no no no finish your finish your thought no no i want to you might be just lead me into what i was going to say anyway go well i i want to know what how what it has to do to be kim kudashian hot like that kind of like like you had a set tape that's january weather that's

january weather right there yeah yeah and if it's going to be extremely cold and not hot at all you could just call it hillary with like five ls oh i was going to say jane fonda you know that i that woman. Have you seen that woman right now? 84 years old. She was on some talk show. I can't remember if it was Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon. It doesn't matter. And I'm like, how was that woman in 84?

Like, she looks still pretty good for that age. Obviously, he's had some work done to her. But I feel like she could be a little bit of a cold wave coming through, you know, after her. Oh. Yeah. And like, she's just, she's too crazy on the crazy hot scale. Like, yeah, maybe 50 years. ago she could have got away with it but she's just the crazy state but the hotness no matter how much

you know eventually eventually no matter how many times you patch something over it's going to start looking shabby right and it's only a couple more years before she's just a future on my head in a jar uh poor jane fonda anyways pei i pub uh pulls oh man pei i pub pulls trudeau's photos after barrage of hate filled comments i think i can read it right let's fill the two minutes by saying that five times fast. This is just been the latest of a long line of iterations of people getting mad whenever companies host political events. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's just funny because now the establishment media and the left is mad because it's going against one of their guys. They didn't care when it was Pierre Polyev and Steam Whistle. And Steam Whistle retreated like, immediately came out with a statement despite the fact that they've had Trudeau there before. They've like multiple times. They had Peter McKay.

They had Adam Vaughn. But when Pierre Paulyev's going to be there, they release a statement distancing themselves from it. When Toolshed hosted Trudeau a few weeks ago, they didn't talk about it at all on their social media. And that was the problem with with this brewery and P.I was that they, they were like, hey, look, we had Justin Trudeau here. Yeah. And then people pointed out, they're like, hey, actually, there's a picture of him with his arms around a couple of the waitresses. And he's got his hands like right up underneath, like where if he was to just try and drop his hands, they'd stay there. And then when CBC ran with the story, they put a cropped version of that photo.

Yes. It didn't show that. They literally took his hands out of the picture. And when you look at it, you go, you know who needs to take his hands out of. of the picture before that, Justin himself. Actually, yeah. Yeah, if you haven't seen the picture, the uncroped picture, I mean, is it the end of the world?

No, but when it's the prime minister and he's had allegations of, well, actually, not even allegations, he's paid out money to underage. That never really got substantiated as far as I'm concerned. Really? Yeah, well, the Buffalo Chronicle said they were going to drop some proof on it and they never did and everybody just kind of assumed because they hate Justin Trudeau that is probably right. And he definitely left New Point or West Point Academy or whatever it was under really

suspicious circumstances. But nothing definitive ever came out of it. It's all speculation as far as I know. Well, this whole thing, this whole cancel culture, it's just been going on for so long where like even Stephen Del Dukkah in his disastrous provincial campaign, he's got a picture of himself at a brewery and they blurred out the Coors banquet on the tap because he didn't want to get involved in this. And but it's just the only reason why they're upset is now it's one of their guys, right? Like even the Alberta Federation of Labor has a website that you can go to right now. I saw that.

That is boycottucpdonors.ca. Yeah. So this isn't this isn't the right striking. This isn't them drawing first blood. This is them punching back. this is what I've been talking about for a long time. The only way cancel culture is ever really going to go away is if it's just such a bloodbath everywhere

that everyone finally says, okay, you know what? Enough. Let's just quit. And so I like the fact, I don't really like how far it went, but I like the fact that people are saying, you know what, all right, these are the rules now. I guess that's how we play the game. Federal government post surplus of $5.3 billion

for first two months of 2022-23 fiscal. year. Yeah, you know what the first two months of the fiscal year are for the government of Canada? March and April. Do you know what happens in April? Tax season. So did you see that statistic.com link that I sent you with just the graphs of the quarterly income? I'm now staring at it. Okay. You notice how it's a bump and then three lower ones and a bump and three lower ones and a bump and three lower ones? Yes. the bump is the fiscal Q1, right? Now, I couldn't find anything breaking down month to month,

but the whole point is that this gets not really drawn up as being anything more than, oh, hey, they've got a fiscal surplus in these first two months where they get a vast share of the money they make for the whole year and they got a tiny surplus, but it just gets presented in a vaguely misleading way where they're kind of hoping somebody takes it and runs with it. you mean our government isn't being factually correct and they're

Oh they're being factually correct but they're just saying Why don't you just just look at this tiny little part of the story and don't Don't worry about all the other stuff behind you Airport COVID measures derail Israeli terror survivors trip to Canada's Wonderland they should have somewhere in there that it was kids Because I don't think that says in that right no no well of course you're not going to say it's kids you're going to draw up criticism against this bullshit situation that they're in. I mean, these poor little kids, they survive terror attacks in Israel.

None of them even speak English. They all speak Arabic and Hebrew. And they get flown across the world, which is pretty cool. And then they land in another third world shit hole that is Pearson Airport. And then as if the fucking bombs going off aren't bad enough. Now they got to deal with Canadian bureaucracy. Come on. So anyway, 15 of the 33 kids get pulled.

for random inspection and they spend the whole fucking trip trying to prove the day they don't have pulled it. Niagara Falls and Canada's Wonderland to get an offsite COVID test. Like at this point, if it like if you can't laugh about some of the style, I just don't even know any more twos, right? Like it's just it's absurdity. Everybody at this point knows his absurdity or I believe they do. And you read the story and you're like, imagine being that kid and just be like, what do I

gotta do? Like, what, you know, like, they can't even. Well, they don't even speak English. Well, that's right. I mean. Pulled aside and they're like, they're trying to get into, imagine trying to get into the water park. And they're like, no, no, no, but you don't, you don't speak the language. And then you got to eventually figure out through translators and stuff that you got to spend the next couple days running around Toronto going to laboratories to prove that you don't have a virus that everybody stopped worrying about two years ago. Oh, it's just, again,

this is like Tim Horton's. It's just classic Canadian. This is just, this is just, This is a part of our heritage. This is a part of our heritage. This is a great one. Climate activists glue themselves to a painting, although not exactly because they glued themselves to the glass protecting the painting. And when the guy from video that I've seen, when the guy from the museum comes and just pulls them off, I'm sure he's like, what are these idiots doing?

Like, thank God they're not smart enough to actually glue themselves to this beautiful work of art, right? They just glued themselves to the front of the glass. Anyways, I digress. Activist protesters aren't exactly known for being smart. There was the ones who came up from Brazil a few years ago to Fort Saskatchewan, and they climbed up on a bunch of the production tanks at one of the upgraded facilities there. And then they had to get rescued right away because it was minus 40.

And they hadn't planned on it because they just like, oh, we're coming up from Brazil. Everything's going to be fine. They get there. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. What is one thing you know about Canada in the winter months? I'm just curious.

Maybe a, it's cold. Cold is cold. It's cold. It's like this is coming off of last week. There was somebody who cemented their hand to a road. And you've had a whole bunch of these protesters who just put themselves in really, really compromising places. And for some reason, we keep rescuing them.

And I don't know why. Like honestly, Daniel Smith, you want another common. sense policy to put in your platform. How about this? The protesters can figure it out act, which is the next time that you cement your hand to a road, they just set up a couple cones. And

you know what? If you piss and shit yourself for a few times before you get rescued, well, you're just going to have to sit in it. Who's that? Oh, that's just Bob. Bob glued himself to the road. What's he doing there? Yeah, we'll just put a sign up ahead. Please slow down. Supposedly the glue will undo itself here and like 24, 48 hours.

It'll be fine. I mean, we put a couple cones around them. Did we talk about the guy from Babe? The guy from the old Irish dude. Yeah. You know, that'll do,

Peggy. That'll do it. Yeah. That guy, glued is asked with Starbucks in New York because he was mad that they charged because they charged extra for almond milk. Really?

Yeah, it just happened like a couple months ago. No shit. The old guy from Babe. James Cromwell. James Cromwell's is literally glued himself to a Starbucks. He glued his ass to the counter of a Starbucks because they charged

extra for almond milk. Tell me if that isn't just classic whiny first world problems. I can't believe he even worried about that. I mean, the guy was a legend. Babe was a great movie. Anyways, it's probably still making tons of money for that. The persecution of Tamer Litch

is a national embarrassment. I think we can both agree with that. she got vindicated and is finally out again after being held for however many days yeah like it's just this is I watched part of that trial like at this point I'm a little bit shocked even at how far Canada is willing to go to come across the country you know I had Daniel Bulford on and we talked about it and how far we're willing to go to put Tamara Lynch leach behind bars and have her sit there and like I'm just happy she's out too honestly

I'm very happy she's out I was looking forward to seeing her at the whistle stop on Canada day and then she got jailed so that that was a non-starter but that would have been awesome and it's just nice that vindicated is exactly the right word it's just it's really interesting that we live in a place where this is something that's actually happening yeah you have to remind yourself that because it almost seems surreal uh that that's still going on

you know what i mean like i think yeah this is the kind of thing you expect in liberia or Ghana or mosaic or anywhere but Canada but here we are here we are it's kangaroo court so maybe Australia maybe anyways hats off to Tamara Litch, Leach, wherever she's at, because appreciate her, everything she's done and stood up for and spoken to and everything else. So it's great to hear that she is back out. Here's one that has been a tough one for me to read. Canada's top woman hockey players say there's much to do to clean up toxic behavior. So I got to give a little bit of background on one of the scandals that's going on with hockey Canada right now. Okay. TSN reports that a source contacted

conservative MP John Nader and described a video showing about six players who were with Canada's World Junior team. This is back in 2018 at the time having sex with a woman who was non-responsive and lying face up on a pool table. A woman who was 20 at the time alleges eight unnamed CHL players, including some of the Canada's U-20 men's junior hockey team sexually assaulted her on June 19th, 2018 and she filed the claim for $3.5 million. The statement also goes on to claim alleges the they went to the player's hotel room and engaged in sexual acts. At some point, uh,

the player allowed seven others to enter the room without her knowledge or consent. The statement of the claim said that men brought golf clubs with them knowing it would further frighten and intimidate her. Over several hours, according to the statement of claim, the group of hockey players serve, uh, placed their genitals on her face, slapped her bodics, spit on her, ejaculated on her and engaged in vaginal intercourse while she was too intoxicated to consent. here's this is where if that isn't all bad enough okay twos that isn't all bad enough oh young woman said at some point she was crying and tried to leave the room but was directed

manipulated and intimidated and remaining her claim says um you know me i am a big pusher of hockey love hockey i think it's the greatest sport on the earth i think we have the best best athletes and we do the right thing majority of the time. This is maybe the worst hockey has to offer. Even if half of this is true, the fact there's a video of it,

the fact that they brought, like bringing golf clubs and stuff like that, I'm like, man, that's fucked up. Like that is really fucked up. And then to have a poor girl crying, I mean, fuck, I mean, like I even have to go through it all. And then you top it off with like,

hockey can't sound like, yeah, they probably knew about parts of it, right? And they did, you know, just like so many things that have come before it in sports, not alone just hockey. Instead of just like getting it to the bottom of it immediately, they try and do this little dance where, well, just shuffle it under the rug and nobody will notice. Except that never works. It makes you look horrendous.

It puts a huge black eye on hockey Canada, which I have a lot of time for because, I mean, obviously I love playing hockey and I love what the hockey Canada emblem has meant and some of the tournaments they've played in. When you read this, man, it makes you sick to your stomach. It absolutely makes you sick. And, oh, yeah, there's not really any humor to be found in this, to be honest, but it really makes me wonder why hockey Canada even gets involved. Like if we had a company and there was eight of us and we worked at a company and there was eight of us that did something like this, I mean, never going to happen. But the company wouldn't be involved. And they probably just fire us.

They'd say, okay, well, this isn't a culture fit. And you guys just good luck with the law, but you don't work here anymore. And absolutely fair. but I just I don't understand why hockey Canada would get involved at all because it's not as though it's not like the Sheldon Kennedy thing where it's a coach doing it and you've got that that kind of acting but if it's world juniors if it's world junior hockey players at an event that was put on by hockey Canada or right like the one guy picked her up at a bar yeah but I believe it was talking about And geez, you know what? We're going to have to follow up on this. I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to follow up on this.

And we're going to have lovely listeners who are all over me, most likely, about this. Because I could have swore it talked about how there was a function that was closely participated by Hockey Canada. And that's how a bunch of this got on. Because they got a whole bunch of new stuff coming out saying that hockey Canada events, they'll make sure there's no alcohol, there's strict curfews. There's a whole bunch of things that it said an article that they're going to have to impose moving forward. But that doesn't take away that like what went on and the mentality of, you know, instead of just addressing it and shedding light on it and moving, not moving on, but like, geez, you know, every time you bury a story like this and then it comes up, it is so much worse. Oh, absolutely.

The lucky was dealing with this this week where she tried to spoil. sweeping something under the rug with a guy who got drunk after work with a bunch of co-workers, a cop who tried feeling up a couple of the chicks he worked with and one of them punched him out and then filed for

sexual harassment. And his complaint was like, I don't know, I'm not denying it. I was blackout drunk. And he just got to slap on the wrist. And so I mean, this stuff like just the military, there's so many aspects of this that were coming out like a year ago with Mercedes Stevenson's investigations and stuff

like this. It's this systemic thing where these corporate bodies with no oversight have no real reason to try and do things ethically. It seems to be just rear and its ugly head across so many different things. And instead of just shedding light on it, talking about it and moving on, not moving on, I don't know what the right word is, too, but you get the point. I know what you're saying. We just keep trying to slide it by like nobody else catch on to this and that it doesn't, you know, whatever it is. We'll pay some money and we'll save the corporation or what have you some embarrassment. It's like, no. These guys had budgeted for sexual assault buyouts basically.

Yes. I just imagine like, oh, well, what's this $6.8 million you have as a line out of him here? Oh, that's for when girls get raped. well that is yeah I don't have much to say other than

you know what I can't even defend the point here I'm just gonna I'm gonna move on because I've already said what I'm not to defend it just that I don't know I don't even know what I want to say here

like I'm so tongue tight on this I'm like I'm one of those guys I'm one of those guys when I go back to Harvey Weinstein right now I have all the horrendous stories I remember sitting with my wife at breakfast

one morning after a week wedding and Harvey Weinstein was on the paper and I'm like ah my god it ain't that bad and then I literally read the article and it was like talking about putting a girl in the corner and like jerking off behind her and I was like oh my god never mind I just totally stuck my foot in my mouth I'm an idiot I literally said that within five minutes right like oh these girls are what is it and then I read it and I'm like oh my god and I was saying it all loud to my wife and she was just laughing at me I'm like oh maybe I should And in this one, I'm like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to jump to conclusions. And then the article is like, ah, you can't unread that, unsee that.

Like, this is brutal. And hockey canada needs to do better. It's just as simple as that. Hockey players need to be better. Athletes need to be better. Like, that's a bad stain on the sport that's given so much back to not only my life, but others as well and communities and everything else. That's all I got to say on that because I've been ranting. Italy's, here's your happy moment.

Italy's oldest student graduates again at the age of 98. Yes. So, yeah, he's Italian, but I'm not sure if his name's Italian enough. This guy by the name of Giuseppe Peterno, who's from Palermo, and I've actually been to Palermo, so this is kind of cool. It became Italy's oldest graduate again. He upgraded his, um, his degree in history and philosophy to one of a master's in history and philosophy.

This is a guy who apparently fought for the Axis in World War II, which is kind of alluded to in the article. They don't really make a big deal out of it. But yeah, he's an Italian World War II vet, so there's that. But yeah, he grew up in Sicily, never had enough money to go to university when he was a kid. And now that he's retired, he's just kind of pursuing his passion, which is expanding his mind. and as a guy who likes learning things, I think this is pretty cool.

I tell you what, if I had all the money in the world, the podcast was making Joe Rogan money, I think I'd go there and interview them. If I could have a translator or something long, I think that'd be freaking sweet. Like a 98-year-old still kicking it. Imagine the stories that man has.

Would that not be fascinating? Well, the hand-talking would be probably pretty good, I'm sure, yeah. I mean, a 98-year-old Italian guy, you'd have the boisterousness combating the arthritis. I don't know if you'd be dexterous or just medium or, you know, if they cancel out or what the deal was. But yeah, actually, you know what?

Now that you mention it, like, if you just had fuck you money, wouldn't it be cool that just every time a cool news article like this comes up? Where we go. Can you imagine Tews and Sean on the road? Every time there's a happy, a happy story, it's like,

well, you want to go to Tuscany? Yes, I do. All right. Where we go, private jet. And just literally film the entire thing.

thing, interview a guy, and then just carry on to the next one, you know? Think of the happy stories we've had over 15 weeks. Like you have a lot of good ones. Yeah, you'd have, you'd have the boy who they found, uh, uh, naked in the tunnel. Thank you. The sewer. Right.

He would, that'd be an interesting account of what went on there and how happy and elated he was to get, you know, found. You'd have, you'd have this one. You'd have, didn't we have a parachute who was like 105 years old? Am I, I, I can't remember exactly how old she was. I think, I'd tell you what. But yeah, the Scandinavian lady. The happy moments would make one hell of a podcast,

although one of them was like the highest cribbage score ever wasn't it? And I don't know how long of a podcast I could be. But hey, that's me. That would have been fun. That's probably my favorite one. That was the first one we did. But I don't know, maybe just small town Saskatch. I thought the highest court crib was pretty good.

But that would be great. We could fly private. So we wouldn't have to deal with that arrived can app at five stars either. that's right well twos appreciate you uh you doing uh well hopping on hopping you know doing this again week 15 uh how's august going for you anyways august is here july just passed like it that flew by july did fly by that was great i had a really good july and august i mean it's only a few hours old so the jury's out but we'll see hopefully i get some nice weather okay well we'll get a heat wave that we could name twos well i have it's it's it's

Like what? Yeah, go for it. Go for it. 22 degrees Celsius weekend. It's Tuesday weekend. It's a Tuesday wave. Yeah. No?

Something like that. I don't know. Maybe it'll hit 222 degrees Kelvin or something in the winter. Okay. That's all we got for you this week, folks. We'll catch up to you next Tuesday for sure. And until then, Tuesday, you know, whatever. Enjoy the lake or whatever you're doing on that side.

All right. Sounds good, man. See it.