Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #16

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

222 minutes is back on to discuss the week's headlines which include lemonade stands, tyre extinguishers (not a spelling error), Leela Aheer literally fighting a bull & cannabis. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Well, welcome to the Tuesday mashup week 16. I'm back in the studio twos, which means boxhead is officially back if you're on on Spotify. I'm putting it back on today, baby. I got time. I'm going to box it all up with a nice twos logo. It's going to be perfect. I'm so happy Tuesday's is back.

You finally got a haircut and that's why we're video right now. Feeling like a million dollars, buddy. You better get to change. All right. Well, let's start this thing off. Everybody knows the drill by now. So let's go here. Let's start the timer. And we'll kick off with many federal government employees balking at returning to the office. They're the complete opposite of me. I was excited to get back in the office. They don't want to go back. What's your thoughts, T's? I think they're lazy and entitled. So, you know, it's funny. I was following. I was driving a day and wife was driving a day. Put my hands in the big guy and let her drive. I'm kidding.

She's a good driver. Anyways, I was reading some of your two. How many people you would let go every single day if you became, what was it, premier or was it prime minister? 22 every single day. That's what you'd do.

That's what you'd impose on the people that don't want to come back to work. Well, think about it this way. Okay, 222 times 365 times four years. is 324,120. That's not much more than what our public sector is grown by in the last three, four years anyway. That would just be getting it down to like 2018 levels, really. If you fired 222 people in our government every single day,

you wouldn't even be making much of a noticeable difference. That's how bad it's gotten. fair so you would uh you'd have two as prime minister would have his slogan 222 every single day four years let's go yeah i call it bill c 22 or c22 yeah like what would you do first day i'd start fucking firing people trudeau insults emancipation day by giving pass to slave labor Well, I mean, it's classic Trudeau where there's sets of rules that he makes and has no intention of following them himself. So industry personal protective equipment, which sounds a lot like masks for the COVID pandemic, is made by this supermax, oh gloves, sorry, Supermax medical gloves are alleged to be made by slave labor in Malaysia.

Malaysian slave labor, this guy is just Zoolander every time it comes up. He can't get it. You know, I keep waiting for one of these weeks, you know, week 16 where we don't talk about Trudeau. Won't that be something? I wonder if the show will just fall apart if Trudeau doesn't have a headline come up. You think that gets possible? Let's, I don't know. Let's see if we could do one.

Maybe next week or maybe there's going to be a big bombshell that we just have to talk about. But that's something to definitely think about. That's a challenge, wouldn't it? Like, I mean, I just feel like, I don't know. At this point, he says one thing and you know he believes the office. opposite. Like, you know he's doing the opposite. It's just everything. Everything he does. He says one thing. He goes the other way. He gets off the planet in Costa Rica. He's not wearing a mask, despite the fact that you've got to wear them in Canada. And I mean, if it's safe, it should be no

less safe in Costa Rica, right? But it's one set of rules for everybody, one set of rules for everybody else. He's just, okay, we're getting slavery, but it's okay if it's just abiding by the rules over there, too. I mean, Costa Rica has a new prime minister now. He's pretty much pulled back or is pulling back everything that got put in during COVID. I mean, you don't have to, you know. But no one says it's voluntary. No one's making you not wear a mask. You can wear a mask if you want.

That's the thing. Like from my side, it's always just been like, okay, well, look, if that makes you feel more comfortable, go for it. We're like eight of them. I don't care. Just don't tell me what to do. Don't tread on me. Don't tread on me.

There you go. South Asian men dominate the gang list. I this is just peak CBC where they do a a public safety warning about 11 men who are tied to gang violence and all but two of them are visibly South Asian, which is now apparently the politically correct way to say that they're East Indian because you can't just say someone's Indian anymore. You've got to say South Asian. And I wonder if that's to try and distance them from Russia so that they could still be racist against Russia's. Russians who are technically Asian when you think about it, like all this anti-Russia stuff, it's Asian racism.

You imagine, I'm just chuckling here. Can you imagine sitting in the CBC newsroom going, okay, how can we say this without offending everyone? Yeah, well, like they probably have like a big,

you know, like a big chart of like, no, we can't, if we do that, this, okay, we're narrowing.

Like a big flow chart. chart. That's right. Like it's just giant at this point. Oh, it's just a big tangled mess. And I'm pretty sure that one of the best ways to do it is it just to ask one of the people they're interviewing if maybe it's bad for the public image to point out the fact that they're South Asian. Right. It just that's, you should be worrying about whether or not they're going to be shooting people or stabbing them or, you know, breaking in and things like that. Not. I'm not wondering if you're going to offend people of that same nationality. There's there's some pretty, there's been some pretty jerkish Germans in world history, believe it or not. And no one ever asks us if we're offended when people talk about Adolf Hitler. I got nothing. I want to move on to the next one already anyways.

All I could see is 30 plus SUV tires, deflated as protesters threatened to escalate action in Vancouver. This is maybe, I don't know. I actually, you know what? It's funny. We drive a Toyota Rav4. And I'm like, is that a

SUV? Is that an SUV? And I'm like, it has to be an SUV. But I'm like, I got to look it up because now I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's an SUV. Oh, I'm one of of the rich elite bastards who's destroying the planet, I guess. Just another thing to tack on to me.

Yeah, I've had the same SUV for 10 years. The tire extinguishers. Yes. Tire extinguishers. Tire with a Y. With a why. And they actually on their website, they have a little pamphlet that you can print out.

They want people to put underneath the wind on the wind screens of cars. Have you seen? Have you seen their, and they also have a YouTube channel where they show you how to, yeah, how they show you how to deflate a. tire. And I'm like, you know, the world just, just baffles me, just baffles me. But hey, they're trying to save it. So therefore, we'll probably give him a pass on everything because they're

just doing whatever. Minus the guy who walked around at Canada's Wonderland stabbing tires and got up to like 18 vehicles before they finally caught him. That guy probably wasn't the smartest. Well, he's definitely not. But the, it's funny. So he got charged with. mischief under five, he got charged with 18 separate counts of mischief under $5,000. Yeah. Right. And if you think about it, Tamara Litch, who got charged with mischief, but not mischief under $5,000.

And you think, if you think about the inconvenience that she caused, the individual people, I'm sure you could just make a case where you'd say, okay, well, you know what? If we're going to, if we're going to follow the same logic that this Canada's Wonderland guy is under here, you would just charge Tamara with like 200,000. counts of mischief under $5,000. I don't know. How many people are in Ottawa, I don't know,

a million, a million counts of mystery funder $5,000. Under five. Like, the crazy thing is the story, like if you dig into it, it's like, it just is in Canada.

Like, they're talking about one of the Fox News reports. They did 40 of them in New York. Yeah. San Francisco. It's all over the place. Deflating all the tires of SUVs. Because you've dirty.

bastards are destroying the planet. I'm like my ass. Maybe that's what Tom Brady was doing when he won the Super Bowl. He was just trying to save the planet by deflating that football. I mean, oh man,

nearly four years after cannabis is legalized, mandatory review of the law is months overdue. Everybody's smoking the good stuff doesn't want to take a look at the law. Well, I think it's safe to say that the law, law is here to stay or the lack of law, although, I mean, the government did monopolize legal marijuana use when it happened. And I'm not, I don't know, I'm not an expert with any of

this stuff as we get into it. I'm definitely from the outside looking in. But the funny, a couple of funny things, one of them being that they set their own mandate and said, we're going to look at this in three years and it's been four and counting. And so Brian Pacific Liam just just wrote this article. But the big takeaway from this that I saw was it took until the second quarter of 2020 for legal cannabis to outpace the black market, statistics Canada said, with legal sales accounting for 55, 50.5% of Canada's household cannabis dollar. It took them three years, three and a half years to finally get to a point where there was more legal marijuana of being smoked than illegal stuff.

And this is just classic government. Again, like, we made it. So we're the only people allowed to do this. And if you do it the other way, you could go to jail. And people are like, yeah, but you guys really suck at this. So we're still going to buy it from a guy in an alley. Yeah.

I got nothing. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, looking at the two's box head. folks. I'm feeling pretty good on this side. Health Canada recalls DeWalt saws over a laceration hazard. Yes. So they recall, they recalled a bunch of sliding miters saws, which are the nice ones, by the way. And they're DeWalt, so it's generally, yeah. DeWaltz a good. Yeah, absolutely. It's not DeWalt, though. And so. You went to Princess Otto, didn't you? No, no. Somewhere in the middle. I didn't get the power fist.

I went up a couple levels from that. You went to Sears. That's right. Back when Sears was still a thing. Actually, it's kind of old. I bought it off Kijiji. It might have been bought at Sears when I first got it. So, yeah, apparently mitersaws are a laceration hazard. Go figure.

Go figure. But also apparently these, there's a safety guard that has a habit of breaking on it. And apparently somehow it can cause people to cut themselves. I don't know if people are like, ooh, the guards off, so it must be safe to touch that thing. Right? But, yeah, apparently some people are getting cut off. According to the recall notice,

oh, yeah. According to the recall notice issued Thursday, the company has received a total of 571 reports of the rear guard assembly breaking and exposing the sawblade, posing a laceration risk. You think if people listen to Vairs or anything like that, maybe we'd have a recall on something else.

Oh. Just saying. Just saying. Anyways. UCP leadership candidate saves man from raging, a rampaging bull. Did you see this video? Yeah, I did. I'm the one who sent it to you, Sean. Holy done. This is great. I love this story. I love this story. I'm more talking to the audience at this point, too. If you haven't seen Lila here jump in, well, push in front of a bull. while the person is just getting absolutely mangled. This is a wild. Like I literally had to watch this about 25 times going, what on earth is going on?

And then realizing it's her standing there trying to push the bull off. Wild story. Yeah. So this is one of the UCP candidates. Yes. I should have mentioned that. Yes. Well, I don't think we should give her much free publicity.

I mean, she's ducking out on your thing. So screw her, right? Well, I don't know. by the time this airs, it'll have just finished. So for people who don't know what the heck twos is talking about, yesterday night did an hopefully successful leadership candidate roundtable with five of them, Smith, Gene, Taves, Lowen, and Schultz, okay? Which leaves out two, one of them being really here.

Now, what I don't know is why she chose not to come to Vermilion. I understand the constituency invited everyone. So it's a good question. I don't know why. maybe she was in front of bulls doing what she does. Like maybe she's like, I just don't need to get in that ring. I don't know.

Well, I mean, if she's willing to get into a ring with a bull, it's probably not a fear of Brian Jean. Because apparently, you know, like he said on your show there last week, that story was made up.

But, uh, I mean, Vermillion isn't going to be a big, she's not going to get a lot of votes in Vermillion. This is a woman who was selling tickets at the Trudeau pancake breakfast. you know i i i always wonder if she's trying to draw yeah well i i i i'm pausing the timer for just a second i don't know who i've ever done this before but since we're talking oh oh geez

i'm going to pause it for a second because i'm at eight minutes and i want to just have a thought what i don't understand is like a leadership candidate going looking at it and going i'm probably not going to pick up any votes there and what the hell are you doing going in a candidate race in the beginning i look at it and go like if you come here and can't talk to the different constituencies, people who if you are elected, you will represent. I mean, what is the point of running in the leadership debate? That's just my thought.

You've talked about it a fair bit, but there's a strong urban world divide in this province, in this country, in the world right now. And I'm guessing that her strategy is to appeal much more to the urban voters. And so she's now going to be, and this is all just conjecture, right? Yes, yeah.

But I'm guessing she's in a place right now where she's going to have to decide, do I go to this rural area and speak to them and either be honest with them and get eviscerated or lie to them and may get held accountable for it later? Right? It's a no one situation.

The same reason why Polyev ducked out of the Western Canada. Yeah, but see, Poliev has things. things to lose. When you talk about Pullia, I'm like, there's a guy who's right at the very top. So people are going to try and pull things, right? Like, if Daniel Smith wasn't coming, because she sits right at the top of the heap, right? Her gene, what's the other? Taves, I think, is up there, right? I think there's three of them right now. I don't know. Maybe, maybe it's personal opinion, but I feel like Taze probably isn't anywhere near the top of contending there.

Okay, but you get the point. It's like, if one of, if she wasn't coming, coming, I'd be like, oh, that's really interesting. It'd probably hurt her more than help her to not come. I mean, like, coming helps her because people want to hear her talk out in this area. But if she didn't, because she's like, all I got to do is just zip my lip for the next three weeks and I won an election, maybe there'd be something there. But I don't feel like that's the case. Like, with, oh, here, like, if you don't come, you're not winning anything.

If you come, the biggest risk you run is you get pulled into something. something that you couldn't have predicted and you get a little bit of pie on your face. But you're already getting pie on your face by not coming because nobody hears you and you're not winning jack shit. The goal is to win in order to win this in Alberta. We're not in Ontario. We're in Alberta where you know as big as the rural urban divide is, there's still a ton of constituencies that have an urban or a rural tie. Do they not? Yeah, but none of them are in Calgary and Edmonton. I mean, look at the projections right now. Some of them with Smith have a couple of writings in Edmonton and a toss-up. And other than that, it looks like it's

going to be an NDP landslide in Edmonton. Yeah, but that's Emmington. That's half of the big cities in Alberta, Sean. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay. Time are back on. Timer back on. Okay. I'm glad I'll say this. Me and you were talking about this before for the listener. if seven candidates had actually come last night. And I really hope here's some good vibes into the, you know, we're recording this early folks, as you can imagine, because I'm going to have my head falling off.

You're basically putting on like time traveler tenses in there right now. I know. Okay. So if there's. So tomorrow when we'll have already talked about this. If seven had shown up, the candidate roundtable wouldn't have been possible. With five,

I think it's going to be extremely. difficult to navigate. You know, we're not talking about three people who don't want to talk. We're talking about five politicians that are going to want to talk. And trying to control that in an hour time frame is going to be extremely interesting, I'll say. If it had been seven, there would have been no point in doing it. You would have had to run a full debate. And I'm, you know me, I don't want a debate. A debate can be in a conversation style in my opinion. And we'll see. We'll see how it turns out. We'll see what the listener thinks. I think you're probably going to have to coach him ahead of time first.

Be like, look, guys, you know, just kind of huddle up beforehand. You give them the pregame locker room speech. Just be like, guys, we need to keep it tight. We need to keep it fast. Okay, I'm looking at you, Todd. You need to step it up a little bit. Everybody else is pretty good, but we just need to remind you guys that this is what we need. But Todd, eyes here.

Eyes here, Todd. You got to keep it moving, buddy. You know, back in hockey, we used to have in college, we, you get a new drill. And it would never fail. You'd always have a decay, a drill killer. Brian, why are you, come on, Brian. You decay and again, the drill killer, right? You get through one successful lap and he's like, he's off and la la, la.

That's what you're, that's what you're worried about tomorrow. All right. All right. Not joking aside. Back timer, click. Here we go. All right. Let's move on.

Liberals ban handgun imports because democracy or something. I feel like that's a nice two's headline myself. That's a two's headline. I wrote that myself. You can use it. It's free. I'm not going to charge you. But what happened was,

was that when the liberals announced that they were going to ban handguns in a few months, once the legislation passed, everybody understandably said, well, shit, the window's closing. If I ever want to own a handgun, I need to do it in the next few months.

and they went up like 900% in sales. I imagine Profit River has been talking to you about it a little bit. Well, as soon as there's a squeeze, I mean, Western Standard literally said they would, they would, we're going to help our employees do this, right? Like, the Western Standard said that?

Yeah. They were going to pay for them. Yeah, they were going to pay for, didn't we talk about this? Maybe we didn't. They were literally going to help their employees, like basically purchase weapons

good for them I mean you know some people like gym memberships as far as company benefits go I would totally take handguns oh man I'm but but yeah

so anyway it went through the roof and everybody was in I think and so they said well fuck this is so surprising to us we're shocked by this we need to shut it down somehow and so they got

and people were wondering why Melanie Jolie was involved in this because his foreign fucking up minister, she had the say to ban specific imports and exports. And she said if they're itty bitty guns, you can't fucking bring them. And so that's why she was involved in the announcement. And so this is them, I mean, credit to them.

It's thinking outside the box. But I'm sure they just got a room full of people. And it was like that scene in Apollo 13 where they had to get the filter together. And they're like, so we fucked up. And we need to shut the. This whole thing down. Here's our toolbox.

Here's what we can use. What's going to work? You think they said itty-bitty handguns? No. They said big, scary fucking. Yeah, I'm sure they fearmonger even of themselves. Montreal. No, Union wants, we'll get to the Montreal police here in a second.

Union wants 11.7% raise for Ontario educators, workers, and bargaining proposal. Yes, they do. Isn't it funny how unions always want a little bit more and they're complaining about the rate of inflation? And these are the same unions that publicly endorse the liberals, the ones who outwardly said, I don't know if you remember when Uniform Jerry Diaz back before it was exposed that he was a disgraceful charlatan had said that he was going to personally fight against the conservative government, these people who, not that the conservators really that different,

but the point is, is that they're the people who propped up the people in charge, and now they're mad that things are getting so expensive, and they need a big raise because of it. And elections have consequences. You see, shoot, and I saw, it's funny, I never read the paper. I get home, and I had two papers sitting on the,

You know, anyways. So I pulled out and I'm like, well, I'll sit down and see what's been going on locally. The Alberta government is giving a whole bunch of money to schools because of inflation. Literally like $100 million or whatever it is. It's a huge chunk of change to all the schools to be divided up, obviously. But I think in Lloyd alone, it's big numbers, like $100,000 to the public school division and $85,000, roughly $87,000. I think the number was to the Catholic. school division because of inflation. At what point are we going to say that having unions with so much secrecy around them

is getting too damn expensive and that it's not in our best interest? Honestly, there's a decent conversation we made, definitely not in two minutes, but there's a good question to ask as to whether public sector employees should be able to vote. And it's interesting. I don't know. Maybe next time we do a long form thing. We'll talk about that.

But it's definitely got some, it's a conversation worth having, even if, even if you don't get to any particular answer. It's something to think about. Yeah, because it's kind of conflict of interest is what you're saying. It is. It's basically, it's using your political appointment, which in this case is a voter, to further your own personal agenda at the expense of taxpayers. That is an interesting thought. I tell you what, the next time we chew into something, like dig into it. Let's let's think about that one. Who knows? Maybe when Quick Dick, you got to hear quick tick. Oh, I already heard it. I know, I know. But maybe in November when he comes, we'll do a roundtable and, uh, sink. Talk about education reform? Why not? Well, I mean,

I literally just talked like half this stuff me and you talk about in general is shooting the shit. It's an interesting thought. It's an interesting thought. Let's finish here. Okay. It's a little bit of happy and ugly all at the same time because it revolves around the same bloody thing, sort of. Montreal, here's your two headlines. Montreal police allegedly threatened to shut down kids' lemonade stand and arrest mother. That's the first one, okay? The second is kids' lemonade stand raises 3,500 for St. Jude. That's your happy, or you're bad and you're happy, mixed into one, both around lemonade stands.

I just want to say, my kids got to do a lemonade stand this summer, this spring, and it was phenomenal, like the support they received. And how crazy it is that people drive by literally stop coming back and, and be like, here's money. So for anyone to try. Did you guys move over to get a little bit more traffic or did you stay right on where you're at?

We're right on a busy car. Like we're, we're in a nice spot. Yeah, but if you moved over one more block, you'd have gotten all kinds of traffic too. True. It was pretty cool. All I'm saying is the fact that cops showed up

and maybe uttered like you're in a wheelchair, you think he's going to get special treatment. Like I laugh. like it's most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard. There are a bunch of kids that were raising money for what was it to? I'm going to pull it up again.

It was for multiple sclerosis. So their mom's in a wheelchair. Their mom's in a wheelchair and they were raising money for multiple sclerosis. And they had a megaphone that they were trying to use to convince people to come in. And some old prick living down the street came over. Yep.

And then he tried to do that. And then the mom said, well, just give me a fine. and I'll pay it. You know, just when you, when you look right down the barrel of that gun and say, all right, well, pull the trigger. And then, and then they said,

you think because you're in a wheelchair, you're above the law, allegedly. So anyway, like, can you just imagine a bad name? This is it right there. I mean, this woman's in a wheelchair. She's got multiple sclerosis, and she was probably so mad she was shaking.

Like this entire thing. Oh, Can we like, I'm not making light of the situation because I think it's so utterly stupid. Like, like, I mean, come on. Anyways, I'm just, anyways, here's, here's the half. In a perfect world, you'd find that, that other guy for being an asshole. But this is Montreal. I mean, you know, entrepreneurial kids trying to make their own way in the world and try and

help people out, I'm surprised they didn't bring the horses in. I mean, the woman's in a wheelchair already. That's kind of their gig. Oh, man. Happy news. $3,500 raised by a lemonade stand that's been going over a decade. Like, that's pretty cool. And also being raised for a cause, which is super cool.

Our kids did not raise for a cause. I got to put that out there, right? It was just super cool to see them interact with customers. These people, multiple sclerosis, and then the last one raises. Children's hospital. Yeah, the children's hospital, right, St. Jude. Right? That's pretty cool.

It's funny. They always say their children's hospitals, but they don't ever employ any children. Are you? I feel like you're going right to Zoolander anyways. How do they get in the hospital? What is this? A center for ants? Anyway, yeah, this is, this is good.

They raised $3,515, and that's U.S. That's like eight grand Canadian. Oh, man. I mean, how much were they selling the lemonade for? Like, I kind of want to look at their balance sheet. Dude, I, uh, uh, we just did it. We just interacted with a, uh, a lemonade stand here on the, on the road trip back. And literally, um, kids were selling lemonade for like 50 cents, but I'm like, man,

here's five bucks. Like, yeah, there's always that. Super cool what you're doing. And I know, I saw it firsthand. Kids are like 50 cents for lemonade. They're all pumped both quarters and stuff. Don't get me wrong. If people hold them to that, I'm all for it.

But so many people are like, man, here's two bucks. Here's, with inflation, here's 20 bucks. You guys are awesome. And you're like, oh, this is, this is, this got a while, but super cool. Kids loved it. Parents loved it. Who am I kidding? Regardless, that's a wrap for another week, twos.

I do, well, I don't know. I'm just happy to be back in this place. And, yeah, it's nice to see the background again. And the box head, whoop. And the hair cut it? I'm feeling pretty good. I got to get one of my own. I mean, life is, life.

Oh, shoot. I was going to say life handed me lemons as far as my hair goes, but I have wonderful hair. I just wanted to tie it back to the last thing. But yeah, I do need to get it trimmed up a little bit. It's probably sticking out the sides of the box head right now. Okay, well, next week, Monday night, we will be back on. There won't be any conservative debates going on.

We'll be able to know full well if I bombed it. or if it was fantastic. Who knows? Maybe I hear dodged a bullet by not coming. Who knows? I think it's going to be fun. I'm looking forward to seeing it. I'm not going to be there,

but I'm going to be checking it out online because it's live streaming, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, actually, why am I trying to plug it? You're trying to plug it, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It already happened.

We're doing the same. Oh, this time travel verb tense thing is getting difficult. All right, buddy. Yeah, we'll talk to you later, Big Cat.