Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #17

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

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Welcome to the Tuesday mashup. We're doing this a little different. I'm sure there's a few people woke up this morning going, gentlemen, where is my Tuesday mashup? Well, Tews is in studio. He's on a, he's gallivanting across the west. So we found a way to do it Tuesday morning. So it's cool to see you in studio, sir. It's great to be back. Yeah, it's quarter to six right now. So this is going to be uploaded like as soon as we're done. That's right. And I thought, I was saying a two, is what we should do because we both of us get text from back and forth, uh, from listeners. And, uh, you know, of course, I can't find the one that just pops out of my head and twos laughing at me. He's like, you want to do this. You want to do this. And then of course I get here and I got, I got one. Hey, I got one. But what I want to do at the start of them is if you like what we're

doing in the show notes, uh, there's a number on the Sean Newman podcast. That is, um, if you want to text me and love or hate the show. It's cool. We'll read it off at the start because I think it's cool to interact with the listeners. And a lot of you seem to think what we're doing here is either the dumbest thing you've ever heard or the greatest thing or maybe somewhere in between. I want to hear the ones from people who say it's dumb. That'll be fun. I'll let twos read those off.

Well, the first one I got was from a lady and she just said, I finally listened to the Tuesday mashup and she's been texting for quite some time. and she says I and capital letters love it. So, hey, thanks. Yeah, I think it's cool that people are reaching out. I didn't think, you never know when you start something up like this, what it's going to do. Well, that was kind of the fun of it right at the very start. And I mean, it's still going on like that where you're just like, I have no idea what this is going to look like.

We don't really know what direction it's going to go in, but let's just wing it and see what happened. Dustin told me yesterday, I literally only listened to one episode a week. you and it's the Tuesday matchup. I'm like, wow, okay, thanks for that, you know. So, yeah, it's apparently drawing attrition from your other stuff. I guess so. I guess so. You can't be afraid to cannibalize your own product, right? Kodak invented the digital camera in like 1974 and they shelved it because they didn't want it to interfere with their sales of old style, actual, like developing film. And then now look at them. Yeah, now look at them is right. Yes.

Before we start, I'm curious. Last Tuesday, we were sitting talking on a Sunday before I did the Monday night roundtable. What did you think of the roundtable? Did it change your mind on any of the candidates? No. No. No. I really like the fact that Todd, everybody in the round table had the same things to say about how we're not going to support lockdowns

and we're not going to mandate things on children. And at this point, taking that stance costs you nothing. And because it costs you nothing, it's also meaningless, right? It's, yeah, we all think the same thing, big deal, right? But Todd was one of the few people who, at great professional sacrifice, was willing to stand up for what he believed was right and what was a fair and accurate representation of his constituents. wishes. And I think that really sets them apart in the crowd. So that's my take on it personally.

I thought it was great. Just how it all came together. That was pretty cool. I was chuckling to myself because on the Tuesday matchup last week, we kind of, I kind of poke fun at Todd and I'm like, you know, the only person I'm worried about on stage is Todd because he doesn't have much to say. I'm paraphrasing, right? But he just, I was referring to the first UCP debate. and I thought, and I think the crowd in Vermillion that night, said the exact, like I got it told to me probably three, four times was Todd Lohen came to play tonight. And I was like, I was very impressed with Todd. I got to run into him at the debate in Calgary on Tuesday night.

And of course he wasn't a part of that one. And yeah, he really stuck it to Travis Taves several times, actually him and Rebecca Schultz about basically, well, that's not what you're saying, you know. And I was, hats off to him because that's what I was hoping. Not that I don't want to be the guy that has to bring, you know, as a moderator, I don't want to, I want the candidates to interact. You know, I don't want to be the one interacting. Yep. And I thought he did a good job of like, wait a second, what are you saying now?

Well, the thing about Travis Taze is that he kind of represents everything that the UCP has been so far in its first few years of. of being a party. And so I guess if you think that Jason Kenney was awesome and everything they did was great, he'd be the guy to vote for it, right? But if you have some criticism... Did you see Jason Kenney's come out criticizing Daniel Smith now? Yeah.

I mean... You want to talk about an in thing to do? Just hop on a stool and criticize Daniel Smith. I feel like Monday night, it was a thing that everybody attacked her. I think that shows where she is at currently in the standings. but regardless, that was the thing that night. And then Jason Kenney gets up on his stool because nobody really gives a shit about Jason Kenney anymore.

And he says, this thing, this sovereignty act, stupid. Well, I can kind of see where he's coming from. Just let me finish the thought. Really? No, no, no, let me finish the thought. Okay. Where in terms of you've got somebody who comes in and they say, you know, he's just been waffling on everything in

Confederation since he took power. And then someone comes in and says, well, you know what? If they have a shitty idea that's going to hurt us, we're just not going to do it. And he's like, well, obviously, jerk, right? I mean, of course he's going to be like someone comes in with a fairly simple idea that's going to solve the problem that he's been bombasting about for years. Of course he's going to come out fighting it. Here I thought, folks, he was going to actually stand behind Jason.

Danny, you know, I caught some flack for, for standing up for Trudeau's flight plan. And I got, I ate some shit on that one. I had the old foot in the mouth, so to speak. Anyways, I thought for a second, you're going to, anyways. You know, before, one more thing before we get going, though, we've got a correction to make. Oh. Yeah. So I had said last week that if I was going to be prime minister, I would fire 222 people every day.

And that would come out to 324,120, 120 people. and that would bring us back to like 2018 levels. Sure. Yeah, well, it turns out it was way off in the numbers, so I just need to set the record straight. Okay, let's set the record straight. Okay, since January of 2020, we have hired on 366,800 public servants in Canada.

So even if whoever's in charge, if they want to take this idea and run with it, Pierre Pollyev, if you're listening, if you fire 222 people every single day, for four straight years, you're not even keeping up with the people coming in the door. Because that's two and a half years, and they hired 40,000 more.

I'd really like to, when we, you know, we're up against the clock this morning because twos has to get to work, right, folks? So, but I'd like to, like, put a pin in that thought. Not about just firing everybody. But the idea of, like, as government grows bigger and bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger. Where does that lead us to?

Moldova. Because I think that right there, when we talk about, is it against their interest, do they get a vote? Because obviously they're going to vote for more government, whatever. Like that's, it's like, where does that lead? Anyways, I want to pin that thought because I think that would be interesting to explore. That's just all I'm saying. Yes. But we don't have the time this morning to dig into it.

We got a mash up to do. We got a show to run. That's right. That's right, folks. We got to show you're a lolly gagging all day. Well, you lollygagging the unfield. You're a lollygagging in the outfield. Know what that makes you? A lollygagger. Lolligagger.

Anyways. Okay, welcome to the Tuesday mashup. Eight minutes in, here we go. Week 17? 17. You know how many? Like that? We're stringing them together.

We're, honestly, we're coming up on, it's almost a bottle of scotch at this point. Yeah, I think the goal that we did. did five. Yeah, we said let's do five and let's see if we're having fun. And then we said three months. So three months is roughly 16. So that'd be episode 21. Yeah, roughly.

I totally forgot about the three-month revision. I tell you what. Round 21, we'll see if we can't do it in person again. All right? That's a few weeks off. Anyways, we'll pin that. Okay, here we go. No ambulance is available for Ashcroft Man who collapses from a parent heart attack.

this happened in BC this is a pretty sad story on a lot of levels this guy had a heart attack he lived half a block away from the ambulance garage and he ended up dying because they couldn't get an ambulance to him in time

I feel like this has been you know when you go back to just interviews I've done Kate King comes to mind she was an ambulance worker north of Eminton yeah for it Saskatchewan she talked about it then I had a list of her back in the middle of COVID, talk about it from Lloyd.

Just talking about if you watch the ambulances, because you can follow them, I guess, you can see how farther traveling. They were sending ambulances from Lloyd to Eminton. Well, I don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that's a two-hour stretch. And, you know, if you're dying from anything in Emmington and having an ambulance come that way, you're waiting a long-ass time. This has been an issue for a long time. Now it's caught real, you know, it's catching the headlines a lot, but it's been going on a long time.

This isn't something new. Well, the thing about it is, is you'll have the early people saying there's a problem. We need to address this. Like, health care. Like, it's not as though this just happened during COVID. People have been saying the health care system's broken for years. And then now people are like, oh, well, it's just because of COVID. No.

Actually, you know, speaking in health care, I remember digging into it a little while ago. and it was like 2013 we had as many, they have warnings in health care. I'll butcher this a bit, but how many times the alarm was raised of like, we're at critical capacity or short, like that type of thing, this is 2013, and it was over once a day.

And that was in Calgary and Eminton, the two biggest centers in Alberta. It was like multiple times a day, and that was 10 years ago, close too. So fast forward, and I agree with you. you. This is a major problem. Yep. All right.

All right. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Airline, just because you're in the studio doesn't mean all of a sudden we get, I mean, you're the one telling me we got a timeline here. All right. Well, let's keep moving. Airlines push back against incoming passenger refund requirements. We talked about this a little bit before how now the airlines are starting to get in a pissing match with the government. And so what this means is.

is that if flights are canceled or significantly delayed in any way at all, starting in the next few weeks, the airlines are on the hook for it. So if cats like the people who give you the ball tap and make sure you're not carrying any nail clippers or anything like that, if they're understaffed and nobody can get through in time and the plane can take off, well, that's on the airline. If it's bad weather, that's on the airline. If you name it, if they're, there's a really bad app, even though it's really highly rated in the Google store, that somehow causes everybody to go really slowly through the queue, that's on the airline. And so they're pushing back and saying this is bullshit.

But it's going to be really interesting to see how this escalates because they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. And it's funny, Omar Al-Gabra has been catching heat for this for a long time. And it came out recently. the Western Standard did a thing where they actually showed that he knew about impending staffing shortages months ago and did nothing about it. And again, centrally planned economies, centrally planned airports, centrally planned health care, there's kind of a threat of commonality here.

And so, you know, they're trying to come up with whatever wins they can. Omar Algebra was talking about how 88% of passengers are now waiting less than 15 minutes to go through security up from 63% and, May and that that's, you know, huge progress. But the funny thing is it's not the people coming through security. It's the people coming back that are getting really delayed. But it's just, it's, it's funny, this, this handpicking of. They're trying to show that wins, even though everybody's like, this is broken,

just get rid of it. And they just keep pushing it. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, well, we're winning because this is, this is no longer an issue. That should have never been an issue in the first place. And that's not even what anybody's talking about. But you keep going on about that, you little hobbit.

Yeah, well, before I hit the buzzer, just everybody's talking about getting rid of the Arrivecan app. Just get rid of it. At this point, what relevance is it making? It's one of the highest rated apps in the entire store. Why would you want to just burn it to the ground? I mean, that's a win right there, isn't it? Tell us wants to charge customers a fee for paying their bills with a credit card.

This is maybe the dumbest effing thing I've ever heard in my life. Yes, and no. Okay. I, okay. Yes and no. I'm curious now because let's, let's hear it then. Okay. In terms of the practical implications, absolutely. Because whether there's an obvious charge for it or not, you're still paying for that transaction fee. So when you pay with a credit card for anything, whoever you're paying it to pays a percentage to the credit card company as a transaction fee. and that's where they make a bunch of their money.

And so whether it's built into the price or not, you still pay for it. Because if they needed, if you bought... Are we trying to make the case that Tell Us Needs More Money? No, we are not. I'm saying that you can't blame them for trying, but when they say, okay, well, we need to charge for it already. You're like, you're already charging for it.

We have some of the highest costs in the world. Oh, absolutely. And they're trying to gouge... I think you have the highest cost to... There you go. And they're trying to gouge us again for how... we pay. Yep. Like I got a big F you to them. That's, that's what I got. For sure. I, I, I'm not saying, and we got Rogers. And we got, I'm saying they're dicks for trying. And we got

Rogers. You can't blame them for asking. We got Rogers buying Shaw now, are trying to, right? So we're about to go into this weird, weird, monopolized world if we aren't already there, where prices ain't going to get better folks. They're only going to get worse. And they're trying to gow just more. Like I just, I have zero time for it. Zero time. Deadline passes, no leadership candidate revealed for the Alberta Liberal Party fireaway twos. I feel like you're just salivating. Okay.

Where to begin? All right. So the Alberta Liberal Party provincially hasn't been doing very well for the past hundred and some years. Believe it or not. It's probably because they're a bunch of fucking retards. Oh, we're going to drop the R bomb. All right. Fair enough.

I think you can still say it. I don't know. Sure. Apologies to everybody out there who's never read a book and thinks maybe the liberals are a decent form of government. Okay. Well, you've made your point. Now you've eaten up a minute. You've got 44 seconds. 44 seconds.

In the first two quarters of this year, the liberals raised just shy of $37,000. While the UCP and the NDP raised 1.4 and 2.5 million respectively, they're distant. The entrance fee to enter the leadership race was 175 for the UCP. It was 6,000 for the liberals. So you just need to go to... Listen, folks, they had a deadline on Friday where they had to have their candidates in for leadership and nobody put in a nomination. Nobody even tried.

And then they actually took down the link in their website for the section they had about... Literally, this is the most publicity they've had is on the Tuesday Mass. Right? Yeah. They should be paying us. Give us some of that $37,000. Taking off of our fucking money already. Scotland cut down.

14 million trees to make way for wind turbines. Now, in all fairness, it was actually 13.9 million trees. And they just rounded it up. They rounded it up for the headline, right? Yes. So, I mean, we just, we need to be very clear. clear and accurate, so we don't have to issue another correction at the start of next. Sure, sure.

Yes. So this is for 21 wind turbine projects. And we talked about how, I think it was Suncor, wrapped up theirs, where they had 11 wind turbine projects that cumulatively could have ran five houses. So this is a huge tradeoff. On a completely side note, on the podcast, I'm, I'm working on getting a bunch of people in to talk about climate change and these different things because I just, I hear it and I go, I just don't understand it.

Like, wind turbines, it's like, I know they have their place. I know they do. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that they should be put in everywhere, and I'm not saying that you should never put them in. I'm kind of just somewhere right in the middle. But to cut down 13.9 million trees, I'm just like, what the hell are we doing? What do we do? That makes several sense.

We want to get carbon dioxide out of the air. What's the best way to do that? Let's kill all of the things that eat it. Right? Yeah. So it actually says in the article here's a great quote, the tree removal seems especially ironic, given that world leaders supposedly agreed to end deforestation by 2030

at the recent COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Center ice conservatives are warming the bench. For now. God, I love the CBC. What would we talk about without them every week? Honestly, I was saying it to you, I'm going to cut up 15 seconds here. I was saying to you before we started this. I'm like, do we even want to talk about this?

This seems so irrelevant. But then you're like, well, I want to talk about it. And it's the CBC. I'm like, you know what? You want to poke fun of the CBC for this lukewarm story about like something that has no relevance, Fioroi, because that is the CBC at this point. It's funny because Polyev is being painted as this far-right lunatic, and he really doesn't have any far-right stances. He's basically just saying, let's take the ideology out of politics, which apparently now is some ridiculous concept.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's just, it's probably off the political spectrum. But yeah, this article leads off with a quote. So there was this symposium in Edmonton on Thursday, and former British Columbia, Premier Christy Clark who if anybody can remember the party she was in, it rhymes with Shmashm Liberal was there as one of the speakers. You know, like, really? Okay, so these are the people that we're going to have come in and talk about conservative extremism.

This is, I mean, you've got Jean Choray running on basically a liberal platform. And anybody who thinks differently is just far extreme right. I would say that Pierre Polyev kind of needs to step up in a lot of areas. Like he says he's going to get rid of the gatekeepers, but he's not going to touch the dairy farmers because it would cost something like $40 billion to buy out all their exclusivity contracts. But at the cost of about $6 billion a year to the consumers, you'd be making your money back in less than eight years,

which is a great return on investment, which is probably why the government won't touch it. Yeah. Yeah, give me a bunch of money. us. See, lukewarm story. I just, I'm sorry. I, like, I'm just, I, the, they can't all be bangers. Come on. I know that was, I thought that was genuinely interesting. The center ice conservers, they are literally, this like lukewarm, like, anyways, ah, whatever, it doesn't matter. I, I'm teasing. They say they're center ice, but really, they're running short-handed. Here, let's talk about some

hard hitting stories. How about the Canadian journalists are sad that their unwashed masses are tired of their shit? That is definitely a tooth's headline, but I, I chuckle every time I read it. You've got a group of people that are, here's a quote. It is increasingly evident that online abuse is a growing problem for people in our industry and beyond. Now, I'm not for online abuse. I want to make that very clear. Okay. We've seen up and close the terrible toll that such threats and hate can take.

This is a profound and spreading social harm that we cannot afford to ignore and which we must find ways to more effectively counter. We all have a stake in this fight. This is talking about Canadian journalists, right? Yes. Well, journalists in very noted quotation marks. Yes, yes. But at the end of the day, when we've witnessed what we've witnessed in Canada with that profession right now, you go, well, some of it is just you guys aren't telling the truth.

Maybe you should write about things that actually matter, and they're taking that and are trying to make it like they're being harmed. Well, every time they show up on Twitter, they just get bombarded by the masses. Yes. Or Facebook. You know what? The same thing happened on there. They had to turn off comments because why? Yeah, CBC did that.

Yeah, because people are pissed that they're not talking about anything. Like, they're literally not talking about anything. And then when they do talk about things, they turn off the comments. Or, well, they turn off the comments because it's such a woefully one-sided thing. Like, did you ever see the Fifth Estate? I told you to check it out. The Fifth of State episode they did on the Trucker Convoy. Like, that is the most intentionally deceptive bit of journalism.

I think I've ever seen outside of probably Russia or something like that or North Korea where they say that they get almost all the gold medals at the Olympics and China gets a couple and then like Russia gets one or two. And well, just, yeah, I know exactly what you're saying. And it's, it's funny because they're saying, oh, well, it's your guys's fault for being dicks and pushing back on us. And I've said it before. If you run into an asshole first thing in the morning, you ran into it.

an asshole. If you run into assholes all day long, you're the asshole. And so now they're trying to say that it's this, this is my new favorite conspiracy theory. This is the new one from the left. They're saying that this is a coordinated effort. That basically it's a bunch of people getting together and making a plan to attack these people. Like you go into a room, a random room somewhere and say, you're all a bunch of fucking assholes. And then they say, hey, quit being a dick and you're like this is a concerted effort against me like what what tiny modicum of common sense do you need to look at this and say well you know what maybe i'm the one who's out of touch have your principal skinner moment i i'm i uh i would say that uh certainly somewhere

on the right there is a concerted effort i won't i won't deny that but i will also say overall that, you know, I'm not, once again, I'm not for any, I've been attacked online, I've been attacked through lots of different things. It's uncomfortable. But a lot of it is, like, trivial. It's not even worth my time,

other than people can, I'm not, Wayne Grexkey, shrouded by eight rings of protection, right? I'm just a simple guy. I just have fun with it. A lot of what the CBC gets attacked for or journalism in general is biased bullshit. That you're just like...

It's very justified. You're just like how... Like, it's coming up... Once again, tomorrow's episode on the podcast is Kid Carson. He's a guy who was a radio DJ in Vancouver. And, you know, I had my doubts on, you know, how much control... Even though I've interviewed Daniel Smith and she's talked about, you know, leaving chorus, right? Well, Kit Carson talks specifically about how he was not allowed to talk anything COVID.

And all he did at one point, too, was make fun of the mass, wearing, having a... to wear a mask to an outdoor softball game. That's all he did, and he got reprimanded for that until you weren't allowed to talk about it. I mean, I implore anyone listen to this to listen to tomorrow's episode with Kid Carson because it's just like it takes away any doubt. Like, now this is absurd,

and my anger towards the CBC and other media outlets is pretty much freaking justified. Federal Board investigating Alexander Graham Bell's controversial beliefs. Like, when are we going to get away from this stuff? that a guy that lived 100 years ago is being brought up for being part of, you know, colonialism and, you know, slavery and whatever else. You're like, it was 100 years ago.

Pretty much that was the custom, the norm. I don't mean to make light of what went on 100 years ago, but it's like some of it, some of it, like, you know, I've had different people on the podcast. I've talked about First Nations and what happened to him 100 years ago, but how can you reconcile? sell everything that happened 100 years ago and tear down

everything that Graham Bell did. Part of what he did led us to where we are. I say if you guys decide that Alexander Graham Bell is just an absolutely reprehensible person and you don't want anything to do with them, cancel them, and never use any of the things he invented

ever again. Good fucking luck. Can we actually, you know what? What is on all the is the telephone? That's, you don't have to go. It's the telephone. phone's wrong. No, no, no, no, no, no. There's more than that, though. Oh, like, what all else he invented? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he invented, he has a whole list. Does he not? That's Thomas Edison. Graham Bell. Give me a second then. All right, all right, all right.

Oh, here we go. Pause the clock. No, I'm going to let the clock run. It says the mind detector as well. The mind detector? Yeah. Jesus Christ. He came from Eastern Canada. How to even test it? I don't know. I don't know. He has a couple other ones, but you're right. The telephone's obviously the biggest one. Okay.

All right. All right. I was thinking a couple other things, but obviously, due to time constraints, I won't go digging too deep. Yeah, that's a great cop out. You should be a politician. Sean Newman, the politician. What do you think of Alexander Graham? Well, I'll tell you a story about Mark Twain.

How would that be? Yep. Classic. T.D. diversity trainers caught telling employees to not vote conservative. This seems to be coming up everywhere. Don't vote conservative. Don't be conservative. Conservative is pretty much white supremacy. Anyways, carry on. Western Standard exclusive. And so someone had recorded this diversity trainer in session at TD Bank, telling them on and on about how

they shouldn't vote conservative if they care about indigenous rights and they care about if they care about minorities and talking about how because of pipelines and things like that, the conservatives are basically evil and extolling the virtues of every other party, which has no place in the workplace as far as I'm concerned. Like if you want to do that, like if I had an employee who was just going off about anything political, assuming that it wasn't podcast as the business, but just like, you know, some regular brick and mortar thing. You're like, look, this isn't a good fit.

Well, you know me at this point. Like, I say this about to... Yes, I do. We're in the same room. You're such a dick. Thanks, Tuss. Always a pleasure. When it comes to the listeners of the podcast, I think at this point, like, they can smell bullshit a long ways out.

And so there's no point in trying to convince them anything. They've already made up their mind. They've already listened. They have their own ears, their own eyes. and a brain between their ears too, pointing out the real obvious things like you like to do. Anyways, I don't have to try and convince them anything.

They've, you know, they're just as smart as us too, Yahoo's, will ever be. And when it comes to politics, there's no point in trying to convince anyone of anything. I rather prefer just trying to get what I recently just did, all candidates to come on and talk and put them in around. And then at least you have some, you know, Do I love Rebecca Schultz? Do I think she's going to win?

Probably not. But I still want people to hear her because maybe she's the diamond in the rough and you hear her and go, holy dinah, that's the lady. And as a even just what Western- She had good things to say. It was an interesting discussion. But even just what the Western Standard did is interesting, right? A frontrunner's debate. I'm not against it, but it's an artificial way to push three people further up the chain

and try and get rid of some of the bottom. You know, with seven, I get it. It's tough to run an actual debate with seven. Yep. Yep, but you have seven people buying for leadership. Let them have their moment. The frontrunner. They put up 175 grand to even be there.

Give them, give them a couple moments in front of the mic. Yeah. But, yeah, TD Bank, though, this is the same bank that is dealing with a human rights complaint because a guy who went in who was an indigenous Muslim, right? And so, I mean, as cultures continue to come. together, there's going to be more and more, I'm going to say eclectic mixes. Yes. It's going to be outdated in 20 years because it's probably going to be the norm.

But for right now, that seems like a little bit of a special case. And so anyway, when he busts out his ID, which was his status card, they straight up didn't believe him. They wouldn't let him open a bank account. And then they called the cops on him. And so when he was home later that day, the cops came to check on him because he got reported for potential ID fraud. Don't you just think if you're listening to this, here's a piece of advice.

Let's move our money out of the TD. Let's move our money out of the big banks because they just seem to have their heads so far up their ace. Credit unions, provincially owned banks, probably the way to go. No? Probably. I've got a lot of love for RBC because they've helped me out personally. Like they've really gone out of their way to be a really good, I don't know, collaborator with me, I guess. You could say over the years.

Okay. But that's entirely just one man's perspective. Yeah, well, and all I'm thinking of is TD just seems to be shrouded in scandal. And then who was it that, was it Scotiabank that tried taking with the guns, with Profit River here in Lloyd? There was a huge thing about they didn't want to support anyone who was selling guns. And I think that was Scotia. And so it's like, that's another big bank. and you just go, it just goes on and on and on.

They're putting themselves in these positions where they're trying, you know, like, anyways. I could go on about this tirade for a long time. Worst in the world, here are the rankings in which Canada is now last. Yeah, so this started off as some guy with like 15 letters after his name. Seems a little douchey. He said, next time someone rants about how broken Canada is or badly we're doing the international stage, Here's some facts. Numbers don't lie, Felicia.

And then there's probably about 10 different rankings that Canada's in over the past five years or something. I see one here. What are we last in? Oh, shoot. So anyways, we're last in most unaffordable housing in the OECD. So that's 38 countries. We have the most expensive wireless costs. So that comes back to the tell us thing.

Let's give it another 1.5% you know, anyways. Well, I mean, we're about 20% higher than second place, which is South Africa. Okay. Carry on. So, yeah. We have the lowest rate of acute care beds among peer countries. Two of the planet's bubbliest real estate markets are in Canada.

The only one worse than Toronto is Frankfurt. And we racked up COVID debt faster than anyone else. That's going to be a huge shocker. The port of Vancouver is almost the most efficient in the world. They're 368 out of 370. And then the... Think about that, folks. 368 out of 370 ports Vancouver is on the bottom of it.

Yeah. Oh. Get the unions out of it. Toronto Pearson is the world's most delayed airport, not news. We're one of the world's worst economies for foreign investment. If you look at data between 2015 and 2019, I don't know anybody who's still got money invested in Canada hardly. We drive the most fuel inefficient vehicles in the world, which is fair considering what we do and the vast distances between us. That's quite the list.

You know, you think about some of those things on there. But all of it just seems so fixable. Yeah, very much of it is. And it's funny because, you know, when people talk about how, oh, we're at the top of this list, it's something like air quality. Where, yeah, because we've got a third of the population of Vietnam. And Vietnam's the size of Alberta, right? I mean, we're so spread out. You can find places probably just a few hours north of here.

where you could go 100 kilometers in any direction without finding a soul. Absolutely. We've got so many point Nemo as it's not even funny, right? CBC flounders on report about salmon risk posed by Trans Mountain Pipeline. That was mine too. I was trying to come up with a little bit more snark to put into it, but it was 1230. And I was like, man, I got to get some sleep. So it's not bad, but it's okay.

And so CBC, British Columbia was reporting on. the Trans Mountain Pound pipeline expansion. Pound line. Anyways, carry on. It's early. I'm still on my third coffee. Anyway, there's salmon migration going on right now, and there's this woman who just coincidentally happens to be an activist,

who walks this same stretch of river every day, and it's right next to the bulldozers and the excavators and everything like that. Like, you know, it just, it all seems very natural, and they were going on about how it's just killing. all these fish. And then some guy named Blair King, who's an environmental scientist, just did a little bit of quick Googling. And he had this great Twitter thread that just blows it all out of the water. Like there's the, they were restricted in a specific window to minimize any possible impacts to the salmon. And one of the things they did was in exchange

for temporarily interfering with 800 square meters. This whole story is about 800 square meters of, Habitat, they will restore a total of 3,023 square meters of in-stream salmon habitat in Williams Lake Slew. This is another big win, considering the crossing was not suitable for spawning habitat. So it's all just, there's always so much more to this just face value, superficial, lazy journalism. Lazy journalism. I get what you mean. Don't buy the misinformation on fertile. fertilizer reduction targets. So this is... Our Canadian government.

Yeah. This almost should have been the happy story for this week. So Lloyd Longfield is a member of parliament for I think Vaughn. And so he's liberal. And he comes out and writes this op-ed, which is literally,

don't buy the misinformation on fertilizer reduction targets. Now, Sean, do you know of anybody who has been really prevalent in the news in the past few weeks for having an opinion with a whole bunch of information attached to it regarding the fertilizer reduction ban. Maybe this guy named Quick Dick McDick. Quick Dick McDick. He may even been on the show. He may have went on a whole lot of shows. And he hit the big time here. So not only was he trending on Twitter and that video absolutely

blew up on YouTube, but it ended up being, because he's the only one who had anything. notable to say about this and it ended up being such a big thing that the liberals had to go in and write an article trying to combat it without naming it specifically but who else would it be about so hats off man like i i i udm qdm hats off too yes he he does it again the last time he had a video like that that just absolutely blew up was the the protester video back like when i first interviewed him that's like two and a half years ago the vegan protester and and talking about them blocking the rail lines and everything else, right? That was a very interesting video.

QDM does a lot of good stuff. I got a lot of time for QDM. I think we both do. Certainly November 5th when he comes to Lloyd and have you guys on stage should be an interesting night. But overall, I mean, he breaks it down just beautifully like he always does. So if you haven't checked that video out, A, go check it out. Two, go check out the interview.

Three, put November 5th in your notebook, and as soon as tickets come available, we'll make sure we talk about it on here. Hey, there's my Ms. Seamus plug for the day. Perfect. I mean, they're going to be sold out right away. Like as soon as Quick Dick McDick says, yeah, I'm going to be here. It's just we probably won't even need to plug it. We're just going to be like, sorry, guys, we'll catch you next time.

Any other thoughts before I buzz you out on the fertilizer. We took that on a side note for QDM. I just thought it was really funny that the whole article doesn't really address any of the specific claims he said. he's just like, really, we're not dicks. We're nice people and we work collaboratively. And you shouldn't fault us for trying to do this because we really need to because of climate change. Oh, one notable thing is that he quoted a Greenpeace article saying that Canada has the highest per capita nitrogen fertilizer usage, which is interesting because they didn't go per unit of food and were major exporters of food. So it would obviously make sense that if we're.

feeding half the world with our population, if our population's feeding half the world, our per capita usage of fertilizer would be really high. It's nitpicking the data, right? It's nitpicking. You got to look at what they're saying rather than what they're presenting. Yeah. I just, yeah, Canadian government. Parts of the Great Barrier Reef, here's your happy story.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover in 36 years. And to be clear, it's only 36 years because they've only been collecting data on this for 36 years. So technically, it's the highest choral cover ever recorded. That's great news, Tews. That's great news. I got a bunch of thoughts rolling through my brain, but I'm looking at the clock. I told you I'd have you out of here at a certain time. It's already past then.

Oh, shit. Yes. It's way past that. Yes. So I need to get you moving. I appreciate you coming in the studio. and doing this. This has been a ton of fun.

To the listener, hey, it was recorded and out in record time. It was. Yeah, it's going to be a couple hours to get up on mind, but, I mean, by the time you hear this,

it's a moot point anyways. Well, appreciate you coming in studio to do it, twos, until next week. Absolutely, man.