Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #18

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

222 minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. Podcasts are misinformation, the Rage meets Pierre, Government of Canada testing the water in Saskatchewan ..literally & playing ice hockey without the ice... ball hockey I think they call it.  November 5th SNP Presents: QDM & 2's. Get your tickets here: snp.ticketleap.com/snp-presents-qdm--222-minutes/ Like the Mashup? Text me & will feature it at the start of next week's show 587-217-8500

Welcome to the Tuesday mashup. Myself, Sean Newman, host the Sean Newman podcast, and then of course Mr. Toos, who he's doing his best Sean Newman impression right now. He's got an audio connection and he's kind of like fuzzy, but he's making it work and I appreciate the effort, too. How are you doing this week? The show must go on, my friend.

We're going to make it work. Well, I asked last week, if you were listening to the show, reach out and let us know what you thought. of it. There was some people calling for some heads. I'm joking around, but definitely fact-checking on us. And I enjoy that. So if you're listening to show and you're like, I don't know, boys, like, where are you getting this information from? We have a list of like actual links where we keep everything. So I'm good with that. If you don't like our takes, I'm also good with that. I had a lady from BC dairy farmer. I hope she was a lady. Jeez, now I'm forgetting where I put that

It was. It was, right? I don't have it in front of me either. But yeah, it was a lady who was a dairy farmer slash teacher. And she brought up of what I think is a really good point is she thinks that you would do well to have somebody who's an expert in the dairy industry. She thought that my comment about the dairy cartel being a gatekeeper wasn't entirely fair. And I think that she has some interesting points.

I don't agree with them all. And I'm not a huge expert is the huge caveat. I'm definitely at arm's length. But I think in terms of economics, when you take extra stuff from some people and give it to other people just based entirely on a bureaucratic center making decisions, I don't really see that as being fair. And she brought up the fact that a bunch of small farmers

wouldn't be able to. make sufficient profit if they weren't able to artificially raise the prices, which, yeah, I mean, she, I thought that she was trying to make a argument for me. She reached back out, and she's hooked me up with a couple of avenues to kind of dig into, which I'm currently doing. So we'll see if on the podcast, we can't, we can't go down the old dairy farm rabbit hole. We'll see what comes of it.

So to everyone listening, we asked and we received in, in, uh, in, I don't know, boatloads of different feedback. That was one of them. Here's a couple others, okay? I'm also love, here's some love for the mashup. And she did have a ton of love except for that take, I should point out. Absolutely. I'm also loving your Tuesday mashups, especially with Q, they were talking about QDM.

I'm from Regina and appreciate, this was a government worker, and appreciate you bring a Saskatchewan perspective, not only from Alberta, seems like everyone else is from Alberta or Ontario. Keep up the great podcast with Tuesday. That was MG. Here's another one. I love the twos mashups. Always good for a chuckle.

The joke about the mine machine. How did he even test it in Eastern Canada? Laffy face. Also, I work at TD and I know our code of conduct. It states, employees should not engage in any political activity in the workplace. Unless authorized by senior management and then or the government relations group from our region, I'm grateful that I usually work from home all by myself so I can listen to your podcast. I thought that was a couple of cool ones.

And then here's morning, Greg, from Calgary, love the mashup, gets up to the top of the playlist every Tuesday, keep them rolling. So there you go. There's a whole bunch of them coming in from all over the place. And Candice was the lady who is the dairy farmer. Yeah. Which, I mean, by the way, I totally appreciate the comment, right? Absolutely.

It's, like I said, I'm not a huge expert on this. And if anybody wants to shed more light on things, by all means, bring it on. So anyway, I definitely appreciated it. Hey, if you listeners want to call twos on some of the shit, I'm all for it. Yes, absolutely. And we're just talking about it because one person asked, like, the one thing that we didn't have in the show notes. And now I've got to try and track it down. But we do keep fairly fastidious notes on the things we do cover.

Well, that's, yes, you're wondering. I was going to say, anyone who's like, you got, you know, you got links to all this. I'm looking at all the links right now, but if you ask me a question from a while back, that's where it gets like, oh, damn it, now I've got to dig through the show notes, because they are actually pretty in depth under, you know, in my opinion. Yes. And actually, if you're doing one from a little ways back, if you can ask which, or if you can mention which week it was, or specifically what the topic was,

that definitely helps too, because we just have listed by week. Okay, here's one more. this guy's been a huge fan of my 222 cents like from the get-go. He's been super supportive and just constantly cheering me on. And he said, you people, yourself and Sean, make good podcasts. Well, I love all the feedback from my listeners, especially when they say you people. Anyways, if you're wanting to get a shout out, by all means, hit me up on the text line. it's in all the show notes in my on the on the podcast reach out to twos we'll do our best to try and

shed some light and as two says if you hate it we'll read those too we'll have some fun with it because i mean uh you know that's what this is all about so without further ado we got a week ahead of us so let's uh let's see how we do here twos and uh and we'll and we'll go from there um and with that said i'll start the clock here's your first one government of can da lackey's told to come back with a warrant. This is in Saskatchewan where they're finding government of Canada members testing water,

dugouts on private land, and basically no explanation given the government or the government of Saskatchewan has called out the federal government and here we are. Well, that's not entirely true.

It's not that there's no explanation given. It's just that there's no legal explanation given. So what they said was, So they were just pulling up into people's pastures and checking dugouts and sluze. And with government of Canada written all over the side of the vehicle. And then some farmers strolled up and says, can I help you, motherfucker? And they're like, it's okay. We're the government.

We can be here. And technically they can't because they don't have jurisdiction for it. One of the things that Stephen Harper always took shit for, but it was the liberals who started the ball rolling on it before he took over. was that the federal government and the provincial governments all took care of looking after how good the water was in Canada. And then the liberals said, hey, actually, you know what? Why do we have two separate entities taking care of this whole thing at the same time? We can actually save a lot of money if we got rid of it. And then it's funny because they started phasing it out, but it finished under Harper.

It was a good thing. But then everybody got mad at Harper because he's like, oh, you're not protecting. the water anymore. Why don't you care about the water? And so it's funny because they've got it completely as backwards for the most part. But the end result is that the federal government has no jurisdiction over this, but they're checking nitrogen levels, which presumably has to do with their whole, we don't like farmers, we don't like the things they make, and we want them to stop doing it. I know a couple farmers where I wouldn't want to be caught trespassing on their land. That's all I'm saying. And they might use those words when they saw those people.

meme lord goes to meet and greet, the left loses its shit. Now, I know that's a two's headline, so fire away twos. They're almost all two's headlines this week. We've only got the one that isn't. So can you guess it, folks? Can you guess which one it is, folks? Carry on. Oh, actually, you know what?

That'll be good. Yeah, let us know this week which one is not. Oh, I don't know. You might recognize the headline and that'll make it easy, right? But so what happened was is that Jeremy McKenzie, the raging dissent. He's been on your show. I'm a fan of his stuff. He is a fairly vocal PPC supporter, but he went to a meet and greet with Pierre

Polyev, shook his hand, got a picture with him, as tens of thousands of people have done. And then he posted on social media. And then, of course, Global loses its mind because this is the Diagon guy. never ever bothered to look into the fact that Diaglon is just this goofy meme, this just bullshit rant he did when he was drunk and high, I think it was, on his podcast. And everybody has been taking it seriously. Like this whole thing is just laughably absurd. And so now they're saying like, oh, well, Pierre, he needs to denounce far right,

white supremacy and all of this stuff. And the cool thing about Pierre, he's absolutely putting on a master class in terms of working with the legacy media is that this whole, oh shoot, I screwed up, I denounce whatever it is that happened. He's just saying, well, I can't personally be responsible for every jackass I shake hands with. And then he actually threw in a dig at Trudeau. He's like, I'm shaking hands of Trudeau and I can't personally take responsibility for all

his racist shit. That's not a direct quote, obviously. but the point is that they're all expecting him like you just need to say the words you need to say the words they're trying to essentially bully him into it and he's just like no nope nope i will i will address this on my own terms and you guys you go fuck yourself and more people need to say that to the legacy media i uh here's here's something for you and the the audience i have mr rage coming back on the podcast here this week because of all the stuff that is absolutely blowing the freaking lid. All they sees him. And I text him like, what is going on,

man? They're labeling you like a terrorist and everything else. I've interviewed the guy. I'm not saying like he doesn't, like if you listen to some of his rants, especially with this Rachel Gilmore, I'm like, what is going on?

Like he is losing his top. And Rachel Gilmile, I mean, she's, she's, like, she's blown up out of all this too, to us. Like, her name is everywhere right now.

Yeah, but it's just a flash in the pan. She's got absolutely no substance. All she does is she's been doing fair, a good job of trying to put herself front and center whenever anything happens and just trying to just bait people

into making her look like a victim. Victim baiting, I guess it's probably the word for it. And the only other thing I got to say about Jeremy is that he really dropped the ball in one very small way. He needed to think one more step ahead.

What he should have done was over the past year or two. He should have gone and met with Jagmeet Singh when Jagmeet Singh was in Dartmouth. And, you know, shook his hand, take a picture. Just stole it away. Oh, Trudeau's doing a meet and greet. Shake his hand. Stow it away. Oh, Elizabeth May.

If that, you know, if he's ever in confession, that would have been great. I'll tell you what. I'll bring that up with him because that's, That would have been fantastic. If he, and who knows, maybe he's got a couple in the bank. Maybe he's got a couple there. Yeah, I don't know.

Liberals hire the most racist person possible as high paid anti-racism consultant. Yeah. So this is, this guy is like concentrated black meets. It's like black hole things. Like it's just, it's crazy. So this dude who, shoot, I can't remember what the heck his name is, but you got hired. on essentially that he's supposed to be this anti-racism consultant that's going to work towards controlling what we see on the internet and he hates jewish people holy fuck amad hussein

no amy amy amy hussein is the guy who hired minister of some shit i don't know there's so many of them i can't even keep track and i mean they'll look the same liberals i mean and so Lath Marouf is the guy's name. And so Jonathan Kaye, who works for the Quillette, which is an Australian-based newspaper, but he works in Canada. He's got literally dozens of screenshots of this stuff going crazy.

Here's the thing, though. I will say this about Lath Marouf. He's not all bad. He has had a lot of negative things to say about the French, like pages of them. And so, I mean, I can get behind that. But it's just, it's really funny because if you've got,

one Confederate flag in a convoy, the whole thing's racist. If you've got one guy who shakes hands with the founder of Diagalon, well, obviously he's a horrible person. Right. But if you hire a guy who is racist as shit and bring him on and pay him almost $500 a day to be a bullshit consultant, that just slipped through the cracks. Obviously, we don't support that. And we're just going to get a pass on it. For fuck sakes. The double standard is kind of irritating. You know, this one might

be suiting for the both of us. How podcasts have become misinformation machines and what can be done about it, twos? What can be done about these assholes on podcasts spreading the misinformation? The simple answer, Sean, is fucking nothing. Literally

the article talks about how there's no way to really stop because you can listen to podcasts before you're going to bed while you're doing the dishes, where you're walking the dog. It's like sitting right there. And the far right is taking full advantage of this and all you listeners are just dummies and you need to smarten up.

Absolutely. And who wrote an article like this? The dying legacy media. This is like when you're storming, you're trying to storm the castle and you're lying on the ground, bleeding out, you just randomly fire your last shot into the air hoping

it hits something. This is it. These guys are going the way of the dough-down. See, I would say Monty Python. Search for the Holy Grail. It is but a scratch. You have no arms. They got a bit more. I just don't fight you. I mean,

classic movie. Get back here. I'll bite your ankles. Do you want more on that? I'm blown it a little early. I just figured they at this point it's like podcast or misinformation. Jeez, this is old news. Hey, guys, two years. That's what they've been saying the entire time.

It's misinformation to us, everything. And you know what? And now they're all just getting sacked. And speaking of getting sacked in the legacy media, because that was, call back to like the intro to Monty Python where they'll go through the thing with the llamas. Anyway, let's continue.

Well, actually, I thought you were going to say, speaking of getting sacked, well, the next headline is Lisa LaFlam told the kick rocks. I just assume you knew the script and it was coming. Right for you. I did because I got the next tab open, but I didn't have the show

out. I couldn't, I couldn't remember what my, oh shit, okay, well that one was mine. Lisa Flam told kick rocks, but yeah, I couldn't remember exactly how I worded it. So I just tried to feed up for you. Sorry, what do you make of this? But me and you haven't been talking about this back and forth.

Is it because of the gray hair? It's because she's old as two listeners. She's 58, right? We were talking, 58? Yeah, and she was pretty good for 58. As two listeners pointed out to me because I said in a podcast or somebody said in a podcast, that 58 is old, 58 is not old. And they're doing quite well.

And I was like, you know what? You're right. I used to think 36 was old. And now I'm sitting at 36 and I feel young as shit. So I'm hoping at 58. I'm still rocking and kicking it. So what's your make on LaFlam? Well, it's interesting because there's not really anything definitive.

So she gets fired out of the blue, and that was clear. And so now, of course, immediately it's misogyny. You know, they let her go because she's a woman and she's old and women aren't allowed to get old in media. And she went with the gray hair and she got old and that's why they fired her. Here's the thing, though, like she got fired abruptly. and she did not go gray abruptly and she did not become old abruptly. It's not like she was 28, you know, last spring.

So if you were throwing money on it, if you were throwing money on it, what would you say? I like Brian, Lily had a good take on it and that's that the Patrick Brown controversy that ousted him from the Ontario Liberal Party was all based on a bunch of accusations that CTV ran with. during the whole Me Too thing. And they ended up settling out of court. And everybody's really tight-lipped about the finer points of it. But the thing about it is, is that if he'll lock the case or, you know,

so they, I can't remember if they, however it went, anyway. But they were really tight-lipped about it. And that basically just says that he was vindicated. And Lisa Flam was kind of at the head of that back in the day. it probably costs you to be a lot of money, which they just go to the government to get. So we pay for bad journalism once again. And I mean, if you're going to lose a really high profile expensive case, something like that, well, maybe they don't watch you around anymore.

It could be a combination of a bunch of things. But I don't think it was because she's old and gray. Mountie sends Dick Picks to sexual assault victim and then gets off. You just can't make that up. Yes. You just can't make that? How many times in a row in a week or in this collective weeks does law enforcement do something where you're like, just use better judgment? Like that is just absolute poor judgment.

It's just, you read the article and he's just, you know, like he's even saying, yeah, I was an idiot. And you're just like reading it and you're going, you're an idiot. Now, what is probably pretty troubling is he got back pay because they went about it in a wrong way. So he actually gets paid, quits, and gets all his money and walks away after he completely is in the wrong. Or not exactly sure, depending on the timeline wasn't exactly specific. But if you go on the time of the article. Back to 2018. Yeah.

But when he got fired, so he got roughly three or three and a half years worth of back pay for this. But yeah, he goes to investigate the sexual assault victim. And then they're kind of just, and he's just like, are you feeling this vibe? Are you feeling this vibe? And then he starts Senator. Well, and here's a thing. Even if she might have been flirting with him, right? Like, it doesn't.

The article reads that she may have had a little play in this. But as a police officer who's investigating after the fact of a, like, of anyways. It boggles my mind. Use better judgment. It's very poor taste and very unprofessional and colossally stupid. And do you really want someone who's going to make that bad of a decision wearing a badge? I mean, here's the thing. She could be as hot as you want. Like she can be Selma Hyac just walking off the set

of from dust till dawn in 1995. And you know, telling you in that, hot Spanish Latina accent about what just happened and you'd be like well shoot I'm never going to get a chance to meet this woman again and you'd still have to be like okay thank you very much ma'am we'll look into this and that's it you you can't you can't not even for salma you know the article does read though she showed her showed him a picture of her after getting out of the shower or before getting in the shower to show some of the damage that have been done you know like the bruises what have you and didn't realize her

boobs around it. And I'm like, Yeah. Yeah. So she showed him her sweater monkeys. So I tell you what? If that was Selma Hayek, I'd be like reading in that. I'd be like Selma. Like back then, I was probably losing my job for Selma that's all I'm saying. That's,

I'd be like, Selma, are we catching the same drift here? I'm kidding. I'm teasing. It was poor judgment. It was poor judgment. It was poor judgment. It was poor judgment. Message saying that you need to inspect her for damage after she's been sexually

assaulted. Come on. I know. I'm making, I'm making, I'm making, uh, anyways, you know, I'm trying to be the, anyways, it was very poor judgment. Law enforcement for another week. Just cannot hold up its end of the bargain. Get your shit together, law enforcement.

Healthcare system comes up with a novel way to cut cost. Can you believe a new idea? Well, I wonder what it is. Kill everyone who needs it. Yeah, just fucking kill him. There was a guy who in 2019 said he was depressed and he went in and they convinced him to have government assisted suicide and the list of underlying conditions or whatever on the form. The only thing on the form was hearing loss. Anybody who knows me in real life knows that I'm a moderately deaf motherfucker. So, I mean, they're coming for me, right?

Like, seriously, like, oh, hey, we happen to notice that your ears aren't working as well as they should. Well, this is the end of the line for you. You got nothing else to offer society. All you're going to do is cost us money. We're going to have to kill you. And here's the thing. If we're going to use that logic, let's apply it to retired government employees. Ooh.

The medically assisted death program, Bill C7, I hadn't really thought much about it, too. is I got to be honest. I, you know, all these different bills coming out and I'm like BLC7, which one's this, right? This one, you know, is like, okay. It's dark, dude. And it's interesting because on some level I can appreciate where they're coming from because they actually break down the expected cost savings by convincing people to kill themselves.

Which on every level, except economic, is horribly wrong. But when you're running a big country, you can look at it and say, we figured out how much money it's going to save us. Now, we're not completely soulless assholes, so we're not going to do it, but we're still making an educated decision, right? So you can do the math without pulling the trigger, right? But, I mean, they actually told there was a woman, there's not really any way to verify it, but there was a woman who planned on Twitter that, when her dad was going to do the assisted dying program, they asked him to go straight to the crematorium. They weren't going to do it in the hospital.

They said, can you just save us the hearse ride? Because we don't want to deal with that added cost either. Could you just go straight to the fucking graveyard? Well, and the one I listened to was a Canadian military vet who was in some trouble, and they bring it up to him. And he's like, what? No. Right?

And you just like, and then the military. And they wouldn't take no for an answer either. And the military veterans spoke out about it. Like there's a lot of people that come back that may actually take, may do that because they want a way out because they're fucked up. I mean, they come back from war and seeing a lot of things that us regular folk don't get to see. Anyways, it's a real dark topic that once again, Bill C7.

I was like, okay, what's Bill C7? And then it blew up, and I'm like, holy. Like, we just can't catch a win here in Canada. We just keep... The liberals have been in charge for seven years. Yeah, there's nothing. But it's just this endless rabbit hole of shit. But the liberals have been in charge for seven years,

and this is their best idea so far for saving money. Come on. Professional cry babies assume gender of Scotland's first period dignity officer. I don't know why we have to keep talking about Scotland all the time. Maybe we'll pick up a follower base there too. I tell you what, if anyone's listening from Scotland, I would love to know. I would love to know if we got one Scottish listener. Anyways, carry on.

But if you're going to say something, send in an audio clip. Yes, I tell you what, and if you do, we might just play that shit. Hey? I tell you what. Whether we can understand it or not. I think that's better for everybody. From now on, stop texting the text line, put it in an audio form, and let's hear your voice. I like that idea.

I think that's a grand idea. And you can be as colorful as you want. That's, well, within reason. Anyways, carry on. Carry on. Yeah. Try and keep the tight, though. I mean, we don't muck around just lollygagging all the time, right?

You lollygag in the infield. You lollygagging in the open. You know what that makes it? Lolligig. Jason Grant was announced as the period dignity officer for the TAY region in a role believed to be the first of its kind, which probably isn't far from the fucking truth, after Scotland became the first country in the world to protect the law to free period products in law. I was talking to somebody about this one time, and I was just like, it was like a few years ago, it was the first time I'd ever really heard about it. And I was just like, I'm sorry, I'm kind of confused right now. explain this to me?

And they're like, no, and they got all mad at me for asking. And here's the thing. If I can't even ask for you to explain it to me, it's probably a shit idea. And so anyway, I don't know if this is just them trolling, but they said, okay, we need a period dignity officer. And they picked a dude. They picked somebody with balls, because that's what it takes to run this show. Period.

And then everybody gets mad and they just assume that just because his name's Jason, he must be a man. And you can't just assume people's gender nowadays, but they did anyway because it went along with their thing. That's probably for the best. How about Union Strike slows the flow of booze to a trickle? Union, God bless them. What would we talk about with our unions in the CBC? I don't know. I don't know.

Actually, I don't know anymore. Some days I feel like I'm a hamster on a wheel And all we do is like regurgitate the same things But it's completely different headlines I'm like yeah you know Unions fucking shit up Yeah Yeah unions fucking shit up

So the way it works I'm not entirely sure about the finer points of this And I didn't really have time to do like a deep dive For a two minute conversation Which is a damn shame Because it would be kind of fun But in Alberta The way it used to be

Was that all of the booze had to get sent to Edmonton to a warehouse and then redistributed back out again. And then people said, look, if it's coming from Lethbridge, where they make Pilsner, and it's going up to Edmonton, and then it goes back to Leffbridge to get sold, maybe we could just like move it around on pieces of paper. And then they're like, well, we can't do that. It's never been done before, which is just classic government shit. But anyways, it finally went through, and I'm guessing that,

BC has something similar to that where the booze all has to get distributed through another gatekeeper that Pollyev isn't talking about because it's a union. And so anyway, they're going to go on strike. And so no one's going to move the pallets from one end of the warehouse to the other,

which is important for the function of democracy. And because of it, everybody's got to be fucking sober, which must be absolute hell in an NDP ran shithole. I might sound biased. How about Europe commits to the great blunder? Never get involved in land war in Asia. One of the things that just shocked me is the Google searches for firewood. It's this lovely little trend, a little trend, and then this giant spike.

Because, I mean, we all know what's coming. It blips during what's probably the winter every year. There's these little blips, little blips, little blips, little blips. And it's like two and a half times as much as the worst winter since 2004, presumably when they started keeping records. It's kind of like, I don't know, you remember back in the day when YouTube used to have like the views by month? I was looking at that one time for a counting crow's song called Long December and it just looked like a heartbeat pulse. And then this is that, except all of a sudden it just goes through the moon. And so, yeah, there's, if you get your natural gas from one place in the world and then you decide to start a proxy war against them, you're probably going to have trouble getting natural gas.

I can't believe I need to explain this to anybody. Is Peter Sweden, you know, I think if you're on Twitter, you know, whether that's his actual, you know, what his handle, if his name's Peter, it doesn't matter. He said electricity prices are getting so expensive in the Baltic countries that a 10-minute shower, 10-minute hot shower, correct myself, will come. cost $25 just in electricity. You think that's true? Like, I know what's getting bad. I actually wanted to address the, do you think this is true specifically? Because he didn't really cite any sources for this, but I have seen stuff he's put up before

that has been credible, right? So, so kind of if you go off his track record, it makes sense, but there's nothing directly backing it up. But I can't see it as being too terribly far-fetched. Yeah, well, the thing is... I mean, it depends how hot you like your water. But the thing is, is what he is, he, I feel like on it, he's, he's being a little facetious. But in saying that, we all know when you get your power from one source and they're going down for, oh, we need to clean today and you don't have any alternatives.

He's not far off is, is kind of what we're getting at. They're going to have, you know, power oges, rolling blackouts. Like, once again, uh, I'm just looking at the scene. from afar going like this ain't going to end well like this just ain't going to end well no i mean it'll end well for russia because they've got all the natural gas and can't get any the tide water we're currently selling it to the u.s at about a quarter of the world rate but that's i mean when when the existing pipelines to coast to ports are already full that's the only outlet and here's the thing like if you if you're the only

only buyer in a market, you can just be like, okay, well, I'll give you just enough to cover your expenses and they'll say, okay, yeah, that's good enough. And it's funny, I mean, if we had more pipelines, right? And then that ties into the other thing where Canada just gave Ukraine a $450 million loan for heating fuel. They went to Canada and said, we need a way to keep our people warm. in Canada said we've got some largest oil and gas proven reserves in the world but we can't move them

so I guess here have some money but spend it fast because inflation's the bitch in Canada right now here's a guy I didn't think we'd see again on the show I gotta be honest Stephen Del Dugo's list of failures now includes reintegrating into society

I thought this guy was disappearing I just thought he was gone and then well I mean He's running for mayor of Vaughn, Ontario. And so he lives in the neighboring community. I'm not exactly sure how close or tight stuff in and around Toronto is, but it looks like he's in a neighboring suburb,

but maybe that's just an area of town. I don't know. Maybe if somebody from Toronto wants to square me up on that. But it's not really the point. The point is that this is the guy who failed to win his seat as liberal, provincial liberal leader in Ontario. And it's just a damn shame that, you know, it's like bears where, you know,

once you start feeding them, they can't really fend for themselves anymore. And then you just have to put them down. And politicians are a lot like that. Where, okay, well, shoot, he can't be a politician here anymore. You know, he doesn't go work at a sawmill. He doesn't get a pair of steel-tail boats

and start running a forklift. He doesn't learn how to snap rod ranches. He just goes for the next political gig. It gets called out on it. It gets called out on it hard. And they're all over them. Like, you think he wins or you think he loses just like in a landslide loss? If you're putting money on it.

I wouldn't put money on it. My problem is that when I start looking at people east of Manitoba, I just straight up don't understand them. right and they're I the maritimeers are going to get mad when I group them all into one but they're they're similar and then you've got Quebec urban Quebec rural Ontario urban and Ontario rural and I would say that Ontario rural and actually even Quebec rural are a lot more similar to us than than we really think about but the rest of them I just there's there's a disconnect there where I don't know maybe I need to spend more time there but I don't

understand the way they process things. I don't understand their perspective and it makes them notoriously unpredictable for me. Well, here, here is what I thought was the happy news of the day. And I'm going to be honest, folks, when I was reading through the notes, I'm like, I don't know if this is exactly a happy headline because although it did make me laugh when I saw it, but here, here it goes. NDP now hates economics and ice. And if you miss this, this was the NDP MP Benita Zirillo, I hope I'm saying that right. I hope you're saying it wrong. Sure.

She recently deleted this tweet, but this tweet literally caught fire. She says, is indoor skating ice even a necessity anymore? Can every ice sport be done without ice and different equipment? Just pondering the climate impact of human-made indoor ice. What do you think, Tews? Could you play hockey with no ice? I mean, you could play ball hockey. You could get, you know, that's, you know, the squishy orange foam puck.

You know, I mean, you got options, right? I mean, how many of us played hockey in the basement with those tiny little sticks? You know, you have like 80 your buddies in there, and your parents wouldn't even put drywall up until every boy in the house was at least 14 because there was no point to it, right? I mean, she's basically. But you're not going to see NHL players do that, although you should. That would be really fun.

But that would be a great little skit, wouldn't it? Well, no, not even a skit. Like, that could be, I would pay money to see, you know, even just like get Ronick and Dengen and Flurry and a few other ones just on their knees with the little stick, with the little sticks and a little puck, just having a fun time with just that, that classic thing we all grew up with, right? But it's fun as a novelty. And there's still a lot to ice.

Those games usually ended with somebody losing and chasing the other one around with those little sticks. I don't know how many fights came after a little game of mini sticks. There was a lot. There was a lot, lot. Well, but maybe they don't invite McSorley then. Or who's the guy he hit? I can't think of his name. Oh, I can't remember.

I mean, he was only in the league for like one shift. I can see him in my head. Oh, this is terrible. This is terrible. I'm searching now. Bashir, Donald Bashir. Oh, my God. Like that.

I think it'd be even better. Invite Donald Bashir and McSorley and have a mini-stick game. Everyone would tune into that. But what if it was a repeat, dude? And have like Bissinette, have spitting chicklets like totally like miced up, like doing the announcing for it. I mean, it'd be pay-per-view. It'd be great. Yeah.

And then you're going to have Sean Avery and the undertaker show up on expect. effectively. Sure. Actually, you know what? That might be a really good idea. I mean, except I think the Undertaker's dead now, but you can get like Brett Hart or something. Brett are still alive. Anyways, no ice in an arena. I mean, you can't get ruined, really poor idea. Okay. Let's let's go on to our final thing. A good soup warms the soul. Here's some happy news. Okay. Happy news here. Andrew, oh man, that's a name. Erkhart. I hope I'm I'm saying. Yeah.

Today I went to the unicorn restaurant to buy wanton soup broth. My father-in-law was rushed to Regina by ambulance, and the outlook isn't great. He is on a liquid diet, and this place makes amazing soup. Anyway, it was time to pay, but the owner wouldn't accept by money. So that's a Chinese restaurant called the unicorn restaurant in Regina. Doing something pretty cool for a guy who's, you know, obviously in some tough shape or has a family member in tough shape. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, your cost to make broth is fairly low. At the same time, though, it's pretty hard to make a living as any sort of a hospitality thing, especially over the last few years. And so for someone to just be like, oh, well, you know what, whatever I can do to help, just to a random stranger, this is the kind of thing that you romanticize about with Saskatchewan. And, you know, just that classic shirt off your room.

back and I think it was a wonderful story that I hope absolutely happened. Again, not this, this isn't verified to the same. Once again, I've got really no reason to doubt it, right? I think it's a pretty cool story. Yes, I thought it was great. Another, another thing I should point out that's good news is Canada World Juniors winning gold in overtime, 3-2 over Finland. I don't know if you saw the captain,

knock that puck out of the air so it didn't go in the net? No, by that blank look like I did not see that. Oh my God. I mean, I knew that they were going on, but I've been working like a son of a bitch lately. So, unless- Well, don't blame yourself. It's literally August in the world juniors are going on. I don't know how many people I've walked in and you watch it. No. Well, why? It's August. Hand up if you didn't watch it. I'm sitting here. I didn't like I was getting updates. I was, you know, I'm busy with kids and things and Lake and. You know, just life, it's August. I don't want to watch World Juniors. I hope the World Junior Committee is hearing that. Put it back in December, which I believe is happening this year.

Everybody relaxed. And to me, it's still happy news because Canada wins gold. Anytime that happens, especially at the World Juniors, is pretty special for the country. And I'm looking forward to when it's back at its frightful place, boxing day into the early new year of January. So I'm excited for that. Anyways, happy news, happy, happy, happy way to end.

It is nice, but it's almost kind of half-assed expected, especially, well, I would say any junior or female hockey team, hockey league, especially, where you're like, okay, well, Canada's in it. And you don't even really tune in because you're like, okay, well, they're going to win gold. They're going to win gold. No, I don't. Right. And, I mean, it's like curling. Like, we're finally getting to a point on the world stage where I think was Japan. beat the, well, whomever it was, you know, we're finally not winning every single

freaking end of curling, which is damn shame because, you know, we're good at it. I met Sanders Smirley one time. I even got a holder medal. That was kind of cool. But, uh, in the world, in the world. Here we go. Multiple sports. You can't, you can't curl on a rubber mat. You need the ice. Um, you could do shuffleboard style. There's no ice there. I don't know. Can you really curl shuffleboard pucks? I don't know.

Somewhere, there's someone who's talented who can make those things just go. Old Freddy, he's been in the old folks home for 17 years. He's lost his wife and all he does is shuffleboard. You don't want to come up against that guy. Yeah, but can he curl? Like, that's the thing, right? Like, when you look at curling rocks, they come from exactly two quarries in the world because you need granite that has absolutely no quartz in it for the curling rocks.

So you want to talk about monopoly. There you go. Every time you want to buy a curling rock, it's got to come to one or two places. I think of Scotland. Scotland again. I do a story on curling rocks and how purified they are. That might be the best episode I ever do. I might have to call it quits after that.

I mean, Canada needs to hear that story. Do they not? Okay, you're going to have Jeremy McKenzie on, and then you're going to talk about purity at any. the other sets, it's totally going to get taken out of context. Well, Tuse, it's always a pleasure. Thanks for making it work. You know, certainly you're repaying the favor because I was once upon a time almost dying

in a broom closet and seeing you on the other side sitting in the dark making it work off another person's phone. Whoever that is, hey, shout out to them for lending it to you so you could make this happen. For lending it to me and then running back to grab my phone. That was pretty deadly. Yeah, yeah, everybody makes some mistakes from time to time. The one thing we didn't give a shout out to is the consultant that you were late to last week. Who was that?

I was pretty much right on time. I think you were pretty much right on time. Maybe like 17 seconds late. I'm sure he didn't even notice. Anyways, the guy's a total beauty. We've had friends for years, and he's like, ah, it's all good. Don't worry about it. As he's listening to him.

And then he was listening to it that day. That's right. That's right. Kudos to you, sir. Kudos to you. Anyways, I'm getting the heck out of here. Thanks, Tews. We'll catch you next Tuesday. All right.

See you, buddy.