Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #20

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this weeks headlines: Call signs, manhunt in Saskatchewan, a donkey for mayor &   the problem of disposing of solar panels. November 5th SNP Presents: QDM & 2's.   Get your tickets here: https://snp.ticketleap.com/snp-presents-qdm--222-minutes Let me know what you think   Text me 587-217-8500

Welcome to the Tuesday mashup. I'm joined by Mr. Toos. I am Sean Newman, host the Sean Newman podcast, Tuesdays. Welcome back, week 20. This is 222 minutes, and you're listening to the Tuesday mashup. You're such a jackass. We'll get to jackasses later on. You know, I don't mean to think that this is some like giant, you know, where we've got, I'm finding out we have listeners coast to coast, which is kind of cool. That's awesome. But I'm like, I don't have any like preconceived notions that this is, you know, the next coming of, I don't know, whatever. Pardon the interruption, PTI.

If anyone watches the ESPN show, regardless. But at the same time, when we first started out here, did you think we were going to hit week 20? Or were you like, man, if we make four of these in a row, we're doing something. I thought we were going to keep doing it regardless because it's such a good exercise in keeping current. that there was just inherent value in it for you regardless, right? Like even if nobody tuned in, even if we just made this for ourselves, it would do such a good job of keeping your finger on the pulse of what's happening in Canada that we should just be doing it whether anybody thought it was any good or not.

Yeah, that's fair. Tuz, you seem a little quiet to me. Am I just going crazy? Maybe I'm a tad quiet house. I just kind of changed how things are set up a bit. Is this a little bit better? No, no. Maybe I'm just going crazy.

I could be just going crazy. All right. Well, we'll see how it turns out. You can always just crank the gain up afterwards. 100%. Well, week 20 starts with the quiet twos. I mean, some listeners might enjoy that. I think all of them will.

Well, I meant to play this last week. This comes in from a listener in in Ontario. So let's start here. This is going back to the dairy. We got chewed up on the dairy argument, and this is going back to that. Is this props? All over here from Ontario. Big two and two.

We rate the dairy industry again. Keep up to good work. Just lay off my bread and butter. Bring back more cues. I like him too. Thanks, guys. So that's all the way from Ontario. Of course, we've had,

And I'm sorry, I keep forgetting her name. It's somewhere in my phone, but she's a dairy lady from BC. So it's kind of been all over the map. So that's a shoutout. I said, if you want to get a shout out on the start of this, send me a voice clip on my phone, which is in the show notes. And at like six in the morning, I got that. I'm like, oh, man, somebody's on the ball today. And then, of course, we had all the issues last week.

So it kind of got missed in the shuffle. So a shout out to the man, the daring man out in Ontario. It seems like we've got people kind of tuning in all over the place, too. And he is a QDM lover. That's what he was talking about. He likes Mr. Q as well. Well, Q's going to be hard to get a hold of in the next few weeks. But yeah, I think I quite enjoyed having him on for the show.

And we've got the upcoming show with him in it too. Here's a great segue. Yeah. Tickets now on sale. Tickets now on sale. So a shameless play. nameless plug, but you got it, you got the cool one. A couple from Abbotsford, British Columbia are going to make the trip out, well, out east, I guess. I was going to say

a lot less, but out east. Which I think is just phenomenal and slightly crazy, but very much appreciated, but they're going to make the trip all the way out to Abbotsford or from Abbotsford to Lloyd for the show that you, myself, and Quick Dick McDick are doing at the, something Horse Casino in Lloyd on November 5th. My wife and I want to go, but we have to plan for advance to get someone to babysit the farm and Abbotsford. Thanks, Patrick. Hey, Patrick, shout out to you.

That's super cool. It's very cool. And just real quick, I mean, if anybody wants to, the table with Quick Dick McDick is still for sale. The one with 222 minutes sold out on the first day. And sadly, there's only one of them. but you can still get the quick dick, big dick one.

You know, I'm going to throw this out to the listeners. I think we should do, you know, marshmallow head, you know, the, I don't know what is he, a techno song dude. You know what I'm talking about?

You're giving the eyes right now. You don't know who marshmallow head is. No. Are you talking, the Ghostbusters? No, I'm talking, I'm talking,

come on now. Marshmallow head here. Marshmallow. Oh, I call marshmallow head. Well, yeah, you,

you, you, you've messed it up here because marshmallow is an American music producer. Anyways, he wears a helmet with like a smiley face on it. And I'm like, oh, we should totally have twos wear a box.

Oh, I could be daft punk. That's right. But there's it. Now you're dating yourself. Marshmallow is the new age. I'm a beautiful man. I would totally date myself.

All right. Well, let's get on this show. If you want to get a shout out here in the, in the beginning. good, bad, whatever, indifferent. Shoot a text off to the line in the show notes. Preferrence given to audio clips.

Yeah, 100%. That's freaking sweet. Honestly, super cool. And let us know where the hell you're listening from because, hey, that's what kind of makes it. I like hearing where everybody's coming in from. All right, let's get rolling with the show. I know Tuesday is starting on foam at the mouth over there.

The first headline of the week is RAMS 6. 2s. Rick and Morty. season six. It came out last night. Finally. Here we go. You know, folks. We're finally getting going. I literally am like, what the hell is this? What the hell is this? I knew I had no idea. And that's what's number one headline this week is Rick and Morty. Yeah. I mean, have you never watched it? No. Oh, well, then get your shit together. Get it all together and put it in a backpack. All your shit. So it's together. And if you got to take it somewhere, take it somewhere.

You know, like take it to the shit store and sell it or put it in a shit museum. I don't care what you do. You just got to get it together. Get your shit together. You were waiting for that one, weren't you? I feel like that. You just, I don't even know what to say. Rick and Marty Season 6, punch me in the face, folks.

That's what we're doing here today. All right, fine. Cool. Great. Grant, good. Chili cools off to extreme left. Also, the New York Times is an asshole. We know that straight from the word of.

twos. So I found a great New York Times article about this. And then it said, you need to log in to watch to review this article for free. I'm like, okay, fine, whatever. I give them my information because it didn't work on incognito mode. And I log in and that's the first article. And it says, you've exceeded the number of free articles. Please pay to continue reading.

You crafty sons of bitches, this is just like there was this bud light promotion where they had this contest giveaway. And I didn't really want to give away my information, but you had to answer to contest. And then you try to say no, but then nope, you have to, you have to sign up for the free texts and whatever else. And so finally, okay, sure, whatever, sign up for the free texts. And then they say, thank you for registering, but the contest has been closed. And then they start sending you the text messages. Stringing you along. Did you even want to talk about Trilly or you just wanted to, you want to have a big old rant? I don't really like ranting that much. But Chile is worth talking about for sure because this was just an overwhelming 13 million of the 15 million people in Chile voted against this new constitution.

It was 80% voted to have the constitution basically done anew in 2020. And now 60% of that has said, we don't like what you just put on paper. Throw this out. Yeah. It was just an absolute word salad of leftist farthest. Extreme leftist catchphrases and everything like that. I'm kind of, I started going down a bit of a rabbit hole on Twitter,

which is a dangerous thing to do. I fully find out about the helicopters. I'm like, I might have to interview a few people on this chilly thing. I didn't realize this was all going on. So when you talk about the, you know, this is a good exercise and staying up to date,

I was like, holy crap. And then you go deeper and deeper. deeper and a huge turnout, right? Said, we need a new constant. A constitution. And then two years later, they get a new constitution and they say, yeah, but not this piece of crap sitting on paper. Make it again.

That's correct. Yeah, they're basically just Gordon Ramseyed it. Oh, Mike. You got to work on how that buzzer hits your mic. There you go. That was perfect. Do it exactly like that every time. I don't even know what I close my eyes and everything.

All right. Alberta is the second least. favorite province and also the second most favorite province, but blame the people. And I'm not, first off, that actually isn't a two's headline. That that is pretty much the way it was written. Well, so they talked in the article about how it's the second least favorite province. And then later on in a slightly differently worded question, it said that it was the second favorite province. And then the question was, is why don't you like it that much? And it's the people. The funny thing is, we've talked about this before, how little travel there is

interprovincially Canada. So I feel like this is, because, I mean, my first thought is, is how many people who said it's the people have been to Alberta? Because, I mean, when you see this stuff, you say, okay, well, what's my, what's the next question I would ask if I wanted to understand this better? And generally speaking, when it's these slanted, biased articles, you're, what's the next question I would ask doesn't ever get asked. Yeah. So when I read it, I was like, well, who's the least favorite? And I was like, oh, that's a dumb, dumb thing. It's going to be Quebec. And then my first thought was, I don't think Quebec gives a shit. Like, who cares about a poll that says people don't like Quebec? A, if you've gone to Quebec, it's a beautiful province. And two,

if you live there and people don't like you, well, get in line. Who gives a shit? If you're Alberta, like, whoopty friggin do at this point? You're absolutely right. Because, I mean, if you're the kind of person who doesn't like Alberta. You're more than welcome to just stay wherever you're at. I mean, we've got a good thing going on here. Don't come over and vote the wrong way and fuck it all up for us. I agree. Okay.

Was that better? Worse? Yeah, that was great. I don't know what I'm doing here, folks. Don't know what I'm doing. I mean, it's 20 weeks in and you're figuring out how the buzz works. That's right. Honestly, you should work for the WNBA.

CBC delves in a deep, mystery behind beer packaging and needs to be canned. CBC sucks. And they decided to write an article wondering why craft beer is typically four tallboys instead of six regular ones. And they go in through all this mysticism and oh, is it this and is it that, whatever else? And then they said, well, the difference in costs between a standard 355

mil and a 473 tall boy is negligible. But the thing about it is, is that when you're, drinking a beer, like this one, for example, the most expensive thing in my hand right now is the aluminum, right? It's the most expensive part of the beer. And so if you've only got four of them instead of six, you're cutting down on your cost of goods sold by a third, essentially, right? And that doesn't even get discussed. And then the other thing is that generally speaking, the biggest check that any brewery is ever going to cut is for their canning machine. And the higher capacity, the more cans per hour, the more it costs. And so if you can run, it's not going to be a perfect

drop, right, because you've got to fill more in this one than you would in a smaller one. But the thing about it is, is that if you can handle your entire market demand with fewer cans, that means that you can scale back your canning machine to a more reasonable level. And this is just this is just baby town frolics off the top of your head bullshit and in this 500 word article it doesn't even address so i wish i wish too's just would have said read the headline don't worry about reading the article and this is no offense to any beer guy any cdc i should say that to be no no lots of them i'm like oh you need to read but this sucker was long like this sucker i'm like i'm like i'm like halfway through this i'm like why am i reading this like why does why does two's put

this. Anyways. Because it goes on and on and on and it does. It does. It's obvious answers. And here's the thing is, is I love craft beer, but I didn't need, if you're going to talk about crap beer, let's highlight some of the cool shit they're doing. Not the can size for like, just dribble. That's, that's what the article was. It was just like blah. I was like, if you're writing a boat podcasting, please, let's make it a little more exciting than a 15 minute read that took me nowhere, but to the coach. And I mean, I can almost guarantee you that this article was written by somebody drinking a cabsoff at the time.

Let's talk about the liberals voting in conservative party race, which surprises no one. Christy Clark, lifelong liberal, long time leader of the BC Liberal Party, former Premier, has stated on CTV news that she joined the. The conservative party, the conservative party, just to vote for Jean Choray. So she shows up for a day, puts her vote in, and she's going to go back to being a liberal. And it's, well, it's funny because he's got the same campaign that we looked at with Andrew Shear, and we looked at with Andrew, Andrew Shear and Aaron O'Toole. And it's been tried a couple times.

And I'm over here saying, well, maybe if you had a conservative party with a couple of conservatives, of policies, it might be worth voting for. Like, we haven't tried it in eight years. Let's give it a shot. And you've got these people on the other side of the spectrum who, rather than say, I want my party to run a certain way, they're saying, I want your party to run a certain way. Let's all infiltrate the NDP and make them open to free markets and anti-union.

It's not a bad thought. It's not a bad thought, too. Maybe we should do that. Hey? Let's just all sign up for the NDP. Indy P. I mean, Corey Morgan ran for the NDP

and what tried to and then they shut them down. Side note, I literally watched a documentary day. Get me Roger Stone. Does that name ring a bell for you? Neither the documentary itself or the name. Roger Stone is this kind of guy behind the political scenes in the United States,

Republican. Did you realize the Reform Party was a thing when Bill Clinton was getting elected? Any of this? Are you like, I knew that. It factored into American politics. It factored into American politics and they blamed it for stealing votes from the Republicans and that gave way to Bill Clinton getting nominated is kind of what it's saying.

Like a third party vote. Like what they used to say about the Wild Rose and Alberta. By the way, has been thoroughly debunk. Check out Juno Birchwaters. Anyways, this Roger Stodden thing was he's, to me, the way they portray him and actually as he kind of portrays himself. He is kind of a dick and kind of hides in the shadows and, you know, spreads misinformation or whatever information and kind of does. Gerald butts of making America green. Anyways, what I found cool was, though, they totally infiltrated the reform party in the states to basically blow it up so that it never came back and it took it back to the two-party

system. Anyways, so when we're talking about the NDP, it's like, that isn't such a terrible thought. I mean, honestly, if you want to get the, I mean, I don't know. Is this like on live air conspiring to detonate a bomb? If you were trying to blow up the NDP party, how would you do it any differently than putting Jugmeet saying front and center with a Rolex and a BMW? Honestly, I would just suggest you go in there and try and reform them

with decent, you know, economic-backed policies and some good ideas and a little bit of common sense, maybe just a little sprinkle of math thrown in. Just a thought. Just a thought today. How about the manhunt going on here in Saskatchew? I don't know. I know I was talking to you about this before we started. Damien Sanderson is dead. And Miles Sanderson at this point, as we record this Monday night, is still on the loose. 10 dead, 15 wounded.

I don't know, like the amount of updates yesterday. yesterday on the phone was something to behold as like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse. And it looks like it's maybe starting to wind down. And I say that, but Miles Sanderson is still out there. And I mean, yeah, I don't know too. This has been a wild 24, 36 hours. 11 dead so far. 19 wounded. Oh, 11 dead now. So it's gone. Oh, yeah, because his brother. Oh, because his brother. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah. So they're assuming that his brother's death is somehow involved with everything else that happened, which is probably fairly fair. I want to go out on a limb on this.

Can I say something that may or may not age well? Oh, probably. This is, sure. Sure, too. All right. Okay. We got a guy who at 31 had 59 criminal convictions since becoming an adult. Okay.

He was released in May and then ducked out on parole and has been at large. The police have been searching for this guy since May. Okay. And so he got released because they think that he needs to be able to be out, to be able to turn his life around and find some solidity in everything else. And then he won't be a danger to society anymore. And, you know, they specifically factored in some First Nations considerations. And my thing is, I hate how, first of all, a criminal is a criminal is a

criminal, a victim is a victim, a person is a person. It shouldn't matter one way or the other. But if you're going to throw race into it, throw on the races of the victims, not the perpetrators. Like, rather than looking at it and say, this is a First Nations person going to jail, you're like, this is a person who committed a crime against a First Nations person. So they should be, if anything, treated more harshly. Like, the logic never stands. up when you look at any of this stuff. But even if you wanted to throw it at it and say, you know what, we need to take this seriously. There's a lot of crimes in First Nations communities. If you're committing a crime in a First Nations community, it should be met more harshly,

if anything, than the other way around. Rather than just looking at the bad guy and what nationality he is, let's start looking at the victims. Well, it's, I don't know, what to say to. To me, I don't have a good answer. All I know is I agree when you say, if you've got somebody who's a dangerous individual, does it matter what the background of the individual is? No, people don't want to be hurt. People want to, you know, I was just hearing a story about 7-11 right by where I live. And a guy walked in and stabbed the tenant 39 times, I think it was. And I was like, what happened? He just went off his rocker.

And I'm like, well, that's not good. Like, I don't want to be, you know, like, I got young kids. I just want to be able to go places and not have to worry about, you know, dangerous things happening. And so when you say that, my brain just goes to, so put dangerous people away. I mean, it's pretty simplistic in my eyes. I know it isn't that easy, but, I mean, it feels. feels like, you know, at a certain point, it probably could be. Yeah.

Well, I mean, in Canada, we look at prison as being a place for rehabilitation of criminals. But the simple fact of the matter is that sometimes it needs to be looked at as a way of protecting the citizens. And we've lost sight of that. The prison thing is interesting. And it probably begs to have a bit of a deep dive, you know, kind of. Yeah, we're not going to get to the bottom of this two minutes. Well, and the thing is, is like that system isn't this like, oh, there's only 15 people in it.

Like that is a giant ecosystem of, I don't even know what to say, right? At this point, it's kind of like where, well, let's get some people on. And one thing, you know, on this side of things that I do try to do is exactly that. So I go, I don't know the answer. Tews has got a couple ideas. Maybe they've looked at them. Maybe they haven't. Who knows?

I don't know. These are just my thoughts. All right. The buzzer didn't go off at all. Here, I got it. I got you. There. Moving forward.

Jesus. It's like five minutes of buzzer. Oh, my God. It's got one button on it. You can't figure it out. You would make the worst nuclear launch guy. The future of solar power. Holy man.

Now you got me all tongue-tied. The future of solar panel recycling is. Damn. Okay. So Los Angeles Times, the LA Times writes this article, right in the hotbed of woke everything in California. They're talking about how solar panels with a 25 to 30 year life cycle are starting, because the subsidies came in 2006 in California. And so now they're starting to get to the end of it. And they've got this reclamation issue to deal with, essentially is what it.

is right i mean if think about it in terms of energy production it is it is a reclamation issue because something like i think they said one percent uh they figure are being recycled and the rest are just being shocked and then they've got a bunch of heavy metals in them and things like that and the cost is well they said they said only about two to four dollars worth of materials are recovered from each panel and the national renewable energy laboratory estimated that it costs roughly $20 to $30 to recycle a panel versus one to $2 to send it to a landfill. Yeah. And so this is just ticking time bomb.

I mean, I guess the one saving grace is doing it in California where they're running out of water anyway. It's not there isn't a water supply to really affect that much. Well, they basically said, right, like, you know, it's just a ticking time bomb because everybody can see it's coming. But they have no, you know, what are you going to do with all these, these. you know, solar panels that are going to come up over, you know, as they start to come up, it ain't going to be less. It's going to be more because the solar industry is supposed to quadruple in size between 2020 to 2030.

Every 60 seconds in 2021, a new project was installed is what one of the article, one of the things the article cites. So like, this is going to be a giant problem. it doesn't have to be 22 minutes as a solution. You need to set up an orphan solar panel fund. That's it. I mean, we do the same thing for oil companies. Here's the thing, and I've talked about this before. Oil companies and renewables have two completely different sets of rules.

They get held to two completely different standards. And if you took a little bit of common sense from the oil and gas one and applied it to the renewables, first of all, they'd cease to exist because they're not economically viable anymore. But secondly, you'd have these safeguards in place. So in Canada, when you drill a well, you've got to pay a whole bunch of extra money that goes into escrow so that if you go under, there's still enough money sitting around to abandon the well after you've left it. And I don't see why you can't pay, ooh, I mean, we have this thing for bottles. I don't know if you've ever drank pop or a beer before, but you have this thing called a deposit. And then when it gets recycled, you get the deposit back.

Why is it such a crazy idea to do it for solar panels? Come on. Seriously, guys, this is a big brain stuff. Oh, yeah, you're doing great now. Now you got it. Whatever. I wish the listener could see us on this. Anyways, Canada doesn't care about costs is rewarded with more of them.

Isn't it funny how when you don't give a shit with something costs, it keeps going up. So Canada's public health department put out a bid for some stuff. And then the guy who won the bid accidentally hit reply all. And then the guy who had the lowest cost bid was like, hey, wait a sec. How did that guy get the bid? And I didn't. I came in cheaper. And then it turned out the cost wasn't even a consideration in this, despite the fact that they were met with, oh, this is good.

I got to find the exact wording. All I can think of is whoopsie. You could be that guy and he's like, why did I have to? Why did I have to reply everyone? Oh, but they were, yeah, they were fined $634 or something like that. So who really cares, right? But I mean, here's the thing. Like these laws have no teeth.

But okay, well, here's the first line of this article from the Toronto Sun. Procurement ombudsman Alexander Yeglick has censored and fined Canada's public health agency for awarding a contract to the highest bill, bitter instead of the lowest, according to Black Locks reporter. So just for anybody listening, generally speaking, when we hear about,

when we do articles about how much, how much the government's wasting, it almost always comes back to Blacklocks. They're the only people, they're the best name in town. Oh, yeah, and they're digging in everything. Yeah.

And so, yeah, censored. Do you know what that means? It means you write a letter condemning it. That's what happened to these guys. They screwed up and just, wasted the taxpayer money that they are supposed to be stewards of. And, oh no, they wrote a mean letter about us.

Like, let's actually have some real consequences for fucking things up for once. Am I crazy? I like the second article you tagged in there about the black or indigenous deputy minister. They spent $177,000, which equated to $39,000 of it was spent attempting to hire a deputy labor minister. and another $138,000 was spent list looking for the list of 70 prospects. And then they said, our assessment is to date is that we don't have a candidate that could easily slide into a deputy minister job without being provided with development opportunities. And I went on to say deputy ministers are paid in a range of $219,000 to $330,000 with an annual

bonus of 15 to 39%. And out of the 70 prospects. What other industry do you get a 39% bonus in? And out of the 70 prospects, it went down to two. That was severe shortlisting. Like, imagine spending $200,000 on Indeed ads. You're like, look, look, because, I mean, here's the thing. This is the problem when you make the most important consideration your melatonin levels, right?

Is you say, okay, we got to hire somebody. $22 to find a producer for the Tuesday mashup. I wonder what we'd find. Oh, you know, I bet you there'd be some really interested people who would do it just for the experience or do it because it's fun and interesting. I mean, we could do an even profit sharing where we all like say, you get a third, I get a third, they get a third of the $0 revenue that we're currently generating. By the way, if anybody has some good ideas about who should sponsor this show, we'd love to hear from you. Accountability is a far right extremist view. So the Emergencies Act inquiry, which is supposed to go into how exactly it happened, whether they were justified, whether or not they were being dix.

Spoiler alert they were. It gets delayed for four weeks because the commissioner of it is undergoing surgery for some undisclosed condition. I'm guessing monkeypox. So the thing about it is, is this can't be the only person in 37 million people in this country who was qualified to do this. You could probably just get a stand in, you know, an understudy. There's got to be somebody, you know, his second in command who's like, well, you know what, I've been waiting for this big break my whole life. I can totally jump in and I'll get that 39% bonus, right? Like, no, no, no, we're going to delay the whole thing.

Well, I just, I quit it. I quit it to like, I always come back to sports. You know, you're the coach or the Emmett and Oilers. You got a big thing coming up. Let's say main camp, you know, to start the season and the coach goes down, he's in the hospital. Did they postpone main camp? Do they postpone the playoffs? Does the NHL go, we can't do the playoffs?

No, you move on because they're qualified people. That's why you have a staff. That's what they do. You'll get a Zamboni driver in there if you have. have to. And as something as important... And he'll beat the Leafs. As is something as important as the Emergency Act,

you think that would factor in. So here's the thing. We look at it as though it's important. The liberals, they don't give a shit. They're just going to kick the can down the road. The other thing, though, is we've talked about a little bit about the Nova Scotia shooting and the inquiry that's going on into that. This gospel Wiley, who,

is required to testify. This is wild. It's wily is what it is. Yeah. Finish. So this guy, okay, so this guy says he can't testify in person because of health reasons, undisclosed. Fair enough, right?

I mean, we don't need to know everybody's medical status here. Gee, that. Really? Too's? Right? We don't need to know everybody's medical stuff. However, they said, we're not going to transmit and make publicly available the audio or the video of this man's testimony.

because of his health reasons, because they think they'll get better answers from him. Right. If they keep the record sealed. Okay. So you're going to put this guy under oath and he will answer better if no one ever hears the answers. How under oath is he? And just to fill in, if you don't know who Wiley is,

he's the one who went to the guy's house. What is it? It's a crazy amount. 16 times. Yeah. Wiley is the officer who visited the gunman's Portapeake home 16 times in the years before the deadly rampage of April 2020. Yeah. So like, where are the red flags?

Yeah. So maybe maybe the guy was a genius, right? Like I, you know, and he hit it up very well. Either way, it's like. There's a really good article from McLean's about how they figure he was a confidential informant for the RC&P. well i just i just come back to with this wilder thing it's like so what why would you not make uh even because he's not going to answer truthfully if it's being broadcasted is what they said and somehow we're the only people who have issue with that yeah well there you go folks that's

that's that's the latest update on on nova scotia because i saw that and i was like this is this is this is this is relatively strange this was beyond like as as bad as it is with all other people involved. It also included one of their own. And you'd think that the RCMP would care about a guy that killed one of their own. But they're sweeping that under the rug too with all of this endless bullshit. Cancel everything. Cancel it all. Cancel it all. Churchill, call signs, convoy, bison's, this pretty much goes the gambit. There's Jason Kenney's putting up a new, a new statue of Winston Churchill. Can't do that. Totally privately funded. Can't do that. All signs in the military, Air Force, can't do that.

The Freedom Convoy, oh wait, cancel everyone there. Can't do that. Actually, here's exactly what it said, because I did write it down. As for Snagovsky, I hope I'm saying that right, his team at the University of Alberta, he said this will be a first in a series of research briefs about people who supported the Freedom Convoy and how they'll engage with Canadian politics going forward. This cohort of people is going to play an important role in Canadian politics.

moving forward and it's important to start looking at them. Hey, I'm just, you know, I'm one of those people. I've got plenty of issues with this survey. So it said that the majority of Albertans didn't support the Freedom Convoy, right? It said the majority of NDP said they didn't support the Freedom Convoy. And then when they pulled UCP, that number drastically went up. Most Albertans did not support Freedom Convoy, University of Alberta. I get it.

But read through the article, I agree. That's what they're trying to point out to. But it says the NDP was against it. UCP was pretty much for it. Oh, wait, there's a rural urban divide. And if you go to the rural properties, all of a sudden, they're all for it. And this is read.

Anyways, I get it. So it said, this is where, here's where if you're reading something and if you smell bullshit, and you dig a little bit deeper, you dig a little bit deeper. I went through link after link after link. I eventually got to the original article, and it didn't even post the whole metrics of the survey. Okay?

But if you do that, if you're looking at a survey and you're like, well, those numbers don't really make sense, and then you try and dig into it a little bit more, and it's just a black box, you can safely assume that the survey is bullshit. Because if it wasn't bullshit, they would give you the metrics. Abacus gives you all the metrics. All of them do anyways. But Angus Reed does. but this Polaris thing, which I saw, I can't remember anything off top of my head,

but I've seen it's pretty disturbing stuff about how they're all just kind of just liberal-funded and liberal donors, just pass some money back and forth to each other with some bullshit surveys thrown in the middle of it. But it said that, what was it, 61% of Albertons didn't support the convoy. They said that 70% of Edmontonians didn't support. the convoy and that 53% of the rest of the province did support the convoy. And if you just do some rough math based on those three numbers, roughly 55% of the people they surveyed lived in Edmonton, which is about a third of the province. So it's just hugely disproportionate into a well-known

socialist stronghold. So you know, garbage in, garbage out, you know before you even look at that, that you're going to get a bullshit answer. But they're still presenting it as fact without actually doing any of the deep dive into where they got the numbers from. Because if people can see where they got the numbers from, they'll realize their garbage. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, this article, as soon as they start framing it,

as nobody supported the freedom convoy, because the more information that comes out is shedding light on it. You're like shedding light on one, that there was one flag that, oh, they desecrated some statues. Oh, wait, though some of that was false. Oh, they ended up cleaning up everything. Oh, they burned a building down.

Oh, wait, they didn't do that. All this bullshit. No, what ends up happening the longer this goes on is the more it shows a light on, wow, they actually, they actually handled themselves quite well. And they left peacefully. And they didn't create a riot. And oh my God, they were these people who went there because they didn't like how their government was treating both sides of the population, which at the time was baxed and unvaxed. Right. And you go, the whole fucking article just stinks. Pardon the French. Me and twos. Got a little fun coming up. maybe next week we're going to try and go through an entire episode with no swearing. That is going to be a challenge, my friend, because when I see stuff like this, it doesn't matter what the percentage is saying.

It's a load of bogus, man. It's just BS. I'm not saying everybody in the planet supported it. But we all know majority of people supported it. It's just simple. We don't aim to break into like the ones and twos of Eminton versus the rest of the province. Let's break into the twos for sure. Sure. But I will say this, devil's advocate. What you're speaking about is somewhat anecdotal.

And I'm saying just mathematically, you just break down the little bit of information they give you this article and it doesn't hold up. And that's the thing. That's when you can actually go to these people and say, look, what I'm saying isn't anecdotal. I can mathematically prove that you are full of fucking shit. Can we talk to in this cancel everything? I thought the call signs thing was interesting. For people who don't know what we're talking about, they're in Air Force, right? You know, just go to Top Gun, right? Maverick and Iceman, they all have their different call signs.

I thought the article was rather enlightening because I was like, I wonder how they figure that out. Well, they have not a rookie party, but to me, in a sporting world, that's exactly what it is.

They go have a few drinks, have a roast of everybody, meaning they, you know, I think everybody knows what I'm talking about with the comedians and they roast each other. And out of a good night of drinking, they pull out some names

and carry on. And now what can happen when you get drinking involved and people roasting each other? Ah, some lines. They're not always tasteful. That's right. And so that's what they're having a discussion about. Although I didn't think, I guess it kind of fit into this one. But I thought, you know, honestly, it only takes one person to take something too far.

And then that's what happens. Now they've got to have a commission to go take a look at call signs and make sure that there's no drinking at the next one. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. or something, right? Which is stupid, because they'll just do the next one off the books, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's not going to stop. And when it comes to stuff like this, like, yeah, okay, there's the one person who wrecks it.

But it doesn't take a genius to be like, okay, well, you know what, if that person's call sign is sex with goats 420, maybe we'll just go back to the drawing board real quick. Yeah, but it probably isn't so black and white. There's probably a few things in there where you get, well, I mean, probably just speaks to where we're at in society. Things have changed. You go back 30, 40 years, 100% agree with what you just said. You fast forward and there's just, it's so much different. I'll give you a case in point, okay? I got a good one too.

Wayne Grexky in his book writes about the shave. Do you know what the shave is? Oh, shoot. I had that book when I was a kid. And there was that picture of coming out of the shower. Yeah. I it's ringing a distant bell but I can't put it together. Okay. So, so in hockey lore, one of the rituals used to be the shave where your pubic hairs get shaved by teammates.

I don't know why on earth that would ever be a thing. And I don't know. How good a job did you have to do? Because like there's some hard to reach spaces in there. Hey, I'm just saying it was a ritual. And then you just kind of like you stretch them out and then it's more like a canvas. Listen. I'm saying that has no place in hockey anymore.

And I'm sure there's some old timer going, oh, it was off. Yeah, it was just out of day. You guys don't shave your balls anymore? Oh, God.

See what Tuse is doing here? I'm trying to make a serious point. And the fuckers trying to be all on me about it. You're trying to make a serious point about way Grisky's shaving is dick. I'm trying to, I'm trying to make a serious point about one time, the greatest NHL player of all time in his book wrote about the shave. And now years later,

nobody had ever write about that. like ever. They probably wouldn't even talk about it on stage because that's where society's at. And so things have progressed. That's all I'm saying. So when it comes to Top Gun and how they get their call signs, old, you know, fuck's a goat. Yeah. Like obviously that's probably 30 years ago and there probably was that guy. But now, no, that that wouldn't fly. That's what I'm getting at. I don't know. Maybe in like the Scottish Air Force would. Do I need to move on? I feel like I need to. Dude, dude, you got the buzzer. You're going to.

Fucking dudes. Like, if I could jump across the screen right now and give them a spot, folks, I tell you what, I probably would right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if you don't feel like throwing hands at me at the end of an episode, I feel like I've missed out. Okay, well, you buzzed. But the other thing was apparently Bisons are now canceled.

Yeah, well, we don't care about that anymore. You'll refrigerate nothing and you'll be happy. Denver, Colorado, heatwave hits. And people with smart thermostats in their houses tried to turn on their AC and it said, fuck you. You're going to be hot. Yeah, but here's the catch on this. I think they fuck themselves because it says customers receive $100 credit for enrolling in a program

and a $25 annually. But Roman said, Roman said customers also agree to give up some control to save energy and money and make the system more reliable. So they didn't read. So they agreed to the terms and conditions without reading them. That's never happened before. 100%. The guy literally says in the interview, you know, I thought it would be like a life or death

situation where they take away my ability to. I'm like, so you're just pissed because you didn't read the fine print of a, you were going to get the money and you thought, oh, a couple times they'll just lower my, you know, whatever they'll try and optimize instead of in a heat wave where things are going wrong when do you think they're going to have to lower your you know no you can't use power then because they're starting to have rolling blackouts all over this damn planet twos like we're pretty fortunate where we live yeah because we've got fossil fuels Sean correct everyone in politics is a jackass I can't believe this isn't the happy story of the day but hey it was this close man

okay yeah so as the headline reads everyone in politics is a jackass And I think we've established that at this point, right? But in Grand Forks, I think BC. BC. Yeah. A donkey is running for mayor of the town. And not just in the political sense. This is an actual donkey.

Yeah. And so, anyway, its name is Lobo. And, like, I can't. Some people are saying they hope he takes a bite. out of crime. That's right from the article. That's not, that's not an awesome joke I made.

That's an awesome joke somebody else. No, that's his owner, literally this woman saying like, you know, like I think he'd be a great leader. He's got real good judge of character. I'm like,

how is this, how is this an article? How is this on global news? How did this happen? I'll ask you this, Sean. What municipality, province,

or country would this not be a better replacement for what we currently have? If a donkey ran Canada, which that already is true. Oh, at least. Oh, what's it going to get? Horse face? I tell you what, I could see some positions. Is it going to get some hoof prints all over the ass end of a reporter?

Or run over a First Nation's clan mother at a protest. Hey. Yeah. Oh, is it going to throw? throw some of his colleagues under the wagon. Here's your happy story of the week, folks. Man becomes principal at an elementary school where he worked as a janitor. 30 years later, 30 years later, he becomes the principal.

This was his school when he was a kid. Yeah. And then he graduates. He works there as a janitor. He becomes a teacher. He becomes the principal. I just, I find it really frustrating how, some kind of hoity-toity pinkies up people seem to look down on folks without education or, you know,

they're at a different stage in their life. And they don't realize that it's a journey, not just like a static pinpoint in time. And I think this is probably one of the best news, happy news that we've had where this guy just like this, this has been his essentially home for decades. and now he's the guy who is in charge of it, not that being in charge is really that interesting. But did you catch? But I just, did you catch?

Yeah, did you catch that he didn't apply? It wasn't like he was like, he became the janitor and then people convinced them to go get his teaching license. He's like, okay, because they saw how he interacted with the kids and thought he'd awesome. So then, okay,

he's a teacher. And then he says he gets a call out of the blue one day. And they go, yeah, we'd like you to be the principal. And he's like, uh oh okay right he he isn't this like guy that's like oh yeah next on the doc is principal then i'm superintendent and i'm going to be all these things he's just this guy who's so good at his job

from what i take and so good around people that he just earned becoming the leader of the school it's absolutely wonderful your leadership qualities aren't defined by the letters after your name and this is a perfect case in point yeah even if it is two two two um Sir, thank you for another week of the mashup. If you're wanting tickets to SMP presents Q's and 2s or QDM and 22 minutes. Yeah. Show notes. And Sean Newman.

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send us a voicemail. I really enjoyed that. Either way, hope you enjoyed another week, week 20, and next week, screw it. We're going no swearing twos.

Let's see if we can pull that off. I think it'll be fun. It'll be a fucking good time. All right. We'll catch you next week. Bye.