Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #28

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

222 Minutes hops on to discuss the week's headlines which include Musk takes over Twitter, overpaying government employees, protestors burning cop cars & Trudeaus short on body guards.  Ro'han Rig Services is hiring all positions to find out more send them an email: [e-mail] or call 780-872-7887 For more information visit: rohanltd.com Let me know what you think   Text me 587-217-8500

Again with the full... You gotta start with the clip, man. This is just getting ridiculous. Sorry, folks. If I knew where the mute button was, he just keeps turning it off on me anyways. I'm giving listeners what they want. That's because they haven't heard the clip.

You got to play the clip, and they'll be like, oh, that's way better. It's snappier. It gets things going. Yo, wrap it up, B. Wrap it up, B. Happy Halloween, Sean. This week, Tuesday's like,

hurry up, hurry up, Hurry up. Meanwhile, the guy sits and talks a two-minute segment into eight minutes. So I mean, hey, folks, welcome to the Tuesday mashup number 28. I'm trying to do best by the listeners here. That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm here for you guys and gals. Here comes in from a listener, Drew, tell twos to quit flapping his gums about the intro, play the bastard in full every show. So effing good. Fucking good. Haven't missed an episode yet. Keep it up. You're changing the course of the path. change the course of the path we're on whether you realize it or not when I listen at night out in Rocky Mountain House

I've always got a Pilsner in hand Sask habits are hard to break wish I could make the big event with twos and cues but kids hockey and the bug for coaching I've caught not allow it all right then I got real quick I got something else to add to that sure well I had somebody

just tell me tonight get over the fact the intro is the whole song not just a clip and I told him I will the fuck not That's got to be the dairy cartel Because he also text me He also text me We also had Tuesday mashup I love the Tuesday mashup

Toed in on the sand beaches And PEI this past week Which I thought was pretty cool That was beautiful And then listening from up here in the Yukon I've been a listener of The Sean Newman podcast for one and a half years When you started doing Tuesday mashups

It quickly became a favorite Love how you find so many Interesting new stories to tell us about I mean geez the headlines don't let us down any week it seems like but many that's because i write them many i would never have known but if not for you my favorite is when you actually get around to telling us what the news story is about i blame twos and your takes on of of course love the humor i don't drink but my husband would say spruce tip from winter log brewery i'm originally from cut knife and was super stoked about this

killer podcast darling from lloyd keep up the great work guys and a sweet name zandria i like that zandria Yeah. That's the listeners this week. So we're missing Quebec, Northwest Territories, none of it. Did I miss any? That's pretty much it. And then anybody from the rest of the world, really. Although I think we got some listeners in Australia.

We're going to get to that. Hey, all I'm saying is if you're tuning in, I tell you what, this thing is hot. I'm in costume tonight, folks. I made sure I came looking dapper twos not so much. Sean is dressed up as the cookie monster for those who can't see them. And tonight's episode. Correction. It's Grover.

It's Grover. Everybody gets it wrong. That's okay. It's okay. I've been correcting parents all night, you know? All right. Well, he's Grover. And today's episode is brought to you by the letters S&P and the number 2-22.

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And I would argue their wages are going to make you a rich man or a woman myself. There's good wages on the rigs. Just saying that. Now, shall we get the clock rolling? I'd say let's hit it. Right. Here we go. Elon Musk flips the Twitter.

Flip's Twitter, the bird. Apologies. This is how it's going to start. I've had a couple of chocolate bars, and I'm all firing up on the sugar. The three top Twitter executives, whom Elon Musk fired Thursday, will walk out the door with $187 million of Musk money.

It's going to come as a huge... And then the other part, sorry, apologies, the other part of the article that I really liked, whoever I forget the author's name, he said, it's going to come as a huge shock to these privileged children that employers are perfectly entitled to sack people who spend most of their time taking mental health, are working when they feel like it on the company dime.

The best part of that article, though, is the headline. Twitter birds navigate Musk's wind turbine blades. I think that whoever wrote that in Australia, they're listening to the headlines on the Tuesday mashup, and they're like, we need to incorporate that down under. I tell you what, how about Elon Musk getting Twitter, though? Like, you got high hopes for it, you got low hopes, You just like, it can't be any worse than what's going on?

Well, it probably can't be any worse than what's going on. I do have high hopes. I really don't like putting the fate of free speech in the civilized world in the hands of one person. I don't really like putting things in the hands of any person regardless. I mean, what happens if he just has a giant change of heart or goes crazy or whatever? Maybe somebody gets some good blackmail information on him because he went to Epstein Island or something like that. Who knows, right? It could go any direction.

Maybe this is just a long play. Maybe. Maybe he's just going to secretly make it even more isolation-y for alternative viewpoints, which aren't even really all that alternative. Let's go on the hopeful side here. Let's say. Hopeful? Wouldn't it be cool?

Wouldn't it be cool if you just were able to have a conversation where you weren't thinking that you're just being censored and being stifled? and that your ideas were able to compete on an even level with everybody else's. Listen, you, you, sir, have a big following on Twitter. Twitter is your game. If he could add one thing in that would make it a success, other than just allowing people to be people and not censoring every second word, what would you want?

I would want them to take away the idea that they try and do this sort of gangster thing where as soon as they saw a podcast in my Twitter bio, they said, hey, they sent me an email saying, hey, we notice that you have a podcast. You should pay to advertise with us. And since then, every single, because I didn't have it in my Twitter bio originally, and ever since then,

every time I talk about Spotify or the Tuesday mashup or my 22 cents, almost nobody sees it. It went from getting tons of traction every time I talked about it, getting none. And I think that's, stop being, gangster. So you're saying if you could do one thing to Twitter that put it on the up and up is stop being a gangster. That's that's your all right. That's that's that's that's that's my own

personal thing. All right. But you have. Here I thought you were going to have like add a button do this. Nope. Stop being gangster. 222 minutes on Twitter. Thank you. Meta going to the mattresses. Okay. This is an interesting one. Be so, uh, Bill C 18, which is modeled on a similar Australian code, uh, law, sorry, would make tech giants such as Facebook and Google. compensate news organizations for carrying their work. And basically what Facebook has said is if you implement this, we just won't allow Canadian news outlets on Facebook. Well, we may not allow news to be broadcast on Facebook.

The thing about it is, is the way it's set up, every time someone shares a story by anybody, CBC, Global, CTV, whoever, they get a little bit of money. Not Facebook, but Facebook has to pay. that news agency a little bit of money. And so you're like, okay, so if a bunch of people share a news story on my site, I need to pay the people that have the news story, it seems kind of weird, right? It seems backwards.

Yeah. And they're saying, well, I mean, if it's going to cost us money, why would we do it? Which is a fair thing to do. Like if the government implements a thing that says, if you allow this to happen, it's going to cost you money, you're saying, okay, well, I'm just not going to allow that to happen anymore. Yeah. And articles just trying to protect, you know, businesses in media that are going out of business because they're becoming irrelevant. That's part of the article's talking about.

Because there's things like the Tuesday mashup that are picking up traction and getting people listening all over the country that people don't really need to tune into global and worry about some big crazy slant on an article about the convoy or whatever, right? Isn't it weird how being honest with people kind of resonates and they appreciate it? I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. I actually agree with you. Here we go. Trudeau tries to bond with Canadians. Trudeau announces Ukrainian sovereignty bonds a new way for Canadians to directly support the war-torn nation. Canadian government has provided around $2 billion in loans already to the Ukraine. And he received a massive applause when he announces this.

Yeah, this is just classic liberal. You take an idea that's almost awesome, and then you just turn it on his head and make it shitty. So, I mean, the idea of doing some kind of a thing where if people want to support international efforts, whether it's like the United Nations, the World Health Organization, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Denmark, you name it, they could just send the money. You could just say, okay, well, you know what, I want to devote this much money towards this thing or this organization. or this country or whatever. They're like, okay, well, that takes the partisan issue out of it

because it's not the liberals handpicking who the money goes to. It's the individuals, the people who actually provide the money deciding. Now, I think that that would be a great way to actually run all of our international funding efforts. So we're not sending money to Nigeria, even though they have zero national deficit. And we've got over a trillion in national deficit. that they should be sending us money. But now they took this idea and they said, okay, well, we're going to back it.

So they're basically just deferring a payment to Ukraine effectively. They say, okay, well, if citizens pay this, then we'll pay the citizens back in a few years with interest. It's sending more money to Ukraine with inflation, with interest. And it was just very much almost a great idea. And then they just fucked it all up. How much money is enough money? How much money is money? All of it.

No, no. How much money is enough money? Oh, enough money? Just a little bit more. I guess so. Phoenix burns taxpayers. Now, I got a little spiel here. Up to a quarter of federal government employees

are still experiencing problems with their pay because of a troubled Phoenix paid... This is a problem I would like to have. And the government might be running out of time to collect on overpayments. A new report from Canada Auditor General says 28% of civil servants in its sampling had errors in their pay, which is down from an estimated 47% a year.

Not bad. Meanwhile, more than $500 million in overpayments, overpayments, you heard that right, overpayments, were made to more than 100,000 employees, some dating back more than three years. The Phoenix system was launched in 2016 and was meant to consolidate dozens of antiquated pay systems and save the government millions each year. Instead, okay, in eight years, just so when we have this, instead it has resulted in a massive upheaval and has costed government more than $2.1 billion. How crazy is it that it's just paying people who work for us, an accurate amount shouldn't be that hard?

I mean, every company in the world does it? And if there's, it's not as though there aren't ever mistakes, but they're easily fixed. And this has been going on where you overpaid people three years ago and you still haven't gotten that money back? Like how is this such an existing problem that just you could fix this with a spreadsheet. You could send Sean and I, not $2.1 billion for like $2.1 million. Sean and I could build a spreadsheet in Excel that would get you 100% accuracy. And Sean wouldn't even need to take part in it. He could just ride along and he'd be like, yeah.

Like page check. Yep. I've been to Tim Hortons with a man we both know. And he has been like, wait a second, that doesn't add up. I got a donut and a coffee and it's costing me $12. And the lady's like, what? And then he'd like brace it down. And then she's like, no, no, no, you're wrong.

And then they go back and forth. And then she's overcharged him by like $3. And he gets $3 back. This is $500 million in the last three years. $500 million. You know how inept you have to be? 500 million twos? I feel like, yeah, I could fall asleep for a year and just wake up for a couple days and probably got this one solved.

I'd be pretty motivated, too, 500 mil. Protesters protect Mother Earth by burning cop cars. Makes sense to me. I don't know what the big deal is. Before dawn on Wednesday, multiple cars were set alight in the parking lot of sunshine in and Smithers, BC after firefighters extinguished the blaze. It was found to have destroyed eight vehicles, including four marked RC&P cruisers and a BC ambulance. The RCMB have identified no immediate suspects, but the hotel happens to be within an hour's drive of the coastal gasling quark camp that has been the subject of numerous illegal blockades and most recently the violent midnight attack. At what point are they going to start seizing these people's bank accounts?

Well, I mean, are they there with bouncy councils? Like, are they just playing Bob Marley? Are they playing hockey in the streets? is this is this a friendly get-together waving Canada flags everywhere and like the immediate the immediate response would be we respond with force and we get this cleaned up and we don't allow it with shenanigans like this that actually are dangering people's lives

that actually is damaging property etc etc holding up key infrastructure blah-di-da-da-da the right answer should be well we go in and we arrest and we We protect what's our interest is. And we shut it down. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, it was only a few months ago that they were trying to set a car on fire with people inside of it. Like this stuff has gone on long enough. And there's no goodwill left. It's pretty easy at this point to just say, look, if you guys have fucked around, you're about to find out. But instead, we're pussy footing around on stuff like this. And, you know, when you look at like the speculative cost of something like the Freedom Convoy, where, I mean, we covered a few weeks ago that they couldn't even find enough people to give away the money to who were supposedly out cash in hand. And like this, this is delaying a big infrastructure project, which can be very easily tabulated and said it's costing us this much every day in taxing revenue,

in the money that businesses are going to be making and also the money that businesses are being cost by, having all this um all these capital expenditures tied up in delayed projects and and none of this is being met with any modicum of force or seriousness it's just nobody in our government wants to take this seriously and it's about fucking time they did welcome to Canada because if that story wasn't ridiculous enough folks this probably will be welcome to Canada where we register guns not sexual predators. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that 2011 changed the criminal code requiring sex offenders to automatically be added to the sex offenders registry is unconstitutional. And a five to four split the top court ruled that anyone that has been added to the national

sex offender registry since 2011 can apply to have their status changed. And what the article talked about was, so in order to go on it, if you've been, um, you've been, um, you've been, um, you've if you've had two sex offenses, then you go on it. Okay? And what they were saying was, uh, for a lot of people, it happened in one offense. And, you know, like, it was kind of like, maybe we're being a little bit prejudice and we're not actually like, you know, uh, I don't know. I'm butchering it because I'm just, you know, like I, I, once again, I go, you can't make this shit up. Okay.

But there's no real such thing as like two things that sort of happened at the same time. is only one sexual offense, right? Like, if you take advantage of two women at the same time, like they're, I don't know, passed out or something like that, and you just, you know, wreck them both. Like, that's pretty serious. And it's not an isolated incident. Like, that's with malice.

And so, I mean, the thing about it is, we live in a country where we can't offend anybody. Everybody's worried about getting offended. And the only type of offense we're worried about protecting is sex offenders. Like this is ridiculous. We've got a registry for guns and we don't have one for sex offenders.

Like, come on. Like, let's actually start worrying about protecting the citizens rather than worrying about the feelings of people who are convicted molesters. Well said. Canadian Muslims face shortage of technicalities. This is, well, once again,

I was saying a twos before we started. the variation of headlines this week is, well, as you're seeing, all over the map. For many prospective homebuyers in Canada, obtaining a mortgage can be a challenge due to elevated home prices, but for members of Canada's Muslim community, those looking to purchase a home, may face with an additional barrier, securing a mortgage that aligns with their faith. Sharia law, the body of Islamic religious law, prohibits the use of Riba, otherwise, I hope I'm saying that right, otherwise known as interest charged on loans. As a result, conventional mortgages offered by Canadian banks which charge clients' interest are not considered Sharia compliant.

So they had two options, both which do charge interest. It's just in a way that is, like, honestly, I would love to have, I read this story and I'm like, I would love to have a Muslim guy come on and explain to me how this dances their religion, because it's, the two options are the bank, buys it outright and then basically sells it back to you with interest over 25 years they just it's a payment and you don't pay in anyways or uh you you basically co-own it with the bank i think are the two that are read anyways yeah so i mean i just i thought this was just a really amusing story in terms of logically twisting yourself in a circle so like first of all um it's not technically against muslim religion it's against a subset of Muslim culture um

that the Trial law is. And what it is is it says that they'll typically... Was I saying that wrong? Did I say that wrong? No, no, no. I'm just trying to put a little bit more perspective on it. No, no, no. And so anyway, what they'll do instead of charging interest

is they will sell it to you over a period of years at a marked up price, at a set marked up price. And they said it was usually 20%. So, for example, if you paid 2.5% annual interest on a mortgage over 20 years, you would pay slightly more than 20% of the total purchase price in interest. Like I said, they pay interest in a different way. And that's exactly, it's just, it's this funny little technicality where it's, where it works out to be exactly the same thing.

But if you call it something different, now it's fine. And I just, I thought it was just silly that it's, it's not specific to, to Muslims or even Sharia, but how sometimes in religion you'll find like these weird little technicalities. that get you around what you are and aren't allowed to do. Anyway, that was just my take on it. I thought, yeah. Arkell's take antiquated stance on science. Once again, this article is just a smidge old because they would have played this weekend, yes?

I'm not sure when the concert was. Okay, so anyways, there's uncertainty. The article came out on the 27th. Right, so it would have been right before this weekend. And it says there's uncertainty if the archa, Kells Friday show at the Saddle Dome and Calgary in Saturday event at Rogers Place in Eminton has mandated people provide proof of vaccination to attend. And the quote from the lead singer, based on the consistent findings from our health

care community, we probably support the vaccine accompanying regulations to keep our most vulnerable safe. That was the lead singer, Max Kerman. Does he realize the province he's in? Yeah. Does he know what myocarditis is? It's just, it's funny because when you're an artist, you should try and appeal to as many people as possible so that more people will go to your concerts, buy your records, support you, by your march, whatever, whatever that is, right?

And so, I mean, they're a band, like they've got a song called The Ballad of Hugo Chavez, which is actually a really catchy song. And it's kind of one of those things where you're like, I really like the song, but yeah. And they've got a lot of good tunes. But, you know, it's kind of like where Pink said, you know, if you're not with me in politics, I don't want you listening to my music. Like, fair enough. If you guys don't want people who disagree with you on what is essentially now a political stance because it has no basis in fact, if you're not going to agree with them politically,

they don't watch it your show, all right, fair enough. I'll keep my money and I'll go watch Kid Rock when he comes to town. Fucking A. No one wants to take a bullet for that. Trudeau guy. That's well put. It's true. Tell me I'm wrong.

We probably don't even need to read the article. The RC of Clea... Oh, man. Okay, spit it out today, Jr. The RCMP's close protection unit is running short of specialized officers. It needs to protect elected officials, undermining its ability to respond to federal ministers' growing demands for security services.

New figures show in the Ottawa region alone, 75 positions of... 75 positions out of a total of 315 in the RCMP's protection unit are unstaffed, a vacancy rate of 24%. I would just like to tag in here. This guy who's been on the podcast multiple times. I was going to bring them. I was going to bring them up.

You know, like, I see all these articles. I'm like, you know, I'm not saying that 75 people who left were all unvaccinated. I'm not saying that. But I am saying you cut out a portion of your workforce. And this just doesn't go to oil field workers or doctors or nurses. This certainly goes into this realm as well. And the fact that these morons keep writing this stuff, I'm just like, how about we clue into the people that have been pushed out of work

because they didn't want to do what you wanted them to do? Can we talk? Yeah. And so this job is essentially like the secret service for our Canadian politicians, which is the liberals right now, although I guess not strictly limited to them. If the conservatives or the NDP need them or something like that, they'd have access to them too. But I mean, when you've got the people in charge who've done nothing but pit Canadians against each other for the past eight years, seven years. Yeah.

And then you put up a job posting and you're like, okay, well, full-time hours. You get to carry a gun. Okay, that's kind of cool. Blah, blah, blah. Great pension. Okay. Some of your duties may exist, maybe, but not limited to taking a bullet for Justin Trudeau. you'd be like, fuck that.

I'm out. Right? Like, just imagine you're that guy with the bulletproof vest, and you're standing there, and all of a sudden you see some sniper in the window in the hotel across the park or something like that, and you see him lining up. He'd just kind of, like, duck to the side. I mean, like, seriously, you're going to take a bullet for that schmuck? In hockey terms you, Flamingo, you lift a leg.

You're like, yeah, I don't really want to block that shot, you know? Like, yeah, we're just going to let it through. which leads us you know this is going to be our shortest in a while too so i'm going to say that we've been ripping through it leads us to our happy news blackface can be a good thing hmm um i this is the story about uh the man who shows up in the mining clothes with his son at the basketball game uh gets a picture taken of them it goes viral and uh basically it's the working man uh works a full day in the mine and still gets on time to see his son's first basketball game with him.

Here was the quote I liked from the article. It was the coach of the team, and they offered him VIP access with his family for a game, which I thought was super cool. But he said, isn't it neat for someone like that who is quiet, humble guy to know people appreciate you, and we appreciate what you stand for? This was Kilpari told reporters,

and I appreciate it because it's how my family got their start in this country. And I thought that was a pretty cool tip of the cap from the head coach of the basketball team, the home team that took the picture even and put it out on social media. I thought it was absolutely great. I mean, you just got a regular blue-collar dude who I kind of take issue with the fact that he didn't even change his clothes first. Because, I mean, he would have gotten his truck and drove there and just got the whole thing all shmagged up. That's kind of bullshit. I thought, but that's just me being picky, I guess.

The story itself, I thought was absolutely wonderful. I mean, that's why we're talking about it right now. This is just a regular Joe who basically does everything he can to support his family, you know, make a living for them, and then books it over to be a dad, like literally with no gap in between. You got the alarm going off. Well, that's just telling me my time's closing in. All right.

You know, we haven't brought up Rohan much this entire time. And I just go, you know, there's a bunch of. of hardworking men that work at that company in particular, along with a whole bunch of others here in this area, blue collar. And I think we're not immune to it, too, as I don't want to say it that way, but we see it on a daily basis. I mean, literally, this is what the oil field, agriculture, et cetera is. Guys go out, work their bags off and show up.

And once again, I'll throw it out there. The sponsor of the podcast, Rohan Rig Services, Hire in All Positions. and if you're sitting out in, I don't know, you're sitting in Ontario, we're picking on Ontario, but heck, you could be sitting anywhere in Alberta right now looking for a change of pace, looking for a big payday working for, I don't know, maybe you're just tired of what you're doing. They are hiring all positions that is in the show notes. We put everything there. That way you just got to click or send an email, whatever you want to do.

But either way. Yep, this is the kind of guy that you're going to be. This is, you know, that guy who gets his face dirty, gets his hands, Dirty makes an honest living. Can you imagine showing up to a basketball game in Lloyd Minster? After working the rigs all day and taking your coveralls off? I don't think so. Can you imagine?

Oh, no, you wouldn't get let into the crew truck, right? Like, nobody let you into the truck. And if you tried to get in, I don't know. What do you think you're doing? Oh, the shit bird. I'm sure we're going to hear about that next weekend. Fuck. Yeah, well, I tell you what, mashup 28. Fans got to hear a little bit longer of a song, hey?

Tews still ain't liking it. I'm all, the text lines open, let them have it. I'll pass along. I got no problem with that. I just want to keep things moving. I just want to keep things moving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But by the time next Tuesday rolls around, we will have been on stage. That's going to be a fun little evening here in Lloyd Minster.

Ticket sales end tonight, October 31st at... By the time you hear it, it's too late. It's too late. So I'm excited. We got pretty much full house. I think we got like 13 tickets left or something like that right now. So it's pretty much full house. Oh, yeah, that's awesome.

It'll be a fun night and excited for it. Either way, appreciate you doing this on Halloween evening. I don't know about you. What's your favorite treat that you get if you go trick-or-treating? Ooh, I like You know those Chocolate brownie M&Ms? I quite like them

Chocolate brownie M&Ms Yeah, you get them in the big bag The grape for road trips and stuff How about you? Chocolate brownie M&Ms? Like only the two is to go so fucking obscure. Okay, I... Seriously, they're...

They melt in your mouth, not your hands? Have you ever heard of them? If you turn them sideways, their ease? And if you turn them, them upside down, their Ws. And honestly, chocolate brownie M&Ms, I think for me, that's a big W. You were probably the guy out there today who got the wagon wheels, and you're like, oh, wagon wheels. I just love a good wagon wheel. Anyways. Yeah, you're probably the guy who gets disappointed when you don't get apples. Hey, I tell you what, candied apple.

I didn't say canned apple. I didn't say caramel apple. I just said just a regular ass Macintosh. Would I like? Probably Probably I'm probably a sour patch Kid guy Yeah A little sourpatch kid guy

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Twizzlers or something Grover Grover is out Thanks for episode 28 We'll catch up to you next week Folks Fucking M&M's

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