Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #31

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Twitter cuts employees, redefining whats need to invoke the EA,  Canada Girl Guides & one determined cat. 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

You motherfuckers. No worries, folks. I muted them. I can unmute myself. But I can mute them back. And unmute it again. Boo-ya. Motherfucker.

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We can't even get as many people as we need. And that seems to be a common thing in this industry. Yeah, it does. And I guess that's where we'll hop right in. Rohan rig services bringing mashup 31 to you. And everybody's in the same boat at this point, you know. Everybody's looking for good people to come and work to, you know. And I keep pointing out, and you pointed out,

over the past couple weeks. A, you don't got to live in Lloyd Minster to come work for Rohan. Anywhere in Alberta, they can push you to work. And so if you're in Alberta, you're in Saskatchewan, you're across the border, you're wherever you're at, you want to earn some money and get to work and have a good job. Well, our sponsor is certainly a place you could land. Yeah, and, I mean, I've said it before,

but they are a quality company. There's some out there that are a little bit sketchy. You know, you just see them. You're like, ah, fucking scabs. But every time you see a Rohan rig coming by, you're like, man, they've got such nice iron. They do have good iron. Actually, that's one of the things that I think is most recognizable about Rohan, is their iron is always clean. Like, it's like ridiculous.

Always clean, but also it just looks like it would be really nice to work on. Like, I remember I was living in Lloyd when they first became a company, and you saw their first little bits of, equipment here and there and you're like man why can't we have stuff like that you know you feel like you feel like the kid at a birthday party we know when you're you know before the coin cake where the other guy gets something really awesome and you're like oh man why can't I have that for my birthday the good old coin cake miss that okay here let's let's get on to some listeners text because we had a ton come in uh this one was interesting okay so we asked a bunch of questions we'll get to the questions after. This was one of the topics we had last week. It says today's mashup point of order,

Sean Chu was properly investigated at the time of police committee made up of a few female cops while serving under the police chief Christine Silverberg. He was exonerated and this was a non-issue. We are very good friends to one of the Calgary's police chiefs who thought this was a political attempt to get rid of Chu because he wasn't in line with Gondack's woke agenda. Gondack is a rat who never once mentioned climate emergency during her campaign until the day after her election. I hope she loses by a huge percent of the next one. So we talked about Chu and the 16-year-old girl story.

It sounds like from a listener who's close to it, knows a little more than me and you, is saying it was a bunch of bullshit. Fair enough, I mean, from what little I've seen, I'm not in Calgary anymore, but Gondek has just been an ongoing disaster. And, I mean, you saw how Jeremy Farquess in the last town or city council was just constantly at odds with everybody

and it would totally make sense that they would try and you know just get somebody who's going to be making waves out before it was even an issue um then then we had you know we asked listeners do they want numbered blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I think it was you know I'm just going to go with what I'm comfortable with I didn't have a clear indication of people not liking it liking it so for me I like the number, so unless I'm told otherwise, whatever. I'm good with that. Yeah, I think so.

And then, and then people were frustrated with the clip and not the song. And I tell you what, the phone blew up about that. Here was the, here's one of the best ones, okay? TJ from Ontario, just finished the mashup. A little disappointed you let twos push you on the intro. Maybe you should take some pointers from the boss bear. And I was like, and if you haven't. I didn't see that text.

You didn't send me that one. That's pretty good. If you don't know what we're talking about, our happy news last week was a bear who's been deemed the boss bear, and he is the boss. So there's a lot in there, but a lot of people, and I'm not going to read them all off, because there was a lot saying fuck twos

and basically go back to the song, so you get the song this week. There were so many people who said some variation of fuck twos. It was interesting to see. I mean, if you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. But if you run into assholes all day long, you're the asshole. But also, I think I'm just wrong by democracy. Okay, well, the timer has been set for 22 minutes and 22 seconds in, you know,

with you having your latest episode come out, all about the twos. I thought maybe that's where I set the timer for today. So if you haven't listened to Tew's latest episode, you should go do that. What did you think? I like this line. This is my favorite line. You live by the twos, you die by the twos. So it's pretty clever, folks, if you have no idea what we're talking about.

And twos, sure, if you want to fire off for two seconds here before we start. Well, it was just really fun. I remember when you had, I think it was Boyd Anderson on your show and just everything tied back to the numbers. And I thought, well, maybe twos is like that. And then I started looking into it. And it's true. True and then first thing I see when I open up Twitter this morning was somebody did the math on all the government stuff that Canada is giving away in the past week and it's coming out to two hundred twenty two dollars per person and I'm like it's everywhere it's everywhere and everyone's in on it You're not crazy if it's true

Okay, well there you go there's the teaser for it go give it a listen folks if you're so inclined it it is pretty clever Okay, here we go timer starting and let's roll. Canadians need to wipe up welfare bums is our number one topic, or our first topic of the day. The latest report by Canada's federal budget watchdog reveals that taxpayers are paying about $130,000 per full-time federal employee,

and the mean for average for the rest of us Yahoo's is $40,000. I found that really interesting, low. I don't know. I didn't realize it was that low. base anyways people in eastern Canada don't make all that much money i'm telling you you can't you make it Alberta is somewhere a little bit more than twice that just for comparison well i tell you what if you're making that wage uh the whole purpose of us talking about rohan or just in general coming to Alberta right now makes a lot of sense that's all i got to say on that yeah although

it seems as though if the government of canada is hiring you should just totally go for that instead It's true. 130 grand as the average, well, the median of what a government employee makes is insane. And the fact that we've gone up by 49,000 employees in Canada since 2017 or 2015, by the way, it's just totally expected. It's exactly what I would imagine because when you become a public service employee that makes that much money, you've got an. incentive to vote for a party that's going to make government bigger and keep your job safe. You want to keep that gravy train rolling, and now you've got a disproportionate amount of incentive to vote for them rather than someone who's going to be fiscally responsible and

represent the taxpayer's side of your personal interests. Well, here's another incentive to get a job with the government, too. It said that last year, the Treasury Board signed off on over $190 million in bonuses for 16,000 federal managers. Think about that. That's pretty decent. That's pretty damn high. And you wonder why we're mad about this stuff all the time. Go figure.

Yeah, and then of course I got, here, let's do this. Sean's got you muted their buzzer. I muted twos at the start, then I muted the buzzer and the, anyways, you know, what am I going to do here? Maybe just don't mute me. How about that? How about that? I kind of enjoyed it.

Trudeau gives African leaders a French kiss. Basically, you got Trudeau on his world tour right now. He's been doing a bunch of different summits. And what is it? The summit continues Sunday and includes Trudeau will tend citizen distrust. This one I read at the end of the article is talking about how institutions can gain their credibility back with the population. That's what Trudeau is attending yesterday. And I'm like, and he's doing it in Tunisia.

Tunisia, which suspended democracy over a year ago and is effectively a dictatorship, he goes to them and gives them a discussion in how to regain the trust of the people. Like, this is just so much irony in one little thing. Just imagine. Like, this is basically, it would be like going to North Korea and saying, guys, the people of North Korea don't really feel like they've got a lot of options. But here's how you can spin it. First of all, steal their fucking, freeze their bank accounts, and make honking illegal,

and then do a lot of stuttering. Oh, and clamp down on the internet. I can't say it any better, folks. Crazy Cat Lady wins Fringe Party leadership. She is back again. Elizabeth May has once again been named leader. of the Green Party. No, this is not an old headline. This is brand new

of Canada. After three years away from the job, she ran with Jonathan Pedno and the two plan to share the top spot, but it will take a change to the party's constitution for co-leadership to be official, so they've got to change some things. If you are at all

concerned or want to know about the Green Party, she won on the sixth and final bout with 4,66 votes. The party announced Saturday night in Ottawa with just fewer than 50 people in attendance. Yeah, so the next time someone says, oh, Daniel Smith had to go to the very last round of ballots to win. Well, so did Elizabeth May. And she didn't have anybody, like, there was just, who else can even name, who can name anybody else in the Green Party?

I mean, you just stumbled on the co-leader of the party's name. And it took her six rounds of ballots to even come on on top of that. I you know one of the the things when I go back to the last presidential election where they had the formal debates right I sat and watched and I'm like why is the green party even on stage like it's just it's just ridiculous it makes our country look ridiculous and reading this article I'm like this is ridiculous that that's that's where this is at the reason why the green party is on the stage is because they tend to pull support from the NDP and the worse the NDP does the better the liberals do ooh I like that thought

mass continue to slip for elitist hypocrites so this one is like man you talk about just stupidity here it is out in plain view again days after strongly recommending the use of mass in Ontario, the province's top doctor was spotted at a party in Toronto without one. In a number of posts on social media, Dr. Karen Moore, Ontario's chief medical officer of health appeared to be in attendance of Toronto's life. It didn't appear. He was there, a 50 most influential 2020 list party where he ranked 12th for keeping COVID

under control. And if you recall, like November 14th, not that many days ago, he was telling parents, if you get the sniffles, you should wear a mask at home. You should be trying to mask two to five-year-olds as long as they'll have. handle it, blah, blah, blah, strongly recommends. A couple days later, he's out at a party. No mask.

Give me a break. Like, let's move past this mask bullshit already. But hey, here we are. It's more masks than blinders. Tell you what, though, Sean, I was going to bring up that exact same point. And I didn't know if you'd read it or not. And I tell you what, this mashup, it's doing wonders for our current event knowledge. Just personal development.

I was like, I don't know. Maybe he's seen it. Maybe he hasn't. Maybe he's going to think of it to bring it up. And then boom, I didn't even get a chance to. So I think that's pretty cool. Well done, buddy. Hey, that's what I'm improving.

After I got hassled by every single listener about, maybe you should read the content. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, all right. Like, I'm okay. I'm getting better on this side, folks. Daniel Smith faces blatant misogyny. If you've been paying attention to Daniel Smith, if you're sitting in my shoes,

I've been loving pretty much everything, she's been doing. She got rid of Hinshaw, she fired the entire HHS board, blah, blah, blah, blah, but that isn't everyone. So here's what, uh, uh, one of the, the articles. There was several articles in this and, and two is feel free to hop in on, on, on ones I miss. But, um, one of the articles said, a health system leader fired by Premier Daniel Smith has fired back in an open letter saying her abusive, divisive attacks blended with warped anti-science beliefs make her a poor excuse for a leader and one literally putting

Albertans in harm's way. This was a guy named Dagnan, an order of Canada winner for four decades of work in hospital and health administration, said he had no political affiliations and felt compelled to defend H.S. staff. And this is what he said. In light of her unhinged political, public pronouncements, the premier represents the bleakest of role models for women who

aspire to be accepted in positions of influence and leadership. Yeah, so that's the trick to saying anything against a woman publicly is you have to address the fact that they're a bad role model for other women. And then it can't be the misogyny card. But it always is the misogyny card. Remember every single criticism of Rachel Notley was misogyny. It's because they don't like women. You know, like, I just voted for the party that Daniel Smith was the leader up.

This was before she crossed the floor. And I can be critical of women. And if I can't be critical of women, then I should just only ever vote for men because then I can at least be critical of them without being accused of being a sexist pig. And so it's funny how, like, Kathleen Wynn faced the same thing. Christy Clark faced the same thing. And every time it was, oh, we don't like what you're doing as a premier. Oh, well, maybe you just need to be more feminist. Oh, you're just a sexist pig.

No. And then when it's on the other foot, when it's a conservative, leader that's a woman, it's just that they're just mad at what she's doing, which is funny because also, also, there's nothing on paper yet about the Sovereignty Act. Like there's, like, how can you condemn something that doesn't exist yet? And so, but I mean, here's the thing. They don't really care what exists or not in, in leftist crazy land. Well, the other article was First Nations came out saying they hadn't been consulted and

basically attacked the Alberta Sovereignty Act. I wanted to stick on the, this, the, this, the, uh, the, this, uh, the, the, uh, the Hs board for a second, because this was a line. I, I, I look at this from, you, you, you take the tax on women. I look at it different, well, not differently, just from a different view, I guess. Uh, he said, her reckless politicization of our public health care system will make it harder to recruit and retain health, uh, professionals for Albertans to access care. And I'm like, you fucking moron. You literally got rid of like 12, what was it, 1200? I can't remember the number now.

I feel like I'm undershooting that. unvaccinated healthcare professionals who'd work through the entire thing you don't you think that hurt our health care system i think it did so like i read this thing i get my tails my my feathers and i go in a bunch because i'm like at some point do are we ever going to see from both sides like or or it's always going to be this view and that view i mean i get it uh if you're on the board and you you just went through the pandemic you're patting yourself on the back because you did everything right and you get a new premier and they go nap you're all out done get rid of them and you call them all things and then they just go berserk.

But it's like, do you remember some of the shit you did in the middle of this sucker that just segregated part of the population and all these people worked through the pandemic for you? You just cut them out in a time where we actually needed them more than ever. Anyways. One final note. Just a friendly heads up to anybody out there. If you ever get fired by Daniel Smith and you want to write an open letter to all

Albertans, pay somebody 50 bucks to just go over the grammar and the spelling and just fix all your goddamn mistakes. Honestly, like, this is the kind of thing you'd expect a grade 10 kid to read, which would make sense because he's just acting like a petulant child. Like the gravy train ended for him. Oh, no. I've got less mistakes in my fucking taxes than this fucking thing, Sean.

Alberta doctor leaves his court case, awarded four years room and bored. I didn't know this story. This story is pretty wild. An Emmington doctor who overbilled Alberta Health for more than $800,000 in a single year has been sentenced to four years in prison, and I'll torture this name. Dr. Yifie, she claiming she provided psychiatric services to almost every patient who used her family medicine clinic in West Eminton. This allowed she to bring home more than four times what an average family physician makes. In 2016, she, she, She billed $1.38 million at a time when the average general practitioner, Alberta was making $300,000. Yeah.

Like this is, this isn't even just a tiny little bit. And the thing that I really didn't like about this article was the fact that this basically runs on an honor system. The doctors put in the receipts. There's no checking. There's no oversight. And they just say, yep, yep, fair enough. And people wonder why we're spending so much money on every. and why our health care system is broken, right?

Can I submit? Can I submit receipts to the Alberta Health Services and they're just going to reimburse me? Come on. Like this is, this is crazy. When I got my class one renewed a few years ago, I had to go in for a physical and I didn't have a family doctor. So he made me go in for two separate things. So I go in for the first one.

He checks me over, you know, make sure that I'm fit enough to be a family, his physician, because he doesn't want to take on a lemon, I guess. And then I got to come in a week later, and he goes over the same damn thing all over again for my class one renewal. And then he just, and then he charges the government twice. Well, he charged me for one, and then he charged the government for the other one. I just submitted the receipt. It was all good.

But the point is, is that he doubled dipped on essentially the same damn thing. And there's no oversight on that either. Like any time you go into these places, you're like, oh, they wasted. money on that they waste money on that you go into that hospital in the south end of calgary the tv stands like the the mounts on the walls that the TVs are on they're bigger than the actual TVs right I feel like there was a lot of money you could have saved when every damn room in that hospital has a mount that's bigger than the actual TV maybe just go for a smaller mount like this is just we weekly segment here uh the liberals try

to backdate paperwork to get out of hot water. I don't know. Where do you want to go with this one, too? It's, I mean, there's not much to it. Basically, during this emergency inquiries act, which just seems like a goddamn farce. Like, this is just, this was a Monty Python sketch 40, 50 years ago. And now it's our literal judicial system.

And they're saying, well, you know what, we don't really, the problem with the Emergencies Act, which they didn't try to address before. they enacted it, is that it doesn't cover what we define as a security threat. So we went ahead with it anyway. And now we want you guys to reconsider what actually is defined within the act. And just, again, like, this is SNC. Lavelin. We want you to go back and change the books and back date what the laws were back then so that they weren't technically breaking the law. This is David Lamedes, April 31st thing, or pardon me, Marco Minochino's April 31st document that got submitted

in a legal case. It never stops with these freaking people. And so what Tews is talking about is in the commission, the act defers to ceases definitions of threats. This is why you're supposed to be able to have the EA enacted, right? Which includes this is why it should get enacted. Serious violence against persons or property, espionage, foreign interference, or an intent to overthrow the government by violence.

And so it didn't define any of that. So what they're talking about is it needs to be. updated basically to suit what's happening in today's world. You can't make this up. Anyways, this is one of the top advisors. Well, no, you can. You can because that's literally what they did. Fair enough.

They made it up, Sean. Twitter lets go of 99% of staff with no noticeable decline in performance. Yeah, this has been interesting to watch. Obviously, with Elon Musk coming in and Canon a bunch of people, he had an email go a Twitter employer saying going forward to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in increasingly competitive world. We need to be extremely hardcore. The email asked that you had to click yes if you wanted to stick around for those who did not respond by 5 p.m. They would be considered to have quit and given a severance package. The email said so he basically said

here it is. Let's go. And so there's been a ton of people let go, walk away, etc. And you know, but the flood of people coming back to Twitter is unreal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's just a handful. So they had $7,500 before Elon took over, and I saw some stuff online that said there was about 50 people left now. And people were saying, oh, yeah, it's going to crash when the office closes for the weekend last weekend. And Twitter's done. And there's no way it can continue. And it's better than ever every day. And isn't it funny how this is the Pareto principle where 20% of people do 80% of the whatever, 20% of, anything does 80% of whatever else. We talked about it. I don't know. A little while back. This is the same thing, except it's even tighter.

This is 50 employees out of 7,500 seem to be the people running the show. And now everybody else has gone. All that dead weight's gone. He's not paying for people's lunches anymore. And people talking about how they're going to starve. Bitch, they're making like $300,000 a year. Or at least they were. They might be starving now.

But all they had to do was say they wanted to work. Hey, I just got to say, like, once upon a time, I was, I had the argument that maybe Trump needed to be off Twitter. This is a long time ago. And now seeing where it slid to and why that was a terrible thought, it's cool to see all these people coming back on Twitter. You know, one of the, Megan Murphy, who was on the podcast a few weeks ago, she just got reinstated like yesterday. And that was cool to say, like, these are some people I've interviewed that are no longer on Twitter, right? band for a whole bunch of different things. Now everybody's starting to come back on Twitter.

It's making a real case to be back on there and like see the interaction again. Well, it's always fun and it's always interesting, honestly. Like if you're not on Twitter right now, you should be. Yeah. Girl Guides has half-baked idea to get rid of brownies. So this is, you know, this reminds me of like the Eskimo, the Amiton Eskimos or something like that, you know. Girl Guides of Canada. This is that on, this is that turned all the way.

up Sean this is that on 11 sure so today we are changing the name of brownies our branch for seven to eight year olds we have heard from racialized girls that this name has caused them harm we cannot cause harm to any girls so we are taking action to create a place where all girls belong changing the name of the group brownies yeah because apparently brown can only ever apply to skin color this is just the stupidest thing like are we going to change the name of actual brownies like what are you going to call them chocolate stuff's i mean like this um can we call a spade a spade is that now racist um if if your accounting sucks and you're in the red is that now like where like there are so many innocuous

things that are literally just describing color like should we not call them black holes anymore i feel should we just dig up and resurrect chris cornell so he can rewrite the song I feel like for a group or segment of the population, they're looking for different things exactly like this to attack all the time. And for the majority of the population, I would say for like 99% of the population, this thought never dawned on anyone. It's absolutely ridiculous. Like this is the kind of stuff that, shoot, what's that in Blue Chip, I want to say Martin Lawrence, when he goes, off that big rant about how everything's white this and white that. This was this was literally a gag from a movie 20 years ago and now it's real life. And there's something like this every

damn week. I agree. Every week it seems like we got a new one where you're just scratch on your head. Yeah. Blue Street. Oh yeah. Blue Street was a good movie. Anyways. Canada's beer taxes increase is not light. And you know what? This one, this one stings because you're like, oh man. Canada has some of the highest alcohol taxes in the world. On average, 47% of the price of beer in Canada is from federal or provincial taxes. Approximately 65% of the price of wine is due to taxes, and on average, 80% of the price of spirits is tax. In some, Canada already pay about, or Canadians already pay about 20 billion per year in alcohol taxes, and it's an escalator tax increase that increases every single year

on April 1st. And to just give a little more of the story, in 2017, the then-finance minister, Bill Mourneau include a 2% hike in beer taxes in his budget and the decision to increase the price on beer, wine, and spirits every year thereafter at the rate of inflation. An escalator provision that next April will increase beer taxes by 6.3%. So there are no other taxes in Canada that rise automatically with inflation, just this one. So that's across the board. That's why when you go to a hockey game and the beer prices of beer aren't going down, they're going to go up. get a case of beer at the store, it's going up. Like, everything is going to be going up.

And I didn't realize that was the case. That's the first time I'd read that. Taxes are absolutely horrendous on booze. I remember the first time, well, not the first time I was in the States, but the first time I actually spent enough decent time in the States that, you know, going out and buying beer and stuff like that. And I was saying to a buddy, I was visiting down in Denver. I was like, how are you guys not just degenerate alcoholics?

Like, how do you even function as a society with alcohol this inexpensive? Like, I just want to buy beer for everybody at the party, and I'm out like 20 bucks. Like, I'm not going to because I'm cheap, but I could. Yeah, the novelty would wear off, too. I mean, it's just we pay so freaking much here. It's not even funny anymore. Like, I mean. Yeah, 80% of the money you spend on a bottle of whiskey goes to various governments.

Yeah, that's, isn't that a wild stat? That's a wild stat. That's a wild stat. Here, happy news. You know, it kind of reminds me of Homer Bound. You remember Homer Bound? Yeah, Michael J. Fox. That, the movie about the dogs who travel back across the...

Anyways. This is the exact opposite story, but yeah. A cat traveled more than 280 miles to its old home before being reunited with her relocated owners and take it back to her new home a whopping 13 months later. So what happened was they moved from a part of France to a part of Normandy. Some other... Yeah, and the cat got out, essentially didn't know where it was, I'm assuming,

and traversed the countryside to get back. And when it finally got back, it stayed with a vet for three weeks to get healthy, weighed less than one kilogram, so less than 2.2 pounds, had fleas, worms, and an infection in the face. So it had a rough go, but it did get back to its owners and everything else. They thought they'd lost the cat, and I thought that was, you know, that's happy news. I think it's horrible news. This is brutal.

They move this cat all the way across that goddamn country. It takes one look at its new home and it's like, fuck this. I'm leaving. And it goes through absolute hell. It makes it back to its old house by the skin of its teeth, clinging on to the last dredges of life. And they're like, oh, we have found the cat. Send it to the vet for three weeks. Ship it back to the hell hole it just escaped from.

This is basically a P-O-W. Oh, Tuesday, you never disappoint. Another week come and gone, another week of Head Scratcher headlines. Thanks for hopping on. We'll catch you next week. See you, buddy.