Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #36

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss the weekly headlines which include Trudeau on vacation, Home Depot calls out woke & equalization payments.  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 January 22nd SNP Presents: Rural Urban Divide featuring: Vance Crowe, QDM & Stephen Barbour.   Get your tickets here: snp.ticketleap.com/ruralurbandivide/ Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Oh, you can hear me okay, right? I can hear you perfectly fine, too. It's good to be back. Great if we went with a clip. But, I mean, this is, this is it, and here we are. Is it just me? Or do you hate the fact that your pinky is on the semicolon in a keyboard? They could have used a dozen different keys there that would have been more useful.

How often you use a semicolon? and it's where your goddamn pinky is. It's like, you know, you got eight favors. That's 12 and a half percent of your typing ability. You know, I was really happy to be back until Tews decides he wants to talk through the start of the episode like he normally does. Either way, mashup 36. You were glad to be back until we did. Until that.

Until that, I'm like, God, why don't you just let me enjoy the song? You know, it's funny before we started, I literally sat in the studio and played the song because I knew you were going to fuck it up. just knew you were going to fight. I knew we were going to get on. Start of January, 2023, happy new year to all the listeners. And Tuesday was going to come on with some weird thing to talk over the song and just ruin it for us all.

You know, just ruin it for us all. That's what you're doing. I would say I made it better. I'd say that's a fairly valid complaint to have about fucking keyboards. And everybody can relate to it. Anyways, anyways,

folks, you know, but I mean, I get it. Like this, it's like listening to Metallica before the game sort of thing. You know what I mean? Like you're just,

you're getting in the zone. Yeah, well, I like to be in the zone. Hey, mashup 36-2s brought to you by Rohan Rig Services. So show up to Rohan, all the details in the show notes. Sean's got to stop. You know, he's done it twice now. You caught me once. I caught myself once.

Where I didn't put the details in the show notes. It's like, Sean, figure your shit out. I'm like, yeah, I know. I know, I know. So details in the show. Team work makes the dream work. And if you want to work on a good team, you can work at Rohan. It's true, you know?

you want to go work with iron? Why not on maybe the best service rig company in the industry or certainly one of the top ones? Definitely one of the top ones. I'll give it to them hands down. Yeah, yeah. What say you this week? Actually, how was your holidays?

Before we get into it. I was just going to ask you that. We did, you know, we did the fest of us. And I was telling you, you know, when we talked for a brief stint, my wife made fun of me because I couldn't go a full, you know, two weeks and not talking about. I heard the same damn thing. And so me and twos had a phone call in the middle of Christmas. Just say, hey, how's it going?

Anyways, I was saying, like, I felt really awkward last Monday night when I was like, you know, like, I feel like I should be doing something, you know? It was 35 straight weeks of no matter where I was. And believe me, ooh, nice heard. Thanks, buddy. No matter where we were, we found a way to rattle it off, whether it was me dying, in a closet or a storage room and a hotel where there's ooze up north, we just found ways to put it on.

And then we decided, you know what, it's holidays. Let's take a break. I think everybody needs a little time away. But it felt really odd. Like, I mean, but on this side, my holidays were great. How are yours? It was good. I had a definite itch after the, like I was just saying,

just going a week without this after we've been doing it for, this is 36 now. So we've done, you know, basically, you know, three dozen in a row. And then to have that one week off, you're like, I kind of want to yell at a microphone. Anybody got any news we can talk about? It's funny.

Derry Cartel text this morning at 4 a.m. Because it was my first, last night with Vance Crow and Quick Dick, was the first time I was in studio in, I think it's 10 days. I think it was 10 full days of me not being in studio. And I was the same way. I was like, I got to get in. Anyways, Derry Cartel was apologizing. to both of us because he's taking his family on holidays and he will not be texting me at four

in the morning tomorrow it'll be more like eight in the eight in the morning when he finally gets to it I chuckle on like we haven't even got the episode out and I'm getting apologies uh you know about not listening to it the first thing it comes out anyways when you're in the dairy cartel isn't every day a holiday oh he's gonna be so bad he doesn't get to hear that for another week yeah it's well I mean you know it's it's funny because like he texted us or well he called. Like first thing in the morning after that, after that show we did, the festival special. And I was just hung right the hell over. And he's talking to me. And I'm like, oh, yeah. I told you that, that I had listeners tell me that was the best podcast I've ever done. And then, you know, with the guy, I forget, and I'm feeling terrible right now. I didn't come, you know, you'd think I was, it was so jacked up to hear the intro song and get back on. I forgot to even look. There was a guy joke about, I think it was a joke. Maybe I should have followed up.

saying he'd like to become liquor sponsor for the Tuesday mashup because, you know, it was so good. I had other people just say, like, maybe you should drink every podcast because, you know, the end part parts were like, people were like, yeah, it was okay at the end. Other people were like, that was fucking awesome. Anyways, I don't know. Either way, it got a lot of people enjoying the holiday mode. That's for sure. Yeah, I think we definitely have to do it again next year.

And maybe we'll find some excuse, I don't know, a couple times a year to do something like that. I don't know, maybe with tequila next time or something. Definitely not gin. But, uh, you know, well, we'll see. We'll see. Let's, let's just play it fast and lose and see what people want. Definitely, definitely not, uh, a bottle and a half of scotch. Is that what you're, is that what you're trying to tell me?

Yeah. Yeah, that, uh, I was absolutely wretched for about two days after that. Well, I, I, I had fun. Oh, I did. I had great time. I think everybody had, I think everybody had fun. And, you know, it was so awesome to just listen to it for the first. for the first time a couple days later.

That guy brings up some good points. And he sounds a lot like me. What a jackass. What a jackass. Okay, we got, we got 11 items to get to today on the mashup 36. I've got the timer set for 22, 22. And I'm just-

We're gonna have to go rapid fire. I'm just thinking here, I'm going to get this situated process. properly so the buzzer comes in and we'll get this up the bottom there so here we go folks okay we got we're we're we're back to uh we tried the stream yard version i think once twice once twice twice and then we've been off it because we've been doing in person and and finally we're in studio either way you get the point okay and you know twos is going to start out 2023 with an absolute mouthful for sean so here we go okay la belle province more like rhian nest jama suffice St. Province. And I mean, I don't know my French. How close was it? Fuck Quebec, but even by those standards, that sucked.

Which, which I can appreciate. That's, that's, that's, that's great. It just means, because they always say that they're La Belle province, the pretty province, the beautiful province, whatever the hell it is. More like the nothing is ever good enough province. Yeah, anyways, I can't believe that's the first headline I get to read. of 2023 and I tortured it that bad. Anyways, Quebecers are increasingly... That's Nuremberg Cote stuff. Shut up, shut up.

Quebecers are increasingly streaming music online but listening less off to the francophone artist, a trend members of the province music industry, hope will be reversed with the new federal bill. And it goes on to say, you know, basically, you know, basically people are listening to... They're saying the algorithms aren't feeding French musicians or feeding English musicians who...

are popular. Basically. Yes, but here's the thing. When you look at the actual stats, the article provides, four of the top 50 most listened to artists in Quebec are from Quebec. How many provinces that happen in? Do you think that happens at Prince Edward Island?

Fuck no. And then it goes on and it talks about how it just, it, oh shoot, I should have just queued this all up rather than trying to read it from the article on the fly. But basically it's that, seven out of the top 10 most streamed French Canadian artists or independent rappers.

Only two of those artists currently appear on French Canadian radio charts. So I mean, this is stuff that, this is for Spotify, by the way, this is stuff that they're saying, look, all your most popular people, why are you mad if you're not even playing them on your radio stations? And what's the Quebec radio station? CBC, right? And so it's just, and then it goes into a bunch more stats where basically, There is an incredibly disproportionate amount of popular Quebec artists being played in Quebec. And there isn't a single damn province where it's even close, I bet. Like, who's in Alberta? You got Corb Lund. You've got Paul Brandt.

Paul Brandt. Terry Clark, probably to some smaller extent. You know, I mean, she hasn't done anything lately. You know, Nickelback came from Alberta. But I mean, their new albums, absolute garbage. It's just a bunch of member berries and bullshit. it. Don't you just, when I read the article, I just, I've been saying this story a few times.

We watched the ball drop on Christmas on New Year's Eve, the Canadian one with Rick Mercer, and then parts of the American one. And like the, every year I do it, I'm just like, if this isn't a stark contrast to the two countries, like, you know, we got, we got a bunch of no-name singers. And I'm not saying I haven't heard of maybe one of them, but like overall, it's like, we're trying to show diversity. So we have a First Nations lady. We have a black guy sing.

We have a white girl sing roughly, you know, a little bit, you know. And I'm just like, except there's no, not no talent up there. Sure, they're decent musicians. But like, you know, you can't force people to listen to things they don't want to listen to. They go around and they find, you know, you want talent. And so when I read the article, parts of it, I'm like, yeah, sure, you want to promote your area. And certainly what you talk about. talked about with stats is bang on.

But overall, 30% of physical albums sold in Quebec in 2022 were from Quebec artists. Yeah. Like there's no way that Colterwall is selling a, well, Coulterwall and the sheep dogs and White Mouth Mason are not selling a third of Saskatchewan albums. Even if you throw an age of electric, it's not even close. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I can't argue with that. Okay. Oh, there we go. billionaire blames socialism for making people lazy. The co-founder of Home Depot, Bernie Marx,

is pointing a finger at socialism for why Americans no longer have the drive to work. Nobody works. Just give it to me. Send me money. I don't want to work. I'm too lazy. I'm too fat. I'm too stupid.

He's head of the woke attitude many Americans have. Well, I mean, here's the thing. When you think about this, like, oh, yeah, he's a rich billionaire and he's in his 90s. So, you know, I mean, he went up hill both ways to school and he's fought in every major war since the civil one. And but here's the thing. Like I bet you if you looked at the numbers, Home Depot is probably one of the biggest employers in the United States. And they're definitely one of the biggest ones in Canada. Think about like all the warehousing, the supply chain and all the associates in the stores and everything like that.

Like they've got to be huge. Like this guy knows when somebody like this talks about a pervading culture in an industry or or in a society, he knows what he's talking about. Well, I think people, this is a subject matter. What was his age two? Was it 91 or was it 89? 93. Oh, 93. Yeah.

So he's a cranky old person and everybody worked harder in his day, sure, right? Whatever. But at the same time. No, no. I was more meaning of it that like a man like that has witnessed the change. in culture, right? He's just, he's just seeing it. He's like, this is, this is ridiculous. Like, we can't get probably people to come work for us. And that is a big issue when you're a major employer in the United States and Canada. That's, that's what has more meaning. People are

going to see he's a cranky old guy, but I mean, they can say that about a 50 year old too. Like, it's just a guy who's a lot and has been very successful, you know, he wanted to the two to start up Home Depot, right? Like, yeah. Yeah, like this is the kind of person that you ought to be listening to even if he's not telling you something that you want to hear. This is a guy who could have retired 30 years ago, but he keeps doing it. These are the people who end up becoming billionaires, right? Not the people who are like, okay, I've got $4 million. I'm going to buy a catamaran and go sail off looking for sunken treasure.

None of you'll ever see me again. That guy's never going to be a billionaire. The guy who still keeps showing up and he's probably the first guy in and the last guy out every damn day at the age of 93. They put this guy in a home and he's going to be dead in the month. Alberta remains ungovernable. Well, there was multiple things here. What are you already giggling about on that side?

I just see twos. He's already, I can't even get word out. He's already got a little shit grin going. What do you got to say on that side? I just, I mean, the first thing I want to ask you, Sean, what did you think of it? So what he's talking about, folks? is uh uh rebel news has a a two hour documentary on this and um two whole hours and i'm sure it's fantastic sean hasn't watched it so of course i'm going to get banged up on

here again by listeners but was sean not doing his homework uh you know i would like to point out two sends me this like 15 minutes before uh we we come on here today and i'm like what do you I mean I sent it to you 50 minutes. I just tell you what, I just, it seems like it's a, you know, I feel like it was very methodical of what he was trying to do here today on the first one. You know, he's had two weeks to think about this. He's like, you know what I'm going to do? The federal government, here's part of it, the federal government has announced it

will provide a record 24 billion in equalization payments in 2023, 2024, with Quebec, Manitoba, and maritime provinces being the main recipients. The latest release finance minister, Christia Freeland, shows that Quebec will receive the most in absolute terms at $14 billion, while Manitoba will get $3.5 billion, that is, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Seward Island, P.I. will be paid $2.8 billion, $2.6, and $561 million, respectively. Which works out to more than $3,000 for every man, woman, and child on Prince Edward Fucking Island. in equalization. Okay, by the way, boom,

I've got the data. December 27th, have you watched the Rebel documentary? Nope. Also, should we ask them if they're interested in a paid promo? I'm halfway through. It's good.

Sure. Watch it. Then think about numbers, even if it's like 100 bucks or something. I'd be good with talking about it regardless of what they say. Hey? folks, you know, he's just, he's been, he's just been, he's just, he's been, he's just, I assume that

you would have watched it because I haven't, no, no, I haven't. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, it's, it's a lot of things in there, that if you live in Western Canada, you're not going to feel decompressed after watching it. Yeah, that's tough that you can relate to strongly. They definitely, like, if you haven't watched it yet, and obviously, Sean dropped the fucking ball. But what do you think of it? Who's recommend? You recommend?

It was that good? Absolutely. Like honestly, if it's, if you live, if you live in Canada, if you live in Eastern Canada, you can understand where we're coming from a lot on this. If you live in Western Canada, it's probably going to shore up a lot of gaps in terms of, we're like, okay, well, I've always kind of thought this was a little bit bullshit. And now I've got a little bit more background behind it. And I understand why.

Honestly, like just, it was, it was great, and it's got my buddy Terrick Elnaga in it, and that makes me better. It's got Drew Barnes in it a bunch of times. That guy's, how is Terrick in it? That's interesting to me. What do you mean, how is Terrick in it? The guy's a photogenic genius. Sure. That just seems like an interesting choice.

That's all I mean by it. And that's no, Terrick, if you're listening, I don't mean it in a bad way. I just mean it, that surprises me a little bit. That's all. That's all. Terrick, you better be listening to this. Yeah, you better be listening to it. Okay, okay.

Let's, let's, you know, I can just, I can just hear the phone line already. Fuck me. Okay. South Korea gets its politics out of the bedroom. This is one of the more stranger articles we've read, and we've read some strange ones. South Korea has formally ended a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life. Although there are no law. or regulations banning the import of sex dolls hundreds and perhaps thousands have been seized by the customs

which cited a clause in the law that bans the import of goods that harm the country's beautiful traditions and public morale while the decision reflects South Korea's slow yet gradual moves to restrict state interference into personal lives some women's rights and conservative organizations will likely again voice their opposition to the use of sex dolls they say they deepen sexual objectification of women and undermine public morale. Okay, first off, can you throw the picture that's, can you, can you throw up that article on the screen and show everybody the picture? Oh, well, you talk while I look. How's that? Okay, this is great news.

I was so happy to hear this. I've never been to South Korea, but this was wonderful news, and I just thought it was absolutely incredible. because the government has no business in our bedrooms. I think that we've established that over the years. And hey, you know what? This is also a free market capitalism. It's a win for everybody. I don't give a crap how incredibly fucking weird it is, which is very.

I think it's a win for people who just want to do their own thing. Are you going to put this thing up or what? No, because you remember how I've been having issues with my computer and getting your document to open up. Oh my God. Yeah. Like, fuck me. You could have, you know,

Toos when you, folks, when Toos is trying to do these things, you know, a little communication. I feel like I'm in like, the, like people joke were in this, even our wife,

and obviously your girlfriend joke about us, being in like this weird relationship. I'm like, you're going to throw me a curveball. Every once in a while, just say, hey, I'm going to throw you a curveball so I can have it sitting here ready,

you know? Okay. Can you pull it up? Can you pull it up? Can you pull it up? Fuck me. I need you to pull this up because the sex doll they have is sitting in a government hearing doing the basic instinct sit. And you can just see all the way up.

And CTV never even thought it was worth censoring. Like the whole Asian pixelation thing never even occurred to them. All right. And you can't even get it pulled up. Sean, you're killing me here. You know what? You know what? Just relax, okay?

I'm being smart about this. I'm just searching the article. I don't think you're being smart about this. Oh, God. You know what, folks, this is... Oh, I can mute them whatever I want. Okay, but I can't figure out how to fucking share the screen. God damn it, Sean.

Seriously. Oh, God, present. Can you get your grandfather in here to figure out the AV on this? Oh, man. Like, you know, it's... Anyways, chair screen. Here we go. Okay.

this is going to be awful too. You're totally ruined the timer here, by the way. Like, honestly, okay, like, should we just take a quick commission? Can we see that? Can we see that? I can't see it. I mean, I can see it on my screen, but it's not coming up on, you know, the... Oh, okay, let's see here.

Windows. Jesus Christ, let's just... Like, let's just break to another Fest-th thing. Okay, here we go. There, you've got it in a Word document? You're fucking stupid. Honestly, I haven't been this disappointed in you. Can I just,

first Tuesday match of folks back, and he's just, you know, I think, you know, I'm just like, I can't, I'm so flustered.

I can't even, I can't even share a screen at rain. My, my timer's running up. You put it into a word duck. No, I didn't put it into a word. document. I literally

exited out of the screen that had it. You know, like this is like Brinette Sharon Stone with librarian glasses and the whole like, oh, what are you going to do? Arrest me for smoking? Oh, God. The struggle is real.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to. Jesus, right? Can you? Here. Wait. No, just, just just give me a second. Just give me a second here. No, we're done. We're past this already. Come on. There. There. There. There. There. There. is your,

there is, are we selling T-shirts here? No, no, okay, there you go. Oh, my goodness. All right. Moving along.

Yes, no, can we, can we at least, okay, there you go. Yeah, you're going to, how far are you going to zoom in on this, Sean? I don't know how to do you. Jesus Christ.

There's children watching this. There's, there's, there's, there's, there's, there's your, anyways. Oh, man.

Uh, you know, like, uh, there's, there's, there's been moments in, there's,

there's, There's been moments in the Tuesday mashup folks where you're just like, what are they doing? They have no idea. We just witnessed one. And I'm not even going to apologize. I just, you know, that's... Honestly, if you are a South Korean sex doll watching this right now,

I am so sorry for the bad job that Sean just did of managing our AV. Oh, man. Okay, okay. How much more can I screw this up today? Alberta NDP supporters obsessed. Not more than the liberals. Alberta NDP supporters obsess over what never was.

Yeah, like I'm still out of it over here. So have had it, too. Okay. All right. So this is really interesting. I'm going to need you to bring this up fairly quickly, if that's all right. I just, I didn't realize that I was going to have to phone ahead on this, right?

Like, seriously. You want the Twitter? I want a picture of Rachel Motley. You know, like, folks, you know, like, I didn't realize it was a big deal. I had no idea. Okay. You know who's not a tire fire? Rohan Riggs, I'm going to put it back up here.

Folks, you want a real job. Go work for the guys at the bottom. All the details in the show notes. What a disaster today has been. Everybody was all excited. Sean 2 is just like so excited for the Tuesday mashup. And then he's like, hey, can you pull up this and this and this? And I have closed out every article that I read because I don't.

Don't do it anyways. You know? And then anyways, here we go. Alberta NEP supporters obsessed over what never was. Anyway, just they're,

they're trying to do this focus thing where they're coming up with like the frumpiest picture of Daniel Smith possible. And then they've got this excessively Photoshop picture of Rachel Notley from like at least two years ago. Like if you look at the length of her hair,

you're like, yeah, that's like two years shorter than where it is now. And I think I saw it about two years ago at the first time. And it is so incredibly, photoshopped. And that's the thing. If you can't even be honest about what your leader looks like,

how can you even be honest about what your leader wants to do? Like, honestly, it's almost a more accurate version of Rachel Notley. If they were to have the basic instinct South Korean sex robot picture up here on that tweet instead of what they have for Rachel Notley here. Oh, man, I'm never going to live down this mashup, you know? Like, I swear I'm going to grill you about what we're going to do in a mashup. I'm so, I've been throwing six heaters at the head folks to start off the new year and Tuesdays caught me so flat-footed. So flat-footed. I can't even, I can't even roll with it. That's okay. Well, we'll clear it up next week and every week going forward we'll never have this issue again. I will make sure. I will make sure this

doesn't happen again. You know, as I'm talking to you here as we go through, what I'm going to have is I'm have the stupid document that I can't get access to because it only works sometimes, which is really pissing me off. But I will have it as another screen. So anything you want to pull up, we'll be able to pull up. And if you're sitting out there and you're like, man, I can really produce this show because I got like super Uber talent. Just reach out show notes and let's, you know, let's, you know, like you don't have to

be doing what we do here. You can be anywhere in Canada, hell, anywhere in the country, and we're on the world and produce for us. And it would probably make this a hell of a lot easier because Sean's trying to pay attention and then twos is throwing curveball after curveball after curveball and eventually Sean's just like fuck it throws the bat in the stance walks off I'm going to drink a beer in the dugout and yes I am talking about recklessly softball yeah so by the way guys Sean has totally been doing this all on purpose just to see if anybody's interested in producing please move on to the next

subject Trudeau goes full prince John taxes taxes taxes remember that old move movie from like the 30s 40s Disney where Robin Hood. It was great. Robin Hood. And you know, you got the snake and the badger was the sheriff nodding him.

All's well. Yeah. And what was it all about? It was just taxes, taxes, taxes. You got the Badger Sheriff going around all like getting the last gold penny from the mice and everything else like that. This is just the same damn thing.

The people who were the villains in movies 100 years ago are now our politicians. And here we go. So there's five major tax hikes coming this year, just the ones that were big enough to be worth talking about. Because I mean, how many other little ones and weird tariffs here and there are just little news, not big news, just little news.

Just little news. You know, the Canadian taxpayer federation has sounded the alarm about five incoming tax hikes. Tax hikes will include carbon tax increase and alcohol escalator tax, which you already knew about because that's a- Yeah, we talked about that. hikes to employment insurance and more according to a report at the new year's tax changes essentially get ready to pay more taxes that that is what is coming here um in the coming years and if they weren't high enough i mean well um hold on to your hack

because they're getting higher oh my god they're basically just the snoop dog of um legal theft yeah yeah gun laws aren't worth the paper they're written on that criminals wipe their asses with, if that isn't a two's headline, I don't know what it is. Randall McKenzie, 25 of Kingston, and Brandy Crystal Lynn Stewart Sperry, third of Hamilton were charged Wednesday with the first-degree murder and the death of the, I'm sure people saw this, the OPP, Constable, Gregor's, and, you know, I feel bad. I listen to like two different people pronounce this name, and I'm going to say Piercala. I could be wrong on that, and I apologize because, I mean, he's fatally shot.

He's 28 years old, his fatally shot while responding to a vehicle in the ditch west of Hager'sville around 2.30 p.m. Tuesday. This is about a week ago. You know, anyways, like tough, tough, tough news for the police, for that family, etc. The thing that twos is pointing out once again

is McKenzie of a no-fixed address at the time was arrested on December 1st, 2021, in charge with a dozen offenses including assault with a weapon, assaulting a peace officer, assault, possession of firearm without a license, carrying a concealed weapon, mischief, and possession of counterfeit money. And the death of Kirkala is the fifth Ontario police officer killed on duty since September. Real quick, all of this sucks. I totally miss the mischief thing.

But keep in mind, Tamara Litt spent two months in jail, just for mischief, let alone 14 other charges. But keep going. Well, I mean, the entire thing just sucks, right? Young guy gets shot. And what the cop, you know, one of the police officers that was interviewed is just basically saying, you know, like, yeah, this sucks. And then a reporter asks, like, don't you want, you know, dangerous offenders being bars? Yes, right?

Like, I mean, this is pretty self-explanatory. And this is coming on the heels of, you know, hunting right? is going to be disappearing and everything else. You read this and you're like, this has nothing to do. All the things our government is currently doing is trying to, you know, punish and say they're keeping safe everybody by taking legal firearm owners guns.

And then you read this and you're like, and I mean, this just comes on the heels of so many different, you know, similar stories. This guy was not allowed to possess. He had a lifetime ban on possession of firearms in Canada. I mean, presumably he could have gone to Spain and gotten a gun or something. I don't know. Just as a random country, right?

But he was not allowed to possess a firearm in Canada at all for the rest of his entire life. It was already super illegal for him, but not illegal enough to keep him in jail. Yeah. And so making things more illegal for other people doesn't really solve the problem with these people who face such lax consequences and such a quantity of supply on the illegal firearms that it doesn't even matter. Right? It's just, it's beaten a dead drunk. Like, it's beaten a dead horse.

Yes. But, I mean, at what point, I get the fact. I don't know. That's it. That's probably the good, like at what point does it change? Is it just government? Is it just got to be a change of government to get this back going? the right way? Do we have any faith in that?

You need to have the people who are actually getting in front of the media and what the media actually takes and publishes speaking about this from a factual standpoint without just dismissing them as the gun lobby, right? Because, oh, the NRAs in the states.

And so it makes sense for us to try and vilify the people who just say, just go get educated. Take your pal, take your art pal. If you want to know, like if you think that more gun controls the solution, go learn about. it. By all means, these are the people that get dismissed as the as the far left gun or the far right gun lobby. And meanwhile, it's just like, let's just have an honest conversation about this,

where if you actually want to learn about this, you will understand that what the liberals are trying to paint as them solving the problem doesn't. And how many more people are going to die? Yeah. I, I have nothing to add to that, you know, it's, it's, it's, Yeah, it's heartbreaking. Trudeau spends holidays getting back to his roots. Of course, we all know that he's in Jamaica, you know, spent the holidays there. Jamaican new gun laws. Ah, Trudeau.

One day, one day, hopefully we're bashing Pierre Pollyev or what have you because. Oh, you know what, it'd be really nice to be shitting all over Pollyab for four straight years, right? but it's funny like I sent you a link to the Jamaica Gleaner which is one of the presumably I don't I don't know I've never even been to Jamaica but presumably one of the more I don't know it's it's some kind of a news place in Jamaica and they're showing this convoy of about a dozen vehicles you know cars SUVs motorcycles driving past outside of what looks like an airport and they're saying well this is Trudeau this is all security this is everything and

Let's get to the other articles I sent you that you had no you're like why are we even talking about this? Well, no, I knew I wanted to make, I shouldn't, you know, I love how he just points out things, you know, like, fuck you. Anyways, I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm just, I'm really amped up right now. He sent articles pointing out how much money, he, Trudeau's government or Trudeau or whatever spent on his vacation lake house. I think that's what we're calling it. Is that what we're calling? Yeah, sure. It was like $11 million.

And, you know, taxpayer money went into this house. And, you know, Pierre Poliev had a tweet saying, you know, like, this wasn't there, you know, a few years ago and now it's there, right? Like, it's like he built a brand new... It looked like he just rebuilt the whole damn thing. Rebuilt the whole damn thing for $11 million, you know, on... Anyways, yeah, I mean... And so, I mean, here's, like, as a public servant... If you're actually a servant of the public that you get paid to represent,

you should want to be responsible in terms of how you're spending your money. This is the guy who just spent two weeks in Costa Rica this summer, and now he's spending another week in Jamaica, not to mention all the times that he just adds an extra day or two whenever he goes jet-setting all over the damn place for whatever stupid fucking climate conference he's going to. And honestly, like,

you give me an $11 million dollar cabin on the lake and a fucking ice fishing. shack and a paddle boat and i don't even need to see central america i don't even need to see any of that i got that for four years perfect i am happy i go back to you remember the the lady who uh was it from regina to north battleford remember she spent that exalted amount of money 8500 bucks or something like that yeah and we were talking about maybe we should set up like a party bus where it just takes them and it's like a thousand bucks instead of anyways i don't want to do ice fishing tours for politicians. I'm just like, I feel like there's a business case here somewhere where it's just like we could probably make a boatload of money giving them the time of their life and we could

charge a million dollars for it. And they'd be like, you know what? That sounds like, yeah, that sounds like it's reasonable. Million dollars, yeah, to go ice fishing and have an experience your life. Yeah, where we go. And then stick them on some. I'd be real tempted to just leave a few tiger torches running in a perimeter though. I don't know what happened. Japan gets Middle Eastern LNG deal while Trudeau commits economic sepuku ritualistic suicide you know how the samurai warriors they had like the main long sword that they'd go all kill bill with yeah yeah yeah yeah the short sword the short sword was for when they were losing in battle but hadn't been killed or whatever it was when they

an honorable death an honorable death yes and huzzo okay well it reads now i get it japanese companies said they reached deals with uman and u s producers for mid to long term natural gas supplies, a move to lock up the fuel after turmoil this year caused by Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The deal signal the renewed importance of relatively stable producers of liquefied natural gas or LNG, including the U.S. Japan is among the world's largest importers of LNG alongside China and relies on the fuel for nearly 40% of its electricity production. Well, I mean, in all fairness, they are looking for reliable suppliers of LNG. And so Canada would not fit that bill by any definition, right?

I mean, just when you've got, well, no, no, no, no, like, look, when you look at the NAB Act and in Section 52, you had the, it was worded long, but when the prime minister has the final okay over whether something gets approved or not approved, and he can veto something that has been approved, or he can give the thumbs up to something that has not been approved, even after the billion dollars of applications for any pipeline over 40 kilometers or any pipeline that goes. over a provincial border. Technically speaking, we are not a stable government in terms of natural resource exports. But the whole thing is that you don't have to be, you can just change

the rules so that they make fucking sense and then abide by them and people like Japan and Germany and the whole fucking world except for Russia is going to say give us your liquid natural gas. But we don't don't do that because God forbid anybody west of Ontario could ever make a goddamn living

underneath the Trudeau government. I mean, yeah. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. This isn't a two's headline. You know, this is, this is welcome to the week 36 where Sean just has his head so far up his ass. The government to require COVID-19 tests for travelers incoming from China.

The federal government has announced it will require negative COVID-19 tests for air travelers arriving from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, Macau, Maca. Anyways, the requirement comes, in effect, January 5th, at which point travelers, age 2 and older, will need provide proof of that negative test before leaving for Canada. In December 31st news release, said the fed say it's a temporary measure. We all know all about their temporary measures. Like taxes? taxes Texas were just instituted for wartime measure the measures are being put in place for 30 days

in response to the surge of COVID-19 in China and limited epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data twos it's coming back we're going back to testing I mean from a certain country what we're going to is Trump style politics and that was the headline I gave you that was that was the head man it embraces Trump style politics

What was racist when Trump did it is no longer racist when Biden does it or when Trudeau does it. If you've got every media entity, mainstream media entity in Canada, the legacy dying dinosaur, but like older, call it trilobite media maybe. I don't know. I don't want to come up with something that's like sufficiently degrading and also really, really old, but not just the Joe Biden media. and so anyway, I'm working on it. I'm thinking about it. But anyway, this was just all over the news two, three years ago. Remember how racist Trump was for saying that we needed to shut down, travel to China?

And when people in Canada were saying, well, you know what? I mean, if the virus is originating in China in the Wuhan area, but we're not going to call it that because that's racist, maybe we should just stop people who were in that area coming over here. You know, and then, oh, that's racist, right? but if it's Justin's idea it's fine like literally that article I sent you from CTV

didn't even mention the race angle despite the fact that two three years ago that was the only angle they were interested in talking about yeah but I mean I mean by now I think we all understand how fucking fucked our mainstream media I mean it just it just is

like it just happens every single day. Every single day when they want to slant it away, they do. And when they don't want to slant it away, they don't. And they try and push the same. Anyways. If it's the same story, but it gets covered differently because it's your guy, that is bullshit. And that's what $600 million a year buys you. How about we go to the happy news, folks, the happy news, happy news of the week. I can't wait to get out of this week fast enough. It has been an absolute debacle from start to finish for my side of things. but hey, nowhere to go but up in 2023.

So let's go here. We are masters of our own destiny, a group of volunteers in British Columbia, Fraser Valley are fed up with waiting for the provincial government. Fed up with the government. Surprise, surprise. To clean up an abandoned homeless camp and have taken matters into their own hands,

the group is moving heaps of garbage, makeshift homes from the camp alongside Chilliwack Lake Road east of the Allison Pool campsite. So they basically just took matters into their own hands. It's been abandoned for a few months by the sounds of it. And they just started cleaning it up. There's no more and, you know, started, you know, doing what the government will do.

Well, I just, you know, it was between this and the South Korean sex dolls for the happy news for the week. And I'm glad I went with this because, I mean, first of all, I don't want everybody to think I'm a weirdo. But secondly, because I think this is genuinely happy news. Like, you've got people who, because, I mean, it doesn't matter where you're at in Canada or probably for the most part of the world. Possible exception being something like Leichtenstein or maybe Vatican City, which is technically a country. And we just saw this week that they are really fast in cleaning up their garbage.

But here, you've got people in the Fraser Valley who said, we pay these people to clean up the garbage. And they're not coming to clean up the garbage. So at some point we need to realize that if change is going to happen, if anything is going to occur, we need to take ownership of it ourselves and we need to do it ourselves. And I think that these volunteers who are doing this, absolute hats off to you guys. You are awesome. Yeah. I don't know.

What do you think, Sean? Well, to me, you know, we've been talking a lot about whether it was the, you know, the water wells and things like that. when does like a provincial government just step in and get it done. And, you know, there's just certain issues where, you know, like we're all waiting for the government to just fix life. And if I'm learning anything, it's like, nah, you just got to get out there and go do it yourself.

And like the government, you know, we've allowed them to be in this position, you know, where we've just given them a ton of power. And it's, it's almost laughable, except how sad it is, you know, it's really, really sad. So I think it's interesting that a group of people, you know, went no more and they took it in their, you know, their own hands. The guy in the article said he, you know, he was pretty emotional about having to do, you know, remove somebody's house. But there was nobody there. And he talks about it, how, you know, you get to that stage. And it was an interesting article for sure.

But, I mean, there's a group of people trying to make sure that, you know, their areas cleaned up and, you know, safe and everything else. Well, this is a lot like those guys in Edmonton a couple years ago who went and cleaned up the blockades at the rail crossing. I think it was somewhere right around the Duke, but don't quote me on that. But there was just a railroad blockade. And after weeks and weeks and weeks of it, they just showed up, threw everything in a truck and drove it all off to the dump or whatever. And hey, the blockade just went away. Like, imagine, imagine if we had people who, you know, we're in our government that we paid to do that,

who could actually do that thing that some guy in a pickup truck can't just get three buddies to take care of themselves. Yeah, sometimes you just need the blue collar boys to take care of business, though, don't you? Yeah. Anyways, 2's 36. I tell you what, I can't forget about this one fast enough. I'm still real. I gave you a hard time.

I'm still real in here, folks, on this side. Here's the question of the day. If you've found a way to giggle your way through to this point, here's the question for the text line today. I want to know who you want to see in the year 23, 2023 with the mashup. So I've reached out. Yeah, guess spots.

So like we've had QuickDick on before and people enjoyed it. And we talk about the Pleb on Twitter, who's been on the podcast, and he's certainly expressed interest in coming on. I think we're going to do that. But if you think there'd be somebody who would be interesting, shoot a text, let's hear, or fire a message up, because we're going to have a little bit of fun with it,

I think, this year, trying to add in a few voices here and there. And I'll throw it out again. If somebody out there is like, man, I'll help produce this sucker and help you boys along, I think we'd be interested in hearing from a few different people. because again, me and twos are doing this on opposite sides of Alberta almost, and certainly looking for the right person if it worked out to come help more on Sean figures things out technically.

Although, you know what, moving forward, I'm going to be, I'm going to be in training camp, making sure I know exactly where I'm going when I'm going to share a screen. I feel so, you know, help us here on the first mashup. What are you going to do? No, no, that's not on you. So I've got a system that I use and I've got all these screens set up. And I just assume that you had kind of the same thing. And so it's one of those things where you just assume that everybody's thinking the same thing you are.

And I don't know if it's right or wrong. But it just, yeah, because I'm like, oh, well, obviously. This is where you go. Never assume. It's all about communication. Oh, yeah. You know, a good relationship. It's all about communication.

It's all about communication. Yeah. either way happy mashup 36 all you find folks can't wait for 37 and 2023 honestly like I'm excited you know you see uh two's shirt there and uh we'll see what we can get working on that and and uh I know there's lots of people that have been hassling so not if it's a bit big on me even after Christmas so yeah well we'll catch up to you next week twos until then. See you, buddy.