Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #41

Episode Date: February 7, 2023

222 Minutes & the Dairy Cartel hop on to discuss this week's headlines which include: Bill C-11, the NDP, Rooster Slurpers, dumping milk & solar energy.  This week's Main Sponsor is AMC Electrical. Find out more here: http://amcelectrical.ca/ Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Well, gents, week 41, mashup 41. And the fans get what they want to's. You know this by now. The fans have been asking for it. They want to hear my thoughts on companies. They absolutely want the complete opposite. Can you? You don't.

You certainly can. Here. Whoops. He's muted and that happens. And he has no choice in the matter here. He gets upset when I do this. Welcome to the D.C. He's up in the top right by,

fan picks. All right, I'll let you back in twos. Anyways, I had so many texts over the song, right? We mentioned the song last week and said, hey, do we get rid of the song? Do we get rid of the swearing? What do we do? And it was adamantly, keep the song. And I could list off the explicatives that came in via text, but I figure I'll save everybody that. Neas to say, it was hands down, keep the song. I decided in honor of the dairy cartel, I'd drink a nice glass of chocolate milk and uh anyways it's it's uh it's fun to have you here um thank you yeah thanks for coming on man thanks for joining us no problem you guys in the customary for a while this is uh february which marks uh a new sponsor for the show this comes out of uh drew mcke's mind uh amc electrical

electrical he texted me in twos and said hey how about you do month by month and let some small businesses get in on the action he's at a rocky mountain house and since we've done that after Drew's idea. We're all the way into May now. We got a sober October. So we got pretty much half the year locked up with all these different little businesses through Alberta, Saskatchewan. And like I say, AMC electrical at a Rocky Mountain House, the first to step up. Thoughts, too's?

Well, I mean, he's just, he's exactly our kind of people, right? I mean, you talk to him a little bit. You get to know him. He's a kind of guy that you'd love to have a beer with. You'd love to go fishing with. and he probably would be pretty good to work for. Well, he goes by the, he had a YouTube channel, the average Albertan, if that makes anyone go,

hmm, I wonder what he's about. I would say this, Rocky Mountain House. I'd never been there before, or at least not in memory. And what a little spot that is. Nice little piece of heaven. And I would say this, when we got texting him back and forth, hey, you know, tell us a little bit of AMC Electrical. Tews goes, who are you looking for?

And he comes back with those on booster, need not apply. And I'm like, I feel like that can probably be my place. You know, it's as far as companies go, it's pretty good risk management. You don't want to deal with impending WCB cases or anything like that.

You want to hire people who are healthy. I feel like my, like, why can go to the trouble of training somebody if they're just going to get mild carditis and die in a year? I wonder if the electrical world has a cartel, though, you know,

like I just wonder if they got to deal with, you know, They've got all the power. Sparky's dirt. There's something else. Regardless, this week, we're going to have a little bit of fun. Week 41, we got a few items on the agenda. We're all over the map.

As per usual, we're live streaming. So if you're tuning in that way, thanks for hopping on. With that being said, I set the clock for 4334. I figured 14 things, 28 minutes. And, you know, with the cartel and 2 is going at it, maybe an extra 15 minutes for a little bit of a rant. I don't know. Oh, we'll see.

15. Jesus, you didn't say I was going to get steamrolled by you guys. Like, I thought it was just two minutes and that was it. Well, he may never come back, folks, and that's fine. Okay, let's start here, shall we? We'll start the time. Oh, and one other thought for the listener. I had this come at me last week about our buzzers sounding awful and that they want a different sound.

If that's true, that's the next thing up on either of the comments and the private chat here for the live stream. The show notes, hit me up via the text, Twitter for twos. Let us know if you want us to try and find a different sound because if you're serious about it,

we'll take a little deep dive into that one of these weeks and see what happens. All right. Anyways, I'll start jibber jabber. Here we go. 43, 34, the clock has started and here's what we're going to say.

I guess I got to get just waiting on twos and cartel out of the way. Hey, folks, geez, come on, Sean. Let's get with it here. Except I can't seem to get my fingers to work. Are we allowed to say Bill C-11 sucks? I say yes, but he knows me. In a vote in the Senate, it went 43 yes, 15-0, passing Bill C-11, the online streaming

bill, which has now passed through the Commons, and Senate is expected to become law this month, which would compel streaming platforms to promote Canadian content. Margaret Atwood had this to say, all you would have to do is read some biographies of writers writing in the Soviet Union, Union and the degrees of censorship they had to go through government bureaucrats, she said. So it is creeping totalitarianism if government are telling creators what to create. And then Senator David Richards had a long speech, about 15 minutes. Winner of the governor. Noted author, yes.

Yes. Winner of the Governor General's Award and Giller Prize and a member of the order to launch a, he launched a long tack saying censorship passing his national inclusion. and he compared members of the heritage minister of Pablo Rodriguez's staff with members of Joseph Goebel, Goebbels, geez, why can I say that tonight? Propagana ministry. Probably because it's illegal. Propaganda ministry of Nazi Germany.

So that's been the big thing that came, you know, here in the last, what, has that been, five days maybe? I mean, it's been coming for a while and it keeps going through every step. It's interesting. I mean, like, call me crazy. But the last time the senators, the Senate actually voted down a bill was I think like 92 or something like that, 92, 93. Like, it's been, it's been an entire generation since they've actually done what they're

supposed to do. This is probably one of the biggest pieces of legislation to ever go through the House of Commons. And they had 58 of 97, I think it was, possible senators. and the other people just couldn't be bothered to show up. Nobody abstained. So everybody who didn't vote were people who weren't there that day. Like imagine this is the biggest thing happening in the last 30 years at your company.

And you're like, yeah, I'm just going to work from home today. But I'm not even going to work from home. I'm not even going to bother actually doing what I need to do. And I'm going to get paid anyway. You think that's the pressure? They know the pressure of who's scrutinizing this or does it matter? Because it's not like their names really come out and nobody really, you know, it's just a number.

Why miss it? It's not an anonymous. Well, fair. But why would people? Why would you not show up? They probably don't give a shit. But for other people, they don't want to face the backlash of saying, okay, well, you know what?

You were supposed to support this and you didn't. Or you were supposed to not support this and you did. And so the easiest thing for a politician to do is be a spineless fucking coward and do absolutely fucking nothing. Oh, I'm sorry. Is that illegal to say now? Fuck you guys. Not you guys, those guys.

I get, what gets me is there's supposed to be a silver second reason of what's going on in the parliament. I'm not supposed to follow party lines. Sounds like the falling party lines. And Margaret Atwood, didn't she write The Handmaid's Tale? The Handmaid's Tale. Yeah, wasn't that something about an authoritative government? I've never seen the show. I've never read it.

But that's basically what it's about. And funny thing about it is that it doesn't, the show. show doesn't meet the criteria to check enough boxes to be considered Canadian con. It's not just a person on it. It also has to be so many members of the crew and the writing and support staff. And it's very arbitrary what will be Canadian and what won't be. Yeah. And meanwhile, you've got companies like Netflix that have been paying for trailer park

boys for, you know, a good decade probably worth of new shows on Netflix and how many movies and the cartoon. and they're like, we've been supporting Canadian stuff. And it's it's just, it's rules for the sake of rules. And the problem is that they're so vague and the CRTC is so unaccountable because who even works there and whose mandates do they follow? Do they just decide their own rules? It's so wide open for it's, it's right for the opportunity to be completely mismanaged.

Well, who's going to be in charge of this? Some guy that none of us even know the name of. It's not going to be some guy. And definitely didn't vote for. It will be a group of people that get hired. There'll be a new organization made. And they all have to judge who it is. And how you enforce it.

It's a rabbit hole. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And we all know the government's going to spend about 6.9 billion on it. Just saying. Single, single source contract. NDP candidates linked into anti-oil. tank. Alberta, oh man, why do I, I knew this article was coming and I was practicing the names and I'm about to crush them all over again. You know what? You need to stop apologizing

for always mongling. I know, but this is going to be bad, right? Alberta NDP candidates Samir Keandi from Calgary Elbow and Nagwan Al-Gunned from Calgary Glenmore did work for the Pemina Institute. It's important for Calgarians to know about the close relationship between Alberta NDP and anti-oil groups like the Pemina Institute said Alberta United Conservative Party MLA Prasad Panda. The liberal government has been forced to apologize. The second article that was tied into it was the liberal government has been forced to apologize after coming clean about concealing nearly 200,000 in contracts awarded to an environmental group, which was Pemina Institute out of Calgary. I mean, what's there to say? They're on Twitter saying, oh, these people are trying to ruin our country.

careers by pointing this out the fact that we work for this company. Oh, they're trying to ruin our political aspirations by pointing out that we are anti-oil. Like, why are you trying to hide this? And here's the thing is, if you're going to be something, be it proudly. You're like, yeah, we are anti-oil. We think it fucking sucks. We think you guys are a bunch of dicks. And we call everything tar sands, which is factually incorrect, by the way, because tar does not exist in nature. It's a of destructive distillation. You can't find actual natural tar anywhere on the planet. But this is the misinformation that places like this love to just spew out.

And pointing that out is somehow a mean thing to do to them. Look, you made your bed. You shat in it. And now you got to sit in it. Well, you don't think they would do the same thing. If a conservative candidate came forward and was tied to a right-wing, organization he would do the exact same thing like the Canadian taxpayers federation yeah exactly like oh these alt-rate people who want accountability and low taxes

oh god um the grammy's happened and we honestly don't care just saying they still air it at Yeah, we hit the buzzer, we're moving on. We're going to move on, except for the... Anyways, Tews doesn't want me to talk about the weird dancing. I almost want to show the video. I don't care. Don't care. Tews doesn't care.

All right. Vancouver is meth up. So, Pierre Pollyav had this comment on Hastings, or the east side of Vancouver. He said, it's hell on earth. And that caused a whole bunch of stir. and what was in the there was a lot in here I'll try and they were made

so days these comments were made days after British Columbia's move came into effect to decriminalize hard drugs for quantities under 2.5 grams as part of a three year experiment first off guys I don't know if 2.5 grams is a lot not a lot I have no fucking clue I don't do hard drugs but anytime you hear

decriminalize where people can walk around I'm like okay sure here's what I here's what I found interesting in the uh the rest of the article was Scotty one of the guys down on the uh okay I was nobody you were going to pick up on this on the street says the says the best way to describe downtown east side is humility and generosity in a neighborhood full of people who are brokenhearted in need of help the love for each other manifests in lumps of stuffed animals piled up on street corners sitting as memorials to those who have died here as the toxic drug crisis rages nearby lamp posts and walls are adorned with missing posters of those who may not be dead but cannot

be found. And so they're, they're trying to say it's this beautiful place. Meanwhile, people are dying everywhere. And this is in the article. This is in the article saying it's a great place. Oh yeah, it's a wonderful place if you're a stuffed animal. And let's let's be honest, you're getting stuffed with all of these different weird things that you got to cook on a spoon. And like, it's being honest. about how shitty it is there right now and how bad enabling this is is not a dick move it's just calling a spade a spade which may or may not be a racist phrase nowadays i don't know it's hard to keep up well it's not it's not just in vancouver i mean you go to south of ontario you see it in our

small towns and cities too it's creeping in everywhere and if you haven't gone to town in a while then you go in and you see those the tent cities it is quite shocking but who am i i am not in a position to make much comments because I'm not in the situation they're in. It is not easy for them. Oh, it can't be. But I feel like if you've got a drug problem that's bad enough, the thing about these drugs is that nothing else is more important than getting that fix. You'll sell every last thing you have.

You'll fuck over everyone you've ever met. And you will do despicable things just to get enough money to keep it rolling. Yep. And so now you're going to say, okay, well, we'll let you just live in a tent. rather than having to worry about renting a place somewhere or living somewhere. Like, oh, okay, well, that's one less thing to worry about and I can spend more money on drugs. Oh, and we'll give you drugs. Oh, okay.

Well, now that's all I care about is just it's taking care of that. They've got nothing else to worry about at this point and they can just use the hard drugs until there's nothing left of them and they end up being another memorial teddy bear. I wish, not wish, you know, like I've obviously interviewed Aaron Gunn about this and it just, it seems like it's a flawed idea. And in saying that, like, I haven't dug into it enough to understand how different countries approach these problems. But to me, when it's not working to double down on it, maybe even triple down on it,

I don't see how this is going to get anyone out of what they're currently in. You know, you hear all the stories. Like, it just sounds like this ain't working, folks. Why are we continuing to push harder and harder and harder? And then think about how nobody wants to live in that area either now. And crimes running rampant in places like this. Don't worry. We're going to have 15-minute cities here soon enough, twos, and that'll keep everybody at bay.

You know, it won't matter. It won't matter. But countries like Portugal have gone down this route, but they didn't just decriminalize hard drugs. they also put the support system to help people out. And Canada doesn't seem to be doing that. We got support systems, D.C. It's called made. That will get you out fairly quickly.

I have all the drugs you like. And then we got made to just escort you all the way to the front line, BIP access, away we go. And if you want to take the roundabout route, you can always go the QR code way. QR code way? doublebacks yeah thank you hit the buzzard

oh it must be on the buzzer already oh man okay the NDP are not a serious party they put out

they put out on Twitter Tucker Carlson called for the U.S. Armed Forces to liberate Canada while on air yet Pierre Pollyev's conservatives blocked the NDP motion to continue

damn his words. Instead of standing up for Canada, the conservative sat with Tucker Carlson in his attack on our democracy. Every time the NDP is in the news these days, or really most days, to be honest,

I mean, although we went back to Jack Leight and getting busted at the Asian rub and tug, right? I mean, if you buried them less than six inches deep, you wouldn't need a headstone. And so, I mean, like, this is just the latest string in dumb people saying stupid things.

You know, like, we were talking a few weeks ago, Sean, and you're wondering why we don't talk about the NDP more often. And it's stupid shit like this. Tucker Carlson makes a joke on the air. And they're saying, oh, no, we need to condemn this. And we don't want the U.S. military coming in and liberating us. You think Tucker Carlson gets a bump from that, like a view? or bump like everybody runs to Well actually you know how the end of

Peake has solved this right? You pass Bill C-11 and Tucker Carlson he can't be played in Canada anyways and we just drive on. I guess so. I don't know. I mean Tucker Carlson's got to be sitting there scratching his head that they're anyways. He's laughing. He's laughing. That's all he's

doing. Oh man. All right. This one had everybody going. International incidents ballooning. The balloon, which is being used by the PRC,

an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States was brought down above U.S. territorial waters. The U.S. officials

first detected the balloon in its payload on January 28th when it entered U.S. airspace near Aleutian Islands. The balloon traversed Alaska, Canada, and reentered U.S. airspace over Idaho. President Biden asked

the military to present options. And on Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the Chinese surveillance balloon as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to civilians under the balloon's path. They literally put a sidewiner on this sucker and drop the balloon. I'm like, I don't know. I just couldn't you just go up and get the damn thing? That's just me. Maybe I'm wrong. It was too high for anybody to go up there.

It's a 60,000 feet. Yeah. Oh, the only person high enough to have anything to do. do with it was Hunter Biden and he was in Ukraine. I feel like Elon Musk could have had some rocket go up, pull it down, and it would have been

grab it. So they had to wait till across the whole continental United States. You couldn't drop it over Montana. Alaska, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and then it dropped into Montana. Yeah, like, there's nobody there. Well, that's where I was going to go with it. Like, oh, we don't want to have a chance of it landing on

anybody. Perfect. Shoot it when it's in Montana. You're going to hit a cow. You can't have Oh, well, I don't know. Maybe they've got quotas too. We're not going there. Did, here, let me see if I can pull us up, guys. You've seen the video of this, right? They're getting shot down.

Have it getting shot down? You know, the funny thing is, is that, you know, nobody said anything about it when it flew over Alaska. Nobody said anything about it when it was in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The story broke when some guy took a picture. picture of it with his cell phone in Montana and sent it to like the Montana Gazette. Like the

only person in Montana who actually has a cellular telephone happened to be at the right place at the right time. And they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we totally knew. We totally knew. Totally new. Yeah, we just, you know, we didn't want to say anything. If you read the article, there was three that went through Northern America

in the previous administration and nobody's ever talked about it. Which, I possible, yes, but I would doubt it because there were so many people embedded in D.C. and in the public sector in the states that hated Trump and everything he was trying to do, that they would have just jumped at the chance to leak that. Like, oh, oh, Trump is, is letting Chinese super balloons. You know, here's my, you know what, Occam's Razor, call me crazy, call me tin foil hat, ban me for free speech.

I think that this is just one of those shop teacher tities that came on tethered. Yeah, but anyone had gone up in Oshawa, wasn't it? Or Toronto, wherever that was? Don't shit on my dreams. Is that a big titty floating in the air?

No, it's just a Chinese weather balloon. Boston Powers. Oh, my God, it looks like a huge. Johnson, are you seeing this? Okay, the dairy dumps diatribe dumping on dairy dumping i tell you what i've been i was ready for that one i was i was excited to say it you know uh everybody's just foaming at the mouth because everybody how many time just by you know like how many times did people get sent this video dc how many times do you get

sent that video 430 on the first day it was released i got the first copy and how about you two's i had a lot of people tagging me and it's even on instagram which i hadn't been on in like a million in years. And so, yeah, but I mean, it was everywhere. It was on every social media. Well, yeah. Well, here's the story. I assume most people, I had it sent to me no less than probably six times before noon

it hit on the first day. Like, it was just like, boom. Have you seen this? Did you wake up by that time or what? No, no, I was still sleeping. Okay. You know, anyways. The Canadian consumers are hit by generally high rates of food inflation on an Ontario

dairy farmer protested a viral video. Monday documenting how he's being forced by federal authorities to dump a swimming pool's worth of excess milk. I dump 30,000 liters of milk and it breaks my heart says dairy farmer Jerry Hogan in a five-minute TikTok video that has already been viewed more than a million times across various social media platforms. And it goes on to say a bunch of other things. We got the D.C. here.

You were one of probably the first guy I sent the six videos to, so you probably got hit about a thousand times. I assume you want to hop in first on this thing. And I'm curious your thoughts on. Yeah, where did this start? I don't want to attack the guy. That's not the issue here. 30,000 liters of milk is a lot of milk to be dumping.

Like if I was in that situation, I milk a few more cows than he does. That's just a management thing. Like anybody, one of the first reactions, almost any farmer had was, well, why is he not managing his milk better than that? You've gone through all the expense of producing it, but you had no outlet. You can sell cows. You can change your feed. You can do whatever. You just don't want to be at that situation at the end of the month dumping milk.

Now, I don't know how far you guys want to go down this. And you guys pop and ask questions because then you can, I've talked to both of you guys on the phone about this one. Okay. Why even have the quotas in the first place? Well, you want to go right back to the beginning? Yeah. Milk is.

I mean, we've had a bit of this conversation. but nobody else has really hurt it. Milk is one of the most perishable products, food products out there in the world. It can last two, legally three days in a raw form in my milk tank, legally before we might have quality issues. So back in a day,

about 50 years ago, when it first came in, who had the negotiating power between processors and producers? It was the processor, because if they didn't pick up your milk, you were forced to dump it. Some guys would send four containers of milk, can only get paid for three.

So it was a way of just giving everybody a nickel shot in an industry where, in an industry where to produce processors had control. Yeah. Okay. So what's, I mean, so if the, if the facilities are there,

and they're calling the shots, why not have more facilities? Why not open it up? You mean, you're talking about processors? There's nobody. stop anybody from building the processing plant. You can build a processing plant. I could. The biggest problem, the biggest problem on our end is if we were to do it, your milk, even if it goes into cheese or yogurt or butter, you still got to get it to the, to the grocery store.

And it's very hard to get shelf space there. It's very competitive at the grocery store level. And there's only you don't, you want to talk about monopolies. There's a monopoly at the grocery store level. And they can. And that's, and we're not touch about stuff. We're talking about food in general. Are, are there no small town grocery stores around your next? of the woods most of them are owned by the big monopoly not by the big monopolies by the big organizations the loblas sobies and stuff there's smaller regional ones like farm boy and they got some local brands coming in there and i got friends two of them that make cheese but they say the biggest problem is is to get it into the stores the farm gate sales selling from the farm no problem

is getting the volume out to the stores and that's what the canadian industry is lacking we need more we need more processing if we want because milk is easy to produce it's it's hard on the other end to get rid of not to get rid of to move sorry do you think it would be better to have a decentralized no cartel i know you don't love the word cartel but would you would you like i don't know to me it's like i was saying to this on the phone once upon a time as a kid i remember like where we had dairy farmers down the road from us and they produced milk and uh certainly it was going more to where it is today, but you could still just go down and grab malic and carry on with life. Why not go back to that?

Why? Is it because of where population is? Is it because of cities? Is it because a whole bunch of things that I completely do not understand? What is it about the dairy farming that is, you know, hard to just like, you know, I don't know. Like. So where I am in southern Ontario, there's a huge pocket of dairy farmers about two hours

west of Toronto. Now, you can farm east of Toronto, but we're not going to talk about that. Those guys get upset when I tell them that. But it's Toronto is a pop, Ontario's a population of 15 million people, majority of living around the GTA, they're not going to drive every day out to the countryside to go pick up milk.

So it was a matter of distributing it. But why is grain gone the way it was? Why is any other food product gone the way it was? It's growing where it's most cost effective and then shipped to the processing plant to get packaged to go to the consumer. See, grain went the other way, though. I mean, you got rid of the,

the cooperative out here, what, 10, 15 years ago, Sean? Probably something like that where, sure, call it 20 years, you know, where there was that guy that took his load of grain across the border and he got arrested for it. And that was kind of the catalyst that brought the whole thing down and said, you know, what's wrong with actually just letting people sell what they want? And I would say that milk is probably one of the best things that you could deregulate because it's incredibly obvious. when it goes bad.

Like you can't really sneak one over on somebody. You might sell them one jug of bad milk, but you're not going to make a business out of selling bad milk. You've got to have a quality product or you're not going to be coming, you're not going to have people coming back day after day. I would say that if any product in the world should have incredibly lax regulations on it, it should probably be milk because there's such a huge vested interest in not fucking it up.

I agree on the quality side of things. I disagree on why we should be deregulated. You could take, I talked to Sean about this earlier today. You could take a grain bin of corn or wheat and leave it there for a year. You log some lumber in the bush and put it in a storage yard for a year.

I can't hold my milk longer than two days. And in the deregolated system, in the U.S., there are guys that might get dropped by a processing plant and they have to go find another one, but in the meantime, they're dumped in milk because they're shit out of luck and they can't store it. You can't store it longer than two days. and we see bottlenecks in industry that way.

So I think, is it the system perfect? I've told both of you guys, no. Is it better than what we could have or what's out there? I think it's one of the better ways of doing it. To say there's no quotas anywhere else in the world, that's a fault, well, technically a false statement. In California, they got production quotas based on the processor level. So when I talk about processor, those are the guys that make the cheese, yogurts, the bag of the milk. Eastern, Northeastern, you United States, they call it base rate.

You want to grow? You want to milk more milk, more cows. You got to buy your neighbor out. So that's quota. You go to New Zealand, which they call a very open country, but you want to export or you want to sell your milk to the co-op. And the major one is Fontereira, which says the majority of processing. You have to buy shares in the co-op.

If you don't have shares, you can't ship the milk. Okay. So here's the big thing, though, is that, you know, when the dairy farmers all get together, you know, whatever organization, it specifically falls underneath. You'll forgive me if I just generalize it. But they decide exactly how much milk's getting sold for. They set the prices exactly because they're all in lockstep. They're not competing against each other.

They're all. Brian Rhodes, hard drugs are being legalized, yet it's illegal to purchase raw milk. You know, okay, but here's the thing is that they're not competing against each other. They're working with each other, which is like the definition of a cartel or an oligopoly, right? Where you've got a few people that should be competing, but they aren't. They're working together at the detriment of the consumers and probably also to the detriment of the farmers. How much? I want to address that.

So we've got 12,000 a little bit more producers in Canada negotiating with three, four major processors. Who has the power, negotiating power on that table? Oh, the processors definitely do. There you go. But I'll tell you why do they all work together? Because they want to give everybody a same price, same opportunities. Otherwise, if you live close to city, you're going to get a higher milk price because you're closer for fluid milk. Then you are in somebody who's four or five hours from any major center and have to make cheese or yogurt, which is a lower.

lower price products at the end of the day. She was asking about the raw milk. That has to do with public regulations for quality because in issues there has been past and there has been issues in the past with quality. Like you said, if you've got a bottle of bad milk, that's no good. But it would be no different in your buddy, Marty up north, who has his moose process, butchered on site. He can't sell that moose roast to anybody.

If he wants to sell anything to anybody, he has to go through a provincial license, slaughtering place, a processing place. So it's no different of any food type. It's just, that's the health regulations we have to deal with. Now, as I told you two's earlier, there is one vending machine already going into Ontario, and it will probably be more going in. You see it more in Europe where somebody, a consumer can go to the farm, bring their own bottle, have it filled on the farm with the milk from that farmer.

It will be pasteurized, but at least you can get milk directly. from the farmer you choose. There's also a friend come over this weekend. They came and they were so amazed. They stopped in a place on the way to the cottage where they could see the farm and the guy had his own fluid plant on site with glass bottles and you can get milk from that particular farmer. So it is coming.

So there's guys closer to the city centers are starting to do their own bottling plants. And vending machines are going to start coming too. That's interesting. I like the idea. I was curious, with the rise of Costco and the super Walmarts and everything else, how much has that changed? You know, not, I mean, it's like every industry, but like in order to handle those stores, I assume they have to have, like when you're when, when, I don't know, milk distribution,

whatever it is, is agreeing to supply them. like the volumes they must be able to handle in order to make sure Costco never runs out of milk, never runs out, you know, like all the different things. I'm assuming that was a big game changer as well in the industry. Well, there's even processors talking about now.

They want to have a grocery code of conduct because basically they don't have negotiating powers with the grocery stores again. And so it's just. God forbid they couldn't have a stranglehold on one aspect of it. But here's the beauty of it. So you guys follow the. the egg market in the U.S., right? That was in the news the last couple weeks.

Yeah, it's gotten a little bit scrambled lately. Yeah, and their price has skyrocketed and went through the roof. Canadian eggs, price didn't change. There was always a supply. The stores were always full. That's supply management working because eggs is another one of those industries that are supply managed. And the same thing, you're talking about food, food inflation. Yes, dairy's gone up a little bit the last year, but not at the same rate as majority

of all the other products, including meat and vegetables. But the biggest thing we don't nobody really talks about is so this guy was upset he had to dump milk and I agree it sucks But nobody talks about how much food is actually wasted in the production system overall like we're talking from the field To kitchen table I heard there's a stat that over 25% of the food produced is wasted 1.5 1.3 million tons of Food gets dumped at a store level of a grocery store that expired. It's gone bad. It's whatever whatever reason, it doesn't matter. And in total, $30 billion worth of food gets wasted in Canada. We're talking about restaurants.

We're talking about people not eating their leftovers. I would absolutely believe that. So there's waste in the whole system. So just to pick on us, and I know that's what this is, but it, or sorry, that's just the top of around right now is not really a fair statement because every industry does. If you grow a carrot and it doesn't look perfect, it's tossed. It's got to go. What did you think of his comment when he said,

he grew up on a farm, a dairy farm in Europe, and said in the Monday video that Canada is the only country, in quotes, it forces farmers to dump milk when they have an unusually productive season, but we're not supposed to talk about this. We have our quotas, but we also have a huge sleeve. So that's kind of a leeway.

You can bank over our overtime hours kind of thing, our vacation days, if you want to call it like that. You've got lots of leeway in your system. You just got to play within the borders. And there's, all of us are doing it. He could have done so many management decisions up to that point that he didn't have to get to the point where he had to dump melt. Which includes selling cows.

But cows get sold every day. That's just how the industry works. It seems to me that there's kind of a bit of a conflation out there where you're talking less about supply management in terms of, you know, a centralized planning thing. and you're talking more about supply chain management, which is a little bit different. And actually, to be honest with you, fairly important. Well, I think almost any industry does. If you go, if you're a car parts manufacturer

and you overproduce your order by 25% and drop it off at a car plant, what's you going to say? Well, that's exactly. You guys basically run JIT inventory systems, right? Yeah, and it's like day by day. And if you got a weather system or you got a long weekend, All of a sudden, there's a whole bottlenecks in the system. They don't even use the milk trucks as kind of a buffer, like a day's worth of milk storage,

just on the milk trucks because not everybody wants to work on Sunday. Milk, you know, even though it gets produced every day. So what's the follow-up for this guy? I don't think there's any fallout. I think I know where he did that. The cartel's not going to tell him that his milk is, you know, the milk's gone bad or he's not welcome there anymore. He's maybe soured the relationship. No, he didn't spoil anything.

yet. Yes, have people gone, have other farmers reached out to him? I know for a fact other farmers have. But has anything as the industry, has he had any consequences? Not that I know of. If that's what you're getting at. It's not like he disappears on Monday. He's not going to be found floating in a vat of cream or nothing, hey? No, no. Expired. No, he's not there's none of that stuff. And you know what? He was frustrated. I get it. And he dealt with it how he wanted to deal of it. And you know what? You can't fault the guy for doing it.

Do I agree? There could have been different ways of managing that. I'd hate to beat a dead horse or a dead cow or whatever. But let's move on. Let's move on. That's how you whip up butter. That's right. You know, we're supposed to have this little jingle, but the lady still,

this is two weeks in a row, folks. We would really like somebody to give us the rooster, slurper story of the week. Jingle. Can't twos just sing something? I don't know. Can you twos? I don't even know if I'm here. I don't know what's going on right now.

Is he actually pulling out his guitar? Is that what's happening here? He used to. Well, folks, you're seeing it here firsthand. I don't even know if that boy's in tune or not. It's right or green, though. Oh, it's not too bad, eh? The Christmas slipper.

of the week he's a dick and I don't know You know What fans have really come to enjoy about this show Is how corny and bad it can truly be And that was just about as awful as it gets The rooster slurper story of the week

Oh, please somebody save us from our own misery Next week It can't get any worse than that Ottawa ends up Ottawa ends up spending $450,000 per person on a Calgary quarantine hotel in 2022. The Westing Calgary Airport received $6.8 million from the federal quarantine hotel program in 2022, despite just 15 travelers. And then it went on to say, newly released documents that reveal the West and Calgary Airport Hotel was paid $26.8 million over three years of the pandemic. the liberals paid 8.9 million in 2021,

11.1 in 21, 22, and then 6.8. Yeah, over the course of the last little bit, there was only 15 million, 15 travelers, sorry, 15 million. Like, I just, once again, I'm like, Tuesday, we got to start, like, cleaning a couple rooms and just call it the Tuesday mashup, doing a little service to get a couple million. Like, how dumb do we, like, I feel like we're missing on an opportunity of a lifetime

to just have a million come in. the show and we could probably just submit something to the liberal government and you know and they'd be that's a great idea you want to start a hotel with only 15 people in it and it'd be great here's six million dollars and then we could just bash them for the next year and they probably wouldn't even know what we were doing you know like i don't even think they'd clue in they'd probably they probably like oh that's actually fairly reasonable you wouldn't believe how much we spent on one hotel room in england at the queen's funeral oh god it's it's it's you know remember if you were weeks ago when we were saying is $93,000 in liberal corruption and stupidity, even enough to

talk about, well, I mean, here's $450,000 per guest. Well, and that's not even it. That's one hotel in one city. Every airport has a hotel. 100%. And they haven't released. Cities where they did this. And this is just the first of the information to come out.

You're absolutely right. We have no idea with the tally of all this stuff is going to be yet. It's going to take years to come out. Oh, my God. Imagine being the hotel, though, and just be like, you want to pay this how much again? Or if you were the CEO of the hotel, you're like, well, listen, if you're going to buy out the hotel, this is what is going to cost. They're never going to pay this. Oh, yeah, we'll pay that.

You're like, you're going to be what now? We're going to have 15 guests in here? Like, I mean, we also have to have to. They had like one security guard who was pretty much harassing the women. And, you know, and then the stories were getting buried in Quebec. Like, I mean, this is the most absurd thing ever. Well, I mean, we say that every week and then we keep getting proved right. You know, we can't even joke around about it.

I thought it would be better with these people. I thought it would be better with the rooster slurper at the front. It was not, you know, it just pains me. Every week we come back to this anyways. I just wrote down, it's a joke. I took notes and all the things. And all the one thing I wrote down, it's a joke. Yeah, you can't believe, you can't believe where that's,

stupid. You just can't believe it. Like, here we are again, folks. Anti-Cobac appointment of Chauder Bridge, too far for Laurentian elite. That's the bridge between Ottawa and Quebec. Justin Trudeau should fire point person on

an Islamophobia and get rid of her job to BQ, that's a block Quebec law leader says, the controversy arose from a 2019 Ottawa citizen, column co-written by El Gabwe. I mean, like, come on, John, just terrorizing the names tonight, which said the majority of Quebecers appeared to be swayed,

not by the rule of law, but by anti-Muslim sentiment. So she called them a bunch of, well, not racist, because technically Muslim isn't a race. But, yeah, she said there are a bunch of anti-Islams. And they said, well, this probably isn't the kind of person we want to bring in to, you know, just single out an entire problem. And the liberals, you know, I've taken some fire from it. But this is about the first time that Chantelle Baer from the Toronto Star has had anything bad to say about the liberals.

I think she's actually on the Trudeau Foundation board, if I remember correctly. And so, you know, when you wonder like, what line do these dick faces have to cross before the Laurentian elite finally say enough is enough? and that's it. You just got to piss off Quebec. That's it. That's all they care about. And I think this is great. You remember when she was on that panel a few weeks ago talking about how whiny everybody in Alberta was?

Yes. Yeah. And now here's a bunch of us who definitely aren't in fucking Quebec talking about how whiny those dipshits are. I don't know. I can just see a DC over there shaking his head. I need to bail on this. I'm not touching out with a 10 foot pole. News Studies says wind and solar cheaper than gas, but was written by idiots.

You can imagine who wrote that headline, folks. Natural gas plants are incredibly expensive to build and operate, and this report shows that wind and solar, when combined with storage, can do the same job far less, said Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. It makes no climate or economic sense to build gas plants when we've got these cleaner and lower cost options to keep the lights. on the report put out by Clean Energy Canada looked at an electricity grids in Alberta and Ontario

and found it's now more expensive to build and operate gas plants than solar and wind farms. They're using using a measurement called levelized cost of energy. The report found a new natural gas peaker plant like the one currently proposed for Windsor can produce a kilowatt hour of electricity for 23 cents, yada, yada, yada. It's saying 21 cents for a new solar farm coupled with 8.000. eight hours of battery storage and a new wind farm eight hours of storage can generate the amount of electricity for 11 cents that's that's what it's that's what it's all about yeah so i mean funny thing they don't really take into account um subsidies and the whole study itself like if you actually

go in and read it it's conditional on the fact that the carbon tax has gotten so damned expensive for natural gas so basically what it says is that the government has made made natural gas artificially expensive and wind and solar artificially inexpensive to the point where it makes sense to do it. Not that it actually makes sense in any sane world. What they've said is that our governments have made it prohibitively expensive to use natural gas and artificially cheap to use wind and solar. It's not an honest conversation about where the technology is at, where the production's at at at all. It's just saying that if you subsidize it enough, that becomes cheaper than that, which is true about literally anything.

But twos, the math says it's better. Yes, yes. The math says electricity generated by wind and solar is better. I'm really looking forward to wind and solar. I think this carbon tax is going to be fantastic. I just can't wait. I just can't wait. If we put an 8 million percent tax on cow milk and subsidize the shit out of goat milk.

No, no. Let's be clear. The dairy cartel will find a way. I got my kids working on a gold farm, so easy on that stuff. Oh, I grew up, milk and goats. I hate those bastards. I agree. But the thing is, you're reading the story,

it's always saying the battery storage is not even going to be ready until the end of 2027, so it can't handle any of the peak demands up to that point. So we still need the natural gas to do it. And all you got to do is look elsewhere in the world when they have like wind droughts, or it's a cloudy day or all these fucking things keep happening. And you're like,

well, they based it on eight hours of downtime. Yeah, but eight hours. Eight hours in Canada? You guys are dark for what, 16 hours a day in winter? Are you guys dark for like 16 hours a day in the winter? I don't know how far north you are. You get further north and it's even worse. Yeah.

And here's the beauty of it. Natural grass is green in Europe now. Yep. And they're leaders and anything green. So why can't we get a hell in that city? Like we got so much natural gas. Let's pop it. And all they did was just change the classification on it.

They just said, okay, well, this didn't use to be green. But it is now. so now it's green technology. Why don't we just say that? Well, there you go. Natural gas is green technology, so now it costs the same. Bada bim,

Bada, you know what's the greenest? Nuclear, but they didn't talk about it. Yep. They lightly showed how much of the grid is currently on nuclear, but they didn't say anything about its impact.

No, they're talking about the French, because they're like 80% nuclear and nobody talks about that. Nobody talks about them, yeah. Nobody cares about them to be honest. Nobody cares. We're telling them.

We're done. The French is coming up, buzz them. liberals fight back against Canada's broken sentiment saying it's been broken for years. When he says, this is Trudeau, when he says Canada's broken, Trudeau said of Pallet in a speech, that's where we draw the line. This is Canada. And in Canada, better is always possible. But I don't accept Canadians and politicians that talk down on our country.

Canada is not broken. You can just see him swinging his hair and his stupid look. Anyway, The question is, is it a feature or a bug? Is it designed to be like this? Or was it designed to be something else? And now it's like this.

So now it's broken. Because if it was designed like this, which conceivably you could make a case for, it's running exactly according to plan. This is how it was supposed to be the whole fucking time. And maybe we need to get off this train. We probably need to get off this train. Like, I mean,

yeah, I thought it was. It was really funny that Mark Gerritsen tried to get in and chirp. And he said, oh, well, I'll show you this. There's an article saying this from years ago. So, yeah, before the pandemic, people were saying this. So what are you talking about, Pollyab? This is news. Yeah.

It's still in the years that the liberal government was in office. You're like, you realize it's been broken now at least for two years. That's what you're pointing out to the public. Yeah, three years now. The other party, did you read the poll who thinks it's the highest? Women. Women and young people. That's your voter base, too.

That's all you got. I mean, you know, you wonder if in 12 and a half days he'll have the completely different results of that poll, right? Well, you've got to buy the right person. I mean, yeah. But, you know, the funny thing is you got all these staunch liberal supporters online. like just the absolute diehards that no matter how stupid something is if Trudeau says he's for it, they're for it too. And no matter what anybody remotely right of Mao says, they're evil.

And they're the one saying now they're like, okay, well, we get that it, you know, there's some things that aren't totally perfect, but where are you in terms of offering solutions? And that's how you know it's really bad. When you've got the absolute diehard truon people saying, well, is there a little bit of middle ground we could find. What they're really saying is please don't fucking butcher us because you're totally goddamn right. I was going to

say as my brain clues into something I forgot. AMC Electrical, the sponsor of this week's show, this mashup, mashup 41. If you're interested in work, their contact details are in the show notes. I don't know why

it just popped into my brain right now, but I'm like... Because we forgot to say it before. Or probably because we're talking about Trudeau and my brain goes to other places. That's probably what happened. It's like, go to happy spots, go to happy spots. That's right. AMC. Electrical. Go to Rocky Mountain House where things kind of make sense. And if

not, I'm sure there's a lot of guns. Anyways, liberals back down on trying to control every gun. After, I thought this might have been happy news this week, honestly, too, as I thought you might have slid this in there. No, this is bad news. Is it bad news? Oh, yeah.

Okay, well, I guess. The liberal government acts it's controversial amendments to the pending firearms legislation Bill C-21 and Saskatcham firearms owners, gun shop owners, and Premier Scott Moe are pleased is basically the article. Yeah, which is bullshit. This is the kind of stuff Jordan Peterson's talked about for years where like you get right up in somebody's face and then when they finally call you on it, you back off a little bit. And then you get a little bit closer and a little bit closer and you just keep pushing them. and this is exactly that.

They brought in just absolutely assonide gun control laws a few years ago and we've been fighting it the whole time and then they said, well, what if we went right fucking stupid with them? And they bring in all this crazy shit and then they get a bit of backlash. Maybe, you know, some people push back.

And they say, okay, well, you know, we thought about it, you're right, you're right, you're right, we'll back off on that. We'll back off on that. And meanwhile, all these ham-fisted idiots are saying this is a big win for us when we're right back to, where we were six months ago.

Hmm. Interesting. Interesting. When you put it that way, I get what you're saying. So you're thinking they're going to come back with another bill. Well, he's saying they were already pissed six months ago.

And then they went absolutely idiotic. And now all you've done is go back to where you were six months ago. And we're happy with that. So why, why doesn't Scott Moe see that and be like, listen, this isn't good enough? Scott Moe just needs to not rock the boat.

And he's in for another four years. and all of his coworkers are in for another four years. Scott Moe's at a place where all he has to do is be less stupid than the NDP, which is pretty easy. If you don't want that type of leadership, go to AMC Electrical, where,

you know, like we got, we don't have politicians or hammerheads or punch me in the face because I just, I don't get it. Like his voter base would love that, too,

they would love for him to say, this isn't good enough. That isn't going to hurt him getting elected again. But he just needs his strategy right now. and it's going to be his strategy until something changes politically in a major way in Saskatchew. And his strategy is just to not hit the banks. That's all he's got to do and he's going to win. Because the NDP are not a serious party, Sean.

I mean, we keep circling back to this. All he has to do is just be smarter than them, which unless he gets like eight lobotomies, he's probably going to be fine. Scott Moe, he, him. That's probably what would do it in Saskatchewan anyways. P-S-A-C wants to strike Canadians right in the P-SACC. P-SACC wants to strike, yep. Anyways, anyways, what is this?

This is the key organized. What do you want? The key organized for a large federal public service union is calling on its 120,000 members to vote for a destructive strike to shut down the government and force it back to the table and offer proper compensation. compensation like 4.5% annual pay increases. That's what they're looking for. Yeah.

And the mediators are telling them that they're stupid and that they're asking for too much. And they're saying, well, you know what? If you don't do what we say we want, then we're just not going to do any more work for you. And what's Canada going to be like when that happens? Oh, like what? Like you're going to not process any fucking passport application.

If the entire public sector just did absolutely nothing for, say, six months, how many of us would even fucking notice? Well, somebody would notice. Somebody would. But you didn't read the whole thing in there. They had about hundreds and hundreds of proposals they set to the mediator, but also all the costs. So it's not just a 4.5% increase. the total cost over three years of everything they're asking for, so it's not just late. It was like 45%? 47%.

47%. 9.3 billion dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you guys are the people who voted for these assholes who made these bad decisions. And now that the bad decisions are garnering their natural results.

Maybe two is we should get like GoPro cams. Apply for a liberal funded. public sector job and just videotape us being jackasses and see what we can get away with. I mean, at this point, I feel like they're just fissing over money and maybe we could just have a little bit of fun with it. CBC's looking for somebody to write articles that isn't in one of the major two cities in Alberta. They want somebody to write articles about the upcoming election. I feel like we could have fun with that. Yeah.

Under the pen name Tuesday mashup and just see what happens? I don't know. There's some potential there. I don't know. Sign it with a rooster and maybe a lollipop. What do you think, D.C. Do you think we should try and write for the CBC for a little while and see how weird it gets? I think you should apply.

Because what are they going to do? Fire you? When's the last time they fired or anybody? No, they just keep getting more money. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, actually, you know what? That'd be great. that yeah and then and then they'd be like okay but you can't shit talk us anymore and I'd be like no we

don't go on me let's do this let's do this I feel like we but you know what I said 40 what did I say 44 34 something like that we're closing in an hour let's do happy news can we do some happy news this is happy everything's been happy about this hasn't it how about the the YouTuber takes the blinders off uh if you don't know who missed to do either of you know who missed your do either of you know who Mr. Beast is? I assume yes. I didn't know who he was until this happened. Really? Your kids don't know who Mr. Beast is? Not that mine do, but my niece is and nephews. He's the number one. He's number one YouTube generator, is he? Yeah, well, he's way up there. Like, I mean, anyways, so this isn't new what he does. He's doing stuff like this all the time.

Anyways, American YouTuber Mr. Beast is using his success to do some good. In his most recent video, he cured a hundred, a thousand people's blindness by paying for their eye surgery. Um, And then he also gave $10,000 to a bunch of people. He paid for first semester of school. He did a whole bunch of things. He bought somebody at Tesla. Yeah. And it's garnered more than 45 million views in 48 hours.

Wow. Yeah, I think it's absolutely wonder. Wonderful. Things are definitely looking up for these people now. That's awesome. It's really good for me. He went looking for people that couldn't afford to do it in the first place, which is perfect. Yep.

What do we got here? What do we got? We got, Brianne Road said, The next SMP presents Better have twos open up with comedy and a song. I don't know how many tickets I could actually sell to that. You know,

it's like, probably sell more if I promise not to bring my guitar. That's probably. Although, I mean, we had been talking because, you know, quick Dick, had been telling you that he was thinking about

trying to bust out a song. And I was saying, well, maybe I should bring my guitar too. You should do a duet. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, nothing ever came of that, but I was, I was wondering if I should bring some. His dreams were crushed.

Let's see here. Let's see here. What else we got? We got, Aline Clark said, what about a night? This is going back to the power thing. What about a night when the wind isn't blowing? I mean, yeah, they have. The study said it included eight hours of power storage.

I know, but we're talking, we're talking wind droughts. That's what, that's what Britain had. Wind droughts. I've never heard of, like, I would love a wind drought in Lloydminster. Could you imagine if something like that ever happened in Swift Current? Like, all of a sudden, all the trees would just start going back straight up again? Yeah. This is, this is Carol Scobie.

Any major city is headed that way. I believe this is coming back to the 15-minute cities. There's been a whole bunch of stuff come out about that. We need to start talking about that at some point. Well, I mean, but it's conspiracy theory, and I don't want to get, in that realm too's you know i'd hate to get pulled it pulled off the thing you know because we're we're not we're fake news misinformation yeah um but you know uh it's it's a weird thing like emminton put out that they're interested in a 15 minute city and like when you read their proposal

one of the things they say is guys we're not going to limit your travel and you're like are you morons like that's the whole idea of a 15 minute city well the whole the whole the but the way they phrase it it doesn't make it seem it that way but it opens the door so that eventually you just, that's where it goes. And you're like, if you can't see that by now, like you're a moron. At Oxford, you're going to get fined every time you leave your area.

Right? And it's funny. Yeah, it's interesting and it's stupid. And I'll probably say this the next time we talk about it too. But it seems to me like the left loves jumping on fads. Like if something's new and interesting and flashy, they're like, okay, well, we're all for that. and then they update some new emoji and their Twitter handle and they they stand with this or they stand with that.

I mean, all of a sudden, Ukraine overnight. And then, you know, the vaccinations and Cecil the lion and whatever else. And they never really think this through. And I feel like the 15 minute cities, you've got a few people that want it to be the next big thing. And then you've got enough people saying, well, what the fuck does that even mean first? And nobody can really explain it. But yeah, it's this weird tendency on the left that they just love jumping in on whatever is the new thing. Wear a mask.

Eileen Clark says 58 out of 205. This is going back to the centers. That's the number I'd say. I thought it was 105. But when you sent all the information, I didn't see the 205 in there either. Everywhere on social media was 205. But when I looked at what I looked at all the information you sent, the number it talked about was 105 was what, sit in the Senate.

So that's the total seats. And then there's 12. So there's 105. I'm looking at this right now, Eileen, 105 seats and 12 of them are vacant. So, um, so you've got,

uh, 93. I think I said 97 when we were talking about before. So you got 90, your math is poor. I was doing it off top of my head. I wasn't doing that. There's my memorization.

My math is fucking awesome. Uh, so anyway, um, out of that 93, there was only 50, 58 that voted. And where are the rest of them? They couldn't even be bothered.

They're working from home. They're not even working. They didn't even turn in their work. Earl, Earl Wally, says the Enigma, the Dairy Cartel, exclamation points.

That was from very early on. I threw it up there and was chuckling about it while you guys were talking. Oh, that's good. The funny thing is that I just found out today that D.C. here is the guy

who did that that new-related two-star review. That went straight over your head. Well, I mean, we talk about the dairy cartel every week. And so, I mean, it could have been anybody. And, you know, the funny thing was, was, if I remember correctly, Sean, I think the first time I was ever, like, the first time we ever talked on your show way back in the day, we talked like, we just brushed the surface of talking about the dairy cartel.

So this has been a long time coming. Yeah, and I feel like they sounded warning bells back then. And we each got text about 17 times a morning. You didn't get about it again. And then, and then we're like, like, well, obviously we need to talk about it some more and see what it comes of this. And it seems they're all, you know, all talk, no action. Anyways, that's just, hey, hey, hey, guys.

I got to get up in four hours and start doing chores. You guys are just having to start in your evening. I'm two hours ahead of you. Oh, I'm drinking chocolate milk too, and it's fantastic. It's going to keep me up all night. Earl Wally said, my hometown of Oshawa's bad. Downtown is like the Walking Dead. So sad.

That was back to once again, our Hastings talk. It sounds like, you know, different parts of Canada. Obviously, it's, it's in southern Ontario. And yeah, and we've got lots of rural crime too. It sucks because it's just a crime of opportunity. It's whatever's convenient. They'll pick up a vehicle, rob a few other guys sell. There's a lot of people in, you know, downtown Edmonton and Calgary.

They're in a steel business now where if something's there, they'll steal it. Yeah. And it's, I don't know how to help them. And I don't have any opinion other than that. Enabling them, I'd say, should be, you know, taken off the table. And then from there, we can have a discussion. but just giving them everything they need to eventually die from what they're doing is probably not a great way to do it. And it's not really cost effective, especially when we've got made.

What's life? We'll end on this one. I don't know if either of us, any of us know the lifespan, but Brianne asked, what's the lifespan of a gas plant versus wind farm? Anybody know off the top of their head? I know solar plants when I talk to Brian Gitt, or solar farm, sorry, is they say 25 years, but they start to have issues. around 18 and the averters and the averters have to get replaced after 15 years i got some solar panels yeah so photovoltaic cells you get about 25 years and i i want to say that wind is about the same yeah and then you've got a huge reclamation process involved with that too yeah

i i don't know about a gas plant i i don't know how long they last i think i agree with her her latest comment i think they last longer than than anything else yeah i'm sure you gas will outlive, fire outlive anything else. Well, yeah, I mean, just come out here and see the infrastructure that's been built. Germany, Germany tried going to wind and solar a few years ago, and now they're trying to get everything back to natural gas or coal and we didn't give it to them. And so now they're starting up, rather than continue with wind and solar, they're going to coal. Yeah. So, I mean, do you want to force wind and solar and have people burning coal or do you want to try and find some neutral ground and maybe go with natural gas? Either way. Thanks for hopping in

for a mashup 41 DC. Thanks for, you know, lending some thoughts to the, the dairy cartel side of this. Yeah, you know, I'll be interested to see what the people say tomorrow morning. Yeah.

I appreciate the offer. Hopefully I didn't disappoint you guys. I stayed up way past my bedtime to do this, by the way. Okay, real quick. Did the dairy cartel have a big conspiracy to overthrow Maxim, Bernier in the leadership election for the conservatives to get Andrew Shear to win. Not that I know of.

Okay. All right. So it happens. He's not on the same level. He's not. Oh, I'm a little bit of my pay grade. Like I don't know. Fair enough.

You know, you know, then they talk about like the stone masons or whatever, free masons. They're like, they got all these circles. You're on the other side. You think everything. And you got the secret handshakes and everything. He doesn't even have the secret handshakes. He just got the card. Yeah.

It's secret milking. You got to flip your pinky up at the end of it And then they'll be like, oh, he's one of us He's one of us. Well, you got to show me that too, right? So then you're good to go. Well, boys, I've enjoyed this. Once again, D.C.

Thanks for hopping in. Mashup 41 brought to you by AMC Electricals. You've showed up again to Drew McKay for coming up with a great idea of having some businesses hop in and sponsor the mashup as we go along here. and hey, thanks for hopping in. This is an extended one. You know, DC joked at the start, we go for like 40 minutes while we're over an hour now, and Sean's starting to see Crosside at the screen.

So we will call it a day. Thanks for hopping on if you're on the live stream, and if not, if you're just tuned in tomorrow morning, hit up the text line, let me know what you think of the episode. Also, the buzzer, if you hate it, love it, don't care. You can text me that too. All right. Anyways, I'm getting the heck out of here.

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