Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #43

Episode Date: February 21, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which includes a whole lot of Rooster Slurpers This week's Main Sponsor is AMC Electrical. Find out more here: http://amcelectrical.ca/ Trudeau medley brought to you by Udderly Ice Cream - Instagram udderlyicecream.armstrong Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

You're a son of a bitch, Sean. You know, since switching over to this stream yard, the fact I can mute you at the start just like makes my day. Like every time, every time I take you off, I'm like, this is the greatest week ever. And it just keeps happening over and over and over again. So welcome aboard, mashup 43. To all the people tuning in, I apologize.

I thought it was going to be 7.30 tonight. Normally we record at 9. And now it's what, 4.30? Like we've kind of been bouncing around. long weekend stuff like that happens family day blah blah blah you can all get it so uh if you if you found us here at 430 and you're like what is going on that's why anyway yeah it's Tuesday which is funny because now you got to just be like hey everybody shut the hell up we're recording as before we started recording as people were running by me trying to get out of the way

kids are screaming kids are going to the bathroom it's like no welcome They just, they're the worst for that. It's like they're always going to the bathroom. Well, Mashup 43, brought to you by AMC Electrical out of Rocky Mountain House. I think we started possibly maybe the next shirt idea for the mashup. Not that we've been able to get the Tuesday, we're working on that, folks. Not that we've been able to get the rooster slurp out of the door. But small town SaaS kids taken over the world.

That's Drew McKay out in Rocky Mountain House, AMC Electrical. This week's major sponsor of the podcast. They've been rolling since 2005, Odin Rocky. So small town, another small town SaaS kid. Another small town SaaS kid success story. A lot of alliteration there. I mean, it's funny how, I mean, Elon Musk, his mom is from Saskatchewan. You've got guys like, skip the dishes.

That's a Saskatchewan company. There's so many awesome things that have come out of Saskatchewan, aside from the Rough Riders. who are also awesome. And it's just, it's interesting. Like I remember when I, I just randomly showed up at a company in Lloyd when I was just, I think it was like 21 at the time, trying to get a job on the rigs.

And I knew a guy who knew a guy. And basically they're like, okay, well, what's, what's your background? And I just said, well, I grew up on a small town, or I grew up on a farm in a small town, Saskatchewan. And he's like, oh, good enough. Can you push a broom?

yep, okay. It's 12 bucks an hour for shop wage. And I was like, you're going to pay me 12 bucks an hour? I don't even need to go in the field. I'll just push that broom for the rest of my life for 12 bucks an hour. Yeah. Well, now people are, well, they're making a lot more than that. Let's, let's look at that.

Yeah, this was a way, this was a ways back and it was a while ago. But it's just kind of funny how that was basically just all he needed to hear. And he's like, okay, yeah, yeah, you're what we're looking for. Well, info in the show notes for people waking up in the morning on the podcast. Once again, if you got that fifth booster, you know, that fifth one, you probably shouldn't apply. You just probably shouldn't apply. That's not be a good culture fit. But shout out to AMC and the team over there for hopping on board again with it.

I would like to point out with Drew. He's the guy who initially threw out this idea of, hey, why don't you get small business? is on to support the mashup. And I was like, yeah, we sat down. We're at Browns that night having a Sassboro. And we're like, okay, yeah, sure. You know how many weeks we got left in 2023? How many?

Five. We have three weeks in July, two in September. And I'm pretty sure if I look back on my time frame, we started talking about this less than a month ago. And so it has been an interesting little ride on this side, trying to keep up to all of you. So if you're like, man, I got to get in, involved in this. There's five weeks left in

2023 folks. So, uh, by all means, yeah, text me, uh, show notes. You can, uh, hit up the, the order of social media. Either way, you can get a hold of one of us, uh, more than likely either way through there. Um, also, uh, I'm going to do a shameless plug because twos is going to be there. And if you want to, no, no, just, just real quick before

we're done with AMC. I thought it was really cool that when we're talking to them, like, okay, well, do you want us to talk about your business and, you know, see if we can drum up some business for that. And he's like, man, we are flat out. And so he's like, I guess you can if you want, but we've got more work than we can handle right now. And so it's, it's interesting. I mean, sure, yeah, if you're in Rocky Mountain House, you need some electrical stuff done, you can look into it. But the thing about it is, is that they are so busy that they're just looking for qualified people.

And this is what happens when the rubber meets the road and you've got some kind of a small town SaaS guy at the helm. 100%. One other shameless plug here on the mashup, although two is a series of. totally not paying for which twos is totally going to be there and is probably going to benefit from this in some way shape or form and that is the next smp presents legacy media featuring kig carson wain peters kim sims and byron christopher march 18th in eminenton and yes 222 minutes will be in the building so if you're a fan girl or boy of twos you can uh you can you can you can you know i don't know pin them in a corner and honestly the amount of cool stuff that like an event like that

with those names, you're not even going to care that Tuesday is there. You're going to sit next to him and be like, hey, let's talk about Kid Carson for a while. And he's going to say yes, because Kid is awesome. Right. Well, I agree. I agree. It's going to be a fun evening. And I don't think have we been disappointed so far, knock on wood, at an S&P presents yet?

No, it's been, they've been fun little shows to do. There is no stab insurance offered by the venue. So even though it's in Edmonton, you are on your own as far. as dealing with crackheads and vagabonds and vagrants. Okay. Shall we start with a fan favorite? And I'm going to set the timer to 3822. We got 13 topics today.

I just feel like the amount of rooster slurper of the weeks we got in here this week, but I'm just going to assume. We'll just don't spoil it for everybody. 30. We get to it. 32.22. That's what I'm saying. That.

Okay. The NDP is not a serious party. What would you like to go? A, if anyone, we're trying to get a little jingle made for this one too, because this seems to be coming up every bloodied. Should we do that? Yeah, absolutely. The NDP sucks. There, here, there. Even though Jagmeet Singh dresses Swarthy, the NDP is not a serious party.

So this week's 338 can to model update has the NDP, losing up to six seats among among them burnaby south who is her to be south is the writing of jag meet sing as you can see they're up on the screen this is his home riding which i mean he ran in a by-election before if i remember correctly and didn't win it and then it took him two tries to actually land a seat but he is now projected to lose his own damn seat which doesn't happen terribly often like michael ignatyev uh when he was running the liberal party uh in two thousand 11, I think it was. He lost. And, you know, you've got, you know, a few things like when the NDP in Saskatchewan have had that ongoing run of leaders that don't win their seats. I think there's

been like three elections in a row where the leader hasn't won their seat. But they just keep trying to plug stuff that doesn't make a lick of goddamn sense. And you've got the head of the, the workers party who is supposed to stand. up for everyday people. But he doesn't. He drives around on BMW and wears a Rolex with all these bespoke suits. Like this is,

I don't know. Like, he's, he's not, I don't know who's consulting them on fashion, let alone policy, but they're all idiots. I think this is just great.

I just, I just think it's great. I think him losing in his home riding or predicted to right now showing it. I think he's just fantastic too. I just think it's, We haven't had a lot of positive things on this podcast. And this is one of the ones where it's like, what a way to lead off the week.

With that as your first one. Think about the ripple effect on this, Sean. So the thing about Jagmeet Singh is that he has been scared to have another federal election. And so he just does whatever Trudeau tells him to because he's scared of losing his seat. He's scared of falling out of favor. And mostly he's scared of running an election where they've got no goddamn money because nobody really supports the party anymore. And now if he is favored to lose his own seat in his own riding,

he is not going to do anything to force an election, which is really what he should be doing. That's what he's there for, yeah. But the thing about it is, is like if you, if you were to go to 338.com and look at that updated map, the liberals are losing in a lot of seats. They're looking to lose a lot of seats as well.

And so now the question becomes, whether Sing is smart enough to realize that he should be more okay with losing than Trudeau is, but he just can't get it past that tiny little brain of his. And so it's good news, but it is not ripple effect good news. Ballet review is dog shit. Yep. The director of a leading German ballet company is being investigated by police and has been fired for smearing dog feces on a critic's face

after taking offense to her review, she wrote. He had a bag full of dog shit, and he smashed it in her face. That's one way to deal with people you dislike. Yes. And I don't know. I didn't go far enough into, like, finding these reviews and reading them,

but apparently this has been an ongoing feud between them for a while. And I find it interesting that, that a ballet reviewer can have an ongoing feud with somebody about how they're not dancing prettily enough. The whole thing seems fairly ludicrous and just the fact that he just went and rounded up some shit from his dog who's a dash wound or something like that. So it's just classic German. And so it's it's not it's not a shitsu.

It's not it's not one of those itty bity, yappy little dog shits. this is one of the things that looks like it came out of a horse. I mean, shape aside. But yeah, and he just went up to her and shoved a bunch of dog shit in her face. I'm wondering where the video is of this. You know, like, if we're going to talk about this, all I want to do is play the video just so everybody can see it. Because I think we could all, you know, I feel for the person. I do.

Yeah. But I think we could all, it's like seeing someone kicked in the nuts. You know, it's like, I feel dumb, but I'd still like to see it. I'd just like to see it, you know. I saw an awesome video on YouTube one time of a ref that was running into the circle. And he wiped out and slid nuts first into the post. It was just absolutely glorious. I bet you I watched that thing a hundred times on repeat.

Now, to everyone's favorite portion, probably, more than likely. The rooster slurper of the wig. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive. There we go. Exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself.

Man, you are one pathetic loser. Man, you are one pathetic loser. I'll never get over and over and over again when it comes to this. I actually am going to feel. I'm going to have, like, such a joy when he's no longer in office and such sadness, we don't get to play that clip as much, because I'm sure he'll find a way to make it to the mashup either way. And I hope he doesn't quit on a Monday because I can promise you that, and I've already

had this conversation at work, when Trudeau is gone, I'm calling in drunk for like three straight days. And so, yeah, if we do a mashup during that window, it's going to be a shit show. We're going to do a mashup during that window, and we're going to have to come up with some great name for it that is better than the festivist mashup that we did at Christmas that everybody liked. It's going to be something completely different. And now for something completely different. That's right. This week where he's making headlines, well, I don't know, there's a whole bunch here. We're going to start with the Emergency Commission. The Public Order Emergency Commission issued its Friday report. This was Western Standard. And I'm going to be a little long winded here for a second because. Two's sent me like 18 articles on this, okay? So let's start with Western Standard. The Public Order Emergency Commission issued its Friday report, or its report Friday, about three days before initially expected.

It is more than 2,000 pages of Trudeau's government talking points, an appalling exoneration of an authoritarian government stole the right to freeze the bank accounts of its political enemies. He met the very high threshold in quotes of being justified in invoking the act. The report says, Justin Paul Rolo said, I have concluded that in this case, the very high threshold for caution was met.

I have done due, I have done due with reluctance. I have concluded the cabinet was reasonably concerned that the issue or the situation, geez, I can't read today. It's like I'm on holidays or something too. Figure it out. Figure it out.

We are live. It was fucking around, Sean. It was worsening and at risk of becoming dangerous and unmanageable, he said, adding there was credible and compelling evidence. He's talking of the public, order emergency. I'm going to continue. The National Post wrote none of the 76 witnesses whose testimonies, Rolo's commission waited through, made a compelling case for using the

Emergency Act to call the Freedom Convoy. Protest Rolo shrugged and gave the government a pass. It's nothing short of a cop out. In the end, he decided to split the difference while finding the government met the high threshold required. He noted he did not come to this conclusion easily and did not consider the factual basis to be overwhelming. And then finally the Toronto Sun wrote, the elite view of the Freedom Convoy has won,

not the legal view, not the view of the law enforcement and Canada's intelligence services, both of whom were sure the protesters who blockaded downtown Ottawa last winter posed no threat to our democracy or our national security. They could be dealt with using ordinary law enforcement

powers and tactics. That's where we begin. That is a lot of... that. Interesting thing tacked on to one of the quotes that you read. I do not consider the factual basis for it to be overwhelming. Reasonable and informed people could reach a different conclusion than the one I have arrived at. Yes. It was a very nice way of saying that he just, he just, Pontius piloted himself on this. He was like, I'm going to give them a pass because I don't want to deal with the fallout for this in my career and everything else. I am just going to give them the gentlest past possible.

Could it be that he's got family ties? Could it be? Okay. So that's been, I think, fairly summarily debunked. There's a few people with similar names. And so my understanding is that that is not the case. Interesting. Because there's a ruleau.

He's got a brother that's got the same name as Justin Trudeau's mother or aunt's husband, so kind of an uncle. But it's a different guy is my understanding of it. The interesting thing is that you saw a full court press on it.

You saw all kinds of fact checkers dropping it, but like Andrew Lotton fact checked it too. So it's interesting that for once, I think probably just about the first time, the fact checkers, I think, have been correct on this. As much as, and don't get me wrong,

I would love to say that, A family member of Trudeau decided that Trudeau was correct in this commission. I would love nothing more than to tell you that right now, Sean, but I don't think it's the case. My understanding is that it's just, it's Rulo, everything's named Rulo. Dog River was filmed in Rullo. Everybody, yeah.

So I don't know what a rule is, but I know that O is water. I don't speak fucking French. So, yeah, it's just, it's the most timid. endorsement you could possibly imagine. Oh, you had that cued up. Okay, well, yeah.

Sorry, I don't want to, I don't want to burst your spy balloon on this one, Sean. But I don't think it was the case. You know, just having some fun over here, folks. That's what I'm trying to do. Rooster slurper of the week, two rooster to slurper. This one is the Trudeau government clearly, certainly learned quick, from the stakes of releasing details of a $6,000 per night hotel room. That's last September.

Justin Trudeau jetted off to London to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth's the second. And the negative headline came out of while he was there surrounding his piano bar rendition of the hit song Bohemian Rhapsody. Documents released on the cost. What does he know about being a poor boy? Documents released on the cost of the government's delegation's trip to the New York, trip to New York for the United Generals, the United Nations.

General Assembly reveal next to no details beyond the full cost, not even the name of the hotel. And I like this in one of the articles. It said before becoming Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau said, Canadians deserve the most transparent and open government in the world. Covering up wasteful spending has become the rule rather than the exception for this Trudeau government. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Like, look, like, so the big thing was, was that that $6,000 a night, was, to my understanding, the most expensive hotel room that you could get in England at that time.

On that night, it was the most expensive one you could get. And of course, Canada, because it's not like they're paying it out of pocket. And like we're so far removed from the $16 orange juice that Bev Odea resigned from. Like if the conservatives were smart, they would actually start talking about that. And they would say, we are going to be the $16 orange juice party. And if you fuck around, you're out. Because this is, this is insane. You know, the thing about the $6,000 hotel room is that actually when it was released,

they fucked around with the exchange rates, exchange rates. And it was seven. And it was actually closer to seven. And so, and then it's funny because I saw some people defending it online. And they were saying, well, you know, the reason why he had to get this hotel room was because Stephen Harper sold the house. that the Canadian government had in London, which he sold like 10 years ago for $530 million. The Canadian government had a half a billion dollar residence in England for diplomatic shit.

Of course you should sell that fucking thing. Like there's no way that the real estate justifies it. And because some guy 10 years ago sold a half a billion dollar house, that meant that Trudeau had to get the most expensive, goddammed hotel in the entire city during the queen's funeral and and when they released it because the canadian taxpayers federation asked for who stayed there so they had a statement with blah blah blah but it was blanked out stayed at the hotel they actually redacted it because there's no security concern uh brian lily he took the words right out of my mouth he's like

the only way this is a concern security concern is if is if someone gets a terminator to go back in time and murder him. Like, it's, it's already said and done. He's not there anymore. You can stay, you can say who stayed at that hotel. It's not that big of a security deal. Did you say, okay, well, it was this guy or was that guy or whatever. It was six months ago.

What are you going to do about it now? What do you think a $6,000 hotel room actually gets you compared to like, let's say, the $120 travel lodge? I imagine it's probably like a four or $5,000 square foot thing, a few different levels. So a pent. So a pent. Assuming it was Trudeau, which is probably

fair to say because they confirmed that the Governor General didn't stay there. So assuming it was Trudeau, he probably didn't even set foot in every single one of the rooms in that place. Oh, and it was on the waterfront on the tames.

And so, but it's just, it's funny because they're doubling down on this where people are asking for it. And they're just like, no, nope, nope, nope. We are going to, we're going to redact it. At this point, too, they're a bunch of idiots. I mean, the fact that, yes, they're a bunch of idiots. I get it.

We can't possibly devote more time in this show to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party and how stupid they are. What do you got next for us? Well, why not rooster sloper of the week? The cock. Well, how about that? On Tuesday, Mario Dion issued a report finding the liberal MP Greg Fergus, the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Secretary have violated the Conflict of Interest Act, no kidding, when he petitioned the CRTC on behalf of an acquaintance to grant a small television station of broadcasting license,

requiring a mandatory distribution in Quebec. This was in direct violation of law, which prohibits ministers and parliamentary secretaries from trying to influence the decisions of administration tribunals. Fergus chalked it up to an unintentional error. Honestly, like this, this isn't a ball game. You're like, oh, it was a, it was a catchable ball and and he lost it in the sun. Okay, well, you know, they got they got this many runs, this many hits and there's one more error. Like, how many times does it need to go on before somebody at the Conflict of Interest Office in Ottawa says that every liberal minister should take conflict of interest training?

Oh, wait, that happened last week. Yeah, I'm actually almost wondering to is if they're just like, oh, yeah, they're going to tell you need to take this training. And it's not that big a deal. And the news is going to run with it for like a half a second and just keep doing what you're doing. Because if we get it through, it's a good thing. But it's now happened so many times with the liberal government. Yes.

The official recommendation of that office of idiot bureaucrats is to say that every single liberal minister should take conflict of interest training. Correct. And then he quit, presumably for health reasons. Presumably. But I mean, at what point you just be like, what the fuck am I even doing here? Okay, but that's enough of both liberals. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive.

There we go. Exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one pathetic loser. man you're one pathetic loser i had to play one more time you give me four rooster slurpers of the week in a row the slurping they're all different subjects i realize i realize i'm just saying i at some point i'm just like hankering to press the button again i'm like i'm gonna i'm gonna hit it it is a great jingle

it's a great jingle man it's a great jingle okay here we go rooster slurper of the week the slurping okay draw from a series of ceases intelligence gathering operations you remember I'll finish it here. The documents illustrate how an orchestrated machine was operating in Canada with two primary aims to ensure that a minority liberal government was returned in 2021 and that certain conservative candidates identified by China were defeated. The document says that the Chinese Communist Party leadership in Beijing was pressuring its consulates to create strategies to leverage politically active Chinese community members and associates

within Canadian society. Beijing uses Canadian or. organizations to advocate on their behalf while obisgating links to the People's Republic of China. Most important, the intelligence report shows that Beijing was determined that the conservatives did not win. China employed disinformation campaigns and proxies connected to Chinese Canadian organizations in Vancouver and the GTA, which have had large mainland Chinese immigrant communities to voice opposition to the conservatives and favor the Trudeau liberals. It went on to say the CIS documents revealed that Chinese diplomat.

and their proxies, including some members of the Chinese language media, were instructed to press home that the Conservative Party was too critical of China, and that if elected, it would follow the lead of former U.S. President Donald Trump and banning's ban Chinese students from certain universities or education programs. The official added, the Liberal Party of Canada is becoming the only party the PRC can support. And then, of course, Pallivier said Friday, he finds it hard to believe Trudeau wasn't aware of the CESIS finding, because that's what Trudeau has been saying.

And Justin Trudeau, another quote from it was Justin Trudeau knew about this interference. And he covered up because he benefited from it. He's perfectly happy to let foreign authoritarian government interference in our elections as long as they're helping him. Okay. So this has been. This has been going on for. It's been going on for years. It's been definitively proven with CIS that China is actively trying to keep the liberals in charge.

Okay. And Trudeau has been keeping it hush, hush. Correct. And apparently he got lying about caught lying about it in question period. And that's where the Pollyev statement comes in because there's no way you couldn't know about this. Like CIS disseminated this to all the senior cabinet members and our five eyes allies. So I get the fact that he just fucking sleeps until 10, smokes a bong, rolls out of bed and shows up once a week. But it had to have been put on his fucking desk, right?

Yeah, it's probably got bong water on it. it's still fucking there. And to think that he didn't read that is just absolutely ludicrous. And so, I mean, there's a few real focal points I want to hit rapid fire. One, there was this conservative candidate, Ben Smith, who said that when he was door knocking, he said that he went to a place in Markham, Ontario. And he asked the guy if he'd consider voting for him. And he said, I'll never forget him saying he wanted to, but feared what would happen to his family back home if he did.

I pulled it up on the screen for you, too, yeah, I see it. And so you've got supposedly, I mean, it may or may not be true. It's not obviously, this is just one guy's thing. But it would make sense if they're doing this full court press and they've got a dozen different police stations operating in Canada. Chinese police stations are operating in Canada right now. And this, again, is not up for debate. This isn't a conspiracy theory. And so, I mean, what would the, what would the police stations be there?

And then be doing there. I thought it was interesting. Pull up the Pollyev one that, that I had notes on. So this is, this one's interesting. So this is the perfect classic, classic CBC tweet. Conservative leader Pierre Palliev claims prime minister Justin Trudeau is trying to, quote, cover up Chinese interference in the last federal election. They don't go with the Globe and Mail has definitively proven this with with whistleblower reports or anything like that.

It's just, oh, Pollyev is accusing him. Well, no, no, no, no. Pollyev is accusing him. He's just reiterating what has been leaked to news agencies and been reported on widely in Canada. But the CBC can't even be honest in their coverage of something as simple as this. And here's the, I think the crux of this. This is probably the most important part when you think about it. is everybody says, okay, well, naturally, and it makes sense that from a certain completely

fucking asshole perspective, that if all you care about is winning and if China is trying to illegitimately help you win elections, that you would just turn a blind eye to it. But at what point do you take in some self-reflection? Do you stop to think about this a little bit? And do you say, okay, probably one of the most aggressive countries against Canada, and I would say the Western world is trying to prop you up as their ideal country leader in this place that they see as an antagonist and something that they want to export resources from and they're your guy that they pick as being the best choice for them at what point do you

stop and ask yourself if maybe you should be doing things a little bit fucking differently about three years ago Would that be fair? Yeah Yeah But I mean We're so far down this rabbit hole I don't think

There's no self-awareness here I mean it would be like like Okay obviously they're not literally Satan I say what comes up If Satan comes up Through some fucking lava hole in the ground He's all fired brimstone It says Sean

I have chosen you And I hear you To be the head podcast We'd be like Are we the baddies? maybe we're not doing something right here, right? Like, let's, let's just pause and just reflect. Maybe, maybe we're not totally as good as we possibly could be

if, if Satan wants us to be the best podcast in the world. But if China, if the fucking Winnie the Pooh Bear himself handpicks Justin Trudeau as the ideal leader of Canada, at what point does Justin Trudeau say, you know what, maybe I should just calm the fuck down a second. I'm not even, you know, I don't, you know what, Let's go on the beer taxes. Can we do that?

Can we do that? Maybe I'll get a word. Maybe folks I'll get a word in if we talk about beer, you know? Tews is on a roll today. Sean's on vacation. He's like, you know what? All right, fair enough. Tews wants to yell at the screen for a bit.

Sean's going to let him yell at the screen for a bit. It's probably going to mute them at some point, but that's cool. Beer tax bar from pint size. Here's, man, this thing on beer is strange. But here we go again. Canada now has the highest tax rate on alcoholic beverages in the Western world. And guess what? as of April 1st, which we talked about, what was this?

Like a couple, three, four weeks ago, anyways, it doesn't matter. We'll be even higher. So April 1st, your alcohol is going up. Your beer is going up. So this is from Shilvain. Oh, sorry, go ahead. The so-called escalator tax will increase by 6.3% making it the highest increase ever. And wait, next April 1st, 2s, it goes up again.

Anyways, it ain't going to stop. And I'm going to show the, I'm going to hear, give me a tweet from Sylvan, Charleboa, who's been on your show. Here you go. So here it says Canada now has the highest rate on while. It says the same thing. Canada's on the left. You can see them at 46.4%.

So when you buy a beer in Canada, 46.4% of that is tax. And you know what? Probably about 30% of it is the can. And then there's room for the markup. And a tiny little bit in the middle is what it actually costs for the producer. Like this is just. This is wild. Oh, it's absolutely insane.

You know, we all go to the States and you're like, oh, man, it's so cheap down there. Oh, yeah. Look at where they are on the bottom, right down here, 17%. Which, by the way, is about 17-ish percent too high, I would say. But that's just me. I just find it, we need to stop calling it an escalator tax. This is like a SpaceX tax. This isn't just a slow escalator that kind of gradually moves up.

up this is a fucking rocket ship to the moon yeah like look at where this is going to go over next honestly i would drown my sorrows over this but it's too fucking expensive at this point sean unless you're sitting somewhere where the we the the the beer is a little cheaper then then then you can then you can drown it drowned away for your own man take the government right out of it shocking shocking shop teachers giant breasts are removable We all remember. A Canadian teacher who made international headlines for wearing gigantic prosthetic breasts rarely wears them outside of school, raising questions about whether the Volker costume is just an act. While parents have raged about transgender teacher, Kayla Lemieux, being allowed to wear Z cup prosthetic in front of students.

The shop people were spotted ditching the controversial fetishistic. I can't even how do you, fetish-dick? Fetistic. sure uh fashion after work and stepping out in the public dressed as a man he wears breastache breast extremely infrequently and uh resident of lemieux's apartment complex told the post well of course occasionally when he goes out for walks or when coughs visit and then it went on to talk about when he first put him on his walk around the streets and people were slowing down because it's kind of like well how can't you it sticks out yeah obviously like if you're driving

and you're like okay well i can't really see what's up in front of me right now because there's some giant tits in the way. And of course he's going to take him off all the time. Imagine his back problems 20 years from now if he's wearing those giant fucking sweater monkeys 24 hours a day. And honestly, this picture was taken after the Chinese spy balloon got shot down. Are we entirely sure that they're not the same thing? Funny bit from the story was the Toronto Sun reported board chair Margo Shuttleworth

saying that protecting employees, quote, gender rights is quote, the stance the school board is taking and they are standing behind the teacher. Well, of course they're standing behind the teacher. There's no room to fucking stand in front of them. Here's a picture of them not dressed up. Okay, so this is what they're reporting on. It gets better, though. Let's get down to the bottom.

Okay, so this is the picture we've all seen, right? Like, holy dinah. I'd never seen, you went skydiving, right? When skydiving. Just imagine he's skydiving And these things are just flapping behind him Like I was thinking like

That's the tiny spy balloon right there That was the skydiving event They fucking shot him down over the Yukon Sean I'm telling you Imagine imagine it didn't The parachute didn't go I mean you would You would ricochet off the ground

You bounce and then you'd be up You'd be up at like instead of 10,000 feet You'd lose a little bit of altitude And you'd be like 9,400 beat like Oh fuck I hope these things can withstand About 50 more collisions Oh, man. All right.

Automotive innovators show demonstrates the affordability of EVs with a $20 million prototype. But one-of-a-kind prototype, which is by definition a fucking prototype. God, who writes these fucking things? As the automotive world electrifies domestic parts manufacturers have rolled out a made-in-Canada concept car to showcase their capabilities, more than 50 Canadian suppliers collaborated on electric and autonomous vehicle called Project Arrow, the brainchild of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association. Among the cutting edge features, the arrow has a solar panel roof and a 3D printed chassis, as well as driver's seat and steering wheel that can tell if the driver is experiencing a medical emergency

and then instruct the car to head to the nearest hospital. He gets the bill for the car and he has a heart attack. $20 million. I wrote this back in because every time I read this ever since having Chris Sims on, I'm like, I think we need to continue. Well, anyways, gas burning cars and trucks account for 95% of registered vehicles in 2021, okay? According to stats can,

but the federal government has mandated that 20% of new passenger vehicles sold in Canada must be emission free by 2026, three years, rising to 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. Just saying. Just saying. And the automotive prototype is worth 20 million as in the headline states. Yeah. I mean, I get that inflation is getting out of fucking control right now,

but come on. It was funded by $5 million in grants from the federal government. 1.8 million from Ontario. 1.4 million from fucking Quebec. And the parts makers contributed $12 million worth of one-off parts, research, and development. It doesn't even have any fucking door handles. Look at it.

Yeah. there's there's the it's they classified it as an SUV but I thought first thing I thought when I saw it was I'm like is that a minivan like to me that's what it looks like I don't know it's just it's embarrassing that that our money went towards this and they're like okay well we just we built this as a concept car because it was a university project and now it's just kind of open source and it's free for anybody who wants to take it and run for it all they need to do is get the risk capital which if you're selling a car I get the fact that it's a prototype and there's you know, as soon as you start mass producing, costs go down.

But $20 million seems a little fucking high, especially with all the customized stuff where you're like, I don't really, I didn't get vaccinated. I don't need my car to know if I'm having a heart attack or not, right? I read it, maybe I'm wrong on this and it carved me up for this too. When I read it, I read it as a way that they are trying, manufacturers are trying to show that in Canada, they can manufacture different new age pieces for different automobile manufacturers.

So I don't think they ever plan on this ever going any further than what it is, just more of like showcasing their talent. Now, they spent $20 million on it, so I have no idea what one piece of this is worth other than they're going to take it around and try and take the tech they used in it to hopefully implement into different automotive manufacturers here in Canada. That's the way I read it. Am I wrong in that?

Well, I think you're partially right. I think a big part of this was just at some university students with probably some connections, because it was in Carlton, were clever enough to just be like, well, you know what? We could get an absolute shit ton of money if we had a really sexy, you know, thesis project. You know, our capstone project, we could just do something like this. And we're good to go. We don't even have to worry about graduating. Like, they probably just dropped this the second they got their mark. And it just, they named it the era.

which is just the most historically oblivious name you could possibly pick for a Canadian transportation vessel. Of course you're talking the Abro Arrow arrow, but yeah. How about this one? This one literally has, anyways, I heard about this everywhere I went this week. Eminton is full of boobs. The city of Eminton amended policy for topless swimmers at city pools raising eyebrows this week. all patrons are allowed to swim and lounge around a city of Emmington pool without a top on regardless of their gender identity.

The policy under the city's swimmer guidelines for pools has been in place since June 22, but it's not widely been advertising its change. Once again, I'm going to, here we go. Here's Sean's just horrific name saying ability today. Just go with it. Everybody just understand that Sean's going to fuck up the names. Priya Basson Singh. Director of Emmington's Aquatics and Community Leisure Centers said the policy aligns with gender identity and expression protections found in the Alberta Human Rights Act.

We believe our swimming guidelines must not discriminate on the basis of gender and not exclude anyone visiting a city facility. Okay. How about this? Nobody really cares. If you got a pair of tits, whip them out. And like, have you ever been to a beach in Europe or like a Mexican resort or whatever else, right? I mean, like, here's the thing, too. It's not that big of a deal, but they're trying to turn into a gender expression thing. How about just to have it as a, if you want to whip out the, if you want to whip out your fucking chesticles, have a adder.

Here's the thing. Women aren't going to do this. And if they do, great. All right. What's going to end up happening is a guy who transition. Is people going to be showing off their, their prosthetic boobs? Correct. Like, they're just, they're just going to have them sitting on the fucking cabana table.

This is going to become something that. they're trying to say, oh, women can do it too, but no women want, like, what, what percentage of women were pushing for this? Like, honestly. Not high enough. Right. So every guy, every guy goes, man, can't wait to go around and sit at Emmington because this is going to be great. And you're like, no, it's not because the only people are going to do it are men who are transitioning. Like, this is, this is.

I mean, like, as a concept, it's good. As an execution idea, the fact that they picked a place with so many ugly people is unfortunate. it. Luck runs out for RCMP Commissioner. I wanted to make this the happy news of the week. RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucky has announced she will retire effective March 17th. Do you want me to read anymore? Or can we just move on?

Well, let's throw maybe just a bit of background for anybody who maybe hasn't listened to every single Tuesday mashup. Sure. Okay. Lucky's appointment was supposed to signal a change in the RCMP that would see our national police force deal with very real problems. with the force like process and problems of sexism and sexual harassment within the ranks and allegations of racism, especially towards Canada's indigenous community. After five years, it's unclear if anything has improved on either of those fronts.

We've seen Lucky Turnus to Reputation and RCP through her actions and lack of leadership. I mean, I can just read the entire article. How about this? For anybody who actually went and did the homework that I assigned them, I don't know, 10, 20 weeks ago, when we talked about that recording that got leaked. Yes. And I was talking about how ineffectual she was as just the coordinator of a meeting, which you'd think if you were a commissioner of an entire bureaucratic organization,

you'd be pretty fucking good at. But no, like honestly, I don't think there's a single aspect of her job that she did not suck at. Because she was placed there by the liberals. And so because of that, she was beholden to the liberals for her entire tenure, which was unfucking believably designed. disastrous. You've got the Danforth mass shooting and then her trying to fucking cover it up and and interfere with the investigation. You've got just so many things that happened like just little stuff here and there where you talk about the Aboriginal stuff. How many times did you

hear about something like Colton Bushie, which is interesting. We should really talk about that sometime. And I think we actually might have. You know, you look at, what happened with the Freedom Convoy, right? I mean, all this stuff happened under her purview, and she was just this completely impotent figurehead. She was just an absolute disaster. And now what's going to happen is the next time that you've actually got a qualified woman coming up through the ranks,

and they say, okay, well, you know what? Maybe she'd be a good commissioner. And they'd say, fuck no, every single woman we've had as an RC&B commissioner has been a fucking disaster. Let's get somebody with some balls. Santa Trudeau puts coal in the stockings of developing countries. Pakistan, you know, I was just literally having this discussion on, you know, like how to save the world, how to do, like, great things.

Okay, here we go. Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not rebuild or will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming. years, its energy minister told routers on Monday, as it seeks to ease a crippling foreign exchange crisis. A shortage of natural gas, which accounts for over a third of the country's power output, plunged large areas in hours of darkness last year, a surge in global prices of liquefied natural gas, LNG, after Russia's invaders of Ukraine, and an onerous economic crisis made by, had made LNG unaffordable for Pakistan. Pakistan plans to switch to coal to provide its citizens' reliable electricity underscores challenges and drafting effective decarbonization strategies at a time when

some developing countries are struggling to keep the lights on. They're going back to old faithful, something they could just rely on, you just scoop it up out out of the ground, throw it in and it gives them power at roughly, because it's not always the same, roughly 10 times the greenhouse gas emissions of liquefied natural gas, for which there is no business case for. This isn't something we really need to beat a dead horse on or trample somebody with a horse over or anything like that. This is just another example of, oh, you know what, Pakistan can't get. They didn't sign some crazy deal with Qatar or Oman.

They just can't get a steady supply of LNG. So they're just not going to go with it and they're going to go with coal. So it's not even just Germany and Japan and places like that. that have secured LNG deals with other oil producing countries. This is now, other countries say, okay, well, there's no more left for any of us. So I guess we're going back to fucking coal. Yeah.

Well, I just appreciate the people who follow the show to us. And I know they don't need to be reminded that we've been tracking this little storyline now for like four months. And this is the repercussions of it. Instead of having LNG leaving our exports, going to these countries that want it, need it, everything else, that have a lot of benefits. Now they're doing coal at roughly 10 times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

And it's if you care about that, if you care about that. And you're absolutely right about the people who listen week to week. And here's, I don't know, this is kind of how I like to listen to it. It's how it's, it's something that Thomas Sol talked a lot about is just, it's not just that first instance of when this policy takes effect. It's what's the ripple effect afterwards. what's the next step and what's the next step after that and what's the next step after that? So it was him saying, fuck Alberta.

And then the next step after that was that every other LNG producing country got rich. And the next step after that is that all the poor countries who can't afford it are now switching to coal. And the next step after that is that the world, the global greenhouse gas emissions are going up. And, you know, the Greenpeace fucking idiots, they love to say there is no planet too. it's just the one world well you know what it doesn't really matter whether the carbon dioxide

is going to the air over here or over there it's still the fucking same planet that it's all going into this is where I wish I had an applause buzzer but I would just like to be like yeah you're right you're right I mean listen I'm going to go back to it

with our listeners they've been following along they've got to hear this story play out and it's ineptitude and here we sit and we get to see it and read these stories and you're like, it's got to be time for one thing and one thing alone. Happy news.

I can't end on that. Here you go, okay? Not family member. 11-year-old book becomes overnight bestseller Lloyd Deverell. Actually, I'm going to pull this up here. Let's pull it up. Okay, keep talking while you pull it up, though. Two things at once, Sean.

Can I do eight things in one? You know, like to keep people interested here. You know, like literally. They're going to tune out and start listening. to Ryan Jesperson or something if we don't actually keep on top of this shit. Nobody even knows who he is. We lose to him then good riddons. Here we go.

Lloyd Devereux Richards is now a bestselling author 11 years after publishing his first novel, Stone Maidens, which if you're watching, you can see on the screen. So it was 11 years ago. He spent 14 years writing the novel about an FBI agent trying to unmask a serial killer. He then spent over a decade hoping his novel would take off. but it never did. That is until his daughter, Marguerite, posted a TikTok on February 8th, February 8th. That's like two weeks ago encouraging people to buy it. Since posting the video on TikTok, it has garnered more than 44 million views and nearly

10 million likes pushing it to a bestselling author on Amazon. And there's the book. There's a whole bunch of videos. There's a whole bunch of different things going on. That's super cool. this absolutely warms my heart when he think about like all the shit that's going on and how fucked up the world is

and how somebody just says my dad spent almost a decade and a half pouring his heart and soul into his magnum opus and it never got large scale media attention it never took off it was never a great seller but this guy absolutely poured himself into this and if you guys could show him a bit of love I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

And then the internet just overreacted, which is what the internet does. But it did in such a cool way that it became the Amazon number one bestseller. This is, it just, it warms my cold black dead heart, Sean that something like this happened. You got no sound.

Do I have no sound? Okay. You muted yourself, which is great. It's a fucking karma, bitch. Okay, so I'm going to keep talking.

So Sean is is gone. No, we can hear his laugh. But no, no, no, Sean, we can't, we can't hear you. Basically what happens. You know what happens, folks? When he starts talking like this, I get to mute him. And then, you know, then I finally get to have my say.

Maybe this is what I'll do from now on. When Sean wants to have his say, I'll just mute twos and be like, fuck off twos. I can have a say to here. This is why we end. You went quiet again. You went quiet again. You're talking, but nobody can hear you. Am I mute?

Like, nobody's going to talk. This is great. Okay, so I'm going to finish up the show. I can't hear you anymore. Honestly, when people... My computer's fucked and... Here's, okay. Just coming in.

Zip it. Zip it with your weird echo. Okay, so here's the thing, folks. If you ever hear of somebody, one of your friends, neighbors, family members, starting a small business, writing a book, putting out a concert, literally anything, go see it, go buy it. Even if you don't like it or want it, if it's some kind of a dog product and you don't own a dog. Well, first off, buy a dog.

But secondly, go out and buy that thing, whether you got your dog yet or not. I was like, this is, this is the lifeblood of humans helping each other, okay? And I thought it was absolutely wonderful. And Sean, I hope you figured your audio shit out. And if you have it, just throw up the

comments and I'll start talking to them. I think I did. Can you hear me now? Okay, yeah, yeah, you're good. Okay. I don't know what happened. This is, hey, what are you going to do? Yeah, I thought it was great news. And this is why we end on happy news. and then comments from the audience because after a week or after listening to like 12 headlines, a two's rant and just like ineptitude of our government and everything else,

you get to this and you're like, at least there's some happy news going on out there. So Barbara Goka said, oil LNG farmers, mandates, jobs, business, how much more will Canadians take? And hey, China is directing the kid. She's not wrong on anything there.

Well put. I would put less punctuation in it, but I'm just a stickler for that kind of thing. And then Anthony Murray said, great show, fellas. Hey, thanks, Anthony. You know, we, we, I got to, I got to say a couple things here. One is people have been commenting on, uh, Tuse and I's audio, uh, off and on. And, uh, if you notice Tews has got a nice new little setup this week. He sounds pretty crisp.

I like it. Yeah. Um, I keep joking about the CBC's budget. I wish I had even a fraction of it. But the truth of the matter is, two's works full time. And neither of us have the budget to go and have this in a studio every night. So cool to see us slowly upgrading. But I appreciate all the comments coming in on the audio or anything else.

The video, when it comes to the sound clips, all that stuff. It's all great. Love all your feedback. And please continue to reach out because that's what makes the show what it is. Not only what we do, but hearing back from all of you guys. So that's just a comment here at the end, too. Funny story, when I first started my 22 cents, I did with a budget of less than $50.

Not that I was just, you know, I just, I spent less than $50 to get it up and running. And it was past time to actually get something respectable. First time and listen. Oh, first time listening live. No way. First time listening live, live. Okay, so long time listener, first time listener of the live.

Love it. The FC review outcome was obvious. I agree. The mute debacle was great. And do you, the mute debacle, mute debacle. Oh, I'm assuming me, muting myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And do you have to hold your mic?

And I assume he's talking to me. I'm on vacation. So yes, it's a handheld. And I knocked something. That's why my audio went out. So I'm sitting in a, I don't know, how many, you know, we're at MASH of 43-2s. How many times have I been on the road or you've been on the road in 43,

where we're make, make-shifting a studio to make this work? Oh, half? Half? I have recorded probably in about 15 different places, I imagine. Well, I almost passed out in the one. I was in a hotel storage room. It was so hot. By the end of it, I was almost like, I'm like, we gotta stop.

Like, this is brutal. But that's what makes sense. That's the fun of it. Yeah. I mean, it worked out well that you didn't die. Well, yes. And if you change your mind later, you can always just apply for maid. Um, well, I think, sir, that's going to wrap it for 43, 43, 43 of these Yahoo's.

All right. Well, next time we got 22 times two. 22 times two coming up next week, number 44. Here's another one. Lisa Blahey, I apologize. She didn't tell me that it's any other way. Two says stop apologizing. That's what I do.

It's the Canadian part of me. What can I say? Great show. You always make me laugh. I was just thinking about the storage room. Yeah, that was. Perfect. That was, yeah, that was an interesting time.

I had that damn fly flying by my head. Anyways. Two's next week, 44, 22 times two. Yep. And we'll go from there. Earl Whaley says shit missed it. Happy Father's Day, boys. Family day.

Oh, family. Family. You forget when Father's Day is? No, I didn't forget. I was about to say, what the fuck is he think of fathers? I just, I glanced down really quickly to read it and then I look, yeah. Lees. Lees.

Lees? Okay. All right. We'll make a concerted effort to get the listeners names right. But as far as I'm concerned, anybody we're talking about in the articles, good or bad, you just go with whatever you think the first pronunciation is and don't even apologize anymore. Just roll with it.

Yeah, yeah, family day here too. Yeah. Two is totally blundered it. You know, this is why we don't get him to read anything, you know? Yeah. Well, it's rigors. I mean, we're not exactly. known for our literacy.

All right, twos. We will catch you next week. Appreciate everybody throwing there's no... Wally. Earl Wally.

Okay. All right. Let's shut this down because Marty up north wanted to keep us under an hour because apparently that's all he's good for jogging for it.

I mean, the guy lives outside and he can't even fuck... Keep running, Marty. Keep running. All right. We'll catch up to you next week. And until then. Okay, bye.