Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #44

Episode Date: February 28, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Chris Sky, a cocaine bear, helmets for curling and Conservatives go full Liberal. This week's Main Sponsor is AMC Electrical. Find out more here: http://amcelectrical.ca/ SNP Presents: Legacy Media featuring: Kid Carson, Wayne Peters, Byron Christopher & Kris Sims March 18th in Edmonton Tickets here: https://www.showpass.com/snp/ Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

I have so many interesting things to say, Sean, and you're just depriving everybody from them. You know, people praise me every week for muting us both at the start of the song. What can I say? I think you need to reconsider it. Well, welcome to the double deuce times two, eh? Mashup 44. Brought to you. That's right.

And I don't know if Drew McKay, when he was like signing on, knew he was going to get the double deuce, but he's getting the double deuce. but he's getting the double deuce times two this week. In his final installment, the godfather of the idea of trying to get small businesses in line with what we're doing. And I believe we're under five weeks left available to's. And that comes from this man. So this is his last week. So I wish I had a flag or something, you know, some horns to player form because pretty cool of AMC electrical at a Rocky Mountain House to step up for us for the first month. Yep.

Yeah, you definitely have our gratitude for that. And if you're looking for a job and you want to move to a place that, I mean, it's God's country as much as someplace with a bunch of stupid mountains is. I mean, think of all the extra farmland they could have if they just chopped them down. You're just missing out on so much wheat, barley, and canola by having those stupid fucking things there.

But fair enough, I guess, if that's what you're into. Well, here's, here's, uh, here's a little bit from AMC. They started back in 2005. He is a small town, SaaS kid, moved out to Rocky Mountain House, which, as Tews alluded to,

is beautiful country. I finally got to see it firsthand for myself. He's looking for hardworking individuals that understand that oil and gas industry isn't a guaranteed paycheck. It's ups and downs. There's no free lunch, but if you work hard enough

and make yourself a valuable asset by always expanding your skill set, you'll never be out of work. And ideally, these people would love freedom, enjoy the outdoors and possess a ticket and instrumentation or electrical, or at least be started down the apprenticeship path. And the info is in the show notes.

And once again, you know, fifth booster. Maybe not for you. I mean, I saw someone on Twitter the other day talking about how they're waiting to get their sixth one. You're like, why even wait at this point? Just fill yourself right up. Get absolutely bloated. Just stick it in the vein. Yeah.

Just mainline it. Heat it up in a spoon. Oh, man. Of course, I haven't paid for this. And Tews is going to make you know that. But the SMP presents featuring topic legacy media coming to Eminton, featuring Kid Carson, Wayne Peters, Kim Sims, Byron Christopher. That's March 18th.

Here's some cool stuff, though, that I'm sure Tews will be on board with. There are some cool people going to be at that show, including 222 minutes. be in attendance. A guy who's graced the mashup, Marty up north, is going to be in attendance. Here's a name for you that's going to be in attendance that you don't know yet. Tamara Leach is going to be in attendance. Nice. Yeah.

So there's going to be more of that coming out on who's coming that weekend and things like that. But I thought, geez, you know, for the mashup, why not break that I've been talking with Tamara and she's going to make the tour out. So that's going to be I'm I'm excited I so yeah way to just spring this on me Sean but that well isn't isn't isn't that what twos always does to me folks I feel like it is it's nice to see his tongue a little bit tied you know I'm going to be a little bit starstruck um now for the Tuesday mashup itself if you're like man I want to get involved here I've I've I've got one lady in the wing waiting in the wings uh when I get back uh we're recording this for all you live stream folks.

Today, we're the throwback. And so I think there's five weeks left soon to be less than that. So if you're interested, shoot me a text, the phone numbers and the show notes, and we can get you hooked up with one of the final weeks of 2023. I never thought I'd be saying that a month after we initially had the idea come from Mr. Drew McKay and AMC Electrical. So a wild, wild start to the year. Yes.

Now, I'm going to turn the stinking. can horn down to 29 this week. I've had a couple, 28, 28, 28, all right, 28. Here we go, okay? Timer set, 43, 43. I feel like twos is going to go on a roll this week. I could be wrong. That's not the kind of thing twos would ever do. Liberal party, like everything else, made in China is garbage. And here you go. Okay, China, man, this has been a giant story, but here we go. We'll try and encapsulate some of it. China, we know, has interfered in elections. I don't know.

Encapsulate. Thank you. Thank you for my spell correct on the Tuesday mashup, folks. China we know has interfered in elections at 2019 and 2021. Last week, the Globe and Mail reported that in 2021, China employed a sophisticated strategy to attempt to influence the election by having a liberal minority returned and some conservative MPs defeated. the source for the story was documents from the, well, from CIS. According to the source is the candidate in question was Han Dong, then former Ontario MPP,

who the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had started tracking in 2019. And national security also alleged that Dong now the sitting MP reelected in 21 is one of the at least 11 Toronto area riding candidates allegedly supported by Beijing in the 2019 contest. Sources say the service also believes Dong is a winning affiliate in China's election interference networks. It goes on to say a whole lot. Here's a quote, Chinese international students were also transported in to support the same candidate. The report says the students were given letters that provided them an address in the specific writing thereby enabling them to participate in the nomination vote. The students were also told by the PRC consulate to support the specific candidate

if they wanted to maintain their student visas. CIS reported intelligence indicated that this candidate is very close and received support from the PRC consulate. I mean, it goes on and on and on. I can keep it absolutely does. So their basic strategy was if they can get a Chinese candidate to win the liberal nomination in a rioting where the liberals are a shoe-in, then it's just as good as- Well, just think here at home, folks. I'm thinking the conservatives in the rural parts of all Alberta are shoo-in. It's almost a shoe-in. Yeah, so this is the same writing but for liberals.

So the election isn't the election. It's the party nomination that's the actual election. So if you win the UCP nomination, chances are you will. But yeah. But you get, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're talking federal, but provincial. Anyways, just that they went to a stronghold of the liberal and got their person in. And then they're going to get elected because it always votes liberal.

Yeah. And two days before the actual nomination happened, CIS went to the liberals and said, hey, this guy that you're trying to, this guy that's running and in this, in this riding is a Chinese spy. So you should take him off the docket. Now like, no, no, no, we're good. And then they went on further. And they said, they went to his team.

And this was, this was classified when they, when this was shared with them that this guy was a Chinese spy that they didn't want to have running as a member of parliament because of, you know, the fact that he's a fucking spot. And so then the liberals actually went and breached the top secret confidentiality of this disclosure and went to his team and said, hey, so just you're aware, CIS knows that you guys, that this guy's a spy and they're on to you guys, which is just, that's the part out of the whole thing that flummox me was, okay, yeah, sure, fair enough. China's trying to meddle in foreign elections. We get that. The liberals don't care as long as they win.

We get that. But the fact that they didn't just turn a blind eye, they actively breached security to give this guy a heads up, that CIS was onto him as being a Chinese spy and then went ahead with the nomination process anyway. Yeah. Yeah. One of the lines in the article said in late September, about 48 hours before the federal election nomination deadline, CIS urged true. to rescind Dong's Cannessy, a national security official said. So they, and then if you go watch the video of Trudeau talking about it, which we did, you know, in 2022 he's saying, I never knew.

2023 saying we always knew. It's just like another, oh man, some people think the nail in the coffin. Lies and lies. Yeah. But here's the thing is with any respectable politician, this would be career ending with, I mean, I get the fact that respectable politicians a bit of a contradiction. But just you think like how numb we've become to this stuff. Like when we were wondering whether or not we should cover $93,000 worth of basically money laundering in conflict of interest issues.

Well, that's not really that big news when we're talking about the liberals. And this, this is, I would say single-handedly the biggest, most damning thing that has been uncovered for the, liberals to date. Hands down. CBC isn't covering it. It's all coming from the Globe and Mail and Global, which is interesting because they're, you know, global is looking for

more media bailouts right now. And so it's, but it's too big of a story. It's such a big story that they can't not cover it once they got wind of it. And this, you know, if this doesn't bury him what will, fair enough.

But honestly, at this point, You've got people voting for him in the GTA who have demonstrated unequivocally that they do not give a shit about what this guy does and stands for, which is nothing and nothing. They just want to have their guy win. They've sold their soul every time they voted. Yeah. I agree. Another tragic COVID death. Interesting title for this week.

the grizzly scene where a top Bill Clinton advisor was found hanged from a tree with a gunshot wound to his chest has finally been revealed nine months after he died. The sheriff's report into Mark Middleton's mysterious deaths raises more questions than answers. As it ruled, he died by suicide despite no sign of the weapon that killed him. Milton was Bill Clinton's special advisor who admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House on seven at least the 17 times he visited that location. Yeah. So this guy was tied to a tree and shot in the chest with a shotgun. And there was no gun found on the scene. And it's been ruled as suicide. How much money you think the cops got paid to write out to be like,

yeah, it's suicide. This will go away. It's probably not so much money as it is. It comes down from the top that you're going to rule this as a suicide. And so when you say how much money did they get? Well, it's, it's their job. It's their livelihood. You're going to write this down as a suicide because I'm telling you to write this down as a suicide.

And, and that's like, it just, how much worse can it possibly get? Like, do you think a bear just came in and did it? Do, do, do, do, do. You know, just all jacked up on cocaine or something, shot him in the chest, because bears have opposable thumbs now and then just ran away with the gun or ate it. Like, this is just, they're not even trying anymore. It's just playing, you know, or maybe we're just paying attention to is for the, like, at least for me, you know, it's just like I'm paying attention now.

It's like, oh, man, here's another one of those headlines where you're kind of like, hoof to. And I should warn the, uh, the audience that, uh, kids are in the building and one has just Walked. Chicky, I'm in the middle of a show. Can I deal with you afterwards? Well, that went well. I thought I was going to have something different on my hands. And twos can't even make fun of it this morning. Here we go. Pliviate rolls over and shows his belly. There are a ton of people wound up about this. Can I just say that this has been interesting to, this has been interesting. Okay. I don't even know if we got to the end of everything else.

kids walking in really screwed me up. Conservative leader Pierre Poliav denounced a German politician after several Tory MPs were criticized for meeting her while she was in Canada this week. Conservative MPs Dean Allison, Colin Carey, and of course Leslin Lewis were photographed having dinner with Christine Anderson, a member of the European Parliament. And we might all recall her comments on Trudeau. What would that was a year ago, maybe a little less? In a written statement responding to concerns Friday, Polyvia said Anderson's views are vile,

that her racist hateful views are not welcome here. The MPs were not aware of this visiting member of the European Parliament's opinion, and they regret to meeting with her. Frankly, it would have been better if Anderson never visited Ken in the first place the statement said. In the first place, the statement said. Okay. What vile racist opinions does she have?

Well, they're trying to... Well, no, no, no, no, no. That's it. Like, before you go anywhere with this, the question is, is show us your notes. Show us your work. Okay? she's vile, she's racist. Like, if she's an anti-Semite in Germany, that's illegal.

She would go to jail for that. They're kind of sensitive about this thing after, you know, prior events. Right. So just the fact that the fact that they're saying all this stuff, you're like, okay, well, just can somebody please point it out to me? And that, that was basically what Twitter had to say was there was just dozens of comments saying, well, what specifically has she said? Can you guys give me some perspective on this? prove it. And then you've got some,

there's a couple circle jerk articles that just kind of quote people who quote, um, who make generic statements and then it goes back. They, they quote the headline of the article, but don't actually quote the meat of the article, which actually talks about things that actually makes sense. Yeah.

Like when, um, the leader of that party said that, uh, the Holocaust was bird shit. which isn't really like you're not downplaying it you're saying it's bad right but but that somehow is is normalizing it is the argument you're like well no no no no that's not what was said at all and it's it's really interesting whenever you see stuff like this like just the fact that polyev

didn't even bother to look into it he could have actually had a decent win like leslyn lewis pushed back and was just like no listen i am not going to be called racist by a guy who where's blackface. And Trudeau had this long idiot monologue about how, you know, this has just happened so many times. And you have to wonder, you know, are they going to denounce this and, get these people out of their party? Or are they going to actually admit that there is room for these ideas in their party? You know who they should have asked about this was Ahmed Hussein? This may be, right? Yeah. I mean, Ahmed Hussein was the guy who just hired Lath Marouf.

Sorry, and I should finish my thought on if you're not watching, it's a picture of Leslyn Lewis and then Trudeau dressed up as blackface. One of the many pictures of Trudeau dressed up as blackface. And she said the PM war blackface denigrating black people throws minority women under the bus. Now he suggests I'm racist for meeting with a sitting EU MP. That's that's the quote from Leslin Lewis. And I would just like to say this. She raises in my books every step of the way she goes. That was really well done.

Yes, it was. The thing about it is, is just if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones. And Trudeau calling out people for just being like, oh, their excuses that they didn't know about it. And their excuses that they didn't know about it. How many times is this going to happen? How many times is it happen with you, you dip shit?

You made me joke up my coffee. Oh, man. Liberal pot calls Google Kettle Black. Okay. Earlier this week, the Canadian press reported that Google was blocking news stories from showing up in some people's search results and its discover feature on Android devices. The company said the test affected fewer than 4% of Canadian users and would last about five weeks. Quoted, we're briefly testing potential product responses to Bill C18 that impact a very small percentage of Canadian users. A company spokesperson said, Bill C18 for those uninformed, the online news act would force me. Google and Facebook's parent company, Meta, to share revenue with Canadian news publishers and broadcasters for the news articles that appear on the tech platforms. That revenue could fund nearly a third of the news content creation in Canada is what it quoted.

And it really surprises me that Google, this is once again another quote from Trudeau, it really surprises me that Google has decided that they'd rather prevent Canadians from accessing news than actually paying journalists for the work they do. I think that that's a terrible mistake. and I know Canadians expect journalists to be well paid for the work they do, Trudeau said. For the work they do, they fucking suck in this country for the most part. All the mainstream ones, for sure, right? And it's just so the idea is, is that they're passing a law in Canada to just pass the buck

on who's going to fund, who's going to bail out the media. And so rather than the government bailing them out directly, they're saying that whenever you Google any kind of a news item and then you click on the article that shows up every time that happens Google has to send whoever wrote that article a little bit of money and it's going to add up to hundreds of millions of dollars which is baffling because I can't believe there's that many news articles in the mainstream media that get read but that's what it is and so it's rather than the government bailing them out, they're getting Google and Facebook and Twitter and anywhere else that you just aggregate news sites to do the bailing out for the government.

And Google has said, we're not interested in doing this. This is stupid. We, why should we pay, we are sending people to them. Why should we pay to send people to them so that they can make money? We are already facilitating the making of the money for these assets. they didn't say asshats, but I'm sure they were thinking it. Why should they pay for that privilege? And so they're just saying, okay, well, you know what?

If it's going to cost us money to link Canadian content in Canada, we'll just not do it. And like it's a tax. It's a tax that they for once take out the middleman. But here's the thing. With any tax, anytime you tax something, you're going to see less of it. And so if they're taxing Google for. showing Canadian news articles, Google is going to do less of it.

This is simple economics. We, and we're following this footsteps of Australia, because in there it talks about how Australia has already passed a law, uh, doing exactly this, right? And so it'll be interesting to see where this finishes off to, too, well, it's going to finish off with everybody in Canada on VPNs.

Smith gives a sweetheartish deal to leadership campaign manager. You know, we, I have to be, I was thinking about this week before we started. I don't know if we've really got after the conservatives that much in the Tuesday mashup in the first 43 weeks. But in week 44, it seems like conservatives are coming across the hairs, which has been an interesting added touch to the mashup. Here it is. The Alberta government last November awarded a sole source three-month contract worth 72,500 to a marketing agency where Premier Daniel Smith's former leadership campaign. manager is part owner and executive producer government record show the contract just just real

quick um are you saying that i have not been critical of daniel smith on this show no no that is not what i'm saying whatsoever more that uh i would say uh the liberals and n dp have given us more than enough ammo every single week just over and over and over again that the conservatives kind of gets shuffled down. But here's Pierre Poliab this week, rolling over. And now here's a story about Daniel Smith giving a deal to her campaign manager. That's all I'm saying. Back to back, conservative.

No, twos giving Daniel Smith an easy time. That is laughable. I could be more difficult when it comes to her if you would prefer. I'm letting twos do twos. Anyway, the contract which ran from November 1, 2021 to January 31st, this year was awarded to an eminent-based nordic media to provide digital media strategic planning and assess asset development. Nordic media executive producer is Matthew Altime, who was campaign manager for Smith when she sought leadership of the United Conservative Party. He is described as

part owner of Nordic Media on its white. And then in quotes, we know what happens when you sole source. Taxpayers get ripped off. There's just no way for you to have the competitive tensions that keeps prices down. If you only have one provider, she was quoted as saying during her time is the Wild Rose leader. Yes. So this one's mucky. So they got away from putting this out for bid because there's a clause in there where if you need something done really quickly, you can just award a sole source contract, right?

And so Daniel Smith ran a really good campaign when she was running for leadership of the UCP. That's really fair to say. So this guy obviously knows what he's doing and he does it well. Okay. Now, and then they said, okay, but here's where it gets tricky. The reason why it's so timely, even if it doesn't say it explicitly, is because they need to hit the ground running because they're running up against the clock with the election

coming up really soon. And they need to come out guns blazing and showing exactly how capable they are compared to the NDP, which is probably going to be really easy to do. But that's essentially whether they'll admit it or not. That's why it's so timely. So you've got a partisan issue for citing this clause that awards a sole source contract, right? So technically, did they do it correctly and follow the letter of the law? Yes, do the laws suck?

Absolutely. Because I don't care how much of a UCP fan you are. They pretty much just did. We've been wrecked. We've been ragging on Trudeau and his cronies and the NDP and their cronies for doing exactly this. Have we not? No. Yes, we have. Now, again, like to be fair, this guy obviously is good at what he does. And so it isn't just pro-y-y. Yeah, but two, you might be able to argue with every time we attack the liberals or the NDP that they could argue the same thing. Yeah, but they're great at their job. That's why we gave it to him, twos. That's why we gave them the $95,000. to a bread company to do their social media marketing, right?

That's a little bit funky, right? And this, this is fair. But now you say, okay, well, you know what? The reason why it didn't go to bid, whether he got it or not, he probably would have got it in an open bid because he has a track record of being very effective at this, right? But the reason why it's so timely is because the election's coming up and the UCP wants to win. So they're turning the screws and finding the loophole based on partisan issues. And that's where they're like, yes, it's technically correct.

But it's greasy as fuck, Sean. Hey, if we're going to harp on Trudeau sing all these different people for how they've done things, notly. I'm sorry. Everybody comes in the crosshairs. And you know my thoughts on Smith. And I know your thoughts on Smith. That's why it's funny.

If listeners don't know two thoughts on Daniel. Smith walk on the floor when she was wild Rose. We'll do an hour in the middle of the next time we have a festivist or whatever we're going to call the next one and the Tuesday smash up when we do that. We'll bring up

we'll bring up Daniel. I don't think that's going to be enough time. It's always the last ones you think. A candle wide warrant has been issued by Ontario. provincial police for a 31 year old man known it to frequent the Toronto area after you allegedly breached his conditions while serving a two-year arson sentence.

He kind of looks like El Diablo from the suicide squad. Like he looks like the Pirate. No, okay, okay, he does. Okay, let's see if I, anyways. Bring it up. I'm looking for it right now. Okay, so in the meantime, this dude has fire tattooed all over his face. and for some reason he's an arsonist.

And I just, the coincidences keep piling up here, folks. And so this guy was on a two-year, he had release conditions. So they basically just let him out and said, you need to stay within a certain area. And one of the release conditions in Canada, believe it or not,

is that you're not allowed to break the law. They specifically put, in the release conditions of getting out of jail that you'll go back to jail if you break the law again, which is just classic Canada. Yeah, I mean, literally, you can't make this up. And this is, yeah. This is a guy who for some reason decided to commit arson.

And so if you see this man, get to the nearest fire extinguisher. Oh, Christ's sake. That's, uh, that's that's just a little humor added into the middle of this sucker that is just too too good this is very real i feel like this is the kind of guy who would probably burn something else down again given the chance and we should be wary about it oh god um man kills armed home intruder judicial hilarity ensues we've been talking about this in on the show you

know like every fifth episode it seems it comes back full circle uh it was just after 5 a.m. on Sunday when a group of men allegedly broke into a house where Ali Meen, a 22-year-old resident of Milton, Ontario, lives according to police. Meen through his lawyer alleges the men who broke in, one of whom since been charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, attacked his

mother. It was then that Meen allegedly shot one of them. Police say there were multiple gunshots fired within the home, and one of the men who entered the home died. Meen was charged with second-degree murder and is now awaiting trial. The high profile invasions and subsequent deaths, I mean, because this has been going, this isn't the first one,

have prompted questions about what force can aides can legally use when someone invades their home. This is the, okay, so this is what the lawyers said about, if somebody invades your home. So it is something. So it is something that the court has to negate and prove beyond a reasonable doubt. That it fails on any one of these three steps. Either there wasn't a reasonable fear of death or grievous bodily harm,

or the force used wasn't for the purpose of defending themselves, or the force used wasn't recent. They have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that one of these things is missing at least one of these things. And that would mean that you're guilty of second degree. Well, in this case, he'd be guilty of second degree murder. Yeah. So it's, it's really interesting. So you'll notice that only one of the two people who broke into the place was charged with any counts of anything. And that's because the other one's fucking dead. Okay. Yes. And there was multiple gunshots fired. at the residence, despite the fact that the guy who killed the other dude only fired once. Once. Which, I mean, you can't fire, you can't fire less than once while still firing something.

So in terms of excessive force, I think that kind of rules it out. And so if there's a gunfight in your house and you fire one shot that stops it, I would say it's fair to say that you met a lot of legal minimums there, especially considering of the fact that supposedly in one of the articles, one of the dudes was trying to attack his mom. And he was a legal gun owner, the guy who's defending his home. And so,

you just wonder why they don't to is just put in a, you know, I, I know there will be problems that arise somehow, you know, with putting in, just cleaning this law, like, right up. They keep trying to, like, they keep trying to define what reasonable forces and things like that. It's like, well, listen, if you're breaking into somebody's house, reasonable forces, get the fuck out. Yeah.

I mean, you want to hear a funny story? Sure. Okay, so this guy used to work with back when he was like, I don't know, 10, 11, 12, something like that. And he was one of those, he was a big dude. He probably still is. I've lost touch with him. But he was a big dude back then, he says too, right? And he had a baseball bat in his room and he lived in the basement.

And so anyway, one night, he's just lying in bed. And the window to the basement was right over top of his. bed and he hears someone trying to get in. And so, you know, his room's dark because it's nighttime. And so he gets up and he goes and he grabs the baseball bat from the corner and he just waits by the bed. Sure enough, a couple minutes later, some dude just like drops down onto his bed. And he just wails on him with the baseball bat.

Just like beats the ever-loving piss out of this bastard. And then his dad comes down. He's like, what the fuck is going on down here? He's like, this dude just broke in. And he's just lying there. a bloody pulp kind of thing, right? I mean, he didn't get like, you know, it wasn't life threatening or anything like that.

He was getting beat up by a 10 year old, but that 10 year old worked him over pretty good. So dude's dad calls the cops. Cops come over and they're like, well, do you want to press charges? And the dad's like, well, I think he's kind of learned his lesson.

And then the cops looked at the dude and he's like, Well, you could technically press charges against this 10-year-old for assaulting you. Is that something that you want to do? Dude, it's so ashamed. He was like, no, no, no, just take me to the hospital. Story time with twos. Oh, man. How about this one?

Reviews with twos, cocaine bear. Here, I'm going to bring it up because I don't even know. I actually watched the video of the movie trailer for this, which looks pretty like gruesome and hilarious all at the same time. But here's the picture. It says, this is Elizabeth Banks. She said,

we're proud to say that we've awarded, this is PETA, we're proud to say that we've awarded Elizabeth Banks and Cocaine Bear, the very best award because she stayed true to her word by using CGI to create a hyper-realistic bear instead of exploiting a real one. I just think this is just stunning and brave, and I'm so proud of Elizabeth Banks for using a CGI bear in this movie

rather than training an actual bear to rip lines of cocaine. You realize this is based... I mean, like, on a side note, you realize this is based on a true story? I wonder how much of based, you know, it actually happened, but... Well, there was no attack or anything like that. Basically what happened was in the 80s,

some dude was trying to jettison a bunch of cocaine out of his plane he threw a bunch out into the wilderness and then he tried to jump out with some of it strapped to his back and he didn't stick he stuck the landing a little bit too well on somebody's driveway and so anyway and then it's realized a little bit later

that a grizzly bear had found I think it was a grizzly bear in real life but it was a black bear in the movie had found this bag of cocaine, ripped it up, eaten it all, and then died an hour later. And so anyway,

the movie is like, well, what if that bear just really liked cocaine and went on a murder spree? And so it's funny because like there's this one guy that's dusted up with cocaine because he accidentally fell into it

while they were running through the woods and then the bear's like, it goes after him. And it was a whole lot of almost funny moments and it was really, I felt like if they had somebody who wasn't, Like it's a fun idea. And if you just gave it to somebody who wasn't an idiot to write it, it could have been a lot better.

Like they had the guy, they had the senator from the wire, the governor from the wire. I can't remember which, that big black dude who's always like, she. He plays a cop and he says shit twice in the movie. But he never says, she. And you think like this is. Wait, you watch this? Look at the bottom of the screen, Sean. It's review with twos.

Cocaine Bear. No shit. I didn't realize you watched it. I just watched the trailer. I was like, oh, man, this looks, I'm going to have to go watch this, but you actually watched it. So it wasn't a good movie at all then.

It had a few redeeming points. I would watch it when it came out on Netflix or Prime or Crave, but I wouldn't go to the theater to watch it, having already done that. I mean, it's called Cocaine Bear. I'm not dragging myself to, like, you know. Yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not, going to be up for somewhere somewhere somebody's you know they're like oh man we're going to smoke

a big bowl and go watch this because maybe then it'd be great i have you know what actually probably if you were jacked up on on a whole bunch of the marijuana's it might be fairly funny but it doesn't totally stand on its own like i said it's got a few funny parts to it's a killer bear right interesting and there's a couple fun ways that people die that i totally want to talk about but definitely aren't going to spoil. There was just a lot of missed opportunities, right? Curling Rock's bureaucracy does not. Man, this one will be, anyway, whatever.

The fate of helmetless curling rests with Alberta Court of Kings Bench, according to Blacklocks reporter. The risk, here's quoted, the risk in the present case was the ice was slippery and could cause students to fall and become injured, said Alberta, court of kings bench, Justice Colin Beesby in a ruling. You know helmets are coming to coloneling for kids.

There's no way, there's just no way that this doesn't happen. We're going to have, in order for a class to go on the ice, they're going to be wearing helmets. It's almost laughable that it's lasted this long twos. At the same time, do you really need to make a rule for this.

No, you do not, but this is what's going to happen. Like, in our society today, this is what's coming. Here's the thing is that, I mean, it's called ice and it gets a little slick. This is not news to anybody who lives in Canada, right? And so you say, okay, well, you're curling. You're going to go out on that ice. Okay. Is it slippery?

Yes, it's extra slippery. Well, what do you mean by that? Well, they pebble the ice. to make it extra slippery so that it's even more slippery than regular ice. And now you're going to go out on there and on one of your feet,

you're going to put this thing that makes your foot extra slippery so that you only have traction with one of your feet. I hear you. Is there any risk involved? I hear you. Somebody unfamiliar with this.

Like this is... I hear you. But it doesn't matter. In the world we live today, there's no way this isn't coming for at least students. You know, and then, you know, it'll probably happen

cool little helmet that you can wear well curling and people adopt it and whatever else because that's the way the world's going. Curling and saying that as I backstep a second I'm like they're old school though and maybe they get away from a longer. Wear a helmet but this does not need to be a rule.

This is not something that I am agreeing with you 100%. But they will make a rule. They will require. Just get out of our lives. Curling is the one last beautiful thing in this country and you're trying to fuck it up with bureaucracy. I'm not trying to do anything.

They're going to do this. I'm specifically talking about you, Sean. You're doing this. I just know it's coming. It's a sad day, honestly. Leave curling alone. I agree with you 100%. But it's a sad day. They're coming. Here we go.

The NDP are not a serious party. The 44th edition. On Saturday, we learned, okay, there's a couple different parts to this. But here's the story. On Saturday we learned the UCP will cut funding to the Good Samaritan Society, Southgate Care Center leading to the closure of 76 long-term care beds and 44 staff layoffs at the facility.

Their cuts so long-term care will exacerbate the ongoing health care crisis. So this is Lori Sigurdson. Yes. And the former minister during that brief hellish moment where the NDP were in charge. and she's still an MLA. And so she goes on with this long thread, just pulling at heartstrings about how incredibly terrible it is that they're cutting funding.

Yes. And this is what she's saying, right? And so the 77, here's, okay, so this is what she puts out. The NEP is all, this is terrible. UCP is destroying health care and they're going to,

you know, they're going to leave us all, whatever. The 77 spaces, which were second beds in semi-private rooms. So what they did was the 77 beds, just there was two beds in a room. They pulled one out.

Now you have one bed in room. Won't be reopened, meaning the facility will have 149 beds rather than the previous 226. The union raised alarms late last week, saying this means a loss of 44 jobs by March 30th, with 36 of those being AUPE member roles. That's Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. That's Alberta's largest union for those wondering.

And then it went on to say, Alberta Health Services spokesman Kerry Williamson said, since the beds have been vacant for two years, the closure is not expect. to impact client placements from acute care. So they're making a huge giant issue here. We've been paying 44 people's entire paycheck for the past two years to look after empty beds. And the NDP are mad because they're closing because it's cutting funding.

And just classic NDP, either they don't know because they're too stupid or they count on the people who support them to not know, assuming that they're stupid, which might be a fair argument. to not actually bother to go look into it and find out that, oh shit, we've been paying 44 people's wages for two years to look after empty fucking beds. Correct. That is correct.

So if you just read her thing, your heartstrings get pulled. Not that lots of us don't go a little. What are the details? What are the actual facts associated with this? And that's where if Danielle and her sweetheart campaign manager want to

get their, you know, if they really want to start sticking to the NDP, they just got to look for details like this because they're everywhere. Like remember when Rachel Notley campaign? Are you trying to insist that maybe, maybe they should give us the $75,000 and we could do it for them, twos, you know? Just like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to do something like that as well as he did. And I'm way better at that kind of stuff than you are. So he's, no, that's.

All right. 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 wasn't sure where you wanted to stick this today. I picked this one. The gravy train never stops for former head of CBC, and this is why I chose it, okay? The CBC's former head got a hefty raise, even though he left the public broadcaster five years ago, according to Blacklock supporter. Cabinet recently awarded Hubert LaCro, a retroactive 10.3 pay raise,

even though he was already the highest paid executive in the CBC's history. And this is where Trudeau comes in. The $44,000 raise was recommended by the prime minister, according to cabinet records. Black Alarck's reporter said, he left the CBC in 2018, earning $428,000 annual, the cabinet ordered a retroactively raised pay to $472,000 per year.

This is the guy who lost Hockey Night Canada. Yeah. Okay. Yes, the fact that he sucks is kind of a side note on this. Side notes. There's there's two big things to take away from this. When the hell has anybody ever just gotten a call from a company that they haven't worked at for five years and said, oh yeah, we decided we didn't pay you enough? So here's $50,000.

Like, hey, remember that time you worked for us back when, when corduroy pants were a thing? Yeah, we kind of feel bad about not paying you more, despite the fact that you were the highest paid person ever to work at the company. We feel like it still wasn't enough. And so we're just going to top it up a little bit. Five years later. The other thing is that CBC, despite the fact that they're supposedly completely neutral in all this and they're run their own day-to-day affairs and they're not answerable to the prime minister or the PMO or the legislature in any way parliament in any way they still on the recommendation

of the prime minister did this you know how stupid that is the guy is it it's beyond stupid too's it's beyond no it absolutely is i would love i would love to get that call and here's $50,000 for you. I wonder what the heck he's getting the 50. Like, what did he, what does he know that he's getting a retroactive pay raise? That Trudeau's like, here, we'll just give you a little bit more money, all right? Is that fine? Are you good?

I imagine that he's probably been privy to the just completely dysfunctional day-to-day goings on of the CBC. But yeah, yeah, I mean, it'd be great if it happened to us. Like, imagine four and a half years from now, Prime Minister Leslyn Lewis calls up calls up AMC electrical and says, you know what? You should pay the Tuesday mashup even more money than you did. And he says, okay, here's $50,000. It doesn't happen in real life.

It only happens in government. And it only happens in government corporations. And every time another thing like this happens, it's just more proof positive that nothing they do is what they say it is. I couldn't agree more. I mean, I couldn't agree more. The sky is the limit. Here's an interesting one.

Chris Sky, I fully intend to run for mayor of Toronto. Sky told a crowd of a few hundred in a video posted on his Twitter. Toronto is the crown jewel in this whole scheme of world economic forum in the United Nations. And the mayor that will stop that 15-minute city agenda, a mayor that will stop that personal carbon allowance, a mayor that will stop sending billions and millions of dollars to other places where it is not needed. Any chance he can win that?

No. Like, not a chance, right? No, he's, it's interesting because he's coming in as just an absolute dark horse. He's trying to be the Donald Trump of this election. Fair enough, I can appreciate that. But Donald Trump had billions of dollars

to work his campaign from. And he actually, you know, despite the fact that he's stupidly loaded. He's actually somewhat of a man of the people. I mean, you saw that in East Palestine here last week, right? And Chris Sky, yes, he says a lot of the right things, but he looks like a complete asshole every time he opens his mouth. John Tori, just a lot of people because of that.

Just for, just for background information. This is what he'd have to do to win, okay? Well, and I guess you wouldn't have to get this much, but you kind of get the idea. last, obviously John Torrey, who we talked about having the affair with the staffer last week, in the last election was the popular vote at 342,000 people voted for him. And then the guy who got second had 98,000. Just to give numbers to it. Because it's like, can he get a bunch of votes?

Oh, I'm sure he can. But can he get 340,000 votes against the establishment? I don't know about that. Like I said, he says a lot of, he makes a lot of good points, but he just, he can't help but sound like a complete dickhole every time he talks. And if he could tone that down, maybe it might be a little bit different, right? But did you see the video on a side note of Chris Guy, braiding the Eminton city official, city planner? No. Oh, you haven't seen that?

Where he just hammers them on the 15 minute city thing over and over again. Well, that's, that's his kind of big point here. funny like there's been c tv just released an article this morning about how it's just the latest conspiracy theory and my local newspaper ran an article about how 50 minutes cities are a conspiracy theory and here's the thing in oxford where they're trying to roll this out and that's what ctv talks about the whole time and this is like you know the the big kicking off point for all this stuff is what's going on at oxford they go through this whole thing and it's not the idea that that all your stuff's going to be found locally and

that you can get where you're going on foot or on bicycle. It's the fact that you've only got a certain number of times a year that you're allowed to leave your zone, and then you get fined afterwards. That's the issue that people are having with it. And you've got this entire huge article that just ignores the elephant in the room, which is just classic. It's weird. It's classic the last like five, 10 years?

Yeah. Yeah. You're like, okay, but you addressed every point except for the one that I'm making. And then you called me conspiracy theory. Yeah, the thing I always point out, as I've read, the reason why people, like, when it comes to Emmington, like, in their proposal, it doesn't have any of that in it. So when you're harping on Eminton, you have to be gauged at how you go about it because it doesn't say any of that in there. It doesn't say we're going to limit your travel. And the guy literally says that.

And I actually agree with them. In the document, it doesn't say that. I always say, but it opens the door to where that eventually comes in. because that's what the 50-minute city is all about all across the world. And the pilot project for it, which is Oxford, England, specifically has that built into it. Yes, it does. So if you're going to model it after the pilot project, it stands to reason that you would look at it and say, well, everyone's going to get mad at us because they've called this for the last couple of years

and they've said it's coming down the pipeline. What if we just eased it in a little bit? What if we just gently did it? Okay, we need to reduce carbon. We need to do this. Let's just do it little, little taste of it. And then we'll just add it all later. And we'll add it all later.

Oh, there's not going to be QR codes. Oh, there's QR codes. Oh, there's QR codes. Yes, that is why everybody gets uppity. I still just go, make sure you read the document so you can talk to it, right? Because just arguing against Oxford when Emmington is in Oxford. Yeah. You have to be able to do.

Right. Anyway. It's just, it's the exact same playbook you saw with COVID. And they may as well call it 15 minutes. minutes to flatten the curve. Happy news. Let's do some happy news before we get out of here today. And I've only been,

the kids have only come tap my shoulder a few times. So they've been wondering what the heck is going on. I think we've almost scared it through this. So here's some happy news for you, okay? 24 days adrift leaves man with lots to catch up on. Heinz is trying to track down. This is a cool part of the story. And actually, I'll read it and then I'll bring up the picture.

I'm just trying to track down the man who survived for nearly a month at sea on nothing but ketchup. That's last month. The Colombian Navy rescued a sailor, 120 nautical miles northwest of Porto Bolivar in the Guajan Department of Columbia. The naval institution had received information about a sailboat with the word help engraved on its hull. The sailor identified as a 47-year-old Elvis François said that his ordeal began in December when current swept the sailboat out to sea while he was making repairs off the island of St. Martin in the Netherlands of Antille. Franco, who was originally from the island nation of Dominica, claimed to have survived 24 days adrift in the Caribbean with nothing but ketchup and food seasonings. Here's what he said in quotes.

I had no food. It was just a bottle of ketchup that was on the boat, garlic powder and Maggie. So I mixed it up with some water. Yes, which, oh, that would just be horrible. but he survived and he's fine. And now Heinz is trying to find him so that they can give him a free boat. Yeah. Help us find the boat guy or the catch-in boat guy.

I mean, I love it when capitalism and humanitarianism comes together and it makes for happy news. And you're just like, okay, well, they just want to do it because it's good PR. But they are still giving a guy a free boat. 100%. 100%. Well, twos, the double deuce times two out the door. I'd say we knocked it out of the park fairly well. For those who have been enjoying us live streaming on Monday nights,

that'll be coming back next week, Lord Willant. I think I'm back from holidays and I will not be traveling all bloody day. And certainly look forward to getting back to some live comments flowing in and seeing what people have to say. either way. Toes, thanks for working me into your busy schedule and making this work. It's been an interesting, you know, it's been an interesting couple of mashups with me on the road. Recording at all strange times and hours. Yep. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we'll catch up, we'll catch up to you on the 45th edition next week.

Either way, until then, folks. All right. We'll see you later, buddy.