Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #5

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

222 Minutes hops on to discuss the weeks headlines topics include Battle of Alberta, UFO's & monkeypox. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Welcome to the Tuesdays mashup. That is the running title right now. I am Sean Newman, of course, the host of the Sean Newman podcast. I have Mr. Tews. 22 minutes. 2s from my 22 cents. And this has been a little,

I don't know, project of having a little fun, a little laughter we've been working on. This will be the first time it's released on my podcast and on, of course, a two's show as well. So it's coming out on multiple platforms for the first time,

for all you Yahoo's, to decide whether this is complete hot garbage or whether you're like, man, that was great. Well, we really hope that you like it because we're going to keep doing it if you do. And if you don't like it, deal with it. We're going to keep doing it because we're having fun with it. That's right. This is the highlight of my week, man, which I guess probably doesn't say too much about me, but it is what it is.

So for the listener, two minute segments on a multitude of topics, buzzer at the end. You get the point. You'll figure it out. And I, this is why I love this show. okay we get to start with the oilers and the flames battle of Alberta now I could probably talk 23 minutes about this because you know when we released our episode uh yesterday have you started the counter yet by the way because I feel like you're going to do a lot of gloating in this next two minutes I am I'm going to start the first is the counter on is the counter on right now Sean let's be honest here

I don't want you sneak in an extra time if I can't get I tell you what the flames would love some I'm sorry sorry sorry I see this is why you need to start the timer is it going yet. It's going slowly. Okay, good. Oh, come on. Show me. Show me. Hold it up. Hold it up. How are you? How are you? I got something for you. Oh, oh, he came out to play today. Oh. Oh, hey. So how are you feeling about your flames after they get smacked in game three?

And you thought they'd be up to one. And instead, they're down to one. Well, this is what I've been talking about before where the only people they need to convince are themselves. And let's be honest, we're having a legitimate conversation about this. The flames are a much better team than the Oilers, but they're probably not always a better playoff team and they just don't know it. Okay. They can't even, they can't even figure out what to do with Connor McDavid right now. I don't think the NHL can figure out what to do with that. He's on a different planet. He's undressing everyone. They had three goals to came between him and dry saddle where they did the exact same play three times. It was like playing a video game where

you're like, here you come up one time. It's the NHL 95 glitch, where if you just pass straight ahead and you're exactly in front of the goal, it goes through the five hole. That's pretty much it, man. This has been fun. For an Oilers fan, this is the greatest thing ever.

Now watch us, lose game four and twos will be all over me. But hey, I tell you what, at this point in time, you're going to gloat. You're going to make haywell the sun shines. Absolutely. And that sun, the sun will shine up. The sun will shine up. With four seconds life,

I thought Daryl Sutter had maybe the best quote of the entire series talking about Battle Vobber bringing together a province. Did you see that? Where he said, what brings a province together, people together? And some guy said something. He said sports, church, music. And I thought that was beautiful. That was Daryl Sitter. Anyways.

Here's the thing, though. Here's the one thing I want to say. I start off with a timer. No, no, no. Okay. Well, you spent the whole time just gloating like a dick. And I would never do that. So anyway, they start off with 15.

goals between them in the first game. I tell you what, Alberta goes to Ottawa and they say, we don't want to hear horns anymore. It's illegal for you to do horns. And then Alberta being the ingenious motherfuckers, they are like, you know what, I got to work around. We're just going to score on each other

a whole lot. We don't even play defense. You want horns? You got them. Next topic, Sean. Jason Kenny, you know, like this literally happens. Hallelujah. Me and you were sitting down recording an episode that came out on Monday. Yeah. And by the time we're done recording that, we didn't even bring it up. And all of a sudden, Jason Kenny is resigning. I'm curious to whose thoughts. Okay. Well, this is somebody on Twitter that I'm going to paraphrase incredibly poorly said this is like getting rid of Freddie Kruger, but then you've got Mike Myers and the alien from aliens coming in behind them. And I think that that's probably pretty fair. So yeah, and I know that I know Daniel Smith is a friend of the show, but. I'm still not ready to move past what she did in terms of crossing the floor.

And if she ever actually wants to address it, I'd be interested in hearing what she said. But until then, I don't have any time for her. And Brian Jean has been a guy who just sat around, did nothing, flies to Ottawa, flies back, sometimes he's an MP, sometimes he's an MLA. The only thing he's really consistent about is that nothing ever happens. The guy is just a walking episode of Seinfeld. So do we want either one of them in charge of the UCP? No, you know who I want in charge?

Drew Barnes. You put that guy at the helm of the party. That shows me that you care about making things right and about being accountable to the taxpayer. And to be honest, everything that the UCP isn't. So it's probably not going to happen. So you think Drew Barnes, did I just hear that correct? You think Stephen Gene, Daniel Smith. Brian Gene.

Yeah, Stephen Gene. Sorry, that's a Lloydminster hockey player. Brian Gene and Drew Barnes, correct? Am I getting that right? That's the three you're throwing. on the names out for? Well, I don't know if, I don't know if Drew Barnes is going to put his hat in the ring,

but wouldn't it be beautiful if he did? And honestly, Shane Getson, again, talking about Shane Getson all the time. But, uh, big fan of the dude.

And I owe it all to hearing him come on your show, right? But, uh, I tell you what, I'll stick up for Daniel with 13 seconds left to go. I know she walked the floor. I think she's got her big girl pants on. I think she can speak very well to at this point.

She must. She has to if she's going to get elected. Anyways, very interesting times in Alberta. That's all I'm going to say. Noisy generators spark complaints during blackout in Ottawa. Fire away, my good friend. I feel like this is made for twos. It's beautiful.

Like this is just, I wish I was just a composer. I'd just be like, da, ta, ta, ta, da, da. Just compote, like, just not a composer, whatever, the guy with the stick, just encouraging them those generators to just be loud and proud. because after all of this babble about how it's legal to carry jerry cans of fuel through Ottawa. Well, you know what? That's what's keeping the lights on right now quite fucking literally. This is just beautiful poetic justice.

The same assholes who are like, oh, we don't want the noise. Well, now the noise is the only thing keeping your fridge running. And the thing about it is, is there's all these bylaw complaints going on. But there's a thing in the bylaws where if the power's out, you're allowed to run a generator. and you can't get, yeah. Can you imagine complaining about generators? I mean, honestly. If you're in Ottawa, that's basically what you do.

It's kind of funny. It's kind of funny. We ran over on time. It's super funny. We got talking too much battle of Alberta, Kenny, blah, blah, blah. Now we're tighten it up here. Okay.

You lock it up. All right, you lock it up. Indigenous department's merger ended with bloated bureaucracy. No results. Classic government, right? So basically what happened is that the government, like the liberal government, said, we take Indigenous matters seriously.

Let's just throw a bunch of money that isn't ours. It's the taxpayers at this problem and not really follow up and look at, is it actually being effective or not? And so there's a bunch of different metrics that they have depending on which department it is. And they're meeting like a quarter of their goals. And these are goals that they set themselves. You think they'd be reasonable and reachable.

But even within that, they're just like, well, no, no, we're not getting them. And I guess if you want to get them, you could throw more money at us. Just imagine if a company worked like this. Or it doesn't matter what it is in government. The solution is always more money. It's not be smarter. It's not do more with less. It's not even be accountable.

It's just we need more money. And do you know where all those jobs are, by the way? A little town in Quebec called Gatineau. So the more bloated, the Aboriginal budget becomes, the more jobs you create in fucking Quebec. This is just classic liberals. I think that's well put. I tell you what, when it comes to government bloated and everything going on there,

there isn't a day that goes by that doesn't surprise me where I go, we're doing what now? But I will say this. At one point in time, I thought, well, just pay whatever needs to be paid and let's get it fixed, except we literally took that thought literally. And now that's what the government's doing. They're like, just give us more money and we'll fix it. Okay, here's more money.

And it's a year after year after year. I think the provincial governments need to start looking at this because the federal governments, no matter who is in charge for the entire history of Canada, they've shown time and again that they're incapable of solving these problems. So why don't we get somebody, give somebody another crack at it? Can you imagine painting your house and then getting basically scolded for it? That's the next one. Man Pates House and gay pride colors. It's called off from not being not being woken up. And I will say this, it was a nice paint job.

Like, it was a nice page. So this is this guy, Kim Seaver, and I think he's somewhere in Alberta, actually. He says, so we painted our home. If they're on Spotify, they can see this. If they're not, well, sorry. Anyways, Terry. Ooh, fancy people on Spotify get the deluxe treatment. Okay, so this guy's got a before picture with an old house that needs painting and a shitty lawn.

And then he's got beside it, the classic gay pride. rainbow flag going up the side of the house on all sides and a lawn that looks like it's just gone through hell. All right. And then in classic, woke, leftist fashion, some people called Project DROC gave them shit for not having the correct gay pride flag that represents people of color as well. And so this is just like, oh, hey, you know what? Yeah, you painted your house, the gay pride flag colors.

it's not good enough though you fucked up you didn't do it exactly the way we wanted to god damn it these people are insufferable assholes you think about the whole concept of the rainbow flag rainbows have literally every color in them and they're like well yeah but it doesn't have the right segregation of the different colors like seriously every color is in the rainbows somewhere but somehow that's not good enough? Come on. Seriously. Like, there's no such thing as woke enough and it's fucking hilarious. Too's, they said we'd like to gently add. They're trying to be kind about it. They're just trying to let you know. How much of a sanctimonious asshole do you have to be to be like, well, you painted your entire house to support us, but it's not quite right. Hey, I know you could talk about that one all day long.

Oklahoma passes toughest abortion laws in the U.S. And just for the listener, the legislation will approve a bill that bans abortions beginning at fertilization with the exceptions, that the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. Okay, so first of all, this is the stupidest fucking law I've ever heard of. Like, seriously, I get the fact that it's the states and they're a little bit behind on a lot of things and whatever else, but you're going to ban abortion. You're going to ban anything in Oklahoma, but make an exception for incest.

That's the most pointless law I could ever imagine. No, no, no. Okay, that's probably 98% of the births in Oklahoma as it is. None of them are going to fall under this purview. And by the way, what the hell is with the New York Times article you sent me? Do you have a subscription to New York Times? Like, I haven't tried to open this in incognito mode, and I couldn't get past the paywall.

Are you talking Biden talks monkey pox? And then the Biden talks monkey pox was in the Wall Street Journal. Seriously, who am I talking to here? Like, how are you? I'm trying to liven it up. We can't just have it. But how are you even reading these articles? Like, seriously.

I'm incognito. You're just some well-red motherfucker. I can't get buy them. And I even tried, I was telling you, like, incognito mode. you got to go for it. And that wouldn't even work. Have you read the monkey pox article?

No, because I couldn't get past the paywall, Sean. This is what I'm talking about. You're some hoity tooty pinkies up person who pretends he's just this badass hockey player. And meanwhile, you're reading the Wall Street Journal. Like, seriously. Trying to be well-rounded. I'm not even going to get to say anything. Like, you've talked literally for two minutes here.

I don't even know what you talked about. That's, we just, where? Trudeau. Here, we'll give you a little. something here you can talk about to since you seem to be in a fiery mood tonight i got the oil i got doing a lot of coffee i got the oil is winning the battle of berta i'm i'm good for the rest of the episode to be honest trudeau liberals uh to lower indigenous incarceration rates by removing mandatory jail time for violent criminals now you've ate up a lot of time here so get to it okay so this pisses me off

and it frustrates the hell out of me and everything else along with that because the liberals always want to look at the perpetrators of the crime and they never want to look at the victims. It's statistically significant. If you're a First Nations person committing a crime, odds are it's against another First Nation's person. If you're black, it's a black person. If you're a Chinese, it's a Chinese person. If you're white, it's probably either a white person or fashion that you're committing

that crime against. Okay. And so the thing about it is, is that you're taking these acts of, like these criminal acts and you're saying that the victims, so odds are if, so if it's, if it's, if it's, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, I'm so worked up about this. Basically, okay. So here's the thing is that they are giving lesser sentences to people who commit crimes against minorities. And so for all of their love of minorities and they want to take care of minorities, whenever somebody commits a crime against minority, they're giving them a lighter sentence. and thereby encouraging more crime against minorities.

And it's just absolutely baffling that no one has ever thought their way through on this. Like what the fuck kind of crazy world are we living in when they're like, oh, well, I mean, yeah, you murdered somebody. But they're First Nations so you can get out on good behavior. Seriously. We want to stop like dangerous crimes. That's what we want to do. Yeah. But we're not thinking about it the rational way, at least the way my brain reads it.

and certainly the way twos is screaming at the mic, I think the listener gets where you're coming from. I think so. That's just my, there, you got two. Fast resigns as finance critic after criticizing Piliyev's Bank of Canada proposal. You want to talk about firewalls? I can't seem to get in the Western Standard. Hey, Western Standard, if you're listening,

how about you let me, I bought a fucking membership. How about you let me in on the magazine already? Fuck me. Anyways, carry off. I have no problem with mine. Maybe you just could you even read it if he got in? What? What is that supposed to me? Like it's not even really that hard.

You just put in your email address and a password. And if you forget your password, you can make a new one. Is this a pull you have and faster about Sean Newman and trying to get in the Western standard? I'm still mad about the oilers. So it's a bit of everything. Anyway, it's funny because they're insinuating that Ed Fast got. pressured out of this by a candidate for the leadership, which is just absolutely ludicrous because what if John Choray wins?

Then it would be fine, right? It just doesn't make sense. He ain't win. Anyway, we talked about this. We talked about this yesterday. And I, I don't know. Okay.

So anyway, the funny thing about it is, is there's this quote from Patrick Brown, who is a hypocritical piece of shit. So yeah, he's perfect for politics. But he said, how would our party even hope to win an election with a leader who hunts down and punishes conservative MPs who disagree with them.

Let me remind the listeners and watchers at Spotify that Aaron O'Toole was very explicit in that there was no room in the conservative caucus for any MP who did not support the carbon tax, regardless of how good or bad it was for their constituents, who are the people that they should be answering to. Like we've literally had this thing before, and it was just a few fucking months ago, and now they're trying to pretend like it never even happened.

Like the revisionist history is not a left thing. It's an elite thing. I guess I shouldn't miss a week because when we miss a week, which we did, folks, so we could prep for Tuesday's mashup. Sean literally gets to just sit here and chuckle because Tuesdays is fired up because he hasn't talked in two weeks, I guess. No name liberal MP retires for you, from UN, for UN posting bare weeks. Barely, geez, like look at me.

I can't even read the sheet. barely weeks after UN posting, qualifying for pension. Geez, I butcher that fire away twos. Because I think the guy's clever. I think, you know, he's playing the game. It is playing the game, but it's not particularly clever. So this guy who's been a liberal MP since 2015, and I'm just going to throw this name out there.

And you just listeners, viewers, you tell me if this name rings a bell at all. His name is Sven Spengman. I didn't know who Pierre Poolyev was two years ago. So Sven Spangman, what does it matter? Okay, the point is, I follow this stuff fairly closely. And this guy's got an interesting name, Sven Spangman. I would take note of that.

And I have no idea who he was. I had no idea who he was until he announced that he's retiring after six months after he qualified for the lifelong pension. So this guy was an MP for just long enough. So you serve for six years. You get the lifelong pension. Okay. I'm saying this right now.

How many people in politics are looking at the clock going, if I just get past there, I get lifelong pension. How many? Well, he's not because he just crossed it. How many? How many? I would say quite a few.

Honestly. All of them. Okay. Well, look at Jagmeet Singh, right? He's got to run out the clock because the NDP, the NDP are a little bit fucked in the next election. So he doesn't want to have an election. But also, if he gets out early,

he's not going to get his pension. He's got to run out the clock all the way to the next election, right? So they're all doing. They're all playing. They're all playing the system. They're all playing the system. That's what they're doing. Yeah.

There's nothing to do it. Our politicians are looking at it going, if I was in that season, geez, if I could make six years, I'm going to get lifetime. That appeared pretty nice. That seems like a pretty standard conversation. I'm not going to let you off on this one. Well, that's where guys like Robin Babber shine, though, right? Is because they're like, all right, well, you know what?

I'm going to get a little bit fucked. This might totally wreck my retirement plan. Fair enough. I'm going to do what's right. I do have time for Roman Babber who was on the podcast, and he was a very interesting list and running for candidate leadership. A large chunk of North America is at risk of blackouts this summer due to drought, supply chain disruptions, and other pressures according to the U.S. electrical grid regulator.

Okay. So here's the thing is that this article goes off on some weird rabbit holes. It talks about a bunch of different things. it talks about supply chain issues failing to get renewables in place and how other places are unable to get coal. Really, I wonder why they can't get coal, right? Is it because we've made it fucking illegal? Right.

And then here's the coup de grace. It talks about climate change and how it's been causing droughts in Western United States. You know what's really prominent in Western United States? It's grown a lot in California, for example, the fucking almonds. In 2020, there was something. like 31.5 billion pounds of almonds grown in California. Just California. Do you know how much water it takes to make a pound of almonds? I have no idea. About two cubes. Whoa,000 liters to make that one pound bag that you get at the grocery store. Two thousand liters of fresh water is what it

takes. All right. And they are producing annually 31.5 billion pounds. That's 63 bill. That's That's 63 billion, thousand billion. So trillion. That's 63 trillion liters of water. And where's all our water going? Well, they're spreading it on avocado toast. I honestly am speechless for the first time in this show's history. That right there, that right there, that's an interesting thought.

That might be your best thought of the time. You're worried about some guy spent in six years and six months. the almonds. The almonds is a story. That's a good one. We'll have to dig deeper into that, maybe on a different time. Oh, man.

Here's something that I was hoping at some point would get stuck in here. According to the Navy intelligence officials, about 400 incidents have been reported involving UFOs or as the military calls them, UAP's unexplained aerial phenomena. Twos! We got aliens flying over us or no.

Well, they talked about, like this all came out last year in the middle the pandemic. I know. Literally. And nobody paid attention because we were still reeling from Tiger King. But they released this Black Vault website, which is kind of like a WikiLeaks sort of thing, released just documents after documents.

It was like 2,700 pages of previously classified CIA documents about UFOs, right? And this isn't, this isn't just like, well, I wonder if they exist. And what do you think they like? Do you think they like almonds? Should we start growing almonds? This was, this was. I tell you. Let's just grow almonds in California.

Let's grow so many. Maybe it's the aliens. Aliens do like elements of that. They're fantastic. And they're great. They're a great road trip food. And it's not like, I mean, unless they mastered warm holes, there's probably a pretty good road trip to get back to Alpha Centauri or wherever the hell they're going.

Right. So it makes sense. But here's the thing is that we had this conversation a year ago, not you and I, but just the collective world was like, seriously, they just did a giant data dump. online of all the previous. And they're like, everybody's worried about COVID and whether or not we should wear masks. No one's looking. This is perfect timing.

And then we can say we fucking told you. There's a bunch of weird stuff. So you are. So you're saying there's UFOs? You're saying there's aliens? There are Egyptian hieroglyphs. There's this weird one where there's a helicopter and a jet right beside it without any context or explanation. And that's a little fucking strange, right?

You heard it here first, folks. twos is saying UFOs. That's all I'm saying. I'm saying I got questions. I'm glad I got to sneak it in. I'm glad I got to sneak it in. That's all I'm saying. That's usually my line.

All right. Jewish members leave Ontario NDP over alleged anti-Semitism. This is the Green Party all over again. Remember when Adamie Paul got kicked out of being leader of the Green Party because she was too sympathetic towards the state of Israel?

The Green Party, who's one platform, is the environment. They're like, okay, well, we're also an environment and we hate Jewish people. All right. And now, like, and apparently this has been a long-running thing with long-running complaints. This is the provincial NDP party in Ontario we're talking about. And one of the MPPs is stepping away citing this ongoing anti-Semitism.

And it just seems like this ongoing thing on the left. Like we could save room in our newspapers just by reporting on the odd, weird instance of Semitism. And I get the fact that that the NDP, who is the party of give away all of the money all of the time, might want to butt heads with Jewish folks, right? And especially since the NDP doesn't look good in front of cameras either. Right? And those are the two classic, those are the two classic Jewish stereotypes, right? The article reads that this has been going on for a long time.

and that they're just basically allowing it to go on, right? Which is pretty much fucked up, right? Well, it's beggars and choosers. See, here's the thing is that the, the NDP doesn't have a lot of wiggle room to kick members out of its caucus, right? It's not like the, well, it's not like Roman Babber, right? With the, with the Ontario Conservatives, but they're like, you know what, if you're not going to tell the party line, get the hell out.

Or Jim Carollios and I think his wife was also an MPP, right? they'll just kick out people that don't tell the party line. Whereas like if look at, so the liberals had seven seats in the last election in Ontario. And Kathleen Wynne, who led a disastrous campaign as leader, stepped down, but never stepped away from her seat

because they were going to lose it if there was a by-election. So she served the last four years in the back bench because they couldn't give up that seat. And this is the same thing with the NDP. And if they're willing, if they're willing to get in bed with the anti-Semitism, are you seriously wearing out the battery on that? I got you.

I'm just saying I've heard enough political talk. I see, I think all the listeners can get it. Tuse knows his Ontario provincial election blouda dee. You're like rattling off things. I'm like, no, I don't, Tews, I don't fucking know this. I haven't been studying politics for the last 20 years. I've literally started to dabble my toes in it. and you're rattling off things.

I'm like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. This is why this Sven Spangman thing was so interesting because this guy's been an M-L or an MP for six years and I don't even know what the hell his name is. Sven Spangman. That's a hell of a name. It is. That's a hell of a name, right?

Shane Spangman. Feels like he should be in the new Top Gun Maverick movie or something. I don't know. I think people who have redundant names are a little bit silly, you know, like Stephen Stevenson or Brad Bradford and things like that. So, yeah, whatever. It is what it is. All right.

on a happy note. One man's treasure hunt thrilled a Canadian town turning strangers into friends. It's got parts all over. It was a bit of a heavy handed article that I found, but it was about a small town in New Brunswick called Merrimachie that no one's going to know

unless they have a firearms license because that's where all the paperwork goes to and comes from. And anyway How the hell do you know that? Well, it's because I've got a restricted firearms license. I know, but like how do you remember that? because they send me mail.

All right. It's mail nowadays. Well, fast forward to this story, all right? Because it's, I got to give the guy credit, whoever it is that puts this all together. Yeah.

So he does this treasure hunt, I guess you could say, leading people all around town with clues to where he hid various hundred dollar bills. And just, just for the fun of it. He just thought it would be fun and interesting to just lead his fellow townsfolk around.

And, And play off the history of the small town, all the spooky haunted house type things. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, this is a guy who obviously has lived there long enough to know the culture. And he did something that would resonate with the local people. And it was just kind of this fun little thing that, I don't know, he probably worked. He probably worked for the government because that's all they do in Mary Machine.

And honestly, at this stage in the pandemic, they're the only people who have $1,000 to give away, right? I tell you what, well, then he's my favorite government worker. Mr. What do they call him? Mr. Canada? Mr. Canadian. Oh, shoot. I can't remember what the name was.

They had a name for him at the end. He just went under a fake pseudonym and got everybody looking at this stuff on, on Facebook. $1,300 Canadian. Yeah. Tell me that isn't cool. I tell you what. I think that's awesome. Hands off.

Yeah, absolutely. Two's, it's been a pleasure. I didn't really say much other than my gloating at the start, but I think that's all I needed to say this week. So I hope by next Tuesday, you're in for a real, real rough ride when I gloat for like 22 minutes. All right. Just to give you the old two, too. Honestly, brace yourself because I think there's going to be a little bit more back and forth.

You might want to stay in the net on this one. I'm going to make you wear an Emmett and Northern Jersey next Tuesday. That's all I'm saying. Okay. All right. We'll see you next week, do you. See you, buddy.