Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #52

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include opening round of NHL playoffs, Bud Light again, bank heists & union strikes. This week's Main Sponsor is GardenGirl.ca Use promo code mashup for 15% off - https://gardengirl.ca/discount/Mashup Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Locked the other day. Mashup 52. I feel like it's going to be an interesting week. I could be wrong. I mean, 52 episodes, which means, I mean, we passed our year mark when we started this thing, but, you know, 52 is a, you know, marks a year of content. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right.

So, welcome aboard 2's. I tell you what, I'm having fun every day on this side. And, of course, Mashup 52 brought to you by Garden Girl.com. That's Ariel out of Regina, Saskatcham. We're going to get a whole lot of Saskatchewan and Regina a little later on in the mashup. Her little business won Regina Chamber of Commerce Award a couple weeks ago, I guess. Now, I was going to say this past week for new business venture presented to a biz that has expanded into new areas or developed new products or services. She started out in her grad.

In five years, she's going to all year and around shop, a greenhouse garden center with trees, shrubs, perennial seeds across Canada. And if you go on the show notes, you can get 15% off if you use the discount code mashup. And how great is that? Like the timing's perfect. I don't know about you, but I've been working in the yard, clearing up all kinds of debris and whatnot that's fallen. And then I had the whole place sparkling. He practically had to take your shoes off to walk on the grass.

And then my neighbor's got this giant pine tree. And there was this huge windstorm, but now there's pine cones everywhere. And you're just like, I get to start all over again. But the garden's going to be going right here in a week or two as soon as we get rid of the frost at night. So, yeah, I mean, the timing for something like this cannot be better.

And like I say, later on in the show, you're going to get to see and hear what Ariel's all made out of. And I think it's going to make you want to support her maybe just to touch me more. Maybe just a touch maybe just a touch. I would say so. I would say so. You know, it's been an interesting little go here. I don't even know where I want to start. I can click the start button.

I mean, we just clicking away we go. Because is that where we're right in here? Yeah, let's start talking about the strike. I'm going to hit the start button. Okay, folks, this week I'm predicting an hour on the button. I don't know why we're going there, but it feels like it's going to be, you know, a long one. I mean, let's go Oilers, let's go Oilers.

Hey, who, yeah, let's get her go. The playoffs or whatever, that's where we're starting. Yeah, I think that was just the price. We don't want to do this. You don't want to do this. Let's just, just say, I'm just saying, I'm just saying we gotta talk of just a tiny bit of sports here. I know it hurts the flames fan on the other side of this thing.

Oilers come all the way back when an OT last night. Now the series tied 2-2. Let me tell you folks, I had a ton of nerves. For many a reason, I always get a little bit jittery when you're watching playoffs and especially your teams in it. But I was thinking to myself, how am I going to survive Monday night if the Oilers are down 3-1? Let me tell you, instead, yeah, like, I mean, this is what Toos is adding in, you. Yeah, I did want to go there.

I even tried to stop you, Sean. And here we go. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. That's, ugh. Anyways, let's just be clear. The Leafs won tonight. So the Leafs are now up three games to one.

The Rangers lose again. Three games to one. I'm pretty sure they were tied to two games to two. Were they not? No. No, no. They just finished game four. Leifes, three, one.

Big fella. Okay. Now you're making me question myself. I don't even know why I have to check this, but I'm going to go check it because Tuesday is like, how is that even? How is this even possible, folks? Toronto Maple Leafs now lead series 3-1.

And I was going to say, the New Jersey Devils, which I think a lot of people had written off, tied back up with the Rangers 2-2. And you're Seattle Crackin. I tell you what, I gave you a lot of flack on this, too. I've been watching that series. I thought for sure, I mean, I thought for sure the Cracken were going to be just down in a Hail Mary, a Gunfire.

But they have been making a series of it. They lead two nothing tonight. They're down two games to one. But I tell you what, they have been given, like, that's probably been the funest series to watch. It's been fast-paced, really good hockey. So I don't know if you had that up your sleeve or if you got completely lucky. I don't know a single soul who's been watching the Seattle Cracken, minus maybe a few people that know Carson Suzy from this area, maybe that, maybe some lovers. of Jordan Emberley from back in the day.

I don't know. Marshawn Lynch. I just want to see what Marshawn Lynch would do if his team won the cup. That's it. Like that's by far the most entertaining part of this playoff run for me. You've got a league that is dwindling into woke bullshittery. And it's just losing relevance with me constantly.

I mean, at least the flames got rid of their GM. So, I mean, that's nice. I've been saying for like 15 years that the problems exist above the coach level and maybe you should start looking there if you want to make positive change. Dave Amiette says my predictions are still holding true. That is quite the case right now, except for the Islanders might be toast tomorrow. I had them going deep. Toronto up 3-1, Emmington still in Colorado.

So maybe I'll be 3 or 4. Who knows. But yeah, as far as like what you were saying on the Brothers Roundtable and what Dust said, no, I wasn't just trolling you guys. I just want to see Marshawn Lynch be the owner of a Stanley Cup team. Oh, brother. Yeah, I can't wait for the brother.

I tell you what, maybe one of the smartest things I did this year was adding back in the Brothers Roundtable to meet once a week while the playoffs are on. Man, that's a ton of fun. Even if it's only a 20-minute yell at each other, there's nothing like getting on the mics with the brothers and going at it.

Anyways, three strikes, you're out. Let's start here. The public, oh, man, yeah, anyways, this saga. The Public Service Alliance of Canada, that's Peace Act, strike that began on Wednesday is one of the largest in Canadian history, more than 155,000 of union members, including food inspectors, firefighters, custodians, clerics, cooks, hospital workers, frontline administrators have walked off the job. They're talking about wages, they're talking about a whole bunch of different things, and of course they're talking about working from home. Another article says Canada's biggest federal public service union is preparing to ramp up its ongoing strike by moving picket lines to strategic locations. such as ports on Monday. Public Service Alliance, Canada National President Chris Alliard,

says civil servants don't want to disrupt Canadian lives but need to further affect the economy to push Ottawa for a solution. Don't think that was welcome a few months ago. Anyways, actually quite a little while ago now, I guess. He says means go beyond office buildings where public service work to include locations, he says, will have more impact on the government. Another article wrote,

Canadians are being urged not to apply for a new passport or renew an old one as a major, federal workers strike, which shows no sign of amending, severely disrupts service across Canada. As opposed to the status quo. Another article said the striking workers seemed genuinely surprised that other working Canadians not only didn't sympathize with their outrageous demands, but were downright hostile. It marks, it's a mark of just what an unreal world civil servants occupied that they believe

themselves to be overworked, underpaid, and underappreciated. And more than that, they're about double the median income of Canada. And they're more than that, they believe the rest of us agree with them. Let's start with the last three pandemic years. This was a fantastic article. Toronto Star again, props to them. Statistics Canada reports that Obo, one in six Canadians in the private sector lost their jobs during COVID-19. How many of the poor, precious dear workers for the federal government lost their jobs due the pandemic?

Question mark? None. Not only according to the Canadian taxpayer federation, 312,000 federal employees received at least one pay raise during the pandemic. That's 90% of a full-time federal employees. On top of that, nearly 9% of federal executives receive bonuses averaging $17,000 a year. Compensation for an average federal civil servant pay benefits pension contributing went from 117 a year to 125 year over the past three years. And now they are striking for up to 10% more a year for the next three years. I can keep going on and on and on.

They want premium wages after 4 p.m. they want the ability to work from home continually, which is great when you're working at a passport office, for example, right? Do the guys who clean the roads want to be able to work from home? I mean, like, guys, I've done my driveway like 20 times. What more do you want from me? Right? They actually want to get meal allowance when they're working overtime from home.

Work from home and get meal allowance at the same time. They want to lay it off employees education fund of up to $17,000, which, hey, you know what? Why not? Why even stop there? Let's make it $170,000 for everybody that the government ever lays off, which is zero, right? Like, I don't even know why they're wasting their time asking for this. The union is called PSAC, and they are literally a whole bunch of pea sacks. And their logo is two gears grinding together, and it totally grinds my gears.

That one I love. this is this is them out in solidarity so it says going home at 1 p.m. I love the it says I love the demonstration of federal employee work ethic today 11 a.m. a good crowd but by 1 p.m. it's go picket from home am I right and as you can see on the left hand side there's you know there's I don't know lots of people I guess and then if I scroll over to the right hand picture there's nobody there anymore you know they also took the weekend off yeah so I mean they can't even be bothered to work what we would class call bankers hours.

All these country music songs that talk about how tough a 40 hour a week is. And I don't know if they're written for our Canadian civil servants, but like, could you imagine how scary that would be? I think they work a standard 35 hour a week right now. There's plenty of people I know that work double that. At least, some even triple. Oh, man. Let's move on, shall we?

And before we get there, here's, here's a, Dallin Termat. I hope I'm saying that right. Good to see you guys. Watch them from Yorkton, Saskatchewan. So shout out to Yorkton. And here's what we got. We got Volkswagen, a liberal plant.

Canada has agreed to provide up to $13 billion in subsidies and $700 million grant to lure Volkswagen AG into building its North American battery plant in the country. A government source said on Thursday, The new Volkswagen battery plant in Canada will have a maximum capacity of 90 gigawatt hours, enough to provide batteries for more than a million cars annually. They reported. I'm going to, here if I can pull it up here, we got a couple different tweets, twos that I think add to the conversation. You got Holly Doan first from Blacklocks reporter who said,

Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne confirms 13.8 billion to Volkswold. to build a battery factory in Ontario subsidy is nearly triple average annual cost of all federal aid for all corporations nationwide so that's black locks chiming in and then you have Volkswagon's massive electric vehicle battery plant is a strong vote of confidence in St. Thomas and all candidates going to create up to 3,000 direct jobs up to 30,000 indirect jobs and provide millions upon millions of battery batteries to power Canada's auto industry that was Justin Trudeau in two different spots.

And if I keep going here... I hope you're going to the car guy one. I'm going to bring up first Frantz-Philip Champagne again. He said a company investing... Champagne Socialist. $7 billion to build the largest manufacturing plant in Canada is a solid business case, creating 3,000 direct jobs and 30,000 indirect jobs.

It's a solid business case, generating about $200 billion in value. is a solid business case, shall I continue? And then the car guy said, I think you may have forgotten the cost, part of the cost benefit equation. He said, Volkswagen will invest $7 billion in the battery plant in Canada.

Canada will provide $700 million in initial capital, investment of $13 billion production subsidies over 10 years. It will create 3,000 jobs and up to $30,000 downstream jobs. The average, it'll be $415,000 per job, $346 from every single Canadian. He continues, if every job created has an average salary of 100K, the federal tax collection for the subsidy break per job is 28 years.

The federal plus provincial tax collection for the subsidy break even per job is 18 years. In other words, Canada will not see a net new dollar of tax contribution from employment from the project roughly for 20 years, not including government debt, interest charges, roughly. So pretty much double that. And this is perfect. That's the thing. is they always say, oh, yeah, it's going to create all these jobs. And anytime something creates jobs, it's worth it.

But there's so many times that you're just better off, mathematically speaking, if you were to just hand out random fat stacks of cash to people who would have had the jobs and just cut out all the bureaucracy involved. It's crazy. This is like the Green Line at some point, like five, six years ago. I remember doing the math on it and said, you could buy every Green Line's the C-T, train extension in Calgary that was going to go into the southeast. I think it's still on and the cost of balloon since.

But at the time, the city of Calgary could have just bought new Tesla's for every family remotely along that line and just been done with it. And it would have been far simpler. And this just, it never ends. One more thing though, the up to 30,000 downstream jobs. it's just this math of easy repetition because they say, okay, well, you know what? The economy is going to get better. So there's going to be more people buying food and more people going to malls and more people doing this and that.

And that's going to create a few jobs. And then those jobs are going to create more jobs. And then those jobs are going to create even more jobs. And it just ends in this infinite loop. And so, like, you could easily, if you wanted to have some fun with the numbers, say that those 3,000 jobs are going to create, I don't know, somewhere around 8 billion jobs, 8 billion. You know, more people than we have on the planet,

let alone Canada, let alone the amount of people working in Canada, because that's how shitty those numbers are when you're trying to come up with how many people are going to be working in the downstream net effects of these jobs. And Eileen Clark chiming in and said, what did you expect from a drama

teacher? He wouldn't know a cost-benefit analysis of a bit of in the ass. We don't really have to go out of our way to bleep out. the swears on the show, Eileen. This buds not for you. Bud Light, one of the largest and most popular beer brands, former most

popular, in the United States, announced today that they will be deleting all images and references to controversial figure Dylan Mulvaney from the social media account. I didn't believe this when I saw this. I got to be honest. When I first read this, I was like, wow. Oh, okay. Anyway, there was rumors of it when we talked about it last week, but I

couldn't find anything substantiating. this, that this was going to be happening. Although, I mean, when a company loses, what, $5 billion in market cap or whatever it was, don't quote me on the number, but it's in last week if you want to go look it up, if you cost your company $5 billion in a day,

there's probably going to be some very interested people in trying to rectify it. Well, April 1's when it got released, I believe. And I know that's no April Fool's joke. I think that's what I read. It was April 1st is when. April 1st. And so, yeah, now three weeks later, you've got this huge fallout where they're just

completely dissociating themselves as though the internet isn't forever. And then, and then the exec in charge of this, the big fancy big brain suit who came up with this brilliant idea is now, you know, spending more time with her family or however they want to put it, right? Leave of absence. That's what it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a sportsman for Budlake. Yeah, the spokesman for Bud Light confirmed the move stating, in light of recent events, and to maintain the integrity of our brand, we've decided to remove all images and mentions of Dylan Mulvaney from our social media platforms. We wish to distance ourselves from any negative associations

and ensure that our brand remains focused on delivering high-quality products and experiences to our customers. That's quoted from a Bud Light executive. Hey, you know what? Good for them. If they want to start offering high-quality products, I say it's about damn time. Oh, man. You know, I always wonder what kind of curveball we're going to get thrown on it.

And when I read that, I was like, oh, wow. I mean, I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but at the same time, it kind of surprises me in today's world. What's the most amount of money you ever cost the company, Sean? I think I only make companies money. I think. I could be wrong on that Tuesday. That's very optimistic. But okay.

What do you do? You've never broke something? Oh, sure, I guess. Sure. Okay, a couple thousand bucks maybe, I don't know. And when you do something like that, you're like, you're in the sandban for quite some time. Okay. That's like a, you know, no, no. And I'm thinking like with company vehicles or something, right, when you run into something like that, that's what comes to mind. But other than that, I don't know. Like, what's the worst you've done? A couple million. A couple million?

Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not going to get into the specifics of it. But basically, I would, vehemently telling my boss and then my boss's boss and my boss's boss's boss. I was like, you guys do not want to do this. It's a bad idea. And then it went all the way up the chain. And I was the only person saying, no, we should absolutely not do it. But I had to be the person who pulled the trigger on it, geographically speaking. And they're like, well, you don't have to do it.

But your job depends on you doing this. And I was like, okay. beep and yeah yeah fair enough auto auto wash strives to shake shoddy stigma the city get first off are we applying for this job i just i just got to know are you gonna are you like should we apply for this i feel like this i think that i would be such a bad choice for this i don't even know i i'm so out of the loop when it comes to bars and clubs okay well yeah let me let me read it off so people can drive in the city of

Ottawa will be creating the position of nightmare, nightmare, as part of a new strategy to grow and develop capitals of nightlife economy and shake off the images, the town that fun forgot. I didn't realize that. Anyways, the proposed new Ottawa night. We've talked about this on the bash up several

times. There's articles that come up like this on a fairly regular case. I realize, I've realized a nightmare? Hey, Lloyd Mr. if you're listening, a nightmare. Hey, like wouldn't that be something? Well, I mean, well, Ottawa, more or less for anybody whoever wants to go there basically is a nightmare. So it stands to reason that they would want a nightmare.

You know, it's funny. Like, I've read the entire article, okay? And I know that's a news flash for twos. Normally that doesn't happen, right? But anyways, you scroll down, and like I'm trying to figure out what they're talking about. And it's like, it doesn't seem like it's like, oh, we're going to implement all these different things. It's all about, like, researching, blah, blah, blah, blah. It says phase two of the Ottawa nightlife economy action plan to be implemented,

between 2024 and 20206 will be led by the new nightlife commissioner. So not only is their mayor, but now there's going to be a nightlife commissioner. The recommendations include establishing a nightlife ambassador council. So it's just adding more and more positions to this thing. And I'm like,

this is perfect. This is the ultimate Ottawa answer where they're like, nobody likes our city because we're all a bunch of bureaucratic fuddy dutties. What can we possibly do to change this perception? Well, what if we hired a community?

committee had a mayor, a commissioner, and a committee, did a bunch of studies on it and maybe, um, you know, just spent a couple of years analyzing it. Let's let's let's let's get the missing and murder indigenous women inquiry people here on this and they can wonder why our nightlife is dead in the water. Like this is, this is the classic Ottawa solution to an Ottawa problem. Like the only way they could make it even more Ottawa is if they had to just, um, start issuing special permits for people who are enjoying themselves, or maybe started finding people who weren't smiling enough or some type of thing like that. Maybe you had to show your nightlife passport when you went around to places like this. Well, actually, you know what? That's a perfect example.

The same city that instituted passports that required everybody to show a certain type of ID every time they went to a bar in the whole goddamn country is wondering why on earth nobody enjoys going out to drink a beverage in their entire city. Should I add in the TikTok about the police officer and the scooters? Should we bring that up as well or do you even care? So yeah, that's Toronto. All right. In a TikTok posted Sunday by Toronto's Police Traffic Services,

Constable Sean Shapiro said that an e-scooter that travels faster than 24 kilometers an hour would be considered a motorcycle. That means they must have been, have the appropriate motorcycle license, registration license plates, blah, blah, blah, Without these moors can face fines up 25 grand and up to six months in prison. And they're no longer allowed in Toronto, I believe, is basically how it reads. Yes? Yeah.

The one thing I really loved about this article, and I mean, again, it's Ottawa. It's Ontario. It's not Ottawa, but it is Toronto. The thing I really loved about this is they talked about some of the rules and the bureaucracy involved with offering scooters in Toronto. And one of the rules that they have on the books is that all scooters are required. to have two wheels. This is just like a couple years ago. Calgary instituted a law that said that all the scooters have to have braille on them.

You've got to have braille on the scooters. They did. They did. I talked about it like one of my first podcast episode, Sean. This is the shit that people deal with in their municipalities. And then let's let's have a committee. Right, right? This sideway nobody wants to ride

Eat scooters. I know. I feel like they're just blind to the issue, Sean. I was going to save the shit hocks for the blind. This is just too funny. I mean, I'm like, oh, man. Oh, okay, anyways. Okay, let's get on to some fun things, okay?

Not even gold bricks. You didn't have fun with that? I did, I did. But this one, I think I've been chuckling on a boat since I've seen it anyways. Right. We may as well just stop the clock here, because I'm going to take like 15, minutes at this at best.

Not even gold bricks want to be in Canadian airports. Peel police are investigating the theft of over 20 million worth of gold and other high valuables from Toronto Pearson Airport. Initially, sources said the amount of gold stolen was 3,600 pounds, which would have been a value of over 100 million U.S. According to the source, the fact that police are saying the amount stolen was just over 20 means that the thieves only took a portion of the shipment, not the whole thing. Both pretty heavy.

And then you sent, like, a great article breaking down some of the greatest thefts in Canadian history. Do I get to rattle off a couple of those two? Yes, all of them. Oh, okay. Well, I picked, I picked three. First, the great maple syrup heist. I never heard of this, but this is, I think, quite brilliant. One of the largest infamous thefts in Canada's recent...

Those with a sticky bandits. Canada's recent history involved 9,500 barrels worth of maple syrup that was stolen from a warehouse in Quebec, between 2011 and 2012, apparel is containing about $18 million worth of syrup belonging to the Federation of Quebec maple syrup producers were found completely drained. Okay, so that was one. Golf cart theft is number two.

Last year, 44 golf carts were stolen from a golf course in Lincoln, Ontario. Police believe the thieves drove the carts two kilometers across the course, cut a fence, continued to a vineyard service road where a transport vehicle picked them up and the loss amounted to $440,000. And then the butter theft, I thought,

was just creative as I'll get up as well. On Christmas 2021, two truckloads of butter worth estimated $200,000 were stolen from a trucking facility in Trenton, Ontario, according to place. Like four pounds of butter. With today's inflation, yes. Yes, the old dairy cartel.

Yeah, we're going to get a text at four in the morning. Like, that's at least eight sticks of butter, you jerks. Oh, I mean, we talked about it. in one of the early matchup episodes, we talked about that photo of Winston Churchill. Yeah, and how they haven't found, right?

They have not caught that person? No. And, well, I mean, they know who Winston Churchill is, but they didn't know who. Of course.

And then here's the other thing is 30,000 chicks were stolen from a poultry farm. Again, in Ontario, within a day or two of this. And I'm wondering if the two are related. Like, they needed to fly the,

they needed to fly the gold away, and they couldn't use the air. ports, obviously. And by the way, the fact that $20 million or $200 million with the gold got stolen from the airport, it's good to know that people losing their luggage isn't just a poor people problem. But yeah, so 30,000 chicks were stolen from a poultry farm. Yes, that's true. And then there's no leads on that.

I mean, like, you just got to go around like, who's bought a thousand barrels or a thousand bushels of barley? lately that's that's where you look right what would you what would you honestly do with that many checks how how do you expect like what do what are there black market i know what i'd do two chicks one time man but seriously they uh they they they got a big farm somewhere and they're just going to stick like it isn't it's in a thousand it's three i don't know maybe maybe it's a pita thing maybe it's one of those idiot they aren't that smart too oh you're free here go live with the snakes Oh my God, I had no idea. I thought they were all vegan.

But this is great. I don't think I've ever told you about this, Sean. But I had the unfortunate experience of being in Ottawa for a few days quite some time ago. And I went to the Royal Canadian Mint. Okay. And their security was laughable. So you'd go in, you could pay cash if you didn't want to leave a paper trail. But you'd go, you'd check in.

and they had, you know, the unionized guards with the two watchtowers right by the gate. There was only one way in and one way out. There was about an eight foot fence on one side with wrought iron, maybe spaced about eight inches apart with bars, horizontal bars at regular intervals all the way to the top. And then you had, you just went into just a regular ass door. There was no electronic security on it or whatever else. And then you just go up the stairs and that's where the gift shop is. And that's where they start the tours off to as well, which is, which is, which is, which is, what I did. But at this gift shop, they've got one security guard there hanging out all day because

they've got a gold brick, which doesn't seem like a big deal. But at the time, that was like $300,000. Something you just fit in your hand. It's worth $300,000. And you know what they had it secured onto that podium with? Four Phillips head screws. And so picture this. Okay. So you go in. So the honey pot goes in ahead of time. Do do, do, do, do, do. You know, wearing a nice dress or something like that. You know, one of those beautiful sun dresses that just catch the sun in the dress and, yeah, drive everybody wild. So she goes in a little bit, goes upstairs, and she's just wandering around the gift shop.

And the security guard's going, oh, damn. Meanwhile, you come in about two minutes later. You've got a backpack on. You've got a few specific things in your backpack, but it's not like they search the backpacks. They just want you to pay as you go in. As soon as you walk past, there's no windows on the side of the guard booths that you walk past, and there's no cameras looking right at the doors. So you grab a doorstop, and you put them against the door on each side that open outward

so that nobody can get out. And then you go upstairs. while the honey pot's distracting. Phillips had screwdriver underneath. You grab it. You run out the door. Smoke bomb. Not that you need it,

but just as a matter of principle, if you're going to pull off a heist, you've got to have a smoke bomb. You book it down the stairs. Meanwhile, the security guards are like, oh, what's going on?

We got to get out there. And they go for the doors, which open outwards, but they can't get them open because you put just two simple little door stops underneath. And then you've got a foothold hanging on a hook that as you get to the bottom, you telescope it out, you hang it onto the grate of the fence, you lob the gold brick over into a wading convertible with its top down. Because if you're going to do a heist, you may as well do it in style. And having the top down gives you a larger window to throw the gold brick into.

You've got your getaway driver and he's blasting something awesome from the Italian Job soundtrack. You take one little step up. It gives you enough height to get over the fence. You hop down, you get in the car, you go around the corner, you switch to some boring-ass delivery van, you pull on some cubbies, and you just kind of gradually make your way out and drive back to Western Canada. Whereupon you put it in the mail and send it to Justin Trudeau himself

and say, you are a goddamn idiot. It's flawless. I'm wondering how long you spent thinking about that while you walked around scoping the join out, you know? Oh man, I love heist movies. I love heist movies. Oh, Canadian News catching up on mashup back issues. It read two years ago Canada embarked on an odyssey to plant two billion trees in just 10 years. An audit of the program so far says that unless things drastically change, it won't even get to one. one-tenth of those trees in the ground in time.

The audit was one of five reports, blah, blah, blah, blah. And at the end of it, we just realized we talked about this on episode 10. 10. 10. This was 42 episodes ago. It was a year ago. You and I were talking about this. Essentially, yes.

And now, City News is picking up on this. And they're like, oh, this is interesting. We don't think the liberal government is going to be able to meet their election promise. if only someone had warned us sooner, like the mashup did a fucking year ago. God, this is what we subsidize? Get the fuck out of here. It's kind of funny.

Actually, I didn't realize it was that long ago, you know? That's a long time ago, honestly, when you think about it. People want better media, of course. This is coming off of BuzzFeed. Here, this is generally... Okay, so BuzzFeed is closing its doors. BuzzFeed News is shutting down. Busfeed, which has been a division of Huffington Post for a while, has not been profitable.

And there's some people online saying that perhaps it's because they suck. Okay, so here's some of the headlines from BuzzFeed, okay? Can you make it through this post without feeling sexually attracted to food? The next one. 11 delightful poems found in Pornhub comments. The next one, 20 reasons why white people can't be trusted. The next one, Disney Princesses twerking will shatter your child. Hood. Does SpongeBob SquarePrients have his penis an investigation? We need to talk about

Voldemort's dick. I'm not making this up, folks. I want to be clear here. Anyways, who is your spirit Nazi? Nazi. Which concentration camp would you be sent to? That's actually pretty valid in Canada right now. Like, honestly, Sean, I really hope that we end up in the same gulag when Bill C-11 comes hammering down on our show. You know, it's a, it would be, can you Imagine the sketch of twos and Sean in a concentration camp. I mean, that is a horrendous thing to joke about. But I feel like we could have a little bit of humor if us two Yahoo's were lacked up in the same place.

You know, getting a little signal out, having our little show bantering about Trudeau and Notley doing weird things. We're a little bit low tech guys, so we need one of you guys to try and escape every two minutes or so so that we still have a buzzer. Which barn you're an animal would you hook up with? or should you, should you hook up with, consent explained by a porn star. Do I keep going?

It goes on. It goes on and on and on. And you get the point. Anyways. Yeah. People are wanting a little bit more. People are wanting stuff that's a little bit more genuine, a little bit relatable with people that are a little bit more like them.

And I feel like we're doing a decent job of filling that niche. BuzzFeed exited. And here comes the mashup. Oh, and also Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon got fired today. Oh, can we talk about that for a second? Yeah, that's what I just did. But think about that. Don Lemon, gone.

If you're a CNN fan, that probably comes as a shock because... If you're a CNN fan, you're probably not listening to us right now. You're not listening to us anyways. But Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson... Apparently he... Well, I don't know. We'll see what actually happens, but apparently he decided to part ways and then somebody else walked off with him in solidarity as well.

So I don't know. It's unfolding. We'll see. But it sounds like maybe he didn't actually get fired. I just threw it in real quick altogether so that I could beat the buzzer. What do you think he goes and does know, Tucker Carlson? I mean, the world is his oyster, I feel like. But in saying all that, Fox News is a giant organization.

What is Tucker Carlson going to go do? Tucker Carlson is probably going to look at the pros and cons of doing some kind of a podcast on his own or with an organization. He's been with Fox forever. If he gets the right people helping him out, he might be able to do it on his own, but probably by far the simpler, better option would be for him to team up with somebody like the Daily Wire.

Yeah, so you think he's going on Daily Wire. Yeah, I think he's going to go corporate alternate. If you were the Daily Wire, foaming at the mouth right now going, how do we add this guy to our cast? Yes? Yep. And I think it'd be an easy, it would be an easy sell. It's not like when they wanted to get Stephen Crowder to go over there and you've got a huge cultural mishmash, right? Where our cultural, I don't know, but where it doesn't mesh, right? And that's because Stephen Crowder is very much a maverick in this sort of space, whereas Tucker Carlson has been more on the corporate side,

which is going to cater a lot more to what the Daily Wire offers its hosts and its employees. Is there any way, thinking outside the box? Is there any way? Just hypothetically. You want to get them on the mashup? Tucker Carlson starts something in Canada. No. No chance?

No. Markets too small. He wouldn't be interested in it. If he gets one-tenth the market saturation in the states as he could in Canada, he's already better off. Yeah, but I feel like even one-tenth of the saturation in Canada, he'd be paid tenfold for it. Probably not. I feel like, I don't know. I feel like if you, you know, you look at any of these guys, you know, even Ryan Long, you know, stand-up comedian, does the YouTube sketches, he's Canadian.

You know, but he's technically. But so he moves to New York because that's where the action is. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that he is. I'm saying that if you're interested in making the most amount of money, you would probably want to go to the states. And here's the other thing, Sean, that neither of us has touched on yet, is that there is a lot of nuance in politics from one country to the other, right?

Like, when you look at, like, we don't really cover a lot of the stuff in the states. And a big part of the reason why is that it would be a full-time job for both of us to even understand the ins and outs and goings on. It's a full-time job right now to try and understand Canadian politics. You kidding me? I'm just like, what is going on? Just imagine a 10-time the population, a few hundred more senators, and all of that extra stuff thrown in. Jesus Christ, I couldn't even point to Delaware on a map, and I'm supposed to talk about it on the mash-up.

Never work, right? But he's already got that in-depth understanding that puts him so far above and beyond what most people are going to be able to do in the states. So, yeah, why would he try and start completely fresh? It'd be like learning a new language for him. You're probably right. You're probably right. I just, I look at, I look at Trudeau. Trudeau.

I look at Tucker Carlson and I just see like all the Canadians watch them right now. And everybody's just begging for it. They watch them because there's nothing on CBC worth watching. There's nothing on CBC worth watching. And not everybody knows about the mashup yet. That's right. So share this with your friends. That's fair.

And mashup Alberta election coverage coming very, very, very soon. Either way, that's going to be a ton of fun. and Tucker Carlson, if you're listening, you're welcome to come on the show anytime you want. You know, that'd be an interesting, well, I don't think I'd say anything. I'd just let him read the headlines and banter about it all by himself. I'd just probably mute twos and just let him go, you know, like half an hour of Tucker Carlson reading headlines.

That might be fun. Ethics, Commissioner, and issues are a revolving door. This just keeps going. Okay, I got to give the Liberals props here. just when you think they can't possibly get any shittier, they just re-up the whole thing. So, do you, okay, all right, so they had made this. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, let's, let's do this.

Let's do this. Okay. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind, more inclusive. There we go, exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one. Pathetic loser.

No offense. Okay. There, I forgot to play that last week, which is, that's on Sean, folks. Ethics Commissioner, yes, issues are revolving door. Two's, where do you want to start? Do you want me to rattle off a couple things or you just want to roll? I just want to roll with just the twos breakdown on this. Okay, so the Ethics Commissioner had decided to quit to spend more time with his family,

which is code for I can't deal with this shit. show anymore. He'd repeatedly said that he recommended that all liberal ministers take conflict of interest training. This guy is probably the only hardworking man in the entire city of Ottawa, and he's probably got backlogs of years of this shit. And so he says, I can't handle it. I'm out. And then the new liberal budget comes out. And the only thing that they thought worth cutting any money on was the salary for the ethics commissioner. in the whole budget. And so then they name,

what was her, Richard? Yes. Martin Richard. Martin Richard gets named. And if you don't know who that is, she is the sister-in-law of Dominic LeBlanc, who is the liberal minister who found guilty,

one of the liberal ministers, who was found guilty of violating the conflict of interest laws a few years ago. And so we were all up in arms like, this is bullshit. Like, how can they possibly do this? Is there nobody? in Ottawa that isn't fucking cousins here but they name her anyway and you're like okay well let's see what happens

she gets one thing on her plate and that's Trudeau goes to goes on a vacation to some resort owned by a Trudeau Foundation donor and they don't want to touch this thing with a 10 foot pole and so this brand new interim ethics commissioner says you know what I don't want to get involved with any of this either I'm out and then the liberals say oh shucks if there's no ethics commissioner right now, nobody can investigate us.

Huh. It's really clever. Every time that you think Trudeau is an absolute schmuck. Yeah, he won the opposite. He'll just go around and surprise you like that. He'll just be like, well, what if we just threw a bunch of drink box water bottle sort of ethics violations at it until everybody quits and nobody wants to work there? and then we'll just plant a Manchurian candidate

who's there for two fucking weeks so she can bail and leave the whole place high and dry so that nothing can get decided upon. And then people are like, holy shit, Justin, what were in those mushrooms? This is what... This is what Dion had to say. Dion was the former ethics commissioner.

He found five senior liberals in violation of ethics laws during his time, including Trudeau LeBlanc, Minister of Small Business, Mary NG, former finance minister Bill Marno, Parliamentary Secretary, Craig Fergus. In an interview during his last week in office, he basically lambasted the government for failing to take ethics seriously. He went on to say the public has to believe that ethics are taken seriously and they have yet to have any big evidence of that since 2018.

He told the Post, the Conflict of Interest Act has been there for 17 years for God's sake, So maybe the time has come to do something different so that we don't keep repeating the same errors. After 17 years, maybe we should realize that something is not working. Okay, and to be clear, yes, there were five conflict of interest act violations,

but also there were several other times, none of which I can remember off the top of my head because I'm just thinking about this now. But there were several other times where he was like, well, was this thing they did shitty? Yes. Was it illegal? No. And so, yeah, there's been a bunch

none of which are coming to mind right now but I remember reading that exact same statement where not word for word I don't think he used the word shitty but it was very strongly implied where he's like did they break the law no is this absolutely despicable yes should we look at maybe amending the law

so that this kind of thing never happens again absolutely and the liberals are like yeah but then we won't be able to keep doing it idiot um look who's hopped on Ariel has uped on there's Garden Girl with a little handwave and Okay, where am I at here?

The NDP Are not a serious party And you know what, we're gonna play it again I hope they don't shit on you both Shit on who? Shit hogs Bit dirty shithawks I don't know why I think that's so fitting for the NDP

Anyways, what is the new with, there was a couple articles here I should first date. What is new with Rachel's latest decree? Is there a shocking accusation that the Western Standard has been engaging in very active, homophobic, discriminatory

and hateful editorial positioning? James Finkbiner, I wouldn't usually put my sexual orientation front and center, and I thought long and hard about, this is his response to it, about putting myself out there in this forum. It's not something I want to be defined me

as a person, but how can I sit in silence when I'm being labeled homophobic by a wealthy straight, white woman, these lies cannot go unanswered. The truth is, this is all distraction. If everyone is busy talking about her marching report is out of her press conferences or the intolerant editorial stance of the Western Standard, then there's no room to report on her less than a successful record as Premier from 2015 and 2019, and that she would do if given the reins of power again.

There's nothing homophobic about standing up for the parental rights and being concerned about the education of our children. It is not anti-trans to report on the very real concerns about providing puberty blockers to underage children. That was part of it. The second part, well, do you want to talk to that part first and then the... Well, it was, I mean,

that was just one more thing to throw on it because that was her justification for refusing to speak to them during that media press conference. So she releases this press conference and ahead of time, she's just doing all this grandstanding on Twitter about how Daniel Smith is scared of the media,

and I'm not. answer everybody's questions. And Sean, can we just show that video? I get the fact that it's going to take up a couple minutes, but can we show that video? Yes, we can, but you got to, you got give me a moment. I didn't have the video pulled up too. So anyway, in addition

to this video, so she wouldn't take questions from the Western Standard at this, at this very same press conference she held right after saying everybody who wants to ask me questions, can ask questions. Come on, come all. And then she was like, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck

you. She had Keene Bextie kicked out, even though he had accreditation with him because she didn't want to hear it. She didn't actually give a reason for having him kicked out aside from the fact that she knew that he was going to answer some very, he was going to ask some very hard hitting questions. And let's face it. Like if you're, if you're a left wing politician, you're not used to getting hard hitting questions thrown at you. There's no sound. Yeah, of course there's no sound. Give me a sec here. Saying that you would take questions and follow-up questions.

I'm going to take that as your affirmation of openness and transparency when you're dealing with the media. Why has your party cut us off from receiving the NDP press releases and media advisories? Something's fishy, Alfred. As much as we have in the past taken questions from your bosses, your institution. We will not be answering questions. What? I'm happy to take any questions from the media and any follow-up questions. That doesn't make sense!

Oh, wait, there's one more. With all your respect, it's really not for politicians to say that we will talk to this people and not to those people, because are we not all fighting the same election and are we not all in good standing with both the national and the... And the provincial party. Your Saskatchewan wing of the NDP fields all our questions and sends us their advisories. Okay, that's basically a British way to say, fuck you. So how do you take other questions from folks?

You see minutes earlier. Thank you very much. And I want to make it very clear that I'm happy to take any questions from the media and any follow-up questions. Rachel? Rachel, what are you doing? How appropriate do you think it is, whether it's the premier or yourself and your party, to choose which journalists can take questions. Well, you know, as I've said before,

and I said earlier today, I'm happy to take any questions from the media. That was a test. I was testing you. They're not going to entertain your questions. They're not going to entertain my questions. So it's as plain as that. That's the NDP position.

That's right. I mean, the Premier took questions from me, so did the mayor of Calgary. I mean, whatever they do is their baili with, right? What just happened? Did they do that? Happy to take, Any questions from the media?

I love how when they slowed it down at the end, she sounds absolutely fucking wasted. I forget how good that video is. If you'd never seen that video, well, welcome to, yeah, somebody on Twitter was fantastic. That's probably the best thing I've seen on Twitter that hasn't come from Elon Musk in months. And so, yeah.

Oh, Susan Valiant, here you go, sure to, is leave Yackstack. your face on Sean's show, geez, L.O.L. Also my show. That's right. You know, it's called the Tuesday mashup. Anyways, what are you going to do? Of course, Yaxdak, a friend of the show, was having a little town hall tonight, and it just bumped into the show here.

So, yeah, he's here. He's there. He's everywhere. I stayed for as long as I could. Yeah. But yeah, and then you had Janice Irwin, who's standing in solidarity with all the PSAC workers, which is a very out of touch thing to do. And yes, it's catering to their Edmonton base, but they're not going to be winning any votes outside Edmonton

with her promoting her solidarity with the union. But they have to because they're a division of the federal party, right? And if the NDPs, if they can be relied on doing one thing consistently, aside from screwing up, it's that no matter what the position is, if a union has it, they support it. And no matter what the union wants, the answer is always more money or more benefits or more. It's never like, oh, well, you know what, this union, we've seen that it's been a tough few years for Canada. And we really want to help bring in some institutional change so that we can make things more efficient so that we can give better value.

Right. It's never anything like that. The union never wants to make the institution they work for better. They never want to. Corey Morgan was tweeting about how they still use fax machines. And that's true. Like I remember a couple years ago, I had to deal with a little bit of back and forth in tax season.

And I was phoned and I was like, do we have a fax machine? He's like, why? I was like, well, I got this revenue canada bullshit I got to deal with. And he's like, I don't know. Like the head office in Calgary might have one. I don't know. I don't know. And I'm like, well, is there a fax number on your card?

He's like, no. And so like it was just, and the only people who have fax machines now are revenue Canada. And you'd think like if nothing else, they would at least have the decency to set up some like fax pay phones in, you know, outside 7-11 or something like that so that they had some way for other people to communicate them with them. Because the way it stands right now, the only people who can send and receive faxes at all is revenue Canada.

Sean, do you have any idea how worthless the last fax machine in the world is? That's our government in a nutshell. They are the last fax machine in the world. Like, come on, anybody? Anybody? Can we talk about this, the other part of the NDP? And I'm going to remove that so people can see about the NEP, Alberta's opposition NEP, promising up to 200 million to create a post-secondary campus

in downtown Calgary. If it wins an upcoming election, leader Rachel Notley says the money will go towards creating a permanent downtown campus to bring business, students, and researchers together for collaboration and to support economic diversification. And then, of course, if you're watching, you can see the map of downtown Calgary, where it shows University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Calgary, Bow Valley College, University of Alberta, Calgary, all downtown. Yeah, Smith, which is the business school for, oh, shoot, what's that one in Kingston? Queens. They've got a downtown campus. There's already all these downtown campuses. I did two diplomas a long time ago in the UFC downtown campus, and it's mostly empty.

Basically, anybody who wants office space can get office space at the downtown Calgary campus and where they have all the classrooms set up on the upper floors, they're never at capacity, and there's always plenty of room to just do whatever homework and stuff you needed to. It was super handy because you had nothing but space all around you. You didn't even need to worry about getting like breakout rooms or anything like that. You could just go use one of the damn classrooms. And so even the existing facilities aren't being used at capacity,

but still, and even though like that's just one of them amongst what, like a half dozen, eight of them maybe, right? and out of all of those, she's like, we're going to create a downtown campus. This is the same thing as the Fort Back Highway. It already exists. This is the Cloverleaf that we were talking about a week or two ago. It's already there.

And she's got an election promise that she's going to create a downtown campus. And she can't even just, if you looked at the top of that screen, all you searched was downtown campus Calgary. And that's all you had to do. And those are the results that showed up. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Cup fee regulations half empty. Vancouver's wildly unpopular, 25 cent.

Single-use cup fee will no longer be in effect starting May 1st. Vancouver's wildly, or the change comes after Vancouver mayor, Ken Simp publicly announced his party's intention to repeal the fee earlier this year and city council then voted to amend. The bylaw, which was implemented in January last year and known to be the first and North America to target single use cups has been met with criticism from both consumers in the restaurant industry largely for its failure to incentivize consumers to go green. The mandatory fee in addition to a bag fee, which can see Vancouver rates pay upwards of an extra 50 cents for a McDonald's drive-thru bag.

Yeah, and it kind of just carries on and on and on and on. Basically, they tried to institute a, you know, kind of like a carbon tax, but on cups. and nobody listened and all it did was just make things needlessly more expensive and it was wildly unsuccessful it didn't decrease consumption and now they're scrapping it after a few years I wonder if there's any lessons to be learned here

yeah and it's funny because the article talked about how the money that was raised from it went back to the business so one of the businesses says you know I brought in like $6,000 like the cup fee brought in about $6,000 over the course of the year but then he talked about But the problem is, like, the cost of everything and the fact that we couldn't be at full capacity and all these different things, we lost money. The $6,000 didn't cover what we lost by just like allowing business to do what it does.

And if you've already got a 50 cent built in cost and all the revenue goes back to you anyway, so let's say your cup of idiot frappuccino bullshit is $5 at Starbucks or whatever. okay we're going to put in a law that says you have to charge 50 cents for a cup you say okay perfect that same idiot Frappuccino is now $4.50 right like this is this is just that's all you really have to do and so it's just it's idiot bureaucrats

trying to solve problems with well-meaning simple but not simple in terms of lack of complication, but simple in terms of like simple jack solutions. But I don't know, you, if the, the idea is to drive business away from business, charge more, and I'm going to find ways to make my coffee. And I guess that's going green because it's just going to, but for a business that pays taxes

all that and employs people, that isn't a good thing, right? So the more they start, I mean, it's just, it's all stupid. Like, let's say it was five bucks, right? and so there's a $5 single-use cup fee. You say, okay, well, you know what? The coffee's free, but we got to charge you five bucks for the cup, right? I mean, there's really easy creative solutions to just get around dumb laws that in the end, they've got a bureaucratic and enforcement cost.

You just have to let there's no net benefit. You have to let businesses do what they do. They're creative. They find new ways. You give them a problem, and they go try and solve it. You don't even have to give them the problem. They'll find a problem. or an opportunity for optimization or whatever else,

and they will go and solve that, right? And then if it becomes popular, then other businesses will adopt said way of doing things. It's... Okay. Man... Okay, so I can find a way to improve this, so this is just the literal headline.

This is the literal headline. We haven't done this in a long time. Man killed by flying cow while urinating by railway tracks. We haven't done that in a long time? where you just give the actual headline. When was the last time we read a non-toos headline, man killed by flying cow while urinating by railway tracks. You cannot make that up.

Honestly, it's already somebody's magnum opus. I cannot improve upon perfection, people. A man was killed by a flying cow while urinating beside a railway in a freak accident in India on April 19th. It happened when the cow was struck by a speeding Vanda Barrett train, the train which can reach speeds of 160 kilometers an hour, struck the cow at speed, launching its corpse through the air. Parts of its body landed more than 30 meters away from Sharma,

the guy who ended up dead. However, he was struck by another part, killed him on the spot. That is what you call bad freaking luck, man. I don't know. Dude, like this, it's funny because like cows are sacred in India, right? So you're saying that's the greatest death ever? Well, I'm not sure. But I'm feeling like maybe it's the greatest death ever.

maybe his family are like oh wow like the gods must have absolutely hated him right or you know like there's there's so many different thoughts where you're like this could go so many different ways I really got to pee like just imagine you're standing you're standing next to a guy dude dude put your pecker away dude there's just just find some other place to go pee

and he's like what I'm out in God's country what's gonna happen and then a cow falls from the fucking sky land hands on him and kills them, and it's their sacred animal. Well, Sharma, you should have been paying attention. No peeing on the railway track, right? Like, can you imagine a cow... Like, this is, this is like, I don't know,

it'd be like if a cross fell from the sky after you were blaspheming God or something like that. And so, yeah, I don't know. You're saying it's going to be a holy spot. That's what you're saying. It's going to be a holy spot. I don't, like, it's definitely a holy cow, right? But, yeah, I'd love to get somebody

from India's perspective on this and see how local people who live there would view it from a religious standpoint. I don't know, but it could go a lot of interesting directions and I'd be very curious to see what they think.

Hey dad, did you hear about Sherman? What? Yeah, he got hit by a flying cow. He got what? He got hit by a flying cow. What do you mean? Well, well, maybe he should have I don't know, done there. Whatever Christmas or whatever. Yeah, he just You skipped church last Sunday and then he gets hit by a flying cow or something, right?

Can you imagine seeing the video of a cow being struck by a train at 160K an hour? Like, anyways, man with no Regina is keynote for YWCA. The YWCA Regina is a voice for and is a voice for and of women, young women's Christian association. I hope I, young women's Christian Association.

Anyways. It's the YWWWCA. So this is what's pulled off. I pulled this right off. They're really pulling from the village people here, Sean. I pulled this off of YWCA Canada's website. This is who they are. Then as now leaders of the YWCA Canada

have acted and advocated right injustices faced by women and girls in Canada through timely research, responsive projects, proactive initiatives and relevant advocacy campaigns. Okay, so get to where we are. YWCA, Regina's Nutrition Women of Distinction Award celebrates the women who, like us, are making a difference in their community.

For the benefit of the entire community, this spring, we will be gathered to celebrate and advocate the educators, the community builders, the leaders, and voices of change in southern Saskatchewan. And that enters Fay Johnson, who is Ottawa's Fay Johnson, is featured on International Women's Day Chocolate Bars, she's going to be speaking at the YWCA Regina Man, that is just a mouthful anyways.

An Ottawa-based transgender rights advocate says she's not going anywhere after facing a barrage of online harassment for a role in Hershey Canada campaign for an international women's day. She's a 27-year-old trans woman was one of five featured on a limited edition chocolate bar after learning about Johnston's involvement. Some social media users personally attacked her, blah, blah, blah, blah, you get the point. And then I The Daily Wire ran a thing with the Hershey bars So here's yeah here's Here's first Megan Riley Megan Riley Megan Murphy

Who's been on the podcast She says are you high This is the tweet about Faye Johnson being the keynote speaker For the Women of Distinctions Award This is who we're talking about And here's Here's Jeremy

She's so beautiful Is it Jeremy boring? Yeah Yeah, it's Jeremy Boren, so he's the CEO, the Daily Wire. Co-founder of Daily Wire, who has built a reputation for taking on woke companies and offering alternatives to their insulted customers. He said, fine, I'll do it. Introducing Jeremy's chocolate, yes, it's real.

We have two kinds, he, him, and she, her. One of them has nuts, if you need me to tell me which one, keep buying Hershey's. But if you know what a woman is and love chocolate, go to... And this was great, because they turn it around, so... Hershey's and then so they had the chocolate bar that said her she because pronouns. And they released it like a day or two before international women's days. And so then the Daily Wire turned this around like in about 48 hours. They had a whole production run of designed and marketed chocolate bars directly in responding

to this Fay Johnstone dude who's now grown his hair out and is now deserving of accolades. There, what we're going to do is, I apologize. I'm going to pull this up here in a quick, hot second, so that people can see what the heck we're talking about, Tooz. I'll rewind it here. We'll pull it up on the screen, that way they can get a feel of what we're here. Here, this is what he pulled off in what Toos is talking about,

a short timeline. And we'll zoom it out just a smidge here so I can. Here. So, women's day is upon us again. And I love an international woman. But our friends over at Hershey's, they don't even know what a woman is. They've hired a biological male to be the spokesperson for their Women's Day campaign. And they're calling that campaign, and I swear I'm not making this up, her, she.

Hershey. It's humiliating. And it's the reason that I'm launching Jeremy's chocolate. We have two kinds. She her and he him. One of them's got nuts. If you need me to tell you which one it is, keep giving your money. money to Hershey's. But if you're tired of giving your money to woke corporations that hate you

and you're looking for a delicious chocolate bar from a company that actually wants your business, head over to I hatehershies.com and order Jeremy's chocolate today. See, I love these kinds of responses. I love it when companies do that. Jeremy, I would say does it the best of them, but whenever somebody pushes back, oh shoot, I totally lost the bookmark. But there's, maybe we can just show it real quick next week. But there was another company that just pointed out all these female athletes who were just getting second place and getting bumped out of scholarships and losing out to these biological men who have decided that they can't compete against other dudes. And so rather than try and push themselves to be better, they would just step

down a couple of leagues in terms of physical requirements and then just go ahead and take all this stuff from women. And this is the same thing with this YWCA thing. And then like there's no, as far as I could tell, none of the nominees for this are, um, are men. But the fact that they would have this dude as the keynote speaker just speaks volumes. And then here's where Ariel comes in. Um, so this is what Ariel posted. She got in, uh, well, a ton of flack for it. Celebrating a man an event that distinctly celebrates women. Why WCA Regina do better. And, um, so this is what. she's come under a lot of flack for that. And here's the sponsor of the

Tuesday mashup. Yeah. So this works out perfect because this is the exact stuff that we're talking about here on a regular basis. And, you know, it's funny because like I wonder sometimes, I'm like, well, I don't know. Maybe we're a little bit too much for some people or something like that. Fair enough.

But here's somebody who sponsors the show who thinks the same way we do, who thinks probably the same way a lot of you guys do, you people. And I thought it was just it was just really good like this is just one more reason why we we have the like this is such a great community that's this building up around this I love it and I would just uh push anyone listening to click in the show notes and support Ariel because I mean like I don't I go back to it

I don't celebrating a man at an event that distinctly celebrates women and to me you know that's not a controversial statement that's that's fairly straightforward I would say Well, this is where we're at with this argument, though, too, is it's like, you know, if you say anything about it, you're attacked vehemently. You know, Bill Ward Chris is a guy that's been on the show. He's coming back on. And there's a guy that we've talked about on here, right? And, like, that community that attacks him is, like, hate, anger, like, vehemently opposed to what he's talking about. And, you know, if you're, you know, the, I'm going to try to.

and spit this out again because I... No, but I mean, like, think about it. Like, you're not allowed to say anything. Young women's Christian association. That's what this is. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, here's the thing. Like, you're not allowed to say anything bad about them.

Like, if this dude wears a dress on stage and he gets too close to the front of the stage and someone gets to see up, they are required practically by law at this point to say that that stunning and beautiful lady has really nice balls. And apparently, that's not even crazy anymore. Eileen Clark says, call me old-fashioned, but if you have a penis,

you're not a woman, and no amount of surgery will make you one. You know what? I think we need a little bit more old-fashioned nowadays, and I'm not just talking about the delicious bourbon drink.

Anyways, Ariel stands strong, in my opinion, and if you're so inclined, you know, it's pretty, I don't know what the words are, but at the end of the day, she sponsors the show, which is like,

don't get me wrong. If we had fallen on this story, we were going to talk about it anyways. It's just, it aligns. Actually, I had this article sent to me. So, yes,

we were. So, like, it was coming up anyways. And then the fact that Ariel's part of it, I mean, like garden girl with a little pizzazz, eh, like coming in hot and, like it, to me,

I'm just like, if you're looking for seeds, garden, anything like that, now you know where she stands. And I hope that, you know, the mashup listeners

will find a way to support her in what's going on there and certainly, You know, just this seems to be a theme. Me and twos keep talking about all these strange things going on. And some of them get resolved. Other ones just keep to have, you know, the song and dance just keeps going on. You were talking about this with Vance and how, you know, he thought that I was just a little bit, I don't know, incredulous or, you know, maybe a tiny bit over the top.

You know, like how am I constantly but amazed by all this crazy stuff that goes on? And then now that he's, you know, listening every week, he's, well, you know what? there is a lot of crazy stuff going on, and it's not just some hyperbolic stage face. Okay. How about we've had, I mean, we've had some interesting stories this week,

but how about some happy news? The heist was pretty happy news. We're covering every heist, and any heist that comes up, if you guys hear about a heist, send it to us so that we can cover it, because I love them, all of them. Yes, I think heists are fan.

Yes, I would agree. Okay, here we go. Your mom goes to college. What twos is going on here? It's from Napoleon Dynamite. Need to restore your faith in humanity. NHL starred. Wait a second. What part of Napoleon dynamite? The older brother with the mustache? Yes. Refresh my memory. I've watched that movie multiple times. I can't remember this. Okay. Well, Napoleon says that that girl with the sideways ponytail is saving up like she's doing the the wrist bracelet things so that she can go to college.

And then he's like, your mom goes to college. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Okay. Anyways, here we go. Tina, come get some ham. NHL need to restore your faith in humanity.

NHL star Jacob Truba surprised Isaiah Marquez Green with a full scholarship to law school. Isaiah survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. And all he was getting was assigned jersey. and of course he ends up with a full scholarship to college. And Truba exchanges numbers with him at the end of the video saying, hey, make sure you call me on graduation day so I can come basically attend and share in that moment. So pretty cool thing done by the New York Rangers and Jacob Truba,

who, you know, a hockey player, you know, for all the stuff the NHLs come under lately, you know where I stand with hockey twos. think it's the greatest sport on the planet. And I think hockey players lead the way when it comes to helping different people, the community and everything like that. So I like that this is snuck in there at the end, a little hockey, you know, happy news. Yeah, we snuck it in the five hole.

Or if you're wearing a blue and orange jersey, I think it's like a six or a seven hole by now. That's going to do it for mashup, uh, uh, uh, 50. I'm trying to find your Sean's doing two things at once he's trying to talk he's trying to do this he's trying to pull up oh that's what it was yeah okay such a funny little moment

okay fair enough anyways that's a matchup 52 we went over time hour and 11 minutes two said we're going long today I was like oh yeah well I mean I said right off the bat as soon as we got to the high school I was like, just stop the clock because I'm going to be at this a while. Hour and 11 minutes. We haven't done this in a long time.

We got the Tuesday mashup election coverage, you know, starting to... May 29,ish, depending on exactly when the election is. But whenever that day is, that's when we're doing it. And so that's going to be... Election that won't stuck. That's right. And we're slowly tinkering with it, adding some different people, getting some things done, this, that, everything else.

And so, mark it on your calendar. We're in the pre-production right now. That's right. And it's coming along pretty well. Yeah, well, Nick Von Dubbs said, yeah, I'm in. And then he's like, actually, what am I doing? And I'm like, oh, just wait, we're going to have some fun with you. He doesn't know yet?

No, he doesn't know. We got to have a little. Okay. Well, in case he's listening, and if he isn't, it'll be even more of a fun surprise. But we're going to see if we can get him to do live coverage from NDP headquarters in Edmonton. And if you don't know who Nick von Dubbs is, the last time I saw him, he came in in a full tuxedo. Canadian tuxedo. Canadian tuxedo, sorry.

and he had like long hair hat on and he and he just looks you know like he's just like he does stand-up comedy now I mean he never used to do that when I first met him anyways so uh shout out to Nick von Dubs hopefully uh we can add him into that slot and that'll add some uh if we're not allowed to go into the NPP headquarters then we're just going to have him speaking to people on the street in Edmonton which apparently there's lots of them there now so that shouldn't be too hard Well, I tell you what, that's going to do it for us here on mashup 52. 52. Yeah, it's crazy how quickly a year of mashups go by.

I know I've been saying that for like the last couple, but, you know, 52 marks officially of a full calendar year. It's a great number for backbench bombers. Yeah. Regardless, twos, as always, thanks for hopping on. Look forward to next week to all of you. Go where there's go. Can't wait to be celebrating round two next week, hey?

Oh, baby. Let's go here. Okay, honestly, take a page from the Ontario Hise, Sean, and stop. Oh, man. Enjoy golf season, flames fans. That's all I got for you. See you, buddy.