Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #53

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We discuss Oilers to the 2nd round, Clinton & Freeland together, Bill C-11 and Notley's dirty secret. This week's Main Sponsor is Vance Crowe Legacy InterviewsTo book an online Legacy Interview: legacyinterviews.com/Tuesday SNP Presents: Luongo & Krainer ⁠https://www.showpass.com/snp-presents-luongo-krainer/⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast⁠ Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

two's doing this week. Two's is good. Actually, you, it worked out well that you cut me out for the intro this time, actually, because I just squeaked in under the deadline for us to start at nine. And I should have put you on is what you're saying. I should have put you on. You would have been fumbling, it's what you're saying. Well, I would have been fumbling. I would have been trying to do like three different things at once.

And you know that neither of us are any good at that. It's true. It's true. Hey, Mashrop 53, brought to us by our friend Vance Crow, his legacy interviews. We were back on to the Vance Crow show. Yes. Give your family the opportunity to know their history. Trust Vance to get your loved one to tell their stories to help future generations know what it means to be a member of your family.

You know, I was literally today talking to a friend of ours, Ken Rutherford, and I got talking about an uncle of his. Uncle, I think it's an uncle of his. Anyways, he's passed on now. And I'd sat down and, you know, at the time I wasn't thinking anything of it, but he sat down and recorded an episode with him. And I was listening today, I'm like, I just get what Vance is talking about. You know, you never know when it's going to come. And if you could have their wisdom passed down, wouldn't you want that? And that's what Vance Crow is all up to.

Professionally record a video conversation aimed at capturing the essence of someone's life stories, memories, insights, and valuable life lessons. Yeah, and the thing about it is, is that if you're going to have somebody do something like this, like this is, you know, everybody's got that one person in a family or extended family that that really, you know, is concerned about the genealogy and the history of the family as it branches out or in the case of Manitoba, it's a flagpole. But, but what they, the thing about Vance is, like I was just talking to him last week. I'm going to be on a show on Wednesday. Going on the Vance Crowe podcast.

Yeah, I was like, dude, did you just run out of interesting people to talk to? Up to the big leagues, Mr. Tews. Yeah, and it's just interesting how easy he is to talk, and you're just kind of like, okay, well, you know what, we're just going to keep it. I don't know, kind of. Wait, are you self-promoting right now? Is that what's happening here? Is that what you're doing?

No, no, no, no, no. I feel like you're giving me shit. No, no, no, no, no. Just hear me out on this. I just found it really interesting how, you know, at the end of it, you're just like, wow, like that's just really, because I know him a little bit, but not super well. And then you just sit down and you just start talking and you just open right up. I agree. And so he's, I find it interesting that Tews doesn't like me busting his balls, but he loves to do it the other way.

You know, folks, it's interesting. He's like he's taking notes from Justin Trudeau or something. I don't know. To Vance Crow. I know Bans Crow is the man. Yes, absolutely. I agree. I'm not, I'm not, it's not going to be on my show.

Oh, so that's where we draw the line. If you're going on somebody else's show, if you're going on something else, we can talk about it. Okay, are we going to talk about the S&P presents now? Sure. Can we, can we do that? Yeah, yeah, let's do that.

Let's do that, Sean. Let's start here. Earl Wally, Wally, like the movie, we learned this lesson. He texts me saying the proper pronunciation. says evening boys evening wally what's up Ontario yeah Dave Amiette says let's go Oilers yes indeed

hey let's go watch people who say dumb things like that I'm going to allow them to say it all night long that's that's my thought process either way hey a couple things here before we get started first is the SMP presents in June 10th with uh oh LeWong going Criner in Lloyd Minster uh if you're looking that that should be an

interesting night. Tews, I believe, is going to be in the house, I think is making the trip to this lovely bustling metropolis of Lloydminster. I'm going to, well, not fly, but, you know, head up there. That's right. U.S. mandates ending May 11th. So, I mean, it's been a long-ass time coming, but they are coming to an end May 11th, twos. We don't care about COVID on this show. I agree, but at the end of the people waiting for that BS to go along. I thought I would show this. Oh, oh, sorry.

Whoops, did I put that there? I meant, I thought I meant twos. Here you go. There you go, twos. So we had advance ad, and now we've got advance. There you go. There you go. A nice pickup.

Yeah, yeah, I saw that. Actually, you know what? I'll do you one better. Let's see here. Let me show. you this bring it up

bring it up I'm adding I'm heading I'm heading here we go this is the video that we were talking about before with Marshawn Lynch boxing an

NHL team just so that he can do donuts with the Zamboni this is who I want to see hoisting the cup oh man so if you've missed a couple a

mash-ups ago. Oh my God. Yeah, all right. Anyways, I'm going to pull this back up quick. Me and Tuse made a couple different predictions. Advanced, or Vance, advanced, now, yeah, it's stuck in my head. Tews picked the Seattle Crack, and I made fun of them, and then I started watching them. I'm like, has Tews been watching this team?

And then he goes, no, I just want Marchion Lynch. Anyways, they'd thrown, or knock off, I guess, the Stanley Cup champs. I guess that's the first time in NHL history. a weird stat. It's like they're taking their steps from baseball. Anyways. It's the first time that the Seattle Cracken

have gotten to the second round. That's the weird stat. The weird stat is it's the first time an expansion team has knocked off a Stanley Cup winner in a game seven or some damn thing like that. It doesn't matter. Oh, yeah. That'd be like, oh, yeah.

This is the best ERA posted by a third basement in the first 26 days. On a Tuesday night when it's cloud. Howdy. Yeah. Here, let's, let's, before we hop in, second round of playoffs, New Jersey just finished thumping the Rangers for Rip.

Who you got coming into, who's the team you believe will make the semifinals out of the East and West? I'll give you just one choice at each side. That way we don't have to go through all four. Who's two's got? Seattle. You have Seattle making the Western Conference Finals. Yeah.

Okay. And, shoot, do we know who Toronto's playing yet? Toronto and the New Jersey Devils. Okay, okay, yeah. Then, yeah, we're going to go devs. Wow. Okay. Okay, folks.

I will be, yeah. You don't think Toronto can get by Florida. I would vote liberal before I would hear for Toronto. I would vote liberal. You just asked, do we know who Toronto's playing? That's what you said, right? Yeah. Toronto plays the Florida Panthers.

Before I screw this all up, Toronto plays a Florida Panthers. New Jersey Devils play the Carolina Hurricanes. I'm giving you one series to pick who the winner is going to be in the... So you don't want to pick Toronto. Let's go Florida, man. You're going to take Florida, man. Okay.

Then I'm going to pick the other two series. I'm going to say New Jersey gets through against Carolina. And of course, I'm going with Miami-Internothers. They're going to face your Seattle Cracken. They're going to mop the floor with that octopus. They're going to just be like whoop. Anyways. Okay.

Shall we begin? Would you like to get off any? NHEL, I know you're not a big fan of talking that right now, and you don't like when people say, go, there's going. Hey, you know what? The flames haven't lost a single game in the playoffs this year, so suck on that. Anyways, you did just fire Daryl Sutter,

so you're looking for a coach now, so Calgary Flames. I mean, you got rid of the GM a week ago. Good call. Now, actually give Daryl Sutter room to breed. Ooh, you wanted Daryl Sutter to stay? Yes. Interesting. Interesting.

I have been saying for like 15 years that the problems are above the coach level. Hot take, twos wants some to stay. The problems are above the coach level. Because they just, they keep building the same team. They keep building,

like they just keep putting together the same non-working recipe. And that can't be all of the different coaches that they've had. It's got to be higher up than that. I'm glad you're not on a sports so twos, you know? Listening to you talk about sports

is probably like most listeners trying to listen to me to talk about politics, you know? It's just kind of like, really, really? The Flames have been trying to build a franchise team around one, two, or three people

every damn year since a Ginlauk became good, which wasn't, it wasn't his first season. I mean, he was a slow starter, right? But yeah, Ever since they're like, oh, you know what?

Maybe it'll be a Gindler and Kipper. And then, you know, they had Fennel and enough for a little while. And it's just always been they're trying to build. Like, there was a couple of years where Gindler scored practically every single goal. You had that one season where Kipper played 80 games? Would you like to start? I don't know. Listen to you talk about the Calgary Flames or out golfing or suntanin and in Mexico right now.

Who knows? Who knows what they're doing? I tell you what they ain't doing. They ain't making it a second round. And that's too bad. I wish Winnipeg would have got through an all-Canadian second round would have been fun, but who knows me, we're getting to all-Canadian Stanley Cup final.

Maple Leafs, most of the teams are Canadian anyway, dude. I know, but you still want a Canadian market. Get out of that. I don't even want to get down to, 19 Canadians. Like,

we want a Canadian market, okay? That's all I'm going to say here. We're wasting people's time. You sound like that. You sound like that. You sound like that. Not least dirty secret.

Okay, here we go. Jesus Christ, let's get going. already. Yeah, there's a multiple multitude of different articles here. First, start Alberta Premier Daniel Smith is raising questions about opposition, NDP leader, Rachel Notley's husband as his role in the upcoming provincial election campaign. Notley's husband Lou Arab is a communication official for the Canadian Union of public employees and sits on the governing board of Notley's NDP. I feel like I've heard

two's talk about this like 15 times anyways. I'm just surprised that it's already coming or it's finally coming up. Well it's finally coming out because they attacked they keep attacking Daniel Smith the latest one is that she went to David Parker the leader of Takeback Alberta and they're trying to like get it in anyways so they started attacking what her going to a wedding so now she's firing back anyways here's what she said what the premier would like to ask miss notley is who is married to a communications representative for Kup is wiser husband's union spending massively massively on third-party

attack ads to elect the NEP how is it legal said the UCP statement And then if you keep going to the next article, it said just last week, Coup, Coup, Coup, whenever we're talking. Coupie. Yeah, I don't know. Coupie. Coupie. Sent out an email from.

Coupie. Arab's account supporting a minimum wage hike that came after Arab gave an interview to an energy website advocating for an increase in the minimum wage. When the CBC called Coupie to ask about those optics, they got a, I don't know why Coupie sounds funny. Anyways, they got a phone call back instead from the Premier's office. Notley then told the media that Coupie had sent out the news release from her husband's account in error, and then Arab was moving to a less public role within the union.

Yeah, I'm going to... Which is why he's just got this generic description, despite the fact I was looking around, there was a place. I didn't get a chance to verify it, but it said that he's making over $300,000 a year. Probably. And you're like, okay, it's a less public title, but honestly, like, if... Because this is serious. Like, when Notley was premier...

Hey, somebody asked him a question and then the NDP government responded. Well, so there's no separation of church and state. And here's the thing, but just imagine this. Imagine your wife is running for office and you've got some kind of a big public platform. You're going to have to plug it. Like, we would have to plug it on the show every week or you would be sleeping on the couch. And we tease each other incessantly about it, at least on here, and we acknowledge it. But here it's this little shadow game.

This is what I liked. This is from the CBC too, which I found interesting because we've been crapping on the old CBC for a while. On Friday, CBC News left a message on his mobile phone request and comment about a press release sent by Coupie earlier this week under his email account. Not least press secretary, Cheroits, return the call. Yes. Keep in mind, though, that this article is from 20. 2015. Ah, shit.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. I just thought it was, it's a really important point to make is that, is that there's never really been a clear distinction. And like the unions and the NDP are this weird inbred. Their family tree has no branches either, right?

It's, it's like Ottawa. Everything's all just creepily mixed in. And so, you know, when you're talking to one, you're talking to the other. So I was about to give CBC,

you're dealing with the other. I was about to give CBC a little tip of the cap, and we're talking about this being an eight-year-old article. Are you telling me that's the truth? Okay, it's the background on this. No, I completely understand, but now I have to, like, draw back in. I can't give CBC all the credit anymore because it's an old article from eight years ago. That's what you're saying.

Yeah, yep. But it's the background on what Daniel Smith was talking about. So, I mean, if you've got the NDP in charge, they're literally on both sides of the bargaining table when it comes to union negotiations, which seems to be a fairly relevant point in this current state of events in Canada. Yeah, it's interesting to watch the, like at this point, I don't know, how much are you watching the papers and the news cycle on like mainstream media and everything attacking Daniel Smith? I've read like three or four of them.

Oh, it's, I mean. I know how much it is. I'm just saying at this point, I don't know how you even watching it anymore. I'm just, I've just, like, tuned it out.

It's like, it's just, it's awful. Well, I mean, we've got, yeah, that's,

that's going to be issue number eight. That's where we're going. All right. Yeah. Okay, well, just, just,

let's cover this stuff in order. But, Inflation puts the con in concert. Avenged sevenfold frontman M. Shadows says the band's upcoming tour will cost an extra two million compared to pre-COVID tracks with fans having to pick up the slack through inflated merch and ticket prices some bands are finding it's difficult to tour at

all you think show shadow tells a Jackson podcast it's completely different now that the land than the last time we toured we toured seven years ago and it was one way now we've noticed that the crew costs more the production cost more buses cost more ticket prices are going up people aren't happy about it everything costs more and you're dealing with a completely inflated situation where there's bands like Godsmack just canceled South America based on not enough tickets sold because the prices are so high to get there and then you get out there and you're like okay I'm going to go there for a month and make no money or lose money and so you started to see a lot

of bands cancel Europe so that South America the states are already hard enough I know that even are busing on this tour I was thinking it was something like two million dollars this time to get the buses more than normal two million more and and if you look up that tour it's I think 35 or 36 stops. And some of them, there's not even going to be buses. Like, I'm sure there's going to be transport buses,

but they're not riding in buses for all of it. Because I think they do L.A., New York, back to back in there somewhere. So it's not like they're, like, they're going to be flying and their buses are going to be hauling the equipment, you know,

driving all night kind of thing, right? So just, it's insane. Like, when was the last time you looked at concert tickets for anything? thing. Well, we had this chat. How long ago was this? About the cure? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What was that? How long ago was that? But that was just the ticket master surcharges. So totally different animal. And you know, I mean, COVID hit ticket master really hard. And it's been really hard for them to

charge you to print online tickets. Jesus Christ, I when remember when I went to cocaine bear and we talked about that? They charged me like a dollar 50 to print out two tickets. on my phone. It was like a convenience fee. They charged me for not having to have them have somebody to ring me up in the movie theater. And I, because I got like a 50,

it's supposed to be a bucket ticket and I got 50 cents off because I've got scene points. And so they were charging a buck a ticket to not print the ticket. They charge you a dollar. Like, okay, so to do absolutely nothing, they charge you a dollar. it sounds like the unions.

So what do you... So this is insane. Like I was looking at Brantley Gilbert tickets and he's opening for nickelback. And so not only do you have to go to a nickelback concert to see Brantley Gilbert, but also you've got to pay something like $22 for mid-level tickets. Yeah, but you would pay you. You would pay you. You would pay you.

Well, not so that I'm paying $500 for a night out. Yeah. I don't know. So I look at the... Would you pay $500 to go to a concert? I don't pay $500 to do half the... You know who I'm paying $500 to go see, actually? I'll scratch that.

I'm paying $500 to go see Jordan Peterson for two tickets to sit like four rows up, five rows up, whatever it is. That's what I'm paying my money to go see. Yeah, fourth row, not like up in the fucking nosebleeds. Fair. It's insane. Like concerts, you know, you just look at them and you're like, if someone's doing a show big.

than the Palomino, you're going to pass. Oh, God, John's all over the place tonight. Union grinding people's gears, dear God, this is a saga and a half. Okay, let's, let's, do you want to start with the tweets or do you want me to actually read what? I'll read what's going on. What the hell? Just, just hit some bullet points of what's interesting because there's way too much as federal, as federal public servants begin blocking roads and ports and a bit, a bit to get

government's attention. A new survey is showing that most Canadians think government workers in general are paid just fine. A new Angus Reed survey found that shocking, 64% of Canadians either think government workers are overpaid. That's 28% or fairly compensated. That's another 36% piece. For a total of. 64, isn't it? 64. 64%. I said that. What are you talking about? Okay, but how many people altogether think they're overpaid or don't think they're overpaid? 17% said they don't think they're overpaid. 17% of Canadians do not think the public sector is overpaid. What percentage of the workforce in Canada is in the public sector? 21.8% Sean.

So that means that roughly a quarter of the people protesting already think they're overpaid. and they're just doing it because they know it's going to fucking work. Here, this is, this is, uh, Andrew, uh, coin. He says, I thought we agreed that using physical force to make a point blocking roads or railways or access to buildings was out of bounds. Yet it continues. It wasn't, it wasn't right when any Vax, Lunes didn't in Ottawa and it's not for, uh, not right for respectable civil servants to be doing it now.

And then here's a bullet points, uh, shutting down access to port of St. John's, uh, a part of critical transportation infrastructure of Canada, blocking access to the Canadian Forces Base in Montreal, picketing the Ambrose Torquois border crossing in Saskatchewan on the Canada-U.S. border shutting down the Sinclair Center in Vancouver with no access to service Canada, passport offices and other buildings, closing the Burlington Canal Lift Bridge, which provides access to the thousands of vehicles and pedestrians entering Hamilton Harbor.

What did they do? Get like three of them to stand on it? Here's when he talks about peaceful, watch the lady on the right. Walks up, gives the car a little soft boot. So there's that going on. And then this one, they've got a self-report. The union members that are striking have to self-report that they're striking and not getting their regular wage. Correct. So the onus is on.

on the striking people to tell the Canadian government that they are on the picket lines and therefore need to have reduced wages. How many how many of you think do that? Oh, I just like I don't know. 10 like honestly how many? It's optimistic I bet it literally says workers who participate in the strike will most likely have their pay clawed back after the strike but it won't be an automatic clawback. employees who will have to submit an unpaid leave request through the federal government's

old Phoenix pay system to process the paid deduction. An unpaid leave request, how perfectly Ottawa is this? You need to fill out a form to not get paid. That's not even the coup of all this. Sean, that's not even the best part of any of this stuff. Are we talking about the honking? That's the best. The second best part is when you've got all of these people gathering in parliament,

just shoulder to shoulder to protest how unsafe it is for them to go back to work in the age of coronavirus. And they need to be safely at home social distancing. And they will stand shoulder to shoulder protesting and chanting and yelling and just all of that speaking moistly into the air. Speak moistly to me. Until their demands are met that they can safely be working from home. The best part, though. is the honking. Union leaders are criticizing what they view as a shocking double standard

after Ottawa police ticketed a striking public servant for honking in a picketing line, and city bylaw officers have reportedly fined another picketer for an unauthorized hot dog stand outside the prime minister's house. You can't do that. How crazy is it that the same people are in the exact same physical location a year and a bit later doing the exact same thing

that they said give them post-traumatic stress disorder. Like is there actually any honking going on? Or are they just hearing the choppers in the background in the flashbacks? Right? Like do they think that there's a bunch of people cheering them on?

Or are they just remembering the bouncy castles with all this post-traumatic stress disorder that they experienced from the convoy? But no, they're going to go back and do the exact same thing. They're going to close up critical infrastructure. And they're going to honk and honk and honk until they get tickets. But it's okay when they do it because they're fat cat, lazy pieces of shit who don't answer to anybody.

Oh, man. How about this, this lovely piece of work? Wolverine becomes invisible man. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive. There we go. Exactly. And the budget will balance itself.

Man, you are one pathetic loser. No offense. So Wolverine becomes invisible, man. This is just, you know, anyways. The Prime Minister was in the Big Apple, mugging for pictures with Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman at an event in support of the Global Citizen, now initiative to empower women,

where Canada committed new funds to support women's rights organizations. He also spoke to the venerable Council of Foreign Relations to highlight Canada's role as a reliable and responsible partner of the United States. He told the council that the world is expecting a moment of uncertainty like we haven't seen in our lifetimes with authoritarianism on the rise and new threats emerging to weaken democracy. If we don't step up, other forces will step in, twos. That's a direct fucking quote. I kid you not.

How evil are they? But this isn't, so Trudeau goes on this trip to New York where he does a bunch of bullshit glad handing and poses for a whole bunch of pictures, including one with Hugh Jackman, who you probably remember from some of the X-Men movies. And anyway, so Hugh Jackman posted on Twitter. And then he gets all this pushback. And then he realizes, oh, you know. Holy shit, that was pretty stupid of me. Maybe people hate this fucking guy. So he erases the pictures.

He pulled the pictures off Twitter. He's like, I don't even want to be part of this. I can't even just, this guy is so toxic that I don't even want my picture taken with him. Like, is that not the greatest, funniest thing you've ever heard, right? Like, he literally gets a picture taken with Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman, he's, oh, all right. And then he just gets torn to shreds and he pulls it all down. He's like, oh, fuck this.

I'm out of here. You think about it, like, this is a big deal for Justin Trudeau. This is a guy who once had a photographer take a picture of a photographer taking pictures of Justin Trudeau while he was autographing pictures of himself. This guy has been all fluff and no substance his entire fucking life. He just lives for having vapid pictures with famous people that he could just piggyback off the goodwill of. And then Hugh Jack was like, Ooh, I don't know if my healing factor can recover from this. The one thing that takes down Wolverine, Justin Drew.

This is, like, it was basically just like episode 75 of the Wolverine comic where Magneto pulled his adamantium skeleton out of him. Oh, that's good. That's good. Liberals being an expert to speak about made. Oh, that might have been a typo on my part. supposed to say bring out an expert. Oh, well, bring out an... Liberals bring out an expert to speak about me.

They're all adjust on the fly. And here we go. Hillary Clinton, former first lady of the United States, the country's 67th Secretary of State will speak in the 2023 Liberal National Convention in Ottawa, also known as Libb, 2023. On Friday, May 5th, Hillary Rodham, Clinton has a lifetime of experience in American politics,

in public service and has dedicated her career to promoting human rights around the globe, growing a strong middle class and delivering economic growth that works for everyone. Liberal Party of Canada National Director, Asim Ismail, said in a bulletin. She doesn't have a whole career of it. She did one, maybe two terms as a senator and one term as a secretary of state. Like, that's it. And then she was also president of the United States silver medalist one year. Isn't she had that?

Isn't this something you just pay your hard-earned dollars to go see? I would not pay $500 for a night around the town. Hillary Clinton and Christy Freeland. I tell you, that night will be fantastic, dudes. I'm not telling you that Hillary Clinton is a bad person, but if 40-odd people would rather kill themselves than hang out with you, maybe you're kind of an asshole. Maybe we should pull the audience, get crowdfunded.

Go to this and sit there and just like have a grand old time. Ask some questions. See what Christia Freeland has to say. Okay, here's the thing, though. We would probably kill ourselves afterwards. And then there'd be this whole conspiracy theory about how she had us all done in. And really, she didn't. She did not pull the trigger.

She did not tie the news. But we would just rather do that than listen to another minute of those fucking assholes telling each other how awesome they are. I don't know why it does that. Why are you going to do that to me? There we go. There we go. A little gun to sound for everybody. You kind of went off half cocked there.

Tews is on it tonight. He shows up late, folks, you know? I showed up exactly on time, which is late for me. I don't know about that. I don't know about that. It was tight. It was tight. Ooh, I like this.

George Tite hopping in as a B-Day gift. Here's a, you know what he's talking about, Tis? Birthdays? Yeah, whose birthday is it tomorrow? Is it mine? It's funny. My, my, the, the listeners know, that have been texting me already.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, maybe would have known them, but hey, that's okay, folks. Hey, I won't expect. It's okay. We, we covered this last year and I forgot then too. Just cry myself to sleep tonight. It'll be okay.

Killer Lee Clinton and the perfect spokesperson for assisted deaths. He helped. Oh, we're having fun tonight. We're having fun tonight. Oilers, game one, Wednesday, hey, how we doing? C-11 is here. You know, we might not even be able to talk about any of this anymore.

Who knows? A new federal law will require digital platforms such as Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, to contribute and promote Canadian content. The Liberals' Online Streaming Act passed its final vote in the Senate Thursday and received Royal Ascent. The bill updates the Broadcasting Act to bring online streaming platforms under the regulatory authority of the Canadian Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission. It also sets steep penalties for digital platforms that don't make Canadian content available to their users in Canada.

And a spokesperson for TikTok said in an email statement that without the legislative clarity they asked for, digital first creators are now left to simply hope that the government keeps its promise to not regulate user-generated content. So it's bullshit. They're saying that, okay, JJ McCullough had a great point to make. he was like, what if you just apply this to the gene companies? Like, you know, people who just buy clothes that are from the United States, do you require Levi's to just have a certain amount of zippers and buttons made in Canada? This is the only thing it applies to.

And it's a hollow argument. And I'm really surprised that places like Netflix didn't push back more on this. Because if you just look up Canadian Netflix shows, there's literally, you've got like, well, Fubars on Netflix. but I mean they didn't really have anything to do with that but like room blood quantum you go through all these things blown away they took over trailer park boys

they got like an extra 10 seasons and a half dozen movies of trailer park boys that are just under Netflix they filmed the show North of Calgary a little while ago you've got so many of these shows that have a bunch of production in Canada the dogs

with the they talk and there's the fire truck and the kid who goes around getting them into saving people. Oh God. Paw Patrol. Oh my goodness. How did I not know that?

It's like I couldn't even... Paw Patrol, it's either a whole bunch or totally made in Canada. I only watch that show like every single day. Yeah, and it's probably one of the most popular shows on Netflix because it's not like every show, every episode of it gets watched like at least a dozen times.

So, yeah, I mean, you've got a ton of Canadian content already there. You're right with Netflix. I could swear a few years ago, probably even longer than that, Netflix was giving so much money back to Canadian creators to have Canadian shows. They spent like a hundred million dollars on a studio in Toronto or some other backwater place, right? they did a bunch in Calgary they like I said

they just filmed the show just north of Calgary last summer like there's there's been all of this stuff and you've got like all the effects studios in Montreal and there's there's a ton of money

being spent on entertainment video entertainment in Canada I mean look at how many shows get filmed in Vancouver, right? You know, stuff like that. The X mansion, call back to Hugh Jackman,

the X mansion is on Vancouver Island. And that show was the mansion in Arrow. It was in Smallville. It's the X mansion. It's been, and so it even had a show, it showed up in Daredevil for like five seconds. It's been in so many movies. And that's in Canada.

And so you got all this stuff that happens in Canada. and they're like, oh, well, we need to have stuff happening in Canada. And the easy pushback from places like Netflix would have been, well, at what point are you going to tell us that this is enough? Like, here's how much money we've spent in Canada. How much do you think is enough? Why don't you give us a dollar amount if you think that we're not pulling our own weight already? Why do you need to put a law in place for something that's already happening? Like, it's illegal to not breathe.

I just feel, maybe I'm wrong on this, but like I feel like at the end end of the day the end user is going to get screwed because like, I think of a Canadian radio station. I got nothing against any of them. But growing up, you know, like some of the best songs you never heard or you heard only sporadically. Why? Because they had to put, they had to worry about so much Canadian content. It's like, it sounds great in theory. But like, I mean, if the best artists that you want to listen to are coming from elsewhere, it's like, then, you know, we searched out. Anyways, we find how to get there. We always find a way around this. And it ends up happening like, so where do your talent to go? They go where they need to get to to become in that conversation. And normally it doesn't happen through a government stepping in and saying, you're going to listen to this and you're going to like it because it's Canadian. That's what they did with Jan Arden.

Can you honestly look me in the eye right now, Sean, and tell me that anybody would have any idea that Jan Arden was a musician at any point in her life if it wasn't for mandated Canadian content. I'm trying to think of like who's a giant, like probably the tragically hip. Tragically hip never made it big in the States, but they're, I don't think they did. Maybe they did, but I don't remember ever seeing them go to. Colin James was huge in Canada. And yeah, he was on like, like he's in the big Loboski soundtrack and he's in some other

movies soundtracks and stuff like that, but he never took off in in the States. bands like Big Sugar. Big Sugar was huge in Canada. Big Sugar was awesome. But nobody in the States even knows who they are. Yeah, but Il Scarlet, you had that, you had that, um, that Roofer guy who was playing in bands and stuff. And he said he opened for Ill Scarlet. And they were a great band and they didn't really, big time. Anyways, yes.

Yeah, they, well, they didn't really make it out west as much as they should have. But, uh, but they didn't make it into the States at all. Yeah, yeah, anyways, we can talk about, we can go on and on and on about this. It's more interesting than the Oilers. I don't know, is it? You'd have to be high to cheer for the Oilers. I'm happy the Oilers made it into a headline, but of course Tews is putting it on here.

Rap Legend and Southern California native Snoop Dogg is letting everyone know which team is supporting in the playoffs. Of course, that's an image of him, Donning in Emmington Oilers, Jersey. You know, here's the thing, is Snoop Dogg, he's, got a very well-established appreciation for the bitches. Give me a buzzer. We already spent enough time on the oilers.

Give me a buzzer. We'll move on on the next one. Let's fucking go, baby. Go it, Sean. That's great. You're totally doing the oilers thing right there. This is the oilers thing. Well done, well done. You know what the flames?

We're going to fire the coach. We're going to fire the GM. We're fired everybody. You know, Huberos. Sox, cadres, a piece of junk. Anything else the flames want to say? No, no. The Oilers, the second round, Vegas. How about we do the mashup from Vegas Wednesday night, eh?

A little plane trip. Go down and watch the first game. I mean, now that we're allowed to go. May I watch first game? We'll see. I'm going to say probably not. But it's a great idea. But, yeah, I mean, get in your gloating while you can.

You're probably four or five games away from getting less periods than Dylan Mulvaney. awful is this going to be folks for twos when the oilers are going to the western conference finals and facing the seattle crackings less periods than dylan mulvaney oh man i'm i'm i'm so so looking yeah i caught what you're saying because i get you clever i get it dude the oilers in a week's time i'm going to be sitting here rubbing it even further into your face i'm going to be rubbing it further into your face the thirds of a hockey game just saying it's just saying all the people you hate want to live in. Can we keep this flowing, Sean?

You're holding up the whole damn show. I know, I'm having fun with it. Sutter still, I apologize to anyone is an Emmett and an Mottner's fan. I do, but Tew's being a Flames fan, and this is just perfect. Dave says Sutter still costs them $8 million to save Codry's feelings. Anyways, all the people you hate want to live in a have-noughtly province, where do I start with this? Former Calgary Mayor Nahid Nenshi

on day one, for example. This is just one of the things of like 15 things he just tore her on. And one of them that I just was like... Did he really tear her? Is he grasping? He's grasping, but one of the ones he said is on day one, for example,

she called N-vaccinated people, the most discriminated group that she's witnessed in her lifetime. And then the other one was... And he went on to say how everyone else has been more discriminated against than the unvaccinated. And then Premier Daniel Smith says the hardline Republican governors of Florida and South Dakota are models for making Alberta's life's. Alberta's little bastion of freedom, which I would take, I would take, I would take Christina or Desantis. That's just me.

Hey, what do I know? Noam is so hot. Just a smart, dark-haired woman. who just wants people to have personal freedom and speaks well to current events. And, oh, she's wonderful, Sean. I'd love to show her my YouTube thumbnail face. Anyways, there's just a lot. There was articles about how she's went to David Parker's wedding,

how she's siding with, you know, her, she's basically a hot fire, tire fire, and how she's going down and everything else. and yes. It's this crazy mismatch, misalignment of values. See, people on the left want whoever's in charge to say all the right things and believe all the right things. And people on the right want somebody who's in charge

that's just not going to fuck everything up. I don't even think you have to do left and right. I think there's people on the left, and then there's people like center left, left and right who just don't want to be fucked around with. Just leave me alone. Yeah. I think.

I mean, that's it. Just, just, just, just. You just hold on to the ship of Alberta and just steer it straight, for the love of God. Just steer it straight. And we're fine. We're literally fine. No, we got to go crashing into every possible iceberg. And if there isn't an iceberg, we're going to plow it straight headlong into the land

because that's, that's what, whatever they're after they want to do. and it just makes no sense. I was like, we can literally just steer it into the ocean blue and go off and enjoy the sunset. No, no. But yeah, so you've got Nenshi,

speaking out against them. We had John Crescian a few weeks ago. Kim Campbell was talking about her on Twitter because, yeah, Kim Campbell's just a model politician. She was prime minister for, for less time than the Oilers are going to spend

in the playoffs this year. And then Carrie Tate, who's, gee, Globe and Mail, a little bit iffy. And then, and then, yeah, so there's, there's just been like this outpouring,

I mean, Jody Gondag's been giving her flack about a bunch of stuff. And it's, it's all these people, all the people that you don't like as politicians who you think are just more worried about looking right than actually doing well in terms of governance that are,

that are doing it for all the wrong reasons and going way overboard with it. they're the ones who all want Daniel Smith to lose. Yeah. Like if you just, if she just ran on that, if she's like, well,

I mean, I'm not going to tell you who's the better person to vote for, but then she wants me to lose. She would probably get, she could probably just on that alone, boom, half dozen seats. Well,

and here's, here's some of the tweets you're talking about. This is the, the, the decibel, aka the Globes podcast on Monday. We'll release an episode on Take Back Alberta, David Parker. If you listen to the show,

you've already heard directly from David Parker, and they are, you know, after him about a whole bunch of different things. None of it specific, none of it relevant, none of it actually bad. He's literally, he's literally, you know, and I mean, we've talked about this before, right?

He's literally going around to grassroots Albertans and telling them how to, like, get involved in the election. Yeah. You want to see change? What is his big thing. It's not a spectator sport.

You have to become involved, right? So he goes, you know, oiler fans, Calgary Flames fans, you want to sit and watch. He goes, that's not the way the politics works. And that's what he's going around talking to all these different people about. And they are motivated. And they are all voters. And they are angry at the way the last three years. And can anyone blame them?

No. And so then you get all these people tying Daniel Smith to David Parker and going, The world's falling apart because we're being led by a madman controlling this woman that doesn't have her handle on the, you know, their hands on the reins. And you're like, are you people insane? Like, this is why you don't watch mainstream media. Here's, here's the other one. Premier Smith, Touts, U.S. governors, his role models for Alberta. And then Kim Campbell, like you said, said serious wingnut alert.

And it's like... They're going to bring out Sheila Cops here in a couple weeks. You know? They're going to have, well, they got Thomas Lukazek. He's vocally supporting the N. I mean, the guy whose main claim to fame was that he wasted $16,000 on a phone bill, right? Which is perfect. Like, and then he was trying to say, oh, people are surprised that I'm supporting the NDP.

No, you're a financially incompetent buffoon. You don't give a shit about taxpayer dollars. You should be running for the NDP. I hope they don't shit on you, Bob. Shit on you, boo. Shit on who? Shit hogs. Big dirt.

dirty shit hugs. Don't go to hospitals if you're sick. I wish I could make this tweet up, but here we're going to do it anyways. BC's Children's Hospital sent on a tweet, Not feeling great? Your appointment can wait. If you or your child are coming to one of our clinics but are feeling sick, please call and rebook your appointment from when you are well.

Thanks for helping keep our patients and staff safe and healthy. Yeah. I mean, this would be like if a mechanic said, Don't come in if you need an oil change. Cars broke. Don't come in. We only work on cars in perfect condition. What are I supposed to even say to this tweet?

I read it. I'm like, there's not really anywhere to go with it. It's just that, I mean, these are the same people who are striking right now and want more money. Somebody who wrote this tweet is hoping to get more money in a big raise from the government. Tough month. Tough month for the queen of beers. Here you go. A second Bud Light Marketing executive was placed on leave as the beer brand sales continue to suffer

and Dylan Mulvaney controversy in its partnership with a transgender influencer. Daniel Blake, who oversees marketing for Anheiser-Busch mainstream brands, stepped back from his role on Sunday. The Wall Street Journal reported two days earlier, the executive behind the Mulvaney Ag campaign, Alyssa Hennershide had taken leave of absence. Given the circumstances, Alisa has decided to take a leave of absence, which we support. Anheuser-Busch spokeswoman told the paper, Daniel has also decided to take a leave of absence. This comes as Bud Light's sales continue to plummet with the latest data showing a 17% drop during the week,

ended in April 15th, according to Nielsen IQ and a bump Williams consulting. The week before, sales dropped 6% in dollars and 11% in volume. Okay, so I went to my neighborhood liquor store a few days ago, picked up a couple wobbly pops. And then I was thinking about it on the way out and I went back in and I asked them. And I was like, did you guys see a drop in sales and Bud Light in the past little bit? And the manager, she was like, oh yeah. I'm like, what? Like 25%?

And she's nodding and I'm like like more than 30%, like 50%, and she's like way more. I said, then way more than 50%. She said, yep. So, I mean, that's just, you know, small town redneck liquor store. But know your target demographic, right? Yeah, I mean, it's been the talk of it. I still play Sunnihna or hockey and things like that. And it's still the conversation of topic in there.

It's if, you know, it's the butt of jokes right now. It's, I don't know. I don't know when you're going to be safe to ever walk back into hockey dressing room with Bud Light, to be honest. The Oilers dressing room. The Calgary Flames probably had it sent to them, you know, as they're golfing. You're literally taking the exact same joke that I just made. Sure, and I'm just redirecting because you guys suck and we're in the second round. I don't know what to tell you here, too.

You can come at me with this weak sauce you got. But at the end of the day, the flames are out. You mean my Bud Light. Yeah. The flames are just, you know, they get. They could probably learn a couple things from Dylan Mulvaney. You're grasping at straws and you seem like the kind of person who would drink your beer with one. Housewife speaks to the injustices caused by the liberals.

We are talking about Sophie Trudeau who's giving us a glimpse. I mean, I'm wondering who's watching this. Somewhere somebody's all over, the Trudeau's anyways. No, no, they aren't. They keep trying to make Sophie Trudeau into Michelle Obama. and it doesn't work because because of the Trudeau's and they set the life out of

she's just such a phony pretentious ahole you just look at her and she's like she's like if a Kardashian was even less deserving of the wealth and fame that's Sophie Trudeau well all right I'll read part of it here Sophie Trudeau has given us a glimpse into their temporary

home of the prime minister telling social media influences that her family has struggles like other Canadians, but she tries to make a safe place for the kids that includes a cuddle space. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family live in Rideau Cottage on number one, Sussex Drive in Ottawa on the grounds of Rideau Hall. The nearby traditional prime ministerial residence of 24 Sussex has fallen into disrepair. Yeah, it's full of rats, apparently. The container is historical, but the content is human. It's us. She explained sometimes when people say it's so unique, yes, of course, but we're just a family and we're just trying to live our lives.

That just must be so terrible to live in some 150-year-old mansion that we paid for and we paid for the upkeep for. And we provide round-the-clock security where Trudeau can't even walk down the street without having like eight-armed guards around him. But Sophie really tries to make everybody feels safe. As if the 20 people with sniper like sniper rifles and machine guns and whatever else surrounding them to

keep intruders out of the way aren't doing already. Honestly, I wish, I wish that I had been in Ottawa earlier on in Trudeau's career because you're like, oh, you're at one Sussex Drive? And then you'd just find dog shit in a paper bag.

You'd light it on firing the doorbell. I'm sure she means her children. She tries to make the children feel safe, I'm sure, and I don't want to bring children into it, other than not the children's out of it. It's just that at this point, it just feels like there's an election on the rise and they're trying to find any which way to make Trudeau seem like less of a douchebag. And I'm sorry. Do you pull up that picture? Of, Sophia? From the article. Yeah. Yeah, right, right. Yes, I can. Okay. Look at this and just ask yourself, when have you seen a picture of Sophie Trudeau looking half as

interested in Justin in the past eight years, I would say. I mean, there was that one from a couple years ago where she just like friends on kissed him. And now she's just giving him the whole doughy like, you know, the let's go eyes. Like, come on. Like this, this is a side of Trudeau that I'm sure Justin hasn't seen in a long time. and none of us have seen either. This is an absolute puff piece, and it's bullshit, and we pay for it. We certainly do.

Okay, let's get into a little bit of happy news. And that is, I like this story this week. I'm going to be honest, I watch the video and everything. Here it is. Penn Pals meet for the first time. Lamar Johnson and Guinea scrapping struck up a fast friendship and corresponded constantly for decades, while Johnson was in prison, serving time for a murder he didn't commit. When he was freed, they finally met for the first time.

In 1995, Johnson was convicted of a fatally shooting a man and received a life sentence. A couple years later, a minister of Scrappin's church handed her a letter. It was from Johnson addressed to anyone who would write back. The two strangers struck up a fast friendship and corresponded constantly over the next two and a half decades. Johnson always claimed he did not commit the murder, and 28 years later, his conviction was overturned. On February 14, 2023, Johnson was released from prison at 49 years old. And a few weeks later, he met Scrappin for the first time. And so she's 80 years old now.

And pretty, pretty, I'll bring up the picture here. A pretty cool, just a pretty cool story, right? So 95 and now he's 49. So this has been like his entire adult life. Yes. He's been in jail as a murderer. And he's innocent. It even says in the video, the CBC, the CBS documentary or a little short clip from it that the actual murder came forward.

Murder came forward and claimed that it was him and everything else. And, you know, now he's out and you're like, holy shit, man. Why even bother at this late stage in the game? You know what I mean? What do you mean? like you got away with murder 30 years ago and and now and someone else has been serving time for it. Like unless you're there to just rub salt in his wound or something. Like about the fact that you completely destroyed this man's entire life?

He seemed, he seemed pretty upbeat in that, uh, in that video. See, if you watch a video on available. The uploader has not made this video available in your country. I agree. And so then I searched it out.

I actually YouTubeed it and a couple of, things because I'm like, I got to watch this. So I actually found it. Bill C-11, right? Yeah, I mean, if Tuse maybe would have done his homework and watched the video, I mean, it's like, have I been rubbing off on you or what?

Phrasing. Anyways, it was good. I think it's great that he got out. Absolutely. And then the fact that, yeah, he spent like the whole time just talking to this wonderful old lady.

Yeah. Anyways, happy news for the day. That's it for another week. It looks like Tews is going to be cheering for a little Seattle and Florida. And Sean will be doing a little cheering for New Jersey and Emmington Oilers. Either way, it's going to be a fun week next week, a mashup 53. Hey, we are into May, which means election night coverage is going to be coming up awfully darn quick. I talked to, you know, last week we brought up Nick von Dubbs.

I thought I better call him, so I called him. He's in for it. So we got Nick Fondubbs, you know, Terrick Alnaga. We got Chris Sims. Yeah, Marty up north. Vance Crow is going to be, we're going to be going live to Missouri to talk about the implications of the provincial election. We're going to have, what we're trying to tell you all, folks,

is we're going to have a lot of fun on, I assume. It's going to be an all-star role. And we're going to be covering all-a-all-all-all-all-all-all-all-all- of the interesting things that happened during the election campaign, some of the lead up. Oh, shoot. I had another thing I wanted to talk about tonight. I'll maybe it'll come up next week. What do you got?

What do you got? Oh, no. So has anybody looked at the elect, like the NDP election signs? I can't say I have. Okay. So all of the incumbents are saying reelect, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's different than last election because in 2019, even though they were going for re-election. They knew that they had fucked up so badly in terms of being the elected representatives

that a bunch of them just had elect so-and-so on their lawn signs, even though they were going up for re-election. They didn't want to admit that they were the people in charge for the last four years and they were hoping they could just sneak by on the fact. Yeah, yeah. And so now they're, now they're actually going for re-elect for the incumbents, but they think enough times past that people have forgotten how much they fucking suck between 2015 and 2019. But in 2019, at least they were self-aware enough to realize that they had done such a poor job that they did not want to take ownership of the job they did. They just wanted to get the job again without actually pointing out how much they suck.

Well, it's going to do it for Mashup 53 because I really, you know, like at this point, I could play another clip of the shit hawks. but the NDP just... What would you like to say? They're ridiculous? Well, I mean, they're not a serious party, we could say, maybe. But here's the thing, is that these are the kind of interesting things. Not this one specifically, probably.

I don't know, maybe we'll throw it out. But there's been so many interesting things about this election, about previous elections, about these people leading up to it, that we're going to be talking about. Rather than trying to fill the time by explaining to you for the next. 19th time how a goddamn map works. I get the fact that if you watch the CBC, that's big brain work. But we expect more of our listeners, if we're going to provide it.

There's a lot our listeners probably need to know about that map. You know, blue means something, orange means something else. I'm going to have a healthy debate on this. Obviously, the blue parts land. All right. Well, either way, I'm excited about it. You know, I was actually talking to Dustin about it this morning. I'm like, you know, I think the it's starting.

It's May. And, you know, we got to get things ironed out here over the next couple weeks. So as we do that, more and more things are going to come out, and people are going to hear more and more about it. But election night coverage coming Tuesday mashup, a version of it. And we hope you will tune in with us as we do that. It should be a fun night. The Ritz got a drop, actually, if it hasn't officially dropped,

have they officially made 29th the election day? No, that's what I was looking for. before we started the show and I hadn't seen it yet and I thought they had to announce today but they don't all right well I don't know there are a bunch of slackers in government no matter who gets in but we'll have it

we'll be ready for you and that's it folks 11 oh it says Alberta election is called Calgary set as a key battleground six hours ago Calgary Herald sorry the election was six hours ago no it's set Okay

Is it set for a date? Hours after dropping the writ for May 29th Provincial Election. There we go. There we go. May 29th, tune in. It's a Monday night. Fire it up.

You've got a pub. Oilers are still going to be playing in the playoffs. I'm going to be rattling him all about it all night long. And on top of that, we're going to talk about some provincial election. I mean, it's going to be electric. You're not one I'm going to miss it. Tuse is probably going to be scratching his head most of the night. And Tos, Sean's going to be having a little bit fun interviewing different people.

There's going to be so many oilers tears just flying around everywhere that you're going to have cracking just swimming in on them. We might have to have a little, you know, if Seattle's made it that far, we might have to buy a bottle of cracking to, you know, just, you know. Cracking rum. That's right. It's tasty stuff. It is tasty stuff.

And they're not paying me to say that. No, they're not paying me to say that. Either way. Either way, that's, bash of 53, I could, I could rant on about different things. Either way, we'll catch up to you next week, folks. All right, see ya.