Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #55

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines with special guest Shane Getson. This week's main sponsor is Ironjet Exteriors You can contact them at 780-677-0202 Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

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No, I appreciate it, guys. And yeah, I'm all Twitter with a trepitation here and all the tremble to be part of this. It's pretty cool to be in the mashup. I've listened to you guys for a while and feel pretty honored to be on here just to see how this goes. I can't wait. I can't wait to buzzer you because when he gets too long in these answers, I'm going to be like, do it. Do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyways, I'm excited about it. I've been buzzing two's for too long. It's kind of wore off at times. Maybe just quit buzzing me all the time. If I didn't, we'd be here four hours. Let's talk a few things here before we get started. One of the things with Albertans has been the wildfires. We're going to talk about it right off the hop.

I just wanted to get your, you've been boots on the ground chain, and I'm sure Tews has a couple things on his mind as well. But wildfires, what do you've been seeing? What do you want to get across to the people tuning in? Don't be stupid because we love you. How about that? You know, Mother Nature has only started a few of these. We have some accidental fires,

and then you've got a fire bug out there, quite frankly, or a number of them. If you see anything suspicious, report it to police, even if it's the most innocuous thing, make sure that we can take care of that. everyone else fire smart fire safe your houses make sure that you're doing that minute area's one house was fire smarted next one right beside it and the subdivisions cooked to the ground the people that took the time to fire smart their houses they

still have something to come home to it's yeah it's it's pretty bad out there in a bunch of areas um I guess for the listeners if they're wanting to do anything other than don't be stupid uh is there anything else they can do uh they can help it along Shane uh as far as you know people throughout Alberta maybe even Saskatchew and BC, you know, mashups got some interesting listeners from across the country that have been paying attention here. And I even was talking to a guy out of Montana

that they're getting in the news of the Alberta wildfires as well. Yeah, so firstly, this is a word of caution to everybody. It's not just up north. It's not just, you know, far away. This is right in your own backyards right now. So when humans are starting this accidentally or otherwise, then anybody's suspect or, you know, basically a risk to this. So the basic things,

get the combustibles away from your house. Make sure you don't have any fuel sources or anything around to it. Get some green space in between you and that area. Clean up your underbrush, those type of things. And then quite frankly, watch out for each other. And then again, don't take unnecessary risks. Right now it's Tinder fire dry out there and we're spread thin all over the place. So those are some of the basic ones.

It sounds really simple, but only you can prevent these fires. Take it from Smokey the Bear. I don't know all else to say right now. And I wonder if there isn't somebody. do you want to tip the cap too? Because I mean, you're, once again, boots on the ground. You've been seeing tons of people putting in the extra effort and, you know, going above and beyond. Is there, you know, something that sticks out that you saw or have, you know, been a part of that you're like, people should know this is going on? Well, folks from Alberta and Saskatchewan are

cut from the same cloth in this regard. Just anybody who stepped up to help out total friends and strangers and otherwise, it's been pretty astounding. We've, you know, had our full court press with our resources. You had all the volunteer fire departments that have been just doing it nonstop. You've got farmers stepping up, shopkeepers, people that aren't from those areas opening up their houses for them. It's just been wild. And again, the folks in the seniors' homes, there was a couple ladies there on Friday when Todd and I were down that two weeks ago already. That literally these folks were out there making sure the seniors were on the bus to get them out to Edson and Hinton to evacuate them while their own properties were under notice to be

evacuated. They took care of the seniors first and got them out there. And again, thanks to all the friends and neighbors and other provinces and states that sent us resources. We needed them. And thank you for being there when we did. Tuesday, I don't mean to, I've been asking everything. If you want to ask him something on the fires, otherwise, I'm going to switch over to, uh, I'm just sitting here listening and I'm like, this is, this is why Sean does what he does, right? Uh, you're totally knocking it out of the park. When you said Todd, did you mean Todd Lowen? Yeah. Correct. So it was prior to the election being called, and I managed to talk myself through a road blockade to get out there to check in Evansburg. And because we were evacuating that little hamlet, and that's in my area, and was some of Evansburg were there.

And Wild was just down the road where I grew up on the other side of Chip Lake. So I'd let Todd know what was going on. I was trying to get updates to see what was happening with the fire so I could get in contact with the elected out there and coordinate the best I could. And yeah, Todd, he was only about a half an hour on my heels. he was out there right afterwards. He swung by there on his way back, hitting up north. So him and I were out there helping folks,

doing what we could. And, you know, ironically, where we were getting beaten up in the media for not posting a bunch of selfies or showing that we were physically there. And I kind of made a little bit of a 30-second clip saying, we weren't doing that because we're actually doing something.

It wasn't for the photo credits. It's standing up for friends and neighbors and whoever when you need it. So again, really appreciative of Todd being out there with us, too, and helping folks get settled. Well, I'll say this. I haven't exactly been friendly towards Todd

on the show. But the fact that, you know, I mean, he's not running again. He's basically I'm guessing that he's just done in two weeks based more or less, right? You know, and that's it. And just, he could just

coast for the next two weeks. Todd's running again. You, Todd. I thought he wasn't. Todd Loan, not Travis. I think he might be talking about Travis Day. Oh, shoot. Yes. Sorry. Yeah, no, Todd Loan. And he, and Part of the other thing, too, is we stood up, so Premier as well, like Danielle, I was up at that weekend, literally.

So Sunday night, 1130, I'm meeting with the mayors from three different counties, the fourth mayor from another county, meeting with Mark Smith as well, the MLA for Drayton Valley, Devon. Going over what was requested from Brausoo County had Yellowhead Parkland and Lax St. Ann, figuring out how we could put an emergency request to call for a provincial emergency, shooting off text at 11.30 at night, getting responses back 8 o'clock the next morning. We're on a call 8.30. I'm telling them that before they go into this emergency standing committee, here's what is the feedback is. By 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock,

the pressers out, and we declared a provincial state of emergency. So if anything I can say is that anyone in these areas, they've been extremely reactive. All the levels of government am involved in this, like when I got a premier on speed dial and I'm getting texts back from her chief of staff or otherwise. And then Danielle wanted to be out there. She wanted to be out there. wanted to see firsthand what happened. So, you know, we took her to a safe area, cleared it with Parkland, and then we got to see firsthand what these guys were into.

And, yeah, we're at hat software for being boots on the ground. Really just honest, genuine people want to do what they can. Well, I appreciate you giving us an update to Shane on the wildfires. I know that's near and dear to a lot of listeners' hearts and certainly here in the province and everything. I chuckle about Tews makes it up, Todd and Travis. You know what, it's funny. It isn't the first fan here, right?

It isn't the first time I've done it. He's been celebrating since like 11 o'clock last night. You can't wipe the grin off his face, folks. And he's thinking about getting the topic number three already. And I'm celebrating what? What's he celebrating for? No, no, no. I just, I don't know what we're talking about.

Somebody hit a whole one probably. Before we get to the next topic, though, I want you guys to know that I've just, I'm tired of the infighting. I'm tired of all the bickering back and forth. And I am ready to come on board and help. you along to cheer the Oilers to this Stanley Cup victory. Now, when's the next game?

Probably about, I don't know, September. Anyways. What do you mean, Sean? Do you want to give us an election update, or twos, do we just slide them into the first two since they're about the NDP anyways? And now, Tuesday. See, like, see folks, this is what's going on

this week. Hey, Tews is so giddy. to throw, you know, Shane and his defense, I've been railroading them with the oilers, oilers, you know? And so I'm like, ooh, I had to put on my big boy pants today because I knew that twos would be raring to go with something about the flames, probably, the Calgary, you know, I don't know. We could probably just touch on the election and how it's shaping up real quick.

Sure, yeah. Well, I mean, as I was talking with Shane, what was that, Friday night? And I think one of the things all of us want to know, I've never ran an election before, you're running again for the second time. How's, you know, how are things going? Because, I mean, we're going to get to a whole bunch of it, but we're not in the thick of things. We're not on the inside of the UCP, you know, kind of staring at the orange, whatever we're going to call them. But anyways, what have you been seeing? What do you want the people to know?

Well, basically, that we're not out of this hunt. I think if anything, we're actually coming on pretty strong right now. So when the opposition has to start throwing things out there and making it stick to the wall in mainstream media, you know, God bless them, they're doing most of the heavy lifting for them. It's from items that aren't related in anything to policy. It's these news bites, sound clip, sabotage type things. When you're talking to folks on the door, literally, it's dispelling a bunch of myths that have been put out there. And even so much, like this is wild. we actually had to put out a website that says

NDP lies.ca. So you can keep a ticker tape of all the lies and then the backstop for it. Folks in my area, I never take anything for granted because it's like being a father. You've kind of done your work nine months in advance. And once you get to the delivery room,

that's up to somebody else. You're along for the ride, and that's how the election is. But the positive, I think we've got some really positive response in my area, Calgary from what I'm hearing, is that it's actually pretty decent at the doors. People are starting to take traction here.

The big issues can be addressed, but let's talk about the big issues rather than this BS back and forth smear stuff that's in the media. That's kind of what people are getting a little bit tired of. I had my first debate today, too, which was interesting because it didn't really surround policy. It was a bunch of planted questions

that were just literally sound bites. It was wild. Okay, well, I got to correct you a tiny bit, I think, if I made it on that, Shane. You said that they're not running on policy. And in fact, they did promise that they were going to get rid

of the paper health cards and go to plastic ones at a cost of only $46 million. And so you're saying, you're saying it's just a big smear campaign. And I'm saying they're coming in and they're swinging for the fence. Oh, guns ablazant too. Guns of blazing. And they did pick

up something from the Stephen Harper conservatives where they were going to give credits for folks putting their kids in sports, which I can obviously get behind that one. So yeah, they got a couple of things out there. I stand corrected. I apologize. Well, let's start then.

We're going to keep Shane in for a couple just in regards to the election. The Wildfire Update. Tews is talking about a tweet that was put out. A real leader there meeting evacuees, the NDP posts of the same picks, but without Smith inferring only Nottley was present. Unfortunately, for the NDP, these fires are only politics. And so you can see the NDP people. put out a picture showing knotly but didn't make any mention of anyone else being there.

Of course, you can see that both people running for Premier of Alberta are sitting there meeting with people. Yeah, David Staples called me up for a story, and it was because somebody caught my post on media where I was actually running my dozer in my own place, and then putting in a firebreak. So apparently that was a big story when, I don't know, for whatever reason, I don't know if it even made air or anything else, but it was weird to get that interview. And then he was asking literally about this moment, because again, this is right before the Premier actually came out to Antwistle. So her next stop after this was meeting us at noon in Gainford and going out to sight.

So when David asked me about this moment, I'm guardedly optimistic. I said, you know, it was nice to see both leaders out there putting first things first, first principles, which is the people. So those are the people that are meeting literally at the Sportex that are displaced from Drayton Valley from Brazoo County. and then to see something like this that is only one-sided, yeah, well, I guess my guarded optimism was quickly relieved. Okay, well, here's a question for you. As someone who's sat in the legislature for the last four years, who is the most attractive MLA and why is it Nate Horner?

I don't swing that way, buddy, so I'm not sure what you're picking up. Calgary Flame fan? I don't, I flame it. Oh, I'm not wearing the pregame jersey. No, I'm going to get in real trouble for saying that because we're more three guys joking around. Yeah, I can't honestly answer that one. Okay. All right.

That's what Tews has tonight? What do you think that's what Tews has tonight? Tews talked about a few other things. I mean, this isn't what he led with. You know, you know, fun. You know what? You know what? I thought, you know, I was coming in here.

I got my, I'm like, okay, Tews is going to be swinging for the fence. instead he's going, I'm going to change out the paper cards for $47 million. That's what you're coming with tonight. All right, Tuse, let's have Adder here. Well, I mean, that's just the kind of classic stuff we've come to expect. This is the stuff we talk about every week. The whole NDP is not a serious party thing. Like, this is what they're building their election on,

is spending $46 million on paper or going to plastic from paper. So now it's just, it's this completely extraneous thing. because all you really need is the number and then to verify that it's your address and that's where you are. I haven't used my paper card for, I don't know, I washed it maybe like six months after I got it. And I've never needed it since. I've never had to get a replacement. It's the kind of thing that would have been a great thing to do in the year 2001 and now is completely pointless, which I mean is kind of what they are. The other thing I want to say, election prediction, Jagmeet Singh.

is basically going to go radio silent for the next two weeks. Because I guarantee you that Rachel Notley is going to say, listen, dickface. You are going to sit down and shut up and not ruin this for everybody. And hopefully if we can win, then you can just start running your idiot mouth afterwards. Oh, and the other thing, I'm calling it now, Thomas Lukasik is going to run for leader of the NDP

after Rachel Notley steps down. Okay, so Tuse has jumped on to number two. He just bypassed number one. Didn't even get a buzzer in, but I'll hop on to what he's talking about. The Alberta NDP wants to finally do away with those flimsy paper health care cards. If elected, they propose spending $46 million to design, produce, and distribute secure polycarbonate health care cards that won't be a bender or tear. Not even just regular plastic. They're going with the bulletproof stuff.

That's right. Which actually might save you from a hospital trip if you ever. want to take the train down town. And I can honestly say, guys, this is exactly what people are concerned about right now when I talk to them. You know, they don't care about the economy. They don't care about a robust health system. They don't care about educating their kids. They sure don't care about, you know, policies that are dictated by Pierre, or not Pierre, sorry, Justin Trudeau that's coming out here.

They don't care about all the rising cost of inflation. What they really care about? This is what they ask me. Can you please do something with my flimsy health care card? They do not. Oh, yeah. That's exactly what they say. Why would the NDP be doing this? Otherwise, like, this is how far to touch they are. And so that's my frustration jumping on with what Tews is saying. So they make a big splash about this. This is their big idea. The other one, all they say is we're going to do it better.

Well, show me how. You know, if you look at energy policy, today it was wild. I had the candidate talking about how they were doing such a bang-up job with TMX and how they got involved with Trudeau to make sure that this pipeline project can go through. Now, my backgrounds, I actually, you know, worked in the pipeline industry. So it used to cost us about a million and a half, two million dollars per kilometer. What you're pushing at right now with TMX is about $40 million per kilometer. This is the biggest flipping boom doggle ever when it comes to pipelining. And they're doing the victory lap saying what they've done. This is how it would have touched there.

It's absolutely wild. That's okay. Why are you guys giving them a free pass on it in social media and stuff like that? How come you guys aren't pushing back on, you know, just fact checking and saying that the only reason why the federal government bought it was because it was about to be canceled after TC walked away from Energy East and the Northern Gateway got unilaterally canceled after the NAB recommendation that it be approved. And that it had become such a hostile environment for investment that the feds had to get it. and they basically said that Rachel Notley had to impose the carbon tax at her own political peril. And now she's trying to play that off as some kind of a win, this thing that's billions of dollars late and several years over budget.

Honestly, it's blue on black at this point. Like people hear it, but they don't believe it. It's the same as going to their power bills and they're seeing the cost of it. And it's like the rest was going, yeah, I wish somebody would have told you that shutting down clean coal out here would have been bad idea. Oh yeah, we did. The PPAs. That's the other thing. Actually, I wanted to talk

last week about that on a Twitter space. I was like, you know, you've got, and then the NDP just put out this big long thread about how the UCP have made the utility costs so unaffordable. And you're like, but

you just, you leave them the empty net. Why are you guys just leaving them the empty net? Why are you not calling them out and saying, look, you cost us $1.89 billion dollars in in um contract clauses because you are either a too stupid to read them be too stupid to understand them or see too stupid to grasp the ramifications of them well there's two different levels at this you know you've got the central campaign which is kind of everybody working as a team you know like the oilers do and you have everybody kind of working on that same

sheet and then you've got the franchise which is literally um each one of our own um The messaging varies constituency to constituencies. So in my backyard where we actually shut in the power plants, where you lost 800 jobs, that stings a lot more than the folks that are so disconnected from how they actually receive the electrons out of their wall socket. So with them, they just want to know the cost of it. What are you doing to fix the cost, the affordability? But when we start going back where we're strong, I hate to say it, it kind of glosses over. People kind of glaze over on it because they're more concerned about all the,

attack items that are out there. I spend probably 20% to 30% of my time going, no, we're not shutting down hospitals. What are you talking about? No, we're not against public education. Where are you getting this from? Like, this is the type of stuff that we do it. When I talk about jobs and economy and I talk about the corridors and those things, everyone's like their chins are hitting the floor going, why didn't we hear about this? I don't know. We've been telling you about it. We've been putting it out there. It just doesn't get any traction. Oh, and by the way, the NDP voted 100% against what we're talking about. And then, that's the next jaw drop. Are you kidding me? No, no, they are. They did not support this motion

in the house and then never got out in front of it. So it's really weird in each different area. Can I just say Sarah Lindquist got what you're saying there, too, is, oh my word, bursting out laughing, Nate Hart. Thank you. So, there you go. So are you serious? Like, Nate's a good looking guy. He's like the Marlboro man, except a little bit shorter. Like, Nate's an awesome guy. Well, there's been several Marlboro man over the years as he's really. harder than all of them? Well, I'm just guessing. I'm just guessing.

I'm thinking of Marlboro man's at least six two. It's a little bit shorter than I. Do you want to show the polls and everything twos? Do you want to bring that tweet up? Do you want to go down that rabbit hole for a few minutes? Okay, okay, yeah, just real quick. So, 338's got,

as of yesterday, had the NDP at 46 and the UCP at 41. Interesting thing, though, there's five writings that are, within two percentage points or one percentage point. And so it's interesting because I think it's fair to say that, sorry, my, I'm talking with my hands too much. And if I don't move my mouse, my screen shuts off.

I don't know if I want to wait for a second there or not. But so, yeah, you've got, you know, lesser slave lakes, one of them. And I think that one's interesting. I really think that you guys should have. have dealt with Pat Rain far more harshly when he was called out by so many different community members. And, you know, he's not running again. And I think that to be honest, at least for the people in, in that area, you can make a decent argument that the UCP was probably more concerned with having somebody in the seat than having somebody who represents the community.

Yeah. You're throwing the puck in the corner. I'm not. sure if I'm going to go chase after it. Fair enough. So, again, on this one, I will say, I will say this, Shane, before you go. I don't know if we could ever, how many, did we not put out on Twitter? Would an NDP guy come on and just crickets, you know? So you got to give Shane credit for coming. Oh, absolutely.

And catching a couple, I call them, you know, high heat, you know. But hey, I'm interested now. You got me stuck here. So let's roll. Yeah, so I'll take these ones, no question. but I'll just predicate it with that. So the only predication I have is I'm not perfect either. You know, there's been lots of stuff that I've done that have caused some harm or undue attention to my urban colleagues.

You know, the firearms files, one of them jumping in my truck and doing a lap around Edmonton and a convoy, it was another one. So again, in Pat's circumstance, would I say he was the strongest person and the best representation in those areas? I probably would have done things differently, but it is, what it is and we're at where we're at right now. What it's up to is that candidate in that area to make sure that he takes everything that was good was done, takes the things that weren't good that were done, address those head on and say how he would do things differently. I know that Pat's staff did everything they could during that change between, you know, being unceremoniously asked to leave caucus and then that weird part where it was kind of an independent coming back in.

So I know that staff worked like the Dickens up there to do it. And the lady that ran that office actually ran in the by-election and lost by one or two votes. So, or not in the by-election, I should say, but in the nomination contest. And her parents happened to be constituents of mine just down the road. So those are the personal connections to that area. Scott needs to know that, you know, he's in tough up there. The lady that ran before actually was a cabinet minister who ran that seat. And you're right.

Like the way things happened up in that constituency wasn't easy for a lot of people to swallow. But they've got to figure that out and they've got to get behind the new candidate up there and make sure that he addresses all the blunders perceived or otherwise that maybe did take place. Address it head on, be honest and open with the folks. And typically outburns or respect that the pussyfoot's around the outside edge, it would be a little bit different. Well, I mean, it's, I think it was one of the ones that was 1%. And interesting, I think all three of us could probably agree that the polls tend to understate the right wing support right up until the day before the election.

And they're like, oh, yeah, we nailed it. And so if you've got five writings that are within two percentage points, right now at the moment, I would call that probably a slight UCP win, especially given the fact that you get such small. sample sizes. When you're looking at, you know, a polls of 800 and some people across 80 some writings, you're, you know, and then they don't round evenly to 10. You know, you kind of wonder exactly how it all comes out, right? Yeah, it's all voodoo. Like, honestly, when I look at who does these polls and the reports, and again, being a guy who ran major projects and set up control systems and forecasted and did all that, um, you know, first thing I look is, okay, where's your baseline? Who are you actually checking with. Does that baseline change? What's the flavor of the day? Who did you reach out to?

Who's the polling group that's doing it? So there's a little bit of different black art that comes with it. And I think I'll share this with you, boys. Like, honestly, with me, I still don't know how I'm going to do in my area. Some poll tells me something. I don't know until the dealin's done until those votes are counted. So I'm always going to hit it hard, do what I can, get out and see as many people. And quite frankly, dispel a bunch of BS that's out there and tell them what we're doing good. We've got a really good track record. I mean, even when you look at, we went through a leadership race and we got a new premier in place in five months.

We knocked it out of the park in the last five months. You've got a battle-hardened team that just went through a triple black swan event. No BS, right? A lot of us didn't have experience, I would say, 80% were brand new politicians. The remaining crew that went through that, a total crash in the economy, we had a pandemic, and we had oil at negative values, and we're coming out on top with two balanced budgets. there's not going to be much that can knock us off our skates, notwithstanding a huge budget or policy miss of going from paper to plastic on a card.

I mean, I can't compete with that, but everything else we did was pretty solid. And then the other one, too, is if it weren't for the fires taking place out in my area, and, you know, us forgetting about the election, quite honestly, you would have seen the candidates probably in these stronger positions, these rural riding spending a heck of a lot more time, helping out our colleagues up north and helping up the ones down south. So that's part of it. In the next couple weeks here, I'm going to hit my doors as hard as I can, see as many people,

and also show up at some nice debates and be there for my fellow candidates and help them on the doors as well. Are the fires going to cause any delays in specific riotings? Have you guys ruled that out yet? Yeah, no, I don't believe so. So once you pull the pin and you call the election, it kind of goes into elections, Alberta. They're driving the bus. And it would have to be something massive to have those. what I'm telling folks is that there's special ballots so you can literally right now today up until 8 o'clock go down and vote.

That's what's happening as a special ballot. We just had our meeting and on away at the town or at the hall there and the ladies aren't going to turn anyone away. Again, with the concerns of fires and everything else, everyone's got some pretty valid reasons to go there in person. Advanced polling will take place as well. That'll happen. So if anyone's who's displaced, they can at least get to those areas, those regions and do it. And then what I would suggest is don't wait until voting date, especially in the areas of the fires here that we're having. Just get out there.

If you know who you're going to pick, vote. If you're undecided, get a hold of those campaign offices and grill them. You know, I show up at my debates. I put on, even today when I'm dressed with a cowboy shirt, I've got a cowboy jacket on because I'm a suit, so to speak, because I'm going up for a job interview. Interview these people, grill them, make sure you can hit them, ask them the question, see if they flinch. And make sure you're getting it directly from the horse's mouth, as it were. Well, I appreciate you coming on and I'm watching the time. It's funny, if this was on the podcast, which I mean it is, me and Tuesday is here for the next two hours and clearly about election, I'm like, as we're doing this, I'm like, why haven't we been doing this since May 1?

We should have had different candidates on from all over because this is, I'm one of a lot of new things tonight. But at the same time, I don't know, unless Tuesday is going to argue with me, I look at some of the headlines we want to get through and everything else. and I go, shall we move on to the next one and then kick Shane out so that he doesn't have to partake in some of our shenanigans and everything else? Unless Tuesday, you're going to talk me off that because I've been enjoying the conversation. I think this is good. I mean, Shane's a really easy guy to talk to, and I feel like somebody has to jump in at some point or it'll just keep going. Well, I know people will wake up tomorrow. It'll be Tuesday, and it'll be Tuesday mashup interviews Shane gets in.

They'll be like, WTF, boys, what's going on? Who knows? Maybe we'll get a whole ton of text saying you should have given them more time. It's our show. We could do what we want, right? And if I get lengthy boys, like, give me the buzzer. I'm ready for it. Yeah, you haven't even been buzz in them. I buzzered. Nobody listened. It's funny. Well, here. All right. Well, oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay. Okay. All right. So enough about the election. Let's move on to the next thing. Okay. So that's enough out of you, Shane, about the election. dry sidel enters dry spell what what do you got twos you know here's here's here's your i'm gonna put you on the clock you got a minute all right where you go i'm just incredibly disappointed i expected big things from the oilers i thought that this was their year they really looked sharp coming into the playoffs and then

you had dry sidle exceeding all expectations except for when it came to winning and it just broke my heart to see such a hardworking, wonderful team so full of talent struck down too early by the Vegas. The Golden Knights? Come on. Shit on you. Who? Shithawks. Big dirty. Shethox. You know, he's got to make fun of it, folks, because the flames didn't even get to the dance. Blames didn't lose a single game all playoff. You know what they did? They canned their GM.

Shortly after they can their coach. You know, they're out there catching a tan, swinging the clubs, you know, probably putting it in the bush or the pond or whatever else. And we'll beat you there too. The Oilers should be golfed right away too. They will be really good at it. I tell you what, we're going to be fantastic. The low score wins.

Common sense, Alberta mom commented. Lots of volunteers working very hard in the Eminton UCP campaigns. I'm sure Shane can attest to all the volunteers. and she said, Shane, I think you're shooing, and I think a lot of us here believe that as well. So there you go, Shane. We appreciate you coming on and doing this. Any final thoughts before we let you go? And, you know, best luck here in the coming weeks.

No, I appreciate the commentary and the chance you guys really do. And let's go oilers. There's always next year they did a good run, and I'm pretty proud and happy to see that. The only thing that would have made me happier is if we would have had a longer, run for the Battle of Alberta because that's always just so in a way. Yeah, well, I mean, the other team's got to pull their weight, you know, Shane. Like, they actually have to make the playoffs in order for us to have a Battle of Alberta. They didn't get the memory.

It's funny how things flipped. Like, there almost wasn't even a Battle of Alberta for what, probably 10, 15 years because it just wasn't fun or entertaining. I mean, they may as well be playing, playing, like, you know, against some Adam hockey players or something like that. Like, I'm pretty sure that Flames look like Adam hockey players, yeah. I'm pretty sure that a couple years ago,

a couple years ago, they actually had to go to the Oilers dressing room and help them do the skates up. Tie up the skates. The bunny goes around the tree and then it goes in the hole and you pull it tight. You guys are going to do great. You sure you don't want Velcro?

Is that way that Calgary switch to Velcro skates? Is that with the secret wizard? I thank God I just said Velker right ahead of you. Oh, goodness. Well, I appreciate. Oh, hey, one thing before we kick Shane off, May 29th. Yes. Covered here on the mashup. We're going to have Shane Getson join us for, you know, I don't know.

We haven't figured out exactly. A recap at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, yeah. Pretty exciting. Yeah.

Yeah. We're just, you know, once, once it seems, you know, roughly, you know, when when your writing gets more or less decided, we're going to go live to Shane after he's done his victory speech or whatever. And then, you know, just get a few. thoughts and that'd be really cool. I appreciate that guys. Honestly, I do. And again, I can't thank you enough for the venue of coming on here. You know, I don't want to be a politician or anything else. But yeah, this one's this this this one's the clinch game. Honestly, I've told folks in our area that make no mistake, what you have is liberal Justin Trudeau,

Jagmeet Singh, joined at the hip and a little marriage contract that they have there. And you've got the NDP here in Alberta, 100% hookline and sinker in that. You join the one ticket to ride. It's the same party, you guys. It's in their constitution. It's in their constitution. You have to get it. And this one, it's almost like we've notched that tree.

We've got it kind of going the right way. We're getting this big headwind. And I need some hands to push it the right direction. If we miss this one, we literally, Western Canada Falls. I don't know else to say it. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the ones holding it up. We lose Alberta again. Good luck, Irene.

Like, good night. turn out the lights. It's a serious one. Don't take it by chance. Fair enough. I appreciate you coming on and doing this, Shane. We're going to let you out before we get too into the rabbit hole as we like to do here. Either way, we look forward to May 29th, seeing the Shane Getson reelected, and we'll have

you on the chat about a few things that night. That'll be a lot of fun. Sounds great. Take care, boys. See, yep. Okay. Well, Shane Getson coming on. And, you know, taking up some time, you know.

Oh, it was time well spent. This is going to be a long episode. Should we get going on it? Well, we've knocked off a couple things, you know? Yeah, we have. It feels lonely here. I mean, no offense, Sean, but I just, I feel like. Oh, goodness.

Tailgates against Trudeau. Shall we begin the Tuesday mashup, how we kind of get going here? Yeah. Here we go. So let's tailgates for, against Trudeau, not for Trudeau. What am I talking about? I'm sure, like, I don't know who, if you're not on Twitter, I guess, then you haven't seen this video. But this is a bushels per acre.

A fuck Trudeau tailgate party got held in Oakville, Ontario. Correct. Which I have no idea where Oakville is, but I know where Ontario is. And so they just had it in the Canadian tire parking lot. And I think it's great. they should have had a few grills set up, a few cool coolers full of wobbly pop, all that fun stuff,

like make it a real honest tailgate. So I feel like that was kind of a missed opportunity. But I love the concept and just the fact that you just, when have you ever heard of something like this, a fuck Trudeau party? And then just to open it up into public, have all these people show up in a parking lot, waving Canada flags,

which is the most anti-Trudeau thing you could possibly imagine. imagine and it seemed to have been a bit of a success. And then now you've got all these leftists who are like, oh, I can't believe Canadian Tire didn't stop this. I'm going to boycott them. Bitch, you probably don't even own a hammer. What are you going to buy it to Canadian Tire in the first place? Honestly, like this whole left boycott of Canadian Tire is about as pointless as my boycott of Bud Light.

We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive. There we go. Exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one pathetic loser. It doesn't get old.

Liberal stronghold crumbling. The federal opposition conservatives have widened there. I'm going to pop this up while I talk here. There's the Nanos poll. Well, anyways, federal opposition conservatives have widened their lead over other parties when it comes to ballot support and leadership with the minority liberals now threatened in the areas where strongholds for them in previous election, according to the latest nano research tracking, a private member's bill from on. And then this is the second one. So there's that. There's the poll.

So you can see the conservatives. Scroll down to the map, though. The map is where it's at. But keep talking. Well, I was going to go. Then there's the second. the second article talking about Kathy Wagonthal, who's been a guest on the podcast before.

Yeah. So on one side, on your right-hand side, you've got the way it looked after the election. On the left-hand side, you've got how it looks now. And the black is, the blacker it is,

the more of a toss-up it is, I guess. And so, yeah, like this is the area that the liberals win and live to fight another day from. And it's got more gaps in it. It's got more gaps in it than Joe Cece's braces or lack thereof.

I should have planned something for this. It's interesting to see it shrinking. I think that kind of makes a few of us feel like, holy crap, maybe they are going to lose finally. I don't know. I mean, we've been saying for years, like at what point, you know, is too much too much. You know, how much corruption,

how much Chinese interference, how much sweetheart deals, how much conflict of interest, how much baiting Canadians against each other, how much stuttering and speaking moistly and drink box water bottle sort of thing is it going to take before you stop voting for that fucking guy? And apparently for some people,

it's getting close. That tipping point. Which is interesting because it's got to be that, you know, straw that broke the camel's back kind of situation or the death of a thousand cuts. Because it's not like there's been any one single thing that there's been so many one single things that should have ended his career entirely. I mean, the whole Trudeau foundation, the S&C Lavlin, and he just skates through it all. You've talked about this lots. If any of these had happened to either one of us, we've been out of a job, we've probably been ran out of the country. and instead it just nothing seems to stick so it's interesting to finally see the

map and see where you know it's shrinking I mean you can see it pretty clear's day there that it's you know why nothing ever sticks to Trudeau because he's greasy as fuck the other the other article that that we had was a private members bill from conservative bench backbench MP is stirring up debate over abortion in Canada though the proposed legislation does not mention even once and that's a conservative MP Kathy Wagonthal and if you listeners as a podcast could probably remember her coming on a while back I remember that episode yep yeah it was she very smart lady anyways she's quoted as

saying it is focused on pregnant women being attacked by a third party who wants to cause injury or death to that individual so on the surface it might seem like well no and then and then if you go down and it goes but the The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is urging MPs to vote against the bill on the grounds that it promotes fetal rights, even though there is no mention of fetal rights in the text of the bill itself. Executive Director Joyce Arthur said some groups who oppose abortion view the bill as a positive step because they feel it would legally recognize pre-born children in the case of violent crimes, which is not the case now.

On the surface it might seem, this is a quote. On the surface it might not seem like an objectionable bill, but there's all kinds of associated reasons that were very, suspicious of it said Arthur. That's Arthur Joyce, the executive director of Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. Well, when all else fails, the liberals play the abortion card, right?

It's always just, I mean, and Andrew Shear never had a great response to it, and Aaron O'Toole never had a great response to it, and we'll see if Pollyev can come up with a decent one, or what probably the best one is, is where, you know, if he said something like, when Andrew Shear said he was Catholic, So he's against abortion.

What he should say is I'm Catholic, Justin Trudeau is Catholic, and we have the exact same opinion on abortion. Next question, please. Yeah, he could handle it better. Oh, you could absolutely handle it better, right? Can we read, oh, I got to read this tweet off because I thought this was great,

and it highlights the Twitter, what's going on there with the notes. Anyways, this is a tweet that says, Kanda needs to do more to protect reproductive rights, not less. Conservative MPs regularly introduce legislation that would limit access to abortion, undermining women's right to choose. Spoiler alert, Pierre Pollyev says he supports this bill. And then if you scroll to the bottom, it says readers added context they thought people might want to know. And it says this bill was about amending the criminal code to protect pregnant women from violence

and ensure that pregnancy is mitigating factor considered at sentencing. It has nothing to do with abortion. Yeah, I love the fact that Twitter does this. a fair bit. I mean, there was that one a few weeks ago where, maybe a couple months ago, where Jagmeet Singh fucked up the math on his tweet, which I mean, he's NDP. So of course he's going to. And I was the first person to point it out. And then it ended up with the community notes thing on it because of that thing I pointed out that other people subsequently pointed out again afterwards. But I was the OG on it. And so, yeah, it was just kind of a personal

victory moments for me. I'm all strutting like a peacock. Like the Golden Knights are probably doing right now. New Asports Explores. See, it's funny because it's like passports, but it's Asports. Asports. Yeah. Well, I mean, where do I want to go here?

Here's the pictures, okay? So I'll bring up the pictures for people to look at if you hadn't seen it. They took out Terry Fox, Vimy Ridge, and oh darn who's the lady who was for women's rights and they inputed them with I don't know they're that sounded terrible too's that who even knows anyways they basically took out the history and you see what they've put it with now we got a bird and a kid doing something and they took out two bad things and one good thing is and and here you got a kid playing and a canoe and it's just oh and apparently that kid playing I don't know I heard somebody say that it's

kind of a take on a childhood photograph of Justin Trudeau. Oh, probably. I mean, at the end of the day. And so anyway, it just, everybody, everybody, all the conservatives have the absolutely wrong take on this. And the only person who has the right take on this is the, um, he's, uh, head of fiscal and economic policy for Tyler, Prime Minister.

Yeah, Tyler Meredith, who is just one of those knee-deep liberal people, he's the only person who has the right take on this. And it's let's focus on real problems. Like just imagine this. Six months ago, you go and like the passport offices are buying chairs to set up outside on the sidewalk because the lineups are going around the block. And they go to the prime minister. and say, Justin, wake the fuck up.

It's 10.30 in the morning. We've got issues at the passport office. They're lined up around the block. This whole thing has been stymied. It's slowed down to a crawl. Everybody's trying to work from home in a public service role. And they're going to be striking soon. We need to get in front of this.

We need to fix it. It's already a breaking point, but it's even going to get even more broken in a few weeks when the PSAC people start picketing. So let's fix this. And just the truth, Trudeau says, okay, what if we just redesign the fucking passport, man? Like, this is, this is their thing. They will take substance or they will take style over substance every single time.

It's not about what actually fixes problems. It's what about, it's about what looks nice. Hey, well, none of us can get passports. Okay, cool. So it's not going to cost us a lot of money to redesign them. then? Like this is this is his priority. It's not let's make it work. It's let's make it pretty. Ontario factories want equality. I feel like I have this screwed up. Maybe I'm not. Nope, here we go. I feel like I mixed up seven and eight, but hey, that's all right.

Ottawa is being forced to renegotiate with Stalantis amid fears that automakers will scrap a new battery plant unless the federal and provincial governments match hefty subsidies given to Volkswagen. The Stars learned. recall the Volkswagen planned getting all the billions of dollars not that long ago. Geez, what was that a couple weeks ago? We talked about it. Industry sources warn that Stalantus, the parent company of Chrysler Jeep Fiat could pull the plug on its 2022 agreement to build a massive electric vehicle battery factory in Windsor.

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford don't sweeten the deal to the level of VWs received in St. Thomas, the subsidy announced by Trudeau and Ford three weeks ago, there you go, three weeks ago, could give the German automaker up. to $13.2 billion in public money over five years to build a gigafactory near London that would employ 3,000 workers once it opens in 2027. The generous VW payout was aimed to bringing Canadian in line with subsidies in U.S. President's Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act that pays automakers the equivalent of between $2,700 to $4,500 for each EV battery manufactured.

Because nothing decreases inflation quite like subsidies. This is, this is just funny. Like, you don't need to compete. Like if, if the U.S. wants to subsidize EV batteries, okay, cool. That means that when Canadians buy electric vehicles, they're going to have subsidized batteries in them and the consumers win, okay? You don't need to try and compete and try and create jobs in an industry where it's already a red ocean. You go to a blue ocean.

you do something that the U.S. isn't doing. Like, I don't know, whatever. Anyways, I started talking like I knew I was going to come up with something funny by the time I finished and then I didn't. So I apologize. But the whole point is, is that if the U.S. wants to subsidize the shit out of EVV batteries, let them have it. And our consumers can buy them and our people can just do other stuff that isn't already subsidized. They can just go in other directions, right? Why do we have to be the people, if anything green happens, it has to be Canada,

no matter how much fucking money it costs us. And now you've got Jeep saying, well, fuck, you just gave VW all this free money. We're not going to do it unless you give us the free money too. And then the next people are going to say that and the next people are going to say that. And then it's going to be that Oprah thing. It's like, you get $13 million. You get $13 billion. You get $13 billion.

When does the mashup get $13 billion, Sean? When we decide to start building batteries, I guess? I don't know. Canada is closed for business. This is all about Binance. I'm going to read off their post. This is what Binance put. Unfortunately today, we're announcing that Binance

will be joining other prominent crypto businesses and proactively withdrawing from the Canadian marketplace. We'd like to thank those regulators who worked with us, collaboratively to address the needs of Canadian users, albeit a small market. It held sentimental value for us at the home as the home country of our founder. We had high hopes for the rest of the Canadian blockchain industry. Unfortunately, new guidance related to stable coins and investors' limits provided to

crypto exchanges makes the Canada market no longer tenetable for finance at this time. We put off this decision as long as we could to explore other reasonable avenues to protect our Canadian users, but it has become apparent that there are. are none. Our remaining Canadian users are receiving an email with a comprehensive information on how this will impact their accounts going forward. While we do not agree with the new guidance, we hope to continue to engage with Canadian regulators aimed at a thoughtful, comprehensive regulatory framework. We're confident that we will someday return to the market when Canadian users once again have the freedom to access a broader suit of digital assets.

I mean, remember all these times that the Truonanon people have said things like, well, what freedoms have you lost? Well, here's another one. Cryptocurrency is being regulated all the fucking way out of Canada. Now, I don't know if you can get around it with a VPN or not. I'm not a huge expert on this stuff. But it's just another example of government regulation pushing options out of our economy. Yeah, I mean.

You know who'd be great to talk to this about is Stephen Barter? As soon as you start, as soon as you meant, yeah, Stephen Barber would be great. Vance Crow would be great. Like a couple of guys sitting in a room talking about it would probably be really great. And I'll see what I can pull off on that side because, well, once again, I don't understand everything going on here. I just know that it isn't good. And it's just another one of those things that, like you said, the conspiracy theorists were, ah, conspiracy theorists, and another thing.

You know. Real world applications. You say, okay, well, you know what? This is going in a bad direction. And they say, oh, you're crazy. And then six months later, I'm getting tired of eating crow when it comes to this. There's just too much crow. There's not enough Vance Crow.

There's too much regular crow. Somewhere Vance Crow just swerved in traffic. He's laughing. He's like, what an idiot. I can't believe I had him on my podcast. Hey, I tell you what, we should, you know, I hate to go from such a dark moment to a different one. And I can't remember if I think I talked about it last week.

But if we missed it, you were on Vance Crow's podcast. I think I did bring it up last week. But in case people missed that, they should go check it out. Vance Crow podcast. I think kind of highly a twos, kind of. And certainly everybody knows my thoughts on Vance Crow. So, you know, anytime the two people, you know, that I've kind of intersected with, meet up and do something cool.

That's, you know, I like that. And we did talk a little bit about the behind the scene stuff with the mashup. So if you want to peek behind the curtain, I get into that just a little bit. Sorry, I hate to, do you want anything else on finance or are we on? No, that was good. That was good. You already buzzed me. I can't believe.

Since when do I have veto power over the buzz? I don't know. I don't know. I was going to make like 10 minutes ago, but you just kept going and I never had a chance to make it. It just ended up with a cutting room floor. CVC hates Western Canada. I don't know how many people miss this or if they saw this, but this is Rosemary Barton says she can't be in Alberta for more than a week on live television.

And she's talking about the Alberta election. And, you know, it's... Now, the other thing, look at all these people. So you've got Chantelli Bear, Andrew Coyne, Altheiraj, Rosemary Barton, and that other fucking guy in the bottom corner. The furthest west any of these people are from is, I think, just barely west of Toronto, like a suburb of Toronto. Okay?

And these are the people that CBC has talking about the Alberta election. Matchup election coverage, right here. These are the people who are going to cover the election. If you want to, if you want live election coverage from the CBC, these are the dipshits that they're going to have covering it. People who don't live anywhere within thousands of miles of here and who by their boarded admission say that they can't even stand to be here. I can't wait to get out of here. Can't wait to get out of.

Oh, man, it's so sad. It's funny is what it is. Like it's, why does this sound clip never want to work for me too's? You know, fuck me. You just keep going off half cocked. That's, bingo. The CTF awards are the worst of the worst.

I tell you what, this almost could have been happy news. I feel like this is everything we've covered and they gave awards to it. I know. And I'm kind of wondering if the Tuesday MASHIP at the end of the year shouldn't go back through and give out awards. Like I'm just spitball and some ideas here because when I read this article, I'm like, this is freaking awesome. It's basically a highlight reel of everything we've talked about. Everything. past year.

I know Chris Sims, listen to this. If you want guest hosts of this awards next year, maybe we could team up or something. Maybe we could live coverage it. I don't know, because I read this article. I'm like, this is amazing. So I'm going to get to the article, which I'm pretty much going to read almost verbatim because I laughed the entire time. Yeah.

You know, painfully. Anyways, hefty in-flight catering bills, a nearly half-billion-dollar license renewal app, and taxpayer-funded utility pole relocations took home the top prizes at this year. Teddy Waste Awards. Celebrating their 25th year of the best of the worst of government waste, the Canadian taxpayer federation handed out their golden pigs in Calgary Thursday evening with Governor General Mary Simon's infamous 2021, $1.3 million junket to the Middle East, which resulted in taxpayers footing the bill for nearly $100,000 in-inflate catering costs, taking home the

top prize for federal waste. Other nominees in the federal category included $12,525,000. for Global Affairs Canada to fund a traveling theater show featuring senior citizens talking about their sex lives. I don't remember catching that one. Well, that's because, and so here's the thing, was I was like, how did I miss this? This is so interesting. How did I not know about this? Because it happened less than a week ago.

It was that fresh and it still made their cut. The article talking about this. was published in the National Post on May 10th. No kidding. So that's why. It's because we would have ended up talking about it. Actually, I hadn't seen it anywhere else. So we would have missed it if it wasn't for the Piggy Awards.

But yeah, they spent 12 grand on senior sex. There you go. Canadian tag. Chris, if you're listening, you're teaching the mashup a couple things because we missed one. You caught one we missed, right? Although, I mean, to be fair, like we're somewhat amateurish in this. They've been doing twice and time. I tell you what, I read their list and I'm like, man, we've been doing pretty good.

It's a highlight of everything we've been covering. And I'm looking and I'm like, you know what? They missed a couple. Can you imagine next year? Next year at the Pigey Awards. And to come in to announce the biggest ways of the federal. Could we give out an award? I don't know.

I'm just saying. I'm like, do they have, you know, like the band at the Oscars playing and we go like the nominees for. I would love it. We get up there. You could totally do that. We could totally do it. And then, yeah. Yeah, let's make, we need to make this happen.

We need to have some kind of like a Will Ferrell dialogue. I think it'd be great. Yeah, and then, and then, yeah. Okay, so the top prizes for provincial waste went to Societ del Assurance Automobile to Quebec for spending $458 million to develop an online program to streamline driver's license renewal. The software was designed to save money and reduce the number of bureaucrats, bureaucrats needed to process license renewals.

Spoiler alert. A yearly chore for Quebec drivers. Instead, it led to the hiring of 150 more provincial staffers to solve problems, leaving long lines of drivers waiting hours to renew their licenses. The other, I enjoyed this one. Other provincial nominees include Saskatchewan Finance Minister Donna Harper, who chartered an $8,000 flight from Regina to North Battleford. I was like, oh, yeah, that we, I mean, we covered it.

And then you had QDM on your show, couple weeks later and he's like, did you hear about this? You're like, well, obviously you're a couple weeks behind on the mashup QDM. And then I thought they went all the way down to the municipal waste. So the award for municipal waste went to Charlottetown City Council, Alana Jancov, who had taxpayers pay $4,600 to relocate a utility pole blocking her new driveway. Other award-winning examples of municipal waste bring it back west include Saskatoon spending over $130,000 to outfit a dark inner city alley with decorative lighting,

the city of Montreal spending $2 million to install a massive 30 meter ring in downtown core, and the city of Calgary spending $250,000 to build and then subsequently close a downtown outdoor toilet and then spend $5,000 annually to keep it closed. I mean, how hard would it be to just put a few screws on the hole in the ground and be done with it, right? But I mean, this isn't, like,

this is not even close to the first time that the city of Calgary's been on this list. They spent something like $43,000 putting LED lights on a sewage treatment plant outside of town. So they wanted to make a look. I just want to give out a piggy. Can I just get up there and just,

and tonight's award goes, here's your final nominees. Oh, man, I'd have fun with this. Oh, I would absolutely love it because then you'd be like, oh, is, is Jody Gondek in the host tonight? Jody, come forward. Jody? Jody? Jody?

Doty? Okay. Well, Jody couldn't make it tonight. So we'll be accepting it on her behalf. So I don't know. We'd have to come up with some kind of competition to decide who gets to keep it. You know, like, some kind of a recurring thing. We're getting ahead of ourselves. We're getting way ahead of ourselves. We're having way too much fun.

I kind of, like I wrote down the entire article. The words were named in honor after Ted, Weatherill, a federal bureaucrat fired as a head of Canada's labor relations board in 1998 for his lavish food and travel expenses, including expenses nearly $150,000 of food bills over eight days. Over eight days.

Now, keep in mind, that was in 1998. Yeah. So I just, it's one of those things when, when you sent it, I was like, what is this? And then I read it and I'm like, oh my goodness. How? Chris, I know you listen to the show.

How, we have to talk. We just have to talk. Anyways, I'm excited for the possibilities because I thought it was great. And, you know, it's just wild to me that they have awards for that. I think it's great. I don't know how we didn't think of it. Well, I thought of it because they've already been doing it. but you don't really want to just blatantly rip off somebody who already does a great job of it, right?

100%. And speaking of Chris Sims, there she is. She was one of the hosts, and they got one of the goal of Biggies. Oh, man, that's, that's fantastic. Dial 911 for Wi-Fi. This one is, I mean, okay, just responded, here is Constable Mike Seal. It says, just responded to a call where a 23-year-old called the cops on their mom, who they live with, rent-free for turning off the Wi-Fi because they wouldn't do chores. The 23-year-old was told to leave if they didn't like it. That's Regina Police. Perfect response. Just imagine the entitlement that goes through this.

Can you like... Oh, man. You need to give me internet or I'm going to call the cops. You know, the best part would be if they just, because presumably their parents probably also pay their cell phone bill, then you just kind of cancel it and be like, well, you can, you know, use WhatsApp to call the cops if you want. Oh, wait, you can't because the Wi-Fi's off. All I can think of is, man, watch the fucking dishes. You are one pathetic loser. Just imagine that.

Like, you know, I get the fact that housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable and that people's expectations. for housing have been increasing disproportionately high. But just go with it. So anyway, you know, you've got people wanting nicer, fancier stuff. Like when you look at starter homes nowadays, they would have been absolute fucking mansions when we were kids, right? And so people want more and better and they can't afford it. So they just stay and live with their parents.

And it's becoming fairly commonplace. but to just be living there rent-free I can't imagine I cannot imagine the cops showing up on my doorstep going you got a 9-1-1 call what's going on the Wi-Fi I turned them off on imagine trying this maybe get them out the door with your folks

like imagine still living at home when you were 23 imagine not paying rent and then imagine and calling the cops on them because the dial-up internet was too slow. I honestly think a guy named Nick von Dubbs could do a little bit of comedy with this little piece here.

You know, he's the guy doing a little stand-up comedy that we both know. And certainly I think, you know, that's going to lead into our happy news and that's why it's got a comedian on top of mind. For the first time in mashup history, I feel like we actually get to get it's like two worlds kind of colliding. Anyways, the reason comedian Nick von Dubbs coming.

Well, it's Joe Rogan. Anyways, free speech and DMT. It's Joe Rogan's comedy mothership in Austin, Texas. It's a comedy club that he opened. And, A, I think this is wicked. Like, I think this would be so much fun to go to. But then I saw the ticket prices were already at like $900 to get it. And you're like, holy diana.

Well, technically, that was the resale price. Sure. So that's people scalping, right? that's not big of work. Sure. But, I mean, the fact that he's the only person doing this, right? Yeah. And, you know, you look at this stuff and you say, okay, well, you know what?

Like Dave Chappelle, I actually just had a conversation about his YouTube special with somebody the other day. And it's too bad. I didn't quite get a chance to get to the crux of it, which is that, yeah, there was a lot of people who said it was transphobic. But I feel like they shut it off after the first joke. And they didn't actually stick around. to listen to it. Because if you actually did, you would be like,

this is the furthest thing from transphobic, right? Dave Chappelle is like part comedian, part like philosopher man. Like, yeah, and that's what makes him such a great comedian. He's phenomenal.

You know, and yeah, sure, you know, he was pretty good and Robin Hood men in tights and I think he had a TV show or something like that.

I can't remember what it was called, right? But when you look at the thing, he talks about and how relatable they are like okay George Carlin George Carlin never really told any jokes he just talked about things exactly how they were and it was funny because it was true you know there was no punchline there was no buildup he just plainly spoke about things in a really clever way and that's why you know 20 some years after he's dead probably we still talk about And Dave Chappelle, same kind of idea.

Well, and to come back all the way to the comedy mothership, the club, Rogan's quote is saying the club set up for comedians to develop their material. And when you go to this place, the establishment requires that you guess coming to the show, check their cell phones in at the door. So it's like he's creating a place where they can ride the edge. They can be right on the edge and explore topics without, you know, being filmed by everybody and put out and then attacked social media wise. And I'm like, like, how sweet is this?

Like, how much fun would that place be to go to? Well, absolutely. And one of the things like, if you're a comedian, you try out jokes, you try out different deliveries, you put them different ways, and you see how the response is, right? And so part of that is that if you're really honing in on a joke, you're trying to make it as funny as possible, generally speaking, that means getting as close to the line of bad taste as possible.

And so if you're trying out material and working on exactly how to put it forth best, you're probably going to do one or two deliveries that are maybe a bit offensive to some people or whatever else, right? But that's kind of, it's almost like a bisection method when you're trying to solve for zero in a, you know, a Polly equation, right? So you end up with positive, you end up with negative, and then you get a little bit closer, a little bit closer,

a little bit closer, right? And so you're going to, if you're actually trying to do this right, you're going to, rather than just always airing on the side of caution, like you're fucking,

this hour is 22 minutes on CBC, and you never even get close to that line. You don't even know what it looks like anymore. You say, okay, well, you know what? We're going to go on this side of it. We're going to go on that side of it, and we're going to get really close to the optimum delivery. But when you're trying out material,

you're going to go over it a little bit, and then that's the kind of stuff that people end up getting canceled. I think we threw caution out the door a long time ago. That's me. That's a mashup 55 for you, folks, a little different taste, you know, with Shane Getson hop in on. And then I'll be curious to hear what people have to say about that, you know, honestly, tomorrow.

It's good to hear from some different people regarding the election and how important it is. I like that Shane put that in at the end, you know, like how important it is. I think a lot of people know that, but in saying that, I think more people need to hear it. And either way, happy he hopped on and enjoyed chatting with them. And Tuesdays, as always, you know, mashup 55 in the books. And we will catch you next week on 56. and I think that's the final one before mashup election coverage, right? Like, it's coming fast and furious.

So March 29th election coverage. Are we doing, are we still going to have a Tuesday mashup on the 30th? I don't know. I was actually talking about that with our sponsor that week. I'm like, well, what are we actually doing here? Like, I don't know. We'll have to, we got to discuss that. Either way, mashup 55, done, 56.

we want to bring the entire audience into the backpinnings of the mashup. Me and Tuse will hammer that out, I guess. But we're going to have to think about it. Anyway. All right, man. It's been a pleasure. We'll catch up to you next week, Tews. See ya.

And thanks again, Shane.