Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #56

Episode Date: May 23, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include QR codes for priests, Trudeau hits world wide headlines ...again & Moe says no to shutting down coal. 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

Ladies and gentlemen Explain to me What the hell this is This is well I mean I'm gonna explain to you what this is This is my car The biggest fucking bird in the world The biggest shit you could imagine

On the hood Like what was this? Was this an ostrich? I feel like this is some kind of a Jurassic Park thing Where some tarotactyl just dropped a big fucking bomb on it This thing is massive And it

Makes me angry That's my rant before the mashup. Look at it. Just look at it. It's the biggest chicken shit I've ever seen since Justin Trudeau. Welcome back. Mashup 56. Mashup 56.

Let the man rant. Mashup election coverage a week away. Hey, Toos. How you feeling tonight? I'm feeling good, man. One, like, we're recording this Monday night. So next Monday. Just go back to where you came from, George.

I'm kidding. Look. Evening, George. Evening, George. Anyways, yes, the music. I'm going to be in Lloyd. We've got an absolute all-star cast. It's like the all-stars of the mash-up.

Before we get there, let's get to this week's. We can talk about that in a second. Mashup 56 is brought to you by Iron Jet Exteriors. Let's do Iron Jet Exteriors first. Yeah. Shall we? Okay. All right.

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Full meal deal. Give them a call 780677-0202. Jeez. The twos cave might need a new deck. Yeah. I tell you what, anyways, Iron Jet, Exteriors, Mashup, 56. Now, what Toos was talking about is we got mashup election coverage in, well, T-minus, less than seven days, because it will already be full-on show.

We'll be almost wrapping up by this time. Who knows, I guess. We'll wait and see how tight of a race it is and everything else. But a mash-up election coverage, we're going to have some different names appearing, kind of, as Tews would say, the All-Star Game of the Mashup. but you're going to have Chris Sims, Juna Birchwater, Terrick Elnaga,

who just came out on today's Sean Newman podcast. I'm halfway through it right now. Nick von Dubbs, Todd Lowen, Chuck Pradneck, Marty Up North, Tim Mowen,

Dustin Newman, David Parker, Rachel Emanuel, Tamer Leach, Sheila Gunn-Reed's going to stop by, give us a couple minutes over time,

Drew Weatherhead, the dairy, with special guests, the dairy cartel, and Vance Crow. Yeah. And possibly somebody from Antarctica.

I don't know what it's going to be like, but we're going to have fun anyways. Absolutely. It's everything that you think, since when was this stuff supposed to be dry and boring and uninteresting? Like we've been saying for weeks, it's just like all the other election coverage, but what if it didn't suck?

And so we're going to make it as fun and as interesting and possible. We're going to talk about things leading up to the election. We're going to talk about the campaigns. We're going to talk about some of the more interesting, notable names in it. We're going to break down some individual writings. What name has caught your eye tonight as we were joking around before we started? Funky Bajonko is the name of somebody running in Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo. Funky.

Oh, man. I tell you what, maybe we'll just have best names of 2023 Alberta election. Maybe we'll just talk about that for an hour while we've, wait for the you know like the the the scrolling map to just be like well this is what it is folks in 2015 uh the wild rose the wild rose ran a guy by the name of happy man happy man yeah i mean that's pretty good name it's yeah that's that's just pretty much it yeah it's happy it's a beauty of name and i would say up until funky bajonko it was top of the list uh um Man, funky Bajonko.

Anyways, yeah, so that's a week away. That is Monday, May 29th. We will be here giving you some live election coverage. We're going to have people from all over Alberta chiming in through, you know, obviously signing on to the mashup election coverage video conferencing, so to speak. And then we're going to have a little bit of a roundtable, if you would, with Tim Mone is going to be coming in to, you know, add some places. Maybe from the NDP said? Well, yeah, because he said that I imagine that we're probably not going to do that the whole evening. No, no, no, no, because he's just such, like, it's such a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all of this stuff.

I mean, it's former leader of the Libertarian Party. He ran in Calgary Signal Hill back in the day. And he's, we're going to be totally outclassed by this guy. Well, we're going to be playing catch up. You're going to stick them in between, so on this round tape, we're going to stick him in between you and then my brother, Dustin. So you got Tews who's a staunch UCP guy. Yeah. I knew. Anyways. And then, of course, Dustin's got his background in politics, too. I think that'll be a lot of fun. I think so, too. I think to sit there and see how the thing's going, everything else. And then, of course, we're going to

have people as we listed off all the names. So either way, next Monday, when you're trying to figure where do I go? Follow us on Twitter. It's got to be here. Facebook, Rumble. It should be there live streaming. You should be able to find us. And we'll try and do our best to update you

as the night goes along. Either way, we're going to try and have some fun with it. Now, shall we get into this week's... Well, I guess we got some news to cover, don't we? Yeah, we kind of do. You know, I thought about just coming on here and being like, all right, guys, we're going to see you in another week because we got things to do, but we'll give you a mash at 56

and try and keep it, you know, on the rails as much as possible. We should have done two this week. The amount of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor this week in particular was just ridiculous. Well, ethics, let's start here. Ethics not up for debate. United Conservative Party leader, Danielle Smith, has been absolved by Ethics Commissioner, following an investigation into allegations that she had. She in her office contacted Crown.

Oh, my goodness. Here we go, folks. prosecutors regarding COVID-19 prosecutions. Smith said the report confirms that the CBC and the Alberta NDP have repeatedly lied to Albertans for months. Both the CBC and NDP should apologize with draw fault. There was false accusations immediately and publicly Smith said in a statement. And then another one of the articles in there was Alberta's ethics commissioner has

found United Conservative Party leader Daniel Smith contravened the conflict of interest act over conversations she had with her justice minister about high profile COVID-19. 19 cases. And then, I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on and on. Yeah. So Daniel Smith, I get the fact that we're going to get a lot of hate mail over this. So brace yourself. But Daniel Smith broke the conflict of interest act.

Now, I can't really see why. I can't really understand the nuance of it because, you know, there's plenty of laws that don't make any damn sense, right? Like, it's illegal to pronounce Arkansas wrong in Arkansas. So if you say Arkansas, you're going to go to jail, right? There's there's all kinds of weird rules all over the place. And so apparently all she did was just broach the subject, ask if there was anything he could do.

He said no. And that in and of itself violated the conflict of interest act, which is just asking a question and not pursuing it any further, at least as far as the official story goes, was enough to break the conflict of interest act. So I like the fact that anything even getting murky, like anything even close to murky is enough to, um,

you know, throw a flag on the play, right? So that's good. And I feel like she probably would have known that because if it's so touchy that she can't even broach the subject, then she probably would have been aware of that. And she was just trying to push a little bit to see what she can get away with,

which she should not. Now, the law makes sense. I don't know. The one thing that's really been missing from this discussion is having somebody who's passed a bar somewhere actually come in and weigh on exactly how it looks, whether this makes sense in this context or whatever else. It's just you've got the UCP people saying validly so that, hey, this completely vindicates her claims that the CBC and the NDP lied. and then went ahead with this fake story, right? And then you've got the NDP people validly saying she violated the Conflict of Interest Act.

Now, is it anywhere near what Trudeau did with S&C Lavlin, for example? I would say no, but it's, if this law is that touchy in this particular area, there's no way she couldn't have known about it because it's just the third rail. And to fill in two, uh, twos, for people who haven't gone back and where this all stems from is she was on a phone call with Artur Polowski and talking to him about, uh, his charges and everything else. And they recorded it and then released it and then all mayhem ensued after that. And if you go listen to the phone call, like, it's about as harmless. You know, you expect, I expect that. That wasn't the phone call that got her in hot water. It was the phone call she made to Tyler Shandra. I understand. But she made. But she. made the phone call to Shandrow because of Artur Polowski, correct? This is how it all, anyways.

Who then just imploded and just burned every bridge around him. So I don't know, the whole thing's interesting. But yeah, and then we had the debate this week too. Well, so actually, I had a whole bunch of things here because this first one is kind of like. I'll follow your lead. Yeah. So then we had the debate. We had a Thursday debate.

And I'm going to put that at the last. Okay. We'll talk about that right at the end. The next one I had in here is I had two different articles. The first had Warren, I couldn't even, I only took a little clip of this. Warren Concello from the Toronto Sun said, how can someone as dumb as Daniel Smith be considered to be fit to be a small town dog catcher, let alone a provincial premier, how can someone that ignorant of the law and ethics be in running still?

Okay, there's one side of this frame. The next one was Alicia Corbella, I hope I'm saying that, right? National Post. ever wonder why Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley rarely mentions her record as a premier of Alberta during this provincial election campaign, or ever for that matter, it's her biggest political achievement, and she never talks about it. Not even on the hustings. Strange, isn't it? Well, isn't it not humiliating that keeps her tongue-tied about her record as Alberta's top politician? Not only doesn't even mention her time as premier between 15 and 19 because her government was

objectively a disaster for this province, province country, and thousands of individual families. Every economic indicator went down except the debt. Her government's policies, programs, and unprofessionalism shook the confidence of Alberta's job and wealth greater to the point that tens of thousands of people had to leave for other provinces or countries. What can notly boast about in her stint as Premier, I increased Alberta's debt in just four years by more than all the other previous premiers before me combined. And then so here, Notley came to power in May 2015, Alberta's debt was 11.9 billion. The debt grew to 85.9 billion by the time the NDP were voted out of office just after one term, making her the first one-term government in Alberta's now 118 year history.

Warren Concella, what I was trying to highlight, you sent me all these articles, and I'm like, man, I'm just so tired of the election. And it's only been like 20 days, not even. Dude, you can't say that. We have to be excited about it because we're live streaming the damn thing. I am, I am excited about live streaming it. I am tired about like, it's like, oh, the way he, they just slander Daniel Smith. Just slander. Well, I mean, Kinsella's got a pretty storied track record of just being a hired gun, right?

It's just, oh, my, anyways, both sides, just all out guns ablaze. right now. But I did like the thing on why does she never bring up she was premier. It's a crown achievement. Well, I mean, we were talking about that weeks ago. And then last week, all the stuff that I asked Shane, why are you just leaving the empty nets for the NDP

on all these different things? Was everything that Daniel Smith fired on in the debate and it was the first pushback they'd gotten on any of it. And so I wonder, there's two options here, really. one of them is that they listen to the mashup and they're building their entire campaign strategy around our half-baked nonsense.

The other is that they were just slow playing the whole thing so that Notley would paint herself into a corner and then they'd pull the rug out under to confuse some metaphors. I want to point on something real quick. One of the other articles,

I'm going to actually share my screen here because you need to, I need to show this. So this is Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary, absolute disgrace. Just what, what a waste. This was another, this was another, a tough article to read anyway. Yeah, well, I mean, you know,

he's very firmly on the NDP side of things, right? But this is, this is just about the best damn endorsement of Notley that I have ever seen. scene. So here's Nenshi's article and then you got a picture of the two leaders who both decided to wear blue. Which is interesting. Yeah, which was very interesting.

But here, down at the bottom this isn't forever, they argue, and Notley can't do that much harm in four years. This is the best thing that you can say about Rachel Notley is it's not forever

and she can't really fuck all of that up in a Only four years. By the way, I don't know if you saw how many tabs were open, but that's what we go through every week. That's how many different topics we, or, you know, articles we touch on and things we go through. I had a, I had a really hard time getting through that article. Because it was basically splitting out.

You had three options as a, as a UCP supporter or somebody who was going to vote for Daniel Smith or for, you know, your respective MLA in their area. But basically, like, you know, put your head down because you're embarrassed of, of them, or stay at home and don't vote, or do the right thing and vote for Notley, because, you know, it's only four years, and she can't do that much damage. And you're like, this is, it's a ringing endorsement.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's probably the most accurate thing I've ever heard anybody say about it. What did you think of the debates? I thought it was interesting. So you had, you had Notley struggling, trying to gain ground, and Daniel Smith just kind of standing, very collected.

She was doing this a fair bit. No, no, no, no. But she never even, I didn't see her even look at Notley once. She was very dismissive, which makes sense because the NDP are not a serious party, Sean. And so you had Notley trying to get in. And this has been Daniel Smith's ring for years. She's been on talk radio for this whole time. She's literally been training for this.

This is her Super Bowl. And she's going up against Notley, who granted, isn't a slouch. in the debates, but she's nowhere near the same level. And so, like, it just, it, it wasn't even a fair fight. It's like when you see, it's like when you see an NHL. It's like when a men's under 16 soccer team plays the women's world champions. I, oh, God, too, anyways, one of the things I, I always find interesting in debate, because you know they prep for that, you know, like they're sitting there and they're

prep. So one of the questions that, you know, and I found it interesting the host and everything, I found the entire just experiment very interesting. They take wild card submissions, and one of them is what's one thing you agree with, with your opponent? Yep. And Rachel Lolly comes out, actually, I agree with two, and she rattles off a couple. No, she didn't. Rachel Lally. Yes, she did. You finish your bit. You finish your bit. Go ahead. Okay. And then I'm going to tell you why you're wrong. And Dan, now I'm curious. And this. is the way I saw it anyways. And Daniel Smith talks around the question and never

says anything. She says, we I think we both agree on this. But never once says, and I'm like, I wonder if that was a strategic thing that we will not agree with anything of the NDP. What did you hear to? Is because I, how did I get that wrong?

That's okay. Lots of other people did, including Andrew Coyne. And this is, again, this is like his bread and butter. And he was talking about how crazy it was that Rachel notley went ahead and very nobly pointed out two policies of the UCP that she supported. So what did she do? But she pointed out a couple existing things that happened before Daniel Smith even took

over. And the question was about what are some policy things they're running on that the thing. And so she said, oh, well, you know what? There's these two things they did in the past that I thought were good. It would have been just as relevant if Daniel Smith had said that Bill that you guys put forward in 2017 to get us off daylight savings time was a good idea and it's too bad you voted it down. It would have been

just as relevant, right? And so Daniel Smith. Well, then I tell you what. She played it off. She played it off very well then. Yeah. So Rachel Notley gave an answer that didn't give any credit to the UCP campaign. And then Daniel Smith, I guess maybe she was just playing too far ahead for anybody else to see what was going on,

but she just doesn't respond to the question because Notley didn't. It's interesting because I was, And how many times have you seen me defending Daniel Smith? Not often. I was just going to say it didn't play out that way, though. As a watcher, I watched that and I'm like, that was odd, right? even if you just, even if you put it back to her in a, you know, kind of like, well, screw you, then I think you're, you know, back, this initiative was great. But I mean, I don't know,

maybe she was in a tough spot then. Because like the way Rachel Naughtley did it, for the first time of the entire debate, I'm like, oh, that was kind of interesting. I didn't see that coming. And then Danielle didn't talk to it. I'm like, what was that? The right answer, the best possible answer that Daniel Smith could have given was the point. point out the NDPs wanting to give free contraception and saying the more of you that don't reproduce, the better. Oh, brother. Here we go. Here we go.

Oh, and I'm messing up the buttons. I got to me all flustered here trying to defend Rachel Notley's antics. Anyways, hey, what are you going to do? I had this pulled up, too. I thought, there you go. Front of the. Oh, yeah. Yeah, paid advertisement.

and it just says in like slightly less gray ink at the top full page paid advertisement or something like that. Like this is this is bullshit. The sun, that's a big miss on your guys. Anyways. But we're not, we still got a,

there you go, there you go. Disease X is super scary. Yeah, of course, you know, I wish I could have made up that headline, folks.

As the world eases back to normality following three years of COVID-19, the scientific and public health community is already preparing for the next serious outbreak or pandemic. They just don't know what the disease will be. I don't give a shit. Next one. Can I just finish this? As far back as 2018, the World Health Organization gave this unknown future outbreak a placeholder name, Disease X.

Twoes actually didn't make that up. Disease X is, anyways. I thought that, anyways, I thought that was great. Cultural appropriation, Trudeau bombs in Hiroshima. You know, just because, here, how about this? We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind, because it's more inclusive. There we go, exactly.

Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one pathetic loser. Oh, I figured that. If that song is ever appropriate at any point in time, it's this story. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a self-described feminist, is being slammed for his repugnant behavior after trying to mansplain democracy to Italian counterpart, Georgia Maloney.

Maloney seems none too pleased Friday at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, when Trudeau told her before private bilateral talks that Canada is concerned about some of the positions Italy is taking. in terms of the LGBT rights. He added that he was looking forward to speaking to her more about the issue and other democratic principles that the world needs. The Italian leader fired back Sunday saying she rejected Trudeau's criticisms and the liberal leader had fallen victim to fake news.

And then Italian, I think I got it here, we'll pull this up so people can see what we're talking about here. Italian media was quick to condemn Trudeau's latest misstep on the world stage with the the Milan-based Libero newspaper splashing the picture of the... Oh, man, a prime minister on its front page in blackface with the headline translated from Italian saying the buffoon wants to teach us lessons. There you go. There you go. Yeah.

Yeah, so basically, he gets over there and crosses his legs and tries to be all... Actually, you know what? He wasn't sitting cross leg at that time. There's a picture of them where she's looking at him just... like he's an abs or she's looking at the camera like is this guy for fucking real sort of thing and uh yeah so you've got an italian newspaper calling the leader of our country a buffoon so yeah a bibbabi boopi a bibbony a bibri buffooni amma it's basically what they're saying because because it's Italian right but uh yeah just there's only one place in the world that

still has any regard for Justin Trudeau, and it's the Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal Corridor. And that's it. And everybody else has realized that this guy is a fucking schmuck. Oh, man. Like, it just, like he bombed so hard to Hiroshima, it was practically a hate crime. Bud Light went from disappearing off the shelves to disappearing off the shelves. Oh, oh, real quick. The other thing is, is so he called out them for what he.

he sees his LGBTQ stuff, but when he was in Senegal, trying to get the UN Security Council seat, he didn't talk to them about the fact that they just killed the gay people. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau been put on the defensive for not publicly challenging Senegal's president over the country's criminalization of homosexual acts while accepting support for Canada's bid for a United Nations Security Council seat. That was back in 2020. That's what that's what. And he was just talking with the leader of Korea, who's got a very much. meritocratic approach to government and completely going away from gender quotas and he didn't talk to them about that. It's all just because this Italian prime minister is the antithesis of

Justin Trudeau and and he's just trying to get in. He's just trying to look good in front of the camera. Nice word choice. I really enjoyed that. Anyways, I enjoyed that. Yes. Bud Light went from disappearing off the shelves to disappearing off the shelves. Great headline. The Bud The Bud Light Saga has gone from woke to choke to joke to maybe broke. In what appears to be an effort to move inventories of beer that aren't selling special promotions are offering a rebate on Bud Light purchases where the rebate is higher than the purchase price. The New York Post reports of retailers selling a case of Bud Light.

I want you to, they're selling a case of Bud Light for $19.98 with a purchaser's eligible for a $20 rebate. A photo posted on social media showed a stack of 24 cans of 24 can cases of Bud Light with a promo tape to them touting a full rebate from the unidentified beer vendor, said the post. And that here, we'll pull up, we'll pull up this. This is weekly volume sales change from year to year. You can see at the bottom there is Bud Light and Red where they've gone with their. It's just, it's sinking. I was talking with somebody who's got a bar in Airdrie,

and they went from doing eight kegs on tap a week of Bud Light to half a keg-ish. So they're down 87.5% in sales. Well, same liquor store I was talking about a couple weeks ago. Yeah. They still have the same palette of Bud Light up because, you know, like in the big area in the, in the cooler in the middle. Sure. They just drop off a palette of this, palette of that.

And it's the same palette they've had up there for the better part of a month. Well, it said Anahezer Bush is planning a temporary, well, here, they're doing a, they're doing, they're doing a couple different things. So here's, here's the Harley Davidson can. Here's the camo can. And, and so it's, what camel? What? Are you sharing it right now? Yeah, I'm sharing it.

Can't you see it? No, because it's camouflage. Lage. You know, some days, too, still gets me. All right, all right, fair enough. Anheiser Bush is of planning a temporary camel. The best thing about camo jokes is that nobody ever sees them coming. Can I start yet?

Please continue. Anyways, Anheuser Bush is planning a temporary camo print redesign of some of its Bud Light and Budweiser packaging in an effort to stop a sales slide in the wake of the disastrous partnership with trans Titt-Tick-Toker. Tick-Tocker. Dylan Mulvaney. The beer brand released a promotional can of blazing with Mulvaney's image, and of course, you know, all hell broke loose after that. It also went on to say the Mulvaney debacle has also dragged down other Anheuser-Busch brands,

including Budweiser, down 9.7%. And then Miklob Ultra down 2.9%. And then also Natural Light down 2.5%. It said all the rival brands have been gaining giant, well, all the market share, right? But grabbing it up. So we'd talked, I can't remember if it was on there or not, too, but whether or not Antihers Bush would even notice it, right?

Like, what they feel? Because there had been that huge thing come out saying, like, yeah, you're going to get off Bud Light. Look at what Anheiser Bush owns. And people are like, okay, yeah, thanks for pointing that out. That's great. You've done my homework for me. Do you think the Camel Can thing works?

Do you think that brings people back? No, no, it's because it's just, it's so disingenuous. This, the Harley Davidson, none of it is, you know, after the whole Dillamovaney thing, they've completely lost all the credibility behind their brand.

So they could put the manly, like they could have some big, jacked oil worker covered in schmag, running tongs. And it'd just be the manliest thing you could possibly imagine. And people will be like, oh, this is just bull.

shit. They'll just put whatever they want on a can just to try and sell it. Nobody cares. Fuck off. Right. So, I mean, the thing about it is, is it's not so much what's on the can. It's what's behind that. And they've shown that there's absolutely nothing behind that, except for a corporate marketing team. And yeah, I guess if you're trying to cater some jackasses in a boardroom, maybe this will go over well. But as far as whether it's going to resonate with people, I would say absolutely fucking not. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, fair.

Just curious, because, I mean, they've come up with a Bud Light can that looks pretty sweet, but at the same time, it's like, are you rushing to buy any Bud Light anytime soon? No, nobody around here is doing any of that. Scare porn making fire season worse. Okay, here, there's a whole crap ton of articles on the wildfires here in Alberta. Here's one. We weren't a week in May before 30,000 people had been. evacuated because of dozens of fast-moving wildfires in Alberta.

Structures losses were mounting, and politicians were trotting out words like unprecedented? Unprecedented? Where were they in 2017 when British Columbia had its worst fire season on record and generated four simultaneously pyro-cumlinimbus thunder clouds? Where were they in 2016 when Fort McMurray burned for days, along with 6,000 square kilometers of forest? Where were they in 2011 when Slave Lake lost its town hall,

library radio stations and 500 houses in a few hours. No, the current fire situation is not unprecedented and calling it the new normal is offensive. There's nothing normal about it. Do I sound angry? I have a right to be. And so do you. In the late 1970s, Exxon's own scientists predicted that the effects of increased industrial CO2 would penetrate the noise of random climate fluctuations become measurable in the form of rising global temperatures, especially at higher latitudes like ours. Then there was a couple other articles. The Mounties and Peace River are investigating three suspicious fires that occurred recently on Thursday around 2 a.m., R.C.MP and Peace River Fire respond to a grass fire near highway, whatever. And shortly after ATM, they respond in another one.

And then another article, Grand Prairie Area residents find themselves out of their homes and properties at the beginning of fire season. Fires may have been deliberately started as RC&P of arrest at least one and looking for others. So you get, of course they are. You get the climate doomsdairs saying we are heading to hell. And then you got the other ones that aren't being talked about a whole lot. Although I feel like it's, you know, I mean, even Shane mentioned it where it's like, well, no, these are all, there's a whole lot of suspicious things going on all at once. Absolutely. Okay.

So you've got in Italy a few days ago, there was a bunch of climate protesters that dumped a bunch of charcoal into like the oldest fountain in Rome. And then, you know, we talk about this stuff every once in a while. They perform, you know, they glue their hands to pavement or they locked themselves up at a car dealership or whatever antics they try and do to bring focus to this. And then every time there's a wildfire, they point to climate change. And our politicians call it climate change. And our media calls it climate change.

And all it does is encourage them to light more fucking fires. It's the most irresponsible shit that I have ever seen. The responsibility for this stuff, yes, lays at the feet of the arsonist, but so much of it is on our left-wing politicians and the media who just try and scare porn everybody into getting upset about this stuff. Because every time it happens, another climate idiot is going to look at it and say, well, if I start a fire, I'm furthering our cause. Did you, obviously you saw this, but what I put up on the screen is somebody that had correlated fires to election years.

This is, this is from the government of Alberta website. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I did a reverse Google image search because, you know, when you see random graphs on the internet, you don't know where they came from. This came right from the government of Canada or Alberta. No kidding.

Well, look at that. So if you're watching, essentially the big giant years were all the 2011, 2015, 2019, and now 2023, all well ahead of anywhere else. I mean, 2016 might be the one that you could say kind of sticks out, right? but you look at all the 2011, 2015, 2019, now 2023, they're all off the Richter scale. And then in 2020, it seems like all the forest fires got COVID. Disappeared because they died because of, now here's something that actually died because of COVID. We finally found something that died because of COVID and it's forest fires. Forest fires.

We should vaccinate our forests. Vaccinate the forest. That's right. Horticulture is racist, along with pretty much everything else in this world. It seems the May long weekend is an unofficial start of summer. And for those of you with home gardens or access to community spaces, this is the weekend to dust off your gardening tools and visit the garden center for the growing season ahead. As we approach the start of our gardening season, it's a good time to ask some questions about its origins. Whether you plan to get marigolds, plant a vegetable garden, or create a pollinator patch,

all gardens have a complicated roots. In fact, the practice of gardening is deeply tied to colonialism. Didn't you know of twos? From the formation of botany as a science to the spread of seeds, species, and knowledge. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that horticulture existed a few thousand years before colonialism. Like 8,000 probably.

And then I like this one, because this one made me a chuckle. The notion of waking up early and starting your day with the rising sun is often associated with productivity, success, and strong work ethic. No shit, because that's what it is associated with, because it works. Anyways. However, this seemingly innocuous concept is not without its historical and cultural implications. In this article, we will explore the origins of the early rising narrative and how it is rooted in white supremacy.

And contributing to the perpetuation of racial inequalities. It's basically saying that black people can't get up. early because they're lazy. But this is the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. This is, this is just, just think about how low-key racist this whole thing is. If you get up

early, you're going to be more successful and you've got a stronger work ethic and that makes it unfair towards minorities. This is just, it's, it's unbelievably racist. Okay. Maybe we'll get a reprieve from stupidity.

Maybe. Yeah, what's up next, Sean? Liberal minister has Clinton denial moment. Canada's spy service sought an electronic and entry warrant to monitor former Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan in the lead up to the 2021 federal election. But it took several months for then public safety minister Bill Blair to sign off on the clandestine surveillance

of the influential Liberal Party power broker according to a national security source. Cases regarded Mr. Chan. is a national security target and sought a Section 21 warrant under the CISIC Act in early 2021. The source said the spy agency wanted to intercept Mr. Chan's electronic communication and gain entry to his home and offices in what was expected to be a federal election year. Mr. Chan had already been under physical surveillance for years, the source said. Although lawyers for CIS and independent counsel from the Justice Department approved the warrant,

as did the office of the CIS director David Vigno, the source said Mr. Blair, a former Toronto police Chief did not sign off until June, so months after. The four-month delay left little time for CISS to get the approval of the federal judge and to figure out the best ways to plant bugs and Mr. Chan's cars, home, the office, computers, mobile phones before the election campaign got underway. All right. First off, CES should have had this already. They had four months to plan for when the paperwork came through.

It should have just been turnkey at that point. But basically what they're saying is that Bill Blair sat on this for four months. months. And then this gets leaked to the media because this is the only way you actually have accountability and access to information and any of these things that you should have in a democracy is through whistleblowers in Canada right now. And so Bill Blair's response was the reporting by the Globe Mail was factually incorrect. I will not and cannot comment on specific cases. However, during my time as Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, all warrant applications were reviewed with due diligence.

Well, that doesn't really answer the question. They were signed expeditiously. That is an incredibly vague statement. No warrant application ever took as long as four months for approval. Now, does that mean that this application took four months in a day, four months less a day? Something like that was roughly four months. He just said none of them took four months. Okay.

So it could have been like four months and an hour. And technically, this statement would still be factual. actually correct. This is just like when Bill Clinton said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman. These allegations are false. It's the exact same non-answer without enough specifics to give it any validity whatsoever. So as far as I'm concerned, this is a confession. I'm, I gotta be honest. You might have to do an appersonation weekly. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I, I'm, I, I'm, I, I'm a personnation weekly. I don't mind your Bill Clinton. That was half decent. Parks Canada leaves no stone unturned.

Cast in bronze are lettered on a sign. There's sometimes the only history lessons many of us ever get. Now Parks, Canada wants hundreds of them change. The way that many of the National Historic Designations are framed and position does not do justice to the breadth of impacts they've had on Canadian society, said Pat Kell, the agency's director of heritage, parts in the middle of the three-year program to re-examine and rewrite plaques that the historic sites and monuments board used to point out places deemed important to understanding Canada's past. So you got a whole bunch of places all across Canada that are slated. Out of 2,192 historic sites, about two-thirds of plaques, texts are fine.

Of the remainder, more than 200 are considered high priorities for change. reasons include ignoring indigenous contributions or using antiquated language such as Indian or Eskimo. Another issue is controversial beliefs held by historical figures. Of course, they're talking about, you know, different guys, you know, from back of the day. Johnny McDonald comes to mind. Yeah, okay. So first off, Eskimo is not offensive. Eskimo means lacer of snow shoes.

Somebody who laces snow shoes. It doesn't mean eater of raw fish. It's a common misnomer. You can Google it, and it will confirm this in multiple places. You can go to the Indigenous Society of Alaska or whatever it's called. They talk about it. There's websites based in BC that talk about it. It's not eaters of raw fish.

And eating raw fish isn't even a bad thing anyway. Have you people ever heard of a thing called sushi? Okay? We're taking this whole thing way too far. I'm the only person in this country who reads placards anyway. I will pull over in the middle of a road trip, but I'm like, there's a placard. And it irritates people.

I get it. You know, people sitting beside me, people driving behind me, all of them, right? I enjoy placards. I will try and find and read every single placard that I find. And to just think, like, we're going to go to the absolute trouble of getting all of this figured out.

And then making sure they're all printed into fucking languages just in case some frog decides to make his way out west. The whole thing is just ridiculous stupidity. Like we've had dental care for three weeks in Canada, and we're already working on plaque removal. The only news CBC makes is discussions of their irrelevance. By the measure of CBC's English, this is like, people got to think about this.

This is huge. By the measure that CBC English language television is failing badly, CBC's third quarter report shows its share of the national primetime viewing audience to drop to 4.4% excluding Saturday down sharply from 7.6% in 2018 and trending below the target for the year. Or to turn that around, that means 95.6% of TV viewing Canadians do not tune in to CBC's English language primetime programming. And they even specifically talked about Calgary and said that it's reaching about 20,000 individual viewers, which is about 1.2% of Calgary.

1.2% of people in Calgary watch the CBC. Yeah, think about that. And then they went on to talk about, you know, how the radio is doing so good. And it said English radio. French radio. Well, it said, it said the TV side's dismal performance does not carry through to either English language radio or the CBC's French language arm. Radio Canada, even while TV audience is shrank, CBC Radio has managed to increase its market share,

which was already much healthier than the English TV branch. I don't know what they consider healthy. I don't fully understand what they consider healthy, but here's another. They're on life support. English Radio Bernard 12.8% of market share in 2018. 12.8. So that means like, you know, pretty much 90% of the country ain't listening to them again. And think about it this way.

They've got how many different. radio stations all across Canada. Well, that's what I mean. There's not very many places in Canada where you can't listen to them on FM, which has a shorter range than AM, right? So, I mean, pretty much you name it. Anywhere in Canada, you can find them on FM. And there's no other radio station that's even close to that.

And so even with all of that and the amount of just fucking bucket loads of cash they throw at this thing, this is the best they can do. That's pretty, it's a pretty wide. wild number isn't it like we're talking like not even a business like this is atrocious it's bad and I mean they're getting what did it say uh CBC's annual government funding has increased up to nearly 21% uh from 2016 to 1.24 billion in 2022 that's funding for all CBC's operations and not just English television but once again me and choose two's joke about this all the time I'm like like what would we do with 1.2 billion

I mean, like... Could you imagine if we had... If you could just tune in to the Tuesday mashup on FM radio anywhere in the country? Well, can you imagine? Like, all of a sudden, we just have, like... I feel like we'd have at least 15%. We didn't... I feel like it would be way more than 15%.

Oh, it would be. But I'm just saying, like, we wouldn't really even have to try to beat the CBC. It's true. Yeah, it's quite... That's quite the... Quite the article, to be honest. Like, just to see the numbers there. Like, it's, that is bad.

That is bad. Like, when you talk about life support, that is bad. No, I will not be removed. Windsor, we talked about this, I believe, last week, or was it two weeks ago? It doesn't matter. Two weeks ago. And then, so now this is. Follow.

Yeah. So, I mean, we don't, there's not a whole lot to say, but this is how it actually was resolved. And so I thought I was. Winzer Police Service Constable, we'll recall this. Michael Briscoe will forfeit 80 hours. Remember, he donated $50. to the trucker convoy. Anyways, he will now forfeit 80 hours of leave and rest days for his $50 online donation

to the Freedom Convoy in 2022. A 15-year member of the department, Briscoe, made the donation while he was on unpaid leave following his refusal to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19. Following a six-day police act hearing before retired OPP, Super Morris Elbers. In March, Briscoe was found guilty of discredible conduct. And sentencing was held May 4th with the decision on Thursday. This is the first blemish on an otherwise perfect record for this man. Correct. Correct.

With 15 or 18 years in the service, something like that? 15. 15. 15. Yeah. First, first blemish on it. They said the discredible conduct displayed by this officer was caused damage to the reputation of this organization. This is Albers once again. I feel like the horses did that already, buddy. Constable Briscoe betrayed the trust of his fellow officers. The community in the Windsor Police for service was quoted Elbers again. and he said the donation which was made was in total opposition to the hardworking police officers from across the province who worked day and night to keep the peace in Ottawa and Windsor specifically and elsewhere in this country.

Don't you know better? The only thing I think he did wrong here was when they decided that he was just guilty as fuck. And the prosecutors wanted 160 hours or sorry 140 hours of unpaid slavery essentially. and they went back and said it should only be 40. What he should have done was said, why only 140? Make it 280. Make it 560. Let's get those numbers up.

Show everybody exactly how punitive you guys can be for a $50 donation. Make it the next 10 years I work has to be for free. Go ahead. I dare you. That's what he should have said. When they said, when they said, we're going to pull the trigger and we just need to decide how hard to do it, he should have just looked him right in the eye and said,

go all the fucking way, asshole. He'd be a great, great guest on the mashup. Just saying, just saying if anybody knows Mr. Briscoe, I'd love to hear his story there, right? You know, just like sitting in court for that anyways. To be clear, to be clear, I absolutely commend him for what he did. Yeah. Yes.

Far Larry Minister grabs Moe by the Curleys. Oh, and I should point out, like, $50, too, is an absolute absurdity what they just did. Especially with inflation. Hey. Far, anyways, it would be against the law for Saskatchewan to run its coal-fired power plants after 2030 unless the greenhouse gas emissions from those plants are captured. Federal environmental, Mr. Stephen Gobot said, Wednesday. His comments come as electricity generation becomes the latest jurisdictional battle over climate policy between federal and provincial governments. Canada's current climate plan aims for all electricity to be emissions free by 2035 and regulations to enforce the target are expected later this year.

The draft policy published last year suggests that by 2035 all electricity will have to be clean such as hydroelectricity nuclear wind or solar. Either that or emissions will have to be abated somehow such as with carbon, capture and storage systems. Under proposals, some natural gas built before regulations are established would be able to operate after. That's a side note. Anyways. So Scott Moe said, we can't possibly do this.

It's impossible. We're going to try and get it done by 2050. And then Stephen Gilbaal said, well, that's going to be fucking illegal. Like, what's he going to do? Arrest Saskatchewan? Like, that's literally what he's saying. He's just like, like, where are you going to find handcuffs that big jackass? We're coming into some, we're coming into some interesting times, man.

Like, you know what? Actually, you know what? This would be perfect. He should arrest Saskatchewan and he should send it off to an island prison like Australia. And then it won't be landlocked anymore. And hey, let's get everything to tidewater. You think of all the big dates coming up, you know, 2030, which, you know, when I was younger, younger days, I'm like, God, it's forever away, you know, like seven years, oh my God.

But like as things pick up speed here, 2030, 2035 are going to be, well, it'll be interesting to see what happens here with all this jazz because you got, you know, the federal government just becoming more insane by the day. And then both of our problem, well, and I guess we'll wait and see. We'll see what the election brings on Monday here. If you're going to have, you know, lockstep Rachel Notley with the federal government and see where that goes to complete insanity. or if the UCP and Daniel Smith win,

and we'll see how much they continue to push back. Either way, to this is, you know, when Gabo is coming out and says, we've regulated the ban on coal through SEPA, which is a criminal tool that the federal government has, so not complying with this regulation, would be a violation of Canada's criminal code? You're like, this is, yeah, anyways,

we're going into complete absurdity here. It's going to be illegal. Well, I mean, it's going to be, pretty much illegal for us to do this once the CRTC figures out how they're going to enforce Bill C-11. It's going to be illegal to power up your devices to watch

this show or listen to it. It's going to be illegal to heat your house. Do you remember this? Bear with me a sec here. But in Russia back in the day, when they were when

they were killing off all the Ukrainian farmers and stuff like that, but they would shoot you in your field for eating a grain of wheat. And then eventually it got to the point where they would go around to houses. And if anybody was left alive, they would be like, well, obviously you're hiding food or obviously you're eating the communist food. Because if you weren't, you'd have starved to death already. So you're guilty. Right.

And it's like it's not exactly the same thing. But it's kind of along that same. line like oh i see your pipes haven't burst yet i still you see have running i still see you have running water obviously you're not running on wind and solar because it's fucking garbage so you're guilty oh they don't shit on you both shit on who shit hogs big dirty shit hogs federal government always always great always great for just an interesting story here's one the amazing versatility of QR codes you know when I first read this headline, folks, I was like, I wonder where twos is going with this.

Anyways, here it is. The Catholic Church will begin providing priests and bishops in France digital ID cards with QR codes. The IDs are part of a recommendation to fight sexual abuse in the church. The IDs are good for one year and will display any potential restrictions a priest or bishop may have. In addition to giving the name and date of birth of the priest, it will also indicate whether the person is allowed to be with a group of minors and whether they can be alone with a minor. Here's a fun idea. How about just don't have them be a priest? That's just, hey, that might be smart.

Like, we need to have... QR code says you're not allowed to be around kids. But you're going to teach me about faith. Punch me in the face, too. Anyway, in addition to giving the name and date of birth, the priest, it will also indicate whether the person allowed, blah, blah, blah, blah. The cards will be given to 16,000 Catholic leaders in France. The church said it's priests and bishops must be able to produce the idea upon request

by flashing the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The reason this is all happening, folks, is the Association Press reported back in 2021 that the church official has estimated that at least 330,000 French children were sexually victimized within the Catholic Church over a 70-year period. Sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church have been in a subject. I actually just watched Spotlight the other night, right? This isn't something new to the Catholic Church, you know, certainly. I just go, you know, why give them a cure or a car?

Why not just boot them out of this place? Be done with it. They're hurting children for the love of God. That is my thoughts. You just said everything I would have said. I've got nothing. Yeah, that was perfect. Governor General Office leads in style.

Governor, you know, we can't go a week without somebody spending an absorberate amount of money on something. Governor General Julie Paiet and Mary Simon expensed over $88,000 in clothing that they got to keep with taxpayer footing. the bill to arrange of items from ceremony or clothing from, it goes on and lists a whole bunch of different things. But essentially, yeah, $88,000 worth, I can rattle off all these things. I don't know if I need to.

No, no, the point is, is they're spending about $600 a week on clothing. Clothing. For people who make like five or six public appearances a year. Yeah.

Like, at best. At best. The article even found this, you know, the prime minister doesn't even get a penalty for clothing allowance. I don't know if I assume this article is right. And I was like, oh, okay, I didn't realize that. And went on to say the Governor General's annual salaries $342,000. And then it went on to say that office of the secretary to the Governor General spokesperson, Lynn Satir said in a statement said the Governor General is allowed to expense up to $130,000 in clothing purchased over a five-year mandate with a limit of $60,000 in one sitting year.

60 grand on clothing. You know, me and twos were just joking. What are you going to wear for the Tuesday mashap election coverage? I'm like, I don't know, I'm going to, maybe a pair of shorts and a, you know, good old t-shirt. I don't know. What are we going to do? I certainly ain't spending $60,000.

Thank you. You know, like with WTF folks, what the hell is going on? This is, this is it. This is just the exact perfect encapsulation of the Canadian government right here. A useless position that costs an exorbitant amount of money and is more worried about looking good than being effective. This is our country, folks. I tell you, you know, some days you just got to get to happy news. You can kind of have a little bit of a smile and be like, all right, here it is.

Happy news for you this week, folks. Wright to Kerry celebrates another win. The boy's younger sister was hunting for mushrooms in her backyard in Alpena on Wednesday when a 17-year-old appeared out of the woods behind the family's home. According to the Michigan State Police, the suspect grabbed the eight-year-old girl and held her mouth shut to surrender from screaming. He then attempted to pull her into the woods. Her older brother saw what was happening and started shooting at the suspect with none other

than a slingshot, hitting him in the head and chest. The suspect ran away and was later found hiding in the nearby gas station. He reportedly had injuries that appeared to have been caused by the slingshot. Officials announced that the suspect had been charged as an adult on account of attempted kidnapping and child enticement. So there's your happy news. A kid goes, you know, brings down them with a slingshot. I didn't even realize they still, you know, kids were still using slingshots. I saw some of Canadian tire the other day.

I was like, I should get one of them. But they didn't have, I always wanted the ones with like the actual armband. You know, you flip it open and then you got the arm. Yeah, I just, I just had just this green plastic one, which was great. But it wasn't super effective, or at least not as effective as it could have been. The slingshots, I feel like we all had them as kids. That was kind of the entertainment. We didn't have the, you know, like tonight before I came, you know, it was a long weekend.

So, Shade earned a little bit of time on the Switch. So me and him were playing Zelda. I'm like, I don't even know. He'd probably find a slingshot absolutely cool. Instead, you know, it's all these gizmos and gadgets that they have now. And back, you know, I sound like I'm dating, you know, I'm this old guy, which I don't think we are that old anyways. But back as we were kids, everybody had a slingshot.

Like the slingshot was just like standard, you know, a tool for a kid, I think, especially a farm chip. And then a couple of years later, you got the crack barrel. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. And then you'd have eraser fights in, in the basement of your friend's place,

until the parents were like, you know what? Because you just get one of those pink erasers. You'd break off a tiny little piece, put it in there, and you'd be shooting at each other. And they're like, you know, somebody's going to lose an eye. So don't do this anymore, you little assholes. Two's Mashup 56. It's been a pleasure.

You know, like literally, folks, twos is in Lloyd. We're going to be doing the next mashup in person, live streaming, all these good things. Well, I mean election coverage. Any thoughts here before we close the door on 56 and head towards something that I don't know whether it's going to be the Super Bowl of the mashup or whether it's going to be kind of like, you know,

that pickup hockey game where things kind of go off the rail and you're yelling car every two minutes. You know what? Even if it's just for some reason everything goes wrong. Like it's it's live TV right I mean there's there's gonna be some stuff that we don't see coming there's gonna be some something's gonna drop along the way we're gonna stutter someone's accidentally gonna say fuck shit

And would it be would it be any different of a mashup If there wasn't the odd f bomb thrown in there probably not No but I mean like there's there's just gonna be something's gonna go wrong Dustin's gonna forget to to do his fly up after he goes to take a leak and he's going to turn like bright red and embarrassed or something like that or you know like something fun at them at the rest of the time yeah that that's oh yeah absolutely yeah he'll he'll uh he'll try and jump in at some point we'll be like what what part what part are you most excited for what part you know what i i think people are really going to see the amount of effort we put

into it into making this like there's just there's a lot of panache going into this. There's a lot of details that is going to separate it from not, not that this is, not that this is Bush League by any means, but there's a lot more going in to this live election stream than people are going to think. Like, even just remember how surprised Marty was when he came on the Tuesday mashup. He's like, wow, you guys, there's, you know, I just kind of thought that it was going to be just freeballing. And you guys are so organized and have it all. You know, like, oh, these are the articles and this is what we're going to talk about and everything like that. And this is that on steroids.

Like we've got, we've got a lot of great stuff planned. It's not going to be a bunch of dead air where we're just wasting everybody's time. You're going to feel like it's time well spent. I think it's going to be a fun night. I'm most, I'm, that's, yeah, what are you most excited about? I personally think Nick Fondubbs could be the highlight of the entire night. You know? And I honestly don't know.

Maybe I'll be completely off on that. Maybe we'll get there and you'll be like, oh, that, you know, it's, you know, like, I have no idea. The dairy cartel calling in should be interesting, you know? Yeah. Like, Vance Crowe, I talked to him today. He's like, am I still on for this thing? I'm like, you're still on, big fella. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on either Rachel Notley or Daniel Smith led Alberta.

And you best do your homework. Oh, yeah, I'll do it. Yep, all right. So somewhere Bans Crow, Derry Cartel, that should be fun. But I think Nick Von Dubbs is going to take the cake, I think. I think he has the best opportunity to take the cake on this. Now, having said that, though, it's occurred to me that every single person we're having on is entirely capable of stealing the show from.

I think that's one thing that probably separates us from a lot of people is that we would jump at the chance to have a guest completely outshine. Well, the thing is, I hope all of our guests are trying to us. I hope the roundtable does its thing. You know, because one of the things I was saying to twos, you know, folks, is like, he's like a roundtable. Oh, yeah, what gets you? And I'm like, no, I'll host the roundtable. I need some political nerds to talk politics. And so to have a little bit of fun, you are a total, a nerd.

You absolutely are. It'd be no different than when the brothers get around and we start bantering on. all the the NHL stuff. I need that for an Alberta election. And I think we got three people who really enjoy politics. And those three talking about it should be interesting. Like I'm like, I'm actually very interested to see how that goes. It could be the worst part, could be the best part.

But yeah, you're absolutely right. We got a, like the list of characters coming on to give us their thoughts in a short abbreviated way. So it doesn't take half an hour to talk to one person, right? I think the listener needs to understand or the watcher is it's going to be, the pace won't be this crazy thing where every five minutes a new person, new person, new person, you never get to talk about the actual election. But there will be enough coming in each hour to break up the monotony of just like, and as you can tell by the map, it's blue and yeah, what would you like to talk about?

It won't be that. There's enough people, you know, with the expertise. T's coming on and I think that'll be a lot of fun either way I if it nobody watches it we're still gonna have fun doing it oh yeah yeah absolutely it's it's probably the greatest social experiment since COVID well twos appreciate hopping on again 56 and a shout out to our title sponsor our title sponsor iron jet exteriors for week yeah six if you're looking to get a deck built if you got gutter problems look no further.

Anything exterior. That's right. That's right. All right. We'll catch up to you next week, folks. I look forward to it, and we'll catch you then. Thanks, Sean.