Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #64

Episode Date: July 18, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include government overspending, She-Hulk sucks, Aaron Gunn new doc, classic Ottawa and an actual headline..seriously This week Major Sponsor is Phoenix Energy Services For more information head here: www.phoenixenergy.ca/ Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500 Bonus Material here: Patreon: www.patreon.com/ShaunNewmanPodcast Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast

It's funny to me, folks. You know, I just added twos in to the back so he can like edit things and whatever else in Streamyard, right? And so now we can actually see each other when we're sitting outside this. I was giving him the finger and he's giving me the finger back because I'm not letting him in. Oh, the mashup just gets funner and funner, I think, as we go along. No, it doesn't. I was actually going to go on a personal rant this week. I hit a deer.

Probably rode off, probably rode off my car. But here's the thing. is when I hit it, it went all down the side, and it shit itself as it died as things are wont to do. And it left this brown streak all the way along the side of my car, like a racing stripe from hell. And then you've heard of black don't crack? Black two's.

Twos don't bruise. I can literally tell you every single bruise that I have had since I was about 18. You know, I've had two black eyes. I pitched my bicep in between a couple joints of pipe, and I rolled my ankle playing soccer, and it was like the size of a football, and the whole thing was big and gross. And then the other day,

drop something on my foot. You don't even know why you worry about whether I'm going to give you a chance to rant. You just take over at the start anyways. I'm allowing it because you're wearing an ungovernable t-shirt today, and I'm like, you know what? We should get our own mash-up t-shirts that says ungovernable.

I'm just saying. I feel like it's already been taken, but we could come up with something else. Actually, funny story. The first time I ever wore this. Does it ungovernable have a rooster with balls on his chin, though? And put it ungovernable above it. I'm just saying.

I think it can work. We can do something like that. I think it could work. Actually, the first time I wore this shirt, though, was at your event, Lloyd, one of them. And Shane Getson was there, and I was in line to get a drink. He walks in. We've never met before. He doesn't know who I am.

But I'm like, oh, hey, there's Shane Getson. He says, nice shirt, man, because it's from the ungovernable, movie that he was in. And he's actually kind of in the other one that we're going to talk about in a little bit. Well, I watched today's one. So, I mean, there's that, hey? You did. I did.

Hey? Wow. Pat on the back for Sean. Welcome to Mashup 64. If you have no idea what the heck we're talking about with ungovernable. That's a longstanding joke here on the show about, anyways, it doesn't matter. Matchup 64, brought to you by Phoenix Energy. services powering your future together electrical engineering instrumentation and electrical focal automation

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It's always nice to get positive feedback. And, you know, I always kind of wonder, you know, like, do they listen? Are they always listening? And then when Garden Girl was commenting live while we were live, I was like, wow, this is. So was Zane. Yeah, Zeebs. Did you got the picture that he actually got the hat, right? Yeah, we started chatting a little bit.

Although I told him now I'm going to have to get him an actual hat because that's that white hat anyways. You know, two's in his white hat. It's a whole rigor thing, folks. I don't even want to get into it. That's because you wouldn't understand it. That's probably true. That's probably true. Okay, well, I'm sitting here. It is, you know, I don't have a broom closet like the last time I was on holidays a year ago. We've upgraded a little bit. We'll try not to wake any kids, that type of thing. I was joking, you know, with twos before we started.

I've almost had a new co-host with the youngest. He was right into it as I was setting up, and he was quite curious what the heck was going on. One day, maybe he'll listen and understand. Either way, hopefully not till he's older. Hopefully not until he's over. You know, it's funny because Wednesday I have Charlotte Sebastian on the podcast. I don't know who that is. I don't think so.

She's one of the moms that had a kid in the grade nine class in Lumsden. and I was telling her about the Tuesday mashup and I'm like, yeah, I should have had like a warning after I listened to it again today. I'm like, oh man, like I just rattled them off, you know? And I'm like, well, people know now what it was all about, right? They ain't going to find that anywhere else in the Canadian media landscape. Everybody else was kind of like, one here, one there.

I was talking about it with Ken. And I was like, yeah, so Sean went through the entire alphabet. And then there's me thinking like, is he going to keep going? Like I kind of want them to stop. I think this is a little bit much. And so it's just such an interesting change of roles where twos think Sean needs to dial it back a little bit. You know, it's funny. I went back through all the articles like CBC Global Western Standard.

And they all, it's funny, like CBC picked out like bisexual. Yeah, they want to shut down. And they try and frame it as like these conservatives can't handle these words. And I'm like, you morons, that isn't what it is. I'm kind of happy now that the mashup just hits. Here's what it is, folks. Yep. Don't let anybody frame it as one thing.

Here's what it is. There's some terms in there that aren't a big deal. There's some terms in here that are a big deal. Anyways. Yeah, and whoever doesn't like it can go fells for themselves. And if you don't know what that is, go back and listen to the episode. All right, let's get on with today's show. Why not start it with the Governor General gives glim guffs?

Governor General Mary Simon's first overseas trip as a vice regis. to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair and meet with German leaders cost taxpayers over 700 grand and travel expenses for the four-day visit, including over 100,000 in-flight catering costs. I feel like I'm on Groundhog Day right now, but hey, that's just me. Well, that's because this is, it's one that we just mentioned briefly, but we didn't, the problem with this Governor General is that there are so many of these spending scandals that we haven't even covered them all. And so this is one from March that I think we just briefly mentioned kind of in an ancillary fashion. There's a new one. And that's Iceland. Well, I just wanted to bring this up because this was, you got to love Black Lox reporter.

I know we give them a ton of time here. Even Holly mentioned it to me once a lot of time. And Tom's mentioned the same thing. But it's just like, I don't know where we'd be without those two. Yeah. Fed's guest of honor sponsorship of German book fair with appearances by the governor, It costs more than $18 million. The fare lasted four days.

So, you know, I hate to break it to everybody. That's our money going there. And then the newest one is, and of course I didn't, where did I put it? I don't know where I put it. How much was it to? It was on a limo. $71,000 worth of limos in Iceland. And Franco Tarzano from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Chris Sim's boss,

who's no such himself by any means, right? who's coming on the podcast next week. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. I was actually going to mention it. You know what? I should just tell you live on the air. Like, hey, you should have this person.

Yeah, I'm all for it. And he's one of them that I think would do really well. I think would be a great episode. But I saw somebody comment, and maybe it was from his video. I can't remember where it was. But somebody said she could have literally bought a new BMW in Iceland, drove it around. That was him, drove it around for the, the,

four-day trip and left it parked at the airport with the keys in it and it would have been cheaper than the limos that they got it's true but that would also require our government to not give a shit about you know or to give a shit apologies about spending money and they don't they don't they don't care they don't like this goes back to the the the you remember the the the flight from what was it regina to north battlefield what was the flight and and and we're like man for for that type of money we could hired the most kick-ass limo service showed you the greatest time of your life and it would still cost a tenth of the price. Oh yeah.

Even, you know, throwing whatever you want. All the beef Wellington. You know, that, so anyway, the thing about it is with this attorney general is that I, it almost, it's happening so much into such an extreme level that it has to be on purpose at this point. And so I'm really wondering why she's pushing the envelope. well it's not that she doesn't care this this isn't just oh yeah i didn't realize it or oh i didn't know this has to be a focused attempt to spend as much fucking money as possible like there's

there's some kind of a vendetta to settle or or she wants to point out how how stupid position is or something like that i i don't know i don't understand it but this isn't accidental this you know once is coincidence twice as happenstance three times as it's enemy action, right? And this has happened, what, a half dozen, eight times? Well, I mean, here, here, in-flight meals for the trip. Now, I'm going back to the one to Germany, to the book fair, cost $103,000. With no breakdown, because the one to, the one to India, was it, or Abu Dhabi? I can't remember which. Yeah, it showed how much the orange juice cost and everything. And then this one, it's just like, nope, blacked out, national security. Oh, and here's Ken McCamond.

says sickening, no accountability whatsoever. Yeah, we hear you loud and clear. And she gets a lifetime pension whenever she's done with this job. I feel like we're just in the wrong industry. I know I say this lots, but I'm like, I just need a government. Can a Tuesday mashup get a government contract? We'll be laughing to us. We'll just be rolling in the money.

We could say whatever we want. We can keep the show the same way that it is. And honestly, you know, even if they face backlash, all they're going to do is just, oh, we didn't know and cut us off. But in the meantime, we just charge whatever we want. Anyways. Yeah. Oh, no.

We're laughing all the way to the bank. Western colonialism hits hard in documentary. This is Aaron Gunn. His new documentary, Fractured Nation, the pillaging of Western Canada, the documents, you know, going back to the first Trudeau and essentially, you know, the divisiveness between East, West. It's interesting. This is a lot like that ungovernmental. movie in terms of concept,

but in terms of the execution and how it makes you feel it's completely different. Why do you think that is? Well, I mean, you got different people with different visions, right? But I kind of felt like after I finished watching Ungovernable, you know, it kind of made me want to beat my chest a little

bit. And this one, it just made me want to flip over a table and light something on fire. Like when, I don't know. Tell me, did you think the same way? Well, you know, it taught me a couple things, and I know I should probably know all this, but when it brings up the nine Supreme Court judges, there's two that are appointed between New Brunswick, Newfoundland, P.E.I, Nova Scotia, so the East Coast.

There's two between British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. Then there's three, three for Ontario, three for Quebec. Six and six. What? No, you're talking, no, you're talking Senate. Oh, I might be talking Senate. I'm talking nine Supreme Court judges. Two, two, and then Quebec gets three. Ontario gets three.

Right? So what the documentary basically says is like, if this is the way it'll be for the rest of time, Canada is doomed to be done. Because eventually you just get to a tipping point where population and everything else just says, like, listen, Like, this is no longer equal. It isn't equal right now.

You got four between eight provinces, and that's not even including the territories, and you got six between two provinces. Now, you could argue years and years ago, it made sense, sure, but not anymore. And the longer it goes on, that's what the documentary talked to me, is the longer it goes on, the worse this gets, because the population is changing, it's growing. The West is becoming more and more independent. when you don't get representation,

the, you start kicking buckets of tea into the ocean. Pretty much. Well, I mean, the, the Senate, the, even our members of parliament,

the Supreme Court, it's, it's kind of like the Alaskan border dispute all over again. Do you remember hearing about that in high school, how the, the border between Alaska and the Yukon and BC was just kind of a vaguely drawn line and nobody knew where it began or ended,

but when the gold rush happened, people started caring about where that line was because they cared about which side of that line the gold came out of. And so Canada said, we think it's here and the state said we think it's there. And it went back and forth. And then the state said, okay, we'll tell you what. If you guys really think it should be there, we'll fight you for it.

And they said, you know, let's just go to war. Let's go to war and let's see what happens. Fuck around and find out. you know like that deer that shit on my car after I killed it you fuck on me I fuck on you okay and so anyway so they said well hold on hold on we'll figure this out with a delegation

and so there was if I recall correctly there was five guys from the states that were voting on this two from Canada and three from Britain yeah and then right yeah and guess how it went that's how it went yeah well and and going to the Senate what you were talking about.

In the Senate seats by province, this is the breakdown. BC has six, Alberta, 6, Saskatchewan 6, Manitoba 6, Yukon 1, Northwest Territories, one, none of it won, Newfoundland 6, New Brunswick 10, Nova Scotia 10, which is a combined total of 53, if my math is correct. Ontario gets 24, Quebec gets 24 for a combined total of 48. So the only way you're getting things done in the Senate. New Brunswick has 10. Has 10. And Alberta has 6.

Correct. Correct. Just explain that to me. I can't. So I just go, the thing that the documentary did was it just, it just, those were the two, when it broke it down nice and clear, I'm like, oh wow. Well, you know, I should know all this, but it put it in such crystal terms, kind of like what Chris Sims does.

Yeah. You're just like. Oh, it's very well done. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, you know, when people talk about separation, that's what they're talking about. It's just like, listen, you're forcing our hand because we can't get equal representation out to the West for what it can't. And it contributes an awful lot.

And yes, I'm talking about energy sector, dollars and cents, that type of thing to what Canada brings in. They're a huge part of it. Yep. Have you looked at unrelated notes? Somebody's talking about the GDP of states and provinces. And the bottom ones, like the bottom six are all parts of Canada or something like that. And then you've got, you know, a few more, a couple spots up. Alberta's head and shoulders above everybody else in Canada.

Saskatchewans a few steps down. But there, I don't know, Alberta is like top 10 or something like that in the 50 states and the 13 provinces and territories. And yeah, like all the bottom ones, Eastern Canada, Central Canada. The people who made Sheehawk demand to be taken seriously. Oh, man. Once again, this has been a long, long storyline on the old mashup. Disney extended the contract of CEO Bob Iager for two years last week, and since then he has wasted no time in admitting that the company has difficult road ahead of it. In a recent interview with CNBC's David Faber, Iger suggested Disney was perhaps spreading itself too thin and may reign its television production to focus on films, which have been its bread and butter for decades.

Iger argued the perceived failures were not reflective of a personnel problem, but rather the fact that Disney in its attempt to beef up its streaming content had simply run its employees to the grand. round. Marvel is a great example of that, he argued. They have been in the TV business at, they have not been in the TV business at any significant level. Not only did they increase their movie output, but they ended up making a number of television series, and frankly, it diluted focus and attention. And of course, the show's sucked is what they were saying. The shows sucked and they're looking to jettison. Okay. And now there's, uh, there's a writer's strike going on.

Of course. because strike the actors are are on strike in yeah so you've got Mark Ruffalo and I love the caption

at the top go to the caption at the top get my poor clothes on one of the people who wrote She Hulk is mad because he made $396 for that episode

but here's the thing is it sucked it sucked a lot this is a really bad show and so you've got it's interesting like they want guarantees that AI is never going to take their jobs that automation will never take them over

nobody's job can guarantee that at all right and like they just Disney's going off a cliff and they've just been losing money hand over fist yep

okay perfect Shelby Boy, Disney has gone woke And the people are finally realizing it We are tired of agendas being shoved down our throat Have you seen the pictures from the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarves movie? I have not. Okay. So they want more diversity in the dwarves

Because dwarves and midgets aren't a minority already. They've got to have more diversity. So only one of them is an actual midget And the rest is a We Are the World hodgepodge of random ethnicities. You're so you finally have a movie that can have over a half dozen midgets in it. And they decide not to give them that job because they want. So is that the only midget right there?

Yep. Yep. That's the right. And, you know, it's too bad. Like, I get it. They're not the focal point of the movie. They're probably a very small role. but

yeah yeah so so yeah well i mean yeah snow white goes head and shoulders above the rest of them in the cartoon right it's just it's an absolutely like you think about this because they're always just like we need more diversity representation

right we need more minority representation and then they say okay well you know what this is this is a literal and figurative minority and we can have seven of them in this fucking movie yeah nope nope they cut out Six. Shelby Boyd, is there a female door?

It looked like to me, I already cut it out. Did you just assume her gender, Shelby? For two's Shelby Boyd was just on the podcast on Friday, I think, talking homeschooling. Home school? Yes, yes. Interesting chat that's garnered a little bit of an, well, quite a bit of attention, actually from the phone line. Anyways. I love the take on it where, like, oh, you know what?

like if you if you let the bureaucracy get out of the way you can handle a whole days worth of school in an hour or two and then he got the whole rest of your time free to not you know like it's it's funny because it's true it seems i was thinking there's a big corollary there between public and private sector where all this stuff that just goes way over budget it takes way too long if you just let somebody who has an incentive to get it done go in and figure it out they'll do it. Liberals take the idea of investing in Ukraine a bit too seriously. Records revealed that the public safety minister Marco Menasino's wife owned shares in defense contractor involved in the Ukraine war.

According to Blacklock's reporter, these holdings are part of a substantial stock portfolio owned by the Mendocino family. In a document submitted to the ethics commissioner, Mendocino revealed that his wife Diana Linetta owned shares in Northrop Grumman Corporation, the company is a leading supplier of weapons. to Ukraine. Northrop, Grunman, has provided Ukraine with fighter jets, artillery shells, radar systems, and anti-drone cannons. These supplies were part of a war contract made through agreements with the U.S. government. The company's stock increased by 39% last year after Russia invaded Ukraine. This is exactly what Nancy Pelosi does all the time. She's like, it's not me holding the stocks. It's my husband. Right? it's not insider trading.

I'm not the insider. I'm the insider, but I'm not the one trading. It's my husband who's doing it. And that makes it totally fine. And so, like, lo and behold, like, we just heard the other day that we're giving Ukraine another half billion dollars. Like, honestly, like when it comes to this stuff, Justin Trudeau is like a blind man wiping his ass. He doesn't know when to stop. And now you find out that there.

MPs are getting paid on the backside of this. Speaking of not knowing when to stop wiping your ass. Okay, this is just it's the kind of shit you'd expect from a rotten to the core, swamp that needs to be drained, U.S. military machine. But nope,

it's some guy named Marco in Ontario who happens to toe the line for Justin Trudeau's liberal bullshit. Ottawa, being a kid is a legal you can't make this up. You just can't make this up. Now, people aren't going to be able to read the sign.

So, you know, for the people listening, there's a sign on the front of a basketball hoop sitting on the driveway. Anyways, several portable basketball nets in neighborhood near the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus are causing a stir after an anonymous resident complained to Ottawa bylaw regarding their proximity to the street. Rosalind Pakega, resident of the neighborhood, expressed confusion over the nature of the complaints, were really all concerned. kind of scratching our heads as to what the actual issue is, she said. She moved her basketball net back from the street in response, but that prompted another complaint one, and he moved even further from the road. So in an attempt to catch the attention of an anonymous complainer,

she put the family, or the family put up a bright pink sign, basically saying they're just kids and they want to play basketball. Yeah. So interesting thing. Most people don't know this, but you really only own about half of your front yard. and the rest is owned by the town or the city.

And so they were complaining that while the basketball nets were moved back off the street, they're still technically on city property. This is somebody who does a deep dive into the bylaws and looks into right away stuff and figures out, you know, exactly how to screw around. This person's a dummy. There's a reason why they're anonymous twos, right? Oh, yeah, for sure. You wouldn't do this and put your name on it, right?

That should be a rule, though. If you're going to complain about something as petty as basketball hoops, your name goes on it. Because if you're not going to put it, if I'm the police officer, I'm just like, listen, if you're not signing a name this, I ain't bringing this forward. This is the biggest load of crap that I have to deal with on a daily basis. This is like below meaningless. This is meaningless. This is stupid.

It's absolutely insane. I used to have these two neighbors back in the day. And they had been neighbors for 20, years before I'd even met him. And one was in the process of redoing the exterior of his house when the housing crash happened in like 2008 or nine or something like that. Okay. And then he didn't have enough money to finish it because he was just trying to keep

everything afloat. And so the front of his house was Tevec wrap for a couple of years. And then finally the neighbor across the street got sick of it and telling him to figure a shit out and phone bylaw on him. And then when that guy built his new deck, the other guy called bylaw enforcement on him because it was something like four inches too close to the fence. Like,

because you've got to have something like a 43 inch clearance between your deck and the fence or some stupid thing like that. And his was like 39. And so he had to cut the whole end off of his deck and redo it. There's a special place in hell for those people. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's just classic Ottawa. I remember when Rachel Gilmore

when the protests were first starting in Ottawa, her complaint was that they hadn't filled out the proper paperwork with the city, with the town. Did I just see Rachel Gilmore post another photo of another booster? Yes. And did you see your fridge in the background? No. I was... It's got a big fistmark in it in the freezer. I was just so dumbfounded. Why should we post that?

Well, because she farms, she anger farms hate clicks. That's, that's her thing. She doesn't have any relevance. She doesn't speak of anything interesting. She doesn't have neat insights. All she does is try to talk about things where people are going to call her an idiot or a or a horrible person. That's,

that's all she brings front to back. And apparently she's got a mean left hook because she put a big fucking dent in the freezer of that fridge. I bet you it was on the day she went from being a journalist to being a former journalist. People who still like Trudeau are the real minorities. It's never a good sign when your leader of your country gets the Gary Betman treatment at a major event. And it's funny, as soon as I read this, earlier today, I had literally seen him walk in and get booed. And I put it up on Instagram.

No, Trudeau. Okay. And I put it up on Instagram. I'm like, oh, man, like when the leader of your country gets the Gary Betman treatment, everybody's laughing about it. So I read this article. I was just laughing. I'm like, everybody in Canada's thinking the same thing at this point.

Heck, if you follow the NHL at all, you're thinking the same thing. It's never a good sign when the leader of your country gets the Gary Betman treatment at a major event. During the opening weekend at North American Indigenous Games, which is being held in Halifaxes here. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was loudly booed when making his speech. And you couldn't even hear him. Just all you have to imagine, folks, is when Gary Bettman walks in to hand off the Stanley Cup and everybody booze them, you know, and, you know, that's what it was. was. I mean, that was literally what it was. The exact same thing, except to

a guy who was a foot taller. And, you know, if that wasn't enough, I can, I can certainly, we can toss in these as well. You know, yes. So, now the Muslims. Now the Muslims have started. The Muslims who don't drink, swear or eat pork

have now went out and bought fuck Trudeau flags. Oh, man. And then here's this. Someone's, there's there's some jokes out there that a person could make about jihads. Like, because this is starting to escalate.

You've got like all of these minority groups and majority groups and all sorts of people who just think, just stay the fuck away from our kids. And people are treating them as though it's this ridiculous, you know, extremist view.

And Trudeau is making a lot of enemies right now. What's the next one? Well, the next one's Elon Musk. thinks Justin Trudeau is a clown as the it just keeps going. Justin Trudeau blames American right wing for Muslims opposing

LGBT curriculum leave our kids alone and then Elon Musk puts a clown underneath you know. This is where we're at. The fundamentalist versions or the more fundamentalist groups of Muslims will literally

throw gay people off of buildings. It still happens. There's places where being gay is illegal where you will go to jail for that stuff, which I won't get into. And these are the people who are being swayed by far rights into thinking it's wrong. They thought it was wrong a long time ago. Here's Kevin McCam again.

The Muslim Christian Alliance claims they were going to have a million persons match against Trudeau this fall. March, I think. March, yeah, March. Yeah, March. And I wouldn't doubt it. Honestly, I wouldn't wouldn't doubt it. Didn't I say on here, maybe the best. thing that's happening right now is like sworn enemies for thousands of years are marching side by

side about what's going on in Canada. It's wild. Sorry, he just commented and said March. Does that mean it's happening in March, not the fall? Did you see? Anyways, that that's sweet. Shelby Boyd put anger farms, hate clicks. Uh, ha ha ha, might have to steal that. There you go. Go for it. And then Chris, uh, uh, uh, uh, Coors said, Aaron Gunn documentaries are so well done. You're not wrong there whatsoever. But regardless, I come all the way back around it. The best thing that might be coming out of this is Muslims and Christians have kind of bonded together and been like, okay, we need to get that.

Like, we need to move this along. Like, this has got to end. Anyways, there you go. Ken's just dropping spelling mistakes all over the face. We're going to put the buzzer on our viewers tonight, you know? And you just got buzzed. I think you're the first commenter to ever get the buzzer. So congratulations.

Activists single-handedly stopping climate change, do I have to say any more than just watch the video? This is the most absurd. So they got their hands glued to the road. The guy's getting it chipped off. He's angry at them. You're like, yeah, you're a moron. And then there's this one of the two girls.

Look at the hands, folks. Look at their hands. I love that. Instead of getting the hands out all nice and clean, they just honestly, they should have made that slab about five times bigger. They should be like, okay, we'll cut you out. Just make it like the size of a fucking car. I mean like, okay, well, you're free to go. You can leave any time you want.

Meanwhile, they got a 400 pound slab glued to their fucking wrist. It's actually not a terrible thought. I mean, I just don't understand the thought process of gluing your hand to a roadway. I just, well, it's because it's this idiotic stuff that gets attention. And I've been saying it before and other people are starting to say it too. But just leave them there. Like honestly, after about two or three days, they're going to figure, they're, they're going to get somebody to get them out of there somehow and they're going to learn their lesson.

Do you remember when the Greenpeace people came up from Brazil in February, I think it was, to protest in Fort Saskatchewan? no i was thinking of the the one that came to mind was the one in germany where the guy needed to use the he needed the bathroom and they're complaining about the conditions of where they protest that's one the park yeah because the car dealership just shut the lights off that's right and turn off the heat yeah but okay so i i think this is probably about 10 12 years ago but a bunch of greenpeace people came up from brazil in the middle of winter to protest oil and gas in Canada and so they climbed up onto the tanks at the refinery in Fort Sask in minus 40.

I mean, none of them died, but they had to get rescued. And you just think like, honestly, this is a problem that will solve itself. We don't need any market intervention in this. This is the Dodo Bird stuff we were talking about last week. To do. Okay. Like, honestly, if we just let these people do their thing. we won't have to deal with this anymore.

Okay. Like, yeah, okay, maybe we'll have to clean up a carcass that's still glued to the road. But let it happen. And then it happens a few more times. These people aren't reproducing. They're not making more babies. The people from Brazil who come up in minus 40 wearing like t-shirts and flip-flops to protest climate change on the top of 400-barrel tank.

That is going to sort itself out real fucking quick. I don't know why we keep trying to solve this problem. Let the market do it. Free market. Let natural selection work itself out. There's Shelby, Shelby Boy. No. Oh, man.

Okay, here we go. Let's, let's, uh, uh, uh, who, here we go. No, no, I'm bouncing around. No, that's it. Okay, go back again. Actual headline. Actual headline. This might be a first.

I was like trying to find, like, do I, do I get a victory song? But it's so bad that it's, it can't. a victory? Like, what do you I put here? Man for Man's Earth Band. I don't know if this has happened, folks. Actual headline, fireflies facing threats of light pollution. Yep. I'm just going to let that one marinate for a second because Tews didn't actually think that

one up. I was like, yeah. I mean, you just look at it. You're like, how can I improve on perfection, right? Okay, so Aaron Fairweather remembers seeing fireflies as a child for the first time and swarms of twinkles. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, yeah, sorry, go ahead. Pardon me. You know, folks, he does this from time to time.

I apologize. I apologize to time. He does this from time of time. You know, anyways. Twinkles of flashing lights across the surface of lake near St. John New Brunswick illuminating summer's night. Fairweather, who uses that they them pronouns was fly fishing with their father at the time. Now the research associated the University of Guel fears its threats as climate change and light pollution could snuff out these luminescent insects depriving future generations of the magic they experienced as a child.

And then it carried on and it said, while number of the fireflies has remained steady this summer, I'm going to say that one more time, while the number of fireflies has remained steady this summer compared with last year. But they haven't declined. Overall numbers of these bugs have decreased about 35% over the last five decades. Fairweather said. Then it goes on to say, Candace Fallon, senior biologist, the American Conservation Group,

Zerces Society, which is the lobbyist in the United States government to extend endangered status to fireflies. And then it went on to say, Fallon is the lead author of a study published in 2021

in the journal of PLOS 1, suggesting that one, that up to one in three fireflies species may be threatened with extinction and that some species might disappear before they are even discovered. My question is, how can they, how, how, like, can we just posit that to anything

we haven't discovered yet? I have so many questions. First off, if this is about light pollution and climate change, who the fuck cares what the guy's pronouns are? Why is that one of the, the leading things in this article? If you want it to be taken seriously, you don't step into the ring with they, them pronouns. You talk about what's actually going on with them, right? I actually left them there just for you. I wanted to read them off just for you twos. The light pollution is interfering with the fireflies. Did they develop eyeballs in the back of their fucking heads?

They literally have a light bulb on their ass as Sean. Are they putting little rearview mirrors on them now? What the article was stating was that because of lights, they attract mates because of their light shows essentially. and that lights don't allow it to work the same way. Yeah, they're just like DJs. Sure. Okay, sure.

There's a little bit of truth. You lose me when you say they might be, like, species are going to, might disappear before they were even discovered. What? Yeah. So, I mean, technically that's true of anything. That's what I mean. Right.

Like, it's just, it's that whole kind of, you can't disprove a negative. Bigfoot's going to be extinct because, you know, we're, Bigfoot might have already gone extinct before we discovered it. I'm just. Ogo Pogo. That Loch Ness monster, right? And I mean, I still, how many Bud Lights are going extinct? They're all going extinct.

They're all going extinct. Is that where we're going next? I have no idea. No, we're going to, we're going to the Green Party, Elizabeth May. This one, well, Well, anyways, Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May says the health issue that side, because the way, so for the listener, two sends me like a list of articles for each one broke down. So I was like reading them and thinking it was kind of in a storyline and he slammed in the bottom one. And that's what I put to the top because I'm like, this might be the actual story anyways.

Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May says that the health issue that sidelined her over the last week turned out to be a stroke. when I read that I was like oh then the rest of it is like whatever like I mean don't get me wrong it was a wonderful story of the other stuff but she she had a stroke hospitalized I agree yeah miss May said that her doctor has told her she suffered she suffered bleeding into the tissues of her brain otherwise known as a hemorrhagic stroke am I saying that wrong hemorrhagic yeah yeah it's you see all the time in eco-fascist bleeding in the the brain now no the other part of the story is the reason why he says being an MP is so very very hard and this is why the two didn't line up for me she's actually had a stroke and

I mean if you go down the Twitter rabbit hole everyone's like well how many times did she do the deed you know and so you're like yeah I kind of get him yeah well or or she's almost 70 years old and people who are 70 years old tend to start having strokes I don't know I'm not a doctor twos I have no idea this is what her husband said in any other we acknowledge that people cannot do their best work when they're overtired here with those who are arguably responsible for some of the most important decisions in the country we expect them and to handle routine 16 hour days in and out of Parliament constant travel instant responses to matter of urgency from

constituents and the press to be available for any and all local matters for instance Elizabeth has attended with love and joy nine high school graduation ceremonies this year each a two or three hour event plus travel to and fro. And all the while expecting them to be alerted, and smart. In any decent union job, the grievances would be flying thick and fast.

And here, folks, is the best. So in regards to that, here's the best, here's the best tweet. Overwork time. Let's see. House of Commons, 2020, 86 days sitting, 236 in recess. 2021, 95 days sitting, 132 in recess. 22, 129 days sitting, 187 in recess.

And how many of them was she working from home for? I digress. I digress. So the, I'm worked out. Yeah, I don't think any of us are looking at our politicians like that right now. I could be wrong to, too. Yeah. I call our politicians a lot of things.

A lot of people call our politicians a lot of things. I don't think anybody calls them overwereux. worked. No, no. Chris says what I'm thinking. It does. It does. And I mean,

you know, like one of these days, she's going to get one more booster. She's going to go in for a 19th shot. And that is going to straighten itself out, though. And Zane says we need to have term limits by all means on all government levels. It's interesting. That was one of the Maverick.

party planks and I didn't I didn't really like the idea of it and I know Terrick Elnag is a big fan of that idea and it's something that I've been chewing around and I'm I'm warming to the idea but I'm not there yet I don't know I got to I don't know think about it in the shower a bit more or something liberals put Canada in a textbook abusive relationship this is all about uh once again this is the ever continuing story about essentially Canada trying to force on Google meta all these different social media is to you know pay them and Google here it is Google cuts out Canada from its AI chatbot launch it's navigating Canada's regulatory uncertainty so here's some of the shrapnel that's

come out of it the AI chatbot will be launched in 230 countries and territories except for Afghanistan North Korea Russia China and Canada that list now. We are one of those countries. You can get it in Nibibia and Zimbabwe. Okay, this is crazy. Like, this is why I have been trending

on Malaysian politics. I talked about it before, but it keeps going. I have been a mainstay on the charts of Malaysian politics for like a fucking month now. Okay? And it's all because of VPNs. So apparently

Canadians can't see Canadian news on Instagram anymore. This is the fairy man's toll. And it shows that, you know, if I zoom in here. There were so many of those all over the place. Global news, people can't see this content. CTV news, people can't see this content. CBC, nobody's looking for this content. And then he's got a picture of the Hulk saying, I see this an absolute win.

Okay. That's good. Here's the thing is liberals aren't great when it comes to logic, right? but their logic behind the carbon tax or the price on pollution is that when people have to pay more to do something, they're going to do less of it, right? Okay. That's the idea. Now, it doesn't take into a factor inelastic demand as quick Dick McDick got all antsy about me for breezing past one time. So I didn't do it this time.

But when you put a price on something, people are going to do less of it. Okay. And then they go to Facebook and Google and Twitter and everybody else. And they say, every time you share Canadian news, it's going to cost you money. Well, now they're not doing it anymore, right? All they're saying is that if you do this, we are going to tax you. And then they say, okay, well, I guess we're not going to do it then. And then they get mad.

And then there's all these tweets about, oh, the forest fires on Vancouver Island. And people can't be informed because Google isn't doing their. part and meta isn't doing their part like look what you're making us do to the citizens look what you're making us do by standing up for yourselves this is classic textbook abuse of relationship behavior it's the whole like why do you make me beat you mentality and this is it in legislation the roof the roof the roof is on fire that was a poor version of you know it's from a song yeah anyways um i don't know i don't know what to say here I'm going to do it anyways, but here we go.

Okay, here's three different news articles. An already warming Earth steam to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree. 0.13 degrees Celsius. Okay? With global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. That's one.

Toronto Star. So far this summer is more than apparent that global. warming is hitting home like never before raging forest fires across the country floods in quebec bc mc uh sorry floods in bc and quebec a monster tornado tearing through central alberta canada did we miss something was there a monster tornado tear through like i know there was a tornado but it was a monster was it don't not at all it um you know it's one of those do people not realize like i i don't know about you two's but i remember being a kid i remember tornadoes like the tornadoes are not new to us

If you go to the community past your next town over from where I grew up, and if you're just walking around in there looking for a deer or something like that, there's spots where you can find the remnants of a granary, like in the middle of the bush from a tornado that I think was in like 88 or 89 or something, right? I mean, this is stuff that happened. It happened a long time. And this was way before, I mean. Emmington's been hit by a bloody tornado.

For Pete's sake. Anyways, CTV had, the final one I had written down was Tropical Oceans close to the equator in particular have become greener in the past two decades, reflecting changes in their ecosystem according to study published Wednesday in the journal, Nature.

What is clear, they said, is that changes are being driven by human-induced climate change, dirty, dirty humans. Yep. The one I really want you to focus on, though, and this is that I told us so moment, is the COVID parent tweet where he's got the screen cap of CTV

a heat wave named Cerberus has Southern Europe in its jaws and it's only going to get worse See that's that's really pertinent Because Cerberus was a three-headed dog Who guarded the Gates to Hades In Greek pathology So I mean there's quite a lot of jaws there

But remember what I was saying How they just they just come up with like ridiculous wrestling names And they just try and make things as scary as possible Correct Like, you know, we went from... Cereberous. Yeah, well, with typhoons and whatnot, it's male names, female names, back and forth.

But now that isn't scary enough. So if we're going to do this, we're going to name it after scary shit from mythology. If you want it to be taken seriously, have a plain discussion about it, Sean. Don't try and drum it up with just dramatic bullshit. I realize this. I realize this.

Bud Light. Light on sales. I was kind of waiting for a Bud Light story. Here you go. There have been widespread reports on social media that some Costco stores could stop selling Bud Light after multiple photos emerged showing the product marked with an asterisk which a number of consumer websites have reported means

it could be discontinued from the branch. Quoted, any item with an asterisk on the price tag means that an item is leaving Costco soon. That could mean either the item will not be restocked because Costco decided to stop carrying it or that the item will be discontinued by the manufacturer, so it will no longer be available anywhere.

That's how bad this is, is that Costco, where it's just buy your shit in bulk, is not even selling it anymore. And this is going to be a huge cut because like when you get, when you get cases of beer at Costco, what is it? It's like 36es or 48s or maybe even 60s?

I can't remember. I don't I just usually go to the local one but I've been in there and it's it's something like that like it's just classic giant Costco size like you don't just buy a few beer you buy beer and so if their sales are hurting now imagine when they're not selling five cases at once

yeah I mean I have Costco's bailing on you warms my heart twos warms my heart fuck around find out just like that time that deer shit all over my car as I killed it you're not going to let that one go are you it was crazy Sean it was absolutely crazy Alberta takes over federal dropped ball

this is our happy news okay Alberta government is building four large capacity treatment centers on First Nations land and will provide operational funding for these centers this is federal jurisdiction but because of this federal failure Alberta is stepping up to partner with First Nations. Me and Two's, not in this issue, but me and twos have often talked on here or on the podcast of, you know, the water well thing. Why don't provinces just step up and do it? I mean, at this point, it's like, I mean, there are neighbors too and everything else.

It's like, let's just fix a problem. Let's move on with life. This is ridiculous. And here, well, here you go. Yeah, this is exactly the kind of thing that I, thought would be great and that we've talked about and you know you seem to be on the same page as me on this i'm not trying to speak for you here but where even if we're sending even if ottawa is spending billions of dollars on a problem that they're never solving because there's a bunch of bureaucrats

and gatno who get paid to not solve it well if your local community actually wants it solved you're not wasting money by duplicating the effort they're wasting money by duplicating the effort they're wasting money by not solving it. And if you can actually provide results, not only are you improving your community and making things better and actually having tax dollars go towards something that works, but also you're making the feds look like a bunch of wasteful,

useless jackasses. So it checks every box. Which brings us to Sean's favorite segment. Although, you know, I was saying to Tuesday before we started this, that it could easily went to Tucker Carlin. And saying that, here we go. Dennis, I know that some in our audience don't know the finer points of hockey. Could you tell them, for example, what is high sticking?

High sticking happened when the guy takes the stick, you know, and he go like that. You know, you don't do that. You don't do that. Oh, no, never, never. Why not? Against the rules. You know, you're stupid when you do that, just some English pig with no brain at all, you know. How many kids have seen Slapshot way too early in?

in age, you know, like you've seen... I saw it way too late in age. I was probably like 19. You did not. Really? Yeah, I was probably like 19 before I saw it. You know, when the Humboldt bus crash happened, and they found the DVD of, you know, Slapshot laying out there.

I didn't realize that. Yeah, nothing more Canadian than that. I don't know how many times I've watched Slapshot. It's a ridiculous amount of times. And I'm not even like super fond of like the entire movie. And I know that pains some Canadians for me to say that, but at times... It's better than a slap shot three.

It's better than every slap shot that followed it. 110%. Anyways. Regardless, I search Twitter. This is what I found. I found a couple of hockey stories, actually. So first, Nike permanently ends sponsorship of hockey Canada's men's program. Going back to all the different, you know, I mean, they've done some things that instead of having transparency and just solving some problems,

they've really tried covering it up and it's probably made a mock. Yeah, fire. Okay. Nike, who it just came out the other day, that they have been working with the Chinese government to get the Uyghur slaves in the concentration camps to make their stuff have decided. The people who were literally using slave labor.

The Canadian. Oh, man. In ethnic-based concentration camps in a third world dictatorship. You can't make this up. In 2023. have decided that working with Hockey Canada is not a good look for their brand. You can't make that up. You cannot make that up.

Okay. Well, the other one I was going to say is, Van der Kaine, his association with the Hockey Diversity Alliance, has ended. And anyways, I... Once again, I don't know if you recall when they put this together, hockey diversity alliance. We're going to end racism and all these things. And you're like,

oh, man. Anyways, he says, over the course of our respective careers, each of my fellow alliance members have endured multiple forms of racism, and it was our initial goal to shed light on these experiences. In its early days, the impact and role of the HDA was significant. Unfortunately, my greatest concerns about our organization have come to fruition, and the HDA is now being led and influenced by members with individual agendas. There's also been a combative approach with other organizations and groups that have embarked on similar goals.

This is a method I do not support. As difficult and disappointing as the decision is today, I will continue to do my part in helping to grow the game of hockey for players of color. I hope to bring people together in a positive way to create a better future for the next generation of young players. So there you go. Van der Kaine, I found very interesting, you know, Of course, Nike's got its backstory with China and the Uekers. Like, holy crap.

And parting ways with Hockey Canada. And then, of course, Evander Kane announcing that he is leaving the, you know, the H-D-A alliance. Well, it's the H-D-A. Anyways. There you go. Your Twitter files of the day. That was good. I like the clip, too.

I was all right. I actually got two. I actually got twos laughing, you know? That's, there you go. That is good. about time Nike left says Zane let's see a solid Canadian company step up for producing team Canada jerseys well I know Bauer just Bauer just signed back on so um Nike left Bauer's back you know what are you going to do here's here's our happy news of the week um it's it's

oh okay yeah yeah yeah let's do it like that that's yeah okay so here's our happy news of the week um it's it's we asked last week if there's any small community events going on if there's something that you want to help us try and promote. We're going to try and do our best just to let people know different events are going on and that type of thing. So the first to reach out. Maybe not drag shows, though. First to reach out was Mar Wayne. They are fundraising for a new ice plant, boards and new pipes under the arena floor.

And they are having a concert on September 8, 2023 with Gord Bamford and Dwayne Steele. So there you go. There's the poster with all the details. September 8th in Marwain. Thought that was pretty cool. And, you know, if you're wanting to get your event talked about, as long as it doesn't, you know, broach a few subjects, like Toos said, shoot it to us and we'll have a conversation and see what, I mean,

absolutely. You shoot us to drag time, drag queen story time, too. Me and Twos will have fun with that. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't think you're going to get the outcome you're looking for. Yeah, well, that would be good. It's interesting. A guy named Slim reached us.

to reach it out to us about this. And, you know, he was wondering, you know, what the pricing was it going to look like and whatever else. And here's the deal slim. The best we could do is free. Inflation is the bitch. And we can't go any lower. Final offer. So, yeah, like what Sean was saying, if it's, you know, no matter what it is, like

if it's some bond spiel in Saskatchewan, if it's, um, you know, family reunion slash speed dating in Manitoba. if it's some 5K run in Prince Edward Island. If it's a dinosaur, the largest dinosaur gathering in Dundern, Saskatchewan, right? Dunderns? Yes. For the love of God. We need to know about that. We need to know about it.

Anyways. Zane said a couple things more. He said, Bauer, however, has links to Nike ownership. Of course it does. So they pulled anyways. And then he also brought up Dallas Alexander. He's been on the podcast, Canadian Stiper, turned country musician. He is on stage in Calgary on Friday.

with Jamie Slee and Theo Fleury on Fire and Ice. So there you go. There's a couple things squeaking in at the end. And we are... I find it weird that Gord Bamford is the headliner. Dwayne Steele is the opener. Maybe I'm showing my age a little bit, but I thought Dwayne Steele was pretty decent.

Well, I think they're both pretty decent, aren't they? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm not saying, I'm not taken away from Gord. I'm just saying, you know, it's Dway and Steele, man. So me and twos are going to try something out. This came... So I've been talking a lot of... about Patreon, okay?

Me and Tom Luongo when he was down here, geez, now what is that, folks, a couple months ago, no, a month ago. Month ago, a little over. He told me, you know what, you've got to give Patreon a second try. Okay, fair enough. For those you don't understand Patreon, it's just a paywall, you pay to see content behind it. I was like, okay. And so I've been doing it now for like two weeks, and I asked the people, I'm like, what do you

want to see out of this? And the first thing they said was, we'd love some behind the scenes. the Tuesday mashup. So this is going to be the first time we ever attempt this, but me and twos are going to sign off for mashup 64. So I guess maybe just a quick little intro is what we're doing. We keep saying every week that there's so much stuff we leave on the cutting room floor, because we've got to keep this. We could talk for hours and hours. We could do two, three shows a week. And so we've got maybe like a half episode that we're about to do in Patreon. So if you want to, you know, that'll show up tomorrow.

But in the show link, show notes, I mean, there's a link for the Shottney Moon podcast, Patreon. And if you're so inclined, come across and find out, where are the headlines? I don't even know. Did I write them in? I wrote them in. Chipotle finds automation appealing, because it's about a peeling machine. Ed the sword. They're lying, which is more just a straight up kind of conversation.

Ed the sock is back at it. Yep. We got wind turbine suck. Yes. Get to the chop. And the other golden Kentucky buckets. So there you go. We're signing off for Mashup 64.

I hope you enjoyed it. And we're about to do Mashup 64.5. That's right. So we'll catch you up to you guys next week. Oh, we should, that's how we should label them. 60. Right? All right.

Tell me how I'm wrong. 64.5. All right, 64.5 on Patreon. There you go. If you want to see a quick, I'm going to try and keep twos to 10 minutes. We'll see how that goes. Okay, let's do it.