Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #67

Episode Date: August 8, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Trudeau is on team Barbie, Alberta puts a moratorium on wind and bears on planes. This week Major Sponsor is ReNuu Production Optimization For more information head here: www.renuu.net 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

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It's all plastic. I order a fucking book. It comes in this, just regular ass paper. And then it fucking rains. And I got a, with more wrinkles than Sean's balls. Figure your shit out. Seriously.

You see my balls? I'm assuming because you're really old. Welcome to mashup 67. How's Tuesday this week? Tews is a little bit spent. He, I don't know, worked about 100 hours in the past week or something like that. He's right. We mentioned it during the Patreon thing, which was like the pregame show to this.

this this week pre-game show this week it was a it was a tire fire yeah yeah which is which is fun and interesting right because you know we could be really polished for this yeah yeah we can be real polished for this that's yeah I tell you what I'm back in the studio back in Canada I can matchup 67 brought to you by we're not gonna let twos do it this week folks renew production optimization they're based you know what when I thought I was gonna be doing ad reads I thought for sure I would never do chemical again because in previous lifetime I was a salesman for a chemical company.

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Because that's every company doing everything. Go back and listen to the first couple of mashups before they were even called mashups on rumble. I should do that. I haven't seen them since since we aired them, which was basically just to us. We were like the only.

The original, like each one of them had two views. Original five. We did four. We did four where we, we aired them to ourselves just to be like. Basically. Do we like these? Is this any fun? Did we have fun doing this? Yeah. You guys can try and find these, but they're on

Rumble, so good fucking luck. Yeah. You know, Rumble's gotten a little better. Just a smidge. Just a smidge. I mean, it was, you know, about a year ago. A year ago. Yeah, yeah.

It's well over a year ago. Well, no, well, I mean, a little over a year ago. Anyways, it doesn't matter. Let's get on today's show. Shall we? Shall we? Are we going right to the headlines, or are we going to the stuff from the callers? Do you?

I don't know. I just, because I don't know how you have it scheduled. What would you like to? I have it scheduled. I can... Okay, perfect. Let's do that then. Let's...

Okay, folks. Here we go. Because we've ironed so many things out in 67 weeks. We still can't get this right. Having balls is racist. In a groundbreaking effort to address the lingering effects of racism within the world of billiards, the Canadian billiards and snooker association has taken a remarkable step towards inclusivity. Brace yourselves, folks, because they're removing the white ball from the game.

You read that correctly. Is this a true story? Okay, here's, so my understanding of it is that the stuff at the end is them just joking about how stupid it is. Stupid it is. But the stuff at the start about the white ball. Becoming a gray ball. Yeah. I'm like, this feels like Babylon B.

I'm like, as I read this, I'm like, is this? How much of these things that we talk about seem like Babylon B, right? Yeah, man. And you know what, Billiards? Like honestly, listen to your customers. Listen. Okay. Predominantly male sport?

I say if you want to make the people happy, you should just get rid of blue balls. You know, after last week, me and twos were talking in the Patreon side of things. And we're like, well, we've got to lighten some things up. So he starts with having balls is racist. I tell you what, I think I was like, Babel. This isn't Babel.

Anyways, it doesn't matter. NDP makes Swiss cheese of accountability. BC's new democratic government is tightening its travel rules for political staff after a recent trip to Switzerland. Better late to never. Co-to-six people, most of whom used it as a springboard for an international holiday. I mean, literally, if I was in government, I probably would have done the same thing. I'm just saying.

Attorney General Nikki Sharma defended the purpose of the trip to the United Nations. Expert mechanisms on the rights of indigenous peoples. Yes, that is a mouthful. meeting in geneva for five days in july though pointly when asked not the size of the delegation quoted i know that we're we're all hard at work doing the work of representing bc as a delegation and there were lots of people there to meet and interact with she said the trip included charma her chief of staff derrick harter deputy minister of declaration act secretary jessica wood special advisor of the premier doug white a declaration act secretary of administration staffer

administrative assistant to indigenous relations and reconciliation minister murray rankin um i don't know do you want me keep going i'm going to keep going charma said because i'm just testing my abilities here folks charma said in the conference evolved a presentation from bc on how it implemented undrip into law in 2019 as well as meetings with interested officials from other governments conference agendas from july 2017 to 21st makes no specific mention of british columbia though although there was a presentation from the Canadian delegation that presumably included the province. So they sent a half dozen people there, at least one of which had literally nothing to do with it, who then used it to springboard.

See, here's the thing. I totally get it. I've done this before. Like you get sent to some random country. You want a cheap trip to Europe? Just sign up, be on the government, and then just get over there. It's the taxpayer funding the flight anyway, so it's not a big deal. Just anybody, this is how I went to October Fest for the 200th annual October Fest on my birthday,

was I was already in Europe for work. And so then I just went over to October Fest, right? And I covered all the difference in terms of the costs and everything like that. And then there's other times where I've been like, yeah, so just, you know, extend my, can you just, rather than booking me to fly back on the 14th, fly me back on the 19th, right? and then I just pick up the hotel for the difference. And so stuff like that's totally normal. But I don't say, hey, can you send me to Geneva for some work-related thing?

And they say, well, we don't even have anything in Geneva for you. And your department has nothing to do with it. You're just like, just send me anyway. Oh, and while I'm going, can I extend my stay a little bit? That's the difference, right? The total bill to taxpayers has not been processed. Officials have yet to file their peer DMs expenses out of receipts. However, the base cost of flights and hotels was at least $33,000.

So, you know, it just cost a few thousand dollars to us. It wasn't a big deal. It's not a big deal. It's not a big deal. I don't know what everybody's upset about. It's remember that episode where I had the genuine conundrum about whether we should even talk about the $87,000 because it was small peanuts. Right? And yeah, this is 33.

And once all that other stuff's figured out, it's probably going to be like 60. It's probably going to be like 60. Yeah. But, I mean, at the same time, we don't really get a chance to talk about the NDP being greasy fucking politicians who just are self-serving assholes. Because they're just not a serious party for the most part. And so they don't really have a lot of opportunities to even get these chances to waste taxpayer money. To get on the mashup. That's what you're saying.

We had to squeeze in the NDP to me. make sure they were on the mashup. That's, well, no, it's, it's just that they're usually on the mashup for being stupid. Here's where they're finally on the mashup for doing the kind of stuff the liberals do. Which is, anyways, we're too smart. It's like, you're stupid, but now you're on the level, the level of the liberal stupid. That's basically what we just said there.

Anyways, we're too smart for our audience, not us, them. Yeah, sorry, we're not saying we're too smart for our audience. Not all of you wonderful folks. You wonderful folks are brilliant. Tomic Beginski, a producer on the Netflix fantasy drama The Witcher, he gave many reasons why changes were made to The Witcher show that deviated from the books and short stories. Here's what is quoted as.

When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers with different experiences from different parts of the world and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary. It's painful for us and for me too, but the higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range. It won't reach people. Sometimes it may go too far, but we have to make these decisions and accept them.

If you want to make a simple show, make it about something else. The Witcher's, like I've asked you about it before. You hadn't read the books, but they're very good. The games are really good. The games, like Witcher 3, was one of the best games probably in a whole decade. Right?

And so, I mean, people really love. like this intellectual property. They like what it brings to the table. So don't just be like, we're going to keep the name and get rid of everything else and just erase it all and fill it in with crayon is more or less what they did. So is this why I didn't like the show? Is this why I didn't like the show? It was too dumb. I would say it's too dumb and it's too preachy and it doesn't tell a good story. If it actually stuck to the books, it would tell a good story. This is why Henry Cabell walked away from it. Like this is a passion project. He loved the games because he's a gamer.

And then he found out there were books. And so he read the books and he loved the books. And so he worked for years to get this thing made. And then he walked away from the show. He was just like, I can't do this anymore. Yeah, you had Henry Cavill. I mean, and a juggernaut of The Witcher because I knew the video game. Like I just, I knew parts.

But like I said, I hadn't read the books. And then I watched the TV show and I'm like, this leaves me like so wanting. I just I can't do it there was the odd moment here and there in the first season that was good

the second season totally dropped off I quit watching about halfway through and from what I understand the third season makes the second season look like the first season so in the third season there's no Henry Cavill though right

I if I understand correctly he's in the first half of it and then it's one of the Hemsworths I don't know that's one of the It's not the good end. It's, yeah, it's like the wish.com, handsworth. That's when you know your show is in real trouble.

Wind is powered by blowing money. All right, I've rattled off. I've got three different articles here, okay? So just give me a little wind, give me a little space here, and away we go. Toronto Star, here's from the Toronto Star. Alberta's United Conservative government is pausing all approvals in the province's booming renewable energy industry in response to what says our rural and

environmental concerns. In a statement Thursday, the government said the Alberta Utilities Commission is to institute a six-month moratorium. Moratorium. Is that how I said that? Moratorium. Moratorium. I knew that didn't sound right. On approving wind and solar power products greater than one megawatt. The commission will initiate an inquiry into issues of development on agricultural land, effect on scenery, reclamation, security, the role of municipalities and system reliability. The Calgary Herald wrote, when one, When did an Alberta conservative government ever de-boom a thriving economic sector? Never until Thursday when the UCP announced a six-month moratorium on a new green energy project.

This sector is too hot to handle, apparently, so many projects at once clogging the landscape with wind turbines and solar panels. Rural people are complaining, but angst in the countryside never stopped governments from oil and gas walls dotted the farmland, and you could probably see nighttime natural gas fires from the moon. Alberta is attracting more investment in the green projects than any other project. The wind blows, the money flows, and we get lucky again. And then there's the pipeline online, Brian Zinchuk, who I'm like, I don't know why I haven't had this guy on the podcast anyways.

It's a side note. Pipeline online, Brian Zinchak wrote, On Thursday, the Alberta government announced a six-month pause on approvals for wind and solar projects, and by Saturday, wind generation in that province yet again bottomed out for much of the day. The Alberta electrical grid added even more wind-generations. to its grid in recent days, now hitting 3,853 megawatts of nameplate capacity. But all that nameplay capacity didn't add up to much on Saturday, August 5th, as wind power across the province was only generating 2.1% of capacity.

So wind power sucks and the regulations in it are sparse at best. I don't know. Did you ever listen to like one of the early podcast episodes I did that was the Green People or hypocritical idiot's mega special? Yes, but that is a long freaking time ago now. Long time ago, but I'd say it's aged fairly well because it specifically talks about how little information there is about regulations and how it seems like it's figured out

on a case-by-case basis. There's no standardization, and you just end up finding nothing but ether when you try and chase down a lot of the details because they're just not there. And so from what I understand, the UCP is saying, we need to just pause this, figure out what we're going to make the rules, and then we're going to go back to the application processes, right?

Because there really aren't any rules. It's the Wild West, believe it or not. And so you've got, remember when everybody was talking about the social license for pipelines a few years ago? Because the people who it was going to be going through their land and affecting them directly may or may not have wanted them there. and how that was the big thing, which, by the way, social license

was a totally misappropriated term from the NEP Act. But that's what they were talking about at the time was how you need to have the people that's going to be directly affecting buying into this. Okay? And now rural Alberta,

where all the wind and solar things are going is saying, hey, you know what? We don't really like it that much and we have concerns. And so the UCP is saying, okay, well, you know what? These are the people directly affected. Let's get some of this figured out.

And meanwhile, urban Alberta is saying, oh, well, why are we pausing all of this stuff? It's just the rural people that don't like it. It's not like they fucking matter. It's their fucking backyard, you entitled assholes. And then here's the breakdown of all the different areas in Canada and how much solar versus wind megawatts they have capacity for. So that's not what they're generating, I believe. it's just what their their capacity is so and interesting thing if you look at solar power definitely in alberta but probably for a few other provinces if not all of them it's filed under biomass and other

it's such a small amount of generation that it doesn't even have its own category when you're looking at the power generation and you may recall back in the day um i think it was 2014 or 2013 there was that pilot project in Medicine Hat, the solar pilot project in Medicine Hat, which you may or may not know is the Sunshine Capital of Canada. There isn't a single place in our country that gets more sunshine on an annual basis than Medicine Hat. And they did a pilot project of solar there.

And then when they scrapped it five or six years later, they literally scrapped it. They couldn't even sell out the parts for other people who wanted to take it and do solar, like for their homes or businesses. or anything else like that. They just took it to the junkyard for 40 bucks a fucking ton. So what does that tell you about how valuable this stuff is without fucking subsidies? And the other thing I want to know about is if we're looking at the regulations regarding wind power,

which we know is absolute fucking bird blenders, well, hey, you know what? If a bird lands in a tailing pond in Fort Mac and it kills it, they get fined a shit ton of money per bird. Cyncrude killed something like 30 some herons a few years ago and got fined literal millions of dollars. And so I personally would like to see wind being held to the same standard as far as regulations go. Because you know what? Here's the thing is if it costs you an extra $53 billion a year in fines to pay for all the birds you fucking murder with these things across Canada.

And all of a sudden it's still not fucking viable given the. even with all of the subsidies, maybe we can have an honest conversation about how good this stuff is or is not for the environment. Here's, here's Murray Cochran's thoughts. He says the cost of building wind turbines will never be recouped in the lifetime of the turbines.

I've heard that a few times, but I haven't heard it in the past couple of years, and I've heard a couple people say since that the technology has improved a little bit. But here's the thing is, I haven't heard it loudly proclaimed, and I feel like if it was true, It would be like, hey, you know what, we can use wind turbines to do all this stuff to make new wind turbines.

And this is, they would have a wind turbine that had been constructed using entirely wind power. Go back to the pipeline on. There's none of that. Go back to pipeline on a pipeline news online where it says the province only generated 2.1% of capacity. For a technology that's supposedly getting better, that's, that's a failing, that's a failing mark twos. Like, and then some. I mean, if you had to write a test and you got 2.1% on it, I feel like, yeah. Yeah, anyways.

Liberals face their toughest opponent yet, and that is fact checker. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive. There we go. Exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man.

You are one pathetic loser. No offense. Oh, I just, every week when I hear that jingle, I'm impressed by how awesome it is. And they actually reached out to me on Instagram. They're like, hey, you know what, if you're going to be in the neighborhood at all this summer, let us know. Come by for some ice cream. And I would absolutely love to, but they are a very far long way away from me. Ask me.

We're not going to happen this year. Ask me about, I'm going to put that in the notes. I'm going to ask about you ask me about clone at the end of this, okay? Anyway, it doesn't matter. Here, here's, this is the fact checkers on, on Twitter from a whole bunch of different liberal tweets going on. All within like a day of each other. So the first was Katie Telford. She said Canada has zero pro-choice conservative MPs watchdog says, and then it was an article.

And then she went on to say a few thoughts. The article's from a credible publication. It was retweeted prior to my tweeting it by many nonpartisan people. It is based on facts, a vote in Parliament. The CPC was given a chance to respond. They didn't, so I stand by the tweet. And then the readers added context. Bill C. 311 is a 78 word bill that does not contain the word abortion.

The bills to protect pregnant women with aggravating circumstance for the purpose of sentencing. And so that was the first one. Yeah. The next one is this edited and misleading clip is coming from the guy who recently held the press conference to call someone's home a shack. His demeaning attitude toward Canadians and this type of, these hyper-partisan attacks won't build a single home. And so it's Pierre Poliev clipping out Trudeau versus Trudeau.

Well, because Trudeau in, you know, 2015 and 2019 talked about how the liberals were going to take care of housing and how it was a big priority for them. And then last week, he directly said something almost exactly, maybe not word for word, but housing is not a federal priority or housing is not part of the federal purview. And that Sean Fraser guy, by the way, is the federal minister of housing. So then underneath the video, it says,

this video is not misleading. Since 2015, the Liberal Party has promised affordable housing for Canadians. A liberal government will restore federal leadership and affordable housing by investing in a comprehensive national housing strategy that's from back then. So anyways, they're calling them on it. Then you have another one on Bill C-11, and people, once again, quoting on that.

And finally, you have, amidst the worst wildfire season in Canada has ever faced, Alberta, a province that still uses coal to generate electricity, turns their back on clean, green, renewable resources, okay? And underneath, it says, Alberta will phase out coal-powered electricity by the end of 2023. seven years ahead of the federal target. And then... How about that?

How about that? And then the announce pause on new solar and wind projects projects for six months to evaluate locations to build an end-of-life regulations. Anyway, so everybody getting called out on different things. Yeah, honestly, at this point, I feel like they should kind of consider rebranding themselves. And instead of being the liberals,

they should call themselves the community notes part. party because every week they're getting fact checked. And this never happened until Elon bought Twitter, by the way. It's been a fun little, once again, if you're not on X, you know, I got to keep, you know, if you're not on it, like you just, some days you're like, man, this is just the best. Yeah. I mean, it just seems like every day is something new. And the liberals take a real shit kicking on it right now, which is fun to watch.

I mean, it really is. Yep. And the NEP. And the conservatives sometimes, too, which is fair. Oh. And come on, Sean. There we go. Housing minister wants you to get in bed with immigration here.

Nova Scotia has come up with a new deal, a new way to deal with the province's housing crisis. The provincial government announced today it will spend $1.3 million over two years to expand its partnership with a free online home sharing platform known as HappyPad. operated by a Canadian nonprofit organization, the platform brings together renters seeking affordable month-to-month accommodations with residents who have rooms to rent in their homes. Isn't this wonderful? Like you think back to 40, 50 years ago when governments were first starting to get more progressive. And they said, government has no place inside people's bedrooms, right?

Except now, they're like, well, we didn't we weren't talking about their spare rooms because what's happening right now is there's so much immigration into canada that you've got people who have nowhere to live they're living on the streets in toronto because they come to canada and there's nowhere to live at some point they're just not going to come here anymore or they're going to turn around and go home or whatever else because there's nowhere to fucking live and so maybe we'll finally become the actual canadian stereotype where some of us will be living in eglues right but in the meantime their solution is hey you know what if you got a spare bedroom you should give it up funny thing is is that the politicians never do that we got 24 sussex drive has been sitting empty the whole fucking time that trudeau's been prime minister how many immigrants could we fit in there i'm guessing at least a few actually you know what he's got extra room in his house now too we'll get to that later you know the thing is the thing is is will the immigrants go somewhere else or will they become a problem being on the streets?

Yes and yes. Right? And I don't mean that to knock on immigrants. I'm just saying if you're fighting for your life sitting on the street with nowhere to live, what eventually happens? I mean, it's not going to be a good site. And so, yeah, this is, this is interesting. The other thing that was interesting about the article, and I don't know why I didn't put it in, but HappyPad gets to offer rates lower than all the other online sites. And I'm like, well, that's because your government funded. We're literally funded by the taxpayer. Isn't that funny how they can do stuff like that?

And they're a non-profit or a not-for-profit. Non-profit. And so, yeah. And then just money just comes from the government. Oh, isn't that a happy little thing? How long before it's mandatory, though? How long before they start trying to say that you have to have, taxpayers are always on the hook for everything, though.

Yeah, Murray, Murray, Murray, Tragman, they'll become a huge problem. Taxpayers on the hook. And like two said, taxpayers on the hook for, you know, all this debauchery. But eventually the government's going to try and, you know what, it'll be two weeks to flatten the immigration curve, right? And then the funny thing is that they're going to have stupid people writing these laws. And then you're going to have all of the homeowners just coming up with loopholes. They're like, well, that's not a bedroom. That's my sewing room.

Oh, that's my office for my home business. or they're just going to knock down fucking walls and be like, well, at one point, this was two bedrooms, but now it's obviously only one bedroom. So I don't have a spare bedroom and you guys can go fuck yourselves, right?

It might be really good to be a contractor in the next couple of years. So me and twos have been talking about the Manitoba election. We're going to have a live stream of it. We're going to have a little bit of fun with it. Obviously, neither of us live in Manitoba. And so we, so we,

we threw it out. the listeners to send us some news articles that what's going on in Manitoba so here's the first one Winnipeg leaders taking stabs at one another First Nation leaders in Manitoba are calling for the resignation of Winnipeg's Police Chief after the force decided not to search a landfill for the remains of two indigenous women police chief Danny Smith said this week that it's believed the remains of Morgan Harris and Mercedes Myron are in a landfill outside the city but too much time has passed and too much garbage it has been

disposed of to make the search feasible. Long Plain First Nation Chief Kyra Wilson said failing the search for the women's remains does not instill a sense of public safety in the community. She was joined by several other First Nations leaders in Manitoba in calling for Smith to step down immediately so action could be taken to search the landfill. Further down it said Jeremy Skibicki 35 is facing charges of first-degree murder in the killings of Harris, Myron Rebecca Kontois, and a woman police and media calling Buffalo Woman. Police believe the four women killed in the spring,

although investigate, police believe the four women were killed in the spring, although investigators have so far only located Contois's body. Her partial remains were found in a garbage bin in the city and in a separate landfill in the spring. It's a shit show. This is weird and difficult. I mean, where do you even start with this?

I would like to know why she's specifically going to one department and saying the police, you need to figure this out. Not like, you know, the municipal, like landfill services or anything like that. People actually deal with garbage on a day-to-day basis might be a little bit more suited to this. I don't know. It's one of those things. So, I mean, that's right in the- But you have to find the body first, right?

This is the whole thing. It's not that they don't want to investigate the murder. It's that they're looking at an entire landfill for a city and saying, you need to find, We think that there's some corpses in here because we found partial remains in a dumpster. And then we found partial remains in the landfill. So we want you guys to search the entire landfill. And that's not really like why. Why would you get police to do that anyway?

If I would be willing. If I'm a killer and I hear this, I go, you know, and once again, I don't know the full story. I'm just reading this news article, I'll go, if I'm a killer and I realize I can dump bodies in the landfill and they're not going to search, it's like, where are you going to start dumping bodies. It's like, I don't know. Yeah, it's going to suck and it's going to take a lot of resources. Why get the police to do it when you're probably paying them twice as much as garbage people? Get the garbage, not garbage people, I'm not saying you need to get 50 officers out there. But that's what she's saying. And I'm just saying like there's so many other organizations.

You could get volunteers. There's so many other ways to do this than go to some of the highest paid government workers and say dig through the garbage, right? You've got to go to the highest paid to be like, listen, we've got to shut this down. We've got to find out if there's some bodies here. And even though it's going to take all these volunteers, which we need your help with, we'll get the landfill shut down. But I assume there's a whole bunch of ramifications with shutting down a landfill for a giant city. But it's saying that, you go to the highest officials because they're supposed to be your

fucking leaders. Simple. To me, you can't just be like, well, no, I get paid a lot. I can't do anything. That doesn't work. Right? I mean, you got dead women that supposedly are in a landfill. You got to get to the bottom of that.

Do you not? We're looking at this from two completely different angles. I'm just saying the police are probably, if the dead bodies were somehow speeding, then yes, the police would be the best people to look at it because that seems to be all they fucking do in this day and age. But if you're going to go to somebody and say, we need to find these people in a landfill, you would probably want to talk to the municipal waste people and say, can we come up with a plan? How can we search it?

What's your guys' process for, you know, spreading out the garbage here and there? And then also come up with something going forward where it's more easily to track. So if you find out that, hey, six months ago, we think that some people might have been dumped here, how can we more easily narrow down the search going forward for things like that? And this is, like, the police, would be getting involved

if they're looking for somebody or if they've found somebody. But before that happens, this is something that she should be taking up with the U.S. This is almost a line. This is almost a line from the CRA

where they said, you know what, too much time has passed, and it'd be too much work, and I just don't think we can do it. That's what he says. Too much time has passed and too much garbage

has been disposed up to make the search feasible. Interesting. He might, like, I don't want to sound callous. I don't know how much garbage there is. It's true. Listen, I don't know the end,

this might be an absolute fucking black strap full of garbage that you're just looking for a few tonal of it. Imagine, imagine folks, Manitoba election covered. Is it going to be a heated night? Because me and twos don't know, you know,

like what politicians are going to have? We have no idea. We're just speculated, just like this. But I mean, like at the end of the day, it's like sort of you just dump two bodies in the, yeah,

I'm a serial killer. I just dump them in the landfill. If it makes it passed like three weeks with nobody finding those, they ain't digging. Okay, but I mean, you go to this cop and you say, we think a couple bodies might have been dumped in the city's landfill six months ago. We need you to find them.

Where would you even start with that? Right? As a cop. But I mean, if it was, if it was. She may as well be talking to the fire department or the astronauts. If it was if it was Stephen Harper's body or Justin Trudeau's body. almost Westerners one character, but you get the point,

would they dig it up then? They probably put 10 billion into it to find those bodies. And I think that's what was being pointed out here. I mean, they'd want to make sure there's true. There's indigenous women being killed, and they've found the person,

but now they're like, I don't know. It'd be an interesting thing to talk to a police officer about because it's like, I don't know. Do they have a whole bunch of bodies where they just can't? discussion like cold cases where they can't find these things and they're just going like listen we we can go in there for six months and we can never find anything do you have any idea of the

size and normally of what you're asking that could be as simple as it is and you're like yeah well i mean that might be it'd be interesting to have some people in winnipeg one from the police one from the garbage and then um maybe you're asking me if i can get a city of winnipeg worker on to be like you guys are fucking insane somebody who's listening to this is from that area and can be like, listen, this is the size of this thing? Maybe it's like an 80-acre thing that's five feet deep or whatever else. Right? I don't know.

Like, there's just a whole lot of maybes. And that's the funny thing about articles like this, is they never get into the practicality. It's always tugging at the heartstrings. Like, I want more facts. Not because I'm insensitive towards it, but just because I want to understand where they're coming from. Live by the separation, die by the separation. And happy news. I never think he's happy when people get divorced.

Well, I am absolutely loving this. Seriously, Sean, this is a guy. Leave this up for a little bit. I want to talk to it. Okay. Tews is feeling it today. This is a guy who has done nothing but separate and alienate everyone in this fucking country. He's broken up.

How many families, businesses, livelihoods, old people dying alone. families that still aren't talking to each other and still aren't right. He has built his entire political career on splitting up as many people as possible. And now his bird has flown the coop and his chickens have come home to roost. And seriously, look at that picture. He looks higher than old man pants. You know, for me, it's just another thing he can't seem to get right. You know, on the world stage, he, I put a lot, you know, it says it right in one of the

articles right there's millions of Canadians that have been divorced over the last I forget what the the the years on it twos is but certainly through COVID and he's just another statistic and then they try and play the old poor me and he's a single dad now and whatever else it's like you know but you know what I mean like I'm tired I'm tired of all the the the BS with true we just need him out it is crazy that his old man was divorced too like the the amount of things that are like like generational yeah is wild is absolutely It's totally freaking wild.

And then they'd top it off. Just a second. We're team barber. I was like, you know, I got nothing like, me and two can have. This whole thing is bait. Fair enough. Fair enough. Somebody's like, they're all, you know, the left is all like, all the conservatives are

on them because he went to team bar or, you know, it's because he asked for his family's privacy. He said, please respect our privacy during this time and keep my kids out of it. And then he's like, oh yeah, by the way. my team are back into it that's the issue that we're taking with this for the record okay and for the record uh if my world leader is going to show off that he's going to one movie in his entire fucking career it can't be barb it's bait it's bait this whole thing is bait okay well it's working because i was like this is ridiculous this is absolutely ridiculous i had to make sure this wasn't

a load of BS and it actually came from his bloody twitter account it's like well well He's seen the success of people doing similar things just trying to lure folks into saying untoward things that can be used against them later. And he wants to capitalize on that as well. I tell you what, though, like seriously, between him and Sophie, like, you got one that's just a vapid idiot that just cares about nothing but the limelight, everything handed, the whole life. And then just no idea what regular people do or go through or anything.

anything else like that. And the other one's Justin. It's a damn shame because they're absolutely fucking perfect for each other. Here's what a couple people are chiming in with. Jamie Ingram says part of the housing problem is people don't want life outside of Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver. I have thoughts. Sharon Lorraine says, save the Coots boys.

They just had their trial last week. Talk about that. Sure. Well, what would you like to say? Oh, no, no, no, no. Like, we should just get into it, like, with, like, maybe next week kind of thing. Sure. I tell you what, Sharon, we're going to put some notes in the mashup for next week to make sure we bring up the Coots Boys.

I'm supposed to have one interview coming up specifically about it. I haven't confirmed that yet, so I don't want to, I don't want to spill any beans on anything. But anyways, I'm supposed to have an interview coming up. And then George Capucci, how's Georgie doing tonight? says he had a choice and I assume I'm not talking divorce. Oh, yeah. Maybe maybe that's what he was talking about. I'm not

exactly sure. But yeah, it's just Trudeau has been an absolute, like this has been the stuff that he has wrought throughout his entire 10 years prime minister and it's absolutely carmic when something like this happens to him. It's like at the end of Lion King where you got

scar that just always sending the hyenas after everybody and then at the end of it the hyenas kill him. This is This is his Lion King moment. And he's definitely not Mufus in this fucking story. People are dying to go vegan. Speaking of dying, here you go. People are dying to go vegan.

A vegan social media influencer whose videos abode her raw tropical fruit diet had accumulated billions of views on TikTok has died at the age of 39. Zana Samsonoff, a Russian blogger, who had been living and working across Southeast Asia for 17 years, was known as Zana de Art on social media. Sansanova claimed she had been subsisting on a completely raw vegan diet for more than a decade. In a social media post-dated September 2020, she wrote it had been five years

since she switched to a fully fruit-based, low-fat diet with a staple item being jackfruit and durian. She claimed she avoided eating protein, salt, and oil, and a friend of hers also told Russian, that she had not drunk water in six years, opting for fruit and vegetable juice instead. While no official cause of death has been released, reports state that the influencer was suffering from malnutrition and infections. Her mother reportedly told Russian state media that her daughter had died of a cholera-like

infection while some of her friends pointed to malnutrition. I feel like there was probably a really simple cure for this. it was maybe just eat a fucking steak every once in a while one of the things i'd wanted to talk about in the pregame and then i forgot about it because we got sidetracked was um it got mentioned to me i was talking about this uh today with somebody and they're like did you ever see that jo rogan clip where they look at all the vegan cats in that group on facebook and they all look like they're starving to death and malnourished and it's it's it's like that episode of futureama where where the aliens from omicron percy i8 first come to

earth and then um the the hippie wants to speak to them and you know about how important being a vegetarian is and they're like look we've got this lion that we trained to eat tofu and it's just this spindly thing that's slowly dying and then eventually the aliens get fed up with the hippie and one of them eats them and then starts tripping balls afterwards this is this is basically that but it's not the the lion was forced to eat tofu this person literally chose to fucking starve to death rather than eat a fucking hamburger. Correct, Murray. Eat some meat.

Yeah. This is why I wanted to have QDM on here tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. QDM is supposed to be, yeah. I think of Sean Baker. We should call him right now. When I had Sean Baker on. And of course, he's been on the carnivore diet now for, I think it's six plus years.

The guys in his- Nobody ever dies of malnutrition on a carnivore diet, Sean. He's in his 50s. He's, And I'm not saying you eat me, no, a sudden you're jacked. But I mean, like, you see this story and you're like, oh, my goodness. Like at what point are you like, this is no longer working? And I've gone insane.

And I should probably just drink some water and put some like protein in my body and a couple other things, right? Like maybe get an IV real quick or something. Can you get steak in an IV? That's a good question. You know, once upon a time I got hit in the face with a puck. I'm guessing it happened a few times. And it happened a few times. But anyways, the first time, they wired my jaw shot.

And I could only eat anything through a straw. So we were on the road and we went to this like, whatever restaurant it was that we used to go to in Thunder Bay. And they're like, we went for breakfast and I couldn't eat anything, right? And so they blended up pancakes, sausage, syrup, maybe eggs in there. And you would think that sounds awful. I took like three sips of it. It was the most glorious thing I think I'd ever tasted, but I was so full because I hadn't been eating.

And my stomach's just like, I can't eat anymore. And I'm like, this sucks. And I couldn't talk. And anyways, you know, like, so if they could put that into a straw, who knows what they could put in an ivy. One of the guys I played high school, football with in high school, he had his jaw-wired shut on like the first or second game of the season.

And so he was just drinking through a straw. for, I don't know, six weeks or something like that. And he was pretty fed up with it by the time he was done. And it's not fun. It's not a fun way to take your food in. Although you get pretty creative on what you put in there because you're just like, I could eat my left arm and I can't open my jaw to do it. Well, I mean, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes we do the mashup and I wish your

jaw was wired shut. Sometimes I let it act like it's wired shut so you can just sit there and do your thing, you know. Politicians aren't prostitutes, but they're on the poll. The federal government spent more than 20 million on public opinion research last year, nearly twice what it spent just three years ago. I'm going to say that again. They spent $20 million on public opinion last year.

Anyways, the last fiscal year, the government commissioned 164 polls spread across 34 departments and spent $20.3 million. The money went to 20 different public opinion firms. By contrast in 2020, the government spent 11.3 million. million on public opinion research. The studies include formal quantitative pollings as well as focus groups and other research. The biggest spender in the 2022-2020 fiscal year was on public health agency of Canada, which spent $4.1 million pulling everything from opioid addiction and vaccine uptake Canadian's general view and Canadians general views on COVID-19. Every time I see one of these

stories, too, is I'm just like, okay, can we become a public poll agency and just get a million dollars given to us to just poll. We'd pull our audience. It wouldn't be very difficult to do a better job than they do. Then they do. Like how many times have we looked at these polls and gone into a little bit of granularity into why they suck? And this is just from a very basic knowledge of how to put polls together where you can

pick out the issues. I wonder how much of this was Nick Nanos piggybacking on the Governor General's trip to Germany though. Nanos from Nanos polling. Nick Nanos. got to get a free trip to Germany with the Governor General, right? Which, why the hell would you get one of your pollsters

to go to Germany with the Governor General? What in the wrong circles, big fella? Yeah, yeah, it's a big club. Look at all the money they're spending. It's a big club, and we ate in it. Definitely not in it. Spy balloons now require permits. The government had the option of fining the Chinese regime

up to 25 grand for flying us... That's what it is for flying over airspace. Anyways. Without a permit. For flying a suspected spy balloon over Canada with a federal permit, according to a briefing note from the Department of Transportation.

Quoted, any individual that breaks these rules can be subject to fines to the briefing note titled High Altitude Object Incidents. There are fines up to five grand for an individual or up to 25 grand for a corporation for launching an unmanned large balloon without the Minister of Transports, authorization.

Tell me that this isn't the most absolutely stereotypically Ottawa bureaucratic response you could imagine. Their solution to the problem of foreign countries flying spy balloons into our airspace is to get them to apply for permitting. Like, hi, this is. China. We want to send a spy balloon. Yeah, we want to

just sneak a, we want to sneak a balloon with a bunch of cameras and shit into your airspace and figure out where all your crops are. You wonder if China, like literally, okay, well, have you filled up for 238B? Right, but if they do it, too, is they can spy

us all they want. They've got the proper paperwork. It's not a big deal. Guys, that balloon, it's got the proper federal paperwork. It's fine. It's fine. All they have to do? is just throw some paper at Ottawa and they can do whatever they want. Funny how that sounds when you say it out loud, hey?

The world gone goofy. Okay, let's start here, okay? First off, New York Post takes notes from the mashup. A large... Actually, you know what, before I do this... Show him the headline. No, I missed... I missed one, okay? I missed one.

I'm going to go back to Trudeau because Chuck Prodnick, a friend of the show, So he had this, and this is going back to Trudeau and his divorce. He says, who's this Sophie chick that keeps showing up in my DMs? I meant to put it in there. Anyways. Actually, you know what? Real quick.

Keep talking about the next thing, but I've got a real fun Sophie DM story. I'm going to tell you in a minute. Okay. So here is the New York, New York Post. And I'm just going to go here. Come on. Tons of nach cheese. spills from truck on the highway.

Corniness ensued. And if I scroll down here, you're going to see, you know, I'm going to suck this thing in. You can see all over the highway. Looking at how much anyways. Okay. So, notches are made from corn. And so they put a pun into their headline.

Hey, twos, what do you call cheese that isn't yours? Other people's cheese. Nach cheese, man. Come on. Nacho cheese. Anyways. Yeah, I knew it. I just needed to set you up for the joke.

A large truck, sure you did. Anyways, a large truck carrying cans of nacho cheese. Let loose all over Arkansas Highway Tuesday. The Arkansas Department of Transportation shared in a Facebook post, and drivers were fed off avoiding the area. See, this totally reads like a mashup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look at all the cheese.

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's fantastic. Absolutely. I mean, you can see a little hole in the middle where there isn't any, so maybe it's Swiss cheese. But I mean, really, that costs you a lot of cheddar. Okay, go back to the Sophie divorce thing. No.

Well, yeah, I mean, that's, I got nothing but time for Chuck. But I, as soon as she announced it on Instagram, I slipped into her DMs. So for those of you who can't read this, this is a conversation one way and just one message. that I had with Sophie Gregor Trudeau. After she announced her separation on Instagram, I reached out to her and I said,

as someone who lives in Western Canada, I completely understand your desire to separate from Justin. It's funny because that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, that's it. Okay. I just needed to tell everybody how awesome I was for a minute

because I thought that was really funny. Pilot is a giant, Dick. Here's another one, and there it is. Lufthansa pilot allegedly upset over being... Lufthansa. Whatever. Lutansa. He doesn't correct me on any word, but that, anyways. He's forced to divert his plane from Catania flew the commercial plane in a penis-shaped pattern before landing in Malta. He has... The pilot has not been identified, allegedly grew irritated after having to stall the plane before being told the flight would need to fly south and land on an island.

of Malta before leaving Catania's airspace the plane was spotted heading eastward towards Sicilian coast and flying in such a way that the flight path created the shape of male genitalia according to the images according to air traffic website any idea on how long that would take to do well that depends on your airspeed velocity and I feel like we're going to start talking about the size swallows 60 oh that's good too 16 minutes. That's what it took him to draw the penis. Oh man, just think like if he'd have stretched it out to 20 minutes, he could have had like veins going up and down it. Maybe like little springs on the side.

All I can think of is super bad where he draws all the penis. Draws dicks everywhere all the time. All the time. Anyways. Yeah, imagine if that guy was a pilot. You just have these all over the planet. Oh, goodness. But yeah, and then he claimed it was an accident, which I would too. Right. But yeah, that's

Here's the oldest oldest penis on, well, I believe the oldest penis. This is, here you go. I was curious because I was like, well,

when was the first time? Because I know like the first graffiti, they have the first known graffiti. And it was actually this, I think it was in Greek, where it's this fancy little bit of poetry where it goes across, over,

down, and back up again. And it's like a four by four grid. That's all words. And so I was like, well, I wonder where the first graffiti, like, who's the first person to draw a dick somewhere? And they found this in the Greek mountains. And it was a couple of gay dudes. So, I mean, I didn't think they were rabble rousers as much as they are, I guess.

But they invented dick graffiti. Finally, I'm tired of these motherfucking bears on this motherfucking plane. And if you haven't seen snakes on a plane, then you, You do not get the reference, and I probably should have channeled my inner Samuel Jackson. You want to give her to go? How did you? I'm tired of these motherfucking bears on this motherfucking plane. That's a little bit forced.

Anyways, it's, it's a little. You gotta put me on the spot. Haven't you seen my movies? They deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell. You're not even listening anymore. No, I'm not. Why do I even do that? You're just looking at the dicks still, aren't you?

I'm trying to find, I'm trying to find the, the, the, the, the bear escapes. The YouTube, there's a YouTube clip of the bear? No, there's not a YouTube clip of the bear. I'm trying to find Samuel Jackson so I can make a go with this. Okay. I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this fucking windows. So what happened? For those of you who actually want to know what the hell will happen

and not just hear us poorly recap a movie from 20 years ago. Iraqi Airways said it was not to blame for a bear's escape from its crate as the aircraft waited to take off from Dubai International Airport on Friday. The flight was delayed as authorities dispatched specialists to sedate the animal and remove it from the plane. Baghdad's police have previously called on citizens to assist authorities in preventing such animals from being let loose on the city streets are ending up as exotic meals and restaurants

by reporting such cases while not a common air travel issue. This isn't the first time a bearer has caused airport delays. In 2021, a wild brown bear disrupted flights in a city in northern Japan and injured four people before being killed by authorities. There you go. Yeah. And also, I think that that's what happened with one of the planes on 9-11 too. I got, okay, you missed the best part of this article, though, Sean.

How the hell did I miss the best part of this? the name and species of the bear have not been made public they want to protect the anonymity of the bear so they're not releasing the name of the bear like does he have a fucking driver's license or a pilot's license

shit on who shit hogs is it dirty is it a famous bear is it might be famous by the train and BAMF Yogi bear the what was that

the the whatever. Yeah, it could be yogi. Or boo. Do they just, like, how did they get them out of the bear or out of the plane after he escaped? Did they just leave out a picnic basket? Just imagine if this had happened in mid-flight. Like, you're 10,000, like, well, 30,000 feet up in the air.

And all of a sudden, you're on this thin metal tube with a fucking bear. And all you have between it and you is some slow people in first, class and that tiny tap through the door. And it will be the bear too. And it will be the bear that gets out on the plane. That'll be the plot line. And Samuel Jackson will be there to say, I've had it with his motherfucking bear on this motherfucking plane.

No. Actually, you know what? They would have Samuel L. Jackson on there and he wouldn't have a line like that. Remember when we were talking about cocaine bear and how they had the guy from the wire there is the overtop cop guy? And he did not even once in that entire movie say the word, Cheat. So yeah, cocaine bear was all about missed opportunities.

So they would, that's the kind of movie where they would have Samuel L. Jackson on there. And he wouldn't even say motherfucking once. Well, that's going to do it for MASHUp 67, ending on a bear lit loose on a plane. We do have a few things come. It's not over yet. Just, just, just, just, just some people are just like, oh, they just skip it. All of a sudden. No, no, we don't skip it if you've learned anything from the mashup.

This is not the end of the mashup. Anyways. First off, we're. going to go to George. First off, we're going to say if you, we've opened up a little segment at the end for listeners, if they got things going on and they got things they want us to talk about, etc. Okay, twos, this is that time. George has chimed in, said, congrats to Team Alberta on winning the Women's U-18 National Tackle Football Championship last week in Ottawa.

They went undefeated and are now back-to-back champions. So congratulations on Team Alberta, U-8. women's national tackle football championships. Okay? Yeah, this is good. And then actually, I've got a buddy who we're pretty comparable in terms of football skills back in the day. We both have the same number of free.

Yeah, yeah. And then so anyways, he went a little bit further than me, but we both have the same amount of great cup rings. So, you know, I mean, it's hard to say at this point, right? but yeah he's he's involved with saskatchewan minor football and so i reached out to him and he said can you mention that saskatchewan has won every male u 18 and u16 gold medal for national competitions this summer and he spelt mail like delivery mail because he's a football player um and um under 16 and 18 girls won silver and flag um yeah so so for those of you who don't

know what flag football is. It's basically like if you ordered football at a vegan restaurant. So, yeah. And he's trying to say, yeah. He's trying to say that Saskatchewan's killing it in minor football. But he also mentioned that this is the second year in a row that the Alberta team has won that one that George had mentioned. So apparently Saskatchewan is too behind.

Yeah. Jim Ness coming up here has a preppers course coming up in Sedalia, Sedalia. Have you, like, middle of nowhere. I had to ask where it was. So it's at the Sedalia Hall, August 18th and 19th. And that folks is in between Oyan and Consum. That's, that's, it's in the middle of the war. If you can find it, you're already completing half the course.

It's a community strategy, community strategies for change in the world. food supplies and alternative energy systems. They have John Graff as one of the speakers, or probably the speaker anyways. And then I have a... Alternative energy, you think you might want to have John Vendigraf, but maybe that's just me. And then I got a note here.

People have been asking me to find somebody to talk about natural health products too. Obviously, there's bills coming in. I don't fully understand it all. I've read a little bit about it. But anyways, if listeners know what I'm talking about natural health products and how the government's trying to

basically not outlawed, I don't think. And this is why I'm asking the listeners to help me here, because if you've got somebody that needs to be interviewed on it or some reading material, a news article for me in twos, we'll bring it up on the next mashup. And finally, Colonna, you were talking about BC. I am now going to Colonna August 15th to 18th. I got invited to go out there and speak alongside Tamara Leach,

who's going to be there or maybe host it. I'm not exactly sure. Either way, I'm going to be in Colonna, August 15th to 18th. So that came out of the blue and just finalized that today. So there you go. So when you're talking about going

going to be out to BC, I never thought I was going to be out there and now I'm going to be out there. You're going to be able to go see the Armstrong ice cream. Well, that's what I would like to do. Yes. So Armstrong ice cream,

girls, buckle up because I'm going to try and make it there. Yeah. Well, you have to. Um, also Crossfield, uh, Alberta, just a little bit north of Airdrie has a demolition derby coming up August 26th. So there's going to be a whole bunch of cars that look like mine that got hit by a deer minus the shit. Shit. Out of it.

Yeah. Fair enough. Yeah. So yeah, food trucks, liquor sales, a bunch of stuff for the kids. Well, not the driving part, but everything else. Yeah. Cool. Well, if there's nothing else.

That's going to do it up for Mashup 67. We appreciate everybody hopping in and doing this. If you haven't checked out Patreon, me and twos, this will be the fourth week we've done it. On Patreon, so search out Sean Newman podcast on Patreon. I should probably point that out. But either way, if you go on the show notes on the podcast, it's there, or search it. We've been doing little bonus stuff, exclusive content for Patreon. and today's was the preamble,

which is a bit of a shit show for sure. But we also have done the debrief, the cutting room floor, and funny stuff we found on Twitter. So we've been having a little bit of fun, and if you're interested in bonus content, Patreon is where it's all been hiding for the last four weeks, and it will continue to do so.

So please go check us out there too. Give us some feedback what you like, maybe even what you don't like. Definitely if you don't like, by the way. Preferred length? I don't know. How long should these things be, right? Should it just be like a quick 10 minute thing that you can just look at, get out and be gone with it? Do you want to see something a little bit longer? And that's the other thing is what would be really cool for us to do. So do more of what we've done, do less of some other things. But also, is there some idea that we haven't even come close to touching on. Yeah, because we get to have a little bit of fun there. The one thing that is interesting about it is it's kind of like, you know, the creation. creativity that here we try and structure it in a way and there it's like okay well what do you want to what do you want to do today yeah which rules do we want to break all of them all of them anyways that's going to do it 67 in the books folks we'll catch up to you next week twos as always until we meet

again sir take care buddy thanks guys