Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #7

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

222 minutes hops on to discuss flipping the bird (literally), conservative memberships on the rise, Johnny Depp & a daredevil granny. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

Well, welcome to the Tuesday mashup. I am Sean Newman of the Sean Newman podcast. I'm joined by Boxhead, Mr. Tuesday, Mr. Tuesday himself, 222 minutes. Thanks for hopping back on, sir. Glad to be here. And I'm especially glad for the box today because I've got a big zip right here. I'm going to try and find a way to just like put it just so they can see the big Zet. Is that okay?

You know, if you could Photoshop magic, that whole thing, that was. It would be wonderful. I beat that. I wouldn't even be mad. Well, everybody knows the game here. Two minutes, segments, buzzer. Let's have some fun. We'll start out in Ontario. Ford Nation wins another election with one of the lowest turnos. Not ever. Well, actually, kind of ever. Last 100 years. There's been another low one in 2008 here in Alberta. what's your thoughts so far on the nobody showing up to vote in anyone well it's classic canadian politics in that people don't vote for people they want they vote which is when the last election Kathleen won something like seven seats and even in this one stephen del duca won eight seats

so hey he's doing a little bit better but he ran such an unsurious campaign he just had a whole bunch of stupid stuff that was just, we're going to throw money, we're going to throw money, we're going to throw money. And to be fair, he would have probably actually lived up to a lot of those campaign promises because he's a liberal. But what I found especially funny about this whole nobody's showing up thing is the legacy media getting all butt hurt about how it doesn't really represent the will of the people because 57% of people in Ontario didn't vote.

So out of that vast majority of people that voted for the conservatives, Isn't it shocking? That only works out to 18%. But isn't it crazy, though, twos that nobody should. Like, it was a crazy percent that doesn't get involved in this. Like, 57% of eligible voters did not vote. 57%. Like that's, isn't that, I don't know, isn't that wild?

Well, nobody on the left had anything to vote for. You had Andrea Horwath saying that she was going to increase the minimum wage to $20 an hour. I mean, why not make it a million? Obviously, you don't care about the workers if you're not going to make it a million dollars an hour. Let's make it infinity billion, right? And so, and then you've got Stephen Del Dukkah with the $1 mass transit. Don't you just, I know, but don't you just think when you see that nobody's turning out to vote, you're like, there's something must, something's got to be wrong with what we're doing. There's got to be, there's got to be a way to do it better.

That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. sticking with voters don't worry we're gonna we're gonna stick with Ontario election how about where did it go where to go there it is

Jeff Lehman takes unpaid leave for two months to run as liberal candidate fire away okay so Jeff Lehman is the mayor of Barry Ontario he's in the middle of his third or fourth term and he just said you know what you guys you can run this on your own

for the next 60 days and I'm going to go try and upgrade my career and then I've got a job waiting for me when I get back. It's dushy, it's pretentious, it's entitled, it's exactly what you'd expect from just the swamp of politicians. Trump always talked about draining the swamp, but Canada's got a big swamp too. What happens if he's a muskig, really?

What happens if he's the next great politician? And he's just in a job that allows him to take two months and go. run for, for, you know, a better seat, a better job to have more influence. Wouldn't you want that? This is the same crap we talked about with Sven Spangman. And now I actually know the guy's name where they just show up and it's just a job and they're looking for the next upgrade and the next upgrade. And they're not actually there to do the job that they're hired for.

Like if the city of Barry can run for two months without a mayor, it can run the rest of the time without a mayor. You don't need that guy. Get rid of them. maybe maybe he's doing he's done such such an exceptional job over the past two terms three terms that he's a well-oiled machine they don't need him for a couple months maybe they encouraged him then they don't need him either way maybe you're correct on both fronts there all right moving on chinese fighter pilots uh flipping off canada this is a wild story to me you know like we

were talking about top gun last week right obviously keeping up foreign communications flipping the bird and I kind of chuckled whatever. Anyways, now you got Chinese fire pilots, buzzing Canada pilots who were out there for NATO, not NATO, UN, sorry. And I'm like, oh, wow, this is, this is wild. Okay. So let's maybe just frame the story a little bit more, right? So there's this big clunky surveillance plane that Canada's got flying around in and around North Korea as part of a surveillance mission. And the Chinese fighter pilots are just flying by and saying, fuck you guys. You think they're on top of the world?

Like, well, it depends which way the world. It depends where you're saying. We're all on top of the world. I'm just saying, I'm just saying you read the article. And it says China hasn't responded to Canada calling for it to criticize its pilots and really make amends. I'm like, do we realize what game we're playing in the world? Do they have any idea?

These jets aren't just racers. They got like missiles and guns on them. They're like, fuck you, stay out of our territory. And how close do you have to get to a plane where the pilot can see the other pilot flipping you off as he flies by? Like part of it's hilarious, but part of it's just you want to cry because Canada has become such an unserious country. that they reached out to China and said, please stop flipping off our pilots. And China couldn't even bother to send a response.

Yes. That is where we have. That's where we're sitting out of the world. Our international presence. Yeah, we're a laughing stock. Well, I mean, it just, yeah, it hurts me. It hurts me down. Like, you know, like Canada, we're a proud nation.

But when you're out there and you're getting buzzed, and you've got nothing you can do about it. You can't buzz back because they're in a junker, clunker, giant plane that is, you know, old world news. Okay. Aside from the convoy, when was the last time you felt patriotic? When was the last time you felt proud to be Canadian? I feel proud to be Canadian lots.

Okay. But like specific days, it's simple. The convoy and when Canada wins an Olympic gold medal in hockey. Those two days, all Canadians unite. Yes, you've got two events that are a decade apart. Yes. It's true. Yeah.

Side note, have you seen Ryan Whitney in Toronto airport, guy from spit and chicklets? Oh, I'm going to, you have no idea who I'm talking about. Okay. Well, I, okay, but we're going to go off. We're going to go off script here for two minutes. I got two minutes on the clock. So Ryan Whitney is one of the hosts of Spit and Chicklets, number one sports podcast in the entire world. Anyways, he's coming back from Emmington, flies into Toronto, and then from Toronto he's supposed to go to Boston.

His flight gets delayed. Then he can't get his bags because they won't give him to him. Anyways, this is like a 24-hour deal where they're like, you show up here at five tomorrow morning. We'll have you on a flight at 10. Oh, yeah. So he comes in at five, and now they've got him reroute and everything. So he's taking videos of the Pearson Airport going, this is hell on earth.

This place sucks. This is the worst place to be. That's every airport. I know, but you, he's talking about Canada. They made him go back through customs again when he was like, he's just like,

this place, this is unbelievable. They got two people working in there, trying to facilitate like 400 people through the process all over again. Flights are canceled everywhere. I'm like, this is Canada. You talk about patriotic.

Right now are, our travel industry is a nightmare because we are continuing continuing to hold on to the idea you need to do this, this, this to get through everything when it's just like, man, just move on. Everyone's dropping everything. I'm talking a little COVID. I'm talking a little spitting chicklets here, too,s. Well, maybe you should have gotten the eighth injection.

Well, I do have the eighth injection, right? Johnny Depp Amber Hurd talking about an eighth injection nobody needed fire away this is wonderful so you go back a few years this was like me pounded like Johnny Depp Amber Hurd nobody thought that was wonderful to his thinks it's wonderful well Johnny Depp sure didn't think it was wonderful I'll tell you that and apparently Elon Musk didn't either because if you go back in time you can find old paparazzi photos of him walking around hand in hand with Amber Hurd and he's got a black eye and I don't think there's a lot of Billy out there that get punched in the face.

And so anyway, Johnny Depp gets awarded $15 million in this defamation lawsuit in which she was just clamming all this Me Too stuff and people were like, well, maybe we should ask questions. Maybe we should ask questions. And I think that the whole innocent until proven guilty

part justice system is maybe starting to make a comeback. And that's great. Interesting side, though, she was looking super hot some days in that. courtroom. Was she not? Well, here, first off, the whole situation just messed up. It's not like, oh, Johnny Depp was innocent. Johnny Depp had some messed up stuff he had. Absolutely. This isn't like Johnny Depp is this white knight and he just got railroaded. This is like two messed up people got together. She liked to beat on a bit. He liked to badger her with a lot of drugs and disorderly

conduct, conduct. Thank you. Geez, can't spit it out tonight. and end up getting award of 15 million. He probably paid $15 million on lawyers alone. And at the end of it, none of them were winners. Like I just watched it. But he's still going to get his career back probably. And she's getting a bit of her just desserts. But it's funny.

Like there was some days where she was just looking ridiculously hot. And I tell you what. Do you know, like three different. There's three different kinds of guys listening right now, Sean. There's the guys who would say, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for shitting in it. There's the guys who would say, you know, what? I can is that kind of crazy. I could

get on myself, I could make sure I could lock that up, keep it low key. And then there's the guys who are listening with their wives or girlfriends. I was going to let you finish making the point. Amber Hurd is a sex idol. No, well, she's a sex idol. She's like a gorgeous

actress who beats her men. And they stick, that's the type of guy that stick. Yeah, you can hit me a couple times. It's okay. They're like, okay. No, sure. I've never been there, but maybe, maybe, maybe it must be enjoyable. I don't know. It's the crazy hot scale. It's the crazy hot scale. You ever been to the crazy hot scale where a woman gets to beat you and you stay with her? Have you ever allowed a woman to beat you, twos?

I've had some hit me before, well, one hit me before and it ended up being a very, very one-time thing that was a focal point of why it didn't work out. Okay, okay. That's enough. That's enough of the two's dating stories. Well, she, one death too many. She wasn't above the line. Justin Trudeau comes out talking about one death too many. And that they're going to,

they're going to take away all, you know, basically handguns across the board. Nobody's selling, no importing, no transferring it to a family member. They're just trying to get rid of all handguns. One death, too many. This is the same tired trope they bring out every time. they want to talk political about something

without getting any specifics into it. Well, you know what? If they'd have planned Afghanistan evacuation a little bit better, they may not have had as many deaths and one death is too many. Driving. How many people died driving every year? One death is too many.

If you look at the amount of suicides and broken families and everything that happened the last couple of years, I guarantee you there's at least one death in there. Why are they not too many? many. It's classic hypocrisy. It's a handpicking bullshit that we see everywhere in politics. And it, you know, see, and I, I won't disagree with, well, most of what you just said. But I got to give me some brilliance here. Yeah, I am. I got to give them a little bit of brilliance here, right?

In a decrepit, I don't know which way, but they're coming off the heels of the mass school shootings. And I mean, here's the thing. If you follow the U.S., you understand like, although Texas was horrendous, all of them horrendous, you understand that the United States has school shootings and public, like, just shootings in general all the time. But when one like that hits the news, then they become back in the news cycle of like all these things. And as soon as that happened, they jumped on gun laws. And it's in the mind of the, you know, the audience, the population. And so you got to like in a what's the way I'm thinking. I don't know. I'm like, yeah, but people are going to focus on it and they're going to be like, yeah, get those guns off

because they're, you know, and meanwhile, that's down in the States. I sit here in Canada and I go, I don't know, unless I live under Rock, which is possible to, maybe there's more school shootings than I give credit to in Canada. If there were, I feel like I'd know about it. And I don't want any school shootings. Let me be very clear. I don't want any shootings except for things like deer and moose and ducks and tarmigan. Okay? But here's, okay,

if you look at the stats, here's some homework for you, Sean. Just Google outside rates to legal firearms own in different nations. You've got pretty much every country in the world that's way up. I think Mexico

is just like all over. And then you've got this tiny little sliver that's the U.S. and a smaller sliver that's Canada. There are just, there aren't very many safer places to be. And yeah, obviously that school wasn't a safe. I'm not saying that.

What I think is that when you try and do it with gun control, you say, okay, well, you know what? This isn't really a thing about legal firearms. This is about illegal firearms. And if you've got two paths to get to a destination, and one of them has a whole bunch of blockades on it and the other one's just a free walk and the criminals are taking the free walk

adding more blockades onto the other path isn't going to stop the free walk on the other path. That last point I can agree 100% with you on. Dwindling photo radar funds could prompt tax hike to cover traffic, safety and police shortfall. Have I mentioned lately that I've got some issues with our politicians and with our armed defenders, the protect and serve people.

So this is in Edmonton, and we've got a fairly recent rule in Alberta saying that it just cracked down on what you could and could not do in terms of photo radar. And now between that and the provincial government's taken a larger cut, but also the revenue is down quite a bit. And so they're looking at a $15 million shortfall in the budget. And so this Anne Stevenson, who's a counselor in Edmonton, said,

We have no other revenue sources. This is a huge constraint that we face as a municipality in terms of our ability to generate revenue. Straight from the horse's mouth. This isn't about keeping people safe. It's not about saving lives. This isn't even one death is too many. This is fill our fucking pockets. Well, they just have that money earmarked for projects.

and that and they they went we're going to get $26 million. Okay, so what happens if everybody stopped speeding? Instead, they got $9 million and they went, ah crap. Now what are we going to do? Oh, we're going to raise taxes. Yeah. And you're like, that's how you reward people for not speeding. Oh, you guys are responsible citizens?

Pay us all fucking money. Yeah, we're going to raise taxes. Actually, I'm like reading it, you're like, oh man, we've got to come up with some more creative ideas. has to be another way. What if they just spent less money? What if? Can't do that.

Crazy idea. We just spent less money. I like spending money, too's. I want some. It's even more fun when it's other people's money. Especially when it's photo radar money. I feel like photo radar money is just fun because people are just pissed off. Get a ticket in the mail and you're like, some of a bitch, I didn't even see

him there. You can't even be mad because you caught red handed. Somebody's fighting it. But for the most part, you're like, here's my money. Right? It's pretty easy money. Nobody's, for the most part, nobody's fighting it. If you're training a dog and it, it, uh, pitels on the carpet,

do you, do you correct that behavior immediately? Or do you send it something via Canada post? Uh, you're not going to affect the behavior unless you correct it immediately. And so photo radar has never been anything other than a cash cow at all. Yeah, I would agree. But I, I think of all the cash cows they had, I thought it was a, brilliant cash cow. Like you want to catch.

It's just another syntax. You just, you put up cameras and then everybody knows they're there and you either drive slowly or you burn by them and you take the tickets and you move on with like, I'm not even mad about the photo radar anymore. It's like whatever, but realizing it,

realizing that it didn't make you the money you thought it would and your only option is to raise taxes. Hey. Ooh. Hold the buzzer. I got one more important point to make. October or by the last year, I think it was the year before, it came out that of the 15 days intersections in Edmonton,

none of them had photo radar. It didn't have anything to do with keeping people safe in terms of even that. And that was back when they were still claiming. It was for the greater good and stupid shit along those lines. It has never been about safety. It's always been about give us more money. No matter what they've ever claimed. And now we finally have them,

we have a quote. Then I must be the weirdo because I'm like, no matter what they said, I never believed them. It was about safety. I went, this is totally a cash cow. They're making money. And in turn, that money is going to go into projects for the city. That's the way my brain works. And I go, you know, of all the stupid things they've done, I'll take that one. Because if I don't speed, I don't pay. And then to me, too, as I go, so the people who speed are going to end up paying more because they just need to fall the, you know, like, you know, whatever. Instead, now, because there's not enough speeders, they're going to come after me, the guy who's like, but I'm, I'm like,

who's a responsible citizen. And this is funny because now they're finally admitting it. This is what we're saying for years. And now they're admitting it. All right. There you go. Okay, you got your point across. Conservative memberships are selling supposedly in record numbers.

Like hotcakes. Yes. So the leadership candidate. claim. Which is actually, you know what, let's talk about that for a second. Pancakes or hot cakes, right? Yes. How often do you see people outside of IHOP selling pancakes? Where did the phrase even come from? But anyway, Pollyap claims that he sold will selling like hot cakes. Oh, selling like hot cakes. Oh, hot cakes has to go back to somewhere. A pancake is a hot cake.

Yeah. So like you don't see them like ball games like come get your hot cakes and then they just frisbee them into the house. But can you imagine if they did? you imagine if you went to a ball game, you're like, hey, I got your hot cakes. Yeah, and they just sort of whipping them and they just smacked you in the face. And you'd just be like, yeah, this is awesome. I feel like that would be kind of cool. I don't think I'd really want a big giant hot cake. I'd take more of what's at the fair where you get the big ear.

What is that thing called? You know what I'm talking about? Oh, like the, like you're talking like a beaver tail? It's a beaver tail is a word for it. There's a couple names for it. I'm getting somebody's going, these guys are morons. Should we talk about Pierre Pollyette for a minute or no? I would just go on this thing.

Well, I tell you what, one of those things from the fair, I would totally get whipped at me. And if they call it a hot cake, I'd be like, hot cake over here. I love all fair food. Like the mini donuts and yep, all that stuff,

the churro type things. Weird nachos with dill pickles on them and and meats that probably aren't legal. You need to go to a state fair. A state fair deep fries everything. You think you don't want something deep fried and then you go to the state fair and you're like i'll try that you ever had deep fried mac and cheese it is awesome i have not i feel like that'll be bad for the heart but i'd still like to try it's

like katy ain't good for you katy deep fried certainly ain't good for you but is it going to be worse is it going to be worse than the fizer good point conservative membership sold in record numbers i feel like we've been here we are going to go back to this there i'll go to i'll go to i'll go to i'll go to conservative records sure yeah okay all right so we're do you think about this, Sean? So Pollyev claims he sold 311,000 in change by the deadline. Patrick Brown said he sold over 150,000 and John Choray said he sold tens of thousands. Well, what do you want me to say here? Like whatever's on your mind. Pierre Paulyev, I go, he was a rock star out in Western Canada. I think people believe he is

the second coming of Christ. Whatever you want to. put there. I'm being a little tongue and cheek here. I think a lot of people, even with the ties to the world economic forum, even with all that stuff, they look at them and they see a guy that they can rally behind. So could he have sold that many? Sure. When you fast forward to Jean Choray, I go, I just laugh. I just go, like, I think me and you both realized when he was running in this election that he, he wasn't going to win anything. Like nobody, nobody, I mean, but you think he is. I don't know. Well, I'm saying there's a chance because it doesn't go by votes. it goes by whoever gets the most votes

in that particular riding and where are all the writings fucking Quebec and Ontario, right? So I mean, this is a guy who's packed old folks with tens of people and probably only just for like

an extra tapio could put it. Like, if you guys stay here, we'll admit make bingo on an extra night this month. And they say, what? Can you imagine

And that's what is That's what is That's that's this town halls I can imagine what I can't well I just can't imagine Running for something And just even if I could win But in the shadiest of ways

I feel like I'd be like That just ain't for me You know Yeah yeah Politics ain't for you Yeah that's probably Okay That's all I got for

Let's let's let's finish Can we finish on some high notes here I'm going to slide this in. The oilers, the oilers just lost an overtime. I don't want to talk about it, but they lost an overtime tonight. So they went down four games to none to the Colorado Avalanche.

That's fucking pathetic. You know, what's pathetic is that twos for once is kind of similar to Justin Trudeau where he won't answer a question directly. You know, when I ask him about the flames, losing the oilers, and he just goes off on a side tent.

I'll talk about the ones losing four. Okay, I got a couple minutes here. The Oilers are losing, four. All right. Colorado was the better team. Simple as that. They are probably the best team in the NHL. I thought we had a little justice,

Nazim Kadri, for all you cadre haters out there, got hurt. I thought for sure he was acting. I thought for sure he didn't go into the boards that hard. He's out. It looked like he was acting. I agree. He looked right to correct.

It absolutely did. Right. But overall, you got to give Colorado credit. They got their backup goalie. and they just like it's four two tonight and you think oh it creeped into my head we're going to game five and then kind of all of a sudden it's five well then then kind of Mike Smith does what he does he goes out and plays a puck it hits a raft that goes in the net and you're like oh my god Mike Smith wanders talking about that with you a month ago on this show and then they score then they score

to take the lead and the one of there's find a way to tie it at five and you're like maybe and then it comes over to you in Colorado. I wish the Colorado Avalanche the best of luck on another podcast. I said they'd win the cup. So at least I got that going for me. The Amminton Oilers had a fun run. They beat the Calgary Flames. That was the funest moment of my life to the point other than a few other things. And sitting here hearing you not even address it just reminded me so much of our politicians. It made me laugh inside because I get to put you and Trudeau kind on the same pedestal for a moment. Now, can we get on to Daredevil Granny 103

sets a world record for oldest skydiver? 103 years old, twos. Let me just say, let me just say I'm incredibly impressed with the way you went through that entire tirade without taking a breath so that I could jump in. I'm just... Learn from the best.

Learned from the best. Well, fucking done. Okay. Thanks, Sean. So this is an. interesting story here. So a lady named Ruth Larsen in Sweden became the oldest person ever to skydive at 103 years and change.

It's an absolutely inspiring story that truly shows us that adrenaline has no limit on age. She beat out a previous record from two years ago by a lady, oh shoot, named Kitty Hodges. What are you hoping you're doing at 103? Let's say you live to be 103. Tews is running around 103. What are you doing? Are you still like just quipping about politics? Or what are you doing at 103?

What do you hope to do? I am sailing wherever I find promising leads on sunken treasure. I am diving for that and searching for it and using it to fuel my habit. So the headline will read, man breaks treasure record, oldest man to discover treasure at 103. Yes. And they will say he was unavailable for comment. He had been eaten by a bear shark. Well, there's your happy news for the week.

And, well, I don't know, as we stumble, mumble along, thanks for tuning in. Thanks for hopping on twos. and we'll catch up to you next Tuesday. Next Tuesday, be there, B square.