Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #71
Episode Date: September 5, 2023222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Burning Man flooding, paying the homeless and women comedians in Quebec ... the 2's special This week Major Sponsor is R U Q...uarter Circle Farms For more info click here: https://ruquartercirclefarms.com/ 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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Women are totally fucked.
And then they go to the ball and they get some Chanel bullshit,
oh, your pumpkin spice thing and sprits themselves to up their wrist.
You're never going to find a guy looking for smelling like that.
Go to a sawmill and just bring home on a bag of sodas and sprinkle it in your hair.
Or go to Canadian tire and get a can of WD40.
that on you. That's what you want.
Maybe just a little bit of diesel
underneath the collar. That's the kind of
stuff. Gun oil. You name it.
There's a million things out there that will just bring in
every guy from a 50 mile radius.
Not fucking pumpkin spice potty wash.
You want a woman to spell like
oil. Is that what I just heard?
I just, I find it fascinating
that it's just like, oh, it's so hard to meet a guy.
They quit smelling like fucking pumpkin spice
Well, I don't want to
You know, all I can think of now with pumpkin spice is
The lady who will not be named
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah anyways
No, no, Tuesday's got that
That whole love life thing figured out
But it's just funny when you hear people talking about it
I'm like, ugh
There's so many, there's so many stents up there
Tews wants you to bathe in gun oil
Just just let it rain
Oh yeah, baby, that's what I want
smooth your skin would be.
It's exfoliating or whatever the fuck that word means.
I don't know.
I didn't go to the parade this weekend,
so I'm not really an expert on that stuff.
Fair enough.
Well, mashup number 71-2s,
the Evgeny, or Evgeny, whichever you want.
Malkin of the episodes up to this point.
Yeah, we're only going to be able to do that for another.
I know.
I know. I'm like, I'm like, I should have been doing it the entire time because I realized I got 29 left.
Well, not even, right? I got 28 left. And then it's over. And then it's like, well, there's no 100. So, you know, like I'll have to figure something new out at that point in time. I don't know. Anyways.
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Are you going to reach out and get some beef?
I'm finally back in
you mute me folks you know
you're fucking right I did
yeah yeah I can't wait for next week
when I can mute that's what that's what it is
right there that's what I gotta do I feel like I feel like
you know I'm naming to another staring down
the gun at the Battle of Alberta right now
and the Calgary Flames walked in the door
I'm just foaming at the mouth I'm like all right
that's what you got like I'm I feel like I'm
you know you got Johnny Hockey
well you don't have a majority but when you did
and they rolled in the door and you got Johnny Hockey
and you got our scraps of Milan Luchy
each coming back in trying to bully us around.
It's like, hey, dry, can we just, can we just wipe these guys off the face of the earth?
Yeah, yeah, we can.
So let's do that next week.
Next week, folks.
And then we're going to have what, a Twitter poll, Facebook poll.
We're going to have polls everywhere.
We're going to let the best.
I think we're going to let them decide.
How are we going to, who?
Are you quarter circle farms?
Yeah.
You're going to leave it to one person.
Interesting.
I feel like you're trying.
I mean, there's the whole family operation.
Did you slag?
Did you slide them a 50 bill under the table?
Is that what's going on here?
It's a 115-year-old farm, Sean, located in the absolute heartland of Western Canada.
You can't sell it anymore.
You already had your little ad read here.
You're telling me we're giving it to the farm.
I see he's changing the details of this agreement, but that's fine.
Well, no, no, we hadn't actually specified who.
But I'm saying if they're the ones giving us the beef, they should probably decide who they want to have.
I'm just saying maybe some other people want to talk.
in some things and get in the action too then well then they can sponsor an episode and have their
own contest Sean interesting folks interesting twos playing hardball today mashup 71 it's great to be back
i tell you what a little news or what we actually before we do that before we do that
how hard would it be for you to just kind of pan the camera around and show off your new digs um
I don't know.
No, not right now.
No, I got...
It's not like you're doing an ad read right now, Sean.
Dittal-da-d-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
I tell you what, we will do that next week when I don't have cords running.
I'm still in the process of doing about three or different things.
So let's hold off on that for one week.
But yes, if you listen to Chuck Prodnick today, me and him talked about it,
because he was the first guy in studio.
and I was just like
Come on Sean Rue
Come on Sean Rue
Unreal
You know like Tew's is
He just anyways
I just got over there
I just got to the point where I'm like
Okay I'm not moving to
I'm not moving to Eminton
I don't want to
Yeah I mean we got riots
What are we calling that fight going on in Calgary
Is that riots?
What is that?
I don't know it's some gangs of New York shit
We're going to get to it
We're going to get to it
But I'm like at the same time
I don't want to live there
You know like
I mean, Saskatchewan's got its own problems, too, and I love Saskatchewan.
So I go, like, Lloyd Minster.
So what am I going to do?
Well, we're going to make this studio so kick-ass.
It's like everybody's going to want to come.
And so you go listen to a Chuck Prodnick talk about it because me and him sat in here and were like, man, this is kind of cool.
Anyways, yeah, we're going to get some news.
Thanks for pointing it out, though, because it did, it was a couple late nights in here reworking it.
Because once upon a time, I did all that to get it red.
for the first go around and then COVID hit.
Well, COVID hit and you're like, well, I mean, shit.
So then you just adjust.
So anyways, yeah, having some fun here, twos.
Can't wait for maybe, maybe Festivus in December, twos in the studio?
I mean, I'm going to be in Lloyd in November, but true.
Too close.
So.
Well, no, but in November, you're in town with QDM.
Maybe both of you in, in studio.
Ooh, Festivus.
Pre-gate?
Well, ye.
I don't know how good the show would go if we did that before we went on stage.
We'll get QDM, some Bud Lights, and see him score.
It'll be perfect.
Yep.
Anyways, I can't believe.
Sean Rue, love the ad read twos.
Come on.
You know, like, I feel like you slipped a $50 bill.
I did.
But I tell you what.
I tell you what.
It's nice to have somebody named Sean on the show that I really appreciate for one.
Let's get to the flipping news, shall we?
Yep.
Shocker.
Here we go.
Gun owners, distrustful of government-funded disclosure, you think?
Anyways.
And, Tuz, are you bringing it up?
You got a screen.
What do you got it going on with your screen there?
Are you sharing the screen?
Oh, that was the, that was, are you quarter circle farms?
They got a website.
They didn't tell you about it, but I Googled it.
Okay.
And so I had that, I had that ready to go.
Here we go.
Okay.
But I can speak it during my ad read.
Going back to the news, folks.
Here we go, okay.
Ecos, E-K-O-S, and A-O-Ronics polls show really, really different numbers.
According to Vironics, 47% of gun owners have only one gun,
and only 7% have more than five.
According to Ecos, just 20% have only one gun,
and 33% have more than five.
That's a huge discrepancy, no margin of error games here.
and it's just another poll 2s where it's like, you know,
it's another flipping poll.
Does anyone trust any of these polls anymore?
Well, it's not so much now that they don't trust the polls.
We're going to get to that in a little bit.
By the way, I didn't mention it beforehand,
but we just want to talk about that for like five seconds.
But not only do people not trust the polls,
but they also really don't trust the pollsters.
I mean, you know, without name and names,
just so that nobody ends up on a list.
how many people do you know who own guns and have fewer than five roughly as a percentage?
Pretty much every gun owner I know has over five.
Exactly.
And so when a government-funded poll gives you a call and says,
Hi, we'd like to know how many firearms you have.
I don't even think they make it that far.
It's already click.
Yeah.
Yeah.
boating accident, all I got left is the BB gun, right?
You know, so I guess I got one, so already have wasted your time.
Yeah, and I hate the break.
Meanwhile, you got this giant fucking bank vault behind you that looks like a John Wick movie.
Yeah.
I hate to break it, too.
We're all on a list at this point, too.
Me and you are on a list.
You know, in some funny universe, because I hope this never comes,
me and you were sitting in one of the internment camps doing the show from inside of it.
and, you know, and just sitting going at each other.
It's like a Troyin'all that in the morning kind of thing.
Honestly, I just, I truly believe that.
It was Tucker Carlson just recently who talked about Signal,
his messages on Signal being watched and how he didn't realize that was,
well, that's not what Signal's supposed to do, right?
It's supposed to be this.
It's supposed to be encrypted.
Well, I mean, unless you're Tucker Carlson,
so that means, well, the rest of us that are speaking,
anywhere in the vicinity of what we've been doing.
I don't think you can trust any of those apps anymore.
So as far as guns go, yeah, it doesn't make,
I mean, nobody's even taking those polls.
What was the last time you answered a phone call
or went online to take a poll?
If it wasn't like Marty up north or somebody like that.
I used to do Angus Reed stuff,
but I'd always get kicked out.
So they'd always, if you gave an answer
that was a departure from what they wanted
for like easy streamlined.
stuff like which party do you support other and then they might let you answer one or two other questions
just so it wasn't a dead giveaway but it would just be like hey thanks for your time but uh not
interested right and then as they get an idea of what your political beliefs are they you get
asked to do fewer and fewer current events and politics polls right yeah it's artificially uh changing
with the answer.
It's a little bullshit is what it is.
Yeah.
Okay.
Wind power is the pits.
Oh, this is good.
I found another article about an hour before we went online,
hour before we aired,
that went into exquisite detail
about how much of a disaster it is in the States.
And it was the New York Post or the New York Time,
like actual legit.
But it,
It was running too tight.
It was too tight to throw it in.
But just think this exact same thing, multiply by 100 in the United States.
Well, let's start here.
One year after Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, this is from True North, shut down the idea of supplying Germany with liquefied natural gas.
One of the country's largest energy companies is dismantling a wind farm to make room for an open pick coal mine.
This week, Germany's RWE began operations to dismantle wind farm in North Rhine, Westphalia region.
The company plans to dispantle at least eight wind turbines so that it can excavate up to 20 million tons of highly pollutant.
It lignite coal, also known as brown coal.
RWE broker to deal with the German government last year to be allowed to mine the area under the pretense that it would aim to be coal-free.
It would aim to be coal-free by 2030.
I chuckle at that statement.
Anyways.
If you're going to start an open-pick coal mine now and you're going to be coal-free in seven years, bold strategy cotton.
Let's see how it plays out.
Well, exactly. It's like, okay, who believes this? Does anybody believe this? Nobody believes
this, but we're going to put it in there anyways. Do you want the Western Standard as well talking about, okay, so Western Standard article.
This is beautiful.
Despite lavish subsidies and tax credits under the Biden administration's signature inflation reduction act, the U.S. offshore wind industry is in turmoil after the world's largest wind producers said it may be forced to walk away from a multi-billion dollar wind project.
on the eastern seaboard.
The world's largest publicly listed offshore wind producer,
Oslo-based Orsted, on Wednesday saw its shares fall more than 25%
after it said it may be forced to take massive write-offs due to what its CEO
CEO is calling severe economic and logistical conditions in the U.S. for renewable energy.
On a conference call with investors, CEO Mads Nipper, imagine having the first name Mads, anyways.
Like Mads-Mickleson?
Yeah, Warren, the company may be forced to walk away from five major U.S. wind projects off New Jersey, Virginia, New England.
He blamed a combination of supplier delays, high interest rates, and a lack of government subsidies.
It came just days after the long-awaited auction of offshore wind parcels in the Gulf of Mexico attracted just two bidders in a blow to Biden's plan for building 30-gigawd offshore wind capacity by 2030.
the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sold a single track near Lake Charles, L.A., for a paltry
$5.6 million, two other parcels in there, Galveston failed to attract any bidders.
That compares to more than $4.4.4 billion raised for a similar auction of wind leases near
New York and New Jersey last year, including Orstedts.
Well, there's a lot of appetite for this in New York and New Jersey, right?
It's the same kind of people that live in California.
And so you see a lot of this whole, like, oh, it's a lot of.
going to be awesome. Okay, have you looked into it? Well, no, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be
awesome. And to be fair, offshore wind power does negate some of the big issues with it being
problems with having livestock nearby and killing birds and killing bats, okay, because there's
fewer birds and presumably no bats once you get far enough into the ocean. And so, anyway,
it does mitigate those,
but it still doesn't take away from the fact
that if the wind's not blowing,
nothing's happening.
It doesn't take away from the fact
that you can't really recycle them.
It doesn't take away from the fact
that you need a shit ton of energy
to make them.
And it doesn't take away from the fact
that they require lubricants
made from petroleum.
Yeah, I mean,
this is the whole argument
against this taking over the world.
Right.
Also, also, when they do spring a leak up there with their, how many cubes of oil up in them things?
Because, like, it takes a lot of grease to keep these things from overheaten.
And when they do spring a leak, it goes right into the ocean.
It's that Mexican oil spill all over again, except this time it's wind power.
It won't find its way to, it won't find its way to any news anyways to us.
You're going to have dove out there cleaning grease off a bunch of birds from wind power.
It's just a matter of time.
It's just a matter of time.
I tell you what, that would be a commercial.
Burning Man is dosed.
Now, I want to first pull this up because I thought this tweet was, I thought this tweet was.
Just frame it first.
You want me frame it first?
Oh, man.
I tell you what.
That's why it was specifically listed bird in the.
Tews, you know what, fuck.
You know what, folks?
Here, you know, fuck.
Fucking guy.
Muted for a sec.
More than 70,000 people attend the week-long event annually,
which this year is being held from August 28th to September 4th.
The festival, which began in 1986, is held each summer in Black Rock City,
a temporary metropolis that is erected annually for the festival.
The city comes complete with planning services,
emergency, safety, and sanitary infrastructure.
It is best known for its concluding event
in which a large wooden symbol of a man is ignited.
Tens of thousands of people.
attending the Burning Man Festival in Nevada Desert are being told to conserve food, water, and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said.
Attendees saw their campsites transformed by thick, ankle-deep mud, and organizers halted vehicles from traveling in or out of the festival after heavy rains started saturating the area Friday evening.
Some festival growers hiked miles to reach main roads, while others hoped storms forecasted to hit the area overnight.
conditions. Burhorn said the mud is so thick that it sticks to your shoes and makes it almost
like a boot around your boot, making it even more difficult to move around, she added.
Yes, too. Seriously, you may come back. You could have just, you could have skipped out like
half of that. Also, isn't it hilarious? Anyways, okay, back to him to muting him. Here's, here's,
the great tweet that I wanted, you know, if he's going to just come in and talk like a little two-year-old,
he's going to get muted. Anyways, you're laughing at a bunch of tech bros, Silicon Valley, CEOs,
and Instagram influencers trapped in the desert,
rationing their food, water for survival,
and you're laughing.
The answer is yes.
Yes, we are.
Yes, yes, we are.
It's funny, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
It's funny.
It's hilarious.
Honestly.
That's it.
Move it along.
That's it.
That's all you got.
After you won't even let me spit it out,
you're going to make fun of how I'm bringing it on.
You're like, that's it.
It's funny.
and I just wanted to say that.
I finished the quote from the movie,
but you didn't really get it
because you're not much of a Batman fan.
What, did somebody fart in there, Sean?
Do you have any suspects as to who it might be?
That must have been a car driving by.
I don't know what the heck that was.
Anyways, it wasn't that.
I mean, anyways, like this is what I got to put up with on 71, folks.
First, to be fair, you've had to put up with this.
The second best ad read.
I don't know, man.
He's going to tell his mom, he's like,
He's going to tell his mom.
He's going to tell his mom.
You know what, Mom?
I got second place.
It's great.
How many, how many participants?
Two, you know?
That's going to be twos.
Anyways.
But he'll somehow make a joke out of it because it's all twos and everything else, you know.
Anyways.
Shop teach is a giant boob.
Yep.
Now, this one's been, we've had this one.
We've covered this a fair bit.
Fair bit.
Yeah, the controversy of the...
It'd be fair, there's quite a lot to cover in this story.
Well, the controversy of the Canadian shop teacher who wore giant prosthetic breast to school may be over,
Kayla Lemieux arrived to teach for the new school year at a new school,
Nora Francis Henderson's secondary school in Hamilton, Ontario, without breasts,
or the blonde wig, which caused such a stir last year.
Kayla Lemieux now appears as a man with scruffy beard.
actually I
you know a little bit of boots on the ground work
while I was over in Ontario the other day
I just popped in real quick
and I got some actual exclusive footage
of this guy
okay yep there he is
yep the giant boobs we all remember
and then now he's showing up
and the boobs are gone
right what the hell happened right
this is going to explain it quite succinctly
Too's, I can't hear her thing.
But now that she can jog comfortably,
she's in the best shape of her life?
Okay, I got to get a good look at these warlocks.
Let's make a move.
I don't know, man.
I think she looked better before.
It's, I don't know.
Figure your shit out stream yard.
This is the Riverside stuff all over again.
For the people just listening,
Tews pulled up a clip from Superbad.
and narrated part of it.
I actually enjoyed the narration was quite good.
I tell you what, that was better than your ad read.
I'll give you that right there.
It doesn't take much.
I'm sure you're going to do fine next week.
I'm going to do great anyways.
You're going to rue the day that you got second place in this thing.
Do you think he's just gaslighting the entire population?
Like, let's just pull us up for a second.
Is he fucking around?
it's the problem with
I don't know
do you think maybe this is a dairy cartel
top secret experiment
hello man
you think because I mean this is in
this is Ontario this is the dairy backyard
right
do you think maybe they just said
let's try this out on a dude
and then we can get all our bulls and steers
milk and two and maybe if they're this big
we could try it on
we could try it on the cows and just think
just think how much milk we could be throwing out
after that. I just can't believe
he showed up as the, like it's like
this is like expert level
gas lighting right now.
He got a breast reduction and he got
a haircut and now
this is what he looks like.
Get me out of here. Get me out of here.
Canadian polls
are garbage. I could have told you that.
Do you think he's got to like go in and
Do you think they keep trying to grow back and he's got to go in like a haircut, right?
You know, every few weeks he's got to take a few inches off the tip and just to keep him flat against the rest of his chest.
Right?
You know, just, oh, yeah, yeah, just take a little off the top, okay, and I don't know, leave some sideburns or something.
Isn't that what you told me?
We were drinking that one time, Sean.
Didn't you say that's what you do with your circumcision?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Okay. Anyways, folks, Canadian polls are garbage. Here's polling Canada. I would pay more of my income and taxes than I currently do now to help prevent climate change. Disagree 45%, agree 25%, neutral 26%.
It starts off. It's phrased with the assumption that paying taxes actually affects climate change. They're garbage. These things are junk. This is,
why no one wants to tell the truth.
One of them shows up asking about guns.
It's because there's no option to say,
I'm pretty sure that giving more of my money to Ukraine
is not going to affect emissions in British Columbia.
Because if that was an option,
I feel like a lot of people would pick it.
You're saying they need us to run the polls.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Maybe we should just follow what polling Canada puts out
and copy it and then put in a couple new spots
just to give them like,
hey, we ran your poll and we actually found out that 79% don't give a fuck.
People constantly do that.
They'll put out the similar question on Twitter and they'll be like,
isn't it funny how I ask the same question and I get the opposite result?
Maybe it's because you guys have selection bias in your interview participants.
For example, maybe the wording.
When you ask a question like this,
you're not looking to get to the root of the problem.
problem, you're looking to delicately brush alongside the problem at best.
And at worst, personally frame it so that it fits your narrative, like what the Canadian
anti-hate network did with their $300,000 grant for that one survey.
And it's just, yeah.
Anyways, the polls, it's like, I don't know, why, why are you even looking at the, like,
that's a terrible poll?
It's just a terrible poll.
That's all.
But they're better.
than our science.
Vancouver Sun here.
This is what comes out of it.
One way to tackle BC's growing homelessness
could be the simplest.
Just give people cash to us.
Give them money.
New research from UBC found that a lump sum payment
of $7,500 was a cost-effective way
to reduce homelessness among recently unhoused people,
even as it found, public assumptions
were that recipients would simply spend the cash
on drugs and alcohol. The study which gave $7,500 each to 50 unhoused people in Vancouver,
then compared spending and outcomes over the following year with a control group of 65 homeless
people who did not receive any cash, who showed very different results from public predictions.
Recipients of the one-time cash transfer spent almost 100 fewer days homeless over the course
of a year, saving an estimated $8,200 on social service costs or a net $700 after accounting
for the initial payment.
Recipients also kept more in savings and spent more money on clothing, transit, food, and rent.
The study did not include participants with severe substance abuse, alcohol use, or mental health symptoms.
So our polls suck in Canada, but they're better than our fucking science.
Yeah.
Just imagine how much time and effort it would take.
and this is this is whatever call it punching down but i'm being serious right think about how much
time and effort had to have been devoted as part of this study to find enough homeless people
to get a statistically significant sample while purposely excluding homeless people with
substance abuse alcohol use and mental health symptoms no i'm like i can't speak
speak, you know, I don't know.
This is just me like anecdotally looking at it, but it's like,
of all the people I see homeless when I go by, they all have a sub, well, I don't know,
they don't all, I guess, but to me it looks like a huge trunk foam have substance abuse
or they're using alcohol or both at the same time.
I mean, it's pretty evident.
All you got to do is just luck.
So the amount of time it took, you're not wrong.
Because it says instead they look for, instead the people who sleep,
in cars or on friends' couches and do not abuse substances or alcohol.
That's what they found for their 50 people.
Yeah.
And so also they, when I said statistically significant, that wasn't really correct
because they looked at 50 people they gave money to and 65 people they did not.
So, yeah, it's just, whenever you see these studies that come out with something that
seems really unexpected, just do a little dive.
Just do a little dive.
Don't take our word for it.
We can be making all this shit up.
They fucking are.
Well, I think we all know they're making up a whole bunch of shit at this point.
Although me and twos every once in a while,
pull an article.
I like to point out where the articles are coming from now a little more
because once upon a time,
we were getting called on it quite a bit.
Like, where are you getting your articles from?
Where are you getting your article?
We don't seem to get called on it very much anymore.
This is the Vancouver Sun.
Yeah, well, I know.
Well, I said that right off the hop.
And it's a UBC study, which at 50 people,
they gave $7,500, too.
That's $375,000.
And that and the amount of time they put into it,
they spent half a million dollars
on a garbage study
to reach a predetermined bad solution.
And you wonder why your fucking tuition's
going through the roof.
People, it's shit like this.
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.
No offense.
Inflation hitting numbers of whistleblowers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was warned in June 2022 by Secretary of Cabinet Janice Schreye
that his immigration policy since taking office in 2015 triggered Canada's housing
affordability crisis.
Shray appointed by Trudeau less than a month earlier directly blamed him for account.
Canada's escalating housing prices and severe housing shortages.
Trudeau's response was to ignore the warning and announce that he would bring in more immigrants.
The memo states that Canada's housing supply shortage is the key factor for causing the affordability crisis
and the pace of building homes cannot meet needs by 2030 to restore affordability.
CHMC projects the housing stock will grow by approximately $2.3 million between 2021 and 2030.
And when it incorporates economic factors alongside demographic factors,
It projects that an additional 3.5 million additional housing units are needed beyond current projections to restore affordability.
That total build requirement stands at 5.8 million units.
Two-thirds of the housing supply gap are in BC in Ontario, but in November, Trudeau announced his 2023, 2025,000 to 2020-2025,000 to 500,000 in 2020-205,000 in 2020.
That's on top of a historic 431,000 in change level of permanent residence in 2022
and higher than the previous 400,000 records set in 2021.
I'll be blunt as well.
Housing isn't a federal responsibility.
This is Trudeau.
It's not something that we have direct carriage of, he said.
He has a federal housing minister.
But it is something that we can and must help with, he said.
According to the Canadian, I just want to toss in a couple more stuff.
According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, the average housing price stands at more than 700 grand, which anyways, that blows my brain.
Currently, the average home costs 8.8 times the average of Canadian income in Toronto.
It's 13.2 and in Vancouver, 14.4.
Yeah.
This is, this stuff is just getting insane.
But it's really interesting how, you know, granted, you can't expect a politician to be an expert on average.
absolutely everything. It'd be nice if they were an expert on any fucking thing,
but you completely understand why they have people coming in who are experts who can consult
them on best ways forward and pitfalls and unforeseen consequences and things of that nature.
So he brings in some new chick who takes one look at it and says,
the reason why this stuff is going through the fucking roof is because of your immigration policy.
And the weird thing about it is that it's labeled secret. Like, why should any of this be
secret. Really, give me one good reason why this should be secret and why it had to get leaked.
Because there's nothing, there's nothing proprietary in there. There's nothing,
there's nothing that's going to harm. You know why. I know why. You know why, but I want a good
reason why. And I know, but I mean, you're talking about this government, talking about every
government in the under the world right now. Come on. We all know why they. Yeah, it's because they've
very frankly laid this issue at the feet of another shitty liberal policy and it wasn't supposed
to get out. But there's so many times that this is happening now that you're seeing more and more
whistleblowers. Look at everything we know about Chinese election interference. That all came from
whistleblowers at the start anyway. Now it's starting to get in. Actually, when you bring that up to
is how many whistleblowers are we up to now? Like it's a handful, you know, in the course of 71
matchups and more yeah it just keeps like unraveling and then they're like we're going to find out who
you are and we're going to lock we're going to shut you up because we don't want whistleblowers
there it's like well without whistleblowers without all these how the fuck would we know any of this
yeah exactly great meme the other day on twitter where it said that there was this judge sentencing
some guy and he said it's illegal to tell the public about the illegal stuff the government's
doing and it's it was an american meme but at the same time we love to follow
in the footsteps of the yanks up here.
Everything they want to do,
we end up doing a little while later, right?
And so it's just,
thank God for the whistleblowers
because without them,
where would we be in any of this stuff, right?
And how many more is it going to take
before people start realizing that these guys in charge,
these ones who purposely divide us
and purposely make bad policy decisions,
to try and tout wins where they put the costs onto smaller voter bases
so that they can win over larger ones
who literally give a shit about nothing other than the next election.
What are we going to maybe decide that they might not have our best interests at heart?
I don't know. Do people care?
I do.
I mean, I know the mashup, the mashup audience certainly does.
Right? I mean, but do people actually care?
Do people actually pay attention to this shit?
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
I love to say they do, but some days I'm like,
I don't think anybody has any idea what's going on.
You know, like they just not paying attention to anything.
They're just, you know.
Like, how long are you going to keep your head in the sand
before you need to come up for air?
But anyway.
I don't know.
It's true.
That's that.
You got to keep trying new ways.
to get to a new audience.
And why not women can't take a joke?
This, this, this is like, this, this article right here is like two of twos is best,
attacking women or just teasing them and Quebec meshed into one.
I would say you make a, a joke at the women's expense once an episode.
And I know that you attack Quebec almost every single episode.
And we still haven't got one listener from there.
I'm just saying somebody's got to go through Quebec.
But they're scared to say it.
They're scared to say it.
Right?
I know we do.
I know.
I've got friends in Quebec that I know listen to this fucking show about fucking Quebec.
Well, Montreal comedians.
And you know, shout out to Henry Sidelitz,
because he texted me last week laughing alone in his office at my name pronunciations.
So here we go, Henry, because it's a bunch of,
French names and this is going to be awful.
Emna Asher and Coralie Le Perrier
created as an Instagram account called
Paz de Philae Sir La Pacing,
no girls in the lineup
as a way to call out gender inequality
in Quebec comedy.
We did it as an answer to us being told
that we exaggerate when we say
it's a problem, guys.
Let's try to book more women, said Assure,
a stand-up comedian and people are like,
no, it doesn't happen that often.
So we started this page to be like,
here are the receipts.
The Instagram page which denounces
as a boys club and comedy
calls out all the male lineups
and comedy clubs
in events across the province.
It has more than 150 posts
after just a few months in operation.
One of the bars that's been featured several times
is La Troquet and Gatineau, Quebec,
which hosts a comedy night every Thursday,
often spotlining only male performers.
So in June, when the face of one female comic
by the name of Sonia, Belongie began appearing
in every lineup posted on the first.
events Facebook page there was hope and the problem was being taken uh taken seriously until it found
out sonya blanche was a joke she doesn't exist was instead created by ai eric goddrow the owner of
letroquet says he created the fake comic in response to the pas de filly sir le pacing post that said he is
he is bar rarely likes of female comedians here's here's the a i comedian just just so everybody can pay
So this is an AI generated image.
So there's a bunch of women comedians who should be trying to find the humor in things who get really mad about this.
And rather than poking fun at it, which is what most comedians or most good comedians, I would say, would probably do.
They decide to take it as seriously as possible.
Bold strategy caught.
Let's see how it plays out.
So they call out this comedy club for not having enough female.
comedians in the lineup. And so the owner of it generates an AI image and says, hey, we've got this
woman coming on stage and it's this running joke where every week they say that this woman is coming
on stage and then when they get up there and they start the show, they say that she had to cancel
unexpectedly. And then next week she's on the lineup and had to cancel unexpectedly. And it's this
running gag at the expense of these comedians who are taking things too seriously.
which is funny
because now you've got this CBC article
written entirely from the perspective
of these female comedians
taking things seriously
wondering why they don't get more fucking gigs.
Sean, this is,
I don't know how much stand-up comedy you've ever seen,
but quality female comedians are rare,
not because they're not,
well, it is, I guess, because they're not funny,
generally, okay, obviously there's going to be exceptions.
But when you go up there and if it's a straight chick,
she throws in a whole bunch of weird stuff about sex
and tries to make that funny by being more crude than funny.
And if the chick's a lesbian,
then her whole routine is based around the fact that she's a lesbian.
And maybe because I'm not a lesbian,
I can't really relate to the jokes or whatever it is.
But I find them to be less entertaining than the status.
men who often get up there, right?
Which is a very controversial thing to say in this day and age that men and women are slightly
different.
I could be wrong.
And once again, I feel like this is a Von Dubbs question, right?
I feel like actually, as we sit here, I'm like, she should have had Vaughn Dubbs pop in
for two seconds and have his opinion.
They have these things called Open Mic Dines, right?
Or everybody can, anyone can get up for, I don't know, is it five minutes?
Is it six minutes?
Yeah, I'm guessing something like that.
And last time I checked, I don't think it's.
I think anyone can do it.
I don't think they care who you are.
That's the whole point of an open mic thing.
And I would argue, if you're good, don't want you back because funny people put butts
and seats.
Like I don't go to a comedian.
I don't go to a comedian to sit there and go, well, this is kind of funny or whatever,
because it's super awkward if they suck.
Like it's super awkward.
And so like, is there great female comedians?
Yeah, I'm sure there are.
I'm sure there's like really, really talented female stand-up comedians.
And I'm sure when you get in there and sit down, it's like great.
But being a comic is a really difficult thing.
Even some of the best have moments where they really suck and it's not that funny.
Oh, well, I mean, you talk to like talk to them or hear any of them on a podcast or something like that.
They've all been boot off stage at some point.
No matter how good you are at Netflix specials, Eddie Murphy Raw, Ralleliori type stuff, every single one of them.
has absolutely flopped.
But the funny thing is,
is that these women took this so seriously.
Like if this happened to a bunch of guys,
I would say that they would just be like,
well, how can we fuck around with these people?
How can we make this as goofy as possible
to point out how silly it is
that they're not having more of us out there?
Right?
Instead, these comedians
are completely unable to find any humor in this.
and maybe that's indicative of their on-stage presence.
And maybe this is why you're not doing better.
Hey?
Anyways, here's Jack Milliken.
Oh, do we know the Jack?
We certainly do.
He says this most certainly will be clipped.
Hey, Jack.
Is that our Jack?
That is.
That's our Jack.
He's tuning in.
Anyways.
Oh, God.
I'm looking for the buzzer because I'm like, we should probably buzzer this,
although it's just kind of, it's just kind of funny.
I guarantee you it's going to get us into trouble.
Well, it's going to get me into trouble.
I mean, at the end of the day, though, like when you go to anything, it's like if you, if you're not good, nobody's showing up.
Nobody cares.
That's exactly it.
Especially comedians.
Like, I mean, God bless all you comedians who stand on the stage and let her go and try and like say some things that are, you know, controversial and everything else and try and get people left.
That's a, that's a difficult stuff.
And like even when you're testing out new stuff, some of it's going to.
flop. Some of it's going to hit. Some of it, you know, you're just going to, you're going to get a
base hit or a double maybe, but you're trying to just tweak it and get it better until it becomes
a home run. So I, you know, one of the, you don't just get angry about it and just bitch at the
um, one of the, one of the things that we did or I got to be experienced with twos is his first
comedy show. I helped him. He did it at one of the SMP presents. And you got a boo in the first
10 seconds up here. Probably. I'm like, oh, boy, did I?
But then you got some laughs, folks.
I'm not, you know, anyways.
We need fewer news articles like these.
Well, let's just start here with a group is suing the city claiming that evicting homeless people from encampments.
We're talking about Edmonton here.
Just show the headlines.
Just show the headlines.
I don't know.
It's kind of where I want to go with this.
I don't know.
I don't have them pulled up, Tews.
I don't have them to pull up.
Tuesday is going to pull them up here.
Give me a couple seconds here.
We're going to go with this one.
All right.
Videos show people throwing rocks and wooden sticks in a parking lot in Calgary.
This is a 150 person split down the middle, a retrian brawl about the independence of their African country, which I know nothing about the nuance of.
But you've got all these guys running around with two by fours beating the shit out of each other in Calgary.
And it's all about some sort of ethnic dispute on the other side of the ocean.
and CTV is just like video shows people throwing rocks and wooden sticks.
Motherfucker, they're beating each other with two by fours.
This was like straight out of gangs in New York.
Daniel Day Lewis is about to stab Leonardo DiCaprio in the fucking gut
while Cameron Diaz is a prostitute in the background.
This is what was happening in Calgary this week.
And they just like, well, it's minorities.
So, I mean, they're all black people.
So Eritrea?
Yeah, let's just say people throwing rocks.
let's have some honest conversations about it.
Like seriously,
there was a fucking sword fight in Brampton.
Yeah.
Okay?
It's,
however you want to get into it,
and however you want to parse it,
let's at least have an honest conversation
with what's going on.
This stuff's getting really fucked.
Imagine being the guy taking the samurai sword,
being like,
hey,
where are you going tonight?
We're going to stir some shit up, man.
Okay, we got gangs in New York and California,
and we got Highlander in
fucking Brampton, Ontario.
And if this just keep escalating,
we're going to have Highlander to the Quickening.
Okay.
And nobody wants to revisit that.
You've never seen it, have you?
It's suck.
No.
Okay.
Highlander 3 also not great.
And then you get into the series.
Highlander the first, like it's,
they hit the nail on the head with the first blockbuster.
I wish we could have like a show of hands right now.
Now, how many people here listening have seen Highlander?
You know, it's like...
Connor McLeod.
No, no, no, no.
The first one, the first one, 100%.
But all the rest of all, I'm like, no.
I just, no.
Anyways, maybe I'm alone on that.
Maybe I am.
Oh, Sean.
Every week you find a new way to disappoint me.
That's right.
All right.
So then we've got...
So we've got that.
And then we have...
Here, just read this out loud.
Canada shut.
It's land border to asylum seekers.
More refugees came anyway.
I'm going to go on a limb and say that if they shut the border,
no more refugees came.
So they probably didn't shut the border.
And then this, just, I need to read this without any inkling of irony.
I'm going to read it as straight as possible.
PM Trudeau has departed for a six-day diplomatic trip abroad.
political commentator Tom Mulcair on what to expect from the trip.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Thomas Mulcair, former leader of the NDP,
that fucking idiot is now political commentator,
and it's a six-day diplomatic trip abroad.
The newly divorced guys going to Southeast Asia,
what the fuck do you think this trip is going to be about, Sean?
I just want to point out.
out Zane hasn't seen Highlander either. So I'm just, hey, Zane.
Oh, goodness.
Yeah, we are, okay, fair. That's a great, that's a clever little poke at Trudeau.
First, second, you haven't listened to me and Chuck Pradnik yet, but shout out to Zane
because he wants to fun building the war board for the podcast studio.
You'll understand what I mean when you listen to the show to, but it sounds like there's being
a warboard built for the studio.
As for Trudeau, he's...
Yeah, he's...
Anyways.
Well, I mean, I was telling you
before we got on this, I'm pretty excited for it.
Mr. Jay Castro's headed for the lady boys.
I mean, whether I'm saying it to Zane
or Justin on his trip to Thailand,
I can't believe you went there.
Now, I assume you're going to bring up these heads.
We need more news articles like
this. Here's where it actually gets good.
This is like the best damn thing I have seen
in any newspaper in quite some time. And yeah, we get a lot of
good stuff from Blacklocks and the Western Standard never disappoints
either. But this one, it just
take it away and go into just the
awesome detail with which it picks apart every little bit of
government announcement bullshittery.
Well, so...
Maybe some of it.
So, okay, so it said it's official on September 4th.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario will give away its last paper bag.
15 years after the country's largest liquor retailer dropped the axe on plastic bags,
the same time has come to say goodbye to their paper cousins.
I picked three different paragraphs.
I don't know if I got this right, because there was a...
Like, you could have read off the entire bloody article, right?
And it would have been 10 minutes.
Yeah, well, that's a thing.
And it picked apart anything.
Anyways, in place of paper,
bags LCBO customers can request an eight-pack carrier made I'm not making this up
out of cardboard which is to say trees they also have the option of buying a
reusable plastic bag made from recycled water bottles manufactured in Vietnam
it all sounds very nice instead of raising pristine Canadian force to feed
our voracious paper bag addiction we can recycle a waste product into something
useful and over overlast reality unfortunately tells an uglier story Vietnam is an
enormous producer of plastic products whose environment record leaves much to be desired.
And I went on to say the Canadian forestry industry.
Furthermore, isn't the environment atrocity people imagine to be each year just 0.2% of
Canadians forested land is harvested a small fraction of what is lost fires and insect infestate.
For every tree harvested and others planted.
I mean, I didn't do the article.
Probably just justice.
Okay.
But just imagine 10 straight minutes.
of this exact
dissection of their
undisputed claims
and how incredibly false they are
once you look at them on the mic and that's the national post
that's the national post so come on that and i tell you what too is we've seen
maybe it's just me but i feel like over the last i feel like over the last ten weeks probably
we've started to see national post come out with one of these
maybe not every week but every second week they have one that is surprising you're like
that was in the national post huh is it's a
Isn't that something?
Because it actually reads like, I don't know, this thing called journalism.
Yeah.
Well, not only news, but journalism.
Because the news is.
Actually digging into what's being dead.
The news is that they're switching out the paper bags.
So, you know, but digging into that a little bit because they came up with a clay.
We're getting rid of paper bags.
It's going to save all these trees.
Okay.
We're saving all this pollutant.
But we're going to replace it with cardboard.
But we're going to replace it with cardboard.
And you're like, but that doesn't seem funny at all.
Right? And then this article actually goes in and digs in how, no, like, actually, no.
And then how many virtual versus actual trees it's going to save based on actual fucking real world data,
not just some guy trying to fudge a spreadsheet? It's beautiful.
So this is Mark Shatsker, LCBO's baffling, no paper bags policy.
If anybody wants an actual good read from Canadian mainstream media, here it is.
I can't believe we gave
the national post a raving review on the Tuesday mashup, you know?
You know, at some point here, we should be like going and talking to all these companies and be like, hey, we're kind of promoting you right now.
Yeah, like they should be paying us to spread their stuff around.
I wonder if there's, I wonder if we could get a bill pass that'll make them give us money.
How the heck do I say that word, Tews?
Apiary or B-L-L-L-L-E.
line. Apiary workers make a bee line for Ontario to comb for spilled bees. I was showing my wife
this article because this is like kind of insane. Kind of insane. Two days after a load of five
million bees fell off a truck in Burlington, Ontario, police say some are still buzzing around
and urged people to be cautious in the area. The incident happened on Guelph line just north of Dundas
street on Wednesday morning, Beehive boxes were strewn along the side of the road,
prompting police to warm pass passing motors to close their windows and pedestrians to avoid
the area. They were flipping everywhere, man. And did you hear the guy, the guy, did you listen to
the guy's interview? Something ran across the road or it could have been a bag and I swerved.
And I'm like, it could have been a bag? Yeah. But you you fucking fell asleep is what happened.
Or he was on his phone or something. And the result was five million bees going to
on everywhere.
It's a pretty sweet article.
I guess Tuesday doesn't want to chime in today, folks.
All right, EV Char.
I said, I said it's a pretty, well, I mean, it kind of just speaks for itself.
You know, what can I possibly add to it?
Usually, folks, and yes, I'm looking to know what are you talking to?
I'm talking to the wall right now because I'm imagining the people listening.
I'm imagining all you find folks watching.
I'll speak right to you.
Normally I can't get Tuesday to shut up.
So when he does, he does actually stop.
like, is he, two's okay?
Like, is this thing on?
Is he, is he, no, no, no, that's all he's got to say.
Hello, hello.
Maybe we need more B's articles, you know, anyway.
Ev charger installations short circuit.
Two different federal infrastructure programs have provided funding for more than 43,000
electric vehicle charges since 2016, but fewer than one in five of them are actually
operational new data shows.
The information provided by Natural Resources Canada came as energy minister Jonathan Wilkinson visited Quebec City Wednesday to announce another $25 million to fund 1,500 EV chargers in Quebec.
That announcement is the latest in the constant stream of EV charging announcements in local communities across Canada as the government aims to help build 84,500 chargers by 2029.
By the way, that's almost $17,000 per charging station.
Yeah, I was, once again, I just think we're, you know, I think we're in the wrong industry, too.
Like, I mean, me and you, like, if we, if we just went out and built a couple charging stations,
we'd fund this thing for the next couple years.
Well, considering the fact that one in five are getting built right now, I'd say there's,
there's opportunity in the market for someone who could actually get results, although
having said that when the liberals are deciding who gets money,
they don't really like results.
They like people to say they're getting results,
but when it actually, when the rubber meets the road,
which by the way, rubber comes from oil,
when the rubber meets,
that's probably why they hate it.
They hate the asphalt.
They hate the rubber.
You know what the liberal government reminds me of a little bit?
You know, I worked for the city once upon a time.
And I remember, you know, I was like 18 years old.
Yeah, you watered the flowers or something, didn't you?
Or something with potholes.
Shoot, I can't remember.
You talked about it in an old episode.
Well, I was digging.
We had to dig out like a potter, potting, like at a sign, like where the plants go.
I can't think of the dang word.
Okay.
And so, you know, they give me a shrap.
Yep, thank you.
And I'm sitting there digging it out and, you know, whatever.
I'm, you know, come from the farm.
Like, we don't get time to waste.
And even if we did, like, let's get the job done and move on.
of the next thing, right? So I'm sitting there and I got a tap from one of the managers saying,
hey, could you just slow down? And there's like four guys there. All leaning on the shovels
watching the new guy, the 18 year old, just hammer away at it. It just, it doesn't make sense
to me. And when you're talking about the liberal government, that's the only thing that comes
to mind. It's like, yeah, we want to get this done. I don't know if we want to get it done that
fast, you know, like we got we got plenty of time, you know, and, you know, just maybe one
every 30 days and we're going to charge, I don't know, way too much money and we all got money
to make here and let's just lean on a couple shovels and we'll make it look good.
You would not, well, you would, but it's absolutely insane how much waste goes into this stuff.
Somebody I know back in the day they got a summer job while they were going to university working for
CIS and their job, so four-month job, right?
So show up all excited.
Here's your office.
There's this big stack of mail.
He said, okay, well, you got to take all these letters and put them in all these envelopes and lick them shut.
And then move them over here, right?
Okay, so she gets to work at it.
It just closes the office door, starts plugging away.
Week later, she pops her head out.
It says like, okay, all right.
It's all done.
They're all mailed away.
Everything's taken care of.
What's next?
What are you talking about?
Yeah, I got it all done.
So whatever next thing you have for me to do, I'm ready for it.
That was your fucking summer job, was that stack of envelopes.
Oh, oh, okay.
Well, what else you got?
No, no, no.
You don't get it.
That was all the work we had for you for the next four months was that stack of
envelopes and you did it in a fucking week.
And they were mad at her.
They never had her back again after that.
You know, some of us could just never work for the government.
No.
That's pretty much what we're getting to, right?
Like that's what you're getting at.
Yeah.
Life is about the journey.
There's a couple of cool stories here, Tews.
Yeah.
I mean, that's kind of what I'd go for, right?
New Orleans Saints might have added the most interesting man in the NFL after the
23 draft having signed Australian punter Lou Headley after his sensational run with the
Miami Hurricanes he hails from Mandura coastal city of about 107,000 in western Australia and he's
a unique and he's as unique as they come he's a 30 year old rookie punter and so he played
semi-pro Australian rules football and worked as a scaffolder before trying his hand at the
American game he also lived in Indonesia where he had a tattoo show at a tattoo show at a tattoo
shop. So he's got tattoo everywhere.
He picked his number because he
to honor Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
Who played for the San
Peters. Right. So I mean
wild
little story there. And then the other
one in is Canadian rapper Drake
displayed his trademark
generosity during his recent tour stop
in Las Vegas. The artist surprised the crowd by giving
50 grand to a dedicated
fan who had spent their furniture budget
on tickets to its
all a bit of blur
tour. So yeah, this is the same kind of thing like where we talked about Taylor Swift a week
or two ago where she gave all the truckers $100,000. And then here's Drake giving a fan $50,000.
You know, as much as his music sucks. And I was in Toronto for about four or five days once
a few years ago. And every single cab I got into, it was just the only thing they're allowed
to play on the radio in Toronto is fucking Drake all the fucking time.
and none of it's good, but the guy's rich as hell.
And so for him to do something like this,
it's a drop in the bucket for him,
but it's a life-changing thing for that person he did it for.
And so good on, good on them.
I really appreciate that.
I was, I remember when Garth Brooks came to Calgary after,
after his non-compete with Vegas or whatever had come up, right?
Because he wasn't allowed to go anywhere other than Vegas to do shows.
And every ticket in the house was like $67.
Right?
It didn't matter where you were sitting.
It was all $67.
And it was probably more or less just enough for him to break even.
Right.
And then he went and did a bunch of shows up in Edmonton.
And they're the only,
his is the only jersey they've raised in the past 30 years, right?
But I remember when George Strait came for the stampede,
another guy comparable to Garth Brooks.
And it was, it was insane.
Like I looked at it.
And I was like,
who in the hell would pay this much for fucking tickets, right?
And the guy was like 80 something or whatever.
Like he's already made a shit ton of money.
At that point, like I get it.
Sure.
Yeah, if you can make the money fair enough.
But it's more money than he's ever going to spend the rest of his life or his kids or grandkids.
You know, at that point, the classy thing to do would probably be to just say, you know,
what kind of a thing can I do that would just give back to people, the fans who got me into this place where I can still do a few shows that I could still do a few shows that I,
like doing and cover the expenses but the fans that got me where I am today they can come out
and enjoy it right and so good for Drake imagine being the person like I just I assume you know the person
who spent their furniture budget to buy tickets to Drake trying to explain that to somebody before
they left now I think this is going to work out I'm like really excited for Drake and then coming
back looking like an absolute baller 50 G
You know, like, I mean, 50G doesn't get you near as what it used to, but I mean, it can get you a pretty nice couch.
Yeah.
And I don't think you'd be complaining about that one iota, you know, I'm happy about poker night the other night where I racked up about 250 bones and I was like, hey, it's 250 I didn't have before that.
And I'm rather, you know, rather excited about that.
Hey, that's me.
Okay.
Tax fraudster.
Tax fraudsters fired from tax fraud agency for committing tax.
fraud. The Canadian... Oh, I got these out of order. Sorry, we should have ended with the happy
nose, but my bad. That was me. Oh, well, we got one last one. And I don't know. Tews always
says people getting rid of, uh, uh, anyways, the Canadian Revenancy Agency getting
rid of agents is kind of happiness. So who knows? The Canadian Revengency Agency has fired
120 of its employees for legally claiming, uh, the Canadian emergency response benefits
serb while working for the tax authority to increase the number of CRA employees fired for
claiming the emergency COVID-19 benefits sixfold since June 30th when the agency first announced
it had fired 20 employees and was investigating a total of 600 that it's suspected of inappropriately
claiming Serb. Out of approximately 600 cases, we can report that 120 individuals are no longer
with the CRA as a result of the internal review. The investigation and disciplining process continues.
CRA spokesman Nina Luzapova said in a statement Friday.
So let's just run through the timeline here real quick.
There was Serb and then there was Serb overpaid $27 billion,
but Revenue Canada is not going to investigate it.
Correct.
And then they get a bunch of pushback and they say, okay, fine.
I guess we'll look into it a little bit.
Holy shit, 600 of us are,
are suspected at least.
And that's how many of them couldn't get away with it.
If you work for a company or an organization
that deals with tax fraud every fucking day,
I imagine there's a bunch of people who figure out how they could get.
Yeah.
These are the people who were too dumb to do it right.
Okay.
600 of them were the ones who got caught.
Okay.
And out of that, first it was 20.
and now it's 120.
And it just, like everything with inflation,
it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Sean, that's a hell of a good point.
Will they actually make them pay the money back?
Probably not.
Probably not.
You may recall we covered that nurse in, I want to say,
Regina, but it was somewhere in Saskatchewan a few months ago,
who was their time cards were on an honor system.
And then there was that one in Edmonton,
that doctor ended up in jail.
same kind of thing.
Everything was on an honor system and she was making twice as much as any other doctor,
which is a big fucking amount.
And she went to jail,
but I don't think she's paying it back.
And Saskatchewan specifically said that that nurse was not paying back those amounts.
And not seeking criminal prosecution for it either.
So they just said,
if you guys get the fuck out,
we're not going to make a big deal out of it.
Because it's all union protected.
Right?
They probably just got jobs with bankers, and they're moving on to the next thing.
Getting out of here.
Oh, God.
Anyways, mash up 71, folks.
That was supposed to be, I mean, it was kind of happy news at the end, but, yeah, I don't know.
They're not going to make them pay it back.
I mean, the story doesn't read, and they're going to pay it back.
It's like, no, they've been let go.
And we don't, the story even read.
They probably got severance.
They probably even got severance, too.
Said they didn't want to release names either.
Anyways, so there's a.
There's a whole bunch.
Again, like, I would want to know as a taxpayer.
I would like to know who the fuck thought that they could fucking steal from me.
Tews mashup 71 in the books, good sir, which means we have a week.
You can count it down, folks, till, you know, ad read number one comes in, ready to roll.
Well, we're going to see about that.
We already got one vote on the roof arm for twos.
we'll see if it gets locked in
it's the most ridiculous statement ever
we were supposed to be putting polls out and everything else
you know I was even nervous because I'm like
two's Twitter handle you know has quite a few followers
I'm like I'm gonna be that's gonna be hard to like handle
you know like I just yeah but they love ripping on me
there's a whole bunch that would just vote against me
as a matter of principle well I tell you what right now I feel like
I'm getting voted against for a matter of principle
so you know at the end of the day
You're trying to call inside baseball on this thing, and you haven't even done it yet.
You haven't even done it yet.
I feel like there was a $50 bill to slide under the table.
There's double bags of votes after the pipes leaked in Michigan.
Correct.
So, yeah.
We're going to have to impeach you if you keep bitching about this.
That smash up 71 brought to you by RU Quarter Circle Farms at Irma, Alberta.
Shut up to Irma, Alberta.
I don't know what it is about that place.
They got something in the water twos.
They certainly didn't produce anyone as ugly as you.
That's quite for sure.
Either way, folks, 71 in the books.
We'll catch up to you next week.
If you...
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We have an update.
Yeah.
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That's probably one.
You got Gord Bamford, Dwayne Steele this Friday in Marwain.
I'm not going to be there.
Tews.
Tews, could you tell us what you did there, Tews?
I fucked up is what I did.
I booked off.
Well, because I was 20%.
I was trying to get the weekend off,
trying to get the weekend off.
And boss was like, okay, well, I'll let you know.
and I'll let you know.
And then he's like, okay, you know what?
You're good to go.
So I'm like, awesome.
So he calls me.
He calls me.
He's like, I call Sean on the drive home.
Hey, dude, man.
I'm like, what are you doing?
What do you think I am?
I don't know.
I'm off work.
I got the weekend off.
Where do you think I'm heading?
I'm like, dude, that's next week.
Oh, fuck.
Yeah.
What is going on here?
No, you're not coming to,
you can come to Lloyd, I guess, you know?
I ended up working for.
Friday and Saturday.
They,
because I called my boss.
Because you call them back and you're like,
I'm an idiot.
Yes.
So if you can figure out for next weekend,
that'd be awesome.
But I'm not going to press the issue
because this is definitely my fuck up.
And he's like,
well,
no,
but you can work this weekend.
Classic boss.
Goodness.
Anyways.
All right,
folks,
that'll end it here for mashup 71.
2s.
We'll catch you next week.
And we'll see what happens.
We'll see some fireworks next week.
I'm sure.
Either way.
Until then.
All right, thanks, buddy.
