Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #71

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

222 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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Starting point is 00:00:01 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
Starting point is 00:00:47 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
Starting point is 00:01:08 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
Starting point is 00:01:28 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.
Starting point is 00:01:48 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.
Starting point is 00:02:12 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. Yeah, well, here. The floor is yours, good, sir, you know, because this is our sponsor. Are you quarter circle farms have? Are you quarter circle farms have? Are you quarter circle? farms in Irma, Alberta. These folks raise beef and it's fucking wonderful. They are so excited about this ad read that they sweetened the pot.
Starting point is 00:02:54 They said that whichever one of us has the best ad read between this week and next week is going to get some T-bones and some ground beef, but not just regular stuff, not even just their stuff, 4-H beef. This is huge. This is how awesome these guys are. This is how excited they are to be on here. And you can share in that excitement too. If you go to are you quarter circlefarms.com and they have a Facebook page too,
Starting point is 00:03:19 but I'm not on Facebook. So I don't really know. But you can order all kinds of different cuts of meat. And they deliver in the immediate area for free, like surrounding communities. And they can arrange delivery all over the place. Are you quarter circle farms? Are you going to reach out and get some beef? I'm finally back in
Starting point is 00:03:45 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
Starting point is 00:04:01 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?
Starting point is 00:04:19 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?
Starting point is 00:04:34 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?
Starting point is 00:04:46 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.
Starting point is 00:05:11 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...
Starting point is 00:05:47 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
Starting point is 00:06:12 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
Starting point is 00:06:26 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
Starting point is 00:06:35 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.
Starting point is 00:06:50 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.
Starting point is 00:07:15 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.
Starting point is 00:07:36 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.
Starting point is 00:07:57 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.
Starting point is 00:08:14 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?
Starting point is 00:08:25 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.
Starting point is 00:08:41 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.
Starting point is 00:09:07 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,
Starting point is 00:09:29 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.
Starting point is 00:10:00 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.
Starting point is 00:10:23 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.
Starting point is 00:10:40 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,
Starting point is 00:11:03 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,
Starting point is 00:11:25 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
Starting point is 00:12:03 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,
Starting point is 00:12:21 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.
Starting point is 00:12:42 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.
Starting point is 00:13:21 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.
Starting point is 00:14:03 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.
Starting point is 00:14:38 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.
Starting point is 00:15:28 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,
Starting point is 00:16:03 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
Starting point is 00:16:17 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.
Starting point is 00:16:46 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.
Starting point is 00:17:17 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.
Starting point is 00:17:28 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.
Starting point is 00:17:51 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.
Starting point is 00:18:40 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.
Starting point is 00:19:05 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.
Starting point is 00:19:25 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,
Starting point is 00:19:36 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.
Starting point is 00:19:58 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.
Starting point is 00:20:11 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.
Starting point is 00:20:29 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,
Starting point is 00:20:53 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
Starting point is 00:21:18 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.
Starting point is 00:21:53 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.
Starting point is 00:22:17 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.
Starting point is 00:22:37 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
Starting point is 00:23:01 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
Starting point is 00:23:18 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
Starting point is 00:23:37 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
Starting point is 00:23:56 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.
Starting point is 00:24:24 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.
Starting point is 00:25:10 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,
Starting point is 00:25:26 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.
Starting point is 00:25:56 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.
Starting point is 00:26:24 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.
Starting point is 00:26:39 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.
Starting point is 00:27:12 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.
Starting point is 00:28:02 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
Starting point is 00:28:50 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.
Starting point is 00:29:13 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.
Starting point is 00:29:45 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?
Starting point is 00:30:01 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,
Starting point is 00:30:17 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.
Starting point is 00:30:34 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.
Starting point is 00:30:50 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
Starting point is 00:31:24 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.
Starting point is 00:32:24 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.
Starting point is 00:32:50 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.
Starting point is 00:33:26 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
Starting point is 00:34:12 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
Starting point is 00:34:51 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
Starting point is 00:35:19 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
Starting point is 00:35:49 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.
Starting point is 00:36:17 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.
Starting point is 00:36:35 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.
Starting point is 00:37:01 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.
Starting point is 00:37:21 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
Starting point is 00:37:46 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.
Starting point is 00:38:02 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
Starting point is 00:38:16 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.
Starting point is 00:38:33 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.
Starting point is 00:39:11 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
Starting point is 00:39:53 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
Starting point is 00:40:21 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,
Starting point is 00:40:49 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?
Starting point is 00:41:15 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?
Starting point is 00:41:37 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.
Starting point is 00:41:55 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.
Starting point is 00:42:15 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.
Starting point is 00:42:50 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
Starting point is 00:43:07 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.
Starting point is 00:43:27 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,
Starting point is 00:43:37 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.
Starting point is 00:44:04 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?
Starting point is 00:44:39 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.
Starting point is 00:44:57 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.
Starting point is 00:45:11 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
Starting point is 00:45:52 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,
Starting point is 00:46:12 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.
Starting point is 00:46:26 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
Starting point is 00:46:42 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.
Starting point is 00:46:56 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...
Starting point is 00:47:13 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.
Starting point is 00:47:25 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.
Starting point is 00:47:39 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.
Starting point is 00:48:07 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.
Starting point is 00:48:39 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...
Starting point is 00:49:13 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.
Starting point is 00:49:38 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
Starting point is 00:50:05 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.
Starting point is 00:50:30 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
Starting point is 00:50:48 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
Starting point is 00:51:24 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
Starting point is 00:51:46 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
Starting point is 00:52:12 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.
Starting point is 00:52:31 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.
Starting point is 00:52:48 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.
Starting point is 00:53:33 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,
Starting point is 00:54:16 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.
Starting point is 00:54:54 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.
Starting point is 00:55:15 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
Starting point is 00:55:39 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.
Starting point is 00:56:31 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,
Starting point is 00:56:57 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.
Starting point is 00:57:18 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.
Starting point is 00:57:33 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
Starting point is 00:57:57 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.
Starting point is 00:58:40 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.
Starting point is 00:59:02 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.
Starting point is 00:59:26 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.
Starting point is 00:59:44 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.
Starting point is 01:00:01 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.
Starting point is 01:00:40 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
Starting point is 01:00:56 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.
Starting point is 01:01:22 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.
Starting point is 01:01:53 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.
Starting point is 01:02:15 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.
Starting point is 01:02:37 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.
Starting point is 01:02:51 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
Starting point is 01:03:38 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.
Starting point is 01:04:08 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
Starting point is 01:04:49 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.
Starting point is 01:05:29 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.
Starting point is 01:05:53 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.
Starting point is 01:06:12 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,
Starting point is 01:06:32 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.
Starting point is 01:06:56 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.
Starting point is 01:07:10 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.
Starting point is 01:07:29 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.
Starting point is 01:07:59 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
Starting point is 01:08:22 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.
Starting point is 01:08:46 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.
Starting point is 01:09:06 That's quite for sure. Either way, folks, 71 in the books. We'll catch up to you next week. If you... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, real quick. We have an update. Yeah. Oh, goodness.
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Starting point is 01:09:43 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.
Starting point is 01:09:59 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.
Starting point is 01:10:10 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.
Starting point is 01:10:21 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,
Starting point is 01:10:32 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.
Starting point is 01:10:42 And he's like, well, no, but you can work this weekend. Classic boss. Goodness. Anyways. All right,
Starting point is 01:10:50 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.
Starting point is 01:10:59 Until then. All right, thanks, buddy.

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