Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #80

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include the vote on axing the carbon tax, pedo's getting shortened sentencing, Alberta Pension Plan and Trans Mountain Pipeline. This week's Major Sponsor is HSI Group For more information head here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.hsii.ca Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast

You know what's funny? Tuesday doesn't have a rant today. So what does he do? He throws me out in front of you people to sit and talk to myself. And I'm just admiring my mustache. No? That's probably what he's doing too. It's a beautiful mustache.

How's everybody doing on another Tuesday matchup number 80? Tuesday, I got nothing for ranting. So you might just come in, you jackass. That's funny. And he's going to keep me... What the hell happened with mustache? our parents all had them and then they were incredibly

unfashionable and all you did was if anybody ever had a mustache they were either being intentionally ironic or they were from Newfoundland you could literally see a guy walking down the street on the other side of the street and go

I bet you that guy knows about pickled muscles and whoever you're walking with and be like what the fuck are you talking about and then you go how's you going over there. You go, all best kind for sure. See you like,

fuck, told you. It's the mustache. They all had them. And now all the kids have them. But it's weird because it doesn't line up with the fashion. I saw some kids. I saw some kids wearing no fear stuff,

which lines up with our demographic, but the mustache is lined up with our parents' demographic. So it's not this complete cycle. I had to shave it in. I should have wore the Mario, I should have wore the Mario costume on here. You know, I thought about that last week.

Yeah, that was silly. That was silly. Why didn't we wear costumes for Halloween? As soon as I shaved it in, I'm like, do I like a mustache now? Oh, man, I'm going to, I think I'm going to rock this for a couple days. And I'm going to rock it for a couple days. I don't know. They just, I just like, hmm, don't mind that.

Shaving such a pain in the ass anyway. Mashup number 80802s, brought to you by. We should call it the mustache up. Brought to you by HSI Group, new month. Well, yes. Yep. New month, new sponsor. Don't know why I thought for a second there, we were, but it's November.

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Now, do you want to rehash the VIC-Tube before we hop in anything? Yeah. All right. Well,

I mean, QDM and I did all the work. So while you were sitting backstage watching, why don't you give a recap? It was a packed house. You know,

500 plus people. 538. In the Vic. I had a, It was your dad who was telling me that the sound in there was phenomenal because he said, I don't know, I'm going to paraphrase him, but he said, you know, lots of times, hearing is subpar. And he said in there everything you could hear, which is interesting. And I was saying to you, one of the crazy things is when you watch Quick Dick do stand up, you know how, I'm like, I got to have the mic right here. He had the mic down by his hip and the, like, you could hear everything.

I was like, that's talent. But I thought both you did very well. very, very well. Thank you. I got quite a lot of laughs, but maybe that was just me, my own he was talking. I know, so my dad,

my aunt, and my uncle were there. And I don't know, my uncle didn't really say too much, but I think he probably enjoyed it on some. I know my aunt definitely did not, but she's not the kind of person who would like that anyway, but it was good that she came out regardless. They were quite happy

that I was doing something like this. They thought it was neat. Well, I mean, come on. There's 500 plus people sitting watching their dear old. To be fair. To be fair. You know it's funny, folks? I got to use both.

532 of them were there to see QDM though. I got to literally use Quick Dix real name and Tews' real name on stage. That was pretty strange for me, to be honest. I'm going to be very clear. That was, that felt a little out of character. but yeah, that was cool. You got it wrong anyway. Yeah, I know.

I tried to get it wrong, though. I didn't want to. Like, somewhere, Henry's listening to this going, Sean can't pronounce who's last name right the first time. I mean, that wouldn't be fun. You should have done the classic mashup thing where you're going to say, okay, well, I'm probably going to get this name wrong, but and then go into it, because you're going to do it anyway.

I don't do that anymore. You still get the names wrong. I still get the names wrong all the time, but I don't actually go, I'm going to get the name wrong. I just go get the name wrong. Like, I just have a little bit of fun with it now. Because you pointed that out. And now we're going to move on to the first article, shall we?

Okay. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Mashup 80. Let's roll. Which means I got to pull up the banner. That might actually help.

So the article from the first, the article from the first topic says you currently have ad blocker running. Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a social conservative. of. You may have noticed the UCP had their AGM folks. Well, one of the articles wrote, Smith's Grand... You talk. You've got to cover for a minute. I have no idea what's happening here. Tews is like... Okay. Smith's Grand Dream got polite applause from the vast crowd of more than 3,000 UCP members at the BMO Center Hall. But when she mentioned protecting parental rights, they burst from their seats with a mammoth mass cheer. That was the whole convention in one dramatic moment.

A premier trying to set a wider public agenda faced a crowd demanding abolition of diversity offices and universities, batting race as a factor in emissions, ending transfer of transgender convicts to women's prisons, purging school libraries, the right to approve changes to kids pronouns, freedom of doctors to ignore their professional associations, the right to keep guns and a great deal more. So this person was trying to say that essentially, this person was trying to say, too, as I just read off the article, what the person was trying to say is that we're going back to the Stone Age is what they were trying to make it seem like. Okay. Here's here is what Paul Mitchell wrote down. You know, here's some of the things that they got.

Doesn't that guy do hair products? Some of the resolutions at the UCP convention, okay? ban post-secondary institutions from using race as a factor in any admission program or procedure. That's the opposite of social. That's like getting social completely out of something. Protect an individual's right to free expression. Protect a medical practitioner's right to research, speak, right, protect medical doctors and all healthcare professionals from having their licenses to practice threatened for publicly expressing professional medical opinions in any public setting. Now, was that based on a hypothetical situation or did anything happen in recent memory that had that, get past.

I don't know. How many more do you want? Require teacher school boards to obtain the written consent of the parent, guardian of a student under the age of 16 to prior to changing the name and or pronouns used by the student.

I can go through these. How with the last one? The last one's really interesting. This is them becoming social conservatives. Support programs, eliminate red tape, and reduce taxes for the succession of the family farm to the next generation of farmers in our primary agricultural sector.

What a bunch of racist bigots. Yeah, yeah, I mean, like, you're just like, I don't know, I kind of like everything that was in that list, you know? Yeah. And there's probably nothing more they say there other than they're trying to frame it as like we're, you know. I mean, the people in the media are not the friends of the people. That's why they hate populace.

Fair enough. Fair enough. Yes. I can't agree with you. you and more on that. Okay, not even vaccine subsidies are effective. Clever. And they're not safe either. In a statement to National Post Friday, the press secretary for health minister Mark Holland, Chris Allen, said that government made a $150 million non-refundable advance payment to Quebec-based Medi Kago early in the pandemic to fund development and reserve a number doses of its eventual

COVID-19 vaccine. Back in 2020, the federal government, Inc. a deal to buy up 76 million vaccine doses in addition to another $173 million investment to both help develop homegrown COVID-19 vaccine and expanding its manufacturing facility in Quebec City. Aoun said that Medi Kago met all the terms of the $150 million non-refundable advance payment, but that the contract was eventually terminated by mutual consent and that Medi Kago was released of its obligations in the advance of the contract. Do you think they were mad about that?

You guys are just going to keep the $150 million and you don't have to do anything. Are you sure? And it's funny. Like, okay, go. That's where they got the damn. Because it was just like, here's your money. Okay, go.

Yeah. There was a line in the article that said it was impossible because what they did is they... It didn't line up with the World Health Organization's stipulations. Okay. So our Canadian government, who's hell-bant on kowt to the World Health Organization at every opportunity, didn't do the due diligence ahead of time to make sure that this contract would be in compliance with it. And then when they found out after they'd already spent 150 million of our fucking dollars,

then they said, okay, well, the World Health Organization doesn't like this. So we're not going to do it anyway. interesting thing. I don't know if you remember or not, but Trudeau, when he was wanting to get Pfizer and AstraZeneca and, you know, all these other random myocarditis things going on in Canada,

he specifically said that there are no vaccine manufacturers in Canada. And I called him out on this because there was that one in Calgary who was like, hey, guys, guys, we're here, we're here. They eventually moved down to Texas for some stupid reason. I don't even know why. It's almost as though they felt as though it was a hostile business climate or something like that, right?

But anyway, here's another one of these companies who is definitely not able to manufacture vaccines and they just gave them $150 million for fucking nothing. Well, here's even the, I don't know, maybe the scarier thing. During the summer of 2021, the federal government signed seven pre-order contracts for COVID-19 vaccine doses. of receiving doses as soon as possible once any of them were approved by Health Canada.

To date, it has refused to disclose the amounts it paid for any of those vaccines. Those contracts were with Moderna, up to 44 million doses, Pfizer, up to 51 million. Johnson Johnson, 38 million. Noavax, 76 million. I can't even name the next.

Sano- Now, keep in mind that we've got... Smyth-Smith-Kline, 72 million. Medi-Cago, 44 million, and AstraZeneca, 20 million. Now, that's not dollars, those are doses. Doses. And keep in mind that we've got, what, 37 million people in Canada?

Roughly. So 37 million people in Canada, and back in, like, 2019, they signed these deals to just get, like, 16 doses per person, right? Now, I was just thinking about this. Here's the best line of the entire article, okay? During it, it says it was impossible to know it at that time. which would be good for people. I was talking about all the different vaccines. It's like, little bit they know.

Apparently, actually, you know what? None of them. The medic ago ended up being the best health-wise. Is that because nobody took it? It's because it never got made. There's no vaccine to take. That ended up being the best health option out of all of them. In fact, in light of that,

maybe that is the best money that Canada spent during this fucking pandemic. Yeah, okay Legacy media nibbles the hand that feeds it after a bruising fall with 53% of people saying they have a negative impression of Trudeau in the latest Abacus polling the question haunting Justin Trudeau's liberals as their fortunes continue to slump is there a comeback path more to the point if one does exist is it with Trudeau or without him David Coletto CEO of Abacus did not mince words Trudeau was stepping down might help bring some people back to the liberals, but that's not a silver bullet. It does not solve all the problems, he said. The data suggests there's very little the liberals can do themselves to make them more electable at the moment. Enough people have decided they want change. A full 77% of the past liberal voters who now report negative impressions of him say they are tired of Trudeau, 91% say he's

inauthentic, and 82% say he's making promises he can't keep. Among these former liberal voters even more believe Trudeau got Canada into the mess it's in, you think? It's funny that they're saying the exact same shit that we've been saying since 2015. Like from day one, this has been people outside of the liberal camps, main set of concerns about this fucking guy. That and he's a lazy piece of shit. Although, to be fair, him being a lazy piece of shit has probably been the best thing going to happen to Canada throughout this whole time.

But yeah, any chance non-supporters would vote liberal? Like, I will go ahead and say that as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing that could ever be so bad that I would ever consider voting liberal. Although at the same time, part of me wants to see this country burn down in its current parliamentary form. You're taking... And so, yeah, yeah, I just, I think, okay, well, you know what? Voting liberal would pull the band-aid off fast.

And because I've got Blake Richards in my writing, there's zero chance that I'll be voting conservative. Right. And I'll take, I will go toe to toe with anybody who ever wants to give me hell about that. Because I'm voting, you don't vote unless you live in Carlton. You're not voting for Pierre Pollyev. You're voting for your local member of parliament. In my local member of parliament, t sucks. I wanted to throw this one in two, twos.

This is the words people on another abacus data. Associate with question period. With question period. Did you see them all? Yes. Look at them all in red folks. The top five, posturing, useless, dishonest, disrespectful, uninformative. Like, the majority is what everybody put in.

And then, you know, and then all the positive ones are at the bottom. Or none of them. You had the option to pick none. it's interesting that only 3% said truthful. Yeah. Which seems a little bit low because I feel like more than 3% of Canadians are idiots. Okay. Well, all right.

Here we go. Stupid Ginger writes indecipherable and meandering hodgepodge. I like when you throw in a hodgepodge, okay. New campaign by Climate Advocacy Group Environmental Defense is exposing some of the harms caused by the life cycle of plastic, especially against indigenous and other marginalized communities in Canada. Quoted, we don't even think about the full life cycle of plastics, Wurzig told CTV news. In a phone interview on Tuesday, plastic pollution starts right from the moment that you extract oil and gas from the ground, so we thought it was important to tell that story.

Plastic creates pollution at every phase of its existence. The story of plastic in Canada begins with fossil fuel extraction since, according to environment defense, 99% of plastic is made from oil and gas. Now, it's interesting when you actually try and follow the narrative illogical incoherence of this. So it talks about other minorities and how they're negatively affected in the headline and the first paragraph. And then it never, they never get mentioned again. They're just told that they exist. And this thing goes on for like 10 minutes.

But it never actually mentions the other marginalized groups aside from just being a clickbait stupid fucking headline. Okay, all right. It talks about the oil sands, the Athabasca oil sands, but it doesn't actually talk about how the oil sands have literally been seeping out of the ground in that area since time immemorial, right? The First Nations people up there have long, very well documented oral history of oil, oil just seeping up out of the ground, right? They're like, oh, yeah, it's because of this. Misinformation.

Like, well, misinformation. Well, here's the thing is you're intentionally only telling half the story. And then it says, and then the next thing that happens is that these things go to a landfill. And landfills in Canada account for 43% of methane gas emissions. Okay. But here's the thing is plastic.

Plastic takes about a million fucking years to decompose. So they're just sitting next to something. that's giving off methane emissions, all right? This is getting in trouble when your dog farts. And they're all beside indigenous reserves. They're all beside, you know, Africa. I think I saw an African thrown in there. And I was like, hmm, okay.

I don't know. I guess that's not more around me. But, hey, what do I know? You know? So, sorry, just to be clear, like I said, like they don't mention it again. You probably, you were reading it out loud and pronouncing it wrong. It didn't say African landfill. It said, a frickin' landfill.

There was the other article, too. A new study published in Oxford Open Climate Change, led by renowned U.S. climate scientist James Hansen suggests one of the main drivers has been an unintentional global geoengineing experiment. The reduction of ship tracks. Yeah. So it's a CBC article. They're shit. The Cole's notes of this is that climate change is being caused by decreases in pollution.

So yeah, apparently that the carbon tax that we're fucking paying, that according to this article is one of those things that is making climate change worse. Right. So here's the thing is every time we're polluting, we're, we're destroying. the planet and there is no planet B. But then you've got all these increased efficiencies in shipping lanes and the decrease in pollution associated with it is now causing climate change. Correct. I think. What do frogs do to the dildo of government construction? They rib it. The Cannon Energy Energy Regulator on Thursday ordered the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project to stop work in a wetland area near Abbotsford, British Columbia,

after inspectors found several environmental safety-related noncompliances. Some of the non-compliances include insufficient fencing to protect amphibians and unapproved vegetation clearing, the regulator said in a notice on its website. what is fencing to protect amphibians? Well, it's got to be a solid fence. I'm pretty sure they're not going to use barbed wire, right? I guess. But, yeah, apparently, when you're constructing a pipeline,

you got to worry about the frogs because you don't want to turn them gay. Alex Jones? Yes. Yeah, okay. They're turning the frogs. They're turning the frogs. They're turning the frogs. All right.

Yeah. So apparently they're going to. if if you don't put up a fence next to pipeline construction, you're going to turn them into a bunch of diesel driving rednecks. All right. Because it's, I don't know. What do people think happens with pipeline construction?

Do you think like it's just some big giant fucking foot that just stomps the ground down deep enough that you can put the pipeline in and then put more dirt over top? Like it's not as though you're just or I don't know. you don't dig the hole with a bunch of swords. And what the fuck? Like, I'm pretty sure that a frog can get the fuck out of the way of that slow moving track that goes and lays down the pipe. Right?

Like, it's, this whole thing's insane. Are you just going to put a dome over it and make sure that there's no fucking mosquitoes in there? Actually, that might be a good idea. In 2021, Trans Mountain was ordered to stop work for four months to protect the hummingbird nest along a one kilometer section of its route as well. And I got a lot of time for hummingbirds. I do.

But at the same token, you're talking about this giant project that at any corner, they're finding something to make sure it don't move. I'm pretty sure that given the exhaustive nature of the application process, they would have been able to locate and plan around. Can you imagine being the person who gets to go with there? Like, if there's a hummingbird that's that fucking important, or a frog that that's fucking important, they would have dug the pipeline in a different direction, right?

You don't spend a billion dollars on the application process and then find out that the last fucking three-legged frog in the world is there. You're like, okay, well, shit, what do we do? What do we do? Okay, just get some other frogs and amputate them. Well, they grow back. Bob, what is it today? But it's hummingbirds.

It's hummingbirds. That's what it is. Bob, what is it today? It's your fencing for amphibians. What is it going to be next? The whole idea is just absolutely fucking bizarre, right? Believe it or not, frogs are really good at jumping. The expansion is set to cost $30.9 billion,

$22.49 billion more than four times its original budget. Which I don't think there's a single person in Western Canada who when this was announced didn't tell you that it's going to be several multiples of that budget. That is fair. Carbon tax exemption burning down establishment. There's a lot here, buddy.

Okay, there's a lot here. But today, they had a vote. Okay? Pierre Pollyav says, just to ask the bloody carbon tax for everybody. Make it equal, right? Like, just, boom. Yeah, treat everybody in Canada the same

instead of having second-class citizens with unacceptable furnaces. It was 186, nay, 136, yay. And you might go, them dirty, but it's, this is, I don't know, I find this strange. It was the Conservatives and the NDP that voted yes. It was the liberal and block. I don't know if that's such a wild thing, but I mean,

the NDP voted with the conservatives. The frauds trying to fuck over the rest of Canada. That's literally never, ever happened. Weird. Okay. This whole thing we just talked about two minutes ago with the Trans Mountain Pipeline. It's not the first time frogs have blocked a pipeline in Canada. Okay?

All right. True. So anyway, this, here's some perspective for you about this carbon tax. It's so bad that the taxed the fuck out of everything, socialist, idiot. NDP not a serious party party says that the carbon tax is too fucking much Rachel Notley who brought a carbon tax to Alberta and then just paraded it around

like she'd actually accomplish something good for literally years has told the federal government that they need to chill the fuck out okay when the socialists are telling you that the tax is too much you need to pause and take a fucking breath but it's

There were so many interesting things that happened. Every premier just released a letter denouncing it. Well, here's here's Nova Scotia. Yeah. Nova Scotia came out and said, you know, like just remove it for everybody. Yeah. Scott Moe swinging his big balls around was in an interview, I think, with Vasi Capulose, which says, well, are you worried about not obeying the law?

And he says, I'm obeying the law as a third. thermodynamics, so there's that. And then you had, shoot, when that new fee liberal said that if Alberta in Saskatchewan wanted to have a say in this, they should think about electing more liberals. Doug Ford said half the fucking liberals in federal parliament are from Ontario. Why are you not doing this for us? right and then um Nate Horner who's the Alberta finance minister I think if I recall correctly he said maybe we need to do a subsidy in Alberta to get everybody on uh oil burning furnaces

so that they can qualify for this I mean he said it tongue in cheek but you're like hey it was clever was well done I like that and then the coup de grace though was Sunday morning after that show. I'm sitting in the lobby of the hotel, eating breakfast, hung over as fuck. And they've got CBC on as if my head doesn't hurt enough already. And it's Blaine Higgs talking

to what's her fucking rhino. Yeah. And so he's talking about how he just, he's up there, just he's getting all of this because his province has a whole shit ton of oil furnishing.

He is East Coast. And he's saying, this is bullshit. Why are you singling people out? When the people who are being singled out and given free stuff, which aren't free, by the way, are saying, you know what?

This is kind of a dick move. You guys shouldn't be doing this. Maybe they shouldn't be doing it. Is it possible we could have unity through such a divisive? Unity. Unity. unity i don't know it's it's wild because uh everybody's got out saying the same thing you've

actually got some people saying things and you're like that actually makes sense i can't believe it they're actually saying things that makes sense right now and and they're actually on the same page right this is this is how bad it is is that the conservatives and the n p are united lockstep in fighting this stupid ass fucking effective carbon tax well just when you thought it couldn't get any Dumber folks just just just saddle up here would you and then twos took my headline away Canada Supreme Canada Supreme Court can't I'm waiting Canada's Supreme Court to make pedophilia great again you know when people get really irritated with us it's these little shenanigans we do behind the scenes these are my favorite parts of this show

Oh my goodness I'm trying to read off a headline and this guy's anyway it did here we go the supreme court of can ruled friday that the mandatory minimum sentences for child luring are overly broad and can result in sentences that violate the charter of rights protection against cruel and unusual punishment the mandatory periods of incarceration apply to such an exceptionally wide scope of conduct that the result is grossly disproportionate punishment reasonable foreseeable scenarios the ruling said punch me in the face in a six to one decision because there's one person that can seem to stand up to just absolute stupidity. Justice Suzanne Cote, partly descending the court ruled on two cases from the Quebec Court of Appeal. In the first case,

Maxime Marchand met his 13-year-old victim when he was 22, sent her a friend request on Facebook and remained in contact with the child for two years. The pair met and had a legal sexual intercourse on four separate occasions. Marchand pleaded guilty to a one count of child leering and one count of sexual interference. At sentencing, he challenged one-year mandatory minimum sentence for child-learing, saying it violated Section 12. Marchand's arguments were successful, and he was instead sentenced to five months for child luring to be served at the same time as a sentence for sexual interference. In its decision, the country's top court said that striking down mandatory minimum was

about the overly broad nature of the law rather than any attempt to minimize the offense of a child luring. The broad reach and range of the offense means that a defined minimum period of imprisonment in all cases will sometimes prefer. results so excessive as to outrage standards of decency, Justice Sheila Martin said she can rot, rate and freaking hell. Okay, how about this? Rather than having mandatory minimum jail sentences for stuff like this, let's do mandatory minimum amount of dick cutoff.

Right? So like, if you only do it a couple times and, and they're, there are a, a minor, but they're probably a little bit older. They're probably near the age of consent. All right. Well, we'll just cut the tip off. Right.

And if you do something particularly egregious, it'll be half or three quarters or, you know, if you go to Epstein Island, we'll cut the whole fucking thing off, right? But there should be a minimum, mandatory minimum amount. Say that five times fast. Mandatory minimum amount of your dick that gets cut off when you're convicted of some fucking thing like this. I can't believe this past Supreme Court, man. What do you mean you can't believe?

This country is totally fucking fucked. Because sometimes Sean likes to believe that we have a little bit of decency still left. We don't. We don't. We absolutely fucking do not. I'm surprised that there isn't a government grant for this fucking shit. I mean, where do a guy go from even that? You know?

It's just. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Here you go. Mandatory minimum passes through the wood chipper for petos. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly it. You just be like, look, look, if, I mean, if it was just, if it was just like hand stuff, we'll put you through the wood chipper once, right?

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. Try and find, here we go. Provincial free trade is a lie. I should have said something about how it's falling flat. Here, I'll pull up.

I'll pull up the picture while I read. So this guy gets pulled over for no good reason. Because, okay, can you zoom in on that fucking rim? Yeah. That's what he was driving down the highway with. Ontario Provincial Police sees 326 cases of beer purchased in Quebec and intended to be served at an upcoming wedding after officers responded to a call for rental van driving

on an eastern Ontario highway with a busiest. blown tire. Police say the driver admitted that the liquor was not purchased at or through an authorized outlet for the sale of the liquor in Ontario. He further admitted that the beer was for the wedding and not for his personal use. The driver is facing charges of unlawfully possessing liquor, unlawfully purchasing liquor and operating an unsafe vehicle. You don't say the driver will appear in provincial court to address these charges.

Yeah, I wonder how he got caught. Yeah. So, I mean, not every criminal is smart, but this should not be fucking illegal, right? Like when I brought, I came back from Lloyd. I got a bunch of bow. I got a bunch of DW pill. And then when we were in Lumsden, I picked up a bottle of that whiskey, totally brought it home with me over provincial borders. Super legal.

I don't really give a fuck. Right? And neither should the cops. Like, why are you trying to enforce a stupid ass fucking law? I don't get it. But I want to talk about this tire for a second. So back in the day, I was running specialized tools and we needed this generator that we'd pull behind a pickup truck to run to run these and or run the service equipment. And so I had this guy that wasn't doing well at the job and my boss has pulled me aside and they're like, man, can you just take this guy out, do whatever you can see if you can just turn them around.

because if we can't turn them around, that's, that's it. We got to, we got to cut them loose. Okay, all right. And so I got him to do everything. This is when I still lived in Calgary. We did, he did all the load out. He checked everything out, put it all together. He almost forgot the tools, but I reminded him.

But other than that, everything kind of went fine. We get on the road and it had been a long day. And so I was like, peace out. I'm going to have a nap, right? And just kind of, he's driving. I'm riding shotgun. and just outside of her million, I get this tap.

He's like, hey, wake up, wake up. Dude, there's something wrong with the trailer. So, okay, okay, what's going on? And I go and I lean over and I look in the mirror. And there's just sparks. Like 15 foot high sparks coming off the back of it. I'm like, holy shit, pull over. He's like, okay, yeah, I'll just.

You know, I'll see where the next road turnout is and I'll find a decent spot. I'll be pull the fuck over right now. So one of the tires had gone flat on this generator trailer. And he drove it, same kind of idea as this, but worse, he drove it until all the rubber was gone. And then he drove on the rim to all the rim was gone. And we were literally scraping the axle on the pavement. Okay. this was this was his last ditch he didn't know about it but this is like his last ditch can you turn this guy around job

and he was literally trying to just skid on the location yeah gotta love a good old two story here we go plethora oh man plethora of pension particulars present as pundits peruse parliamentary probabilities um one a one a One important factor, sorry, this article was talking about how Albertans are coming around, like it's gone quiet. And it said one of the important factors is that Albertans are starting to wade into the facts of Smith's proposal. Some are realizing that even if an Alberta pension plan is a complete long shot, it's not complete madness. The century alone, we put in about $60 billion more than our retirees have gotten back.

The high watermark was in 2014 when Alberta workers paid in $8.5 billion, but Alberta recipients just got 4.4. So there's another few examples as it goes through the article, but it basically says that since the year 2000, Alberta alone has put in $60 billion more than what they've gotten out. And these are the contributions that you make your whole fucking working life. Toes, it said this century alone. Oh, yeah, yeah, this century, which is 2020.

I literally read that off. Which is what? I said this century alone. What year did this century start? 2000. Right, okay, okay. Welcome back. No, I realized, but I've literally said it.

And then you just said the same bloody thing. You're like reiterating what I said. Yeah, and then you said 2020. Okay. Yeah, sorry, but I meant 2000. I said this. All right. Carry on, good sir.

Let's move on, good sir. Okay. So $60 billion per person. Okay. In Alberta, if you've got a family of four, that's a little over $53,000 per family. So if the rest of Canada said, hey, you know what, we just want to square things up.

We just want to write the ship. they would cut each and every family of four a check for $53,000. Would that not be a lot of money that you could do something with? Maybe invested for your retirement or buy like another fucking house. You know, not lately, but you get the idea, right? That's how much extra money Alberta has been putting into this thing year after year. And one of the things that I'm starting to see pop up is that people, are talking about the ROI that the pension fund gets.

So they say that it's the best performing pension fund in the world. And it gets, I can't remember what the number was. Yes. Yes. Okay. It's fair enough. Okay. That's correct.

But it's intentionally misleading. And here's why. It's basically when you look at it's saying that the pension fund does this. It's not saying this is what you get. Fraser Institute did a good. study on this. And I didn't think until I started talking right now that I should have double checked on it. But it looks at if you're making these contributions over the entire life of your career and then you get to cash out at 65, this is the effective return rate. Okay. So just because

the pension fund does that doesn't mean that the money you personally put in towards your personal retirement gets that back. It's the same thing as MERs with invest. funds, right? Just because your fund performs at 8.6 and your entire portfolio is at 8.7 or something like that. That doesn't mean that you get 8.7% of your money back because you're basically paying a pimp fee. And it's the same essential thing when you look at what your personal return on investment into the pension fund is. And that's probably going to be one of the next steps that gets looked at more closely is they say look it doesn't matter what the pension fund gets what matters is when you put that fucking money in how much money do you get out personally and it is a paltry fucking number

okay imagine can you imagine if we all got uh can you imagine if we all got 53 000 dollar tracks 20 thousand dollar tracks i mean at this point you know like wouldn't wouldn't that be something that that would yeah yeah i i could live with that oh also also also also Undo the buzzer real quick. Okay, the other thing in that CBC Blaine Higgs interview was that it got cut short suddenly, and you're going to realize why in a second here. So you got Rosemary Barton trying to tow the line for the liberals. And Blaine Higgs, New Brunswick Conservative or Nova Scotia, whichever, they're the same place anyways.

I'm pretty sure. New Brunswick. New Brunswick Premier says that stuff like this is why Alberta is doing more to, distance itself from the rest of Canada, right? Things like the pension plan. He says, well, why wouldn't they? They have been paying in more of it than they're getting out. And every single step along the way,

they're getting a foot up the ass from the rest of Canada. He didn't say that exactly like that. But here's what he did say, pretty much word for word, was Albertans aren't leaving Canada. Canada has left Alberta. And then, Rosemary was like Okay, well that's where we're going to cut it.

Thanks for coming out. Yeah. He didn't have to say anything more though. He did so well in that interview. He just got to mic drop at the end on her. Just like boom. Like she kept trying to like hammer him on all these different points and he just kept Nope.

No, thank you. Because she had a bunch of half-formed bullshit liberal questions. True. And he was fielding them easily because apparently now conservatives are allowed to field shitty questions. for once, all right? But I'm not going to say this very often, but you should, if you're listening to Now,

go and check out Rosemary Barton's TV show on CBC just for that fucking clip. Okay. You should. You actually should watch the eight minutes. The eight minutes was actually well worth it. I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, we're going to start here, okay?

This is the BMO expansion as well on its way and celebration of its progress. Sorry, Canada is not a serious country. Should have read that at the start. The highly anticipated BMO expansion is well on its way and the celebration of its progress. The city of Calgary has unveiled a new art piece aptly named Spirit of Water

meant to resemble a larger than life drop but the 70 foot tall sculpture was designed by UK-based artist Jerry Judah and it weighs a whopping 112,000 pounds. It's going to cost roughly $2.5 million. Another article from Sanich, BC, has moved one step closer to banning those retractable dog leashes. Okay. So how fucking stupid are you to think that a retractable, retractable dog leash is something that you should be banning?

I mean, what, what, are they stamped with a freedom convoy or something? But this, this fucking sculpture. You know how when it gets really cold, minus 40 less, and it usually happens in Manitoba, and people will go outside with like a cup of steaming hot coffee and fling it in the air, and then it all freezes in that big spray pattern. This looks like Spider-Man spooging in the middle of winter.

That's what this looks like. And it's two and a half million fucking dollars. correct correct it is uh spider man splooging hey yeah in the middle of winter all's well that ends well how about some happy news at the end of all this and that is uh that you've probably heard of this guy um mr beast um i feel like everybody's talked about him one time i feel like everybody's i don't got the sound on he he cured a bunch of he got a bunch of eye surgery cured all their blindness. Here he is over in South Africa, you know.

Yeah, he's having, yeah, he's having African good time. Bringing water to all these different communities and building them water towers and just, you know, like, I don't know, this is what he does. All this money that you send to the UN, what do they spend it on? Fucking climate conferences in Egypt. Some random YouTube guy goes over there. because he's going to get a lot of YouTube views and he's going to help people out and things kind of align. And so he gets a chance to go and just give water for the rest of their fucking lives to a bunch of communities in Africa.

Right. This isn't, this isn't, you know, our Canadian foreign aid budget that does this. I mean, we still haven't even, we need to send this guy to fucking northern Canada and help out with the reservations. because our government can't seem to fucking figure it out. But this guy, in the interest of making a fun and entertaining YouTube video, goes and solves the water crisis for 100 different communities. Okay? And we've got a whole fucking city full of people in Gatineau, Quebec,

who can't solve the fucking reservation water situation. But good on them regardless. I agree. As soon as I was watching this, I'm like, man, we should just, you know, Mr. Beast. it and uh i don't know where you go clean drinking water for all mashapady dudes mashrapati in the books dude we flew through that no no um for the kids sake has it's uh um December 7th at the Vic Juba of all places is where the next for kids sake is going to be um so mark that down on your uh your calendars folks December 7th and i'm just uh I'm going to look it up here so I don't

get it wrong. The irreplaceable parent project. That's Shawna Sundell. So she's going to be coming in to speak. That's going to be the speaker that night. So December 7th here in Lloyd Minster at the Vic Juba Theater for the kids' sake.

That's a nice place for concerts. Certainly is. Actually, by the way, in case anybody at the Vic is listening, every single one of you were absolutely incredible. And thank you so much. It was such a, like the change room and the green room and then just any random thing that, yeah, you guys very accommodating and very well put together. Sorry, please continue.

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