Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #83

Episode Date: November 28, 2023

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include April Hutchinson being removed from museum, more tax credits coming for legacy media, Edmonton buses are in the shop and photo radar disappearing? 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

Corporations can be pretty stink and evil sometimes, but sometimes they are so evil that you kind of just have to be impressed. And Dove is the most evil corporation on the planet. At some point, there's a whole bunch of them sitting around a boardroom, and they said to themselves, we've kind of reached market saturation. Everybody in the world who's going to buy soap is buying soap. Edmonton doesn't, but everybody else is. And so we can't really reach new markets. They said, well, if we can't get more people that use soap,

how can we get people to use more soap? And then some guy with his feet up on the table in the back was like, well, if they had more skin, they would use more soap to clean their skin. And then they said, what if we tried convincing people that it was okay to be fat? And then this whole dove be fine in the skin your in thing happened just so that they could sell more fucking soap. You just got to appreciate how goddamn evil it is. Sure, sure.

MASHAP 83 dove out of their part of the weft somewhere in there, right? That's what we're saying. You know, close Schwab's the guy with his feet up on the table. I don't know why that's so funny. Welcome to Mashrop 83. Maybe Sean's just tired tonight And I got the giggles I don't know

We're gonna wait and see Either way, dove Yeah, they're coming at you Toos, how's things this week? Tews is good He's enjoying life He's pretty happy He had to put Mrs. Tuse to bed

She was feeling a little under the weather We were just talking about that There is like the flu is going around You know like it is knocking people down It's nice to just call it the flu I know lots of people want to call it other things, but it's nice to just call it the flu. There's a flu going around, and it's flu season,

and it's knocking some people on its butt, and, you know, it's nice that we're not locking down the world for it. Yeah, isn't it nice how we can just assume that people get sick, and that's it? Although I heard that there's some new virus coming out of China. And here's the thing. Actually, you know what, this probably should have been the rant to start off with. So two rants for the price of one. The problem with this whole COVID bullshit thing is that if there's a legit virus that ever gets unleashed from a Wuhan lab and it actually doesn't fucking suck.

If it's not some wish.com bullshit knockoff thing that breaks a week after you buy it like everything made in China, if it ends up being actual legit, we're going to be like, I don't give a shit. I've seen this before. You guys cried Wolf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't care, okay? We're just going to go about our lives. And then boom, it's going to be something that makes your dick explode or something. And we're all going to have exploding dick syndrome.

You know, how many people here have tried Wish? You know, got sucked in. I remember getting like these little teenage mutant ninja turtle action figures. I was going to get them for my kids. I'm like, oh, this is sweet. And then they showed up twos. And they were like, they were like adolescent karate lizard. They were, they were maybe an inch tall.

They were so tiny. Now, my youngest loved them. Like, he literally played with them. Like, he thought they were awesome because they were miniature. They showed up, and I was like, that's what I bought. Wish you. Like, ugh, you know? It's like when you buy a tent.

And they're like, oh, yeah, eight person tent. Dwarfs? Dwarves, dwarves, dwarves, I guess. You think, or. Mashup 83 is not brought to you by Wish. Let's just leave it that. Mashup 83 is brought to by the folks over at HSI group twos. Yes, indeed.

You know, the funny thing is, is when you check out their website, they've got a lot of stuff that's just natural fits for things in the oil field, all the automation stuff, you know, your classic press goes and things like that. But then also, the funny thing is, as they say, sourcing hard-to-find customer out-of-spec parts. I wish I didn't know about this like two years ago. my rig had this weird control module that was like a one-off built in Maryland or something like that. And it was shut down and they wanted like a two-month lead time.

And then we ended up finding a completely different solution. But something like that. It's cool that, you know, there's when you're looking for that, those interesting one-off things, those out of spec or whatever else, it's that's the kind of thing you want to have in your back pocket because the oil field is full of weird stuff you'll go to some weird flange out by winter and they'll have like those triangle threads i don't know if you ever see um those old wellheads that have those did you just say out by winter yeah do you okay up until like three years ago i had no idea there was a out by when anyways it doesn't matter i'm going to just like, I'm, most people don't say, anyway, and it doesn't matter. Winter, yes.

I know where they're going to. Okay. Just go with like Nealberg or something. I know, but I think a ton of people watching or listening are going to be like, I know where winter is. But I'm like, it was only like a couple of years ago. I'm like, there's a place called, what, where are we going? There's a place called winter and it is Canada.

Correct. Okay. So anyway. Vance Crowe's driving summer right now and he's going, there's a place called winter in Canada. Are we, are we, are they pulling my life? Is this a little bit redundant? Yes, anyways.

Yeah. There is a place. It'd be like having the mugging district of Chicago. He's just high. You should appreciate that. He's from Illinois. Where if you go on their website, if you go see them and you're looking for the most random part you can find in winter, chances are they're going to hook you up.

Isn't that what you want out of a team? Somebody that can just, you got this random question. You're like, I don't know, can they do this? Yes, they can. HsS.W.I.C.A. We still haven't figured out why there's a double I, probably because somebody stole HSI.orgia. It's probably why.

So it's HsS. double I.com. I mean, I don't think I'm ever going to forget that now, the HsSWI.com. Yeah, you think they would have changed the company name to go with it or something like that, right? Maybe, maybe. Do you want to talk about...

You are also to be expensive. Do you want to talk about Dean Blondell before he start? Do you want to start there? No, the guy's a piece. of crap. He's basically the Rachel Gilmore of being an attention whore. But I guess okay, well yeah, pathetic dude. So I guess

we're talking about Dean Blundell anyway. So this is just blowing up. So today we are Canada proud sent him notice of libel or defamation or whatever it is here. Let me just Dean Blondell you're talking about. Yeah, Dean Blondell is being

sued. All right? And this is so hot off the presses we don't even know what to do with it. We haven't even got a head home other than jackass. So to Wieners that we are Canada proud just sent us a lawsuit for 200 grand, claiming I've damaged their reputation. Maybe they should check their pants for balls in their Twitter feed. See you soon.

Falkers. Discover who will be a fucking riot. I'm in. And then. So here's what it is. Defamatory posts have maligned the plaintiffs, causing them public embarrassment. stress, blah, blah, blah, defamatory posts,

sustain and will continue to stay in significant economic losses, full particulars, et cetera. This is what it's looking like. Now, here's the thing. And I'm the guy who found it. This, I don't know, might or might not end up being a really big deal in a few days. So he started to go fund me page because it's a bullshit podcast that nobody listens to or watches. and so, you know, it's not like he's flimbing in money.

So he starts to go foamy page. Like the third freaking person who donated to it is this guy named Stephen Ponce. Wait a second. Why do I know that name? Google, Google, Google. So here's Stephen Ponce being the third person from the bottom. I assume this is the third person that donated or he's the 55th. Either way, one of the first people to donate to this.

Durham Police had arrest men and human trafficking investigation. Stephen Ponce, 29 of Oshawa, is facing several charges, including assault, mischief of $500,000, material benefits from sexual services. No. Material benefits from tracking

trafficking persons over 18, procuring person to provide sexual services, trafficking persons in exercising control, obtaining sexual services for consideration. Like, it's a fucking draft pick. Procuring exercise control. Okay.

So here's the thing. This This is like... Of all the money you don't want to get, it's coming from that guy right there. Yeah, yeah. How greasy is that money he just made? And the funny thing is, I don't know if you guys remember back in the day

when Derek Sloan got in a bunch of hell because a white supremacist donated to his leadership campaign when he was running for leader of the conservative party. Who jumped all over it? But Dean Blundell here from his Cryer Media, which used to be Dean Blundell.ca or whatever. Are politicians supposed to be taking donations from neo-Nazis asking for CPC member Derek Sloan, Dean Blundell, January 19, 2021, which is pretty much the exact same time that that, a fucking guy who just donate or may have just donated,

same name, same name. I don't know. I just saw it and I was like, well, this is interesting. Let's throw this on Twitter and see how much it blows up. And so, anyway, here's this whole damn article about. about how bad of a person Derek Sloan is because the wrong person

donated to his campaign. Karma is a bitch. I didn't never think Dean Blundell would be a topic on the old mashup, but there you go. He's normally not even worth it or interesting enough. He's just a guy

who tries to say things inflammatory without ever actually having anything interesting behind them. He's like me without substance. Do you think we should get media badge so you could sit in and like hammer some Paul you know like twos you have this wonderful ability of really tying a nice bow on some of these things

where it's like wouldn't people just love to see twos asking Rachel Notley some questions that are presser like I'd pay to see that and 100 you know like that would be that would be something it would only last once and then she would never talk to you again but it would be like it'd be

extraordinary it'd be beautiful it'd be like and like I just woo that was great. Wednesday two days from now, Rachel Notley is going to be in Calgary to talk about the Alberta pension plan. Okay. It's an open house thing.

Everyone's invited to enjoy, everyone's invited to attend regardless of what your standpoint is on any of the pension things. She's actually inviting her supporters and detractors. So you're saying we should go. Well, assuming that,

Assuming that I can tie things up at work early enough, I am going to go. What time is it at? I don't know. We should put it in the community events, though, hey? Yeah, we should. Come to this. Come to Rachel Notley. Okay, let me just open this up here.

I'm sorry, folks. Okay, here we go. Mashup 83 off to a rocky start. I can't read that. I can't read that. It says idiot NDP town hall, 630 to 730. PM that night. Yeah, Wednesday, November 29.

In Calgary. Yeah. I didn't write down the address, so you're going to have to take that up on your cell. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Wouldn't that be... Don't pick on Rachel. She's looking really haggard today, he says...

Yeah, that's because she's on over. Says Sandy Palmonger. Oh, boy. All right. I've heard unsubstantiated rumors that she's in rehab. Let's kick this thing off, shall we? We're 13 minutes in. I can hear old Daddy O'Numan go.

and play the hits. Let's go here. Okay, here we go. Pathetic dude thinks he's big swinging dick in women's sports. Powerlifter April Hutchinson, a podcast folks may remember that April was just on before this all came about. Anyways, she's been removed from an exhibit at the Ontario Museum after she was banned from competing for two years over her comments about a transgender athlete. The Canadian athlete who was suspended after calling powerlifter Anne Andres, a trans-identifying. male has been celebrated for her sobriety and exhibit at the Museum London titled Resilient London, Meet Your Neighbors. But in a letter dated November 10th, the museum informed Hutchinson

she would be removed from the display because of her activism in women's sports. Museum wrote, unfortunately, your comments and the public discussion around them are harmful to the 2SL, no way, 2SL, GBTQI. They've changed it on me twos. Yeah, they added an emoji and the dollar sign and the you know I was getting real good at like rattling it off now I got to go with this 2SL GBTQI anyways community are not

consistent with the values of our organization nor are they consistent with the objectives of the exhibition as such our team has made the very difficult decision to end your participation in the resilient London project effective immediately and what happened two days later Sean

I don't know what happened two days later the president of that league. Oh, he resigned. Yeah. He was like, yeah, this isn't what I signed up for. I'm not the guy to bring this across the finish line. You guys are on your own.

Good luck. Okay. So this Andres dude, literally, it talks about this in the article, he would make fun of the women competitors for having tiny little T-Rex arms. Well, yeah, compared to yours, no shit because you're a man, right? and he did a squat bench and deadlift total of 597.5 kilos, which was 200 kilos or 440 pounds more than the next competitor, right? Correct.

And it's an unofficial world record right now. Here's the thing is, I've talked about this before. These guys are fucking pathetic. Oh, man. I mean, when you're doing, no, when you're doing sports, you want to compete against people who are probably just a little bit better than you. You want to push yourself. You want to be the best person you could possibly be in whatever event you're doing. You don't want to just dumb shit down and play against a bunch of people that are just not even in your league, which up until a few years ago was literally the case. Well, one of the other.

Sad pathetic. Yeah. I mean, for the podcast viewer, if you want to go back and. listen to April Hutchinson. Certainly she's been on another lady, Linda Blade, who is on. Fantastic, right? Like, really break down what's going on in women's sports. And you're like, man, we are in a mind virus of epic proportions right now when this can go on.

You're coaching U7 this year, right? Correct. How often do you just absolutely open up on that little goalie? That little six-year-old. Do you ever just let it just Slapshot as hard as you can You know get out of breakaway and try and just absolutely undress them Do you just give it to them with everything you got

And then gloat over your victory And how awesome you are Just beat your chest about how you were able to defeat the small child No Because that's fucking stupid And yet here are these people doing the same damn thing okay I don't think I'm crazy

out of line for saying it Canadian boxer withdraws from championship after discovering the opponent's transgender that just happened in Canada two three days ago yeah female boxer

katia Bissonette allegedly withdrew from a Canadian championship match upon her discovery that her opponent Maya Wamsley is transgender Sean can't shoot that hard

thanks Murray you know and we just leave that up for the rest of the show. Okay. And then you got Daily Wire actually is coming out with a movie December 1st.

We're not going to show you the trailer because it's three minutes long. It's a long trailer. It's a little bit self-flagellating. And they look like they're trying maybe just a bit too hard. But I love the fact that they're taking on this thing and pointing out how sad and pathetic

all these people are. And I think they listen to my podcast, because one of my early episodes, I said that, you know, if these guys really wanted to feel like champions, they should self-identify as children and join Little League. And they actually,

they do literally that in this movie amongst other things. Yeah, what's their team name? Oh, the lady ball. The lady ball. The lady ball. So they've come out, Daily Wires come out with a movie called,

Lady Ballers. The Lady Ballers. Lady ballers, yeah. And so they go on to play basketball, a group of, like a group, a team that was put together back when they were all younger. And they go back and play women's basketball and dominate. It's the most ridiculous thing ever, except, you know, we're just kind of in the world where it kind of fits, you know? It's just like, it's ridiculous, but if that's where we need to go, okay, fine, whatever, you know? Yeah, anyway.

Okay. Journalist integrity drowns in a sea of cash. Okay. A federal program allowing news publishers to claim a tax credit for portion of journalists' salaries is set to increase. Of course it is. The liberal government announced Tuesday. The government's fall economic statement announced an increase to the Canadian journalist tax credit, a refundable tax credit allowing qualifying news outlets to claim up to 35% of up to 85,000 in salary for a qualified

employee. That's an increase from the credit's initial allowance of 25% of up to a 55,000 salary per employee. The newly expanded credit will be retroactive to the beginning of 2023. The economic update said it projects the cost of the federal government will be $129 million over the next five, over five years. It's on brand for the liberals. They've already tried to backdate laws with S&C Lavelin. They tried to backdate documentation with the, actually that was with S&C Lavlin too. Yeah, they tried to, remember because they accidentally, they accidentally tried backdating a document to April 31st.

Yes. And then the day didn't even exist. The date does not exist. Are you kidding me? But somehow they keep getting passes on this stuff. And so this is another one. Now they've got 129 million over five years with 10 million per year ongoing. So this is the exact same thing as a subsidy.

It's just cleaner and a little bit more succinct because it's just tied in with taxes. And in their very limited defense, Sean, doing a tax break is better than doing a subsidy because there's less paperwork, which means there's less bureaucracy. But that's the only good thing here. and that is just the tiniest little shred of, hey, it's a tiny bit better, right? And also you've got to be profitable to have taxes to get a break from, right? So very, very, very tiny shred of redeeming quality in this

where they're literally buying the fucking news. All I can think of is Chris Sims. Chris Sims pretty much puts out a tweet every day that journalists should be independent. They should not be. Absolutely. It should not be tied to the government in... Does CBC have any journalists that will qualify?

Well, technically it says qualified journalists, so I don't think they have any by any sort of quality standard. But if I'm interpreting this correctly, they're getting the $1.3 billion subsidy, and then they're also getting the tax break on top of that. That's what I took. And maybe we're... wrong on that. Somebody can comment if they want, but that's the way I read it, too. Yeah, if anybody

from the CBC is watching this. We're not watching you. We're not watching you. I don't know of a single person that's watching you at this point. Stalantis subsidy substellar. The new Stalantis electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Windsor received a number of temporary workers from South Korea recently and news of their arrival is leaving some in disbelief over whether or not the new plant which received billions in taxpayer subsidies will end up creating jobs for Canadians. The joint project between LG Energy Solutions and Stalantis received $15 billion in subsidies from both the federal and provincial governments to manufacture hundreds of thousands of batteries over the next decade. Quoted, with the new LG Energy Solutions battery plant being built,

we expect approximately 1,600 South Koreans traveling to work and live in our community in 24 posted the Windsor police force. A government official said the LG Energy Solutions filed an application with a federal government labor market impact assessment, dear God, that's just an absolute mouthful, to show that it will require international labor due to insufficient domestic availability. Yeah, so nobody in Canada knows how to do this, and apparently nobody in the world can do it well, and so they've got to hire temporary foreign workers, but the nice thing is they're coming from the good Korea. So what they're doing is they're, we're subsidizing the workers in this plant as taxpayers, right?

Creating, creating jobs, right? Right, right. For Korea. Okay. And now, CBC, I don't know if you saw this, but South Koreans are eligible to work at Next Star EV. under Harper era trade deal. Oh, thanks, CBC.

That's very non-biased of you. You would think in the past eight years since Harper hasn't been around, the liberals would look and be like, okay, well, these are the jobs, these are the laws on the books. Regardless of when they were created, we don't really want to be subsidizing Koreans,

per se, although, I mean, we probably give a bunch of money to, you know, for example, but because they, because we admire their basic democracy and want to, strive to be more like it. But it's just, it's so incredibly biased to just be like, oh, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's the Harper law that's allowing this to happen. Bullshit.

Like, it makes about as much as saying that, uh, that COVID managed to get here because of the John A. McDonald era, um, intergovernmental. travel laws that were passed. John A. McDonald says, okay, people can come into Canada if they want. And boom, next thing you know, COVID. It's just absolutely silly the lengths that are wonderful, trustworthy, completely above reproach and totally can't be bought and paid for media are trying desperately to keep the liberals in power.

Yes. It's not, I don't know. Is anybody reading it? Is anybody watching it? I don't think so. Not as much as we think. Me and you rate it. That's about it.

Here's a good one that nobody should read, but hey, what the hell? We read it. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, an agency with broad judicial powers that is fully funded by the federal government, has declared that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada's colonialist religious intolerance. That is a mouthful of a sentence. Quoted, Discrimination against religious minorities in Canada

is grounded in Canada's history of colonialism reads a discussion paper on the religious intolerance published last month by the agency. Quoted again, an obvious example is statutory holidays in Canada. It adds noting the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter get days off

while non-Christians have to request special accommodations to observe their holidays. The thrust of the paper, first reported by Blacklucks reporter, shout out to Blacklocks because they keep doing great work, is that Canada is replete with religious intolerance and always has been. Quoted, in order to move forward towards sustainable change, all Canadians must first acknowledge Canada's history of religious intolerance.

This is despite the fact that free exercise of religion has been Canadian law in Canadian law since before Confederation, a state of affairs that would have been conspicuously rare in the world of the 19th century. In 1851, the colonial province of Canada even enacted the Freedom of Worship to Act, which protected free exercise and enjoyment of religion. profession and worship without discrimination or preference and then I threw this in at the end twos because I did this little line here yeah so the Canadian Human Rights Commission was created in 1977 to enforce the Canadian Human Rights

Act okay and then here here we go on an anti-racism timeline the agency adds that it's human rights officers haven't been empowered to suss out this suss to suss out the subtle scent of racism suss out the subtle scent. That's correct. And if they have specifically been ordered to prioritize cases related to race, color, or national, or ethnic origin, you cannot make this shit up, folks. You cannot make out suss out the subtle scent of racism. Because the liberals would have literally said to them, we're paying your bills, which they're not the taxpayers are.

But we're the ones signing these checks. So you guys need to do what we want. We want you to suss it out. We want to do subtle signs. Suss the subtle signs. Can we suss it out? Well, we want to suss it out a little bit. Who cares?

Like nobody, okay, we could have DeWali, which is the Hindu holiday that Shane was talking to you about. We could have that as a statutory holiday. And I'd be good with that. I'm fine with it. We could have Hanukkah, eight crazy nights,

put on your yarmica, it's time to not go to work tomorrow, perfect. Right? You name it. It doesn't even matter what it is. We want to do some weird druidic shit or some Zoroastrian holidays. Have at her.

You want to give me a day off work. The answer is fucking yes. And I don't care which God granted me this boon. I just want to suss out the scent. That's what I want to do. Cess out the scent of racism. Cess out the subtle scent. Correct.

Cess out the subtle scent. Suss out the Settle scent. Maybe I'll put that on a show or on a T-shirt. Suss out the subtle scent. Suss out the subtle scent. What a line that that's in a paper. Suss out the subtle scent of racism. Who the hell are these people?

My tummy was rumbling the other day. There was nothing subtle about that scent. Oh, well, that is what's going around, folks. Four, far right politicians forcing police to actually do their job. Quoted, if I was a betting man after this one year, review you should be in the realm of BC and Quebec and have around 200 sites versus 2400 said Treeshin. They're talking about photo radar fishing traps. Correct. So this is what this is the step one December 1 there will be no photo radar on the Calgary Eminton Ring Road. Step two,

the one year review over the next year the province will sit down with those in authority in all the places in Alberta using photo radar. They will go over every single photo radar location and painstakingly determine whether it is a fishing hole or not. A fishing hole is where the location is chosen because it makes a lot of money and not because it's a very, not because it's unsafe with lots of collisions. A fishing hole treats photo radar as a cash cow, which it is. And quoted, if the province deems them to be fishing holes and they have nothing to do with safety, they will be removed.

Will they go through with that? Oh, absolutely. And I think it's wonderful and far overdue. So Alberta has about 2,400 photo radar locations, correct, Devon Dresian, BC has 190. Saskatchewan has 26. And what did they say fucking Quebec had?

100 and like 24, wasn't it? Sure. It wasn't a huge number. But keep in mind that fucking Quebec has what, 9 million people or... Alberta has 2,400, man. And Alberta has 2,400. There's probably one in your driveway right now, Sean.

I have got tickets a block away from my house. I kid you not. I believe it. I absolutely believe it. They're going to say it's a school zone and that you need, but I'm like, and I've gotten ticketed for doing like 42, not in front of the school, like down from the, I'm just like, oh, whatever. Because it isn't about, there was a guy who ran for Marin, Edmonton,

and this had been bugging me all day. I was like, I thought of something that was going to tie in that I needed to look into, and I couldn't remember what it was. And all day, I was like, what was that thing I wanted to look up? This guy that ran from Marin, Edmonton a few years ago, he busted this wide open. And he actually pulled up a bunch of stats. And he said that the five biggest photo radar places in Edmonton

have absolutely nothing to do with safety. Because that's always been the thing. oh, we need to have photo radar because it keeps people safe. It stops collisions. It stops people from getting hurt. They're like, okay, but why do you have them here where you can catch people rather than there where all the fucking accidents are happening? Actually, and I agreed with the article that what ends up happening, because this is having

like so many freaking times, especially now your phone will tell you if you have the maps on, it'll be like, oh, photo radar coming up, everybody hammers on the brakes, trying to stop quick enough because they forget about the dang photo. radar. That's almost what causes the accident. It's like, you know, if anything, probably at these spots, they have more accidents and collisions from people trying to avoid getting a $100 ticket.

According to Driesian, both Calgary and Edmonton taken more than $40 million in a year in photo radar ticket revenue. Yeah, we both know they find a way to piss that away. Oh, they bought the

Spider-Man Spooge statue. Right? Okay, here's the thing, though, I want to show you this other tweet from some random asshole. I don't know. Music guy, performer, educator, drummer, guitar, singer, proud dad of two, fluent and sarcasm. Whenever people say fluent and sarcasm, they're usually an absolute pain in the ass in real life. This is this guy's tweet. When your hashtag Y EG, which is Edmonton, property taxes go up this year. Remember that the UCP cut funding to municipalities and now are limiting the money they can

collect from photo radar to starve the cities as punishment for not voting UCP. Photo radar is not a fucking cash cow. It's not there to provide revenue for the municipalities. Okay? And this is you being an

asshole. Matt Greer at Matt Greer music. Stop being a dick. You got to know, this is Sandy Palm, Holgren. You got to know that if it was unsafe, the RCMP wouldn't be sitting there. Well, nobody's sitting there.

Isn't it weird how many people get caught right outside of Tim Hortons? Oh, and then we just hit it at the same time. The potholes in Edmonton don't allow for speeding. That's kind of true. All right, politicians forcing police to actually do their job. Okay. That was, we got to go to, that was the last hit of the way. Oh, yeah, that was.

I meant to say, legacy journalists can't compete on even ground. That's where I was going to. Yeah. Here we go. At the beginning of question period in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Tory leader asked the Prime Minister this question. We've just heard media reports of a terrorist attack, an explosion, at the Niagara crossing of the Canada-US border.

At least two people are dead, one is injured. It is the principal responsibility of government to protect the people. Can the Prime Minister give us an update on what he knows and what action plan he will immediately be implementing to bring home security for our people? On Thursday, Larigio asked Polivier, if it was responsible of him to characterize the incident as terrorism before officials had officially done so. The Tory leader immediately went on the attack, accusing Canadian press of irresponsible journalism, and often failing to get its facts right.

A new spin on the fake news accusation we hear so often from Donald Trump and his supporters. Poliev clearly enjoyed his beatdown of Larigio, but we know now his answer was a lie. A CTV news report published late Thursday that CTV news report, cited national security sources. The government officials were operating under assumption that the incident of the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls was terror-related. The breaking information was forced reported on CTV News

approximately 15 minutes after Pallivier rose in the house to Astrodot about media reports about a terrorist attack. Tews, what say you? Well, I would say that as much as CTV, CBC and everybody else are not the friends of the conservatives who really aren't very conservative, by the way. He probably had the inside track on this. Somebody probably said,

hey, we're going to press with this article about this thing that just blew up. And you're in question period. You might want to talk about it. So, yeah, the timeline doesn't quite work for him. Having said that, he's right on every other part of it. They are irresponsible. They've been attacking him, which is stupid because they're way out matched.

This would be like one of those U7 hockey kids trying to hip-check you. It is interesting. You just shrugged them off. You just, you know, it's like when your kids try and wrestle with you and you just kind of like pick them up and place them wherever you need to be. He's got to be sitting in a back room going,

son of a gun, stupid timeline. Right? Yes. Yeah, the facts got in the way. Although, I mean, everything about what he was saying, everything else about what he was saying. you know, aside from the facts, was spot on. It's funny.

You know, the politician was great. Everything was great. I mean, the facts weren't right. But, I mean, other than that, it was great. But, I mean, how many times does he have to sit there? And they keep trying to compare him to Trump. But really who they should be comparing him to is that, that blonde rocket, who is the press announcer for Trump?

You know, the one who would just show up and put that giant goddamn bomb? binder on the podium. Yes. And had all the tabs in it. And whenever they asked her a loaded question, she'd be, actually, you know what? I'm really glad you asked that question. And then she'd do the quick finger lip, lick and just open it up the, this freaking talmud she has in front of her and be like, well, actually, what you're trying to say

is da da da da da da and totally just rip on them, except Pahliav kind of has it in his head. Although, to be fair. Kaylee Mulvaney is the lady and Heather Tepin said I heard the timeline accusation was a screenshot from a different time zone interesting

that would be interesting well I had heard the same thing too and then this article specifically breaks down it normalizes for time zones so I think that's so we're calling bogus on that we're calling bogus on it yeah and then here's the funny thing

so this this chick who looks like an alt funk elf is the one who is asking the question and then you can see this guy in the background just like covering his eyes like oh great here we go again fuck i can't believe these people are this stupid and they are they are and we are giving them a shit ton of money we're upping their their bailout money because this this is what we get when when they don't have to earn it when they don't have to be good enough to deserve the pay that they get. This is the bullshit that we get stuck with. Is this little fucking daft punk elf? Correct. Canada's transit taking highway to hell. Okay, a couple here. Halifax looking at a new transit program that would see safety officers hired to ride buses and ferries in the wake of a

growing number of violent incidents. According to a staff report, transit incidents have increased by 107% over the past four years. And what are you trying to show me here? Oh, I was just going to subtly hold that up until you stopped talking. Olds Toberfest, Olds College Brewery, they came out with an Octoberfest logger that tastes quite a lot like Hofrow, which is the greatest beer ever in the world. What does this have to do with buses in and security? Nothing.

It's just because I'm cracking a beer. Because you're cracking. All right. All right. Herod said transit is averaging about 250 calls about safety concerns each month. The board said that the first three staff will. cost about 919 grand. For three staff?

Correct, over the next four years. In Nova Scotia? Yeah. The report said the first three staff for 919 grand. 919 grand over the next four years, with the full 28 positions to carry out the plan running more than $8 million over the same time. That doesn't make any sense, like at all. They're in Nova Scotia.

You're not going to be able to get them to work for more than 20 or 30 weeks in a year anyway. the hell is that 300 grand each? I don't know. I have no idea. I'm like, continue. Continue. Huh, geez. It's that liberal math.

The budget will balance itself. Yeah, maybe I'll take a ride out to Halifax, take one of those first three positions, make it cool. Jesus Christ, for that much money I could commute. The second article is Emerton Journal. A more than $60 million transformational effort to move to electric buses in Eminton is stalled at the curb. Just 6% of the Emmington Transit System's 1,000 bus fleet are electric buses. But those are very squeaky wheels.

Three quarters of the city's 60 bus electric fleet. So that's 45 minutes in the garage with poor immediate prospects for parts to fix them. Protera, the American company of the city purchased the electric buses from between 2019 to 2022, is in chapter 11 of filing for bankruptcy protection. Eminton on a list of creditors seeking $1.3 million and fulfillment of service and warranties. It's still touted online as a super efficient and efficient financially. The buses aren't currently living up to expectations. Even if a battery powering an electric motor means less maintenance for 20 years,

if you can't keep the bus on the road for other parts around the battery, then you can't call that bus efficient, Bradshaw said. It takes a diesel-powered on-board heater. Do you remember what we talked about this last week, Sean? Yes. I'm going to read this slow again so everybody can catch us. It takes a diesel-powered on-board heater to keep the body of the bus warm. And despite $200,000 and special blankets to keep all those batteries toasty,

the Protera buses are still feeling the northern Alberta chill in their skimpy range. What the hell is it with government? programs that have no idea about Canadian winters, okay? And then this, this is the Dodge Ram Charger all over again. We need to save the environment by getting away from gas powered vehicles. So let's have an electric one, but it doesn't work unless we power it with gas. Unless we're back to a gas power vehicle. We got an onboard heater with diesel.

And these special $20,000 blankets. $200,000 in special. $200,000 blankets. $200,000 in special blankets. This is more money than any Canadian has spent on blankets since the Hudson Bay Company. Oh, man. So this is the wave of the future. It's insane, man.

You forgot the part where it says that they can only go for something like the first two hours of the day and then they need to spend the rest of the day. And then they need to recharge. Yes, yes. So what the hell? why did you buy 60 of them you god damn idiot amerjit so he the mayor of edmonton is a former bus driver he should know about this shit i don't know man like you buy one maybe you buy two you try and get someone to donate the third one then you try them out and you see if they're any good

it's a trial run this is when you roll out some new concept in a big corporation, you just try it out with one division first, and then you iron it out all the kinks. And if it absolutely totally sucks, and you need to still run the whole thing with $200,000 blankets, you just say, fuck it. We only got, we only bought two of them,

and some idiot donated the third one. So we're not really out a whole lot of money. You know, I love Emmington's hockey team, but that train of thinking, yeah, was, is insane. It's probably just as well that they didn't catch on for you, Sean. Otherwise, otherwise, they'd probably have to rebrand Rogers place to just be the,

you guys wouldn't be the oilers anymore. You'd be the wet blankets. The Emmington Oilers. It would be the wet blankets. The Eminton Solar Panels. And then instead of the Derek coming down, like in the Coliseum, you guys could just have a wet blanket fall from the rafters.

and that would be your... A $200,000 white. You wouldn't even wear jerseys anymore. You would just have wet blankets wrapped around the hockey pads. I think actually, you know what? That's great. You guys should call yourselves

the wet blankets. By the way, Connor McDavid, can we draw that guy a map? Like, is his stick powered by EV? Is that why he can't seem to shoot for shit anymore? Does he even remember where the back of the net is?

We could draw him. Like, we've run back-to-back games. baby. Turn out directions of Google Maps. We're catching on here. High scoring games too. High scoring games too.

I can't wait. Let's look at the long-term trends here, which are dismal. Okay. Is that what we're doing? A little hand motions here. Okay. Short-term thinking on short-term rentals creating long-term headaches. We talked about this last week, but an update on it is Ontario cottage owners

fear Ottawa's new tax measure cracking down on short-term rentals like Airbnb may hurt seasonal landlords operating in rural areas who are. were simply trying to cover costs. On Tuesday, Finance Minister, Christia Freeland announced that as of January 1st, the government will deny income tax reduction for short-term property owners who are non-compliant with provincial or municipal bylaws. While the measure is meant to improve housing affordability by converting short-term rentals into the long-term market, it may leave some cottage owners scrambling to cover operating costs and pay-off mortgages. And that's exactly what the article is talking about. There's a whole bunch of places

that are saying just that. And in its fall economic statement, the government said it will also spend $50 million tos over three years to support municipal enforcement of restrictions in the form of permitting and licensing. This is $50 million worth the red tape on the government side, which means it's probably going to cost roughly the same amount on the other side. And that $50 million worth of red tape is going to be passed on to the consumers, which in the case of residential housing is fucking home buyers. They're trying to make these things more expensive or more affordable. And they're just tacking on another $15 million onto the cost. And if literally any federal fucking program ever is any indication, it's going to cost a lot more than $50 million. Have you ever seen Reason TV?

Reuterian, libertarian, well, it used to be a magazine, and now it's a YouTube channel. It's absolutely wonderful. They've got this series called Great Moments and Unintending Consequences. They've actually got, we might have talked about it on one episode, the one where they talked about how in Alberta, Canada, they forced the people sitting at strippers to sit back a little ways.

But then the Patriots. had no way to tip. So now they started throwing loonies at each other because what could possibly go wrong? This is a great law with the best of intentions. And now it's just standard for people to throw coins at strippers in Canada. And by the way, thanks a lot, inflation Trudeau. Now we've got to start throwing tunis.

And so anyway, this is just this. This is the kind of thing that would end up on this show. is this great moments in unintended consequences. They're like, oh, great. Well, we didn't really think this through. We're tanking in the polls, but we've got to come up with something real fast. Does it need to be good? No, just roll it out.

Oh, shit, we're crashing the entire cottage industry, which is what people in Ontario call cabins. Nine out of ten dentists don't commit fraud. A Calgary dentist has been charged. That's not actually backed up by facts. That's just a headline. I have no idea if it's true or not. A Calgary dentist...

It could be higher, it could be lower. A Calgary dentist has been charged with fraud after police say she submitted almost 100 grand in false claims involving patients over a six-year period. Calgary police say there were notified of Elena Vladimir Smatic. She sounds evil. A dentist had all about family dental after several discrepancy for claims were discovered by an insurance provider. A criminal investigation was launched. launched and with the help of insurance provider, police collected enough evidence to determine 53 patients had been targeted with false claims totaling $97,540. And now she had to turn herself into police, which is good because that's bullshit and it shouldn't happen.

I will say, though, that when this happened in Saskatchewan six, eight months ago with a nurse who it was only about 10 or 15 grand less than that, that person was just, let go, wasn't required to pay it back, and no charges were pressed. It's easy. You got to go back to like mashup 30 when we talked about that. Yeah, so, I mean, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And so the point is, is that if you want to get away with shit like this, you need to actually be working for the government, not in the private sector. Well, well said, you're not wrong there. The top spy in Canada was a double agent. Seriously, there's no joke here. This is fucked up.

A jury has found ex-R-CMP intelligence officer Cameron Ordis, guilty of sending sensitive information to alleged criminals and money launders in an unprecedented trial. After almost three days of deliberation, the jury found Oratis guilty of four counts of breaching Canada's official secret laws, one count of breaching trust, and one count of misusing a computer system. Prosecutor Judy Clueh suggested Crown would seek a prison sentence that are in the range of 20. 20 years or more. We've never talked about this, too, have we? No, no, not directly. I watched the news, like,

where they break it down, and I'm like, this started years ago, so it would have started before the mashup, but I, like, I don't remember this coming up in our chats. No, it hasn't. And if misusing a computer system is illegal,

we may as well just arrest every single person over 50. But, circling back to this, this guy is the head fucking spy in Canada with the RCMP and he gets all the briefings from Csist and Csist and Five Eyes and RCMP and it all comes up to him. He's literally the top of the fucking pyramid. And this guy is a fucking spy. And his defense is that he was trying to lure people into

divulging secrets. So he was giving away Canada's secrets in hopes of getting some secrets, back is super undercover stuff and nobody could know about it so there couldn't be any record of it written down anywhere and he couldn't tell a single person bullshit and so now he's looking at 20 years in prison because obviously

it was bullshit and so this guy is literally the head of Canadian intelligence was a fucking spy like these guys you know you're just just imagine you know the whole thinking big the dream

board thing. You might think, okay, well, you know what? I'm going to start off with a robo, but one day I'm going to get, you know, a decent ship that I can go around, you know, touring in the bay. And meanwhile, literally Hezbollah. Hezbollah is the people he was selling this shit to. They're like, let's shoot for the moon. Let's get a fucking super yacht.

Who's the biggest fanciest person in this fucking country that we could try and bribe? Well, obviously Justin. But aside from him, who's actually. going to know what's going on. Oh, this guy. You know what? Reach for the stars. They just,

they Taylor Swifted this whole fucking thing. They're at the absolute top of their game. They can never beat this. Well done. Well done. And in the meantime, what the fuck is wrong with our government agencies? I think it'd be a fan,

I wonder if they'd let you know, I think it'd be a fantastic interview, wouldn't it? Sit down with artists. Just be like, so what were you thinking? Did you actually, was this? you know, I just curious.

You know what? You should reach out to him because he's going to have a lot of free time here for the next couple days. Yes, he is. Yeah. Yes, he is. Yeah. It's, it might have the shitty audio of you going through that phone with the plexiglass in the middle of it.

And you might have to have it over the course of a few instances because, you know, you can only be there for, for a half hour unless it's a conjugal. So I guess maybe you could extend it if you're willing to go that deep into this interview. but but yeah yeah it's you you you should actually you don't like um bier and christopher he did that whole thing where he was always interviewing inmates and stuff like yes he was when was the last time when was the last time that the shan duma podcast went to a jail to interview an inmate never it's never happened you should there's there's bound to be some interesting ones even if you listen to somebody who's totally fucked up uh and you just think like

this guy's so weird or find somebody who did a cool heist or how about the coots four could you go interview one of them um yeah maybe like i've i've had tony while he's on the phone on the podcast yeah yeah because because he called when you were talking to granny margaret mackay mackay yeah yeah yeah so i mean it's it's kind of there that's i don't think it's quite what i'm thinking like I'm picturing the whole, like, they're so star for human contact that they press their hand to the glass and then you press your hand and you guys have a moment. Winter weather a bridge too far, having a moment. Okay. I don't even get a buzzer for that?

I already buzzed you like two minutes ago. A little more than three months after it was open for public use, the chief William commander pedestrian bridge over the Ottawa River has been closed for winter. The city of Ottawa announced in a memo it was closing the bridge starting Tuesday, snow, ice pellets, and freezing rain were starting to fall. The bridge was not designed for winter pedestrian or cycling use, said the memo, co-signed by the city's general managers of public works and recreation. Due to the bridge's steel structure and timber plank surface, the city is unable to safely undertake any plowing, salting, or grid operations. Changing over the bridge, which first opened in 1880 was bought by the city in 2005 has been officially closed by various barriers for safety reasons.

It cost 23.9 million to rehabilitate it, according to the city. And finishing touches are still being done. You don't say. Our government built a bridge. Hey, great, infrastructure. But then they forgot about fucking winter. Just like they forgot about fucking winter with the EVs. except instead of a $200,000 blanket, they have to close down a bridge for what, eight months out of the year, six months. It's Ottawa. I don't even know what their seasons are other than just Greece season,

grift season and tax season, which are all the same thing. So these idiots built a fucking bridge in Canada and forgot to take winter into account. this would be like if they built something in Egypt and then said I didn't realize there was going to be so much sand here I mean could you possibly imagine somebody this stupid and like could you even picture in your head Sean if this wasn't even the first time it happened ba pababababababab October 25th 2016 It will cost 700,000 to replace Calgary's 300 light fixtures on Calgary's Peace Bridge.

So the city said the current lights on the popular attraction, which have previously been replaced under warranty, just weren't cut out for Calgary's chilly winter. This is the second time in like eight years that some idiot politicians in kids, Canada built a fucking bridge in Canada that wasn't suited for weather in Canada. The first time, bad enough. But the second time, like, I get it. You know, the first time you're like, okay, light fixtures, maybe we didn't think of that.

Right. We're engineers. We can't possibly think of everything to do with the construction of a bridge. But you can't even clear the snow off of this other one in Ottawa. What the hell is wrong with these idiots? It's Sean. Help me out here. I got nothing to say for it.

I can't imagine being, you know, I can't imagine being an Ottawa resident and going, okay, they restored this bridge. Great. We got another. It talks about it's the only way across the river for about a four kilometer stretch. Okay. So you're like, okay, this is all right. And then the first snowfall, like, you know, like the first little bit of, they're like,

no, we're going to shut it down. It's like what? Like, what are you talking about? Like, I can't even imagine being a pedestrian and being. like I'm not going to go across this. Like, I just, I have a hard time. Like, why would you not just fucking walk? Like, if you've been, if you've been going across it all summer long, it's not like

it's in, um, you know, like, sketchy shape, they're just worried about conditions. It's like, well, we live in Canada. We're worried about conditions all the time. Like this is, you know, for eight months of the year, it literally, we drive on ice. Like, that's, that's what we do. So I, I don't, I don't fully understand. I stare at this and I go, you know, 23.9 billion, a billion, million, uh, to do a bridge. It's like, okay, well, we got the bridge.

Can we just use it? Like, is that too much to ask? Can we, can we get, can we buy a couple things of salt and just like walk it across and just, like, walk it across and just throw some fucking gravel on it? Oh no, it's going to fall into the Rideau Canal. We can't pollute that thing, except for the literally billions of liters of sewage. You pump in that fucker every fucking year. Let's go to some happy news, shall we? Community notes. Here we go. Uh, Let's, shit, I totally forgot the happy news. Here it is. Okay, let's call this the happy news.

The gunny girl, the CCC. This is happy news. This is happy news, actually. The CcfR, the gunny girl calendar is now available to go by. So for 25 bucks, you can support the CCFR. There you go. Girls. And yeah, that's pretty much my fantasy right there.

The kind of Lara Croft looking lady. Yeah. So there you go. CCFR has got their calendar up. Just search it on Twitter. You shouldn't have that big of a problem, I don't think. Tracy Wilson's been on your show before. Yes, she has.

Yep. Yes, she has. Yeah, there's, yeah, Murray, you're right, but you're only half right. This is a 12-month calendar, and there is going to be nice guns on every page. Also correct. Also correct. Anything from your side, too, is about. upcoming event. That was my community. That was your upcoming events. Okay.

Um, on this side, uh, you got December 7th, uh, for the kids' sake. So what is it, what is that? Is that next Thursday already? I think that is. I'm going to check. Yeah, next Thursday. Next Thursday for the kids' sake is back, uh, in Lloyd at the Vic Juba community theater, uh, with, uh, Ray plays. Shana Sundell, the irreplaceable parent project. So that'll be a presentation there on Thursday night. I think that'll be a, well, I'm, I'm interested, well, obviously, helping with the team to bring her to Lloyd and hear what she has to say. She's been very active on the, the politics side of it in Alberta and has some interesting thoughts and a presentation that's been well received by communities all across Alberta. So if you're in the Loyminster area, December 7th,

you're paying attention for the kids' sake, pay attention to that one. That's coming up. next Thursday, December 7th. Oh, November 29th, somewhere in Calgary, there's going to be an idiot NDP thing about the pension fund. Town Hall. Yeah, yeah. And then January 2nd, I think it's a comedy cave. I might be doing some comedy there with Danger Cats,

but if not Danger Cat's going to be there too, regardless. I just haven't heard back from them yet. Um, but where's that at? Where's that at? In Calgary. In Calgary. Going to Calgary there for that. Uh, I'll probably go there regardless, but I'd be fun to have on here.

You know that? Like on the matchup or. Yeah. You know what? I'll, I'll see what we can do for next week. Yeah. I mean, he'd be fun to have on here. Uh, as for the podcast, sure.

If that's where you're leading that. Yeah, I'd be glad to have them on there too. Let's have them on the mashup. Yeah. The mashup. You can do that too, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I'll, I'll, I'll see. If I'll reach out to Uncle Hack and see if he wants to be on next week. Yeah, cool. From a standpoint, me and two, as we're talking about this before, we got going, I've been telling everybody, I don't normally focus on the numbers of things, but I've been, I've wrote down the goal of getting a million downloads, which isn't really, I don't know what they are anymore. You should have led with this, by the way, but continue.

Oh, okay, well, I tell you what, next week I'll lead with it. We just, we've got 95,000 to go to a million in 2023. So if you're listening to the mashup and you like, it, share it. any of it and all of it and also if you haven't listened to the Shane Getson episode from last week listen to that and by the way

it's free you're not charging anybody for sub substack substack right? No no no no so people can slide over to substack and see the bonus content for free as well which the bonus Shane gets in content is about the pension is about the pension yeah yeah so yeah

We're over 900,000 downloads. Hit the notification bell. All of that lame shit that you always hear from every person on YouTube. Except for this time. I'm like literally, we got a month to do this. We never ask you guys for this. So there's that. And then share it with two friends that you think will like it

and share it with three friends that you think will hate it. Yeah. Because we like interacting with people who think we're idiots. You know, it's kind of fun. well it's funny i was talking about the buddy of mine um uh at bradwell because i had a bunch of buddies that showed up and came out to it and he was saying that he keeps so i mean i've been friends with these guys for decades and so no they're all families and everything and um so his younger sister trying to say hey you know you need to check out this podcast just check it out because

it goes against everything you believe and you just go completely unwilling to even listen to any of it, the standalones, the mashup, the interviews, none of it. No, no, not going to try it. Not going to try it. Nope, no. Of course, we never really, I never really got along with his little sister in high school either.

So she probably just hates my guts to begin with. And then, and then, yeah, but it's just, it's funny how, uh, it's, I don't know, it's, it's less polarizing than you think. Like, I've got some. people who think that, yeah, it's not for me. And then some people that I never thought would be interested in this at all tune in every week. Well, I mean, all we're doing is going through the headlines. I mean, you add your pizzazz to it for sure. But I mean, we're only doing is just breeding off headlines. It's a way to digest some media from across the,

from across the nation, you know? It's just... Bob. Hey, mashup 83-2s in the book. H-S-S-DoubleI.ca for the major sponsor of this week. And we will catch up to you on Mashup 84. Next week, Tuesday. Maybe we'll see if we can't get a danger cat or somebody on to have a little bit of fun. That would be fun.

I think that would be fun. Oh, should I just call them right now? Sure. But not right now. I'm going to end this. No, but I mean, wouldn't it be fun to do it live? Not really. No, okay, all right.

No, no, no. I'm going, it's 10.05 at night. I still got to edit and put out. Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Two's can call the Danger Cats when we get off, folks. I haven't seen anybody light up the screen. No, not happening.

I don't know. Maybe he's listening right now. My phone's going to ring in five seconds. Maybe. Either way, 83 in the books. Folks, we will catch up to you on the next one. thanks to HSI group for being the title sponsor this week. Until next week, too.

Thanks a lot, everybody. Bye.