Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #84

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

222 Minutes and Tim Moen hop on to discuss this week's headline which include Google paying the government, Beyond Meat spiralling, Corey Perry terminated and all things COP28. Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast

I bought these boxers in the fall or early winter of 2008. And they're still awesome. They, well, they're starting to lose a little bit in the back here. But like the ball area is still all intact. The band is still in really good shape. And these things are 15 years old easily. What the hell happened to undergarments? You're under britches.

They don't make them like they used to. Like I remember, these first came up. My cousin was like, you got to try out these Under Armour Gitch. And they were 50 bucks and I was like, this is insane. And then I bought them and they were amazing. They're the most comfortable pair I've ever owned from

day one. They're not like the old ones where you had to wear them for a decade before they got super comfy and your balls hung out the bottom. And the new ones where the craftsmanship isn't even there. The material doesn't last as long. If you tried to wear a pair for half as long as these nowadays, there would be nothing

left. This is the fucking light bulb in the firehouse that's 120 years old of underwear. Why can't we recapture that? Did you take it out of the dirty clothes, pal? That's the only one thing I want to know. Like, did you race down? You watched them specifically for the show. Yeah, well, I mean, like, well, could you imagine if there was like a skid mark as I'm holding

them up? And I'd be like, oh, no, sorry, guys, sorry. Yeah. mashup 84 tuesday we got a guest this week do you want to bring them on right now or do you want to wait and get through okay Tim Mowen former head of the libertarian party of Canada this guy ran for prime minister in 2015 hey Tim thanks for hopping on the Tuesday mashup hey happy to be here guys love the underwear I can tell you exactly why the underwear it was built to last back then but isn't now has to do with central banking and government but that's another standard

off celestalsc. So 84, by the way, episode 84. Did you know, Sean, that the first time somebody wore the number 84 in the NHL was in 2006? No, but that doesn't surprise me.

Who was it? Some fucking frog. Guillam Latandres of the Montreal Kenetianz. Oh, man. I wonder why 84. Like, it's such a, like,

why? Why? Like, why? But you watch the NHL now and everybody's wearing these random numbers, so I mean... Well, I mean, you really only got 98 of them to choose from. That's true. Very true. This week, we don't have a... We don't have a mash-up sponsor. That's on me. I'm going to put that one on me. A little bit of a oopsie. So we'll get that right next week. But I'm wearing... I don't know. Can you see the hat? I don't know if you can see the hat. I can see the hat, but I can't read the hat.

aces. So I've been, I got a billet kid living with me. Yeah. And he's from Irma. And I've been down to Irma like three or four times. I mean, if you've seen my... We met, uh, actually, I don't think I met his dad. I think I just met his mom one night.

Well, we were down at Albert Hall. I'm still driving around. If you see me, the, the SMP vehicle running around, I'm still missing half my vehicle from the DRI clipped on the way down there. Either way, either way, I was looking for one of these Aces lids because I'm like, Man, that's, it's like their senior team. I guess all the teams are the Aces, but it's a solid lead. So Irma showed out to you and showed out to the Erickson's because they finally brought me one last night.

And so that's what I'm wearing tonight. And speaking of hitting deer in and around Irma, just south of Viking when I was coming back from Lloyd after that show with QDM, there is a beauty whitey in the ditch. Yes, big rack on both sides. I'd have been happy to shoot it. It probably would have been just about the biggest year I've ever shot in my life. And it was Sunday in the middle of the afternoon. And I didn't have, I was just going to cut the head off, take it back and, you know, do some kind of European mount or something. But Viking has no place that's open on Sunday where you can get any kind of a saw or cutting instrument or anything like that.

The nearest place that I could have gone to was Camrose. And so I would have had to round trip Camrose, cut the deer's head off, throwing it. it in the back and it still drove all the way home. And I was like, man. You decided not to do that? Why do I not even just have like a goddamn saber saw in here right now? Why do you have the saber saw in case I find a dead deer set of the high. Yeah.

If that ain't Alberta, I don't know what is. Shall we get going here? Sure. Okay. Well, here's our first one. The mashup callback. I don't know. I just saw.

this picture and I howled. So you may recall a pilot being pissed off over what, where was this? Europe? It was over top of it. He was a German pilot and this was over top of Italy. He got told to go in a holding pattern for a stupid amount of time and then he just drew a giant dick in the air. Now somebody's made a. So we talked about it, I don't know, six months ago, Tim. And then it ended up being a Christmas ornament.

I saw it and I just howl. beautiful. That's beautiful, he says. Yeah. It's well, you know, it's well shaped. Yeah. It's not obscenely large. It's, you know, it doesn't make me feel insecure or anything.

I mean, when it was up in the sky, it was pretty big, Tim. Yeah. Yeah. It was much larger than any of us, I'm fairly certain. That's fair. A Christmas journalism miracle. Ottawa has agreed to set 100 million yearly cap on payments that Google will be required. required to make to media companies when the government's controversial online news legislation

takes effect at the end of the year. The announcement Wednesday has the liberals bending to the tech giants demands after Google threatened back in February to remove news from its platform. Do it? It does it? Canadian Heritage Minister Pascal Saint-Age called it a historic development, insisting Wednesday that the agreement was ultimately a win for the government and for local news publishers it is seeking to support.

Quoted, we have found a path forward to answer. Google's questions about the process and the act. Google wanted certainty about the amount of compensation it would have to pay to Canadian news outlets. Wow. Yeah, Tim, as a libertarian, what do you think of this? Well, obviously, this is horrible and ridiculous. I mean, the idea, it's like me demanding that the paper pay me for putting a classified

ad in it, right? It's like, because, you know, there's readers out there that buy the paper for the classified ads, and I'm contributing to the classified ad. So I should get a cut. I mean, these new sites have websites, right? I mean, they're open to the public. They don't want people going to these websites. They don't want them to show up in search results.

They, I don't get it. It's a lot of grasping at straws. It looks to me like the government is. doing everything it can to subsidize the media, including subversive ways like this, where they're saying, well, you know what?

I mean, we can't pay for it outright. But what if we could just strong arm a company like Facebook? And it really makes me nervous when you think about how much Mark Zuckerberg spent on the Democrat, uh, uh, well, on the Democrat side of things in the last election.

And this guy's very politically motivated. And so, But to Zuck's credit, he's not, he's not abiding by this at all. But, I mean, it opens up the door, right? I mean, already we know the FBI has done some fuckery with Twitter. You know, the deep state, the state in general issues, marching orders to these tech companies. And so, because I was thinking, like, why is Google playing ball? Why don't they just say no?

We'll just, we'll take your, do pull a Zuck here and take your new sites off here. I'm sorry for publishing your new sites that you don't apparently want anyone to read or be able to search and play hardball. But the reason, obviously, is that Google is so large and megalithic because of its cozy relationship with government. And so it has to appease government to a certain extent in order to maintain its stranglehold on the market. That's exactly what it looks like to me. and then when you throw in the fact that you've got a very extreme left-wing government and these tech giants being ideologically aligned with them, it all just stinks to high heaven.

Yeah, I mean, I guess the only hope would be if a guy like Musk takes over Google and basically says, fuck you, right? Like he did to Bob Eiger and said, no, I'm not going to blackmail. Yeah. Which is beautiful. I just keep wondering if we're going to find a way to. get any of that money, you know? I don't know. Yeah, well, I mean, it's not set up for us to get it. It's set up for the big

establishment bullshit guys. Well, if you follow their logic down the whole, in fact, the Tuesday mashup should be paying these tech companies or these media companies because, I mean, would this show even exist if it weren't for mainstream media? Would we even have anything to talk about? I mean, we're making money here or you guys are making money off of, this week. Sure. Not this week. We, That's not their fault, but still, I'm making money off the CBC here. Yeah.

They deserve their cut. And Jamie's absolutely right. That was the other half of this. This is the Christmas miracle, the festivist miracle, is that CBC's laying off roughly 10% of its workforce, which is 600 people over the next year. They're canceling a bunch of help wanted ads.

And they're just not going to feel seats that people vacate. And it's, they're defunding themselves. And I don't even know, like, how do you not make a go of things when you're getting so much goddamn money every year? And it, yeah, I might have something to do with their top heavy management. I don't know. Maybe they're focusing money on the wrong things.

The only consolation prize I have here is that, you know, in 2015, I campaigned in front of the CBC office in Calgary and put up a bunch of sell CBC signs, campaign signs. Yeah. Like just littered the front with these campaign signs. And they were gone the next day. And I heard that a bunch of CBC employees took them as memento. So hopefully they have those mementos hanging on their wall as they collect their EI payments and swear at the CBC for firing them.

wouldn't it be glorious for them to just look through it with with misty, teary eyes? Yeah, I mean, my point is we might have swollen our ranch ranks by 900 people here as these people get laid off and have no love for the CBC. Oh, yes.

Yeah. Bright side. Alberta town thinks it's a double wing. Alberta Town thinks rainbow crosswalks are gay. A group in Westlock, Alberta is trying to ban crosswalks painted in rainbow colors. and other symbols. After a crosswalk in the town, 72 kilometers northwest of Edmonton was painted in colors celebrating the LGBTQ2S plus community earlier this year. Council in September

received a petition asking for a bylaw restricting Westlock to flying just municipal, provincial, and federal flags, and to limit all crosswalks to a white ladder pattern. Town Council on Monday put the petition for a new bylaw to a plebiscite, a direct vote by all. people eligible to vote in the town at the end of February. Jamali said that on Monday at town council, there was a consensus around the table that we didn't feel that this bylaw was representative of our community. There wasn't a way that we could find ourselves passing that at a council table, he said, of the by law petition, which was signed by more than 10% of the Westlach's population of 4,921 people.

Therefore, under the legislation process, it goes to a plebiscite vote. it's funny later on in the article they compared gay people to disabled people correct to the handicapped yeah yeah like it's being gay it's just like being a cripple basically which is an interesting take on things uh but it's funny it's just like being a libertarian kind of you know i didn't choose to be born this way i'm not making a stink about them not putting gadden flags on crosswalks or big black and yellow anarchy that I would obviously avoid because I jaywalk anyways. But anyways,

I'm, all I'm saying is I'm discriminated against minority. I have some grievances here. Tim, you can't really have a Gadsden flag on a crosswalk. Well, I mean, because fair point.

Don't tread on me, written on a crosswalk. Yeah, that would be kind of missed, mixed messages, right? Don't tell me what to do. I'll tread all over you.

That might actually get me to use a crosswalk. Yeah. I mean, part of being libertarian is being inherently contrarian as well. Yeah. But it's interesting that he's saying it's not representative of the community. And we know this somehow. But we're also going to put it to a vote to the community, which means that it very may well be representative of the community.

Which, I mean, if they don't want it, who cares? Yeah, well, the petition got signed by enough to have the vote. So then now they go have the vote. You remember us talking about when they put this crosswalk up and the thousands of people that showed up and we went, it was probably from Emmington. Those people don't get a vote in this. Westlock gets a vote in this.

So, I mean, they're going to decide one way or another. How much time has been Westlock? Me? Yeah. Very little. Think about it like a slightly redneckier version of Lloyd. Sounds like my type of people. Where are people going to do burnouts now?

They'll find, They'll find a new piece of pavement paved somewhere, and no worries, they're not going to have any problems. Why do we have to keep talking about, you know, dark streaks this week? Yeah. Inside conservative politics, there are two wolves. Well, Pollyev gave a speech at Friday's CD Howe Institute event in Toronto. Too often, quoted here, too often corporate Canada has focused on printing glossy ESG, as environmental social governance folks, for those not paying attention,

brochures and seeking lunches with politicians at the Redo Club to tell us what we should be doing. He said referring to members-only club just steps from Parliament Hill that is a hot spot for government lobbyist encounters. When I'm Prime Minister, I will only do things that workers and consumers have been convinced are good for them. So in the future, businesses that want a policy decision-made are not just going to have to convince me. That's the right thing. They're going to have to convince workers and the consumers, he said. I'm not interested in a free lunch over at the Radoe club.

Now, you grease the palms a little bit before we let you do business or before we give you that subsidy or that monopoly suite of regulations. All he's saying is that there's going to be less visibility on it,

whatever it is. Yeah, I mean, we don't want to tell us sausage is made, right? Well, that's exactly right. But he's trying to say, you know what, I'm not going to be like every other politician in the history of Canada. I'm going to be different and I'm not going to take all these free lunches. Meanwhile, Daniel Smith, I mean, at least she owns it, but they're upping the lobbying contribution limits. Is that how it was worded?

Yeah, correct. Right now in order for them to go to like, they were talking about the heritage classic, right? It's too hard for them to go to box. seats for NHL games. Correct. Because the value of the gift is too much for them to actually hang out there. And so the government is upping it. Yeah, because they don't really get to hang out and, you know, rub shoulders and be.

I mean, what's the point of being in the ruling class if you're not lording over people from a box seat? I don't get it. Exactly. I want to get this side here. So anyway, yeah, it's just like, this is just draconian bullshit. We should just tie it to inflation and up it every year. Like, we do the alcohol tax.

Well, I guess her argument is, look, we should be going, we need to go to these black tie events and these fancy dinners to network and hobnob. And I mean, that's cronyism, right? It is. It absolutely is. That's all that can emerge from that. What other goods could emerge from that? Oh, we're going to make sure to reduce regulation.

So the little guys that would never be able to afford to come to this event can flourish. I don't think that's what they're talking about there at those events. Imagine you can't qualify to go to box seats for an NHL game. So now you've got to go to some small town bar and sidle up to the front of it and drink a few Pelsner with some of the locals. And actually you do use that to get your insights into what the common people feel like. It's a problem that solves itself if you walk away from it, which is more.

More or less every other thing in freaking politics. Yeah. And so, yeah, anyways, it's Daniel Smith. Everybody's all hurrah, Daniel Smith. But she's not infallible, folks. Media two-faced about black-faced red face. This is quite the like, you know, this is media these days, isn't it? The kid from the dead's been smeared over false black faces and racism accusations is actually Native American.

His grandfather is Rall Armenta, part of the Chumish tribe and member of the Sant Yanez band of Chumish Indians. And it goes on to say, I hope Holden Armenta sues them all into oblivion. I hope he gets every penny owned by the racist Karen Phillips. The story, this is the post, right? The NFL needs to speak out against Kansas City Chiefs fan and blackface. By the way, the kid is nine years old, right? And then he turns his head. They've got a side picture of this kid.

And it's exactly like that scene in the dark night where, where two-faced Harvey Dent is in the hospital. And you see like just exactly half of his face. And that's all you see and everything looks normal. And then he gets all mad and he turns and you can see the other half. It's all fucked up, right? This is exactly, they've got that exact picture of this kid because he's got half his face black and half his face red because he's cheering for the Kansas City Chiefs. and so they're showing exactly half of his face,

two face in the hospital style. You're like, oh, he's wearing blackface. No motherfucker. He's dressed up for the game. Yes. And he's nine years old, too. And he's nine years old.

And he's actually Native American. Well, I'm offended that he's wearing black and red. Those are anarcho-communist colors. And he's promoting a violent ideology. And his parents ought to be ashamed. And that kid ought to be canceled forever. That'll teach him.

That'll teach him. You're wearing red, Tim. Well, yes. Yeah, I am. But I'm not wearing black with it, so we're good. You can wear one or the other. Parents struggle to make kids eat their veggies. It's been more than five years since A&W first started selling beyond meat burgers to customers

eager to see whether the patties can compete with their beloved beef. The burger chain sold out of the patties when their... when they first launched, having underestimated, how many people would want to try them. The day beyond meat went public on the NASDAQ in 2019. Its share price rose 163%. Last month, Beyond Meat announced it was cutting 19% of its non-production workforce. The company also said it was considering exiting some product lines and changing pricing and manufacturing processes. In 2021, Maple Leaf Foods announced it was reevaluating its plant protein business.

Quoted, we are seeing a market slowdown in the plant-based, protein category performance, which may suggest systemic change in the extremely high growth rates expected by the industry, said then president and CEO Michael McCain in the press release. Yeah, they're looking at increases in consumption of 10 to 15 percent or growth in the category, which presumably is gross revenue, of 10 to 15 percent in a decade. Of 10 to 15 percent in a decade. So one to one and a half percent annually. And actually, that's not even factored in with compound interest. That's just straight cut. So they're looking at doing half, a third, a seventh of inflation as their growth in the industry. They're not even keeping up. Well, what they need to do

is make meat more expensive and then people will flock to that. Either that or they need to put some shrooms in the patties to make them more attractive to consume. willing to pay a premium for them, you know? Well, I'm sure that would go over pretty well in BC. Well, for sure it would. But, yeah, I mean, have you guys actually had one of these patties? I did an episode, and I'm sure Nernsey is going to be talking all about this on Twitter tomorrow because he loves making fun of the time where I told this story about how I was getting Burger

King drive-through. And Burger King's always got like, oh, the super wopper and the mega wopper and the this whopper and the that whopper. And I'm like, oh, they've got an impossible wopper. Okay, I'll try that.

Yeah. And then I'd take a bite and I'm like, mother fucker. Oh, I just, just, I knew instantly as soon as I bit into it. And it's funny.

As you crunched on a cricket head? Yeah, more or less. Oh, man. But, yeah, they've almost done the same thing,

by the way. I roll up to those things. and I see, oh, the impossible thing. And it's like, that sounds amazing. Yeah. But if, if a significant part of your sales strategy is to trick people into buying it, it probably fucking sucks. And they're starting to see that.

They were, we, we covered some articles on this earlier on in the mashup where they're saying that they were totally lying before, but now impossible meats taste just like actual meats. You know, like, okay, but you're, you're saying that you were lying. before so how are you not lying now and then there was one run of them where they said it tastes just like human like they're trying they're throwing everything at the wall to try and drum up interest in this well they used to have a product called hoo-foo which was human flavored tofu uh was marketed towards anthropology students i thought about ordering some for a Halloween party

anthropology students well because they study cannibalism so it would give them a sense of what it was like to be a cannibal, I guess. I was going to order some of this for one of my Halloween parties, but not tell anyone until everyone had had a mouthful of this and then tell them what they were eating. Well, tell them what it's supposed to be. Yeah. Right?

That would be fun. But yeah, it's aside from weird one-offs like that, no one's interested in this shit, right? There was that thing in the States where they made, um, where they made meat in the shape of carrots and celery and stuff. Like, you guys want to do plant-based meats? We're going to go to do meat. meat-based plants. Love it.

Hockey players can be real motherfuckers. Of course we're talking about the whole thing going on with Corey Perry and what or may what possibly happen

or what may not have happened. Of course, the big rumor going around is that he slept with Connor Bedard's mother on the mom's trip. Whether or not that's factual

or not, we don't know tos. I just, It's walking like a duck and it's quacking like a duck. All right. Well, here's- mom is a knockout. And,

and you've got, okay, NHL moms tend to be pretty hot. Okay, there's a guy from my hometown. He played with my dad growing up. He went off to Buffalo, came back with his absolute trophy wife.

She was ridiculously hot. Okay. Every, like they're always, when you've got any, HL players, they don't really tend to go with slouches, okay? And then you're going to get all these moms

and you're going to put them traveling with the team for two games and you think no chicanery is going to take place. You think everybody is just going to be steadfast and resolute? Jesus Christ, you may as well just hand out condoms when they get on the bus. Now, is she married still or are they married? She's married. Oh, boy.

So, so here's what the Chicago Blackhawks had to say. After an internal investigation, the Chicago Blackhawks have determined that Corey Perry has engaged in conduct, a conduct that is unacceptable and in violation of both the terms of his standard player's contract and the Blackhawks' internal policy intended to promote professional and safe work environments. As such, Corey Perry has been placed on unconditional waivers. In the event, Mr. Perry clears waivers, we intend to terminate his contract effective immediately. And then this is what Perry...

Her an internal investigation. And then this is what Perry said. I would like to sincerely apologize to the entire Chicago Blackhawks organization, including ownership management, coaches, trainers, employees, and my teammates. I'd also like to apologize to my fans and my family. I'm embarrassed and I have to let you all down. As a result of my action, there has been speculation and rumors. I'm sickened by the impact this has had on others, and I want to make it clear that in no way did this situation involve any of the teammates or their families. Most importantly, I want to directly apologize to those who have been negatively affected, and I'm sorry for an additional impact that others,

two others it has created. My behavior was inappropriate and wrong. I have started working with experts in the mental health and substance abuse fields to discuss my struggles with alcohol, and I will take whatever steps necessary to ensure this never happens again. I hope to regain the trust in respect of everyone who has believed in me throughout my career. Once again, I'm deeply sorry. And finally, the Daily Faceoff said,

an alcohol-fueled incident involving Perry was alleged to have happened during an event, that involve corporate partners and team employees in attendance. That's everything I could drum up out of it. And I was going to say, if you listen to Sean Avery, which take that for what it's worth, he's just like, listen. Sean Avery is probably an expert on this, actually. But here's the thing about Sean Avery is he's willing to speak. Like as an NHL player, he's going to speak out about it.

And he's just like, you know, he's pointing out a bunch of different things like, I don't know. And then the other one was Dan Carcillo, once again, another outspoken guy. And he started talking about Brad Aldrich, he was the video coach who abused the players, right? And then they swept it under the rug. This is why you had half the Chicago black, you know, like one of the greatest coaches of all time in Joe Quinville, not coaching anymore, right? Because this came out and you got let go from Florida. So you go, you know, you go like, really?

Did any of that happen? I don't know. but they did let it, it did go run rampant on Twitter. It was everywhere. This was the big story. Now they're trying to play cleanup. And you go like, I don't know, where does it land? An apology where you're not actually even saying what you did means absolutely fuck all.

Like if you do a 100, 200 word apology, which is what you just read. And at the end of it, you're like, I don't even know what he's apologizing for. It's pointless. I've tried to imagine him going to another team or getting looked at by another team. team and like what's that conversation look like? Does he have to throw the beans on them? Right. Right. Let's send him to a place with ugly moms like Tampa.

Yeah. But I mean, to me, the real villain here, if these rumors are true, is Badaard's mom, Jesus Christ, she's a married woman. Your son just made it to the big leagues. You're just going to, I mean, like this is career threatening in a lot of ways. I mean, if this is true and Baderd knows it. And his mom is that hole that is, you know, how does that play on your mind as a hockey player, as a young guy?

Maybe he's going to be in high demand now. Maybe. Or maybe he'll just play through the rage and take, you know, use hockey as therapy and go on an unprecedented streak here. But, man, I feel bad for the kid in this. Yeah. Yes. I look forward to hearing what the text line has to say tomorrow because they're going to be a bunch of people who've been paying close attention to this.

Right. And they'll probably have a pretty good idea on some of the different stories coming out from across the league, from across, you know, the circles, right? Because one of the things is, as big as you think the hockey world is, it's pretty small. You make a couple phone calls. You can probably get to the bottom of, well, not all of us can, but you probably can get to the bottom of this relatively quick, I would think, you know, like they put out a blanket. When you're, Tuesday, you're right, when they say, like, you know, it was an alcohol-fueled

incident during an event that included corporate sponsors. Well, I mean, that doesn't really narrow anything down and team employees in attendance. Well, I mean, yeah. And look, if you're if the rumors are true and you're the Blackhawks organization, how do you handle this, right? Like, I don't think they put out a statement right away. So that tells me there was some time in the war room trying to figure out how to handle this in a way that redirects attention away from the rumors.

and that that's the statement they put out. I mean, I think that's the statement you put out if it was, if the rumors are true, if it was like, you know, whatever, say he,

I don't know, insulted some sponsor at an event or something like that, you would think that they would be open about that and say this is the bad thing we did and this is not acceptable, right? You think like if he had offended somebody from the LGBT, LGBTQ2 SEL plus they would come

out and say that right in the thing it'd be like Oh for sure I like it would have to be addressed immediately and you think the other side would be just as vocal They'd be so mad And right now everyone's going like

What the heck happened? When Austin Matthews took his pants down At a parcade And showed his ass to the Chick parcade attendant in Toronto We heard all about the gory details of that Or I think of like Patty Kane

when he was in the cab, right? And how quickly the details came out that he'd been drunk and, you know, yelling at the cabby and a bunch of other things.

That came out really fast. Yeah, there's always details, more details when to these stories usually publicized, right? But there's none here.

So it smells a little fishy. And that's what he said. Yeah. Sorry. All right. And speaking of people whose moms are slut, Trudeau meet and greets have Blackface Friday sale.

Here, I'll get in a little close. So on Tuesday, November 21st, an evening with Justin Trudeau was $1,700. And just 10 days later, roughly, December 1st, now it's regularly 1,000, and they have the word affordable in the right up. Oh, boy. Yeah. So, I mean, it's not just the polling that has Trudeau declining in popularity when they can't even fill their usual glad-handed bullshit $1,700 plate fundraisers anymore. Well, virtue signaling is cheap. You can say you support Trudeau all you want, but are you willing to slap down $1,700 for a ticket?

Apparently not. Nope. And that's probably a ticket where you. you get a tax credit too. So you're only paying what 25? You're getting at least $400 back. Well, depending on what's the annual contribution limit, Tim. Yeah. What is it? Well, I think it's around 1,500 or 1,800. Okay. So that's that's to a party. We can also do an additional, I think, 1,500 to a candidate, but, uh, okay. So it's right around the cap for that. Yeah. Are we, so curious, you know, I'm kind of shifting gears here a little bit, Tim, but I haven't talked to you in a while.

Actually, I think it's been since we sat and we did the Alberta election coverage. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. You see any signs from where you're sitting that maybe we have an early election and we go on ready until 2025? I think, I think we probably go to 2025. I mean, the only, like, you know, Trudeau lose, if he loses leadership, if they have a vote of no confidence with the liberals or something like that, and oust them from leader and there's a runoff, they're going to want time to build a, you know, some steam. And so I don't know.

But then again, you've got Jagmeet Singh and the NDP on the rise. And they may be willing to roll the dice and throw in with the concerns. conservatives and call an election. But, no, I think if I were a betting man, I'd lean towards nothing's going to happen until 2025. I don't think anything's going to happen until 2025 either because as much as Singh might be interested in being the opposition, he's basically calling the shots right now because he's able to look, well, first of all, they're broke.

They still haven't paid off the money that they borrowed for the last election. And if he holds off until 2025, he's guaranteed his pension. and in opposition, all he can do is just do a bunch of grandstanding. He might get to that point, but he's not going to go past it. Whereas right now, with him being the hinge in a minority government, he can actually do things like bring in idiotic free dental care and the, the pharmacare and whatever else, like all, whatever stupid things they want to spend money on next. And he's not going to be able to do that in opposition,

but he can do that in this current framework. That's a good point. And I also noticed this past week, Joe Biden echoed Jagmeet Singh's talking point of, you know, it's the greedy corporations that are causing this inflation. He had kind of a confused speech there about the economy where, you know, the economy's doing great, but inflation is the corporation's fault. So which is it? Is there bad inflation making life unaffordable or is the economy great?

Was it you? I think I was listening to somebody a little while ago. and they said, you know, is it, it's ludicrous to think that, that corporations just suddenly got greedy in the last two years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was, yeah, okay.

Yeah. So. Yeah, that's, that's your explanation, Jagmeet, that corporation suddenly got greedy. They were suddenly, these last two or three years is when they were driven by profit motive. Before that, they weren't. Sounds logical. Yeah.

Okay, this one, folks, I'm going to warn everybody. This could take a little bit of time to get through it. You know, like our usual two-minute banter here. The climate cult, okay? We got COP 28 going on, and Tews sent me like 15 bloody articles on this. That's no knock on twos. I'm just saying he sent me about 15. And then if you go on Twitter and everything is just coming up today.

Yes, yes. So let's start here. After nations agreed to a landmark deal to create a global, Climate Damage Fund on the first day of the climate talks at COP28, Canada pledged its own support on Friday and join the list of developed countries to back the new deal. Environmental Minister Stephen Gilval announced an initial commitment of $16 million toward the loss and damage fund. The fund is designed to help developing countries cope with the impacts of climate change such as floods, drought, and rising sea levels. And before we comment on there, sticking with

Gobel here, just for a second, I want to play a video of him earlier today. This announcement builds on past success. I'm very happy to announce a release of even more ambitious draft methane regulations for Canada's oil and gas sector, consistent with the International Energy Agency's recommendation. We're now aiming for at least 75% reduction for the oil and gas sector by 2030 in Canada. The accuracy and understanding of how much and where methane is emitted and that is reported properly is critical to achieving methane targets. To address this, the government of Canada will also be announcing $30 million to establish a methane center of excellency to improve our understanding and reporting of methane emissions would have focused on collaborative initiatives to support data and measurement.

Okay, so for those keeping track, they got $16 million going to the loss and damage fund. Then you got another 30 going to track methane. And learn about it. Learn about it. And then they want to reduce the methane in the oil field, specifically, by 75% now by 2030. That's what I caught and all that. George, I love you, my friend. We need a new country, Republic of Alberta.

Yeah. You know, I sometimes wonder when I'm watching Gabon, specifically. If you know, you have a fun weekend, like, you know, sitting here, we're just talking about a hockey tournament coming up in March. You know, it's a fun hockey tournament. Shout out to the Never Sweets. And shout out to the Dusty Man. Those are two weekends.

You kind of pencil on. And you look forward and you're like, man, that's going to be a fun weekend. We're going to play some hockey. It's going to be great. And you look at this COP 28 and, like, Gilbo has got to be just like, you know, a hefty erection the entire time he's there as he's giving away every tax. Well, as far as Frenchmen go, yeah. I mean, it's just like, I don't know, maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong.

Like, they just find new ways to create these new little, yeah, we're going to, we're going to pledge money to this now. And we're going to go do this. And it's millions of dollars. What money? There's nothing left. What is 75 for you guys, uh, are more connected to oil and gas and I am, what does 75% reduction in methane mean in oil and gas? Like where, where are these emissions coming from? Are they, are they just rig workers who? who've had too much beans or what's the where's the nothing?

I'm guessing it's on the refinery side of things. It's further upstream than I've really worked with. So I don't really know of it. As far as the extraction goes, you're basically just looking at CO2. Right. You know, the odd little bit of, well, I mean, whatever gas you get coming out of any,

in any significant amount, usually just gets burned off, right? So I'm guessing, I'm guessing it's, well, and that's the other thing too, is that most of it just gets burned off anyway, right? But they want to end flaring twos. They were talking about they didn't want flaring. Why? Because it's killing the world.

It's killing the world. Yeah, like they want to get away from flaring. They want to get away from a whole bunch of things. You know, it'd be interesting people listening. You know, obviously we got a healthy dose of Western Canadians. if there's somebody who's in the oil and gas sector that can talk, you know, credibly to a bunch of what, what's going on at COP 28.

I'd love it. I think it'd be a ton of fun. Well, I mean, it's just, it beggars belief, right? Because here's a guy who, self-described, unapologetic socialist. Yep. He looks like he smells of moldy compost. And this guy's going to lead us into a Jetson's world. I mean, has he ever worked on a rig?

Has he worked in the oil and gas? Has he ever built anything or done anything of value? Has he done anything other than look and sound like a poindexter? No, he looks like a, he looks like a very, very shitty Bond villain. How is this guy leading us into the future? I don't get it. Stephen Cabo name? Me, Francesca Campanelli.

That is a name right there. There's a, there is no climate change. Stephen G is a freaking idiot. I think we can all agree with that, can't we? Well, I was kind of hoping there would be some climate change. I mean, I'm liking the warmer weather lately. How awesome would it be if we could turn Yukon, Northwest Territories and, you know, what you'd call it, into farmland?

Yeah, that would be amazing. Well, here's the next part of this. The president of COP 28, Sultan Al Jabar, has claimed there is no science indicating that a phase out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Al Jabar also said a phase out of fossil fuels would not allow a sustainable development unless you want to take the world back into caves. More than 100 countries have already are already in support of phasing out fossil fuels, and that includes the U.S., the world's biggest oil and gas producer, also backs a phaseout, others such as, now on the flip side, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China,

reject the call, so you can see where they're going. And then a whole bunch of people chimed in on this, okay? So Guterres told COP 28 delegates on Friday, the science is clear. The 1.5 degrees Celsius limit is only possible if we're also ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels, reduce, not a bait, phase out with a clear time frame. Bill Hare, the chief executive of climate analytics said, this is extraordinary, revealing, whirring and belligerent exchange, sending us back to the caves as the oldest of fossil fuel industry tropes. It's verging on climate denial.

Professor Sir David King. But how's it wrong? That's the thing. I mean, they never address the argument, right? It's like, you know, they're all about science when it comes to you. And who knows, maybe they're right. Maybe to stop one point, I mean, I don't know why we'd want to stop it. It seems like there might be a good thing for the earth.

It's getting greener and warmer. You know, yeah, it's going to cause some changes. But, you know, this idea that there's no consequences to the policies and regulations, like is there no science that says communism is bad? Is there no evidence we can point to that says that these policies are horribly destructive to human flourishing? You know, and that's the metric we ought to measure things on is human flourishing. Obviously, these are going to be horrific for human flourishing.

It's going to impoverish millions, if not billions. It's going to, it is going to send some people to the caves. It's going to put us onto wood fuels. I mean, where are we going to get our energy? Is Stevie G going to build us some type of zero energy fusion reaction? That's going to take us into the, I doubt it. He's, he's anti-nuclear. But here's the thing, Tim.

You know, you're saying you want to see, you know, evidence that communism is bad. I'll say there's very little evidence of communism is bad because there's hardly anybody who's lived through it and has anything bad to say about it. Oh my God. Yeah, well, that's, that's fair. It's been frustrating for me. I've been on the Tim Mowen show, I've done, had three conversations in the last week with this communist that reached out to me. He was trying to convince me. And I'm just letting him go, letting him ramble.

And it is that the stuff he's coming up with, a praising, Stalin and Mao is just mind-blowing lives in a completely different reality than me and the rest of them. Anyways, sorry. No, it's good. I've been, I, um, I was looking that, you know, the third one just came out and I was like, okay, well, I got to, I got to get started on the first one. I'm still catching up on another couple other podcast in a couple of places, but I'm excited to check that out. And actually, for those of you guys who are listening along, Tim, Moen is, he's got.

at the Tim Mowen show and you can find it pretty much what like anywhere you find podcast. I don't know. I don't know. I, I see it on Spotify. So yeah. Jamie Ingram chimed in said plus private planes in Germany that were supposed to head to

cop 28 were frozen to the tarmac. And when did you know it, uh, twos has got that video for us as you can, you can see the. Yeah, me and Jamie right on the same page. It looks like a climate catastrophe there because of, uh, Alberta. I've been to that airport before. It looked a lot nicer when I was there, though. Oh, man.

Yeah, that's anyway. So there you go. Anything else from, well, do you want to talk carbon tax? Okay, well, I just want to say Algebert, the sultan that you're talking about. Yes. Is also the chief executive of the UAE state oil company, Adnock. And so it's interesting that it seems as though this whole COP 28 thing is just a pay to play thing.

And that the Middle East is like, well, fuck it. I guess if we got to donate a bunch of money to have a say in it, we're going to donate a bunch of money so that we run it. And then we're going to stay what we think. Yeah. Well, that could, worse things could happen. I mean, did you guys see the, um, that other article, uh, I think it said one and 12 hospitals are threatened by climate change as well.

That was that was a CTV. Yes. I was so annoyed with the headline. I read it. and I just didn't put it in Tim. I saw it. I'm like, this is the stupid stuff they put in there. One in 12 hospitals could possibly be,

be terminated by, what is it, 100 years away? But you're like, you're like, what? Yeah, I mean, you can see the links here to COVID-19, right? And how important hospitals were, and we can't, you know, overwhelm them. And this is why you need to get vaccinated and wear a mask and, you know, concede to.

draconian lockdowns and everything else. But I don't understand how these hospitals are going to get destroyed. I mean, it's like me standing on a beach saying if you guys don't shut down fossil fuels, I'm going to drown in 200 years when the sea levels eventually rise and cover me. It's like,

why can't you just adapt to this thing? Like it would take me a minute to walk away from that. It won't take me 200 years, you know? Yep. But it's very interesting. The one final note, I just want to say, mild rainy winter, expected is Canada warms at twice the global rate.

CTV news really went all out this week on all the climate change scare stuff. And I just want to point out... I love the ice rescue scene there because that's going to be happy a lot more. Here we go. Britain warming faster than average. China warming faster than global average. Mountains are warming twice as fast to the rest of the world. Singapore is heating up twice as fast.

Spain warming twice as fast. Alaska twice as fast. Australia twice as fast. Sweden. Adirondacks. Switzerland, South America, Russia, Canada, Europe. Are these supposed to be scary headlines? I guess it might scare someone who lives in a hot environment, but geez, they sound lovely to me.

But here's the way averages work. If everything is above average, your math sucks and you need to revisit it. And so they're never, they never have any articles saying like, because if all of this is true, then there needs to be a commensurate amount of places that are warming at half the global average, because that's what would actually make the global average. But there is nothing about half or a third or a fraction of the global average. Everything is warming it more than the average, which is mathematically impossible, which is exactly the same kind of fucking math they use for all the other climate scare shit.

They're using the same math as all the bros out there that's saying they're above average. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, babe. I'm above average down there, you know? Yeah. That's all there's. Same thing.

Same psychology. Annual orgy falling flaccid. That was the climate change. Oh, well, I had climate cult. Yeah, the climate cult annual orgy falling flaccid. You maybe just hidden more. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Whoops.

Hospital to deny service to fringe minority. How the heck did I get here? I put in the wrong headlines, too, is where? is the one on Quebec. That's the one. Yeah, because the hospital in Quebec is denying service. Never mind. Never mind.

You know, Tim's running this show at this point, folks. Thanks for cover, Tim. I couldn't do this without you. I did my homework, boys. Before he's like, you know, it's cool to see like the inner workings of this show. Now he's getting to see it play out in the real time. You guys do so much prep work. A new amendment to Quebec's mammoth health care bill will allow the new Sante

Quebec agency to revoke a health care institutions bilingual status. With only days left before the parliamentary session is set to end before holiday break, this surprise amendment was introduced Tuesday during a parliamentary committee debate on the proposed legislation known as Bill 15. The bill has more than 1,200, that is, articles, and there have been hundreds of amendments introduced since it was tabled last March. The new proposal concerns communities that qualify under existing laws to receive. services in a language other than French if the numbers warranted. What was revealed this week, first reported by the Montreal Gazette, is that the government wants the board of directors at Santae, Quebec, to be able to revoke the status of institutions

like hospitals if the minority community has a shrunk below 50% based on census data. That's literally the definition of a minority community. Yeah. There's less than 50% of... 50% of this minority community. Yes, that's why you call it a minority community. Imagine any business enacting a policy like this. Yeah, we're not serving customers if they speak English or if they speak French.

I don't know with them doing that. Honestly. Well, yeah, but I mean, at least businesses suffer the repercussions of implementing a policy like that. These hospitals are going to, are they going to stop getting tax dollars if they discriminate? No, of course not. No, not at all. And if they sit empty and everyone's sitting around doing nothing,

is perfect, that's a perfect environment for a public sector worker, right? And they just get to put their feet up. Yeah. This is just, Quebec is so fucking, it's, they're so fucked over there. And I don't understand them.

I really don't. And this is another thing we've talked about a little bit here and there, where you see them doing things like this or, you know, all their English language stuff that they're just trying to suppress and trying to force the French continued existence. If you've got to do that, your language probably fucking sucks. And it's just, it's really interesting how much entitlement there is and all this stuff. And I just, you know, I try and get in the head of the people putting this stuff.

forward and it makes no sense to me at all. They're just trying to protect their heritage. Who cares? You're like, I got stabbed. They'd be like, en francaiseise, you play. No, they're going to start fucking helping you. Right? But this is,

it's, it's ludicrous. I won't argue that much with you on. Like, to me, it's Quebec. Quebec always does, seems to do what they want. And what they want to do, what they want to do, if the guy goes in, he's unconscious, he's got, he's got, I don't know, multiple stab wounds or something like that. Yeah, but I don't think he's unconscious.

He'd be like, wake him up and he says, oh, hello. You got to, you got to wake him up real quick so we can find out if he's French or not. Or as soon as he wakes up, you're like, oh. Yeah. And he wakes up and he says, where am I? What are you going to do? Wait, maybe I read this wrong. What are they actually saying here then?

They're saying that they will not allow an English-speaking patron into the doors if they need a hospital? Is that what they were saying? saying they're not going to, they're not going to talk to them in English or they're not required to talk to them in English. Yeah, they're going to change the signage to only French, right? Well, no, but you go in there and you'll be like, I got shot. And they'll just be like, they'll point at the sign and say, tell us in French. And you'd be like, oh, yeah, maybe. I don't know. I guess I didn't lead it that way. Whatever. I don't know.

Like, maybe I'm just wrong on this. It's just Quebec. Quebec always seems to do these things. where you're like, I don't know. Like, I, I don't know. I just, I don't even have a thought on it. It's like, it's Quebec. I know Tews rattles on all the time about it being like, uh, fuck the French and everything, but I'm like, I feel like I've got a point generally speaking. I don't know.

I guess I would love to live there and, and, and just see what the heck is going on, you know? Like you read a, you read a headline and then you're like, I don't even like, okay. Well, I mean, one thing we can learn from Quebec is, is, um, how to have, you know, a form of aspirational sovereignty, right? In Alberta, our sovereignty kind of our pushback on Canada is all anti-Ottawa. It's like we're all united against Ottawa. We're not really united for something. In Quebec, at least they're united for towards a goal.

And it seems to produce more results. Maybe there's something we can learn from them in that. I mean, obviously, we don't want to be aspirational towards the same type of fuckery that they're aspirational towards but but they are vastly more successful in terms of looking after their own provincial interests

right I would agree I mean when I was campaigning you know a lot of that that was one of the foremost things on the minds of a lot of Quebecers I talk to is like yeah I agree with everything you say but what about our culture we need government to protect our culture

and I'm like I got nothing for you I mean what if you just tried to need guns to protect it, maybe just it's not a great culture or something. But maybe it is really great. Maybe you'll surprise yourself. Maybe your culture will flourish and be even better if you get government out of the way and stop

because, you know, government policy always has a lot of negative. It almost always has the opposite of the intended effect. Well, I don't know about intended. A stated effect, maybe. Stated, yes. Fair. Fallen falls on

fallopian falchian Fallon Fallon falls on it's a type of sword and Jimmy Fallon and it's it's a type of sword how do you say the last word to is that's commitment to alliteration Falconin all right

Late night host Jimmy Fallon is under fire from the LGBTQ plus activists for using a masculine term to refer to a transgender female actress Fallon made the remark while speaking to Hunter Schaefer who is on the show to promote her upcoming movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, when Schaefer explained it had been her dream to star in the film,

Fallon offered kudos by saying, congratulations, bud. Though the actress did not appear offended by their remark, fans found out demeaning, or fans found it demeaning to the transgendered people, arguing the term was a subtle way of referring to Schaefer as a male. I called my wife, dude. I called my wife, bro once, and she wasn't very happy. it's bro why are you making me take the garbage out now i got lots of time that's that sounds like a great way to get hilarious though than the fact that she wasn't

like hunter didn't come on and say oh i'm very offended it was the fans it was all the just like enough it's people being offended for her or him her him whatever here's a thing like if if you're talking to a transvestite you don't call them bud you call them bud light Yeah, but that's how you get laid in those circles. You're an ally, you're a defender, right? I once worked with these Hollywood movie makers that came up to Fort McMurray. And I'm like, look, I understand why you've got a big bugaboo about CO2 emissions. Was this the Neo Young one?

No, this was Andy Cobb and Mike Domanskiy. One of them, I don't know if you've ever seen the Facebook page, Brave New films. They post a lot of toxic leftist rhetoric. Anyways, I got pissed off when they were denied, turned around at immigration and told to go back. And so I offered my services and fought for them to come up and tell their story. And, you know, I thought maybe I could expose them to all the good stuff in art community. And actually, the film never ended up getting made, despite all the scenes I shot for them. I think. because they had a second second thoughts about how compelling a story they could make after they

talked to actual people on the ground and saw how great the community was and how great the industry was for the community including the indigenous population but anyways i asked them i said why why aren't you focusing on co2 like there's all these coal emitters there's the placarita oil fields are the highest concentration of CO2 of any oil fields in the world i think that's right on your back on your back door and why are you coming up here? And they said, well, it's a geopolitical hot spot. And frankly, we're more likely to get laid if we focus on this, right? So them riding in on their white horse and saving the world from this perceived risk,

got them laid. And that's exactly what's going on here with the Fallon thing. This is why, you know, these, like, they're coming in here to save the indigenous people who are all going like, bro, we love the oil and gas industry. it's dramatically improved their life. Please don't shut it down. We don't want to go back to, you know, the left already shut down our trapping industry up here back in the 80s

because that was bad. Now they're trying to shut down our source of economic prosperity. And so they, you know, but they wrote in on their white stallion to save these people. And that's kind of what's happening here, right? It's going to get some activists laid when they see what a great ally these virtue signalers are. But at the same time,

and I think you're absolutely right, as far as, you know, the people crying foul about this. But the funny thing is, is that Jimmy Fallon's slipping up and calling this dude Bud. It's indicative of the fact that we all know that deep down, there's still men. They haven't stopped being men.

And we know that and they know that. And the actual people know that. Everybody knows it. But there's just some groups of people that are scared to say it out loud. And then it accidentally comes out every once in a while. Have you guys seen the new Daily Wire movie, Lady Balls yet? Well, we talked about it last week.

I watched it last night. It was pretty good. It came out, yeah, yeah. It's pretty funny. Yeah. So we talked about the trailer for it last week. But we, yeah, oh, yeah, I guess it came out on the first. And was it good?

Yeah, it was pretty good. I mean, it wasn't, you know, it wasn't a top tier, like, hangover type comedy, but it had some good laughs. and it made a good point. And yeah, it was, you know, it was worth watching. I'm going to have to check it out for sure. High calorie human making a big splash overseas travel. I should have said in an overseas travel.

Yeah, well, what are you going to do? My, that's the way the night's been going. A plus-sized influencer has shared the struggles she has encountered while backpacking around the world, including people asking to touch her stomach. Lexi Milan 28 from Rexburg, Idaho has been traveling Southeast Asia. Here, I'll pop it up for you guys, has been traveling Southeast Asia since 2022. And despite being viciously fat-shamed, she is still urging plus-sized people to travel. The content creator who gained weight as a result of her polycystic ovarie syndrome refuses to let nasty comments get in her way.

She started her trip in Bali before traveling to Cambodia, while their locals asked her if she was pregnant, while strangers told her to walk more. Traveling, quoted, traveling as a plus-sized person can definitely have hardships than traveling as a straight-sized person does not, she said. Think about that sentence for a second, folks. At the beginning of my travels, I realized I was not only very plus-sized, but I was also very out of shape as far as physical fitness. And so she's, yeah, she's talking about people coming up and asking if she's pregnant and everything else.

Dustin, I think, well, we, dust was on, was on the live stream for the Alberta election. And his, when he was over in all these different countries, they used to come up and feel his leg hair because he'd never seen anyone that hairy before. So, you know, it's just. He is pretty hair. He is. It's like a Joe Biden moment.

Remember that? Oh, yeah. That corn pop. Yeah. Anyway, sorry. But I mean, like, you got to realize that. Southeast Asia, they're, they're built totally different.

Like, here's, here's a picture. Are you saying they don't have polycystic ovarian? I can't even, yeah. They must not have that at all. If you're going to be overweight, at least, own it. Like, she's like, oh, yeah, when I first got there, I couldn't walk for more than 10 minutes.

And then now I can because I've been, you know, getting in better shape. You're like, well, imagine. What the hell? You're out of shape or does it mean that, like, did this disease suddenly go away? But here's the thing is everything small. Everything's way smaller, even by our standard.

Like, I'm not a giant by any means. But here is a picture of me in a shower in, in, I think this is in Vietnam. And you just wanted to put up a picture of yourself without a shirt, A2s? Yeah, sure. Actually, I was all bloated at the time because I just gotten over food poisoning. But yeah, that's, uh, this is a back in the day photo. But the shower head points at your chest, right? They're, they're not large people to begin with.

And when you send a high calorie human over there, they're going to stand out. Yeah. I mean, I stood out in Japan. I towered over everyone there walking through that Shibu crosswalk with it in all the movies. You know, like it's just a herd of people at chest level.

And everyone looking up at you like you're some kind of freak. So I, I'm sympathized with this girl. Plus size people like me and her. I want to know what traveling as a, straight sized person is. What is a straight side? Like that's like mixing up like something to do with the LGBTQ.

It's all just this mismash of throwing whatever. Straight sized person you can come up with. The mashup. Just a couple of straight sized persons here. You know? That's what we are. She needs to go to that. There's a,

there's a country in Africa. I can't remember is it Uganda or one of these countries where their beauty standard is plus size women. In fact, they send women go out to like, a camp in the desert specifically to fatten up to get as obese as possible because that's what the men like. Grenade is like that as well.

It's like a sign of wealth because nobody has enough money to buy enough food to get fat. And so if you are a high calorie human, they assume that you're absolutely loaded. Like, oh, that person must be rich. Look at how calories they can afford. Look at those giant pants. They must be loaded. Can you imagine paying for all the gas with that shitty fuel? Ewell economy you're going to get driving around with that big dump truck behind you?

Can we do happy news? Can we do, oh, man, can we do happy news? Can we start with the debate? Should we start there? Yes. Okay. Here's DeSantis and Newsom. San Francisco. There's a lot of plots on that. You may be asking, what is that plotting? Well, this is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco. And you see how almost the whole thing is covered because that is what has happened in one of the previous greatest cities this country's ever had. Human feces is now a fact of life, except when a communist dictator comes to town. Then they cleaned up the streets.

They lined the streets with Chinese flags. They didn't put American flags there. They cleaned everything up. So they're willing to do it for a communist dictator, but they're not willing to do it for their own. Did anybody watch any of that debate? I just saw that clip And I've got a bunch more of it bookmarked Because I want to watch it

Apparently it was an absolute blood bath Gavin Newsom's wife Came in and shut it down Because she's like nope, it's over They were just going to keep talking And they went to commercial break And she came on stage And she's like nope, we are done here

Imagine doing so poorly in a debate, Tim That your wife comes on stage And just pulls the cane out And ripped you off stage That's actually happened but no on that. I can't believe he had a map of human faces from the streets of San Francisco

and Newsom's like, oh yeah. Like he wasn't like, he didn't say anything. Like that's most ridiculous. He's kind of like, man, yeah, yeah, that's. Yeah, well, that's, that was the really funny thing is that he's looking at it and he's just got to own it while it's happening. Right.

And I mean, yeah, these, everything I've read on, so I haven't watched the debates. I don't have my own opinion. I mean, that clip, you know, obviously DeSantis own Newsom, but, you know, the right wing is, is praising DeSantis for winning and the left wing is praising Newsom for winning. He's, you know, so I mean, these people just live in two very different realities and see the world through a completely different lens. It's, it's kind of scary. Very scary. Yes. Um, uh, but when you watch it and it goes back and forth, um, I didn't watch the entire thing.

I actually just got tired of. I'm like, this is like, huh. You know, but I watched a bit of it. And, um, well, it's definitely entertaining in parts, right? Like, Newsom, he just got this smile. Like you want to punch him in the face kind of smile. Because, oh, careful. Why is one one said that about that kid.

Remember, like speaking of that whole kid with the. with the black face. Remember when there was that kid who had the Native American guy come up to him with the drum. And then Reza Osborne was like, oh, that guy's got a punchable face. And then everybody was all mad at him. So you're worried that somebody's going to call me on me saying Newsom has a punchable face.

I'm just saying it's it's like saying you people. Sure. Well, you people who are offended by me saying Gavin Newsom has a punchable face. Come, probably probably turn this off. and move on with life. That's probably what I would say.

Fair enough. Anything else in the happy news, too? Well, yeah, there was so that and then combined with that 15-minute video that Oh, yes, Pierre. Palliev put out where he talked, he went into a lot of detail. He glossed over a few things. But for the most part, for what he did touch on, it was factual and it was well done. And I like the fact that politicians are actually doing more of an ad car model lately,

where they're actually doing awareness. They're explaining why some things work and why some things don't. What a Tim thing? Tim, have you watched Pierre's video as 15-minute kind of why we're in the predicament we're in? No, I haven't watched it. What were the Coles notes? What's he saying that is causing the housing crisis? Hopefully he touched on central banks and record low interest rates and printing of money.

So he did talk about quantitative easing. He did. And he talked a lot about stupid red tape. He pointed out specifically like Vancouver, it adds $1.3 million at the cost of a home. Yeah. And so he talked about that, but he didn't talk about things like inefficiencies in government programs or deadfall losses caused by, or deadweight losses caused by unionization. And he didn't talk about supply and demand going completely off the fucking rails because of record immigration. Right, right.

Well, I mean, the main points, at least he hit the main points. At least someone's talking about the role of central banks here. I mean, that can't be stressed enough. And obviously of regulation, it's not like Canada is short on land. It's like, you know, you just look around. I mean, I live in Fort Saskatchewan, and I look out here, and there's tons of land. And I'm sure some of these acreage farmers would be happy to sell some of it. if someone wanted to build a house, what's stopping them?

What's stopping people from finding land to build houses. Yeah, there you go. Yep. And in lots of like Calgary, I remember about 10 years ago, there was less than 600 legal secondary suites in Calgary,

which has, you know, probably at the time 1.1, 1.2 million people. And there were less than 600 legal secondary suites in the whole city. Despite the fact that there was an absolute glut of them, and they were everywhere, but the laws were so ridiculous that they'd just become completely ignored, which I'm all in favor of. Yeah, well, absolutely. I mean, the same thing was happening in Fort McMurray for years and years during the boom.

You know, I built a house and put an illegal basement suite. It was illegal because it had an oven in it. And so we just covered up the wiring and didn't put a stove in until after the inspector came. And he's looking at me like that there's a gap in those cabinets for a stove. You don't think I know what's going on here. I'm like, well, I don't know what to tell you. This is how cabinets come and we'll fill it with something. He's like, yeah, right.

But he signed off on it. But, you know, in Fort Mac at the time, they were, I remember hearing about one guy who had eight, um, eight, I guess, mattresses in his unfinished basement and just had sheets of plywood hanging from the rafters partitioning them off. and he hot bunked them. So he had a day shift crew that would sleep there and a night shift crew that would sleep here. Oh, wow.

And it worked out well for him. He was making a few hundred bucks a month from each of these people. It's like 16 at max capacity. And they were getting an L.O.A allowance for finding their own accommodations in Fort McMurray. Which was impossible at the time. I remember reading an article about a guy

who was renting a balcony. Right. He was living. on the balcony of a house. Yeah, and I mean, again, it's not like there's any shortage of land in Fort McMurray. I mean, it's literally a city in the middle of millions

of acres of Boreal Forest. You'd think you could clear a few more trees out and develop some more land, but you know, regulations. Yeah. Yeah, so there was that in the happy news. Yeah, you got the speaking of, well,

I don't know, maybe the Blackhawks have something to say about big nuts, but, But these guys in Texas made the biggest actual nut. I don't think they made a bolt to match it, but there's the biggest nut ever. And then this guy's just like, yeah, we're in Texas, and we make things really big. Kind of, I don't know, I thought it was fun.

But the really, I don't know, it's kind of a mixed bag. But that story about this woman here, woman BC woman gets surgery in US as wait times at home could have cost her life so she got diagnosed with having two months to two years to live and tried to book an appointment to get it straightened out and they're like yeah it's we don't even know when we can book it and so she went and got it straightened out went down to the straits had the surgery got stage four cancer taken out of her and she's good, made a recovery. Two and a half months later,

they called her up and they said they're ready to start looking at booking it, which was already into the window that she would have possibly died in. And they're like, yeah, so, yeah, we want to talk to you about medically assisted suicide. This is Canada's health care program. But she managed to go to the states, get it taken care of, and then actually go and get married because she was. wasn't dead, which would have happened had she, she would have died on a wait list in Canada. The healthcare system is a mess up here.

No one talks, you know, as Chief Justice, Beverly McLaughlin once said, access to a waiting line is not access to health care. Lives are at stake. Health is at stake. And that story is not uncommon at all. I remember in Fort Mac at a video production company and I covered, I would do freelance electronic news gathering. So global would call me and say, hey, we got a story.

Can you chase it down? And one of the stories I covered was a guy who was having six seizures a day because of some rare brain condition. And there was a surgery that would fix it. I mean, this was a life-threatening condition. He couldn't work. He had to quit. They had to remortgage their house. And, you know, there was Alberta Health wouldn't cover it.

There was one physician in Canada that could do it. He lived in Nova Scotia or something like that. and because of that, he had to go to that position. But, of course, the waiting list to get to that guy was like years long. And so he ponied up a quarter million dollars

and got it done at the Mayo Clinic or something and H.S. wouldn't cover it. So that was the story. But I hear stories like that all the time. And I mean, we probably all have our own stories, right? I mean, my wife right now is having a debilitating hip pain

for some unknown reason. And, you know, she needs an MRI. Well, you did say that since she's doing the hard 70s. you guys have been having more sex. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I can straighten her out here once she finds me attractive again.

Ooh. But I mean, look, waiting six months in debilitating pain, look, we pay our household pays over 40 grand a year towards the health care system. That's the portion of our income tax, according to the Fraser Institute, that goes to the health care system. And it took a work of a team of scholars to figure that out because the government is it transparent about where our tax dollars go? What's the most recent number on that in Alberta?

Well, I think it's around $16,000 a year for the median family. And then if your household makes over $200,000 a year, it's over $40,000. And so, you know, we pay a considerable amount into health care, as do most taxpayers. and in return we get these lengthy, debilitating lines, and we can't get our health problems fixed in a reasonable time frame. Yeah, it's pretty common, but I think it's great the fact that she was able to go to a place

where health care was legal. Yes. Well, boys, that's mashup 84. Sweet. We do have December 7th. Thursday for the kids' sake has the irreplaceable parent project, Shauna Sandell at the Vic Juba Theater here in Lloyd Minster. So pay attention for that.

We do have a possibly, is it January 1st, 2st? You and the Danger Cats? I said, I think I said January 2nd last week. Yes. But January 1st, I'm going to be at the Comedy Cave with Uncle Hack and a couple other guys, Danger Cats. Should we let people know, Mashup 85 is also going to have a special guest? rolling in?

Yeah. Uncle Hack is going to be here next week. So we're going to have a little fun here on the mashup as we get close to that, oh, that lovely that Christmas Festivus mashup that gets close to the Oh, yes. The Festiv's mashup. We said we were going to talk about

that too. We're going to have just a random Q&A. We're going to try and get as many comments on even though we can only see in real time in Streamyard the Facebook comments that come up from Sean's account, we're going to be looking at our respective Twitters and just any, throw it any random questions you want. Now, personal, political, whatever direction we're going to go.

Are we going to have a few wobbly pops while we do it? Well, that's what we did with last year's Christmas Festivist. But we're going to be doing it over Stream Yard. So it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting. Either way, that's coming up. You have the town hall that you were supposed to be going to with Rachel Notley in the NDP. It got moved to December 15th.

It was one of the lovely listeners who pointed that out too. Yeah, which is good because otherwise out it just showed up and been like, yeah, this is about what I'd expected for an NDP turnout. And if you're still listening to this point, here's, I should have put this out at the start. I am now 76,000 downloads away from a million twos or Tim or both in a calendar year. So when we do the math on that, we're going to be tight. We're going to be tight. So if you like the show, make sure you listen to it on Apple, Spotify. That's the two main ones.

And if you really like it, share it with your friends' family because every share gets us just a little step closer. We're going to be close. It's going to be tight. Amazing. In advance. In advance. Thank you.

Tim and I in the next, I don't know, week or so are going to be doing an episode about the shakeup in health care. Oh, nice, yeah. Yes, we are. It's going to be amazing. We already talked about it. All sorts of inside baseball. You're looking at me like I'm bringing it on you.

It's going to be so much fun. I can't wait. I've been in the belly of the beast. I can tell you all the deep state secrets. Stay tuned. That's more like it. Thanks for hopping on with this, Tim. That's mashup 84.

Appreciate you, Hopper. it on. And next week, a little Uncle Hack on 85. That should be fun as well. We'll catch up to you folks next week and, well, have a great evening, everyone. All right. Thanks a lot, guys. Peace.