Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #86

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

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A shortcut. You're an idiot. There's no shortcut. It's just the way to get there. And that's it. Everything else is just joyriding and taking extra steps. It's wasting your time. What you call a shortcut is actually just the fucking root.

You'll call it that. All right. I'll hop in. You hop in so fast. You know, all I want to do is hear a bit of the song. Tuse is just like, boom, I'm going to have to figure something out here, folks, so I can actually get just a piece. You know, I'm not saying I need the whole song.

I'm just saying, you know, maybe longer than one second and Tuse is in. He's just like, you know, he's right on top of it. Well, you know what? So I know what I want the next rant to be about already. The mashup song? No, no, something completely unrelated. And it'll be a little bit longer, right? So it's not just you're jumping in and doing.

a quick 10 second rant. And then sitting there like a jackass and just being like, so we're going to start this thing? It's like, well, well, maybe, maybe, but Sean would like to hear a bit of the song. Hey, regardless, smash up 86. This guy named Philip Broberg. That's where we're at today.

And we're coming live all over the place tonight, too's. Instagram live. I play, hello. This is unusual. I don't know what to quite think of that. Stream yard's like, hey, you want to go live on Instagram? I guess so. And I saw that and I was like, well, I wonder what other options there are.

Oh, YouTube. Oh, YouTube. We'll probably get booted from there. And Rumble is working again. You know what? I got a boat. I don't know how many tax I got, but people were a little upset that we weren't on Rumble. And I was like, well, you know what?

Rumble needs to figure it out or maybe stream out or maybe books. Don't get mad at us for not being on Rumble. Get it mad at Rumble for not having us. either way mashup at 86 how's toos doing this week uh we're everywhere twos has been absolutely flying he has done basically nothing but work and sleep for a week so like henry texted me last week i never got back to him i still have to text back Shane uh about some random thoughts i had and uh yeah it's i'm sorry everybody i'm gonna have twos does this thing called work i mean uh i'm gonna have more time off than i know

what to do with between Christmas and New Year's. So, yeah, I'm sure I'll get back to everybody by then. I hate that, though, right? When you're just like, well, shit, I never texted them back and it's been like four days. Do I bother at this point? I do. I do that all the time. Actually, listeners by now probably know, if I don't text you back, it's no personal

vendetta. It's that I got it on, do not disturb. And sometimes I'm so sick of the phone, I just leave it alone. Now, regardless to, is we're sidetracked here. Welcome to the Tuesday mashup where we're going to blow your mind with stupidity in the news headlines, pretty much. And good stuff too.

There's good stuff. A couple things. A couple things. You know who's breaking headlines today? The SMP with Premier Daniel Smith. Yes. I saw somebody on Twitter calling you a rando-andau anti-faxer podcast. Well, when the shoe fits, I guess.

I would say if anything, you're a specific anti-bacter podcast, but I mean, that guy could do him, I guess. We got lots of articles on Twitter today. How about we fire it up here? Oh, on the chase for $1 million on my side, 24,623 is the number, the go-to number now. So we're going to hit it. We're going to hit it. That means tune in, listen, download, all that good stuff. And we're going to try and fit that Q&A in somewhere around, somewhere around.

somewhere around Christmas. It might be a couple days before and then released on Christmas or we might do it a couple days afterwards while Sean is in this date. What Tuesday is talking about is last year we did this thing called Festivist, the Tuesday Massifest Festivist because we just... Yeah, I guess we should just be calling it the Festivist. Yeah, it's Festivus. Yeah, except the problem is, is last year when we did it,

it wasn't on Christmas Day. Next Tuesday is literally Christmas. So we're like... Monday's Christmas, which is when we record. Right, sorry, Monday's Christmas when we record. And so we're both kind of like, we'll wait a sec we can't do that i don't think either of the family members would be too happy about us getting drunk on actual christmas that might be just podcasting for a couple hours

so i'm going to go podcast for a couple hours when i come back i'm going to be smashed anyways we're going to figure some things out we had a lot of fun doing it last year and uh we'll see regardless today's headlines to's taxi driven right up regina's corn wall here we go a 32 year old woman is facing a slew of charges after allegedly leading police on a chase through Regina's downtown court ending inside the Cornwall Center at around 248 a.m. Officers responded to a report robbery of Regina co-op taxi on the 1,100 block of Angus Street. According to the police, the suspect got into the taxi and threatened to kill the driver. The driver fled the taxi, which led the suspect to steal the vehicle. Police found the stolen taxi and attempted to stop it,

but the suspect invaded of officers and rammed into the front doors of a business on the 2200 block of Broad Street. But wait. Still mobile, the suspect continued at a slow speed for about 15 minutes before crashing into the front of a business on the 1800 block of Hamilton Street and now heavily damaged. It continues. The taxi continued on toward the Cornwall Center's south entrance. The suspect rammed the doors driving through the mall's main level, eventually becoming hung up on the stairs at the mall's Saskatchewan drive entrance. She went straight up killdozer on this thing, hey? Yeah, I mean, this doesn't give you a whole, you know, like, it's like, well, what do they talk about?

This is, this is the, where they finally stopped her, I guess, right, through the 11th, anyway. They kind of go like. They did a lot to really kind of damage control. There, you would expect there to be some awesome pictures here. And it's weird that they didn't release the name of the driver. Which makes me think it's got to be some kind of a minority. You know, just, sure. Because that's the way it always goes.

It's the way it always goes whenever there's any sort of these things because you're going to be like, it's going to be some Asian name or something like that. And they'll be like, oh, yeah, Asian woman driver. So they always just want to steer away from that. But it always just instead points a big spotlight on it. It's Streisand affects the whole thing. I'm impressed she ran or he ran into two buildings. It's a woman.

And, oh yeah, it did say a woman. She ran into two buildings and carried on at a slow pace to get through the mall. At a medium pace, yep. Yeah, yeah, like I'm like, this is the story that just keeps on giving. Somebody's having way too much fun or was very, very upset at the wee hours of the morning. It basically combines a woman's two favorite things, which are driving poorly and shopping. record drug bus catches son of police service board chair dr gail beck's abrupt resignation as chair of the ottawa police service board on thursday was announced after her adult son was arrested in what

the police chief called one of the largest drug bus in the city's history now they're talking about timon timon timon how do i say that timon beck we'll call it timon timon i don't know it doesn't matter It doesn't matter. How do you spell Timon and Puma? That's actually how you spelled... Isn't it? Wait, 37. How many years ago did Lion King come out?

Early 90s. Timoan Back 37. He's charged with participating in criminal organizations and conspiracy to traffic, cocaine, and crack for the investigation dubbed Project Top Shelf. Police seized 40 kilos of cocaine and four kilograms of crack, an estimated wholesale value of 1.5 million or 4.5 million or 4.5. 4.5 million on the street. And, of course, going back...

That's a lot of Hakuna Matata right there. Well, and see you later. Mum, and she says, well, I guess I'm going to resign from the... I'm going to resign from the... I mean, what do you do at that point? You think she knew? I have no idea. There's nothing really to put the context in there from the story.

He had no criminal record at all or anything like that. that. Sure. So I'm guessing that this, I don't know, it could be anything. Like, he could just be like, Do you think you'll know you have an inkling that your child is about to get busted for $1.5 million or $4.5 million on the street of illicit drugs? You got no feeling?

I feel like there would be signs because you would say, well, I came over to visit him the other day and he didn't have any furniture. We just sat on piles of cash. Oh, what do you do? And then it's, it's like those, it's probably a lot like true lies where he's got this cheesy backstory and there's, there's more money than it should really be justified and more international travel than you'd really expect from some boring ass consultant. And then, oh, it turns out he's got this whole secret life.

Boris and Doris Yeah, except in this case It's Timon and Pumba Timon and Pumba Speaking of animals Cowfucker gets caught With his pants down I could not

Literally what happened I had so much trouble With this story I was like What do I even do with this headline Where do I go with it I didn't even know where to start in the story So we'll see if I did a decent job here

Mr. Farwell He knew where to start in the story Mr. Farwell, his wife, Tracy, son Ralph, and daughter Emily devised a plan to catch the pervert and installed CCTV. On June 12th, Mr. Felwell heard one of his calves making its distinctive distress sound. Yeah, I bet. He checked his CCTV, saw there was someone in the barn and called his father. Farmer Ian Farwell found Liam Brown 25 with his trousers down, hand on either side of a calf, and his hips moving back and forth. Brown had triggered an alarm in the early hours of the night

and ran off from the cattle farm in Burton near Christchurch, Dorset. He jumped several gates only to land in another cowpan where he was trampled by animals. Yeah, the animals had a little bit of cowboy justice. Yeah. Yeah, so it even says later on in the article that, you know, he was all shocked by it. And he tucked his erect penis back into his pants and pulled his trousers up because it's England. So they called them trousers.

uh yeah at and then now this guy's got like 160 hours community service got fined 600 pounds and uh can't own livestock for 10 years for 10 years which is perfect because i mean if he's fucking calves by that time they'll be too old for him this is this is literally this is the news this literally just happened like three days ago Toronto addresses racism by honoring slavers. Toronto City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to change the name of Toronto's world-famous Young Dundas Square to Sancofa Square to distance itself from Henry Dundas purported connection to transatlantic slave trade. Yeah, he was trying to abolish it. This guy, this Dundas guy was an abolitionist, and they named the square after him.

But that wasn't good enough. The word used by the city of Toronto, True North has learned, this is a True North article we took this from folks, originated from a tribe known for its role in the slave trade. While Dunnest was in fact an abolitionist, the Akan people of Ghana, from whom the words San Kofa comes from, were active participants in the slave trade and imported slaves to develop their own economy. As scholar A. Norman Klein reviewing the work of Renowned Ghana historian Iver Wilkes wrote, The Akan exchanges their gold for these slaves who rewarded their Akan masters by creating an agricultural revolution during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Acan people imported slaves to help clear their forests where they searched for gold and also sold slaves to Europeans fueling the transatlantic slave trade. Historians, even those on the political left, tend to agree that Dundas was a supporter of the abolition of slavery. So this is an interesting one.

you're getting rid of a guy named Dundas and putting another one in. Yes, this is honestly, you thought that Toronto could not possibly be ran by anybody stupider when it was literally being ran by a crackhead. And then he dies, his brother takes over the province, and you get Olivia Chow in who is doing a worse job of running Toronto than an actual crack hit. remember when politics used to be moderately sane and the only people addicted to drugs were the politicians what the hell happened we should have never let them die i don't know i just i feel like if you're going to go through the trouble of removing somebody because of their ties to slavery and then you

just you should just what like just read and like well you know like is you know okay we're going to remove okay well what are we going to call it is this is This is Eskimo all over again. Yes. Honestly, that's exactly what I thought when I read this story. I'm like, this is like, you know, we can make fun of Toronto all we want. We got the Eminton Elks. We had the Emmetton Eskimos and this is very similar.

It's like this hasn't been well thought out at all. No, which is pretty standard as far as politicians in Canada goes. And Olivia Chow has been an absolute disaster. Liberals to construct House of Cards. Just go through the math in your head while you're reading this. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced $150 million federal funding deal with the city of Vancouver that he said could you see more than 40,000 new homes built over the next decade. Trudeau said the deal would fast track more than 32 new homes over the next three years. And he quoted, the deal will mean less red tape, more housing built near transit, more affordable, rental housing, and more density homes in a density.

Homes in accessible, vibrant communities, the very places people want to live and raise their families, as Trudeau said, at a news conference with Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim. The announcement came on Friday after the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said housing starts in Canada fell 22% November, starts down 39% in Vancouver. So, mathematically speaking over 10 years, this will catch up on one quarter's worth of reduced housing starts. at $115 million for 40,000 homes. It's less than $3,000 per home. And it's a funding grant that for some reason is going to eliminate red tape.

There's no mention of any change in regulations or anything like that. But giving them more money is going to eliminate red tape somehow. None of this makes a lick of fucking sense. And the financial post who you would think would do a little bit of fucking envelope math every once in a while just writes it down verbatim like it came from Mount Sinai. So why do you think everybody glossed over that? Because the numbers are too fucking stupid to even hope to take seriously. They got it down on a piece of paper like, this doesn't make it like a sense.

You just print it, man. Just print it. Just print it. We got our bailouts to worry about. Trans Mountain is not a serious pipeline. The company building the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion is warning. The project's completion could be delayed by two years if the Canada Energy Regulator does not allow a previously rejected request for a pipeline variance. In a regulatory filing Thursday, Trans Mountain Corp, said such a delay would be catastrophic for the pipeline project, which is currently more than 97% complete. It said a delay of that length would result in billions of dollars of losses for the company, which is a Crown Corporation. So they don't care.

The Crown, that is. The Crown's Mountain Pipeline is Canada's only oil pipeline to the West Coast, and its expansion will boost the pipeline's capacity to 890,000 barrels per day from 300,000 currently. The newest challenge is related to hard rock conditions. In October, the Crown Corporation asked the regulator to allow it to use a different diameter, wall thickness, and coating for a 2.3 kilometer stretch of the pipeline to make construction easier. But the regulator denied that request earlier this month. The project's costs have spiraled through the course of a construction.

from an original estimate of $5.4 billion to the most recent estimate of $30.9 billion. And Trans Mountain Corp has said that if the pipeline doesn't begin shipping oil in early 2024, which is not going to, as expected, it will incur lost revenues to the effect of approximately $200 million each month of delay. So here's the thing. I'm not going to get too far into, well, when I took it, it was version 5, but I'm not going to get too far into the fifth edition PMBock here. But when you're doing a very complicated project with a lot of things that can happen independently, right? Because you can start on one end, you can start on the other end, you can do pieces in the middle.

It's an entire pipeline. It doesn't really matter where you start because it's all got to go in. You should probably start with whatever poses the highest potential negative risk in terms of, of schedule overrun, which would be this exact fucking part. You don't do this when it's 97% done. This is what you do when it's 0% done because you've got the most time

to figure out what the hell you're going to do afterwards. You don't just be like, okay, well, yeah, we just got to like tighten one screw over here and then dig this complicated hole. Are you saying... Start off. I'm saying they're idiots. Are you saying there's a little bit of incompetence

with the Trans Mountain Pipeline? a little bit. Like just imagine that cost. That cost overrun is insane. Like even by government standards. 5 billion to 30 billion. And it ain't going to be on time. It's not going to be on time.

It's way over, like it's several hundred percent over budget. Your CPI is the highest that you could, like if you did this on a $1,000 project in the private sector, you would probably get fired. Probably get fired? I don't know. $1,000. We both know. We both know if this came over to the private sector,

like half of these stories, you're fired every time. Like it's not even... Every time. This is insane. Because here's like this is... This isn't just, oh, it's difficult and oh, they can't get a variance for it. That should have been the first fucking thing they did

when they were striking ground on this project was the complicated drill. And then they just bring the rest of it together towards it. But no, they did it when it was 97% finished. What the hell kind of idiot schmuck even thinks like that? Red Sea transport is sunk. Yemen's Houthi rebels have escalated attacks on ships passing to the Red Sea during the Israel-Hamas war, raising concerns about the impact on the flow of oil, grain and consumer goods through a major global trade artery. Israel-linked vessels have been targeted about the threat to trade has grown as container ships, and

oil tankers flagged to countries like Norway and Libya, Liberia, that is, have been attacked or drawn missile fire while traversing the waterway between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Liberia is one of, oh, sorry, I was just going to say, Liberia, Myanmar, and the U.S. are the only countries that still use the imperial system. Please continue. About 10% of the world's trade passes through the Red Sea. Yeah, because that's where the Suez Canal goes. So remember two, three years ago when the Ever Given got.

stuck all cockied and tied up the Suez Canal for years. This is a giant trip. Yeah, this is that same traffic route. When you go through the Suez Canal, either way, at one point, you've got to go through the Red Sea, and then you pop out by Somalia and Yemen. And so this is every bit as big a deal as the ever given shutting down the canal, because that's all the traffic's got to go through both points. and so now piracy has become so bad that while it's actually not even piracy it's just basically just

aquatic terrorism I guess well here's and so much of this is petroleum products if only there was a way to get petroleum products to Europe that didn't involve the Suez Canal can you think of a way to do that Sean no I can't it can't be a way. We're shutting everything down Tuesday, didn't you hear? We're going to shut it all down. There's no business case for it. You know, this, like, you think of the waterway they're talking about. I was trying to think of like an example of that would be a maybe a comparison.

And I'm like, it'd be like, well, no, I was thinking on land here in Canada. I was thinking it'd be like terror, like, it'd be like pirates, you know, grass pirates, that is, attacking like highway two between Calgary and Eminton. And like, or like. Or the river Saskatchewan. Or the river Saskatchewan. And like, and you're like, where is it? Like, aren't there U.S. military ships there? Aren't there just people like blowing these guys sky high?

Like, this is insane. But it's tiny little-ass boats and stuff. I know. Like that's, have you ever, I tried finding this video, but this ex-military guy, I know that isn't one of, um, one of your, your stalwart. Um, although I should really, he'd probably have a hell of a time on the show but he was like check out this video one time uh i was over his place and uh it was just this

giant tanker or not tankers ship but you know the ones that have all the sea cans on them and uh this little Somalian boat or whatever just this um what do you call it where it's just that uh inflatable zodiac this zodiac's coming in a million miles an hour and they're like fire warning shot and there's 50 guys up on the day who just unload full autos for about three straight minutes. There is nothing left of that boat when it's done. Because that tiny little boat, if it catches up to the tank or the shipping container,

it's somebody's, you know, it's one of them that's going to die, not them. And those are the little ones that just go around fucking things up. And so an aircraft carrier, not really, it's like when the X-wings were able to fly around the Death Star,

is kind of like what this is like. You know, I think what's the Tom Hanks movie where he's on the cargo ships? Castaway. No, not castaway. Splash. Big. Green Mile.

You suck. Forrest Gump. Dude, we're going to talk about Forrest Gump. I know. Captain. Captain. Somebody. What's the Tom Hanks movie

where he's the captain of the cargo ship? Phillips. Phillips. Captain Phillips, is that what it is? Mile high, you said all of them, just, mile high calorie humans. Plus size TikTokers are praising Southwest Airlines for its customer of size policy,

which allows overweight passengers to request a complimentary seat and forces the flight staff to accommodate large flyers, even if that means kicking others with tickets off the flight. And quoted, if you're fat and you know the anxiety of flying and this elevates it a lot, Carolina and travel influence who said she is size 20. She told her nearly 200,000 followers video post at the end of October. I had a very comfortable flight just feeling like I was allowed to take up space as I need it.

Under the Texas-based airlines policy, customers whose bodies encroach past the armrest are entitled to an extra seat at no additional cost. It says the passengers have the option of purchasing just one seat and then discussing your seating needs with the customer service agent at departure. gate. If it is determined that a second or third seat is needed, you'll be accommodated with a complimentary additional seat, the policy states. Quoted, Southwest is the only airline that allows you to a second seat at no extra cost, even if the flight is fully booked. That's right out of her video post. I've done this a dozen times and never had an issue or been denied, she said,

adding that under the policy, she's allowed to pre-board ahead of the other passengers. Superfat is how we identify, she told Fox Business, explained there's a spectrum of fatness. And as a super fat individual, you start needing different accommodations. Now, now, okay, that's one article. I guess we can start calling them super fat now, too, right? That's one, that's one, that's one article. Okay, here's the Babylon B. So the Babylon B.B.B.O., okay.

Southwest Airlines with a positive reputation for supporting plus-sized travelers, has taken a big step in providing robust support for its largest consumers. Starting this week, flyers of size will be given a complimentary bed of hay and a feeding trough. Salt licks will be available to its corpulent fires for a nominal fee. At Southwest Airlines, we value the Twinkie Divergent and the Cheetos adjacent, set a spokesperson for the airline, which is why we now offer free upgrades to the corral section with a cozy bed of hay and a feeding trough for passengers with slim, defiant bodies. The other thing in this first article is that they talked to somebody who got bumped off the flight.

They did. Her and her daughter. Yeah. So, yeah, these... They had tickets. So what two is talking about? A woman and her daughter had tickets on the flight, and they bumped them off and didn't give them accommodations or anything because they had a high-calorie human on that need two seats. Yeah.

It's the mile high cholesterol club. Yeah. So anyway, this is insane because you say, okay, well, you know what? These people have flight? a seat booked, you have a seat booked. It turns out that you are, as you describe yourself, super fucking fat. Now, we will get you on the next flight where we have room for you. The troughs over that way, fill your boots.

But if you didn't book two seats, why should we bump somebody else? Well, that's pretty much the most insane thing about this entire thing. That's the whole thing is insane, Sean. Well, but listen, if an airline wants to make a policy saying, you know, if you are a bigger individual and you need two seats, we'll give you a free seat. That's totally, okay, okay. I'm like, whatever, the company could do what it wants. I book a flight on this airline and I show up and they bump me because of that.

No, you're the person who's going to get the seat while they bump somebody else. They literally give priority to this over me paying for my seat. I'm like, oh, I'm never going to fly with that. with Southwest. It doesn't make business sense. And honestly, like, if you care about the environment and you think climate change is a big deal, you shouldn't want these people flying anyway. At what point do we ask ourselves, do we as a society tolerate these people,

driving up our health care costs, increasing climate change, making things more difficult? They are a small fringe minority, but they're a very large fringe minority. And when you're trying to sit next to them and they've got the window seat, you have an unacceptable view. Stupid article about stupid people. We probably could use that headline for about five of these articles. I didn't know where to go with, like it was just, it was bad. This is CBC.

It says that. It says that. You just said that. As for several prominent Canadian companies and organizations have been appearing in feeds of extremist accounts on X, prompting some of them to pause advertising on the social media platform following an investigation by CBC News. They join a growing number of brands that are backing away from acts formerly known as Twitter, amid the unchecked rise in hateful content, and owner Elon Musk's seeming endorsement of anti-Semitic and other far-right conspiracy theories. A view by the CBC news of about two dozen accounts linked the white nationalist, white supremacist, misogynist,

and other extremists found ads by major brands such as Samsung Canada. ads for Samsung's new galaxy flipflown appeared in the results when searching for a hashtag used to circulate racist content where their posts included messages such as keep Europe white. Samsung ads also appeared in the feed of an account that Tech Transparency Project, a watchdog group flagged for spreading Islamophobic and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In addition, Samsung ads were spotted in the feeds of libs of TikTok, which LGBT-Q advocates say stirs up anti-trans hatred, and Mike Servanovitch, who has been described by extremism research as a male supremacist. It goes on. There's a such thing as a male supremacist now? As an ad for public opinion firm.

I thought we were always better. An ad for public opinion firm Angus Reid seeking survey participants appeared on an account called Anti-White Watch, which researchers have noted spreads anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories. Our team met with X, quoted here. Representatives in the past month confirmed that our ads account is set up with the most stringent sensitivity settings X offers. In this case, those controls appear to have failed Spencer Reynolds, director of marketing and communication at Angus Reid said in an email. Angus Reid forum has ceased all activity on X indefinitely pending a comprehensive review. One study released in April found that hate speech levels on what was then still called Twitter, quadrupled following last takeover.

And quoted, Musk has decided that anything can be. goes, basically, unless he disagrees with it. And it's been a disaster, said Wendy Villa, president and co-founder of the global project against hate and extremism, a nonprofit that monitors far-right activity and has worked with Twitter in the past. Oh, my God. Heads are exploding. Why don't go on Twitter?

I would say that they're the extremists nowadays, crazy-ass bastards banning combustion vehicles by 2035. I mean, the electric vehicles. vehicles aren't working in Canada already. You think an electric fucking plane is going to haul around those big bitches? It's wild. It's insane.

Here's the crazy part, Sean. It's wild to me. Internet. Like this is just billboard. This would be like if they said, oh, Jeremy McKenzie drove past the best buy, so they're supporting extremism. Well, that's literally the equivalent to that. That's what people have to get their head around, right?

Is what they're talking about is your feed. So people are having ads show up in their feed and that can get shared and they're going we don't want that we don't want to be associated with anything that doesn't align with us then don't go on twitter twitter's this open lovely space where pretty much anything can be said and done which do i have to remind people probably not on this audience but do we have to remind people it wasn't that long ago the twitter files were open where they basically were working right alongside the government of the united states of america mad that they're not doing it any correct i thought it was really interesting

that they list one account as posting Islamophobic and anti-Semitic stuff because those are pretty much the exact opposite right now with the whole Israel-Palestine thing. Nobody's really, I don't know. I mean, I hate both, but that's just because I hate everybody in there and that, but nobody's really Islamophobic and like it's the, the rights islamophobic and the left is anti-Semitic right now. So, you know, who's doing both of those at the same time? I don't know. I don't know.

Dental plan for those long in the tooth. The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its own new dental insurance plan. Does you notice everybody starts trying to throw puns into their... Yeah, I feel like you're having an effect. By gradually phasing in enrollment

over the course of the next year, Health Minister, Mark Holland said Monday. Starting next week, seniors over the age of 87 will be the first cohort to be able to join the new federal dental insurance plan. It will be slowly expanded over the course of 2024 to include all qualifying seniors, children under the age of 18, and people with disabilities. All announced a rollout of the program which is currently budgeted cost 13 billion over the next five years. And don't hold your breath, folks. It's going to cost more than that for sure. At a news, the program is aimed at people. They should get the trans mountain people to figure it out.

The program is aimed at people with an annual household income under 90 grand who don't have access to private insurance. Quoted, far too many people have avoided getting the care that they need simply because it was too expensive. And that's why this plan is essential, Holland said, as many as nine million Canadians lack private coverage he added. Imagine how mad parts of Canada are about this right now. Okay, first off, 87-year-olds don't have fucking teeth anymore.

They have dentures. So rolling this out for 87-year-olds, doesn't make a lick of sense, which is why the government does it, because that's their brand. That's their go-to. Okay, also. You know who needs teeth? 87-year-olds, twos? Yeah. I just want to be a fly on the wall in these meetings.

Yeah, that's a great idea. Just that little tumbler glass full of pollident on the side of the bed. Yeah, yeah, that's going to be free now. Thanks a lot, guys. Fucking idiots. And then, like, just. So you had this selective rollout of the carbon tax freeze, which was for heating oil. So nobody in Manitoba has heating oil furnaces.

So they don't get any of that. And then what's the next thing the liberals roll out? Dental coverage. How fucking pissed off would you be if you lived in Manitoba and you just got fucked over twice? I love gold. Okay, that was poor. I'll even give it that. I'll give it that.

You know, I'm like... If there's two things I hate, it's people that tolerance for other cultures, the Dutch, and your impression. Well, let's try somebody else. You see, Mr. Bowers, of gold... The look of it, the taste of it,

the smell of it, the texture. I love gold so much that I even lost my genitalia in an unfortunate smelting accident. Hence the name. Goldman. You know, my wife absolutely hates those movies. I love those movies.

I love them so much, even if Mike Myers has turned into a complete idiot over the years. I will say it's interesting to see Beyonce back when she was still black. I don't know if you've seen any recent pictures of her, but she went all Billy Jean. Oh, yeah, yeah. She's really, she basically is an inverted Trudeau right now. Really? Oh, yeah. Yep.

Okay. Well, anyway. That's a side note to gold. How about this? Silver Gold Bowl has been having its pop-up shops now at Costco. That's where this story goes. Would you like a 2000? This is a CTV story.

Correct. Would you like a U.S. $2,000 gold bar at Costco with your $4.99 rotissory chicken? Yes, Costco sells more than just toilet paper, office supplies, and food items. The wholesale retailer began selling gold online in September, and one-ounce gold bars on Friday. We're going for $2,069 U.S. with a limit of two bars per Costco membership. According to the Costco website, the non-refumble gold comes in a sealed black assay card and is individually stamped with a unique serial number. And here's a cool thing.

It's a podcast sponsor that's supplying it for Costco here in Canada, silver gold bull. So if you do go to Costco and you do buy some, I would love it if you'd be like, hey, by the way, Thanks for all you do for Sean Newman podcast because the Silver Gold Bull. Like that's that's pretty crazy. Silver Gold Bull. Yeah. Like that's, isn't that pretty crazy? Yes, it is.

It's awesome. I just, well, I literally, um, Mrs. 2 saw this article last night and I was like, that's what Sean and I were just talking about the other day. And so I'm like, well, we do this thing where we talk about the news. So I guess we should talk about that. The fact that silver gold bull made actual news for gold. being sold at Costco. I mean, I guess it doesn't... I will say... It brings up

gold at Costco, right? But we just know the story behind the story. I am kind of pissed off, though. Costco is selling a one ounce gold bar as bullshit. It's Costco. You should be buying like a beach ball made of gold, solid gold.

Or like... Can you imagine the security around if they had like an actual you know, like the Costco size of gold? That's what I would expect. I mean, it's Costco. If I wanted to buy some dainty little one-ounce thing,

I'd go to Dollarama by gold there. You know, if they did start doing that, I think we'd all become like the Yemen's Huthi rebels. I think we'd all be standing outside. Like, is that it? Is that it? Look at the guy. Look at the security.

Take him down when he leaves, you know? And we've all be staring at the parking lot going. Where is he going? Where is he going? Let's get this guy. You know what? You're right, but you're wrong. because the way inflation's been going, you'd probably be better off just stealing.

Like if someone actually went in there with enough money to buy one of those bulk packages at ground beef, you'd probably be better off financially getting one of them. All right, happy news. Gary Seney is a class act. This is a cool story. All right. Let's pull up the picture. Here he is on a plane with a whole bunch of people.

And his legs grew back. If Lieutenant Dan. for folks that are uninitiated to a little force gum. East December. I told you were going to talk about it later. You did. You did. The Gary Sinise Foundation hosts a five-day Snowball Express event at Disney World for families of fallen military heroes.

Over the course of five days, these deserving families were given the opportunity to make new memories, experience the magic of Disney World, and connect with the only people who truly understand the healing journey they are on. That is, each other, Sinise said. As part of the retreat, Remembrance Garden was established with hundreds of of American flags representing the heroes, the families lost, and their sacrifices. Families also participated in a walk of gratitude at the Magic Kingdom Park, where cast members lined the streets greeting them with a hero's welcome as families made their way towards Cinderella's castle.

During the walk, families wrote personal messages to their fallen hero on a scroll. Then the children of the fallen military heroes rang bells to send those messages to those they lost. Families were also treated to a concert by Epcot by Gary Seneese and the Lieutenant Dan Band. There you go. That's, well, like you say, class act. And I didn't realize the 10 and Hannah-Band.

He does stuff like this all the time. Like, I don't even know when the last time he put out a movie was. He just spends so much time working with veterans' families. It's phenomenal and I love it. Dan is the most honorable character for sure. Sinise has a book. I didn't know that. Didn't know that.

Thanks, Zane. He says, Sanis is like, is awesome insight. Every week you could count on them to just come up with something awesome, where it's just like, oh, we didn't know about that. It's like the phone of friend we've always got on speed dial. It's true. There you have it, folks. Mashup 86 in the books.

Christmas of right around the corner. So me and Two's been arguing this back and forth. We got to talk about it here for two minutes before we let everybody go. We've been talking about Festivus, right? Because last year, Tews was in Lloyd, so it made it easy. We sat down. We had no idea what we were doing. We wanted to air some grievances.

so we had a little bit of fun, and so we had some fun with it. Now the problem we have is time. So we don't know when Festivus is coming up. That's as simple as we can say it. We're going to work our best to let everybody know when it's going to happen because we want to do it as a live event so people can comment and have a little bit of fun with us. And certainly, you know, we'll talk about the year and everything else,

air some grievances and see how it goes. Either way. I don't have any grievances. Do you have grievances? I got so many grievances, you know. Either way, 86 in the books. Any final thoughts, too's Merry Christmas to everyone. You know, like I know it's early, well, not that early.

It's the 18th. As we record this 19th on the mashup when it comes out on the podcast. But a week early, Merry Christmas, if we don't for some reason. Get there. I want to let the mashup crew know. Merry Christmas to you. I was going to wear my Santa hat. and I totally forgot until right now.

It's almost like Toos has this thing called a full-time job, eh, folks? You know, where he's like just going about as hard as he can go. I got to cut down on that. It's just, it's interfering with the rest of my life. Festivist Shelby its own kickoff and review for New Year's. Well, it's true. If we don't get to it here between here and Christmas,

we will get it done at some point and have a little bit of fun with it. Because, I mean, it doesn't have to be. though the one mashup that me and twos at the start of the year said we were taking off was the one that's boxing day right so or the one we record right on Christmas so this is you might have a break from us you might not

we might pop up we might I don't know Tuesday's got that look on his face dude okay no well that's exactly it so first off Stevie B when are you dropping your podcast already man secondly look at the logo on the bottom they're not just Facebook comments anymore.

They're showing the Facebook and the Twitter comments. I didn't know that. So this whole new update to Streamyard? They've started that in. We've been asking for this for a year. So we got Merry Christmas to you, Sean, from Sherry McIntyre from X. Stevie B, Merry Christmas from X. We got some comments coming in from Facebook.

I don't know how it went on Instagram. I haven't seen any comments on there. I don't know if anybody's, you know, if they're like... Maybe they can't. I don't know, maybe it's... But the point is, is that they're moving on. If you're watching Instagram, give us a comment, would you? We're trying to figure out if this thing's been working.

Hey, is this thing on? Anybody hearing me? I think they are. Yeah, that's cool. So the new year looks like it's going to be an interesting one. I should... We'll probably talk about this on the fest of us. We'll talk about it on the festival.

All the things coming in 2024. But regardless, thanks for hanging. out with us for a year mashup 86 in the books two's i've already said it once i'll say it again any other final thoughts no no that's it man it's uh it's good and we'll just leave her that cool well folks we'll catch up to you possibly in the new year hmm right no we're gonna figure something out first festivus we can't mess with festivus i mean even if we got to even if it's like um you know some random thing where it's like 10 o'clock in the morning on like boxing day and we just have to get drunk or something.

Sherry says, Sean, what is festive? I never heard of it. Festivists. And I'm from Illinois. It's a sign-filled thing. It's from this American television program. Festivists. The day it releases Sherry, we will fill you all in on good old festivists.

An airing of the grievances, a Christmas tradition. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks, guys.