Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #95

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Calgary petition to remove mayor (special guest Landon Johnston), Trudeau calls Putin a coward, Polievre stands with Ukraine, CBS confiscates journalist's private documents and Westlock residents ban rainbow crosswalks. This week's Main Sponsor is AMC Electrical.Find out more here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://amcelectrical.ca/⁠⁠⁠ "SNP Presents" returns April 27th Tickets Below:⁠https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone/ Let me know what you think. Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ E-transfer here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠m Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://silvergoldbull.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Phone [phone] – general sales line, ask for Grahame and be sure to let us know you’re an SNP listener.

Good afternoon, everybody. This one's not so much a rant with a complaint. It's one of those funny things in the world you don't see anymore. I got this beauty of a neighbor. I think he turned 80 last year. And he had knee or hip surgery or something like that anyhow. And so I was like, hey, what can I help with? What can I do?

And he's like, nothing. You know, very nicely told me that, you know, just fuck right off. And so snow's the other day. Go out, do several houses down. Because it was that nice light stuff. So you could just do a quick rip. And then you get credit for shoveling your neighbor's snow. And then they feel obligated when it's the heavier stuff that's difficult, right?

So anyways, his was one of the ones I did. And then this morning, snows again. And that guy was probably up at like three in the damn morning to make sure that no one got to that snow in front of his house. before he was the guy who snowed it or shoveled it. He's just interesting that like, that work ethic that, you know, as much as he probably appreciates, oh, someone's looking out for me,

someone's thinking of me, he's like, this is my damn snow and I'm going to goddamn shovel it myself. Couldn't we use a little bit more of that man in the world? Oh, yeah, we definitely need more of that man in the world. 100%. He probably identifies as something else, but you never know, hey?

Like, I mean, yeah, I don't know. It's, he'd probably just look at it, be like, uh, you mean like just living. Yeah. I don't know what's, what's so interesting about this. This is just what we do. Yeah, we get up, we shovel the snow and don't touch my snow. That's, that's my job. I tell you.

Yeah, every time, every time I've ever shoveled his walk the next time it snows, he'll be up there like getting up at midnight like he's going to go to the Lord of the Rings showing with Sean or something like that, just to be that guy who does it before. where anybody else can do it. Mashup 95. Coming at you from an interesting time. Two in the afternoon on a Sunday. We still got Darrell with us.

What's up, Darrell? Yeah, what's up? What's up, Darrell? Yeah, it's appreciated to everybody hopping along for this Sunday afternoon. Obviously, it'll air on Tuesday as well. But with this guy going on holidays, Tuesday is working around my messy schedule. So here we are. Which

Sunday afternoon. Coensides with my messy schedule as well. So we're figuring it out. This week has been a little bit messy. I will agree with you on that. Matchup 95. Brought to you by AMC Electrical. Yeah, that's Drew.

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that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, he can work close to home.

He'll travel a little bit if you happen to be in a galaxy far, far away. I tell you what, uh, Daryl just,

uh, you know, hey, bang on it. He just turned off Jesperson to tune into something real, isn't?

Man, I saw, I purposely, I don't know, me, you might take umbrage with this, but I made the creative decision that I wasn't

interested in talking about the, the, the Jesperson interview with, with Trudeau. Uh, there's just not enough authenticity in there to make it something I'm interested in talking about on either side of that discussion. And so I was like, yeah, I'm just going to leave that off. And I'm good with this being the only time we ever talk about that person.

How about we go? How about we hop to the Coots too then? They've now been locked up for 742 days. Obviously at the time of this recording folks, it goes up, you know, the clock is a tick. And that's Chris Carbert and Tony Olenek still in. Actually, it'll be 741. I did the math according. I added seven days to last week.

So it's 741 days. I'm, this is what I'm going to do. As we sit here, I'm going to pull up the clock so I can show you what they're at. All right. And here's Darrell.

All Jasperson did was lob softball questions and catch farts for the prime minister. Yeah, go figure. That's exactly why he did it. That's why he got chosen for it. 742 days, 14 hours,

six minutes. minutes and 31 seconds. There you go. So 742 days at the time of this recording. Yeah. Okay. Where do we want to start? We want to start with the...

I did a... Oh, wait. Sorry, just had an issue with my computer. We were supposed to have a guest, and he's having a little bit of technical difficulties. Okay, so we'll skip the first two headlines, and if he comes in, we'll bring it back. Otherwise, we'll do with them at the end. How's that? We're waiting on a guest, folks, to talk about some of the Calgary petitions.

But I tell you what, let's get starting. And if he can get in, we'll have him in. And if not, we'll keep on rolling. How's that? Okay. Okay. And then I forgot what the third headline was. Good evening, cowards, is the third headline.

Oh, man. Okay. So I don't know if anyone saw this video of, uh, of, uh, of, uh, of, uh, uh, grandpa at the school board meeting where he says fat fat ugly woman and they all go and then he goes they all know he's talking about them then there's a guy in the background that goes that's not free speech that's just insulting it could be both it can be both it can be it's it's good to see some of the school boards actually getting some real pushback there's some stuff in bc that just it didn't really play well in terms of the

flow of the show, but it was noteworthy how there was school boards that as soon as they were getting people pushing back, they turned all the lights off, played a whole bunch of music and just got up and left, rather than actually listen to the people that they're supposed to represent and their concerns, they're like, nope, fuck you. And this is a nice take on that. This is a guy getting up there and just being like, you guys all fucking suck. And I'm tired of being nice about it.

gets trampled. Justin Trudeau says Putin is a coward who lacks self-confidence for using police to quash dissent and punish opposition. Note, this is not to be confused with the Justin Trudeau who used the power of the police to quash dissent and punish opposition with the Emergencies Act.

And a fucking horse and tear gas and rifle butts. And and and, let's throw on our fucking stormtroopers to bust this up. But no, we're better than them because Trudeau called Putin a weakling and he was taught it was in a press conference where he was talking about uh

opposition Alexei Navalny who you know basically was killed right well I mean that's what happens to political opposition in Russia is that they get murdered whereas in Canada we do it slightly differently where we just buy off the media and then they just publish whatever we want which besmirches the opposition

to a point where they're unelectable and that's it's the exact same result just with more bureaucracy. And if you're going to look at the two and say, which is better, I would say cut out the red tape and go full Putin on it. You have my interest. Canadians can expect the Bank of Canada to start providing some respite this spring as a central bank slowly, but surely, that's quoted, moves towards the first interest rate cuts, says Desjard ends, group, chief economist Jimmy Jeanne, and it says, Jimmy Jean says

Desirden is forecasting the first rate cut in June, but it could easily arrive as soon as April if inflation and the economy slow more than expected. That reduction would put the Bank of Canada's key overnight rate currently at 5% at 2.5% by the end of 2025, according to Dejerdin's forecast. So, uh, two's, we'll get your thoughts on this. We see Landon has entered the studio and then we'll fly back.

We're going to bring him in in about two seconds, Just real quick. So this is funny. He actually talks about the GDP per capita decreasing right now. So essentially what that means is that all the new people coming to Canada, whether they're being born here, coming here illegally, or asylum seekers or like that weird, odd handful of people who actually still fill up paperwork when they want to come move here, those people aren't keeping up to the average as far as Canada goes.

And as a result, we've got more people here. creating less wealth per person. And if this keeps up, we're going to have to cut interest rates, which seems a little bit counterintuitive. Like, if you guys don't quit, if you guys don't start working less, we're going to lower your home payment.

I don't know. Okay. Great. We're going to go back to the start, okay? We had this nice, neat little plan laid out, Landon's sitting in the background. So we're going to bring them in.

Thanks for joining us, Landon. Yeah. Thanks for hopping on, Landon, Johnson, right? Sorry, can you guys hear me? Yes, we can. We can hear you fine. Okay, sorry, I tried to put you in my headphones, but... No worries.

Can you hear us? Yeah, I can hear you guys. Okay, cool. Well, Landon, yeah, welcome to the show. Thanks for hopping on. The headline, Gondack petition faces bureaucratic. Backlash. You've been one of the guys on the ground.

Walk us through what's been going on. It's been awesome the last couple of weeks here. We're almost at 70,000 signatures. And we're kind of just getting started. Like there's a bunch of organizations that I guess had planned on doing this before I even filed the petition. So they had resources and infrastructure and all that put together. And, I mean, it was just one night I filed the petition. I was just pissed off about something.

I don't remember. I don't remember what the initial thing. Yeah. So, yeah, it was a single-use bylaw that really set me off. But it was, I just like, well, what can I do about it? And I found this petition and I just filed it. Like, I didn't know what would happen. And then, you know, once it hit, once it was certified by the city, then everybody found out about it. And then all these organizations started throwing their resources at me, which was awesome. Because like I said, it was literally just going to be me.

no one asked me to do this. Like it was, I was literally just going to go walk around my neighborhood, get signatures and maybe get like a 5,000 signatures in eight weeks. But, yeah, it's been good so far. We've had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of volunteers out and about sea trains, plus 15s, door knocking. And like I said,

we're just getting started, right? Like, we're just like getting the websites finally got, you know, it's still work in progress. But, you know, there's other websites. out there that, again, like other organizations have hopped on with this. And they're actually doing a better job than we are with our website as for functionality. But we're, you know, this is all, this is all volunteer. Like nobody's getting paid to do this.

So we're just ironing out all the details. Did people sign the website online or sign the petition online or does it have to be a physical signature? It has to be physical. That's been the difficult thing. We have to be out there getting signatures. and the whole process has been a learning experience, not just for me, but for the government and,

you know, because this will be the largest petition filed, I think in Canada, like official petition. I don't know. Nobody, like, it's hard to search that. Like,

you can't search, like, number of recalls. You have to go through, like, old newspapers and stuff. And Google's been weird. Google's been very hard to find historical things.

Like, it's, it just shows you, like, half of what you're looking for. I don't know. It's weird. Like looking for old like newspaper articles and stuff has been very hard to do. So I'm just going off of what other people have told me.

But it's it's a big undertaking. And again, like I said, it was just literally going to be me. So I mean, everything past what I was going to do by myself has just been awesome. And like I said, we're almost at 70,000 signatures. And that's huge, right? If we can get 100,000 maybe by next week, like, you know, 200,000 might not be out of reach. if we can get out there. Like we're up against the time, right?

Like, we've only got like five weeks left. Yeah. If you, I'm just want to, I want to make sure that we don't skip over anything. How many signatures do you have? When is the deadline? And you mentioned a website.

What is the website? Now, I'm just rattle off three. Let's just start quick. How many signatures do you have? And when did you start? We have roughly between 50,000 and 70,000. And that's just based off of, what people have told me.

Like they say, oh, we have this many, we have this many. So I kind of just did a rough estimate of how many petitions were sent out and how many people have recorded to us. But it's not official until it's commissioned by, like the affidavit by the witness is commissioned by a notary or whatever. So roughly about 50 to 70,000. We're doing, like, a good count this weekend, like our first like official count. and we have until April 4th is the day I have to hand it in to elections, Calgary.

So that, yeah, give us about five weeks left. And how many, so this is the, what does the actual petition say? We want to remove Gondack as mayor? Yeah, just it says to recall the mayor of Calgary, Yodi Gondek. that's yeah it's if it's official petition so yeah this was filed by me through uh bill 52 the recall act in alberta how many signatures do you have to get in order for it to actually happen 514 000 signatures to to officially have her removed and how many people voted for gondek in the last election i think it's about 400 000 that vote

Not for her. Sorry, total votes in the last election. She had 176,000 votes in the last election. Forgive my laughter, but what you're saying is, if you pace this out, you could actually get more people to sign to get her removed, not meet the threshold because, I mean, to meet the threshold, you're going to have to, you know, it's not impossible. You got over a month is what I heard.

And I go, well, more people just need to understand what's going on. and more people need to get their hands involved and everything else. I'm sure there's lots of lovely people doing that. But you could have more people sign this than actually participated in the Calgary election. Yeah, you have to. So it's, you know, that 540,000 is a little over triple the amount that voted for her in the first place. Right. It would be, I think, one of the world's largest in-person hand-signatured recall petitions ever in the history.

It's, what, 40%? of Calgary has to sign this? 40% total population. I think it was a mistake on the bill. Like I think they didn't mean to put 40% of the total population. I think they meant to put 40%

of the electors. Like so who's eligible to vote. I honestly believe it was a mistake because it doesn't make any sense. Can children sign it? No. Yeah. Exactly.

But yeah, children are included in it, but they can't sign it. And so it really narrows the pool. I think it's 600,000. people that potentially could sign this in Calgary, which you've got to get, you know, that doesn't live a lot of them 40,000 of them. Yeah. So if there's like, if there's 83 people that think Jody Gundick is doing a good job, you might

be behind the eight ball a little bit. Okay. So here's the other thing is I've seen a couple of videos. One of them was you, I think it was you at a library. And then the other one was I think again, you possibly at the, um, pedestrian overpass by by show mall. So you've been getting kicked out of places? Yeah, I mean, I guess it's, is it ignorance of the law?

I guess I just didn't do all my research of what I can't do. I'm just going under the impression I can go anywhere where I perceive as public places. And because that's where the public congregate is in public places. So that's where I'm going to go. And I'm not necessarily pushing the limits of where. where I can go, but I think it's important for future petitions to know what the limits are, because if we're going to be hand-tied even further to where we can get signatures, then this went from impossible to stupidly absurd, like a waste of taxpayer money to even

implemented. Because first of the least favorable mayor of all time in Calgary, we have unlimited resources because of right now, there's no limits to what we, can spend or receive in this recall, right? You have limits when you're doing provincial like MLAs and stuff like that. But as for municipal, they don't have legislation. So my thing is if we have unlimited resources and limited people, not unlimited, but technically like, you know, we could put $100 million at this.

And like I said, the least favorable mayor. So everything is ripe to get as many possible signatures as we can get. then and we still can't do it or let's say we only hit 150,000 or 200,000, but we put everything we had at it. And I don't want to leave any room for anybody to say, oh, well, he didn't do enough or they didn't do this, they didn't do that. You know what I mean? Like, so if we can bring it to legislation and be like, hey, am I allowed to swear? Yeah. Oh, dude.

Yeah, we'll kick you off if you don't. We bring this to legislation. And there's frustration behind it because, like, I, I hate, like you say, bureaucratic, whatever, but like I hate, I hate when the government, and I don't care what government it is. Like, I just hate when the government imposes something that doesn't make sense. And to rectify that, you have to go to the ends of the earth to get them to rectify it. Like, it's just like, they should have looked at this, you know, maybe even as soon as it was implemented.

or even as soon as I filed this and been like, hey, why the fuck didn't we make this easier? Like, but of course, they're never going to make it easier for them to not be in power, right? And again, I don't care what government implements. It was actually the NDP and the liberals who had the best, I think it's dissenting questions. They were never against the Recall Act. They had the questions of like, hey, you know, good for you guys for bringing this because you guys promised it. But it's impossible. Like, I've gone through all the bill readings.

And anybody can do that. like not everybody cares about this kind of stuff, but like when you go through it, it's like the select committee that brought this bill to the people who introduced the bill, they were like, hey, yeah, let's do 10, 15, 25% depending on the population, but max it out at like 35% of the people who can actually sign it. You know what I mean? But then out of nowhere, they come out with this 40% of the total population, which is fucking stupid. It doesn't make any sense.

You're preaching to the goddamn choir. So I was just like, well, fuck, someone should do something about this. And so I basically was just like, well, no one else is doing this. And like, you know, if I got to do this by myself, I'll do it by myself. Like, you know, and I always tell people like my mom always told me like, you know, if you don't stand up or something, you'll fall for anything. And I'm just like, well, fuck it. I'll make a stand here. It's to some people, it's been super petty.

And I'm just like, well, I don't care if you think it's petty. Like this is me actually doing something. Like stay at home in your house. Just accept what the government is slap into your face. And I don't I don't tell people who I vote for all the time or whatever. But like I just vote on policy, right? Like if there's something that's good for me and my family, I'll vote for that. Right.

So I mean, I've got my support then. Whatever. You know what? I voted for Rachel Notley. I'm not, I'm not, I'm conservative. But at the time. she had a legislation that made me a lot of money. So why the fuck wouldn't I vote for something that's going to make me and my family a lot of money?

And that was she had a massive rebate for on-demand hot water tanks, right? Like some people, like a lot of conservatives will see that as short-sighted, but I care about me and my family, right? That's my number one priority. So whatever is going to get me that, then I'm going to do that. But I'll be honest, since that election, like things have changed in my mind. So, I mean, I'm just, I'm not embarrassed. Like, I voted for Trudeau the first time around because he said he was going to do electoral reform, right? Like, that was huge to me because as of right now, like, our votes really don't matter out West.

And I don't know if what he promised would have really changed that. But that was important to me at the time. Like, hey, you know, I'm tired of our boats being really not counted. Like, what's the point of even going to vote? And that's a huge sentiment. And he came out with saying, hey, we're going to change this as soon as I get in. And the fucker never did it. So, you know, he's dead to me.

Like he can, you know what I mean? Like that's again, I vote on policy. But and now I'm just like, you know what? Like it's too hard to fight. It's like governments makes all these promises. And it's just becoming unbearable. And I mean, you guys were talking about taxes. But I mean, all they like I've met probably about 10,000 people in the last three weeks.

And every single one of them are talking to me like there's something I can do for them. But I'm not a politician, right? But it's like they're telling me like landing, we're strapped for cash. Like all these, like what they think are little tiny taxes. They just keep fucking piling up and piling up. And just imagine someone like on a fixed income right now. And it's just one thing after another, right? So now like this used to be outstanding up for myself.

But now I feel like I need to stand up for other people who have a voice but aren't being heard. And so it's just like, fuck me. We might as well just put it all in there. Well, let's put it this way, Landon. The province is taking notice, right? Like there's a lot of people that are paying attention. You're doing more than just like something small, right? You've gotten 50 plus thousand signatures.

I mean, there's people in government that it's their job. Who put out bills and different things and they can't get 50. You got 50,000 already. Mark Gerritsen literally presented a petition in the House of Commons in Ottawa a few weeks ago that had literally 30 signatures on it. And then he got mad because everybody was mocking him. Correct. So can we slide into, just for a few more minutes before we let you hop out landing, can we slide into the second part of this? Which, I mean, I don't know if you want to sit and chat with us about or not, but it's the city of Calgary wants to have a party.

And what we're talking about is a brand new city politicians, political parties like on the coast with the ABC Vancouver. We're talking for well-financed, well-organized parties in Calgary, Common Sense Platform and candidate for mayor and a candidate for each of the ward. So a party could win a city council majority. I don't know the full story of this. Tews and Atlanta, feel free to talk about it. I don't know. Is this a good idea? Is this a terrible idea?

Okay, maybe I could just take over here real quick for a second. My understanding of this, I don't live in Calgary anymore. I moved out a couple years ago and just couldn't wait to kick the dust off my boots, man. But Gondek really pulled the wool over everybody's eyes. She came in as just saying, hey, you know what? I'm not going to be that normal. Everything's going to be fine. and then the day she got in, she's like, surprise, cockfags, $78 billion climate emergency.

Oh, we're going to do this. We're going to, we're going to fuck up the new Saddle Dome negotiation because of solar panels. We're going to add a whole bunch more bike lanes because then she didn't add enough bike lanes. And then she is a guy who literally ran on being fiscally conservative. And then when he got in, he was surprise, cockfags. And, uh, and, and when, he was. went off and did all of the Nenshi things. And now he's probably going to run for the NDP.

So that tells you how physically conservative the guy is. And so I think people, especially in Calgary, who have memory of that or who were living in Calgary during these incredibly dark days, which are still continuing, have this perspective of, you know, if you could have a party brand in front of it, you would have a little bit of knowledge about what you could expect from that person when they get voted in rather than them just saying whatever is going to get them the votes and then turning around the next day and fucking everybody over. I mean,

has it worked in Vancouver? Has it? Like, I don't know. That's a really good question, actually. I don't know. To me,

I'm, I'm wondering if this is a good idea or a very poor idea. It's got, um, yeah. I would say, I mean, that's,

is that a big decision? Like, I mean, right now, I'm just focused on getting her out of there. And, you know, we voted in the UCP. So, like, the UCP has the ability to implement a lot of this stuff. And, you know, maybe they lose the next election and then the next guys take it out of there.

So, I mean, people always argue. But, I mean, that's democracy, really. So, I mean, they've done plebiscites for smaller things like fluoride and stuff. So, I mean, they could leave it to the people to decide whether they want party names. in front of municipal elections. Like that wouldn't be that hard to do. You know, even if we had a buy election for it, I'll tell you right now, my original target was my counselor, Peter DeMong,

but I decided to go for the head of the snake. So I was like, you know what? The mayor is lacking leadership and whatever. So I was like, you know what, let's go after the big cheese. But like if we do get a by election, like that's something you could throw on it as like a second voting on. option. Do city of Calgary residents want politics branded on the candidate's name? I don't know. Like, is that something people want? I don't know. But I mean, I've been asking people

like what they're upset about the city with right now. So like I've been keeping track. I've got about six pages of of shit that people are upset with with the city. What are the most common ones? Well, I can't even say what the top three are. But you know, you can't say literally any and everything on this show. I know, but you know what? Like I'm, I'm trying to, okay. If I would, if you know, if you guys had this conversation with me on a golf course,

it would be a different story. But for the past three weeks, I've been very calm until, I guess, this conversation. But, but yeah, it's just people are upset. Like, people are frustrated. People, I've even at some point defended the mayor because of somebody, or a couple of people being super vulgar. not defending her, but just being like, you know what, that's, I don't know, I would just raise not to talk to people like that, right?

So, like, I find myself defending her against, like, super vulgar attacks. Because that's not what this is about. This is about her policies and her inability to lead the city where it's got to go. There's nothing to do personally. But where, before we let you out of here, where you'd mentioned a website. I assume that's the best place for people to go is there somewhere else. Would you, could you say the website or where if people want to help, find out more about this, sign the petition, where can they go? Yeah, so huge.

The website is www. Recall, Recall MayorGondek.com and I believe there's another one. I think it's called Recall Gone Deck Y Y, Y, C. So that's the other organization, but like I said, their website's maybe a little bit more functional, but either of them work really well. And then Twitter has been huge for us

getting the word out of new locations where people can sign commissioner drop-offs, little gatherings we're doing down at city hall. So that is recall, gone deck, Y Y, C, and that's on Twitter. Okay. Yeah. There are quite a few businesses and stuff. I'm throwing it in the, I'm throwing it in the, I'm throwing it in the comments right now for everybody. So if anyone wants to go take a look, there, there's the, the website is in there. so if people want to click on it on the live stream it's sitting there um appreciate you hopping on and doing this and giving us you know like we've been hearing this story me and two's been talking about it so to hear it firsthand from you uh appreciate you hopping on this side and and giving everybody a little bit of

a you know a downlaw on what's what's been going on and what you've been seeing and hearing sorry could i say one more thing really quick sure yeah yeah so i'm running into a lot of people like surprisingly a lot of people that are like i i hate the mayor i hate what she's doing, but I don't want to sign it. And I'm having trouble understanding that because, like, they think that it's not going to make a difference, but I think it will. Like, I'm just, like, if people are out there, they're kind of on the fence on whether to sign this or not. Like, it's, it's small, but it's a small thing to put a signature on it, but it's a big thing in,

in the long round, right? Like, we're, we're proving a point where we're setting up for the next people that want to file petition. We might be able to change the regulation. So, you know, even if you're, it's just weird, like the city of Calgary employees are like, oh, no, you know, there'll be retribution and stuff. Like, you know, it takes a little bit of bravery to do something like that, but I didn't think it did. But I'm starting to understand, like, people are afraid to sign it. But, you know, nobody's going to see your signature.

All the data is supposed to be destroyed as soon as it's handed in. So I'm not keeping anything on my end. So if people are on the fence, I'm wanting to sign it. like, you know, your voice will be heard. It's just, you know, you've got to step out and, and, you know, put yourself out there, even just for a signature, right? So I just, I don't know if there's somebody out there who knows somebody who's afraid to sign it, like, just go over the reasons why, like, this mayor's lacked what she needs to do in the city.

Like, the policies that she's enacted are just insane and it's not helping us, right? Like, so everyone's affected by your policies, whether you agree with or not. So, anyway, I just want to let people know, like, you know, like, you know, sign it. If you want to sign it, but you're scared to, like, sign her. If you don't like her, but you don't want to sign it, fuck, just sign it anyways. Like, nothing's going to happen other than maybe we can get some change going. So, well, I mean, think about it this way. Like, even if it only gets 200,000 signatures, that's still substantially more than what voted her in in the first place. Do you think, like, even though it doesn't meet that legal threshold, I can't

possibly see her sticking around after more people sign the recall than actually voted for her in around. People keep saying that. People keep saying that she might stick around, like, she won't resign. But that just like, like our second campaign is like if we can hit 200, 250, 300,000 signatures, we're going to pressure her to resign. There's people on council that can put it to a vote, be like, hey, let's like 300,000 people do not want her in this position. Like she's got to go. So like, like there's other stuff we can do outside of this petition. Right. Like I'm begging people to send. letters to your counselor, to your MLA, to the Premier, to Rick McIver, like the municipal, whatever he's supposed to be doing. But I mean, I've been trying to get hold of him for

three weeks now and he hasn't gotten back to me because he's the one who I'll implement this bill. I think he was anyway. But just like keep putting pressure on the government. Like, don't think your voice isn't going to be enough because, you know, if we're all just yelling by ourselves, like nothing's going to happen. But if we all, we all, all yell at the same time. Like, they're going to fucking hear us. And shit's going to change, man. Like, you're right.

I think I've been getting calls from all over the country, all over the states, like calling me being like, Hey, Land and like, we're watching this. Like, like, there's like, I got a call from California, Florida, these people who also have recall legislation, but they think it won't do anything. So like, the fact that our threshold is so high, people are wondering, like, can enough people get together in such a short amount of the time? to actually make a difference. And I mean, maybe we only get $100,000, right?

Like, you know, that might... That's still more than half of what voted for her. And in fairness, you're sending a message. This isn't 10 people. This isn't 30 people. It's about sending a message. Yeah, awesome, guys. I appreciate that.

All right. Great Lee Langston just popped in on the chat. He said, you can come to my shop to sign Unit 330 at 19369, Sheriff King Street, South. West. Those are brave people. Brave people putting themselves out there, man. Like that's not easy to do.

And that's awesome. Like there's like I've gone to a bunch of businesses and they're like, no, we don't want retribution from the city. And I don't know how they would do that. And if they did, you could sue the absolute fuck out of them if they tried to discriminate you based on your politics. So don't be afraid of the city. I would say this.

The last four years have taught us a lot about retribution and how the city and government operates. So while I agree with you. we can all agree, I think, the last four years has taught us otherwise. So there is hesitation. I understand people's hesitation, but we got to get past the hesitation, because if we don't, the same thing continues over and over and over again. If you don't, you're going to find yourself pushing a scooter down the street and a horse tramples you.

Yeah, exactly. Thanks, thanks, Landon, for coming on. That shouldn't be that funny, but welcome to Canada. Landon, thanks for hopping on. Okay, there you go. Landon Johnson coming in and raining fire down. In the show notes, not in the show notes, in the chat, there is the ability to go to the website. You can find out all the information there. We got a guy saying, hey, stop by this spot and this is where you can go.

There you go. Landon, that was, hmm, that, that's interesting how quickly things just spark fire and away it goes. Yeah. And it's funny. like I'm usually the guy who's like, well, what's the point of a petition? Generally speaking, because if you're just presenting a petition that has no teeth behind it, but this, even though it's been totally neutered by the UCP, and I don't care how much you love the UCP, you have to look at this body of legislation and say it was an absolute disaster.

But, go back to the numbers, 40% of the population and the eligible voters is, what did you say, 600 and some thousand like and you got to get 500 it's it's it's got to get 90% of the electorate to sign this recall legislation to meet the legal threshold but i do agree with you and landin that it's all about sending a message and i tell you what wouldn't it like it's it's pretty crazy how many people have not that crazy i mean it just shows the body of work that she's had to this point okay we can sit on this for the next two hours two you got a flight to catch i'm trying to get out of dodge okay all right so let's carry on folks. Pulliev is on the poll and wants to strip Canada.

Saturday will be, will herald two full years since Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. And 38% of Canada said, should maintain the same level of spending. So this is a recent poll that just came up. Correct. 31% said the government should spend less. Only 16% said they wanted spending levels increased. So that means like 84% said they didn't want to spend.

It doesn't matter. To date, Canada's committed more than $9 billion and overall aid to Ukraine. And then this is what Pierre Polly have tweeted out. It's been two years since Ukraine woke up to the evil of an unprovoked full-scale invasion from Vladimir Putin. Disagree with unsakeable resolve and determination, Ukraine people have fought back. They've given up. And neither will. We Canada will always stand with Ukraine in the fight for freedom and democracy against Putin's tyranny.

He's just going the way of the wind. This is the same thing O'Toole did. the last election where they just said, okay, well, let's throw out a poll and whatever the poll says, that's going to be our official stance. You saw it, we talked about it last week where Pollyab sat on his hands and pushed back on questions and didn't answer them until that poll came out saying that the majority of people actually believe two thirds of people supported what Daniel Smith was doing in Alberta with the normalization to a limited degree of trans legislation.

And he said, okay, well, yeah, now that the polls are out, I'm also going to support this. And then this is him doing the exact same thing with Ukraine. And, you know, if you think that Polyev is your guy, awesome. If you think that the most important thing is to get rid of Trudeau, sure. But you have to realize that if he is just going to cater to the population majorities in and around Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal. and as a result end up being very little difference between him and Trudeau. What's the point of getting Trudeau if you're going to replace him with the guy exactly the same?

And now that they've got the same haircut, there's less and less daylight between them all the time. So here's the thing is even if you just think that this, that Pollyev is the answer one way or the other, you got to push back on this fair weather bullshit policymaking. Conservatives push for idiotic policies. Again, when you ask you. When asked whether his government will require porn websites to verify the age of users, Polyvia gave a one word answer. Yes.

The Tories are sponsoring and supporting a Senate private member's bill that promises to acquire age verification for people to access pornography online. I don't think that's a ridiculous thing, by the way. But something in the article did stick out to me. Options could include the use of digital government ID, as some U.S. states have legislated, or services that can estimate age based on a scan of the person's face. Oh, yeah, because that'll be good. You just have a really low quality webcam, and then you,

and then you just hold up a picture of William Shatner. Like, this is, the problem is, I, I don't, I'm, I'm not really going to dispute whether you think anything's right or wrong. The point is, is that this is going to be stupid and unenforceable and a bureaucratic waste of time. it's the kind of shit you would expect from the NDP in that sense. And so, I mean, here's the thing. Like, there are other ways to get pornography than going to a website.

Believe it or not, you could download it. And then after it's been downloaded, it's not like Windows Media Player VLC is going to ask you for your ID before you play a video. Believe it or not, there used to be magazines. You know, folks, this is, this is what happens when you try and go on vacation. So somehow, somehow the live stream ended. So that was fun. I think maybe Vance, when he left, he may hit the wrong button or something like that.

So, so we're going to blame this on Vance Crow. Who's next week's host on MASHUp 96. Yeah, so don't do this next week, Vance. Don't do this next week, Vance. So we just killed the live stream. So like me and twos are talking. I'm like, wait, what's going on here? What the heck just happened?

The MASH up live stream is. Some of it's going to end up on the cutting room floor that we're talking about at some point. I don't know when we left off, but we're going to keep moving. This has been... It's been a fuck show, but let's keep moving. You've got a plane to catch. Ah, mashup 95.

Dengue fever makes things hard for patients. As if having dengue fever wasn't already hard enough, doctors in West Africa are reporting that the mosquito-borne virus often associated with rashes, vomiting, and internal bleeding could also be causing spontaneous erections that can persist for hours.

Yeah. So apparently if you're having trouble down there, you can just get dengue fever, I guess. And then it'll get you to the point where you pretty much need to ice it for things to go away. So, yeah, buckle up indeed, Jennifer McConnell. So, yeah, there's this thing going around right now where, I don't know, has dengue fever always been like this? this an ongoing thing? How is this in the news? Like, are people just noticing? Or did people just

think like, oh, yeah, I had a raging boner for a week after that mosquito bit me and I didn't put two and two together? This whole thing's baffling and interesting. Um, yeah. I mean, do we need to talk, it's possible that Dengay fever will give you an erection. That's all you need to know. And last hours and hours and hours. We're giving up our vices. Uh, vice CEO, Bruce Dixon says the company will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing on the vice.com website. And basically, they're going down the toilet. And here is, uh, here is some random headlines or some of the headlines. Go figure this, this organization that fucking sucked for so many years is going away.

So you got, uh, Pablo Escobar's hippos keep having sex and no one knows how to stop them. These are random headlines. Maybe separate them. Why, why I'm not? never taking my mom to X-rated videos. I don't know. Damn girls can barely keep up with quarantine demand. Here's here's this one.

My gay prison gang fights neo-Nazis. How to make breakfast with your vagina. And this is, is anybody worried about vice disappearing? How to have sex with a fat girl. Well, if you're having trouble being interested, you could just get dengue fever for a while and that'll step it up for you. Legacy media is a failure. I mean, aside from Vice.

There is trouble brewing at Black Rock, the headquarters of CBS, after the firing of Catherine Harwich, an acclaimed investigative reporter. Many of us were shocked after Harwich was included in the layoffs this month, but those concerns have increased after CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers, and records, including information on privileged sources. The position of CBS has alarmed many, including the union,

as an attack on free press principles by one of the nation's most esteemed press organizations. The timing of Harge's termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She was pursuing stories that were unwelcome by the Biden White House and many Democratic power hosts, including Joe Biden's diminished mental capacity of the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. So you can imagine there was nothing there to see, folks. There's nothing here to see. It's just a nothing burger. As far as Joe Biden's mental faculties go, yeah.

I mean, I've literally been laughing about this guy's decreasing mental faculties for four years. But there's an election coming up and we don't want people, you know, to know too much about it. There was that recent thing where so Joe Biden had left a whole bunch of confidential documents in a garage when he was VP. And the, uh, the crown, I guess. decided not to pursue charges because they felt as though a conviction wouldn't stick because he doesn't have the mental faculties required to grasp the import of what he did. And he doesn't even remember being vice president. So if you don't remember doing a crime according to this, you could just, you know,

you don't have to be charged. So, Sean, if we ever team up and rob a bank, which we honestly should. some point in our lives. I really want to try a heist myself one of these days. I'm tired of talking to them all the time. I want to be the guy in the car. And so anyway, what we should do is just, you know, do the heist, getaway vehicle, go out to, you know, wherever our, wherever our safe house is and then just roofy the shit out of each other. Uh, because then we're not criminally liable according to this. But, but you've got at the, at the end of it, though, CBS took a whole bunch of confidential documents from this reporter.

Yes. This is terrifying. That's a huge deal. Yeah, this is terrifying. They put an attack on independent journalists. Whether you love or hate where she worked and maybe some of the work she did, what they did to her was they removed her, took all of her investigative journalist material, would have taken all of her contacts, everything, and they have it now.

It's in their possession. It's a terrifying story. $10 a day daycare about to become zero a day day day care. Cheaper daycare was one of the liberal government's biggest promises, but now the program is struggling with daycare operators, warning of closures if things don't change. Owner of literal heroes daycare center in Ottawa says it's been an uphill battle ever since opting into the $10 a day program.

I don't get a profit. We're not even seeing break even. The prices don't reflect the expenses we're having at this moment. So everything's fixed and it's not tied to inflation like the wages of members of parliament. And so I mean, they can't even say that they couldn't foresee this coming because they literally tied their wages to, well, not to inflation, but there's an annual increase, right? But this $10 a day daycare, it's set up and it's all fixed. And the problem with things being fixed in a high inflationary country like this fucking one is that what may be a good business deal this year is not a good. good business deal the next year.

And now everybody's coming to terms with that, including these people who honestly, if you signed up for these contracts without saying, well, what happens when the price of bread doubles in the next six months? If you didn't even ask that at the time, what the hell are you doing running a business? And now all these chickens are coming home to roost. Alberta Town Council gets back to the basics. And I'm sure most people have seen this. Alberta town, that's Westlock bands, pride flags, rainbow crosswalks after plebiscite.

That's not entirely true. But here's what it says. Crosswalks and flags. Crosswalks will only be painted in the standard white stripe pattern. Only the national flag of Canada, provincial flag of Alberta, or town of Westlock flags are raised on flagpoles, on public property or facilities. There will be no decorations on town crosswalks or display of flags supporting political social or religious movements or commercial entities. No grandfathering of an existing crosswalk or flag.

Flags that contravene this bylaw will be authorized. So basically, the town said the town council more or less is now we're in the business of taking out people's garbage, making sure that the shit goes away when you flush it, making sure you got water coming in, cleaning roads, and maybe putting up some lights around Christmas. and everything else is aside from that and we're not interested in it and we're not going to do it. They didn't ban pride flags. They just said, we're not going to hang them in front of the town. We're not going to hang them in front of town building.

We're here. We're here to collect fucking garbage and we're not going to be fucking displaying it. Unions asked for a completely reasonable cost of living craze. Why are he laughing at that, Sean? Because I hadn't read it. I wrote it out and I actually didn't. David Harrigan, Director of Labor Relations for the United Nurses of Alberta said in an interview with CBC News,

the union is seeking a 25% raise in the first year and a 10% raise in the second year of a contract. 35% raise in two years. Actually, that'll be 37.5% because it'll be compounding, right? But yeah, 37.5% in two years raise. Quoted, quoted. They've been abused and abused. ignored the system for many years and when you do that there needs to be a giant catch-up in order to set things straight. Harrigan said the union which represents 30,000 registered nurses

has long said the staff shortages are driving nurses out of the profession or the province. You don't say, I wonder where all those nurses in the middle of COVID went. Has there been anything else? Anything else driving them away? I don't know. That's so weird. It's so weird. I don't know. What if there was a way to get more people into the eligible employee ability pool. Do we, do we have any ideas? Could we just throw around some? Yeah, 37.5% two years is fucking insane.

No two ways about it. Especially when you think about the fact that they've got the defined benefit pension, they've got ridiculous other benefits. And there's that thing that, to the best by knowledge, has been closed up where whenever they don't want to work, they call all the way around. And when they get back to the first person, it's something like triple time. And so you've got, you got nurses who make, just stupid amounts of money.

I remember there was this girl I dated like 15 years ago, and she worked 30 hours a week. She didn't even work full time, and she was making like 85K a year. This is way back in the day, working less than full time and making what was pretty good money back. My hats off to nurses, first and foremost,

I couldn't do their job. And I know some oil field guys who work part time and make very good money. But to have a union ask for three, 35 plus percent is insane. Can we just make that simple? Yeah, that's just ludicrous. Especially when half the hardships on the profession and the union, they did to themselves.

Here's the thing is you're always voting for parties like the NDP. And then when they bring in a whole bunch of stuff that sucks, you're mad and you think you need more money. Oh, like, oh, I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote liberal and NDP because then they're going to be more favorable towards the unions. Okay, but then they bring in all this inflation with it, which makes everything expensive, which means, oh, well, now that everything's so expensive, we need more raises, and that's what's fair. No, motherfucker, you voted for this shit. You literally voted for inflation.

You can't complain about it afterwards. Cops pull over a clown car. On February 22nd, 2024, at approximately 2 a.m., an officer with RC&P Central traffic services conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle located on McGilveray Boulevard in the city of Winnipeg. The vehicle contained a driver and eight occupants, one female and seven males. seven were confirmed to be foreign nationals from the Republic of Chad and one from the Republic of Mali. The 30-year-old male driver Abdi Hassan Ali from Winnipeg was arrested for human smuggling under the Immigration Refugee Protection Act and remanded in custody where he appeared in court in Winnipeg on February 23rd, 2024. There you have it. Imagine getting out of a place like Chad.

There's this war-torn, just violence everywhere, crazy place where people are killing each other all. all the time and you're going to start a new life in Canada. Then they drop you off in fucking Winnipeg. Worst case scenario for Canada continues to devolve. Under the terms of confidence of supply agreements signed in March 22, the Liberal government committed to passing legislation on Canada Pharmacare Act by the end of 2023 in exchange for NEP support on key votes in the House of Commons. And the federal liberals and NEP have come to an agreement on pharmacare,

clearing the way for the two parties to continue operating. under the confidence and supply agreement that has helped keep the government in power for over, you know, two plus years. And in the interview with CBC's Rosemary Barton airing Sunday, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said weeks of talks between the two sides have produced draft legislation that will set out the framework for a national pharmacare program and in the short term new coverage for contraception and diabetes treatments. See, think about it this way. If the NDP had most of the majority, like if Jagmeet Singh was prime minister and the liberals were the people rounding it out to give them that majority, the NDP would say, we want free everything for everybody all the time forever, except groceries, grocery stores. But we just, we want everybody else to have everything free all the time forever and we're just going to tax the rich. and you would have the liberals saying in a very limited sense, to be clear,

well, just slow down a tiny bit, slow down a tiny bit. I get the fact that you want to pass this, but it's not going to work. If you want us to help you, you've got to have things in a very tiny sense rooted in reality. Okay. But because it's the other way, the liberal is like, we want to do something insane. And then Jagmeet Singh comes in. he's like, it's not fucking crazy enough. Can we put it all the way off the rails?

And then when he gets pushed back, he says, well, do you want to still be prime minister or not? Put it all the way off the rails. And that's what's happening right now is you've got stuff that's almost totally insane, getting driven right to the moon by Jagmeet Singh. Hollywood becoming irrelevant. I have no idea what Toos wants to talk about here. But I feel like Hollywood is quite irrelevant. What would you like to talk about, Toos?

Okay, so this is the critical drinker. First official trailer for Rogue Elements goes live in 10 minutes. So this is a movie, I think a short movie. I don't know the finer points of it exactly. That's based on his. So the critical drinker in real life, oh shoot, his name's totally alluding me at the moment. But he wrote these Ryan Drake novels. The first one's called Redemption.

There's eight of them in total. I'm actually almost entirely done the last one. right now. And the idea is that he's like, what if there was just stuff out there that didn't suck? He's basically taking the mashup model and he applied it to books. And he got, you know,

the first couple start off a little bit wonky, but then they get pretty damn good by the end of it. And the last one's got more twists and turns than you'd ever believe. And so now it's getting made into some kind of a movie by independent studios. Oh. And so, so you've got this guy who, you know,

Cattle is criticizing everything wrong with Hollywood, but he's also taking reins on it and saying, you know what, I'm going to fucking do it the right way too. And so I think that's pretty cool. I hope he does well with it. I hope it comes out as a good movie. That's interesting.

I didn't catch that's what that was. Now it makes more sense because I thought we watched preview and I'm like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be watching here. And all I can think of is Hollywood and where they're going with, you know, the DEI and everything. Alice. I'm like, Hollywood is going down the toilet.

This doesn't have any of that at all in it. So, yeah, the last one, something to die for, the guys name Will Jordan. And I have one hour and 19 minutes left. A miracle, a miracle of science. Quoted, in a miracle of science, a vaccine was created. That's health minister, Holland said, uh, at the Moderna facility in LaValle, Quebec. Fucking Quebec gets a bunch of bailouts for something that already existed in Calgary a few years ago.

So as much as we might or might not think that the vaccines are effective or maybe there's a few side effects or a couple of sniggling issues with them, there was already a company in Canada set up to do this exact same fucking thing, but they were in the wrong riding. And so Justin Truro ran their asses out of Canada. They're down in Texas now. And they paid Moderna of all places several billion dollars to set up a facility in fucking Quebec. But it's a miracle. It's a miracle of science. Picting gets picked on. notorious BC pig farmer, Robert Picton, who is charged with killing 26 women and claimed to kill 49, is eligible for day parole Thursday.

Yeah, so this is coming up a little bit. I don't know if he's going to get approved or not. We'll see. I mean, if this was just happening for the first time with our modern judicial system, He'd probably be out on bail already. But, you know, it's this Robert Picton is now looking at the idea of being in general society. I don't know. Like, let's say you're Robert Picton for a second, Sean.

You get released from prison. What do you go back and do for a living? Pig farmer. Pig farmer. I don't know. I mean, he could run an excavation company. He could be a nutritionist. He's got all these transferable.

skills. He doesn't necessarily have to be agrarian. And then here, Jennifer McConnell, I'm getting that t-shirt now. I think she's talking about the Danger Cat's T-shirt that's caused so much of a hullabal blue over with them in Winnipeg. Here's Aaron Gunn on it. Packing on the Picton. Another outstanding citizen granted bailed by the Trudeau-NDP Coalition.

Apparently there's no crime heinous enough in Canada to get lost. locked away for life, unless you're the Coots 4. That is, BC sex worker, killer, child abuser gets bail. And, uh, and it goes on to say, well, I mean, what else do I need to say? Really. Yeah. It's just another example of it and another example and another example. And yeah, if Robert Pickton's biggest crime in, in our modern judicial system is that he was not a minority. If he had said he was trans, he'd be out already. Liberals fulfill campaign promises.

Well, do you want Play it? Play it with the sound. Playing with the sound. Playing with the sound here, folks. Camping in Toronto. So this is a video of a bunch of the camping, homeless tents.

So just homeless tents and homeless tents. One port of party. a re-elected liberal government will expand the learn-to-camp program so that by the time they reach grade eight all Canadian kids will have had the opportunity to experience camping and learn important part of the country. So this is just a video of a homeless camp dubbed over with one of Trudeau's campaign promises. A boat camp. Just get everybody camping. There's 100 tents in this video.

and for all of them, that is a campaign promise fulfilled by Justin Trudeau. We're going to expand. Everybody's going to camp. Everybody's going to camp. When that guy's right, he's a bumbling idiot a lot of the time, Sean. But when he is right, holy fuck is he right. Wuhan. I mean, Winnipeg virus.

A special committee of MPs tasked with evaluating censored records on the firing of two scientists from Canada's top infectious disease laboratory research who worked with China, says most of information redacted for a public health agency of Canada documents appear to have been withheld to shield the organization from embarrassment rather than to protect national security, a source with direct knowledge of the material said the information when uncovered would show the scientist Zhang Ju Kew and her husband, Katie Chang, provided confidential scientific information to China. The two infectious disease scientists had their security clearances revoked and were escorted out of the national microbiology, laboratory in Winnipeg in July of 2019.

They were fired in January of 2021. It's interesting. And then they went off to what was their next job? Where did they work next, Sean? I actually don't know. Where'd they work next? Wohan Institute of Virology. Of course they did. Oh, July

2019, these infectious disease experts from Winnipeg, not from Winnipeg, but working in Winnipeg, were kicked out of Canada for being fucking spies. And then they go went to work in Wuhan, and six months later, everything hits the fucking fan. So how much of what happened in the last few years is a direct result of lax Canadian everything. Seems like China's in on everything we got going on.

You know, if there's been a trend over the last, I don't know, 10 mashups, 20 mashups, seems like we got one article about China basically screwing with us. I mean, and here's just another. I mean, that's not really on us, though. That's kind of on them. finally a secret ceasus is interested in keeping can the spy agency has launched a workplace assessment of its british columbia office over what it calls serious allegations raised by whistleblowers who say they were sexually assaulted and harassed by a senior officer one officer said she was raped nine times between uh 2019 and 2020 by a senior colleague while in surveillance vehicles and a second officer said she was later sexually assaulted by the same man despite bosses being warned not to pair him with young women. This is brutal.

Just imagine this was happening in any other company. Right. So here's, if your work, it doesn't matter where. If you've got a job and you're some chick that something like this happens to, you don't whistleblow to HR. You don't go to somebody else in the organization. You go to the fucking cops. That's it.

We can't afford any more affordability. The Trudeau Cabinet has spent more than one million on retreat. focused on attempting to get a grip on Canada's affordability crisis. The Liberal Minister has held three multi-day meetings in Charlottetan, PEI, Vancouver and Hamilton between September 2022, August 2020. The tally has reached $1.3 million and change, according to expense disclosures and access to information requests. Only the Liberals.

Only the Liberals would do three affordability retreats, where it's got a whole bunch of fancy French names on all the the food they expense, and then it comes up to $1.3 million. Here's the thing. Okay, Pollyev, you want to kind of bump things up for yourself a little bit? You do something like an affordability retreat and you tell everybody to bring their fucking campers to one of your farmer members of parliament's backyard and you guys all eat hot dogs and burgers for the weekend, you know, and expense them and be like, look, look,

he expense $38 worth of hot dogs and $57 worth. the burgers and $28 worth of buns and $7 worth of ketchup. Boom. And you put that in. And you'd be like, liberals, conservatives. Liberals, conservatives. And then once you get in, you can go back to the flaming yon and whatever else, because let's just be honest, it would just be a fucking show.

But you can do that. Everyone wants to be mashed up. This is, this is in letters to February. Yeah. Sorry, you know. You ask me. We like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive.

There we go. Exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one pathetic loser. Letters from February 2020, or 22nd, 2024 section should be featured, the liberal failings. Quoted in there, maybe the sun on a weekly basis could have a special section dedicated to all the liberal government scandals, bad ideas, and amount of taxpayer money wasted. Toos?

What a novel idea, Sean. If we had some kind of a regular program talking about politics and current events, we should have something like that. And in fact, we should go so far as to have an intro song to such a segment. Yeah, I don't know what to say. I mean, we've been doing this now for 95 weeks, folks. Beyond Me, we'll try, willing to try almost anything at this point. People are going to steal our ideas as always meaning, you know? It's a pretty solid idea.

Beyond Me, willing to try almost anything at this point, a new Beyond Burger Paddies and Beyond Meat, Beef Grounds cut saturated fat by 60% by switching from canola and coconut oils to avocado oils. Nobody gives a crap, including me. What does it taste like? In the first nine months of 2023, the company's U.S. revenue dropped 30, 34% on a weak consumer demand. The company said in November, it was cutting 19% of its workforce.

Good riddins is what I say. I give two craps. I give two craps. You know, imagine you could do something like beyond meat, but it actually didn't suck. You know what they'd probably have to call it? Meat. Meat.

So, yeah, there was another, I put a tweet next to it that I thought was pretty good. This is from Internet Hall of Fame. But this chick says, so my dad gave this vegan girl a real hamburger. She said it was the best veggie burger she's ever had. She still doesn't know. And then someone else said, your dad is fucked and anyone else who thinks this is funny or even remotely acceptable is fucked,

this is a total violation of trust, morals, and more. What if they had an allergy? What if they're vegan for religious reasons? Nobody cares to. Because they're vegan. Yeah, you can. And one day beyond meat is going to have to do that too. Fair point.

British Columbia. We got this new burger out, Beyond Meat. What is it? Beyond Meat's meat. It's all beef. It's beyond beyond meat. Yeah. British Columbia is a racial slur.

A writing guide for indigenous content published by the province's NDP government urges people to refrain from referring to themselves as British Columbians. The term British Columbian is often used to reference people living in BC. This term excludes indigenous peoples who may not identify with it. For many, they identify as a member of their own sovereign nations and do not consider them part of one of that has actively worked to assimilate their people the guide reads i don't know what else do you want me to read well it's it's just absolutely silly so people from british columbia who are british columbian should not use the phrase british columbian because it's insensitive right

like i get you know manitobin because it it is a bit of a slur but it's their word right so so that that makes it okay right i mean like where is this going to go right like at least least you at least have a decent have a place where it would make sense for people like um i could see a lot of people from north of ontario being offended at being called fucking quebecers right but that's what they are british people kind but they probably wouldn't like that columbian people kind just people kind i don't know i don't know what you can do there british columbia no clue i guess just stick maybe with british columbia yeah update MS Society moving back and forth quickly.

Oh, man. Oh, yeah. This is, this is it. Last week we had, we talked about the 90-year-old volunteer who had been working there for 60 years, getting removed because she asked what pronouns were in an email. And the National MS Society just released the statement, backtracking on the entire story saying they were wrong and apologized to the 90-year-old volunteer who forced to step down over pronouns. Quoted, we realized now that we made a mistake as an organization, we fell short,

We do not have clear protocols in place. We apologize to Fran directly. Yeah. And the other part, absolutely true. Better late than never. But this should have never happened to begin. This should have never happened to begin with. This is part of the problem.

I mentioned it before, like the first time I asked somebody about this whole period poverty thing. I'm like, well, what is that? What? Can you explain it to me? And they got mad that I asked. They're offended that I'd asked about this new thing that I'd never heard of before. And if your ideas are so rock-scy,

solid that if your ideas are so fucking frail that someone just asking what they are is more scrutiny than they can withstand, your idea fucking sucks. Arson season could get an early start. Alberta government has declared an early start to the 2024 wild first season in face of low snow packs and forecast of dry weather to come. Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Lowen said Tuesday the season is now underway 10 days earlier than the usual start of March 1st. Lowen said his department is asking for enough extra funding in the budget to hire an extra 100 firefighters. If that request is approved, they will be in the field by May 15th, he said. That's in addition to the 900 firefighters of the province field in 2020, 3, who are expected to be ready for April 15th, said Loan.

That's a pretty fast turnaround. Imagine hiring 100 people in a highly specialized industry and you've got to start it. You've got to start looking for them in the next two months and they're expected to be out. Come on. I don't know. It's a little bit unsustainably fast, I would say. But, I mean, it's interesting that everyone's like, ooh, people say climate change isn't real. And then look at this.

Catherine McKenna, that vapid, idiot bullshit fucking factory. Thank God she's gone. February, but she's not because she's still tweeting. February 20th, the start of Alberta wildfire season this like year. Think about that, folks. Hashtag climate change is real. Then there's all kinds of stuff going on. I saw a bunch of wasps the other day.

I saw a fly buzzing around in the yard. I saw on Twitter where a dog was chasing around a pocket gopher. So, I mean, stuff's already waking up. It's not too crazy to think that the arsonists are going to actually start getting out of the cities and go burning down stuff again like they did last year, which if you don't believe us, there's been a hundred articles and so many people have been charged. It's been, it's been. whatever you want, but it's been fucking arson. There's been a ton of arson, and it's just, it comes out late and they try and sweep it under the rug.

We've talked an awful lot about it here. Friends are driving climate change. Friendship bracelets made out of colorful plastic beads aren't anything new, but thanks to Taylor Swift's Erez Tour, they've seen a massive rise in popularity. In cities where her tour stops, North American Arts and Crafts Store, Michaels, has seen a 300% sales boost in its beads and jewelry categories in the days leading up to her That's, that's, that's pretty wild. Despite their name, friendship, blaces,

aren't exactly eco-friendly. I'm not going to go into it all. I feel like our audience- One is that this is a stupid article that we paid for to have the CBC right. And actually, as I have it up, popular now in the news, 308 people reading this right now.

When that's the most popular thing on the CBC is 308 people looking at it. Case of unopened 1979 hockey cards from Saskatchewan sells for over $5 million at auction. We talked about that as the happy news a few weeks. ago. Apparently, you heard it at CBC first. If you're one of the 300 people

who read it, or if you're one of the far greater number who were listening to this, that case of hockey cards went for $5 million. Can you imagine? What is it is the time to have a case of hockey cards just go, like, unreal. But what about the

good parts of cannibalism? From new scientist. com. Now, I want to be clear, I picked the one paragraph that bothered me, and just overall, it just, it's just bothering me. I'm going to read it. It's not what they were suggesting out of the whole article. I want to make that very clear. The fact they wrote this sentence, I'm like, ugh, and here it is.

Ethically, cannibalism poses fewer issues than you might imagine. If a body can be bequeathed with consent to medical science, why can it be left to feed the hungry? this is a crazy world we live in Sean like I get the fact that groceries are pretty fucking high right now but let's not start eating each other just yet i just i just can't believe that's somebody uh breaking news breaking news this is out of the new york post covid vaccines linked to slight increase in heart brain and blood disorders you don't say that's i mean this is this is news to me have you heard anything about this before sean I hadn't. I don't know if it makes me uncomfortable to talk about Tuesday. I don't know if we should really talk about it.

I feel like the New York Post is going to get kicked off the internet for this. Because we've been told multiple times that the vaccines are 100% effective. 100% safe. The science is settled. If the science is settled, this obviously is heresy. Misinformation. Disinformation. All the above.

Someone do some fact checking on them. And we should solve it by sending this legacy media organization. more money until they start printing what we want. Liberals killing themselves trying to justify Maid. Liberal MP Annie Kuderakis. I think, quoted, I think it's irresponsible and untrue, honestly, to claim that Maid has anything to do with suicide. Yeah, so Garnet, Genuiz, whatever the hell his name is, who's wearing a Ukraine support

ribbon because fuck sakes of course he is anyway but conservative I think he's oh actually it says here a Sherwood Park Fort Saskatchewan so just outside of Edmonton and he's saying given the fact that

you know you guys say that no one is allowed to get made if they're suicidal given the fact that the whole point of this is to facilitate people taking their own lives how are you letting anybody do it? Can you just bridge this gap? And then yeah she says

I think it's irresponsible and untrue honestly to claim that maid has anything to do with suicide. Motherfucker, it's not a hug. All I can do is play this, okay? I hope they don't shit on you, bubbles. Shit on you? Who? Shit hogs. Big dirty shit hogs.

Suicide is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die? I mean... With the intent to die. Okay, but you're going to go into this. You'd be like, okay, so I'm just going to go into this. going to walk through this door. Yep, okay. And I come out on the other side, no.

No, you're dead. I'm going to walk through anyway, because then I'll be dead and that's what I'm trying to do. How's that not suicide? These liberals, man. Our governments are stupid. I mean, if at this point you haven't figured that out, I don't know. Fraudsters have impersonated general contractors hacked the police chief's email and posed as a charity as part of a wave of online scam, scams that have swindled taxpayer dollars

from the city governments at first name. across Canada. In the last five years, at least six cities and two First Nations have been duped out of more than 10 million in public funds. Most recently, scammers made off with 1.5 million from the city of Greater Sudbury. And before that, the city of Colona and British Columbia, the biggest victim of them all was built out of more than $4 million $2s. Are you kidding me? This is totally expected given the quality that we tend to see in Canadian politics. I will say this. If there are any Canadian politicians listening and a Nigerian prince reaches out and says he wants to change out a bunch of toilets for you in the office buildings.

Maybe just politely decline. Argentina is back in black. The Argentinian government in January saw its first monthly budget surplus in nearly 12 years as new president, Yavier Malay continues to push for strong spending cuts. The economy ministry announced January was the first full month in office for Malay, a far right libertarian. Of course, I got to throw that in. Which isn't far right. office in December and it was a balanced for the public sector finances of

$589 million at the office official exchange rate the government said late Friday. There you go. So yeah, he's been in charge to balance the books. Smart right to want better for your society. It's pretty far right. He probably doesn't even have his name on the

fucking door yet. He's already balanced the budget. Imagine if we had somebody in Canada that actually wanted to do something like that. Wouldn't that be cool? It would. It would. but good for them in the meantime. We have a mashup 95. This has been an interesting like debacle of a day.

Like I mean, it is. But we know. It's been an interesting logo. So if you found her way back here, thanks for tuning in. If you're just tuning in on the podcast, you're just going to hear a little blip. And we're going to hop a couple things and life will go on.

Me and two's talked to ourselves for about solid four minutes before I realized, wait one second. Something's changed here. Now, community events. So SMP presents coming to Lloydminster, April 27th. So if you're interested in the conference, I'm just trying to pull it up. I should have had it pulled up before.

Anyway, you've got... Luongo, Criner, Armstrong, Sims, Stone, Prodnick. Sims and... Yeah, Curtis Stone, Chris Sims, Chuck Prodnick, Martin Armstrong doing virtual. Lwango just booked his flight and Alex Crane are all going to be in town. There might be one more coming

and I'm just going to leave everybody anticipation, but here's what you look like. Cornerstone you can go online Showpass.com backslash Cornerstone to grab tickets by a table, etc., etc. And there you go.

Okay, Darrell says, made it back after you attempted to self-cancel yourself. Yeah, yeah, we basically tried to commit virtual made. is what happened. But don't call it. Wilson says, what about April fools, carbon tax jokes on us?

Brenda, we do this show every week. No worries. We'll come in that in a few weeks. Don't, no worries. Get all the April fools. But yeah,

Cornerstone, shaping up to be a huge event, and it's a gray eagle. Again? It's going to be at the Gold Horse Casino. Pardon me. Great. Yes.

Gold Horse and Lloyd Minster. It's going to be a full day. So it's going to start 845 is when doors are going to open in the morning. You're going to have lunch. You're going to have supper. You can have, you know, networking great speakers.

I think it's going to be a fun, fun event, and hopefully some people will find their way to Lloyd Minister to come and join it. We also have, we also have 12th annual PBR at Marwain, April 12th. We have June 22nd, Aaron Goodvin and Garrett Gregory.

That's Slim and his group doing that. Next week, we have guest host for Mashup 96. I already brought it up. I'm going to bring it up again here and let everybody see. It's going to be Mashup, 96, the crow slurper, that's going to be a mashup of 222 minutes hosted by, or the mashup hosted by Vance Crow.

And if you have never tuned into the Vance Crow show or heard him on the podcast or heard twos on his podcast, he's going to be stepping in. On his podcast. Correct. Next week on Mashup 96, he's going to sit in my seat. And while, that should be interesting if nothing else. Oh, you pretty much canceled the show this week. We're going to blame it on him. So that should be interesting.

as well. So a whole lot going on. Okay. So we just had Tuesday the other day. February 22nd, 222, 2nd. And shout out to Cassie, who's birthday, is February 22nd. There you go. We also have McKenzie Bloom, who is a podcast

guest a while back, and she's hosting May 11th in Turtelford. All proceeds will be dedicated, donated to the multiple sclerosis Canada. She was vaccine injured folks. And this is what she said. When I was sick, I experienced many similar symptoms to those with MS.

One of our close friends offered to help me with my rehab and help me retrain my body to function properly. She has MS and has greatly affected her. She was a huge part of my recovery and is why I chose MS to raise funds for. She has an Instagram and Facebook page for the event that gives all the information. The usernames for both are every step counts underscore 24 and every day. step, dot counts, dot, 24. And then there's a poster that will, I mean, I'm reading off.

I don't know why it matters a poster. May 11th, 2024, Turtleford, Saskatchewan, 9 a.m. It opens. It's a run. Run starts at 10 a.m. You can register as a person for $20.70 per group of four. And find out all the details. Go on social media.

Find it. And or if you're like, what the heck, Sean? Shoot me a text. And we'll see if we can't get you pointed in the right direction. on a week where we're not quite pressed for time so much. Actually, you know what? Maybe I'll tell it to Vance. I've got one hell of a good Turtleford story. And maybe if McKenzie and her dad is, Seth, is listening,

maybe we should have her on to just quickly give a little, boop, here it is, here's what it is, because I got a lot of time for the Blooms. They came on. She's a girl that got back injured playing AAA hockey. So either way, I am long overdue to get the heck out of here. uh two's is going to be well mashup 96 i'm going to tune in folks because i want to see what crow and twos are going to do in a week's time either way thanks for sticking with us as we tried to

self-cancel and a whole bunch of other things this this week it has been a tire fire in the best possible way i like i think yeah we got a lot of stuff to do let's keep it tight we're going to yeah and this and of course of course yeah all right well thanks a lot everybody thanks a lot Sean, have a good trip. We're out of here.