Shaun Newman Podcast - #512 - Jamie Sinclair

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

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He spent 33 years in the Canadian military. He's a proud member of the Princess Patricius Canadian Light Infantry. Talking about Jamie Sinclair. So buckle up. Here we go. Welcome to Sean Newman podcast. I'm joined by the ever entertaining Jamie Sinclair. How you doing, sir?

Oh, man. I'm doing great but I can feel it it's been well then crack a little hair of the dog for yourself I'm all right just give me

give me five minutes I just kind of I'm things are doing good right now I just I'm not gonna jump into it right away he plowed a cut he had a retirement party last night folks and so military brass

showed up from everywhere descended upon Wayne Wright Alberta and he's come up this morning and I would like to point on it's the afternoon now Deloitte Minster and happy to have you, but I'm truckling. He brought the hangover food at McDonald's. He brought a case of beer, but I'm sober October, so he's been teasing me about that.

I'm like, well, God hates a quitter. Like, I don't get it. Sober October, like, why? Like, what's the point of it? Like, what are you achieving by being sober? First off, why not? Why is everybody like, why? Well, it's October Fest.

It shows. Okay, it's harvest. Harvest is in the bin. It's time to like. your hair down I have a couple drinks. I've been letting my hair down for the entire summer months. Well, that's your, that's your fault. You got no hair to let it out.

You don't stop drinking. You don't, you don't go through October without drinking. This is the time to celebrate the crops in the bin. You don't, like, I don't get it. It's like, oh, you and Henry, same thing. He's doing it to you. It's like, you're driving me bananas, like. Oh, you just can't handle hanging out with this.

So, well, it's like, you guys are. boring. Boring. Yeah, you're boring. You get the fuck out of the studio then. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, maybe not so boring, eh? Can't kick me out.

I'm not leaving. I was once paid to leave a bar. There was four of us in Germany, and the bouncers gave us all of their money. We had a hundred Heineken on the bar at the time. We weren't even supposed to buy any. So they're like, here's all of our money we made tonight and tips. Please leave the bar. So I put all the money in my pocket, I turned around to the boys.

I'm like, they're trying to pay us to leave. Anyways, we didn't leave. So they were like, okay, these guys aren't leaving. We're not going to be able to physically remove them because there was a few big monster guys with me there. So anyways, what they did is they got the hottest chick in the bar. One of their girlfriends had come over and lure us out of the bar, like the Pied Piper, luring rats out of the, like out of the city, right? And we were jammed beers in our pockets and under our armpits and out the door we went.

And, oh, my God. And then got outside and she's like, all right, have a good night. Walk back in. No, she actually walked us down to this little pub on the side. It was like four in the morning. But I think we're in Nernberg or some Berlin or wherever the hell we were. And anyways, they had pubs open all night there. And we're in this small little pub twice the size of this room.

some old German and Liederhosen and all of a sudden she just vanished. She was just gone. But poof. Yeah, gone. We had a good time, though. Somehow I don't, that doesn't surprise me. You seem like you can have a good time just about anywhere good sir. Well, back in a day, like if you had a moment to like to go and do something to have fun, like no matter where you were, you made sure you did that because you just didn't know when you were going to get a chance to go do something like that again, right?

Well, I mean, you've got to refresh people's memories because it's been a while since you've been. Well, I mean, you and Chuck came on together. Yeah. And certainly then I actually listened to you and Henry from like way back when. Yeah, that's a beauty one. I want to listen to that on the way home. Yeah, well, that's when we're talking about hockey Saskatchewan and well, they were about to require, they were just putting out the conditions basically so they could check, see if you're

vaccinated or not to play minor hockey in Saskatchewan. And I'm not pointing just a Saskatchewan. And I'm not pointing just to Saskatchewan. It was all across Canada this was coming down. And I find it almost like timely that it was just, I think, yesterday that hockey Canada has come out saying, you know, in order to be in a hockey dressing room now, you can't change, right? Because you have to be, have you heard this? No. What?

Oh, my goodness. What are you talking about? I'm going to pull it up. Oh, my God. I got it on Twitter. I'll pull it up. You have no idea what I'm talking about. Nope, never heard of this before.

Oh, my goodness. You live under a rock. Okay. Here, let's, let's, where's that, folks? Where is it at? There it is. CBC news. Minor hockey players required to wear bottom layer to dressing room or change in

washroom. It's early in 2023, 2024 minor hockey season and many players in their parents are getting adjusted to a new, policy from hockey Canada. This season, all minor hockey players are required to wear their base layer they wear under their equipment to the arena. If they don't do that, they will have to change into their base layer instead of a closed washroom stall at the rink. The new policy is trying to promote inclusion and to respect the privacy of all participants on a team. It is now the responsibility of all coaches and team staff to instruct players regarding the minimum

attire rule and make sure they are in compliance with it. And then quoted, all participants have the right to utilize the dressing room or appropriate and equivalent dressing room environment based on their gender, identity, religious beliefs, body image, concerns, and or reasons related to their individual needs. Hockey Canada spokesperson, Esther Medeiza said in a statement emailed to CBC News. Until it becomes part of a player's routine, there will likely be some confusion early in the season as both the young players and their parents get used to the new policy. Quoted again, it really doesn't take very long to jump into a washroom stall.

and do a quick change to get your base layer on underneath, said Craig Robinson, president of Halifax Hawks, minor hockey. Also, these are pretty thin pieces of clothing and can quite often fit under a jacket or shirt. Anyways, Robinson outlined a new policy in a letter sent to parents of the Halifax Hawks players last week. The new policy affects all minor hockey players from the youngest level right up to the underage 18 division. This isn't just about gender, once again, quoted. It's about everyone being comfortable, said Robinson. Quoted again, coaches can't you always.

visually identify automatically know what gender someone identifies with so this just allows everybody to fit into that dressing room sounds a lot like gender just anyways Robinson admits there has been some pushback from parents to the hockey can to change he says they have legitimate hygiene concerns when it comes to a sweaty and smell under gear being worn to and from the rank but he says it's a small price to pay to make sure that everyone is inclusive for hockey is inclusive for everybody so that just came out a couple days ago okay so what do you do when you got to go out have a shower. You got to wear your clothes in the shower? Well, they're, they're, because everybody showers together. Well, that's, I mean, what happens when you go to the pool? Like, like, and you're

wearing your bathing suit at the pool? Like, you got to, you got to wear your clothes in the pool now. I guess you're, I guess you're getting down your base layer, then you go to the washroom, you take that off, you put your swimsuit on, then you go shower, then you go back to the, the, the, the, the, the, stall. You take your swimsuit off, you dry off, you put your clothes on. Oops, I forgot them. So now you walk around your towel, but that isn't probably allowed. So probably just get rid of the, probably just get rid of the showers altogether, Jamie, and we just don't have showering

in the hockey dressing room anymore. That's probably what they're going. Yeah, but where is this going next? Well, I know. Is it going to pools? I know. Is it going to the beach? Like, how far is this going to go?

Well, I don't know. It seems like it's going pretty fucking far. I tell you something. When I first started playing hockey with my dad, like I would go into a dressing room with like 20 other kids. I'm six years old. And it's uncomfortable.

Like, to take your girl, off and get dressed in front a bunch of other kids. Guess what? By the time I was 10 years old, it wasn't a big deal. And you just, hey, your body's your body. It's just, it's something you've got to like get uncomfortable.

Like you've got to learn how to be uncomfortable and deal with it and move forward. And you learn that as a little kid. So my kids as they went to hockey, my daughter included, like she would, you know, have underneath her clothes. She'd have

like her boxer shorts or sports shorts or whatever that her can would go over and she'd have a t-shirt on. And just like my boy, he wears his boxer shorts and t-shirt underneath his stuff. Like it's not a big deal. Like they wear less to go swimming than they do when they're going to play hockey or getting changed in a locker room. It's about getting used to your body and being comfortable getting undressed in front of your teammates. Because eventually you got to get into the shower. you actually got to go and shower after a game. But what they're pointing out is they're not going to have that, right?

What were parents' concerns? Hygiene, and he said it's a small price to pay. So he's saying after you go and compete. You're not allowed to shower. Well, I mean, but right, they got to keep their base layer on. So what are they going to do? Oh, my God. And like, why are they doing this?

Because they're promoting inclusion and everything. We got to make, we got to make, make it so that everybody feels safe and respected and inclusive, right? I was having a good day, too, back that up. Hey, look at your flag. Sure. Let's talk. I'm going to wave the flag.

This is not a Ukrainian flag. This is a different flag. Yep. There you go. That's a purchase, Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry flag. There's three battalions in that regiment, and they all have the same flag, except they'll have a one, two, or three in the corner. and yeah that that regiment by far best rate force regiment in the in the country that's not special forces so all of our special forces regiments they have a combined of the three different regiments they all go to the same one so but our guys still kick ass well here I'll throw a different question I was I was kind of survey sent to me by the Alberta government about social studies class and what we should be teaching our kids and I thought oh

That's an interesting one. I bet you Jamie has his thoughts on what kids should learn about the history of Canada and specifically military. I'm sure there's a few things you wish we're a little more known. Number one's Vimy Ridge, right? Like Vimy Ridge is when we displayed to the world that we can be a nation by taking the untakeable Ridge from the Germans. And that was done all with Canadian ingenuity on new battle tactics.

to organize all the whole Canadian regiments together under one command from the British. And they kicked ass that day, and guess what? The freaking government has now taken Vimy Ridge out of the passports. They don't want us to be able to be proud of our achievements that our country has sacrificed and made this country what it is. That should be our Canada Day. and I've always said that like April 8th, April 9th, that should be Canada Day. Well, walk us through Vimy Ridge because, you know, you got an opportunity to talk about it right here.

And you're right, it got removed from the passports. That's terrible. So, yeah, Vimy Ridge was a German-held Ridge in Europe, and it had to be taken the end of war. It was the... What year are we talking? 1917. and they basically broke the Germans back or will to carry on the fight after they took that ridge. But prior to that, the English tried taking it and they got repelled off the bridge.

The French tried taking it. They couldn't take it. But every time there was these major attacks, the Germans actually got to defend or dig in better and make their position stronger. So by the time the Canadians went to do it They're a well-oiled machine Oh yeah And they had like that place It was like all honeycombed underneath the mountain

Or underneath the ridge with like Places for the Germans I during the bombardments and like ammunition And water and underground medical places Like everything was like it was a fortress So when the Canadians had to We're tasked with doing this General Curry was our commander

over there and he gathered all the Canadian regiments together and made them under one Canadian command. So they sat down and they're like, how are we going to do it, right? So he didn't tell them how to do it. He asked them, how are we going to do it? And he had his commanders come up with this rolling barrage tactic where the artillery would fire and creep ahead at like three miles an hour or two miles an hour. Behind that the infantry within 200 yards or whatever the danger close of the shrapnel flying around, they would walk directly behind the artillery as it's basically rototilling up the ground in front of them. And they would move in fire and movement. So a battuna guy, so 30 guys would move, hold fast so they would take a knee. The next

Patoon would move up even or past the Patoon that held fast. They would do the same thing and they just, we call it Leper Potting now or Pepper Potting. And they would pepper pot up to the enemy positions and by the time the barrage would roll over the enemy trenches, the Canadians were right in there and they killed everybody. It came out of their little. Oh, holes. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah. Anyways, we took the ridge and we held it. the Germans realized the war was over. And then they basically, World War I was, that was like the last straw where they realized they weren't going to be able to beat us. Well, it's funny, you know, like where I said, it's like, I've heard you talk about the story multiple times.

And I go like, I don't know, maybe that's told in schools. Maybe that exact story is told. But then you see it on the passport and it disappears and you're like, So at one point, people understood how important that day was. It was on the passport. I'm not saying the passport is Canada Day, but at the same time, you know, I don't know what percentage of Canadians have a passport, a high number. And it was there.

And for people to see it and visually see it. And I think most of us remember, it's probably still sitting in the passport I have because mine expires here actually relatively soon. And so, you know, it was given a place of honor, if you would. And now it's being removed, you know. And what does the military community say about that? Because I feel like if something's going to set you boys off and women off for that matter, it'd be the removal of military history from this country,

which isn't been the United States or I don't know, like whatever country you want to pick with like a thousand years of history, not the United States does, but, you know. Well, it's a council culture, right? Like they're trying to get rid of Sir Johnny McDonald. You know, let's, hey, let's just forget about that past. let's get rid of it. You know, like, so anything that, for whatever reason that we have anything to be proud of

or that even if it was an ugly part of your past, you still got to know it. Like, you got to know the good and bad things because if you just forget about the bad parts of what our nation had to go through, you're going to do it again because you don't remember that lesson. Like, look what happened in Parliament when they brought in that German. and everybody's trying to say that it's every member of the house that should be apologizing. No, it's true to himself. He's got to take responsibility.

It's his guys who comes in and out of there, not the opposition. So they put a motion forward in the House of Commons to, like, delete the history that they actually brought this guy in. like when when you start thinking like that and doing that kind of stuff like our democracy is is gone because nobody is held to account how many tours did you serve three and and i did private security in africa and afghanistan as well so you've seen what i was just alluding to is you've seen war you've seen how it's fought you're a a student if you would of canadian military history, right? You ask you about pretty much anything in there and you're like, oh, yeah, you got to talk about this, you got to talk about that, you got stories all over the place.

One of the things that they talk about today is that we're in war. It's just way different. You know, it's different types of bullets being fired if, if you would in that it's this fifth generation, it's fifth generation warfare, it's like all these different things coming in. When you, when you take a step back, is that what you see, or are you less inclined? to hop on social media and see everything that's going on and you think man people are just losing their minds over nothing uh well the the thing is um war is horrific and and terrible and and for whatever reason like uh my my thing is is that if everybody had an education on this planet and we and we can all read and write and have access to to information to make up her own minds

we wouldn't be manipulated into violent actions where we're killing fellow man right so man has created these fucking horrific weapons of destruction to kill as many people as possible as as efficiently as they can't and that and that's what's scary right like um we're still we're still animals and we still want to fight and protect our way of life and the reason why we need that weaponry is because when you look outside of our borders where we're like you're you don't have people that could do cancel culture or or you know sensitivity training or or or you know how we're taught to you know be respectful for our fellow man the the people that are trying that we're trying to defend ourselves from they they are just like ruth

unknowingly that they are the problem in the world where they want what we have and they'll come and get it at any means. So that's like that's the problem is that if everybody outside of Canada that, you know, has no education, if they could be educated, they understand what is at risk and how nice the world could be, we wouldn't have to develop these horrific weapons. But we did because there's always like a Putin. There's always a Hitler. There's always a Stalin. You put Putin in that realm?

Oh yeah, definitely. The guy's like a maniac. Like he is like totally unstable. He's a dictator. And he's dictated every time these dictators come up, they kill their own people and they kill everybody else that stands in their way. When you look at what we're doing to Russia, what do you think of that? with the amount of money that's going there

with Biden and that group with everything going on Zelensky being rolling through Canada and getting a few hundred million to continue on and everything else well let's look at Biden was vice president

when Obama was in charge of the world and he let like that incursion in the eastern Ukraine happen had never should have happened. And the reason why they did make that

incursion is because Obama told Ukraine they could be part of NATO. So if they were never offered NATO, only a European Union status where they could be under the European flag on the east and west side of Ukraine should be a demilitarized zone because Russia needs that warm seaport of Crimea to keep their population functioning. Without Crimea, they have no way of bringing goods and services into their people that are on that side of, like, a high, if it's 70% it'll be more on that part

of Russia, that's where everybody lives, right? So they got to be able to have access to the ocean to be able to bring in the goods and services they need, right? So, yeah, like it stems right from when he was vice president and Obama started it all, but nobody wants to blame Obama because he was the perfect president at the time, but he obviously wasn't because he did things that were now paying for. Well, I think when it comes to Obama, I think, like, I was in college at the time, and I remember watching, he is a gifted orator. I don't think anybody can argue that, right?

Like, he walks in, he says everything the right way when he gets attacked by anyone criticizing he's got this way of like he just he's like he is a black belt juditsu and in conversation he just is it's very slick he's very slick yeah and just disarmes it's really interesting but the thing is the longer this goes on and everything that's happening yeah the more he whether people realize it or not I think more and more are he's got a big old blemish on him and I would people listen to this going to say he's got a whole lot of blemish is on him. But it took a long time for me to even look at him from a different set of glasses because

I remember him as a younger man watching him speak in the debates. I mean like, this is incredible. This guy's amazing. Well, he was the Kennedy, right? You know what I mean? Everybody loved him. But they weren't understanding what he was doing. Like he was doing, like when he paid Iran like billions of dollars to, you know, to stop

their nuclear program, which they didn't. You know, like that was a terrible deal. Like, you know, just, you just can't fathom why they would drop, like, drywall containers out of a back of a plane on a tarmac right full of American cash for these guys. Like, where do you think that's going? Walk me through this. Like, they gave them a billion dollars cash. Gave who?

I ran. A billion dollars cash to stop their nuclear project. And they kept on going. And then when Trump got into power, it kind of reminds me as somebody's story right at the start of being over in Europe and getting asked to leave the bar and taking the balancers money. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. We're going to keep drinking. Well, we didn't want to leave.

We got suckers. All I'm saying is, I don't they want to stop. You're going to pay us how much? Yeah, we'll stop. They drop it. All right. Carry on, boys. We got the money.

I just took the money. I didn't even stop. We just stayed. But that's what I mean. It's the same bloody story. It's like they gave a billion dollars to Jamie Sinclair. And he's like, yeah, right, yeah, okay, thanks. Hey, boys, here's a billion dollars.

Sink it in wherever you need, right? Like, I mean, at that point, they're grasping at straws. And then Trump brought in, like, heavy sanctions to Iran. That's when Iran, like, shot down that aircraft that just took off out of Iran. They thought it was incoming American, but they shot down their own plane. They were launching all those rockets into Iraq because the Americans were there. Obama pulled out of Iraq left. like they're worried about $85 million worth of equipment they left in Afghanistan.

Like they left billions of dollars of equipment in Iraq. And they weren't just guns. They were like self-propelled missile unit, like long-range missiles and aircraft and helicopters and tanks. And they left way more in Iraq than what they left in Afghanistan, but nobody's crying about that. And then that's what ISIS used to start their calioles. fate, right? So, yeah, he did a lot of bad things, but when Trump got into power, he stopped all that stuff. And he got Iran put back into a box where they weren't developing a nuclear weapon because Israel's got as a line drawn in the sand. When Iran gets to a certain point of their

nuclear phase, Israel can't wait for them to complete it. They've got to do. They've got to do a pre-up attack to destroy their ability to launch nukes. Because Iran has vowed to destroy Israel and vowed to destroy the United States for America. That's their only goal. And that is in their, what's the head religious leader of Iran? What they call that guy? He's got a white hat. black jacket

rolls around in a fancy car you're ringing and not that I don't know I feel like a moron right now it says Ayatolli yeah Ayatola

Ayatola yeah the Ayatola that's the religious leader so the Ayatola runs that country and the thing is about Iran is their population is very young and they've got You're laughing at me.

I'm looking at the camera and I'm like, oh, I'm, I'm, I tripped it off to the side. But anyways. Welcome to the one-man band show, A, in the nice studio. This is beautiful. I love it. That flag looks awesomer. But Iranian culture, Iranian culture is like very progressive. Like they are trying to, you know, they're well educated.

They're trying to get from underneath this religious, like, it's not even their government. and it's like the Ayatollah has a religious hold over that country and it's look at they were taken to the streets I think it was last summer the summer before then you know the police were shooting people in the streets and you know trying to squash the so us people over here have zero clock I have no no idea what's going on and and I don't mean that we have to get to that point to have a clue what's going on because I never want to get to that but but here's the beautiful thing so um As a nation having an army, our job is to fight our wars on their turf in their yard, not our yard.

And people should never know in this part of the world, like what it's like to go, like go through a horrific ordeal where families are involved and people are getting killed and murdered. They shouldn't have to see that. So when it comes to defending this country, they got to trust that the, they've got to trust that the, Army knows how to do it best. And we've been doing that like ever since the war. We've been, we've been taking care of business that's going to affect our country and their country. So if we, like, give Ukraine aid to fight Russia, because the end result for Putin is to be killed by his own people. Like, that's the only way out of this where it doesn't get really ugly. right so and and and there's believe me like like there's groups of of people in russia that are

i don't know like obviously i don't know what is happening over there but they they're communication have you dealt with the russians like like you know like because i sit i sit over here jamie and i go i don't even know what to make anymore there's just so much good and bad information out on the web out on all these different things it's like i don't know i look at putin at this point i'm not saying how he holds power and how he got the power was right but the thing's coming out of his mouth right now compared to us putting nazis in parliament and pretty much talking about censoring our or continuing to censor our independent meat and on this goes and the carbon tax and on and on and on it goes the censorship's happening in the states now biden's trying to censor

X. So I look at it and I go like, I look at Putin and I go, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I see the things they're doing. All the things I used to believe, I'm like, Putin's a bad man. Putin is not good. And then I sit and watch him do

press conferences and the things he said. Now, is it AI? Is it a doctor? Listen, folks, I don't know. But I sit there and watch it and I go, what he's saying makes sense. And the way I see things get attacked is they attack things that they don't want people to hear. And that's what happens to him over and over and over again. Fucking Biden gets a free pass everywhere. Here in Canada, Trudeau, although is getting

attacked more, still is in power with Singh helping him like this weird. What is this? And how is this even possible? Here we are in Canada. And this is going on. It's like something is very, very off. Well, going back to the Chinese. The Chinese, like 20 years ago when Bill Clinton let China into the World Trade Center and everybody shifted their enterprises into China to build T-shirts and whatever parts or whatever they made, they basically sold out to China so they could be richer. So the alter elites in the states went from making lots of money to tons. tons of money because now the same t-shirt that they sold for ten bucks uh used to cost them three

dollars to make it cost them like less than a cent to make but they're still still selling it for ten dollars right same with all the car companies everybody else we've learned that that's not the way to go because we got rapid unemployment we've got nobody has any purpose to live like they you know we need to have jobs we need to have our people working we've got to bring those those industries back to our stores. Plus, just to look through COVID, right? Like this global chain,

you get one thing shut down and all of a sudden you're reliant on another country for like a whole bunch of important things. And you go, oh, that ain't good. Nobody saw that coming, right? Like nobody saw all these big problems coming. Well, and thank God for COVID.

Like, honestly, I don't think it was supposed to be released. It somehow had gone out of that lab. but if it wasn't for COVID we wouldn't see what's really happening so it's sped up like the Chinese like are now being more aggressive trying to achieve their goals you know it's it wasn't that perfect environment where they took us over from within like there's not a politician out there that doesn't have some sort of Chinese connection on every side of the fence and it's just that's the reality like um you can buy

land in this country under a numbered account and if you phone that lawyer's office who owns that that numbered account they can't tell you because of client privilege so there's there's more like there's big Chinese organizations these numbered numbered accounts are buying up all this farmland and everything else like we we have they're pulling the rug out from under our feet and we have no idea like they're slowly just taking everything over and they're influencing our politics. They're destroying our family structures. They're creating such divide in between people in the countries that they're influencing. So it's easy for them to manipulate us. It's scary. It's scary shit. But this is what's going down,

right? As I sit here, I'm like, you know, can you imagine folks a day in November where you know, the CRTC goes, yeah, Spotify, we need you to list off all the podcasts. And by the way, we're, you know, and then they just, also one day, you just, you can't hear Jamie Sinclair come on and talk some, honestly, when you put it that way, it's like everybody's seeing it. Everybody knows these stories. Just nobody's voicing it. Certainly nobody in mainstream media.

And if they do, they got to put it in a light way that doesn't, you know, paint China in too bad of a light or whoever, because, you know, we can't do it. And it's like, are we going to worry about our country? train our people are we just going to, you know, hand it all over, you know? Like, I mean, at some point, we got to get down to Bradst's tax here. And I think, like, what, you know, they were arguing about huge thing when the CRTC came out saying they're going to, you know, the big thing was they're going to censor podcasts. And if you read what they put out, it's, it's really vague. But what they said was, you know, the minimum was 10 million. So if you're making 10 million dollars, then you got to

register with the CRTC. So, you know, I sit here and I can safely say, folks, I'm not making $10 million. You're good. But I'll say this. Yeah. Every platform that I release on makes over $10 million, right? Spotify is, you know, they paid Joe Rogan $100 million. So how much are they making?

Yeah. Now they have to register with the CRTC. Yeah. They got to show all the stuff that they're doing. And now, from a very harmless look, you go, oh, they just want to make sure they got lots of Canadian content. Well, in that case, I'm safe. But how long is it until they're kind of like YouTube where they're like, oh, Sean mentioned vaccine? Sean mentioned

LGBQ 2SL plus IAP Don't ask why I know that Yeah That scares me that you actually do It's funny Every week on the Tuesday mashup I have to say

It's almost in every article now You know when you're coming all the way back To the The change rooms for hockey It's like you're not going to be You know how COVID You couldn't escape it You just even if you wanted to go

For a nice meal You just couldn't escape it Yeah Same thing is coming With this inclusivity It's already here But I mean, like, you think you got some safe spot. I'm looking directly at the military man.

You think you got some like just nice spot. It's a nice bar. They're never going to get there. And it's seeping in everywhere. Yeah. And, you know, like, it's almost. Our military's got it. Like, our militaries.

Like, we've had great conversations this weekend. And it's like all the powers to be like from generals down to corporals. You know, and you see and hear all the little conversations that, you know, what's going on over here, what's going on over there. Like, our, and I love our CDS. Like, he used to be my boss. He's a great guy. But he's not calling the shots.

Like, it's coming down from government, all this shit that's going on. He's having to follow their mandate. And it's, it's horrible. It's horrible what's going on. Like, there's less than 5,000 regular army guys across the country. Think about that. They're taking another billion dollars away from us. Like, we're in a lot of trouble.

Well, I mean, you think if you're, if you're, if we didn't have the United States sitting beside us, if we were, if we were sitting where we had other countries on our borders. Why should they do all the heavy lifting and and that they shouldn't? No. But I mean, the only reason we get to do this and have this little song and dance is because we don't have to protect our borders because we have the United States of America. But if all of a sudden, we do have to protect our borders because what is attacking the United States comes right over Canada to get to the United States. So when they launch like missiles to come to Canada, they've basically like an airplane flying from, from let's say Russia or China to here.

You know, if you look at a ball, they're not going to go on the outside of the ball to get to. They're going to come right over the top. Yeah, because it's shorter to go over the time. Shorter and it's unguarded. Yeah. So we've got to protect our borders. And that's with air defense, both plane and missile,

that can go up and strike these weapons while they're still in low orbit, which they got lasers to do all that shit. But we need to be putting us money into that. And the Americans got it. We don't got it. We're going to put it into diversity, equity, and equality. And this goes back to...

Because we need some trans... Army sergeants. ...theirder war that China has. And they've been in our universities for 30 years. they've influenced our teaching of our teachers that teach our kids like this influence has been started years ago like we got the clock they got the time this is how they roll right so so yeah

we're we're pulling ourselves apart destroying ourselves where they they're just sitting back laughing us well I'd be laughing if I if I was sitting over on the other side and I was seeing what was going on I'd be laughing too Although the crazy thing is, it's an idea, ideas seep into borders, right? Yep. So you see what Putin's done. And you got to remember, like, Russia's at war with China still and at war with Japan still.

So the very eastern side of China is occupied by Russia. And that's where Chinese... So how are they a part of bricks? Well, this is the whole thing. Like, so China will do whatever. to destroy our way of life. But then at the end of the day, they're gonna have all the cards.

Like same with India. India's like part of bricks, but India is only part of it because they need to buy the cheapest oil out of Russia. Like it's all about dollars and cents for them, right? Well, I mean, when you got a billion people, I would suppose, but it should be more about dollars and cents over here too.

That's right. And we gotta get hard on our trading. allies and make them trade with us. Like call their head. Like if we don't call their hand, they're just going to keep rolling on us. So China wants Russia to fail, right? And then they can have their part of their country back. And Japan and Russia are still at odds with some islands on the north side of Japan,

where they have like a nuclear submarine base that they have to like sneak out to get over took towards California or whatever through that, through that island ports. So, yeah, like Russia holds that area because it's very strategic. Like if Japan had those islands to this day. Pie in the Sky, if you could become the Admiral, the chief, the whatever the term is of the Canadian military,

what would you be doing tomorrow? I'd be, like our CIS is the best spy organization in the world. Nobody knows about them. they've been the best since Why does nobody listen? Why does nobody listen to them? Like when they came out and said in the commission

on whether or not it breached the levels to enact They're dropping that on us. Like they're trying to Because they've told the government But the government's not going to listen to them Because they're getting paid by China So that's why they're trying to wake us people up That this is going on.

But our spy organized like the way to win these wars isn't through massive amounts of manpower attacking and such it's by turning the people inside of those countries against their own governments like if China like

the Chinese people have everything to lose like the government is is the bad people but the Chinese people if they could be free and could like live a life like outside of tyranny they would be so happy They have no idea how better their lives would be if they could actually make decisions on their own and live free.

Well, this is an interesting, because one of the things you have over a lot of people is in your younger years, in your military years, and you kind of mentioned it. You did three tours, plus you worked overseas in different spots and private security, that type of thing. So you got to deal with a lot of different cultures and a lot of different countries. Yeah. You know, what, I don't know, what sticks out to you about different cultures and countries and how their people operate in and amongst their government? Because one of the big things we've been arguing this week about the CRTC is somebody saying, ah, you still got free speech, folks.

I can go out and talk and I'm not getting arrested tomorrow. But do you? They gag order anybody they want. You don't have free speech. Like, look at Chris Barber and those guys, they couldn't talk about what happened to them. that's not free speech like they're trying to gag order Trump but they got the first amendment

so Trump could still say whatever he wants because they've actually got it in their constitution that you're allowed to speak freely about whatever hell you want well I mean I come back to the CRTC thing and I go like this is two weeks to flatten the curve all over again if you can't see that I'm sorry but as a podcaster I look at and I go

okay sure 10 million dollars everybody goes yeah well you got to make 10 million folks It's like, listen, folks, I do my living off of this thing. Yeah. I love it. I want nothing more to continue on doing conversations. And what I see happening and maybe what's been pointed out to me is this is how it starts. But eventually you're getting to the point where radio is today where they can't really talk about much.

That's why satellite radio was such a mind's blowing. Howard Stern. Are you kidding me? You can't say that on the radio. I bet you at one point you could. And then they just slowly put in all these rules and some of them coming fast. someone coming slow. And over a course of 100 years,

you go like, what the heck do we got here anymore? You got the radio of today. And you add in the satellite radio, and satellite radio is great. It's decent. But then it slowly gets corporatized. And now satellite radio,

I mean, don't get me wrong. It's okay. It's okay. And then this podcast thing comes out. And it is wild. Okay, here's the thing. And so it just keeps happening. You make it a living is one thing,

but what you're doing by having conversations, it's huge. These conversations and yeah, it's right to middle where you're at. Like I don't see too much left content, but the point is the people that you bring on

still bring information to the table that is important to be talked about. And I've always said, like, I listen to left and right in the news and in the middle somewhere I kind of figure out where I should be. And that's an individual right that we all have. And you've got to be able to

have, and this is the right information, or not right as correct, but this is the right side of the fence where people out there should listen to this and hear what's being said and make their decisions of where they should be, you know, making their mind up or where they think things are going in this country, right? So what you're actually doing is great for our nation and for our people. because you're giving us an ability to listen and make a choice. So, yeah, it's awesome you're making a living and you should, but you're actually doing something very important for people in these times of like crazy, chaotic shit that's happening, right?

And the government's scared shitless because they can't control what comes out of our mouths. You know, not right now, but they eventually want it. Oh, no, they want to. They want to. Yeah. Sean doesn't have to answer to anyone except for the people who advertise. Yeah.

And they're mostly self-made people who are like, just keep doing what you're doing, right? Yeah. And so you don't have many. Obviously, when I had chucked down for the million person March, million March for kids. That was awesome, by the way.

I went to the one in Regina. One of the things I talked to them about before we got set up was I just, I got some certain little pinch points. I want to just have them covered. And if I can have you cover, you know, like one just nice and easy is like having at the time, we didn't realize, but it was going to be 650 plus people walking down a major highway. Yeah. I'm like, I just need the right people on lights.

You know, we need, I shouldn't say I need. We need. We needed the right people on lights. So, and let's chuck to be one of the guys on the lights just to help direct people, right? Because you're going to have confidence to jump in front of 100 people and be like, oh, don't get hit by a vehicle. He's got that. That's right. And so, you know, when it comes to all.

all this, we just have pinch points. And the government has no pinch point on me right now until they go after the people that allow it to be put up. Spotify is, you know, if we had Spotify in Canada, somehow our government would find a way to really bastardize that, you know. But at the end of the day, he's finally waking. He's finally waking up, folks. He's like, okay, it's time to get a little bit of the hair of the dog in them.

Here it is, Great Western. I even like that, Saskatchew. Hey, this is God's beer right here. And like I said to you last time, I was here. Keep asking questions. I'm going to let the answer out of here. Just keep going. Keep going.

I'm just talking pitch points, right? So it's been really cool to make a living doing what I love. But in doing that, I've offered the opportunity for a lot of people to voice concern about a lot of different things that we don't get anywhere else. And why? because all of those places are captured over the course of anywhere between two years to 100 years, right? Like just over time. You know, just over time, the rules have gotten tighter and tighter to where radio can't talk about, you know, no swearing. Is that a big deal?

I don't know. Is it the end of the world? I don't know. Well, look at the same time, that's where it is. So then satellite radio, you can swear again. But before all that, when people had radio stations all over the country, like throughout the states. Sure. When it was big.

Yeah. they only could transmit so far. Like it wasn't like big broadcasting where they could cover huge expenses of land, right? So look at like the Martians are attacking, the Martians are attacking. Like there was people running around with shotguns and shit. Like they really believed it was happening, right? So they put in rules and regulations into radio broadcasting to prevent mass chaos, right? Like you had to record or you had to actually be like talking.

about something that was really existing. So we shouldn't say Martians are attacking. Yeah, yeah, don't. Nobody get your gun. Put your guns down, yeah. But, no, like lots of things. But then what happened with that? Then a company went, huh, if we went and bought like 10 radio stations,

then we could 10 times what we're doing, and then we could go out, and that's what they did. And over time, now the radio stations are owned by, you know, a couple companies, you know, give or take. And you go, so what happens there? We have a COVID. And then they all get, you know, know, and they all brag, and it just seems like,

and you're seeing this coordination on such a massive level now. But these people get into their jobs, and now they got mortgages, they've got a family, they can't say no, they're not going to buck the system, they want their paycheck every two weeks. So look what happened to Bud. You know, eventually it got, I'm glad you didn't bring Bud Light in there today. Oh, my God. What a disaster, right? So, you know, they had a person there that really believed that this was the right thing to do.

And I'm sure there are people going, no, but they didn't have the balls to say something. Because they wanted to keep their job, right? Well, if they say it, they're out of a job. Yeah. And now by not saying it, they might have been out of a job. And that's what happens in the Army. Like, in the Army, when I was a young riflemen or private or a trooper, whatever I was at the time, the platoon was run by the war, which had the most experienced.

and the officer would only be in control of us in combat, like he would give us orders that were, like orders for battle. So when these battle plans would be formulated, he would confide with his section commanders because they're the combat leaders of the platoon as well. But the warrant would have a big part in that because he's gone through the things that he's trying to develop a plan for. but at the end of the day it's the officer's decision of what's going to happen right so the

platoon warrant would say no you're fucked you're going to get everybody killed you're not doing that and he had enough gravity and pull and the battalion commander if there was a good battalion commander would listen okay you're right we're not going to do that but what happened is in the army the government doesn't want an army that can think and work like that they want our army that says yes hey fuck and are we doing this yes they don't want anybody to say no

or push back so they changed the army culture back in mid 90s so that they could have control over us and if you don't if you don't say yes you don't get a good pension and if you don't have

a good pension your family suffers you're not paying your mortgages and it just that's what happened to our military They brought out this force reduction plan for all the senior leadership to get them guys on the way because they didn't want anybody that still said no created this huge vacuum for all these younger guys to come up into the senior ranks

and then they took officers that had a grade 12 that were actual men and they said no you have to have a university degree now and they're you know so you're getting like some guys that took economics or engineering as your boss, which isn't a bad thing that they're educated, but they weren't like alpha men. And they just lost all control of the military. And if you said no to the officer, he would write you up and kick you out.

So there's all these younger guys that still had that ability to say no. But as time went on, they would always get rebooted out of the army for just like, having a backbone and saying no. So what you got now is like you got this culture where we've got lots of great soldiers in the Army but they aren't able to perform like they

like they can because they're under the thumb of their pension. You got to do what they want or you're fucked. So they just keep going along until they're 25 years or up and then they get the fuck out. So in

some cases when everybody's getting out, there's a real shitty soldier that sticks around. He floats to the top, now he's in charge. So, like, the shit is actually starting to come to the top of the surface, right? So it's just, it's totally, like, the whole

thing is just getting worse and worse and worse as the years go on. Where does that end? I don't know. It's scary. But it's got, it's got to end. Like, we've got to be able, and it starts with, like, these radio podcasts.

People are, like, able to talk freely and, you know, basically be able to say what they're saying. Can you see me? Yeah, I can see you. I just... Pretty handsome, mate. You know, it's funny. You know, I hate to... We're talking about that, but he's laughing at me as I walk around.

It's... One of the things about filming in the studio is every time... Okay, I'm getting closer to having... somebody who becomes like my Jamie, right? I think it's getting closer. I'm not sitting here saying it's tomorrow, but I feel like, you know, February marks five years of the podcast.

So I'm going to say that I'm closer than further away plus minus five years, right? So like I don't know. I just look at it and I'm like, so every time we're done, and I'm pulling us completely in a different direction now. But since you're laughing at me, I got two cameras set up, right?

So if I stay, you know, on a stage they mark an X, stand here. Yeah. This is where you walk to. Why? Because there's a light that's positioned perfectly for that spot. There's a chair position perfectly that spot. You get the point.

And so when you're sitting there, I position the camera. As soon as you move, I'm like, my brain is already going, I wonder how that looks. Hey, guess what? God. Guess what? I wish I had my beer can because I know I can solve your problems. Take the wheels off your chairs so the guy can't roll around. Right?

Have you seen those? No, serious. Have you seen those podcasts or they got the big, nice, comfy chairs they sit in? They can't move around. You got damn wheels on these chairs. That's a simple, that's a simple Army answer if I ever heard of folks. Here, give me a fucking hammer. I'll take these things off right now. Yeah, and then there's nobody's moving anything.

I don't mind that answer at all. Yeah. So just get chairs that, you know, that are comfortable to sit in. Hire a Jamie. just get chairs with no wheels. No wheels. Sorry, Jamie, you're five years out now. Gone.

Simple, simple fix. That's a great answer. I'll tell you what, I'm going to put a little bit of effort in that because you're not wrong because people move around. And you're like, brain's already going, oh, man, I got to go track the camera, which isn't a big deal. It literally took me two seconds.

But you're talking about something, and then you could tell something's on my mind. And now you're like, you know, it's funny. Like, when you do everything virtual, Yeah. Right? You never have to, you set the camera up, you sit there and you talk to a screen. And it's like, it's good.

But it's not this. So I forget that you're monitoring what the hell I'm doing and where I'm looking and what I'm thinking. Yeah. Because my brain is thinking about six different things. And then I catch myself doing that. And I'm like, okay, remind yourself to sew them back in and listen what Jamie's actually talking about. So it happens on all guess. So I'm wearing my airborne shirt today because it's airborne Fridays.

the guy that we celebrated his 42nd year in the military retired last night Dan quits the dank anyways he was a two commandal guy awesome dude

so anyways whenever you see this podcast or whatever if it's live this was for Airborne Fridays so that's why I'm wearing it today what it's a great it's a great fucking thing Airborne Fridays

you realize You know, I don't know what it is with the area towards Regina. You know, Regina's got some strange things going on. I don't think anyone can disagree with that. But they also got some cool things going on because I stumble into you. I stumble into Henry, you know, and on the list goes. And now we're taking the Tuesday mashup. Yeah, I hear that.

To Lumsden for October 24th. Oh, that's going to be awesome. Tuesday night at the Lumsden Motel. Nice. Or Lumsden Hotel, I think. Yeah. No, it's a, well, there's no. hotel there anymore.

It is. The hotel, hotel and steak pit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, like, I've been getting texts. What time is this start? How do I get tickets? I'm like, me and Henry,

well, there's no tickets. There's a donation box. Oh, fuck. So just fucking show up. But me and Henry were talking, he's like, like, dude, this thing's going to be packed. Oh, it's going to be packed in there.

I mean, just think of the crowd that's going to be a lump. I've had people, Floyd, be like, maybe I'll just drive down. I'm like, you're going to drive to Lumsden? Hey, it's beautiful. So I live, I live in Regina Beach, which is way better. Which is way better.

Like when you say Lumson, that's like, no, I'm kidding. I love Lumson too. I got family there. It's a beautiful town. It's right in the valley.

It's so nice going through that town in the fall with all the trees. Yeah, you're going to love it. But yeah, so our community, like we got Craven, great town.

We got all these like market gardens between Graven and Lumson. And then Lumsden like, goes up the Cabell Valley, which is, you know, seven bridges roads. There's a couple nice golf courses out there, and then you get to reach out of beach. And we're like the diamond on the rough, you know,

like we're right on the lake. It's 90 miles long, best pickle fishing in the world. You know, you walk out of your house. You're either on the beach or you're like on a boat or you're out skidooing or hunting. Like there's just so much to do there. It's just a beautiful place on the planet. Well, Vance Crow gave me this.

He is talking about this idea. I don't know if I'm supposed to say it aloud, but you're in St. Louis fans, so nobody here is going to care. He's talking about renting an RV and taking his family, and he does a podcast and doing legacy interviews. So interviewing. I'm like, that's a brilliant idea. I just load up the podcast, take the family and roam around Saskatchewan, Alberta, and come in and then go and then just go in and stop. It would be, right? It would be, right?

Like, I mean, that's what I mean. I'm like, it's brilliant. This is brilliant. And I have a ton of fun doing that. Why not? And you get to see some country, get to meet some cool people. And the big thing with me right now, I haven't been leaving Lloyd that much because, man, every time I go, it's hard.

The kids are at such a fun age. And they're in the lots. And like, I just can't leave for a week. It just doesn't work that way anymore. So if I'm going to go, you know, I got to go on quick trips. So I went and saw James Lindsay last week and like that, in and out, right? And to me, what Vance was pointing out, I'm like, oh, man, I can take my family with me, which means they can go see some stuff.

And I can still interview some people, and I can get on their home turf, which, you know, when you get talking about these different places, I'm like, can you imagine just bouncing around different parts of Saskatchewan? Like getting down to Maple Creek, like Cypress Hills, just beautiful down there. Insane. Get up north, up to some of them lakes up north. You're drinking right out of the lakes. Like, and just beautiful.

Like they got big sand beaches, you think if I came to Regina Beach, right? You roll up there. Yeah. You interview. And while you're on the interview, you say, listen, folks. Don't come in October if you're not drinking. I'd be like out. Out.

Hi, Jamie. By the way, it's sober October. Get out of here. Out. All right. We'll catch up to you next time. If I came up, maybe this is a challenge to all the listeners, too, to think about this. If on the podcast said, okay, my next town that we're going to roll by is whatever, or that vicinity,

If you know somebody who would be a great interview, you should shoot me a text and we'll stop and we'll interview them. Because now you could have like a Western Canada tour of interviewing Canadians in their home. You know, like I come to them wherever they're at. How much fun would that be? Oh, totally. And here's the thing. There's like these super cool pioneering type people that live on ranchers, rod and doing whatever. Yeah, yeah.

like that are inventing things or they're you know they got big cattle operations but they still just ride horses you know like you could go and you can go see some pretty cool stuff and meet some super awesome people that you know otherwise you would never have ever met and and guess what you're now you're just expanding your thought process on different points and such that people are putting into the into the pot right like it would be pretty cool I think you would meet some pretty amazing people. Well, I know you would. Guaranteed.

Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Yeah. Hey, I got to tell you this. I'm on a road trip. My son's playing for the arrows out of Cold Lake. He started second line. Second line power play.

Got moved up the first line. First line power play. Proud dad. Two games. He's got three points. And he's at Rokees. He's just loving it. The guy that,

The guy who's playing for scounded him out of Texas last year. And he was supposed to go to Texas to play this fall, but it was going to cost like $50,000 to play down there and go to school. So next year his biological father is going to be American citizen. So it's going to drop it down to $15,000. So it's going to be way more affordable for us to do that, right? But, yeah, he just had to take all this. What down in Texas?

Well, his dad is from Saskatchewan, but he moved to Texas for a while. Like when Trudeau got into power, everybody went south. Well, and they're continuing to go south. So, yeah, anyways, he moved into Houston, and he's got an awesome job down there. He's doing really good for himself. So he married an American woman, and now he's going to be an American citizen eventually. So once that happens, and it makes school way more affordable. for us foreigners.

But yeah, no, he's like, he's just knocking it out of the park. He's just loving his life. It feels nice to talk about things that aren't so insane in this world. Yeah, that's the thing. You don't always have to talk about the terrible stuff. It's out there. We got to know how to deal with it, and it's just by talking. But we can also talk about fun stuff.

I'm super stoked to see him play. We're going to watch them on TV tonight. We've got to find a bar that has that. Are you staying here? Probably. I thought you were going to watch him. I can't. He's in Hinton tonight.

And tomorrow he's in like somewhere north of Amity. You're dark. You know that? You know, this guy, I can't even explain it. What do you mean this guy? This guy, I'm pointing at you. You know, we were supposed to do it a couple days ago. You canceled.

I canceled because I was on my way back. And I was like, can we push it to Friday? Well, I'm heading to watch my son play. And I'm like, okay, well, what time does you say I'm playing Cold Lake? You're like, well, I don't know. I'm like, well, you got the full day. What do you mean? And of course, you know, I should have realized, I didn't look at it.

I just, I just realized, I just thought you were like, yeah, he plays Friday night. I'm like, all right, well, you got all day. Because what's Cold Lake from here, an hour and a half, folks, roughly? And I'm like, okay, yeah, sure, whatever. We'll do it in the afternoon. We'll do it in the morning. Whatever. I always forget that Jamie is not a morning guy.

He's going to roll in. He's going to bring you a couple of cheeseburgers. He's going to be like the, you know, big old smile on his face. I never eat those things. He's going to crack a great Western and he's going to, you know, and of course, Sean's on sober October. I'm going to make fun of that. That's fine.

That's fine. It's all good. It's all good. And then he goes, yeah, we're going to have to get a bar or go to a bar and watch it. I'm like, what are you talking about? We haven't talked about any of this. We're watching it. Well, I'm talking to you about it now.

It's over here doing, right? Hey, I'm not, I'm not arguing. It's funny. I always wander into one of these things going, what's going to happen? And when you roll into town, I'm like, I got no idea, you know? It's like, hold on to your hats, folks. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. You know, last time we were out together was after Chris Barber was in town.

Yeah, that was amazing. That was a good night. That was a strange evening, though. That was almost a full-on brawl at the bar. Oh, my God. Like, there's some pretty weird people out there. And, hey, everything was good. I was very proud with your demeanor and how you, like,

and resolve conflict. It was good. Nobody got in trouble. It was awesome. Dad Sean came out. Yeah, you're very responsible. I was kind of impressed. I was like, well, I guess Chuck doesn't have to kill anybody tonight.

Well, it's funny. You're rolling to a bar with Jamie and Chuck, and it's like, folks, I don't know if I've ever had that level of security around me in my life, you know? It's like, they may look like old boys, but they've seen some things. and I guess I'm just not that intimidated by many people when that's on your side. So I got to talk about this reunion or this retirement party. So Danquins, like you said, served with the patricias,

ended up in the Airborne Regiment to Commando, did all these amazing things, went to Cyprus, Bosnia, Afghanistan, trained all kinds of Afghani soldiers, Canadian soldiers. Like, there's not, there's hardly a guy. in the army that's infantry that hasn't been touched by this guy in one form or the other instructor at the paris school like just just a beast like he was like he's fit as fuck like just a big strong burly man so all these other crazy maniacs come out for the retirement party but

they're all older now but i remember them when it was like 25 30 years ago where they were like like guys you don't want to mess around with but all the stories start coming out, right? And you forget about them. Like, there's, there was Pete Davies and Manchbridge. They were at the party last night, but they're, they're getting older and they left before I got a chance to talk to them. But those two guys, if it wasn't for them, I probably would have got kicked out of, out of a course that was, like, essential to where I became, or what developed me as a person, right? So what happened was, It was a stalking exercise.

Middle of winter. It was cold as fuck. And they would make us crawl on this barren snow-blowing field, 1,300 meters. And then they'd catch you and make you go back to the beginning and just keep doing that all day. So I had a great fire chief partner. He was a two-commando guy by the name of DJ Hughes.

So DJ and I were like behind this little ridge at the beginning of the stalking exercise, we're like, how are we going to do this? And they would have a truck drive up and down the center of this stalking range where you had to stop and write in, like the time, the direction, the speed of the truck, what was in the truck? It was part of the exercise, but it was more or less, you know,

to make it even more difficult. So this truck would drive back and forth, back and forth. and DJ goes, okay, when that truck turns around, there's all this snow that gets kicked up. There's two bumpers in the back of that three-ton truck. We're going to grab them. We're going to drag down the road on our, like, we're going to hold onto it so we're going to flex our bodies,

so we're like a board, so our heels will be touching the ground and we'll be holding onto this bumper. We'll drag down to the 1,300 meter mark. We'll let go. We'll roll off into the ditch. There's some trees down there, and we'll set up our observation. observation post. I'm like, let's do it. Like, you just do it. Like, we just did it. I'm a young

private, right? So we go over to where this truck turns around, fucking got our webbing on our bodies backwards, rifles across our chest strapped on tight so they don't fall off. Well, we start getting going down the road. It's only me on the truck. Like DJ didn't make it. He didn't get, he wasn't quick enough to grab it. So now this truck isn't doing 10 kilometers an hour. It's doing like 60 kilometers an hour down this fucking gravel road, right? Like a gravel road you'd see out out in a grid. Well, fuck, the heels of my mucklers wear right off from like dragging on the gravel. But I could see underneath the truck, see the flags at the 1,300 meter mark I let go and I roll off into the ditch. Well, they have these walkers that, you know, catch guys and send them back. Somebody

called me in and I was dragging behind this fucking. truck. Well, the platoon war, it fucking lost his shit. And he fucking comes marching out there. I got my binoes. I fucking writing all this shit down. Getting a truck and we're kicking you off the course.

I'm like, fuck. Like this is a reconnaissance course. This is like the best course in the army to have at the time. So I go sit in the back of the truck and I'm like, oh fuck, you know, I'm that shitty. I'm getting kicked out of the course. And anyways, get back.

to the shacks after all day of these guys getting fucked over on this stocking exercise. Anyways, Wozniak and Manjbridge, they go, no, you're not kicking them off the course. And to the warrant, and they were the senior sergeants. No, warrants like, no, I'm fucking kicking them off the course. He's like, no, you're not. We gave those guys a fucking task to do. They figured out a way to get the job done. done and that's what we're fucking trying to develop in these guys is like we didn't tell them

they couldn't drag behind the fucking truck didn't think anyone would do it didn't think anybody would do it but fucking they did it or he did it and he completed the mission so what do you why are you kicking him out the course this is what we need in this reconnaissance outfit you need guys with balls and fucking do stupid shit right so anyways he's like all right I won't kick him out the course but he's got to carry around the eldest tire so that's like a fucking half-done tire you know how heavy they was fucking things are so we got ops 150 in our rucksack so it's already 60 pounds 70 pounds now i got an 80-pound fucking tire tied to that takes two guys put my rucksack on me all the time on all the rucksack runs like i'm i fucking finished way last you know by the time i get to have something to eat or whatever they're already fucking up and moving on and so I wouldn't be able to eat or whatever. I just have to fucking keep going because they want me to quit.

So Manzbridge and fucking Gunny are like, hey, we need the Eltis tire back or we're not going to set up the navigation course because we can't drive out in the training area without a fucking spare tire. So he's like, all right, I'll give him his fucking Eltis tire back. But then they give me four fucking sandbags, right? So I was carrying this extra weight

to the end of the fucking course, but I passed. And what I learned on that course was that have the balls to stand up for what's right and also like fucking never quit. Because the guys were always fucking rooting for me, helping me out, you know, whenever they could. Like, it was complete teamwork.

They knew I was getting fucked over. But I actually competed the course. And it was like, it was thanks to fucking Manjbridge and Wozniak or I would never, I wouldn't have done all the shit I did in the Army. When you think of the guys on your team watching you do it, like everybody assumes you're going to quit. But every time you show up and you haven't quit, you're like, fuck, here we go. And it just like you can just feel, oh, man.

Oh, it was such a fucking gratifying thing finishing that course. But it always goes back to the people that I've worked with in the Army, the leadership that I experienced from people above me and below me that were so amazing. right and a little bit of that fucking rubs off into you every time right and it's it's amazing like another guy john duder like six foot six big fucking airborne dude he was the reason i joined the airport the first time i seen him was in dundur and it was a reserve reconnaissance course that i did at that time and um i was 18 years old and i just finished a communicator course so i had no rucksack or anything i was supposed to go into general duties where I fucking rake grass or I fucking fill vehicles up with gas

or whatever the fuck they wanted you to do that day, right? I'm like, that's fucking boring. And I hear about this reconnaissance course and they got all these like two commando instructors there and they want to fail everybody because they don't want the reservists to have a reconnaissance course. So nobody's showing up because they don't want to be beasted and then fucking get and fail. So I'm like, fuck, I'm going to try that course. There's going to be an opening. So I gather a bunch of equipment from friends that aren't going on this course. And I go fucking over to where their barracks are and it's just yelling and screaming and chaos inside of this building. And I'm like, yep, I'm fucking doing it. So I bang on this fucking door. And I hear all the yelling and scream.

and I fucking bang on the door again. I was yelling and screaming and shit going on in there. I'm like, all right, I'll just sit down on my rucksack. So I'm sitting on my rucksack and this fucking door comes flying open. Thank God I moved away from the door. Because this John Duter kicked the fucking door open. It would have sent me fucking flying if I didn't get out of the way. Anyways, he's got his fucking schmock on.

So it's like two, he was in three commandant at the time. So it's a camouflage. smock green combat pants, fucking combat boots, and his big maroon beret on, and he's got the fucking old airborne mustache going on. He's like, what the fuck you want, maggot? He was like, I hear there's an opening on your course, Master Corporal. He goes, what? I hear there's an opening on your course. Can I be on your course? He goes, you want to fucking come in here and suffer like these faggots? And I'm like, at the time I'm thinking I should fucking write. But I was almost like just in shock of this fucking man.

It's fucking yelling and screaming at me. I'm like, yes, yes, I want to be on there. He goes, wait right there. And he fucking closes the door and fucking yelling and screaming carries on. And next thing you know the fucking door goes by and open again, get your shit and assume the position. So I go into this fucking room. There's 40 dudes in a push-up position.

Sweat just pouring off. I'm like, all the windows are closed. It's hot as fucking there. And you just start doing it. doing pushups and this went on for like fucking four or five weeks constantly being tortured this guy we would do PT in the morning physical training and he would be like sincler my job is to make you quit you're gonna fucking quit or you're gonna break a bone or you're gonna fucking hurt yourself but i'm here to fucking punish you you're not passing this course nobody is we're fucking and

this is how they would treat us right but when they instructed us They instructed us, like they wanted us to learn the best way of doing things. So, like, physical mental torture was horrific. But when it came time to learn how to navigate, how to work as a four-man patrol debt, how to do close in reconnaissance, like, they just broke it right down because this is what these guys did. And they were the best in the world at it, right? So we developed the guys that passed that course. I think there was four of us.

we developed a relationship with our instructors to the point where, you know, I would be carrying John Duter on a fireman's carry. His body would be so fucking big and lanky that at the beginning of the course he'd be like, you drop me, I'm going to fucking kill you like, I'll beat the fuck out of you right here. Like scare you to the point where towards the end of the course, I'm still carrying his big fucker. But he'd be like, that's it, Cigler, keep fucking going. push push push go go and he would like motivate you right like so it was fine it's just beautiful to see

how like the transition goes from your omega to now you're part of the team like this guy fuck he would chase us around out in the field with Roman candles like because they would never let you sleep right you'd like try to do a nap check next thing you know the fucking Roman candles are flying like trace around and you're fucking running with your ruck sex. It was just an insane course. Guys would be so fucking dehydrated and tired. We had this one guy, Paul Gillard, he was at the back of the patrol and he fucking kept looking back and he thought he saw a Frenchman in a cart that was being pulled by an ox and it had 12 foot high pretzels in the back of this fucking cart. And then one of the pretzels bounced out of the cart and he thought it was

rolling down the hill to run him over. So he fucking starts screaming, goes running off into the fucking trees. Like, is he thinks this fucking pretzel's going to run him over? Just fucking hilarious. Like, the hallucinations you get when you're, you know, been awake

for days and no water. Like, our combats were green at the time. But we'd sweat so much that your combats were actually white. And he never had a change of clothes. Like, so your crotches, this rubbed raw. from all the sweat and oh fuck your socks were like so like there are wool socks but if you ever took

your boot off your sock would like peel right off your foot and your feet like all the dead skin from the blisters and oh is this your toenails be falling off from marching fucking constantly oh speaking of that course which another great leadership thing was after the course was over there was a truck that went missing and the truck belonged to a recruit course. Anyways, it was like assumed that I had something to do with this fucking truck going missing. So I'm like back in Regina and Eddie Stenyowski, you know, retired NHL goalie, he's my first platoon commander and there's a Patricia Warren by the name of McPhail. and their job is to try and find out some fucking names right so they put the screws to me one night

or one day and they're trying to make me break to tell who might have stole this truck and it's an army truck it was still missing it was hidden out in dunder and somewhere and uh anyways the um it came down to the point where they're like okay you're going to go to june you're going to go jail for two years less a day unless we get a fucking name. I'm like, I don't got, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't got a name. And I just kept all my story, right? So they go, okay, we got a duty driver all back with the van. Go get your equipment. Tell your family that you're going to jail for two years and come back here. And we're going to go for supper. And when we come back, if you've got your equipment here, you're going to jail. If you don't bring your equipment,

in here and you thought about it and your family tells you to fucking own up and tell us the names we need then everybody's all right nobody even know you fucking ratted them out because these other guys are in different units and they're gone already so anyways i went home my mom wasn't there i fucking write on a on a sticky note mom i'm going on an extremely long army course i won't be able to phone you for two years because i don't know if i get a phone call in army jail right so So I pack up all my fucking shit. Go back to the armories laid all out because it's got to be inspected. Well, fuck, it's Dennyowski and McPhil come back from supper and they're like,

oh, for fuck sakes. All right, pack your shit up and get the fuck out of here because they knew that they couldn't bluff me anymore. Like there's no way they could send me to jail without trial, right? But I didn't know. I didn't know any fucking better. I honestly thought I was going to jail. But that goes back to, you know, like. you know Eddie Stenyoski and McPhil were great leaders and mentors of mine

and I learned fucking a ton from them but you know they could have pushed it even further or whatever but they didn't they're just like he's not going to fuck we're not anybody else so we're not going to fuck with them so yeah those those lessons are or the way to push people are almost gone Oh, fuck. I don't know of a place that you can do anything like that anymore.

You can't. You can't. You look at the way you beam and laugh at some of the abuse you've taken and some of the pressures they did. But, you know, like, I just don't know of a place you can do that in Canada anymore. Yeah. Well, it doesn't happen in your army anymore. Yeah. No, those are great days.

And the leadership that I saw in how they conduct. that themselves to train us. And Dancuin said it best yesterday. He's like, like he's trained literally thousands of men. From jumping out of airplanes to fucking being a patrolman or how to win a gunfight. You know what I mean? And he's like, when you train a man, you've got to train him hard. Like, you've got to make them hard.

Because outside these borders, life is hard. like it's and when you go to war with people they make it even harder and the only way to win is and and you've been on hockey teams right where other teams are better they're more skilled but if you're fitter and you have no give up you're going to win because they won't be able to keep up with your yeah hard work beats talent every day yeah is what is the I mean yeah and and we We had shit equipment back in those days, but it didn't cost anything to fucking mentally and physically abuse a person who was in the army to make them the people that we needed for times like Afghanistan, right?

Because the learning that we had in the 80s and early 90s set us up for success. I mean, look at the climate that we live in here, right? you can do a lot of things in this climate that you know isn't very nice to be a soldier in right it isn't very nice for any of us to live in well and and that's the thing and i've said this several times like bullying has has is a part of of growing up and like when that door flew open if i was scared of a fucking bully no fucking way i would have been running from that guy right i was always a small guy, underestimated,

you know, but you do, you got to deal with like when I, my mom and dad split up when I was a kid and I had to go to Wascana school. Well, every day at recess I'd have to fight in a tire or two. So the grade eights would stand on a tractor tire

and jump up and down and there'd be two of us inside of there and they'd fucking make us punch shit out of each other. Every recess, that was what we did. We fought. So, yeah, that's just what was going on at Waskanah School in Regina at the time. I lived above the Jolly Roger. It's a roughest bar in town now back then it wasn't as bad.

My mom would work night shift at the hospital. I'd wake up at six years old, walk to the fucking school by myself. Right? She'd have a lunch kit made for me. when I was at age the kids in kindergarten were like hey you don't want to fight anymore we could go over to my parents house and live across the street

I'm like fuck that'd be great so we jumped the fence to go over to his house we get across the first lane of traffic the other traffic's going east I stop my buddy keeps going he gets run over right in front and be killed dead dragged down the road blood fucking all over the place

you know that was my first experience in death and unfortunately not my last but um i totally forgot about that until i was like 20 some years old you know but you know what thinking back to it now like you know it's fucking crazy shit right well i appreciate you coming and doing this I mean, we've been bouncing around it forever. I've told you my ideas for hopefully, whether it's next year or the year to come. Hey, don't cut me off yet. I got one story I've got to tell you. No, this is huge.

And cue the exit music. Yeah, no, I got to talk about Bill Turner. All right, Bill Turner. Yeah, so Bill Turner was a Cimic officer. Bootstrap Bill? Isn't that straight from? No, no. Um, oh, fucking, uh, Pirates of the Caribbean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn't that what his name is? Bootstrap Bill Turner? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this guy's real Bill Turner. All right. Captain Bill Turner. Captain Bill Turner. Yeah, so.

Old bootstrap Bill. Yeah, he was a good dude. But prior to this, Captain Green was our Cimic officer. He got chopped in the fucking head. So, um, that's a, that is a horrific story, but had, like, a somewhat good turnout. you know he he fucking fought all kinds of adversities got himself healthy enough to get married and walked out yeah i don't know like it's just a beautiful story that way unfortunately he got chopped in the head so bill turner took over at captain green's job excuse me anyways um

Turner was left in this forward operating base gone bad for like two weeks and weight and like high stress just had his buddy chopped in the head, you know, all this stuff's going on with the area and we're, and he's supposed to be building a school for kids. So like getting everything up and running. Just very stressful. And he's supposed to be going back on a helicopter back to. Kenar. Well, the general Fraser had his convoy come out to combat and they set

up there, they're the protection team for the general. The general flies in. Well, the general brought his fucking clerk out which had no business being outside of the wire in a combat environment. So Bill Turner's seat

is taken up by some fucking clerk. So now Bill's got to fucking go back with the ground force convoy, which is all the security guys. Anyways, in the morning, we wake up, we have our, do our morning routine,

we're having fucking breakfast. Bill's like fucking upset, physically upset. I'm like, what's up, man? What's happening? He's like, fuck, Sinclair. Like, last night, I dream. I'm going to fucking die today.

I'm like, come on what are you talking about he's like yeah i had a fucking vivid like real life dream that i'm gonna fucking die today i'm like bill you're gonna be fine like it's shitty you're not going back by chopper these guys are professionals just get in the fucking vehicle sit there watch your arcs and i'll see you in fucking canterer we'll go for a fucking coffee i'll be back in fucking a week or whatever. Anyways, so as we're loading up, like they're loading into their vehicles to go back, I see this fucking Afghani black turban, black man jammies on with a black silk handkerchief. He's fucking up against the wire and he's waving this handkerchief at Bill.

And I'm like, get this fucking gut, like feeling like, oh my God. And I go over there, like I'm going, like it's 100 meters away, and Bill takes his fucking anchorchief, and he's getting into the G-wagon. And the G-wagon is a lightly armored vehicle with a gun turret on top. And I'm like, Bill, what the fuck was that? Who is that fucker? He goes, that guy's got a colossie bag.

I've been giving him glossy bags. He got wounded against the Russians, supposedly. Fucking, who knows? And I'm like, oh, fuck. but I can't tell them. Can't tell them I have a bad feeling now, right? So I'm like, all right, man, fuck, get in the vehicle, we'll see you in fucking Ken R.

Sure shit. They get 15 minutes down the road, fucking boom. Like this echo of explosion through the valley. We spool up our fucking lives and we fucking go rolling out like we're going there right now. Well, my guy that I would do night shift with, was the medic and I forget I think his name was Roe fucking great guy and uh row and I became very good friends like we would do the three to five shift every

morning anyways we get to this situation where there's a few other things that happened but now Roe is like we're in this site where this fucking thing it was turned inside out everybody inside this vehicle's fucking dead so Rose on his knees and he's fucking crying. And like literally the trees are full of like body parts. Like there's legs and there's fucking feet and there's hugs of flesh and the trees and shit. And I'm like, roll. This guy's fucking, these guys are dead. There's nothing you could do for these guys. And we have like a very black humor in the army. And there's somebody's fucking Gerber hanging in the trees that's been blowing through a body and it's fucking covered in intestine

and shit. But I see the black case of the Gerber kind of there right? So I fucking grabbed these guts and I'm like, Roe, make sure fucking Turner. Turner's Gerber gets handed in so his mom doesn't have to fucking pay the army for his fucking gerber. At least we found that. And he's fucking got these fucking big tears streaming down his face. Now he's fucking starts smiling and he's laughing, and cry and smile, laugh, cry. And this story goes on, but at the end of the day, what happened was,

is that I eventually tracked down the fucking guy that blew these four dudes up. And I'm out in Indian country all by myself or bad guy country. Guess who comes and finds me? Like, I'm so, I don't even have a radio. And the guy that came with me, I sent him back because I wanted him to tell people where I went and the bearing I was on. anyways who comes and finds me willie fucking McDonald because he came in from a different way and they're like we're sinkler he's they're like we don't know he's gone but i fucking track this dude down found his hat put it in a fucking bag so i didn't get contaminated by scent and yeah fucking

i'm coming back and who do i see running across the fucking desert will he fucking McDonald so we start talking and i'm like fuck am i glad to see you because like anything can happen out there you never know like fucking and you can't fight the whole fucking world right but with willie there yeah maybe we can so uh he's got a radio and he radios back that i found the fucking dude i know where he is you know what they do they send me and willie back to that village to picket it for the night the next morning they roll in capture like 90 dudes and we test their their skin with this residue to see if they've been handling explosives or shooting guns they all test positive and I give the dog handler the hat that's in the zip

log bag that I had for sucking chest wounds anyways the dog fucking smells the hat walks down the line of the guys that tested positive boom gets the guy that fucking killed four Canadians within 12 hours before that and he's the guy with the black handkerchief no but that black handkerchief was the signal to the guy that was blowing shit up, this is the guy we want killed. Because they didn't want that school to get built. They were targeting our CIMC guys. So it was a fucking signal.

This is the vehicle to blow up. Appreciate you coming in to us. I mean, where do you go from there, you know? Thanks for letting me tell you that story. Yeah, absolutely. You know I got time for you, Jamie. Anytime you're rolling through. They say the same thing to a lot of guys.

you know, you bring up Willie and the last time, well, the only time he's been through, and that was a cool experience. And, you know, I see where it goes. But I appreciate you coming in and doing this. Thank you. Thank you for giving people a voice. I can't wait for the next time. Next time I won't be sober October probably.

Or I'm not coming.