Shaun Newman Podcast - #521 - 222 Minutes

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

We are on the road between Lumsden and Bradwell Saskatchewan talking about the live shows. Let me know what you think. Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast

Okay, folks, we're driving between Regina, well, not Regina, Lumsden, Lumsden, and Bradwell. And heading to Bradwell. But it's a Thursday, which means this episode, we're shooting from the hip today. No entrance music, no nothing. This episode. I am 222 minutes. Welcome to this podcast.

I'm joined by Sean Newman. Correct. And we're driving. And it's brought to you today by Silver Gold Bowl. And so, two's, you know, I read off the same ad read every time for a bra, right? roughly the same. Well, you screw it up a little bit. When you were talking about Old World flooring last week, when you had that lady on in Costa Rica, you talked about that they had intention to detail and you missed it and kept going with it. So you should probably do better

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Sorry, can I say asshole during the ad read? No, absolutely. You can say whatever you want. I just did, so. What did you think? Well, actually, before we get into it, so we're on our way to, by the time this releases, we'll have been done, Lumsden,

and obviously Bradwell, we're on our way there, and this doesn't release until we're done that. So, and then if you're listening to this on Thursday morning and are so inclined, we're going to be in Irma, Alberta Friday night. So you got a couple of nights to prepare for that, 730 at Albert Hall. Just north of town. And doors open 630. And you can find the directions on social media. I'll have everything posted there so that people can look on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter and find the poster.

And that way they can see exactly where to go. There's no cover charge. but all the money raised that night is going to a family who lost their house into a fire. So pretty cool. What did you think last night, our first ever... I'm not going to call it a comedy show. You know, maybe I've done this service. This is probably a good...

Actually, maybe we should get to it later. I don't know. No, no, we can start there. Last night was so much fun. I had an absolute blast. We had a situation where the biggest laugh at the next... night came from just a random...

Mark. It was Mark. I remember that because we were making fun of different things that are considered racist. One of them being named Mark. And the guy was named Mark. That was funny. Yeah. Yeah. And he absolutely killed it. I was... We had to stop for a minute. I was crying, laughing so hard. Which you don't really expect when you're up in front of people

to be brought to tears from somebody else's joke. I mean, not even yours, but... Do you remember what he said exactly? If the listener's wondering? So we were talking. about, well, it was almost a tiny bit frustrating because there was a few people who knew exactly where we were going with this, but just kind of cold open into the next sort of area we were exploring. And we said, we've built a barn lately and how much did it cost you?

And then there was a couple guys in the back and were like, $8 million. Motherfucker, can you guys be quiet for a second? We're going to get to that. So we were talking about Rudeau. Hall in Ottawa, where the Governor General spent $8 million goddamn dollars and cents on a barn. And then everybody was just kind of laughing all over the place, and it got out a hand for us a little bit.

And then... It was a good crowd last night. Yeah. Anyways, Mark had pointed out, it was just like, it's not funny because we're the ones paying for it or something like that, and just to yell from the back. It's funny, but where we started with this is, is... You know, I think I did deserve it. Because I think I've called it the, you know,

we've called it the Tuesday MASHR live tour. I don't know if I've ever used comedy show. But I'm looking back, and I think that's what I implied if I didn't outright say it was a comedy show. And one of, you know, some of the feedback we got last night was, you know, is this a comedy show? Like, you know, and I'm like... Well, there was a couple older liberal ladies who sat in the back,

and the bartender said that here's the saying, like, I thought this was supposed to be funny. I mean, if you don't laugh, you cry, I guess. But I don't know, I thought we did a pretty good job of pointing out the silliness and the hilarity of a lot of things going on. But we were having a discussion. It isn't exactly a comedy show. Like, it's not like somebody gets on stage, giving a mic, walks around and says joke after joke of your joke. Certainly we're talking about different stories, which I guess could be bits.

But would you label us a comedy show? None of them are traditional bits, I would say, and none of it is traditional comedy in terms of stand-up. It's definitely not stand-up comedy, but I would say that we got quite a few, I would say even quite a few probably understanding it. There was some people who laughed the whole time, which very much appreciated. And then we got a lot of, we got a lot of laughter throughout the night. Was it funny for everybody but those poor ladies in the back who thank you for coming? I come back to it and I go, was it a, like, I go back to Judy Reeves, um, episode 110 when she was asking, you know, like, what are you doing?

And I'm like, oh, just this and that. And I wouldn't say the word journalist or journalism. She's like, you're a journalist. Like, ah, she's like, you can call it whatever you want to call it. Do you have a journal? I know exactly what you're doing. You're a journalist. You're looking.

You're investigating. You're talking to people. That's what journalism. journalism is. Now, is it in the traditional sense that I would think of, you know, I don't know, working for the CBC and going out and covering stories and going over to Kuwait or whatever? I don't know. The CBC doesn't do any of those things, but true. But you get the point. And in my mind, I went, no. And so last night, I don't know what a, what a comedy show, like, I don't know the definition of a comedy show. But I'm like, in, in a sense,

what we did last night was maybe a style of a, just a different style of comedy show. Like, not your traditional sense. It's not quick dick if he's listening this. When he gets up on stage, he walks around, he has stories he tells and bits and everything else. And I'm like, I don't know what the heck we did last night. Obviously, we talked about news headlines. Yes.

And how fucked up the world is. Yes. And some of that is low-hanging fruit. Which is some of that is so hilarious you can't believe it. And other words, it's so much sobering. You know, it's like, I can't believe this is going on. So I don't know, what would you call it? I don't know.

What does the listener call that? I would say that it's not stand-up, but it is comedy. I think our main drive last night was to make people laugh. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Yeah, it wasn't so much necessarily

somebody mentioned... It's funny, like on the one hand, you had a couple people in the back who were, I guess, mystified by the whole idea. And then we even had somebody who came up was like, I want to film a dog. documentary about you guys. So there was, and everything in between. It was really fun and

interesting to, as neat as it was to go up there and get the feedback and everything like that. It was awesome to talk to everybody afterwards and hear what everybody thought about it. And so, you know, we weren't, we weren't out there to change people's minds or to bring them around to our way of thinking. Our way of thinking, yes, thank you. Exactly. But, we were just there to talk about this crazy world we live in in this fucked up country that we're

most of us I guess listening you know there's a lot of you with VPNs now so apparently you're in Malaysia but this country has gone off the goddamn rails and there's a lot of comedy in it that nobody seems to be picking up or too afraid to talk about

because well Whether it's because they don't see it or they're unwilling to talk about it. Or are all the big stages for comedians in cities? Well, that's what Nick was talking about? What did we get talked about last night? It'd be interesting to see you take this show to the big city and how you're receptive there. And I'm like, well, I would love to just sit down and do exactly what we did in Toronto or Vancouver. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Screw Toronto or Vancouver. Well, obviously, yes, as a general concept. No, but we literally have Edmonton, which is all NDP. And we know this guy, Nick von Dubs. So, Nick, if you're listening, we could literally go do it in Emmington some night and probably, you know, go like, hey, like, let's just throw it together and see how it's receptive here. And if it crashes and burns, you go, well, I guess carry on.

Because that would be out of our conference zone. And I don't know. Nick, if you're listening, I'm not forcing this on you by any stretch. I am. We have to do this now. But I personally, I think it would be absolutely wonderful to go into what you could amicably call hostile territory. It is hostile territory. And if there ever is it. Say everything that, like just point out everything that they're unwilling to talk about or acknowledge,

but that in the back of their head, deep down, right in the cerebellum where it meets the spinal cord, they know that this is fucked up and it doesn't make a lick of sense. You remember when Trudeau taped over, or he put that Apple sticker over top of the HP sticker on a laptop that almost certainly wasn't even his for a photo op. And when people on the right pointed out how silly and stupid and VAPID Trudeau is, everybody on the left really vehemently lashed out about it.

It wasn't because this whole Apple sticker over an HP thing was such a big deal. But the pushback that guys got on the right, pointing out how silly it was, was very strong. And I think that particular instance, and there's a few other ones like it, where it just rings too true for them to wash it away. and then they just get really mad. Right? So when deep down, subconsciously, whatever, you know that something is silly. We're just, oh, right, goddamn stupid.

Even if it's your team putting it forward, rah, rah, rah. You know, even if you're that person who's just silently going along with it or even vocally going along with it. But you can't hide that from yourself. And I think that it would be really interesting to talk about the things we were talking about last night to a group. Yeah, but, I mean, people who show up to comedy to begin with

should be going there knowing they could be offended. Am I wrong on that? Like, I go into a comedy not going while he's going to talk about it. Like, you know, some comedians you just find funny because they can point out the obvious. The greatest do. Yep. And some who are okay, you know,

and then there's just others that annoy you because you just totally disagree with them. But I never leave going, I want to punch that guy out. I just go, that guy isn't my cup of tea or whatever, that woman. But, I mean, there's a lot of comedy and speaking truth to power. I'm going to go back, though, to what you said, about enemy territory and Toronto and Vancouver.

I look at it and I go, the enemy territory for me is not Toronto and Vancouver. It could simply be Lloyd Minster. It could be, you know, because right now we went to Lumsday. which is small town. It was awesome. We're going to Bradwell, which is tiny. Everyone's like, where the hell are you going?

And you go, we're going to the Freedom Bar, Hank's Tavern. That's because everybody keeps asking where the hell are you going, and you keep telling them Bradwell. True, true. Not like we're all just going to do, we're all going to get in William Jennings car. All I'm getting at is if you want enemy territory, it's probably Regina, it's probably Saskatoon, it's probably Lloyd Minster, it's probably Vermilion,

Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge, it's all here. I don't have to go, I don't think we have to go try and win over Toronto. I think at this point we all go, we see the world way different. Now, at some point, if you ever got to the point where you got invited out to Toronto, I think that could be a ton of fun. I'm not against going out to Ontario. I just go like right now, enemy territory, last night was the first time, folks. And I don't know, maybe two's noticed.

It's the first time I've been nervous in a lot. long time. Probably going back to my first show because I didn't, I have no, like, twos can see this. I'm like, okay, Tuesday is sitting having a beer with Henry and Jamie and I showed out to both of those guys. And I'm just like, I'm just like, can you guys just fuck off? And can we get to the point where I understand what we're doing in this show? Because I'm not getting up on stage and winging it. I don't do that. I need to understand what we're trying to accomplish. But we do that every week with a mash up show. But the problem, but we have an outline. But that's what we had last night. Do we have an outline? We literally, did we keep it by the way?

Yeah, we did. Okay, all right, so we've got an outline for tonight, too, which is nice. But we didn't have the outline until, like, an hour before where it was, the notes were put out in an outline. That's literally what we do with the mashup. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's not true at all. You have the outline, what, 24 hours before? Generally speaking, and that is the content.

That is the absolute content of the show. Now, do we have a format of how we're going to run the show? Do we have a format of how we're going to run the show, too? I mean, we've got a... Do we have a format? How we're going to run this show? Loose agenda. Do we have...

We have a loose agenda. No, do we have a sponsor if we start with? Do we usually talk about what the upcoming week looks like? Then do we run through every headline and end with happy news and at the end talk about community? Is that not a format? Is that not a loose agenda? That is a format. That is a loose agenda.

That is a format. That is exactly what it is. It's a format. Now, then we give a loose... Some weeks we're a little more tight and sometimes we're a little more loosey-goosey on how we go back and forth on each topic. Does that lend itself to the idea of a format or a loose agenda? It's a format. The format is laid out.

That's what we're doing. Now, how strict do you want to stick to it? Sure. Loosely. To our agenda. So yesterday night, we're sitting there two hours before. I still don't have the form. So last night was the most nervous I've been for a show since my first show.

And my first show is going, I don't know if anyone's going to be interested in this. And halfway through the show with Daniel Smith and And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, uh, And, And, uh, And, remember where Shane Getson, Eric Payne, I went, oh my God, people are enjoying this. Okay, okay, but I was still freaking terrified. Last night, I'm going, we're trying to be in my brain funny or relevant or whatever, and people need to, I got to try and gauge if people are enjoying this by laughter. Because, you know, if I looked at the entire night, they were all engaged. There's only a couple times where it kind of got like, oh, but, and as soon as I thought we were losing people,

it was almost like somebody had said something off of something we had said. said they all laughed and then they came right back to us which was really interesting and um uh john romick pointed it out because when i got up to speak he's oh teachers in class like everybody i'm like oh you know and so people were ready to to do that with us which was really cool yeah we but last thing was very willing engaged audience last thing was probably the nervous i've been because i didn't i didn't know what we were doing and i don't know if the audience understood and in fairness we i don't know if we knew what we were doing Yes, but no.

It was... So here's one of the very few shortcomings of me, is that I can understand what I'm picturing in my head, but do a very poor job of articulating it. Mrs. Tews is going to be listening to this and be like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's totally it right there. So we're driving down to Lomsden, and we've got a very loose agenda, if you will.

And so I'm running a shotgun, taking a couple notes. Shotta and I are talking back and forth. And I'm looking at this loose agenda and thinking, okay, well, this is it. We're good. I want to remind everybody, like two days before we were supposed to have the spice rack, which was something Tews was building, we were supposed to have, we have in the back, we have a projector so we could show people the headlines. And let's be clear.

The projector never made it in. The table never even got in the vehicle. Now, in fairness, weather had a lot to do with that. We were going to be... I mean, two's left at three in the morning on Tuesday morning. Drove seven and a half hours to get to Lloyd. And if you do the math from Calgary, you can understand how long it took because of the weather. I'm not in Calgary.

I'm north at Calgary. Correct. Right? And so you go, it's been a bit of a crap shoot since we started. So, so anyways, Sean's looking at this bare bones. Well, I'm just going I prepare... Are we going to call that a format?

I'm looking at it and I'm going, there's zero structure to what we're doing and people need to understand what's coming in a thing. Even if it's just an hour of comedy. We're going to sit up here and we're going to do an hour of comedy. They go, okay, I can sit and I can... We're framing it for them. But I'm looking at what we've got laid out

and I'm saying, okay, well, we're good. We've got this from here. We're getting a couple things printed off and we're ready to rock. and Sean is looking at me like I'm fucking insane, which is probably valid. And like, no, no, no. This is exactly what I want.

I want it to just be as spontaneous, if you will, as possible. Because I think that's where the magic of the mashup resides, really. Lots of it is granted being able to find the more silly things, being able to speak honestly to the salient point. Don't show up to each mashup and go, hey, let's just talk about anything. We go, these are the 14 topics we're going to talk about. And when we have that, then the spontaneity comes out of me and you going back and forth, which usually you've thought a lot about and you have your one-liners.

That's what it is. Most? Well, actually, that's not even fair. A lot of those one-liners are spontaneous because I don't know exactly what direction we're going. Fair. And I usually screw that up. And generally speaking, and I'm pretty sure it's on purpose at this point. Sometimes.

Right? Because I'll think, okay, well, you know what, if this topic goes in this direction, then I can throw this quip out and I'm going to be hilarious. It's going to be wonderful. You guys have probably listened to it before. And then Sean, he's got this weird spidey sense, but it's an asshole sense. So it's, you know, it's not he can sniff it out. It's the other end.

And he'll realize some fucking how where I'm trying to go with this. And then he'll derail it so that I can't nail my one lighter. I'm just trying to come up with shit on the fly, which makes it fun and interesting, even though I want to reach through the screen and strangle it. And so, anyway, that's, I think, where a lot of the fun in the mashup is, is we've got this totally unspoken sparring going on, where we're just trying to fuck each other up as much as possible, and just explore ideas. And so that was all I was hoping last night was going to be.

And so we had like 18 words on a page. I'm like, okay, well, this is good. This is all we need. And Sean's looking at me like I grew a third head. No, I don't need it scripted out. Just I'm like, I do, I don't, you know, like, I say this a lot. I'm not a funny guy. Like, I don't, I don't pretend to be funny.

I don't want to be, I don't want to be the guy. Well, I don't know. I just want to be a great host. You know, I think I said, out to be a, and as you do that, you start to learn things, you start to, you start to read more, you start to listen to a bunch of people, you start to develop your own ideas, etc, etc. But I've never been the guy that can just throw out these one-liners and have everybody laughing. Maybe I'm wrong on that, maybe somebody will tell me different.

In saying that, I could obviously hold a conversation. So I knew it was going to be a conversational format that was going to resound around being it kind of funny, which usually comes from twos saying something off the cuff, spontaneously, that is rather funny. That's usually what happens. Two minutes ago, you were saying it's all planned out. It's not all planned out. There's structure to it.

Just so you can steer... It's a loose... Just so you can steer the ship in a general direction that the audience understands where you're going. That's all I was... So an hour and a half before, you're sitting there having a beer. I'm going, can we just figure out what's going to be... By the way, can we talk about that?

for a sack. Sure. So we show up and then Jamie, we were talking to Jamie on the way up here on speakerphone. He's like, yeah, I'm going to be at the bar first. I'm going to be drunk by the time you get there. We show up. He's not there yet. So he's a fucking liar. But he gets there not very long after we did. And like immediately, what are you drinking? And then Sean gets, what was it, Bud Light were you drinking? No, no, it's something a little bit more game. Water. Water. And so, Sean's in this... Day 24, sober, well, day 25 today, folks. Yeah, it's...

Are you guys going to include that in that new flag that keeps up getting updated all the time? Are you going to put sober people in there, too? Well, if they ask, I'll join, you know? The LGBTQIA plus... 2SL plus, yeah. Yeah, yeah, the S in there. Actually, I think they moved to SL to the front, didn't they?

SL LGBTQ, something like that. Anyways. Well, the acronym is... But I'm the guy that has to constantly say it over and over again, you know. Well, Jesus Christ. Like, give props to Trudeau where it's deserved. He does spend a lot of time making sure he's up to date on that ever-changing acronym. Sure.

Anyway, yeah, we show up and basically I just sit down with Jamie and start having a few beers. And then Sean just goes around setting everything up. Correct. Afterwards, I was. you know, talking to a few people here and there, having a couple drinks, enjoying myself, and then Sean took down all the equipment, loaded everything back up in the car. So, anyways, the mule of the story, yeah. Being the sober guy is never fun.

No, because even if I was having a beer to, things need to get unloaded and loaded in, you know? It's like, he paints it as the sober story of don't be sober folks. We were both making sure that things got loaded. Really? Really? Where we? The vehicle got loaded, and so did twos. Uh-huh, yeah.

Somebody made sure Tews got home last night, folks. That's this guy, right? Yes. A wonderful home, by the way. Thanks very much for the hospitality. I tell you what, there was good people there. We passed on the way up, risking a home farm. Yep.

And if you listen to the mashup, they sponsored a couple weeks back. Geez, how long it was that? And that's Vernon and Barb. So we called them. And they had no idea where it coming through, and they showed up to the show and got to sit and talk with them for a while. That was awesome.

You had a whole bunch of guests from the actual podcast show up. You know, another one, Ariel, Garden Girl. She brought me purple carrots, which that was awesome. You know, because I've been talking a lot about, you know, just purple vegetables in general. And so she showed up. Yeah, John Romick, and then that other lady from Lumsden.

Yes, Charlotte Sebastian. She was the one who talked about the 80s sex cards. Then you had Jamie Sinclair and, of course, Henry Sidlitz and his wife Terry last night. And they put us up. And it just all I can think of is dad, because dad always talks about good people. And that's what was there last night. There was a bunch of good people. And overall, for a first time sitting down having an idea, you know, stem out of our brains and go, like, let's see if this works.

traveling five hours for you, 12 and a half hours to a small town bar to sit there and talk to people because that's exactly, that's what it was. I think that's a wonderful idea. I think that, like, it was, it was, in that case, I would say it was a smashing success for the first one. It was a room to grow 100%. But overall, like, we didn't show up and two people showed up. It was, as, as Henry pointed out, at the start, there was, you know, like, I don't know how many people that place holds. It's probably 75. And at the start, there was probably 45. But as it, turned from 7 to 715 to 730, you had 75 people.

Every table was full, and everybody was watching what was going on, which was a ton of fun. On a Tuesday in Lumsden, Saskatchewan, after a snow, after a snow start. Yeah. And by the way, like the first thing we did when we hit the town was we hung a quick double right and pulled into the distillery and got some whiskey. Because, yeah. Supposedly, it's, the lady was telling us it's one best whiskey of Canada three years running. Think about that. That's, I don't know.

I don't know enough of whiskey. They've been winning awards in Lumsden for, I think 2008 was the first time they won an award. I've been a fan of them for a long time. But, you know, the details are fading with age. I think they've been, 2008 was when they had that run of whiskey that just blew everybody away. And they've been doing great ever since. Do we change format tonight? To what?

What's the options? Um, well, my, my brain goes, does Sean lead the way talk for eight minutes, roughly? And then does twos come on and do an abbreviated stand-up? And then we come on together and do the mashup. We can do whatever we want, but keep in mind we've got some, how cool is this? We're the opening act for Cooper in our own show. So Cooper Tropto? I don't know. I've been butchering his name now.

We talked to his dad yesterday and he said it and I'm like, I'm going to butcher it again. True pow is what I keep saying, but I think I'm wrong on that. So it's Cooper and then it's T-R-O-P-D-A-U. Is that how it is? Yeah. Anyways. If you go to Cooper, T-R-O, he'll pop up on Spotify for you. Yeah.

Country music singer. And I apologize, Cooper, because at some point here, I'm going to get your name. right it's just not right now but yeah so we got that tonight which will be interesting because that'll follow us and he'll be the the musical act for people to stick around and listen to yeah but I don't know from Vonda great town I've been kicked out of it more than once I so I go I don't know if anybody knows about you really if you want to the question is we have three shows in a roll do we want to keep it the same thing and dial it in and dial it in or

do we want to try wildly different things get a vague idea I'm trying to remember what we did. You know, like one of the things we were talking about was a four or five episodes released on Rumble. You remember? Four. Four. So the first month of the mashup, we were released on Rumble and never told anyone. This is a true story.

We released it, and we tried not wildly different things. It was relatively the same thing we just were tweaking to see if we enjoyed it. We threw it out to about 10 people. That was roughly it. And eventually, I think it was Dustin just said, you know, just got to release it and see if people like it. So then we just started putting it out and went from there. And obviously it's turned into the Tuesday mashroom because at that time, what are we calling it, the Tuesday mashroom? I kept one. Um, well, uh, some homeless guy

came up with that idea on our way into your studio one day. And so we gave him a dollar. We gave him a dollar. Told him to get lost. And I got, I don't know. Like last night, I just said was a smashing success. Could it be better? Could it be, you know, I don't know the answer. It could definitely be better, but I do think that, not to overstain herself, but smashing success is probably fairly accurate. I think that it was speaking a lot of truth that isn't getting talked about these days,

and definitely not in front of a live audience. It's true, you can find stuff like that on a podcast, but there's not much, there's very few people who are getting in front of audiences and speaking, that candidly about how stupid and crazy the world is. And lots of these jokes just wrote themselves. There's literally instances where we're like, okay, there isn't even a punch

line here. This is a headline that we talked about. It's true. It is true. But once again, if you go back to what we did on Rumble, maybe I'm convincing myself of changing the show a little bit. Just tweaking. We weren't interested when we did the episodes on Rumble

on whether people liked them or not. Our litmus test was are we enjoying doing this? Yes. That was full start and stop. That's all we cared about. Well, I enjoyed myself last night. I could safely say that.

Oh, me as well. That was a lot of fun. It was a big high. I go, the showman in me, like the event, is I go, if I'm an audience member, one of the things I've heard about when I do the keynote speaks at the start, 12 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 minutes,

it's real fast, is even if you're not like engaged, things are changing all the time. And we don't have like visuals and, you know, like, you know, like, I don't know, a huge skit where we're jamping around. We're literally sitting at a table and chatting. Kind of like it reminds me a little bit of like Ron White in the Blue Color Comedy Tour. You had four different guys that came up and they each had their style. Our style is sitting at a table. This was, we were joking about this beforehand.

This is like an acoustic set of the match. Sure. Yes. Yeah, 100%. And I go, does it change it if I walk up first and do what I normally do at the start of a show and host? Then you come up and do an eight-minute bit, if you would. That actually is strictly comedy

that you're going to be doing with Quick Dick McDick in a week's time. Yeah, which I mean, we can plug as much as we want. It's been sold out forever. It's true. I mean, that's just really cool, Vic Juba and Lloyd. Actually, that's a lie. You want to know what? Guess who's got two tickets?

of that show. Who's got two tickets to that show, Sean? I have two tickets to that show that we could give away. I'm literally shooting this off the hip. Lloyd Minster, November 4th, I have two tickets. What do we want to do for people to reach out for those? Shoot me a text on the line and we'll announce it on Monday's show. This release is on Thursday.

No. While me and you record... How about we just do some kind of like... So we got the fundraiser for Irma. on Friday. We just did the one for Lumsden. How about this? Tell me if it's a shitty idea.

We just do a silent auction. Text the showline with how much you think those tickets are worth. High is bitter. And then we split it between the two cases or cases. We put it in Irma and Lumsden. Yeah, yeah. We just split it down the middle and half each way. So this comes out on Thursday.

This comes out on Thursday. we'll give it three days. We'll give it until Saturday because it's the following Saturday. People need to know a week out that they're going to be going to a show. And all you've got to do is text, and I'll just say if you're the high bid. Yep. All right? And if you get it and, oh man, how am I going to work that?

Just you, you, you. If you haven't heard from me after I say high bid, you just got to keep texting. Keep trying. But, okay, I like that. And the money you can e-transfer me and we'll get it. We'll go to Irma. And half to Lumsden. And half to the Lumsden.

Fire department for their fast response unit, which I guess I got to work on the delivery for that joke. But Sean said it was going for the Lumson Fire Department. Yep. For the fast response unit that they're fundraising for. And then I said it was funny because we'd asked before the show what exactly this was going. Like we knew it was going to the fire department, but what specifically are you fundraising for? And the rapid response unit. And I said, yeah, that's actually what my girlfriend calls my penis.

And that killed at the table. And then I was like, okay, well, I got to make that joke when we get up there. So lead Sean into it. He says it. And then I throw the joke out there. And it was easily the one that crashed the hardest all night. And it was dead silence in there for like 10 seconds until I said, wow, tough crowd. And then everybody laughed.

It's funny. Sometimes your best plans have it, you know, like. Like, I bet you there's comedians that would tell you exactly this. You plan out a joke and then it falls flat, and then you do something that you don't see coming and it's hilarious. That happened multiple times last name. We planned on telling the goat's story relatively last. And the goat's story is the story that is so absurd, so hilarious. I expected people to laugh.

And instead, you know, you know what? They were just kind of blinking at us. They were kind of dumbfounded that people were that dumb, I think, is the way they took it. Yeah. And I was like, oh, I thought this was hilarious because. because of how hard the cops work to get back to goat just to kill it. And how hard that family, they put the goat into witness protection, basically. So for the listener, hundreds of miles away.

Tell the quick story, the synopsis of this, the goat. Okay. Family has presumably an acreage of some kind. They're definitely not full farm people. California, the kids have goats. And then there's a county fair, and they're doing a goat auction. and so the parents and the kids somehow together decided it would be a great idea

to put this little girl's goat into the auction and then the high bidder for this particular goat is the county they're like oh we're going to have a a barbecue a cookout whatever I'm guessing it's the south but it's California so it could go either way I'm not sure and they're like oh that's wonderful you guys are going to honor the goat

Like, no, we're going to fucking eat the goat. And so, what, what? Yeah, yeah, that goat that you just sold us, we're going to eat it. That's what people do with goats is you raise them up. And when they get big enough, you eat them. And it showed up to Vernon Barbies. He's telling the story we're driving by your farm. We're going right by risk and hope.

Yeah, there you go. Right there. The iconic barn. You bet you. Carry on. So, anyway. I'm like, well, that's, no, no, we don't want that. Can we get the goat back?

Like, no. You sold it. You've literally sold us this dog. goat and now we're going to eat it and so they go back at night mission impossible the fucking barn that's being held that steal the goat sneak away with it but don't hide it at their house because that's where everybody's expected to find it they go two counties over hundreds of miles away and give it to i don't know presumably a friend for safekeeping hide it there with with their goats and then some local cop it's like we will not let this fucking stand goes

surveillance mode tracks down this goat as if you can tell the difference between one goat and a fucking other and then gets a search and breach and seizure warrant so they literally got

a battery ram for the barn warrant to go get this goat that he managed to track down at this other fucking farm hundreds of miles away. Correct. Get the goat back. Take it back to the county they cook it up and eat it

and now they're being sued for that and now the mom of this kid is trying to sue the county for getting back the goat that they rightfully bought that had been stolen from them and then cooking and eating that goat

I wish and so anyways just every step along this way the links that this family went to to the starting off, I guess, with the naivety of these people to not understand what happens to livestock and then to go back to these extreme lengths to get the goat back and then the extreme lengths that this cop went to to find the goat and take it back, the judicial system backing him every step of the way, taking it back to the county who then was like, yep, fucking fire up the grill, eat the fucking goat.

and then the family to just be like, this is all fucking bullshit, we're going to sue you for stealing back your goat that you bought from them and then eating it. So every step along this way is absolutely ludicrous.

And yeah, it was funny. I was thinking the same thing. I was expecting more of a response to this. But I think... But it's funny, as you tell the story, I go, it just needed to punchline. Well, I don't know where... I don't know what I got right

when we talked about it I know, because I was, you know, I should almost go back and listen because I was in tears. Like, we were talking about the, so what we did, you know, for the folks that couldn't make it out and won't be able to make it out, and I don't want to give too much away from Irma. But some of the thought process was, is like, we've done 78 mashups now. Let's kind of go back through and pick some of the funest stories, some of the themes that have gone over the last year and a half, and let's talk about them. And so, bar none, I would say, we think the goat story is the most absurd, funny thing we've ever read. in any news outlet. But you go to a small town and probably the basic concept gets lost because they're like,

well, it's fucking livestock. Of course you're going to eat it. How is this even a thing? And it's funny. It just landed so flat and you're like, oh. Like I did not see that coming. And it's like, okay. All right.

Well, that's our finale. Thanks for coming out. Oh, goodness. Well, especially with we, we were trying to. tried to decide what order to do the most ludicrous stories with what we ended with. And Sean was like, okay, well, what order do you want to do it? And I said, do the first one last and then call it how you see it. And for some reason, that ended up getting horribly misconstrued.

I thought he said first and last. So I was like, okay, goat and then, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter. The Big Boat, Caleb Lemieux or whatever. I was the shop teacher. I'm like, all right, sure. I mean, that's an easy one to lead out in front because they're a foot in front of the guy. And so anyway, yeah, there was this probably two minutes of us just going back and forth mashup style,

but what order we were going to talk about these last handful of things. You know, we talked about we were going to banter a lot last night, you know, just see how it goes. And we had a lot less of that because it was too structured? No, not because it was too structured at all, because there was actual interaction from the audience. So it actually took your focus off of you being irritating or probably me being irritating. Definitely you. I would say that was probably, you know, one of the most, probably the most, not difficult thing, but something that's straight out way different than doing it online is having the audience where you can see the reaction.

So like, by the way, we're driving past a solar panel covered in snow right now. Please continue. Welcome to Saskatchewan. Saving the world, one solar panel at a time. You just go like... Think how much longer your shingles last? One of the things I couldn't prepare for Because like at my SMP presents

You've been to them Lots of people listening have been to them I was one of the guys at one of them Right on stage for one of them right And that one though was a comedy show That was exactly how I built it We were there to make people laugh But what happens at the rest of them

Nobody really laughs Like if people laugh It's actually something a little bit It's ancillary compared to what the main idea of the S&P presents is. It's something that happens as a byproduct. Correct. So to me, last night, when we do our thing,

if you get me to laugh, you're probably doing your job. And I don't mean... I got you to laugh quite a few times. Last night. No, no, no. I mean in the regular Tuesday mashup, right? When you catch me off guard with one of your... I don't try and proofread the Tuse headlines.

Like obviously I write them out, but in my brain I'm trying as hard as I can not to try and read them aloud so that I can have a little bit of fun with it. And there will be times when I find, because reading is something that's saying it out loud to me are like not completely two different things, but are kind of two different things. And so I'll catch myself after I read a headline.

I'll be like, that was clever. And I get to laugh at myself. But last night, if I read one of your headlines and they burst out laughing, I was like, oh, they found them that funny. and that takes my my um uh what i would do on the tuesday mashup when it's just me and you it actually takes my focus away and now i'm focusing on the crowd and i've kind of forgot what i was going to say or attack you on you talk about me trying to derail things when i when it's just me and you

that's how i have fun with it right is i get to like try and steer it and maybe i'm annoyed with something you're saying yes well i'm playing chess he's playing checkers but yes yeah it's it's very much there's this intellectual gladiatorial match happening behind the curtain in every single mashup and I think people get glimpses of it from time to time

sometimes it just comes out as complete bickering and that's fine too well it manifests in several ways but that's I think that that's one of the things you make a really good wrestling partner as far as that goes it's a lot of fun Did you just shut it off?

No, no, no, no. Is that where we're ending it? I'm just making sure it's recording, you know? Like my brain can never... Ever since QDM, the first time where I didn't press record, it's like a fear of mine in the background that I'm not recording. And so you decided to check in an hour and a half into this? 45 minutes.

That's how long we've been going. And, yes, I'll probably do it like six other times. Well, that's good. It's just, why did you wait 45 minutes? I didn't. I checked it probably three times. Okay. And maybe I just did that one.

I waited for a break in the conversation to do it. Okay. But, no, I check it quite often because tomorrow I have no episode. So if this doesn't record, I'm up Shick Creek. So when we get to Bradwell, I have to literally find Internet, edit this real fast, and throw it up for tomorrow. You could probably tether your phone, too, if you need it. Oh, 100%. And it'll be just an audio file.

It'll be super quick. It will be super easy. Yeah. Are we going to record Bradwell? Are we going to record Irma? I don't know why, but every time you do this, you don't talk to the mic. So talk to the mic. Are we going to...

Yeah, that's way better. Okay. So if you're going to do this, bring it over here. Stop worrying about the vehicle noise. Okay. Are we going to record Bradwell? Are we going to record Irma? I hope we haven't pissed people off for like the first 45 minutes because I should have said that right off the hop.

Yeah, you're checking that we're recording, but you're not checking that any of the audio is getting picked up. No, no, the audio's getting picked up. You're just way quieter than me, and probably people are noticing it now, because I've pointed it out, and I'm apologizing right now, because I'm like, you're still there. I'm checking the voice thing, and it's not like you're quiet.

You're there, but I'm like, I can hear it. And the reason mine's station, like, this is the funniest thing. We're jammed into my vehicle right now. We are packed in here like fucking sardines. I always wondered what Drew Weatherhead and driving around and podcasting on his vehicle feels like. This is probably what it feels like. But mine's stationed ahead of me so that I talk and look at the road so we don't crash.

You don't have that problem, so you need to have it over the minute. I actually also don't want to crash. I do have that consideration. I just have no direct, I have no lever on the outcome. Correct. That's right. I should have given him the headphones so he could hear his own voice. That's probably what I should do.

I hate the way I sound. You don't like putting the headphones on? well I'm pretty deaf a lot of years deaf or daff I'm probably also a little bit daft but is daft

or is daft or is daft and oh maybe it is daft it's daft anyways so like daft punk they they got their name because some random British dude gave them a very unfavorable review very early on in their careers

and said that it was just a bunch of daft punk And they're like, that's a great name. We should put helmets on and go by that. And since then, they've been around the world a million times. And that's just the one song. That's why we read. So that's why we, that story is just, cements why we read off when we get bad criticism on things we do.

Right? Like, Henry was just saying to us yesterday. So on this week's Tuesday mashup, we lead off with two people who said, stop bickering at the start, smarten up, and like, you know. Don't bore it. get to the chorus. Yeah, that's basically it. And so we read both of those off

because I'm not afraid of bad reviews especially on the Tuesday mashup. I'm like, bring it on. Like, let's talk about this. Because this is me and two's, you know, like actually, if it's going to be negative, so be it, right? And let's talk about it.

And in saying that, Henry was like, I couldn't believe you guys read that off and then just got right into it. Normally you would have bucked that and been like, fuck that. We're going to banter for an extra 10 minutes. Yeah.

Oh, you don't like this? buckle up, motherfucker. It's going to be twice as much now. I was actually kind of half-ass... Well, I didn't know... So Sean didn't say anything about this stuff. He springs things on me live, right? And I do it to him too.

But so I had no idea that we'd gotten that feedback or what it was until he read it out. And then I was half-assed expecting, like, all right, we're going to do maybe just a mini-conversation episode and then eventually get to the news. just to be contrarian. And then we just went right into it. I'm like, okay, yeah, this works too.

But sometimes you're feeling it sometimes or not. You know? Like sometimes I'm like, let's stick it to the man. Other times I'm like, man, all right. Well, I mean, it's like when we got the feedback about, we swear a lot in the show, mostly Sean, but sometimes we watch.

Well, actually, the feedback has been two. One, we swear too much. There's been three things on swearing. One, the entry song, okay? Yeah. One is on the song. People don't like that song. And some people love it, but I think it's wearing off.

I think, I could be wrong on that. Maybe I'll light up the text line with that comment. And I would say what me and you are looking for is a Canadian upcoming artist that could have some fun and do an intro for the mashup. Would you agree with me on that? I wouldn't be. I think I really like the song. I like the shortened version of it better.

I don't, but I think that ship sailed. I don't need to die on that hill. But the thing is, I think people in Evan... The next hill we get to is blackstrap, so it's a ways off anyway. Well, and the thing is I think people have voiced their enjoyment of you talking over the song at this point. Which, can I point out how against that you were? at the start? Well, I was, but I think I almost think when I'm against something like

that, people like seeing how I get riled up about you and they like the argument. So now it's just become like, nobody texts me anymore about any of that. Oh, it's just accepted. No, at the beginning, yeah, probably. It's like Tuesday's going to have his little rant, you know. But regardless,

the three criticisms we get, okay? You're the three. On the swearing front. The song. Because obviously Eminem, uses the word... He says the word motherfucking. Correct. Yeah, it's basically

it's between him and Samuel and Jackson, who says it the most. Two, the amount of times the F-bomb is used in a show. That's why every once in a while we have... But I want to be very clear here. This is very split down the middle.

There are people, if they heard that somebody says to stop swearing, they would be swearing at them to shut up, like to shut up, because they're like... It's nice to hear the news

with F-bombs in it. But that's not for everybody, It's not for everybody, and that's one of the criticisms, is that you could do it without it. That's why we introduced the no swearing episodes, and that's where Roosters Slurke, arguably the best, well, it's part of our logo now, has come out of having to think creatively not using the F-Bomb.

So, like, to me, there's something there. Yeah. No. I like the fact that we, I like the fact that we silo it. Am I ever going to tell twos, you have to self-censor? No, that'd be ridiculous. We're not the news.

We allow to have his, thoughts because that's what makes the mash up fun. It's because it's so far from the news and if he wants to swear, let him swear. Now, the third one might have some validity to it and that is the word, the use of

Jesus Christ. People don't like when you swear using the Lord's name. What if I just said Bahamad? They'd probably chuckle it that. What if I just started merging? If I got really upset if you're one of these people

that Sean's talking about, maybe just throw it on you for about seven seconds. But what if I was just like Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha fucking Christ? I don't know. I actually don't know if that's... I think that would be pretty fair. I could throw...

Ooh, I could piss off large swaths of people by combining a name that just has crossover. The Egyptian god ISIS. I could throw ISIS in there as well and just leave no field unburnt. To me, I don't know. I don't know the answer on that.

To me, if it was a resoundingness needs to end and we got two views, it would be something, right? Like, I don't know. To me, maybe we just stepped on verbal landmine. You know, I talked about verbal landmines. I've been doing that lately, which has been really fascinating to watch. when the text line lights up because you've stepped on something that really aggravates people. And I don't know the answer. I mean...

I'll say one thing that aggravates me is we're about to drive by the world's biggest teapot. And we're not going to stop and take a picture because we're busy recording this damn thing. Well, is there Tim Horton's here? You got the drive-thru on the right. You got an A-W? And then the world's biggest teapotts on the left. So is there an A&W, there's a Tim Horton's drive-thru? I'm pretty sure there's a Tim Hortons here.

You got Fast Toys for Boys. It's been there for decades. And then you got this whole complex on the side because it's the only decent. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, Tim Hortons. Do you think we should podcast while we go through the Tim Horton's drive-through? Yes, but we need to try and engage them. So you're going to, when we get to the window, you're going to hold it out.

And we're going to ask them what they think about, I don't know, whatever. whatever we decide when we get there. Okay? I don't know where I'm putting a coffee at this point. We might have to take a short break. I'll tell you where to put it. I got no cup holders right now. I got so much recording material and everything else.

Man, and, you know, good old Saskatchewan and it's roads right now. Like it just, oh, yeah, y'ye. Yes, yes, Siri. We understand that we're taking a slight detour. I'm sorry, you're taking the highway between Regina and Saskatoon, and you got Siri to help you out? It's funny. It is funny.

So Tuesday is going to say, why would you do that? It's a straight shot. And I'm like, so I don't miss the, if we get deep in a conversation, I don't miss the turn off to Bradwell. That's exactly. It's not going to Saskatoon, it's going to Bradwell. But I mean, you end up in Saskatoon, Lucifer. We've got a custom license plate for driving past.

That's kind of interesting and clever. That literally says Lucifer. How is that clever? Because it's a four. of four. The dude literally has a license plate that's championing the devil.

You're assuming it's a dude. Maybe it's a chick who's devilishly good looking. I don't care how you it. Yeah. All right. Sure. Maybe they're really conscientious and detail-oriented and that they know that's where the devil is. You're not going to win this argue with me. That's where they know the devil is. They're just really

conscientious. I don't think you're winning that somehow championing Lucifer is a great idea. I think that's probably a piss-bore idea. I actually don't think I know. All right, here we go, folks. Hi, Tom Hagen, so what can I get where? Can I get a large, regular coffee, twos? Black, please. And a large black coffee, please.

No large, just one large black? One large black, one large regular. That's everything. Just a moment, too. Sorry, are we waiting here for a moment? I don't know. Sorry, it's a bit ambiguous. Please, 465 is it too.

Thank you. Thank you. This is a first, folks. I'm sure the... No, we've been through drive-thrues before. This is... Oh my God. Lots of people do it. They have two lanes here.

I was saying, you know, Mrs. Tews must want to punch you in the throat from time to time. She has odd moments where she doesn't. What do you want to ask the lady? Deb it, please. So how's the traffic been today? How's the traffic been today? been today? Oh, it's pretty good, thank you.

Can I grab a receipt, please? All right, we got if I don't spill coffee on my lap, this will be amazing. Thank you. You have a great day. That lady's going, what on earth are these two morons doing?

Sean's talking with his credit card and the listener's either laughing like this is the strangest moment on podcast history, or they're enjoying the ride with us because we just pulled through Tim Horton's drafter. What the hell happened to that pool? How hard did you have to hit that?

Look at that in front of us. It's pretty much a perfect 45 on the back end of this parking lot. And it must have been hit it mocked chicken by an absolute fucking train. Because, yeah, it's... How do you screw up getting something level in Saskatchewan? The whole thing is

a bubble. So Tews is going to regale you with some things here while Sean hops out of the car for just one second so I don't spill coffee. No, I'm going to make sure that I don't spill coffee all over myself. Once again, Tews is only thinking about himself, folks. I have to... What have you? This is so fucking bizarre. You're going to get out of the car so you don't...

Are you going to spill coffee outside? None of this makes a lick of sense. Honestly, it's just absolutely baffling. You guys should go on a road trip with Sean sometime. It's... Oh, he's going to a thermos. Okay. That makes a little bit of sense. It wouldn't have killed you to just give a little bit of exposition.

You just got to explain things, right? By the way, those are probably the fancy shoes that have ever been in this parking lot, Sean. They're basically like the Kingsman ones. What did they, the Oxford tips? Are those Oxford tips? They're not Oxford tips. What's the difference, Sean? There's probably a difference.

What is it? I don't know. You're trying to convince me. wearing Oxford tips? Well, I just, I don't know, I don't know what those are, but I feel like somebody who wears those shoes would know. Oh, I wish, we should take a picture of this and just see how ridiculously cram. I have this vehicle.

It's basically, it's, the vehicle is about as full as your vehicle would be if you went for an overnight camping trip with four people. With four children? Yes. They're technically people, Sean. We can all agree four adults pack way differently than four children. Yep. If you're a parent and have children, you pack a vehicle like, you bring the kitchen sink,

and you're like, why am I doing this? Hun, why are we bringing that? And then she's like, because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, that'll never happen. And then it does. It does. And she looks at you and she goes, see, I told you. And you're like, they do the eyebrows, hey?

Yep. And you're just like, why do I argue with this woman? Which, by the way, speaking of that woman, not that it was misplaced or anything like that, not, I guess, newfound, but just an additional appreciation, an additional layer of appreciation was added to now. Yeah, yeah. She usually runs our t-shirt table. And it was a shit show last night. And she, you know what she says to me as I'm leaving?

She's like, so are you going to be a little more organized at your table? and I'm like, yeah, I'll see how it goes. She's like, so you're not. And I'm like, probably not. You know, you like, so. You laid out this idea for an organizational system last night, and I was drunk and you were sober, and it was still a stupid idea. And usually when you're drunk, anybody could just be like, hey, do you want to,

or we should, and the answer is unequivocally yes. And your system that you laid out last night, I'm like, why in the fuck would we do it like that? It's funny. So have you ever had to try and have a conversation with a drunk person, folks? I got zero help last night, like zero. He's not exaggerating. And so he's trying to give me crap about how I laid out the T-shirts,

and yet I sold 90% of them and dealt with it. It was probably about 83 at best. And let's just not get here, folks. Let's get back on the highway. I'll slowly pull it back onto the road. Okay, here we go. and so he's going to try and give me crap about it. But it's funny because, like, I literally did all...

If you don't like it, you could do it a different way? That's correct. And I'll be the one who gets drunk next time and just looks and goes... Okay, yeah, it's still October, but if you want to get drunk, it's all on you tonight. Well, we know I'm not getting drunk tonight. I'm a day, what am I, what am it, day 25 today. So, you know... I mean, you're pretty much there already.

It's been a decent month. I tell you what, I woke up this morning. I don't feel like a bag of crap. I don't feel like a bag of crap yet either. Uh-huh. I'm being very careful in my wording here. I don't feel like a bag of crap yet. Tuse has a catering between his legs.

A coffee in his hand. His Mike and his other. He's going, this coffee thing might have been a poor decision. Or maybe he's loving it. It's a little warm. It's a little warm. I have nowhere to put it. Suddenly the thermos idea isn't it sounded like such a terrible idea, isn't it?

Yeah, man. I tell you what, those guys with those oxford tips, they really got it going home and they got this stuff figured out. Oh, Scott Mobile Board, growth that works for everyone. It's interesting how he's able to pander to the public sector like that. Someone who's asking last night if I've had Scott Mo on, and I'm like, have you ever tried? I haven't.

He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would be horribly interesting. I can't really see him being a noteworthy guest in any noteworthy way, not to sound redundant or say things over again. I don't know. I guess if tomorrow he said, hey, could I come on the podcast? I'd have Scott Moe on the podcast. But, you know, the funny thing is, you know the amount of people have asked for Scott Moe to come on the podcast?

Probably next to none. I'm not going to say none because that's a lie, but it's very small. And once upon a time, I have to talk to Scott Moe, believe it or not, on a phone call, when we did the live stream for the Health Foundation in Lloyd, the year we raised $350,000, Scott Moe started that day off at about 7.30. I mean, he wasn't the first interview I had, but I think I did 70-some interviews in 12 hours. And one of them was Scott Moe. So I have talked to him on the phone before.

albeit very... Perfunctrally. Yeah, like not a podcast. I'm not asking him about the... The guy he killed? The Saskatoon Blues, who never came. That would have been cool, by the way. I tell you, I interviewed a guy

who had a Saskatoon Blues. What do you have pinned to the wall? Was it a flag? They had some merchandise. I remember seeing it when I was a kid. Yeah, so he had it on his wall. And I was like, oh, my God. And it was the same logo, everything.

Yeah. And I'm like, Like, they literally were that close. He's like, they were literally that close. They had Don Cherry and a bunch of people lined up. If you go back to the podcast, you can find that episode. I'm trying to think of who that was. Look at how poorly Phoenix is doing.

Oh, man. They're in a, they're in basically a, I don't know what is going on here, truck. A fucking kitchen, more or less, right? They've got the smallest arena you could possibly imagine. There were more people in the small town bar. and Lumson last night than go to most coyotes games. Yeah. The dude had gay pride tape on his stick, and it took three or four days for anyone to notice.

Like, just imagine how frustrating that would have been, by the way. Like, because it was this close to happening. Like, you're trying to balk the system. You're going to fight against the man, and you're going to put gay pride on your stick. But you play for Phoenix, and so because of that, no one wants the game, and no one even picked up on it. How frustrating must the first couple days have been? I don't know.

Yeah. I wonder if he had to literally tip off the media. Guys, guys, I did this. Look at me? Yeah. Yeah. It's just, you know, I remember an older gent telling me politics has no place in sports. This is going back to when Colin Kaepernick was taking the knee.

and, um... Well, I mean, he was already on the sidelines anyway. But, you know, all these different things were going on. I'm spacing on all the different things that happened, which is kind of weird. I can't. Oh, there's so many. Megan Rapino, the soccer player in the States who refused to meet with Donald Trump. And there's funny.

And there's been a few other ones that have done that as well. And it's funny, though, I didn't understand when he said it. I was like, ah, you know, I almost want to say, I don't know. I understand what he's doing. He's using his platform to speak to people. But now, it feels like every athlete under the sun uses their respective sport as a platform and as a sports fan. I just want to show up watching a hockey game.

Actors are the same thing. Yes. It's pretty safe for me to say because I'm never going to be a professional athlete or a Thespian. Which, by the way, isn't the gay pride stuff. It's a different thing. Just in case you didn't hear me correctly, I said Thespian. but you'd obviously get the odd reporter saying, what do you think about this?

What are your thoughts? What are your perspectives? And there's one right answer. It's, I'm a person who entertains people. You should ask somebody who's more professionally invested in this. Next question. Yeah, like right now, did you see, how much closely do you fall in the NFL? Not over the past few years, to be honest.

You know who Travis Kelsey is? No. Star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs. All right. Okay. He's doing commercials for Pfizer. Oh, yes, that's right. And then now Aaron Rogers has come out, and they're kind of like a spat.

Yeah, yeah, they've got that... Over this thing. And I'm like, you know, I got all the time in the world for Aaron Rogers. Heck, I got all the time in the world for Travis Kelsey. I don't give a shit about you entering. this realm of maybe I'm wrong on this maybe people are loving it like I like that he's getting called on it but like I want my athletes

to argue about who's going to win on the field I don't want Travis Kelsey doing Pfizer commercials can we get away from that like what a like it just drives me nuts I think make your money however the hell you want and however the backlash comes and yeah if you're going to get the backlash so be it

and you know if if you truly believe in you know helping out the little guy, supporting those up and coming people just trying to make a goal of things in the world. In Pfizer, right? If you are really standing behind them and what they're doing, I'll be honest with you. You've got a bigger heart the most. He literally, I think he says... It's a myocarditis joke, Sean. I literally think he said something along the lines. I didn't realize I was stepping on like a landmine of an issue with it being like I was going to be... You got blindsided by this?

That's how I read it. maybe I'm rolling on that. And I'm like, is he that cold? So the first person took a jab at him, and the second person took a jab at him, and next thing you know, he's five shots into this and surprised by the way it's going? Correct.

All right. That's exactly the kind of thing that I would expect from a professional entertainer, be an athlete or a thespian, because their job isn't to know what goes on in the world. And if you're surprised by getting backlash for pimping Pfizer, you're probably not the kind of person who should be speaking about these things in the first place. It really makes the case for, I'm here to entertain people not to be an expert.

If you're so fucking surprised by the fact that there's going to be backlash against you pimping Pfizer that it surprises you, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. he shouldn't have done it in the first place that guy's got Super Bowl ring he's one of the star athletes wiser I will say it makes me want more stringent rules regarding

cranial protection in the league if there's one league where you could expect someone to be that dumb it would be the NFL I'm getting my maps back up yes and the reason why is because in 19 kilometers we have a

change in direction because we're not going to Saskatoon today, folks. We're going to take a page out of Harvey Weinstein's book, and we're going to force in a new direction. Man, I couldn't spit out Jeffrey Epstein last night. You know how about... There's been a lot of people who've had that issue, Sean.

I couldn't get the name. I was just like Epstein. And then they're like, and then the audience like Harvey Weinstein. I'm like, oh, well, yeah, like that's one. I'm thinking of Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, you got really hung up on that. Yes.

But you did it to yourself, unlike Jeffrey Epstein. All right. Oh, fuck, that's hot. Any other thoughts before we turn this thing off? I don't know, man. Have we hit all the interesting things? Have we talked about everything we want to? From Lumsden?

Well, I'll say this. Although they were pointing out the Lumsden Hotel burnt down. So I'm very impressed with the Lumsden bar. like the hotel. I was just like, this is a... Sorry, it burnt down? Yeah.

Like, granted, we brought the house down, but I don't... You didn't hear that story? The fire department was drunk inside it while it was burning down. I am so fucking mad right now. What? Who was telling you this story?

Sinclair last night talked about a nail falling from the... So the tops do... Suppose I'm going to recap... I'm sorry, Jamie. I'm going to butcher this. But Jamie's telling me in his flare and he's saying they're sitting around the table getting drunk.

It's like two in the morning, and a nail falls from the ceiling and lands on their table. They're like, what the heck is that? And they go to pick it up, and it's like burning hot, burns the guy's fingers, and the top two stories are on fire. And so they roll all the cakes of beer out of it and move it all over to the firehouse and try and get it the best they could. And so they burn it down. They're in a burning building.

And they're like, somebody saved the beers. Is that what happened? I guess so. Wait a second. But the thing is, are we trade in this? So we had the, I don't know what you would be? We had the, I don't know, is it, is it chief? Chief at the show, right?

Yeah. And supposedly since, not since them, but in the time since that point, I guess the Lumsden Fire Department is like quite the thing now. Henry's a part of it, right? So. But that's the story they tell about the old Lumsden Hotel. Okay. And that's why when I walk around, I'm like, man, this is a nice place.

Well, because it's relatively new. I mean, relatively, it's 20-some years old. Yeah, generally speaking, small-town bars are established. Yes, yes. And that's what I was thinking. That's what I was saying last night. Like, how is it? Like, the Lums at Hotel is pretty nice.

And they're like, oh, well, it burned it down. Oh. Right. Yeah. I'll say this. I've driven by Lumsden all my life. I've never been in there. I've never played hockey against her.

One of the weird things about being in Lloyd is you end up playing, you know, you're governed by Saskatchewan, but minor hockey plays. in Alberta. It's all these weird little things. So I ended up going to Fort St. John and not coming over to like Regina and Lumsden and places like that, right? Oh, yeah. We went the opposite way. And so I've driven by Lumsden all my life.

That's the first time I've ever driven in there. I'm like, man, this is a cool little town. It's very cool. Some really neat houses. There's this beetle juice one up on a hill. Anybody who's seen it is going to know exactly what I'm saying. There's a few other absolutely just

gorgeous homes there. including the one we stayed at too. And, yeah, it's, I've been in Lumsden. Every time I drive past it or anywhere in the vicinity, I stop in Lumsden, but I've never been past the last mountain to still. I just, every time I'm there, I stop it and get a bottle or two or seven. Well, and so I guess with this small town comedy tour, what I'm really enjoying for day one, lots of different things.

But pulling in, you know, the next place is going to be the same thing, I assume, because I've never been to have. Hank's Tavern. I've never ever, heck, I pronounced it Brad Wall for how long, you know? I don't think I've ever been to Bradwell before, but a very long and storied antagonistic history with Clvette.

Right, so like, well, and you can maybe tell that. Oh, just high school rivalries. So there's going to be a few jokes at their expense tonight that they're not going to be expecting. Because I'm twos. Nobody knows where I'm from. I'm from everywhere and nowhere. But I'm totally going to shit-talk them.

It's going to be fun. So yeah And then actually I've got some buddies from high school showing up So they should get a kick out of that as well I don't know if they're gonna do the shirts or not I'm not sure because it's just been text messages And this group chat A bunch of buddies from high school

And they've been talking about getting shirts made Of probably the most embarrassing photo of me ever taken Which is saying something And Sean said that he wants a shirt too So I don't know if it's going to happen or not we're going to find out there might be a whole bunch of people that I have to fight there tonight are you even listening I here's here's the thing so twos is telling stories I'm going why should probably let Blake know we're coming you know so I'm trying to like are they not

expecting us not really I mean they kind of are but I've missed like 15 texts and I'm like oh I should probably update them yeah my phone's been going off too you know and I'm like okay you know like it shows we're 43 minutes away so I'm like I'm just going to text we're still 43 minutes away Let's stop and go see the snowman We're coming up on it The what? Okay Davidson the biggest teapot

Keniston the biggest snowman Okay Keniston has the biggest snowman Yeah snow people I guess Because it's you know modern sensibilities But I don't think they've updated the side Yeah so you just Was there a thing that happened back in the day

Can somebody tell me this maybe you can where they're like the government's giving out grants where if you want to build some random thing That's literally what happened. Well, that's... So, Torring... It might have just been Alberta, though.

So Torrington, which has the world famous Gopher Hole Museum. If you ever go, it's fun and interesting. We should sponsor one. Mike, on this side. Do I need to put my lips around this thing? No, every time you turn your head, you don't talk directly into it.

So you need to talk directly into it. That's why whenever I talk, I turn back to the mic. Go for Whole Museum. museum where they've got just a bunch of taxidermied gophers doing all sorts of fun and interesting things you ever been it's a decommissioned CP rail uh building right on the old train line and they're like well what are we going to do with this so they've got this town hall meeting and somebody throws out the idea they're like well we got a lot of fucking gophers why don't we stuff them and then they turn it and that's what they did and that's what they did and it got started

with a government grant and i asked I was there this summer, Charming Place. And I had asked whether it was specifically a federal or provincial. And I didn't get an answer on that. So I'm not sure where it got lost along the way, but some of these small town things got started with government grants. You got that classic episode of Corner Gas where they build the world's biggest dirty crack hoe. which bred butts from Tisdale,

and they're famous for having that sign that says, welcome to Tisdale, the land of rape and honey. And they had to change it because honey is racist. So, yeah, anyways, we're coming up on the term. Farming joke. Yeah. It's funny, it has us turning at Keniston. We're hanging right at Kennesston?

Yeah. Okay, all right. Well, if we hung a left and then... We're going to see some country today, folks. We did another left. We could go see the world's biggest snowman. If we went straight, it takes us right to Outlick past Haywarden and on the way to Rose Town. Me and Two's been thrown around the side.

It's like, like, is there a way that you could maybe do this and have some fun? If you got better at it, right? We continue to get better. Are having fun. Sure. What I mean is is where you drive around and do these small town shows for, I don't know, like, a week, 10 days, two weeks. It doesn't matter. It's like, yeah, this would be a ton of fun to just bounce around all these different small towns.

And for me, like a ton of fun to see all the different countryside and see all these different little communities. Stop in it every single world's biggest. And every placard along the way. I'm sure eventually that would get old, right? It would be like... It doesn't. Trust me. It does not. And there's so many awesome ones in the prairies. Indian head has a really big Indian head.

I'm not sure how they come up with that, but they went with something. You know, you've got the world's biggest goose somewhere right around Regina. Turtleford has Ernie. You've got so many of these. You get into Alberta, and Munderer's got the world's biggest sausage next to mine. And we're apparently doing pictures. I'm going to look like shit, but that's every picture. Are you...

Okay. All right. Sean is texting, and we are currently running the Canadian autopilot. You just set the cruise, and every car in Saskatchewan is self-driving. Isn't this a Tesla? It just keeps me on the road. Yeah. So Sean's going to go in the back and make a sandwich. We were talking about, so on the way down, we were talking about, you know, this idea. It started, like, it's been thrown at me a couple different times.

Jamie Sinclair brought it up. Vance Crowe's doing it with his legacy interviews where he's going to start touring around with his podcast. Drew Weatherhead literally does this. And this idea of taking the podcast on the road to people's like, you know, can you imagine just going across, and let's just take Saskatchewan,

which is a giant province, let's just take it for a second and go like, hey, if I was coming to Lumsden tomorrow, what? Who should I talk to? Who should I? Who would be the one person I didn't. Jamie?

No, but he's Regina Beach. No, no, no, no, no. You're going to get that. Specific. Granular. Yes, I am. Okay. So I'm going to be on, I'm going to turn down this township road.

Who's on this road that I could talk to? No, now you're being a jackass, right? Never happens. You're being a jackass. You're being a jackass. Are you stopping to take a leak or what? No, I missed my turn, and now I've got to turn around. Oh, geez.

Because it's the self-driving car is the worst. Maybe you should have... Like, yeah, I've got to run Google Maps So Siri can tell us when to turn Except for when she doesn't, apparently. Siri, you bitch, if you're listening to this, Figure your shit out. Because there's no way this is Sean's fault.

No way. No way. I'm trying to do six different things all at once. This is just like the podcast. It is. Well, wait, it is. It is like the podcast. I would get to where Lumsden is big enough and that somebody from that area.

Regina Beach is another spot where you could easily land there. Henry. Sure, but I bet you Henry would go, actually, you should talk to this person. I bet if I asked Henry. And so then you land in Lumsden, and now you go, hey, we're sitting down in Lumsden for the day and we're going to interview this person. And then maybe, you know, the next day you go to Regina Beach, and then you go down to Crake, and then you go over to,

and you just keep hitting these little spots. But it, the cool thing you could do with that is that, I mean, granted, I don't know every single person in Saskatchewan, but there isn't a small town anywhere along any of these ways where you're not going to find somebody interesting. Correct. Like we're coming up on Kenneson again for the second time today.

You can talk to Alan Kirpin, right? Yes. Yeah, this is his hometown. No kidding. Yeah, it would be a fantastic conversation. It just was a perfect example. It's crazy. that I know who that is, but yes.

No, it isn't. No, it is because I think... He told them to stuff their pension. The guy is a fucking legend as far as politics goes. Well, that's what I mean, though. He's a political legend, which means five years ago, Sean wouldn't have any clue

who that was. But, you know, I... Actually, our... Well, not our dad's. Alan and my dad have been friends for decades. So I actually knew who he was even way back in the day. But...

It was crazy. I literally turned. I was supposed to turn directly. And I'm like, and I'm not going down this road. It's trying to take me down. I'm going back on the highway. That's the road it wants to take me down. This is serious. Do you remember like five minutes ago when I was like, why are we turning at Keniston?

I have no idea. But that's the road it wants to take me down. We're not doing that, folks. That's, it wants us to just go 100 yards off the road not even and then turn down past the cemetery. Well, what it wants to do is probably the, as the crow flies, it's probably the shortest direction. But it's going to take us off the divided highway. Like, you don't, when you do a podcast. Are you running Apple?

POMAPs? Yes. Okay, well, that's... Jesus fucking Christ. I can't possibly sigh hard enough for how exasperated I am at this right now. So, we talk about swearing in the Lord's name, and he puts them all together.

There you go. A little trifecta. Baham and fucking Buddha. I can't believe you sometimes. Mother fucking spaghetti... Hey, we're back on the road, folks. Here we go. You know, like, if you're listening,

you're like, when does this end? When did they get to the point? I wonder how many people have turned it off and they're just like, this is, this is, I wonder how many people are listening this. I don't know, this, this kind of has a festivist feel to it. It does. Maybe it's because of the residual alcohol in my blood system. Possible.

It keeps wanting me to make a turn. I, you know what? I want you to make a turn and not be doing, oh, that road doesn't go parallel with the highway. It cuts right off to the side. It wants us to take the hypotenuse. Yes. All right. Look at where it's trying to take us to do.

Yeah. Yeah, so it wants us to just cut straight north rather than backtrack it. But we're going to backtrack because that way we get to stay on the Great Highway. Okay, we got five minutes left. All right. Anything you want to talk about? I don't know. If you were to...

The biggest wrench possible at what we did last night. Wrench. What do you mean? Like, just make the biggest individual change you possibly could. that obviously for a positive outcome. What was the biggest thing you'd want to see done differently last night? No, done differently? Yeah, yeah.

Like, just, if you were going to make the largest change, you could in a positive way. I go back to the very start. I would host, which means I would come out. Okay. I would do my thing. I would allow, I would say, hey, Tuesday's going to get up, and he's going to do whatever Tuesday does for eight minutes or ten minutes. And then for the last roughly 50 minutes, because we went,

for about an hour and 15 minutes last night, roughly. For the last 50 minutes, we come up and do the Tuesday mashup. And to me, that gives it enough of changes on. I have no idea if that's better. It might be worse, for all I know. But I go, to me, that sounds remotely interesting. But that means I have to plan out what I, because I normally don't say anything for eight minutes.

I've had to do it once. That's a lie. Sean, it's a fucking lie. Once in front of a crowd. I mean. Oh, okay, okay. Where you're trying to get a point across, and once again, I'm going to... It takes you eight minutes to do a two-minute ad read.

Well, that's the fun of it, though, isn't it? I'm just saying... I went to Brownfield, Saskatcha... Old shit the people who listen to their show, because they know it's a lot. Brownfield, Alberta, I got invited to do... They had, like, little town halls in the middle of COVID when you weren't supposed to get together. So one of the places I'd suggest that we go do this was Brownfield, because, like, they had this community there, and I thought it was super cool.

and that was the first time I had to sit up on stage and I'm not, you know, you joke about me taking way too long, but when I get up in front of a crowd, I'm like, I think I can do this in two minutes instead of eight minutes. Why am I stretching it out to eight minutes when I can't say what I want to say in four? Right? Okay. Now, people may find that hard to believe, but that's, maybe I just, I just don't have a ton of, I don't know.

So I go, the things that stresses me out about my ideas, I go, I'm sure Tews has what he's been working on, and he's just got to abbreviate the version of it into 10 minutes and away you go. Yeah, which is what I would totally be doing on this drive right now if we hadn't been on the podcast the whole time. I was just thinking to myself, us doing this has totally fucked us for this show tonight. Although, I mean, we were doing the mic checks last night, and somebody was just like just start talking. And so I went into a bit I'd been working on about how weird women get when they're being kidnapped.

And there was, like, at that time of the day, there was... There was like six people. in there. And I'm like... Either none of them were listening or this is going to fucking crash

when I tried in front of an actual audience. Maybe both. Maybe both. If I could throw a wrench, I don't know. I got to think about that. But I'm like, you know,

because you could take what we did last night. Redo the same thing relatively. Like there's no script to what we did last night. Yeah. And there was stuff

that we thought we were going to get to There's a loose agenda to what we did last night. Oh, yeah. Well, there you go. Coming around. I appreciate that. Yep.

But you can, We could roughly do the same thing and just see the second time around how much more comfortable we are with it. You know, whether the topics we need changes, we can add in more topics. We didn't get through, you know, there's a whole booklet of things we could add in that we didn't. And I think that would be an interesting change. Those are little tweaks that could just make what we did last night better. Yep. But I don't know the answer.

All right. You? Oh, I just, I thought we just, not that it needed huge importance. improvement or anything like that. I thought that it was even better than I hoped it was going to be, to be honest. But I think more reps is going to make it better. And I like the fact that because it's a loose agenda, we get to play off the spontaneity and throw each other for loops. And that's where the creep rises to the top, I think, with us. So, no, that's, I don't know, that's, my thoughts on it are keep doing it. But at the same time, I think there's an interesting opportunity for us to try it slightly

different ways, like what you're suggesting, with a different open, and see what works, see what doesn't. Even if something doesn't work awesome, it doesn't mean we're not going to do it either. Well, that's... I think a big part of this is how much fun are we having. That's probably the hardest thing for me being on stage is I like, I want to have success. And so when you try something for the first thing, time, there's this fear that this is going to tank. No, no, no, no, no. That's, okay, so you're thinking about this all wrong.

You're wanting to go up there and make sure it works. We should be wanting to go up there and have fun and see if things work. Okay, so what's one fun thing you'd like to try tonight then? I guess we're going to do the stand-up, right? Which it'll be fun and different. But wait, but wait. But that's good. I like that.

But is that, I don't really care. What is one fun thing you'd like to try? What you think, like, is it props? Is it a TV? Is it inviting somebody up on stage? Like, if Mark calls it out and you go, hey, you've got a third mic, how about you come up and talk about... No, that's setting things up for failure, I think.

That's too much of a wild card. Although, I mean, that guy would have actually killed, I'm sure. Just the comedic time of jumping. I think for Irma, we get the visuals. we get the visuals straightened out in time for Irma because we'll have the day off on Thursday in Lloyd get the visuals straightened out and we try that as well right because this is I mean

we're playing to the safest crowds you could possibly imagine the friendliest people it's going to be really hard for us to fuck things up horribly I mean unless we get up there and speak the virtues of virtue signaling but yeah I mean Literally just by reading off the headlines, it's already funny. Yeah.

And yeah. So I think we just make sure that we check all the boxes in terms of trying different things and not give a single fuck about whether it's successful or not, but just figure out what we're having fun with. And afterwards we can look at what works. But we can do both. Because last night, if we didn't have fun, we'd be like, oh, this is going to suck tonight. You already know it's going to be fun.

Yes. Right? We both enjoy being in front of the crowd and having a little bit of an interaction. Who couldn't when you have people that are interacting with what you're saying and enjoying it? That is fun. It'll be interesting by the end of three days, you know, because one of the things Tews and I have been talking about, the reason we picked three shows and, you know, some of it is just Tews being able to get work off and different things like that. We went, let's hammer out three shows and let's see if there's anything in this for 2024.

for. Because if this goes extremely well, then maybe you open up the month of whatever and say, hey, listen, if you want to hire us to come to a show, we'll come to wherever you're at and we'll come to do it. Right. So the thing with Lumsden and all the people that showed up there, from the Ariels to the Vernon Barb who've sponsored us to Henry and the... The Jared's who've been a fan of the... My 222 cents for years and then through that heard of Sean Newman. Right. There's just this group there and it just seemed like a nice, easy spot to land for our first show. So we literally traveled there.

Think about this. I know this is not about money. I mean, in the beginning at least, right? Well, it's funny. Two of the three shows ended up being a charity, we're like, yeah, sure, sure. We're just trying to figure out if this holds any water. And if it does, then maybe there's a way we can start talking about this.

Like, hey, why don't you bring the Tuesday MASHO live show to your community to have a little bit of fun? And as we do this, we're going to find them. Unless it's Hanley. Unless it's Handling. And Lee, please bring us in now. But we might even do it for free. Hey? Like, but I mean, the truth of the matter is, is we wanted to try it out three different times.

It could have been five, but the way the week worked out for two's, three shows, and four nights to just see if this is something in 2024 we want to pursue. Because if it is, then we will get more reps and we will get better. And it will become more refined, if you would, in what? but less refined at the same time, where we'll get more comfortable on stage to banter and feed off one another. Yeah. And I think we're, it's already, I would say a really good show on its own.

We just want to make it as good as possible. All right. I'm going to call it a wrap. All right. We're going to do this again tomorrow on our way back from Bradwell. So, I mean, buckle up, folks, because you've got one more of these coming, back-to-back 222 minutes on the podcast, live from the, car it's kind of like what is jerry

Seinfelds think? Comedians and cars? Comedians and cars. This kind of feels like that. Yeah, just jackasses instead of comedians. That's right. Yeah. All right, Toos. It's been a pleasure, buddy. I hope I'll talk to you again soon.