Shaun Newman Podcast - #529 - Quick Dick McDick & 222 Minutes

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

QDM is from Tuffnell, Sk. He went from Snapchat handle to YouTube star with over 15 million views and has been doing a small town comedy tour for the past year.  222 Minutes is a small town Sasky boy who has turned from a faceless Twitter handle into standup comedian and co-host of the 2'sDay Mashup. Let me know what you think. Text me 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast

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He's on part of the Tuesday mashup, goes by the handle 222 minutes. Yeah, I'm talking about QDM or QuickDick MacDick and 222 minutes or twos. So buckle up, here we go. Okay, boys. First one in 35 days, right? Here we go. I had a couple of non-alcoholic beverages on the tour, and they were okay. They're not the same, hey?

You know what? They are about the same as light beer, but yeah. You know what? My dad shut down drinking, and he switched over to near beers. Yep. And he's like, you know. His mustache fell off. No, it's still there.

No, it's good. But he's like, you know what? He's like, now when I switch back, he'll have a real beer every now and then. He's like, I don't like the taste of him anymore. He's like, I like the near stuff better. It's funny. That's the first beer I've had and I'm like, taste different.

It tastes different. Yeah. I was drinking the coronas. Okay. Those Corona's heroes or whatever? Yeah. I think they taste better than a Corona. Like the first one I had, I'm like, this is going to be terrible.

And then I drank it. I'm like, it's almost like it's got the lime in it. It's almost like, what have they done to this? I'm like, this is actually pretty good. Whereas a normal Corona, I'm like, some people love them. See, I'm disgusted by Corona. I think it's the worst beer on the planet. Oh, see, there you go.

Yeah. And the first Corona I had, you know, when I wasn't drinking, had it in Lumsden. brought out like a six-pack in, you know, for the... Yeah. Just to cater to you. And a few other people, they got drank. They were all done by the end of the night. Well, it's funny.

So I believe it or not, I'm a big fan of Bohemian. Hey, and join the club, man. Yeah, I believe it. Exactly, right? You got Saskatchewan in your blood. Of course you're going to like Bohemian, right? Exactly. So, like, oh, we're doing a tour in Saskatchewan, I'm going to bring back a bunch of

boat. And Mrs. Toos being, you know, a mail-order bride from the far-off. of Tennessee. She'd never had it before, but it's been interesting. I've been trying all these different beers over the past few years, being like, okay, well, do you like this? What don't you like about this? Yeah.

Trying to, you know, nail down exactly what she does and doesn't prefer. Yeah. And I was like, okay, so I brought you back at 2-4 of Bohemian. Oh, so this is the pressure test then. Yeah. I don't know. You're probably not going to like it because you don't really seem to like Lucky Logger. But whatever, give it a shot.

Anyways, she loves them. So I got to pick up more. Loves Bohemian. Yeah, I got to pick up some more while I'm here. Match made in heaven. Interesting, interesting. Because this is as far west as you can get Bohemian. Is Lloyd Minster?

Yeah, that liquor store right by the casino. I tell you what, we're. This is the dividing line. This is, we're pretty cool here in Lloyd Minster, you know. Yeah, I think I'm going to try and make fun of you guys a little bit tonight. I think. We'll see. It's real easy to do.

You know, I said this, well, you have, sir, have never been in the studio. No. I haven't. Are we going? Are we rolling? No, shit, right on. No, it's awesome here, man. Yeah, but like I kind of just see the wall is usually what I always see, right? Well, and twos as many times as he's been on in a lot. He's never, he's like, I've never, I'm like, what is going on here? How is that either one of here? You've never been in here a lot? I've been in here a lot. It's just that since he moved everything around, I haven't been.

Okay. So I haven't seen that wall in person yet, the one that he used nipple tape to stick up all the acoustic pads onto. Yeah, I got you. So this is a new development for me. Everybody loves the nipple tape joke, you know? You know, but I mean everyone loves nipple tape. I honestly thought when I was at the store and I ran out of 3M tape, I'm like, okay, I go to the lady, I'm like, what is her type of tape that you have for sticking on a wall?

And she's like, I have no idea. And we're walking around. And she's like, we do sell, like, nipple tape. And I'm like, geez, I mean, if it's, if it's good enough for a woman, it's got to be good enough for a wall. And then I get home and, you know, and they start falling off. And my wife's like, well, you realize a woman never wants that to stick to their boob forever, right? Which makes sense, yeah.

Which makes sense now. But at the time, I, you know, I hear you. Ha, hell. It's been a year. You know, it's November, whatever, today. It doesn't really matter. We're in close to Remembrance Day. And by the time this releases, it will be very close to Remembrance Day.

But I was thinking, you know, it was January when you were actually last in the vicinity of the podcast. Is January? You've done the mashup once. Yeah. But it was you and Vance Curl. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

For sure. At the casino there. I was looking back through it. Yeah, like, I was just like, how to that? That's high this place, hey? Yeah, it has. How's 2023 been for QDM?

Yeah, good. We had a great 23. You know, farm-wise planting went good. And we had a good growing season, got some early hail, and it was a pressure test of a guy's fortitude of whatever we want to keep farming or not. But everything bounced back.

and we had a really good year. 2023 happened fast for some reason. I don't know how you guys been feeling, but I mean, just even farming-wise to keep up with what's happening on the farm, it felt like we're always a little bit ahead and ready and organized, but for some reason, 23, it's like the crops were advancing faster and we were ready for it.

And it's just like every day you were like two days late to what you're supposed to be doing. And I don't know why. It's never been like that before. Did you guys switch to electric? No. No, we can't. Don't even have enough electricity around the air conditioners at this point in time.

so yeah um but and then yeah with all the quick tech stuff on on the side of it there uh yeah it was 23's been busy yeah and on the road lots and and doing lots of gigs crops in the bin now and we're back here and it's it's good this is my favorite time you're here now and everything like we're gonna wean and preg check here tomorrow afternoon and then Monday Tuesday and then that's kind of where you get to like it sounds crazy but just it's just as easy as all you do is just feed 800 head of cattle now like everything's they're where they need to be and you just fix all you're watering bowls and feed them and Mark does most of it and I go out on the road. So it's pretty good gig.

Yeah, but it's, it's been great. 23's been great. And we're all still alive and healthy. So who gives a shit? I mean, it's good. That's the end result, isn't it? I would throw in on 23, why it's been so different or so fast has been, uh, 2020.

I mean, to start the year off, we were in the middle of lockdown. That's right. And then we had the freedom convoy. And, you know, and then it was like a big exhale of like, are we going to go back through this again? But 20203 has been everybody's catching up. That's right. Yeah, totally.

Yeah. And I think that's where you see a lot of these live gigs and everything. They're super busy too because everyone's, you know, behind on doing fundraisers and shit. Like, I mean, rinks, halls, fire departments. I mean, there was just so long where nobody would do anything. And even if they could, they didn't want to go through the motions of doing it. You know what I mean? But it's like everyone's got the fucking gear back and overdrive.

You look at how many shows and everything else has come back. Yeah. In 23, right? Like, I remember when I did my first SMP presents. We did it in March of 2022. We had Daniel Smith before she was premier, before she had even announced she was going to be premier, or run for it, I mean.

And that group of people that came here. And it had only been like, I don't know, maybe 10 days since all the mandates had dropped and we packed the casino. And there was just nothing else going on. Now every weekend, I mean, it just seems like there is a ton to do, which is days of past. You know, and I mean, it's the norm.

But for three years there, two and a half, for sure, there was just nothing going out. I mean, and if you wanted to go out in public, you know, there was so many rules and regulations to even try. It just made it more stressful to go do anything. So you just like, fuck it. I mean, I'm just going to stay at home. Unless you lived in Tuffno. Unless you lived in Tuffinole and then you just keep going out to the snowmobile shacks and do it or the fuck you want, right? Well, I was going to say in the middle of COVID, the only place I went was Tuffnell, Saskatch.

Hell yeah, buddy. You know, everybody seems to have a story about Tuffinville. I'm like, oh, yeah, I've done a podcast out of the cooling. Yeah, that's right. Which where we're going to start making ice there probably in a month or so, which is going to be great. So, yeah. Tews, how's your 23, Ben? It was the same thing as you guys.

It just flew by. It just seems like, I don't know, I worked a lot this year. And so, you know, when you're basically just getting up, going to work, coming home, going to bed. Days go by fast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're just, what the hell? Where did everything go?

Yeah. Oh, 100% man. Yeah. Yeah. How's the new digs been treating you there? It's all going good for you or what? Because you did a little bit of switch around there with employment, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's been good. There's more work than I really even want. That's a good problem to have, though, you know? Like, you guys feel that everyone's like, oh, I'm just so busy. I'm so busy. Be like, like, it's a good thing, though, isn't it? Because if the guy wasn't, that it means either there's no work or you're turning into a bomb, you know what I mean? But yeah, to just be almost at the point where you're, you know, it's a good. you're not totally burnt out,

but you can kind of feel yourself maybe fraying at the edges a little bit, a little bit during the summer. And then it was nice this past week was human hours. Yeah. So like about 60 to 70 hours a week, human hours? Yeah. Yeah, I got you. You know, if I could plan out of the podcast,

I'm not even listening anymore. I'm like, I'm trying to do like six things on this side. I'm like, if I could plan to have everybody in studio, you know how much fun this is? Oh, yeah. Just to, you know, like, live out the dream of like, I think this is like, I don't know, is it 529, I think episode-wise. I think it's 529 when this comes out. I'm like, and I don't know, maybe 150 of those have been in person, maybe, and that might be on the high side.

I don't know anymore. It's just such a lost, like, this is freaking awesome. Yeah. I love being in studio and having everybody sit here and interact. I mean, I just like drinking beers with people, whether it's just around a table without microphones or not. I don't give you shit. This is good to sit and bullshit with good people. I love it.

Yeah, it's good. It's great. Oh, it's nice. You get to see QDM up close. I was wondering, because that beard seemed to grow back really fast. I was wondering if maybe he got, what do you call it when girls have the fake long hair? Oh, extensions? Yeah, no.

Yeah, I was wondering if he'd gotten beard extensions. But I'm looking, they're either really well hidden or it's legit. No, this is legit. But, I mean, BMAs has given me this secret of how to grow facial hair fast. He just throws cow shit on it? No, no, no. You push really hard when you shit. Oh, yeah.

And it just. Yeah. That's all there's two. That's what it told me and it works. Yeah. Is that how you got your hairy chest, Sean? Yeah, my hair's grown in the wrong place, boys. Yeah, I don't know why.

This thing, this one thing we could, if I could grow crops like a kind of beard, I'd probably be able to retire as a farmer a lot faster, but whatever. Do you ever think of shaving in the big mustache? You know what? Absolutely. Yeah. And I think we'll do, I'll probably leave it for this year. We get in the next year.

I'll probably do another shaving campaign kind of thing. we'll spice it up a little bit. We can do a mustache or something else or whatever. Well, so everybody has been comment. For Halloween, I went as Mario, right? So the family went as Super Mario Brothers. So I shaved off the beard, put in the mustache. And as soon as I did it, you know, as a kid, dad had a mustache until he was like, I don't know,

dad, you'll listen to this way. You're 45. It doesn't matter. You were somewhere in your 40s, I think. And you finally shaved the mustache off. And for all of us, kids, it was like, oh, my God. Who the fuck is that? I literally had that exact same moment with my dad.

I went home one time and he's had, there's basically like one picture in existence of him without a mustache and he was three and I think he grew it immediately afterwards. And so then I just went home one weekend and he's out on the deck barbecue and like, who the fuck is on our deck? Like there's a picture. I straight up did not recognize my father because he'd shaved off the mustache. It's crazy. But like that's we get used to people and how they look, right? Like there's a picture floating around out there and my dad. without a mustache and he's actually, I think he's dressed up as a woman. I think it was for Halloween

or something and I bug him all the time. I was like, well, you started the fucking trans movement. Way to go, Dad. That was you right there back in the 70s, right? Well, no, we were just drunk and having fun. I was like, oh, yeah, says everybody. That's basically how it all starts. Well, even that that hall we went to on Friday, just outside of Irma. Albert Hall. Yeah, Albert Hall. They had this little mural in the back corner of some fun drunken night in 1970. and everybody's dressed up in drag, but just because it's fun and interesting. Like even in the bottom corner,

they've got Miss Rough Rider, and it's some dude with a beard, and he's dressed up in a dress, but a green dress. Yeah, you can get away with anything if it's Rider Nation that you're doing. You're just allowed to do whatever you want. Wear watermelon on your head, sure.

Wear watermelon is underwear? Sure. You can do whatever the fuck you want. The watermelon on your head's great for summer days, though. Like, have you ever worn one in a game? No, I've actually, I've never, never been to a rider's game, ever. Oh, they're pretty fun. I've heard.

I've heard they're fun. I just, I don't know. I'm just not a sports guy. I'm just not interested in sports at all. I don't get it. Yeah, I know. Right. Yeah.

But anyway, when it's like stupidly hot, that watermelon, no matter how good you clean it out, it just keeps weeping the whole time. Oh, perfect. Yeah. And so you're basically just lightly brushing water on yourself. Yeah. Just sort of this natural, I don't know, tiny little waterfall coming down that just keeps you nice and cool.

And then for four days, you smell like you've been snuggling with, Mitzi, the exotic dancer from across the street that scrubs their hair with herbal essence, watermelon, shampoo, or a kind of thing? Or no, not. Well, no, it washes out pretty good. It's such a light smell, right? Yeah, fair enough. But wouldn't it start getting

like musty inside of that thing if you're kind of sweating and it's terrible and gross? No, like it's not like you're keeping it on for a week, I guess. I mean, there's probably somebody who's kept it on for a week. Obviously, yeah. I'm not taking this off till they win another great cup. You don't never, don't do that. Yeah, you'll be doing it for long time, right? But yeah, I've never been, but it sounded like, I heard that the games at the

old Taylor Field were way more lit than they are at Mosaic. I haven't been to Mosaic yet. I also have not been to Mosaic. Is that right? Did you go to the old Taylor Field, though? Yeah. And like, but like everyone says like it was way more lit at the old Taylor Field. It was a crazy party. The first game I ever went to, they ran out of Pilsner. In Regina. Yeah, if you run out of Pils, there, no rabbit juice in Regina, that's not good. It's the only stadium I've ever been to. And I've been to a fair share where the guy who came with us, there was a group of, I forget what it was, Brad Simons,

if you're listening, you should be able to tell me, there was like, I can't remember, was it 10 of you, was it four of you? It doesn't matter. They went around to all the great cups for like so many years in a row. All dressed in white coveralls with a hairdo, and they carried on their back beer bongs, like the funnels. Yeah, they did, yeah. So in the middle of the game, we're playing the Winnipeg Bombers, right?

and we are giving them an absolute thump. There's nothing better. Was that the one? 52-0-0-0. There's nothing better. The one more it was $56. And there was three bomber fans. That was Labor Day weekend?

Yes. I was at that game, too. Well, we didn't meet that weekend because if you would have, I wouldn't recognize you anyways. I was probably twice as drunk as everybody in your side combined. Well, these guys are like one, one Eugene was going up with his beer bunk. They allowed it in the stadium, which I, can you imagine going to an oiler game or something? and allowing that in? Like, there's no way.

It's just that for whatever reason, riders fans, I mean, it's because we're all farmers, basically, you're a lot more ingenious. You come up with clever ways to sneak booze in, right?

You've got a flask in your boot. Those big PVC pipes with the flag at the end, it's all just one can after another, stacked inside. Yeah. Yeah, and you've got, you bring in a watermelon

with the opposing team's hat on it and a face drawn on it, but that hat is covering a little bit of tape, and that watermelon is full of vodka, right? There's always all these little clever thing. You're giving them all away. Yeah, all security. The Jose Stadium is going to be just taking notes.

They're going to be like, okay, we're going to watch out for this. We've got to watch out for that. Well, he ran around in the 50-whatever-nothing game against the bombers with this beer bong all through the stands getting people to do beerboats. Everybody's mouth wrapped around the hose and everything. Everybody was chanting at the bomber fans because there were three of them sitting right front of us by the end they're doing that you know it's it cares right yeah i mean and when you're winning i mean if it had been flipped i don't know how how happy the the rough rider fans would have

been and we probably would have been depressed but we were winning we're winning by just such it like every time they threw the ball we didn't or so and down and going and everything was going right conditions were perfect yeah yep and uh i that was a wild wild place yeah that's that's yeah and like there was uh uh my brother at the time would have had a like why is he your brother at the time. Is he not still your brother? My brother, comma, at the time, was dating a girl that was down there. So I said, sorry, we'll put punctuation in there so you can understand it, too. All right. Appreciate that. But her dad lived, like, right down in proximity. And I guess, like, there's, like, there's this one street, I guess, every rider's game. It was just, like, a street party

leading up to Taylor Field. And he lived on that street. And I guess he's like, he's like, I went once and it was lit. See, that's awesome. Like, I've been tailgating at McMahon. So that's where the stamps play in Calgary. Yeah. And you would have the cops on bikes literally riding past because everybody's drinking. Yeah. They'd ride past all the stampeters fans, pull in where the riders fans are, give out a bunch of open liquor tickets. Pricks.

Go out, go past all the Stamps fans. But if you're a stamp fan, you would love that. Yeah. Okay. But they double security for the riders games, right? And because the thing about it is, is it's not that the riders fans are obnoxious. The Stamps fans are dicks. And it's funny.

Like, why is it got to be that a dick is a bad thing? I don't. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. It's, I'm being some kind of racist here, I think. But it's funny, I got interviewed by CBC Radio while I was tailgated. I'm sorry, you got interviewed by CBC Radio?

Yeah, yeah, this is like 15 years ago. This is like before they were fake or right? No, they were still fake, but it was before any of this, any of this stuff had happened. Yeah. But they're just like, hey, do you want to talk about what's going on with the game? And I'm just standing there drinking a beer with my shirt off. and so I'm talking to them

and I'm just like man it's totally messed up you got the city of Calgary police coming through on bikes and they're giving all the Stampeders fans a pass and handing out all the tickets to everybody wearing green.

I thought we were past the time in our country where the police were discriminating based on what color you are and that for some reason didn't make the cut no they ended up not air in that little part

censoring oldest time. I should point out when I've gone tailgating in any area, and usually wife's from Minnesota, so it's Vikings games, but growing up when we went to college in Wisconsin. It was Green Bay.

They never ticketed anyone, because if you don't create a friendly environment for everybody to come enjoy the bloody game. Yeah, that's fair. Right? So as much as I go, I bet you the stampeder fans loved it, the cough should just be like, what are you doing? But I mean, really, like in that situation,

can you really come into a situation? like that and be like, okay, we're going to ticket you and you. And everybody else that's doing the same thing isn't going to get a ticket. If you come into a situation like that, you're just got to be like, listen, I'm right now a ticket for everybody and then everybody's probably going to stomp you into the ground or you're just going to go like this. Okay, didn't see anything here. All you're doing at that point is just being like, okay, just keep it in.

Just keep the piece. Yep. Keep peace. Go enjoy your game. Get home safely. Nobody drive. Yeah. Please, all you're doing is just, you know, just push them in the right direction.

You know, you got a thousand steers going and you're like, okay, just kind of go that direction. Would you not over here, over there? And keep them moving, you know, in the right direction. Moving. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you know, but to like single people out, no, that's ridiculous.

As much as I'm sure the home base enjoyed it because it is the rough riders and the rough riders travel so well everywhere across every sport. It isn't even just a CFL you go to. I went the first. biggest merchandise sales in in North American sports. Is the riders? I didn't know that, man.

They account for something like 62% of CFL merchandise. Oh, well. First Viking game I ever went to, right? Sea of purple. Two green jerseys. Riders. And what do you do as a Saskatchewan guy?

You go, I got to go. I'm from Saskatchewan. Yeah, you got to figure out somehow how you're connected. Did you find it? I can't remember now. I may have once again, we've been tailgating, so I'm sure I didn't make a whole lot of sense to them. But I saw it.

I'm like, oh, my God, who's rep in Saskatchewan all the way out here? And they were drinking Pilsner. They found Pilsner, brought it down. Oh, good for them. See, I do that every time I leave the country. Did you do that in Mexico? I've done it in Mexico. Basically, like, I've got this almost kind of a bugout bag for when I go to Mexico specifically,

where I'll bring a whole bunch of Caesar fixings. So I'll bring clam and Worcestershire and Tabassusias. and a couple other things, you know, Montreal steak spices and chili powder to make the rimmer. And then, you know, I'll just set up and just start serving actual seizures because all you get down there, there's a couple places that do it now. But generally speaking, you just get Bloody Mary's instead of Caesars. And then I'll bring a whole bunch of pill and I'll always bring my Flames jersey and my rider's jersey. So I've got pictures of me like all over the world, like Southeast Asia. I'm in Anchor Wat wearing my rider's jersey, right?

And then, you know, you get the same thing. You'll get some guy being like, oh, hey. how's it going, where you're from kind of thing, right? Am I too close to Alberta because I go, I'm not a Caesar guy? Like, I just, I can't do it. No, you're not? No. I'm totally a Caesar guy.

I mean, now I kind of want to try one of twos. When you play it like that, I'm like, maybe I've had a bloody Mary or something because I'm like, I just, I don't know, it doesn't do anything for me. I was just thinking if you had to take your own stuff to do the rim or is it because you asked for a rimmer once and you didn't like what you got, so you had to bring your own? Well, that's exactly. I've heard Mexico. I wasn't, I wasn't specific enough.

Yeah. But the best Caesar Rimmer is Montreal Steak Spice and chili powder mixed half and half, right? And so where are you going to get Montreal Steak Spice in Vietnam? How can you support Montreal so much, man? Just the Steak Spice. Didn't you know? He loves Quebec. I figured, yeah.

Figured as much. I'm going to flip this fucking tape a little bit. Have you done a show in Montreal? No. No, no, I've not done a show. I've not done a show. I've not done a show east of Manitoba. I would.

I'd go to Ontario. heartbeat. There's, I've got, I ship a lot of merch out to Ontario. There's a lot of people that follow me in Ontario. And I don't know if anybody knows it, but Ontario guys are sometimes more redneck than we are. Yeah. I worked, I worked with some boys out from Ontario that are redneck as fuck. And now it's, if you look at an electoral map of Ontario, there's very tiny few little slivers of it that are red. The rest of it's blue. You know what I mean? There are, there are some, there's some good boys out there. Quebec, too. Well, I've partied with some awesome people in Quebec that are redneck bastards, they just speak a different language in us.

This is like probably start of the year. I put out a text, you boys probably got it too, and then I put it on social media. Send me a place, send me where you're working from. It was summer. It was start of summer because I was editing from my back deck, and I was like, this is friggin' sweet. All right, yeah. And one of the guys who listens downtown Toronto.

The first time we aired the crane operator? The crane operator. He's on top of a building. The sun is just setting and is just beautiful. And he sends me a picture of it. I'm like, man, that's a cool spot. How the heck do I have some of it? from the downtown Toronto

listening to the Sean Newman podcast. Yeah, it's wild. It's awesome. Yeah, it's super cool. You're not wrong on Ontario. Ontario has a lot of people that are. Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah. I was in Toronto for, I don't know, about five, six days a few years ago. And I just put it on Twitter. I was like, hey, so I'm going to be in Toronto. What's good to do around here? And a guy reached out. He's like, you probably don't have time

because it's going to be a bit of a drive. But I live just off downtown. I can take you out to my show. shooting range, about an hour and a half away or something like that. And we could just shoot guns all day long. Talk to me more about things I like. Yeah. Okay.

All right. I have just rearranged my schedule. We are good to go. So you went in it? Oh, yeah. It was great. Yeah. That's awesome.

Yeah. And, of course, this was back before the gun ban went on. So there's a lot of AR-15s and stuff that, you know, pistols. And I suck at shooting a pistol. Pistols are a different game, man. Oh, it's totally different. Like you give me, I like, I'm a muzzleloader. You give me 200 yards away, I can shoot the dick off a liberal, all right?

With a muzzleloader. But you put a pistol in my hand and there's a target 10 feet away? Not a fucking hope. I've got mad respect for guys that are accurate with handguns. What if you give you a shotgun and then throw up some, some discs? Well, then I run pretty much neck and neck with Sean, which I kind of felt like it was a bit of a loss. I mean, you're always walking around with nice shoes and your hair's always done. And I'm like, this is going to be embarrassing.

Like, he's just going to fucking suck. And then sure enough, they were going up and he's knocking him down. And I'm like, all right, okay. Well, it looks like he's still got a little bit of that blood in him. I was impressed. All right on. I was teasing twos at the start before he started before he saw me shoot. I'm like, well, let's just put a bet on it.

Come on. Let's just see who's better. Like, you know, if I lose, what do you want? And I'm thinking, I'm like, I'm hung over. Oh, sure. best he's going to be embarrassed, right? This is what I'm thinking going into it. Like, oh, yeah, this fancy sales guy.

Uh-huh. Yeah, this is not, it's going to be a fucking blood bath. So no, I don't want to put a bed on it and just fucking hustle you. And then he gets up there and he's actually knocking him down left, right and center. And I'm like, did the hangover, so he came out after. Yeah, yeah, not before. Well, I'm really hung over. Yeah, I know after.

Oh, shit. I'm in my mask. I'd only, yeah. I'd only been up for like four hours at that point. So, so yeah, it was. or pardon me, I'd gone to bed like four hours before that. So what you're saying is we need to set a date in the future at a licensed place where there's no drinking the night before.

You get a great 12 hours of sleep, 8 hours of sleep, whatever you need, no drinking in the morning, no podcast, you get a back rub, maybe a foot rub, and then you'll be ready to go. Yeah, if you want to actually do like a straight up competition, it would be a lot of fun. And there's a place 20 minutes away from here that we could do that. I'm game. Sounds like a terrible time.

Fuck you guys. I'm going to drink the night before I'm going to show up still half cut. I can pop a few beers. There you go. So what you're saying is that Sean needs to put on some sort of SMP clay pigeon shoot. Yeah. Yeah, let's go do a bunch of trap shooting. But I'd have to do it in the middle of the week.

Yes, for you? Well, it depends. You know, plant it and toughnal, because then I can just sneak away. No, I'm not planet and toughnal. Come on. It's, oh, it's fun.

Shooting stuff's fun. But yeah, like pistols or pistols or something, man. You see, you see how he dodges the question? Oh, not.

After we're done, I'm finding out of way because if I do it, start throwing a dart. The Wildlife Federation's got a place set up just outside of SAS too. Do you, make it a fun or is it?

We do a funneries or something. Yeah, we can make something happen. Yeah, I don't, I don't mean we have to make a giant boat, but I'm like, you know what people are going to want to do.

They're going to want to join in this festive thing. And now we're going to have to have a trophy built because we're going to have to crown someone champion. I'm kind of an expert on that. We're going to have to have standings built. And as long as I finish ahead of twos, I'm going to need. We're also going to need participation medals for everybody. Yeah. That's involved.

Because that's the way things go nowadays. But I will say this. I should probably be the person taking point on designing the trophy. I do have a little bit of experience in that. Did you? I did not notice that. All right. So right now, I'm pointing at the rooster trophy.

The Bud Light Memorial employee of the month. Sean Newman, Tuesday mashup. Correct. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Well, we decided that because journalists give each other a whole bunch of meaningless awards all the time.

So that they can be an award-winning journalist. Award-winning podcast. Yeah. Which we are right on. Yeah. I'm an award-winning podcaster, and so is Sean. Correct. It even actually says that on my 222 minutes business cards.

Award-winning podcast. podcaster. Ah, right on. That's deadly. Now, going back to the mustache, the only reason I brought it up was I remember thinking, Dad, why did he shave in a mustache? Nobody looks good in a mustache. That's a lie.

Some people do. But overall, I'm like, why a mustache? So I shave this mustache in. I'm looking at myself in the mirror, and I'm like, I kind of like it. When did that happen? So, but if you're married, it shouldn't matter if you like it or not, because it's not about you. You just got to look sexy to your partner.

Isn't that how marriage works? I don't know. I can't wait. I can't wait for this show tonight. I do a bit on marriage, and it's the funest fucking bit. I was going to do a bit on mustaches, and it ended up on the cutter room floor. But basically the gist is. If you met a girl, wait a second.

If you met a girl, and you were head over heels for her. She said, I love everything about you, but you got to get rid of the beard. Would you get rid of the beard? Well, no. Okay. Let's pause for a sec. Can someone explain to me the logic of this whole head over heels thing? Like when you're really excited about somebody and you're crazy about it?

about them, your head over heels. We're literally head over heels when we're sitting or standing. Like, that's our default position. If you wanted to say that you were really excited about somebody, you would probably say that you were heels overhead for them. Yeah, that's true. I think it's a reference to falling, isn't it? I assume so, yes.

Rolling down, but I get your reference because vertically when you stand, your head's tech. Your head over heels is just a default position. It doesn't make a look of the sense. Put it in your notes. That's a good idea. I just work on your delivery a little bit because there's something there.

No, there's definitely something there. Well, actually, I did work on it, and that's another thing that ended up on the cutting room floor. Same thing with mustaches. Because I remember when I was, I don't know, early 20s living in Lloyd, nobody had mustaches.

The only people who had mustaches were literally every single guy from Newfoundland. It was just like, you could see a guy walking down the street. He'd be on the other side of the street, and you go like, oh, there's a newfee. They're like, well, how do you know that? You'd be like, because he's got a fucking mustache. No, no way.

You'd be like, watch this. Hey, buddy, do you like pickled muscles? You'd be like, oh, yeah, for sure, best kind. You'd be like, fucking told you. And now all the kids these days have fucking moustaches. It's weird. I've seen some pretty weak moustaches of kids these days. Well, I mean, the only time we ever had one was if we were having one ironically,

and now they're doing it seriously. Yeah. And it's... I think it was something like Movember that made that happen. I don't know. Movember probably did a lot to bring it back, but it's interesting how there's, you know, that cyclical nature. It's just trends, isn't it?

Well, it's the cyclical nature of fashion and trends and things like that. Like, I saw a kid a couple weeks ago that was wearing a no fear tuk. It takes, it takes, Stuart Skinner, the Emmington Oilers walking in, rocking an amazing muzzie. He's got an amazing muzzie. He literally, he literally just, he's got a mustache like, like QDM, honestly, right? And he always, he just, and he rocks it. And so now kids dress up with the, their little kids dressing up with the mustache,

because that's his thing. It just creates a whole new culture of the mustache being cool again. You know, back in the, what, the 70s, 80s, they had like Tom Selleck and all them guys, right? Ron Jeremy. True. And then who did we have, like, you know, who rocked a stash for my generation? Nobody really, right? Like, I don't think, you know, I'm trying to think.

Still Tom Selleck, but that's about it. But he's an older guy at that point. So you're not getting 20 and rocking the stash. Like that wasn't a thing. Somehow in my generation in school, the perm was a thing, you know, where guys would come. Hey, the perm's still a thing for some guys that decided not to leave the 80s. You know what I mean? They're still there.

And Mullets are coming back too now. Some guys has never left either. That's also very true. Some kids are like an amazing, just do an amazing mullet. You're like, that looks pretty freaking good. Funniest moment of my life when I dealt with a guy with a mullet is it was the father of a girl that I was dating at the time. and I just asked him one day because he's the kind of guy

that he just, he had the mustache and he still rocked the mullet like it was 1986 and it wore like a trench coat and cowboy boots and stuff or whatever like this guy was, he never left the 80s. And I just asked him one day.

I was like, you could see he just got a haircut and he got the mullet like cut back in trimmed up or whatever, but it's still a full on mullet and I couldn't help myself and I was like,

Brent, when you go to the hairdresser how do you ask to get your haircut? And he's like, Oh, you know, I'm just like, well, same thing, you know, shorter up here and then a little bit longer back here. And I couldn't hold myself together. I'm just killing myself laughing because he literally doesn't realize that he's wearing a mullet and it's hilarious. He's just like, I just, I just be like, same thing, same thing that I've got just a little shorter.

A little more business in the front, a little more party in the back. Can you make it look like it's kind of a waterfall in West Virginia? That's what I'm, that's what I'm looking for. You know what I mean? I just couldn't get it. I mean, we used to every once in a while just grow them to be goofy, right? So here's one that I had when I was, I don't know, like 19 or something like that. And then here's one where, I mean, this obviously never happened because it would never happen,

but we were drinking all night in the doghouse and decided that it was going to be a good idea to cut a mullet. But all we had was just an old pair of rusty scissors in the drawer of the push his desk. And so we cut this. It's even got the steps on the side. Yeah. And we were literally, we realized we're like, oh, shit, we got to run to town real quick and get lunches so we can come back to work. And then we come back and the doghouse just reeks like booze and there's hair all over the floor. And we all look like absolute shit, especially me who just got this ridiculous haircut.

Yeah. And the consultant comes in, he looks around. He's like, what in the fuck? And then he pauses for a minute because nobody says anything. He's like, what in the fuck happened here last night? Nobody says anything. And he goes, he takes a few steps over, stands right in front of me. And he's like, what in the fuck happened here, Steve?

I said, Dave, I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. And then everybody went to work. And he just pauses for a minute and he turns bright fucking red. And he says, if any of you, fucking die today, you're skitting. Storms out of the doghouse, slams the door. We never saw them all day long. What you're saying is, is I should have, instead of a rig hand roundtable, I should

have a consultant roundtable of the craziness that happens out on the rigs. No, you don't want a bunch of consultants. They just sleep through the whole thing. In their shack, on their leather couch. You know, it's a different role. It really is, like, how things work now. But it was a different world. like, and I say back then, it really wasn't that long ago,

but like things have changed so much. I mean, this is like 20 years ago, right? Yeah, here we are now. It's, it's funny how fast society progresses on some of these things, right? But you look back at what a guy used to do, and I mean, we're all still alive. We made her.

And, uh, I don't know. There's some, some of that needs to come back to the world a little bit where everybody can just like fucking pump your brakes and not give as much of a shit sometimes. So we, I don't know about quick dick, but we watched the video of Adam Johnson, uh, the hockey player dying with the skate to the neck. Oh, shit.

Okay. It was pretty gruesome. Like, it was gruesome. And so as a hockey player, I'm like, oh, you know, like, that's tough to watch because of how many, it's no different than the bus crash. I mean, it's a little different, but similar vein of thought. I'd say it's kind of completely different, isn't it? Because that guy, like, literally lifted his leg off the ice.

I just mean, something. From a hockey, no, from a hockey player, I mean, I'm really, I mean, I'm really, rode the bus a thousand times. From the hockey players standpoint, I've been on the ice more than that. Gotcha. And have been hit and everything else, never had a skate come and get me in the neck. Yeah. So then they asked Wayne Grexie about it.

Yeah. We're talking about how quickly things can change. He said, well, you know, we wear neck guards our entire lives, and he was talking about visors, too. And then we get to the show, and we figure we just don't need to do any of that because it's cooler or whatever. And he goes, like, probably a neck guard would be a good start. And you're like, actually, that's a pretty good idea. Then he took it one step further and started talking about these leagues, these guys aren't going to the NHL and they should remove hitting.

And I was like, the greatest player to possibly have ever played the game is talking about removing hitting. And you're talking about how fast things go. I mean, his thing, though, was that he had other people on the ice who did all the hitting for him. Oh, 100%. Anyone touched Wayne. They got their ever-living crap kicked out of him.

Yeah, which made it easy for him to, you know, rack up points, right? And so you look at it and you're like, this, there's probably no worse of a person. and you could talk to about the benefits and downsides of hitting in hockey than Wayne Gretzky. Like, who you really want to have that conversation with is Tiger Williams. You know, a guy that basically just spent more time in the penalty box than he did on the ice. Like, he'd just get out, trip somebody, go back in. Well, I was just with your thought, like how quickly things should. Yeah.

Some of it's good. Like, a neck guard is like, yeah, that probably makes sense. But you don't need to throw everything in with this. And no hitting, by the way, in any league but the NHL. It's like, I think, like, I can't talk much about hockey. I don't really know much about hockey. But, I mean, if you look at, like, take bull riding, for example. Like, there's, there's over 90% of the riders nowadays wear helmets with face guards on them.

Because you get guys like tough heedman, a few guys that have had their face completely smashed into nothing. And they're like, okay, you know what? We're going to start wearing flack. That dude, they made the movie about in the 90s. Yeah. Lane Smith, maybe? No, that was eight seconds you're talking about? Yeah.

I can't remember the guy's name off the top of my head here now. But yeah, so same kind of thing. So we wear vests now and they wear full-faced helmets and everything. But, I mean, like, we're still doing bull riding, though. You know what I mean? Like, is it just me or is there something about society and humankind that we're, like, we want to see people get fucked up? Because I don't think there's a part to it.

Maybe there's a little bit of that. There's that desire to watch NASCAR to see. Lane Frost? Lane Frost. That's what it is. Absolutely. Yes. So you've got that kind of NASCAR desire

where nobody really gets excited about seeing them go They like to see the fiery crash into the wall. What they like to see is the fiery crash brought to you by Applebee's, right? And so I think on the other side of it, you've got these high testosterone dudes who have a propensity towards pushing boundaries and pushing limits and they're not probably all that particularly interested in things like safety equipment. Look at all the flack that Jock Plant took when he finally started wearing a mask, right?

Absolutely. I don't think it's the thing if you're a professional athlete that you're going out there to do your thing. You want to wear a neckguard? Yeah, there we go. You want to wear a neckguard, wear a neckguard, wear a neckguard that's going out there to ride. You want to wear a full-face helmet, wear a full-face helmet. But, I mean, you're in it and you're responsible for yourself. You're putting yourself at risk that this could happen and you could die from it.

But, I mean, at the same time, you and I've talked about this example quite a bit, but I mean, we strap ourselves into a vehicle and hurdle ourselves at each other feet, mere feet and inches away from another person. Well, you saw my vehicle today. Like, we hurdle ourselves within inches of somebody that we have absolutely no idea who they are coming at us at the exact same speed. There's 200 kilometers an hour of velocity going on here. We're coming at each other.

And you don't know if that person's on Instagram, updating their story on the other side of the lane. They're going to veer into yours. You have no fucking idea. Maybe their truck are bombing. Right? But we just throw our trust out into the wind like that. But then all of a sudden we're going to bring controls and like, okay, well, you have to

wear a neckguard and a helmet and this and that to do that. Listen, protect yourself however you want, but you're putting yourself at risk by doing this, right? Well, Sikhs have an exemption for motorcycle helmet. So you have to wear a motorcycle helmet in Canada. But Sikhs get an exemption because they wear the turbines and you can't fit a helmet on top of a turbine. So you're not legally required to wear a helmet if you're Sikh. And some people take umbrage with that.

And my thing is, is you wearing a helmet or not is really only going to affect you. Yeah. Right? To a certain extent. So. But like there's people that are going to have to come and scrape you up kind of thing or whatever. And maybe your head's going to be exploded up the side of it. So you're helping the economy.

You're helping Canadian tire sell more squeegees to the fire department. Yeah. But still, you know, if you, regardless of whatever faith you are, or what if you feel like hey you know what i don't feel like wearing a helmet while i'm riding a motorcycle if you want to be that dumb have at her i i agree 100% yeah yeah no i get it and like uh you know i to to a certain degree when you get when you get kids and stuff too i mean if there's parents that are like well my kid's not going to wear a helmet kind of thing too i mean okay fine whatever but like are you okay with that you know kids like well you know what i don't want to wear a face mask

I don't want to wear a helmet. I don't want to wear a visor in hockey. And then all of a sudden your kid is maybe not old enough to be making decisions for themselves, gets themselves all fucked up and then regrets it for the rest of their life. That fucking sucks. We could take this down a lot of different. But, you know, once you're an adult, I mean, fucking you pick. Do whatever the fuck you want.

But we pick up that cost as a society. If somebody winds up in a hospital with terminal brain injury and they never recover and they're a vegetable and they're on a taxpayer dime in a fucking bed. It's pretty much the only way you can get into a hospital. nowadays anyway though it's true yeah but you know what it means so like i get the you know you get if you if you look at the if you go from we pick up the cost at the end um we can go down some dark oh we totally can yeah it's endless right because we pick up the cost for fucking everything no matter what you know what i mean yeah like it doesn't matter where you go with that i mean it just we're

we're there i mean we have to pick up the cost for everything right now so it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't matter it doesn't it doesn't matter that argument leads you to made you know the way we could save money is, you know, just die. And the government will help you with that. Healthcare has become too unaffordable in Canada. Our main solution is to just kill everybody that gets sick. Yeah. What if we push back on the unions every once in a while? What if we scaled back the pensions to a state where, where they're, you know, somewhat reasonable. You know, what if, what if, what if? No, that's crazy. Let's just kill them. Yeah, it's really bad. Like, healthcare just, it grinds my years.

You know, I've got family members involved in health care and they struggle and it's hard because it's like it's very top heavy bureaucratic in any province that you go to what goes on, right? Well, it's because there's no accountability. That's right. But like that turns into the fundamental problem with every government on the planet right now. There's zero accountability for anybody. It's going to do whatever you want.

And if you're a complete failure, you still get your fucking pension and you retire and you never have to worry about money for the rest of your life and everybody else can just stay fucked. And you're like, well, I tried. Well, how the fuck is that any good? If you're a complete failure, though, it's even worse. Because generally speaking, if your department fucking sucks, you just say, we need more money. Yeah. The solution is always more money. And it's never, what if you guys didn't suck. Yeah. My bigger thing with health care is there's a lot of people that are like,

oh, we need a, we need a healthcare system model after Canada because he had free healthcare in Canada. And I just, when I hear people say that you get free stuff, case in point, Trudeau with this fucking heat pumps here lately. Okay, I want to start flipping fucking tables. Let's just make it illegal for any politician in Canada to use the word free for something that does not literally fall out of the fucking sky. They're just going to come and say, well, this is not going to cost you anything. And technically, I did not use the word free, so I'm fine.

Right. Oh, but then you just said free. So now you go to jail. I know, yeah, me too. Why, how did this turn this way? Whatever. I do hate the pricks, though. Well, I just, you know, like, I was listening to Constantin.

What's his last name, folks? He's the British guy. The British guy. Like, he's just fantastic. And he goes, maybe politicians need to remember they're not running for re-election, right? Because everything they do is about, is like, well, I just got to get reelected. We got to worry. It's like, how about you just go in and fix some things?

Get the heck out and call it a day. But all, like, they just get caught up and, well, we're just going to, kind of, you know. I don't know. You think, you think Pierre is going to be the savior? You know, like right now with everything going on, it's certainly. looks like Pierre is going to be a runaway with this. I mean, how can you could put it at this point, it's like, hey, if you have been on Grexky's line, you would have put up 100 points a season, you know?

And right now, if you literally can just chew an apple and ask a couple of few questions, you're going to be the next prime minister. Yeah, so nobody in Manitoba is going to win that. But like, it's, it's just, yeah, okay, so he's the next best thing right now. And he's the only alternative to what we've got right now. I'll be right back to. And basically any alternative to what we've got right now is better than what we've got, right? Like literally any alternative.

I hope he makes it out of that door. You know what's funny? Is he like he, what is he got, a little kid bladder? Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Have we even been going for that? Maybe he drank.

Did he leave his phone unlocked? I don't know. This could be a good opportunity to have some fun with twos. So Pierre is the next thing coming. Like I don't see how it's any different. But I finish your thought, sorry. I was laughing at twos trying to get out the door. I mean, it's great.

You know, we're going to, there we go. We're going to see, I think we're going to see some changes in, you know, in some climate policy and a few taxation issues that we've got going on. But, you know, I remember Trudeau saying that he was going to come in and make a transparent government and he was going to change, he was going to go through with electoral reform and do a whole bunch of different things and none of it materialized. He told everybody what they wanted to hear to get elected and then did whatever the fuck he wanted it anyways. And don't get me wrong. I like, I like some of the stuff that Pauliev says. I don't

like some of the stuff that Pauliav says. And eventually, he's probably going to be the prime minister of Canada. And when it happens, what's going to make you many different? The only, the only thing that stops him right now is a monumental fumble. Yeah. Monumental. What could still happen easily, right? I agree, but I mean, on the other side, you literally have, who is the quarterback folks for the Jets years ago, where he literally fumbled the ball by. by running into his linebacker's butt. Like, he literally head banged. I don't know if I remember that.

That's what you got it going against Pierre on the other side. Trudeau right now is everything's a fumble. Every, like, you know, he, oh, yeah, I'm going to do this tax break for, you know, Carmen Dotaire three years. Man, that exploded. Who was this? Who was the staffer that come up with that? Well, at this point, I wonder if they aren't undermining them. Yeah.

He wouldn't be smart enough to pick it up. That's not going to work completely explode in his face, right? Yeah, well, to me, if you were smart about it, you would. give everybody the tax break. Yeah. Oh, is he locked out? No, he's locked out. Like, how is this?

Can you let? What's the password? Like, I mean, folks, this is what we're dealing with today. Red or white? Thank you. It's okay. We only talked shit about you for a little while where you were gone. It's fun.

That's all right. Can't wait to tune in and hear it. Man, that guy is so fucking good looking. Just to finish the thought on the tax break, though, with carbon tax, right, for three years. you know, if they were smart about it and I actually wanted to win some brownie points, they would have given it to everybody. Yeah.

Like immediately. But I mean, I was actually, there's shit that surprises me and I thought I was to the point where nothing would ever surprise me coming out of this guy anymore. And then they did that. And I was like, okay, wait a minute. You just admitted that this carbon pricing scheme

that you've got actually does make life more expensive for everybody is what you just did. And at the same time, you have told the rest of the country, aside from Atlantic Canada, There are the tiny few little bit of people that use heating oil throughout the rest of Canada to go fuck themselves. So basically you've said...

It's on brand for them. Basically, you said that you have been talking out your ass since 2015 and that everybody can go fuck themselves. And when I watched that happen, I was just like, I cannot believe what I just watched. That video you put up, you were very exasperated in it. You could just tell you were just like... But I had...

And normally I don't, like, that was... I did that like real times. We were processing cabs all day. I had my phone about. I had no idea what was going on. I got home and made food, sat down, and I started looking at it, and I was just raging, and I just flipped the phone over and started recording. Because sometimes that's just what you got to do, you know.

And, like, I just couldn't believe it. I was shocked. And, like, I was inconsolable. It took me time. I don't get what's so surprising about it, aside from the fact that they finally said the quiet part out loud. But that's what I mean, like, This is, it's, it justified everything that the critics have been, I would say, very validly saying about the carbon tax from the get-go. Best, best tweet I've ever got to make in my life, and I doubt he's listening, but Max Fawcett, and I've been on his podcast, you guys know this, Max and I disagree on basically everything that's out there, uh, decent enough guy I talked to in real life.

But, uh, he puts a tweet out and he's like, uh, I can't remember exactly what his wording was, but he's like, Trudeau basically just told everybody that's been defending his carbon price. for years to pound sand kind of thing. And I quote tweeted him and I was like, me and Max finally got something in common. We both know how it feels to get fucked over by Justin Trudeau. And he's like, I'll take that one. Well, it's funny. He blocked me a while ago.

When you were trying to put together, trying to decide who was going to be on the panel that you were on with Vance about the urban rural divide. Yeah. And you tweeted, you were like, well, who should we have on here to talk about the urban side of things? And I didn't even tag him in it. Yeah.

I just said, somebody kind of like Max Fawcett, but funny and interesting. He blocked you for that? And he blocked me over it. And I was like, okay, so he's Googling himself. You want to hear a funny story? Sure. No. I was trying to have Charles Adler come on.

Oh, shit, really? Yeah. Well, I mean, and so he'd agreed. And I was like, sweet. Oh, get out town. Sweet. Yeah, great. That would have been good to listen to.

And then he thought it was supposed to be this past Wednesday. And I'm like, no, it's next Wednesday. Okay, not a big deal. Okay, sounds good. and then I don't know if he did some reading or what. Okay. He sends me, you've blocked off 90 minutes. Not interested in that anymore.

I can't talk that long or whatever. I was like, oh, we can go as long as you want, Charles. Don't matter to me. He's like, nope, find someone new. Done with this. Oh, wow. And I was like, Charles, I'm coming for you because I want you on here. You know, I used to listen to you as a kid.

Yeah. And I think it'd be really interesting to have somebody who doesn't agree with every bloody word that comes out of my mouth on. I think it's always interesting to have somebody contradict what you think. very, it's important, right? Yeah. It's tough because I keep getting, like, it's not like I, I'll be very clear.

I haven't, it's not like I go looking for that type of punishment because it, like, to talk to somebody that you almost disagree with fundamentally, everything that comes out of your mouth, you're like, oh, man, this is getting an interesting hour. Yeah. Yeah. But to not do it is like, well, that's a real missed opportunity. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

But I don't know how many times I've been turned down now. Is that right? Yeah. Where, you know, like, you know, yeah, maybe. No, I'm not interested. Like in the middle of. COVID. I had a doctor coming on from Saskatoon. And he never showed. Like, I was sitting here in the studio going, oh, wow. Never came on. I was like, that's too bad. You know, and I was terrible,

like, to me, when I get nerves anymore, it's to talk about uncomfortable topics, right? That's what this is. And that, that was, that was, you know, in the middle of COVID, everybody know where I went. I mean, geez, half my followers now, or half the audience, I should say, came through them. But at the time, I was like, okay, I had a couple on. And, And then I was like, okay. And then I had McCull in them on. I'm like, all right, let's get another person. And I tried.

And I had some of them coming on. And then the latest one now is Charles Adler, where he's supposed to be coming on in like three days. And he's quietly just been like, not interested. Yeah, that's too bad. There's some things I can listen to Adler say. And I think he makes some good points and some things that he does. And then there's some things that I hear. And I have to shut it off halfway through.

I'm like, no, can't listen to that. I agree. But you know what's funny? I've heard the same thing probably about all three of us. Well, sure. Yeah, absolutely. And you go, like, when you listen to a podcast of anyone, even if you hate the person, like you truly just are like this, it forces you to think on why you're in your position.

Yeah, that's right. And every once in a while, you might get a gem, they say, and you go, hmm, but I hadn't thought about that. Son of a gun. Yeah, for sure. And to me, like, we have to get the sides talking. Like, we're in this weird world right now. or, you know, and we've been in this world world for a few years now, you know, and, and Charles is, on his Twitter, like, I follow him still and I'm just like, oh, yeah, there are

days where I'm like, why do I even, why do I even look at this, you know? For sure. Yeah, but there's lots of that out there, and it's even, it comes from a lot of people, you know. Unexpected places sometimes. Yeah, but, like, even some of the, like, some of the last uploads that I've done, man, you get some shit in your comments there, whatever, where you just say one or two things. It's not really triggering, and you kind of explain yourself.

why you're saying it kind of thing. And the one I did on the parents bill of rights there or whatever, like, I'd like, like, right away, like, I had people calling me. Well, you said at the start, didn't you, that the comments were going to blow up? I had people calling me fag in the fucking comments section, a whole bunch of different shit. And I was, yeah, sticks joke here. Sorry, farm agriculture, right? It's an acronym.

But, like, I was just like, like, it was fucking unreal. Like, as soon as somebody hears one thing, that they don't want to hear. You're... Isn't it wild? They're just fucking against you. Isn't it wild we haven't, like, all gone... I mean, don't get me wrong.

I'm not making light of Ukraine by any stretch. But isn't it wild that they haven't found a way to gaslight us all into going off to war again? When you say... When you talk about being triggered... Nobody cares about Ukraine anymore, though, right? Now we've got the Middle East to worry about. And Zelensky's feeling like he just got dumped.

Like he's going to read a Taylor Swift album. I just had Martin Armstrong on. And he, I can't remember if he says it on the episode or if I listened to him, say it somewhere else. But he was talking about how in U.S. elections, anytime a president is at war, they've never lost. Okay? Now, that's the U.S. being at war. So that's, you know, like, you know, that's a pretty small number of, well, not as small as I think, actually. There's a pretty small number of U.S. presidents who haven't been at war.

And I would say in the last several decades, it's kind of only been the one. As all I'm saying. So then you look at what's going on, and this isn't to make light of any of the situations. Just that... What's wrong with making light of them. What QDM said was is triggering, and I laugh at that because I'm like, everything to everybody is triggering right now. You say one word in somebody's triggered. You know, like the text line for this has been interesting the last little bit.

I've been called, you know, 100 Huntley Street as a... You know, you're kind of remind me to this old preachy type. Stop doing it. And I've gone all the way the other way where I'm, I'm swearing too much and I'm, that's from your mom.

No, it isn't. I wish it was just for my mom. My mom, you know, she has their standard, Sean. That was a bit too much. I mean, too, or me and QDM, joked about this lots.

And then she sends me a couple texts and I go, okay, all right. You know, you were part of that one. You know, I was like, what is she talking? We did a podcast. I'm like, oh, right, okay. Yeah, remember that one,

I was still drunk and you were driving us up to Saskatoon. And so there was no filter. Yeah, it's, you know, I think, but like I've talked about it a little bit before and I do it on a couple of my episodes. But I think like social media, I think, has made people feel really tough that are not really tough, you know. And it's a big difference of saying something and being tough on social media behind a screen and a keyboard. But there's actually saying it to someone's face. There's a lot of people that won't, like, look at how many people in this world stand by and film. somebody being shot or stabbed and

rather than jumping in. They just stand there and film it. Like, what's wrong with our world? That's what's wrong with our world. Is that we all live in a social media world. I'm not the kind of guy. If I see something going on, I'm not the kind of guy that's going to stand and film it. I'm going to go try and do what I can't fucking stop. Whatever you have for thoughts on religion or faith or that type of thing. I watched a video the other day. Easy there 100.

Right. I know. What was that guy's named Billy Graham? Billy Graham. That's what I was. But they were talking about How the cell phone, how you hold it, is an act of praying. Like, you know how you bring your hands together to pray. Okay.

And you stare at the phone. And the one guy was saying, he goes, when I think of people staring at their phone, when you look at them, it looks like they're praying to the phone. And when it just become like a religion to people or an addiction or whatever word you want to stick to it. So when you talk about like, what's wrong with the world is like, well, that contraption has taken over a huge chunk of life. It makes a great coaster though. Yeah, it does, eh? I'm curious to see how my bit goes on that tonight. Well, I'm not curious.

I kind of know how it's going to go, but I've got a whole bit. I think I'll start after the intermission with it here tonight. I've got a whole bit on this and, like, what social media is doing to our kids and to our youth and what's happening with it. And I obviously try and make jokes about it and get people laughing about it. But in all of the comedy that I do, like I try and make points in the comedy that I do, but have people laugh. So we've talked about this. It's been my goal forever. The start of it is get people laughing, but try and make some little points about it.

You know what I mean? Seeing the main focus of what I'm going to be talking about tonight is the lighter points of kidnapping. Oh, hey, you know. Like, why not? You know what I mean? You know, some of the best, I don't know, I have two comics that I think of when I think of like the best in comedy. One was a younger Sean, I guess, but it was Dane Cook. Well, Dan Cook was great, man.

His word choice was phenomenal. Where did he go? I don't know. Have you heard the Dane Cook one where he's at the house party and he does the shit on the, somebody shit on the coats bit? It's the funniest fucking bit ever. Oh my God.

I kill myself laughing. Do you say somebody shit on the coats? So good. He has a bit of going, you know, like it wouldn't relate, I don't think anymore. Once upon a time, one of the biggest outings in North America was going to a movie, you know? Yeah.

And he had this bit of showing up for the previews and drinking, it was literally the silliest thing. Taking a sip of your drink and then trying to find the hole to put it back into, but trying to keep your eyes on the screen. And like, I died laughing to it because of his word choice. It's absolutely how you do it. And it was just, it was fantastic. So that's one.

And the other one's Dave Chappelle. They call him the goat. But what he does is what you talk about. He makes a comment on what's going on in today's world in a funny way. Or a lightweight, even though he's talking about very, serious things. I mean, geez, they've tried canceling them for it. And yet you're like, this is comedy. Like in comedy, it's supposed to be on the edge.

Like at the same time, yeah, it can be on the edge, but in comedy, I mean, just, you can't just say something that's completely fucking terrible and then just be the old, oh, well, it's comedy, so I can say it. Okay, easy. In all fairness, though, I would say at the same time, that if you're not accidentally stepping over the line a little bit every once in a while, you're not, because you're going to try out jokes and some of them are going to work better than other. Like we did, we were talking about that, that guy who got his... Adam Johnson.

Yeah. Got his throat. Adam Johnson. Yeah. And it was kind of ad hoc, I think, was probably part of the reason why it didn't go nearly as well. But I was throwing ideas for headlines at Sean beforehand. And it was funny. And it was working well.

But we hadn't really figured out the flow of it or anything like that. Like it was just literally just right before we went to air. We threw out a few headlines and stuff. And then I thought Sean was writing them down, but he didn't. And then I was trying to remember on the fly, and just the flow of it wasn't there. And nothing worked. And it ended up sounded. And for the first time in the show, I was like, I can't read this.

Like, I just can't read a joke about a guy dying in my sport. I'm like, I just can't. Yeah, I got you. And so it was before the show, certainly all these things come into it, right? But, you know, like when I look at it, it's probably one of the headlines I fought you on the hardest, right? there's sometimes he throws something in about a fat check or something. And I'm like, I don't want to read this,

but I'm going to read it. And everybody can feel my uncomfortableness with reading it. The hockey one is tough because, like, a dude died. Yeah. And as we found out, had ties closer to home than we thought. Or maybe we even, you know, at the time, I don't even think we were worried about that.

We were trying to continue doing the bit of what the Tuesday mashup is, which is a funny headline for pretty much everything. Yeah. Which there's some pretty nasty stuff in there. And it just didn't come off right, because, I mean, I was fighting you on every which way on it, probably going like, we can't say that, you know. But, yeah.

But, I mean, that's, I guess that's where I'm trying to go, is that every once in a while, you're going to take a joke a little bit further than you probably should. But that's the thing about, it's kind of like just trying to stop just in front of that line. Every once in a while, you're going to put a tire over it, right? And if you're not ever putting a tire over it, you're probably airing too much on the side of caution.

Akear of the Dawn, who is on, who's the guy with, have you heard of Akira the Dawn before? No, I don't think so. He has this type of music called Meaning Wave, so he takes things at Jock-Wilnick or Jordan Peterson say, and then he overlays or underlays music to it, and it's like inspirational music, if you would. Okay.

And he was saying, you know, if you don't have one foot in chaos and one foot in order kind of thing, he goes, you won't progress. So what you're talking about is you still got to go into the world of chaos, which is like you're a little bit. but outside the realm of what's acceptable. That's family guy. Like, I grew up watching family guy in my early 20s, and there were jokes in there that

offended me. I was like, that's too far. And I'd be angry about it. I still watch the show because they, they, I always said they offended everyone equally. They didn't just pick one group to offend. They offended it. They explored the boundaries of what is funny and what is not. And in exploration of that, you're going to find that you've stepped over the line a few

too many times. Well, not too many times. You're going to know what you've stepped out of. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. But you're going to absolutely land some of them, and they're going to be way funnier than they could have been if you had just kept it safe and dialed it way of the fuck back, right?

Yeah. It's the difference between actual comedy and this hour is 22 minutes. Yeah. Right? Where everything's all just washed down. It's safe. There's nobody that's ever going to take any umbrage with any of the jokes you ever make. But at the same time, no one's ever going to laugh at them either.

Yeah. You know, it's funny. I can't remember where it was or what was happening. I don't know why it was going on, but all of a sudden, and I don't watch a lot of TV. I don't watch a lot of anything. Usually my spare time, I spend creating content and not consuming it, right?

That's a good thing. But for some reason, I stumbled across an old Rick Mercer rant, but it was in his days of doing the RMR, the Rick Mercer report. And like, I'm still to this day, I'm a huge fucking fan of Rick Mercer. I think he did a good job of playing both sides of the political spectrum.

most of the time, but that guy, he just hit it all the time. And he would walk the line, but he'd never, he'd never dance into that other territory, but the fucker was funny about it. And just how he handled himself and how he, you know, how he composed his character on camera. He could just, he could have you. And I talked to a lot of people that have watched Rick Mercer and nobody ever feels different about him than kind of there just like, well, lots of people, oh, well, he was too far left. But then I'd be like, well, did you see these four or five or six different rants that he

did on Trudeau or this or that. Well, no. I'm like, that's the problem with society is yield just like a lot of people with, even with my content. Social media is going to show you one side of this rant that he's done or whatever. You'd be like, oh yeah, he loves Trudeau or this or that. And no, I've never seen Rick

Mercer do a Trudeau rant. No. Watch them. They're fucking hilarious. He barbecues them. You know? And I, like, that's what I like. And that's a lot of people that consume a lot of my content. All of a sudden, they'll just one different show will come up. in the algorithm and they'll be like, oh, I can't believe you'd say something like that.

Do you think being a comedian, or maybe this stretches beyond a comedian, but we'll stick with Rick Mercer for a second, is kind of like being a UFC fighter. You have like your prime days where you can like basically breach all audiences because you're just that funny. Everybody says social media, social media, and I understand that. But you know, like, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong on this. I don't know what your Twitter feeds are like.

Does everybody see anything on Tucker Carlson? Does anybody see anything on... I'm trying to think of somebody, the biggest... Joe Rogan from time to time. On the flip side, it would be, you know, like some things on maybe Biden or Trudeau coming out, although mostly when it comes up from Trudeau.

And on my side, it's usually somebody commenting on it. I don't know. I'm just curious if there's somebody who breaks out of the echo chamber of what the echo chambers are, that are like in prime fighting condition as a comedian is kind of what I'm going with. Because like Rick Mercer overall these days, I'm like, I've watched a bunch.

Yeah, he's okay. I've seen anything from in years. I feel like when you, when you go back to Keir the Dawn's thing, when you got one foot just into chaos, you're living on the edge. And when you live on the edge, you're going to get certain things right. You're going to certainly step on some landmines. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And you're going to have, oh, no, but it's a tough way to live, though, right? Because it isn't the safe place. It's literally you got one foot in chaos, which is like, okay, well, hold on. because I don't know what's coming out of this. But that's where all the fun is, right? Like that sort of... But it's also where all the stress is. You can imagine if you're...

Take Rick Mercer. You've worked your entire... Maybe you've worked 10 years and you've been making a meagerly $22,000. Well, it was still $2,000. All right. And all of a sudden you hit it big because you are this guy who lives on the edge

and now you're getting paid $200, $300, $300, $300, a million. And they said... You step too far over and all of a sudden it all goes away. Right. Or, you know, your major sponsor is Budlight. And you go, you want to make a joke about it, but you're like, I just can't. Yeah. So then you talk about something else.

And maybe that's just a little bit of like, you know, when you're lean, mean, fight, machine, you could talk about anything because nobody owns you. And one of the cool things about social media types is there's becoming more of those that nobody owns you because the audience. Nobody owns any of them. Yeah, because the audience gets to actually fund it and push it and, you know, and have these open, lovely discussions. And Rick Mercer could easily be that lean, mean fighting machine. I just, I don't see enough of it to say that's what he is. Like, I think he's kind of done with everything, though he's basically retired now, right? And eventually you would get tired of doing that shit, right?

He was probably making more than $22,000 a year. I know. But when it comes down to, so there's two things, when it comes down to, like, algorithms and what you're exposed to, you know, for your silos on social media, I've started consuming social media a lot different nowadays. And I can, I consume it knowing that there's an algorithm that's pushing what's coming on to my feeds. And I just, I'm conscious of that when I, when I consume social media. And for something that I consume from one side on this topic, be it, uh, like if we want to do the, the pronouns thing that they just did in Saskatch when you know, you see, I want to, I want to see both sides of the argument and what's going on. So I'll, I'll have the, say, the, the pro-mo crowd on one side

that's just completely consuming my feed. And then intentionally I'll be like, okay, I see where my feed has me. I need to go and see what the fuck the other side is saying. But I consciously do that myself. How many people out there don't? 98%. Well, that's kind of what to be conscious that there's an algorithm controlling what you're seeing. There's a book. I think it's called The Truth About the CBC, and it's all about how important it is and how we need it

in Canada and how integral it is to the fabric of our country. And I had it, and I had it out because I was reading it. And my sister came over to visit, and she's like, well, what's going on with that? Why are you? Why are you? reading that. And I said, well, I want to understand both sides of it. Like, I've got the other one here, which is CBC exposed by Brian Lilly, saying the complete opposite things.

And I just want to have a well-rounded. Absolutely. And she just found the whole idea baffling. Like, why would you want to read both sides of the argument? Why would you not? Absolutely. Yeah. And the second thing I'd say is for, you know, for comedians that are like in their, in their

prime fighting time. I think what I do specifically, I'm really lucky because, like, this is completely a side hustle, this quick-dick thing of what I do, right? And I just, I'll say whatever the fuck I want because my passion and my livelihood is farming. Yeah, and if it all goes away tomorrow, like this, this whole thing that I do is fine, and it's good and it's great. And I'm not going to say that I don't make money off it, it's a good gig. And like when you, like, when you're running around selling towns out, like, I mean,

you can make some fucking deal at it, right? At the same time, you're doing fundraisers and you're making people laugh and it's all good, but it's a lot of shit going on. If tomorrow all of a sudden it goes away, I'll be like, oh, thank fuck. I can just fix some fence that I finally needed to get done and focus more on the farm and maybe farm more efficiently. You know what I mean? I think that's an important place for people to keep themselves.

In fairness, though, to that, wouldn't you be a little sad if it went away tomorrow? No. No, I mean, it's cool. It's been a good ride. Everything's fine. If all of a sudden tomorrow it goes away, I just like, because there's parts of it. I'm not trying to sound like a spoiled little brat here. But there's parts of it.

Like, I don't want to upload a fucking video tomorrow. I don't want to record myself doing this. You know what I mean? I just like, fuck me, you know. I understand that part. Sorry, I was meaning the, I was meaning the comedy part of it. It would suck. You think over the, I want to say four years, I don't know if you're on the podcast in the first year, but it was close.

In the four years I've known you. Yeah. You know, like the growth from just Quick Dick McDick, the Snapchat handle to where you're, you know, like, you know, like the, you know, like the biggest. fastest sell out in Vic Juba, right? And you're riding on my coattails for that. I heard it was the opening app that sold it out, actually. I say, I don't know if this is true or not. This is what I say. You're probably the number one comedian in Scatron right now. Like, I don't know of somebody who's selling out more places and is more sought after than QDM. There's a trick to that, though. That's a wild. Is only go up places that have a capacity of 100 and make sure it's a small

town where there's nothing else happening. We did that's exactly what we did. That's exactly what we did. No, I'm very fortunate to have the following that I do, and I'm glad that people can come and enjoy shows and enjoy the time when we do what we do. And, like, I'm curious to see what you guys are going to think of it tonight. I got to, like, this is basically a brand new show that I'm running here tonight, less one bit. I have one bit that is an older bit,

and tonight's going to be the last night I run it. After tonight, I'm going to be replacing it with a metric system bit, but this one that I'm running tonight. You're not doing the metric system one tonight? No, no, I changed it up. I changed it up, but I'm closing out with something new tonight. I changed it up and I was like, okay, I don't like how that bit is yet. I don't have it quite right, which is one thing I never understood when I listen to comedians

be like, oh, I got to work on a bit till I get it right, working a bit. And this one's not where I want it yet. And I know what my crowd's going to be tonight and Lloyd. I know who I'm coming here to entertain. I know what everybody wants here and they're going to get it, you know. And it's important to deliver to your crowd. And so, but one of the bigger things is people have been like, well, why do you never put anything online review for comedy?

I was like, because it's live. It's for a live audience. That's why we didn't film anything when we were on the road. Yeah, you guys want? You can go and check us out live. Exactly. Yeah. And, but like, there's nothing worse.

Could you imagine? Put your whole comedy show on your YouTube channel. And then you go to a small town and you do the same fucking thing. And then they'd be like, yeah, we've heard it before, right? Yeah. So I even make, I don't like people. I don't let people record me or nothing. I think of Jordan Peterson.

I've saw him three times live, like three times over a course of like four years or three years, whatever it was alive. And I thought every time I was going to go and experience this, like, foot in the chaos to keep using that reference. Because the first time, he was not that polished. He was not the Jordan Peterson that is, like, a global sensation. And the first time was unfreaking real. The second time it was almost...

Can we get a Jordan Peterson going for every time that Sean says Jordan Peterson? We should get a count. We take a shot. It could be a drinking game. It is. I keep going. It's going to bust your balls. Yeah, that's all right.

And every time he says something's hurting his brain, and you get the idea. When was the last time I said that? You said it on the tour. I think it was in Bradwell. You said something about something hurting your brain. And then I looked around and took a drink with my drink. I don't think anybody picked up on it.

All right, fair enough. I guess twos is a little zeroed in on that one. But the second time I saw him, he was too polished. It was two, and I already knew it was coming. So it was your first time, I guess it was probably great. but, you know, and so when you talk about like re, first, not filming it, one, there's a reason why you don't do it. Because if you, you know, if it happens over and over again, you don't film it because

people need to go and experience it. That's right. And the experience needs to be authentic. And the only way to make it authentic is to not know what's coming and go and experience it. If it's a one-off, like I've done with you on stage and actually Tuesday, well, both you're on stage, sure, you can release that. That's not a problem because it may never happen again. Yeah.

And to capture that is a beautiful thing. I mean, well, I was saying before, out of all the jokes I made last time, all I'm doing is making reference to two jokes that came true. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. No, it's, it's fine. I like doing it, but that's kind of, so that's what I'm going to do with this last bit here tonight. I'm actually, yeah, sure, I'll go once more. What time are we at here?

20 after 3. Yeah, we got time. Oh, yeah, we're good. Very important. You got to be there at 4. Well, actually, yeah, if we're supposed to be there at 4, I still got to go back to the hotel. room and clean up a little bit too. All right.

Well, you're going to take the gray sweats off for the show tonight or what? Haven't ruled it out. So shout out to a guy named Jordy, who is actually at the Decker Performing Arts Center in North Battleford two nights ago. That's the first time I've ever had a sound tech at one of my shows. And he was a beauty. You're going to have a sound tech tonight. Sound tech tonight.

So like the last few shows have all been warmups for tonight. And last night's show was lit in Laird. so I think we're going to have a good time here tonight. You took a good stab at things in North Battleford? Please, please elaborate. Well, I mean, there's two different kinds of stabs that you could do, Steve. One of them's pleasure, one of them's pain. Oh, oh, did you get both?

No, and either. I keep to myself in North Battleford, learned my lessons in that down years ago. Okay. Things got quiet there all of a sudden. All right, well, just got... Because I'm just like, okay, is he going to expand on this? It's going to be good tonight because I was initially going to do a different intro to the show and start things off. I keep my traditional way of kicking the show off, but I finish off.

This is the first time I've ever actually pulled a guitar out in front of a live audience at a show. Is tonight? Well, this will be, like, I've done it in the show's leading up to this to warm it up or whatever. I think, you know, when you talk about getting a bit right, one of the things I learned, because I'm, as you both don't know, comedian, but being on stage in a show that's supposed to make people. laugh from time to time. Yeah. The punchline or the feel of how you tell a story, being on stage with twos, you could tell when you got it right.

Yeah. And you could certainly tell when you were off the arm. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And it's a very sobering experience with the show we did in Bradwell. I think me and twos both got off the stage, are like, well, we just bombed. And in fairness, I think people in Bradwell really enjoyed the show. Yep.

But it didn't feel like it from ours, our standpoint. It's tough. Yeah. It's really tough. I'm looking forward to tonight because when you get in a theater, A theater's better because there's no distractions in a theater. You are the show. You are the entertainment.

That's not good. But like last night I was in Laird, it was great. But I mean, we didn't have the best sound system and you're in a rink. And so, and they had 600 people in this rink last night. Oh, wow. Yeah. Curly or hockey? Hockey rink, yeah.

And just two speakers and da-da-da. And a lot of it was my fault because I didn't vet the sound system properly. And I took their word that it was going to be okay, whatever it is, what it is. We still had fun. We still raised a ton of my. money for the agricultural foundations. It was fine. But you get that background noise and then all of a sudden you're trying to do comedy over top of some background noise and then it gets awkward and then you're rushing jokes and you're telling stuff too loud and it's no good, right?

But like I've learned, and Kelly Taylor, he said this best. He's like, your venues, everything. He's like, your comedy can be shit in a good venue and it'll be good comedy. He's like, but if you got a bad venue, you can't out comedy a bad venue. Yeah. And like that guy is, have you had Kelly on? Pegg Kellyanna, should have him on again. He's coming December 2nd to do my, I put on a Christmas party for a bunch of the sponsors for the show. That guy's my favorite comedian.

He's fucking hilarious. He's the entertainment for the night ago. He's awesome. That guy's camping bit is the funniest bit I've ever heard in my life. Any comedian, hands down. And that's second place was Robin Williams where they create the, they're creating the sex organs on humans.

If there's two bits out there that people need to listen to, Number one is Kelly Taylor's camping bit And number two is Robin Williams I can't remember the name of the bit But basically it's a committee That's designing the sex organs on humans They're both interplanetary Unreal

How quick do we have to end To get you out of here on time Well, am I the only person who's going to tidy up before this show? You kidding me, boys? I came out of bed this morning looking this good I don't need to do anything All right, well it's 327 And we've got to be all the way back

Vic Juba. But we did just crack up here. So I just, I changed shirts before the show. That's all I do. All right. Well, I mean, worst case scenario, I could just change in the parking lot. We could do this for another 15, 20 minutes, and then I'll just get dussied up in the parking lot of the Vic Juba.

It's the Vic Juba. We're going to have, there's going to be a room. Oh, yeah, that's right. I have a green room. Okay, so what's the, they're not fucking green at all. We're going to do a soundtrack, and this is what a soundtrack's going to be. Check one, two. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, check one, two? No, no, no. I actually got a sound check of six string tonight, which is super fun to do. Let's go back to this whole green room thing. What's the protocol here? Because they asked me what kind of scotch I want. And I'm wondering, like, do I just have a couple drams of it and leave the bottle there?

Or is it, like, expected that if they leave a bunch of stuff for you in the green room that you get to take it home with you? You're going to just, why do you have to question it? And then for like, hey, what happened to the scotch? Or if they never invite you back, it's one or the other, you know what I mean? Well, I just, what's the protocol? I don't know. What was it like in Laird? I'm guessing that you had a really nice green room at the rink.

I'm going to, I'm going to assume, assume, if you walk in and they have 12 bottles of scotch and they're all half drunk, you don't take them. If there's one sitting there and it's not opened, you get to take it. It's a gift. In Laird, my green room was actually the Zamboni room at the end of the rink. Nice. And then I actually drove the Zamboni out to come into the rink. You did not. Oh, yeah.

But it was, it was a Marshon Lynch. But it was a 13. D-10 with the old three-point hitch Zamboni on the back of it, but they had it all repaid. Oh, it was deadly. On propane, too. What a way to start a show. Oh, yeah, it was fun. If that doesn't set the moon.

And they had a smoke machine. So I came out with a Zamboni through a smoke machine out into a really terrible sound system. But it was a good start, you know what I mean? You know, when Brett Kessel was in town, and he was singing, we're sitting in his green room. And he did, like, a phenomenal job of, like, hosting in there. I was just like crazy, the crazy amount of energy that guy has. But on stage, one of the hunting outfitters was in attendance, and they brought the buck he'd shot.

And so we got them to bring it out on stage. Sorry, Brett's Buck or the Outfitters. Brett's. Yeah, that he shot with the Outfitter. And we had it on stage, like, it was a freaking Stanley Cup, and the crowd was losing it. And I'm like, this is probably one of the only places you could do that. Hell yeah, it is.

Yeah. Imagine doing that in Toronto. They'd be like, oh, the poor band. Maybe. Well, I mean, in Laird, I mean, if you did that, certainly in all of Saskatchewan, I think that, like, everyone's going, oh, man, that's a great idea. Can't wait to get quick dick in and have them do the exact same thing, right? And then there will be some small communities going, but what about the insurance on that? Yeah. Well, the first thing I did, I was like, do the brakes work? And they're like, oh, yeah, I was like, yeah, because wouldn't it be great if I just come wheeling in there? Put the syncro on fifth gear and just take out a fucking table of people? Like, like, it'd be like Austin Powers where he's got the steamroller because you drive it in Zamboni. It's not like you're setting any.

speed wreckers, you should be like, get out of the way, get out of the way. Move, move. But it was, it's funny because they had shitters along the back corner and then I was supposed to go between the tables and the shitters. And I was like, so if I fuck this up, either we're tipping over a bunch of shitters or we're taking out a table of blue hairs. This is going to be real fun. You know what I mean? Well, if someone's in the shitter that you're tipping over, they're going to be a blue hair at the end. That's true. But it was, no, it's, it's, fun to do that stuff. And least every crowd wants something different. And it's just a matter of, of doing it and give it a to him. Tonight, I never do intermissions, ever. Is it too late to ask for a

Zamboni tonight? It's never too late for anything, is it? All right. Well, we'll see if Jen can finagle up the Zamboni for us, because this seems like an awesome idea. But this, I never, I never do intermissions. Because once you get a crowd, you don't want to let them go. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a brief intermission, and when we come back, we're going to be on substack, because that's what we've been doing here. We've been ending. off the interviews on Substack to try and draw some people over there and everything else. All right. So I appreciate you boys hopping on the podcast.

It's going to be some people tick because they want to hear about intermissions because if you've been to one of my shows. That's right. So when we get back, we're going to be on Substack. So if you're like, I want to see the rest of this, head over to Substack. Oh, that's greasy. I can't believe you're making me be a part of this. Why?

Promoting people jumping over to Substack. Why is that? I don't know. I'm just the kind of guy once I get into a thing. That's why I started uploading on Twitter. and Facebook and everything too. I'm just like, hey, if you want to be in this platform, here's the whole fucking thing on this platform.

All right. All right. Substack. And when we get there, we're going to talk about why QDMs against that and intermissions. All right. Because I'll give you my thoughts on it.