Shaun Newman Podcast - #697 - QDM

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

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Let's get on to that tale of the tape. He's the Canadian farmer turned YouTube sensation and comedy act. I'm talking about Quick Dick McDick. So buckle up. Here we go. Welcome to Sean Newman podcast, Quick Dick. Thanks for coming on. I had this whole fancy setup ready to roll, and I buggered it.

And then, you know, you sit here and you trace cords. And you're like, what am I doing wrong? Yeah. Why did I ever start this? It's kind of like my golf game at times. You're like, man, some days you're hitting it out of the park. And other times you're like, why the hell? Here I'm just sitting in my kitchen and good old top knoll.

Yeah. I tell you what, we got back, I don't know, we haven't talked in a little bit. No, we got to get caught up for sure. Well, 46 days on the road with the family. That's what we did. And I got to be one of the, I said this a couple episodes ago, and I'll say it again, I got to be like one of like 10 people who crossed, you know, it was going through Saskatchewan and then we hit the,

the upgrader here in Lloyd and then the, you know, the ugly border markers. And I'm like, ah, it's good to be home. man, I love this place. You know you're in the right place when you're like, man, I just can't wait to get home. Now, in saying all that, I'm like, okay, I got to get caught up on some things Canada because I've been gone for a while.

So obviously, you know, Tuesday has been keeping me up to date on mashups and obviously having some chuckles there and everything else. And we're going, all right, shake my head. But last week shocked me two weeks ago on the mashup, I guess. We looked at polls. First was BC, and the conservatives had almost reigned in the NDP. I'm like, oh, okay. All right, I've gone for a month and okay, fair enough.

The NDP has a tendency to do that no matter what problems it is, right? But then the next one's Saskatchewan, and the point I see is the NDP are higher than the conservatives. And I understand a bit about it because obviously I've interviewed John Romick from the Sask United, so I get the conservatives are fighting it out there, but I'm like, did I just see the NEP or higher than the Saskatchewan party? and I'm just, I'm like, okay, let's just, we're just going to dive into a little SaaS politics and then we can see where this sucker goes for the rest of the time. I just thought, you know what?

Who better to tell me a little bit about Saskatchewan than start it off a cook dick, me dick. Well, yeah, appreciate it, man. You know, like, it's like to be perfectly honest, I've been, I've been a little out of touch with a lot of things here in the last, it would be month, just a lot of personal things on the go here just with some family things happening or whatever. so I kind of had my finger off the pulse for a little while. Everything all right?

Yeah, everything's good, man. I'd share a little more of what's going on, but I mean, it's, you know, it's not right. It's family. Yeah. The person to share with or whatever. Me personally, everything's fine. Life's great for me, man. We're just getting ready for the best time of the years, harvest and everything, and everything's good.

Just lots going on and really busy, which is good. I'm a better person when I'm busy, you know what I mean? It's just you never realize how much time social media takes out of your life. until you're like all of a sudden you don't have time any time for it and you're just like wow and then all of a sudden like one week turns into two weeks to three weeks and everything you're just like like i just can't you get home and i'm need to go to bed and then start over again tomorrow kind of thing right but yeah it's it's been interesting here in saskatch from the last little while it's like i know everyone's heads were exploding when uh when that poll actually came out that that that everyone's like

oh like any piece polling higher than the sass party kind of thing or whatever i mean I attributed basically to the same thing as federal politics right now, too. You have a group of people that are tired of the current government that is in power. And when you get a specific amount of people polled with specific questions, I mean, obviously you get the answer, maybe that the pollster or that the public is looking for at that specific point in time. It's why I'm like I'm not the most pumped up I've ever been about, you know, how conservatives are pulling federally right now against Trudeau. I mean, if we haven't learned anything from the past with Trudeau, is that, I mean, he's an election guy and he's not a running throughout the course of his term kind of guy or whatever. That guy does have the power to rally in elections and still scares the hell out of me to this day.

But, you know, you go back to when Brad Ball actually kind of stepped down and Scott Mo took over as the leader of the SaaS Party, it was like, SaaS party was polling like close to the same what they were doing. I mean, they're almost polling behind, right? And they were worried. They brought in an austerity budget and Wall was just like, you know what, I'm going to step back and this is probably where we're going to have to hang our ad up kind of thing. And then they wanted to go to the majority government the next election, right? So that being said, like when I see a poll that shows the NDP leading SaaS party in

Saskatchewan, yeah, I get a little bit concerned. but part of that the SaaS party is down to themselves. So I'm not sure what they expect, right? Well, you wonder if it isn't a blessing, you know, like think about it. It might be a blessing for the SaaS party because there's nothing that's going to scare Saskatrim people more than the thought of having the NDP back in. Yeah. I don't care how much you hate the SaaS party. I'm like, you just listen to the old timers talk about the NDP.

Heck, I mean, QDM can share some stories. And I'm sure, like, anyone that's living in Saskatchewan, for the most part, can share some stories of the NDP. You think, you know, as you're talking, I'm like, it might actually be a blessing for them, right? Because that poll comes out. Maybe they slipped a 20. Well, it's, money ain't worth where it is, you know, a while back. Maybe they slipped them 200 and said, you know, just make them pull a couple points higher. I'm being tongue-in-cheek here.

I highly doubt that's what happened. But at the same time, if they came out and it looks like a landslide, maybe people forget about it. But instead, the NDP are showing their polling. You know, it's funny, I don't believe it. Like, the polls irritate me all the time. Well, all polls. All polls. All polls.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even power poles when they get in the way when I'm trying to farm, you know what I mean? Yeah, they do. They really do. But, like, you know, man, I did an upload here quite a while ago. with the whole Weeks Harrison thing. And I mean, a lot of it was me trying to, like, illustrate how the Saspard has been conducting themselves, right? You know, the biggest danger.

And there's a great book by the guy named John Gormley called Left Out kind of thing, you know, where he talks about, you know, the rise and fall, the NDP and a few other things, Saskatchewan. It's worth read if you haven't read it. But it just, and he said it when he was back on his show, too. You know, and he was concerned at the time. It's just like the biggest thing you need to do is a political party when you're in power for an extended period of time is you need to put that vehicle that's your party up on a hoist and you need to get underneath it and be like, okay, what's working and what's not?

Because, yeah, we're going down the road and everything's fine and we're getting good fuel mileage and everything's great. But all of a sudden it doesn't take much. You blow a rad cap or blow a tire or something on the side of the road that you should have changed a little while ago. And all of a sudden you get a pretty big problem not being able to get where you're going to want to go. And I think that's a bigger thing that we see with the SaaS party when I went down the whole weeks in Harrison Road. You know, just it seems to be a recurring thing when you have your pulse on on a few members of legislative assembly of what's happening in the ledge. You're like, okay, is this really happening or is somebody got sour grapes or like where's the entire scheme of things at? Because it and my personal opinion is that we kind of see a little bit of it happening in Alberta right now too.

you know we had smith come in and she was like charging charging and doing really well and a lot of people and let's call it a base that was very much supporting her to be there and now you see like there's this tension and the ranks there now too you know where all of a sudden you see the party in power being like hey we got to try and we got to try and work to this side of the voters of Alberta a little bit otherwise we're going to lose them and we lose a part of our base because we aren't too far this way and then all of a sudden you know maybe uh maybe it's a split vote and somebody comes up the middle and takes it away. Like, Saskatchewan is probably going to be one of the bigger issues in that sense

just because the amount of parties that we've got registered in Saskatchewan here now, right? Like, we've got seven political parties in Saskatchewan, man. Like, why? Do you know, can you rattle all seven off? I can think of what we're going to. So we've got Buffalo, NDP, Progressive Conservative Party, Saskatchewan. we've got the Saskatchewan party, the Saskatchewan Green Party, the Saskatchewan United Party, which is like a newer one there too, right?

And then we've got the Progress, Saskatchewan Progress Party, which used to be the liberals, but they decided that they'd rebrand themselves because everyone was confusing themselves with the federal party. And they're like, everyone's like, well, fuck Trudeau. What are you guys doing here, right? So, you know, but like, like, what did I get? Was that seven? I think that was seven.

I think that was seven. I didn't know a few of those. To me, when you look at the polls, you see the SaaS party, the NDP, Buffalo and Sask United. And I might have those bottom two mixed on where they're polling. I think Sask United when I looked at the latest poll. But once again, I look at polls and I don't know, right? But they had, I think, 5% for the Sask United, 2% for the Buffalo.

And then, you know, like, depending on the poll you're looking at, anywhere between 47, 48 to like 60 for the SaaS party. And, you know, Andy P is the changeover what's the left. Yeah. And I mean, like, I haven't seen it lately, but I know, like, as far as, as far as premier ratings go in Canada, I mean, Scott Moe's still doing quite well. You know, I think just what we're really seeing in Saskatchewan here is, like, and if you look at, if you look at the actual data of that last poll, I mean, like, a lot of results. We're from, from what, from urban centers, right? And I think we all can, like, get figured out in a big hurry when we look at polling maps or electoral maps for that matter, that this is something hell we've talked about it live in person is a rural urban divide kind of thing.

Saskatchewan's a very rural province, but it doesn't change the fact that we have two very urban centers. We have several very urban centers, but, I mean, primarily Saskatoon, Regina, right? and when you get down in the center of those cities, it doesn't take you long to figure out that there's a very serious political divide, and a lot of that has to do with social issues and how they're handled, right? And you've seen the SaaS party be very bullish with a few things. I mean, the latest one that they've been bullish with has been, you know, cell phones and classrooms kind of thing, which I think maybe may, it's like there's a hot topic all the time,

and then it makes its rounds around the country kind of thing, and we're just kind of seeing it in Saskatch when you get. are as well in Alberta there too right but I guess I never know whether to call you guys whether you're identifying as Saskatchewan or Alberta being in Lloyd right so I'm identifying as a girl tonight QDM that's what I'm identifying as you know well we we do it you know the nice thing about Lloyd is we get to do you know we kind of get to play both sides some days it works out in our favor and other days yeah you know maybe not so much you know we're kind of the I I love how it

when I said it, Premier Smith was like, you know, no, you guys are lovely people. We love coming out here. But I remember before she was Premier. And she said to digest. And I don't know why I need to say that because it doesn't take any offense. But she called Lloyd Minster the edge of the world. And I've had, let me be very clear. I've had a ton of people come to Lloyd for this show, for in person like you've done.

And they've all said the same thing. This is like the edge of the world. I'm like, no, this is Lloyd Minster man. Like you want to go north. I can show you north. Right. But it's funny. So some days it works in our favor.

Other days it doesn't. I want to be very clear. She was saying it to be funny, not to be, and I don't know why I need to defend that, except, you know, things can get taken out of context at times. And I don't think Lloyd is too thick. You know, they've got pretty thick skin living out here. Absolutely, yeah. No, Lloyd's one of my favorites communities, man.

I just let the people there are just fantastic, right? It's like the best of both worlds. I mean, you get the Alberta and Saskatchewan, like, very mixed up in people. And I'm like, I'm a hybrid. I mean, I spent 20 years in Alberta, man. So I'm very much a hybrid, you know what I mean? But like, I guess back to what I was saying, you know, the SaaS party has been very bullish on a lot of things. And I think that's why you see more now than ever this really big divide in rural versus urban kind of thing.

Because there's a lot of policies that they're making that will, I mean, affect, say, urban, urban Saskatchewan more than it will rural kind of thing. but when you really dig into that and unpack it, like, with the whole cell phone thing, like I've talked to a few teachers around here and in the surrounding areas kind of thing. Like, you know, to a certain extent, like phones are an issue, but lots of teachers just make the rule in their classroom alone.

There's like, no, no cell phones in here and they'll make you check them in a basket at the door or something like that kind of thing. The SAS report is following up and trying to make this so that it's just blanketed across the province so that teachers don't have to, like, be the villains kind of thing. where you're not allowed to have a phone in my classroom. There's very few teachers that I've spoken with that are not okay with what they're doing.

But when you get those select few teachers that are out there that have an issue with this, you'll find very quickly that they have an issue with absolutely everything that the SaaS party does. And when it boils down to it, a lot of these people have very loud voices or they'll have a specific number of social media followers, following kind of thing. and it's notoriously the same ones that are maybe not so much looking at the policy specifically as the person that's implementing the policy kind of thing that they have a vendetta with and no matter what it is they're not going to agree with it right but that being said it doesn't mean that the SaaS party because they have a majority and they're going to be able to do whatever they want kind of thing that you should always just go keep poking the bear I don't think that's

a very good thing to do politically as well and I think that's some of the results of what you're starting to see happen in the province right now personally is all of course my personal opinion, right? Well, I don't know. Outside Lurkin, because once again, you know, I like to point out, I don't get to vote in Saskatchewan, right? So as you pointed out, you know, I sit in Alberta now. So I look at, you know, we got our own leadership review coming up this fall.

I look at Saskatchewan and I see a government that its biggest threat, although looks like it's the NDP, it's actually the splitting of the conservative movement, right? Absolutely. There's different factions in there. And when they do things like, we're just going to blanket cell phones, to me, it just looks like they're the government and they're trying to appeal to conservatives. Be damned the cities, because we all know which way at this point they're going, right? Like, I mean, we can try and, you know, get in, you know, like I just watch Eminton, for instance, right? Like the try there, it's like, well, you keep trying.

That is a fortress. And I don't know how you're going to break into there. Maybe someday it just happens. But I mean, when you see it across all of North America, like there isn't a state or a province where this isn't a problem. I mean, what are you going to do about that? You crack that code. You're going to be a bazillionaire because, honestly, everyone's going to come knock on your door and say, can we do it here and here and here? Right.

Like, I mean, look at every, just take our country out of the mix for a second and just look at the states. It's just so evident. I go to Mel's, so we went down to Minnesota, right? Yeah, right on. Minnesota is a blue state. Democrats, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. I mean, the VP for Kamala is the guy who's running with her, a running mate, is the governor of Minnesota.

And so you think, like, I'm sitting there and I'm like, oh, man, you know, because her family lives very close to Minneapolis. And, you know, you walk around there and it's just blue everywhere. And then Trump came to the state. And so I drove an hour away. and there was 7,500 people in the rink. It was sold out. The lineup started, they said people slept there overnight.

The lineups, the people got there at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and did not get in, and they started letting people in at 5. By the time we showed up, it didn't start until 7. And there was just thousands of people everywhere. And I'm like, this is insane, right? And this is in one of the bluest states, but an hour away from the big center. And all of a sudden, there was just people from everywhere there. And so like it isn't just, you know, you think it wouldn't be Saskatchewan or Alberta or on and on and on.

But like anytime you get the urban centers, it just seems to, you know, they're voting for what they want. Yeah. And that doesn't shock us anymore. So when I look at, sorry, the SaaS Party and the policies that brought out, even over the course of last year, I just look at it going they need to dampen the rise of any other conservative party in order to keep the majority government. So, like, you know, man, I've thought about this a lot here in the last little while because I'm like, like, I, I feel moderately politically homeless right now kind of thing. You know what I mean? I just, I wish we could see eye to eye on a lot more things with the between parties. But then there's some things that I mean, I just, I just don't wiggle on and, and we'll never change on kind of thing, right? But like, I feel like this is kind of a bigger issue that we have going on. I mean, if you want to call a Canadian or worldwide, but I mean, You just, you really see specifically, I mean, it's more federally in Canada that, I mean, there's basically there's, there's two political parties. I mean, I never thought I'd say this, but the NDP is maybe changing that a little bit. And I think Trudeau was doing it to himself kind of thing.

But it's just you either, and you see predominantly in the states as well, you vote Democrat or Republican, a Republican in Canada. You vote liberal or conservative kind of thing. There's just, there's just these two options. And I think that's maybe one of the biggest ways that democracy. is failing us at this point in time, you know, even if you look at, uh, look, look at, getzen. What, like, what's getson's job party with, right? Um, we have that in a lot of different places kind of thing. It's, it happens in the SaaS party. It happens everywhere, you know, where it's just like the job of a, of a member of the

legislative, the legislative assembly, uh, MLA, their, their job is to represent their constituents, uh, in the legislative assembly in, in, in their province, right? And more times than not, they are whipped into voting with the party, not specifically for what maybe the members of their constituency would rather have them vote. And I think that's going to be one of the bigger problems that we'll have to try and get figured out of what we're going to do in Canada. Let's break it right back down to Saskatchewan. We just had a nomination available here for Kelvinton-Wadena. And there was only two, it was for the SaaS party and two guys put their names for. it was Lenk Walchuk and Chris Bodry

and if you've never heard of Chris Bodry I mean he was he's a public speaker with the he was involved with the Bronx the Humble Broncos and everything right I heard him speak a few times and I chatted with him a few times throughout the course him running for the membership he actually did win the nomination but like that being said

man when when Chris goes not Chris has assured me that when he goes like he is going to take the the wishes of his constituents when he goes there but I think that's everybody's goal when they come into politics. And then once they're there, they realize very quickly once they get there that they're actually going to do what they're told because that's the way that they're going to remain

with the party and have an opportunity to not be a back venture for the rest of their political career that's going to wind up being very short, which is some of the things that the SaaS party is exemplified over the last little while here. What can happen if you kind of don't fall in line, right? Specifically when you look at the Weeks Harrison thing. So I'm, can, forgive me. I think I know the Weeks Harrison story, but can you tell the listener

of the story so that we're not glazing that over in case you're sitting in Ontario and you're going, what does QDM keep referencing? Yes, with Randy Weeks, Jeremy Harrison is Meadow Lake. And Weeks is the, was the speaker of the house for the legislative

assembly, right? And there was a whole bunch of goings back and forth that were leading up to like a big volcanic eruption kind of thing. And Weeks started cracking the up a little bit as a speaker because he had people like Harpauer, Harrison, a few other people like, you know, just power texting him during the time that the ledge was sitting.

And he wound up reading a few of them out and actually getting them on record in the ledge. And some of them were some pretty ridiculous tax messages. And I mean, I'm not trying to pick sides, but I mean, the speaker's job is to be nonpartisan and to run the ledge with a specific amount of decorum. And I think that's what he's trying to do. You know, it got to the point where he was like, you'll stand and address this assembly, respect this chamber kind of thing.

And that's what I would expect to hear from a speaker of the house because you're supposed to be nonpartisan. And I think all members of the ledge, be it the ledge or parliament or whatever it is. I mean, you should respect the place that you're in because you're there representing your constituents. Long story short, Harrison winds up sending a bunch of text messages

and then Weeks comes out saying that, you know, he's been subject. to, we'll call it bullying kind of thing from a lot of different members of the SaaS party and it's a toxic environment. And then he wound up sharing an email that Harrison had brought a firearm into the ledge and everything just kind of went crazy from there. And after that, they were like, they weren't going to investigate anything. Boiled down to the point with the SaaS party was basically like, yeah, we kind of had a look at ourselves and we think everything's fine. So we're not going to worry about it.

And I think that was a bad way. Classic government. Right. But I think that's a bad way for it to end because like, like, and the reason I did it, there's a lot of people got really pissed at me for doing a video that was basically, I'm, I'll call it anti-sas party. I'm just going to call it quick dick. I mean, it was just there was some bullshit going on and I called it for what it was,

which is hopefully what I do with my platform all the time. And there was people got pissed at me. And there was people that didn't, you know. But like at the end of the day, I mean, this is where we're spending an obscene amount of tax dollars to operate this place. And we have people behaving like children that are in it. You know, the fact that the fact that Harrison had brought a firearm into the ledge, that doesn't bother me at all. He was being responsible firearms. One of the kind of the comical part about it is that you're actually a sitting member of government in Saskatchewan and crime is so fucking bad that you're afraid to leave a firearm.

in your vehicle outside of the place where you go to meet on government business. Like, I mean, if that isn't a testament to failure as a government official, I don't know what it is. But, like, aside from that, it wasn't the fact that he actually brought a firearm into the ledge. It's just the fact that, that immediately when all these came out and Premier Mode did the same thing, he got out, and he's like, all of these accusations are unequivocally false. Like, I mean, pardon my expression, but here's my dick and here's how big it is. We're fine here, right? And it wasn't until after the weekend.

And, like, there was an email that came out, and the sergeant at Arum said it was a big deal. And, like, it was just a disaster. And this is, I think, why the SaaS party started to poll like they are is because things like this happen. And they're just like, yeah, we had to look at ourselves and everything's fine. Well, no matter who's your voting base, people are only going to listen to that for so long and then start to get tired of it, which goes back to this whole part of put your vehicle up on a hoist and maybe have a look at it and see what you got to fix. because otherwise the next party that's up to back is eventually just going to steamroll you if they get enough, you know, dirt on you. That's what you want to call it, which is a bad part of politics that happens right now is you just don't seem to see parties being like, here's what we're going to do, we're going to do better, and this is what we would do different.

All you see is different parties. You see it provincially, federally, everywhere. They just want to throw shit at the other party and show you how bad they are. Well, that's fine. Like, Carla Beck, that's fine that you've got all this list of stuff that Mo has done. terrible when he's in Saskatchewan, can you give me a list of what you're going to do and how you're going to do it to make it better? Polyev does the same thing that he's done.

Trudeau's wacko and this and not and da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I get it. I've listened to it for years and I know I hate the guy. He's terrible. It's one of the worst guys we ever had at the helm. Can you please show me in detail how you're going to fix it? Earn my vote. You know?

It's, I've been thinking a lot about Saskatchewan, right? obviously a special place in my heart and I'm like I didn't realize there were seven I saw the poll and there's four I'm like truthfully give everybody a crack that would mean I'd have to do seven interviews on it

I'm like I wonder if I can get like some of them are going to be easy right two phone calls I'll have the leader of the party on they'll be over the moon to have an opportunity to uh I mean like I'll do what I can to help you I don't got a lot of strengths to pull

but man like it'd be great to hear everybody you know, state their claim. To stay their claim. We can do it together. Well, I mean, like, I know I've had John Romicom before. That's Sask United. I got a lot of time for the group that surrounds him. Obviously, through COVID, there's a lot of things there that I really enjoy.

But as far as the rest of it, and this is just, I plan on doing a few more on it. As far as living in Saskatchew, I'm not there anymore, right? So I actually, you know, I'm trying to be in it and then leaving for 46. days, I might add, didn't help my case in Canada at all. But I look at it and I go like, I mean, there is a, there is an election coming. And although I'm staring at Trump versus, I was about to say Biden, Kamala, you know, like, I'm like, Saskatchewan's vote to have an election. We better, we better talk about this a little bit. And BC, you know, I just did the, I just had Chase and Liam on. And obviously, you know, Chase Barber, I think you get a kick at

Liam as well, Parrott. Paird, I think I'm saying that. right? He does Freya logging. That was the company that did the logging around one part of Jasper that stopped the fire. Very interesting guy. I'm hoping to have a little debate here at some point with climate change with him on it. I think he's game for it. So there, there's, I've rung the bell for somebody to come on and have a little bit of fun with that because he was all aboard. But regardless, I'm wandering here. And I come back to Saskatchewan, I go, hmm how do I do this so that you know like because I I don't want to be showing you know I I want Mo to come on I want uh Romick to come on I don't know who the heck the rest of the leaders

are but I'm like I think that'd be interesting uh to hear because I'm like I didn't even know there's seven I you know the Buffalo party I know a little bit about because of how well or surprising they did in the election um whatever four years ago uh was that's about all I know you know I've heard their name but the other ones you rattle off i'm like they're back i kind of want to i kind of want to talk to the liberal leader just to be like so how are things going since you you know i mean they probably wouldn't want to answer that maybe they're not that of a guy i said oh man i'm balking on his name i want to say it's jeff somebody uh it'll come to me if i don't think about it here but anyways um the

the thing that concerns me though sean is you know we it goes back to the party whip and voting with your party kind of thing there's a few will say that that's not how they operate And I feel like we're chasing our tails a little bit with how we continue to allow our democracy to run. And I think we should also. So what do you think we should do that? When you hear, let's interview the seven leaders. You go, but we got to change something. So how do we how do we do that?

Now, in fairness, I might point out how many days away are we from the SAS collection? It's like 60 some. It's not many. It's not far, man. It's really not far. So one of the things that me and twos are going to do is we're going to do, election coverage that doesn't suck and hopefully make sure that it doesn't flop like we did for Alberta because obviously we had some issues there and QDM if you want to come in on that we

gladly have you a part of that yeah but but regardless sorry I cut you off how well okay you look at democracy you go like okay we got a problem so what can we do what what what what ideas do you have sitting in the back of your brain I mean like my my personal opinion I mean people can tear me apart as much as they want. But like how democracy was founded, and how it's originally supposed to work is you have one, one member of your community, or of your riding,

if that's what you want to call it, that goes to represent you on a provincial end or federal level kind of thing, right? So it's one voice. It's your voice for the people of the people that can't make it there. And I think that we've really destroyed how these work with the massive size of our political parties. and you get a lot of political parties.

I mean, SaaS party, NDP, you want to look down to the states what happens with money and how it flows towards funding political parties. It's very concerning to me because it's just it's the dollar that's running things now instead of the people and how they want their country or province or community, municipality, whatever ran, right? And I think we really need to do away with a lot of these political parties. and we just have, you know, if you're going to have an independent. And like that was one of the biggest things when I was talking with Chris and with Len.

You know, they, they wanted me to throw my support behind them kind of thing. I was like, guys, like I appreciate you, I appreciate you like pausing your life to run for politics and to try and make a difference in your community because I think a lot more people need to do that. And a lot of people don't respect what it takes out of somebody's life to be able to do this. But for me to put my name behind, like, a specific party that does a lot of work to make sure that they get a lot of money to make their party run. And you see it very plain as they, originally, federally, anywhere. There's a lot of decisions that are made and they're made based on who donates to a party and how much money they're worth kind of thing. And eventually the dollar starts running everything that we're doing.

And we've lost the basics of democracy. It's the people's voice is what controls what happens, not party donors kind of thing. I think personally do away with every political party that exists and you have people that go and one vote is for one constituency. Yeah. The brothers and I have talked a lot about this, right? because you know human nature just you once again I always terrible I always go back to hockey right like I just I go back to and let's make it Saskatchewan I go back to senior hockey right the most Saskatchewan thing out there like it's beautiful and what happens the first year you play and everybody

plays okay great you figure out the rules you kind of start and understand okay this is how it's going to work and within a year to five years people are bending those rules and then you have to put in new rules and and if you don't stay on the street And then you put the new rules, stricter rules, and okay, and then they just try and work it. And it's human nature to try and win. I look at the NHL, the same thing happens there. And so politics is no different. So you wipe away all political parties.

And for one or two years, people are trying to figure out how it works. And then what they're going to try and do is they're going to try and work it in a way that best suits them and on and on this goes. So I go back, well, I just sit and I go, it's the best system we got. Yeah. And we are in part of the cycle right now of where it's getting really, like, there's just a lot of bureaucracy. And it's pissing off a lot of us. And I go, I don't know where this goes. That's the hardest.

It's like, where does this go? Let me through this, that chip. And it's like it was an epiphany. I had a little while ago. And I think it's why I still cling on to this dream that this would work provincially, this would work federally. kind of thing if you look at so in Saskatchewan for those that don't know i mean it's it's a rural municipality is what we have right alberta calls them counties uh-u-s-calls-um counties blah blah blah right but it's a rural municipality in saskatchew so i'm an rm a 276 okay rm a foam lake

and uh i i pay x amount of land taxes and uh let's let's just call them general taxes i pay general taxes to to my rm right depending on what land it is, where it's at, even the town of Fulm Lake, you have a place in town, you pay taxes to the town, whatever, right? I can confidently say that I'm very, very happy with how my tax dollars are spent locally in my RM and in the town of Fomlake. I'm happy with it. Our streets are well maintained in the town.

It's clean. Flowers are planted. The grass is cut. The snow is plowed, like, promptly in the wintertime. go out to the RM and shout out to any of the boys and girls that are working for. I'm at 276. I think they're the best in Saskatchewan. Kelsey, Dair, and say it to all the boys out there.

The roads are graded. The ditches are cut. They're plowed in the wintertime. I see my tax dollars working for me. Something's wrong with a culvert. It gets fixed. Do you know why that happens? Sean, I've got to figure it out.

Do you know why that happens in the RM of 2017? 76 at Foam Lake. Tell me. It happens because there are a very select few people that are responsible for spending those dollars. And everybody knows where they are. They know who they are. And they go to community events of them. And they are held to the one word that does not exist anywhere else in this world.

It's accountability. They are held accountable for the tax dollars that we submit and we know them. They are close to us in our community. and they know that if they fuck around, somebody's going to find out, and you are going to be held accountable in a community this size. Therefore, the tax dollars are appropriately spent. Not all the time, but generally, in the grand scheme of things, things are looked after and I'm happy with it.

And that's the one thing that's missing provincially. It's the one thing that's missing federally. It's the one thing that's missing on planet Earth, Sean, is accountability. It's missing in the way that a lot of people are now raising their children. and how we structure society. Some people are afraid to hold others accountable because they're afraid of the repercussions of what might come from.

Maybe their children will hate them or maybe someone will be mad at me if I call them out on this. But the RM that I live in is a testament to the fact that accountability works. And nobody really needs to be held accountable around here because everybody does their job. And as soon as you branch outside of that RMRA,

I mean, even probably when you get far, whether anyone from SARM is less than, but when you get out into SARM, you know, and farther beyond that, and then into the provincial government and everywhere. As you branch out farther and farther, that's where you see you start bleeding and bleeding and then all of a sudden you have this big top heavy thing that doesn't work anymore. And that's why I just hold on to this dream of thinking that, you know, if we just had one person and we hold that person accountable, because, is, hey, it's us, and this is how you should have represented us, and we watch how you vote on different amendments or anything that comes through the election. We watch how you vote, and we're like, hey, that's not how we wanted you to vote, man, and you did. Why? Well, all my party told me to.

You take that the party told me to away from it, and I think we have much more functioning democracy, and I think our little RM here is a very good... Let me ask you a different question, then. Sure. What has to happen in order for that to even become? Because do you think, I don't mean, I don't mean like civil war. I don't mean anything like that crazy. I mean like, do you think you could run, you know, it's a little short right now.

But, you know, like in theory, you run 15 independents. You run 20 independents. And 20 independents win. That's a long shot. But you get the point. Very very long shot, yeah. I mean, even one independent winning is a long shot, right? because most people want to vote with,

we got to keep it conservative, or we got to keep it liberal or what have you. Yeah. But do you think, you know, like there's a time coming where people are going to be so upset that an idea like that can permeate kind of like the culture, the thought process that goes into how you vote of like this makes sense?

Because there's a ton of people looking for ideas that make sense. And when you look at our democracy, look at the Americans democracy, right? You go, what's old the mighty dollar, how it really makes things move? It really is. It's the mighty dollar that makes things move. And like, honestly, to answer your question, Sean, I hope so.

Like, I hope it can get to that. Just because I don't know what other options there are, you know. It's, it bothers me how much we pay attention as a society to the U.S. election, say as Canadians, as Saskatchewanians. I know a few people from my community that drove down to catch a Trump rally south of the border. And I asked all of them, point blank to the face.

I was like, what the fuck are you going to see a Trump rally for? Like, like you're leaving your home in Saskatchewan and you're going down because you want to see a Trump rally because this is all that anybody sees on the media and this and that, da-da-da.

Sean, out of four people, I asked four people as like, what are the four MLAs that are running in the Sass party? They didn't know. In the Saskatchewan election right here in our Wadena-Galvington ride. They didn't know. Not a fucking clue. This is what's wrong.

Yeah. Listen, what happens in the states and who is in government in the states affects us profoundly in Canada. And who we have in government based against of what runs in the states will affect profoundly the relationship between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. And that's a very, very important relationship that I think a lot of people don't understand how many goods are traded across our borders and how it affects our local economy,

specifically beef growers, right? But to be so out of touch, like, how do we bring that back to people to be like, you need to be involved in what's happening in your community first. You can tell me the four people that are running and you're riding and how you're going to vote and why you're going to vote. So now you're asking a question that I've been trying to figure off, right? How? Because, okay, look at what Trump has done.

And you can love or hate the guy. It doesn't matter. Why did they drive? Well, they obviously wanted to go see him. Why did I drive an hour to go see it? I'm like, he's an hour away. I'm going to see what the hell this is all about. Right?

And there's just, it's larger than life is what they've done with American politics surrounding Trump in particular. He is a larger than my character. Right. It actually felt like, honestly, the two things that come to mind are tailgating before an NFL football game. I don't know if you've been, but like it's like, this is kind of cool. Everybody, you know, except there was no drinking. Actually, that shocked me even more because all the videos of when he got shot in the head, you know, like the videos of the people were, I don't know if they were all drunk, but like it felt like they talked to a bunch of drunk people. And I'm like, oh, it must be a big party.

So I was expecting that. And at least in Minnesota, I didn't see anyone with any alcohol. I was actually quite shocked. And there was a couple characters. I'm like, oh, that guy's got to be drinking. And then it was like a can of Diet Coke. And I'm like, huh, I did not see that coming. That's kind of shocking to me, actually.

And obviously, you know, when you look at what Pierre Poliyev is doing and how people are showing up to his things and you see a resemblance there, right? Absolutely. I go, like, how do you get people interested in public? politics. Yeah. Like it is like the, like it is your NHL team.

Like it is your senior bloody hockey team in Saskatchewan. Dude, you could see a, you could even see a change in the, in the messaging from the, from the liberals in Canada as soon as Kamala announced. As soon as it was announced that Kamala was running for the Democrats, you can see it.

They tried to start mirroring what, what was happening with, with her ops, with her social media, with everything. Like you could see, there was a, there was a huge change. I saw a plane as day. It happened immediately with Trudeau.

And this is like, and people can say what they want. There's a part of what Pauliev does that's, that's borderline close to what Trump will do kind of thing. And people want to compare the two, but I don't think we're immune from that in the border. The 49th parallel doesn't change anything. It's just that we're so to tighten it of two countries that it's kind of going to be the same. It's just we're not going to be as extreme as the states is it's going to be, we're going to be like the diet coke of politics here in Canada or whatever. right but it's just you can see that they're like well that's what's working for them that's what we're going to do here kind of thing and like i don't know man i just i wish we we could

draw a line between how we operate versus how the states operates that anything that states does is bad or wrong what's what's what's what's something here in canada that you went to politically you're like i really enjoyed that that was actually pretty good does anything you go like oh actually this time or is there anything? No. No, nothing stands out in my head of what I've gone to that I enjoyed, to be honest. Not saying that I've really gone to that much. You know, okay, maybe it's hypocritical.

I mean, to be like we need to get more involved, but I feel like I'm involved to the point where I don't go to town halls or any of this other stuff. The simple fact that I guess maybe I'm spoiled with the, you know, with the, with the place that I've landed in here where I actually have contact with most members of not just the SaaS party, but with the NDP. And like, if I have issues, I talk to both sides. And I can do that through some of the channels that I've created. And I guess maybe I don't have a reason to go to them. I went to, I can tell you one that stands out in my mind that I went to, and that was in Nipowen, which, I mean, is nowhere near my riding or anything.

and I had some things that I stood up and said it wasn't a very big group that didn't have a very good turnout kind of thing and I heard some MPs and MP specifically there say a few things that I was just like you know what that's that's bullshit and I vote for you guys

and I stood up and I told them that it was bullshit and it felt like it fell on deaf ears you know what I mean and I think that's maybe what's missing just feel like you're not heard right I get to sit in a very, very lucky spot because I feel like a lot of people hear what I say. But when you go to a town hall that's only got, you know, 100 or 50 people in it kind of thing, I mean, you can say something and get a round of applause from 50 people, but does the person that you elected that's working towards a pension early give two fucks about what you said,

are they just going to give you some word salad tell you they care about you and then go back and vote however they're told to anyways, right? It's it's I don't I don't have the answer like I I I don't have I don't have the answer I just like maybe maybe politics is is never going to be this thing that we raw raw about but one thing that Donald Trump has done bar none is he's gotten people from all over the world now it is the United States of America let's give it it's due any time an election cycle comes around for the United States of America people pay attention to it with Donald Trump a part of it, it is on steroids, how they pay attention to it. And it's like going to a tailgating, or I was going to say WWE.

And I've never been to a WWE. That is where I was headed to. I was like, it's fucking wrestling, man. It really is, you know? And then you got, you know, with the Trump and Musk's face the other night, you just, you see how both sides kind of play to it a little bit. And, yeah, okay, so Musk is Mr. Free Speech, and he's going to get Trump on or whatever. It's just going to be about talk and that's all there is.

It's just an open conversation. It's not an interview, right? But, I mean, you can't tell me, Sean, that there's not some part of Musk that's like, hey, you know, I cranked out maybe 40-some-odd million to his campaign kind of thing, but you know what I just made off of this space happening tonight, you know? Like, there's always that monetary value to it, you know? I've got a lot of things that I hear Musk say. I think that's good and requires some thought and some time.

and to consider what he's saying. And other times, just like fuck, man, you're just like everybody else, you're just trying to make some cash and get some views rolling through and just make it happen, right? And I think that's kind of,

maybe that's what's missing out of everything in the world here now is everybody's just trying to get that traction, right? I don't know. It's definitely, you know, like, it's very noticeable. It's been noticeable for a long time that Canadians love to stare at the U.S. but we're not the only ones, right?

Like, I mean, everybody loves to stare at the U.S., man. Right. The U.S. is like that hot slash crazy hairdresser that, you know, it's like, you know, she doesn't cut hair that good, but I just want to watch her, you know what I mean? That's a, yes.

It's interesting, though, because sitting here, okay, so you go, like, we literally have an election. And, I mean, take the polls for what they are. Just take them at face value. like you're going to have NDP back in Saskatchewan. You could have NDP in Manitoba, or I mean you do, and you could have NDP in B.C. Like, do we, we should zone back into provincial stuff or whatever. And it's, yeah, it's good.

That's kind of got us back on track here, what they're supposed to talk about. But, I mean, U.S. politics, obviously, does play a role. But Manitoba specifically, Wob Cano has been an interesting one to watch. And I'm curious of what's going to happen with Manitoba. But the thing about NDP is that you don't really know what you've got until after, you know, four to six years kind of thing. And then we start seeing what the finances do in a province or a country or whatever it is kind of thing, right? The coolest thing that I heard Waldochon say was that he said the economic horse pulls the socialist cart.

So if you have a premier that's saying that, and I think he's in a unique spot because he has the opportunity to be able to, you know, identify with and connect with the marginalized members of the community kind of thing. But if he can hold himself and speak how he does, he's a good speaker, right? And you can say a few things like that.

When he said that, like, it caught me very off guard. And I was like, that's actually the first time I've heard anybody from the NDP talk about, how are we going to pay for this, you know? Because classic NDP is, we're just going to do it. and that's that's how we do this we're just going to do it right nobody ever talks about what we're going to do you have a carlobeck that's uh trying to get uh we we need to cut the gas tax in saskatch one kind

of thing right we got to cut that gas tax like everybody else is done i get it our roads are completely fucked completely we will we will never fix all of our roads okay and that's a tiny little portion that apparently goes into general revenue that we can't assume that that's where it goes and get spent on roads anyways, but we're supposed to be fixing our roads of that money. So that's fun. You want to cut the gas tax. That's great.

Like cut the carbon tax off and cut the gas tax. Let's cut all the taxes off of gas, whatever, and let's just pay for gas, right? Then what? How do we fix anything? Like, as a guy that says, anti-tax as I am,

I get that if we're going to have infrastructure and health care that we need to pay for it in some way, shape, or form. So great. cut the tax, what are we doing to make up for it? And it's the same thing. And that's like, that's my issue with Polly, even a few things. Just ask the tax, ask the tax,

carbon tax, get it out of here. We don't need it, all right? But when we get down to like consumption taxes on how we pay for infrastructure, that's fine. Let's cut it. I hate paying taxes. But like, where's the shortfall on how do we make it up?

What are we doing to make the difference, right? And that's, you'd like to hear some plans come out. Yeah. Some definitive plans. And that's where it's. saying. Listen, for any piece of Saskatchewan, I've talked to Carla back on several occasions. And Carla's a fantastic person. I'd sit and talk with her for a long time and she's got roots to

agriculture. Listen, I don't think she's the best public speaker. And I'm just going to say this because she's running for premier of Saskatchewan. So I'm just going to call it as it is. She's not the greatest public speaker. She drags on quite a bit. And I don't feel like there's a lot of substance in it, okay? And we have all these grander ideas of what we're going to do and we're going to make life more affordable, but there's in no way, shape, or form are we figuring out what's going to happen with the shortfall. And Scott Moe, I don't think is the best public speaker either.

You know, he spoke with the Waiver and Oil Show and everything. You're like to, I was just like, somebody turned Scott's mic down a little bit. He's turning into Will Ferrell and the loud docker on Saturday Night Live, right? You're like, and public speaking is a big thing. For me, it is anyways, because I'm listening to somebody talking, and I want to hear what the substance is with him, right? And I have a hard time getting by both of them. But, I mean, if Carlin back.

He's the, I think, if I'm correct, quick, he's the last serving premier of the West through COVID. Yeah. Man, Toba's changed. Alberta's changed. BC has changed. Yeah, you are correct. Yeah.

And he is, he, you can't dodge that one. Yeah, 100%. Absolutely. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying that Scott Moe's got an easy job. That guy's got a tough job. Hey, okay, listen, Scott Moe story, all right? So I come out, I'm going to the waiver and oil show because I'm the most pro-o-eiling gas on the guy on the face of the planet. Worked oil and gas, use oil and gas every day. People who are against oil and gas have a serious mental problem.

go down to the wayburn oil show and like right before this is happening i do this upload on on the week's harrison thing and i know i'm going to meet the premier down there because i do every year when i go to the when i go to the wayburn oil show right and i'm like i don't care uh this is bullshit so i'm calling it bullshit and i get down there and they're doing outlaw buckers uh and oil kings bronc riding which if no if nobody had made it to the wayburn oil show this year if you ever hear of them doing that bronch riding again go check it out probably one of the best bronch riding rough stock shows that i've seen they filled the stands in wavern there's there's like 3,500 people there's stands for that capacity great stock it was it was a good show anyways

um i'm the VIP tent because they brought me down there just to say hi to folks shout out the dent cogniz for putting the whole thing on there whatever and we get down there and uh and i knew there we are i'm standing there having to be with a few folks and there's the premier right over there and he makes eye contact with me and i'm like well okay how's this going to ago. For the first time in my career, I laid a beating on the SaaS party on my YouTube channel. I've done it before, but this whole episode was like, this is, I'm going to roast these guys. And he came right over me and shakes my hand. And he's like, good video you did there should do more of those. I was like, thank you. Like that's the last thing I expected to hear

from him. You know what I mean? Did not see that coming. Yeah, but like, so when you're backed into a corner what else do you do yeah well you're you're not wrong right aren't you well you're not wrong because i mean like uh you know when you i go back to it when you think about it he's i come back to alberta daniel smith you know has this leadership review coming up right and lots of people who are championing her and probably including myself you know there's just been more negative starting to come out and more and it's you can just feel it building right to the point where you know, has she been doing a bad job? Has it been that bad?

I have, you know, at this point I'm like, I don't think it's been that bad, but people want to see some things that she ran on start to happen. And people that I thought would never, not that they'd never start to talk ill of her, we're starting to talk that way. And you're like, huh, sure. Got to, got to pay attention to that. And what I always say is, and she doesn't have to run on anything to do with COVID, because she wasn't there.

She came in and in essence cleaned up the mess and I know the listeners are going to say there's still mess there and I'm sure I agree I'm not I'm not saying that but like she doesn't have all the fallout from those years Yeah Scott Moe does and lots of the SaaS party does and that's going to hurt them it hurt the Conservatives it hurt the Conservatives in Alberta because there was people who stuck on that had that track record and there was I remember hearing from the public You just can't vote for him I just will not vote for him them and they voted for others because they were upset and you wonder as the next Alberta election comes around obviously that's a little ways off if those people get changed out and you see a different

result altogether like a wider spread if you would in Alberta just because of that fact because there was a lot of people are just upset I'm just not voting for this person when they didn't said some of the things that I just do not agree with and we saw that and you look at Saskatchewan you wonder how much that plays into it. Or maybe it's not playing into it as much as I think. It's just a trend, right? Even from you just look at the leadership and you go, he's the last one in the west side.

I mean, even BC who just, you know, not that long ago said, hey, I don't know if you know this 2024, but the pandemic is finally over and we're saying it here. Bonnie Henry, what a lovely human being. And everyone's like, even the neighbors of stuff, is like, that's a joke, right? That is not a joke. That is not a joke.

And they don't have the same Premier that went through COVID. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you know what? No matter who you were, as far as being in politics, specifically, a Premier prime minister, I'm even going to say it, whatever. Like, I mean, that'd be a rough time to do your job kind of thing, right? Like, probably the roughest time to do your job, less wartime, whatever. But, yeah, he's still rolling.

And I think I've seen specifically in the rural ridings here, there's been a lot of nominations. You know, Auburn, New Yorkton, Kenora was up. There was a whole bunch. There's been a big change in, in SaaS Party nominations. So different people running. Yeah. So I think this next election is going to be, I think it's going to be a tell of how close people are paying attention to who's representing them. and I just I hope no matter what

no matter your your political stripe or what you want to be with it like the theory behind an election is you you vote for the person that you feel is going to represent your wants and desires the best in the legislative assembly

like that's what it boils down to take all the fanfare away from who's leading the party what the party's done what's this what's that da da you need to you need to go and vote in your constituency for the person that's going to represent you best. That's how this is supposed to work, right? So, you know, the NDP in Saskatchewan, I'm not going to sit here and blow a lot of sunshine up their ass because I know that there's some MLAs with the NDP that I maybe don't agree

with at all whatsoever. That being said, I'm not going to sit here and say that they don't have some good people in their party that are trying to make changes and trying to do things. their job and trying to make their community that they represent, the writing that they represent a better place. And they've got some people that work very hard at it. I've actually got to know Trent Witherspoon quite well over the last few years and like take party lines away from everything.

Trent's a good dude. And he stops and talks to me every time I get a chance to say hi. And that guy has worked with some people to make some good changes with hunting laws and a few other things in Saskatchewan. I just feel like every time the Saskatchewan NDP has an opportunity to get somebody to be the right leader for the party to get in there and actually spearhead it

and put a challenge against the SaaS party, they fucking blow it. You know, they had Ryan Miley and like, and if, like, to Dr. Miley, I mean, like for, you know, he went back in and started practicing again during COVID and stuff.

And I mean, like, there's, there's, the, the guy's not a bad guy. Just I had no respect for him whatsoever as a politician, right? And it's just, if you're going to be in opposition, it's important for us to have a strong and a healthy opposition. And we just don't seem to get that at all. And I think Carla Beck is just sliding in at the right time here right now where you've got a very, very, very, very tired party that needs to have a good look at itself and be like, how are we going to go forward from here and continue on? Because when you get as long in the tooth as the SaaS party is right now,

you're starting to see that they're starting to get reached the end of the area where they at the end of the area where they can ride on Bradwall's coattails and like eventually those coattails are gone and you got to be your own party right is there anything you know just switching gears here that uh you know I don't know positive you know like the world of politics you talk about it and you're like man I need a cold shower after this conversation you know not that we've said anything bad it's just like the world The world of politics is, you know, as much as I want to figure out the unlock code or the cheat code to get people, you know, in the stands.

And in fairness, I think more people are coming out now than there ever have been. But to switch gears just for a second, because, you know, you're a guy who releases a ton of social media content. You talk to a ton of people. You get interviewed a ton. And you're all over the place. You know, like, is there something that you've stumbled across over the last, whatever time frame you want, six months queue that you're like, you know, that's pretty interesting.

Like, that's something people should be paying attention to. You know, like, and for me, I don't agree with everything or anyone or everyone that comes on the show, right? One of the things is just trying to listen and, like, hear some things out and be like, oh, that's interesting. And the first one who did that to me was Chase Barber. I remember guys saying you need to have Edison Motors on it. like, okay, what is it? Evies. I'm like, okay, great. Right? And then he started talking and I'm like, this is, huh, I'm glad I had you on. And Liam Parfit, you know, once again, the logging, Freya logging in BC, one of the things he was just talking about was like this, you know,

and I just had, you know, I got another guy coming in to talk about, like, Alberta has, you know, like natural disasters happen all the time. You have hurricane season on the east. coast it happens every year since I was a kid you watch the news and out there's another hurricane going through and he's like well in Alberta we have wildfires in Canada you might even argue we have wildfires so I don't know why people get so shocked about it we have to start doing things to prepare so that you know when the fire happens we're prepared and we can deal with it and we have you know no loss of life and little loss of you know of property and I was like yeah that that makes make pretty sense, you know, like that, okay. And then you have Liam Parfitt come on, and he gets

talking about, you know, like thinning out forest and just how that slows down a fire. And I'm like, oh, like that just, like, shouldn't, once again, I feel like politicians should just listen to that and be like, oh, yeah, we should just talk to this guy and start implementing things. I realize that is not how this works. I wish it did. And I feel like if we were a bunch of independents, it probably would. But, you know, I'm curious, on your end, have you ran into something where you're like, huh, I didn't think about that? You know, you mentioned Wob, knew was one of them. Is there is there anything else that sticks out to? Jeez. Man, that's kind of putting me on the spot, I guess.

Just to touch to touch base on what you said there kind of thing when it comes down to, I mean, we never seem to pay, everyone's just shocked, you know, when Jasper burnt kind of thing. But we learned nothing from Fort Mac. We've learned nothing from a whole bunch of these places, you know, Colona. There's like, I mean, like, Yeah, slave lake. Yeah, there's, like, if we don't have this figured out now, I mean, municipalities, provincial governments, federal governments, nobody likes spending money on stuff that's, you know,

where we're planning for something that could go wrong. But your voters want to see something happen now. Like if you're thinning forests outside of Fort Mac and Fort Mac doesn't burn to the ground for 30 years, guess what? Guess what? You spent hundreds of millions of dollars and it did its job. and nobody saw the results because they were one of that fucking catastrophe. But that's the thing I think about thinning the forest that I actually liked.

Because as I understood it, and maybe I need to go back and listen to this, but it didn't cost taxpayers money for them to go in because they're making money off of logging, right? Like they're actually doing something where the company's making money, they get to work, and they get to go in and do something that's constructive to force to help stop things. I'm actually like, it's a win-win. Like to me, that's almost like, gee, why? Because of the optics.

Yeah, right. The optics of it and the bureaucracy of like, well, we can't go in there. Like, okay, well, I get that. So now that's government in the way of doing something that makes sense. And doesn't cost billions of dollars. But it's preventative maintenance, and we seem to use it everywhere else in the world. We use it in agriculture. We use it in oil and gas.

We use it everywhere. You know, if you're on a frack spread, you put X amount of jobs on your quint pump, and then you pull it apart and you rebuild the head because you know it's going to fail at some point in time. In agriculture, you green light your con mines before you go to work in the fall because you can't run the same bearing for 30 years straight or you know what's going to blow and start a fire kind of thing or whatever.

It should be the same with absolutely everything that we do, right? But it's just for some reason with a lot of different things that we look at as society. We're like, well, we can't do that. You know, when it comes to cutting a tree down, how dare you cut a tree down? Well, if we don't cut it down, Mother Nature is going to cut the fucking down for us. You know what I mean?

And we're not going to like the results. but when you look at even like so look at military spending you know why would we ever need to spend money on the military ever again in Canada you know we got the big beautiful US it's going to protect us and we live in this kumbaya world and nobody wants to fucking hurt anybody anymore well like how's that world looking right now you know um underfunded military we can't pretty pretty dangerous cute somebody wanted to come and take us over tomorrow they're fucking coming there ain't shit that we can do to stand in the way i mean it'll be over my dead body and duffinil you know what i mean but other than that you know it's just we just we can't get too comfortable of living in a world where everything's just perfect there's shit that we got to do to make sure that everything's right you know and and and and we just don't seem to do it anymore and that's it's concerning you know it really is well it might be even you know on on the smallest individual level you know one of the one of the things you had the first ever cornerstone forum this year right had people come to lloyd

It was a conference style or a forum style instead of just an evening, like the rural urban divide was back when Vance Crowe and Stephen Barber and yourself were on stage. And, you know, the idea was to identify the choke points in your life and just start to, you know, like you can run around terrorized or in fear of like, you know, all these things coming down the pipe or you can just start to address them. And, you know, that could be economics, it could be money, and staring at that problem and going like, how am I going to fix this and run around? But if you just run around and do nothing, you're not actually fixing anything. You want to lose weight. You can either get paralyzed by the problem or start to do little things that help to address the problem, right? And you'll be surprised. In two weeks, you'll be like, I feel pretty good.

And the same goes with a whole bunch of choke points in your life. And so we got looking at, you know, like in Alberta specifically, you know, we've had, I believe it is now two power warning, grid warnings, you know, of like, we need you to turn it down. And you go, you know, I ask a simple question. Is this done now for the next 50 years? Like, we never get those? Or is this picking up?

Like we're going to see that more often than not. I say more often than not. So if I have that train of thought, then you, the next one is like, well, how do I make sure that if the grid were to ever have just a blip, not, we're not talking three months. We're talking like a, a storm that Quebec had years ago where they lost their grid for, you know, I think it was seven days and the military comes in and all the things. What do you need and how can you start to address little things like that? Or, you know, people point to food supply.

Well, how many people know how to grow a garden? Let me tell you, I built raised garden beds this year. And I'm not acting like I'm going to have food supply for 10 years, quick dick. I'm just like, I need to relearn how to garden. And I got young kids, and I would really like to learn with them all over again. Because I remember going with grandma all the time. And those are little things to not only get better, you know. And so like you look at the preventative maintenance thing.

It doesn't have to be this giant thing tomorrow. But like maybe it's just a bigger version of what we're not doing ourselves. We've become so reliant on assistance, so complacent in our lives. And we're starting to realize, holy crap. Yeah, that's not a good place to be. Yeah, absolutely. But I mean, even something like that's simple. It's simple enough of the task that you need to do like, hey, this is a, like, this is

a social media break for, you know, an hour a day or whatever it is to go weed the garden or water the garden or plant the garden kind of thing. I mean, we need more activities like that in our lives. I'm very spoiled because all of my life is like that. It's like, I need to try and make time. I can't believe I'm going to say it. I need to try and make time for social media versus the other way around. You know what I mean?

just because I'm very fortunate to be in a situation where I got a lot of honest things going on that keep me very, you know, in touch with the world and the reality of the world, you know. But when it comes down to, like you're talking about grid failures and everything, I think, you know, I think people need to take things away from like the Jasper Fire or a grid brownout or whatever's going to happen through goods. If you just look at it and then try and find somebody to blame and be like, how are you going to make sure this never happens? happens again, you know, you're my elected official kind of thing. I'm just to the point where I don't have a lot of trust in most of my elected officials kind of thing, but I'm like, you know, the one person at the end of the day that's responsible

for me is me. The one person at the end of the day that's responsible for your children and your wife, Sean, is you, right? So, you know, put all the trust that you want in elected officials or government or whatever at the end of the day. When things go, if you have things go a little bit bad, it's, it's our. job, our personal responsibility and make sure that we can look after ourselves, you know. Yeah, well, and I think I'm learning that more and more as days go by, right? You watch how

the political wins shift, how things are said, how things are done, and you're like, this goes to hell on a handbasket. They're going to come riding in, you know, like they're going to come riding in, they're going to shake some hands, they're going to do some press ops, they're going to spend way too much money that they probably don't have, or if they do have, they're saving it for that exact occasion and then they ride out again and you're left there trying to figure out what went on and you know like i think more and more people are coming to that realization yeah and i'm not like i'm not like hey you got a plan for a doomsday or this or that kind of thing i mean it's just it's there's levels to it right i've had i've had a prepper on to uh to his quick dick i you know every

every time i have quick dick on that jess that jess fucking happened I can't believe that every time I have quick dick on I slip I slip in column twos I don't know why that is probably because I want to abbreviate QDM and I abbreviated his name so many times it's it's like I can't get shot you can't go on it shorter anyways I had this preper on because and I don't know what I thought he was gonna say but he's like do you have booster cables I'm like what and I was almost disappointed you know I'm expecting dig a hole in the ground and get a buck and he's like you got booster cables I'm like uh yeah he's like

oh well you're doing better than most i'm like what are you talking about booster cables i thought you're a prepper he's like oh yeah most people are like i got to have 20 years of food stocked and i got to do this do this he's like do you know how to use bruce cables i'm like yeah he's like good because there's a ton of people who have no idea what i just said and i'm like i don't think i'm like i don't think it's my audience that doesn't know what booster cables are but i'm like that's a really sad day if you're driving around in a vehicle you know that is maybe one of the small sense You're driving around in your vehicle, and if anything happens to it, you don't know how to fix it. And in fairness, there are levels to that as well because there's things that go on in my vehicle and I'm taking it to the shop.

But, you know, changing a tire, booster cables? I'm like, booster cables? Is that, is that where we're at in society today? Maybe that's, maybe that's where we're at. You don't know how to use a booster cable. So, so if that's, if that is where we're at, then, I mean, like, so be it. But that's a pretty good testament to like what's happening with society, right? You know, it used to be a thing.

Change tires, boost the car, blah, blah, blah, blah. I have a survival kit. Still, to this day, I have no idea why the fuck you need a candle with you to be in a winter storm. If it's, you know, 50 below and you're stranded in your car on the side of the road, you're like, well, you make sure you have a candle. Yeah, that candle's going to save your ass. I'm fucking sure it is, you know what I mean? But other than that.

Well, the thing about a candle is it actually can heat up. a small unit quite well, right? I can't believe you're drinking the Kool-Age, young. I'm just saying, at the end of the day, I would say if it's minus 50 outside, probably don't leave the house, probably just stay put. You know? You know, I think a lot of this rolls back today. I mean, I've said it before.

Do you have a survival kit? I am. I'm my own survival kid. I've got a knife. Fair enough. Maybe I'll just clip that and put that out. You know, it's like, like, I, like, When it's cold in the wintertime and I walk into my house, you know, like I'm still one of the people.

I've said this before on your podcast, man. I walk through the door and I am thankful. Every day when I open the door to my house and the furnace is working and I walk in and it's warm inside. Like I just live a life where I am still, I am, I don't dismiss that and I don't not think about it. I realize how many people have had to do how many things to make sure that when I walk in house it's just warm and how screwed we'd be if the power went out for you know a week how how animalistic we'd become oh look at the city of calgary on water restrictions for how long and the anarchy that it caused there of people what to do what like why you fuckers have got a river

running right through that city and it's like it's water you can take it you still have power you can boil it, you're going to be fine. You know, but it was just the end of the world. As soon as you take a dump in a white piece of porcelain and you can't push a lever and it just takes it away to a magical place where you don't have to think about it anymore, people start losing their minds. Shut the power off when it's 35 fucking below

and tell me what the same people wind up doing a weekend. Well, I've had military boys on talking about being in Quebec when they had the ice storm, and it knocked down all the... I was a younger man when that happened. And, you know, sitting on this side of the planet, you didn't think much of it. And it being Quebec, you probably really didn't think much of it, you know?

And, no offense, Quebec. Love you, Quebec. Stop taking all my money. But it's funny. The military guys talked about it, right? They talked about how many people burned down their house trying to heat it with a barbecue. you and and you know and they talked about how you know you just said heat with a barbecue which

means that you are burning propane inside of a building correct think about that right correct but but think about it think of how the conditions where you're like screw it we got to find a way to keep it warm right like i actually can see how you get there i would i would hope you'd find a alternative, but the alternative that I think it was Chuck and Jamie that were talking about it, they got talking about how people were going around with bolt cutters and cutting people's generators and hauling them away and taking them to their house and you're like, it got pretty gnarly there. And there wasn't much law enforcement could do because, I mean, people are freezing. They're going to find a way to survive.

And so, you know, it's you hope days like that never come, but, you know, you see, you see, still need to, you know, what is the old farmers always told me in the best days you prepare for the bat, you know, because you know it's coming, whether it's 10 years away or 50 years away, you know, you know the times are coming when it's tough. And that doesn't have to be the power going out that, you know, for farmers, that can be drought, right? That can be, that can be, that can be mother nature. You know, even in the last few years, I mean, you look at a lot of people in agriculture and a lot of guys have, uh, have adjusted their practices, they've adjusted crop rotations. They've adjusted a lot of things because, you know, there's been a couple of drier years.

And a lot of guys that have farmed around here for years and years and years, you know, that are on, they're on centennial farms, their third or fourth generation kind of thing. Like, they'll, I mean, they'll tell you stories that'll make your hair curl. And when they're like, oh, you think you had a bad the last couple of years, we'll let me tell you something. You know what I mean? And I live for that stuff, you know? Because you never know when it's coming. And it's like you say, it's always good.

Like if you had a good year, be grateful for it and make sure that you're ready for next year because next year might not be a good year. You know, but I mean, that goes with anything, anything, not just agriculture. I mean, it can be in business. It can be in anything, right? You never know what's coming at you. I'm not sitting here saying that we need to, we don't need to live in fear of what's coming tomorrow. But just make sure that you got the confidence that you can handle what comes at you tomorrow, you know?

Well, yeah, I mean, I love talking. to daddy O'Numan because he's lived through some things as all of our fathers have. Yeah. And, you know, I think of all the elders, you know, the community pillars of Lloyd that I interviewed that lived through the 80s and lived through that time. And you hear their stories and you're like, it's tough, but we haven't seen nothing yet. No, yeah. We're living in good times, Sean.

We're living in the upside down most of the days. But compared to some of the things they've seen. It's, yeah, you're not wrong. Q, uh, appreciate you hopping on doing this, man. Yeah, man. Um,

you know, it's always, you know, it's always gonna jump on and, uh, and I guess if Tuesday's listening, uh, yeah,

but apologies for missing the, the mashup there. I was slated into do it. And I had some shit go upside down on me. And that's too bad because we had the rooster with a beard on. We had, we had,

we were, we were, we'll have to unveil it another time when, yeah, I'll, I'll jump on with you guys one of these days. But yeah, That's, yeah, no, it's always good to chat, man.

And, you know, I guess dialing back to how we started off, go find out who's running in your riding and find the best person and send them to ledge to represent you. That's how it's supposed to work, regardless of what party before. QDM, thank you, sir, for hopping on today. And look forward to the next time because I know there will be. And until then, keep doing what you're doing. I was good to see you.

You can see, man. Okay.