Shaun Newman Podcast - #703 - Clyde Nichols

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

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I'm talking about Clyde Nichols. So buckle up. Here we go. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast today. I'm joined by Clyde Do Something. I should have got your last name. I didn't even think about it, but welcome with the podcast. Oh, thank you.

Thank you. As you can see on the screen here, we've been messing with Grok. By the way, my name is Clyde Nichols. The show is Clyde Do Something, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm not some Ann on, yeah. It's funny. You know, and where I sit, you know, like twos, you've had twos on your side.

And, you know, he has a name. But when I first started dealing with twos, he went strictly by 222 minutes. And every time we recorded a show, I had to go in and put like this block over his head with the 222 minutes logo so nobody could see his face. And he was like terrified that somebody was going to come like to his front doorstep. Since then, obviously he has a name. We never use it. We just go by twos. And, you know, it's funny.

Like Marty up north. Marty has a last name too, but nobody calls. I wasn't by it. You know, it's how you interact on Twitter. So regardless, Clyde, thanks for, thanks for hopping on. And for anyone watching, looking at this, they're like, what the hell is going on? We got talking about Grock and how me and twos go back and forth with, you know, asking Grock to draw roosters doing things.

And this is, well, you can explain your drawing. So this is, well, you said that, you said you didn't want to swear one day. So, so Tews came up with the name Justin Trudeau is a roosters. Slurper. Yeah, instead of saying cock sucker, he said rooster slurper, right? So I made, I asked a grok to make an image of a rooster-shaped slurpy cup with a straw. There you go. And there you go.

That's the rooster slurper right there. We should get those made. Oh, man. This is going to be fun. Okay. Clyde, you've never been on the show. So I, like, to me, I assume a lot of people go on Twitter. I assume there's a ton of people.

Like, I've been fed your content enough to know that. a bunch of my listeners already know who you are, but that is a poor assumption bringing somebody on. There's always going to be people that, you know, have never heard of you before and maybe don't realize where you're sitting and all the other things, right? Because I got a bunch of BC listeners. And so I guess I just love to open it up with, tell us about yourself. And, you know, longer. Who the heck are you and why you're on the screen? That's right. That's right. So I'm, I'm Clyde Nichols. I run a show called Clyde, something. It was kind of an impromptu thing. I've been on YouTube for a bunch of years. I used to do

DIY videos. I used to do production for other crews and things like that. I learned a bunch of skills. It's a side gig for me. I'm an auto mechanic. I do that every day. I pull wrenches, you know, eight hours a day and come home to my family. And I was in between, you know, hobby gigs when the Freedom Convoy popped off back in 2022 in January. And it was, it was, it was, it was, you know, it was an amazing time because, you know, you and hire Canadians. We know how much of a pushover Canadians tend to be. And to see a bunch of people standing up at a time, especially a time where it was getting kind of scary in Canada.

It was getting kind of scary to, like, voice your opinions, especially if you didn't tow the party line. It was feeling very 1984 for a while. And people were even afraid to say stuff in front of their friends because they didn't know who was, you know, cool with, you know, the. the, you know, liberties and things like this that we, you know, we used to. There was like, there was like code words, you know, you've said something like that guy knows. Yeah, that guy knows.

Okay. That guy's not wearing a mask. That guy I can go talk to, you know? So when the Freedom Convoy happened, I was like, holy crap, these are my people. You know, I'm a mechanic. My brother's a truck driver. Like, this is, this is my crew. And they're standing up.

And I, I'm still an essential worker and I have to go to work. But there's something I can. do i can get online and i can talk about it at least if that's the least i can do and because you know i've been doing you know the back end of stuff and i i found myself often you know in online conversations i just can't shut up about politics and and economics and all these other things anyway so it was kind of it turned out to be my calling but but at the time i was just thinking i i should do this because if in the future i'm going to regret it when everybody's being quiet and there's a moment to get out there and put your voice out there,

now's my time. I'm going to put it out there. I don't care. I didn't think nobody was watching it. Like I thought it was just like going to go out there, but I would just at least in my heart of hearts feel like I tried. I did something, right? And that's how it got started.

It got started with me just waking up every morning at like 4 a.m. And seeing what was happening in the news, what was happening with truckers, seeing what was happening on live streams, on Facebook, on all these places, platforms, and publishing it and just putting it out there. This is what's happening. The news is telling you, and it's BS, and this is what's actually happening.

And that's the story. It just didn't stop. It did take off, and it blew up, and people actually like to listen to me, give my opinions on what's happening in the news. It's amazing to me, so I'm not going to stop. Well, if people haven't tuned in, I think you're pretty, what's the word, I'm looking for, charismatic maybe on your videos.

You know, like, thank you. And I'm speaking specifically to when you, you know, you take some of the things going on in British Columbia specifically. I'll let you talk to them. But when you take an issue and then like do a video where you're talking specifically about it for, I don't know, anywhere between probably six and 20 minutes is my, you know, my guesstimation on your regular.

video like it's interesting right like you're like oh this is yeah okay this makes sense uh you got a little bit of humor to you and like it's enjoyable to watch i mean uh people can take my word or or throat out the door that's fine either way you know like i mean what i do i can't do that like i try and do that i'm like i'm not funny like twos you know like uh everybody likes twos because he comes on and he's brash and he's comical and i'm just the i'm just the host you know like i got my talent i'm fine with my talent i get to sit across from really interesting people all the time and and let them uh discuss and you have a talent of staring at an issue in your province uh the ones i've watched i always like hearing from the person living in a province if that makes sense and uh when when you break down an issue i'm

like this guy's known what he's talking about like it's just it seems like it's evident but it's also got the you know it's got enough going on where it's just not um bland does that make all sense I hope people make sense of what I just said. It does. I mean, I obsess over this stuff, right? Like, I'm always scouring the news. I'm looking at what's happening. And it's not because I'm looking for stories.

I'm actually, I want to know. I want to know what's happening. I know, like, I've been saying this for forever now. Canada is like the canary in the coal mine at the moment for liberty in the Western world. I mean, I know, you know, China doesn't have liberty, but, you know, maybe, maybe Hong Kong did at one point and people were fighting there they've come to canada come to the united states they've come to different places in the west it's the last bastion the western world there's no more liberty out there if we lose it here that's it and canada is losing it faster than

a lot of other places i mean i know we're looking at franson and uh and uh and uh the ukie right now they're yeah with they're not they're not doing so hot either but yes it's the canary in the coal mine And I want to tell people because people just don't understand what's happening here. They don't, you know, especially like the American audience, they'll tune in. And they'll be like, yeah, yeah, Canada. You guys are just like happy go lucky people, never doing anything wrong. And like, no, no, no, we've got serious crime issues. We've got all these problems.

Free drugs. We've got made going to everyone and anyone, you know, like these issues just are stacking up on each other, you know? It's almost like you can't. You can't fathom where we're sitting at, you know? Yeah, it really is crazy. My biggest, my biggest conundrum in my own head, though, is always like, is thinking about it in the sense of, is it, is this malevolence? Is this on purpose?

Or is this the, you know, I mean, F.A. Hayek wrote about it in the Road to Surfdom. You know, this whole idea of the road to hell is paved with good intentions. So is this the result of people who think that these policies will be good? Or is this the result of people who are trying to sabotage us? And where do you come out? I don't know. I'm still always on the fence about this. Because every time I feel like it's going in one direction, then I see people that are, they appear genuine, very genuine in what their approach is.

And they're advocating for such awful, awful things. but they're just mistaken, you know? Have you ever read, you know, my listeners, they're going to get, they already know what's coming. Have you read Anne Rand? Like Atlas Shrug. Yeah, Atlas Shrugge is one of my favorite. It's like the best novel probably. Listen, I just finished it on our summer road trip and then I liked it so much.

I read Fountainhead because I'm like, well, I'm also doing a deep dive into this. And I think she lays it out, I mean, not picture perfect to what we're going through. But I think there's a. If you get into the philosophy stuff, it gets really snoozy real fast. Sure. Her novels are fantastic. They're great allegories for this, this kind of a push towards socialism, push towards. And I like the verbiage she uses.

She doesn't use the socialist language and she doesn't use your typical conservative language. She just, she has like her own words for people, you know, the looters instead of, you know, just, your average, you know. Well, but I, but I wonder if it isn't, you know, you go, is this intentional or is this like the road paved with good intentions? I wonder if it can't be both. That's where the useful idiots come in, you know? It's like they believe in this thing so much, even though the world is burning all around

them. And yet there are some nefarious actors in there. I mean, geez, just look at what China's infiltrated across Canada. And you see like, wow, I mean, we can act like that's paved with good intentions. but probably not. No, I don't think there's any good intentions coming from the Chinese Communist Party. I know there's, like, there are a lot of good intentions of Chinese people. Let's be clear, I'm not signaling out anyone here, other than the fact we have foreign, nefarious people messing with our governments.

You know, we just did a blue color roundtable early this week. And Ethan Hardy is a blacksmith in Alberta, okay? And he's explaining the process of making coal. And at some point, he goes, yeah, but we don't have the best coal. And then he stops himself. He's like, well, actually, that's not true. We do have the best coal. But that mine goes to China.

It all goes to China. China owns our coal, and then it all goes to China. And you're like, well, I mean, you can't fault the Chinese for that. That's our own ineptitude at selling off our own stuff and allowing them to take over. I mean, that's probably just one example. Well, I just learned that the only, the only factory making baby formula in Canada is owned by Chinese people for Chinese consumption only. And like this is, it's, it's unbelievable. The more you dig into these things, the more stuff you learn.

And there, there's fantastical things that you'll, you'll hear about on the internet. And, but then the reality is almost crazier than the fantastical things that you'll hear about, you know, people with chem trails and flat earths and all this other. stuff but the stuff that you actually learn about like like I said the the coal lines that are owned by the Chinese that sounds like a conspiracy theory it's true it's something that's really happening here you know we had we had a shortage of baby formula a few years ago because we are we rely only on the United States for their manufacturer I think is Nestle and a few other companies and why aren't we making it ourselves we have the dairy lobby

And it's the dairy lobby is the reason why they're dumping milk every year in the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of liters. But they won't allow that to go to manufacturing baby formula where we could have our own stockpiles. Why is that? Oh, I was just learning about this recently. I had the food professor on Sylvan, Sylvain Charlebois, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois. And holy cow, he just opened my eyes to everything that's happening with the dairy lobby. It's this cartel that's been around since the 1970s. It's weird because it's not like a global cartel.

You think they would want to boost profits as much as possible. No, they shut Canada down and they have a cartel within Canada. And they actually, they have these tariffs so that people can't even sell cheese products and stuff in Canada. Just so that they can corner this Canadian market with a few dairy produce. It's really bizarre. It's bizarre and it sounds like why would that be the thing, but it just, it became a thing and now it has such political will because there's so much money in it that they buy politicians and so that they'll never, I'm not kidding. In January, Britain walked away from the negotiation tables with Canada for a trade deal, nation trade deal, national trade deal. They walked away from the table because of 230% tariff on cheese.

they say if you if you won't lift that you're not serious and they walked away insane i mean it's just it's been nine years of liberals i don't know this is from the 70s though no no no no no fairness fairness uh you're absolutely right it has been since the 70s i just mean companies uh sorry governments walking away from canada going this is ridiculous i guess my my thought was well this is dealing with trudeau you know like they literally need our national resources and we're like now sorry can't help you you know like people are coming bagging us could you give us some natural gas now we're just not going to do that meanwhile uh you know i go back to the coal plant china owns it and they're taking all the coal i'm like

but we're trying to save the planet by carbon taxing us out the you know to death and the planet's heat is rising and yet we're giving away the coal and you're just like this is a big giant ponsie scheme of epic proportion And just the gaslighting and the much the amount that they lie to you. I mean, I'm curious about how many of these, you know, environmental, I mean, I call them environmentalists. I mean, they're mental. They're absolutely mental because the, what they're, what they're calling for is,

is essentially the deindustrialization of our nation. That's what they're looking at. So this is where you start to think, well, is this, is this malevolent? Are they doing this on purpose? Is this the plan to deindustrialize Canada? And you look at some of their ties. You look at who's involved. You look at Justin Trudeau and the World Economic Forum and the plans that the World Economic Forum has.

I mean, if you want to know what the plans of the World Economic Forum are, and if they're good plans or not, just look at what they did to Sri Lanka. They bankrupted Sri Lanka with these stupid initiatives saying that we're going to go fully organic. We're going to get rid of fertilizers. They sold, what, tea and other products? And they went bankrupt. They went bankrupt. And not only that, they encouraged them to take out loans to build up a new port or some big infrastructure.

Where did they get the loans from? They got them from China. And when they went bust, China came in and said, okay, well, we'll settle your debts for you. but now you owe us. And what do you think is happening here? You said they're buying up the coal, coal manufacturing facilities, they're buying up all of this stuff,

and we're telling our farmers to go fully organic. The crazy part about it is I don't think that they believe this stuff. Because if you look at it on a global scale, why is it that the country with almost the least amount of a carbon footprint, why would they be the ones to make the biggest sacrifices? But yet China, we'll leave China to be because they're what, still trying to industrialize? They're industrial. They have more industrial capacity than we ever have.

And then so, okay, let's settle it. Let's have an equal share of what this carbon reduction should be. No, no, no, they're not having any of that. And I mean, are they going after India? No, India's got a massively growing economy. And India's not signing on to any of this stuff. So it's really a case of why are we trying to deindustrialize the Western world as well as, you know, the demoralization, which is, which we're seeing happen. Well, that's an interesting question.

Let's play with that for just a few minutes, if you wouldn't mind, right? Because I come back to you go, okay. So why? Because I agree with you. Like you sit it, if I was sitting across Canada, right, sitting 10,000 feet in the air and I can just see it. I'm like, well, if we connected the west to the east, you'd have cheap energy for everybody to live on.

And then you'd also have two ports. And now you can ship to Europe. You can ship to Russia and China. You could just ship, you're tied in a global market, right? No longer do we get dictated by the United States. But as soon as you go that realistic, then you realize there's human beings there that are tied to shipping ports and different things and you're going to change industry.

And if you look through history, anytime something is going to upset the global market, even it is for the best for people, there's always people that are opposed to it. And so... Of course. It's almost like they can play off the divide of Canada. We're so big landmass wide. Land mass wide. And with the population being out in the east so thick, you know, it's like they sell them a story, they keep them happy, whatever it is.

And all of us sitting out here in the West, they're like, what the hell is going on? Like, we have all the things we need right here. And yet they're doing different deals. And I don't know, that's my first thought of if I went 10,000, it's like you can see the answer. But when you drill into how they create all these divides, there's a lot of people that, I don't know, are probably worried about them, you know, and are probably making lots of money just worried about them. Well, I'm sharing an image right now, and it probably...

Oh, sure. There you go. It says a lot right there. So this is... Close Schwab. This is Clouse Schwab, of course, during an interview in his own office. Nonetheless. You might do...

I don't know if you recognize the bust up on his shelf there? I can't say I do. That's Vladimir Lindelb. Yes. Yeah. Like these are the, these are the kind of people that we're talking. Who,

who has a bust of Vladimir Lenin? Who doesn't, who doesn't appreciate the things that Vladimir Lenin did? And this is so ridiculous. It's so ridiculous that, I mean, this is, this is where we're at. We're, we're trying to peel the, you know,

the layers of the, onion back and we're just finding more and more onion, right? It's, if it walks and it talks and it, it quacks like a socialist, it's probably a socialist. And this is, this is where it's going. Now, I think there was, there was a big turning in the, in the, in the Marxist world, I think around the 1970s. And it was when socialism was a failure, right? The, the Soviet Union was a large failure.

It didn't collapse until the 90s, but it was a large failure. the Maoist revolution, murderous, right, killing so many different people, so many people, like millions and millions, whether it's intentional or through famines, killing so many people and just a tremendous failure. And then a moment in time changed where Westerns, Marxists, like Marxists from Europe and Canada, we had one in office back in those days, Pierre Elliott-Truy. They got in touch with Mao and they were in communications with him on where to go next with socialism, how to bring it about to the next phase or what a half you. And they had these ideas and opening up of China was part of this whole idea.

It was how can they take the benefits of the market economy and mix that with the benefits to them, anyway, for them, the leadership. of central authority and totalitarianism. Well, this is where we get into modern China. And it worked very well for them in China. So I mean, China is in the classical communist sense. It's not very communist, would it be, right? They have a tremendous amount of wealth. You think, you know, they seize the means of production and they got this wealth.

They're just going to clearly give it to the people. Well, it turns out back in Tiananmen Square, We learned that lesson that that's not how it rolls out. Once there is profits to be made or there's wealth to be generated even in a communist society, the first thing that happens is corruption takes over. And then when people complain, the government cracks down. Because that was the whole premise of what happened in Tiananmen Square. The people saw all the wealth that came in when they opened up the four economic sections on the eastern sea border China.

tremendous wealth came in because they had one commodity they had cheap labor and we're talking like you know good good labor as well you know we're talking about people who were you know largely well educated despite being tremendously poor so easy to easy to train cheap labor and that was their largest commodity as soon as that took off and it started making tons of profit the largesse of the state and the fact that people didn't have rights it just took over and it became this new sort of almost fascistic sense of of communism and this I think my my inkling is the guys like Klaus Schwab and and the you know the the the members of the club of Rome when they got together they were like this is a great thing we can take over the

world with this idea because we could take all the benefits of the market economy and all the benefits to them, as I said, of totalitarianism and lump it into one fascistic sort of corporatism around the world. And they've been working on it ever since since the 1970s. Well, then you've got your answer, right? It's pretty nefarious, right? And they believe they're doing what is right. But I mean, at the end of the day, it's pretty nefarious, right? For a freedom-loving person who wants to you know, walk out the door and raise a family and work a job and, you know, not be told what to do or, you know, in the case of COVID, what to stick in his body. And, you know, now as you're seeing it play out in the UK in France, here in Canada, you know, now it's, it's turning into how you can

say things or what you can say about things. You know, I'm glad I had a little break tonight, because earlier in the day, I'm planning, I did the Cornerstone Forum. So listeners will know that. I did a forum basically Clyde on, you know, looking at the next year, what problems are coming down the pipe and how do we navigate them? That's, you know, it's just what's coming and what can we do to navigate it? Because if I had done it in 2019, I personally think on that forum, they would have talked about COVID-19.

Now I'm like a firm believer in that, you know, and, you know, and I'm, you know, and I'm, it wasn't always that way and i think if it was early enough you know you probably would have spotted bitcoin well before everyone i'm not saying the first year but i'm saying well before everyone right and on and on well i'm trying to plan it i'm only laughing because i knew about bitcoin when it was like first coming out when i was doing his thing and i was like oh this is a really good idea but i don't think it'll ever take off wow if i would have thrown some money into it yeah that would have been been very, very well timed, but no. Well, so tonight, or today, I should say, I was, you know, reaching out to venues in Calgary

because last year we did it, or I guess this year we did it in Lloydminster. And, you know, there's been some interest of exploring it abroad. So Calgary has been the place. So I reached all these places, right? This is a, I don't think it's a harmless thing that I'm putting together. But I mean, I'm not leading a protest. we're not anti anything really we're just bringing people in from around the world to talk about the world and then try and navigate the bloody thing got told by a venue and i'll say it and i've

calmed down now because i was ready to just blast them but the gray eagle casino in and resort in calgary was like yeah we're not interested i'm like not interested i mean what what is going on like i i don't even think we're no no we're not interested i was so mad like just the way i got treated in the phone call. They're not interested in taking your money for a boardroom. Exactly. That's what I said. I'm like, what I said? He goes, you know, um, he says something along the lines of, uh, yeah, we're just, just not that interested. I said, well, interested in what? I'm like,

you're private business. Don't you like money? Well, yeah, but I mean, a concert brings in X amount of people and I'm like, you don't even know how many people. Like, I'm saying a number, but I'm like, what if, what if my 500 people? What if my thousand people are all billionaires? wouldn't you want that in your it's like i'm just like i don't i don't even understand what's going on right now you haven't even heard i'm like and the thing is is the the forum to all the people who came uh you know they they they they it was a fun enjoyable time but once again it this is what we're seeing in the world you know so you come back to the this idea of you know i had james lindsay on and then i have uh oh wow i'd love to speak james lindsay he's fantastic matthew errett sorry uh i was trying to spit out

his name anyways uh they get talking about the fabian society and how uh the fabians you know uh well this is pretty much their world and how pierre trudeau was one of the a part of that society and then he was a part of three of the club uh of rome and you go like it just it just uh like it sounds conspiracy it's crazy it does it is but i mean then you see it playing out right in front of us all over again i remember when i first made a video about the world economic forum and it was uh i think it was titled something along the lines of it's no longer taboo to to admit the uh the world economic forum exists that's that's a thing it's crazy yeah i mean forever i would show people this before i even got going on youtube and i'd be like hey look look what they're doing they have a youtube channel

And they'd be like, yeah, whatever. I'm like, but Vladimir Putin's talking on it today. You know, oh, here's, here's the prime minister of England. Oh, here's the president of the United States. Like, it's insane. And nobody was watching it. They were, they would do videos and it would be like hundreds of views. It was insane.

And now, now, I mean, I'm not even sure if they're still publishing on the YouTube channel. When, when, you know, I'm curious, you know, like, you know, you spot a Bitcoin early, you spotted the whiff early like where did clyde go something ain't right where where did i go something ain't right yeah holy cow oh it was it was ages ago i mean i've always been kind of questioning the the sort of the the the narrative it would be um i think my my big eureka time where i really started studying and on stuff was when Ron Paul was running for the nomination for the for the for the Republican Party to be the the contender the the the nominee to run as the president of the United States back in when was that those way oh four or something like that and I just watched

the media malign this guy who was just a a family man always had the right intentions always had the right, you know, things going on in his life. And they malign this guy, told him, told everybody he was a racist. They said all this stuff. I'm like, what the heck is going on here? This is crazy. I mean, yeah, he's talking about the Federal Reserve and how that should be shut down. What's that about then? Is he on something? And I went down this rabbit hole of like, oh, he keeps talking about the Austrian School of Economics. What's that? I just thought economics was, you know, a thing. And everybody agreed. Economics is this. One plus one is two. And there we go. No, it turns out there's like all these different schools of thought on economics. And yeah, so I went

down that rabbit hole, went down the, the whole reasoning why central banks were outlawed in the United States for the longest time, why central banks are not a good thing. So what fee currency even is? All of this stuff. Went down that rabbit hole. Prior to that, I've always just been a skeptical person. And I think the reason why, well, I don't know if this is the reason why, but this goes back even further. I used to be a smoker, right? And I would smoke.

And I wanted to quit. And I tried several times. I tried the patch, tried all these things. And somebody told me, we'll go to a hypnotist. And they'll tell you. And I was like, okay, I'll look one out. And I looked on up. And I contacted this guy.

And I went to the hypnotist and I did two sessions with him. And, you know, he's first, first session was just him interviewing me to find out more about me. And then the second one was the actual like try to hypnotize me. And about 30 minutes into it, he's like, sorry, you, you, you can't be done. I'm like, what? He's like, you're not suggestible. So, you know, some people, that's just some people are like that. I, I, I, oh, the hypnotist thing is interesting to me.

I interviewed a hypnotist. I'm forgetting his name. This is a while back. And, man, was that? When I snap my fingers, you'll remember his name. Yeah, it's not going to work. But it's funny, because the reason, the reason is, is, you know, you say, well, you're not suggestible. Yeah.

And so that's why it wouldn't work. He was, the way he was framing something, and I can't remember, I think it was, I think it was after Ottawa and uh i'd went to ottawa come back and i you know i'd had a bit of a rough go for part of it just uh mentally and you know i i you know i put it this to as simple as this clide imagine going to the heart of your country where it's it's ottawa and you watch the leader of it call you all a bunch of things and not talk to you and everything else meanwhile you look out the window and you see people hugging and you look at the two things and your brain splits in two right like I mean, that's part of it.

And so you come home. And anyways, it led me to talking to a bunch of different people. And somebody suggested a hypnotist. And I was like, oh, yeah, I interviewed one. So I talked to him. And he started to suggest things, right? And I said, I don't like that. And he's like, you, hmm, you don't like that.

I'm like, I really don't like what you're doing right there. And that is really bugging me. And I'm like, I'm done. I don't want to be, I don't want to be messed with. And he was like, huh, not everybody can. catches on to that. And I'm like, I don't know how people don't catch on to what you're just saying. But once again, uh, that's an interesting, uh, correlation. I was full bore. I was full bore like trying to be hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanted it. I wanted to be convinced I didn't want to smoke

cigarettes anymore. And it didn't. I went out, I went out of it having a cigarette. So I mean, it didn't help at all for the, for the, for the cause that I was going for. The guy didn't even charge me, uh, over the whole ordeal. But, and, and, uh, I mean, it's, yeah, it's weird because I think, you know, growing up, you know, I remember people trying to be manipulative and things like that. And, you know, it would work on some people and it would just never work on me. There's just never work on me. Like, oh, get out of here. You're pulling my chain.

You're gaslighting. You're doing whatever, right? And I've always hated politicians. And I guess this is probably why, because I see through it. It's just, ah, you know, like I get it. saying the thing i want to hear and you know i'm not i'm not trying to say that i'm a perfect judge of character maybe i'll get duped here and there um but i i tend to call like uh you you know you serious about that especially in the house of commons like starting to watch that was really really difficult

for me because you know just watching you know question and answer period it's not even answer I couldn't do it. Question period. You're a better man than me because I started and I'm like, this is the biggest waste of time on my, like, I just, who talk? I only catch highlights. I'm not looking at that whole thing. Don't forget it.

I know some people, they'll just scour it and watch it. Like, it's in its entirety just to catch those clips. But it's gross. It's disgusting to me. Like, I, it causes like a physical reaction. And I think it does in most people that are that are skeptics, you know what I mean? And just in your daily life.

Because it's nasty behavior. It really is. The worst of the worst. Well, I mean, it's no way you're like no one's raised to talk to anyone that way, like ever. Like you just, you should never talk to anyone with that. And then you, if you're truly the government and you're going to, you know, you're going to work on things together, you'd think you'd listen to you. And I've heard older politicians talk about, in fairness, not the federal side, but certainly the provincial side, that like there was a time where the NDP and the conservatives could work together and actually listen to each other out and they kind of heard. And I'm, oh, okay, we're going to work on.

But those days are long gone. Like I haven't, I mean, hell, the NDP in Alberta, when Naughtley ran last time, and I challenged the listeners to tell me if there was one NDP, candidate other than Notley show up to a debate. They didn't want any sound clip, anything from any other candidates, anywhere in Alberta, right? So they're running all these debates. Everybody's showing up. The Greens are showing up. The independents are showing up.

The Marxist parties showing up. Everybody's showing up, except for the NDP. And they're number two. Like, they're supposed to win government. I'm like, they're not even showing up. What is going on? What's this weird thing? And it comes with extreme tribalism.

where you got to shut out the other side. And I think it's indicative of growing government. I think the larger the government gets, the more liberty it consumes, the more people's rights it tramples on. And once it gets that big, then there's a real threat to each tribal group. Now, normally, you could be in a tribal group,

and if the government's tiny, who cares? I get to do what I want to do. You do what you do. Nobody's bothering anybody. We're fine, right? but once the government gets so big then there's a real danger that if the other guy gets in then that other guy could take all my stuff can take my property away can infringe on my rights so i need to make sure i got my guy in so that so that nobody's trampling on my rights

and the other side's going well if your guy gets in he'll trample on my rights so the whole the whole the whole problem comes from the large ass of government, in my opinion, in my estimate. If only we had a document that just enshrined all of our rights and didn't just be ass wipe, you know? Oh yeah, you're talking about the charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada, written in 1982. It's 42 years old. It's very young. And it was written, like, I don't want to. I because I really respect Brian Packford yeah I met I met him in June and he's he's a

fantastic guy but he had his he had his arms tied with a bunch of socialists right in forging them like founding this document and then you know at the end of the day oh Trudeau comes in was you know I'll throw I'll throw in my own little squiggly at the end saying notwithstanding if we need if we not How do you how do you justify that? What's the point of a document that at the end of the document it says notwithstanding This you know if if if if it's an emergency or if if it's not convenient for us We're gonna it's a document that's supposed to tie the hands of the government not give them an out In the moment that they wanted it's always it's only in the moment that you want it that you need the document

Otherwise there's no point of the document you know it's so crazy it's so crazy that this is this is this is where we're at it's it's it's like freedom of speech you don't the the the fight for freedom of speech is not when everybody's getting along the fight for freedom of speech is when is when somebody you don't like says something you don't like and you have to stand up for their right to say that thing because because Because, you know, there's no sense of you being the only one standing up for your right to say the thing that's unpopular at the point at the moment because You're just gonna get trampled on so you need to when somebody saying something you don't like stand up for their right to say it Now of course in

This this even goes into like you know repugnant stuff like when people say racist things on the internet. I hate that stuff Absolutely hate it. I call it out but people do have a right to say that as known as they're not calling for violence right but as soon as you make a call for violence you've committed a crime sorry pal have you listened to iris uh glasser on joe rogan this is a long time ago now i i can't remember

how many years ago now no i can't say i did um i would really recommend to all the listeners to you to go listen to irea glasser so i are a folks glasser g lacer G-L-A-S-S-E-R, hell. I tell you what, while I'm fumbling here, I will talk and try and manage two sides of my brain at once. He is a free speech advocate. And, oh, fuck, you know what, before I even do that,

I'm just going to pull it up here. Give me one second now. Yeah, no problem. I'll be able to find it real fast because it's, it's wonderful, it's everything you just said. And then a man who, it was in, in January 15, 2021, it was episode 1595, and he is the former director of the American Civil Liberties Union and lifelong defender of every citizen's right to free speech. And he talks

about defending Nazis speaking. He's saying, you know, when you're saying like, I don't like racist comments. No, I don't. He defended Nazis. And he's like, listen, it isn't that I like Nazis or any of that but if they're not allowed to speak how long until what you don't like gets turned on you and then you know and you can see where the cycle goes and hearing this old man talk about living this life of defending people that you're absolutely right you don't want to defend because they're saying abominable things and yet that's what free speech is is you get the opportunity to say what's on your mind and it is a very very powerful right And it's a very difficult fight, though, because as soon as you come out and defend Nazis, for example.

Sure. I'm not defending Nazis. Never would I defend a Nazi, but I defend a person's right to free speech. And this is the thing. I'll come out and argue against them or, you know what I mean? Or dismiss them as ridiculous people. Sure. our government thinks by

limiting from the public forum certain thoughts now we're right now we're talking about like Nazis and like pretty stuff that neither one of us agrees with right well everybody feels is repugnant yeah right right and so what they've done is is they've they've they've started to uh and and god bless independent media god bless

every soul who continues to run shows that speak out against the narrative but they create this narrative narrative where you know like there's white privilege or you just pick the thing and just throw it out there and everyone's supposed to nod and go yeah yeah yeah yeah and you're like that's like this is wild but if you say it's wild then you know that nobody's on CBC or CTV or global and you wonder why they're dying it's because that thought isn't a natural thought that thought is not one from society that is a thought brewed up in some classroom called probably the weft where they went this is the idea and we got to put this guilt on

them and away it goes and i mean that's just one i don't have to tell my own i'm audience will fill me all the blanks in for me so you like you got into the useful idiots thing and i think that academia is full of that it's like there's no there's no science happening in academia anymore there's no discovery happening in academia anymore and james lindsay's beautiful at illustrating this stuff with his false papers is like fake papers about like uh what is it this is the gay dogs and the dog gay dogs yes yeah i mean this is this is brilliant and it's brilliant that satire has become the tool against this stuff but these people they're they're sick of fans they're they're they're they're They're ideologically driven by something that they'll never see applied in the real world.

But every time it's been applied, it's been a disastrous outcomes because of it. And I'm talking about Marxism. It breeds in academia. And they find new words to label it, critical theory, whatever. It's all Marxism. It's all Marxism. And yeah, it's in academia that this all comes about. The whole idea, I don't know if you knew this, but political correctness, that term comes from Soviet Russia.

We should adopt that. That sounds like a great idea. Yeah, it's crazy because it used to be in Russia. You wouldn't, you wouldn't be allowed to say some things that go against the party line. So it'd be like, yes, while you're correct, it's not politically correct. Right? And at least they, at least they were honest enough to say that it was about the party line. They say here that it's all about politeness and one.

Well, that's, yeah, that's BS. I tell this story lots. And, you know, I'm like, do I got to start using the name? I don't know if it matters the name. It was done in a meeting kind of quietly. So I've never shared the name. But, you know, Saskatchewan government, we have a men's group in Lloyd. And we asked, Joey asked,

what is a woman and it was just you know like i just i just think it's such a harmless question you know like except it isn't you know in the world we live today anyways he was a he's a man that's been a part uh in different roles of the sass party right governing party of saskatchewan for quite some time and he's a cattleman so you know like he has the egg background and to see him shuffle on his chair was something like i did if it hadn't to happen in front of my eyes Clyde. I don't know if I'd believe it, but I literally watched him sit there. And I was just like, this is, he's uncomfortable with this question. In a closed door setting with only men, right, there's no woman to get mad. There's no, you know, anyways. So he goes, well, and he pauses this

long, I believe, and then he goes on to say, you know, what you think, right? The X, X, X, X, Y, and, and, you know, a reasonable answer. And then somebody pushed him a little bit. And And he paused and he said, well, I believe. And it was annoying me. So I said, why do you keep saying I believe? He's like, well, we've got to be careful in politics of not taking our beliefs into, you know, basically the political structure. And I'm like, uh-huh. And he said, you know, like the cities are different than us.

And in order to win elections, you know, we got to make sure the cities get their say too. And I'm like, yeah, but it's a complete lie. Like, I mean, like, you know this. You raise animals. You know it's a lie. So you're, you're breeding this ground of stupidity. And you're allowing their beliefs to go into politics, but not ours. It just, it makes zero sense.

And like, on and on this goes in Canada. You know, you go, it's not politically correct. And we have our own version right now that is so, It's appeasement. It's people trying to appease unreasonable, unrational people. And that's where we got to put her foot down and say, you know what, I'm not going to appease you.

You know, be offended. That's fine. Be offended. I mean, I'm not my, the best part about offense is you take offense. It's in the language. You don't give offense. You take it.

It doesn't matter what somebody said. It could be innocuous. If you take offense, to it well that's your problem it's not everybody else's problem and don't put that on other people now if something is if something is egregious that's that's been said yeah make it make a grievance over it but then let's have a discussion instead of instead of browbeating people into submission and have the discussion you know and this is the whole idea what what is a woman it's the discussion and they want to be they want to brow beat people out of even asking the question

And that's the point. It's power. And it's people have a thirst for it. I want to give you, I want to give you an example of this because I found, I found something in grok that was just insane. I was like, oh my God, is there wokeness in grok? Because it's supposed to be the, the AI that's non-woke.

And so here's, here's an interesting one. If you, if you present what I'm sharing here. So this was, This is a tweet by Elon Musk here. And this was him saying nerfing of the emoji, the gun emoji matches the rise of the woke mind virus as a core tenant. It's equating fake harm with real harm. Right.

And this was the whole idea. And people were like, I'm offended by guns. And this is gun control people. This is what this is. It's appeasing gun control people over this whole idea. So it shows Apple over the years come 2016. they switched to a what looks like a water gun Google it took them till 2018 to appease

Microsoft it took them till 2018 to make a water gun Samsung the same same with Facebook X X they appeased and then went even better they went to a night they put a 1911 on there I'm a I'm a 1911 guy like those guns but that's their newest one now what was interesting to me was I had I've been using Grock to make imagery.

And I was like, oh, this is a cool thing. And my daughter, she saw some of the images. And she's like, hey, dad, can you make a picture for me? I was like, what would you like? And she says, oh, can you do curious George? I say, yeah, sure. What do you want him doing? She's like, she's looking around.

She sees like my stuff. And she's like shooting a gun. I'm like, okay. And it does this. It sets this image up. It says, instead of making. an image, it says, I will not generate or describe an image of Curious George, a character known for curiosity and mischief with not violence. Engaging activities like shooting a gun, as it promotes

harmful behavior, specifically considering the character's typical audience of children. If you have another more suitable request or need information on a different topic, feel free to ask. So, I posted this, I made this thread and I said, you know, Elon Musk posted about the denurping of the gun emoji, but Grock here is equating fake harm with real harm. I just said shooting a gun, it's innocuous. It's a tool, right? We all know guns are tools. It's not violence, shooting paper, which most people do. A majority of guns, bullets that hit stuff, hit paper for people out there that aren't aware of that. Now, this was an innocent enough prompt for my 10 year old daughter who asked me to input but it got got me curious of what

grok would allow and this is where things get interesting because I said as it turns out grok is happy to nerf the guns in this context and apparently Nerf guns shoot flames as well and I made sure to to show what the prompts were on each image please if you're not watching this Just go watch this. This is great. Carry on. So I made sure that every image has what the prompt was. So people don't see that I'm like messing with it to get these other images. I'm actually giving the prompt.

And so I said, well, water guns are safe for this level of character as well. So water guns are fine, not real guns. But then I was like, hey, well, how about an airsoft gun? that they look pretty real right so now i've got curious george doing the thing doing the thing that i asked for it to do in the first place but it made a big deal out of it so i ended up going doing the workaround i'm i'm like that if i get told i can't do something i'm like well what can i do right this is this is the way you do things right and then i and then it apparently grok thinks that fire comes out of the ends of airsoft guns because there's a picture of curious George firing a gun.

And wow, yeah, that looks pretty real in my estimate. But then I felt it was time for a bit of a scenery change. So I asked Rock to make sure he was doing it in a convenience store. It gets better. It gets better. I promise. And with some friends. And for people who do.

just listening to this on audio, make an image of curious George shooting an airsoft gun with men in ski masks in a convenience store. It's exactly what you think it is. It's a picture of exactly that. And then I said, okay, now it's getting a little ridiculous because I added money to the equation. There's money bags in the pictures and also gold chains. It just got, it gets, it gets crazy. But I said, you know, maybe I'm just tricking Grok with these images. It's not like rock would allow Curious George to be depicted in any real violent scenarios, correct? Because that's what it said in the beginning. It doesn't want that.

I don't know, maybe like operating a guillotine in the French Revolution. There's a picture of him doing that in all of his cute glory. Or maybe shooting a gun at the Alamo. And mind you, the prompts are very straightforward. Make an image of Curious George participating in the Battle of the Alamo. It's totally nonviolent. Or, you know, fighting in Vietnam, a member of the Spartan army. And then I was denied.

I found a line that it drew. And it was me asking, make an image of, curious George participating in the war of independence. I thought, well, that's weird. Why not, why the alamo's fine? Why all these other things are fine? And then I'm like, well, that's a strange thing for it not to allow. It clearly would never allow any of these other things like, I don't know,

participating in the People's Revolution of China as this image depicts. Or how about participating in the cultural revolution of China as this image depicts, It's cute little Pixar people in the cultural revolution. Holding papers shouting as we know what that meant at the time. Or maybe how about making an image of Curious George participating in the protest at Tiananmen Square in 1989. There he is. That was fine. But then it was weird because when I asked it to see him in the American Revolution,

it drew him as a boy. And I thought it was really weird. And I was like, oh, that's a glitch. Let me try again. And again, and again, and again, and again and again. And it would only draw him as a boy with the prompt of participating in the American Revolution. I thought this is really, really weird. What's happening, Grock?

And I said, okay, Grock must have been caught up in something I was doing. Maybe it caught on, swapped George out for a boy, so I wouldn't do it again. But then I tried again. And what the hell? Here he is participating in the Cuban Revolution. And it draws that. And here he is participating in the Russian Revolution. And it draws that.

And then here he is participating in a communist revolution. And it draws that. I'm like, what's going on here? So I thought, I must say, glitched out. and I'll try the American Revolution again. And it draws a boy. How weird is this, right? Like, where is it going?

So I tweeted Elon Musk and I said, you've got to be kidding me, Elon Musk. Is Grock a gun grabbing anti-American? What is happening here? What is actually happening? So, and I said perhaps, because I asked it to make an image of curious George rioting with Antifa.

And there it is. And there it is. And again and again and again, many iterations of that. But this isn't real violence anyway, as the news would tell you. Not like what happened here. So for people who aren't watching, Curious George is literally Tankman in this image. And then I said,

but someone tried to tell you that this never happened. We all know who. that was an interesting night of my life messing with grok on on yeah on twitter on x now as they call it it's insane like what what is happening so a i different a i's you communicate with them they have different woke behavior and i thought i thought grok might be exempt from that but it looks like because Grock is part of the AI or part of Twitter or part of X, which formerly was Twitter, maybe there's some like legacy stuff that's in there in the code. I don't know how this works.

But there's, I'm sure there's still legacy stuff that's promoting this like woke ideology despite all of Elon Musk's efforts to make X not woke. That's an interesting thread, though. Like, I mean, I'm going to have to go tweet that out. Like, I mean, that's an interesting threat because, you know, like, curious George, not playing with a gun. Okay. I guess, you know, I mean, like, I follow your thought process.

I get the logic, right? I get the logic, but I also understand exactly that I'm like, yeah, okay, the gun thing, whatever, you know. But then you walk through the iterations of it and he's fine playing with everything and it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse and then hits the Americans and it doesn't like it. That's strange. That's strange to me. Very strange. And we all know like Elon Musk is very pro-American.

He's not he's not like covertly trying to convince everybody. Yeah. Yeah. not you know and Twitter has been coming around it has been coming around but I keep I keep every once in a while I'll check my shadow band status and occasionally I'll put up a post and it'll find me in the shadow band list for those that don't know you can go to shadow I there's a there's a bunch of websites that'll scan your your X account and tell you if if you're being delisted or deranged.

And I've been messing around with this with a good friend of mine whose name is Vesper on X. And he's been toying with that. If people haven't listened to you, Vesper, Tews, who is on that? Who is the, whom I miss, Marty? Was it Marty on that podcast?

I do so many podcasts. A particular podcast is hard. Regardless, I, uh, uh, twos was the one. He's like, you got to listen to this Vesper character. And I'm like, okay. So I went and listened and I'm like, this is really, well, I mean, now I'm following them on Twitter, right?

Like a very, very interesting guy. Well, he got me on to paying attention to the shadow banning. Even though Elon Musk is turning the thing around, there's stuff still in the code. Yeah, locked in Twitter. And it's probably buried way deep. And it's just, it's woke stuff that will ban you. I've made tweets about climate change and then looked at the status. and immediately go, oh, now I'm, I'm being deamplified.

Okay. Now delete that tweet. It comes back. The account comes back after a couple hours. Okay. I see what's happening here. And Marty, Marty's been experimenting with it. He did one tweet where he said nothing but positive things about Justin Trudeau.

Yeah, no. And then went through the roof. Yeah, just how many impressions it got was just massive. It was absolutely massive. And I mean, you could equate like, okay, maybe compared to some of your other tweets, that might go bigger because you'll get a lot more engagement from your followers. Sure. But what? But not that big.

Not going from like, I don't know, 10,000 engagements to 200,000 engagements in a few hours, right? Like, that's crazy. Well, you know, on this side, and before I let you out here, we've got to talk some BC politics. I can't have a guy on and then I'm talking, but, you know, sticking with this just for a couple minutes. You know, like, in the middle of COVID, now this is, this is going to go across all of social media and just, you know, the weird woke virus that is attacking all of us, I think. In the middle of COVID, I would get removed like a lot of people off YouTube. And it was for a lot of different things. It could just be a guest.

It could be the word vaccine. It could be, you know, like, shit, just said it, you know? Like, it's like, yeah, you, there was certain just keywords, boom, flag, off you go. It's no longer a keyword on YouTube. But, no, I know. I'm not on YouTube. I know because I do YouTube every single day. So I, but me and YouTube.

One thing, one thing, don't mention any, you know, paraphernalia that people like to ingest that makes them loopy. Uh, that's, uh, that's one thing. It'll, right away, right away getting, you get in the yellow mark. That's, uh, it's not worse. I go with, I go with, uh, so it started with YouTube and, and then, and then it was a little while later. I had my website just completely hijacked and it's just gone. It's just like, it's this Chinese gambling site. People can go type in Sean Newman Podcast.com and this Chinese gambling site will come up.

Oh, yeah. And, and, and we tried getting it back. back and you know people are so reasonable you know I love you all Canadians but at times it's like you're warning me in the middle of COVID of possibly getting a black bag over my head and then when they started attacking me taking my website you're like oh maybe you just missed the payment I'm like I didn't miss payment and I'm like you know I'm I'm about as reasonable as guys could be I have actually been that upset about it but I mean my website is a Chinese gambling site now so I still get texts weekly going hey you really really

your website I'm like yes and I can't get it back and I don't know what to do about it I just it's just sitting there I've had people try and it was Americans who weren't tip me off to it at the start they're like you realize they're like this is you know anyways that's a long story so remove from YouTube then the the website gets taken then analytics start messing up on Spotify and different things and you go and now you're talking about Twitter and the banning I'm like this is deep. It is so ingrained in all of it that, you know, I know Joe Rogan, you know, but in Western Canada during the darkest times, I still had a podcast that was willing to speak and talk to people.

And I'm not afraid of talking to pretty much anyone in Canada because I think it's important as we've shared about free speech, but it's interesting to see the little things they do to make it just a little more annoying or to discredit you. Because I mean, like literally, I had the Sean Newman podcast.com, folks. It got. Nice little Chinese gambling site for you

in case you want to get your Chinese fix. You just head on over there and Sean Newman will be happy to let you gamble your life away and it'll probably be a fishing scam and you'll probably lose all your money so please don't do that. If you want a coffee fix,

you can go to Clydedoosom. We launched a coffee brand in the past month. Yeah, and it's really good, locally roasted. coffee where are you like are you are you okay sharing exactly where you you you call oh i i i live in squamish british columbia okay yeah so if people are rolling through and need a car work done they just uh they look you up yeah yeah yeah we're booking we're booking in you know weeks in

advance where i work but no it's uh i'm teasing i'm just you know squam no but if you are if you are looking for coffee go to clyde do something dot com it's uh good stuff good stuff so I'm sorry to plug on your channel, but. Plug away. No, it's all good. Anytime I run into people from, you know, like, the reason I bring you on is like, I want to talk British, BC politics, but I want people also to find you, hear who you are. Here, you know, maybe people that, from my audience, are like, I got to go listen to this guy. And you should.

Here in Canada, as many of us there are, I don't think there's near enough. And, you know, for people to go find and support. and help this, you know, like our media landscape is in shambles. I mean, it's, there's this independent movement, but, uh, like, literally, COVID wasn't that long ago. And, and majority of the country has no clue about half the stuff that we talk about, you know, people in Alberta, let alone any other province don't even understand there's guys still locked up in Coots, right?

And that they're facing real, they might actually go. back to jail after being in remand for 900 plus days which is insane they were just saying not guilty and then correct you know it's weird because you know they want they want to appeal a decision like that which I didn't think you could appeal I didn't know that we didn't have double jeopardy laws in Canada we don't apparently that's the thing and they get fast-track for the appeal wait they had to wait two years two and a half years to see a day in court, but they'll get fast track for an appeal if the, if the jury finds them innocent.

This is crazy. And then they didn't even go with the appeal. Now they're going with a re. They're trying to get a retrial. That's just insane. Insane. I agree. So I go plug away because it doesn't, it doesn't offend me whatsoever.

And if people like coffee, which I do, they should go check it out. Um, that was actually the play that. What happened around that is I, I met someone who was a fan of the channel. We ended up becoming friends and he was a, he's a coffee roaster in Vancouver. And I approached him one day. I was like, I was thinking, would you want to do a coffee brand together? Because people are always asking me for merch and why don't I give them something that they would like. And I love your coffee.

And he's like, well, I didn't want to ask you because I thought I'd be exploiting the friendship. But yeah, sure, let's do it. And so we're doing it. Sweet. Well, I, maybe I'll get some. what's it called just Clyde do something coffee we call it Clyde brew something Clyde brew something all right maybe I'll get some of that for the studio I it sounds very intriguing BC politics before I let you out here I got to like I mean this is big

news late on me like I'm staring at this Falcon through in the towel yeah he didn't just throw in the towel for himself he threw in the towel for the entire party he's the spending the party's involvement in the election coming up they're they're folding that's it they're done and and it's crazy people don't like maybe people are like well okay they were just crappy party anyway they were they are still the official opposition in government in the bc legislature there's still the official opposition now in british columbia you know historically there's been very little support for the conservative party. There barely is a conservative party.

Let's put it that way. Now, there were no seats in the conservative party before until during COVID, the liberal party, which is now called BC United, they did a brand switch. This is why they called themselves BC United. They were the liberal party. Now, they're not affiliated with the federal liberals,

and I think this is why they wanted to, A lot of province provincial liberals are doing the same thing, right? Yes. The NDP's in power in British Columbia, and they're terrifically terrible. Like, much worse than you guys saw in Alberta, right?

Much worse. And you guys only got, what, four years of it? We've had it for a long time. And they've been doing some stuff. I think my Saskatchewan audience can relate. They had an IDP for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for, forever.

Oh, fair enough. Now they don't. They have SAS Party. Sorry. Let's get both to say SAS United, which is a new party. But they had the NDP

before the SAS party for a very long time. Yeah. So I feel back. Holy cow. Here in British Columbia, the main voter block is the lower mainland, which sounds crazy, but that's where it is.

It's kind of like, you know, Alberta, where you have the city centers, they all vote NDP, and then everywhere, else is blue across the board yes it's it's similar to that in british columbia but it's enough it's enough to carry it's enough to carry but things have been changing and and during covid what happened with bc united was john russad was in the liberal party and he got ousted by them because he was he was too much

freedom freedom loving at a time when authoritarianism was the the the the hip thing to do in government bc legislature cracking down uh bringing forward all of this legislation to you know ban uh nurses from going back to work if they didn't take the jab uh ban you know they made the uh the vaccine passports this is something everybody had to get you couldn't go into a restaurant if the restaurant signed on to it and they tried forcing restaurants to push into it and there's There was a bunch that just wouldn't do it. And there was anything corporate, they got tax breaks to do it, right? Or they would get grants to put in the apparatus to make this a thing.

And it was looking like it was going to be a permanent apparatus, right? It's kind of like a TSA after September 11th. That never went away. We've just, that's to become the new normal, right? And all of this was designed to be the new normal. Except in British Columbia, so in the in the, in the, liberal party uh john rustad was like not having any of it and he was voting against it voting against it and they ousted him and so he ended up going and forming essentially the what is now the

the conservative party because there was no support for it previous to this and then there was another guy i think is uh Brennan Brennan that that walked to the other side of the floor from the liberals as well from BC United to join him in the conservatives and they that that gave them standing to you know put them put their name on the ballots do everything prevent province wide and actually be able to you know raise raise issues in the legislature all of this stuff now with the two of them they've been going on a massive social media spree because across Canada people are are looking to get get away from essentially authoritarianism for lack of a better term because so many people are still into their lefty politics but they're they're they're willing to hold their nose and and vote

conservative because the the left has just gone authoritarian completely and whether it's nDP or liberal party in the federal government they've they've gone completely authoritarian with their stuff and And they're emboldened by, I'm not sure what, they just keep going further and further on every ground until it comes to these elections that have been coming forward. And as soon as the elections start happening, all these promises start happening. And people are not buying it in British Columbia. Not only is, are like people remembering the COVID thing, but now it's the affordability crisis. It's the housing crisis that's happening in British Columbia. And the NDP have been at the helm for this the whole time,

and they've done no good for it. They're doing everything the wrong way. And the liberals, now the United Party, they were voting alongside with them. They were not very much of an opposition the whole time. And now the conservatives are coming in. The popularity is insane. The amount that it's like, it's literally flipping over the other way.

And I think there's just, there's no stopping it. That's, that's, that's the direction we're going. Has it been Rustad, like his, like, you know, when you're watching this is, like, I see this, you know, like, I just think of the version we had in, in Alberta, when Daniel Smith got on the campaign path, the war path, and just started talking. And you went and listened to her and you're like, holy crap, this woman knows her way around the mic. Has it been that in BC or are they more getting their build off of having, you know, the name

and it representing, you know, maybe other conservatives throughout the country and that helping them? Like, what do you attest their rise to? Yeah, I don't see, I don't see Rustad's rise coming from his, you know, being a charismatic guy out there in the media and all that stuff. Anytime he does interviews, he is just very a matter of fact and not in a very flamboyant way at all. He's just very matter of fact. And maybe that's, maybe that's something that people are seeing as refreshing. I do.

I see it as refreshing. But I don't think majority of voters are looking at it that way. I think a lot of people that what's happening here is the disenfranchisement of the other side and people going we want change and conservatives will bring change. Yeah. There's a people wanting change makes a ton of sense to me. I just always nice to hear from, you know, me and twos will sit and we'll talk about the BC election or whatever election going on in Canada.

And when you're in the province, you can get a real sense of it, you know? by all the people, you know, by just the fact, like to try and pay attention to what every premier is doing is next to impossible, right? Like, at times when they walk lockstep, fair enough, but like other times, there's just so much going on in everybody's areas. There's a lot there. And BC, man, you know, of arguably the most beautiful place in Canada. and yet some of the weirdest stuff happens there you know like it's our california right oh man like uh yeah like what is this with with the the free dispenser of crack pipes in front of the hotel the hotel hospital like what is that like the video of it was that in ontario was that in

in Ontario. That was in Ontario. Yeah. Oh, well, I see, I'm putting things to BC. I'm just like, everything's in BC. Like this, when I was, when I was 18, which is, you know, 20 years ago, I guess now, folks, we went to Europe for a Europe trip. So we got to roam around Spain, uh, Spain, France and Germany. And I think it was in France where there, they had those old vending machines where you put the money in and then you like twist it and you could twist out like their version of marlboros or whatever right so you could go to a vending machine to get smokes and i remember being like this is wild like why wouldn't you smoke you know go and get a and then you saw that video and you're like this thing is like digital and everything and it's like this is intense

and ronto 1999 i lived there uh queen queen west and there was there was a little coffee shop and it had a machine with the you know you put your with a pole yeah and yeah and it would come out that's wild and I was underage and I was buying them there that was the thing in Japan in Japan they still have cigarette vending machines everywhere yeah well that that's you know you actually need an ID card you have to scan it scan it yeah oh go back to it I can't believe I thought it was BC that's funny as soon as I saw it I thought oh man what's BC doing no it's because these these rules are all being tried here so this is this has been an ongoing process of let's try it out this this let's do this thing for the drug problem in british

columbia and uh it's been an absolute failure and yet they're still trying it elsewhere they're still trying it everywhere else so yeah there's no doubt you would think that was british columbia but no they're bringing that stuff to all the provinces all the provinces that'll take it and it's really it's a flawed idea now i'm i'm in support of for example what they did in the netherlands so in the netherlands what happened was there was there was lots of lots of people doing illicit substances in the parks and it was getting really dangerous especially at night and people were complaining about it and they're saying somebody needs to do something about this and there was there was some local churches they got together and they said

and they said, this is what we've been assigned to do. This is, you know, they're devoted their lives to God and helping the poor and the downtrodden. So they devoted themselves to helping those people get clean. Now, there was a big legal contention because they were giving them a safe place in order to shoot up illicit substances, right? And so the government was trying to crack down on them and stop them. And but they were doing some good and they were actually clean. cleaning up the area. So the government made an exception for these safe injection sites run by the church. And the church had the ability to monitor these people. They would, you know, get to know them.

Just like, you know, running a soup kitchen. People would get to know each other and they would help people out of the problems that they have in their lives. And if they, if they were committing crimes, they'd say, no, you can't come today, go find soup, somewhere else you know and this is what they were doing there if there was relapses they would say you didn't come last week get out of here we don't want you back until this time whatever right so the canadian canadian saw this and they lobbied the government they say we need to have a program like that and so the government started a program but the problem there lies in the fact that now it's a right now the government runs it now it's everybody has access to it everybody in society has access to it and if you ostracize somebody for doing the wrong thing they'll come back with a

lawyer and they'll sue you you know you have to let me in and then next thing you know the people that are running the joint they're not running the joint anymore it's run by the addicts and it's just a way to enable things so you know i'm in support of churches you doing things like this and maybe even bending some laws to allow for them to help people out. But what they're doing in British Columbia and what they're trying to do across Canada is the wrong way about it. If you want to, if the government's going to get involved, it needs to be rehab or jail. You choose.

You've committed a crime and you're hooked on substances. And, you know, we can work on the rehab being a good program, but they have to have that choice it has to be up to the addicts none of this enabling none of this give them more to prolong the addiction get them off of the stuff i think that's where uh very very well said honestly um yes i don't want to here's the thing i don't want to show my political rivals in in some negative life i understand what their intention is i just think that they're they're going on the wrong path Again, it's the path, you know, the road to hell being paved with good intentions. I think that their cause is noble, but their, you know, modus operandi is fatally flawed and causes more trouble.

Yeah, well, it's having impacts all across society, right? I mean. And then there's going to be pharmaceutical companies that'll jump in there and be, hey, there's money to be had. sign me up yeah and then once that's enabled and there's money flowing then good luck you know trying to convince people yeah exactly because they're going to run propaganda to keep that thing going yeah meanwhile everybody can see it oh absolutely this isn't good it's not and i mean we we roll through vancouver quite often because uh there's a bunch of shops down there that we just don't have where we live and you know it's right downtown

Hastings Street it's right down town you roll right through it's right through the middle of Vancouver and it's just a zombie town it's crazy how can people uh find you collide where where would you direct them to i see two places go to twitter have a conversation with me uh and then go over to YouTube and watch my videos. I do videos every single day of the week, weekdays. I used to do seven days a week now I take my weekends off. I enjoy those. Did you do 365 and 365? Not that many. I did like, I think about five months straight of, what did you think of that? Forgive me. I was about to wrap it up, but now you get, Casey Nystad did 365 and 365, right? YouTube, short little videos on and on and on and I me and Drew Weatherhead used to have this conversation back and forth of like

wonder what would be like to do 365 podcasts and 365 days now I have three young kids married I go I don't know I think my wife might kill me and I don't know if it's actually worth it in saying that now I do five days a week right Monday through Friday and certainly you know like that's you know a hefty load right but in saying that there's so much going on in Canada there's so many interesting people I want to talk to and I think people should hear from in our country that I find it's it's not hard to do that and if I if I were to even surmise I betcha 365 and 365 although sounds insane it would be would be a journey but actually a doable one but you did roughly five months of that what did you think of that what did you think of seven days a week

just bang bang bang releasing videos it was it was a big rush it was like it was right as things took off and i i was enamored with it and didn't didn't want to take any time off i didn't want to do anything else so i yeah i was just i pushed right into it and leaned leaned hard into it and what I would do is I would wake up super early in the morning. So I'd go to bed. I'd have dinner and go to bed not long after. Wake up and I do research and videos just all morning before I went to work every day. So I would do it when I had the most amount of energy. Yeah. Well, I've been doing this now the podcast full time for a little over two years. It was right after Ottawa. And there was a time I was going to work and I was getting up at, like you say, four or five in the morning

and going interviewing somebody on the other side of Canada if they get up early enough, you know, in their side. And I do the interview that I go off to work, then I come home and I'd edit it or I'd interview somebody else and then I'd be putting them out and I don't, man, I remember every Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. I was doing two back-to-back interviews every Sunday. For like a straight year, I think about that. I'm like, oh, man, you're basically, well, you're basically working two full-time jobs, right? Even though the hobby is a ton of fun.

It's still time. It's still time to make sure things get up and everything else. That's cool that it's, you know, I'm glad. I've learned a way not to do it. And I just post right away. That's it. I don't edit anything. I just, I record and I post it.

Well, I appreciate you coming on. It's very nice to finally get to sit across from me and meet you. you know your background with blue collar i've been 20 you know we do blue color roundtables and um uh i i just i'm like oh man there's another one coming and it's going to be virtual uh because there's a whole bunch of blue collar guys in um i don't know independent media or or you know like these little universes right i twos works full time so when you when you when you hop down so how was the day you're like oh man i just came from full time and i'm you know but I'm here and I'm like, oh, Tooz says the exact same thing to me all the time, right?

So I'm like, oh, there's this, there's this world growing again. We're going to have a blue-collar roundtable, I'm sure, with Clyde and twos, and we'll fill in the and at some point. Either way, Clyde, I don't think it'll be the last time you grace the show. I appreciate you hopping on. Continue to do what you're doing. And if the listener is so inclined, check you out on Twitter or YouTube and keep up the work, you know, we'll probably, if Toos hasn't already asked you, our plan is to do BC live election coverage and I would think that we'd want. Yes, I was told I'm totally for it. Yeah. Yeah,

well, we need we need some guests on. So you're going to have to come, uh, talk or I mean, we can work that out too, but that's coming real fast and having more people talk on that from out in BC would be great. Yeah, I'm absolutely for it. Awesome. Well, nice meeting you, Clyde. Thanks for hopping on and we'll pay attention and hopefully at some point. We'll, we'll see you back on here. Absolutely. Cheers.