Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. 180 - Live from Tuffnell Quick Dick McDick

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

We made it to Tuffnell SK after 21 hours of non-stop biking. I'd love to tell you what the episode is about, but honestly I was functioning off zero sleep so your guess is as good as mine.  Huge shoutout out to the ladies of Tuffnell who put on an amazing spread for us (perogies were delish) & of course to Quick for never disappointing.    Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

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Hey, everybody. My name is Steele-Fer. This is Tim McAuliffe of Sportsnet, and you're listening to the Sean Newman podcast. Welcome to the podcast, folks. Happy Monday. I've been trying to rack my brain for how to start this thing, but I sit here Sunday night, and no matter how hard I rub my temples,

my brain doesn't want to function properly. I think I just need sleep. I'm trying to quickly get back to bed so I can pull that off because I am one tired guy. I got to give a few shoutouts over the weekend, obviously going from Lloyd Minster to Tuffield, Saskatchew, and I'm back 1,050 kilometers. We hit just about every possible thing you can imagine

from a train stopping us on Highway 16 in the middle of nowhere, which doesn't normally happen when you're on Highway 16, but hey, that, whatever, to a train stopping us in North Battleford for 20-plus minutes, a lightning storm as we dodged the rain, some of the craziest wind of guys ever seen, extreme heat to tornado warnings. We just kind of had it all.

temperature drop on Saturday from 32-ish degrees all the way down to five in the middle of night. And so it was interesting. We had just about every scenario possible play out. Obviously, the bus breaking down at 4 in the morning and then the community rallying around us was a lot of stress but at the end of the day we found a way I think that became kind of kind of the theme of just find a way to piece it together so we could get there and back safely and accomplish our goal. I do have to give shutouts to the polar bus line boys. I know it didn't go exactly how we wanted but they gave us use of their bus for free and they haven't had a paying job since you know March 2020 and they were just you know heartbroken and we're apologizing to us if you can

imagine it. We're going, you guys gave us your bus for free, right? Like, we feel terrible because, I mean, now you got to find a way to haul your bus back to Lloyd and everything else. Like, uh, just, uh, um, really appreciate them believing in what we're doing and, and coming along for the part they played. Uh, that morning we put up a joke the bad signal. We need some help. And, uh, Clark Drury was one of the first to answer the call. He donated his motor home, who then Brad Matthews, Tracy's husband, ended up driving it nonstop for 30 plus hours. He was an iron man, the Hoffman's who lent their small little bus, and Dave Lopez, who answered an Instagram message at 4 in the morning,

who then brought it up and stayed for the lag of the journey all the way back. He brought his bike and ended up biking with us. I'm sure that's not exactly how he saw his weekend going, but it was a cool little storyline and the trip that was Lloyd to Tufnell and then of course in Tuffnell of course quick Dick

he was did not disappoint but also the Tuffnell Rackboard for putting out the welcome wagon for us don't think any of us will forget the progis and sausage and just the you know they put out the red carpet

for us and treated us amazingly and such great people they ended up donating money and everything else. Like, uh, just, just an unbelievable bunch of,

a bunch of people. Gotta give a shout out to our unsung hero as well. Tricia Hunter, she was, uh, away for this week, but ran our entire social media platform while she was, you know,

uh, away and, uh, like, whether it was the media being there when we left or, you know, dealing with us when we got back in at noon instead of five and having the crowd that was there,

I'd love. to sit here and say that was all our doing but honestly i think we're all surprised how many people were there and i'm quite sure that is trisha hunter doing what she does best so uh wherever we are trish really appreciate your help and pulling this off uh i think we always say you know in 37 days because may first is when we at her first social media post in 37 days we've now raised close to $270,000 and it was Trish who helped facilitate on social media people getting to know who and what we actually are. So thanks again to Trisha Hunter for being in the background and pulling off some pretty

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Toughnall, Saskatchewan. Dixon's alarm is a YouTube sensation who tells it like it is. So buckle up. Here we go. This is quick dick coming to you from Toughno, Saskatchewan on the internet of things. And you are listening to the Sean Newman podcast. Well, is this welcome to QDM productions or the Sean Newman podcast? Thanks for joining us on the podcast today, Sean.

Dude, welcome to Tufel, man. Yeah, thanks for having me. Like, who rides halfway across province? And, well, I can't even say forgets it. I packed it all up, nice, neat. I was ready to go. Got mics, everything ready to go. And the bus breaks down.

I have no order to where my equipment is. I have no idea. Yeah, but here you are. You came to obviously, like, a video production professional here in Saskatchewan. And so I've got, you know, I'm starting to show a few of my tricks from what I do here. So I don't know how much I like that. Lips are sealed, buddy. Lips are sealed.

Well, well, let's see. Welcome to Tofno, man, and to the illustrious Topnil curling rink. I see, at some point in time, it did say players on those scoreboards in the back, but they must have taken it off, cancel culture, must have got a hold of them or something. I feel like if these walls could talk, they would tell some stories. Am I wrong? I'm glad they can't, actually. Yeah, actually, we wouldn't want these walls doing anything.

They've been here for quite some time. There's probably a little bit of mold underneath the plastic. Well, first off, I got to say, it's nice to meet you. Hey, nice to meet you, too, man. You know, it's been, everyone's got to forgive me. I haven't slept in, like, I don't know, a long time. I didn't sleep last night. So my brain's a little scattered.

But it, this, like, friendship is, like, got to be the strangest thing. It really is, man. But it's very new age, right? Yeah. No, absolutely. And I think this is, like, this is where, I mean, I guess, like, not that I want to talk over it at all. But this is kind of where it's push things, too. And there's good things that are going to come out of it.

And a little bit of this where people kind of, like, interact with each other. like when we met on the highway when i was i was waiting for you guys in foam lake when you guys came rolling through because i couldn't have you running from foam lake to top and all on your own and uh like the first thing i said it's like you just tuck in and start going and you kind of already know everybody but like the first thing i say to you is that you're a lot shorter than i thought you were and you're like yeah well you're a lot skinnier than what you were and like but that's like that's where the world takes us nowadays you know what i mean which is which is crazy and it's a good kind of crazy right it's uh

Like I say, this is probably the strangest, coolest thing that has happened in my life in a while. This is also a first for the Tufnell Curling Rink. I don't think they've had a podcast done. And we do have an audience. Yeah, oh yeah, the audiences and the bleachers, they're watching everything that's going on, trying to read lips. I think Rick Sally's in here trying to read lips. But we're actually, we're sitting in the, where the house would be, where I won many kids Bonspiel as a child.

Yeah, many, many first place tropeers. And where I couldn't throw a rock if I tried. tried like I suck the curling but it's good I see they got the gravel leveled out nice here so yeah but I mean this is just another cool thing about small towns is you're kind of allowed to just go through you talk to everybody hey can we do a podcast in the curling rank everyone's like why would you want to do a podcast in the curling right sure you can do a podcast in the curlering everybody's cool with here's here's here's okay let's do it when you started quick dick yeah this is what three years two and a half years well two years ago okay two years ago did you ever think you'd have a

group of fucking yahoo's. Pardon the French mom. Sorry, mom. Yeah. My mom's actually here. You've met the mom that nobody's ever seen. That's right. She's not so mysterious.

Did you ever think you'd have a group of people do a bike from Lloyd, well, not Lloyd anywhere to Tuftanil, to Tufnell, the curling rink to interview you, turn around and go back home? Honestly, man. No, like there's been so many things happen. I never even thought I'd ride a pedal bike from Fom Lake to Tuffel for any reason whatsoever. let alone have a whole group of people doing it with me. But I mean, I just caught your guys' shirt tails here and back. I mean, you guys are doing the big work.

And, like, what you guys have done is incredible, man. And you have raised an insane amount of money for an amazing program. And I just thought when you came to me with this idea that you picked the right place to bring it to, because it's not just here in Tufnal, but it's what a lot of places are about that are just like Tafnil. I think we kind of talked a little bit about that earlier. There's like, there's a thousand toughnels in Canada, in the world. And what you guys are doing, it resonates with places like this. And that's why, like, when I was like, hey, you know, I called the ladies from the rec board.

And I was like, is there any chance we can feed these guys when they get here? But had I not reached out to them and they just found out through somebody that we were here and people didn't get fed, they would have been pissed. You know, but this is what small town people want to do out there. They're like, what, what cause? What's going on? I was like, well, it's a spike for breakfast program, and they're trying to get funds for breakfast programs and schools in a Lloyd Minister and surrounding area.

And you just have people jump on board with a good cause, and that's what it is. And I think that's why you guys have had such good success with what you're doing is because it's a good cause. And it's something people can get behind. And no matter whether it's a pandemic or what's going on, people are going to get behind it and support it because it's what good humans do.

And we find a lot of it in towns just like Tuffnell, just like Lloyd Minster, just like everywhere. Hillmont, right? This is the kind of thing that's going to do awesome with people in Hillmont. People from Hillmont and Tupnell, I'm sure, can sit down and have a beer and we're proof of that right now. It is. It is.

Two hamlets of Saskatchewan sitting down like, geez, Louise, you wouldn't have said that 10 years ago. One of the cool things that we've done on it is every cent, minus go foamy, which we will rectify in your two, goes into it. There's not a hidden fee, not like, it's something. I can't speak highly. Necky isn't, you can't see this, but Necky Jamal and Dentist and Lloyd. One of the first guys of approach was that we were pretty adamant on that. Like, don't want any of it to go to X, Y, Z.

You just want everything to be, I mean, it's, you want everything all the time to be donated. But when it comes to this, you're like, listen, you want to go up on board with this. Yeah. We don't want to have to have hidden fees and everything else. We want the number, do the number. And that's where, like, GoFundMe is a cool thing. I think the fact that the Lloydminster Kinsman have been handling a lot of your guys' stuff for them

is like I did a Kinsman Chase the Ace draw here the other night with the Saskatchewan Kisman Foundation and they're such a fantastic group that's why I'm always such a big advocate to tell a miracle and what they do. They help kids, they help disabled people. They help, help, help, and it's a group of great volunteers. Go fund me, I get, you know,

they're going to take a little bit of a cut and they got a platform, they got to run and I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I'm the biggest fan of GoFund me, but it does get funding to the hands of people that need it so you kind of got to support something like that right the way we looked at it and this is what go fund me does well they allow an upstart just be like listen we're going to put it on their plate they're going to take a little bit of a cut which

isn't crazy but it is enough yeah it hurts but it isn't like anything it isn't like 50% or something weird like just enough of a little trickle but we didn't have to do anything we literally had to put a couple things in and boom it's set up and that's where everything funnels through and they take care of it yeah and you can hate on that a lot but Overall, if you use it for 10 years, that's your problem. Because they've built something that, you know, helped us out of the bond. I didn't need to worry about a thing. It works.

It works and it helps people. I mean, even if you look at it. Yeah. We're going to try and get away from it because we want everything to come. Yeah. We don't want 99.9.2%. We want 100%. And that's another really cool thing.

I'm sure everybody that's listening knows, you know, what you guys have done and what you do. But, I mean, this is I think the coolest thing that I loved about your guys's idea is that this is done. in the form of food, which is what it is supposed to be. And like this is being paid out in food and it is going into kids' bellies. And that's, I mean, I just can't say enough good about that. Because there's a lot of foundations. I'm not going to name any of them because I'm not here to hate on foundations or charities. But there's a lot of them that there's a lot of red tape through that a lot of CEOs and organizers and whatnot take a paycheck out of what they're doing.

And what you guys are doing, nobody's taking a paycheck out of them. You think they feel guilty about that? Uh, maybe. And I mean, some of them would be like, well, someone has to run the charity. And I mean, you can't volunteer your entire life away. And there's parts of that that I get. I mean, that might be one of the grayest areas you'd ever have a conversation with me about because I get both sides of it. You know, it's like, it's a lot of work to do this stuff.

And even like when I try and. But there's no bigger reward in life. Then I'm not saying you got to volunteer 365. But this certainly doesn't feel like work. Right? Like, it just doesn't. This is a lot of fun. Sean, you tell me at 4 o'clock this morning,

when your guys' bus broke down in Saskatoon, if this felt a little bit like work or not. I would say this. At 4 a.m., temperatures rose because you have stress. Yeah, absolutely. And you're putting the cooker, so to speak, right? Like, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?

Are we quitting? Are we not doing this? Are we renting this? Are we going over here? Yeah. And it's like, you've got to figure a way through it. Here we are. We found a way through it.

Absolutely, you did. That's life. Is that not life? That is absolutely like. I mean, it doesn't happen like that every single day, but when it comes, I mean, you've got to find a way through. Yeah.

It still doesn't feel like work. Yeah. I mean, I get to... Nigel Dube said something that I thought was really cool. As the three of us were riding, right? So we got the bus, breaks down, and that sucks. Yeah.

Now there's three of us in a pilot truck, and we're off Galvan, and we're like, well, do we go back? Do we keep riding? What do we do? And after about the second hour, I'm sitting there and I don't know what I said I said oh man legs hurt or something and he goes you know

the whole thing about this is we're raising money for kids who don't have food I bet you they'd take our situation in a heartbeat because I just stuffed my face full of whatever actually I know exactly it was a hangared sandwich from the side of her it was Miss Vicki's uh chips because we had nothing else we had we had

think about this if Miss Vickie's listening I love her just so she knows we had Miss Vickie's Like a half sack of little potato chips. It didn't last long. We had a few oranges. We had nutter butter bars. We had a little bit of water.

And we had nips. That's what we had. Let me tell you by like hour five, it was all gone. I'm like, we got to start rationing the water. Okay? Stop it. Stop drinking that much. We can't do it.

Here we are. But, I mean, I don't know. You go back to it. He says any kid who, you know, struggling for food. We're complaining about getting on a bike for an hour. Every three hours, they're taking that in a heartbeat. And I was like, you're absolutely right.

Let's fucking do this. Let's go. So this might wind up being the strangest podcast that anyone's ever heard of dude, but I mean one, like one thing that I've tried to promote on my channel and anything that I do and it's in a few of my posts and whatnot. I mean, I'm not always a jackass who's kind of cussing the government and whatnot. I have a jackass all the time anyways. But working through problems is a part of life.

And I think there's lots of people can work through problems and get through them. Some people will get stuck in problems and let the problem consume them. But life itself is kind of a problem and you've got to get it figured out. And even when you're down on your luck and things aren't going the greatest, the one thing I learned probably the best to do after, and it was post my oil field career and I'm glad I learned it at the age of 38 versus 48, is that even when you're in a situation where things are absolute and complete shit, you need to find something to be like, hey, you know what?

Like, ah, it's shitty right now, but it just kind of is what it is. You know what I mean? And find something that you can laugh at and just keep a positive attitude. Smile about it. But, I mean, I have found the funniest thing lately is that when we have an absolute and complete shit show going on on the farm, is to actually just like stop for a minute and step out of it and literally force yourself to laugh at it and be like, this is actually a pretty fucked up situation. So we're riding this morning, right?

There's three of us were kind of like, I don't know, what do we do? Do we keep going? Do we turn around? What do we do? Anyways, and I'm sitting there with Natalie. And I'm not one to just sit in silence. And so I'm sitting there and I'm trying to break the ice, right? Because, you know, the crazy thing about this trip, quick, is like, minus Ken Rutherford,

I would say everybody else is a relatively new acquaintance, which does not happen very often when you're doing something like. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm sitting beside this lady who is stuck in a situation where she's stressed. I would be stressed over in the middle of Saskatchew. Absolutely. Our bus has just broke down. We have minimal supplies. If a flat tire happens, we have nothing to fix it with.

Like, think of all the problems. Yeah, absolutely. So I look over and I go, well, I just rode for an hour and I can't feel my tackle. My twig and berries. It's numb right now. I don't know if that's healthy or not. And she's just like, what? And she just breaks out of it.

I'm like, I know. It's a terrible situation. Like, what are we going to do, right? And she's laughing. Like, you're ridiculous. I'm like, I know we are ridiculous. But like, at the end of the day, the sun's shining. We got a little bit of a tailwind.

Let's just bike and see where we get. Yeah, absolutely, man. And that's just. On a side note, I couldn't feel my pig and bear. That's a thing. Yeah, it was awful. Like, I've been telling you, I used to bike back and forth to work in Grand Prix. And there'd be times where, like, you'd be peddling hard.

And if you hadn't rode in a few days kind of thing, you'd kind of start going a little bit numb. And, you know, it's concerning for a minute or two. I tell you what? You're, like, shifting? You're like, what is going to get a lot? Stop it. Yeah, and then you're like, are there times in my life that I can make this happen to work to my advantage so that I can't feel anything? You know, there's that too.

But, no, it's, it's just. That's kind of the thing, and I heard, we got to get off and start laughing and do some more goofy shit, but one last serious thing kind of thing here, whatever. I heard a quote from somebody. Now, this was on the John Gormley show on 650, CK.O.M. And, like, I listen to that guy all the time. He just got kind of the same opinion of mine, and he brings on some good guess. And it's usually pretty good.

I heard somebody come on there, and it was on Mother's Day, and it was good advice that you got from your mother. And one lady came on there, and I'm stealing her quote, and I will steal it for the rest of my life. And I hope I meet her someday. If you're listening, please get in touch with me somehow. But she said, her mom used to tell her, it's just a bad day. It's not a bad life. And not the truth.

And if you can, like, I've gone my whole life not hearing that quote. And when I heard that quote, I was like, that's the best quote I've ever heard in my life. There's some doozies out there. You know what I mean? BMAs had some great ones. make sure to shit outside of your pants and a few different things like that. Like, that's a good quote, you know what I mean? But when I heard this lady say that, yeah, I was like, that's just so good.

You know, it's not a talent. But I remember thinking like, because you always have, everybody has a bad day. Absolutely. Everybody. And even you just recognize it for what it says. It's like, ah, this is just a shitty day. Yeah. But not like it bring down your entire everything.

The next day gets always better. Yeah, I always think of Castaway. Tom Hanks, you know, sun's going to rise tomorrow, and maybe it's going to bring in a sail, right? And the sale takes him off of his deserted island and, of course, it's a shitter. And, you know, right? Like, it's the wall of a shitter.

Yeah, exactly, right? Mum's yelling at me right now. You're swearing too much, but, hey, sorry, my mom's here. She's on the other side of the glass, so she can't really hear it. We're probably safe anyways, right? But, yeah, I mean, kudos to you guys, and, yeah, I mean, you're halfway there, and you got a hike. We got the worst part coming.

The wind is... I like how... I really like how you're like, yeah, I'll bike from Tuffnel to Fome Lake. And then we're going through Fome Lake and all of a sudden there's Cooctick. And he's biking from Fulm Lake to Tufnell. Because he knew... Wait a second. I don't want to bike into the wind and boom, you're on the other way.

I'm like, I see what you're doing. That was a smooth little trickery there. Honestly, it was so it was my plan off the start and that's why I was like... I'm not the kind of guy that power techs somebody because I just can't handle it. but like I was like kind of power like texting you where are you guys where are you guys where are you guys because I was literally on the tractor right up until I knew I couldn't be on the tractor anymore and I was going to miss you guys coming through here because you were making way better time than I thought you ever heard that folks he was power texting me like it was blowing up my phone and then you know what happens my phone dies and I'm like well actually then did you get the text after that why aren't you texting me Sean where are you why won't you text me back do you hate me now Sean what have I done to me

no I didn't do that no but Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah, right, he didn't do it, right. But, no, yeah, so it's going to be a grind back for you guys. And I, if I... The cool thing about the way back is, even as bad as it's going to be, every step is... If you think about a race, right?

Here's the end. Here's the start. Here's the midpoint. Think of it like a hill. Even though the downhill isn't actually downhill. You're going to fight all the way down. You're getting closer and closer every step you wake. Where this way, no matter how fast,

We're getting further and further away from home. You know what? That's a great point, man. Did you notice the last little bit down into Tufno was very, very downhill? Yeah, it was beautiful. It's actually, that's the, that's the, that's the biggest hills get around here. It's just that, you know what? I'll say this right now. I hate the miniscule hill.

Give me a hill. You want me to climb that thing? Because you know it's coming, right? And then at least I get to go down. I get this like, like, why is the rolling resistance here? It was backed by like, Alan? Is Alan one of the other? Oh yeah, absolutely.

It's like this long hill where this, this, this, this, uh, sprayer goes by me, goes flying by me, probably only like, honestly, like 50, 60K. Yeah. Something like that. And I'm watching them. And I'm on this hill. And for five minutes, he just keeps going up. And I'm like, I'm doing half the speed of him.

And I can still see him. This is the most painful thing in the world. Welcome to Saskatchew. Welcome to Saskatchew. Yeah, that's exactly it. Okay, speaking of, of farm equipment, uh, did you guys see the, combine on a stick. No. It's at Elstow. And it's like, it's by Combine World and it's a combine that's up on a stand. You have to have seen it. Maybe you, it might have been your time for a break or whatever,

but they've got a combine that's up on a huge stand. See, I was going so fast, quick. Like, I didn't see anything. It was a blur. Okay, well, pay attention on your way back. And where is it town? Elstow. Elstow. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, yeah, like 20, 25K that way. No, you're thinking to El Frost. Oh, God. This is Saskatchew. Welcome to Saskatchewy. All the E-Towns that are in between here or whatever. But yeah, so pay attention on the way back.

But everybody calls it combine on a stick because it's a Massey-Ferguson that's up on a huge stand. And I don't know how they got it up there. I don't know how they'll ever get it down. But it's got to be a hazard to walk underneath at some point in time, I would imagine. Father's Day is coming up. Is it?

Relative. Happy Father's Day, BMA. I probably won't. It isn't that fast, but it is coming up. So if you haven't got anything for your father, I suggest you maybe take a look. What did big mustache owl think about this? Actually, if he stepped in here right now, I'd be like, sorry, quick, you've got to get the hell out of here.

But what do you think about this? Because, I mean, like, I'll give my father's, he's like, you're doing what? And I said, well, we're going to bite from Lloyd through the night to Tuftanil and back. Raise some money, sit and talk to Quick Dick McDick. First thing he says is, tell that quick dick. My hat is fucked. Sorry, Mom. He did not say fuck. He said, yeah, I don't know, dirty or something.

Anyways, and he goes, I could use the new one. He just hung your dad out to drive. Yeah, I know. Sorry, Dad. Sorry. Anyways, he's like, I could use a new hat. Like, yeah, all right, sounds good. And then he's like, why are you biking all through the night? Like, why not just like, through the day?

I'm like, where's it fun in that, dad? What is it challenging that? I totally agree. And that's when you told me what you guys were doing, because when you're like, we're coming down there and then we're going to turn around and come back, remember my initial reaction. I was like,

well, I'll make sure that we got enough room and you guys are going to be a lot of showers and this and that and da-da-da-da, and I'll have this many beds. And you're like, oh, no, like we're podcasting and then I'm turning around and going back. Like, this is, and I was like, actually, that's pretty badass. You know what I mean? But, like, that's, and I think it is. And there's a lot of stuff going on where people, you know, go across Canada or walk here or do this and do that. And I think it's a great thing because, like, not to go back to the GoFundMe thing, but anybody can start up a GoFundMe page and be like, here's this story of this person.

But to do something like what you guys are doing, it's not just, hey, we're going to use some online exposure and do this. No, no, we're going to do something while we do this kind of thing, right? Well, I got to say this. This isn't a plug for breakfast. I'd just like to point this over because of the community that we live in. We did not announce bite for breakfast until May 1st. It is June 5th.

36 days. Nobody knew who bike for breakfast was. Yeah. 36 days, $267,000. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. And I'm not tooting my owner. That's the group out there.

It's taken on a life of its own. It's absolutely everything. And I mean, when there's people out there that say that, you know, social media is garbage and it's bad and everything, I will agree, there are parts of social media that are horrendously bad. But when you look at something like this, it's good. It's amazing because things like that can get traction. Things like Bike for Breakfast can get traction. I even put out a little video or whatever kind of thing, and all of a sudden I've got people,

even from my hometown and be like, hey, how do we donate to this or what goes on? That's the good part of social media. And a part that really pisses me off about social media is I did a video with a chic meal al-a-a-laba see a lady from Nigeria who works on a catfish farm. Okay. And I just put a little plug on my channel that that's where it was going to be. And I recorded a whole bunch of stuff, sent it to her on a catfish farm in Nigeria.

as she found me through social media. And I've learned more about catfish farming since I stumbled on to this lovely lady than I ever figured I ever would have. But here's the thing I'll tell you that pisses me off about social media. And I'm glad that things like this are doing well and will continue to do well.

And I know you will just continue to support things like this because it's what we need to do as good stewards of humankind. That's what you want to call it. But why can I put out a tweet that that kind of chirps a little bit about universal basic income with blistered hands and it just explodes and goes crazy and everybody's all over it kind of thing but when you share a link to a

video about you collaborating with somebody to Nigeria and something that's very very positive it doesn't do that. Tapes into it. Well, I can't say that because both tap into emotion but what your first one does is it taps into emotion. Yeah, man. And that is no doubt. different than what's going on with uh in the last year we all can taste what fear tastes like

right yeah like that's very palpable what you're talking about with the first one is the same thing yeah like it's very it moves yeah moves the needle yeah the crazy thing with like good things is mind boggling because isn't that what we all want absolutely it is yeah and it just it's like there's so much good in the world, but it's almost like it just kind of gets lost in the noise. And I don't even know if I blame that on people. I almost blame that on the way the system set up. I don't know how the system set up. I blame it mostly on big tech and algorithms and how it works. Right. Like push the good up. Absolutely. Stop fear mongering and anger and all that. I couldn't agree more. But like, uh, one of the things, last time we, we talked and I remember it,

It stuck with me, but you, like, you kind of looked at me through Zoom, and you were like, you've kind of changed a little bit. You have. And I remember. You have. Because you, you talked. When I first started talking to you, I've said this lots, actually. When I first started talking to you, it was a lot of very clever jokes towards Justin Trudeau, oil and gas. I mean, God, you had some good shit.

Yeah. Like you just did. And last time I talked to you, you were so much more balanced. Like gone. Like nothing stirred you. I'm like, who have you been talking to? Yeah. Because it's like you know something I don't and you've changed your mind on things.

And it really not bothered me. And it really stirred a little of curiosity of me. Yeah. What's going on? So like the thing with that is like I haven't changed much. I'm very much supportive of the oil and gas industry and I always will be because we are always going to need it around for a long, long time. You and I won't see the end of it kind of thing, right?

Especially in this part of the world, right? Especially in this part of the world. I can't stand Justin Trudeau, and I can't wait till the day that he's gone, and unfortunately it's not going to come soon enough, but we're not going to talk about that because this is a positive podcast, but what I will tell you is the reason I switched gears a little bit is exactly what we're talking about is because, like, I still want to be able to be funny and for it to be okay for me to be funny and try and push things in a little bit more positive of a light.

But that being said, like, I'm not going to forget where my roots come from and why a lot of people started following me off the start. And I still have a lot of that stuff in me. And I'm just going to keep putting it out a little bit at a time. When I did my last one, my little music video to Ambridge Line 5 or whatever, like that was kind of me saying, this was me saying, hey, no, no, I'm still here. you know what I mean but I'm gonna do some other stuff too it just doesn't fix it's such a complex problem quick

yeah right like you hate on it or you do the like attack it it's like yeah everybody gets it like makes sense but it doesn't fix anything and that's the thing like you can beat a dead horse as much as you want but it's not gonna change it's funny gets a ton of views yeah what do you do yeah which is and honestly I still need to figure maybe you can help me that I figure out how many views or stuff I get at I don't know I don't even I don't even I don't

even like in the last little bit i haven't even looked like it's been sad of it's been good and sad right like i i normally have this like routine of like recording numbers and making sure i pay attention and whatever and in the last like two weeks i've been so busy it just was like all of a sudden like like you yeah yeah whatever it's not even big deal yeah i hear you man and like that's it's kind of straight skis-dus. I've been trying to keep uploads every Monday and like this Monday like I probably don't have anything just because we've just been slammed to a different level on the farm here in the last little bit and I wanted to make some time to do this. That needs to be okay. You need to make time to be able to do some of this stuff and I'm

going to try and put stuff out to people when I can get it out there. But when, yeah, with the whole change thing, I have changed a little bit. I want to be a little more responsible with what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop dropping F-bombs and cussing out Trudeau. Here's the thing that I like about change is it shows a willingness. this to adapt and to move and to learn new things, right? But you've learned new things. Does that not change who you are? Yeah.

And if you read things and you never change, I'm not saying, like, we can't be friends. I'm just saying at the end of the day, I feel like if you learn new things, you should change. Yeah, absolutely. You should be like, yeah, actually, I read this and I read that and I did this. And I just, like, that's cool. I find it really cool. Yeah. It's just so very evident in the last episode.

Like, what the hell is going on here? Like, something's going on. Yeah. It's just, it's been neat. And I think that's the thing is, is a lot of the stuff that I've done has led me down a lot of different paths. I've kind of noticed it in your podcast, too, because it's kind of shifted gears a little bit, and you're getting different guests on that you probably wouldn't have had before and whatnot. And it's for the good and it's for the better.

And I think it's fantastic. A lot of things with renewable energy and a few different things have taken me down some different paths where you talk to people. that are like in the trenches of working with some of this stuff. And if you can get away from all the rhetoric of what's going on with climate alarmism and all that bullshit, whatever, there's actually people doing good work for sustainability in some of these places. I got a, I don't want to spoil anything, but he's just a, what is he, PhD student? A guy who graduated with, threw me an email like a week ago saying, hey, can we come on in June, could he come on in June, and talk about climate change?

all the research he's done. I'm like, are you kidding me? Yeah. Absolutely. And he's like, awesome. This is awesome. I'm like, well, I don't know. Like, you tell me, like, you're the guy doing all the research. I'm interested. Yeah, absolutely. And that's what the podcast is done. It's open up all these, like, lovely little doors that would never be there. I would not be in Tough Mill Saskatchel. It was not for the podcast. Cheers to that. Yeah. Now, you have to let me know. What do your parents think of this? This is the, like, if all of a sudden, Quick Dick rolled in Hillman, Saskatchew, And I rolled out the curtain. By the way, when I said we're going to toughnil, everyone went, where?

It was the greatest marketing campaign in the world. I should get wears toughnil shirts or something along that line. Absolutely. Number two was, when we get there, the ladies of toughnil are making us meal. Oh, my God, that's going to be good. And then I mentioned progis over the top. Yeah, man. Okay.

So all that other way. What are your parents think of this? Because I mean, like, this is a bit ridiculous. Like, we can try and sugarcoat this all we want. We just biked like 500-some K all through the night. We get here. I mean, the Great Western's flown. I'm feeling great.

But, like, I can't wait to puke parogis when I turn around and bike back to Foam Lake here. It's going to be fantastic. Are you biking back? I will, that's where Morty is. That's where I got to go back to you. See, I was shitting on them for the way he is. Get a bike back. Oh, no, I'm coming back.

I don't say won't a tight spot. What are your parents think of this? You know what? I'm going to say, I listened to the podcast you had with your mom when you did the Mother's Day thing, which was great, by the way. And I think our parents are just kind of cool with what it is. I think we're probably a similar story where off the start, my parents were like, what the hell is this? But when you see the fact that it starts doing a little bit of good and some people can laugh and find some happiness with it, and then you see a situation like this going on.

It's slowly gone from, well, kind of what are you posting and that's kind of goofy or whatever. And then there's some hard talks about, well, is this going to lead to anything productive or good? Or are you just going to keep tossing out churdo or whatever kind of thing, whatever? But I think if you can. Keep trying to test out of Trudeau.

Yeah, he makes it so easy. But we won't talk about him on this podcast. They're cool with it. And I think the fact that, like, you know, mumps here helping out in Maryland and the, and the ladies in the kitchen here and, you know, BMA, before the schedule changed, he was going to have beer iced here and ready to go or whatnot. I got to meet, hey, so old people know, the next time I sit down, it ain't with quickness.

Thank goodness. It's with, it's with, it's with a mustache. Yeah. The man's amazing. Yeah, absolutely. Done. Yeah. I'm not biking back to do that, though.

I'm going to either dry or fly or plane. Or motorcycle at least. Something internal combustion. Yeah, that's right. But it's been cool. And, you know, with Mom and I, it's been fun because we run this little joke about nobody really knows who she is kind of thing. And she's a shame to me in my videos, which is kind of really not the case, but it's

a joke we play off of. And, you know, Dad, I mean, he's just, it gives us a good opportunity to have some fun together. And we really do have fun when we go out and, like, we're cutting wood or doing our different stuff. We'll, like, film a video. And, like, had you looked at this situation, you know, 10, 15 years ago, you look at I'd laugh and be like,

Dad would never do something like that. But it's taken both of them a little bit outside of their comfort zone too. And that's been a good thing, you know. I'm excited for Father's Day because, like my mother, I've read articles about people who've lost their parents and I'm like, Dad dodged me a year ago.

He ain't dodged me this year. He's coming on. Yeah, there's no fucking around, Dad. You're on. And I'm excited about him. Yeah. And that's another good point that you bring up is there's a lot of people that don't have their parents in the world.

I was lucky enough up until, you know, just the last few years, I had all four of my grandparents right until I was in my mid-30s. So I was very lucky and I was lucky enough to learn early enough in life to not take advantage of that or to take it for granted. And here we are. I still got two grandparents and I've got both my parents

and I've got all my siblings still and you need to be able to look at that in life and consider yourself very lucky because some people don't have that. And I treasure that, and that means more to me, more than a YouTube channel or a job or anything ever will. And I hope everyone else would see it in the same light, because family is very important, right? Topmast important. Yeah, absolutely.

And, like, I just, it's really cool that we're kind of here in the Tupnel rink because I spent a lot of my time as a kid, like, right here in this magnificent place with ice in it, of course. Except when Toughville Sports Day comes back this August, this will be beer gardens here if it's shitty outside. I don't know, man. If I went back to the first day I started the podcast and you told me, listen, Sean, when you get like three years into this, you're going to ride a bike all through the night. And I'm going, all right, where are we going? Tough Mills is a sketch. Where? Toughball's a sketch.

Yeah. Listen, take your nostalgia and. You take all that and then you sit here and I'm like, this might be the coolest place ever podcast, ever. It really is, man. Yeah. I hope it holds that record. Yeah.

And yeah, we set this up. People don't know it, but like this is, that's actually the camera's on a curling rock on a garbage can right now. You're not supposed to say that. No, I have to. I brought stuff. It's just on a bus that is traveling the opposite way of here right now. And this is how we do most of our stuff, right?

So, no, it's all good. Oh, man. We've got locals in here waving now. This is good. We've got a crowd here, man. Now, here's your final question. All right. Right.

Then we'll get to the shindig, the pierogis, to everything. Yeah, if everybody knows Sean's been up for how many hours now, way too many. I don't even know what time it is right now. It needs parogis and cubasaw. That's right. Yeah. How many hours you think it's going to take us round trip to get back to Lloyd? Now, to preface this, 48 hours is 24 hours here, 24 hours home.

Where do you think we're at? So you guys did good on the way here. So you were here. I mean, we took a little bit of a break, but we're going to call it. You guys were here at 2 o'clock, right? Yeah, but we're going to attack on the hour doing this. Yeah, absolutely. Time just don't stop running.

So you guys were here at 2. I was expecting you to be at least 24. So you were about 21. And I think it's going to be a hard push into that win back home. But hopefully you guys don't have any breakdowns or anything to deal with. And you got a couple of extra. We got those all out of the way on the way here. Never see you got them all out of the way.

It can always get worse You're going to have a couple of actress pushing for you Hopefully you guys can use the POS To cut a little bit of wind for you And And I got to, wait, I got to give, before you give your answer, you got to do it. I got to get, I got to give a shout out too. So we have a bus breakdown at 4 a.m.

Right? Like the bus were on. Opportunity time. Boom, done. Right? So what ends up happening, think about this. The owner of Barbies and Lloyd is on Instagram at 4.30 a.m. The guy I'm riding beside, the coach of the junior team, message him. Said, hey, would you be willing to do this?

Yeah, for sure. Where are I got to go? Boom. He's there, grabs it, starts driving the sucker, grabs his bike. Now he's biking with us. Order armies has driven us the POS here, and now he's biking with us on the way back. And as we sit here, there's a motorhome on its way too. Right?

Like the bat signal, so to speak, went up, and Lloyd and area answered. Boom, here we are. So now, how many hours? How many hours? Here's what I will say is anybody that says that horsy sauce doesn't turn you into somebody has an ad horsy sauce from Rousey sauce. I can't wait to have some horsy sauce. Turn myself in a brew.

Actually, there's good mushroom sauce here too, so that's good. But I'm going to pay you, you guys were 20, you guys were 21 down here with a wind in your favor. I'm going to say you guys are going to be 20. I'm going to see you're going to be 27 back. Okay. So that's, like, that might be high. So 48 on the button?

But like that is, like, that is a hard, hard push back up there. I'm going to, I'm going to call 48 on the button. Yeah. Well, we might. Is this, is this like one of those ones? Where are you pick the square on the card where the chicken's going to shit? Or when the car is going to drop through the dugout? Who else picked 48 hours?

Who else do you think? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. There was somebody else picked 48 hours? He's a good-looking man. So not you. He drinks Great Western. He's got a dashing smile.

Did you pick 48? I picked 48. There you go, folks. Quick, send them off because it ain't my podcast this time. I'm sitting in the tough. Do I put this on my channel or do you put this on your channel or how does this work? This has been great. Hey, on behalf of the Tuffel Rec Board, it was great to have you guys here.

Thanks for coming to Tuffel. Thanks for having us here, honestly. Thanks for picking Tufnal. They've got a $1,500 donation waiting for you guys for your cause. I've got a $1,000 Rob Stone Rainmaker donation for you guys too to send you guys back on your way after you get a belly full of pierogies and keep doing this awesome stuff. if anyone wants to see what a belly full of parochies looks like just look about halfway between tough no and full lake that's awesome thank you so much for for sporting the cause

but i mean a belly full of pierogies folks like that's gonna hurt like nobody nobody's eating that going like this ain't gonna hurt push through that like you're gonna yeah it's gonna suck but that's right it's a good kind of hurt right well thanks thanks again for having us and everything else I mean the money is like that's over the moon then thank you guys for coming and And thanks for doing what you've done. And more people need to keep doing this kind of stuff. It's the stuff I like getting behind and supporting.

And this has just been awesome. Thanks for coming to the Tuftno Curling Rink to do a podcast. Fucking this is the best. I might make this my home, right? Well, I mean the gravel might be uncomfortable, but you get used to it after a while. Living in the house? Does that mean we can employ you to keep raccoons out of here?

Yeah, absolutely, right? Okay, well, let's go get some pierogies and let's get you guys pedaling back towards Lloyd, man. Yeah, man. Awesome. This has been great. Thanks, Sean. Yeah, thank you.

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and wherever else you get your podcast fix. Until next time. Hey, Keeners, thanks for hopping on today. I hope you enjoyed our conversation from Tuffino, Saskatchewan, the bike trip was, you know, one of those experiences you won't soon forget. My brain is not functioning at 100% right now. I'm lacking sleep, so I'm going to go to sleep. I hope you guys have a great week.

We will catch up to you Monday. And not Monday. See what I mean? We'll catch up to you Wednesday. We'll catch up to you Wednesday. Have a good one, guys.