Shaun Newman Podcast - Festivus Mashup

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

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We need to talk about Chinese gift exchange. At some point, somebody decided it was racist to call them Chinese gift exchange, and now they're white elephant gift exchanges. So you mean to tell me that the Chinese came up with a clever and relevant way for a large group of people to do gift exchanges without absolutely decimating them all financially. and it's somehow racist for us to pay homage to that. And not only that, but the people who decided to come up with a new name went with something that's white.

The whites have stolen something from the Chinese, which actually is a bit of a change from the normal. And I think it's just absolutely silly that we're so worried about this to the point where we rename it and not give them credit where it's due. Cheers, everyone. It's the Festivus mashup.

It is the Festivus. And wouldn't you know it that it actually is the 23rd of December? I looked it up and I'm like, Tuesday is like, we got to do it Saturday. I'm like, oh, man, can we pull it off Saturday? Here we are. And the true Festivus holiday is on Festivus December 23rd. So who know? Meant to be.

Meant to be. Indeed. So you want to hear about my day? No, but we're here already, so why not? My website got half. Tell me about it. My website got hacked. Okay.

That's how it began. Chinese? Who knows? Who knows? It was the states that tipped me off to it first. It was one of the guests I've had on. He's like, hey, I've been trying to share your website. And it keeps sending off, people keep coming back with, yeah, it's sending me to this, like, you know, bogus.

What's your website's supposed to be? Sean Newman Podcast.com. You can search it out, but it pulls up this. Here, we'll bring up the image. Slot Online, slot 88, and slot Gaker, Hari, N.E. Maximin Indonesia. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A whole lot of weird stuff. It turned into an Indonesian slot machine?

Correct. Correct. And the crazy thing about it, too, is so, you know, then IT... Like aside from that, you mean? Besides that. Then, you know, I get put... I talk to the lady who, uh, runs my website. Shout out to Robin, because she's been fantastic today,

because I call her, I'm like, I think my website got hacked. And so she's like, okay, I'll go take a look. And then she spent, like, hours on the phone with, like, the platform. And then it's GoDaddy. It got registered today with GoDaddy. She's like, have you registered with GoDaddy? I'm like, well, no. So talks to GoDaddy, talks to, whatever, blue something.

And basically, you know, everyone's going, well, it must have just expired. You must have missed paying. something and so then somebody snatched on you and you're like okay well maybe so we're like looking through emails i got zero emails she has zero emails we find out my one part of my website's paid till next year october and so we get digging digging digging and here it's like this shady thing shady shady like so okay well it it it it's not supposed to be able to transfer without my say so right but all my information now taken away they won't yeah go daddy won't tell us who it is uh because it's behind, you know, client privilege and on and on.

Because they need to protect the people who own the websites. So here's the good news. I think, I think maybe we got. This is great. This is fun. Like, this is an interesting story. Oh, man. I'm just like.

So what's the good news, though? The good news is, is Robin finally sent me a text tonight saying, you know, good news of bad news, is that they, they have admitted, like, it feels like it's pretty shady. And chances are the rifle owner doesn't have control of his website anymore. Chances are indeed. So the blue host, blue host. Anyways, guys seem super helpful so far. So I guess we'll see.

It looks like, you know, somebody wants to be Sean Newman for a day. Crazy bastards. Now, Festivus, well, we can talk about that before we get too deep into this. Vance is going to pop on later. Who is? Vance, is he? He better have an eggnog in hand. Yeah, he said he's with family, but I let you, let's go for a stretch, get a few drinks down, and then he's going to pop on.

Does he have a link to come on? Or is he just going to jump in the chat? I could certainly send him the link. That'd be easy enough. Are we allowing people into this debacle today? Not everybody, but. Oh, okay. Sorry, folks.

If you were watching, I guess that means not you. It just means a select few. You got to, we're kind of, we're kind of a lead us on this side. I got, I got. Vance is probably, you know, you talk about like the good things you've got going on in the year. I would say getting to know Vance, not as well as, not as much as I'd of light. Because he's one of those guys that you just want to get to know more and more better every time you talk to him, right? And that's, that was, that's been one of the highlights of this year is getting to know him better.

So yeah, as far as I'm concerned, he can hop on any show anytime he wants. Happy Festivist from Eileen Clark. She says, uh, what are the feats of strength? strength going to be. See, I wanted to do this in person so we could Indian leg wrestle. Yeah, so what would happen last year when this came about was Toos was actually in Lloyd Minster. So we actually got to sit across the table. We had no video. We just sat there and had a nice sociable. And certainly I would prefer that, but, you know, this year it wasn't going to happen. So we thought, oh, well, we'll throw it online and we'll go for an hour or two and have a couple sociables and talk about Christmas. things and twos made this huge lovely uh uh agenda i'm sure of where we're gonna we're gonna go

oh no this is that's did you notice how it's completely different than the usual agenda i don't know i haven't even looked at it okay how do you even know i did it then because you told me twos is like i did an agenda like i'm like great all right i'm gonna deal with losing my website for the day and and completely throw my saturday into a complete and utter debacle Number 12 is your website. Yeah, no kidding. All right. Yeah.

So Scott Petrie. Side note. We should get him on the show right now. Shout out to Scott Petrie. He drove, it was January of this year, drove up to Lloyd Minster, had a box full of beverages. I'm looking at one of them right now.

A little, a little. I love that Bumbo Rum. Yeah. And a couple other things in that. there too. Anyways, he drove all the way over. Well, it was on a way for him. And dropped off and said next year when you guys do Festivus, I want to be the guy. And so Scott Petrie, hey, shut out to you, sir. And he was talking to Scott on the phone.

And it sounds like he's having his own Festivus too. Yeah, it sounds like he's, it's been a bit of a marathon. He's already text, worst timing ever. Ha ha ha ha. It's my annual Festimus party with the solo crew. I'm such a schmuck. Give me a heads up next year. You and twos have a great 2024.

Okay. So, I mean, he had the whole year as a heads up. But I guess we didn't say a fish, like we knew that it was happening. And, you know, sure we made the promise like 11 months ago that this was going to happen. And then he was representing it. But I guess we didn't really follow up before. when we probably should have. I don't know.

Should we have? I thought it was great. I think this worked out even better. I wish I would have had the phone up to him when I'd been like, but I had no. How did you know that was going to happen? Oh, that was that. He's so hammering. He's going to be listening to this.

It'd be like, I talk to them. Oh, crap, right? Like, oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, I pity him tomorrow. So, Tuse, where would you like to start? Where would you like to begin? I don't know, man.

Like there's so many different things. We could talk about some highlights of the year. We could air grievances. We could talk about some of the silly things that happened this week that pretty much we should have had a full ass episode anyway with all the crazy stuff. You'd think you'd think in a sane country, well, that's a problem. But in a sane country, all the politics stuff just kind of slows down around Christmas because they haven't been working for weeks. but we've got craziness all the way up to and including today. So there's Zelensky's big nose.

I don't know. Do you want to lead into that? I'll probably need to be a little bit articulate. So maybe we should go with that one first. There's Zelensky's big nose. Yeah. So I don't know if you saw this editorial cartoon from the Toronto Sun where Zelensky's, what's that? Show it to me.

Oh, I don't have any of this stuff. Like, there's not even links for any of this stuff. I told you it was all different today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're flying by the seat of your pants. Well, I was thinking that it was just going to be a little bit different, but we can, excuse me, we can do a little bit of it. So Zelensky's Sun cartoon.

Here we go. let's present share screen entire screen this one so oops this is the cartoon

so you've got Zelensky and Biden with their arm around each other but Zelensky's reaching into Biden's back pocket and pulling out his wallet and he's got a big fucking nose

but here right next to it you've got there's Zelensky in real life look at the size of that fucking thing well I mean cartoonists and that's the thing cartoonists always they always exaggerate the distinctive facial features

so that it's unmistakable who it is you're looking at this is this is a trope as old as all of this stuff like you can look at like if I just looked up something like Zelensky cartoon I betcha they're like oh there he is with a big fucking nose

There's a big giant nose Look at that The nose is like two feet long Okay, all right We've got more big nose, big nose Here's big nose Here's Putin with a big nose But nobody says that's racist

Right, you can just go through this whole thing Here's Putin and Zelensky And they both have giant noses All right But apparently We decided that When this is critical of him just taking a whole shit ton of money from everybody

that we needed to call out this racism because well because people on the left associate giant noses with Jews which may in and of itself be racist who am I to judge but here's the thing this is this is classic leftist diversionary tactics this is them with the tiki torches

and being like oh all tiki torches are evil This is them when there was one swastika showing up in Ottawa over months or weeks. They're like, oh, the convoys a bunch of Nazis. There's always that one little thing where if they can find one little grain of impurity, they're going to try and throw the baby out with the bathwater on all of it. And it's absolutely insane that to this day, we have so many people who give them a pass. Do you know what the son's response to this was?

They apologized. they pulled the cartoon and they fired the guy who made it. Isn't that wild? That's the world we live in right now. Even cartoonists aren't safe. Is the sun just trying to push light

to keep Biden and keep it off Trudeau? I don't know. I find the sun's fairly critical of Trudeau. I think it's a far right extremist publication by Canadian standards, but I would say that it's fairly middle of the road. honestly it's it handles stuff fairly honestly um but that's the whole thing where i'm trying to go with this is just that if you if we keep letting them do this that's all it'll ever be

when they actually come after the sean newman podcast they're going to find some awkward pause 300 episodes ago and try and use that to label you as let them come to right or whatever else And here's the thing. You just, you can't ever apologize. Never apologize. Anybody else listen to this? The cancel culture is going to come for you because it's going to come for everybody.

And as soon as you're on your back foot, game over. You don't blink. You don't give an inch. And if they say that big noses are Jewish, you say, well, who sounds like the racist now?

And that's it. And you can tell them to get fucked. I don't know. Are we doing a buzzer? No, we're not doing a buzzer today. There's no rules here. I'm not, I don't even want to talk. Like, I give two craps about the news right now. I'm like, I'm sitting here, having a social drink, and I go,

what does everybody else want to talk about? I don't know. Like, right now, Mel is at home. Mm-hmm. You know, you start off with the Chinese gift exchange. Mm-hmm. So this year we're trying the, uh, the saran rack game. Have you played the saran wrap game?

you wrap individual presents and strand wrap and then you rip it off and you and then you put more on and you start it all over again and then the day of you have mittens if you roll doubles i think is how it goes then you get to put on uh oven mitts and try and pull the strand wrap off anything you get out are you doing this at a casino no this is a family this is the adult gift exchange in the newman household this Okay. And so if you get any of it out, you get to keep it. And then as soon as somebody else rolls doubles, and they get to put them on it, and they get to keep going.

And people are rolling nonstop. There's a couple dice, and the rolling keeps going. Going. And you're opening up as much as you can. Yes. And like the things that have come in, like, I'm waiting for the picture to come in so I can show you. It's going to be like, it's going to be like this big. It's going to be huge.

So, um, I'm sitting here. It's just a whole bunch of little things. or what? It was supposed to be like gift cards and stuff. Okay. I mean, but the Numans have never played this before, so they're like, okay, all right. So there's like, there's like a walking pole, you know,

like a hiking pole. Okay. I'm like, I don't know how she's going to surround wrap that up, but we'll see. There's a couple of like bottles of booze. Okay, that's fair. There's packs of gum. There's, there's,

there's just about a little bit of everything a little bottle of bailey's in there mind that one myself yeah personally I'm a little partial to a little bailey's in on the holidays and the coffee just saying I can appreciate that oh well that is not a little bottle

even in your tiny hands that giant fucking mitts is how I was I was just sitting with I was just sitting with Chris Barber and Chris Barber that guy's a giant man that guy's a seriously

I don't know how that guy became a trucker thinking like all they just lost mileage that vehicle suffered would just hauling his giant ass around and I love the guy I love the guy but he's huge which isn't a bad thing but I'm just saying to be clear like the guy's the guy's a freaking mammoth he is a fridge yes

yeah yeah yeah yeah he brought me uh did you see the picture on on uh um I saw it on Twitter yeah that uh Here. What I'll do is so the audience can see what the heck I'm talking about.

I'm bringing up things and normally folks we're all like professional. I don't know. Do they call us professional? Yes, we're very professional usually. I mean, we're not like CBC where they accidentally wrote on the teleprompter

that Israel started the war and then the guy read it. And then they literally pled the Ron Burgundy defense. They're like, we're sorry about this, but it was on the teleprompter. and he just reads whatever's on the teleprompter. This is literally what happened with the CBC today. Oh, man.

Like, just, like, what a bunch of goombas, you know? I mean, like, here we say... Just go fuck yourself, San Diego. Okay, as I try and do this, oh, man. Regardless, uh, Chris Barber was in with his son. Yep.

And, uh, and, uh, and brought me in a, uh, a painting. And I'll bring it up here in two sex. That way people can see what the heck I'm talking about. But I've been bugging them because I'm like, I have nothing in this studio that's from the convoy. And I'm like, I would love something.

And I'm like, I should go buy something. I should whatever. And he's like, man, I got so much stuff. And I'm like, oh, okay. Well, is there something that, you know, you'd be willing to like pass along, et cetera, et cetera. He's like, now, how would I talk to this painter guy I know? And I'm going to pull up his name so that I actually

don't call him painter. It's Chris Barger. Chris Barber is the name. No, Chris Barber is the guy who get, hey. Jerome Waldner. That's the guy who painted. He's a Regina boy. So shout out to Jerome. He is Prairie White Tail on TikTok if anybody wants to find him. Anyways, he, he did one up and it is sitting in the studio. It looks perfect. You're still going, what the heck are you talking about? I'm bringing it up here. Give me a sec. Just turn the camera, buddy. No, because then I'll unplug something. I know how it goes. Oh, yeah, that's fair.

And then I'll get kicked off and you'll be like, I know how this goes. Yeah, because that's how I talk. No, you're more a little more like, that's more like how you sound. Okay, come on. I really want to get disconnected. Ah, man.

Lori Forsberg says it looks amazing. Here, you know what? I'm just going to go on to your goddamn. I'm pulling it up right now. I'm got it. I'm just, I'm tired of waiting on your fucking ass. Here,

look, there's not much to it. I'm just going to go like this. And, oh, I got tired of waiting. And so now I'm doing it. Oh,

man, I'm sorry. I just did, I, oh, there I am again. No, I out did it.

And here I am again. Are you done? Assuming you're, assuming you're not hitting the buttons anymore. All right. Sure. Anyway, it does look sharp as hell. And I love the fact that, you know, you could tell he's a Saskatchewan guy

because there's a little bit of special emphasis on the easy drop. What I was trying to do here if you let me, if you let me, if you stop messing around, as I was going to try and zoom it at some people. Yes, there, there, there there. There you can see the, you can see the detail on it. That's a solid painting, man. And it fits. You ever see that picture Terrick had taken of him in Ottawa?

Yeah. Yeah, that's That's probably one of my favorite pictures of anybody anywhere. Fair enough, fair enough. By the way, we need to have him on the mashup. I tell you what, why doesn't he just come on the mashup? Why doesn't he come saddle up tonight?

Terrick, where are you at? Yeah, I guess if you're bored, join us. If you happen to be watching, I don't know if he is or not, but he usually... I'm curious. All the people who are watching right now, what are you doing? I see Lori Forsberg says, it looks amazing. Are you sitting around your house having a social bowl,

and you saw us two Yahoo's coming on, and you're like, oh, I would like to join in on this. Or was it, you know, like, are you driving somewhere? Like, I'm kind of curious right now, because we're at a random time. Six o'clock on a Saturday. Yeah. I mean, most people are eating supper, I imagine. I suppose.

I suppose. I don't know. So you're saying we're at the supper table right now, Tews? well i don't know i already ate but uh i imagine there's lots of people at 623 people are probably having some supper except in saskatch when we're at 723 it's true are you think we're ever going to get rid of daylight savings time i don't know we had didn't we have a referendum on it yeah and didn't we say supposed to go away yeah and then before that we had the n dp a backbench of the Andy P. Put forth a bill.

Eileen's my type of woman right now. I'm having a barley sandwich after a busy day. Cheers to you, Eileen. That's awesome. StevieB. Eating pizza with the family watching Jingle all the way. That's the one with the Rockham Sockham Jetpack. So you're really stretching yourself here, Stevie B. You're listening to us and watching jingle all the way.

Not that there's much to watch there. It's the one with the Rockam Sockham Jetpack. Yeah, yeah. the kids are going to enjoy it, but if you've seen it once. It's got Sinbad in it, dude. You could just, it's rewatchable. My point taken, right there.

It's got Sinbad. Who, who is, who's raising their hands out there that says Sinbad? I want to go watch Simbad in a movie. Yep. Yep, right here. See, I can handle this. Marty Bose says, shout it to Marty,

watching football with the Splasharet. Okay, so football, you can kind of listen to us to Yahoo's and still watch It's like, yeah, I can get that. I can actually get that. I think it's great. Multitaskers. Does he mean he's watching the, shoot, who's a red, like, is he watching the

like, is he watching the Chiefs play or is he drinking red wine? I assume he's drinking red wine, correct? Okay. I don't know. I would assume he's, uh, what games tonight? Would it be college ball? Is it college ball, Marty? I imagine it's college ball.

I don't think anybody in the NFL is playing this week. anyway all right so we're off the rails we're off the rails right now so we had this was vacation all the way right now right now Saturday

December 23rd the the Buffalo Bills are playing the chargers chargers up 3-0 there you go that's all right okay all right so this this could be interesting

so now we're having an argument in the comments section Christmas vacation versus jingle all the way. I don't think anybody is going to reasonably say that that jingle all the way is better than Christmas vacation. And I think Christmas vacation

is better. And I don't even like Chevy Chase all that much. I didn't even like him that much before he went crazy on the set of community. Did he go crazy on the set of community? Yeah. Yeah. He basically got kicked off the show for just being a weird, loopy old man who just hated being there and made everybody's life hell. I didn't

know that. Yeah. Yeah, you know that old dude at work that's just angry at everybody and brings them all down? You know, kind of like Scott Moe. Yeah, this is basically him. And they just said, all right, well, this isn't working for us. You need to get out of here. What's your favorite? If you're sitting, no, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if you sit.

Well, this is where I was going to go with this. I think you're about to ask me where I was trying to lead up with this. Go ahead. Well, I'm wondering. your favorite Christmas movie is. Kiss, kiss, bang, bang. What?

Kiss, kiss, kiss, bang, bang. Bang, bang. Is your favorite Christmas movie. In the holiday season, you watch kiss, kiss, kiss, bang, bang. Yeah, it's a Christmas movie. Shane Black, dude. He was one of the...

I've seen it. I've seen it. I've seen it. I just... Somebody helped me out here. kiss kiss bang bang on christmas all right so here's the thing i like that movie so much

that that old dime store paperback novel that it was loosely written around see i would give you sandy palm right here i would give you die hard if you'd said die hard i would be like that's a fair statement it's a fair statement well kiss kiss bang bang i don't know we we got to make sure that we're going to leave

a pack of smokes and a barretta in the in the ventilation for for John McLean. Like, don't get me wrong. I love Die Hard. Die Hard's right up there. But Kiss Kiss, Kiss, Bang,

I love that movie. It's very clever. And I love how he took that. Like, I actually went and found that 100-year-old dime store paperback. I found a copy of it on eBay.

Bodies are where you find them that it's very loosely based on. But then ends up being meta-based on it. I quite like Shane Black. I even, I liked Iron Man 3 a lot more than I should have. just because of Shane Black.

I mean, dude, he was, you know that. Which one's Iron Man 3? Remind me the story. That's the one where there's like 50 Iron Man that are all flying around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Iron Legion or the whatever the heck that's called. Yeah.

Yeah, there's, he's got all these specialized ones and they're all fighting each other and banging into each other and they're suddenly all made a glass. Okay. And they all just fall apart all over the place. Walt Tuz is saying this. And everybody, you know,

if they're listening. Christmas movie too. We got two parts of this. One is people are going to hear this on the next Tuesday, and they're going to be yelling at the thing because, you know, they're going to be whatever. But as we go along here, folks, we're following the chat,

and the chat is having it out over what the favorite Christmas movie is. So Lori Forrestberg says, neither of those, a Christmas story for sure. And then we got Eddie Zapitee. Zaptee? Zappetti? Christmas vacation. I ain't Christmas vacation is pretty good, too.

Well, I mean, we're seeing a lot of Christmas vacation. We've got Christmas story popping up, which is weird because now the question is, which Christmas story? Because there's so many different versions of it, right? More Christmas vacation. Jingle all the way is definitely more family friendly. And Marty, it turns out, is watching the bills and chargers. Yes.

So you were right about that. I... What's your go-to? I love watching Home Alone with the kids, like the original. Maybe even number two, maybe even number two in New York when he's in the hotel. Yeah, and Donald Trump makes home a long great again. That's correct. You know?

Like that's a, that's a classic, man. That right there is a classic. And when the kids get older, maybe die hard. Because die hard, you know, I'm like, I don't know. It's a, you know, it's a great. It's a great flick. That's a great flick. Yeah, it's a bit of an easier soft entry if you're watching,

family matters growing up. And then all of a sudden, Reginald Val Johnson's on there. And you're like, oh, that's nice. That's nice. Even if it's a crazy murder fest,

there's those little things to tie you back to, to nice family-friendly programming. But kids today don't know who Reginald Val Johnson is. Oh, you're bad Santa is awesome. Definitely not for watching with the family. Mike Warwick chiming in with Bad Santa. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. That's, uh, God, why can't I spit out the actor's name in that? Billy Bob Thornton. Billy Bob Thornton. You know, the funny thing is, is I remember my buddy Dave was like,

dude, you got to watch this movie. And also my buddy Dave and I had this thing where if one person recommends something, we're going to automatically fight tooth and nail and just assume it's a bad idea. And so that's ingrained in us. I remember when that movie came out, he's like, dude, it's hilarious. There's this one part where the chick is all like, God. Anyway,

I very, very grudgingly watched it six months or so later after he'd been bugging me to watch it and was very impressed with it. He was right. Yes, okay, Lori, the one with Ralphie and the leg lamp, you'll shoot your eye out.

There's not a lot of those of Christmas story movies. Okay, that is a sequel to the original movie. She's absolutely right. That is... You mean she's absolutely right? And then Mrs. Webb said Darren McGavin, Christmas story.

I don't know which one that is. But, but yeah, the, well, I don't know. Is that the same one we're talking about? I have no idea. I have no idea. Oh, dear, whatever happened to Laura Leigh, is Laura Leia? Laura Leia. I don't know.

From the Gilmore girls. I know. I know who she's. But that was, that was the other funny thing was, you know, there's this nice, wholesome WB show that she's on. And then all of a sudden she's just, she's just, yeah. She's, she's doing a good job of being in a movie called Bad Santa.

Okay, same one. Yes, I was just looking at a picture online of somebody you had the leg lamp as a ugly Christmas sweater and thinking that it would be really cool to have a giant one on the front lawn next year. Wouldn't that be neat? Sure, sure.

It's a prestigious award, Sean. Oh, boy. Here, you know, we were getting asked a lot about Festivus, you know, before we started this. Well, it kind of accidentally became a really... It became a popular episode. Well, we did not explain that. We did not. Here, before we get into it.

I got your message. I haven't celebrated Festivus in years. What is your interest? Just tell me everything, huh? Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for myself. son. I reach for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rain blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way. What happened to the dog?

It was destroyed. But out of that, a new holiday was born. A festivus for the rest of us. As I rained down blows on. It's that understated, just low-key, stiller humor. her hey oh man it's just yeah just beautiful that's a thing of beauty there's no better way that he could have possibly delivered that line we had this i don't did we like remind me last year a year ago when when when we're like oh you want to get together have a couple drinks whatever and just sit and enjoy christmas i like was did we did we did we do we know we were doing festivists well i mean we

said it was going to be festivus we said okay well we need to do a christmas special and i think it was me. Maybe this is just my, it's, yeah, maybe this is always two. It's always me thinking it's always me in my memories, right?

But I think it was me who said, let's do it for Festivus instead of for Christmas. And, uh, and then yeah, we accidentally drank, I don't know, like a bottle and a half of scotch.

Over the course of a couple hours. And, uh, and it became a cult favorite. Everybody enjoyed it. Yeah. Like, when are you doing that again?

Can you do that again? And I'm like, no, we can't, I don't know how to recreate that. We have jobs. I don't even know if I can recreate it. Well, and I don't even know if you want to recreate, like you don't go looking for that. It just happened. That was actually, that was probably the beauty of it was just how it just accidentally ended up being awesome. Well, and I, I don't know.

I can't remember, I just remember getting in an argument over, um, you asked me what I thought average was at a 10. And, yeah. And I said seven. And I still think that too. And twos is like that makes zero sense. I'm like, I know, but in my brain it really makes sense. Like an average, yeah, an average movie, seven. Not five.

Five feels like if you're a five movie, you are terrible. You are absolutely terrible. Sean, I'm not doing this again. I still haven't recovered from how much it hurt my brain last time. If you want to, you could go back and listen to last year's set of arguments as to why you were completely fucking wrong. We've got all these people chiming in saying, accidentally.

Boy, what's your favorite part of the holiday? Because you take, what do you take off work? Because I mean, one of the things, you know, that I assume most people know

is right, I'm doing podcasting full time. Two's is working full time. And then at the end of a long, ass day trying to be as sharp as two as humanly possibly can on a thing called the Tuesday mashup, which totally came from my

brain, not his. It's I, was it Dust's idea to do the Tuesday mashup? Don't think so. I think it might have a nice man. Anyways, what's your favorite? You're taking time off, yes?

I take time off. Yeah, so I'm going to basically just pop in and do a little bit of maintenance here and there in between Christmas and New Year's. I like, historically, I have liked trying to catch really good boxing day sales because I'm a cheap son of a bitch. And so I've quite liked, you know, you kind of got the whole, you know, the family stuff, it's good, but it's a lot. and then you've got a day where you just kind of just show up at like five or six in the morning

and wait in line at future shop to get a digital camera or whatever the hell it is. And you just kind of your days off to an early start and you just kind of have some cool stuff. Now that was before I had a family of my own, right? But I like just that day or two, you know, 27, 28 kind of thing. where nothing much is happening and nobody's really expecting much. And you can just be like, I don't know, you guys want to go shoot some stuff or whatever. And you've got that you've got that free time that isn't obligated anywhere at all.

And you've got the freedom to go do whatever the hell it is. And everyone has been sitting around enough that they're interested in going out and doing something. So that's, well just where you're just like okay well you know what because i don't know getting like a good day of family stuff or group things or whatever else it can be a little bit difficult to to pack into to a busy life but you've got that kind of magic moment um right after christmas where limitless possibilities yeah i am what do you think i and like uh so so so With Mel and I normally, this Christmas is a little different.

But most Christmases, we stay home. So on Christmas Eve, we have out at the farm. We go with the entire Newman clan. And then Christmas Day is just for the family. And then her family's a country away. So we have nowhere to go. So it's like it is the only time of year where I feel like the world actually stops. Like everything just slows right to a halt.

and there's just nothing going on. You can do whatever you want to do. And not that you can't. You know, like I feel like you can probably do that whenever you want, but the world is buzzing, right? You walk out tonight. We went for a walk with the kids before I came in here, look at Christmas lights,

and like the world is just buzzing. And for sure Christmas Day, I feel like Boxing Day, and I might even say the 27th. The world stops. Yep. And it's like throwback to the old days where you're just like, I remember being on the farm for like,

I don't know, what was it? Three, four days where nothing was going on and all of a sudden you got a chance to go hang out with whoever and you're like, thank God because I've been stuck in this house.

But like we never get that anymore. We never. Back on the farm, you used to get it all the time. You had two channels. Half the time, the channels never came on, right? And when they did come along,

they were fucking CBC. Right. Or like, man, there was some. bad things on two and four. Oh, man, there was some bad things. Saturday morning cartoons, though.

Ooh. Yeah. I miss those days. I wish I could, you know, with the kids, I wish I could try. You try to explain that to them. But you can't. Just be like all the cool stuff on Netflix. There was a four-hour window where it came on Saturday morning.

And you couldn't skip ahead. There was commercials. Yeah. You'd wake up way too early hoping because you'd heard this rumor from somebody that they were going to start it earlier that day and then you'd sit there and watch static forever and you're like, huh. You'd wait for him to come on. And then it would, you know, the first thing

would be like Dino Riders or Police Academy, the cartoon or whatever. And first commercial, you go grab a bowl of cereal, you know, you'd pour it, probably spill milk all over the damn place, run back and you'd be sitting down and nobody'd get up for hours. And you were just hoping everybody slept in. Because if your sisters woke up, they'd want to watch some stupid fucking care bears thing.

Instead of Ghostbusters, the cartoon. And your parents, you know, it'd be like, oh, well, it's time to go feed this or go water that or whatever else. And so you're just like, if everybody stays sleeping, I can just keep watching this. And I can just keep eating cereal. You just said Police Academy of the cartoon? Yeah. Yeah, it was like that and Dino Riders were like the very first ones that came on. See, when I was growing up, me, when, you know, I never had to worry about his sister.

My sister was, well, she was past cartoons when I was watching them. So me and Harley would wake up and it was always Tintin for a full hour Tintin for a full hour And you suffered You suffered through it I would have been

I would have been shoveling chicken shit If Tintin was the only thing on for a full hour Tintin for a full hour Followed by Batman for a full hour The greatest hour of the Saturday morning It was amazing Oh yeah The old school one

And I've been trying to get the kids in I've been trying to get kids into that Because the animated series is on Netflix, but I'm like, holy crap, this is a pretty dark show. It is. But also, it's really good. It is really good.

Well, I mean, Harley Quinn was never a character in the comics until she was a character on the animated series. And Mr. Freeze was just a straight-up-ass villain until they actually went and reimagined him in the animated series

and gave him all that depth of character that you know and love now. So Murray Cochran's saying, are you that old, Sean? Honestly, it looks like Toos is older than Sean Murray. Toos is. And, Mary, we both know you're older than us, okay? And then Eileen says,

we had to change channels on her TV with pliers. That was my job when dad got tired of what was on that. You know, I'm just put some vice scripts on there. It would have stayed. This is Webb says, oh boy, I'm old. I've never heard of any of those cartoons. Okay, Mrs. Webb. then what cartoons were you watching and was it Saturday morning?

You know, I was always a little bit disappointed that by the time animaniacs and freakazoid and that whole slew of goofy WB cartoons came on, I was kind of at the age where... Or Pinky in the brain. Exactly. And actually, Rob Paulson, the guy who did Pinky, absolute class act.

The other's insane. Yep. God, that has stuck with me. That guy has been in every video game cartoon. He was Raphael for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. He did a whole bunch of voices in the original Alder's Gate one and two. The guy is literally hundreds of credits. He's been so good at what he does for so long.

I'm trying to find if I can. He also did Yako in Animaniacs. Really? Yep. I actually don't know if... Well, I know I didn't know that. But now I'm like, can I find Freakazoid? Oh, yeah, I can.

Of course I can. Oh, my God. It was a funny damn show. It was a weird. Freakazoid was weird, man. It even had a joke about Saskatoon in a song in one episode, I remember. What? Yeah.

It was like, uh, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Or freezing down at Saskatoon? and it's just yeah it well I mean they did a lot of funny songs like even animaniacs

they had that whole like countries around the world thing apparently they came back with another season and I watched the first episode of it because I was excited because I was like okay well this is something

that that I could show my kids and then it was all like I don't know Trump is evil the whole focus of the new animaniac was just how evil Trump was. When did this come out?

I don't know, about three, four years ago, maybe, something like that. No kidding. This is weird. This is a little bit much? Here, I don't know how much I'm going to show this, but just so people know what the heck we're talking about in Freakazzoic, because I'm like, I don't know how many. How many, like, there's going to be a ton of people who have no idea what we're talking about.

It's extraordinary. Freakazzoids, freaks, freaks, underground in underwear, Freakazzoz, Freakzoz. Prescience, Washington, D.C. Freakazoids, they've got something better sound to do. Crecazoid, Precazoid, just brain told me your hat's a chalking cold.

Tech from case for Scipant Freud, Freakazoid, Freakazoid, Check out Dexter, Dux, your computer ace, With surfing all the internet thing was out to cyber space. He turned into the Greekasoid, who's thrown into the quake. He drives a fillet grandly, comes he's another thing. Its home base is a freakamemad. Freakazoid, break a seat,

Toy the Bar when cuts his end. Freakazoid chimpanzee Rhyto the ground is a Freakoffrey Freakazoo Freakersie Speighter Sian Sancton

to this nation It's not going to be on Freakazoid Steven Spielberg Yeah Spielberg Presents Freakazoid That was a strange

cartoon man It was but it was so good It was clever Like even just watching that intro I was laughing at multiple points Right And you know Even like the

The 90s interpretation Of what the internet was And how how people could just get sucked into it and turn into superheroes. It wasn't even really that far out of an idea back then. Yeah. Yeah, you're not wrong, Eileen. But yeah,

so that was that whole Warner Brothers series of just goofy shows that lightly crossed over here and there. And they were super funny. I was actually kind of sad. I realized later on that, you know, shows like Harvey Birdman, attorney at law and the Venture Brothers.

And, um, oh, shoot. Um, there's, There's a couple other, like, great adult cartoons that started coming out when an adult swim became a thing. And you're like, those would have been great cartoons to watch as a kid. They're kind of that whole South Park thing where it's cartoons for grownups.

And your parents don't realize that, you know, because it's a cartoon, you definitely should not be watching it. Yeah, I grew up through all that. And now that I look back at it, I'm like, you know, we think our kids got, well, I don't know. Our kids do have some messed up stuff on there. But they're, they're messed up, but they're not. funny. I don't know. There's some cartoons you watch, but they're like, they're obviously, they're obviously high or they're, they're tripping balls when they write this. They can't not be, right? Because they're just so far out there. But there's, there's funny tripping balls, then there's weird tripping balls as far as cartoon shows go. Well, I feel like the old cartoons, although weird, well, I don't know. I'd have to go back and watch Pinky in the brain and actually try and recall what the heck. Because like every cartoon I watch now, it feels like they're talking, like it feels like it's always climate change. Feels like there's always some LGBT Q2SLA, A plus Teen Titans go. All they care about is just being goofy and irreverent.

I love it. It's the best kids cartoon or any cartoon really that's come on. I like Bluey. The Bluey cartoon. The Australian dog. Oh, man. That show is clever. See, I don't have, is it Apple or Disney Plus?

Disney Plus. Yeah, you see. Me. so Disney Plus lost something like 3.1 or 3.2 million subscribers so far in like the first three quarters of 2023. People are leaving that place in droves. Everybody with you, I guess. If Blue is enough to keep you around. See, I got a one week trial of it because I was all interested because I'm like, okay, well,

they've got X-Men the animated series and the three Musketeers from the 90s with Giefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen and Rebecca DeMor. or Ne. But, uh, yeah, that X-Men animated series doesn't stack up with the nostalgia that I thought it had. Well,

that's... Same thing like Thundercats. Have you tried watching Thundercats? The original? Yes. It's not what you remember. You're like, what the hell is this?

Correct. I'm just mixing on this side. Yeah. I thought it was real clever. With what? Well, I put ice in a to go mug. And now you're running out of ice. No, no, no.

It's keeping it nice and instead of melting all away, you know? Nice sealed little. I think I'm pretty clever, actually. That's not a bad idea at all. All right. Okay, so how about this? What do we got? So I wanted to say that there was a bunch of weird stuff that happened in the news.

The liberals tried to get their liberal party branding on Food Bank, hampers. And they actually did. So there's actual food bank hampers of liberal fucking It's insane. Here, check this out.

So let's go. Here we go. This is Nathaniel Erskine Smith Beaches East York Liberal member of parliament with his personalized bags on their local food bank.

and I said this in the tweet. I said the next time you're going to a food bank, thank a liberal. They don't realize how I would have touched this is. Anita Annan was posing with a sign for her local food bank, and then she ended up deleting it. And they don't realize that lots of people, and I would say moderately correctly,

attribute increased food bank usage to how shitty the federal government has been over the last eight years. and that's exactly. Eileen, we wouldn't need food banks if Trudeau wasn't such a fucktard. You're partially correct. There are a whole slew of fucktards working alongside Trudeau that also help it make it worthwhile.

Did you see Daniel Smith's tweet about a school in medicine hat? No. Why does she care about a school of medicine hat? about, hmm, let me hear, I'll pull it up. She, she was mistakenly referred to as the premier of Ontario the other day. What? And then she used it as a chance to shit talk to Leafs.

And I'm like, you know what? I actually kind of like something I, Danielle's had to say. So that's good. Let's see if I can find it here, folks. Come on, come on, Sean. Come on. D-D-D-D-L-L-D-D-D-D-D.

Every damn week, Sean. Yeah, every week I send us on. Oh, okay, here. And we'll show us. Did you see this? Yeah, I had that on the long list for, to talk about last week. How to prepare your meth pipe. Yeah.

And what she said was, this is simply outrageous. There's no such thing as safe meth or crack use. we'll be reviewing funding agreements with the organization who felt it was appropriate to teach medicine hat teenagers how to use illicit and deadly drugs. So then, you know, it was interesting. I read an article on it. So one of the lovely listeners that sent it to me.

And, you know, I read it. But what fascinated me was in the article, it had people who were pro what she was saying, but it also had people who were like, Daniel Smith is out of touch. Yeah. So one had said, Tim Meach had said

Imagine being so broken that you take aim at a non-profit organization that Quotes, our mission is to reduce the risks associated with sexual activity and substance use through education, non-judgmental service, and harm reduction programming. You're a disgrace, Danielle. That's in a news article, I mind you.

Next one. Actually, harm reduction saves lives. One, identifying harms to youth, unprotected sex, lack of education. Two, meet them where they're at. Condom dispensing sex ed. Three, measuring outcomes, team pregnancy, and STI rates. Like, are these people fucking reading anything that's on there? It's about how to prepare your fucking meth pipe, part of the French, but it's like,

what are they talking about? Well, one of the things it says in this infographic, because like I said, this was, it was on the long list, but it didn't make the short list for last week's mashup, was it says that, um, You might get really horny after you smoke crack. So make sure you have a bunch of condoms and lube handy. And so you're just like, okay, well, I don't know. Maybe if I'm in a dry spell, I need to get Mrs. 2. Mrs. 2 is addicted to crack.

Oh. But I mean, it's just, it's, it's, there's, there's all these silly ideas where people will just bend over in in extreme situations and they'll do whatever they can to justify this. And it just be like, like, whatever, whatever weird mental gymnastics you need to try and jump through to say that you're justified in, um, in, in apologizing for all of this stuff. By the way, you just had Jason Nixon out there. I don't know if it was about his son or not. but I think his son's doing better.

I hope his son's doing better. I hope his son's doing better. Yeah. I saw Don Cherry trending and I'm like, I wonder what that's about. Oh, it's about exactly what you think it is. It's about those people, that video. I tell you what you want encouraging kids on how to use a crack pipe.

you know what here's the thing is it is it plays really well in places like bc where the ndp run it because you literally have to be high on crack to want to vote for the fucking nDP and so they say okay well you know what the more people we can get addicted to meth the the larger our voter bases so let's do everything we can because we'd rather we'd rather be in charge of a province of crackheads that actually have to do things like run the place well. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.

I don't think you're wrong, man. I'm, uh, it's, it's interesting. I, uh, as I look at Twitter, you know, while we're talking, I can, uh, I can see, I didn't realize this, this is new to me, uh, live on X. And there you are, Tuesday, 222 minutes. We're sitting there. Interesting.

I, I didn't, realize that was such a thing. Yep. Sean Newman podcast and 222 minutes is hosting. Interesting. Interesting to me. What do you think? Where do you think 2024 brings us to us?

I don't know, man. I got big tons of happy hope. 2024 is going to be my year. Well, do tell. What do you mean my year? What are you looking for? Oh, it's just blind optimism. there's nothing substantial there.

Blind optimism. Well, I tell you what. Blind optimism. How about this? You're working towards creating the Tuesday mashup towards the mashup and doing it during the day. That's a step in the right direction. Yes. Yeah, we're not ready to talk about that on the internet yet, Sean.

But yes, that is a thing that we're not. We are not. We are not. That's too bad. Sean's talked about it on the podcast. an awful lot now. Yeah. Yeah, I know.

I know. Did I make two... The one thing I can make two is uncomfortable about is plans for 2024, folks. Okay. Well, let's talk weather. Well, okay, here's the thing is that I'm planning on early February of having a conversation with my boss about what that is going to look like. And I really don't want, you know, some...

some guy I work with being like, oh, hey, so what's this I heard about on the mashup? And so, yeah, because apparently, I mean, I didn't really make a thing of it, but there's a lot of guys at work who enjoy the mashup. Well, shut out to the boys at work, eh? Yeah. Boys and girls, you know, I mean, we don't, we don't discriminate. That's, that's awesome. I don't know. I don't think it's a big thing.

I tell you what. Well, it's not that it's a big thing. It's just that I just need to, you know, have the conversation, and I haven't had the conversation yet. Fair enough. Well, I tell you what, one of the conversations I've been talking a bit more about because, you know, it's like right now I'm pretty loosey-goosey on it. And you haven't said yes yet, which is really interesting to me, is SMP presents

ungovernable. What do you mean? That's interesting. I said that I would get back to you next week on it, and you said yes. And it's been, it's been like four or five days. Yeah, it's been too many days, you know? Like, yeah. So I said it was going to be a week and you're like, yeah, it's been four days and I don't know why you haven't got back to me on that yet.

Under 10,000, Eileen, under 10,000 to go. So we're getting close. We're getting awfully close. By the time this, like, yeah, we're going to be there. We're going to be there. I mean, unless a meteor hits the earth, we're going to be there. So, um, 2024. Okay.

Trying to build a podcast studio. Okay. An additional podcast studio. Correct. Which means if there's any business or blue collar worker out there that wants to lend their talents would take it. Two, we got the SMP presents on Governmentable. We have not been doing anything since June. That was the last live show.

And it's going to be a two-day conference in April, 19th, 20th, it's sounding like. And Tuesday is going to be there. he doesn't know it yet, but Tuesday is going to be there. Well, among a myriad of other people. So it's going to be interesting. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, we had some trepidation around your original proposed scheduling, some family commitments.

And I was just like, well, I got to get back to you in about a week or so. And that was four or five days ago. And now you're like, and I don't know why he never got back to me. Because they changed the date for twos, folks. I know. For twos. I feel like you probably should have made. sure that it was a good week weekend for me before you changed the date for me,

assuming that it was going to work. I don't know how much this week's going to work. Okay, well, I changed it. It's this week. And now you have to come. You're like, okay, but what if that week doesn't work? Well, then you suck it up and you come twos. No, that week should work.

I haven't looked at it yet, but that week should work. So speaking of Eileen, though, I got to meet her very quickly at, at the James Lindsay. And there's a few people that I met here along the way this year and it's been awesome. And we've had so many awesome sponsors. And one of the things that I told Sean that we were going to do was that we were going to specifically name and thank all of our sponsors for the year.

So let's run through that while we're here. First off, we got SEP who alcoholically sponsored this week. much obliged we had AMC electrical Drew McKay he signed on for February too yeah and is he of 2024 I might add

is he the blue color round table as well no oh he's going to be one of the guests in the first one sorry yes yep yep then you got Vance Crow he's going to hopping on the show in a little bit and if he doesn't we're never going to let him forget it well he's got an hour that's what I'm giving Vance Crow

you have less than an hour because at eight o'clock Sean's going to slowly wind this down so Vance if you're watching saddle up brother and then we had risk in Hope Farms and we got to meet them when we were down in Lumsden

I got a hat and I got a hat too and I did the best thing you could ever imagine with it I gave it to Mrs. Toos and it is the best looking hat you've ever seen in your life oh every time she wears it it just makes me stop in my tracks That was, you know, of all the things going to Lumsden,

certainly Henry and Jamie and the crew and Garden Girl and on and on, but I got to sit at a table with them and, risk and hope I'm talking. Yeah. That was pretty cool. That was like, that was pretty cool. To kind of like, because I didn't know who they were before that. You know, I've seen the barn.

But to actually sit and talk with them for a bit, that was pretty cool. That was a, that was a fun memory of Lumsden. well i mean just that that that whole tour that definitely specifically for sure but how many cool little moments do we have along the way right quite a few honestly quite a few yep that was a fun little trip that was that was interesting like the usum brothers that was everything about that after i beat you in clay shooting you didn't beat me in clay shooting but it's nice to you yeah i bet it's you know what i'll let you think you did you know what i think me and chris barb we're talking about this clay pigeon shoot in Lloyd?

Like, this, I feel like this thing's going to get legs. In June, we should do a clay pigeon shoot in Lloyd. Well, you mean, so the kids, Scotty? Yes. That's what I'm, yeah, yep.

And, uh, we should raise money for something. Now, I'm going to put it as something because I don't know what that is. And there should be team twos, you're going to do a fundraiser for TD. Team twos, team SMP. Or something. along that lines.

222 versus SMP. Sure. I like that. And when we win, when we win. Like, I don't know. Tuesday has got to wear an oil or jersey and sing their praises for like a year. Like I just, I just want to, I can't wait. Can't wait.

Oh, that'll be awesome. You know what? I bet you, I bet you we could get Greg McKenzie in on that. Sure. You know, guy from your neck of the woods that I used to go to that traffic. shooting place with week after week for years. We get my buddy David.

I don't want him on my team though because he fucking sucks. He can play on yours. He's definitely on your team. He can play on yours. Oh, we're going to say we can pick the other person's team. Okay.

Oh, how about we do kind of an interesting mix? I don't know. I don't know. I think it's great idea. We're going to have some people who are like, well, I want to play on Sean's team.

And, you know, everybody who doesn't have brain damage can, you know, say that they want to, to play on my team. And then there'll be, you know, a little bit of like, I don't know, maybe, uh, I don't know, you'll, you'll have somebody like, Dust will say he wants to play and you'll just

look at him and be like, no, Tuesday or something. I don't know. Maybe Dust can shoot. I have no idea. What will you do to celebrate the milestone of the downloads? That's interesting because it's very important not only to have goals and have them laid out and be able to measure what, when they're achievable, but especially when you set such a long-term goal, you need to have that release and that reward.

I'm going to set the next big goal. I'm not satisfied. I'm going to go to a wedding with all of my wife on New Year's Eve. The kids are staying with their grandparents in Minnesota. I think that's celebration enough. I don't know. I don't have a... But you'd be doing that regardless of whether you hit a million or not.

So I'd say it doesn't really count. you need to come up with a way to commemorate it where you just, I don't know, even if you just showed up at Harley with the second half of that bottle of whiskey I left for him. So for those of you guys who don't know, when we went to Mar Wayne for that Gord Bamford concert, which actually I've got another thought about that. So I needed to consult. with somebody in the transportation industry on a ticket I got.

And so I reached out and I was like, yeah, Sean, give me Harley's number. And so anyway, I picked his brain on it for a little bit. And I was like, hey, man, thanks a lot. I appreciate this. I'll bring you a bottle of whiskey next time I see you. He said, okay, sounds good. So I pick up Canadian Club President Select, which is probably one of the best 100% rye whiskeys out there and dollar for dollar even though it's canadian club like the the rye whiskey

is very good it's very good and it's cheap which are my two favorite things in in alcohol and so i bust it out or i bring it out and then sean and his other other brother like well we need to make sure it's not poison and then and then there's there's three newman brothers all of them except Harley and me are sitting around Dustin's camp at like three in the morning working on this thing and the extra rap that I got from the rap place on the end of town and uh like guys like I didn't get this this bottle for you like this supposed we did Harley helped me out here Harley was helping me out of your head too's Harley was helping you put a gun in your head and you guys are drinking his booze.

I love how you try and throw us all in the bus. Hey? Yeah, you're guilty, man. You're just guilty. He didn't abstain. But it was, it's the whole thing was funny.

The whole thing was funny. Yeah, whoops. I don't know. What do you? Here's the other thing about Bampford concert. I don't know if you notice this or not. But Bud Lights had a tough year,

right? When, when Smyranoff ice can be excited about the fact that they're the second gayest beer, you know that the Bud Light's been, been pretty hard done by. And it's good that he's tuning in. This is the sponsor of tonight's episode.

Scotty P. We're trying to catch up, buddy. So Breakfast Beer, he's got this lyric about Bud Light there in the original version. And I was curious. I was thinking about this when I was driving up. I was like, do you think he changed it out to like Coorslight

or I don't know, something with testicles or whatever? And no, what he did during the live performance was he turned around real quick as part of a dance move and just kind of mumbled for a second. And so I'm convinced

that any time somebody has Bud Light or Coors Light or whatever else in any of their songs, they got paid for it. And there's probably a stipulation that that's the way the song gets played for the rest of their goddamn life. You imagine being where you have to say Bud Light?

No, but I could see how they got there. Yeah, that's... Like, I would put it in no gay clause. I hope to never be there, Tews. Like, I tell you what? What if it's a product you really like? What if it was original 16? and and and and then they go and do the transgender thing

like what's going to happen if gort Bamford says Pilsner instead of Budlight well I imagine that he's in violation of the contract and he needs to repay it in full so then I don't sign that contract and he probably got paid something like $100,000 to do that yeah but now look at it it now look at it

Would you have thought 10, 15 years ago when he released that song? 10 15 years ago, I didn't think men thought they could be women, women thought they could be boys. You didn't think that there was going to be tampons in the men's room in the Air Force? In the military, right? Like, it's like, yeah, I agree. But it's right now as it sits, it's like, oh, you're going to sign a deal that says you have compelled speech for the rest of time? No. See, that's the thing is you say, all right, I'll do this for the rest of time.

time unless there's a serious deviation in what this thing represents. Oh, so you're saying change the contract. Okay. I'm just saying, I'm saying that kind of contract. Can you imagine writing a contract with with Bud Light? Listen, I agree with you 100%. But the day you put a man dressed up as a woman. No trannies on your can clause.

I'm all. And they're like, that's a stupid clause. That's a stupid clause. Ah, crap. Right. Gore, Pampford. just you can right now gourd bamford every time he turns around during a live show and mumbles

more light into the fucking microphone he's like oh crap yeah because what if somebody catches it that's the thing he's got to say it and every time he performs it live i'm sure that's part of the contract because otherwise he wouldn't have turned around and mumbled when that lyric of the song came up peter what twos is saying is if he's in violation of the contract then he could probably be held to what he'd probably have to give the money back there's probably something in stipulation somewhere in there yeah there's probably something in the clause that says that he has to give it all back if he fucks it up even once probably something like that no self-respecting man drinks a light beer maybe i said Saskatchewan man i can't she shit talking Saskatchewan i think she's

shit got shit talking us both oh i just i knew the moment I met her that there was something wasn't right. I'm kidding. Scotty P. and Dana White made millions of but he probably made billions, Scotty. He probably made billions. Gordon Bamford ain't making shit off 016.

Yeah. Not with that attitude. But I bet you Dana White just said, look, you guys need this way more than I do. And let's be honest, if you guys don't get this, you are fucked. So pay

and pay hard. That's what I would have said if I was Dan White. She says she's talking about people who drink light beer. That's fair. Is there any at any moment, sorry, Peter has chimed in, a man Mulvaney, whose audience averages

17 years old. That's the other side of Bud Light Boycott cut. Why are they trying to why are they trying to market themselves? People aren't old enough to drink it. You ever drink a Bud Light again? Yeah. absolutely will i do it unironically no i'll do it if a i'm at a buddy's house and it's the only beer in the fridge and i will not shut up about it until he kicks me out that's i'll drink a

bud light and i was shit talking the entire time or two something like i don't know remember when i had that bud light shirt on for for one of the live shows that was that was lumsden wasn't and you remember Lumsden had a guy drinking Bud Light in the crowd and I was like, this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, so I would do it just to be, just for comedic effect, just that I can make fun of it, just that I could shit talk that beer and,

I don't know, just be an asshole about it. But as far as, as far as like going to a bar and just being like, yeah, I'll get a Bud Light. Nope. Yeah, that's, probably change i would agree with you i actually when you put it that way tuesday i we don't agree on much i think we probably agree on more than i i give credit but that right there the way you put it if you go to a book like where you have options not a chance nope not a chance like it's like give me anything

else yep i'll i'll gladly drink the palm bay just give me a palm bay would you walk around with that in my hand you drink a palm bay yes i am why yeah because it's more head o's Bud light left. Bud light. It was either that or bud light. Yep. It's funny. I was in,

oh, not Victoria's Secret. What's the other one? Lavie. No. Levion Rose? Yes. Bredericks of Hollywood. Pink.

You've got the... No, no. Lavian Rose. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I was in there today, and I was like... Did you find anything you liked?

Yeah. Anything fit well? That, that place used to... intimidate the crap out of me. Intimid the hell out of you? As a young guy. Like where you would walk past it quickly because you're just like, someone's going to see me walking past this store and think I'm a pervert? And when I got, when I was dating Mel and maybe when we got married, I used to go, you know, like as a Christmas gift or birthday, I can't remember.

But I used to like, oh, okay, work up the courage. We're going to go in. We're going to go in. We're going to do this. And then it was. I something gone. And then it was a lovely old lady. Like, I'm, I don't know. And I apologize. Folks. Maybe she was only 50. I can't remember. I was just like, she's like, you know what?

You don't need to be nervous. There's so many nervous guys that are like envious, the fact you'll walk through the store. And all of us women are envious that you're in here buying something for your, for your missus. And I was like, oh, so it's funny. That joke plays out. What am I, Mel and me have been together now?

It's been 16 years. So let's just say for the first two years, I never went in there. So for 14 years, I've heard that same joke from women every time I go in there. Like, all the women are jealous you're in here because they know their man ain't coming in. I'm like, interesting. So actually, I don't, I'm not even bothered by there.

I asked really dumb questions in there. I had, yeah, like I had. Like, doesn't this give you a wedgy? I don't ask that dumb a question. I'd say that's a pretty good question. We were talking about the color of brown today with a, with a girl who's obviously way younger than me. And I'm like, brown, why? Why brown and undergarments?

I don't understand. Because it hides the streaks? Believe me. I had some thoughts. She's like, actually, Brown's like a really trendy, you know, and I'm like, all right, all right. You've sold me. If it's trendy, let's try it out, you know.

So, anyway, that was, stories from Jessica's trans brother had a job there a couple of weeks ago. Taylor King. For a couple weeks. I assume you mean Leveon Rose, not, not Bud Light. Anyways, by the way, I can't tell, because that picture, you know, it's not HQ enough. But Taylor went as falling down for Christmas one year.

And it's probably one of the best damn Christmas costumes I've ever seen in my life. And by the way, we actually need to have either him. We need to have either him or Jess or both on the mashup next year too. The whole point of the story of me going into late wasn't about what I was doing there. It was that as soon as I got in there, I was like, looking at. What was doing there? buying a Christmas gift for Mel. Anyway, that's a side story.

I walked in, the first thought I had was, can you imagine if there was like, because it got all these beautiful women and, like, lingerie on the walls, right? Can you imagine if on those, there was a transgender man? Which is... Transgender female.

Anyways, politically correct. Well, that was Victoria's Secret. They tried that. I know, but that's what I thought. I'm like, so I come back to the Bud Light. And then it didn't sell for some reason. The Bud Light, I'm like, well, you ever do it? Well, I mean,

yes, but in these stipulations, like, will you ever buy Victoria's Secret again? It's funny, Victoria's Secrets gets a quicker pass. Victoria's Secret is trying to redo themselves. And I was trying to have this conversation. I was having this conversation because I have ulterior motives, right? But we're walking by this. We're going through the mall.

And I'm like, you know, that new sort of lacy thing with the, yep, and all that and the zoob-zibs and everything else like that. That looks interesting. I bet you that would look really good. And you know, they've really turned over a new leaf lately. I think, I think we're ready to give them another chance. And then Mrs. Tew's like, I don't know, maybe she's got an ulterior motive too, but she's like, fuck, no.

Wasn't the least bit interested. Nothing like seeing a penis and a thong. I think you're absolutely right. Uh, yeah. Yeah, there's, there's something about that corner of the ball hanging out that, uh, but Eileen is literally, uh, Wait a second. Before we get there,

Eileen is literally like chiming in on my thought I had when I walked in to Lavien Rose. Lavin Rose. Anyways, I was like, imagine like they got a poster of a trans woman on the wall and that's exactly what it is.

You'd be like, oh, I got to go. Well, I mean, it can't help sales, right? There's no way that you're going to say like, oh, yeah, those are some nice lady balls.

I'd like to buy three of those, those lazy, underwear things, right? It's just not going to happen. And then they realized, oh, wait, if we do all this weird shit, people stop buying things that are designed to make people feel and look and be sexy. Because there's nothing sexy about a pair of lady balls. Lady balls.

Yeah. You know, if you would have told me 15 years, that would be even remotely mentioned in, in conversation, lady balls. Hey, boy. Imagine, Taylor, imagine if there was a cute redhead girl helping you pick out lingerie for your lady and you had no idea it was a man you know the funny thing is is that i met taylor's brother-in-law and i i totally didn't like it was just for like a minute and i didn't clue in but i remember thinking she kind of had nice legs he's wearing shorts and then uh and then i was

texting with taylor afterwards and i'm like oh oh it's good thing i didn't say anything well i don't i i don't know they're they're tuning in anyways but uh yeah yeah yeah well i appreciate high levels of fitness yeah i didn't know that was it i i wasn't i wasn't that's as far as i went with that's as far as you went all right yeah yeah yeah and i lean i lean's on fire tonight maybe if she he she manscaped yeah i guess well i mean Yeah, because the balls in a thong look way better when they're shaved. Yeah. I like muscular legs.

Taylor King said, you said a lady with muscular legs answered the door. Yeah, that is true. He's probably actually reading through the text right now. So he's got the receipts. Oh, man. Do you like the stocking or give some under the tree? Are we still talking about Leveon-Rose? No, I'm trying to switch gears here.

All right. Transgendered females in undergarments. Okay, fine, fine. We'll move the story along. I like both. So I always do a combination where there's the stocking and there's a few interesting things in there. Usually it's like socks and toothbrushes and, you know, the odd. I don't know.

She might be listening. but there's there's a cool stalking thing and there's there's a cool one of the gifts is is in the stocking which you would expect to be wrapped but I'm like I'm like gonna wrap this many things so one of them's going in stocking see and I like the stocking I don't know when this changed for me but somewhere along the line I love the stocking now no I'm not saying for me to open for me to put a gift into maybe it is the fact that I don't have to wrap it I never thought of that but uh uh, sorry, is this a LeVion Rose conversation still? No.

I mean, uh, what a. I gotta get us on to some other subject than a, a transgendered female. And Lee jumped in. Lee, I was actually thinking, um, today I was like, Lee texts me yesterday and I've been flying all day trying to get ready for all this Christmas shit. And I was like,

Fuck. Should I just, and I never had a chance to throw it out to you before we started, but I was like, should we just call Lee during the show, to say hi? Just say hi. I was texting Lee. I was texting Lee, what was it today? Lee? I don't, I'm trying to forget.

I'm trying to remember. I want to say it was today because I was telling them about the ungovernable and the fact that I would like to set up a booth section. So you can general public just walk through and see. these people but if you're at the conference you know in between you could go see like-minded businesses maybe network maybe a whole bunch of different things and for the businesses you could sell a bunch stuff right you get stuff sell it does 220 minutes get a free booth there free booth free booth well you haven't even said

that you're coming because I haven't asked you we haven't we haven't finished the negotiations so yeah we haven't finished the negotiations like listen to this guy folks You know, there. See, you know what Lee says? We're coming. That's what's happening. Okay, well, if Lee's going to be there, then I'm going to go to. Tews is definitely paying triple for a booth now.

You know, he relinquished his negotiating rights, folks. A spice table, not a booth. I wish I had a name like Chris Van Dam. Yeah. It's a great name. It is. It is. I mean, I feel like you need to have another middle name in there.

like if it was i don't know chris hemisworth van dam would be good what would you be selling to my soul um what little bit is left of it what would you be selling to is i don't know i feel like i i i totally missed the boat i've got this show coming up on the first in calgary and i'm all out of merch i'm not even going to have any merch at the show you're not going to have anything so yeah come to lloyd and grab what we have left of the mashup t-shirts. I'm going to make a 12-hour round trip to sell a dozen shirts. Probably not.

Let's be honest. That's not thinking positively at all. I don't know. We'll see here. The point is that I should have a little bit of inventory kicking around at any given time. I suck at maintaining proper levels. But it would probably just be me hanging out

and saying, why are you crazy enough to come talking? Who are you going to be opening for? Well, that's for Danger Cat's. So January 1st Comedy Cave in Calgary. Well, there you go, Calgarians. I do, Lee. And we're going to get you that rooster shirt in timely fashion. Yeah, as in like April 15th.

Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just so Lee's clear. We're going to get it to you. We're going to get it to you. Oh, and so Chris Van Damme,

It is Chris Anthony Van Damme. And he doesn't have that as his name. You should be like Chris Tony Van Dam. Darrell, is this thing on? Did you guys talk about the federal government spending $800,000 on a deer cull in B.C? Let's see here. Where is it? Number five.

Legal guns used to shoot the wrong deer from a helicopter at a cost of $10,000. per head. It's on the docket, my friend. You just got to be patient. And I suppose if we wanted to just talk about the insanity of Canada, we could do that. Maybe I should just switch to coffee. I could do that.

No. You know, let's let's just talk about the world and how messed up it is. So they needed to call an invasive species on Vancouver Island. And so they got a bunch of people from New Zealand and the States to come in and shoot 223, which is probably an IR 15, with 30 round magazines out of a fucking helicopter at herds of deer. And a couple dozen of them were the wrong deer because they needed to call the invasive species to try and help out the native species. which, by the way, if you're doing half measures in a situation like that, you're wasting your fucking time. Secondly, they shot a bunch of the wrong fucking deer because they're not from here

and they don't know what they're looking at. And thirdly, you could have, for $10,000 ahead, you could have had Americans come in and do it. You could have worked with outfitters in the region. You could have worked with outfitters at $10,000 ahead. You could have got outfitters from all over Canada who would have just flown in and just been like, yeah, just fucking shoot. whatever the hell you want.

You could have made, instead of spending $834,000, you could have made millions. Have we not learned anything yet? But this is the thing. This is the class of government. Why let something happen on its own for free when you could spend a whole shit ton of taxpayer money doing it in a far worse way?

And that's the fucking country we live in. That's our government on every, possible level. Yeah, I mean. Like, okay, this could have made us $4 million. Okay, but what if we spent a million dollars instead? Oh, that's a much better idea. Let's do that.

Can we make sure that we shoot some of the wrong fucking deer while we're at it? Yep. And can we make it a half measure that's going to have no long-term net effect on the situation we're trying to remedy? Yeah, let's also do that. Get the fuck out of here. Guys, why is it so fucking hard to have any. with any practical real-life experience in government on any level.

I'm trying to smile on this set. Shane Getson was telling me. Every time we talk about the government twos, it puts me in a foul mode. All right. Because, like, you just, you just rattle it off. Like, I mean, okay, so we talked about it. Great. Are we going to do anything about it?

All right. Probably not. Probably not. They're probably going to spend another million dollars. I think shame in another month I think something stupid I'm gonna finish your thought here before you get to Shane Gatson

and people are gonna be like you guys gonna talk about it sure we'll talk about it they're doing a lot of stupid stuff all the time they spend them way too much money all the time in everybody's areas

all the time and here we sit and if this is what we're gonna do on Festvis I'm just gonna let two reds this is airing of grievances I tell you what it is an airing of grievances

on this side I am tired of it Tired of the freaking federal government. Tired of the provincial government. I'm tired of the government. They suck. Yep. But this is that we idiot shame them in hopes that they get better.

Well, it hasn't been working. It's been 86. It's been 86 mashups at this point, man. Dude, how many times have we talked about how we talk about something? We bring it up on the mashup. And then there's specific general reference. to something later on. Like when we talked about the lady fire in Banff.

And then they're like, yes. And then people in the news were citing misogyny. We're the only people who talked about it. They literally, they didn't want to name us. It's like when QDM's carbon tax video got talked about in parliament, but they didn't specifically name it. That happened to us with the lady fires in Banff. How many times have we been like, oh, you know what?

We bring this up for two, three, four weeks in a row. And then something changes. Dude, we've got. So you say we're winning. I don't have a list of them. Are you saying we're winning? No, we're totally losing. Yeah, we're totally losing with style.

All right. So that's the thing. Like I mentioned to Shane, because Daniel Smith had this announcement where she said, it's for some hydrogen plant. And so she shows up in the nicest way possible, looking at all. lot like Trudeau does when he shows up on a construction site. With the new everything, looking completely uncomfortable, out of your element. And I was like, you guys should just send somebody who's actually got a pair of work boots that

they've worn in life until they got into politics. That's the kind of guy you want to send, right? I'm like, Shane, you're that guy. Why aren't you doing this? And then he said actually that he had done. a thing like that and the media people thought that he had just

bought a used pair of boots like he got them at Valley Village because it didn't even occur to them that somebody in politics might have actually had a pair of steel-toed boots that they wore at work and so anyways the point is that a guy like Shane even before I had that conversation with him

is showing up with old work boots while he's trying to help out Alberta. And so the things that we talk about, because I think actually it might have been Festivis last year, I was ranting about like how would it be the end of the fucking world if we could get a politician who'd actually worn out a pair of boots in his life. And maybe he wore that pair of boots at a press conference. And now it's happening.

And so we've got these little things that keep happening. And so we talk about how dumb they are about gun control. and how dumb they are about conservation. Maybe they're going to get a guy who's actually got a deer on his wall at some point to have a conversation about conservation instead of some idiot bureaucrat from the suburbs. Next thing you know, hey, maybe there's some positive change. I hope you're right.

They can pick my brain any time they want. I'm just tired of talking. See that big deer back there? See that? Yes, I can. Yeah. I mean, I got to squint, but I can see. Yeah. Now, full disclosure, I didn't shoot that deer.

My dad did. You're not supposed to say that. It's a beauty of, like, that's the thing. It's, it's a beauty of a deer. There's, I don't know, it's like top 1,500 typical white tails ever shot. It's just tough, you know. I mean, it's been, it's been, yeah, there's a good question. before I get the, it's just, we've been, if it hasn't been 86 weeks, it's been what, 80, 84, just the amount of, well, the amount of government overspent, the amount of inept people in the government.

And you're saying, you're saying there's been five or six weeks where we've had wins. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just, you know, I like, sitting on the festivists and talk about what they're continuing to do. It's like, man, like this is happening everywhere, all the time. We, two. literally takes our list from 30 down to 12. And we could talk about it. We could talk about it for four hours a week. Mm-mm. The stupidity. I mean, Holly and Holly Doan and Tom Corsky have literally made a living off Blacklock's reporter

of just breaking stupidity from the bureaucracy. That's all they do. And the thing about it is, to their absolute credit. I love how well they do it and how, like, we get up here and we say, this is stupid and this is why it's stupid. They have this absolute beauty, like just this finesse feather touch where they will talk about it

and they'll just say, hey, you know what? Like we got, we're just gonna, we're gonna tell you exactly what they said. This is what they dated for April 31st. This is, like they just, they present it, which it is as news,

and they present it completely unbiased. biased without saying how stupid it all is. Yeah, they just report the facts. Well, here, here, I'm going to, I'm going to throw this on the screen here real quick. So this is some of the stuff that we're going to talk about here, here this week here. And then he disappeared on me, folks. Are you, Tew's has disappeared. He says, we're going to talk about some of these things.

While we're doing that, how will we go to, uh, oh, here. here. I like this one. Lee Hepner. Government always kills the mood, guys. Yeah, Lee, I'm just trying to have, I'm trying to enjoy holidays. Can we enjoy holidays? I'm enjoying this. Can we enjoy best of us? You know, as, as frustrating as you get, and I kind of got that impression from you a couple weeks ago when we had Uncle Hack on that, you were kind of frustrated with the fact that we talk about stuff like this every week, and it doesn't really seem to change. But maybe you're losing sight of the fact that it's still really fun to talk about.

Yeah. I don't know if I'm losing sight of it. I just, every once in a while I need a break from it. I just, I don't know. Maybe that is losing sight of the fun in it. You know how many conversations,

too, is I have these days over what the best Christmas movie is? I know, that's a dumb topic, sorry. but like um not that often anymore it's uh it's always these conversations

and so every once in a while it's it's nice just to shoot the shit pardon the french yeah you know I know they're they're doing a whole bunch of like you don't have to look that far they're doing a whole bunch of freaking wild things like did you listen to Scott Marsland the recent interview I don't know uh no no I didn't I tell you what

you know go into that folks with full warning like that's a heavy interview I did not realize that's what it was going to be and interesting very very interesting but like every once in a while

I just want to be die hard can we talk about freaking you know like it's just to pull it all back in to pull it back all into what the government's doing

they're screwing us hard every week. Every week. And Eileen goes, do you think our parents had this exact same conversation back in the day?

I would say in some form of the matter, yes. Just not to this ineptitude. There's no way. Like, there's just no way. They wouldn't have seen it. There's as horrible as the disclosure is nowadays where we just,

there's so much stuff where it's just the tip of the iceberg and most of it we don't even know. Like, they had ad scam to worry about back then. And, and that was, that went on for like 10 years before anybody found out. And so, you know, we've got where people like blacklocks, they do FOIP requests and they get them back in a sometimes reasonable manner. Sometimes.

You know, sometimes is a reasonable time frame and sometimes it's a reasonable, uh, I bet you how many how many boys do you think they're doing in a weekly basis? You know what? I'm guessing probably dozens. Because if I look at it from a podcast standpoint, you go, how did you ever get X? And it's, well, I didn't just ask X. I asked like the entire alphabet. Yeah.

And then it just turned out that X ended up being the one that landed on gold. keep asking and you keep and that's probably one thing people have a hard time understanding is like from a or maybe they understand i don't know from a podcast standpoint you ask guests all the time and get told no or they never come on and i look at black locks i'm like how many times are they doing a foype and waiting a year to get it or six months or six months or it comes back heavily readacted or they get it back and it's innocuous yes because they don't do which i don't know maybe Maybe we should get things like that in the news every once in a while, where we did a freedom of information request on this thing,

and it came back exactly in order and what you would expect. It's completely boring. Because in this day and age, that's news. Yes. That's completely to the contrary. It's not what you expect. It's very counterculture and probably noteworthy. Eileen, I don't agree.

I remember my dad getting so. pissed off having conversations with the siblings. Sometimes I thought there would be a fight. That was back when the first Trudeau was in power. The difference was people talked face to face. They did. And yeah, I remember there being a lot of reticence to actually have these conversations because

if you actually, people not wanting to. Because if you actually got into a conversation with somebody who knew what they were talking about about this stuff, it typically wasn't a lot of positive things. Or at least that was kind of how I took it from, you know, what I saw with my parents and their friends was that,

yeah, if somebody was having a conversation about this stuff, they were generally pretty worked up about it and had a lot of stuff to say and had some receipts, which, you know, were all very secondhand receipts that they got from, you know,

whatever they learned from CBC back then or whatever else, right? And so, yeah, nobody really wanted to have these conversations because nobody really felt prepared for them. And, yeah, I didn't, from what I understood, none of them really went too well. But yeah, so Darrell and notice he's commenting on YouTube. So we've got at least one person watching YouTube. How did you convince Mrs. 2 is to let you put that on the wall? Actually, uh, funny story is that, uh, so my dad just downsized fairly recently. and Mrs. Tews was already here, one big happy family.

And so she's a mail-order bride. Got her from that beautiful state to the south of us, this far off exotic land. Sometimes she'll cook me the authentic cultural food for people, which is like fried chicken and fried this and fried that and jumbolaia. And it's especially funny because she's... she actually make you jumble eye oh it's good she makes good if she's listening next time i'm over jumble eye would be oh dude it's it is next level and she's just this tiny slim muscular

beautiful woman muscular legs yeah muscular legs not like not like taylor's brother-in-law but muscular legs and you know, you get her worked up and she's angry at you and she just talks to you like a sassy black lady. Like, oh, no, you did not just say that. Like, she's not doing it to be ironic. It's just that's how people talk down there. So anyway, I had convinced her that this was just completely normal, which it is, actually.

And we were talking yesterday and today about how we need more dead animals on the wall. Because we went to Irvines, and they've got a lot of beauty dead animals on the walls. And I'm like, yeah, you know what I mean? We didn't start adding to the collection. And when I was driving back from the week-long show that we did, or no, no, no, it wasn't.

What was the last time I was up there? Oh, it was the comedy at the Big Tube. I'm driving back and just south of Irma. So I'm driving back on Sunday. Just South of Irma. there is a beauty of a buck dead in the ditch. Just a giant, big old whitey,

just like maybe four or five miles south of Irma. And, or sorry, not Irma of, uh, um, where the hell's, uh,

that dairy king, where the Sutter's are all from. Viking. Viking, thank you. Just sell the Viking. And I don't have anything to cut that head off. with. And I don't have,

I don't have a whole bunch of, you know, if I had a whole bunch of, uh, vapor barrier in my truck, you know, in my car, I could have just laid it all out,

grab the whole fucking deer brought it home. Uh, but that was a beauty rack. And I'm like, okay, the closest hardware store that's open right now is cammore. Am I really going to do a two hour round trip on top of this drive home?

Just to get these antlers. and I should have. Whoops. Yeah. Yeah, you could have done a beauty of a French mount with those things. With 14 minutes to go-toes. Yeah. What do you want to talk about?

I brought up 2024. We could do favorite moments of 2023. You know what? I want to hear some of your favorite moments of 20203. Now, are we talking mashup specifically? let's do some mashup, some personal, some Sean Newman podcast. Yeah. Well, from a mashup perspective, getting to do the live tour probably because it was such a,

you know, fly by the seat of our pants kind of idea. Yeah. And then to have the experience we had with it, I think, you know, I think I can speak for both of us. It was like highly enjoyable. the people that were there enjoyed it. That was a fun experience. Like that was, that was, I didn't know what to make of when we left for that.

I didn't know what was going to come of it. So that was, that was a ton of fun. Did you have trepidation? Yeah, I was terrified of that trip. Really? I, I, I, I'm not a funny guy. I mean, people might think I'm a funny guy, but I don't try to be a funny guy.

You don't. That's not, I'm not known as, Sean Newman podcast, the funny guy who makes you laugh. It's like, no, that's not what Sean does. It's not what I do. So to be on stage and know that part of what we're trying to do is people, make people laugh, was it most uncomfortable moment I've had in probably since I put on my first show. Yeah.

Okay. That was difficult. Like first live show you mean? Yep. Going back to March of 2022. Okay. So that was interesting and uncomfortable and a bunch of other things. From the mashup as a whole, I go, I'm really impressed we made it every week

because there was lots of times where you worked until like 855, 857 roll in and we do a mashup. There's other times where I'm in the middle of nowhere and we found a way to do a mashup, right? And anytime you can have that level of consistency, I think good things will follow, I guess. I do really like that about us is how there's just that we're going to make it work, no matter what. And there's times where I've listened to the show the next morning, and I'm like, holy fuck, was I tired?

And I can tell how tired I was. But we still did it anyway. And, yeah, I like the fact that we've, really held each other to account for that because we both it's it's very much a team thing where you just know that no excuse you're going to have is going to hold water so you just suck it up and do it well one of the things i'll give i don't careful to inflate two's head folks too much the first summer we did this i said why we just take the summer off like i'm going to the states and like whatever and and two's like no no no we're doing it i'm like

No, all right. And that's the summer where I'm in the broom closet. I almost pass out with a fly going around my hand. And if I go back to that, I'm like, man, I was, I was dying of lack of oxygen in that room. It's like plus 35 in there. One little fly going around. I'm like, I think I got it out of here, right? Like I'm, so like we've, we've been doing it now for, no, 86 straight, right? So that's been, I mean, you can, if nothing else, you can count on the mashup being there. That's why we're, we're going to. That's why we're. We're going to be. we're doing it on a Saturday before Christmas so that Tuesday, if you're tuning into this, it's there. And as much fun as Festivus is, you're busy, I'm busy, and it doesn't line up perfectly, and yet we're finding ways, I guess. So, are we going to do more live shows? Well, we should. Yes. I think it's a great excuse to do some family time things travel in the summer. Well, we should. I like this whole idea like what Vance Crow was throwing out with the whole RV thing. And if we just, it's not that hard to just throw together some, some live shows. Because if you're just doing it as an excuse to throw all things together at the same time,

if 10 people show up, who cares? I care. I do care. I, I really wanted to be, I wanted to be Hank's Tavern again. Hank's Tavern was. Which is funny because I bet you Hanks was probably the lowest turnout we had, but it was packed. But it was packed. He was, you find me 10 Hank's taverns or whatever, not, maybe not 10, 5.

And I'm like, yeah, we could, like, that'd be a fun trip. Like, you know, and to the folks listening, I don't know, Hank's Tavern, 60 people, 75 maybe. And it was jarred. It was just this little tiny bar. It was, and the history of it and Hank herself and everything. That was a fun time.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was just driving, I don't even know where, but Mrs. Tews a couple weeks ago. And the, shoot, the Northern Pikes came on Spotify.

I'm like, these are the guys. so the drummer in this song, his wife used to bartend with Hank from Hank's Tavern. Yes. And her name was, I think it was Henriette, was it? Hank's name was, yeah, Henriette. Yes. And so, and then the drummer's wife was like, what's your name?

Oh, that's way too long. I'm not going to have enough time to say that. Your name is now Hank. And so this wonderful lady that I've been talking about how awesome she was from the Hank's Tavern, the drummer from this song's wife gave her the name Hank. And of course, she's sitting there looking like, why are we even having this conversation right now? Why are we talking about this? But I thought it was awesome.

What's your favorite memory, 2023? I don't know. I had a couple cool, I had just kind of a bullshit day with the girls where we were just sitting around doing nothing. And it was absolutely wonderful. and I quite love that. And then there was kind of a moment camping where I was like, this is really nice. That was with just Mrs. Tews.

And then there was, as far as the mashup goes, the podcast in general, when we were at Hanks, I had a bunch of buddies there from high school. And just having that. them there and then chatting afterwards and then one of them stuck around for like a while and we were talking and catching up. And that was pretty cool. Just to have them just showing up and

being like, hey, you know what? This is pretty cool. And then I invited my dad out for that comedy show I did with QDM because he's a big quick dick, McDick fan. And so he was over the moon because he got to go see a quick dick McDick show. But no, it was, it was very cool to just be like, Hey, you know what?

This is, you try to explain this to family members, especially in the older generation. Like, I don't know, I've got this podcast thing. And we just shoot the shit and talk about government and try and make people laugh. But then to actually have them seeing some of it live, I thought was pretty neat. So that's, yeah, I didn't pick one. I didn't pick one. But in person. Because you're already seeing it.

Eileen's already going, you know, have a have a live short. close to Calgary. I was sad I couldn't be there at any of this past year. Well, if you were in Alberta, I mean, you know, we didn't really cross over except for Irma. So, yeah, I mean, like, I'm driving distance to Lloyd. Easy. Or probably, uh, Calgary.

I imagine that we're going to do. Why does Scotch punch so hard? Damn, first date. And it slaps you so hard. Yeah. It does. Scotchy is wonderful. But we got just under four minutes left, folks.

I think, okay. So, yeah, I think doing a few more live shows this year is absolutely necessary. I think summer is a good time to have them because we can turn it into a vacation type thing. Vance no-showed. So, fuck that guy. I never liked him anyway. I get it.

Straight face. There's like, like honestly, like I was saying at the start, like getting to know that guy better this year has been an absolute life point. You pumped his tires and he didn't. show up, you know? Yeah. Come on. Be better. But, uh, okay, four minutes left to go.

What are you thinking? Well, I go, what do we want to accomplish in 20, 24 with the mashup? Obviously, there's, uh, we've already talked about this lightly, um, or briefly maybe, uh, 52 weeks and me and twos have already had the chat that like there's going to be for sure for, for weekend. weekends, weeks where I'm not there. And so we're going to have a guest come in, and Tuesday is going to be a Tuesday mashup without me there.

I just got some things going on in life, and I go, there's just no way. And I want to make sure that, yeah, that I'm fully present. But I think it opens up a really interesting opportunity to have somebody else be one-on-one instead of, you know, because you have like QDM or whoever, it doesn't matter. We had Tim Mohn, we had Uncle Hack, we've had a dust, and we've had a whole bunch of different people come on.

And when it's three, it's an interesting kind of dynamic. And so in 2024, you're going to see a Tuesday mashup without Sean on it, which I don't think is. You probably see a couple without twos, to be honest. And that will be interesting. Okay, none before 100. How about that? Yeah, none before 100. Yeah, I don't think that's a problem.

Okay. Well, 100, we got to do something special for 100. Maybe that's a question for the people. What do they want to see on 100? What do you want to see on 100? Yeah. Should we try to make it happen in person? Mead up somewhere in the middle, like Stettler?

The 100th mashup from Stettler? I don't know. Does that make sense? I know it's kind of the middle way. It's a pretty good halfway point. I go, like, let's do the 100th mashup. from like the saddle dome so I can boo the flames I don't think we could fill the saddle though no we don't have to we can just have fun um you mean like like if we went to

a flames game 20 and and did a bunch of podcasting while in the stands at the flames game sure 2024 is going to be would they allow us in there with mics and everything suppose they would right doesn't matter 2024 is going to see the 100th episode of the Tuesday mashup. That's interesting. It is. It's going to move at some point from the Tuesday mashup to the mashup as long as things work out. Hey, so, like, I've got, I've got a few guests in mind.

Like, I want to have bushels. I want to have bushels per acre on here. I want to have Chuck on again, even if that military roundup becomes a constant thing. I think that he's just such a fun and interesting guy that I don't know why he doesn't have his own damn show. It's not like he doesn't have time. You heard of Chuckie. Crum's Body. He's the funniest guy on Twitter.

And I keep bugging him and trying to get him to come on. And he doesn't listen. And, oh, I'm not going to out him. But the guy who was the Catherine McKenna parody who's ignoring my DMs about coming on this show. there's there's a few people and dairy cartel as well we can get the pleb on too that's darrell and someone from the pc ppc bros to come on and ask things out there's some the the ppc conservative party thing is interesting because they're both mad at each other all the time for being what they are because the the conservative party guys get mad at the pbc guys because they're like you're

not trying to win you're just trying to be in your face about stuff and I think it's safe to say at this point that Maxine is not trying to win. He's just trying to be the guy in the spotlight. And then the PBC guys jump back and they say, the conservatives aren't even a conservative party. And that's also very true. And so you've got these two things that don't butt heads with each other at all. They go right past each other seamlessly.

And this is the main PPC argument. And this is the main conservative party argument. and they can't hash things out because they're still having these two completely disparate conversations. And maybe we need a guy like me who recognizes that to get somebody like Greg Wycliffe and somebody like the Pleb together in a room and call everybody out on their bullshit. And they'll probably call me out on my bullshit.

And we'll probably yell at each other and scream. And on the count of three, we're all going to throw down our mics and storm out of the place. But it could make for interesting TV. What if there was a neutral party? That's what I'm saying. I am the neutral party.

You're not the neutral party at all. I'm incredibly neutral. Then why are you yelling? Then why are you yelling? Because I've been drinking. No. See, the neutral party is me. Because I don't know anything about anything.

When it comes to politics, I'm slowly learning. We could, we could, can you imagine? have everybody in a round a round table in person. Wycliffe Plaab twos. Interesting. The first ever political roundtable. I don't mind the sound of that. I don't mind the sound of that.

I can see so many ways that that specific lineup would go incredibly well and incredibly poorly. Doesn't matter. The only way you get to come, As we're laying it on the line. Let's talk about some shit. Yeah. Well, you know what?

I like Daryl's stance on this. And it makes me, I wonder if this is the Daryl from up around GP. I don't think they'll resolve their differences, but it would make for great TV. And I'm a Maverick guy, so I don't have a horse in the race. Stevie B wants it live with an audience. Stevie, just so I'm clear, if we could pull this off, you want to have it in a constant. setting with people in the audience. All right.

Picture this. The next S&P presents, or the next one after April, is PPC and CPC, not the official people, but the people willing to have actual conversations, trying to hash out their differences, and or tell everybody why the other guy sucks, and or tell everybody why they're awesome. That, oh, yeah. We can make that a free event. Why are you making a free event?

Well, because at the end of the day, I go like, I don't know. That, that honestly, that would be a great S&P presents. SMP presents the unofficial CPC versus the unofficial PPC. That's what we want. No, not even, not even unofficial. I would call it like the anti-official. But all it is is opening remarks followed by a roundtable where we go. And you just say, get as ugly as you want, get as clean as you want.

And this is, I would say this. I think that this would be one S&P presents where I would want to invite myself on. Generally speaking, I think that you have this knack for getting people. But you just said you were part of the group. I'm like twos, CBC, I put you in the three. I already do. And Stevie B says questionnaire with the audience. Yeah, we would absolutely have poll the audience.

Yeah, we'd have it so that the audience could chime in the entire time. We already do that at all S&P presents events. That way the audience can just pull it. They can just decide where they want to go, how they want to go, what they don't like, what they do like. People can vote it up and down. That's not as hard a thing to do. do. Certainly putting on an event is hard to do, but putting everybody in the same room, because when you're going to yell and have a dispute, I personally think it'd be better if it was in

person. Yeah. And you would have some people who would be very open to the idea, because both sides are very firmly entrenched in the idea that they're correct. And in their niche arguments against the other people, they are correct. Okay. It's been two hours, twos. All right. That's an interesting thought. I'm going to wait and hear what everybody has to say on it.

I don't mind. I love the idea. I love it. Any final thoughts? 2023 is going to be in the rear view mirror, folks. Yeah, this is it. We don't have another one. No, we do not.

Well, let's, here, just real quick. Yeah. The first is a Monday. We can't record Monday night because I'm busy. But we've got to figure out what we're doing for that mashup. We do. But in the meantime... I wish you, from my side, I wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year. Happy holidays. Be safe. And I hope... I hope... I hope for everybody they get to spend a holiday just being around family and friends where it isn't so divisive. It has been a divisive couple of years, and I think people need to find a way to enjoy time with family and friends. That's my thoughts.

So I hope that for all all the audience. You know, the one other final, final thought. I'm very glad, by the way, that I took you up on, like, your fourth or fifth request for me to come on to your podcast. I've told the story live a couple times where Sean had to twist my arm basically to convince me to come on to his podcast. It was back before he could get big A-list names. And he had to go through the dredges of the internet to try and find D and E-List people to show up. and this is just it's been something that's had

so many positive outcomes from it and I'm very glad that we're doing this. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas to everybody who's chiming in. Stevie B, Sandy, Martina, Eileen. I appreciate you guys all hanging out with us on a random festivist. I shouldn't call it random.

It's festivist. It's a very specific. today. We should all be marking this on our calendars, the 23rd from now on, is going to become a very popular day in the old Tuesday mashup with us. But Toos mashup, or the Festivus

Mashup, and the book. Fuck you, Marty. Don't cry, boys. Cool. Well, boys, girls, men of all ages. Yeah. People kind of all ages. I don't know how Trudeau would say that, but it doesn't matter.

on the spectrum. Thanks for tuning in and being here. We do have the new year. Well, the new year will come fast enough. We're aiming for 52 and 52. It will not see both of us every single one, but we plan to have something there every time. And saying that, you know,

we hope you'll come along for the ride and be here. If you're a business and are looking to hop on board the Tuesday mashup, reach out. To all the lovely folks who's sponsored in 2023, we're hoping back. We're going to be all over you to come back. We got Cactus Environmental.

It's going to be the first two weeks of January. So that's Alan Hucco. Shout out to him. And we got a whole bunch of others coming back. So look forward to 2024. And then Chris Bisckell says I first listened to the S&P back in September. Tuesday is now my favorite podcast. Don't let that go to Tuesday.

Everybody named Chris is good in my books. Actually, you know, that's another thing I'm looking forward to in 2024. We've got to keep bugging CTF about us doing... 100% doing the awards. We got to do that. I tell you what, that should be our number one freaking goal. I want to handle it a little piggy. Yeah, I do.

But I want to do it as, you know, like the way they do the Oscars and they'll have like that forced banter back and forth between the two presenters. I want us to do that at the CTA. F awards. Eileen Clark, People Toba. Nice. Yes. Folks,

Merry Christmas. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for a great year, guys. Yep. And we look forward to next year. Till then.