Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 117

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

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Well, everybody, welcome to the mashup. We are joined in our final week. I don't know why I'm full screen here, but we're joined in our final week of Sean's hiatus with Marty up north. Do you see Marty? Welcome back to the show. So does that make me a guest host?

Yes, I'm a guest host. Yeah, I'm a guest host. Cool. I always wanted to be a guest host. Hey, quick trivia. Mm-hmm. Johnny Carson, what was his permanent guest host's name? I don't know.

Ed McMahon. You don't remember Ed McMahon. But anyways, the trivia part is that... I'm significantly younger than you are. All right, all right, sure, fair enough. But Ed McMahon, so Johnny Carson was a late-night host, and then he had Ed McMahon, who was a permanent guest host, which is a triple oxymoron.

Yeah, actually. Please. Yeah, that's totally true. So, how's things going with you? Awesome. A little shook up, though. You know, let's talk about it for a second. I mean, you know, you can see it up on the screen, Marty up north, right?

So Marty up north, I'm a guy from Northern Alberta. And I spent 20 years living in Fox Creek and Edson and Grand Prairie and place like that. And Jasper's my backyard, man. Jasper was my backyard. I spent a lot of time in my backyard and watching what's happening in Jasper and getting the phone calls from my friends who've been evacuated and all of that. Like the last day or two have been a bit emotional because of that. But, you know, and I, in fact, I said on a tweet last night, it's been a weird emotional

week. So I'm super pumped to be here with you this morning and lighten it up. And, you know, let's let's end this week on a on a light high note. Well, speaking of light high notes, the Coots too have been in jail for 894 days. Yeah. Yeah, they're about to hit 900, man. That's on that. But happy Airborne Friday.

So that's all right. And there is no shortage of interesting things to talk about this week, Marty, including we'll get to a little bit more about Jasper later. Sure. But for right now, why don't we get cracking? Les us all myr. I can read that. That's in French.

You want me to translate for you what that says? Hospitals are shit. Oh, I got it right, too. I didn't even look it up. Yeah, yeah. I think that's, I think, I think that's the point. Actually, you almost got it. You know what?

You got it the way I would have written it as a sort of a French as become a second language. I think it's Les Zopito. It's one of those exceptions where the plural of hospitals doesn't end with an S, but you're, you're, I knew what you were trying to say. All right. So what's happening in, well, in fucking Quebec in general, but specifically in Montreal right now, is that there's this big crack down with the French language. laws and they say that in government places, French has to be spoken all the time, unless there's specific emergencies or whatever else. Right.

And so if you go into a place and they don't speak French, you're supposed to report them to the language police. And they're now cracking down on hospitals, including the most interesting part is that the operation table, the operation rooms, you have to speak French while you're operating on somebody. Okay. This is it. This is the law.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, it's the law. Where are we going with this? Well, it's just absolutely insane. I mean, who cares? If I'm unconscious, if I'm unconscious and someone's, you know, I don't know, taken out a kidney or, you know, doing something clean.

Yeah, can you imagine you got a world-class surgeon operating on you, but he happens to be Chinese and he immigrated to. Canada. And during the panic of the operation, he starts speaking Chinese to his nurse because and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. And now he's pulling out his translator and he's, he's, he's typing in something. So you can, yeah, it's this has gone too far, gone too far. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's artificially limiting the quality of your candidates too by that, by that metric now that you mention it. Because if somebody only speaks, I don't know, um, Bulgarian, but they're, they're a really great surgeon. Well, we'd love to hire you on.

at at Montreal blah blah blah hospital but you don't speak French like I just I cut people open I just that's all I need to do there's no language involved with cutting people open

this isn't necessary and they're like yeah but it's the law it's the law this is this is what we deal with and then Sherry Lynn big win for the natives today Ontario versus

Restoul et all headline politics CPAC I don't know know what that is. Do you know what that is? I know what CPAC is. That's about it. And Ontario's like a province out east or something, but that's about it. Okay, so I'm going to be Sean this week, and you're going to be twos. I don't know why it just sometimes decides to be on loop and sometimes it doesn't. Apologies, folks. Conflict of interest of the week. Oh, my God. Let me guess. Is it Danielle Smith and her hockey tickets?

No, but we're going to get to that. That's a great thought. Yes. So this comes from Dan Mizier, Mazier, whatever, an MP in Manitoba. And so I don't know if you remember hearing about this, but longtime listeners of the show will remember when we talked about how the president of the green slush fund resigned.

when the questions of conflict of interest came up and then immediately like the week after it was the CEO or something like that and I was like you guys have a president and a CEO for a slush fund and so they both within two weeks of each other resigned and so it turns out that they spent nearly 76 million on projects connected

to liberals friends appointed to run the fraud on top of this 12 million was given to projects that were both ineligible and had a conflict of interest in one instance, Trudeau's handpicked green slush fund chair siphoned off 217,000 to her own company. We talked about that specifically on the matchup. So here's the thing, though, is right at the top. Chair has been found guilty by Canada's Ethics Commissioner. So within, well, the Ethics Commissioner himself has been found guilty of things.

I mean, that's not a, like, we're approaching, what do you call it? Like, we're going in full circles now, right? those preventing conflict of interest are in conflict of interest is what's happening. Yes. Well, I mean, they've had just this rotating chair. I can't even think of who the current conflict of interest.

Actually, he's not even in place. We technically don't have a conflict of interest guy right now. I don't think we do. I think we have an acting conflict of interest person. But yeah, hey, it's been a revolving door, this hot potato. So, but now this is, I mean, we talked about this months ago, and now it's actually that they've been found guilty. I think the consequences they're going to be facing is a $200 fine.

Which is generally what happens when you're found guilty of the Conflict of Interest Act in Canada. And so, for example, that $217,000 bit of money they got for their company, they're going to have to repay 200 of it apparently. Yeah, and then they're going to outsource the next conflict of interest director to GC Industries. Mark my words. And you know who G. Do you mean G.C. strategies? Or G.C. strategies.

Well, actually, they're all valid because I think G.C. strategies, industries, whatever. I think one of our colleagues found that they had about 17 variations on that name on the list of bidders in the government of Canada. Isn't it funny how that works? Well, it's the reason I gave all my dogs human names because then I can easily put my dogs as employees. Yeah, yeah. Oh, dependents. I hadn't gone that far, but I have him as employees. Yeah, you could get them.

I'm sure with a little bit of effort, you can get them driver's licenses and everything. Probably social insurance numbers. You can probably get like three or four social insurance numbers each. Yeah. Read it. Read it. Read it. You got a real la la la la la la la la la la caemalian.

I got to do the boy George song. I'm a come a come a coma camoamia. Did I get it? Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you got her. You got her. So this is Kamala Harris has now been named. So Joe Biden, very unexpectedly, if you never are on Twitter, I guess.

Joe Biden decided that he was not going to be running again. And now Kamala Harris has gotten the nod. and it's been interesting seeing some of the follow up. What's her expression? We're unburdened by what has been or what will be or something like that. She's, she's an expert at word salads. I mean, Trudeau's good at word salads, but Kamala puts him like, she's in a league of her own.

So fewer ums. I'll give her the credit for that. But also less substance, if that's even possible. Yeah. Well, actually, I'd say they're just a lot more circular. Yeah, well, that's what she likes to say. Ukraine is a place and it's a small place and Russia's a big place and the big place wants more of the small place. And that's what's happening in.

Who will unite these United States? And yeah, you live in the context of what has been. Or no, actually, my favorite one of hers, I think, was like, today is actually yesterday, tomorrow. Yeah, it's basically Jack Handy type stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway.

Yeah, exactly. You know it. You know it. So it's going to be interesting because of course now the legacy media has been all like, ooh, rah, rah, rah, Kamala. And they're all super excited about her despite a week ago saying that Joe Biden was totally fine. And now they're like in the same faces without even addressing the fact that they were so dishonest about Joe Biden for literal years. They're now saying that Kamala.

is just the greatest thing ever. I really hope Tulsi Gabbard ends up somewhere in, in a position to debate her again. I don't know if it's like it. It's like when Kamala, you know, that stage thing where Kamala is receiving a call from Obama, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. And she's like, oh, thank you for endorsing me. And then she should finish even though you didn't endorse me last time. You know, like all of a sudden, all of a sudden.

I mean, she finished, I think, in her last campaign, she must have. in the last time she did run for the presidential nomination she finished yeah she got less than one percent of the vote yeah yeah in in the primary it was a disaster here Harris is straight up nut bar yep yep uh unburdened by the past this word salad for communism going forward and earl hey earl she can talk for 10 minutes and not say anything i would say that's an understatement but i'm pretty sure there's there's courses or classes that these people take on how to answer a question without actually saying anything. It's too bad that she's going to lose and Trudeau's going to lose because otherwise it would

have been hilarious that have Trudeau and her in a room trying to outward salad each other. Can you imagine? Could you? Yeah, actually, you know what? I don't want to see a Trump Harris debate. I want to see a Harris Trudeau debate. Oh, wouldn't that be beautiful? Secret secret.

Am I supposed to sing this one too? Because I think that was a song. Secret. I was secret secret. No. Um, secret. So what happened was is here we go. So Pollyav says that there's secret documents show that the NDP liberal government has a hidden plan for national decriminalization.

And if they're reelected, expect crack cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl in a school yard near you. And then Yara Sachs, who totally sucks says stop misleading Canada. it's not true. These secret docs are posted online. Technically, that's true. They were posted online by Blacklocks who found them through freedom of information. But anyway,

and then it's interesting because on the one hand, yeah, that's technically right what Polyev said. But on the other hand, you know, I don't know what it is that works about this because it rubs me the wrong way, but politicians love to talk about how they're,

their competitors have secret plans to do this and secret plans to do everything else. And it just, I don't know, it kind of just gives me the icks. Well, one of the things that these guys need to learn is that the internet is forever. So when you say something and we'll find it if you said it in the past and what's the other expression? If they tell you the truth, believe them. So, yeah, yeah, no. But generally speaking, I mean, I just don't even like this. this whole topic.

This, like, I'm, I'm, you know, no, I'm, I'm not an alcoholic, but if I was an alcoholic, don't give me free booze. And why are we giving free drugs, especially hard drugs to, like, I don't know what they're trying to gain by this. I have no idea. Well, I know what they're trying to gain by this. It's, it's, it's a way to keep us down. It's just the way to keep us down.

Yeah, it is, it is absolutely. I'm going to do a quick amalgamation here. One of the other things we're going to talk about was how Bonnie Henry, uh, who's basically the head. she's the Fauci of BC said recently that she's recommending that stores have carry meth,

heroin and cocaine just for just for general sale you won't even need a doctor's note or anything like that to get it Well I thought you're going to say carry it like next to the defibrillator like a little box in case of emergency break up

just just on the shelf next to the emodium and the Tylenol and whatever allergy medication. Yeah. And so anyways, that's what she recommended. And the NDP, the NDP were like, this is a little bit too crazy and they're distancing themselves from it. Although, I mean, they do have that election coming up fairly quick too.

Wow. Wow. Wow. So, yeah. And at the same time, as much as as the UCP irritates me, they are now on like a four-year low for overdose deaths in Alberta because they've gone away from things like. like what safe injection sites and all that stuff like yeah yeah enough of that enough of that yeah yeah interesting yeah oh keep going keep going no no i thought secret secret could have mean meant some other

things too i mean i you know this week uh the director of the secret service in the u.s finally step down so we're going to get to that too oh okay i like it kill bill maker yes bill maker killed so somebody well two different people in Alberta believe it or not have threatened to kill Trudeau Freeland Insinct

and so they tweeted I think or posted on social media anyway that that they were going to murder the prime minister the finance minister and the that's because Trudeau's too chicken shit to do like Biden what like seriously

Trudeau. Like be a man, go on the podium. Hire a guy to stand like 200 yards away with an AR-15 and shoot you at that, you know, and just miss you barely. Like, don't, like he's two chicken shit to do the right thing. Like Trump did it. So he's doing it this way. No, come on. You know, no way.

No way. Fabricated. I imagine it was a real, I imagine they were real posts. But it's just, it's silly. Look, and here's the thing is that Trudeau getting killed is the last thing. that I want to have happen. I want to have him metaphorically killed in an election. I want his ideologies to be so thoroughly squashed

that it's just this embarrassing footnote in the annals of history. This thing that, you know, we acknowledge but don't want to talk about. We're all there. And yeah, yeah, we're, anybody wants to kill him? You're just going to make him a martyr. Look at what happened to Trump when they shot him, but didn't kill him.

it would be a million times worse if they did. Yeah, Trudeau's done enough damage to most of us at this point that a little more damage won't make any difference. So I'm with you. I want to see him go down in an electoral defeat and I want to hear his concession speech. But just back to this one, when this story broke and I was driving with my wife and, you know, they talked about two Albertans who posted on social media and my wife like just turned at me and she's just looking at me. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't like the guy, but I don't wish him ill will.

I truly don't. I don't, you know, absolutely. I wish him ill will, but I don't want anybody to kill him. I want everything bad you can imagine to happen to that guy, with the exception of death. Plants are racists. Yes, that is correct. Racist plant names are being changed. The International Botanical Congress, which takes place in Madrid, because these places always,

these things always take place in fucking Madrid, recently voted to rename plants whose scientific designations contain racial slurs. No way. Except they really don't. So I don't know how much you know about science or anything like that, Marty. Yeah.

Yeah, the hierarchy and, oh, well, I know something. I think I have a degree on the wall. But just science in general as a concept. Yeah. Right. Well, so the whole idea behind the Latin names for everything is that it's a dead language so the meaning won't change over time so if you say that something is green a thousand years from now that isn't going to mean elongated right or some other random change like if you just

use the word green and then english continues to evolve or french or whatever i mean we've got quebecois and parisian french which are almost two different languages in some aspects right just as an example. And so they went with Latin because nobody speaks it anymore. And it's whatever it means right now is what it's always going to mean forever. And so this is the first time that taxonomists have considered changing the rules to deal with offensive plant names. One proposal in particular hopes to rename over 200 species whose scientific names contain or are based on the word CAFRA. Kaffra derived from the Arabic word kaffir or kaffree is a slur historically used against black people living in South Africa during a part hide and can be translated to infidel.

Now, if you go to some translated post of some other taxonomous thing, it says, Erya from the Greek Erythros meaning red and kaffra, which is Latin, the Latin name. of the African region of the Caffirs. So basically what happened? It'd be like if Canada was a country, like a legit country,

imagine in your head. And then later on, Canada became a racial slur. Like, oh, look at that Canadian. Well, if something's from Canada and it predates it, and so they're just, this usage of the word has evolved.

But the actual, Latin name has not. And so they're trying to play catch up on it. It's silly. Yeah, we got to stop doing this because, you know, especially in most languages, most languages are metaphorical or whatever. Like they're, you know, like we say, we say the back of the room. In fact, the back of the room is because we're referring to our back.

Back is the biological name of this part of my anatomy in the back of the room, you know. So, yeah. Hey, let them do it. I mean, that's fine. You know, that's pretty minor. I get more upset when they're trying to change names of animals. Like I thought, I thought as an example, you were going to give something like Venus flytrap. I'm like, oh, are they offended?

Because we're saying Venus is the goddess and we can't call a plant, the goddess. Well, here's a great. Ooh, Pussy Willow. Whoever put that one, that's good. Eileen says, I guess, Pussy Willow is abolished now. Yeah. Absolutely. I just think it's all silly and you're never going to be able to.

keep up with it. No. But that's just me. Jasper. Where do you want to go with this, Marty? Go where you want it to go. And then we'll go from there. Yeah.

Okay. Well, here's a post. Yeah, well, here's a post from a friend of the show that I had lined up before before I figured out what the light up was going to be of the show. So, ironically enough, we were going to be talking about this particular tweet. from Marty up north, even before Marty was going to be on this week. So Jasper National Park has been, do you, you should be reading this. I won't read it.

I'll summarize it. I mean, Jasper, Jasper, it means a lot to a lot of Albertans and to a lot of people around the world. I mean, it's a gorgeous place in the Canadian Rockies. And it's been there, you know, since the beginning of, of, since before Alberta became a province, well, time immemorial. It's our playground, man. Albertans go there and it's our playground. And right now it's in flames.

In fact, it's more than in flames. It's half destroyed. And it's tragic. But after the tragedy, I got upset because it's a preventable tragedy. And, you know, everybody who's ever driven anywhere in the Canadian Rockies lately in the last decades, you see these dead trees that have been infested with pine beetles. And people say, oh, that's climate change. No, it's not.

It's because the trees got old. They got infested with pine beetles and then they died. That's how trees die, folks. And because there's no more pine beetles right now because they ate all the old trees. And no, and they didn't cut the trees. So the tragedy in Jasper to me was preventable. But, you know, and, and yeah, you know, thanks, Earl. And I'm sure it means a lot to a lot of people.

So that's my tweet on that. And it's a tweet that resonated. And now what we're seeing is we're seeing a lot of finger pointing between the, between, different levels of government as to who's responsible for that. So it's tragic. It's just a tragic. And to the people affected by it right now, our thoughts are,

we always say it. Our thoughts are there. We're trying to, I'm trying to do more than thoughts. I want more than thoughts. We got to, we've got to hold some people accountable for this tragedy. You know,

I, I'm sorry to bring it down, folks. Let's bring it back. No, this is specifically what we were going to be talking about here. my view on it is you know we saw this happen with slave lake we saw this happen with fort mac how many more times are we going to see this happen before somebody somewhere says we need to do something different and guys like you and um you know who spend a lot of time i'm from saskatchewan i don't know the first fucking thing about mountains or trees but there's a lot of guys who live

in this area basically and they have been talking about all of this deadfall for decades. Yep. And nothing's been done about it. And how many more communities are we going to let burn down before we say, well, you know what, maybe we should let some of the adults take a look at this and see what they want to do. Or you know what? Worst case scenario, worst case scenario, why don't you just say, all right, well,

you crazy folks over there that want to manage the forest? Why don't you guys try it with that community over there? And we'll see how it goes. Oh, I say that. I apply that concept to a lot of things, right? I mean, people want to come to here and say, hey, you know, you guys should do solar panels. It'll be good for your economy.

And usually the guys you're trying to convince us of that or coming from a dead B to CMEE. So I'm like, well, tell you what, if it's such a great idea, do it in your province. And then show me how it's done and we'll do it here. So, yeah, we'll see what happens out. I do not look forward to driving home through Jasper in the next couple. In fact, I was supposed to go do a hike in Jasper on August 12, 13, 14, 15th.

And that's not going to happen. So, yeah, sorry, folks. That's, that's, it's tragic. Carrie. Scary. Oh, God. That could be anything. Could be church burning.

Could be a scary weather picture of the week. What color are we into now? Are they black? Are they putting maps that are all black? Well, they went with the satellite picture of Jasper. Oh. And then what they did, actually, as the follow-up, was point out everything's scary on it. Yeah, because luckily, the first picture doesn't mean anything to most people anyways, right?

They're looking at it could be anything. Yeah, in-zoned in picture of somebody's nut sack. Yeah. And so anyway, this is it. They went away from, you know, the scary colors and whatnot to just going with this. I mean, it's an interesting choice of a satellite image because it's at such an angle. I don't know. I found the perspective to be a little bit weird where, you know, it's not overhead at all.

In fact, when I look at it, I almost say it's a fail on their part. I don't see anything scary in that picture, except maybe the severe thunderstorm with large hail, but everything else looks fairly normal. Yeah, but this is, I guess this is what they're doing this week. I don't know if it's a win or not. I can't really decide.

But again, they just, they've completely abandoned the old, you know, the high front and the low front and the sun and the cloud over top. And the pretty girl. Remember the good old days where he had the pretty girl who, You got to go to Mexico for that now. Mexico, yeah, yeah. Those Mexican weather ladies are something else.

Something to be hold. Absolutely. Something to be hold. Suck my GDP. Well, I know our GDP is pre-2014 levels, so we've lost about 20% of our buying power as Canadians. Ever since Trudeau came into power, is it worse than that? Or what's the headline? Well, it's this interesting bit of disqualification.

course back and forth. So what we have is Paul Yehav again saying that Canada's collapsing economy is shrinking faster than any G7 country after nine years of the NDP liberals. Trudeau's inflationary spending and interest rates skyrocketing as a result. And then this guy who is a proff, not of economics, but of politics and very far left, believe it or not.

a Polly Psi professor who's far left, and he says Pollyev's claim that Canada's economy is shrinking faster than any other G7 country is multiple lies rolled into one sentence. One, Canada's economy is not shrinking. It's growing. Two, Canada's GDP growth has been near the top of the G7. And so it goes from, so the chart here goes from 2019 to 2024, but it misses the Q4 data of of 2023. The interesting thing is that our economy,

our population has grown by like 10% in that time. And so the very top of the graph where the U.S. is is 1.1 or 110%. And so we're at about 105%, despite having grown our population by over 10%. And so if you want to look at it per capita, our GDP is actually on the bottom of that graph. Not at all where it is. And then if you look at this, this is the forecast.

That's the one. Yeah. This is the forecast OECD real GDP per capita forecast per annum, which means the OECD's projection as to which countries are going to have the largest increases and the smallest increases. And at the absolute bottom of the list, the projections for 2020 to 20, to 2030 is 0.7%? Actually,

liberals usually like it when we're second to last. Not last. They really like when we're second to last, similar to that because then they get to cheer their favorite cheer. Hey, we're not last. We're not the worst. Yeah. We're not the worst.

So since 2014 to 2022, Canada is almost dead last in growing GDP. They're 28th. I'm guessing this is OECD countries because I think there's there's 30 of them. You and I have studied this. You've studied this. I mean,

you know, I find it's interesting. The liberals are basically desperate to try and find something to show that they've made progress in the last 10 years. They can't. They got to pull out these. There's two issues I have with GDP. One of them is that it doesn't account for population increase.

It doesn't, it gets normalized for inflation, but it does not get normalized for population. And so it's it be like if you had, you're 20 years old or 25 years old and you got a place by yourself and you say, okay, I make whatever, say 50 grand a year. And then you get four roommates to move in and they all make 50 grand a year. And you say, great. Now I make down with this household makes 250 grand a year.

And that's basically what, what this is saying. what the GDP stuff says. And it's just, it's frustrating because one, it doesn't normalize for population. And two, I think that there'd be a lot of,

I think there'd be a really good argument for real GDP, as they call it, which is normalized for inflation, to actually normalize for public sector. Yeah. What do you think about that? No, well,

I mean, generally, my observation, I know what GDP means. means, you know what GDP means, but I find, but I also remember that it's new in our vocabulary, you know, under Harper and prior to Trudeau for the last 40 years as, you know, I never heard Canada anywhere talk about GDP. We really didn't talk about it. We had, we had other measures that were much more important. This one became important under Trudeau because one of the things they

love to do is they love to, you know, they're boring money. And they keep saying the amount of money we're boring compared to our GDP. So basically, as a household or credit card versus what worth is not that bad. And so they use GDP to make a big inflated number to keep telling ourselves, hey, we're not in trouble borrowing. You know, hey, we've only borrowed two trillion dollars. We're not in trouble. We're in trouble. Doubled the national debt in a decade. Yeah. One other last note on this. Everybody's kind of roughly, you know, there's a few outliers at the front, but nobody's really clearly far and away ahead of everybody else except for Ireland. I was going to say I couldn't see the detail.

Is that Arn't. Yeah. Okay. So Ireland is double second place. That's Guinness. Ireland. That's just Guinness. No, it's not Guinness.

It's not Guinness. It's that they went away from, um, they, they went away from corporate taxes. So corporations don't pay income tax in Ireland. And so lots of companies have moved. their headquarters there. And isn't it interesting? Corporations don't pay income tax in Ireland? Like it's become a tax haven similar to like the Bahamas?

Exactly. And because of that, they are more than double second place in GDP growth in the past decade. All right. Now, I'm not a huge expert on economics, but it seems to me that if you've got one country that is the only country doing one thing and they're the only country who is double everybody else, the two might be related and it could be worth looking into. Well, and I'll say one more thing on this topic.

You know, a tax is generally promoted as a, like, let's take the carbon tax. They're promoting the carbon tax as a way to de-incentivize us and not do something. You're right. Taxes have the opposite incentive. They make us not want to work. So if you want us to work and you want to generate more GDP, lower the taxes. Yeah, it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a guy named Laffer. It's a little brainer.

Yeah, a guy named Laffer came. You're exactly the Laffer curve. Yeah. Actually, yeah, Clyde and I have talked about that too. Yeah. All right. Hmm. Yeah, that could be a lot of things.

Vandalism, Pride Month. Yes. Pride vandalism. You could write it in any order. Actually, if you were, if you're a pride supporter, pronouns and words don't mean anything. So you could write that in any order if you want. And it hopefully still means the same thing. Yes.

And here we have tire marks left on Pembroke, Ontario Rainbow Crosswalk, following cases of anti-LGBQS plus vandalism. But you know what? They forgot one of the plus signs. Is that banalism? Oh, and if you don't want people to drive over the pride flag, don't put it on the sidewalk or on the street.

Don't put it on the crown. Yeah, yeah. Every seen the video, there's a video that's circulated on the internet where there's a place where they painted the stairs with the pride colors, and then there's like a rail and the guy doesn't want to walk on the stairs. Oh, yes.

He just, he pulls himself up the rail. He pulls himself up the railing. Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, a few weeks ago in foothills for a couple hours. And so, you know, going to town and then there's, they've got this gay pride crosswalk going into the main entrance. I just walked around it, right? You're just, which is interesting.

I couldn't decide if I was doing well or poorly by doing that because on the one hand, I don't want to, I don't want to even. It's not that I don't like gay people. It's that I hate this constant. an overbearing bullshit. Yeah. Right? And stop shoving it down our throat.

Well, poor choice of words, but yes. And so, anyway, I want to walk around it, but also, the more I walk back and forth over it, the faster it'll wear away. Yeah. It's kind of like, I don't know, it's weird thought, but I don't have a lot of superstitions, but one superstition I have is I will not walk under a ladder. Do it at work all the time, right? There's ladders, and I will.

hey Marty, grab that wrench there. I'll walk all the way around. And so am I, am I anti ladder? Because I'm walking around the ladder, I guess. And to be honest, are you worried that if you walk across a gay crosswalk, it'll, it'll be infectious?

Absolutely. Well, I mean, gainess technically is an STD. Like if you, if you do any of the gay stuff with a gay guy, you're now gay, you're, you've essentially caught it. So, yeah. Anyway,

moving on. Moving on. Moving forward. Oh, that was impressive. Yes, that was impressive. Very impressive.

Old faithfuls abound. Yeah. So, CTV, Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded. Oh, you caught me off guard. That's not the story I expected.

Oh, well, that's all right. I, yeah, okay. This was funny, because they go back and they say it's the hottest day ever recorded breaking temperature data

back to 1940 according to preliminary data from Europe's Copernicus climate change services and then it goes through it talks about uncharted territory climate warming new records being broken in future months and years and then they went on to oh shoot I'm missing it The second article they had on here was that it was the day after they released an article saying that it was the second hottest day ever recorded. And then they said that it's been crazy because since 2016, they said that the Copernicus weather observation has been consistently breaking their own records. Now, the interesting thing about the Copernicus Climate Change Service is that it was form. in 2014. So I would say that it stands to fucking reason

that they've been breaking their own records given that the thing's only a decade old. Absolutely. Marty, I see you're growing your beard back, which is great. It's goddamn debonair. And you looked like, I don't know, you looked like a hypoallergenic cat

when you shaved it off. So I'm glad it's back. But it just seems so different. It just seems so different. But here's the thing is that in the last month, Marty, this is the longest your beard has ever been. And every day is a record for my beard. And tomorrow, tomorrow is going to be the longest day it has ever been.

When you look at a very narrow window. Yes, you started measuring the growth of my beard on February 1st. I'm setting records every day. If you measure and you compare me to what I was like at the height of COVID, I'm not even close to. Remember COVID? My God, during COVID, I had like freaking air everywhere. Like, you know, I couldn't go to the hairstylist, right?

And my wife tried cutting it a few times. I'm like, forget it. I'm just going all Tom Hanks and castaway. Castaway. Yeah. No, you, you, and this is no joke, right? They're definitely erasing. 1940 is not a coincidence because the hottest decade here, you talk to any old person.

Was the dirty 30s? The dirty 30s, the Dust Bowl, man. And not just in Montana and Arizona, Saskatchewan and in place like that. You guys had a very hot dirty 30s. And it's interesting. Nobody talks about the pause anymore. Do you remember the pause?

So there was no global, there was no appreciable warming. The warming pause. There was no appreciable warming for a 17 year period. And nobody could figure out why. And so they just decided to start calling it the pause. And the reason why it wasn't warming was because it was the pause.

And that was recent. Like this was somewhere roughly, I want to say like 2005 to 2020 or something like that, ballpark. And so anyway, everybody seems to have forgotten that. And so whenever you see these articles, it's the numbers have been continually going up.

The numbers of continually going up. But they, they just kind of forget their own data when it doesn't support their narrative. Yeah. Keep talking. I'm reaching around. I'm going to grab something. I want to show you and the viewers.

Give me one second. Is it to do with this or my move? I'm okay. All right. Hey guys. How's it going? Oh, Marty's back.

Marty's back. I don't know how many people can see this, but let me show you this beauty. Okay. And then this other one. I got dozens like this. Bring it back just a little bit. So it's,

it's, yeah. It was just getting a little bit fuzzy. Yeah. I was trying to focus up close. And so these are called horn corals. and I just collected these last week on a hike. And so Alberta and Saskatchewan used to be under a deep, a big ocean and, you know, go to Drumheller in places like that.

Anyways, these are horn corals. They're prehistoric corals that used to grow on the bottom of the ocean here in Alberta. I found these suckers at 1,800 meters above sea level last week in a place called the Wary Gap, 1,800 meters. I'm almost 6,000 feet. I found them on a mountain peak. and and so yeah i love going to places like that and showing people who tell me like oh since recorded time this is an example of recorded time yes and and uh and yeah you know please folks like come on then a new record since 1940 that's nothing that's nothing yeah yeah absolutely

but yeah i didn't think so when when i read old faith bowls abound i was thinking old faithful's the name of a geyser in in yellowstone park right oh faithful and you saw it happened there's there's a bunch oh you didn't see no so there's a bunch of geysers in yellowstone they all have names and they're all very predictable one of them blew up this week it's like it got plugged with rocks and then and then and then the pressure built up and then boom it like created a huge crater and i thought that's the video because that somebody caught it on video it's like man like you know you're Normally your next old guys They're old eighth boys

Are just going burp blurt blurt. No, this one went boom. So I thought that's the story. Bring it up next week, maybe, urban. Yeah, I mean, we only, we're going to make it, we're going to make our first exception this week, but we only cover this week's news.

Generally speaking on the mashup. This was just a fact that happened this week. It's all the same. Yeah, but I didn't know about it. So by the time we talk about it next week, it'll be last week's thing, right? Got it. But it was just the fact that it just checked all the

of their saying the exact same thing, the same lack of critical thinking, the same application or failure to apply any sort of logic to any of this. Well, my favorite, before we leave this, my favorite is when 14 cities around the world all claim that we're warming up twice as fast as the average.

Oh, that's impossible. mathematically. Actually, in that article, it said that Canada's Arctic is warming up at four times the global rate. And I've seen that. I've seen that for there's people who've done super cuts of it and stuff like that. I have yet to see any article mention a place that's warming at a rate lower than the average.

And theoretically, there has to be one somewhere, right? Theoretically, it's going to be, well, I mean, you would say that half of them have to be below the median, right? But I've yet to hear of a single one that's just warming less than expected. Probably some place in Russia. Siberia. Yeah. Here we go. All right.

Next article. Oh. Whoa. Importing Canadian style politics. So this is a tweet from Elizabeth Warren, who those of you may remember, she's the one who claimed First Nations ancestry and used it to leapfrog her political career and then said that she did a DNA test when Donald Trump was making fun of her about it. She said she did a DNA test and she came out one.

1,024 First Nations, which apparently that's less than the statistical noise. So if you took some random person from Africa whose family had never left Africa or Russia or China, they would have more First Nations blood in them according to an ancestry test than that was.

But here's her saying, and tell me if this sounds familiar at all, Marty. Americans are angry about how. high grocery costs and they are right to be angry. Grocery prices are high because giant food corporations spent years price gouging raising prices far beyond

inflation. Oh my gosh. Potus and BP are fighting this corporate greed and we must have their back. So either she's stealing Jagmeets thunder or Jagmeet's stealing her thunder. I'd say she's she's been talking about this

for months. Yep. Absolutely. This is the same blatant knowledge lack of knowledge of economics and I don't know if they're that stupid or they feel like their voters are that stupid either way it doesn't look good for people who vote for them but it's just it's absolutely frustrating

Jag meets like becoming an unknown rapidly God he went over the top last week I mean he's he's asking for price control he's genuinely asking for price control you know he's asking for centrally planned economy as far as groceries go he literally tried to cap the price on what was it

Bread. Bread and, well, in his example, he was talking about olive oil. And it was hilarious as I have a lot of followers that are from behind the Iron Curtain, you know, that came here, the Russians and whatever. And they're like, yeah, we didn't have olive oil when I lived in Russia. We had whatever. And they gave these weird descriptions. All they're just tallow or, yeah. But, you know, just you'd have your cooking grease and whatever else, right?

Yeah, whatever that's called. Yeah. Gross. But yeah, this is like identical to all kinds of tweets that Jagmeet Singh has done. And the interesting thing is that it shows nothing but stupidity and ignorance when I look at it. And yet the U.S. seems to think that it's something worth trying to emulate. It just baffling me. It's stupid, but it resonates with a lot of people.

It resonates with stupid people. So, which is a shame, which leaves. me, you know, logic, you know, all birds are red. If you're red, you're whatever. So if you fire hydrants are red, therefore fire hydrants are red. Yeah. So, so unfortunately, by logic, a lot of Canadians and a lot of Americans are stupid. It's sad, but yeah. If anything, if anybody's watching this or listening to it and anything in that Elizabeth

Warren tweet seems like it makes sense, I would strongly implore you to read basic economics by Thomas Soul. Yeah. Before we get off that topic, just quickly. Yeah. I didn't do the math, but I'm, you know, I did do the, yeah, I did do the ancestry, uh, whatever, 23 and me, whatever. And, and, um, you know that I can't remember the exact number, but almost all of us have a little bit of gangist con's DNA in our, uh, in our, uh, in our, yeah, that bugger,

that bugger reproduced, man, that bugger reproduced. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much everybody's at least a little bit Mongolian. Yeah, I get my sample and I'm going like, hmm, there's nothing blood come from.

Don't ask. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you know where it's from. Yeah. Oh, this is a sad story. I don't like this one. Well, when life hands you lemonade, um, Saskatoon police say two teens have been arrested after robbing a seven-year-old

girl's lemonade stand took jukewarm. money and candy. 14 year old found with knife charged with carrying concealed weapon and breaching court order. 16 year old arrested on outstanding warrants. So much wrong with this story. So much wrong with this story. Unbelievable. 14 year old and 16 year old already with a fairly well established criminal history by the sounds of it.

Yep. And then how much money do you think a seven year old? old girl keeps in the float on a lemonade stand. $5.25 and $25. Probably about that. Yeah. And then like just. Unreal.

Happy ending to the story, though. Very happy ending. I didn't hear the ending. Yeah. GoFundMe page was raised. I retweeted the go fund me page. Man, I think that GoFundMe page raised at least $3,500. And just yesterday.

Yeah. Is she from Saskatoon or Regina? I can't remember. She's from your neck of the woods. And she threw the opening pitch at one of the local AAA games. And instead of using a baseball, she used a lemon. Lemon? Yeah.

Good for her. I'm getting goosebumps thinking about that story. Good for her. Oh, that is great. That is great. Yeah. Oh, no idea what that might be. That is a typo.

Oh, I've got to say because the full sum. You got to read it exactly how. how it is because I made fun of Zane one time and now I'm, now we're obligated for the rest of our lives to read the typos exactly how they are. The full, the full of some people. I don't know what that means. Yeah,

it's supposed to be the goal of some people as in like the gall of some people. Oh, you know what? Just use the same excuse that Randy Bwasano's partner used in the House of Commons the other day. Oh, it was auto-corrected. It auto-corrected eight times. Yeah, yeah.

Sorry. Because in the case of Randy, I'm like, what was it auto correcting to? So in yours, I'm like, how did goal get up auto corrected to full? Well, Randy would make. The F and the G are right next to each other. But no, I'm not, I'm not Randy Bistnell's business partner. I don't look like a Kendall.

Somebody dropped in bleach. New Jersey man. I want to make sure you don't have black. You don't have black. Nothing fancy there. This one, though, New Jersey man arrested after ripping Siegel's head off when it tried to swipe fries. from his daughter.

Oh, that's savage. Wow. Yeah. So, Frank Ziegler, 2029 of Cape May was at the Surfside Pier and Mori's Peers and Beachfront Water Parks on the Wild Wood Boardwalk

on July 6th, when a mooching seagull tried to make off with the fries. In a fit of rage, Ziegler attacked the unfortunate bird and ripped its head off its body. Ouch. He then asked the boardwalk workers

for a trash bag so he could dispose of the Gull's remains, which he still clutched in his hands. The cop showed up, and Ziegler quickly got irate and uncooperative with officers on an unrelated investigation. Authorities arrested him and charged him with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Ouch. Ouch. And also third degree animal cruelty. What's the moral of the story? Yeah, what's the moral of the story there? I don't even want to I just, okay, the, these shit hawks. Yep. Who cares? There's about a billion of them.

Also, he was charged with third degree animal cruelty. I would say, if he wrung that thing's neck, it's a fairly well established, um, like that's what you do when you wound a bird and you're hunting it is you go up and you ring its neck. And if you do it too much, you'll decapitate it. It's the fastest, easiest, simplest, most humane. way to kill something. I would say it's even faster

than trying to slit its neck. Something like that. And so this is a whole bunch of silly people doing dumb things. I completely support the idea of somebody decapitating a seagull that's stealing their fucking French fries, especially their daughter's French fries.

Yeah, shit hog. Then there used to be a cool video of a baseball player who right mid, like just throwing that fast, ball towards the pitcher and then just at the wrong timing, the darn Segal still. Shoot. Yeah. Yeah.

The Randy, Randy Johnson, I want to say. Yeah. I got a story that's similar to the Segal story. I'll tell it real quick. I was sitting around a campfire on a farm with an old guy. I won't give his name, but an old rancher. And a cat walked by and took a piss on the, on the edge of the church.

that Lyle was sitting in, Lyle grabbed the cat, grab this pocket knife and cut off his balls and send him in his merry way. He grew up on a farm, man. I mean, like that poor Tomcat just like, or a kitten, like, you know, licked his wounds and lived, but.

Fair enough. Well, I mean, you just, you fuck around, you find out. And that's what happened with this Siegel. Oh, they do you. Oh, they know. Shit on you, boo. Shit on you.

A bit dirty shit hogs. Oh. Yeah, vacation number nine or ten. Randy Johnson. So I guess. Yeah, right. Yeah. Trudeau vacation of the week.

So Trudeau is on vacation again in an undisclosed location in BC. He definitely goes on a vacation a month. I mean, it's definitely his vacation of the month. Does he go on a vacation? Actually, before we get into the story, if you want to stay on vacation until November 2025, please do so. Like I'll, you know, most Canadians will be happy to pay for it. Just don't come back.

It sucks that we pay him so much. Yeah. And it's this double-edged sword. Because on the one hand, listen, asshole, we're paying you. Show up for work. On the other hand, the less he shows up, the less he finds out. The better we are. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. And so, yeah. Yeah, that's basically what's going on right now is that he is on yet another goddamn vacation. And is his cabin, his vacation cabin that we spent, what was it, $11 million to build? I don't know if he's ever set foot in there. It's interesting that, you know, one of the issues with the liberals is that they're completely out of touch with the plight of regular Canadians. And you would think that that would be the logical thing is they would say, look, Trudeau, you look like an elitist prick.

The next time you go on vacation, go to the cabin that we spent $11 million on, okay? That's already a sunk cost and just go there and we'll send you some groceries and some booze or whatever. Yeah. The cabin is no camp David like the Americans provide to their president, but that's the, yes, that's the compromise. We know that as the prime minister, you have a shit job and we provide you. but I thought you're going to go elsewhere. I mean, there's lots to go on this vacation thing, right? There's the...

Well, I mean, there was the interview with Keen Bexie. There was a bunch of people saying respect is privacy. And I don't really have any interest in carrying water for that argument. I feel like my privacy hasn't really been respected very much over the last few years by these people. Or your right. And one deserves another. Yeah, they're definitely not respecting your rights. So, yeah, let's not give them any more publicity.

but definitely, yeah, I, we're still, we're genuinely upset, though. I mean, when a tragedy like, like Jasper happens, you could, you could, you could, you could pause your surfing for a few minutes and come say a few words, but he hasn't said anything. So anyways, hey, one last thought on this besides the cottage. His cottage is cheap. Did you see what we just, we just bought a high-rise condo for some, not even for the ambassador to the U.S., like some guy in New York, some ex-TV guy that we sent to New York. York as some sort of ambassador goodwill guy.

We just bought him a $9 million apartment in New York. The liberals love spending money, man. Love, love, love. I hadn't heard that. I hadn't heard that. Bring that one out next week. You bet. Chris or Franco, if you're listening, if you haven't heard about that yet, I'm sure you're

going to want to talk about it. Trump all out. So this is, this is it. the now former U.S. Secret Service Director Kimmerly Cheatel. She was made to testify. It was an absolute disaster. And she, to her credit, although I mean, if she didn't, she would have been, I'm sure, fired the next day. But she did resign afterwards, even though she said she wasn't going to resign.

But she sat in front of a parliamentary committee. and they absolutely eviscerated her. And then she actually had the good graces to resign afterwards. Yeah. Could you imagine something like that in Canada? Oh. Actually, I can't think of the last person in Canada to step down in a role like that. Like we've never-

The Governor General. Actually, when I think the Governor General step down, but not because she was eviscerated. Yeah, the Governor General did. interesting. The line of questioning was nonpartisan, and even AOC. We all know AOC. I don't even know the full name, but she nailed.

So, Alexandra Ocasio or Cortez. She's a senator, I think, now. But she even got in some good salient questions. Well, I think she was kind of stretching things a little bit. She said that the AR-15 has an effective max range of 400 to 600 yards, which there's probably some people in the world that could do that. I would kind of have my doubts. But she said, why did you have a perfect sniper's position

well within the effective range of the rifle, of a common rifle like the AR-15, completely un-hearted? And she had no answer. And so, yeah, that's, I wonder who replaces her. I mean, and forget, like the whole, thing, the whole Trump thing was such a fiasco. But I love some of the comedy that came out of it.

I mean, uh, the memes were great. The memes of the girls, like the DEI girl. Yeah, with, uh, ponytails and everything. And then also, yeah, I think. Yep, go ahead. No, no, I would, the other one that I found funny, but not

funny, like the guys walking around, like, at the, at the convention, everybody with the with the, your band. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I saw that, I saw Ryan Long and his buddy did that for a podcast. And I thought, oh, why didn't I think of that?

Like I saw that last Friday right after, right after the show. And I'm like, oh, why couldn't I think of that? Why? Halloween is just before the election, right? Just before the American election. Yeah, yeah. We're going to have some great Halloween costumes this year. Great Halloween costumes.

Looking forward to it. Well, yeah, you're going to have couples where the guy goes is Donald Trump. And then the girl goes. the Secret Service woman hiding behind him. Or, actually, you don't need, if you, if you really lack imagination and you want a good costume, just get one of the Team Canada Olympic uniforms. It's a great costume.

Looks like a fucking tampon covered in blood. I'm surprised you didn't have that story on here this week because that came out this week. Well, I mean, I saw it and I was like, I don't know, it's gross, but I don't really know about fashion. I didn't even think about the tampon angle. I just saw the, I just saw the, or the, um, the outfits. And I was like, I, I don't know.

There's something about I, it was a really poorly written article, which doesn't, I mean, that's pretty standard for Canada. But I read the whole article and I wasn't quite sure what the heck was going on. Uh, I think Canada just got their women's soccer team kicked out of the Olympics for drone, um, spying on. Oh, I didn't hear that, you know, or something like that. And, but I, I. I feel like I probably have a lot of details wrong, even within that statement, because I read the article and I was like, did AI throw up on my fucking monitor?

Right. I read it and I was like, I have no idea what I just read here. So I couldn't even talk about it on the show other than just to mention it in passing, I guess. Personal finances. I'm broke. Exactly. Well, that's because you ain't got no job, Marty. Yeah, yeah.

Retirement. Two-thirds of Canadians desperately need interest rates to go down. Nearly half of Albertans, $200 or less away from insolvency. It's pretty gross out there right now for a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, that statement means that, that statement means that, you know, if somebody got hit by, you know, the fridge kicks. the bucket or you get a bad flat on the highway and that's not easily repairable. Most people couldn't afford would be in trouble if they had to buy a new $250,000 tire for the car.

Yes, exactly. That's what they're looking at right now. And in a completely unrelated note, here is a chart with the top central cities by population growth, U.S. and Canada. You've got a couple near the bottom in Texas. top one is Toronto, Ontario, went up by 125,000 people last year. Number two is Calgary, Alberta, which went up by 86 in change. And number four is Edmonton with 55 and change.

Interesting thing about Calgary and Toronto is that Calgary has probably a little less than half the population of Toronto. So for them to be neck and neck. As a percentage, they're far and away growing much, much faster, right? Yeah, and these are the things, you know, when we were talking earlier about GDP, like I said, GDP does, Canadians are seeing beyond the liberals. When the liberals this week kept saying, oh, we dropped interest rate because the economy's doing better. No, actually, you dropped interest rate because the economy is still in a tank. And Canadians can see that.

They don't care. It doesn't matter what you tell a Canadian, hey, our GDP is great. And the Canadian goes, yeah, I just spent $300. on a basket of groceries and I got nothing to show for it. So the average Canadian life on the street is different than what the liberals are telling us it is. Yeah, one of the big pitfalls they have is that because they're so disconnected from reality, I feel like they have trouble speaking accurately to things like inflation, or at least, well, accurately and in a relatable way.

Yeah. Because they just say, oh, well, I mean, I have people to buy my banana. is for me. Right? What are you guys talking about? What's going on? He hasn't been complaining about the price of groceries. Why are you?

It's like when Chrisia Freeland gets dropped off by her chauffeur. One block away from Parliament gets out and somebody hands her a bicycle and then she pedals the next 100 yards to Parliament says, ooh, I'm one of you. I get the pedal like everybody else. It's like, no, honey, I don't even pedal these days. I'm taking the shitty train with all the druggies and I'm trying to, uh, not get anybody that puke on me. So no, you're, yeah, you want, you want reality, honey?

Christian Freeland, come ride the train in Calgary with me for a couple of days. We'll have fun. Yes, absolutely. One final note, foreign student permits are already outpacing 2023's record numbers. This is despite the liberal minister saying that he was going to crack down on that. Other interesting thing within that is that the byline, Brian pass a few. friend of the show was on maybe about six weeks ago while he was

he had some medical leave or something like that and so he was just kind of recuperating but came on the show anyway and if that's his byline it means he's back at it so good to have you back Brian yeah absolutely BC is methed up that's a good headline

that's accurate and then actually yeah so this is exactly what we're sorry I pulled an audible before and then I forgot about it but we essentially covered everything already on here so thanks a lot to's for wasting 30 seconds Get Swifty So not only is Toronto Temporarily spending tens of thousands of dollars

To temporarily rename streets in honor of Taylor Swift Because it's not like they have a giant flood to recover from. But also, Taylor Swift voted eighth best guitarist of the last two decades. I just saw this.

And technically, this should have been on a couple weeks ago. But Taylor Swift, who, like, I saw, I went with the kids

to go see that Aeros tour in the movie theaters. And I sat for four fucking hours of Taylor Swift, where she played guitar for about 20 minutes. And yeah, she seemed fairly competent, but I don't even think she did so much as a bar chord, let

a little solo. It was literally just cowboy chords. Well, the key there is last two decades, I guess. The bar is pretty low in the last two decades. I mean, this is not, this is not Prince. This is not Eddie Van Halen. This is not Roger Waters or like some of the, you know, some of the great, great, great, great, great guitarists of, you know, this is not Led Zeppelin. God. This is the last 20 years. That's the list right there. At the same time, at the same time, though, oh, side note, t-short says the mash-up North logo is great. Perfect.

Yeah, we're going to have a link, by the way. You can get that on a T-shirt now. Sean, I didn't even realize he was going to do it for the guest spots, but I was bugging him about the merch stuff, saying that when he gets back, we got to get moving ahead with finally getting the damn T-shirts already. And he was like, you know what? I'm just going to go ahead and do it. And so, yeah, anyway, we have merch available. Link in the description.

But this, this is the top 20. You've got John Fuscanti from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I could absolutely agree with him being up there. Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. I've been listening to the Arctic Monkeys for a long time, but they've never really, I've never seen them solo. or like I've never seen him in concert. I wouldn't have thought to put him up there.

John Mayer, I was really surprised. I've got this buddy who went and saw him in concert. And actually, one of my guitars, I bought from him. So he knows a thing or two about guitars. And he said that John Mayer absolutely slayed.

Like he could just rail on that thing. It was incredible. I'm having a hard time reading the list. Is Dave Matthews on there? I'm thinking of guys of the last few years. I like Dave Matthews. because Dave Matthews, like, you listen to it and it doesn't sound super complicated. You ever watch him play in a music video and you're like, how in the hell does he even do this?

And if you look up the tablature for anything, like even so much to say, like, oh, yeah, I'd like to learn that. You look at it and you're like, I would need 50 years to learn that. Yeah. So, yeah, John Mayer, Sam Fender, Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead. Yep. Oh, don't even get me started. Chris Schifflett from Foo Fighters Ed O'Brien from Radiohead

Tom York is incredibly overrated people You need to understand that And I get the fact that this is British So that's probably why the Arctic monkeys were up there But guys, radio head fucking sucks And then underneath that Taylor Swift, Tom DeLong from Blink 182 And Simon Neal from Biffy Cliro

I don't even know who that is I did like the fact that Keith are and Brad Paisley were both on there because I have been saying forever that they're to some of the best guitarists in the world. And whenever you talk to somebody who doesn't listen to country music, they kind of look you like, what? What? Yeah.

But they are men who's talented. I love country music. But Taylor Swift has no place on that list. That list. And she's not pretty either. God, she's like, she gives me the Willie Jeebies when I see her on stage. I actually saw her. She was,

she opened for Dirk's and Brad Paisley once. Like, I don't know, about 15 years ago, she was the opening act. And I saw her and I don't know, I'd heard maybe like two of her songs. I'm like,

okay, yeah, that was okay, whatever, sure. Didn't think too much of it. I don't know. She played more guitar in that one small opening set

than she did in her entire four-hour concert. Chenard Wayne is still a hot lady. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes. And then, oh, Twisters. So speaking of Shania Twain, because she was prominent in the original Twister soundtrack. The sequel came out.

I went and saw it. We could do a quick and prompting movie review. Sure. Okay. I'm glad you asked. It was fun. It was interesting. But it was really frustrating a couple points.

Like there's this one scene where a whole bunch of people die because they're trying to get up into an overpass. And so they go right to the bottom of the. overpass and then go to scale up the 45 rather than just walking along the gentle slope that takes them right there. And then like the bad guy needs these guys who get weather data from tornadoes to help him go around low balling people whose homes are wrecked with no insurance to get the land. And you're like, how does knowing how a tornado works or whatever else affect whether or not you're able to do this because

you're not going to them before the place gets torn up. You're not going to them before they've got nothing left. You're going to them after they've got nothing left. And so you've got this whole subplot about this evil guy and it doesn't make a lick of sense. Yeah. And he, uh, go ahead. Sorry. Oh, I was just going to say like, you know, I can suspend disbelieve if

you want to get weird about physics or, you know, say, oh, something's a little bit like this or whatever else. you know, I can let you be a little bit imaginative. But when you've got like motives, you've got motives that just don't make a lick of sense. That's what I can suspend. I can suspend this belief for science when I'm watching Lord of the Rings and things like that. But I can't, or Star Wars, but I can't do it when I'm watching Armageddon or Twister if they get it wrong. Oh, you didn't like how Armageddon, all those joints came out of the whole without being threaded together.

Actually, in hindsight, in hindsight, they might have been onto something. think there might be hydrocarbons. There are actually, we know there are hydrocarbons in the universe elsewhere than on Earth. So they got a few things wrong. But does Twister pay tribute? I mean, if you think about the old twister, like Bill Paxton's left us. Yeah. So Bill Paxton was in it, believe it or not.

And Seymour? Philip Seymour Hoffman. Was he in there? Yeah. Because I'm thinking about. Neither of those guys were in the sequel. Spoiler alert. it had a little knot at the start

and then it recreated a couple shots in good ways but it wasn't it wasn't trying to ride on its coattails and it wasn't preachy about climate change which really surprised me and that was really good but then on the other hand he brings in this chick because she's an expert in like having a mindset

for understanding tornadoes and and then so he brings her like all the way across the country to help them get right next to the tornadoes and then his second in command's like, oh, he's listening to her again. Like, motherfucker, he just flew her across the country for this exact thing that he's getting her to do.

And you're surprised and mad at him because that's what they're doing. How does that track? How does that make any sense? I know how tornadoes think. Anyway, that's that. But it is fun and interesting. And next week, we're going to be talking about Deadpool and Wolverine.

Sean, go watch it because we're going to talk about it next week. Right. Phoenix Burns. This is fun. The Phoenix Pay System, which has been going, dealing with, like, this predates Trudeau. Oh, that's Phoenix. Yeah. Cost of Phoenix Pay System fiasco is now up to $3.7 billion.

The highest figure disclosed to date, according to a PSP, which is a public services and procurement memo. This is their pay system. This is what they use to give everybody who works for the government money. And I understand that there's a lot of fucking people in that system. But how fucking hard can it be? Like even when it hit, say, $100 million, you'd be like, look, we're going to rebuild this from scratch and it's going to cost us another $3 million.

Because I am sure that you or I or I, or. you and I could build something like this from scratch in Microsoft Excel. You can do it in Microsoft Excel or you could buy something off the shelf like Quickbook or something like that. And one of the guys of Quickbook and you let's say, I need a steroid version of Quickbook. They'll give you one. I'll give you. We want to cut down on our costs.

So for a billion dollars, which is a quarter of what we've spent here, for a billion dollars, we need a lifetime subscription to a good version, like an amped up version of QuickBooks. They would absolutely give you that solution immediately. Totally. And the public sector is huge, right? Sure, it's ginormous. There's, I don't know, there's 320,000 civil servants working for the government, the federal government. That's sweet, screw, that's sweet nothing compared to.

That's like what they've hired. That's not how many there are. That's like how many they've hired in the last few years. You know, whatever, just go and don't reinvent the wheel. Go to McDonald's and say, well, you guys have 1.6 million employees. How do you pay your employees or go to IBM or? go to freaking anybody. This is not,

this is not, this is the biggest employer in the United States. Go ask them. Ask them. You don't even need to do consultations on it. You just call up somebody. Be like, hi, I'm from the government. You want to meet for a cup of coffee.

And they're going to be like, oh, fuck, here we go. And while you're visiting Walmart, ask them how they manage the money. Also ask them how they manage to make a profit on everything. Also ask them how,

you're like, fuck man, the federal government could learn a lot of lessons from Walmart. Actually, they could learn a lot of lessons pretty much any company. Yeah. Actually, speaking of, and we spoke about McDonald's, I used to hire kids from McDonald's all the time.

Like some companies are great at training people, you know, like if I, if I saw a kid's resume who had graduated school, but somehow or other told me, yeah, I kept working at McDonald's through school and I made it to a line manager at McDonald's. I'm like, welcome aboard, kid, welcome aboard. Because those companies train, man. They train. Yep. They train well.

If you've got time to lean, you got time to clean. Yeah. Dude, I had it. I helped the kid write his resume. This kid worked at the Amazon distribution center down the road here at Balzac. And he didn't even want to highlight that too much on his resume. He was embarrassed about working at Amazon. I'm like, dude, how long you've been at Amazon is like whatever, a year and a half?

I'm like, you survived a year and a half at Amazon in like the most brutal, efficient environment? I was like, yeah, I love it. I'm like, man, like you're like, let's pull out these qualities, right? Like you yeah, absolutely. You're obviously a high performer. You're efficient. You're efficient. Yeah.

You are good at thinking your way through things. You understand the value of a dollar. You understand markets. You understand the importance of doing a job quickly and properly. Dude, let's put this on your resume. If I can't get you a job. Yeah, you're done. Yeah.

So cool. All right. Smith irritates twos of the week. this woman let me tell you Alberta Premier defends ministers accepting Oilers playoff tickets from parole importer

that's that Turkish pilot guy yeah yeah that they brought in and I mean the sun's coming out firing you can always tell how how newspapers feel about the person because they'll either have a picture of them

happy or angry or whatever else and she does not look her best in this photo. So Daniel Smith got, uh, got VIP box tickets in Vancouver with, um, some other group. And then she also got VIP tickets to, um,

this is for the Oilers playoff run. Or sorry. Maybe it was Vancouver. I can't remember. Um, sorry. Uh, and then I was,

uh, no, it was Vancouver. This was a, the Vancouver one. Yeah, Vancouver. Yeah. And then,

and then during the Stanley Cup final, she got, um, VIP box tickets, uh, in Edmonton from, from the Turkish Tylenol people. And she said,

as I understand it, all the rules have been followed. I have an exception. I have an expectation that every elected person is going to be able to do their disclosures appropriately. And then it talks about what exact rules it were that were being followed. Because. longtime fans of the show will remember

when she changed the rules because it inhibited her ability to get free hockey tickets three days ahead of last Christmas, which is always when they do their most dastardly stuff. The government raised the limits on gifts that could be received by ministries via an order and counsel.

Isn't it funny how those orders in council always seem to kick us in the ass? MLAs previously accept... My advice to her is... Yep. no go ahead. Finish the story and then we'll talk about. MLAs could previously accept non-monetary gifts valued at $200 while tickets to events were kept at $400 under new regulation.

Both are limited to 500, but could go above 1,000 if reported to the ethics commissioner. So if you just send them an email ahead of time that says, I'm going to go to the fucking hockey game, deal with it. Technically, that's their required disclosure and they're good to go after that. and so that's what she did. And so she changed the rules so that she would be allowed to do this. And then her response is that she's following the rules. And now I'm stuck agreeing with Nahed Nenshi for the first fucking time in my life in that this is bullshit. Yep.

And if she wants to be a relatable person, if she wants to, you know, come up. People in Alberta value authenticity. Right. This, fair enough, you want to go to the hockey game. You want to be seen representing your province. Go. All right. Yeah.

If you actually really wanted to represent the people of your province, you'd be wearing a jersey, you'd have your face painted, maybe a couple pom-poms are a sign that you'd be waving from the stands, drinking a beer. No, I mean, if she was, Yeah, if she was going to the game every week

because she loves hockey and, we were paying for it. I'd be like, no, you know, you can put it on put, I mean, you're paid. Not that well, actually, but you put it on your own dime. But for, for playoffs and stuff like that, you're, you go to the hockey game and sit down with the premier from the other side or with the governor of Texas or Florida, whatever. It's all legit, man. We wouldn't give a shit as a Canadian or as an Alberta taxpayer.

If you said, you know, you took one flight to Florida during playoffs, I wouldn't care, wouldn't care. As soon as you start doing this kind of bullshit, like the appearance. of conflict is conflict. That's it. I mean, I worked in private sector my whole life, and we were trained on this over and over and over. The simple appearance of conflict will, is, is conflict enough.

It's bad. So don't, fuck, don't do that. Yeah, I agree. It's, it's, and especially in Alberta, man, come on, Danielle, please. Like, we, we basically fired the previous government because they stood on the, the, what does it call it, not the Crystal Palace, the Sky Palace. The Sky Palace, you know, a set of rules for D, but not for us, you know, drinking freaking, it wasn't the Scotch that bothered me when Kenny was sitting on the Sky Palace. It was the, we're going to do it while you sit at home.

Absolutely. I don't give a shit if you're drinking Scotch, buddy, even if it's on my dime. I really don't care. Yeah. And it wasn't even good scotch. That was probably the one thing that bugged me about it. Actually, I think it was Irish whiskey, if I recall correctly. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, no, that's, that was a bad, bad move daniel fix that fix that you know do better eves getting dropped oh yeah go gill bow's rolling on this one he's been quiet on this one yeah funny that isn't it interesting how he always likes to jump he kind of jumps the gun and then looks silly in retrospect yeah so what happened is is that ford recently announced that they're moving away from manufacturing evis in Ontario and going towards F-250s.

So they're backing off the EVs and they're going to go full bowl on F-250s and not just Yeah. I mean, that's not just right to be truck, but F-250s, right? Yeah. And so they're spending $2 billion to convert the plant to set it up for specifically F-250s. So it's not like it's not like they're moving away from EVs and making scooters or or little coops and hatchbacks or, you know, things like that. Yeah, that's the best part.

I mean, imagine the negotiations at first, like Ford says, we want to build F-150s, and Gilbo's like, can you build small EV cars? Then Ford goes, we'll compromise. We'll do F-150 electrics. Gilbo, okay, here's a couple billion dollars. Ford comes back, it's like, yeah, we change your mind. We're going to full-size one-ton diesels.

Okay. Well, that's exactly what happened here is that they got $600 million from the government of Ontario and $600 million from the federal government to build EVs. And so they said, oh, thank you for the money. Thank you very much. But we're going to build big ass fucking trucks. And while I can appreciate that sentiment, where's the fucking money, Lubowski? You don't get it back. You know, that rug really brings the room together.

Actually, I know we're moving on, but the one part I like about that story is I've said this many times. You got you got people that are ideological. And when ideology finally meets practicality, practicality usually wins. So the government of Canada can say whatever the hell they want when it comes to electric vehicles. The proof is in the pudding. And people want trucks, big trucks with diesels, with power. You know? Yeah.

So, yeah. fight me. Well, I mean, you could definitely outrace them. In a diesel or an EV? Evs are fast, man. Yeah, some of those EVs are fast. Okay, but you want to go on a long trip? Like, yeah, absolutely.

Like, the torque is unmatched. You know, when you hear about like Tesla's in plaid mode or whatever else like that, they seem ridiculous. But you want to drive a thousand clicks? You're going to get there. You're going to get there a lot faster when you don't. don't have to fuel up for two hours so the batteries can charge. I made a trip from,

I made a trip from here to Prince Rupert, which was like, I don't know, 1,400 kilometers, and we made it on a, and back, we made it on three tanks of gas pulling a boat, three tanks of diesel,

pulling a boat. Those new diesels, man, this was a Ford, I don't know, what's in the Fords now, it's 6.8. That thing is efficient and halls.

Oh, like even I was driving it once in a while, you're pulling like, I don't know, a 20,000 pound boat behind you, and you're still looking down at the speedo going, holy shit, I'm doing 130 in the mountains, you know, got a slow. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Well, I mean, technology's come so far. Like, even you think about like the mileage you used to get 20 years ago.

And then your parents complaining about the mileage, they got 20 years before that. Yeah. I remember we had this old, we had this old four truck that you could almost watch the fuel gauge drop. So, yeah. And we were all. on a boat to the lake one time and my dad and

one of his buddies and me and yeah it was like basically we had to stop like every 50 kilometers for gas all right so the media is not your friend but community is actually

so this is this is awesome this is we got a we got a few things here some of them to do with other things we've been talking about along the way so Axios news The Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the border czar title, which she never actually had. Readers added context they thought people might want to know. On April 14, 2021, Axios's Shauna Chen confirmed Kamala Harris had been appointed Biden's border czar, writing Harris appointed by Biden as border czar said she would be looking at the root causes that drive migration.

So not only were they able to find a source that refuted this thing. It was literally fucking them. Yeah. This happens all the time. Here's another one. CBS News. Trump falsely accuses Harris of donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund, bailing out dangerous criminals.

She literally did this during the BLM. These were the people who got arrested during the BLM riots. Okay. Readers added context. this accusation is not false. Kamala Harris has promoted MFF Minnesota Freedom Fund in the past and her ex post

supporting it is still active for now. And then it shows her literally tweeting this stuff. This just goes on and on. And I like this one. Strictly. This is Pollyev who

in all fairness the Canadian media has had a really easy time lately with politicians. I'd over the past decade because they throw softballs to the liberals and the conservatives back off because they're scared of being called racist all the time. And that's basically the last 10 years in media interviews in Canada. And now you've got somebody who actually questions things and they're not good enough to deal with it.

So here is Monsieur Pauliel. One option here in your mind. Are you talking, sorry, on what subject? Are we talking now drugs or crime? I'm talking safe supplies. Well, again, you know, how can you possibly report on the story when you're already using government propaganda? It's not safe. Yes, that's the problem.

You're using the term they're using. So it goes on like this for a little while. But that was a good interview, actually, because the guy had backpedaled, he says, okay, not safe. What did he say supervised? And then Pierre called him out on that. And yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's not quite as beautiful visually as the apple eating moment.

But I like the fact that there's somebody who's actually pushing back on these BS conversations. Yeah. All right. Here you go. Metro UK. And they actually, if you go to this link, they updated the headline because I think they got quite a lot of flack over it. But here's what it was. So their tweets still up with the original headline.

Army's newest laser that can fire at the speed of light. No. How fast are the lasers you were expecting exactly? What does laser stand for? Light amplification. I can't remember. I know it's light amplification and I know that it is an acronym. Yeah.

But I can't remember what it is. But yeah, that's the whole point. It's the light part of it that's, that's important. Now, this was polling Canada posted this. This is how trustworthy do you find the news reported by the following media organization. And this was based off 3,500 respondents from Polera. And I think it was an online poll. But here you go.

The most trusted two are the weather network in the CBC followed by CTV and global. God. The last ones. Fox News, Rebel Media, the Beaverton, Western Standard, the Sun newspapers. So the poll is biased, obviously.

I mean, the poll is extremely biased when you look at that, but also the poll asked how much you trust the reporting of the Beaverton. Yeah. Which is basically, it's like the onion kind of thing. For those of you don't know,

It's it's political satire, but you probably just don't hear about it because it's not really that funny anymore. It's actually cute that they try to make it. You know, when I first looked at that pull, you got me at first because I went, oh, weather network. Okay. Jives. I would trust the weather network. And then you start going down. And then afterwards you go, oh, okay, I see a pattern here.

So they put a legitimate one at the top and then everything underneath is all bullshit, you know. because I am starting to trust a weather trust is a relative term. The only thing I trust or weather network for is their forecast. Their forecast, right? And then even, I digress, but yeah.

Okay, but yeah, this, I mean, I would say that this is just a wildly slanted, very localized poll. And there's no context in it. It didn't say it was based off all Canada or just Ontario. This is probably something you'd see in Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia. I'm guessing.

But just the fact that they didn't even know enough to take the Beaverton out of it is insane. And here's one you might like. You probably recognize this lady. Hey, Marty? I don't. Oh. Or is that Pauli Sissoubier or whatever? Yeah, that is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's Paulie.

That's not her name, but that's her group. Yes. And so for those of you who don't know, this woman, she was one of the survivors. of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting in the late 80s. If I, an 89, I think, if I remember correctly. And so she has since become an absolute deranged lunatic, but she gets the street cred of having survived a shooting,

kind of Canada's David Hogg. Like if you got David Hogg from, uh, uh, wish.com. And so anyway, this entire article doesn't even attempt to reach out to anybody on the other side of the argument, doesn't attempt. to dissect any of the argument or um any of the positions stated in any of this this entire thing yeah okay here provost the survivor of the 1989 mass shooting and montreal's a cold pulley technique okay so um it talks about this open letter that this woman who has been community noted into oblivion by the way um who is just renowned on twitter for getting fact check when she posts

absolute bullshit is treated as a credible source in this entire thing. It, uh, it demonized the conservatives, which there's a lot to demonize about them. You don't need to just use your say and random unspoken things. You can actually be, be legit. Conservative MPs and some gun owners have vehemently opposed the liberal efforts to ban certain firearms as an attack on law-abiding citizens. That's what they said there, which it literally. literally is.

It is. Anyway, this article, it's too bad. I was actually going to reach out to this guy and then I forgot. But I wanted to just be like, what was your approach to this? What were you trying to do with it? Are you considering updating this article with some facts or anything like that? I don't know. Maybe I should still reach out.

I'll tell you a couple of things about community notes. So not everybody can issue community notes. I can. So I'm a big account and I'm verified and now I'm allowed to produce community notes. And even if you're a big account and verified, you have to put in community notes and then they have to be rated by others. So I have a scoreboard and I can go see, you know, did I say a community note was real and it turned out to be real? Yes, then you're positive. If I said it's false, but it turned out to be real, then I get a take against me.

So I'm considered a reliable. Yeah, reliable, I would say. Yeah, yeah. But what's hilarious is I get attacked and my tweets get community noted all the time. You don't see the community notes until they become. So they get proposed. So there will be. If you're a part of that group, which I am to, because I'm super fancy as well, Marty.

Okay, cool. You get to see the proposed community notes underneath. And then if there's been enough interaction to where the algorithm clicks over from proposed to important enough to be shown to everybody. It doesn't show proposed community notes to everyone. Once they're reasonably sure that it's come to a correct conclusion, that's what the community notes shows. So I get sworn by weird community notes.

And then you can see who's proposing a community note. If you click on it, you see their name. It's a fictitious name. It doesn't have anything to do with their Twitter handle. No, and it's always the same guys. I think Stephen Gilbo is hitting me with community notes all the time. But hey, hi, Stephen. Stephen, you suck if you're watching this.

Yeah, you do. You really do. But yeah, that's it. And now we've got happy news. Oh, where to even start with this, Marty? All right. So this is Mark Johnston. I've worked for the riders since 2019,

and this was the year, and that was the year we got this Gatling gun. Ever since then, I've wanted to shoot it at a game. I get that opportunity this Friday. I'm pumped, go riders. Look at, this is, their t-shirt canon at Mosaic stadium. I want one.

Yeah, yeah. Could you imagine? Like, I looked into getting a T-shirt cannon myself because I thought it was, it's the kind of thing I should have, right? They're sticking expensive. And that was just a single shot. It was basically just a muzzleloader. It was like a T-shirt cannon muzzle. Well, yeah, I mean, you could

just, you know, some PVC and a little bit of, uh, yeah. No, no, we're going to, we're going to myth-busters the shit out of this thing. We're going to get pipe from your yard, and we're going to to get we're not we're getting compressed air we're going to make it can yeah but this thing's cool you can basically build a potato gun that would do the same thing right um i think it would be a little bit hard to to have it fly gently rather than yeah but anyway so this is this is the rider's um

t-shirt cannon and then here look at that um you know it's sort of the The dreams really. But I didn't see it shooting anything. You don't, I guess it's shooting so fast, you don't really see it, right? You can see the little,

the little flares. And then also if you're watching it cycle, every time it moves over, you'll, you'll know that it's, because it just automatically fires when, when the, when the cylinder lines up with the barrel,

right? And then, and then actually, if you, if you're gonna get really creative, that smoke could be like, vape and it could be, like infused with pot

and then get everybody in the crowd like just cheerful. I mean, yeah, you can do something like that. I'm guessing it's compressed. That'd be abused. We're not going to go down. I mean, that's the kind of thing you'd expect at a bomber's game.

Although technically this was a bomber's game. And they beat the bombers. Although they did lose to the fucking alouettes last night. But whatever it is. Yeah, yeah. It was a big defeat. Yes.

So here's other happy news. So this is Billy Mays the third. I just got to Pittsburgh and someone left OxyClean at my dad's grave. So here's Billy May's beloved husband, father, and son, pitch man. He's the boat, wait, there's more guy. And somebody had just left a bottle ofxyClean on his grave. Wow. I thought that was pretty good.

And bonus community notes. I get home late the other night and there's a siren flashing through one of the windows. Mrs. Tews looks outside or there's a fire truck park next door. but not just any fire truck antique so yeah um it was the second longest serving uh truck in um shoot nanaimo okay and then it ended up getting donated to the calgary fire department museum they kept it for a while didn't have room for it didn't have money to do anything with it gave it some farmer farmer gave it some other guy who's buddies with my neighbor and now they're fixing it up in the driveway and that thing is going to be fucking beautiful when it's done.

That's going to be awesome in parades and things like that. That's going to be awesome. It's been stored indoors between like, so it was stored indoors for the museum and it was stored indoors on the farm. And so it's still in pretty good condition. It kicks over. I lent them a little bit of gas. And they, they,

what did it look like as a truck? Is it just sort of a water truck or with a couple of wooden ladders on the side, generally speaking? What kind of truck is? It's a little bit newer than that. It's, uh, oh, shoot, I don't think I have any good pictures of it.

Um, maybe I could do the follow up with that later. But, uh, it looks basically like, uh, I don't know, it kind of looks, it's that, uh, kind of Ford heavy duty truck style that almost looks like an old

international. Yeah. That's kind of what it looks like a little bit. And then it's just, uh, a fire truck on the back. Uh, it doesn't have a,

a lifting, it's got a this thing that you push up to you can pop it down to take the ladders off more easily, but there's no man lift or anything like that. Probably got some gorgeous old wooden ladders on there and stuff like that. Nope, it's got aluminum ladders. Oh, aluminum, yeah. You know the kind of

trucks I love and I don't think we even have any in Calgary? You know those ladder trucks you see in the U.S. where the rear is steered differently from the front and then they go down the road full speed and the guys like on the back of the truck? Check those out on YouTube someday. Like, ladder trucks.

I will. I mean, Calgary has had some cool service vehicles. The police helicopter that they retired in 2007 or nine, they bought that from the film studio that made a little flick called speed. That helicopter that blew up in the movie speed,

it didn't actually blow up. That was just movie magic. It ended up getting bought by the city of Calgary and that was their police chopper for like 15 years afterwards. yeah and in the future it's all going to be drones hopefully it's little why not right yeah not the american style drones it's by it and you from that 50,000 feet shoot missiles but that Barack Obama sends to your coffee shop yeah geez so anyway that was happy news and then community notes uh in two weeks three weeks whatever uh the weekend august 16th we've got the sundry uh rodeo coming up uh or pardon me the sundry music festival Julian Austin putting on the foil A few other guests

I don't know Anything interesting happening over in your neck of the woods coming up Um No No no no it's a boring summer I got lots on the go man I'm always on the go right now my big news is We're moving my daughter into a new condo

tomorrow so The Reynolds went well Rennos went fantastic That's a topic in all of itself, not the rentals, but buying real estate and Calgary. What an eye opener that was. But it's all happening. So now as a good dad, I'm going to go rent the U-Haul this afternoon,

and we'll move her in tomorrow. And then we'll go from there. Yeah. Nice. Congratulations. She's going to the UFC then, presumably. No, she's done. So this is my oldest.

She's done. So she's moving into a condo. She's established. Well, actually, the biggest news in my life is I'm becoming an empty nest. on September 1st. So my youngest Walk around naked day.

Woo! Yeah. I'll shave on that day. See what happens. Maybe that'll... Well, if you're walking around naked, maybe... If you're walking around naked, maybe, you know, hit all the sweet spots.

Hey, how do you know I'm not naked right now? I mean, that's the beauty of doing these Zoom calls, right? That's fair. That's fair. I did... There was one point... It was like bloody hot here because I'm upstairs. I did one mashup in my boxers in a t-shirt

just for the listening at home. So, all right, well, yeah, I guess that's about it. Marty, thanks a lot for coming on, man. Awesome. Awesome. I hope I did Sean Proud. I hope I did. You did actually as the main host or yeah, you,

well, you guys share the host. It was co-host. Yeah, yeah. So, and yeah, we'll see, we'll see Sean back here next week, I guess. Yeah. And if not, it's fine. We'll get somebody else. else next week. We'll just keep like with your guests. All right. Thanks, Marty. Stick

out with your next. You bet.