Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 128

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines which include Jasper wildfire update with Henry Siedlitz, New Zealand ship sunk, Kamala Harris 60 Minute interview, Starlink given out for free and more Covindication. Mashup collection https://snp-8.creator-spring.com/listing/the-mashup-collection⁠⁠ Cornerstone Forum ‘25 https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/ Text Shaun 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast E-transfer here: [e-mail] Silver Gold Bull Links: Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca Email: [e-mail] Text Grahame: [phone]

Good morning, everybody. I'd like to show you a little bit of my plumbing. This is the cover of the toilet tank in the downstairs. And if you look closely, it says, Made in Mexico by American Standard. Seriously, guys, what the hell is wrong with you, people? This is the part where everybody comes in. I mean, it's like show and tell with two on today's mashup.

Matchup 128. Tews while you're at it, check your mic settings. I want to make sure that you're hooked up to the right one. Either way. Are you still hearing me okay? Yeah, I can. I just wasn't sure if it was your mic or if you were just computer audio this morning. Yeah, you're fine.

I guess you're on the mic. It just sounded a little different. Doesn't matter. Welcome to Mashup 128. How's everybody doing today? Two's. Great to see you another week. Here we are.

Yeah, absolutely good to see you and not the way you had intended before the show started. Read the headline. Sean give a whole new meaning to UCP. I told Tuesday I had to go pee. And he says, he says, I have to go pee. Watch this. And I'm like, what the hell? That I showed to you.

You see P. Yes. I clicked up. on a video, put it up for twos and said, watch this, I'm going pee. And of course, twos comes back with a one-liner. Anyways, matchup 128. Here we go, folks.

We got lots in the store for you today. Happy Airborne Friday to Jamie Sinclair and the boys. He was out in Ottawa. This week, twos, I got to go to Carrot River. Shout out to Byrne Crawford and his father, Bill Crawford, who turns 100 in January. He was a member of the first Canadian Battalion

of Perkins. Troopers and that was pretty cool. I got to sit down with them as one of the legacy interviews I did and talk to him about that. And, you know, after I found out he was a paratrooper, I called Jamie and Jamie talked to him on the phone for a few minutes. So that was pretty cool. Now, all the people chiming in, good morning. Guys, this is coming from a life loving mom and nurse on X.

Hey, thanks for joining us this morning. If you guys are watching, you're on X, you're on any of the platforms, share, subscribe. We don't get anywhere with all you lovely people. Murray saying good morning. Leanne Taylor saying good morning. Good morning. Everyone, Michelle. Michelle, hey guys, did you punt me last week or was Facebook doing Facebook things to me? The only people we punt off this are Oilers fans. Okay, okay, sure. Just a reminder, well, do you want to do a community event call? I was just going to say, just a reminder that.

If you have any community events or anything like that, get ready to throw them in the comments at the end and we'll read them all off. Yes. What's your reminder? I was going to say a reminder, coots six and a half. You know, we're calling it the coups, you know, we call it the coots six and a half now. It's no longer the days. They've been sentenced to six and a half years. That's Christopher Carbert, Anthony Olenick.

Just a friendly reminder that, you know, we're not forgetting about them. We have some updates on the mashup. Of course, we have October 18th, BC live election coverage. It's going to be all over YouTube and Rumble and Facebook, Twitter, et cetera. We're going to be live here. If you guys want to watch election coverage that doesn't suck, if you don't want to see CBC trying to fill a bunch of dead air with a bunch of ums and overdrawn graphics and you want actually people having fun enjoying themselves talking about these things as they unfold,

This is the only place to get it. And then October 28th, we'll have SAS election, live election coverage. November 1st and 2nd, we're going to be Bonnie Sugar. Good morning to you. UCP, AGM, November 1st, 2nd. We're going to be in Red Deer. And we got a hospitality room. Tuesday, it's at the casino.

Please, fill people in where this is at so that I keep getting text. Red Deer Casino. Hell of a spot, actually. I went and did a tour of it. So basically just to, if you just keep going towards the lobby from where the steakhouse restaurant is, it'll be on your left. I don't know. There should be some signs or placards or something. There should be something anyway.

November 5th, we have U.S. election live coverage that we'll be doing here as well. So we got plenty of stuff coming up here in the next month, under a month, I guess, that will be live and you guys can follow along and make sure. sure to pay attention for that. Anything else, too, is before we get rolling. That's basically her. Uh, here we go. By the way, looking forward to it. We'll have you on the big screen at Buffalo head party headquarters on the 28th. We may want to have a conversation with them. Yes, we should. Yes, we should. Michelle. Michelle, yeah. We'll, we'll, we'll hook up something so that we can maybe have a live call in, uh, to there. Because I think that'd be a lot of fun. If you're sitting anywhere in Saskatchewan or BC and, um, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll hook up something. And,

you think you got some people that we should be talking to. Let us know and we'll do our best to get them on during the live. I wanted to bring up the SMP MASHUp 2's collection. There you go. I'll toss it in the show notes. You can grab a shirt and wrap the rooster slurper. Okay. Let's get on to MASHRub 128.

We got some headlines. We got a guest sitting in the back. So let's go. Welcome to Jasper, the Carbon Tax Funeral Pire. Of course, we're talking to. Jasper Wildfire. We're going to welcome in Henry Sidelets. Henry. How's it going to say, Henry? Morning, you beautiful bastards. Henry's been on the podcast, and of course, he's a volunteer firefighter with the Lumsden Fire Department. Here to talk a little bit of Jasper Wildfire Boys. Here, I'll just

read off a couple things, and then you two can go at it. Jasper Wildfire Investigation reveals Minister Gabo's department prevented an entire team of firefighters from helping fight the fire. firefighters were forced to watch Jasper Burn because Parks Canada prevented them from doing their job. There's a whole bunch of videos out that break this down a heck of a lot better than what I just said. The other thing to remember is Parks Canada also installed fire hydrants and Jasper with different hookups than those in the rest of Alberta and British Columbia. Only seven adapters were available to hookup fire trucks to battle the blaze. And worse, there was no secondary water sources to tap when hydrants went down. This debacle just keeps getting worse and it keeps exposing it.

Two's Henry have at her. Right off the bat. So my neighbor is he's got a buddy refurbishing an old fire truck right now. And so it's parked like 40 feet away from me. And when I first saw it, I went over there and he's like, hey, do you want me to show you around this thing? And I'm like, well, obviously, yes. And so we went through all of it, including where everything would hook up to the fire hydrant. And I said, oh, that's an interesting old fitting.

Do you guys, like how often do you guys update them? And he said they're standardized. You could drag one out of the bush from 100 years ago. And it's got the same threads on it now as it did back then. So that no matter where the truck ends up, no matter what hydrant it's parked in front of, there will always be a mated pair. And you'll never have this issue. Now, that seems to fly in the face of what happened here.

Jasper, with their hydrants, maybe you could expand on that right off the bat. Yeah, it's unfortunate that they chose the fittings that they did. But I know even within our small town alums, and it's just part of our standard operating procedures, there are some older fire hydrants that actually have a different fitting. So we do have adapters on our trucks, and depending on which one, when you pull up to. But, you know, that's just some legacy fire hydrants. So I'm surprised they had seven crossovers, though,

available that tie into these ones. But that, yeah, I think it's just, just poor planning. And, you know, another example of, you know, in a federal park, how they can fuck things up, right? Like, everywhere else in Alberta is different than the fire hydards and Jasper. Like, what the hell's up with that? Yeah.

Okay. And then then then turning away guys. at the gate. So there was a bunch of private firefighters who showed up to help out, and then they got turned around at the gate like they didn't have a park pass. Yeah. Yeah. So when you're, like, I've never been involved in an incident response of this size and, you know, like where you've got contract guys showing up. But whenever you're not part of the, incident command and you're you're assisting and i mean these guys will call in um you know other fire departments like for us for example um if there's a you know a mutual aid call you uh you show up

and more often than not they'll they'll call for mutual aid early um and before they know exactly what's you know the the whole incident like they'll have people coming and then you know conditions change so in this case you've got you know contract firefighters waiting at the gate and you know maybe at the time when they were called things had changed but uh so i mean why would you call guys and then change your mind so either the fire is not as bad as what they thought and maybe you don't need all those guys or maybe things got really really really bad and you don't don't want anybody in there, you know, life, you know, kind of over property type of thing. So, but in this case, like, you know, half the town burns down or I don't know, was it

a third of the town, you know, obviously fall parts, yeah, sure. Right. So yeah. So yeah, I mean, just a complete screw up. Like some of the interviews that, like Rachel Parker interviewed the guy from, uh, from Alberta there, Todd Lohen. And, uh, like our, the Alberta guys didn't even. a seat at the table on the incident command, right?

Like they're sitting from the old side looking in in their own backyard and their own province. Like how does that happen? Well, I was going to ask you about that because on the one hand, you'd think that they would know everybody and they'd have a better in-depth understanding than some people in Ottawa where you've got, you know, most of the continental U.S., a third of Mexico and parts of Russia that are closer to that fire than they are. But at the same time, you know,

maybe they just want to have a very clear chain of command and not have the ambiguity at the top. What would, I don't know, how does that usually play out? Yeah, I don't know. I think it's another example of where, you know, you've got federal overreach within the province where it's not needed because definitely, like the Alberta guys would be far more experienced with fighting wildfires.

They're doing it every season, right? Like the Parks Canada guys, I don't know what they have for wildfire training or experience, but I mean, I'd be bringing in the experts. And, yeah, it doesn't seem right. It's something's messed up there. Isn't it just showing, exposing how little they knew, prepared, and then some more nefarious parts, like the hydrants, you know, like, is there a reason why you would go with a different thread and different things like that?

You know, like the prescribed burns, we're worried about how it looks, right? So you get rid of the prescribed burns. And the lack of record keeping. There's no record keeping. There's no prescribed burns. There's no logging now. Now there's just weird things. Yes.

Okay. So this, this is interesting. I don't know what could eat your mind. And I do not have, we do not take notes at my. operations meeting full stop i can provide it for any meeting we have so that is them saying that they don't have anything down on paper for any of the meetings now i'm going to go out on a limb and say when it comes to effective meetings the first thing you do is you send out an invite to everybody who's going to be at the meeting detailing what you're going to go over and who needs to bring

what so that way everybody shows up prepared so you've got to have that documentation if you're going to have an effective meeting. And then afterwards, you send out the notes from the meeting, the minutes, and you say, okay, this is what we decided. These are the action items that this person has and that person has and everything all the way down. If you don't have those first two things, there's no point in having a meeting. You need to describe. Absolutely. Have you listened to the whole Chris LeVon testimony, like the guy from Arctic Fire and Safety, like he goes, he's, he's, I looked at, I looked at clips of it. Which part are you taking about specifically?

I don't know, just the level of response that they were prepared to offer, like for them to turn that away, like, I don't know, like one of three things happened and maybe it's a, you know, a combination of all three, but depending on who you are and what you believe, like the optimist or maybe, you know, somebody that's a liberal supporter would look at that and say, oh, they turned them away because they wanted to keep everybody safe. The fire was completely out of control. And, you know, these Parks Canada guys had their shit together.

And, you know, it was life over property. And these guys, you know, because like, let's face it, you've got trained professional firefighters waiting at the gate. They're trained guys. They're licking their chops. It's like, turn me loose. I want to, you know, I want to, I want to fight this fire. Probably something that's maybe more realistic as these Parks Canada guys are

incident in command. They're completely over their head. They don't know what the hell they're doing. And, you know, it's just, you know, typical federal screw up. They're just, you know, they messed up the response, probably needed some help in there. And then there's, you know, maybe we're, some of us more lean towards is the conspiracy theorist thing is like, no, federal government, they're trying to fuck this up as much as possible and they want to watch Western Canada burn. I don't know. Yeah, well, I mean, it's a two for one deal, right? For them, because A, you get to see Alberta lit on fire, which is basically their wet dream.

And then B, they get to say it's climate change and go back to more carbon tax bullshit. It's just, there's no downside to this for them, except for, you know, if it comes out that if somebody actually took some notes at a meeting and this came out. Yeah. Did you look at, like, do you know what these contract firefighters make? Like, like, that's one of the things I think you got to consider. Like, when you got that many men and equipment sitting there ready to go, like, it can happen sometimes in these incidences where they, they just have way more help than they need. And these guys show up and they're ready to start, you know, clock in and start charging.

Like on their website, I just did a quick little look here. like they're charging out guys at 67 bucks a half an hour equipment at 422 per half hour you got 50 guys and 20 trucks they were like on a 10 hour shift they'd be spending a quarter million bucks a day like what federal government guy wouldn't want to spend quarter million bucks a day like yeah like this is the first thing in the history of the liberal government they're not willing to spend money on aside aside from the ethics commissioner Yeah, I don't know. How many other natural disasters have you heard of, though, in the last few years where they're basically impeding people from helping themselves?

Well, I mean, the hurricanes are the one in the States right now? It happened in Maui. Yep. Yeah. And then, yeah, the Florida, like, you got rednecks running around. They're ready to fix things. They're ready to fix roads. And they're just handcuffing them.

You know, can't do anything. anything. Actually, the one, I don't know why this comes to mind. It's not a natural disaster, but you remember the, what was the school shooting? Was that Texas where they all stood outside and nobody went in? Yeah. And it's like, this is becoming an epidemic of not allowing the people with the knowledge and the resources to go on and fix the situation.

And in like really serious instances and Jasper Wildfire is case in point, right? They held people out. and you know you can talk about the money tied up in it but it's but it's funny at a point like that we all go well the government isn't worried about spending any amount of money if they can try and save things and so you you think like that it just is another instance of where the people that can actually help the situation aren't allowed to go in and we're seeing that happen time and time again the latest being hurricane uh helene and then now milton will we'll see what happens there as well

Yeah, how many more times does this have to happen before we start saying it's conspiracy, right? Yeah. Henry, appreciate you hopping on and discussing a little bit of Jasper Wildfire. We got a whole list of things we're going to roll on to, but appreciate you hopping on this morning. Thanks very much. It's good seeing you again. Have a great Friday, boys. All right.

Thank you. On to the next. Limp Biscuit sticks it in the record labels Chocolate. Starfish Limbiscuit frontman Fred Durst has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group for 200 million over alleged unpaid royalty twos. So this is interesting.

They basically, from the sounds of it, for about 15 straight years, we're just sending them checks without any sort of, I don't know, verification. They just said, hey, you made this much money this month. You made this much money this month. And he said,

That sounds good. And this went on for quite some time. And then this totally weird thing happened with their software where there was a glitch and they accidentally shortchanged the artist a million dollars. Which, I mean, it's weird how these glitches never go the other way. But I don't know. That just seems strange to me. And so anyway, that was when he started saying, hey, show me your paperwork on this. And they said, no, no, you just, you made.

you made $783,000. Here, you made, you know, this much, you made that much. And now he's suing them. And this article didn't get into it. But I saw another one where he had started his own label kind of under the umbrella of these guys. And that's the label that signed a few big names, like Puddle of Mud was one of them. And so it's between not only the limp biscuit stuff, but also the stuff under that label. And the interesting thing was he said he never got paid a dime.

from them for anything from that label and you think like puddle of mud came out 20 22 years ago that's a throwback puddle of mud you mean do you mean that you have been waiting 20 years to get paid and now you're just bringing this up like the whole thing's weird but apparently the the music industry is just notoriously opaque as far as any of this stuff goes and nobody really you just you get a check and you're like, okay, I'm rich. Cool. And that's kind of as far as it goes. And so there's just a whole lot of nobody really understanding what the hell goes on.

It's like, I don't even know. Nobody knows. It's like the government, except with more transparency. Yeah. And then Kelly Lloyd says accidentally on purpose. When it always goes that way, I think you're probably correct. Loose lips. sink ships.

The country of New Zealand, that's great. The country of New Zealand lost its first Navy vessels since World War II after the HMNZS. Mau and I $100 million survey and dive vessel commissioned in 2018 ran a ground, burst in flames and sank off the coast of Somal. Reports say after the ship crashed in the reef, it caught fire within 15 minutes of sank,

which now sets up. potentially disastrous oil spill that could greatly harm the local reef and fishing ecosystem there. And as you can see in the picture, it's the Navy ship with the lesbian captain, who we all know is probably a

DEI hire. I don't know if that's totally fair to think about, but yeah, isn't it weird how this always seems to happen? I mean, we had the Banff Wildfire last year at the Women's Firefighter Symp Symposium Summit.

And then this stuff, it just keeps piling up and it just keeps piling up. And there's crazy people in the back saying, well, what if we just hired people based on merit? But the thing about it is, is that it is a gift that keeps giving, unless you're one of the fish who's about to be trying to live in an oil slick. But I mean, for the rest of us, rest of us, it's absolutely hilarious. The comments on this thing were amazing. you got somebody saying literally a ship for mapping topography of the ocean floor that's what this was okay we need to tell where the water stops and where the ground begins so that ships don't go there and this is that ship but like it's being ran by a woman so obviously they got to stop and ask for directions on the way and then you think okay well yeah now it's it's the double diversions thing because it's a lesbian and it's a woman and now she's got everybody on the boat wet

and you got um so you already showed that but uh here's here's some of these comments you got scissomy timbers must have hit a dyke sink the patriarchy in her defense she didn't know how to deal with seamen and then here's chuck prodnick hitting curve even at sea. Yeah, and I'm going to bring this back up because this is, you know, the other side, trying to, the commanding officer who's ordered to abandon ship is being praised for saving lives. But they kind of leave out the fact, you know, everything else that we're having a little bit of

fun with this morning. Like, it's like burning down the orphanage pulling the kids out and telling everybody you're some big hero. Oh, man. Tuse lives for headlines like that, folks. I don't think it gets any better than that. Let's make a deal. Today, Honorable, well, here, I'm going to bring up the photo of her first here.

Oh, by the way, Kevin says still not touching this one. Kevin, I don't think you have to worry about that. She's not your type. Or you're not her type, rather. Okay, today the Honorable Francoisois, Philip Champagne, Minister of Innovation Science and Industry announced the appointment of Nancy Diesel as chair of the CFI Board of Directors for a three-year term effective. September 20th, 2024.

You might go, why is this in here? Well, why does she look so French? She's married to the leader of the block. So isn't it funny that in this minority parliament, where you've got the liberals doing everything they can to just hold off an election for as long as possible, the wife of the leader of the block Quebec, gets this cushy appointment with the government.

Do you think that'll satiate him? Well, you know what? I mean, we really stand on our principles here in the Party Quebec. And, you know, we don't want, we won't compromise for anything. We care about what's right for Quebecers. Well, I mean, technically this is what's right for one Quebecer. But this is the chicanery. They can't make a deal in Parliament on the bills, which is a good thing, by the way.

And so this is the consolation prize. I don't know if it's going to hold off an election or not. But, I mean, it's interesting to think about. Yeah, here's, here's Leanne. Definitely not a conflict of interest. And Michelle, nothing to see here. Exactly. Well, we've done as much as the ethics commissioner, at least, too.

We've exposed it. So that's, you know, that's something. The punishment is exposure. Are Kansas politicians importing new fees? I don't know why he's laughing. Because last week, when you called Arkansas, Arkansas, Arkansas, and then you kept on talking about new fees in British Columbia. Oh, you're such a jackass.

I didn't even catch it. No, I'm going to, all right. All right. If you're new to the show, welcome to the fun. Toos is having fun this morning. All right. Do you want to show? Do I want to show what?

Government report tells us what we already know. Jesus, such a jackass. And, okay, never mind. Eco Madman, Stephen Gabo says the cons are lying about the parliament. Let's get to that second. Let's go through what the highlights of the actual PBO thing says first. Okay, okay. Well, I'll pull that up here.

Give me a second. Okay. So the PBO, I'm going to pull it up on screen so people can see it. The highlights, it says, considering only the fiscal impact of the federal fuel charge, PBO estimates average household in each of the backstop provinces, that is all provinces except Quebec. British Columbia in 2030, 31 will see a net gain receiving more from the Canadian carbon rebate than the total amount they pay in the federal fuel charge.

If I scroll down, it then says in 2030, 31 taking into consideration both fiscal and economic impacts, the PBO estimates that the average household in each of the backstop provinces will see a net a net cost paying more in the federal fuel charge and related goods and service tax, as well as receiving lower incomes due to the fuel charge compares to the Canadian carbon. rebate, they receive a lower net taxes they pay due to lower income. Two's? Well, here's the thing. And this is the important, it's literally the first thing on the page, considering only the fiscal impact of the federal fuel charge. It's like saying, if I look only at a tiny piece of the puzzle, it's a small puzzle. That's literally what it's saying.

It's not saying, let's look at this whole thing. It says if you look at only this narrow part of this entire thing, like it'd be like saying Canada if you only look at I don't know some random island off the coast of BC Canada is only 20 square kilometers technically yeah yeah if that's the only part you're looking at Canada is 20 square kilometers fair enough that's the same kind of thing this is and it says basically very clearly it lays out that if you don't look at the whole thing and you only look at one part of it then yes, that's going to be a net positive. But if you actually look at the whole thing, it's a net negative.

And then pull up the video of Stephen Gibbo. Hello, I'm here to comment briefly, unfortunately, on the PBO's latest report on carbon pricing. And for your benefit, I would like to read you the first paragraph of the report. Considering only the fiscal impact of federal fuel charge, PBO estimates that average household in each of the backstop provinces in 2020. 2030, 2021, will see a net gain receiving more from the Canada carbon rebate than the total amount they pay in federal fuel charge. That's what the PBO report says. That is correct. This is going back to what you said.

Here on Pierre Pahliev's big lie to Canadian. He's been misleading Canadian. The Pibio is very clear. More Canadians get money back from the Canada carbon rebate. This guy's misleading. Canadians, too. That's what we're getting to, right? Yeah.

Oh, he's misleading Canadian. Oh, something got mistaken in La Travecion. And je ne comprehende not. Jeanne solace. Yes. What a fucking jackass. All right. He'll avoid the Greenpeace Tower Climer.

Yes. Absolutely. Okay. And then here's the next headline. Arkansas, politicians supporting new fees. What a jackass. 1.28, this is what we're going to do.

May the odds be forever in your favor. And here's some polls, too, as I'm going to pull them up. Here's the presidential election winners. Are you wanting to talk to them specifically? I should have asked to do about this before we started. So this is, so these are all from Polly Market, which is sort of like an open source.

betting odds basically and so the idea being that you put forth a thing saying presidential election winner 2024 is it going to be Donald Trump or Kamala Harris and then people get to vote on which side of the coin they want to land on and then based on how much of it goes one way or the other it changes the odds so for example in in a country where it should be an absolute coin flip until the last second, you've got a 10 point lead from one person to the other one. So this is like, I feel like this is the future of polling, basically. Is people betting on trying to do, because here's the thing is you're literally putting your, your crypto where your mouth is on this.

And so it's quite interesting to look at, excuse me, and you say, okay, well, you know what? Yeah. Well, I was going to say, did you find this one interesting? Because this one shows. Well, I found this one very interesting because keep in mind in this one, that's which party will win the most seats in British Columbia election, blue is NDP and red is conservative in their chart. And the NDP are up like two to one over the conservatives.

Yes. Now, I don't know. See, here's the thing is they're still figuring out the finer points of this stuff. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that in terms of the popular, vote, that's probably going to be more likely to be correct. But you've got, you're probably underrepresented in rural ridings in things like this, which also would lend itself towards the first one being about Donald Trump 55, Kamala Harris 45, to that one probably being understating things a little bit.

But here's where it's extra funny. Which party wins the most seats in Saskatchewan election? 95 and change? I think the Saskatchewan party is going to win. NDP, 4%. I think they're going to win. But isn't this, if I'm understanding this correctly, this is, although it might be the future,

this would be a certain segment of the population. Would it not? A little bit, yes, but I mean, it's not that hard to jump in on. See, right now, basically what happens here is if you buy a dollar worth of this pot and you say, I think the NDP is going to win, or sorry, a dollar worth of this pot saying the NDP is going to win is you pay like four cents and you get a dollar if they win.

And the other way, you'd have to pay 95 cents to get that same dollar back. But it's a pretty safe 95 cents. And if you could put down 95 cents and get a dollar back a week later on a large scale, that's a really, well, regardless of the scale, it's a really good return on investment given the time frame it's in. and so it's an opportunity for people to hop on and make money. But the thing about it is is that it's basically sports betting at the same time where you think, okay, I think this is going to happen. And I'm putting my money where my mouth is. What I like about this is I've been wondering how you get more people involved in politics.

This actually might be something that gets people involved. Yes. Daniel Smith annoys twos of the week. The government of Alberta is tapping. I know I got construction going on. in the background. I'm dues here this week. You're not that pretty, but thank you. Continue. Yeah, right. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

So we have the government in Alberta is officially announced that the fee increases outlined in its spring budget will take effect on October 20th, 2024. These changes will have a significant impact on real estate transactions as amendments to the Land Titles Act and the tariff of fees regulations into force, a flat fee of $50 for land transfers and mortgage registrations. durations will remain unchanged. The more critical aspect of the new regulations of the adjustment to the variable fee structure, which is now being replaced by a levy. So there you go to is there's more fees coming in.

It's not a fee. It's a levy. It's not a tax. It's a levy. I mean, you've got the variable fee, which goes from $2 per $5,000 of property value, up to $5 for $5,000 in property value.

Now, unless I'm mistaken, it's the same paperwork you fill out the same form the same form gets filled out whether that property is worth $10,000 or $10 million it's the same amount of paperwork the same amount of due diligence the same amount of bureaucracy so do you get anything extra like if your property's over a certain amount do they put gold foil around the paperwork that they fill out for you where's the added value in any of this How is it anything other than literally an estate planning tax grab? This is the exact kind of thing you'd expect from the NDP, but we're seeing it from the UCP. And then there was a couple other things in there.

Daniel Smith, to her credit, is throwing down the gauntlet over the No More Pipelines Act. She wants to see some major changes. And if she doesn't, she's going to take them to court, which she'll likely win. And Lord Gunter, whom I generally have a lot of time for, but think is way off in this case. UCP Dump Smith gang could end up handing government to NDP. You have to vote for Daniel Smith or you're going to get an NDP government. And that's the entire theme of this article is, you may not like her, but if you don't vote for her, you're going to get Nihid Nenshi.

So you need to vote for her. How about she does stuff that we want to vote for and then everybody's happy? None of this, nowhere in this article does it say that perhaps the conservative party should do some conservative things every once in a while. And maybe they shouldn't do bureaucratic money grabs over land transfer taxes. None of that's in there. It's just, hey, if you don't want the NDP, you need to vote for the NDP light. Yeah, it's interesting to see conservatives get a little bit like, what happens if,

and you go, well, we find someone new. But in the meantime, she's doing conservative things because everybody's talking about the parental rights and on and on. She's doing a bunch of wonderful things, right?

Like the Alberta Bill of Rights. Everybody's talking about it. The Bill of Rights, yes. Okay, but shit like this. And then I hate that attitude. I just,

I need to go off on this attitude of, you have to vote for them. Well, why aren't you voting for them? Motherfucker, none of these people are entitled to mine or anyone else's vote. They need to earn it. And if they don't earn it, they have no claim to it. And if they don't get elected because they didn't earn it, that isn't on me for giving them a pity vote.

This isn't, I'm some pretty girl at two o'clock in the nightclub and yeah, you'll do. I want somebody that I am proud to put on that ballot. I don't think that's too much to ask. Hot wheels. An AirD man is facing several charges following a multi-property search that turned into three stolen vehicles with altered vehicle identification numbers. Police executed search warrants at three locations in Calgary and AirDry, two of which were international motor car dealership locations. Search of the dealership resulted in the discovery of stolen vehicles. These vehicles have been sold or were advertised to be sold by the dealership.

I scrolled down a little further and the owner of the dealership Brooks Stella 26th of Argery is charged with money laundering possession of property obtained by crime etc etc etc twos this tacked on to the the one we read last week you know what I'm like okay

you know the cops went out last week and took back stolen vehicles and you go well maybe it was shady right you paid 25,000 for a vehicle you knew it was 50,000 and it was in Cajee's and you go, you should have known better. Okay. This is a dealership now.

This is a stolen vehicles. And if you take what the Ontario police did last week, how the heck does a consumer know if they're getting what they're getting? And even if they have all the bills and everything, what we're learning is the government can just walk in and take back anything they want. Anyways, this is a crazy story on the yields of the last one. This exact thing happened to my uncle. in, I don't know, the early 90s or something like that, maybe late 90s.

He bought this car in the 80s. He'd had it forever. And then my cousin had it and got it towed or something like that. I can't remember. I think he had it parked legally and it got towed. And then when it went to the impound, it came out that that car had been stolen and then had gone to the dealership. My uncle had bought it from the dealership, had it for at least a good decade.

and then was like, this is a stolen car, you can't have it. And so like this, this, they literally had this at a dealership. So imagine you go into a dealership, an actual place like brick and mortar. Where's the safe place to buy a vehicle?

You go to the brick and mortar store and you go, okay, well, everything's on the up and up. This is showing that that is, I mean, this whole thing is fucked. The,

um, one of the places in Calgary. They got a victim. for not paying rent and other undisclosed expenses. This person that's going to court is a 26-year-old who owns three car dealerships. How many 26-year-olds do you know who own three car dealerships? I mean, not anymore because they're closed down, but who did own. And really looking forward to their day in court so that they can proclaim their innocence.

I don't think they're getting out of all of this. There's way too much greasiness happening. here. Joe Biden rears his super old head. Tuesday, I think you got some videos that we're going to show on this. Yeah, you betcha. So here's, this one's from, this is a, you know, time lapse. This is one of those. Here's what they said before and here's what's going on. Stephen Colbert, I think you're going to like this. Think about the sheer number here, 545 kids. That's not a child on a milk carton. That's the whole dairy aisle. And if there are still people who haven't made up their minds, there are still people who are going to vote for him. Maybe we feel too guilty to understand the magnitude of that crime and our responsibility.

And tonight lawmakers urging the Biden administration to provide explanations for the disappearance of 85,000 migrant children. Yeah, it goes on with just more about how many children have gone. but yeah, oh, 500 kids is a big deal. And I completely agree with that. But if you're going to say, I'm not going to vote for the guy who, whose administration lost 500 kids. 500 kids.

And now they're closing in on 100,000. And now it's what about the one who lost 100,000 kids? How about that one? The one you literally just had a beer with on your show, Stephen Colbert. Where's your opinion on that? And then this, this is a proff who's been put on administratively. leave. Imagine saying this at a regular-ass job and just being put on leave, but here's him speaking to a bunch of kids. Guys are smarter than girls, you've got some serious problems.

That's what frustrates me. There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential female president because they don't think females are smart enough to be president. We could line all those guys up and shoot them. They clearly don't understand the way the world works. Did I say that? Scratch that from the recording. I don't want the dean's hearing that I said that. All right.

Now, as somebody who lives in Canada, I have, I feel, very strong firsthand knowledge of the intelligence required to be the leader of a country and how low that fucking bar is. Even if you're somebody who thinks that women are not smart, You don't have to be smart to run a country. And we have proved that for the last nine years. What do you got, Sean?

I don't know. I'm just, I'm along for the ride this morning. When you hear a professor say guys should be lined up and shot for not voting for Kalala Harris. And then he goes to this old argument that men think they're smarter than women. And you go, oh, boy. Like, how about we get into the discussion of what's actually going on? I feel like it's, I don't know.

What more can be said? There are easily millions of women in this country who are smarter than Justin Trudeau, who are better suited for the job he has. Absolutely. This is not a case of intelligence. When has the smartest person in a country ever became the leader of it? If they cared about who the smartest person in the country was, they'd make Thomas Sol the president.

Fair enough. Monday I have Kalin Ford on again. Yeah. There's a girl from Alberta that should be in Alberta politics. And if you don't know her- She should be in cabinet. She's whip smart. Whipsmart. And, you know, of course, politics didn't like her. There's countless women that are fantastic.

Heck, in Alberta, here we have a woman premier who's probably the most gifted talker I've seen in politics. And I'm putting that up pretty darn high with a lot of people. but this going back to it you know like a professor saying that like you're like you're insane man and you're teaching children uh you know not anymore he's on administrative leave the green money line the city of this one's all you because uh i haven't had a chance to read it yet oh the city of calgary and alberta government have agreed to salvage several contracts along the southeastern portion of the green line the province announced thursday after pulling

its $1.53 billion portion of the $6.3 billion project, the province said its funding remains available to support the continuation of this work during the interim period. The new agreement also means five previously canceled stations throughout Southeast Calgary have come back to life. Quoted, we continue to wind down the Green Line project as we knew it. The project is over. This is a new project, Gondack, told reporters Thursday afternoon the new agreement to continue building the southeast or east, holy man, South East section of this line means the three funding partners,

the city, the province, and the federal government are back at the table. She said, to me, Tews, what I read, and I just see jockeying for position, Calgary's trying to get more money out of the government, and the Alberta government, you guys are a bunch of morons,

made a political decision, boom, we're done with this. A bunch of outrage happened. They're all trying to find a way to get back to the table to find a way to be. build an actual functional green line. And I don't know, like this, the saga continues for this green line train. That's what I see.

Like, I don't see, you know, like all of a sudden, everything's in line. And here we go. We got a project going. No. So if you look at this through the context of everything that led up to it, you had a couple months ago or maybe a month ago, Devin Driesian, the finance minister in Alberta, saying, this is it. No more money.

you guys are fucked we can't keep throwing money at this and then you had the city of calgary saying oh this is horrible this is horrible how could they do this to us and then a couple weeks later it was jody gundick was saying well you know what we found some ways to actually be more responsible with the money we we found ways to tighten things up please come back to the table which is what it should have been at the start by the way it should have been how can we do this as cost effectively as we can because that's what you would do with any major or private project right but just talking government it took them actually drawn a line in the sand and saying look you guys can fuck this up as much as you want it's your money it's not going to be ours

anymore and then wait wait wait we found some cost savings we can actually do this if if you guys can come back to us because we really need you and then they said okay well yeah yeah we can work something out. And I think an interesting thing. I don't know about you two's. Maybe I'm off on this, but when I read Jody Gondack's comments, one of the things in there is the city, the province, and the federal government. Have we had the federal government quoted as being a partner in this thing? Is that something new? Financially, yes. Having anything to say about it at all? I don't think so. I don't think so. That's an interesting, just the way that it's put in the comments. I I'm like, I'm curious about that.

But I mean, the saga continues. It's, you know, we're quick to harp on the UCP government for all the things they're getting wrong. But this one. I'm literally giving them credit for this. No, no, but that's what I'm saying is this is one of those things where Toos is pointing out that they actually put the, you know, a line in the sand and said we can't keep doing this. What are we doing? And I guess the saga continues. So we'll wait and see where this goes.

You know, it's a continue. but that's it feels like it's back at the bargaining table and who knows where the green money line ends up yeah isn't it funny how any project with green in it ends up costing a shit ton of money lashing out like an animal in a trap two's just just show the video of the liberal MP losing it during the parliamentary committee if you haven't brace yourselves yes pointies i thought mr erskyn smith had more integrity than that than to worry not point of order. Like, what is this absolute bullshit? This is absolute bullshit. Whoa, whoa.

Come on. Okay, all right. My integrity. Let's, okay. Okay. I give two's hard. All the listeners are giving twos hard time about his language. There you are at a parliamentary committee and the F bomb gets dropped. Well, he said it was bullshit and then he said

he could fuck right off. Now, I have no issues with our parliamentarians talking like that. Like, we hold it, up like it should be some esteemed excuse me some some esteemed thing

where everybody's got to wear powdered wigs and say thou art and henceforth no let's have real conversations with real people and I don't care if somebody says fart or ass or fuck right off I'm good with that

and in fact you're talking about how to get more people interested in parliament if it was a little bit more reality T's I think people would tune in. And so there's that side of it. But also, you've got these liberals who are trapped 50 different ways.

You've basically got, you've got enemies coming in from all sides at this point. And all of their chickens are coming home to roost in terms of all the different corruption and everything like that. And, you know, we talked for years about how Teflon Trudeau and how they can. can't seem to get anything to stick on them. And now it's all starting to stick at once. And it's hitting the liberals where it hurts, which is their re-election chances. And they're getting quite crazy about it. And I love seeing it.

I wish I had some popcorn for that video. It's that good. You know when when you like to me, you, you call it, uh, uh, an animal trapped in a corner. I, I think of like a damn, uh, it sounds like. a sound bite from the mash of Henry. Yeah, absolutely it does. It reminds me of like when, when you're so frustrated that, you know, normally when you're calm, you go into a situation calm, you can control your emotions and you don't say anything too stupid. And that clip right there is... You get off center, you get frazzled and then you just start losing it.

And all of a sudden you explode. And you know two minutes after he's gone. Maybe it's 10 minutes down the road. He's like, oh, man, I shouldn't have done that. That's going to blow back on me hard. and that's exactly what you're seeing. But the liberals now have been like, you know, they should have had an election. Like in all honesty, what was it? We should have had an election two years ago. And this is what's happening is it's piling up and the dam is bursting.

People are fleeing like crazy. You're starting to see just crazy sound bites that normally probably wouldn't happen because the election would already been called or they, you know, on and on and on. And yet here we are and things just keep coming out. And now it's, you know, their integrity. And he calls it BS and oh, man. The thing I really love about this is that the amount of stupidity the liberals collectively possess is absolutely astounding.

And it's the thing that when combined with their hubris, which is probably the only thing that eclipses their stupidity, means that they keep putting off this election for as long as possible. And the longer it gets put off. the more stuff gets exposed, the lower their popularity falls, the more they keep acting crazy, and the worse the election is going to be. If they were even remotely intelligent and had a modicum of self-dignity, which they don't at all, they would have called the election sooner.

This is, it's like an oak tree. The best time the planet was 20 years ago and the second best time is today. you goddamn idiots you should be calling an election because the longer you put it off the fewer seats you're going to get and i love the fact that they're not i love it and i'm here for the whole show black side of back to work black side of back to work don't know why i said it that weird okay here we go this is uh today's edition of public servant uh reddit Okay, so this is up Reddit. It's a question about accommodation and request to please help. I'm wondering if my situation will qualify for a WFH request.

Work from home. Thank you. Though I live a 20-minute drive from my work office, I do not possess a driver's license and have no plans to ever get one. I live in a region, not Ottawa. It takes me an hour one way to get to the office via public transit, adding two hours of commuting to my day for three days a week. We are required to go into the office.

Also, it goes on. Another concern problem for me is that my work office is not within walking distance to a gym to maintain my health and fitness. It goes on to, but basically they're talking about transit and accommodation for being able to work out. Yeah. The commute and lack of concern for employee wellness and health at my office is not good for me. You live a 20 minute drive away from work. we're like, well, I just don't want to get my driver's license. Like, there's a really simple solution here.

Yeah, but I don't want it. It's like the green tarts with green energy. They're like, we need to collapse the economy to save the world from CO2. Or we could just switch to nuclear. And then it says, well, I don't actually want to switch to nuclear. I just want to collapse the economy. He's literally saying in this that there is a very easy solution that he's just not willing to take. And because of that, his boss, which is us, by the way, needs to make an unreasonable accommodation.

Fuck right off. This is exactly the kind of person you imagine is in every government job. And then at the same time, you had Elon Musk. I'm not going to show the clip. but basically he was talking about all the different departments and how he wants to cut about 77% of the departments, which would be 77% of the employees. Because he's been talking about doing the same kind of thing that he did to Twitter when he took it over, where he's just fired 90% of the people and it started running better.

And then, yeah, you remember what I had this. You remember when I had this premier of Alberta on and I brought that up and she's like, you want to cut 80%? And I was like, well, no, I'm like, that's a low number. You could get that higher. I'm chuckling at that stat, 77%. I wasn't that far off on what Elon Musk is talking about. And you wonder, well, I guess we'll wait and see where that clip goes because I was like, I was a stupid thing to bring up, Sean, I beat myself up about it. Because I was, I was just, you know, I was happy with 10%, 15%.

Elon Musk is saying 77%. I think that's even a rookie number. See, here's the thing. Like when I complain about conservatives, I get it. Dealing with the bloated public sector is a third rail because there's so many of them that we let vote for no good reason. And because they've got too much of a, there's, yeah, there's too much of a conflict of interest. There's a conflict of interest when you're voting for your own job. And so anyway, like one of these days we're going to have to address the fact that we pay the public servants. shit tons of money for zero results with zero accountability and infinite benefits.

And someone's going to have to stop that at some point. And the fact that we can't even get a premier to say, well, you know what? There probably are a couple departments that could lean things out a bit. That would have been nice to hear when you said that. Well, you know what? Actually, there's a couple things that are stupid. If we got rid of some dumb rules, we could probably get rid of some people. to go along with them.

But God forbid that's the case. Cut that many government employees and our welfare rules would skyrocket. I'm going to say that they're already on welfare so there would be no change. This is also the time in the show where we say if you're enjoying this, I mean, if you're not enjoying it,

I'm sorry to have wasted your time. No, but if you are enjoying it, you should leave a comment in the, in the, so that we can read it off. Because I think we've had a lot of, yeah, we've had a lot of fun when people are like, you guys are idiots. Yeah, possible. Actually, yeah, yeah.

So if you're liking this, share it with a coworker. And if you're not liking this, tell us about it. Rip us apart in the comments. No holds barred. Because no old barred. Oh, yeah. We'll talk about it. Why not?

Oh, we got a whole bunch of, whole bunch of comments showing up. Oh, but yeah. So one just says, enjoying. And the cuts need to come from management at AHA. management needs to get cut. Everybody needs to get cut. It's funny because you're talking about a hospital where you would heal things. And you're like, we need more cuts.

But we absolutely do. It's what, like a third Alberta health services is something like a third or 40% of all of the money that gets spent by the government in Alberta? When does that reach a tipping point? At what point do we say maybe there's enough? BC election update. The leaders of the three major BC political parties clashed in a televised debate on Tuesday. BC NDP leader David Ebby portrayed BC conservative leader John Rustad as an anti-vaccine climate change denier. Gee, it sounds all right.

And he was advancing harmful conspiracy theories. Once again, that sounds okay. And making promises that are not grounded in financial reality. I'm like, I like this guy. The NDP is accusing somebody of making promises that are not grounded in financial reality. Right. Oh, and Rustad said seven years of NDP rule has created a province where tent cities have proliferated. Crime is on the rise.

People can't afford a home or get basic health care and can't even drink from plastic straws if they want to. I don't know. It seems so clear to me. It's not even funny at this point. Well, the funny thing is I love John's approach to this. campaign. He's saying, well, what are the things that government does that everybody hates? And what if we just ran on a platform of not doing them anymore? Like, oh, everybody hates paper straws? Okay, well, what if? Just bear with me here for a minute.

You folks might want to be sitting down. What if we got rid of the paper straws that everybody hates? Okay. And then there's lots of tense cities. And David Ebby's solution. is probably to say we're going to put a solar panel on the roof of every tent. But meanwhile, John Rustads like, well, what if we did some stuff with the economy and got rid of the drugs so that we didn't have a whole shit ton of people living in tents? And they're like, oh, he's an extremist. While everybody's locked down and Bonnie Henry is trying to save lives, Bonnie Henry, who literally a month ago ended the official COVID season, lockdown?

emergency. The official COVID emergency ended in B.C. a month ago. That Bonnie Henry, while she was out saving lives, John Rustad and his party were donating to the Freedom Convoy. You don't even understand how much you're doing the work for him, David. You're just an idiot. Like I said, you read the article, it's like, I know who I'd vote for. That's me. That's me.

Saskatchewan election update. Okay, we're going to go to Mr. Crumsworth on Twitter. Here I'll pull it up. It says don't elect socialists and what he's got quoted. This is from the NDP's constitution. New Democrats seek a future that brings together the best of insights and objectives of Canadians who, within the social, democratic, and democratic socialist traditions have worked through a farmer, labor, cooperative, feminist, human rights, and environmental movements,

and with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples to build a more just, equal, and sustainable Canada within a global community dedicated to the same goals. I'm just, I need to point out that that was one sentence. Dues would not approve. Leave it to doze to pick on the grammar of this statement. Well, I mean, seriously, like everything with these guys is inflation, even their sentence structure.

But yeah, the highlighted part, social democratic and democratic socialist traditions. Just the redundancy, the stupidity, it just piles up. You love to see it. The NDP, Sean, are not a serious party. And by the way, I just want to point out that there hasn't been a whole lot of super interesting things going on. Like, yeah, everybody's going around door knocking and stuff. but as far as the Saskatchewan election goes, there hasn't been a whole lot of fireworks.

There hasn't been a whole lot of crazy stuff going on. BC is having way more fun with their election than you guys are. And I'm a little bit disappointed. Anybody know here before we switch on the Saskatchel, so BC had their big debate. Is there a leadership debate happening in Saskatchewan? Does anybody know? Like I'm really curious.

I'm like, are we missing an opportunity here? because like in the in Alberta there was what one for sure on the last election and what do you mean one for you sure you literally had one well that's what I mean like I'm like there has to have been there has to be in a SaaS election debate coming up

isn't there is anyone commenting about this like does anyone know well Henry's saying yes when is it Henry next week between Mo and Beck I don't know what stage of the week though are but we'll put it on our so they did they didn't allow any of the uh other parties to be a other upstarts that's a damn shame and michel by the way says and tues hits the nail on the head yet again not sure what you're talking about but thank you very much as always we read off all of the

positive two's comments including ones that catch sean um in the periphery like carroll who said right on voice uh-huh okay mm-hmm all right The missing Starlink. As Hurricane Milton wreaks havoc and destruction through Central Florida, the recovery from Hurricane Helene is long underway from over in the rural southeast. But one good news story is how Elon Musk's Starlink satellite service has rescued cell phone and internet services in rural counties that desperately need it. Private groups in the federal emergency management assistance agency, sorry, FEMA in recent days have deployed more than a thousand Starlink terminals to restore

internet services in hard hit areas of Appalachia. The Federal Communications Commission has also given Starlink the green light to test a direct-to-cell service to broadcast emergency alerts. Mr. Marsh says Starlink will provide temporary free satellite service in affected areas. He's doing this even though FCC last December yanked $885 million grant for Starlink to furnish high-speed internet to 640,000 rural homes and businesses, including the very counties where FEMA is now deploying Starlink satellites. This almost could be the happy news.

So he got a government grant to put in a bunch of Starlink in urban areas because it was cheaper and more, well, cheaper and more cost effective. I'm starting to sound like the NDP here. It made more sense than running fiber optic. And then they pulled the grant because he bought Twitter and gave everybody free speech, allegedly. I don't know. I'm just presuming. And so anyway, he gets blacklisted off giving all of these people internet who are affected by this hurricane.

And then the hurricane comes and everybody's fucked because they can't line up any emergency services or anything else like that. And he just airdrops a whole shit ton of star lengths and just says, here you guys go. The internet's free for the next month. So he goes into a place that kicked him out, not the people, mind you, but the bureaucrats kicked him out. He goes in anyway, gives him all free Starlink, it's up and running. This is the kind of success story you like to hear where he's not doing it. Like this is the exact stuff that he didn't get the money to go do. And he's just doing it anyway.

This is the kind of great publicity you want to see. Do you remember speaking of Jasper? When we were talking about Jasper, there was that, I think it was a. Calgary company that had that new experimental foam and they were just they were just waiting to go out on it but but the Alberta government I think it was I'm just doing this off top of my head I think it was the Alberta government hadn't signed their contract yet and so they didn't go to help put out the fire in Jasper you thought and you thought the company with the spray foam or the the type of technology should have just went and giving it to them for free and the amount of positive publicity

they got and you're seeing it with Elon Musk you're saying it you're seeing this exact same thing happening. It's almost the mashup effect. It's almost not quite, but yeah. I said this, that was the absolute right thing. Here's, and it's working out well for him. Here's a bit of the mashup effect as well. This is Sean Davis saying, why are you spending $7,000 per home when Starlink costs $300 and why are you bragging about that? That's Governor Tim Walls saying today we announced 52 million in grants to expand broadband access to over 7,500 homes and businesses in Minnesota. And two is, point out, why are you doing that?

We've talked about it here in Alberta. Here's another spot in a different part of the world doing the exact same governmental thing and not thinking, not even outside the box anymore, too. I think it's, you know, like if you talk to the people, the people are all going to Starlink because it works. And it's, you know, it's effective. And it's cheap. You don't have to run so many cables.

And you don't have to worry about the maintenance on it. It just, it solves so many problems. It's funny. Like even, I was listening to Canadian History X podcast, and he was talking about the Borden bridge. So more or less right between Sastute, North Battleford on Highway 16, you've got the two bridges on the four-lane highway. And just to the south of them, there's what the old bridge used to be. And that old bridge was originally going to be a steel structure. But the government specifically went with concrete because it would,

cost more and it would build up the economy more by spending more government money. They purposely did it in the most expensive way possible to throw more money into the economy. Or crazy idea, you do it the cheapest way possible and pull less money out of the economy. That seems like not very logical to me. So it's been 100 years and we still haven't learned the lesson. All right, goofy news. Okay, let's start here, okay? Climate change-fueled heat is especially deadly when mixed with meth in summer months.

That's a headline. Do you know what else is especially deadly when mixed with meth, Sean? Everything! Okay. The next is the decapitated head, yes, thank you. Mexico's mayor decapitated head found on his car six days after taking office. This is the decaditated head of a mayor. The mayor in Mexico was found atop his car just six days into his tenure, making the second official to be murdered in Guerrero's capital in less than a week.

Okay? Yes. So that's there. The city of roughly 280,000 people is still reeling from the murder of a new government secretary, Francisco Tapia, who was shot and killed last week. You have Carla Beck. The Seattle and NEP have a Carla Beck pickup. truck, which is Barry Saskatchewan. Yeah. Okay.

Do you, does anybody else remember all of the flack that Jason Kenny got when he was doing his Unite the Right campaign driving around in a pickup truck? And they're talking about how big of a waste of gas it was and how he doesn't care about the environment. And he's just in the pocket of oil and gas. And he's purposely driving a fuel, not efficient vehicle around in order to drive up the price of gas because he is in their pocket. And meanwhile, you've got in a comparably sized province,

the leader of the NDP is driving around a pickup truck. And I'm not hearing any of the same rhetoric about that, that I did about Jason Kenny. Okay, if you're listening, I apologize. This is Swedish Dancing with the Stars, okay? I'm going to play the video. I'm going to get twos to narrate as the environmentalists come out. They're to save the world, right?

Okay. Pause it real quick. Pause, pause, pause, pause it. Too late. Never mind. Okay. No worries. There's an instant replay. There's an instant replay. I know. But spoiler alert. Okay. So what happened here is you've got this, I don't know, Swedish or Danish or some kind of a scupy-dip-dip-dip-ish dancing with the stars.

Well, that's how they talk. So they've got this dancing with the skews and a whole bunch of just-stop eel people come out with their smoke bombs, which are, I'm guessing, there's some petroleum involved in the creation of them. It's not really just waving around bone flakes. And so they go out in front of the stage

and they're saying, oh, I got the sound on. Yeah, you got dancing with the stars and then they storm the stage and they want to just up, and they're throwing around the smoke bombs. And then the guy with the sign, boom!

The cameraman, with the camera. on the remote so that he can move it all around the stage, literally just slabs it right into the guy, lights out, good night, Ethel. Your show just got canceled. And that's all there was to it. We've been talking about how these just stop oil people need a, next time they do that,

someone just needs to punch them in the face. Well, guess what? Somebody in Denmark did it with the fucking camera. government sends electric chainsaws to Appalachian Town without power. Yes, that happened. Elevator technician mistakes lamb artwork. Just real quick. Just do no, no, no, no, okay.

Okay, you want the batter? Okay, electric chainsaws sent to Appalachian Town without power. The hurricane, all the power's out. It's not just like a breaker they got to turn back on. There's not going to be any power there for a long time. And they sent a bunch of electric chainsaws there. It's just made sure I needed to drive the point hole. Elevator technician mistakes Lamb Museum artwork for garbage and throws it away.

And the picture I'm showing is what it was. Two cans hand-painted, talking about good times. He thought it was garbage. So that's modern art. Yes. And it got thrown out because it looked like garbage. Now, I'm just going to go on a limb and say that if you're modern art, is something that accidentally gets thrown out,

you're either doing modern art too poorly or far too well. I think everybody, I got a screen popped up here. I think everybody remembers this story about the kid. Yeah, we covered this. This is an update. Yep, and Deadspin loses bid to toss defamation suit over article accusing young chiefs fan of racism.

A Delaware judge has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against sports website. Deadspin over there, an article accusing. nine-year-old NFL fan and his family of racism because of his game day attire. And I almost could have put this in good news, like the good news of the week, right? Like this is, this is awesome. So the case isn't getting thrown out. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

That's a fair argument. Absolutely. So they had for those of you who don't remember, they had that side. They had that lateral picture of him. Yeah. I mean, the face was the black half of his face. Yeah. The red half of his face.

And they said, oh, look, he's wearing black face at this event. The next is all-female soccer team enters men's league, and it goes exactly how you would expect. The team Phenix FC, because the- Real quick, real quick. I just want everybody to think about this in their head. So this is a bunch of women who are deciding that they're now men, playing on a soccer team altogether against a bunch of actual men,

and they had an entire 60-minute soccer game. How bad do you think the score? was. How close do you think it was? Just pick a number in your head. And if it's not 19 to nothing, you were wrong. And the final goofy news of the week is in the UK, if you own chickens, you have to register them with government. So people are with the government. You have to register your tickets. So people are registering roast chickens. They've bought at the supermarket and they crash the government website. So, yeah, the UK wants to keep track of how many chickens you own.

And so people were just buying roast chickens and registering them on the online website. And there were so many of them happening that the website crashed. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, that's, which is good. The next time you've got some stupid government overreach, which, I mean, totally never happens here. But if it was hypothetically to happen, this is how we should respond. Goofy news. There was some good stuff in the goofy news.

Co-vindication. I'm going to pull up Liz Churchill here. A study involving 1.7 million children has found that myocarditis and paracariditis only appeared in children who took the COVID vaccines. Not one unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems. Now, keep in mind, this has not been peer-reviewed yet. No one's tried to replicate this. This is a preliminary study. We're not going to go out on a limb,

like certain unnamed mega, multi-billion dollar vaccine companies might with some preliminary results that we're going to say are 100% effective and accurate. We're going to say that there's some room that maybe this gets tweaked a little bit. But they had 17 cases in the people who had been vaccinated in zero. in the people who had not. And that's fairly interesting. And I would say that our disclaimer here, just that in and of itself,

puts us far better in terms of the quality of the science than a lot of the things that the years 2000 and 2024 were based on. The quiet part out loud. Two is going to show the video, but CBS hits Kamala. Maybe you saw this interview. Maybe you didn't. Kamala with some facts.

Here's, here's, well, I'm just going to let you show the video. I don't need to talk of this. Well, we got, we got the two videos. This one I really need to talk about because this, this says everything that I believe about government. It's going to show is rare. Oh, sorry, this is them talking about Biden stepping down. Among leaders, which was to put country before self. It's rare among leaders to put country.

before self. That's basically the theme of the mashup when you think about it. It's that they care about themselves and getting rich and getting power more than they actually care about the running of the country. And there is Kamala Harris herself saying it. It's the most honest thing I think I've ever heard from a politician and I heard it from a Democrat who managed to skip over the primary entirely. The irony of that is not lost on me. Now this is the other one. Listening. Well, Bill, but it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. Now, that was her answer in 60 minutes.

That was her actual answer to the question. And then 60 minutes later released an edited version with this instead. Seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Funny how that works, hey? Well, I would say that's why people tune in here among other places because, you know, when we fumble it and at times we fumble, there's no editing at home. This is, this is the show. This is what real life is.

And Camala Harris. But that is taking something slightly out of content. I understand. That's providing a completely different answer. This goes back to what they did to Pierre Pollyab in Canada. Oh, absolutely. They literally took things and mashed it together and went, oh, yeah, that's what he said. We call ourselves the mashup.

They should call themselves the mashup. That's right. Actually, bang on. You come here because we do news that doesn't suck. We talk about it. It's open. And I'm sure other people have some different thoughts on what the heck we do. Tuesday makes you laugh every once in a while.

And we bicker like an old merry couple every once in a while as well. But overall, when you see that, you're like, this is what you hate about the mainstream all the time because they're doing it all the time. They go, this never happened. We didn't mean it. How many times do you think that happened in the 80s? In the 90s? I would not be the least bit surprised.

Like, wouldn't it be the biggest, craziest coincidence in the world? You would have to be a ridiculously loony conspiracy theorist to think that they just started doing this at the exact same time that the Internet popped up and everybody was able to fact check it. Like, could you imagine how inconvenient that would be? if you're like, well, we've been honest for the last hundred years. I think we're going to start lying. And then at that exact same time, people were able to verify that you were full of shit. Happy news, folks. Calgary police revenue from speeding tickets enforcement down 13 million from 15 million this year.

The significantly... Sorry, yes. The significantly lower than expected fine revenue comes nearly a year after the Alberta government vowed to remove photo radar traps from the Calgary. Ring Road. Yeah, so this article goes on to talk to various people in law enforcement and actually had a pretty good quote from, oh shoot, I can't remember which guy it was. But it's decided to lock me out of the paywall so I can't look it up real quick.

But I really like the fact that he said, hey, you know what? We purposely designed these roads to have fewer accidents and you're still trying to make money off of them rather than the problem areas. And then the rebuttals from the Calgary police were all about how much revenue was down. And they talked about, without substantiating it, they talked about initial accident reduction. They said, oh, well, you know what, during the time that these speed traps were up, we saw, I think it was like a 25% in terms of one type of accident. And then also right angle accidents were down 50% in. intersections where they had speed trap cameras and stuff. And they not once said, and these have been

up for a year, not once did they say, well, since we took these off of the ring road, the accidents on that ring road went up 17%. That would be the easy one. That's the, that's the absolute layup in terms of making an argument for this that is not, this is a cash cow, and we depend on. Yes. It's a budgetary shortfall. If they, yeah, it's, it's, I think, 8% of their budget, if the minute they started doing this from the get-go, all that money went towards parks or rinks or, you know, children's clubs, people would pay the fines. Yes. Or something like that, right?

If all that money went towards something like that and they said, look, this is important and we need to bring it back, you'd say, okay, well, yeah, they have an altruistic interest in this instead of being like, well, no, you guys are just broke and you're trying to fleece everybody you dicks what were you saying i was just going to say you're acting like big government all of a sudden is going to start thinking with common sense and they're not twos we've been here 128 times and uh trying to talk about it like that is the definition of insanity when you're talking about big government i think you're messing up the happy news the happy news here is people aren't getting fleeced by photo radar absolutely but you know what maybe one 29's going to be the

where it all turns around. I'd be like, oh, that was actually a smart thing that they did. I'm not going to hold my breath. I'm not going to hold my breath. Argentina? Community, community, community notes, too. Community notes, community events. We got all the election coverage, October 19th, BC, 28th, Saskatchewan, first and second.

We're in Red Deer at the UCPA jam. November 5th is the United States election. We got a busy, busy month coming up here on the mashup. We hope you all join us. anything else from your world twos that's basically it I didn't see anything popping up in the comments and I don't know of anything happening around

my neck of the woods off the top of my head either May 10th the Cornerstone Forum is returning it is coming to Calgary this year finally we get to hear about it yes and well it's going to be at the wind sport and you're going to see some of the faces from last year Tom Luongo Alex Craneer Chuck Pradnik are going to be there

Chris Sims is going to be be one of the guest hosts. Tom Bodrovics from Palisades Gold Radio is going to be one of the guest hosts. And we're going to be announcing a few others. We're going to have a trade show there. So expect lots of different things coming from the Cornerstone Forum as we inch closer

to it, more things coming out about that. Are you feeding everybody there? Yes, it's going to have lunch, supper, as well. I can tell you right now that the food at Winsport is bomb. And they have really good bacon, by the way. Their bacon. Their bacon is super good.

beautiful facility anyways that's going to do it for us mashup 128 twos get out of here folks we'll catch up to you happy thanksgiving everybody next week hey hey hey henry henry at the buzzer lumsden fire department community appreciation gala fundraiser november 16th lumsden community hall there you go i'm not exactly sure where the community hall is in lumsden is but if you take two left off the highway you'll have driven past it at least once happy thanksgiving everyone twos hit a nail on the head happy thanksgiving to you twos and your family and to everyone else uh we'll catch up to you on one 29 until then folks all right