Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 142

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines, featuring MLA Shane Getson discussing his experience at Trump's inauguration, along with Pat Stedman, a pardoned J6 participant who served a year in jail. 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]

Welcome to the Mashup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly. I've all of my impulsive plans. Popping locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map and stop the chatter, scream happily. So it's tricky when you're this secret identity that kind of bleeds a little bit

into your personal life a little bit. But recently I had to reach out to a federal government department. And I ended up in this feedback loop. Well, you talk to that guy. And that guy sent you here. Well, you need to talk to that guy. And it just keeps going around and around. And folks, no matter how much we talk about how useless our federal employees are,

it's way worse than you actually think when you have to work with them. And that's it. That's it. That's all I got to say. Welcome to Mashup 142. Twos. Another week. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing great.

How about you? Yeah, I got no complaints. Hello, Glenn. Guy Bear. And then Leanne says, good morning, fellas. Please tell me you're going to talk about ketchup today. I'll tell you what, Leanne. We do have a lot to catch up on.

We got a busy, busy show today. We got guests coming on throughout the first hour. And so we're going to get right to it here in about 30 seconds. But I want to talk value for value first. It starts with Tom Eichert. He sent us money, said he enjoyed last week's show. immensely. So he didn't want his name announced. I'm like, what are you talking about? You literally, he tries for us. Buddy, we're going to talk about it. Yeah, he didn't want it.

You didn't want it. You didn't want it announced to announce two. And so then out of respect for that, we're like, we announced his name. We announced his that's his blood type. And the next one's Adam Payne. He said this was great. He sent $22 and $22. And he told me to send $2.2 to 2. So there you go. I thought that was pretty cool as well. Adam has done that several times throughout the year. So Adam Payne and Tom Iker to show it to both you, value for value, seeing a little bit of value in what we offer today. Thank you very much, guys. Yeah, yeah, super, super cool. Happy Airborne Friday to Jamie Sinclair and the military boys. And Toos, pull that headline back up that you had there with Share. If you are watching this morning, make sure to like, share, or scream our name in the infinite void this week. It helps to get us out there.

So if you're watching on X, which I know there's a bunch that do, make sure to give it a retweet. We'll try and break through some different voids this week of where we are. Kevin Damon, how much? How much would do it? Any amount. There's no wrong answers. Yeah, there's no wrong answers here.

Fire away. We want to announce all your names at the start. If you do it on a weekly basis, heck, we'll start announcing people. I don't know. A little value for life. That could be the whole show. We could just do that for an hour. I'd be fine with that.

Now, I want to remind people, Coutts 6.5, we switched it off from just bringing up Christopher Carbert and Anthony Olenick. We've been talking different stories and everything. All six and a half years is what they were sentenced with. So we like to remind people of that. And I just want to point out that Pat Stedman was they were originally looking for six and a half years for him. And I'm like, that's a little bit on the nose. Yeah, Pat Stedman coming on later this hour. He got pardoned by President Trump along with a whole bunch of J-Sixers, which is, well, it'll be a cool story to hear.

I had him on for January 6th, and now we're going to have them on since he's been pardoned, which is a pretty cool story, to be honest. Yeah. Now, let's get to our first guest. Emily Shane Getson is in-house. You're starting to be like Chris Sims here on the show. You're back for another week. Thanks for hopping on, Shane.

Yeah, no, I appreciate it. And yeah, it's quite an honor to be back to back, but it's on U.S.-Canada relations and it's moving fast and very timely. So thanks for having me on. Yeah, well, I appreciate you making a little bit of time for this week. Very much. Let's start with the inauguration. You got to attend your thoughts on being there.

It's a big deal. Like, you know, it starts to sink in and you pinch yourself once you're there. And again, I'm just in Alberta Farm Boys, still how I look at myself. So getting invited by a Michigan senator going down there with literally the Wayne and Garth backstage pass and then due to events in climate weather, we couldn't have it on the on the lawn like it was supposed to be. So then a bunch of embassies were scrambling, trying to find spots for folks. So Canada opened the embassy up wide open arms. We had people from

all over the world in both Canada, US representation there obviously and then the US Air Force and Canadian military and it was it was outstanding. It was, it was, it was. It was, just amazing. And then you see it was kind of like a tailgate party idea. The parade route, the motorcade went right by us in person. That was really neat to see. Folks were lining up on the streets. Walking into the areas was kind of neat because it was all chain-length fence. You had no-go areas. They literally had hummers out there in military equipment, making sure that was good. You had literally Air Force and military personnel. You had that going up in the air and then you had the boots on the ground, literally soldiers that were arms length apart from

each other standing in front of the barricades. So they weren't taking any chances. And then you had literally media from around the world on the street. So when you're walking by, you're hearing a plethora of different languages, broadcasting all the events. And then you get into the Canadian embassy and then it's really relaxed. You have, I don't know how many people where there are thousands of people there both out on the lawn inside in the theater downstairs, big screen rooms, and then literally it was just watching the events unfold. And the Canadian Embassy is the only one on on Pennsylvania Avenue. And it literally sits in the center of that between the White House and the Congress itself, the Capitol building. So literally, when you're seeing it on CNN or it's being

broadcast, there's a delay because when you're hearing the artillery shells go off or the artillery fire, it's right there and it's immediate. You just look out in there. It's happening. It was really cool. How many of those hummers were EVs? Trump is back. Baby, not a single one.

That was in the speech. And I can tell you that in that room when we were in there. And again, invited by Michigan Senator and also met, you know, some folks from Ontario were down there as well, which was good. We can meet them on that level and tons of folks from the Western states as well. but when that intonation went off in that room, it was big rounds of applause. So that was pretty good to see.

When he did mention the tariffs, it was a little bit of a funny part because the room went dead quiet. And the senator from Michigan, he kind of goes, well, we got some work to do there. And this is in a room about 400, 500 people. I couldn't help myself. I said, well, not all countries are created equal.

We're good boys. Don't worry about it. It kind of broke the tension there and got people laughing and then conversing again. So it was pretty neat. Well, you talk tariffs. I think that's an interesting way to, an interesting thing to talk about because, you know, we went from, oh, no tariffs and, and, and, and, and, Daniel Smith, what she's done is the savior to February 1st. And then there's

just been so much discussion in between. Yeah. I mean, a week ago, Daniel Smith was being painted by, uh, by people out in Laurentian Canada as being evil and bad and undermining, uh, Canada's interests, which I think when they were looking at those interests, I think they were labeling the liberal's interests. And then now over the past week, you've got Scott Moe has been speaking up against it. You've got Nichols, the Premier out in Nova Scotia, saying that we need to actually expand. He's calling for the approval of Energy East and saying that he wants to take the no out of Nova Scotia, which is a very marked departure from their historical stance on everything. Yeah, and I think what you can see here is the media lags.

So no different than I had mentioned last week where CTV wouldn't report anything good that we were hearing from Montana. We made a lot of friends there. Premier's been just an absolute rock star. So the doors that are open and afforded to her down there, honestly, Jens, I had a chance to sit down. We were in a round table meeting with a think tank that I was part of with her. And pre-meeting from what I've been hearing and I went up to her and gave her these accolades because she needs to hear it. she's taking it up about 10 notches. She is an absolute stateswoman down there.

She is asking who she should be talking to, what the new administration is, finding out which people to talk to, and those doors are being open to her. So you can see in her media posts that she isn't getting these meetings. So with all of that, I would say that it's pretty simple. Talking with people is way better than talking about people on social media.

And I'm really glad to see that the other premiers and even maybe some of the federal rhetoric is toning down now because she has taken the lead and it works. When we talk to people, good old fashioned stuff, we can get those doors open. And a lot of it folks have to understand too. And it was a congressman. He was a congressman for 14 years.

He kind of put it succinctly. He says, you know, when things are going good with Canada, we don't even think about you guys. So it's only when something happens that we talk about you. And he said, most folks don't even know what you do. So you have to help educate us. You have to talk to people face to face and let them know that you're actually part of the bigger plan

and what what you guys do is in the interest of what we're trying to do in the United States. I mean, that's that's pretty fair. I mean, you had Trump saying that he doesn't really need Canada very much. But there was a lot of people pretty quick. And nice thing about Twitter is that you don't have to rely on external fact checkers, which have gone the way of the dodo. And so you had a whole lot of people jumping out and being like,

well, actually, here's how much oil comes from Canada every day. here's all the different trade that that goes on and it's it's funny you know he talks about there being a trade deficit of 200 billion dollars and a trade deficit the same as a trade surplus is neither good nor bad a trade deficit means that you can make things more cheaply than the countries you're sending it to and your manufacturers get the windfall and a trade or, pardon me, a trade surplus and a trade deficit means that other countries are able to manufacture things more cheaply than you can locally and your consumers get the windfall. And so.

Yeah. And it's, and it's okay. Like honestly, when you go back to first principles, what was he asking for? Fix your damn border. Get your military spending where it should be. And all of that other stuff goes away. So how about you deal with that? And that's, I'm glad Premier took the right approach. A lot of us were, you know, in violent agreement with what we need to do. And we've been taking action rather than sitting there holding our breath and stamping our feet. So it's nice to see others coming along now and saying what can we really do. And it was very timely down there when it happened. It was just in Vermont.

And the new gentleman coming over and taking over the borders. He's on Fox News. And there was a shooting. There was a US borders and customs agent. Unfortunately, it was killed in the line of duty by a standing checkpoint on our Canadian border. So this is very relevant to them. And then the other one we have to consider is, okay, their mandate is to tighten up their southern border. They're going to be doing deportations of the targeted individuals that they've been profiling that are bad dudes and they need to go.

And if our borders are so soft that they can just exit the United States, come back, flying to Canada and go down there, that's a problem. And then we also have to look at how many potential visas expire when the Trudeau administration falls because that's tied to the sitting prime minister. So a lot of these things are very salient to the U.S. and we need to consider that maybe Alberta isn't as soft a point or much of an issue, but are other provinces that share that big border absolutely are. And when you have those conversations with folks, that's what they're really looking for. They also at a number of levels, and again, with having, you know, friends that are in different parts, even in Arizona, sat with a representative there, had a two-hour lunch with him.

And he's like we are. We're very comfortable to talk to each other. He says, you know, Americans are tired of Canadians, and this is what these, what we're seeing out there, guys, of how we're perceived on social and otherwise, pointing fingers and saying how we don't have a good health care system, how we don't do this, we don't do that. But we pour a ton of manpower and effort and financial wherewithal into the military to protect you guys because you're our good friends and neighbors.

We like doing that, but don't go poking your finger in our eye. So the change of winds down there is, yeah, America first. Let's start talking about what works here. Trump, there's no surprise. Is everything else we heard back from folks too? is he's very cards on the table. He's a negotiator, you know, a New York businessman and a project guy, which really helps because project people can make decisions.

But when they're telling you something, he's telling you what he wants. So somewhere in between what he throws out there and somewhere in between what he gets is where he wants to negotiate for, you know, read art of the deal. I don't know how many people told us that basically you'll understand President Trump. But he's a from what we've seen and what we've heard, open, honest guy. Just don't mess with him. Don't be personal. Deal with it like business.

Don't be adjourned. And don't be a jerk. And then what do you know? Business goes well. It's like he's probably one of the easiest people, I think, that we could have landed this time to work with because he is very pragmatic, practical. And he's,

he's got a mandate. He's going to accomplish it. Well, one of the things, I don't know, it seems to me, anyway, that the liberals,

you know, as much as they don't like this and don't like that and there's, there's lots of things they really don't like. But one of the ones that just sets them off the boat, and makes them just double, triple, quadruple down is when you call them out for being a jerk. And that seems to be really what's happening with the border. Because, I mean, they're basically, you know, Canada is being a bad neighbor. And he's saying, stop being a bad neighbor.

Like you're being a shitty neighbor. And part of it too. So think about it from the level of maturity. If your kids keep, won't clean up their room. Hey, clean up your room. Hey, clean up your room. Clean up your room. where I'm going to ground you. Enough. Clean it up. So the kid either has two choices,

cleaning up, mom and dad life's good, or stamp your feet and mess around for an hour. But either way, you're either going to get grounded or you're going to clean up your room and it's going to be good to go. But again, with us, a lot of this is just education. It's letting talk and to folks, let them know, and also getting their help in which they are more than willing to do within their administration while they settle in of talking about how integrated our systems really are. So that's what I saw. The other wild thing was, like, this is a big deal. You've got leaders from all over the world that are there in that town at one given time.

And the ability to talk to folks in an informal setting, so to speak, and have really good conversations, it was incredible. Like, I got invited to go meet with a, I can't tell you who it was specifically because there's some other things, but with an ambassador from a European nation that's looking for energy security in the Watergate Hotel. which was kind of neat for me, right about it. And all of a sudden you're in the Watergate Hotel Lounge and talking about international business. But one thing that... Well, I mean, there's an interesting precedent there, hey? Yeah.

Well, one thing folks should recognize, and it was even like the Uber drivers are kind of the pulse because they get everybody right, or the heartbeat of conversations and gaps. Everybody knew who Trudeau was. Everybody was asking when we were going to get rid of them. Everybody liked what they knew about Canada and asking when we could, you know, pull up her socks, basically. Like it was from the last person.

You know, one individually, been there for 30 years from India, another young gent he had immigrated with this family from Iran. He's, you know, green carded citizen, all these type of things. They're all having the same thing. And they all know who Trudeau is and how it's been too bad he's been your representative for Canada for years. So if I'm understanding you correctly, you know, nothing you can expand on, but you're saying that there may in fact be a business case for exporting oil and gas.

There is an absolute business case. And the best part is folks have to understand, you know, again, Premier was kind of getting kicked in the shins a bit. But like, why is she there doing this? Well, in Canada, the provinces have a ton of sovereignty and she was flexing that. So you can't make an energy deal by going to the feds. It's actually the provinces. And a lot of the states, they look at us and they're saying, boy, we wish she had,

we have that authority. So when international different countries are coming, they understand it, they get it. They're very astute. And that's why they're looking to Alberta and looking to have conversations with us directly, not fancy socks. How quickly, I'm just always curious. And Shane always gives me a rough time on this when I have you on to talk. You know, like you talk a lots of great things. I'm like, oh, that's interesting.

I'm like, you know, all the world knows who Justin Trudeau is. We all know who he is. Everybody wants him gone. Okay. You get a new leader in. How quickly do you think you can change the conversation between, you know, you? you know, states and Canada, sure, but then even international. Because you have, it isn't just Alberta that has to have these conversations.

You know, like Team Canada, team Canada is sitting there right now, stomping its feet in the room, to use your analogy, trying to threaten, you know, lots of things, including Alberta's energy sector against the U.S. So how quickly do you think things can change from a perspective of once we have, you know, everybody's favorite leader of? 48 hours. Like the fast, the way things moved down there, like even the stamping feed approach, that all changed within the matter of two days of us being down there, which was incredible.

Because again, when, you know, it's one week from the Premier's meeting or two weeks, if it was all of a sudden she's giving them, I would assume, intel of what's actually taking place on the ground, like don't muck this up. Here's what we're into. Here's what we're hearing. All of a sudden, it's, you know, we're getting the know what of Nova Scotia. We've got other folks intonating and then the federal. thing they finally ran their rope. So literally that's how that administration works.

They're at the speed of business. And I think you put the right people in the room. We talk about those items. That does a long way. My opinion is everyone's just done with who's representing Canada. We're done. And if anybody wants to cling on to that, feel free to hold on to the guardrails of the Titanic as it goes down. But the rest of the world has moved on in the U.S. literally is setting policy for the rest of the Western world right now. So it's that FIFO principle, like fit in or get out, so to be speak. Now, you don't want to say what the last part of that is. You're on the cash up.

Just for the transcribers. Just for the close caption people. You know, you don't want to expand. And I apologize, guys. I got in at two in the morning, so I'm a little punchy here today. It's been. Oh, that's okay. We love punchy.

I don't know if you know anything about this show or not, but we kind of, that's our, that's our wheelhouse. That's whose wheelhouse for, Certain. Now, this is interesting. I just made the connection while you were talking, and I'm like, I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner to give you a heads up. So here's a slight curveball. One of the things we were going to bring up later on is Pollyev announcing that there's not going to be any major changes to equalization under a conservative government.

Now, given the fact that we had a referendum a little while ago, was 62% of Albertans saying that this needs to get changed. Um, have you guys been looking at that right now or is that something, uh, no, not not right now. I mean, obviously that's on our radar, um, that negotiation is supposed to come up. We would take a stronger position. I think Saskatchewan's kind of in the same boat with us. And what you can do is look at just what we went through for equalization payments, um, that we just cashed out everybody else down east and arguably, uh, the West went through four

or five years or six years of tough times was turning around and we didn't receive a red penny back. So that's that has to be taken care of. But right now the bigger fish in the to fry here is literally our relations with the US making sure that we don't lose 90% of our economy to do that. And again, you know, somebody had asked me what my opinion wasn't that. And literally it's don't start a fight you can't finish. So if we would have been in a better position, if you hadn't had a ton of rhetoric shutting down projects since 2009, 2014, arguably, Canada would have been a very stronger, a much stronger bargaining position, we would have had more self-esteem, quite frankly,

as a country and been able to have a little bit more swagger in those rooms, and people would have known about it. So the fact that that administration, through their fairy tale, pixie dust, wakadoo, woke socialist mindset they had, have put us in this compromise position is absolutely tragic for this country. So we have to suck it up, do what we need to do, make sure we take care of business,

and then don't waste this opportunity as a country to realize that that, failed policy for nine years has put us here, and we better start getting back to what we're good at, and that's working together, building things, dreaming big and making things happen. Okay.

Oh, you, never mind. Fire away, twos. Oh, I was just going to say, you know,

our next guest hasn't shown up yet. Yep. I haven't heard anything back from them yet. So we got a little bit of extra time. And what I wanted to ask is, you know, the problem, I guess,

with everything you're saying, not that there's a problem with it, but the problem that's implied in there is that if there's a government in Ottawa that's dysfunctional, dumb, just straight up stunned when it comes to the well-being of the individual provinces, you know, we're basically just one election cycle away from going back to that at any given point. is there any opportunity for us to say as a province try and take the reins on things like pipeline approval or yeah okay yeah yeah so we get caught up in a bunch of things so if it's within our provincial boundaries we can do that we can also make deals and again you can see

some of the policy changes from the lights to the heavies where we have barrels in kind so rather than just getting cashed out as Albertans on whatever it might be trading it, we're actually using that book value that we've always had, and then we're in a better position. So as an example, we could commit that volume on a system somewhere, whether it's new or existing, to another client, and then lock up that supply. Those are the things that we can really assert ourselves on. The other one that has demonstrated time and time again, and what we've seen is the groundwork we've done in the last six years by having our office in Washington and doing that, being so assertive is that it did afford us at a time when we needed it, those diplomatic channels.

So here was one thing that's, I had a couple constituents that turned out they were down for the inauguration as well. So I caught up with them at the embassy. And when they're giving us a tour, Alberta and Ontario share the same office upstairs. And then the constituent asks, well, where's Quebec's? Well, Quebec has their own. They have their own building. That is no different than when I was over in Germany. Quebec has its own building. They've checked out before and they've got so frank and tired of the feds of not representing them, they just represent themselves. So if the provinces really want to do this and if they want to, you know, get at a mom and dad's basement, take full accountability for their provinces and the authority that they're afforded

under our Constitution, I would suggest that the country is better that way because then you're not subject to the swings of one strong or weak federal party again, use it like the Constitution was written to make sure that we worked as our jurisdictions and regions and we fully exert our authority when required. That makes Canada strong. Do you think there will be a lull in that, though, with, with Pollyev potentially becoming PM later on this year and everybody's saying, oh, well, everything's fine now. We can just kind of just quit worrying about stuff.

Yeah, I mean, it's easy to be the dog barking on the side of the road, you know, or pointing at Bozo the clown that's falling down and doing slapstick comedy can't even help it. I mean, the guy comes out today and has a sweater on backwards while he's in a press conference. I mean, lay off the gange, man, and get off the munchies and get yourself together a couple hours earlier or something. I don't know. I'm so done with this. So with Poldiav coming in place, now you're dealing with someone who's professional. You're dealing with someone that I believe has a better interest in the entire country, working as it's supposed to.

You'll have the same topical conversations, except you're actually dealing with the grown-up this time and not someone who's ideologically banned. I mean, the fact that all of the front runners are going, whoa, what, what? Carbon tax, well, this was. This wasn't my idea. The world was coming to an end and little Greta Toonberg with her wig was over here and they're all bought into that Kool-Aid. So all of a sudden you're telling me it was just a scam like we all said. Not to mention capital gains tax. Oh, right?

Yeah. Like this is the most wild like wild thing ever where it hasn't even gone through everything approval. But the CRA is like, nope, we're going to start doing it. And now you have the leadership for the liberal race. where they're just trying to resolve themselves of everything that's happened. Everything that's happened. It's wild to watch. So we got something that was talked about that never officially got done, but the CRA is going to do, folks.

And now the leaders that are running for the current government, and soon to be, one of them is going to be the acting prime minister for at least a day, are saying they're going to get rid of that. And I can't even keep it straight. I'm like, this doesn't even make any sense. Well, it's just this whole thing's been a comedy of errors. and the best part of it, in my opinion, is the irrelevance of it. Because with the exception of the Ecos poll, which has the liberals almost tied with the conservatives. I don't know if you've seen that.

You've been gone for a little while. There's been some interesting developments in partisan polling in Canada in the past couple days. But with the exception of that, everyone's got them dead in the water. And so you've got this $350,000 entry fee to be leader for a day for a party that's going to be out for at least a generation. And I don't know, having anybody being worried about it is absolutely silly. Yes.

So here's, here's their defense as a party. Like here's how bad it's become. They're trying to portray to the Canadian people that Trudeau was the mastermind behind all of this. That's a really good point. I'm sorry. That's a really good point.

But, yeah, like, wow. Shane, we appreciate you hopping on and doing this with us and giving us a little extra time. As a Tuesday's point note, we were supposed to have one of the constitutional lawyers on discussing prerogation and trying to file a court action while in the process of doing that, I guess, and getting more information. It looks like we're going to be missing James this morning.

But either way, Shane, we appreciate you giving us some time this morning, a little extra time this morning. And continuing to help us understand what's going on with Alberta and Canada. and then, of course, being down in the United States and giving us some insight there as well. Appreciate it. Yeah, and again, to the listeners, this is why we go on these things. This is why we are part of these trans boundary groups. It's always good to build up commerce and trade and do that,

but it's when the fit hits the sham that you've got friends in those corners that can open the doors for you and speak in your behalf. So, again, big appreciation to those U.S. senators and representatives over the years that have had these conversations with us and are helping us out. And, you know, shout out to those. Western governors too for recognizing that with our premier and inviting us to these events and having us there. It's a strong working relationship. So hopefully folks understand. We're not just jet setting around. We're literally doing the will of the people by having conversations with people.

And it's good old fashioned farm table diplomacy over a coffee oftentimes. So really appreciate it. Awesome. Thanks again, Shane. There you go. Shane Getson hopping in. He was supposed to give us eight minutes. He ended up giving us like 28 minutes. So, um, the park every time. We were supposed to have James in, which really suck because I was looking forward to hearing about this, uh, uh, legal challenge against pro, prerogation, but I guess, uh,

well, we'll just have to wait and see if he shows up later or not two. Yep. So we can, we can read, we can readdress that later. But I guess, I guess, you know, for the time being, we can just start in rapid fire. Yeah. I'm like, I, I told two, we're working out the schedule today, folks. And I'm like, oh my God. Like, how is two is going to get through his.

like 28 headlines in like 16 minutes. Well, we bought ourselves a little, you know, oh my God, you're going to make me read that, aren't you? Justin Trudeau loves the Blackhawks. This is what you're here for, folks. We had to get rid of Shane Getson so we can actually, I could see him laughing in the background too. Oh, man.

Is that, is that funny, Shane? That's funny, isn't it? Oh, boy. All right. We'll leave him out. We won't, oh, man. Justin Trudeau. loves the Blackhawks.

All right. Carry on, folks. Carry on. Welcome to the mashup. This is what we do here. We have a little bit of fun, hey? Oh, my goodness. Pat's on.

No, wait, wait one second before we, let's talk about Justin Trudeau, love and the Blackhawks, okay? Can we talk about this for just one second? I mean, everybody knows, but please continue. But it's your story. Well, so Trudeau, you know, is trying to actually beef up our border a little.

little bit. Canadian border services put out a tweet saying that crossing the border anywhere other than an official point of entry is illegal and you will be arrested which is a huge win as far as literal common sense goes.

You know, the things that we've been called misogynist and racist for for a decade is now officially being adopted by the liberal party and he got two Black Hawk helicopters to cover a 5,000 kilometer border, which mathematically is still pretty dumb,

but it's a step in the right direction. Ah, man, that's a great headline. All right, well, let's bring in Pat. All right, so we got our next guest is Pat Stedman. Pat Stedman, folks, was on the podcast, well, January 6th, a few weeks ago. Pat, thanks for giving us some time this morning. Sean, it's good to be on here.

Well, meet meet two's. Hi, Pat. Hey, what's up? How are you? I'm great. Thanks. And you? Very good. Very good. Well, folks, for the listener or the watcher, Pat was a participant in J6 and then went to jail for a year. And just recently, you got pardoned. So I'm like, from the short time that I got to talk to you, Pat, I think I'm curious on, you know, all the recent developments and things on your side. And feel free to share. Well, as much as he can. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's really surreal for me. Like, I've been, this whole experience has been a lot of loops. So, you know, I went to prison on October 27th. I got out on October 27th the next year.

So it was like a full year loop. Sorry, just real quick, though. Did you have an option? Because you mentioned when he talked to Sean before that it was a leap year. So he ended up serving an extra day. Did you try to do anything? Just be like, hey, can we do this next year? Well, technically.

I don't think that they were going to go for that. They were already pretty pissed at how long I had pushed it off for. So, what I mean by like the loops. I was, my arrest warrant was signed three hours into Biden's presidency. And I was picked up the next morning. So it was literally exactly four years. Like every single day of Biden's presidency, I was under political prosecution. And the first day of Trump's presidency,

I was pardoned. So it was like, it was like January 21st, 2021, the FBI was raiding my house. January 21st, 2025, I was going to meet like my friends, the other J-Sixers who were just getting released from prison

and like going out, like picking them up, taking them out to breakfast. So like it was a very, very surreal loop for me to go through all that. Who did you guys vote for? we voted for the libertarian candidate obviously you know yeah yeah well i mean uh ross obrecht got uh got pardoned too he did yeah there's been some interesting developments yeah and i'm not like

i'm not as i'm not super familiar with the case man i know he was like the silk road and everything but um you know people who i who i trust have have pretty much universally said that i mean i I can at least see that it was very excessive. So I think it was a good decision on Trump's part to do that. I mean, the criminal justice system has a lot of problems in general. So I'm actually a big believer in the clemency aspect of the pardon in general, just the correct abuses within the system. But yeah, so it's it was definitely wild.

And for me, the pardon, like, I was already. already on supervised release. It's not that big of a deal. I already had my felony taken away by the Supreme Court decision the past June. But it was really for my friends. That was the, that was what felt. Because, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't like to talk about it in like stolen valor sort of terms because, you know, the military has their experience. But the reality is that the J6 experience. And a lot of my friends are military guys and they've said this exact same thing. Like being in prison, which is like a barracks around all other men. the fact that this is like this big fight, you know, we were doing like tours of duty, you know,

like there was a sense of like nobody gets left behind. Like we don't want anybody stuck in there afterwards. And I think Trump really did a good thing in the end. I think it was also good political instincts. A lot of people were saying, you know, only part of these kind of people. That would have been really demoralizing and it would not have killed the issue. The issue would have continued. The base would have continued to agitate.

he was smart just to pull the band-aid off, just do it. And if you had a few cases where you felt like it was a bit more aggressive, like the commutations were the fair decision, which is that he didn't get rid of the felony in just like nine cases, but he still gave him time served so they could get released from prison subject to future review. There is an issue, though. I want to mention this because it's something that we may be bringing up more in the coming days and weeks.

There are a number of people, including two of my friends, who got, okay, they had the J6 charges, but then in the, in the raid, the feds put other charges on them from things that they found in the raid. Fruit of the poison tree. Right. So this is, this is one of the, this, but they weren't pardoned. So we have a difficult situation right now because they were released from prison. but now there's a situation where well they might actually get put back in because of the other charges

and so we have to maybe agitate for that in one of the cases the guy was found with ammunition that he wasn't allowed to have because he was like decades ago when he was younger he had he had committed a felony so he wasn't allowed to possess ammunition the other guy though

they literally just put a case on him like they were it was like a solvent trap in the suppressor thing He already had legal licenses for suppressors. He was in the military. And they found like a solvent trap in a storage. And they said, oh, you could have turned this into a suppressor and you didn't get a license for it. I mean, I mean, you can say that about a can of soup.

Well, right. You can say it about a potato. You know what I mean? Like it's so it's, uh, so those are some things that we have to deal with because, you know, I'm concerned about them. They're, they're concerned too that, you know, one day it's going to be like, hey, you got to go back. the prison made a mistake, you got to go back in. So, I mean, that's just got, that's just got Coots six and a half written all over it.

So I don't know how much Pat knows about the Coots boys up here up north, but they were sentenced to six and a half years for their participation at the Coots blockade during the Freedom Convoy. And it's, you know, like, I mean, twos can share too. There's a ton of things going on with that, where you're like, this is insane, right? It's part of the reason why I wanted to have you on,

because we talk a lot about the injustices of what's going on with, uh, freedom movements of people trying to stand up to their governments. And then the government going full on blitzkrieg on them, scorched earth, like taking everything away from them. And to see Donald Trump on day one, uh,

pardon, I think it was 1500 J6 people, I think is, is the number I kept seeing. Yeah, I saw 1,500 plus people charged with crimes. And that's not including the people who had been indicted whose charges were dropped. Because the DOJ indicted a little bit over 1,600 people. In terms of people who were in prison at the time, it was only about 215 or something like that.

But, you know, I'd already, I'd been in and I'd served my time. Like, a lot of J-Sixers have already gone through and come out on the other side. So it was over 1,500 pardons. but another hundred some people also just had their charges dropped who were already in the pipeline. So they didn't need to be pardoned. Forgive me for pulling back to this. But like the, I saw the video of you and your mom. You know, from our interview, I know like you're married to get young kids.

Just curious. Like what is that meant to your family or I don't know. Like you're well. Like I just think about it, Pat. I'm like, yeah, you're out of jail. But like, you still got this all hanging over your head. And as you've pointed out with friends and different people you've met through this all, maybe they got charges hanging over them.

Maybe they're still in jail, et cetera. You know, like being there with your parents and, you know, I assume your wife and kids. What has that experience been like? It's almost like it's hard to put to words. It's like a relief, I guess you could say. There's a lot of relief. but it's almost, like you don't, you're still getting used to it. Like, I, I haven't been able to move outside of the state of New Jersey for four years.

That's basically prison in and of itself, isn't that? Yeah, like if I wanted to leave this, I mean, there's been some variation in the condition. Sometimes I actually couldn't leave it. Other times I could only leave it with permission, right? But I've, I've always had, you weren't Nebraska, right? Yeah, right. I've always had somebody like staring at me. Always someone like monitoring everything I did.

There's always a sense like anything I make a mistake. I'm going to get screwed basically. They're just waiting for me to make a mistake. And I've experienced that because like, you know, I might post something on social media and then it turns up in some prosecution's argument about why I should. And you know, it's like not even like like it's like innocuous stuff. You know what I mean?

Like, but they'll twist it. They take it and they twist it. So it's kind of like hard to come to terms with the fact that, wait, I'm getting my passport back in like the next week. Like I'm going to be able to leave the country. Like I have, I have.

You're going to be able to maybe find your voice. You know, like while you're talking, Marco Van Hogan boss, once again, Pat won't know that name. He's more to jail for 120 days. Yeah.

And one of the things that they used against him was coming on shows like this and others and what he said on there in his court case, right? Because they, they used it to show like, I don't know, once again, I might be twisting this a bit, but not remorseful or that he knew about it or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And what you're pointing out, I think to the audience of myself is like, now you can actually use your voice again, because if you started using your voice, they might twist that and put you back in prison or not allowed you leave your state or, you know, just use your thoughts against you. Yeah, and it was always a balance because, you know, you didn't want to bend the knee, but then, especially as like somebody who has a family, you know, you start to think

about, well, you know, what are the retaliations for this? It's not as if like, it's just me having to take it. Like, if I do something, then other people bear the consequences of me doing something. And so. But Nuremberg court had a thing to say about that, didn't they? I'm not sure. Punishment. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, how it affects everybody. It affects everybody with it. So I mean, it's, it's like getting used to this. And, but I have to say, like, Trump, the last, just the last three days, you know, he's, it's, it's made the entire thing worth it. Well, how did that play out for you? How did what play out? Well, like, were you, um, I'm guessing you were still in New Jersey.

So did you get a phone call from somebody? Was it somebody fancy or did you get like a letter? or what? So I was able to go across the river for an inauguration party. I was in Philadelphia. Okay. I was at an inauguration party. And I, like, I had thought it was going to come. I wasn't so worried about my own pardon because I knew the nature of my offenses were not really the pardons that were under dispute.

I was very concerned about other people, though. And honestly, and I wrote this in my letter to President Trump, me and like a about 100 other people got letters to him that I wasn't going to accept a pardon if my friends were imparted, the guys who had some assault charges. Because to me, it's just like, I don't want to, I don't want this if they're still going to be in prison. You know, it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good to have it.

So I didn't know, I wasn't 100% where he was going to go. My heart told me he was going to do basically what he did. So it was about like 9 p.m. and I was, and I was there. And, you know, first someone, someone said it, like, it was kind of like a room. rumor. And I was like, did it actually happen? And then I got a text from my lawyer and he said, congratulations. And I was like, well, my lawyer tells me it. Now I feel, feel pretty good about it. And it was at that point that I did that video with my mom. You know, we were surprised, like, it was so late in the day. I thought, well, maybe it'll be tomorrow. But yeah, they let him out,

I mean, they let them out that night. Like, those, my guys got out of prison at like 3 a.m. And it was honestly like a really beautiful thing. Like the entire prison was going crazy. Like shouting like USA, USA. Like we are the champions. Like banging on the windows. There was a lot of solidarity. And I can tell you as a J-6 year,

I went to prison at first. There was a different perception initially from a lot of the prisoners. You know, very minority dense the prison population in the United States. like by last spring it was starting to change there started to be more respect you started to see actually like a movement towards Trump I think that for them it wasn't even just about you know the fact that like I don't think that they've seen a politician kind of keep their word like that like I think that there was a sense of loyalty that they respected from it they respected by the end that we

what we had stood up for that we had like we know we stood on business as they say but i mean the fact that trump actually brought us out like you know loyalty means a lot to those people right so i i think it was very moving for my friends to go through that i you know i kind of wish i'd seen it myself but i know i had a lot of support as well when i was when i was going through it from there um but i mean the political change is going on right now like it's pretty clear that trump and his team had everything pre-targeted. Like, we know exactly who to go after. We know exactly what regulations are the problem.

And this is like a political blitzkrieg right now. I mean, for perspective for people in Canada and beyond, the United States has existed more or less in the same structure. Because by my reckoning, we've gone through four structures of the United States so far. And I won't belabor it with your audience. But since the New Deal, you know, maybe it's, started a little bit with Woodrow Wilson in 1913, but since the New Deal in the 1930s, the United States has become a completely different entity than it was after the Civil War,

before the Civil War, before Revolution. Trump is changing that again right now. What's Trump's doing, Trump is dismantling the New Deal, basically. Everything that FDR created, that's going to be gone, I think, within two to four years. And it's a whole new, I mean, it's pretty incredible. what we see happening right now. We've never seen this kind of change before in our lives. Why do you guys want to terrify us?

Don't you like us? We like you so much. We want to persuade you to join us. That's a good way to put it. Any final questions for them, too? I appreciate Pat giving us some time this morning. And I don't, I want to make sure I get them out of here. Yeah.

I don't know the context of this because I never saw it. But somebody commented, What are Pat's thoughts on the Babylon B mockumentary about J6? I thought it really showed how absurd the charges were against the peaceful protesters. Have you seen that? Do you know what that is? I haven't seen the mockumentary, although I'm very familiar with the Babylon B. My dad always has the Daily Babylon B jokes. Actually, I may have seen like a clip or like a screenshot of that.

But, I mean, you know, I think if I'm being fair, J6 is very complicated because a lot of what you see depends on when you you saw it and where you saw it. There were definitely moments of violence. And there was violence that the police directed against protesters. And then there was retaliatory violence that some protesters directed against the police. You know, it gets very complicated because the police started it. The police attacked the crowd. And that's how the whole thing started.

But at the same time, so after you had that initial period, then you had a secondary period. where there was almost no engagement between police and protesters and the police were talking to protesters and waving people through the building. And that's when I think you see a lot of the stuff to mockumentary. Like, when I was inside the building, I saw no issues whatsoever between protesters and police. There is nothing. The only time that then tensions heated up again after the police, again, randomly shot Ashley Babit and killed her. So it's like you have this. It depends on when you look at it.

But yeah, I mean, you know, the Q shaman, Jacob Chansley, right? Like, he was, he was escorted, actually, down through the Capitol by, like, six policemen. So, yeah, it, I mean, and that's why the whole narrative around it is, is really ridiculous, because, like, how are people, how are people in those situations? How are they getting into so much trouble when you have police engaging like that? you know, people weren't disobeying police orders. Overwhelmingly, they were not disobeying police orders. Well, I mean, look what happened with the Gretchen Whitmer assassination. Well, you know, it's interesting about this.

This is actually, this is really important. The person in charge of the FBI field office in Michigan was, he was there. So, okay, so during the Gretchen Whitmer thing, there is an individual. I can't recall his name, but he was in charge of the Michigan field office. And he set that whole thing up because that was a setup completely. and thankfully the people were largely acquitted by the Michigan jury

because it was something like two thirds of the people were feds most of the people who like started it you know the non-feds like one had like like provable mental disabilities you know like there is the whole like the feds brought all the ammunists

they brought all the stuff but here's the thing the guy who ran the Michigan field office where do you get transferred to you right after the Gretchen Whitmer thing Washington, D.C. So he was there during the Capitol riot. So, I mean, you can see these like deep state individuals get moved to where they want the next thing to happen. I mean, that could have, in fairness, though, I could see that being a happy coincidence with them saying,

hey, you know what, you did a great job of indicting this mentally impaired person. We're going to give you a cushy promotion. I could see that playing out just as easily, to be fair. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Pat, thanks for, thanks for coming on. I know I can safely say on this side, we're very, very happy for you that a parting came. And, you know, like you've pointed out a couple things pretty clearly on, you know, our skepticism,

I think I can speak for twos on our skepticism of politicians sticking to their word and seeing it play out. because when I talked to you, I'm like, we'll see if he does it. I remember thinking it after I got off you. I'm like, we'll see if he does it. And appreciate you coming on and sharing part of the story. I think it's important for people to hear. I know it's important for me to hear sitting on this side to have some good news on this show when we talk a lot of the stupidity of the world to have you come on and share, you know,

both the J-Sixters and everything else from the American standpoint. Any final thoughts before we let you out of here? I'm just very hopeful that we see very similar news coming to Canada soon, one way or another. I really do think that this political transformation occurring in the United States right now will inevitably spread throughout the rest of the Western world. And I think Canada is going to be one of the, you know, partly because of the proximity will be one of the first beneficiaries of that one way or another. So I'm really hopeful for you guys too.

I know you have a little bit more of a fight ahead of you in the short term, but just know that you got a lot of support across the border. So anyway, but yeah, I appreciate you having me on, Sean Tuse. It was really a pleasure to meet you. You as well. Thank you very much. All right, folks. Pat Stedman. So he just got J6 spent a year, 366 days in prison and just got pardoned here with the inauguration of Trump.

So that's a, that's a, that's a. Pretty cool story, too's. And I appreciate him giving me some time. I was trying to get a hold of him. Like, there's no way I'm going to get a hold of him. I can just imagine his phone after he gets parted how much he blew up. Yeah, you'd think. You think the guys just, just, okay, well, I guess I got to get a media manager now.

No kidding. He does have a book coming out. When, if Pat's still listening, when the book comes out, we're going to have them back on because I want to make sure that we try and support that. I think that'll be a pretty cool story. Now, is this my next headline? Here's your next headline. Go vindication. All right, all right.

Folks, welcome to the mashup. We've spent, what is it now? 52 minutes. It's time to rock and roll. All right. Yeah, yeah, we're going to be flying through this stuff. So Biden's last act before he left, which is probably also his first act, because let's admit, that guy was on autopilot for four damn years.

Biden pardon, pardon's Fauci. All right. Now, just out of curiosity. Like, why would you ever need to pardon somebody in a position like Fauci? Unless perhaps, just maybe, just maybe. There was a little bit of chicanery, a little bit of skullduggery. People weren't being exactly honest. John?

I would say that if you have to pardon somebody, chances are there's something you had to pardon them. I don't know, or not like exonerate him, right? I would say Fauci. I have a lot of thoughts, too. I'm sure the audience has a lot of thoughts on Fauci. No? I mean, there's been an entire freaking book written on them,

RFK, you know? And Pat says his book's coming out roughly in Easter. Okay, sweet. All right. So rats abandon the sinking ship of the week. We got two of them this time. Jenica Atwin, who you guys will remember was the four-crossed? Frederington MP, Genica, Atwin, yes.

Yeah, she crossed the floor from the Greens a few years ago to go over to the Liberals, and now she's going to be taking a break from federal politics. Well, no shit, Jenica, you're all taking a break from federal politics right now. It's called pro-rogging. And then the other one is Harjit Sejan is retiring from politics. Yes. Unconfirmed reports, I guess he's going to spend his time afterwards designing buildings. He's going to be an architect.

You know, it's just, I'm just enjoying watching all of them jump. Oh, yeah. I just, I don't know about anybody else. I'm just enjoying seeing them all go, you know, it's time to go spend time with family or it's been so much fun and everything else. And you're like, uh-huh, uh-huh, all right. Good reddens. See you later.

Have fun. Yeah. Peace out, motherfucker. All right. Now we're getting into the rapid fire stuff. All right. Uh, inflation ticks lower to 1.8% in December. Thanks.

in part to the GST tax break. This is from Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau here is confirming what we already know, which is that when taxes are higher or when taxes are lower, it decreases inflation. Ergo when taxes are higher, they would increase inflation. So all of this stuff about him saying that the carbon tax is not causing an increase in food prices. This tweet right here flies directly in the face of all of that.

Charlie Kirk, Stalantis, the owner of Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge Auto Brands has announced that it is moving 1,500 jobs from Canada back to Illinois to manufacture new Dodge Durangos. Yeah, the three most expensive things in manufacturing are materials, energy, and people. Canada has extremely expensive at least two of the three, that being the people, which is unionized, and the energy, which is goddamn expensive because of the carbon tax. So, of course, people are moving away. And so this is a layup for Trump. It's just, it's a gimmie. This is an open net goal. U.S. Canada relations, twos, we got a whole bunch.

Do you want to get into some of that, or do we cover it all with, do you want to go to Stephen Gibbaugh? Yeah, it's here. I'm just going to play this clip here, and you guys are going to love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here you go, Stephen Gibbaugh. Nine months ago. If there's a measure somewhere that someone can find multiple occasions, I'll read you exactly what you told me, months ago. If there's a measure somewhere that someone can find and point to me that will help us

achieve 10% of 2030 targets at no extra cost to consumers lying around under a rock somewhere, someone needs to show it to me because I haven't seen it. Have you seen it now? I mean, I basically have two choices here. I can stay in the party and continue help fighting to protect the environment, finding climate change, or go pick my bags and go home. I remember doing multiple. All right. So there is him saying what we all already knew is that climate change, 12 years to save the planet. The biggest existential crisis this planet is facing.

There is no planet B. But it's not important enough for him to update his fucking resume. Like imagine that just like, okay, you can save the planet, but you'll probably have to just, you know, do a couple job. interviews and stuff afterwards and you might not be employed for a couple months. But you can save the planet. They're like, well, you know what? I got a pretty good gig where I'm at. And I mean, what if there is a planet be?

It's just, this is so disingenuous and limited kudos to Vashi for pointing this out. And it's well done. But the obvious follow-up question is, is that if the carbon tax is single-handedly keeping the planet from turning into a ball of death and destruction. Why do you care more about your current employment than that? Before we get to the next headline on Rapid Fire News, I want to remind people, if they're watching on X, if they're watching on different platforms,

make sure to share this sucker, would you? We're closing in a thousand people watching. I don't know about Tuesday. I'd love to see it get over that. So give us a share, give us a like, help spread the good news. Now, I don't know about this being good news. Nenshi nominated in Eminton. Strathcona.

So this is Notley's writing that she abdicated when she was resigning. And I called this. I said the fact that Nenshi is extremely unpopular in Calgary. And the more people know about him, the less they like him, he's going to go with the seat where he's going to win no matter what. Correct. Because he can't take the chance of losing that seat. And that's what he's doing.

And so, yeah, there's the mayor, the three terms. mayor of Calgary holding up an oiler's jersey i mean nothing you gotta you gotta love those principles hey look at that sean aren't you gar't you glad to have that guy cheering on your team yeah i don't i don't know what to say um here twos will be happy about this entry to canna anywhere but at an official port of entry is dangerous and illegal you will be arrested it's about damn time and there's my tweet actually. That's my tweet you're pointing at. I know it is. Teat it up just for you, buddy.

Doug Ford confirms early Ontario election will be called next Wednesday. Quoted, we need a mandate from the people to fight against Donald Trump's tariffs. He's coming against our families, our businesses, and our communities. Ford said February 27th is looking to be the next provincial election in Ontario. All right. So you've got a guy in Ontario who calls an early snap election. when faced with what he seems to be a large crisis that he needs to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on when there's a very simple alternate solution.

Does this sound like anybody else to you? Does this sound like the 2021 election? Maybe. Why the fuck is there's got to be somebody out there who's going to say, look, you can do this, but you have to run under the liberal banner. Because there's nothing, because this is literally the liberal playbook.

This is politics, man. They're all dirty. Like, this is just politics, planning self-vote. He sees an opportunity to get into government for, what is it, another four years, and he's calling a snap election early. The polls show, this is what it shows.

We're going to be able to speak to Donald Trump. We're going to be Robert, whatever. And this is the day after he announced that AstraZeneca has a 820 million. dollar research facility being opened in Ontario made partially, happened in part partially because of $16.1 million of taxpayer money. So you've got a guy who's giving out handouts to dubious vaccine manufacturers while trying to get himself reelected.

Don't forget this one either. Right? Yeah. The Canada's $52 billion EV gamble didn't pay off, observers say this is a, there you go. Really? Really? Really? Oh, no. I love how they, they, um, you know, the, the actual car manufacturers were like, we lose money on every single one of these sell that we sell. People don't want to buy him, buy them. By far our largest market.

are is rich people buying a second unnecessary vehicle. You know, just so there's, no, no, no, no, no. Just let me make that point. Let me make that point here real quick. Make the point. Make the point. Fine, fine. It's not going to do anything to decrease your carbon emissions when you're paying for

the mining, manufacturing, transport, and delivery of a second car you don't fucking need. That's my point. Continue. Can I just say the last point I have. on Ford this article. He says if he's elected, folks, he's going to be working 20 hours a week for you. So if you're sitting in Ontario,

you're, I'm sorry, did he seriously say he's going to be working? I will be working 20 hours a day. What a load of E.S, if I've ever seen it. Yeah, uh,

there's no way. Ford doesn't get up to probably 10 a.m. every morning. Like I just, whatever. I'm, what a load of jargon from that guy. Right?

You think he's getting up? You think he looks like Jock Wilnik. he's up at 4.30, crack a dog getting up to go at her. Not a chance. He's looking at his treadmill eating ice cream for breakfast. Yeah, come on. Craft Hein slams Trudeau for floating ketchup as a trade target. So Justin Trudeau, I mean, not unlike Christia Freeland's hole.

Well, I mean, if you're poor, you could just cancel Disney Plus. And Justin Trudeau's answer to this trade tariff, aside from cutting Alberta off at the kneecaps, is that people should use French's ketchup instead of Heinz. And then Heinz came back and they said, we make all the ketchup in a plant in France with tomatoes that come from Leamington, Ontario. Justin Trudeau doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, which is pretty on point for that fucking guy.

45 firearms stolen from the RCMP since 2014, including a grenade launcher. A grenade launcher has been stolen from the RCMP. And P. A grenade launcher. A grenade launch. Yeah. What more do you need to say?

I mean, here's like, just imagine. You're like, you get back to work. And then your boss is like, hey, Sean, where's that grenade launcher we just lent you? And then you say, well, actually, I'm not sure. It just seems to have gone, gone. Gone. Um, and then, and then your boss. is okay well as long as you didn't also lose 18 handguns one rifle and two shotguns in the same year you're going to be fine oh wait a second and they suspect that it might be it might be attributed to somebody in the rcmp running gun smuggling

when you look at that chart here's the thing is that every number on this chart should be zero yes it should be but i mean in fairness we're talking one gun was lost. It should be zero. So they lose one. Oh, wait. You lost six. You lost 18, one of which is a grenade launcher. We got problems. Yeah. And then in 2016, this goes right off the, just right off the charts and, and also has a grenade launcher on it. This looks like the voter turnout in 2020. And no one's going to look at this chart and say maybe there was something fucking happening that year. Uh, can a Canadian government may review relationship. with Amazon following Quebec closures.

Wednesday, Amazon confirmed that it would cease operations in Quebec over the next two months, turning back to the third-party model it had during 2020 package deliveries. Yeah, this is crazy. I mean, why are you surprised that a company that works on, like they have spent billions of dollars researching robotics and automation to do everything they can to get as few employees touching their work as possible, and to make it more efficient, they work on absolutely razor-thin margins. And some of their departments, as a few years ago, were even still losing money. And you want to unionize?

Well, of course you're going to make the cost of labor more expensive. And they're going to say, we can't make money if we do that, so we're going to close. That's it. That's just basic math. Basic math. A union will make things more expensive, not on top of the ripple effects of getting away from a Accountability. In case in case two's didn't point it out clearly, the people, the workers out for Amazon in Quebec were trying to unionize. And Amazon saying it had nothing to do with that.

It had everything to do with that. Oh, for sure it did. I mean, Jeff Bezos is a huge supporter of minimum wage laws. And that's because it cuts out as competition. When half your employees are robots, of course you want minimum wage laws. Uh, GTA school board upholds policy that prohibits flying the pride flag trustees within the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board reaffirmed their policy that prohibits the pride flag from being flown at school. That's basically it. You got a little bit of happy news thrown in there.

They're getting away from the gay pride flags. Although I will say, you know, you hear this stuff about like accidental inventions. Like the guy who invented the microwave, he was walking by one and he had a chocolate bar in his pocket. the chocolate bar melted. Like that story, that's a conspiracy theory. That story is made up bullshit. There's no way that actually happened.

Because first off, if you've got a chocolate bar in your pocket, it's going to melt on its own. And secondly, if the microwave was trying to heat up the chocolate bar, anybody who knows how microwaves work is going to realize that as it was trying to heat up the chocolate bar, your pants would have been on fire faster than Justin Trudeau talking about literally anything. but the gay pride flag I actually do believe that accidental invention story where they had the big convention and the guy did the big unveiling of the rainbow

and after an awkward silence he said oh I thought you said you wanted me to bring a gay flag masked man gay flag mass man repeatedly stabbed this is not funny mass man repeatedly

stabs dog in Toronto Park. A masked man wielding two knives attacked a dog in the park near Toronto's Tony Rosdale neighborhood, stabbing the pet multiple times before fleeing. And the only thing I didn't like about this article, among the obvious things, among the obvious things,

is they didn't tell me if the dog survived. I was like, come on, you're going to write an article about this? I'm hoping the dog survived. You know, anyways, it's a sad story. You hope they catch the guy. Like, it's a freaking wild walking your dog. It gets stab multiple. Oh, man. Here's some cool news. Trump orders release of JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination records. The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining

federal records for all these things, right? So there's been some records that have been hidden. And his first term, he said he was going to do the same thing. And then the CIA, FBI, basically negotiated not releasing everything. and it sounds like everything's going to be coming out, too's. Yeah, that's going to be very cool. A bunch of us got to come out in the next, or they've got to have a plan for it for how to release it in the next two weeks. So watch for that probably in about a month.

CBC clears pollsters, criticizes paranoia tinged Tories. Now that's an old headline to the... Frank Graves from Ecos has been getting a lot of hell for this poll he put out that has the liberals almost in a dead heat with the conservatives. Yes. And it is far and away nowhere near what any of the other pollsters have in Canada. And when someone tried to call him out on it, he said, well, here's an article from the Globe and Mail talking about how I'm actually unbiased. Here's the thing, though.

That article is more than 14 years old. That article is so fucking old that it could vote in the leadership. election race for the liberal. And what do we both know about the o'udsman of the CBC and everything else, CBC? Does it tell the truth, folks? Do you believe the CBC told the truth, truth 14, 15 years ago? Not a chance. Give me a break.

The fact he's using that as a way to get out of jail. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right. And then equalization. So this is what we touched on with shame. with Shane is that Pollyav says that there's not going to be any major changes to equalization. How many times do we have to look at that goddamn chart of all the different provinces and how much money just travels east?

It only ever travels east. There you go. Thank you. All right. You got Quebec, undefeated champion of equalization, right? And then these are the same people who are telling us that we need to be on team Canada and we need to be patriots. And they're trying to call us out for saying that, you know,

as much as it isn't my first choice, I would say that being part of the states would be better than Alberta's got for a deal right now. And for some reason, I'm a bad person for pointing that out. Like, oh, where's your patriotism? Don't you believe in this country? Like, why fucking save it at this point? Like, why stay?

Are you fucking overwhelmed with civil pride every time you pay equalization to fucking Quebec? The streets of our cities have more cracks in them than a plumber's convention. We are the second biggest country in the world. It's full of trees. And the only housing we can get built is anorexic townhouses stacked on top of each other, like the Hunger Games edition of Jenga. Do you think our grandfather's generation stormed the beaches of Normandy for S&C.

Lavelin? And the whole time, we're expected to just please rise and remove your hats every time an illegal alien shits in the sidewalk. With glowing hearts, we see the rise in New Brunswick. usually some time around 10 or 1030, depending on how late they were up last night. Look, it's not an exaggeration at all to say that we have one of these sluttiest borders in the world. And as far as Canada goes, we've had more proposals for laying pipe be abandoned than Taylor Swift. I've got to drive two solid days to find the leaf on our goddamn flag. But it's okay, though, because on the way, I can stop at our greatest Canadian,

institution, order a double double, and have a temporary foreign worker fuck up the order so badly that I somehow leave with a big Mac. The media straight up lies to us every goddamn week. We all make less money than we did a decade ago, and the only job growth in this country is for government patient paper pushers that are less than useless. Most of the worthless money in this sovereign shit show runs through five super banks, and none of them were as big as the food banks. Yeah, sure.

there was lots of patriotism in Ottawa for a while, but the people who headed the charge are looking at a decade in jail for mischief. So what the fuck do we have to feel patriotic about? Why the hell should we keep this country going at all anymore? Because when push came to shove, the rest of Canada jumped at the chance to throw the West into the economic volcano. And now one week later, nervously laughing, asking if we good and offering a fist bump,

isn't going to cut it cut it this time. You showed us what we are to you and there is no unfucking that goat. So somebody give me one good reason aside from winning more medals at a biannual sporting event where the opening ceremony literally has a tranny dude

with balls hanging out of his lingerie because I'm all ears. All I can think, folks, is never go full twos. Unless your twos, then go full twos, you know? Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. Shall we do?

No, everybody's chiming in. They love when twos goes full twos. Shall we do goofy? Yes, goofy. Let's go into some of the weirder stuff going on. Nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of Extreme Weather, UNICEF says. Okay.

Our schools suck. How is this a bad thing? That's not what I thought you're going. Okay. Well, there you go, folks. I'm going to bring up Stephen Taylor. Can you show the video of this? You're goddamn right.

I'm going to show the video. Yeah, bring it in the big screen. This did not need to happen. I swear to you if Rick Caruso would have been elected mayor, this would have never happened. And I'm sorry, I don't mean to be political, but this is absurd. This is Los Angeles. This is not the middle of, you know, Saskatchewan. Ex-fucking excuse me?

First off, there is no way that you would find a hill that big in Saskatchewan. And there aren't a lot of fucking oceans either. This is the, there is nothing in this that looks even remotely like Saskatchewan. That's where you take, okay. But just like out of all the random digs, we're just like just out of left. Although we don't look like anything, I think what he's sliding Saskatchewan for is that we can't find our way out of a problem like a fire, which is like, dude, he's pointing, like he's making us sound like we're a second world day or third world nation, too. Like, what? I can't believe that showed up.

I can't believe we get the dig. What the hell? What did we even do to deserve that? Goofy news. Somehow we got stuck in with California. Like, what? Anyways. How about some lighter stuff here?

This is fantastic. This is fantastic. Okay. Arizona IST is still 99 cents. They quoted that, in fact, that Netflix, is continuing to go up. It went from $7.99 a month. And anyways, it doesn't matter.

And their premiums $25 a month. This is going to be $7 a month. It used to be $7 a month for Netflix. Like 10 years ago. But they got wrestling on it now, too. They got a Jake Paul fight where Mike Tyson kind of looked like an old man and stumbled around.

They had NFL on Christmas Day. I don't know why I'm promoting what Netflix does. Anyways, that's why they're charging more. But Arizona chimes in. Arizona IST is still 99 cents. Yep, yep. And the Costco hot dogs are still cheap too. And then we got another one here. This is somebody calling out CBC for sucking.

Apparently they interviewed this guy, Ken Boss and Cool. And they got his name wrong. They said that he was the founding partner of Meredith Non-essential and Phillips. CBC just needs to fucking go away. How labeling, how labeling cartel terrorists, this is the New York Times, how labeling cartels terrorists could hurt the U.S. economy. Yeah. Yeah, the Mexican drug cartels.

If you start calling them terrorists, it's going to have negative repercussions on the U.S. economy. And what else do we have here? Oh, yes. We got Jagged me. So here's, so the background for this is that Elon Musk, who's this. you know, brilliant, but autistic as fuck, dude, uh,

was just waving and dancing all over the place. Yeah, my heart goes out to you. And anybody who's having an honest conversation about it says that he's not actually doing a Nazi salute. But here's Jagmeet Singh talking about this exact thing. And I'm going to pause it at a couple points as we go. Pierre Paulyev was endorsed.

This is, this is. Jagmeet Singh talking about Elon Musk and what he thought was a Hail Hitler's salute and we can see here from the pause frame the Jagmeet Singh is doing what appears to be a Hail Hitler's clue Now absolutely There's another one

We need it took a while to get that out So thank you for the shame Shout out Yeah and then You got endorsed by Elon Musk Stupid rambling, not saying anything fancy. Here it is again on the other side. He's on the other side now.

He's because, you know, the one side of the crowd got the Hail Hitler, but the other side hadn't yet. Here's him in a speech about Hail Hitler salutes. Oh, here's an even better angle. Keep it going. Elon Musk is a part of an administration that threatened our country, that threatened Canadian jobs. that threatened our sovereignty,

threatened to use economic. Oh, yeah, so there you go. Just in that brief little clip, you can find multiple instances of him hailing Hitler. Here's him doing another one. Someone's got a great picture that they put in. This guy, the NDP are not a serious party, Sean. They are not a serious party at all, at all.

All right. Okay. Happy news? We got any happy news? Well, I mean, Pat Stedman was kind of the happy news. I agree. Who am I kidding? Shout out to Pat again for being on.

And yeah, that's pretty cool. You know, we know of a lot of people that are up against it with governments. And for him to get out, come on the show, talk about it. Appreciate that. Community notes, the third annual Big Jack Classic. Yeah, February 15th, 16th, Buffalo Lake, Alberta. For those of you who don't know or live in and around, Calgary.

It's basically the only decent lake you can get to without going all the way back to Saskatchewan. Yeah. And so it's a couple days. It's just Pike and catch and release. So yeah, it should be pretty good. Dig your own holes. And they've got, I don't know, they got a concession.

They've got $6,000 in cash and prizes that spread out pretty widely. I was talking with one of the organizing. They specifically don't want to have a bunch of professional anglers. They want this to be more of a family-friendly thing. So the prizes are really spread out instead of being top-heavy. This is news. I just got shared with me. Lakeland College Women's Basketball Team.

So if you haven't heard of the Chris King saga, there's now five parts on the podcast. They are having a protest at the school here on the Lloydminster campus of Lakeland College, February 4th at 12 p.m. Everyone's welcome to join kids onwards. The big slogan being no king, no ring. That's been, you know, national champion coach, getting removed from his job for what looks like discipline of a player.

And there's a whole story. You can go listen to it on the podcast, like I say, five parts. And February 4th, they're going to be having a protest on campus. And there you go. May 10th, I guess I should bring this up to. Where on campus? Campus is kind of a big place. It's Lloyd Minster.

Pull into Lakeland Campus. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. You know, this isn't Empton. This is Lloyd Minster. May 10th, the Cornerstone Forum is back, and you can get your tickets now. Martin Armstrong, Tom Longo, Alex, Traynor, Chuck, Pradnik,

Chase, Barbara, Kaelinfor, Matt, Perrett, Ben Perrin, Bradgill, Taka, Fitzlaz, Chris Sibs, Tom Bodribx. It's going to be a ton of fun. If you want, grab your tickets, they're online. There's also a trade show. And it's going to be a whole lot of people you know going to be in attendance there as well. Yes.

And Keek Dick show at the Orphium Theater tonight in Nesdaven. So for those of you who are big fans of Keek Dick, be sure and go check it out. My understanding, I don't know if that's the show he's talking about, but I think he's taping that one. Is he? Yeah, I think so. I think. Yeah. Well, shout out to Kik Dick.

Yeah. Look forward to having them back on the show when that happens. Tews, mashup 142 in the books. In the books. Thanks for everybody tuning in. Thanks for everybody tuning in. Thanks for everybody coming on. I've never seen Shane's face that red before.

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