Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 145

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines along with special guests Brian Lilley from the Toronto Sun and lawyer Leighton Grey. Cornerstone Forum ‘25https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/Text Shaun 587-217-8500Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcastE-transfer here: [e-mail] Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.caEmail: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]

Welcome to the MASH. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand if all to fly. I've all of my impulsive plans. Popping, locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map to stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the MASH.

So you know how trains whenever you want to go past the railroad tracks? There's always a train there. And then it'll stop when it's almost over and then go back and then go forward. and then go back again and then finally roll just barely out of the way and then you can get past just in time for the next train gridlock crazy idea hear me out you know those big arms that come down what if just what if we turned them 90 degrees during like rush hour and peak traffic times and and the arms came down and stopped the trains instead of the people mash of 145 Tell me I'm wrong. You're saying the arms should stop trains, not the people. Is that what you just said? Yeah.

So you want to stop key infrastructure from moving around so people can move? As opposed to our key infrastructure? Yeah, I don't know if I agree with that one. Interesting take this morning. Mashup 145. Holy crap, are we coming in hot today? You don't have to agree with me. You're entitled to be wrong.

I'm fine with that. Mashup 145. If, well, hello, everyone. Thanks for being here with us today. And I tell you what, I am discombobulated. Two's had so many flipping things in the sheet. Today I'm like, I was cursing his name as I'm getting ready for the show. And then one of our guests, one of our guests who are hopefully going to get to, hopefully he shows up.

He's, he's canceled. He's come back. He's canceled. He's come back. I'm like, I can't keep it straight today. I'm trying to like. He's basically the chuckle. Brett Far of the Mash.

up at this point. Holy magna. Like I tell you, we are in one this morning. Mashup 1.45. How's everybody doing? How's Tews doing this week? Tews is, two's kind of rushed this morning, believe it or not, which probably compounded your irritation, which I'm fine with. How's Sean? I feel like he's just doing it, just doing it folks to see, you know, like how much of a rise you can get out of shot. Okay. If you're watching, you're tuning in right now, the first thing we're going to talk about, well, okay, he's got airborne Friday. Well, happy airborne Friday, too, the military boys. James Sinclair out there.

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out past the noise. We all know we're stuck in some echo chambers. Congratulations to Solix, Knox, and Glenn Giber. They are the winners of the hat. The hat. You guys want hats, which is funny because at least one of you doesn't live in Alberta.

So I find that to be incredibly amusing. But Sollick-knocks, we're not exactly sure who you are. So can you reach out to us so that we can send you the hat? Yes. We're like, who are these people? But, well, we know who are we kidding? Appreciate you all being here. And happy birthday to my buddy, Disco.

Who the heck is Disco? She's my buddy. I thought I just said that. All right. All right. Mashup 145 coming in hot. We got our first guest in the background. Oh, Coot's 6 and a half.

Do you have a story on this? I got a few. Oh, goodness. Police charge person after finding a chop shop and chats worth, $2.3 million worth of stolen large commercial vehicles out on bail. CBSA seized 50 million of meth concealed in suitcases. inside tractor trailer. Passport surrendered to RCMP,

curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and has to wear an ankle bracelet. And then a BC man who sexually abused a 12 and 14 year old girl and filmed his abuse of the younger victim has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. And after time served, we'll have just another year behind bars.

And the Coots guys are in jail for six and a half years. Look at that haircut. Is that a haircut? What is that? What am I, anyway? Lack of a cut. Lack of a cut. That's right.

All right. Well, we, yeah, okay. Let's get to our first guest. We got political columnist for the Toronto son, Brian Lilly, hopping in with us today. Brian, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me on. I landed 12 hours ago back from my trip to Washington, D.C. So you're getting ball cap and unshaven B.L.

I'm loving every minute of it, Brian. been a plan for a long. And my voice is a little rough because I landed in D.C. and caught a cold. Oh, there's the old book. Yeah. Well, let's get into it. Tell us about D.C. Let's hear all the latest that your trip brought up.

So I was basically following Ontario Premier Doug Ford. We're in the middle of a provincial election right now. And to be honest, when we landed Tuesday morning, headed into an event with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. I was going into it thinking, oh, wow, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, this is the world's biggest business lobby group. This is great. And then I was like, ooh, see a lot of people I recognize. I see a lot of Canadians. Turns out it's about two-thirds Canadians, one-third Americans, and the Americans that were there were already on side with us. And I thought, ooh, is this going to be a wasted trip? But then you see the rest of Ford's itinerary. And then I

start talking to the other teams, you know, for premiers like Daniel Smith in Alberta, Scott Moe in Saskatchewan, Premier Legault in Quebec. They all had their own meetings, where they met with members of the House of Representatives or members of Congress who were key to their district. So, for example, Daniel Smith met with a bunch of people in the energy sector. In fact, she met with Interior Secretary Doug Bergam, my understanding. You had Doug Ford meeting with a member of the House of Representatives, who's chair of the Republican caucus in the House, who also represents an area just outside Detroit that has a lot of auto parts makers and auto parts workers. So for him, that's really important. I talked to

Scott Moe. Premier Moe told me that he met with people focused on the end. energy industry from places like Pennsylvania, but he also met with Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. I mean, is there a bigger name in the Senate for Republicans than Chuck Grassley? I mean, the guy's been around since Jesus was in short pants. And he looks as old as that. That's a lot of people in, in U.S. Congress, though, to be fair. Yeah. I love the ad that the Trump guys put out in the middle of the campaign about Biden care, before Biden had resigned.

and they're like showing a family trying to tell their loved one, like it's time for you to go into assisted living. We're sending you to the U.S. Senate. That was hilarious because of how bad it is. But, you know, each Premier had people that they met with that were key to their respective industries because each province is different. And so I started out thinking,

okay, this is going to be good, got there, thought, this isn't so good. And then watch the meetings happen and said, no, this is all right. And then, of course, you know, we can talk about the whole issue of how hunting played a role in them getting a meeting at the White House. Some people are stupidly dismissing as a nothing burger.

And I can explain why it's not. Well, it seems to me that the fact that we've disconnected ourselves from that entire ecosystem for so long that we've got to pay almost $100,000. just to get the meetings lined up, kind of lends itself credence to the fact that we haven't been a serious country for a long time. Am I off base on that?

Yeah. No, that's 100% correct. Look, there's a story out in CBC French in Radio Canada today, talking about how diplomats at the embassy are upset that the premiers went into that meeting at the White House, that they should have been briefed properly first, that they should have talked to them.

no you know who should have set that meeting up at the white house the embassy we pay an ambassador to do this and look i i hear great things about ambassador helman but the fact is she couldn't set that meeting up for them uh Stephen Taylor um who you may know he's a conservative uh consultant do you guys uh yeah so i've been friends with Stephen for a long time we've been down a C pack together which by the way is happening next week and the Premier should be at that. Some of them are going back down for the National Governor's Conference. They should stick around and go to CPAC. That's the Conservative Political Action Conference. Stephen pointed out, he said, any of us that have been to CPAC in the last while have more connections to the Trump movement and where Republicans are thinking now than the current Trudeau government. I haven't been to CPAC since 2014,

but I made connections there. It was there for a few times, but the last time was 2014. That's how I ended up sitting down with Steve Bannon for 20 minutes while I was down in Washington because of that connection. You need to be able to do this. And you've got all these Canadians, especially in the establishment media, which, look, the Toronto Sun is never the establishment media.

We're a fart in the elevator. No, no, they don't want us around. And we cover your guys stuff every week though. So every week. Every week there's a few articles from the Toronto Sun that we cover. And a couple from the Toronto Star that we make fun of. Well, thank you for that. But look, these guys, they think that talking to Republicans is treasonous.

Well, they're in power right now. And they have an awful lot of sway over how. the Americans treat our economy. So do you want our economy to do well or do you want it to tank? I've read people who are much more establishment than me saying, oh, we should just go to war with the Americans and stop exporting everything. Okay, that tells me you're in the laptop class that you and no one you know works in a factory, works in the patch, works in ag,

has any clue about what we actually do as a country and what we export. And when you go down to Washington, you talk to people, one of the number one issues is ag. It's all agriculture. It's agriculture. It's energy. It's, are you taking the border seriously? They, you know, they worry about our agricultural imports. Well, for them, they're imports.

And they worry about their agricultural exports to us. Oh, you know, for a lot of people in the Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, triangle, they have no connection to agriculture. They have no connection to natural resource extraction. They have no clue about any of this. They kind of understand the auto sector, which is massive. I mean, not compared to oil, but it's massive. And so they make these bizarre statements and assertions. And then you actually go and talk to people who are involved in the discussions that matter. And they're like, yeah, well, we're worried about cheese. We're worried about poultry, we're worried about various things.

And you're like, none of this is talked about in Canada. So why do you think the, you mentioned in there that, you know, some people of making the meeting at the White House to be a nothing burger. Why do you think it's not? Because I know what a deputy chief of staff is. So look, the business guy's got a better meeting. I'll admit that. So Goldie Hider from the Business Council of Canada took down a bunch of CEOs from across

the country. Some were involved in the nuclear energy sector. Some were involved in potash. Some were involved in manufacturing. Just let me pause there for a second. They took down a CEO from potash. Most Canadians couldn't tell you what potash is. Stug out of the ground in Saskatchewan. And it is the key ingredient for fertilizer. This is a major export to the United States. So they got the better meeting. They got Kevin Haslett, who is one of Trump's top trade advisors. And a guy who knows Canada well, he fishes in Canada every summer. He's been coming to Canada for years.

He did an interview on CNBC a little while ago where he talked about how bad the fentanyl crisis is in Canada because they take fentanyl very seriously, and this was the message that every person from the Canadian delegation got. Don't downplay fentanyl, it's big. But, you know, Kevin Hasslett was on CNBC saying, yeah, I walked on my hotel in Edmonton, and I'm just seeing people walking around like zombies.

So, yeah, they got the meeting with these guys, but a deputy chief of staff in charge of legislation and policy is not nothing. Right behind Susie Wiles, that's who that person is. So it goes Donald Trump, Susie Wiles, James Blair, that's who they met with, and Sergio Gore. So Sergio Gore, you might just look at his name or his title and say, He's in charge of White House personnel. Who cares?

He's the HR guy at the White House. No, this guy is pure MAGA. He is tight with Trump. He is tight with Don Jr. These are people that matter. And if you don't understand Trump world, then you don't understand that. And too many of my colleagues don't even try to understand Trump world.

And when I try and explain Trump world to Canadians in my columns and videos, I get crapped all over. and saying you're a trader to Canada. Well, no, like you've got to understand what your trading partner wants if you want to get a good deal. And at the end of the day, what do we all want? We want a good deal.

Most Canadians don't want to become the 51st state. So, okay, well, what are the other alternatives? Find a good deal. And I'm willing to look at what they want, what are the trade irritants, why are they doing this, and then say, okay, how do we react? How do we come back at them with, all right, you're annoyed at us with this.

How about we rearrange it this way? Like, it's going to vary depending on the issue, whether it's dairy or it's auto parts or what have you. But, you know, we need to understand them in order to be able to respond properly. Yeah, I think out here in the West that we're not. afraid of the Trump crowd. We're certainly not opposed to a lot of their views. I'm curious, you know, like with the way the polls have been going, you know, you see the leadership race of the liberals here in full swing. Carning seems to be the, I guess I'm just curious, you being on the other side of the country, Brian, what your thoughts on the liberal leadership race is. And

Carney in particular, because it seems to me the outsider is looking to be the next prime Minister of Canada. Well, he's not an outsider. I know. He's not an outsider. It never has been. And yeah, I'm from Eastern Canada. Well, central Canada, really.

I'm in Toronto. I'm sitting on, you know, about two kilometers from Lake Ontario. This is the middle of the country, really. Well, I guess Winnipeg technically is. But, you know, central Canadian. But I got a lot of ties to Western Canada. You know, it was on Sun. for years and part of our, you know, why we existed was to bring back the old Reform Party slogan,

the West Wants in. And we had a whole Western Bureau and Western News director. And I've got so many ties with family to Western Canada. And so I actually get you guys. I think, anyway, I hope I do. But the Carney thing, if I can talk about polls for just, a minute we've got very divergent poles you've got leisure and I want to be clear because every time I talk about a poll you see the reaction from people and if they like the result of the poll then the pole's great and if they don't like the result of the poll then the pollster is obviously in the bag for the other guy I'm only going to talk about two poles right now lege and abacus and they're two very well-respected pollsters, both of whom I've worked with.

Neither one of them is in the bag for anyone, okay? But they have very divergent results. Lege has Pierre Pollyev and the Conservatives tied with the liberals if Mark Carney's leading them. Abacus has the Conservatives still with, I think about a 15-point lead if Mark Carney is leading them. The fact is right now, we're in a moment of flux. We don't know what's happening. Trudeau's gone. Trudeau was the boil on the ass of the Liberal Party, and they lanced it.

So he's gone. That's obviously going to change things for a good number of people because they were just fed up with Trudeau. Mark Carney isn't that well known. I mean, to people obsessed with politics like we are, he's well known. but for the average Canadian, have you heard of them? Maybe.

So the idea that he's taking them suddenly to tide with the conservatives, I have trouble with. What you need to look for in polls is a trend. Now, I know there's been the ECOS polls and others. Frank Graves could tell me the time of day as the two of us were looking at the same clock,

and I wouldn't believe them. So I'm going to discount ECOS. And there's many reasons for that. And Frank Consumee me if you wants. You know, I've got the receipts because he makes them all public. There's a reason I don't trust him. But Legge and Abacus being so divergent is very strange. So what we have to sit down and wait for is where is the trend going?

Is the trend going in the Legei way or is it staying in the Abacus way? And we don't know. but Mark Carney looks like he's got the liberal leadership wrapped up. I don't think Christian Freeland has a hope in hell of doing this. Karina Hu, and then you've got all the rest of them. So, you know, they're going to go through their exercise that includes 400,000 people that may include a lot of Chinese foreign national students who happen to register, just like in the Don Valley North candidate race several years ago.

Or maybe, maybe it would be a bunch of conservatives who see, sweet Ruby Dala to be the next PM with Ruby Mania. Who knows? It's such a bizarre situation that we're going through. But we don't actually know where the polls are at right now because there's no trend line. And as I said, you've got to discount some of these other polls that I have real questions about. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's it's interesting to see such a huge flux.

And I could see some arguments either way. Like, I feel like Pollyev has probably brought it. in somebody new and calms over the past few weeks. It seems like he's kind of changed his tone a little bit and gone more with what he thinks polls in Ontario are telling him was popular rather than kind of doing what he's done before, which is just let's throw some common sense at this. And so, you know, I can see that resonating less well. But at the same time to see, like you said, just somebody who's totally unknown,

well, not totally unknown, but virtually unknown. trying to pretend like he's a man of the people and just don't worry about the last $2,000 running shoes. Well, you know what? We're going to get to that. I saw an interesting fact check. Somebody fact checked it. And they were like,

those aren't $2,000 running shoes. Here's the actual shoe and it's only $1,000. But did you see it? Oh, only $1,000. But twos, did you see the fact check got fact checked three more time saying that that was in fact a $2,000 shoe? Anyways, I'd know. Brian.

Oh, okay. So what's the old Winston Churchill line? We've established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling. Yes, correct. Brian, we appreciate you hopping on and giving us some time today. Thanks. Sorry, I missed it.

I was really happy to have you regardless. Good chatting with you guys. Thanks, Brian. Now, we're going to hop right to our next cast. This is the way the morning's going. Mashup 145, you know? Like first, well, we're going to be. bring them in. Laten Gray. Hey, host of the Gray Matter podcast, of course, lawyer as well.

Layton, thanks for joining us. Good morning. It's great to be on the mashup. It's my first time on this program. I got to laugh because I was, I was harper on you at the start of the show. I'm like, between latency and he's coming, he's not coming. Two's giving me this laundry list of things to do, then disappearing while we have Brian Lillian. I'm like, what is going on today? Mashup 145 is we are off the rails on both sides of the coaster here. Um, with you, we're talking, uh, we're talking, uh, the new borders are. Um, what can you, well, I don't know. What, tell us about this.

Well, I recently wrote a piece on Dr. Thomas Sol who you might know is a very famous, maybe the best known, apart from Jordan Peterson, the best known public intellectual. He's this 95 year old, uh, black man from Harvard who's off the charts, he's written more books after the age of 80 than most people have read in their lifetimes. Anyway, he had a clip of him on free trade coming up later today. Great. Well, that's a great tie-in. Yeah, so he has a couple of quotes that apply to our new borders are.

Firstly, he says that every disaster throughout history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it. The second one is it is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. So talking about our new borders are, He's a man from Bonneville. He's from a wealthy generational French-Canadian family that has deep ties to the liberal party. His relatives who have been on the Alberta Court of Appeal, one of his relatives, actually,

I practiced law with early in my career. He's a judge now. So he basically, he was a, he went to law school at University of Alberta, which is my alma mater. But, you know, he's like a lot of the people that end up being appointed by just show to high office. washes out of the legal profession and was never really a lawyer goes into public service and has been basically, you know, rising through the ranks of the RCMP, bureaucratically. He took some time off to take a publicly funded scholarship to go to Harvard and then went right back into public service where he's been.

So if you look at his ex page, it's basically as woke as can be. He's got his emblem of, you know, every child matters calling Ottawa home. He's been on the platform this 2017 and he has 334 followers. So basically what you're getting with Brasso is the same thing you're getting with every Trudeau high appointment. Even the most revolting ones. I don't know if you heard about this recently, guys, but our former transport minister, Mr. I call him Aberadabra, he's now going to be our ambassador to Syria, if you can believe it. after he screwed up, the minister of transport and, you know, prevented every Canadian from, you know, getting on a ship, a plane or a train in this country.

Anyway, what you have with Brasso is more of what the liberals do, which is appoint somebody who is a mediocre person with deep ties to the Liberal Party, who's beholden only to Justin should or unanswerable to the Liberal Party. And what this really represents is the fact that the liberals are not at all committed to do. doing anything about the border. In fact, having open borders is a huge part of who they are because they are a globalist party. They are a representation of globalism in Canada, which is what we're living through right now, all the destruction that we're living through and chaos is caused by open borders.

They're very committed to that. Of course, this government has deep ties to China and when you trace the fentanyl trade, it always goes back to China. So I'll just leave it there. Mr. Brasso, again, very, very typical appointment. He's not going to do a blessed thing about the border and it's not meant to. And you know that the liberals are not committed to doing anything about the border because of all their other messaging. We've got Mark Carney who says he's going to declare an economic emergency.

And we know how the liberals manage emergencies. And we have people like Mr. Forge threatening to shut the lights off in Florida. and, you know, Trudeau talking about, you know, about retaliatory tariffs, which are only going to land on American and especially Canadian consumers. So the language of trade world flies in the face of doing something about the border. And then the deeper problem, and here I disagree with Mr. Lilly, although I found his commentary very interesting. I don't agree with Mr. Lilly.

I don't think that Donald Trump is using tariffs as a means to get a better deal for America. I think that he's very, very serious about annexing Canada. And the reason why is because Canada is no longer a free and democratic country. And I can prove it because there's things I could say on this platform right now, Sean, that we get this thing bad. And you know what those things are. I'm not going to say them.

That's proof that we don't live in a free country anymore. Canada is real choice. Hey, Leighton, I double, I double dare you. Yeah, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Okay.

Vaccines are not safe. What exactly? Vaccines are not safe for the fact. Oh, he's just been. So there we go. See you later, YouTube. It was nice knowing you for another week. But really, I'll just finish off with this and then throw it back to you guys.

Canada's real choice. I mean, there's many people who are just living in the Matrix. But the Canada's real choice is do we want to continue to be a CCP client state? Or do we want to be a man. by America. Donald Trump understands what Canada is. That's why he's talking about 51st state. He knows what Canada really is. And he talked about it going back to February of 2022 during the Freedom Convoy. He said he was going to emancipate Canada from authoritarian government. And that's what he's about. I don't think he's using, I think he's dead serious about making Canada

part of the United States. He said so recently in a Super Bowl interview with Brett Barry, you guys probably saw that. There's nothing about. what he's doing that convinces me that this is just some sort of trade war negotiation. And I think that he's speaking past Canadian politicians. He's making them irrelevant. Everything he's saying to Canadian politicians, he's really saying to China. He's speaking, he's using Trudeau as a microphone for his message to the CCP. And I think it's working.

I think the reason why you know it's working is how a nervous China is about it. because China, I think, is controlling all of Canada's responses, including the recent appointment of our quote-unquote borders are. When you say you can see how nervous China is, what do you mean by that? Well, ask yourself this question. Who would benefit most from a trade war between the United States and Canada? The answer is pretty obvious. Who would benefit the least from Canada actually doing something to fix our border?

Again, the question answers itself. China stands to gain. But, you know, we as Canadians, we can't keep blaming politicians. Canadians and Americans are culpable here because we fell in love with and we got addicted by cheap Chinese stuff. And a big problem, like you guys know this, people are talking, well, let's boycott America and let's just buy Canadian. Well, you can't buy Canadian because we don't make stuff anymore.

We don't make stuff anymore because everybody got hooked. listen, I've bought on Timu. Okay, hand to heart. I'm guilty. Okay. People buy on Amazon. You know, people won't want to look at labels and say, don't buy USA. Well, why don't you just look at don't buy from China?

I mean, they are the evil empire that's threatening us, not the United States. And I think a lot of the propaganda, the anti-U.S. propaganda is being driven again by the CCP. I think it's a lot of insecurity, too, personally. I mean, you look at, you look at all these people. people that, you know, three years ago to this day, the Canadian flag was a symbol of white supremacy. And now they're all touting it. And they're saying, oh, look at us. Oh, we're proud to be Canadian. And they suck at it because when you talk to them, they're just, this is all newfound stuff, these newly minted patriots that are hoisting up their patriotism that's so new, it's still covered in afterbirth.

and they're trying to tell us how how we're supposed to think and how we're supposed to believe. And, you know, when you talk to, when you talk to our people, you say, well, who are you? You know, they'll say that, you know, they'll tell you about their family or their community or, or their region or maybe what they do to put food on their family's table. But, you know, you ask these guys, they say, I'm not fucking American.

and if you did that with any other country, it would be race this as hell. Like if you just said, tell me about yourself, Sean, and you said, well, I'm not Mexican. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang up a second here, right? But they're just, they're trying this on for the first time. And because of that, they suck at it.

And the thing about it is, is that it's not the patriotism that they're completely unfamiliar with. It's the being proud of something. These are people who, you know, their, their communities, their families, their region, their economies, their jobs, their accomplishments. None of them are anything that they could ever be proud of. And so they're just trying this out for the first time. And at the same time, they're just following the laser pointer around like a cat coughing

up fur balls. They suck at this. Yeah. Like it's got to be so exhausting to always be chasing. the new thing and especially when it's something so unfamiliar to that entire type of person. And you know, the people you're talking about, most of them populate the political class. The political class has the most to lose from Canada becoming in some way part of the United States or closer to the United States. Most Canadians, I think that when you sort of weigh the pros

and cons stand to benefit. And so this whole concept of, Americanism shows that I think two things. Number one, Donald Trump and his administration understand keenly that if we're not already in a Cold War with China, we're entering one. And he means to win it. And secondly, that, you know, we are on the wrong side of that cold war right now. If we are in opposition to United States and MAGA, Maga being, in my opinion, a Made in America response to globalism that is a.

against everything that, let's say, Mr. Trudeau stands for. By the way, I don't agree with Brian Lilly that Justin Trudeau was gone. He's still exercising all the powers for Prime Minister. He's still sitting there. He is a grizzly bear shot in the ass wandering through the woods. He has more dangerous now than he ever was. And he said so. He said he's going to be ruthless.

Did you guys catch that? Rufless. Yes, I did. Yes, I said, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think that this whole idea of anti-Americanism to finish off. your thought is actually that is a, that's an expression of Chinese propaganda,

CCP propaganda because they're against everything American. So Canadians who line up against America are really aligning themselves with the CCP. That's the dichotomy that we're, that's the way the world is carved up right now. When I was a kid, it was us in the USSR, which made watching international hockey really exciting. But, you know, today it's China. I wish they had a hockey team so that, you know, Crossby and McKinnon and those guys can go kick their asses.

That would be great. I'm glad you brought up hockey. May I switch the conversation and go a complete 180 and go to the opposite direction? Is that right? But I guess it's my show. What the hell? Sure.

You want to talk about it. You literally keep hopping in and out of this conversation. Yeah, I switch. I'm tethering on my phone now. I don't know what's going on with the internet at the house, but I'm tethering off my phone right now. Actually, the first thing I wanted to ask, Leighton about, you know, and your connections to the AGHL was I didn't realize this.

So we just had Teague McAllister. And I want to make sure I get this correct because he, you know, midseason. And I've never, I've never seen this before. Or, you know, certainly in my career, you couldn't just leave a team and get no compensation. You've mentioned this to me. And it just happened to the Lloyd Mr. Bobcats. So the Bulldogs are excited to announce the edition of 2005 born Ford Teague McAllister, who's originally from Kid Scudic.

So he was just outside of town. He was a captain for Team Canada West, the World Junior A Challenge. He went to BC. Like, just like, you know, and I'm like, and there was no compensation given. Can you explain this to me from an AGH team owner? Yeah. So the BCHL left hockey Canada a couple of years ago. And they are basically a Rogue League.

And so they can do whatever they want. So a lot of, we lost a lot of our time. top players to the BCHL. But they've found that the grass isn't necessarily greener because the BCHL imports a lot of kids from America and from Europe. And so, you know, things don't always go well when the kids go to the BCHL. And so many of them have come back. So there really is, it's basically it's a wild west and dealing with the BCHL.

There are really no restrictions on adding to the TROS. So at any point, sorry to interrupt. So at any point they can walk on in your team and say, hey, we won't like your top score. You should come play for us. And there's no competition. Yeah. Talk to the coaches, the manager, nothing.

Yep. And then the kid doesn't have to get a release or nothing? Nope. No. And this is, it works the other way. I mean, we lost a lot of our top kids to the BCHL because they offer money and all kinds

of things. And there's a perception out there that BCHL is a better league, although that hasn't been proven on the ice. So I'm not convinced. But, you know, the whole structure of, of junior hockey is really going to be changed radically by the NCAA decision because there aren't going to be as many U.S. scholarships coming out of leagues like the HHL anymore

because, of course, the NCAA is going to be able to take kids from the Western Hockey League and the Ontario League and Quebec Major Junior. So that's going to rewrite the whole story. I think there is still, we will be called scholarships. When does that happen, Lane? When will dub kids be able to go to? the NCB. Yeah, it'll happen next year. Well, actually, it may be even sooner. Many of the kids who have gotten Div 1 NCAA scholarships are probably going to be demoted to

Div 2 or Div 3 or something like that because there's going to be a smorgasbore. I think at the end of the year. I can tell the twos is just squirming. Everybody who's probably watched right there, I'm like, I've been waiting for a long time to squeeze in just a little smidge of hockey. And Connor McDavid, suiting up in a Canada team can't oh man a lot who doesn't have much to be happy about being a flames fan but regardless um what do you boys think I know I know folks nobody wants to hear about team Canada it was pretty cool and they get a power playoff to hop McDavid to Crosby to McKinnon just quickly thoughts on that I just I just saw a couple real

quick clips of it and for some reason the camera was focused on that boilers dude but I did watch a bunch of the Finland game last night with the States and it was it was embarrassing your old countryman Sean they got a clinic put on them by your other old countrymen No sure Layton your thoughts

on Well first of all I think it's just a pity that we don't have Russia in there It just doesn't feel right not having Russia and international competition just because the rivalries that are there between the Canada and U.S. and Russia, Finland. I mean, that's just a pity. First of all, it is wonderful to see all these players on the ice together.

I saw Nathan McKinnon and Kail McCar come into Edmonton right before the All-Star break, and I watched Nathan McKinnon drop four points on the Oilers, and I thought he was just dominant. And the Kail McCar, probably the most exciting offensive defenseman since Paul Coffey. But if Nathan McKinnon is not the most dominant, dominant player in the NHL right now, you'd have to really convince me. I love, I love Connor. I think he's terrific.

Obviously, he got the one assist, but he was probably the most noticeable player in that game. And I think it's just going to be a matter of time until he explodes offensively. I think we're going to see his best hockey probably against the Americans because, of course, he loves that Jack Eichol matchup. But, yeah, it is very excited to see all these players playing together. And it's interesting to see some of the players who are less. or known take on sort of roles that maybe are not the same as they would be on their regular teams. I'm old enough to remember when Mary Olimbue had to play right wing because he was playing with Wayne Gretzky and he was able to do that extremely well. He got 12 goals and seven games.

What did you just put, I was saying to the brothers this morning. I'm like, I'm like, why don't they just put Crosby, McKinnon and McDavid on the line and just see what? No, no. You played hockey. You know there's not enough pucks. I don't know. I just like to try it out. I just like to try it. There's only one fuck. And, and, you know, you have to decide. Well, and when you, you know this,

because you play with really good offensive players. They just want the puck all the time. They want to. Yes. And you have to, I mean, like the guys that I played with, who are really good scores, they just tell me, look, even when I'm covered, just be,

and they're like vacuum cleaners, right? They could just get any, we get the puck anywhere near them. They're like Hoover. is they just suck it up. But the problem is there's only one puck out there. And so you've got to make sure, like when Mario and Gretzky played together, they figured it out.

They said, okay, Mario, you're the shooter. I'm the passer. Right. And, of course, they were so incredibly talented, they can do that. And I'm sure these guys could too. These guys could do that too. Yeah. They absolutely could.

You look at Flurry was playing on the wings for Team Canada in 2012, right? Yeah. He was terrific. He's terrific international competition. He should be in the Hall of Fame for his international hockey. Flurry was in 2012. 2010 was in Vancouver. 2002 in Salt Laketon.

But he's won gold medal in the world championships at the World Hockey Championships at the Olympics and in the Canada Cup. How many players can you say that about who are not in the Hockey Hall of Fame? The answer is there's only one. It's only fuel. And a Stanley Cup champion and a 50 goal score. I have been waiting 145 mashups to have just a little bit of talk about hockey. Oh my goodness. Your whole show used to be hockey.

That's not what the show is. That's not what the show is. You want to talk riders? Let's talk riders. I might just end the show prematurely. And we don't have to get into all the stupidity of all the headlines and all the garbage. John, you say that exact line far too often. I do, I do.

I'm just going to end this is stupid. We're going to talk about Carney and the moron. Oh, my God. Anyways, we can bring it back to wherever you want to. It's late and if you've got to hop off. You've just made my week. We talked a little age H.L. We talked a little bit about the Four Nations Cup.

And I'm like, you know, folks, this is a throwback to like, Circa episode 150 on the podcast, and I'm coming up on 800. So you can get a few of them. And I was all excited to talk about. Bonneville and then the internet kicked me out. I spent a lot of years in Bonneville, so I know the kind of people that are around there. I guess when you first put that out on Twitter,

I sent a screenshot of it to twos because I'm like, this is insane. How is it the Borders are going to come from Bonneville? Well, I mean, if anybody knows about drugs, it's going to be somebody from Bonneville. Ouch, ouch. Ouch. He's a subject matter expert.

Yeah. Well, I mean, he is a very, he's a very well-educated guy, but unfortunately, Thomas Sol described him perfectly. He's just, he's not going to, he's not there to actually do something. I mean, if Trudeau were serious about getting a border star, he would have picked, he would have chosen somebody independent, you know, um, you know, this is the equivalent of, you know, if Donald Trump chose Christopher Ray, of former disgrace that. FBI director as their borders are.

You know, he's just, this guy's just going to perpetuate the problem. Look like he's doing something. But in the end, we're going to get the same old, same old, same old. You know, this is what the liberals do. I appreciate Kevin's comment. We came for the stupid stuff. Yes, I realize you all came for the stupid stuff. I guess before we let you out of here, Leighton, just with,

twos maybe has a couple thoughts. But I was just curious, when you're watching, everything going on with the United States, Canada and the Liberal Party, it looks like, you know, like maybe somebody else gets elected than Carney. I'm like, I laugh at that. Carney's getting elected. We all know it's a foregone conclusion. My question to you is, so Carney gets elected.

Is there any chance or no, I guess like, where do you think the election is going to be? Are we going to get the April election like everybody kind of April May? Or do you see this stretching out until October because he's going to go out. have a conversation with with sing and find a way to just nope we're not gonna we're not going to rush this or you know or the extreme one where you're like he calls in an emergency and all of a sudden we have a September 2026 do you see the latter yeah he's told us he tells what he's going to do he's he's going to become the prime minister he's going to declare an economic emergency and we're going to have another election like we had in 21 where we're essentially

there's going to be very severe restrictions on our liberty, particularly in terms of buying things from the United States, traveling to and from the United States. And an emergency environment, that's the best environment in which the liberals will cheat, and they will cheat. We know they've cheated. They didn't win the last two national elections

without the help of China and other types of cheating. And they will cheat again to win. And so I think we will get an early election, but it'll be under, it'll be using the formula as closely as possible that they used in 2021. And really, Carney doesn't have to win. He only has to get a minority government because we all know what Mr. Singh's going to do. Fair enough. Layton, two, oh, two's far away if you got. Oh, I was just going to say he's going to, it's this, you see this bump, right?

You know, even 2015, nobody even knew who Rachel Notley was until the debate. And then they're like, oh, that would be interesting. And she had this brief momentary surge in popularity. And if that election had been a month or two later, she wouldn't have won at all. And so you get this, oh, there's a new leader in the forefront. This person's interesting. And they see a popularity bump. And that's their only hope of retaining any sort of power.

And so basically, I would guess that as soon as, because the other thing is, is that they don't want to be the guys who get very, voted down in in parliament because it's all about the egos. So they're going to they're going to pull a Christopher. And when parliament finally gets back to actually sitting, the first thing they're going to do is say, you can't fire us, we quit. Yeah. Let's have an election.

I think if, if Mr. Paul Beer wants to win, he's got to accept Donald Trump's help because liberals, again, are going to get a lot of help from. outside the country. The Democrats have helped the liberals a lot. At Tunberg. Yeah. So I think that's Paul of your best chance to win. I think he's figured that out with some of his recent statements.

Although what he just said the other day about Russia, you know, is really not helping him. Where he says Russia should not be part of the G7. I mean, this support for the Ukraine war by Canada, again, is another example of the globalism that I'm talking about. and it's going against the grain. Maga is an irresistible force. Globalism is a movable object.

Canada has to get on the right side of Maga if we're going to win in this game. And I think the more our politicians realize that, I think the more successful they're going to be. That's my two cents. But I want to thank you guys for having me on. Have a great weekend. Thanks.

It's a good time we finally had you. appreciate you hopping on Layton and making us make it some time yep have a great time take care bye there you go

late and gray all right all right so we got we got a whole bunch of things going on we'll see if twos can actually hang out now for an extended period of time

because you've been bouncing in and out of this sucker for oh more more times than Layton did before the in the lead up you're not wrong you're not wrong all right let's fire this thing up

shall we everybody wants the stupidity let's give them the stupidity twos. All right. Well, let's talk about Doge for a little bit. Doge is the best thing, as far as I'm concerned, it's been happening anywhere in the world in a while. And the Canadian taxpayer federation doesn't get enough credit for being our Doge before Doge was Doge. They're pre-Doge. They're going to be post-Doge and they're doge while it's doging. So for example, Franco Tarzano, who we just had on the show, Global Affairs Canada doles out 350 million. in corporate welfare to the private sector in Asia to develop low carbon and climate resilient initiatives and advanced gender equality in the region. Results achieved, not applicable. And then they doled out $223 million, which is $1 million too much, to the private sector in

South America for climate change mitigation and gender responsive, sustainable economic development. This is exactly the kind of bullshit do-nothing buzzwords that Doge is just has. hacking and slashing everywhere all over the place. And I'm here for every minute of it. This guy, this was funny. All anything you want waste and just get rid of it.

You can't do that. Like in the Department of Defense, we do like lots and lots of online training every year. That's totally not a waste of time and teaches us great skills that we use every day. And you should not use Doge to eliminate that. you don't don't please don't do that well and then and then like musk had like a ton of great clips this week you know just from one interview there was a ton of great clips yeah we're going to get those in a sec we're going to get those in a stack here first so um routers uh received far more money than this from

us government organizations leak looks like radical left ruders was paid nine million dollars by Department of Defense to study large-scale social deception. Routers. Now, if that name's familiar, it's because it's the company that owns the Globe and Mail. So they're getting paid millions of dollars by the U.S. to have bullshit fluffy things and to further the bullshit fluffy agenda. Amco. Here's Globe and Mail.

I guess I'm a hypocrite. Amco closes offices in New York and Singapore. the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, who Stephen Harper is making great again. We talked about how they just laid off 19 people. They closed two offices. What the hell does the Alberta investment company need offices in New York and Singapore for? I'm not exactly sure. But here, check this out.

The most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. We're like, whoa, why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork, is manual on paper. It's manually calculated, then written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down a mine. And like,

what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine where we saw all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture of this mine. We'll post some pictures afterwards. And this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955.

Now, it goes on just detailing the silliness. So when he talks on retiring people, they take their retirement dog, down into a mine tuesday. And that's part of the process. Like every time you think our government is fucked, something like this happens,

you're like, well, I don't know, maybe we don't have it so bad. But then our government does something else. You're like, okay, now they're tied. Now they're tied again. Yeah, but they just, this one upsmanship of idiot bureaucracy. Like you said, basically,

if the elevator shaft goes down for maintenance, they can't fire anybody in the government. They can't process retirements is the way I understood. Which is a nice way of his time. And the amount they can do it is the speed of the elevator. So the speed of the elevator says 10,000 people a month can retire. Why not just dig a little shoot beside it and just drop the paperwork down? You can have somebody who just stays on the bottom of the elevator.

You can imagine Elon Musk. He's taking rockets into space. And he's like, why don't we just, why are we doing this? I'm sorry, it's got to go to a limestone mine. Mine? Like there's a cobalt mine that's a little bit closer. Can we move everything there instead? Like literally anything you do in this situation is better than what they currently have.

Then he had the 150-year-olds collecting Social Security. The question of Social Security. And we've got people in there that 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone is 150? I don't know. So, yeah. They're trying. trying to clean up waste in the U.S. government, and they're finding 150-year-old people who are collecting old age pensions.

Correct. And then this one's good. Correct the statements. It wasn't sent to Hamas, actually. It was sent to Mozambique, which makes sense why condoms was sent there. And how can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct, so we can trust what you say? Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody's going to bat a thousand.

I mean, any, you know, we're going to, we will make mistakes, but we'll act quickly to correct any mistakes. So, you know, if the, I'm not sure we should be sending 50 million belts with the condoms to anywhere, frankly. I'm not sure that's something Americans would be really excited about. And that is really an enormous number of condoms when you think about it. So, yeah, the, the legacy media is fact checking him because he said they were saying them more long.

I want somebody to show me how much $50 million worth of condoms is. Right? Well, for me, that's like four. I walked right into that one. All right. Okay. This is more Doge. One of the other young Doge guys, not big balls, that's a whole other thing we're not even going to get into this week, has a substack where you can pay a thousand dollars a month or 10K a year and there's nothing on it. He knew that Journows trying to dig up dirt on him would pay to see if there's anything bad there.

And it's super funny that he's made money off people trying to get. dirt on him. That's that's exactly it. Now here's here's the Thomas sole thing that I wanted to get into before. So everybody's losing their minds about this these tariffs and the free trade and trade deficits and what's good and what's bad. Here is from the smartest man living. And the guy interviewing him who's also pretty good, but not the smartest guy living. But should people really worry about the balance of trade? Somewhat less than you worry about being struck by lightning. Okay, here's the statistic I heard just the other day.

Here's how many cars Korea sells in the United States every year. 500,000. Here's how many cars we sell in Korea every year, 5,000. Why shouldn't we be worried about that imbalance? I'm not sure why we should. Obviously, were Americans forced a gunpoint to buy these cars from Korea? And so, yeah, basically, it's just the consumer. buying what they want.

And who really cares one way or the other, what country it comes from. It's the consumers getting what they want at the end of the day. So, yeah, and then here's that tweet that Leighton Gray was talking about, Russia should not be welcomed back into the G7. Ford, well, here's a whole bunch of stuff about the fentanyl czar. Everything's a little bit out of whack with me right now because, because I had everything lined up to all the guests,

and then the internet, the internet kept screwing things up. But I want to point this out. Recording reveals Doug Ford called for return of death penalty and campaign speech. Send them right to Sparky. Where has this guy been for the past seven years? Honestly, and the funny thing is, is the Toronto Star is talking about how shocked and appalled this lawyer who refused to be named who heard it live was. And they're not actually talking to any, like go out and talk to somebody on the street who's looking at, I don't know. Go talk to somebody who's had their house broken into and see what their thoughts are.

Yeah. A man from Edmonton linked to a firearm found in a 22-22 search has been sentenced in the U.S. to 82 months in prison and find $30,000 for illegally purchasing handguns and smuggling them into Canada. All I'm saying is that you would probably get a better feel for the heartbeat of the country right now. If you went and talked to people who weren't some lawyer who happened to be. be at the meeting who refused to be named publicly for fear of recrimination for his career. Go ask somebody on the street and they'd be like, you can start by zaping three of those crackheads over there who were literally smoking crack behind us while you're interviewing me. Since you're so all over the place, do you got the Mark Kearney video? Because Leighton brought it up.

We should literally let people hear Mark Carney talk about promises to be. abuse the emergency powers of the federal government and to build green energy projects and to take on the Americans. That would probably be, I would say, beneficial for people to hear. Okay. Give me just a sec here. I think it's somewhere right around here. No, I don't got it, but here's the shoes. Here's the shoes worth over $2,000. But yeah, so he just said that he was going to institute emergency powers. He was going to invoke the Emergency Act to bring in green energy stuff. Yeah, he was in Kelowna when he when he when he said it as well, right?

Mark Carney promises to abuse the emergency powers of the federal government to build green energy projects and to take on the Americans. Enjoy your tariff lockout lockdowns, everyone. That was Sheila Gunn-Reed who, who said it, who tweeted the video and everything else. Yep. And then there was this two as well from the CTV news. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulate Syria's interim president, despite him leading a group candidate still designates as a terrorist organization.

Yeah. And do you remember what he said when Italy voted in that supposedly far right leader, Georgia Maloney? Do you remember what he said that time? I don't know. What did he say that time? Nothing. Nothing. He didn't say it.

damn thing about it. He doesn't want a strong woman looting a nation, you kidding me? No, no. He'd rather have a fucking terrorist running a country. All right. Here, here. I'm just going to hit a few of these rapid fire. Stephen Gayball's pulls paying on $11 billion kitamat refinery project backed by

Stockwell Day. And then, well, that's, yeah, whatever. I'll skip that. Here's Premier Francois Legault saying, any changes to Quebec's dairy. cartel are not negotiable. All right. And then here a quick little follow-up. Dairy farming in Canada.

We talk about the dairy cartel. Here's a little bit of perspective. Newfoundland has 23 farms. P.E. or Prince Edward Islands, 160, 195 in Nova Scotia, 162 in New Brunswick. A few in the hundreds over here on the whole rest of it. Quebec, fucking Quebec, 4,250 farms of 9,2,200. Half the fucking milk in this country comes from this protectionist, free loader bullshit province.

Okay. And they're saying, no, we're not, we're not willing to reexamine this in view of, of the threats we're experiencing. And then you've got Stephen Quinn, uh, CBC radio morning host. Have we decided that we're taking back the Canadian flag from the convoy types? Is it okay to fly a Canadian flag again without being mistaken for? You know. One of those guys. Those guys.

Here's the thing. This whole Go Canada thing. It lasted. The ink wasn't even dry on the pro-Canada articles before you still had, before you already had Ontario and fucking Quebec saying, we're going to do what we want to do. And it was, was it even a month ago that Danielle Smith was catching all this hell for going down to the states and meeting with the people in the U.S.? for saying that she wants to protect

protect Alberta's interest. And she was demonized in damn near every newspaper across this fucking sad excuse for a country. And now you've got literally premieres, party leaders all over the map saying the exact same thing and they're getting a free pass. Or as they say in fucking Quebec, just a pass because everything's fucking there.

mail delivery suspended in parts of Ontario in Quebec today, well not today, due to winter storm Canada post the Crown Corporation said it issued a red delivery service alert dues. Yeah, so the same people who gave us a puff piece in global about how they need to overcome climate change and how it's affecting the weather and how it's doing such terrible things to them, but they still overcome it. And that's why they deserve a raise is because there's still.

just fierce in terms of of everything that Mother Nature's dying death throws are throwing at them because we're using too many fossil fuels. These same people are like, oh, fuck it. We're going to drop the mail off when it's not so snowy out. BC rebate. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey summoned reporters to her office at the legislature on Thursday for an update on the provincial budget she'll be presenting next month. The biggest news was the fate of the grocery rebate, $1,000 per family,

500 for individuals that was the centerpiece of the NDP's platform in the provincial election. News flash twos, it ain't happening. Yeah. So they won that election by this much. And part of their election platform was that they're going to give everybody a thousand dollars. Which is an interesting, you know, they said it's going to be for groceries. But the crux of it is vote for us and we'll give you a thousand dollars. And then they get in.

they say, psych. So look, I get the fact that lots of people who vote NDP are stupid. But for everybody else, take this as an object lesson. Don't listen to what the politicians tell you. Go by what they do. Alberta Police Help break up alleged Canada-wide sex trafficking ring operating over a decade. Three Montreal men identified during an Emmington police investigation,

I've been charged with running across Canada sex trafficking ring. that investigators say has been active for more than a decade. The group was active in Emmington, Calgary, Emmington, Calgary, Lloyd Minster, Red Deer, Grand Prairie, Fort Mac, Cold Lake, Vancouver, Estevan, Saskatchewan, Police said. So they just get all the old towns in Vancouver. And there's one of them.

So there you go. That's the only picture that was released. That's the only picture was released. All 31 years old. anyways, that's a pretty dark story. Well, that means that they started it when they were 21. Like, imagine where you were at when you were 21. Like, you know what?

I think I'm going to beat dogs and pim pose. Rats are still fleeing the ship, too. Justice Minister Arif Branni says he won't be running in the coming federal election. And then I, okay, I've butchered this lady's name for way too long, okay? I want to pull it up. I think I got it right here. Yeah, I do. Okay.

We're going to, do you know how to pronounce her name? Mary. Mary, how do you pronounce her last name? Carefully. Why don't you try? Ing.

Mary Ing. God damn it. You finally got one right. Congratulations. I finally got one right, folks, because I'm like, how do I pronounce this name?

So I looked, I'm like, her name is Marying. Really? Okay. Well, she's, she's, uh, so you may remember her from, uh, you may remember her from being found guilty of the conflict of interest, interest act for giving Amanda Alvaro tens of thousands of dollars. Heist of the week, more than, uh, a hundred pallets of olive oil worth over one million dollars was stolen in Montreal, according to police.

What do they get like, who, I mean, great thought. But my question to you is, what are you going to, how are you going to move a million dollars worth of oil, olive oil? Have they cut that through? Well, Sean, you're going to move all of it at once. All of it. I tell you what, it's going to be really hard to catch some, like, these are some slippery criminals, Sean. They're literally on a video camera. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. I think it's great. Olive oil, I'm like, wow. Actually, I wouldn't never, okay, fair. That's okay, a million. But then I'm like, but how are you going to offload a million dollars worth of all oil. Like, where are you doing?

How expensive? Like, well, it's a hundred pallets, right? So I don't know. There's a few truckloads there. Sure. It's not going to be super, but it's a million dollars worth. So, you know what? Even if you got to sit on it for a little while, it's not like it's got, it's not like

it's got blockchain in it. You're going to be able to get rid of it at mom and pop convenience stores because you're going to be like, hey, this, this palette of olive oil fell off the back of the truck. you want to buy it for like a few hundred bucks and then they'll sell it for a few thousand and make some money that's that's what's going to happen it's going to be shit like that right sure london drugs says privacy law bar it from sharing security videos of violent crimes the privacy commissioners takes a very dim view of releasing surveillance to the public clint malman told global news in the interview at the chains woodward's location on january 30th i think if the

public was to see what our staff deal was on daily basis they would be horrified in demand even more change faster than what they are now. You don't think? Yeah. So you're not allowed in BC to put up pictures or video footage of shoplifters. Because it invades their privacy rights. Well, first off, you know what? I would just be like, look, I'm going to put up this video.

And if this is you in the video and you're mad about your rights of privacy being infringed upon, could you please come? forward and and make those concerns known. You just be like, look, I will have this video up until somebody reaches out to me and says, that's me in the video. Can you please take it down? This is ridiculous. We are now paying the Governor General $378,000 a year to do, I don't know, what are we paying her again for?

Well, see, here's the thing. This is kind of a funny tweet by J.J. McCullough. He says, I see we're now paying the Governor General $378,000 a year to do literally. nothing. That's close to the truth. I would say that it would be more accurate for us to say that we are now paying the Governor General $378,000 a year to do figuratively nothing. New coal power plant projects and China hit the highest level in nearly 10 years. China's power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, and that is the most in nearly a decade. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean,

It's the same shit we've been saying for years, is that we're a drop in the bucket, right? Like, why would you spend all this time and effort trying to purify the nearly clean water on the top when the bucket is half full of fucking sludge? You would take the sludge out first. Side note on this is Tim Kasperk, Freedom of Information.

He was on the podcast last week. He was trying to find out how much these modular nuclear reactors we're going to cost Saskatchewan. The numbers come back at $5 billion per one. For one? $5 billion. Oh, okay. Just get a farmer in there to take a look at it and you'd be like,

this is stupid, you don't need this. This is all wrong. You're going to have to retrofit it. Like when it comes to these quotes and all these things that government put together and they're like, oh, we're going to build this and we're going to build this. Look at Sundance construction. How she's talked about how they're saying, oh, you need to build this water treatment plant this certain way and it doesn't work and this certain way and it doesn't work.

I could build one that works for a lot fucking less. And I bet you you could take somebody who isn't even a nuclear physicist, just somebody who's good at building things and working with their hands and maybe welding shit together to get that last that last field off before winter. You get those people in there? That thing goes down to a few hundred million. I'm off. Two, two.

sorry, not one, two. They're going to build two of these, and it would cost $5 billion. Oh, well, that's so much better. So much better. So much better. I'm feeling very... Climate change is turning Valentine's Day bitter for chocolate.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. I hope everybody's having a great day. Hey, happy, happy Valentine's Day twos. Happy Valentine's Day, Sean, everybody out there. I hope you find somebody who loves you. I hope you find somebody who loves you as much as Ottawa. has been in love with Canada for the past four and a half days. Climate change is ruined it, though.

The world is falling apart. Carbon tax the crap out of everyone, including anyone who buys anything to do with Valentine's Day. Just let's take away all the fun, climate change, ruining the world and including Valentine's Day. All right. Republican. You had mentioned trying to engage more women in manufacturing. I'm just wondering if just the name manufacturing sounds like a guy.

How is this possible? This is... Did the people kind, Sean? She did the people kind. If you go back to Brian Lilly talking, folks, he's like, you know, we have no... What did he say? I missed it.

He's like, I have more connections to the MAGA group than our current government. I'm like, that's because that's what our government sounds like right there. Manufacturing has man in it. We can't. This is sexist. It's like,

yeah, we don't want to talk to you. We're not going to talk to you. So, like, what do we, we have the liberal, we sent knotly down to talk to these people,

folks. We expect that they're going to want to talk to us. Terry Glavin, who generally I've got some respect for, but God damn it, he just went over a cliff the past week. he's talking about equalization in Alberta and he says then by all means leave

but you can only leave with what you brought to Confederation which was nothing unlike Quebec BC, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, P.I. Alberta was invented by a liberal prime minister in 1905 Ottawa gave you the oil in the 1930s. Now here's a quick little community notes unofficial. Terry Glavin for everyone is a journalist. He's a national post columnist, right?

So just so we place this guy. In 1892, the site of Western Canada's first producing oil well in Waterton Lakes National Park was named Oil City. Although the site was named in 1892, it wasn't until 2001 that extensive extraction took place. All right. So there's 1892, which is before Alberta was part of Canada. Before Saskatch was part of Canada? It's just a terrible take to us. It's just an absolute terrible take.

And just here's the thing. Like when you talk about Alberta having all the oil, Alberta doesn't have all the oil. Alberta has all the people who want to work hard to get the oil out. The first well dug in North America was just outside of Sarnia, Ontario. When people landed in New Brunswick, they would literally poke sticks in the ground. This is all in this article on the history of. of oil in North America, where they would literally put sticks in the ground

and then they could burn the gas coming out of it because the gas was natural gas. They actually had natural gas seeping out of the damn ground. This is how it went back then. It's not that the oil magically stopped the Alberta border. Hell, even when they look at this basin, so they say that, okay, you know, the Western Canadians,

sedimentary basin happens to be where lots of the oil is in Canada. You look at this map. Sure, it's Alberta. It's a lot of Saskatchewan, a lot of Manitoba, and even gets into Ontario. And that's where a bunch of it is. But all around there, there's still more of it too. It's not that it isn't there. It's just that there's people there haven't done a damn thing about it.

Why? Because they get free money from the people who do. There you go. Willis Carnegie. Glaven consistently has awful takes. Fair enough. Moving on, Kirk Lubamoff.

He put out Calgary would be one of the most impacted cities by terrorists. So has Mayor Jody Gondack said anything about it? Mayor Jody Gondack hasn't done anything. Has she? Too? Like, do we expect her to do anything? I do find it funny she put out a video and had zero views.

So, yeah, she's so relevant. Yes, she puts out a video, nobody's watching. Like, not even, like, literally their comms team didn't even should check on the video and make sure that everything went up correctly. That's how little anybody in that area cares. Now, here's one. She deleted it, which is a damn shame because this is just classic, classic liberal.

So Hetty Frye, who's in her 80s and still somehow serving as a politician, I mean, why quit a good gig, right? she was talking about how she wanted Christia Freeland to become Canada's first female prime minister. And so Brian Pass a few pointed out. But somebody else in the comments put it even better with this. Hedy Madeline Fry is a Canadian politician and physician who is currently the longest serving female of parliament, winning 10 consecutive elections in the constituency of Vancouver Center, including the 1993 election, election where she defeated incumbent

Prime Minister Kim Campbell. This is the woman who got into politics by unseating the first female Canadian Prime Minister. And she has forgotten about that so thoroughly that she wants Christy Freeland to be Canada's first female prime minister. What an absolute dumbass.

You remember seeing in the video, well, I'm speaking to the audience, video of the two planes colliding. Here's a crazy thing. Vincent Neal of Motley crew, the lead singer. His plane was the one that hit actors Vince Vaughn's plane.

That's the two vincers. That was in the Scottsdale airport. Their planes crashed into each other. Crosse into each other. Somebody died in that too. Yeah, one of the pilots. Vince's girlfriend. Vince's girlfriend was on the flight.

And then the pilots. Now this one's interesting. So CBC, as you know, was CBC. White nationalist books planted in little free libraries across Ottawa. Area counselor calls incident disturbing. Here's the lady found them and brought it to everybody's attention. And this lady, if you're listening, looks exactly how you'd expect.

Now, the weird thing is you go through this entire article and it goes on for quite some time. Like we're still going through this article. I'm scrolling through it, scrolling through it. The weirdest part about this is that the book is not ever named. Correct. I don't even know what book this is. I can't even decide if they're being honest or factual about this because they could say it's, well,

they could say it's, it's, um, CBC exposed by Brian Lilly. And, and that, uh, then that that's the book, although they did say it was an American author.

But here's the thing is you can't look at it and say, hey, is this is this actually legit? You know, are they are they just making a mountain out of a molehill? And the fact that they don't they're making a mountain out of a molehill. Yeah. Yeah. Which also, by the way, I, I wanted to ask him, but we got sidetracked here. You know, what's the story with this chick?

Did he know her? Like, is that is that, is that his girlfriend or something? This has been 145 in a nutshell. Yeah. I don't know. Whippy, you know, she should have been, not that lady. The lady complaining should have been this lady. I assume this is the lady.

Whipy woman wants to refund after giving psychic over $50,000 to help her fall in love. She was promised that she could find, help her start a romantic relationship with a man from her gym. Well, I'm not saying that the psychic is legitimate because here's the thing is that psychic obviously saw this thing coming from a mile away. Oh, man. Imagine giving $50,000 to a tarot card reader. Yes. Regina's German club has received multiple threats after their venue was booked by the Buffalo Party. Hey, Buffalo Party.

Keep it down over there. It seems you're causing a little bit of mayhem in Regina. Yeah, like this is insane. What is the Buffalo Party? Do they have a single point that you would say, okay, well, you know what? This is, you know, even in the crazy leftist cancel everything mindset where you'd be like, Hey, you know what? We don't, we don't take kindly to their types around here.

Like, what exactly is it about the Buffalo party that has people so upset? I'm going to wait for a comment to come in that actually tells us because I'm like, I, did this John Romick call this in? Yeah. I don't. I don't know. Who cares? Canada Revenue Agency to tax two and a half billion small business carbon tax rebate.

despite decision by the Department of Finance. So just so everybody understands how this works. The carbon tax gets layered upon layered upon layered. And then the businesses, small businesses apply and they get a rebate of the carbon tax that they paid for everything. When you heat your store and you pay more in carbon tax than you do an actual fuel consumption. And it's set to go up by 20%, 40%, 60%, something like that here in a month or six weeks. you get that for some of it anyway as a rebate and so

the government is taxing us giving some of the tax money back but charging income on the tax rebate you can't make it up a guy went to 32 Tim Horton says that didn't sound right

went to 932 the same thing every single time and we're going to see how long Small black coffee and a chocolate chip muffin. Can I get a small black coffee and a chocolate chip muffin please? Can I get a small black coffee? So that's what he does all the way along.

Between the hours. And so when he goes there off peak time? This is like the guy listened and this is him and twos are on the same wavelength. Off peak time? They got it right 71.9% of the time. Off peak time, they get it rate 71.9% and then, or, oh, sorry, they screwed it up 71.9% in peak time, but they got it right in off peak time by like 50%.

Here you go. Like, this is, this is exactly what we're talking about. Like, you hire somebody and their job. You should start working the Tim Horton's draft through. Not interesting. Their job, you hire somebody, Tim Hortons. They're like, hey, we want you to run the drive-through. Okay, well, what's what's that task going to entail?

Well, you need to speak English to the people who come through it. And you're going to hire somebody who is fresh off the plane, temporary foreign worker. And like things are so bad in, in Tim Hortons now with their newfound patriotism. We had this in another thing we didn't get to. But they're actually going to try and source Canadian ingredients because of their newfound patriotism. Tim Hortons, who at one point was like the unofficial symbol of Canada, is now going to try to get back to having Canadian ingredients. How about if you really care about Canada?

Just crazy pitch, hear me out on this, Tim Hortons. If you really care about Canada, why don't you hire a few people who fucking work here and live here? Probably because Tews doesn't want the job. While en route to the Super Bowl, President Trump signs proclamation officially renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. America.

Yeah, he made the Gulf great again, I guess. That's right. Buffy St. Marie's Order of Ken. Oh, you want to show the video? Do you want to show the video? No, I'm not going to show the video. I'm going to show you guys the Google Earth if it loads up. Here we go.

All right. So here's, here it is. Now, I asked Grock about this, and then I didn't like the answer. And so then I also asked Chet GPT about it and I got basically the same answer. But here's the thing is that Mexico has, it doesn't quite look like it,

but more of this coastline is Mexico because of the dip down if you actually measure it. Because I'm like, there's no way that all that up here is less than that down here. But it's at... Tews, you're cutting up. I can't hear, I can't hear a bloody word you're saying. Here.

I don't know. You're super delayed. My back? Like, hello? Hello? Is this thing on? 145, I can't hear anything. Pull the pen. Pull the pen. Let's get to happy news.

Oh, my goodness. You know, folks? I can hear you now. You're delayed. All right. Okay. We talked about that woman who locked, we talked,

okay, we're just going to rapid fire this. The woman who lost 50 pounds since Trump got inaugurated, turns out she's on Ozempic. Buffy St. Marie. Did you see Ozempic was, Oh, Zempick was on the sponsor of SportsNets, like, panel.

Yep. I'm like, what? Yep. Oh, I didn't see it on the panel. I saw a commercial for it. Yeah. It was right on their sports net's desk, um, uh, whatever, not in the rink. Like, not the one on the actual sports net's desk, but like the one inside the rink at the Four Nations Cup.

Uh, Buffy, uh, yeah, anyways, it stood up to me. It was my favorite point, no. Yeah. So Buffy C-Bree's order of Canada by governor in general. See, like, what is going on here? Can't take this anymore. Mash up 145. Carry on.

Okay. Carry on. Carry on. Carry on. Carry on. The entire first sentence and then do the happy news. Do the happy news, Sean. Can I got it?

Okay, fine. Buffy St. Marie's Order of Canada terminated by Governor General. No reason was given, but the termination comes after a 2023 CBC investigation raised. Serious doubts about the singer's claims to indigenous identity. And Trump for the win here, Trump rules out deporting Prince Harry. He said he's got enough problems with his wife. Here is the happy news. A Calgary man's dog is being called a home invasion hero

as he courageously stayed beside his owner's side. During a brutal armed invasion, home invasion, Bruce Wallers was shot each leg while his breast friend Zeus was shot in the head. Fortunately, they both survived. The dog was shot in the head too. Like, yeah. Oh, man. Canada.

2025. All right. Community notes, my friend. Well, I tell you what, I'd sent this to Toos, okay? Here's a listener. I want to get everybody's thoughts on this, okay? I want to say I find you in Toos hilarious, but I have a challenge for him.

I'll donate $50 a week until December 31st to either the podcast studio or to a charity of our choice. If twos no longer takes a Lord. I'm I think of your choice. I think he's meaning our choice. I think he's talking about us. If you,

if Tuse doesn't take the Lord's name in vain on the episode of the mashup in any form, I'm the judge. I get to be the judge on this. And, did I do it today? It goes back down to zero. And he goes, but if he does it in consecutive episodes,

um, it grows. So it'd be $50 this week. Cause I don't think he take, I don't think he took the Lord's name in vain this time. And, and it would go up and up and up. And I'm like,

I think it's great. Tuesday's like, I don't know. What do you think, audience? What do you think? I'm kind of curious. Tuesday, you're all froze up. No, maybe you're there. Maybe you're there.

I don't know. I think you're there. Am I froze up? You're delayed. I don't know. I think it's a fun idea. Yeah, I'm all for it. You were suggesting maybe I should get some of that for my efforts.

And I just said, well, I mean, if it's going to go to me, I'm going to care a lot less than if it's to help out. with the studio or to help out with a charity. And that was my stance on it. Can you imagine on the legacy wall? It says twos, 2-2-2 minutes. Didn't swear.

No, no Lord's name. Hey? Leon Taylor says, yes. Yes. All right. Well, I'm going to work on it. I'm going to, I'll take Jim Jones's name in vain

instead a little bit here and there, maybe. You can take Jim Jones's name instead. Okay, Big Jack Classic Buffalo Lake this weekend. It's ice fishing. Yes. Cornerstone form May 10th. You got injection of truth in March. You have National Citizens Inquiry in March.

You have a whole bunch of things coming up. I don't know. Like, I'm looking at twos. Yeah. Don't agree. Tews is an individual. Okay. All right, Jacqueline.

Okay. F bombs are apparently okay Okay Anyways you keep comments And folks we'll read it after we go I'm gonna end the mash of 145 I'm discombobobulated on this side This has been an absolute train wreck of a mashup

I know that's what you all tune in for But this week exceptionally is yeah But usually we've got reliable internet connections And usually yeah Toes doesn't see I'm just gonna I'm just slowly taking them on Folks thanks for all being in here And doing this

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