Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 156

Episode Date: May 4, 2025

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Well, I don't know what Sean did when he set this up, but apparently we don't have intro music this week again. This is why he's been fired. Okay. And he's just burning it down on his way out of the building. You can have that in after, right? Like in post-produce. This isn't live or anything, is it? It's live.

It's live. We've already got comments coming in. I didn't even rehearse. That's okay. This is, it's all fast and loose. See, your pants, stuff. It's all good. Don't you just hate it when you're firing somebody.

and on their way out, they like knock over a coffee cup on somebody's laptop. That's basically what Sean did with the, uh, with the music. Yeah. Burn the place down on the way out. Yeah. So, I mean, if anything, it makes me feel better about the personnel decisions that have been made in the past couple weeks. Now, for those of you watching, good morning, everybody. And you may be wondering who this beautiful gentleman is next to me.

This is Taylor King of Taylor King Real Estate and Commission Impossible podcast. Go. Tell us all about you. I'm just going to monopolize the whole show here to plug my business. Toos said it was okay. I'm not going to do that to you, but I'm a friend of the show. I sponsored a few episodes last year. I'm a friend of Tuesday.

I sold his house last year. Yep. And I wanted to, before I saying this, I wanted to shout you and Sean out for the election. coverage we had that up on the TV here all day and um i don't know how you did it but uh uh i didn't see either if you get up to have a have a have a piss or a shit like i i i don't know if if you if you still have the the depends that you wore for that or if you if you just like didn't wear pants i'm not sure how that worked but uh impressive either way and uh you know we watch like start to finish it it wasn't uh i like i like the tempo and the cadence of it the guests were great it was

it was a lot of fun. So I'm a goddamn, I'm another goddamn real estate agent. And you can find me probably best on my Instagram. It's Taylor King Real Estate. I got a website, tkr.c.a, as in Taylor King, real estate. And if you don't like real estate agents, I don't blame you. A lot of them suck.

But if you don't like real estate agency, you probably haven't had a good one. And, you know, the difference between a good one and the rest of them is that a good one, you know, knows what they're doing for starters and knows their role. And their role is to act in your best interest, no matter what, to make the best decision for you and get you a good result. And my clients like me, too, is as a client of mine. He says he liked, he had a good experience. I mean, you might just be being nice to me or whatever. But, you know, if you're a, I'll put it this way and then I'll shut up a butt.

But if you're a, if you don't think you need an agent, you're wrong. It's a complicated transaction. There's a, there's a million things that can go wrong. You can get burned. And if you were like a professional athlete or, or musician or entertainer or whatever, you get an agent, right? And you get an agent because their job is to, is to get you the best possible deal, right? So I feel like if I didn't get my client the best possible deal, I didn't do my job and

I don't really have any value. So anyways, that's what I'm all about. I do have a of a podcast. I haven't done a very good job. Tews has been given me some good support and tips on this. And could learn a lot from from you and Sean. This will be good practice. But my podcast is called Commission Impossible.

And it's just for fun. Like I, it's about, it's for salespeople. So if you work in sales, any kind of sales, I want to talk to you. Like that's what I do is I, you can find me anywhere you get your podcast. I'm on YouTube. I'm on Spotify, all that stuff. But, uh, um, I talked to, people that work in sales, different kinds of sales. I've had, you know, car guys. I've had,

I've had someone that went door to door selling windows and I've had construction equipment and real estate, of course. So if you work in sales, if you're listening to this and you work in sales, I'd like to hear from you and maybe talk to you. And I got the idea for this podcast because I like sales. I think it's, I think it's fun. I think it's an interesting career. And I generally like salespeople. I think salespeople are, you know, they're good talkers. They've got good stories. It's funny. So that's what's all about. If you're interested, check it out.

It's not just for people in the industry, but I don't know, take a look. It's just for fun. Yeah, I was actually going to add to it and say that is that I'm not, you know, a salesperson, but anybody who works at a business or has a business sells things. And even from that perspective, there's been some really interesting things. Like you had that one guy on who's who sold cell phones in a mall. and he just worked. Oh, pardon me, at Costco, but he did, which is crazy because the amount of foot traffic you'd have there.

But even with that, he had gone to the point where he'd built up relationships with people where they were like, I need a new phone and they would reach out to him rather than just going to Costco and whichever slub is working there, they're going to buy a phone from him. He became their go-to guy in terms of building a relationship with them. And so, like, there's lots of interesting stuff regardless. this. I find it, I find it really interesting. I should find a guy that's got a vape star in interview. Well, I happen to know somebody like that. I could probably help you out.

He's probably got some good stories. That person. Well, it's, it's actually, you know what? It's, it's been an interesting time in the vape industry with the excise tax change and everything like that. And it's almost more of a business thing than a sales thing. You know what, never mind. This guy sounds boring. All right. Well, he got cut. And just for the record, so Kevin says twos is homeless. No, no, no, no, no.

Tews has a home. But it was a rental property that he sold last year. And Taylor was phenomenal in terms of helping out with that. Thank you. So without any further ado, we have happy Airborne Friday. And as far as the Coot 6.5 goes, the big thing is that that guy from the attack last week that we talked about, he was immediately released again. So two days before the attack in Vancouver,

he was released. And then after he beat a random stranger who was a woman almost nearly to death, he was then released again. Did she vote liberal? Actually, yes, yes. There's a screenshot of her saying, excited to go to advance voting, voting liberal. Amazing.

Yeah. Yeah. It's in the show notes. You probably saw it there very briefly. Now, if you guys have any community notes or anything like that, let us know at the end. And we can do a quick plug for them. Make sure everybody knows what it is that's going on in your community or whatever else. As far as like last week's community note, which was the election live coverage,

I cannot thank you guys enough. The guests we had who were wonderful and all of the people who tuned in, We had almost 89,000 people watching concurrently at the peak. And we had just a little bit under half a million people tune in in the first day. It was awesome. You guys killed it. Like, I hope you do that every election. And I'm sure you will.

It was, we had it on the TV here. Like, it was a lot of fun. Like, the way you kept, you know, kept rotating guests through and it never got boring. And like to go 12 hours without boring anyone during an election, like that's, that, that, that, uh, that, uh, that took some planning for sure. Yes. Yes. Well, I mean, there was no shortage of interesting things to talk about. And we didn't even get into a lot of the, the goofier things that happened in the lead up to the election, like guys getting caught cheating and things like that.

Which, I mean, never happens at all in Canadian elections. But I suppose we could lead into some of the stuff in and around this election. So there's, uh, so the NDP. I've said this before. And with any luck, I probably won't have to say it very many more times. But folks, the NDP are not a serious party. And they lost party status. They ended up with seven seats after the election was all set.

Many van party. They aren't much more than a unicycle party at this point. and so the liberals are three seats away from a majority, which effectively puts them in, they're an effective majority at this point. Because the NDP has no say in how things are going. And if they want to have a say in how things are going, even people as dumb as the liberals are going to say,

we don't really have to listen to you and we don't care. So we're going to do whatever we want. And whenever you feel like you want to have an election, just vote no confidence on us which you're not going to do because you don't have a leader all of your key people either retired or didn't win their seats

and you're fucking broke yeah they don't even need floor crossers they effectively have they effectively have a majority so buckle up it's going to be at least four years of this yeah yeah it's the first first liberal majority

in like Jordan Peterson you know he talks about how you know it's not enough to have the capability of pushing back on somebody but you also have to be willing to do it otherwise you're just a wimp and the NDP don't have the capability or willingness to push back on them and so they are wimps in this case and completely um what do you call it when you can't get it up what's the word I'm looking for impotent impotent yes Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm not much of an expert when it comes to that.

So anyhow, thank you. Thank you for that. Walked right. Walked right into that one. All right. So that's, that's what's going on with them. Speaking of people who cheat in elections,

here is one of the, now this, I didn't. What the fuck is this guy wearing, by the way? And look at his hair. It looks like a homeless person. Here's him taking off the conservative one and putting on, or yeah,

I'm putting on the liberal one. And this is, according to reports, this is Greg Pulzer, who is running in Saskatchew. I think it was one of the, that's the candidate. I think that was one of the guys,

because that does not look like the candidate in the picture. No. You know, take it from somebody that goes in, in strangers' houses for a living. Yeah. Everybody has a fucking camera. Yeah.

Just assume there's a camera there. I tell my clients when we go in a house, like, don't, don't say anything. Just assume, you know, they're listening to you. Because people with cameras, they're going to sit, you know, when you're looking at their house, they sit there and they listen to see what you're saying, right? But just, just assume everyone has a camera. And that goes for you as well, you know, election campaigners. Well, I mean, why would you, I mean, in theory, like if you were, if you had your

host listed and you could listen to them saying like, oh, well, I don't know, we can afford $750. but do you think they'd take 720? And then an offer of cards in poker. Exactly. They're like Kim Kardashian playing with mirrored sunglasses at that point, right?

But you know, the next level, though, is saying fake shit knowing that they're listening. Oh. That's the next level. But, you know, we don't play games like that. No, no. So PSEC came out speaking

out against Pollyev. Pollyev spent years attacking public service workers vowing to slash 17,000 jobs per year. He chose divisive politics over his own community. On election day, voters in Carlton, thousands of them public service workers showed him the door. I thought P-SAC was what you hung under your desk when you do a 12-hour election.

Yes. Don't forget to empty your P-SAC. Yes, yes, you're pissed jugs. It's the rules of the road. and the rules of 12-hour election live streams. That's right. Okay, I just want to point out that I wish this was true. I mean, obviously the part about him losing was true.

But him vowing to slash 17,000 public jobs per year, I wish that was what he said he was going to do. But they just said they were going to put on a hiring freeze and that everybody who retired, they just were going to leave those seats. They were just going to sweep them away. They weren't going to replace retiring work. I'm going to cut my attrition, they said. Yes, I wish he'd have said, which, I mean, nobody quits a government job.

Let's be honest. And that's the thing that's- I got a story with that. Yeah, okay. Well, so I had these clients, and here's the thing. He doesn't need to say he's going to fire a bunch of public service workers. Everyone knows they need to be fired. Everyone knows that the government is too big.

And cuts are going to be necessary that we can't afford this bloated public service. But so I had these clients. They moved here to Alberta from, from Ottawa. And they're very conservative people. And they bought six houses with me, these people. Anyways, or bought and sold six houses with me. They, when they left here, it was, it was late 2022. And at the time, it looked like it was pretty clear that, you know, Trudeau was on his

way out and conservatives were going to win peers on his way in. And the general feeling, this is what they told me, it's anecdotal, but the general feeling there among all these public service workers, because Ottawa, obviously government town. They were sort of quiet quitting, like you said. Nobody quits the public service, right? They were sort of quiet quitting.

And the running gag was that they're waiting for their Pierre bucks. They're all expecting that there's going to be a conservative government come in, and they're all going to get packaged off, right? And huge packages. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like the generous, appalling villages,

a pieceack. Yeah. So, and the crazy thing was, these people moved out here as the prices were dropping in Ottawa because people were leaving Ottawa, right? And that's what happens. People lose their jobs.

Well, if your whole industry is a fucking government, prices of real estate were dropping in Ottawa. And then all of a sudden, beginning of this year and the liberals start pulling high, it looks like they could win, all the sudden prices started spiking in Ottawa again because all the pigs are lined up back at the trough.

There's going to be another, you know, and all these people that had been sitting that like if you thought you weren't getting great service from from the government, like they were just sitting around waiting to be fired. Yeah, of course they don't quit. You're leaving money on the table if you quit. Yeah, and big money too. And it's just

I wish that he actually would have ran on saying the amount of public sector we have is insane. We need to fire everybody. Yeah, he may as well. They're not going to vote for him anyway. Well, that's the other thing, right? So a bunch of people that are never going to vote for you. they're they're never going to vote for you and you're going to count out to them yeah right that's that's the thing that you're not allowed to say that you're not going to cut

public service because they won't vote for you yeah dude they're they're they're they're permanent liberals they're not voting for you anyway just just say the thing say the thing that we all know is true yeah and wouldn't it be nice if a if a politician ever did that right but instead we had this kind of milk toast thing and that's that's why this whole polyev thing kind of irks me because you wonder at some point whether some of this is just him trying to lose because he had like he had the game locked down for months for years it was just you talk to the stupid people in media which is pretty much all of them you eviscerate them you go viral more people vote for you rinse repeat and that's what he was doing up until two months ago

where he suddenly became terrified of them and started running the Irino Tool Andrew Shear campaign. And so then you get tweets like this where they say Pollyev was the designated loser. And here's why and where I predict things to go. He failed because tightly controlled campaign messaging, which I can kind of see why he does that. Because not as many people are as good with the media as he is. And if some guy running in, I don't know, any random backwater fly over state tight place, like Alberta, says something that isn't on message and is going to hurt them in Toronto

when they've got a tenuous grasp on it, they stand to lose quite a bit. Conceded quickly and has since disappeared. I imagine that that's just a whole lot of wagon circling and figuring out what the next steps are. Never mentioned or opposed his writing expansion. Ran against nobody, not even once mentions the 91 candidates on the ballot. To be absolutely fair to the longest ballot committee, they have talked. targeted every like incumbents of every stripe.

So they've done the longest ballot in, in all kinds of different by-elections in elections where the incumbent's liberal, NDP, to say that this was a focused attack on Polyev, I think is disingenuous at best because it's like racism. If you're equally racist against everybody, you're not actually racist. well and the other thing to both that ballot is you know it's alphabetized right uh if you go into the you go into the polling station knowing who you're voting for if it's if it's bruce fanjoy who's who's

who's like fucking carl from sling blade basically that they run against them oh yeah if it's everybody everybody in this ride and he'll get someone of french fried taters just get some mustard that's basically that's basically who beat paulio and you know the argument against the 91 ballot or the 91 name thing is like people had to find bruce phangy's name on the ballot too so people know it went in and board it's equally valid for both of them exactly right you know i think you know where we're kyle kempers saying it looks like he tried to lose i i wouldn't say that he tried to lose i would say that he tried to not lose right so you go from from trying to win like there's a difference between trying to win and trying to not

lose yeah right um like i um i think he was trying to not lose and he's trying not to offend offend offend the middle. And here's the thing, like, he was able to, he was able to steal support from the NDP on the blue collar side. And, um, he had. And then there's like how big, how big is the swing vote in Canada? Because if you look at, you know, the liberals have like a base that's good for, you know, 30, 32, 33% of the vote. The conservatives have a base that's good for around 30% of the vote. The NDP typically have, you know, 15 to 20%. But how much is the actual swing vote? You know, like in the 905 and in, and in the Atlantic where people, that could possibly vote either way.

How many points is that good for? Right? It seems to depend on a little bit, depending on what's going on. I don't think it's totally static. But I think that two months ago, you saw the absolute rock bottom for the liberals, where the people who are still voting, for the people who are still voting liberal at that point, they're the people who it doesn't matter.

It does not matter. You could put Joe Stalin on the ballot. And they would say, hey, We could get a lot done with work camps. Exactly. Yeah. And they'll repeat the slogans. You know, they did, you know, it's frustrating because they, they, they, they,

they left so much on the table. Like, do you follow Nick Kavallis? The name's familiar. So, so he's, he's, he's, he's, he, he does private polls for, for, for governments, but he, he's, he, he gets, he gets, he gets people elected. He gets fucking Doug Ford elected. And, uh, he's, he's, he's a hilarious follow because I, I think he gets on the sauce and, and, and he tweets.

you guys should interview you should try to get him Sean should try to get him on because he's fucking hilarious but anyways he said that where they dropped the ball well he needed to oppose Trump and I think you know whether you like Trump or not you weren't going to win in this country if

you were seen as a line with Trump and he allowed the liberals to smear him but here's the thing you could have opposed Trump without agreeing with the liberals about counter tariffs. Exactly and that was his potential Churchill moment he had an opportunity to go, okay, yeah.

He said, okay, oh, what, you want to get back at the Americans by, by taxing Canadians extra? Like, he could have made, he could have made them look stupid on that. And instead, they got into a bidding war and who's going to charge the most fucking counterterress? And like, if you, if you're promising the same thing that the incumbent guy is promising, because technically Karnie's incumbent, like, yeah, you know, why should people change to you? Like, exactly. You've got to, you've got to have, you've got to have a 10x advantage when it comes to replacing, um, an entrenched market. Yeah. And he absolutely could have said, you know what?

Responding to it. It's a shame for the American citizens that Trump is taxing them and Trump is punishing them. But just because he's doing that doesn't mean we're going to do the same to our people. Yeah. I'm not going to punish Canadians to get back at Trump. That would have been an easy, like sticky line that he could have used, you know? Yes. And it would have forced every economist, no matter how much Jim Stanford gets paid

through multiple levels of slushes, he would have had to admit that, yes, it will be better for the economy to have zero tariffs. And that's where he could have been the huge differentiator and absolutely shut it down, while to your point absolutely saying, you know what, I'm not aligned with Trump on this.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, you've got to oppose Trump. But here's another thing that Kovallis was harping on. he had an opportunity to drive a wedge with a pipeline. He could have said, I'm going to run a pipeline through Quebec. That is federal jurisdiction. It is our right.

It is critical infrastructure. I'm going to run a pipeline through Quebec, and we're going to ship Alberta oil to the East Coast and sell it to, and sell it to Europeans, right? And Carney couldn't have stood up to that. He couldn't have said that. Because he's going to cower to Quebec. But here's the thing about Quebec.

Like, if you're conservative, you're not going to win in Quebec anyway. But the block will win and they'll beat the liberals. Exactly. And also conservative, conservative Quebecers, like when they, they polled Quebecers, actual people that live there, not their, not their politicians, they supported a pipeline. You know, like the block and the separatists, they use this as a, as leverage, right? Like, oh, we're opposed to oil and gas.

We don't want a pipeline. Well, you write them a big enough check. They seem to forget that. Right. Yeah. But that was a missed opportunity for Pierre, too. And that's what Kavallas has been saying. And you got to give him a follow.

And he's one of those guys you're going to love him and hate him because, you know, he's kind of team, team dog Ford. But yeah, yeah, hate him because he's always right, you know. Okay. Well, that's interesting. Because I, that sounds like a good one because like we were talking about J.J. McCullough before we got started and how we both kind of love him and hate him because he makes really good point.

and then everyone once in a while he's completely out to lunch. Now that's a completely different sort of love, hate, and that's the kind of one I could get behind. Also in this, now Elizabeth May is saying that she wants to become speaker of the house. She wants to be the mediator, taking care of both sides of the House of Commons, which honestly, she's the best person for it. Yeah, I love this. I love this. I love this.

Now, here's the thing. she's she's not capable of being impartial right like no the speaker has has to be completely impartial or at least have the appearance of being impartial yeah yeah and she she's not capable of that we know she's she's only going to last you know a couple of question periods and they're going to have to find a replacement but it's going to be fucking hilarious when she's in there um well because she's going to screw things up all over the place but the other thing is though like just in terms of strict practicality, there is nobody better suited in Ottawa

to keep one eye on each side at the same time. She got one eye looking at you, one eye looking for you. Yeah. Yeah, what was the other part? I like the other part of this, you know, maybe open to joining the Carney cabinet. I love this too because she could be like,

she could be like, she's basically Jim Leahy of parliament. And I think, you know, Carney could bring her into his cabinet and make her Minister of the Liquor. And I think that's that's, that's a gap that we have in cabinet. Minister of the liquor. I love it. Liquor. Yeah.

Minister of the liquor. I am the liquor. I support this. Speaker or Minister of the Liquor either way. Or she could be Minister of Bad Karaoke. Did you see that video with singing with her husband? Yes. Yeah, with her husband.

I thought about putting a clip on here. And I'm like, I didn't want to have to put myself through that. I'm not going to put everybody else through that. I appreciate that. All I can think watching that is I'm looking at this guy. I'm going, should I see it?

There are there women that listen to this? I was like, does he have to fuck her? Oh, yeah. Anyways, enough about that. Okay, all right. Well, thank you for now giving me impotence. All right.

Stalantis, Stalantis is moving a bunch of their automobile production out of Ontario and the and the union P-SAC is mad about that because again P-SAC but also at what point did at some point

the unions piped in and gave their opinions on the business decisions of the companies they work for and they got a pass and then they just kept doing it I don't really if I'm running a business business. And then like aside from saying how can we make this better or whatever else, I'm not, I'm not interested in unsolicited feedback from the agents of the people who work

for me, whose end goal is just to have more people working for me doing less. Yeah. My interests are not aligned with yours and your opinion isn't valid. Yeah. They can, They can squawk all they want, but, you know, the business has to make money. But here's, here's what I, what I hate about this, about this whole thing about Stalantis. You know this about me, but I was in a car business for 17 years before I got into real estate. So I follow along pretty closely with the car business. I'm a car guy, but this has nothing to do with the tariffs. It's a, it's a convenient excuse for them because do you know what they build?

Do you want Stalantis builds in Canada? What they build? They build the charger EV. So they got rid of, you know, Chrysler got rid of the challenger and the charger and all those kind of, you know, muscle car things that were getting dated or whatever. The hell cats and all that shit. You can't buy a, you can't buy a hammie anymore. You can't buy a V8 at all anymore with Chrysler. But they build in, as I don't know, is it Windsor.

I don't know where it is. But they, they build the charger EV. So it kind of looks cool. It looks like it's kind of a throwback to like a 69 charger. But it's a fucking EV. And not only is an EV. It's a, it's a pretty. lousy EV if you watch the reviews on it. It's not very good. It doesn't have very good range.

It doesn't really do anything impressive. And it's, its main feature is it makes vroom, room noises. So they're trying to sell this. It's got a speaker. It's got a speaker for an exhaust and it makes like it makes like V8 hot rod noises when you step on the accelerator pedal. And they can't convince anyone to buy these. It's like the impossible burger of cars. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, it's mystery meat. So they, They, um, it's, it's, it's a soy burger.

So they, they, they put this thing out and they wanted like a hundred grand for these fucking things. And they're sitting there rotting on dealer lots. They can't go away. Oh, Benjamin. I, I know he was a fan of the show. Um, anyways, yeah, you threw me off. Okay. Sorry.

Anyways, um, they, uh, they can't give these things away. They've got 30, 40,000 discounts on dollar discounts on them. So they're, they're shuddering the factory. So it's like, oh, we're cutting production in Canada because of the tariffs. Like, well, they wouldn't, they wouldn't know, they wouldn't have built these things in the first place. If government didn't start putting to put EV mandates, well, in the bailout, yeah, that's another thing. They're going to get another one. But now, the government puts all these EV mandates and Trudeau comes out and, you know, everything's got

to be an EV by 2035. And so these companies, they start dumping billions of dollars of R&D money into building EVs that nobody's going to buy. And now, you know, they're closing the factory and sending people home because, you know, someone's going to buy these things for you to keep building them. So Yeah, well, that's exactly it. Once the shelves are full, you got to stop trying to put more stuff on them. Yeah. And it's, that's, that's really funny, the, the room, room that you always see. Not even kidding.

People always try and make people, people always try and make the vegetarian stuff look like meat or try and make it taste like meat. When was the last time that some butcher in Didsbury was like, I have created a piece of Chuck that, taste exactly like asparagus. It never happens. Takeers for that. No, no. And this is, this is exactly the same thing all over again.

And the funny thing about this whole 2035 is that it's not actually going to increase demand. It's going to decrease demand. Because now you know that there is a very finite supply of gas engines in Canada. Yeah.

Because go try to buy a used, you know, used F-150 or used Tundra with a V8. You know, you can't get new ones anymore, right? The prices are going up because people are like, I don't want some goddamn like turbocharged hybrid thing. And they definitely don't want an EV. So yeah. And now they've got like, they've got all these EVs.

And here's something like if you're, if you're going to buy an EV, if you can make the case for, for EV ownership, you know, if it's just going to be a city commuter car and you don't need a car that can go more than 200 or 300 miles at a time, you get a Tesla. It's actually, it's the only EV worth owning. all of the other EVs, you know, I might get burned for this, but like, they're, they're trash. Like, you know, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Benz, they can't give these things away. No. No, although I was shit talking the Chinese EVs a few weeks ago and we had to issue a correction on that.

So apparently it's like the only thing ever made in the history of the country that isn't garbage. Yeah. And now we have 100% tariff on them because they'll wipe out our industry if we allow the Chinese to sell them. And then they've got the reciprocal canola tariff that everybody just conveniently ignored this entire election. Which brings us to this. This is party needs to be not so extreme. Time for soul searching what conservatives are saying after Pollyev's defeat.

Now which conservatives are saying that. Well, that's the thing. Can you point to anything extreme that was in their platform that Pollyev said or did at any point in the last several years? not a thing and here's and here's another problem i have with that is like look at the you know what is it 20 20 some new uh or 20 some seat gain for the conservers look at the look at the look at the guys that won um roman baber and Aaron gun Roman Barron Jamil Giovanni these these are outspoken you know um you know kind of right right wing influence type guys like these weren't these weren't these weren't soft you know PC uh you know centrist conservatives like those people won the

writings and they won in tough writing so yeah oh absolutely here's um here's i think the first clip from the uh canadian first lady after the election this one's good check she's out it's my great pleasure to introduce my husband the prime minister who will make Canada strong and Canada poor she's going to yeah yeah so literally we've got the maga crowd on one side And then we've got to make Canada poor again crowd on the other side. We could have had Anna Poliver. We could have had a like a Foxy Lady. A Venezuelan Foxy Lady.

Yeah. Like the first one. We get Truella DeVille. The first one since Margaret in her heyday where you're like, I would like to see a pinup calendar. Yeah. Yeah. Where you're like, I would hang a picture of this woman in my garage. Yeah.

Well. Now, to be fair, this was before we got a hyphenated name first lady. And Justin happened and everything like that. But yeah. And no offense to anyone with hyphenated names. But like if, if, you know, if you got to, you got to hyphenate your name, it's like, she was too good to just be a Carney. She has to be Fox Carney.

She probably hates this country. Oh, could you imagine? Like, just how griseless she feels. She was complaining when he was when he was the governor of the bank of England. that their living allowance, not the wage, their living allowance was only 40,000 pounds a month. Which is like, look, I get it.

Two Sarah Hoffman's isn't a lot to go on. But that's a lot of money for most people. And that's on top of your wage. And your free house and your car and your driver and your security detail and your meals and whatever the fuck else you get. Yeah. Yep. And so anyways, Mark Carney is an economist.

And he's a genius banker and nobody has any issues with this except for Fitch, the rating agency who determines the credit worthiness of the country. The day after the election said, if you guys run on Mark Carney's platform, we are going to downgrade your credit rating, which means that you're going to pay more interest. Yeah. Yeah, Kobe Koch had a good editorial in this. He said, you know, we elected the party that wants to take out a third mortgage on Canada.

Like, eventually we got to pay that note. Like we're mortgaging the future. We've already got two mortgages on the country. We're adding a third. Who's going to bail us out when we can't make payments? Nobody. Nobody. China's going to say, look, we'll give you $7.

And we'll see, yeah, that's the best offer we have on the table. Yeah. Do you remember, oh, go ahead? Oh, do you remember the Euro debt crisis like after 2008? You mean when Greek was screwed? Yeah, yeah. Well, and it wasn't just crazy. It was Ireland.

and it was Portugal. So I was, I was just looking this up, um, at the height of the, of the euro debt crisis when it was like, we got to bail out an entire entire, entire nations here because,

because they've spent so much money. Ireland, they were like a hundred and five percent debt to GDP. We're just about there. You know, if, and if our, our GDP shrinks a little bit.

And by the way, it's projected too. They're, they're padding the GDP with, with mass migration. Even Carney admitted that. He's like, well,

a lot of that is just mass migration. and they count real estate. We got an inflated real estate market. You got $800,000 dog crate condos in Toronto count towards the GDP. That starts to shrink. The debt goes up. He wants to borrow another $200 billion.

That'll put us like, I just, I asked Grock, so I don't know, you can verify this, fact check me, but like that puts us around 105,006%. That's like debt crisis, Ireland is about to class it. You know how Ireland got out of that? I was just going to bring that up. How did Ireland get out of that, Taylor? Yeah, well, they attracted business.

They dropped corporate income tax. They dropped corporate income tax and all of a sudden everybody moved there and they made shit tons of money. Isn't it weird? Capital of the world. Yeah. Isn't it weird how when you tax something, when you impose an additional cost above and beyond what the market would want it to be at, you discourage future growth in that direction? Yeah. deadweight losses and taxation causes those and if you eliminate the dead weight losses the

economy just explodes in a good way yeah and you know speaking of missed opportunities for for the conservatives like that that could have been that could have been the angle like here's how we're going to get here's how we're going to we're going to defeat trump we're going to drop corporate income tax and we're going to steal all of his all of his tech companies are going to make them all relocate up here right um i guess maybe they didn't they didn't think Canadians were intelligent enough to have that conversation. Well, you know what? I kind of just did a 12-hour analysis

of how intelligent Canadians are, and they might have been right. Yeah. You have the Peace Act to prove it. Yeah. Okay, so here's, I knew it was in here somewhere, but I couldn't find it. But here you go, suspect released after tours

violently assaulted in Vancouver. And then she goes, early voted for liberals yesterday. Right. Yeah. Could you imagine her walking into the voting booth Literally looking like she got hit by a fucking car. Yeah.

And bragging about the fact that she's going to vote for the people who created this situation that she is now in. But he loves me. Yeah. He's just, he only beats me because I make him angry. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And this, I was going to get to this before.

But Zane brought up a really good point is that. Ellis Ross won his writing as well. And so that was the northwest of BC. And that guy is an absolute beauty. I said it during the live stream. I was like, this is. Andrew Lott, another good example. Thanks, St.

Yeah. Yeah. But Ellis Ross, he was like the one guy I wanted, excuse me, to win the most. Yes, I like Ellis. Yes. All right. What else we have going on here?

Okay. Elections Canada. I just want to bring this up. So we talked about this in the live stream. but it bears it we got to beat this dead horse and by dead horse i mean dead website so elections canada the website went down during the election you have this entire department probably floors if not buildings full of people and you bring them in and you say you have one job and it is for one day every four years this website has to work so do what you got to do figure it out one website

has to work for one day out of every almost 1,500 days. This is like Homer Simpson when he bought all the pumpkins. I think these are going to peak right in November sometime. You know actually what this reminds me of?

It reminds me of the opening credits in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Those who are responsible for sacking the people have been sacked. They've been sacked. Yeah. Yeah, that's election. And that's the thing is that,

I want this to go up the flagpole. I want the people who were in charge of making sure that those people were in charge of making sure that the website worked. I want them gone. Where's the accountability? They probably all get promotions and raises. Yeah. Oh, we really like the way you limited the public discourse during the election. We want to see more of it.

So we're going to actually close down the website and we're going to pay you all of your usual wages to make sure. that that website doesn't go back up again. Yeah, perfect. So Rosie Barton, I'm not sure if you saw this or not. If you were watching us, you didn't see it. But actually, you know what? This is a perfect still of Rosie Barton.

I don't think I could have picked a better place to pause. But here's her at the very start when the votes were just starting to come in. This is our nonpartisan public broad. broadcaster whose job is to, without any bias, represent the thoughts, interests, and beliefs of everybody across this country. Yep. We'll take it.

We'll take it. At least the mask is off. At least they're not pretending anymore. I mean, you can't blame them. Like they're literally, their jobs are all right. Well, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's either.

Rosemary Barton, it was a coin flip. She was either going to continue to have this job or she was going to become a barista and probably lose 80 pounds in the next year. Oh, no, she would be an actor. If Polly F1, he would have been. No, no.

All right. Now, here's what I want to talk about today. This is interesting because we were just starting to get into this and I'm like, no, no, no, we got to save it for the live show. Jason Kenny has come back from the dead to be the most Jason Kenny person you could ever imagine. And so anyway, here's him talking about the Republican party of Alberta. One of many cynical fundraising grifts that will seek to monetize people's frustration. These guys have learned from the MAGA industry how to do this. It's big business in the U.S. Don't be one of their marks. Well, yeah.

Um, on, on one hand, he does have a valid point. There, there's, there's a lot of competing, uh, grifts for, for, uh, separatism support because, because, because there's so many pissed off Albertans. But, but, but Jason Kenny, um, you know, he's, he's, he's, he's been, he's been lying dormant. He's been just reactivated like in, I don't know, February, March. And, uh, you know, I, I, I, I, said, like, he started, he started chirping. in March. And there was a lot of, there was a lot of talk about,

Doug Ford, people are going, what the fuck is Doug Ford doing? How come, how come he's campaigning against, against the conservatives? Because he wants

Pollyev's job. Well, and this is the, the comment I made us. It ain't Ford. It's Kenny. It's Kenny lurking in, in the background.

And I think he's, I think it'll all lead back to him. He wants the job. He's always wanted the job. Even, even when he was Premier of Alberta, a, you know, I always thought he, he just saw that as a, as a as a launch pad to, to get, to get the PM job. So he's, he's gone in for it.

I don't think he's electable. Alberta doesn't like him. And, um, you know, it's funny we were saying earlier, this is what I think is, this is what I think his scheme is going to be. So we'll see if this proves out. But, um, look at his, look at his profile. He's got fucking Israel flag and a, and a Ukraine flag. Anyways.

Yep. Um, he's going to. the biggest the biggest dirt that the liberals have on him is that he was he was part of the you know religious right that opposed gay marriage and and he's got some skeletons in his closet about that right um but like i i think he's going to address that head on he's he's going to hold a press conference during toronto pride he's he's going to come out as gay he's going to come out of the closet and everyone will applaud him for being so brave and such a hero and it kind of answers a lot of questions about him or why he was so opposed to gay marriage and all that he's a

yeah because he was trying to play his his prey away his own gay. Although I will say he's probably not going to come out of the closet. A man with that much girth is probably going to come out of the sea can. Yeah, one way or the other. He's coming out and he's going to make a run for it. But I think, I think he's, he's showing like, he's, he's been showing false support for, for Pierre. I think he, he wanted him to go down and he wants the job. I think you're absolutely right. I mean, he is, he has been long time listeners of 222 minutes may remember an entire episode

called Jason Kenny is a Jason Kenneyist This guy has been in it for himself the whole time When push comes to shove He's always looking after his own interests And that's where like As much as I think that he's a complete waste of time And he doesn't deserve to be listened to at all When he talks about grifting

He is a subject matter expert okay there is nobody there is nobody else um with the possible exception of elizabeth may who has gone further on pretending to support things that aren't actually in anybody's best interest because he gets rich along the way so for example if you want to talk about grifts he became stephen harper's parliamentary secretary in 2006 in 2007 stephen harper as much as the conservatives hate to admit this set the current equalization formula. Stephen Harper did that. The one that gave fucking Quebec free everything. Right. I asked Grock. I said, how much money did Jason Kenney make between when the,

when that equalization formula came out and when he spoke out about personally as a federal MP? And Grock was like, well, he never did. And so he gets. into, and I just said the current equalization formula, and he says, he was Stephen Harper's parliamentary secretary when Stephen Harper rolled it out, which we all knew anyway, but he was then from 2007 until 2016, September 2016, he was getting paid to represent the interests of Alberta in Ottawa, and never once did he speak out against that equalization formula until he was premier of Alberta and it was conveniently for him to do so. And so Grock said, given the fact that he didn't, you could fairly assume that he got paid $2.17 million as a federal member of parliament that never once spoke out against the current equalization formula.

So as much as he is a grifting piece of shit, there is a time and place to listen to him. and if anybody knows how to recognize a psychopathic rifter, it is going to be this guy because nobody does it better than him. Yeah. Oh, and also, we were talking about this before too. But if he actually tries to run in leadership, he's not going to win any of the conservative votes. He's going to get wiped out in Alberta.

And if the people running against him want to beat him, they're just going to do a poll. and they're going to go to the different provinces and say, how much do you support Kenny? And it's going to be wherever it is in Ontario and wherever it is in other places. And then the support for him in Alberta is going to be probably single digits. Yeah. And they'll say, isn't it weird that the people who know you best,

unilaterally think that you're a piece of crap. Yeah. He imagines that he can win. I guess he's got an inflated ego. But he's not going to win the right wing. voters because they all know him well enough to know that he's a piece of crap he's not going to win the centrist voters because they'll never vote for a conservative anyway so who the hell is left to vote for this guy nobody he's the only person who stands to gain from jason canny becoming

leader of the conservative party is maxine bernier yeah yeah fuck jason kentney yes yes i have more jason Kenny stuff, but I feel like, I feel like we're good. I feel like we've covered him enough. So this is an interesting clip. So as you guys probably know, because it's all anybody's been talking about,

Alberta's pretty fed up right now. And the UCP put forward amendments to the Jason canny piece of crap legislation to actually make referendum questions something that are viable and possible. And the media doesn't

directly to them. And how would you characterize, I guess, your perception of your relationship with them when they're seeming quite frustrated? Well, I can see that the media is trying to describe this legislation as something it's not. It's a citizen initiative change that any petition can come forward. I gave some examples in the legislature yesterday. In California, which is a very left-wing jurisdiction, they have brought forward petitions on rent control. They brought forward petitions on rent control. They brought forward petitions on, on legalizing cannabis. I would just encourage people to not look at this through an ideological lens. If you've got an issue that is important to you that you think can garner the support

of your fellow citizens, get out there. Start a petition campaign once this legislation is passed. You have 120 days. You'll be able to, based on the previous voter turnout, you'd be able to get 177,000 signatures and you can put it to the people in the next scheduled referendum. So, yes.

And you know what too? Before you make your point, this type of, of, to give people this kind of say and to have people's voices brought out to by their representatives and brought forward in referendums and brought into legislature and parliament, this is an attack on our democracy. Yes. God forbid we could let their voices be heard. and that's the funny thing is that you've got all these people speaking out against it who are like oh the same people who said that Pollyev's going to be a fascist that he was just going to come in and it was going to be this authoritarian nightmare

Daniel Smith passes something or proposes something that's going to get passed that's going to give more people more options for direct influence of what happens in their legislature they're like well this cannot fucking stand This is literal fascism.

I've had enough of these right-wing Fascism. Fascist democracies where we let people make decisions and all these, all these, all these. We need to defend our democracy from referendums like this. We need to defend our democracy from the people who might vote against it.

This is militant libertarianism. I am going to let you do whatever you want to do, and if you don't, I'm going to shoot you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man, you just every single time, like even during the last month, every single time there's another story like this, you're like, you cannot possibly hate the media enough.

And then they're like, hold my subsidy. Hold my subsidy. And you know, it's okay when Quebec does it, though. Yes. Well, that's the thing is that Alberta. So here's the big disconnect is that. Ottawa says, we do all kinds of shit for you. Why aren't you more grateful?

And the thing about it is is that it's stuff that we don't want. Yeah. Oh, oh, well, we spent $40 million on a pipeline. A thank you would be nice. Well, no, no, no. We didn't want you to spend any money on a pipeline. We wanted a regulatory framework that would mean that private companies would build it. And we wouldn't have to do any government money.

and even if you wanted to say that we at least appreciate the pipeline, we don't appreciate the fact that it went 800% over budget because you guys can't manage a fucking project to save your life. Yeah. So you could in theory. To move an ant-hill. Yeah. You could in theory say that the five or six billion dollars that it was originally

supposed to be, tenuous. But if we gave you that, you cannot also say and where's our gratitude for the fact that we can't get a reasonable timeline where's the gratitude for the fact that we went hundreds of percent over budget where's the gratitude for the fact that we're all a bunch of idiots

you're not going to give us any thank you for that no no after all I've done for you yeah after all of the money we wasted going over budget you're not even going to thank us for our incompetence no never in a billion years ever and that goes into this

where if Alberta wants if Canada wants Alberta to stay it's actually quite simple just treat them fairly and that's all anybody's wanted whenever Quebec gets something you say well could we get that too no stop being a bigot yeah well that's kind of an extreme response like what if we just what if we just wanted to do there no no no no no no no quiet this is this

Can we collect our own taxes? No, no, you're mega north. You're maple mega. Well, and that's the thing. We don't even have maple trees out there. Quebec's the place that fucking has them all. Exactly. Ottawa could fix the House of Commons so it's proportional to population.

Well, what if we just had everybody represented equally in Ottawa? Is that crazy? Is that maple mega? Fix the Senate so it's elected. That would be a threat to our democracy. An equal number of seats per province would be a threat to our democracy. Repeal the multiple pieces of legislation preventing pipeline and energy project construction and let the private sectors get to work. Just quit being dicks.

Yeah. Get rid of the equalization program. I am sick and tired of the money I earn going to Ottawa, getting funneled around like those street guys with the three cups and the ball underneath. and I'll ought to offer a little bit. And then handing that same fucking dollar off to some frog so he could put it in his tight jeans and go buy a fucking baguette with it. You know, it hurts even more when, when,

when you're a business owner. It's like, it's not like there's, you know, it's being carved a slice off your paycheck. You got to write a big check every April and send it out there. And it's just, it just, you just know they're going to, they're going to waste half of it and steal the other half. Yep.

Yeah. Absolutely. I've been telling people when they're like, oh, how's the vape store going? Tell them. I've been doing like 150 episodes of this mashup thing and nothing will turn you into an extremist faster than having a business. Yep. Yeah. Convert transfer payments using a tax point transfer. Yeah, maybe.

Give up the spending power on issues that are provincial jurisdiction. that's the other thing is that the federal government, they realized at some point that they don't have to, they can't dictate what happens in a province. But when all the money goes to them first and then to the provinces, they can say, well, look, if you want your money back, we're not saying you have to do this, but if you want your money back, you're going to do it.

And you're going to smile about it and you're going to shut up about it. And a thank you would be nice. Yeah. And that goes away. If Alberta collects its own tax revenue, then it says, look, we've already got the money. So pissed up for a lot, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

We'll let you know if there's any change. Yeah. Yeah, sorry. You know, I was, I was totally going to pay you, but then I, you know, we just don't have it. Sorry, next year, maybe. We had, we actually had, uh, 20 billion dollars set aside for federal taxes and also for economic deadweight losses caused by stupid regulations. and then the problem, I guess it's our fault because we shouldn't have grouped those two things together.

But that $20 billion got spent up real quick and now we don't have any remaining to send you. That's called a wash. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, fair enough. The money went out into the ether. It's your job. It's your fault because you didn't get it. Yeah.

So, yeah. And then there's, I mean, you've got the first nations who are saying that she's stoking separatism talks. I don't think that anybody in Alberta has been stoking separatism talks. They're happening organically. Well, no, no, no, no. It's if you want to, if you want to get mad at the people who are stoking separatism talks in this country, they're all in fucking Ottawa and fucking Quebec. Yeah.

Like, we're mad because you keep beating us. Like, no one would be talking about separation if you guys just shut up and quit paying and kept paying for everything. while we talk down to you about it. Yeah, but like, what if we don't want that? Well, then you're a separatist and you're stoking separation talks. Well, aren't you stoking it by giving us a raw deal? Is there no ownership for, for the first step taken in this journey?

Yeah. No, no, it's, it's like, this is victim blaming. Like, imagine going to a battered women's shelter and being like, none of you would be here. If you could just figure out how to cook a fucking meatloat. That's what the federal government is. is doing to Western Canada right now. Yeah, but he loves me. We were talking about J.G. McCullough earlier.

He had a tweet that, well, this morning. He says, it's wild how the Eastern press portrays Premier Smith, who is not a separatist and has never advocated separatism as this incredibly dark, ominous character, while Eve Francois Blanchet, who loudly and often says Canada is a stupid country he hates living in, is cast as literally a fun uncle. And he is absolutely, actually Blanchett is absolutely right, but more to the point, J.J. McCullough is absolutely right. And this is this whole, if Quebec does it, oh, that's fine.

It's okay. But if Alberta does it, they're a bunch of extremists. Yeah. You know, we said we were going to get off of Kenny, but like, you know, he's chirping and what, you can't even elect a single MP for separatism. It's like, who said anything about electing an MP? You know, like, why do we got to put a federal representative? Why do you care about the federal stage when it comes to this?

Yeah. And, and, you know, here's the thing, too, like if, if, if it's not, if it's not separatism, like, if that's, if that's, you know, beyond our, our, our, our ability to get, um, at least it's more autonomy, right? Yeah. Like, like, that's, I mean, Quebec plays that, that hand so well. It's like, well, give us this or we'll leave. They get everything they want, right? And then some. But, but it's always like whenever Ottawa tries to placate the West, they don't understand it.

And this is the fundamental part of the relationship. They just don't understand it. And they're like, well, Randy Bissanall, one of the rannies was on an interview talking about how like, strong eagle man, strong eagle man said that Alberta would get more federal money if they voted more liberals. We don't want more federal money. We want to keep the money that we have. And it's it's just this it's just this um this disconnecting perspectives right because they look at it

people out east voted for which party would give them the most free shit and people out west wanted to vote for the party that was going to fuck them over the least it's like they're like hey we've got a dairy cartel don't you appreciate that like no I'm lactose intolerant and I'm actually wearing a shout out to the dairy cartel. He sent me and Sean these shirts. That's deadly. So DC, thanks for that. I got him. I'm wearing them and Sean's going to get his when he comes to town in a in a week. All right. So Chantelle Hebert was on CBC talking about how all of this fuck Carney type thing. It's all new. It's all new. This is all

conservative stuff that never ever happened before and that we're the extremists. And so here's somebody who doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground talking about it. Chantelle Ibert from CBC is right. All this time she covered Turner, Maruni, Harper or Kretzien. Nobody had signs that said fuck Harper or fuck Kretchen. This CPC is not true conservatives, but turned into a far right wing group. The rhetoric is terrible. it comes from the U.S.

And here's a perfect example from the Huffington Post. And this, here, here, here's, here's, here's fuck Harper signs. Here's more fuck Harper signs. Here's fuck Harper. And here's that same guy with his fuck Harper car. They burned a,

they burned a Harper in effigy. I remember that. They burned it with sticks and then burned it in Vancouver. Yeah. Did that come from the U.S. too or no. Oh, no, no, no. was that was totally that was organic support so it's totally different here's here's what happened oil spill in english bay here that happened earlier this month where am i i want to scroll ahead

they took uh that paper mshae effigy right into that busy intersection dan and they started beating it with sticks but you know what a short while ago uh the protesters were back here at morton park and they actually lit that effigy on fire. I'm going to confess, too, I didn't even see, I didn't see you have that in there. I totally derailed your. No, you were bang on. You were absolutely bang on that.

And so, yes, this whole right wing thing that came from the U.S. It never existed here before. And all of this shit is totally made up. All of it. And it just so happens that Huffington Post and CBC, like that was literally a. CBC reporter talking about that. And they made it up.

So Chantelli Bear from the CBC conveniently forgot about their own reporting on this exact thing. Fuck a bear. Actually, don't. Oh, God. I'd probably take Elizabeth Mayo. I'd fuck a bear before I'd fuck a bear. That's fair. That's fair. And in terms of how much it would cost you,

the bear would probably be less expensive. Now, do you remember when Pollyev took all that heat for that picture he took with raging dissident, Jeremy McKenzie? Yes, he's a threat to our democracy. He is a threat to our democracy, and here's that picture again. Oh, could you imagine the audacity? I think that is absolutely reprehensible that any politician in this country,

especially in the lead up to an election, would pose with such a polarizing figure. the next picture is completely unrelated. He's such a master troll, this guy. Yeah. Well, and he's even wearing a diagonal pin. Oh, yeah. Look at that.

He just dressed up in a nice jacket and came in all stealthy like. Like he's wearing. He's literally shaking his hand. Yeah. He's literally shaking the hand of a diagonal revolutionary terrorist. Who is outwardly wearing diagonal on paraphernalia? Yeah. This is just this is just the silly well, it's the silly stuff, but let's get into like the actual silly stuff.

Let's see some actual goofy news. So the U.S. government wants to crack down on elected leaders having the inside track on stock trades. And so they came out with the preventing elected leaders from owning securities and investments act. Or for short, the Pelosi Act. it's perfect oh see this is the kind of thing i wish we had more of in canadian politics it's great i love it i want to see i want to see more of it it's just hilarious and then also um so mark carney did a did a nazi salute out of the back of a truck while he was waving at people and so there's pictures of it people were commenting on it and the same people who are saying that

Elon Musk is a Nazi because of his Nazi salute. A literal. Are just are being literal apologists for Mark Carney when he did it. And there's there's probably a dozen we could have gone through on this easily, easily like just within a quick search. But it's just folks, you need to understand that as much as you like or hate either one of them, Mark Carney is every bit as much a Nazi as Elon Musk is.

The exact same amount. Yep. Exactly the same amount. And anybody who's telling you different is just trying to sell you something. Also, Tesla, the Wall Street Journal, had released a false report saying that the Tesla board had contacted recruitment firms to initiate a CEO search at the company. This was proved to be false. It was proved to be false before the article got published and they published it anyway. So every time you think you hate the media, it's not nearly enough.

Now, this is funny. Patrick Schumer. I love this. Or Chuck Schumer. Just here, it's a bit of a clip, but here. The polls this week show Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating since they started polling 80 years ago, the lowest. Even worse, 72% of Americans think it's likely that Trump's handling of the economy will walk us directly into a recession. This is the same press conference, by the way.

Trump is proposing. Yes. There was a poll out today that has your approval lower than any other congressional agreement at 17%. Are you concerned that you may be a liability for your party? Polls come and go. Polls come and go. Well, you're polling at 17%.

Chuck, are you worried about that? Polls come and go. You know, it's not so much that they'll reverse themselves so quickly and contradict themselves so easily, but that bothers me. In the same press conference? Literally, literally, but it's that they get away with it.

So nobody fucking cares and he'll get reelected. Yeah. Now, this is probably some of the goofiest news we've ever had on the show, aside from Sean. I'm excited to be here for this. This woman had filed a report because a man was assaulting her and trying to enter the home and everything like that. After Catherine Jensen says her ex-boyfriend attacked her minutes before they arrived. So what happened? He kicked in the door.

I ran. He choked me out. Tried to get the keys from my hand of my truck. So he grabbed you by your neck? Mm-hmm. Handling himself. Charles Reed is the man Catherine claimed broken to her home and assaulted her. She said it kicked in the door.

And why is that a problem? Because I'm in a wheelchair and have been for 25 years. Charles cannot move so there was that. He must have got like a lot of momentum going. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's got crazy good upper body strength. Yeah.

And so anyway, he doesn't even know about this until he applies for his passport to be renewed. And they're like, well, we can't renew your passport because there's a warrant out for your arrest. And so then he goes to the police station and he's like, hey guys, I'm really confused. Apparently there's a warrant out from my arrest. And then they look into it and they say they got to cuff him. The thing about it is is that he can't move his legs. And so they got to cuff him. and they immediately decide that he's faking to try and get away from this.

They're like, there's no way. The report, the report says that he kicked down the door. And he's showing up in a wheelchair. This is insane. So here's what happens when he goes to the police station. I don't have muscle control. It's too late. Oh my God.

Oh my God. I mean, I could have broken my hip and died like very quickly. How did they respond? They literally sat there and just watched me rise on the ground. The officer still didn't believe Charles was disabled. Neither did a supervisor who never put his eyes on Charles before saying this. It's a ruse, man. So, I mean, it's an obvious attempt to not to get a kill.

A fellow officer disagreed. Might need to call the district attorney's office. So this is like literally from Talladega Nights where Ricky Bobby's like, I can't move my legs. I'm in a wheelchair. And they're like, Ricky Bobby, you're fine. You just need to stand up. And he's like, this isn't funny.

My laugh is over. And then he stabs himself in the leg with the steak knife. This is that. This is that thing. That's perfect. Just get another steak knife in there and use it as a lever to wedge it out. So anyway, apparently this woman later said that she wanted to amend her statement that she made to police.

Yeah, I bet. Yeah. Yeah, probably. I mean, just like, how do you? Oh. So anyway, another interesting thing in goofy news. Radio station faces backlash after listeners dup by AI host for six months. So a radio station in Australia, they had this fake person on on the radio.

Like basically, it was DJX off of Spotify. was what they did. And they did it for six months and nobody noticed. Nobody put it together when she said, oh, I got some of your recent favorites coming at you. I got some songs you were enjoying him back in 2023. Yeah. Jokes on YouTube.

I'm actually an AI. Oh, wow. Wow. Impressive. Very realistic. Very realistic. And so, yes. And then people are,

people are mad because. basically all this person did on their show was DJX stuff. It's not like there was, it's not like it was long form commentary or current events or anything like that. It was just, oh, we got this new song by whomever. Check it out.

Or, oh, I got some new tunes. I think you're really going to feel. Yeah. If you've listened to the radio lately, like if you're somewhere that where you can't get Wi-Fi, you know,

I'd actually prefer DJX from, from Spotify over the DJs they have right now. For the, for the most part, yes, that's absolutely right. Yeah. With the exception of every once in a while, like there's a few kind of morning show people where you're like, okay, this is interesting

and I enjoy tuning into this and whatever else. But even then, when they do like their highlight reels at the end of the week, that's all you need. It peaked, it peaked in about 2004 when they had Mike Richards here. Do you remember him?

No, I wasn't here in 2004. Oh, he. He was legendary. He was, he brought him up from Toronto. He was a comedian sports commenter guy and he had Mike Richards in the morning. And that was back when the flames were good. It was,

uh, it was, it was a lot of fun. He did, he did impersonations and stuff. He had like, fuck, that was,

that was peak. After, after he left, it was like, not worth listening anymore. Hmm. And Zane just says, dude,

I just realized the Lego cat and Titanic in the background. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, uh, uh,

uh, and some other stuff. Yeah, I'm a man child. I have a lot of Lego. Yes. All right. So further in goofy news. Multi-parent families like throuples to be granted legal rights in Quebec.

Oof. I don't even know where to go with this. I didn't even bother reading the article. I'm more interested in this thing over the side that says rare two-headed snake turned head California pet store. That's some good ad targeting. Like, oh. Honestly.

I got to see this thing. Oh, fuck yeah. Okay. Now, this is news. A double take. Well, I mean, you know, given that we've been covering Canadian politics for this whole episode, the fact that now we're talking about a literal double-headed snake instead of a

figurative one is kind of a nice eye. Very Jason Kenney-like reptile here. right now. Hey, speaking of targeted ads, if you want to, if you want to really fuck up your algorithm, just Google, uh, mattresses. Holy shit. I, I bought, uh, I ordered some, some new foam mattresses for my, for my, for my camper yesterday.

Yeah. And I, I landed on some page called, called mattress review that there's, I've never seen more aggressive marketing in my life than, and even, even if you're listening to this in your car right now, your phone's probably listening to you. You're going to start getting. mattress ads like I'm just being assaulted with with mattress ads it is I got to if if anyone knows someone if you're listening and you sell mattresses I want to have you on my podcast I want to know all about mattress sales holy shit it's aggressive well I mean it makes sense given the fact that

you've kind of got this narrow window to land the sale and then you're not going to do it for a very long time afterwards yeah and they're expensive and I think there's a lot of margin too I mean I imagine there is because it's such a it's such a fluctuating demand thing like I imagine over a big enough population it roughly evens out but if you're buying a mattress every 10 years you know you've got if you've got one client you've got this narrow window in a decade to make that one sale you you better make a good payday off you know and now it's it's the foam stuff too because they came over these like foam delivery mattresses that they compress into a box like what does it what does it cost to turn out a rectangle of foam and they charge you 600 bucks for it well yeah and then the shipping

isn't too terrible because you know they get it down to like a shoe box it's and then it's air it's literally air yeah so they'll get it down to like a shoe box and then you got this like weighty thing that you you that shows up on your doorstep and you can see the floorboards creaking underneath the step you pick it up and then they're like okay so just um pull this tab only this fall and then leave the room immediately, right? Yeah, you touch the tape with a box cutter, and it explodes like a fucking inflatable boat coming off of an airplane or something.

Yeah, well, yeah, if you're not far enough away, when that thing opens up, you're going to look like that woman who got beat up in Vancouver. Yeah, vote liberal. Yeah. Okay. So, here's the other thing about, So we have this tradition that we started back with the previous host

where we would cover interesting things that happened with the Oilers. And they have this, have you heard about the Donair Canon? I have not. Okay. So you know like T-shirt cannons, right? Yeah. Where they'll just fire off T-shirts into the crowd. Fum, fom, fom, fom.

The riders have one that's this giant Gatling gun. It's probably the peak of human civilization. Are you about to tell me that they shoot Dornier's at peak? people. They shoot don't airs into the crowd at Oilers games. And they're all carefully wrapped and in these like indestructible packages so that they can handle the torque force and impact created from shooting this out of a cannon. Usually.

What's the muzzle velocity of a of an unladen swallow? Fuck. Of a don't air rifle. English or? Is it an English or African donair? Yeah, donners are not migratory. So anyway, they didn't pack one right at the playoff game the other night.

Who could have possibly predicted this? Like, this is something where you need really good QA and QC. Yeah, like they didn't pack one right. Like a supervisor. Yeah, like get somebody who does skydiving to just be like, is this pack correctly. So they shoot off a don't air, which is supposed to be a bullet,

but ends up being buckshot. Yeah. Into the crowd at the Oilers game. And the worst part is that nobody happened to, like nobody happened to catch footage of this, or at least that I've seen so far. One of the guys from Oilers Nations was up in the cheap seats and it happened just below him.

And so he was talking about it, but nobody had actually videotaped them getting rained with basically what's a Greek salad and meat from 300 feet away. So anyways, great on you, oil. I know, right? Like last season, you had the girl with the boobs. And then this year, you got donaires. Now they're going to have like a donair sauce stain next to the mustard stain on their

wife feeder. Yeah. I mean, sorry. Like, I get it because like donaires is kind of that reconstant. and meat. And so I could see them being exceptionally popular in a city like Edmonton where very few people have full sets of tea. Yeah, you just give you a spoon.

Yeah. Well, I mean, if they had to spray it any harder at the crowd, they would have just had to give everybody nachos. Gross. The other thing is that this woman is now selling emotional support chickens with oilers colors. I should have it on my podcast. the roller coaster of emotions enough to make your heart race and blood pressure rise. Do you cheer for a high character team that refuses to play with a lead?

Can your nervous system not tell the difference between being on the penalty kill and being attacked by a bear? If any of these resonate with you, you might need an emotional support playoff chicken. And apparently demand has absolutely exploded. So, I mean, it's this unique combination of fun product. timely interactions and clever marketing. And they should shoot those out of the Donair gun. They probably want actual, they probably want to wrap them,

wrap raw eggs in them knowing. Right. More lifelike, yeah. Yeah, yeah. A donor cannon. Great guys. What could possibly go wrong? I can't see any possible downside to this.

This is the exact thing. this is the exact sort of forward thinking that Jurassic Park was built on guys I wanted to be in the meeting I want to be in the meeting where they're like you know what we just need to try some new stuff to get the crowd going like if we're you know if we're if we're down a couple of points

like and somebody actually puts up his hand and says what if we shot donairs at people in the crowd out of a cannon and and then other people were like yes that's a good idea we should definitely do that Well, what it probably was was that they had a very structured meeting at a very large mahogany table. And there was a bunch of really serious people in expensive suits. And they were like, okay, 1030 to 1035 is the new pitch for the canon idea.

And then 1035 to 1045 is discussing pros. And then 1045 to 11 is discussing cons. and then at 1043, they said, guys, guys, guys, it's almost lunchtime. We got a roll. And they said, okay, close enough, we're good. Let's go for donaires. Yeah, yeah, let's, no, I don't like those. I don't even.

Liability insurance, a donair launcher has to carry to look into that. What if you hit a vegetarian? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're in trouble. That's a, that's a human rights complaint. Oh, it would be a hate crime. Yeah, exactly. Like somebody who just hates Tetsiki sauce and they're like, oh.

I feel so underrepresented. I feel so underrepresented here. It's a threat to our democracy. Okay. This is also in the crazy news. This woman had got onto a plan in just regular bare seats. She saw that there was a first class seat open. and she went to go get in it.

And they said, well, you can't just do that. And she's like, well, it's empty. I'm just going to upgrade myself. He said, well, you can't just upgrade yourself. This is your seat. And so after it got so bad that the entire plane had to be evacuated, she is standing there a little bit. I feel like this probably would have played better.

She was a redhead instead of a blonde. But here you need to try to get you to calm down, I thought. No, I was calm. And then you grabbed me. Ma'am, are we going to have, ma'am, slowly, don't you? I don't know. Ma'am, do you have any weapons on your person?

I don't have it. You know, my nails are my weapons. You grab me again. I'm going to scratch you. I'm going to scratch you. Like, make a family guy. No, I'm going to drive you. You can.

Ma'am. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Ma'am, all right, we got, ma'am, let go. Ma'am. That looks like my 14-year-old daughter the other night when she refused to go inside the McDonald's to eat. What? Oh, never mind. No, I'm genuinely curious at this.

Oh, well, so, okay, so the kids wanted to get McDonald's for dinner because, you know. They want McDonald's for every meal? Yeah, because it's crack for children. And I'm like, okay, but I'm not ordering in. I want to eat it hot right when it comes out of the kitchen, I'm going to go in there. We're going to sit in the rest. I'm not going in there, dad. There's going to be people in there.

I'm like, okay. Well, you can sit in the car and me and your sister are going to go in and eat. And then we'll bring the rest home for you after and you can eat it cold. And, uh, no, yeah, full on, full on tantrum there. And, and, you know, I'm weak. So she got her way. Oh. Some, some parenting.

It was a great story right up until the end. Now I'm sad. I should have lied. Shit. Yeah. Um, they don't do take out, uh, from this from this spot now here's here just we're we're almost done with the crazy entitled women uh we

just have one more Megan markle is doing a podcast appearance on the Kernlema show on something exciting for as ever i've had your jam in my refrigerator all year no one knows no one's seen it i have not posted it in this incredible conversation Megan shares stories and insights for the first time ever could you imagine if literally actually like that fuck could you imagine if we did that for you being on the mashup it's not about the grandeur of a gesture it's about i see you i'm nurturing you so deeply and i love being able to see your growth that man loves me so much and you know that would be the part where she's She says she loves him, by the way.

Yeah. I hate actors. Oh, my God. Oh, my. Actually, you know what? I kind of feel like if we had a production team, I'd be like, make a Megan Markle video of me and Taylor. Yeah, sign me up. I'm in.

Ontario must cover U.S. surgery for transpatient who wants vagina and to keep her penis. Oh, that guy can go fuck himself. he literally will be able to. Yes. Yes. So these are your tax dollars at work. And so now, happy news, folks.

I didn't put these. I didn't put these in. So you're seeing them all new and fresh. Miniaturedashen found safe after surviving 529 days in the Australian wilderness. In the part of the world where literally every plant, bug, and animal is developed after millions of years of evolution to murder humans, this tiny little dash hunt, this little like purse dog,

survived for a year and a half in the woods. That's impressive. They got spiders bigger than that dog. I hope they breed them. I hope he's not neutered because like that dog's got some valuable genes. It's, well, I mean,

the dog's rolled over. So you get, you get a view of the bottom in this picture. And it's not a he. So there's, I hope they breed her. Yep. Hope she needs spayed.

Yep. Strangers came up to say wild horses trapped in mud pit. In Herber Overguard, Arizona, where a mariner foal became trapped in a dangerously dying mud pit and quick actions of local volunteers and photographers. Come on, guys. The quick actions of the volunteers and photographers. Both horses are now safe and back in the wild where they belong. So these weren't even people's horses.

They were just wild horses. Hey, what happens if you eat a banana every day? Oh, what's this? You eat a banana every day. Oh, yeah, okay, if you eat a banana every day, this is what happens. Oh, it's a video. You're getting, you're getting,

now all of my ads are going to be about eating bananas. We should be using Sean's computer and get all the, all the spyware on his instead clicking that shit. Okay. And then this, this should have been. goofy news, but guys, this is probably the most important thing we're going to talk about today. I don't know if you guys remember, Bud Light did a thing a little while back, where they had this transgender person as the face of their beer.

And it caused a multi-billion dollar backlash. But what actually ended up happening was that they were fucked. They were screwed. They closed entire plants. it just it was it was a disaster from start to finish and now Coca-Cola has their names back you can get your names back on on the on the bottles again and to commemorate this I was filling up on my way to Lloyd in Red Deer and I stopped at the Petro Pass just across from gasoline alley and this

was the ad they have up so they have two two bottles right next to each other that say Leah Thomas. Now, for those of you who don't know who Leah Thomas is, this is Leah Thomas. I've never seen that before picture. He actually looked more like a girl before he grew his hair out.

You know what? You're actually really correct. I mean, imagine, well, you know, and in this case, maybe it was a little bit justified then. Could they not come up with a better combination of two names here? like was like Adolf and Hitler had taken well maybe maybe they just had like the letter A

and then they had Dolph afterwards and you put them together and you get Adolf or or like um oh shoot what um maybe they had oh sam and then abin next to them and then laudan at the end but yeah so coca cola and petro canada have apparently teamed up with transgender swimmers to bring you their new named bottles this year. So well done guys, well done. I can't see that going poorly for you at all.

Just save that. If you're out of Petrocan and that's on a cooler, save that, that's going to be collectible. Peel that off. I should have just stole the sign, I guess. And you know what? $2 or two coax for $5.50. That's the fucking deal?

Like what happened? inflation. I guess, yeah. But the inflation's in your head. It's only gone up a few percentage points. It's transitory. Yes, yes. And, well, in this case, it definitely is transitory.

Okay, so community notes, anybody have any? I'm not sure exactly where tickets are at for the Cornerstone Forum. I don't think you can get food if you buy them at this point, but I'm sure you can still get them. there's also the trade show part of it so if you think that you want to get a booth or anything like that i think there's still some available sean would be the guy to double check with on all of this stuff but tickets show pass sean newman uh podcast cornerstone forum and then you can reach out to him directly if you're looking to get a booth it's a week away it's going to be a ton of fun i'm really looking forward to it apparently the idiot's going to have me up

on stage. I'm totally going to screw with this timing, like on purpose. I'm going to have specific segments that go like four seconds over and he's going to be pissed right off. It's going to be hilarious. Who's following you? You're going to screw them up. Oh, I'm a tough act to follow just in general. You're the closer. You should go to last. I'm not sure exactly where I fit into the schedule of things. But yeah, it's, uh, it's going to be good. I'm looking forward to it. A lot of people are going to be there. So meet some

people that like the same things you do and think like you do. And I don't know. I think that's about it, man. Well, cool. This is a lot of fun. It was. You know, Tuesday just texted me yesterday. Hey, what did you think about co-hosting the mashup?

I said, that sounds like a lot of fun. We're just kind of winging it, but that's, that's my speed, man. So it was a lot of fun. And thanks for having me on. Appreciate you coming on. TKRE. That's right. Yep.

Or you can find a at. Taylor King real estate on on Instagram. And, you know, I do have a, I do have an ex account, but I'm kind of a, I'm kind of anonymous on there because I, I don't even know what it is. Yeah, exactly. I say things that could get me in trouble. And I can't, uh, bring any negative light on my, my regulated industry. So anyway, so.

Fair enough. Yeah. All right. And then Commission Impossible is the podcast. It's, I, I enjoy it. I'm glad I got to record another one. I would be listening. I would be listening to.

if I didn't know you. That's high praise. Appreciate that. And maybe it'll be my next guest. All right. Well, we'll see, we'll see how that works. Okay, so don't close anything out. We're just going to end the stream, which probably doesn't have music.

And I'm sorry, Kevin and your friends.