Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 157

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

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

I don't know about you guys. But sometimes I really hate women. So, Mrs. Well, I'm going to rewind a little bit. We have this fancy faucet with like a motion sensor in front of it and a valve. It took me forever to figure it out when I first moved into this place. And it's been working fine for years. And then all of a sudden it quits working entirely. No water.

No water in the kitchen sink. I've got family coming over and I'm going to the bathroom and using the faucet there to get coffee, to get water for coffee and laughing about how silly this whole thing is. But I don't have time to look at it. I've got a house full of everybody. And then I immediately have to leave that and do a bunch of running around. And then I get home, Mrs. Tews, under the sink, she says, we need four double A batteries. And so I come home to Mrs. Tews fixing the plumbing in the house.

And not only doing that, but before I even had a chance to look at it, she's diagnosed the problem, figured out what we need. Bada bing, bada boom. So if anybody needs me, I'll be baking cookies and doing some dusting because she is now the man of the house. All right. Well, we're going to be having some audio difficulty. Some audio difficulty. I'm not sure what's going on.

I don't know if anybody watched last night's game. Yeah, Kevin, the song is back. He can't figure out plumbing. Can't figure out an intro song. It's good to be back. It's good to be back. It's not that I couldn't figure it out. It's that before I even had a chance to,

who's like, oh, here's the problem. And I'm like, what a bitch. And now I'm like, now I'm going to cough for the next, whatever. How's everybody doing? We're doing well. For those of you watching, and you're wondering who our new guest is.

He was on here previously. We brought it back. He's basically the Daryl Sutter of the mashup now. Fired, brought back, fired, brought back. correct and it feels like i'm going to have a tickle in my throat for the entire show which is great um welcome to mashup 157 folks it's good to be back and uh as you can tell a little bit of different background doing it out of calgary this week obviously we got the event tomorrow night Tuesday excited because i'm excited i'm very excited we've got me everybody's going to be there and if you haven't got your

tickets yet you should have you still can there's still a few online and actually to all the wonderful listeners here in the probably first 20 minutes as we get going. We're going to give away two sets of two as well. Shannon Heinz showed out to Shannon. She's going to be helping work the front door. She's got extra tickets that she bought and she wanted to give them out of the mashup. So that's going to be coming. So pay attention for that.

We'll have the text line pop up so people can text. So if you're interested in attending, but you know, money's tight or, you know, you just haven't thought about it. There's going to be two giveaways here simultaneously, at one point in time, I'll interject at some point as we get the show going. But yeah, it's you know, Martin Armstrong landed last night.

Alex Kramer, Tom Luongo. And so it looks like we're going to have all the speakers here. If you're watching, make sure to like, share, get a rooster hat. Tell them the story about the hat. Give them a little bit of the roosters heads. There you go.

Aloha. So I guess I got to talk while I'm turning like this so that people can see it better and hear me at the same time. Or I could just move the boom arm. So, Brett Olland, CEO of Bow Valley Credit Union. BVCU. Was in Hawaii when he came on

during our election live stream. And he was getting ready to leave. And he sees this hat with a rooster and Aloha. And he, for some reason, thought of me. And so... That's a great hat. It is. It is. It's wonderful. So thank you very much for that, Brett.

Well, and if I may interject on BBCU, one of the title sponsors of the forum, they were a title sponsor of our mashup live election coverage and Silver Gold Bull. They're both bringing the Cornerstone Forum to Calgary, which is tomorrow. And today is action pack. So we got the mashup coming to you from a little different setting. And then tomorrow is the big share. Yeah, it is. It is. And we got to say, happy Airborne Friday, Jamie Sinclair.

he was in town now as well. So Jim in town. Chuck Brodnick just text me. He's in town. All right. So it's going to be, yeah. So I met up with Jamie Sinclair for a couple of drinks yesterday. We're at some fancy upscale place, totally out of our, totally out of our depths.

We're sitting at the bar talking to this. Well, he's, believe it or not, doing all the talking to everybody at the bar, including the pretty bartender, who he's doing his best to impress. and he's so busy having fun talking to everybody that he just keeps getting handed all these openings and stuff like that and he's just completely missing them. And so he's like, oh, what's your deal? What's going on?

And then she's like, she mentioned something about how she kind of hates men right now because she's recently separated. But he misses it entirely because he asks her about it. And then before she even gets a chance to respond, he's saying something completely different to somebody like behind and to the side of him. And I'm like, this beautiful woman

just is trying to tell him that he's back on, that she's back on the market. And he's not even, he's just off over here. Like three seconds later. He's like a dog chasing cars. He wouldn't know what to do if he caught one. Oh, it's just, it was just, like, you are the smartest, stupidest man, I know.

That's great. Okay, let's, let's, shall we get into, uh, coot six and a half? Yes, yes. Well, this one's kind of fun and interesting in a not fun or interesting sort of way. Yes, Pastor Tom Chung was killed on May 2nd, 2019 when a Washington state resident, uh, Gerbinder Singh crashed into his minivan in a border lineup, causing it to burst into flames. Singh's 40 pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing death, but in April provincial court, Judge Daniel Weatherly dismissed the charge ruling his mental state was profoundly impaired at the time of the collision.

The agreed facts in the case included Singh was traveling north at 120 kilometers an hour in a 30-kilometer zone on Highway 99 and a Porsche Cayenne at the time of the crash. 120 in a 30 zone. Killed somebody in a fiery wreck. That's a damn shame. You move along now. Move along now. this is what it is yeah well

foreign foreign intertale interference shall we yeah yeah so I don't know do you want to start at the start with with Hong Kong sure yeah Hong Kong police were reportedly detained

and questioned relatives of former conservative election candidate Joe Tay who was targeted by aggressive Chinese cyber and ground operations during the recent federal campaign this comes from a Sam Cooper article. The move to detain and question Tay's cousin and the man's wife in Hong Kong was reported by multiple sources, including Hong Kong free press,

appears aimed at ramping up pressure on Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney. Taye, who lost by 5,000 votes to his liberal opponent in Don Valley. The tactic used on him aligns with Chinese Communist Party's growing use of family-based intimidation to suppress overseas dissent. Some of the charges that Hong Kong formal charges laid against them by Hong Kong, police is incitement to secession, collusion with a foreign country, with external elements to endanger national security. So this is a follow-up to, you guys remember when we were talking about how the embassy

in Canada, the Chinese embassy in Canada, had a bounty on this guy during an election, which is insane. And they said, oh, that's fine. We don't have to get you. We can get your family. Yeah. And so, yeah, this is, this is dark. This is dark.

And we are letting it happen. Yeah. Well, I mean, we just go back to Mark Kearney, not addressing when the candidate Ode East, you know, he got removed from being a candidate. But I mean, he literally just, it's like, are we having bounties in Canada now? Yeah.

It's a learning experience, he called it. A learning experience. Yeah, yeah. I feel like China's fucking learning how to fucking go about things pretty well, I would say. election follow um okay there's there's a whole bunch here okay so we had the election as everybody knows we i'm sure you've listened to tuesday now for a couple weeks talk about um how many people we had watching and everything and and and then you have on carney is now the new prime minister and

you know some things coming out since then the first one is a headline big kick in the teeth the NDP won't receive campaign campaign reimbursements in hundreds of ridings. The NBP managed, you know, on election night, we're all guessing. I said nine. They got seven MPs elected and one NDP official described the party's

current financial situation as not great. Well, they were broke before the election started. Correct. They made no money. They get no support. And now, because you have to meet a minimum threshold in each particular writing of,

10% to get the money back or to get a portion of the money back. So some of that goes to the party, some of it goes to the candidate. And they didn't do that in, well, only 46 of the 342 writings. They are getting reimbursement in. Reimbursement for the last time, you know, you think like, oh, hey, you know what? These guys cannot get any more broke. And then Jagmeet Singh says, hold my Mazuron. body.

Well, and the other thing, I don't know if this is unique to the NEP. I'd be curious if the listeners know or twos knows, but in the article it talked about, you said they get reimbursement, some to the party, some to the candidate, but it said in the article that NDP take all the money. They don't give it back to the candidate. They pull it all back into the, and that's when you know you're broke. You're taking all the money because you need to. You have no choice, but to withhold the money going back to the individual candidates, right?

I assume that doesn't happen with the conservatives or the liberals. I'd be shocked if it did. No, they're so broke that this is what they have to do. The only money that candidates are able to walk away with in the NDP right now is their pensions. Is their pensions? Yeah. The next is the, so Pierre Pollyev is going to be riding while we'll read it here. The group that added dozens of candidates to the ballot and conservative leader Pierre Poliov's writing in the recent federal election is planning to do the same thing in

his upcoming by-election. Poliyev is expected to seek a seat in the House of Commons for the Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot after losing his long-held Carlton. The longest ballot committee was responsible for adding 85 of the 91 names on the Carlton ballot, though none of them got more than 57 votes, but they are planning to do the exact same thing on Pierre's upcoming by-election, whatever that's called. So there's a lot of people saying that this is trying to thwart

democracy and they're trying to throw the election against Polyev and a lot of things of that nature. And I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that, you know, 57 votes is not going to win or lose it for him. He's going to win probably 80 plus percent in this. Yes. It's, it's silly to think that this is an attempt to subvert democracy because there is just

no way, no way that they're going to be anything other than exactly what they're trying to be, which is a goofy political stunt to point out exactly how silly the current system is. And they've done it. They've done it for liberal incumbents, NDP incumbents, and they did it for Pierre, and they're doing it again when he runs for the by-election. The other thing I want to talk about real quick, just circling back to the NDP, is that they have a new interim leader, Don Davies.

And one of their MPs found out about it on. Twitter. They didn't even let everybody know ahead of time, which is doubly crazy considering the fact that they only had seven people to call. You had to make seven phone calls or maybe even texts, and that's all it would have taken to let every single person in the NDP know that this is happening. And actually, technically it would have been six because he's one of the seven people who presumably already knew about it. So you just had to let six people know. There are, are scarce more than a half dozen NDP member of parliaments, and they still can't coordinate something as simple as this.

They're not a serious party. I'm going to pull up on the screen here. Here's elections Canada. It says they tweeted out, I heard that some people say that. I saw someone write that. There's a lot of inaccurate information circulating about elections. For example,

about non-citizens voting, ballot boxes not being secured, or pencils being used to change votes, okay? Here's the article. Over 800 special ballots mistakenly kept in a BC riding election, Canada says more than 800 special ballots cast during the recent federal election were mistakenly kept at the office of returning officer in BC elections Canada. The agencies that all registered political parties have been informed of the 822 special ballots cast by election electors in 74 electoral districts across the country that were left in a returning office in the riding of Coquitlam Port Coquitlam. Yeah. Now, to be clear, just so everybody knows, the Liberal Party won by a margin of almost 2,000 votes.

So this wouldn't have changed anything. But it's funny that they're like, oh, well, you can't trust people saying that we screwed up. They're like, but the CBC just said it. Are they disinformation? Yeah. Vesper says he can't attend Cornerstone this weekend. Quebecers are apparently restricted from entering Alberta. and I was warned about potential reparations I owe related to equalization payments.

Yes. Now, Vesper, is the Quebecers not allowed to come? Is that coming directly from this guy right here? Because I feel like that's probably where you heard that. You're pointing in the wrong direction, but that's fine. Oh, it doesn't show that I am. I don't know. Anyways, it doesn't matter.

I assume twos is where you're getting your information from on that one. We love to have you out here. Love to have you out here. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. It'd be awesome. Yeah, we'll lay out about. bunch of like frog legs um you know with the dinner i'm surprised you didn't go to the poot team tis to the poot team it's it's such an obvious one no obvious for dessert for dessert we're

going to have creme boule do you want to pull up the joe rogan uh video this this one as tues gets it ready this one you know like i think we're all you know um we the story was going that maxine bernier was going to go on rogan and i was like wow okay why isn't pierre going on rogan play the I offered to have that Pierre guy come on the podcast. Really? He didn't do it. Wouldn't do it. I thought it was too problematic or whatever.

Jordan told me, I forget what he said, but they were telling him not to do it. Like his advisors were telling him not to do it. Like, hey, hey, dumb ass. So, yeah, for everybody wondering why Polyev didn't go on Rogan's podcast, it's because he didn't want to. His advisors told him it was too problematic. And you're like,

Joe Rogan, like the viewership on that is insane. Now, I realize it isn't all can't, but think of how many Canadians listen to Joe Rogan. People all across the world listen. I was just, it's insane to me that he didn't take the opportunity to do. No, it totally is in line with everything he's done for the last. Fair enough. Three months ago, everybody in the conservative party got terrified of the legacy media. Because it's not, it's not that everybody would have been like, oh, well, Trump did that.

and so obviously he's the same as Trump. Trump did the appearance at McDonald's where he made a bunch of French fries. Carney did an appearance at a putanery in Granby fucking Quebec where he made a bunch of French fries. And people weren't like, oh, look at them. They're the same person. They're the same person. And it would have been really easy to point that out. Look, I also breathe air.

I breathe, I breathe air and Donald Trump breathes error. Does that mean we're the same? Oh, we're on the same podcast. Come on. And you'd just be like, look, if you stop and think about this for a minute, you'd probably realize that you're being an idiot. And he'd probably put it nicer to the legacy media people, but that's essentially it. And it would have given him on top of the coverage of Rogan, it would have given him

an absolute layup in terms of pointing out how stupid and hypocritical the media is when somebody inevitably would have asked him, well, how do you, feel about the fact that you're appearing on a far-rate, extremist fringe podcast. And then he'd have just been like, I have notes. Okay. So since the election, I've missed two mashups in a row.

And there has been a ton of talk about Western, the word we got this morning is alienation. Before we get to that, before we get to that. Alberta, NDP. ending automatic membership in federal party. Oh, I didn't see that article. The NDP had their AGM a few days ago. And one of the things they voted on was if you become a member of the Alberta

NDP, you automatically become a member of the federal NDP. And they voted to end that, which is going to be problematic, considering the fact that they technically don't, the Alberta NDP technically doesn't exist. it's literally a division of the federal NDP. The other thing that I thought was really interesting about this article, and that's saying a lot given the fact that it's the NDP, Nahed Nenshi gets 89.5% support in leadership vote from NDP convention delegates. So Daniel Smith got 91% of a very, okay, of a very raucous and,

disagreeable group of people. Correct. And in the party where if you disagree with one thing, you are immediately ostrichized. Take Sarah Hoffman, for example. This is what happens is that even in that party,

they only got 89% support for an 85% or 89. Okay, 89.5% from 7754 people who cast ballots. So the UCPAGM was basically, I don't know, it was like the size of the cornerstone forum. Yeah, it was the size of the cornerstone forum. The UCPAGM? No, no, sorry. I'm looking at the

NDP numbers. The UCPAGM was a giant city. Six thousand people. And then this was 774 people. Yes. If that was a, you know, if that was a, you know, attending the Cornerstone Forum, I'm quite excited. If you're a party, you're probably not that excited. I mean, the NDP are excited, but, you know, I, yes. Yeah, 774 people who don't know anything about economics were winning.

Okay, Western alienation. I was going, you know, like in the last two weeks, there has been a ton come out, said, we got a ton of different things. I'll start with Daniel Smith. She first lowered the threshold. Then she had a public address to Albertans. In it, she said a whole bunch of things. Oh, yeah.

For the people who want to separate, want independence, her quote was, I do not support Alberta separating from Canada. The path, she wants a path. She believes there's a path for a strong and sovereign Alberta in Canada. But she has lowered the threshold. She has talked about referendum. She has talked if the citizens get enough,

signatures in the time frame that she'll put it on a referendum ballot in in 2026. And she also called out Doug Ford for basically saying you worry about your province. Ooh, it's even better though. This is probably just about the most chef's kiss thing I have ever seen Daniel Smith do. And this is this is coming from one of those 8% of people who did not vote in support of her at the AGM. and I have a great friendship. We don't agree on everything.

In fact, I think we supported different people in the last federal election. And so she's talking about Rob. She's talking about Doug Ford. We don't agree on everything. In fact, I think we supported different people in the last federal election. That was money. That was well done. Here's the thing, though, that just hits you right in the fields is I'm going to find it somewhere

around here. Oh, and of course, we got the scrolling thing. giving, give it a sec, give it a sec, it's loading. It's loading. Why is it still loading? I'm going to refresh this. However, if there is a successful citizen-led reference. All right, here we go.

Now let's talk about the elephant in the room, that being separation. We are well aware that there is a large and growing number of Albertans that have lost hope in Alberta having a free and prosperous future as a part of Canada. Many of these Albertans are organizing petitions to trigger a citizen-initiated referendum, as I mentioned earlier. The vast majority of these individuals are not fringe voices to be marginalized or vilified. They are loyal Albertans. And that's it. That's the crux of it right there. Is that all of these articles you see being written by elitist asshats in Toronto and Oshawa and Ottawa and Montreal. all. It's just all this vilification. If you wanted to have, if you're not from here, first of all,

you should just sit this one the fuck out. But secondly, if you are wanting to write about it, even after that, the first thing you should be asking, if there's a big group of people or even a small group in some hypothetical example, but if you're trying to look at things from their perspective, the first thing you should ask is, do their grievances make sense? they're mad, okay? Why are they mad? And then does that seem logical? Right.

Like if, for example, twos left an empty bowl on the table. And then Mrs. twos said, I'm mad at you because you left that empty bowl on the table. I would look and I would say, oh, there's an empty bowl on the table. I go, yeah, fair enough.

And then I grab it and into the dishwasher. But if I looked over there and I said, well, there's no bowl there. right that's where you do this but the point is the bull is there the bull is there in both cases if i'm being being brutally honest the bull is there the grievance is real and the fact that when you're trying to analyze this situation and come across as this incredibly intellectual pundit and you're not even asking if why they're pissed off makes a lick a sense or not you're completely missing the entire point

Well, they're asked. We'll switch to Saskatchewan for a sec. Carla Beck, so the leader of the NDP, says a referendum on separation from Canada will drive jobs and investment out of Saskatchewan, even if it's unsuccessful. Just look at what happened to Quebec. I hear loud and clear in my meetings with energy leaders this week. That's why today I introduced Bill 604, the Keeps Saskatchewan and Canada Act.

If passed, this critical legislation will double the threshold. So she wants to double the threshold for a, citizen positions on separation referendums from 15% to 30% for eligible voters. It would also remove the ability of SAS party government to unilaterally hold a referendum on separation without broad support. Okay, first off, that doesn't seem terribly democratic off the top of my head. We're going to make it harder for you to voice your opinion on any sort of a referendum. them. The whole point of democracy is that the voice of the people is heard and carried out by elected

representatives. You're like, what if we could just make it more difficult to have people's voices heard? If you really want to do that, the easiest way, Carla, would be to just unplug your phone. Turn off your email. If you're that disinterested in what the people have to say that you're supposed to be representing, just do a press conference. where you tell every single one of them to fuck all the way off and be done with it. No, okay, I'm not done with this yet. I'm not done with this yet. She says a referendum would drive jobs and investment out of Saskatchewan, even if it's unsuccessful.

Just look at what happened to Quebec. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're missing some really important context here, all right? One of these, I'm not going to tell you which is which. one of the provinces you're discussing, which if it hypothetically had a referendum, you're saying it would drive away jobs because that happened in Quebec.

One of these provinces makes money. It builds things. It's the breadbasket of this fucking nation. It's got some of the hardest working people you would ever hope to meet. And the other one is a bunch of freeload and baguette suckers. Okay? Oh, if Quebec leaves,

all of the equalization taps get shut off, and all of a sudden and all of the bailouts for Boeing and all of the government mandated make work such as it is, projects all go away. Of course their economy was going to shit the bed because you look at it and you say, well, fuck, there's a chance that their gravy train dries up, in which case, yeah, investment is going to leave.

If you look at it from the Saskatchewan side, like, oh, there's a chance that maybe they're going to untie this anchor that's dragging around the bottom of the boat on the bottom of the ocean. Well, that's actually kind of a good thing. I would want to invest more in there. It's a little bit of nuance, and I get the fact that the NDP is not a serious party, but you just got to think about it for a second, and it's going to make sense. Let's switch to some First Nations, okay?

So first, there's two different things. things here. First Nations leaders say Alberta would lose access to resources on treaty territory should the province choose to break ties with the Federation. It's one of the several factors. Economists said make the conversation around separation a non-starter. And then, quote, pack up your bag and go, said a prominent First Nation leader in northern Alberta, Chief Alan Adam of the Athabasca, Chippewan, First Nation, you're not welcome here anymore. And I might read further down the article, it said a prominent First Nation leader in Northern in Alberta, Chief Alan Adam, the same one,

is facing criticism after records revealed he received $55,000 from the American Tides Foundation to oppose oil sands development. Yes. So, look, maybe he believes really strongly about this. It's possible. But it seems as though his public stance on things in Canada are for sale. Yeah, conflict of interest. Well, conflict of interest.

That isn't conflict of interest. it looks it looks like he got straight up fucking bought fair and he could address it he could clear the air on this but also further on in this article it says that he has never spoke about it publicly which i'm sure he's been asked about and here's where you need here's where you need good boots on the ground media people who aren't the legacy media nobody at that nDP conference said hey last time you spoke up about things in Canada, it happened after the Tides Foundation in the United, a foreign country paid you money to speak out against Canadian resource development. Is anything like that happening this time?

No, no. He just, he got a free pass on it. On this, on this side, uh, for the, the audience for the podcast, you know, I'm working on getting some First Nations people on the podcast to talk about separation, because I am kind of here is, you know, it's a very interesting discussion. I had Jeff Rath and that group on last week from the APP. And I thought Jeff very eloquently talked about the First Nations and that there's a ton that, you know, are all for it. But all you ever see in the legacy media is they're all opposed to it. It's awful. We don't want anything to do with this on and on and on it goes. And

certainly on the conversations I've been having off air. We know there's more to it than just that. And I'm hoping to bring a few of them on the podcast here in the weeks to come. We'll see if that happens. Newfoundland, equalization is intended to ensure fairness for all citizens. Currently, this fairness is not achieved for Newfoundland in Labrador. Greg Gill, a spokesperson for Newfoundland's liberal government told the national post on Thursday. This was in comments towards Daniel Smith's comments on that. They were agreeing with that part of it.

They didn't, Newfoundland didn't agree with everything she said. But that one, they pointed out. Yeah, in agreement. Yeah. And also Jason Kenny. Jason, if you're listening, A, you're a useless fat piece of shit. And B, I think you're doing a great job as being the spokesperson for a unified Canada.

And if you could do even more of that, I would appreciate it. He says, truly honored to be identified here as a principal adversary of the crackpots leading the Alberta separatist movement together with Stephen Harper and Pierre Palliev. Alberta Proud. Canada first, Canada last, Canada always. Okay, first off, we know that's bullshit. It's actually Quebec first, Ontario last, Eastern Canada always with him.

We talked about this last week, how in the time between the current equalization formula was instituted and when he left federal politics, he spoke out against it exactly zero times as a representative of Alberta's interests in Ottawa, he never said a damn thing about it. And over that tenure, over that time, he got paid over $2 million.

So you know what? You're a grifter. And the more you want to speak up against what we believe here, the better it's going to be for us. Someone needs to get that fat fuck a podium. And I don't know. I'm the lunatic crackpot, I guess. So, you know, that's open to talking to all the crackpots because we're all crackpots together, aren't we, too?

We got a lovely list of a whole audience of crackpots, I guess, at this point. But that's all right, folks. I'm not too worried about Jason Kenney and what he's saying. That's just my own thoughts. Black leader Blanchette is asked. Yep. Go ahead. He's asked for the people in Alberta who want to separate, do you have any tips for them on actually how to get the job done? And he quoted, here he's quoted saying, our success.

So far does not place me in a position to give them tips about what to do, but I could give them tips about what not to do. The first idea is to, and then he said, but I'll leave that for later. Then he said, the first idea is to define oneself as a nation. Therefore, it requires a culture of their own. And I'm not certain that oil and gas qualifies, qualify to define a culture, but that is theirs to decide when they want to decide if they want to vindicate. I'm like, I think, personally, too, I think Alberta does have a culture. I think we all know that. Alberta has probably the most unique culture in Canada.

So what's the Quebec culture? You've got maple syrup, which also exists like off the charts in Vermont. So it's not even a Quebec thing. It's just that it's a small area of Quebec that bleeds over into the United States. Not exactly unique. Oh, you've got a unique language. Well, not according to all the people on the other side of the ocean that spoke at first.

Right. what do you have going for you? A fucking dairy cartel? Tewan is going to crap on Quebec. I should have known this. I think Quebec has a distinct culture. I just know Alberta does. And it's funny to hear somebody say we don't.

Well, that's the thing is they say, oh, it's oil and gas. Okay, sure. There's a lot of oil and gas here. But the unique culture isn't the fact that there's some shit underneath the ground that we've worked really hard to get out. It's the fact that we work harder that we don't want people, fucking around with us. Just leave us alone and we'll do what needs to be done. And we'll outwork almost everybody. Okay. Saskatchewan excluded. And here's the thing. It's oil because that's what

happens to be here. If Alberta was in the Netherlands, you'd have more wooden shoes than you could ever shake a stick at. If you traded BC and Alberta geographically, like if you just switch the populations over, like, okay, now we've got coastal access. We're going to have, It's going to be more fishy than that NDP securing the fucking pension thing. We're going to have more crabs than Margaret Trudeau. And we've got, well, about the same amount of muscles as we already do have. Okay? This is it.

It doesn't matter that it's oil. If you switched Quebec and Alberta around, maple syrup would be the global fucking currency. and there would be no oil and gas extraction in this, you know, in Lloyd Minster, Quebec. They'd be wondering when they're going to get their next hand out. They'd be wondering when they're going to get the next hand out. We're going to give us some free shit. We don't want to develop this.

It's going to be work. What, you want us to get calluses and dirty hands? That's the thing about Alberta is that it's people who are just, if that's what needs to be done, we're going to do it. And it sucks that there isn't a really sexy name for it because that's exactly what the culture is. Okay. We got goofy news next. But here's where I'm going to interject.

I got two sets of two. So if you want to come to the Cornerstone Forum, I would appreciate if you don't text, if you can't make it. If you're sitting, you're like, oh, I could get to Calgary. You're in Calgary. You're somewhere in the neighborhood. And you're like, I could be there. Doors open at 8 a.m. tomorrow. We'll take texture.

I don't know. What do you want today? Okay. Here's what we're going to do is we're just going to start from the first one to come in. Voice message with the best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. Oh, God. No, I'm not doing that. Give me your full name and where you're listening from.

I want to hear somebody saying, it's not a tumor. All right. And if you want to add in a voice note, but to get the chopper. First two people to text me, but I really would appreciate. I'm a cop, you idiot. You're each going to get two tickets. Doors open 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. So please don't text if you're like,

I can't be in Calgary tomorrow. We had one of the winners on the Masha, the MASHIP livestream that can't make it. And so I really want to make sure that the people that are texting can actually be that tomorrow. And yeah, so if you can text me your full name, where you're listening from, first two texts through. And if you win, if you win,

then you've got to send a voice of your best Arnold Schwarzer, negative. I can't even say. Some of the people who won the tickets can't come, but that's okay because they were all bad. There, it's on the bottom now. So shoot me a text. First two people to text will receive a pair of tickets

to the Cornerstone Forum tomorrow. We'll leave that up until I get some texts through. And if I get no text through because nobody can make it, that's totally cool too. But a shout-out to Shannon Heinz. She's the one who purchased four tickets, and she wanted to give them away on the mashup. So I thought that was super cool of her.

to do that. Now, goofy news, twos. Let's start with Marissa Rothenberger, a six-foot-tall male pitch for pretending to be a female who has been dominating girls high school softball in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Girls only hit 12% of his pitches and he only allowed a single hit in a recent game. This one hits a little close to home because Mel is from that area. Okay. Over his female competition in this game on May 6, 2025, he threw six. He threw six. seven strikeouts and shut out the opposing team. Apparently Rothenberger's batting against average is 0.128. Yeah.

So it's, it's interesting. And if I can find the right spot in that clip, there's a part where the announcers are like gushing about how long his arms are and how he's just got like all these physical advantages that just makes him an absolute powerhouse in, in women's fastball. You're like, yeah, you think, go figure.

honestly Tom I think that woman has the largest penis in the entire league okay this is this is good it's just a real quick clip I just it's a two minute video but I just want to show just this first sure

this is yeah sorry yeah of the failure no it's it go god damn it shut up Sean what what was that twos where is the evidence don't you just love having me back oh you're of FEMA Congresswoman, we still have claims open from Hurricane Katrina.

I mean, is it a failure or is it like that on purpose? So for those of you who don't remember, Hurricane Katrina was the one that hit New Orleans like 20 years ago. And there's still claims open in FEMA. Sean, you can come back now. I'm just texting the first winner, Jennifer Charles. We got one more set to give away. So as it scrolls along, yeah, now,

Arnold impersonation. Jennifer, we want the Arnold impersonation. Is there an audio clip? Not yet. I'm just, I know now why you cry, but it's something I never do. I'm assuming being in Calgary

in less than 24 hours is probably going to slow this up a little bit. That's okay. Yeah, I'll leave it up there until we get one more. and I'll keep talking about it until I get another text. You know, compared to election night where I was getting like 100 texts in about a minute flat, it's a little different today. So Calgary. I mean, it's easier to just hand out, give out a shirt.

It's easier to give out a shirt in a random contrast and say, are you free on this exact? You know what? I didn't think I was ever going to say this in my life, but Sean, you are looking good. So one of the things about the gunslinger, I keep calling it the gunslinger. The Gunslinger Rooster t-shirt, mashup t-shirt is going to be sold at the forum. I'm pretty excited about it. Mel, so the wife is like, who's going to wear that? I'm like, if nobody buys these?

Everybody. I'm literally going to wear this for the next year. I'm going to have a whole outfit or a whole wardrobe of Gunslinger T-shirts. I just going to wear them everywhere because I think they are freaking awesome. I showed out to Donna for making them and making them fast. I, yeah, Paul Abraham, Hamson says sexy shirt. Yeah, that's right.

The gunslinger is freaking sweet. And they're going to be sold at the forum. So I'm pretty excited about it. I think they look freaking awesome. There's a few different colors as well. Okay. So we had the clip. How about the raccoon?

Yeah, show the raccoon. Mel was sitting in the hotel room. As I played this, she's like what is going on i'm like it's a raccoon playing with a meth pipe this is the yes so this woman this woman's getting arrested correct she's got to leave her car which has a raccoon in it her arrest i am and then the raccoon has her meth pipe oh my god her meth pipe he's playing with the meth pipe right now no don't reach for it that's evidence now i don't want him to have well i'm that's why i'm gonna do it

Hey, buddy. It's okay. Okay, you're on a two beer in two minutes. I'm right across my house. That guy in the background just said that he was going to be there in two beer in two minutes. This entire thing is hilarious. I was like, why is the cop laughing? I'm like, just because there's a raccoon with a meth pipe on the driver's seat of the car.

Well, like registration, please. That's, I mean, for the goofy news, this, you know, we should. you'd have goofy news awards at the end of the year of like the goofiest things we put on the show. That's right up there, man. That's, you know, like I think last week you missed it. But the, um, the man who had the worn out for his arrest for kicking in the door of his ex-girlfriend and chasing her down. And then he showed up at the police station, uh, trying to get to the bottom of it because

he's been in a wheelchair for the past 25 years. That one was pretty good too. Yes. Okay, play Bernie Sanders. Oh, yeah, here we go. This is the environmentalist, socialist guy. You know, the guy who thinks that we all just need to give every, you know, stop taking away from the rich.

Five rallies in a week, the only way you can get around to talk to 30,000 people. I think I'm going to be sitting on a waiting line at United, waiting, you know, what 30,000 people are waiting? That's the only way you can get around. No apologies for that. That's what. He's talking about why he flies private. Correct.

correct um okay uh the press conference oh no you're gonna you're gonna go to the the toronto maple leaf jersey yeah you can oh you can bring it up you know it's it's too bad that well actually you know what good on the oilers it probably almost thought to be the happy news that they managed to stay out of the goofy news this week but here's anna nand showing her support for the maple leaves looking exactly like somebody holding a hockey stick for the first time look you know what you can wear a jersey you can just show up and wear a jersey you don't have to try and pretend like you're mopping the damn floor with the hockey stick this is the same thing when they wear hard hats they just look so out of place and you would be more genuine and less silly if you just let it be can you imagine you know can you imagine the uh um can you imagine the staff or be like oh and old the stick sticks get to look really good.

It's just going to finish off the picture. Yeah. And meanwhile, it's like, it's like, Ricky Bobby, like I don't know what to do with my hands. Just use it.

I don't know what to do with my hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just do something with it. Just do something.

You're a hockey player. You're a hockey player. You're a hockey player. Paul brings up a really good point. Possession is nine-tenths odd the law. That's the raccoons pipe now. So here's the thing. Is it,

I don't know if she can really get busted for possession of meth when it's very obviously the raccoon with the problem. You want to play the RCMP press conference on the two missing kids from Pictow County? So this is about a very time-sensitive situation where a bunch of children have gone missing and the RCMP puts together this rushed press conference. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I am Corporal Carly McCann, provincial public information.

officer for the Nova Scotia RCMP. Thank you all for being here today. Bonjour, I'm the capital of Carly McCann, a general of information public for the GERCLA in New Lacasse. Merci de your presence today. First, I acknowledge that we are in Migmoggi, the traditional and unseeded ancestral territory of the MiGMA people. I also recognize that African Nova Scotians are a distinct people whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched that part of MiGMoggie known as Nova Scotia for over 400 years.

I just imagine if they actually did this, like whenever they went to arrest somebody. Like, I acknowledge that I'm pulling you over in Treaty 6 territory. I just, just picture this for a minute. How about we get, you know, instead of saying that this is silly, which may or may not be fair, it might be entirely justified that they're doing this. Let's get firefighters on this. Did you imagine show up with the lights and the sirens on, they get out, that. roll out the hoses.

But before they get going real quick, they just say that I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the fact that we're about to pour water on this building, which stands on the traditional Blackfoot territory, and it burns with a fiery pride in their heritage and actual literal flames. On a serious note,

did they find these two children? I was kind of... I don't know. I don't know. Because, like, I mean, it's... I think it's ridiculous. But, yeah, there's two, Lily Sullivan and Jack Sullivan, six and four, they went missing from their home. That's like, if that's still ongoing, all jokes aside, that's, you know, like, that's like a parent's worst nightmare.

So just to shed some light on it, it's Lily and Jack Sullivan, six and four went missing. So these are the same people who did such a noteworthy job of handling the Danforth shooting. And it looks like they didn't learn a single thing about it. update on the tickets i'm going to put it back up so we got we got one winner one winner jennifer charles and then the second winner patrick houstess but he said he only needs one ticket left so if you're sitting in there if you're if you're sitting around calgary or you can make it to calgary for tomorrow morning 8 a m i got one ticket left so if you want to do that first text or to text me and uh uh and we'll we'll uh fire that off and i might already have

Oh, I've already got one here. We'll see what he says. So we'll pull it back up. All right. In the meantime, we got a show to run, Sean. Can we just, you know, mind on task a little bit? Yeah. Welcome back, Sean, to the show.

No, I'm all over the place. Yeah, no, this is great. This is why we fired you last. I literally can't figure out the music. This is why we fired you. He could have showed up five minutes early, clicked the button, been like, oh, that's how it works. Nope, he's going to blame this guy for not being able to get the music going.

It's like, really? Okay. It's all sitting. there laid out for you but hey hey hey hey it's good to be back folks good to be back carry on with it all right agents fired for mocking customer and you thought you was going to get on your flight so this is this guy shows up with a ticket ready to go get on his flight and they denied him um i paid for a ticket and you paid for 25 dollars for agent is being you check it three hours later hello i just said that i i just said that i i just said that

I would pay the $25. And you thought you were going to get on your fly. This is the state of customer service at this airline. Now, it should be noted that those two people who were recording and mocking him have been fired. And so they no longer work for Frontier. But experts say we have unconfirmed reports that they are now working at the executive level in our Canada. Okay. Are we even watching the same show right now?

I am. I'm laughing at your joke. Anyway, frustrations rise over human waste on Vancouver streets, prompting a return of poop fairy program. Uh, man. All right.

In 2021, the city of Vancouver introduced its species removal response program to address the fouling, uh, minefields with patrols and collections carried out on the weekdays across Chinatown, downtown, Stratcona,

gas town, and, uh, quite literally. Hastings crossing. A spokesperson for the city said the program had seen 1,800 plus removals in the first two months of this year alone. In 2024, there was 327 calls regarding human waste. We're making average of six calls per week. That's a year ago. But regardless, they're trying to bring it back because there's poop on the streets and it is a giant issue in Vancouver.

The streets are covered in shit. and I love how literally subheadings the subheadings in this is great like residents take action what is the solution the solution is to stop shitting in the fucking streets

a systemic problem no you just have to tell people to stop shitting in the streets maybe just you know arrest them if they do public indecency how about public endangerment We were arresting people for spitting during COVID. And people could drop a big fucking log on the sidewalk in Vancouver.

And they just say, oh, well, you know what? It's just such a sad and terrible thing. No, no. It's going to keep happening until you make it so that they don't want to do that. You know, if we get you shitting on the street, we're going to take away your, your meth. You know, just a hoop fairy program. Five Bonnieville. RCMP cruisers destroyed by a

tracko rampage. We should have had somebody from Bonneville on. If I was a clear head and I wasn't like racing to do things all this week and last week and every week it seems since we did the 12 hour election coverage in the lead up to the forum and everything else, like

five Bonneville RC&P cruisers destroyed with a traco. That's, I mean, for the area I come from, I mean, Bonneville is a little ways away but like in the grand scheme of Alberta, they're next door neighbors. That's anyways, two's explain the story or you can show the video.

Yeah, well, here, I'll just, I'll put it on and it can play in the background. But apparently, somebody went straight fucking killdozer at the Bonneville police station. You can see, that's the new one. It's the one on the north end of town, right between where you'd keep going north to La Cori and where you'd go straight across

to where all the new hotels got built relatively recently. And somebody just took an excavator there and just, fuck the place up, which is hilarious. I think it's great. Well,

I guess I just want to know the story. Like what, what went on, you know, like you bring up a killdozer and you knew the story. I mean, so this guy named Marvin Heemeyer,

he was getting frustrated with the local town council cutting off road access to his mechanic shop. This is great. Like, look at this. Like, I don't think that's going to buff out,

guys. I did. No with that. It's not going to pass. Oh, I'll leave you can buff out. You'd be correct. All right.

Happy news. Happy news. Happy news. Okay. Five people were rescued after spending 36 harrowing hours on top of a down plane in an alligator infested swamp in Bolivia's Amazon region. Imagine that you are in a plane crash in Bolivia and you somehow survive, but you crashed in the middle of a swamp where you can't swim to shore and you're surrounded by

alligators. Quite literally. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And so they were there for 36 hours and then they got rescued. Just like imagine how scary that would be. Yeah. That would be an intense experience, I would think. Not only surviving a plane crash

but then waking up and be like, oh my God. Yeah. Well, I mean, the plane crashes and you're like oh, thank God we're alive. Okay, we need to get out of here. And then you open the door and you're like, nope, nope, we're just going to sit tight, folks, just going to sit tight. No, we're good. But they survived. They survived. 36 hours, five people were rescued. That's the happy news. Okay, let's talk community notes. You've got a couple things we want to make sure we bring up. Obviously, the Cornerstone Forum is tomorrow night. But if you're in the Calgary area,

tonight, do you got it handy? Um, I, I'm here. Here, just here, I, I, I, It's probably in my note. Here we go. Yeah, I got it. You got it? If you're headed to the Cornerstone Forum in Calgary this weekend, do plan, this is from Lees Merle, do plan to join me, Sheila Gunn-Reed and others, including myself, for example, a bunch of the speakers at the Cornerstone Forum at Two Rivers Distillery for Fun, Freedom, and Forvolity.

So come by at seven, come thirsty and plan a safe ride home. Yeah. And if you're, if you're, you know, you're like scrambling, you're looking at it. where where's the address honestly just go to my x account it's or it's literally on the screen yeah and i also retweeted it so if you're like you can't find it later and you're you know whatever just go to x it's all sitting there the information of of where to go but two rivers distillery um lees merlin it's in between blackfoot and mcclough there you know calgary so um what there's is there one other community note i feel like i missed one uh yeah so

Republican Party is doing an event, May 24th at the Red Deer Resort and Casino Conference Center, in-depth discussion on Alberta Independence with special guest speakers, Cameron Davies, Bruce Party, Rachel Parker, and Michael Wagner. Oh, May 24th, right. Interesting. Bruce Party will be an interesting, interesting addition there. I got a ton of time for Bruce. Obviously, those four guests have all been on the podcast. Cameron Davies just recently. and then of course Rachel Parker and we know well on the show and Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner's wealth of information on this topic in particular that you know he's got books on and everything else so interesting okay so that's all we got anything from you no um um you know it's good to be back and one of the things I pushed on Tuesday this week

was to just keep community notes community no no no all right okay well here's here's a final one the second gear club is hosting McGrath's hair scramble, off-road dirt bike rally near Gilby, Alberta. I don't even know where Gilby is. I'm not sure, but that's this weekend. There you go.

Okay. If you're not attending the forum, there's an off-road dirt bike race. So there's that. Any other community notes? Because if they're not, just some final thoughts out of my brain. Speak now or forever. Hold your penis. I just wanted, I told twos before we started today, if we could keep it, you know,

We haven't done an under-hour show and probably 100 mashups too. It's like this has been pretty fast. And just appreciate everybody tuning in this morning with the forum this weekend. It should be next Friday. I should be back in studio. And life should be starting to resemble some normalcy, I think, on this end. It's been about as hard as a guy can go. And we got less than 48 hours now of setup and then the actual show.

So anyone attending, looking forward to seeing you. to anyone wanting to attend, there is still tickets. I think a few left on the floor that gets you meals, but we've opened up $75 tickets for stadium seating. It's in an arena bowl, so you can actually just sit, come in and sit in the arena stands and watch from there. I would assume they're going to be fantastic sight lines,

but just no meals. So we tried to open up a few extra seats for people who didn't want to spend, you know, over $200 on a seat with all the meals and everything like that. And, you know, just a final thought on, sponsors that you know silver gold bull and and bow valley credit union you know it's been two weeks since we did the 12 hour live stream and uh you know i i've said it a couple times on the podcast but

i haven't got to chat about it with you at all i'm just very appreciative of those two companies for supporting what we do and then to all of you who continue to watch the show and share the show uh we just appreciate you tuning in and uh being a part of this uh i don't know journey or production or whatever we're going to call it um it's It's been a wild couple of weeks. And I don't know about Toos. It took me probably five days to start to recover from 12 hours online. I was like, I was just, my brain was like mush.

And I want to, I'm working on it. But with the forum, it's been hard to get back. I got through about 500 people who had text, but the text just kept coming in. So I'm working on getting back to everybody who text on the mashup. Tews is like, everybody tells me, it's not a big deal. But I really appreciate people who reached, during the the live stream because we had people from everywhere man i i text one guy back and he was

from texas and he'd been watching one of the one actually one of the independent coverages and he's like ah you know it kind of got stale because it was the same four people talking and a friend of is like oh you should tune into this mashup show like this is this is wild he's like well what the heck's that and then he so then he text and he was from texas i had another talk about uh graham from silver gold bull was telling me last night his son who's a teenager major watched us and he tuned in and was like what is this and he and he said you guys had him so entertained i kept yelling at him to go to bed but he had it on downstairs in the basement and then he's like dad your boss is on it and then he's like dad they just called you a beauty and he's like how do i get

mad at him now he's watching political coverage i want him to be engaged and uh i thought that was also a cool story but those stories just keep coming in of people who tuned in from all across canada i haven't had one province that hasn't been hit yet uh minus uh some of the territories I don't know if I had anyone from Northwest Territories or you call it, but I haven't got through them all. But every province or every province or he's had somebody text with some pretty cool feedback that I thought was really cool and a ton of love for all the guests we had on and the variety of who came.

So that's my final thought before I let, you know, twos any final thoughts on your end? Well, it was huge. It was a lot of fun. We did something that nobody's really done before, just the way it all came together. and it would have been nothing without everybody. Like, we were just the facilitators, basically. The people who watched, the people who came on the show,

the sponsors, that's what made it as good as it was. And so thank you guys very much for that. Cool. Well, Tews, I'm going to see you later today. Yep. To all you attending to the recent winners, excited to have you in the arena tomorrow. And to anyone who can't make it, it will be on substack and forgive me it should be next Monday so not this Monday but a week after

the event it should all be there it's being professionally recorded so if we you know fingers crossed no technical issues everything from all the speakers will be there and so it'll be eight bucks to get it if you can't make it to you know in person I always go in person is fantastic but to get behind the paywall on substack is dirt cheap anyone anywhere in the world I as far as I know can access that so if you're like, I'd love to be there. No worries, it's being professionally recorded. And all of it will be broke down into the segments on substack, hopefully in about eight days, nine days time.

So there'll be that. Appreciate you guys, tuning in to 157. We will be back next Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time, as always. And gentlemen, it's Mother's Day weekend this weekend. It is. It is. It is.

I have a ton of, like, you know, I also have a ton of time for your mother. I know exactly where you're going with this. My mother is watching the kids this weekend this week, run around the ball and everything else. And happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. We literally would not be here without all of you. And a ton of time for all the mothers out there.

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