Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 163

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

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Welcome to the MASHO Tell me whether I'm wrong or right East or west up or down side to side I sit to stand if all to fly Of all of my impulsive plans Popping locking salsa dances on demand I follow leading off the map Stop the chatter scream happily

Welcome to the MASHup Welcome to the MASSup Ladies and gentlemen There's a lot to be said in this world for sportsmanship and as bad as it is to be a sore loser, it's even worse to be a sore winner. If you are just head and shoulders above the people you're competing against,

you're playing a bunch of, I don't know, special needs nine-year-old girls or something like that. You don't run up the score 56 nothing. You don't just absolutely obliterate them. You make it fun. You make it interesting. But also, you don't be a dick about it. So look, if you're in the Stanley Cup finals, you don't beat them 5-1 like they're all Zamboni drivers.

Like, it's just a dick move to just take a team that is so much further below you in terms of skill and heart and dedication and quality of fans and just obliterate them like that. Like they, the Panthers, I'm talking about the Panthers, Panthers specifically, they put the fourth line out at the end as just one little just like, look, even our worst guys are better than your best guys. And it's just, it's a little bit mean to do something like that to a team that's just so far below your level. And by the way, beating them up as badly as they did, beating up the Oilers, the pride tape, the pride tunnel, the Mark Carney this, all of this gay stuff during Pride Month, to beat them that badly in Pride Month, I'm pretty sure it's a hate crime.

You know, I was going to hop in and ruin it. And I'm like, you know what? Tews has been waiting two solid months of Sean being unsufferable, insufferable. Insufferable, yeah. Yep, sorry. You know what? You can have it today. You can have it today.

you know what? I don't know what it says about the rest of the West when the Oilers absolutely dominated them. But hey, yeah, the Oilers, that was a tough thing to watch. You know what? Congratulations to the Edmonton Oilers, back-to-back silver medalists. Yep.

Yeah, that's something that nobody will ever be able to take away from them. They ended up actually, you know, as much as you like trash talking the flames, they actually ended up being tied when it was all said and done in terms of number of Stanley Cups they won this year. Yeah, that's something Calgary Flames fans can really hang their hat on, eight-twos. You know what? We didn't win it this year, but neither did the Oilers. Yep, there you go.

That's, that's, uh, Flames fans are rejoicing, uh, on mashup 163 that they didn't have to be. Oilers suck. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Oilers suck. Do, do do do do. Oilers suck. McDavid sucks. Do, do do do.

Oh, sorry, what was that, Sean? I'm just enjoying twos having a little bit of fun today. Mashup 163. The Oilers are not Stanley Cup champs. As his tradition. I was just saying to twos. It was hard to hate on the Florida Panthers. They were a good team.

And it was pretty evident by game six, maybe game five, that they were just a good team. Yeah, I don't know. Tews could say whatever he wants about the oil. Oilers, but I don't know what it says about the rest of the West. I didn't have anything to say about the Oilers. I was talking strictly about the Florida Panthers. Sure. Yeah. Man, 163. I'm happy to be here. All right. I have to be here.

I mean, if you're watching this and you're enjoying it and you're not Leanne, feel free to like and share it. Send it to your friends. Leanne, who is a staunch Oilers fan is. Shout out to Leanne. I feel your pain. main man. I feel it. Yes. You know? Yes. I mean, it's, it's probably like all the flames fans that have had to deal with me for the last two months. There you go. You've been vindicated by Tuesday this morning. And we're happy to have you back and smiling and sharing this because you're, you're all over the moon.

The Oilers didn't win. And, uh, well, what are you going to do? Happy Airborne Friday to all the military men out there. Um, long time guests of the show, Jim Sinclair and, and the group out there. Um, well, showed up to you all. and we got community notes call out. So if you got anything coming up in the next, you know, month per se, it could be a little further out, a little shorter. Hopefully, you know, it isn't tomorrow. We always get the tomorrow things and you're like, how is anyone planning for that?

But regardless. Or the other ones we get are the, oh, we had this event last weekend. Yes. Oh, we had this fishing derby at Buffalo Lake. It was awesome. Mash up folks, the audience here. If you got something coming up, you know this is coming.

So just, uh, every week. Every week, we, we do the callout. So if you got something coming up, let us know. All right. Mashup 1, 6.3. All right. If you're enjoying the show, well, yeah, like share it. I mean, I guess Leanne won't, but everybody else will.

Leanne, you can not share it for a week. I feel your pain. Maybe I should just go away and twos can just have a Calgary Flames, uh, I don't know, rub and tug for, for an hour and, and feel good about themselves. How about we start with the coup 6.5, shall we? There's a lot here. A sentence for BC man who pushed girlfriend off cliff reduced on appeal. Do you, well, I'll read some of it.

B.C.'s court of appeal has agreed. A judge erred in how they calculated credit for time already served in a sentence. Sentencing of a man who pushed, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kyle Ordway pleaded guilty to pushing Amy Watts 27 off of a 50-foot cliff near Nanaimo City Hall, May 8, 2021. Watts was Ordeway's intimate partner, according to the ruling, Chief Justice Leonard Marchand called Watts' death tragic. Ordway must now serve four years less, 762 days of pre-sentence credit, resulting in a sentence of 698 days of imprisonment.

So basically, this guy pushed his girlfriend off of a cliff. Correct. Just imagine that. You're just like, the Mrs. is mad at you. she's yelling, she's frustrated. And you say, look, honey, I get the fact that you don't like the way I load the dishwasher. But if you really want to discuss it, I need you to take like three steps to the left. In what fucking world would anybody think it was like just pushing somebody off of a cliff?

Well, they've made a TV show off of this, maybe not this case, but this idea. there's an Amazon Prime show or whatever Prime TV, whatever the heck it's called. There's a show literally out where this is the case. I mean, this isn't a new idea. It's a poor idea. But in the Canadian judicial system, not as bad as, I don't know, say protesting the government.

Yeah, well, that's the thing. We've got like four articles here of just our justice system as a fucking joke. Okay, anger after BC man acquitted in sex assault case because he was high on drugs. Okay. Battered Women's Support Services is a compressing deep concern over the recent acquittal of a man who attacked a woman in 2019 while under the influence of magic mushrooms and cannabis. Leon Jamal Barrett was charged with break and enter to commit the indictable offense of sexual assault, sexual assault resisting or willfully obstructing a peace officer in the execution of their duties and public nudity, all concerning a bizarre series of events that occurred in early morning hours back in 2019 in Surrey.

Barrett was acquitted on all charges. The judge ruled he was too high on mushrooms to know what he was doing when he violently attacked a stranger. And it was quoted in here, the woman fought for life, biting, screaming, and resisting. And yet the legal system sided with the man who harmed her. Yes. Realize that now this is a legal valid defense. So if the guys at Coots had just been passing around some psilocybin while they were protesting the government, they could have. They go.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, they go. So whenever we do our heist, whatever it ends up being, and whenever we do it, we're going to make sure we have a stash of mushrooms. We are going to be tripping balls when it happens. No, no. If we ever get caught, if we ever get caught, like, your honor, I've got to, I've got to plead the surrey

battered women's society defense on this one. Convicted North Vancouver Groper back in custody on new charges. He's been arrested on two assault charges, two criminal harassment. charges and five counts of breaching conditions. Isn't it weird how it's always the ones you least expect? Yes. An accused in meth-fueled crash on BC Highway that killed two released on bail, a man accused of killing two people, injuring three others,

and a deadly meth-induced dangerous driving incident was granted bail on Wednesday. Yes. So I guess that's the other thing we could do is that if we ever decide that we need to take some kind of a stand and blockade something, which is showing our lack of support for the direction of the government's going. We should just smoke crack while we're doing it. And then we'll see it on Bill. Sorry, folks, we can't charge them because they were all high out of their minds.

And there's nothing we can do about it. They didn't know what they were doing. They were smoking crack. It's a get out of jail free card. It seems to be. Yes, it does. And when the government's literally giving you free drugs, they don't know that they're fueling their own demise.

Actually, you know what? That's a really interesting couple points to connect right there. They're literally giving away get out of jail free cards. Correct. Correct. All right. What's next? Creeping professionalism here.

Federal managers who spend billions on consultants are now required to sign an oath stating they thought about it. The Treasury Board said yesterday. Parliamentarians complained spending on consultants average $25 billion a year, even as the public service payroll grew to more than $413,000 employees. We have been doing work to strengthening managers' understanding. Yes. So, I mean, we've been talking about this incremental professionalism that Carney is introducing.

Right. So people have to show prepared for meetings. They have to show up on time in Ottawa. They're required to dress professionally when there is something in their ministerial portfolio about terrorist organizations. And there's potential for conflict of interest. They're required to recuse themselves. These are all baby steps. And now before we spend $25 billion a year, the people who spend the money are required to take an oath. saying that they will think about spending the money before they do it.

Like, this is all just, you know, the journey of a thousand miles, Sean, begins with a single step. I guess so. Please tell me this week you have a headline for me to read on the Canada Post. Please tell me you did something. Oh, my goodness. Folks, we can just call it a day now that Tews has remembered to put a headline together for the Canadian Post saga. The Beast has been pacified. The Canada Post Union has been coddled.

Now we can move on to more minor conflicts like the Middle East. Yeah, Canada Post and its second largest union reach an agreement. The Canadian Postmasters and Assistance Association has agreed to the terms of a new collective agreement, which spans January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The agreement includes an 11% wage increase over three years retroactive to January 1 of 2024. Yes. I like my solution better, which is where you go to them and say, we're fucking broke. There's no fucking money. We're going to lay off. Do you want us to lay off 85% of you or 90% of you? You decide. Here's my number. Call me when you're ready to make a decision. I don't see that day coming anytime soon, but maybe someday in an alternate universe, twos would be hired to run those negotiations, folks. And we should televise it. We probably make a documentary of it. and that would be a really good documentary because they'd be like,

we want more time to wash our hands. I'd be like, I really don't care. There's no fucking money to give you. There's a new comedy special, twos, and dealing with Canada Post. Yeah. Well, okay, but what about our pronouns? There's no money for pronouns. We can't afford pronouns.

The extra ink on the business cards is coming out of our bottom line that's already in the red. Nobody gets pronouns. Elbows up. The G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership, Prime Minister Mark Carney said. Yes, this is wonderful. I'm just going to, I'm just going to show it here real quick. Sure. Yeah, you fire her up.

Yeah, because, I mean, you know, it's kind of the whole point of this. So, all right, here we go. Here is Mark Carney. The G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership. And your personal leadership in the United States, many issues, geopolitics, economic, technology, and working hand-to-hand with the United States. Now, that probably came out too quiet for anybody to hear, but I heard it. G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership.

And then he talks about, you know, the economy, geopolitics, all these other things in which U.S. leadership is integral to the G7. And it's a very interesting departure from the election campaign, which was two months ago, a month ago. Yeah. And so anyway. Well, here's a National Post article. Here's some things out of it. These are the same voters who nodded along with Carney spoke about de-risking our relationship with the United States,

who applauded when he warmed of creeping authoritarianism from Washington. And now nod along, just as enthusiastically, when he floats ideas for joint continental defense initiatives, shared strategic supply chains in deeper financial integration. They're not engaged citizens. They are consumers of political effect. Buying whatever narrative makes them feel smart and virtuous in the moment. If there's a lesson in all this, it is not that politicians lie. That much is eternal.

The lesson is that the modern Canadian politics, the truth isn't just optional. It's often irrelevant. Carney's entire foreign policy posture during the campaign was a mirage and the people who bought it seemed perfectly content with the bait and switch so long as it flatters their self-image. The whole thing is just this scathing rebuke. I like how it starts off. The last federal election was not an honest conversation about Canada's place in the world. It was a performance. Slick, poll tested, and ultimately hollow. Mark Carney presented himself as a principled adversary to Donald Trump, a steward of Canadian sovereignty who would stand up to a dangerous and unpredictable

United States. And now, just months into his premiership, he insists that G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership. His government has resisted retaliating against American tariffs and has even expressed desire to join Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense program. Let's dispense with the polite fiction. Carney never meant what he said. The campaign rhetoric wasn't just exaggerated. It was fabricated. I mean, they could have written this. If, Anybody had tuned into the mashup during the election campaign, they could have written the exact article word for work. Well, maybe you should have wrote it, too.

Maybe you should have wrote it and submitted it. Yeah. I don't know. Because I mean, anything national post byline? Why not? 222 minutes. I mean, we're going to get to where people are getting their news from here in a little bit.

And you put your pen, you know, to paper. And you might have gotten it. submitted somewhere, honestly, because I mean, like, we've been talking about that for, I don't know, nothing in that article is shocking other than it's in the National Post, I would say. Well, I mean, the National Post, I would say, and the Sun are kind of two of the best ones out there in Canada. I'm not saying that they would never put it in there, but that's why we're reading. It was evident. It was apparent literally months ago. Yes. This is, this is basically, The twos was right of the week.

I knew it was coming. Yeah, twos is right. So pat on the back. All right. I'd love to see. My hands are right here, folks. I didn't put that little, you know, that's twos saying I was right.

Montreal. The Canada parade has been canceled for the second year in a row with an organizer citing ongoing planning disruptions and the city workers strike as reasons behind the decision. Elbows up, folks. We're not even having a Canada Day parade in Montreal this year. For the second straight year. Elbows up.

Elbows up, folks. Here's a CBC headline on the gender pay gap, okay? Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, 400% raises a reminder of how little female athletes get paid. If you're among the millions, well, actually, do you want me to read part of this story? Or can we just talk about Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders? Yes, yes, we can talk about Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, Sean. And them being in the same realm as female athletes. And I'm, I got all the time in the world for, for the cheerleaders and what they do.

I've got all the time in the world for the cheerleaders too, Sean. We should, we should just spend the rest of the mashup talking specifically about the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. I think this is a great idea. You're really on to something here. What do you got? Well, I'm just, I, I'm all four of them getting a pay raise. Okay, that's fine. But to put them in the same category as like professional athletes is, is interesting to me.

Isn't that a funny comparison to make? Well, it is because traditionally, like, I don't know how many cheerleaders you've known, but like, you know, even for the rough riders, it's a volunteer position. And, you know, it's a fairly substantial time commitment, but it's a good thing to have on your resume. There's, there's been Sarah Shahi, I want to say, I can't remember the exact last name, but the hot chick from person of interest. started off as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. I didn't know that. There's been several specifically Dallas Cowboys,

let alone the rest of the cheerleaders in the NFL, who have used that to launch themselves into their next step. Yeah. Career. Now, it's interesting, they don't really go into their next step in a sporting career, but it's a launch pad for things like that. But here's...

You mean they didn't go into, they didn't become like, superstar athletes after this? No, no, they didn't. It's the strangest thing. But here, in all fairness here, this isn't about a gender pay gap between what a tight end makes and, well, you know.

And a tight end makes, is that the joke you're going with? I'm surprised you stopped yourself. What is his news on 163? It was right there for you to take and you let me pick it. All right. Well, I mean, let's just say they don't have wide receivers out there.

But here is a Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders tweet from five years ago where they had in the middle of COVID, in the middle of the lockdowns, they had 1,500 applicants. And the Dallas Cowboys cheerleading team ends up being something like 36, 36 people make that cut out of 1,500. knowing full well that it is a nearly full-time dedication and that you get paid absolutely sweet fuck all and there's still 1500 girls applying and that doesn't even count the ones who know that they wouldn't be able to get the job because one of the things is you can't have visible tattoos

you need to have a certain body type you've got to have the background in this stuff so out of the people who would want to there's probably a whole bunch who didn't apply because they wouldn't meet the qualification That'll be the next article how they're not diverse enough, too. That'll be the next CBC article to come on with a year later. We need body diversity.

If you want to have the top of the pyramid be a blue-haired body positivity type 2 diabetic, that's totally fine, but you should be the bottom. I want them to have Dylan Mulvaney out there dancing. I think it would be great for all the women athletes and the pay gas and everything else. Sean, if you had a, if you had a dude wearing those shorts, his pecker would be hanging out the bottom. I will say this, though. You're talking about what's probably a multi-billion dollar company being the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, 100%.

You could absolutely pay them a ton of money or even just a decent amount of money and you would literally never even notice it. What's his name? And they have. In fairness, I think we can all agree, like a pay raise. Yeah, great. And they've got Netflix specials and a whole bunch of stuff putting more light on. It's great. I don't,

I'm not against it. Just comparing them to athletes, female, I'm like, I don't know about that. Like, well, I mean,

it's a volunteer position, right? But there's, there's, if people didn't want to do it, they wouldn't be having over 1,500 applicants in the middle of lockdowns. I'm just way in, for the article that is waiting for body positivity.

Like it seems pretty odd that they're worried about the money when, I mean, honestly, you look at that group of ladies, and it seems like it's a selective group they're targeting, and maybe they should open it up to, you know, some body positivity.

I think that'd be really good for the cheerleading group of women. I think it'd be great for them to have to worry about that. But now you see you run into the problem, like what Lizzo had with her backup dancers, where you're hiring these people to be back. backup dancers and so they have to spend several hours a day training and rehearsing. And then due to the increased levels of cardio, they were losing weight. And so then she fired them because they were getting too skinny from all of the athletic

training that they were doing to be backup dancers. Well, I think maybe they should just implement the Canadian military standards. And then we wouldn't have that problem. They could just have an obesity problem. It would be fine. It wouldn't even be a problem. It would be a solution. It would be a solution.

All right, what's next? Can you imagine showing up to a Dallas Cowboys game and out walks the B team? I honestly, I might be there for it. I might be like, this is amazing. This is so funny. Well, you look at it. Like, you'd just laugh. It'd just be this goofy, entertaining thing that nobody would take seriously, you know,

like the evidence of the news. Yeah, all right. The fall of news. All right. Prominent podcasters like Joe Rogan are playing a bigger role in news dissemination in the United States, as our AI chat bots contributed to further erosion of traditional media, according to a report at least on Tuesday, over half the people under age 35 in the U.S. are relying on social media and video networks as their main source of news.

These are not just big numbers in themselves. These creators are also attracting audiences that traditional media struggle to reach some of the most popular personalities over-indexed with young men with right-leaning audience and with those that have low levels of trust in mainstream media outlets, seeing them as biased or part of the liberal elite. Levels of trust in news across markets are currently stable at 40% and unchanged in the past three years, the report found. Now, that doesn't reference the other reports,

which have said that trust in media is at all-time lows. It's interesting that they're handpicking, which studies they're going to speak about in this article. It's almost as though this mainstream media article has a little bit of bias in it, which kind of lends itself to the supposition that people who have low trust in bias or low trust in media and see it as being biased

are turning to alternative sources. I mean, it kind of just comes full circle. Yes. Well, and this goes back to you with writing or writing an article. You go, wouldn't that be something? I go, well, actually, the graph here shows that people trust you more or twos, not saying something. Well, I mean, we've got an article in the National Post that's literally reiterating

what we talked out, talked about on the mashup literally months ago. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Okay, there's Castle law with Doug Ford. So do you want to show this clip? Maybe it would be smart so people can hear. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's probably better coming from from his voice and me reading the article.

All right, here we go. Did you hear about the guy that these thugs came up, you know, ready to steal his car. They're all in their masks and everything. So I guess he was a hunter or something. He shot up in the air. I don't recommend that, by the way. But he gets charged. I got to find out this guy's name and,

number and I'm going to hold a fundraiser for lawyer fees for him. He should get a medal for standing up. It's like down in the U.S., we should have the castle law. Someone breaks into your house, and I know any of these people here, someone breaks in your house and they're coming after your kids and you're coming after your spouse, you're going to fight like you've never fought before. You're going to use anything that you have, be weapons, baseball bats, knives. You're protecting your family.

These thugs shouldn't be coming in there. Now, why is Doug Ford so upset about home invasions and attempted thefts? Well, he had four suspects, including a 16-year-old for allegedly trying to steal a vehicle, allegedly. They tried stealing a vehicle from his home. They tried stealing Doug Ford's car, which was parked in the driveway, which, by the way, does nobody in Ontario own a damn garage? All of these thefts are happening from people's driveways. what is with Ontario and nobody having garages? Like the premier of this province parks his car outside.

It's interesting to me. He says, you know, he shot up in the air. I wouldn't suggest doing that. It's like, well, would you suggest them shooting them? Because that is what is called a warning shot. Well, I would say that, you know, more frequent and lower trajectory warning shots would probably just from a statistical sense, not advocating for this or anything like that. This is not legal advice.

But I feel like if this country had more warning shots that were fired with flatter trajectories, there would be a large decrease in these types of crimes. There was also a second story here. Four men started looking through the house for car keys and other valuables. The adults in this home decided enough was enough. We got our baseball bats and tried to chase them out. One resident said in an interview, criminals are not used to people fighting back,

but people are getting tired of being sitting ducks. And in this case, one resident's tackled one of the intruders as evidence from the smashed doorframe, knocked over furniture and blood on the wall from what was a wild battle. But it got worse. One of the guys came back fired a shot. It just missed me by a foot and a half, said the man. I played some rugby, joked a resident.

There's no way he and other adults in the home were going to let him go. This could have been a murder. Absolutely. Here's the bullet hole in the wall. So, yeah, anyway, they literally tried, to kill this guy and he beat them up and held them or well he beat one of them up and held them down now apparently this must have been a fairly nice house because they got lost trying to find the door or it just shows the state of the criminal he was high on something dues and that way he could

get out of it right he's got he's going to you know he was doing our theater i'm going to do a he's i'm going to do it high and i'm going to get out i wasn't shooting it the i wasn't shooting at the man across for me in the courtroom your honor I was trying to shoot the purple dragon. That's right. Oh, man. All right. NDP.

But anyway, the point is, is that, like, you've now got the premier of a province advocating for stand your ground type castle laws. And why is he doing that? Well,

it's because it finally happened to him. Correct. That's the thing. When people are in gated communities, they're like, well, who cares? Like,

I don't see what the problem is. You guys, we don't have a problem with crime with our eight foot tall, fenced, gated community and 17 security guards and all kinds of people who are specially licensed to

conceal carry because they're my protective bodyguards. I don't see any of this crime. What are you people complaining about? And then now it's, oh, actually, you know what? Wait a second. It happened to me. Yeah. Yes. NDP are not a serious party.

No, they aren't. You got Don Davies, an MP of the NDP, today in Parliament, or an NDP, MP, I should say. He's the interim leader of the party, too, by the way. Yes. Today in Parliament, I introduced the National Renewable Energy Strategy Act. This bill aims, this bill mandates a national strategy to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation in Canada by 2030. I urge all MPs to support this vital initiative for our country and our planet. that's four and a half years from now.

Correct. If you look at the data for Alberta power generation, solar doesn't even have its own category. It's under biomass and others. Don't look at the math. And you're going to have wind and solar. You're going to have wind and solar become 100% of the, like, we're going to go all wind and solar.

The only way this works is if we move all of our technology back to something roughly akin to the dark ages. Or I got a different idea. We just classify oil and gases and renewable. Yeah. All we got to do is, all we've got to do is Jurassic Park so we can get a few more dinosaurs. We throw them into bogs. And technically that makes it renewable.

No, a long time frame, but still. Nehedan entry. When I was mayor, Calgary was ranked the fifth most livable city in the world under Daniel Smith, it's dropped to 18th. Leadership matters. I just want to go ahead and say that, first off, the conservative party was in charge for most of the time that he was mayor. And secondly, and this is going to be a shocker to a lot of people, Daniel Smith isn't

the mayor of Calgary. She isn't? Yes. She is the premier of the province. She is not the mayor of Calgary, unlike this. This tweet seems to think. Implied. Yeah, yeah.

Believe it or not, the NDP are not a serious party. They're kind of just a bunch of dimweds. We got Jagmeet Singh back in the article now, or in the news, folks. Barely a month out of the political spotlight, former new Democratic party leader, Jagmeet Singh has entered a potentially more fraud arena and that of the ongoing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Singh had widely been noticed at an event with. Drake himself posting a screenshot of an Instagram message,

referring to the politician as a goof for his patronage of the concert, a Kendrick Lamar contract, that is. Yeah. So for those of you who don't live in Toronto, Drake is this guy who lives in Toronto. And it's like basically the only thing you're allowed to play on the radio in Toronto. If you ever go there, it's just all Drake all the time,

whether you want it or not, the country music station plays Drake. It's everywhere. despite the fact that he fucking sucks. And so anyway, he's in some kind of a rapper's feud, but not like the Tupac Biggie type one. This is more like just a bunch of suburban people throwing money at each other. And so anyway, this is, this is Jagmeet Singh trying to apologize to Drake,

who literally called him a quote unquote goof. I went for SGA, not Kendrick. I was born in this city. this city, but real talk, I get it. I shouldn't have gone at all. OVO and Drake lifted up this city and Canada. For me, it'll always be Drake over Kendrick. Peace.

He's just, he's trying to do this sort of like apology. Like this, this just reeks of like a poorly written land acknowledgement. Where he's got to actually apologize for going to a concert. And he can't even do that right.

I mean, the NEP are not a serious party. Can I, can we, you know? Well, yeah, good boy. I mean, we just got some heavy hitters in that party, and they're fun to, you know, be on the show. Because, I mean, realistically, where would we be without the NDP? I don't know. I wouldn't be laughing as much.

Probably be a lot of as you're all working. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay. Let's do some rapid fire, shall we? His stock election concludes a mid-deepened polarization. Here is, this is Eco's Politics. It says rise of populism in Canada. Polarization and populism in Canada are not a fringe and their depth should not be underestimated.

In the most recent election, populist forces gained record vote support and nearly formed government. Two's. The last one. Read that last bullet point. If the campaign had gone for another week and or if younger disaffected male voters had shown up in the same numbers as moderate open voters, we might have witnessed a conservative win driven in large part by right-wing populists, plus some traditional status quo conservatives who do not share the mistrust and disinformation of the populist base. Now, there's a little asterisk in the bottom.

Populism is a path to seeking power with two main ingredients. One, the idea that there is a corrupt elite which evokes deep suspicion of the current establishment and two, I believe the power should be more properly restored to the people who more often than not become my people, not others. It is ideologically thin and can be expressed on the left, right and center, i.e. Roosevelt's New Deal. Right-wing authoritarianism is an example of populism with a terrible historical record. Now, this is from Eco's research, who is Eco's polling.

This is Voice of Frankie. This is them. this is from an organization that gets millions of dollars every year from the government and this is what they come up with now i just want to contrast this with the dictionary definition of populism populous like if you went to the cambridge dictionary this is what you'd find populism political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by giving them what they want how is that even A thing that has a name.

Have you ever thought about that? How crazy is it? First off, that there's even a thing called populism. The idea that the people you elect should be there to give you what you want, what you're electing them to do. That is some ridiculous political ideology that has a name rather than just being the fucking way things are. And then you've got. And then you've got somebody who could be, who could, you could make a reasonable argument that they would be sort of the political elite because they get millions of dollars from the government every year to write things like that about how evil populism is. Well, it's terrible. It's horrible. It's evil. It's got a terrible track record.

To get the support of ordinary people and give them what they want is horrible, authoritarian. and has a terrible track record. I feel like if I was an elitist, I would probably say the exact same thing. Probably. Stalantis ramps up gas-powered vehicle production at Windsor Assembly. Go figure.

It says ramping on a production in the gas-powered two-door Dodge Chargers Daytona this month is a sign of an increased focus by Stalantis on internal combustion options produced at the Windsor Assembly plant. Quoted, production started in June and we'll see quadruple. digits of the gas-powered two-door charger in September.

The four-door will hit volume in quarter three. Production will really start in October. The new generation charger was the first made available in electric versions, but market conditions. And President Donald Trump's changing of emission standards in the U.S. has given slants some flexibility in using more internal combustion engine. The charger EV rollout was relatively uneventful. That's quoted.

This was my big takeaway. This keep going. Oh, it's a great product. The market for the vehicle wants gas powered engines. Isn't that interesting? So basically the only reason why they sold any was because there was huge subsidies. If you artificially affect the price of something, eventually you're going to find people who are interested in, and that's what they did.

Parliament Hill protester in shock after being blasted in the face with a power washer. Scrawled and chalk on the sidewalk along Wellington Street in downtown Ottawa is sat silent protesters against the federal government, put there by men and women known as the Wellington Street regulars. Known for their persistent, colorful, and sometimes loud protests against federal government. The regulars are famously or some infamously known for their signs, chalk art, and live stream criticism of politicians and staffers entering and leaving parliament. Awan Chuck was a truck driver for 23 years in the early days of COVID-19 pandemic. He was fired after objecting to the non-fire retardant paper. base mass he was forced to wear while loading truckloads of crude oil. His EI application was rejected because dismal, he is dismal, his dismissal, who was classified

as a pandemic-related infraction. On Tuesday, a one truck was present when Gemma Property Service and Ottawa-based landscaping contractor hired by National Capital Commissions to maintain Wellington Street, arrived at Wellington and O'Connor to clear away his work, along with that of First Nations artists known locally as the chalk man. while a one truck is used to watching his work rinsed away, things took a turn for worse when an unidentified worker took exception to being recorded and blast them in the face with a truck mounted power spray cutting them too, I might add.

Yeah, yeah. I'm going to pull up that picture here in a second. Keep going. No, that's what I got. What do you want more? Wait, wait, the picture isn't here. It's in another. It was in the video.

In the article, you got to watch the video. Yeah, his is his, his, um, lip gets cut. Yeah. Yeah, but like sliced up. Not like, oh, I come in my left. Yeah, yeah, it is fucking sliced. And so, I mean, this is interesting.

So this is an unidentified man and they've got him on video. Like literally, this is the dude who works at Gemma property services. And there's no charges laid yet or anything like that. The investigation is ongoing. Meanwhile, we talked what, two, three months ago about the woman who shot a super Soaker over the fence hit her neighbor, was charged with assault with a weapon, and her name was released in the article. Now, you've got a super soaker.

Are you saying there's two different tiers of justice in our country, too? Is that what you're applying? It seems that way. You've got a super soaker spraying over the fence being charged assault with a weapon. And then this guy with an industrial pressure washer, literally tearing another dude's face up. I shouldn't laugh. I mean, I shouldn't laugh.

It's just like at this point, a super soaker, I mean, and that's charged. And this is, you know, like, I mean, to this point, you, I take it. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, this is the state of Canada. Welcome to Canada, folks. Mashup 163, more of the same. I feel like if we want to tell immigration, we should just spread this around more internationally. Like, if people in Syria were watching this show, they probably like, oh, you know what, maybe I'm good here.

The moms aren't that big. A nerve-wracking four-day hunt for a missing three-year-old girl from Quebec ended in a remarkable relief on Wednesday when police located her alive in Ontario on the side of a highway. Young girl was reported missing by her mother and, uh, mother, sorry, 34-year-old Rachel Ella Todd on Sunday afternoon in Quebec about 50 kilometers west of where she'd last been seen in a suburb of Montreal. Circumstance around her disappearance were not very clear authorities, told reporters earlier this week, shortly before the girl's mother was arrested. and charged with a lawful abandonment of a child. Wednesday afternoon, the toddler was spotted alone, sitting alone in a ditch alongside the side of an Ontario highway by Ontario provincial police.

How the child survived for four days and three nights alone in rural Ontario and the heat and extreme humidity remains astonishing to authorities, calling it nothing short of a miracle. Yes, so apparently this woman, according to some of the reports that have come out, drove her daughter to the middle of nowhere in the next province over and said, just wait here till I get back. And how old was this girl again? What did I say?

Or four day hunt. Three year old, three year old, three year old, three year old girl. Three year old girl. You took a three, your daughter, a three year old girl, dropped her off on the side of the road and the next province over and said, wait here till I get back. That's dark, man. That's fucking dark. Like, I get it. You know, on one hand, you're like, okay, well, I've got this beautiful new baby.

And then as they start growing up, you know, they start. walking and talking and you realize that they're speaking French and you're like okay well fuck what do I do now it's it's a logical you know you have that knee jerk reaction you're like my kid my kids a Frenchman

but you don't actually follow through with it it's a dark story that she was found she's healthy and the mom has been arrested so I mean it's just a dark a dark story it's yeah it's very dark Let's move on to the next one.

Let's hear some happy news for fucking Quebec. Senate passes bill to protect supply management for many future trade deals. The block Quebec law long and often rocky road to protecting supply management from any concessions in future trade negotiations has come to a successful end. The Senate has adopted Bill C-202, making it the first bill set to receive royal assent in the new session of parliament. We won, said block leader Francois Blancet. enthusiastically after hours the Senate adopted his party's bill. We talked about this last week. Yes.

Yes. And he's, so this is the first, well, like you said, the first bill in this new parliament session is for protectionism for the fucking dairy cartel of which more than half are in fucking Quebec. So the party, even if you don't know, for those of you, maybe you're new to the show. All right. Here's, I'll frame this for you. The, the block quebecua exists to first. the interests of Quebec. They worry about Quebec things in Quebec and they don't give a shit about places that

aren't Quebec. They get elected by people in Quebec to represent Quebec interests and that's it. They say they're a separatist party, but they seem to have done a great job of stretching out that grift as long as possible because they keep getting paid. But at the end of the day, their interests are fucking Quebec. They put forth this bill. It got voted on and passed unanimously. So anybody who has a member of parliament who is not in fucking Quebec, your guy voted for this.

Your girl voted for this. David Bexie voted for this. Stevenson voted for this. Shannon Stubbs voted for this. Michelle Remple Garner voted for this. And now it's and it flew through the. Senate as well. Colby Koch wrote an article about the Stanley Cup.

I just pulled one part from, I don't know if two's wanted a whole bunch out of this, but he said, I'm frankly amazed that some backbencher with ambitions hasn't picked up this flag advocating a large explicit tax cut for NHL players in Canada with the state of giving Canadian teams a positive advantage in contesting for the Cup. He was pointing out to Florida and its tax bracket. And I don't know what else you want. is that you've got a 32-year Stanley Cup drought in this country and that all of the best players seem to be going to places in the United States

because they get to keep more of the money they earn. And when you're dealing with a league that has a salary cap, it's a lot easier to make wiggle room because you can say, okay, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, you can get $8 million there, but you're going to give four of it to that fucking dick in Ottawa. or you could get $6 million here and you could keep five of them. What do you want to do? Well, I guess I guess I could make an extra million dollars in my pocket at the end of the day.

Because it's not how much money you make. It's how much money you keep. And so it's, well, it's not really an argument for like, should we give the NHL players a tax break? Let's just play out this thought experiment and say, that maybe everybody in this country is taxed a little bit fucking strongly. Like, let's give NHLers a tax break. How about we just give everyone a tax break and make it more affordable to live here?

Is that such a... If you go to the basic argument of, do I want to play in Florida or Eminton? Don't put money in there. The basic answer is you want to play in Florida. Like, come on, too. So you show up in the rink in sandals? Come on.

That actually sounds awesome. Yeah. And then I've talked to way too many NHELs that talk about living in the heat versus living in the cold and how the different of climate is on their bodies. It's a no-brainer. I mean, the money is a bonus.

Yeah. Ontario to kick off a summer with blistering heat wave temperatures expected to top 30 degrees Celsius. 30 degrees Celsius. Holy giant. I don't even know. Like, should we start sending foreign aid to Ottawa, to Ontario now? Like, should we just start shipping over bottles of water?

You know, like, do they have enough Evian to get them through? This ridiculous heat wave of 30 degrees Celsius. The humanity, won't somebody think of the children? These poor government bureaucrats in their air-condition offices are going to have warm windows. Conservative MLA, Harmon Bangu, tweeted this out. They used Chinese steel for the Petula Bridge,

and now the project is delayed over budget and under scrutiny. David Ebby and the NDP handed over millions to foreign suppliers instead of supporting Canadian jobs in BC Mills, cheap imports, expensive consequences. This isn't just incompetence. It's betrayal. David Ebby and the NDP have their elbows up, with their heads in the sand.

Yeah. So apparently the steel that they imported from China sucks. Believe it or not, the country that makes everything you find in a dollar store and can't even make a decent supervirus is not great at manufacturing. Here's what I really want to point out though. Welding problems in steel from overseas. There's two different ways to spell overseas.

One of them is when you're supervise. something. And the other way to spell overseas is when something needs to travel across an ocean to get to you. They're not, they're similar in spelling, but completely different in application. And it's not like they're $7 words. Okay. This isn't, this isn't advanced minutia of Oxford commas. This is pretty basic Bush League shit.

I didn't catch that. I didn't even see that. That's great. Oh, my goodness. That's the Vancouver Sun. That is a Vancouver Sun. Be better. Be better. Be better.

Be better. Oh, man. Okay. Originally set to be finished, no, sorry. Doug Ford accuses First Nations of coming hat in hand for government money

despite treating them like gold. Are you showing the video? You should show the video. Yeah. You might also have Doug Ford again. It seems like a Doug Ford week on this side. Yeah, yep. He's not eating a bee today.

It's better to hear it in his own words. Silver platter, the First Nations, that I, by the way, I have treated like gold. And over and over again, the chiefs, national chiefs, the regional chiefs, other chiefs have told me we've never had more access to a premier ever, as long as they can remember. So I can tell Rickford all the time, I should be the Minister of Indigenous Affairs because I get calls every single day. And when I first came into office, I told Minister, Rennessee. Hartford, treat them all, give them what they need, whatever they want for them to prosper. But there's going to be a point that you can't just keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government. You've got to be able to take care of yourselves. And when you literally have gold mines,

nickel mines, every type of critical mineral that the world wants, and you're saying, no, no, I don't want to touch that. By the way, give me money. Not going to happen. It's simple. It will help develop the minds and become very prosperous in their communities something they've never had ever in their entire lives and i'm bending over backwards to make sure we take care of them but that it's a two-way street here and so i look forward to the meeting actually i've met a lot of them i think i met all of them many times yeah so anyway i don't think anything he said was particularly unfair, but it was immediately denounced and called racist. Correct.

Despite the fact that if you were to take that exact same situation and insert any group, doesn't even have to be an ethnic group. It could be an economic group. It could be just a geographical group. It could be a sports organization. And you had that exact same situation play out time and again. That would be a very measured and reasonable response. But it's a third rail to stay anything like that about First Nations and

this country. Well, and he's since issued an apology as well. And that was exactly yet. You're like, oh, wow, he's actually, he's actually having a reasonable measured response to something about this. Oh, no, he apologized about it. He apologized. Yep. He issued an apology. And Bonnie brings up a great point. Ford bending over backwards is a horrifying mental image. I couldn't agree more. The average family to save $280 per year from liberal tax cut. The parliamentary budget officer estimating this on their taxes next year, thanks to the liberal government planned income tax cut. A one percentage point cut to the bottom income tax bracket was a pillar of the liberal campaign

during the spring federal election. Prime Minister Mark Carney plan pitched an annual savings of 825 per dual income family, but the parliamentary budget offer says in new analysis, the average family likely won't get that much back. Well, yeah, here's $280 divided by the median income of Canada in 2020, was 74,200. And that works out to 3.77% or, yeah, 3.37%. Now, what's inflation going to be this year?

Do you think if you had to pick an over under on 0.377%, do you think, inflation would be less than 0.377. Oh, it's going to be well over that, too. Well, it's going to be more than that. Oh, that's interesting. It's almost as though even with this minuscule tax break, Canadians will still be further behind a year from now than they are today. Correct.

And this gets presented as some just, Hey, the average family to save $280 per year from liberal tax cut. Well, aren't you guys just so goddamn magnanimous? Peel Police say they have dismantled a violent criminal organization that attempted to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from members of the community and defraud insurance companies by staging collisions across the GTA roadways. According to investigators, 18 people have been arrested and are facing a total of nearly 100 charges in a probe, which was launched in July 2024. The threats escalated into a variety of different offenses, offenses including drive-by shootings, arsons, and a variety of acts of violence to spread fear. and insecurity. In addition to the extortion attempts, police said the group was responsible for staging

dozens of collisions on GTA roadways in an effort to defraud insurance companies. They started the planning stage. These are collisions that are often happening on our roadways, which obviously have safety impact, sometimes including police, ambulance, and fire attendees at the scene. They continue the fraud all the way through the reporting and through the insurance industry to reap the material benefits of the fraud. Deputy Chief Nick Milanovic said in total the fraudulent claims exceed $1 million, an estimated 4.2 million worth of assets were seized as part of the probe, including 18 tow trucks.

18 tow trucks. This is the tow truck thing again, Sean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is happening with the tow trucks? Well, they said there's some of the tools used to commit their offenses. Yeah, but this is, this is tow truck companies in Ontario doing all kinds of, like what the hell goes on with tow trucks in Ontario that this is happening. And by the way, I just want to say, you know, everybody likes to assume that, you know,

if somebody's an East Indian driver, they're a bad driver, and it seems like it's always these ones getting an accident. Well, probably correct, but also, maybe they're just all really good drivers who are committing insurance fraud. Because if you, if you look at this, if you look at the pictures. of these mug shots. There's kind of a, there's a,

a threat of commonality. A theme, maybe. Yes. A very, a very strong theme here. And they're the people that are stereotypically portrayed as being bad drivers.

But maybe, just maybe, they've all been committing insurance for the whole time. That's what it looks like, sounds like. Yeah. But seriously,

I need, I need somebody to come on here and explain to me. Look, if you guys know of anybody who understands what's happening with the tow trucks, I need someone to come on here and explain it to me like I'm a five-year-old. Just walk me through what the hell happens with tow trucks in Ontario specifically that means that you have to have drive-by shootings and all of this stuff that just keeps happening because none of it makes any sense.

Dave, the tow truck diver is somewhere there. We need, we need him to come on or whoever it is. There's a guy. For sure, there's a guy. Somebody knows a guy. Yeah. Well, Murray says tow truck scam in Saskatoon, too. Maybe I didn't see about it.

But what the hell is happening with this? Somebody who's like the Sam Cooper of, well, I mean, I get the fact that this is happening, but why is this happening? How did it become tow trucks? What is stopping them? All of this. Like, there's so many questions. I need like the Sam Cooper of tow truck driving in Canada to come on here and just lay

all out for us with a big blackboard with a map and pictures and a whole bunch of red yarn. Hey, twos, if you're going to read the comment, read the comment fully, please. I don't like when you, when you don't read the teleprompter. Tootruck scam and Saskatoon 2-2-2-2-2s. No, 22s, 22s. Come on, come on, all right. Let's get to some goofy news, shall we? Show the video of the handwritten license plate.

Please and thank you. Yeah, so this is interesting. Get me the fuck out of this city, bro. Get me out of here. Get me out of here. I'm getting tickets for noise out of my car because of the speakers and motherfuckers are driving around. Driving around with fucking this. Ontario Broughton.

So this is a handmade license plate, which is just a piece of paper that says Ontario AT61422 Brapton. Brafton and it's duct tape over top of where the license plate would be. He's Brapin. What? Sam, come on. Now, I'm not an expert on insurance fraud, but I feel like it's going to be really hard to make a claim when your registration and insurance is just handwritten in fucking crap.

Rappen. CTV News. What to know about COVID variant that may cause razor blade sore three? gross. Nothing. Just quit worrying about it. Next one. Driver stopped for balancing mattress on vehicle,

asked for police escort to destination. Yeah, yeah. That actually, that literally happened in Caledon, which is... We've all been there where you're holding something with your hand, you know? You're like,

I mean, I probably... Yeah, you're like 23 years old, and you're driving a coop, and you've got a TV that's the size of the car that you're trying to get home. You know, or something like that.

We've all done something roughly like this. But we don't do it on the freeway. And when we get pulled over, and by the way, this isn't even strapped down. He was literally just holding on to it. You'd at least have a few ratchet straps. They want something to hold it in place. The police officer said they wanted to go another nine kilometers

to their destination and ask for an escort. Yeah. They're like, oh, it's unsafe for you to drive like this. Well, what if you just turn on the whirly bird fucking lights on top of the car and just clear the space for me? Like, I should just say that every time I get pulled over. Sir, do you know how fast you were going? Yes. And I could be even going going even faster if you gave me a police escort.

You know, it's kind of like the uno reverse car on the top. Like, this is the kind of stuff you would expect in Phnom Pen or somewhere in the skirts of Hanoi. Somebody just strapping a whole bunch of random shit onto a tuck tuck. But no, no, this is apparently now in Ontario. The next Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, maybe.

Oh, I like that. I like that. Seeing a male school. Yeah, no. Yeah, give her, give her. Cops say nothing criminal about male school bus driver in pink skirt. And I would like to add also

that this male school bus driver in a pink skirt had written in hand on top of the bus number, the Lolita's line. So this is a full-grown dude in a wig and like some anime pink schoolgirl outfit with a mini skirt and a big nice bow in the middle of it. who is the bus driver for children. And nobody will say whether he's kept his job or not.

Oh, Cheryl McDonald says this person got fired. Oh, okay, well, that's new. That's new. I didn't realize about that. But they were keeping hush about it. And they said that originally what they'd said was that this person had been moved off of that bus line.

And I mean, there's nothing wrong to see here. There's nothing weird or strange about a full. man, full, full, full-grown man, a grown-ass man, dressing like an anime character and writing Lolita on the front of a children's school bus. Like, what do you want? What do you want? It's like, there's nothing. Show me, show me in the rule book where it says somewhere in Canadian law that you're

not allowed to dress like an anime doll and refer to the story. school bus as the Lolita Express. Once again, I should laugh. And I'll show you why that guy should get fired. But we're at 163 folks. And every week, Canada does things that just go, we can't, literally, we can't keep going like this. No, we're going to keep going like this.

And every time you think, well, now I've seen everything. Or at least it can't get any weirder. Who was the, I think it's in the story. Who is the teacher with a big, uh, big Cahangas? Was that, was that Lemieux? Can you imagine? Yeah, right there. Can you imagine you come to a sporting event, right?

And it's the school bus driver and the school teacher and they're all out there. And they're the Dallas cheerleaders? I just, I want to see that guy do some jumping jacks. You probably give himself a concussion. Labor, climbing. Envoy racks up 76,000 air miles in eight months. Net zero diplomat bills taxpayers for fights equivalent to circling the earth three times. That's Rachel Kite.

Yes. And if you take a look at her, if you're somebody who takes climate change seriously and you want to do everything you can to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And yet for some reason, you can still square peg round hole the idea that you're going to travel around the globe three times. in eight months on a plane and keeping in mind that, you know, you've got to pay extra for overweight baggage. You know, anytime you're bringing in something heavy, it costs in fuel.

And if you really care about the environment, you would probably spend more time doing cardio than this lady appears to be. She says it's a source of deep discomfort when she's admitting to her carbon footprint. Well, that's because she's sitting in business class, Sean. Um, this water isn't even fucking sparkling. A fire hydrant installed in the middle of Ottawa sidewalk.

You know, I'm actually annoyed with this headline because if you read the story or watch the story here and I can pull up the, so people can see it. It's, it's on the video. But you can see how the guys bike it through it and there's a hydrant in the middle of the sidewalk. Well, they didn't put the hydrant in. They built the sidewalk around it. So it's a little bit, well, it is misleading.

So they widened the road. Oh, isn't it weird that the legacy media appears to be a little bit misleading? Now they're all upset with this hydrant in the middle of the sidewalk, but if you listen to the fire hydrant was not installed. The sidewalk was installed around the hydrant. Correct. Yes. So this is either them trying to get some sort of a clickbaity headline and being intentionally misleading or they're being really stupid, which is kind of just classic media. I mean, we just talked about this.

I want to know who oversees this. Overseas this. But it's not a big deal. Like it, you just got a, you're going to knock out the concrete. You're going to knock out the cement. You're going to open it up.

You're going to pinch off. You're going to pinch off the pipe where it comes up from the main. You're going to move it over a little bit. You're going to tap into it there and done. This could. be done in a day. Okay. Yeah.

Anyways. Toronto Star. On Father's Day, it's crucial to recognize the importance of mothers, writes Mark Bull Gulch. There are single fathers and two dad fathers, but whatever the case now, at the beginning of fatherhood path, there was a woman. It seems only fair to acknowledge that on Father's Day. Wow.

What a transphobic statement. Could you believe them just assuming? that there aren't any transgender mothers out there. I like the fact that they actually got hit with a community note on this. So their tweet was on hashtag Father's Day, it's crucial to recognize the importance of mothers, writes Mark Bullgutch. Readers added context they thought people might want to know.

We do. It's called Mother's Day. Yeah. I mean, what a stupid, stupid thought. I don't think there's, there's lots of stupid thoughts. This was a stupid thought, too. It was just a stupid thought. Those are the only thoughts.

Those are the only thoughts that the Toronto Star has, Sean. I guess so. All right. Let's have a little humor injected, shall we? He's back. Every week. Yes. Follow me.

I'm delicious. Delicious. So I'm going to America in about a month for the first. time I'm really excited about it. I was never there before. So tell me what I should do and don't fucking ruin it for me, okay? I know there's a lot going on there at the moment. I'm just an Irish man trying to see a Walmart. I don't want to get into all that. So so far, here's my list. I want to see a Walmart. I think I already mentioned that, but I want to see a Walmart in the flesh. I've actually been practicing being at Walmart so I don't make a fool out of myself when I'm there.

Watch this. Oh, this item is $2.99 plus tax because the cashier also doubles as the taxman in America. I also want to convince all the local Americans that I too am an American. I've been practicing this very hard. Wait to say. It's 2.30. Pretty convincing. I also want to see the Statue of Liberty

because it's the only nice thing the French have ever done. I also want to use an American parking meter. I won't have a car, so I'm just going to get somebody a little present. But that's all I've thought of so far. Follow me. I'm delicious. So, anyway, There's nothing really to say other than it's just our favorite comedian.

Is he just, Ian, or is he just some random guy who just... He's just some random guy. I don't know, maybe he's a comedian. That way he's going to be in the States? You think he'd be going to Canada? He's probably, well, he's not the right kind of immigrant to get led into Canada anyway. Here's a headline story. Singles tell us how the political gender gap is impacting their dating lives.

Quoted, I would not date anyone who votes conservative. of it's really interesting um so first off they don't really talk about how attractive these women are which i think is a fairly important distinction to make because you know it's one thing when they're like well there aren't a whole lot of really hot left-leaning chicks out there i mean sure aOC yeah you can make an argument but the you know you're just like are you choosing not to date them or are they choosing not to date you is is kind of the the obvious thing but also you know traditionally women are the gatekeepers when it comes to this sort of stuff and so it goes through the article and it talks to a couple um left-leaning women and a couple conservative men

who they're on ontario so they're probably left leaning by any decent argument anyway but the girls are like i wouldn't even think about it and the guys like, I think that there's a little bit of nuance and just because you're in, you're more in one camp than another doesn't mean I can just assume what you think about every single subject. And I'm open to having conversations with people, which actually is a fairly reasonable, nuanced argument. And so it's interesting because, you know, they're, they're painting this as though women are on the left and men are on the right.

And it's these disaffected, angry men who can't find any dates with all of these available women. But they're probably not catches. I'm going to assume the fact that their pictures aren't showing up in here means that they're not the kind of things you just scoop up. Happy news. We got a few to this week. Okay.

Quebec to jail inmates according to anatomical sex, not gender identity. Yes. Isn't this great? I mean, you know, if you're a woman in prison, first off, that sucks already. But secondly, it's nice that you're not going to be locked in a room with rapists,

which someone could probably try and take that out of context. But if you look at what's happening in California, for example, there's a fairly well-storied track record of people with sexual deviancy legal issues saying they're transgender and then, just going around getting all rapy behind closed doors, behind locked doors, behind barred doors. It'd be kind of like locking a fox in the henhouse? Yeah, except instead of being eaten, it just suffers a lifetime of emotional trauma. Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet despite federal regulations calling for its demise.

Yeah, they're not even actually so much as rebuilding the coal. whole fleet as they are just it's the right way to say it, but it's probably not even the best way to say it. I think the best way to say it is that they are tuning it all up and getting it set to just keep going. Rather than they've been told to phase them out and they said, not only we're not phasing them out,

we're going to make them, we're going to make Cole great again. Smith and Premier's real quick. I know that you love to rapid fire. happy news. But it's not the rapifier. It's the happy news. The implication of this is that we're starting to see more and more things in Canada, where the provinces are saying, look, Ottawa, you can have as many random summits as you want,

go on as many flights as you want, give as many speeches as you feel like. The adults in the room are going to take care of shit. Let us know when you need more fucking money, you mooches. And this is one of those things. Well, Justin Trudeau said we need to stop. doing this. Well, A, he's not here anymore and B, nobody gave a shit to begin with.

So we need stable power and that's what we're going to keep doing. And if they really want to, because Ottawa is becoming increasingly irrelevant and out of touch. And this is what the people want. You might even say it's popular.

The people want it. But it isn't just, it isn't just the common folk. There's a word for that. There's a word for that, Sean. There is. There is. And I can't believe there's a word for it. Yeah.

Premier Smith and Premier Scott Moe, well, Premier Scott Moe says he won't kiss Quebec's butt for a pipeline. That's the headline. They were in Lloyd Minster. I called you the day it was happening. They were both in line. Yes.

And you were going to call me back after the press conference. I know. And that actually still hasn't even happened yet. I'm here. I'm here, T's. It was something to be. behold, all the Sask party MLAs in attendance, all the UCP MLAs in attendance, both premiers in attendance, joint press conference.

And basically, you know, is it just the majority parties or like were the NDPs there too? NDPs weren't there. Like, weren't there mentally or were not there physically? Weren't there physically. Okay. I didn't, I'm sure it was just the two parties meeting together, closed door meeting. How much blue hair did you see? but it's funny

there was a couple of it's probably the first press conference I've been in with premieres and so there was like global were you there just checking it out or were you there as Sean Newman podcaster what do you think about blah blah

listen listen in order to get in the room I got elbow and they're like who are you? And I'm like are you media and I'm like yeah media let me in they're like oh okay so I was in there

and I'm like that kid that was weird A, to get elbowed, like you're not allowed in this room. I'm like, well, their elbows up lately, so that's kind of a thing. Yeah, I guess so. But there was no blue hair, but there was some interesting, you know, global news and a few people like that asking questions. And I chuckled at their questions, you know, like one being on, First Nations don't feel like you're involving them. And, you know, that was their line of question. What I took out of what Mo and Smith said in the press conference was, you know, actions speak a loter than

words. And, you know, I think Shane Getson, I don't know if he's 100% correct in this, but it's, he was saying it's the first time in over 100 years, maybe longer that both provinces have come together with their entire caucus. He said it was the first time since 1905. That they've come together. So if that isn't a clear indication of sending a message to Ottawa that we're not going to take just words, but, you know, you've got to have actions that follow suit. That's a clear indication to me. But I also was talking to a few different people there. And they're like, kind of just feels like Groundhog Day.

We spin tires. And, you know, the federal government says one thing. The provinces are are positioning a different way. I guess we'll see here in the coming months what actually happens to it. But here's the thing is now you've got Scott Moe saying, you know what? We're going to move forward with Cole. And you know what else? We're tired of kissing Quebec's ass.

Yes. And that's a marked departure from the, oh, I'm so sorry, sir. Please, sir, may I have another? And so, so that's, that's pretty good. Did you ask any questions? I did, the lineup to get in a question, they didn't get through everybody.

Okay. So I was, I was, I don't know, I wasn't disappointed. I was just like, there was probably a lineup of 15 people, maybe, maybe a little less than that. Okay. And, and the thing is about it is it doesn't, you know, they give each person a question and a follow up. And so, you know,

That's hours if you got, if you got 15, that's hours. And the questions were like three minute questions, you know? And that's no, I don't know that. I'm not knocking any of the question askers. It's just you look at time. You know I'm a time guy. Well, yeah. Your question should be 20 seconds.

Get to the point and let them speak so you can get more questions. 40 seconds is even a little long, right? Like you just, but the, I totally know what you're saying. Like, I see them asking questions in political scrums. And I'm like, I get the fact that nobody would watch it because you suck, but you should try and do a podcast just so that you can get not shitty at interviewing people. UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk.

You might wonder, why is that headline in the happy news? Why is that in the happy news, Sean? Well, I can read a bit here. Daniel Smith's UCP famously fans of the anti-science Trump. government highlighted horrifically Einstein type unscientific new FDA guidance suggesting healthy children and pregnant women are not recommended for COVID vaccination while announcing a new policy where most albertans have to pay for immunization. Okay.

So if you want this, you can pay for it. Hmm. Interesting. So if I want to have a phone, I can pay for it. if I want to have a new pen. I could pay for it. Actually, I got this one for free. This is a bad example.

Forget I did this. If I want a microphone, I can pay for it. And if I want to get my 83rd booster for the latest razor blade throat variant, which is basically what we were talking about with weather patterns years ago, where they're just like, like they're trying to find scary things from. More scary, dangerous names coming. Yeah. The Razor Blade.

Oh, no, that sounds like a very scary variant. Can I get two injections? If you want it, if you want it, if you're still at a point in your life where you feel like you need to have this to continue on with existing, give her. I'm not telling you you shouldn't get it.

You should get as many as you want. But don't ask me to pay for it. Well, I was in Eminton this past week. to go to the passport office. And that's a very interesting group of people that roll through there. And the amount of masks I saw, I didn't realize people are still wearing masks.

I had to go to Emmington Passport Office to see it. They're still wearing masks. Not the passport office, the people getting passports in the office. If you ever really look closely at the faces of people in Edmonton, you can tell why they wear masks. It's because they're ugly. Commons votes 172 to 165 to ban

Arrive Can Millionaire Contractors for life Along with Company and any businesses associated with them They were a couple of guys working in their basement Yes So the Arrived Can $100 million guys These guys here Any business that works with them Any business that they form later on

Their current businesses All of them lifetime ban from working with the government. It's crazy that they had. Yeah, it is happiness. It's crazy 165 people were like, no, I think we should give them a shot and coming back. Who do you think those 165 people were shot?

I got a guess. If you had a guess, which party, which party in the House of Commons? Liberal, 100%. Has roughly 165 people in it. Oh, there you go. Yes. Teresa Tam, this might,

the happiest of happy, folks. Teresa Tam bids farewell as Canada's top public health officer. Sir, see you. Goodbye. Teresa Tam is stepping away from being the public health officer for the World Health Organization in Canada. And honestly, I don't know, wherever that dude lands, I wish him luck. All right.

Community notes. Did we get anything in the show? Oh, did we ever? You start off with what's written down. Sure, sure. Well, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, we got a ton of time for the CTF. They got the Teddy Awards here June 24th in Calgary. So there you go.

The Teddy Awards is the Teddy Awards. 25 bucks. That's pretty cheap. Two-hour event. And I think it's downtown. I can't tell from your picture, but I think it's downtown. It says 610, 10th, 10th, 10th. 10th of SK.

Oh, that should say something like southeast or southwest instead of Saskatchewan. Come on, taxpayers' federation. You're demanding better from the media. Now we've got to demand better from you. Overseas and Saskatchewan. Yeah, you need to talk to whoever oversees the proofing. Yes. All right.

Here's one. Rubarb festival this Saturday in Peyton. That's your backyard. Ooh, yeah. Rup. Man, I got a grandma used to make a rhubarb cake. Just top-knob. Oh, my grandma used to make a great rhubarb cake as well.

I have had, I have been trying to grow decent rhubarb for like three years at this, like, well, this is the fourth year at this house, right? And, or the fourth summer. And, uh, my uncle was over. You can't get it. You can't get it to grow. Well, it just, it just wants to just go right to see it and get all woody. Like immediately. And, and so, um, there's, there's a lot of good garden.

in the family. My uncle was over one time and I'm like, what's going on with this? He looks. And this is just, my uncle George is one of the smartest people in the world. Like easily.

Shout out to Uncle George. And it's a lot of everyday knowledge, but not everyday knowledge. So like this, he looks at it. He's like, well, nobody grows this variant of rhubarb anymore.

This strain of rhubarb has been popular since like the 60s. There's way better ones out there. I'm well that's an interesting like it's imagine looking at a rhubarb bush and being able to tell what strain it is and which decades it was popular in like just off the top of your head not like you studied you didn't study for this test you didn't know it was happening yeah it's it's pretty damn impressive and so I this year was the last year I'm going to try and if I still can't get anything out of it I'm going to rip the whole thing up and I'm going to put in a more modern strain I suppose. So we're going to go with GMOs, see how that works. Here you go. This is a new Waylon Jennings album is being released October 3rd. Wayland's son, Shooter, found a bunch of old tapes and was able to put together these three albums of his dad's unreleased music.

Yeah, so I couldn't decide whether to put this in happy news or community notes, but either way, it's here. And so if you're somebody who likes Waylon Jennings or maybe you're a former premier who owns one of his cars, either way you should probably enjoy this Zane says after getting out getting rained out this weekend I will be having battle at Strathmore on Saturday July 5th

at the military museum on Sunday July 6th Follow Zeb's Battle of the text Facebook page for details I'm guessing you mean the military museum in Calgary I would assume Calgary I don't know if Strathmore has a military museum and then

Big Independence Rally at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Mirror on July 1st. Headliners are Tamerlich and Christine Anderson. That's interesting. I've actually been there for Canada Day celebrations and they're pretty good. They don't cancel them? Well, yeah, nobody's really been able to cancel a truck stop with absolutely die-hard, fervent supporters.

I agree. Just, yeah. Well, folks, mashup 163 in the books, all right? As you know, we're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. I got one more before I leave for July, and it'll just be twos and whatever cast of characters he's assembles. Yes.

So, let's have a little fun on. So next week, 164, you're here. And then there's going to be four episodes after that that you're on here for. I believe four or exactly four. Well, let's pull up the calendar. If you got to, we're not going to pull up the calendar on live show. right but i just got to make sure i've got the right number of guests lined up but next week is going to be his last week here and then after that he doesn't even get access to it so we

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We should plan something fun for 200, but we'll talk about that a different day. Thanks for, uh, that's almost a year away. Thanks for, yeah,

it takes time to plan things, twos, come on. Well, maybe not that much time. Two's always shooting from the hip folks, right?

Oh, I'm the shoot from the hip guy in this duo. I'm the shoot from the hip guy. I'm, you're the shoot from the hip guy. You are definitely the shoot from the hip guy. Oh, 100% You're the

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