Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 166

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

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Welcome to the matchup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly. I've all of my impulsive plans. Popping lock and salsa dances on demand. So as anybody who's a long time listener of the show will realize I'm a dude. And there's certain things that dudes like, that enjoy, and that we take pride in.

And so this is, I think, my fourth summer since we bought this house. and I have been working on the yard quite a lot and it's come a long way and I still think it mostly sucks but it's significantly better than when I first got it where it was just straight up Danny Lions all the way up and down and just completely unprompted. Neighbor was over we were shooting the shit

and he's like, you know what? I love what you've done with this lawn. It's so great. You've totally turned it around and as a guy, that's one of those compliments that just, it just sticks to your ribs like a really good gravy. You just, you carry that around for, while it's been like a week.

And I'm just, you know, I'll go outside and be like, it kind of is pretty good. And it just, it's, it's, that one just offhand compliment has been sticking with me. So the next time you want to make somebody's day, assuming that it's genuine, of course, if it's a dude, you point out how good their lawns looking. They'll be just walking around all strutting like a peacock for months. What's that?

In their jorts. Yes. Yeah. I'm a lawn guy too. And like I have like good lawn years and bad lawn years. And the good lawn years are just when you, you know, crank up your water bill and and soak it every day generally. But no, I'll have like bad lawners.

It's kind of patchy. It doesn't look great. But I'm doing my best with it. And then someone will be like, man, your lawn looks great. I'm like, really? Oh, yeah, thanks. A couple inches taller with a remark like that. I thought it was kind of mediocre, but thank you.

Yeah, it comes together and you're just, yeah, it, it's wonderful. And it hits you right in the fields. Ladies, guys, if you want to compliment somebody that just is going to put them over the moon for an extended period of time, because it's not like it just felt awesome for a minute and then I forgot about it moved on. You're still high. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Nothing this week can bring me down. Hopefully there's no bad news to talk about.

There's never bad news. Only funny news. There's a lot of that. Now, for those of you noticing there's a difference in the lineup, we have Taylor King with us. today as opposed to Sean who is still in jail currently dealing with the litigation of being caught fornicating with a gopher don't drop the soap Sean I think the gopher was the one to drop the soap and so I mean this is just look for for all of you out there who are maybe not the kind of people the government likes right now don't do anything bad

don't do anything that's going to get you caught because they will throw the book at you for something as small and tiny as a gopher. They will just, they'll be like, you know what? You might think what a man does in his own pasture is his own business, but, but they will take that little thing that you've done and they will just nail you to the wall with it. It's unfair.

You know, was it Peter Trudeau said the government doesn't belong in people's bedrooms. I think that applies here. Oh, yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't apply. or it doesn't belong in people's bedrooms and it doesn't belong in people's pastures. Yeah.

Yes. So anyway, until he gets back, we have, we have Taylor King with us this week. Uh, real estate agent, podcaster of the commission impossible podcast. Give us a quick, give us a real quick rundown. Give us the elevator pitch for Taylor. Oh, boy. Um, well, uh, I spent 17 years selling cars. before I got my real estate license.

And that was about seven years ago. So I'm a sales guy and my clients like me because I fight hard for them. And I kind of love my job. I represent buyers and sellers anywhere kind of between like as high far north as Didsbury. Well, I've done even in Sylvan Lake before and as far south as, I don't know, maybe high river. I live in a tree.

But yeah. That's kind of. of the that's kind of the summary i don't know could i do better than that no no that's good um yeah maybe at the end we'll get you to plug the podcast a little bit sure but for right now we've got we got a few things to get into so first off corrections uh i was talking to jamie last week and he was like earlier this week and he says he was like why didn't you do anything about air why didn't you mention Airborne Friday. And I thought he was crazy because of course I mentioned Airborne Friday. I have the banner for it. It's written in the notes. We do this every week and there's no way I'm

going to miss it. So I'm like, dude, you're crazy. Of course we did. Well, turns out we didn't. So not only, well, that's exactly it. Not only did I not do it, but then I gaslit him about the fact that I didn't do it. Shame. And so, Jamie and everybody else in our armed forces, you have my apologies. And happy Airborne Friday. If you guys have any, if you guys have any community notes, let us know so that we can mention them at the end.

And if you're enjoying this program, like, share, let's go, go for it. Now, we don't have anything for the Coot 6.5 this week, which is a good thing. but we got a lot in the rapid fire news. So starting off with, I don't know if you've been following this whole asses up thing, but the liberals and their party have not been handling the U.S. thing very well lately. Holly Ann Dohn from Blacklocks tweeted documents.

Main themes of Liberal Party elbows up re-election campaign were tested in confidential federal focus grouped by Privy Councils Canada months before the U.S. announced tariffs. So what this means is that not only was this just sloganeering and Vap and and Hollow, but also that we paid for the liberals to test their election slogans. Yeah. You know, on one hand, I kind of got a hand. it to the to the liberal party there they're they're basically a cartel that's main purpose is to

stay in power to control uh the the big contracts that get handed out with yeah dollars and and they're really good at it like that that that's i'm kind of impressed i mean i'm not surprised um but but i'm kind of oppressed they're they're very good at that they they're um they're running circles around uh around the conservative party in terms of you know manipulating people and and uh getting themselves reelected forever. Using tax dollars to give money to their friends to help them stay in power so that they can give more money to their friends. And does anyone care?

Like, is there a single, you know, mainstream media outlet that is, that has mentioned this? I don't think so. Just black locks. And there, I mean, how many times does a story break and it's black locks? And it's black locks and it's black locks who doesn't take taxpayer funding. And then for some reason. You've got this weird intersection of events where they don't take taxpayer money and they fairly and honestly and accurately report on bad things that the government does.

Imagine that. It's this crazy crossover thing that just seems to keep happening with them. Now, last week we talked about the digital service tax and how it got dropped. Here's a tweet from Hetty Fry saying this is actually the longest standing liberal MP right now. The idea that Canada caved on the digital services tax shows a narrow understanding of negotiation strategy. We're playing chess, not Chinese checkers, okay? Undue racism, by the way. Why'd you have to be racist about it?

That was egregious, I think. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I'm pretty sure that checkers came from a lab. It's a long game of skills, not a gotcha tactic. Well, I mean, if they're playing. chess as opposed to Chinese checkers. Obviously, they're

going to have good news to report this week, right? Right, right? Obviously, obviously. Canada aims for new U.S. trade deal by August 1st as Trump threatened tariffs. Oh no, what happened to the game of chess?

Yeah, you know what? They played that pawn of that digital services tax and lined up Trump's queen for the kill, right? That's a, there are a few moves ahead. right? Oh yes, yes. It's all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan. This is that game of chess where the pigeon just knocks over the pieces and shits on the board. Yeah. Are we waiting?

And in this case, the Canadian citizens are the board. Yeah. Yeah. We're getting shit on. Yeah. And again, in this, it's specifically in this article, it specifically mentions the fact that the dairy supply management is the lynchpin bringing this whole shit show down on us. Yeah, I don't understand this. Why, you know, we're willing to burn our country down. Like, this, this cartel has a crazy amount of influence in Ottawa. Like, I don't know.

Maybe they have kind of like Canadian Epstein and they got videos of these guys with, with minors or something. But like, how does, how do they have so much influence? I don't understand that. It's the same thing with the unions. It's, you see, The politician's job is not to get the best deal for Canadians. The politician's job is to stay in power.

And if you have something like a very strong dairy cartel up against you because you're saying, look, we need, there's 10,000 of you and there's 40 million Canadians. We should take care of the 40 million Canadians. The thing about it is, is that it's not a case of strict numbers in terms of population. it's strict numbers in terms of how much money can be spent to tank your political career. And that's where the dairy cartel has the strength. Look at Maxine Bernier versus Andrew Scheer in the conservative leadership race. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, it goes across party lines. It doesn't matter. And it's not even a conversation. It's just like both parties, it's automatic opt-in. It's auto-gratuity. Like we're on board with making sure Canadians overpay for, for dairy so that, you know, we can keep this cartel in control of a whole industry. I mean, but, you know, Canada's kind of just a series of cartels.

Like, we got a banking cartel. We got a cell phone cartel. Yeah. We've got butcher cartels. It's how our economy works. Like, I think, I think we don't have an economy. We have a real estate cartel. We do have a real estate cartel.

Absolutely. We do. And I think that's kind of how our economy functions as we set up this complicated regulations to protect these cartel industries to keep from being swallowed up by the Americans. And being swallowed up by the Americans means, you know, allowing competition and allowing, you know, other products and other services to compete for a dollars. It's just we don't get that. which I mean here's the thing is that a free market benefits the consumers so if you're if you're buying stuff if you're somebody who buys things which is everybody you're going to win by having more competition out there they say oh we need to protect this because it's Canadian so everybody

needs to pay way more than they reasonably should and it's it's kind of just another hidden tax in this country. Yeah. And you look at what it would cost you to get the same level of stuff. Like, sure, okay, let's say you make 100 grand a year and then you pay half of it in taxes. And then you're also paying what, 10, 20% more for the vast majority of your things. We've got the highest cell phone bills in the world. It's so weird.

What a strange coincidence. Yeah. And they say, well, it's one of the biggest countries in the world. takes a lot of infrastructure. Okay. I hear what you're saying, but something like 90 or 95% of the population lives within 250 kilometers of the border. So you can actually service all of those people while having a much smaller infrastructure footprint.

And it just none of it makes sense if you talk about it logically step by step. And that's why nobody ever does. Like they, um, CTV was trying to fact check Donald Trump. on the 250 or 300% tariffs. And they're like, well, yes, technically those do exist, but no American Americans, but it's after a certain quota.

And the American dairy has never gotten up to that quota yet. So it's actually never happened. But if you're looking at you can put your, you can put your products anywhere in the world. Why would you look at a place that has a specific ceiling on your growth as opposed to anywhere else. Well, and the other thing, too, is they create such a regulatory barrier

to do business in this country that you have to sell a lot of volume to make a business case because you've got to jump through so many goddamn hoops to get your product on shelves here. That's part of the deal. Well, we have a grocery store cartel too.

That's right. Yeah. And we've got a pharmacy cartel. We've got, yeah. And they're owned by the grocery store cartel people. They are. They are. And then so if you're ever wondering why you can't get those nicotine pouches at the gas station or at a vape store anymore. Oh,

You've got to buy them all through. You've got to buy them all through shoppers drug mart, which is owned by a grocery cartel. Westons. I, I had one. I've never had one of those. I ran into an old friend yesterday and he gave me all these pouches. I was stoned, man. He's like, yeah, it's a cool one of three cigarettes.

I was like, I don't think I should drive home. I got to wait in a lot. this off. Holy shit. I might be addicted now. All right. Well, as soon as you start getting scratching yourself and everything. I think I got a tumor in my lip here. It's not a tumor. All right. So more asses up stuff. Brace for layoffs. Budget watchdog says as Carney government aims to slash spending by $25 billion. So all the people who voted for Mark Carney, Because scary Pierre Pollyab was going to make a whole bunch of scary cuts.

Well, it looks like Mark Carney is going to be doing the same thing. Now, I don't know what you think about this. I feel as though things are so bad in Ottawa that the rubber is meeting the road. And Carney is looking at it and saying, look, as much as we just want to hire a bazillion people and make them dependent on the government forever, at the end of the day, we still do need a few people, making things and building things and doing things in this country. And, and that if we want to get to a point where everybody's living under communism, we just got to kind of slow roll it.

And so, and so this is him just being a little bit pragmatic in terms of the ridiculous spending that Ottawa is doing. Well, this is also part of, part of his kind of scheme where he's going to have two budgets, operational budget and a capital budget. So, yeah, we're going to balance our operational budget. But, you know, we're going to cook the books. We're going to, you know, if we want to blow it a $90 billion hole in the budget, we'll call that, we'll call that capital spending.

And it's an investment. It's not, it's not operations. And we separate that and, you know, we're running out of balance, even though we're digging ourselves deeper and deeper. The government should not be investing in anything. The government sucks at investing. The government. What about EV battery plants?

Well, that's, That's great. And then the next thing after that is that you're going to have to have a bunch of EV battery disposal sites for all of these. Like, are you even going to bother unwrapping them off the pallets before you throw them in the landfill? That's a practical operational consideration that these people are going to have to decide on. Yeah.

You know, how performative do we want to be with this? The, uh, this wasn't planned for like the original Tesla is the first model S is that hit the market. Like they're, they're 10 years old. now, right? And how many millions of those have been sold? And something's got to happen to all those batteries. It's going to be ugly. Well, I heard something, Mrs. Tews was mentioned that Elon has some kind of a battery recycling program. I don't know how good it is or how much actually gets reclaimed from it. I also know that there's a company in Calgary. I was talking with a guy who works there and they were just starting to try and get more trace minerals out of

produced water. And they kind of came up with a way to extract, well, they came up with a way to extract lithium from produced water, but then also that it has practical applications in terms of battery recycling. This is a gross over simplification, but more or less, I guess they just kind of throw all the batteries in a blender with a bunch of water, and then they put in their goop and it pulls out the lithium. Perfect. Yeah. But if that actually ends up being a thing, They're going to be gazillionaires. And, yeah, I hope it works out for them. It's just another classic case of practical people working in an industry

coming up with solutions that have nothing to do with the government. All right. Now, did you hear about CBC? Oh, yeah, this is good. Former CBC host Blast State Broadcaster on way out the door. Travis Dan Raj accuses CBC of bias, lack of diversity of opinion in scathing resignation letter. So this guy was one of the, I don't know, frontmen of CBC. And they hired him because he was brown.

And then they were surprised afterwards to find out that despite the fact that he was brown, he actually knew things about economics and accountability. He actually wanted to do journalism. Yeah. And so he would have people on there who might disagree with the status quo CBC liberal talking points. And, you know, he was basically just trying to turn CBC into a less biased shit show than it was. And that got painted as being like a crusade. He's like, well, it's my job to be a journalist, so I'm going to try and be fair and impartial.

And they're like, oh, why do you have this crusade against us? And basically forced him to quit. He said it was an involuntary resignation. And I just think it's hilarious that the same people who call people like us racist all the time didn't even bother doing any homework. They're just like, oh, he's brown. He's going to agree with us. He's going to help us meet our quota. which do you think is more racist you know what i love about this too that you know he leaves you know

and any he burns a place down on the way out yeah but uh you know if if anyone that wants to defend the cbc and i know there's there's liberals that are going to do that um yeah and they'll they'll demonize this guy and they'll they'll try to they'll try to you know smear him but uh um he could have done much worse. He could have stayed on board. And he could have played the race card, which he didn't and done a whole lot more damage to these guys. But he stood on his, he stood on his principles. He didn't, he didn't play a race card and, and, uh, you know, burn the place down on his way out. So good for him. Travis. Yes. It, it's the exact same thing that happened to Jamil Giovanni where Bell hired him to run the radio show. And they're like, oh, well, you're black. So obviously

you hate the conservatives. And then he shows up and he's conservative. And they're like, whoa, okay, this isn't working. You're fired. This is not going to, this is not a fit. Yeah.

Yeah. We sure we hired you because of you're black, but we also hired you because we thought that we could safely assume everything about you because you're black. But we're, we assume you have no dignity and, and we just say whatever we told you to say. Yeah, that's, that's, who's the racist?

Yeah. That's exactly correct. All right. And then we got another article about that guy. But we basically just covered it all. This is the moment I think everybody's been waiting for here. We've got a two and a half minute video that you're going to want to be watching. This is the hard hitting journalism that you're not going to find it to CBC.

Yeah. The fuck up there. You're going to get put it to the fuck out of here. Enough. You're not a tough guy. Hurry up. I'll fucking promise you that. Hurry up.

Not that fucking tough. No, he's not. Not that. He's pretty tough. He's not tough. He's not tough. You're not tough. You're not tough.

You're not tough. Let's get going. Get going. Or you can play behind us all and you can take all the fucking time you want. This is fucking. You're not tough. This is not. Yeah, it's not.

It's not. You can't even. You guys can't even stand in to your ball up. He's not team up. He's not teeing it up. He's standing there. You need to get. Get the police out here?

Then let's get going here. Let's go. Pick your shit up and get going. This is not fun. Not your buddy, guy. Yeah, I'm not you guy, pal. Not your friend, buddy. You fucking guy.

You fucking guy. You fucking dry boy. I'm going to. You fucking try a boy. You fucking pussy. I'm a pussy. I'm a pussy. I wonder if anyone's selling T.

shirts. Fucking cry about it. Or just bang, bang, bang, maybe. Yeah. You're not a tough way. He's not a tough way. He's throwing off his glass as he takes off his gloves. And he's about to charge an ex-NHL guy.

No, now. You're not staring at you. Hey. And he goes. right into the lake. Hey. Hey. You can start, buddy?

Dude's in a lake. Sorry, buddy. You want to know? He just fucking came at me. I got it all in record. Oh, fuck. And he gets up and goes back for more. Yeah.

Time to go. Hey, out of here. Yeah. No, it's not good. It's not okay. It's not okay. This is great. I just,

I love everything about this. Like, this guy is, drunk and playing slow former NHL bruiser shows up and wants to wants to play through and they won't let them play through but they're drunk and belligerent and it doesn't go well it doesn't go well at all and you know you look at this like you can tell this guy this guy's been in a few tussles before you know you can you can look at this at the exact moment this still's in midair with his with his arms down just flying like a test crash test dummy.

Get them. Oh, yeah, absolutely. So here, like, look at the angle. Look at the placement of his, you know, this is the kind of stuff. You know, for you kids, when you're watching at home and you want to be an NHL player, you got to realize that it's the little things that matter. It takes a lot of work to be an elite level athlete. look at the way he's got his right heel planted

and he's transferring the weight over to the left side as he throws this guy this guy this guy doesn't he's not even sober enough to raise raise his arms to break his fault look at him look at the trajectory look at the trajectory he has him on okay you don't just do this by accident this comes from years of practice you got to know exactly how hard to hip throw a guy 30 yards

and what trajectory to do it at to make sure that he lands as far away from you as possible. And then to do it in such a way that he rolls down the hill, this is, this is, this is absolutely superior all-star maneuvering right here. The biomechanics of this are so impressive. And you just, you don't see this in beer league stuff. You don't see this at senior level hockey. This is elite level athleticism. Do you know what I love about this too is that everything?

Other than everything, but especially that, like for Nick Tarnassee, and this guy, he's, he's my second cousin. Well, yeah. Yeah, actually, he's from Rocky Mountain House. So, so he's from Rocky Mountain House. I mean, Rocky, it's a place that Sylvester Stallone named one of his most iconic characters afterwards. And you're going to try and fight a guy from there. You're going to, like, like being in a fight with a guy from Rocky Mountain House is probably like, The fourth scariest thing you can do for your personal health and well-being.

The number three would be like fighting a bear with a splinter in his ass. Number two would be fighting a woman from Rocky Mountain House. And the number one would probably be to be a close personal friend of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And this guy is just going willy-nilly right into the, right into the, well, belly of the beast, so to speak. I mean, it's just, this guy, Nick, yeah, so he's your cousin. I don't know him well, but, you know, he's two years younger than me. He played, like, Pee Wee with my little brother.

And it was always a good player. And, but a nice kid, like, actually a really nice kid from a good family. And not a violent kid. I don't think he ever got in a fight until, you know, he made the big league and they put him out there as a grinder. And it was his job to go, you know, to dust people up. So, um, I think. think when you watch when you watch him beat this guy up i think every fight that that nick turnaski's

ever been in has been on skates and he's fighting this guy like he's still on skates like the way you say he planted his feet and stuff and and you think the amount of force you need to to land a good blow on a guy when when you when you're on skates when you're you're not you don't have a stable footing um so he's using like way way way more force than uh than he would need to it just makes it all he didn't And the way he holds his shirt while he hits him. You know, I was kind of disappointed he didn't go for the jersey, right? Yeah, but, you know, him holding them and just kind of saying, bang, bang, bang. Like, he's obviously not trying to just wreck the dude.

He's trying to just more get him to smarten up and get the hell out. And the whole lead up to that, you know, the sense that you get is like, don't make me do this. Don't make me do this. You don't want this. Like, you know, the guy had a thousand second chances and just was, was, was, begging for it. He really, he really wanted his ass kick. And then getting up and asking gets a knuckle sandwich, gets back to the buffet and asks for a second serving, right? You know, and then just gets up again. I want to know what

he was drinking. Because like, you don't, you don't act like this if you're drinking a few IPAs. This is, you know, if, if you're having a Pilsner out on the back deck, this is not how you act. This is, this is like Colt 45. with a little bit of meth sprinkled in kind of reaction. Well, no, I'll tell you what he was drinking or maybe, maybe I don't want to steal your punch lane. No, go ahead. That was the, that was the punchline.

Go ahead. Was it just the name of the golf course? Well, it was red deer. No, the name of the golf course is Alberta Springs. Okay, all right. Now that tracks. The guys, the guys drink a cheap vodka. That tracks.

Here's, so somebody went up to this place. Like this literally just happened. And this is the same. Oh, shoot, I'm not even showing the video. Sorry, I'm talking about the video, but I'm not showing it. This is that same place. Somebody went up to that same tree. Dude got thrown past and they put up an RIP,

they put up a gravestone made out of a stick and a scorecard saying, RIP, fucking cry about it. Bang, bang, bang. Congratulations, Nick Tornasi. You're the king of the internet. until until the next king is crowned and enjoy your moment. I think, I think his price just went up.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure, uh, you're probably going to have like his jerseys are probably flying off the shelf. Oh yeah, for sure. Custom jerseys. He's getting some royalties. And someone's got to be printing t-shirts right now. There's got to, there's got to be a, there's got to be a bang, bang, bang.

Yep. And a fucking cry about it. The other crazy part is that that dude, where the hell is it? That dude, if I was that guy, I would do as little as possible to bring attention to myself after the fact. I'd move to another country. I would probably, I would probably get a sex change. That's how embarrassed I would be if I was that guy. I definitely would not

throw up Snapchat saying just a tiny little black guy and that's all boys and talking to the media about this. I would be like, yeah, a lack of self-awareness there. My name is twos.

The guy you're looking for, his name was like threes or something, I think. Oh yeah, I know that guy looks like me. It's definitely not me. No, I don't even golf. No, I got, I've got an estranged brother.

It's probably him. I can't give a bit of a drinking problem. Oh, yeah, yeah. He gets that Alberta Springs in a minute, you know. Yeah, it's just, oh, man. I love his buddy at the beginning. He's pretty tough. He's pretty tough.

And then Nick and his friend, no, you're not tough. You're not tough. Well, he's a pretty tough guy. No, he's not. I mean, he played for the lightning and the Panthers. and Nashville. Yeah. Okay, all right,

fair enough. I mean, he's your cousin. Great job getting one on the show this week, by the way. He probably doesn't remember me. His dad, his dad's brother married my aunt.

Anyway, so there's the, we had a, I don't know if I should say this, one of them, I have to know. Oh, but in Rocky,

they're a big family. Okay. These Tarnaski's, they pump out a lot of kids. I don't remember. remember how many of them there were, but, but they drove around in, uh, one of those like humongous savanna vans, like a 15 passenger van. Okay.

So in Rocky, you know, if you ever saw like a 15 passenger full size van, like if it looked like a hutterite van, it was actually the Tarnasky's. It was a Tarnaski van. Like, since I was a kid, that's always been known as a Tarnaski van. But, you know, big family, lots of brothers and sisters. And, um, but like a nice kid. Like, I, I don't think he, he wanted to fight anyone. and he probably doesn't get in any fights off the rink.

But, I mean, the guy was begging for it. He deserved it. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I don't know. It just, it was great. I must say, though, I was definitely disappointed that we didn't have him on, despite the fact that he was your cousin. And I'm like, go for it.

Like, dude, you're a sales guy. I get the fact that the lead is tenuous. The lead is tenuous, but that's your job is to convert on tenuous leads. Yeah, I got to do better. I tried. Well, speaking of things that didn't really pan out the way we hoped for, the Epstein list. Apparently, it doesn't exist.

Nothing to see here. Okay, so the FBI looks at the circumstances surrounding the debt of Jeffrey, Epstein. According to the report, this systematic review revealed no incriminating client list. So what happened to the Epstein client list that the Attorney General said she had on her desk? Well, I think if you go back and look at what the Attorney General said in that interview, which was on your network. Isn't that funny? So Jeffrey Epstein was in jail.

This whole thing, I'm so glad that the truth finally came out on this. I'm so glad that we know the whole story. And here's, for those of you who haven't been following along this week, here's the whole thing. here's the whole story, is that Jeffrey Epstein was wrongfully imprisoned. He was basically a state, he was a victim of state persecution. And he was wrongfully imprisoned and pushed to the point of suicide by the U.S. government. Things got so difficult for him being a man falsely incarcerated in the U.S. prison system that he had to take his own life tragically.

With a bed sheet sitting down while the cameras were off for some reason. And the cameras, it turns out, go off for the same one minute time period every night, which is horribly convenient if you ever wanted to plan something around that. But obviously that's not what happened because they have confirmed to us that he did, in fact, kill himself. And that there was no evidence. There was no client list. What a relief. I'm just glad we're done with this.

We can put it to bed and... Well, we're not done with this, though. Oh. Because Gislein Maxwell has been falsely convicted. She is a political prisoner. If there's no client list, if there's no evidence of any of this stuff happening, then obviously she has been falsely convicted and that needs to be overturned. She's a political...

She's a political... She's a political... Hashtag free... Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's horrible what they're doing to this formerly fine upstanding couple who just wanted to travel around and be left alone on their own island and not do anything bad or weird. And it's also a coincidence that six weeks ago that girl who you've probably seen with that picture, whenever you see the picture of Prince Andrew with Gislane Maxwell and he's got his arm around that young girl, she took her own life. just in April.

She was probably really sad about Gisleine Maxwell being and a political person. Like everybody around this is so upset that they can't even continue living. And there's obviously nothing to see here. I mean, Donald Trump himself said So every night

Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? Yeah.

It's time to move on, folks. It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame that the U.S. government treated Jeffrey Epstein the way he did. You know what? We need to posthumously give the Order of Canada. We need to recognize the fact that this is a travesty. We need to give an order of Canada

to Jeffrey Epstein and to Gislane Maxwell and I want it to be in the same ceremony that they're also giving it to Teresa Tam and Bonnie Henry. Or equally deserving recipients. Who are very much, if not more so. And I mean, it's going to be difficult when they go to hang the medal around Teresa Tam's neck.

They'll probably get it stuck on the Adams apple. And I'm guessing that they probably also have one set aside for Paul Bernardo. and and we could just have one big ceremony for all of it that just shows that we hold these needlessly killed and prosecuted people in the exact same regard as we do other Order of Canada recipients like Bonnie Henry and Teresa Tam.

What do you really think about this? Like, you know, do you think that they feel like the truth is going to be too hard to handle and, you know, society would collapse, you know, that's one, that's one take on it. The truth is going to be too hard to mitigate. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You know, and the other side, too, that I think is that the power that that material gives,

the people that hold it is too valuable for them to burn it, right? If you burn that now, like, well, I mean, not the heads of states, current heads of states and high-level influencers and leaders. are being controlled by the blackmail material that the intelligence agencies have, and the CIA and whoever else has possession of this stuff. And I think even for Trump and for, you know, the Cash Patel or whatever. Dan Bongino as well. Yeah, these guys who are sort of populist heroes.

And then immediately sell appear to have sold out. I mean, obviously, I mean, like, you know, Pam Bondi said specifically in this clip that there was no, there was no blackmail tapes. It was all just child pornography that the Jeffrey Epstein had downloaded and that there was, there was no, there was no confirmation of him ever actually being an intelligence plant or or doing any of this for blackmail. Like, this is all really open and shut. And now that, and now that we understand. that he was falsely imprisoned, we can actually talk about the good stuff that Jeffrey Epstein did.

Yeah, what about all the good things that you did? I don't know if you know this or not. But like, well, here's the thing is you hear like some of the stuff and you're like, okay, well, that's kind of bad. And I don't know if I agree with that. And then you hear other things and you're like, okay, well, yeah, I mean, I can't really fault him for that. Like one of his major clients was the owner of Victoria's Secret.

And so he had this deal worked out with him where he would just go to model, show modeling shows and he would talk to the models and tell them that he was a photographer or talent scout or whatever for victoria secret and then he would he would show up with the with the credentials and tell them that his talents scout for victoria secret and that if they wanted to become a victoria secret model they should sleep with him and apparently he did that hundreds of times out of boy well here's the thing is if i had a buddy who tricked hundreds of supermodels into sleeping with him,

that guy would never buy a drink for the rest of his life. Yeah. I'd be like, that's the guy, that's the guy who tricked 286 supermodels into sleeping with him. You know, and Les Wexner, was that his name?

Yes, he liked Jeffrey so much. He gave him his mansion. He just, he just liked him so much. That's how likable of a guy, Jeffrey Epstein was. He just,

Les Wexner just gave him. He actually gave him two men. he gave him his estate in Ohio and then his and then his his his Manhattan townhouse. Yeah, which was like the, it was the biggest building in Ohio or the biggest house in Ohio. Yeah. And then also somebody gave him that island. This is a man who was obviously of such high moral character that people would just give him planes and islands and penthouses and all that stuff. Can you imagine anyone more likable than that?

he got besmirce like this to the point where he had to take his own life just horrible horrible unfair all right RCMP charges military members allegedly plotting to form militia and seize land I don't know if you saw this article or heard anything about it

I'm going to go ahead and say that this article fucking stinks this does not make much sense at all when you read into it. Apparently, there's a bunch of guys in fucking Quebec who are former and current military members who were doing military drills. Like they worked in the military

and they're talking about how these people were basically planning on being an anti-government militia and getting their own land. And one of the things that they were doing was that they would do drills. and practices and things like that, which I'm willing to bet that lots of army guys have done stuff like that on their off time. Hey, you know what?

Let's do that thing where we go over the hill and shoot at the stuff. You know, whatever it is, right? Like, let's just, let's just all go out there and let's see, you know, what we can do against each other and whatever else, right? Because that's the sort of fun thing that you would do. And then they talked about how these four guys had 80 some guns. 83 guns I think it was or something. If you pick any random four houses in Alberta,

I'm willing to bet that you've got 80 some guns between them. 11,000 rounds of ammunition. Well, yeah, and that's the other thing is when you look at not this picture that I have up, but there was another picture I saw, and it looked like there was a bunch of 22 long rifles in the back. It does not take you very long to get a thousand, like a thousand rounds of 20, Ammo is first off very cheap very, like you could, you and a few friends could go through that in an afternoon, easy.

And then it talks about high capacity magazines, but it didn't specifically mention whether they were illegal high capacity magazines. Because you can get a 250 round drum barrel for a 22. And that's only one. You want to put five bullets in it. Well, no, you can, you can do it for a 22. Okay. You can have an Enfield has a 10-shot magazine, 10-round magazine,

but that's legal because it's bolt action. Okay, now, this photo here. Yeah. Oh, no, so finish your point, sorry. Oh, it gets into just enough specifics to sound scary with out actually giving you enough specifics to know whether or not it should be something bad. And that's what really stinks when you read this article is all the way through. you're like you're giving us just you're giving us wiffs of it you're giving us just the burnt hair

without actually seeing whether there's any hair that's being burned over there speaking of burnt hair yeah exactly just before we went live taylor was showing me that he's got elon musk's special limited edition burnt hair cologne this is this is like basically my prize possession but anyways back on topic sorry yeah well i'm the one who brought it up yeah well And then you were, you're going to say something about that picture. Okay. So I'm looking at this picture. There's a Luger.

There's a, there's a Smith and West in 500. I think that's what that big hand cannon is. And then, and then I think I see like a 44, like with a cowboy handle. And I'm not a gun guy, but I've played with guns at, you know, the indoor ranges and stuff.

But this looks like a, this looks like a gun collection. This doesn't look like an armament for, like the, is that, that looks like a 44. This is like somebody's, somebody's collection. That one in the bottom right definitely looks like a 20.

pistol. Yeah. Yeah. And it looks like there might be two of them there as well, right? Yeah. And then you get a looter there, which, you know, it's a collector's item. Yeah. Well, that's like if you're forming a militia, you want to standardize.

You want everybody firing the same ammunition. Yeah. Because if you're planning on getting into an armed confrontation, you don't want to be like, oh, I'm out. And then someone throws you, someone throws you a man for a gun that doesn't, fit. Throw me a box of Smith and West in 500 rounds. Yeah,

and now you've got to go through and you're like, okay, we got some of this over there. Bullets are flying past. You're like, all I can find is the 38. Yeah. Yeah,

this is not, this is not an armament for a, for a, a military take over here. This is somebody's collection of, of, kind of an enthusiasm. These are toys, right?

This is someone's, this is someone's gun collection. Well, I never even considered all that. And so when you think about it, now these are guys who, who apparently just wanted to just start living off grid and just go away from society in 2021.

Now, they don't mention in the article that in 2021, everybody was told to stay the fuck away from everybody else and there was a lot of crazy people saying stupid things everywhere, which totally makes sense. And then they said that they started an Instagram page to be actively recruiting people. to try and join up with them and start this, you know, collective off on their own. Now, I've never been a terrorist before that I'm aware of.

But I feel like if I was going to be a terrorist, I would not start a Instagram page showing me shooting guns and doing these drills and having fun out in the bush, firing shots off, and then actively trying to recruit people, vis-a-vis that. So all of this, when you look at it, you're like, that doesn't really make sense. This doesn't really make sense.

And I don't know. I could be eating all of my words a month from now. And it turns out that these guys are just some insane extremists. So we're legitimately trying to do something really, really bad. But they said that the sophistication of their setup implied that they were ready for the next level. But it didn't actually say that they were actively. planning anything or wanted to do something or even had any intentions of ever doing something.

And so, like, this whole thing stinks. And I could be wrong. And six months from now, be like, yeah, yeah. They were actually going to use all of those weird disparate guns to, I don't know, take over an Air Canada flight and fly it into a Tim Hortons. So why is this violent extreme? And like you said, qualify this, but saying like, you know,

maybe these really were bad guys and they were going to do something really, really awful. But like, just the assumption that this is violent extremism. Like, so here, where was this? It was in fucking Quebec. Right.

She says that the seizure is the largest cache of weapons and components in any terrorism incident in Canadian history. So I like how they qualify. What's the terrorism? Exactly. What's the terrorism incident? Because who's that jazz,

jazz rat or whatever, sing that was, had the huge bust near Surrey where they found, you know, the drug busts. Like how you would actually stage a, well, they actually had that,

they had that drug cartel compound. Yeah. That's the one you're talking about. But they didn't label that as terrorism. So like, they definitely didn't find a larger cache of weapons with, with these guys than they did in, Surrey, but this is, they qualify that by saying that any terrorism is it.

They didn't call that other way. Yeah, yeah. This is the biggest, this is the biggest collection of guns and equipment we've ever found related to a terrorist act on a Thursday before 3 p.m. Yeah, exactly. The biggest ever. Improvised explosive devices. So, you know, I went to.

But that could have just been tannerite. Well, that's the thing. So I went to this camp in, in Texas years ago. It was, um, it was a. a motorcycle camp. So it was Colin Edwards, the Texas tornado. He was a world super bike champion or whatever.

And he's got this ranch in Texas and he built this like fantasy camp on it where they've got a dirt track and you go out and he brings this famous racer buddies out there. And you race around the dirt track and he teaches you how to slide the bike. And then and then you drink beer and you have barbecue and you stay in the bunkhouse. Well, that sounds awesome. It was like the most fun I've ever had in my life. On one of the days,

you get to go out on a gun range. And this is, this is, you know, Colin Edwards is a genius. He's a, he's a taxing. He's got a huge collection of guns. This is how he made all his guns tax deductible as he made him part of his business. And you get to go out on his range on the ranch and play with all his toys. So they had a gun competition, you do the shotgun and the hand gun and the revolver and the, in the, and the, in the rifle and a 300 yard shot or whatever. And then you get to shoot his Barrett 50 caliber.

And then at the end of the day, yeah, he took, he took some tanner, right? And they, and they, everybody, it's just like a bunch of pyros, right? And he blew up a barrel and sent this barrel like 200 feet in the air, just blowing up bombs and stuff. Like this is what like you can go to any number of ranches in Texas. And, and they would laugh at this largest cache of weapons and components. Like I have, I have more guns on me right now that you guys took from that guy. Yeah. In the toolbox of my truck, I got 11,000 rounds.

These guys are amateurs. Like, like that would be normal there. They're just, they're just having fun. They're playing with their toys. I don't know. I don't know. Who knows? Like, if these guys are truly bad guys that, that, that wanted to hurt people, then

then I take it all back. But yeah, I'm with you. Well, I mean, it could, it could be the case. But from everything I've seen so far, this looks really, really, really, graspy. Yeah. Well, you know, if like that, that main picture, and I don't trust pictures on, on news headlines anymore, because they use pictures.

pictures that have nothing to do with the with article they lie or manikins yeah this is a picture of a of a of a gun collection and 22s and stuff come on like show me a picture hey if there's an if there's an underground compound and there's an armory room and there's row upon row of of assault rifles well okay yeah they they probably had bad intentions but like this is somebody's this looks like somebody's collection of pistols here but now now who knows maybe they're even lawfully some of them or they're probably restricted. I don't know. They changed their rules every day here. Yeah, well, they were probably, they were probably lawfully purchased.

And then, and then after that became illegal while they were sitting harmlessly in their, in their underground bunker. Yeah. Okay. Now here's, okay, I want to preface this. Actually, you know what? I'm just going to play the video. And then I'm, and then I'm going to, excuse me, preface what I have to say about it. I think some changes need to be made. I think Pierre is surrounded by, there are some good people around him,

but Pierre needs a little bit of change in his surroundings and in his advisors. I feel like having just regular Joe's who know what life is all about, who have no political experience, would probably benefit him, if I could be honest, as an advisor. or we need Pierre

like even Keenbexie said it the other day Pierre needs a team of people of competent people he also needs people who are not politicians around him giving him advice you know so that was the PLEB

and I'm going to shit talk to PLEB here a little bit but it's not out of any malice I feel like if I see something that the liberals are doing that's dumb I'm going to call it out and and I shouldn't just ignore it when it's somebody that I would agree with on a lot of things. So the mashup has been saying this for months, probably about two months before the election. We were talking about how Polyev's tone changed and it seems as though he's maybe got different advisors and then it's not going well and that it's not going to end well.

And the whole time during the lead up to the election and into the election run, you had the PLAB talking about how awesome Pollyev is, how everything's great. Polyev this, Pollyev that. I was at this Pollyev thing and it was perfect. Pollyev is the man. Pollyev is going to be the savior. I snuck into the bathroom at Taco Bell when Pollyev went in there and it was the best diarrhea I'd ever heard in my life.

Yeah. Okay. And then rather than being honest about his shortcomings, you know, if you want him to win, I guess everyone's got different strategies, but if you really want it, him to win, rather than just telling everybody that what he's doing is awesome when it's not, stop being the CBC of the right and honestly call him out when he's fucking up. That's how you make him better. Okay, you don't just cheerlead him as he goes off of a cliff.

You call him out when he's not doing a good job. Because if no one's going to hold him to account, he's going to end up just like Justin Trudeau did, where nobody tells him no for a decade and he becomes this, completely out of touch, idiot to a degree that was crazy even for him. Yeah. And the advice he's giving there, too, like, oh, he needs just some regular Joe's around them. Well, maybe, you know, for a, for a grounding effect.

Yeah, to get a sense of what, what ordinary people want. But look what you're up against. Go back to the beginning of the show. And you've got, you've got an extremely calculated. liberal party that's that's that's that's that's testing out campaigns before election's been called um and and that has that has a pretty dialed in pretty sophisticated strategy like you need you need to up your game you need to up your game and and you know I think with with pierre um I think he was a perfect foil for for Justin Trudeau but but you know

you pull a switcheroo and you put Carney in there and and he didn't he didn't have an answer for that so Well, that's the thing. There was a lot of really easy answers for that that he didn't do, that he didn't say. There was there was so much to work with there, but he left it all hanging. Yeah, that was frustrating. He did a tone shift about two months before the election, before the writ got dropped. And at the same time, at the same time, he totally went off a cliff in terms of popularity.

Now, was it a really good showing? Yes. Was it anywhere close to the super majority he'd been projected to win two months before the election? No. Yeah. Well, and you know, to their credit, their support didn't go down by much. They only went down three or four points. But the NDP and the block evaporated. And two out of three of those voters went to went to the liberals. But, you know, um, I said early on, uh, when, when, uh, when Trudeau resigned or quasi resigned or whatever that was, I remember saying, and I think I tweeted something like this, like, I hope it's Carney, because Carney should be the easiest guy to beat. This guy's an out of touch, elitist that, that hasn't lived in Canada all these years. Like he is the epitome of everything that is wrong with the liberals. Yeah. Yeah. This should have been a, and, and then, you know, they just, they didn't, they didn't, they

didn't say the obvious things. And they went along with the elbows up thing like it, you know, and the counter tariffs and all that. Like they, they just, I don't know, they, they, they, they missed on a, on an easy shot, I feel like, but here we are. Yeah, it is what it is. And so look, I get it. You get lots of engagement when you're doing things like this.

And lots of people like to hear you say that, um, that, that, that what the conservatives are doing is awesome. Um, you know, if you're, if you're, if you're, somebody in the space that that uh that talks more from uh i'd say a right leaning side sure yeah you're you're pandering to the crowd and and that that well and look what that did a few levels for sure i was going to say exactly look what that did to plebs profile he figured out he figured out the the the arithmetic on this that hey if if you just really lean into the to the partisanship and be a cheerleader for your tribe like um you got automatic huge support you know that the

The guy that's asking tough questions and criticizing their own team and calling out bullshit, like, I don't know, he's got a big platform now. So hopefully, hopefully he, we get a pivot from a guy like that and he uses that platform to be a little more objective. But he really leaned into the cheerleader bullshit. And now he's, he's kind of lost all his credibility, whatever he had. Well, I mean, there's always room to make it back, right? Yeah.

All right. Now, here you go. Federal deficit projected to score to 92 billion this year, quote, unfair to pass these burdens on C.D. Howe Institute says. So yes, our deficit this year is expected to be $92 billion, which is 50% more than the deficit that Christian Freeland resigned as finance minister over. Yeah, that she refused to deliver the update because it was so bad. months ago, she said, I will not give numbers this bad.

I fucking quit instead. And six months later, we are 50% more than those bad numbers. This is in the article from the National Post, this talks about how this would be the biggest deficit outside of COVID in the history of the country. So you think about like, COVID, the lockdowns weren't the only bad thing to ever happen since 1867. you had the Great Depression. You had two World Wars. You had Y2K.

And out of all of those things, none of them were as big of a deal that requires as much spending as this current crisis we have, which is what? Trump, I guess. Yeah. I wonder too, like $92 billion deficit.

How much of that is a drop in revenue? Right? How much of that is an increase in spending? Because I know there's an increase in spending, but how much of that is a drop in revenue, too? Because you got a problem with unemployment and you got a problem with lower tax revenues coming in and stuff. Unskilled labor making low wages. Yeah. Alberta is the only province that has private sector job growth right now. I saw a crazy graph.

Just, you know, real estate related with interprovincial migration. And in fact, the country's population is growing just slightly. But if you break it down province by province, it's actually shrinking everywhere except Alberta. And then they look at net interprovincial migration. You know, 10,000 people move from BC to Alberta and 2,000 people move from Alberta to BC. So you got net 8,000 people migrate from BC to Alberta. Well, there's only one bar that's up. up in the in the bar graph and all the other bars are are below zero so the whole country

is moving to Alberta and and the country is shrinking except for Alberta it's it's kind of crazy yeah which is which is great because then it's just going to have to be lean more on Alberta lean more on Alberta yeah yeah at what point are we going to say maybe we don't want to be the linchpin to this shit show yeah now this is this is interesting So this is the head of the RCMP. I've got these out of order, but whatever, talking about the rise in extremism. So she's talking about these people that got arrested, right? But here's this clip.

Believed in equal gender rights, but all of a sudden are, if someone you know was very believed in equal gender rights, but all of a sudden are leaning towards. like traditional values and that might be a sign that they're becoming more extremists. But we also, if, if all of a sudden you believe in traditional family values, you might be coming an extremist.

You know, what's funny is you can, you can play that clip without sound and just her face. Like the, the physiognomy of it, like this, you can just see the smugnesty. Yeah, and actual words as well.

Yeah, you just know she's saying something stupid without even having to hear it. But where'd they find her? Some staff sergeant, like, oh, how embarrassing. Okay. Two people charged with exploiting foreign workers with 90 hour weeks at motel and gas station. The motel was in Fox Creek and the gas station was near Kalmar, so southwest of Edmonton. Apparently, there's more than $160,000 in unpaid earnings. they were it's a 55 year old man and his 26 year old son no names released now you always know whenever

there's no names released that these are not Caucasian people yeah when there was a woman who got arrested for spraying a water gun over her fence and some of the water got on her neighbor they released her name nothing released here yeah nothing released here but this is this is the make whatever arguments you want for immigration or temporary foreign workers or things like that, but this is not an isolated incident. No, this is just one example of millions. This is going on everywhere. Yep.

Now, female cyclist defends decision to not take podium with transgender winner. Julie cuts Peterson refused to attend a ceremony after finishing second to Catherine KJ Phillips. You look at that picture. It looks exactly like the South Park episode with strong woman. Macho man. I put the wrap around shades on him.

Yeah. Well, good luck today. Luck is for dudes. That's the exact picture. That's the exact picture. I wonder if I could just find it. Look at the arm span on that chimp. Oh.

Yeah. I mean. riding this bike that's twice the size. You just know that woman has a big dick. You know, it's funny. She said that they didn't actually release that person's name on the ride list so that nobody knew that that person was going to be competing. And this woman who got second place didn't know at all that there was a dude in the race

until the final sprint where dude just flies past everyone. and she just looks she's like there's no way a woman rides like that that's a guy yeah well good for her for not for not participating she's the real winner if she got second place she's the real winner and absolutely i just can't believe we're still doing this the USA cycling national channel like how how are we still doing this how is this not i mean i feel like the pendulum swinging back but this is still happening like you know in in july of 2025 like when are we going to be done with this like when can And, you know, even the most, you know, progressive people go, okay, you know, we fucked up. Maybe they're just, they're just, too committed to this, to this.

Yeah, that's it. I'm macho, man. Oh, it's perfect. This is, you're living. I got to watch that again. Like, it's literally the South Park episode. Yeah. But, I mean, it's stuff.

U-Pen apologize to every woman that got beaten out by Leah Thomas and adjusted their records to show that, you know, basically just took him off the dog. He raised him. But you know what? Only under coercion, a threat from Trump to pull their funding if they didn't do that. Oh, yeah. They didn't voluntarily do the right thing. You know, it was going to cost them a large pile of money not to do the right thing. So I don't know.

I guess you got to hit them in their wallet. USA cycling. Come on. I mean, the only thing gayer than that would be the tour to France. Now, this is just a quick little clip. I just don't know what else to do with this. Somebody, I've just been asking, if someone can explain to me why this shit keeps happening, please.

Project outsource has resulted in the arrest and charging, as you heard from the chief of two people who we believe were leading a criminal organization. They are Indarjit Dami and Peritaj Chopra, and they are charged with instructing the commission of an offense for a criminal organization. What that means is they were in charge of this organization and providing direction to others that were a part of it. This was a crime group who attempted to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from our community with threats and also engaged in tow industry-related violence and crimes like fraud. Okay, now look, what the hell is so special about the tow truck industry in Ontario that it's just like this mafia front? Like back in the day, if there was an Italian restaurant that had nobody in it ever,

it was a mob front. You'd go in there and there'd be some guy in the back on. I would do this favor for you. Right? And then now it's tow truck industries in Ontario. and what the hell is it about a tow truck or the rules around tow trucks or what is it? Why have

why has so much organized crime decided to become saddled in the tow truck industry? I don't know. I don't get it. Somebody please explain it to me like I'm five. Government contracts. Anywhere there's a big government contract,

there's a big opportunity for corruption and racketeering. That's my. that's my read on it. They got a big contracts with municipalities. You know, if we're, you know,

look at, well, in Calgary, what's the big toe, tow company in Calgary? Citywide. Citywide. Yeah.

So they have, they have the city contract, right? So if your car gets popped, um, gets seized or, or you're illegally parked or whatever, that's a,

that's a big contract. So the value of that contract. Like I think anytime large amounts of public money are given out, there's, it's just going to, attract crooks. And that's what organized crime is. Look at we charity.

Look at we charity. Yeah. Okay. So here's the thing, though, is if there's all of that government money going out, you'd think one of the boxes you would have to check on the form to apply for it is, are you a fucking gang? Yes or no. Well, um, depends who approves the contract.

And this, these guys are in Brampton. So who's this, who's the city councilor? Who's a committee that, that, uh, that awards this contract and, you know, how thick is the envelope that they got? It's all dirty. It is all dirty. Okay. Now let's get to some goofy stuff here.

I want you guys to realize that this is not a doctored headline. This is the actual headline that I am about to read. Autopsy reveals cause of death for Brazilian tourists who fell into volcano. A woman was... It was obviously COVID. A woman was on vacation and she was touring around one of the...

I can't remember if it was the biggest or the second biggest volcano in Indonesia. She slipped. She fell into the volcano, died of her injuries, and then they performed an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

She fell, apparently she fell about 250. feet, hit, hit like a ledge and was there for a little bit calling for help and everything like that. And then slipped and fell again, the remaining like 350 feet down into the volcano and was dead. And they said, well, what could have happened to her? We need an autopsy. Did her blood reports come back with high levels of fucking magma?

I mean, I hate to laugh because it's, it's awful and sad, but the article, come on. Jesus Christ. Okay. Now, this is another one where I'm going to give everybody shit. What are you doing here? Carney makes first stampede visit as prime minister. There's Mark Carney walking around the midway. And this article talks about how.

I love this. Okay. So this is, remember this for when we play this video later on. Later, as he walked on the stage before the Chuck Wagon races at GMC Stadium, Kearney was met with a mix of booze and applause

from the crowd of approximately 17,000 people. They're saying woo. I heard woo. The announcer said. I was saying woo. Boo herns. Oh, they're cheering for you.

Let's go Brandon. Let's go Brandon. We're literally doing a let's go Brandon. Yeah. For Mark Carney at the stampede. Okay. And then he tried to do the classic. It won't let me pause it.

I don't know what's going on. But here is Mark Carney trying to do a pancake flip and screwing it up. Fail. All right. And then here's here's, well, actually. I'll see if I can come back to this one later. Here is more pancake flips. There's Mark Carney trying to do a pancake flip again.

And then there's Daniel Smith, who used to run a restaurant in I River. Yeah, who knows how to flip pancakes. So they compared it to the classic Trudeau flip. And then here's another one of, now just look at this. look at this. This is Mark Carney again. This is a guy who has had a chef or a maid cook all of his meals for presumably all of his natural life. And then they said, you should try and make a couple pancakes. And for some reason, he thought that would be a good idea. Like instead of just being like, I'm Mark Carney,

I have people who do this for me. You, here's $77. Flip that pancake for me. Here's him trying to flip. a quarter-cooked pancake and just splattering it all over the spatula. Now, there was a lot of debate back and forth when Carney showed up versus Pollyev showing up. And the Carney people said that the lifelong bureaucrat from Ottawa showing up at the Calgary Stampede, cosplaying as a westerner, was just tourism and then he looked like a big phony. And then the Polyev people said that the Bank of England guy who spent the last several decades living in Derbyshire, England or wherever the hell it was, showing up at the Calgary Stampede, wearing a cowboy hat, was just doing a bunch of cosplay. And you know what, folks?

They're both right. They're both right. Okay. That video where he flips in and it hits him in his jacket. Yeah. He goes, fuck. Which is a fair response. He's probably going, so what?

So people eat these things? What do you call this? Like where they drizzle liquid sugar on it and eat it? Okay. Okay. How poor would I have to be before I would want to eat this? Yeah. So anyway, that's Mark Carney and all of that stuff going on.

But here's the video. Viva Fry put this together. Now, this is. the video that Mark Carney put out with a song over top of it. Now, why would he dub it over with the song, do you think? Because they were saying boo-urns. Because they were saying woo. Yeah, they're saying woo.

Because they were paying woo. Yeah. Woo. Woo. You know, when I see something I'm really excited to see, you know, like my, you know, my favorite performer or something. I usually say like in a low voice, just to let them know I'm excited.

Yeah, yep, that's always what I do is it's, it's the best thing to say when you're, oh shoot, I didn't show the video. All right. Well, here, I'll just, sorry, I was looking at it, but I didn't have it up on. Hold that shit up, Jamie. Yeah, Jamie, damn it.

Okay, well, here's, here's him walking around. And then they're ruling. All right. There. Sorry. Sorry, guys. That was my bad. If Sean was here,

he wouldn't have done that. Woo. All right. Okay. Now, more goofy stuff. We can't live anymore. Cupy members rally in Regina.

They're saying that they need better contracts because they haven't had a raise in the past three years and the cost of living has gone through the roof. Now, these are the same people. This is Cupy. So, for example, if you go to their website and you go to Kupi votes, you can see them talking about how they need to mobilize for the Canada they need and that they need to stop Pierre Paliab

and that they're looking for volunteers for the NDP leading up to the federal election and things you love about Canada, championed by the NDP, celebrating progress on the $10 a day plan. tired of being told to vote strategically. And then 10 things like this is all Pierre Polyev in it for banks, billionaires and big polluters, not you. Pierre Polyev will take a wrecking ball to your pension. All of this stuff. They keep telling people to vote and Mark Hart or Pierre Polyev would not have been a magic

bullet to fix the economy by any means. No. But the same union organization who, actively wants to support parties that undermine the economy is now having protests and trying to get negotiations because life has gotten too expensive under those same people. Weird. Yeah. Just no self-awareness at all.

I kind of feel like they bet on the wrong horse. How many members do they have? They're huge. They are huge. Well, they did. Here's the thing is that they're parasites and they haven't killed the host yet. and they haven't quite gotten to that point. The CUPW, the union of postal workers,

is very close to that point, but QP itself hasn't reached that breaking point yet. And so they're going to continue to try and step things up. And they did bet the right horse. They basically own the NDP right now because they're the only people who actually still send the NDP money. Right. So, yeah, they have an entire political party

in their fucking pocket. I think they did back a pretty correct horse. And they are getting what they voted for, which or what they told people to vote for. But the thing they want isn't a good economy where lots of people have good paying jobs. What they want is more people giving them union dues. And to that end, they do have,

they did back the right horse. Now, women have had a tough time in aviation lately. There's been a few upside down planes. aborted takeoffs and landings, a little bit of sparks where you wouldn't expect to see sparks, things like that. And so naturally nature is correcting itself. And that's why Lieutenant General Jamie Spicer Blanchett

becomes first woman to head Royal Canadian Air Force. Honestly, It's great. Take her out of the cockpit. We need to do this with more of them. Man stops Ottawa robbery suspect with dog leash handcuffs. raising questions about limits of citizens' arrest. Dude was trying to rob a pet store and threatening the people in it.

He had a weapon on him, although the weapon wasn't specified. The guy's name wasn't specified either. Craziest thing. Weirdest thing. And so this dude took a dog leash, hog-tied this motherfucker, and then sat there waiting two and a half hours for the cops to show up. They called the cops and said, dude has a weapon. we have restrained him.

He is tied up. You guys need to come take care of this. And they said, yeah, we'll be there in two and a half hours. And then, to top it all off, questions about limits of citizens' arrest. That's the take from the Globe and Mail, folks, is that it's not a bad thing for you to go in, threaten people at a pet store and try and rob them with some unspecified weapon.

the bad part is when a white dude with a beard stops them. Yeah, probably a terrorist. Probably. Probably sitting next to those frogs right now in a jail cell. Yeah. Okay, from fast company.com. While retirement typically occurs after completing a career

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And there you can see they're bringing them in with the scissor lift or sorry with the zoom boom. And yeah, million dollar potty's. Now the interesting thing is if you actually go through this article, I may not find it because I'm just scrolling through hot. But they said the bigger cities, the bigger the headache is talking about how

it costs more to install that same porta potty in New York than it does in smaller communities. Working with New York City involved four more regulatory hurdles and review processes than smaller municipalities. For other cities in smaller municipalities, officials can get a full installation done for $210 to $220,000. It just varies. The more complex, the more people, the more department regulations, the harder. It's harder. It's more expensive. There's more palms to Greece.

this is a $210,000 installation, including regulatory, in a place like Portland, but in New York, it's a million dollars to navigate the red tape to put a shitter outside for homeless people to jerk off in. I'd like to have a dump in one of those. As long as you were like the first person to do it, that would be great. Exactly. As soon as they bolt it down, I want to have the virgin dump in. that and then never see it again.

Yeah, like I, you know what? Even just, even while it's just still in the air and it's just coming down, you know, you can see that little plop, go through the little gap before it's been totally set down. Maybe like I don't want to be in this thing ever again. Yeah. Million box apiece. Which is about $800,000 worth of red tape. People wonder why things are unnecessarily expensive and why we think government is a bunch of jerks.

That's it right there. Well, that goes back to what I said about about contracts with public money, right? Like how many, how many palms got grease to install one of those toilets, right? Well, I don't know. Depends if they were out of toilet paper or not. But yeah, so there are five different $1 million toilets that got installed in New York. And I can't wait to see the article next week saying that they got absolutely fucking demolished.

Like when San Francisco spent like $2 million or whatever it was a couple years ago on the unvandalizable toilets, these brick shit houses, like the Ukrainian guys from Rocky Mountain House. Yeah. But San Francisco spent a shit ton of money on these like unbreakable toilets. And then the homeless people, the homeless people were like, well, challenge accepted. and a week later, they were inoperable, destroyed, covered in graffiti. It was basically just a bomb site.

I can't wait to see that same thing happened with these in New York. Now here, from the Babel, for not the beat, Ronald McDonald's statue stolen from Pennsylvania McDonald's. So that classic

kind of plastic Ronald McDonald's statue you see around here and there, somebody ripped one out, broad daylight, just picked it up and took it out with them. What does he do? wearing on his feet. Oh, very strange sandal.

It looks like a fish. He's wearing a dead fish for a sandal. Well, he's trying to just obscure the, the forensics. Yeah, yeah, he's drawing attention away from it. But you know what? I think if it hadn't been for Nick Tarnaski, this guy could be king of the internet right now.

He could reach legendary status, but he just, he did his, he had his 15 minutes at the wrong time. I know. Yeah, he got his 14 minutes of fame while Nick was getting his 15. Yeah. It's a damn shame. Um, but, uh, they're calling it a Mcnapping. And so this guy, this guy steals the Ronald McDonald statute, but here's the best part is the, the police department in Pennsylvania from Nekwahoning, Nesquahoning police department. Ronald McDonald is missing. Yesterday, a few unidentified suspects waltzed into McDonald's and walked out with Ronald McDonald himself were not clowning around this was a full-blown mcnapping

ronald was last seen smiling as usual unaware of the betrayal witnesses say he didn't even put up a fight to the suspects we get it times are tough and therapy is expensive but kidnapping a plastic icon of joy that's a McFelany I mean this is it's great though but i mean there should be more Ronald McDonald's statues i think we should all have them actually you know what If I was to say right now, if I was Nahed Nenshi, I would say that plastic Ronald McDonald's statues are a human right. And then from there on, now that somebody said it out loud, we're all obligated by law to give every single person a Ronald McDonald's statue

because that's how it works in their logic. I think this kid should take this thing on tour and just take selfies with Ronald in various places around the world. Put some mileage on that statue. I do drive-thrues like Burger King drive-thrus and stuff like, that just get some fun pictures and videos of it have it have it have it right next to a carls junior oh yeah you could you could have an absolute blast with that all right now here we go this is the moment you guys have all been waiting for the happy news i hope we've got something really

exciting what do we have for us this week this again Toronto's busiest speed camera cut down for the sixth time in eight months. This is a new article. This is a new article. I don't know. Again, there's some kind of a glitch in the programming. This is not happy news. You guys should not be doing this.

We don't condone it. But for some reason, it's in the happiness, so we've got to cover it. This just happened again. That came week after police installed camera of their own. monitor frequently vandalized equipment. The vandalism of this camera has gotten so bad that the police set up an additional camera pointing at the first camera to deter vandalism of the first camera. It got chopped down again.

Now, this is crazy. This is the one that's been drugged through a park, thrown in a fucking swamp. It's been spray painted. They tried to put a bigger base around it that was going to take more work and effort to cut through and that was seen as a challenge. This thing is the chumba wumba of speed cameras, folks. And it's a damn shame that it keeps

happening. You know, sometimes it gets cut with a saber saw, a reciprocating saw, a saw, if you will. There's a million different names for it. I mean, I bet you if you wanted to... A battery powered angle grinder. You know, what, if I was somebody which I'm not, who thinks that this is awesome.

And I wanted to encourage whoever's been doing it, which I'm not because it's reprehensible. I would say that the best feather in a cap you could really put on this, because I mean, the thing about it is, is a saber saw is really good

if you want to make a quick cut. Right? An angle grinder works really well. You know, assuming you can trace it out first or you got a steady hand. you know, it's really good at rounding the corners. You can have a really nice clean looking appearance when you're done with it.

Right. It all kind of comes. It comes down to what kind of stump you want to leave there. If it's, um, you know, kind of a last minute thrown together thing, you could even put a grinder blade into a skill saw and that would work. I, I've done things like that before, um, for kind of concrete of all random shit. Okay. Um, but if you really wanted to, just chefs kiss this thing which you shouldn't you definitely should not but uh but whoever

whoever you are if you're listening do not for even a moment consider using acetylene to have a big globy melted ugly charred stump at the top that would make for an awesome picture that would be the worst thing you could possibly do and don't pour uh you know don't pour any like concrete or, you know, quick creature or whatever down, down the stump. Oh, actually. Yeah, that would be even worse. And for those of you may be dealing with drug problems, I would just really strongly concern you to not try and do it for the copper.

Yeah, don't take the copper wire out of there. That's, you know, that's, that's valuable. There's a lot of valuable electronic components in there, and they cost people a lot of money and you need to respect that. Yeah. Do you see this in the article that the parkside camera quickly became the busiest automated speed enforcement device in the city to date issuing nearly 69,000 tickets and generating over 7.3 million in fines. Yeah, that's why they're fine with just replacing it every week. Yeah.

I read an article a while back about how these speed cameras work. It's pretty corrupt. It's private companies own them. Yeah. Yeah. And they get a contract with the city to install. and they get a they get a commission off each ticket like how's that for a conflict of interest oh they install them for free this is this is this is this is this is based in the state yeah and they get they make so much they make so much on the kick and so they approach

they approach a city hall the city council and say hey you've got it you've got a speed enforcement problem and a revenue problem we can solve those both for you we'll set up our we'll set up our cameras in your in your busiest intersection and in your fucking transition zones where the speed limit drops. All you have to do is give us 20% to, you know, we take, you don't have to do anything. We'll install it. We take 20% of the fines.

We're going to, we're going to generate $7 million per camera for your city. Oh, it's a real shame the way you have this revenue shortfall. And there's all these accidents popping up. I feel like me and the boys could probably do something which towards would solve both of these problems for years. Yep. Yeah. Okay. All right. Community notes. I've got one. I didn't hear anything from anybody else, but I have one here. This is the Stettler Country Fair and Rodeo, July 30th to Saturday, August 3rd. It's almost a week. Wow. There's markets. There's trade shows, extreme Bronx, special performance by Jeff Caddo, draft horse polls. So like instead of a tractor pole, they've actually got a straight up draft horse pole.

There's beer gardens, poultry show, rodeo. They've got all the kind of classic small town Saskatchewan things where, you know, someone could submit the best quilt they made or the best sheafs of wheat or the best pickles, all that cool stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which, I mean, there's no such thing as a bad progue.

But anyway, the point is, is that this is apparently a pretty big deal. The Ag Society puts it on. And if you're in Stettler, over any point over the course of almost a week, you can go see it. And Stettler, I mean, you can't really go to a rodeo in this day and age without being to, you know, without seeing at least one guy from in or around Stettler competing in at least one of the events. So this is a big deal in their neck of the woods. So sounds fun. Be sure to check it out if you can. And I didn't double check this.

I think the Bowden rodeos this week. I can't remember. I think Terrick mentioned that a little bit ago. Here we go. July 20th, Battle of the Tex at Langdon Days at the new high school in the Southside Langdon. Langdon being just to the southeast of Calgary. So Battle of the Tex, Zane noted car. Did they throw wrenches at each other?

Oh, wouldn't that be cool? I'd watch that. That would be a battle of the text for sure. Yeah, literally battle. to the death. Well, it's, it's funny. Like, I was, I was talking to the kids about, like, what kind of stuff, uh, because we went to the stampede, uh, last weekend.

Um, it was interesting. Kind of like a Cowboys and East Indians sort of vibe to it. Um, and. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. No, by all means. Oh, I was going to say, I took the kids there, uh, the other day. And I made the mistake, the, for the third year in a row, like fool me thrice,

shame on me of buying the fucking wristbands for 60 bucks a piece we got there around 10 30 he was like oh you know what maybe the crowd's not too bad today it it changes really fast and the first ride that we lined up for we had to stand in line for two hours so you take shifts holding the spot in line and then you go do other stuff get some oh wow go go maybe on a shittier ride and rotate back in um so the kids got they got three rides in So it's, you know, public service announcement, don't waste your money on the on the wristbands. And sure is fuck, don't waste your money on the on the express pass. That's another 35 bucks on top of that.

Because if you do the math, you got to do more than 10 rides to get your money's worth on the wristband. And if you spend the whole goddamn either, you might get four. So, so mathematically you can't even do it. It's not even possible. Yeah. Well, they wanted to do the rides. And, you know, I'm like, okay, well, let's, let's, you know, we did a quick little tour. I'm like the

lineups for the rides are hours long. And the lineup to get tickets to go on the rides look like it's going to be like a half hour long too. So I was like, you know, with the amount of time we have we could probably spend the whole day in line and get in like one ride. Yep.

And it was crazy. Like they had this Korean, I don't know, Korean hot dog stand. I'm looking around for something to eat around lunchtime. And the lineups are insane. This Korean and hot dog stand one was like around the corner. There was probably like 80 people in line. Was it real dog?

I don't know. I was like, I'm not even going to find out. Went inside to the trade show part and they had these, what was it? It was like nacho mac and cheese or something like that at one of the kiosks inside the trade booth area. I'm like, oh, that's great.

So I go and I line up. And then I get to the front of the line and they said, we've actually got like too many orders like there's too many people waiting for their food right now we're not taking orders for a while and then and then a little while later i still haven't eaten yet the only thing that i could just kind of go up and get something without a crazy line was a piece of fudge and so i'd been and so you know and i don't want to eat the whole thing because it's so sweet and so you know i've been packing around this fudge for a while and I want some actual food.

You've been packing her a lot of fudge. And so I want some food. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm going to try this nacho mac and cheese place again. I get to the front of the line and they're like, we're all out of food. We're waiting on more food to come in. So there's no food till. And I'm like, what the hell is all these people? Like you look at it and you think, you know what?

Logistically, if you just figured out how to do a tight supply chain and get some decent. food to people prepared quickly. The volume you could do, well, everybody's in these just stasis lines. You're leaving money on the table. Well, they were all leaving money on the table because nobody was doing food quickly.

You do even better if you went out with a cart or a tray and just went up and down the line rides and sold a drink or a snack to those people standing there for two hours. Oh, it was, it was crazy. I had a, I had a extreme pickle putteen. Oh, yeah? It was just like a really shitty putteen and then they, and they put a couple of like stale fried pickles on top and a bunch of pickle sauce.

Yeah, $17. It wasn't worth it. I got it. I got it. Oh, I hate that when you try something and you're all excited for it and you're out 20 bucks. Everything there costs 20 bucks. Yeah. Yeah.

It's funny because they had, they had a little bit of money, but they didn't have pockets. and so I'm holding on to it and then, you know, we're out like $100 before we've even gotten in between, you know, parking and gate passes and everything like that. And then, you know, we're getting little snacks here and there

and you know, this little thing and that little thing. And then the youngest one was like, oh, hey, do you think I could have some of my money to do this thing? And I'm like, where do you think all the money for everything we've been spending all day was?

Right? Yeah. Because she's just like, well, because I didn't say like, here is your money that you're going to go spend on this thing. I was just like, okay, here's some more money. Here's some more money for this.

Here's some more money for that. Because the little bit of money that they had. Yeah, well, that's exactly the dog comes up. You hand the dog some money. The little bit of money that they had was gone within an hour, right? But I wasn't like, this is your money that you're spending. And so they figured by the end of the day that they've still got a whole bunch just sitting in the proverbial bank. but the funny thing about the battle of the text was that

when we're trying to decide what all to do and everything like that we go see this escape artist and I said well do you guys want to go see they've got dueling pianos we could go see that if you want they're like how are the pianos dueling well no it's it's the guys on the pianos and they're going to fight and they're getting excited right I'm like well no but but that would be awesome they're just going to play music back and forth. And then they're just visibly disappointed.

Like if there was a couple of guys sitting in front of pianos, just beating the crap out of each other. A couple of them. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Bang, bang, bang. You know what? And my kids are at this age. They're teenagers.

They want to go on the scariest ride and watch the scariest movie. And they wanted to go on the zipper. They're like, we just want to go on the zipper. Let's just find the zipper. We'll do that first. There's no zipper. remember the zipper from when we were kids? Yeah.

That was the best ride. And the thing I think, I don't know, maybe it's banned. Like they were always falling apart. Well, all the best ride. If you didn't hang on. Well, all the, well, yeah, because you would just sit in that cage and it would just kind of loosely flip back and forth. And there was just kind of like a generic sort of bar that went over top of your lap.

That might or might not hold you in depending on how bigger quads were. And it wasn't adjustable. It was just when they closed the door, that thing went down in your lap. there might be a 10 inch gap between you and the bar. It might be snug depending on your girth. Yeah. So, yeah, maybe just, you know, after they had more concussions than the NFL, they were like, maybe we need to go back to the drawing board on this.

Yeah. Zippers band. Yeah. Oh, and, uh, well, we should wrap this up, but also kinderously mud drags July 25th, 26th, 1 p.m. to midnight beer gardens, live bands, uh, BCDC and rat poison. and actually, here, I've got a, I've got to find the, uh, oops, I'm writing this wrong. I just remembered there was another one that got mentioned to me that I didn't write down in the notes. Uh, the Crossfield Elks demolition derby is coming up August 23rd.

1 p.m. gates open, 4 p.m. Derby starts. and that for anybody who's ever gone is the party of the summer. So, all right. What's the date again for that? That is August 23rd. I'm going to catch that. That sounds fun. Yeah.

All right. Well, hey, Taylor, thanks so much for coming in. Before you go, what's your podcast? The Commission Impossible podcast. It's just for salespeople. It's just for fun. If you want to connect with me, you can. Well, it's for anyone.

It's, it's, it's, it's, uh, it's about sales. And, and, uh, but yeah, you know what if like, like two says if it's, anyone could listen, you might, might learn something, might have a laugh. Um, if you want to connect with me, probably easiest as Instagram at Taylor King, real estate. You'll find me on there. Send me a DM or whatever. All right.

Excellent. All right. Well, that concludes it. And thanks very much for coming on. Thanks for having me. It's been fun. All right. why can't I play this?

Oh, I think I just hit in stream. This is all Sean stuff.