Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 187

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

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Welcome to the Mashup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. East or West, up or down side to side, I sit to stand and fall to fly. Have all of my impulsive plans, pop and locking salsa dance is on demand. I follow leading off the map and stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome.

Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the Mashup. Welcome to the Mashup. shoes is a bit of a jerk sometimes to the universe to all of it so yes you are go away so i'm driving through calgary the other day and i'm starving and i know that where i'm driving and where i'm going there's really only like three places to go one of them is McDonald's which kind of sucks another one is the wendy's met my ex-wife so I don't go there anymore and the third one is this new Harvey's and so I

decided to pull into the new Harvey's but okay so twos is a guy who likes his burgers the way the brothers like they're white girls like just lots there and uh I'm like you know what I probably just need something just to tide me over for a little bit so I get one of the little junior burgers go around to the drive-thru and I'm waiting and there's some issues, not quite sure what's going on. Finally, they just say, hey, our machine isn't working. Here's your burger. Have a good night.

Like, oh, thank you very much. And I peel on out of there. And then as I'm driving away, I'm just swearing to myself because the one time in my life that I don't go for some big hefty monstrosity that's going to make my arteries just quiver and nervous anticipation their machine isn't working and I get it for free and I'm mad at myself rather than being thankful and appreciative of the fact that their POS system is living up to the name and that they were unable to make me or get me to pay for the transaction and we're nice enough to give it to me for free I'm mad because this is the one time ever that I don't get

some giant honking chunk of beef with some big buns. And we've got to be appreciative. So, yes, you should be, yeah. I don't think I've gotten that treatment going through the drive-through yet. So that's a relatively cool story, but somehow you're upset about not ordering the biggest burger possible. How could you've known to? How could you know that's the thing? I couldn't, I couldn't, but like of all the times.

And then rather than just, like I said, rather than just being like, oh, well, you know what, it's great. I got a free burger. That was nice. This should have made my day. and instead I was just like well welcome to mashup 187 I legitimately thought about going around

and getting back into the drive-thru line again you got a free burger comes back around I'd like the biggest thing you got sir welcome to mashup 187 this is the point in time I tell you folks if you enjoy the show

make sure that you like and share it out to your friends and everybody else. We're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. We got a full show today. Tews did his best to annoy me this morning. I swear. As is tradition. I swear.

You know, I get through the document and I go, you know, I'm going to go back through this because I know Tuesday is going to sneak a few in and then he's going to harass me that, oh, you didn't read the document. I'm like, no, I read the document. And he's stuck in, okay, another 15. I'm like, all right. So I get through that. And then I'm like, you know, I should go back through this again.

because Tuesday's going to do this again, isn't he? And he's stuck in another 15. I eventually just closed the document. I'm like, there's no catching up with Tuesday this morning. You just kept sticking things in over and over and over and over again. That's what she said. All right. Happy Airborne Friday.

And we got a special Airborne Friday this week. And I'm going to bring a man. We got a couple of guests here this morning. Gentlemen, thanks for hopping on. Thanks for having us, man. Great to be here, Sean. Well, I tell you what, I've had both of them on the, podcast twos, but retired Corporal Jamie Sinclair.

And Jamie, you're going to give an introduction of Eddie Stonowski fire away. Yep, proud to do it. So Ed Stonowski, he's a Memorial Cup winner in 1974 for the Pats here in Saskatchewan. Went on to a career in the NHL. He started off with Hartford Whalers, I think, and then St. Louis and then the Winnipeg Jets. And then he got out of that and joined the Army. I was very fortunate. He swore me in, and I haven't stopped swearing since.

But he's got two great qualities. He can use both sides of his brain. He could think like a corporal do tactical things, but he's also very good at thinking like a general and knowing how wars are won through logistics. And just a beautiful man and proud to have him. thanks Jim that's very kind well gentlemen thanks thanks for thanks for joining us this morning as I was telling you before we started we got a ton of time for for military men and

women here in Canada and we always give a shout out on airborne Friday you're both wearing the airborne gear talk a little bit about to us about this initiative you got going on with Victoria Cross well I'll start off if I may show on with a little bit of background. Anyone who's wore the uniform in the Canadian Armed Forces in the Commonwealth or any of the Commonwealth allies knows that the Victoria Cross is the highest award for bravery in the presence of the enemy that can be awarded to any individual. And very high criteria for the right reasons. And the last one that a Canadian was awarded was by the United Kingdom, Britain, in 1945, just at the end of the Second World War. Since then, There have been many acts of bravery that Canadians have been recognized for service members in the presence of the enemy, actions in Korea, some on peacekeeping missions, including the Balkans and other places. And most recently, of course, Afghanistan. Since 1993, Canada has had the ability to present the Victorian Victoria Cross to a Canadian Victoria Cross to a deserving member.

And yet they have not done that, despite their having been, tremendous sacrifice and, you know, valor in the presence of the enemy. It's time to correct that, Ron, to write that and revisit the files of at least 24, 25 individuals who, in some cases, sacrificed they're all for their soldiers they were serving with at the time in places far off in the world, and their actions need to be reviewed, and there should be, in my opinion, several Victoria Crosses with sincere consideration by an independent board that we're hoping the government of Canada will set up to review those files and see if there's any one worthy of Victoria Cross, and I believe there is.

Who determines it now? Again, I miss that, too. Sorry, Ed. Who determines that now? well there's honors and awards within the Canadian Armed Forces that take a look at the files they had a chance to review to look at again at least those 24 or 25 files from the Afghanistan conflict where the star of military valor was awarded which is the second highest and I can't answer for them they would have been directed by the CDS and then recommendation would

have been made to the Governor General, and she or he would have made the award based on the recommendation and the background that was provided to honors and awards in their deliberations. So that's the way it has gone up till now. But what we're asking for, when I say we, it's an organization called Valor in the Presence of the Enemy. If you go online and Google it, you can get some background information on it. The person of note with regard to that is former CDS, Rick Hillier, General Rick Hillier. And there are others on the committee and board that are putting this forward.

And the recommendation is this time we kind of get concerned sometimes as Canadians and soldiers. We hear that the politicians need to get involved. Well, the truth is, now it's time for the politicians to get involved in this initiative. And the reason being, this affects all Canadians. This is not just a military thing. In these times where the Canada tends to be somewhat segregated, the east and west and, you know, and everything in between and all the issues, the issue of having a Canadian member, serving member or former member,

serving member awarded the Victoria Cross is something that's good for everyone in Canada and we can get behind. It's been far too long since Canada stood up and said, this action by this individual warrants the highest award for valor in our in our nation and it's time to correct this the military love my brothers who are still in uniform my sisters who are still in uniform they've they've had their chance to look at this they've made their decision a good number of men and and women have rightfully been awarded very high awards for valor and bravery but it's time to revisit it and our politicians now can direct the military and

and say, listen, revisit this again. And it all started recently. The Member of Parliament, the Honorable Pauline Rushford, is going to put a table a motion in the House of Commons, probably in the spring, that will recommend that this commission, this board, the independent board be set up. The province of Saskatchewan through their full weight behind it two days ago

in that Premier Moe here in Saskatchewan, had a motion presented in the Saskatchewan legislature stating just that. And I'll read it very quickly if we've got a moment. It says, I'm quoting here, that this House calls on the government of Canada to establish an independent military honors review board to review veterans cases where evidence suggests the Victoria Cross criteria were met. And that was unanimously approved by both sides of the House of the Legislature. legislature, and it wrapped up with a standing applause by all members in the Saskatchewan

legislature. And the hope is that by Premier Mo and others, is that this will start a ground swell in the other legislatures and by the other premiers across Canada and, you know, from Alberta, BC, right across to the East Coast, and they'll fall in behind this. And the Prime minister then and the parties in Ottawa will then pick up the initiative and we'll get this done. So if you had people from Alberta listening, which I assume we do, that are sitting in government right now, your message to them would be they should talk to their fellow representatives in Saskatchewan and hear what they were just told a couple days ago, correct? Absolutely. Yeah, you can go online and again, just Google, go online, Valor, in the presence of

enemy the organization the board the directors are there the initiative there's uh there's some background on on at least two of the individuals who are being considered whose files need to be considered uh corporal jesse la rochelle and uh and master warn officer willie mcdonnell are just two of the names that uh that are in that file there are others and their actions uh you know go far beyond anything where one might say well they were just doing their job or that that you know they received a very high award in the star of military valor they've gone beyond that in my opinion and and it's time to correct and make this this right and it would be great if alberta followed suit and if anyone is listening has the where with all to influence the provincial government there please do

and i can tell you that premier mole here in saskatchewan has indicated he's going to be reaching out to his peers in the other in the other provinces thank you now jim uh you had mentioned something to me earlier this morning about the disproportionate number of saskatchewanians uh who received that honor yeah it uh so a couple of great things happened this week uh number one we got two different political parties to stand up and applaud this and everybody vote in favor of it, which is amazing. We had a chance to sit down with Scott Moweners. There's people in Saskatchewan that have been pulling this chain hard,

and Eddie's been leading the way. So there's General Cliff Walker, myself, Eddie, there's Sandra Masters, Blaine McLeod, which is our MLA, which is our MLA, that's in charge of the military here in Saskatchewan. And again, Saskatchewan's leading away. And I really believe that as this gets out to other government people, They're going to want to jump all over this. So what I was talking to you earlier about twos is that there's 15 Victoria Crosses in a room called 218.

And as we're talking with the premier, I mentioned to Cliff Walker. He had an initiative started years ago to get that room renamed. And amongst us in that room, we decided to get it renamed to Valor Hall. and the premier Scott Moe he was all about that and he actually announced that in the house that same day so that was a huge win for us because that's

the meeting room when all the delegates come into the parliament or into our ledge they all meet in there and now they like all these shadow boxes are up there with everybody's Victoria Cross and who they were now that it's going to bring a light to them and we

General Walker is he knows that that's the only hall in all of Canada that has these VCs and there's been over 70 VCs issued to Canada by England. Fifteen of them are from Saskatchewan and with the low amount of people that we have that we've that we've sent, which was a great portion of our population at the time. We were able to do acts of valor to get the VC. And the other thing I want to mention while we're talking about this is that I don't know Sean what what other and silver and gold that you get what what's your number one currency that you carry around with you every day

other than silver and gold yeah are you talking lead well if you carry lead that's good i feel i feel like that's chuck talking in my back ear anyways anyways what i what i'm uh what i'm trying to get across to the people of this country our number one valuable thing that we carry with us every day that has paid for nations across this world is blood is the blood that's in our bodies and that blood has been spilled to create this nation and create the environment that we live in and if we're not going to award the men that sacrifice their blood for for our way of life and award them with something, you know, as it's really not a big thing that they're getting awarded with, but it means a lot. And it's not from the government of Saskatchewan or the government of Alberta.

It's from the people of Canada saying thank you for your sacrifice. So if we can't do that, then all the values and everything we believe in are for nothing. So that's why. I assume you both would agree. 80 years is too long. Right. It is too, Sean, it is, it is too long. And for a number of reasons that, you know, one might have this, you know, why it wasn't done and should have been done and such things. I was in a meeting recently with a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of United States who, and he asked me, because he served with Canadians in Afghanistan. And he said, Ed, how come, how come there hasn't been a Victoria Cross? awarded to anybody for those actions in, in Afghanistan. He said, that's kind of unbelievable.

And I said, I said, I can't answer that directly, sir. It was General Mark Milley. And I said, I can't answer that directly, General, but there has been recognition with lesser awards. And he said, his suggestion was he said, Ed, you know, that has to be revisited. We do it in the States all the time. And we go back, you know, the Americans will go back and look at actions from Vietnam and from, you know, it's World War II Korea and even the first World War. And they make it right when it's the right thing to do.

Britain, Australia, New Zealand have all done the same thing. They went back and revisited actions from Afghanistan and awarded Victoria Crosses to the, you know, worthy people. But there's two sides of this also, and that is that just revisiting the files and the news, the interests that will be generated by that, again, recognizes the service and sacrifice of the people that put on the uniform and go oversee. One might say that anyone who wears the uniform and deploys anywhere is sacrificing a lot for Canada, as Jamie alluded to. and he's absolutely correct. And I don't mean this to be self-serving, but when you're overseas, you miss birthdays, you miss graduations, you miss anniversaries,

you know, you're dealing with the elements. We all know that. It takes a great deal of sacrifice and in some cases courage to do with that. But again, for the Victoria Cross, you're talking about valas, we know, valor in the presence of the enemy. And that means you're going face to face

with a determined enemy, who wants to end your life and the end of the people who are around you, the lives of the people, that are around you. That takes everything up to a whole new level. And it's not being dramatic, but it has happened. It happened in Korea. It happened in peacekeeping missions. And it certainly happened in Afghanistan, our war. And it's going to happen in the future, guaranteed. Like, we're never not going to face the enemy ever again. Like it's not if it's when. Yeah. And we as

Canadians need to be proud of that. And we need to know what our young men and women did. You know, In the case of, again, Corporal Jess La Rochelle, I mean, he was gravely wounded and stayed in the fight for hours when he was the only man on the position and saved the position in his comrades from certainly being overrun by the Taliban in what was a long, drawn-out fight. And at the time, he had a ruptured retina, he was bleeding from his ears, he had three broken bones in his back from wounds that he had received. And he stayed on his position, on his C-6 gun all night, you know, and would not take any medical treatment or attention to himself until the fight had been won. And we're talking hours, not minutes, hours that he did this. And then he helped extract the wounded and the dead off the battlefield, get them back to Canada Hart. And then he allowed himself to receive medical attention. it. I mean, his efforts were staggering. And you could go through any and all of the actions that

need to be reviewed and considered. And the other thing I would add is we lost just a couple of years ago, and the cause of his death as a young man, because at the time of his actions in 2006, he was only 19 years old. And he just passed away last year from the wounds that he received and the injuries and the years of suffering he had from his actions for what he did in Afghanistan. If that's not worthy of the Victoria Cross, then, you know,

I could come up with a few explicitives, but I won't. Yeah. Any final thoughts, gentlemen, or twos, if you got something? I have a thought. It seems to me that going through these files,

assuming that there's no blanket confidentiality on any of them or anything like that but that would make a a damn good podcast episode you might find yourself crying in some of them there's some pretty horrific

and horrifying events that went on there but I think that's a great idea and the other thing is this is a I would love if there's a way of we could put the Saskatchewan website on onto your link and have it shared, you know, with the people of Alberta. I've been on the phone with a good start major of mine in BC. He lives out in Victoria.

He's going to start pushing this. If there's anybody in Manitoba or anybody out in the East Coast and wants to. Jim, what's the website? say i've been blowing up twice i don't i don't fucking know right now but uh i'd like to point out it's jim sinclair who swear at first i feel like i've held twos and check here today well i got to let you know i'm still alive yeah yeah we're about to you know check for a pulse or something hey hey and i'm fucking drinking beer too there you go who'd have thought by the way o'clock here. Wow, I don't think the time zone's that different.

But, uh, whatever, but, you know, airborne time. That's right. Yeah. Fair enough. But I was just thinking like, you know, if you went back to Jim in the middle of his career and said, this is going to be the guy who is going to France and who's petitioning to reopen the, the VCs and, and doing all of these like basically just being

an unofficial ambassador. I never thought I was going to live past 30. So I'm just happy to be here. But, but yeah, like it's just, it's, it's interesting and remarkable in an incredibly good way that just such a, such an everyday, but not at all everyday guy just took it upon himself after retirement to just move the. move the needle forward. Yeah. This guy's moving the chain. I saw what he's doing.

I grabbed hold and started pulling myself. It was it. There's absolutely new thought process. When you see a man like this, get involved in something, he also invited me into the Op Calvados where he got the eight foot bronze statue put in Brentville.

This is the guy that did it all. And it was, it's very easy to get behind a man. Like I said, he's a leader and he uses both sides, his brain. I'm very proud to be part of this and work along such a great man as Eddie. Now, that's very good. It's far, very kind, Jim.

But, too, is you're absolutely correct when your comments on Jamie and the other men and women that we were privileged to serve with overseas. Jim and I served together in the Balkans. We served together in Afghanistan. We served in the Regina Rifles and the PPCLI together. And, you know, the men and women that we both. seen it's very easy for us to get together jim and i to get together and talk about actions and things that we saw and things that we did and and you know for any of our veterans that are listening that's so important uh i know you guys have had a number of shows where you emphasize the

importance of staying in touch and um you know it's it's it's it's never overstated it's never said too much but the brothers and sisters that we served with um they're the only ones really understand about that sacrifice and about the and when something comes up like this an initiative like this get behind it in a very small way you'll feel good about it part of the healing for people who have served as we know is is getting involved in giving back and it's important that we do it and for that i i will be self-serving and it's a great opportunity for me personally to give something back. And I know quite often

pump the tires of too many politicians, but I am going to do it in this case. Blaine McLeod he grabbed the rope as well once he saw what Eddie was doing and Scott Moll 100% jumped the board on this

and did the right things. And the opposition, the NDP. Carla Beck. Well, she wasn't there that day. She was sick. But Frayette, Trent Fraser and that's I said it right day yes yep Trent Fraser his dad his grandfather was in the Regina Rifles he carries his paybook around when he on Remembrance Day he's a super

proud supporter of the military and just a great human being as well as although he he he's elected by by the other side and and the respect I saw from the SAS party uh towards the the opposition this time around in there, I was very proud of how they listened to the NDP knowing that Saskatchewan people voted them in. So they were listening to the whole province, even when the, when the NDP were taking the SAS party to account for things that they believe in. And if more provinces in our federal government could actually respect the person speaking opposite and listen to what is being said and given an intelligence.

answer to that question, not just a talking point they want to get across, that's where our politics has to get to. And once again, our province here in Saskatchewan is actually a civil place that is once again a leader in our country. And I'm proud of those guys for conducting themselves properly in that ledge. Yeah, it was MLA Vicki Moet who spoke for the opposition in support of the motion. And again, between the, between the opposition, again, Vicki Moad and, and McLeod, Justice McLeod, the initiative is also being sent directly to, or not the initiative, the motion is being sent directly, both to the prime minister and the leader of the opposition

in Ottawa, so they know what's happened here. see good news coverage here. We're getting great support down in, down in Ottawa. And that's kind of where the initiative is really going to take, take off. In fact, our city of Regina, so I had Willie down here. And for two and a half days, we did nothing but media and media media. I think the last person that he met on the way out of Regina was the guy running the dump. And because he was a city employee but he talked to everybody he shook hands he kissed babies like it was it was insane the stuff he was doing but uh i'm sure he's still sleeping he probably pretty exhausted after that but no we we ran him around like a rented mule and and we made sure that because he's a very

well-spoken person and although he's been nominated or he was nominated for a victoria cross and ended up with the star of the military dollar uh he speaks very high of the importance of that as well and and uh we're going to be doing a podcast with them here on the 16th of uh of uh december and uh i'm pretty sure that'll come up so make sure you tune for that one too well uh mike says let's get behind this and get it done true heroes deserve to be recognized and uh i think uh i can speak for too when when we we know a couple politicians here in alberta that uh we can lean on a bit and see if we can't get it into the right ears that way as well.

Tell me to Blaine McLeod. Yeah. We'll do. Gentlemen, thanks. Yeah, I'll put them. I think I'll put them in touch with you, Jim. And then you can tag them into wherever it needs to go. Ed would be the best one.

Do you mind sharing your email or no? Well, we could share it offline. We could share it offline. Yeah, maybe your address, blood type, you know. Sure. Gentlemen, thanks for hopping on and doing this. Thank you very much for everything. No, thank you for giving us a voice, Airborne.

Yeah, Airborne. Ditto, Sean, too. So we really appreciate it. Godspeed, gentlemen. Up the Johns. Up the Johns. All right. Okay, there you go.

All right. Now Tews can go back to his regular self, folks. I reeled them in for just a couple of seconds. I know there's going to be, are we going to get the show fired up? You're going to take credit for that. I am going to take credit for that. You take credit for absolutely everything I do. I told you to interview that guy six years ago.

I told you to say that. I told you, you take credit for everything. So, yeah, I'm going to take credit for it. Okay, all right, fine. Anything else, too, is you want to? Are you going to take credit for letting me off my leash now? Yes, I am. I'm letting them off his leash, folks.

Okay, here we go. All right. Yeah. All right. We got corrections this week. You want to start with corrections? Yes. So I had said last week that the only people who thought the memorandum of understanding were a good thing were Nahed Inchi, Daniel Smith, and Mark Carney.

Turns out that wasn't true. I left Jason Kenny off the list. And so I'm sorry, Jason Kenny, you are the fourth person in this country who thinks that the memorandum of understanding is a good idea and I did not mean to exclude you. okay anything else on corrections no no that's it all right coot six and a half uh pastor derrick rimer arrested after refusing court ordered apology he was taken away in handcuffs yes what happened was was that the court demand or well he was given a court order to issue an apology to a librarian uh who happened to be working at a place in calgary that was hosting a drag queen story

hour. So the judge said, you have to write an apology to this person and he did not and he is now being arrested for that. Has been arrested for that. Yes. Yes.

Okay. What do we got here? Elections Alberta approves recall petition for Premier Daniel Smith. Organizers of recall petition for Alberta, Daniel Smith said Wednesday that elections Alberta had formally approved the petition. It is not yet posted. Elections, Alberta has not yet posted it.

Who, sorry, approved petition for Smith, who represents the Brooks Medicine Hat riding. In the letter, McClure states, he sat aside with the application meets the requirements for approval of a recall petition applicant,

Heather V, whose name is being withheld for safety reasons after she and others organizers receive threats. I'm curious what threats means. Did they? Said, yeah, I know,

said Wednesday, the petition against Smith was started over concerns about her lack of presence and meaningful engagement with the community. You know what? That has the potential to actually be a fair concern. Like it's, it's, you see it a fair bit.

Mark Carney still doesn't even have an office in his riding as of a few weeks ago. So, you know, when you're the leader of the party, you're kind of looking after the whole area and, and maybe some things, fall through the cracks locally, but it's, I think people need to remember that this is just they've been authorized to go out and try and collect the signatures.

That's all this is. The recall petitions being approved isn't there's going to be a by-election and that person is out. It's that they have been authorized to go out and see if the will of the constituents is such that they should have a by-election. And I'm kind of worried because the UCP is kind of talking like they're going to amend things to make it more difficult for this blanket recall law. But just think about 2015 to 2019.

Any time from about a month after that election until the very end of it, you could have very easily had. recalls done for three quarters of the NDPMLAs and it would have been the will of the people and it would have very accurately reflected the thoughts and beliefs of the constituents of the voters and so like I'm all for this process yeah we went we went through the the recalls last week and how many you know how many people they'd have to get to sign it Yep. And you're like, how many, are they going to be successful at 15 now that are there? How many are they going to be successful on two?

Like, of actually getting a recall through one? Will they get one? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to presume to know. I know that they're very organized and motivated and that they have the unions behind them. So there's, you know, it's not. You think there's a possibility of more? I'd say there's a possibility, but here's the thing. All it means is that there's a by-election.

and so yeah it goes all the way through to the end it gets pretty expensive to just say okay well yeah we're going to go back to the status quo but like just just imagine you had a job where you were unable to be um disciplined for four straight years you get in congratulations you're hired you start Tuesday okay cool when's my first performance review you uh four years from tuesday right there needs to be a better check and balance in in government than just half a decade away we're going to decide if you want to keep the job or not here's another headline giant ucp bill enables separatist vote but allows recall to ray john the ominous bill the ucp introduced thursday's genuine is a genuine gasper with heavy effect on

Alberta's political landscape. Three quick conclusions. Alberta separat separatists are unleashed to seek a full scale referendum on independence. Recall campaigns, 15 UCP members will be allowed to run on with no stop order from the government. Why would the government put a stop order

on it? Anyways, UCP XL So presumably it's the kind of thing you would expect somebody to do if they were going to lose. Like, because if the UCP said actually you know what, you can't stop You can't do recall. Fuck you.

We're staying where we are. They're saying we're not doing that thing, which is the correct thing to do, both from a strategy standpoint, because anybody who's even on the fence about them, if they just said, well, yeah, we put this recall legislation in place, but fuck you, it doesn't apply to us.

Nobody would support that. You'd have the 40 or so, MLAs who think it's a good idea and literally no one else. The third thing it has in this article is UCP Exile Peter Guthrie will not be allowed to revive the progressive conservative name for the fledgling party. It went on to say All the different words.

Okay, the full list of banned words is advantaged communist, conservative, democratic, green, independent, liberal, pro-life, refold. form Republican Solidarity and Wild Rose. The rationale is that the names of all 14 currently registered parties contain those words. It's protectionism. I think that unless Pete Guthrie does a major course correction, he is going to disappear into obscurity.

He's got Bonnie Henry on board with him, which probably isn't the win he thinks it is. And, yeah, he's... he's been baffling like we haven't really talked about him because I'm just looking at what he's doing and I'm like you're all over the map and none of it in a good way

and you know it's I don't see enough to have any sort of logical coherence from him which doesn't which suggests to me that probably nobody else does either in which case they're probably not going to vote for him

Daniel Smith this is a Fay Johnstone headline or article Daniel Smith's push to suspend Charter Rights of Trans Youth is cowardly and abandons conservative values. Yeah. Faye John,

Stone says that Daniel Smith is a coward, a bully, and a hypocrite stripping kids of rights and denying them their day in court isn't leadership, it's cowardice. Look, Fay Johnstone, trans activist. I'm pretty sure that it's a bunch of you people who are the ones who wants to see.

kids stripped. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lammy announces their new plan to end jury trials and have a judge to decide sentencing. They will arrest citizens for social media posts, skip the jury trial and just sentence them now. Do you want to show the video? Yeah, sure. He's British, but don't judge him on it.

Judge him on the content. First, I will create new swift courts within the Crown Court with a judge alone. deciding verdicts in tribal either-way cases with a likely sentence of three years or less. That's it right there. They're going to get away with, they're going to do, you could literally get charged for posting

whatever you want on the internet. Like the guy arrested for shooting a gun in the United States and posting a picture of it on LinkedIn and then getting back to the United Kingdom and being arrested. being arrested for something for something that didn't even happen in england yes too's yeah and so and then now uh if you're going to be sentenced to if the likely sentence is three years or less so there's even wiggle room it'd be like yeah it was probably going to be three years but we decided

to give them five but if the likely sentence is three years or less they're not even going to bother with the jury they're so so two things are happening right now because of this one is that it's a complete um just habeas corpus is out the window i think that's what i don't even know what habeas corpus is i might be completely wrong but but the whole jury of your peers from the magna carta is gone okay the magna carta fuck it don't eat it the other thing is is that are you all right there shod i just like that it's like habeas corpus actually i don't know what that means i might be making this up on the fly. Carry on,

dudes. All right. Okay. The other thing is that their prisons are so overrothed. They're letting out the murderers and the rapist. habeas corpus is a legal procedure. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We need to have like late gray or average. I'm not even listening. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to know what it

means. I want, I want a actual legal authority on it. Okay. The Latin phrase translates to you should have the body. And it requires There we are. habeas corpus. I don't even know what that means. We're going to carry on though.

Carry on. Well, I wanted to say Magna Carta and then I said habeas corpus. So, whatever. Anyway, it's live. This happens. Their prison

systems are so full that they're letting the murderers and rapists out so that they can make room for the shit posters on the internet. And then also on top of that, presumably, their judicial system is totally overrun. And this is a way to try and streamline things because the problem they're running into is that it seems as though they're arresting so many people that they can't even get everybody through in a timely manner. And so they're just going to rubber stamp it. And now some random asshole in a big white wig is going to be Judge Judy in executioner.

Elderly man loses over 5,000 in bank investor scam. A Brampton man is charged. the man said a person who claimed to be representing the bank of Montreal contacted him. The caller told the elderly man that his banking cards had been compromised and needed to be destroyed. Police said arrangements were made for a bank representative to come pick the victim, come to the victim's home and collect the cards. Later that day, the man who he gave the cards to were used to make more than $5,000 in purchases. Okay.

So look, folks, you can always just cut up your card. A pair of scissors, and you're done. If there are any octogenarians or even septuagenarians out there listening, thank you for tuning in. If something's weird with your card, you can either lock it on the app on your phone. You can literally go online and lock it up. Just cut it up and get them to mail you a new one.

Okay. All right. And here's the thing, though, is police didn't name the man. We literally had in Ontario a woman get named for spray. a water gun over the fence in her backyard. But this person is not named. This Brampton man is not

named. Now, if you were to just close your eyes and pick a random Brampton person, you have a statistically significant chance of his last name being sing. I knew you're going to sing for the moment. I knew you were. I just knew you were.

Calgary to Banff rail proponents submit plan for federal major project status. Calgary Airport to BAMP Rail said they have submitted their proposal on Tuesday to Ottawa's major project's office a body meant to fast-track proposals for streamlined approvals and funding.

Underwritten by the Canadian Infrastructure Board, it says, what does that say, Lyricon and Plenary would provide $1.5 billion of the $2.6 billion total cost with the province presumably picking up the rest. The proposed stations would be located at the airport, downtown, near Stone, Trail at Transcanda Highway, Cochran, Morley,

Canmore, and Banff. It tracks would fall the existing CP, KC, freight corridor along new parallel rails in the line, tooling 150 kilometers and length. Two and a half billion dollars for a train to go to Banff. You know what, BAMF needs a whole lot more than a train? It needs more BAMF. There's not a lot of room there.

before you spend two and a half billion dollars to better facilitate the tourism in Banff, you go there any time of year, it's just a shit show. Parking is non-existent. Okay, fair enough, but it's just super damn busy all the time. Before you spent $2.5 billion on a train to get more people there, why don't you chop down a few of those stupid fucking mountains and make a little bit more room for them when they get there? drop that okay um alberta minister reportedly putting together first ai generated legislature in canada the alberta government is about to take the next logical step in artificial intelligence using it to draft

proposed law service alberta minister dale nally says the plan is to use ai to develop and introduce the alberta whiskey act when the house sits next spring ai is a tool that is believed uh being leveraged across many sectors in canada you said in a statement tuesday in sectors such as health care can be used as a tool to assist in health professionals and diagnostics, helping them find abnormalities during screening procedures for patients. Now, like said, the AI-generated legislation would then be vetted to ensure all checks and balances are met. This would make Alberta the first jurisdiction in Canada utilize AI for this purpose. Great news and stupid news at the same time.

Alberta is going to have officially designated Alberta Whiskey. who's going to decide it an AI based on prompts from the government so i am a huge fan of the idea in principle of having AI make political decisions because assuming it's programmed correctly it doesn't really give a shit about looking after special interest groups you can't buy it off you can't say oh well you know what um a steel plan in Windsor is more important than the entire agricultural output of an entire fucking province. You don't have anything like that, but if you actually wanted to have what some determination of what an Albertan whiskey is, you get, I don't know, six, 10 of the top distilleries in the

province and then you throw in a couple small ones whoever's won some awards maybe something like that and you have a few bottles of bourbon a few bottles of scotch some american shitty whiskey which is being redundant uh you have some of the whiskeys from across canada and you just be like look we're going to put you in a room with 50 different bottles of whiskey put your brains together here's a big whiteboard let us know when you're done and every single person who runs a distillery is going to be like, oh, that's a great idea. I want to get on that list. And then you just, you don't even have to do anything.

You literally, you spend maybe a couple thousand dollars on whiskeys. And you use a room, I don't know, in the legislature that you already have that's just not being used for the day. And a whiteboard that you probably already have in there as well. That's your entire cost to draft this legislation. You say, give us the requirements for what would make an Alberta whiskey and Alberta whiskey. And that's it. You're done. And then you go in afterwards, you get some aid to write down everything that was on the whiteboard.

I imagine that the penmanship is going to suffer towards the bottom of the page. But that's it. John Roostead. John Roostead's gone. He finally left. Yeah, we've been following this story now for what? A month, month and change. It was a matter of time.

And we didn't even start following it at the start of the story either. Correct. And so at the end of the day, yeah, it's, it's, he's, he's done. So there you go. So the party, the party voted to remove him, uh, two days ago. And then he replied with the tweet, basically saying, fuck you, I ain't going nowhere. I do what I want. And then he deleted that and has since.

had a change of heart and he's going to step aside so boom story's over folks everybody can go home now dallas brodie can take over to that party here i want to bring this up because jamie sent it to me here here's on facebook so anyone looking for what we were talking about with ed and jamie valor in the presence of the enemy it's uh on facebook you can find it right there okay that fair enough Okay. Well, thanks, thanks, Jim, for sending that along. Okay, back to, do you want to show the video of Canadian Parliament? Yes, yes.

Just ask yourself if anything makes you go, hmm, in this clip. Canada has always been known as a partner that we can count on in moments of hardship. Could the Secretary of State for International Development inform this house of California? About Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka had a big flood. And this is from a liberal member of parliament. Secretary of State for international development. Canada has always been known as a partner that we can count on in moments of hardship.

A partner that we can count on. She's a liberal member of parliament speaking as a Sri Lankan. She doesn't see herself as being Canadian. she sees herself as being Sri Lankan. It's in there in the syntax. If you just watch the when it pans the liberal caucus, you're like, yeah, that says enough. Doesn't it? I think it does.

Look, if you want to be here in this country represented Canadians, when you say the word we, you should mean the people in the fucking border. Here's a Canadian poll. how do you feel about capitalism and socialism? Socialism is a better approach, 29%. Capitalism works best, 28%. Capitalism is good in theory, but is doing more harm than good today, 43%.

Real capitalism has never been tried, Sean. That wasn't real capitalism. Do you mean all this fucking cronyism that we have? The dairy cartel? Do you think that that's actually capitalism? when we've got the telecommunications cartel when we've got...

I haven't heard... I haven't heard from on a long time. How is any of this indicative of actual fucking capitalism? Have you heard from the DC lately? I feel like we haven't harped on him hard enough where he shoots us an angry text. Where are you at D.C?

Maybe he's been... He's a bit obsolete. Maybe he spoke out against the D.C. Who knows? Check in on him. Make sure he's okay. Maybe he just, you know, he... Maybe he was speaking too loudly against the dairy cartel

and now he's sleeping in the sour cream slurry. Tim Horton's lobbied MPs for more temporary foreign workers over the last 18 months. Quoted, the food service industry sector was disproportionately hard hit

by the pandemic and continues to face unprecedented labor shortages said letter addressed to immigration minister Mark Miller. In May of 2024, the document asked to raise a 20% cap on temporary foreign workers to 30%

Okay This folks Is what you call burying the lead Here's the headline Tim Hortons lobbied MPs For more temporary foreign workers Over the last 18 months

Now watch me as I'm scrolling down Scrolling Scrolling Pictures Sub headlines It keeps going It keeps going Oh here at the fucking bottom

In a statement In response to questions about the TFW program, employment and social development candidate told CBC News, program policies are continuously reviewed and adjusted regularly in response to shifting economic and labor market realities, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The May 2024 letter also asks for a working group to evaluate a plan for a, quote, permanent foreign worker program. Tim Hortons wasn't happy with the temporary foreign worker program and they wrote a letter to the government asking them to implement a permanent foreign worker program.

Do you know what you call, like that's, if they're here permanently, they're not foreign anymore. The whole thing is just a contradiction. But they're so embedded and their business model is so reliant on this that the temporary part of it wasn't good enough for them anymore. They had to go full on fucking permanent. it and that is several pages down in this cbc bullshit article so thanks for reporting on it but maybe don't bury the fucking lead the bc pulp and paper coalition says a lack of fiber is a

made in bc problem arguing the decision to close the mill is not tied to u.s trade tariffs you will hear people say tariffs it is approximately zero percent and i'll go on the record and i'll debate with that with that with anybody it's zero percent due to tariffs tiny percentage of what they make goes into the USA. Yes. So for those of you who don't know, this whole elbows up thing is having some completely unforeseen and unavoidable consequences.

And there's things closing all over the country. One of them being a pulp mill in BC. And David Eby was saying it was because of the tariffs. But if you go to a statement from the BC Pulp and Paper Coalition they rest the reason why it closed solely

on the shoulders of David Eby and the BC NDP. The people in the industry have explicitly said this isn't happening because of Trump's tariffs this is happening because of the BC government.

You're saying a politician doesn't know what he's talking about? yes well he probably knows what he's talking about but he's fucking lying you make this bad decision people are going to lose their jobs well i'm in charge so i'm going to make whatever fucking decision i want people lose their jobs oh it's because of trump here's the thing with you know all these elbows up idiots the the few that are left that haven't started scratching their heads too much You're being revisionist because people like us, people like this BC pulp mill place

have been saying for years, your bad decisions are going to hurt the economy. Here's the bad decision. Here's the outcome that's going to happen because of it. And then you fast forward a while and then, oh, well, all this is happening because of Trump's tariffs and Trump's bad. No, motherfucker. It's happening exactly as we set out. as we laid out at the time.

And so, all right, sure. Yeah, you're going to say that Trump did the tariffs and then now everybody's going to lose their jobs. But way before that, we pointed out exactly where the policies and the red tape and the bullshit were wrong and we're going to hurt the economy. And I would argue that the first person to be right would be the most right. here's a reaction to the MOU by region net support by region yes so in addition to the correction at the start about Jason Kenny I have no fucking idea where they got these numbers in Alberta 74% have net support but here's the interesting thing about the question

What does this deal say about Mark Carney's leadership? A, it is a worthwhile compromise that could bring major economic gains for Canada, even if it represents a step back on an environmental policy. There are so many presumptive fucking things in that statement that it's completely fucking incalculable. You've got to ask one question at a time in a survey. It's a worthwhile compromise, could bring major economic gains, could bring major economic gains for Canada, even if it represents a step back for environmental policy.

So for you to agree with that, you think it's got to be a worthwhile compromise. It could bring major economic gains, and it represents a step back for environmental policy. Now, the other question is it's a betrayal of the progress that Canada is made on environmental policy and contradicts Mark Carney's own previous positions

on energy and the environment. And your third option is this is a dog and pony show fucking circus that's going to accomplish literally fuck all. Your only third option is don't know. Daniel Smith could campaign against sovereignty. When asked

if she would campaign for Federalist's side, should a sovereignty referendum be next year. The Premier stated that she had been trying to rebuild public confidence in Canada. So I felt that my mission over the past few months has been to restore people's confidence in Canada in the relationship between Canada and Alberta. When asked if she would have organized political rallies in support of federalism, Daniel Smith replied that she had no problem saying loud and clear that Canada can work. However, she declined to confirm whether the government would actually hold a referendum on the issue. So this is interesting because this is with CBC Radio Canada.

this article is in French and it had originally said that if there was going to be a referendum that Daniel Smith would be explicitly campaigning on pro unity with the rest of Canada. And then they issued a correction and actually other not worth of the thing about the correction. It's not way at the fucking bottom. It's at the applicable part in the article, which is actually a positive step forward for, you know, reducing the amount that you're intentionally misleading people. We amended this article to indicate that the Premier reaffirmed her support for Alberta's sovereignty within the United Canada without explicitly stating which side she would take. The previous article said that she would be on the pro-unity side, and I guess somebody jumped in, and they're like, the fuck she said that.

So, yeah, CBC is garbage. Marwa Rizzi. I don't know. Booted from Quebec Liberal Caucus amid crisis in party. liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez has expelled his former parliamentary leader from his caucus saying she lacked loyalty to him and to the party on Tuesday, Rodriguez said she has done a lot of damage to the party since she fired her chief of staff last month and kicked off an internal crisis. She chose to turn her back on her team. He told her part is at the provincial legislature.

Marwa Risky has made her choice. I made mine. Yes. No mention of the allegations of vote buying so if you guys remember last week we talked about how there is allegations of people being offered cash in terms of being led to vote a certain way which as we know in Canada it's illegal to just do that directly you can't just say I will give you a bunch of fucking money if you vote for me the only way you can legally do it in Canada is if you put in a couple extra steps involved you just have to say if you vote for me i'll give your company a half a billion dollars or if you vote for me i will subsidize your industry or make your competitors on competitive or give you international protectionism or or make it basically illegal for anybody

to start up a competitive uh company that that might fight against you on an open market you know in what capitalism would be in theory so in Canada you can't legally say i will give you $50 if you vote for me you have to say if you vote for me i will i will get the government to subsidize you that 50 million dollars bcml anyways no mention no mention of that uh you know marwa riski was involved in some risky business according to the article she got fired because she fired somebody underneath her without giving a reason why and nobody's putting two and two together like these articles are a week of fucking part and meanwhile i don't know if you saw this because i tossed it in um but the party quebecua is polling at 39 percent they're looking to

fucking sweep a majority in in the next quebec election and they're the separatists And I just, I wonder why, why nobody ever talks about Quebec separatism and Alberta separatism the same way, or well, Western separatism, I should say. BCMLA wants a statutory holiday to honor freedom convoy. Tara Armstrong introduced the Freedom Convoy Recognition Act Tuesday. The bill's purpose is to recognize the achievements of the freedom convoy, one of the largest peaceful demonstrations in Canadian history and inspired movements across the globe to stand against lockdowns and government overreach, she said. I think that's wonderful. It's not going to get voted in by the NDP. I'll tell you that.

But I would agree. I agree. I agree. Canada euthanized new world record of 16,499 people in 2024. A sad reality. Canada beat out the Netherlands, which killed

just under 10,000 of its citizens in 2024, an increase of 10% from 2023. Canada increased their 2023 total by 6.9% seeing 16,499 euthanasia deaths accounting for 5.1% of all deaths nationwide. There have been a total of 76,475 instances of euthanasia and assisted suicide since they were made legal in 2016. Among the factors recorded by medical practitioners as part of the person's application for euthanization in 2024, 75. For 75.5% of people cited loss of independence, a significant increase from 2023 when 252.2% cited loss of independence. 48.5% of all those who died by euthanasia cited being a perceived burden on family, friends, or caregivers among those whose natural death was not foreseeable, track two, over half 50.5.3 were concerned about being a burden.

I think this is great. After a decade of liberal rule, we're finally number one in something hold your heads high canada hold your heads high and be proud we're finally at the top of a list and it's been a long time coming and yeah it's maybe not the best list to be on one in 20 people who die in this country the is done by the government and oh oh and here's here's a random little aside uh Canada also leads the world in August harvesting from government assisted suicides. So, yeah, a little dark, but hey, I mean, we're on number one list. It's about the journey, not the destination.

And so, yeah, we're only at the top of one list, but soon it'll be another one and another one and pretty soon it's going to be a utopia. Um, emminton police are trying to fire a whistleblower who claims that 10% of emminton's homicides occurred on one landlord drug, uh, properties because he had police protection. I've actually interviewed Dan Beheels multiple times. You, you, you, you, oh, actually, yeah, the name does sound familiar.

I can't remember you doing it, but, but the name, now that you say it out loud. So when was the last time you talked to him? Well, actually, I'm just wondering that. I tell you what, let me look it up. Let's, I think it's got to be well over a year. Last time I had Dan Beheels on was April 5th, 20203. So it's been two years. I think you probably do.

Yeah. Yeah, you should have him on. Anyways, January 4th, 2021, Beheels admitted the leaks in the five-page letter to then-chief Dale McPhee letters laid out Beheels. his understanding of Shaw's personal history involvement in inner city crime, claiming from 2016 to 2018, 10% of Emmington homicides occurred in Holmes Shaw owned or controlled. The Hills claimed this was due in part to Shaw's patronage of the Red Alert Street Gang, saying he provided its members with housing and drugs. The heels also cast suspicion on members of the EPS. He claimed Shaw developed a reputation among downtown police officers as being untouchable due to his alleged relationship with, what is S-U-P-T, superintendent?

Probably. Ed McIsaac, who Bysheel said Shaw met after filing a series of nuanced complaints against officers investigating him during an investigation into Shaw's attempt to place a hit on an Emmington remand center inmate. Behills allegedly found text between Shaw and McIsaac, which he reported to McPhee in 2019. All right. Just think about this for a second. 10% of the murders in one of the largest cities in the country. supposedly happened

on or around properties that one guy owned and that's not a big deal and then this guy ends up friendly enough to actually have the personal cell phone number

of a high up Edmonton police officer to the point where they text back and forth like that's that's a lot of alarm bells right off the bat movies are made off this tis yeah a gm uh the alberta or sorry the uc p a gm was this past weekend um what video what tweets would you like to show twos okay um let's go with uh among other things uh daniel smith announced that uh They're going to pass a thing, protecting lawful gun owners from improper seizure and prosecution, and basically install castle laws.

So they're refusing to enforce the federal gun seizure program and Albertans can legally defend their homes and families from home intruders. Yeah, her best line on Saturday, which caught me off guard. And I'm paraphrasing. but it was if you're a criminal and break into someone's house you're going to leave with a bullet hole essentially that's like I remember sitting there and going you just say that oh all right

got a standing ill I might ask well that's pretty fucking common sense which is why it seems so controversial to people in Toronto for example Sherry de novo translation Alberta is becoming Texas in real time stop the Mark Carney please hey Jerry de novo lives in Toronto

Toronto is almost a thousand kilometers closer to Texas that she mentions than it is to Alberta why the fuck do you care what we do out here it doesn't affect you it makes no difference in your life fuck right off this is our place and we're going to run it how we see best and you can do whatever dipshit idiot things you want in your fucking place which is Toronto

okay your comparison us to Texas and meanwhile it's a thousand kilometers closer to you than we are that's how far separated we are we're closer to Mexico than we are to you we're closer to Russia you don't understand

us so just sit this one the fuck out other things from the AJM tos do you want to show the wrath video yeah the wrath of Khan the grapes of wrath Thank you for everybody for everybody in this room. After that so-called MOU was signed yesterday, the ink wasn't dry on the paper and Mark Carney went out and gleefully announced a 600% increase to the industrial carbon tax in Alberta.

How many of all of us favor of free and independent Alberta? Look at that in a standing O for that question. A free and independent Alberta, standing O. And then you had Daniel Smith. Where the heck is it? Where did I put? You keep glazing by the most, the most, the, most Alberta man

I want to Oh here it is Here it is I just had to scroll down to find it So here is her response Not only her response But also CBC's response to her response As you know I support a strong And sovereign Alberta within a united Canada

I know we might have a bit of a difference of opinion on that But I hope people today Feel a lot more confident than Canada works Than they did a couple of days ago wow yeah we're talking about who's yeah yeah yeah

I know we heard the meet people we're like wow and we know this group is pretty against the idea of working with Canada but that's this group is pretty against the idea of working with Canada how many more decades

do we need to try and work within Canada before we decide it isn't fucking working CBC deliberately trying to frame this as though We're the assholes Why don't why don't you want us to beat you Why don't you want us to keep stifling the livelihoods that you're trying to provide for your families Why are you guys being such jerks about the fact that we're taking all your money

That's just classic And you know the best part about it is is that they're that's the first politician getting booed that I've ever seen covered by CBC when Let's Go Brandon happened I didn't see anything from the CBC about that when Mark Carney got booed at the Great Cup game

didn't see them jumping in being like Oh no no that wasn't booze That was that was a thing in the champ Yeah yeah well here Let's let's go back to this video here real quick Just just real quick The United Canada I know we might have a bit of a difference of opinion on that.

But I hope people today feel a lot more confident than Canada works than they did a couple of days ago. They're not saying boo, Sean. They're the conservatives. They're saying blue. They're saying blue. Blue. You know, if I may, on the booze, I think it's awesome, right? I'm sure Daniel Smith, no politician wants to get up and get booed.

But she announced, she said at the year, before the first UCPA jam I ever attended that the group assembled there is a raucous crowd and a raucous crowd doesn't agree on everything they they voice their concerns when they hear something they don't like so I'm all kind of agreed on that and here's the thing that if you if you like I sat there and listened to her speech on Saturday she probably got booed once she also got like 15 standing ovations right so they they hone in on one boo, but then they missed the 15 standing oaths. And I'm like, you know, the people at the AGM are engaged.

It's what, it's what, you know, all of us want. You want people engaged in politics. And when you're engaged in politics, that means you're going to voice your concern when you don't like something and you're going to blot when you do like something. And Daniel Smith, I hope, is smart enough. I think she is to sit there and go, hmm, interesting. And when she said, you know, the criminal comment, you got to stand. O, right? So it probably gets labeled off in Toronto as these people are going nuts. And look

what Daniel Smith to it. Got a standing O2s. Well, to be fair, that was a pretty easy standing O in Western Canada. Now, Darrell, who actually I met last year at the AGM, said she was replying to my question there when she got booted in that CBC clip. I was asking her about the value of freedom document authored by the APP. She concedes, Alberta would save $25 billion per year in an independent Alberta. Shout out to Daryl. Thanks for shooting us a comment. Got to be pretty frustrating, though,

to have, like, the most widely shared video on the internet in Canada for a week starting right after you finish talking. Okay. Anything else from the UCPA, Jim? Just a quick thought from my side. It was cool to run into a whole bunch of people. I was there on Saturday.

And man, there's just, there is a great group of Albertans that get together there. So if you've never been to a UCPA-GM, you've got to get involved. I mean, there are our current government. So, you know, going and seeing a whole bunch of the people, that was super cool. I thought the line to get in, you know, was, you know, they had the metal detectors there. That was concerning, right? Like, I mean, well, there's crazy people out there. I don't blame them.

I don't blame them, right? but, uh, I don't know. Like for me, so then, so then put Kevin Damon and a few other guys at the front door and let them watch everybody come in. Yeah. And, uh,

when they see the crazy coming, because they will, we'll just sort it out ourselves the way Albertans do. Yep. Yeah, that, that would be fine. I mean,

not, not taking a little grandma's purse and dumping it out in front of me. And I'm like, this is, this is something, you know, you're like, oh, dearie,

you're worried, watch mints. That's right. Right. I mean, come on. But you like a cookie? Okay. This is something that came out.

Roughly on top. He once rode across the plains of Alberta on a buffalo to attend the UCP annual general meeting in Edmonton. He first gave an interview to Rebel News. He told them Alberta's independence was coming soon. He met with Mitch Silvest. from the Alberta Prosperity Project, and Ottawa immediately got nervous. He shook hands with Chris Scott, met Eva Chippiuk and Danny Bullford, legends of the Freedom Convoy.

Jason Levine interviewed him, and Alberta's independence movement gained three percentage points instantly. He discussed the new constitution with Jeff Rath and Keith Wilson. The hardest part was not overusing the word freedom, freedom he doesn't want to fix canada he wants to free alberta he is the most alberton man in the world ah man those videos are fantastic i find that enjoyable okay i'm just throwing a shut out to whoever's doing them if all of a sudden he had a conversation with twos or something i think that'd be great i think that'd be great that would be pretty fun

so here's he had a conversation with twos about how the ndp is not a serious party you know i i feel like it could just write itself j j mccullough fire away all right so j j mccullough a pretty prolific podcast or youtube in in canada uh lives out in bc and so he's been doing like he's done videos where he's like i just don't get this whole independence thing right and so he sits there in BC in his apartment makes these videos about how he doesn't understand the Western Independence. Here's a tweet after the AGM. When you read some news story about the supposedly all-powerful Alberta separatist menace, always apply this simple test. Is there a single Alberta separatist named? And is it someone other than Jeffrey Rath? In my experience,

the vast, vast majority of the stories fail this test. And so I said, what are you doing Friday? come on a podcast with a couple separatists. If you don't understand us, there's no better way to wrap your head around it than going straight to the source. I actually ratioed him. No response. So he does videos about how he doesn't understand this.

He's pretty sure it's not even a thing. He gets invited to come on to a show where we could talk about this exact situation. He's like, no, I'd rather just pretend it doesn't fucking exist. this is this is what you call being intentionally obtuse right now j jay it's it's a standing offer anytime you want to talk about this on or off the air look me up happy to discuss it with you but it's disingenuous for you to continue pretending that this doesn't exist while you're going out of your way to talk to anybody who has legitimate opinions about it still and then and then final one

Troy Westwood. Dear treasonous secede dreaming Albertans. Alberta is not sovereign from Canada. Albertans resources are Canadians' resources. So go fuck yourselves. Sincerely, all proud Canadians. I would just like to point out that Troy Westwood

was a kicker for the Blue Bombers for 19 years. Or sorry, 18-year CFL vet. Pardon me. He was in the CFL for 18. 18 years. And after 18 years in a league with sometimes eight teams, he and I are actually tied for a number of great cup wins. Stalantis. Oh my goodness. Let's get this show moving here too. Stalantis. Contradicts government says it never requested redactions to contract provided

to MPs. Auto Giant Stalantis says a government, not the company insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of. of dollars requested by Commons committee. So for those of you who don't know, the latest thing in elbows up is that Stalantis is, well, six months ago, they took a whole shit ton of money from the federal government, which was your money to build plants and retool

and all of this stuff. And then they took that money and they said, actually just kidding, we're closing up shop. We're heading to the states. Peace out. And so now there's this back and fourth between Melanie Jolie and Stalantis where she's saying they're being a bunch dicks and Stalantis is saying we're just following the terms of the agreement and you're the ones who actually said it needed to be redacted so just release the terms of the agreement and then let everybody decide for themselves so here is for example

this is here's how recently this money was awarded this is Premier Mark Carney at the Stalantus plant Mark Carney who is standing here with these workers that he is going to protect that's how recent this is and so

anyway the ink's barely even dry on this the money's barely cleared and it's already leaving the country Algamah is it Algema now whatever Steel CEO Fed's new about plans for layoffs before giving $400 million loan.

The head of Algama Steel says the federal government and government of Ontario knew the company's business plan, including a retooling of its Sue St. Marie plant that would result in layoffs before they agreed to a half a billion dollars in loan assistance to help the company weathered the storm of U.S. tariffs. Canada's last remaining independent steel producer, which employs about 2,700 people in Northern Ontario issued layoff notices to about 1,000 workers on Monday effective in March. So yeah, Merry Christmas, everybody. What happened was was that, according to this, you've got, you've got, they openly said,

they're like, we're going to lay people off. And they said, okay, well, here, just take the money anyway. Just take the money. It's fine. It's all good. It's all good. Just take the money. It'll be fine.

And then they said, okay, they took the money. The money's gone. And then they laid people off. And now everybody and the liberals are all surprised and upset. But like even going back to this back and forth with Melanie Jolie, the other thing about it that's really interesting is that there are accusations out there that she never even read the contract. Here, check out this clip.

Has the minister seen the fully unredacted contract? No. Has Privy Council, has PCO seen this contract unredacted? My sense is no, they would not have seen it. So the previous deputy minister saw the contract. Well, I'm assuming that. I don't know that for a fact. What about legal?

Obviously, there's some legal folks that would have to see it. Is there a legal department that would have seen this? You're telling me the legal team for a $15 billion contract doesn't see the entire contract? You would have a lawyer sitting beside you, which would be normal for any other private company to have lawyers in the room when you're making these negotiations because they're going to see those details. we do not have legal sitting in with us get ready folks yes so that's a clip put together by northern perspective of a parliamentary hearing talking about the fact

that nobody knew what the fuck was in this contract and yet it still got signed anyway you guys signed a $15 billion deal with the mashup what were they going to do criticize us but did you read it we didn't read us we didn't I'm sure it was fine agripoor is shutting down an ice cream plant in edmonton so you know tough blow for the dairy cartel yeah times are tough maybe maybe you guys are uh just getting a little bit too more too much blood from a stone at this point have have we thought about that but it's it's funny you've got these guys

like here this scott fox um he's got a podcast in toronto i don't understand these layoffs at algoma they lost a lot of business in america no doubt but we are apparently going to be building at rapid speed and we have no choice but to use Canadian steel. Algoma also has access to almost endless government subsidies. Why would they still lay off almost a third of their workforce with all that business heading their way? Can someone explain? Because it doesn't make fucking sense to do business in this country.

That's why. Look, I get if you get all of your news from the liberals themselves or their press gallery, this might come as a bit of a fucking shock. But the people outside of that bubble have been talking about this looming things. for fucking years. You want to show the Matt Strauss video? Yes. Give me just a sec here.

So dealing with everything kind of freezing up, I'm only opening a few things at a time. Okay. It's a $3.8 million grant that went to the Lebanese Armed Forces Mountain Warfare Ski Soldier School last year. And the purpose of the grant from my this uh this video i just realized it is almost three minutes long so let's fast forward to the end

you're doing a um some tabling and writing i'd also be interested to know um how many uh spaces oh shit it's somewhere in the middle and it's a three minute clip i'm sorry guys but here's the here's the direct quote this is from a parliamentary hearing could you explain to hungry taxpayers why it would be a good use of their money to send four million dollars to lebanese ski soldier's school for multi-gender occupancy. And then hilarity ensues because they don't know what he's talking about. That's just one of the best quotes I think I've ever heard from anybody in parliament at all about anything. Yes, we are now into the goofiness.

Okay. Elizabeth May says voting for budget was mistaken. It won't happen again. May told the Canadian press that the memorandum of understanding Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with Alberta Prime Premier Daniel Smith on energy, specifically the part that applies federal tax credits to enhanced oil recovery amounted to a significant betrayal and a reversal, which has her questioning the worth of Kearney's words. I don't know if the prime minister lied, but I think he needs to consider what his word means when his word was given. He obviously thought getting a deal with Daniel Smith was more important than his word. Tax subsidies, I love how they just see it as, you know, giving money away.

And that's not it at all. It's just that you're not taking more fucking money. You're not doing something. You're not doing somebody you have favor by not fucking robbing them. And this is her in an attempt to save face, basically. She had this agreement. He followed through with the agreement. And it just so happened that there was a thing.

days later that she didn't like that had nothing to do with that agreement could it have been roughly congruent with it no no because the budget she's mad because she voted for the budget under the condition that there weren't going to be any oil and gas subsidies or anything like oil and gas subsidies and the memorandum of understanding says that if anything goes forward there are going to be tax credits. So she feels betrayed over what is a potential situation several years down the road that I think we very summarily established is never going to fucking happen anyway. You have this. I have to complete a questionnaire before an upcoming doctor's appointment.

Pronouns, sex at birth, do I speak English? Good grief. Yes. So just expand that for a second. Okay, I love this. In English, it asks, do you speak English? Yes, no. If no, what is your first language?

Listen, folks, if you don't speak English, you don't know what the fuck that says, and you don't know what the answer, and you don't even know what the answers are. This is like when sometimes you'll call into a place, and they'll say, for English, press one. For French, press two. But if you only speak French, you have no idea that they just asked you to press, too, because you only speak French.

This is Peak Canada. While leading NDP candidate claimed that pipelines are a conduit to rape and murder, according to NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis, the chief problem with Prime Minister Mark Carney's pledge to prioritize nation-building projects is that they will be a conduit for murder and sexual assault on a grand scale. Gail on stage at the NDP's French language leaders debate last week. I got it. Lewis. All right. Big manly things with huge work camps entailed in remote areas.

The impacts on indigenous women and girls are intense, are horrifying. Yes. So this is exactly why I wanted to do the live coverage of the NDP debate, because there was going to be this. There was going to be something. Whose fault was that that we didn't do that? Mine. Mm-hmm.

just like to put that on the room who's idea was it and who failed to see the idea through yeah who ended up working till like 10 o'clock at night that night yeah excuses twos mashup crew doesn't want excuses we don't want excuses on this side do we folks no no excuses and a Arizona lineman successfully coaxed a bear off a utility pole after it climbed to the top show the video twos I don't know if anybody wants to see a actual fucking bear in a basket from a basket while he's trying to navigate around Transformers

40 feet in the air. Does anybody want to see that? I tell you what? I tell you what? If I'm ever 40 up in the air and a bear comes near me. I'm just swinging that thing over and letting him do whatever the fuck he wants for as long as he wants to.

I'm not going to chase him down. He stole his pole at the end of it. Fuck you. I'm not even, but I'm taking this with me. RCMP restricts use of Chinese-made drones of the vast majority of its fleet. The Canadian Royal Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973

Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations stating the devices present high security risks primarily due to their country of origin. Chinese drones made up about 80% of the federal police forces fleet of 12,000, 130 remotely

piloted aircraft systems which are used to monitor the Canada U.S. border in various police operations. So they've got to get rid of the Chinese made drones because they pose a security risk. No fucking shit. Aren't you the least

bit surprised that China is able to sell them to you for literally half the fucking cost of anybody else in the world? Do you think that there's something about being in the land of the rising sun, where they're just, they're able to be so much more efficient in their manufacturing because they're getting up

a few hours before everybody else? No, it's because they're fucking selling them to you at a loss so that they could collect the information. There's a reason why Facebook is free people, and this is the exact same thing except with military or with police intelligence.

This is two. This is to the surprise of literally no one except for apparently the people who were in charge of procurement. AFN chiefs passed resolution rejecting changes to oil tanker ban. First Nations chiefs from across Canada pass an emergency resolution Tuesday morning,

rejecting any proposal exemptions to the federal ban on oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia after Ottawa on Alberta reached an agreement that could see prohibition modified if a pipeline has approved. The FN resolution also calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Canada-Alberta memorandum

of understanding. Yes. The AFN is a lobbyist group. And they're saying that they're not on board with this. So the memorandum of understanding. Now, when you combine that with Talib Nur Muhammad, who is the liberal MP for Vancouver,

Granville, parliamentary secretary, he says any project that goes through the major projects office must have BC and First Nations consent. Okay. We've got Mark Miller, saying the exact same thing. I don't need to show the clip.

But Mark Miller says you can't roll over indigenous communities and those pipelines won't get built without the broad consent that's needed in order to get them. We already have no consent. The memorandum of understanding is officially dead. And we have a minor correction to make. Kevin says that the land of Rising Sun is Japan. And I had said China.

I'm sorry, they all look the same to me. the countries i can't tell them apart i'm not really good with geography raccoon gets drunk at an abcc liquor in ashland virginia well virginia's for lovers it happens saturday in ashland and according to social media posts by hanover county animal protection and shelter yeah a raccoon broke into the store the night of black friday and ransacked several shelves They have masks, don't they?

The animal became intoxicated, then passed out in the bathroom. A sleeping raccoon was discovered Saturday morning. Head right near the toilet. We've all been there probably at some point in our lives, right? Yeah, this sounds like the kind of thing that just happens in Prince Albert. Eminton Police, here I'm going to pull it up. There you go. Eminton Police have begun testing facial recognition on body-worn cameras,

loading roughly 7,000 images into a database to evaluate the technology in a real world conditions. I can't think of a worst place in the world to roll out facial recognition technology than Edmonton

which are, as we all know, the ugliest people on the planet. I'm not from Emmons, so sure, yeah. Sure we got some. Some people listen in Edmonton, they're going to have some stiff words for twos. Laura Babcock, you want to show the Christy Noam on blowing up cocaine? Uh, so, yeah, where the hell is it?

I'm looking at, oh, you, we were out of order. Yeah, well, she says that, uh, Christy Norm's claim is not even possible. And then also goes on to say that he has reportedly killed 400 million kids by cutting off US aid talking about Trump Laura Babcock here is purporting that Donald Trump has killed 400 million children by cutting off USAID do you know how much of the world's population 400 million children is that's almost 5% of the world population if anything happened at all that over a very short period of time killed off 5% of the global population,

I'm pretty sure it would be bigger news than some random horse-tooth crazy lady in Toronto spouting off about it on a podcast that I'm the only one who's ever heard of. City of Emmington, today we join communities around the world in marking International Day of Persons with Disabilities and recognizing the rights and well-being of people with disabilities.

do you want to bring up that tweet no because i don't have it here i got it here i got it here so yeah um they're they're proclaiming their solidarity with uh with people with disabilities and and in solidarity with these same people with disabilities their comments are also disabled a stolen driveway leaves woman on rocky road as she tried to find out who did it a realtor was trying to sell a house and the driveway got taken out you don't really need to show the clip i mean you get okay well here um that's her neighbor that's her there's the driveway place where the driveway used to be it's funny that's how she looks in real life

and if I can find a picture of her oh here it is and that's how she looks like this is just classic realtor by the way like they are just the most catfishiest pictures you've ever seen in your life leave it to twos to pick up on that small little detail um there is this okay i had to look up what the heck this even was twos uh the dead by daylight world cup anyways Team Canada will be withdrawing from the tournament. Transwomen are women, and we as a team do not stand with excluding trans women. Yeah, so if we can't compete with a bunch of dudes on our team, we're not even going to try. Polling Canada.

Did we already show? Yeah, that's in there twice, my bad. Okay, that's in CNN's Jake Tapper at him finds pipe bomb suspect as white man before airing photos showing otherwise. The mainstream. So anyway, at the start, it's a long video, but at the start of it, he says that they've arrested this white man. White man for, and then six minutes later, they have the background of the guy's pictures while the on-scene guys talking about it. And it's a black dude. Correct.

Correct. Freeling calls Ukraine a fantastic investment as Ottawa pledges $235 million. It's a country that will be a fantastic partner for us all, a fantastic investment for the businesses that have now the courage to invest now. As we move from fighting the war to fighting the peace, I think we really have to see this as we move from fighting the war to fighting the peace. Yeah, as we move from fighting the war to fighting the peace. That's a direct quote from the article. I think we really have to see this as an opportunity for an economic, economic. Renaissance. Yeah, here's a good clip of her talking about the recent corruption scandals.

At this conference, and this was the case in Kiev last week, there were, of course, conversations about the corruption investigations. From my perspective, those investigations are part of this conviction that Ukrainians have, that they are fighting, they're fighting Russia and they're fighting to win, and they are also fighting for the kind of Ukraine they're going to build. They're fighting for the yachts

they're going to build, but thank you, Christia Freeland. We're sending another quarter billion dollars to Ukraine to fight peace. Is the goal to make Ottawa's public servants quit? Rumors persist, the feds are going to mandate public service workers back to the office five days a week,

and then an I-Fi scrolls. down and said, but maybe the motive behind the mandate is the most obvious one to make as many employees unhappy enough to quit and thus help the government glide to its goal of reducing its work of worse to 330,000 people by 2029, almost 40,000 fewer than the record 368,000 on the roster a year ago, and all without having to offer even a single golden handshake, buyout or commemorative watch. Okay. So, yes, everybody in the public sector should fucking quit. Of course. And the idea that somebody with zero applicable life skills or job skills that just does nothing but pretend to push paperwork around in their fucking basement is going to quit that job

and go somewhere else where they're going to have to actually do something with their hands or get up off their ass or even the idea that they would ever be able to keep that job is ludicrous. They're not going fucking anywhere because this is the only place where they can continue to have gainful employment okay and if they've got to go to work five days a fucking week congratulations that's every fucking job their new office will be the battlefield iron shepherds says yeah but here's the thing in all seriousness when you're talking about oh well you know if we've got to have jobs like this some people are going to quit and some people are going to quit and some people are going to quit the thing that our governments don't realize is that if you

have a job that nobody ever fucking quits it's too good of a job you should look to have attrition rates roughly comparable to things in the private sector because that means that people are you know moving there and moving to another place for better opportunities or doing different things or whatever else but the point is is if nobody ever quits that job it's too fucking easy and it pays too much and the benefits are too fucking good which means that your fiduciary duty as a representative of the taxpayers is to chill the fuck down a little bit. Former EU foreign policy chief arrested in fraud investigation homes and office raids,

former European Commission, Vice President X head of EU's Foreign Service. Federica McGurney has been detained by Belgian authorities' investigations alleged misuse of European Union funds. homes and officers reported being invaded connection through no formal charges were immediately made public for McGarney. The Ashen includes Belgian police searches at Brussels headquarters and it goes on and on. Police were also searching at the College of Europe and Bruges, where she has served as

rector since 2020. The probe is reported related to her long stint overseeing the financing of what serves as an academy of young diplomats. so this is actually kind of a big deal I mean we talk about all the chicanery that governments get up to but there's never really any consequences and here you actually have a politician getting arrested and a whole bunch of stuff in their office and their home

taken away as evidence I mean the only person I know of that this has ever fucking happened to is Donald Trump Vesper Vesper has a couple out in Quebec on a side note I remember what I'm telling me about it. Yeah, actually, sorry, I don't know any of the specifics,

but there have been a couple instances of really greasy municipal people. Nova Scotia needs guaranteed basic income because too many people are suffering. Nova Scotia already has guaranteed basic income. It's called equalization. Go out and fucking build something and sell it. If you want more money, that's how you do it. Okay, here's one that you missed, though, by the way, in the goofy news. Late edition, call it.

Alberta Smith only has herself to blame for recall petitions labor leader. This is from the Canadian press. And so it goes into talking about Gil McGowan. Here's a picture of Gil McGowan with his snaggle fucking teeth. The president of the Alberta Federation of Labor says Premier Daniel Smith only has herself to blame for her UCP caucus facing more than a dozen recall petitions. while Smith is credited Gil McGowan and other labors for recent outburst of campaigns and accuse them of being of abusing process and attempt to overthrow our government. McGowan says his involvement to date has been minimal.

McGowan this, McGowan that, McGowan, McGowan. Now, if I, oh shoot, I got to click over here first, if I go find the word NDP. The NDP appear in this article exactly zero times. he is listed as a labor leader it doesn't mention the fact that he ran in 2015 for the nDP that he unsuccessfully ran for leadership of the nDP when he couldn't raise enough money to actually meet the threshold it doesn't mention any of that it just lists him as labor leader they lie and they fucking lie show the video of paul mary Let's go to the sports desk.

All right. I got to pull it up here real quick. All right. It's the circle. Just give the circle a second. It's the circle. Try to track it down, big collision. We both go falling.

Palmerry's hurt. Here. He laid out. That didn't look good. in a ton of pain back behind the play. They're going to have to blow it down here. Move it a little better his palms. He's going to strip it away there.

It sets up Drew in. Hide him and scores. So he's lying back, all crippled, can hardly get up. He's on his way to try and get out towards the bench, strips the puck, a quick one-two pass, and they scored. I couldn't see it. So there he is laying down, right? Yeah. And then the puck comes back and watch him get up here. He comes

back in, Bing. Throws it to the guy. He walks, scores. Everybody's laughing as Paul Mary's down the tunnel because he's in a, he's in some pain. He's out for the next six months. That's one heck of a way to leave.

Drivers. Let's see some drivers videos. All right. Give me one more sack here. I guess I could be pulling these up as we go to as well, too. Well, oh, I got them. Here we go. All right. Wonderful time of the year.

Sometimes it's nice things when you're laughing. That car has about a thousand million flashing Christmas lights on it. Here is. Dude, what do I do? Stop! Dude, stop! Dude's dragging a powerful behind. Stop!

You're dead, stop! Just no idea. Everything's fine. That tree seems to be following me. No idea. Here's another one. This is in Barry, Ontario. and for those of you just listening

it's a guy driving down the road snowy weather a fully loaded semi pulls out right in front of him he's got to come to a complete stop for like 10 seconds before the dude even clears the intersection that's how bad he got cut off and then we've got this one this is in Calgary

And apparently This butt Made it between This is the state of the four. Yeah, that was the state of things in this country. All right. Well, let's slide to a little happy news, shall we? And here, I'll bring up.

this robo cop a robo cat a statue is finally here started in 2011 joke Philly has Rocky Robicop and kick his butt and became a crowd-funded

crowd-funded reality so Philadelphia has had the bronze statue of Rocky for a while now and Detroit who hasn't really had a whole lot of things going for lately said well

if Philadelphia has Rocky, we should have Robocop. So for those of you don't know, because you don't remember the 1987 classics starring Red from that 70s show as the main antagonist and Paul Verhoeven as the cop who is also a robot. It's great. It's wonderful.

You need to watch it. You need to watch it twice. If you see it on sale, I would definitely buy that for a dollar. But they went ahead and got a bronze statue made of the guy. community notes here's a couple things coming up the mash spiel january 17th okay folks that is the mashup meetup we're going to have a bond spiel calmar just west of the eventon international airport here's some things i can announce marty up north going to be there uh you're quiet right now can't hear you

there said i'm i'm i'm looking forward to that by the way i'm i'm going to throw this board after to marty up north james sinclair chuck prodnick willie mcdonald all going to be there and more to come. So that's some exciting things on the horizon. And yeah, I think that's going to be a ton of fun. We'll probably adding a few more. But those people there, we got 10 teams left. You can sign up as a team before or as an individual.

No skill required. Come and have some fun in a community event for the mashup. That's January 17th. And then the Cornerstone forum. We really appreciate you guys. And we just thought it would be really fun to just do something that is a little bit different than anything anybody else has done. Correct. Cornerstone Forum returns March 28th and the, uh, uh, just confirmed Martin Armstrong and will be back in person this year in Calgary. So that's

March 20. Early bird tickets, folks on until December 31st. Please don't wait. Picket prices go up after the December 31st. See, miles ago, get it right now if you're going to grab one. And, uh, yeah, that's, that's the two I got. Two is any other community notes? No, no, that was it. It was interesting though that conversation you know i when uh when you had martin and and brett on there i think like 45 minutes in i'm like i thought he said brett was on this and then and then he finally jumps in and i'm like okay yeah and i think what brett did brett did was really good and then martin gave some some good feedback but i think the thing that martin was missing and it wasn't explicitly stated my understanding was that it wasn't so much to foment interest in the investment

side of things it was to give the citizenry some comfort and and uh and belief in in whatever monetary system gets applied and so i think that that was that you know having it backed you know 30% bitcoin and basically the rest in precious metals i think was how it was um You know, that's just to say that we're not just pulling this out of thin air. We've got something behind it. And, and then, yeah, I think that was more because the people who are going to own things valued in that money want to know what the money is going to be worth more so than what the investment community was interested in. So, yeah, what Martin was saying about having, you know, reliable forecasting of tax rates and things like that, very, very, valid but i don't think that that was quite what brett was going for in in the designing of uh i don't

know i thought it was great i thought it was but it was yeah it was interesting because i was like i feel like they're just slightly talking past each other and i'm not sure i should i should touch base with brett and see what he thinks but that's kind of what it looked like to me and it looked like what martin was talking about wasn't touching on that and that's funny i i thought it i thought they were talking the same language. From my reaction of Brett watching him, I think he was very appreciative with that conversation.

Oh, it was a very good conversation. Yeah. People can go listen to that came out this week. Mashup 187 in the books, folks, clocking in on almost two hours

this week. But obviously, having Ed and Jim on, shout out to the military men for hopping on and giving us a little bit of insight in what's happening with the Victoria Cross.

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