Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 190

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

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

Welcome to the mashup Welcome to the mashup Welcome to the mashup This is kind of just an all-encompassing thing but I am sick and tired of people on the left just intentionally misrepresenting things in an effort to obfuscate the conversations. And we get into it every week and we cover it from all sorts of different angles. But just the fact that they're completely unwilling to have honest conversations about any of this

is driving me nuts. And we need to start calling it out as the root cause, as the big rant at the start of the show. You're not being honest about what you actually think or see or believe. And let's build from there. You already all know this. Tuse is an asshole. I just, I, I, I, welcome back, Sean. Stick on 700 links and give me 23, no, 22 minutes point two to get through it all and try and do that.

I assume this is like, Sean's back today after he ignored me and I'm going to make his life hell on a Friday. Welcome back everybody. Mashup 190. Welcome back to me. You don't think I didn't have a big week leading up? I have no idea what you were doing on your side.

As I just watched this document. I'm like, what is happening right now? Is this real? Is this real? Okay. Holy Mac. And yes, Kevin, twos is this brilliant guy who can't figure out

to turn on a song. I listened to that tune. I'm like, tunes, how long we've been doing this for? You don't know how to turn on the song? That's hilarious. You're the guy who pushes the button.

That's hilarious. Okay. You're the guy who pushes the button. He's so smart. Can't go down on this side and figure out how to turn on a song. I'm back. Welcome back. Mashup 190.

I'm happy to be here. We got a lot going on this show. So just before we invite in our first guest, let's do a couple things here. We have, if you're enjoying the show, make sure you like, share, push it out there, folks, and get us out to a bigger audience. Appreciate it. And I should have had this pulled up. I'm going to apologize to Jamie right now because I'm like, here, okay, happy Airborne Friday, but Jamie wanted me to put this out. They lost one of their brethren. And it's George Nelson Parrott, a man whose love, kindness, and generosity touched us all. And so at some point, I can have Jamie, explain that a little bit more, but happy Airborne Friday. They lost one of theirs and a shout up to the George Nelson Parrott family and to all the

airborne men and women out there. Should we get Mitch in right now? I assume yes. He's a busy man lately. He's a busy man, yes. Okay. Time is money, Sean. Okay.

Mitch, welcome back to the show. Hey, Mitch. Hey, guys. How are you? It's a Friday. And I feel like I'm probably staring at it. at the email sign up right after the election. That's what Tuesday did me this morning.

It was just you can't even keep up to it. So I don't know what that was like in your world after Kearney was elected, but I've heard the numbers, you know, of how many people were signed up for the APP. I assume that you can relate to what I was seeing this morning on our little shared document that shows all the links we're going to talk about. I'm like, what is Tuesday is doing to me? Yes, that's how my day is going, Mitch. Well, you want to be in my spot.

we got the message that our question had been approved. And then Christmas happened the very day. And everybody, Elections Alberta shut down for 10 days. And so our people didn't shut down for 10 days. So our people were getting wrapped up and excited. And thankfully they are, and that's awesome. However, we're waiting on Elections Alberta to allow us to collect signatures and our campuses are being approved as we speak.

We did an event last night in Bicyker. We had 700 people there and collected 500 signatures. We had 12 campuses signing people up. And that was the, you know, we have 20 canvassers total out of 2,200 or 2,400 that we've asked for approval on. So as soon as our campuses get approved and elections Alberta has been moving fast once they get there. So we're going to be flat out running, you know, probably by early to mid next week, where we'll have everybody up and running and all. everything firing on every cylinder.

How many people live in Bicyker? You know what? I don't know, but I'm going to share something with you. For guys that have been doing events like we have for the last two or three years, when you have people lined up around the block outside waiting to come in to sign, it's kind of a really fun thing from us for our perspective. And it's not only been last night in Biccar, like three nights in a row. We had big, big crowds. And I was just doing one of the events.

The other events were also seeing the same thing. We turned people away in La Coney the other night. There was just no room. And we were in Water Valley. Water Valley. That's where I saw you. How many people in that count? 80 people, 100 people.

And we had 350 people in the hall. That's, yeah, it's just. 349, I think, was the official count. All right. Plus me. So, it's very factual here. Right? Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, but plus me, so that's $350. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. That's fair. Well, I mean, do you plan on signing the petition, Mitch? I have, actually.

Yeah, I got a picture of that. Actually, Jeff got the honor of doing the first signature on the petition to Free Alberta from Canada. Okay, so for perspective, Bicyker has a population of 754 people. Yes. and 700 people showed up. Yes. I assume 54 people were working. Yeah, there's probably four of them that couldn't make it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just saying, I mean, it's incredible. Mitch, go ahead. No, I was just going to, like the questions and emails, texts that I've been getting, people are trying to find more information where they can go to find it. where would you direct them? And then, you know,

you mentioned a whole bunch of things there, right? Like people are antsy to go sign. And they're like, where can I sign? Like, how can I, I hear it's open. Where can I go sign?

Can we just talk through where people can find the best information to stay up to date, especially on, you know, the timeline of, just like everybody just, just pump the brakes. Things are going to be okay. You know,

there's some things you got to get through. And once that's through, then there will be plenty of different places to sign. Maybe you could just, walk people through where to go for that information, and maybe just a bit more on the timeline. Okay, so stay free, Alberta.com is where you go to get your information. So that's a brand new website that we have to set up.

It's a week old. We have to set it up for this actual campaign, for this petition collection campaign. So what we're doing is we've got many, many people working all many, all manner of hours behind the scenes, getting campuses to elections Alberta so we can get them approved. understand we cannot put sheets out there without a canvasser behind it to approve the signature. So for every signature that we're going to get, we have to have a can have a canvester there to collect it and make sure and verify it so that we can submit it to Elections, Alberta as an official signature.

So what we have to do is we have to make sure that that process is correct because they'll turn us back. And we want our list to be very, very, you know, and robust and no mistakes. because Mr. McCasick cost 50,000 signatures out of his petition. So we would like to lose none, actually, to tell you the honest, to God, truth, we would like to lose none. So what we're doing is we've got our badges, and we have canvassers set up in every region in Alberta. Alberta's broken up into 87 constituencies associations,

so that is the same place as where you vote. So that is, you know, the area that your MLA represents, is what the constituency association is. So we're set up in 87 CAs, and in 87 CAs, we have leaders, regional leaders, and provincial leaders that manage that area. Those people are all working full-time to try and get you pulling places where you can sign downtown businesses that are going to take your signatures. We're going to be coming to your community, no matter where it is, with a town hall very soon and possibly a follow-up to another one. Right after that, we're going to be going to every community in Alberta. You know, and then after that, we're going to start knocking on doors if it's required.

We're just in day four of the actual process. Understand what happened is elections Alberta went on holidays, the day that they gave us the answer that we were approved to go. So they didn't get back until the day before New Year's, and then they closed down for the weekend. So they cut you off by a week. Yeah, no, yeah, they absolutely did cut us off by week. And we were supposed to, you know, originally when we had all this,

you know, the thought that we may get disapproved, Now, we're supposed to have 30 days to get that done, and we're not complaining. We'll take that, you know, to get this approved. I mean, that's massive. I'm actually living in a world of, you know, I can hardly believe that where we're at. I mean, we've done a lot of work. I'm not saying we don't deserve it. But just understand how exciting the prospect of creating the nation is going to be based on what we're seeing down east and everywhere in the world

where we'll actually possibly have some control over what's going on. You know, how cool would it be for people in Alberta to cast a vote in an election and actually have it matter? Yes. And understand this. We're not voting in areas. We're voting provincewide. So your vote counts just as much in rural Alberta as it does in urban Alberta. Because it's not going to matter in election. You just need enough votes to get your MLA in. here we're voting against everybody in the province. So every rural vote is going to count. So, you know, so just saying people have to understand that this is a total. So every vote counts.

We need every vote. We're going to go out there and try and get every vote. As a matter of fact, we'll do our best to do that. So to summarize that, we're going to have locations on our stayfree, Alberta.com website posted there. We're going to have permanent locations posted there so you can go sign, during the week. Just about anywhere you are.

And then after that, we're going to come to your town and talk to you. And if you need help to get us to sign you, just let us know and we'll come to your house. Basically, that's the way this is going to work. Is that fairly clear, Sean? You got that? Yeah, I think so. I think so.

I was steering people everywhere and having you on. I think it just clarifies things, right? I think the one other thing that people were curious about is how long do you have to collect the signatures so that, I mean, I think if people want to sign, they're reaching out because they want to sign now. They're not going to wait until day 120. But what is the final date to sign this thing?

May 2nd. May 2nd. Oh, that's a good day. You know what happens on May 2nd Tuesday? I turn 40, boys. I turn 40. 40 this year. Your birthday was in November.

Nope. Two's wrong. Once again, folks, not even close. Any other things, Mitch, that you want people to understand about what is going on with the petition, you know, I mean, I think stay free, Alberta.com is pretty self-explanatory. But, you know, if there's anything else you want to say to Albertans on this, floor is yours. Have it at her. Okay. So here's the thing.

We need every single person to sign up, every person that they know that agrees with this. So that means as many of you as can become campuses, that's going to be the determining factor on how big... That's the joke point. Yes. So the joke point is if you have a brother, sister, and uncle, friend, child that needs to sign this petition, you know, take it as your responsibility to get them to do it and then turn it into us. because what I think we need to understand here is this is the real definition of a grassroots movement. This is the people doing this.

And in order for that to really work, we need the people to actually do the work. And we learned this when I was doing pension town halls for Albert Pension. We gave people sheets with ten names on them. And then pretty soon they all started to come in the mail. It took us months to enter those sheets. Because people get it.

People understand that if they become a canvasser, You don't have to go knocking on doors. You just have to talk to the people you know. And if everybody does that, we're going to get everybody. And that's the plan. It's very simple plan. I think it's very executable plan. And you all have regional and provincial leaders in your area.

And we're going to make sure that you know where they are based on the information we're going to have on our site so that you can contact these people. Or join as a canvasser on Stay Free Alberta. and if you join as a canvester, then we will be in touch with you. We will put you in touch with all those people. There's no cost to it, but you just have to wait a couple days

and you get a badge in a mail from Elections, Alberta, saying that you're an official canvasser, and then you can go out and get signatures. In order to get a signature, the person has to be 18 years old, be a Canadian, live in Alberta, and basically that's, and put home physical address on,

not mailbox. You can put mailbox in addition, but physical address has to be, there and then after that away you go that do we need no harder than that does the canvasser need to verify your physical address for the signature well they need they need your physical address driver's license is great a bill you know a bill an utility bill works really good anything that you have passports excellent but i i guess what i'm asking here is if i show up so for me for example small town, rural.

My driver's license has my PO box number on it. Do I need to show up with a utility or can I just verbally give my physical address? You need to show up with proof. Okay. Yeah, you need to show up with proof. Absolutely.

You need a utility box number does not work. Okay, all right. One of the things, Mitch for yourself, you know, me and Tuesday talked, we're hoping, you know, over the next until May 2nd, every Friday we can have, whether it's yourself or maybe a few different people within the petition, drive, canvassers, et cetera. We're hoping every week to have a little segment for, you know, the first 15 minutes of the show

just to update people on, on questions. Because I assume what's going to happen in the next week is things are going to start to roll and then there's going to be a thousand questions. And we'd love to have people on every week. Can I come on every week? Well, I don't see. I mean, it doesn't necessarily have to be you. We'd be more than happy.

Yeah. Well, no. If I'm somewhere doing something, but it can be me. So just let me know. If not, I'll put you in touch with somebody that will do it. No, I'm guaranteed. We'd be happy to do your show. Well, the thing about it is, is you can speak right to Albertans, right?

And not that we're the only thing out there, but if people are having questions, they can start to file them into the comments, too, right? If they're seeing issues in their areas. And it'd be nice to have somebody just to address it, right? right from the horse's mouth. Okay, so there's a separation between the two, to two groups. Understand this.

Stay free Alberta is its own deal now. So some of the people that we've been working for are going to transfer over and help us out, you know, as volunteers. And many of our people are going to be volunteers. So we have, you know, a lot of the same people, but a different group of people. So stay free is separate.

Between stay free and APP, you mean. Yes. So just there's a line there. and elections Alberta creates that divide, and we're happy to live within those rules. And that's actually one of the things we're waiting for is to make sure that we're very clear on the differences between what APP can do, what an APP cannot do,

and what is the purview of a stay-free Alberta. Cool. Well, Mitch, I'm just going to say this to the audience. Over the next week, as this starts to roll out more, if you have questions, show up with them, because, or text me them, because that way we can have them compiled and we can make sure that we're answering what Albertans want to know as this thing moves forward. And yeah, I don't know, is there a way also, I don't know if there's an asterisk of giving us a total each week.

Like, is that possible of like how many signatures is up to or is that a little more? Probably not, but it's a fair question. I think that's going to be, that's going to be, you know what, let's, let's break it down into we're doing good, really good, very good or excellent. leave it at that because we have internal discussions on how that could hurt us as well. Okay. So we're just

going to, we're just going to assure people that we're working very hard and we'll assure them that we're doing well. And I'm going to share with you right now. You know, as far as we're at with day three, I think I couldn't be more excited. Cool. I really, really mean that.

And I mean, all of us that have done these events are just absolutely blown away by the support and absolutely blown away by the energy and the excitement of the people that are attending. Everybody's really taking this. I think this could be a really big deal. Absolutely. I would say that you're probably right in that determination because as many people as possible, whether you think it's going to pass or be close or whatever else,

if this is something you support, you should be signing it because the worst-case scenario is, that you guys show up with 2 million signatures or 4.8 million signatures and the only people who didn't sign it were Rachel Notley. Right? And that's the worst case scenario. Don't, and wouldn't we all agree,

from every petition I've ever heard, they always have signatures they don't accept. So getting more is better than you need more. You can't act like, oh, you hit the 177. We're done. It's like, nope,

because there's a good chance that, you know, you mentioned 50,000 off the other one. It's like, well, how many are they not going to allow? We already know that from people I know in different parts of the country, when they were trying to start provincial parties or their own petitions, there's always an amount of signatures that aren't allowed. So I think people should, yeah, if you're interested in this, get involved and get,

you know, as Mitch's pointed out, if you're one person, you get 10 more people to sign. Perfect. Here's Jacqueline just asking, I think, many utility bills. are only in one name. So if a husband and wife live in the same residence, will a utility bill be accepted for both? Do you know the answer to that? I don't, but I would assume yes.

Okay. Yeah. Yes. I just want to give a shout out to our event that happening in Calgary on January 26th at the BMO Center. We're expecting a big group. So, you know, I'm just doing a little advertising for that. We're going to be in the cities starting soon.

We're in Edmonton last night. So we're going to, you know, go and do these big events and the bigger they are, the media may not be able to ignore them. What date? They're going to want to or either intentionally misrepresenting. Or also intentionally misrepresented. What date is it, Mitch? And where is it at?

January 26th, the BMO and Calgary. And how can people, can they sign up for that or do they just show up? They just show up. Okay. Yeah, we're not turning anybody away. Cool. Fair enough. Well, actually, that brings up another really good point is, personally, I really appreciate the fact that you guys kicked it off in small towns.

You know, you went to Water Valley and then Didsbury and then Bicyker rather than saying, oh, we're going to go to downtown Calgary first. The rural people have been ignored largely by people wanting their support in terms of. politics lately. And I would say lately in terms of decades. And it's nice to see that, oh, actually, you know what? We want to show up where people appreciate it. Yeah. Well, you know what?

Hasn't it been a big problem in our provincial politics for the last two or three elections. Oh, we got to focus on Calgary. Yeah. And totally ignore rural Alberta. I mean, Bonnego produces 35 percent. of Alberta's oil and you want to drive down Highway 28. You know, I mean, it's just nonsensical. And our people have been complaining,

our MD's been complaining for years and years that we're being ignored. So, yeah, so you know what, ours, we understand who our tribe is, if you want to put it that way. We are, we're, I'm based in rural Alberta. This movement started in rural Alberta. And you know what?

We understand how important those people are. And we also want them to understand, and I'll say this again for the second time, that we need to win the province. So if we can win it with everybody from rural Alberta signing. Just the audience here, Zane asking, is it 50% of the total population or only the naturalized eligible voters? For our petition?

I'm guessing. I'm guessing. Or for the win? Okay, so let's go. Answer it however you like. So the petition, the petition is 10% of the people that voted at the last provincial election. So that's 100, you know, those 1.7 million people that voted in that election, so we need 177,000 signatures. As far as the margin of victory for the referendum, I, it's 50 plus one,

as far as I'm concerned. Yeah. For the win. Yeah, it's 50 plus one. So, so what I would suggest to everybody in the room is Quebec, what did they end up with 49 and a half last time? I don't want to be missing by half a point. I want to make very sure that if we lose, we lose based on the fact that, you know, we just didn't have the support, but we don't want to miss anybody and have it cost us the election. And I think that, you know, I mean, everybody has to understand that we're never going to get another shot at this. Everybody has to understand it as far as I'm concerned, it's straight uphill for us as far as, you know, for benefit for Albertans. And I really think that if you're going to pick a fight or something that you're going to spend a lot of time on for the next six,

eight months. I think this could be a major payoff for everybody in Alberta. I really do. Well, not. Could be. Like, it straight up is. Well, yeah, no. 100%. Even socially. The math is very simple and easy and clear. Yeah. And that's why the media has been trying to obfuscate it so much is because the, and the thing about it is that people don't really talk about. And if I was going to push back on one thing in your town halls a little bit is that you mentioned culture a little bit here and there, but it's by no means the focus. You guys spent a lot of time talking about the economics, which is good, but the economics

comes downstream of the culture. It's not that we just magically happen to have all the oil and it happened to fall within the borders of where the provinces ended up. It's the people who wanted to build these sort of things voted for the kind of people who would allow these things to happen. you know we talk about proven oil reserves and meanwhile in in fucking Quebec in Nova Scotia they've got frac bands well I guess Nova Scotia just listed theirs but the point is is that none of the exploratory stuff has even bothered to happen because none of the extraction is legal

in other places and you you've got this culture of people who want to build things who want to do things who don't need somebody to give them stuff. In other parts of Canada, they vote for who's going to give them the most free stuff. And in Western Canada, we vote for whichever political party is going to fuck off the most. And we don't talk enough about how the economics that end up as a result of that is downstream of the fundamental differences in culture. So I 100% agree with you. And in my particular thing, my presentation is about 40 to 50 minutes long based on history and what's happening.

But you know what? I think I'm going to have to take it upon myself to actually include basically, you know, Gold's notes version of what you just said before we even start. And I'd be very happy to do it because I agree with you. There is more than the money part here. There's, you know, there's a cultural, social part. And we do have our own identity. It's very clear to me in anybody that's ever lived here,

understands that we're different. Like, I mean, you just have to, just for example, we had a meeting with Paul Plymouthan, and I'm sure he's not going to mind me sharing this with you. And he said, you know, he says that Alberton's work basically a lot. And, you know, he asked me, like, how many hours, you know, is the typical Albertan Wall? In my case, I said, I work 55 to 60 hours a week.

And he basically said, I would never do that. Yeah. Well, it's funny. I didn't realize. There. I didn't even realize until Water Valley on Tuesday that well I worked in Bonneville for like 10 years

and so I have walked through the doors of your store many times over the years but I didn't even make the connection until Tuesday night. Well, good. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah. So actually I started that as a 21 year old and I'm running it 49 years later, it's still my store. And you know what?

I moved to Bonneville. And you know what? You want to talk about Albertans and culture. I moved to Bonneville to hunt fish and play hockey for the Pontiacs. And that was the reason I wanted to live in rural Alberta because I moved there 100% for lifestyle. And, I mean, we work really hard. We worked hard enough so that we could succeed and make a living.

But the other thing I wanted to do, I didn't want to work in the OPEC, so I wanted to be home every night. So I wanted a place that would allow. all of that to happen. So I built my lifestyle around, I built my business around my lifestyle. And I really believe that here in Alberta,

we have the opportunity to build the life that we want to choose. We've always had that. And that's the point of that. The point of that is if you really want to become a rich person and you want to do work that other people don't want to work, you can probably go to the OAPTCHA and do that. But you're going to be working every day for 20 years before you get to a point that that's going to actually happen.

and you can do that here. And the other thing, one more comment on that while I'm thinking about it. I was in BC fishing and walked into Prince Rupert to a tackle shop and the guy said, you blue-eyed Arabs from Alberta. It's exactly what he called us blue-eyed Arabs. And I said to him,

and I'm making all this money. And I said to him, you know, you can come down here and work in the old patch and make that kind of money. You can lay underneath a pipe and snow at 20 below and weld it. You know, there's absolutely,

You can go out there and work 18-hour shifts, 6-1, 14-2, you know, all those shifts that those guys are working away from home. 21 and 3. 21-3. Right. So they're 21 and 3. So they come home for three days. And by the time they get to their other 21, they've been gone 42 or 45 days. Like that's a hard living.

That reason those guys get paid money is because nobody wants to do that. Correct. And we do it. And we succeed out. So there you go. That's part of our culture too. Mitch, appreciate you hopping on. And we'll look forward to seeing things progress here. There will be lots of new things coming here.

And not only the week ahead, but the day is probably hours ahead. And best of luck. And we'll be, I don't know, showcasing it here on the show for sure. I know there's a ton of people who listen and are following along. And not only in Alberta, but elsewhere that are rooting for it. So look forward to seeing the developments here in the coming days, weeks and, you know, I guess months ahead. Just call me anytime, Sean. I'm happy to come on and we'll have conversation most anytime you can.

If I can fit in my schedule. Thank you very much, guys. Thank you very much, Mitch. Take care. All right. So there you go. There's an update on everything going on with the petition. And if you got your questions, by all means, fire my way.

You can text me and everything as we move along here in the next week until the next mashup. Two's just for your brain. You've got 45 minutes before the guy sitting backstage is coming on. So you got 45 minutes to pull together the crap show that is this week's mashup. We're not having Jim come on right now? No, we're not. No.

I don't know. He was doing something. He was holding up a piece of paper and I couldn't even see what was on it. So he's trying to speak to us somehow. And it's like he doesn't realize that there's a chat window that he could just type into over here. but regardless. We're not going to worry about that.

Okay, let's start with municipalities, shall we? Yeah. Okay. They've kind of been a gong show. Well, let's start with Calgary and another water break and like flooding and everything else. And then she said the report is saying that that kind of information didn't filter up to key decision makers, which is big problem.

Then she said on CBC radio is the Calgary eye opener on Thursday. City officials repeatedly recommended an inspection of key water. feeder mains in 2017, 2019, 2022, according to the independent review of Bears Paw, catastrophic 2024 break. Well, that seems to directly contradict what he just said. Correct. After the 2013 floods for 10 years, they didn't bother to do anything, any investigation on the water main.

And you have to ask the question, well, huh, who was the mayor? And that was the Nenchi, the premier told reporters, all of this should have been identified early so that now subsequent mayors are not having to deal with it. And then she called the Premier's comments, total garbage. I mean, she's literally calling it as it happened. The independent review directly contradicts what he said. So is the independent review total garbage as well? Like, I get the fact that he can say, oh, well, Daniel Smith just wants to take pot shots at me.

But what he really needs to. address. And this is, this is the failing of, of journalists all over the place is that when someone comes on your show, you don't push too hard. You, you, you kind of give them softballs. You give them easy passes on mistakes they make when they're talking about things, except for you. You're, you're the one exception that, uh, I, I, I think David Knight-Leg is probably the smartest person that either one of us has ever met. I've got nothing but respect for the guy. But when he was talking about how the reason why the NDP got power in 2015 was because of the splitting of the vote, and then you pushed back very simply, very factually, boom, boom, boom, boom.

And that was, well, I mean, I told you. I think that's probably the coolest thing you've ever done on the show. So props to you for that. But here's the thing is that he needs to, if he wants to address the claims that Daniel Smith is making, he needs to point at their source. And the other thing about it is that he had somebody leaked him access to that report before the province had access to it before the city councilors had access to it he was the first guy who got to look at that as a member of the opposition and former mayor which is fucking suspicious do you want to show some of the pictures of emminton speaking of different communities there was a ton of a ton in here uh you can show some videos too if you want to is but uh just, you know, heavy snowfall, them plowing roads and completely plowing, you know, certain lanes, as you can see. Yeah, well, here, I guess, oh, no, there, and we'll go here. This is what the city does to people's driveways. Look at how big that is.

My car is not coming out of it. My mom's car can't even get back in. Like, what the trick is this nonsense? well i mean in all fairness to what the frick is this nonsense it would take you like five minutes to shovel that away but at the same time the city of edmonton is absolutely fucking up there's there's i know but that that video's hilarious like look at the sizes like get your shovel out man and just shovel it out no you took your phone out and made a video out instead and like it took you longer to film that video than it would just shovel it yeah i mean out of all

the things that were in the the you know the snow plowing i'm like that one is is about as minor as it gets. Exactly. But there's a lot of legitimate things. Like you can't really tell because it's, if they were smarter while filming this, they would have been a little bit further back so that they could show the slope of it.

But the city of Edmonton won't pick up our garbage on 105th Street and 98th Ave. People in our condo building had to use their personal trucks to haul and dump garbage last week because collection trucks are no longer dealing with it. And so you've got this, this synergy where the plow drivers aren't clearing the hallies

and then the garbage collectors can't make it up this hill to get to the dumpster. And so, because the one department isn't doing their fucking job, the other department isn't doing their fucking job. It's like, look, Edmonton, if you people at the city you're listening, I get it. The bike lanes are immaculate. Wonderful. Great job. They should be the last. thing on the list. Maybe you should start plowing the roads instead of plowing the taxpayers.

Let's move on some rapid fire. How about Conan O'Brien? If you're a comedian, you always need to be funny. Where the hell? Oh, yes. Here we go. Comics go the route of, I'm going to just say, F Trump every all the time, or that's their comedy. And I think, well, now a little bit you're being co-opted because you're so angry you've been lulled it's like a siren leading you into the rocks you've been lulled into just saying f trump f trump screw this guy um you know and i think you've now put down your best weapon which is being funny and you've exchanged it for anger and that person or any person like that would say well things are too serious now i don't need to be funny. And I think, well, if you're a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way.

And that's exactly it. When it comes to all this stuff, like, I try and be funny about this stuff. And the neat thing about it is that me trying to be funny is more often than not literally just talking about things in a factual, factual brass tax way. Like, that's all it takes to be funny. when you talk about what's going on in the world is you just say, here's what they said, here's what they did, here's what happened. And that's it. There's not even punchlines

to most of the things that I say. And shout out to one of the scrutiners I met at Water Valley. Her name alludes me, but she was like, he just looked so familiar, he looks so familiar. And then I was like, well, it's possible that you watch the thing called the mashup? Oh, yes, yes.

And she said, she said that I'm the, reason why this show was awesome. It's why I really appreciated that. Don't let it go to his head. Don't let it go to his head, all right? But that's all I do. Like, that's the secret sauce. Has there ever been an easier time to be a comedian?

No, no, no, no. This stuff, like you literally, that's the secret sauce is you don't need punchlines. You don't need to come up with witty ways that things intertwine. Remember where we went across the Saskatchewan? And we went to all those little pubs. Yeah. And we basically just read the news headlines and everybody was laughing. And it's like, this is the world.

That was it. That's all it took. That's all it took. And we got to raise a lot of money for, for people who've been hurt by fires and for people who are trying to stop fires from hurting people. Rochelle said, by the way, that we're taxed to the nines, presumably in Edmonton. They also have natural growth area and nice areas where they allow overgrowth of weeds. My street hasn't been plowed once. So, yeah, it's not just, it's not just the accounts on Twitter that are noticing this. It's every year. Yes.

Hey, Rochelle. Nice to have somebody in from Emmington, tune in to the mashup. Canada. Go flames. Canada poised to lose 4,000 restaurants in 2026. Does anyone care? This is Sylvan Charleboe, the food professor.

According to official figures, Canada's restaurant sector, peers are remarkably resilient. But if you go down, it says business closures do not occur when conditions deteriorate. They occur when resilience is depleted. Owners exhaust personal capital. restructure debt and postpone difficult decisions in the hope that conditions improve for

many restaurants. That hope carried them through 2023 and 2024. By 2026, the arithmetic becomes unavoidable, unavoidable, pandemic era loans, matured, deferred liabilities, crystallize, and margins that were already thin turn negative. And one of the things he points to is lower consumption of alcohol. Canadians are drinking less. That's the big thing. in the 2008 crash of everything.

The one thing that just stayed constant and didn't even go down at all was alcohol sales. People changed which brands they bought, so they would buy cheaper beer, but they still bought the same amount of beer. And now we're getting to the point where the cheap beer, presumably, is too fucking expensive.

And people aren't, Alcohol is wonderful. It's the thing that just lets you wash away all the day's troubles and start a new with a slight headache for a couple hours the next day. And we're getting to a point where people can't even afford to do that. That's how bad things are. This isn't even the canary in the coal mine. This is the guy running the elevator because presumably they still have elevator people running.

Anyways, the point is, is that this is way past the canary. it's a big deal well for for for alcohol you have the escalator tax every April 1st the cost of alcohol goes up because because it's it's a free

guaranteed source of revenue because no matter how bad things get people will still get obviously and yet and now we're getting to a point where they're like well I mean if this keeps up I might have to stop drinking

That's how bad things are in this country. Video game developer Ubisoft closes Halifax office as a decision not linked to union. Video game maker Ubisoft Entertainment, best known for its Assassin Creed franchises, closes production studio in Halifax, eliminating 71 jobs three weeks after most staff members voted to unionize. Two completely unrelated events. Unrelated. Was it Starbucks that? Yes.

Yeah. And then also there was the Walmart. Correct. Yeah. So it has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with unions. Here's the thing is unions as a concept. Fuck it.

Sure. The problem is, is that the way unions are given free reign to just unleash chaos in companies in Canada is, is the problem. It's not, it's not that unions themselves are bad. It's that they get this cart blanche to completely fucking destroy. companies.

And that's what happens in this country. Video Game Manor 10 cent. Ubisoft is just the name now. Sorry to bring that up. I assume that's true, Brett. I actually didn't know that. Is that true? I assume that's true.

I don't know. I need to learn how to make wine myself from the comments. Yeah, you do. Actually, making wine, making beer, making whiskey is really easy. And for the record, anybody who works in the oil field, like 90% of making beer. And this is coming from somebody who at one time, the next step up for me at home brewing was just to become a brewery commercially. 90% of it is scrubbing shit.

So if you spend any time as a roughneck, it's a perfect transference of skills. London drugs long feared exit from Woodward's, a huge loss and worrying signal. Shortly after employees at the London drug store in Vancouver's Woodward Building were notified Tuesday that the location would permanently close within weeks. The company's president, Clint Malman, received a phone call. It was a representative of the BC Premier's office asking if London's drugs would consider its decision to shutter the store on edge of Vancouver's downtown east side. And I had to communicate, this is quote, I had to communicate the decision is final. Malman told, we just can't continue to withstand exposing our staff and our customers to this environment and continue to absorb these losses. He said consistent, persistent safety incidents and significant operating losses at the site.

When we went into this location in 2009, we bought this into the vision of the province and the city and clearly that vision has not come alive. We lost tens of millions of dollars in that location since we've opened and we just don't see that. environment turning around. Now that's one location. One location. Tons of millions of dollars. Correct. Nestor's market, which is in the same area, said they've seen a 400% increase in violent incidents over the previous two years.

Oh, a 400% increase. The only thing that goes up in an NDP-Rand province apparently is violence. I mean, that's not true because it's also inflation, homelessness, drug use, things like that. But violence is also one of them. Sticking with BC, BC not returning to decriminalized public drug use. The Premier says BC's drug decriminalization pilot project will expire on January 31st and is still unclear what that change might look like. The three-year pilot removed criminal penalties for the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, which was aimed at reducing the stigma around drug use to encourage people to seek help, but it quickly became a controversial.

No kidding. On Tuesday, BC Premier David Eby said the government is still working closely with the federal. federal government in the issue quoted, but let me be clear, we're not going back to the old policy of decriminalized public drug use in British Columbia. It didn't work and we ended that. So we're in close conversations with the federal government. I look forward to having more to share soon about that. Yeah.

So he's basically saying, we fucked up. That's a very long way to say we fucked up and people died. Now, if I fuck something up and people die as a result, I probably go to jail. If you do something that causes people to die, probably? You're probably going to go to jail. We're in the midst of probably going to jail just for having this conversation to us. All right. Okay, that's a fair point.

But if I, I don't know, run somebody over with my car, or I was to use a firearm recklessly and shoot somebody. Or if whatever reason, if I do something as a citizen. Or if a man shows up with a crossbow in your house. at night and you protect yourself, you go to jail. Yes. Well, not in Alberta, apparently, but in Ontario you would. And so here's the thing, is that why the fuck are we not saying that if you, because you want to be this progressive fucking idiot,

want to institute a bunch of policies that cause people to literally fucking expire. Why are you not brought up at the very least? on manslaughter charges. Because the politicians in our world live by a different legal system? Here's something. I just saw this on the side of this article. So Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry, they're on vacation. If you don't have a job anymore, you're not on vacation, by the way.

So this former part-time snowboard instructor is on vacation. indefinitely. And look at their arms. Look at their arms in this picture. Their arms are around each other. Which means that they went on vacation with just the two of themselves and a fucking photographer.

How vain do you have to be? You're so vain. I bet you think the song is about you. It's just the two of us. It's just the two of us. And we're in love. And also there's a photographer. Mashup 190.

That's what we're at right now. Calgary restaurant owners, I'm happy to be back. I'm happy to be back. It's good to see twos as much as... It's good to see you, Sean. Yeah. Calgary restaurant owners just jailed for financial abuse of temporary foreign workers. Three restaurant owners who financially abused their immigrant employees were handed jail terms

this week by Calgary judge. Defenders. Oh, man. Manacandon, Kassanath. Fan. Oh, man. Janjah Mahoan, Marjac, and Mary Roche were each sentenced to 90-day jail terms to be served on weekends after they were convicted of fraud over 5,000. There were co-owner, two of them were co-owner owned Marina Doza and Tendorri Grill. In Calgary, we'll also be placed on 18-month probation and must pay back to 44,000. They stole from three employees. The victims, all from India moved to Calgary between 2017 and 2020 as temporary foreign workers.

on employees specified permits to work as cooks at the offender's restaurant once there or here. The victims were told they had to pay $24,000 each for a labor market impact assessment for government fees relating to their immigration to Canada. In reality, under the temporary foreign worker program, employees were required to pay a thousand dollar processing fee for an employee's assessment documentation. And yeah, it goes on. All these guys paying a boatload of money. Yeah.

So they just, they lied to the temporary foreign workers. They said, actually, if you got to work here, you've got to pay all of this fucking money. And you don't have to pay it to the government. You have to pay it to us. So if anybody is watching from Mumbai or somewhere in the Kashmir region of India, and you're thinking about moving to Canada to work at Tim Hortons or something like that, as a hypothetical example. you if you have to pay a government fee you pay it to the government so if somebody your employer for example says you have to pay me cash

that's the exact same scam that you guys try and run on us and I feel like I feel like if you're moving from a fake call center in Delhi where you're pretending to be from tell us and saying that you need to fucking pay Amazon gift cards. And then you get a job working at Tandori Grill in Calgary. You should probably recognize that you're being asked the same thing that you used to do at your future place of employment at the fake call center.

And maybe some alarm bells should be going off. 16 tow trucks were intentionally set on fire in Brampton, Ontario last night. Actually, forgive me, I don't know if it was last night. This is the tweet. It wasn't last night. The tow truck turf war is heating out. up another tow trucker was reportedly set on fire at a car dealership close to close by on the same night. I forget what night that was. Apologies, but here is the tow truck war coming back

in full view. Yeah. So, look, I, I've been talking about this. We, we have been talking about this. Okay, all right. Fair enough. You can, you can ride on the coattails. You've seen ride on the coattails an awful lot, too. Carry on. We have noticed. some discrepancies in different industries across this country and we have been asking what the hell is going on with a tow truck industry

of all random things and we have been wondering why it seems like organized crime went from riding motorcycles to towing Volkswagen Jettas and we would like some fucking answers about the questions that we have regarding why this is happening in our country.

Thank you. Yeah. All I think of is Top Gun. I was flying. Sorry, we. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. Why it took Trump to challenge Canada's dairy orthodoxy.

This is another food professor article. Yeah, we've got a couple of them this week. Yeah. U.S. President Donald Trump has made greater access to Canada's dairy market, one of his stated expectations for a Kuzma renewal. And Ottawa's response has been swift and defensive. Prime Minister Mark Carney said this week that supply management would remain untouched. Yeah. Read the sub headline, though.

That's the thing here. A joint Delhousie University-Meggill University study estimates that Canadian dairy farmers discard anywhere from hundreds of millions to as much as one billion liters of milk each year, not because of food safety concerns, but to prevent oversupply and maintain elevated prices. Correct. We are in a country where something like one in three people or, I can't remember what it is,

an astoundingly high number of people in this country are going to the food bank every fucking week. and meanwhile we have people who are making and then dumping food, in this case, dairy. Not not because it's, you know, anything to do with quality control or quality assurance or anything like that, but just because they need to dump that much to keep the price of it high so that they can make more money. The fucked up economics of this country, which are set in place by this government, are such that, it makes more economic sense to make something and throw it out rather than to sell it on the open market. And nobody thinks that there's any kind of a fucking issue with that, apparently, except for Sylvain Charlebois and us. You know, I still haven't heard from, I'm still waiting for D.C. to start trimming back in, you know?

I talked to him a little bit over Christmas. He's been flat out. But, yeah, yes, I would just like to point out the fact that when you and I, had our first conversation, which was re-aired on Boxing Day, you and I asked each of us questions about the dairy cartel because we kept on bringing up the dairy cartel, and we didn't know what the dairy cartel was, and we were introduced to what the fuck the dairy cartel is on that our first conversation together.

I don't know about anybody else. Did your Friday need this? Because my Friday certainly did. Even the insane amount of things two's put into a document, I needed this on a Friday. The world's largest online metal dealers are almost sold out of copper. Yeah. So you weren't here last week because you're lazy.

But Vesper and I talked about how one of the online distributors of precious metals was sold out of silver. And you talked about it with that guy whose name alludes me the other day. Oh. Well, the name alludes us. Luke Grohlman. Okay. Well, Luke Groman talked with us the other day about investment in precious metals.

And I think the only thing missing from that conversation between Luke Groman and the two of us was the fact that... You know, it's funny, too, there's this little thing I built in the news studio. And it should be twos as death. So that statement could, in theory, become more true. only if you accept, choose to accept. Anyways, carry on. You built it and feel the dreams, right? That's right. Yeah, Ray Leota.

All right. So, Copper. Yeah. I'm pulling you off subject here. The only thing that the three of us were missing from that conversation. Claire, you're blocked. You know what would only be better, Claire? if I could hear it in your accent.

That would be great. Anyways, carry on. Well, you know what? We have just... We would like to hear it in your accent. All right. We noticed that the only thing missing from our conversation the other day was the fact that there's kind of this mental thing

because you're like, well, do I really want to buy... Like, if you buy an ounce of gold, it's what? Like almost $4,000? Or sorry, that's U.S. U.S. It's almost... $500. It's $62.37 as we sit here today.

We'll pull up a little silver gold bull show to them. The price of gold, Canadian, 62.37. And once again, silver me and Ken, we're talking about this year in review. We thought, will it ever get over $100 in 2025? Well, we're in just days in a 2026, 110 for one ounce of silver here in Canada. Oh, and by the way, I did a little bit of investment reallocation. And so because it skyrocketed so much, I sold a little bit of my silver at a bit over $100 an ounce.

So I made two and a half times my investment in 18 months. And it was super easy. It was unbelievably easy with Silver Gold Bull. Unpaid endorsement. It was just. Well, I got to tell you know me. I'm fine bringing up SGB because they've been fantastic to not only the podcast, but certainly the cornerstone.

to inform right around the corner that's got the premier showing up to it. Yeah, they're one of the title sponsors to that too. So like if you're doing anything, precious metals and listen to this show, go to SGB. It's online. Ship rate to your door. It's super easy. Carry on to it. All right.

So, you know, people are investing in precious metals because it's safe, because it's secure. And nobody knows what in the fuck is going on on this entire planet right now. But, you know, are you going to spend $6,300 on? one ounce of gold. Well, most people, because things have been a little bit fucky lately. Yes, Claire, you can try and find me. You can try and find us.

I'll share his location. It's a hell of a lot easier to pay $110 $110 for an ounce of silver. You know, when you had the two's head. Anybody remember those days where twos is so nervous to show his face? Oh, those are great days. Carry on.

Anyway. I don't know where you're going with copper. Where are you going with it? The point is the reason, I would say that the reason why silver has accelerated so much further than gold lately is because it's a lot easier. It's a lot more attainable to buy one ounce of silver than it is to buy one ounce of gold. Venezuela.

I mean, there's a ton here. I don't know where you in Vesper got to. All right. Okay. Days worked for tax. taxes before you get to that. So here you go. Fraser Institute.

June 8th is a tax freedom day this year. It was in May last year, I think. It keeps moving every fucking year. You know what? Stop that graph? That chart? Separation. Just saying. Yeah. Yeah. So,

you know, just keep in mind while you're outside in minus 40 with working on pieces of steel that are breaking because they're so fucking brittle because it's so fucking cold and you've got to watch to get frostbite on your cheeks and nothing fucking works right and nothing wants to fucking start

and everything sucks because it is cold as balls all that time you're spending is for dickheads in Ottawa and it's not until June 8th until you start working for yourself. There you go. Anything else? Can we talk Venezuela?

Sure. We can talk Venezuela. Fine. Let's talk I have no idea how many things you populated in that thing after I left. So I'm probably missing a few, but I'm looking at Jim and I'm going, we now have roughly 15 minutes until Jim comes on. So the countdown is on. Ebby says Canada should build refineries, not pipelines after Venezuelan attack. I, like many Canadians, I'm glad to see that the back of Mr. Maduro. Ebby told reporters, referring to the outst of

Venezuelan leader as a terrible man and a tyrannical dictator. If we've got tens of billions of dollars to spend, I think we should spend it on a refinery and we should develop our oil products for Canadians and for export instead of being reliant on American and Chinese refineries to do it for us. Yeah, except

nobody owns the fucking land in your province, you fucking numpty. And also that directly contradicts the head of your party, which is not you, David Eby, Premier of British Columbia. The head of your party is Don Davies, the federal party, because the NDP provincially exists as a subset of the federal party. And the federal party stands is that this was a horrible tack by an evil orange man. It's the only thing orange that they don't like

is Donald Trump. Brett says he saw two different stories on X with Ebby and Refinaries. Curious, what was the other story, Brett, while we carry on? You have Sharon Carr, Coor? The dangerous precedent of Pulleyev's support of Maduro's arrest. She goes on a whole tie rate of that. But do you want to show the Carney video as well? Well, I mean, it's a little bit fucking awkward because, you know, Pierre Polyev is evil for supporting or for saying that he likes what Donald Trump did in Venezuela.

And here, I'll say a couple of things. One is that, you know, from our perspective, the removal of an illegitimate, corrupt, repressive government or leader, Mr. Maduro, is welcome news. Ooh. So is she going to walk, is she going to say the exact same thing? So keep in mind that now Mark Carney and Pierre Polyev had the exact same stance on an issue. If you're going to write an entire op-ed about why Paulievs, stance on the issue was bad, I would expect that you would write an identical one,

which is changing the names, which should be easy, because this is the lady who we showed a few weeks ago gets chat GPT to write all her shit. It should be easy to just say, take that same article and change Carney for Polyev. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Okay, here's the thing. When it comes to this, is that,

I don't know if you noticed this, but even people who said that Maduro is an evil socialist dictator under illegitimate, legitimacy, forgive the redundancy. But the point is, is they're like, he lost an election, refused to leave. He is an illegitimate dictator. And then when Trump says, well, you know what? We're going to go in. We're going to take him in the middle of the night.

It's going to be great. there's going to be a big beautiful bomb and then we're going to take him out and we're going to haul him away to Kansas. When he does that, they're like, oh, this is bad because Trump did it. This is the same sort of shitty logic they use

when they talk about hate crimes. Because the idea behind a hate crime is you do something that is bad and then depending on what your mindset is when it happens, but not even what your mindset is, what your mindset is purported to be by the people

prosecuting you that further affects the sentencing of it because it's not just that it's bad it's just that we think you did it because you hate Mexicans or we think you did it because you hate women or

whatever else. Eleven minutes till Jim shows up. Okay. Tighten it up. Venezuela. All right. You've got literally anybody in the world could have gone in, not not in terms of logistics, but in terms of the hypothetical, Anybody in the world could have gone in and removed Nicholas Maduro and they would have said it was a great thing.

Okay. But because Donald Trump did it, it's bad. And because they think he just did it for oil or because they think he just did it for this. And it doesn't matter what your fucking motivation is. This is a good thing for the people of Venezuela. If you think this is a bad thing for the people of Venezuela, I would encourage you to talk to literally any fucking Venezuelan, impossible. I know a couple of them. They were up all night partying and celebrating.

Okay. This is this is it. It doesn't matter whether you like Trump or not or whether you think he's evil or Orange Man is bad or the very real consideration that Venezuela is by no means out of the water. There's still a whole lot of shit to figure out in this fucking place. But every Venezuelan is happy that they are no longer living under a dictatorial regime that they had no say in voting for. I would say not every Venezuelan.

There's going to be a lot. But it'd be like if Carney, if they swooped in with, you know, as I joked with Tom and Alex, like if they swooped in with one dog sled team and took our prime minister, there would be a ton of Westerners. They're super happy about it. There'd also be

a ton of these things that are like losing their mind. You'd have a whole bunch of people, who are happy that they're no longer living under a shitty regime that they didn't vote for. Funny the corollary. But here's the thing is the only people of Venezuela who are upset about this. Nine minutes. Are the people who get fucking paid because of that shitty situation? And it's the same thing in Canada, whether it's a government employee or the fucking welfare cases in Nova Scotia.

Sorry not sorry. There's a few different people saying they want to hear more singing from Sean. And then there's also great impression. So I think we need more Trump and more singing on the show. Is that what I'm taking? I don't know if that's true. I don't know how much. Anyways.

Do we need to beef up security for Doug Ford in 2026 in response to Maduro? Yeah, yeah. This is by far the shittiest thing, the stupidest thing I've heard from anybody is do we need to worry because Doug Ford has been picking a fight with Donald Trump and maybe he's going to get taken out by by American special forces. Yes, yes, absolutely. You know what? You're so on point for that.

In fact, the only reason why they took out Maduro in Venezuela was so that they could secure the oil and gas supply so that the Chinook helicopters needed to transport Doug Ford's fat ass from Toronto to Missouri had enough fucking fuel to make the trip, you fucking numpty. Hands off Greenland. Do you want to show the Donald Trump video? Oh, I would, but I already closed it. Okay, fair enough.

Show me some drive. I tell you what, in the lead up to this, the driver's videos too, is I want you to pull this up while I talk about it because I was like, I ran out of time. I'm like, you know what? I'm going into drivers blind from now on because I know it's going to be just crappy drivers happening everywhere.

All you have to do is get on the highway and literally follow any semi at this point. And there's a ton of semi-drivers that I know. that are fantastic. But some of the stuff going on on the roads right now here in Alberta, Saskatchewan on the border is just wild. I almost watched,

I almost watched two semis go at it right in front of me as one pulled out on the highway 16. It was wild. It was like 25 feet in front of me, me and a semi going side by side, relatively, you know, 50 kilometers an hour probably. And probably both of us watching,

this guy's not going to do it. He's not going to do it. He does it. I pretty much stopped dead where I am and just watch as a semi almost collided. with it. I don't know how he stopped. Anyways, carry on with the drivers too. All right. So here's, here, this one's fucking, this looks like a fucking mic. Oh my man. Oh my f***. All right. All right. All right.

Look at the way he fucking made that jump. Oh my. That's a fast and furious shit right there. Except it's more fast and flip-flops. Oh, that's what we should call the same. segment now fast and flip flops this I put it in with the drivers but it's just a drunk guy at a park in Edmonton waving around a sword or pardon me

in Toronto waving around a sword very very badly I just stuck it in the drivers why not some sword waving well I mean it's it was just the easy place for it to go uh this is Glenn Glenn I you know I'm not talking about you carry on

he says well he's not talking about the fact that he has a big ring. He's talking about the fact that he's a little bit hard from watching these goofy videos. He says I have a semi. All right. Here's one on the tracks and the train's coming down. And there he is.

Just standing there. Out of the way, he's going to hide behind the electrical panel for the ensuing carnage. It's always the last ones you'd expect. I'm heading southbound on the 404. I understand the snowplowers are trying to do their job, but they're driving at 20 kilometers an hour down the highways. And if I'm late again, I'm going to be penalized at work. Um, literally 24 meters an hour, miss. Uh, I, I, like I said, once these trucks move, it's going to be.

People are going to be doing 140 all the way down the highway. Um, I don't know if it's the town that does that or it would be MTO, but it's, certainly not the police unfortunately. Like it is becoming a on this. You might want to send an officer out here. Yeah. So they were driving in, they were basically doing

the flying V from the Mighty Ducks down the road doing 20 kilometers an hour and the traffic was just piled on from miles behind them. This is a j-wog. Oh! Record scratch. I bet you're wondering how I

out here. This guy doing. For those of you listening, the back door, it's one of those semis where the backdoor flips down to be the loading bay, and then there's the forklift and the palettes and everything like that. The loading bay is

down. It's dragging it's dragging along the highway, and the forklift is sitting on it with four pallets on it. Driving down the QE2, the main highway between Calgary and Edmonton. And this is the Brampton Spark Machine, the Bangladesh Spark Machine.

I don't know if you, I don't know if you tuned in or not when I was telling when I was, oh, no, no, that was you. That was me. That was me. That was you. That was you. When I was talking about, when I was talking about Shawnee and the Spark Machine, this is the Spark Machine. Three and a half minutes. Carry on. Okay. So anyways, the reason why I called it the Spark Machine was because, I used to have this tool push. And he had this story, he had stories about like every mile of road in a radius of 100 kilometers of Lloyd. He could tell you about how he wrecked a vehicle here or rolled over a vehicle there or whatever else. And where the Kings Husky is or used to be on the east end of town, that railway crossing there?

Yes. So he had to bring out some BOPs to a rig. And so they just had a little trailer with a two foot pop on it. and they set the, they'd set the BOPs on there. And he was like, oh, well, I'm in a rush and it's on a two foot pup. How much do I really need to worry

about it? And so he didn't strap it down. He was just trying to get out the location right away. He goes over the train tracks going mock chicken because that's the only speed this guy drove at. I swear to God, we would leave every morning, 20 minutes late and still get there five hours early whether we were going to tangle flags

or senlack. It didn't matter. This guy was just, he just, the laws physics did not apply to the time travel velocities that he achieved. And so anyway, he was, we're driving over these railroad tracks and they're like, oh, it's a little bit bumpy. And he's like, you want to hear about bumpy? And he tells us about this time. He goes over them, a mock chicken.

And the BOPs, which are not dainty little fucking things, go all the way over the two foot pup that they had as a stump to keep them on and landed right in. the middle of the railroad tracks. He's like, and that wasn't even the worst part. There was a train coming. And so I stop. I look at it. I look over at the train.

He looks at us. And then he turns on the spark machine. Okay. We got a minute and a half. Okay. All right. So anyways, when we talk about the spark machine, that's where it comes from.

Christy Freeland hired by Zelensky. If you hadn't heard, that's a thing. You have the Minnesota fraud that's been going on, all that. Tim Walz is resigning. Correct. You've got to see they're heading to California next. There's a whole bunch of things. State auditor found 70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost.

24 billion on non-existent homelessness programs, 188 poured into non-existent high-speed rail, 32 billion COVID relief funds stolen, 2.5 billion lost and snap fraud. Billions spent on the building after the Palisades fires, no homes. You're burying the headline here. The point is that Governor Newsom's press office tweeted this. When they said that they're going to come to California and investigate fraud, Governor Newsom's press office says, we'll make sure the grinder servers are ready. Even from the left, it's now okay to make homophobic jokes.

Taylor and Oaks, Canada must immediately cancel all military contracts with the U.S. there are cheaper alternatives that involve the greater degree of domestic production. If we have to spend tens of billions on military equipment, let's make sure it supports Canadian jobs. He went on to list a whole host of things that are bad ideas. And you know what? He doesn't take into account. The fact that the F-35s are so fucking militarily superior to the Swedish options

that it's implausible that they would ever even get into a dogfight, Because the F-35, talk to anybody about this. I ran it over, I went over it with, with Grock and, and I was talking about it with a few other people. The F-35 would shoot the Swedish thing before the Swedish thing even knew that the F-35 was there. Hi, Jim. Hi, Jim. Hi, Jim. What, what's you doing? What's you doing? I'm just listening to this amazing podcast and I'm so glad you're saving the best. to last. So I guess I'm part of that. Yeah, you're part of goofy news because I told twos we had until I was counting it down. We're 1115, which means Jim's just a part of the goofy news.

Carry on twos. Carry on your storytelling. Well, all these big reasons why we should not get the F-35 from the U.S. And we should get the piece of shit from Sweden. For all intents and purposes, if we're going to spend all this money, we may as well just buy a pylons and put drones on them for the amount of defense be for us. If we're not going to buy something that is at least technologically

on par with the rest of the world, what the fuck is the point? We may as well get like zeros from World War II. Just any that didn't get kamikazeed by the Japanese in World War II, we should just buy them up from whatever museums we're in, they're in, and use those because they stand about as much chance against an F-35 as the Swedish option. A couple other things here.

US pulls out of the UN Climate Treaty, one of 66 international organizations losing support. Canadians trust, this is a headline. Canadian's trust in the Prime Minister hits a 15-year high survey fines. I don't know who's funded that sucker. Oh, that was, I fucking closed the tab on it. But basically, that survey,

that Environics Canada, is funded by basically pretty much primarily all governments. Yeah. You always see the results. There's no friggin way.

The nice thing about it, though, I will say, is that that's the first survey I've seen in Canada in a long time that does a one to seven scale. They're finally doing something right. Minister McDonald to announce

federal investment to support halal production. Honorable Heath McDonald, not the Heath I'm thinking of. Minister of Agriculture and Agar Food will be an Albany, Prince Edward Island, to announce federal investment to Atlantic Beef Products, Inc. to improve processing and package of halal products.

He will be accompanied by Russ Mallard, President CEO of ABPI. So there's that. You also have Mayor Zoro, Mamdani's newly instated tenant advocate, C. Weaver broke down Wednesday as she had dodged questions from reporters about her gentric. What is this? Gentrification. So basically what happened is that Mom Domini brought in a bunch of socialists and in classic socialist sense. They all came up from Silver Spoon places.

And so she's talking about how landlords are just the sign of white supremacy and that nobody should have ownership of buildings and houses. And then one of the reporters said, okay, but your mom owns a $1.6 million house in Tennessee. And then she started crying and ran into her building behind her. Hypocrisy knows no bounds. Holly Dome, Parliament should federalize rent controls and cover late payments for tenants at risk of immediate homelessness, says leadership candidate of the NDP. My plan takes housing back and brings in an end to corporate landlords who neglect tenants to boost profits. The NDP, I don't know if I've said this before, but the NDP are not a serious party. Mark Miller, the Canadian government announces a $200 million fund exclusively for black-led organization.

to provide sustainable funding for black lad, black focus, black serving organizations. That is what diversity, equity, and inclusion looks like. Does anybody who's a longtime listener of this show remember the time where we talked about the church, the literal church of the underground railroad being refused funding from the federal government because it wasn't black enough? This is just an ongoing saga of absolute. fucking idiocy. By the way, I just decided that

as a business owner in Canada, I am now black. So I will take some of that money now, please. I'm going to file the paperwork this afternoon. We've been following a whole bunch of the Alberta recall legislation petitioned 10,000 signatures short as first deadline

looms and burst of Alberta recalls. Now, keep in mind that they needed something like 16,000. Yeah, it needs another 10,000 the next two weeks to force a constituency wide vote on whether education minister Demetrios Nicolitis should be lose the seat. So that ain't going to happen. Yeah.

So it's not like they needed a million signatures in their 10,000 short. They needed 16,000 and their 10,000 short. Correct. Calgary woman has been charged after throwing a 13-pound traffic pylon off a 14th floor beltline balcony onto a snowy sidewalk. The incident happened Saturday with reports reaching police on Monday. No one was hurt. Police called. They act incredibly dangerous and said they want to show.

such stunts are taken seriously. Yes. Goofy stuff, but just going back to that other one, remember when I was talking about all the different petitions that were coming out for the recall legislation, and I said it's important to keep in mind that this is just their ability to collect signatures and that nothing will happen if those signatures don't appear.

And so basically it's just another instance of Tuesdays right of the week. Keep going. Jonathan Kay, I think we should show, I think I have this. Uh, somewhere twos. Do we have Jonathan K? Maybe I don't. Oh, yes, I do.

Right here, right here. Okay. Here it is. Uh, it says, our thoughts are with Vancouver Park Board Commissioner at this difficult, uh, difficult time last night. Parkboard did the right thing.

Apologized to the TGD2S community. Hey, yeah, yeah, after emotional discussion. They can't even keep the acronym straight anymore. After emotional discussion, shared some tears.

disavowed J.K. rolling will undertake concrete actions. If you see underneath that. So we had covered this before. What had happened was was that Vancouver faced a bunch of backlash because in some of their parks or one of their parks, I'm not sure because I'm not in Vancouver, but they were doing a big thing like a Harry Potter theme. Harry Potter,

Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience in Stanley Park has been extended through early February 2026 due to unprecedented demand an enthusiastic response from the Vancouver market. That's what they're talking about. But people like this Thomas Digby had wanted it cancelled

because J.K. Rolling, they've decided is because she speaks out. Because she's just talking about biology in a clear and factual manner. And so that's unfair and mean. And so they wanted to cancel the Harry Potter themed

Park, which to be fair, JK Rowling is probably getting exactly zero fucking dollars for this. But they wanted to cancel it because JK Rolling bad and then it didn't get canceled and in fact had to be extended because everybody fucking loved

it so much. So fuck you and your new acronym fucking bullshit. Manitoba's huge deficit could be addressed by bold thinking. No, no, no, no. That's not it. That's not it.

Read like the first sentence of it. I don't even have it up to-toos. Come on. Okay. All right. We just got some very bad news in Manitoba about our financial situation. Apparently, our deficit is double what was just estimated three months ago. Who's in charge in Manitoba?

NDP. Yeah. Yeah. So they are up shit creek with a wab canoe. Tim Walls. You want to show the video quickly of Hidden Take no questions? Yeah, sure we could show that.

I love how Jim's waiting patiently. We're going to get to you, Jim. I thought you said we were going to take questions. Why didn't you? This was him just announcing that he was resigning. To spend more time with his family and not at all because of the Somalian daycare fraud. I thought it was the R word. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The interesting thing is that there was people defending him and say, like, well, of course he's resigning. people are driving past his house and yelling retard and he has an autistic son. For everybody who's been driving past his house yelling retard, that was probably the first time they found out he had an autistic son. Another one from Hollywood. Minister proposes to weaken foreign registry mandated by Parliament 19 months ago. Draft regulations disclose Saturday suggest penalties as modest as a $50 fine and cash payments to foreign agents remain hidden.

regulations would allow certain information not to be published. So we needed to make Canada more robust in its defense against foreign interference. And the guy who recused himself on two separate occasions from dealing with Sri Lankan terrorists is the guy who got put in charge. And he said, okay, well, you know what? We need to fix this. All right. What we're going to do is we're going to make the fine for foreign interference. this country.

$50. Jim, what do you think of that? Jim, I feel like you might have some thoughts on foreign interference. Well, I've been talking about it for a long time. We're so infiltrated by China and India. It's one of the reasons why the Americans don't invite us to the table when it comes to talking about global security because we're not trusted. And again, going back to Ford needing security while he threatened to cut power off to

to the United States. And we kind of talked about it with that other, with Brian Lilly. And he said that wouldn't be a threat to war. Well, we see now that they take these threats of energy seriously. And we should just be mindful of what we're saying to our best neighbor to the South and forget about all this garbage about why Trump is doing this,

that. And I think he's securing the Northern Hemisphere for war in 2027, because you've got to take it. the Chinese leader for his word. And if it doesn't happen, great, but hope is not like a great plan. You've got to actually do things to prepare yourself for bad times ahead. And if you don't, you're being a negligent leader that knows a threat is out there.

So. Or maybe you want to encourage more of it to happen. What do you mean by that? Well, I mean, there's got to be a point of self-reflection with the liberals where they say, you know what, it's kind of weird that places like China and organizations like Sri Lank and terrorists support us in in our pursuits of controlling Canadian government. And if that's the case, well, hey, you know what? We're going to support the people who keep us, the people who keep us in power. And so.

Yeah. And the money that gets siphoned off to all the people that come. over here, they're getting $80,000 a year per person and there's 10 of them in a house. They're getting like $800,000 to be in our country. And they're basically taking over everything. I'm okay with immigration. If you got money in your bank account and you got something our country needs, I don't care where you come from in the world.

As long as you come here and you be part of Canada and you follow our customs and you contribute. You know, settlers came here. They built this nation along with the natives that live in this part of the world. That immigrant comes here and takes from the nation. And I'm not okay with that. Like I've said that a zillion times. But getting back to the whole thing about the liberals, they're talking about Trump. They're setting up their narrative for the next election that, you know, hey, listen, this is all about resources.

They just want to take us over. It's not. This is about security. of North America and keeping our resources secure from a potential threat from China. And that's as simple as it really is that simple. And if we're not going to be a good neighbor, we're going to find ourselves economically broke like what they did to Cuba when Cuba was going to put nuclear missiles in from Russia. Venezuela openly stated that they would let Chinese missiles be placed on their soil.

so if there was a war, they'd be able to affect the Gulf region and stop the oil flow from coming in that way. They'd also be able to control what's moving in and out through Panama Canal. Like, that's really what's going on here. And they're not everything else is being talked about. And yes, it's good that a dictator was taken down. It's bad for us that Carney should have been fucking making deals back in April to get oil pipelines up and running, which Trump asked him to do. He didn't do it.

now he's spinning the narrative, hey, this is a good reason why we should start selling oil to China. Well, in two years we're going to be in fucking with war with China. Why are we trying to focus on selling our goods to a market that will be closed off to us if there is a war? We've got to open up our borders. We've got to get oil to Quebec.

Like fuck Quebec. They've got to start making refineries down there that produce fuel from our heavy crude. And we've got to get all the trade corridors done opened up across every province in the country so we can trade with each other, start building our own industries back, and where they're shutting down all these plants in Ontario, start building stuff for our own military there. But, you know, we don't need a large Navy like they want to do. We can start like they're Ukrainians. They took out the second largest Navy but drones.

We can learn from those things. It's up to us as a people to like grab hold of the reins. and if separation is part of it, then that's part of it. I'm a proud Canadian. I don't want to separate. But if we separate and we ruin Ottawa, that just means the rest of Canada is going to join us. Like, Ottawa is not Canada. It's who we are.

It's the cancer growing in Canada. Yeah. Anyways, you got me on a rant here. You got me on a ranch. Well, before we get to the reason Jim's here, let's go to ICE. Let's talk ICE quickly. Well, no, no, no.

You're skipping over the, Oxford comma. Okay, you want the Oxford comma. Sean likes to make fun of me for my sticklerism on grammar. But this is a perfect example. And Sean's not even listening.

He just got up and left. He's like, fuck you rock. He went to get a beer. He went to get himself a beer for a toast. All right. Here's a perfect example. Among those interviewed were Merle Haggard's two ex-wives, Chris Christopherson,

and Robert Duvall. This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God. Highlights of Peter Eustinoff's global tour include encounters with Nason Mandela, an 800-year-old Demigod, and a dildo collector. This is why grammar matters, folks.

This is why I pointed out. I'm speechless. What do you want me to say about that? You just love highlighting the Oxford comma. I hear you. I hear you too. Toronto District School Board was duped into sending a million dollars to a fraudster

who can barely spell. Yes. And let's switch dice. Okay. A woman killed by Nice. I don't, do you want to show the video? Do you want to do? No. No. No. Um, the, this was a law enforcement officer. I can give you a little insider information. If you try to hit one of us with your car, we might shoot you for it multiple times. Getting hit with the car isn't something we signed up for. It hurts and not the good hurt. Damn woman, you put a little umph in it today. Huh? It's the bad hurt that involves hospital speeches in your face on a t-shirt. Yeah. So, I mean, Everybody's saying, you know, is this right? Is it wrong? Is it good? Is it bad? At the end of the day, you've got somebody who tried to run over somebody with a car.

Like, full stop. That's it. That's it. It sucks that she's dead. But it doesn't, no matter what your take on it is, you've still got somebody who got shot while trying to run over another person with a car. Jim, any thoughts? Yeah, it's, it's terrible. It's going on down there. Like, especially in that state, when the governor is telling the police department, not to support ICE in what they're doing. And hey, listen, if you're a legal immigrant in the United States,

the offer is you can go and turn yourself in, make sure you got all your paperwork. Hey, and if you're legitimate, not a problem. You're going to walk out the door. If you're illegitimate and you're there illegally, they're going to arrest you and take you back to wherever you're supposed to go. So when you got like the head of states telling their judges and their police not to help ICE, it creates these chaotic environments.

Like when ICE was arresting that or in that neighborhood, they asked for police to come down there and control the crowd and the police didn't go. So now you got an agent that was previously run over months ago. So now he's in another situation where he's going to get run over. And he barely lived through the last time he was run over. So he's recovered from his injuries. somebody's trying to run them over again. Hey, we all make mistakes.

But when it comes to your life, it's better to be tried by 12 and carried by 6. It's important that you go home to your family. And our police officers and firemen, they go to work every day. They take their life for granted because they don't understand when they walk out that door, I hope they say, I love you to their wives

and their kids, because they might not walk back in that door. And it's their complacency because they expect to come home. That's not the case for these guys. Like anything could happen on that shift. Anything could go down and you want to make sure that you're actually coming home. So as being a guy that's had to put a gun on people and squeeze a trigger, I have no guilt about that at all. I know in my brain that I was justified to do it.

And I guess we're going to see where the courts take this. but I appreciate the stance on both the Vance and his look on things. And if this is an illegitimate illegal shooting, then there's a system to try that person and he's going to have to face the consequences. So, hey, let's not be armchair quarterbacks. Let's let this play out. And the state of Minnesota or whatever doesn't have a role in investigating this, this is the FBI.

So if you don't have trust in your in your in your federal police and then that's that's their country. It's not ours. I don't know if I would trust our CMP because they don't invest against anybody that's been stealing us blind for years. They just turn a blind eye to it. So I think those guys need some better sunglasses and the white cane with the big round knob on the end. But maybe they would find something out there. But anyways, that's another rent. WestJet. Let's show a couple of the

pictures. Then we can get to community know what's in happy news. Nice. All right. So there's been a few videos that showed up of West Jets' new leg room. Your knee is digging. I couldn't be any more for the back.

Excuse me. Ridgalous. So this is it. And then we also have the instance where WestJet passenger says he was Fat shame by stuff on plate to Mexico. So he had two cans of pop, and the stewardess made fun of them and rubbed his belly and said,

this is what happens. Is she good looking? She can rub my belly. I'm going to have two cans of beer, though. Yeah, that's, yeah, I mean, why? If you're on a flight from Mexico and you're not having a beer, what the hell is wrong with you? Right.

Okay. This is your time in the comments. If you got community notes, send them to us. But me and Jim are talking. And so we've been talking in the background on the show about highlighting some people doing good by their community. And so I don't know what to call the segment twos, but the first guy that bring on to talk about somebody doing good in their community,

I'm going to throw it to Jim. And I assume Jim's thought an awful lot about this. So Jim, fire away. Okay, well, I'm just going to back up a little bit about this because it's all going to lead into the same thing. So I got some great news about the Victoria Cross initiative that a group of us have been pushing on. I just want to give you some updates of what's going on there. So on March 4th, they were going to read this private members bill in the in the house. Because of all the people bombarding their MPs with letters and phone calls,

they push that they unanimously agreed upon it and they're going to a bill and they're going to start developing this into a bill so that's thanks to the people who push uh so having said that the sass party of in Saskatchewan big part of that so thanks to scott moe lane mcleod senator marty klein's been a big push as well uh the city of regina uh amazing stuff that they've been doing they're the first city in in the country to actually recognize this movement for the Victoria Cross. They've sent letters to Ottawa, and they're actually challenging other major cities in the country to do the same thing.

Sorry. And what are they doing exactly? Jim, I can't remember. For the Victoria Cross. For the, okay, but just like give me a 30 second rundown of what they're doing for the Victoria Cross. True. Okay, so the Victoria Cross hasn't been issued to a Canadian since World War II. In 1993, the British government said, okay, now every Commonwealth country in the world has to develop their own Victoria Cross for the highest service award that you can get in the military.

So since 93, it's been up to Canada to issue out Victoria Crosses to the soldiers that have been going overseas. And none have been handed out. And there's been amazing events that soldiers have done. from Korea to the Balkans to Afghanistan. And it's a crying shame that for the soldiers that have laid down their lives and the ones that are survived have not been recognized for what they've done for this nation. And it's a true, it's a crying shame.

It's the smallest token that you could show somebody for what they've laid on the line. And it's within Canada's grasp to do this. And we're trying to get these files, opened and looked at with an honest light and put politics aside and started issuing out these medals, which some of us know these guys that are walking around and they're deserving of it. So yeah, so that's what the Victoria Cross initiative is all about. So getting back to the city of Regina, Chad Bacinski, he's the mayor, and we sat down

in front of him, Willie told the story about Jess and how he got killed. or he didn't he almost got killed he survived the battle he died a couple years ago anyways it's very emotional story you can read all about this stuff on the on the website for the vc and and he was like i'm 100% behind us what can i do and so he more or less copied uh what the province is doing and pushing hard and you know it's it's it's just amazing what what the viewers have done and like we've talked about this on your show. They've been reaching out to their MPs. So that's why things are moving ahead.

And it's because of the movement of the people, which I'm very proud of. There's also a steering committee here in Saskatchewan, like Cliff Walker. Ed Sinovsky, like from sunup to sundown, he is on meetings about this across the country. And like, things are really moving forward. And just tired of tires lit that he works at it. Sandra, of course, Willie and myself, you know, we've, we've, been banging away at this. We're we're circling back to to the province and to the city and seeing where things are going and and if there's anything else we could do or give them information

on. So yeah, it's just been awesome to be part of it and just great people that that are working working behind the scenes. It's it's amazing to see. So which leads me to this. So we've been talking like you said, Sean for a while. And there's some amazing people in our communities that do amazing shit, right? So I kind of stumbled upon this. I know this dude. He's super cool. He's not, he's got a face for radio, not TV, and his name is twos. So I phone twos up the other day. I'm like, hey, man, like I heard you did something pretty amazing. What's it all about? And he's like, well, let's have a beer. So we cracked open a beer and he's telling me his story. And, and truly is like how humble you are. And people in our communities are like this. And, and people in our communities

are like this is when you get out of a vehicle and you go to a burning vehicle and you rescue somebody out of it and then you don't mention it to the police or the fire department that you actually save that person's life speaks volumes about who you are as a person and i really appreciate that steve so that that was the initial thing that sean and i were talking about and i hope wherever this goes to hopefully it's a weekly or monthly thing where people are nominated and and are talked about on the show because when our community starts talking about the great things we do for each other,

it's just going to manifest into better things all around, right? So anyways, hats off to you twos. But since that has happened, another amazing thing has happened. Wait, wait, before you get to the next amazing thing, just so audiences understand this all stems from, I think me and Jamie have been talking about this for a while. In Tuesday's house, he has this framed article of him receiving.

What word is it Tuesday gave you? Jesus. Really? Yeah. You deserve it. We're talking about a community call trying to highlight some people from different communities. Now, it's starting with you because me and Jim have been talking about it for a while now.

Medal of bravery. What the fuck do you guys mean you've been talking about this for a while? We've been talking about for a while. Because like, like Jim said, you know, like we focus on the stupidity of our country. yet all the time there's people doing good by their community. And so one of the things we're talking about, you know, we have the community notes of trying to get people involved

in different events going around. But if they got somebody in their community that's going above and beyond, why not highlight it here? And I, and then me and Jim started talking about that because we both know of a guy who's gone above and beyond. It's sitting on his wall.

Nobody knows about it, including myself. And when I was sitting there and I was reading it, I like, what heck is this? I didn't know this. And, you know, I think it's,

if we're going to start something on the community, it might as well highlight one of the guys. guys in the community. You're just going to embarrass the shit out of me. Yes, 100%. All right. Okay, well, what? I don't know.

It was an act of bravery metal is what two's got for stopping when a vehicle was on fire and pulling the victim out, or pulling the person on, I said the victim. Yeah, yeah. So she turned the wrong way and hit me head on

and her car caught on fire and I pulled her out. That was it? come on there's a little bit more to it to that like when you put yourself in you know into a situation where your life is in jeopardy and you didn't just pull her out like you couldn't get her out of her door because it was damaged then you had to go to the other door and it was locked and then you got to like get the door open like and the car's on fire and shit blows up and you got her out of that so it didn't blow up but it could have you don't know it's not going to blow up there's no like label like on there going, car will not explode when on fire. You know, like, you, you just don't know those things. But you did it out of regard of human life and because you wanted to help that person. You didn't care about yourself in that situation.

You cared about that person, which is huge. And it's important to recognize that shit. Thanks. So, yeah, yeah. Two's speechless, Jim, hey? You didn't even know what to say for a guy who can't stop talking for an hour and 40 minutes. Can't even spit it up. our hats off to you too is you making your community better that's all we're saying and if there's any listener out there that wants to i don't know i it's it's a new me and jim been talking about for a while if you want to suggest or you have a story i don't know maybe uh shoot me a text and we can have a conversation about it because we just want to highlight some positive things going on in our communities and we thought who better to highlight than twos himself and uh you've done something you know that was pretty cool i think as jamy points it out you can you know like it's pretty cool not

Everybody stops, does what you did, and has a fortitude to pull somebody out of a vehicle. It's over-same. So- And then the city gave me a medal. Which they had to phone you because you did not mention that in your witness statement. And they're like, well, why didn't you tell us that? So that just goes to show you all humble you are. That's a good thing.

Which people in this show will be like, too's humble? What? That doesn't happen. So, yeah, anyway, you know, they sit down with us. there's this big investigation that they do apparently every time a car burns down and so you know they're like okay well you know what happened and i walked them through like this the accident and then i get a phone call like an hour later from the guy and he was like did you pull the woman out of the car i was like yeah why he's like well you didn't think that was worth mentioning and i was like well nobody

asked i i figured you guys knew and so yeah that was that was it and then like a year later i got a phone call from the fire department. They asked me if I could go to this event. And I thought it was a fundraiser. And they were going to ask me a check at the end of it or something like that. And then, yeah, I get there and we sign in. And they're like, okay, well, you've got to put this pin on your lapel. And I said, okay, well, what's this for?

And they said, well, that way, when we hang the metal on you at the ceremony, we don't have to worry about pinning it. We can just hang it on this pin that's already there. And I was like, what are you talking about? And they're like, well, the medal that you're getting today. And I didn't even know that I was supposed to be getting a medal. I thought I thought I was just going to a fundraiser. So, yeah.

I think if I may say that's community, a community, the first ever community call it. I don't know if that's the right way to call it, but highlighting community. And I think that's a happy news of the week, folks. I think that's pretty cool. That is, I got, I got one more. You can do whatever you want to as you can argue. me and Jim are overriding you.

I'm going to mute you and boot you from the call. I would be good with that right now. I just wouldn't disappear. Hey, guess what? Guess what? I even got a million better stories than that. Like a million.

We don't care. That's super cool. Jim. I'm glad we found pulled that up. I got another story, though. And this is important. I got to get it out. So since we've talked about this,

there's been a fire in Regina and a local guy that I, that from Lumson that that I know through coaching and hockey and such, we're standing in the rank and we're talking about this fire. I know he's a fireman in Regina and I'm like, hey, good on your fire department for saving so-and-so. And just thought I would just, you know, recognize the Regina fire department. He goes, yeah, that was me. And like, I'm like, what?

He goes, yeah, that was me. I was there first. I'm a captain of number four hall. His name is Aaron McClellan. And he was checking around the fires. so he knew how to fight this fire when his crew showed up with the pump truck. And he heard somebody moaning inside of this building. So remember he doesn't have any safety equipment, doesn't have the air tank, his helmet,

or his fire stuff on. He's just got whatever's regular work clothes are. And he crawls into this burning building, grabs a 300-pound man and dragged him out of there, you know, that's been inside this building ever since he got there and saved the guy's life. hats off to Aaron and and I don't know what the city or the province is going to be doing. They all know about it, but it's it's those kind of things that that everyday people that are walking amongst us, there's some there's some special people that done some super special stuff

and he's one of them. And so my hats off to Aaron and and he, you know, he's got a wife and three kids and he once again put himself in front of his own family and did the right thing. So proud of him for that good for him and one more time what was his name Aaron McCollin if you show to Aaron yeah yeah damn right yeah so I'm not done there yet though you're not getting hey I feel like I'm back in the studio with with Jim this goes you know all this goes it's good news is it's it's all good stuff so Tuesday did you get yourself a beer yet because because now we got to talk about

George Parrott. So George Parrott was my first sex commander and two commandal. Just a stout of a man. Loved his wife. Loved his kids. He was first in, last out of everything. Led from the front.

Just a champ. And everything he did. And we're celebrating his life in Edmonton this week on Sunday. and there's going to be guys coming in from coast to coast to coast to to be there to honor him. And so here's the George. Cheers.

And other than that, I want to talk about the curling buns feel. Well, wait. Okay. Let's do community notes. Okay. And we'll get to the calling. Happy news. We had happy news. Today's happy news is too.

That was bullshit. This is the happy news. This is way better. Tell me this isn't way better. Liz Hurley at 60. Where's a bikini for New Year's Eve? Look at this. Jesus.

I know. I got a restraining order against her, but I might have to retract that. Community notes. Okay, you got an upcoming event, special guest, Bruce Party, the Alberta imperative. It's Didsbury, January 14th, 7 p.m. If you want to have any questions, please, Zee. email mvf didsbury at gmail.com so bruce party here in alberta right now um you have a couple other ones too i texted i got one i got one that's not um listed yet but uh big jack classic

at buffalo lake uh so over by stettler six thousand dollars in cash and prizes february 14th and 15th big jack classic dot ca i'm mayor i'm going to try and go i don't know if I can go or not, but I would like to go. No, nowhere you should go. She'd come to Redonda Beach on March 7th. That's our community ice fishing derby. You can stay at my house and we'll, and it's, it's amazing. It starts at 11, ends it to all the money stays in our community for our kids,

for sports and great things like that. So March 7th, the Lions fishing derby. And if you can make it and you just want to give a donation, you can do that by getting a hold of the Regina Beach Lions Club. So yeah, you're more welcome to come to that, too, Tews. You got SPP, Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, along with Prairie Rising Forum. I know they're going a bunch of different places, but the one I've had sent to me is Maidstone on Sunday, January 18th, 2 p.m. Mountain, 3 p.m. Central.

And everyone is welcome there. So that is January, sorry, January 18th. Once again, in Maidstone. you have as we sit here six tickets remaining to the mash bill okay six tickets left six tickets left if you want your shot

at this bad boy you might as well put my name on that trophy right now that thing's coming home with me well it's nice to know that something finally will fuck you I can't get that thing to focus there you go Anyways, Mashbiel, next weekend, Jamie's going to be there, Chuck's going to be there, Willie's going to be there, Marty up north, Evichip, Lees Merle, Sheila Gunn Reed, twos, myself. I tried to convince Invesper to make the trip.

Hey, don't forget about the 26th of January. I'm going to that too. That's going to be amazing in Calgary. In Calgary. Yeah. Yeah. And then Prairie Rising in Yorkton, January 10th. And if you're not going to the mash spiel, Prairie Rising's in Regina on January 17th. Okay. And then Cornerstone Forum March, Cornstone Forum March 28th in Calgary. And we have a, I just got confirmation, Martin Armstrong's flights have been, everything's been taking, well, I mean, they're booked. So they're in. So we got Premier Daniel Smith, Martin Armstrong, Larry C. Johnson, Tom Long. go outskrainer Matt Hare, Chad Prather, Sam Cooper, Vince Lachie.

The list goes on. Tuesday is going to be somewhere there running around. Depending on whether the five-star hotel works out or not. That's right. So there's going to be March 28th. If you haven't bought tickets for that, you should stop what you're doing and go grab a ticket for that. Anything else, gentlemen? I ran into a few friendly faces in Water Valley, including people who are going to be there

and asking about the event the night before. So there's going to be a mixer with, I don't know if you're asking everybody to go or if it's just going to be a bunch of the people speaking. And then if you get a ticket to the- Certainly for the Friday night social, if you buy a ticket to the Cornerstone Forum, Friday night, we're having a social for three hours. And right now there's 200 plus people signed up to go to it. And essentially, hopefully majority of the speakers are going to be there. I can assume that Premier Daniel Smith won't be there. but who knows.

We'll hope it should make some guest appearance. But there should be a majority of the guest speakers, I would think would be in attendance. And it's just a pretty relaxed evening and getting the community together. Did you hear that, Jim, relaxed evening? Hey, hey, hey, and guess what the great news is about that? So we do a Saskatchewan Bush Party

and all the speakers come to the Bush Party. I don't know why they don't go to your party, but they come to the Bush Party. And we're also going to do that at the Curling Bondsville. So if you're one of those people out there, that don't have it taken yet. You better get it because like I'm bringing up. Six left.

I'm bringing up bottles of bull. And there's going to be like all kinds of like shenanigans going on. It's going to be amazing. The hotel has a water slide. So we're going to make sure there's some water sliding and and top foolery going on in the pool. Probably get kicked out with all the kids who are played hockey. I don't know. We'll figure it out.

But no, it's going to be amazing. And guess what else Sean is doing? He's getting a 12-passer band. You're talking about. So that when you're drinking at the rink, he's going to offer us all a safe ride back to the hotel. I am going to offer you a safe ride back to the hotel. The reason why Sean got invited to the match deal.

You're getting a fucking band so that we can all fit in there. We got massuses. We got all our dear. Like we got our coach for like strategizing what we're doing. So the skip on Jim's team is actually going to be a 21-year-old Asian masseuse who speaks no English. Why is it got to be Asian? For people wondering what hotel it is the Best Western Plus

Eminton Airport. That's what we're saying. Even if you don't want to go curling, just come for the entertainment. Just come for the masseuse. Stay for the curling. I should answer this. There's been people reaching out asking if they need a broom or sliders. You don't. You just need clean shoes. So bring a set of indoor shoes. Jim, bring a set of indoor shoes,

would you? I'm wearing fucking cowboy boots. Fucking cowboy boots. It's great because they've got a built-in slider. We've got, we've got corn brooms. We got corn brooms. Fucking old Scottish hats.

We're, we're sad. And for those of you wondering why Jim and I invited Sean to the match spiel, it's because that way we would have a designated driver. Correct. That is right. He just,

and he's rented a nice man for all of us that fit in there. He's not driving around. little fucking Suzuki two-door car jamming us in the hatch. We're not 16 anymore. I got you home. I got you home, didn't I? You did. You did.

You did. You did. You did. You did. You did. Amazing. But you got lots of people that are going to rely on you this time. So you need a large band.

Oh, man. It's very smarty to do this. Yes. We will be trying the rink burger for sure. Yeah, I'm going to eat like five of them. Gentlemen, thanks for hopping on. Everyone for tuning in. mashup 190 happy to be back

Keep your community strong and be proud of where you're from and I love all you guys and can't wait to see you at the quarterstone You're a son of Mitchiell. Airborne, airborne. Up the Johns. Up the Johns.

Folks, we will be back next Friday 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time and hope you'll be here with us. That'll do it for this this week. Folks, until next week. Tews, as always, Jim, thanks for hopping on and doing this.

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