Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 196

Episode Date: February 20, 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 and fall to fly. If all of my impulsive plans, pop and locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map and stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup.

Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. So alternating current, aside from being some sort of black magic. voodoo, just fucking baffles me in the way they have it set up. So for those of you don't know, in North America, when you test the Hertz, which is the frequency of the alternating currency in a 110 outlet, it will alternate 60 times in one second plus or minus point one percent. And if you were to do it in Europe, it would be 50 times plus or minus point one percent.

And we do this thing. So sometimes you've got the two prongs and sometimes you've got that third ground one. Okay. but quite often when there's the two prongs, one of them is fatter than the other so that it has to go in a certain way. But you've just got two wires coming out of it and the current alternates 60 times every second.

So it doesn't matter which way it goes in. It's still, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, if you put it in this way, it's bubba, blah, blah, blah, but you can't put it in that way because they go to the extra trouble of having the fat prong on the one side and the wider socket on the, the corresponding outlet and none of it makes a lick of sense why if it's alternating anyway why even have that in the first place somebody explained it to me like i'm five i need to ask tyler about this you need to ask tyler about this mashup 196 how's tuesday

two's doing twos is good but he was up all night thinking about alternating current well welcome to mashup one ninety six everyone one. Have you noticed on X? Okay? You go live? Am I freezing up? Am you freezing up?

Who's freezing up? Is it me? I don't know. It seemed like you were freezing up, but... This is how we're going to start. One mashup 1-196. Folks, am I freezing up? Is 2 freezing up?

Are you hearing me? Everybody listening. Are we there? Let's just keep going. All right. Well, I'm curious people are saying. Anyways, mashup 196. On X, it used to be when we go live,

there was actual video there. Now it just shows your profile is going live. And it actually doesn't show up on your account, which I find very strange. I'm not sure how to change that. Well, I don't know how to change it either. All I know is I went into my live. I clicked on it, copied the link, and then posted it to my X. And now you can see us talking.

So I've at least figured that part out. All right. Ryan says that you look good, Sean. Too's not so much. Ryan, your opinion is neither wanted nor welcome. All right. Well, happy airborne Friday to all the military man. Jamie, once again, verbatim called me this morning and I was hard at it. So I did not answer.

Yeah, he called me twice. Now I don't feel bad for drinking all his beer. Well, this is what he texts me. Good morning, brother. I remember you talking a few years ago about immigration and then you telling me that Daniel Smith wanted to double the immigration in Alberta. I bet you she's regretting. those words today and how ridiculous that no she was that no she was to get more power in your province by flooding it with immigrants so he's obviously uh paying attention to her uh talk last night

where she talked about immigration i assume yeah apparently we're going to have a referendum on that which it seems to be a bait and switch from the idea of a separatist referendum i mean if you've got 400 000 signatures already on the books asking for a referendum on separation There's another referendum in the queue right now with people actively getting signatures and you're like, actually, you know what? We're in charge. We're going to go a slightly different direction.

That seems like kind of a dick move. I don't know, like the high level that I'm curious to see how it plays out, but for now that looks pretty shitty. Let's get into this a little bit later, okay? Let's get into this a little bit later. Airborne Friday, up the Johns. All right, Airborne Friday. I would like to thank, I would like to thank Jamie for the beer that I will be drinking on Monday.

So twos was in studio yesterday. That's going to be Monday's episode and he got fixated on when it was releasing and trying to make that make sense in his head. And you can imagine folks, it confused poor little simple twos, right? It just confused them. So that's part of Monday's episode. Well, the verb tenses of speaking to it in an accurate way so that when we were recording it yesterday. This is still going on. This is what I've been dealing with for the last 24 hours.

If you like the show, make sure to share it. Retweet it. Share it with a friend. Subscribe, hit the button on YouTube and all the fun places so that you don't miss it. And if you're enjoying the show, folks, we do appreciate if you share it out. Now, you have a correction to start the show. Yes. What is the correction before we get to our curling expert in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So I had said during the debate last week with Chris, thanks again for coming on that that umbrage had spent a billion dollars on the um regulatory uh the paperwork and it turned out that for the northern gateway pipeline they actually managed to get in at specifically far less than what energy east had spent they only spent 600 million dollars so when i said that they had spent over a billion dollars on paperwork. That wasn't true. They had only spent $600 million on paperwork. And just for context here,

we spent 600 million combo of shareholder money and customer money and the rug was pulled out from underneath. So that's not the type of risk we're looking to take on at this time. We don't need to with all the other opportunities. So they're basically saying that they felt as though the rug got pulled out from under them by the federal government, here to be clear, in this situation after they had spent $600 million and they're not interested in having that happen again. So to his point, I was off when I said over a billion dollars, it was only $600 million. The essence of the point remains exactly the same. And I would say even stronger now since this came out because this definitively says everything that I'd been talking about in terms of regulatory

uncertainty. Before we bring Kerry Ann in, Cout's six and a half. Let's let's roll through this quick so we don't have to go back. Saskatoon man with a history of spying on women arrested again hours after his release. That's Kyle Ronald Hamilloch has been convicted of 70 offenses including boyarism and decent acts

and trespassing at night. It was released from the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Center on February 14th. Valentine's Day? You're going to release a peeping Tom on Valentine's Day? And then Sunday, so the next day Sastutee police said Hamletal was arrested

that evening in the 200 block of 1st Avenue South after officers found he was breaching the conditions of his release. So less than 24 hours later. Yeah. He was convicted in voyeurism in 2017, 2020, again last fall after pleading guilty to 23 counts of voyeurism and two counts of breaching probation. And this guy just kept getting out. And the interesting thing I thought was that they weren't quite sure to do what to do with him with sentencing because this level of serial voyeurism basically has no case law precedent in Canada. This is the

pervious guy to ever exist. To Kevin's question, how do we retweet in the new format? You have to go into it. You have to copy the link and then you have to post it on your your X account. So it's a little bit more legwork than what used to be there. Don't know

why X is doing that. But regardless, that's what they're doing. So that's how you do that. Okay, the second one in Cout's six and a half. No prison time for Montreal brothers who left women's body on coach for six months. A Montreal North resident with mental health issues received a conditional sentence Monday for leaving an indigenous woman body on his coach for months while he and his brother hid her death from her family. She died in early 2023 inside the home where the brothers lived on Desi Ave. They left her body there on the coach for six months without calling the police. Imagine the smell of that. They put a blanket over her.

Yeah, just a blanket. Like, yeah, here's the thing. I hate this whole, you know, mental illness defense for things like this, where you're like, you would have to be crazy to do this thing. Okay? Like just by definition. So if it's something that you would have to be crazy to do, you shouldn't be able to plead mental illness to get a reduced or eliminated penalty,

regardless of whether it's, you know, jail time or whatever else. If it's something that you would have to be crazy to do, you can't plead insanity. Does nobody see the inherent contradiction in that? We just seem to take it at face value that, oh, well, you know what? I mean, if the person who went on a killing spree was crazy, they should get a reduced sentence. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. if the person was not crazy, this would have never happened in the first place.

The fact that it happened means that their craziness is a fucking given. On a side note, Ken is down to one after the second, the second just ended. So anyone paying attention to, yeah, men's Olympic hockey.

Technically, technically it's not men's hockey. If women were able to compete at that level, they would. That's why it's just called hockey and then women's hockey is only women. Okay. Let's bring in, okay, the heat around the Olympics is hot and it is all about curling. So we're bringing in the first ever Mashbill champion, Terry Ann, to break this down for us. I mean, that's the thing. Like we, you know, we're looking at what's going on with the Olympics and we say, who is the best curler we know?

Well, it just so happens that we had this competition a few weeks ago, which does. decided that very thing. Correct. And so Carrie Ann, champion of the first annual MASH spiel? Carrie Ann, how are you doing? I'm good. How are you guys? It's good to see you again. Thanks for coming on. Yeah.

Yeah, really good. I don't get it. I just don't get it. It's like a little finger touch. I don't get it. So break this down to me like I'm two or twos. Okay, I'll break it down for you. Imagine that that rock is your butthole. you don't want that happening. Carrie Ann,

you did talk over Tuesday. We did get Carrie Ann to hear you talk. I personally think it's totally inconclusive. Imagine that finger. Imagine that rock is a butthole. You have to have the camera in the butthole to be able to see if the finger actually touched it. Okay.

So, I mean, you've got some pretty good side views, though. You have one side view and it's the opposite. of where he is presumably touching the rock. So I'm not saying he didn't touch it, but I don't think that the footage that we've seen really shows.

Okay. Have you seen this angle? That's the only angle that I've seen. Okay. But his finger is coming from the right of the rock towards the center, it looks like to me. And the rock is

curved. The rock is pulling away from him. so I just I don't I don't buy that this guy who's curled a million games I don't buy that he that he touched it he I mean of course he could have but I mean there's people the his competitors are standing at the hogline watching him they had previously called the officials out in that game to watch him there was no infractions so I don't know and then there's the other side of it thinks that maybe he touched it on purpose to piss them off

Oh, actually, that would be kind of fun. A little bit of, I mean, there's not a whole lot of scraps and curling. It'd be a good way to to escalate things and get them out of their, you know, comfort zone. Yeah, a little quick history on Mark Kennedy. He curled, I think it was 2025. Yeah, last year's Briar. He was curling with Brad Jacobs as team Alberta in the briar against Northwest Territories. His teammate burnt the rock after they crossed the hog line.

so approaching the house and scoring territory, didn't impact the rock at all, but the rule is you let the opposing skip know, and they have the choice to decide, well, I don't think it would have had an impact or not, and they have a choice to remove the rock or just let it sit where it was. The opposing skip removed the rock.

Mark got so pissed off that he said, we're going to lay 20 on you guys. His buddy Ben, his teammate Ben, looked up the record. Sure enough, I think the record was 17 or something. They ended up beating Northwest Territories 20 to 2. So he does have a little bit of competitiveness in him that if you piss him off. I feel like I should have, we should have invited him to the match spiel. He should have. Yeah. Okay. So, so there's two things at play here, right? One of them is that you can't touch the rock as soon as it crosses the hog line, right? The other one,

Release it before it crosses the hog line. Yeah, and you can't touch the granite part of the rock at any point. Correct. And you don't think he touched the granite? I don't know. I don't think that the video footage is enough to show. You don't see any movement in the rock or the change of spin. You can't see any pressure on his finger.

Like, I just, I don't, he might have, but I don't think that it's conclusive. It's a gentleman's sport. I like to think that if he did, he would have. have admitted it. He got seriously offended being accused of that. So I think it's you know,

inconclusive. If he did touch the granite, let's just with that little, what the heck would that do? Like, listen, Karen, you watch, you curled against me, you guys, thumped on me pretty good. Even if I could have laced, like, just this

little tiny figure to touch the granite, what would that actually do? Like, how insanely good would you have to be if you could just place one tiny, no pressure, just a little flick on the granite and be amazing. To me, that seems insane. Yeah, I don't buy it at all. It's like you're a really good curler. Let's pick on some little, I don't even know. It's probably like an unconscious tick of his at this point, isn't it? Well, I think that when you let's go the rock he's kind of following up with his hand to just kind of check his line and make sure he's knowing how to call a line at this point to see that he's on target and I think that's just

kind of what the way mark throws the rock and it just he either came really close or touched it probably by mistake at the most but I don't know I got to defend mark I mean he's he's in alberton you know he got pretty pissed off I mean most albertans I can't imagine having to wear the team Canada jersey right now Yeah, that's fair. You know, so he's probably kind of, you know, on full tilt there when he lost it on Oscar. Okay. Now, devil's advocate, you were just talking about like, you know, it might slow down the spin very miniscule, but also like it might give it just a little bit more of a push.

Now, where Sean's at in his curling, he's not at a point where that would make much of a difference. where I'm at, it wouldn't either. Where somebody like you, who is a champion curler, if you were to just try and give it just that little extra itty-bitty nudge, you know, or just kind of just send it just a little bit further down the line than you'd normally have to let it go at, how big of a difference could that in theory make for you on a tight shot? I mean, you could try to push it another, it might go another,

one to six inches, but there's absolutely no looks of, there's no impact on Mark's finger when he's supposedly touching the rock. There's no point where it looks flatter. Like if he touches it, he touches it. There's no way he pushes it. Okay. That's what I think. And yeah,

you can push it and make a little bit, but I mean, it would have to be pretty obvious to make a difference of three feet. Well, for sure, right? But, you know, if he's just, if he's trying to just thread the needle, if you got to just sneak it in there or something like that, in theory, could that have helped him? I don't buy it. Okay, fair enough. Actually, you know what?

No, no, no, no. I was just trying to be the, it's not suck at twos. I just want to make sure that we're covering every angle, you know, kind of like what the other team did. Well, I mean, I would like to think that Oscar honestly thought that Mark touched the rock. I mean, these guys have curled each other 41 times. And they're buddies, right? I don't think that he would accuse him without really believing that he touched the rock. So there's that side, too.

It's more about etiquette to me than did he have an impact on the result. I think it's just more about etiquette. The rule is you can't double touch. Can't touch the granite. And so that's to me what the issue was. Okay, we're not going to show the whole thing, but I just, I did find a guy doing a breakdown of it that I think is, is worth checking out for at least a little bit of it. So here we go. I've spent hours combing over every available angle of the footage.

Let's get to the bottom of this and put this violence to an end. First, let's look at it in slow motion from the front. So the Canadians are being accused of a double touch. As you can see, he's let go here, and then we have a clear extension of the finger, second touching the stone. Now, check out this freeze frame from the side. The rules clearly state that you must not touch the curling thing after the hog line, which is the green line here. Now, the Canadians are defending themselves by saying, we did not touch the curling thing after the line. And as you can see in this second freeze frame, they are in fact correct.

So I know what you're thinking. No rules have been broken. This is a standard but cheeky little double touch. Anyway, there's our good friend, the Irishman, chiming in on it. So, I mean, he's in everything now. He's got his fingers in every pie, not unlike the curler guy.

Yes. If nothing else, he has turned some new eyes onto the great sport of curling. Yeah, yeah. And well, it's funny because there's all these people that have never curled in their lives. You know, they don't know the first thing about curling. They never even been in a mash spiel. And now all of a sudden all over Twitter, they're experts. Kevin says, I'm going to accuse Jim Sinclair for next year already. I'm pretty sure. Oh, Jim Sinclair around a tequila shots too. That's right. That's right. The military boys will probably thank you, though. They're well.

welcoming of that, Carrie Ann. Yeah, that's true. Well, thanks for hopping on and doing this. Any final thoughts on the Olympics curling predictions? Gold medal games tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. So I think Mark's going to get his redemption anyways. And I think they're going to do it. They're getting hotter and hotter as a day goes by.

Can I plug my curling club? Yeah, of course. Real quick. There's a mixed basketball on Sylvan Lake at the curling club, March 20th to 22nd. I forgot to put it in the community notes in time. So I thought, hey, I'm going to be live. I can plug it, plug it right here.

Yeah. March 20th to 22nd, it's a three-day tournament? Yep. How many sheets do you have? Five. Five sheets, three-day tournament? Yeah. And are you assembling the ladies again?

I'm not assembling lazy. And my kiddos playing volleyball in a different city, so I won't be there. Oh. Not assembling the 18. No. Only for the Mashbill. They only come in and crush everyone's hopes. I mean, if in the early morning hours.

If all three of them can make it and they're just missing one spot, maybe I could, you know. Yeah, you could, you could fill in for me to use for sure. I don't think they pick up losers to. I just don't think that's what they're looking for. Could be wrong. You could be wrong. You could be wrong. All right.

Well, thanks to like, Marian. Thanks for having on with us. Thanks for having you guys. Have a good one. Man, I tell you what. I am getting upset with the live streaming capabilities of all these things and getting booted off and everything else. If it ceases, they can really screw off at this point. I really don't like that kind of dick moves, hey?

Yeah. Every time we get going. There's just a toggle switch. There's just a toggle switch. And they're like, hey, do you want to hit the switch this week? No, no, no, no. It's Jim's turn. Yeah, but he's in the coffee room.

Okay, all right. Well, you hit it. Yes. Frustrating. Very frustrating. Thanks for hanging out, folks. and for hopping back on, I don't know, like I'm going to have a mess in my hands, trying to get this on the podcast app or try and figure out if I can get the start of it uploaded

or if that disappeared into the abyss, I have no idea. So welcome to 196. This should be fun. Thanks again, Carrie Ann, for hopping on, our curdling expert who is standing by an Albertan. There you go. Okay, let's get in some rapid fires, too. Conservative MP Matt Jennero crosses the floor to the liberals. You might recall

Genroo had announced his plans to resign from the conservative caucus citing family reasons. I want out of here. I'm going to go spend more time with my family. And he has cited that what would he say here? General said it felt disingenuous and quite simply wrong to sit on the sidelines. He really liked Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum. Yeah, he kind of looked like he was in a hostage video.

we get to that, though, this was his statement from November. So as you recall, there was a whole bunch of speculation about him being the next floor crosser. And then he said, I want to be clear, there was no coercion involved in my decision to resign. I consider my colleagues in the Conservative Party very close friends and will miss them dearly. Since my resignation this evening, I had a great conversation with Pierre Pollyev, who wished me all the best as I do him. I ran under his leadership and hopes we could form a government that would offer hope to Canadians. I wish him and my colleagues all the best as they continue to raise cost living issues facing Canadians. To reiterate, this longstanding decision.

And you remember, we talked about this because the election was not very long ago. And now, not even halfway through your term, you're speaking to a longstanding decision to not like the whole idea is, is you get this job. you're there for four years unless you die. Okay? And then he says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. A year and a half into this, this was my longstanding decision. Or was a year and a half or was it six months? I can't remember. I can't remember either.

Anyway, actually. Yeah. This longstanding decision that was less than two years into his four-year term. To spend more time with his family. Well, apparently he got sick of his family. He did the whole Tom Brady thing. I'm going to quit to spend more time with my family. Oh, wait, I actually want to go play football.

Yeah. Yeah. So this is the continuation of this saga. And as far as, you know, and it was interesting. This guy that worked with him said over the past week, our founder, Matt Janiru, has been the target of hurtful and baseless attacks online. Commentary rooted in rumors about his resignation as a member of parliament and false claims that he would be joining another political party.

Let's be clear, Matt is a person of integrity who has dedicated his life to public service and more importantly to the mental health and well-being of Canadians. He founded Hydad Foundation, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So that didn't age very well. No one did not. No one did not. And then, yeah, as far as the video goes, so this is, I'm just going to show it here real quick.

This is him. the government team it's a great honor to be on the same team as you just look at his body language for this problem for this country look at his body language you know Matt brings a wealth of experience despite his young young demeanor he brings a wealth of experience I'm very fortunate Matt is going to be lending some of that expertise directly to me as we're building our partnerships I was going to speak as a special advisor on economic and security partnerships. It looks like he has a crucial time for our country as we're developing those.

It looks like someone's having him in the fall. We have signed now 19 agreements on the economic and security side in the last. It doesn't smile once. Yeah. That is not the look of somebody happy to be in the chair that they're currently sitting in at all. I would agree to. So he doesn't he doesn't smile once. And then of course.

course you had the CTV article, classic Canadian media, more than 300 MPs have crossed the floor in parliament since Confederation. Basically just trying to normalize this. Like, it's a shit move. I don't care what party it came from or went to. It's a shit move every single time it happened. And I have been consistent with this all the way through the Wild Rose crossings. When that, when that chick crossed from the liberals to the conservatives, all of these, all of it, all the way through, there isn't a single person who did it that should be allowed to do it. And another interesting note, I didn't know this before,

but Billboard Chris pointed out that Pierre Pollyev voted against a bill that the NDP had put forth back in 2012 to February 8th, 2012, while the bill came to a vote, a second rating, it was defeated, Pulliev, then a conservative MP voted against it along with majority of the conservative caucus. So they had an opportunity to be like, hey, let's get rid of floor crossings. Nope. And that's come back to bite them. Yeah. See, here's the thing is they do what's good for themselves, but they don't worry about what's going to happen when other people are in power. This is that whole argument that

twos loves to make that you heard about first from him about how you want to have good laws on the books rather than trying to trust the people in charge to be people of integrity yeah more than 300 MPs have crossed the floor in parliament since confederation so like this doesn't make it right no no more more it's like uh i was sitting here this morning reading it twos and I'm like, you know, I start to think I understand a bit about Canadian politics and then things happening. You're like, wait a second, that can happen. And then you realize it's been happening for a long time.

And you just look at the playbook pro roging being one of them that I never understood. And then you go, oh, wait, that's part of the, that's just part of it. It's all part of the plan. That's right. So there's these old standing rules or, you know, rules to the game or moves to the game that you can do. And having MPs cross the floor, Stephen Harper had people cross the Florida. right and vice versa now carney's having people cross the florida and they're offering them probably

you don't go you go back to twos uh the plane is full analogy we need some people to take something to to not go on the plane well take that analogy to this you got one more again and you got a majority and then i just go back to my thoughts if i was sitting as a liberal i get one more and then i pro-roged government reset the uh reset the committees so that we had majority on everything and then you can do it as you will, right? Yeah. And so. Interesting thing that a wrench got thrown into this is that the Supreme Court did

something good for once in their lives. And do you remember that seat in Montreal that we were talking about where, where there was the mailing error that was no fault? It was actually Elections Canada that screwed up. And then, and then they said, well, screw you. It still counts anyway. That went to the Supreme Court. And that seat has been abdicated by that lady.

and there is going to be another by-election in that riding. So now you've got there are three seats short of a majority, the liberals. You've got Christia Freeland's riding coming up for by-election, Bill Blair's writing coming up for by-election, and this one that's been, I don't know, abdicated, might not be technically the right word, but pretty close. Yep. And for those commenting in,

it seems Canada, Finland, period three, has started Canada down to 1. So, Kevin, I believe our floor carrosser is one of the two Randis in disguise. Yep, yep. By the way, it shouldn't be Randy apostrophe as Kevin. It should be just Randy's, as in plural, not possessive. You know, like tours. Irving paper to get up to $45 million in Holt Terrier for Relief Fund. The money is part of a $54.3 million package for a total of seven New Brunswick companies announced by Opportunities,

at New Brunswick. Last spring, Premier Susan Holt announced a 40 million competitive growth program through opportunities in New Brunswick that she said would be aimed at stabilizing larger New Brunswick companies that are export intensive with the goal to protect jobs, but also fund growth projects. They've earmarked a bunch of different things. 3.8 million for Kelly Cove Salmon, a division of Cook agriculture, aquaculture, sorry, in modernizing its salmon farming operations.

$4 million in the form. The L is Island. Yeah, whatever. A form of non-repayable contribution for agri-poor cooperative, a dairy The dairy cartel. $2.4 million for the dairy cartel. The last people in the country.

So another $2 million for cannabis. Yeah, because you'd have to be high on, you'd have to be high to want to vote for these people. 45 million over three years in support of the global competitiveness of New Brunswick, only remaining paper mill during a period. of significant cost pressure and market volatility. Yeah.

So I had two big, hi, hi, hi, hello, hello, hello. I had two big things that I jumped out at me at this. One of them is the dairy cartel getting the $2.4 million. Two of them. Two of them is the Irvine Paper Company, which I assume is the same Irvine's who have the refineries. who have billions of dollars in the East Coast. I want to be clear that we're not looking for a subsidy,

Mosher said, referencing a call by the local union representative laid up blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Basically, they want cheaper electrical rates. They're like, don't give us a subsidy, quit making electricity more so expensive. Correct. And they did not do that. They just said, we're just going to give you some money.

We're just going to patch the problem. Okay, the problem is that electricity is so expensive. And in manufacturing, your three biggest costs are manpower, electricity, and raw materials. And the raw materials are trees. They just fall from the sky. And manpower is pretty easy in Merrimanchee. We're the only people with jobs either work for the RCMP, mailing out letters to people with pals and our pals,

or they presumably work at that paper mail. and the other thing is electricity, which is pretty damn expensive. And they're just saying, can you just not make electricity so fucking expensive? Rosemary Barton. You want to show the video? Oh, do I ever? All right. So Rosemary Barton from CBC.

She's been on forever. She's just a horrible person as far as I'm. She is speaking to reporters in Montreal. What's the son? just because it's all made up anyway. Yeah, so that's her talking about the CBC, the talking points that they were asked to present, whatever, but here's her.

To move in that direction as well. Yeah, maybe, maybe it's starting to fill us. Show it again, because I removed it from the screen. Show it again, one more time. Okay. All right, so they're talking about general. I'm a change measure says he's backed off on. So maybe Mr.

Jenneru feels like his riding is starting to move in that direction as well. Just because it's all made up anyway. Yeah. Nobody thinks that Jenneru is, nobody thinks that Jenneru is got his finger on the pulse of that riding. Literally no liberal ever has been elected in that writing. And yet you got Rosie Barton, He he he, he, he, wicked witch of the West,

or in this case the east, saying, ah, it's all made up anyway. Nobody actually thinks that. I mean, we talked about this yesterday, which is, so we talked about this. We're going to be talking about this on Monday morning. And so the thing that we haven't talked about yet,

but shall proceed the discussion thereof on Monday, is that the liberals are going to be making huge gains in Alberta, but it's not because more people are voting for them. It's because so many people who formerly voted conservative have just stopped giving fucks. Don't let me down, sir. Judge gives man no prison time and mercy killing of husband. Yes, you heard that correct. Philip Hebert will serve no time in prison following his guilty plea to manslaughter

in the homicide of his husband and partner for over 40 years. Richard Rutherford, a judge has ruled. On the one hand, it is difficult to comprehend that a man can unlawfully take another man's life and not go to jail. The judge went on to say before citing a litany of mitigating factors in the case, including that Rutherford had asked Hibair to end his life, that Heber was suffering from caregiver burnout after years of ministering to his ailing husband and that he bear was depressed and in the early stages of dementia when he agreed to the mercy killing. The homicide took place in April 2020 during the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rutherford 87 was suffering from a host of medical

conditions including prostate cancer, vascular dementia, and diabetes, and was spending upwards of 20 hours in bed. Hebert agreed to do his Rutherford asked and said he would end his own life after ending his. I used an incontinence pad to suffocate Mr. Rutherford, holding it in place until I was certain that he had died. After attempting various methods to die by suicide, Hebert eventually called 911 and explained what he had done. It's just, this country has lost its fucking.

mind. I don't know. Where do we go with this? It's just this dark, weird, twisted story of one dude, killing another dude that he'd been with for like the past 40 years. Other parts of that article talked about how there was like a multi-year wait list to get into a convalescence home and how, you know, the healthcare system had just left him high and dry.

Alberta's Premier on Referendum Questions, the central theme of Premier, Daniel Smith addressed to the province on Thursday evening was rebalancing Confederation giving the province more control over matters that affect the most, such as health, education, immigration, and judicial appointments. In her speech to provincial residents, Smith promised a multi-part referendum in October this year, no, not on whether Alberta will separate, but on what provincial powers Alberta should exercise and what should be the number and composition of immigration to Alberta. as the province faces dual funding pressures.

And next week's budget with the rising population and the failing, falling oil prices. Smith proposed decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and ensuring Albertans have first priority to new employment opportunities. Yeah, I don't know. I could keep going on. Anyways, it seems, it looks, I don't know exactly how this is going to play out. so I feel like I'm kind of reserving judgment, but it looks right now

like this is a bait and switch with the separation referendum, which I'm not very happy about because like I was saying before, if you've got hundreds of thousands of citizens asking for a vote on this exact fucking thing, and you're like, the best I can do is a vote on how your powers

might, how Alberta might actually have a say in what direction it goes within Confederation. That's, if that's what it is, that's not listening to the voice of the people. That's just superseding it, which isn't what you're supposed to do.

Remind me if I'm wrong to. Representative of this country. She's been talking about a referendum in October, 2026, well, maybe not October. In 2026 now, we're quite some time, yes? With multiple questions going to be on it, everybody's worried about the multiple questions? Well, so Bruce Party

Like this isn't anything new Other than now you know what the questions are going to be Yeah It's a whole bunch of questions contingent On Alberta remaining within Canada though Sure It's not All of these

So I don't know the answer to this Questions are based on the presumption that Alberta remains within Canada And so If you list off the nine questions Do you check no to any one of those? no and so if there's a 10th question that says should Alberta remain in Canada or whatever and should no I forget how the question is you're going to answer yes to so should Alberta remain in Canada no no no it's the other one that's sorry uh cease to exist

in Canada I forget how the question goes terrible I should have it in your handy should we kick Canada out the rest of Canada out because they're a bunch of freeloader I'm just wondering if you have nine yeses and the 10th one is the question on on whether or not. Well, you're going to have a whole bunch of people are just like, yes, yes, yes, yes,

no. And then, or, oh shit, or, oh shit, I accidentally answered the wrong way. Can I redo that one?

Can I have my ballot back? I screwed up. I don't know. I'm just curious. Just curious. High level, early thoughts, this does not look like something I like.

But this has always been coming down the pipe. Right. Like, this isn't something new. Is it? Like, I feel like maybe the audience could tell me different. Wasn't this something she talked about last year that there was going to be a referendum on a whole bunch of questions and people were upset? Because there's going to be a whole bunch of questions added in and it's going to conflate or confuse people on the question of whether or not to stay in Canada. I feel like this is, this was like this has been a part of where we're heading no matter what. but nine other questions so far. Okay, so Becky asks, is it though, and why do we need referendum on all these things?

Just do it. The problem, I would say that the reason why she needs a referendum on these things, despite the fact that the AGMs have been very clear on their stance on this stuff, is that, oh, hey, Ben. Ben says she's been telling this for more than a year. So there you go. We've been talking about this for more than a year. But the referendum, the referendum is,

a heat shield for her because she can say it's not me because, you know, the classic, you know, leftist media and the NDP are going to be like, oh, she's a racist. And she could say, I had no say in this. We proposed referendum questions and here's how they went through. It's her, it's her paunniest piloting of the whole thing. I don't know if you've ever seen that movie or not. the separation vote needs to be on and so on does it well that's the thing i i don't know bruce party he was talking about it a little bit and he was arguing that if it's part of a block

of referendum questions then it might give the supreme court the out to say it wasn't a clear stand-alone question and and that's one of the things that we need to be very mindful of with this referendum is that any potential loophole, no matter how tenuous, is going to be used to disregard any results of a positive separation referendum question. Yeah, I don't know. I'm like, I don't know.

I just don't, I don't, like, you think by having multiple questions, all of a sudden, they're going to say, oh, wait, you didn't have a, on its own ballot. That wasn't clear enough for Albertans. Whereas if it's also on its own ballot, they're literally whatever. They're literally going to do this whether it's

by itself or not twos. It doesn't matter which way. You take every possible stupid. Yes. And they're going to find more stupid ways to be like, you can't do this. Oh, you didn't get a clear majority. You only got 62%. Let's take as many of them off the table as

possible. Ah. Yeah. Yeah. So, twos for once, fucking Quebec can be useful for something. This, in case you did, I talked about this last week, Ben, but this warmed my heart. And thank you very much. Games tied to two, too.

Canada just scored if people care. I come back to this. I don't know. I'm so like, does it matter if there's 10 questions on the referendum? Does it, or like, does that affect it? It might. It might. Because it's literally going to be whatever thing they can do.

They're going to be like, oh, look, you. guys didn't use the right color of blue pan. They're already going to be like that. It's absolutely going to be like that. So we just take as many conceivable ones so that they have to get more and more frivolous and silly with them. And then that's going to embarrass them on the world stage because the big thing you need to take away from this is it's not whether or not the referendum goes through.

It's not whether or not we establish our own currency or have our own passports or figure this out or whatever else, the big determining factor on whether a country is able to be considered sovereign or not is whether it's internationally recognized. And the further they have to go in the left field to try and negate our democratic wishes, the more likely the rest of the world is going to be to say, hey, you know what, these guys are fucking retarded. No wonder they left. I don't know if we've solved anything, but I am, I mean, I don't know. Well, I know. Ben says you don't do multiple questions on referendums.

All right, Ben. Well, you've been a part of this in Quebec. So I will, I'll give you the floor to the question and say, Ben probably knows. Ben probably knows. But Ben also knows all the tomfoolery they did during that one question referendum to try and make sure Quebec didn't leave. So I don't know.

yeah i think the one thing that they're that they did for fucking quebec that they're not going to do for alberta is the loving there's not going to be they're not going to be flying in people from all over the country to tell them how much they appreciate alberta look at um trevor tombe just released something on on his sub stack or the hub or something like that the other day and he was talking about how albertans need to cool it with the referendum talk despite because despite the fact and he said multiple times and it He's like the legitimate grievances. They have a point.

These are good reasons to be upset with Confederation. But you need to quit saying you're upset with it because it's going to cool investment. And his presumptions for basing, his presumptions for the statement that it was going to cool investment were speculative at best. But the point is, it wasn't, hey, you know what? The rest of Canada, Alberta has legitimate grievances that are going to cool investment in this country. you should stop being dicks. It was, hey, Alberta, you have legitimate grievances. Stop complaining because it's going to, like, it's total victim blaming.

Even within that, even when you have somebody admitting the fact that there are legitimate reasons why there is a, like there's just a complete imbalance of power, support, and money outflows and that there are legitimate reasons why people want to just bid this fucking failed country a due. It's still victim blaming inherent within it. Sean, did you freeze up? I haven't froze up. I haven't.

I don't know what to say. I feel like they don't need to do the love in because there's enough Albertans that are going to do the love in forum. There's going to be a few who do the love in for them. But here's the thing is it's not going to be genuine. You're not going to have anybody coming through. I think it's really wrong.

I think it is going to be genuine from Albertans I don't want to stay. No, no, no, no, from the rest of Canada. Do you honestly think that you could have somebody come in from Merrimachie and land in Fort Mac and speak accurately to the concerns of the people in Fort Mac and why they appreciate what they're doing and why they're glad that they're here?

This whole referendum thing probably could have been avoided with something as simple as a fucking thank you if I'm being completely honest. If there had been just a little bit of gratitude. Yeah, we're taking $25 billion a year from you guys. But it's because it's not the fact that all the money is going. That definitely adds to it. But it's the fact that everybody's been dicks about it the whole time.

If it was like, yeah, it's a shitty situation. But hey, we appreciate the fact that you're helping us out. It's been the gaslighting. You know, I've been thinking about this a long time, too. It isn't the money for me. No, don't get me wrong. It's not the money for me either. it's it's like the last 10 years you've watched you've watched what's happening in canada

i'm going to scratch my head going you know like okay pierre's going to get in it's going to return an assemblance of normal to the country whatever and then elbows up and everything goes on and if you go back to the live stream i'm one of like myself and who was uh i think it was um oh canis malcolm i think we both predicted a liberal minority and I was like, I can't believe I'm writing that, right? Like, but that's what my conversations tell me. And if I look at it, I'm like, we, you can look at the money as oppressed. I just look at what we went through through COVID and continue to go through with stupidity

and the oppression that our government is putting on us and the stupidity that is going on. We're talking about, we're talking about go out to BC and the land claims, go to maid, go to the 250 engraves. go on to a woman can be a man or a man can be a woman and you're just like, I can't even jump through these hurdles anymore and it just goes on and on and on and then you can add on the money.

I'm like, I just can't do this anymore. Like it has gone too far. It has gone too far. And if I add in the last election, they voted it back in. That doesn't make sense anymore. I want out. I don't, I don't.

It has nothing. The money is like it added on. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, we'll be wealthy. Great. We're completely different culture. I just don't get how you're doing these mental hurdles and then protecting him because of Orange Man bad.

Screw Orange Man. Let's worry about our country right now. And the fact that we are irreccably broken. And like you just keep on, it's like the house is on fire, folks. Tim Mullen had it right. The house is burning down. You're trying to save someone and you drag them out of the building. They give you the bird.

And you're like, I just say, what the hell is going on? I'm sitting in Alberta and I'm watching everything and I'm like, at some point here, we have to do something different. The money thing is, you know, people want to stare at how rich will be. It's like, man, our culture is dying. We're going down a road that makes zero sense anymore. We'd make zero sense anymore. Fundamentally different.

And I was wondering when he was telling that story if maybe he just like snuck in for a quick smooch with her. Well, yeah. If you haven't listened to Tim Mullen, yeah. Yeah, he was talking about pulling a woman, a buck naked 300 pound lady out of a burning building. And she just wanted, she was like, oh, hello, firefighter. Yes. And then she, you got to go listen to.

Yeah, yeah. It's right at the end of that podcast, right? I mean, I don't know. To me, it is, we're losing something here. The money side of it, yes. I mean, obviously, you don't want to flip over on. the other side and be broke. But I don't want to be ridiculously wealthy and have all these same stupid ideas in place

where you're worried about your kids going to school and and them filling them with ideas that I can't even wrap my freaking head around. I can't wrap my head around it too, other than it is straight on evil to even begin to talk to kids about that. Yeah. Like at some point we got to focus. Yeah, the money makes sense. Okay, fine.

There are other things at stake here. And we have to talk about those too. And when we're not, we're so caught up on how long a pipeline takes. Well, yeah, it takes a long freaking time. But in the meantime, it's like we're filling our brains with stupid ideas. Sorry for the outrage on this side, folks. We can move on. That's okay.

Go full Sean every once in a while. I'm good with it. Well, I'm just annoyed. I'm just annoyed. We keep talking about the money. It's like, yeah, the money's one thing. It is. But I keep saying every time we talk about the money.

that is downstream of the culture. The reason why the money is there is because the culture is different. Sure. But I mean, communist Poland. If you're standing up or lying down, you're still making a thousand slota a month. Okay.

That should almost be New Brunswick's fucking national, you know, put it in Latin. Like there's just, there's parts of this country that want to do things and build things and create a good life for themselves and their communities and their families. and there's other parts of the country who want the government

to do everything for them even when, not if, when that means that you're going to have a substantially decreased quality of life. Former South Korean president, Yun receives life sentence for imposing martial law. Yeah. So, I don't know if you guys

know about what happened here, but basically he got outed during an election and he said, actually, you know what? Let's rally the troops. And I'm not leaving. And then they managed to just overthrow him. And now he's been sentenced. And so basically for illegally bringing in martial law, he gets sentenced.

Now, fast forward to Canada, illegally bringing in martial law, which is the Emergencies Act. Nothing yet. Yeah. As I read this story, I'm like, you know, just a word. of warning to anyone who tries anything by force. If you're going to do it, you better win. Because if you don't, the consequence is, well, you're going to prison for life. And, uh, I mean, who knows? I'm not sitting in, uh, South Korea. But whether you're forwarded or against it, it doesn't matter. If you don't, if you don't win, now he's, now he's going to be

in prison for a very long time. Uh, here's a cool story. Um, Kaelan Ford, right? She was on Cornerstone Forum stage last year. She's been on the podcast multiple times. That debate she had with Bruce Party was probably one of my favorite podcast episodes the last year. And she says this will likely be the most costly and among the most consequential media defamation trials in Canadian history. It begins March 2nd at a quarter of Kings Bench in Calgary and is set to span three

and a half months. The trial involves seven remaining defendants, including the CBC, Toronto Star, and Broadbent Institute, 51 distinct publications, 10 expert reports, close to 50 witnesses, and over $7 million in claimed damages. Beyond simple defamation, the case goes to court democratic rights and freedoms, privacy rights, the free exchange of ideas, and the integrity of the democratic process. But because nearly all Canadian media negatively implicated themselves in this story, I don't really expect any coverage.

I will try to post other occasional update when or where possible. So Kaelin Ford set to be back in court. So this is just the latest chapter. And Dwayne Chomond had a really good breakdown of it so far. So the development so far are Kareem Jivraz. A judge labeled him untrustworthy and found he acted with actual malice. He was noted in default after refusing to answer discovery questions. A permanent restraining order was granted against him.

And he was found in contempt of court. Progress Alberta and Duncan Kinney settled for $250,000. David Kahn, who was the former Alberta liberal leader, settled for $80,000. Rackie Pancholi, who is an MLA for the NDP. And I've met her in person. She's not nearly as hot as you would expect by her profile picture. It's like when you meet a realtor. Settled for an undisclosed sum.

New tort recognized the Alberta King of Court of Kings Bench recognized the new tort of civil harassment in the province. and that's that's just so far. So this whole thing has just been steamrolling. And now the next phase of it is the media. Yeah. And so it should be interesting to watch. And who knows, we'll see if we can't grab Kalin

and maybe either the podcast or the mashup. Maybe she can come on and give us a bit of an update. I'm sure she'll have her hands full here in the coming weeks, months. But certainly we'll be paying attention, you know, she was excellent at the Cornerstone Forum last year. Yes. Okay. Now I have, I hate to pull us right back to separation, but it is on the notes here.

All the neat stuff Quebec can do, but Alberta can't. The 19, well, I don't know. I don't know how far you want me to go into this article. How about this? How about I take point on it? So Tristan Hopper has been on, been on the mashup while he's been on the election live stream before. He's done an episode with.

been a big fan of him for a long time. One of the things that's always kind of bugged me a little bit about him, though, is how close-minded he was about the idea of separation. And it seems like he's also the guy who wrote, Don't Be Canada, the book that just listed how Canada did everything as wrong as possible in the worst ways they could. And it seems as though, and this is me reading between the lines, is that he's kind of starting to understand that there's a whole group of people

that just want to get the hell off the bus before it goes, over a cliff. And so he writes for the National Post and here's him breaking down all of the different things that fucking Quebec already does that when Alberta says they want to do it, they get called a bunch of jerks. And so, you know, he's got, Quebec has special powers over immigration and breaks down exactly why. Private insurance for basic health care is allowed in Quebec, illegal everywhere else. Quebec runs its own pension plan. And, collects its own income tax. Quebec has its own police force.

Quebec can unilaterally rewrite the constitution because the one that everybody else signed on, they didn't. He's got all these different things broken down. And Alberta, for the most part, has just been saying for a long time before they said, fuck this, we're done. It was just, why can't we call the same shots that Quebec already does? And then we got called a bunch of jerks for it. Hey, we're equal partners in Confederation.

Yes. Okay. They get to do this. Yes. Okay, we want to do it too. Well, fuck you. How do you move forward in a relationship like that? Like, I mean, you think about it.

Like, if me and you were having a basketball game and you weren't required to dribble, I would probably be mad about it. Andrew Coyne. You want to bring up the, that's not a question? Yeah, sure. So for anybody who doesn't know Andrew Coyne, friend of the show, big fan of him for great many years, he has been probably one of the most influential people in terms of moving the needle on Alberta separatism.

So first off, Pollyev gives a pretty lousy answer when asked about Alberta separation. Here's the question. If any of your MPs were in favor of Alberta separatism, would they be allowed to remain in your caucus? We are entirely a federalist caucus. I have not had a single MP express that view. And as for myself, I'm a very proud federalist, born and bred Albertan. And we will be fighting for a united Canada. And we hope that Quebecers, Albertans, and all Canadians will unify around our beautiful flag and our...

Here's the question again, though. Keys are in favor of Alberta separatism? Would they be allowed to remain in your caucus? So if they were in favor of Alberta separatism, would they be allowed to remain in the caucus? And he, to Andrew Coyne's credit, does not answer that question fucking remotely. Because here's the tricky thing with the conservatives is that a lot of the people who vote for them in Alberta and Saskatchewan and probably wherever they are in Canada want to get the hell out of Canada in their own particular region. so he can't he can't tie their hands like this because he'd have a revolt on his hands and he would bleed even more votes than he's been doing lately but at the same time if alberta separates this party is

balked it's painted himself into a corner and so the question every federal leader should be asked is from andrew coin do you think it is legitimate for a group of people to help themselves the part of the territory of Canada merely because they voted to do so. Well, how about this, Andrew? Do you think it is legitimate for a group of people to help themselves to all the fucking money in a territory of Canada just because they voted to do so? You know if Alberta separated? I could see Pierre Poliev.

But, you know, I was always for it. I could see that. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Alberta's education minister, provincial flag hoisting during an overseas tribute to his sister is cladding with a sibling. sovereignty debate as questions mount over where UCP caucus members stand on the issue. Yes.

So there have been a whole lot of unsubstantiated claims that there's a bunch of UCP MLAs who are separatists. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know specifically of any firsthand. But, I mean, you think about the fact that there's still a lot of Wild Rose people in there. I would assume that a bunch of the Wild Rose people, even whether they're going to admit it or not, are still separatists. and Joe Mama Canada scores to

with 35.2 seconds left there you go did they cheat Did they cheat? They might have given a little finger push little finger push little finger push

like is Bill Belichick the coach of the Canadian curling team anyway so the ministry that the education minister's portfolio

like none of the people in his purview are going to basically I've informed city news Calgary that until the story is removed and an official apology is sent the ministry will not engage with any of their reporters or sister stations from the press secretary for the minister of education and child care so they're basically just saying this is just a wildly speculative article based on the fact that there's a lot of separatists who proudly hoist the provincial flag and you as an elected leader within the province and a minister of the province are hoisting the Alberta flag.

Therefore, you must be a separatist as well. And it's speculative bullshit at best. Although, to be fair, I can see a bunch of them being separatists. Supposedly Finland's challenging the goal. So we're just giving you live updates as we go. Are they going to have like a different angle that nobody else has? I don't know. Oh, they're looking at the.

whether it's offside or not. Were they touching the puck after the hog line? Okay. Here's something from Jason Kenney in the music. Jason Kenney. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so there is an Alberta referendum signing event in Yuma, Arizona. Remember the 310 to Yuma?

Yep, I do. Christian Bale, great movie. All right. It was a decent movie. It was a decent movie. I love a good Western. I mean, it's not quite as good as Hell on Wheels, but you know, you only got Christopher and Russell Crow.

Was Russell Crow in 310? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas Hell on Wheels had two. So anyways. Hell on Wheels is actually a pretty decent show, if I might say so. Thank you.

I had basically nothing to do with it. I had no effect of the outcome of that being a good or a bad show. So Jason Kenney. But some rich Canadians who, spend half the years setting themselves in Arizona are going to take a break from their regular golf and happy hour routine to drop by and sign a petition in a foreign land to tear apart the country built by their ancestors. For shame. I don't give a shit where you sign it, as long as you're meeting the required elections, Alberta, well, requirements.

It's all laid out. It doesn't say that it has to be signed in Alberta. If I'm a canvasser, if I took my sign sheets to Saskatoon and I ran into some guy from, I don't know, vermillion. And I was like, hey, I got some, you know, you want to sign it now? And he says, yeah, sure. And then we just, you know, check the paperwork. Everything's good. Here you go. Sign it up.

That's totally fine. There's no requirement for it to be signed any fucking where at all. I know everybody's included in Tuesday's rant. Now I'm curious. Joe Maima, keep the updates coming. Challenge, unsuccessful, Canada 3-2. So that means there's 30-some seconds left. Canada wins. They go to the gold medal match. Just throwing that out there. Twos was in Hell on Wales? Yes, he was.

Yeah, yeah, I was in nearly three episodes. Nearly three episodes. He's an actor. Why do you think I brought him on the show, folks? He's great at what he does. Yeah, well, I mean, I said I was a Thespian, and Sean heard me wrong, and he's like, oh, you should come on my show. Show me some driver's videos, too. You're not going to like this. Nobody's going to like this. A man is dead and his 21-year-old daughter has lost both legs

after they were struck by a vehicle on Anthony Henday Drive. RCMPs say the father was helping his daughter change a tire when the vehicle was hit on the side of the ring road on February 8th. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His daughter was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition. and later underwent amputations of both legs. The 21-year-old driver who struck Vittorian, Paul, was taken into hospital with minor injuries.

Please continue to investigate. Yeah. OPP. Traveling more than 100 kilometers without a tire, and the driver of this commercial vehicle is now facing multiple charges for unsafe operation of a vehicle, reminding all motorists to take a few extra minutes to inspect their vehicle before hitting the road.

A quick safety check can prevent serious incidents and helps ensure you and everyone else sharing the road arrive safely at your destination. This is a quick safety check? Like, do I have all of the fucking wheels? Yes or no. Okay, yeah, there's my quick safety check. All right, here is a random lady again on the Anthony Hende vehicle,

being a little bit confrontational. goes past it, and then all of a sudden, starts running up like a crazy person and climbs on some random Buick. She's on the car. And the cops are already there. So I don't know what led up to this, but there's crazy people all around, and they

leave their, I don't know if that's some kind of a stuffy or a scarf, but she just left it. I would have just turned on the windshield wipers if I was that person. Like, if you're going to climb on, if you're going to be a crazy person climbing on my car, I'm going to turn on the windshield wipers. And, and also, of the spray.

So yeah, one pretty dark one, and then a couple, like, are you fucking kidding me's? Yes. It wasn't quite as jovial as usual. On a side note, three seconds. Chance to tie misses.

Throws it out, game over Canada going on to the gold medal. There you go. All right. There you go. Okay. Are they playing the States? We don't find out until later today,

I think, right? The other game is, I want to say, I want to say they, men's play at 110 today. United States, Slovakia. I have to assume it's going to be the states. But hey, maybe Slovakia's got a little ace up their sleeve

and are going to pull off another upset. You know why it isn't called Czechoslovakia? Because they separated? Because they separated into two different countries. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay, goofy news.

Here we go. All right. Here we go. BC hikes tax rate as budget delivers record $13 billion deficit. British Columbia finance minister Brenda Bailey has unveiled what she calls a serious budget for 2026 that raises the base income tax rate while failing

to rein in the deficit as previously pledged. Is anyone surprised to? The NDP are not a serious party. And I'm just going to go it on a limb and say that if you look like gay Harry Potter, you probably shouldn't be in charge of a province's finances. Third recall petition against Alberta MLAs comes up short, another withdrawn.

Casey Klein says her campaign against United Conservative Party backbencher Nolan Dick gathered just over a thousand signatures roughly 10% of what was needed by Thursday's deadline. So we called this three months ago, two months ago, whatever the heck it was. We were very accurate

in saying that when this plays out, it's not going to be a huge expense because if they don't meet the threshold, nothing's going to happen. And this is a perfect example of how we had this figured out way ahead of time. And I don't know why it's

cropped, but whatever. Here's going back to the other view. The final numbers are in. We've collected 1,019 signatures. About 11% of the voters from the last election. They got one sixth of what they needed. So they fucking suck. And then one has been recalled because they,

it's bullshit, but basically they reached out to Elections, Alberta to ask a question that any of us already know the answer to off the top of our heads. And then when they didn't get a response right away, which you're dealing with a government organization of fucking course you're not, then they decided to withdraw the petition. Canada versus Alberta in four years will be saucy.

Kevin, yeah. That would be awesome. Hey, the finals for the gold medal game is Alberta versus Canada. You know, that actually would be cool. In curling, this happens all the time, just not on the Olympic stage. Right? that separated countries play against their former? No, no, no, no.

But like, there is a team Canada, and then you have team Alberta, team Saskatchewan, et cetera, et cetera. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? For once not. Thank you. Any smart-ass comment you got for me after that, Tuesday? Just saying, this man parked in the wrong spot. I'm really looking forward to the conversation.

Did you want to hear the smartest comments, or you're just going to interrupt me? No, I didn't want to hear it. And why did you ask? Exactly. I'm doing the two. thing where you just no i'm not interested in here you this man parked in the wrong spot in guelph ontario of nineteen eighty seven only now got the twenty four dollar fifty cent ticket eighty seven ron clicka parked in the wrong spot near the train station in guelph january 2026 the city sends

him a final note for his outstanding balance my parking ticket and warned the fine could increase if it wasn't paid he paid it another federal public service and union files unfair uh labor practices complain over four day return to office sound a two joke here on public servants? I mean, an unfair labor practice saying that you have to come into work. We're going to pay you to do a bunch of work here. Okay, well, that's an unfair labor practice.

Thank you, Karen. Yeah, so you're talking about me, I'm fairly certain. No, I'm pretty sure just like I beat you in curling. She knows I'm right on this one. Okay. Yep. Thank you. Seems like I'm coming up. Everything curling. I wasn't contesting it. I wasn't contesting it. Hey. I knew what you were saying was factually correct.

I wasn't disputing it. Right. Okay. Yeah, apparently, apparently it's an unfair labor practice to require your employees to fucking for four of the five days of their work week. Blacklocks yesterday confirmed has not attempted to exhume the purported graves of 215 children at the site of an Indian residential school despite receiving 12.1 million in federal funding for field work. The admission comes ahead of a scheduled release of access to information

documents regarding the First Nations request for funding for exhumaneate. Exhumation. Thank you of remains. Exumatron. That's an interesting word. It's pretty boring. There's lots of words like that out there. Okay. You should read more. So they got paid $12.1 million. And they said, so the government's we're going to pay you $12.1 million to examine this bit of land and see if you can find any bodies. And they said, okay, thank you. And then you fast forward a couple years and no bodies have been found. And that's a really controversial thing to say.

Because apparently there's a bunch of people really mad about somebody saying that no bodies have been found. And now you fast forward a little bit more time. It turns out that no fucking digging has happened. Correct. So if no digging has happened They've been saying this for Obviously no bodies have been found Francis Whittison and Dallas Brody

And a whole bunch of people have been saying this for what The last year The NDP tried putting forth a bill Making it illegal to say no bodies had been found So I guess Because they're really not good at thinking things through If that bill had actually gone through It would have been illegal to say no bodies have been found

And then we would just be sitting around saying no digging has happened. No digging has happened. Normal sandwich. Yes. So I just found this to be incredibly fun and interesting. It's not news. It's not timely.

But this Twitter account about history said that there's a town in Massachusetts called sandwich and the cops' cars are labeled sandwich. And so they drive around in cars that say sandwich police. And then somebody said it's pretty good, but not as funny as normal Illinois. And so here's normal police. Here's normal fire department. Normal community high school.

Normal theater. I just like, what is this? Oh, it's human music. Jury rules. Still. Jury rules black mon. Black mom must pay white teen 3.2 million after calling him a racist to raise money on GoFundMe. I don't know whether just to read the entire.

story twos so people can understand. There was a sleepover, a bunch of pranks back and forth when they heard about one particular prank that happened to her son. She said racism. She raised $120,000 on a GoFundMe, was even on Good Morning America,

and then said that she needed to have money for the legal bills to fight this so that she could fight this kid for being racist. Of the $120,000, $1,000 went towards legal help. And the rest of it went to a designer dog, dining out, travel, beauty products, liquor and vapes, cell phones, car payments, rent and household costs, including streaming services. And so that was kind of one of the big things that the judge looked at was, hey, you know what? This probably is somewhat defamation because you raised $120,000 saying you needed to, fight racism and you spent less than 1% of that fighting racism and you spent the rest of it

on restaurants, travel, and booze. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the boys were dumb, but that's what boys are. They're dumb. Yeah. But speaking of dumb people, here's just some random video clip and I don't know if this is normal or if this is recent.

So here he is pounding in a post with a post pounder. So technically correct. He is using a post-pounder, but completely oblivious to the fact that you could just slide that over top and go tunk, tunk, tunk. Correct. Yeah. Whoops. Montreal salon must pay 500 to a non-binary customer who said booking system was discriminatory.

Alex Frederick Mignal identifies as a non-binary and was asked to select male or female haircut on the salon site in 2020. Punch me in the face. Oh. Ja ma. Sacribeer. Je de Soleil. Remind me. No, it's not very bien.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Should we talk about this? Like, let's just go in depth into this and talk about the seriousness of it and whatever else. It's a salon that charges by the minute. So when they're booking, they probably want a ballpark of how long it's going to take to cut your fucking hair. In which case, they say, do you have a dude? dude's haircut or a chick's haircut.

I think they're really insensitive twos. He's non-binary. I mean, they've got to be they've got to think about people's feelings. Well, I mean, you know what? It's really sad. You've got options for men's haircuts, you've got options for women's

haircuts, but if you're, okay, like you've got the people who built your new website, right? Imagine if there was like an entry thing into the website and they had to update with the new number of genders every single fucking day. You got to have some consideration for the EIT back end on this. It'd be a lot of work.

Be worth it. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We invented six new genders today. And then meanwhile, some guy, you know, it's like the Ben Affleck where he's outside or or the witcher where he's like, fuck. No, oh, great. Now I got to go back in and I got to add six more things to the drop-down box. Doug Saunders on guns.

Yeah, so Doug Saunders, for those of you don't know, writes for the Globe and Mail a bunch of idiots. And he had tweeted, almost all gun crimes, including the one that we're talking about the tranny that shot up the school last week, are committed using legally bought, possessed, and used firearms.

Reducing the number of these is obviously a national priority now. He eventually deleted it, after he got absolutely fucking eviscerated, this was early on in things. But you're looking at it, 300 comments, 36 tweets, three likes. This guy was getting fucking stomped because what he was saying was not even close to being factually correct. And as a result, he ended up finally taking it down, probably not even admitting that other people were right, just like, oh, they don't get it.

But these are the people who, in their own sick and idiot. way try and twist the perception of events in this country. Like, I don't want to be in the same country as Globe and Mail. That's it. You want to be in a country with the mashup? I want to be in a country with the mashup and Western Standard and Rebel and Juno News. And we'll bring, and we'll bring Clyde do something in anytime he wants.

Litter, please find a man for spitting out leaf. Yes. I mean, it's exactly as the headline says, folks. This is Britain. Yeah, so this is Britain. And technically it happened in December, but I just found about it now. Found out about it now.

So I'm really sorry everybody that we didn't cover this as it happened. But it's too big of a story to not talk about now that we do know. Okay. And so there was an 86-year-old man who was out for a walk and a little bit of a leaf flew in his mouth. And so he went, correct. And he spit it out. and then a cop happened to be walking by and gave him a 250 pound fine

and luckily common sense prevailed and he was able to plead this and get it down to a hundred and a hundred and fifty dollar fine 150 pounds yep yeah

the next time a least time a leaf flies in your mouth, if you're in Derbyshire or or London or maybe you're just watching a game in Chelsea, if a leaf ever flies into your mouth, you just need to politely, quietly, quietly chew it and swallow it. Obama, the other side does

the mean, angry, exclusive, us, them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together. Here we go. I just, just think about this critically. Think about what he's saying. And ask yourself if any of it is the least bit ironic. The other side does the mean, angry, demagoguery, you know, exclusive, us them, you know, divisive politics.

That's their, that's their home court. Yeah. our court is coming together. Our court is, look, you know, a great example. Wasn't political. Bad Bunny's halftime show. I knew you were going to say that. We are about having everybody come together.

The other guys are about separating everybody into two groups. I don't know what he meant about the halftime show. I don't even know what that is. But just, we're about being inclusive. The other people are the one splitting everybody into groups. Bad Bunny halftime show, he sung in Spanish the entire time. Okay. Was it cultural appropriation or something?

I don't know. I'm going to be honest. I think I watched the only time, how about this for a fun fact? This year, sad. I can't think of it as kids or staged a life or what. I watched one overtime of an NFL. NFL football. And you know when that was? When was that, Sean?

At the Mashbill. It was on the TV upstairs in between games. I'm like, oh, Buffalo Bills are playing. Oh, they tied it up. He's going overtime. Sure, I'll sit down and watch. So I sat beside. And then, and we had like 75 people. We had like 75 people show up. Just to hang out together. That's what you're going to take out of this. And you're like, fuck off.

The game's on. Yeah. Yep. Screw you. It screw you. I'm going to watch the NFL. All right, folks. Leave me alone. That's exactly what I did. If the mash meal was happening the same time as the Grey Cup, fair enough.

Okay? You would cheer for the Grey Cup. You would like the Elks, too, wouldn't you? I would like the Elks. Yeah. You seem like an elk kind of guy. Yeah, you seem like a Red Blacks kind of guy. The massive carbon footprint of Trudeau's post-political life.

I don't even know why I'm reading this story. Do I care? Okay. Well, no. No. But that's kind of the whole point, is that he doesn't either. So the guy who's been telling us that we only have 12 years left for the past 10 years. Oh, actually, just a quite quick update on that. By the way, we only have 18 months left. So be careful. But the guy who said, yeah, I know. The puppy doesn't like him either. Correct. Right. Got a good dog there, Tews. well so far we'll see but anyways it's we need to we need to tax this shit out of you we need to wreck

the entire economy there's nothing more important than saving the planet oh wait i'm banging a pop star let's go on yachts let's go on private planes let's jump around this whole fucking planet now to be fair we've all done really stupid things in the pursuit of pleasant ladies but it's a little bit hypocritical to say the least. Fed says $20 million loss at emergency stockpile was caused by an open freezer door. Yeah, I don't know if you know this is not, but the people in the government are fucking idiots.

How Canada became poorer than Alabama? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Read that entire headline. Oh, man. I don't have it ahead of me. Just read the headline. Okay, here it is, here it is. From the Globe and Mail.

Remember we're just talking about that fuck face the other day or a couple minutes ago? All right. Yes. Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? That's the headline. Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible?

First off, it's not out of nowhere. You had people saying this is a bad fucking idea before Trudeau even got elected. and the whole time, this is a bad idea, here's why. This is a bad idea here's why. That's fucking stupid. You shouldn't do that. And then the whole time,

everybody's like, you know what? I'm just going to do it even fucking harder. And then how is that possible? Well, maybe, maybe if you actually listened to the, to the drudgens, the little people, the little people. I get the fact that your opinions on guns have no basis in reality. But apparently your opinion on.

on economics has also zero basis in fucking reality. We have been talking about this for fucking years. And the fact that you're just surprised that suddenly you woke up one day and you're fucking destitute, that's on you. This is the thing about the news media, right? It's always like they want to interview experts and they want to interview union leaders and they want to interview politicians. Like that thing about the return to work for four days a week and how they're filing a human

rights plea on it. Like it violates their human rights to have to show up work four out of five days a week to continue to get paid by the place that they're supposed to be at. You don't interview union people. You don't interview idiots in the fucking public sector management. You don't talk

to politicians. You don't talk to some expert in fucking labor laws at a university in Guelph. If you want a decent opinion on that particular situation, you go to literally any random fucking Home Depot. And you grab a guy who's covered in fucking paint.

And you say, hey man, I'm just wondering if I could pick your brain on something for a minute. What do you think about this? Those are the people you talk to. That's the thing. This whole echo chamber that the legacy media and all of the soft-handed fucking idiots have become for themselves. Like I get the fact that there's echo chambers all over the place. But this one is fucking toxic.

Out of nowhere we became poorer than Alabama, fuck right all the way off. The next time you want to do an interview or an article about something to do with any of this, you sit down with somebody with one fucking iota of real world experience. And you interview that person and you get their perspective on it. And you say, oh, well, you know what? Maybe we haven't been talking to the right people. Because spoiler alert, you the fuck have not. Uh, how about this?

Uh, we'll go to the sports desk. Carney met with the national women's hockey team. Yeah. Yeah. And then what happened next? Silver shines just as bright. Team Canada. Yeah.

Community notes. No, the fuck it doesn't. Um, but yeah. So Mark Carney. So for those of you who were maybe a little bit new to the mashup or new to the sports desk, this is actually the second time that Mark Carney has visited a women's hockey team and it resulted in them losing a big game.

Sean? Tews? What? Please shower. OHL team apologizes for emailing fans to practice better hygiene. Okay, you can't laugh right through the edge of it. You've got to

like say the whole thing, okay? Some Ontario Hockey League fans were told to freshen up before heading to the rink this week after a team executive. Do do do do oiler suck Do do do do oylers suck McDavid

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Let's go flames. Let's go flames. Let's go flames. Maybe Mark Carney should stop visiting sports teams before a really big important situations. What do you think, Sean? I think please shower. Oh, HL team. Apologize for emailing fans to practice better hygiene.

Yeah. So apparently, think about this. You are going to an arena where full-grown men are competing in feet. of athletic prowess. And they've got locker rooms that they get changed in. And then they're out there sweating. And out of all of that,

the only time that the spell has ever been an issue is in the stands. And so then they said, they're like, the people who get sweaty as all hell underneath all that equipment are complaining about the smell.

So we need you guys who just show up at the end of the day. to come watch us to just scrub your balls for a minute or two before you show up. That's how bad it's sunk. And they got,

they ended up issuing an apology because of it. Why do you think they issued an apology, Sean? Who do you think, who do you think took offense to that? People who don't shower. Okay. Would you care to elaborate? No.

Happy news. Don Cherry, 92, receives Order of Ontario, appointment. Happy news for Don Cherry. That's great here. And Beyond Meat, if you invested 10,000 and Beyond Meat in 2021, today you would have $41. Yeah. Ooch. And then you have the FAA orders all U.S. Airlines to prove pilot hiring is based on skill and merit or face federal investigation. I think that is great as far as, you know, birth rates have been on. on enough of decline already as it is.

Maybe we should stop doing things like made and having diversity people flying planes. Community notes, twos. I don't know. I got a, I put it up. You toss up what you got and I'll see if I can find a couple of them. Really? You're just going to be like, I don't have anything prepared so you need to talk.

Well, you like talking, so I figured it would be okay. Okay. All right. Well, let's find, let's find Ellie's. Here we go. So Ellie finally got around to give me the details. And he sent me some pictures of some fish, which was awesome. But March 16th to 19th at Kippa Biscow Regional Park in Saskatchewan. I've never been there, so I'm probably pronouncing it wrong.

You know everything that Saskatchewan is, right? It's 30 kilometers south of Tisdale, which is the land of rape and honey. Important for people to know that all veterans, either military or police or We're still serving as well are welcome. Also, any type of emergency services, emergency or fire. Some accommodations are available at the lake. Others are hotels in Tisdale. Daytime guest visiting is also welcome.

For info, contact Sheridan at 306 equals 873-0-0595. I think there was a typo in that. Thanks for letting hear hear this on the mashup. Maybe you could get it on the air more than one week. That would be great. The shot, Sean Hartman's story, is going to be playing February 27th, Grand Prairie at the Oasis Church 6pm.

So that is the documentary on Sean Hartman's story. The shot, there you go. Yeah. That's what I go. I have the Cornerstone Forum. There was, I don't know anymore. Top of my head, 20 tickets left.

So if you haven't bought a ticket to that, you really should. Jamie? Jamie, I sent you this stuff on it for like the seventh time. I know you got some friends who want tickets. Understand that it is a hard cap. There aren't going to be more seats released. Correct. Correct.

Okay. So we're not going to be doing any fancy giveaways. You're not going to even have a chance to win them. If you don't buy them or whoever it is that wants them doesn't buy them, the best they can do is sit around outside. You could tell me. Actually, should we tailgate the cornerstone? I don't know.

How do you think? I'll probably be stressed out. Who am I kidding? You can do as you like Tuesday. Hey? Tuesday tailgating the event that, yeah, anyways. Mashup 196 in the books, folks. If you didn't know this, we're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

Yes. Thanks again, Carrie Ann, for coming on. We're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. Appreciate you guys joining us. We've got to get these issues figured out. like this whole dropping feeds and just a headache. Regardless, thanks everybody for hopping on, triming in and being here.

We will catch up to you next week. Tuse, any final thoughts before we let everybody go? No, that's basically it. If the phone call could wait another 30 seconds, it would have been fine. Tews, we'll catch up to you next week. All right, thanks. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right.

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