Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 197

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We are also joined by special guest Kris Sims to breakdown the 2026 Alberta budget. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: [e-mail] Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

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 Tews finally pop and locking salsa 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 Two's finally got an answer Last week When Toos was saying What the heck is going on with alternating current and the button, the fat side of the one prong?

Well, turns out we got to reply. AC still requires an identified socket as alternating refers to the sign wave. Why did Sean just text me live midget wrestling? The hot being line side is always that and the other being your neutral, which connects to ground. You have to, before anything gets wired up, connect, uh, make, Make I forget

Anyways, happy mashup 197. Carry on twos. You have to make a bath for all the electronics of orc blood mixed with equal parts eye of newt,

toenail of Dutchman and turmeric. I'm pretty sure that everything in electricity is made up at this point. Sean, as much as I'm

going to regret saying this, you can come come back now. Oh, I just got a community note about live midget wrestling. So I texted it to you so that we don't forget to bring it up. I'm pretty sure we're not going to forget to bring up live midget wrestling. In fact, that's why I texted you. That's why I texted you.

Yeah, just in case you forgot about live midget wrestling. Live midget. So as opposed to dead midget wrestling? It kind of seems to assume. Really, that's where we're going today. Okay. Okay. eight twos.

All right. Welcome to Mashup 197. Welcome to Mashup 197. Right. I'm going to text myself this thing here. Anyways, it doesn't matter. Welcome to Mashup 197. Showed up to Graham Murray,

coach of Extreme lacrosse here in Lloyd, because he just texted me, hey, can you bring up that there's live midget wrestling coming to Lloyd? And I was like, okay, yep. So Graham, midget wrestling. Okay.

There's midget wrestling. I mean, Destiny, WAPEDY-2020 26 tour Lloydminster Ag. Reg.

Rebition Center or Ag exhibition center, sorry. March 13th. Door is 630. The bell in 730. And you can go

to extreme lax. Dot CA for tickets. There you go. He texts me at the absolute perfect time. I text to's Graham,

you're getting, perfect. Yes. Yes, yes, you can. Mash up 197. What's the country? in hot. Yeah, we are. What's that country bar that used to be underneath the Chinese restaurant?

Oh, man. It'll come to me. I can't think of it right now. Whatever. Is it still there? I'm guessing not. No. Okay. Is there a country bar in Lloyd? Station 51 might be considered a country bar. So sure. Okay. If you end up meeting any of these live midgets, you should take them dancing. you will never have more fun in your life than two-stepping with a midget, especially a live one. Because all the like hip throws and flips rounds and dipsy doodles and the you just you're out there listening listening to dust on the bottle. And while David Lee Murphy's getting into the solo, you just swing around like a bunch of fucking nun chucks. It's awesome. Everybody needs to do that at some point.

no life. We're so off the rails. You're tuning into this wherever you are. You just hit the ditch laughing. You had, like, I mean, at this point, you're like, what did I walk into? Mashup 1.97, live midgets, not dead ones, live midgets, and dancing with them two-step and the whole thing. Because they're adults. They've got the coordination

and the ability to do all the things, but they also only weigh like 60 pounds. Max 927, just what you think. You know where this show's going. you have no idea, folks. This is what you're here for. This is why you come in. This is why you tuned into the show. Yeah.

Okay. Welcome to Matchup 197. Tuesday is not too different. Dead midget, Claire. Only live ones. Okay. This is, okay, let's try and pull this thing back.

Because we do have an interesting show coming today. We got a whole bunch of stuff to get to. Like, let's just talk. little people for the next little while. If you're liking the show, I don't know, other than laughing. He's the bigger man. Hit the like button, subscribe for notifications. Oh, man.

I don't know how many times I've said this this week, but I think I was telling you earlier that, you know what you're having a rough week and you're really annoyed by what's going on in Canada. You just tune into this show and you get a good chuckle and you're like, all right, all right. I'm better for a few hours or maybe a couple days. And, uh, oh my goodness. This is, this is just the show that keeps on giving here. I had a short term love affair with a midget when I was 20. It was awesome. That's Benjamin. Nice. Nice. And the best part is is I actually know been quite well. So her name was Ida.

Ida shortest person here. Oh, we're terrible. Mashup 197 and coming in and we are in the Toulies. We haven't even got to anything. Okay. We're not in the Toulies. We're talking about midget. We're like,

we're on the fairway. And Claire says, I'm five foot five. Some people say I'm a midget. I like to say I'm compact. there you go there you go I think 5 foot 5 is more than a midget okay

happy airborne Friday to all the midgets out there I guess and to the military men okay happy happy Friday to everybody huh

man this is I'm like I don't even know where to go from here how about you just stick to the script okay I'll stick to the script so if you guys have any other community notes Like if you have maybe Amazonian women wrestling or something like that. Live Amazonian. Live Amazonian women wrestling.

Coutts, six and a half. Yes, make sure to put it in the show notes, folks, so that we don't. And if we're learning anything, text me right as the show's starting, because that hit the perfect timing. I can't shut it to Graham. That was perfect timing. I mean, literally, I was about to flip my phone over. And it dinged, I'm like, oh, I better put that in just so. And then Tuesday's, oh, man.

Can't get that timing. Coot's six and a half. Here's something that's not that funny, okay? Indigenous man who cleaned up after murder bragged Gladu discount would have his sentence. A jury convicted Jason Leo Tate of being an accessory after the fact in a murder of death, Keenan Crane. He was acquitted of manslaughter to the courtroom, heard that Crane 2022 was a low-level drug dealer who owed a whopping $300 to Tate's roommate, Darren Bulldog. And on April 7, 2022, Crane showed up. at Tate and Bulldog's place where Bulldog confronted him about the debt. Crain was beaten his hands

and feet duct taped and given a lethal dose of fentanyl. His body was then dismembered. Tate was in the home where Crain was killed from the beginning of the crime until the end. He was also a part of the group that surrounded two witnesses to the crime while another participated in threatening, one of them with a knife. The judge said noting that the witnesses were asked right down their addresses. Tate purposefully cleaned up the blood from the murder site at his apartment where part of the group that directed the moving of the body out of the apartment and the stealing of a vehicle was part of a group that directed the remains be driven to the lands of mini theme a first nation west of the city and gave false alibi to the judge and he used glad to principles which for those

wondering he he bragged about the fact so there was an undercover cop that he bragged to about the fact that he bragged to about the fact that because of the Supreme Court decision about First Nations getting basically halved sentences that he would get his sentence cut in half. So he's basically just saying, oh, well, this is going to be great because even though I'm fully expecting to get caught, I'm not going away for too terribly long because of the Supreme Court. Correct. And yeah.

So Gladoo principles set out in the Supreme Court of Canada decision requiring sentencing judges to consider the unique circumstances of indigenous offenders as well as systemic issues like the impact of residential schools to address the overrepresentation of indigenous people in Canada's prisons. So that's the first one, okay? And then the second one is Indigenous Ontario Killer Swaps life sentence for one at the very low end of the range. An indigenous man swapped a life sentence for 12 years in prison for killing a disabled drug dealer.

And Kenneth Morrison was convicted of first degree murder for his role in the July 7th, 2018 home invasion of kitchen in Ontario, then left Sean York, 46 dead with a bullet in his chest. Morrison and accomplice were both sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, but Morrison successfully appealed his case to Ontario's top court, which set aside his murder commission, substitute commission for manslaughter, and sentenced him again. Morrison indigenous status was considered a mitigating factor by Ontario's court of appeal, as was his guilty plea to manslaughter in his minimal, criminal record before the robbery gone bad.

I'm going to be a broken record here. But if you're under the impression that the nationalities of people should be taken into account when it comes to criminal endeavors, you should be looking at the nationalities of the victims, not the perpetrators. Full stop. Like if you say that the nationality of the people involved needs to be taken into account, don't look at the people who fired the gun people look look at the people who caught the bullet well the coot six and a half continues to be a stark reminder of what the heck's going on in this country doesn't it well this is just this week one aspect yeah all right we have her sitting

in the background we've had some fun this morning already with live midgets and now some tough stuff with gladu and uh the coot six and a half how about we talk to miss chris sims And budget. Yeah. All right. Here we go. She's been away for a while from this show. Welcome back. Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Hi, Chris. I've missed you. Yes. How are you done? Oh, we cannot hear you. Maybe if I actually push the mic button that might make it work. Hi, fellas. I missed you both. Thanks for having me back. Always. Always. Alberta. Budget. Chris, your thoughts. That bad. Yeah, it's that bad. So I'm in Edmonton. That's my background looks weird. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

Yeah. I appreciate it. No. It's bad. So spending is going up. The debt is going up. Taxes are going up. Like, it's terrible.

Now, I did look through the budget for a few hours yesterday morning because they give it to you. It's all embargoed and you have to, like, swear a blood oath. There's a whole ceremony and stuff. And so I went through it and I tried finding something nice to say. I haven't found that yet. So it might be in there somewhere and I'll keep looking because I'm going to be writing off-eds about this for the next few months.

But yeah, it's terrible budget. We've got this weird sneaky tax hike through the education property tax, which is basically a provincial property tax. Yep. And they're jacking that up. Their spending is out of control. and their deficit, which is a, basically it's like a mini debt. It's where you're spending oat strips your revenues.

Their deficit is more than nine bill. And now our debt, our provincial debt in Alberta is more than $100 billion. I can't believe I'm saying that. Like, I want to cry when I say that. So, yeah, it's a bad budget. So no redeeming qualities. Nope. Absolutely horrible.

everything that is bad has gone up. Yes. Did they make any cuts anywhere that we know of? Not that I can see. Like, single cut. Nope, not that I can see. And I'll give you an example. First off, I just want to say,

I know a lot of your viewers and your listeners are big fans of Daniel Smith. And I'm going to be really honest myself. I'm a big fan of Daniel Smith too. I think she's a great lady. I've known her for like 20 years. That's Daniel Smith. The Premier of Alberta has got to get this under control.

Meaning in that role, she's got to find her inner Iron Lady, like right now. So she is now the Premier who has an Alberta debt of over $100 billion. Yes, I know she's not the only person who added to it. But I wanted to preface that with saying, you can really like someone, right, like as a friend or an acquaintance or something. and hold them to account for their own job. So it's not personal because I'm already getting letters. That's a really good way to put it, Chris.

You know, why are you meeting up on her? I'm not. I'm telling Wild Rose Danielle that like she'd hate this budget if I went back in time and told her about it. So to your point twos on did they cut anywhere? Did they cut anywhere? That's a great question. Because I'm looking through the budget, right?

And I'm getting angrier because I can see this tax increase. I can see a few other little tax increases they started. I can see the deck going up and I'm like, hmm. But in my brain, I'm still like, oh, well, they must have tried hard. They must have made cuts somewhere and really tried to dig under the couch cushions. No. Do you fellas remember when I told you about that Alberta Arts Slush Fund where they give out money to, like, people who like, that one person who flew overseas and flopped around on a lawn chair on a video?

and then the same, there it is. This is your tweet. Keep going. Yeah. So the video is hilarious. She's rolling around. Those are real.

So those are takeout container food garbage. If you take a look closely there on the right, see that? That's like the fruit tray lids and stuff. Right? Yep. That's literally garbage. Tates to Christmas tinsel hanging in a Calgary transit window. You paid for this.

So the Alberta Arts Foundation funds stuff like this. This is a woman hiding behind a big piece of paper that's taped to the wall. I mean, I would do if that was what I made. 15 grand to go do that. So this is, maybe we're not paying them enough? You know, if they only have room in the budget for tinsel and use takeout containers?

So sad. You know, so frustrating. And so I'll put it this way. And this is what we in the industry call low-hanging fruit. Low-hanging fruit. You guys are facing down a deficit. You got a big money crunch, I get you. Here, here's some easy stuff to cut.

Okay, here we've been telling the Alberta government to cut this crap for two years with links with videos with Teddy Waste Awards. You guys have seen the Teddy Waste Awards for these things. They increased the funding to that arts group. 3.5 million more dollars in this budget. Like my hair stood up, I got so angry. It's standing up right now. I'm still angry. So when they try to say,

oh, well, we tried really hard, no, you did not. You absolutely didn't because you guys giving that group $3.5 million more dollars, like that is emblematic of waste. So no, they didn't try. well it's it's interesting so daniel smith specifically i've heard her say multiple times i think she said it to you once sean in studio and like i've heard her say it i don't know either at something she was speaking at

or or possibly just an interview where she's like you guys say we need to cut spending and i always say show me where and then she continues she doesn't ever like pause for anybody like the 3,000 people to put their hands up be like i got a few ideas uh but she just carries on kind of giving the idea that nobody actually knows where to find any savings. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Wild Rose Danielle would not take that answer. That's the thing.

No. Wild Rose Daniel was a term affectionately. I'm not trying to be disrespectful. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a term. So this is what happens.

So people become, you know, leaders and stuff. And they wind up in Edmonton. and they actually, they apparently call it dome disease because the dome on the physical legislature building. In Ottawa, I call it getting auto-washed. There's all different terms. I think in the states it's called Beltway disease or something like that. I don't want to know what they call it in Saskatchew. Let's not find out.

Anywho, sorry, I love Saskatchewan. You rectangle people are great people, Sean. We're both rectangle people. I guess you both are. Yeah. So what's happened when I think has happened. is that somebody gets in there and you're surrounded by cabinet ministers who all want to be rock stars and you're surrounded by MLAs who all want more money for their riding.

And then the special interest groups start getting in your ear and then the lobbyists are getting in your ear. And then, oh, the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats at the finance department start saying, you know, we're the only province without a PST. It's time for us to mature. It's time for us to join the rest of Canada. don't we need a sales tax premier? Like that's how that goes over and over and over again. Nobody ever correlates the fact that Alberta's got the lowest minimum wage.

Alberta's got no PST. And Alberta happens to be the only one making any money in this place. Yeah, I know. And these nerds say, oh, we need a sales tax as if that's the panacea to fix everything. British Columbia has a sales tax. And they're a financial, they're a financial dumpster fire. So don't tell me that the sales tax is going to fix these problems. And to the point of where to cut, real quick, okay?

We always do a pre-budget report, okay, where we give recommendations to the government here. We found these savings. Don't even credit us. We don't care. Steal this idea. I'm leaving this park car running with the keys in it. Okay. So we said, how about you use with the Fraser Institute?

said reduce the size of government back down to pre-2020 levels. So pre-lockdown levels, go back to that. Bingo, I think that would just balance the budget just about. That is in the billions of dollars, okay? You would instantly save. 38 billion dollars is the compensation for more than 250,000 public servants. And Horner said something, I don't know if there's anything to read into this, but I think you're the perfect person to ask.

that's 50% of the operating budget of government. Now, that's not the whole budget. That's the operating budget. Are they doing the thing that Carney does? Not to the same extent, but a little bit. So capital usually stays at a pretty steady amount. I looked across the budget. I can send you, there's a really cool page.

I'm nerding out. Sorry, there's no cool pages of budgets. but for me it's a cool page of a budget. It's called the historical budget look fiscal framework. And it's an entire snapshot going back like 15 years. And it shows all of the columns. It's really good for apples to apples comparison. And so that capital is stayed sameish.

I'm going to take a hard look at that though, too, because it's a damn good question, pardon my language. So yeah, yeah, it is a big chunk of the government spending. and what they need to do is cut. Like they all say that they love and miss the late great former Premier Ralph Klein holding up that sign above his head paid in full when we had no debt.

He didn't just get there by having a good price of oil. He cut. He cut the cost of government. He was the bad guy for a long time. And now, retrospectively, he's the great guy. They got to do this hard stuff. They got to take a page to Dr. George.

Peterson, do hard things. Like, you've got to do it because this isn't going to fly. If we have Alberta, okay, if you're looking at this across Canada, if Alberta is screwing this up this bad, if Alberta now has a debt of $100 billion and no plans, none to balance the budget, it's not there. There's not looking three years, four years out, no plans. That is irresponsible. That's not acceptable, we got to do a major C-changer. I completely agree. Thanks, Claire. Yeah, well, you've been getting a ton of love

if you haven't been looking at the bottom of the screen. Sorry, I can't see it because my glasses are off. Okay. Well, I need new glasses. This is the best one. I like when Chris goes full nerd. Thanks. It is a really cool picture in the budget. So here's thing as far as scaling back the

employment levels of of the bureaucrats, believe it, believe it or not, I'm probably further along in terms of, like, you might say take it back to 2020 levels, I'm going to say something like take it back to 1986 levels. Sure, oh no, me too. Yeah, yeah.

But, and then also just the wages, the compensation package, like, I think it's really suspicious when you have a if you were running a business and nobody ever quit at all. Yep.

You would probably scale back the compensation a little bit. Yep. You'd have to make adjustments because otherwise you'd go broke. I know. Yes. Two just, I don't know if you're questions for me, but I'm curious your comments. One, the tourism levy on hotels and short-term stays increased from 4 to 6%. So essentially going to a hotel just got a little more expensive, correct? Correct.

and they're going to try to say that, oh, these are just tourists, so screw them. No, that's not true. I literally live in Alberta and then have to travel for, I don't know how many people travel for sports, but that, like, what do you do when you, anyways? You travel to work? No, I talked to the hotel people, and like a few weeks ago, they're super upset. I'm literally in a hotel right now. Like, I travel for work.

I live in Alberta. I have an Alberta driver's license. I'm not leaving here. I love this place. I'm in Albertan, and I travel for work all the time. You guys travel to work all the time within the province of Alberta. So them trying to say, oh, we're just, what, taxing visitors? Yeah, it's bullshit.

It's not true. And rental cars. I am a lifetime diamond member at Best Western. Nice. All because of travel within Alberta. There you go. Do you pick the ones with the twirlies slide or no? Quite often, it's the one in Bonnie.

Bill. Okay. Okay. But Chris, before we let you out of here, I want to come back. The education property tax, walk me through this just like I'm a moron

because I am a moron and I want Chris Sims to break it down for me. You are not a moron. Okay. Disagree. Too nice. Okay. So when you pay your property tax

in the Alberta side of Lloyd Minster or in Edmonton, the Leffridge, where I live, all that stuff, a chunk of it actually doesn't go to city hall. A chunk of it is technically the Alberta education property tax. You're saying a chunk, but it's like half. Yeah, yeah, it's like around, I think it was 43%, depending on the area, apparently.

So all that is to say is you automatically pay part of your property tax bill that you get every year that's delivered from the city. so it's super sneaky. Like most people don't know this. They're just going to yell at their mayor or yell at their counselor, which they usually deserve, but that's okay. They don't know. They should be yelling at Edmonton.

So this is basically, it is a provincial property tax and they're increasing it. So they go into negotiations with the Alberta teachers. Yeah. Give them billions more and then create a tax or up the tax on our houses to pay for said increase. Yeah. Well, the money's going to come from somewhere, right?

So I want to remind people that are watching this show. It's not the viewers themselves, but I don't know, your cousin, your sister, your brother-in-law, that's like, oh, well, these teachers are, you know, like Mother Teresa and they need more money and they need, you know, no amount is two mount, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'll do a few things here.

One, the offer that was eventually imposed, upon the Alberta Teachers Union would make them the highest paid teachers in Western Canada. Okay. After seven years on the job, they're clocking in. I think it was like $10,000, $8,000 a year. Like, they're making good money. And again, I know lots of teachers who do a very good job earnestly. Like my kids are both in school.

I'm married to a teacher, but it still does. I mean, like, come on, we just got to stare at this problem and not worry about the individual teacher. Correct. And so all that said is even though they're now increasing their pay and they're the highest paid teachers in Western Canada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. The Alberta Teachers Union wanted $2 billion more, more. They were trying to extort the, I'm not using that term lightly. I don't mean they were actually extorting. They were trying to force the government to give them $2 billion more money. and it's good there. Alberta Premier Daniel Smith,

Dugger Heels in there. They still wound up giving them a big pay raise, but at least it wasn't another $2 billion on top of all of that. So this is kind of a thing of where next time you're having that dinner and you've got extended filming around who don't seem to understand where money comes from, it comes from us. It comes from taxpayers. I'll put it this way.

I'm in the hotel and there's always in the breakfast room, there's mainstream media playing and stuff. And I'm watching and the ticker tapes going by and it's the Alberta budget they mentioned. So get this. They say spending increasing on health care and education, but the deficit is going up. But, but this is where the money is coming from. It's coming from all of us. If you're insisting that we spend more money on government unions,

money's going to come from somewhere. Now, I would love it if they would just cut across the board and say no. But people got to be, you know, they got to hold the government to account here. They really, really do. Or otherwise, we're in trouble. If the Alberta UCP government led by Alberta Premier Daniel Smith, now we're standing at over $100 billion in debt with no plans ever, ever, ever to balance a budget. We're in trouble.

Any final questions, too, is before we like Chris, so? I'm just, you know, as as lousy of a reason as it is to have you back, I'm really glad that you're here. You know what? Me too. It's good to see you, Chris. It's nice to see you both. Thank you so much, guys. Thanks for covering this. I know it's wonky, but hope it made sense. It was great. Thanks again.

Yeah, thanks, Chris. All right. Well, there. You've had your full gambit of things on Mashup 1-97. even got into rapid fire news yet. Like, yeah. Yeah, I think this is why people tune in. I could be wrong. And she's already gone. The liberals gave $17, $17 million to Afghan women's education,

which doesn't exist because women aren't allowed to be educated in Afghanistan. I wanted to know what she said about that. I think we know what she would say about that. Yeah, I could be wrong. All right, let's do some rapid fire, shall we? Actually, you know what? Two is before we do rapid fire. You were going to read a text off.

I did. Did you read the text off? Yes. About the mirror? The mirroring image. Remember I sent you the text about mirroring? And you said we should read that off right at the start? You have a mirror.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. You read that off because that was how we were supposed to start Mashab 1-997. Of course, two deviates from the plan. Anytime. The cult follower one or the... Well, the mirror image one. What are we doing? Holy moly

I don't know Oh yes Listener It's not critical And you probably This is the feedback we get guys Guys There's just been a lot

Going back and forth Between Sean and I Not the least of which was midget wrestling Actually literally the least of which was midget wrestling Because they're so small It's not critical And you probably have bigger problems But if you could unfuck the cameras

on the mash-up so that the feed isn't backwards that would be great. It's mirror image. There you go. Yes. So you guys should notice. You guys should notice that the cameras have been unfucked. So you're welcome. You're welcome. Rapid Fire News. 28-year-old

Am Riddle Powell Singh. I should have just said saying, whatever, facing 14 chargers after kidnapping three women. I got to stop you. You're not doing it. It's 28-year-old. Amrit Bal Singh facing 14 charges after kidnapping three women in just four days across Metro Vancouver with fake job ads. Correct. Ladies, men, midgets, whatever.

If you're going to a job interview in the back of a van, you need to start asking questions. Like maybe can we do this over Zoom? This would have been an interesting thing to get Chris Sims take on. One in four Canadians employees now works for government. Yes. Now, to be clear, that is just shy of one four, one fourth, or one in four, or pardon me, it's actually 21.8. So it's way more than, it's more than one in five, less than one in four. But it's employees work for the Canadian government.

Or work for the government. So that is taking self-employed people out of the account. equation. So, for example, you, Sean, would not be included in that metric. Fair enough. It's insane. Especially when you think about the fact that, like, how many government employees, aside from your wife and the people who work

with her, do you know that work for the government? Do I know? Yeah. Probably not very many. Depends what they put in there, but certainly teachers, I think we know a lot of teachers. Yeah. Healthcare workers?

Okay, I don't really know a lot of health care workers, though. I don't really know social workers. But the point is, is that when I look around the people I know, I've got a few buddies back in Saskatchewan that ended up working for municipal governments. But aside from that, I really don't know very many, like at all. Lloyd is blue collar, nurses, teachers. Yeah. I'm probably missing one, but that's what we're made up of.

out here. Here's a crazy stat. Canada has added in the last six years, Canada has added 833,000 public sector jobs. As opposed to how many private sector? 1.2 million. Yeah. So

well, yeah, like three-fifths of the jobs created in this country are all working for the government. You remember when I said, you said, what would you do if you became prime minister? And I said I would fire 222 people a day every day for the entire four-year term. And people were like, maybe that's a little much.

Are you doing okay, Tews? Tews, that seems a little extreme. That wouldn't even get us back to those numbers. Well, for historical context, it did have a note in the article. As first noted by economist Charles Laman in an analysis for the hub, this means that Canada's public sector is approaching a size last seen just before can to plunge into fiscal crisis in 1994 where they got up to

22, just above 22% of people having... So, yeah, and I think it's 21.8 now. 21.8. Yes. Yeah. Nope. 21.8. So we're 0.2. We're 0.2% away from the worst fucking ever.

Okay? And I don't know. Like, am I crazy for saying that I don't think it's, I don't think it's an extreme thing to say that you have people who add to the tax base and people who take away from the tax base and saying that, oh, well, they still pay their taxes and everything like that? No, no, no, no. Essentially what happens is the government says this is how much money you would have gotten, but I'm keeping most of it. So you're basically just working for pro-rated rates. Anyone paying attention to the old silver wagon. It's up to 12734 Canadian again. Just throwing that out there.

It was 112 yesterday. Yeah. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's climbing. again. Dad, maybe it's because, I don't know, we just keep on shelling out the money. Who knows? Well, I mean, it's not that silver has become more valuable. See, what you're looking at there is the amount of dollars it would take to buy silver. And when the value of the dollars decreases, it takes more of them. And so that's how you hedge yourself against things like inflation, quantitative easing, which are kind of the same thing. Actually, they are the same thing. Fuck you, David, if you're listening.

Employees at RC, I'm keeping this on the rails day, because otherwise we'll go four hours. Employees at RCMP national headquarters in Ottawa receive workforce adjustment notices. More than 250 employees at the RCMP national headquarters in Ottawa have been notified. Their jobs may be affected by possible job cuts in the federal public service. Okay, first of all, workforce adjustment notices? Layoffs. Layoffs. We got to go, we got to jump through all of these hoops just to say something that's immediately obvious in something else.

It's a cisgendered man. No, it's a dude. It's a workforce adjustment notice. I think you mean layoffs. Are you fucking sack at people? Yeah. Workforce adjustment notice. Okay.

And honestly, like, we should almost have a section called. sad news. And we should put in there that, oh, no, oh no, we're going to be losing 250 bureaucrats. Maybe we should flag a flag at, fly a flag at half-mast for this. It's just absolutely tragic. Alberta's clearly not interested in a provincial police force. National Police Federation President Brian Swab joins Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins to discuss new legislation that could be paved paved the way for Alberta sheriffs to become provincial police officers. This is a pup piece. So for those of you who don't know, the NPF, the National Police Force, is the union.

It's the bargaining agent for all RCMP underneath corporal or something like that. It's their union. And so their union representative came on CTV and they talked about the Alberta police force. At no point did they discuss Quebec's police force, Ontario. police force, Calgary's police force, Edmonton's police force, anything with urban and rural.

Nothing, nothing. There was nothing to do with any of that. Oh, and the guy said that they've got unanimous support across municipalities. And I know for fucking sure, that isn't true. And so this is what I was talking about before where they just, they're not interested in having a real conversation

with people who have thoughts and perspectives on this. just reanimating puff pieces from union idiots and bureaucrats and politicians. You have doctor faces 43 sex crime charges including voyeurism, sexual assault child pornography, a Canadian doctor who made international headlines during COVID-19 pandemic with his campaign to reunite cross-border families and couples has been charged. David Edward. Boy, poons. No, no, no, no, no.

Okay, first off, you're not doing it right. Second of all, that that isn't correct. Okay. Dr. David, Edward. Oi Poon. Okay. This guy's name is literally Dr. Poon. Dr. Poon

has been arrested for 43 sex crime charges. Dr. Poon. I'm just going to go ahead and say it. If you have a name that makes you sound like a 1986 porn star, how are you not the least bit suspicious of this dude okay definitely Chinese name you can tell because it's always Wang or Dong or Poon

or something like that right like you're not gonna you're not gonna shingle your roof with your Yamaguchi okay you can always tell if it's a Chinese name because it's some weird sex thing okay

and now this is Okay. They're missing an Oxford comma in here, but also just the way they wrote this. I'm going to read a direct quote from this article. Poon was featured many times on CBC News and in the New York Times, Global News, CTV News, the Toronto Star, a Russian state media outlet, and various Canadian and American newspapers. Poon was featured on CBC and the way they fucked up the commas in this so they list off

CBC, New York Times, global news, CTV news, the Toronto Star, a Russian state media outlet. They fucked up the Oxford commas and inadvertently called the Toronto Star a Russian state media outlet. But also they talked about the fact that Poon has been featured on CBC.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a serious country, and we do not have serious journalists who do not have serious editors proofreading their unsurious articles before they get posted. Energy hungry India tells Carney, we are willing to buy whatever Canada is offering. Yeah. So, I mean, there's no business case for LNG exports underneath Justin Trudeau. and now you literally have Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Pettnake

saying increased trade will help improve Canadian Indian relations. And they literally want, they're like just whatever you got. Just if it's LNG, if it's oil, if it's uranium, we will take all of it, whatever you have to spare. We're willing to take whatever. This is a quote, the High Commissioner said, adding in Indian companies or open ownership stakes in Canadian uranium mines and buying more of this country's world leading.

technology. So yeah. They want it so bad, they're willing to buy in. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even just send it here and we'll take it. It's also like if you need to, we will buy. We will invest in this stuff to make it happen.

Meanwhile, Australia ships LNG 16,000 miles to Canada as Asia demand slumps. What? Australia is shipping LNG much further than its main buyers in Asia as demand for the super chilled fuel and regions falters. East Canada is set to receive its first. Australian shipment of the fuel on the Moran gas Hector on Thursday. The journey is usually long with the tanker traveling around 25,750 kilometers to reach his final destination. That is 10 times the distance it would take to get it from broadly speaking, Alberta?

Not cool. Probably. For the sake of easy math. Sure. I mean, we don't have a Jamie here to throw it into perplexity and ask us exactly what the ratio is. So let's call it ballpark 10 times further than the pipeline. When we bike to Canada, coast to coast, it was 6,500 kilometers. Now, that's not the question you're asking, right?

That's how much K we put on when we biked it. So 25,000, it doesn't matter. When I was 17 years old, I weighed 148 pounds. It's crazy to me that they shipped it all away from us. You're just like, what are we doing? Welcome to Canada. Carry on. The last time I rode off a vehicle,

it was when I hit that deer, and it had just shy of 300,000 kilometers on it, Sean. Canada just lost payroll jobs in nine out of 11 major sectors in a single month. We're not done talking about that. What? Okay. What do we do? Well, I mean, we segueed into just spouting out random distance trivia.

You said 10 times. that I'm doing the math in my head and I'm going, nah, not quite. It's not quite. Well, just, just go with it. I'm like, what? Just go with it. What are you talking about?

Yeah, and then you're like, well, I happen to one-time bicycles, 6,300 kilometers. 6,500 kilometers, that's the entire country. You shave off a bit. I'm like, yeah, okay, it's probably more like five times the distance, regardless. Ten times. Just ten times the distance. Just believe me, because I'm twos and I'm sure. shouting and I'm using my hands.

Oh, and I'm Sean, and it happened that one time I went through a long night right. When I was 18, I used to weigh 180 pounds. What? Exactly. It's a completely useless statistic that has no relevance in this discussion. Like the number of kilometers

that you bicycled one time back in the day. Across the country. So here's the thing. Give the size of said country. But anyways, sure. Sure. There's no relevance. How far are you from the ocean? I'm nuts. Carry on with your hand waving jargon. Let's go.

Let's go. How far are you from the ocean? You're not on the edge of the country. I realize I'm not on the edge of the country. All right. So what I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted with stupid numbers, not that numbers are stupid, but that yours were stupid, is that the same people who say that we shouldn't be allowed to separate from them,

who want us to stick around regardless. of what the fuck is happening in this country can't even be fucking bothered to buy our LNG and is instead shipping it from basically the antipode of this country like the neat thing about shipping it from Australia

is that no matter what direction you pick it's the equal like should we should we leave going east or west to go to Canada well it's about the same distance either way okay these are the people who give so few fucks about us that they can't

even be bothered to buy our stuff and are instead shipping it halfway across the planet. They're dicks, Sean. They're dicks. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Giant dicks.

You know, to go back to your thing about random measurements. Okay, what's the next one? Oh, my goodness. Canada just lost payroll jobs in nine out of 11 major sectors and single in a single month. Let's hear what twos has to say. I'm sure he'll add independent. at some point on this.

I'm not particularly shocked. So this is the December data. And if you look at it, you got job gains in construction, healthcare and social assistance. And the third biggest one is retail trade. Okay. And then after that,

you've got a little bit in mining, quarrying, oil and gas, public administration, forestry login support, info and cultural industries managed to do very small gains as well. And then you get into everything else is a loss. utilities, finances and insurance, arts and entertainment, real estate, other services, admin, technical, professional, educational, accommodation and food, transportation and warehousing, wholesale trade and manufacturing all the biggest losers in this. All of the stuff where we do things and we make things.

Like here's the thing with Canada and this whole like, oh yeah, we're going to go get our LNG from Australia. Okay, first off, you got to flip the, like, it's hard to make that trip. Because at one point, at about halfway, you actually have to flip the boat around, so it's going the right way again. Look, they're so done with our shit

that they're willing to buy fucking kangaroo-made LNG rather than Alberta made. Okay? In Quebec, they've got a shit ton of it. They're not interested in developing. I would love to do some kind of a retaliatory thing where we just look at whatever the fuck the rest of the country makes and decide not to buy that.

But you know what the only thing left in this country still being made on a regular basis is, Sean? Mistakes. We seem to be doing a few of those by Chris Sims' account. So I guess we're important to that too. World Economic Foreign Chief Borge Brende quits over Epstein-Links. Would you like to read that in a different language as well, too? Or a different accent. Or give, Brenda.

Thank you. Files show eye messages exchanged between Epstein and Brenda in 2018 and 2019 and one message after Dinder Brenda wrote. Thanks for a very interesting dinner. You're a brilliant host, Warmly, Vorge, later adding missing you, sir, Borge. That's kind of weird. In another exchange after Epstein outlined advice, he was giving to a Middle Eastern leader. Brenda responded to concur.

I'm glad you're giving him counsel. The two also discussed Davos and potential attendees. Yeah, and then also the same kind of fallout happened with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. He stepped down from his teaching role at Harvard University. Yeah, I went to Harvard. I think I told you that. I don't think he did.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I went to Harvard. I literally just popped into the gift store, bought a T-shirt and left, but I've been to Harvard. But you've Sean Fraser, you want to show the video? Yeah, yeah. You know, it's funny. If it's not the media intentionally misrepresenting what's being said,

it's the politicians themselves. So here's Sean Frazier. Oh, crap. We got it turned off. Give me a sec. Starts over. Mr. Speaker, the translation has been difficult to hear over the anti-refugee dog whistle that's been coming through the people who are fleeing violence,

war and persecution. Do you not remember the images of the people who died who washed up on the shore, Alan Kurty from Syria? Have you not sat down with members of the Ukrainian community who have found safe haven in Canada? When you have a series of questions like this that have come on the floor of the House of Commons this week, you have to invite yourself into the conversations that the Conservative Party must have had as they were getting ready. You can imagine them all sitting around saying, what are we going to prioritize this week to help us raise some money? Well, could we tackle perhaps the Canada-US relationship? No, it's just going to upset our members who think Canadians are having a hissy fit.

They are. Can we tackle affordability for families? No, that goes against type. Could we do health care? Sure, health care, but let's make sure we do it in a way that helps no one. Punching down by demonizing refugees, saying you're going to cut health care is a blatant political opportunity, not something's going to help a single person in this country. Now, okay, interesting thing.

One side note, he was talking about that exact Syrian kid who washed up on the shore that I was talking about last week when we sat down. Remember I said that Well do you remember when we were talking about Like what the vote What we think the vote might be if if If and when there's an Alberta referendum And I said that some international event is going to get shoehorned into it

And everyone's going to just react to it And it's going to depend on what it is And I pointed specifically to that baby who washed up on the Mediterranean While his parents were trying to smuggle him into Europe Okay So the important calls context for this video, though, is that the conservative bill was strictly to cut off health care for people whose refugee status had been denied. So by definition, it's not the people fleeing

war-torn areas. It's not the people who have nothing to go back to because it's all rubble. These are people whose refugee claims have been denied because they're spurious and bullshit. Like, for example, those six Afghan guys we talked about last week who, when they had charges pressed against them, they immediately tried to claim refugee status. Those are the exact people. He's definitively, like, he's straw manning the argument, he's deliberately misrepresenting it as something it isn't at all. This was to cut off health care support for people whose refugee status had been denied,

or in other words, who aren't legitimate. legitimate refugees. And that whole diatribe he just unleashed was pure unadulterated bullshit. Three men face over 200 charges after stealing, after stolen jaws of life tools were used to steal more than $750,000 in property. So this is a PPS, Eminton. Yeah, this is an update. Do you remember we talked about it a year, maybe a year and a half ago?

We're like, what in the hell is wrong with people in this day and age that they would steal the jaws of life from a community fire department? Correct. No, it's because they wanted to just like attach it to a giant arm like Ripley in, in alien and and go do a bunch of big heists with it. We don't give these people enough credit every once in a while. Every once in while you're like, oh. Oh, I remember talking about that story and being like, what the hell are they going to do

that? Well, yeah. Why the hell would you steal jaws of life? Well, apparently you're going to use it to open up fucking vaults and shit. So I'm actually a little impressed. Like, I'm still super choked about the fact that they stole Jaws of Life from a 100%. 100%.

But they ended up stealing allegedly stolen from businesses including high-end bags, jackets, cannabis, vape products, cash, ATMs, and safes. Yeah, with the Jaws of Life. You're like, eh, I got a bitter respect for him. That's clever. That's clever. It would have never even occurred to me to use the Jaws of Life to just rip open

vault doors and ship. Correct. Here we are. Cinovus ready to back new pipelines is output nearest 1 million barrels per day. That's so weird, Sean. I mean, we've had discussions on this podcast

where people have claimed that even the thought or the possibility of separation is going to scare away investment. And here is one of the only oil companies left in this country saying that they want to have more pipelines built and that they're ready to back it.

Hmm. Hmm. Now, I might have to do some clever intellectual maneuvering to square that away with me saying that the MOU is bullshit. We'll see what comes out of it. Hopefully I can still be right about both of them. At the end of the article, it said, this is a quote, we probably see more proposed projects today than I've seen in the last 10 years, and more projects that are doable in a shorter time frame than we've had in a long period of time.

That's what... Well, yeah, of course you're not... Like, if the base rate is zero, of course you're going to see more. Fair enough. Quebec's separatist party just won the riding of, uh... Should a... Chewitt... Timi? I don't know.

Could Quebec separation happen before Alberta separation happened? Question mark. Mm, given the timeline, no. We are... How do you say, uh, B? We have lots of Fromage and pizza to celebrate our victory

and we want to separate from those English pig dogs. Am I correct in saying this is the fourth by-election they've won in a row? I think so. Did I read that correct? Yeah, and like double the votes of second place. Like they almost got 50% of the vote.

So while the world or Canada demonizes Albertans wanting to talk about separation and all this stuff, Quebec has quietly, maybe not that quietly, won four by-elections in a row. Why does they ever not anything quietly? Well, fair enough, but I'm just saying like you don't hear about it, four by-elections in a row with a company, a party that is actively seeking to leave Canada. Correct? Right? Like, I'm not, yeah.

To ruin that up. Am I twos? Like, to me, that's the way it looks to me. Just throwing that out there. Okay. How about some goofy news? Well, I think first we got to go into the NDP is not a serious party, folks. Here is Racky Pancholi, the deputy leader of the NDP.

They need to get to work on the issues that Albertans care about. Where is the leader? Where is Nathin NCHI right now? We appreciate you being here, but this is a big deal. Where's Natchee? Nathad is actually on a pre-schedual vacation ahead of going, we begin session next week. They need to get to work.

Nod is actually on a pre-scheduled vacation ahead of going, we begin session next week. They need to get to work. They need to get to work. Well, why are you making this announcement? Shouldn't the leader be making this announcement? Well, no, he's on vacation. Do you know why?

Because the NDP are not a serious party. Yeah. Heather McPherson candidate for the NDP Many Canadians, especially members of the 2SLGBTQIA Community Didn't think I had that in me. I didn't think I could get through that one. Are in... Are you're in...

I'm pretty sure you've had it in you for a while. Porta Varda, where violence is quickly escalated and a shelter in place order is in effect. Yeah, so some guy named El Mecche or some damn thing got killed and so they... then the Globe of Mail was like, oh, well, this is obviously because of Trump. And Portoviata turned into a war zone. And then Heather McPherson, who is a leadership candidate for the federal NDP,

is very concerned about Canadians, but not just any Canadians. Not just any. A-1. Just the gay ones. I'm worried about the gay ones. S-L-G-B-T-Q-I-A-plus. Well, you know what? Like, just there's a war zone. There's a war zone happening.

Guns are going off, bombs, things are exploding and burning down. Everything's crazy. Okay. But let's make sure the poofs are okay. BBC. Like thoughts and prayers for all the dinosaurs who died in the recent meteor strike, especially members of the LGBT rex community. You did?

Are we good? Yeah, we're good. Yeah, we're good. BBC BAFTA host, apologize after guest with Tourette's show, it's racial slurs. Yeah. Well, two black guys are on stage. Two, yeah.

Two black guys are on stage. And this guy with Tourette's drops a hard... En bomb? Yeah. Yeah. And so they carried on very professionally. And there was a whole bunch of outrage about it. But here's the thing is that this is a guy literally.

with Tourette's. He was there because of a movie he made about his life and having Tourette's. You can't be at least a little bit surprised that this happened. And just the fact that he was just yelling out stuff, not that stuff specifically, but the concept of him just yelling out inappropriate stuff. Kevin, you're blocked. Kevin says bring back the buzzer. Yeah, I think I agree, Kevin. I need something to, Okay, let's move on too. Yeah. So, yeah, it was, but I mean, you literally have this guy here because he made a movie about this exact condition.

You have to understand that something like this probably will and actually did happen. It's like Boondock Saints. You remember Boondock Saints, the bartender where he's like, fuck ass. That's what he did in the past. I haven't seen Boondock Saints in forever. That's a throwback. That guy should go check that. The CBC tried to find another economic standard to use for Canada.

What the fuck? You need a rope far? Do you want to show the video? Sorry, which video I was in the middle of something else. Yeah, you were not listening. I know. CBC and GDP per capita. Well, basically.

Or do you even want to show it? No, no, no. I just want to talk about this for a sec. We talked because it was just breaking news last week that everybody else in the country found out that Alabama was better off than Canada. Correct. And then there was just cope.

Everybody was mad as hell. Rather than just being like, well, yeah, obviously, you've got this entire group of people over here. Okay, this is during the debate I had with Chris a few weeks ago, and thanks again for coming on. You know, he was talking about how he wanted to be more inclined to believe people like Trevor Tombe because he's an economist. And this person here because they've got these established credentials.

And what I should have said was something along the lines of, I don't really care what schooling somebody has when it comes to their ability to predict the future. I care about how many times they've been right. And that's where everybody on the left is batten zero. And everybody with dirty hands has been battened 1,000 for the past decade. Because every time they said, this is a stupid idea and that's going to happen. It fucking did. And so everybody else finally realized that Canada's now poorer than Alabama.

And they weren't happy about it. And so CBC was trying to just pull together a bunch of idiotic bullshit to cope with it. You had people who just straight up didn't believe the statistic. Like people just, they're like, no, no, that's wrong. Like motherfuckers, get out and see the world. The Conservative Deputy Premier of Alberta just did a land acknowledgement before his press conference today. Yeah. Now, this I do want to show because it's very important for the context of what happened with that budget.

So we have a party in charge who spent more damn money than the NDP. I am Mike Ellis. I'm the Deputy Premier, Minister of Public Safety Emergency Services for Province Alberta. Of course, I want to begin by acknowledging that we are gathered today on the traditional territories. Human Tourism Treaty 6. Of course, acknowledged the Métis people of Alberta, of course, who share a deep connection to this land. Honestly, Nahid Nenshi went missing for a while.

He's on vacation. And meanwhile, a budget gets tabled that's spending all of the fucking money on every last fucking thing and the UCP started doing land acknowledgments. I am not going to be the least bit surprised if Daniel Smith in the middle of a speech just goes,

pulls it back, and then surprise, she's the lazy-eyed fat dude, Nahed Nenchi. Assault-style rifle seized after police called to downtown Guelph apartment building. Yeah.

This is actually, I mean, it's really good that we have the police looking out for this and the media who can accurately report on this. You know, you look at this thing. It's big.

It's scary. It's black. Look at how much of a bend that magazine has. Look at, all of the bullets that were in that magazine. Look at the caliber of those bullets, Sean. Well, wait a sec.

What is the, do you recognize those? Are they 22 shells? Those are 22. An assault style style 22. Did a fucking gopher write this article? No, probably somebody who doesn't know anything about guns would be my guess. Yeah. Yeah.

Let's just stop having people who know nothing about guns, writing the articles, writing the fucking laws and regulations, and asking the questions. Like, just, you need, CBC gets one and a half billion dollars a year. You can pay for someone to go get their fucking pal, and then they just be the person who writes about guns. How hard could that be? Lloyd Minster getting in the news cycle here.

A semi-truck driver has been charged after RCNPC's 7.2 million unstamped cigarettes worth over $6 million with $2 million in evaded taxes during a traffic stop near 44th Street, 50th Ave in Lloydminster. Yeah. Mubarak Khan. Mubarak Khan, resident of Calgary, was arrested in charge with fraud over $5,000,

possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, an unlawful possession of tobacco products under the Ex-Size Act. Okay. Now, this is a guy who's... Here's a problem with inflation. You say something like theft under $5,000 should be treated differently than theft over $5,000. Who the fuck is going to bother with the theft under $5,000 these days? You steal a candy bar and you're going away for the big one. One ounce of gold over $5,000.

Yep. Yep. One ounce of gold, I think, is at $7,000 if memory served me, correct? I tell you what, I'm just going to look that up real fast because why not? That's Stalantis EV. 7140 Canadian. Okay. It was 720 yesterday, I think.

But that's still, I mean, it was, what, 3,800 a year and a half ago? So it's doubled. It's doubled in a year and a half. Okay. Think about that. The way our laws are in this country. A year ago to date was 4154. It's that 7,139.

There you go. Yeah, it's getting twice as big every year. It's like basically it's the government budget of precious metals. And so anyway, I could literally steal a Stalantis EV battery factory in Ontario, and it would be considered theft under $5,000. Well done. This country's fucked. Matt Jenneroo, remember that guy, has removed his statement about donating his salary

to local charities from his website. Yeah. Yeah. So Matt Jenneroo, who recently crossed the floor to the liberals, is apparently all in on being liberal. Colombian student detained by ICE release after Mam Danny meeting with President Trump mayor says. Yeah, we're going to get to this, but the top of the ticker at New York Post says Britney Spears suffers from wardrobe malfunction in revealing dining something. So I mean, we might have to watch that real quick. But yeah. So this is a lady from Azerbaijan who was set to be deported. And then Mamdami, the socialist mayor of New York, met with Donald Trump.

And they agreed that she could stay. And twos for it. No, I think she should be deported to Canada personally. But for those of you listening, she looks like an absolute rocket. So anyway, like just the whole thing is just silly. Like I just imagine the conversation was like, well, is she at least the nine? Davey, here's Lloyd getting back in the news again. Lloyd's back.

Yeah. The Davy Boy Smith's WWE Hall of Fame ring stolen in Lloyd Minster. The pro wrestling community is asking for the whereabouts of the WWE Hall of Fame ring that was stolen in Lloyd Minster Wednesday morning after a hefty reward on the line leading to safe return. The ring is dedicated to the late WWF professional wrestler. Everybody knows. British Bulldog. British Bulldog. Right?

And it goes on and just say it was, I don't know, I can go into it. But it was stolen. I mean, here in Lloyd. Here in Lloyd. So, I mean, I was wondering why you put that new shelf up in the studio. I was like, it's such a tiny shelf. What could possibly go there? I think I have a guess. That's right. British Bulldogs ring is going in the studio.

Yes, I'm the culprit, folks. I'm the guy. Yeah. Oh, here. That's what I was doing. I want to touch on this here real quick. Did you guys talk about the threat that happened at Sylvester's in Bonneville that was circling social media? I'm sure you heard about it too, Sean.

So I, but the thing about it is, is that I've heard two completely different versions of it. Yeah, I'm, this is a weird one for me. because yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. So the problem, I don't have it in the show notes, because I haven't gotten to the bottom of what the actual story is here yet. I heard that someone dropped off a bullet. They put it on the counter and they said, this is for your boss.

And then the other one, the other version of it, is that it was a pen that looks like a cartridge. Yeah, so you want to know where, okay, here's a word story. Yeah. Is it about live midgets? I'm in a group, with a group of men. Okay?

The guy's idea for the bullet dropping off, the pen bullet, right? The bullet says a pen is in the group. He's like, there was my idea,

one of my salesmen, I'm not going to get into the companies because I don't, they want me to keep that out of it. Anyways, so he's like, it was a pen. So then I called Mitch,

and I'm like, Mitch, what the heck is going on here? Mitch is like, it wasn't a pen. He didn't leave it. You can watch a video. He walks out with it.

I'm like, this is the strange. story. So I'm, was it that guy or was it somebody who just happened to do the same thing? No, it wasn't that guy. It was that guy's one of the guys who works for him. Huh. So like, very, very strange. And I know now that the two guys have talked, right? Like that, the boss and Mitch have talked. So I mean, that's all I'll give because I'm like, it's not my story to to tell other than I'm like sitting here this morning. I'm like, this is the strangest. Because I've seen the video. And then I've also seen the video that shows that it was a pen.

And then you go back and you watch the security footage, but he doesn't leave it. It doesn't look like he pulls off the thing. He doesn't look like he writes anything. I don't know. I sit here and I'm like, I'm just some guy sitting in Lloyd going, this is about as strange as it gets. Was there any audio? Nope. Hmm.

I don't know. It's like I said. Like I knew about it. I just, I don't know what the heck happened. So I can't really talk about it. Is that true, Kevin? The ring was found. going back to the WWE ring.

It was found in a pawn shop in Lethbridge. That put on a lot of miles. All right. So Lloyd, Lloyd down to Lethbridge. So, yeah, I don't know.

The whole bullet thing, I don't know. I don't know. Strange, strange times here in Canada. Yeah. Immigration Department, Alberta.

Immigration Department helping Canadian military group, foreign military members. Jenny, yeah. The gist of this is is that the Canadian military is looking to recruit non-Canadians to be in the military,

including the Air Force, and specifically flying the F-35s. Now, I don't know what could possibly go wrong with that. That's a fair bit of trust to be putting in somebody who doesn't even live here. Okay? I can't see how this could possibly go wrong.

At all. At all. I mean, we had the whole trucking industry thing where we buy some F-35 jets and put some foreigners in them and let's just see what happens. I think it's a good idea. I think it's great. Oh, yeah, it's going to be great. There's going to be holes cut in the bottom of them for when they got to go and bathroom breaks and they don't feel like pulling over.

Yeah, it's going to be absolutely wonderful. Hey, you guys are used to doing this with carpets. Why don't you try it with fucking jets? Yeah. I, yeah, anyways. Here's another strange one. Gamer accidentally hacks into 7,000 robot vacuums all at once. So this guy was trying to code his Roomba or whatever

so that he could control it with a joystick. And so he got AI to reverse engineer the script that it uses so that he could manipulate it so that he could control it. And then it turns out that the internal logins for, all of the vacuums are all exactly the same. And so as soon as he just hit enter or execute or whatever he has on his super nerd keyboard, he instantly got access to 7,000 vacuum cleaners across 24 countries. 24 countries.

Like, think about that. This isn't like, oh, I'm sitting in a little old Lloyd and I got access to a thousand sitting around me. It's like 24. Anyways, wild. Meth heads and SaaS cutting down live power poles. Yeah, so thinking about power poles, they got a bit of copper on top of them. And so, like, the meth heads are getting so crazy with this stuff that they will just go right fucking timber with a power pole. You think about the time and effort that goes involved, like, that the amount of just ingenuity and persistence and, and outside the box thinking that is.

required to be a meth head in this country, in this day and age, and all of the different clever ways that you can get tiny little scraps of copper. Just think if you applied that to something like a fucking job, how far ahead you'd be in life. The number of body rub establishments have decreased in reginal report fines. Yeah, I guess this should be under sad news, too. Two is frequent the old body rub. Never even been to one, right?

never even been but apparently the number of establishments has dropped by more than 50% in recent years which is weird because you would only know that if you knew what the entire number of them was

and if you know what the entire number of them is just fucking go in and shut them down the Smalley Pirates Yes this we are definitely going to show. This is from Donald Trump's State of the Union address. The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.

So the camera guy decides to instantly cut to Ilan Omar while talking about Somali pirates in Minnesota. I don't know if anybody else. found that amusing, but I sure as hell did. You want to show the Forever Canadian people? I don't know if I... Oh, yeah, that's right. I didn't get through opening all these. All right, so the Forever Canada people

had a rally to show that not that we support you guys or that we think some of these grievances are valid or that we share some of the concerns but just don't agree with the way forward. but they had an anti-separatist rally.

And so they had things like elbows up for United Canada. Yeah, believe it or not, there's people that stupid out here. Canada is already great. Proudly on Team Canada. This is Canada. We don't, we educate, we collaborate, we do not separate. So, yeah, a whole bunch of, a whole bunch of pro-Canada stuff, masks outside.

Oh, dump Danny, dump Danny in the UCP, protect public health care, and Canada is Alberta, Alberta is Canada. And this is my favorite one. Canada needs to bury all UCP policies. Hashtag UCP suck.

You look at that, Sean? I did. Okay. Canada needs to bury all UCP policies. But here's the thing, is they didn't use berry as in to dig a hole and put something in it. They used berry as in black Saskatoon, straw, and rasp. Correct. These are the same people who, wait, wait, wait. Oh, no, that was health care.

It would have been way funnier if they were talking about how great public education was at the same time. Kim Jong-un re-elected as ruling party leader in North Korea. Yeah, a landslide victory, like out of nowhere. Surprise me as much as anybody else. So congratulations to Kim Jong-un, friend of the show, on your much-deserved victory in the North Korean election. The Manitoba government is giving the Punjabi Chamber of Commerce $100,000 in tax dollars to help fight extortion happening to the Punjabi community perpetrated by Punjabi people.

I couldn't have put it better myself. there's too much extortion of the Punjabi people happening in Winnipeg by Punjabi people. And so in an effort to get rid of that extortion, the NDP government in Manitoba is going to give the Punjabi community $100,000 so that the Punjabi community stops extorting the Punjabi community. For 52 minutes straight on Saturday, Alberta's 1,160 winter. turbines had zero output and couldn't charge a cell phone. Couldn't charge literally anything. I don't know. Like, it's just, you know, when people talk about wind being the way of the future,

like maybe, yeah, at some point, solar. Yeah, sure. I mean, it stands to reason that, you know, you go fast forward 100 years. Some stuff's going to get fucking invented. But the stuff we have right now, not quite there, folks. Drivers. Show me some driver's videos. You missed a whole bunch.

Well, that's probably because two minutes for a job, where are you? Where are you, too, says. I'm like, I'm still trying to catch up on the 700 links that you keep putting in there. And somehow I missed them. Now, you waited to the last second to stick them in so that I would miss them as I'm going through the 700 we already did. What did I miss? Bring me up to speed. Oh, sir, twos on what I missed.

fans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed faster. And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork, which is accessible online at n.yc.gov slash snow. And you can get started right away. This is Mom Dami, the socialist idiot in charge of New York. They somehow forgot that it was fucking wintertime,

needed a bunch of emergency snow shovelers, wanted to get people to come out and do it. So this guy who thinks that voter ID is racist and advocates for at least a $20 an hour minimum wage, did this announcement that if you wanted to, you could show up and get paid $19 an hour, but only if you bring two pieces of ID. It was a disaster.

It went exactly as well as you think it would. Paying people to be good neighbors. All right. He advocates for a $20 minimum wage and says voter ID is racist. And then we fucked up. We forgot that it's wintertime. We need some emergency snow shovelers. Show up.

We'll pay you $19 an hour. Yeah. A minimum wage is a living wage. All of this bullshit. Right? we're going to pay you $19 an hour instead of 20 and you need to bring two forms of ID. Yes. Keep going, Tews. What else you got?

All right. Calgary Distillery told to pull some popular spirits off the shelf by the CFIA. Remember all those guys who killed all the fucking ostriches? Yes. Yeah. Well, apparently, they're also dicks in the liquor world. So this distillery, shoot, what the hell is the name of it? Bridgeland Distillery. I don't know if you've ever had any of their stuff before.

It's pretty decent. I actually picked up a bottle of this before it got super illegal. So apparently I saw somewhere today that the reason why it got pulled off the shelf was because it didn't have enough fucking French on it. But it just says Tabor corn bourbon. And Tabor is the name of a place in Alberta that grows a lot of corn. Corn is the name of corn. And they're spelling a bourbon because they've got to get around

international laws about what you can and can't call bourbon is spelled B-E-R-B-O-N like Tabor, Burr-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-N. So there's not even any English in the name and they're still mad that there isn't any French. Like the French form of Tabor is not Tabor. It's not Tabornak. It's just fucking Tabor.

Carrying on T-E-S. What else did I miss? Well, this is hot off the press. Reacher's, researchers studied who's spreading the most conspirators, theories in Canada. Here's what they found. Spoiler alert, it's the mashup. Let's go through the conspiracy theories that they decided to study. Health threats from COVID-19 vaccinations. Gender indoctrination. Media elite collusion in Canada, where the paid media media, the legacy media is working roughly on behalf of the liberals to put them in the best light possible

and mislead people whenever they can. Election fraud, there's a deep state that runs things. Look at what happened with the Conservative Party and tell me there isn't a deep state of some kind. Digital ID as a conspiracy theory. Like, did you, there's literally articles about, like, I can pull up a video of Kier-Starm talking about this exact thing. but it's a conspiracy theory. Intentional wildfires.

The conspiracy theory that the wildfires that were sweeping across Canada and previous summers were set by arsonists. We literally pulled legacy media articles to talk about this exact thing. The legacy media themselves who are studying whether or not we are disinformation and conspiracy theories wrote the fucking articles that we talked about when we discussed that. and then the last thing is the climate hoax. I don't know. Juris still out on that.

It might be super real. Who knows? I'm going to say that I'm not an expert. And everybody else. Legacy media isn't real media. Is that the new? Yeah. Look at these different conspiracy theories that they studied.

What else he got for me? I still got drivers and sports stats. Let's pick it up here. We're at an hour and a half. Come on, come on, you're doing this. You're doing this slow,

slow game. Let's come on. What do you got for me? All right. Well, we got a few things in drivers. None of them are crazy videos, though. Well, this one's kind of fun. Oh, shoot, it's got to reload here. But, look at this. Man, you ain't going to believe this one. The bargain, the parking, a bargain, a bargain. No bargain. No parking, no, parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, no parking, not parking!

No parking! I don't know where that is in the States, but there are like 200 no parking signs, five feet away from each other all the way along the freeway. Oh, look at this one. By showing you this potato video I found. Did you know that you can spiral your potatoes into sort of a pasta thing? and then twist them back into the shape of a potato. The Italians didn't count on this one. It just goes to show that good things can still happen in the world.

Look at that. Explain this, atheists. Maybe you've had a tough week. You're about to have a bit of a mentee be. There's still so many things that you've never done with a potato, and I believe that you can do them all. I truly believe that the best potatoes of your life are still ahead yet. Look at this.

Look at them golden and up. Soon this will be you, golden and up, glowing up, telling your boss to fuck off because they're a cunt. As much we can learn from the versatility of the potato. Philosophers will try to understand it. Atheists will try to explain it away. One second, listen to this crunch. Here comes. Oh yeah.

But all we can really do is go on, experience as many potatoes as we can in as many different formats and form factors as she allows. Have a good day. love you. That was for the potatoes. Not for you. Follow me. I'm delicious. Man, the old driver's segment has sure got interesting now, but that's fantastic.

Well, I mean, I got to hide, I got to hide the Irishman in the driver's segment, because I know you don't see it ahead of time, right? I think it's time for you to get up. I don't know if we'd get ding for some copyright stuff there, but Calgarians and a Subaru equals

unstuck bus. The bus is somehow stuck off. I don't know how it got off the road, but it's off the road. And some Subaru WRX is pulling it out. So if you're a bad driver, remember to be friendly with your neighborhood lesbian. Oh man. That's good. That's good. Yeah. That's what you got? Well, that's the bad drivers. All right. Sports desk. If you have haven't been paying attention. Austin Matthews under heat because he went and saw President Donald Trump, as is

Kachucks, as is Connor McDavid because he can't win, as is anything else? Well, that's basically it. I mean, here's the Toronto Star. I'm just going to rapid fire through this stuff here real quick. Austin Matthews made

his choice, seemingly put the party and the president ahead of the playoffs. people are mad at him. People are mad at him because he went to the White House. He won Olympic gold for his country and the leader of his country invited him. Invited him.

I don't know, like, I wouldn't go because I don't really want to be part of this country anymore. If Mark Carney was like, hey, two's, two's, you just won the best podcast ever award. I just want you to come to Ottawa. And I'd be like, why the fuck would I want to go to a foreign country? Lose my number, right?

But the situation's a bit different there. Of course, he's going to go. And then, yeah, of course, Vicki Campbell trade him. He's done in Canada. I don't think Austin Matthews will be with the Toronto Maple Leafs next season, nor do I think Brady Katruck will be an Ottawa senator.

They have no clue how Canadians feel about Donald Trump. And this, I don't know if you guys know this or not about me, but I take a fair bit of enjoyment in shitting on the oilers. And I am going to go ahead and say that this is a little much. Hard question, but, you know, Stanley Cups found Gretzky and Crosby and those guys and gold medals. And you've been put yourself in position and it's not finding yet. Did you think it would be this hard? That's a nice question. Thank you.

That's a dick move right there. That's his hometown. That's his hometown media. carry on sports desk all right well here's the thing this is the rest of the world is starting to realize this and i'm actually for once in my life kind of glad the olympics happened because it's showing everybody else in the world exactly who the legacy Canadians are and and why alberta how the west in general just doesn't really want to be here anymore.

So, yeah, you've got, you know, the guy who cheated to win. You've got everybody getting butt heard about the silver and hockey. And then also you've got the skier who's complaining that he couldn't ski fast because there was too much snow and that's why he didn't win. Everybody just looks like a sore loser or an asshole in the Olympics. and I'm kind of glad that the world gets to see exactly what it is that we no longer want to associate with. And then, I don't know, did you watch this goal? No, no.

Oh, you're going to love this. Nope. Some damn team I don't even know. Check it out. Crosses the blue, goes to dump the puck, funny bounce off the back of the net, rolls up over top, and then he just tips it in out of the air. It's just the greasiest goal you've ever seen in your life. That's high school hockey.

Pretty sure. I don't know. There's a lot of people there for high school hockey. But yeah, and then it's surreal watching the entire planet wake up and realize that Canadians are actually gigantic, sanctimonious pieces of shit. Carrianna.

Look at the comment. That's perfect for the emojis. All right. Community notes. Let's move on. Let's get to the end. Happy news. Yes.

you're taking, come on, tuesday. You're like, slow playing it today. This is a Tuesday thing now. Okay, all right, that's fine. Okay. John Cleese says he's now avoiding BC because of crackdown on gender ideology criticism. For those of you who don't know, a dude in BC got fined $750,000 for saying the mathematically or the biologically verifiable fact that dudes are dudes and checks are chicks.

Correct. And he got fined $750,000 for that. And now John Cleese, apparently who's doing a Canada tour, awesome, is saying, well, you know what, I'm not going to go to BC because they're fucking retarded and they lost their minds. And I don't want to get fined $750,000 either.

Bright Bart. Judge ordered $345 million payment. Okay, sorry. It's not judge ordered. It's judge ordered $345 million payment could bankrupt Greenpeace. Do you remember about 10 years ago where there was all those

water protectors and a whole bunch of just grifting assholes and a bunch of protesters, I want to say North or South Dakota? Anyways, Greenpeace was at the front of it and they're losing somewhere near a half a billion dollars that they're being ordered to pay the oil company for all of the chicanery and bullshit

that they put them through, a decade ago. And if that happens, Greenpeace just stops existing, which isn't going to be a bad thing. Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder. You remember the story about the guy

who attacked the home intruder with the knife because the home intruder had a fucking crossbow? Correct. Well, they decided to drop the charges. Isn't that? news. Yeah, yeah. Isn't it

fuck that we live in a country where something as normal as this is the happy news? Yes, I agree. And Starship Troopers is getting a big screen

reboot adapting the original novel faithfully for the first time. So the Paul Verhoven version goes pretty far aside from the novel, but apparently

this reboot is going to follow it to a T. Hopefully they still have Kelly Carlson showering in it. We'll see. Only time we'll tell Tews. Okay.

Community notes. Okay? Yeah. There you go. Oh, nice. Look at that. Of course, they all have little luchadori masks. That is perfect.

That is cultural enrichment. This is the kind of stuff that Chris Sims wants funding cut for. Oh, goodness gracious. Anything else, Tews? Yeah. Yeah, there's, um, so, uh, 16th annual Regina Beach and District Lions Joe Mayor Memorial Family Ice Fishing Contest

March 7th from 11 to 2 p.m. $5,000 in prizes including a whole bunch. If you're a kid and you go, you also get included with your entrance a pass for the water park that's by Regina Beach in the summer. So that's pretty good, hey? And then we've also got the details for the one up. Oh, shoot, I went past it.

Where the hell is it? March 16th to 19th. Kippa Biscow, regional park, 30 kilometers south of Tisdale, ice fishing tournament again. Important for all people to know that all veterans, either military or police, are still serving, are welcome. Also, any type of emergency service, emergency or fire. Some accommodations available at the lake. Others are hotel only in Tisdale daytime guest visits. visitors also welcome for info contact shared in at 30687305.

9 or 5. Thanks for letting. And then Carrie Ann had the Bonspiel coming up. And just a note on the WWE ring. Kevin sent me the tweet. It was found at a Lloydminster, a Lloyd Minster located pawn shop in Lloyd Minster. So the ring was located.

Mashup 197, folks, in the books. You know this. Everybody should know this by now. We're here every 10 a.m. Or every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. Tews, as always, good seeing you. And we'll see you next week. I think we should see if we can get some tickets to the midget wrestling. I know the guy.

It'd be a fairly big event. Tews. We'll catch you for next week. Oh, oh, and it's, you know, blah, blah, blah. coming in with the high chair. Folks, until next week. Tews could do this all day. Tews, we'll catch up to you next week.

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