Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 198

Episode Date: March 7, 2026

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Sean is the worst. Am I right? Sean is enjoying his time in a tropical exotic location. Yeah, he's often some banana republic. And we just had a minor technical difficulty just before we went live. And typically, typically Sean would know how to fix it. And so did we choose.

Well, we figured it out. No thanks to Sean's instructions, which were super fucking wrong. And so for those of you who missed the first part, because it wasn't live yet. We did a whole, we did a whole thing just before this. Let's, let's begin again. Happy Friday, twos. I'm Lisa. Happy Friday, Lee's.

Thank you. Everybody, Lees Merle is joining us here live. And it's weird. I'm not getting any of the counts up top of. of anybody watching and no chats have come in at all. I'm beginning to doubt whether we're even on or not. Okay. I think we are just probably not in the regular places.

Okay, they move the counter around. So people are watching. Okay. All right. Okay. So Lisa Merle from Rebel is, oh, and here we go. Joe Mama says hi, too. So obviously people...

It's working. It's working. We are actually live. Okay. Okay. Excellent. Lees Murals from the easy to draw hard to spell province, rebel news, frequent guest of the show. One of my favorite people.

Thanks for joining us this week. Oh, well, I'm delighted to be here Tuesday. And happy Friday to the mashup fam. I'm just, I'm just eager to see what Toos has lined up. Tews, uh, Tews had a whole schedule for the show today. And he was like, do you want me to send it to you? I was like, yes, absolutely. And then he sent it to me.

And I had to download a special app to see it. Really? I was like this where, yeah. Microsoft Word. I have to get a team's account or something. I'm like, this is where I, this is where I check out. Oh, no. So we're flying blind today.

Tuesday. All right. Okay. Well, so I mean, we always start off by saying happy airborne Friday. Everybody who served,

if you guys have any community notes or events or whatever like that, put them in the comments. We'll talk about them at the end. And we may as well hit the ground running with the Coots 6.5 where we talk about stupid things in the justice system

that don't really make a lot of sense given the fact that the guys at Coots got six and a half years. And also, they just don't. don't make sense on their own, but especially in light of that. So first off, four charged after $2.3 million in suspected fentanyl seized in Brampton probe. Now, interesting thing, we've got, so four people arrested, we've got 20-year-old

Navjot Singh, we've got 23-year-old at Tarvir Singh. we have 21 year old Boinder Singh and we have 21 year old Manpreet Singh all being arrested

for a bajillion things of fentany yeah those are standard Canadian I'm sorry I'm getting really bad feet I probably know what that is

sorry give me a sec here Yes. So there's some kind of a glitch where if I don't mute the screen playing, for some reason, it'll do like a feedback loop. And so it should be good now. Okay. Oh, it is. There we go. Yeah, these are totally 100% standard Canadian names that you just read off there. Tews. Like the list of top 100 baby names include those ones now. And so I don't know what we're surprised by here. Yeah, I guess this probably isn't. It probably isn't even news. I don't know why we're still talking about it. I mean, it's just like my favorite, my favorite song lyrics of all time.

Sing with me, sing for the years, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears. Every time we talk about some mass arrest in this country, for some reason, it seems to apply. Oh, I'm never not going to sing that song in my head now when I read these stories. Thanks. Well, that's exactly it. You're just going to be thinking about Aerosmith every time you see the news, especially in places like Brampton and Sudbury. And Surrey. Right.

Sorry. So, anyway, in other news in the justice system, man arrested after 15 people sexually assaulted at St. John's senior care facility. They arrested a 69-nice-year-old man for arrest. for sexually assaulting more than a dozen people. They arrested the unnamed man who was later released and placed on conditions. He sexually assaulted 15 senior citizens in an old folks home.

They're not releasing his name. And they let him out on bail. Yep, they sure did. Because just envisioning that isn't horrifying. enough. Two-thirds of Alzheimer patients are women. And that's who would have been in this facility, requiring care. And so this is a man who sexually violated Alzheimer's patients, people's grandmothers don't care. And I read that he was a family member of a resident who also resided in the building. So he got access to all of these people because he had a family member in the facility.

So there was no safeguarding between him seeing his family member and him having access to everyone else's grandmothers. But without question, I'm just going to call it right now. This is a 69-year-old that probably has the sketchiest track record, had all the red flags, all of these years. And this is where it was exposed. does show the vulnerability of warehousing are old people. Okay. Old people should not be warehoused in state run facilities. They should not.

They should not. They're mistreated. And so also what's staggering is how often this is probably happening and it's completely unreported. Like it goes under the radar because nobody is paying attention to these vulnerable women. No, it's like, I mean, abuse of the elderly, it's not exactly a new topic. at all. And I'm sure it goes a lot of times unreported

because A, it's, to be honest, Alzheimer's patients. And B, am I hearing an echo now too? Are you? Okay. I don't know. Anyways. Also, B, the fact that they can just get in and out and be on their way. It's crazy.

It's insane. Yes. The other thing is the fact that this man was unnamed. And that stands out as a big red. flag. Do you remember maybe about six months ago in some place just outside of Toronto where a woman was playing with their kids in the backyard with water guns and they shot the water gun over the fence and got their neighbor and their neighbor pressed charges for assault with a weapon. Yes. Yes. And they released her name and she was looking down the barrel of getting fired and all kinds of crazy stuff

because she was having a water fight with her kids in her backyard and some of that water went over the fence. Her name got put into the paper. This guy's name did not. Yeah. It will. It will eventually. But I think the reason why it didn't is if his relative was also a victim, they are, they would, they would, they would have to be really, really careful about identifying him and then accidentally identifying the relative who was also a victim. maybe. That could be an explanation. But it will come out in the wash. Details will come out in the wash. His entire life is going to be picked apart. Every single one of his relatives is going to be looked at in regard to this situation. And well, somebody's going to have to explain how this happened. Absolutely. And while that is a potential explanation, Lease, I would suggest that perhaps So the media in this country really prides itself on being factual and correct as much as possible.

And he probably had a name that was very difficult to spell and they didn't want to take the chance on getting it wrong, which is why so often with these things, they don't tend to release the names of people. It's just because they're just really difficult. 100% could be. And they could also be. I mean, it could also be looked at like shielding, shielding the aggressor from the community knowing who he is. So it could be looked at as a public safety. Listen, if this guy, if this guy who was just arrested for granny abuse is in my backyard and I want to know about it. Like, I absolutely want to know about it.

thing is that people are going to be really upset about that and they're probably going to be very angry about it. And the thing that really worries me is if we actually start releasing the names of the people who do these sort of things, what kind of repercussions are they going to face for raping grandmothers? Well, exactly this. Exactly this. Okay. Next one. Next one. Okay. This is the last one on crime in this country this week. parole board of Canada released another gem John Ross Cody formerly Peter John Peters granted

day parole despite being moderate to high risk for violent and sexual offending in January 1990 he fatally stabbed and strangled a woman before going to a second location where he killed a man by bludgeoning him with a metal pipe this is the guy look at that mullet and tell me that that doesn't scream red flags

this guy just got released he's out he's out What's the worst could happen? What's the worst that could happen? This is obviously an old photo. You know what I mean? Like this is at the time of his arrest. Why aren't they releasing photos of him as he looks today?

That would be important. That was in 1990. You know, it would be helpful to know what he looks like today. Because again, if he's moving into my backyard, I want to know about it. I'm just going to stay away from everybody with a mullet. I think that's a good policy in general. He could have got a haircut in all those years, too.

I know. Well, okay, see, here's the thing, though. I just listed off the first couple things he did, because this was a spree. He broke into a home, confronted the resident with a knife, stole her vehicle, drove to another city, robbed a bank, approached a woman in a parking lot, ordered her to get into her vehicle,

threatened to kill her, stole her car, broke into another home where he stole shotgun and shells and took a man at gunpoint to the nearby home of a senior. He threatened the senior with the gun, stole that guy's vehicle, went to another home, stole another weapon, went to a final home where he confronted a woman, pointed a gun at her and demanded the keys to her vehicle,

forced her outside at gunpoint to clear the snow off her vehicle and then stole it. This is this guy. This guy who used to go by the name of Peter John Peters. His name literally used to be Peter Peters. Peter Peters. The red flag. I would say that's a red flag.

That's a huge red flag. Okay, well, let's move on. The next thing we're going to talk about is the Toronto mayoral election. So enough about Peter Peters. Okay. Well, just let me tell, let me just say that I wish the parole board of Canada would have to house the guys that they release in their guest bedrooms for a period of time. Okay, if they're letting these guys out on the street, they should have to host them in their own homes. That should be a requirement. And then they would say, well, that makes me uncomfortable because

I have children. And you'd be like, yeah, that's the fucking point. That's exactly right. So in the new country, our parole board is going to have the people that they release that are moderate to high. Regardless of how they're assessed on risk. They have to, they just have to move in. They're just going to move in. You got to stay with them for a month. And if they pass your test, then they can come, come out. Exactly. I think that's totally fair. Because if you're saying, if you're saying trust us, this person is safe. Well, put your money where your mouth is. That's exactly right. Yeah, you take Peter Peters and you hang out with him and his crazy ass mullet for a while. And if Peter Peters is safe, then that's fine.

But until then Peter Peters is crazy. And anybody with a name like that is not to be trusted. Yes. The parole board will be required to help Peter Peters integrate back into society. Absolutely. Now, the Toronto mayoral election. Yes, please. Brad Bradford says he's always.

and when it comes to being Toronto's next mayor. Brad Bradford. Yeah. Completely, just a coincidence. It's crazy how that happens. So, John Torre's. John Torre decided he's not going to be running.

And so Brad Bradford is going to step in and he's going to try and oust Olivia Chow. Okay. Yeah. I guess that's a name that we're going to have to look into Brad Bradford. God knows we're not going to forget it. It's just Bradley Bradford. Yes. He has the exact opposite of a mullet. It's kind of got a Mr. Kloon. Yeah. I'll have to look into him. All right. Well, somebody needs to take out Olivia Chow for God's sakes. Oh, like, Tamu Yoko, oh no. I call her. Temu Yoko Ono. Well, well, you. Well, you. You know what? I mean, on the one hand, I think you're absolutely right with her being Yoko Ono. On the other hand, being Yoko Ono for the NDP isn't really that bad of a thing. Well, I listened to an interview with her, you know, that can't be censored with Travis Dan Raj. Oh, God, yeah.

Well, she went on there and it was just, it was horrible. She got his name wrong a couple times. She was like, oh, well, you know how it is Tony or something like that. You're kidding. No, no, no, no. And then it was really weird because she mentioned her former husband, who was the leader of the NDP multiple times, and every single time, that's exactly what she called him. Jack Layton. She called him Jack Layton every single time in that interview.

Interesting. Her husband. Interesting. Her husband. I mean, if your husband's talking about you, he's probably just going to say lease or leasy. or L baby Or sweetheart Or something like that

He's not going to be like Well you know what I mean I was just talking with Lee Murrell around the kitchen table The other day Like she's name dropping Her husband Right

She yeah she is And that's I mean Yeah that's what she does You think she became She became mayor In a vacuum Of course not She wrote the coattails

Of the ghost of her dead husband Yeah. And she's been, yeah, picked up the torch and just ran with it. Now, having said that, I think that she has done a good job of honoring his memory with all of the stupid stuff that she did and the dumb things she spent money on and the making an embarrassment of herself in front of the camera. Like all just classic NDP tropes. Yeah. Yeah. Like she's really been a spiritual successor for that legacy.

Yeah. Truly. Somebody jumped in here and they said there was a goalie in the NHL and the same. 70s and 80s, his name was Pete Peters. He played for Boston. So I didn't know that. I definitely I need to talk to somebody about that for sure. Now, I don't know if you follow the dairy cartel at all,

lease. No, what is this? Boutin cheese could obtain a protected geographical indication. So you know how when you talk about bourbon, it has to be. That's specific To, yes, champagne in France has to come from the champagne region of France. Yeah, and Glenn, with the exception of Glenn Breton distilleries in Cape Breton, because that's literally the name of the town.

If you're going to put Glenn on the name of a whiskey, it has to be Scottish. Okay? Yes. And now over in Surrender Town, Hawa-Haw-Haw-Ville, they want to get a protected name status for. cheese curds for the cheese that goes in Putin. Poutine cheese. So to call it Putin, then you'd have to make sure that it was... I think it's the cheese curds.

Yes. Right? Now, not to be confused with people from Kurdistan who are also called Kurds. And so, and the, you know, the fact that cheese curds existed long before even the French fucking language did, let alone this offshoot of... Quebec did not invent the cheese curd. Okay?

They absolutely did not do that. No. And so they're trying to lay claim to something that they didn't invent, but which is commercially of interest to them. They want to just take things from other areas that are more successful and just have it given to them. This is so off brand for them. Oh my goodness.

Oh, my goodness. Okay. So this is, yeah. It's crazy. Now look, I will give them credit where credit is due. A Quebecer did invent the Wonderbra. But they did not invent cheesecurts. Does it have underwire?

That's kind of the whole thing. That bastard. Let me see. On behalf of all women, that bastard. It's funny because I'm over here, I'm like, well, you know what? To their credit, they did invent the Wonderbra. and you're over there like now all of a sudden I'm defending the French and you're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to, we're not going to, we're not going to hype that guy, the inventor of the wonder bra. No, we're not. Women should be designing lingerie for women for good reason. Yeah. All right. Well, I feel like a little bit of male input would be acceptable. Yes. You can think what you want. You can, listen, you. You, you're, you You want to make this guy.

But you know, guys that design lingerie, okay, modern day guys, that's Leslie Wexner. Okay, on the Epstein list, that's who designed lingerie. So let's not trust people, men, that design women's lingerie that have nefarious ideas behind it. But you know what? He did bring in, like the only reason why he got tied up with Jeffrey Epstein in the first place, according to the deposition,

was that Jeffrey Epstein came forward to him and said that he was at risk of having his silverware stolen at many dinner parties and that they needed to track an inventory of it. And that was his foot in the door with Jeffrey Epstein. My Bubba sold silver for Berks for 30 years. That's how he got in, hey? That's how he got in.

According to the deposition, he had reached out to Les Wexner and said, hey, you know what, you're hosting a lot of parties and you have silverware. you know, there's a decent chance that some of your guests are going to be leaving with spoons and knives and, you know, the dainty little like seafood fork and whatever else. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I mean, I can't see any reason to doubt that in the least, you know, given the fact that he gave him the largest residential building in New York and entrusted him with power of attorney over his entire estate and gave him a cart launch to pretend that he was a residential building in New York and entrusted him.

launch and that he was a Victoria's secret lingerie model and then go around scouting for talent. All of that completely logically stems from him getting silverware inventory management. Interesting. That is, I did not know that any of that, too, thanks so much. But it shows like he got in Les Wexner's orbit by pretending to be a good safekeeper. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying that's Les Wexner's deposition.

Oh, I see. Like, oh, hey, you know what? I just got caught up in all this. I had no idea. Right. But in Les Wexner's view, Jeffrey Epstein would have been, like, would have looked like somebody

who was interested in maintaining assets. Right? Because he, if that was his intro, listen, you got expensive things and people might steal them. So let me be the guy to look after it. With that one intro act on the silverware, that's how he got in the door is what that it's incredible.

That's what Les Nexner was saying. And then he just said that it was just, you know, from there, obviously he gave you. Because, well, yeah, because I mean, you're like, hey, I have three more forks than I would have had we not met before. So please have the largest apartment in New York City. Right. I mean, it's, yeah.

Safeguard the silverware. I'm going to invite you to a dinner party. at my house too. I would love that. I want you. I want you to steal it. Okay. I just want you to You have no idea how obsessed we are with heists over here, Lee's. We're going to talk about one today. Okay. Oh yeah. We, yeah. You, you want to challenge me to a heist off? I am there. I do. I do. And you would end up with the most interesting stuff because like I said, my Bubba worked for Burks for 30 years. And my grandpa said she never ever brought home a paycheck ever. It was just always getting applied to her in-store credit. So people would come and have their silverware embossed, right?

Like have their little, little christening spoons or have the whole set embossed. And they would have it on layaway. And then something would happen. Okay. And there would be this item in the store that nobody was paying for. And so. Yeah, because you're not going to get some weird initial. You're not going to get the initials like GK on a random spoon. Yes. Yes. And so my bubble would be like, how much is left owing and they'd be like, I don't know, at the time, $90. And she'd be like, all right, I'll take it. And she'd start plugging away. And so all of my silverware is the most random eclectic collection.

That is so cool. Of abandoned goods from like the 30s and the 40s and the 50s and the 60s. It's wild. Yeah. Come over. Steal my weird silverware. Do it. I'm going to try.

Okay. I'm going to try. I'm going to come up with some clever way to get around the metal detector at the last second. You have to sign an NDA. I don't have a metal detector, but I have an NDA at the door. All right. Okay.

Well, next story. Families of three former liberal MPs behind Queens County Wind Farm that's getting $231 million in federal support. Now, everybody tells us that green energy is the future and it's the way forward and there's no planet B and all of this stuff. And they're doing it because they care about the environment. But it just so happens. It's a registry of joint stock companies list Roswell Development Directors as Michael, Michelle Sampson, Cape Breton, Richmond, MLA until 2017 and former interim leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Edgar Sampson and brother of Daryl Sampson, who was Liberal MP for Sackville, Preston,

Chesit Cook until 2025, Mitchell Bryson, who served as president of the Treasury Board and liberal MP for King's Hans until 2018. And Dan Roscoe, founder of renewal and son-in-law to David Dingwall, who served as liberal MP for Cape Breton East Richmond until 1997, had federal cabinet positions, David Howell, who worked for Briseon Developments, and Steve Rogers and Ramsey Ali of Slate Asset Management, which apparently has some kind of a vague link to the government as link to the government as well.

Like, it just so happens that while we are, saving the world and making it a better place and just happening to get a $231 million worth of financial support from the government, it's all for liberal insiders. Yeah, it is. Of course it is. Because before they could announce this project, before this project ever had a shovel in the ground, these bastards were laying the policy framework that would allow this project eventually to come to fruition. So these guys were planting seeds on their own behalf while they were serving the public.

And only now are we finding out how they're poised to benefit from their investment in time. It's just a remarkable coincidence. Well, it sure looks like it, doesn't it? Oh, it absolutely does. Now, this whole Aboriginal rights and rights to claims to land and everything like that has gotten a little bit spicy

because the Cowich and Tribe the Cowich and Tribe got their land recognized and then now the Musquium First Nations is also saying we need ours recognized but there's a little hang up in that there is overlap Oh, what do you mean? Well, okay, so. So traditional territory of one overlaps the traditional territory of another.

And so now there are going to be double claims. Well, I don't know if it's double claims. It seems like a First Nations turf war is about to start. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, what happened was was that, you know, somewhere along the way because nothing was written down and everything was, you know, oral tradition. Oral tradition for centuries, which is not to be questioned and we can't question it. And so now we're left at this conundrum where we have to ask ourselves,

why is this unquestionably true oral tradition having geographical overlaps that directly contradict each other? Could it be that oral tradition is an unreliable unit of measurement? Could it be that? Because oral tradition lends itself to having things injected in the immediate, the benefit the immediate. I think we can question it. I think that's just a little bit prep supposition on your part because we have been told

multiple times that we need to take these literally, factually, completely correctly. And, you know, just because in the oil field, if something isn't written down, it didn't happen. I mean, you deal with anything with incidents, safety, anything like that. If it's not written down, it didn't happen. Oh, yes. This is why I wrote a children's book. This is why I wrote a children's because.

When it's not written down, it didn't happen. It's happening. Yes, I should mention that, by the way. Lease is, for those of you who weren't tuning in last time she was on, is now a bestselling author in several categories. Yes. A three-time Amazon bestselling author of Buck the Rainbow Unicorn. You can go to buck the rainbowunicorn.com to get one. And every child that has been exposed to trans ideation or gender ideation in the country of capital.

it needs that book. So buck the rainbow unicorn.com. Thanks. Absolutely. Anytime. Okay. So here's here's where here's where the the overlap actually happens here. So you've got the barred inlet right here. Okay. Okay. In the in the north shore. And so the Cowichin are claiming this whole area. And the squeamish are claiming this whole area which basically completely overlaps the cowchin. And so between the squamish and the cowchin, everybody's a little bit squeamish to say the least. Yeah.

Well, that's a tricky situation for them. Yeah. So somebody's saying, hey, morning from the Van Island. Hello. Hello from the contested areas, which are now involved in a First Nations turf war. So I hope you're doing well with that. And the other interesting thing is that this is from a Twitter account called Table Salt. I'm just going to bring this back up again.

I love that account. I do love it. Yeah. So good. Yeah. Table Salt's talking about this on March 4th. Okay. The Vancouver Sun doesn't start until March 5th.

The Twitter account, random Twitter account is a day ahead of the mainstream media. in terms of talking about this. Holy Hannah. Well, yeah. That's the way it happens now on X. Well, that's the way it happens now. Well, and the mainstream media has always been really reliant in finding their stories on X after they've already developed.

Well, I mean, it's a lot easier than actually doing the legwork. Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's weird. You hear the stories about like all the reporters in the States are on Adderall all the time just to like get all the work done and everything like that? you're like, where can we find that work ethic? Just, I mean, it was to stay caffeinated with a steady supply of nicotine, that helps.

It does help. It does help. It does help. We're going to have more on that later. But also, I don't know if you heard about anything happening in the Middle East lately, but there's been some kind of explosive updates. Yeah, yeah, basically right that spot right about theirs. just a big crater. Yep. And so we're not going to put a whole, I feel like it would be disproportionate

for us to spend more time talking about World War III than the actual time it spent to have World War III. Right. Because it was over like that. The states came in, for those of you don't know, blew up the Ayatollah. And then when everybody else gathered together to vote for the new Ayatollah,

They threw it on the rocket at that. And now everybody's gone. They tried to have a mullah conclave. Okay, they all got together in the same building to elect a new mullah. At the Vatican, there's white smoke for a new pope. And in Iran, there's brown smoke for not a new Ayatollah. Nobody. Nobody.

I mean, we've been talking on the mashup for years about how all these politicians are hypocrites because they're worried about saving the world and yet they will always go to meet in person whenever they want to decide something rather than a Zoom call. And I feel like, I feel like if you're an Islamic dictatorship, maybe you need to invest in a Zoom subscription for a few of your surviving members just to spread them out of the impact zones. You know, I think they were scared off technology after Operation Grim Beeper. Yes. Do you know what I mean? Because they knew that their digital lives were being scrutinized by Israel. They knew it. Okay, because you can look at what's happening on social media. They knew Israel was watching it. They were like, we need a new method of communication that isn't on this social media business. Everybody to the beepers. And so they went and got this. What they, what is considered an archaic piece of technology. They were like, we can't rely on the new tech. And then and then there was explosives hit in them. And then six months later. somebody in Israel hit a button and blew everybody's dicks off.

Either it was those guys lost a hand or a pecker. Okay, there was no in between. And it was just a brilliant stroke of genius. And I could see the mullahs being real nervous about any, any digital, any digital interaction. Well, now, now they're quite literally communicating with smoke signals. That's it. That's all they go. That's it. That's all that's left. The mullahs out there

Fluffing the burkas? They just got the magic carpet, but they're having trouble because it keeps wanting to fly away. Oh. I hope we don't joke more about that today. All right. So here's from Ezra.

All right. Ezra was pointing out that Mark Carney. Oh my guy. Yeah. Mark Carney did a fair bit of flip-flopping. he went through more positions than he went through a lot of positions

lees yeah yeah um and so in the past 72 hours uh he supported the attack called for diplomacy called for a ceasefire said the invasion violates international law and now suggesting he might join the attack so he's been all over the map yeah

yeah uh basically taking every stance possible. Yep, because he's unreliable and new and is on a global tour. So right now, there is a communications team that would be behind Mark Carney wherever he is in the world. And there's always, there's always communications fumbles between the prime minister himself, his, the prime minister's office, the press core, the, like it's an entire chaotic schmazel that's happening around Mark Carney right now. going to have games of telephone. Of course. Absolutely.

That is what's happened to. So you have people on different continents in different time zones, trying to collaborate a cohesive response with what's happening with the United States and Israel. And nobody can get a hold of anybody in any kind of time. And so this is the predictable response is that it's going to be chaotic and all over the place. Yeah. And they don't want all meet in one place because they know what happened to the last group

that did that. Well, you know, I missed the me I was before even considering that thought. But let me just tell you about a meme I saw this week that made me that made me stop in my tracks. And it was it was a terrible map. And it just the legend was countries that have eaten their prime minister and then countries that have not. And only the Netherlands was highlighted.

And I was what on. Yeah. Yeah. And I think the 18th century, they got. so mad at earlier. Earlier. Yep. They got so mad at their guy that they stormed the castle or whatever he was presumably in. Grabbed him and ate him. They ate him. There was a conflict between the rural people and the urban people. So the elites and the peasants. I couldn't even imagine a situation like that. And they ate the prime minister. And immediately when I thought, I thought to myself, I really

missed the me I was before even knowing that was an option. Okay, I did not know that was an option before this. Can we put that on a referendum? Yes. I mean, that's the way democracy works. That's what we've been showing how democracy works, especially in this country, is we don't really give a shit what you think as an individual.

If everybody else votes for something, that's what's going to happen. And you just need to deal with it. Yes. Yep. Wow. Oh, what is happening to? He fell out of his chair. We have a puppy who has developed a propensity for chewing on cables.

Sometimes when they're still attached to things. So this morning, for example, you know those little Velcro straps that around a lot of cables? Yeah. And I'm like, what's going on, sweetie? What are you having? And one of the Velcro straps that go around a cable to keep it nice and tight. And so anyway, there's a USB cable sticking out of the USB port on the front of my computer in case I ever feel like I need to charge my phone while I'm sitting here.

And that little rascal was trying to drag the whole computer across. Just vexed her. She needed it. She needed to explore. Yeah. Well, the first time she was introduced on an episode, I had her up and I was showing everybody for a minute. And then the episode ended when she went down

to where all the cables are underneath and started pulling at things and the camera fell off. Just a little bit of chaos. Just a little bit of puppy chaos. Yes. Yeah. And then Brett says, looks like meets back

on the table, boys. Classic Lord of the Rings reference. Oh, thank you. Oh, thanks for that. I don't know Lord of the Rings references. I was perplexed by what you just said. threat. The important thing to remember is that the movies are far greater, far greater than the books. I don't even understand why anybody sees the books. Like, sure, there's an insane amount of effort and creativity went into them. But that doesn't mean they're good. They're like,

not at all. Right. The books, the books, I'm going to, I'm going to die on this hill, guys. The Lord of the Rings, J.R. Tolkien was not a compelling writer. So anyway. He said what he said. Yeah, I'm not going to take it back. If someone wanted to drop a Game of Thrones reference, I would probably catch that or Breaking Bat. That's my other show that I know inside out.

Okay. All right. Well, now I'm going to try and shoehorn something about Jamie and Circe into I'm so Circe. Circe is my peak character. Like she, I was raising babies while watching Game of Thrones. Okay. And Circe was a pretty protective mother.

Yeah. Maybe a little bit too much so. Maybe just a little bit far. Maybe just a little bit too far. She's a complex woman. Yeah. Well, you know, that's the one thing. There's a few things in that show where they had some really good complexity that they took out.

And I was really disappointed. Like, do you remember in season two when Tyrion got all of the metal smiths in the city to make the giant lengths? Yes. And then that nothing really came of that in the story. Right. But in the TV show, but in the actual story, what happened was that they pulled up the chains to close off the bay. And then when they put the wildfire in, they burned down that entire fleet. So nobody really knew what happened.

But Tiri and Lannister saved everybody by burning down that whole fleet that day. Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, there were threads. that they could have expanded on and didn't. I feel the same way about the red wedding.

I mean, there was threads they could have expanded on and didn't, but also there was a few moments of pure genius. So do you remember when, who's that guy from The Last of Us and Mr. Fantastic and Fat? Like he's the guy who's been in Pedro Pascal. Okay. So his character was like an expert on poisons. And it talked about how he was this huge expert in poisons in the book multiple times.

And so then he. decides to be Tyrion's champion in that in that battle against the mountain yes okay and then what happened was was that he hits him a couple times with his blade gets him poisoned and then the mountain kills him and then the mountain spends the next like week or two weeks or whatever it was slowly dying pain okay so the mountain head killed his nieces and nephews when they were babies. And so he hated them and he was super mad at them. And so why would a notable expert in poisons be in a one-on-one duel and use a poison

that would take weeks to kill somebody slowly and painfully? Well, it's because he went in there knowing that he wanted to die because he wanted that guy to die slowly and horribly more. Vengeance. just driven out of vengeance. Yes. Absolutely. And the nuance of that was completely scrapped.

Interesting. In the show. Interesting. Huh. I didn't know that. Food for thought, hey? Yeah,

you got to read those books if you haven't. And actually the audiobooks are hands down the best, like they're the best books I've ever read, but also the best audio books I've ever listened to the guy who does them is, and people who do audio books. books are super talented. Agreed. They're all the way up here.

But he is that much further past all of them. Yeah. He's that much further past all of them. Okay. Right. Before we get caught up in another landslide, let's talk about this one. Landslide at DR Congo Colton Mine

kills more than 200, including children. 70 children died in a landslide caused by huge rainfall at an open pit mine. This is where the fancy components for your phones come from. They had a landslide at the mine.

You're like, oh, no, it killed all the workers. Yeah, yeah. And almost half of them were kids. Oh. Yeah. Oh, well, this is terrible. This is worst case scenario. I wonder who, what my immediate question is,

who owns the company? Who owns the company? Who is responsible for this? It's, they say rebels. and I'm not a huge expert on what's going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yes, of Congo, yeah. I'm not a huge expert, but apparently the mine was being ran by rebels. What that means, I'm not sure.

I don't know if there's good guys, the bad guys. I don't think there's a lot of good guys over in that area to begin with. And I think it's safe to say that if you've got a bunch of kids in an open pit mine, regardless of your stance on other things, you're probably not a good guy. Yeah, probably not. Now, having you said that, I'm pretty sure that whoever the rebels are rebelling against probably have the exact same minds set up with the exact same kids. So everybody sucks. Yeah.

Now, did you hear about the Bay-Dunord Oil Project? No, no, but I want to know. All right. So apparently in 2003, Canada signed on to a UNI. agreement saying that if there was any infrastructure more than 200 nautical miles off of the coast of all the signatory countries, they would pay just a bullshit tax to the UN, which has the potential to hit a billion dollars. And so now what's happening?

A sin tax. Well, it doesn't, it's not necessarily for, in this case, it's for oil, but it's, if, if If you're going to do anything more than 200, 200 nautical miles, I don't know what the difference is. I mean, aside from the name, but as far as the measurement goes, who knows, maybe they're both the same and just people think it's important to be, you know. Like miles on water. Maybe that's it.

You know, I don't know. Maybe it's because, you know, the water is to account. Yeah, yeah, it just screws up the measurements. So anyway. Those are liquid. One is liquid miles and one is solid miles. That's definitely it. Yeah.

Yeah. And then once you take into account, the change of state. So anyhow, yeah, this, if this was ice, it would only be this far. Right.

That's, that's probably, less tax, but because it's on these, then it's more. So this is the first project in the world that has fallen underneath this designation,

and the federal government of Canada has agreed to pay it. Yes, because they're setting the tone. They're setting the tone. They're like, we love the U.N. we are going to be over-compliant.

This is an environmental issue, one that we take very seriously. And guess who ends up paying it? Guess who ends up paying it? The taxpayers. Us, yes. Yep. Now, they have a bunch of green idiots saying that this is crap. It should be the oil company paying this.

And my stance is basically, unless the oil company also signed that in 2000, they're going to say fuck off. Right. Which they probably should. Yeah. They probably should. But who knows? Who knows if the oil people are also on side the UN people and they're like,

we'll just pay it. We'll just pay it. And then it gets passed down to the consumer. Well, yeah, one way or the other, somebody pays some idiots in Belgium. Yes. Yeah. In what return are we going to get? It's going to keep the UN going to.

the UN that has the terrible reputation that nobody trusts that you? I mean, that's that's the UN. Well, I mean, if we don't support them, Lee's who will? I don't care. Here's the thing. That's the right answer. That's the right answer. Absolutely. So anyway, this is another situation where everybody sucks. Well, everybody that one billion sucks. Yeah. Yeah. And so we're going to pay that now it's not all at once it's not like some upfront fee it's um i can't remember there's like five years of grace and then it goes up 1% and then 1% more a year until it caps out at 7 but the united nations see here's the thing about nations is that they all have one thing in common and that's that they're on

fucking land it's not the united oceans okay you're right so like like It's the one indisputably out of their jurisdiction area in the world. Yeah. Is the middle of the fucking ocean? And they're like, because you're like, okay, well, yeah, I get the fact that you guys are the United Nations. But no matter what nation you're talking about that you're united with, it's a long fucking way away from here. Yeah. Yeah.

And yet Ottawa was like, yeah, you're right, guys. You're right. United Nations. We're going to, we're saying that for some stupid fucking reason. Would you, would you like it in the form of a check or with a wheelbarrow of gold bricks? Pallets of cash. Yeah. Like, how does you know you preferred method of payments?

We haven't had gold forever. We couldn't pay somebody with gold if we wanted to. You're right about that. But you know, you know what I, you know what I'm saying. I know exactly what you mean. Like this is a quick way to launder a whole bunch of money to the UN. Yeah, yeah. That's exactly it.

And then in the meantime, you've got CNRL. So I don't know if you've heard about this one or not in particular, but CNRL says it'll delay $8 billion expansion until carbon pricing rules are clear. You know how everybody decrying the separatists are saying that it's just creating regular. It's going to cause investment to flee and people aren't going to want to invest. Okay. even if that were true, which there have been tens of billions of dollars announced that have demonstrated the exact fucking opposite. But even if we were to take that baseless claim at face value, the best argument you could make is that it would be the exact fucking same thing as what we're with right now.

That's right. That's right. Right. Oh, people aren't going to want to invest here. Well, guess the fuck what? Yeah. And this is purely because of federal policies. Like it's explicitly stated. And this is CNRL. This is one of the only companies left in Canada that didn't pack the fuck up in the past decade in the oil and gas sector.

Yeah. And they're just looking, well, they're saying they're looking for some reliability before they'll jump two feet in. You know, they're not, they're not completely out of the game, but they're looking for some reassurance. Well, they just said that they need something more substantial regarding the carbon costs and the methane standards before they give the go ahead on this. Like they're literally paying. Where is this project to? Where is this project? Does he tell? Oh, shoot. It was called, it's, it's an area that I'm not totally familiar with, but from the sounds of it, it's somewhere vaguely Fort Mac to Conklin. I can't remember the name. Okay. Okay. It's Jack Pine. Jack Pine. I don't know wherever Jack Pine is. I could try here real quick.

If I was to look up on maps and go, Jack, Oh my God. I love a map to us. Well, sands. Let's look. Okay, guys. Lone pine supply industry.

I assume they, that's where you buy flux capacitors. But if I go jack pine, I don't know. Oh, here. Oh, it's, it's Husky sunrise, which is now Sinova's sunrise. Where is this?

general area so you're looking oh there we go okay north of so you've got lack libish here's fort mac start me at edmonton really give me an edmonton all right okay you go here you get stabbed a couple times you follow roughly along here yeah and then this is the 63 that goes up to wandering river so look at where the boreal forest hits hey like just hit solid. Yeah, about there. Yeah. Yeah. That's where you start taking the 63 north. Okay. And then you go through Mariana Lake. They got a camp up there too and all the way up to Fort McMurray. And then this on the other side, this is the 881 that goes all the way down to Lack Labish. Interesting. Okay. All right. And so Anzac used to have a great burger place back in the day. But if you were to drive right through Fort McMurray, you go up, there's the hill. You go up the hill. There's that. and statue on top of the hill.

And then you've got basically, you could turn left to go to Fort McKay and you can turn right to go to sunrise. And then later on, firebag. And there's a few other things in between there. But broadly speaking, so if it says Jack Pine Camp, Sunrise, Nova, so that used to be Husky

sunrise. This is all slant wells. Can you, is there, is there, street view on these maps? Like, show me to. Like the whole time you're talking, I'm like, they should be street viewing this. No, no, I'm trying to grab the guy and drop it down. Okay. And, oh, here we go.

Look at this. This is the edge of the highway. Okay. That's as far as Google Maps street view goes. We're at the end of Google Maps. That's how far north we are. All right. How do I get out of this?

There we go. Sorry. Yeah. So for those of you who love the Shawnee stories, I was with. Shawnee on this site when they were drilling some of the first slant wells.

And so Shawnee is this guy used to work with it completely mentally lived in a completely different world. And he was from the Middle East and just no concept of reality or anything like that. Just did his own thing and it was awesome and weird and just a

spectacle behold. And so springtime, super muddy and you couldn't smoke in camp. And so he would go and he would sit in the pickup truck and he would talk to friends of his running up what I assume were ludicrous long distance bills to go halfway across the world to just talk to people. And so he just sit there and he'd smoke.

Kind of smoked like a Frenchman, but that's besides the point. And anyway, we're having breakfast the next morning. Like, oh, hey, Shawnee, how's it going? He's like, I think I saw a bear. We're like, really? And he's like, yeah. It came up to me. Basically said hi.

And I'm like, a fucking bear. Like, this is the middle, like, the woman who got eaten by a bear happened like 30 kilometers away from here. Oh, right? Oh, no. Okay. And so he's just like, well, yeah, there was a bear. I think it was a bear. I'm pretty sure it was a bear.

And like, it could, like, I don't know if maybe like a fox came up and it's like, like, what are we talking about here, right? Yeah. And so we just assume that he's crazy and I don't know. Maybe it's a porcupine or some fucking thing, right? So then we all go to get in the truck and it's been muddy because it's springtime. And the parking lot was just dirt. And you can see the fucking bear tracks where it went right up to the door that he would have been sitting in. And then you can see where the hind legs are standing right there.

It would have gotten right. right here on him. And he was just telling this story. Like it was like, basically just said hi. There's a bear almost fucking ate me. It was just like, oh yeah. So by the way, I have this interesting thing to tell you.

And you look at the tracks. You're like, how the fuck are you not dead? Yeah. That happened. He didn't even realize. It didn't even hurt him. He was in danger. And so anyways, that happened.

That happened roughly speaking where this expansion is proposed. Interesting. Interesting. And like for the rest of us, it's a traumatic experience two years, two summers ago. We had a bear wander through our family campground. Okay. And all of the kids and the husband flew into action. And I swear to God, till this day, that event gets brought up once a week in our house. Like once we were. It was so, it was such an exciting moment. Nothing bad happened. Everybody did what had to be done. But that bear, that bear encounter, that was special. Yeah. And you're going. I was just like he basically said hi. Well, yeah, yeah, just no concept of it. My dad, like decades ago, used to work just up in places like that as a mechanic. And this was back when there was a lot more drinking and gambling and things like that. They were all up all night drinking whiskey and playing cards.

One guy gets up to go take a piss. And so they just go, he just goes to go outside. And then all of a sudden you hear this like, bang. Because, of course, everybody carried around all kinds of. of guns back then, too. It was like the good old days, right? Yeah, good old days, yeah. And he comes back in, he's like, guys, there's a fucking bear, there's a fucking bear.

And they went and they tore that whole place apart, couldn't find a bear. No bear. They're just like, you're drunk and you're stupid. And and that was it. And they just mocked him for like the next six months about how dumb this guy was. And he thought he'd got a bear.

And there's like, there's no bear. There's no bear. Where is this bear that you shot? I think we'd be able to find it. Every time that guy went to pee for the next, the rest of his life, he would be reminded not to shoot at things. But you know what I mean? Every time he got up from a table.

Yeah, for the next six months, absolutely. And then when they packed up the trailers to move them to the next spot, there was a dead bear underneath one of them. And he was like, I'm fucking told you guys. Stories take a long time. He's just sometimes, sometimes stories take that long. Yeah, sorry about that.

Sorry about that. I'll try to be a little bit faster. We'll maybe cut out the fact that from the Times of India. Canada announces $100 million scholarships for Indian students, introduces hybrid study locations. Yeah, yeah, from the times of India. It's so weird that this stuff doesn't get reported on in this country by the mainstream media. Yeah. What got reported here, what they told us here was that they were going to fix the Ford and student situation in Canada. They were going to fix it. Okay, they realized that it's Fix is really vague.

I mean, you have to agree on what the problem is before you fixed it by eliminating the program, but triple times funding a new program. That is what they've done here. So 100 million dollars to the U of T for Indian students to come to Canada to study after they just said they were going to fix the entire foreign student situation. Yeah. Tripling the funding. That's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Please solve more of our problems, guys.

So there will be, this is a, this is a institution-specific funding announcement. So this is only for the University of Toronto. Yep. It's $100 million. What we should all be wondering is what other universities are getting what kind of funding that look exactly like this. Because in Saskatchewan right now, there was an announcement that Ukrainian students got, there was an announcement. but that we were somehow helping Ukrainian students continue their education in Saskatchewan.

Every kid who comes from a farm in Saskatchewan is a Ukrainian student. Well, yes, yes, but also these are foreign, like foreign Ukrainian students. Fresh Ukrainians. You know what, fresh Ukrainians. And for kids, for kids that are from Saskatchewan and looking for post-secondary placement. And also Ukrainian? Well, it makes it harder.

It makes it harder when those spots are already taking. up. That's all I'm saying. And subsidized. Right. Why aren't we investing in our own kids' education? Why aren't we investing in our own kids' education? I think it says something that the government of Canada is funding foreign students over Canadian students. It absolutely is. It absolutely is.

Here's Mark Carney. I don't know if you remember when Pollyev got all kinds of hell for not getting a security clearance? Oh, and what have we here? In terms of vigilance and monitoring, which we do actively and on which I receive regular briefings, there are aspects of those briefings that I can share in public,

and I'm not going to, I'm not going to betray them. Boom! That right there. Pollyev is vindicated. He's absolutely vindicated. And when, in In the lead up to the election, this was one of the main attacks that liberals and NDP and the complete left-wing mechanism used against him.

They accused him of hiding something, you know, not getting it because he was hiding something or he was trying to protect himself or when the whole time he was saying what Mark Carney just said. Yep. Yep. Also, Mark Carney tried to attack him in the debate on that exact thing. Sure. And there's a big, there's a mile wide difference between Pollyev, who was.

leader and still is leader of the opposition and the prime minister of the country. The prime minister of the country should not hide behind that when he has asked pointed questions about things that he doesn't want to answer. I think that there's a, there's a different set of expectations as it comes with the office of the prime minister and he's not cutting it. No, no, not at all. Like so much for transparency. Yeah.

All right. Now more on the fact that we've got to go to India to get our news. This is from the Punjab region of India. It has not, as of this broadcast, has not been reported on by Global CBC, CTV, Toronto Star, any of the usual suspects. Blacklocks broke this, Western Standard picked it up, Juno picked it up, and Babu Shahi, oh, sorry, I'm not saying that right, babu shahi.com has now reported on the fact that Sikh MP, imposed fine for non-disclosure of property details. Liberal Party's speak member of parliament, Randi Singh Sarai,

has been fined $200 for non-disclosure of his property details. He's been accused of not publicly disclosing his assets upon being appointed to Secretary of State for International Development. Reniip Sarai is a member of parliament from Surrey, British Columbia for the ruling Liberal Party. He has become the 10th MP from the president. party against whom action has been taken under the conflict of interest act equaling several hundred dollars in penalties two hundred dollars two hundred dollars could you imagine the devastation

that nine times two hundred would rain down upon the liberals could you imagine the kind of economic devastation that would cause this doesn't listen if we want to get serious about corruption in politics, those fines have got to be absolutely out of control. Well, they've got to be, they've got to be crippling. So they, they've, and I would say they need to be twofold. One, that person is fined personally. Yes. Something to the magnitude of like, you know how if you burn your own rock and curling,

the other skip gets to say it could have gone here and done this. Okay. It should be the same type of rules. Well, I mean, you know, almost curling. You were at the mask spill. And so anyway, it should be something like this. You say, all right, in theory, the worst this possibly could have been would have been this, this, this, this, and this. And then you impose a fine of 10 times that amount to him personally and to the liberal war chest or whichever party's war chest.

Because that's the thing that hurts them. That's what they care about is getting rich and getting reelected. Well, and it shows a great big hole in their vetting process. Do you think that they worry about this when they vet them? I actually think that they worry about all the wrong things. All of the political parties concentrate on all of the wrong things in their vetting process, and this is why we get disasters, like these kind of liberal MPs. But it happens in every party.

Well, every party, they kick out Sabrina Maddow because she's going to be a good representation. of the people. They did the same thing with White Claypool. Yes. Yeah. You got some big, big problems happening there. And we didn't even get, like we haven't talked to since the Conservative Party convention in

in Calgary in January. We should talk after the show. We are just going to plan a coffee so I could talk about this. But this is incredibly insufficient. If we want to bring back credibility to our political institutions,

we can't attract people that will, A, do this or be going have this go unpunished. In the new country, we'll have stocks right outside of the legislative assembly. Yes, the pillar is. You're going to, if you're an elected official that's caught doing something sketchy, not only are you going to go broke doing it, okay, but you're also going to spend time in the stocks where we're going to leave heaps of rotten vegetables for the electorate to throw at you.

And not like soft ones like tomatoes. There are probably a few mixed in there so that you don't know when to flinch. But we're talking a lot of turnips. You ever dodged a frozen tomato twos? Okay. Frozen. Yeah, actually, that's a fair point.

You got to take into account that Canada spends a lot of its time cold. So it doesn't really matter what it is. It's going to feel like a root of baga. You're going to, listen, you're going to learn your lesson if you mislege the electorates. Well, like this guy looks. If the first one or two are punished like that, you don't have 10 of them. Two few politicians have been tarred and feathered in recent decades. I would say hard or feathered at this point.

Listen, I would take the tar. If I had to pick one, it would be the tar because feathers. I mean, feathers are in a delight if I'm being completely. If there's no tar, feathers are a pleasure. Okay. I don't want to do that to the politicians. you'll be tickled, sir. Here I come with my...

It would still be more than what we're doing right now. Actually, that would be a form of torture for some people. My feet are so ticklish that I can hardly get pedicures because I jump and kick so hard just out of being tickled. We should do that. You can have a feather dust or a frozen tomato. Throw them at your elected official. So we've been doing this.

We've been doing this. for the past few months, where we point out just some really outlandish drivers, mostly in this country. The odd time, the odd time something happened to another area. Okay. Oh, this was outside of Regina. Welcome to Saskatchewan. It was. Look at the heck.

It's just the track. It's just the track. This guy ripped the entire cab off of an excavator on the bottom of a bridge, which had clear height designations on. the side. Okay, it was clearly marked. And this guy, an over height load,

smoked it at speed, and this is the result. Yeah. There's easier ways to change the oil and your heavy equipment, guys. I'm just happy that there wasn't a school bus right behind them or,

you know, a bus full of hockey players, for instance. But yeah, these events are happening more and more often, it seems incredible. Yeah. Well, in my van lifing, two's, okay, in my van life life, I've been van lifing steady since like 2020.

And in 2023, there was a marked uptake in the amount of Indian truck drivers that approached my van. Okay. They will be able to buy and parks by myself. You're a lot lizard. I mean, I suppose. But I'm just in the middle of nowhere, like by myself in the middle of nowhere. And they will, they will literally come, walk through the, stop right in front of. we walked through the ditch approach the vandum.

I can't help but notice you're the most beautiful woman for several hundred miles in any direction. You can't blame them for shooting their shot, Lee's. I actually can because it's alarming anyway, the uptick in that. So yeah, of course we're going to have driving

disasters like this. Of course we are. We have a whole industry. Bad drivers right now in the country. That's how Mad Trudeau was after the convoy that he's like, oh, you know what? I'm going to do something mean. That's exactly what he did.

And so speaking of bus drivers, or speaking of buses full of hockey players, a guy by the name of John Manley, who used to be a former Liberal MP wrote an op-ed, saying man responsible for humble Broncos paid his debt to society and should not be deported. I bet John Manley isn't from the town of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, like my husband is. I don't realize he was from Humbold.

Yeah, my hubby is from Humbold, born and raised. His whole family's from there. He's related to everybody. If he's not related to him, he knows him. And I bet that this guy didn't consult with the families because the idea of running into this guy eight years after the event, who was responsible for so much grief. anger and chaos in their lives.

I don't think that that's too much to ask for. No. And yet, Canada has spent eight years dragging its feet trying to keep this guy in Canada when he could just go home. India can have back. Just go back and go back to your old life

and we're going to try and rebuild over here. You rebuild over there, we rebuild over here and never come back. Yep. And that would absolutely be the best way to do it. Yeah. Here's here's Toronto. Check out this window.

Is that plastic film in the window? Yeah. Oh, oh, his whole windshield is gone. Plastic film in the window. Oh, the side window. Yep. Yeah. And then apparently it ripped open and he just said, okay, well, screw it.

I'm just going to keep going with it. Yeah. This is this is the kind of stuff that, you know, you should be able to catch on a pre-trip, especially given the fact that it's on the fucking driver's side window. My goodness. Nothing like a little bit of press and seal. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Safety press and seal. Now, this is interesting. It's a little bit suspicious because the comments are turned off. But in the UK, a woman, and it says woman, 29 years of age, arrested after exposing herself in public. How many people here actually believe that's a woman? Well, I mean, I'm just going to go out on a limb and say, see, this is awkward. There's going to be a few moments today where I kind of wish I was sitting across from Sean rather than a lady.

But I'll prepare myself. Go ahead. Okay. I don't know of anybody who complains to the point where people get arrested when it's ladies exposing themselves. It literally never happens. These kind of these kind of exposure crimes, the voyeurism crimes, the Public Sex Act crimes,

exclusively belong to men, okay? Exclusively belong to men. How many women don't have those? How many women get arrested for exposing themselves? Zero, zero percent. Marty Grawe? Free the nipple. Okay, it's we are in a post nipple state.

Women don't, women don't get arrested for this because we, because it's, we're not driven by it. Men do, though. And so I just wonder how that person identifies. That's all. Yeah. I just, I can't be sure either. And nobody's allowed to chime in because the comments are turned off. The whole thing is just the strangest thing ever.

And then, that's how you know they're lying to you. That's how they, that's how you know for a fact. Whenever the comments are turned off, you're like, I smell shite. Well, this says a thing about the CBC and their YouTube communities, right? Like, you can't comment on a CBC program on YouTube in Canada. They turn them off. Yeah, like everything.

Politicians do this, activists do this. Yeah, if they turn the comments off, you know. Whenever they're saying something that they know is bullshit, that's how they protect themselves. And I think if you're a politician, you should not be allowed to turn off comments. It says everything that they do. The politicians that block comments should not be elected again. Because they are actively trying to evade the truth.

And at the heart of every good decision that every politician should be trying to make is rooted in the truth. Good decisions start with the truth. So politicians can't tell it and they shouldn't get fucked. Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, we've got more articles here about interesting ladies. mayor accused of raping drunken 16 year old at pool party ordered morning after pill on DoorDash.

Now the crazy part about this is that's the mayor. That lady. Oh, wow. What? Okay, really? Let me just center this. I had that all wrong in my head.

Mayor accused of raping drunken 16 year old at pool party ordered morning after pill on DoorDash. And like I said... The female mayor. That lady... raped a 16-year-old boy. Yes. Without protection.

And then ordered her herself emergency contraception the next day. Yes. This lady, who despite the fact that she's wearing a very non-revealing sweater, you could tell that those things bolt on. It's Stacy's mom.

This is Stacy's mom. That is it. This is it. This is it. There she is. This is the woman Stacy's mom wishes she could look like. Yeah. Wow.

Yeah. So got in a romantic entanglement then with this 16 year old boy. Okay. That is rape. And then what happened? Tell me the rest of the story, too. Well, she got busted by her kids. It was kind of a big thing.

This was a friend of the child. A friend of your kids. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my. Okay. Well, making some real questionable life choices. Okay.

I love all the New York Post ads. But yeah. So anyway, and then this lady basically more or less immediately resigned from mayor as one of the hottest mug shots I've ever seen. Like you look at that and you're just like, I could change her. Wow. Although if you're coming at it from that angle,

maybe you don't want to change her. all that much. No. No. My biggest takeaway from this, my biggest takeaway from this is that you can get emergency contraceptives via DoorDash.

That is your, that's your takeaway. I don't, I can't really say that much else, Lease. Okay. Okay. This is like new Mary Kaye Letterno,

which was a story back in the, oh, it had to been in the 90s, 2000s of a teacher who fell in love with his student and then went on to have to, like leave her whole family. She had, four kids and a husband left that family, started a new family with the student,

eventually had two or three daughters and she eventually died. This sort of smells that. This is new Mary Kaye-Laterno. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, South Park did a whole episode about this exact premise. Did they? Oh, it's hilarious. You should check it out.

I've never seen a South Park episode ever in my life. I know. It's the smartest show on TV. Is it? Oh, yes, yes. You got to be self, it just drops references that go right over your head until like three seconds later and then they land. There's that, but also the satire is so sharp.

So the premise of this is that there's this young boy who's got his younger brothers in kindergarten. And the kindergartner, the kindergarten teacher falls in love with the kindergartner and they have a relationship. And so he goes to try and tell the cops about it. And they're like, oh, miss blah, blah, blah, blah, the kindergarten teacher. And he's like, yeah, that's the one. she's she's having sexual relationship with my little brother and then the cops go nice it's like yeah that's her that's so that's her um other interesting things in the news ace ventura when nature calls do you remember the rhino i don't but tell me about it okay well

there's that scene where he's trying to follow around the the warden from shaw shank as he's going around the plantation or whatever. And he's got this animatronic rhino this do, do, do, do, do, too. But it keeps getting hotter in there. And then the fan goes out. And then he's just boiling. And he's like, oh, I got to leave. And so he goes to open the

hatch, but then the handle on the hatch breaks. And so then he's got to climb out the butt, because there's that tiny little hole. And then there's this family looking at the jungle safari tour being like, oh, the mother rhino is giving birds.

And then this sweaty Ace Ventura comes climbing out the back of it. So this is the prop that they used in the movie. This is that rhino. That rhino is up for auction right now. I insist we buy it. What is it at? Is there a link that we can click on? This is the link.

Actually, it was at $12,000 when I brought it up this morning. It's now currently at $13,000. Somebody wants. a rhinoceros in their life. I mean, can you blame them? Like that would just be the coolest thing ever. I can't even think of- I would use that as a yard sculpture.

100% I'm into weird yard sculptures and that would be one. Well, it would just be awesome. You'd be like you could have it as a centerpiece in your living room. You could have it centerpiece in your dining room. It's the rhino from Ace Ventura when nature calls. I just want the head part. of it to mount on the wall.

That's it. Like a rhino het taxidermied. No, no. What you'd want is like a fake Jim Carrey halfway out of the rhinos butt and you mount that on the wall. Just the back end. Oh my God.

Bumblebee tuna. Could do that. Sure we could. So I don't know when the last time you were in Bolivia was. but a cargo plane full of money crashed on the highway scattering brand new banknotes so brand new money right from the mint goes to take off

crash lands money goes flying everywhere and if you read all the way to the bottom more than 20 people died but apparently the big takeaway is that there was just a freeway full of money and people were running and scooping it all up 20 people died in a plane crash in a plane that was full money. I think that there are... Plainful of money. Keep your eye on what's important here. They just mentioned it in passing

lease. Sure, 20 people died, but a whole bunch of other people got to have a bunch of money fall from the sky. Is it completely normal to have planes, cargo planes, stuffed with money? Yes or no? Like, no. I guess that depends on whether or not your name is Barack Hussein Obama. But for me, it isn't. Well, like, like, this looks like an arms deal. Like, this looks like an arms deal.

that accidentally got derailed. It was a government plane right from the mint. So it wasn't an arms deal thing. It was... Well, that's what comes back in the plane after they drop off the money, you see. You see? Okay, all right.

So you're... You know what? I guess, and especially with a place like Bolivia, you kind of question the validity of stuff like that. Sketchy third world situation? Yeah, that's exactly right. Hold on. Let me yell at my dog.

Thunder. Please. Well, at least thunder's living up to the name. Although if you're worried at all, it is very faint. Is it? She's scratching on the door. I accidentally locked her in and the kids came home for lunch, which vexes her because she knows if there's food that's being dropped on the floor right now. So she's just,

she's just over here, like fiercely pawing at the door, making little pleading noises with the kids to open it for her. But hold on. Can I just be excused for 30 seconds while I go open the door for her? Okay. I'm going to start talking about the nightlife in Ottawa, so you're going to want to get back as soon as you can. Okay, okay.

Give me just 10 seconds. It's all good. We're great, Lisa. Yeah. All right. So, for those of you wondering what's going on with the nightlife in Ottawa, it sucks, it's lame, it's gay, it's retarded. CTV news brought on this guy on the morning show.

I don't know why it's got the subtitles over top. But this dude is the nightlife mare, the nightmare. The nightmare. of Ottawa. And he looks like he is probably the least cool person in the accounting department. That is the nightmare of Ottawa. I don't know why the letters are up on top of it. And I don't know how to make it go away.

Believe it or not, CTV fucking sucks. And so anyway, they're talking about all of these cool things that they can try and do to boost the nightlife. And at no point does anybody suggest, you know, maybe just be cool. Like just don't don't suck so much. Don't be a place that like you had hundreds of thousands of tourists come into your city at one point. And you tried to kick them all out because they were up too late being too loud. Yep. Yep.

But that's that's if they want to increase nightlife. Just the other just a couple weeks ago, we were in Calgary downtown Calgary for a whole entire weekend. And the way that the decisions that city hall. made that really uncomfortable. You have bike lanes, okay, entire downtown cores dedicated to bike lanes that nobody uses. There's no parking.

It's not convenient. You don't have alternate transportation to bring people in from far away. You don't make it convenient for them. You make them pay. You make them download the apps. It's kind of, you want to improve nightlife?

Get out of the fucking way. Excuse my language. Well, that's exactly it. Like, what if you guys just, Talk to some people who want to do nightlife stuff and you just ask them what sucks and then just don't do that thing. Right. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Although, I mean, you literally are a city full of bureaucrats. So if you ask them what kind of things they enjoy doing, it's imposing arbitrary tariffs on stuff that comes from Saskatchew. Right. And so maybe you could turn that into like, I don't know, a game night thing where you just, you, you, You could have like that ski ball, ski ball, but it has tariff written on it. And then it has the prairie provinces as the holes.

Right. And then you could do that. Absolutely do something like that, right? And, you know, maybe the big jackpot, if you ever win the jackpot at the arcade, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, sweet, I won. And then the big thing comes up on the screen that says, Quebec thanks you for your donation. That's, right? That's what you should do in Ottawa. You just absolutely embrace the fact that it's a bunch of bureaucratic blowhard, fuddy dutties.

Yeah. Who make bad financial institutions all over the place. Who have created the atmosphere that doesn't support nightlife or anything fun happening. At all. No. No. Like that was their nightmare. And he looks like a fucking nerd.

Yeah. Yeah. And you know why? Because he probably is a fucking nerd. Because he probably is. Yeah. Because the shoe fits. The shoe fits.

But you know, I really love, a little part of me, like the western part of me, really loves the little story where something happens in Ottawa. And they're like, oh, this is going wrong. And I'm like, right. Welcome to the club. Yeah, I mean, that was probably one of my favorite parts about the convoy was how mad the people in Ottawa were. They're like, can you believe the audacity of this? They're shutting us down.

We've got to stay in our homes. Insufferable assholes. Wait a sec. You're mad because Yeah. Because some other distant part of the country has arbitrarily done something that is making you stay in your home? I remember looking up on the Ottawa tourism website, events that they were running at the same time the convoy was there.

So listen, if you're coming to there, I don't know, there's stupid pomegranate festival or, you know, whatever, whatever events, special events they were running for the season. Was that an actual thing? It was, well, they were running some events. I don't remember what they were, but it was something. It was something stupid. But instead of looking at all of those people and treating them like guests.

Like opportunities. Right? Like tourists that we appreciate, they treated them like criminals and invaders. Like it's grotesque. Ottawa is grotesque. I can't. I can't wait to divorce all of them. Can't wait.

Oh, I mean, I said. I don't know. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Ottawa starts, or if Ontario starts a petition to separate from Ottawa. Wouldn't that be funny? We'd like to excommunicate this land area. We'll give it to Quebec. We'll give it to Brunswick.

We don't care. First Nations. Just First Nations. Yeah, yeah. You guys want to, you know, couching. No, maybe we can't. There is a lot. We can't give you all the land, but we'll give you that whole fucking great.

There is a land claim that actually, like right now that's happening through Quebec and into Ontario that does include the city of Ottawa. Who the fuck would want it? I mean, here's a cesspool. Enjoy your cesspool. Like, I'd rather take like a literal landfill. Like a literal actual landfill. Yep. Well, that has, that's useful.

Landfills are useful. It is? It is. They have a job to do, whereas everything in Ottawa is gross and broken. All right. Okay. So apparently the paywall came up on this after, because I closed it and then reopened everything after I finished the notes.

But Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with nicotine products to increase worker productivity. So smart. Yeah, you go into the break room and you can get whatever nicotine pouches you want. Yeah. Look at this. This is my vape that Tews knows about. Look at it matches my outfit. Well, she bought it from vapego.

So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently if you work for a tech company, they'll give you as much nicotine as you want. Yeah, because if you want people to be productive, if you want people to be productive, productive people use nicotine.

And that is the end of it. It's amazing. If I owned a tech company, I would have these in the break rooms. Sure, I would. Well, you know the one brand you wouldn't be able to have, though, is Tucker Carlson's nicotine pouches. Tell me why.

So again, New York Post can fuck off with all these advertisements. But Xbox News host Tucker Carlson took a major hit last week when a multi-million dollar load of his ALP nicotine pouches vanished in a hijacking in Los Angeles. They did a heist of Tucker Carlson's nicotine pouches. They stole them right off the back of the truck. No, no, no, no, no, no. They went in with the truck and a fake ID,

had the people from the warehouse load them all up and then just disappeared. Like they did a fake receipt. They rented a truck. They made a fake ID. They just walked in there with a clipboard and said, we're here for this, for this delivery. Yeah, yeah.

It all got loaded up. And then they disappeared and the transponder went blank after a while. And so Tucker Carlson was offering. a $100,000 reward. Well, I can't wait to see what happens. Yeah. That's interesting. We love a good heist on the mashup.

Yes. I mean, who doesn't? Who doesn't? And obviously, there's some value in it because if there wasn't, they wouldn't have stole it. How much was it worth? Do we know how much it was worth? Sorry.

It said, let's see here, a multi-million dollar load. Okay. I don't know if it said the exact, Okay value 378,000 tins so if you're assuming 10 bucks a 10 that's like almost

4 million bucks but I don't know if that's correct in the States oh yeah that's a lot of nicotine that's that's a lot I feel like I feel like maybe he should check in on Palantir and see if maybe they had something to do it watch their stock performance

just as an indicator of what they're I mean, you look at their books, you'd be like, okay, well, you guys have this program where you have unlimited nicotine pouches for the people working there. Yes? Okay. Well, how much money did you spend on nicotine pouches last year? None. Why? So weird. So, and then I don't know why it just so happened that there was all kinds of nicotine pouch news this week. Dale Nally wrote a letter to the federal government asking them to do away with the nicotine. pouch ban at least in Alberta. Yeah. And I mean, the strongly worded letters, I think we all remember the Jason

Kenny days. They didn't really go anywhere. But at least somebody's trying a little bit. And the funny thing is like we'll have at least two or three times a week. Someone will come into the store ask if we carry them. Right. Because it all, it's all black market now. Like they didn't, they didn't just restrict it to the pharmacies, which ended up being

the most happy coincidence ever for Galen Weston, again. again. Again. Oh, the only place you're allowed to sell these is pharmacies. And it just so happens that like probably half the pharmacies in Canada are owned by Galen Weston. You don't need to give them $12 million fridges anymore because you handed him a cartel. That's right. That's exactly right.

Yeah. And then at the same time though, there's illicit stuff all over the place. Like we don't carry any of it. But there are so many places I know of that do. Is that right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. And it also, it also doesn't, yeah, it also doesn't help that the competing products, the only competing products in pharmacies were Nicorette and Nicoderm. Remember those old school?

And zines or zine or whatever it is, the, that you can only get like two different flavors of mint? And they're gross. Like they're disgusting. They're disgusting. I didn't like them at all. Like there was something wrong with, they were, it was not a pleasant experience. Like, it should be like nicotine, it should be a pleasant experience. But the companies, Nicorette and Nicoderm, and the companies that already had their finger in the market, are also lobbyists of the federal government to keep out, yes, to anti-tobacco lobbyists.

So they're just, I mean, this is so gross. It's so, open the market. If people want to give it to them, they'll decide. The market will decide. Absolutely. The only nicotine pouches that are legally allowed, to be sold in Canada are the specific brand name of Imperial Tobacco. Interesting.

Yep. Interesting. It just so happens. It just so happens, right? Now, I'm a little bit mad about this. I found a neat story about a herd of feral cattle on a remote island near Antarctica. Nice. And how they survived there for like 100 years.

some a family from i want to say the netherlands tried to start up a farm there yeah and then after year they were like fuck this and they just left five yeah yeah because it's it's an island in the middle of nowhere and they just they gave up they left five cattle there and nobody went back for a hundred and some years interesting it's the middle of nowhere like it's basically equidistant between australia um africa and and and our And it's a super remote. Yeah. And when people came back, there's this thriving herd of cattle.

Amazing. And so the government's got involved and they did the logical thing and they killed them all. Here I'm like, here I'm like, that is incredible. These animals that are perfectly adapted to live in these conditions. Have been living there for a century. Human intervention didn't even, you know, were domesticated, but then easily, seamlessly went back in the wild because that's what they're designed to do. My God, they are incredible creatures.

And they got rid of them. Did they? Yeah, let's let's have some fucking stakes. And so, yeah, they killed them all off. Why? Wait, why? Because of an environmental concern? But here's the thing is if they've already been there for 100 years,

I feel like the environmental concerns aren't exactly warranted at this point. Right, right. They're not creating some new situation that we need to be alarmed of. They were worried about the vegetation on the island. But if the vegetation on the island has been killed off after 100 years, I feel like it's probably going to be okay. It's probably going to be all right. See, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site is kind of the problem.

Oh, piss off. Yep. Oh, the United Nations. Just disgusting. Just disgusting. And so anyway, I don't know what happened to this article in the last hour, but it was up when I was putting everything up. I bet it got some attention if this is just a new story that everybody's getting on.

Well, yeah. And then also apparently there is another remaining herd of feral cattle on an island just off of Alaska. Like where Codiak Island is underneath the armpit. There's a tiny little island right next to it. And they've got a herd of feral cattle, as well. Huh. And so,

I can't tell you guys about it because the article's gone. Well, we should, we should really worry about those cattle. Don't tell the UNESCO people, okay, or they will declare it

some sort of area of international significance and probably fly a helicopter over with some. Yeah, yeah. They'll get the same people who are getting rid of the feral pigs. Okay.

Now, I don't know what you know about the WNBA. Hardly anything, but I'll want to. That's, That's the right amount. So this is the WMBA. Or just seven meals.

No, not even for three meals. She was like shopping at Airwan, though. That was, that was the issue. Stay away from Airwain. Fuck that place. Actually, I love heroin. Sorry. I'm like, that's a treat for me, though.

I'm like, I'm on, my contract is 70K. We cannot be doing. That is more than my salary. That is more than my salary. than my salary. Yeah. So for those of you wanting a little bit of context, this is a lady from the WNBA talking about how she hired a personal chef for $7,000 a month.

Seems fair until she actually points out that she makes $6,500 a month. That seems there must be some other income in that household. She's also she also she also mentions Aeroon. Do you know what Arawan is too? It gave the the impression. I don't know, but it kind of gave me the impression of a really expensive place to eat. Super, super ultra luxury grocery store. Okay.

We're talking like a little clamshell of cranberries that have been blessed by a shaman. Okay. And then whispered sweet nothings and then packaged and sold. for $40 at Arrowland. Okay? Oh, wow. Everything. It is, it is crazy, super, super high-end prepared groceries.

And that's who she's, what she's talking about there. Well, that's, I guess where her chef was shopping. That's, listen, for $6,500 a month, that's groceries in. 7,000. $7,000. She made $6,500 a month. Oh, $7,000, if I'm paying a chef, $7,000, that's groceries in. Okay, grocery, you must buy the groceries with that kind of.

money. My goodness, that's just for time. Yeah. That's the sweet gig if you can get it. Yeah, well, apparently she doesn't work there. She had to let her go because it was too expensive. Now, I don't know if you saw this, but indigenous ancestral remains found on Ontario property could cost this couple $319,000. So they were doing a straightforward renovation of their cabin and then, well, it's in Ontario. And they call them cottages for some stupid reason. Shella. Yeah.

So then they get a call from the foreman saying, we've got a little bit of a problem. We found human remains. So then the cops come. They think it's a crime scene. They do a little bit of looking. No, no, no. It's worse.

It's ancestral remains. It's some old-ass skeleton. And so now they are on the hook to put the bill for the archaeological dig, to get the blessings by elders and all of that stuff. them saying something, if they, if nobody had said anything, this would have just gone away. But because they said something, now the owners of this property are on the hook for $319,000 worth of archaeological analysis and interring and whatever else of these ancestral remains. Yeah. Yeah, this makes you always think I should have

have just had a shovel. I should have just started with the shovel and not brought in any contractor. And if I had done this word myself, maybe we wouldn't be in this pickle. But this is actually not unheard of. This happens all the time in Britain that has, you know, four thousand years of development in a very, very small space. This happens all the time there where somebody will want to add on a sunroom, to their little house in the Cotswolds. And next thing you know, there's sitting on a- I don't think we can say that word on the show. God's Walt There it is again

And they will stumble upon like an ancient Anglo-Saxon cemetery And then they're on the hook for the costs So I think there is I think there is an argument to be made for just doing your own digging Just do your own digging I'd say that's pretty fucking fair Now here's

I don't know Have you heard about the gopher wars? What is it? Oh Why gophers are the root of a turf war between Ottawa and the prairies. So, Ottawa.

Yes, sorry. Ottawa decided, yes, that's exactly right. Ottawa decided that strict nine was no longer allowed to be used on fucking gophers. Yeah. For anybody that doesn't know, strict nine is an incredibly potent poison as it pertains to gophers and was relied upon by Western farmers for the last 60 years.

And then Ottawa came in and said, hey, no more of this. We got concerns. and stopped Western farmers and Westerners in general from being able to deal with these pestilent little rodents. Yep. Yeah. So these little fucking bastards that you shoot every chance you get

that any time you see one on the highway, you try and run it over, you do your part to keep the gover population down. Unless you're in Ottawa, in which case you decree by stroke of a pen that the effective way to manage the gopher population is off the table. And so Daniel Smith and Scott Moe are trying to push back on this and at least like by a couple years or something like that.

But some bureaucrats in Ottawa who have probably never even seen a fucking gopher in their lives. Have you ever seen how fat they are in Moose Jaw? Like if you ever go to that moose, right? Yeah. We have Mac the Moose, yeah? Yes, Mac the Moose, who. was the tallest moose in the world and then got beat out by a few inches by that moose in Norway. Norway. And then they took the antlers off, put on slightly larger ones and was able to

reclaim the title of largest moose in the world. If you ever go into the shadow of Mack the moose, those gophers are like fucking furry balloons. Yeah. Gophers that tourist spots often are. They're the best fed to gophers on planet Earth. People feed them. And then they get plumpas as little badgers there. But make no mistake, they're rodents. Like they are gross and destructive. Yeah.

But yeah, they're like badgers with T-Rex arms at that point. Yeah. Vicious things. Well, I mean, I was in Forte Ventura, which is just off the coast of Morocco. It's in the Canary Islands. And, well, so I. I was in Lanzarote and then they're like, hey, do you want to go on a tour of Fort of Ventura? And I'm like, you mean a place that says difficult journey?

Yeah, sure. I'm in. And so anyway, and then they were talking about how like there's this species of rodent that got introduced, like this exotic species of rodent that got introduced. And then they just took over the island because there's nothing there. Right. Okay. And I'm like, okay, cool. So this should be interesting.

I wonder if they're going to want to bite us or like what's going on. So the tour bus stops and everybody gets out and there's just gophers as far as the eye can see. Really? Yeah. I was like, who in their right mind would introduce fucking gophers? But not only that, they're talking about these exotic rodents, but keep in mind that there's an ocean between us and them. So when they're talking about exotic rodents, we're talking about fucking gophers. Yes.

It'd be like, it'd be like if you went to, I don't know, some. African zoo. And they're like, oh, behold, the majestic Canada goose. You'd be like, motherfucker, did I just pay 78 fucking bot-swanty dollars to see a fucking goose? Sure did. Sure did. Yeah. But that would be exotic from people that don't know what a gopher.

For instance, there are advertisements from the 1870s and the 1880s and 1890s where they lured people from Europe to come to Canada to be blessed with this amazing gopher population. You can live on gophers. That is how many of them there are. And the people in Europe were like a gopher. Could you imagine? We'll just go hunting gophers and we'll live on those. And then they got here and came to understand what a gopher actually was that it was a

rodent that they had been hoodwinked. Yes. Yeah, they talked about the plentiful gophers. that people would find when they get here, not knowing that they, you know, that they would have envisioned something else, yeah? Well,

I mean, that's, that's why the whooping crane almost went extinct was because you could literally just go up to them with a fucking stick and bonk them on the head and there's dinner for the night. And so you think about it, like if you're a settler, but if you're a settler and you've got a handful of cattle and a handful of pigs

and a handful of chickens, right? You don't necessarily want to kill them every time you want some protein because you're trying to build your herds up. Right. But hey, there's this flock of really stupid fucking birds. They don't even hardly move when you approach. Yeah.

So you just go up, bunk. Yeah. And that's why, like, they got down to like 108. It was the estimate of how many whooping cranes were left back in the day. Interesting. Yeah. And it's because they were fucking dumb. They're basically just slightly better than Dodo Burst.

They didn't run away. Yeah. Oh, um, here. I got to handle this. Two's release. Have you been to the Torrington Gofer Museum? Absa fucking looting, I have. I don't even know what you're talking about.

What are you talking about? Okay. So call it, I don't know, ballpark an hour and a half northeast of Calgary. Okay. There is. So there used to be a train line that went through there. And then when the train got,

train line got decommissioned. Yeah. I want to say like the early 90s, but don't quote me on that. They were like, well, what the heck are we going to do? How are we going to bring people here? Yeah.

How are we going to bring people here? And what are we going to do with this train station that's of no purpose at all anymore? And so the story, the story is that apparently, because I talked to the lady who curates the museum for like an hour, she was absolutely wonderful. And the story apparently is that someone in the back was like, well, we got a million fucking gophers around here. Maybe we can come up with something to do with them. Amazing.

And they went, yep. Yep. And so the whole thing is like just a whole bunch of murals of taxidermy gophers doing all kinds of interesting and weird things. Incredible. I have that. Oh, that would be so right up my alley. I love some good art taxidermy blend. Like that full on, full on creative business.

Are they wearing little costumes? Yes. They have all kinds of different costumes. They're doing all kinds of different weird things and stuff like that. I love it. I'm telling you right now, I would love it so much. This is right, yes, right up my alley. That's an incredible moment, though, that they, like, they had this opportunity.

They have a fresh slate and they're like, we need to do something. And it was like that first amazing idea that just sort of landed. That's awesome. Incredible. Yeah. Yeah. And so, I mean, gopher is easy to find. And then they just got somebody to do the taxidermia on them.

And they're doing all kinds of different poses and all kinds of different situations. I got to go. Oh, you got to. You got to. It's wonderful. I took Mrs. Too's there one time. Romance. Romance. Every time, every time we get a chance to do anything, it's always something that I want to do.

So I tell you what, twos. She didn't say twos, but she's like, I can tell you what twos. Today, we're going to do whatever you want to do. And I said, okay, get in the car. That's what you picked. Yeah, and she's like, okay, where are we going? And I'm like, I'm not even going to tell you. I'm not even going to tell you until we get there.

You just went on an adventure, on an adventure. And then we get there and she's like, are you fucking serious? I'm like, oh yeah. Oh, yeah. That is the best. It was romance. Okay, that is a, that is a, I mean, what woman wouldn't love being taken to a museum of taxid rodents?

I don't know. The romance just, the romance just oozes out of that story. That's love. Like I wanted to share that with her. And I did. And it was magical. I love it. And then every time I suggest,

hey, we should go back there, I get that look that kind of just like, you know, I can't even do it because I'm not a check. Actually, you know what? Like,

you know, as far as the transgenderism goes, okay, you want to prove that you're a woman. Give me the look like I just said something offensive. Because guys can't do it. But you know that look where you're just like, I don't know.

Yeah. Anyway, that's the go for, whole museum and I hope to go back again someday but I don't think I'll be able to take Mrs. Tews because she knows where it is and as soon as we started driving down that road she'd be like we're not fucking doing this

I will jump out of the car. We'll plan a mash up field trip then. That would be awesome. That would be actually be amazing. They do have they do have a thing where you can. What little town is it? What little town is it? Pornton. Does they have a campground? Can we get a camp? Can we

just figure out a campground near there? There's, I mean, Biceker has a campground and they've got the giant skunk there. Say less. Put it in the book for this summer too since what we're doing. Mash-up field trip. Yep. Well, they actually have the thing where they say, you know what, just ask us if you're interested in commissioning one of these. So like you could get your own. And so I always thought it would be neat if I did like a mash-up one.

You could get your own what? Your own diorama of gophers doing whatever you want. Don't. Like, I'm thinking of birthday gifts. Okay. Sheila Gunn-Reed loves a weird thing. She loves a weird thing. And a tiny taxidermy, a tiny taxidermy gopher.

Her birthday's in July. It's happening. Okay, but here's the thing is it's not a gift that you would just take and give to her. You would do a thing of Sheila Gunn-Reed as the gopher holding a microphone. I don't know. And it would go in the museum. It's happening. It's 100% happening.

It's happening. That's what we're doing, Tuse. Okay, we're making it happen. Okay. Well, I guess we got to give them a call. But in the meantime, in the meantime, you may not know this about the country of Oman, but they have beauty pageants for camels.

And the problem that they've run into lately is that people are injecting their humps. they're artificially inflating the size of the humps in the beauty contest except it's not my humps my humps my humps it's a camel's hump it's alice's camel and so they also artificially inflate the size of the lips and stretch the nostrils

so this is they actually in this year's beauty competition for camels in Oman I'm saying this all with a straight face they had to kick out 20 of the camels because they had been given various forms of plastic surgery. Botox to smooth their faces, inflating the humps, the lips, the noses, all of that. 20 camels got kicked out for getting plastic surgery.

Now, the interesting thing is that the rating, they look at their heads, their necks, their coats, and their humps. So that's where all the plastic surgery took place. So, you know, nobody worried about doing their knees, their elbows, camel toes, anything like that. It was all just, it was all just the superficial stuff up top. Yeah. Camel breeding is big business in some parts of the world.

And the breeders will do nearly anything to get their camels to show well. In camel shows. actually the world can be split into two distinct categories. Camel countries and horse countries, okay? If you just think about the amount of money, an effort that's put into breeding horses, take that times it, apply oil money to it, okay?

Oil money to it and then put it on. Well, it is on one. And this is what you're going to get. I love how they have beauty pageants for camels, but their women are under burkas. Like I think that's the most telling part of this story. I mean, it's hard to rank camels in order of attractiveness if you're just putting them underneath the big tarp. Listen, if you put the women and the camels together, which one is more attractive?

And these guys would be like, I'm not sure, actually. Well, it depends on, it kind of depends on the humps. It all comes down to the humps. It all comes down to the humps. We all know it. Lovely lady loves. Okay. Now, I don't know if you saw this video making its way around interwebs or not.

But this is the CEO of McDonald's eating the big arch. Just watch how natural this guy is. He's just easy in front of the camera. Everything flows. He obviously loves the food. very much. Chris Kay here with, you've heard about it. Here it is, the big arch.

This is something that we have tested already. It's in Portugal, Germany, Canada. I love this product. It is so good. I'm going to do a tasting right now, but I'm going to eat this for my lunch, just so you know. So here we go.

First, holy cow. God, that is a big burger. We've got a very unique kind of sesame, poppy sort of bun on it. We've got two quarter pound patties, a delicious big arch sauce, and of course some lettuce. So, oh, there's so much going on with this. First of all, let's try to get this thing. I don't even know how to attack it. Got so much to it. Oh, there's also some crispy onions on here as well. I see those kind of coming out. All right, the moment of truth. look at the size

look at the size of that bite you just got a little bit of on there look at that look at the size of that bite yeah yeah well he's watching his calories obviously very obviously

yeah and then and then he says afterwards he's like oh yeah well I'm not going to eat it all on camera but I'm going to eat the rest of this burger for my lunch and meanwhile like he's just looking like look at what his eyes are doing He is not enjoying this at all. No. No.

Scientifically describes it. Look at the, we've got two types of seed on this bun. And then we've got two patties and some let. Do you remember the brilliance that McDonald's advertising used to be? Big Mac MacDLT, a quarter powder with cheese filet a fish, cheeseburger, McChicken, and the nuggets taste,

the golden French fries. Regular and larger size. Let us cheese, peas, peas, onions on a sesame seed bun, all that stuff. And now we got this guy. This boring, fuddy-duddy in his, don't you love his carcigan? Oh, he looks like the fucking nightmare of Ottawa.

This guy has been told that he's going to be held hostage until he takes the bite of the burger that they're sell. Okay? Yeah, like this is like what are you trying to get a toddler to have three more bites. Yes, yes. Just one more bite. Just one more little bite. That doesn't count.

That doesn't count. This guy is like, I don't like raw onions in the background. He got the actual burger. Are there onions on this? There's always a person in the family. We've got two of them in ours. Are there onions on this?

And if there are, they're not touching it. That's what that guy is doing. And then so this kind of started this, this Burger Wars thing. That's a good, listen. That guy don't in. That's the guy who runs Burger King. Right?

And then you've got. Listen, I want to see the main. And then ketchup up the sides of your list. That's how you got to get into a burger boys. Here's the guy on for Wendy's big half bite. Yeah. Good. Takes another couple bites.

And then get some nuggies. Frosty. He's a guy. He fries in the frosty. Look at this pause. Look at this screenshot compared to the dude. Isn't that saying something? Oh, yeah.

Isn't that saying something? Yeah. I saw this meme and I just, I thought it was hilarious. It says Grimmis is holding a gun to that guy's head. And he says, are you loving it yet? Say that you are loving it. Where's the hamburger? That would be such a great job for them.

Grimmis is also great though. Throw back to McDonald's awesome branding of this. And then Arizona iced tea. I don't know if you ever hear anything about the CEO of Arizona iced tea. No, but go on. The guy who's just. like basically fuck you we're not raising our prices on our iced tea it's delicious you can deal with it i love this product he lives and breathes arizona iced tea and that's why that's why they

always have the price printed on the can is that nobody can fuck around and make the price go up i didn't know that he loves the fact that it's cheap and delicious so arizona iced tea account says get you a CEO who actually loves their product and you're like yep yep yep yeah that's an exactly what you want. Yeah. I want to see the Chick-fil-A. I want to see Chick-fil-A's. I had Chick-fil-A for the first time ever yesterday, and it was phenomenal.

How did you get Chick-fil-A where you are? I was in Calgary, and then I told, because Mrs. Tews is a mail-order bride from the South, right? And I was like, hey, I'm going to be like two blocks away from a Chick-fil-A. Should I get something for you? And she was like, are you fucking kids? me yes yes immediately yes and so i'm chikfilet is the most pleasant fast food experience that you'll ever have in your life like everything from top to bottom and i was like hey so yeah i'm just kind of new like i've never been in one of these before what's going on like i didn't do drive-thru i like

actually went went in yeah and then he's like oh well welcome and this is this is that and this is that and then i order some stuff that looks pretty fucking good they asked me what kind of sauces i want and i'm like okay well is that made with real chick-fil-aes you know they're the chick-fil-a sauce and and then and then I get the food and then they threw in a warmed-up chocolate chip cookie it was actually probably chocolate chunk cookie and I was like hey I think I think maybe you guys give me the wrong bag I didn't have because you know you open it up and check it because they fuck you would fast food because that's what I'm used to open it up and check it there's a cookie on top I'm like hey guys I've got I've got the wrong one here I didn't order a

cookie and they're like no no no no no you've never been here before. Welcome to give you a cook. Yes. Welcome to the Chick-fil-A family. It is unreal. And meanwhile, yeah. They are to their guests, truly. Yeah, you go to McDonald's and they're like, hey, here's your, here's your food. And then you go to grab it. They're like, just kidding. Smush it. Here. Now here's your fucking food. It's not too much for customers to want to feel appreciated by the businesses that they're going to. It's so rare. It's so rare that.

Since temporary foreign workers took over our entire food industry. I don't think they're temporary at this point, but continue. Sorry. After our entire retail food network in Canada was changed in the last five years. That level of relationship between the, the customer and the company doing the completely gone.

And so amazing. I'm so happy that you had a great time. I have an excellent, because we didn't have Chick-fil-A's in Canada. This was strictly a U.S. thing until really recently. I have an excellent knockoff recipe

for Chick-fil-A. You could make it in your house. If you wanted, I'll send it to you twos. That would be wonderful. Okay. That would be wonderful. That's great news for me. But let's get back to bad news

about McDonald's. Please. Because they had a bad week. farmer banned from McDonald's after using drive-thru in horse and wagon. The young lady at the first window was very excited to see the horse in the drive-thru. He said the young lady that was handing me my food at the second window thought it was great. But the fast food chain's manager was less thrilled, telling Hatch that farmers, farm animals were not allowed in the drive-thru. One thing she was very clear about is what happens if they shit in my drive-thru and there's no one to clean it up.

Hatch added that horses have, he and his horses have been 86th from McDonald's. There he is. He took his horse's coal and onyx. Look like some big, nice Belgians, if I'm not mistaken. Powell, Wyoming to pick up horse feed and decided to pick up a burger and fries at McDonald's. And there's the drive-through he went to. Uh-huh. And the evil manager said, keep your wagon.

and your horses. Away from my burger establishment. Where the fuck do you think the ground beef comes from? Where do you think the eggs come from? Actually, you know what? I think that's probably being a little bit unfair because

he would probably be fine with a sawmill coming through. Right. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you. No, this is a sad state of affairs. I mean, there was there was a point in time where you can take any vehicle through a drive-thru and they wouldn't bat an eyelash.

I knew guys that took a canoe that like portaged a canoe over top of their heads through a Burger King drive-thru. That's awesome. Right? Just ran with it over there. Took it to the Burger King, got it off of the truck, put it over their heads, ran through the drive-thru. Nobody said nothing. It was a hilarious moment. Everybody lived.

And instead, this McDonald's is going to get bad press for the rest of its life for poopooing. The people that do the work that allows them. For pooing the small off chance that there was some pooing. Right. And McDonald's. Have you seen a McDonald's parking lot lately? Not exactly the cleanest place on planet Earth. Yeah, and not exactly a bustling metropolis.

Okay. But as bad as things are in this world, there are some things that are nice. That's almost all of it. But I just, oh, man, is that not wonderful? It's because of the liberal. Oh, sorry. Sorry. That's, yeah.

All right. That's all you can do when it comes to these people. They are absolutely unhinged. The only thing you can do is laugh about it. Just this last week, too, just like on a little personal note, a crazy trans activist suggested that what should happen to me for my beliefs is that I should have my legs torn off my body. dismemberment is what they want for me and they say this in public right like these are unhinged people

oh yeah and this person actually tagged pierre pauliev in this in this in this in this threat for me so I just love that it happened publicly but these people are not well they're unhinged no they're putting it to music oh yeah it's it's great like the thing about it is you need to show exactly how crazy these people are beautiful you have to you have to you have to It's what I've been saying about the gun control stuff. You know, the fact that they banned the butt master and plane mounted machine guns and black rifle coffee and airsoft guns. You don't need to try and convince them of the intellectual merits.

Right. You just need to point out how fucking dumb everybody is. Yes. And so we need more of that in the world. And then a few other things that are great that are happening right now. The Cardinals, so St. Louis. So shout out to both our listeners. St. Louis, Jack, and Vance.

The Cardinals are introducing a ticket package starting at $29 that includes bottomless soda, hot dogs, chicken tenders, bratwurst, nachos, fries, popcorn, peanuts, chips, and ice cream. I would take all four of my kids here. For $29? I'll take all four of my kids here. This is New Disneyland. Where did you say this was toos? St. Louis. In a heartbeat.

That is an incredible marketing, marketing plan. Yep. $29 for chicken tenders and a game. No, no, no, bottomless soda, hot dogs, chicken tenders, brattwors, nachos, fries, popcorn, peanuts, chips, and ice cream. Sounds like Disneyland to me. Yeah, and they named it, of all things, after the Liberals' negotiation strategy in terms of international agreements and union arbitration.

They're calling it unlimited. concessions. Okay. More happy news. Jumbo perch caught through the ice should break 44-year-old state record. The original state record in North Dakota for the biggest perch was two pounds 15 ounces. This one came in at 2.99 pounds, which gets rounded up to the nearest, or rounded to the nearest ounce, which would make it three pounds, which would break the record set in 1982. Look at that.

That is a perch. That is a three-pound perch. That's a big buddy. Yep, that's a big buddy that came out of that. Like, good for that guy. That guy's, this is his obituary photo, guys. Guaranteed this is going to make the obituary photo.

Yeah. You know, it's funny when, like, I don't know if you've ever seen women online complaining about how like the dating profile pictures are always guys holding fishes or fish. And you're like, well, yeah, that's the happiest that man will ever be in his life. Do you want to see what he looks like when he's happy? what are you doing? And I'm holding it like a man holds a fish on the internet.

Okay. But the thing about it is you want to see a picture of like what do you look like when you're joyful? That's it right there. Look at how happy that guy is. Yep. I want to see his family photos now, the one with his wife and kids. And we'll see a much different guy.

Well, I mean, it looks like he's got a wedding ring on. He's delighted. So, but there's not really much about his family. family there. Yeah. So happy man. Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely ecstatic. And then other happy news,

an Arkansas man accused of killing his daughter's alleged abuser, wins GOP sheriff's nomination. So this is a guy who is currently on trial for killing the dude who was in mid-exual assault of his daughter, who had been released on bail after sexually assaulting his daughter. And then he found them together. He found them together, killed the dude. Right there.

If he's convicted, if he's convicted, he won't be able to serve a sheriff. But he did get, he did win the vote with like 63%. Yeah, it shows the public sentiment is on his side as a, as a dad and protector. And I think that's, I think that's freaking awesome. In the United States, unlike here in Canada, they get to elect their law enforcement as well as their judiciary. and his local community is saying they have his back on this. Even with his pending charges and pending trial, they're putting their money on him.

They're saying what they're saying is that they want a guy like this to fight the crime in their area. And fair enough, I would vote for protected his family. Absolutely. So Aaron Spencer, if you're out there, I assume some guy who just won a nomination for Sheriff in Arkansas probably listens to this show every week. So congratulations. Yep.

Well done, bud. Now, if those of you in Southern Saskatchewan are working for part-time work, the Saskatchewan Rough Riders are looking to hire somebody part-time to be a mascot performer underneath the costume of a guy we know as Gainer the Gopher. Who wants to be our new Gainer the Gopher? Tell me about the requirements. Tell us about the requirements. You need to learn, embody, and adapt the gainer persona while maintaining brand consistency.

Engage with fans through nonverbal interaction, including high fives, hugs, dancing, cheering, and posing for photos. Perform in front of large crowds during on-field activities. Represent the Saskatchewan Rough Riders at community events, appearances, and special activations. Maintain high energy, enthusiasm, and creativity throughout each appearance, create memorable. and positive experience for fans at every interaction. We're collaboratively with Game Day staff, marketing, and community

teams to support event objectives. Show initiative and act with appropriate independence. Collaborate with handler to maintain fan and mascot safety, especially during the Labor Day Classic. Prepare for all games and events by reviewing

scripts, run through cues, and rehearsed performances, put Ryder Nation and the fans first at all times. Is there a part where they're going to say, people of minority groups will be prioritized for this? Is there any DEI in here? Well, there's nothing in it. Although, in all fairness,

when you're wearing a full-on gopher costume, the term visible minority kind of tends to lose its meaning. You never know. And let's be honest. Let's be honest. gophers in Saskatchewan are not a minority. They absolutely are not a minority. A new gainer.

Okay, so you'll have to, people from Parkbeg are encouraged to apply. Yeah. Anybody around Lumsden, for example, Craven, that whole area. Yeah. Get in there. I would say anybody south of Crake. Agreed. Yeah.

The friendliest place by a dam site. They play South of there. This is an incredible, I mean, there's nothing really more Saskatchewan than Gainer the Gopher. And their last Gainer the Gopher, or one of the previous Gainer the Gopher, the guys that played him was there for literally decades. Why would you ever quit that? Like, you would literally get to the point where Gainer would need a walker.

You'd never give that kick up. He said it was like the best job of his life, like the honor of his life. And so whoever gets his job is just going to be extraordinarily lucky. I mean, they're going to get, they're going to get a view of the best, best part of Saskatchewan. Oh, absolutely. And like, I wonder, do you have to be like secretive about it? Like, can you tell people that you're ainer?

I don't know. Or do you have to be all like Bruce Wayne? I actually don't know if you can divulge it. I wonder if it's part of the contract. Just imagine you're, you're coming home after a hard day at work. Oh, hey, honey. How is your day today? Oh, yeah, it was fine.

I was just cleaning toilets. Yeah. You know, like, why are you so secretive? Where are you going? And then, and then she'd be like, I think he's a spy. I think he works for the government. No, no, no. He's Gaynor the fucking Gopher.

That's right. And he just could never tell you. It's going to be, it's going to be. I don't know. Like, is that it doesn't say that, um, it doesn't say that you need to maintain confidentiality or anonymity or anything like that. But I do wonder, because you'd think that the guy who plays Gaynor would be someone who

would be on every radio show at at least some point in the preseason. You would think so. However, they already talked about the successful applicant having to abide by the brand identity. And so I don't think that that's part of

the Gaynor brand. Actually, the Gainer brand isn't a verbal brand. We don't know what what Gainer says and we don't know what Gainer thinks. And that's what makes him universally be loved. you know what, that's a really good point. Yeah. But at least, you know, you'd be able to like, could you put it on, I don't know, your resume, past experience, confidential, right?

You know, like, well, what did you do at your last job? Well, I had it for 20 years. Okay, well, tell me about it. I can't. I can't say anything. I can't. I'm sure you'd be able to say something after. Like, I'm sure you're not, you know, bound by an NDA forever.

But I think that there probably would be rules around what you could say in public. Like, yeah. I mean, it's it. And maintaining the brand is kind of tricky. Like, oh, shoot, Harvey the Hound, who's the flames mascot. Okay. Okay. He was left-handed for a while.

And he's not left-handed anymore. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. That's the thing that you would notice. Well, because I'm left-handed, so I always notice when people are left-hand. Are you a left-hirt.

Are you? Yeah. My youngest son is a lefty. Awesome. He is awesome. His little brain works in mysterious ways. I've noticed over the years that I'm wired a bit differently than most people too. Yeah.

But yeah, so anyways, I see him like across the saddle dome one time at a game and I'm like, oh shit, that guy's left handed. Amazing. And then last season, I think it was, I was at a game, took one of the Rugrats and I'm like, he's not left handed anymore. Interesting. They've got a new guy in the costume. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was assuming a guy.

Is he on skates? Is it on skates? I think he puts skates on at some points, but, you know, like he's up in the crowd and stuff too. Oh, okay, okay. Right. Interesting. Maybe the ice mascot is different than the. That's the thing. You don't even know how many of them there are. Right. All you know is that they've got to make absolutely sure that you can only see one of them at one time. but they probably do things where they'll be like,

oh, he's over here and then he ducked around the corner and oh, he's over there. I think this makes sense that they would have multiple people work in the costume at the same time because you'll see those videos on occasion where the mascot will do an elaborate cheer dance, like an absolute crazy off the hook performance with the cheer team, with the hype team. And you go, oh, that's not the normal guy in that costume. Like certainly not.

Maybe it is. You think it's just a cheerleader that does other stuff? stuff. Maybe. Well, it's, it's a guy who does other stuff that sometimes cheerleads maybe. I don't know. But I imagine there's a bit of a bleed over. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Anyway, but yeah. Whoever, whoever gets that gig. Absolutely. We'll be cheering free over here. Yeah. Big shoes to feel. Yeah. Big shoes to feel. This is, this is huge. I'm going to show you this. What? Do, da, da, da, da, da, wait for it. Joel.

Wait, are we? Yes, we are. Shiny. I was hoping you'd say that. Lisa, you're killing me here. What is? I don't know. I just have zero context. That's Nathan Phileon,

Nathan Phileon, who's from Edmonton, by the way. Okay. All right. He was in a show with Jewel State, who is that lady in the picture. Okay. the video and it got canceled after one season quite tragically oh yeah it had genitora's in it alan tudic it had one of the like the good baldwin i can't remember i want to say no not stephen not aleck no no no no who's the other one but yeah um and that he was also in chuck that that baldwin

had marina baccarin in it tell me if anything's getting warm they had a low budget and so they used a bunch of extra costumes from the Starship Troopers movie. What was it called? It was written by Joss Whedon. It was called Firefly. You're killing me here. And then when it got canceled, it was, it was, and then when it got canceled, they actually managed to make a movie out of it to just kind of wrap up the storyline

because everybody was so mad that it got canceled. It was an incredibly well done show, interesting, just phenomenal. So one season, cult following, they cut it after one season. Everybody's upset. And so they needed to make a film. And so they managed to do a film. And it was a pretty good film. I actually saw it in the theaters before I even knew that the show existed, actually.

Like it totally passed me when it first came through. And then now you've got this video and Nathan Philean's got clips with Gina Torres and a bunch of the other people from the cast. saying it's time. We've got to do this again. Oh, I see. So they're sort of like teasing of reunion of sorts. I don't know what's going on with it.

Okay. But I mean, like it adds summer glow in it as this absolute kick-ass crazy lady. Well, there you have it. Here we go. Here we go. Kevin helping me out. Kevin's kind of like the other fish. Adam Baldwin. Adam Baldwin.

The other Baldwin. The least famous Baldwin. and poor that guy. The best Baldwin though, I would say. Is he? Well, I mean, he's murdered less of his coast stars than the other ones. That is a truly, truly complex family.

Yeah. So what I know, honestly, like going into that, I don't know any of these characters. I don't know the shows you're talking about, I don't know anything that's going on. But when she opened the door, that's her front door is my exact front door. I have that exact, exact, I went,

Oh, she got great stuff. Yeah. Go back and look at it. It's a beautiful front door. It's really, really nice. Well, I mean, how crazy is that, hey? That's your front door right there. I was so distracted because of my, yeah, because of that front door. We have a different glass in ours, but it's, it's exactly. So I'm showing you this clip and you're like, are you in the house? I thought it was, oh, I've ripped my shirt. I just noticed. I did think it was my house for a second, but then it was too clean. and there was no kids inside. Oh, yeah, yeah. She didn't trip over band instruments or sports equipment or winter gear or boots or discarded lunch at the front door.

Like I knew that it wasn't my house for all of those reasons. Okay, yeah, that's fair. Yep. Okay. So anyways, that's the happy, like there was a bunch of happy news, but that was a bunch of it. The firefly being teased is a return at the same time. I'm like, don't give me hope.

Don't give me hope. Right. Don't get my hopes up for something you can't to lose. on. Yeah. Have you looked to see if they have a contract or if they're, like if they're filming or? This just got teased.

This just, this is breaking news. Well, they're not teasing nothing to. So I think that you can be hopeful. No, no, no,

no, no, no, because here's the thing is they teased with a whole bunch of these people. Right. Like here's like a campaign. It's a tease campaign.

It's like this. Ready? Are we doing this? Oh, we're doing this. Wait, are we? Yes, we are. Has the day finally come? The day has finally come.

Does this mean it's time? It's time. So, it's happening. Oh, it's happening. Give me a bit. I knew what I'm going. Are we doing this? It's happening.

It is happening. Look forward to it. Yeah. You can't put all of those people together in that exact run of things and it not be happening. Right. Okay. It's happening. This is a big deal.

This is, I mean, here you got in the comments, Firefly, best show ever. Really? Right? Really. Now, to be fair, to be fair, see, here's the issue I've always had with Firefly is that it got canceled before it had a chance to suck. that yes okay so like you look at dexter if dexter had been canceled after season one you would have been like it was a phenomenal show what were you doing why did you cancel it but if you let it run its course like i can't watch past season four it just sucks too much okay

same thing prison break if it got canceled after one season you'd be like this was a perfect show it was perfect it didn't have any anything that wasn't amazing in it. Yeah. Because it never got a chance to suck. I think, if I'm being honest, that's why everybody loves Nirvana so much and why they love Hendricks so much and why they love Amy Winehouse so much is because they never got to be 45 year old overweight. They, they never got to jump their voices. And the creative arc of the show never got to the jumping the shark. You know what I mean? They never got to jump the shark, which is when it's all just over. Remember happy days? It's so Happy Days ended.

Happy Days? Yeah. Jumping the shark. Happy days was a bit before my time. I remember there was reruns of it on. If I got home from school early enough, there was still reruns on. But I barely ever did because I lived right next to the bus driver. Like he was just across the road from us.

So you had the longest. Last one dropped off. I spent about two minutes less on the bus per day than he did. You were basically, you were jukegee. your bus driver, basically. Deputy driver. It would have taken me less time to walk home than it did to take the bus. That's how bad it was.

So you never got to see happy days. I had a little bit. I did, but I just see just a little bit of it if I got home early enough. And I was very young. Well, there you go. Well, I'm delighted that you firefly fans are looking forward to this. I might have to look at it. I don't, where do you, where do you watch it?

What app is it on? I know that you could definitely find it on the high seas of the internet. Oh, okay. Okay. I'll just go, I'm just going to Google it. It's probably, it's probably, I've seen it jump around a few different streaming services over the years. I'm not sure where it is currently. Okay.

How old is this show? Like when would the original have aired? 2001, probably. Holy Hannah. So it's a long, long, maybe 2002. Okay. Uh, I think. So the movie that came out was Serenity.

and I think that was 2005. Interesting. So this is a 20 year, 20 year revisit. Yeah, okay. And thank you. Oh, Disney Plus, thank you. Disney Plus. Thanks, buddy.

So, yeah, now, sadly we can't do that in Canada because Christopher Freeland got us all to cancel our Disney Plus memberships. Right, nobody can afford it anymore. $8 is $8. Yep, yep, yep. That's an apple. I can't believe this economy.

I can't believe this. Isn't it dumb? It's dumb. That's almost two-thirds of a banana. True story. $8. You have any idea how many spoonfuls of craft dinner I could buy with $8? Yeah, almost half a box.

It's wild. But true story. Eight bucks is eight bucks. And we're not laughing at it. But yeah, okay, Disney Plus, I'm going to look for it. Thanks. Thanks, buddy. All right.

That's basically it, Lise. That's our show. Thank you so much. Oh, buddy. Sean owes you big. I owe you big. This has been an absolute treat. Well, I'm so happy to have been able to help today.

Sean, I hope you have a great time in whatever... Panama. Festering Third World Nation you're in right now. Hope you make it home safe and sounded too. I always love hanging out with you. I just can't, I always, you know, leave hanging out with you. Just can't wait for the next time. So thanks so much for having.

on the mashup. Yeah. All right. While you take care of yourself and thanks for tuning in. Oh, wait, wait, Jamie's never going to forgive me if I don't say that there is the Joe Mayor Memorial Family Ice Fishing Contest this weekend at Regina Beach from 11 to 2, $5,000 in prizes.

And anybody, any kids who get in also get a free pass to the water park there? wait for this wait for everything to thaw before you use it but oh they have a fantastic water park at regina beach that's awesome i've never been now if you want to ask me all about lake d from baker i can tell you what you can catch and where but but i never i never really did a lot of fishing right around regina oh it's fun it's beautiful regina beach is beautiful anyway that whole valise all right well thanks again everybody and we'll see you guys next time i suppose i got to hit the button now.