Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 199

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

On Mashup 199 Shaun is joined by guest co-host Quick Dick McDick and special guest Kris Sims to discuss the week's headlines. Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: [e-mail] Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

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

Welcome to the Mashup. Welcome to the Mashup. Well, folks, welcome to Mashup 199. All right. So let's get right to it. We got no twos this week. So we had no Sean last week. We got no twos this week.

So it's a bit of a, I don't know, putting in the tolies, I guess, from both our perspectives. Welcome to Mashup 199. I don't have a rant. I do have a story. I don't know how many planes you've been on in your life, but all the videos have ever seen. I've never had anything too crazy, hectic happen on a plane. I was coming back from Panama City.

That's why I wasn't on Mashup 198. And I'm sitting, you know, I'm reading a book. We're like 45 minutes into the flight. And I'm sitting on the aisle seat of a row three, okay? And I'm sitting there reading my book and all of a sudden there's like this shake and I look over. And the guy in the middle seat is kicking the seat in front of them, but like underneath. You know how you can stretch your feet out? My legs aren't long enough.

Maybe quick dick when he gets on can reach that bar. My little legs can't reach that far. But regardless, there's this little metal bar at the front of your seat, right? And if you were just to put your legs down, you could feel it. Anyways, he's kicking that. And the lady in front of him is kicking his feet. And they're going back and forth. I'm like, what is happening here?

Like, are we going to divert it back to Panama City? Like, this is this? And I don't know whether they're talking, but he's, he's pretty angry. And the lady in front of them is calling him an asshole. And they're just going back and forth, back and forth. Finally, the stewardess gets up there. And she's like, what's going on? And he's going, it's my footrest.

It's my footrest. I can put my feet on the footrest. And she's going, what is he talking about? I'm putting my feet directly underneath me. and they're they're like kicking each other back and forth calling each other names it was pretty wild and the stewardess is like deer in a headlight she's gone honestly guys i've i've never seen anything like this like she can put her feet down it's my foot anyways it goes on and on and on and i'm sitting there kind of like what is happening here and uh she goes okay fine we got seats at the back of the plane one of you can just move there's lots of room in the back of the plane neither one wants to move she's like so you're just going to sit here and kick each other for eight hours on a flight. Finally,

I'm like, they don't want to move. I'll move. They can have my seat. I'm gone. And so she moved me to the back of the plane. I assume everything ironed itself out

because the guy had to move to my seat so he wasn't kicking her scene. I'm just like, but I've never had anything crazy like this happened before. Welcome to Mashup 199, where it isn't rants. It's stories from Sean. And I got a new guest host,

co-host today. Quick Dick McDick. QDM. Have you ever anything like that? No, but that's why I drive everywhere. And when I fly, I'm usually intoxicated. So I, but I don't know. I'm the kind of guy that I would probably get involved in that situation

and try and talk to the two parties and have them reach some sort of accord. You know what I mean? So I started talking to the guy. He was flying to Winnipeg for the only reason. Right? And he was supposed to fly direct to Winnipeg to cancel that flight. So he had to fly to Calgary. back to Regina, spend the night in Regina, then fly to Winnipeg.

So he was taking his frustration out on the poor lady in front of him. And I was trying to de-escalate like I do. I was just sitting there and I'm like, I'm not winning this. This is a strange situation. He was an angry man. He wasn't angry at me. I don't even know if he was angry at the woman in front of him. He was just angry.

There's times I just don't get people, man. I just don't. Okay. And why I prefer to drive most places because I am my only passenger. I'm the only driver. I'm the only everything. So if anything's going wrong, it's my fault,

unless it's the asshole in front of me. So welcome to Mashup 199, folks. I am back. I'm joined today by QDM for the hour. We got another guest sitting in the background because we got a couple of things to talk about. Before we get there, happy Airborne Friday to all the military boys.

And everyone, tune in. Thanks for tuning in. If you like to show, make sure to, you know, share it with a friend, retweeted,

all that good stuff. And, well, let's get on with the show, shall we? We're going to bring... Thank you for sending my homework, Sean. I appreciate it. I'm coming in here, cold.

I like bringing in QDM in cold. I figured this would be the best way. A comedian, you know, he likes to roll with the punches. So I'm like, well, I'm going to let you roll with the punches today. Right on. Okay, Chris Sims, we're going to bring her into. Chris, welcome to the show. Hi.

Miss Sims. A little different view for you today, Chris. I know you're expecting twos. and I thought I would throw a curveball at you as well and really not tell you. The fact that I get to be on the same show as QuickDick, like I'm not going right now. It's a super big deal.

I was just looking up, I don't remember this dude's name, but I just looked it up, something on X. There's this dude that runs some huge, like, AI company that isn't a weapons manufacturer, but he does, like, medical devices and stuff. He's talking about his entire system getting wiped

and through, like, logins and like, I don't know, man. I was born in the seven, This is all starting to freak me out. And I was looking up, do Faraday cages block Wi-Fi and cell signals? Or is this just like EMPs? Like, how do I? Yes, I do.

Okay. Well, there we are. So I'll just start practicing bow hunting and buy some silver. I don't know. How are you fellas doing? Chris, do you know what else blocks the government and cell service and everything from seeing you? Pinpoint? My dad's shop.

It's like out in the middle of nowhere in Topnel. and there's just junk everywhere inside and there's like eight layers of lead paint on the outside of it. They can't see in. And so if one of the Terminator bots gets in there, it won't be able to focus. Yeah, it'll be done to be over. Yeah, exactly.

My dad will start tripping parts off of it and putting it on his old Dodge truck. Anyway, thanks for the invite, Sean. I'm fine. Everything's fine. Well, I think we got you for the first half an hour, correct? Yes, you do. Okay. I've got several stories that I'm curious,

your two thoughts on. Okay. We're going to start with Bill C. I think everybody knows, okay, I'll read the headline. Bill C9 was supposed to fight hate. Instead, it's being rushed through Parliament and threatens the rights of every Canadian. Yesterday, the federal government forced the House of Commons Justice Committee to finish the study of Bill C9, the Combating Hate Act. No more debate.

Just get it done. Despite the bill's numerous flaws, the government is now set to push C9 through giving the House of Commons a maximum of two days for the report, stage, and third reading. Thoughts. At least Dean Blundell might be taken down by this if it passes. So the Taxpayers Federation, we've been fighting other censorship laws because it affects things like what we're doing right now, having a very frank conversation online because the CRTC, which is basically a state regulator of what used to be just broadcasting, just TV and radio, has now slithered, its tentacles into the online world. And it wants to regulate shows like this. And it wants to go after things like YouTube and Spotify and Rumble and all those platformy places and apply government

rules to them. Basically, what we're worried about at the Taxpayers Federation is you're not going to see us. Not going to see Sean. I'm going to see Quick Dick. Like they're going to start strangling information that they don't like because the government has a real nasty habit of automatically defining things they don't like as misinformation or disinformation. We're super worried about all of those slippery slopes. And so I find it interesting that Bill C9, while it's primarily about religious places. So there's two elements that has been explained to me as part of the bill. One is that there's going to be like a bubble zone around physical places of worship. So churches, synagogues, mosques, I don't know if Tom Cruise gets his Scientology office on the fourth floor bubble zone.

But that would have a bubble zone. So you can't protest in those bubble zones. And the other element is that it would remove, this is according to civil liberties groups, it would remove the defense of I'm proclaiming my faith or I'm reading from a religious text while I'm saying something. Okay. The reason why we're really concerned whenever the government starts stomping on free expression

because the government always wants to change the definition of what is and is not acceptable speech. And also, just flag in, I've been in the arena a long time. When you get the Canadian Labor Congress, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which are lefty, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which is like Christine Van Gein's group, agreeing that this is bad,

we better pay attention to this. This reminds me of when they came together those two different groups and fought the Emergencies Act order. So folks are paying attention to this for a darn good reason. From my understanding, though, it's getting pushed through. Is it not, Chris? Like, they could be coming together all they want, but it's still going through.

Because the block, last I saw, the block is supporting it. And so were the minority liberals. I don't even like, they're still technically a minority because they haven't had those by-elections yet. So, yeah, it's bad. Andrew Lawton's been speaking out on this a lot. Again, you get folks like Labor Congress and Andrew Lawton saying the same thing. Like, that's rough.

Like, this is trouble. Q, do you worry about this at all? Like, I mean, you're a guy who makes, not his living. Obviously, you're doing the farm and thing. But your message is through, you know, think about our relationship, how we found each other. Yeah. Right. It was because of social media and your videos on YouTube.

Like, absolutely. I think everybody forgets really fast that the government's supposed to be an employee of us, not the other way around, is one thing that we seem to be really losing track of. You know, we already have. have some pretty strong laws that exist in Canada in regards to what hate speech is and or isn't. And at what point in time do you have some sort of a body that, first of all, can find the amount of time to be able to keep track of what everybody is saying at what specific point in time. And second of all, it gets to make the decision of what somebody is said if they're going to classify

it as hate speech or not. And if you can hide behind legislation like C9 and just use that to take down, say, an opinion that you don't like or that's against what you believe. even as say if you're a member of the oversized bureaucracy that exists, that's called our government. And all of a sudden, you're hearing somebody say something that you just don't like that maybe doesn't classify as hate speech. Who gets to sit in there and click that button or decide what goes where? I mean, the dangers that exist within this are like consequential beyond facts that we could ever really imagine.

And I just, I don't like the way that it's at it. Let's talk about it. I mean, I mean, I can live without my YouTube channel. but it doesn't mean that that's okay. I mean, we're supposed to be able to have free expression here in Canada. And this would, in essence, be able to take that away from us, right? I want to just quickly flag. And because this government always bloody well gets away with this,

they make it sound as if we have no laws already. To your point, quick dick, we already have laws about this stuff. Absolutely. Like, you know, I won't repeat it because it would be wrong to say so. But you cannot say, hey, I hate that identifiable group. Let's go kill them because of who they, like. You can't do that. That is already in the criminal code.

It's already there. It's the same thing as when we saw the so-called online harms act. And that is where, despicably, the government was hiding behind the protection of children, which is a good thing, trying to clamp down on people's free expression, which is a bad thing. And so they were trying to make it sound as if we already don't have very strict laws against images of child sex. sexual abuse being shared on the internet. We do. And everyone I know, if they want to tough on those laws, do it. Like, I don't know anybody that would argue against that. Throw the book at them, put them in jail for life. We don't care. But the element that they was hiding behind it was basically of anyone could anonymously phone in to some imagined, but we'd all have to pay for it,

kind of speech police where you think, hey, I think Sean is going to say something super hurtful and offensive in the future sometime. And they would literally tell him you have to take down your Twitter account. And if you don't, we're going to find you like tens of thousands of dollars. It was crazy. And so we had both left and right civil liberties groups and free speech groups fighting stuff like that. C9 feels like a piece of this wider censorship puzzle. Indrid, did you guys see Joe Rogan talking about this recently? No. Yeah.

Joe Rogan was even highlighting the fact that what I mentioned there about podcasts and shows like your Sean and quick dick, that this is a huge kind of apparatus that is being built around us here by the government of censorship. C9 is a religious element of it, but the broader picture includes things like misinformation and disinformation, which can include things like carbon taxes, folks. Well, we'd hate to spread any misinformation on a carbon tax, wouldn't we? That would be so funny. Okay. We got Bill C9. All right. Okay.

That's not something. Another one is this bill C2, I believe. The new lawful access bill would give police CIS more powers to track suspects. The level government has introduced a new law access bill that it says will help police in security services track and identify people who may be using tools like social media or artificial intelligence to commit crimes or threaten national securities. My apologies, Bill C2 is the first one. It's Bill C-22.

That's what came out this week in the headlines. Anything, do you guys understand anything of what I'm talking about? I haven't heard about this one as of yet here. I'm a little out of touch with everything going on with what's happening with Cabin right now. But all I can say is, like, so great. So give who more power to do what, considering the fact that all the powers that we have right now within our policing services. We can't seem to catch criminals that are doing anything when we do catch criminals

that are doing things like, say, trafficking fentanyl through Saskatchewan, it gets stayed anyways, and then they wind up walking free and going back to their jobs and nothing gets done about it. Our legal system in this country is an absolute joke. So to quick take point, we already have a lot of laws based on this stuff. Again, taxpayers' federation, we criticize the government all the time. And lots of our other groups that are similar to us, they criticize the government for different reasons. We have to be able to express ourselves.

We have to be able to hold the government to account. And the part in the journalist in me, the language you just used there of define national security. Right? Define national security. Because the government tried to argue when it was invoking the Emergencies Act that economic harm, like having a shop closed,

accounted for things like national security. Now, thankfully, two judges have said, no, you should not have frozen people's bank accounts. You should not have invoked the Emergencies Act. That was a huge no-no. But if you start allowing that definition of national security to get foggy, then what are we talking about here? They could start arguing that, yeah, economic impact could be national security.

Maybe, let's just imagine. What if they start saying that national security, includes environmental security. What if, you know, the habitat of a snail, I'm not kidding, is getting threatened, ecologically speaking, by building a pipeline. Isn't that national security? See where I'm going at this? So this is why we got to keep such a close eye on these laws.

They're really trigger-happy on making up new laws and not thinking about the consequences. Q, I'm, forgive me. When I have twos here, twos just always hops in. So I'm going to say it. Whenever you want to hop in, you just hop in. He's so polite. Channel your inner twos if you can find that. I don't know if anyone can find that.

I'm going to be honest. I can sit and listen to Chris all day. So I'm going to try and pop this up a little bit. But yeah, no, you put me in with the toughest guests for me to participate with because I just want to listen to her. Well, let's talk about some happy news. Okay. Which isn't happy. I'm sorry.

I'm tongue in a jake here. The NDP MP who crossed the Florida of the liberals. So we're getting inching closer to this liberal majority through floor crossers. I forget. Actually, I don't forget. I actually didn't even look into it. Is it? I looked.

How do I say this name, Chris? Anyone? No one? I'm sorry. I'm usually pretty good at memorizing them, but I didn't take time. All right. Well, this lady first elected back in 2021 is the fourth. Four.

Fourth MP that has crossed the floor in recent months to join Prime Minister Mark Kearney's liberal government. The first three, Chris Endermont, Michael Ma. Matt Jenru, all joined from the Conservatives. And her joining the Liberal Caucus places the party at 170 seats in the House of Commons, just too shy now of a majority. Your thoughts on an NDP now crossing the floor to the Liberal Party of Canada. So I'll just jump here and go.

I'm not surprised at all. This is going to continue to happen. And we've got by-elections that are becoming up in four ridings, I believe it is. Anybody that thinks that these guys are not going to wind up with a majority government is not paying close enough attention, what's going to happen. And then none of these conversations are going to matter and everything is going to get pushed to the House of Commons already anyways, right? I am not shocked that this happened. I won't be shocked that it can that it's going to continue to happen. And when you see, especially what's happened with General in the last little while of what happened with his portfolio

and how he was treated as an MP all of a sudden when he crossed the floor that he starts showing up and voting and doing all the things that MPs are supposed to do, it should be enough to make you want to puke. The last time that I think I saw this done correctly from from what I've read was actually here in Saskatchewan, and I believe it was with Buckley-Belanger when he went to cross over to the NDP in Saskatchewan. And at the time the decision was made, they were like, you can, but we're actually going to get you to run as an independent, run a by-election in your riding. And then he was overwhelmingly voted in as an NDP candidate. So if that's the case and that's what the people want, then congratulations, go do it. But I have zero respect, whether it's a liberal crossing to the

conservatives or conservative crossing the liberals or nDP crossing or wherever i don't care who's crossing what floor your people elected you to represent a certain party and you're not doing it so go back before the people that sent you there that are paying you that you work for uh and ask their permission to do it and if they don't want you to do it then you don't do it's that simple amen uh we get a lot of emails as you guys can imagine uh you probably get a lot of our emails in your inboxes we're getting a lot of emails uh people are super upset uh seeing stuff like this and there's saying things like we need to ban floor crossing. We need to ban party changes. I would tap the brakes on that. Just a little reminder, Sir Winston Churchill crossed the floor, changed parties numerous

times, I think three times. Okay, I've read his biography many times. We need to be able, within our Westminster parliamentary system, okay, within our constitutional monarchy in parliament, we have to remain open to a member of parliament changing his or her mind. Say God forbid, Red Dawn was actually happening. They're parachuting into the backyard. Everything's going to hell, right? And one side is in with the bad guys and the other side decides not to.

What if you're stuck on the wrong party all of a sudden? You have to be able to, with conscience, change parties, but to quick dick's point, exactly, do it through a by-election. So what we need, what we need at the federal level is what we have here in Alberta. We need

recall legislation. So any one of these folks decides to switch parties midstream, okay, you're going to get a recall and you're going to have to face your people again. Now, you might get reelected, like the case that happened there in Saskatchewan, or the people might be super mad at you and turkey out. Either way, it's up to the will of the people. So I think that's ultimately the solution here. But you're right, Sean. This looks like a mathematical certainty that Carney will get his majority. The issue here that I find most frustrating, just from a tax fighter perspective, is that this could change the makeup of the committees.

so they won't have the minority position on committees anymore and we won't have these really interesting guests and people giving testimony and really moving the dial it's just going to become rubber stamp unfortunately if this happens. Two things. The Red Dawn reference. Well done. But two, on the Red Dawn,

what would stop if you're on the wrong team, it doesn't stop you from voting with the other team. So why would you need to change? What would it change? Oh, are you? too cute. Okay, so back when we're, I love you, Sean. So yes, you're right. In school, in school, government curriculum school, we are taught that your member of parliament represents you and your writings, the constituency in the House of Commons. That's nonsense because they have things

called party whips. You're literally called the whip. They'll get kicked out of the party. They'll get tarned. Sean, you're so cute. Thanks. Thanks, Chris. No, I love it. No, no. It's a real question. No, no, and I'm not trying to sound like a cow. No, no, I mean, like, that is truly what it's supposed to be. You are supposed to represent your constituents, but when you actually get into politics and look around on the jersey colors, they literally have a party whip. Like, they will take all the funding away from you at the office level. They will make your life hell at the riding level. Like, they'll kick you out of the party. They'll take away your nomination papers for the next one. So yeah, we have a representative democracy, but it's a big party system.

Chris, I'm going to send you audio later tonight of what cows actually sound like, and you do not sound like one at all whatsoever. Second point, Sean, if you remember, we were having a, it was on your podcast, we were talking with Chase Barber, and he had the idea that if you really wanted yourself represented in the House of Commons that you would vote for the Green Party, because the Green Party is the only party that exists within our political system that does not have a party whip, and they're allowed to vote however they want. That's interesting.

Yes. You thought we should all run for the Green Party. It was actually a smart little thing except, oh, West, I don't many, yeah, yeah. Hey, just real quick, if both want to take over parties, that's not a dumb idea. Like, I'll put it this way. It's happened twice. I'm getting a little bit out of my lane here, but it's okay. It's happened twice in British Columbia, and it's probably happened in other provinces, too.

I'm just not aware. Real quick, Sean. So back in BC when Bill van der Zam was finishing up being premier, things all went squirrely. And the SoCreds, the social credit party, had become kind of a tainted name. People, it wasn't popular. They looked around and there was this little red car

that had full tank of gas and the keys were in it. The engine was running. The doors were unlocked. It was called the BC Liberal Party. They all moved over there. Boom. Bob's your uncle. Like the party apparatus.

everything existed, the name existed, the board existed. It just didn't have any real members. And all of a sudden, it did. Similar thing has now happened with the BC Conservatives. But the longest time, the BC Liberals and the NDP were trading power. And there was this little blue car sitting over there in the parking lot. All the insurance was paid, full tank of gas. Just nobody driving it. They took over. So that joke about the Green Party, actually you can do that. You can like mass buy membership. You can fill up the board. There you go, Chase.

We're all getting mass memberships to the Green Party. Let's roll. Green's going to never look so good. You know? Committees on committees here. Okay. We got five minutes before you're out of here, Chris. Okay.

Okay. So they get a majority. Don't they have to prorogue government in order to reset committees? I believe so. Yeah, but he could do that like by sneezing. No. So in my, in my, I'm like, yeah, I hate to put out what I think. could happen, but if you get a majority, what you should see happen next is a proroging of government

because that would reset committees and then they truly have what Quick Dick was talking about, where they can just hammer anything through. Because right now, committees are held up by the block. Correct. Correct. And there's always opposition there, which is why you get these good back and forths right now. And they would also, if I were calling, if I were imagining what they're going to do, say they get their majority, they would then parogue, then they would call a new session. They would have a speech from the throne and they would restart. You know what's sad that I understood what you just said. I know.

Like I mean, how my goodness? You know, throwing speech, all the parliamentary procedure. Look at you. Yeah, look at me, go.

Look at me. Okay, one final one before I let you out here. Okay. Curious your thoughts on this. Canadian recession risk on rise as high oil prices threat and a curb consumer spending. With the war in the Middle East looking to last weeks, I shrekled with that,

if not months. Yes. Economists say Canadian will likely cut. spending on everything from dining out and buying clothes to getting new furniture. Since the U.S. Israel attack on Iran on February 28th, the price of oil and gas has soared worldwide. For Canadian drivers, that means an instant reduction in disposable income, said Douglas Porter, chief economist at BMO. A rising gasoline prices is effectively a tax on consumers, Porter said, they can't change their

driving so the extra money either comes out of the savings or what they spend in other areas. While rising oil prices boosts the bottom line of energy companies in the Alberta economy, including wiping out their provincial deficit, the rest of the country isn't so fortunate. Your thoughts on that last line? A few thoughts. A, it, how do I put this? It's perplexing to see the Alberta government's shameless waste of money.

Their terrible budget, their terrible deficit of more than $9 billion, probably going to get wiped out because the price of barrel of oil went over $100. bucks and I think this yesterday I think it was still in the 90s um for west Texas international so because so much of our bottom line revenue wise in Alberta relies on that oil price they're probably going to get away with being terrible with money again so that's super frustrating um and i will stress like i've known daniel smith for 20 years i'm a big fan of her personally but the job of the

finance minister in alberta was to find savings they didn't bother. Okay. Their spending has gone up, I think, by more than 30%, 30% since she took over. Okay? They're wasting so much money. I'll give you a quick example, guys. Quick example. You know if you're going through your budget and you're like, okay, we need to cut out all the nice to haves or silly things that we waste money on. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. They didn't do that. You might remember that whole arts foundation that gives money to, so somebody can fly overseas and roll around on a lawn chair or fly overseas and hide behind a big sheet of paper or a tape um takeout container food garbage to old Christmas tinsel and hang in in transit windows yeah that arts foundation

they gave it more money they increased its funding by 3.5 million dollars like I'm going to lose it so but now we've got the price of barrel of oil up they're going to be you know probably able to wipe out their deficit. All this is to say what the economists they are saying is true. People's need to use oil and gas to get around to heat their homes to make things go. Diesel is the lifeblood of our economy. That is inelastic. People can't just stop doing that. So they are going to be cutting into things like housing, food, all that other stuff, clothing, not going anywhere, all that jazz. So that is a big, big problem. And it's one of the reasons why we wanted to get rid of the carbon tax because it was a punishment on every level of your life.

So yeah, this is going to be a big complicated problem. I pray, guys, that after this one, whatever happens and maybe the budget will balance out, that we actually live up to that old bumper sticker. Please, please give me another oil boom. I promise not to PIS it away again. That has to be the case here in Alberta. They've got to get their fiscal house in order. what did you guys have over in alberta that was really fancy that ralph kine built for you guys what was that called do you remember what it was called heritage fund heritage fund oh yes actually yeah yeah So to be fair, Smith does care about the heritage fund, and they have started putting money back into it, and they're not taking money out of it, which is it. Whereas the longest time we were taking money out of it all the way through, through Redford and Notley and all that stuff, they were taking money out of it. To be fair, they have kept it there so far. But what's ticking me off is that now I'm hearing rumblings about a PST and people aren't squelching it as fast as they should be, like super dumb things that I'm hearing.

rumblings about and I'm like fit to be tied coming from a guy that lives in Saskatchewan that pays 6% PST all that happens with the PST is the same thing that happened with income tax and GST is your government learns how to spend it and then they just cost everybody more money that's all that happens with it it's hilarious that this rally in oil prices is happening right before the Saskatchewan government's releasing their budget because they're softening everybody up for a massive deficit here in Saskatchewan ever just trying to soften the blow and then And all of a sudden we start shooting, sorry, Trump starts shooting missiles at Iran.

And then the SaaS party is just like, hey, hold on a minute, guys. Yeah, we're going to get that budget to you as soon as we can. But you just see this price of oil start rocketing here, right? This issue that we have with all of our natural resources, whether it's Alberta or Saskatchewant, is we piss a lot of it away. You know how it works when you're budgeting a household or a farm or anywhere else? You're like, listen, it let's a farm is a great example because we have a commodity that we're trying to sell, be it beef or be it cash crop, canola, wheat, barley, whatever you want to call it. You're like, okay, let's say where we were at last year for our price, where are we at this year? You can forward contract a little bit of stuff, but you're like,

listen, we're only going to assume that we're going to get half of our crop. That's what you do if you're going to be a smart budgeter on a farm. You're going to be like, I'm going to assume that I'm going to get half of it. I'm going to forward price some of it so I know I've got a liquid cash that I can work with. I'm going to make sure I got all my payments covered. And then when the crop is in, I'm going to look back things and be like, how much did I make? How much extra have I got to spend and what's it going to be? And nine times out of 10, if you at a shitty year. It's not going to be a King Ranch F-350 with a brand new stock trailer. You're going to be like, what do we need to make our operation do better for this to be able

to make more money throughout the course of the year? People that can successfully do this on any operation, but specifically an agriculture operation, get to do this neat thing called stay in business because the bank will keep back on them and they keep crawling their way out of death and eventually they start becoming a cash positive operation. But for some reason, our governments are completely intoxicated with deficits and love to blow billions of dollars paying on interest on money that they board that they shouldn't have fucking spent in the first place and fucking rant. Can we be our finance minister?

And I will say fuck a million times, I promise to that. Please do. I will be there with a microphone. We'd only need you for like six weeks, but like over Christmas. I'm mainline and coffee. That's what's happening. All I could think of is you brought up Red Dawn, Chris, and now we got Q, uh, and I think of the champ. I snap, I lose it, throw the chain on the video, and the idiot presses play. Yeah,

that's great. Chris, I've held you a little over time. Appreciate you hopping on and giving us some time this morning. As always, it's a pleasure. I know everybody watching the show appreciates when you come on. And we appreciate it having you here. Well, thank you for the invite. I'm going to go record a video with my team about gas taxes and which ones suck the most. Love you, Chris. Bye. All right. So we had Chris Sims on for the first half of the show. For the next half, it's me and you, Q. I'm going to do my best to tee up. You don't not have to. I'm throwing out. I just went through, you know, like normally I'm so annoyed with twos, but I'll give twos a credit here, okay? I don't know where twos finds half the stupid stories he talks about, but it is a talent. I'll give him that. So here's some of the headlines from around the world. And, well, mainly Canada. I like to stick on Canada.

And I thought some of them would be in your wheelhouse. We'll see what you think. All right. And at the end of it, folks, we're not going. I think him and Lee's Merle went two and a half hours last week. I'm like, I'm not doing two and a half hours this morning. We are not doing two and a half hours, Sean. Two has things to get to.

Yeah, that's right. All right. Silence from Ottawa will shameful after a report of Canadian camp hit by Miss L, conservative MP. Conservative defense critic James Bazan said it's really shame. the liberal government did not tell the public about a reported Iranian missile strike on Airbus in Kuwait, where Canadian Armed Forces personnel are stationed. Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked by reporters on Thursday if he could confirm the strikes

and explain why Canadians weren't informed earlier. Carney said in response that all members of the Canadian forces in the region are all safe and sound. We're not engaged in these actions by the U.S. and Israel. We're not engaged in offensive actions, and we will not be engaged in those actions, he said. Did you hear the audio of his actual response? Because I didn't think that anybody existed on this planet that could stutter and stammer and say, uh, any more than Justin Trudeau possibly could. And Carney said, hold my beer, watch this.

That's exactly what went down. Also respond, he's like, hey, I'm not the only guy in Ottawa that, that, that you can ask questions to. All of a sudden, he's back him off like he doesn't want to have anything to do with being questioned on this. And then the other part of this is this guy starts talking about how we're not going to be engaged in this conflict. Well, if we were going to be engaged in this conflict, what are you going to engage in this conflict with?

A paper airplane, a rubber dainee that floats around a bowl and an army that can't have enough gear to refrain from getting frostbite when they're doing northern exercises in our country. We have no military. We have a government that tries to take seriously their 2% of GDP spending on our NATO commitments. And they're involving the cost of trees and landscaping at Canadian forces bases. as being a part of this spending. Like, this guy talks like he's got a massive dick on him and he's running around and he's been gelded. Like, we just, we have nothing that we could possibly contribute with.

And we're talking like we're something on the world stage. It's fucking embarrassing, man. I did listen to the audio. And I found it funny that the guy who's supposed to be the leader, the commander-in-chief, doesn't know what's going on. That's what I took a... You could ask you anybody else. sir, you're the commander-in-chief of this country.

Maybe you could just give us a statement. All audio that I listened to, including the mash-up, is on at least 1.5 times because I want to try, I want to try and drink from a fire hose and get as much as I can with the time that I've got. And I had to double check and make sure that I wasn't on slow motion. And I was on 1.5. And this guy's like, uh, uh, uh, just stop.

Conservatives introduced Bill to create a stand-your ground law for home invasions. Ontario MP Sandra Cobina introduced a private member's bill on Thursday that would change Section 34 of the criminal code so that the use of force against an illegal intruder is presumed to be justified. I have at this point in time nothing in me that believes this will even get remotely close. But I was curious. What do you think of a, what did I call it? Forgive me. Stand your ground law. Like, well, obviously, absolutely.

So I'd say it's a step ahead of what the Toronto police is trying to tell everybody to just leave your. keys at the front door and let the intruders take it. But like I have a real problem with this whole victimhood of criminals. The criminal, the person that's breaking into the place where you live, which is supposed to be quote unquote, the word that I hate using your safe space. Like this is where you're supposed to be safe as in your home. Now, when you live in places like where I live, I've done videos on this man. Like RCMP is 30 to 45 minutes away at best, but they're probably off dealing with a domestic dispute somewhere else at this point in time anyways. And this ties back into why I think the gun led, everything that we have going on with this

government is wrong because it's taken away our opportunity to be able to just protect ourselves and live. If somebody breaks into my home, I am assuming that they're here to hurt me no matter what. What other thing could possibly be motivating them to come into your home? They're coming to take whatever it is that you've got and probably hurt anybody that gets in their way. I'm actually not going to stop and try and run through some kind of an assessment tree that's going to tell me whether I should or should not use force against the person that is broke into my house. I'm taking them down.

It's that simple. Here's an interesting one. A guy who deals with farming, okay? I assume you've been paying attention to all the things going on in BC with the land disputes, the Cowhatrin decision, that type of thing. Title, here's the headline, title concerns and an uncertainty to land deals. An initial offering of 12 ranches totaling more than 45,000 acres by Manette Farms, one of Canada's largest farm operators ended without bids, a sign according to industry leaders, that uncertainty surrounding Aboriginal title is scaring off buyers.

The offering of the properties last November went through Richie Brothers auctioneers, was billed as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own prime ranch land, with a Facebook video featuring drone footage of a sweeping vista in the BC interior. Manette says it was open to a lease back arrangement with new owners, which would allow it to keep working the properties. Despite the hype, Richie Brothers did not sell any of the properties by the initial January 9th deadline, and the properties entered a tendered by auction process with a March 3rd deadline. And it also went on to say one ranch deal is already known to have fallen through after local indigenous groups told the prospective buyer, whose offer on the property had been accepted

that they would not endorse the transfer of the Crown licenses needed to support the operation. So there's a few things. I can't really say unpacked because I don't have all the data in my fingertips here, right? But when it comes down to that specific sale with Richie Brothers, with those branches, there was a prerequisite that if you were even

going to bid on it with Richie Brothers, there was, yeah, I want to say it was upwards of 25 to 27 million. credit that you needed to even be able to bid on it. Now, I might be talking out my ass here because, of course, like I say, it's drinking from a fire hose, taking all the stuff in. And somebody didn't send me questions that we were going to be talking about here today. So I don't have the exact numbers or anything. I'll take the heat.

I'll take the heat. I'll take the heat. But I do know that it was an obscene amount of credit that you had had backing you to even enter the bidding process on this. So that's going to be the first nail in the coffin right there. I don't 100% know what's happening with Manette Farms across the board. I've just heard rumblings that there might be some financial problems there. I'm not 100% sure what the story is.

But when you look at a lot of the forecasts of input prices versus commodity price over the next little while, certain crops are showing in the red of what you're actually going to be able to turn for a profit. And if you're a company that large that's operating on the obscene amount of credit, you're going to have a hard time convincing a banker that you're doing something that's viable and justifiable for them to keep wanting you money. So I think there's going to be a lot of those sales possibly come up. That's the case. But obviously, it's a tale that they're telling with what's happening with these land rights issues in BC right now is that is something that will make any investor very scared. And if you're a person that needs to borrow money to which who's not going to borrow money to buy this stuff.

If you're the kind of person that needs to borrow money, no sane lender is going to walk in there with the dumpster fire that's starting to burn in B.C. with some of these couch and land rate claims and be like, yeah, you know what, here's 25, here's 30, here's 40 million, good luck. Nobody's doing it, right? Like, like, would you, would you put a capital up against something like that with what's happening? Nobody. No, no, capital is going to do the opposite. It's going to run away from it. I would assume that's why Minette Farms is doing exactly what it's doing. Once again, I don't know the inner workings, but you want, I've had, uh, Barry Kirkham's the, the lawyer I've had on twice, 50 year lawyer. and he just laid it out.

It was so like cut and dry when he's on here talking to me. And I'm just like, this is, this is wild. Like, I mean, this is wild. So if you're anyone who's lending money or you're a business, you know, that's looking to go where opportunity lies, BC right now and other parts of Canada are going to be places you're going to steer away from because of this. It's uncertainty.

You have uncertainty in what's going to go on with property rights. Yeah. Absolutely. And like, you know, you've heard my live comedy before. I mean, I blame a lot of things on participation awards and I blame a lot of things on land acknowledgments as well, right? And you're starting to see it start to boil down in real life here of what's happening. Talk to most indigenous people, how they feel about land acknowledgments as well. Because it's a lot of performative stuff going on. And then it starts to have things like this happen of what's going on in BC. And it's far as I'm concerned, this is just, tip of the spear. You know, of all the things I had on the old bingo card for 2026, or maybe I don't even know, the last year, you know, like, okay, you got Alberta independence. They're signing the petition. And then, of course, there's going to be people who are dead against that. Well, here's the next headline. I did not have this one on the bingo card. King expressed concern over Alberta separatists, say First Nations chiefs. King Charles III expressed.

his concern over the Alberta separatist movement while meeting indigenous leaders at Buckingham Palace, according to a delegation of First Nations chiefs that traveled to London. Grand Chief Joey Pete of the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations land, sorry, First Nations, said he and other leaders made the king aware of the threat that the movement represented to agreement signed by First Nations in the crown for more than a century ago. He added that the king was very interested at what we had to say and had committed to learning more. Now, I'm like, I don't know what you two's, a two's, cue. Oh, man, I'm falling in old habits, quick dick.

I don't know about you, but I'm like, you know, of all the things, you know, they, they talk about, that is, I'm like, oh, man, I did not see going to the king as where this was going to leave. So we're going to the monarchy technically that took the land away from me in the first place. Correct. Hey, hey, like, somebody's trying to take land away. like I just don't get it but like at any point in time here of what people think or don't think about what's going to happen with separation. I mean, everyone has made it abundantly clear that, I mean, indigenous rights are going to be looked into and taken into account and whatever is going to happen. It's going to happen. But I'm not sure exactly what relevance the monarchy actually has in Canada anymore.

And like get me started on the governor general of both here and the left-handed governor in Saskatchewan. the Governor General in Ottawa of the absolute complete dumpster fire of money that those positions are, aside from what the dumpster fire of money, the Royal Monarch is, because I don't understand what relevance they have in the world whatsoever, aside from showing up in the Epstein files, a whole bunch of times. To do. Yeah. I mean, yeah. All right.

Carney announces $35 billion for defense. infrastructure in Canada's north. I'd actually had Yukon Strong on. I think it was about two weeks ago. And he was talking about that, you know, the military is set to open up a bunch of things there.

And it could be a bit of a, I hesitate the word to use, word boom, but certainly some investment going to the Yukon. And now it's set as $35 billion. Although the story leads, you know, Well, here, the liberal government has unveiled a detailed multi-billion dollar proposal,

modernize and expand Canada's military footprint in the country's far north. The comprehensive $35 billion plan, which also includes improvements to civilian infrastructure, is expected to see northern base upgrades, including runway improvements and expansions as well as hangar and road construction, and a number of locations across the Arctic. Most of the investment, approximately $32 billion, is being drawn from a pool of money set aside, almost four years ago by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to modernize NORAD. So that's what I was just going to say.

I feel like we're at Groundhogs Day again here because we're back into the liberal regurgitation machine. This is, this is, was it? I want to say 22, was it? That we heard this from the Trudeau government. This is all we ever hear from from the liberal government every time that they're in. We're going to build big. We're going to build strong.

We're going to be our best own customer. We're going to do big things. that's all the way ever here. And like what's, what's been done from the Trudeau era with what they promised was going to happen with the North and NORAD

and our northern security and sovereignty of Canada. That's what's been done. And that's what's going to continue to be done. All these guys want to do is just make headlines. Here's what we're going to do. Yeah. And absolutely nothing's going to get done.

But do you think 32 billion buys you anymore? Shit, I don't know, man. Like, I know what I could do with 32 billion. But I'm like, I actually don't know what 32 billion. billion buys you in military contracts and like a run it's like we're going to build a runway. I'm like man, that thing better be gold bladed. You know, like 32 billion. Would that buy you the interest payment on our deficit in Canada

right now maybe? It might. I haven't run the numbers lately, but I mean, we need Chris Simps back. Chris, you need to come back. But like what's our what's our interest payment on $1.3 trillion? I'm not quite sure that my calculator goes that high. U.S. consulate shooting in Toronto being investigated as national security incidents. The reason I put this in is what I was, so I was in Panama City, um, Q, uh, this past weekend. And friends from Saskatchewan from Lumsden were there.

And they just- Like you guys and each other there by chance? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so they were talking about coming from Austin and there being a shooting there.

And it being, um, you know, terrorism. It wasn't like a school shooting. This was a bar. It looked like it was very much in line with what's going on over in the Middle East. And so they were just like, oh man, yeah, it was pretty wild. And so I was like, well, you know, as though this war continues to grow, not lesson, will we see more of this? And, you know, of course, a consulate shooting in Toronto being investigated as a national security incident. Please say they will investigate any possible terrorism links as they search for two suspects who fired shots at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, early Tuesday morning, evidence shows that while a white Honda CRV was spotted heading west on Dundas Street

before turning on a university avenue and stopping in front of the U.S. consulate, their two individuals emerged from the vehicle. Discharge what appears to be a handgun at the front of the building, and they can go back in their vehicle and drove southbound. They don't know who it is, but I go, is this going to, you know, like me and two, me and twos pay attention to a bunch of trends. And you go, is this going to be the first and only? or is it going to trend more?

I really hope it doesn't go more. But the fact is, it's been less than a week since I had that conversation, showed up to Henry and Terry. And I feel like I'm seeing it propping up more and more and more. And here's one in Canada. Yeah.

And then like shooting at the U.S. embassy as well. And so like I remember seeing this headline somewhere. So first of all, has anybody told these two individuals that they're actually using a prohibited firearm to do that. You're actually not allowed to have a handgun in public. Do they know that? Secondly, it would be, is the CRV registered?

There should be a license plate on it. Can we not track to who this thing is registered to and owns? Like, is now the system is supposed to work. Thirdly, I mean, so it's national security. I would assume national security because it was a U.S. basically property, because I'm not brushed right up on this, but it's not a if there's a U.S. consulate. Canada is that not actually the property of the United States of America? I think is how that works,

right? So of course, it's going to be an issue of national security. But who's shocked that there's a random shooting in Toronto? Like, this is all you ever hear out of this city is that there's a shooting here, shooting here, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, that's all you ever here in this city. And we're busy spending three quarters of a billion dollars trying to ban firearms throughout the entirety of our country. Well, at the same time, all of these people, are shooting up different buildings in Toronto with guns that are not even from Canada that have come across the border from the US that are already prohibited here. So I mean, forgive me if

I'm not surprised that this stuff happens. But like this is the problem with the world right now is that, oh, I feel like I lost Sean. I'm back. Are you back? Okay, that's cool. So yeah, it's just a, it's a sad state of affairs. And we're wasting time, precious money and resources on this ridiculous gun buyback program that the liberals want to call it as a gun confiscation program. And meanwhile, all of this shit is happening throughout our country. I referenced it already once. But I mean, if we've got people that are busted trafficking fentanyl and their charges are

stayed and nothing happens with it, like what the fuck do we expect to happen in this country? More of the same. More of the same. It's all it's going to happen. And you talk to, we've got some great monies that exist here in our. I'm in 276 in Saskatchewan. You want to talk about people that are frustrated. They're overworked, underpaid.

They have like no relief from what's happening. And you get in a conversation for two seconds with these counties that are around here. And they have absolutely no use whatsoever for our government as much as we do. You know, last night we were texting back and forth. And I was trying to get Uncle Hack on. And the reason I wanted Uncle Hack on is I wanted two comedians to talk about this story. and that is Ben Bankas. Everywhere he's going, he's getting his comedy shows.

They're selling out and they're getting canceled everywhere. Two sold out shows for a comedian, Ben Bankas, that were scheduled to take place in Elements, Nightclub and Kitchener, canceled. Then it goes on to say a venue in Pinerboro was canceled. And then it goes on to say, in Nainimo, BC, the port theater, sold out, canceled. So, you know, like obviously he's on the edge. of, you know, I'd say he's over the edge.

Have you seen his stuff? Yes. He's over the edge. You can just say it. It's okay. It's comedy. And like he's, he's over the edge.

He's not on the edge. He jumps over the edge and he lets it rip. Okay. This is, this happens on both sides of the political spectrum as well when it comes to to comedy. And did I cut you off? Do you need to finish anything?

Do I want me to keep going here? Okay. So as far as I'm concerned, this has nothing to do with the content you know you know you're not channeling your inner twos because twos wouldn't even ask he just keep talking quick right you just talk over me and he just go and he doesn't care anyways carry on this this this isn't uh this isn't on ben banks okay and this is the same thing what happened with uh rob schneider you know when he came to the regina and like so the fault here is listen it's it's a hospital gala did you do your research on the comedian that's coming in because

it takes you two seconds in an internet connection to figure out who Rob Schneider is. Same with Ben Bankus. Same with Quick Dick. Same with any of these people, right? This is on the venue. If the venue wants to bring people in and they have people that are buying tickets for it and people are going to come and see it, like the venue knows what they're getting into and it should be the comedian's audience that has bought the tickets that are going to come in

and do it. So listen, the venue has the right to cancel the show. So it's their right just as much as it is for the comedian to come in and do it but shouldn't be taking on the show taking on the booking getting it then having two or three people get mad and then cancel the show if you've got a sold out show it's unacceptable and it gets harder for for comedians to go and do their thing do i like ben bankis i don't get his comedy i've watched some of it and i don't even really laugh at it i'm just like okay i you're grabbing the low-hanging fruit and you do some of the racism thing and this and that or whatever which again like

there's how many comedians out there do that i mean there's there's hundreds and thousands of them that do it, right? It's just not my thing. But just because it's not my thing, it doesn't mean that I think that he should not be allowed to do comedy wherever he's doing. Like you sell out a venue and people have paid to come see. They know what they're getting into. They want to come and see it. So let it rip. It's just the same as if I was going to see anybody else on the other side of the spectrum that does political satire. I mean, if I don't want to see it, I'm just not going to go. There was another thing that just happened in Gal Lake here not long ago. I don't know if you heard about that one where the theater was playing.

the Malana Trump documentary and there was some locals that stirred up a fuss that that was going to happen and then it shouldn't be allowed to play there. And this is in small town Saskatchewan. This just boils down to the simple thing. It's same with the internet, same with live shows, same with anything. If you don't fucking like it, don't go. It's that simple. You have a choice. I hope I am never in the stage of life where a Malani Trump documentary playing in small town Saskatchewan frustrates me that much that I got to protest that. I'm just, I'm just saying.

That's, that's a, who. Like, I, I just, I just don't get it, man.

And sure, people like to, like to play a thing of, well, you know, I get that it's just comedy, but there's some things that you shouldn't say. No,

there's, there's really, yeah, okay, sure, but it depends what your sense of humor entails and what kind of person that you are, right?

If you're a person that's getting on stage, that's trying to whip people up to go, you know, engage in violence or to kill people or hurt people, obviously you shouldn't have that platform. But if you're just telling a fucking joke, just don't go if you don't like it. Or if you hear a joke that you don't like and you're there, just late. I think I've had it happen, you know, two or three times in my entire comedic career where somebody didn't like my swearing, so they left. Well, like newsflash, I'm quick dick.

And it says it right on every banner that we make for a show. that's got profane language in it. And then, yeah, there's been some people upset with some of the jokes that I make. And they just get up and leave. And like that's the game. That's the biz, that's comedy. Okay.

One of the things we've been paying attention to in Canada has been drivers, okay? You drive a lot, okay? Old blue ball, okay? And I'm going to read the story, but I just want to give my experience. So I told you about being on the plane and that being strange.

and then driving home from Calgary, right? We'd had freezing rain or something or kind of like, you know, so there's a, you know, I just, I look at all the, sorry, liberal drivers in the ditch and I'm kind of like, man, have they never seen a little bit of rough weather? Like, how do you know? Did you ask them for their voting card? Do you know they're liberals that they're in the ditch?

I did not, but I did some simple math and I'm pretty sure. Okay. Now, that isn't what struck me. What struck me, Q, was between Lloyd and Eminton. I saw two semis, one a rollover, okay? I'm going to be clear here. I had the cruise on from Eminton to Lloyd. The roads were that clear.

They were just clear. I wasn't worried about a single thing. I was just cruising along, and I got between, I think it was, Manville and Innesfree folks. And there's a rollover, Sammy. And I'm looking at the other side of the road. And it looked relatively fresh, like emergency vehicles are still there, ops are still there.

And I'm like, I'm looking at it. I'm like, what do you do? Like, how did he do that? And I'm then going for the next 40 minutes of my drive going, have I ever seen anything like that in my entire life on that stretch of highway? And I'm sure there's been a couple of accidents, but I'm like a semi flipped. Like, I mean, full on flipped and still partly on the highway so that they can't,

you know, traffic's backed up. I'm like, no, I don't think I've ever. And then I tacked that on to my oldest brother, talking about a group of truckers, holding up the entire lane going westbound at Elk Island Park because of road conditions. And he said he got up there thinking it was an accident. It wasn't. They were just worried about road conditions.

So they had slowed down all of traffic and backed it up. I'm like, this is becoming strange. This is why me and two is follow this. Okay. Enter the story. Another overpass in Saskatoon damaged by a truck driver, with overhight load. Another day, another Saskatoon overpass damaged by a truck driver, hauling a load that was too tall for clearance. On Wednesday, a truck driver with an

overhight load hit the 108 street overpass on the southern inland neighborhood causing debris to fall on the northbound lanes of Circle Drive, according to the city Saskatoon news release. To, uh, Q, you travel all over the place, you haul things all over the place. What is your view on this? Mike, I just lose in my mind. Sean, I drove commercial vehicle for 20 years. I've got over 3 million kilometers logged that truck. So first of all, the rollover you're talking about, let me tell you this. If you blew past Manville and realized that you hadn't stopped her sausage, what would you do to turn around? Like, I mean, I'd whistle that thing around whatever it took.

Second thing, so the overpass that got clipped in Saskatoon, I mean, Lloyd Minster is no stranger to overpass is getting clipped because of the train trestle there, right? But everyone looks at they're trying to vilify this driver. have you seen pictures of it like it literally ripped the top cab of the track go right off and the actual tracks they'd tied down to the trailer has like sure maybe this guy shouldn't be driving but maybe he should secure everyone's load for him you know what he knows how to secure a load down obviously doesn't know how to measure the height of his load and and read a load restriction sign you know so this is it's a progressing problem and like there used to be a there used to be a culture that existed in in our society as far as i'm concerned that when conditions were bad

And if you were concerned about what was happening, the safe thing to do was to get in behind a truck driver and follow the truck driver because somebody that was competent that was a responsible driver and knew what they were doing was going to lead the way, right? That's the way it used to be. I remember it being that way in snowstorms. Dad would be like, we're just going to tuck in behind this truck driver and follow him. Well, now when I come anywhere near a commercial truck, I'm like, I'm getting to fuck around this guy because what's going to happen here? a lot of people want to want to pin this on you know immigration and a few other things

like and part of part of it is I'm sure you can call me a racist or be whatever you want but I'm just calling a spade of spade here I don't think he's going to call you racist I have eyes in my head and you can see it yeah the reason the melt program existed is because we came up with this big long complicated

process to get a commercial driver's license to mask the fact that we should have basic skills that exist here in Canada, which is being able to speak either English or French and to be able to understand directions and to be able to competently, competently pass a pre-trip inspection of a vehicle and what's deemed acceptable and not acceptable to be on the road. I was 18 years old and a new truck driver once too. And I sure as hell wasn't turned out on my own. I mean, there's a graduated process where you learn how to drive a truck. You learn what happens and then experience makes

you a safer driver, right? But we have not only drivers coming here that can't speak the local language, local language that don't really respect the weight or know the danger that exist within a big commercial vehicle that has an automatic transmission that they can just put it and drive and go but at the same time it's the companies that are employing these people putting them on the road knowing that they're not safe that's a part of the problem as well that we're not doing anything about and outside of that Sean as far as distracted driving goes that's not just a oh hey you're you know here's a certain race of people that are driving the

truck it's everywhere I I Like you say, I make a ton of miles doing these shows. I go all across three provinces. I drive everywhere. And I have seen some of the craziest shit going down these roads. You'll come up by a commercial vehicle on the road that's literally swerving all over the place. This happened to me on Chaplin when I was coming home for my last show out in Brooks. And I'm like, right away, I profile the driver and everything.

I'm like, oh, here's what's going on. And I come up driving inside. It's a guy that's a white dude that's just on his phone. So we can't just profile it to a certain race of people or immigrants that are the problem. Everybody's the problem. And if you're driving a class one commercial vehicle, you need to take it seriously. Because any vehicle, you need to take it seriously, specifically those, because weight, velocity, plus carelessness, equals death, no matter which way you look at it. And not only that, if you've done an improper pre-trip inspection, you blow a retread tire and you've got a motorcycle that's passing you, there's a pretty good chance that you're going to kill them.

So, I mean, it's just a lot of the shit that we just take for granted and we just need to do a better job of it, man. I know you're a giant sports fan, so I know you're excited for the next one. Canada advances the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals to face the United States of America. Canada advances the World Baseball Classic playoff round for the first time in the international tournament's 20-year history. So if you're a baseball fan, we're doing something, I think it's tonight in the game. And I know, I know Q is going to be like all over that. He's like, oh, man, I can't wait. I cannot wait for that to happen.

And I think I have if memory, you're not right there. I think, here we go. Let's pull that up. There you go. We're moving on. I mean, I don't think of us as a giant baseball powerhouse folks, but I thought that was, you know, from the sports desk. That's pretty big news of the week.

Hey, well, if we can't win her in hockey, we might as well give it a try at baseball, you know? I think we should have shot a little more light on the Special Olympics curling team. Yes, actually, you're right. I was seeing some pretty incredible shots there, which was awesome. And if I'm going to watch anything, I like watching curling because I like curling. But I will tell you one thing I noticed during the shot where he was threading the needle up at the top that we made that last shot. I noticed that he'd pushed the rock and thrown it. And then he was yelling like an average skip that was just like, yeah.

Yes, curl. And I'm like, wait a minute, nobody's sweeping. Who fuck you yelling at, man? You just yelling at the rock? Did you notice it? He was literally yelling after me. He's like, yes, curl! And I'm like, who, like, who?

The rock? You're yelling at the rock to curl? Because nobody's there sweeping. I just thought that was funny. I, uh, you didn't, if we do the mashfield again, you're going to get to see. I'm definitely going to try and be there. You got to get me a date, man.

I told you. No, I know, I know, I know. I know, I know, I know. I know, I know. I know. I am a horrific curler. I'm a horrific, but I did beat twos.

I did beat twos. That's all the matters. That's important. Okay. On the lighter side of things, okay? Are we wrapping soon here, man? I guess that's much longer.

Nope. Like three, four minutes, okay? And not twos three, four minutes. Like literally three, four minutes.

World's first self-driving car for fish is to liberate goldfish from its watery prison. Yes, that's a thing. I didn't believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. They're trying to get it to navigate which way the fish is swimming so that the car will move. Like where is the, I don't understand. It's a fish tank on wheels.

Why? I know. I don't know. What road is this driving on? Maybe we're going to have to worry about a melt program for the self-driving cars and that the fish has been properly trained so that it can not get an accident on our roadways. this is Merlin the pig Q I don't know about the pigs on your farm

okay this has the this pig has 1.1 million Instagram followers earns a Guinness book world record okay there you go Merlin I know that

like does everybody know that it's not actually the pig that's posting like they'd have non-opposable thumb I don't know how you would ever here's a I'm not not a runner. I don't know. Do you run? I used to run. Did you? Yeah, I've won a few marathons, man. Runner's strap headlaps on a tackle deepest marathon over 3,000 feet underground in a underground zinc mine. Oh. That's what I thought. I'm like, huh? And so the one thing that would blow people's

minds and like stay tuned. Eventually, I am going to start getting some videos back up on the QuickTick channel on YouTube, but stay tuned. We're actually going to be doing a tour of a potash mine. It would blow people's minds how many kilometers and kilometers of tunnels actually exist underground. Did you go, when you do these videos, are you going down? Are you going to show it? I'll be going down. Yeah.

That'll be cool. Yeah. If you need a cameraman for that day. Yeah, I'll let you know. Yeah, I'll let you know. Community hometown heroes, here's what Jamie Sinclair sent me. He thinks all the canvassers, all the everyday average Albertans that are going around collecting signatures. That's his shout out this week for Community

hometown heroes. So I agree with them. Like there's just everyday people going around grab them signatures. Get on them because there's nobody paying them to do that. Say hey to Jamie. We're overdue for a beer because we've never actually had one. So yeah. There you go, Jamie. Community notes March 14th. That is

tomorrow. Dallas Block, Rock Solid Refuge is putting on a free conference for parents and youth workers. Topics like hopeful vision and difficult times and parenting in high tech world with guest speaker Naomi Holland. For more information including the live stream, You can go to rock solid refuge.com. For those curious about the Cornerstone Forum, it is now sold out.

So that's cool. And that happens here in a couple of weekends. Yeah, thank you. And happy news. Our friends over at Blacklocks Reporters celebrate 14 years this year. I don't know where Canada would be without Holly and Tom, but the work they do is just top-notch. And I just want to give them a shout out this week.

Holly Donne and Tom Corski are two of the best. Right next to Chris Sims, please, if you don't follow them, subscribe to them. They are a great organization that does some very important reporting here in Canada. Q, thanks for hopping on. I appreciate you stepping in and filling in. If you're enjoying the show, folks, we're live here. Mash up 200. Where did that go?

I have no idea. But next Friday, every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. It brought me on for 199 and not 200. dude. Well, you can come back on for a quick hit on 200 if you like. I can only do this two hours of sleep a night, so many nights in a row, man. I'm going to go see if we've had any brand new bundles of hamburger hit the ground here yet. Both my cups are empty. Q, thanks for hopping on and doing it this week.

Everyone, thanks for tuning in. And we'll catch up to you next week. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly of all of my impulsive plans, pop and locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map, stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup.

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