Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 204

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

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I know Tuesdays is sitting there going, where's Sean with the music? It's funny. I'm like, everything has been changed, Tews. There's no music this day. So welcome to Mashup, 204. Tuesday is scrambling. I'm scrambling. I got my Clark Kent going today.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on, Tews. But welcome to the show. I don't know. We're discombobulated this morning, aren't we? Mashed Up 204. We is such a strange word. Oh, this is my fault. using. This is my fault?

That's what you're going to put it on. Does anybody else hearing that? No, I don't hear anything. Anybody else? I don't know. I don't know. You've got, maybe you need to put some glasses on your ear holes too. Anybody hearing any weird feedback? You got Tuesday all got me discombobulated this morning.

The amount of documents you threw into the document today? It's the same as it usually is. A bit absurd. A bit absurd. No, it's like $9.59. You're still adding. Plus, you're like putting words in there that say, hey, could we check out some things before we start? I'm like, how would you like to do that, Tuesday? Would you like to start five minutes late? Is that what you would like to do? Well, I don't know. Why don't you put some glasses on your fucking watch? Maybe you can tell what time it is. I will. How's everybody doing? How's everybody doing? Morning, Zane. Morning Claire. Morning, Leanne. I'm not even giving them time to show up. Whoops. How's Tuesday doing? I feel like, you know, twos should be coming in flying but you look like you're tired today you tired today tews two's got like eight hours of sleep

and so he doesn't even his body is just confused it's like when you accidentally drink water and I hear Sean and some other guy complaining yeah whoever that is is banned who who you know how you know how you'll like

accidentally drink some water sometime and your body's like I get the fact that this is supposed to be good for me but what is is this? So you're, you're treating yourself with, I got like eight hours of sleep last night.

I went to bed at 10. I was up at 6 getting cracking on this stuff. And my body's just so discombobulated. Well, I'm the opposite way. I think I got about five hours of sleep. I had, I had a Coke last night real heavy on this side.

I was in a hockey draft, family hockey draft. I'm all wound up this morning, too. So maybe, yeah, why are you wound up, Sean?

What do you have to be proud and happy about that maybe has to do with this family hockey draft? Well, I mean, my actual draft is hot garbage. I mean, okay? First off, let's just do this, hey? Oh, baby. Oh, baby. I knew it was coming.

Hey, folks, how those Calgary Flames doing today? Not very good. They haven't been doing good all year. Fourth year in a row, they're not even there. That's too bad, too. Feel for you. They're not going to lose any more games this season.

Well, you got that to look forward to. You also got the Oilers, Anaheim first round. Now I'm going to be a pain in your ass. It's going to be great. Happy Friday. Are you though? Oh, yeah. I'm going to be.

You really think that they're going to be able to beat Emilio Estevez? I do. I do. Yes, we're going to take out Emilio Estevez. You know that they have knucklepucks, right? I do. Yeah. Here, let's just pull one more up here.

Can we pull one more? more up. Let's back this thing out. Just a touch. Where are you at? Let's keep scrolling. Oh, there they are. There they are. Calgary Flames. Significantly better than the Canucks. That's still something. Oh, man, that's tough. It's tough. Feel for all you Flames fans out there. Yep, that's, how much do you pay these guys to say things like Go Oilers Go? Just, what are you going to do to? Happy Friday, everybody.

Oh, my goodness. What a great day to be here. Tews is all docile. He got a whole bunch of sleep. He's feeling. Are we going to get full twos today? Is there going to be any full twos? Yeah, I don't know.

We'll see how much time you want to give me to yell about the by-election. So, funny story last night. Okay. We're doing our family draft. We're doing her family. It has to be a funny story, though. You do this. You do this where you'll be like, funny story.

Yeah, I know. I'm not a comedian. I don't, I don't act like a comedian. My funny stories may not be that funny. But last night, okay. We have a family draft. A story. A story. Thank you.

A story. And Shea comes with me, right? And so Shea's sole goal of the draft is to draft one person, okay? That is Evan Bouchard. Not Connor McDavid, not Leon Dreisadle, Evan Bouchard. The MLA from Calgary. Yeah, that's right. And so it's an auction draft.

So each player you get to bid on you, you know, and you sit there. And so Evan Bouchard comes up. And I show him, I'm like, oh, Evan Bouchard's up. And he's like, oh, boy. So he's just like hammering the button, hammering it. And one of my high school very good friends is sitting across from me watching, and he just keeps ticking it. And at one point I'm like, Shea, you got to stop.

Like, you just got to stop. We got Evan Bouchard. Let's just say the rest of my draft two's is hot garbage. And, but we got Evan Bouchard. Shea is happy. That's how the night went. So you spent all of your money on Evan Bouchard. On accomplishing next to nothing.

And then screwed yourself over for the entire rest of it. But my son is happy. And he went in. I said, who do you want to get? And he's going to vote for you. Yep. I tell you what. That's basically Canada.

Well, you know what? I wasn't not worried about it. At the end of the day, we got Evan Bouchard. All right. Oilers fans out there. You know my, you know my, I'm like, You got Evan Bouchard and Paul Coffey. Yeah, I might have spent some money on Paul Coffey from being honest.

Anyways, Kerry on out. He doesn't play. He's been retired for a while. Yeah, I realize. Let's, you know, he'd get as many points as any Calgary Flame twos. Okay? So, I mean. Wouldn't.

Hey? And a playoff draft? We'd get in here? The only reason why he ever ended up on the scoreboard was because he was sharing a line with Mark Messy. We got lots to get to. All right. Mashup.

Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks for being here. Happy Airborne Friday. I feel like I'm going to have pick twos up here a little bit. If you're listening to the show, you're watching the show, you're enjoying the show. Make sure to like, subscribe, share, hit the retweet button, have a little bit of fun on a Friday. And to all the military men out there, happy Airborne Friday. Happy Airborne Friday, guys.

I'm in the process. I'm in the process, twos. You know what's happening in twos right now? I'm doing what you always do to me. I always try and hop in and then you talk over me. You know what screw you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. That's how I'm feeling about it today.

I'm working with the military boys to try and build a shirt for them to release on the merch store. I'm having a little bit of fun. All right. All right. Rant over. So let's get into the coup 6.5. I had to. One of the things, one of the things I was having trouble with while I was talking to you is because I was hearing an echo in this headphone.

I changed the audio settings to try and get rid of the echoes that everybody else keeps hearing. and I ended up getting them, but only in one side. And it was really hard for me to talk while I'm hearing a slight echo of myself. And so I believe it or not, I'm very hard to listen to, Sean. And so anyways, I pulled that earpiece out. You are hard to listen to. And you're right, Leanne. I am a little feisty today.

Let's go. Okay. All right. Come on, too. Pick it up here. Facing deportation tells cops, Canadian laws don't apply to me. Yeah. Well, in fairness to them, they don't really, you know, in our world, he's not wrong.

It's like, the laws don't apply to me. We've documented this now for hundreds of mashups. And the truth of the matter is, he's not wrong. No, it's absolutely fair. Like, what he's saying, it's kind of like the mashup message where you're just like, this news angers me, but it is factually correct. correct I you know

what's this guy's name what's this uh he's from Ghana Numa and I don't know what a Ghana accent sounds like you want to give it a shot

Numa if I'm going to be wrong I may as well go all the wrong you might as be real wrong yes so anyways Gilbert Numa

who isn't a Canadian citizen has no fixed address and is described in this article as being a Winnipeg man, pleaded guilty to one count each of sexual assault and forcible confinement. The cops literally had to break down. He was yelling, the cops were like, let us in. And he says, go away. I need five more minutes. And then they had to break down the door. While he's in the middle of raping a girl. Yes. And then he says, well, your laws don't apply to me.

And he is correct. Yeah, he said, fuck off and mind your own business. I need five more minutes. Which this is. All right. Let's go to something. Well, he wasn't done the job, Tews.

He wasn't done the job. So there's that. Okay. Oh. All right. international student in Canada on expired permit allowed to stay despite attempted auto theft. Yeah, he was duped into the crime. And since he was duped into the crime, don't worry about it. You get to stay. It's not a big deal. Welcome to Canada.

Remember, remember when they used to say, we're racist for having concerns against this? Because we are bringing the world's best and brightest here to make Canada better. We went from best and brightest to this guy was. homeless and addicted to weed and he got duped into trying to steal a used BMW from a dealership and because he's so stupid

we can't deport him. Correct. Best and brightest. Fast forward. We can't deport the stupid people. Do you know why we can't support the stupid people? Because the liberals won't be in charge anymore. Because that's what we're

soon to have left is the stupid people. Sorry folks. You're all great people. I mean, we're just, we got lots of stories here where people are just fleeing left, right and center. And, yeah, they got to hold some in. Six and a half years. Okay. BC woman smuggling 108 kilograms of meth. Yeah.

Five and a half years. Yeah. 108 kilograms of fucking meth. Not to mention she ran from the border, right? They went to do an inspection. She tore off. I mean, they caught her. Yeah.

but evading, you know. Lying to police agents, apparently she used to be like a media. A Punjabi language, radio and television producer who produced news stories about crime and interviewed, ministers, celebrities, members of provincial parliament and police officers. Maybe, you know, later in life, I'll have a different career.

Smuggling 108 kilograms and only getting five and a half. Maybe there's money to be made, too. Seems like I, you know, if we take, instead of looking at this as of what we shouldn't do, more is what we should do. This is the road map. Maybe we're learning something here. She spent enough years covering all of these stories.

It's kind of like how your wife always watches those murder porn documentaries just in case she needs to off you. And then she'll be like, okay, well, this fucking guy didn't wear gloves. So I'm going to wear gloves and this happened here. And I know how to get around this because I've seen all the forensic analysis of all of these women who kill their husbands. And I know exactly what to do. And I know exactly where to bury the body,

where they're not going to look for it. And it's going to be a slam dunk. Yeah. And everybody's wife is like that, I assume. Not, okay. Yeah, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure everything's fine.

So. Anyway. I lived with you. I'd be watching the murder documentaries because you'd be doing the quips all day long. I'm like, I've got to figure something out here. Because one of these days is going to send me over the edge. And at least I got to have a fail-safe plan of how I'm going to say, I had no idea what happened.

Yeah. Yeah. It's so weird. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to hide in that barrel behind the garage. Anyway, she spent years and years and years covering crime from a news standpoint and then decided she had enough information to do it herself, but did not. and now, because she's been sentenced to five and a half years in jail, she is going to spend the next 48 to 59 days in prison. Yeah, I wonder if I'm looking at this media gig all wrong.

We should be researching all the people that can help us pull off the greatest highest ever. Wouldn't that be great? Mash up like 1,012. A bunch of goals. We get to talk about it, kind of giggle to ourselves and never show up ever again. That is a great idea, Sean. I'm glad you thought of it. You have this knack for coming up with really good ideas.

And using all this information to do the greatest heist ever, I don't know why nobody's ever suggested it before. Sure. Give yourself a pat on the back to his. RBC, Scotia Bank, scraps, emissions, targets for oil and gas, lending the Canadian banks announcing their decision and separate statements on Thursday said they were withdrawing their 20-30 financed.

This could have been happy news, couldn't I mean? I don't know. financed emission targets both cited the geopolitical and energy security context. Irby said it will retain its 2050 ambition to achieve net zero emissions via its loan book, while Scotiabank said it had retired the goal altogether. But I thought we were all in this together. I thought we were getting net zero. I thought what's happening here?

Well, here's the thing is that the money goes in the places where it can get more of it, where it can be surrounded by its friends. no man is an island and no money wants to be an island either and so the money goes to places where other money is going to end up going to you don't say and as a result rbc and the bank of nova scotia apparently are no longer interested in investing in wind projects so is the government going to get the message at some point at some point are we just going to stop using net zero or are we going to keep on this little

track twos okay i'm going to you might want to be sitting down for this, Sean. I'm going to say this is clearly and delicately to you as possible. I'm listening. You're still going under the presumption that the government wants to make good decisions for the betterment of the country and its population. And that is not an accurate predictor of government proceedings and events and things that transpire in Canada.

A far more accurate thing is what's going to get them votes and telling everybody that everyone in the West is an asshole for wanting to power the world. Well, in fairness, we are. There's more votes in Ontario than saying, oh, you know what? That solar panel idea was fucking junk and we need to park it

until something better gets invented. Yeah. Okay. So, hungry. You know what? Okay, this has been interesting. I had two guys on from Hungary. And I had Martin Armstrong on from Hungary.

From Hungary, talking about Hungary. Okay. Talking about Hungary. and it made it seem like this new PM was going to be rough. And then every video that has come out since he's been elected, I've been like, man, he is doing some interesting things. And the video you can show if you want, I mean, it's all subtitled anyways,

is the new Hungarian PM goes on state TV to then announce the end of state TV. That would be like Prime Minister Mark Kearney getting elected, going on CBC and being like, yeah, we're telling them all that they're fired live. on the air. You're done. Yes, live on air. Yeah. Yeah. And then when they push back on it, saying, here's this time you're a dick to me. Here's this other time you're addicted to me. Here's this other time you're a dick to me. Now, we've speculated before. Wouldn't it be interesting if somebody who was very based just totally

pretended to be one of these bullshit. NDP? Yes. And then as soon as they got elected went, surprise, cockfags, pulled the mask off and it was just a normal dude underneath who made regular normal common sense decisions. Mm-hmm. I'm wondering if this is what happens. So anyway, here's just a tiny little bit of it. My child, I'm going to come up, civil emberrake. That's not a child, we'd like, we'd like, uh, not haruguegoyant, but a

colleague in her colleagues. Bitch, you all got fired. You don't have any more colleagues. I got to mute that. So the echo's still happening then. Yeah, it is. So what's interesting is he, she says, I got to, you know, like on behalf of my colleagues. Then he cuts her off.

Then he says it again. Then she tries interjecting. Then he's like, are you going to let me finish? And she goes, oh, no, no, for sure. I'll let you finish. As he tells, we're going to, we're going to end this. One of the things I want to do is I want to, I want to, I'm going to pay attention. This is early days.

But like, I'm very curious about this story. in Hungary because leading up to it, even everything on X, Soros, Mosque, you know, like, this is a big win for the globalist, everything. And now you watch. Trudeau took time off from Coachella to congratulate this guy for getting elected from him. Very, very interesting story going on in Hungary. And, well, I'm here for it. I'm interested to watch this all unfold and pay attention to what's going on on the other side of the planet. Yep.

Now, drawing back in. Now, drawing back into our neck of the woods, Gibbons, yep, may lose town status amid $15.3 million debt. The previous administration and previous council left us in a pretty big hold for us to fill, said Rick Henderson, mayor of Gibbons. According to council, the finances are still being investigated, but previous spending decisions around infrastructure or what mainly put the town of about 3,300 people in the red. Some of those decisions, including funding a traffic light installment over 2.4 million,

as well as the Heartland Station commercial shopping district that was roughly $4 million. Henderson said the shopping district is continual expense since it was never hooked up to the town's sewage system. Gibbons has been paying roughly $15,000 monthly to have the district sewage drained. That's insane. Think about that because it's not like it's Gibbons is northeast of Edmonton, not very far. There's got to be some kind of a sewage line going through there or there's got to be some kind of a septic. thing. There's plenty of fields. Just fucking run the hose out

to a field and have it go there. $15,000 a month in poop remediation. And they wonder why they're so far in debt. We're going to start seeing a little bit more of this with small towns making really bad decisions. I know

some stuff that hasn't actually broke yet, but I know some people dealing with some stuff in neighboring towns where it's just head scratchers. And from what I hear, Dan Williams, do you remember that guy from a couple weeks ago that put on that absolute masterclass with the media from the UCP?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And we were like, who the heck is this guy? Yeah. Yeah. So, and it's funny because we kind of dodged a bullet. And by that, I mean, I, because when they had done, I can't remember what it was, but the UCP had done something weird

in terms of their relations with municipal, And I didn't agree with it. And I was trying to get Shane to see if, if this Dan Williams guy, who's the minister, would be willing to come on and talk about what's going on. And I wasn't going to be a dick per se, but I wasn't going to be like, this is the decision you guys made. Here's how it looks like from my end. You got to help me understand why this isn't a bad idea.

And if I'd have led with something like that, it looks like he would have just absolutely mopped up the floor with me. So anyway, I should reach out. I should find a way to get him on the podcast. Well, I mean, he seems like a guy that just you could have an interesting conversation with him about the weather. And it would go in great directions. You, I think probably ought to. All right.

Well, we'll see what we can do. District of North Vancouver rejects chemtrade chlorine proposal. The District of North Vancouver Council has voted to stop a major waterfront industrial business from producing liquid chlorine at its site. Chemtrade and its predecessors have been making the chemical at the Amherst Avenue plant in Maplewood since 1957. And under their lease with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, chem trade is required to stop producing storing and transporting liquid chlorine on portland by July 2030. A split council voted four to three Monday to deny the request. the company could move its activities onto a separate portion of the property that is under

jurisdiction of District of North Vancouver's zoning bylaw. Doesn't that just seem like a bureaucratic quagmire? Like this is, this is crazy. This is 70% of Western Canada's drinking water purification comes from this place. And they're just saying, no, no, we don't want it. No, I mean, look at Alberta, landlocked. So I'm guessing the reason why it's in Vancouver alongside the port is because it combines their access to seawater, which lets them pull the chlorine from it. Well, it would pull the salts out of it, which are sodium and chlorine, right?

I'm guessing that's the source of the chlorine, and that's why it's on the ocean. And then having it right next to the port allows it to be exported, right? And so Alberta doesn't really have that option. But Alberta separates Saskatchewan tags along. BC says, hey, weren't we always friends? And we say the fuck we were. But we like the people in the north. Now there's access to the ocean through there.

Like it's things, things are a lot more intertwined than we always realize. And the fact that there is one point of failure for. 70% of Western Canada's drinking water and it's some idiot bureaucrats at a municipal level is fucking insane. At what point are we going to maybe say that the way things are ran in Canada is a little bit fucked.

I think we said that on like mashup four, but hey, what do I know? Francis Whittleson, I wish that our people could grab you, Francis Whittenden, do you want to show the video? I don't know. I don't want to show the video, but I think we kind of need to show the video. Drag you over to the Camloops Residential School. Put you in the basement.

Speaker Langarer. Okay, fine. But I basically told her my story about my uncle. And I told her that this is the truth. You can read it in the books. It's research. You know, it's real. And you are hurting our people.

I was really angry. I was really angry with her. But I expressed my anger to her right there. And her cameras were there. she's made a documentary you know as a part of that I thought of our people you're hurting the survival

our people put you into the basement there it is drag you over to the Camelps residential school put you into the basement speak our language to you nothing but sequelaan beat you

rape you hurt you and maybe you understand what we are people win through she's suggesting that they beat her and rape Francis Whittleson. This is pretty fucking dark.

This is Francis Whittleson, who has been saying that there is no evidence of mass graves at Camloos, which the First Nations group that organized it has confirmed. Which has been construed as nothing bad happened at residential schools. Yeah. That's how they portrayed on the one side. This reminds me Alex trainers, red ends, black ants. We shake it up and let them. I'm going to fight it out.

So then... Yeah, but sometimes the red answer is just fucking assholes. Well, I mean... No, no, no. Okay, let's flip the script on this for a second. Sure, too. Let's get into it. Why not? I want Alberta to separate.

Okay. I don't want it to be part of Canada anymore. I'm not going to go around suggesting that everybody who doesn't sign the petition should be drug into a basement raped. I'm not going to say that anybody who wants to vote no on the referendum should be jailed for having a different opinion than me. The way this has been going is fucking insane. And it's not getting called out because everybody's too scared of stepping on toes.

Bitch, they're tripping you up as much as they can. You can't not step on their toes. Here's Tom Paisley. All right. When Francis interviewed this nut drop, she kept switching back from the victim being her uncle or her father. She couldn't really decide which one. Now, if she's from Manitoba, it's reasonable to assume that they could still be the same person. I'm going to defer to our audience on this. I like that Tom chimed in.

Thanks, Tom. I just think, like, media plays such a vital role in this of how they're inflaming both sides, right? They won't talk to Francis and allow her what she's trying to say, right? Certain media will, right? I mean, she's been on the podcast multiple times. But certain media just demonize her and construe it in a way. I think most everyday people, can't we just talk? talk? No, we can't just talk because media in Canada is doing what media in Canada does. The liberals in Canada are doing what the liberals do in Canada. The rest of politicians are doing what politicians do. This is, I get the fact that this is what they do, but this is fucking egregious.

This is a bridge too far. And the fact that it's not being called out on the mainstream media and you know, you know, don't do you remember the Toronto Star in the middle of COVID? at any point ever the Toronto Star. I remember. I think we all do. This is status quo for what's happening in Canada. Full stop. All right.

We're getting into some capital flight now. This is interesting because all these chickens, they aren't coming home to roost. They're leaving the fucking, they're flying the coop. Canada oil and gas profits to surge on Iran war, but firms hold off on investment. And I just want to talk about the first sentence here, okay? Now, for context, there's a whole lot of splotty things happening in the Middle East,

and it's making the supply chain for oil a little bit difficult to navigate, not unlike the straight of Hormuz. So now, Canada, having a shit ton of oil and gas, of which the prices are going through the roof. You don't say. Canadian oil and gas producers anticipate sharply higher, profits in 2026 as prices surge, but will channel those earnings back to shareholders rather than invest in major new capital products, senior executive said on Tuesday. This isn't one

company. This is the companies. This is all of them. And they're saying that so corporations have a fiduciary duty to the stakeholders. And one of those things in there is that they need to look at their internal rate of return and determine whether or not it's outpacing the stock market. And if it is, then they reinvest that capital in projects that are going to make the shareholders more money. And if it doesn't and they're responsible with their fiduciary duty, they give it back as dividends to shareholders. What they're signaling right now, what they're literally saying is that despite the fact that Canada is one of the only games in town right now that's reliable, and despite the fact that the prices are going through the roof, we still can't reasonably anticipate. that reinvesting further capital into giant projects is going to give you a return on investment

that justifies your continued investment of that money in this company. And as such, we're giving it back as dividends. How much of that made sense? It makes completely sense. I think the federal government should build its own pipeline, put so much money into it because we need these projects. And since the private people are so greedy, we should just as a government,

for the betterment of humanity and Canadians, build their own. That's what we should do. That seems like a great idea. The corporations aren't being greedy. They're literally saying we have money. We don't need this money anymore. Investors take the money back because we can't do anything with it. That's what they're saying.

It's just so much greed. In a perfect fucking storm that in any same, country would be situated to take us economically to the fucking moon. Instead, we've got a... You're saying the state of Canada is so bad. It doesn't matter how much money they make right now. They still don't want to invest in Canada. Shocker.

That's exactly it. Because the liberals, believe it or not for the last decade, have been more economically disastrous than a rhino with the Zumi's. Or maybe a bear on cocaine. I like Rino with Zumi's better. Sure. The industrial carbon price eroding Canada's competitiveness, oil and gas leaders say, we're still talking about an industrial carbon tax when no other producing and exporting nation does that to their producers.

That's what the head of a Canadian Association of Petroleum producers said in an interview at the 2026 BMO CAP Energy Symposium, which kicked off in Toronto on Tuesday. So not only are they having the symposium in fucking Toronto, they're literally going into the belly of the beast and saying you people are fucked. Like where would you expect the cap symposium to take place? Did they have their equity cards though when they were getting to talk? Did they do that?

Because if they didn't, I want, I don't want no part in this. I don't want to listen to it. It's not really that smart. That's fair. That's absolutely fair. But they went and had it in Toronto. I know. Not Calgary.

They didn't go to the BMO Center and the stampede. grounds and have it there, which would have made logical sense. All of these people got on planes and flew to fucking Toronto to tell everybody in Toronto how fucking dumb they are. There's things being said while things are being said to make the things not being said more implicit. But I just, if they don't have equity cards, I don't know how we can trust these people. Like how do they...

We can't. Obviously. I mean, obviously we can't, right? They're just greedy and there's so much entitlement. What's a couple more I could throw? in there, you know? Privilege. They're probably some sort of phobes.

Yeah, that's probably all the fobs. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Show the video to, you know, let's show the video of Patrick Pichette. This is from the liberal AGM that just took place. You young people think you're leaving our...

Not a chance of it. Let me give a bit of a sober on the protect side. So let me give you a few facts. In Canada, the minute you have your degree, if it's a professional degree, right? There's something in the Canada kind of free trade agreement, I got the wrong acronym, but you get it. It's called the TN program. So Microsoft, I finished from University of Waterloo with my computer degree.

Microsoft phones me, offers me a job, 300 grand a year, right? All I have to do is show up at the border, apply for a TN visa, right? And I get this three-year, like, no questions out, it costs 30 bucks. And now I move to Microsoft. We as Canadians have subsidized my education to the tune of, you pick the number, half a million, right? 500,000 and if it's a graduate student, go up, right? 30,000 TN go to the US every year.

You want to save yourself five to 10 billion dollars, shut the TN program, and then keep them in- or make them pay their half a million. so that if they leave I'm okay with that you want to go to the US give me back my money like my dad my mom you all work every day To offer them their education so we need both sides we need to fight on one side to make sure that we bring the very best talent of the world because They all want to come here now. It's absolutely wonderful, but you can't have this on the other side You can't let five billion or ten billion a year of your hard-earned cash so that Microsoft can get smarter. Well, isn't that interesting? So this guy is saying this exact program that I used to make $900,000 is bad. And now that I've used it to make $900,000, we need to shut it down.

Or we could just make them pay. They're taking money from you to if you want to leave. And from all you lovely listeners, let's make them pay. Yeah, that'll be smart. Let's make all the, young people pay 500 grand to exit the country. Let's hold them in here. Let's build walls to keep everybody in. It's the financial Berlin Wall. Didn't you know that? I think that's what he said.

Everybody wants to come here. Who the hell is this guy? What the hell is he talking about? Who wants to come here right now? Who wants to come here? Homeless guys who were addicted to weed? Do you remember in half-baked? Where Bob Sagg, it's like,

weed's not a drug. No? No, I wasn't a half-baked guy. Sorry. Okay. All right, well, okay. You get scratched your head all you want. I'm sorry that I did not watch half-back.

It's kind of like it happened in season four episode 16 of the Power Rangers. How many of you get two's reference? Are you all the bunch of half-baked? Fine, folks. It's cool if you are. It doesn't bother me. I'm saying I've seen the headstress because I didn't watch half-bake. All right?

I'm sorry. I've seen the movie. Fine. Okay. All right. I think it's nuts. I think this guy's nuts. I think this...

He's absolutely nuts. Instead of just fixing the problems in our country so that places like Microsoft or whoever you want to come here, build businesses and attract the skilled workers here, we're like, let's make them pay to leave, and that will solve all of our problems. We're nuts. Tell you what, like, we're just... Rather than having a country that people actually want to stay in, let's just put up a fucking fence. Seriously?

Seriously, we're just, it's a, it's a financial iron curtain. That's all it is. Okay. Now, we got, uh, Dougie Ford. We got an interesting story from Ontario. Doug Ford prematurely ejaculates 157 inmates. You know what I miss on this show is when twos used to write headlines. That was a lot, that was a lot of fun for me. Carry on. Ford promises no more improper inmate releases after over 150 led out of Ontario. Jails. They accidentally released between 2021 and 2025, during which he was premier the whole fucking time, I might add, 157 inmates. I'm getting down to root cause and we're not,

we aren't going to let one more person slip out of the door. They didn't slip out of the door. They got fucking released wrongfully. The majority of the mistakes were made at jails and in court. some were administrative while others were human error. Okay. We get called racist. And meanwhile, the bureaucrats in Ontario are letting the wrong people out of jail because they look at all of these guys and say they all look the same. Okay, March says I missed the headlines too.

Well, okay. All right. Fine. Fine. Do better to do better tos. Headlines. That's fine. I've got nothing but spare time in my.

That's right. Yeah, I know. What are you doing? Come on. You running a business, working a job? Like, who does that in 2020? Yeah, who does that in 2020? Hanging out with my family every once in a while?

The audacity of that motherfucker. So, yeah, anyways, Doug Ford's mad because he just found out about this. Not from, not from anybody in his government, but because global did a freedom of information and went, holy shit. And that's how Doug Ford found out about it. All right. One I want you to walk me through. All jokes aside, this Fed's equalization program flaws led to $10.5 billion in overpayments.

Can you explain to me this like I'm a kindergartner, please? Okay. So equalization just on its own is, is a very flawed thing. It's actually the exact opposite of what you would do in business. So for example, when I took managerial strategies, like the first class I took in the first week,

they gave us the Harvard Business Journal Review case study of Amazon. And Amazon at the time had three divisions. They had the Amazon deliveries of, I think, North America, the Amazon deliveries of the rest of the world, and the Amazon Web Services. And the deliveries in North America made a tiny bit of money. Deliveries in the rest world lost money and web services made a ton of money.

And so the question was basically, how do you allocate capital going forward? How do you equalize things in this context? And the right answer is you give the division that makes money more fucking money because A, they can use it to make more money. and B, you're not doing an inverse, like if you say... You're not penalizing the people who make money. And rewarding the people who don't. Don't, yes.

And so equalization in Canada does the exact opposite of that. And even within that, it's got this highly subjective stuff, these incredibly complicated formulas. It's as opaque as possible so that it can do everything it can to obfuscate itself from scrutiny. But Fraser Institute looked into it. And what it is is that I'm just going to find

the actual wording they use. But there is a fixed growth rate and then it doesn't it doesn't recalculate. There's parts of it that are fixed and don't recalculate. They're based on what the numbers were.

Last time it got overhauled, which was underneath Stephen Harper with the help of Jason Kenny. So anytime you're mad about equalization, you got to include them in the conversation. And so because of the way the numbers no longer accurately reflect, it's like if you're making a spreadsheet and you write in a constant where you should write in a formula, well, now you've got to constantly update that constant in that cell rather than having the formula update. Right? So this is them doing that. but they don't update it.

And so the numbers keep getting worse and worse and worse. And so not only on top of it being a broken fucking system to begin with, it also has been further penalizing the have provinces, Alberta, for example, for not doing better. It's not rewarding other provinces for doing worse. It's just a case of a bunch of bureaucrats doing it in a stupid fucking way. and the stupid fucking way has resulted in over $10 billion being over equalized. I want to read this off too.

I found this interesting. Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC received no equalization payments as they account for just over, sorry, they've received none, which I don't think is a shocker. And then they account for just 0.2% of provincial revenues in Ontario, 1.7 in Newfoundland, Labrador. but they're major contributors of Quebec, 8.4% and 19.3% in Manitoba, 20.5 in Nova Scotia, 20.7 in PEI and 23.6 in New Brunswick. I don't know if I've ever had it put to me that way.

I've always seen the numbers of how much money goes everywhere, but of like provincial revenues in New Brunswick is 23.6% of their revenues. A quarter of the money that New Brunswick has to keep the fucking lights on. comes from Alberta. Or, well, it comes from the Havre provinces. I shouldn't say just Alberta. Yep. Hmm. Yeah.

So that's, that's a great way to put it. And you think about it from the business perspective, right? You take the shitty division that loses money hand over fist and you just keep giving them more money every year. They've got no incentive to get better. If you go to them and you say, look, your budget got cut in half. There's no fucking money. You guys are losers. Figure it out.

with this much money or fuck off. Well, and as if, if I go simple, as you get closer to a referendum on independence, you go to like an election. People want to protect their interests. And if you're any of these provinces, you think a quarter of our money's coming from Alberta, they can't leave.

We are going to support whatever it is to help ensure they don't leave. I would think. Well, that's exactly it. there's so much of a vested interest in it going their way. Like, this is the goose that lays the golden egg and they absolutely depend on it.

Somebody to ask for Landerson or L. Anderson maybe. Ask for the link. There's the link in the notes, folks. And so I put that up. Now, here's the thing. We've got all of our notes from every matchup we've ever done. in a document. So if, well, in two documents now, because one was getting too big.

But the point is, is that if you ever have any questions about where we're getting this from or what we're talking about or whatever, you can just ask. We're happy to send it to you either just like right now because it was right in front of me or after the fact too. We are happy to show our work. We are happy to show our work. Okay. Drivers, you want to show me some videos? You want to show us some videos, please? Well, I want to show you this.

Alberta launches trucking app to stop interprovincial drivers from hitting its bridges. So things are so bad now. Wait, I just want to make sure. Get that up. Okay. I just want to make sure before we go any further. The last time you did this to me, it was an April Fool's joke. This is not an April Fool's joke now?

This is not an April Fool's joke. April Fool's was a couple weeks ago. I realize. All right. Carry on. So the government app called the Canadian Trucking Regulations Hub. We'll go live later this month, offering guidance in both English and French. Look, I see what you guys are trying to do. But if we're going to be honest about it, if you want this to be effective,

you need to include some other languages notable for how squiggly they are. Correct. So they set aside $75,000 to develop the app, which is fucking insane by the way. I'm pretty sure you could just get clawed to do it in like a couple hours. But whatever, that's fine. That's fine. How much is it going to end up costing us to? If you had a guess, they said they set aside 75 grand, but how much does that number balloon to? 500 grand? 483 million. $400.000. No, no, 483,000. Pardon me.

You know, my brothers and my dad run a trekking company. And once upon a time, I work there. and when you're planning any route you've got to look at the bridges you have to look at all the things this is like there's no app that needs to be developed here this is this is literally a stupid stupid government idea

I mean on the long list of stupid ideas anyone in trucking that hauls things no it's this I mean obviously not because of government's identifying the fact we keep hitting bridges. The city of Saskatoon's April Fool's joke this year was that they were getting rid of all the overpasses. So yeah, yeah, everybody does realize that this is a big fucking problem and it keeps fucking happening. And you would think that the people best suited to figure

out what it takes to go underneath an overhang would be the ones whose religious headwear goes a foot above their head, but that seems to not be the case. Hmm. Okay, carry on. Like, are we getting a video today? I hope we're getting a video today. Yeah, we got a couple. Check this out, though. 50% water, 50% fuel found in tanks of vehicles that filled up at Edmonton gas station. So it started in Manitoba. No, it was Ontario. Was it Ontario?

Yeah, I think it was Ontario. Whatever. It started it started out over there. And then now this week, it's happening. Because here's the thing, it's like, Do you remember that episode of the Simpsons where there was the French guys who were talking about cutting the wine with, with, um, uh, yes. Yes. Coolant. Yes. Yeah. And they're like, oh, you can't, you can only put in a little bit of antifreeze into it.

Because if you put in too much, bad things happen. And I'm guessing that this has been a progressive escalation thing where they're like, okay, well, we're just going to put a little bit of water. 2%. Man, you know what? That's okay. We just want to put it up 50%. They won't hurt anything. A little bit more.

And pretty soon that bottle of wine is all fucking anti-freeze and no fucking grapes. And that's what's happening here. 50% water getting pulled out of these tanks. We're seeing it with syrup. Why not gasoline? I mean, what's next? Syrup and gasoline are like the two things this country runs on. So anyway, to get this fixed is actually a pretty big.

deal. You know, actually, we should have just grabbed Clyde to talk about this, because he's a mechanic. There's a lot of remediation that needs to happen if you get a bunch of water into your fuel system. And so, anyway, these guys, like, they had this one story about this chick who's a single mother, and she's like, my car's fucked. How am I going to get, like, how am I going to do anything at this point? I can't go to my job. I can't do any of this stuff. And you're looking at, $1,500 to $3,000. What gas station was this? This is the Circle K,

Edmonton S.O. Circle K on Ellersley Road and Somerside Drive. Am I wrong in saying this, but like a Circle K, I just wouldn't have thought it would have happened in a Circle K, not because you think it's not like you're buying it out of the back of a van kind of thing. Yeah, I don't know. It seems to be a renowned thing. So the thing about it is is that ESO sold off all of their franchises a few years ago.

So they still carry the branding. But all ESO does is bulk fuel sales. And so it's all just people basically paying for signs. Can we like, I remember one time. Do you think we're going to have a story where somebody drives by filming, you know, we've had all these different videos of drivers and everybody filming it?

Like, you think at some point they're going to drive by a gas station and the hole to the fuel is going to be open. There's just going to be a garden hose stuck in there and just going to be topping it up with water. Like, are we going to get to that point? Is that what's coming here in the next couple weeks? I bet you went by in the middle of the night.

You'd see something like this. We covered this last week. We covered this last week and you're like, okay, yeah. And then it was, oh, poor me. I'm getting all these threats and people. Yeah, yeah, everybody's saying racist. And they're trying to gaslight us. Not even.

The problem is, the problem is that they can't gas light us, Sean, because it's 50% water. They're trying to 50% water light us. So now, a week later, we've had number two. And you're like, okay, so we all know what happens on this show. We start to see this trend. Are we going to see it continue? I would say my, I can put a bet on, yes. And then the question is, how bad does it get?

Is it going to be paling water in? Or is it at some point somebody's just going to see a guy sitting there with a garden hose, thinking nobody's paying attention while he's filling it up. Like, is that coming? I feel like that's coming. Well, here's the thing. And so somebody says that's dumb. He had a leak on site.

I got to push back on this. Because when you're looking at the stuff that's getting pumped in, that's getting pulled out of these tanks, if it was a bunch of leaky groundwater that came in, that wouldn't be nearly so, like, it would look, you'd have a whole bunch of shit in there along with the gas and the water, right? Like you would have, it would be visibly bad instead of looking like water and gas. If you've got ground contamination putting this in, yes, okay, look, I get it.

We're too stupid to watch. Fair enough. We're racist. There's plenty of other things you can watch. All right. Come back. Come back next week for the third installment of it was just a leak. How's that?

That's the new segment. It's just a leak of the week. Yeah, leak of the week. Sure. Week of the week. So, yeah, I hear you. Benefit of the doubt, sure. But this is the second time

where absolutely pristine water, the kind of stuff you would expect from a garden hose has come in. Only time's going to tell. I'm not going to be the bad guy for noticing. I don't care. I mean, at this point, 204, we're going to see this trend continue.

I'll be shocked on the flip side if we don't. Look at this. look at this and tell me, you know, like if you get a leak in your house and then you get like the flower patterns on the tiles, the ceiling tiles in your basement, it's because the water is shitty and gross. Even just from leaking through your house,

that water, that water, you could, you could just, if you had a straw and you just sucked off the top of it, you could drink that. Like that's some heavy on shit in there. I don't know if I doze my drink it, folks. I'm not going to drink it. Okay.

Here you go. Here's a good video. So I don't know how bad things got for you the other day. But yesterday morning I was up at 4.30 so I could get to work on time. And it was a fucking disaster. Truck? Oh, here. How did you accident of, then the same, all the, you, all the, you know, part of the car.

Look at all those semis piled up. Back to back to back to back to back. Oh, yeah. You remember back when we were kids twos? You know, and it would be like minus 30 out in a snowstorm. And you just stayed home because, you know, you didn't have a cell phone and that type of thing. And your parents are like, yeah, it's just not worth driving. And then, you know, we had this stage where everybody feels bulletproof to go driving minus 50 in a snowstorm because you got a cell phone.

And you're just like, well, whatever. if I get stuck, I'll call somebody. We're getting back to, yeah, it's pretty bad out there. Probably just shouldn't go because of stuff like that. Yeah, that's the thing is you're not worried about not going because of the weather. You're not worried about not going because you're the only person who has a clue what the fuck to do when things get slick. Yeah, I remember when we were driving to the cornerstone and somebody asked me how bad the roads were.

And I was like, well, they weren't that bad. I took my foot off or I took off cruise control for 20 minutes. And as you get that, understand. And in a five-hour drive, it was pretty good. And there was still multiple accidents. And one that backed up Highway 2 quite far,

semi, multiple cars. And I was like, what the heck is going on? Yeah. It's just not safe out there in any type of poor weather at this point. Okay. All right.

Well, here's another headline for you guys. You happy? the CRA Canada retard agency. We love to say that. I suppose we are. Well, you're going to get audited now that you did. Possible. CRA pays out another bogus

$5 million income tax refund. Yes, this is something. The Canada Revenue Agency has paid out another $5 million refund to a single tax buyer this time to BC. A businesswoman, despite that it now alleges was a bogus return, you think, included illogical and falsified information.

The seven-figure refund was paid out to last May to Teresa Wallace. The documents say that typically she made $54,000 in a year with her hemp and grain processing business in Silverton. Two months after releasing the funds, the CRA affidavit shows the agency believed it had made a huge mistake after realizing it had failed to examine the legitimacy of the request of the fund, even though it had been red flag for manual review. According to the agency auditors, Wallace falsely claimed she had earned 9.99.

9-99. So just under 10 million in foreign income in 2023 and incredibly that she had paid that same amount in Canadian taxes, which would mean an illogical tax rate of 100%. The CRA says that based on that falsified information, Walsh, then allegedly requested a refund of almost 5 million, even though the agency now believes no taxes were ever paid. Wals then noted- And this is great. And the agency believes that she never earned that 10 million to begin with. Like they're just starting to put the pieces together. She claimed the form income came from United Nations. And they paid. You got to focus on that for a second, where you had to explain where the money came from on the form. So there's a nice little text box there that you fill out explaining how exactly you made all that money. She just said United Nations. Yes. It'd be like if I had to fill out that form, well, how did you make all of this money?

and I just said magnets. They paid her $4.9 million and they were able to seize back $4.2 million. This took two months. And I'm like, we need a better class of criminal. You're going to go through all this. You're going to get $5 million. How aren't you moving that offshore

and leaving the country immediately? I just want to know. Did you think you'd never get caught? Is that what you thought? Did you think that nobody would ever ask at any point? Like at some point, you take $5 million, folks, I'm no rocket scientist here, but you probably want to just move things along real fast.

Yeah, you're going to go to a place with no extradition and you're going to buy a catamaran and you're going to take your remaining $4.2 million and spend it all on rum. That's what you do. That's what you're supposed to do. I'm pretty sure it's written down somewhere. You don't just continue hanging out in the interior of BC thinking that everything is going to be fine forever.

That's what she did. And then they seized $4.2 million, and now they're requesting that she pay back a crazy amount of money on top of. Yeah, apparently the fine is double the amount. Right. So she now owes Revenue Canada $10 million. Like, whoops.

Like, I mean, come on. Hey, I mean, the story's bizarre enough to begin with. the fact she gets caught with almost the entire total still sitting in her bank account. Like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Well, at least I moved it into the savings account. Buy election. I couldn't open any of your links. I was trying to. None of them would open. So fire away. Well, okay. I mean, you are definitely the missing link when it comes to this stuff. So for those of you who don't know, there were three simultaneous by-elections.

Conservatives won, right? the conservatives got something like 3.2% of the vote in one of them. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, the liberals got all three of them, which meant they were able to retain their three seats, which gives them a majority now in the house. We have a majority liberal government in Canada today? We have a majority liberal government. Now, to be clear, two guys on this show never ever talked about this, did we?

That we'd have a liberal majority in 2026? That never got said here. Unbelievable. And I think when it was the first or second floor crosser, we said there's going to be a hell of a lot more of them because they want to have some room to breathe. And there are five and counting so far. So.

I want to push back on this. I feel like I said we need a better class of criminal. You did. You did. Thank you. Thank you. Carrying on. All right, fine.

Okay. Landerson, it's not Tews who said it. It was Sean that said it. But I mean, if we're going to get things right today, let's get things right, shall we? Now, liberal, majority, government, 2026. How's everybody feeling? How are you feeling, Tews? I feel kind of vindicated.

I mean, we called out exactly how it would happen and why. And that's in a stark contrast to everybody else. So you've got more or less like the stand. commentary on this is some combination of well obviously it's an indicator of what Mark Carney's doing and that it's really good. He's doing great.

Or it's what Pierre Polyev is doing is bad. And it sucks. Yeah, he should step down. Or, well, what they're doing isn't technically illegal. And everybody's opinion on this, except for mine fucking sucks. Okay? What, you think it's just magic

that Mark Carney was able to put together a majority with floor crossers making the difference for the first time in Canadian history? We've had 14 different minority governments that have never done this. What, do you think that just shady backroom deals just fucking got invented? The fuck they were not.

But here's the thing, is Lester Pearson and Joe Clark and John Defenbaker and Paul Martin and Stephen Hawen Harper and everybody else knew one thing. And it was very true at the time. And it's the Canadians don't want an openly assholeist government. But that's not the case anymore. Things have changed because having your guy in charge for the liberals is sacrosanct. It's more important than anything else. So yeah, back in the day, you could have convinced a few self-interested assholes to go along with the governing party in exchange for the financial incentives that are hard-baked

into the compensation structure. We covered that last week if you want to recap. But basically the Cole's notes of it is that that Gladoo lady is set to make a little over $750,000 in the course of her life because of that decision across the floor. Had nothing to do with how much she liked Mark Carney, had nothing to do with how much she didn't like Pierre Polyev, and it had everything to do with how much she liked fucking money. That's it. Full stop. So the thing about it is, is that the parents of these current day liberal voters had a lot more fucking self-respect than their idiot children do now. So no,

it's not some big fucking mystery that you'd need Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, three crystal balls and a Ouija board with a direct line to the depths of hell where they can connect you directly to Pierre Elliott Trudeau's suite or whatever it is that they have reserved for him in hell because I'm sure he has a special place there. You don't need that. It's just that they get fucking paid. And at the same time, we have had this situation

where the escalatory nature of the, let's see if I can get away with this. Let's see if I can get away with that. Oh, we got blackface a few years ago. Well, yeah, every self-respecting politician would have resigned in disgrace and gone the fuck away forever. What if we didn't?

What if we just saw if we could just let it slide? we charity. Let's see if we can let that slide. S&C Lavelin. Let's see if we can let that slide. And the liberal voters that keep them in charge, let it fucking slide. It continues the just for laughs funding and then bunch of that getting back channeled back to Margaret Trudeau. It's okay. And then and then you get into gerrymandering. And it's bad when it's bad when a right wing party does it. But it literally happens at the.

municipal, provincial, and federal level regularly. But it's okay because are guys in charge? It doesn't matter. The snap election right after the Winnipeg Lab leak. The $300 million green slush fund. The fucking blackface guys, I can't overstate this. How simple does it have to be? The 11 compromised Chinese politicians.

This has been an ongoing situation that started off with just the tip, just for a second, just to see how it feels. And now our guts are getting rearranged to the point where our fucking urethra is in a bowhitch with our esophagus and everybody just keeps going along with it because they'd rather have that than the idea of an accountable politician who isn't their guy calling the shots.

So yeah, I get it. I get it. The liberals keep winning. Sure. But it's not because of anything Mark Carney's doing. It's not because of anything Pauliev's doing. It's because there are baked in incentives for floor crossing and the liberal assholes out in Ottawa in Montreal and everywhere else in fucking Quebec

will just let it slide because that's where their priorities are. You know, it's taken an hour to finally get twos back on the show. Where are you been? It's good to see you. Thanks for having me. You know, this whole getting eight hours of sleep, no more of that, okay? I don't know what you're trying to do over there. Trust me, it's not a regular occurrence.

Yeah, we on this side, I think I can speak for the audience. We've been waiting for twos to show up. Two's finally arrived before that was Steve. It's like, who is this guy, Steve? Oh, docile, reading the headlines. No, maybe I can pull my glasses off now. Oh, there you go. I can go back to just reading the headlines.

Hey? Unbelievable. So, anyways, that's the breakdown. And everybody else's take on it is way off fucking base. I think that, I don't know, tell me I'm wrong in, any of that and compare it to anybody on CBC who's wondering about the future, the political future of Pierre Pahliav. And here's the thing is Pollyev's got to fucking own this too.

I will say this. Here, we got a little clip I'm going to show you with our good friend Chris Sims. So she just had Pollyev on and they were talking. He is unwilling to admit how broken the system is. Oh, you turn it off the same time I turn it on. been a number. Fortunately, there have been a number of MPs who sold out their constituents for whatever they were offered. We don't know one day we'll find out. I'm sure it isn't going to be pretty when we do. We know what they got sold out for. It's literally all you need to figure it out

is a fucking calculator. That's it. That's it. This isn't rocket scientists, stuff. Like you don't have to be some kind of a crazy, you don't have to be some kind of a fucking rain man to put this together. But you do have to jump through a whole lot of mental gymnastic hoops to not openly admit that the system that you've been actively partaking in for decades that you have perpetuated personally and has also benefited you immensely in the meantime is the reason why it's happening how it is. finally the rank came now I can feel better for the rest of my day and beauty rant so there you go um did you i didn't realize chris sims had pier on have you watched the entire interview i'm just curious

no i just saw that clip i saw that clip man he looks like a defeated guy there and here's the thing is if paul yav wants to come back from the brink on this which isn't even a legitimate brink there's other things he could be legitimately on the brink for but not this all he's got to do is point out exactly why it's fucking broken and how it's broken. And who better to walk him through it than Chris Sims? This was a golden opportunity on a silver platter. And he fucked it up. What do you want from the guy?

What more? Like, just honestly, just have some conversations with actual fucking legitimate talking points. Goofy news? Yeah, sure. We can talk about some goofy stuff. All right. If this is my goofy enough.

Oh, man. Okay, Blacklock, you pay too much tax because they waste too much money. The government budgeted $1.2 million to give cameras to homeless people to snap photos. Yep. Yes. Cameras to homeless people to snap photos. Now, the interesting thing about it is it gets weirder and weirder. The project managers originally planned to find 30 homeless gay veterans in Vancouver,

Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, and Halifax to take photos. with the free cameras. And so the project not only started late, but believe it or not, they had trouble finding gay homeless veterans. We should have had Jamie on. We should have had Jamie on to come on and talk about this. This is,

this is great. But here's the other interesting thing about it. Franco-Tarazano breaks it down. $945,000 of this $1.2 million project. Okay. 945,000 spent on staff wages, 153,000 spent on admin cost. This is a $1.2 million project to get homeless people to take pictures with cameras that they're providing. Every person, even homeless people,

have cell phones nowadays, but they wanted these cameras. Even if, even if they were able to somehow spend all of that remaining money on just cameras. Of the $1.2 million in that project, the money that isn't staff wages and isn't admin costs is going to be just over. There was $102,000 left over for the actual fucking product after they paid the bureaucrats and their expenses. So this $1.2 million at absolute best could have had $1,2,2,000. $2,000 spent on cameras and equipment.

Somebody's asking for the link to's. Thousands of federal public servants apply for early retirement, approximately 68,000 early retirement notices were issued for early retirement. Approximately 4,600 public servants have applied for early retirement incentives that process opened here on March 27th. They have until July 24th. And I don't know, what would you like to say? I would like to say that it's absolutely assinine that we're offering these people early retirement packages to get out without facing financial penalties.

You should just say you're fucking fired and that's it. And the appropriate response from said people is going to be something along the lines of you have paid me millions of dollars over the course of my career to accomplish absolutely. fuck all with zero oversight, zero deliverables, and no fucking anything of value ever produced. So thank you for the amount of money that you have given me over the years, the car payments, the mortgage payments, the pension, all of that. I completely understand that we can't move forward with this. And as much as I would have liked to have been able to get paid to accomplish nothing forever. I appreciate the fact that it went on as long as it did. That's the appropriate response.

You should not be offering these people early fucking packages. Porsche patents racing stripes that appear when you switch into sport mode. So a recent patent filing shows that Porsche is working on a paint that can change on demand. And I guess when you go into sport mode. Yeah. Well, it's kind of like, remember, I'm not sure if it's electric but I'm assuming it's electric. Do you remember in Batman begins where he gets the cowl with the, you know, the glider? Yes. The gliders.

And they apply the electricity to it and it pops up into whatever shape he needs. And that's how he uses it to glide around all over the place. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm guessing this is more or less the exact same thing where they just have some electrified paint that changes color, depending on how much electricity is applied to it. And so now you can literally have just regular as car. And we're like, oh, wait, I want to go fast.

You flip the button into sports mode and the racing stripes pop out of fucking nowhere, which is pretty cool. Times 100 most influential people of 2026. Who could be on? Nicknamed the George Clooney of Finance. The rock star of Central Bank governor is now turning heads as prime minister. Who is this? Mark Carney.

Well, this is Mark Carney. He is the George Clooney. of finance, the George Clooney of finance. Really? And that's, I mean, that's, that's great. I'm like, personally, I'm like the Justin Trudeau of explaining things to Sean. So this, this totally makes sense, right? What, why are you looking at me like that?

What, what? Do you not? Okay. All right. So let me break it down for you. Please do. I am the Justin Trudeau of explaining things to you, Sean. because Justin Trudeau sucks at doing everything.

And if I was the guy who sucked it doing the thing and the thing in this case is explaining it to you, you wouldn't understand it. And then I would have to go back and explain it further on again, like I literally just did, which proves the point that I am the Justin Trudeau of explaining things to you. Yeah.

It's actually, you know, like twos and Justin Truroo have something in common. Matchup 204 for just learning new things all the time. I'm glad you said it. And the fact that you said that tells me that you still don't understand the concept, which further cements my standing as the Justin Trudeau of explaining things to you. You said a big fella. How Canada's Kearney, how Canada's Kearney used his political savvy to win a majority.

I mean, we've already broken this down. Yeah, but this is from the Wall Street Journal. and they're chiming in with his political savvy like all he has to do is just say look I'm not going to say I'm not going to tell you what to do or what not to do but you'll make $763,000 if you come over to the liberals so decide that's that's literally it that's all he had to do

I brought this up last year that if I understand Canadian politics which take it with a grain of salt folks but don't we see the next thing coming from the federal government is the preroging of government so they can reset committees. Well, who was it?

Because right now, who was that guest you had on that was talking about it and breaking it down how they didn't have the majority in the committees? Was that Vesper? Probably not. It was really well put together. Who was that?

It was right around the time of Vesper, though, because it was, who was it? It was a lady. Oh, I'm spacing. But yeah, that's probably what's going to happen. It was F8teen. It was F8teen talking about the committees and how the Quebec, the block,

because that led me down talking to Vesper about that and why they'd want Bill C9. I think it was around Bill C9, because the block holds committee sway. And as far as I understand it, the only way to reset committees is to pro-rope government. And then if they did that, then the liberals would have everything.

They'd have the majority in government, the Senate, and the committees. Yep. Well, technically they don't have the Senate because it's all independence now. Right. And they're all completely independent and not beholden to the liberals because they don't have liberal up on the sign in front of their door. They're completely neutral in all of this. Christopher Wells. That's a-

Paula, Paula, whatever her name, politics. That's- who got up there and did a speech wearing a fucking mask the other day, completely neutral, definitely not beholden to the liberals. More businesses are closing than opening in Canada, according to a new report from the Canadian Federation of Business, released Wednesday that says, well, more businesses have been closing and opening in Canada each quarter since early 2024.

The drope began in early 2024, the CFIB said, with the gap between opening closures reaching a new high last quarter, in the second quarter of 2025 exit rates or the number of businesses closed, and reached 5.6% of businesses, while entry rates, the number of businesses opening fell to 4.9%, marking some of the highest closure rates and weakest startup activity outside of the pandemic. Now, that's so weird, because if we go back to that thing

we just covered two last article was the Wall Street Journal talking about Mark Carney's political savvy. And then the article before that was Time Magazine, where Sean said it in a sarcastic voice. But to be clear, he was directly quoting the article saying that he's nicknamed the George Clooney of Finance, which I've never even heard that before.

And George Clooney... It's kind of like when you make your own nickname? Yeah, yeah, totally, right? I mean, it's... You know, lots of people tune in this week to hear the banter going back and forth between Sean Newman and Giant Penes 2s. And...

The George Clooney of Finance? Did they forget the George Clooney? Did the voice... for the bark of the gay dog in an early episode of South Park? Did he actually? Yeah. So maybe he is the George Clooney of Finance. But while at the same time,

you've got all these puff pieces being written about him, where the rubber meets the fucking road, businesses are high-tailing it out of this country. The next article is how Justin Trudeau cost Canada a trillion dollars, and it talks about, since the Liberals took power in 2015, a trillion dollars worth of domestic capital that was invested domestically has since been pulled and moved internationally.

Maybe the Mr. Burns of finance. Well, he's the Mr. Burns of everything. I mean, we've talked about it a little bit here and there over the years. There's just a little bit. There's a couple other things in that article that I did want to point out. More than 55% of Canadian small and medium enterprises say they would not recommend starting a business at this time. 73% are not confident in the federal government.

Yep. So they can write whatever puff piece they want. Everybody in Canada knows what's going on. Well, that's the thing is that the money talks and bullshit walks. And the fucking money is walking and the bullshit is talking. According to the Bank of Canada, roughly 40% of Canadians who are underlying ability human capital would place them in the top 1% of Canada's income distribution if they had stayed now reside outside Canada. Also, for the next 9% roughly the 91st to 99th

percentiles, the implied share abroad is 30 to 50%. Money and talent are leaving Canada due to the massively oppressive business environment. And that's from the Bank of Canada. The Mr. Burns of finance is in charge of things and everybody is getting their money the fuck out of this place. The Canadian dollar is being dumped from FX reserves at record pace. Global Reserve managers appear to have lost their appetite for the Canadian dollar according to the international monetary funds latest coffer reading. Coffer, the currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves

is it quarterly IMF data that tracks the global holdings of major currencies. Quoted in the final quarter of 2025, No identified currency saw its share of the Global FX Reserve Pool trimmed more than the Canadian dollar. That's so weird. The George Clooney of Finance is in charge and all of this stuff is still happening regardless. And folks, let me remind you, this is all this week. This article he's reading is April 13th. The one about a trillion dollars leaving is April 17th.

The one about the small businesses is April 7th. Oh shit. No, sorry. The picture in it was from April 7. The article's from April 16th. Correct. Translated into dollars, that means holdings fell $34 billion in the fourth quarter of loan and by $53 billion over the year. So, guns ablazzing.

The George Clooney of Finance, ladies and gentlemen, who uses political savvy to secure a majority government. The RC&P has released an updated transparency and trust strategy focused on open. open data, public participation, and accountability. Now, the interesting thing about this tweet... No comments. ...is that they locked the comments on it. The updated transparency and trust strategy focused on open data, public participation, and accountability, and they turned off the comments.

You don't say. Ultra-processed foods are turning human thighs into well-marbled steaks. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure Jeffrey Dahmer works for the Canadian mainstream media now. What the hell is wrong with these people? What in the absolute fuck? Human thighs are turning into well-marbled steaks? You will owe nothing and be happy.

Oh, you won't eat zibugs? Well, guess what? Z-humans are getting delicious because of the ultra-processed space. that they're eating. Reluctant to rough it, retirees are trimming travel costs in other ways. Pull a couple, pull a couple things from there. The couple is planning to spend three to four weeks in Europe this year compared to five or six weeks in previous years, has been booking flights and accommodations well in advance

to get them cheaper. They also shifted to travel outside of peak seasons and rely on their rewards points. And then one of the other things was shifting to countries that have a better exchange rate. Yeah, so one of the very difficult things from this retired boomer couple in Calgary is that while they're still maintaining their second home in Porta Viata, they've had to cut down on their yearly trip to Europe from six weeks to five weeks, although they do still plan on flying first class. This economy has just been absolutely devastating to the retired boomers of this country. and it's absolutely sad. Like you fast forward another year, Sean,

and if we go and catch up with these people, they might only be flying business. Do you have any idea? Like, it's coming right out of their tapus budget. This is just so absolutely horrifying. Meanwhile, I'm up 4.30 in the fucking morning to work one of my three fucking jobs

just to keep these fucking lights on. Did I tell you about... Did I tell you about flying? to Panama and I took a red eye, right? So we fly out at midnight. Okay. And, you know, it's, midnight. You've been at the airport for two hours. And in my case, I'd driven five hours from Lloyd to Calgary to catch the red eye. And then I sat beside a liberal, a guy who'd actually voted for Kearney and thinks he's doing a great job. And he was like, I think enthralled that I was, like, in the first five minutes, we both realized what side of the political aisle were on. And instead

of just going to sleep. He continued to talk to me at the two in the morning and his wife was elbowing him, telling him to just go to sleep. And he was trying to explain to me why Carney was great. Yeah, I don't know. People are messed.

That was a boomer. Did he tell you that he was the George Clooney of Finance? No, but I'm going to bring that up the next time I meet, said person, if it happened. Oh, yeah, absolutely. He's George Clooney. Speaking of politicians, Justin Trudeau.

You remember back when they were banning single-use plastics, circa 2019? Get rid of those single... Oh, 2021. My apologies. Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics as early as 2021. Oh, the article wasn't 2019.

Could you fast forward? Yeah, it was 2019. Thank you. Can you fast forward to 2026? I'm just kind of curious what Justin Trude... Oh. Hmm. There's Justin Trude.

at Coachella. He's getting a little snacky poo. And for those of you listening and not watching, he is sitting there with a couple single-use plastic cups. And also him and Katie Perry have beverages. What would happen to the water box drinky thing? The drink box water bottle sort of thing. Sean, Sean, Sean.

Justin Trudeau is pictured here with a couple single-use plastic cups. I know, I'm just saying. And also him and Katie Perry have beverages. Is this thing on? You know, my favorite time in the world, folks, is Fridays when Toos sticks way too many links, says he wants to run test trial things a minute before the show, which we don't get to, and not catching every joke he has, which is great, which is great, which annoys him, which I enjoy doing. I enjoy annoying twos.

It's great. It's fantastic. Well, that explains. That's probably why you never get the jokes. It's just because it annoys me. Speaking, you know, we used to- A chicken-in-the-egg question there, Sean. Speaking of prime ministers,

we covered all of Justin Trudeau's extravagant flights. Why not Mark Carney? He billed $524,000 on in-flight catering during first year as prime minister across 28 trips. Okay. 11 times more on inflate meals than they did on fuel. Yeah, the cost is trip for in-flight catering. And he's not flying a Cessna.

He went to a G20-Liter Summit in Johannesburg where he told 158 grand in food. Or inflate catering. It's insane. The average annual grocery costs for a family of four is $17,571.79. a thousand dollar increase from 2025 numbers and he spent over half a million

that is the average family of four's grocery prices over about 52 years speaking of other politicians or politicians in general at least we got Olivia Chow I mean

they're adopting DEI for trees with a new tree equity policy in Toronto if you're sitting in Toronto yes you heard that correctly. Good luck. DEI policy. A DEI tree policy. For trees.

And so basically what it says is that rather than saying where there aren't trees, we should plant trees, they're using a complicated formula using the demographics, the economic capacities of the various neighborhoods and putting it all

together to decide that Mexican people should have more jungle. Tree equity score isn't based on how many trees are in your neighbor heard. That, okay. No, no. What is it based on? It's based on the DEI criteria decided on by city bureaucrats.

The city lists the priority index facts that they consider on the website, which include people in poverty, people of color, children and seniors, unemployment, linguistic isolation, health burden index, and heat disparity. If we're going to do this based on DEI, let's at least do it right. If you've got a big Venezuelan population in an area, you give them more jungle. Big African population, the Boa trees. You plan a bunch of those.

And if there's a bunch of Asians, I want to see bonsai trees and rice patties. Let's go all in on this. If you're going to do it, do it fucking right. The NDP isn't a serious party. although at this point we could probably lump in a whole bunch of just things

that earn a serious party at this point but Nahed Nenshi you want to show the video? Yeah, I'm ready when you are. They finally played the card that they have been foreshadowing look at how condescending this bastard is for many, many weeks.

They took the good work of the Independent Electroals Boundaries Commission, good work that is based on the input of thousands of Albertans and they threw it in the garbage. They said they would respect the findings of an independent commission because they thought they controlled the commission. When the independent commission turned out to be independent,

and they didn't like the answer, they're setting up an advisory panel with no real power that reports to a UCP committee with a UCP majority so that they can draw their own maps. This is not how democracy works. Well, you know what? That's absolutely horrible. I mean, I can't believe that the UCP is doing something like this. It's absolutely reprehensible that they're overriding the recommendations of a panel to gerrymander the writings that they are hoping to get elected in.

And Nahed Nenshi is absolutely right in calling this out. Oh, oh, wait a second, though. We have this article from 2015. council defers change to ward boundaries over concerns of work equity population growth in an eight seven vote monday council supported mayor naheed nenshi's motion to refer the boundary changes to the calgary's chief electoral officer barb clifford who is now tasked with trying to rebalance the district boundaries based on populational variances he literally did the exact same thing as mayor no he's calling out daniel smith for it's bad when they do it it's not bad when we do it. He had nothing to say about the NDP doing it in 2017. He's had nothing to say about it at a federal level. Look at the way things changed with Pollyev's writing,

or former riding in Ontario, in Ottawa. He didn't have anything to say about that. But when Danielle Smith does it, it's bad. And Corey Hogan, who's like the only liberal member of parliament in Calgary, has been speaking about. gerrymandering as well, but he was quiet about when his new fucking party did the exact same thing in Ottawa. Look, I'm not saying it's right.

I'm not saying it's wrong. I don't know enough to get into the finer points of exactly what would be the best. You're just pointing out that Nahit Nenshi already did it. I'm saying that when Nenshi is in charge, he does it to benefit him. and when the NDP are in charge, they do it to benefit them. When the liberals are in charge, they do it to benefit them.

And when the UCP does it, they do it. And it just so happens to benefit them. We keep saying that we need a better class of criminal. I think we need a better class of politician. We need politicians with any class, really. And so, look, just call balls and call strikes. The strikes, the size of the strike,

zone doesn't change based on the color color of the jersey. That's it. Who's umpin? Is it the? Well, that's the thing is that the people at bat get to decide whether something's a ball or a strike in this case. And if you're going to say it's wrong when they're doing it, you've got to also admit that it was wrong when you fucking did it yourself.

You fat fucking fuck. Alberta NDP ran 300,000 deficit in 2025, forced to tap into the war Chess, according to elections Alberta financial disclosure records, the Alberta Ndipi, led by Nahed Nenshi, ended the 2025 fiscal year with a deficit of $292,000 after spending over $7.2 million in 2025. You know what?

I've been saying it from the get-go. The best thing that ever happened to the UCP in a very long time was getting Nahed Nenshi in charge. They're socialists, they're idiots, they're bad with money. and having this guy at the forefront has just been the gift that keeps on giving for Danielle Smith.

Did you see the, I think it was Corey Morgan who had the reposted at least, the video of Nahed Nanshi and Daniel Smith. Did you see that video? Okay. I don't know, maybe I did, but if you were to put some context into it, because there's been a few different videos of them over the years.

No, no, like just this week. It was just making fun of Nahed Nenshi and had music to it. But once again, I'm doing a poor job of framing this. Definitely are. The glasses are not helping. I think the glasses are doing just fine today, twos, all right? Well, if the glasses are making you smarter and that's the best job you could do of describing a video you saw on the internet, you were fucking hurting before, my friend.

I would show it, but for some odd reason, my computer will not give you audio, so it don't freaking matter, does it? No, no, it doesn't matter. So let's keep going with the NDP who are not a serious party. And oh, look, guess what, folks, I've got a headline for that too. NDP to get $670,000

parliamentary funding boost despite not having official status. Here's the thing. This got quietly released and everybody was on board with it. The conservatives were on board with it. going to do it for you. Okay.

What do we? Come on, Chuck. Figure it out. I'm figuring it out. Mr. Speaker. He's a little rattled. Anyways. Okay.

All right. And then it had a little clip from Letterkenny in there. That was kind of nice as well. Carry on. N.E. to get $670,000 parliamentary funding boosted by not having official status. So they, because technically everybody at the federal level for the ND is an independent because they didn't get enough seats to maintain party status.

They're not entitled to all of the extra money that a party would get. Because not only are they not a serious party, they're literally not a party at the federal level. Correct. And the conservatives voted to just give them the money anyway. I can't remember if the block did. The Greens did. The liberals did. They said, oh, well, we'll just give you $670,000.

of taxpayer money because we're so fucking nice. I get why the conservatives did it is because if the NDP goes away, it becomes a two-party state in which the liberals are going to almost always win barring some weird fucking, you know, on an infinite timeline. I'm sure they're going to win a couple times.

But the, if the NDP go away forever, the conservative party becomes the official opposition in perpetuity. It's the same way that if Alberta separates, the Conservative Party becomes a perpetual opposition party, which is why they don't want Alberta to separate, which is why

when Polyev was on Rogan, he gave a bunch of bullshit non-answers when Rogan asked him about Alberta separation. Because he can't be outwardly against it, because that's where all his votes comes from, but he can't support it because if it

actually fucking happens, he spends the rest of his life getting silver medals. Sean, are you glitching out? No, I'm not glitching out. I'm like, if Alberta separates, why can't Pierre just come back to Alberta? He's not really a culture fit. Maybe. But he'd have to give up his career.

We elected Jason Bloody Kenny. I don't think he was much of a culture fit. I think everybody can't learn their lesson, though. I mean, I called it from the start. I called it before the UCP actually became the UCP. that was a that I'll I'll I'll wear that banner proudly for the rest of my days Carla Beck A new report from rentals dot C has found Saskatchewan has the largest rent increase over the past three years with 26.2% gain since March 2023

clearly people can't afford this Scott Mo continues to side with out of province corporate landlords who buy up properties jack up the rents with little or no warning this has to stop clearly it's time for rent controls rent control rent control which the NDP love to talk about but never want to talk about the economics of it and here's another reason why I hate the media because if you get to put a microphone in front of Carla Beck

the major question you need to be asking her or any other NDP person who talks about rent control is what economics are you basing the idea of rent control on given that every economist is pretty much fucking unanimous about the fact that it is a disaster. And Dwayne Chalman has a couple really good quotes on this.

In many cases, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city except for bombing. Even the Vietnamese communists understood this. In 89, Vietnamese foreign minister Nienkotak said, The Americans couldn't destroy Hanoi, but we have destroyed our city with very low rents. it's literally in basic economics it's an economic facts and fallacies if you start reading anything about economics one of the first things they will point to is the ripple effects of a small subset of people getting very cheap rent and everybody else fucking off from that microcosm of the economy entirely look at the tri-city area um they there was one of the tri-city

cities that put in rent control and hasn't built a single rental unit in a decade. And yet just across the other river, you've got actually a thriving market-determined rental economy. The examples are just their legion. Tews was right? Tews was right of the week. So Abacus data has been sitting back and apparently weigh in this for a little while. By the way, you should absolutely have David Coletto on to explain this far better than I'm about to.

But what he's been saying is that the conservative vote has been consistently understated in every poll for a very long time. And he's trying to get to a point where as a pollster, he can have more accurate data. and he says in this that that he doesn't think it's because of any sort of malice or trying to push an agenda from any of the pollsters despite the people like Frank Graves have openly said that they're going to do this before doing it

but he thinks that looking at who they voted for last time actually as part of the consideration and waiting it accordingly ends you with far better results. And so here's the growing gap of underrepresentation of conservatives in voter sampling. In 2011, it was 1.8% 2015, 3.1, 19, 4.4, 2021 was 6.0. And in 2025, the polling underrepresented conservative voters by almost 8%, which is fucking huge.

And here's, here's an interesting thing of this. is the convergence towards the actual results of pollsters as it gets closer and closer to the election. And he's Polera, which is the blue, and I don't know who Polster 3 is, but aside from one momentary swing underneath, they are vastly over-representing liberal perspectives in the polls. And then eventually, as it gets closer and closer towards the election, they converge towards the actual numbers, which is what I have been talking about for years, where they keep saying that the liberals are way more popular than they actually are. And then at the last second, they dip down towards the actual results so that they can revisionously say that they were

accurate on election day and therefore their polling is accurate while omitting the entire lead-up to it coming all the way along where, like you look at these numbers. They all just kind of slowly track down into the right and then oh, and we ended up being right. So anyway, I'm really curious to see what he does with this and how this, what the ripple effects of it are going to be in Canadian polling. I mean, Canadian polls are garbage.

We've talked about that how many dozens of times on this show. Roughly every week. And the other thing, the other implication is of this, is so Polera did a poll where they said that 27% were just across the board, no convincing me otherwise in favor of separation in Alberta. What do you think the underrepresentation

is on something like that? 97% of the NDP are against separation and according to the polling results, 55% of UCP voters are for separation. What do you think that chronic underrepresenting of conservative voices in polling

is going to have have in terms of the disparity between the polling results for Alberta's separation and the actual results. Well, I think you just take your numbers you just gave as high as 8%, as low as, I forget what the lowest number was, 3%, and it could be higher because we're not talking about an election, we're talking about independence. Yeah. Full stop.

Sports desk. What do you got for me this week? Oh. Actually, I know one of the headlines. a fan caught a female Mariners reporter asking Google Gemini. Questions for postgame interviews. That's Angie MENTIC from the Seattle Mariners broadcast. Yes, from the Seattle Mariners Broadcasting.

Yeah, so she's sitting there getting ready to talk to them, and she's asking Google Gemini, good questions after a tough loss in baseball. This is how many people, one of the frustrating things about media just in general is you look at the job they do and you feel like I can do a better job off the top of my head and so then you and your buddy put together a show called the mashup

and you do it. But how many people do you know who could off the top of their head ask better questions and do a better job of discussing the outcomes of sporting events with those people as it's recently unfolded compared to somebody who just got a job because she's a pretty blonde lady and she has to ask Google

Gemini the questions five minutes before the fucking interview happens. Yeah, I know. All right, here's... What do you even say to that? Just find somebody who loves sports and have them go.

No, but you got to have representation. Got to have the representation. Here, this is... You're going to be confused by where this video is when I say that it's part of the... sports desk, but just bear with me here a second. So for those of you don't know because you're listening, this is federal question period. A conservative leader and house leader questioning our prime minister's economic education

and experience is like a third line beer league hockey player questioning Connor McGregor's hockey skills. A third line beer league player questioning Connor McGregor's hockey skills. I'm confused. What are you confused about? A third line beer leaguer Questioning Connor McGregor's hockey skills.

So he's trying to draw a comparison of Pierre being the third line beer leaguer questioning Mark Carney as Connor McGregor. As Connor McGregor. But he uses... Hockey skills. You don't get what's confusing about that?

I get what's confusing about that. I'm wondering why you're confused about it, not laughing at the absurdity of it. So for those of you who may be confused that you're watching or listening along, Connor McGregor is an infamous UFC fighter who has been in the remake of Roadhouse, which is not going to be released.

That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, okay. Connor McGregor's hockey skills. He gets up there and talks about Connor McGregor's hockey skills. Brett Ray says, when did George Clooney play hockey? Like this is how stupid

these people are, Sean. Like, Connor McGregor's hockey skills. We need a better class of politician. We just need people who aren't fucking retarded. That's it.

It doesn't need to be complicated. Ah, put it in the fucking net. All right. All right. Connor McGregor's hockey skills. Oh, man. Oh, man.

We're not there yet. That's death, baby. Look at this. This is from a friend who's a veteran. This is a picture of, well, I mean, it's San Jose in Vancouver. It would have been one of the last games of the season because Vancouver ain't playing no more. Vancouver 2, San Jose 2. Vancouver 22 shots.

San Jose, 22 shots. With two minutes and 22 seconds. left in the second period. Well done. Well done. Isn't that wonderful? Okay. And that's it, folks. So let's move on a community notes.

Tews, how's those flames doing? I haven't been following it lately. I'm not sure. How are they doing? I really can't probably afford tickets to go see this. Right? Like, it's like, it's... Well, I mean, there's only four left. So you probably should go sooner than, later.

You best get down on your knees and pray for that because we both know you're going to be hearing a lot of Oilers talk in the next couple weeks. If I get down on my knees, I'm going to be right next to all the Oilers players anyway. Okay. Okay. You know what's crazy is when I was, you know, little Sean was like one, two years old back when the Oilers were going to Stalin Cups and winning them all, mom and dad took all five kids to games and could afford to do that.

How many people listening to this would take five kids and their spouse to another's game today and could actually afford that? If you went down to like one in Columbus or something like that? Sure. But then you'd have to pay for flights and everything else. I'm like, no. And it would probably still be cheaper than seeing them in Edmondton.

Probably. Yeah, probably. Right? Like, I mean, yeah, we were talking about the last night. It's just like, I think I'll just sit at home and flick on the TV. You just, yeah. Well, just make a big deal out of it with the kids. Like, here's the thing is you don't have to be in the stands, but you just tell them all, wear your jerseys.

Oh, yeah, you have tons of fun with it. You know, put on the face paint. You can do all kinds of neat stuff. Have a block watch party in your backyard. If you were picking a team to win the Stanley Cup this year, Too's, who would you take? Anahim. And that's why you don't go to your sports advice from twos. Okay, folks.

He may have gotten a lot of things. politically correct. But when it comes to hockey, he's a flames fan, and that says all you need to know. Happy news this week, 2's Air Canada ordered to pay pilots who were denied religious COVID-19 vaccine exemptions.

That's good news. That's actually pretty wonderful news. Mm-hmm. I agree. Squirrelnut says you should buy a 170-inch big screen. What? A 170-inch big screen.

I feel like the big screen is kind of redundant at that point. Like, it's, it's not like anyone's going to get it confused with the 170-inch medium screen. Yeah. Okay, we have some community notes. You want to bring up Vance Crow? Sure. So for those of you who don't know and maybe don't spend nearly enough time listening to Vance Crow and talking to him, he's just a wonderful communicator. And he is doing some three-day five sessions with two evenings, on a recurring basis,

kind of a monthly thing. The next one is May 4th to 6th. So it's, you know, day one, interest-based negotiations, introductions and storytelling, group dinner and cohort activity, conversations and questions, conflict and alignment, evening activities, presentations, integration and practice. you know actually I think the May one isn't up anymore

so I'm guessing it's sold out but June 1st to 3rd and July 6th to 8th for those people watching there's the website if you care and then absolutely should

like this guy is one of the most effective communicators any of us have ever met and if he's opened up his toolbox and walking you through walking you through everything that goes where and why. It's a no-brainer. I've said this multiple times, but on stage, I've had many a gifted speaker,

but Vance Crowe is in the top three that I've ever had on stage. Yeah, when you talk about him being talented. That you've ever had on stage, he's easily the best. Well, two's going to say he's the best. He is, yeah, he's fantastic. I'm going to put him top three. Yeah, that's,

That's like saying Wayne Gretzky is one of the three best hockey players of all time. Sure. Or that big penis twos has one of the three biggest penises of all time. All right. Some other things going on. You got the conference for Dominion of Canada happening May 16th in Calgary at the Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza. Okay. So there's that.

You can go to three, I think it says three R project.ca. ThreeR project.com for that. You got Brian Peckford and Michael Wagner, Fadeen, Layton Gray, a few others. Anyways, that's going on. Then, tonight in Lloyd Minster, Jason Levine's got the shot. That's the Sean Hartman story, 7 p.m. at the OTS room at the multiplex here in town, the service sports center. If anyone is interested, free to admission.

Are you going to that? Yeah, I am. Yeah, I'm going to go watch. Well, I didn't say hi to his dad for me. Yeah, I interviewed him. That is a long time ago. But regardless, yeah, we'll, we're going to see how that goes watching that. I assume that's going to be an emotional ride.

Yeah. Yeah. Mashup 204 in the books. One of the things actually on community notes for a second, me and twos are working on a new system here to make sure we don't miss any. And so if you send them to us, keep sending them, is what I'm pointing out. We're going to try and do it better. I'm going to try and do better on making sure. You're going to try and do better.

I laid out the new format for us to keep track of them. Really? Yeah. It's twos. Tues takes credit for the of the week right now. Okay. Okay. All right.

My new system is going to make sure that we don't keep missing them. Sure. All right. Tews is right sometimes of the week and steals. every idea. Fair enough. All right. Um, mashup two or four in the books. We're here every Friday. 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. Appreciate you all coming in and be in here. Make sure to share far and wide to, uh, I don't know, anyone you think could, uh, need a laugh on a Friday. Either way, twos. As always, I would say we're going to have music exit us out, but folks, we don't even have

music day. I don't know where, like, okay. Well, I mean, if we don't have music, just thanks for tuning in everybody big penis two's out