Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 205

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

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Welcome to the mashup Welcome to the mashup Welcome to the mashup God loves irony He loves it His favorite thing ever We're in Pete Crazy world. So for those of you who don't know, Mrs. Toos has raven black hair, which she recently

decided to try and go with that like kind of grayish blue light color. And so figured it was going to take multiple applications of bleaching all the color out and everything like that. And so she does the first one and it comes out, well, for lack of a better word, red. And then she's waiting you know a week or two before she can do another application of it and decides along the way that she likes it and so she kind of

firmed up the color a little bit in a couple spots and uh now Mrs. Tews is a redhead Mrs. Tews is a ginger? Yeah. Life comes at you fast dude. You uh,

you know you got given a shirt tos at the Cornerstone. I'm surprised you don't wear it more often. And I'm surprised in honor of Mrs. Too's being a ginger, you didn't dawn it for today. Yeah. That, and this isn't me being an a-hole. That shirt somehow went missing. You don't have the shirt anymore? I was going to wear it, but I don't have it. Where did it go? It didn't make its way back with me when I left the the cornerstone. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. You know, you trust people with things and then twos messes it up. All right. Well, that's unbelievable twos.

Nobody even knows what I'm talking about. Somewhere there's a picture of it, I'm sure. There are a couple pictures of it, so at least there's evidence. Yeah, I like the way you told her to get it

in like a quadruple XL or something. Just make it for a Lund fishing boat. It'll fit. Speaking of Lund fishing boats, stop into Rect Tech power products here in Lloydminster. They got Lund fishing boats. Now, mashup 205.

Welcome back, everybody. Here we are. Another week, another, well, there's some things to get to this week. Isn't there Tuesday? It never seems like there's a dull week.

I don't think we ever have, just like you show up and you're like, what are we going to talk about today? I think we got lots to get to. And thanks for everybody hopping on. As always, if you enjoy the show, you're watching on X, hit the retweet button.

You're watching elsewhere. Like so you never miss. You know, subscribe, share it with a friend. All those good things. Now, all of them. Four mashup fans. I called twos this week like three different times. I wouldn't call me back.

I'm like, too. Yeah, you call me like three different times within 20 minutes. Yeah. And you should know that's emergency. It's time to answer the phone. I don't care what you do. I don't care if you're in the middle of something serious. work-wise. It's like, Sean's called three times.

He's probably got something he needs to tell. I don't always have my phone on me. You know, you know that like sometimes it just gets placed somewhere and then you know, looked at it a later time. It's, it's not attached to my forehead. I don't have it up the prison wallet.

Sometimes I'm not in the same place as my phone, Sean. Well, what I did, mashup fans are going to kick out of this. Meant twos have talked about probably the first five mashups, roughly. A-2s, roughly the first five, we're like, where the heck did those ever go? And then, Sean found them. I found all of them.

And so I started watching mash up one. So I planned to, uh, probably in July when we, when we first kick off the, the road trip. And, um, I need a little space on, you know, getting things figured out as we get going. I'm going to probably air a few of the old episodes. I started watching it. I'm like, how is it possible that like, that's like four years ago, both of us just like, way younger. Because this

this country puts city miles on you. Country miles on you or city miles? City miles. You know, if you put highway miles on a car, it lasts for a million years, but city miles is what wears him out. Well, I tell you what,

twos looks like he's 20. I'm like, is this? Interesting. Anyways, mashup one. The original. The original where we don't even know what we're doing. I'm still buzzing. We're so, it's not even that long of an episode. I think it's like 30 minutes, 20-some minutes.

Did we even have the buzzers at that point? Because I think we got them part way through. We got them part way through. So anyways, mashup one for all you lovely fans, it has been found. It's been unearthed. And I was calling twos and he wouldn't answer his phone. I'm like, man. Yeah, because I wasn't standing next to it. Well, when I call, 20 minutes later, I look at it, and I'm like, how. Bad signal. Holy crap. Sean's calling. Better answer the phone.

Especially when I call three times. Can we talk about that for a second? Sure. Can we talk about how incredibly stupid it is to have a bat signal used to get the attention of somebody whose secret layer is in a cave? No. Tell me I'm wrong. You're wrong.

It's stupid. Like, well, we were shot at the bat signal. Why didn't you come running? Well, because when I look up towards the bad signal, all I see is stalactite. They don't put the bad signal during the day. It's not during the day. They don't shine in the day and go, where is the Batman? Oh, wait, he only comes out at night.

And when he comes out at night and he's going around, there's a giant thing in this. Oh, I need to be somewhere. Yeah. And if it's a clear night, guess what? That thing's going all the way to space. All right. Let's get into it. Mashup 205.

Happy Airborne Friday to all the, uh, military boys out there. And, um, man, I don't know. Happy everyone on Friday. Happy everyone on Friday. Coot six and a half. Man, this is fun. This is dark.

No, this is about as dark as it gets to start mashup 205. Okay. If it was any darker, it would be our former prime minister. Two month old baby suffered 50 fractures, including broken femur, father sentenced over seven years after a two month old baby arrived at the saint. Keep talking. I got the echo. Let's get rid of there.

So over seven years after a two-month-old baby arrived at St. Justine Hospital with a broken lagger father and mother are facing justice. The broken femur was one of 50 fractures discovered on the young girl's body over the span of her short life. The father named M.B. in the court statement of facts document of the baby pleaded guilty to assault and the mother pleaded guilty to negligence of the baby. The father who was 36 years old was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest. The mother pleaded guilty last year in his waiting sentencing. It gets like, it just goes into all the details. I just.

Basically, once they started looking closely at this baby, they realized that it had had over 50 bones broken. Now, I get the fact that the percentage is a little bit lower because babies have more bones that slowly fuse together. But that doesn't really excuse the fact that their parents, the kid's parents broke that kid's bones over 50 times as a baby. You know, the story bugs me. Names with help.

18 months' house arrest. Lots of people have met my oldest, right? She is a full contact young little man at 10. And I broke his collarbone wrestling with him when he was about three or four. And that was not a fun experience. That has ruined wrestling a lot for me because I was, anyways, we were doing wrestling moves onto an air mattress. And anyways, the air mattress got a slow leak.

And so one of the last power moves. And then you got mad at the leak and then you took it out on, yeah. I can't imagine 50 of those. Like it just, I can't go there. Here's the thing. This isn't a toddler. This was a baby. I know.

I know. Like that's what I mean, it just. Like the dad broke the kid's femur while he was changing the diaper. because he was getting frustrated with it. And this man was sentenced to 18 months house arrest. Judge says colonization of reason indigenous man gets reduced sentence for choking a toddler. This is why this morning we're starting on a very dark note, okay?

33-year-old indigenous BC man who choked and kicked his girlfriend's vulnerable and defenseless two-year-old son last summer has been sentenced to six months in prison for two separate assaults, both of which were captured by a nanny cam in the child's room, provincial court of BC judge Tamara Galinsky said while the man was not raised with traditional upbringing doesn't have status neither he nor his immediate family were impacted by state of actions such as residential schools even the disassociation with one's past and cultural heritage is a negative consequence of colonization as such his ingenuity was given some weight as a mitigating factor when she gave him a concurrent six months sentence on charges of choking and assaulting

earlier this month. Yeah. Six months. This is our justice system. This is this country. All right. Let's move on to some regular stuff. Let's move on to rapid fire, shall we?

Alternative media. U-2s, you are a top concern. Public Safety Deputy Minister, Trisha Gettys, said. Yep. In Sweden, Stockholm. And a speech of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference called Threats,

and responses to is certainly a threat. Mm-hmm. Yep, very much so. I mean, I sit here and I point out stupid things that the government does, stupid things that our courts do, and if you're one of the people doing stupid things, it's probably fair to say that I am a threat. They're not wrong.

Youth unemployment rate more than double national average. Canada's unemployment rate from 15 to 24 years old rose to 14-1 14.1% in February up from 13.3% at the end of 2025. That makes the youth unemployment rate more than double of the national average of 6.7%. You know, it was weird. I read this article three times, and I still couldn't find any part in it where they talked about the temporary foreign worker program. Hmm. Hmm.

Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. I don't know. Is there anything really to say? Like, the journalist should do some journalist things. This is probably why CTV News, Blacklock's just reported that CTV News is losing $40 million a year. You don't say. I wonder why that is. How much money does the mashup lose in a year?

We don't. We don't make $40 million. That'd be nice. No, no, no, that's absolutely. But we are roughly $40 million more. profitable than CTV. I like that. I would like to have the 40 million. That'd be nice. Yep.

That'd be nice. Now compare us to CBS. Can you imagine if a government gave out money to actually hold them accountable weight that contradicts that can't happen. Can't happen. No, no, it can't. But it is what it is. And we just go along with it.

But at the end of the day, this show that you folks are watching today makes roughly $40 million a year more than CTV. I like that. Daniel Smith reveals the singular most hidden statistic on the Stats Can website. Temporary foreign workers cost the economy 10 times more than they produced.

You can show the video if you want to. I can show the video, but the audio is quiet even for me, so no one's going to hear a damn bit of it. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, They brought in $150 million and they cost 10 times that number. Yeah. That's the gist of it.

Daniel Smith says it, you're like... And it's just a bunch of deadweight losses that the savings get passed on to people who own Tim Hortons's. And you've got deadweight loss to the economy with the youth unemployment. And the few people who are getting the jobs that people here can't get don't even... They're temporary. So it is what it is. Here, I just want to life-loving mom and nurse says, guaranteed you will be there one day.

Money sign, money sign, money sign. Let's be totally clear about this, mother and nurse. We are already there. We already make $40 million a year more than CTV does. If you look at our bank account today and their bank account today, and then you fast forward one year, our bank account will have 40 million more dollars in it than theirs does. Or it will be a change of 40 million dollars, I guess would be a more accurate thing to say.

We already, yeah. Pierre Poliev, my economic education in predicting what actually comes to pass, do you want to show the video? I do want to show the video. See, here's the thing is, you know, one of the brain worms that showed up when when we were talking to Chris Berth-a-lot, shout-out to Chris, was that, you know, his kind of go-to stance in terms of thinking about whose opinions were worth more regarding separation were, you know,

how many degrees does this person have? You know, are you an international banker? Are you this or are you that? And the thing that's really come around in my head is that, people over here, you and I, people watch this show, we look at who's fucking right. Who says the things that actually prevail to be true over time? And I've kind of alluded to this a little bit,

so I'm guessing that he just watched some mashup and he thought he'd build on it, but here you go. About the Bank of Canada when they jacked up interest rates. They've lowered them faster than the U.S. Inflation is, the interest rates are lower. So you also, also at one point suggested the bank kind of government should be fired i you can go with the list of nations who fired the central bank chiefs it's like zambia south sudan iraninin

egypt what does it say about your economic education that you want to join that kind of club sorry just one second here i just want to point out that canada and china are the only countries retaliating against the u.s regarding tariffs but they never ask carney that same question Well, that's just false. So if I could, your comments are just false. What does it say about my academic education? Well, I'll tell you my education is in predicting what actually comes to pass. So back in 2020, Mark Carney and I both made predictions.

You can see them. They're on tape. Mark Carney said that COVID would lead to deflation right before the worst inflation in four decades. decades. I said we would have inflation and ultimately was proven right by the facts. I'm not finished. Then I said we should not print money because it would drive up the cost of everything. Mark Carney openly advised the United Kingdom and Canada to print cash. What did we get? We got the worst inflation. We got twice as many people at food banks. In just seven years, we've doubled food bank lineups. I had catastrophic prediction. I also said,

We would have a housing crisis back in 2020. What did we get? The highest housing costs in the G7. The only country that came even close was the UK. Why? Because Mark Carney, as governor of the Bank of England, printed so much money that he caused a housing crisis in that country.

So I think we should judge qualifications based on actual results and who was proven right. On all of the issues of the last 10 years, on carbon taxes, oil and gas production, pipelines, money printing, inflation, housing. I have been right. And Mr. Carney has been wrong. Now, here's the thing with that is, yeah, yeah, he's totally correct. And as much as I don't like, given the devil is due when it comes to Polyev, he's right.

Now, the pushback, I would say on that is that literally everybody who, isn't a Kool-Aid drinking liberal said the exact same things. You had 30 some million people in a country saying, well, yeah, that's obviously what's going to happen because that's what happens.

When you print money, you reduce the value of the dollars. I thought it was really interesting that he talked about the housing crisis without mentioning immigration, though. That was a nice little bit of stick handling. He did there. Great job on that, Pierre.

Speaking of Kearney, you want to show Carney the world has changed and Canada must respond? Yeah, okay, we'll show it real quick. Many of our former strengths based on our close ties to America have become our weaknesses, weaknesses that we must correct. Workers in our industries most affected by U.S. tariffs in autos and steel in lumber are under threat. Businesses are holding back investments restrained by the fall of uncertainty that's hanging over all of us. the U.S. has changed and we must respond. Well, he's right in that places are holding back investments. They absolutely are.

Not for the way he's saying, but the only people, the only people who see what the U.S., like our close relationship with the U.S. as a detriment are again, like just the straight-up Kool-A drinking liberals. You've got the strongest military in the world. We're very isolated geographically when you think about it. We've got one, like we're just about the only country who is only connected to one other country directly. And it just so happens to be the largest military in the world.

We've got the longest undefended border in the world. We've got the largest economy in the world right next to us. the people who buy everything. Like, you name it. And all you got to do is just, all of this comes from an inferiority complex, right? Like, you know how if I was going to trash talk you, Sean? And I was going to be like, dude, you can't even fucking skate.

Let's go play some shitty. And I'm going to mop up the floor with you. You would probably laugh a little bit. You'd smile. And you'd be like, sure, buddy. Sure. Right? Because I didn't go play hockey in Finland.

But if I said, let's go throw around the pig skin, you'd be like, okay, well, you had to give the devil as due, right? Yeah, you're talking about our largest trading partner. And does that mean you don't explore other trading partners? No, certainly you do. But here's the thing is when you look at this, you say, okay, well, you know what, if it was something that you felt really self-conscious about rather than hockey, I don't know, you name it. But just like picture somebody who's self-conscious about something.

We've all seen those people who get called out for not being great at something. And then they just kind of puff up their chest. They're like, I'll show you. That's literally what we're doing on the world stage. Like, it's not the end of the world to admit that we're a smaller country in terms of economic output than the states. and that they do a fair number of things better than us, and that working with them is in our best interest, whereas it's not a huge deal whether or not they work with us for them,

right? We need them more than they need us. And if you're comfortable in that assessment, you don't end up trying to long-cock somebody when you just got out of the pool. And that's exactly what Canada has been doing. And we've got all of these different clips of, like, I'm just going to show you, okay, that's Mark Carney's stance. And now here, we're going to get into a couple more from other places.

Here's Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA. You're going to, okay, I'll pull up the audio here. Give me a sec. Mexico about this. And the president has spoken directly about this. They've been very serious. Look, we know the United States is our most important economic partner, that it is the policy of President Scheinbaum that the United States and Mexico will have a positive economic relationship, and that we know that we'll have some friction and we'll have to figure it out, but we're going to figure it out, right? This is the bottom line. There are other economies who decided to make it personal, and, you know, I think Carney has made it personal. I think it's political malpractice for the Prime Minister of a Canadian, you know, of Canada to pit politically himself against any president. I don't care what the president is, who the president is, what party they represent,

it's political malpractice. Canada is dependent upon the US economy. That's just a fact, right? That's not hubris, that's not something that Canada needs to be concerned about. It's not something Canada can change. The fundamental fact is geography wins out. Canada is located where it's located.

They can't move shop. They can have a week, economy that is underperforming and not doing well and Carney can feel superior or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy and Carney can do what

a grown-up should do, which is figure out, figure it out, and come like President Scheinbaum and decide that the United States and Canada will have a positive economic relationship. And that's basically it. But the thing he's not mentioning here

is that the liberals, Carney, including, would rather rule the ashes. They're the party of ruling the ashes. They absolutely are. If I may twos, I was going to say, you know, like Sun Tzu,

art of war. One of the things, victory goes to those who know when and when not to fight, how to handle superior or inferior forces, maintain unity and prepare for surprises. And there's a whole bunch of other things that go on there. You just go,

like, it's not that you can't diversify, your portfolio, right? If we go back to when Justin Trudeau was in and countries were coming here begging for what we had, and we said, there's no business case. And then we point to that and we go,

well, that was an oops, a giant oops. You could have opened up new markets. You could have, but you didn't. And now you sit here years later, and now you're going to go to war against our largest trading partner while not having all the things that you said there was no business case for.

And it just goes on and on. first. Right. It's it's it's if you're if you're if you want to strategically go a certain direction, you can do that and not have to have all the pain in the world to come with what is happening. You know, like I mean, we're going to get to end other stories. But well it's there's there's a lack of like I don't know, not even like just vision of where you want to go other than in the toilet. Here's the thing is you you kind of it's that meme with the two buttons. Do you want to push the button where Canada. it does well, or do you want to push the button where you're in charge?

And the liberals push the I'm in charge button every single fucking time. There's another clip we could show we're not going to, where a guy named Ron Donnelly is testifying about the fact that literally half the jobs in Windsor, Ontario are going to be gone. Okay? It's just, it keeps going. Like this stuff, it just doesn't end just because you, you're now in charge. it gets worse because you're being a fucking dick about it.

And the fact that they're willing to just sacrifice an entire city, right? Like literally, it's going to be ashes. It's going to be just, it's going to be fucking tumbleweeds. And but that's okay because I get to be the guy in charge of the rest of it. And here's something I want to touch on because there's so many people who are just dishonestly representing this shit. So some guy named Yannick Poole, I don't know who he is. But he had this thing that got a lot of traction on X.

You hate Mark Carney because he's a liberal, fine. But I keep hearing he's done nothing from people who can't name a single policy. So here are receipts from the first 12 months. This is where it gets interesting. One, killed the consumer carbon tax, gone on day one. Why did he specifically say consumer carbon tax? Because the industrial one's still in place. And who pays that?

Ultimately, at the end of the day, is the consumer. It's still a consumer carbon tax. It's just not literally called the consumer carbon tax. So number one, you're full of shit. Scrap the EV mandate, technically correct. Replaced it with a $5,000 rebate and choice. So he loosened the vice on my nuts, a quarter turn on that one, and I'm expected to be happy. He replaced one extremely bad policy with one only bad policy.

Reverse the capital gains tax hike. You mean the illegal one? The one that was not going to get royal assent at fucking all? he decided to scrap that before it went to the Supreme Court of Canada and they told him to kick rocks. Wow. Really? Really? That's so magnanimous of him. We should have a fucking parade. Pass the one Canadian Economy Act C5 to tear down interprovincial trade barriers. This is the difference between stated outcome and actual outcome. Yes, yes. The whole written, the flowery language bullshit for C5 was that it was going to tear down interprovincial trade barriers. Sean, last time I checked, can you still legally bring a case of Great Western Pilsner

from Saskatchewan into Alberta? Legally? Legally? Yeah, legally no. No. Unless somebody in our lovely audience says different. I haven't heard that. Really?

Yeah. But this guy just said that Carney tore down interprovincial trade barriers. Whatever can be the discrepancy between that off the top of our heads. and this thing written down here. Cut 40,000 federal jobs with a plan to actually shrink government. No, the fuck, that's not true. It's not, he cut 40,000 federal jobs. He's planning to not replace 40,000 jobs when people leave for retirement or,

although I'm pretty sure it never fucking happens in this day and age, leave to go somewhere else. That's not an actual plan to shrink government. That's a plan to just kind of, staunched the bleeding a little bit. And it's the same thing with this. Slashed immigration targets to match housing and infrastructure capacity. Well, first of all, they're not to match housing and infrastructure capacity.

And when you say slashed, what you're talking about is the 4% reduction between the 2026 targets for immigration and the 2025 targets for immigration. Think about it this way. You got a jug of beer and you pouring it under the tap and it's full. it's overflowing. You're just pouring out all of this beautiful beer that nobody can drink because it's just being pouring out out of your already full jug of beer. Okay. And then Mark Carney comes along and just turns down, turns down the pressure on the tap a little

bit so it doesn't overflow as quickly. How in the fuck is anybody seeing that as a victory? You people are straight up fucking retarded. Hit NATO's 2% target with 82 billion in new defense spending. Technically, yes, from an accounting perspective, yes, but that's because they put the Coast Guard in with that. They bought a whole bunch of furniture on the last day of the fiscal year. They basically did every sort of clever accounting thing

to say that they did it without actually accomplishing anything. Oh, how many tampons should we buy? Well, it's the last day of the fiscal year, so I guess all of them launched Build Canada homes and a major project office, fast-tracking 20, plus projects. Do you remember how many houses that thing is built so far? I can't say I do. We covered it in the mashup.

That build Canada homes and major projects, office, fast tracking all these projects, has built nine houses so far in Nunavut. 26 international trips, China canola tariffs reduced, 97 billion in foreign investments secured. 26 international trips is not something to fucking brag about. China can all tariffs reduced was because you had reduced the counter tariffs against EVs that nobody's buying anyway

to pretend like you're actually supporting an industry that's fucking dying and the 97 billion in foreign investment secured. That's the worst part of this. Believe it or not, out of this whole thing, 97 billion in foreign investment secured, 43.5%

of that was mergers and acquisitions Sean. Which means, that on the one hand, you've got almost $40, you've got about $41, $42 billion, sure, coming in to buy things that other people are selling so that they can get the fuck out. Do you remember when Stalantis sold off 49% of a factory, an EV battery factory, for less than the price of an ounce of silver? Somewhere in that $97 billion is that ounce of silver. Okay. And that's the other thing about it is, is that if an entire fucking factory, or sorry,

49% of an entire fucking factory is being sold in that $97 billion for $100, how much of it is absolute pennies, not on the dollar, not on the thousands of dollars, but on the millions of dollars just so that people can get the fuck away from this sinking economy. Okay. This isn't the when you people think it is. It's just that you're retarded. And it's, intentionally cognitive biasly misleading malarkey. And look at this. 6,300 like so far on this thing. You remember me telling you after Kearney got the majority?

That, well, the next obvious thing to do if I was sitting in the liberals circles. You didn't present it as your idea. You presented it as something you'd heard from somebody talking to you on a previous episode. Just go to the Sean Newman podcast. Fair enough. Well, no, the obvious thing is committees become a problem. And the way to solve committees is what to? To apparently do something that's never been done in the history of this country before.

And that is reshape the makeup of the committees without actually preroging parliament. Correct. So they have won up even where I thought it was going. So liberals say changes to host committees will put. an end to silly partisan games. Government House leader Mark McKinnon said he is pushing for a majority on House committees to put an end to silly partisan games by opposition parties while denying the move is by the liberals.

On Wednesday morning, McKinnon promised to reporters that the governing liberals would continue collaborating with opposition parties, sure, while also pushing for changes to allow them to better control committees. Currently, if you did not realize this, I think we've covered it a lot in the mashup. opposition MPs outnumber liberals by wanting committees and the controlling factor in that is the block. Yes. So this is just really funny.

I just want to point out, you know when somebody says something that's just super fucking correct and they do it accidentally? Liberals say changes to House committees will put it in to silly partisan games. Yes, yes, they will. Because it's essentially

a fucking... Like, it's, it's a monarchy at this point. It's a dictatorship because they get to do whatever the fuck they want and nobody can stop them. Nobody can even slow them down. They can't, they can't put wheel chocks in and there are literally no fucking breaks at this point. Yeah. So, you know who else doesn't have silly partisan games? North Korea.

Well, I find it, you know, like, I've been waiting for this because I'm like, this is the most obvious thing that is control. or slowing down anything to do with our politics. And they're talking about it. So if we were to put on our prediction hats, twos, what's the time frame to where committees get flipped? I have no idea how fast these things could or would move under regular circumstances. So I don't know. Prediction hat?

No idea. No idea. I think that... Mashup 2 of 5. We have no idea, but they've begun talking about it, which means it's coming sooner than later. Yeah, I will say my prediction hat is that this is them floating the idea and seeing how bad the pushback is. You'll probably see a poll in the next week or two

that's very cleverly worded to give the indication that people would be okay with it. And here's the thing. At the end of the day, this is the, this is, we're getting kind of near the climax that happens after the, just for just the tip, just for a second, just to see, how it feels that I was talking about last week because they're like, okay, well, if we can get away with this, can we also get away with that? And can we also get away with that? And can we also get away with that?

Just the tip. Just see how it feels. It's going to be fine. I just want to, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, if we don't like it, we'll just stop, right? Well, just, it's fine. It's fine. We don't have, no. Okay, okay. It's not. It's not. Okay. I'm going to keep going to. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay. All right. Now I need you to move your leg over here for a second. And boom. going to change the committees without proroging Parliament.

Holly Donne, liberals vote 164 to 153 to block interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jocks as permanent watchdog, despite being ranked, the world's best. And instead hand PM Mark Carney's Oxford classmate, Annette Ryan, the PBO position. Okay. Just look at these two people here. on the one hand, you've got this incredibly smart, capable dude. And then whatever the fuck Hogwarts shit this lady is? But here's the thing is they're just going to be able to get her to come in and she'll be like, uh, erase a documentus.

And everything's going to be fine. That's what they want. That's what they don't want a guy who's going to sit there and honestly tell them how badly they're fucking steering the ship into the rocks. I, I, I, okay. They want the, the, the, the ministry of misinformation.

I'm in a giggly mood today, folks, because all this is, is, is not good. Not good. But we do have a choice. We could, we can, we can, we could chuckle about it on Friday because, I mean, like, it's, it's going on. If you look at what the liberals are doing,

or just take a step back from politics in general, there's things that, are put in place in a democracy and government, whatever, that hold the governing body to account. And now if you're the governing body and you don't like that. You see them as being inconvenient. You're going to try and move the chessboard so that you have all the pieces. And we're watching it play out, right?

They found a way to get a majority when they did not get elected to do that. Then we talked about, well, the committee, you know, with knowing how many Senate positions have been put in place that, let's just call a spade a spade, are going to go along with the program. Yeah. So then the committee becomes one, they're talking about that. And then the person who's supposed to watch them, oh, they're going to take care of that. Yeah, yeah.

We're going to get our news missives from the PBO office via owl. I enjoy all the Harry Potter references today. Time. Potentially harm of permanent daylight time would be more severe in Alberta. This is talking, of course, about time changes being scrapped. You know, like he's talking about security and rhythm. This is Michael Antle, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Calgary. But the big takeaway here is that Alberta is getting away from the time change.

So for those of you who don't know, Alberta is going to finally follow in the footsteps of Saskatchewan and say, we're not going to do this stupid time change twice a year. If the rest of Canada wants to do something incredibly stupid doesn't mean we have to go along with it. I wonder if that's an allegory for anything else in the mashup this week. He said, he said foreshadowingly. And so, yeah, anyways, the rest of Canada likes doing dumb shit. And this is one more thing that Western Canada is no longer going to be part of. So I am fully expecting that the Alberta First Nations are going to try and file some kind of injunction against it.

Is it me? This is to the audience. Okay. Last week, Tuesday came in. He had a full night's sleep. He was just docile. It took an hour of prodding him to finally get going. Is that what it is?

just two is on his game today. I don't know. So to be clear, so I don't know. Or is it just because of the news cycle of what we're talking about? It's, it's. So I was trying to fix the audio issues that we've been having. And then I was getting that feedback, that half a second delay. And it's really hard for me anyway to talk when I'm hearing myself on a half second delay.

And so I was very trying to just speak like this because I'm hearing the delay. It's good to have you back twos. I put it to the full night of sleep. It kind of set me slow. Tews operates better off a pack of smokes, three hours of sleep, and a bottle of something sitting beside him. That's what I'm going with. Space.

Okay, the question on the space port story just continues to grow and grow. This is a tall boy. The Canadian government leased the spaceport from Maritime Lodge for 20 million a year, except Maritime doesn't own the land. The Canadian, is it per year? is it over the course of 10 years? It's 20 million per year over the course of 10 years. 10 years. Sorry. Okay. 200 million total divided by 10 is 20 million.

Seriously? That was a big pause. The last time I saw pause that big, it was on a polar bear. Except Maritime doesn't own the land. The Canadian government does and leases it to maritime for 13,500 per year. What that means is, I mean, this is the type of criminal Canada has. Man, it's just brilliant. We're going to lease from the Canadian. Break this down. Go ahead.

Actually, break it down. The Canadian government. Break it down. The Canadian government. Break it down. Come on, Toos. No, it's your, no, Toos is on fire today. I see that I'm going to have to bend to me last week.

So Twos, break it down for me since you won't let me have any say this week. Mash up 205. Two's go away with your thoughts on the spaceport in Nova Scotia. This is a picture of the spaceport in Nova Scotia. And you might be thinking to yourself, wow, that is an absolute piece of shit. And the reason why you're thinking that is because it's an absolute piece of shit. It's a concrete slab with a little bit of 40 mil around it or something like that. And apparently they did some little locate in the corner that's flagged off.

That's it. And there is a company that rents this space, which is Crownland, from the Nova Scotia government, for $13,000 a year. Okay. And then the government turned around and is sub-leasing it from the people they're leasing it to for $20 million a year. So think about it this way. if you took a spot in your backyard that you are already making the mortgage payment on or maybe you own it outright and you start you start leasing it maybe it's a shed you got a shed in your backyard and someone says I'll give you 500 bucks a year for it you say okay cool and then

you say actually I really want that shed I'm going to give you 20 million dollars a year for it what's it's your fucking shed so that's the start of it the other part of it is that how this money all comes together is that, oh shoot, where is I got to, do you, do you want to talk about this? Basically the day before the budget announcement, the day before the budget announcement this year speaking to this exact situation.

So the company who was leasing that made, what was it, $53,000 last year? Or was it $15,000? somewhere somewhere like super super low and then they got a $10 million investment the day before the budget was released for Canada and then shares of that company went through the roof and that after this was announced and that $10 million investment is now worth $30.5 doesn't that seem a little bit fucking suspicious and what is this company that leases are they partially owned by the Ukrainian government

or, pardon me, a Ukrainian company? It's just it's weird and the more you read about it the more it stinks. Kevin Chimes in. I heard Elon Musk was heading for Nova Scotia to make notes on our progress in space flight.

So there's 1,100 people who live within 5.5 kilometers of the pad. MLS is the company. Their founding partners were involved in a NASA whistleblower false billing case which was settled for $375,000. Current board chair, whose securities

firm was suspended and then revoked by Canada's investment regulator for putting the public at risk of imminent harm. We're going to put this guy in charge of fucking rockets. The Ukrainian rocket MLS was originally built to launch the Cyclone 4M, but that

rocket has never actually been built and the Ukrainian space agency behind it has been dogged by corruption scandals. The project received only a minimum Class 1 provincial environmental assessment despite touching multiple federal jurisdictions. Three requests for further environmental assessments

have been denied. And documents obtained through freedom of information requests revealed that local municipal officials actively work to serve MLS's interests, suppressed negative press, and help manage the optics of community support. A pro-spaceboard petition claiming the community backing turned out to have 60% of signatories from outside the community.

with 20 duplicate names. Tews can go through this entire thing. What I did was I posted that article in the chat for everybody. If you want to go read like a whole bunch about this, it's just, it's more of the same from what we've seen out of the government. This is, this is, this is not just the tip. This is just the shaft just for 20 minutes.

Just for 20 mil a year. I mean, at the end of the day, you go read it, And you're like, yeah, yeah. There's a lot. There is. Now, switching to the United States, the SPLC. So the DOJ charges the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the SPLC secretly funneled $3 million in donor funds to violent, racist extremist groups,

including the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, Aryan Nation, United Clans of America, unite the right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, sadistic souls motorcycle club, American Front. You could show the video of this if you wanted. Oh, can I please? Yes.

I'll show part of it because it's three minutes long. What the General just told you, the Southern Poverty Law Center in a massive sweeping indictment has been charged with Aliq. of fraud and using the banking system to perpetrate that fraud. I just want to talk about a couple of brief things here. The Southern Poverty Law Center themselves advertise

to raise money to dismantle violent extremist groups for a period of at least a decade. They use their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups. However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network, to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again.

They used the fraudulently raised money by lying to their donor network, thousands of Americans, to go ahead and actually pay the leadership of these supposed violent extremist groups. The groups, as the general laid out, include the Ku Klux Klan, the United Clans of America,

unite to right, National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the Aryan Nation Motorcycle Club and the National Socialist Party of America and also the American Front. So how about that? This is literally the plot from the Incredibles. Do you remember when, what was his name, Syndrome,

made that Omnibot that he was going to have terrorized the city and then he could swoop in and save everybody? But he built the Omnibot so that he could go in, and destroy it and then be considered a hero. That's literally what the Southern Poverty Law Center did. Create the enemy.

Yep. Yeah, the enemy, we need more money for our organization. And so to do that, we need to have a big enemy. And so if the big enemy won't be there on its own, we need to help it out. Racism is on life support. Sheldon chimed in. He said, hey, Sean, I heard about the spaceport thing from Northern in perspective. I laughed, coworker laughed, wife laughed. Now I'm wondering if I should do the same.

Yeah. I think we're all going. So maybe I should just create a company that sounds like big and powerful and just take a bunch of money from the government. They seem to be taking it, handing it out like nobody's business right now, too, too. Oh, absolutely. You want to show the picture of snowfall? Well, no, no, no. We're not done with this yet. We're not done with this. Because you need to understand that when Frozone had to find his super suit to get in and stop this, this is basically what's happening right now is racism is on life support. And it's funny. Like there was a reporter who said, I just want to make sure I understand.

You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of the KKK and other groups. And then the other guy says, I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that. And then in a weird twist. Okay. just off the top of your head, Sean, have you ever noticed that there, have you ever noticed any organizations in Canada

that kind of sound the same kind of idea? Anti-hate? A Canadian anti-hate network who came up out of nowhere, got a $300,000 grant from the federal government to conduct a survey about racism

that the liberals then used to justify the bill that they never managed to get through regarding online censorship and have been off to the races ever since. And the guy who founded that organization has just suddenly, out of nowhere, protected his tweets.

Just completely unrelated. You know, that whole kind of classic Simpsons? What an odd thing to say. What an odd thing to happen. The founder of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network protects his tweets right after the Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for doing this. shit. Everything just wraps up

in a neat little boshan. Here's, there are no stupid questions I don't think. This is Sheldon again. Hey, too, stupid question. Have you checked the volume mixer and increase your browser of choice volume? I don't know if I've done that specifically. I've been fighting with this thing for quite some time.

And it frustrates the hell to me. This is the current weather pattern in Western Canada. And so, for those of you listening and not watching, it just so happens to form a phallus. And the base of it is just below uranium city and it goes all the way through Fort Mac, Edmonton,

and the tip is somewhere probably around Longview. And meanwhile, the nuts of it are basically between Sastoun and Yorkton. It goes a little bit past Sastogne, probably somewhere like Langham or Borden. and then almost all the way to the edge and then it gets into where the urethras are and stuff like that where Thompson is. This is literally

God is putting his nut sack on Canada right now and that's why the weather sucks as much as it does. Is it Gale Force wins in Lloydminster right now? Oh yeah. I ran home, so I left this morning and Mel and the kids left. and then I had to run home right before we started.

So like, you know, what has that been? An hour and a half since the kids in Mellad backed out of the driveway. And there is a giant drift, like giant across our entire driveway. Wind is going crazy. Oh, yeah. It's crappy weather here. Like the only... It's like there's somebody put the nut sack down on Lloyd Minster right now.

Absolutely. Like the only thing in Alberta that blows more than the weather right now is the Edmonton Oilers. We'll get to the old Edmonton Oilers. Drivers, okay? What do you got for this this week? Do you actually have some videos this week, twos? Are you just going to mess this up? Because I've been waiting.

Okay, there's no audio here, but this is a guy not paying attention. And here's the view from inside the cab. Oh, there is audio. It's pretty loud, though. The second bit of it has audio. Just wasn't paying attention. You know when you see the cars, you see the tow trucks down like this

and you just want to jump them you know you're like you see it you're like I wonder if I can make that jump I wonder if I can make that jump well I mean kudos to him for actually doing it but he did not make the jump and if somebody had actually been inside that truck when he hit it he would have been fucking dead

where was that at that is an Alberta resident has been sentence after crashing into a tow truck on Highway 1 near Yoho National Park in 2023, destroying three vehicles. Darvir Singh Jatou, 38, was found guilty of dangerous driving after ignoring flashing lights. He received a conditional sentence, house arrest, and a one-year Canada-wide driving ban, and an alcohol and drug prohibition.

RCMP has released the video of the incident below. it's always the last ones you'd expect. Here's another one. Mother's son killed and pile up on a highway near Montreal. Truck driver was playing cell phone game. An Ontario truck driver is admitted to playing an online game on a cell phone when he caused a pile up on a Montreal area highway that killed a mother and her 11-year-old son.

On Wednesday, Balgett Singh, 29, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm at the courthouse in in Montreal's South Shore. The collision happened July 19, 2022. He was playing the cell phone game while driving his 53-foot tractor trailer on Highway 30 in Bursal, according to agreed statement of facts presented in court. Traffic was coming to a crawl as he approached the work zone near Grand L.A. Boulevard,

but he failed to slow down in time causing the major collision. He was using his cell phone 18 times. in the hour before the crash and the challenger was driven by 40-old Nancy Lefonsor who was driving her young and song Luique Chevalier and two other passengers

so yeah that's that's basically what happened oh except for the fact that the first thing he did when he got released on bail was get on a plan and go back to India and then he later on made his way to the United States where he got caught and got extradited to Canada for this.

If he hadn't been dumb enough to go to the states, he would have spent the rest of his life, living in India, having a great time, and never facing the consequences of murdering that woman and her small child. All right. 2026 World Happiness Report shows Kazakhstan

surpassed Canada in youth happiness. Isn't that crazy? Like, everything that we used to joke about has now become like an actual thing. Like, do you remember, did you ever see the movie Borat? Yes. Okay. Everything that was crazy about that movie is just normal now.

And then I saw him. He was a genuine chocolate face. That's our prime minister. former prime minister, okay? The suit is black knot. Do you remember that, like that, that whole thing with that guy? And then, like, my sister is number two prostitute in all Kazakhstan. How do you think, like, prostitution and, and human trafficking have gone out of control in this country

and the states, too, to be fair, lately? But, like, all of this used to be a joke. You remember at the end where you've got the crazy guys, running around naked, shaking the fist dildo at each other. That's literally just going downtown any city in this country these days. And sometimes it's literally part of a parade. The best CPC leader is a former CPC leader. The current one is always the boogeyman.

So this is wonderful. I love it when people show up with receipts. So this guy, whoever the hell he is, he's talking about very funny that Libs went so first of all Anthony Cox says very funny that lives went from calling Aaron O'Toole the Canadian Donald Trump to singing his praises in a few

short years. There's no conservative leader more beloved than a defeated one who's no longer in the game. This is like well I mean he's absolutely right so what's happening right now is that Aaron O'Toole is getting shoulder tapped to help out the liberals with their U.S. trade negotiations

and so nobody's particularly surprised by it because Aaron O'Toole was more or less a liberal the whole time. And that whole thing, there's no conservative leader more beloved than a defeated one who's no longer in the game. It's basically they're like catty bitches with their friends. You know how like chicks will, like the less than awesome ones? Be like, oh, girl, you look amazing. And meanwhile, she doesn't.

Oh, I love your hair. No, you don't. Oh, that is such a cute top. It is absa fucking lootly not. But they do it because if she goes out with that hair and that top, she is not a threat. The less than awesome ones? That's a statement. How old should I put it?

And this is exactly what the mainstream media in Canada and the liberals do with conservative leaders is. they'll come out wearing something shiny and they'll be like no it sucks get rid of it okay and then when they come out looking frumpy like erin o'toole they're like oh that's great you're doing wonderful oh you're just so beautiful and it's the same thing but here's the thing is this guy jumps in says no one ever called erin o'toole the canadian donald trump but conservatives called erin o'toole the canadian michael ignatia well yeah he kind of was um but then this roman fisher jumps in and says here's the fucking receipts and this is exact guy who said no one ever called him that. He's got multiple screenshots of him calling him that.

I don't know why liberals and leftists don't just automatically set their tweets to self-destruct after 30 days. Because they always come back to bite them in the ass. Always. Since 2016, the liberal government has paid health expenses for over 130,000 rejected refugee claimants costing, costing taxpayers over $275 million under the interim federal health program. Well, this is exactly what I was talking about there a few weeks ago, where we had that one caller text in asking why they can't get on the refugee program. And I was saying, well, nobody's stopping you. And this whole thing's going to continue until everybody just applies as a refugee.

Because even if you get rejected, you still get all the free shit. A year after U.S. AIDS death, fired workers find new jobs and much, few jobs, find a few jobs, and much lost. You missed one. You missed one. You missed one. Which one did I miss? The one that specifically said, let me handle this one. And so you probably didn't even include it. All right. So, hey, twos, could you handle this one?

Well, I'm going to try. So, Mexico releases new details in Tathucan shooting the killed Canadian woman. Mexican officials have unveiled new details surrounding the shooting, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I can't remember where it is, so I'm just going to look up the word. Mexican government officials told reporters at the news conference in Mexico City that the assailant was holding 52 cartridges of a special caliber in a plastic bag while firing.

And then it goes in of investigators attempting to trace the origin of the 38 caliber firearm. So this is CBC reporting this, that the assailant was holding 52 cartridges of a special caliber and then the firearm was a 38 caliber. What CBC doesn't know is that it was a 38 special. It wasn't a special caliber. It was a 38 special. These are the people reporting on firearms in this country, Sean.

These are the people telling us we need gun control. These are the people who will stand there and loudly at the top of their lungs from their soapbox tell us that they understand firearms better than we do. And the only thing special about them is their needs. I have been waiting to get to, wow, a whole bunch of these headlines, but there's two in a row, okay? A year after U.S. AIDS death, fired workers find few jobs, much loss. and then the second headline is a year after Doge,

former federal employees are still looking for work. Two is your thoughts. Well, I thought it was really interesting in the New York Times article when the lady spoke to the fact that she had recently had an interview to manage like a T store or something like that. I can't remember for $19 an hour. Her previous wage was $275,000 a year. Now, if somebody is abducted,

objectively worth $275,000 a year, they should have no trouble finding a similar job that would pay them a similar wage. But they can't. And not only that, if you work $2,000 a year at $19 an hour, or $2,000 a year at $19 an hour, you're going to make about $38,000. So from $275, you know,

and even if you want to give it a little wiggle room and be like, ah, you know what, times are tough, the economy sucks. I wasn't willing to move. And so I had to take a job that had a long commute and longer hours. And it only pays $140,000 a year. No, no, no, no, no. She's going from 275 to the prospect.

She is actively pursuing a job that would pay her $38,000 a year, assuming full-time employment, which is almost a tenth of what she was getting before. And so this is the government stuff that we talk about in Canada. We're like, why would they, why would they give all that money to that thing? That person objectively is not worth it. When we're, when we're talking about the layoffs coming up or and the offered early pensions.

Retirement. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're going to offer them potential, uh, pensions with no reduction. The fuck you should. The right answer is just to say, you've been overpaid your entire fucking career. We're ending it now and a thank you would be nice. okay this lady looking all sad and forlorn because she can't do her

$275,000 a year job anymore well guess what you have no fucking skills you're obviously not good at anything because you are actively trying to get a job that's going to pay you a tenth of that uh do you want to pull up the just bin's tweet yeah yeah this is fun i like this we're going to put it on the screen while i talk about it oh we both hit it at the same time i wish we had it to, you know, this is where my button is and this is where your button is. But anyway, Dami Construction has voluntary paid in full just bin's remediation costs for cleaning 3,637 pounds of debris that were legally dumped in a ditch shortly before 11 p.m. on

April 21st, outside Pilot Butte. The company representative, Sukman Singh, tells us, after internal investigation, they concluded it was their company. truck who dumped the debris and they have fired the employee responsible. Singh also assured us that dummy construction will be cooperating with law enforcement's continuing investigation. Singh asks that after receiving 150 plus calls, the public stopped calling in complaints to dummy construction. They got caught dumping almost 4,000 pounds of garbage on the side of the fucking road.

And then we're like, oh, yeah, actually that was us. And so they paid the cost to have just bins come in and actually clean up the mess. And supposedly they fired the guy. You know, this is reminding me of something I texted you from a listener on spring runoff on the gas. Remember last week we were talking about the clean, the water and the gas and the tanks? Yeah, actually, you know what? We should probably address that real quick. We should address it.

So Kelsey had chimed in after the mashup was done, saying most likely reason is spring runoff getting into underground tanks at fuel stations. It is wetter than usual this year. And if the employees don't understand the gas floats on the top of water, sorry, the gas floats on the top of water, and they assume that the municipal drains never malfunctioned. They just don't realize what it's happening. So there you go.

She goes, I've known a few people to which it has happened. I would say it is just operators that don't understand winter, spring. I don't know for sure if it is only wet years, but this year is wetter than the last two for sure. I could be wrong, but if you really wanted to rip customers, there are better ways water and fuel will get you blacklisted. So probably correct in terms of there's better ways. And like here's like,

does she run a gas station? No. I kind of want to talk to somebody who has ran a gas station be like how likely because I've never even heard of this happening until there was two articles within a week of each other.

Right? And so if the probability of something used to be zero and now it's a weekly thing, I wouldn't expect it to be just lots of runoff or something like that because sometimes there's floods. And the fact that it's 50% water

kind of makes me suspicious. right? Not that it's, oh, it's exactly 50% and that's it, but like that's a lot of water to go in there. And so, you know, what do you have to do wrong? And how wrong does it have to be for something like that to reasonably happen from incompetence rather than malice? Kevin said watering sand contaminated fuel happened in Nova Scotia to the Irving Corporation a couple decades ago. So that's, I actually know a guy who used to run a bunch of gas stations. Now that we're talking about, I'm like, let's just give him a call. And, you know, he operated a bunch of different ones.

It's probably somebody coming from that industry wouldn't be that hard to figure out if this is something that you've got to be on your toes about every spring to see. Yep. It's possible. Just as we're talking. Here's like in, in full, you know, if we run this thought experiment out all the way, it could be entirely reasonable to think that if somebody comes in from a completely different culture where things are set up completely differently, and they're given a piece of technology, which is a gas station, that they don't fully understand how to operate correctly,

there's a possibility that they're all making the same mistake because none of them have been shown the right way to do it. It's not entirely outside the realm of possibility, but, you know, there's just, just so many coincidences that keep piling up. Yeah. Regardless, there's a whole bunch of comments coming in now. And I go, it's just something that we can do, I can do, even I can do a little more research on. And I can find out from a guy who used to operate gas stations. Okay, cool.

Would be interesting. So I'll follow up on that. Okay. Drake plopped down a giant ice tower in the middle of Toronto. And fans started doing crazy things on top of it. So the city destroyed it. I assume you want to bring up maybe some of the video or just the article in general. Well, I mean, I can just talk about what happened.

So apparently Drake, who I don't even understand how he's a thing, let alone such a big thing. And the one time I was in Toronto for a week, anytime I got in an Uber, it was the only thing on the radio. You just heard Drake all the time. And all of his songs have the one thread of commonality in that they fucking. can suck. And so it astounds me that any of this is a thing. And yet here we are. And so in preparation of the release of his new album coming out in a few weeks, he put a giant, um, ice block. Well, it's, it's, uh, it's a series of ice blocks, but essentially in the middle of it is the giant pile of neatly stacked ice blocks in the middle of downtown Toronto, when the middle of

which is the release date of his new album coming out. And so then you can imagine people are trying to get to the release date. And so they started destroying it, trying to get to the bottom of it. Yeah. So they're trying to melt it with fire and break it apart. But then also at the same time, people thought it was a thing about ice in the States. And so you got people spray painting fuck ice on it. And as somebody who's looking out the window right now,

I'm kind of inclined to agree with the people who say fuck ice. And then what ended up happening, the resolution of this story, is that the Toronto firefighters used hoses and tools to break apart the giant ice sculpture and got rid of these safety concerns and apparently the release date is May 15th. Yeah, that's a fun story.

I just... All right, sure. This is why India's new transgender law terrifies this Windsor resident. Windsorite Ashcat Venerdamani says she's worried on a new law in India restricts her ability to identify as transgender

what new law is that a new bill passed in India's parliament removes people's ability to self-identify as transgender and puts restrictions on who can receive gender affirming surgery it also makes it a crime punishable by up to life in prison to force a person to assume a transgender

identity well that seems fairly reasonable and yet you've got this person who's a Windsorite despite the fact that they're here on a student visa. And so the whole thing is lamenting the fact that this dude who, like, if

you just kind of go like this for a second, you know, you'd kind of be tempted to want to take a closer look. Like assuming that the shorts aren't super tight, nothing's hanging out the bottom. Right? But like if you're assuming, assuming the weather pattern isn't hanging

out the bottom, yes. If, yeah, exactly, exactly. But yeah, like if you're just doom scrolling Twitter, you might pause for half a second and be like, oh, oh. But anyhow. So, Akshat Virmani, so ass hat here, um, is a dude who decided he wanted to be a chick. And he's worried that when his student visa expires, life is going to be difficult for him in India. And so, you know, the idea being that, you know, if there's a bunch of sympathy pieces and stuff like that, generated for people like this.

The second picture you showed of old Akshot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, don't get me wrong. The first picture, like I said, if you just, if you just do this, if you just do this, you could be forgiven for half a second. But then you get to this. Oh, man. All right.

Union leader, the numbered company in the $4 million house. A stately 4,400 square foot house sits on Windling Street and Nobleton. On a winding street. Oh yeah, sorry. I thought there was an all there. Never mind. Nobleton, Ontario in an enclave of sprawling homes nestled into the farm country north of Toronto. The property last changed hands in November 11, 2022 for $4 million. The buyer was a numbered company incorporated just days before the deal.

An investigation by the Globe Mail has found that the owner of the numbered company that bought the property was the Carpenters Regional Council. one of Canada's largest construction unions headquartered in nearby Vaughn, Ontario. Yeah. And for two years from November 11th to 2022, sorry, November 11th, 2022 to November 31st, 2024, the house was used by unions then newly appointed top leader, Executive Secretary, Treasurer Jason Rowe and his spouse, Stacey Rowe, who also served as union official until recently the house, which is still owned by the union, was on the market again,

listed at 3.75 million, according to a handout from the seller's real estate agents, it had undergone $290,000 in renovations, including an installation of an Arctic spot, a hot tub, and a state-of-the-art gym with mirrored walls and built-in television selling at the price. The union would have lost more than 500 grand. So there you go. Yeah. So what had happened was actually this guy and his wife were also listed as directors of that numbered company. and then since then

the house has been sold to the union officially for $0, despite the fact that when they were asked about it, well, why do you own this house? They said, well, we don't own it. The numbered company does. And then the number of company

sold it to them for $0. This thing's pretty freaking massive. And so without passing any sort of judgment, what it appears to be here is that the people in charge of the union decided that they wanted to have a $4 million house. And so the union bought it for them, which they decided they made the decisions on. And when the globe started trying to ask about transparency and the decision making factor or decision making process, if any other factors have been involved, if any of the other executives from the union had been notified of this and if so when,

and what all happened, they just got radio silence. This is a $4 million house. This is the Sky Palace. Do you remember the Sky Palace? This is the Sky Palace, but for a union. High school basketball coach charged with deviant sex with a student and dumped by husband,

a fellow coach. Yep. It's really interesting. We'll just, for no particular reason, bring up the picture of this lady. who was having sex with the students slash athlete. Yeah. Yep.

Yep. Okay. Ponoka Burger Barron. No judgment. Nothing to add. Nothing. No thoughts, Sean. If you've been a part of this show for 200 plus episodes,

you know exactly what's Tuesday is doing. And Tuesday has been doing this for a long time. What? Talking about the news? That's right. The mushroom burger from Burger Baron isn't just a burger. It's an Alberta institution, a saucy symbol of prairie greatness, and quite possibly the finest thing ever to happen to a bun. If you believe this legendary creation deserves to be named the official hamburger of Alberta, then this is your call to action.

Sign the petition. Stand for something delicious. So burger barrens. They need to get the guy from the UK to do a video on it. That's what they need to do. Which guy from there's several guys to the UK. I'm delicious. I'm delicious. What are you talking about?

We have videos on him Almost every bloody mashup Yeah, but you can't remember the guy That says, I'm deli- Follow me, I'm delicious What are we talking about here, Tews? Are you, is this thing on? Are you mental?

Are you mental? Did you even get the guy from the UK? Do you have any idea how many people live there? How many of them do we bring up on this show repeatedly? Kear-Starmor, Jeremy Clarkson. Oh my God. Why would you call him the guy from the UK Instead of just being the fucking Irishman

Really? That's how we're gonna This is it Okay, all right Do you describe yourself? Yeah, they should get Tears Starmer To endorse a burger that says Well, it didn't make a whole lot of sense But why go with the UK

When you could have just gone something more specific Like fucking Ireland Separatism Sean Newman You resident of planet Earth Yes Yeah, oh yeah yeah Like, yeah, we should get that guy from planet Earth to do the cornerstone for him.

Guess what? That's a lot of fucking people. God. I feel like I'm the only adult in the room here. Canada Post reports loss of $1.57 billion. Did you write a headline? One and a half billion pathetic losers. Before tax for 2025.

Well, guess what? If you lose $1.5.7 billion. you don't pay taxes anyway. The loss grew by whopping $728 million or 86.7% compared to the loss incurred the previous year, calling it the company's largest loss before tax on record. How many years in a row has that been for them? Every year we've been covering it. Every year.

It's proceeding with transformative measures to return the corporation to financial stability and renew postal services so it could meet the needs of Canadians in today's economy. Well, you know what? You may want to do transformative measures, but I'm pretty sure the unions representing your employees are transphobic.

You want to talk to some Jason Kenny? I mean, we could. Jason Kenny warns Alberta independence movement could become a real factor in politics. You don't say. If they get enough of these frustrated federalists voting for leverage and you get, I don't know, 20, 30, 35%.

Yes, that creates permanent divisive fact in our politics, Mr. Kenny said, in response to a question by a global columnist, Andrew Coyne. It will turn the separatist movement from a marginal fringe into a real factor in our politics that would be disruptive for a long time to come. Isn't it interesting the way he's understating the current levels of separation support? When he's saying, like, if it gets to 20, 30, or 35, when even by the notably slanted polls, it's at 30% already. Correct.

Yeah, it's almost as though he's sort of just intentionally misleading people. Isn't that funny? Isn't that weird? Here's a video of him. I wonder if he'll do the same thing. And it ends up on Fox News every day. The president is going to see this and he will have a hard time resisting the temptation to create mischief on this, leaning into it, I can see him making offers of absolving Alberta's debt.

I hope the Prime Minister raises it with him directly and says, look, I'm not going to advocate that Alaska be annexed by Canada or there should be a referendum for something. Like, this is just, you cannot do this. This goes too far. I hope that there's some direct words shared on this, that this would be like a bridge too far.

Now, to be clear, what the honorable Mr. Kenny is discussing here is literally a hypothetical situation. Correct. That if Alberta gets a successful referendum. Yeah. And he's worried that Donald Trump will offer things in order to incentivize Alberta.

And that Mark Carney is going to have to sit him down and have a serious conversation with him telling him to knock it off. Correct. This entire discussion is about hypotheticals, built on possibilities, built on what ifs. What a stupid piece of shit. I want to talk about the CBC video. CBC recently released a video discussing equalization

and talking about how things have been going with equalization and clearing up some of the misconceptions about it. And it's just over nine minutes. I just want to hit a couple high points. first off, this one. Under this scheme, taxpayers are getting the short end of the stick. There's our buddy Carson. Did you see that?

Did you see that? That was the only highlight of this. The rest of it is unmitigated bullshit. For example, let me fast forward to timestamp 57 seconds. Politicians simplifies a complex calculation. A complicated program that is difficult for Canadians to understand. does lend itself to being both misunderstood and mischaracterized. And it's tough to say if something is fair or not with all that spin.

The whole idea behind equalization is that Canadians should have roughly the same level of government services, no matter where they live. Now, here's the thing. There was two things that were said there back to back. one of them is Trevor Tombe saying that a complicated and difficult to understand system lends itself to being misunderstood and mischaracterized. Here's the thing is that you could replace it at any time with a simple system, but you don't because it's intentionally this giant fucking black box of what the fuck is anybody talking about and how the fuck did we get these fucking numbers

and are you fucking serious? It's why places like the Fraser Institute have to devote entire fucking weeks of study with world-renowned economists to even understand what the fuck happened in the last year's equalization formula. If you wanted it to be well received, you would make it easier to understand, but you don't because you don't. And what this lady's talking about where she's saying that the whole point of equalization is that Canadians across the country should have roughly the same level of

access to roughly the same level of services. What she's completely failing to take into account, probably intentionally at this point, because give me another good reason why it isn't, is that you're not noting the giant discrepancy between the press release stated outcomes and the actual fucking results that happened because of it. She's going, well, you know what? the reason why the government is doing this, according to them, is because they want to give everybody a fair crack at things.

No, what you're saying is technically correct that they said this, but the actual fucking outcome is to take 500 bucks from one person in Alberta and give five different people in PEI 100 bucks buying their votes. That's it. This is people talk about it being a wealth transfer system, But that's not true in the least. What it actually is is a vote transfer system, okay? And here we go into just the most beautiful part of it, around 251.

...vent any way a province wants. And here's the big misconception. Provinces do not pay in to equalization. Equalization payments come from federal taxes raised from individuals and businesses. And again, I get where you're coming from. You say something that is technically basically correct. Well, not technically basically correct. It is correct.

Okay. The last place that that money is before it goes to the individual provinces is Ottawa. But it's not the first place that money is. The first place that money is is in our fucking pockets, right? And this is the same thing I was talking about with Chris. We're literally, if I was to take a dollar and scratch my initials into it and use it to pay taxes, sure, yeah, I'm not directly giving that. I'm not cutting a check to Francois bullshit in fucking Quebec.

But what ends up happening is that through several intermediary steps, eventually that loony ends up buying some fucking 50% cane sugar maple syrup in suburb of Montreal so that John Philippe, whatever the fuck his face is, can feel better about the fact that there are a bunch of deadbeats. Okay? And you've got to talk, if you're going to talk about the fact that the last step in this is that the money doesn't come directly from people in Alberta or Saskatchewan or BC, you have to give equal admission to the fact that the first several steps are that because literally what you're discussing in terms of economics is what's called money laundering. Ottawa in this case is the fucking car wash and fucking Quebec is what you're going to. Walter White.

It appears that Thomas Lecazix is now regretting his form. You want to show the video of Daniel Smith? Yeah, actually. Because, you know, before we'll pull it up, but before we play it, am I understanding, you know, like people have been wondering about his petition and whether or not what it does, can he pull it back regardless? And then everybody's kind of concerned, you know, we had the, Eva and Jeff on here talking about the court, you know, is it going to take away the petition on independence?

If I understood what's being said here, one way or another, whether it's Le Cazic or the petition by Mitch Sylvester, there's going to be a question come October. Am I wrong on that? It's really starting to look that way. But here's the thing is that Daniel Smith did a great job here of breaking down. what exactly Thomas Lukasik's petition was and what he was looking for. We have son Braves from Calgary Herald Julinius Obin. The thoughts you said a little while back, something that indicated was Lukasik's Forever Canadian petition might actually be on the ballot.

We know he checked the policy box. We know it's before the committee. All of this seems quite murky. But are you suggesting that you might put him on the ballot? And if you put that question on the referendum ballot, and if you did, would that obviate being able to put the suit? Is it possibly we might actually have the separatist question and that question on the referendum ballot on October 19th?

Yes, I mean, that's what the committee is looking at right now. Tews, can you turn up? Nope. Can you hear it? It says a legislative report. Because I could just give you a summary of it too. Okay, how about this? So Daniel Smith has a copy of that exact document

that Thomas Lukasik filled out in an attempt to get the okay to collect signatures for his petition. And in it, he specifically asked for a referendum on should Alberta stay in Canada yes or no. And you may remember, I don't know, a few months ago when I was talking about the fact that he was an absolute idiot because he was literally asking a yes or no question. And so if you say that is something heads, it's the same thing as asking if it's not tails. And that it would be the funniest thing in the fucking world if Alberta separates because of the petition

that he started asking a yes or no question on separation in order in an attempt to get Alberta to stay in Canada. But because he was so dumb with how he did it, he accidentally knocks over the first domino that ends with Alberta being its own sovereign country. And then when we turn Canmore into the Mount Rushmore of a free Alberta, we can put his idiot fucking face on the mountain just to twist the knife a little bit. That's literally what Daniel Smith is talking about here.

It's a very interesting, I wish we could hear it because I think it's always interesting when it's coming from Daniel. But essentially, you go, so we worry, or people worry, I should say, that Mitch's question is going to get taken out in court. And what she's basically saying is one way or another, October 19th, there will be a question. Well, she's saying, I've got a petition with 450,000 verified signatures asking for a yes or no referendum question on whether Alberta should stay in Canada. Yeah. To me, that, it just, anyways.

Okay, a couple more things before we get everybody out of here. BQ, MP, Christine, Normandin blames dirty. oil from Alberta for flooding in Quebec. That's basically it. I'm not, you know, we don't need to show the video. But that's, that's essentially what she said. She gets up in question period and complains that the fact that Alberta is still doing all this dirty oil, which is paying for everything in fucking

Quebec, by the way. A thank you card would be nice. Maybe a basket of fucking chocolates or something. Maybe, maybe just send flowers. When the equalization check clears, send us a bouquet of fucking roses. Here's a fun one. Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without a study show. Cocaine use is on the rise worldwide, with the UN reporting an estimated 25 million people use the stimulant in 2023 and the drug being increasingly found in waterways.

Joint research, well, apparently they're not researching joints now, are they? released Monday by scientists at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agriculture, whatever. Actually, you know what, an East Indian accent would be pretty correct for Sweden these days. Studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats. They took 105, 105 wild Atlantic salmon in Sweden's Lake Vaturn and exposed them to both cocaine and benzolikagonin, a metabolite created by the drug in the liver and then tracked their movements. They found the river dwellers

exposed to the drugs traveled 1.9 times further per week than their clean living controlled cousins. Yeah, you didn't need to read the story. I mean, the headline says it all on this one. That's what I feel. We've been talking about different animals. But imagine you go to university for like four years. You get it to green biology and you're like, okay, cool.

And then you study the effects of cocaine on salmon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just, like, how did they get them? How do you get a fish to sniff cocaine, like snort cocaine? Like they don't have noses. You just put it right in the gills. And then when the gills are flapping, it just kind of works its way in. Like, just think about the logistics of this. They had to figure out how to get salmon high on cocaine.

I know. This is, I mean, we're here for all the stupidity in Canada. But every once in a while, we get a headline where you're like, You don't even need the story. Because, I mean, it's not even like they've got the pinky now that you see on construction workers all the time or anything. Do they have like the cocaine fin? Go to the sports desk.

Show me this video. You got to watch this video, folks, okay? This video is. So pitcher throws the ball. Batter hits it a little bit low. And it happens to be. just as he's turning from his release and there's that tiny little gap

in between the buttons on his shirt and the ball happens to hit that gap exactly perfectly fly around the outside of of his jersey and just everyone's like wondering what happened to the ball and he's wondering

it's got dropped. I don't know what it is tonight. Do you know what it is tonight? What's going on tonight? Game three. Are the flames in the playoffs? Not these playoffs. Oh, no. No, it's been a while, hasn't it? Hmm.

Yeah. It was a cool video, though. He did catch it with his shirt. That's a new one. I don't know if you knew this, but it's game three tonight. So... Sorry, was that? Must be tough.

Must be tough. You know? Yeah, so anyway, the point is, is that's our show, and we're about to get to happy news. So, anyhow, moving on to happy news. Neutrality is inclusive. Strathmore. counselor moves to remove ideological symbols on town property. I get the fact that we've been covering

it when it's happened in a bunch of other rural communities, but the fact that it just kind of keeps picking up momentum and more and more following suit, I think it's a wonderful thing. And every single one of your communities that's doing this, hats off to you, applaud you. Not literally hats off. Okay, Mr. Newman, but hats off nonetheless. Yes. Okay, we got a couple of things. We had a listener reach out last week about Vance Crow's communication classes. Is it classes? Is that the very way? It says most professionals were never taught how to communicate under pressure. They default to hardball tactics. Avoid conflict or wing it and hopes for the best. And internet-based communications is a different approach rooted in negotiation theory built around the idea that understanding what people actually want their interest.

interests matters more than winning arguments, but what they say they want their positions. Vance Crow does courses on this. Regardless, you can sign up at articulate.venture backslash, is that IBC? I think it's IBC. Regardless, you can also text us, text me. We can put you in the right spot if you're wanting to do that. I guess I could just do this too. Here, I'll put it in the comment.

Put the link in. Yep. the other thing though in happy news before you get too far into community notes sure congratulations to Saskatchewan football

they beat they're on a European tour right now the men's and women's teams of if I'm not mistaken contact and flag and contact

the men's team beat the Oxford team 40 nil who On Saturday. So, great job, boys. Great job boys. And the girls are about to be playing in Uppsala, Sweden.

So good luck, ladies. Aaron tossed in the shot. That'll be Jason Levine's documentary is in Calgary tonight. So there's that. I went last Friday here in Lloyd. It's an hour documentary. It was well done. Some tough things to watch in here.

if you don't know Dan Hartman's story about his son. I assume all of us do, but his son passed away after taking the shot. And it's well done. But, you know, not exactly. Yeah, I don't know. It's about a man who lost his son. It's tough. Yeah, it's a tough.

But it's, it's well done and worthwhile going to and supporting. Then you have military museum. And then you have the, on, what is it, May 25th? Yeah, May 25th of the Grand Theater in Calgary. You got the debate over Canada, Jason Kennedy, Kennedy, and Keith Wilson. That should be interesting. Oh, I want to be there for that. So I put that here in the comments as well.

I'll put, there you go. If anyone's interested, you can click on that and see it. Okay, mashup 205 in the books. In the books. Thanks for hopping on doing this. Always a pleasure. Thanks for finally showing up. Yeah, for everyone being here and I'm being a part of it,

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