Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 210

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We are joined by Cory Morgan from the Western Standard. Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: [e-mail] Expat Moneyexpatmoney.com/worldwar3Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

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Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. You guys ever notice that the ampers part of ampersand is completely extraneous? It's redundant. It's not needed one bit.

You could just call it and that would be fine. In rant. Sean. What's your rant today? So, you know, ampersand, you know, that kind of eight-looking thing that means and, it literally has the word and in it. Oh. I don't know if I, I definitely didn't know that.

You just, that rant went completely over my head. That's all right. That's all right. How you doing? Well, I chuckle because obviously we got a guest coming on today. Happy mashup, or welcome to mashup 210. Happy Friday, everybody. I chuckle because if Corey, as soon as he gets in here,

wasn't ready for me to come flying in like a minute before the show, scream at Tuesday and then go, okay, let's carry on. That's kind of the way me and you operate. So like I just assume that all of our guests are going to understand that twos is an asshole. And I feel like the entire show knows that. Okay? This is what he does on a Friday basis. He does this thing where he just keeps out of.

Oh, late edition. I'm like, really? Really late edition on top of the 500 other things? And then you have the gall, the gall to say I get up early. Like, ooh, really? Too's interesting. So what's going on on a Friday? Sean, aren't you on a hard stop?

Aren't you on a hard stop? I am on a hard stop today, but I'm going to get rolling here. All right. at mashup 210. Happy Friday. Happy Airborne Friday to all the military boys. If you like the show, make sure to subscribe.

Make sure if you're on X, hit the retweet button. And let's get this show on the road, shall we choose? All right, Code six and a half. All right, here we go.

Indian trucker given $2,000 fine for fiery crash that killed two. For causing a fiery crash just north of Camloops, B.C. that killed two people. A non-citizen trucker will be required to pay $2,000 and undergo 18 months of probation.

What's the guy's name? Where does it say? Is it? Love preaching. Was sentenced to nine months in jail for driving his truck at full speed into a Toyota Corolla slowing down for construction zone.

A brother and sister trapped inside the burning car were killed. Correct. And what's interesting about this article is it goes down like the string of articles we've actually been following, right? It's funny. but not in a funny way. It's not funny

and a funny. Yeah. That it's, it's the mashup effect. We've been talking about this exact thing week after week and then now it's trickling into the mainstream. Yeah. And then the second one, humiliating and disgusting, man sentenced for randomly assaulting teen girl by

steering. I thought this was P.P. Pee Poo-Poo Man. I honestly thought, I'm like, is Pee Poo-Poo Man in B.C? No, this is a different Pee Pee Poo Man in B.C. So I guess that's, that's a really good point. For everybody, tuning in week after week the P. P. P. P. P. P. P. Poo P. Man

that we talked about last week was in Ontario. This P.P. No, he was in New York City, wasn't he? Wasn't that New York City? It might have been. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. This is a different P.P. P.P. P.P. Man than the other P. P.P. P. P. P. P. P.m. Man that we were talking

about last week and this entire fucking civilization has lost its goddamn mind. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we got our own P. P. P. Poo Poo Man in BC now. And, yeah, it just, it just gets stranger. This, this segment is getting stranger.

I never thought that would become a thing. Just imagine now we've got to update, we've got to update the headlines to have P.P. Pee Poo Poo Pee Poo Man of the week. Is that a thing that we have to look at now? The fact I remember Pee Pee Poo Poo Poo Man and it's coming out of my mouth over and over again. A Pee Pee Poo Poo Man one more time. Pee poop-oo-man? Okay.

All right. Let's talk about some separation here. John, get a hold of yourself. Let's talk. Okay. Speaking of completely unsurious people, let's look at Jason Kenny here for a sec. All right.

So we got a tweet here from Corey Morgan saying that Mr. Kenny is bullshitting. The Western Standard article, Kenny says Canada could revote passports of Alberta, were to leave Canada unilaterally. And then, Corey Morgan, again, the case Kenny is making here is a form of threat. He's saying Canada would embargo and try to starve

an independent Alberta. This is wrong on two fronts. For one, I don't think Canadians are vindictive as Kenny does. And secondly, such a trade war would hurt Canada terribly. I'm going to say something that has never been said in 209 episodes of this program. Corey Morgan is wrong, completely unabashedly. This gentleman, love the guy, respect him, but he is completely off base with this.

Canada absolutely would try to embargo the shit out of an independent Alberta because there is nothing more, it's that whole jilted lover thing. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn. This would be exactly it. They would absolutely cut themselves off at the knees just to try and punish Alberta for having the audacity of not. liking what they've been doing for the past 150 years. And it's completely within their purview.

Look at how many times they've willingly fucked themselves over as a nation with just Western development, with international relations. You've got a, you've got a prime minister who's spiking the football on Kusma just to try and up his internal polling. And if you're going to disagree with Cory Morgan. We models will just bring in Corey Morgan. Yes? Yes.

Corey, welcome back to the show. Well, thanks. I'm happy for such a warm welcome coming right off the bat. I'm two for two today. I got my wife on my case and now I've got twos as well. So we're heading into a good weekend. It comes from an absolute place of love, Corey. How you doing?

Well, that's what she said too. And then she threw something out. All right. I assume you want to start with everything going on in separation, right, Tews? Or do you want to start with your disagreement with Corey Morgan? Okay, well, I mean, the big things coming out this week is that it's basically all anybody in the media has been talking about in Canada this week. And that's, that's fairly significant, I would say. I mean, Corey, longstanding, longstanding guy at Western Standard who's been basically one of the, not pioneers, I guess, but one, probably one of the longest standing.

staunchest advocates for separation. So you've been looking at this longer than I sure have. Have you ever seen this much coverage of it? No, never anything even close to this. It was, yeah, I've been stubborn out that it was, what, 26 years ago when I led the Alberta Independence Party into election and Klein handed my ass to me in 10 different ways. But it was certainly the beginning of a learning process.

And things were hot then, but nothing even vaguely close to what's going on right now. And some of that rhetoric, I mean, we're going to have a whole six more months of independence discussion. I mean, up to and past this referendum that's coming. And, you know, I don't think we're at a tipping point of support yet to win a referendum on this, but it's stronger than we've ever seen. And we're having a lot of people now giving it an examination that they never looked at it before. So I wouldn't discount anything at this point. I think you're absolutely right.

And the fact that the media quite often, there's a few kind of isolated people here and there who are kind of saying they've got a point. But the overwhelming thing so far from the largest mainstream media people have been, what a bunch of dicks. And that's every time they say that, another person says, you know, I'm not the dick, you are. You know what?

Maybe I will vote yes. Yeah. And there's been a column just this morning saying, Albertans are having a temper tantrum is what they called it in the Globe and Mail. And another one saying, you know, we got to stop giving appeasement to these Albertans that was in the Toronto Star. That's just today. And, you know, when we hear these attitudes coming at us from these central Canadian outlets,

that doesn't do any favors to the Federalist cause. They don't understand Albertans. That's just people who were perhaps saying, sitting on the fence and then they're going to say, you know what, go fuck yourself. I'm voting. Yes, I've had it. But as for that vindictiveness you talk about with Canadians, what we're hearing from are the establishment. We're hearing from the Laurentian elites. We're hearing from the columnists. We're hearing from the politicians. And I'm certain there's some bitter individuals on the ground in Canada. The reality is, for the most part,

when I've traveled in Ontario, Quebec, because they don't even think about the West, actually, much less take the time to be vindictive. But what I would say, if we became a post-independent scenario to talk about what you were disagreeing with me with, even if the jilted X is upset, if they want their alimony, they got to start talking nice. And hungry people become really cooperative, really fast because the economic picture of Canada without an Alberta in it is pretty darn bleak. So I would see some motivation to make some new trade agreements so that everybody could kind of soothe their ruffled feathers and start moving forward again in a productive way. But there'd be some bitterness.

There's no doubt about that. I just don't think the sky would fall the way Mr. Kenny's making it out to sound like. Well, I do like the fact, by the way, that he is the kind of frontrunner poster child for federalism. You've got a guy who was there for two different equalization reviews, never said a single thing about it, never said the word equalization once in the House of Commons as a member of parliament. and then now here he is saying Alberta needs to continue being part of Canada. I never thought I'd say this about Jason Kenney, but we found something that he has been remarkably consistent on over a very long time period.

Yeah, I guess he's had that. I mean, you know, the rebranding of Mr. Kenny, I think trying to come out of the political ashes, I mean, Premier Smith certainly managed to pull it off after her disastrous floor crossing, so I guess it's inspired Jason to think he could climb the ranks again. I mean, his past quotes are coming back to haunt him. That's the beauty of X and Twitter. I mean, one that's worth mentioning that somebody dug up was that Jason Kenney was very celebratory of the yes vote for Brexit.

Oh, he absolutely was. I actually know. It's one of the consequences for it. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, sorry, I was just going to say it's one of the things I've got here. I've got 50 links open about just separation. So if I can find it, I'll bring it up. but in the meantime, keep going.

Well, I was saying it's going to be hard for him to try. And I mean, because part of the issue, part of what brought him down, like where I fell away from, it wasn't even so much on the COVID issues, though there was a lot. But it was his bait and switch. He painted himself as a regionalist who was going to stand up for Alberta, and he really accomplished nothing during his short time as premier.

And all of these past quotes now where he tried to really present himself as somebody who was going to stand up for the province who was going to do things, they're haunting him now when he's trying to say, well, this is possible, we can do it, we can do this without independence. Well, you had your kick at the can and you failed. Why would we take you seriously now? The independence movement, well, it's got some setbacks among its own leadership. There's no doubt there.

But at least our opponents are also people who aren't winning the hearts and minds of Albertans all that well. I mean, Thomas Lukasik, really? Jason Kenny, who I don't, I don't. I've still got a degree of respect for the man, but he's not going to be one who's going to inspire him. No, no, he definitely isn't. I'm going to disagree with you a little bit. I don't really have much respect for the guy at all.

I've always said that he's not a separatist. He's not a federalist. He's not a capitalist, a socialist. At the end of the day, all he's ever been is a Jason Kenneyist. Yeah, he's a pure politician. And we're really seeing that today. I don't believe he began that way. I think the Jason Kennedy of the 90s with the Taxpayers Federation and the Reform Party,

the old conservative idealist was still there. But we're talking 30 years now, and a lot of attitudes change after that much time sitting in a member of Parliament's office. Yeah, it's, what do they call it, the dome disease in Edmonton? Dome disease or auto-washed if you want to go federal. Okay. Well, there you go. Yeah, that's exactly it.

I didn't realize there was a word for it in Ottawa, but it's exactly the same idea. Just, I mean, you know, Sean, you were talking the other day about, you know, you're the five people you surround yourself with or the average of them. And if all you have to pull from is Ottawa, I mean, first off, you're not going to be any fun. But secondly, you're probably going to get a vastly distorted view of what regular people are dealing with in Western Canada.

Yeah, if I can hop in, I'm kind of curious, Corey's thoughts on, well, both your thoughts. But, you know, like with Daniel making the address, everybody knew that there was going to be a lot of voices come out and start talking about it. I don't think a lot of it's surprised, you know, like Jason Kenny saying some of the things he said hasn't really surprised much, or at least on this side. I'm curious, though, this lead, not leave, and the fact that Travis Taves and some other. Tombe, maybe not the actors are a surprise, but that's been one that's come up. Manny, Premier Wob Canoe going after Daniel Smith. You know, that made a lot of headlines.

Has there been anything that's stuck out to, Corey, that you're like, oh, I didn't see that one coming or just some thoughts on, you know, some things going on that have been coming out and making headlines. Well, something's been interesting is just the, it really exposed the low, that all these other premiers and people have for Daniel Smith.

I mean, she's getting it from both sides. She's bending over backwards to present herself as a federalist now and waving the flag of Canada and saying she'll campaign for the other side. But even just allowing and presenting this mushy question, which is really not really a direct question on the whole issue at all, but which offers the independence movement something to work on. And even allowing that alone is enough to get everybody from Tom Bray, everybody from Tom Braid to

or Don Brady I should say to Wob Cano and the rest just calling her a separatist and eviscerating her. I've never seen a premiere in such a no-win position. Both sides are ripping at her. She tried to split the baby and it didn't work.

And I would also add to that that if it was any other woman on the planet, all anybody would be talking about the mainstream media was how misogynistic Wob Canoe was. Oh, yeah, that's another exception.

Considering Wob Cano's personal history, too, there's a little room to perhaps question at the degree of respect he holds women in. But when it comes to- No, no. She's open game in this country. I mean, she's public enemy number one everywhere outside of Alberta

and to quite a few people within it. And it wouldn't matter what she did. That's part of the clarity. So that's why I'm kind of hoping perhaps she'll get frustrated enough to say in the end, I'm going to take a stance and make a definitive because you know what? I'm not winning by trying to sit in the middle. I'm not saying she should take an overtly secessionist stance. That's what some others are calling for.

I think that would be political suicide. But no sense trying to pander either. Just say where you're standing. Tews, do you want to show Kearney talking about it's not helpful to ask these questions? I thought that was probably worthwhile showing. There might be another video or two you want to bring up for the audience. But when the prime minister of the country is saying things like that, I found that one eye opening, not from a sense of, I don't know,

just kind of eyebrow raising of like interesting. It definitely is. And so here we go. Look, is it helpful to ask these fundamental questions? No, it's not helpful. Of course it's not. Is it the Democratic will of Albertans? Did they vote for this in the last provincial election?

No, they didn't. It wasn't on the ballot paper. It wasn't in the mandates or platforms of any or of the governing party and the official opposition. I think that's great personally. coming from a guy who has a majority that nobody voted for. I think if Alberta does lose the referendum vote, we should get a couple floor crossers and then after the fact claim majority.

I mean, if we're going to play by one set of rules. His respect for the democratic principles and rules is a little selective with things. And it's telling as well, though, whereas he's saying even talking about it, Even asking the question shouldn't be allowed, we shouldn't even be doing this. You know, we never saw that attitude with Quebec.

And again, it just reinforces to Albertans that double standard of this country. Nobody's ever said Quebec can't even ask the question. People have said they shouldn't go. They've debated the case. In Alberta, it's like, you guys aren't even allowed to talk about this. You shouldn't even be thinking about this.

And any move to try and vote on it, which again is grossly misrepresenting what democracy is, is on Democrat. un-democratic. I mean, there's nothing more purely democratic than having a vote where each and every citizen gets to choose on a specific issue. Yet they're trying to flip that whole narrative. You're absolutely right. And on the whole, we shouldn't even be talking about this. This is, to be fair, if you're in a confederation this large, this is basically the, Canada is the only country of comparable size that isn't a dictatorship, right? that doesn't have a dictatorial overlord forcibly holding it together.

Look at the Uyghurs or, uh, uh, shoot, um, what's the, uh, where the monks are. There's been a number of, uh, but that's something that should be, you know, carefully expressed to people. I mean, for people with Canadian history, knowledge or people who've forgotten, the FLQ was horrible. They murdered people. They set bombs. They did things in Quebec in the late 60s, early 70s.

They were a terrorist group. And where did they go? They totally vanished. They're no longer around. There's been no acts like that in Quebec, even though there's still a strong secessionist movement in Quebec. And the reason for that is that there was a political mechanism granted to them. They had the party Quebec. They were allowed to have a secessionist party. They were allowed to hold referenda on the issue. That gave them an outlet, an event and something to move towards. And in countries where you don't have that sort of vent, you end up with an FLQ or Basque. separatists or all sorts where unfortunately raised the by yeah and i'm not saying alberta's got any indication of people doing that thankfully i mean i don't ever want to see us go that route but we are fortunate to have this democratic mechanism and when carney talks about saying we shouldn't even discuss it he's actually dangerously talking about corking a bottle and he's not just speaking about alberta when you do that you're speaking about quebec as well and i notice the leaders of the bloc of ecuquecua and the pq came out pretty fast as well to say hey alberta's allowed you

to do this. Don't you guys dare. And I don't think they care about Alberta, but they're also realizing these precedents will apply to Quebec too. So trying to shunt the whole discussion is actually very politically irresponsible. Well, and you're absolutely right, but it's also

just a Supreme Dick move. Because if you think about it, well, no, but just in all seriousness, like if you were serious about having happy, willing participants in Confederation, it's a question you would be asking about every region of the country on a regular basis.

You would say, okay, that they're not happy. Why are they not happy? Nobody's really talking about that. They aren't trying to say, well, how can we address these issues so this movement can stop? They aren't. They're insulting. They're belittling and they're shutting down the conversation or trying to shut down

the conversation. And they're failing. I mean, if we keep on to use those, those marriage analogies, it's like being when your wife has been silent to you for a week. that's not a good sign. That doesn't mean you're moving towards, you know, a good relationship in the future. It means something's ready to blow up. And, you know, if you want to ease that, then talk it out. Find out what the problems are and see if you can fix them. And they're not at that stage. Again, they're sounding like the abusive spouse, just saying, shut up, you aren't allowed to leave.

Before we let Corey out of here, Stephen Gibo, I was curious. He's announced he's going to result. sign a seat later this summer. Corey, you've been covering politics for a long time. Did you see the day where Stephen Giebo would be saying, you know, I'm out? You know, and I'm not going to miss him a bit. He is one of the most horrific, damaging extremists that have been in government in Canada in decades. But I will toss.

Yeah, there's been a big competition for that. But I'll honestly toss a tiny little bone respect for the man, whatever he's. might be, he actually stands on his principles. He actually said, you know what, you aren't going the way I want you to and I quit. I'm out. He's not saying he's done either. I don't think we're fully rid of him. He's just going to go back to activist mode, but at least he's got less influence going on. And maybe it is an indication that the federal government's going to be a little bit brighter in the future. But, well, the man does put his money where his mouth is, which is pretty rare among politicians in Ottawa.

That's absolutely correct. Personally, I don't think he should be allowed to separate from the Liberal Party. There you go. The rest of the caucus has to vote on it. He might still get separated at that point. I don't know how much they like him either. I mean, yeah, the guy's a nutcase. He absolutely is.

I just, we got an article here that I wanted to share. It's more of the kind of thing that Sean and I do back and forth, but you might find it interesting, too. So Alberta separation question raises uncertainty for provincial investment, not good for us. And they talked about this guy, Anthony Nelson, who's co-founder of a company called Toos Water, which by the way, I want a quarter every time somebody drinks some twos water, said as investors began raising questions shortly after Premier Daniel Smith unveiled the referendum. I had a number of investors who said, okay, what's your plan for getting out of Alberta?

and so there's nothing disclosing. It doesn't talk about how this even came across Global's desk because one of three things happened. Either somebody who pays some of the bills at this place mentioned it to Global, they reached out to Global themselves, or one of the investors reached out to Global. And each one has slightly different implications. And they're all bad because it turns out

that a big part of the reason, why the investors are so concerned about this. Here, grant, $5,000. Grant, $16,624, $20,328, $10,838, $5,553,705. And $9. $93,596, $4,241, $1,2501,000, listed here is,

0.15 million and a $100,000 grant as well. So their entire, well, not their entire business model, but they had a valuation of $6.3 million a couple years ago, and they've gotten over a million dollars in grants. So for them, their business is remaining in Canada. And this was just a quick Google search. This is not, I didn't have to do some intense W5 investigative journal. for this. I've literally found this in a couple minutes. And the fact that global didn't even

think to ask is reprehensible. And so, yes, it's one of the things that, you know, people like Jason Kenny keep bringing up is that investment is going to dry up in Alberta. And in some sense, they are right. It's not a strict yes or no on this. The companies who depend on things like federal government grants, the people who have a vested interest in getting money directly from Ottawa. Yeah, their investments are going to go away. They're going to have to leave the country because just simple math, if your business model depends on money from Ottawa and Alberta is no longer part of that country, then yes, you are going to have to move. Yeah, the subsidy horse dependent and integrated with lobbying and sucking money out of federal

grants and such. Yeah, they're going to have a hard time, same with dairy farmers and another others that are integrated into the federal scheme. But we're not seeing voices actually of major or real companies saying it. Most of them kind of gone quiet. But, you know, everybody's kind of overlooking that recent RBC report that pointed out $1 trillion has left Canada because of our crappy investment environment. I can't see how independents would shake that up to possibly make things any worse than the status quo already is. So they really have a weak case and saying we can scareway investment because it's already been done far or more effectively than any independence movement could ever dream of doing.

Well, and the article, the article is funny because it goes to say, Nelson said the uncertainty has let him to consider relocating his company to British Columbia. And I'm like, British Columbia, that's the first spot you're going to go right now because that place doesn't have uncertainty. I'm like, right, this is a load of BS, tire thing, all this stuff, all this noise. It's just noise. You want to actually know what Albertans are thinking. talk to all burdens. But they're not doing that because they're going to get answers. So this is why none of it, right,

none of, like a lot of this isn't surprising to. It's like it's kind of like the, the wave of it hasn't been surprising. A few things have raised your eyebrow. Bob Cano, doing what he did, especially on the heels of barking at the official opposition in, in, in Meditoba, you're like, this is kind of strange, right? But, yeah, I don't know. It's interesting, but to Corey's point real quick, you know, you're absolutely right. about it, how could it, how could it possibly be worse?

And you would, you would have to ask them to make a credible reason why it could possibly be worse than it is underneath the, the umbrella of confederation. Because if you're standing on the South Pole, no matter what direction you walk in, you're moving north. There you go. It's, it's tough to make an economic case against the independence. That's why most of what we've seen. seen we saw in the debate with Jason Kenny with others. It was actually very focused just on fear and emotional rhetoric. They didn't, they don't have a solid political or economic case to make against independence. And that's why they're trying to rise, you know, make hysteria

overwhelm that rational discussion. Because if we keep having that rational discussion, a lot more Albertans are going to be coming to that conclusion and realizing, you know, we don't have a heck of a lot to lose here. Well, you hope that, you know, the fact that it's just everywhere right now more albertans are starting it's it's being forced upon them now they have to have the discussion don't they like it's it's so in their face there's a referendum coming like you know they're doing some of the work for you because if you if you read some of it so many you can be oh yeah their companies are leaving but i mean if you have any long form conversation even around the water cooler you start to unravel those discussions real fast oh absolutely and uh you know it just

so happens that global, who also has a vested interest in getting money from Ottawa, happened to be the people dropping the ball on this one. We talked about it a few weeks ago where there was that lady who she said, all of her customers are saying that she needs to leave Alberta. And then it turns out that she did like a marketing thing for special interest groups who fly a particular flag. Yeah. Yeah.

If people dig deeper, they don't have to dig very far, as you pointed out with a lot of these. And yeah, look at Global. I think their share price is what, three and a half cents now or something like that? Like these media companies are on the rocks without, you know, Central Canadian funding, transferring. Well, it's the laundry. It goes from Alberta to Central Canada, then back into them and they come back here and spend it to tell us why we're not allowed to determine our own future.

It's an ugly inbred system. And if we have this conversation, as you said, like we've never had before, it's forcing it into people's living rooms at the sporting games in the bar. The conclusions, Albertans are going to come to on a conversation they've ignored for a long time aren't going to be the ones I think that a lot of people are assuming. When they look at this whole situation, that's going to be a, whoa, maybe I got to reevaluate. Corey, before we let you out, is there any final thoughts you have for the audience? Appreciate you giving us time today and hopping on the show. It's been, it's been too long. Yeah, no, it has.

I really appreciate the invite. Great chatting with you guys. It's always fun. All I can say that folks watching and folks out there, you know, this is a year of making history, whether you're on the pro or against side. This is a discussion we really got to have and just get out there and start participating in it.

Because if you don't decide for yourself, somebody else is going to decide it for you. Absolutely. And I would maybe just do one small addition in that everything we've been talking about this week is good news because every single thing we've been talking about this week. The conclusion, the

thing at the end is one more person thinking, yes, Alberta needs to be its own country. Absolutely. Corey, thanks again for hopping on. Thanks again. Thanks, guys. Now we get them.

There you go, folks. Corey Morgan from the Western Standard hopping on, talking about independence. Absolutely fucking beauty. Okay. So we're going to switch over to rapid fire, but here's the problem. One of the things that I was trying to yell at

two's at before we started the show is the other thing is another of my links would work for the first 20 minutes I was trying to get in the document so I have terry glavin graves an in-blight menu for carney but i have no idea what the stories we're saying and i'm sure rapid fire fire has more than that and so twos i'm going to hand it over to you i'm a little nervous to do so because we all know how to get going but uh twos fire away on a little rapid fire for me today because i have no idea what's in there okay so yeah first off terry glavin who it's interesting i've got kind of a love-hate relationship with the things he does and says because sometimes i i look at it and i'm like he's absolutely on the money and then he's never

he's like a redhead there's no middle ground right and uh and so this particular article is you know i i like the uh the picture of it is pretty good too um the media's irredeemable failure to challenge graves narrative and it just talks about the fact it's the fifth anniversary of the announcement at the Camloops residential school. And the fact that, you know, we had flags at half mass for six months. Nobody ever really pushed back. The best you had was guys like us saying, something doesn't seem right, but not really able to say more because we're not there.

We don't know. And then now it's come out that, you know, they got $12 million specifically for excavation. Like the memo on the check said excavation, and they did absolutely no digging. And now we're at a spot where five years later, you've got some people saying it should be illegal to even talk about this. And some people saying, illegal to talk about what? Show me what it's illegal to talk about. And so that was good.

And then Carney's in-flight menu includes fine wine, brazed beef, and luxury butter from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. So three 20, 25 trips totaled almost $200,000 in food, including here's, here's one of the trips, $53,000. I haven't looked at a euro in a little bit, ballpark double, ballpark double or two and a half. Okay. So just multiply everything you're looking at times two. So, for example, if we go to page 5, 120 euros for wet ice,

which is a really interesting, really interesting distinction. 720 euros for water bottles and 192 euros for freshly squeezed orange juice. 1.6. 53,000 euros is 85,000 Canadian dollars. just for reference. Okay.

All right. So, $192 euros is roughly 200 or 20, roughly $20, $16 orange juices. Yes. Our politicians are spending money on flights again? Yep. Man, there's a double standard when it's liberals versus conservatives. You're going to... You're going to the same...

Yeah, I know. You're going to... On coffee cream. On coffee creamer. They spent 72 euros on coffee creamer. Like, I just... I would love to become prime minister for at least like a year or something like that. A, to fire all the idiot bureaucrats, but also B, any time international travel came up,

I would just send out a Zoom link. And I would sit there with a cup of coffee. that I made in my house at home. And, oh, wait, I'm not going to pay 800 euros for handling fees. And tray set up of 700 euros and on top of all of that, a 3% processing fee, you paid a fee on top of other fees. Me and two are different. I'm spending way too much money on orange juice and I'm flaunting it. I'm like, you know, you want to see the inflate catering here it is.

Not even like orange juice, but I had it on the plane just because. I'm going to show up with my own little one-ounce bottles of whiskey. And then I'm going to invite twos and find a way to get him in the headline as well. Prime Minister Newman invited twos and gave him $800 orange juice. Well, you see, I wonder maybe this would be where the two's water comes into play. Can you believe they named a company after me? Yeah. And then the audacity of naming a company after me and then having it be all about government handouts.

Yeah. Yeah, that's the irony is there. Big brass balls on that douchebag. But it's just, we need to have somebody in there who's going to set an example. And the guy who was the former governor of the Bank of England is not that guy. I saw Tristan Hopper had a beauty tweet the other day. He said that, you know, he wants to see somebody, you know, he'd love to see somebody in politics who was like a guy who did drywall.

And I think that would be perfect because you'd pay him once and he'd never show up again. The federal payroll hit 71 billion? Yes, it did. $71 billion in federal payroll. And the one thing I really like about this is there was one part where it says, you know, first off, it says it stops sounding like money. You've talked about that many a times. But it says that's the payroll alone.

Before one road gets paved, before one check gets cut to a real program, before a single thing working Albertans can point at and say, that is what my tax is built. So that's the thing to keep in mind is that that's just the payroll. So there's nothing tangible comes from that, aside from a whole lot of fucking mortgages and cars.

And so, I mean, we've talked about it. I just really liked how they put it together. Ontario man dies of maid after being assessed outside Tim Hortons, which I think is probably just about the most Canadian headline I have ever seen in my life. So he assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues from made outside of Tim Horton's location

and later personally drove, the man to his place his life was ended, has agreed to a minimum six months supervision. Dr. James McLean failed to administer one of three drugs used and assisted death, one that paralyzes the body's muscles, including the muscles all involved in breathing. The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead and after McLean had already left the home. So he drives the guy to the home where he's going to kill him, kind of half asses it, pronounces him dead, says, peace out, guys.

guys have a good one, and then dude goes, and gets up. And so then he had to come back and just kill him all over again. Did I, did you say inflammatory stomach disease? Boul disease. Boul disease? It's the thing after the stomach. What is inflammatory bowel?

I realize, what is inflammatory bowel disease? And that's what we're killing people for? Well, I'm guessing that you get a bunch of inflammatory situations. I know you're about to do this thing that Tews does. I'm just saying like how far we have gotten down the road of made in Canada to where this guy gets six months, a what? Supervision. Supervision.

Yeah, yeah. So he can see things really far away. Oh, my goodness. Okay. All right. All right. And then the last one. Yeah.

TD Bank closes its downtown Nanaimo branch partly due to safety. So here's the thing is if you want to have a business be successful, unless you're a childcare company in Michigan, you need to actually have customers. And so it's just kind of one of those things. I guess if you're two's water, you can just apply for grants. But if you want to actually make money at whatever business it is,

you need to have people willing to go there and buy the things. in this case financial services and the problem they were running into at TD Bank in downtown Nanaimo is that people were too scared to go into the branch because it was just overrun with fentanyl zombies and crackheads and all kinds of crazy weird shit and so people were too scared to go to the business

they're racist they probably are they're probably super mega racist if there's anything Vancouver Island is known for it's racism. And these racists were too scared to just walk by just normal, everyday, indistinguishable members of society. And instead they just chose to not go to the bank, and now the bank has to close.

Oh, man. You're a boy. You said, okay. Bill C-22. Do you want to show the video of the Canadian government? Well, I want to lead into it first. Or do you want the public safety minister? You roll to. All right.

So here's first thing to look at. Bishnoy extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had a thousand gunmen. An India-based gang behind Canada's extortion crisis, probably part of Canada's extortion crisis would be better put. Sent a letter to a BC police station last year, boasting that it had a thousand foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings. And this came out in some testimony on some other unrued. related thing. And then people heard it. They asked the police station about it and they confirmed

that they actually did get a letter from a gang saying we have a thousand people willing to shoot people. Which is just like this is Mexican cartel fucking bullshit. This is the way Colombia runs.

And now it's over extortion in Canada. There was a couple interesting things though. So deep within the article, which actually lends it to probably not being read, they talked a bunch about how the extortion demands are made on WhatsApp and that the fact that they're having a hard time prosecuting these because they're unable to get past the encryption. So they're not saying they're not saying they need a backdoor, but it just happened to get

dropped two different times in this article that part of the thing holding back law enforcement is the lack of Bill C-22. And so then you get into, oh, I got a, it's got the loading screen of death. So here is Gary agree to disagree. The guy whose name sounds remarkably like the capital of what's that island off the bottom what's that island off the coast of Africa? The big island Madagascar. Yeah.

His name sounds oddly like the capital of Madagascar. This is what Apple says. Let me be absolutely clear. There are no backdoors. Let me be absolutely clear there are no back doors. Highlight on the notion of ecription. Of course, the world has changed.

And the reality is that we currently do have abilities to intercept and to deal with encryption. But the reality is that technology is changing at a greater rate than we can keep up with legislative reform. And you've likely heard from some of my colleagues in policing, including Commissioner Carrick. Police leaders and police union executives have been trying to advance a lawful access framework since around 1996. And we've come close multiple times. We believe that the current climate, the geopolitical climate, is a tool that we need. We have significant national security investigations. We have significant security, serious organized crime investigations, where encryption is at the heart of styming, the prosecution, and quite frankly, the undercurrent of solving those crimes.

So here we have some big, fancy police dude saying, we need. a backdoor to get around encryption. Gary agreed to disagree, saying, we're not going to do that. We're definitely not going to do that. And then we've got news articles talking about the need for it with specific cases. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that it would probably be a lot more time and effort to prosecute somebody based on what's behind.

an encrypted phone, then it would be to just prosecute them for having fucking guns that they're not supposed to. You've got a thousand people in this one particular gang who have guns and they're ready to use them. Okay, well, how can we arrest them? Is there anything we can find within the Canadian legal framework that would allow us to put these people in jail? Or deport them.

Well, I guess we need to crack their phones. how about you just execute a couple fucking search warrants and you say, oh, where did you get this 357 magnum from? Oh, is it illegally stored? All right, well, guess what? There's this whole C-canful of you guys that's going to go and never come back. Like, there's far simpler ways to handle this. And the fact that they're pushing for this in an illogical direction

tells me that it's more about fucking surveillance of citizens than it is. about honest police work. Singh for the moment. Sing for the year? Yeah. Third suspect charge in Oromadante arson investigation. Combined damages pegged at more than $3 million. This is from Barry today.

So let's see here. Arstipe Singh of Brampton was charged with arson damage, arson damage to property. He was held for a bail hearing and released with a June 9 court date. Got released on bail for arson. And yet Tamara Litch spent 50 days in jail and then is now under what, a year and a half or two years of house arrest. So the other people involved were Harminder Sandhar and Dijkshant Goyel, all of Brammer.

and Kitchener, which are very well-known Brampton and Kitchener names. Yeah, well, and we're just about to get into drivers as well, but we had the coup six and a half story. It was a list of Singh's truck drivers who are getting off and not being deported back to India for really horrific things, right? Yep. And now you got arson out in Brampton along with a whole list of other things. distortion, all of it. You're like, well, I was talking with a guy in, well, with the RCMP a little while ago. And he just said, we shouldn't have imported all of these desert problems.

And I thought that was pretty well put. Show me some drivers, too. So I assume we got a video or two. I've got a video here. Now, it's important to remember that not all drivers are driving vehicles. Here's a guy on a boat. He's coming up towards a waterfall. And come,

Oh, next to the landing. What a beauty. What a beauty. A guy by the name of Dustin Friesen, that was an Alberta waterfall. It doesn't say exactly where, but his boat is named Dent, probably for obvious reasons.

An Amazon driver ripped up a 100-foot section of this guy's yard in the middle of winter and he's fighting to get it repaired. This is what their lawn looks like now, but back in March, a delivery driver missed their driveway. Look at that. Jesus. Just miss the, just missed the driveway twos. Said it turn around. Was it a big deal?

Oh, Jamie Ingram says that was Lundbrook Falls. I didn't, I didn't recognize it. But I don't know if you've ever been there, but it's neat. No, where's Lundbrecht Falls? It's towards, it's most of the way south to the border. It's roughly by Fort McLeod. Okay. It's a neat spot.

There's people do a lot of fishing at the bottom of the falls. Don't do a lot of catching, myself included. I've tried unsuccessfully to, to catch fish there. There's actually, shoot, I think it's like, Old Man River or something like that. There's a brewery, just a couple minutes away from it, that's got a few very tasty beverages. And then driver arrested after crashing vehicle into Nanaimo restaurant.

I wonder why the people in Nanaimo don't feel safe, Sean. So apparently they thought this restaurant had a drive-through. So here's the problem with bringing people from another country. They don't really speak the language very well. they see a sign that says drive through and they say, all right, I think I will. Abe says that guy has the world record with the highest boat drop slash jump.

Really? Yeah. Right here. Lundberg falls. It didn't look huge from the video. Oh, no. I was like, this is a bad idea. And he stuck in him.

And it went perfectly. I can, I don't know about two's. I wouldn't do that. That is not on my bucket. list of things to do. Well, I don't know if I do it at Lundbrick. I mean, obviously I would feel more confident about

doing it at Lundbrecht now that now that I've seen it's been done. But the thing about it is I would probably want to do it at some place that has a higher draft at the bottom. Lundbreck doesn't really have that.

There's not a lot of room for cushion in your landing. Fair enough. All right. You want to get to some goofy? Yeah. Yeah. I think you start with the Carney Make America Great Again, video. I think so too. Here we go.

Time of a global energy crisis, Canada provides the United States with reliable power, with critical minerals that help fuel American growth. 99% of U.S. natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports, 60%, 60% of crude oil imports. That is mutual. strength. Let's be absolutely clear. Canada Strong will help make America great again. Oh, oh no. It's supposed to be elbows up. Didn't we say it was supposed to be elbows up? I think he's part of the mega crew. Oh my goodness. I wonder if he's going to wear a red hat.

This is insanity. Elizabeth. We need Mike Myers to do a reply video to this. Elizabeth May. Elizabeth May is the crazy drunk. I'm really surprised that we're not seeing her say things about what's going on at the Strait of Vermeuth lately. And here she is just recently. We have a pro-fossil fuel, pro-pipline,

anti-environmental regulation, anti-First Nations rights government, and I didn't expect that. I thought it would be good. And I think that since Stephen Gibo ran under the liberal banner with the platform they once had, it's hard. I get the fact that she's going off of his recent talking points, but there's no evidence to suggest that. See, here's the thing, is that people quite often, I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but it's definitely the case here. They go off of what gets said rather than what gets done.

and we need more critical analysis from everybody, including the town drunk of Ottawa. J.D. Vance. Speaking of drunks in politics. You're doing the job differently than Kamala did it. Well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting. What a beauty. Like, every time I hear. Jady Vance be candid.

I like him more. I'm curious to see what happens with him. This is interesting. Latest breakdown of the polls in Canada. If people 65 plus were the only ones who voted, liberals would get 309 seats, Conservative Party 29, NDP, who's not a serious party,

4, Green, 1, Block 0, PPC, 0, if only 18 to 34 voted, conservatives 189 liberals 79 block 44 nDP 29 green to pc zero yeah it shows a pretty evident divide in the population well i mean it's it's a problem now but at least the bright side of this is that statistically speaking people who are 65 or older are going to die long before people who are 18 to 34. So it's a problem that in theory will go away with time.

Yes. Residential school survivor fully supports CBC, APT, and satirical production. I don't know if I need to really read anything about this. Everybody knows this week, Francis Woodison was on the show. We talked about this last week with them doing, you know, these gotcha moments. And, you know, they've found somebody who...

Yep. they're basically just trying to run cover for the fact that they fucked up. And so they're working on it. Kudos to them. How about this one? A woman hurt after dog triggers shotgun outside Nebraska store. A dog set off a shotgun which heard a woman outside a store in Nebraska on Saturday. Police said the driver went in the store to buy something,

which is when his dog accidentally triggered a shotgun that had a live shell in the chamber. Yeah. So the dog shot somebody in a different car. I mean, everybody's okay, I think, right? Like it doesn't say she died, right? No, no. Imagine being at the store and you're like, oh, hey, pooch. How's it?

Yeah, like. That's a bad day. I appreciate the American dedication to Second Amendment rights. I'm just not sure that it should translate. for to canines. But yeah, squirrel nuts says good dog and that dog should probably

that dog should probably get some treats and some good scritches. Here's the headline. Yeah, you got pulled up. Seven die in France from causes related to heat wave. That heat wave, 24.8 degrees Celsius,

which that just sounds like a nice day to me too. And five of the seven fatalities were people drowning in lakes, rivers, or beaches. I don't know. Yes. Anyways.

What a terribly, put headline misleading. Well, it got updated a little bit. The original headline, I hate it when they do this. The original headline was that climate change had caused these deaths, including the five drowning deaths. Five of the seven fatalities were drowning, and the original headline spoke to it being because of climate change.

Oh, yeah, ridiculous. Show the video of the cop. Yep, this one. This could have also been drivers, but it was just too goofy to not have it underneath the goofy news banner. But just here. We're not going to play the whole thing,

but check this out. Maybe it's different. Maybe it's different to you have a troll. Hello, ma'am. Hey, good morning. I'm the Rodriguez-Lah with the Pumper's kind of Sheriff's office. It's the way you being pulled over. The city of Laguarts today, we're doing an operation for distracted driver.

You drove past me holding the phone with your right hand, manipulate on that phone. So he says you were holding the phone with your right hand. And for those of you listening and not watching. She has no right hand. She holds up her arm, which stops roughly at the elbow. And you can imagine how the rest of the video plays out. Yeah.

The right thing to do right then for the cop would have been like, well, crap. I'm sorry, my bad. I must have saw. funny reflection. You know what? I'm not going to bother you in your car, call it a day. Instead, he tries to push on it and she's like, I have no right hand. You know, like we can just move on.

She's not even mad at him. She's just like, I got no right hand. Like, obviously everything you just said is a lie. Oh, boy. In the cop's possible defense, though, I mean, we did just cover a story a few weeks ago with a guy where a guy with no arm and no legs shot and killed another man. True. True. But when you lead off with,

I saw a phone in your right hand and she pulls up, I don't have a right hand. And this guy, frankly was stumped. Oh, man. Okay, this next one, okay, before Tuse plays the video, last week we talked about Dunkin' Donuts

and Tews said what they should do is target Canadians. We're going to hire nothing but Canadians. And if they did that, they would mop up the floor with Tim Hortons. Okay. Now, Tim Hortons has responded with a national campaign across TV, digital, paid social, and in-restraught channels in a major shift to dial back use of temporary foreign worker program to hire 10,000 local Canadians this summer. And by the way, 10,000 local Canadians across, what do they have, 4,000 locations? Sure.

Yeah, you're hiring, if it's 4,000, excuse me, if you're hiring 4,000 stores, you're hiring, that's two and a half employees per store, are going to be local Canadians. That isn't really the push you think it is when you stop and do the math. Here's the problem, though, is that lots of people don't stop and do the math. And so they've got several videos coming out showing how awesome and wonderful they are. hire 10,000 local Canadians. This summer, join our team applied today at Tim Hortons. Time to apply to Tims.

We're hiring 10,000 local team members this summer. Join us. At Tim Hortons, we welcome all aspiring team members. That video kind of looks like AI, by the way. It does. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. And you're correct. A quick Google search says 4,000 Tim Horton's locations across Canada.

And 50% of those in Ontario. if you care. Fair enough, it is what it is. This looks like an actual video, but it's the same thing over and over again. The interesting thing is that when places like Globe and Mail cover this, they don't mention the fact that Tim Horton's literally lobbied, and we talked about this in a previous episode,

they lobbied the federal government for a permanent foreign worker program. so the same people who wanted to not only strengthen the temporary foreign worker program but have an entirely new system well it's not even bolster it it's let's get rid of the whole temporary part and let's just have people from micronesia working here for fucking ever those same people now that dunk and donuts is jumping in are doing a fairly large correction despite the fact that it's only two and a half employees per location, it's still a really large correction. And they're trying to get back to the whole thing of them being Canadian.

Now, look, you can have as many people talking about immigration as you want. And you can have people just regular everyday folks saying, this is getting a little out of hand and everybody on the liberal side of things, calling them all racist. I think Canada has gone overboard with immigration lately. And every time I try and say something about it, somebody inevitably ends up calling me a bloody bastard guy. Okay.

It's just a little bit much. But here's the thing is that this isn't people's discussions. This is economic decisions made by multi-billion dollar companies that are actively, done based upon immigration levels and the temporary foreign worker program and that tells you more than any pundit on CBC

ever fucking could. You want to bring up the actually, no, a thought on that before yeah. Like we talked about this last week. When you talk about the mashup effect, you go

how quick could you put together an AI video? I'm like super fast. And I'm like, I don't know if we had any effect on this. We probably had a little effect on it. But to see Tim Horton's adopt what we were talking about with Dunkin' Donuts, literally seven days ago is wild in my opinion. It's just wild.

In all fairness, that's literally all anybody's saying because it's the obvious solution. Like if you wanted to enter a market where you would say, okay, what is your number one complaint about Tim Horton? abuse of the abuse of the temporary foreign worker program number two being that nobody speaks English number three being cockroaches in the donuts okay number three being their coffee is crap

okay all right fair enough but the point is is that number one on that list is the abuse of the temporary foreign worker program and number two on that list is that you can't understand what anybody's saying when you go to the fucking store like Dunkin Donuts here's here's how you if you're from Dunkin' Donuts and you're watching this right now, maybe you're in HR and you're trying to figure out how to hire the right people.

Here's what you do. They show up for the interview. You say, okay, thanks for coming. Just stand here. Okay, now just put this headset on. And then you start walking out. And then they'll say, where are you going? And you say, well, I'm going to finish the interview with you.

I just got to get around the side of the building. And so then you hop in your car and you drive into the drive-thru and you can the interview through the drive-through microphone speaker system. That is how you do the interviews. Because if you can understand, if you can't understand yourself well enough to present yourself in the interview itself through the drive-through, then you're not going to be able to get anybody's fucking order right. It's just easy selection.

Okay. Carry on. From the CBC, Canada slipped into a technical resettion. on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in first quarter. How hard do they need to soften the fact that we're in a recession? That's a lot, that's a lot of fucking window dressing on one headline. That was literally the headline. Technically.

Slipped in a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in first quarter. Here's the thing. If this had happened while Stephen Harper was still in charge, it would have been Canada in recession. That would have been it. Full stop. And I love the fact that they talked about the decline comes as a surprise. Analyst pulled by Routers and the Bank of Canada had predicted first quarter growth at annual rates at a robust 1.5%.

Maybe just throwing this out there. You're talking to the wrong people because, sure, the analysts and the fancy people in downtown offices in Toronto, know, maybe they were surprised by the fact that Canada entered a recession. But I don't think there's a single fucking person with dirty hands who is the least bit surprised by this. And at what point is maybe the mainstream media and the government relations people and all of this PR spin bullshit, all these organizations going to realize that the people they've been talking to to get these predictions from have been fucking wrong again. again and again. I mean, you know, like they keep talking about how talk of separatism is going to scare away investment. Well, how many billion dollars was that latest announcement this week?

At what point are they going to say, well, maybe, maybe I need to qualify that prior statement a little bit, or maybe I was a little bit off base, or when I first looked at the problem, I was looking at these metrics. And now that it doesn't seem to be accurately predicting the unfolding So you're asking how long until they change their thought processes? Is that what you're asking? Like, how many times do these fuck? I live through COVID twos. They ain't going to change.

They're paid not to change. They are, that's, that's fairly true. Yeah. It's not fairly true. It's true. Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer becomes the latest sled to join only fans. This is something I thought we would have. more,

uh, and am I, am I, am I, are you going to call her an A-List actor, actress? Did you ever watch Battlestar Galactica? It is one of the best TV shows ever.

To the audience is Tricia Helfer, an A-List actress. I'm not saying does she look like an A-List actress. I'm saying, is she? You know where she's from? I'm gonna, I'm gonna say Canada?

Three Hills. No kidding. Actually, you may have, told me that. Interesting. Yeah. So she's from three hills and then, shoot, what's her name? The girl who played Lois Lane in Smallville? Yeah, in Smallville. Erica Durantz is from two hills.

Yes. And they both have very nice hills. Abe Froes says, who is she? Okay, you need to take a look at, I saw it on, I think it's on Prime right now. This is why I'm saying she isn't an A-list actress. She looks like an A-List actress. Abe Froes, because Abe Froes doesn't know who she is? I'm telling you, when they all don't start triming in, say, oh, she's an A-list actress.

She's a good actress. There's nothing, I'm not saying she's awful. You take B to mean something I don't mean. I just, she is mostly C. Yeah, Zane says, oh, we both hit at the same time. Zane says other than Battlestar, she is mostly C. I would say, if anything, she is double D. But for Abe, to answer your question,

go on to Prime Video and watch Battlestar Galactica, not the original one from the 70s, although that one, I've been meaning to watch it forever and I never have, but the one that came out in the early 2000s, it is one of the best television shows you will ever see in your life. You got Katie Sackoff, Edward James Almost, The chick who stands with a fist and dances with wolves is there. It's awesome.

Tews, this is coming from a Mennonite kid that hardly watches movies. It's never too late to start, brother. Go out and watch Battlestar Galactica. So her two big roles were Battlestar Galactica. And then I guess if you want, you could say Lucifer because that was a show. I've never watched it. So I don't know. Two and a half men's the other one that I think would make sense.

From 2003 to 2015, she was, I assume she was in that, right? In two and a half men? Or did she just make an appearance? I don't think there were very many women who made more than just a one episode appearance. What's her pick? What's her pick? Denise Richards. Yeah. Like I just, once again, I go, I just put her below an A list actress. I'm sorry.

She's a beautiful woman. Nobody's going to argue that. You're going to go Battlestar Galactica. I'm going, how many people have Battlestar Galactica is there, is all said your A list because you're on that show? I never said she was an A list actor at the start. That was you leading with that and me going along with it. And then being like, oh, okay, well, fine, fine. I guess if my presumed stance is that she's an A list actor, here we go. You've been fighting me on it with all these people. I fought you with Jamie Presley. We have three ladies now that have... I never said Shannon Elizabeth was an A-list actress.

You're positioning yourself as these are A-list actresses. I said Jamie Presley was. Jamie Presley is it? Have you ever seen a movie called Joe Dirt? Once again, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You haven't? She's a B...

No, I've seen it. Of course I have. She's a B plus. She's a B plus. You don't go see her starring in a role. Like you went and saw, oh yeah, I went and saw this movie. She's so great. When was the last time anyone said that?

Never. Never. Joe Dirt. My name is Earl. All right. Poyson, I mean, a new seduction. What else he got for me too? What else you got?

Marilyn Manson's video for Tainted Love. I'd like to point out not one person. Not one person is commented saying she's, an A-list actress, not one-to's. You're out on an island on this one, and that's okay. Just admit defeat and carry on. Jamie Presley is

is your high school crush. We get it. Carry on. This is Melanie Jolie. And so in that context, we've developed the defense industrial strategy, the strategy industrial of the defense. And it's good news for the North, because

It's unprecedented investments here in this important part of the country. The goal is to create 125,000 jobs. So using the investments that we are making in the fence to create jobs at home and better the lives of communities across the country, and particularly here in Nunavut. That's interesting. They're going to create 125,000 jobs. in Nunavit.

Now, if I was to type in something like Nunavit population, I would get an answer of 41,919 people. So they're going to triple the population. So every single man, woman, and child, in Nunavut will have three jobs. I'm the hardest working Kandian town. Why did no money?

at this press conference ask the obvious question, which is how in the fuck? Because keep in mind that that's, that's just every man, woman, and child. The labor participation rate is, you know, if it's falling the national average, somewhere around 60% of that. So you're looking at 32,000 working people. And 32,000 working people are going to have who also, by the way, to be clear, already have their jobs because they're working people. These 32,000 people, are going to, I guess, now be working for jobs, right? Because they already have jobs, and then they're going to have to handle all these new jobs.

125,000 temporary foreign workers. Oh, well, there you go. I guess they're opening up a bunch of Tim Hortons. Sports desk? Oh, yeah, sports desk. You want to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada? Cut taxes, says a new report. It's been 33 years since the last Canadian team won the Cup.

It looks like the drought is going to... It looks like the drought's going to continue. Gabriel Jigere, an analyst with the Montreal Economics Institute, says that part of what's playing Canadian hockey markets is high taxes. Montreal is the league's most taxed market with an effective tax rate of 48.57%. For the last six cup, Stanley Cup teams have been won by teams in Florida, state with no personal income tax.

I mean, not only is the tax better, the weather's better, you know, there's going to be lots of things better. But yeah, you can't 48.57 to zero. Well, that's state tax. They'll still pay federal tax there, right? But the thing about it is is that it's especially problematic for places like the NHL where typically the careers are fairly short. So you've got a narrow window to make a shit ton of money. and you're going to look at giving half of it to the government versus giving, say, what, I don't know what the federal tax rate is.

I don't, yeah. Somewhere around 13%, I think. I don't care. I don't care if you got a 10-year career, a three-year career, a 20-year career. When you're talking 48.57 versus 13, that's a huge difference. Oh, it's, it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And that's, I mean, that's a fair comparison to make is look at why Florida keeps producing Stanley Cups.

Jackie Redmond. Yes. So here is Jackie interviewing Jordan Stahl. And I don't know how tall Jordan Stahl is, but look at this video. Oh, Jordan, congratulations on the win. This being your 174. playoff game. You score your 40th career play. For those of you listening

and not watching, she comes up to his nipples. And so she commented on it, said, I'm crying, laughing, I'll never not wear heels again. I legit look like I'm three feet tall. And she does. Like, it looks, he's six foot. He's six

foot four. Okay. But she looks like Peter Dinklage next to him. Now, granted, he's still got his pants on, so he's probably also wearing skates. So that's Correct. A little bit. Yep.

But, yeah, it's just kind of funny, the, um, the juxtaposition of the two. Uh, Kail McCar?

Yeah. Uh, apparently, um, in, in a recent game, he had four shits and one block, according to the ticker on the bottom of the screen.

Four shits in one block. So hopefully things get better for him. Uh, I would say, don't come to Canada because with that sort of inflammatory bowel disorder, they might just murder you. Twice. Carter Hart.

Carter Hart, a professional goalie from Sherwood Park, Alberta, currently playing with the Vegas Golden Knights, was seen wearing a free Alberta t-shirt. So, here's the thing, it's not a fringe minority. It's everybody. How about the enhanced, before you click on this video, had you ever heard of this before? I'm like, the enhanced games? So I've heard people talk about it before because you know you look at you know

the way the Olympics is like oh you can't do this drug and oh you can't do that drug and and Neil Armstrong being stripped of his Tour to France titles for you know doping and stuff like that when really I think the big significant contributing factor to his victory was the fact that he was much more aerodynamic because he was missing a testicle

and so people have been talking for a while about what could it look like how tall if we enhanced them all right yeah and so Vegas said let's have some fun with this let's see how crazy it can get and so they just said you're allowed to do anything legal and then they're paying the winner like this like the thing about it is

the winner of this race I think it says it's 250 grand I think there's other higher prizes you're like this isn't small money this is huge money but they they want to get some really good Like this would be, I would love to go watch this and see how it played out, you know, and see how far could somebody throw a javelin? You know, does it circle the world and he catches it behind him? Right. If you're just allowed to take as many supplements and performance enhancing drugs.

Wait, did Zane, did two say Neil Armstrong and I didn't catch that? Oh, shit. Is that what, is that what he said? I'm waiting. Let's just move past that, okay? Obviously, I would have said Lance Armstrong. Obviously, I would have said Lance Armstrong. And there's no chance I would have screwed that up as I came up with that idea on the fly.

Screw you, Zane. Screw you, Zane. The point of this, the thing that we're discussing here right now, Zane, is that Hunter Armstrong decides to compete in this. So former world record holder. two-time Olympic gold medalist. And he decided to compete in the juice games. I don't even know what they're called.

But he was the only person in any of them that registered as a non-enhanced athlete. And he still fucking won it. And he still won it. So, yeah, that's pretty badass. Like, just imagine being so good at what you do that you're just like, yeah, you can take as much testosterone as you want. You want some, take, take all the steroids here. You can even have my steroids. Have my steroids.

I don't need them. And I'm still going to beat you. And then another one on the sports desk, a sad. Yeah. Claude Lemieux died by suicide found by son at family business. And you may recall, like he carried in the flame for, for Montreal, like, just a couple games ago. Yeah.

It wasn't that wrong ago. Like, I'm like, when I read this headline, I'm like, what? Like, I kind of swore. I just saw him. And I'm, I did. You did. You did. So that's a, that's a sad one for the hockey community.

I mean, whether you, whether or not you like Claude Lemieux as a player, you know, he, he crossed. Yeah, it was, I think it was four, wasn't it? Yeah. Well, Kahn Smythe winner for sure. Yeah. Yeah, whether you liked him or not, you can't really argue with the, the results he had and and it's very sad news. I don't know.

Stanley Cups in a 21 year, 21 season in NHL career. Yeah, he got drafted in 83 and he won his last Stanley Cup in like 2000 or something. Yeah, one with Montreal in 86, New Jersey in 95, Colorado in 96, New Jersey in 2000. Yeah. And he also played in a, he also won the 1987 Canada Cup. I didn't realize he played for Team Canada.

Show us how much I paid attention to. Claude Lemieux. Claude Lemieux. So a sad one. Okay. Happy news then. Let's try and end on an indecent note here. Oklahoma company will pay $4.25 million to settle a lawsuit over COVID-19 vaccine,

a vaccination mandate. So some world is healing maybe twos? Well, I think that this is what you would call covindication. Yes, yes, that's a good point. We haven't done that in a while. Well, there hasn't been any in a while. Fair enough. And then Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Higgis visit the grave of fallen soldier after his widow asked the internet if someone could stop by.

On Sunday, Gold Star, widow Cheryl Shaw asked as someone in D.C. could visit the grave of her late husband, staff Sergeant Alan Shaw, who gave his life for his country in 2007. Sergeant Shaw was 31 years old when he was killed in action during a tour in Iraq. He served in both the Marines and the Army. It was killed during a mission in February 2007. His wife, Cheryl, has made the trip to Arlington from her home in Arkansas every year for the past 19 years, except for this one. She'd reached out hoping someone could show up. And then the internet does what the internet does. Yeah.

And it's Tulsi Gabbard and P.K. Hague Seth. Yeah. Absolute fucking class act. Yeah. Pretty cool. All right. And then community notes.

We got, what do we got here this week too? We got Vance Crow. I'll pull this up here in one second. I'm just going to, there we go. You got internet-based communications, a three-day course in St. Louis. You'll learn to articulate your ideas so that others genuinely want to understand you in negotiations, hard conversations, and in your personal life. And, yeah, you can find that at articulate.

ventures slash i bc and uh july 6th is his next one that is scheduled six seven eighth i should say yep in st louis yep at panel construction is proud to host their second annual for the love of little hearts golf tournament in support of heartbeats and organizations stood beside our family when we needed guidance understanding and hope this tournament is more of what is about more than golf it's about community it's about resilience um last year it was a nine hole shotgun or a 72 player shotgun and they raised almost 40 grand yeah which is phenomenal because it's you know it's it's not big ticket sponsors it's not like some construction company chipped in you know 10 or 20 000 or anything like that that was just

a bunch of people who cared about it that wanted to show up and support it and have fun day golfing. And then Teresa Buckley had sent me a national announcement from the NHPPA coming June 4th, 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. So that'll be interesting to watch. Of course, NHPPA is Natural Health Products Protection Association. That's Sean Buckley. They delivered the petition to Ottawa. What was that of? Man, man, was that like six months ago? That's probably something like that. Anyway, so that's something to pay attention to June 4th. Forgive me, what does that put it on the calendar to?

Is that like next Friday? No, what are we at right now? We're at the 29th. Thursday, Thursday. And today is Friday, believe it or not. Yeah, there you go. So next Thursday, there's going to be an announcement. And so pay attention for that.

maybe we'll have some news on it next Friday. Nothing ever happened with that petition, hey? Well, I don't know. Well, they probably didn't do any indigenous consultation. Anything else, two, is before we get out of here. No, I think we covered a lot of it. Thanks again to Corey for coming on out. And thanks for Zane for keeping me on the straight and narrow

regarding which Armstrong is Armstronging. Well, I appreciate you guys all showing up on a Friday match. From Katrina. Mikey had a cardio appointment this week, and they're super happy with him since his surgery last year. He's slaying at baseball and loving it. Good for him. Yeah, super cool. Yes.

Sling at baseball. Yeah. Good. Good. That's right. Excellent. Okay. Friday in the books, gentlemen, ladies, thanks for showing up on another mashup.

Mashup 210 in the books. We're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. If you enjoy the show, make sure to share it out there. And look forward to, you know, next week, 2.11. One thing I should throw out, I leave on this trip, this year-long road trip with the podcast and the family, obviously going along. And I've been throwing this out. I'm miles of throw it out on the mashup, too. One of the things I hope to do is I want to find the community pillars of your area.

And so that means, you know, like, I don't know, too. From where you grew up, there was probably one or two people, small town, Saskatchew. You're like, man, they would make a great interview. And I've been throwing it out to the audience and I'll throw it out to the mashup crew. If you've got that local legend, you're like, oh, if you're coming through wherever it is. And, you know, whether they're an oil tycoon or just a farmer that's been there for 50 years. What do you mean just a farmer?

Well, I don't mean. You know what I mean I don't know what you mean What do you mean just a farmer? When I first put it out, people were throwing out All these huge names. I'm like, no, no, you're missing the point. I mean like everyday people. It doesn't mean they can't be a huge name in your community

Like an oil tycoon or a giant farmer Who isn't just a farmer? I just mean the cool people from your area that you think, man, it'd be cool to see them on the podcast. Think about, you know, that one guy. You should nominate them. Text me and I would love to have some nominations come in. from across Alberta, Saskatchew,

Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, all the eastern provinces, down the United States, East Coast, et cetera. There's those people sitting there and you know him. I'm going to try and talk now. It would be nice. Oh, really?

Yes. Think about... Must be real tough. Real tough. Think about the funniest guy you know at Coffee Row, you know, or that dude who's always telling the really interesting stories around the campfire, you know, when, when everybody's done fishing. That, that sort of guy.

I don't know. My uncle is one of the most fascinating, interesting people to talk to that I've ever met in my life. And it doesn't even matter what the subject is. You could just start, it's one of the things I love about them is it doesn't matter anything, anything I've just kind of been thinking about. if we just start talking, it ends up being a fascinating hours-long thing.

It's funny, my aunt thinks he's boring as hell, but I love it. So Toos' suggestion is Uncle Tto's. Yeah. Where does he live? Loon Lake. Yeah, well, I mean, that might be a way

to start the road trip off. Who knows? Because I'm like, I want these exactly what you just pointed out. That's what I'm looking for. I'm not saying that the entire road trip is that. I would just love to have a couple of these people, or maybe it's one a week.

I have no idea. I'd love to just talk to some everyday people across Canada and some of the community pillars that everyone has at least one, if not 10 of those sitting there. You just got to think about it for a bit. Either way. Okay. Well, there's your homework mashup crew for the week.

You got one of those. Text it to me because I would love to have some nominations come in and see what we can do. You should go to the Goverall Museum. the golfer home it's a super interesting story to talk to the

talk to the gustavsons about their zoo the goo zoo where's the goo zoo well that's the thing is it's not there anymore but it's a hell of a good story interesting okay

mashup 210 me and twos will carry this on afterwards uh folks thanks for hopping in and doing this uh being here sharing it out being a part of the crew squirrel nut says hey get those gardens planted too Mm, good, good point. Yeah, and Garden Girl could probably help you out with that.

She probably could. All right, twos, till next week, all of you, we'll catch up to you next Friday. All right, thanks, everybody. To the mashup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly.

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