Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 218

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

222 Minutes hops on to discuss this week's headlines. We have special guests Kris Sims & Vance Crowe. Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: [e-mail] Grahame: [phone]Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: [e-mail] Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

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

Welcome to the MASH up. So I had to buy a new printer the other day. The other one just randomly bricked. And it sucked because, you know, printer, they last forever. They're basically these indestructible monoliths that just never have issues and always just do the thing that they're designed to do, which is a super complicated thing. And the fact that they're able to just withstand all of the trials and tribulations of just spitting out a piece of paper is tantamount to their wonderful engineering. So anyway, I go and I order this new one online. And then at the end of it, congratulations, your order's been placed, blah, blah, blah.

And then there's a button to print the order summary. Listen, motherfucker. If I was able to print the order summary, I would not need to have placed the order in the first place. Do you not understand this? Anyway Happy Mashab 218 I'm in the middle of a thunderstorm So this is going to be

Yeah you got some Snap Crackle Pop going on behind you Interesting on this side How's everybody doing? Mashup 218 It was going to be a sad Friday 2's wasn't supposed to be here And good thing he is

Because I'm going to be muting myself an awful lot As long as the internet connection stays strong Because we've already lost of once Regardless Mashup 218 coming into you live from Manitoba 2s. I would strongly encourage you to mute yourself just in general.

Now, here's the question, though. So it was literally 9.59. And you said, oh, this is going to be interesting. I'm the middle of a thunderstorm. And then all of a sudden, you're gone. Now, given the fact that you're running off of a laptop, which presumably has a battery, why did you disappear when the power went out?

Let's do something. Why do you think? Why do you think, Tews? You're so smart. Why do you think if the power went out? Are you lugging a desktop computer all over North America for the next year? No, I have Starlink, and it cut out the Starlink, which I'm connected to because I have no self-service because I'm in the middle of nowhere in Manitoba. Come on.

I would recommend. I would recommend You would recommend Being a problem solver You'd recommend I would recommend that you talk to Jack And Jack can tell you to get a battery bank It doesn't have to be a large one

Okay Well you know what As is per normal Per usual on this trip Tews has suggestions And we hadn't incurred this problem yet That thunderstorm right at the time We're getting set to record the mashup

Okay. All right. I mean, it's bad enough that you're in Manitoba. Now you've got to deal with this. That's horrible. Although on the bright side for anybody listening from Manitoba, there's going to be a whole bunch of interviews. Sean's going to be doing the next little while from your neck of the woods.

And that's probably something you can really sink your tooth into. Happy Mashup 218, folks. Happy Airborne Friday to the military men. I believe we have Jim Sinclair at some point. We don't know. We're on his schedule coming. grass. Yeah, he's kind of grass.

That's right. If you like the show, make sure you share it out, right? Make sure you hit the subscribe button so you never miss a show. And, you know, I had this whole thing planned. I'd grab, twos sent me the first chapter of his book. We talked about it last week. I thought, I'm going to have no twos today. How am I going to start?

I was going to read an excerpt of the book. I guess we'll just have to wait a week, folks. I'll keep you, you know, excited for when twos doesn't show up. We're going to read a little of twos book to you. No, you're not. I totally am. You should never have sent it to me. I'm excited.

Now, we got a guest sitting in the background. Chris Sims back on the show. How's Chris doing this morning? I'm so happy to see both of you. Sean told me that you weren't going to be here. So I printed out this photo of us all together. Aw? It was going to get me through the show.

The quicktick's there, too, just laughing in his truck. But, like, there you are. I'm so glad to actually see you. Okay, great. That's wonderful. Too's wasn't supposed to be here until like 9 o'clock last night. By that time, I've sent off, I asked Quick Dick, and he is in the middle of doing things on the farm.

And I thought that'd be a fun little, yeah, I thought that'd be a little fun gang to get back together. And now twos is back. So, you know, we're just all going to have to suffer on a Friday, but that's okay. Well, I mean, I was supposed to work, and then the work I was supposed to do got postponed. And so I'm like, oh, actually, I am free this week,

but I probably won't be here next week. So, Chris, you have a standing invite to come back with your picture next Friday, okay? Chris, that picture is wonderful, and I appreciate it. You're welcome. I got it. My president. Yeah. It saved up my phone.

Like, it's the four of us, I don't know what we're talking about. Probably a teddy's or something, but that was a good mashup. No, I think. How long ago was it? That was one of the election live streams. I think that's election live stream. Yeah, that's what I think, too. Probably.

Yeah. Yeah. I look happier. Um, okay. You're, uh, Chris, you're always the numbers lady. Uh, when it comes to the new tariffs that Trump's talk and unless there's something else you have on the top of your mind, you can, you can push the audience. You can push me in twos around in whichever way you want. Yeah.

What do you want to talk about? Um, let's, we can talk tariffs first because, um, I've got a bit of a bee in my bonnet on this. Okay. Number one. Whenever people hear the word tariff, I want them to replace it in their brain as trade taxes. Okay? And imagine it coming out of their own wallet. Because no matter if it's Carney or Trump or whatever, it is going to cost normal working people more money.

That's number one. Number two, the taxpayers' federation hasn't taken this issue on head on because we're not, you know, a trade criticism organization or anything like that. However, we do hold government accountable for the money. money they waste. And I wanted to point out a couple of things. One, Carney ran mostly on being the guy who could get a deal with Trump, who could manage Trump, who could get a new North American free trade deal. He's the smart banker dude, all that stuff. And I find that this is part of holding a politician accountable for his promises. He has not done that. I will point out that this dude is paid more than $300,000 per year, okay, plus he gets a mansion to live in, plus he flies all

over the planet. He racked up a in-flight catering bill of 160 grand the last time he took a trip that we have A-Tip documents for with him and his entourage. So if we're busy paying through the nose, not just for Carney, not just for his entourage, not just for his food, but Minister of Foreign Affairs, all of the department, plus all the staff, Minister of International trade, all of the department, plus all of the staff. We have an entire embassy in Washington, D.C. They're right there on the border. There are our biggest trading partner, $3 billion a day, folks.

$3 billion a day in cross-border trade. Plus the copper tub in New York. Plus, thank you. Yeah, for people who don't know what Toos is talking about. Tom Clark, who is one of our former broadcasters, I actually used to work with him. I used to work with most of these people. strange. But he was great host. He was host of one of the political talk shows. He was in the running

to be anchor of CTV. But Lisa LaFlam won the top job. And now he was at the time the ambassador down in New York. And they made this huge fooferra about spending tons and tons and tons of taxpayers money on this residence slash meeting area for Tom Clark in New York and just blew the budget on this thing, including a copper bathtub, which is what Toos is talking about. All of this is to say when you're watching mainstream news, for whatever reason you're choosing to do that, and you're hearing this hot air, picking my words really carefully, coming from lobbyists who live off of taxpayers and the government like a bunch of leeches, and former staffers who are now part of the commentariat, who are getting paid, by the way, often to be on TV.

usually with taxpayers money. And that those amounts in CBC with CBC in particular are trying to be hidden from access to information. Yeah. So actually, funny you should mention that too. I'm still working on this piece. I got access to information back from CBC. And I asked them for the amounts and the names of these talking heads that they have, not even on the national.

Okay. Just send me the power and politics one that I think it's still too. hours that's on every day from Ottawa that only staffers and their moms watch um send me them they blacked out the amounts and they blacked out the names but what's hilarious is that they didn't black out what would essentially be like the billing company right like what you what you would list is like you know i'm chris sims but i'm the taxpayers federation so that column of what you would see as taxpayers federation along there was visible.

So I can see who this is. I can see how many times they've been low-harding on TV, but I can't see how much they're being paid. All of this is to say, the next time you're hearing Orange Man Bad, We Can't Get a Deal, rah, rah, rah, elbows up.

Think about how much money this is costing you directly as a taxpayer. Think about what you hired these people to do, and that is their jobs. and they don't have a trade deal yet. I don't think we're getting good value for money, and I would say the same thing, no matter what kind of government was in power.

Well, I mean, if you were to just kind of look at it in terms of what do we have with all of these people in place and what would we have without any of them in place, it's indistinguishable. We have the exact same deal that we want, would have with none of them being paid by the government, which is us. Yeah. Actually, we would have more money because if they weren't there, we wouldn't have to be paying money.

That's exactly it. Yeah. We're paying all of that whole apparatus to accomplish bupkiss. Yeah, absolute bupkis. In fact, less than bupkis because we're going into debt every single week faster and harder as we're giving these idiots bonuses. Like on top of all of this, we give these. people bonuses. Bureaucrats within the Department of Trade or whatever other department they're in,

they will set, this gets me every time, they will set their own, like, grading system. Like, okay, Sean, I'm doing, you're doing your podcast, you want to get this many views by the end of the year. And you said it, you know, reasonably. Imagine being a bureaucrat, you said it way lower. Like, you're just going to have to step over a little curb there. Half the time, they say, still don't get it. They miss drone targets half the time. And they get bonuses all the time. It's mind-numbing.

So I get all of the noise about tariffs and I get, you know, Orange Man bad and all that. I just got back from my mums in the Fraser Canyon and him getting mad about wood smoke and stuff, got people really mad because they're in the middle of like fleeing their homes from forest fires. It's horrendous. So I understand having that instant emotional reaction when you see things on TV.

But I want people to think, deeper. I want them to, when they look at that politician or that lobbyist or whatever, I'm going to think about that person taking their money and saying, what kind of job are you doing, man? Aren't we? We're over a year in now. Where's the deal? Where's anything? And as far as the politicians go, I'm particularly frustrated by Doug Ford. I was going to show a clip of him. And then I accidentally paste it in the wrong one. So in the notes today, we've got two instances of the fat umpire getting in the way. But we'll get to that later.

Is that him saying that they could take over the United States or something? That they could dismantle it. That they could dismantle it. And here's the thing. Like from my perspective, well, that's exactly it. You know,

every time, every time there's an election, people in Ontario overwhelmingly vote against the oil that they want as, as a card to play in this trade thing. Alberta wants to develop. and Ontario votes for carbon taxes. Keep it in the ground. It's dirty oil.

And then when they have this stupidly executed foreign commercial campaign backfire on them in spectacular fashion, it suddenly becomes our oil that we can use in a lever in negotiation. It's our potash. But it's never our equalization money. No. Which is billions. Sure. No.

And so our shared interest in positive. some provincial policies nowhere to be found it's it's like going shopping with a small child who just had birthday money you're like oh well we could use our money to buy this and it's never their money that they want to spend no it's it's it's it's like it's just it's behaving like a toddler or or this whole like my dad can beat up your dad thing this is this is no this is what you would expect of children and that is who Ontario has elected to represent them is essentially a child on the world stage. But it's $3 billion a day and we're talking about adult money here.

I know. One of the main tricks I would let people in on and your viewers are very savvy so they already know. But if you can tell your sister-in-law the next time you guys are having a barbecue if you're allowed to leave the house or whatever, I would just remind people that, quite often, this is a distraction. So the moment that you hear, any politician, go for the easy, low-hanging fruit that's about like emotionalism and like anti-Americanism.

It's just the really cheap stuff that you just hear in the eight-second clip. It's almost always to distract you, right, against something that is more important. Like, for example, Doug Ford and his entire team gave themselves huge pay increases. like just this past year. Massive pay increases. Dudes making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Now we are also seeing this scandal coming up with members of their provincial parliament, MPPs,

billing tens of thousands of dollars to taxpayers. Imagine in Ontario where they just can barely afford anything, billing them tens of thousands of dollars per year because they feel like staying at a hotel next to the ledge. Instead of driving like four kilometers back to the, house and getting away with this year after year after year. Yeah, it's crazy. Did just have a guy resign over it.

Yeah, yeah, because he finally got caught. Now though, there's more coming out of the woodwork. That wasn't just the one MPP. So now you're going to hear him ramp up the whole stuff going on about the United States because it's easy to talk about. It's easy to score political points that way instead of actually being accountable to taxpayers and getting something for our money. I am happy to see so far that Scott Moe and Premier Daniel Smith are saying,

ah, how about we do our jobs and get a deal? Just to paraphrase. That's kind of what they're saying. It's nice to see that. I just wish there were more adults in the room because we're bleeding cash on this stuff. We're paying the bill for all this. And all we're getting in return is a bunch of noise on TV and more tariffs. Well, and the alcohol ban itself is pretty funny too.

I mean, the obvious easy, simple solution is that if everybody in Canada is on board with elbows up and fighting against the Americans and not buying bourbon, they would just not buy bourbon. You could have it on the shelf. As an adult, you would choose not to buy it. Yes. Yes. That's exactly what it comes down to is your perfect phrasing there as an adult. and all of this is as an adult this and as an adult that and none of it has any relevance to what's actually happening in the real world

because as an adult does not apply to anything Canada is doing right now. Yeah, because we've allowed government to get too big and too damn expensive. Grover Norquist once said famously, government should be small enough that you can drown it in a bathtub. That's exactly what we need. But now government is so big, guys, it thinks it can. can ban bourbon from you and be mommy and daddy and take half your income. It's disgusting.

I was just, I was just in the States. You know how much the Americans talked about the tariffs? Like with Canada? None. Zero. Yeah, I know. Yeah,

I know. Why are you so obsessed with me? Was that mean girls? I can't remember what that was. Yeah, that was mean girls. That was definitely mean girls. So it's,

and this is the problem of this were just a personality quirk. I wouldn't care. I'd just tune it out. But it's costing people so much money. Like half your wealth is gone in various forms of taxes to various levels of government. And we're tolerating this crap. Like we never would have tolerated this crap. Even back under the liberals in the 90s, these people would have been jettisoned from their jobs. Like they would have broken the sound barrier. Like we used to have adults running the show. Government is never perfect and we want it small. We used to have adults running the show, and it was not this bad.

The American Revolution was over a 3% tax. Back when Israel was forming, you know, according to the Old Testament, God said, you guys are going to get real mad when you got to pay 10%. Yeah. And 10% is a pretty big ask and people aren't going to like it. And Israel's like, no, no, no, it'll be fine. But that was 10% and 3%. And we're currently at 50, 53% depending on where you are and what you're doing,

according to the Fraser Institute. And people are just taking it. They shouldn't. They shouldn't. It's an interesting bit of history. Like if you go back through history, you can always read it through certain lenses if you want. And you can even read it through things like government overreach and overtaxation. There's cases in England where you'll be wandering around and there'll be some old building,

like a brick building. And it'll be like maybe three, four hundred. years old. The windows. Windows. There you go. Windows are bricked in. And it looks strange because the bricks match the facade.

It isn't just a recent thing of plywood. It's because, to your point twos, they were taxing windows. Same sort of thing happened with chimneys. People started hiding their chimneys in the backs of their houses because... Or have them go out their neighbors. Exactly. Exactly. Because some jerk from the government, I don't know, wants them to freeze to death if they don't

give them their taxes. But point is, is if you let the government do it, it will. It absolutely will. What you allow is what will continue. Like a toddler. Yeah. Yeah. Which in that don't get distracted. People are allowing themselves to be distracted by noise and fury coming from people like Premier Doug Ford. To hold them accountable. Say every single day. These reporters should be saying every single day. You are paid hundreds of thousands. Hey, Heather. You were paid hundreds of thousands. thousands of dollars per year, you have all of these office minions who are paid well over a hundred grand per year, including staffers, like young staffers, where are you getting for this? Like, where's our results? Like, give me your dashboard. They'll be lost for an answer.

Like, people have every right to be ticked off, but I really want them to take concrete action. We need a couple of bobs. That's really what we need. Do you, do we want to bring up the Eminton businesses leaving the downtown core? Oh, that'd be a great addition. Yeah, I think so. Okay, here's the headline. Worst out of the mall. Why are eminentin businesses leaving the downtown core?

A quote directly from the article says it wasn't one tax increase. It wasn't patio fees. It wasn't paid parking. It wasn't hybrid work. It wasn't safety. It wasn't one construction project. It was death by a thousand cuts. We had to make a decision whether we thought downtown was going to continue to improve

or if it was going to be on the trajectory that it's been going. And downtown Emmington from an investment from a return is the single worst out of all of them. And it's for very tangible reasons. This is a guy talking about all their locations across major cities. Yeah, this was Greta specifically. Yep. Talking about Emmington being, yeah, sorry, Greta Bar, an arcade game chain with locations in some of Canadian cities. Has pulled his business.

A bar named Greta cannot make a go of it in Edmonton. Sad. How dare you? It's pretty sad. I know, right? It's sad. I'll give my own experience. I do need to drive into Edmonton a few times a year. Sorry to hear that. Cover the budget and stuff like that. And, you know, my brother was there when he was a teenager. I grew up on the Oilers. I want to, honestly, I want to enjoy myself when I'm going in there. I get myself into a good headspace. I'm like, let's, let's, you know, seize the day. This is the capital city of the province. that I love. You know, let's do it. And without fail, I have to be watching over my back the whole time I'm doing a quick video stand-up

because there's a bunch of really scary men around me acting like crazy people. The smell. I was at Edmonton City Hall. This literally happened. I got parked, okay, in an area where I was well lit. It was middle of the day. I'm pretty sure my payment worked on the stupid. pay meter thing. I get across there with my daughter. We're going into Ida Benton City Hall.

This woman completely out of her mind rushed at us screaming. I had to get in front of my daughter, get her into the building and get the door shut. And there's like pull it shut. And there's a security person standing there. There's tons of them all through the building, these security people now. It was so stupid. Like, why should I have to do this? This is nonsense. So we go cut. Edmonton City Hall giving money, taxpayers money to a fortune, you know, a Forbes list NHL team. I was so angry. Meanwhile, right outside their door literally, they can't keep normal people safe coming in and out of the city. And so then I went back outside to the front. There was garbage and urine all around the statue of Winston Churchill. Like, it's disgusting. This was

two years ago. So if it is dramatically improved, that's good. No, no, it keeps getting worse is the problem. Yeah, like downtown downtown Edmonton, it's on top of these retail spots in the

in the article. Like we've covered on previous mashups when like anchor stores from malls and stuff like that in downtown have been just leaving. Yeah. Like a London drugs left, a sport check left and they're just, it's not as though, So it's not as though people in downtown Edmonton have no craving for pharmaceuticals.

Yeah, I know. Or need stuff. Like need to go get supplies to live their lives. It's just that it's just that it's too expensive and nobody wants to go there. Their traffic is way down. And it doesn't make financial sense. And as Chris is pointing out very well, you don't feel safe walking around. Well, that's the thing is if if none of the.

potential customers feel safe even being in the area, they're not going to be in said area to shop at your store or go to your restaurant or whatever it is. I want to point out bringing this back, you know, to what the original story of being a public servant in the United States, they called them civil servants, working at City Hall. That used to be a form of service. So a city counselor, okay, this still happens in the States.

If we just did a report comparing provincial legislatures to state legislatures and how much they're paid, it is like this in Canada. So in Canada, they're paid about $115,000 on average. In these states, they're paid just over 50. And that's not even, that's probably not even taking into account the benefits, including the pension. Correct. Yeah, it's just paid. And it's all Canadian dollars just to be at apples to apples.

My point is, is that now the mayor of the city of Edmonton is paid more than the premier of Alberta. The mayor of the city of Calgary is paid more than the premier of Alberta. City councillors in most cities across Canada are typically paid around $100,000 per year. That was never the case, you guys. City counselors working at City Hall routinely were small business owners, retired cops, retired teachers, stayed-home moms whose kids had grown up. They were professional. They had lives outside of City Hall.

And they were putting in their time as a public servant and getting paid a stipend, meaning like their food for the meeting and their parking was covered and then maybe a little extra. But this was not a career, meaning you're paid 100 grand. Now we've shifted, again, to the growth of big expensive, stupid, unaccountable government.

We've shifted it to now, oh, I've got my master's degree in public policy, policy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I need a job. And now these folks are getting hired and people are paying less attention to City Hall. Like, the voter turnout for municipal elections is dismal. We need to focus more on holding these city politicians accountable because their core mandate has always been to be keeping the streets safe, clean, and in good repair. Good water in, bad water out. That's right. One more for Chris Sims before we let her out of here.

Actually, before you get to your one more, I've got one more. The CAOs, no, but the CAOs, even in small towns, like this community's a few thousand people. And the CAO gets paid over 200K a year. I know. I know. Because while we were busy looking at something else, like Doug Ford dumping out Crown Royal thinking it was American when it's from just down the street where Sean is, like Kimley, Manitoba. While we were being distracted, this crap happens. The one saving grace, as I will say, that it helps me sleep at night in Alberta, we have recall.

We have recall at the city level and the school board level and the provincial level. We're the only province that has a triple crown there. And I'm so glad because if we all gang together, we can fire these people. Okay. What was your one thing? Do I bring Vance in for it? I'm on us bring Vance in for it. Van's Crow, welcome to the show.

Great to see you. But people don't understand in the background is Tews told me all yesterday He's not going to be here And I'm like, all right Well, I better put together something here So I fired it off And then Tew's last minute, late last night

Goes, oh yeah, by the way, I'm going to be there I'm like, all right, well, we're going to have some guests So Vance, thanks for hopping on Now, okay, before we get Chris out of here Your thoughts on Canada US Bridge Pact omits Canada's debt cost document shows Do you have any thoughts, Chris? Do you want me to read more?

Yeah, read a little bit more. I know the story, but I think people need to know the story more. The agreement eventually released by the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority said Canada will give the U.S. 50% of net revenues for the first 15 years after recovering operating costs. Kearney confirmed Thursday that the operating expenses will not include debt repayment, an agreement that was struck with Michigan in 2012 originally stipulated that Canada was to pay for construction and receive all the toll revenue until it could recover its financing costs, including interest after which revenues would be shared Michigan and Canada are joint owners of the bridge. Yeah, so it turned out that Carney was just straight up lying.

And the way he explained it was I should have explained it better. Yeah, I'm sorry, I was wearing a cowboy hat. It's like that episode of The Simpsons where he says, you'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel. Yeah, this is it. So sometimes politicians can screw up and actually not know. So I don't know. Maybe he actually didn't know. At the end of the day, they have to be as transparent and accountable as humanly possible.

And again, people need to be consulted on this stuff. And they need to know how much it's going to cost them. If this were some private company, okay, that was not taking taxpayers money, who cares? We don't care if how much they're paid or if they get bonuses or free lunch. Like, nobody cares. But when it's taxpayers' money, they have to always have sunshine on this thing. I'm glad that we finally actually have the numbers. But the annoying thing here is that the government ought to have two.

And why were they telling us something different beforehand before the documents got out? The saving grace here is that the official documents did get out. People do know the numbers. And we, the people now need to hold them accountable. It's similar to when they signed that big fancy MOU about a pipeline going along the Trans Mountain Pipeline Corridor or twinning it. again, from Edmonton out to Burnaby, and they were asked, how much is this going to cost taxpayers? And they actually mumbled at their shoes and kind of said, well, we don't really know. Actually, you do know, because it's in the government document that you posted quietly on your

website before you got into your podium mode. And it's around $43 billion with a B, with taxpayers carrying 90% of this thing. So yeah, you do know. So I am glad that we have journalists and and people who can dig this stuff up and find it. We don't have the journalists that do this. It got broke, the story broke at Bloomberg. Oh, interesting. Okay, well, I remain confident that someone like at Blacklocks or somebody else, maybe we would have found it.

One of us would have eventually found it on this side of the bridge. Mr. Gordy Howe. Rest in peace. All right. Do I get to thank Chris Sims, twos? I see Vance has just got his pearly white, smiling, he's got his mic immunity. He's like, I don't know where to enter into a Canadian topic of bridges and all the things. No, it just reveals how much Chris knows about everything

Canada taxpayer-related that the IQ is about to drop if she signs off. So I'm a little nervous about that. No worries. We got plenty of funny stories Tuesday has dug up today to talk through. Tunes, any final thoughts for Chris before we let her out of her? Just the classic sort of always, always love seeing you and you bring so much whenever you come on and it's always appreciated. And I love the fact that you printed that out. I just want to hug you. I know. All right. All right. I'll see you next time, boys. Chris, I'm going to see you next week when Tews actually isn't here.

And I'm going to be you bringing your picture back. But regardless, thanks for happening. I'm expecting to not be here. That's right. All right. Thanks, Chris. All right, Vance Crow on the show, folks. How's it going, guys?

I'm sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm in Manitoba right now. That's how it's going. So, you know, yeah, all right. You're right. You guys want to see something cool? Yes. Yes. Check this out.

Can you see my scar? Oh. That's from surgery. Yeah. Cut it right out. Everything's all better. Hey, hey. That is, excellent news.

All right, let's just cut the show there. We got the good news out of the way. Perfect. Yeah. Well, that's great news, Vance. And that's true, too. And since the last time I was on, I was talking about how crazy things were.

Just went and got the surgery and bang, all better. That is perfect. How long? Nothing else to be said about it. On to the Canadian news. Okay. Well, I'm just kind of shocked, surprise, and just legitimately joyful. I think would be a great way to put it.

It's great, great news. Happy news, folks. Vance Crowe is looking better. better than ever. And going to something a little darker, we're going to shift back to Coots 6.5 because we actually didn't get through it. Judge says it would be

cruel and unusual to send Ontario man who sexually assaulted 12-year-old sister to jail. I don't want to read the story, twos. I really don't. No. Let's just leave it at that. Yep. Yep. It's... Okay, and then the other one, death by organ

donation. Doctors Oh, well, actually, we're getting into something else now. No, no, no, but death by organ donation. Doctors raise possibility of retrieving organs from made patients while they're still alive. This is in Canada advance. I was, I was, wait, I highlighted it. I'm like, we should get an American's view on Canada's made medical assistance and dying. And now they're openly talking about, well, you could just opt in to organ transfer before you die,

and we'll just take you out of your misery and we'll take your organs from you. And that's not a big deal. death by lung removal basically. I think the American perspective on the made stuff is that like we don't want, it's like a weird convergence. Like I think Americans like freedom and hey, if you want the freedom to die, you should be able to do that.

But the way that it's going with your government where they're, you know, often people that are, that have depression and offering this to much younger people and now harvesting organs. I mean, it seems like clearly there are some incentives that are driving really, really bad. outcomes.

Yeah, well, and then I think you're totally right. And then this got published in the Journal of Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine. So it's kind of got to carry over to you. But the only people who really seem interested in defending it are the Canadians. And they're just like, oh, well, you know what? It'll just be so much better if they're still alive. You know, we can get way better organs.

And then the chances of survival goes up. and they talk about how, what is it, the do not kill rule for medicine. They're like, did you not read the thing that you're talking about? The do not kill rule? I don't think it's do not kill. I think it's do not harm.

Well, the classic, that oath, the guy's name alludes me. Hypocratic oath. Yes. Yes, thank you. First, do no harm. But the current legality of voluntary euthanasia, and why are we obsessed with kids in Asia anyway, provides a new context for interpreting the don't kill rule.

But this is like, this is that classic joke with the woman on the bridge in real life. You guys, okay, so there's this woman standing on the edge of a bridge and this guy walks by and he says, hey, what are you doing? And she says, oh, well, you know, life sucks and I'm going to kill myself. And he says, well, that's a shame, but you're absolutely gorgeous. what do you say we just go for a quick little romp before you kill yourself and she says ew gross no that's disgusting and he says okay no worries he walks away and he says over his shoulder i'll just find you at the bottom and this is that but with livers good god welcome to the mashup that was pretty dark that was pretty dark but this is this is that with organ transplant no it's a good point and and you know you can't undersell a good metaphor. That was really

very powerful. You have back in here, the guy from India, the Indian High Commissioner talking about 40 million and you need at least 100 million. I thought that was from like three weeks ago. Maybe longer. Maybe

it was. I just you know, people were talking about it so the clip came up and that does happen but I think for me anyway, it doesn't like basically kind of one of your general rules is that you don't like no matter what you're doing in life you don't give away something for nothing and so the i should bring vans i i should bring vance in on this then the indian high commissioner said on power and politics in canada you have a population of 40 million you need at least a hundred million and we have the people that's so this is like i swear this is like a month ago at least twos because we covered this when it first came up regardless that's what you're talking about i mean i think

I think we were talking about the Modi or Modri talking about it, not this guy. I'm sure it was this guy. Okay. All right. Okay. Well, maybe, maybe I'm wrong.

Listeners tell me I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. See, you just think they all look the same, Sean, don't you? You know, what strikes me is I remember listening to you interview Danielle Smith,

Sean, and her being like, we need to double Alberta's population. So if you're wondering, like, why these politicians roll into Canada and start saying like, hey, you guys got extra space, we got the people. I think it's because, you know, your premiere is saying we want to, we want to bump up those numbers.

We got rookie numbers on this. And I think that guy just, he couldn't read the actual water flowing underneath the service. But I think he was probably just responding to what your politicians are saying. But you don't give away something of value, just in general in life. And so you're not going to say, oh, well, yeah, just take all our doctors. take all our engineers. You're not going to go to some country on the other side of the planet and say, take away all our smartest, our best and brightest.

And so I'm really suspicious that we're getting Danny DeVito and they're keeping Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, I would think it's even bigger than that. What were the numbers he was talking about there? I mean, like, if you have that huge of an influx of people from an Eastern culture, you know, that have Hinduism that are engaged in the caste system. This will categorically change what is the cultural makeup of Canada.

That's like what he is proposing is a wild change to your culture. Well, yeah. I mean, we're at 40, what he was saying was 40 million, roughly the population of Canada, to 100 million. So he's talking about taking out your population.

60 million Indians coming in. He's adding 60 million East Indians. Yeah, I mean, how would you differentiate that from an actual invasion of a country coming to take you over. An actual invasion would use guns. In this case,

they have swords. Francis Widowson. There's two stories here. The first is Chief Casimir. Casimir, I think it is. This is his quote. I don't think we should have to prove to anybody what happened to these dead children at Camloops because they are there and they send us messages telling us they're there, okay?

This is the 215 graves that made national news, but there's never been any proven bodies, okay? Just anomalies. Because there's never been any, like they've never been exhumed. Nothing's been dug up. So they got $12 million to do the exhumation, have not done it. And this guy literally says that these people, speak to him and tell him that they're there and anybody who's not of their culture cannot

possibly understand it so you just have to take his word for it and we're not going to dig up the bodies because that would be disrespectful then why did you take the 12 million dollars which specifically in the memo on the check said to dig up bodies and then if you fast forward to the next article forensic exam begins of remains found at ireland mass grave site irish investigators said Wednesday said they had begun forensic examination of human remains starting a new phase in excavating an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home. Daniel McSweeney, who heads the team appointed in 2023 to lead the excavation, told the AFP, a new forensic facility and mortuary would enable examinations of 99 sets of human remains recovered so far.

The excavations began in July of 2025 at the site of a former mother and baby institution in Tuum, County Galway, where Catholic nuns housed unmarried pregnant women and their children between 1925 and 1961. Records show 796 babies and young children died there with many buried and unmarked graves. But then went on to say test excavations in 2016 and 2017 uncovered significant quantities of infant remains in a disused underground septic tank. It goes on from there, but you get the point. So basically all of these. show did I come on today? We're talking this is some of the darkest stuff I've ever

heard. Well, if you think that's dark here, what I'm going to say is that apparently that 796 children did the ultimate Irish goodbye. Nothing? Nothing? Nothing? I think what Toos was pointing out with the two articles is here in Canada,

money was given to go and find the bodies. They never did anything with it. And then you look at a different area, Ireland, and they've been doing the work for the last decade, essentially, and they've found bodies, right? It gives concrete proof that things were going on. And so it's just a contrast of two different countries with people missing. Yeah, it doesn't seem like they really want to get answers. I saw this all over X when the guy was standing up, they're saying, and everybody that's watching it, and even he knows how ridiculous it sounds. Like, he's just saying,

the words that he has to say in order to be able to respond to like the very obvious criticism. You didn't do anything. And my guess is he's just hoping that people will forget the ludicrousness of what he said and move on. But hopefully nobody does. Because I can remember back in the day, Sean, when you and I were talking about this and you're like, man, it's really serious. There's terrible things happened out there. And then as more and more information has come about, because I think a lot of Canadians were like, if this happened, we want to do the right thing. We want to figure out how to make justice out of all this and to see it come down to this where there's no evidence.

They aren't even willing to unburry it. And all of the shame and the horror that's been talked about all through Canada about all these terrible things that Canadians did, looking like it's really not true. Yeah. Well, I mean, our flags were at half mass for six months because of this. Whoa, six months? Yep. That's serious cultural propaganda.

That is definitely people pushing that into the psyche of every single Canadian for the rest of their lives. Well, if you go back to that conversation, Vance, if it wasn't for talking to the people who are digging into this, actually digging into it, and like getting to the bottom of the story, I don't know if I would ever change my thought process on it. But that's what you do. You talk to people and you learn and you try and figure out. And then you get to the point where you're like, this is like beyond strange. It's, as you pointed out, propaganda on a society, right? Like, they won't come to terms with, okay, this isn't what it was made up to be. They jumped on a story, and they've propped it up now for how many years, Tuesday, does it go back?

Was it 20, 20? Oh, it's probably like five years. Yeah, it's got to be close to five years now. And it just gets worse, right? It just continues to get worse, the longer, the further we get away from it. Speaking of different cultures, though, it's about three weeks too late, but happy two-fitty. It was a pretty big party down here for a little while. I bet.

Lots of people calling in sick on the fifth. Well, fortunately, I think the 4th of July was on a Saturday, so you had the 5th to sleep it up. You know what? They probably planned that. Like, that was probably, they were looking ahead. Benjamin Franklin was looking at Thomas Jefferson and saying, no, no, no, no, no. We can't do it on the third because that's going to screw up everybody's week in 250 years. RCMP officers intentionally set home ablaze during tense standoff courts documents reveal.

A house fire that erupted during an armed standoff in BC's lower mainland three years ago was intentionally ignited by RCN officers on scene. The May 2020-3 incident began as a wellness check after Daniel Hackle's family and friends had spent weeks worrying about his declining mental health. when unfolded Hackle's Chilliwack home was an extremely tense and dangerous confrontation, during which Hackle refused to surrender, threatened to kill the officers on scene, and ultimately opened fire on them. But the decision by law enforcement to burn the house down to bring the standoff to an end

has raised serious concern, including the BC Civil Liberties Association, quoted the home was in a densely populated area, said LTOIA Feral, policy staff counsel for BCC, L.A., it's beyond reckless, in my opinion. he pleaded guilty to attempt a murder of police officers and handed the minimum sentence of four years in prison, a decision largely based on a finding that he had mental health crisis at the time. It goes on to say the two officers began approaching the property shortly after 8 p.m.

and Hackle shot at them. No one was hurt, but the court heard one bullet flew past an officer's neck and another hit a ballistic shield leading the RCMP to issue a lethal force order. In approximately 10.19 p.m., police approved a plan to intentionally set the residents on fire using smoke grenades to force Mr. Hackle out of bringing the standoff to its conclusion. Tews, do you have the article up? Can you show the picture of the house? Yeah. Yeah, of course I can.

It's right here. Basically, this is our own little, you know, Canada always likes to do the things America does, but a little bit smaller and quainter. This is not too dissimilar from Waco. I mean, anytime the law enforcement decides they're going to start a fire instead of saying, hey, there's the person that we're talking. trying to get into and we're going to keep them in our sights and we're going to nail them down. A fire is like who knows who's in that house, who knows what will happen with the fire.

It is a very serious step to take to light a house on fire in order to get your guy. Yeah, well, that's a really good point. The Civil Liberties place saying, hey, you know what? Who knows where that fire goes? But that's they should have said they don't know. Observation. Yeah, who's in the house? I'm looking at it going if I'm police and I'm getting.

shot at, they're hitting ballistic shields and everything, you're going down. You've made your choice, you're going down. But I hadn't thought about if there's other people in the house. That's a good point. I mean, like, if you're really in a shootout, you have no idea what that guy has going on. Hostages, people that are, you know, unrelated to it all. I don't know. The feeling that Waco left in me after reading about what actually happened was they really were so focused on the guys doing the shooting that they did not think about all of the other. things going on there, the people that would be put in danger. Probably hard to, uh, it'd be a good question for Jim, right? Because the, the thing about

Sinclair, you know, everybody has an idea of what it feels like to be shot at. But if you've never been shot at and had things hitting your ballistic shield and everything else and the emotions that come with that, I can imagine you go right to scorched earth pretty quick. Right? Yeah. You're not worried about if there's a, uh, uh, uh, what, what tos? You just, you just, back off. You just back off. You have somebody sitting on a roof a couple hundred yards away. Hopefully the roof isn't too slanted, right, Vance? And then, uh, and you just sit back and wait. Here's the thing. He's got to come out sometime. He's not going to order Uber Eats for the rest of his life. I mean, technically, you know, from a dark perspective, yeah, maybe he will be ordering Uber Eats for

the rest of his life. But the point is, is that you don't have to force. him out right then. Yeah, I mean, and that's what law enforcement is just like parenting, right? You can fly off the handle and really yell at your kids and go crazy, but you're totally out of emotional control there too. What you want from your police force is even if you are under attack, you do your absolute most to keep it contained into very controllable bursts of force as opposed to, I mean, burning a house down seems pretty crazy to me.

Yeah, well, the fact that we had to wait three years to find out that that's actually what happened. Well, that seems pretty typical for Canada. Well, here's a thing. Like, I hear what you're saying, Sean, you know, let fly the dogs of war. But at the same time, if it's something that you thought was a good decision and you stand by it, why did it take three years to come out? Because it's Canada. That's what Canada does.

Have you not been listening to this entire show? Three years, I'm surprised it wasn't 15 years. Now, let's turn to a little lighter topic. Model recruiter Daniel Sead, who first introduced young women to Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home in France. Yeah. Now, it's being said to be cardiac arrest, and he was 68 at the time of his death. So, you know, reasonable. It's something that could happen.

Fair enough. But, you know, to that guy? It's fun to think about. To that guy? Well, here's the thing, Sean. If that guy lived to be 106 and then died of old age, people would still be like, oh, it was Hillary Clinton. Yes.

Yes, it was. 100%. Now, you have the mash-up effect. Walk me through. So, Vance, if you haven't paid attention, Tews has introduced a segment in here where we have the mashup effect. We talk about things, and then it seems like mainstream, a few weeks out, slowly picks it up. And you're like, oh, they're listening to the show.

Okay, so there's two things. One of them, U.S. health officials are investigating a new outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasites from CTV news on July 23rd. The mashup, who wasn't even the first people to talk about this, literally, I think it was three or four weeks ago. We covered this. It was a while back. now CTV is picking it up. Now this, this is, this is chef's kiss. Now, Vance, what do I always say about the NDP?

They're not a serious party. Oh, they're not a serious party, of course. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Okay. I didn't know this is going to be a pop quiz. No kidding. Tews puts them on the spot. Come on, Toos.

This is Scott Moe talking about the NDP. We're providing opportunity to all of those that work in the mining sector today, and we'll work in proposed minds tomorrow. And in the case of Moostra, they're even opposed to perceived projects, which is disappointing. This is why nobody in Saskatchewan takes the NDP series. I mean, can I say I'm right?

Oh, because you're saying you've gotten the people in the world to start saying nobody's a serious party. It is now, yeah, down the graph, more people know about it. It's part of the Lexicon now. The end of Saskatchewan, is saying the NDP are not a serious party. I love it. You should put one on the plus one column for twos.

That's exactly it. This is the part where I'm going to gloat a little bit. So thanks for being along. Do you want Wob Canoe or do you want separation? Or do you want both? I want twos to have to confront the bus that I sent you on messages. I can't believe you guys haven't already talked about this. Well, I was waiting for you.

Give me a sec here and we'll see if I can. I told Sean. I was in the middle of figuring out the other stuff, and I told Sean that if he can find it to bring it up. So if Sean's got it, that's great. But the Wab Canoe thing is basically more trade stuff. And we already kind of covered that. Our next bit is to talk about separation or maybe the bus if you're ready.

No, give me a sec. Go separation. I'll find the bus. I texted it to you. Yes, you did. All right. So, Forever Canadian Campaign Office. So, Vance, you may or may not know this,

but as the referendum gets closer on whether or not to have a referendum on separation, any formal organization spending over $1,000 in campaigning needs to register and report the sources of their income. Now, the Forever Canadian campaign is, that they're just campaigning, not about the referendum, but just about how great Canada is in general. And that's why they don't have to report in Elections. Alberta has been letting it slide, presumably because Elections Alberta is ideologically captured. And so here's them literally, they literally have a campaign office. Just to say that they love Canada.

And then one of the other things is that it's illegal to deface. anybody's posters or signs or anything like that. And yet we have this lady. So for those of you listening, she's holding up an Alberta separation sign, which has been spray painted over top with vote knocks. And that's illegal. And she's just openly... Elections Alberta should be enforcing this, but is not.

You know what I love? When Toos says something and he doesn't get the response he's looking for, he's like, see, it isn't just me. It isn't me. Vance is doing it two-toos. You can get mad at him.

It's okay. Vance is a big boy. He could take it. All right. Okay. That's fine. All right. That's fine.

That was supposed to be. Here's the bus. Okay. Here's the bus. Now, now here, oh, come on. Does that say dong dandy? Ding, dong, dandy.

No, what is it saying? Ring ding, dong, dandy. It's a throwback to wrestling is what it is. But here's the, Why did it do that? God. Okay. I'll show the one Van Sant.

I don't know why it's doing this to me. Sean? You're killing me, smalls. You're killing me, me, me, me. There, here's the one that Van Scent. Okay, so it's been called the gay bus. So is that supposed to be wrestling? That's what they're claiming.

So when I went and looked it up because, I mean, it was everywhere. yesterday all over X and I was like who even how could you even possibly get this through and it was supposedly an art an artist rendition of uh yeah wrestling in Canada but it seems somewhat more erotic than just wrestling yeah yeah it's it's a little bit and in the tear in the eye of the guy being bent over you finally got your first laughed at a vance is crack it up See, that was what I was expecting. He's able to observe things that most people wouldn't see. I probably saw that thing four or five times yesterday.

I never noticed the jeeredrop, but he's right. That's the laugh I was expecting for the bridge joke. Oh. Wow. Things I didn't expect from today. That is. That's what we're here for, Vance. Right?

That's what we're here. Delighting your day. Just delight in your day ever so slightly. Now, that is the second most interesting bus I've ever seen in Alberta. Okay. Okay. Now, you've, you've, you've, you've, you've, you've, you've literally directed twos to something he was not, not going to, now here it is. Daniel Smith.

Daniel Smith, the current premier of Alberta. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah. And when do you think they realized it? And were they like, I don't know, we already spent a lot of money. I don't think we can, I don't think we can rewrap this bus. Probably someone got real awkward when they were rotating the tires. Zoom it in just a slight bit.

Just for emphasis here. Just a scooch? Scooch it in a little. There. So. You know somebody had to be like, You know what? We need to take that off.

And then somebody else being like, no, I don't think anybody else is going to notice this. I think we should go forward with that. Well, I think if anything else, it definitely attracts a lot of tension. And it's kind of funny. I don't know why they didn't embrace it. Really, what they should have done was put some spinners on it. Well, we're now having fun. Vance Crowe is laughing uncontrollably.

This is great. Okay, you got something in here about Jason Kenney. Why are we talking about Jason Kenney again? I just want to point out the fact How is he making it on this show every week? I just wanted to point out the fact that he keeps doing that thing that I'm pointing out and we're keeping track of it

and nobody cares. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. Well, no, people probably care, but I don't care. I don't care. Dan Lloyd is now the conservative representative for Alberta unity or some stupid bullshit and he's talking about how Alberta is going to

come together and embrace Canada and he's got this pro-unity campaign, and he specifically said that Alberta's dealings with Canada are not net zero, which is categorically false. They literally are. A net zero transaction is one where no wealth is created. It's just moved from one person to another,

and that's literally equalization. And in fact, I would say that's a net negative because it incentivizes a lack of, industry, any industry. And so literally with him kicking off this campaign, he's already outright fucking lying. So I'm really excited to see how bad it gets for him. But he's also saying to people that they should reach out to him,

phone his office, send him a letter. He wants to hear from Albertans. I don't think he does. Because here is the vote on May 29th, 2025, exactly one month and one day after he was elected. This is the vote for Bill C202, which was the dairy protectionist bill that was one of the first things that they looked at.

And right here, amongst all of the other yeses, is him voting for a dairy cartel protectionist bill, helping out fucking Quebec with literally a net zero fiscal transfer from every other fucking person in this country to a few frogs with baguettes and milk gutters. You know, this is going to be a real fun show to do from Quebec. Oh, we really need to do that election live. So are you in your RV right now, Sean?

Yes. And what did you do with your family? Hopefully it's not raining. Is it raining in Manitoba? It is a thunderstorm right now. And it seems to be maybe lightning up just ever so slightly. Mel took the kids to the pool. So she's like, I'll get out of your hair

and took the kids swimming. Normally they'd be, you know, out at this campground, there's a man-made pond. Normally they just go swimming when we're recording. Not a big deal. But today is, if you can believe it, day, what are we at, day 20, I think it is, day 21, regardless, one of the two.

Okay. This is the first day we've had rain. Like, and for his, what has it's been back home, It kind of surprises me. And by rain, I mean not like a sprinkle, like an actual rain. And so it's the first one we've had. Well, we've been in the trailer the entire time. We haven't gone to bed with a thunderstorm or rain going on.

We haven't had to hide inside the camper. We've been enjoying the days outside. It's been awesome. Is the roof holding up okay? Yep, yep. Perfect. The only thing that didn't hold up was the Starlink when the power went out, and I lost internet connection for a few.

Yeah, because you don't have a battery bank. Yes, I don't have a battery. battery bank. Because Jack hasn't recommended that you get a battery bank yet, but if and when he does, you will take that advice. Tews is upset, Vance, because he thinks when Jack recommends things, I listen and I don't listen to Tuth.

That's what he thinks. Well, these happen in these little triangles that we build in our lives. Well, I mean, I'm not helping, Vance. I had literally told him, I was like, here's what you should be doing as far as pre-checks before you start recording with

the audio. And he's like, eh, I don't want to do that. And then 20 minutes later, he's like, yeah, so Jack got me to do like this pre-check for the video and it works great. That's the exact. That's not what happened. Like you're such a... Oh, was it 17

minutes instead of 20 minutes? You're such an ass hat. You just take a story and twist it to work to Tew's narrative. Odyssey. You wanted to bring it up. Have you seen it? Have you seen it? No. So we don't get to... We don't Vance hasn't seen it? No, we don't get to talk about it. I'm not I'm not going down this road of crapping on the Odyssey until we go see it

and we actually can just have our thoughts. I'm not crapping on it. We're crapping on it. Are we not crapping on it? We're not crapping on it. We're going to point out, remember last week when it had a 97% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and I said that seemed suspicious?

Yes. Because it's pretty much the highest score ever. Well, somebody actually broke down the code embedded in Rotten Tomatoes.com and it was hiding a bunch of them, and the actual result is 56.2%, not 97%. And so, for example, Fight Club is 96%.

Fellowship of the ring, 95%, Inception 91%, Gladiator 87%. And the Odyssey was at 97%. Well, was that 98 when it first started? I mean, I'm predisposed to disliking it, based on the same cultural things that you guys are. But I have to say this morning I was having coffee with my good friend Benjamin Anderson,

and he said he saw it and he loved it. And he was like, everybody talking smack about it's totally wrong. This is like a perversion of the art that Nolan created and that it's a really good story. So that was enough for me to be like, all right, well, maybe I'll make the time to see it on the back of an airplane at about this big on Delta someday. That's the way it was actually designed. That's what they had in mind with the IMAX cameras. Yeah, I want to watch it on the back of the headrest.

I don't know, maybe Vance has his thoughts, but I'm like, to comment on a movie that none of us have seen over and over again, now that the movie's out, and you could just go see it, and I actually come back and be like, actually, this is what I thought of it. Ain't nobody got time for that? Yeah, I do. Well, I don't, because I don't have a babysitter. I was trying to convince Mel to go see it,

but now all of her siblings have kids, and she was like, We can't leave our kids with all their, you know, it's just too much. And I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm going to have to go see this by myself. I'm going to be that guy. Just so I can see it so I can walk in and be like, twos, I'm not taking my kids to the Odyssey. Come on. No, I'm just about to say that there's nothing wrong with going to a movie theater by yourself. That's what I was thinking.

I never understood this. Like, people are like, how could you go to a movie by yourself? You're sitting in the dark and not talking to anybody. You're sitting there by yourself. Do you feel the same way about like, I'm not going to look at my watch a YouTube video. on my phone because I want to want to be by myself. It doesn't make any sense. It does make sense. Going to a movie,

like playing the video game is better with somebody there. Community. Then you come out of the movie and you go so what do you think? And you go back and forth. You come out of the movie and you're like, well. No, Sean's one of those people that turns and is like, wait, wait, what do he say? No, I am

not that person. I'm far from that person. Stop it. Who is that guy? I'll be right. back, I'm going to go to the bathroom. That's it. When I come to St. Louis, when I come to St. Louis, me and Vance are going to a show together. Just so we can go to joy. And then I'm going to return the favor to twos, and at some point in Calgary, we're going to go to a show, too.

Because I want to see, get us all together and see who the worst moviegoer is. I bet you it ain't me. I haven't seen Vince in person in years. And when you finally are going to be meeting up in the same geographical place, you're going to say, let's go sit in a dark room. for two hours and not talk. Correct. Who do you think breaks first?

Vance Curl. No, it's going to be you. Because you're going to be like, why is he wearing that? What is he saying? We've gotten off track. Drivers. Oh, wait, wait, wait.

Jim Sinclair. Okay, okay. Jim, I see you stop. Can you hear us? Jim. Oh, my goodness. Okay. So Jim took time away from cutting grass.

he's come in always appreciated you want to talk about your event coming up here very quickly let's hear it hey can you let willie in he's not here he's not here he's trying to get in

send him send him the thing we both got a good message for you oh my goodness all right we're going to kick Jim out no no no no we're going to kick Jim out we're going to talk about drivers you're going to show drivers I'm going to send Willie the yeah anyways go on

okay so a bridge and Greece collapsed, but the nearest way to get around it is 19 miles extra. And so people are just driving over this collapsed bridge. So it's only mostly collapsed. It's still useful, kind of like people in maid who are mostly dead. And here is a semi-driver who's got like some big aluminum toilet paper roll thing. and the middle of it's starting to unfurl,

and he is just driving down the highway, having the middle of the thing unfurl behind him. What an utter nightmare that would be. I mean, I have no idea how much that cost, but it's got to be expensive. But then getting that off of the interstate, what are you going to do, recoil it, like re-roll it like a roll of toilet paper?

And it looks like it's aluminum or stainless, which means you can't even use magnets. Okay, this is, here. There's a fast forward or a zoomed in part of it look right here that semi car flipping over here. It's knocking over stuff. It goes all over the road messing people up all over the place. One person died. Dude actually I haven't heard this one yet called it the Brampton Bazooka. The semi truck driver out of control.

Okay. Here's a here's a upside down. residential area in Abbotsford, BC. Now, Vance, Abbotsford and Brampton are just renowned for having an incredibly large Sikh or East Indian population. Now this is more from your neck of the woods. This was in Stone County, which is, shoot, I can't remember. Somewhere in your country anyway.

Somewhere in your country anyway. Yeah, it's not that big of a place. I mean, it's not that big as well. Somewhere around you, Vance. Check out this guy. Oh, I saw this. This is in Missouri. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's being chased. Super close. Yeah, yeah, it's not very far from me. He gets out of the car while it's still moving. And just swan dives blind off the side of the bridge. I mean, I don't know what river that is, but that seems like almost a death sentence. Did he live? Yeah, he got up.

The cops ran down, met up with him as he was getting out of the water, and then he started headbutton him. So the guy's name was Gavin Thor Lundgren, and apparently he's just as badass as the name implies. You would think that you could harness that level of, I don't know what you call it, if you're willing to do a high-speed chase onto a bridge, leap off of it, and still keep fighting when they get you out of the water. There's something, there's, that's a core material you can't get just anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, that's, you know, he was born in the wrong century. Well, speaking of fighting, how will we bring in Jim? Jim's on the phone now.

Oh, my goodness. Willie, really, great to have you. I don't know what Jim's doing here. Jim's all over the place. Jim, are you, like, are you just? trying to have fun with us? Hey, fuck off. I'm running a business here. I'm not fucking...

Yeah, we got to shit to do. It's like Fred Flintstone. I'll buy that baby. How much is that baby? I'm taking care of business. When did Fred Flintstone buy a baby? You've never seen it off. Jesus Christ, dude. Right when I thought you were smart.

All right. All right. Get it on the rail, Jim. Hey, before we start, what's with a 222 gallon hat? Before we start. Have you not seen the movie the Blues Brothers? This is Willie and I. I'm going to play this for you.

You're not going to catch you to support the mission from God. You can't play that. You can't play that. Jim, you can't show that. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Jim, Jim, why do you look like you're simultaneously battling the McCoys and tuberculosis? Hey, listen, what do you mean? What are you talking about?

Did you guys hear? I can't hear him. It's from Tombstone. He's a little bit quiet, Willie. That's what's happening. Oh, fine. Yeah, let me turn up my volume. No, that's not how that works, Jim.

Get to the point here. Get to the point. We're all over the place. We're in the Toulies. We're swerving across the road. We're back on the other side. Let's talk about the event. Stop interrupting.

Really? Willie McDonald and I are like the Belushi brothers. We're on a mission from God. And it really is that. And we've got lots of angels helping us out along the way. You're his Huckleberry. We're like, we're seven days away. And it's going to be fucking amazing. Jim, for Vance here, he probably has no idea what you're talking about.

Treat him as you're explaining what you guys are doing. Because you have to assume, we've got a lot of people who have been listening every week. but Vance doesn't know what you're talking about. Explain what's going on. And we went have some new listeners. So just explain it to everybody like they're wearing giant oversized hats. Okay. Anyways, we are doing a 20th anniversary for Task Force of Ryan this year,

but we've expanded it to everybody that served in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. In that time frame, there's 159 men and women that were killed in the line of service. So one thing that we haven't done well as a nation is bring the families back into the fold with the men and women that were there when their kids or loved ones are killed. So Willie and I, Willie being the big driver of all this, and maybe I should let him out the reins, we got a hold of a coordinator or a man that puts these functions together. His name is Carl Fix. And this thing's gone. It's just exploded. And we've got all kinds of amazing entertainment.

We've got free entertainment for 11 different shows over three days, starting on the 31st of July. We have the LG, our lieutenant governor, opening ceremonies. And then at the end of it, it's a big blowout on the Sunday night with fog dogs. So it's free camping. It's free entertainment. You've got to buy booze for five bucks of glass and hot dogs. sausages for five bucks. So it's going to be a place where we're soldiers and and serve people that serve our community and as well as the people that make people want to

serve, which is the day-to-day average citizen that makes this nation worth fighting for. We're all getting together at Regina Beach Campground, like I said, on the 31st of July to to August 3rd. The August 3rd's kind of a free day. You can do whatever you want. Camper's can come in on the 30th the day before and we'll set everybody up out on the drive range. So it's going to be amazing. And Willie's got lots of good comments. I'll just let him take the range from there because I'm sure I missed the pile of shit. Go ahead, Willie.

I didn't hear a single thing Jim said, so I don't know what I'm supposed to be saying. He says he's got lots of great things to say. He explained the day. He fleshed it out a little bit. So and then. Are there any questions, maybe? Well, Vance, as someone who's looking at this for the first time, what questions would you have?

What type of person shows up? Who's a person that's invited to come? And how would I know if I'm one of those people? Oh, so, I mean, it's open to the public. The sort of the foundation of it is veterans, first responders, and their families, over the years we've had, you know, we've had RCMP, we've had firefighters. I don't know if we've had any paramedics, but, you know, it sort of originated as sort of an exclusive club in terms of, you know, meeting those criteria.

And this year what we've done is we've said, hey, let's open it to the public so they can come out and show their support and, you know, spend some meaningful time with veterans and first responders and maybe get to know their stories. and understand some of the, you know, the life challenges, etc. that come and add with doing those types of jobs, right? Perfect. And a big brand new stage, 12 bands, and $5 sausages seems to fit. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, I think it will be. We've been running radio ads.

in Saskatchewan for the last couple weeks. And I think they're going to start. We took a break, and I think the ads will start up again here in the next couple days leading up to the event and then through the entire weekend. And really, it's just to get the word out to say, hey, you know, you've got this beautiful location sort of nestled in the Capelle Valley,

or Lumsden Valley, or just outside the Lumsden Valley. And, you know, it's, it's free. You can bring a tent. You can spend the night. You can bring a trailer. You know, and there's no, there's no cost to it. It's really, you know, to ensure that we're able to connect the community with with the veterans and first responders. And it's not just veterans and, you know, veteran first responders.

There's going to be members, like serving members that are, that are the show up as well and attend the, attend the weekend events. So it's going to be pretty special. Absolutely. I'm just searching back the link, Willie, but for anyone listening that goes, oh, like, heck, that sounds like a lot of fun. Remind them the dates and where they can go to find,

like, is there a Facebook page, etc., where would you push them to if they want to like, you know, okay, it's free camping and there, you know, it sounds like some bands and kind of sounds like, well, I'm in that area. Where would you direct them to so they know how to get all the information. Yeah.

So there, it's July 31st to through the end of August 2nd. You know, most people are, the third will be a day where most people pack up and go home. That's the holiday Monday, I believe. And then there's a couple websites. The one, the one that has sort of the full agenda is Patricia's Howell. Dot Netlify. And that's a mouthful, I understand. the other one is a canvas site and I don't have that in front of me but let me see if I can

if I can pull that up here real quick don't don't stress about it Willie I've got it and I'm going to put it in the the comments yeah just keep her at 10 and 2 no problem right there it's in the comments for people if they're they're looking for it and I don't know Jim is there anything else you want to say before we let you boys out of here Yeah, so the reason for the cowboy hat is when we were in Afghanistan in 2006, our task force, Orion, we were rolling around the country kicking ass everywhere we went. And we kind of got nicknamed the cowboys from the other regiments in Canada. And it really, it really was similar to being part of a cavalry unit. we would roll into places where the Americans were pinned down and I needed support or the British were cut off and we're going to be overrun and killed and we had to go save those guys.

Our task force was very small, but we carried a big stick and so anyways, the cowboy hats are going to be out. So bring your cowboy hats if you're coming to the event on July 31st. And yeah, it's going to be great. We're going to have a lot of good times. And Willie and I will link up with you on Friday next week, but we'll have veterans that are there. And you'll have a chance to talk to some of the guys during the mashup if that works for you guys.

Yeah, that would be fine. You know, just going through this, you've got J.J. Voss and his damn good band, which is probably one of the best band names I've heard in a while. you've got the traditional Regina Beach Redneck Parade. And hey, and we also got the Bush League Orchestra. Don't forget about those guys. And the Bush League Orchestra. They've been with us from the beginning.

And they're an amazing band from up the lake up by Imperial. And a great, great, great band. Like, they sing everything. And, yeah, you'd think ACDC themselves are up there on the band. And you would think Toby Keith is up there. Like, they're really good, too. And we got Fog Dog that close it all off on the Sunday. And like, it's going to be all kinds of great entertainment.

Jim, the Redneck Parade. Can anyone join that? Can you just show up with something or do you got to register for that? No, the thing is about the Redneck Parade. It's not really a parade. People just show up and line up. And at a certain time, we just take over the main street at Regina Beach. There'll be two or three thousand people sitting there.

watching the parade. There's all kinds of water hoses and fire trucks and El Camino's I'm guessing. Pardon me? El Camino's. El Camino's rednecks of every size and shape and

yeah, no, it's going to be it's a lot of fun. It's just a fun drive down Main Street that people willingly take their license vehicles down. So it's, there's no, there's no like actual parade event or or you don't sign up for it.

You just, if you're part of the local people around Regina Beach, you just know where to show up and you know what time to go down Main Street, which is going to be 630 or 7 o'clock on Sunday. So make sure you got a spot on the sidewalk. If you want to watch it, it's good entertainment. Nice. Jim, Willie, thanks for hopping on.

Thank you. Thanks, gentlemen. Thanks, guys. Appreciate your support. All right. Vance, I know you only got a few minutes left. I just saw your notes. If you're cool, we'll keep you around for five more minutes.

It's not every day we get to have Vance on for the mashup. And with good news, last time it was, you know, everybody was kind of like, oh, man, what are we going to do? And now we got some good news, even though Tews keeps pushing us into, maybe it's a Canadian news cycle. How about we show him the CTV with the guy wearing the capan into the gym? Yeah. Have you seen this, Bantz? Do you know anything we're talking about? Not at all.

So this guy was wearing his kerpan while he was working out. And he got asked to leave because he had a giant knife with him while he was working out. And it's funny. So a couple things stand out here. Let's just wait for this list. You took this video. Gerper Top Singh Sang Sanga. Listen to the way she says it.

She doesn't say it right. He doesn't even do the voice. She doesn't even do the voice. I guarantee you when she talks about somebody. Well, then say the voice. Come on, Tews. Gerper deep sangha. Because if that was a Frenchman,

she would have been like, la la. and if it was somebody who was Hispanic, it would have been man. But when they talk about East Indian people, they don't do the voice. And that's racist. And they should stop. And so anyway,

this guy got kicked out because he was wearing his kerpan while he was working out. But he's basically, like, he's some kind of a TikTok guy or whatever the East Indian equivalent of that is. He's a flip-flop guy. And so he just, went in there looking for a reaction and he got one. Congratulations.

And now everybody's upset about it. This is the part I thought was really interesting though. Here's him talking about it. You know, you're not aware that, Shasta. It is a, it is a ceremonial, shastard. We are not supposed to go and chop someone up with it. You know what it is? If we take that off and we put it to the side, like these fuckers want us to,

you know what that's telling us? Your religion is now changed at the core. Fundamentally, you now are not a sapahi. They're taking the Sapahi off. It's like the Fifth Amendment, you know, in America. You know, the right to bear arms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Vance, your guys' Fifth Amendment.

Your very well-known Fifth Amendment right, which is the right to bear arms, not to be confused with your Second Amendment right, which is to not have to be required to incriminate yourself. Yeah. Fifth Amendment, Yeah, I don't know where they were reading their U.S. Constitution. Man, when I look at that stuff and I see it every once in a while coming across the U.S.,

it appears to me that these East and West cultures, like, I don't know how they will coexist. If neither side decides that they're going to change and amalgamate to the other group, I don't know how it happens because they seem like contradictory forces that will, no matter what, there will be conflict bringing them together. Oh, absolutely. I mean, like we were just talking about it maybe a month or two ago, that it was everybody in the world was talking about it. That guy who got killed in England,

I've been stabbed. I don't think you have, mate. That was literally with one of these knives. Yeah. Right? And so, and this argument, though, I found that really interesting. The argument that if they're required to put those knives aside at any point, it's fundamentally changing their religion, and that's not acceptable.

But I mean, everybody knows that when Sikhism was founded in 1499, it was a pacifist religion. And it wasn't until 1699, after the second time one of their gurus had been murdered, and in this case beheaded and tortured first, that they brought in that knife and just said, everybody has to wear one of these all the time no matter what. So their religion, which started out as pacifist, 200 years to the year later, said everyone's got to be strapped.

So to say that you can't put that knife aside at any point because it fundamentally changes your religion, I would argue that motherfucker, you have already fundamentally changed your religion at one point and that maybe you could just leave it at home from time to time. So my thought for the Canadians is that Canadian Nice works when you have a high trust society. When you have every community you have, people know each other, your reputation matters. You're like being able to cooperate with other people to have them come to your business, to use their business. That's a high trust society. When you mix different groups together, the calculus changes, right?

Because in a high trust society, it's about your reputation. it's about meritocracy, it's about long-term thinking. But when you bring two groups together, the winner will always be what's known as the intransigent minority. Who is the least willing to change will win. And there's an interesting article by a terrible guy named Nassim Talab about the intransigent minority. And it basically says, go look at the way culture gets set up.

It's not set up by finding a middle ground. That's what we're kind of told and is kind of propagated. But that only exists in a high trust society. in the real world, what happens is whoever is unyielding, whoever just says, no, I will not accept anything other than exactly the thing that I want. They're the ones that just keep

pushing into the Overton window until eventually society capitulates to them, and their unmovable position becomes the middle ground. So unless you're prepared to fight those people, they're not going to stop. That's everything

happening today. Well, I mean, you take a look at Canadian society. It's men and women sports. Mind blown. Yeah, I mean, this is, we've been talking about this for a few years since the Sean Newman podcast, but that's, I think that Canadians will eventually get pushed to the point where they will say all this cultural years, generations, probably hundreds of years of high trust, uh, values based, uh, connection is going to be thrown out.

And, and my fear for everyone is that, uh, when you throw out the values of a high trust society you end up getting into mob mentality you end up getting people that are like i'm so fed up with this i'm going to resort to violence or i am going to support violence or i'm going to support really drastic moves and i don't see another way out uh for canada i i don't i think that the people that have been invited in have very strong cultural values that are in conflict with western canada and they are intransigent and you guys are not yet but once you become intransigent then then you will then there will be violence it seems to me to be almost um inevitable at this point well jfk said something along the lines of you know when people are denied the opportunity to change things

democratically they'll do it violently i mean i think like uh at its core where i don't know that canada defines itself as a christian society but christianity was a mechanism that allowed people to uh settle their differences without violence not getting involved in mob justice, and it worked to be able to settle all of Canada, but you guys are no longer in that. And now it's, I think that this is a deeply religious battle and the Canadians don't see themselves as religious. Not enough Canadians see themselves. We're changing that, Vance. You know my thoughts on this. Now, before I let you out of here, any final thoughts? because I know I'm already three minutes over when you said you can stay till.

Any final thoughts, fans, before you hop off? I appreciate you hopping in. It has been a episode of in and out of the Tulees, so to speak. I blame some of that on Tews, but that's kind of our M.O. too, so, you know. I mean, I'm so glad to be here, man, it's great to check in with you guys. Sean, you are living your dream. It's an inspiration, I think, to everyone to say, like, hey, you had, opportunity to do something it would be hard you didn't know how it would work and you're living

it out so it's an honor to come on and twos man i didn't expect to see you today but great great to catch up absolutely absolutely it's it's wonderful that i it would have been a neat surprise to hear about your good news uh listening to it later but it uh it was way better to just hear it live i'm incredibly happy for you and your family thanks man and you guys were uh you guys were so supportive. So thank you guys so much. And actually, I've been using AI a bunch, as I always talk about, and I built a new website. So if people want to go check this out, I'm quite excited by it. And it is one that I'm using AI to build. It's articulate. Ventures. That's all you type in. And it's got my podcast. It's got my speaking, a lot of the work that I do. So go check that website out.

Well, that's a great plug. It's going to come up in the community notes to the interest-based communications. Great. Well, thanks, guys. guys and I'll check in with you guys later. Thanks. Well, later this year, Vance, I'll be sitting across from you. So buckle up, all right? That sounds awesome, man. When's that happening? Not until like November. We got a ways to go before we get there. We're only in Manitoba, right? We got a long way to go. Yeah, let's put that on the calendar in pencil. Who knows how Sean's going to get along here? How many of the kids will still be around by the time you get to You know what?

People are always like, so where are you going to be like in three weeks? Can you come over? And I'm like, you don't understand. Mel has it, she's done. It's already planned. It's on a track. Somebody's like, how many campsites do you got booked?

She's like, I don't know, like, probably like 60%. And then they're like, well, like 60% on like the next month. She's like, no, like the entire year. And I'm like, yeah. You don't understand. My wife has got like everything.

We pull up to the campsite. She's got this binder. It's right here. That's where we're going. And I'm like... You know, Mel has always been my evidence that you must have been a damn good hockey player because you way, way, way beyond what you should be at. So tell Mel I said hi.

Peace out, guys. Peace out. Thanks, fans. Yeah, it shot way too high. I keep getting told that. I'm like, what? What are you guys all talking about? I think she shot high.

That's what I think. How's that? All right. Maybe she has, maybe she's near-sighted. Uh-huh. All right. Let's get on to the goofy news. We've been all over the place today, okay?

We have been all over the place. We might as make some goofy news, all right? Bear climbs, power pole, dies from electrocution. That's really what happened. Yeah. It's too bad. I don't think there's an actual video of it being electrocuted because that would have been interesting. But, yeah, the bear just decided to,

climb up there and the forestry people didn't want to trank it because it figured it would die from the fall and it's pretty hard to catch a bear so they were just leaving it up there hoping it would come down on its own and it just got a little it got tased it got a little zappy zap correct yeah if it had been if it had been the the one from bamp it probably would have just gotten superpowers or something Uh, being stuck on a power pole to being stuck in 130 feet in the air in a sign. Yeah. Show this.

Yeah. So as you can see, this is an incredibly tall sign on the side of, uh, it's, it's some kind of a roadside turnout or something, some alternative buckies. And there was a guy fixing it. He was up inside there and his lift truck malfunctioned and just left him. and he spent five hours up there in that sign. It doesn't say whether or not he had to go pee during that. But how cool would it be to pee from up there, by the way? It would have been cool.

Look out down below! I got to go! Everybody go ten steps back and just double-checked the wind. Okay, we've been covering people dying, you know, like while they're traveling in other places. This is something different. Four weeks in a row, four weeks in a row, we've got a story about somebody plummeting to their death. I feel like this is, just to point this out, I feel like this is, your, remember you were talking about, what was it, the B-list actresses being on things, and then all of a sudden you started getting more stories like that?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like this is that in another way, okay? So the more you talk about it, the more it's going to come up. That's what I think. Well, I'm not trying to make the universe kill these people. Fair enough. Women, Yeah.

But this is the fifth week in a row. This is week five. Women 23 dies after man falling from apartment block lands on top of her as he survives 12-story plunge. You heard that correct. Yeah. So this is a little bit different because it's not the person who plummeted that died. In this case, it was the person that that person landed on who died. Correct.

So you're just walking down the street, whistling a happy tune. Life's good. La da, da, da. smack. Out of the sky, some guy lands on you and murders you. That was in Japan, by the way, for people wondering. Yeah, and you would have never saw him coming because he was probably a ninja of some kind. You've got a giant goldfish found in Okotok's Sparks, Alberta warning about invasive species.

Before we get to that, real quick. Woman to milk 10,000 cows in 10 days while traveling. the length of the country, that country being England or the UK, I'm not sure which, but anyhow, she's going to do this for a charity. She's just going to go all across the country. Melk and cows. 10,000 cows.

And not only is that interesting on itself, but also it's fascinating from a Canadian perspective because that's illegal here. Giant goldfish found in Okotokes. Look at the size of this sucker. Well, I don't know if you know this about goldfish or not, and I can't

remember if it was in the article or not, but they grow to the size of their tank. Like, as big of a space as you let them is the amount of space that they will fill. So you're saying if you literally let that sucker go for a long time, it would be enormous. It would basically just be like a blue whale kind of thing. It's like ping pong. However big the space you have to operate in is however much space it will take up. Okay.

And then Alberta, the government Alberta, is used. using a photo of massive goldfish pulled from a stormwater pond in Okotox to remind Albertans not to release unwanted aquarium pets into the wild. Look at the size of that thing. Yeah. So keep in mind that when that thing got released, it was probably like yay big. Yeah, big. Yeah.

Now, the next story goes sides with goldfish. Two goldfish kept in a tank outside a sushi restaurant are declared sentient beings in landmark court ruling. Yeah. You heard that right. Yeah. So in a different country, two goldfish rescued from a small display tank outside a sushi restaurant and Buenos Aires have become the focus of landmark animal welfare ruling after an

Argentine court recognized them as sentient beings with legal rights. Yeah, well, that's because they weren't that giant massive fucker. I wonder, I wonder how interesting they'd be to fish, like at that size, going back to that other one. You think he'd put up a fight? I'm wondering, but I, that'd be pretty... Who's ever fished a goldfish? Somebody out there knows. Is it any good?

I can't. I want to know if it's... Like, on the one hand, I'd want to know. know if it's delicious or not, but on the other hand, I would definitely mount that. Absolutely. Go down to the other picture. Look at the gut on them. Oh, for sure.

But I would totally, I would, you can't not take that goldfish and mount it on the wall. Yeah, you got all these, a wildebeest and an elephant, a giant. That's right. And then a giant goldfish in there. Oh, yeah. That would be pretty sweet. But I want to know if it was good. eating too.

You want to show the obituary? Yeah, so just in sad news this week, we regret to announce to you the death of Richard, known to his friends as Dick, last name, Porn, who died in Chippewa, Wisconsin. And so Dick Porn is no longer with us. You want to show AOC?

Yes. So we talked about Kamala Harris a few times and how her accent changed depending on where she was. Now, this is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York speaking in Tennessee. We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind. We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind. South Carolina This is Who's that guy

from season three Of Prison Break Who is also in Uh justified Um You know who I'm talking about Anyway right? Yeah, I do

What is the guy from New York But his accent Injustified is like this It's like when I Try and make fun of Mrs. Toos And I bust out a southern accent And it's kind of a weird

conglomeration Of Hollywood stereotypes of southern accents and isn't particularly reflective of any particular region. That's basically what she's doing. What are you doing? Brain stopped. I've been a little air flowing.

Now, happy news. This is Elon Musk. I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but I'm sure everybody's going to be talking about it in the next week. You got to bring it up to us. No, I support the normal people. What do you call it far right? falsely. You support not just the populist right, but the far right, in fact, very fringe parties in some countries.

No, I support the normal people. What do you call the far right falsely? You think is the normal person? Okay. Yes. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal. In fact, you, one of the, one of the tricks that I think is funny. One of the things that was quite funny is to like take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and then go to someone and say who's sort of, you know, on the sort of what I call the lunatic left and say, what do you think of the speech by Trump? Like, oh, wow, he's the worst person ever. Actually, that was a speech by Obama or actually, that was a speech by Hillary.

Literally. No, I agree that the center of gravity in this country has shifted, certainly the Democratic Party, shifted to the left, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people like Rupert. No, I'm talking about people. It's actually just normal people. It's just normal people. It's just normal people.

And here are the principles. And tell me which of these sound terrible. That we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, that we should have sensible spending. Which of those three are far right fringe? I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right.

It is false and misleading and nonsense. instance. Please keep this part in. We'll keep all of them. That was, I don't know if I could have, I certainly couldn't have put it better myself. This is a guy who builds cards. Yeah, the video, I don't know if it was for everybody. When he was talking about, tell me what three,

one of these is, is, you disagree with or whatever he said. But then he said the three, one was secure the borders, safe cities, I missed the third. sensible spending Hmm Yeah which is I mean it's why we get called far right Yeah

I don't know And meanwhile I'm politically neutral You go back to what Vance was talking about If you don't stand for anything You know they're just eventually going to push in All the nonsense that we're dealing with So call it whatever you want Life's going to go on

Exactly Other fun update So we showed this a couple weeks ago. This was the guy who got attacked by the group and then the cops showed up and just immediately went after him and then he got charged with assaulting a police officer. Those charges have been dropped. This is this is we don't see this very often and Landon Johnson, who's been on the podcast before continues to impress me. And so it says after being asked by the city not to share these due to having to answer questions from the public,

I will now be sharing every email the city sends out to me regarding media advisories going forward. And he says, every Canadian citizen has constitutional protection to engage in journalism, share ideas, and gather news without state censorship. these fundamental rights and responsibilities apply equally to both professional reporters and independent citizens hold your city accountable by showing up to media availability and ask the questions if the city gives you any trouble please contact my office

this is this is we're dying in the desert and stuff like this is just a drink of water here's one you here's one you wouldn't know about this happy news Peter Scholes podcast guest, had a new baby boy, and showed out to him and his new son, Lucas.

Yeah. So happy news. How many is that now? I think that's five for him. Jesus. So, yeah, he's, uh, he texted me that, uh, yesterday, so. Get yourself a streaming service, dude.

Find something to fill your time. Now, uh, community notes twos, um, Oh, man, right at the top here. You have, what do you want to talk about? Well, Articulate. Ventures, the interest-based communications. So if you go to Articulate.comptures slash IBC, you can find the website that Drew was talking about. And specifically the IBC part is his ongoing seminars on interest-based communications.

then we also have Drew Weatherhead's new book, Fractures in Peace. So that just came out last week. And then we have, where did you send it to me, but you didn't put it in the notes. Why do you always send me, like we specifically don't have this. I don't know. It's because I literally do it as a reminder to myself. I want to go back to fractures in peace, though, just for a second. Because Druid texted us, because last week we had him on and he had to hit so many,

pre-purchase orders of the Kindle, right? The 99 cent. And he, I'd asked him, like, I hadn't heard anything from it. I was like, hey, did you, did you get to bestseller? And he responded to the podcast was the difference maker. I wound up doubling my overall, my numbers overall. And he thanked everybody for helping him. So that's, that's super cool.

He doubled his pre-sale values from one podcast appearance. True. And you need to do the circuit next time, man. you got two more books in this series. Do the whole circuit. Yeah, I agree. And I've been reading it. I've been trying to keep pace with him as he's audio recording it.

So I'm through the first act. And I've been really enjoying it. And one of the things I was actually just texting a Drew this morning is the political side of it. And I kind of chuckled about that because I'm like, well, of course I enjoy it. But it's just to me, there's what he's talking about in the political sense of what's happening with the RANDs. I'm like, man, that is, I don't know if that's bang on the mark, but it's awfully close, and I've been enjoying it. So it's been a fun read so far.

I'm about 150 pages in for anyone else. I'm curious their thoughts, too. I'm sure Drew is, too, what people are thinking of the book. Regardless, go pick up your copy of it, support an Albertan, a guy who is, well, he's become a friend over the course of not only the podcast, but the mashup as well, him hopping on last week. So best of luck with his new book. and thanks to all of you who watched and then went and purchased a Kindle copy to help boost them up to get to bestseller. That's super cool.

Yeah, that meant a lot to them. And we think too as well. Yeah, yeah. Like, I think it's super cool when we bring somebody on and you guys find it engaging, right? Like I just, yeah, that's super awesome. And I have to say your comment going back, yeah, me chuckling, when you talked about the guy, the East Indian with the dagger. You said something about him being flip flop or wearing flip flops?

I don't know how you put that. All I can hear was Don Jerry. It was like, that was a Don Jerry comment if I ever heard it. Regardless. Okay. Then I texted community notes here. You're invited to join UCP leader Daniel Smith, MLA, Angela Pitt, and other UCP MLAs for an evening of horse racing in support of the Erdry East UCP Association. enjoy a fun-filled evening featuring live horse racing, virtual reality horse racing,

delicious food, silent and live auctions, and opportunities to connect with UCP leaders, MLAs and fellow supporters. It's Alberta Derby Day Friday, August 21st from 5 to 10 at Century Downs Race Track. Tickets are on sale now, starting at $75 for adults, 50 for youth. Your tickets covers admission, access to the buffet, live racing, entertainment, and great evening and fellow supporters. There you go. That's what I got for you.

That says it all right there. So it's just under a month out. And I don't know. Have you ever met Angela Pitt before? She's wonderful. Oh, man. I feel like I have. That's terrible.

I should know this. Possibly. Okay. Well, yeah. Yeah. She's a great person to talk to. She's wonderful. One of the few politicians out there,

kind of the same thing as Shane Gets and we're like, I like the fact that this person's here doing this job. For podcast watchers, listeners, we're in Manitoba right now and you were correct. We're here for roughly

the next eight, nine nights twos and I'm trying to do my best to grab as many people from Manitoba as I can because obviously I don't come to Manitoba very often, especially to go interviews. interview people. So tomorrow is a full day interviewing some just local people. And then hopefully we'll,

I hate to, you know, say that Jasmine Lane and people, you know, that are more notable are going to be on. But that is the hope I've been in talks with them. So we'll see if we can get some names on the podcast and that's what people can expect. It should be good. And honestly, like, podcast format is a very natural fit from Manitoba where you're just speaking to one another because many of them, can't read or write. That's going to do it for us today. Tuesday, as always. If you enjoyed this, if you enjoyed this,

smash the share button like it's a person you're landing on from a 22nd story building. That's going to do it for us, folks. Thanks for hopping in. The mashup is here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time. And shout out to Zane, by the way. Yeah, okay, this is a cool story.

So first off, Zane and his dad Brian did the suburban we're driving in, right? So we dropped it off when we were in Calgary for them to do some, you know, minor fixing. Nothing too crazy. And then we got to Cyprus Hills and we had some issues come up. And Brian, Brian's dad drove to Cyprus and helped me out

and fixed a bunch of things that were just like acting up. And then we carried on. And as I was leaving, Brian's like, oh, you might want to take a look. at this. It's going to leak a little bit. Not that big of deal. Not a big deal. So when I had it, I can tell you. You got to look it up. You don't know.

I want to make sure I get it right. There's not a whole ton of different fluids. Like there's a bunch, but was it, how did it taste? It's not about the, it's not about the, I'm talking about the specific part, jackass. And I wanted to make sure to any mechanic out there, they know. Hydraulic brake booster. Okay. Okay. That's exactly. Exactly what it is. So you were leaking break fluid. So in Minnesota, I went in and had an oil change done, and they brought it up.

And then they gave me the price to get it fixed. And the timeline, I'm like, oh, my goodness. So I called Zane. And I was like, hey, do you know anybody in Manitoba? Just thinking he'd give me a mechanic and I'd go take it there or whatever. And then he texted me yesterday, two days ago, actually. No, yesterday. Two days.

Doesn't matter. Keep going. And he's like, yeah, so I'll be there Friday afternoon. And I'm like, what do you mean you'll be here? Friday afternoon. What are you talking about? Like the guy that you'd suggest he'll be here Friday afternoon

or I got to take it to him? He's like, no, no, I'll be there Friday afternoon. And I'm like, you're going to drive all the way from Calgary, from Chestermere, to Winnipeg, south of Winnipeg, to take a look at this and get this part change. Yeah, yeah, I'll be there Friday afternoon.

So Zane Southgate, man, when you go to Zeebs, you're getting service like never before. He's driving to Winnipeg. Should be here shortly. I assume because he's watching the show as he's doing it. I'm just like, this is wild.

It's a one-way service call. Yeah, that's impressive. That's impressive. So shout up to Zane for, but that's a community we have. I was trying to explain it. I met with coffee this morning with a group of guys from Manitoba. Another guy who'd driven to do some work on the studio, and he's been on the podcast before Peter Moran.

And I was trying to explain how much people care. And it's like, it's just like, it hurts my brain, too. It's such a cool thing to experience. I just, I don't know how to put it in the words. So I know I speak for Drew when he says thank you and to Zane and anyone else who's been helping out along the trip here. It's been super cool to run India. And thanks from the bottom of my heart for all the, you know, just like whether there's a couple of burgers or some gas money, all the things. It's just unreal.

So, yeah, we're in Manitoba and looking forward to exploring some conversations in Manitoba. There. Now, the mashup every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time, whether Toos or me, it's. here every week the show is and we'll make sure we're having a little bit of fun doing it. So make sure to subscribe. Make sure to retweet this out or share it out to people if you're enjoying the show. And thanks to Chris Sims, Jim and Willie and of course Vance Crow for hopping on, giving us great news today. Yep.

And look forward to next week when Carla Treadway is coming on for sure. I'm going to bug Chris Sims because if I got no twos, we're going to make sure there's some people here that are going to be fun to chat with and look forward to that. As always, thanks for hopping on to all of you wonderful people. Thanks for being here, and we'll catch up to all you guys next week. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly. I've followed my impulsive plans, pop and locking salsa dances on demand.

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