Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup: Festivus

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

222 Minutes hops on for our annual Festivus episode. We discuss a few headlines including Trudeau at the ski hill, 3.3 million on booze, Trump trolling and all things 2024. Mashup collection https://snp-8.creator-spring.com/listing/the-mashup-collection⁠⁠ Cornerstone Forum ‘25 https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone25/ Text Shaun 587-217-8500 Substack:https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast E-transfer here: [e-mail] Silver Gold Bull Links: Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca Email: [e-mail] Text Grahame: [phone]

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 Masha. Welcome to the Masha.

So, interesting thing happens in, in To's life yesterday. Somebody tried to sell me a fire truck. But it wasn't their fire truck. they said, you need to buy my neighbor's fire truck. I was like, well, that's interesting. Why do you care if he has a fire truck or not? And apparently it's not the fact that he has a fire truck.

It's the fact that he, when he gets drunk, he climbs on top of the fire truck and uses the PA system to yell at his neighbors. And I'm like, that's beautiful. That's something. I don't know if beautiful would be the word I'd

put to it, but sure, that's, that's something. But my neighbor has a fire truck. And so we could be sitting on our fire trucks, just yelling at each other. That would be a spectacle. That would be a news story. And if that became a headline where Toos was, was on a fire truck, yelling at his name. We'd have to cover it in the mashroom. Yeah, like if you just saw the headline of just drunk neighbors get matching fire trucks to yell at each other,

that'd probably be happy news, honestly. I would, yeah, I think it's great. It'd be funny. We'd have a good chuckle about it. It would probably rivaled the story of, uh, uh, what was it, the goat or the sheep down in California that got stolen after it was sold at an auction. You remember that? Yeah, that was a while back. That was a while back. Happy festivus, everyone. Happy festivus. One of, one of the things we do here on the mashup, if you're new to this, is once a year we do a festivist episode. Now, uh, now, in the background, uh, leading up to us, you're like, well, why isn't it at 10? Why didn't we do this in evening? Why didn't we do all that stuff? Because both me and two has been called idiots already by

significant others for not realizing where the schedule was going. And it's like, well, we could squeeze it in here because I suggested the twos, well, maybe we just forego the festival for a year. And the look I got for suggesting such a thing was twos almost came through the screen. So we're here. We're early. We hope, uh, we hope you've got a cup of coffee or a cup of Joe, a cup of something. And, uh, I'm sure you got a few people who are going to be looking for us at 10 o'clock.

Like what the hell? Yeah. Like, you were early. Yeah. Well, you know. It's Christmas time. It's Christmas time. And there's a lot going on.

And happy fest of us. Merry Christmas. Very Christmas, Sean. And you know what? I have a present for you. Okay. Well, the last present I got from Tews was the Bud Light Memorial Employee of the Year? Employee of the month.

Employee of the month, yes. It should have been the year. Yeah, you got it. You've actually still been employee of the month consistently. That's correct. I should just, I should just be sending you little placards to just start filling the sides of that trophy. June, June or Sean Newman.

Here, here's our correction. So last week, we were talking about zoom in on it. I can't, I can hardly see the numbers. Can you zoom on that? All right. Keep coming. Keep coming. Come coming.

Ah, right there. Okay. All right. We're good. Okay. So here's the big is that last week we were talking about the Alberta pension plan. and how, you know, guys like Max Fawcett, we didn't mention him specifically,

but he was like, oh, yeah, you guys just thinking you're entitled over half of it, and you're only entitled to 25%. Well, here's the thing, is roughly speaking, Alberta is about 10% of Canada's population. And so if you have 10% here and 90% here, and I had said that we pay two and a half times more than everybody else. But technically,

what would have been right was two and a half times more than the average. Here's the thing, though, is if you take Alberta out of it, it gets even more stark. So if Alberta at 10%, which is their numbers, Alberta is 25% of the contributions

at 10.5. And 90% does 75% of the contributions. then the ratio is 2.5 to 0.833. And when you actually look at the ratios separated, we contribute triple what the rest of the population does. So this is their math. This is their math. Their math is you guys are crazy and you're out to lunch

that you think you should get over half of the pension. you're only contributing three times as much as the rest of Canada. Does anyone else feel like you showed up to the last day of school? You know, you're told you're going to get popcorn. You're going to watch a movie or two. Maybe a gym class. Maybe an outdoor for recess. And then you show up and they want you to do math.

And you're like, we're not doing any math today. I just listed the twos, do his correction. I'm like right over my head. I already know Alberta's getting screwed. I get it. Well, Alberta's getting screwed. But I understated how much they were getting screwed. Festivus, airing of the grievances, no math today.

We're not doing math today, folks. Is that we are getting screwed. It's true. It's true. It's true. Okay. A couple of things here. Okay.

So today is not like any other mashup, okay? We're going to talk a few different things. It's kind of like a year in review for the mashup. Kind of. I got to throw on a few current things because there's no, or the things that happened. Tuesday is like, did you pay attention to the news headlines? I'm like, no.

After the last mashup, I pretty much turned my phone on mute and have been disappeared from life for, well, disappeared from the social media for a couple, a couple of days. So happy Festivus, Toos and Sean. Thanks, Kevin. And we're going to try something today. Yes, we are, Michelle. We are really early. She says, wow, you guys are early. Yes, we are.

We're to try something about halfway through. We're going for an hour today. And we're going to try. and we're going to put the link for Streamyard in the comments. And we're going to let a few of you come on if you want to ask a question, have a comment, and then we'll talk about it or I don't know. We're going to put something out on Festivus.

Why not? Earing of the grievances. Yeah. So if you're set up where you could be able to show up on a live stream, you know, look into that, take her with it a little bit and watch for the link. Yes. Because if Chase Barber can do it from the, the side of the road on the collection live stream people could probably figure it out too people

probably could figure it out we were trying to figure out the stupid calling thing and it's proven a little more difficult than uh not initially thought because we've been messing with this for a while and it won't seem to work so um yes now yes it is airborne friday showed out to uh james Sinclair and the boys. Shout up to the Coots, six and a half. All right. It's Christmas time. I hope a few letters got through their way.

I know the postal strike really messed that up. So, yeah, that, I got my thoughts there. I wanted to talk about the top headlines of the year, okay? I don't know. Just in memory. Like, I'm like, I really stand out. Yes, the ones just came up.

Okay. I would love if the audience. would comment their thoughts on maybe you don't need to have the exact headline the top story that you thought was covered here or happened in 2024 for me for me 24 will always remember from the other Randy I don't know if I can ever like the day we find another Randy Bissano strong ego man will be a happy day for me I was upset about that at the start of the year now I'm kind of sad to see the the storyline fading when you say upset You mean like, you're like, why are we talking about this?

No, upset. Like, I can't believe we're this dumb. And now, you know, like, how can he say that? And it's just like, it just carries on. Now I'm like, huh, I hope we find somebody that dumb again. So we can talk about it for a year. Well, politics being what they are, I don't think we're going to have to look too far. You're probably right.

You're probably right. But I mean, the other Randy. And the fact that he had, there was so many layers to that. just so many layers. Strong Eagle man coming out. Just like, oh. Okay. All right.

Yeah, that was pretty good. I'm just trying to think. I didn't even think about, you know, what was my favorite one or anything like that. And I'm drawing a blank, but there was some really absolutely silly, goofy things. I think one of the ones that I really enjoyed because it was such a callback to the start

was when we did the follow-up, on the fallout of that guy making the super, um, uh, big horn sheep. Oh. Yeah. And then,

but, but it was neat because we covered this in like mashup 20 or something like that. Like it was years ago. And then all of a sudden years later, it was like, oh, hey, remember we talked about this?

This is how long this guy's going to jail for. This is what happened with the court case. I also like, I like, I like, I like the recent one of yours too, the, the, the postal strike.

headlines. I don't know anybody else, but I enjoy, we changed up something this year where halfway through the year, we stopped letting me read the headlines before I read them, right? That way it's like, it's fresh. I'm getting it like fresh. As soon as we hop on here, I've never seen them before. And twos hides them from me and does a bunch of different things, so I can't see them. And the, reading the Postal Strike headlines was a highlight of my mornings. I don't know about everybody else. But that was a ton of fun. That was a ton of fun. And if we can find any way to recreate that, I would enjoy that as well. I mean, well, I mean, I work at it every week. I think my favorite headline from this year was India, India Justin and the Travel of Doom.

There is incredibly botched trip to India. Well, his latest most incredibly botched trip to India. But here's a thing, Sean. Like, if you're, if you're worried of. about, you know, when are we ever going to find something like the other Randy? When are we ever going to see something as ridiculous as this or that or whatever else? I present to you things that came out over Christmas. Global Affairs Canada spent over $3 million in taxpayer dollars or $3 million in taxpayer dollars on alcohol. $3.3 million on booze between January 2019 and May 2024. Over 200 other agencies were not accounted for in the CTF tally.

This is one department of the government spending $3 million on booze. Or something like $60,000 a month. 3.3. What is that? That's five years? A little over five years. That's $660 grand a year. Yep. That's $55,000 a month. It'd be a little less than that.

Holy mackinaw. Think about that. Mm-hmm. I tell you what, if we worked there, we wouldn't be drinking coffees in the morning. I did just $55,000. Oh, man. You got this ridiculous sense of entitlement, Sean.

I mean, look at this. So this is from the page, Ranting and Raving in the Kootenys. rant to some bozo at Red Mountain. I've never been so angry after a day at Red Mountain. Some self-important big shot showed up with an entourage of security, and they absolutely ruined the entire experience for everyone else. This guy and his goons thought they were too good to wait in line,

cutting ahead of families and kids like they own the lifts. I don't know who he was, but the arrogance was disgusting. Who the hell shows up to a public ski hill and acts like this? And if that wasn't bad enough, His crew completely clogged up the Josie Hotel and the Velvet. The lobby was a zoo. Bodyguards everywhere, barking orders, acting like regular people were in their way. The bar was packed.

The staff seemed stressed out and the whole place felt like a circus. It's a ski lodge, not your personal clubhouse. If you're so special, go rent a private chalet instead of stomping all over everyone else's vacation. Now, for those of you who don't know who that might be talking about, that's where Justin Trudeau was a couple days ago. Yeah, he, he can't leave soon enough. He just,

oh, he can't leave soon enough. You know, if, if there's one story, I want to keep talking about, Randy Bissano, right?

Like, that story can't die for me. Like, if there's just a way that it just lives on in infamy, you know, and we were to have a segment of the other Randy, I would totally talk about that. Justin True on the other word,

the other hand, I'm like, you know, one of the things we are going to have to do in 2025 is have federal election live stream coverage. It's going to be a ton of fun. We're going to have so much fun on that day. We're going to bring in people from all over Canada

is going to be a ton of fun. I am going to be embarrassingly drunk by the end of it, I feel like. And I will make up for that by not being embarrassingly drunk. Now, that being said... You mean to tell me that if you're watching the election, unfold and seeing the absolutely horrible demise of such a shitty politician leading a horrible party that gives zero fucks about accountability or the money that they take from us, you're not going to be just drinking copious amount of overjoyed scotch.

I'm telling you right now, I'm going to hold it together for all of us. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to hold it together for all of us, but it's going to be a night. I'm going to drink for all of us. I'm, it's going to be a night, a day to remember. And I think if there's one story, I can't wait to stop, not stop talking about, because certainly Trudeau will find a way to come up in her headlines. I feel like for a long time.

I want him to stay on as leader of the liberal party forever. Yeah, but he's not going to. Right? Like he's going to go back to being a part-time snowboard instructor. I don't know what he's going to do. What is he going to do after? Nothing. A, he doesn't have to do anything.

True. And. B, he's completely unhirable. Like who the fuck? Aside from he's going to be leading the Trudeau Foundation because it's his fucking organization, even if he's, you know, arm's length from it right now, supposedly.

But that's it, basically. And even then, if they've got a half decent board, they're going to say, look, you're not, you're not what we're looking for in terms of getting donations. So that's, that's going to be it. That's going to be all. Kelly Lloyd asked, where's the party?

Now, this is an interesting question, two. So, Lee's Merle, guest of the show, has suggested that we have a party somewhere in Western Canada. And me and you are like, well, we got to do a live stream. We can't, you know, like we can, you know, like we can, what are your thoughts on doing a live stream from a location where people could show up and have a good time? It's a big idea.

I know. interesting. I think it would it would be a lot of fun for the people there and you'd have a whole bunch of random drunk people walking past going well, fuck true now. But how cool would that be? Honestly.

You know what? How about you have the regular election coverage and then you have somebody going live to a bar you know like instead of going live to UCP headquarters we have a bar we're in a bar at a certain location where everybody gets together and we're live there with like i don't know a guy like marty up north like we did it last time except now he's at a bar instead of yes ucp headquarters

see and then the the suggestions are coming up regina and saskatoon um like you're thinking it you're thinking studios no no i'm thinking i'm thinking the studios i'm thinking the studios set up in Lloyd. But yeah, actually, you know what I mean? If we're going live to a location. Come party in Lloyd Minster? Yeah. I mean, everybody in Saskatchewans, you know, a bunch of 18 year olds in

Saskatchewan are going to be like, oh, yeah, I'll be able to drink. It's true. But, yeah, it's, uh, I think if you did something like that, we're just like, we're going live to a Bush party. And. Live in the ravine. Live at the sandpit. Where did you guys party when you were kids?

Small town, Saskatchewan. Where was the place outdoors? There had to have been a place. There was just this bush that everybody had gone to for generations. Kind of down by the river. Yep, and that was it. Down by the river. Carniff.

Carniff. Ha, ha, ha. Murray Henderson suggesting Karneduff. I got a good buddy of mine who'd say that's a hell of a good idea. I don't know. It's something to roll around for everybody, I'll listen and watching. He's like,

does everybody want to meet up or do they want to just be able to sit at their house? You know? How about this? Book the arena. What if we just booked a venue? That's what I'm, but think about it. But that's like,

what if we just, you know, instead of just showing up at a bar, what if we just booked a venue and had a party? I think of like you do a bar. Okay, so pick a bar, have the election live stream coverage on the screens. Everybody shows up, has a good time. We have somebody who's live on location.

And then we show up after the live stream. Sure. I don't hate the idea. I don't hate the idea. I just know that like we're all sitting here. Like waiting on the election to happen. We've now done BC, SAS, US. I mean, Alberta was our first go-around.

But this year we did three election live streams. Within a month. Correct. They were all hits. And they were all working towards the federal election. Yeah, this is basically going to be the Avengers. Yes. This is going to be something.

And, you know, like, I don't know, it's going to be a big deal. I mean, here in Canada, it's going to be a big deal. one way or another it's going to be a big deal well i mean you think about it like ecos just did a poll and ecos is voice of frankie on twitter that fucking crazy idiot who you think how the hell is this guy in charge of something that's supposed to be unbiased maybe we just have a bunch of parties like wouldn't it be cool if there was i don't know a dozen 20 different arenas that got rented out by various people to just throw Trudeau as fucking done parties. Michelle has said you could have a live on location remotes from a whole bunch of places.

I mean, in fairness, that worked too. It's whether or not people want to get together. And we're talking specifically about the mash-up group of people, right? Like there's a whole cast of characters who watch this. And it would be for you, right? Because obviously we'd be doing a live stream. And that night, we'd be able to come out. But in fairness, I'm like, I don't know.

Do I want to go to a playoff oil? game. I don't know if the flames are going to make it this year. Sorry, Too's. Not really. The oiler is going to make it to the playoffs. It's like, do I want to drive up to Tamington? Do I want to go to Rogers Place? Do I want to experience it? Yeah, kind of. Do I just kind of want to sit on my coach and have a few friends over and watch it there?

Yeah, kind of. So I can make the case either way. Well, I just, I'm thinking like, not even a concerted mashup effort, but wouldn't it be interesting if so many people across this country hated Trudeau so much,

that they just rented out arenas to have big parties in. Because, I mean, you look at it, like this, this Ecos poll I was just mentioning, he's within like two seats of losing party status. He's basically about to get Kim fucking Campbell. We got a morning, gentlemen. I'm not senior producing anymore.

And I can be a live hit guy. Well, there you go. We got somebody out in BC. I know, I tell you what we're going to talk a heck of a lot about this. Whether he gets Kim Campbell or not. not twos, we both believe, I think, that no matter what, Trudeau ain't stepping down. And everybody's wondering if you can believe Singh. And I'm like, it doesn't matter anymore, right? Singh is going to get his pension. And at some point, that excuse of not doing it is going to fade away.

So does the election happen in October or does it happen in like April, May, June? I don't know when. The answer is yes. It just happens. And when the day gets announced, the mashup is going to have a live election stream for the ages. We are, we are prepped. We're assembling the Avengers. We're going to have way too much fun on this side. And we want you all to be a part of it in whatever form you want. And we will do our very best to try and make it happen. How's that? Well, not we're going to do our best to make it happen. Something big is happening. Absolutely. Sure. I'm just saying if people want to sit on their coach, great. We're going to, we'll have people come in live from their coach and be like,

we've got 50 people over here in Lumsden. I can just see Henry and Jamie, right? And they just come in for, like literally, we want to bring in all parts of Canada on this, right? So you're sitting Nova Scotia by yourself and you just want to be like, hey, we want to have you. We want to have everybody. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and even Nova Scotia, it looks like they're going to be voting up the liberals. So, I mean, like what we're looking at right now is the decline like just the very fast and steep decline. The wheels have really come off of this thing, not unlike this cop car in Calgary. Somebody stole the wheels off a cop car? Somebody, so the cop car got left. It was parked up front of a Walmart in Calgary.

And somebody put it up on blocks and stole the wheels off of it. No. No. This is. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh. Well, that's kind of funny.

Yeah. That's a state of Canada right now, isn't it? No. You know the one video I did see? Like, literally just hopping on Twitter this morning? What the heck happened at West Eminton Mall the other day? With like a 50-person brawl? A 50-person brawl in Eminton.

I'm guessing it was two versus helmets. shirts for skins I'm guessing I'm guessing it was some Palestine Israel thing yeah seen they they clogged up a place in in Toronto wasn't it Toronto

somewhere other yeah I had a big picture of Nintyahu maybe can't remember yeah it's that whole thing's gotten interesting It's funny how no one's claiming that that's a peaceful protest. There's no bouncy castles.

There's no hot hubs. There's nobody going around afterwards and picking up garbage. Amber says, I know someone that stole a hubcap off the cop car while they sat in it. Balcy. Oh, goodness gracious. I've always thought it'd be really funny. You know how there's that on the back of the RCMP cars?

They've got the Mountie on the horse. holding up the flag. Yep. If you just put a little sticker of a woman laid out with a walker right underneath it, like if you just got a matching stickers that that horse and that rider trampling over a woman and a walker. And stick it on. Yeah.

Yeah. With 25 minutes in, we got 35 minutes ago. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put the link in the on X. I'm going to put it in a comment on, I think Facebook. It should show up everywhere else, I think. and Tuesday, we're going to keep going. But all I want to do is give the option. If somebody wants to hop in, have a comment on the mashup this year,

ask a question. We'll let you on for, I don't know, a minute. If nobody shows up, fine. We'll just keep doing what we're doing. Because I know that Stream Yards, it's going to take a couple seconds or a couple minutes for people who are like, what? And then to try and figure it out. So we've got plenty of time.

Either way, it's in there. If anybody wants to hop on and have their say on the mash. this year. One of the other headlines, twos that, you know, I got to just pulling up here. Result.

This year we're looking pretty good. And I look forward to playoffs in 2020. Oilers suck. Do do do do do do. Oilers suck it. Dida do. Here, I wanted to show this. I suggested, Sean,

that we should try and get this guy on to talk about his, you know, there's, there's prophets in every era. And, uh, and this gentleman just started a religion. And I hear it and I want to hear more. And so we're like, we should just get this guy on to just show up just hammered at 10 in the morning and talk about it. This is, this is probably the best thing I saw on the internet. I started a religion and it revolves around drinking beer. Putting speakers on a wall, blasting rock music and debating taxes. If that aligns with your bullshit, you gotta join our church.

It's called The Church of Sound. Lose some, it's all the same to me. Come rock the fuck out on our giant wall of speakers, where we are, the Church of Sound. The Church of Sound. The only kind I need is the ACE is Fades. Ace is Fade. Come on. Come rock the fuck out. Give me a hell yeah.

And I'll DM you with our church and rules. Going with the flow, because it's all the game to me. Hell yeah, brother. Jack says N-2's is right. I'm not sure which part of that it was. I think people just come to realize by now if they say that, they're going to get commented on. So, you know, what are you going to do?

Yeah, it's all good. Did you hear about that Congresswoman in the States? What? So missing Congresswoman Kay Granger, who hasn't been seen for six months, was found living in a dementia care facility. Say that one more time. So Congresswoman in the States. Yes.

Who's been in office for almost 30 years. she's 81 years old. Nobody had seen her for six months. And then she got found in a dementia home. Oh my. Oh, my. That pretty much sums up politics, doesn't it? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, man. You know, you think about all the government spending, right? And you're like, that would never work in the private world because eventually they'd be like, listen, you spent X, you're making that and like, it doesn't, it doesn't add up. The next one is like, you didn't show up to work for six months. Yeah. That is government.

Hey, Jack, appreciate it. It says just overall. I mean, chooses right, just overall, but he loves this guy too. All right. So, and that's the thing. And she was still, Kelly, exactly right. She's still getting paid.

Wow. You don't show up. Funding her dementia care. Well, I mean, that stuff isn't going to pay for itself. Jesus Christ, but this is why, well, here's the thing. People say this is why you need term limits. I would say that's not why you need term limits. And it's funny, Terrick Elnaga, he is a big proponent of term limits.

And, you know, when he was running for leader of the Maverick, he said, hey, you know what, I'm just going to make sure that, you know, it's just two terms and then you're out. And he presented it as an idea, but, you know, in one of the very limited times that I'll give him shit. I don't think he did a great job of explaining it. And to me, the realization came when we're talking about Trump and how he can just do whatever the fuck he wants because he doesn't have to worry about getting elected again. He doesn't have to do things that are popular. He has the power now, if he so chooses, to do things just because they're right, just because they'll actually, in theory, at least, make America great again. and so, you know, he doesn't, he's not limited by the, by the idea of, well, I have to worry about getting reelected.

It's not, I'm going to take a principled stance on COVID restrictions or gun control. And I don't care if I get pilloried by the media because who gives a shit, I'm out of here in three and a half years anyway. Did you see Trump's tweet about asking Wayne Gerexky to run for prime minister? Yes. So, I mean, it's funny. You've got... What do you make of all this Trump and governor talk? And do you think he's just trolling Justin Trudeau for the time being until we get a new leader?

Well, he's trolling Justin Trudeau. And he's trolling a bunch of people that take themselves way too fucking seriously. All these talking heads. everybody trying to present, you know, nuanced viewpoints of, of what it would look like or why we're better than than the idea of joining the states and how unpatriotic it is and whatever else. The first couple were because it was funny and now he's just doing it because a bunch of idiots can't realize that he's just taken a piss. Like there was this whole segment on the CBC. Daniel, like they were asking Daniel Smith about it and going on. and you're like, look, this is just a guy

he's doing this because you're stupid enough to make a big deal out of it. That's the only is why he keeps doing it. The Panama Canal thing, it's interesting. I don't really know the history of it, but there might be, I don't know, he might be able to push for some kind of a revenue sharing or something like that.

But as far as the 51st state thing goes, it's just him fucking around with people that... Don't realize that? Yeah, yeah, he's basically just playing with a cat and a laser pointer. And everybody, and it's funny, everybody is the cat having way too much fun right now. Well, even Kevin O'Leary. So Kevin O'Leary is like, well, you know what, if we're going to be talking about this seriously,

I should take point in the negotiations. And you're like, okay, fair enough, this is the first time anybody's heard your name in the past few years. But come on, dude. Like, this is, this is silly. Kevin O'Leary, who I think is a pretty good dude for the most part. He says a lot of interesting things. I like his approach to business as much as, you know, it maybe comes across as a little bit unvarnished.

But I've never heard anybody call him Mr. Wonderful, except for himself. His Twitter name is Kevin O'Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful. And it just really sounds like the kind of nickname you give your, self. Yeah. I think Kevin O'Leary's having fun with it too. I think it's just a way to get in the spotlight, you know? Trump's setting like what's trending.

He talks and it trends. So he absolutely is. But, you know, it's interesting. In the wake of all this Trump stuff, nature is healing. I had a really interesting Christmas for a few different sort of anecdotal points. It turns out my brother-in-law was in Kid Rock's bar the night of the election. Where's Kid Rock's Bar?

In Nashville. Okay. All right. He said it was just Nashville. Incredible, but he ended up getting so drunk, he doesn't remember lots of it. And then my aunt,

who disagrees with me politically about just about everything, a huge fan of the CBC, the only place she tunes into. Bless her heart. But she, like, she gets out of the car and out there helping unload and everything like that.

And she's like, I made some cookies for you or I made some treats for you, but it's the last time I'm going to make them. And I'm like, sorry, what's, did I do something? Like, are you mad at me about something? Because she's, she's got a few things that she makes every year that, um, I know she specifically makes because they're my absolute,

like she makes some things that I absolutely love. And so she, you know, every year they get thrown in the mix. But, uh, I was like, what's going on?

And so she shows me this. She made these. Well, it kind of over, but she got these, this Justin Trudeau cookie cutter. And so it just got presented as a joke because she's like, that's the last time I'm ever going to be able to use this cookie cutter because it's going to be obsolete right away. And we were just having a laugh about the fact that we disagree on everything.

But we were, oh, pleasant. having fun, enjoying the fact that we can laugh at it. And being able to laugh at, um, a lack of agreement. Yes. That's healing. That's been gone for a while.

A long time. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I think that's, um, now that's interesting. The fact that maybe even the left can start to see that, uh,

Justin Trudeau is on his way out and he needs to be on his way out. Mm-hmm. You're going to have to keep talking for a minute. I'm sorry. How, how does the Justin Trudeau is. Trudeau cookie taste. A little tough on the mouth or not too bad?

Well, I mean, it's great if you're in a calorie deficit. 2020. One other story. One other quick story. All right. All right. So one of my sisters works at this progressive organization, very progressive. And when they're all leaving and saying, okay, we'll have Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

and there's probably a bunch of happy holidays. One of her colleagues had said, please enjoy your two-week reprieve from work. So, hey, have a Merry Christmas. Please enjoy your two-week reprieve from work. So they were going so far out of their way to be as PC as possible that they didn't even want to say happy holidays, let alone Merry Christmas. And she was like, it's kind of a bit much at this point.

And I'm, I'm looking at it like, you're going to be an extremist in a year. You don't know it yet. You know, but there's a crack in the wall. I got a, I got a, here, let's pull it up. How am I going to do this? Come on, Sean, figure it out here.

Here we. So, really? That's, you suck. Internet images. Let's try that instead. So Mel and I watched the other night. Mm-hmm. Christmas party.

There. I'll try and pull it up here so people can see what the heck I'm talking about. And is this new? No, 2016. Okay. It's got Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston and there. There's,

well, of course. Is that with Seth Rogan too? No, Seth Rogan's in a different one. This is that guy right there. Can you see that guy? Oh,

yeah. T.J. something or other. T.J. Miller. Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, uh, on and on and on. Jennifer Manistin, et cetera, et cetera.

Anyways, the HR lady in it is like wearing a full on non-denational, non-denational shirt. So it has like every possible denomination on it so that it can't be offensive in the workplace. That's 2016. Yep. It made me laugh so hard because I'm like, at 2016, they were poking, fun already about the fact that you couldn't, you know, do certain things, say certain things. And the whole, it all starts off with this pretty girl with a low cut shirt.

And she's like, you can't do that. That's offensive in the workplace. And then they start to have it out. One of the greatest movie scenes I've, like my hat, like that, that folks, if you want to go watch. I mean, it's a bit ridiculous, the entire story, obviously. But the lady with all that, you know, can't be offensive to anyone. That's eight years ago. Eight years ago, they were already starting to poke fun of it.

You think of where we are at 2024. See, they backslid, though. Eight years ago, they were laughing about it. But, but that movie wouldn't have got made any time between 2020 and now. I don't know. It might get made next year. But no, they went out like. You think between 2020 and 2024, they stopped, uh, they stopped making fun of that?

Yeah. They stopped having fun. They stopped laughing at things that were funny. It was more about the message. was about anything else. Yeah, you might be right there. You might be. Look at the acolyte.

Careful tubes. A turtle cookie might be laced. Ah, you guys are the best. Hey, you know what? This cookie costs taxpayers like $3 billion. Yeah, that's right. Oh, man. She made a small fortune off of Trudeau cookies.

Turtudeau cookies. Oh, man. man. I want to bring up one other thing. This time of year, we'll get back to, I'm sure, twos has a headline or something as he's chomping down on, you know, one of the things you're, one of the things you're not supposed to do on air is fill your mouthful, because I got to sit there and wait for twos to finish chewing his, at least he is. Do you know, does he have one? Like, I think, you know, it's like manners. Does twos have manners on this show, folks? I don't think so, except for when he's chewing and he's got his mouthful. He's like, could you talk?

My mouth is full. I'm like, really? That's the one thing. Okay, fair enough. Right. This time of year. It's even got his, his, his standard eyebrow. Do you know how they get bumped around in the cookie box? Tew's his breakfast on Festivus. Turdo, turdo, I can't even say it. Turdo cookies.

Why can't I say that? Turto, turdo. I don't know. I don't know why that weird. So weird. This time of year on this set of things, you know, I don't watch a ton of hockey. I don't anymore. Like I try, but I don't.

Um, playoffs is a little different. But, uh, Canada. Are you talking to world juniors? World juniors. Yeah. World juniors, uh, they, they won last night for nothing. And you know, I'm not a big, uh, Finland. Oh.

Yeah. Yeah. And, um, on, on, uh, Christmas Eve, I think this was new this year. I, somebody, correct me if I'm wrong. No, Christmas Eve's been around for like, oh, thanks, too. No, your malls is full because you stop talking for a second. Um, they did the women's, uh, world champion finals that night.

It was Canaverse the United States. And honestly, I thought it was a clever night. I'm not saying that I want to, you know, I want a ton of things around Christmas. But we sat and watched the probably last 10 minutes into overtime. And love or hate women's hockey, that's up for you to decide. I thought it was anytime you have best on best and it's, you know,

winner take all. We sat and watched the last probably 15 minutes. I thought that was pretty cool. Canna got the gold medal. How many dudes were in it? That's a good question. I don't think any this time around. Did one player score seven goals?

No, no one player scored seven goals. Okay. Then probably there were no dudes. You guys ever feel like CBC should be defunded? Speaking, CBC should be defunded. Cheryl McDonald, speaking of Exhibit movies, I turned into the two new, I assume she meant I tuned into two new ones, and they both had Satan in them.

I'm assuming the Jack Black one. And what's the other one? I don't even, what new Christmas movies are there this year? I don't. Well, I mean, if you had a Jack Black one, presumably there'd be some kind of a tenacious D thing. And then Dave Grohl is famously playing Satan in that whole thing. Well, I think in that one, the preview I saw of that one,

Oh, red. Red. Red one with the rock and whoever. Satan's in that one? Really? That's weird. A kid misspells Santa and writes a letter to Satan in one, and that's the one of Jack Black. Ah. Yes. Yeah. See, that's kind of fun and interesting. And then, of course, it would be even better if also there was another kid who made another spelling error and there was a brief cameo, but

Carlos Santana. But yeah, next time you're thinking about defunding the CBC, ask how you're ever going to get riveting. Absolutely on point news. Like vintage upright pianos are meeting a Sorriand. Because they're impossible to give away because they are so heavy. So, yeah. Upright pianos.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah, CBC made an article about this, and we paid for it, talking about how upright pianos are fucking heavy. And because they're heavy, they're hard to move. And because of that, there's so much hassle that usually when you don't want to have one anymore, you have to give it away because that's the only way you can get rid of them. Yeah, we do.

I can't, well, I don't know, news story. That's, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh. Kevin's going to hop on. Hey. Hey. Oh, I keep putting the link out there. If anyone wants to hop on, ask a question, have a thought on the mashup. We're going to allow them in for it's Festivus.

We want to have a little bit of fun. So, Kevin. Good to see you. Good to see you too. How are you? Happy Festivus. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. All the things.

I had to run around and find a shirt in a hat so I could be presentable. So, you could have just left. Can you imagine? He shows up. Who's the dude? from trailer park boys at a cat, Randy, Randy, isn't it? Yeah, you could have been Randy Bo Bandy. I mean, you don't have the gut, but, you know.

Kevin, what do you have for us this morning? Well, you guys were saying earlier that Trudeau would be unemployable. Danielle Smith would hire him 100%. She has track record of these things. You're thinking he could work with Allison Redford? Absolutely. And Ann McClellan, because, you know, she was super popular back in the day. too on that committee.

Do you guys keep, forget the chief strong eagle man, chief. Chief strong eagle man. I have promoted him because I am also not Cree. Oh, yeah. Actually, that makes you just as credible.

Yep. Thank you. So, what else? What else? Oh, and for your opening, I was instructed to mention that Spencer goes by servant not Spencer Richard for his promotional stuff. Okay.

If people are wondering, the reason we have the new intro right now is it comes through Kevin. So Kevin knows a guy. Now, servant? Is that what we're saying? Yep. So like Spencer's servant or just servant? No.

Servant's his handle. Servant. Servant the red on X because he was trying to get Jordan Peterson to hype up the one one video about the it was called the seven rules for life okay there you go kind of he was uh working jordan peterson to get his contacts but he promoted a different one so easier said than done from what i've heard it's we're still working on it's apparently a journey to get there so keep trying you'll get it's been uh it's been pretty much a four year journey folks we're still working on it on this side

Yeah, or you could just be like Revenue Canada and do whatever the hell you want. You guys hear that they're going to enforce the capital gains proposed legislation that never actually passed. Remember we talked about the capital gains taxes changing? Yes. Well, that never actually went through. It's still in the proposal stage. But Revenue Canada is treating it as though it has. So you got hosed when you sold your house then?

Well, it wouldn't apply to that. anyway. Yeah. They're going to enforce it even though it hasn't passed. How is that legal? How does that even make any sense? Why are you under the presumption that something that the government, let alone let alone revenue Canada, needs to do things that are illegal and or B makes sense?

It's true, but that really doesn't make sense to us. Yes, that is correct. But it doesn't negate any of their, like, it's completely irrelevant to the argument. argument here. Does it make sense? No. Do they give a shit? Oh, no. Fair enough. Kevin, any final questions, thoughts before we kick you off? This is, I don't know any other way to do it. I'm going to bring people on. I'm going to kick them off. Happy Festivus, airing of grievances. Well, happy Festivus. I still think Sean pronounces things would be the greatest mashup segment ever. Like a super cut. You could do a super. You could do a super.

super cut or you could just, we'll all submit random names of places and stuff. You know. Joe. I'm just saying it. You're all a bunch of assholes. But in saying that, I would have fun with it. So I tell you what, Kevin, you find a name every single week, and that's how we'll start it. All right.

Matchup 139 in the new year. We'll start. We're going to look for Kevin to submit a name. Sean's going to have to pronounce it. We'll see if it catches some fire, grabs legs, or whatever. slogan you want. I would say the first one right now, but it would give you a cheat code, so you can't have that. Okay.

Leave them hanging. I tell you what, when you get off of this, type it in the comments and I'll read it off. How's that? All right. Done. All right. Kevin, thanks for hopping on. Thanks for being a guy who answers the call.

Thank you, gentlemen. Appreciate you guys. Happy Festivus. Happy Festivus. There you go. We had one answer to call this year. All right. We're trying to work out the kinks on this side.

you know, to have a little bit of fun with you, you find folks. I mean, the thing about it is, first off, a bunch of people aren't going to be that interested. And secondly, we didn't really do a great job of announcing that we were going to be coming on two hours early. We weren't supposed to be coming on two hours early. We weren't. We were supposed to be coming on at the regular time. And then, you know, with less than 12 hours, things change. Things change.

You get called an idiot. You're like, all right. All right. We're going early. Yep. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's... 20, 25. We got like nine minutes left, two's.

Okay. Maybe 10, 11. Somewhere in there. Uh, 2025. What do you want to see in 2025 other than a federal election? You can either do, uh, oh my God. Is that really? Okay.

Tantelon, Nova Scotia. Am I remotely? I'm guessing it seems fairly straightforward, which means that it probably isn't. It's probably like tantion or tantalan or something like that. I don't know. But I want to see tantal is how it's pronounced. Tan tal. I want to see.

No on? How does that even make sense? Oh, why would you? Why? That doesn't make sense to me. All right. Oh, oh, he says tantal on. So I was close, right?

I think I said that was. This isn't horses, Sean. Okay. I want to see things just so progressively bad. Not that I wish bad things to happen, but I wish for the things that people voted for to happen. Let's respect democracy. So I want to see things like cars crashing into jewelry stores. And I want to see where is it?

I want to see crazy people smashing up jewelry stores in the middle of Walmart. I want to see all of this stuff get so bad that the people who voted for it were like, you know what, let's never do this again. Because here's the thing is it's one thing to just be like, well, you know what, let's try something else for a little while. it's another thing for things to get so bad for so many people that there's this collective let's never fucking do this at all ever again and that's what I want to see from 2025 all this crazy progressive shit that the liberals and the NDP have been telling us that we're on

the wrong side of history about I want it all to just be unequivocally condemned forever for the things to get so bad. Oh, Michael Cawson. For so many people. He's watching us because we're hearing what's coming through your computer. Michael Cosset, thanks for hopping on. Second guy to answer the call. Hey, Michael, can you hear us?

Oh, can you hear me now? Yes, we can. Yes. Okay, good. Well, gentlemen, I first wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Merry Christmas. But like what you were talking about, the smashing grabs and the destruction of society as it continues to go down.

Yeah, it's kind of like I catch 22 because we're going to be seeing the left in the United States react negatively. I don't think they can react positively with Trump. And so we're going to have that influence in Canada. and I think we're going to see Trudeau, not the cookie form, really push hard at hanging on to that very last thread. Yep. But it seems like he's actually pulling on the sword of Damocles. It's not just like hanging over him that could drop at a moment. That's my two cents.

I think that's probably a really good point. Hopefully I can hear you guys. Okay. Well, I'm agreeing with you. I'll just, yes. Yes, I agree with you. I think that you're going to see a lot of things get really, really bad or really, really bad things get proposed. And it's going to be one of those situations where he makes everything so much worse on his way out.

You know, we talked about how he's kind of just raising the crops as he retreats so that the incoming army has nothing to live. off of, but also he's going to, his last few things are going to be so bad that it's just going to be the last few nails in his coffin. And so he's not going to go out gracefully. It's going to be a disaster. And I'm here for every moment of it. It will be a dumpster fire. Michael, any final thoughts before I boot you off?

Oh, yeah, please do. I kind of like this. I don't even have to buzz them out. Like, I'm just going to start kicking people out. It kind of like this. Michael, any final thoughts? No, just God bless you all. And I think we'll see some altars get knocked over in 2025.

That's what I'm thinking. Merry Christmas, Michael. Thanks for answering the call and hopping on this side. Oh, you bet. It was a blast. Talk to you later. Have a good one. This is a, you know, if we had two hours,

I'd probably give people five minutes or something. I don't know. Someday, I hope I got 50 people sitting there waiting. It's just like, boop, poop, boop, bo. Because it'd be a ton of fun festivist to have all the different people hopping on and, and, you know, give us their two sets. You know, I kind of like the hearing of the grievances or the thoughts on the coming year. 2025.

I don't know. Tews wants to see more smash grabs and, and, et cetera, et cetera. Well, no, it's not that I want to see more smashing grabs. I understand where you go. I just want it to play out exactly. I want them to get everything they've voted for. If, if I could have, now I'll give the. viewers or listeners, my thoughts.

Okay, so I have work being done starting January 6th on the new podcast studio. Nice. So that is, I don't know if I've said that aloud yet, but there it is. Well, you've talked about it. So that that's happening. And here's something cool for the listeners, okay? If you want to contribute to it, meaning you're skilled in a trade that could come in and help, or you're like, I'm sitting in Nova Scotia,

I'd love to send 50 bucks your way. You can get your name. I'm building a wall that's going to have all people's names on it that have contributed it. And my hope is the question for the live stream for election coverage, for federal election coverage, we're probably going to have to do it here, I assume, because we're going to want the best internet quality humanly possible.

And I don't know if I'll trust Starlink to that. But at the same time, it'd be cool to do the new election out of the new studios. So that's coming in 2025. If it happens quickly, you may not have an option. It's true. Two, Cornerstone Forum happens in May. Early bird tickets are on until December 31st. You should do that.

We just announced Martin Armstrong is going to be there in person this year. I think that's notable, along with everybody else that's coming. We have federal election coverage. I'm going to put that as October. I just, actually, I got to go back. Boylers win the cup in June. That's my prediction this year. And we're going to have federal election in October.

I just don't trust any of these politicians to do it any sooner. Everybody can tell me it's coming sooner. I don't trust it. I'll believe we want to see it. Those would be the four big things. I think, I don't know, coming from this side when I stare at where we're at. I'm just really hoping that it goes to the point where Trudeau loses his own seat and they don't get official party status.

Yeah, wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something? Well, here's the thing is there's significant financial implications to that, too. Wouldn't that be something? That would be incredible. You know what I'd love to see? I'd love to see the Calgary Flames make the playoffs just so they could play the Ours. That's what I'd like to see too.

I'd like to see Battle of Alberta. I think it'd be healthy for Alberta, not for their Calgary Flames fans. But, yeah, I think that'd be fun too. I don't know. Maybe it'll be another one where they all go all the way to the final. Shirt's off for Kipersoff. Maybe, maybe. Two's, best of us, you know, we're drawing to an end.

Yep. Final thought. What do you got? Yeah, what are you got? It's been a fun year. I've been thinking about it. You know, like we're up to episode. I mean, we've done the special edition.

We've done some live election coverages, et cetera, et cetera. We, you know, we roughly did, well, I think we've done 52. Actually, we've done more than that because of the live election coverage. and everything else. But we're at 139 next week, I believe. Yeah. And so, you know, you extrapolate that out. We're going to close in on 200.

We're not going to quite get there. You know, what does that mean? It doesn't mean a whole lot. Just the, you know, always curious, you know, with the number. And we saw some different hosts come in. We saw two, you know, we saw some different things from the mashup over the course of year, which I always, I love trying new things. That's how this whole bloody thing started.

And, you know, we've been talking some different things we'd like to try. One of them, you know, got its test here, you know, we couldn't figure out a way to get people the phone call in. So, you know, to have a couple guys hop on and give their thoughts, I think that's something I would love to see more of. I like interacting with people who watch. I like them commenting. I like, you know, I like that.

I think that's a real interesting thing we need to flush out here. in 2025. We have some really great people watching this show, and it's very much appreciated. I saw J.J. McCullough put this thing up on Twitter today. I don't know if I can find it. But he was like, hey, a listener sent me this. So he says,

a viewer sends me a list of plausible Canadian negotiation points for future Canada-US merger. I don't know if these would necessarily be my sticking points personally, but I could definitely see some of these being the sorts of things Ottawa would insist upon. And they're just stupid. Like you go into these, each one must have separate statehood with an exclamation mark. This gives Canada 20 U.S. senators rather than two exclamation mark.

French must be made co-official with English, at least on the federal level. This would force the issue with Spanish as well, given there would be more Spanish speakers than French speakers in the combined entity, exclamation mark. Existing Canadian money must be honored or exchanged at par, exclamation mark. You could never do that. And just everything with exclamation marks all the way through. The constitutionality of the existing single-payer system must be guaranteed and must be phased in over no more than seven years in the entire land.

And you just read this and you're like, these are the people that listen to his show, that they find and it's embarrassing. Like he's got to realize it's embarrassing. And we, on the other hand, have the best fans out there. We do. We appreciate it.

We certainly do. So anyway, I don't know. That's basically it. I mean, thank you for everybody that's been tuning in all year, the election coverage,

all that stuff. If something, if there's something off top of your mind, you're like, you guys could do this. better. You could have this. You could add this in. We're always interested in new ideas and trying different things out. We're certainly searching and working on theme music and different things that way.

You know, there's been a lot of suggestions out there on how to make the show better. Bondspiel. But Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy New Year. Festivus, you know, the grown-up version of Festivus this year. coffee at 8 a.m. I mean, can you get any better than that? I don't know. Yeah, Scotch at 10, but sure. Tews,

Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. We're going to catch up on you, 139 in a week's time. Folks, thanks for tuning in this morning, and, well, we'll catch up to you next week. Sounds good.

We'll see you guys later. Sean hit the wrong button, so that was funny. We'll see you guys later. I mean, we'll see you guys. later shop press the wrong button well that's one way to end it folks hey that's one way to end it oh boy tell me whether i'm wrong or right east or west up or downside decide i sit to stand if all to fly

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