The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - Somali Daycares, 500k Asylum Claims, Maduro Nabbed | The CBP 246 Pt 2

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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Don't be a cuck. Okay, well, 57-57. That was good. Good timing there. I bought a watch the other day. And I told the guy at the store that I would talk a bit about the watch on the stream. This is the watch. It's a Mito Ocean Star, but it's some kind of special edition, Ocean Star.

M-E-E-E-T-O? M-I-D-O. Swiss Automatic. I don't have a watch. M-I-D-O. me do, me do. And a buddy of mine has been a big horology guy for fuck 10 years now minimum. And I've been bugging them kind of to start looking for one for me in the, you know, I don't want to say I'm much I spent on it. You can look it up yourself. But, you know, it wasn't cheap, but it wasn't super expensive. And so I went to visit with him and his guy at this place, Ocean Fine Jewelry in Burlington. I had so much fun there, Len. I love stores that really take care of their customers. There's two stores I can say now with confidence that if you want to

get something that's really going to last you and you're going to spend a little more money on than maybe you order the mall, but you're going to enjoy the experience, you're going to learn something and you're going to really feel like you're the center of attention during the shopping experience. One of them is Miller's shoes in downtown Hamilton on James Street and the other one is Ocean Fine Jewelry in Burlington. So if you're ever looking for a watch and you're in the area, let me know. And I'll put you in touch with John over at Ocean Fine Jewelry. Awesome experience, man.

I cannot stress enough how nice it is to go to a place and have someone actually understand what you're looking for, give you ideas and reference points and context and history. Like the history this guy knew about all the different watches, awesome. Awesome stuff. Really enjoy it. Don't forget, when you get the payment for the plug, half goes to me. I wish. We got to get another sponsor.

Who do we talk to about that? I don't know. This was an unsanctioned sponsor. To be honest, we hardly ever do it. I just wanted to say, like, I told the guy, he's like, you should post this on your Instagram. And I said, well, I have a different idea. And I'm happy to do it.

I really enjoyed, you know, I think I was a very. for like an hour and a half trying on watches and learning about them and it was good it's really good i i worry now that i'm going to be obsessed with watches but um that's okay i'll worry about that another time you're rich you have 0.1 bitcoin yeah i can retire i heard so yeah i'm in spending mode now yeah i see boomer saying boomer i'm i'm flashing my my watch like a Somali daycare owner. Is that in the notes? I don't think it's in the notes.

Well, what could just talk about that? It's an absolute. And the funny thing is a lot of people are just unaware. Walls today decided that he said he's done. Yeah, he's done. And why would he's letter? His letter was basically that he can't run because he's got to focus on finding more fraud.

You know, when there's been enough pillaging of what people are, like, it's shit like this. Yeah. Just hurts the common folk, right? And just like the Z man getting the new economic advisor. How much do you think, how much do you think it's related to like, I see a lot of people saying it's about like race and immigration and stuff. Like I think it is a little bit about that. There's probably a sore spot there for Minnesota. No, no, no, no.

The immigration part, I think there is. I'll tell you why and you tell me why I'm wrong. Go ahead. Because it's not about necessarily, like, the fraud, okay? Even if the claim from Minnesota's state government is true, that these places are legitimate, they're watching kids, the funding is going toward daycare activities. The thing that I think I would be mad about is that the best case, I tweeted this other day, the best case scenario is that you have a bunch of small immigrants, 80% of whom are

on welfare. Those are the numbers. Okay. 80% are on welfare, opening daycares with government money and only watching other Somali kids whose parents are also on welfare. So the parents aren't working but still can't watch their kids and the daycares are only open to kids who immigrated to the United States and who are sucking on the public teeth.

So that's the best case scenario. People are angry because of race or immigrants? Is that what you're saying? Immigration, yeah. The people who are mad, like, okay, Somalians are black, like, okay, who cares? But like, the thing, the immigrant thing, the immigrant thing should bother people, I think. Because if that's the best case scenario, I'll give you the people have been upset for years about what's happening with Ukraine. And it's going to be very difficult to say the people in Ukraine are not white as fucking white.

Yeah, agreed. So it's not. Yeah, those people, I totally, I totally. it's not they're not even living in the United States they're not living in Ukraine and people have said what's going on over there because there's a perceived level of corruption this is not what I'm saying you can read the reports about this pre-war during war and once the war is finished

this level of corruption is always going to be something that they have to tackle it's an issue that's been for whatever reason either way I want to try to get at it it's not an immigration issue it's not a race issue not a skin color issue is a fucking fraud problem that's what it is people are upsid about fraud, period. Whatever fucking does it, you know, there are the people that become, I don't

want to say enemy, public enemy number one, but there are people that look at it and say, what the fuck's going on here? Yeah. So that's my point of view. Anyways, that's fucking nuts what's going on in Minnesota. They changed a flag to. Oh, it's crazy.

It's crazy. It is. That guy could have just, if Tim Walz just wanted to be like a nobody politician and stay under the radar and just live a good life probably could have won another election or two. All he had to do is not be the VP candidate

and he would have been fine. But as soon as he became the VP candidate, I think that was part of it. As soon as he became the VP candidate and this other guy, like the mayor, Jacob Frey, who cannot help but like do Somali dances and speak Somalian during public, you know, addresses

and like, you're just drawing too much attention to yourself. It's really that simple. And there's a lesson There's a lesson in there somewhere I don't know exactly what it is But just When you got a good thing going Especially if it's a little bit of an illegal thing

Don't go hard in the press Everyone's seen by this point The amount of donations These daycares are making to Republican politicians too And the party and like I wonder if there's even making a Republican party They're hedging their best

God I don't know I don't know. It only makes sense if you want to do that you play both sides, right? Yeah, George Floyd was in Minnesota too, Torup, but I forgot about that

in the chat. He said, you mentioned that. Yeah, you know, the day he ascended to heaven really was a turning point for. They're putting statues

of him up at some places, the least they could do. St. George, come on. Maduro. Oh, man. I want to just, interesting, like,

all of a sudden. And there's a, just a... You think he felt. I think he felt... Well, what I want to know is... Snatched him up in the middle of the night. The U.S. went in with force, right? They didn't go in with just one person.

They went in with some helicopter, some bombers and everything. But from what I just don't understand is, how could the United States enter into a country, into the capital of the country, and snag somebody with seemingly minimal damage? I know that some people died and some, but when you're getting the head of a state of some country, I'd expect more fighting, more resistance, right?

It just seemed like there was not much for whatever reason. It just seemed very odd that minimal damage was done. And this is what, you know, I'm not trying to downplay, there's few people that die here, but not to the degree where I thought should have happened if you're going to go in and take somebody by force like this. It seemed like they didn't want to keep him there.

Did he just like open the doors and say, like, it just seemed odd. And another thing that's a little fucked up too, I found is, do you see that hat he's wearing that, that, uh, Tuk, it almost looks like, take a look at a Joey. It almost looks like to me, he went to Disneyland. He didn't go to Disneyland. There's no way he did. But the fucking hat looks funny to me. It looks like he's got two Mickey Mouse ears in it for whatever reason.

And those flip blocks he has. He's like he's driving a fucking truck over here. Mint. Like the guy, he was ill prepared for this thing. Like, you know, get some fucking shoes, man. Yeah. Get a better hat. I like this way with the Mickey Mouse.

I just want to point out, Nick Carter wrote this too. You know, oh yeah. Upending a government in the hemisphere is pretty standard fair for US. Like it's sort of banal phopo for them. And just because they haven't done it since like the 70s or 80s doesn't mean they're not thinking about doing it. And now... Oriago was the last one around my run.

Yeah, maybe. And now the stakes are quite high. Like, there's clearly a scramble here for resources, allegiances, partnerships. And as that U.S. foreign policy doctrine said, you know, a month or two ago, I still recommend people read that or at least like chat GPT, a summary of it.

It's only like 30 pages. It's pretty good. There's clearly a shift in the way the U.S. thinks about domestic foreign policy and quote unquote America first. And part of that America first strategy is we do not let our enemies plant flags in our hemisphere. Our enemies include foreign governments and ways of life and political systems antithetical to the American way of thinking.

So this is in line. And it's been like this for a long, long time, okay? Long, long time. I don't know how these like commies are marching in the street talking about we want Maduro back while on TV. Venezuelans are celebrating the guy being removed from office dragging statues of old dictators around and now the new quote unquote government

or his cronies are trying to arrest people who are complicit in the in the nab it's over for them man A lot of this is probably people are professional protesters Oh yeah big time of course The left is full of those people In Europe I'm going to guess in Spain

because there was some Venezuelan that was there and he approached a protest and he was talking to him in Spanish so that's why I'm assuming this was in Spain and he was asking them are you Venezuelan no are you Venezuelan no then somebody said yeah I'm from Venezuela

where from Toros and I forget what he thought he said where from that he couldn't give the right answer he said you're not fucking Venezuelan essentially what it is is there was people out there there are no blood relation no connection no connection whatsoever to Venezuela, but they're fucking protesting. They're professional protesters.

Even here in Toronto, or I mean, in Canada, in Toronto, they're doing protests outside the U.S. consulate. And again, the suspicion, suspected that they're professional, professional protesters that they were the ones that were out there. No connection, no whatever, but they're just there doing their thing. And this happens all the time, right? Like, why? Like, why would you want to have him go back?

No. Have things been great? They've been going swimmingly. They've been going swimmingly, yeah. People have been believing in different countries. Yeah. Because they can't get food to eat. Yeah.

I know. The level of corruption that, that's happened over there, they have so much oil. Unprecedented, man. When, country was richer than Poland in 1990. And now Poland has an economy about the size of Japan and Venezuela's and tatters. when Chavez was there one of the things that he did he got rid of a lot of people

that were in charge of like the oil shit and stuff and then they left they came to Canada because they brought that knowledge of dealing with heavy oil that sour oil to work Alberta which is kind of the same type of thing they lost that knowledge

they lost that expertise and over time it eroded their oil production and now it's like they make up 4% of the world's exports for oil where they have what like half the world or second most amount of oil sitting under their feet like it's just stupidity that they've done this they they enriched themselves at the expense of everybody else yeah if you know you can say what you want about the socialist or communist system but if if they did it right you know if it was easy to say

but if there's no corruption they use the proceeds of oil to fund for medical care to fund for schools to fund for shit to help people out that could be a system somebody could look at and say look this is where it works but

clearly it never does work it never does it's always corruption there's always something that comes out the people talking about this is going to be bad for Canadian oil I happen to agree with that stance

I think the US is built to refine oil that we have and also that Venezuela has so there's that to consider Although I, you know, my understanding is that it's going to take a long time to get infrastructure online to get oil from Venezuela to the United States. So take all that with a grain of salt. But the point, you know, still stands that clearly there is something over there that was rubbing them the wrong way.

Now they're talking about Greenland. They're talking about all sorts of different regimes that they don't like. I think that's just saber rattling at this point. You know, it was saber rattling until Maduro started dancing on TV. The other ones are not going to do that. Well, they're certainly not going to do it now. But that bar may become lower if they decided. The governor of Greenland.

I'm not sure who's the fucking... I need to find out. We're open. We're open. Call us. Call us. We're open. But like I said, the guy is always traveling. It's impossible to get them.

So we're safe. We need Barron's cell phone number. That's who we got to be calling for foreign policy action. Anyway, where else are you going to go next? I want to talk about the in Canada. Well, the 70,000 Canada dental care plan claims that were... Let's talk about the asylum claims first. Oh, okay.

The title of the show, yeah. All right. So what do we got here? Over 500,000 asylum claims just waiting to be heard, 504,000 to be specific. And, yeah, we have so many cases that are just waiting to be heard. It takes out quite a while to hear this. The system is set up.

for a limited amount of asylum claims. That's why it's the backlog continues to grow because it's not set up to deal with so many cases. They weren't expecting this. But the people that are here that want to stay here, they came here as temporary foreign workers. They came here as students. They came here as visitors.

They see here, they want to stay here. The one way they could do it, stay here is to claim for a refugee, make an asylum claim. And, yeah, so they're just waiting to be heard. And this number is probably going to grow. 504,000 is what we have here because in 2016, sorry, 2026, I was reading a million people are going to lose status this year. Yeah, so I mean, so they're going to have to, where are they going to go is the question? Right.

Are they, they're just going to go underground? I don't know. You're going to expect a few of them to go back or a lot of them will go back. I don't know. But some of them are probably going to try to remain here to put an asylum. claim and yeah it's just you know when you do that they're eligible for health care coverage they're eligible there's a few things they're eligible for and you know 5004,000 out of 40 million that's measurable right that's and that number is going to grow whatever people who put in claims

today you know when they get heard three years is my guess five 20 30 so and in the past what was it That's a good question. I don't know. But I do know that if we look at like, you know, the historical trends. In 2022, we had 54,000 asylum claims and then in 25, obviously, half a million. So quite a bit. Even if you just look at the first half of 25, 750 or 7,500 claims filed in May, 8,000 filed in June. And then in July, a rip up to almost 12,000 in the same month.

So, you know, we've obviously seen this story. There's really two or three factors, right? One is that people who are being sent home are saying that their asylum claims, they can't go back home because they're, you know, suddenly gay or something, like obviously bullshit. There's other people who are committing crimes here and we're trying to deport them and they're being sent to asylum court instead after claims. These guys out West just went through that. They tried to kidnap somebody or did kidnap somebody successfully and ended up filing asylum claims instead of being prosecuted. So there's that. And then, of course, people who just don't want to leave, like they don't want to go back home and they say, well, I'm an asylum claimant now.

So you can't get rid of me. And it basically at this point buys him another four years. Now, you'll remember that Carney, when he was elected, did pass a law or they are working on a law now that allows for the broad and immediate rejection of all asylum claims. They can basically reset everything if they want. And if you look on Reddit, some of these like LMIA subreddits and immigration subredits and asylum subredits, people are screeching about this, mostly Indians, talking about how it's not fair. I tried to plan my life in Canada.

Like I have no sympathy for these people. I don't want them here. We don't need more immigration, certainly not from those countries. If Western Europe wants to immigrate here, sure. Even if Eastern Europeans want to immigrate here, sure. But like we can't have more people from India and Africa. Unfortunately, there's too many over the last few years. We have to start doing some demographic splitting because there are enclaves forming all over the country.

Every week we talk about some guy from Brampton who invariably is Indian doing something stupid and or criminal for laughs. This doesn't happen 10 or 15 years ago, right? And one of the problems is that we've been unable to talk about this because of political norms. But that Overton window is blown wide open now and everyone should be talking about it. I don't know about you, but I'll share a story over the new year. We had a little ones, like a kids party, a fake ball drop for 7 p.m. And so I had all my friends here with their kids from 3 to 7. That was the topic of conversation.

That was unthinkable for that friend group three years ago, two years ago. And now everyone's talking about it. And that tells me that people are tired of this. So I expect to see that negative attitude toward immigration continue. And I don't think a lot of people are going to have patience for asylum. You saw that video from Pierre Polyev? Yeah, of course. Okay.

So I think that it's enough. Nothing more we to say about that. So in terms of Carney talking about to expedite some of this stuff, it may happen. Keep in mind, we also have this, what is it, safe third country? thing. You know, like, if you're somebody like, you can't, you can't go through a safe country to get to a third country.

One that came up recently was the guy from Haiti. Yeah, but look, the top countries in the first half of 2025, number five on the list is USA. Okay. So, like, you got to wonder where those people are coming from. Anyway, continue. It's an interesting thing. There was people that

were originally from Haiti. They went to the United States they were there, I think New York State and they crossed into Quebec I'm guessing that's what either way. They crossed into Quebec. I don't know if it was from New York. And now their asylum claim is being heard here. But the way I understand

this though, because they were in the United States, why didn't they make their claim there? That's a country that should have heard their claim. The US doesn't care. They don't want those people. They may not care. But Canada has to say, look, you could have done it. You could have made a claim there. We don't have. We don't have the.

Yeah, well, we don't have the clout to say it. In our country, our politicians are reliant on this, you know, this ethos of compassion at the cost of basically everything, culture, economics, you name it. So to go back to the expediting the backlog of claims, I don't think it's going to happen, right? I think it was... No, I don't think you're right. Between what we see that's transpired since the election and the official opposition, what he's posting,

I like I don't know I think it's it's going to be good times moving forward man yeah right and there's you know uh okay you know what I want to talk about something interesting too

this is a good one joy this uh TTC the uh painted the road to and they were trying to identify priority street car lanes

in the city of Toronto and they did this November they started painting that the fucking paint is already peeling off the roads right within just a matter of less than two months and they're saying

at Bathurst and Niagara Streets if you look at the pictures just huge amounts of paint just ripped off and they say decay was caused because of contaminated surfaces such as road salt

which they say can prevent the pain from properly adhering to the pavement in November shocker they also add that the cold temperature and the freeze thoughts cycles could cause cracking. I can't believe this happened in Toronto. And the snow plows may catch and raise any edges resulting in the pain being lifted.

And they say any warm pavement will be dressed in spring of 2026 and completed during the warmer weather. So like, let's be honest, it snows here, right? Like, no matter what you say about this being the warmest year on record, it fucking snows. And the snow, you have to deal with it. Either you fucking just let it sit there and people just get into accidents because they don't know how to fucking drive.

or you get the fucking salt out you get the snow plows out and you do some damage to the road. This has to happen. I can't believe they're fucking doing this. Priorities, the lanes, they have to paint the shit.

It's fucking ridiculous. The amount of money that is being wasted on this, it could be spent on somebody getting some food, shelter, a job. You know, there's so much more it could be,

but no, they had to put it on this. Whatever. We love spending money. We, Toronto. last in the chat saying that there was no warning they were going to do it. It's confusing. And of course, the immigrant angle, they don't know the rules, don't care about the rules, whatever, and they're driving all over the place. So let's, you know, if you think about

not only the cost of the taxpayers for the shutdown and the contract and the work and all that, now you're going to have to do it twice. And then what is the GDP cost, the man-hour costs for the extra traffic slowdowns. It's like it's incalculable how much money is actually lost on something like this. But they're like not once, but twice.

We've got to replace that pain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. I don't know. I don't know. I got a beauty of a story here, Joy. I'm sure. From City News, they say that an Air India pilot was arrested at a Vancouver International

Airport or at the Vancouver International Airport last week, because he was preparing for flight. So the pilot was preparing to get on the plane and transport Canada, they said no because they got some complaints, some intel. Apparently the guy was consuming alcohol.

Yeah, so the pilot was preparing to take the Air India flight as scheduled from Vancouver to Delhi and they put the kibash to that. Just had a couple, had a couple beers? had a little bit too much to drink and so yeah that plane was scheduled to depart at 3 p.m. It didn't leave till 10 o'clock that night.

Nice. Seven hours late. They found a somebody else that could fly that sucker. He just gave maybe they just gave a cup of coffee. It could have been the same guy. So seven hours, yeah. So they were given some information from the flight attendants over there and then Transport Canada got the wind

that something happened. This shit, I can't believe this stuff happens. you know like it's you dealing with people's lives and there there is there is no like rewind a tape here and if I can't fix it this is this is it I can't believe this shit happens like why can't why can't you believe it why can't you believe that that culture doesn't have a good grasp on certain things it's not the culture and just looking at the level of authority you have the the responsibility one has as a fucking pie like flying a

fucking plane but I guess not everybody sees it to see and I'm not a fucking pilot but no

isn't there two pilots in the cockpit I think there is right yeah there's uh what that

pilot pilot or so yeah intern I don't know no people who people who drink

like if you're if you are a drinker okay there are certain careers you cannot occupy you know

truck heavy equipment trucks like whatever um Airplane's got to be among them. So this is what people are talking about, too, by the way, when they say, like, I don't want to get on a plane. There's a competency crisis.

Yeah, this is a good example of that. I also am more and more reluctant to fly, certainly internationally. I could be convinced to fly domestically, of course, but internationally, no, I don't think so, man. You're going to have to do some convincing. Anything outside Canada and the U.S., it's going to be a. tough sell. And you're stuck within those two borders for the remainder of your life, Joey. Yeah.

Live a little. Roll the dice. Let's talk about this other great story from CP24. It says that GTE residents believe crime is surging. Yeah. When it's actually the opposite. This is amazing stuff. Amazing stuff.

There was a survey that came out and it said that nearly three quarters of Trontonians said that they were under the impression. murders are up in the community and across the country. And they say despite a historic drop of more than 50% from last year. In fact, Peel police say that they've reported only 10 homicides through October 2025 compared to 19 in 2024 in 2024. And over in New York regions, murders were down by about 67%.

And I see this number. It reminds me of a Simpsons. I'm going to play it for you. There's a Simpsons episode. Let me just get it. 900%. Oh, people can come up with you. Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charge?

that petty vandalism such as Perpity is down 80% while heavy sack beatings are up a shocking 900% oh people can come up with statistics to prove anything can't 40% of all people know that it's very applicable here you know the sure murders may be down maybe they do better at treating gunshots and stab wounds

and just because of experience right that's right yeah but other things man super selective data set there absolutely insane people are blocking cars so they won't get stolen people's houses are being broken into the Toronto police was saying please leave your shit at the front door the keys of the front door so that way they get easier access to it I mean I'm paraphrasing it's not exactly what they said and another one was when they don't engage the the people breaking into homes just let them do their thing I'm paraphrasing here

like this is not society that's trending in the right direction is trending obviously in their wrong direction. Just today, somebody was shot taking the go bus in Toronto near Yorkdale. I guess things

are getting better. I think there's two things. Okay, so let's pretend. I'll give you the, I'll give you the two sort of sides to the point I'm thinking of here. I think the data being collected is leaving room for interpretation.

Okay. Murders, my understanding. are only reported as murders in the data where there is a suspect. Okay? That's number one. So if there's no suspect, it doesn't get reported. Now, I don't know how many that is, but it's not zero. That's one problem.

Petty crime, like theft is not going to get reported. I don't need to go to the police. If my phone gets stolen, I just go to Apple. They lock the phone. They give me a new one. There's no point in going to the police, especially when it's going to cost me time inconvenience and what is the likely outcome in 99.99% of cases, you fill out paperwork, they put it in a drawer, and then they forget about it, right? Okay. The other thing I think is going

on is that there is, I think, a bit of a difference between crime, what you and I perceive as criminal or what some people perceive as criminal, and public disorder. Drugs, alcohol, abuse, vagrant screaming, public conflict, public fights, stuff like that, that doesn't get captured in crime data. But these are invariably causing some of the same problems. They're making certain parts of the city intolerable to walk through, intolerable to live, intolerable to do business or open a business or go to school or raise a family, blah, blah, blah. So public disorder is not reported anywhere. But there are entire parts of the city

where nobody goes because they're basically too dangerous, right? So what you're doing is preventing crime by not letting people go to huge chunks of an area in which they live. Is that really lower crime?

I guess the data would say that. But in terms of the output and the effect, Not really. Not really. Public disorder means something. And I don't think that the police, you know, when the police ask for their budget increase every year, 7%, 11%, you know, I can't remember what the Hamilton police are looking for somewhere around there this year. People in city council will say, hey, crime is down.

Any sensible person would say, yeah, but there's more and more parts of the city you can't go to after dark. Like, you can't go to, in Hamilton, you can't go to Jackson Square. increasingly you shouldn't be in Limerge Mall, Eastgate, any of these places, down by the Coliseum, down by the stadium, it's just too dangerous. Anywhere past Barton Street, like you can't go there. You decide what that's worth to you as a city. If it's worth looking into giving the police more money to prevent that kind of thing from continuing to proliferate, then yeah, you should do it. But it's really something to me, the people who are using this Because this is really what's going on, right?

If you look on Twitter, the feedback is always the same. It's always the died-in-the-wall commies and lives talking about this. We can't give the police more money. They're not doing their job or crime is down. We don't need to give them more money. Like, you're missing the point. Policing, you get mad because policing has become reactive. If you want to become preventative and stop some of these things that are happening,

you need to increase budgets. And I realize it's not quite the meat of the story, but there is something to be said for this dichotomy. or this distinction between public disorder and crime and whether or not those things pragmatically are the same for the people who can't enjoy the city that they live in. I lived, I grew up in an area of Toronto, which is now rough. When we first moved there, where is it?

I don't want to even say it. It was not rough. It was actually a decent place. And in just 10, 15 years, I witnessed very quickly how things went downhill. And it was a very small section of Toronto that had happened. But I see this now happening on a larger scale. That's why when I say, you know, prepared to GTFO,

it's because what I experienced, I'm experiencing again. And now it's just happening everywhere. And you can, if you want, pick up and go to a faraway place within Ontario or wherever. But if that's your, you know, if that's your jam, all the more power to you, but it's not mine, right? So, like, I'm just trying to just tell people out there, find alternatives, find something else out there that they're, you know, this is not the only place you're forced to be. Yeah, you have mobility. And if there's someone that is better, that's better for you, better for your family, better for your job, better for everything. Why not?

Explore it. You're not stuck here. No, you're not. I just was one of the thing I wanted to point out that it's funny you know this the media is reporting on crime being low but if you look in both Toronto and Hamilton for voters the number one issue is crime so again like you're being told to kind of ignore what you see and what you're experiencing in favor of this this data point that's you know admittedly they've massaged this over the years admittedly people are not reporting crimes admittedly public disorders causing problems you know to me it's it's very convenient the messaging is like really universal from a lot of these major metros over the last i don't know what week two weeks three weeks something like that you've seen these stories come out one after another i guess because the end of the year reports are coming in from police departments right yeah but just the general feeling right you know

you're gonna raise a family you want your family to walk out and you know in the daytime even you know the evening without having any fear you want to have your car out there and you know and not get stolen. Like, not that long ago, over here, my neighbor would leave his motorcycle with his key in it.

He's like, he's going to fucking take. Nobody to take it, right? I left my keys in my car for like four days over the break when I was busy at home

and nothing happened. I couldn't find him. I thought I had like left them in my pants or something and they were actually in the front scene in my car. Yeah. That's nice.

Anyways, let's talk about, should we go to Hamilton, Brampton, or over and on. where I want to go. Yeah, okay, let's rip it. Brought to you by our friends at 2506 heat. Tuan made us a mean stake at his place last week. Sorry, you guys couldn't be there. Your invite got lost in the mail. But like I was saying in the intro, he is working on some crazy shit.

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from x i follow a lot of the police services and that's what i was i do this with hopes of getting a story and and you know what finally i'm able to get a story and i finally did so it's not something i was able to find on like cp24 or cbc it was essentially an ex post so that's why it's rather short but it gives the gist of what's going on and it's pretty funny anyways you got to guess which one it is is the hamilton or the branton guy so just this past new year's at approximately 11.20, police began receiving multiple calls about a pickup truck driving on three wheels

with sparks on the highway. The truck was stopped. Cut it now. I already know. 47-year-old male driver was arrested for impaired driving and subsequently registered over two times the legal limit. He was fucking drunk.

Was he driving home from the airport? Anyway, continue. Furthermore, the investigation revealed his license has been suspended since 2001. So the dude was driving for 24 fucking years. Actually, no, it was 23 years and a bit because it wasn't officially 24 years. It was New Year's Eve. And he was driving without a fucking license for 20, almost 24

fucking years. What got him? He didn't fucking put the spare tire on. He was driving with just three wheels. Damn. Yeah, so that's story number one. Story number two, this man faces over 160 charges for fraudulent car sales through Service Ontario. And so he was, they did an investigation in MTO and this was an unlicensed car dealer and broker who allegedly facilitated the fraudulent sale and transfer of vehicles.

That's what police were saying. So between June 2023 and early 2024, the accused made fraudulent transactions through the Ministry of Transportation and Service Ontario involving over 100 vehicles. and 24-year-old, he used loopholes in service Ontario practices that allowed authorized individuals to conduct third-party transactions with vehicles. These include registering a vehicle, replacing a permit, changing its color, obtaining a UVIP, transferring a permit, replacing a license plate, and paying a fine.

And registered vehicles, they were as third-party, and they've been identified as revinded vehicles to Joey. So they were essentially stolen, revend, with a new bin and passed to be legitimate the guy is facing 168 charges for uttering forged documents and trafficking of stolen goods and family and others close to him could be connected for the crime as well so those are two stories yeah the second guy is the brampton man you know what he is definitely the brampton man but oh i got rid of the link i can see if i could find it it's not what you think The family ties tell me he's I'd be leaning Brampton when he said his family was also involved or could be involved. I sent it in the private chat. You can see the picture

of the dude. Milton Hilton. Milton. Hilton. Killer name. Yeah, I love that for him. Pull it up. Pull up the picture. You want me to pull it up? No, it's in a private chat. I see it. Do you want me to put it on the No, I wouldn't pull it. No, okay. Milton Hilton. There we go. So, yeah, you're correct.

So the guy from Hamilton was driving around under QEW caught in St. Catharines. Wow. He traveled all the way from fucking Hamilton to St. Catharines on fucking three wheels. That's crazy. How did you get away with that? It's a long fucking time, man. Oh, shit. And 24 years.

That's a well-patrolled stretch of highway, too, because that's a 110 limit now. Guys are always flying down that highway. But it's New Year's, people are shooting out fucking Roman candles from the cars. People thought this was just a regular, regular day. He was just celebrating. Celebrating, which is three tires And no fucking license for 24 years This man

I obviously didn't have insurance We kind of know somebody that We do? We don't talk about it. Okay, all right That's it everyone. God bless. No interview this week.

I think I'll probably try and schedule one next week though for your listening pleasure. So we will see you guys on Monday for this show but Axis of Beezi comes out on Friday if you want to listen to that. We also record that obviously. So until next time, take care of yourselves and put on a spare tire for god's sakes