The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - WHY IS CANADA GIVING AWAY TRADE RIGHTS TO AMERICA? (Because We're a Joke) | THE CBP 219 Pt 2

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

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5616. Where do you want to start? Got a couple bangers this week. Iran or Israel? We could talk right away about that. Like, this is what I want to say about Iran and Israel. Okay. I'm not an expert and I, you know, I don't know anything about this. I think they're two sort of stone age countries. I don't believe anything either country says ever. I just want to point something out. Okay. Israel, I think is not telling the truth about a couple of things here. I just want to point something out, okay? Israel, I think, is not telling the truth about a couple things here. I got to be honest. And I'll tell you why I think this and what I think it about. On October 7th, Israel let guys riding

oscillating fan go-karts with like tarps attached to them, parachute through their air defenses, beat their intelligence system, and massacre a bunch of people at a music festival. I'm not doubting the massacre happened. I think that that happened. I don't know the exact details, but certainly people died in, you know, tragic fashion. So Israel lets that get by them somehow. Okay. Weird. Weird, but okay. The people who have Mossad agents everywhere and you know we're employing Epstein and as we talk about on Access of Easy are making you know phone spyware or whatever like

whatever is that Pegasus thing is like their brainchild. Okay great. So they're doing all that but they let the guys riding, you know, the oscillating fans into the country through the air. Okay, that's fine, I guess. Then I'm told that the same country actually had explosives planted on Palestinian brass, the brasses, radios and cell phones, years ago, took control of supply chains and covertly planted on singular units bombs of this nature, bombs of some nature, I should say, on these devices. You may remember videos of people's pockets blowing up in grocery stores. Nick Fuentes, you may love him or hate him but did a video on this and it's like it's unbelievable this is going on okay so they let the guys on the parachutes from Canadian Tire into the airspace to get

through the Iron Dome intelligence doesn't pick it up but then the same time they're so precise and so well connected and the intelligence is so good that they're able to get this stuff into the homes of the Palestinian brass. Then going back the other way, in order to destroy the end, to end the Hamas reign in Palestine, these guys have to like napalm the entire country, steady hospitals, children, women, dogs, cats, doesn't matter. Everyone's got to go, okay. Fire sale. No pun intended. We're destroying everything. We're not looking back. This is the only way we can make sure that we get all the Hamas leadership, blah, blah, blah. Okay. That's a bit weird. Doesn't really jive

with the radios thing. Then in Iran, there's videos, pictures, and public officials, including Trump, saying that Israel had the wherewithal, the means, the knowledge, the intelligence, the weaponry, the precision to kill people with missiles in their apartments on the seventh floor the day of the attacks. You cannot both be so incompetent that you allow the guys on the Canadian Tire parachute

go-karts to come through the Iron Dome and your intelligence doesn't pick it up, but then also be like fit, like have enough finesse and brilliance to pull off the radio explosives and the high rise executions. I agree, but it just, this doesn't jive, nothing jives nothing nothing jives you know and like you know I just I'm so sick of the propaganda around the this whole thing whether it's whether it's the Israel Palestine now Israel Iran like the the propaganda is like nothing I've ever seen I'm not a student of propaganda I'm too young to remember this stuff like you see other people seeing how much they support this or that.

Yeah, it's like everyone is like militant about it. Militant. Do you know that Israel's GDP per capita? Where would you say it ranks compared to Canada? Lower. Like significantly a little bit lot. And their M2 is worse than their M2 growth is worse than the US. Right. So it's about a thousand dollars less than GDP per capita.

Crazy. So it's very, very close. Okay. So their GDP per capita is quite high. So in terms of that metric, that's a very popular metric we use in the CBP. The country is doing very well. Granted, a lot of could be funding from the United States is propping this up, but it is. Right? And Iran, you know, have you seen pictures of Iran before the revolution?

I have, but I think those pictures are a bit misleading. Explain how. I think that there was still like no actual political freedom. Like women in bikinis is great. I'm all for women in bikinis, but the freedom to say things about the regime is really the only thing that matters. I don't think you could. Yeah. I don't know for certain, but if I were to take a guess, you get your head taken off. It gets the shot. But with that being said, if you look at it, it seemed like people had a little bit more freedom with respect to, as you mentioned, going to the beach and stuff like that.

But another thing I look at is GDP per capita of Iran. And if you look at it right after the revolution, it was like it went up and down like a little bit, but it really didn't go higher until 2004 dollar wise. And I'm talking without taking into account inflation 25 fucking years before without taking to consider inflation before GDP per capita went up in Iran and that was because then the price of oil started going up and then it really kicked it but it just trying to show you like they were stagnant for a very long time now of the two countries if you look at GDP

per capita Israel is far ahead of Iran. Now, if you believe that the best revenge on somebody is living better, if you believe that, Israel should have just done nothing. Because just clearly just by looking at this, they are doing better. But you know what, Joey, I don't live there. I don't have family there. I don't know very

much. All I know is this thing's a fucking mess. And I feel for the people that are, I feel for the people that are, if you're living in Iran, if you're living in Israel, and all of a sudden a fucking bomb comes down, and your house is wiped out, or family's wiped out or whatever, like that's bullshit. like that's fucking bullshit but this is the shit that's been going on for a very long time how do you fix this I don't know and this is now the way they're trying to lure in the United States for a system I know I know I can't blame them because I would do the same thing if I were them but I probably wouldn't have started in the first place but what

the fuck do I know but this is bringing us fucking really close to a World War III, right? Like Pakistan saying we're gonna get involved and they have nuclear weapons. France is saying they're gonna get involved and they have nuclear weapons. And Europe is not very far from Iran. It's just you go over to the Black Sea, cross over Turkey and there is Romania, there's Moldova.

So it's not very far. So they're within striking distance of not that they would go after Europe, but they potentially can. Like this is a fucking mess. And all now you have Trump fucking he's stroking his ego on his birthday, bringing in that fucking parade. I love that. This is North Korea level bullshit. I love that. That's so bad. This is North Korea level bullshit, right? Apparently this cost some 25 to $50 million to run this. They're not even marching in lockstep by the way.

That parade looked pretty lackluster. I'm not a military guy, but it looks like crazy. Yeah. And all caps in the chat. The broadcast was sponsored by Coinbase. So that's very, it reminds me a lot of North Korea. It's basically, look at, I have the biggest fucking dick in this room. Now that money that they spent on that parade could have easily been directed into something

else. Shelters for the homeless, food for the like, there's something else that could have been better use of that money. It's fucking bullshit that they're doing this. And you know what? And even on top of that, now every time they have to do a speech I'm gonna go into a little bit of the rant here you know just fucking two years ago if this was if they had this same type of event there would have been no fucking plexiglass no bullet proof glass

they just would have had to speech but the world has changed so much now that you can't we've had people getting. Trump fucking getting shot last year. Fucking two people in two elected individuals in Minnesota got killed. Shot. Yeah. Like what could this world is just going to in a held in a handbasket and it's just happening all so fucking fast. It's sudden and still the price of Bitcoin still stays at 107, 108. That's fucking rather bullish to me Yeah, there's so much that's going on here. I don't know what the fucking thing and who the hell knows where this is gonna go I think it's pretty like a pretty popular take and a pretty popular understanding of

Military displays, you know as they relate to, let's call it state-level budgets. When governments get into fiscal trouble, they try and provoke a war. This is pretty standard. There's a great chart floating around on Twitter of a comparison between Israel's M2 and America's M2. And Israel's M2 makes America look like Bitcoin issuance. It's so bad. It is a nasty, nasty chart.

And that's something that I was just schooled on. I did not realize. Yeah. So they're like, their prints are happy over there, which is nuts. I haven't looked at Aranzone too. I don't care. Also, just like as an aside, I don't think it's like anti-Muslim or anti-Semitic to just not care about these things.

Someone accosted me on Twitter a couple of weeks ago because I just said, like, I just don't care about overseas, like Bronze Age, Old Testament style shit, you know? It's not quite that. I like that. Well, I mean, you can say whatever you want, but the fact of the matter is that's where it started. And so it's ongoing. You know, you know, the origin of this conflict is biblical and you know, it's, it's just, it's, it's just stupid. It's just like, why America to get involved in this, you know, it's hard for me to understand now, you know, from the Bitcoin side of things, and it sounds like you agree.

I'm sure you agree, in fact, but I'll say it anyway. The reason you want to have Bitcoin during times like this is not because it's going to help you escape a country that's in tatters when a war breaks out, although it might. But if you're like an American, Canadian, European citizen, you're looking at this and thinking these guys are going to print like crazy to fund this war. European citizen. You're looking at this and thinking these guys are gonna print like crazy to fund this war. Germany obviously removing any limitations it had on deficit spending to meet its NATO requirements. Canada trying to do the same, meeting its two or three percent target. There's some funny accounting there. For example, Canada rolled Coast Guard into the Department of Defense,

which adds to our total NATO spend as far as like defense spending but doesn't actually increase the dollar amount spent. See if you can wrap your head around that. There's gonna be other tricks like that I'm sure in a lot of NATO countries but the thing I'd say to people is look that you know war is not cheap, war is inflationary every time all the time and in every case and so if you think that there's gonna be a war Bitcoin is the thing you want to own. Gold would be great too. Gold is you know that there's going to be a war, Bitcoin is the thing you want to own. Gold would be great too.

Gold is a metal that reacts to instability more than it reacts to inflation. But all the same, these things are going to rip because governments have to print. There's no war bonds, Len. No one's coming around trying to sell me war bonds to support the effort. They're just going to print it. If there's a war that's on a wide scale scale, which Western nation in your opinion is would be the best one to live in? America. Canada. Oh man, I disagree with that, but okay. Canada, because again, we have our like a lot of things that we have available to us, water,

yeah, energy. Really, like we're kind of, Oh, you're talking about like a real like, oh, fuck. I don't know. I haven't given enough thought. The only thing maybe Australia, we can't defend ourselves. But Canada's got to be top of the list, right? No, I don't know. I think the chat's going to explode on that take. I don't know what the delay is between us and them, but I'm expecting a bunch of messages to come in come. There may be, but I'm looking at Canada because of the fact that it's very difficult to invade. We're far enough away. We're not United States. So if you're going to bomb anywhere, you'd probably bomb the States, not us. And we probably feel it, but not to the same degree over there.

But we have a lot over here that we could sustain ourselves. Other countries don't have that. Japan imports shit, right? Like Canada, we could essentially just close our borders if we really wanted to and we could just live. So I don't know. That's just my thoughts. I think some great takes in the chat. Iceland, the Falklands. I don't even know where the Falklands are. That could be a place in Skyrim for all I know. No, that's just outside Argentina. Don't you have the Falklands war between Argentina and Brazil? Um, UK? Does it look like I know that war? Does it look like I'm familiar with that conflict, sir? No. You should be. Is that, that helps for a great soccer.

Right? The hand of God. The only thing we're more boring than the Falklands war is soccer. Okay. So it's a beautiful game. When it's done right, it's fantastic. Yeah. Anyway, we don't talk any more about Israel and Palestine. All these things going on over there. We'll talk about the weather. Let's talk about the weather.

How was the weather for you for the past six weeks or so? Pretty cold. Pretty cool. Well, apparently, if you talk to some people, we had the hottest fucking May on record. Right? The second, whatever the fuck it is, either way. Second one was May on record. Exceeded only by May 2024, which of course was last year. And they were saying this was fueled by a record breaking heat wave in Greenland, scientists were saying. and they were saying that over there in Greenland and some I can't pronounce this fucking name The temperature reached fourteen point three Celsius on me 19th, which is 13 Celsius higher than the me average So keep that in mind is 13 degrees higher than the me average. It was 14 point in Greenland in Greenland

Now I check Greenland is past upcoming with site. It its upcoming week. Not one day above three. Sorry, not one day above four Celsius. So it's far below the seasonal average for next week. Far fucking below. So this shit's going to average out in the end. It will be the second hottest in May. It'll be the fucking second coldest in June. And you know what they call this?

I call it just the weather, but they'll say it's fucking climate change. Heat wave, climate change. Why are we being told in Canada, by the way, that it's the hottest May on record when the factor that really, like the lever that was pulled was a hot day in Greenland. Like how is that? These guys say they're data driven and all this stuff, but they refuse to look at anything before like the forts or something and then also I will have hot day in Greenland gets a headline hottest May on record

In Europe though we we can we go outside I get in my car To with shorts on to go to the gym. My legs are cold. It's not hot and freezing It's not 100% like what you know, you can't tell me it's the hottest man record I go by the patios to have you know to walk my dog or to like go earlier today. I walked Shoppers Drug Mart. The patios have people on them. Why? It's hot today.

Two weeks ago, the patios didn't have anyone on them. Why? It's cold that day. It's cold. That was almost all of North America. If you look at the weather map for North America, it's been very chilly. On the weather network now, they put your jurisdiction in red. It's been very chilly. Europe has been warmer than normal. But it's not crazy warmer. It's only two, three, four degrees warmer than normal.

At least from the cities which I was looking at. So this shit all averages out in the end. I don't know. I just don't think this is fucking good. We had a laugh about that one for sure. You know one thing they don't talk about? You know like droughts and extra rain and shit like this is happening. I, this is the one thing that I, I'm wondering if this is contributing to it. If you believe that cloud seeding does anything to do with increasing persistence, how many warnings can you, can YouTube put on this video? Cloud

seeding, Israel, Palestine, think, think about this. There's we live in a closed loop, right? The earth, right? If you're going to, and I'm not sure if cloud seeding even fucking works. It may or may not, but if we believe it does and it could cause more rain to fall in a particular area that wouldn't get it, that means downstream it's going to get less rain because that rain that would have fell somewhere downstream fell before, right? So that means what happens later, that area is now going to give you fucking dryer as a result. So you're going to say, Oh, now it's climate. Is that how we're shooting?

What's that? Is that how it works? If it's like zero sum rain is zero sum on planet earth. Is that yes, because there's going to be some humidity in the air and you're trying to cause that to fall earlier than it should be. And now that area would have less humidity because the rain fell and as it goes to the next spot, it would just have less humidity and then eventually it's going to rain again.

But what if it would have naturally fallen, it's not happening. And now we say, oh fuck, why isn't it doing it? Well, there's cloud seeding that's going on and I'm not saying this does change Weather I'm not saying this even increases rates. Some people say it does or doesn't work. I don't fucking know. I'm not I'm not a climatologist It does fucking if it does change the ability to have rainfall where it shouldn't Then everything beyond that is going gonna be impacted as well.

Everything is. And nobody's talking about this. Somebody should talk about this. We're talking about deer in a fucking city. You just did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey, ever hear of the Chief Heat Officer? That's what my teammates call me in the fourth quarter, yeah. Well, this is a, we gotta. That's what my wife calls me when the fucking temperature in the fourth quarter. Yeah. Well, this is a, we got to, that's what my wife calls me when the temperature in the bedroom is 80 degrees. She says I'm the furnace, the chief heat officer. So it's a relatively new role in governments focusing on the coordinating responses for extreme heat and developing strategies to mitigate its impacts.

And this is actually like, it's a title it's a job people what government what government plug in a fucking fan stand in front in front of the fan and uh you're good to go that's what i say uh heat kills far less than does the cold yep that's stats um if there's a chief heat officer job i want to fucking apply for that where what government is doing this where are we seeing this here i don don't know but Toronto doesn't have one but apparently they're looking to have one. Toronto needs a chief heat officer. Well they fucking do baby. Toronto. For sure it's sweltering outside. Not yet. Maybe one day will be and you need that guy or gal or whatever to go out there and say it's fucking hot. This is why you don't ever hire like climate officers, heat

officers, cold officers, because once you do that, the incentive for that whole branch, that whole bureau is going to be to tell people how fucking hot it is all the time, how cold it is all the time, how much the climate is changing. Like it's not about whether or not you think this stuff is happening. I don't give a shit what you think. What I care about is that there's clear incentives here for people who work in these roles to convince everyone that it's happening. It's steady. And like the convincing never stops. May was the hottest man record. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. Like what are you talking about? I play football every Saturday morning. It's fucking freezing. It's like,

it's like eight degrees. I told my wife a couple weeks ago I went to play first game of the season I guess was like the it was like May 2 for maybe the 23rd 24th Whatever weekend that was and I play the whole game for my team. I play receiver. I rush. I'm literally doing Sprints the entire game if anyone is warm on on that field It should be me and I told her after that game, I had to chill the whole day. I had to chill the whole day like an old woman. I was walking around my house in a hoodie and sweatpants because I just could not shake the chill. Did these guys think that we don't know what's going on here? Like we are now then relying on the Zoomers to bail us out of this.

I appreciate that I don't see many Zoomers that protests. I don't see many zoomers believing the things they see on TV, watching TV, any of that stuff. And so I'm waiting for the boomers to die out. We can just get past all this chief heat officer nonsense and chief whatever officer nonsense. We got to get off this train, man. Got to get off this train. They wonder why they can't shrink city budgets. Like here's why because you keep hiring Chief heat officers they're gonna be Toronto's gonna need a chief pride officer soon, too Because they're losing a boatload of money all the time. What their $900,000 last last I heard

short For running the parade. They can't run it. I Believe they're still gonna run it but the are going to be around $900,000. I don't know how you get to a point where you overspend that much, but they are. How much of that is Chow's wardrobe? I wonder. That's got to be, is that a five figure wardrobe? I wouldn't be surprised.

People in the chat, by the way, BTC Priest is saying I drink too much milk. No, I don't. There's no such thing. That's not true. So the, they are still going to go ahead. They, a lot of sponsors have cut bait as we said last week. Are we moving to a new story here? We're transitioning to a new story. The pride parade.

I talked to you seven. We had G seven and, uh, how about, Hey, G7 is going on. I have to give them credit though. The last time, I think the last time Canada hosted it in their infinite wisdom, there was riots. Was there not? It was in Toronto, like 2008 or something. Why do you have it?

I have, I'll tell you something, George. Okay. That was in downtown Toronto. It was, it was, and I had friends that worked in the area that they closed off and what they were told, this was before that there was the work from home shit and all that, that people had the ability just because they forcefully worked from home just five years ago. So before all this infrastructure came out, they were told, stay home. You're taking vacation. I don't want to take vacation. I want to go on to take my vacation to winter stay home You're taking vacation. It was a ghost town. Yeah, that is fucking Bullshit if you're gonna do something like this do it in the boney's like to doing right now

I give them credit doing this. I don't it can't even pronounce the fucking name in Alberta But it's it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. Yeah, they could close that area off and it's going to do minimal impact. I'm not saying nobody's going to be impacted negatively, but the amount of people impacted from this versus doing downtown Toronto, it's night and day. Why the fuck would you end up in the fucking fake lake? Remember that? Yeah, come on. It's how much money was spent on that for a fucking photo. Get the fuck out of here. So much money was spent. Okay. Let me ask you something. Who do you think picks where the G7 is? As far as like the location in the host country? Is it the question? Is it PMO? That's a good question. I would assume it's got to be the sitting government. So somehow

we have a PMO. So I think it's a sign, right? Harper and fucking crew for that one. Yeah. So is it a sign that, um, Carneyudeau carnie whoever chose alberta as opposed to uh Someone lorencia. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I I just applaud the fact that it's being done in a much more rural area Same and much more scenic by the way the photos and videos look yeah You don't have to fucking build a fake lake. Not only are you impacting fewer people? But it's probably logistically so much easier to deal with rather than having all these streets and planes flying over, or potential flying over, in the middle of nowhere, nothing is going on. I mean, forgive me for the people

that live in that part of Alberta, but comparing it to downtown Toronto, it's fucking, like I say, it's night and day. But you see, Carney, what he was saying, what Donald Trump... Showering praise on Donnie there yeah I um I again I don't think that the that speech that address will make it to mainstream news but certainly the elbows up crowd um man one reason after another after another to put their elbows down if you haven't seen Carney talking about Trump I think you should watch it I honestly by the way I think that it's cordial to speak to a world leader this way especially one that's in a tumultuous situation thanks to commitments

overseas that he may or may not keep I don't know but it certainly was not what he campaigned on I'll say that. What about the negotiations of the first right of refusal? Interesting yeah so okay so I should say that. And what about the negotiations of the first right of refusal that we're saying? Yeah. So, okay. So I'll, I should note that the economist pulled that story because they didn't feel that great about the sourcing. I think that's bullshit.

I think that it's probably true. And what they didn't feel that great about is how it made our government look. I think that unofficially America has right of first refusal on all our resources anyway, don't you? I'll be honest. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, but it's important. It's important as a signpost.

Directionally, it's important because if we can't sell to them, we have to sell somewhere else. I want it to go to market and I'm happy that it would be going to, I'm going to quote unquote an ally versus- For sure. For sure. Right? So if they want to buy it and they're buying at the market buying at the prices, market price, all the more power to them.

Fuck. Just take it. Go ahead. Tell yours. I think that I think America, I mean, people who say that America is like getting a crazy deal here, like it's in the title. We were a bit of a joke, not because we don't know how to negotiate though. That may also be true, but because there are people in this country who think we are not already giving America the first right refusal on literally everything we do. Like everything we do, America gets the first right refusal on. I don't know how that's controversial or if it's controversial. Certainly, I think the older crowd would have some commentary about that or some

response to that that that would be probably emotionally driven. But if you look at everything from cultural exports to terrorist lists to more modern issues like fentanyl and money laundering and things of this nature, America tells us what to do and how to do it and when they say jump we say how high. It's always been like that. They're the're the global superpower why would they why would they not exercise that that authority where they could and you know don't forget we are reliant on them not just as our biggest trading partner but as our defense we can't

defend any of our longest borders without them certainly not from other global superpowers so you know we we don't have a lot of choice. If we ever do come out of this, you know, zero military spend culture that we're in and build something that's competent on the defense side, maybe that'll change. But for now, you know, as Trump said to Z-Man once upon a time, we don't have the cards.

We don't have the cards. He's there, eh? I'm surprised by that. So they have- What's he doing there? Why would he be there? So they invited not only g7, but they extended to the Brazilian Prime Minister Indian Prime Minister Z-man and I can't remember who else is there but it's a few others Japan is Japan there. They're part of g7. Are they? I don't know. Yeah, it's Russia Had the day right? I can't was it no be there. No, so

Interesting yeah Okay, let's next one. We still planning on joining the European Union. Did that gain any traction? Is that dead in the water now? Can we can we stop? Can we stop pretending that that was ever possible? Error, are we gonna keep going that what are we doing? Let's talk about this next story because this one is a can sugarcoat it. I'll try my best to dance around the contentious part of the title. CTV News says no jail time for BC man with relatively modest collection of images. This collection of images you could kind of see.

CP CP. Yeah, it's The judge ruled this. The details are as follows. This piece of work named Mark Keenan pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing these images, distributing, distributing. Yeah. And a provincial court in B.C. and he was handed down a conditional sentence of two years less a day. House arrest for the first 18 months of a sentence sentence then bound to a 6 p.m. curfew for the remainder and they did a raid of

his house back in 2018 and on his electronic devices they found six images and the judge says although there's no strict mathematical relationship between the size of the collection and the length of the sentence the size of the collection has often been held as an aggravating factor." And he also says, it stands to reason that a modest collection, while not a mitigating factor, could nevertheless distinguish it from other cases. No, no, no. My humble opinion, one image is one too many. It's like a cockroach. It's like a cockroach. If you see one, you know, there's a hundred more you didn't see and distribution like, like having child porn is enough to go to jail for life.

My opinion, distributing it is she should get the death penalty for that. I really do believe that like you need to bring back capital punishment for that. And you know, I'll note one other thing here. The recidivism rate for something like this is above 50% So what do you think's gonna happen after two years? Okay. Are we not learning any lessons around here? Yeah, you know I'm wondering if there's a chance to appeal this decision and then for Whoa, does the could the government impose a strict set through an appeal? I don't know. They're not gonna fucking do that.

I just look at this and I'm wondering, man, this is a step in the wrong direction. Oh, but you're setting a precedent this year, right? In any future cases that have a similar amount of images or less. What's a modest size, you know, kiddie porn collection that can save you? Well, we now know, six images.

Yeah. Right? And so if somebody comes with four and they just act well, okay. That is so fucked up. Six equals two years, and then four would be one point. It's hard for me to understand the rationale of the judge. The judge, by the way, looks like he's a youngish guy. Like he's not, you know, you would think that, again, like I need to know like what is the jurisprudence behind this?

Like is there, like what is the case law? What is the, there's nothing. Like this guy doesn't point to anything in his ruling, maybe in the official documents that, you know, I will admit I haven't read. But what is the rationale? How could this possibly be rationalized? How could that be possible? If you remember this community, like how do you, you know?

It's baffling to me. It is what it is. Next thing I want to discuss, Joey, this one slipped through the cracks many months ago, in fact, but I still think it needs to be discussed. Okay. And you know, at the time, think of all the times you or somebody you know, needed a healthcare system, somebody that you would have to go to ER emergency, waiting for MRI and maybe joint replacement. Think of like how much time has to be invested in this hours months years in some cases for like joint replacement?

FIFA back in February. I can't believe I fucking miss that miss this they requested the Canadian government because they're gonna be doing this World Cup here next year and United States and Mexico They're requesting priority health care access to their athletes and VIPs not just the athletes the VIPs as well That was for what's being placed in Vancouver Toronto that sort of games are gonna be played fuck no this is a huge no we're already fucking at the full there's no opportunity to jump the queue imagine your construction worker Joey you're like one half the breadwinner of your family you know if your salary is taken

away your family's gonna struggle you if your salary is taken away, Your family's gonna struggle you get hurt in the job. You fall off the scaffold where the fuck it is You got to get an mri. You got an x-ray. It's months Yeah, somebody else comes in because they're playing a sport comes in and just bumps the queue You wait you paid into this as a fucking taxpayer. No, no, no Fuck like just fuck you, you know, like get use the magic spray on these athletes like they do The pitch try to use that to try to help them send them back to fuck home And the idiots that paid into the system if this ever comes in our second class, they're forced to wait

Fuck you fifa, right? Fuck you for even requesting such a thing and this story this next one I'm just going to be very brief It just helps solidify why i'm saying fuck you to FIFA because there's a Canadian man out there was reported was waiting six months to get an MRI in Canada, finally got one where he was on vacation in China, paid $190. Crazy story with videos and everything. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, that's why I'm saying fuck you to FIFA for this.

If this guy had to wait six months and had just traveled abroad to fucking get it done, these soccer players and VIPs might I add, these fucking VIPs, fuck them all. They don't need to fucking bump the queue. They could wait. Most Canadians who are not working minimum wage jobs would be better served going to UB

or Buffalo MRI to get any imaging done. It's much faster. The machines are of higher quality and it's not that expensive. It's, you know, maybe a thousand bucks max. I think you can get a full body MRI scan in the States for about $2,000. So, you know, there's no reason to wait. Now, here's a difficult question.

Okay, when you're talking about the FIFA players who come here expect to skip the line, never paid in, fuck them, they shouldn't be allowed to do that. Why should we allow immigrants to do it? Are they bumping the queue? They're definitely adding to your wait time when you need something. They are, but they're just being added just like everybody else. They didn't pay. One issue I have, the real issue I have is the bumping of the queue.

Somebody else is now waiting longer because somebody else got it first. Yeah. Because they're VIPs. I feel a lot worse. I feel a lot differently about that. I think that if you just came here, you should have to wait, you know, five years before you can get free health care or you have to go to the back of the queue or there has to be some secondary queue for those people. I really do believe that. I think most Canadians, if you ask them, would say something similar. And if they don't say something similar,

they would say it after they get delayed by months and months and months for an MRI. I could be wrong on this, but from what I remember, things may have changed. A newly landed permanent resident, somebody that flew into Canada gets permanent residency because they filed their paperwork and everything, they have to wait a period of time before to get Ontario or OHIP coverage.

Yeah, but do you believe that if they went to the ER, like they wouldn't get, you know, the full suite of... I'm not sure if they get reimbursed later on. Yeah, exactly. But that's the way I understand it. So, I don't know. Now it's different for a refugee, for somebody that comes here and makes a claim. Asylum refugees, yeah.

Yeah, and for a period of time, the decision's being waited on. Or once they become a legitimate and seem to be a legitimate refugee case, then at that point, they get some federal health care thing. And so yeah, it is what it is. I want to see Costco get MRI machines. That's what I want to see. Costco, which how many, this is a full featured Costco, gold bars, gas bar, restaurants, and MRI machine all on the first floor. No, and India's didn't did not qualify for neither is China. I'm pretty sure's didn't, did not qualify for it. Neither is China.

I'm pretty sure they didn't either. Linus talking about a comment in the chat about if India qualified for the World Cup. I doubt it. Yeah. No. Yeah. See this guy that was scaring off thieves in Vaughan. Somebody, some thieves were trying to steal his Lamborghini

or at least doing something with his Lamborghini. So he says, decided to discharge his gun to scare off the thieves and. Into the air. Yeah, I caught a bunch of charges. That's OK. So let me let me tell you something. I mean, maybe we'll finish on this story. I don't know. But I think I might have said this on.

Did I say this to you in private? I said someone in private. I forget. So forgive me if I said it on the show, but Will, a friend of mine, was on Two Whites and a Blue with me, him and his girlfriend rode their bikes over to our place a few weeks back. And we were talking about a similar story, I think somewhere else in this great country of ours,

where a guy had a weapon, discharged it, and ended up being in a little bit of trouble with the police because he was trying to prevent the robbery or trying to scare off an invader or something like that. And I said to Will and Will agreed, you know, even before we had compared notes on our thoughts about stuff like this, that eventually what's going to happen is there's going to be an obvious issue or like there's going to be an obvious like watershed case where somebody is defending their home

They have a wife and kids. They have no violent history. There's no Lamborghini in the driveway it's just a guy who's sick of fucking dealing with the shit that he's dealing with in his neighborhood and The the story is gonna be that he owns a gun. He's got the gun properly secured in his house he takes the gun out he kills the home invader, the home invader is following the pattern of home invaders that we've seen over the last two years, let's say, and there's gonna be public outcry when the police try and take this guy into custody or when the the state tries to charge this guy with weapons charge or murder or whatever, aggravated assault, manslaughter, whatever the case law dictates, there's going to be public outcry.

And the guy will win against the state on either a jury of his peers or whatever. And this is going to eventually be something that changes in Canada. The reason we don't have these laws now is because we never had these problems before. And now that we have these problems, one of two things is going to happen. Either we have to get rid of the problems or we have to change the law. And the states has had this for a long time, Republican states specifically, red states specifically have had this for a long time, castle doctrine and things of this nature, where if someone is reasonably offending you to the point that you feel like your safety

is in danger, you're on your personal property, your primary residence, whatever, and they are also on it, and won't leave and you feel threatened, you can shoot the kill. And like it's not about whether or not, you know, that person is, it's not about whether or not that person is right for taking the life of someone else on like the biblical ethics of it. The question is whether or not that guy has a right to defend himself in the face of what he views as mortal danger? And the obvious answer is yes. The thing that we seem to be having trouble with in Canada is whether or not someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night presents a mortal danger to you. The answer to that question

unequivocally is yes. You should be able to kill someone who enters your home unapproved, unauthorized, in the middle of the night or anytime. You should be able to kill them. You have to. I'm a father now, you're a father and I think that anybody who has a child or has experiences before would say the same thing. That if I can't kill them, then what options do I have in that moment?

I've been told to leave my valuables out. I'm being told to give them whatever they ask for. But sometimes that's not enough. Certainly if you see somebody in your house and they are identifiable to you, or they view themselves as risking identification down the road, taking your car may not be enough. Taking your gold jewelry may not be enough.

They may kill you anyways. And so you have to be able to terminate somebody taking your car may not be enough, taking your gold jewelry may not be enough. They may kill you anyways. And so you have to be able to terminate somebody if they make that mistake and come into your home. I don't think this is a debatable point. And I think a lot of homeowners in places that have these problems frequently and places where the police forces are basically telling you to just give up any, any valuables you have.

By the way, leave your keys at the front so that it's easier for them to state the car. It's true. And it's never just the keys. Like the keys is the obvious thing, but like if you have family valuables or stuff with sentimental value or you know, like, like a children's jewelry or whatever else, you're trying to think like, this is like maybe predominantly in Italian households. But you know, my grandmother used to have jewelry around and my dad and mom had jewelry around.

And I don't think that a reasonable person would ever say if they were in that situation, they don't wish they had the option to inflict a mortal injury on the invader. You have to have that option. And if you don't have it, but the other guy has it and clearly is willing to exercise it, then that's not fair. It's simply not fair. And just to tie a bow on it, like I said earlier, either you give people this option and limit it to home invasions or something, I don't know, but either you

give them the option or you get rid of the problems. And we seem unwilling to even talk about the problems. In fact, we arrest the problems fairly frequently and release them on the same day or in the same 48 hours. So we have to make a change here. And I think it's going to come when someone who's an upstanding member of the community just is unwilling to back down, has the means to make a decision that protects his family and makes it. It'll be the right decision in the moment. And it's a question of whether or not the legal system and the community will back that person because they've also had enough. That's that's going to happen here at some point. I think that's enough. We've been at and I fucking got to

find my keys. I lost I was in West Vancouver and then I lost my fucking car keys. I got a fucking fine. If anyone was a name name of the street you lost them on. It's yeah, it is what it is. So if you could find it, that'd be fucking awesome. Just let me know. Send me a DM. I'll come pick it up for you. So West Vancouver area car keys, 2002 Jetta TDI, 500,000 kilometers.

Still going. By the way, still going. Daily driver. I'd fucking drive that anywhere. I'll get there. It'll be pretty, but it'll get there. God bless. Maybe we'll see you later in the week.

Maybe we won't, but take care of yourselves in either case. Take care.