The Harland Highway - 885 -SENIOR FUENTES drops by. A NEW chocolate bar. Death awkwardness.

Episode Date: July 10, 2017

Harland's gardener SENIOR FUENTES drops into the show. Harland's idea for a deadly new chocolate bar. How to handle DEATH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudi...o.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh my God, oh my God, welcome to the Harland Highway podcast, Lurdle Blurgens and Schnedl Fluegdens. I'm your host, Harlan Williams here. Thanks for being here, man. Tell your friends to get on the highway if you can. We have a great show today. We're going to be getting a visit from my gardener, Senor Fuenes. I'm always a little nervous when he comes by to visit because he's a bit off. So he's coming into the studio.
Starting point is 00:00:31 Also, I'm going to talk to you about a new chocolate bar invention that I came up with. It may be the last chocolate bar you ever eat. Yeah. It has a punch. It packs a wall up. Wait to hear about this new chocolate bar. And then also a phone call from one of the pavement pounders who said he laughed so hard. He almost drove off the road and gotten an accident at one of the bits.
Starting point is 00:01:00 that I did on the last podcast that I almost deleted and didn't air. So I'm kind of glad to get this phone call. Yeah, and then we're going to be talking about, towards the end of the show, it's going to get a little heavy. We're going to be talking about death and how do you behave when somebody dies and the Canadian health system and all kinds of stuff. So it's a big show. It always is.
Starting point is 00:01:24 It's the Harland Highway. Sit down. strap in and tighten your diaper come here baby you're about to go down the Harlan Highway I didn't bargain for this oh yes you did chick a chick a cha chick a chichia chichia chichia chow maine baby and the creature from all the space please don't stop I got to feed an ugly face my magnificent performance this is the Harlan Highway You? Well, that's the way it goes.
Starting point is 00:02:03 What do you say? We get down to business. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hi. This is Jeff from Tucson. I just heard Samuel.
Starting point is 00:02:30 Well, Quoke or Quelch, I think it's Quoke. I always say Quelch. I don't know why, but I believe it's Quoke. Anyway, it's the funniest thing I've heard in the last 10 years. I was laughing my ass off driving to work. That is so funny. I mean, it's funnier than anything. I mean, I've heard
Starting point is 00:02:59 comedians on serious XM I've seen on TV there's nothing as funny as that it's the funniest thing I've ever heard and with you yelling at him makes it even
Starting point is 00:03:15 better. It's hilarious I would like to see that on your YouTube channel however he looks I don't know I have an eye idea of the way he looks but I was literally laughing my I almost got an accident and believe me I don't laugh at just anything it takes a lot to make me laugh in the fact
Starting point is 00:03:46 that you were kind of as you were came to love folk and you were talking and you started a laugh at a little that was making self-lift that was the funniest thing ever I just I think it would be great to see it on YouTube. It's hilarious. I don't know. Am I crazy for thinking that? No, Jeff from Tucson. You're not crazy for thinking that.
Starting point is 00:04:11 You know, just for the record, his name is Samuel L. Quowke. Samuel L. Quowke is the character that I do. And if you want to hear what Jeff is talking about, listen to the last podcast number 844. And Samuel L. Quoak is a character I do where he professes to be a romantic writer. And he comes on the program, and he reads his romantic letters that often turn lethal. Now, Jeff, in case you're wondering, Samuel L. Quowke is one of the original characters from the Harlan Highway.
Starting point is 00:04:51 So it sounds like you just heard him for the first time. but my friend if you go back into the archives there's probably 20 or 25 episodes with samuel l quouk reading his letters and if you want to if you wanted me to be candid here this is very interesting um and i usually don't talk about this stuff and i rarely ever remove anything from my podcast you know everything i do is a usually a first take i don't go back i don't edit i don't edit i don't I don't, I don't, like, stop and re-record and go over. I just let it flow. 99.9% of everything I do is made up on the spot.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Sometimes I'll write out a bullet point on a piece of paper like, oh, toenails or potato or whatever. But I just, I just roll right through it, okay? And the reason I'm telling you this is because, you know, after I listened to the last Samuel L. Quowke, I wasn't that happy with it. You know, personally, I almost yanked it. I almost deleted it and did something else. I was like, you know what? It's just not up to snuff.
Starting point is 00:06:07 I'm not digging it. I'm going to delete this episode of Samuel L. Quowke. And then something just told me to let it ride. And this is what amazes me about comedy. You know, Jeff calls in and says it's like the funniest thing he's ever heard. And you can't imagine how happy that made me because I literally was going to delete it, which I rarely ever do. And in all the podcasts I've done, I've probably deleted like five things. And I don't know if I was just in a mood or I was feeling funky that day.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Just something in my head. I was like, I don't know. It doesn't, it's just not up there with the other ones. But maybe I was wrong. Maybe it is. And the fact that Jeff just loved it, it makes me so happy that I didn't delete it and it just goes to show you, you just never know.
Starting point is 00:07:01 So thank you, Jeff. And as far as putting it on YouTube, you know, you said something interesting. You said you imagine what Samuel L. Quoak looks like. And that's part of the beauty of what I like to do here. I like to keep you enchanted. I like all of you to imagine in your own heads what the characters look like.
Starting point is 00:07:21 like because even I have visions of what they look like. I created them and so I have this I have these visions in my head of their physical appearance but the last thing I want to do is is film myself doing the character's voice and then all of a sudden you're kind of like ah it's not the same you know it kind of burst the illusion I like to leave it as theater of the mind there's a very incredible guy that does similar to what I do kind of the you know the jumping characters and he's a genius this guy Phil Henry if you haven't heard Phil please listen to Phil Henry he is a master I you know we do we we do kind of the same thing we do the voices but we kind of different styles and I dare say that Phil's probably way
Starting point is 00:08:15 better than me which which is you know it's kind of like hard to admit but he's he's just he's just a god at this stuff you know and he has his own library of characters and stuff but one thing phil did is he did do that he filmed himself doing the voices and i got to tell you personally i don't know what other people think but personally i was kind of like oh i wish i didn't see that because he's such a master and your brain fills in the blank of what the characters look like and then once you see
Starting point is 00:08:51 somebody doing these other voices you can't unsee it and now suddenly what you perceive to be a character is now just a guy with a beard doing the voices and it kind of takes a little bit of the shine off of the character not that Phil Henry's stuff
Starting point is 00:09:10 isn't just as amazing but I kind of just would rather fill in the blank with my brain than see Phil or have you see me do the voices so there you go so I appreciate the idea the concept of me doing the voices on YouTube
Starting point is 00:09:30 but I'm not going to do it because I think you'll be disappointed if I do I think just let it play in your head keep your vision of what the characters look like Samuel L. Quoak and the rest of them and let the theater of the mind take you what it wants to take you okay but Jeff thank you for that incredible phone call you you made me feel good about not deleting doing a very rare deletion of one of my bits and
Starting point is 00:10:03 look at that it paid off in spades you almost had a car accident so so there you go Samuel L. Quoak and Jeff, like I said, go back into the archives and listen to the other Samuel Al Quoak episodes because if you like this one, I promise you, I think some of the older ones are even better. Those were ones that I didn't want to yank. So have a listen. And I hope you get some more solid laughter out of them. All right, let's move on, baby. That's splendid. Man, I've been thinking a lot about all the terrorist stuff that's happening all over the world. And with a lot of these news reports, you know, when there's a terrorist bombing or a shooting or a stabbing, like it seems like 80% of the time, the reporters are like, yes, the terrorist was
Starting point is 00:10:54 heard yelling Al-A-Lah-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-Bar just before he blew himself up, or the suspect was yelling Al-A-A-A-A-A-Bar while he was stabbing people in the face. And it's just such a weird, you know, because I'm not 100% sure, but I think Al-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-Bar means God is love or the God of love or something like that. I could look it up, but I'm lazy. And it's weird because to me it just sounds like a chocolate bar, right? Al-A-A-A-A-A-Bar, you know, it's like right there in your 7-Eleven. The Al-A-Aqbar. Let the taste explode in your mouth, right?
Starting point is 00:11:41 And it's just like, it's almost like the five-hour energy drink of chocolate bars. All right, it's guaranteed to pick you up. Put a little bounce in your step. It's made with dairy milk chocolate, Viagra, liquid nitrogen, red bowl. It's marinated in Monster Energy drink. and glazed with a five-hour energy drink, nitroglycerin inside, you know, little screws and ball bearings inside, and it just, the taste explodes in your mouth, Al-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-Bar. And it's weird, right?
Starting point is 00:12:30 You'd have trouble asking for it, you know, because you don't want to set off in a panic You can't be at the snack bar at the movie theater, right? You're getting some popcorn and a Coke, and you're like, you know, you got a whisper. It's like, yeah, give me the LL Akbar. The guy at the candy can I was like, what? I don't get the L.A L.Aqbar. What, sorry, I can't hear you, sir. Can you speak up?
Starting point is 00:12:59 I said, give me the LL Akbar. Sir, I can't. And then you, you know, you just lose it. You're like, I said, give me the Hala Akbar. Al-Lal-A-L-A-L-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-L-A-A-A-A-V-V-E Everyone's running out of the theater. Some guy's yelling, Al-A-L-Aqbar. It's like, no, no way, come.
Starting point is 00:13:20 I just wanted the damn chocolate bar. I just ordered an Al-A-L-Aqabar. Okay, I guess not. Al-Lah-Lah-Aqabar! So there you go. Just a thought, you know, trying to, you know, seeing how I can, you know, make an extra buck, bring a new invention to the world. If you need a little pick-me-up and you're filling down, try a nice nutty al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-q-bar. Guaranteed to blow your taste buds.
Starting point is 00:13:59 There you go. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-q-bar! We interrupt this podcast with an important North Korean news update. This moraynged noughtzoon is recent soson-bando-and-and-a-jury-nees-to-dozened talking, and talk about and we're fighting
Starting point is 00:14:28 and the warring to bring warring forces government government now
Starting point is 00:14:36 return to our regularly scheduled program and we'll keep you updated as stories unfold.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Wow, that is some pretty heavy stuff going on over North Korea. We'll keep an eye on that for you. Meanwhile,
Starting point is 00:14:51 I'd like to talk about this. Really cool. This happened to me about four days ago. I was at the super... What? Oh, no. No, no, no, no. What are you doing here? Oh, God. Come on, Roger. Why did you let him in? Why did you let him in? Hello, senor. My name is Senor Fentes. I know who you are. You're my gardener. Good Lord, you've been working for me long enough. Senor Fuentes.
Starting point is 00:15:27 I know your name. Okay, you don't have to say it. Senor Fuentes? Yes, Senor Fuentes. What are you doing here at work? You know, I've tried to tell you before not to come into my studio. I work here. I'm busy.
Starting point is 00:15:45 Can't this stuff wait till I get home? But, Signor, I am your gardener. Yes? And do you see a garden here? No, this is recording equipment. This is a professional studio. Okay, senor, but I had an emergency. Oh, again, another emergency.
Starting point is 00:16:02 And what was it this time? You know your swimming pool, senor? Yes, I know my swimming pool. The one with the water in it, senor? Yes, the one with the water in it. Well, I was cleaning it, signor. Okay. And I went into the filter.
Starting point is 00:16:20 All right. And there was a rat in your filter, Oh my God. Yes, signor. I pulled a rat out of your filter. Okay. It was long and shiny and glistening in the sun when I pulled that long, hairy rat out of your filter. Okay, stop saying your filter. It's just... What, senor? Just the way you're saying you pulled a rat out of my filter just sounds a little awkward. Well, I did, senor. I pulled. it and it got stuck in there a little bit so I was tugging and pulling I was slowly
Starting point is 00:16:59 pulling that dirty hairy rat out of your deep filter okay see just can you just say you got found a rat in the pool I just told you that signor it was deep in your filter just stuck and getting sucked in by the the water pressure and it was just I tugged on the on the rat I pulled it out it was glistening I know it was glistening And then, senor, yes As I was holding your rat You weren't holding my rat Well, it was in your pool, senor, so?
Starting point is 00:17:36 Well, that makes it yours, right? My what? Your rat. Yeah, well, I guess it does. Well, then it looks like I was holding your long, hairy, shiny, glistening rat, seigneur. Yeah, you weren't holding my long, shiny, glistening rat. and it had little teeth in the front, Signor.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Oh, my goodness, your long, hairy, shiny rat had buck teeth on the tip. My rat, my long, shiny rat doesn't have teeth on it. Oh, yes, it does, Signor, I can see them. Are you finished? No, Signore, it got worse. What do you mean, it got worse? Well, after I pulled your long, hairy, glisting rat out of your filter, would you stop saying it over and over again?
Starting point is 00:18:23 Yes, signor. Okay, what happened next, Senor Fuentes? Senor Fuentes. What happened next? Well, you know the chlorine, senor, in the pool? Yes, I know the chlorine. Well, it's very strong, senor.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Okay, and? Well, I guess it caused all the hair to come off of your hairy rat. What do you mean the hair came off my hair? Off your hairy rat? Off my hairy rat, yes. I don't know, seor, it just all fell off. So now I was holding your long, pink, bald rat glistening in the sun with teeth on the end of it, senor. I did.
Starting point is 00:19:08 You were not holding my bald pink glistening rat with teeth. Yes, I was, senor, and it had a tail on it. My bald rat, my... Yes, signor, forget it. Stop talking about my bald. rat, glistening in the sun, senor, with the teeth and the tail? I do not have a tail on my bald rat. Excuse me, senor.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Nothing. Are you done here? Yes, signor. What did you do with the rat? I put it in a plastic bag, senor. Okay, good. Yes, I stuck your pink bald rat into a plastic bag. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:52 So now it's safe. senor okay it's safe senor your rat is wrapped in plastic it's safe why are you
Starting point is 00:20:05 winking at me when you say it's safe you know what I mean your big long pink glistening rat with teeth is now safe because it's wrapped in plastic why why are you winking at me when you say
Starting point is 00:20:21 it's wrapped in plastic because it's safe, signor. It's sick. Are you trying to imply that it's like... Like safe sex, seigneur? Your rat is all protected. Get out of here, right now. Okay, senor.
Starting point is 00:20:40 But I should tell you one more thing. What? No, get out. Just one more thing, senor. What is it? I found something else in your filter. What? A woodpeck. Senor. Get out of here! There was no woodpecker! A big hairy woodpecker with teeth! Get out!
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Starting point is 00:22:27 What is wrong with that guy? I hire him to do my yard, to do my... A big hairy rat and a woodpecker. How the hell did a woodpecker get in my filter? I bet that's what everyone wants to know, Signor. You should try pulling up your pants. Get out! God! Roger, go to a commercial. God, I need a coffee. For my feminine itching, I depend on Vagicil cream to stop it instantly. And for a painful burning itch, I get maximum strength Vagicil for even stronger relief. There's Vagicil cream and maximum strength.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Okay, let's talk about a possible awkward moment here, okay? Aside from a gardener finding a rat in my filter. Have you ever encountered somebody who's, you know, had a friend or a parent, that have just died and you're just seeing them for the first time after they've returned from the funeral or whatever and this happened to me recently a friend of mine his father passed away and so he was out of town for a number of weeks and then he finally came back and we were around a group of friends and acquaintances and it was really weird because you know i of course i went up and i said hey man i'm so sorry for for the passing of
Starting point is 00:23:51 your father and we were thinking of you and and you know kind of the the the the the the the condolences and the well wishes and and the support that you you know you want to give somebody but then you realize after about you know 30 seconds or 45 seconds or maybe a minute at the most of that it's done you know and I caught myself doing it and I felt good and I felt like you know, I expressed my, my sympathies and my sorrow for the passing of this friend's father. And it was sincere and it was heartfelt. But then I kind of felt like, ah, that's it, right? That's all I say.
Starting point is 00:24:36 And then all of a sudden, you know, one of the other acquaintances kind of threw it out there. But he was even a little more casual, you know, he's like, hey, I'll see you later. And, hey, man, sorry about your father. Yeah, sorry about the passing your father. man so anyways you guys coming next week or you know what I mean and it was just like it was so casual and it's really weird because you know for us people in passing that father or that friend or that relative that we've never met the only thing they represent to us is a 30 or 60 second sound bite like a sorry or a uh i hope you're okay that's their whole life that's all it
Starting point is 00:25:26 it's all represented right there in in like in one little exchange and meanwhile the person you're saying it to this is their parent this is the person they've lived lived with and have been loved by and given love to and we're nurtured and raised by and all the stuff a parent does And I realized it's just, it's so weird and so kind of cold and empty that, you know, we kind of do our duty, air quotes, right? We do our duty and saying what we have to say. And then it's done. And then that person has to keep living with the memories and the pain and the suffering
Starting point is 00:26:11 for the rest of their life. And I'm not sitting here saying, oh, you know, we should do it. something more i don't know what we can do i mean but there's the you know i just noticed there was something hollow and empty and i don't know if any of you have experienced a a deceased parent a parent passing away but man is it it's a it's a really empty place it's a really sad and and empty void that i don't think ever goes away man i mean my mother died like three years ago and I still feel it all the time you know and it's weird it's weird that all we have is a minute you know and I and I guess I'm wondering out loud why it is like why people do people
Starting point is 00:27:04 stop and why don't they go so how are you with your mother what was she like how how did you guys hit it off you know it's like you you kind of want to get in there and be more personal about it, but at the same time, you're worried about conjuring up too many memories for the person you're talking to. Like, do you really want to start bringing up their past and all the good times and the bad times? And, you know, then you risk them getting emotional and crying. And so it's a really awkward, weird thing, man. And it's unfortunate that it's kind of fleeting and abrupt and,
Starting point is 00:27:45 you know, just kind of, it's almost like a throwaway. You know, I mean, I'm not saying we don't mean it. We don't feel it when we say it, but it's just kind of sad. And at the end of it, the person whose friend or parent has passed on, as I said, is still left with all the agony. And I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I'm just saying from a personal standpoint, it's a little, it's a little empty.
Starting point is 00:28:17 You wish you could do or say more, but I guess at that point it becomes maybe too imposing. And I guess if you didn't know the parent or the person who died, maybe you don't want to go too overboard. I'm just saying it's a weird dance. So I don't know if any of you have like an interesting angstidout or some kind of way to, you know,
Starting point is 00:28:43 maneuver through that. awkward moment, maybe you want to share it with us. Maybe you can call in and say, hey, listen, if you ever run into that again, here's what I do. Here's how I make it a little more meaningful or a little more personable or whatever, a little more intimate, perhaps, you know. Maybe some of you guys have a little, you know, method that you use, or unfortunately, you've been to enough funerals that you know how to kind of make it work. So let us know, man. 323-739-43330.
Starting point is 00:29:22 3-2-3-7-39-43-30. We'll wait for your afterlife tip. How about that? That'd be helpful to all of us, I think. So I'll leave you pondering with that, kind of deep thought. And, you know, let us know, man. Or if you want to write to me, you can write to me at harlandwilliams.com. We always love to hear from you.
Starting point is 00:29:52 Or here's the number again, if you want to leave a voicemail for any reason. Like our friend at the beginning of the show left a nice voicemail to tell us how much he loved Samuel L. Quowke, which I can't believe I almost deleted that episode. So that's beautiful. 323, 739, 43.30. Okay, gang? Actually, you know what? Before we go, Roger, can we just play one more voicemail? I mean, the one off the top of the show was really good. Why don't we just bookend the show with one final voicemail? Can we do that? Okay, good. Roger's going to play one more voicemail from one of you wonderful, wonderful pavement pounders. Hello Hello Hey, Harle
Starting point is 00:30:41 I had a question for you that I think might be interesting to a lot of your viewers and that is as an AmeriCAN I wondered if you could explain a little bit about how the healthcare system works
Starting point is 00:30:57 in O Canada because I think it would be probably a good thing to adopt that same system here in the US of A but I don't know enough about
Starting point is 00:31:16 the pitfalls and the complaints and criticisms and you know parts that maybe aren't as good as it seems when you think about it being a free system that includes everyone so
Starting point is 00:31:33 I know you're You're in clear of politics lately, and I appreciate it. I'm glad you're back to the funny in a big way. But I did think as a Canadian, you, that it would be enlightening to share some of your knowledge about how it works in Canada and what do you think about it. So please consider that as a topic. We'll keep on rocking in the free world. as Neil says, chicken's home ain't, baby?
Starting point is 00:32:09 All right, a very, very good question. That doesn't lead me into much comedy, but it's a great question. It's a valid question. You know, I haven't lived up in Canada for many years now, so all I can do is kind of, you know, share with you some stories and what it was like when I was a kid when I was younger living up there and yada, yada, yada.
Starting point is 00:32:32 So here's the upside. The upside, for those of you that don't know, everyone living in Canada has free health care, okay? If you get sick, you walk into a hospital, and they take care of you. If you need, if you're feeling sick or you get sick, you walk in, and it's Dunskies. They give you a little card, it's like a social security card, looks like a credit card, and you hand it over, and it's got all your info, and it verifies that you're a citizen, and boom, they take care of you. So that sounds great and wonderful, right?
Starting point is 00:33:09 And it is to a degree. And, you know, it is until you need, like, quick, like medical attention. And so there's nothing wrong with a system where you can just walk in and get looked at. Okay? but here's where I've experienced some issues. Because it's a system and it's a free system and everyone gets paid by the government, you know what that's like, okay?
Starting point is 00:33:45 I think we've all experienced when it's a government entity, they're very often with that comes a kind of a lethargic attitude. Like, ah, we work for the government. jobs are never going anywhere. We're going to get paid no matter what. We got the dental plan. We got the health plan. We got the yearly raise.
Starting point is 00:34:08 We got the health insurance. I mean, it's so there's a little bit of that. And I don't want to insult people in the medical profession because they're good and they're professional and they're great at what they do. But I've had some personal experience with family and friends where someone has gotten very sick. and unlike in the United States whether you like it or not if you got the money you can get in
Starting point is 00:34:37 and get the treatment you need ASAP in Canada you get put on a waiting list okay from personal experience three years ago I mentioned it earlier my mother had was diagnosed with lung cancer
Starting point is 00:34:54 and I was downed here and I was checking in every day and I was talking to her and my family and apparently you know they were working with all the doctors up in Canada and then I got up there I went up for for Christmas for the holidays and I was like so what did the what are the test results say and my dad was like oh well we don't have the test results and I go what do you mean you don't have the test results and they're like well we don't have them yet they don't have them I said well what do you mean that this was eight weeks ago. And they said, well, we're on a list and there's this and that. I said, I said, my mother is
Starting point is 00:35:34 dying. She has lung cancer. She doesn't have eight weeks. Okay, eight weeks is in eternity when you're coming to the end of your life and you've got a terminal illness. And so I got furious and I said, give me the number of the damn doctor. I got on the phone and said, where the hell are my mother's reports, where the, where the hell is the diagnosis, where the, and they go, and they go, oh, we can't find them. And I'm like, you can't, what? And so like eight hours later they phoned back, this, oh, we, we misplaced them, we found them.
Starting point is 00:36:13 And I'm like, you misplaced them for eight weeks or whatever it was? It was some ridiculously long amount of time that my mother could not afford. And, you know, and on top of that, there was other things that needed to be done where she had to wait in line, which, okay, I'm not saying my mother should have gotten special treatment over anyone else, but it's the same for anyone up there. You get put in a line, and the clock is ticking. I have a friend, a Canadian friend, who lives in the United States. His parents live in Canada. His father was diagnosed with a cancer situation. And they put him on a list for six weeks, okay?
Starting point is 00:36:58 Something like six weeks before he could have his surgery. My buddy, who fortunately has done well and made some money in the entertainment industry, flew his father to the United States the next. day, and his father got operated on the next day in the United States. And, you know, it saved his life. It pretty much saved his life, according to him. And so that's the downside of a free system is, you know, you're at the mercy of the system. You can't really move it around.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Or if you have an emergency situation and you have some. money or you raise some money or you're you're able to work out something with a doctor and who knows it has to be expensive or not but but with the with the system down here you are able to make much better choices um now sadly the the downside of down here is that everyone isn't covered so it's the it's the yin and the yang man It's the yin and the yang. So you tell me what you think. You tell me what you think's better.
Starting point is 00:38:18 And by the way, just FYI, to the best of my knowledge, I think in the United States, you cannot be denied service if you walk into an emergency ward. So in a way, we sort of have free health care in the United States anyways. Not that anyone wants to get taken care of an emergency ward. I mean, that's kind of, you know, that's like the jiffy lube of getting well.
Starting point is 00:38:47 But still, it's not like you're going to get left, you know, dying on the street. Someone will take you in or you can get yourself in. And, you know, the taxpayer has to cover it, which some people think isn't fair. So there you go. It's a strange system. And I don't know all the intimate details. I've basically given you like two details of the Canadian health system. But I don't know how much more you really need to know outside of that it's free and it's very accessible and everyone's covered.
Starting point is 00:39:26 But like any system, it has its pitfalls. So like I said, you decide. And, you know, I think if you want to get more information, I'm not completely school. in the whole thing. But you can always go on Wikipedia or you can dig deeper into the Internet to find out the nuances of the Canadian health system. And there you go.
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