NEWSTALK SAUGA960 JULY 6, 2024

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Raise yourself. Josh Holiday Live starts. No, Oh, my goodness,
it's time Saturday morning. Am,I'm Josh. Hello, uh it is

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what is it Saturday morning? It'sthe sixth of July and Bert is here.
That's right from the Morning Canada fromNew Jersey. We've got an American
perspective on the show as well.You didn't need more then exactly. But
we'll talk a little bit later.Well, because we last week we talked

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about July first and some of thequirks of that in Canada, and we
kind of July fourth fell between thelast show and the show, So maybe
we'll talk a little US stuff ina little while. I got new glasses.
I'm very excited. Although it's it'sthe very first time I've had what
they call those progressives where it's likethe lower half is reading, the upper

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half is regular. This is whatI also want now. Yeah, it's
hard to because I would For thelast like three or four years, I've
been carrying two pair of glasses aroundand switching out. But now I have
this, it's I only pick themup on Thursday Friday. So I'm still
getting used to the idea of ofsort of where to look and how to

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look at stuff. All right,It's okay. I like him. I
mean I like not having to switchup glasses all the time. That's yeah,
sure. And I also, asI have before, I got the
transitions, so I don't have toturn sunglasses all in one glasses. It's
like smart glasses. A yes,good times. Oh boy, did you

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the followed after this whole Trump Bidendebate is getting a little crazy, Like
we talked about this last week whereboth you and I talked about how a
Biden was terrible and it would begreat if if they replaced him with someone
else on the ticket. That said, the comparison to him and Trump like

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is basically, would you rather eata dog turd or eat a piece of
cheese? Biden being the cheese.You know, it's it's not great,
but it's not a complete piece ofthought. It wasn't it moldy cheese.
No, I think the cheese wasjust okay, Like it wasn't a lot
of personality. But you know,but anyway, it's not a dog turn,
is what you're trying to say.Yeah, So basically it's like at

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these people are like, well,let's see, he's whole, he's all.
But on the other side the andit's sort of funny, how I
guess, because Democrats tend to bea little bit more I don't know it's
ethical or more like thoughtful. We'rejust because he's he was old and kind
of stumbling. We're thinking, Okay, well, what can we do?
We got to replace him. Whereason the other side you have a guy

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who's a he's basically criminal in manymany ways. Insurance fraud, real estate
fraud, university fraud, campaign financefraud, multiple multiple sexual assaults. And
now this week they released more Epsteintranscripts. And I've actually seen the video

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of this before. There's a thirteenyear old girl who claimed to have been
raped by Trump and it sort ofwent away. But she was sort of
a thirteen year old girl with nota lot of well, not a lot
of support around her, and shewas dealing with someone who is very wealthy

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and has a lot of power,and it was tied to the mob,
and so her complaints sort of wentto the wayside. But you can still
find that deposition video and it's veryvery chilling what she says about about Trump.
And I tend to believe that victimmore than I believe because every time

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he opens his mouth a lie comesout. But there's people like, there's
so many dumb dumbs who are like, well, you know, I would
have vote for Trump, and JoeBond's old I don't get I think you
have to be really really dumb,or really really rich, or really really
rac I think here's what I think. Also, I think that, uh,

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the average person, even the averageTrump supporter, does not know what
the government does. Yeah, theydon't know what the administrative state does.
They don't know that. You know, we need regulations on high tech chemistry,
for example, and you need scientiststo examine those processes and the disposal

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of all these things that we're talkingabout. The Supreme Court decision figure well
no, no, I mean,well, because the you know, Project
twenty twenty five, they want todismantle the administrative state. My point is
they don't know any of this partof what the government does. They don't
They just think, well, thepresident runs the economy and the world,
and you know, back during Trumpthings weren't so bad. He didn't destroy

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everything, blah blah blah. Youknow, like it's just this real surface
level visual of what's actually a veryyou know, complicated and deep thing that
they're gonna unravel it and we're goingto be like back to the eighteen hundreds.
Well that's why I think there's probablylike a try like you're either really
wealthy, yes, you're really dumb, or you're really racist. That tends

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to be like the whole Like theperson who doesn't know what the government does
is really dumb, mister unform politicallyinterested, and they've been listening to talk
radio for forty years tell them governmentcan't do anything and shouldn't do anything.
But the hardcore mega is scared.When they put them, when they put
a microphone in front of those peopleon you know, TikTok, you see

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that they know very little well aboutAmerican history or anything else. And now
you have this room court who wetalked about last time we spoke, we
were talking about how they got ridof regulations so companies can pollute. And
yeah, they didn't actually get ridof any regulations. They just said you
can bring all these regulations to courtsand federal judges will decide which ones we

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should be judges. And then ofcourse then since then the whole Trump immunity
thing, which is is just it'sjust crazy. You know, it's only
been a week, but it seemslike it's that was like five years ago.
It does, it does? Yeah, I don't get it, Like,
and we have dumb dumbs here whoare like, oh, Trudeau is

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terrible f Trudeau. Uh. Andit's like it's they I think. And
it's the same things happening here withthe media. That's that's happening with Joe
Biden. There's a real like,I get it more in the States because
yes, he is he is oldand and he did have a terrible debate
and probably it should be a younga younger candidate. Uh. And there's

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a lot of push by the mediahere. But here there's a lot of
people who who who are anti Trudeau, but they don't really know why other
than it's just like a he's afigurehead for everything that's wrong in their lives.
And most of the stuff, mostof the stuff they get angry about
here here in Canada is stuff that'son the provincial level, healthcare, housing,

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all of those things, and they'relike, oh, justin true is
terrible. But if you look atif you look at it with an old
open mind and open eyes, andyou look at the actual statistics and the
actual things that happened, he wasvery very successful at bringing us through his
helf time. We're well looked uponby by the bye, by the world

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in general. And uh it's it'sjust like really really like just the dumb
dums that that are are sort ofbuying this. And part of it too
is there's a there's a newspaper chainhere in the in Canada called post Media
and they're owned by uh uh well, a lot of the ownership is a
American company that is very very muchin bed with Trump. So they are

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all pushing this narrative of oh,the Prime minister, he's got to retire,
he's gotta he's got to step down, and it's like it's just it
just makes no sense. I mean, it does make sense. If you
look at it, it's like,Okay, it's right wingers trying to trying
to get get their way. Butyeah, it's scary. But I I
listened to sometimes to these people talkabout, you know, how how Biden's

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bad, Biden's bad, b Igotta we're gonna vote for Trump. It's
like you're an idiot. People whoare are who idolize people like Tucker Carlson
or Jordan Peterson. It's like,I think that's they're kind of like the
dumb person's intellectual right. Yeah.Yeah, but anyway, it gets me
mad talking about someone. Just gowatch that debate for anybody who doesn't get

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it. Just go watch the JordanPeterson debate with slaw Boys Zach, and
you will see a man get completelyobliterated on a debate by a man who
was very polite about the fact thatJordan Peterson didn't know anything. Yeah,
Peterson is just an intellectual lightweight whobasically is the smart person's dumb dumb,
dumb person, smart smart guy.He's a smart person's dumb person. Well,

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smart person's dumb person, dumb person'ssmart person. Yeah, yeah,
I think it works with ways.Yeah. Here, I've talked about this
before, but there's so much corruptionout in the open here here in Huntario,
and it's so frustrating. The guywho's in charge, who allegedly has

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mob ties, allegedly and you know, basically was a high school drug dealer.
That's not allegedly, that's actually afact. He is trying to privatize
everything. So he's he's we talkedabout this last time, where here in
Canada you can't really buy like hardliquor in convenience stores, which is fine,

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it's been that way for a while. So we have something called the
liquor store and the beer store.And he is a populist who wants to
get you know, the average joewho likes to drink votes. So he's
been pushing to have beer and liquorin convenience stores. And rather than wait
six months for this to take effect, he all of a sudden decided,

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well, let's do this six monthsearly, which is costing at least a
billion dollars of taxpayer money. Andnow the liquor store where everyone gets there
there there you know your voge becauseyour gins your hard liquors and and a
lot of wine as well. Uh, they're on strike now because they're fighting
against him, and he wants hebasically wants to give the money that Ontario,

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Ontario makes about two billion dollars ayear from the liquor store, like
it goes towards making Ontario better place, but he would rather that money go
to his buddies than to Ontario andhis buddies liquorstore dot com. Yeah,
he's it's just frustrating to watch thecorruption out in the open, and it

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feels kind of helpless because there's nothere's no mechanism of recall or getting rid
of him, like other than thatgot no impeachment, no recalls, no
impeachment. The only thing can happenis he dies or he gets arrested,
and dang. That's and he isbeing investigated for one of one of the
kind of mob scanned uh by theRCMP, but it's so quiet that we

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don't really know if that's doing anythingbecause he in the he's in bed with
the Ontario police. So it's gotto be investigated by the the federal because
he's always buddy buddy with police commissionersand he's always giving them more money.
He's basically his own private police force. But that is neither here nor there.
I I I went to the haveyou gonna? Have you gone to

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Circus Slave before? I have not. I used to many many moons ago.
I used to poo pooh the ideaof it because I just I didn't
know what it was. I waslike, it sounds like very artsy,
fartsy and like like you know,dancing like clowns. I didn't know what
it was. I'd sort of butI went to a show at one time

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years ago. Someone took me andI was like, oh my god,
this is awesome, right because it'sit is basically it is. It does
have an artsy field to it,but a lot of it is just like
stunts and stuff like acrobatic stunts andpeople like flying and leaping and crazy technical
stuff. It is always like I'venever been disappointed by seeing a circus lay

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show. And I went to thenew one that that is here in Toronto.
It's called Echo Echo Echo Echo.Oh yeah, and uh yeah,
it was fun. There was somesome kind of clown I do like,
like some not clowns, like likeyou know, bows of the clown,
but sort of the idea of likeyou know, buffoonish kind of characters and
that there's a little bit of that, but the main thing is like the

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crazy acrobats and the technology, andyou know, it was just just an
experience every time, and so everytime it comes around to try to go
see it and it's a Canadian,Canadian institution. They're there, They're headquarters
is in Montreal, and it's somecan Coon it's can Con as well.
Yeah. Yeah, so I wentto that. That was fun. I

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uh as they said, got thenew glasses and I'm I haven't been had
to stay here for a while.I'm staying over at my mother's house because
her PSW is away for the nextlike four days, and then my my
sister's family comes to town. Soget used to that. Have you have

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you gone to Niagara Falls yet before? No? I haven't. Oh well
you got to get out man.The you know, that's a pretty good
haul. That's a six to sevenhour drive at this point. Yeah,
well you're you're at least you're onthe East coast. It's not well yeah,
sure, not that far away.Maybe if you come visit Toronto you
can stop on the way and thatwould be sensible. Yeah, but I

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would try to fly to Toronto.Okay, Well it's only because from here
it's like an hour and a halfmaybe drive from Toronto to I mean I
like a nice three hour car ride. Yeah, I get you. That's
kind of how I that's where myI want to cut it off after that.
Yeah. I drove cross country fromCalgary alone one time, just like

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thirty hours and that was not funat all. It's a lot. Yeah,
so it's like, what would youdo it in three days? Four
days? Yeah, probably around three. It's just like and it's monotonous.
A lot of the territory between thereand here it's very monotonous. Like I
went through the states like Dakota's andall that. It was just like oh
god, yeah, the whole likeyou know, and at that point,

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you know, that's like maybe threeeight hour days is what we did to
get up here. And it wasbecause I'm drowning by myself. So I'm
not trying to go any more thaneight hours. Yeah that's too much.
Yeah, I mean that's annoying.At least if you have something you can
kind of split the driving with,or someone at least you can talk to.
But like makes a little bitsier.But the whole idea of sitting for
that long, Like especially now,I'm just like, oh god, yeah,

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too much. No mass, nomass uh. And of course the
Canadian side of the falls is thebest. The US that's fine. So
yeah, yeah, the US hassort of like a you know, sort
of a secondary waterfalls. It's anobstructed view. Yeah. Ours is like
a giant, massive horseshoe of liketons of water. Ours is kind of

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like along a ridge. There's waterfalling off of it, but it's not
quite but I think from there youcan see Ours, but not quite as
closely as as you're supposed to goacross to the Canadian side and take it
in. Yeah you got it ifyou're American. Yeah, so we're going
there. And it's also part ofit is it's also like in the actual
area around the falls, it's kindof like cheesy like CARNIVALI kind of atmosphere,

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and I kind of enjoy that insmall doses, like little wax museums
and haunted houses and like mini golfand rides and stuff like that. I'm
all into that stuff. So fam, my sister's family is coming to town
and we'll spend two nights there andthe kids seem to like the water park
into a water park at the hotel, so they'll spend a lot of time

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there. I have trouble with itjust because I sort of think too much
about kids and what they do inwater and stuff like that. Yeah,
you can't dwell on it too much. Wells any kind of like indoor pool
you get into, like the heavychlorine scent. It's all around you,
everything's very damp, and it justdoesn't smell clean anymore. No, And

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so even the scent of it iskind of wrong. Once you're grown up
and just go like, this isn'tthis isn't drying out ever, No,
and you think about just this sortof the I'm sure like the chlorine kills
everything with just the idea of likebeing in the water with like especially in
a busy place with so many,so many people, it's like, oh
god, what else is in thiswater? Well, you're too you're way

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too mental to even enjoy water park. I think in general, I like
the idea of it though, LikeI love water. I went to this,
Uh, water slides are fun.Oh my god, it's so good.
So I did, Like a coupleof years ago, we went to
that Great Wolf Lodge with them,and I did. I did spend a
day, although I felt like Igot a headache at the end of it.
And they had one kind of coolride that like actually was sort of

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similar in roller coasters, like conveyorbelt kind of thing that kind of makes
you go fast and then the dropthings are kind of cool, but uh
not for very like maybe like Icouldn't spend a whole like all day there,
like like the kids, because it'sjust too much. But I do
enjoy it. I like the idea. I like water stuff. Like I

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when I went to Costa Rica,there's kind of this uh hot springs area
and they have this one place wherethere's all kinds of like pools and waterfalls
and rivers and it's all hot springsand you can kind of like sit down
them and it's much more natural andit was really cool. But you know,
ban of water, but just justinto our water parks not so much.
I mean the irony is the hotspring and all this. You know,

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these the cold pools Scandinavian baths typescenario that you probably would find appealing.
There's no coorination. But in thisin the case of this place that
I went. It was like it'slike a flowing down from the mountain.
It's not like a stagnant so it'smoving around, it's taking it away.
Yeah. Yeah, So we wentto Tremblante at one point and there was

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a skin and Avian place, youknow, bath place. It was delightful.
I went there in Turkey, wentto this hotel that had like really
really hot, like they had acouple of pools, really really hot one
and then one that wasn't so hot. And I remember there was a beautiful
uh a Turkish woman there and wegot to chatting. Her husband was a
banker, and nothing ever happened.But but I will I will say this,

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uh you know, not maybe alittle too personal, but for a
long time she remained in my memory, all right, And so we went
on several dates. Oh well that'stoo bad, not not not in Turkey.
But once I got home, Ohin my head, yeah, I
get it. It was Yeah,it was a go to for a long

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time. I think, it's whatI'm trying to say. Anyway, So
it was it was the USA Dayon what was that Thursday? It was
the USA Day. Listen to yes. Independence Day was on Thursday, July
fourth. It was subdued. Itwas subdued, subdued. All right,
welcome to come back. There's certainthings that Americans do that confuse the rest

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of the world. We're going totalk about that and we'll have some weird
USA facts as well. Sex,money, dating, health, hockey,
science, burritos. If there's somethingon your mind, it's on this show.
We'll do it live. Do itlive. I can go, I'll
write it and we'll do it live. Something else. Particulate your brain.
Josh, you're sleep in a dumpsterlast night? Tell us now at six

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four seven six yo, Josh,call or text talk to Rocks. Josh
Halliday is live and free to oneone right on the nose. No subtlety
here is uh was born in theUSA? Yeah, that's huge here I

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was not. Now, I wasnot born in the USA. But you
were? You that song you canrelate to much more than I can,
because yeah, yeah, I'm oldenough to remember when that was a big
hit. Yeah yeah. What wasn'tthere a cheech and chong uh parody of
that some sort of I can't rememberwhat it was? Oh yeah, l

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a oh that was Eastla? Wasthe movie The Cheat? What was the
song then. I don't know.I thought there was a like a song
that They're born in East Easy.Yeah, you know, maybe there was
a song that accompanied the movie.Yeah. Sections of that movie have been
cut out. Incidentally, are notreleased on DVD versions. Oh like what
I recorded it off television in likenineteen eighty seven. I have them what

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so what what stuff like stuff that'sno longer kind of well, yeah,
there's there's this. Have you seenthat movie? It would have been a
long long time ago. Well theyhe he crosses the border with a coyote
right in a truck with other migrants, and then the coyotes hold them for

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ransom. Oh so that entire scenario, the ransom scenario is cut out a
little too a little too serious forChi Chen Jung. I guess, yeah,
I used to when I was akid. I used to love Chi
Chi Jong like that. We watchall those movies. Yeah, I saw
they made me laugh, even thoughlike I had no like I like,

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I had no idea about actual likedrugs or the drug references are way over
my head. But that was wayover my head. But I enjoyed.
I was like, okay, that'sdrugs funny, like smoking fun Like it
was just sort of like, right, he's so funny. Now exactly,
there's a list year of of thingsthat Americans do that confuse the rest of
the world. Now I will Iwill add the caveat that because I'm in

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Canada. We're basically America's hat,and a lot of this stuff is you
know, it may be a littlebit kind of confusing, but we're like,
well it is, you know,we know all about it. It's
a stylish hat though, yeah,very stylish. Some people say it's also
like, ah, if if theUS takes a crap, the smell always

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wafts over into Canada. So whathappens in there politically and stuff ends up
deeping over into our area. Yeah, it's going to be waft and yeah
pretty soon scarily. So one thingthat baffles people around the world is the
US still uses a single colored currency. It's all the green true, and

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then Americans sometimes will call the coloredmoney like monopoly money, buying backs.
You know, we call them greenbacks at one point. You know,
that was but technologically, like it'skind of it's strange because I'll still go
to the States and then when you'regoing through your wall and everything kind of
looks the same. But here everyevery bill is different, so you can
kind of sort really easily. Pluswe have like the technology, the anti

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anti counterfeit technology. Here, wehave clear parts of the bill. We
have like kind of inlaid, kindof rainbowy type like it's like high technology
polymer bills here, more difficult tofake. Yeah, I mean they're getting
some of that. They've got watermarks in the in the US currency now,
not the lower ones. I thinkthe higher value currency has water marks.

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And then they have they've had thatplastic thread in the bill for decades
now, but this is like,yeah, this is like really high in
Canada. Anyway, they've added oncertain features in the last thirty years or
so. I do wonder though,like why was there never a bush or
any any sort of thought towards goingtowards different colors. I'm not sure why

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that is. I mean, Ithink that's just one of those things that's
it's entrenched. Yeah, once youstart, aren't changing what the currency looks
like. I mean, you gotthe reserve currency of the world you're talking
about now, right, that's true. How are you going to change what
it looks like? That's a that'sa destabilized that's mentally destabilizing for the end
users of the currency. Well,that's true because it does like anytime we

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go to somewhere, like when Iwent to Costa Rica, like a lot
of stuff were just paying American Americandollars and in a lot of places around
the world. That's yeah, that'sthe case. You know, even the
even the free you know, Cloroxcoupon I I have my wallet has you
know, a shimmery hologram on.So coupons are are more or less well

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as manufacturers coupons. So you know, uh, party with Red Solo cups.
This feels very much like a fraternitytype of thing. Yeah, that's
what they Well no, no,that is not just a fraternity thing that
has actually in our day it was, but that's actually now you know,
the Red Solo Cup as a pieceof Americana, as a piece of you

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know, that's that's huge for thesepeople that's drunk a lot on the weekend.
Well imagine like for imagine for Solo, that's probably like been a windfall
for them having that sort of it'sthe iconic cup to drink cod line it
up, play beer pong, everybody'sdrunk and happy. You hope. I
like the blue versions myself. Ifif it came down to the choice between
them, Oh, because it's youknow, you prefer blue to red.

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I just yeah, I like thecolor blue more than I like the color
red. Not even it's not evena political thing. It's just I like
blue. Oh okay, yeah,this one is is widely known and unsurprising.
Americans eat everything. Visitors are oftenblown away by the size of American
meals. Right plus A researchers foundthat US candy bars are an average of

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forty bigger, yogurt servings are eightytwo percent bigger, right, and sodas
are fifty two percent bigger than thoseof other countries. Yeah, plus people
are also fifty two percent bigger.Plus uh most most places give you the
free refills. You steamrolled that,but that was a good joke. Uh

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uh. I didn't want to setyou up for the game. But now
I've forgotten. The people are alsofifty two percent bigger. It's just whatever
statistic you'd said last house, Isaid, oh yeah, yeah, so
does any of those you know.Like, I had to quit the sodas
myself because I wanted to not bethree hundred pounds. But you know,
well that's it. Like a lotof people will will try and eat healthy,

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but the the soda thing is basicallyjust sugar injections. Yeah, it's
just pure sugar, doesn't It's delicious, but boy it's uh you pack it
right on. Yeah. I Ihave some relatives who have h an addiction
and when here, Like my momlikes ginger Ale, but she's she's like
really aged and now she has likea real like sugar thing. I think

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it's probably to see the ginger Alepeople being like the Doctor Pepper people,
right, No imperial people, justcasual. Did you see that news that
doctor Pepper is now more popular thancoke and PEPSI? You know it should
be because it is the best one. Yeah, it's delicious and finally all
of America knows it now so goodand it's cool. It's like it's just

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like kind of weird, like kindof quirky flavor, and it's that's the
you know, that's the drink thatTexas created and Texas Yeah, that's straight
out of Waco, Texas. Myfriend doctor Pepper. M d uh Now
they just gave it that name.Uh. I see, there used to
be a place you could go downsouth of Fort Worth, which was Dublin,

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Texas, where they still made itwith the original full Imperial sugar formulation,
not not corn syrup as his customer, but in grocery stores you can
buy the sugar version bottle there atPlano, Texas. Uh. Now do
you know why doctor Pepper comes tothe bottle? I don't. His wife
left him, all right, movingon, don't drink pop it's bad for

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you. Yeah. The World Series, they call it a World Series,
but pretty much every team except theBlue Jays is American. Correct. They
call the winner the World Champs,and that can sometimes baseball, Yes,
right, foreigners. Yeah yeah,I got into a little TikTok deep dive
with different Japanese pitchers that and whattheir careers were like in Japan, and

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then they came to the States anddominated. Oh really fascinating. Yeah so
yeah, so I wonder why theyhaven't tried to expand outside of North Well.
One of the things that happened isthe if you're a baseball nerd,
the splitping or fastball fell out offashion in the nineteen nineties and two thousands
because pitching coaches had determined that ordecided maybe it's even superstitiously that it was

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a shortening guy's careers, so theyquit teaching it. But in Japan,
the split finger fastball is used todevastating effect. So when those guys started
to come over here, nobody couldhit him because they were, you know,
rocking that split finger that was sohard to hit. So wait,
so it's damaging to the pitchers toyeah, they think like it. Maybe
there's a theory that it causes elbowolder radial injuries or ligament and damage or

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whatever, like, oh, thisperson started doing this and then he had
Tommy John surgery like three years later. There's some of that. Yeah,
But because the original derived pitch wasa where the fingers were totally divided,
not like a split finger where it'son the seams, but the ball was
in between the fingers. That wasthe first pitch that took that style.

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And then the split finger fastball,and but it's coming back. That was
the upshot at the TikTok was thatthe split finger fastball is returning and people
use it because it's so effective.Nobody can hit it. Yeah, yeah,
well I guess I mean usually you'rethinking not long term. When you're
playing a lot of the sports,it's like how could I win right now?
Right? But to develop a picturewith good stuff that can pitch for

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a long time. I mean there'sa lot of time and investment that these
teams put into these guys that theywant them to be able to go a
long way. Yeah, I suppose. I suppose there's well in a lot
of sports, like like you lookat your football and stuff, it's like,
go out and hit them and yourCTE watch out your brain pan.
Yeah. Uh. Refer to themselvessimply as this is things that Americans do

(31:30):
that confuse the rest of the world. Refer to themselves simply as America,
right, which is kind of weirdbecause there's the entire hemisphere, the hemisphere.
Yeah, we are the Americas.There's North America, you're all Americans,
Central America, South America. Butyeah, it's weird too because there's

(31:51):
a lot of people who are like, I'm American. Who would who would
like spit on someone from the otherAmericas if they let's just start calling these
people Americans. Also they are illegalnow, but they're Americans. You're you're
an America. You want to callyourself a true American. Then we're all
Americans from from top of the topof the pole. Today, my friend

(32:14):
from Spain, he is not anAmerican. No, he's not, He's
a Spaniard. He's European. Andthen this one has long been confusing for
a lot of the world. Ameasure in miles feet and inches. Yeah,
maybe we tried to get to themetric system under Carter, but we
just couldn't get there. Yeah,it's weird, and it's somehow the imperial

(32:37):
system is just a little bit moreintuitive to me than the metric system.
Well, I will say this assomeone who who Yeah, I grew up
in Canada just basically, you know, on the very close to the US.
Yeah, like iy percent of Canadalives within twenty miles of US water
or something like that. So Ibasically for whatever reason, and maybe it's

(33:00):
because whenever we went, whenever Iwas in a hot place, it was
in the US, so hot temperaturesto me makes like seventies and eighties.
And yeah, because one hundred onehundred is like like it's hot, it's
super hot. But when it's coldweather, I'm much more comfortable with celsius
because zero is really cold and belowzero is so I kind of I kind

(33:21):
of split the temperature thing, andthen that's interesting. And then for height
here here in Canada, I thinkwe still use it quite a bit in
Canada, not so much Europe.But I'm always like, oh, I'm
six foot three. I don't sayI'm one to ninety point five. Oh
yeah, nobody's doing that. Yeah, but I do notice, like other
people from other countries, when Italk to them, they're like, oh,

(33:42):
yeah, I'm I'm one seventy one. Well, how well they're talking
in centimeters, yeah, convert.But see, I noticed also when I
was up there that the you know, beers are still sold in pints sometimes
sometimes, yeah, very regularly.Yeah, you got pint glass or whatever.
Quarter pounders we still have the ordto pounders yeah, and so oh
yeah, same thing with weight.I don't say, like killogrounds. I

(34:04):
have no idea what I weigh,but I'm waiting on little stone stone.
That's a whole other thing. Andthen for for speed, speed's a hard
one because one hundred is sixty milesand hours one hundred kilometers, yeah,
and that feels like one hundred,especially for highways and stuff. It's the
speed limited A lot at the timesis one hundred, so it kind of

(34:28):
makes sense, although it should behigher, like you know in the States,
of course, seventy five espectually.Those distances you get out there,
my goodness, Yeah, endless milesof nothing. You got to raise the
speedling and it's fine. I sawsomebody, I've seen some tiktoks get into
like the idea of base twelve andthey break down how far down the base
twelve goes inside the imperial system,which is fascinating. That doesn't I mean,

(34:53):
on the surface, that doesn't soundfascinating, but it's very interesting because
you know, you get into youknow, you start with twelve inches and
then it just kept going. Ican't even explain it at this point.
Okay, Yeah, twelve inches vinylis what I think of when I think
I have twelve inches. Yeah,sure, Okay, So now here's some
unusual US facts for you, sincewe're sort of doing a little pot keep

(35:16):
celebrating the nation. That was Yeah, the first fourth of July celebration included
thirteen cannon shots and thirteen toasts.It happened in you know where it happened.
Oh man, No, I haveno idea of Philadelphia. Yes,
seventeen seventy seven, Philadelphia's going toI remember they made a Tom Hanks movie

(35:38):
about that that moment called Philadelphia.Sure it was exactly the uh. But
that was a great Bruce Springsteen song. I love that song. Yeah.
I had a little bit of likethe electronic beats and yeah, yeah it
kind of made your you got thoselittle goosebumps, that chill. Yeah it's
good. Yeah, it's a goodsong. The country's declaration of independence was

(36:01):
actually passed on July second, butwas ratified officially on July fourth. There
you go. Here's a guessie onehere here for you. Americans typically eat
how many million hot dogs on IndependenceDay? Roughly I would say there's three
hundred million of us. They gotto throw down like eighty million hot dogs,

(36:24):
right, one hundred and fifty millionhot dogs. Yeah, enough to
stretch from DC's. Los Angeles wentfive times because we went to a baseball
stadium, the minor league ballpark towatch. Incidentally, a Canadian team played
the American team, and the Canadiansone thankfully the uh well the three Rivers

(36:45):
Eagles in englishs Yes, yes,they had they could hit the New York
Boulders. Now I was claiming theFrench. Yeah, you know, my
heritage is that all my people cameto the Americas through Coolbeck, no doubt
so. But yeah, so,I mean I just I claimed the French

(37:08):
Canadian team. But so they playedOK Canada. Before the game, they
played the star Spangled banner, andyou know, people stood at attention for
O Canada, which I thought wasrespectful. They clapped after OH Canada play.
They clapped more after we played this. But then there the hot dogs
were nine dollars and fifty cents,so I had no hot dogs? Were

(37:29):
they at least like the long likea foot longs? I didn't even check.
Okay, Now, there was aguy we'd eaten before we got there
kind of early. And then therewas a like a food court in the
stadium with a guy doing Greek.You know. So he had euro which
unbeatable, except they're like, youwant Giro, you want a gyrow,

(37:52):
Come over here, get you aGiro. No, it's not a Southern
accent. The people in the Southcan pronounce hero correctly. We'll put some
tit ziki on it. You're right, the Jersey folk have turned the turned
the Greek. Even the Greek gentlemanwill say, gyro, oh, that's
not it's tragic. Uh. Iremember going to a uh ehl like minor

(38:15):
pro hockey game in Florida and theyhad a like hot dog night, like
two I think it's two dollars hotdogs, and they had to put a
they had to put a sign salike I think it was like limit ten
per customer or something. Two dollarsthat's the right price for I'm old enough
that I've been to a dollar hotdog night at a major league ballpark.
So I don't know if that happensanymore, especially if it's like your your

(38:37):
your low and hot dog, whereit's just scrapings off the Isn't every hot
dog a low end food? Ultimately? I think so, I don't.
I don't. It's been a longlong time since they've had any kind of
meat. Not that many gourmet hotdog places, although I know a few
well here, I guess like theyhave the guys, the vendors. They
will have sausages, which is kindof a step up, you know,

(38:57):
a little bit. Sure, yeah, spice stuff New york'sity. Now,
this is a quirky what do youknow about Statue of Liberty. That's kind
of unusual that people wouldn't necessarily thinkwhat do I know about it? There's
one fact about it that I thinkyou might know. More than it took
him like fifty years to get thebase paid for women. More about the

(39:22):
location. Oh, it's in NewJersey. Yeah, technically in Jersey City,
New Jersey. I ha, No, but it isn't because they gave
that. So Ellis Island is alsoin New Jersey. And so there was
a compromise reached in like you know, eighteen oh seven or something between these
two states, and then Ellis Islandwas expanded, and so New Jersey went

(39:45):
to court in the late nineties andthe Supreme Court decided that the greater Ellis
Island, the new part is inNew Jersey, and the littler part is
in New York. Oh okay,as crazy as that is, Yeah,
even Staten Island should be in NewJersey if you look at the original agreement
of you know what the Hudson means, So Jersey's getting a raw deal basically

(40:07):
essentially. But I mean, maybewe don't want Staten Island. Uh,
yeah, that's true. Although thefairy didn't call him, calling jos In
and was it Sandberg by the StatenIsland Ferry or the corner They bought a
boat, but then they were drunk. They don't know what to do with
it. The US is also theonly country that has all five climate zones

(40:31):
temperate, continental, tropical, dry, and polar, humid, subtropical.
That's what I grew up in.Is that? What is that? What
Texas says it's Dallas. Dallas washumid subtropical. Oh I thought I thought
it would be more dry in Dallas. Oh no, sir, especially like
for the south. No, it'snot. It's dry in like West Texas.

(40:51):
Okay, because I just sort ofthink of Texas and cowboys and tumbleweeds
and stuff like that. Yeah,that's West Texas Central everything basically west of
Fort Worth. You're getting into adrier, legit dry climate. But Dallas
and points east and definitely south humanshave propical all the way down. I
did not know this. I didnot know this. Finally, Abraham Lincoln

(41:14):
is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame. Oh, I didn't know anything about
this. They do not give contexton this list, so I don't know
in what capacity that's intridiculously honorable babesin there honorably well, because they're gonna
put Trump in there eventually, so, oh my god, Jesus, so
they got to put another president inthere. It's at the president. Uh,

(41:34):
you're you're not really dating anymore,I am. But there's some trends
in dating and the odd things thatare happening online. And we'll tell you
a bit about that a momento welike it or not. You're listening to
Josh Holiday Lines. Do you havefans, Josh, Not many of them
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(41:57):
work, a damn good program andwet all right, Josh, you're not
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Saturday Morning Live on Josh hitting thepost like Magic Berts here as well.

(42:22):
Of course that was unintentional, butit worked quite well. Thank you,
Thank you very much. I don'tnormally talk about movie openings, even though
you know we're on the weekend ofshow. But by way of I just
I'll say what Despicable me for isopening Beverly Hill Cop is on Netflix already.

(42:45):
Yeah, But Maxine, which isI guess the third in this trilogy
of kind of horror movies based aroundlike like adult stuff, is coming this.
Yeah. I haven't watched. Ihaven't really watched them, but I
want to mention that the actresses inall the whole trilogy is Mia Goth.

(43:07):
She's British, she's kind of kooky. She's married to Shia Labouf, so
a couple. But I wanted toflag a movie that is really really like
one of my favorite movies in thelast couple of years. Infinity Pool,
okay is what it's called. Nonothing of this. It's uh. Do

(43:28):
you know David Cronenberg, the Davidlegendary kind of kind of uh like horror
but smart horror kind of movie directorhere in Canada and his son is a
director as well. I made likea tiny, like barely a line performance
in one of his earlier movies.But this movie, uh is really like

(43:57):
it's really screwed up for sure,like an old kind of mess you up.
Some of it even feels like whenI was watching, I felt like,
oh my god, this feels likeI'm actually having like a hallucination.
Like some of the scenes I waslike, so so strange, but it's
really really good and it's it's verymuch in the vein of what his father
would make kind of these these thesereally interesting they're they're horror, but they're

(44:20):
they're like smart, maybe partially scifi, partially horror. Infinity Pool.
I recommend it. I would checkit out. Alexander scars Guard is in
it. She's in it, anduh, Brandon Cronenberg directed it, and
it's really good anyway. That's Ijust wanted to fly that because it's it's
a it's a cool it's a coolmovie, all right. Yeah. Uh.

(44:45):
If you're still dating online, whichI am, unfortunately perennial bachelor.
Here, what are the most importanttraits daters are looking for in a potential
spouse these days? Well, theydid a poll of people in Britain two
thousand adults looking for a mate.Most desirable attributes are emotional intelligence. Uh

(45:07):
huh, the ability to get alongwith your friends and family. Another way
of saying the same thing, emotionalintelligence is kind of it's a little broad.
Yeah, okay, it's still it'sstill downstream for emotional intelligence. Yeah,
okay, Financial stability. Uh huh, that makes sense. Yeah.
Seventy nine percent of the respondents saidthey were searching for a partner who has

(45:28):
certain qualities that they don't have asa way of making complimentary Yeah, I
was supposed to looking for someone who'sexactly like you. You kind of,
Yeah, you balance each other out. Although I always hate the I've hated
that phrase you complete me because it'slike it's such a I that's one of

(45:49):
the most codependent movies of all time, right, Yeah, but just the
idea of you complete me, it'slike you're you don't need someone else to
complete you. You're or not.Yeah, that's yeah, you're you're you're
in love with being in if that'show you feel. Uh anyway, Uh,
seventy they say they're searching for aperson who a certain qualits they don't
have as a way of making amore fulfilling relationship. Uh. The rest

(46:09):
of the top ten most desired qualitieshappy to happy to have, relaxing,
unrestful, lazy days, animal lover, active, listener and wants to hear
about my day, knows what theywant, stimulates me, intellectually, likes
children, in a good sense ofstyle. Uh. In terms of putting

(46:31):
a picture up on these sites,these dating sites, right, Uh,
sometimes they'll and I don't don't knowhow this algorithm works. But you can
select something and says, uh,let the let the dating app pick the
best picture to put up there.And I don't know how that works because

(46:51):
people, yeah, but they saythis. If you want your best perfect
photo for dating, for social forfor even for LinkedIn or or Facebook,
it's better to ask a stranger toselect it for you. Sure. Researchers
said that there's an inbuilt bias thatleads people to believe they look more favorable

(47:13):
than they actually do, causing themnot to always pick the best picture.
There you go. If creating agood first impression as the goal. The
twenty seventeen study found that a person'schoice is for their own profile rarely match
up with the ones selected by crowdsourced strangers, who are asked to rate
photos of and perceive attractiveness, trustworthiness, and competence. It reminds me of

(47:34):
when like, you know, theoccasional on Facebook, and it doesn't happen
now as much as I saw inthe past, but a woman what a
friend would occasionally, you know,like put their hair color into like a
boat on it. Yeah, yeah, try to bring democratic forces into their
next hair color, which I'm tryingto bote responsibly. Well, I traveled
in a certain circle of performers andactors and stuff like that. Yes,

(47:58):
right, So very frequently someone willpost I got new headshots here, what
what one do you What one doyou think is best? My best headshot
for acting? One, two,three, or four? And uh,
it's interesting to kind of watch inthe comments how many people align with with
the same or similar images, becauseI guess they know what stands out I

(48:22):
I I'm sometimes the same way whereI've gotten headgshots done and then I bring
them to my agent. They're like, oh, we like this one.
We think this one representing you.I'm like, well, that one I
like because I think probably because lessfor acting, but it probably I look
I look better. But for them, they want more of a character thing,
right, this is just for yourvanity. They're trying to get you

(48:42):
work. That's right, exactly.Yeah, I'm like, okay, And
then sometimes that's the other thing.Now I am going a little in the
weize with this. But when Iget a headshot, now I'm like,
I wanted I want to get goodshots because I want to use them for
for you know, social media,yeah, data and stuff like that.
But the on the other side ofthe coin, I should be getting more

(49:04):
characters stuff because I'm not getting I'mnot getting hired for leading man stuff.
I'm more of like a like acharacter actor where it's like, you know,
more quirky guys and stuff like thatfun neighbor yeah, or the creepy
guy. You know, so I'lltake whatever copy or or like a buffoonish
guy or the you know, justjust whatever character. Really. Yeah,

(49:27):
I will say this, I dofind that I would rather play the more
quirky, oddball roles than sort ofa straight straight up kind of like lead
dude. Okay, it's more funfare point a lot less money, but
more fun. No residuals, didyou see this, Well, it's a

(49:47):
whole other. Yeah, it's awhole weird thing here. Residuals like our
the residuals in the US, Ilike because there you do a movie project
and then when it airson television andstuff, you get paid almost every time.
But here for a lot in alot of cases there's a buyout,
which means they'll pay you for thefull day, right, and then they'll

(50:09):
double that, and that means theycan use it, you know, in
perpetu almost perpetuity. But I sometimesbecause I did years and years ago,
I was I was on this leaFemnikida television show. Every couple of episodes,
I'd be on there, not sayingvery much, but as sort of

(50:31):
this torture guy, you know,right along the lines of yeah, me
and this lady were we were.We went to conventions, we were the
torture twins. We would always becalled in at torture the villain of the
week. And so I don't know, going, oh yeah, so sometimes
now, like every once in awhile, I'll get like a check in

(50:53):
the mail for like eleven cents orsomething, and and uh it's all because
of that that show Welcome to America. Uh good times. Uh yeah,
so yeah, that's sort of what'shappening. Are you doing anything? Are
you doing anything for your the restof your summer? You shop for a

(51:13):
fridge, Oh yeah, that's right, you got fridge is shoes. I
just got a new dishwasher. Thatwas exciting. I don't recommend LG.
I'll tell you that I got aBoh, here's a trivia question for you.
What was LG before it was LGwhen we were kids. Oh,
it's oh geez, okay, giveme a second. Here is Japanese?

(51:35):
Yes, Korean? Korean? Okay? Uh, what's the first letter?
G? Gee? I don't knowwhat is it? Gold star? Oh?
Gold star? And so then itwas like, well we're lucky gold
star. Oh. Then they justwent to l G and it's like,
life's good. That's good. You'regoing to replace the compressor every five years.

(51:59):
That's two grand on the thing iseleven hundred bucks to replace compress.
Love is good, that is good. Refrigerators are now disposable. All right,
Well, I wish you well inyour refrigerator search. I appreciate that.
And well maybe next week you'll havea new Fridgie can tell me about
all about it. Oh, Ican't wait. The show is over.
The show is over. Lessons werelearned, but the conversation continues. Phone

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