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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
No oh so.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Tire, so tired? Oh yeah, welcome to the show. We
are live. It is September is the fourteenth. I'm Josh
bert is year as well.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Good morning Canada.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I yeah, I do. Somebody's here. My mother is is
for a long time. Listeners out of the show, you, sir.
My mother is not well. We have usually someone here
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week to
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kind of make sure she's she's okay and not following
and all that stuff. This weekend, though, there's no overnight person.
So I slept here at her house where the studio
is as well, and there's a better n she likes.
I sleep at my house where it my regular place,
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where the air at night I put to nineteen celsius,
which Bratt you can look up for fahrenheit. I like
it cold or cool, and her house on her main
floor is warm and even with a fan running, and
it was it's just I don't even I can't even
get cool with no covers on until later at night,
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and then it's just like an uncomfortable mattress. And yeah,
so I'm I shouldn't be operating any heavy machinery or
even audio equipment quite frankly, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I like. I think I like about seventeen.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh oh even cooler? Yeah nice.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
In the wintertime it gets down a little lower.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But you know, do you find do you have like
arguments with your partner about the temperature? No, oh, that's
good because I know a lot of people, like.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Everybody likes a cold no one. We're all from Texas,
you see, Yes, that's true, to almost never be cold enough.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, well I think like, but I think that is
like a for some people, like I had a when
I went to boarding school. Oh I uh, I had
a Like I had a roommate and he liked like hot,
hot hot in the room, like cold. So it was
a constant battle over the over the thermost dat. And
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I feel like in a partner that could be a
deal breaker. Uh in terms of of you know, progressing
is the fight over the thermostat. I guess that's why
I live alone with just my dog. And even he
even he uh sometimes finds it too cold because hit
instead of lying on top of the bed, he'll he'll
try and get under the covers. Uh. We were off
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last week unintended, not with with intention of being on,
but uh the old covid raised its head, its ugly head.
And UH I've been okay since this past Monday, but uh,
the week before about almost a full week, nasty, nasty
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case of COVID.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
UH.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And I the problem is part of the problem is
uh the the new vaccine is it's already out in
the States within the last week or two, and I
think it's out here soon. But I I had really
really hoped that I could kind of make it to
the new vaccine.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
UH.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And the summer, the levels generally tend to go down
the summer. Although it's been uh it's been a rampant
here and a lot of people who've.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
It has been persistent in the late summer. It's been
kicking up really all summer. It's been I've been hearing.
You know, they're checking for it in the wastewater, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, well here the stupid provincial government decided to try
and well I think they've they've shut down most of
the wastewater monitoring this. Yeah, our goverment, the Ontario government
is just terrible. As we've talked about before at all.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Fascism likes to reduce the amount of knowledge that society
has about itself. Just one of the hallmarks for those
who are uninitiated.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, we have an alleged mobster in charge of our province,
and so, uh, it's all about saving money and about
sending sending money to his his uh, his contributors, like
like like a lot of the contributors and friends are developers,
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you know, land land developers, and so so one of
his plans was a highway, so that no, it isn't
really necessary. And if you look along the highway you
can see all the different parcels of land than all
of his his uh, his friends, his his associates have
bought up. And then uh, we we've had for years
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and years.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Kids have loved and even adults have loved going to
the science center. It's been in the same spot for
quite a while a while. It's it's uh, it's kind
of an architectural wonder. It's built on a hill and
it's just an amazing, amazing facility. And he's decided that well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Think we we.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We it's too far away. We got to shut it
down and move it to the Harbor Front in a
smaller version. And they used an excuse like about a
month or two, well maybe two or three months ago, saying, well,
the roof is leaking. We got to shut it right down.
So they boarded it up, and most of the people
who were experts said, well, you didn't really need to
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shut it right down. It wasn't a huge prepare and
caught in another lie. And the weird thing is he's
he was in charge of a new subway line and
one of the stops is right at the Science Center.
It's even called the Science Center stop. But people did
some research and right across the road from the Science
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Center a huge parcel of land is owned by one
of his biggest contributors and biggest friends. So it's like
the corruption is right out in the open here, and
it's frustrating because you can't do anything about it. There's
no recall method. Uh, he may call an election soon
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to try and like get more more time and power,
because he's been doing a lot of populous stuff like
reminding people like we got rid of license plate fees
and we put beer the beer liquor in the corner stores,
even though it costs taxpayers close to a billion dollars
to do it six months earlier than planned.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Just just he's basically just a corrupt a high school
drug dealer.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He was.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
He was a drug dealer in high school or lump of.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Poop away sometimes high school drug dealer you know makes good.
You never know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, I think he made a lot of you know,
he made a lot of business connections when he was
in high school and maybe he continued.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
H yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Anyway, so do yourself a favorite and as soon as
you can get that the new vax get because this
whatever the strain was, it was really really nasty.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Like have you had before?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah? I had it. I had it. I've had a
few times. I had it in this because I'm in
a populous city, but I do get boosters all the time.
And last time I caught it, I also got uh
pax Loavid and it lasted maybe four days. This time around,
I didn't get the packs loavid uh. And it was basically,
(08:26):
do you regret not getting the paxslavied Uh? I probably
I probably should have early on, but I I think
I kind of waited to do the test. I thought
I just got I got cold. I'm for sure I
got it, but I it was sort of reluctant because
I I don't know how much my insurance covers of it.
And it's like a very expensive Oh yes, it's like
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a thought if you if you don't have insurance, it's
like twelve or thirteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But yeah, but I would say, at the very least
get yourself that get yourself the new booster that supposed
to be for these new variants, because yeah, it like.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
No, I'm pretty, I'm pretty. Yeah I get them.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah me too. I was just I was just hoping
because because in the fall there's the flu and the
the COVID one and I I'm like a needle folk.
So I try and kill the two birds with one
stone and go in and get.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I kind of get them separately. But yeah, I here you.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I just want one day of like where I go
in I put put the numbing cream on both of
my my my arms and uh.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The numbing cream.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I guess those allergy shots I had as a child
really just made me so indifferent to needles. I just
don't care anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah. Well, it's been a lifelong thing for me because
even when I was a kid going to the like
the child dentist, I would when they had to do
a drilling or whatever. I would, I would.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Say, that's like, nobody wants to hear us talk about it.
It's so bad.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
But I would.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I would.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I would say, no, I don't want the needle. I'll
just take the pain of the drilling. Uh so, yeah,
so what it's basically takes like a week out of
your life where it's just like you can't.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Do Yeah, no, it does. I mean the the first
couple go arounds with the COVID vaccine for me were
just like, Okay, you're gonna spend the day in bed,
You're gonna feel rotten for a day and a half.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
But then you know, but the actual yeah, yeah, the
the you're you're lucky to sort of not not like
I I've been I played hockey, so I'm in in
you know, sweaty, heavy breathing dressing room rooms after the game.
And then that week also I was working at a
facility downtown, so I was on the subway and stuff.
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Uh like the week before I I I started having it,
so it was probably hockey er subway.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And I mean the listeners will love this, the three
the three listeners. I will if it's crowded, like in
an airport security line, I'll still put the mask on. Yeah,
I probably get to the airplane.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm not on the mask anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, it sort of feels like, no, there's no like
it's not actual pressure, but it feels like I'm sure
it feels like there's I.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Am and I do not care what other people think.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well that's good though, like like that's for me. That's
sort of a lesson, just do it. A lesson. That's
saying a long time like the less you care about
what other people think, like the more the better.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
You're a lot faster when you stop that part.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Of giving essens about stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Also, in some.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Places here they're making a masking illegal.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's the great, that's like, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I really think that's because they are going to make
protest illegal as are you know, country sort of gradually
moves into fascism time.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, well that yeah, that's that's so stupid. I think
the excuse they use as well, you know, for if
people are robbing or whatever, they give me break. It's
such a such a backward thing. Like if people want
to wear a mask, to wear a mask, like, you
don't mandate it one way or the other. If you
don't want, if you don't want to mandate it that
people have to wear it, don't manage it. They don't
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have to wear it. That's so stupid. And I also
missed my first like the opening weekend of my hockey
as well, So that was kind of a discipline the
manny thing if you're the team, that's right. I playing
in an arts league and I well I run one team,
so that's sort of you know, the opening game is
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when you know, you get everything sorted out and hand
out jerseys and stuff. And I had to pass that
off to someone else. I speaking of self consciousness, I
realized that uh sometimes if I'm like people in Toronto
will jaywalk a lot, like we take take it into
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our own hands to cross whenever we want. Uh, Like
sometimes if I'm going to rush, if if there's a
red light and there's no cars, I'll like run across
the road. And I had an instance this time around
where there was a father and his two young kids,
and I was going to do that, and I was like,
uh uh, and I didn't. I hesitated because I thought, well,
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I don't want to be the guy who the father
has to say, well, you know, you kids, don't do that.
He's an adult. I didn't want to like be the
bad example for these now.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
That I could see making any accept.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, so you think that that actually because I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Oh, man, I think you're making the right call there.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay. So I because because it is it is a
thing like I saw the kids. I'm like, Okay, if
I was a parent, I'm telling my kids, yeah, don't
don't wait wait for the cross, We're just.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Going to wait.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And this guy goes across. Then yeah. So I took Yeah,
I took the kind way. As a single man, I
eat out on my own a lot, and apparely solo
dining reservations are up twenty percent in the last two years.
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Everywhere North America says, uh, reservations to go by yourself yeah, well,
I guess if you're if you're going to a restaurant
that needs like like needs reservations, you know it's it's
a tables, a table for two or for one. Uh
unless see, I mean a lot of people would if
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your solo just eat up at the bar. But uh
says sixty percent of people have dined alone at least once.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
In the last yearning.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, I have a book that's a good one
book newspaper. I guess. Now telephone takes away that kind
of thing. But sometimes I like just to sit alone
on a patio and people watch, and try and keep
my phone away and just kind of you know, be
in the moment. Uh as as longtime listeners know all
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of them. Uh Bert is the other voice you hear,
and he is in the US, and a I'm Josh,
I'm here in Toronto, and what what a mess down
south of the border. There's the debate there's a Russian interference.
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So we'll get a little bit into that in just
a sake.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
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Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yes, we are live Saturday morning, fourteenth of September. I'm
Josh here in Toronto, bert Is in the state of
New Jersey in the United States of America. How about that?
How about that debate?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
That that's pretty good?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah it was. But like the crazy thing is, there's
still people who like, see this and see this man,
and and how like how much of a lunatic he is,
how dangerous he is, how dummy is, how crazy he is.
But they're still caught up in this in this like,
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well he's me, you know. I sometimes it's like, oh,
he's a lesser of two evils. But then there's people
just like, no, he did great, he was, you know,
because I saw there was some pole Like not contrary
to what he said there there weren't any poles that
had him. I had in the in the debate, but
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I saw some of the poles and they were a
lot less lopsided than they should have been all things considered.
So there's still a lot of people who are just
like body to this cult and nothing, nothing he does
or nothing anyone says is gonna going to get them
out of this cult.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah. I mean, party identity is pretty sticky, but this
is this is like and you know, once you kind
of like and he's another level of identity, right, I
mean like for some people like this became they got
his they got his shirt, they got had There was
never a time when there were people just so devoted
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to someone in politics with their gear.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well, I think, but I think that's why it's more
cult like than just like this, where politics in the
past has sort of been a team sport in a
lot of ways, this feels like less of a team
thing and just like a like a really a cult
because there's there's this leader, this cult leader. There's nothing
he can do or say that will make them think
worse of him.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You can do no, he can tell ridiculous lies, and
then they'll sit there and go, well, what do you
mean there's places where abortion is legal after the child
is born.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, and you know, like they'll just you know, I
even had a conversation with someone's like, oh, well, how
would I prove that that was true or not true?
One source will say it's true. And I was like,
you're telling me the code. There's code you can just
go look, there's no state where that's legal, that's verifiable. Yeah,
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this person had to like walk it back and you go, oh, yeah,
I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, And like like just the thought of that, like
where like how can you really believe that a baby's
coming out, the baby's alive and then they then and
then they kill it. It's like, you know what, never mind,
it's just you're just it's just such a dumb thought.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And that's the other thing. It's like, you know, sometimes
you'll talk to people and they'll have such a their
imaginary version of the person who wants an abortion at
the ninth month, is that they just changed their mind.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just some lady who's who's just so
fit goal. Yeah, it's all about like so yeah, some lady,
like a like a lower class lady who's who's sleeping
around and she got praid to have another abortion. But
most of the cases, it's like a lot of the cases,
it's it's people people who want families and they're really
really hoping for this child and and this is for
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them the worst case scenario. They they're they're reluctantly having
it because the baby's not viable or the mother's health
is going to get get h It's.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All horrible situations that cause the late term abortions. It's
not just people glib.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, and the late term abortions are are very very
yeah infrequent. Yeah, but they like to make a big,
big fuss about, but it's usually a medical emergency.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Process that they can you know, they can you know,
harvest your imagination and and capture it and go oh look, look,
you know what about this? Yeah, that'd be horrible, right,
And then when you get into the actual you know,
legality of it, there's no real exceptions because all the
doctors are sitting there going like, I'll lose my license,
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I'll be in jail.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, it's very it's it's very strict.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The other thing in the debate was the uh, the
it feels like like there's there's always been racism with
with the you know, with the Trumpies and the Trump campaign,
but now it keeps getting more and more blatant. Like
the dog eating thing was just so like viscerally racist
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and xenophobic and.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Whatever hysteria is cooking out there online on the right
in those paper swamps. He brought it right out and
she got him to do it essentially by being better
at debating.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah, like I he I think
he probably, you know, because he's often like he doesn't
really see himself as as being unsuccessful at anything. He
probably thought he was going to like be able to
wipe the floor with her.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
And he wasn't even prepared for her to shake his hand. Yeah,
I mean he should when he was in trouble from
that point. Yeah, she walked up and very confidently introduced
herself and shook his hand. And he wasn't gonna he
was just going to walk to the podium.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, he wasn't looking. Yeah, he was like.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oddly in front and kind of intersect him, you know
what I mean, to get to where that she could
facilitate a handshake. It was I mean, the whole thing was.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, that was it was smart in a bit of
a power move.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
It was like, you know, she was really much better
I think than anybody anticipated.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah. Well, early on she was a little bit had
a bit of nerves I could tell, but and as
anyone would, but later on she like just was was
she was doing very well.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
You see have you seen the video of the people
watching it in a bar. And when she starts talking
about that he had the Taliban to Camp David, there's
a TikTok and then she looks him up and down
and she said this and looks him up and down,
and everybody in the room says the MF.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, well that's her expressions were like a lot of
times they say, they say, they tell Cannadis, you know,
keep your face neutral or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But she's she's him with amusement.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, she's got the perfect face for amusement and incredulity.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Put your hand, you know, up under your chin a
little bit and just rest your chin on your fist
and go like, well what is this little man doing?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, and that as like as one should do when
someone says crazy racist things.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
It's the most effective anyone's been. Again, i mean, we've
been sitting here waiting for almost a decade, for nine
years for someone to be this effective against him in
a debate.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah. And the thing that long, the thing that must
burn him up is is a it's a woman, which
you know, they hit him and is ill considered inferior
and it's a woman of color, which you know, if
you're a racist and you're leading a racist movement, all
the more humiliating.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I mean, I feel like it's not a racist movement,
it's a movement that happens to be racist also anyone
tangent so that I think they have their own ideas
about what's good and then like the racism just kind
of fits in with it.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Okay, yeah, but and but but I would say this,
most racists are are you know of that party as well? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What there is a lot of there's a lot of
like the sort of baked in white supremacy that people
don't haven't really grappled with or know that they even
are predisposed to think about or think positively towards.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
But if it feels like more and more lately, it's
the the otherism, like that they're coming over the border.
They're still like really really trying to cause it. And
that's even happening here like like I in Canada, I
sometimes I will hear people say talk about like oh,
the immigrants or this person this and that, like it's
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it's it's really leaked over the border here where people
are blaming their ills on on this boogeyman of immigration.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know. Meanwhile, all the jobs were sent overseas by CEOs, Yeah,
not immigrants.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Well that's the thing. There's that. There's that meme where
there's uh, there's two there's there's a really really wealthy
guy and then two regular people, uh, sitting across from
the table from each other, and uh the one guy
has has maybe two cookies and another guy has zero
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and he he he Uh the rich guy points to
the other guy saying, well, he he took all your cookies.
I'm not explaining properly, but basically, uh, A lot of
the problems are are are caused by by corporations and billionaires,
and the finger pointing always goes to the people who
are more more than likely the victims than the actual.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Or just like you know, oh, here's this. You know,
we have twenty million people from Central and South America.
Why are they here? Their governments are being destabilized by
United States foreign policy.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That too, and then a lot of people are they well,
they're stealing stealing our jobs and say, well, okay, do
you watch them? Do I mean, do you want to
pick strawberries? Do you want to go and pick them?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That's the thing. Yes, that's exactly what it is. You know,
every time the you know, the farmers out in California,
a lot of farmers in a lot of states are
sitting there going like, well, wait, no, that's my that's
who's picking the fruit around here.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
So those and every time migrant laborers, like every time
they like get strict on the border, they used to
just go back to Mexico. Yeah, now they stay because
the border became you know, uh locked down essentially.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, you couldn't. Yeah, you can't really go back and
forth because you'll probably get you know, stuck in that.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's just like you know, I mean people are moving around.
You know, I don't see I don't see people trying
to roof houses or no.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, that's that's sort of yeah, that's that's they're not
taking the myth that they're coming. They're taking our job
and making it worse. They're taking our health care. Then
they're not voting, despite what what the fear amongers would
have you think.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And there's maybe a handful that managed to get you know,
ready to vote somewhere. But I mean there's a million
stories in the Naked City, you know, I mean there's
just yeah, I think somewhere, but not on mass.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The other thing that it was unsurprising but but surprising
that it was finally brought to light was all of
the influencers in the right wing being funded by Russia
and the Russian government.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah. Sure, and there's a lot of money flowing around
on the right. They got a lot of money for
their influencers, don't they.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Well, And the funny yeah, it's it's sort of funny
that they were like, oh, we're victims. It's like you're
getting one hundred thousand dollars for a podcast and you like,
there's you and you're reading off Russian talking points. Hmm,
you can't connect the dots. Uh, It's it's really really
And there's something. There's one lady who's uh was a
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Canadian kind of contributor in the past. You used to
work for for some of the places here, This Lauren Southern.
But I there's a lot, apparently like a lot of
other outlets on that list that they haven't made public.
And I have a very very strong feeling that there's
a lot of Canadian outlets that are kind of holding
their breath, the right wing outlets waiting for the shoe
(28:01):
to drop that are probably that we had on all
of them out No, no, no, there's this is there's
like in other countries, like like it's it's not just
us and uh. The proof I think here is that
they actually showed some of the right wing people in
the States who were funded by Russia, uh, spreading lies
(28:22):
about our government as well. So it leaked over the
border with with memes and stuff about Justin Trudeau from
these right wing influencers funded by Russia. But definitely at
some point it will come out here that there's a
lot of these right wing people, right wing sites that
are influenced by Russia.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Like.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The one thing that sticks out to me though, and
and I try to argue this online, is that Canada
by every metric you look at to determine whether a
country is successful in terms of inflation, ah, happy, happiness, gross,
like financially, every every category you look at, Uh, Canada
(29:07):
is is at or near the top in almost every category.
Yet there's a lot of people in this country who
have the notion that, oh, Canada's broken, Trudeau's terrible, canada
Canada's and the worst shape it's ever been. It's just
not true, it's not factual, your your business and formed in.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
The sense that they remember a time that was better
for them and maybe their parents and grandparents.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It could be a little bit, but but it's more
about this this hatred for for the leader that's been
ginned up, and I I assume it a lot of
it is probably back in Russia who wants to destabilize
and and get their candidate. This this Pierre poly Ever,
who's uh has no policy except being against everything and
(29:52):
and uh he's he's basically a vortex of charisma.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
He has none uh prictize everything well and he is.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Well, he won't even like really say what his policies are.
The other thing is he won't get even though he's
the leader of the Conservative Party, he won't get a
security check and so he's never like people have pressed
him money that he refuses to get a security check.
And for someone who's hoping to be the leader of
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the country, it seems a little suspect suspicious. But there's
also within the last year there there were reports that
some members of the government were being influenced or paid
by by outside countries. And it hasn't come to light
(30:46):
who or what, but I think the assumption is is
a lot of it is on the right, the right side,
as you will. Also shared an article on my Facebook
which maden some of the right wingers. It basically said,
I think eighty nine. I'm just gonna pull it up
(31:08):
because I don't want to miss miss miss the figures.
But it's basically about misinformation and disinformation. They did a
study found that eighty four percent of Canadians with strongest
belief in disinformation vote conservative, and further to that percent
(31:33):
of the most disinformed Canadians are planning to vote for
the Conservative Party of Canada or the People's Party of Canada.
So it is a legitimate problem where there's they're eating
up this misinformation, and I have a suspicion that sooner
than rather than later, we'll find out that Russia is
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behind a lot of these Canadian right wing.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Against even the thing about it is the fact that
they buy into so much garbage. You don't even need Russia,
you just need a huckster.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
H well, you know, huster Is. I mean, there's definitely
a lot of that here. But I think that the propagation,
the the the funding and stuff to make this happen.
You know they get backed by Russia even though, but
but yeah, gain people fall into that.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It doesn't cost you anything to take a picture of
a backdrop and you know, sit in front of a
green screen.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
On your but to spread the message, like to get
your bought armies and stuff, and to.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I guess bought armies do cost money.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And and you know, if you want your a tailored message,
you know you got to pay the pay the man
to spread the Ukraine bad.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Right, Yeah, that's the one Ukraine bad. That's so obvious, right,
it's been so bad.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Uh, yeah, it's it's scary, but it's happening both sides
of the border, and and the ones in the US
were and I'm curious to see who gets exposed here.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
There's nothing, there's nothing more you know exciting these days
to the unsealed federal Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Well, and the fact that we're like essentially like fifty
is days away from from like either democracy or fascism,
like like it's the giant fork on the road.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
So I'm still doing this show just in case it
goes the wrong way, I can apply for asylum, come
to Canada, knowledgeable entertainer.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I will try not to vilify you. As an immigrant.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Yeah, I'm a I'm an important part of the program.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yes, on to lighter issues. Apple had to release this,
uh this week they released need a new iPhone. A
lot of the weird thing is a lot of the
the stuff that they promised is not on the phone
right now, but is say, will be downloadable like over
the next couple of months. But I'll get they'll get
(34:04):
around to it. One thing I found though, there's in
film and television when there's product placement, Apple has a
very very specific criteria, a more and more specific no no,
And I'll tell you about that in a second.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
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Now now back to the nonsense talk rocks Josh Holiday Live.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Yes Live on the home Stretch here Saturday morning. I'm Josh.
Burt is here as well.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Indeed, Yeah, So product placement is is big, especially in
streaming shows now where there no commercials, they can make
a little extra box by showing the products. But Apple,
they have some guidelines for using their their trademarks and copyrights.
(35:14):
The document states that the Apple product is shown only
in the best light in a manner or context that
reflects favorably on the Apple products. Also states you may
not use an Apple trademark or any other Apple owned graphic, symbol, logo,
or icon in a disparaging manner. And that was sort
of not a well known thing publicly, but the director
(35:38):
of Knives Out, which is a pretty pretty fun who
done it murder mystery thing, he talked about the rules.
And in the film, every character has an iPhone except
for the guilty character, and and and in succession. Most
of the characters use iPhones, but Logan, Roy Jerry or
(36:04):
Tom Wobsgin's uh never never have the iPhones because of
the no villain clause.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So I have no villain clause.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
No villains can use iPhones only only good people.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Uh, So androids are exclusively surper villains or something.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Villains use androids. Side note here, have you watched the
television show The Boys? I have like like a lot
of just casually.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I've watched it all.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, Well, I I cause.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I think they release them all at once, or they
they do it in little pieces.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I don't know because I I.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Am the whole season. Yeah, I finished the latest season.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Okay, I haven't. I'm on, I'm watching the first season now,
I because I'm I'm sort of it's like superhero averse,
and so I was like, I don't know, none of.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
The superheroes surprised how good it is.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Well, that's the thing. Yeah, it's it's actually like, it's not.
It's more fun and funny than sort of your typical like,
oh superhero villain, blah blah blah. There's more more.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Too, can be quite shockingly violent and grotesque.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Yes, And I heard part of the reason that reignited
my interest was the talk of this new season having
a human centipede, and I thought, all right, well it's
if it's that crazy, maybe it's entertaining. And so yeah,
I watch it. I've been slowly taken in. And that
lead actor, the guy who plays oh god, I forget
(37:43):
his now Homelander. He's really he's really good. Like I
don't don't recognize him from anywhere else, but he's.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah, he's an excellent haterable hero villain.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah, hatable, but he's got this. He's smug and it's
just he's perfect, but he has the look to it's all.
It all works. And the other thing for me is
it's shot in in Toronto, So I see all these
locations and I'm like, oh, I know there, I know
where they're walking. I know this, even like the main
(38:14):
tower that they they basically are headquartered in. Part of
it is is cgi the top part, but the bottom
part of it is a big music hall here in
Toronto that I passed by almost every day, and they
do a lot of the interior scenes in there as well.
And then the other thing is because it's a Canadian show,
(38:36):
I'll see people I know or have worked with, like
the actors and smaller parts and stuff.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
That's the way it was in Dallas that I never
watched the show, but every actor in Dallas had done Walker,
Texas Ranger.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Well. I feel like it was the same thing with
Law and Order, Like if you're a New York.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Actor, yes, but people in old Law and Orders.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But I know my my friend I was sitting with
my you're watching watching it. Before I had started watching,
she was watching the new season. I wasn't really paying attention.
She goes and that guy looks like Jeane and I'm like, oh, yeah,
that is Gene. He did a he auditioned him for it.
And then the the nerdy tech guy of the of
(39:17):
the the Seven, I did a I did a Best
Buy commercial with him like ten years so. But you
just seeing all these familiar faces and familiar locations. Plus
it's a pretty a pretty entertaining show all around. The
Australian guys great to the He's like, yeah, he's just
like a coral urban And again I didn't know where
(39:39):
he was from before, but he's.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Like he played doctor McCoy in the Star Trek reboot.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Okay, he's just he just sort of is a perfect fit.
Is that that guy?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Great, he's really good.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, the I'm enjoying the boys. But again,
I'm just coming near the end of that first season.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
H keep me posted on your progress.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
I will. Yeah, I'm I'm excited now because it's always
it's always a pleasant surprise when you're kind of it's
kind of a dead season for television and you're kind
of like, ah, I've watched like almost everything, and then
you can find a new series where you're starting it,
but there's already like four seasons ahead of you. So
so yeah, yeah, you know you got you got everything
(40:24):
ahead of you. What countries swear the most, Well, they
did an analysis. This is based on tweets, but it
gives you.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
A good this is this is not the correct.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
It gives you well, it gives you a certain like
an idea. Basically, they reveal the most profane nations among
people who post in English, and number one is the US.
They're forty one tweets per thousand contained profanity. Number number two,
(40:59):
you know, Kingdom, number three, Australia for New Zealand, number
five Canada, uh, and then Canada is around a quarter
twenty four percent. The least swearing countries are all in
the Middle East, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
And you're talking about people posting only in English though.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Well that's the thing like half the world.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Yeah, so like the people in those countries that are
going to post in English, you know, now you're talking
about a subset of a subset.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, the ones who posted in English probably aren't aren't
aren't like posting swear?
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Why are they posting in English for business reasons? For
you know, like do they are they multinational type people,
and they got friends all over the world, so they
post it, you.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Know, so it should just be like English speaking countries.
I guess that's what we're saying. Another Google Google's trends
excuse me, came up with the most common Internet searches
by people in the US over the past two decades
(42:03):
that begin with I'm a cough button. Here they begin
with how to kill? So how to kill? And then
these are the phrases that usually follow that. Okay, can
you guess what one might be?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Ants?
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Number one? Answer is ants, yeah, answer hard to kill?
Answer hard to go? Fleas, Yeah, flies not hard to kill.
No fly. I have one of those electric tennis rackets.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
I do too, Yeah, and I'll tell you how to
use it. One hand electric tennis racket, the other hand
old style of flyswatter.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. That's good to take.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Out about anything, because at the fly land sometimes you
cover with that tennis track, but you need the other
thing to kind of push it in.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Then yeah, yeah, it's not good for like for hitting
them on hard surfaces. You have to trap them.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
I'm kind of an ambidextrous type of person, and I
play racket sports. So I got this whole racket thing down.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Nice bed bugs, I dread like I I that is
one thing.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Where I tells a hardcore you what I check at
a hotel?
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Oh yeah, yeah. I. I had an experience where I
was in this UH. I was doing some work, like
some some sort of consulting, but but like hybrid kind
of like simulations for for business people and stuff. I
was more like on the on the acting coaching side, UH.
And we went to cities all over the all over
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the country. One of the cities was Edmonton, which I
had never been to before. And right in the middle
of this city there's an what used to be an airport,
and next to it there's this this old hotel where
when you went inside you could tell that at one
point it was like this this luxurious kind of grand
(43:53):
thing with fountains and stuff, but none of that existed anymore.
It was like like going into an almost an almost
abandoned hotel, like all the nice stuff had gone, and
I was in a room and I kind of smell
a little smoke in the hallway. It wasn't like even
though it was a relatively expensive hotel, and at some
point probably in the seventies and eighties had been like
(44:14):
a premier a thing, not so much anymore.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Than smell and spell the smell of a distant cigarette
or like a past thing that's been smoked in.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Yeah, this was more like a childhood. This was more
felt a little more like stale and like, so I
was in the room and I'm in the bathroom and
I see something crawling on the floor and I like,
I kind of scoop it up on a tissue. Uh,
And then I have, you know, for my like like
(44:48):
prescriptions and for toilet trews and stuff. I had the
little ziplock bags. So I put it in the ziplock
bag and I got pictures and stuff. And this was
like I saw it like eleven at night, like you know,
I'm just like ready for bed, and I was like
freaking out because it was it was a bed bug.
I even went online like to to you know, get
(45:09):
get people's opinions. Definitely a bad bug, bed bug, And
yeah it was. And so it was eleven o'clock at night.
I was like, I didn't know what to do. In retrospect,
Probably right away I should have gone into the front
desk and said, yeah, you got to move me out
of there.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Yes, I agree with that strategy.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
But I didn't. I went and I like, I did
check the mattresses and the seams and stuff, and I
was I was like looking all over. And then the
other thing I did is I kept all the lights
on bright because I figure that they come out more
when it's dark and there's darkness. But I didn't sleep it.
I didn't sleep at all. And then the next day
(45:49):
on checkout, I took this this zip lock bag to
the hotel desk and they were they and we were
supposed to stay there a second night too, and they
were all like, well, no, it can't be from like
that's not no. They're sort of in denial like and course,
and I don't know, like they didn't. We were supposed
to stay there a second night and they were like, oh,
we can just move you to a different room and stuff.
(46:11):
I was like, no can in the company. The company
thankfully moved us as actually a really nice hotel by
a river and everything. But yeah, that was I was
freaking out. The other thing I did was I bought
like alcohol spray and spray to every like inch of
my suitcase, all the like inside.
Speaker 5 (46:30):
And everything like that.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
I don't know that. That was my sort of stop gap.
And then put my suitcase in a garbage bag for
most of the time. And then yeah, and then when
I got home from the like the flight or whatever,
I threw all my clothes in the dryer and through
the suitcase and like in a dumpster. But I was
(46:52):
freaking out, like I that's my Yeah.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
I mean, even though it sounds extreme, those measures you
took are not unwarranted.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
No, because it's it's like that I get them.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
They're harder to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
I I have a huge fear that I've seen it.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
I mean, they've started writing about it in the last
twenty years when they started to come back, and they
started to come back because we finally became conscious of
what strong poisons were doing to like I don't know,
our endocrine system, yeah, as people or whatever. And they Okay,
now it's harder to kill bead bucks, so you don't
quite have as much DDT around or whatever. But you know,
(47:31):
like I've you know, they can live in the clock
radio well.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
They live in any kind of tiny little crevice and basically,
if if you have them, your your life is uped
in and you have to like like like put everything
a dryer, throw at furniture.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Yeah, I h that's that's a fear I've I've had that.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
So that's the top few things that wasn't even number
one shocking though.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Well I guess it's less common probably. Yeah. Fruit flies.
Fruit flies like a perfect like a roof flies. I
figure it out, and because I sometimes they get really
bad here and I remember one time and they're all
over because I like, I use a lot of bananas
from my fruit and so they love that and they're
all over the place. But basically, you take a glass,
(48:19):
small glass, you put in some apple cider vinegar and
then a drop or two of dish soap. Yeah, put
some saran wrap over the top, maybe some elastics around
the side, and then just poke tiny holes in it
and just put it out where where they're mostly congregating.
And after a while, like they'll they'll just all go
(48:39):
to that thing all the time and so they won't
stick around your house. That draws them all in and
kills them.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
So you refer that's what you call a rubber band.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
What did I say, elastic? Yeah, elastic band, rubber.
Speaker 5 (48:51):
Band, Yeah, elastic, but it wouldn't be wrong. Yeah, I
guess not elastic though, because elastic is a inside of
like a waistband of material.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
Right, but those are a lot like I think those
are called elastics, soubands. Pretty elastic is its own. That
word describes the movement, not the actual material, because we
call like those little like whatman.
Speaker 5 (49:17):
Economics, I wonder, No, it is I think you're right. Yeah,
capable of returning to original shape or size after being stretched.
So it's is it is an action essentially, it's not
a material.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Well, that's my thing. Lice I never had, thankfully.
Speaker 5 (49:34):
We had that back in the day, back in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Gnats and then this one is.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Bad killed they have superlice now that it's not the
conventional treatments from network.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
Oh Jesus, Thankfully they don't have a lot of hair
on my head. Gnats which I don't know much about.
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
Bees, that one's I don't like that if if I
had to guess, that's probably people people who just didn't
equate wasps to bees. How to kill like wasp.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Basically again not hard to kill.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
No, although I have for wasps, I've used that tennis
racket and sometimes it'll it'll knock them out for about
five or ten minutes and then they come back to life.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
No, you got well, see you're not doing the follow through.
You knock them down, you step.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
On Oh see that's cruel.
Speaker 5 (50:22):
But I mean wasp is not that they're not that powerful,
even though just a regulartle fly swatter will kill.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Them on a window, you know.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
Yeah, and by the time they get in your house,
if you able to wasp in your house, they're dehydrated
and they're not going to be very effective applying. So
just let them do their thing, you could, or you
could just hit them with them.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Swater roaches is another one, and then.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Yeah, do you make a distinction. The large roach is
a we call them water bugs.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Oh, we just basically say cockroaches.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
Cockroaches were small, but water bugs. And I haven't seen
them many water bugs since they moved to them worth.
Those were a thing in Texas.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
The other thing that people get in their houses is
silver fish.
Speaker 5 (51:07):
Yes, water stuff.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
The one thing I'm surprising isn't on this list is ticks,
because that's.
Speaker 5 (51:14):
Like, I mean, I got a you don't even have
a house full of ticks, you know.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
But people and their dogs and stuff like. Now, the
ticks are on it. Pretty much anytime you walk in
any grass there's probably a bunch of ticks.
Speaker 5 (51:26):
In there, and I mean it's it's a bad thing
in the north. You're not supposed to twist. I hear
you want to get the head out now you pulled
straight up and the match that doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
No, I think like, yeah, they have tools, but basically
tweezers straight out. This list is of what people want
to kill most so most of it's bugs. But if
you go further down the list, as you would, yeah,
I guess a little bit more unusual, lobster, mocking birds,
(51:57):
to kill.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
A mocking bird, the bull ups.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Maybe people are just like mistyping, Uh, want to kill
the mocking bird? To kill a Yeah, time properly related
to tie in people want to kill time. And also
on the list, which is unsurprising, is how to kill someone.
(52:22):
How to kill someone, Josh, it's just not done well.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
I think people who are google that and then you're
gonna go mess it, you know, be involved in that.
Then you know the Google search will come out that
you But.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
That's the thing they they people never seem to think
about that, because it's like.
Speaker 5 (52:41):
Oh, people, I think that's just a teenager just enjoying
themselves on the internet.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
But some no, Well, but sometimes when you see watch
these true crime shows or whatever.
Speaker 5 (52:52):
They google it.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
They it's like they googled lie and how to dispose
of a body?
Speaker 5 (52:57):
They google can stand it?
Speaker 4 (53:00):
True crime? You don't like it?
Speaker 3 (53:02):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
I like it. I I have a strange fascination with it.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (53:09):
Occasionally occasionally I'll get sucked into that, but I avoid
it most of the time.
Speaker 4 (53:14):
But more than like, I like more of the oddballs
ones sometimes like the like like like there's this blumbhouse
has a worst roommate ever, And I think there's another
one worst something else ever. Uh and and they're like
really like batshit s stories for those of ways, I
(53:37):
enjoy them. Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (53:42):
It's funny you said S, but you also dropped the
S bomb I did. Yeah, you said bad ass, but
then you didn't say S. Then you said S.
Speaker 4 (53:53):
All right, Well, I don't pay attention to this thing.
Speaker 5 (53:55):
It's a good time. Hey, we're all friends here.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Yeah yeah, so, uh we're almost out of time. That's
almost it.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (54:07):
It was nice to be back after a couple of
weeks off and not to have COVID. You have yourself
a fantastic week, and I guess we'll we'll chat with
you the next time. The show is over.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
The show is over.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
Lessons were learned, but the conversation continues.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
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Speaker 4 (00:41):
Tire, so tired? Oh yeah, welcome to the show. We
are live. It is September is the fourteenth. I'm Josh
bert is year as well.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Good morning Canada.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I yeah, I do. Somebody's here. My mother is is
for a long time. Listeners out of the show, you, sir.
My mother is not well. We have usually someone here
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week to
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kind of make sure she's she's okay and not following
and all that stuff. This weekend, though, there's no overnight person.
So I slept here at her house where the studio
is as well, and there's a better n she likes.
I sleep at my house where it my regular place,
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where the air at night I put to nineteen celsius,
which Bratt you can look up for fahrenheit. I like
it cold or cool, and her house on her main
floor is warm and even with a fan running, and
it was it's just I don't even I can't even
get cool with no covers on until later at night,
(02:06):
and then it's just like an uncomfortable mattress. And yeah,
so I'm I shouldn't be operating any heavy machinery or
even audio equipment quite frankly, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I like. I think I like about seventeen.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh oh even cooler? Yeah nice.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
In the wintertime it gets down a little lower.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But you know, do you find do you have like
arguments with your partner about the temperature? No, oh, that's
good because I know a lot of people, like.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Everybody likes a cold no one. We're all from Texas,
you see, Yes, that's true, to almost never be cold enough.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, well I think like, but I think that is
like a for some people, like I had a when
I went to boarding school. Oh I uh, I had
a Like I had a roommate and he liked like hot,
hot hot in the room, like cold. So it was
a constant battle over the over the thermost dat. And
(03:04):
I feel like in a partner that could be a
deal breaker. Uh in terms of of you know, progressing
is the fight over the thermostat. I guess that's why
I live alone with just my dog. And even he
even he uh sometimes finds it too cold because hit
instead of lying on top of the bed, he'll he'll
try and get under the covers. Uh. We were off
(03:26):
last week unintended, not with with intention of being on,
but uh the old covid raised its head, its ugly head.
And UH I've been okay since this past Monday, but uh,
the week before about almost a full week, nasty, nasty
(03:48):
case of COVID.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
UH.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And I the problem is part of the problem is
uh the the new vaccine is it's already out in
the States within the last week or two, and I
think it's out here soon. But I I had really
really hoped that I could kind of make it to
the new vaccine.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
UH.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
And the summer, the levels generally tend to go down
the summer. Although it's been uh it's been a rampant
here and a lot of people who've.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
It has been persistent in the late summer. It's been
kicking up really all summer. It's been I've been hearing.
You know, they're checking for it in the wastewater, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, well here the stupid provincial government decided to try
and well I think they've they've shut down most of
the wastewater monitoring this. Yeah, our goverment, the Ontario government
is just terrible. As we've talked about before at all.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Fascism likes to reduce the amount of knowledge that society
has about itself. Just one of the hallmarks for those
who are uninitiated.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, we have an alleged mobster in charge of our province,
and so, uh, it's all about saving money and about
sending sending money to his his uh, his contributors, like
like like a lot of the contributors and friends are developers,
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you know, land land developers, and so so one of
his plans was a highway, so that no, it isn't
really necessary. And if you look along the highway you
can see all the different parcels of land than all
of his his uh, his friends, his his associates have
bought up. And then uh, we we've had for years
(05:38):
and years.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Kids have loved and even adults have loved going to
the science center. It's been in the same spot for
quite a while a while. It's it's uh, it's kind
of an architectural wonder. It's built on a hill and
it's just an amazing, amazing facility. And he's decided that well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Think we we.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
We it's too far away. We got to shut it
down and move it to the Harbor Front in a
smaller version. And they used an excuse like about a
month or two, well maybe two or three months ago, saying, well,
the roof is leaking. We got to shut it right down.
So they boarded it up, and most of the people
who were experts said, well, you didn't really need to
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shut it right down. It wasn't a huge prepare and
caught in another lie. And the weird thing is he's
he was in charge of a new subway line and
one of the stops is right at the Science Center.
It's even called the Science Center stop. But people did
some research and right across the road from the Science
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Center a huge parcel of land is owned by one
of his biggest contributors and biggest friends. So it's like
the corruption is right out in the open here, and
it's frustrating because you can't do anything about it. There's
no recall method. Uh, he may call an election soon
(07:06):
to try and like get more more time and power,
because he's been doing a lot of populous stuff like
reminding people like we got rid of license plate fees
and we put beer the beer liquor in the corner stores,
even though it costs taxpayers close to a billion dollars
to do it six months earlier than planned.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Just just he's basically just a corrupt a high school
drug dealer.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He was.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
He was a drug dealer in high school or lump of.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Poop away sometimes high school drug dealer you know makes good.
You never know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, I think he made a lot of you know,
he made a lot of business connections when he was
in high school and maybe he continued.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
H yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Anyway, so do yourself a favorite and as soon as
you can get that the new vax get because this
whatever the strain was, it was really really nasty.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Like have you had before?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Yeah? I had it. I had it. I've had a
few times. I had it in this because I'm in
a populous city, but I do get boosters all the time.
And last time I caught it, I also got uh
pax Loavid and it lasted maybe four days. This time around,
I didn't get the packs loavid uh. And it was basically,
(08:26):
do you regret not getting the paxslavied Uh? I probably
I probably should have early on, but I I think
I kind of waited to do the test. I thought
I just got I got cold. I'm for sure I
got it, but I it was sort of reluctant because
I I don't know how much my insurance covers of it.
And it's like a very expensive Oh yes, it's like
(08:48):
a thought if you if you don't have insurance, it's
like twelve or thirteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But yeah, but I would say, at the very least
get yourself that get yourself the new booster that supposed
to be for these new variants, because yeah, it like.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
No, I'm pretty, I'm pretty. Yeah I get them.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah me too. I was just I was just hoping
because because in the fall there's the flu and the
the COVID one and I I'm like a needle folk.
So I try and kill the two birds with one
stone and go in and get.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I kind of get them separately. But yeah, I here you.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I just want one day of like where I go
in I put put the numbing cream on both of
my my my arms and uh.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
The numbing cream.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I guess those allergy shots I had as a child
really just made me so indifferent to needles. I just
don't care anymore.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah. Well, it's been a lifelong thing for me because
even when I was a kid going to the like
the child dentist, I would when they had to do
a drilling or whatever. I would, I would.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Say, that's like, nobody wants to hear us talk about it.
It's so bad.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
But I would.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I would.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I would say, no, I don't want the needle. I'll
just take the pain of the drilling. Uh so, yeah,
so what it's basically takes like a week out of
your life where it's just like you can't.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Do Yeah, no, it does. I mean the the first
couple go arounds with the COVID vaccine for me were
just like, Okay, you're gonna spend the day in bed,
You're gonna feel rotten for a day and a half.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
But then you know, but the actual yeah, yeah, the
the you're you're lucky to sort of not not like
I I've been I played hockey, so I'm in in
you know, sweaty, heavy breathing dressing room rooms after the game.
And then that week also I was working at a
facility downtown, so I was on the subway and stuff.
(10:37):
Uh like the week before I I I started having it,
so it was probably hockey er subway.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And I mean the listeners will love this, the three
the three listeners. I will if it's crowded, like in
an airport security line, I'll still put the mask on. Yeah,
I probably get to the airplane.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm not on the mask anymore.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, it sort of feels like, no, there's no like
it's not actual pressure, but it feels like I'm sure
it feels like there's I.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Am and I do not care what other people think.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well that's good though, like like that's for me. That's
sort of a lesson, just do it. A lesson. That's
saying a long time like the less you care about
what other people think, like the more the better.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
You're a lot faster when you stop that part.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Of giving essens about stuff.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Also, in some.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Places here they're making a masking illegal.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
That's the great, that's like, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I really think that's because they are going to make
protest illegal as are you know, country sort of gradually
moves into fascism time.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah, well that yeah, that's that's so stupid. I think
the excuse they use as well, you know, for if
people are robbing or whatever, they give me break. It's
such a such a backward thing. Like if people want
to wear a mask, to wear a mask, like, you
don't mandate it one way or the other. If you
don't want, if you don't want to mandate it that
people have to wear it, don't manage it. They don't
(12:07):
have to wear it. That's so stupid. And I also
missed my first like the opening weekend of my hockey
as well, So that was kind of a discipline the
manny thing if you're the team, that's right. I playing
in an arts league and I well I run one team,
so that's sort of you know, the opening game is
(12:28):
when you know, you get everything sorted out and hand
out jerseys and stuff. And I had to pass that
off to someone else. I speaking of self consciousness, I
realized that uh sometimes if I'm like people in Toronto
will jaywalk a lot, like we take take it into
(12:49):
our own hands to cross whenever we want. Uh, Like
sometimes if I'm going to rush, if if there's a
red light and there's no cars, I'll like run across
the road. And I had an instance this time around
where there was a father and his two young kids,
and I was going to do that, and I was like,
uh uh, and I didn't. I hesitated because I thought, well,
(13:12):
I don't want to be the guy who the father
has to say, well, you know, you kids, don't do that.
He's an adult. I didn't want to like be the
bad example for these now.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
That I could see making any accept.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, so you think that that actually because I thought.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Oh, man, I think you're making the right call there.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Okay. So I because because it is it is a
thing like I saw the kids. I'm like, Okay, if
I was a parent, I'm telling my kids, yeah, don't
don't wait wait for the cross, We're just.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Going to wait.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And this guy goes across. Then yeah. So I took Yeah,
I took the kind way. As a single man, I
eat out on my own a lot, and apparely solo
dining reservations are up twenty percent in the last two years.
(14:03):
Everywhere North America says, uh, reservations to go by yourself yeah, well,
I guess if you're if you're going to a restaurant
that needs like like needs reservations, you know it's it's
a tables, a table for two or for one. Uh
unless see, I mean a lot of people would if
(14:23):
your solo just eat up at the bar. But uh
says sixty percent of people have dined alone at least once.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
In the last yearning.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, I have a book that's a good one
book newspaper. I guess. Now telephone takes away that kind
of thing. But sometimes I like just to sit alone
on a patio and people watch, and try and keep
my phone away and just kind of you know, be
in the moment. Uh as as longtime listeners know all
(14:58):
of them. Uh Bert is the other voice you hear,
and he is in the US, and a I'm Josh,
I'm here in Toronto, and what what a mess down
south of the border. There's the debate there's a Russian interference.
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So we'll get a little bit into that in just
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Josh here in Toronto, bert Is in the state of
New Jersey in the United States of America. How about that?
How about that debate?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
That that's pretty good?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah it was. But like the crazy thing is, there's
still people who like, see this and see this man,
and and how like how much of a lunatic he is,
how dangerous he is, how dummy is, how crazy he is.
But they're still caught up in this in this like,
(16:32):
well he's me, you know. I sometimes it's like, oh,
he's a lesser of two evils. But then there's people
just like, no, he did great, he was, you know,
because I saw there was some pole Like not contrary
to what he said there there weren't any poles that
had him. I had in the in the debate, but
(16:52):
I saw some of the poles and they were a
lot less lopsided than they should have been all things considered.
So there's still a lot of people who are just
like body to this cult and nothing, nothing he does
or nothing anyone says is gonna going to get them
out of this cult.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah. I mean, party identity is pretty sticky, but this
is this is like and you know, once you kind
of like and he's another level of identity, right, I
mean like for some people like this became they got
his they got his shirt, they got had There was
never a time when there were people just so devoted
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to someone in politics with their gear.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well, I think, but I think that's why it's more
cult like than just like this, where politics in the
past has sort of been a team sport in a
lot of ways, this feels like less of a team
thing and just like a like a really a cult
because there's there's this leader, this cult leader. There's nothing
he can do or say that will make them think
worse of him.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You can do no, he can tell ridiculous lies, and
then they'll sit there and go, well, what do you
mean there's places where abortion is legal after the child
is born.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Yeah, and you know, like they'll just you know, I
even had a conversation with someone's like, oh, well, how
would I prove that that was true or not true?
One source will say it's true. And I was like,
you're telling me the code. There's code you can just
go look, there's no state where that's legal, that's verifiable. Yeah,
(18:27):
this person had to like walk it back and you go, oh, yeah,
I guess that's true.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yeah, And like like just the thought of that, like
where like how can you really believe that a baby's
coming out, the baby's alive and then they then and
then they kill it. It's like, you know what, never mind,
it's just you're just it's just such a dumb thought.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And that's the other thing. It's like, you know, sometimes
you'll talk to people and they'll have such a their
imaginary version of the person who wants an abortion at
the ninth month, is that they just changed their mind.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just some lady who's who's just so
fit goal. Yeah, it's all about like so yeah, some lady,
like a like a lower class lady who's who's sleeping
around and she got praid to have another abortion. But
most of the cases, it's like a lot of the cases,
it's it's people people who want families and they're really
really hoping for this child and and this is for
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them the worst case scenario. They they're they're reluctantly having
it because the baby's not viable or the mother's health
is going to get get h It's.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
All horrible situations that cause the late term abortions. It's
not just people glib.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, and the late term abortions are are very very
yeah infrequent. Yeah, but they like to make a big,
big fuss about, but it's usually a medical emergency.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Process that they can you know, they can you know,
harvest your imagination and and capture it and go oh look, look,
you know what about this? Yeah, that'd be horrible, right,
And then when you get into the actual you know,
legality of it, there's no real exceptions because all the
doctors are sitting there going like, I'll lose my license,
(20:06):
I'll be in jail.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, it's very it's it's very strict.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
The other thing in the debate was the uh, the
it feels like like there's there's always been racism with
with the you know, with the Trumpies and the Trump campaign,
but now it keeps getting more and more blatant. Like
the dog eating thing was just so like viscerally racist
(20:33):
and xenophobic and.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Whatever hysteria is cooking out there online on the right
in those paper swamps. He brought it right out and
she got him to do it essentially by being better
at debating.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah, like I he I think
he probably, you know, because he's often like he doesn't
really see himself as as being unsuccessful at anything. He
probably thought he was going to like be able to
wipe the floor with her.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
And he wasn't even prepared for her to shake his hand. Yeah,
I mean he should when he was in trouble from
that point. Yeah, she walked up and very confidently introduced
herself and shook his hand. And he wasn't gonna he
was just going to walk to the podium.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, he wasn't looking. Yeah, he was like.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oddly in front and kind of intersect him, you know
what I mean, to get to where that she could
facilitate a handshake. It was I mean, the whole thing was.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Well, that was it was smart in a bit of
a power move.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
It was like, you know, she was really much better
I think than anybody anticipated.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah. Well, early on she was a little bit had
a bit of nerves I could tell, but and as
anyone would, but later on she like just was was
she was doing very well.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
You see have you seen the video of the people
watching it in a bar. And when she starts talking
about that he had the Taliban to Camp David, there's
a TikTok and then she looks him up and down
and she said this and looks him up and down,
and everybody in the room says the MF.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah, well that's her expressions were like a lot of
times they say, they say, they tell Cannadis, you know,
keep your face neutral or whatever.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But she's she's him with amusement.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, she's got the perfect face for amusement and incredulity.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Put your hand, you know, up under your chin a
little bit and just rest your chin on your fist
and go like, well what is this little man doing?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, and that as like as one should do when
someone says crazy racist things.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
It's the most effective anyone's been. Again, i mean, we've
been sitting here waiting for almost a decade, for nine
years for someone to be this effective against him in
a debate.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah. And the thing that long, the thing that must
burn him up is is a it's a woman, which
you know, they hit him and is ill considered inferior
and it's a woman of color, which you know, if
you're a racist and you're leading a racist movement, all
the more humiliating.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
I mean, I feel like it's not a racist movement,
it's a movement that happens to be racist also anyone
tangent so that I think they have their own ideas
about what's good and then like the racism just kind
of fits in with it.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Okay, yeah, but and but but I would say this,
most racists are are you know of that party as well? Right?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
What there is a lot of there's a lot of
like the sort of baked in white supremacy that people
don't haven't really grappled with or know that they even
are predisposed to think about or think positively towards.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
But if it feels like more and more lately, it's
the the otherism, like that they're coming over the border.
They're still like really really trying to cause it. And
that's even happening here like like I in Canada, I
sometimes I will hear people say talk about like oh,
the immigrants or this person this and that, like it's
(24:13):
it's it's really leaked over the border here where people
are blaming their ills on on this boogeyman of immigration.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know. Meanwhile, all the jobs were sent overseas by CEOs, Yeah,
not immigrants.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Well that's the thing. There's that. There's that meme where
there's uh, there's two there's there's a really really wealthy
guy and then two regular people, uh, sitting across from
the table from each other, and uh the one guy
has has maybe two cookies and another guy has zero
(24:50):
and he he he Uh the rich guy points to
the other guy saying, well, he he took all your cookies.
I'm not explaining properly, but basically, uh, A lot of
the problems are are are caused by by corporations and billionaires,
and the finger pointing always goes to the people who
are more more than likely the victims than the actual.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Or just like you know, oh, here's this. You know,
we have twenty million people from Central and South America.
Why are they here? Their governments are being destabilized by
United States foreign policy.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
That too, and then a lot of people are they well,
they're stealing stealing our jobs and say, well, okay, do
you watch them? Do I mean, do you want to
pick strawberries? Do you want to go and pick them?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
That's the thing. Yes, that's exactly what it is. You know,
every time the you know, the farmers out in California,
a lot of farmers in a lot of states are
sitting there going like, well, wait, no, that's my that's
who's picking the fruit around here.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
So those and every time migrant laborers, like every time
they like get strict on the border, they used to
just go back to Mexico. Yeah, now they stay because
the border became you know, uh locked down essentially.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Yeah, you couldn't. Yeah, you can't really go back and
forth because you'll probably get you know, stuck in that.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
It's just like you know, I mean people are moving around.
You know, I don't see I don't see people trying
to roof houses or no.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah, that's that's sort of yeah, that's that's they're not
taking the myth that they're coming. They're taking our job
and making it worse. They're taking our health care. Then
they're not voting, despite what what the fear amongers would
have you think.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
And there's maybe a handful that managed to get you know,
ready to vote somewhere. But I mean there's a million
stories in the Naked City, you know, I mean there's
just yeah, I think somewhere, but not on mass.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The other thing that it was unsurprising but but surprising
that it was finally brought to light was all of
the influencers in the right wing being funded by Russia
and the Russian government.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah. Sure, and there's a lot of money flowing around
on the right. They got a lot of money for
their influencers, don't they.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Well, And the funny yeah, it's it's sort of funny
that they were like, oh, we're victims. It's like you're
getting one hundred thousand dollars for a podcast and you like,
there's you and you're reading off Russian talking points. Hmm,
you can't connect the dots. Uh, It's it's really really
And there's something. There's one lady who's uh was a
(27:38):
Canadian kind of contributor in the past. You used to
work for for some of the places here, This Lauren Southern.
But I there's a lot, apparently like a lot of
other outlets on that list that they haven't made public.
And I have a very very strong feeling that there's
a lot of Canadian outlets that are kind of holding
their breath, the right wing outlets waiting for the shoe
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to drop that are probably that we had on all
of them out No, no, no, there's this is there's
like in other countries, like like it's it's not just
us and uh. The proof I think here is that
they actually showed some of the right wing people in
the States who were funded by Russia, uh, spreading lies
(28:22):
about our government as well. So it leaked over the
border with with memes and stuff about Justin Trudeau from
these right wing influencers funded by Russia. But definitely at
some point it will come out here that there's a
lot of these right wing people, right wing sites that
are influenced by Russia.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Like.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The one thing that sticks out to me though, and
and I try to argue this online, is that Canada
by every metric you look at to determine whether a
country is successful in terms of inflation, ah, happy, happiness, gross,
like financially, every every category you look at, Uh, Canada
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is is at or near the top in almost every category.
Yet there's a lot of people in this country who
have the notion that, oh, Canada's broken, Trudeau's terrible, canada
Canada's and the worst shape it's ever been. It's just
not true, it's not factual, your your business and formed in.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
The sense that they remember a time that was better
for them and maybe their parents and grandparents.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
It could be a little bit, but but it's more
about this this hatred for for the leader that's been
ginned up, and I I assume it a lot of
it is probably back in Russia who wants to destabilize
and and get their candidate. This this Pierre poly Ever,
who's uh has no policy except being against everything and
(29:52):
and uh he's he's basically a vortex of charisma.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
He has none uh prictize everything well and he is.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Well, he won't even like really say what his policies are.
The other thing is he won't get even though he's
the leader of the Conservative Party, he won't get a
security check and so he's never like people have pressed
him money that he refuses to get a security check.
And for someone who's hoping to be the leader of
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the country, it seems a little suspect suspicious. But there's
also within the last year there there were reports that
some members of the government were being influenced or paid
by by outside countries. And it hasn't come to light
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who or what, but I think the assumption is is
a lot of it is on the right, the right side,
as you will. Also shared an article on my Facebook
which maden some of the right wingers. It basically said,
I think eighty nine. I'm just gonna pull it up
(31:08):
because I don't want to miss miss miss the figures.
But it's basically about misinformation and disinformation. They did a
study found that eighty four percent of Canadians with strongest
belief in disinformation vote conservative, and further to that percent
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of the most disinformed Canadians are planning to vote for
the Conservative Party of Canada or the People's Party of Canada.
So it is a legitimate problem where there's they're eating
up this misinformation, and I have a suspicion that sooner
than rather than later, we'll find out that Russia is
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behind a lot of these Canadian right wing.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Against even the thing about it is the fact that
they buy into so much garbage. You don't even need Russia,
you just need a huckster.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
H well, you know, huster Is. I mean, there's definitely
a lot of that here. But I think that the propagation,
the the the funding and stuff to make this happen.
You know they get backed by Russia even though, but
but yeah, gain people fall into that.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
It doesn't cost you anything to take a picture of
a backdrop and you know, sit in front of a
green screen.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
On your but to spread the message, like to get
your bought armies and stuff, and to.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I guess bought armies do cost money.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And and you know, if you want your a tailored message,
you know you got to pay the pay the man
to spread the Ukraine bad.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Right, Yeah, that's the one Ukraine bad. That's so obvious, right,
it's been so bad.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Uh, yeah, it's it's scary, but it's happening both sides
of the border, and and the ones in the US
were and I'm curious to see who gets exposed here.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
There's nothing, there's nothing more you know exciting these days
to the unsealed federal Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Well, and the fact that we're like essentially like fifty
is days away from from like either democracy or fascism,
like like it's the giant fork on the road.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
So I'm still doing this show just in case it
goes the wrong way, I can apply for asylum, come
to Canada, knowledgeable entertainer.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I will try not to vilify you. As an immigrant.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Yeah, I'm a I'm an important part of the program.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yes, on to lighter issues. Apple had to release this,
uh this week they released need a new iPhone. A
lot of the weird thing is a lot of the
the stuff that they promised is not on the phone
right now, but is say, will be downloadable like over
the next couple of months. But I'll get they'll get
(34:04):
around to it. One thing I found though, there's in
film and television when there's product placement, Apple has a
very very specific criteria, a more and more specific no no,
And I'll tell you about that in a second.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
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Now now back to the nonsense talk rocks Josh Holiday Live.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Yes Live on the home Stretch here Saturday morning. I'm Josh.
Burt is here as well.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Indeed, Yeah, So product placement is is big, especially in
streaming shows now where there no commercials, they can make
a little extra box by showing the products. But Apple,
they have some guidelines for using their their trademarks and copyrights.
(35:14):
The document states that the Apple product is shown only
in the best light in a manner or context that
reflects favorably on the Apple products. Also states you may
not use an Apple trademark or any other Apple owned graphic, symbol, logo,
or icon in a disparaging manner. And that was sort
of not a well known thing publicly, but the director
(35:38):
of Knives Out, which is a pretty pretty fun who
done it murder mystery thing, he talked about the rules.
And in the film, every character has an iPhone except
for the guilty character, and and and in succession. Most
of the characters use iPhones, but Logan, Roy Jerry or
(36:04):
Tom Wobsgin's uh never never have the iPhones because of
the no villain clause.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So I have no villain clause.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
No villains can use iPhones only only good people.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Uh, So androids are exclusively surper villains or something.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Villains use androids. Side note here, have you watched the
television show The Boys? I have like like a lot
of just casually.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
I've watched it all.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Okay, Well, I I cause.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I think they release them all at once, or they
they do it in little pieces.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I don't know because I I.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Am the whole season. Yeah, I finished the latest season.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Okay, I haven't. I'm on, I'm watching the first season now,
I because I'm I'm sort of it's like superhero averse,
and so I was like, I don't know, none of.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
The superheroes surprised how good it is.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Well, that's the thing. Yeah, it's it's actually like, it's not.
It's more fun and funny than sort of your typical like,
oh superhero villain, blah blah blah. There's more more.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Too, can be quite shockingly violent and grotesque.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Yes, And I heard part of the reason that reignited
my interest was the talk of this new season having
a human centipede, and I thought, all right, well it's
if it's that crazy, maybe it's entertaining. And so yeah,
I watch it. I've been slowly taken in. And that
lead actor, the guy who plays oh god, I forget
(37:43):
his now Homelander. He's really he's really good. Like I
don't don't recognize him from anywhere else, but he's.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Yeah, he's an excellent haterable hero villain.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah, hatable, but he's got this. He's smug and it's
just he's perfect, but he has the look to it's all.
It all works. And the other thing for me is
it's shot in in Toronto, So I see all these
locations and I'm like, oh, I know there, I know
where they're walking. I know this, even like the main
(38:14):
tower that they they basically are headquartered in. Part of
it is is cgi the top part, but the bottom
part of it is a big music hall here in
Toronto that I passed by almost every day, and they
do a lot of the interior scenes in there as well.
And then the other thing is because it's a Canadian show,
(38:36):
I'll see people I know or have worked with, like
the actors and smaller parts and stuff.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
That's the way it was in Dallas that I never
watched the show, but every actor in Dallas had done Walker,
Texas Ranger.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Well. I feel like it was the same thing with
Law and Order, Like if you're a New York.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Actor, yes, but people in old Law and Orders.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
But I know my my friend I was sitting with
my you're watching watching it. Before I had started watching,
she was watching the new season. I wasn't really paying attention.
She goes and that guy looks like Jeane and I'm like, oh, yeah,
that is Gene. He did a he auditioned him for it.
And then the the nerdy tech guy of the of
(39:17):
the the Seven, I did a I did a Best
Buy commercial with him like ten years so. But you
just seeing all these familiar faces and familiar locations. Plus
it's a pretty a pretty entertaining show all around. The
Australian guys great to the He's like, yeah, he's just
like a coral urban And again I didn't know where
(39:39):
he was from before, but he's.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Like he played doctor McCoy in the Star Trek reboot.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Okay, he's just he just sort of is a perfect fit.
Is that that guy?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Great, he's really good.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, the I'm enjoying the boys. But again,
I'm just coming near the end of that first season.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
H keep me posted on your progress.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
I will. Yeah, I'm I'm excited now because it's always
it's always a pleasant surprise when you're kind of it's
kind of a dead season for television and you're kind
of like, ah, I've watched like almost everything, and then
you can find a new series where you're starting it,
but there's already like four seasons ahead of you. So
so yeah, yeah, you know you got you got everything
(40:24):
ahead of you. What countries swear the most, Well, they
did an analysis. This is based on tweets, but it
gives you.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
A good this is this is not the correct.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
It gives you well, it gives you a certain like
an idea. Basically, they reveal the most profane nations among
people who post in English, and number one is the US.
They're forty one tweets per thousand contained profanity. Number number two,
(40:59):
you know, Kingdom, number three, Australia for New Zealand, number
five Canada, uh, and then Canada is around a quarter
twenty four percent. The least swearing countries are all in
the Middle East, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 5 (41:17):
And you're talking about people posting only in English though.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Well that's the thing like half the world.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Yeah, so like the people in those countries that are
going to post in English, you know, now you're talking
about a subset of a subset.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, the ones who posted in English probably aren't aren't
aren't like posting swear?
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Why are they posting in English for business reasons? For
you know, like do they are they multinational type people,
and they got friends all over the world, so they
post it, you.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Know, so it should just be like English speaking countries.
I guess that's what we're saying. Another Google Google's trends
excuse me, came up with the most common Internet searches
by people in the US over the past two decades
(42:03):
that begin with I'm a cough button. Here they begin
with how to kill? So how to kill? And then
these are the phrases that usually follow that. Okay, can
you guess what one might be?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Ants?
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Number one? Answer is ants, yeah, answer hard to kill?
Answer hard to go? Fleas, Yeah, flies not hard to kill.
No fly. I have one of those electric tennis rackets.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
I do too, Yeah, and I'll tell you how to
use it. One hand electric tennis racket, the other hand
old style of flyswatter.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. That's good to take.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Out about anything, because at the fly land sometimes you
cover with that tennis track, but you need the other
thing to kind of push it in.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Then yeah, yeah, it's not good for like for hitting
them on hard surfaces. You have to trap them.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
I'm kind of an ambidextrous type of person, and I
play racket sports. So I got this whole racket thing down.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
Nice bed bugs, I dread like I I that is
one thing.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Where I tells a hardcore you what I check at
a hotel?
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Oh yeah, yeah. I. I had an experience where I
was in this UH. I was doing some work, like
some some sort of consulting, but but like hybrid kind
of like simulations for for business people and stuff. I
was more like on the on the acting coaching side, UH.
And we went to cities all over the all over
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the country. One of the cities was Edmonton, which I
had never been to before. And right in the middle
of this city there's an what used to be an airport,
and next to it there's this this old hotel where
when you went inside you could tell that at one
point it was like this this luxurious kind of grand
(43:53):
thing with fountains and stuff, but none of that existed anymore.
It was like like going into an almost an almost
abandoned hotel, like all the nice stuff had gone, and
I was in a room and I kind of smell
a little smoke in the hallway. It wasn't like even
though it was a relatively expensive hotel, and at some
point probably in the seventies and eighties had been like
(44:14):
a premier a thing, not so much anymore.
Speaker 5 (44:18):
Than smell and spell the smell of a distant cigarette
or like a past thing that's been smoked in.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Yeah, this was more like a childhood. This was more
felt a little more like stale and like, so I
was in the room and I'm in the bathroom and
I see something crawling on the floor and I like,
I kind of scoop it up on a tissue. Uh,
And then I have, you know, for my like like
(44:48):
prescriptions and for toilet trews and stuff. I had the
little ziplock bags. So I put it in the ziplock
bag and I got pictures and stuff. And this was
like I saw it like eleven at night, like you know,
I'm just like ready for bed, and I was like
freaking out because it was it was a bed bug.
I even went online like to to you know, get
(45:09):
get people's opinions. Definitely a bad bug, bed bug, And
yeah it was. And so it was eleven o'clock at night.
I was like, I didn't know what to do. In retrospect,
Probably right away I should have gone into the front
desk and said, yeah, you got to move me out
of there.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
Yes, I agree with that strategy.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
But I didn't. I went and I like, I did
check the mattresses and the seams and stuff, and I
was I was like looking all over. And then the
other thing I did is I kept all the lights
on bright because I figure that they come out more
when it's dark and there's darkness. But I didn't sleep it.
I didn't sleep at all. And then the next day
(45:49):
on checkout, I took this this zip lock bag to
the hotel desk and they were they and we were
supposed to stay there a second night too, and they
were all like, well, no, it can't be from like
that's not no. They're sort of in denial like and course,
and I don't know, like they didn't. We were supposed
to stay there a second night and they were like, oh,
we can just move you to a different room and stuff.
(46:11):
I was like, no can in the company. The company
thankfully moved us as actually a really nice hotel by
a river and everything. But yeah, that was I was
freaking out. The other thing I did was I bought
like alcohol spray and spray to every like inch of
my suitcase, all the like inside.
Speaker 5 (46:30):
And everything like that.
Speaker 4 (46:31):
I don't know that. That was my sort of stop gap.
And then put my suitcase in a garbage bag for
most of the time. And then yeah, and then when
I got home from the like the flight or whatever,
I threw all my clothes in the dryer and through
the suitcase and like in a dumpster. But I was
(46:52):
freaking out, like I that's my Yeah.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
I mean, even though it sounds extreme, those measures you
took are not unwarranted.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
No, because it's it's like that I get them.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
They're harder to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (47:05):
I I have a huge fear that I've seen it.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
I mean, they've started writing about it in the last
twenty years when they started to come back, and they
started to come back because we finally became conscious of
what strong poisons were doing to like I don't know,
our endocrine system, yeah, as people or whatever. And they Okay,
now it's harder to kill bead bucks, so you don't
quite have as much DDT around or whatever. But you know,
(47:31):
like I've you know, they can live in the clock
radio well.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
They live in any kind of tiny little crevice and basically,
if if you have them, your your life is uped
in and you have to like like like put everything
a dryer, throw at furniture.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Yeah, I h that's that's a fear I've I've had that.
Speaker 5 (47:52):
So that's the top few things that wasn't even number
one shocking though.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Well I guess it's less common probably. Yeah. Fruit flies.
Fruit flies like a perfect like a roof flies. I
figure it out, and because I sometimes they get really
bad here and I remember one time and they're all
over because I like, I use a lot of bananas
from my fruit and so they love that and they're
all over the place. But basically, you take a glass,
(48:19):
small glass, you put in some apple cider vinegar and
then a drop or two of dish soap. Yeah, put
some saran wrap over the top, maybe some elastics around
the side, and then just poke tiny holes in it
and just put it out where where they're mostly congregating.
And after a while, like they'll they'll just all go
(48:39):
to that thing all the time and so they won't
stick around your house. That draws them all in and
kills them.
Speaker 5 (48:44):
So you refer that's what you call a rubber band.
Speaker 4 (48:47):
What did I say, elastic? Yeah, elastic band, rubber.
Speaker 5 (48:51):
Band, Yeah, elastic, but it wouldn't be wrong. Yeah, I
guess not elastic though, because elastic is a inside of
like a waistband of material.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
Right, but those are a lot like I think those
are called elastics, soubands. Pretty elastic is its own. That
word describes the movement, not the actual material, because we
call like those little like whatman.
Speaker 5 (49:17):
Economics, I wonder, No, it is I think you're right. Yeah,
capable of returning to original shape or size after being stretched.
So it's is it is an action essentially, it's not
a material.
Speaker 4 (49:31):
Well, that's my thing. Lice I never had, thankfully.
Speaker 5 (49:34):
We had that back in the day, back in the eighties.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Gnats and then this one is.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Bad killed they have superlice now that it's not the
conventional treatments from network.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
Oh Jesus, Thankfully they don't have a lot of hair
on my head. Gnats which I don't know much about.
Speaker 3 (49:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:53):
Bees, that one's I don't like that if if I
had to guess, that's probably people people who just didn't
equate wasps to bees. How to kill like wasp.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Basically again not hard to kill.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
No, although I have for wasps, I've used that tennis
racket and sometimes it'll it'll knock them out for about
five or ten minutes and then they come back to life.
Speaker 5 (50:17):
No, you got well, see you're not doing the follow through.
You knock them down, you step.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
On Oh see that's cruel.
Speaker 5 (50:22):
But I mean wasp is not that they're not that powerful,
even though just a regulartle fly swatter will kill.
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Them on a window, you know.
Speaker 5 (50:29):
Yeah, and by the time they get in your house,
if you able to wasp in your house, they're dehydrated
and they're not going to be very effective applying. So
just let them do their thing, you could, or you
could just hit them with them.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
Swater roaches is another one, and then.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
Yeah, do you make a distinction. The large roach is
a we call them water bugs.
Speaker 4 (50:52):
Oh, we just basically say cockroaches.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
Cockroaches were small, but water bugs. And I haven't seen
them many water bugs since they moved to them worth.
Those were a thing in Texas.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
The other thing that people get in their houses is
silver fish.
Speaker 5 (51:07):
Yes, water stuff.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
The one thing I'm surprising isn't on this list is ticks,
because that's.
Speaker 5 (51:14):
Like, I mean, I got a you don't even have
a house full of ticks, you know.
Speaker 4 (51:20):
But people and their dogs and stuff like. Now, the
ticks are on it. Pretty much anytime you walk in
any grass there's probably a bunch of ticks.
Speaker 5 (51:26):
In there, and I mean it's it's a bad thing
in the north. You're not supposed to twist. I hear
you want to get the head out now you pulled
straight up and the match that doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
No, I think like, yeah, they have tools, but basically
tweezers straight out. This list is of what people want
to kill most so most of it's bugs. But if
you go further down the list, as you would, yeah,
I guess a little bit more unusual, lobster, mocking birds,
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to kill.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
A mocking bird, the bull ups.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
Maybe people are just like mistyping, Uh, want to kill
the mocking bird? To kill a Yeah, time properly related
to tie in people want to kill time. And also
on the list, which is unsurprising, is how to kill someone.
(52:22):
How to kill someone, Josh, it's just not done well.
Speaker 5 (52:28):
I think people who are google that and then you're
gonna go mess it, you know, be involved in that.
Then you know the Google search will come out that
you But.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
That's the thing they they people never seem to think
about that, because it's like.
Speaker 5 (52:41):
Oh, people, I think that's just a teenager just enjoying
themselves on the internet.
Speaker 4 (52:46):
But some no, Well, but sometimes when you see watch
these true crime shows or whatever.
Speaker 5 (52:52):
They google it.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
They it's like they googled lie and how to dispose
of a body?
Speaker 5 (52:57):
They google can stand it?
Speaker 4 (53:00):
True crime? You don't like it?
Speaker 3 (53:02):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (53:03):
I like it. I I have a strange fascination with it.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
I know.
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (53:09):
Occasionally occasionally I'll get sucked into that, but I avoid
it most of the time.
Speaker 4 (53:14):
But more than like, I like more of the oddballs
ones sometimes like the like like like there's this blumbhouse
has a worst roommate ever, And I think there's another
one worst something else ever. Uh and and they're like
really like batshit s stories for those of ways, I
(53:37):
enjoy them. Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (53:42):
It's funny you said S, but you also dropped the
S bomb I did. Yeah, you said bad ass, but
then you didn't say S. Then you said S.
Speaker 4 (53:53):
All right, Well, I don't pay attention to this thing.
Speaker 5 (53:55):
It's a good time. Hey, we're all friends here.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Yeah yeah, so, uh we're almost out of time. That's
almost it.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (54:07):
It was nice to be back after a couple of
weeks off and not to have COVID. You have yourself
a fantastic week, and I guess we'll we'll chat with
you the next time. The show is over.
Speaker 2 (54:22):
The show is over.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
Lessons were learned, but the conversation continues.
Speaker 2 (54:26):
Phone lines are open twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week. Okay, well, thanks for calling three hundred
and sixty five days a year. Donald six four seven
six Yo, Josh, I leave your message, gott learn jinas
send it text instead. We're on the web at Josh
holidaylive dot com. Miss an episode, download past shows from
better podcast platforms everywhere. Need to send an angry manifesto
(54:48):
to the manager. Email Josh at.
Speaker 5 (54:50):
Josh Holiday dot com. At Joe it's over. Okay, we're
all down now, this show it's over. See you see
you next time. Talk the bocks, Josh Holiday Live
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