NEWSTALK SAUGA960 SHOW #103

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Live from Toronto to the world.This is Josh Holiday Live. Josh is
like a snap talker. Josh isthe same level as me. Like his
vibe is just like strong and masculineand tough. Talked at rocks. Got
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Live, joined as always by theirreplaceable Bert. Yeah. Bert was a
burt. Hey, you know,just cleaning up my glasses so I can
read these Supreme Court decisions. Yes, frightening, frightening crazy. We're doing
it right in America this week.We've just brought you a lot of content.

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Yeah. But all the people thatare into hot takes, I mean,
if that's your business these days,you you know you're getting a fresh,
fresh, hot take from America.America will not let you down.
Right off the griddle, it is. Uh, we are live. We
were off for the last couple ofweeks. There was some remote thing happening,
and then I had a project towork on. But we are back

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live. It is uh, justat the end of June, and July
is upon us. Uh. II'm a quick hockey talk I mean to
I mean into hockey, the MaypleLeafs and I'm obsessed with hockey. And
the Leafs don't do well in theplayoffs. So the the last hurrah of

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the the Leaf's excitement is the draft, which started last night, and we'll
continue today and then July first.Also, Canada Day is Canada Day is
on the on Monday, as isthe free agency, and the Leafs are
hoping to rebuild the roster. Butthere's a lot of questions and it's neither

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here nor there. Did you Iimagine for those not in the know,
Bert is a is in the US. He's a US citizen. He lives
right now in New Jersey, somewherein the wilds of New Jersey. Yeah.
Did you watch the debate? Ohyeah, yeah, the whole thing.

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Yeah. I was all excited towatch it. I was, I
was planning to watch it. Iwas. I was like, Okay,
there's a good chance to show howout of it Trump is and how how
Meandery and and and I watched thefirst ten minutes, I was like,
oh my god, I can't,Like, this is just terrible. I
can't watch this. You can imaginewatching it as a total outsider. I
had to turn. I was like, I can't watch it like it's it's

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I was just kind of cringing.Yeah, because it was so like I've
heard interviews recently with Biden, andI've seen appearances. He did a Howard
Stern appearance, and by all allall evidence prior, he seems like a
well spoken, kind of reasonably energeticguy. But I think they just prepped

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him with so much, so muchjust information of facts, that he just
basically was like a machine spouting outstats and statistics but not really thinking so
much about being kind of charismatic andenergetic. I don't know, so I
think that I think that ship hassailed. But well, that's I agree
with what you're saying. Yeah,that was the whole Like nineteen eighty four,

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Reagan's first debate, Nancy got madbecause he was he was too deep
leads with facts and didn't have thegrand vision. Okay, yeah, Biden
didn't either, But Biden doesn't bringa grand vision, not really. No,
I mean like he's not a greatcandidate, but comparatively like it's like,
uh, you know, a pieceof dog poop versus a piece of

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cheese. I'm gonna choose the cheeseevery time. I choose the cheese every
time. Yeah, the cheese ison the ground, It doesn't matter.
You know, you got to pickit up right off the ground. Same,
it's right next to the dog poopon the ground. You're gonna still
edible. Yeah, it's and ifit's your only if it's your only choice
to if you if you're starving andyour only choice is between a piece of

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dog poop and a piece of cheese, you got I guess you gotta buckle
up and eat the cheese, eventhough it maybe it's not your your favorite
thing, or it's got it's gota little bit dirt on it. But
the cheese still has nutritional value andthe dog poop doesn't. Dog poop is
is pure just uh, it makesa lot of stink, but it doesn't
really have any value. Yeah,it's got a lot of lie inside it,

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and no moderators will challenge that,and neither will the piece of cheese.
Well that was that was the frustratingthing. Like, uh, I
guess they wanted to be as asout of the debate as possible, but
they let him say that there's postof most abortion. Yeah it's not even
worth it. I mean you sawthat part. Yeah, the Democrats are

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are killing babies after they're born.It's like, what is post birth abortion?
Yeah, that's a thing that doesn'texist. What a mad man.
But they, you know, thepeople on the rine have been like,
oh, that's that's that's happened,or where's it happening. Well we heard
of it. Yeah that's what youget. Yeah, well it's just that
is happening. That's what they're doing. There's so many dumb people who have

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been so misinformed that that they'll believelike just the dumbest things, and it's
like it's happening here too. Toa smaller degree, there's people in Canada
who are like, our country isbroken. Trudeau's terrible, he's daunted.
We've actually had very good leadership overthe past few years, especially considering the

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pandemic and the financially we we've actuallydone much better than a lot of countries
around the world. And there's stilla lot of people who are like f
Trudeau he Trudeau sucks, blah blahblah. Uh. They won't look at
the actual facts. It's just what'sbeing fed to them. And the sad
thing is now a lot of thethe newspapers here, especially the ones owned

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by right wing UH ownership, arepushing the same Oh, Trudeau's gotta go,
Trudeau's gotta go. He's no good. It's like there's there's no evidence
that he's not doing a great job, but yet they're still trying to trying
to push him out. And theguy who's trying to replace him is basically
a if Donald If Donald Trump isa dog poop, this guy is trying

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to copy. He's more of adog fart. He has nothing to say
except, you know, so helikes, he likes the substance. Even
he's well, he's just trying tolike like it's just a gat a gain
that populist playbook where it's like hedoesn't have any kind of platforms or anything
except uh, negativity, like,oh, this guy's bad, this guy's
bad. And then and then doingthe whole social issues and he's he you

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know, borders on the the youknow a little bit cozy with the the
the fringe elements on the on theright anyway. So that so now back
to this debate thing. I'm i'm. There's two camps in the on the
Democratic side. There's one side thatfeels like, uh, well, we

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got to stand behind our Canada.He's the guy. It's just we were
we met too many of those dancewith the one that brung you. But
i'm i'm, I think I'm withyou where it's like, Okay, at
least it was a debate far outfrom the actual election, and there's there
is still time even though it's it'snot a lot to change things up.

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It's so interesting that this is ohhistoric first a debate before the nominating convention.
Yeah, you just go like,yeah, maybe somebody in the campaign
wanted to, you know, raisethe white flag. Oh you think you
think that was that was the reason. I don't know, well, not
unthinkable. I think they wanted to. I think certainly they thought, oh
we can change the narrative that Ithink they like my field, they get

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the better Biden. That was myfeeling is teleprompter Biden. When you get
teleprompter Biden, it's great. Wellthat my feeling was that, yeah,
this is a chance for them tokind of uh push back against all the
people who are saying, oh,Biden, he's old, he's old,
he's old, and it battled,it backfired on them because he came out
and he looked, he looked thepart looked every bit of those years and

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then some. And this is thisis important because if Trump gets elected,
the US is no longer a democracy. It's gonna it's it's basically going to
turn into a fascist dictatorship. Andit's it's like so so so consequential that
this thing doesn't happen, and nowwe've got to do whatever we people.

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Well, I feel like a weekbecause the conscience are people people have common
across the world are tend to havethe same views. Yeah, we we
feel like like we can see what'shappening all these all these well there's also
like Project twenty twenty five where likethey want to totally uh basically undermine the
entire professional federal government apparatus as itstands. Well, uh, and there's

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the there's like there's also the Christofascism where they want everything to be based
on Christian value, that's its ownits own enclay within this entire Yeah,
and uh, and now you're seeingit with a yeah, it's just a
frightening fighting. And then of courseyou have this Supreme Court that that is
is basically going backwards. They're prewheeling that the we the scariest one is

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the Cheferon thing, where basically they'vesaid, well, well, we can't
really leave it up to these regulatorsto to know what's best for people,
uh, companies to know what's bestfor policy. Yeah, they don't.
They don't really know. Congress wasn'tspecific when they said, you know,
told you that the clean air meantnot this much of this and these particular
matters. You know, they didn'tknow. So it opened up. It

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opens up the door to basically corporationsto have a lot less oversight, which
will probably lead to more more pollution, more more more bad things will happen
for regular people, so corporations canmake profits. And I I this is
the part of the don't understand isthe justices on this court they've got to

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have like kids and grandkids who aregoing to have to live in this this
new world they've created where the airis terrible, the water qualities like it.
Just they don't I don't think theyeven think about it like that.
I think they think I think they'reideologues, and I think that they bought
into the idea that markets can solveall problems. Yeah, and so they

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think, oh, well, regulationsbad. How can we get rid of
Oh look, the Chevron doctions proppedup everything. If we just say that
the regulators are not the last wordon this, that courts can be the
last word. Well, I mean, now the entire I mean, the
federal schedule of regulations is hundreds ofthat I mean pages. It's just unimaginable

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amount of pages of potential. Imean you're talking everything from the decisions by
the National Labor Relations Board, anythingcoming out of the FDA, the EPA,
the Commerce I mean, all thesedifferent regulatory bodies that make thousands of
regulations on all manner of things.Are Now these courts are going to be

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flooded with cases. And they've beencomplaining that they have too many cases.
Now they're going to have dozens ofyou know, they've just increased the number
of the case by twelve times easily. Yeah. Well, and it's basically
they've they've said, well, experts, we can't trust experts. Yeah,
so just a big swath of deregulation. The other thing that was sort of

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funny, uh in a sad way, was they said, well, it's
okay if you give give give acompany or give someone money after they do
something for you. It's not abribe. It's it's after the fact.
I didn't even tune into that.I was looking at the fact that they
made homelessness the league. Yeah,well the pro bribery, like like,
well, you can't give give moneyto someone, uh in the process of

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of you know, trying to getthem to make a decision, but afterwards
you're you're allowed to give them asmuch as you want. It's just like
so corrupt. And we can certainsee that from Alito and Thomas because they've
been the beneficiaries of a lot ofgifts as it were. Yeah, just
so much corruption. You just wantto like it's like a horneousness. You
just want to bash with a baseballbat and smoke it up. You better

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get some of that good insecticidal foam. Yeah, angles, And I this
is you're you're not gonna be wellversed on this, but here in Canada
there's a lot of people who whoare like, oh, Canada is broken
or trudo sucks. Look at thehealthcare and the housing. What they fail
to realize is those are provincial thingsand we have, certainly in this province

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the worst premiere, uh, we'veever had. Premier is kind of like
the governor and he's he's basically doingwhat a lot of these a lot of
these people do, is they cuttingoff funding and underfunding a lot of programs
healthcare and and all kinds of allkinds of stuff. He's underfunding so that

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he can say, well, it'sbroken, we need private people to step
in, trying to privatize and selloff everything. He's currently being investigated for
land deals he made with these richdevelopers on this on this big track of
land by the RCMP, which islike our I guess, yeah maybe.
And the most recent thing is wehave uh it's called the Science Center.

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It's an educational venue. It's huge, kind of this cool architectural thing that's
built on a hill and for generationsand generations, kids and people have gone
there, and it's it's a reallyreally well loved part of the city.
It's it's a little bit further kindof not right in the downtown. It's
a little bit on the northeast,and so he I'm going to get complicated

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with you a little bit here,because basically, down at the the lake,
we have something called Ontario Place andthis was another place where people used
to love to go. They havewater parks and slides and uh, it
was these little islands on on thelake shore. And he decided that,
well, people don't really use this. We're gonna build a megaspa there with

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with and we're going to give halfa half a billion dollar for them to
build a parking lot. And alsowe're gonna move the Science Center down there.
It's gonna be a lot smaller,but we're gonna move it down there.
And his so called reasoning, hewas like, well, more people
can visit it, and I thinkit is to get more traffic there.
But what's really happening is he alsocreated this transit line to go northeast and

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one of the stops is at theScience Center. And coincidentally, within the
last few years, one of hisbiggest donor friends, I don't want to
say mob but you know, boughtup a huge parcel of land just north
of the Science Center, right nearthis subway stop. And now this week

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they closed the Science Center basically withoutany kind of notice last Friday. It's
like, Science Center's closed. There'sa pan on the roof that that that
need fixing, so we're gonna justclose it right down. The backlash has
been crazy. People have stepped upand said even the architects have stepped up
and said, no, most ofthe panels are fine. It would wouldn't

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take that much to repair ones.You could close off that part. Some
Internet guys stepped up and said,I'll give you. I'll donate a million
dollars to get some of that stuffdone. And major, major backlash need
not apply. But you can seethe process here. He builds a subway
stop at this at this location,his big developer buddy buys a ton of

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land just north of the Science Center. Now he's closing the Science Center,
hugely valuable land right beside a subwaystop and adjacent to his buddy's land.
So it's basically he's closing the ScienceCenter so he can sell off that land
to his developer. For it's justlike the corruption is just so wide out
in the open. He also recentlyessentially we don't in Canada, well in

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Ontario anyway, we don't have liquorin our in our corner stores, like
in the in you know, ifyou go to like a regular old corner
store, there's no liquor. There'sa specialty liquor store. Yeah, we
have a liquor store and we havea beer store. Uh. And that
was set to end in about sixmonths he's supposed to change over, but
he decided to change it over early, at the cost of anywhere between half

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a billion a billion dollars to startthat six months earlier. Uh. The
speculation he's trying to basically, he'sgonna call an election soon and he's trying
to do the populous thing. Buthe's also cutting, like he's cut a
lot of basic administrative fees and stuff, which has meant less money to put
back into the province. It's justjust a total like I don't get it.

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I do not get it. Butthat's neither here nor there. Ah,
I changing topics here on the onthe wrapit, I have a purple
shirt. It's a purple regulation.It's a purple Western shirt. Oh yeah.

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Does it have pearl buttons? Itdoes? I love like I love
I love a snap a pearl snapbutton. Most of my shirts both long
sleeve and short have the snap buttonsall right, like a little you know,
that's a little bit of it.That's unusual. I expected a little
bit of a throwback. Yeah.Well, and mostly you know, my
mommy dressed me in this. It'slike one of those you know, I
just like that. I think thisis kind of the western look, you

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know, the western cowboy. Inormally in the summer, I mostly wear
short sleeve shirts and stuff. Butnow I've started putting a little bit long
sleeve, partially because of the sunand then partially because I got a little
rash on one of my my arms. So over the last like two months,
I've been wondering where this purple shirthas gone. And I go through
like very finally, like through mycupboard, like move apart every shirt looking

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for this thing. Of course.Yeah yeah, And I don't have a
big closet. I don't have alot of clothes. It's basically like the
purple shirt has is it's eluded youbasically six feet across and I've looked for
and I'm like, how like Itry and think of it, like did
I leave it at my parents?I'm trying to go in my head like
where where is the shirt? Howcould it possibly leave? So two days

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ago I go to my cupboard andit's like it's there's a gap right where
the purple shirt is, and thepurple shirt is right there. And it
was like, I can't figure outhow that happened, because I swear like
at least like six or seven timesI've gone through that cupboard with a fine
tooth comb and that purple shirt hasn'tbeen there. And then to come in

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and there's a gap and the purpleshirt is sitting right there in the gap.
Right. You're saying, either youhad situational purple shirt blind in this
over a long period of time,or there's a ghost. Yeah, one
of those things, but probably probablythe four. But super national involvement cannot

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be ruled out. I just Ido, and I live alone. I
only have a dog, and thedog didn't do it. It's too high.
So you thought you lived alone?Yeah, maybe I have a purple
shirt specter that is uh, youknow, got an life that matters.
Yeah, it was just it's justweird, maybe maybe weird. Do you
watch the television show The Bear.I have watched maybe two episodes, and

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it looks very promising. I justcouldn't stick with it at that point.
I watched it first episode. Idon't even even know if I got to
two, and I was of themind like, I don't really, I
don't know, I don't get well. One thing is, uh, you
know, it looks I've worked ina restaurant and be like, oh,
it's so realistic, and yeah,no it is, and it looks it's

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it's very stressful. Yeah, I'venever worked in a restaurant. I've eaten
many restaurants and I and I've watchedHell's Kitchen, so that must be something
that's real, right, But yeah, I just I I heard like so
many people raving, oh my god, it's the measure, it's awesome show.
And I watched it. I waslike, I don't get it.

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I don't get it. But I'man outlier. I guess in that case
it is. We didn't mention thisoff the top, but it is a
very exciting weekend here. It's along weekend. It's the Canada Day weekend.
Ah. Yeah, we have ourbig celebration is July first, yours
is July fourth. It's it's weirdbecause a lot of times the July first

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doesn't fall on the Monday, butwe always have a holiday Monday right leading
up to leading up to July first. But it worked out this way,
so we are I'm going to comeback and I'm gonna quiz you because you're
Americans, so you may not knowa lot of these. We're going to
tell you about some nadianisms and someof them you and I have discussed before,

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because it's an ongoing thing where youknow, I'm Canadian, your us
Ean Uh, that's that's the term, right usaa Ian. I don't know.
We've we've just taken over American fromthe rest of the continent. And
also we're gonna play a little gameof fireworks. Is it? Is it
a real name of a firework ornot? Just a momento. Josh Holiday

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Live is top forty radio talk radiofor the top forty percent of the population
who aren't complete hitdiots. This couldbe a podcast. Wanted you jab Josh,
what's your opinion? Six four sevensix year Josh or cent attacks.
Now now back to the nonsense talkedto Rocks Josh Holiday Live. Yeah,
from the land of the Loss,Trans Canada, Cross patriotic and a horn

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and with my hand on my Heart. One of the great is the Lakes,
Ted, the Green is the Greensteatle, Rockies, Mountains and everything in
between. Canada. Ho, you'reno fan of us because of movie Oh
Canada. Yeah, that's a banger. I don't know that song. No,
I I was not super familiar withit, but I thought it was
a good Uh it sounds good.Get a little Canada rap talking about you

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know, that's one of the that'sinteresting that it never occurred to me that
you just don't hear guys going hardfor Canada like you Brooklyn, the Bronx
Compton. Canada doesn't get a lotof rap representation. Well yeah, yeah,
that's true. Well because you know, the usually rap is about where

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you're growing up and about where youlive. Yeah, so yeah, that
makes sense that there's not a tonof a ton of Canada Canada, who
you are, where you're from,what you got or about a Soucker m
C. Yeah. Those soccer EMCs, man, they they're no good.
I've always been against the soccer mcs. You gotta watch out for him,

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and I think that's the lesson.That's the key. Watch out for that
socker MC. Okay, here wego Canada is on Monday. Uh Bert
is the other voice you hear onthe radio program. He is American born
and born in Texas, living inNew Jersey. Yeah, so these are

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terms canadianisms that you may or maynot be familiar with. So I'm gonna
tell you, I always feel likeyou were teaching them to me for my
eventual immigration. Yeah, when thingsgo to hell, I will become a
I will flee the disorder that weare cultivating. Yeah, you might end
up being like, if all everythinggoes to crap down there, you might

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there might even be refugee claims thatCanada would allow from down south. Oh,
I mean, what are they gonnado? You know, we're gonna
go after the liberal media, fascistregime. Okay, so here we go.
What is a Canadian tuxedo? Oh? I have no idea. This
is basically when you double up thedenim you wear jeans and a jean jacket,

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known as a Canadian tuxedo. Butapparently according to this it can also
be called a Texas tucks. Wellhow about that? Have you heard of
a Texas tucks even? No?Okay, well there you go. But
Canadian TUXI though, that's wearing likefull Denim is basically long time Canadian.
Didn't we never? I guess wejust don't. You know in Texas the

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full Dinum maybe in winter time?Yeah, maybe, but I don't rarely.
I rarely see that. Do youknow what a mickey is? Is
it a forty ounce beverage? Usuallyit's a thirteen ounce like a little one
mini bottles of booze. I'm goingto take a mickey to church or whatever.
It's one of those little it's agreen bottle drink. It's just smaller.

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It's just like but it's a maltit's a malted. No, a
mickey mickey can be like any kindof booze. It's basically just basically a
portable size that you can kind ofcarry. O there dickeys. Yeah,
I know, I remember in theold like the forties movies. Ah you
slipped about mickey. Well yeah,that that's different though. Oh okay,
that's like Cosby technology, all right, What isn't there in that sense?

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The mickey is, uh, youknow, a sleeping agent in your drink?
Now? Are you talking now aboutMickey's big mouth? I maybe that's
there's I remember, there's like it'skind of like a malt beer or whatever.
I remember. Yeah, that's whatI'm saying. When I lived in
the States, uh for a period, and when I visited there, I've

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had some of my craziest you know, when I was younger and I would
drink, I had some crazy experienceswith that. Like, yes, as
we all did. Yeah, it'sit's it gives you a different kind of
experience. So we've been led tobelieve. Yes, Uh, pencil crayons,
you know those, So I meanI'm assuming it's just a colored pencil,

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that's correct. Yeah, Americans callthem colored pencils, British call them
coloring pencils. We've always called thempencil crayons. Pencil crayons kind of cop
out. It's like, well,they're neither a pencil nor crayon. Yeah,
that's kind of a high. Uh. The French call them. Wow,
I owned the Coolieah, that seemseven more redundant. Do you know

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what KD is Kevin Durant. Nope, in the in the States, in
the sports world, yes, butKD. If you ask any Canadian,
chances are they will know what Katieis and for the most part love it.
Uh. Basically, Kraft Mac andcheese. You know the box Craft
dinner, Yeah, basically with theyeah, Craft dinner. I didn't know

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it by its abbreviation KD Here arethe people called kat uh and I I
think they call it there isn't itlike Kraft mac and cheese. They don't
call it Kraft dinner there, Idon't know. No, it's not called
Craft dinner. In fact, theonly way I even knew about Kraft Dinner
was from Terrence and Phillip the subcartoon of South Bark. Okay, yeah,

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well that's exactly it. Yeah.Uh. It's basically the dried boxes
of noodles that come with a packageof cheese. I like the shark our
version where you get the sharp cheddarpowder two four. Do you know what
a two four is? Yeah?I think so. We've talked about this.
That's the case of beer twenty fourbeers. Yeah, and it also

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doubles as like, oh, it'sthe May two four weekend because people are
like, oh, we're gonna drinka lot of beer on this weekend.
It's a May two four, whichis the May twenty fourth weekend, which
is like a holiday. So okay, Molton muscle, Well, I don't
know what that is, but itseems also beer related. Definitely beer related.
Molton muscle is basically what you calla beer belly. Oh look at

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this Molson muscle. Oh wow,what a polite euphemism for our access.
Yeah. Oh, look at thisguy's Moulson muscle. This one. I
feel like everybody knows this one.Tuk huh do you know what a tuke
is? I don't think so what. It's basically a knitted cab like a
hat, basically a winter hat.Call that. Okay, we've called two

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a lot. It's it's basically,yeah, winter hat like like it comes
from the French word for puk,meaning hat. Darts You know what darts?
We play darts? Okay, notin the sport version. This is
a different dar. Say I wantto get Ah, there's the dodge dart.
Yeah. Uh say military rapid transit. I gotta pick up. I

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got to pick up a box ofdarts. I mean this are these more
we're still talking? They are theyare deadly Oh no, lawn darts.
No, they are deadly. Wellthey used to be until they they neutered
them. Uh no, this isdarts basically is a reference to cigarettes.

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Oh yeah, I gotta get apack of darts. Can I borrow a
dart dark for your heart? Yeah? Uh? This this one I feel
like maybe you would get as well, because it's even the name is sort
of self explanatory. House coats.It's like a robe. Yeah, basically
a bathrobe. Uh. We sometimescall them dressing gowns too. Okay,

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it's like an older term. Ifeel like it was around Yeah. Yeah,
I've always called them dressing gowns.Uh. Okay this one yeah,
yeah, I gotta put my dressinggown. Uh. This one I think
you and I have talked about before, because I remember when I first brought
it up. I don't think youwere aware of it, but let's see

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how your memory is. Eves trossah a gutter. Yeah, they gut
her like basically along theer your roofline, evestros Yeah, gutters yeah. Uh.
Do you know what a keener is? Oh? I don't think so,
but I should. Basically that it'sa It's a name for a brown

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noser, like someone who's him.Yeah. Look at this keener. Yeah.
I like that even better than brownnoser. Yeah, because it's so
quick and it sounds more cutting thanbrown noser keener. He's a keener finally.
Uh, and it's not the ChuckBarriss thing Gong Show. Oh no,

(31:18):
I have no idea if it's notthe television thing. Okay, well
in uh in Canada, if yousay, oh man, that was a
Gong show, it just means it'scompletely yeah chaos and utter chaos and like
it was like just crazy, likewhat a Gong show. So there you
go. There's some canadianisms. Thankyou for you, Yeah, we're getting

(31:38):
you va my transitions, I seekasylum. I don't know if any of
that will be on the on thecitizenship quiz. You know, I'm going
to start the you know, getthe dual lingo, going learn that French
start the start the but even thecitizens ship test, I don't know if
it'll it'll it'll be like canadianisms willbe more like oh who was the first

(31:59):
prime minister? Oh yeah, yeah, Okay. Now we're gonna play a
little game. This is a notjust Ay July first one, but July
fourth. We both have fireworks andfire fire cracks and stuff on Monday.
You have to tell me if thesetitles are real firework fireworks or fake firework

(32:21):
names. Oh this could be.I mean, all, yeah, it's
basically a crap. Shit changes everyday. Yeah, there's so many different
ones coming out, but that wasone of the things in the pandemic.
Incidentally, they don't sell you know, they sell fireworks at the grocery store
in New Jersey, but they're weak. Well, if you want to go
to get the real fireworks, yougotta go to Pennsylvania. But when you
go out there, in like twentytwenty timeframe, twenty twenty one, the

(32:46):
markup on That's where I noticed howintense the shipping costs had become. Oh,
because fireworks got insanely expensive. Well, we now here in in Canada,
we're not allowed to have fire crackers. And so whenever someone like like
when we were young and we werein school, whenever someone went on a

(33:07):
trip to Florida, I drove throughthe States, it'd be so exciting.
They would bring back firecrackers and we'dbe some Yeah, yeah, I remember
on the way I went to livein California for about a year, and
on the way down going through thethe Midwest, tons of fire cracker places

(33:28):
in every like little small town,and I bought a bunch. But then
I got to Los Angeles. I'mlike, there's no I can't use this
anywhere around here at all. Yeah. So you're in the city, you're
gonna make that noise. You're gonnahave people paranoid and on top of you
quickly. Yeah. Okay, sohere here we're gonna play this game.
You can play at home as well. Are these real or fake fire works

(33:51):
and names? Yeah, there's peopleat home. Yeah me bro keep going
sitting around the radiola and they're living. Yeah, they're They're gathered all around,
they stay, they suck around afterAmos and Andy, and here they
are. Pizzapocalypse. Oh gosh,that sounds terrible. Pizza apocalypse. Well,
it sounds like you ate too muchof it. Well, I wonder

(34:14):
what it would look like pizza,Like, how do you replicate cheese and
sauce and stuff? Is a firework? Well, okay, uh yeah,
I'd say that it is not afirework. Apparently a real firework. Okay,
okay, here's another one, litand legit. No, that's another

(34:35):
real one. I'm just gonna keepsaying that fire twerk. No, now
that one would be good, thatwould be cool. Yeah, yeah,
uh light and run. No,that's a real one. But that's the
instructions, I know, basically,maybe they just misreading it. They see

(34:58):
this now, they're just well they'vebecome so meta there in China with their
branding. H boom, Jamin Franklin. I want that to be real.
So, yes, it's fake,but it'd be cool if it was real.

(35:19):
What's Kraken? Sure that sounds likea real one. That's a that's
a fake one, bad assical blast. I mean probably that's a real one.
Yeah, Larry loses a limb norYeah, yeah, that's not a

(35:44):
real one. Larry loses a limb. It's due on the nose. Uh
impending danger mm hmm yeah. Imean I'm gonna go ahead and say that
somebody has gone ahead and marketed that. You are correct. There is a
danger of firework. Indeed, thereis petrified puppy. No, no,

(36:07):
that is that is not a firework. It's a scene like since Christy Nome
tried to get warm her way ontothe ticket with some puppy tails. It's
not working. No, Americans lovepuppies too much. It's a symptom of
fireworks, not not a firework.There you go, unicorn puke dude,

(36:29):
what a tough one. That's atough one because think about it, that
would be actually pretty cool. Well, sure, I'm gonna say no,
no, that is a real One'sa real one. Wrong on the buzzers,
that's a real one. Okay,finally, all right, Redneck finale.
Oh well, yes, that isa real actual firework yep. Which

(36:53):
it makes sense because you know,rednecks love to blow stuff up. Oh
I guess that's a good point.Yeah. I don't think about it that
way. I just thought about youknow, culturally, there's no you know,
you just go out there to thatfireworks stand or now warehouse with air
conditioning. Yeah, and you'll seethese titles and more, these giant Yeah.

(37:15):
Yeah, that one is so applybecause essentially rednecks are are like masters
of trying stuff out and blowing stuffup. I mean, I've been out
there. I love it. Theywant to have a bonfire and blow some
stuff up. It's a lot offun. Shoot everything in the air.
Whatever I come from this? Okay. Well, uh, there's a new
rule, or relatively new rule,a financial rule. It's called the one

(37:39):
dollar rule. What is it?Well, i'll tell you in a second
or two. People say a lotof things about Josh, there's a website
to vote it to all things.Josh, you're kidding me. No,
Sometimes I was immediately attracted to Josh. Tell them what do you think any
time at six four seven six yeoh, Josh. Yet it's talked as

(38:04):
lucks. It's Josh holiday Live.The best things in life were free,
but you can give them to theirbeds and bees. Money. Money,

(38:25):
that's what a lot of people want. Money. Does it make your life
better worse? I don't know.There's always there's always people who say money
can't buy happiness, but I look, well they've proven it's up to a
certain amount, which at the timewas seventy thousand dollars now is probably more
like one ten. Yeah. Ithink it certainly makes things more comfortable.

(38:46):
But at a certain point. Wait, and we've talked about this before where
I don't get like like I don'tget billionaires, Like how much more money
do you personally need? Like youcan how many yachts can it? Well,
you can have a on each coast, friend, there's only so much
time, Yeah, you get it, just doesn't like even then, like

(39:06):
like you're never ever going to haveenough time to to to use all that
money and ah and just on theside of maybe you need to get you
Supreme Court justice to see how youfeel the yeah, you can buy did
you. I don't know if hesaw this, but Elon Musk, the
world's dumbest billionaire believe he uh Heposted he was criticizing Jeff Bezls's ex wife

(39:36):
for donating so much to charity.He was like, why he's mad about
that? It's like, dude,he's the seriously the one of the worst
people in the world that would Yeah, basically a giant billionaire douchebag. Anyway,
for us regular old people who haveto think about what we spend,

(39:59):
there's a but something called the onedollar rule. This is from a lady
who named Burnadette Joy, and shesays, rather than just trying to save
all the time, use this rule. Basically, take the cost of something,
divide it by the number of timesyou're likely to use it, and

(40:22):
if it's less than a dollar peruse, buy it. If it's more
than a dollar per use, don'tbuy it. So say, this is
her example here, say you're buyinga cheap pair of shoes. They cost
fifty bucks and you're only going towear them twice. Cost of use is
twenty five dollars aware, so youprobably don't want that. So say you're

(40:45):
spending three hundred and fifty dollars ona high quality pair of shoes that you're
gonna wear for years and years,There is no such thing. But yeah,
go on. Yeah, well,at least all the time anyway,
less than a all are perware ifyou're wearing them like four hundred times.
Okay, this is this is oneway to approach thinking about money. Yes,

(41:07):
And there are exceptions to the rule, concert tickets and travel experiences,
which I I would as I've alwayssaid, I prefer experiences to actual like
concrete things, this stuff like Idon't need any more stuff. Yeah.
So yeah, so that's that's theone dollar ruf. Okay I have.

(41:27):
Basically, I don't wear a lotof shoes. I'll get a pair of
shoes and wear them for a wholelike one pair of shoes for most of
the year, although because it's winterhere we have to wear booths sometimes.
But I bought a pair of Yeah, I bought a pair of Hokahs last
year, and I wore them allthe way until this year, and then
I bought a new pair that I'mgonna wear all the next year. Sure,
and they are about two hundred bucks, so I'm gonna get more.

(41:49):
Yeah, I don't go I don'tgo that high. I try to find
the ones that are coming off clearanceor something. Well I did. That's
the thing too. I knew Iwas going to need another pair, and
it was the middle of winter here, so there's a sale. I think
they were one hundred and sixty bucks, and I bought them and I just
put in my cover for a coupleof months Canadian I guess, yeah,
which is probably like probably one hundredand twenty US. Maybe that's not too

(42:13):
bad. Hookahs are pricing. Butthey're so like the they're so comfortable the
bond I think the bond Pa.I mean there's some around here. I've
never had a pair of, butpeople swear by them. Yeah. I
like the cush, their cush.I like the cush It's all about comfort.
I also like cheese. This isit's almost a call. We talked
about cheese at the beginning of theshow. But and this is a great

(42:38):
news for people who like me,who love pizza, and I feel that
cheese on anything increases the value ofthat meal by by a lot. Yeah.
Study is found that mental well beingis the single most important contributor to
healthy aging and longevity. There's anotherlarge contributor, eating cheese. Interesting Chinese

(43:06):
researchers did research involving two point threemillion people and found cheese is not directly
responsible for longevity, but a higherintake of cheese and fruit, well,
now you're throwing this hole is astandout contributor to high well being scores,
and higher well being is directly correlatedwith robust levels. That's nice. I

(43:31):
like cheese. I like cheese.Also like fruit. Sure, Fruit's fine.
That's good. That's sort of goodnews. Go ahead. There's a
lot of people are like, ohcheese, so fat are they? There
are people? This is interesting.And I remember reading a Rall Doll,
you know, Rall Doll. Yes, but like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,

(43:57):
James and the Giant Peach, alot of kids books. But he
also wrote, uh when I wasyounger, some of my favorite short stories,
and they were more like for adults. He had a lot of a
collection of short stories that were sortof sort of Twilight's Only m Night,
Shallamanny. They just had sort ofinteresting twists endings or they were they were

(44:17):
kind of offbeat. And there wasone where this scientist he he had this
invention where he could hear when plantswere you know, when the grass were
cut, or someone knocked a branchoff a tree that sounds terrible. He
could hear like them scream, sohe like they actually felt this this pain.

(44:38):
So uh, here's a new studythat that where art maybe is imitating
life research. We just researchers aresaying that plants have a form of intelligence.
There's a there's a journal that Isubscribe to and this week's edition just

(44:59):
landed on my our step Plants,Signaling and Behavior magazine. It shows plants
like golden rods are smart enough todetect other plants nearby without ever making contact.
Okay, Also, is this happeningthrough the fungal network underground? Not?
I don't know, because I've seensome documentaries about the fungal network and

(45:21):
fungus talks to each other. They'revery conversive. But yeah, but this
one also say fungus can also beinteracting with other things like trees. Yeah,
fungus is so cool. They're alsosmart enough to adapt to threatening situations.
Such as herbivars eating them. CornellUniversity researchers even found that some species

(45:43):
have the intellectual capacity for flexible,real time adaptive responses. Well, plants
don't have a brain, they dohave vascular systems, which some biologists say
are similar to our central nervous systemand can be used to process information.
That is cool. Yeah, that'spretty crazy. Yeah, these plants,
you know, they know some things. I love golden rod. It looks

(46:07):
great, it is it is apretty plan. But is it? But
briefly, if it's all, isn'tit all about the allergies? It gives
a ton of allergies. A lotof people are looks to it. We
had a lot of it around hereand there's still and I don't you know,
It's like I haven't actually been tothe top of the hill in this
season because a tree fell down inthe way that I've managed to cut into

(46:29):
sections. But then my my energywas depleted, so all I've done is
cut it up. I haven't pulledit out of the way so I can
get up to the top of thehill to find the golden rod that I've
stashed up there by nature. Sowe'll see. We talked about this a
bunch of weeks ago. I saidthat at some point, because I'm driving

(46:50):
a sixteen year old or eighteen yearold Toyota Yars a small time, right,
Yeah, I also haven't I alsohave an Oa Toyota. Yeah,
small car for a big man andbig car for a small man. At
some point, I'm you know,I think I might want to get some
of the new technology like Apple carPlay and cameras and stuff, So I'm

(47:10):
casually looking at different cars that mightbe a fit. We took talked about
the Toyota Toyota c CHR, whichwas kind of a small suv that they
discontinued in twenty twenty two, andis it fair to call it an sguv.
I think it's like a hatchback.I would say it's a compact suv
or a crossover, but it was, Yeah, it was basically a compact,

(47:35):
a tall Corolla suv. Anyway,I saw them around, I was
like, oh, no, Iwasn't wearing that car before. And then
I looked it up and it's like, oh, discontinued in twenty twenty two
in North America. And then Istarted thinking. I start looking around,
like there's not a lot of likesmall cars anymore. And this week CBC,

(47:57):
the national broadcaster here, put outan article and they're they're talking about
it. This is a real thingthat the there's a lot less smaller cars
now. And they even have alist here of ones that have been discontinued.
In twenty nineteen, here's a bunchof cars that were discontinued. The
Volkswagen Beetle, Chevrolet Volt, theSmart War I remember that little smart car

(48:22):
of course. Yeah, Toyota Price, Preus C, Nissan Micra, Ford
Fiesta, and the Fiat five hundred, which is it a decent least?
What Nissan Micra is just a smartMaybe that's a Canadian name. And then
in twenty twenty they discontinued the HondaFit the Hondai Accent, Yeah that was,
and the Toyota Yaris, the onethat I'm driving. Also the Volkswagen

(48:45):
eGolf. Twenty twenty one, ChevroletSonic got discontinued, ah, the Sonic.
And then twenty twenty two the BMWI three, which I think is
that little little car shows Oh yeah, shout, Chevy Spark got discant union.
In twenty twenty two, ont insightdiscanting. Twenty twenty two, Hyundai

(49:07):
Ionic discontinued, and then in twentytwenty three they discontinued the key A Rio,
which is a I thought it wasa very popular h little car,
and the Chevrolet Bolt, and thentwenty twenty five is the last year of
the Nissan Leaf, and I it'sit's something I just I don't get.

(49:28):
I certainly we've talked about the reasonswhy, which is is the manufacturers and
the dealers and stuff make more moneywhen they sell more expensive cars. But
I don't understand, Like, Idon't think I don't think there's a huge
like I don't know if consumer demandis that high for these these big trucks.
I think is more just what's available. I think I don't know about

(49:49):
that. I think that these well, I mean because you looked at the
gradual disappearance of the sedan. Youknow when and when I you know,
in the eighties they were you know, car makers may have had three sizes
of sedan and then they had ansuv and then they had a truck.
Yeah, well they would have ascale of stuff. But now they have

(50:10):
a hashback and then the sedans allwent away and Now it's like, Okay,
Honda has two plus the Civic canbe different configurations. Toyota has done
away with uh. Yeah, nowthat's like the body's MISSILEZ. Yeah.

(50:30):
But now the small car is startingto go away. Yeah. Well,
but the other thing is uh,in terms of like mileage and gas gas
ability, they use more gas thesebigger cars. Sure, and uh for
crashes they're worse for. So here'sa death and injury risk for other road
users. Risk of serious injury decreasesby twenty five percent for SUV passengers,

(50:54):
but increases twenty percent for people inthe other car involved in an accident with
it. Oh yeah, yeah,it's just basic physics at that point.
Pedestrian or cyclist hit by a vehiclewith a ninety centimeter hood height has a
thirty percent greater chance of fatal injury. Uh. In a crash between a

(51:14):
vehicle wearhing sixteen hundred kilograms and thirteenhundred kilograms, the risk of fatal injury
decreases by fifty percent for the passengersin the heavier car, but increases by
almost eighty percent for people in thelighter car. So sure, if the
big ol' SUV hits my little rs. I know, we're just but it's
like all these you know, we'retrying to balance all these forces. Yeah,

(51:36):
I I like, I don't.I don't know. It feels like
Canada should be more influenced by Europebecause we tend to, you know,
be a little bit more. Butyou've got see, you have the both
things. You have those thirty hourdrives over long open road and then you've
got cities that are densely populated.But I guess we also have winter here,

(51:57):
so probably a lot of people arelike, wow, I need something
to get through that snow better,right, And I don't know. You
know what the mass transit network islike in the big city in Toronto,
it's pretty pretty decent. Yeah,well I will say, I mean you
can get places, but you know, it's not sometimes not reliable. But
still yeah, I just don't.It's just frustrating because I would just like
a little car to get around thecity and they're making less and less of

(52:19):
them, or the ones that arelittle are in a different price range,
like the your your Mini Cooper oroh yeah, I know those are even
the mass they got rid of likeone of their look, they had the
c X thirty, which is kindof a small, you know, mini
suv, and then they consolidated that. Now it's just the Sea. The

(52:40):
C thirty still exists. Three,the which one, the Monster three?
I don't think. I think that'slong gone. I still see some around
town, like old ones, butI'm pretty sure that one's been been away
for quite a while. I don'tkeep good tabs anymore because I'm not in
the market for a car. No, well, I'm casually so I just
kind of, you know, andat this point I only ever buy a

(53:02):
used car. Yeah, that might. There's a Mazda three sedan and a
Maza three hatchback. They still exist. That's their new small car. And
then they have you get into likethe cx's. I don't know if they
do en Cana. I'm gonna haveto look in Canada. Oh, I
see, totally sure. Yeah,we may be dealing with different who knows.
All right, Well, it's beennice to be back, and we

(53:24):
will chat with you again. Whydon't we say we'll chat with you again
next week? Does that work?Sure? The show is over. The
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