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S3, E#3 - Campfires to Cityscapes Journeys in Life and Death
Now, who hasn't mulled over life's big decisions while enjoying a little banter? We're firing up a conversation that swings from the educational crossroads of Dalhousie and the University of Saskatchewan, to the playful back-and-forth of dual citizenship - all without missing a beat. As if that weren't enough, join us as we whisk you away to Las Vegas for an amusement expo like no other and a rum tasting in Area 15 that'll have your head spinning. Plus, you won't want to miss the musical gem unearthed in Chicago, ensuring your playlist will never be the same again.
But we're not just about the good times; we're here to peel back the layers of city politics and the oil industry's inner workings. We're clearing the air and extending apologies, all while dissecting the curious case of dwindling downloads. Hear us strategize our mission to win back hearts from all corners of the globe, including our friends in Sri Lanka. And for a twist, we delve into the peculiar world of buying coffins at Costco. It's a blend of lighthearted musings and earnest dialogue that'll keep you coming back for more. So, tune in and let's ride the rollercoaster of life's oddities and adventures together.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Welcome to the Village Confidential.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone.
Speaker 1:Christine Ernesto and Dr Brad King.
Speaker 4:What.
Speaker 1:So I'm not paying you anymore.
Speaker 3:But she's taking it.
Speaker 4:I had a dollar for everything and I kind of look up my phone and I am in Narnia.
Speaker 1:I feel like I know you well, aren't we the models of consistency? This is like.
Speaker 4:This is episode three of season three it's incredible, and it only it didn't take us two years to record this.
Speaker 1:It's already 30 longer than season two really is in season zero, wherever the fuck we called that. Well, well, well, guess who's in the studio tonight?
Speaker 3:who who? You oh, I know christine's back, welcome back.
Speaker 1:Fucking whooping cough or something.
Speaker 3:Right how you doing kid oh, my god, it was so much better. That was awful, honestly. Okay. So here's the reckon. This is what I, this is what I realized. That was only the second time I've had covid, because I thought I was like all the other times I was sick. I'm like, oh, this must be COVID, this must be COVID. Uh-uh, that was so brutal I have like. It took me up for three weeks. I was so sick for three weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've got. I've got friends on that ride right now and they are not fucking enjoying it Like it is. Uh, should have got the booster, boost it up.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I don't know. I wonder if that would have made a difference or not.
Speaker 1:Well, now we get to round eight of this, because so does it get worse each time you get sick after it I, I don't know nobody fucking knows, because they have no idea what they injected us with nobody gets it anymore because nobody's testing yeah oh, is there? Is there a test for that for an app?
Speaker 4:I believe they're all expired do you want a booster?
Speaker 1:I'm good. So to celebrate christine's return, welcome back, we should. We should play your theme song oh yeah, let's do that you know what her theme song is, don't you? Oh, christine, waking up from the dead Hammered, waking up from the absolute dead. So, just to go back, we're out at the lake having a good party and Christine goes to have a little nap and we crank this tune on and she sits up like the Undertaker from a dead sleep.
Speaker 4:And wanders out and starts dancing immediately right into dance moves.
Speaker 1:Right into dance moves. That was so fun. Welcome back.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:This is cool to have everybody in the room again, long time coming, not having to worry about COVID.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't, yeah, I don't, yeah, I don't I think I got smoked by it, but I I was a couple good weeks. Yeah, I had a nasty cough oh, I never had a cough. It didn't go into my chest or anything at all yeah, just all up in my nose yeah, it was probably the titos andarts that gave me the cough.
Speaker 1:Might have been there might have been the throat's a little scratchy An accelerator. There may have been an accelerator at the lake the week before. We'd go get the truck. So Noel Gabe and I just did some damage, for we were there 48 hours. Hours, oh, at the lake for 48 hours, yeah, because we go get my truck right, all the rent was going on here. I need a few dump runs and we went through darts like there was no tomorrow on the beach and the bonfire was 12, 12 feet it was. It was pretty awesome it was epic.
Speaker 1:So the burn pile is gone. So that's the main thing, and my house isn't. That's also good. That's the second part of that of having a 12-foot bonfire. You want to make sure the structures aren't a part of it.
Speaker 4:That's a good way to test your fire safety.
Speaker 1:It's decent anyways. So yeah, what'd you get up to?
Speaker 4:doctor. Oh, I've been traveling the country for sports, for my kids Ring it. Yeah, there's racking up titles yeah, we won. Well, cadence, my oldest, won the city championships last last week, which is really exciting. And then we went up to Edmonton for her provincial championships this past weekend Nice and they didn't have the best weekend and finish where they wanted to, but they still played really well. But it was interesting because they this is her last year. She's going off to university next year.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:So this is her last year playing for Northwest ringette Wow, and there's a bunch of kids on her team that are aging out or schooling out when she's in the four and the ladder schooling out. So the final game they played, um, they were playing this other team from calgary bow view and that when they finished the game, both teams are standing there kind of arm and arm looking up at the stands and all the parents are up there and this was like a mass sobbing session, like every player on the ice was absolutely ugly crying, the coaches were crying, the parents were all crying and it was like it was super funny but also really emotional yeah, I remember colton's last game, man, yeah, and it it was.
Speaker 1:It was like bankruptcy slowly then, all of a sudden, they fucking lost they lost that series quick and it was over. Yeah, and it was his shittiest year of hockey like enjoyment level. So I I don't think it was as emotional. It's different when you're kind of going the provincials, which they did the year before, uh, but yeah it was sad. And then looking back now how much he loves hockey still, I'm just glad he still loves hockey, yeah right, that's the key.
Speaker 4:This was her the best season that she's had, probably maybe not in terms of results, although it was really really good. But just her teammates are just so tight and the coaches were awesome, the parents were awesome, like it was a fun year and I'm happy the year's over because it's a grind. You know, you guys both know having kids in sports, but, um, I was surprised how emotional it was. I wasn't prepared for it yeah so, yeah, we'll see what the next chapter is so can.
Speaker 3:Will she pay ring at in university like is is that something? Is that a thing?
Speaker 4:I wasn't not sure yeah, possibly, yeah, okay, so Cool Hope she does.
Speaker 1:That's a good thing for her. Different teams and stuff right yeah, Does she know where she wants to go? Is she going to stay in town or what?
Speaker 4:No, we're looking at Dalhousie or University of Saskatchewan.
Speaker 1:So the lead is as far away as possible. Yeah, well, I'm like. Well, hey, is that what you're going for If you go to Dalhousie?
Speaker 4:that's a cool place to go, but if you get into trouble, fly to Europe, because it's a lot closer than we are.
Speaker 1:It's a lot closer. Yeah, it was so wild. Colton didn't want to go away.
Speaker 4:Really, yeah. Well, casa Ernesto, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty sweet, steen.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:What have you been up to? You're still a Canadian.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'll always be a Canadian. I'm not going to become an American.
Speaker 1:but why not? Um we need a noisy American on the show.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, but I can't. I get, I get uncomfortable, especially one from Arizona. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:I get uncomfortable. Can we get you a mega hat for your trip down?
Speaker 3:there. How many followers do you have on truth Social? Oh my gosh, seriously Nice.
Speaker 1:Dawn made a nice pass this morning. Yeah, seriously, 9.5 bill. Yeah, pay that, fine Dawn.
Speaker 3:I heard he was selling Bibles 59, 99 a piece.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, good.
Speaker 3:Hey, I mean, apparently he's never read a. I heard he was selling Bibles $59.99 a piece. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Good, eh, like I mean, apparently, he's never read a Bible in his life. Can he sell half a billion worth, though, is the question that is the question. That's actually a really interesting question. Yeah, yeah, we should do a poll on that. We should do a poll Mental, though. Yeah.
Speaker 3:So what have you been up to? You're on the road last week, so tell me yeah, no, I was in vegas, I was in vegas last week, which, oh yeah, looking for, uh, another covid sample oh, my god, that's what I was at.
Speaker 3:Tray show, yeah, so it was great amusement expo. So it's kind of one of the smaller expos on the amusement scene but it was really cool because smaller scale, it's not as busy as the big one that we usually have in Florida every year, so more time to talk to manufacturers and game suppliers and make connections and grow the community that we're trying to build there right now. So it was really cool. We saw some neat stuff, looked at all some of the new trends that are coming out in entertainment, saw some really cool arcade games. Atari is actually back with a new game console and game cabinet, which is really really cool and neat. And yeah, it was. Yeah, we had a couple experiences there, so it was good, yeah.
Speaker 1:Experiences, was this another dark room?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no. This was, oh my God, Actually okay.
Speaker 1:It was, Actually it was.
Speaker 3:It was a dark room to be honest with you yes, where all the remnants yeah, oh yeah, but no, it was this place. Have you guys heard of area 15? It's in vegas. It's this new entertainment place. It's got all the cool entertainment in it, like it's got a meow wolf and it's got like an experience where you can go it. They take you up high and you do the drinking experience in the sky and like the retro arcade and stuff like that. And then they have a bunch of other kind of immersive things on the outside.
Speaker 3:But we went to this rum tasting one and I it's the name of it. Is this totally escaping me right now? This is what happens when you get old. But you go in and it's kind of like a speakeasy. That's got kind of live entertainment in it and you walk around and do the rum tasting at different stations and then the entertainment is set up all throughout and they bring entertainment out every 10 minutes and they'll do like uh, some sort of uh circus act or a singing show, or there's this one where this gorilla came out and danced and there's a girl underneath and she takes the gorilla outfit off, Like it was just really neat.
Speaker 1:What was she wearing? Oh, just a bikini underneath. She was like oh, oh, of course there was a bikini underneath. I knew it. I should have like, I should have said it first, but that's the first thing I thought, but so then she comes off with the bikini and then she takes the bikini off and you're like, okay, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 3:and she had another bikini on underneath, so yeah, but she was double bikini she was double bikini. Yeah, that's a tease. Yeah, that's, isn't, that's heartbreak hotel.
Speaker 4:It's a you're. That's a strong move from gorilla to bikini, but to go to the second bikini is kind of like that's marginal.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that slows down a little bit.
Speaker 1:People were cheering, so of course they were a bunch of perverts. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it was fun. It was really good time up to last.
Speaker 1:thank you very much, do tell I went to chicago oh nice yeah yeah, not the musical the town gotcha. Yeah, not the band but I wish that would have been awesome. That would have been good. So I'm gonna go back on this one a little bit. It was last we have some way back sounds uh, no, because I jammed a bunch of other shit on there.
Speaker 1:I don't have a dream sequence on there. I had to put Bieber on there to welcome Christine back. Obviously, welcome back. So impulse buy in the fall. So last summer I was introduced to zach bryan so I went like I just wanted to see him in concert and, uh, maybe I'm gonna play this little clip, just so like I love this guy's writing, like I love, love it, and I think I set this one to Kane. But just listen to the words on this song, it's pretty good.
Speaker 4:This is a really immersive experience.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, I did some homework today.
Speaker 4:It's impressive.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 4:Are you going to sing along to this?
Speaker 1:No, he's going to cry. The first time I heard this song was at a concert, actually, oh what, I didn't see him in Chicago.
Speaker 2:I think my soul take my heart, Take me apart. If I'm good for anything, it's all of this suffering to use me for part To you. I'm just salvage. I ain't ran right in years.
Speaker 3:So drive me and gut me deceive and fuck me and disappear. Like dude can write because he's impressive.
Speaker 1:He reminds me of taylor swift. Oh, stop already, just don't do not go down there.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, so we go to the concert I'm speaking the truth, but yeah, okay so we'll so, impulse bought, had no one to go with, so I bring my friend on a Brit, okay, and I get to this concert. It was like taking sand to the beach. I had no idea. It was like I've been to Bieber and it was like four guys at Bieber the restaurant. It was the same thing as Zach Bright. Really it was insane. So anyways, united Center this is my one beef like amazing facility, like unbelievably expensive drinks.
Speaker 4:Were they 18 or more per beer? Like unbelievably expensive drinks.
Speaker 1:Were they 18 or more for a beer. So I bought a round of Tito's and soda, of course, of course, and it was 70, some odd bucks.
Speaker 3:So it's like for two for two doubles.
Speaker 4:Sorry so four drinks for 70 US or US.
Speaker 1:So we're, we're.
Speaker 4:Like a hundo plus.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it's impossible. It is like a beautiful mind trying to figure out how to not give a tip on the console that they have. It's impossible. And it starts at 22% yeah, 22. 22% tip For what, right? Yeah, it's 22, 22 percent tip for what, right?
Speaker 4:so I mean custom tip and I'm trying to figure it out and doing the math, I'm converting it to canadian.
Speaker 1:You're the calculator guy. Oh my god anyways. So I get for on a bread. Has to go and get around. She goes to get around next day. She's fucking raging. Her round was 120, some odd dollars. What so? Something happened. She must have hit the 22 percent like oh she got smoked and she was raging.
Speaker 4:It was awesome chicago's super sympathetic about that too oh. Oh, you're upset too bad, fuck off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but to tell you, like Chicago, great place, food's great, shopping's good. It's just so much history there. It's cool, it's a cool spot.
Speaker 4:Do you guys do an architecture tour around there?
Speaker 1:It was too cold, man, I wasn't doing. I've done it before, yeah, and everyone's like oh, you got to go on the. No, I'm not sitting on that boat with the wind whipping through town, and it was. It was cold, man. When it comes off the lake.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Cold damp.
Speaker 1:And it just goes through. You, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So anyways, that was that, so concert was good. The thing I really I really appreciate about him is he's um 27 songs, just as an aside. So he's saying it's a good playlist. It was did he play shake it off?
Speaker 1:No, he didn't.
Speaker 3:Did he go for three and a half hours?
Speaker 1:Almost yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, he's trying to match Taylor's record.
Speaker 1:Well, almost. Yeah. Oh, he's trying to match taylor's record all you didn't need to dance his way through three and a half hours, like he's saying so does she?
Speaker 3:no, she doesn't she does for three and a half hours and she dances she, yeah, but she sings the whole time yeah, her concert is phenomenal and I know you don't like her, but you can't knock her you got that concert at no point did I say I don't like her when because name one time you don't like her, no name one time.
Speaker 1:I know you don't like her, no name one time before you're not doing this to me Cause. I am not answering these DMs I'm not answering these DMs from the Swifties.
Speaker 4:Where did Taylor Swift is better come out of this conversation. That was a great song.
Speaker 3:No, oh, it was no. Sorry, I you know what. I take that back, not that he's she's better than him, but she's amazing. And I'm just saying she, we have to appreciate her. She's amazing, that's all. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have to appreciate that. She's amazing.
Speaker 4:We'll devote a segment off air to this Well that I'm not at like you do it in your car, I am going to Taylor Swift in the, in the in the winter.
Speaker 3:I went to her and I would go again. That's how good the concert is. It's so good, it's so well done, yep.
Speaker 1:I went to Zach Bryant not go again.
Speaker 3:I would go to Zach Bryant, though. I think he's amazing too.
Speaker 4:So I like how how raw he is Like when he sings. I would say he's the great singer and his music is beautiful, but he's just raw, he connects.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I know Ana Bert's going to listen to this. Ana Bert, I'm glad you came, but it was definitely there. I was outnumbered by the women, so that's what I meant by that. Got it? Nothing disparaging.
Speaker 3:Gotcha.
Speaker 2:Thank God.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's a big fan Follower.
Speaker 3:Cool Like follower.
Speaker 1:Cool, like a lot of my friends. Speaking of which, we've lost some uh customers. It seems there has been a catastrophic, catastrophic drop off of our downloads, did we?
Speaker 4:have customers. We should address this we should.
Speaker 1:We had loyal fans and I guess the two-year gap weren't they from sri lanka though I don't know where they were from, but please come back. I promise we'll publish at least six episodes, yeah before the summer definitely yeah, I'm into this now. I'm like I'm back and I love it it's fine, I think our new recipe and we can't share it with the fans, but our new recipe is going to work, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:You just got to listen. Bear with us as we work out the recipe.
Speaker 3:We have to cook it up, mix it up a few times, but we're all over it.
Speaker 1:So I know I'm burning up clips, but I got, because this is kind of how season one went for Village and I miss it, but I don't. And what I don't miss is about this clip, okay, it was pretty drunky that first season.
Speaker 4:Oh my God.
Speaker 1:It's so good that you snagged that, because wait till you listen.
Speaker 2:Another thing that does mind-winding is people, when they turn around and go. You're coming out for the beer and you're going. I'm trying to be good and they go, just come for one. What is the point of going for one? You know what I mean. They're just trying to pull the wool over your eyes, aren't they? You know what I mean. Whoever has one, I'm going to get up, put my clothes on, meet you in the booze. All right, man, you gotta listen to that. And then you have the beer, and that is it. We're going out. We're gonna go out. We're gonna have 100. You know what I mean. One hundred, you know what I mean you're gonna at least 10, aren't?
Speaker 1:you know what I? Mean not a one liam gallagher, so good one of my favorite podcasts ever was liam gallher, and that was one of the beautiful clips from that so good.
Speaker 3:And that was the first season.
Speaker 1:That was the first season of Village. There was no way we could have one drink. You can listen to the glasses hitting the table.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, we figured it out Eventually. We padded the table so you can hear the glass. Yeah, cause we knew we were going to solve the it out Eventually.
Speaker 4:we padded the table so you can hear the glass. Yeah, cause we knew we were going to solve the drinking problem, so we had to solve the sound problem.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 1:Not so sure the drinking problem has been resolved yet. Yeah, yeah so yeah, that uh, I was kind of sitting on that for a bit and I'm like that is like it did remind me of the first season of our show. Also, the party we had in Nelson it reminded me of that. Let's have one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we're not having one, we're having hundreds, but that season has some of the best stories though, yeah 100%.
Speaker 1:So we got lots of stuff going on locally. Uh, brad, do you have any update on uh jody gondek's? Uh, get rid of the mayor campaign.
Speaker 4:Uh, I know that she's not in favor of it you don't say hey apparently the, the. This landon johnson is the guy that put it together and and they met. Yeah, um and jody put together this response in writing that came out in city letterhead and it was. I thought it was really poor, to be honest with you, um, and I'm kind of neutral. The old argument, I'm interested to see how it plays out.
Speaker 1:It's kind of tone deaf. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:What I was really intrigued by is that these two elderly women went out with their rattle cans and defaced all. Did they get charged? I don't know if they got charged or not, but they went out and defaced the recall conduct and changed it to say respect conduct. Oh wow, but isn't that a federal crime? Like if you do that with federal, like whatever election signage, yeah, so I'm curious as to what happened with these ladies.
Speaker 3:But is that election signage or it's just signage?
Speaker 4:I don't know it's still property right, Like I think it's vandalism.
Speaker 1:Do you remember the outcry when one NDP sign got touched in the provincial election? It was like it. That news stream didn't stop. For sure it's funny and you didn't hear shit about.
Speaker 4:You know the this sign getting painted over at anywho these two were like yeah, well, we'll do an interview, it's all good, so funny.
Speaker 1:You should say that. So I have two team members that are in the Rotary and Jyoti was at the lunch today for the Rotary.
Speaker 4:Ooh, so Did she take questions or did she slunk away?
Speaker 2:She took questions, but from what I gathered they weren't questions.
Speaker 1:There was a lot of statements oh good About the new.
Speaker 4:The blanket rezoning.
Speaker 1:Yes, the rezoning.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she got carpet bombed by everyone.
Speaker 4:She should Stupid policy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they're scared to run into through a plebiscite like come on, do it dare you, but of course jt's hanging our own tax dollars over our own heads as a carrot.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just like I mean the whole thing is it goes against the air development plans. Um, you know, the community's put together is supposed to retain the feel of the communities, to densify areas yeah, but like you look at some of the places, like the place that I live, you know they're not throwing up infills for 200 grand, like there's going to be million dollar properties and that that doesn't solve an affordable housing problem. Yeah, yeah, properties and that that doesn't solve an affordable housing problem, yeah, yeah. So I you know the blanket rezoning. I think that, like, that's a recallable issue in my mind because that's not listening to the city, that's not listening to constituents no, but she hasn't, from the word go yeah hey, it's a climate emergency, you're only going to go solar panels, yeah, whatever okay, so part two of the shit storm spen, she's back
Speaker 4:oh, let's talk about grimace I love spenchy, did you hear that he doubled the ndp membership just by entering the race?
Speaker 1:wow and uh, there's a I can't remember the person's name. They're on.
Speaker 4:Facebook. Somebody in Edmonton that just immediately was like well, I'm out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, spenchies, here, I'm out.
Speaker 1:Dropped out of the race. Wild.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's going to be super exciting. He blows up budget for a city. Let's see if he can do it for two. Oh, he's three Might as well. Fort Mac's a hamlet, isn't it?
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Grand Prairie is a city.
Speaker 4:How many cities is it going to blow up?
Speaker 1:now I thought Fort.
Speaker 4:Mac was a city.
Speaker 1:No, it's not, it's not, it is not Never been there.
Speaker 3:Maybe if somebody follows us from Fort Mac, they can let us know I really wanted to head up there at some point just to understand what this Fort Mac's. I did that.
Speaker 4:Did you find out? I don't even know if you go there and find out you lived yeah we flew in and flew out Okay.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like. So let me just Okay, I'm an oil guy, but here's what we did. So, Suncorp takes us out to a reclaimed tailings pond. So you pull up to this thing and it has the vibe of a cemetery was leo dicaprio in the plane with you no leo wasn't there with me. There had been a lot of 25 year olds on that plane that was.
Speaker 1:I was wondering if the ratio would be the same as the concert tell me about it anywho um, I had the vibe of a cemetery for birds fresh saplings, not one fucking animal and I'm talking. You're, you're staring in this wide open field with brand new trees in it, like no squirrel, like nothing. And then they have this like viewing area where you're standing and I literally turned to the guide. I'm like what are we fucking looking for here?
Speaker 4:like it was like there was nothing.
Speaker 1:It was just these trees and this brown grass as far as the eye could see. And I'm just like, am I in Herm's way right now? Like I know there's a bubbling mass of tailings pond underneath me right now.
Speaker 4:Mr Wider, beyond the tailings pond, that is nature.
Speaker 1:It was too quiet, I didn't like it, I didn't trust it. Yeah Right, it was too quiet, I didn't like it, I didn't trust it, yeah right, so anyways. So it was. They're very sensitive to it and I get it because people, you know, they come up there, they get the photo evidence that they want or the narrative that they want and they spin it. I get it. It's definitely not quite the lithium mine vibe, but it's fucking close right. Except we have human rights. So they don't like backfill over bodies once they got all the lithium, like they don't do that. You hope, hope. Well, you wouldn't think so? Wow, yeah, I don't think so, but they do that in lithium mines. But I love a good Tesla.
Speaker 4:Hey, I mean, that's a fire that keeps burning man.
Speaker 1:I love my boy Elon, but like EVs are, that's a wild one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it'll, it'll, it'll improve, it'll get better. I thought you were going to say it was a fad and I was going to knock my ass off, but I mean what?
Speaker 1:You don't like coal fired vehicles. What's?
Speaker 4:wrong with you? I got a stoke. I got a stoke.
Speaker 1:The coal, the coal fire you know, shovel doesn't like a good coal fire yeah, vehicle.
Speaker 4:I mean, I've never been to see a tailing punt. I have no idea what it's all about so I can't make a comment. But that being said, like these are some serious shit in the bottom of those things oh, I'm sure you want no part of yeah, I'm sure yeah, but the whole evie thing and I'm not talking ogopogo.
Speaker 1:It might produce one. Yeah, I'm talking metal, yeah. Yeah, it's wild, what's in those things?
Speaker 4:yeah, but I don't know the electric car thing. It's not for me. My truck is a is a hybrid like it's got a electric engine in it Is that pronouns Do you ever use? Pronouns yes.
Speaker 1:Gas guzzler. Chris, did you like my meme I sent you about the joke about pronouns.
Speaker 3:Which one you send so many. Oh yeah, the pronoun one, that one was good.
Speaker 4:You got to refresh that one. What was that one was good you gotta refresh that one.
Speaker 1:What was that one um? That's probably rad though yeah, pull it up okay, hold on a second but this brings up a good point. Christine just said. I said do I send too many?
Speaker 4:no, you can't send too many.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I get on heaters.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I just can't stop.
Speaker 4:If you're on a run, you've got to keep going. Don't change the underwear until you're done with the heater.
Speaker 1:It's funny. I have friends that get offended by some of the ones I send, so they try and offend me back with their political view by sending me ones literally making fun of me, but I still laugh because I love me a good meme. Memes are what makes the world go round yeah.
Speaker 4:I love them.
Speaker 1:It was something about how do you kill.
Speaker 3:How long could you send this?
Speaker 1:It wasn't that long ago, but I did notice you're a bit shady, you. You had yours on vanish for a while my what you're? No, it was an accident.
Speaker 3:I didn't I was like, and I was like what's?
Speaker 1:yes, I said that christine is shady. Yeah, I was like people with vanish. I know most people put it on accidentally, but it's shady when you're like, oh my god, what are you getting that you're destroying? Like, are you, tom cruise? Is this mission impossible?
Speaker 3:okay, I can't find it, do it. Do you remember what the picture was? Uh like this is how it was, it was.
Speaker 1:It was those no, it was those aussies right and and the they were.
Speaker 3:Oh, these two guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when they, where they try and make each other laugh. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That was the Manchester.
Speaker 2:United one.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to remember. Oh my gosh, this is how many like it's not even close.
Speaker 4:I've got a couple of friends. We communicate memes back and forth.
Speaker 1:Okay, here it is. I'm going to play it for the fans at home, okay.
Speaker 2:How they slash them.
Speaker 1:Simple yet effective. How do non-binary people kill people? They slash them. That's a great joke and I love the fact that these guys get together, try and make each other laugh, and if you laugh you gotta drink a shot.
Speaker 4:It's awesome there's a couple of uh, that sounds like the first season of village. Yeah, but you just drink anyway.
Speaker 1:We were drinking even when we were winning.
Speaker 3:Everybody just drank. Yes, there's another guy. He's done something like that too. I love him. He's a marketer and he took his, he, him and he's like something wizard. I have to try to find him and I'm like that's a really clever way to show your pronouns. Do you know what I mean? And instead of actually going with the regular, I don't like showing mine. For some reason, I feel like I'm being judged by.
Speaker 1:What are your pronouns she?
Speaker 3:her, she, her right, Her she.
Speaker 1:She it. You don't even know your pronouns.
Speaker 4:Look what do they call that? It feels like christine's.
Speaker 1:No, what do they call that when?
Speaker 2:you pretend you're like. I just know I'm a whitewashing. What? And just a woman I don't know, isn't that terrible?
Speaker 3:then I feel insensitive for saying that, so I don't know what's the right answer christine, you're not just a woman.
Speaker 1:You're a she her I'm a she her.
Speaker 3:Okay, let's move on from that before I get roasted again.
Speaker 1:That was a fairly lively week of uh dms for me. Regarding that episode so I'm gonna steer away from that. So, nancy, I just want to go back to this for a second here. So, getting two pensions already, he's running for a third. What do you think?
Speaker 4:I think he's going to win it.
Speaker 2:I don't think the party leadership is going to win it. Oh, leadership, yeah, I don't think he's going to win it, but there's no way he wins an election.
Speaker 4:I don't think so Not like now with the momentum PCs have right now or the conservatives have right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That said, you know I mean what was the stat? The last leader of that party to make it four years was Ralph Klein it's wild. It's wild. So there's a good chance. Based on statistics, she doesn't last the full term.
Speaker 1:No, oh wow. Well, it just depends. It depends on where the party's at and how they feel about she. Matches up against whoever the opponent's going to be Right.
Speaker 4:It is, but you know but the problem with that party is that they are so broadly constituted Like. I don't know how you unite the thing. The United Conservative is such a misnomer because they're anything but.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think NDP and Conservatives suffer from the same ailment Because they're. You have a lot of if you look at the federal NDP there like there's there's major issues there, like there's a lot of people not happy about Jagmeet, jagmeet being the choir, choir boy for JT, like there's a lot of membership that are not happy with that.
Speaker 4:It's the only way that you can legitimize that party. Cause what do they have? One seat or two seats or something?
Speaker 1:I think it's going to be worse this time around.
Speaker 4:Could, be.
Speaker 1:I mean Like his seat will be gone.
Speaker 3:You mean worse, like they're going to have less seats. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:October 2025, I think.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Now it's a week later because they changed the election. Oh, did they?
Speaker 4:They won an extra week.
Speaker 3:What the hell that's going to do.
Speaker 1:Something financially for? No, I'm sure they're pushing some citizenships through in October of 25.
Speaker 4:Right, exactly how many non-confidence motions is Polyev going to put in between now and?
Speaker 2:next.
Speaker 4:October.
Speaker 1:It's. You know, I just want it like, I just want it to be over. I just we've. Canada has taken so many steps back on the international stage. We just need to get back in the game here. Like, put me in coach, put anyone in, just someone, yeah, and I, literally I'm at the point.
Speaker 1:I don't care what side of the aisle they're from, we just need someone else and we need to get rid of that terrorist of an environment minister fast oh yeah, goop, goop, goop, goobo, that's what steven goobo say I'm working on that tragedy, that goobo, yeah, yeah, not too many people like them, like um people that I deal with downtown and they're kind, they are on the left side and they're working on the environment side. Even so, he just does wild shit. I mean, he comes out of left field, doesn't keep anyone in the loop, doesn't talk to anyone and just blindsides everyone, even on his own team, and it's just, it's Bush league, it really is. He's still in that green peace mode.
Speaker 4:Oh, I mean, that's his, seems to be his agenda through this whole thing. He'll announce this stuff and then the whole party's like, no, that's not what we meant. It's like well, you're the minister, yeah, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:so this is a fascinating thing. So you know how they do these press conferences and they run out guibo and then there's like 10 plebs behind them, you know, and they all stand united. Can you imagine what that selection process is like? Like behind the doors? Okay, guipo is up today, who wants to like?
Speaker 1:and everyone takes a step back all hands in everyone who wants to go take a step forward and a bunch of people step backwards. Damn it, I fell for it again. That's literally what that is right. Can you imagine being politician and just getting hammered constantly like it's?
Speaker 3:a tough gateway, not in the village way but a little larger audience, sadly yeah, you have to have like a thick skin, that's for sure, right?
Speaker 4:yeah, I don't know. I don't think any of us was past the sniff test to get into that position. No, no, there's two seasons worth of information they could use. I don't know, I don't think any of us was past the sniff test to get into that position. There's two seasons worth of information they could use.
Speaker 1:It's just wild, yeah. So you shared something pretty funny with me. Costco had something for sale. What, uh, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:About. So apparently um cause Costco has everything and buying power, um, so you can order a coffin on Costco, I think it's free shipping Free shipping.
Speaker 1:So just coming to the door or like afterwards, is there delivery After you fill it up? Just wait here, I'll be right back. I got the label for going the other way, right Return label.
Speaker 4:But right over top of the opening. Yeah.
Speaker 3:This is really fascinating. Who who orders a coffin to their home?
Speaker 4:I mean well.
Speaker 3:I assume it's someone else, I know, but like you wouldn't, you'd order it to a funeral home.
Speaker 1:I think Sean Combs probably did P Diddy P.
Speaker 4:Diddy.
Speaker 1:My bad.
Speaker 3:Think about this for a second though. Like okay, if you're when you die, if you ordered a coffin, how are you going to have a funeral? Because I bet you the funeral homes aren't going to allow you to come in with your own coffin. Like they want to upsell and they want to make money off of that. So could they deny service and deny a funeral for you if you don't buy one of their coffins?
Speaker 1:Have either of you guys been through this?
Speaker 4:I'm still alive.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4:I had to go through this for my mom.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I heard it's a racket. It is bullshit. It's complete bullshit. So you wheel in there right with all your siblings, because you're super, super close and it's all money right. Like it is all money and they're. They have their nice laminated pages of the book full of coffins, so you're buying stuff. In my mom's case she was um help me out, lit on what was uh cremated.
Speaker 1:Cremated, sorry, my bad I'm just tripping on words today lit on fire. Okay, yeah, you yuck it up. But okay, you're not allowed to just fire them in the furnace, right, yeah, they got to be in something right, yeah and they sell you that something to be in right. So that's the urn or whatever right no that's literally lighting money on fire. No, it's not the urn it's the fucking box they burn, you they push you in yeah, yeah, yeah, literally lighting money on fire.
Speaker 3:And then you have to earn after that, and then you got to collect it, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and then you got to park it somewhere.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:Right, mm-hmm Rock it.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mm-hmm. So they throw in a tree in their memorial garden for you.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 1:It's in fish Creek. That's nice. They plant a tree. Another ceremony right. So here's the God bless my mom, but that was like the worst. It was the worst.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I didn't blame my dad. My dad was like uh, I don't know, I'm not getting cremated. I'm not getting cremated. I'm like that's a move. That's a strong move, Because we bought the packages at the same time. I'm like strong move there, I wouldn't either.
Speaker 4:After watching that. So the thing with the Costco coffins you ready for this? For shipping, you first and last name of the deceased, the company name of the mortuary and the address of the mortuary. So you're literally like ordering it and it delivers within two business days. I want to check the shipping and returns. So if you you've heard of.
Speaker 1:You've heard of swatting people, right.
Speaker 3:Yes, what's swatting?
Speaker 1:Swatting is when you basically call the police with a fake call.
Speaker 3:That would bring the SWAT team to your neighbor's door. Yes, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:How gangster would that be? To send a cough into someone's door? Oh my God, that would be gangster.
Speaker 4:Gangster, would that be. Oh, yeah, ouch, that would be gangster. Gangster with that. Yeah, ouch, that's got to be a chargeable offense, that's got to be a threat. Is that a death threat? That's, I would think it is but it doesn't sound like.
Speaker 3:It doesn't sound like you can do that anyway. They've shut, they. They're making you send it to mortuary. They probably double check it, right yeah it's costco.
Speaker 4:I don't know if they do.
Speaker 1:So what's the costco?
Speaker 4:coffin cost two thousand ninety nine dollars wow, that's cheap.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, well, there's oh my gosh, there's reviews.
Speaker 4:I can't, I just can't we've got 11 five star reviews I.
Speaker 3:it's a Costco coffin, I don't know. I'm kind of I kind of dig this.
Speaker 4:The one star is I bought this casket and the handle ripped off during my father's service. Terrible product.
Speaker 3:No, it does not say that.
Speaker 4:It does say that right here it's so bad.
Speaker 3:I feel like that's a lot. Oh my gosh, there's no way.
Speaker 1:So what's the coffin rated for? For weight Maybe dad was heavy.
Speaker 4:Well, they're actually, so the weight is 240 pounds. It doesn't say what you could put in it, so I can't tell you that I don't know.
Speaker 1:So it's 240 pounds. Just to start, paul Bearer is a tough gig, man. Yeah, so it's 240 pounds just to start. Yeah, Paul bearers is tough gig man yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what do you do if the handle snaps off? You got to get your knees.
Speaker 2:You got to get under. I think you got to get under it.
Speaker 3:You got to get under it, put it on the shoulder.
Speaker 4:Like remember those, the guys that do the dance with the caskets.
Speaker 1:This is going wrong.
Speaker 4:I know.
Speaker 3:I know you need to tell us about this. Do you know about this?
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's all over social media. You've seen this before, right, I have not Okay. Well, I'll find it Okay and we'll link it. But basically, these guys have this whole routine dance that they bring in with these caskets, and I think that they bring in with these caskets and I think that they're now being hired to do this during ceremonies, but is there people and bodies in these caskets?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:Oh sheesh. I'll find it Interesting.
Speaker 1:This is not what I thought we were going to talk about Me neither.
Speaker 3:I love these little rabbit holes.
Speaker 1:I was so excited and this has been like dreary sad.
Speaker 2:You want to talk about luke bryan again, it's zach oh yeah, that's zach, bryan do you want to talk about jennifer swift again?
Speaker 1:jennifer swift, karen swift, karen Swift, oh she is yeah, okay.
Speaker 3:But before we leave this talk it. I wanted to tell you guys have you seen or talk about, have you seen, the new way that you can actually get buried? So they'll take your body and they built these eggs and they take your body all and they crunch it all up into like a ball and they stick you in this egg capsule and they put a tree in there with fertilizer and stuff and they drop it into the ground and so that you get planted with this tree on top of you and it uses your body for fertilizer. That's how I want to be. That's how I want to do with my body when I die.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely not into that.
Speaker 3:But think of the tree. The tree grows into you and it uses you for fuel and energy, and then you know what I mean. A little bit of you grows out in the tree.
Speaker 1:So a little bit of weed on the way over for the pod tonight.
Speaker 2:No, it's true, it's a true thing, a little bit of chronic, oh wow, oh Steve.
Speaker 3:I just thought it was a really neat idea.
Speaker 4:Now, I don't think it's, that's wild.
Speaker 3:They haven't legalized it yet because obviously you got to put bodies in the ground in certain spots but okay, so this is the dancing funeral. I have not seen this.
Speaker 4:These guys out of Ghana and they do this whole dance with the funeral casket.
Speaker 3:Okay, this is funny, good stuff.
Speaker 1:That's wild.
Speaker 4:Yeah, be talented. Anyway, it doesn't look like a Costco model to me.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, be talented. Anyway, it doesn't look like a Costco model to me. No, yeah, it's pretty decorative.
Speaker 1:That's a recession-proof deal. 100%, yeah, 100%.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow, we're just burning through the topics here, oh boy Just cooking Got a lot to say Drag Christine out of her womb.
Speaker 3:Oh, I know, I'm still feeling flaggy. Yeah, totally yeah yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:Um, so can we talk about jan harden? Let's talk about our friend jan. So I hate coming back to spenchy, but she threw in the you know her support, and, um, what was her big song? Insensitive, yeah, one of them yep, I was stunned at looking some of her twitter posts like she's pretty raw, yeah, she raw dogged. A few of them like absolutely raw dogged. A few of them like what was the one? Why don't you go fuck your eye socket, was that? Or yeah, yeah, that was that was the text.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like I don't know how you, as a celebrity, think that that's gonna land well with your fans or your enemies.
Speaker 3:It's just weird. It's wild, wild, right it's unhinged.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I didn't come unhinged when I went to a shitty restaurant when it was open in town and it was shitty. Arden was its name. I think there's a Boston pizza there now.
Speaker 3:Oh, that was the hot dog place, right?
Speaker 1:No, no, it was like a smaller restaurant and the food was garbage.
Speaker 3:So I actually played baseball with her brother who owned that Arden yeah.
Speaker 4:He owned the Arden yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I know that they were struggling like the whole time, and I think that's. Yeah, I think she had to like throw money at it, or something like that. So, yeah, that was a long time ago though, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was a long time ago, like she was definitely in cal, like that's the. I always get sad when people leave alberta and then they they cast stones from wherever they are she's not here anymore no, she's out in toronto, isn't? She, oh yeah I think she's in toronto.
Speaker 4:She doubled down on that. I was just looking up the the tweet. Yeah, so anyway, she said it a couple times on Twitter, 100%.
Speaker 1:She likes doing that and she'll also. There are people and you and I talked about this previously where she said she's never going to fly on WestJet again because of Pierre Polivare coming back from the conservative.
Speaker 4:I was just wondering where he did like a kind of a campaign style speech on his plane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it was a charter coming back.
Speaker 4:Yeah, with all of his staff.
Speaker 1:Yeah so. And then she said she's never going to fly in West jet again. So then people will go in the comment section and just post a picture of a West jet plane and she blogs, she, blogs them, she and just post a picture of a WestJet plane and she blogs them.
Speaker 3:She blogs them, she will blog them. Okay, I dare you, I double-dug, dare you to do it.
Speaker 1:I'm saving it for something really good, something meaningful, because I'm not a big fan of WestJet myself.
Speaker 4:They're slowly becoming the worst airline in the world for on-time flights Not slowly.
Speaker 3:Every single time. But Air Canada is no better, honestly.
Speaker 1:You know where Air Canada is better they have their own ground crew and you're not waiting an hour and a half to get your suitcase after a flight.
Speaker 3:I have learned the art of taking my suitcase with me. Now I just pack on the plane and I just buy wherever I go, because I cannot wait. There was one flight and it was a West West jet flight. I was waiting for two hours to get my bag. Yeah, it was brutal, awful.
Speaker 1:So yeah, they don't hit they got. When Onyx took over. They got rid of their ground skirt.
Speaker 3:That's. That's what happened with West jet.
Speaker 1:That's why I kind of like, if I have a choice, I'll go air Canada, because yeah, but you can't get the problem.
Speaker 3:The thing that I struggle with is I I travel to phoenix all the time and I cannot get a direct flight to phoenix, so I have to fly to vancouver to phoenix, and that adds another potentially three hours with west jet or with their canada. There's no, direct west jet. I can go direct, so I'm just I've seen you pack.
Speaker 1:There's no way you do carry on I've learned to do carry on seriously.
Speaker 3:I have because, but in phoenix, when you came to, austin.
Speaker 1:When you came to austin, you took a separate flight just so you could pack your own shit. Because our connection was too tight. She went on a different flight just so she could bring check a. That's amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I've changed.
Speaker 1:Clearly this is fascinating.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when we were in Europe last summer. I can tell you those airports and airlines have it figured out. Oh yeah, they charge you for everything, but you are coming off the airplane and your bag is sitting there already dusty Beautiful.
Speaker 1:Beautiful.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah pretty dusty, beautiful Really. Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean I have a Nexus and that's why it started to really bug me, cause I'm like I'd be the first off and I'm sitting there tooling my thumbs waiting for the bags to come out, and then everybody else is walking off. It took carry on in and I'm like okay on nexus guy.
Speaker 4:It's like I love watching next people wait I don't have nexus either, but I have a costco executive membership well, and nexus is even up their game.
Speaker 3:Like, you don't need a card or anything anymore, I just go in, I stand there, they scan my eyes and away I go I was talking to a border services agent.
Speaker 4:He said like the nexus lines are now longer none.
Speaker 3:I mean. Every once in a while I've got caught in a line where nexus is longer, but it's because they're not using the new system, anything that's got the new system in with the retinal scan you're in and out so fast yeah, like you can get in and sit down and wait in another place with nexus.
Speaker 3:Basically is what it is right yeah, that's cool, that's good well, and you get tsa pre-checked too in the us, so you can bypass all the security lines, which is really awesome so like the pat you down goes through the scanner kind of lines you can bypass that yeah, well, you bypass the main line and you go through the tsa line.
Speaker 3:It's way shorter and you don't usually have to take your shoes and your belt and your watch and everything off, and your your laptop doesn't have to typically come out of your backpack, unless you're in canada, then they don't care, so yeah, or in fort lauderdale. I just went in the tsa pre-check line anyways and went through well, you know, I would try that too if I didn't have it.
Speaker 4:The random I'd be happy to be swapped for explosives and go the shorter line. That'd be fine.
Speaker 1:I did not know that, so that's fascinating. So okay, crew, I think that's a good start for the week. What do you got on the coming along for you, mr Kane?
Speaker 4:Flying to New Brunswick next Friday.
Speaker 3:Big flight yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm flying.
Speaker 4:Porter Airlines.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I've never flown Porter before. Yeah, I heard it's bad. I heard it's great. Porter's a huge fan. Yeah, I heard it's awesome. He's a huge fan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we're out there for Ringette Nationals. So, this season officially has three weeks left and $6,000. That's what it's going to take to get across the finish line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Where's my meat bro?
Speaker 4:Oh, I think it comes tomorrow night.
Speaker 1:I won't be here.
Speaker 4:I guess I'll stick that in my freezer.
Speaker 1:Thanks, appreciate that, appreciate that pile of meat.
Speaker 4:I might need a key to your house for your freezer.
Speaker 1:I don't think so. It was intended for the lake Stine. You're on the jet and you're going.
Speaker 3:Nexus somewhere. Not next week, but the week after I'm in. Phoenix again, and then I'm in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1:What's in Indianapolis?
Speaker 3:Oh, just one of the groups that I work with. They develop products out there. So I'm going to tour their facility, which is cool, like mini golf and laser tag and vr stuff, so that's gonna be neat. And then after that I'm in london. So london, england, what's in london? I'm working on a distribution deal for a new attraction I want to bring to north america. So I've got that deal dialed down and so just going to meet with him and just kind of check out his product in person.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, cool very cool jet set, very cool Jet set lifestyle.
Speaker 3:No, it sucks. No, I don't. I, I, I it's hard, I like consistency, I like having a routine. It's tough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, huh, okay, you gotta do it. You gotta do it.
Speaker 1:Uh, mr, uh, Dr Kane, would you like to sign us off Late Till next time. Bye, guys.