In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with a good friend of mine, Derek, to talk about his music, his life, and everything else going on in his life. We talk about how he got into the music industry, how he came up with the name of his label, and what it's going to be like in the future.
00:49:29.200One thing I did run into today, when I was looking at a few different things, is that Netflix actually came out with its own version of the Humboldt Bronco story.
00:50:46.140Anyways, I'm not suggesting people watch it, but it's just kind of interesting that, you know, they'll steal a story, a heart-wrenching story from another country, and just turn it into a Hollywood special.
00:51:01.880They used to have the integrity of trying to involve the families and stuff.
00:52:54.040I like the scrapbook analogy because that's what you're doing.
00:52:56.200You're just saving stuff to come back on your memories a year from now and say, hey, remember this fucked up shit?
00:53:00.920It's gotten worse since you haven't done anything.
00:53:02.680And I don't think it's healthy either.
00:53:08.440And I know that because, like, I was doing that.
00:53:10.480I feel like at some point a lot of people do that.
00:53:14.060In order to get to this stage, you have to kind of go through that period where you're like, you're just, you know, paying attention on a daily basis to what's going on and noticing all the fucked up shit.
00:53:25.820Because that's eventually what drives you to the point where, you know, you want to get, you want to start looking for solutions.
00:53:32.040But some people never get past the point of, you know, cataloging and observing and they get stuck.
00:53:39.940I think that's part of the development of our brains and people that lack executive function.
00:53:45.960You know, you can see the problem, but you're just crippled and not able to do anything instead of taking the steps to fixing it.
00:53:52.220Now I realize, like, I realized when I was doing nothing but fucking memeing and doom posting, right, like in the convoy era, eventually I realized, like, this isn't fucking healthy.
00:54:47.540And I'm like, these people are just doing.
00:54:49.600And I realized I was doing that every day.
00:54:52.180I was going on Twitter and I was looking for, like, what do I engage with today that I'm not actually going to do anything to fix at all.
00:54:59.160I'm just going to engage and talk about.
00:55:02.680And then now that I don't have that option, everything is focused on, like, okay, what am I going to do within the club today to actually start advancing goals?
00:57:28.620I know the quote, it's weird, because I know that quote by heart.
00:57:32.680But the party, sorry, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
00:57:37.500It was their final, most essential command.
00:57:40.180So, anyways, this is all to say that somebody commented under that, that, you know, Orwell, like, that quote about 1984 was an anti-fascist thing.
00:57:52.960So, a lot of people, left-wing people typically try to say that Orwell's writing in 1984 was about fascism, right, and the Nazis and blah, blah, blah.
00:58:03.240Right-wing people tend to say that Orwell was writing about communism.
00:58:07.400The truth is, he was writing about both, but not even those ideologies specifically.
00:58:13.840What he was writing about was totalitarianism, specifically that, more than anything.
00:58:19.640The dangers of totalitarianism in any.
00:58:22.640And that's why it reflects, you know, a left-winger can read Orwell, 1984, and they see Nazism.
00:58:29.740And a right-winger can read 1984, and they see communism.
00:58:33.280Because in totalitarianism, it doesn't fucking matter.
00:58:54.020And like you're saying about the left-wing and right-wing reading 1984, it's the same idea.
00:58:58.980You're going to read in what you've already got pre-programmed in your brain.
00:59:02.700Like, this has been debated, by the way, this has been debated forever, ever since the book came out.
00:59:08.800And Orwell basically explicitly said it's, so I think the one thing that Orwell said that gives weight to the right-winger side is that he does mention Stalinism specifically.
00:59:19.960And I don't think that he's ever quoted as saying, as referencing 1984 in regard to national socialism or fascism.
00:59:27.720Maybe I'm wrong, but I know he at some point explicitly said like, well, yes, this is the dangers of, he wasn't against socialism.
00:59:35.160Just, you know, Orwell, he was against Stalinist totalitarian communism, right?
00:59:40.720So he thought socialism was a valid political ideology.
00:59:48.340The point is, this fucking idiot responds and says, you know, that that was an anti-fascist quote, and that it was describing exactly people like you.
01:00:02.860And so I just respond like, you know, because I know this, and I'm familiar with Orwell's writing pretty well, especially 1984.
01:00:10.920And I said, it wasn't, it was anti-totalitarian.
01:00:16.100Like those aren't the same, fascism and totalitarian aren't the same thing.
01:00:19.520That's why there's different words for them.
01:00:21.980Fascism could be totalitarian, but not necessarily.
01:00:32.960I'm going through this because I get sucked into this argument.
01:00:35.740And then they respond with, fascism is a form of totalitarianism.
01:00:41.560And even then, I'm like, okay, well, then you just said it there.
01:00:44.680If fascism is a form of totalitarianism, then why did you imply that what Orwell was writing was anti-fascist when you know it's anti-totalitarian, but you used anti-fascist because that's what you're about?
01:03:39.920But, yeah, I agree, Big J, Michigan, and that this would have been my argument because actually, like, national socialism and fascism were not totalitarian until the war period.
01:04:03.360Whereas, you know, Soviet communism was totalitarian, both in the interwar period, you know, from World War I to World War II, and then after, even more so, after World War II, it was even more totalitarian.
01:04:20.540I think that it's funny watching people do this because I don't think, I don't think a lot of these people that are saying these things on the internet are inherently stupid.
01:04:31.100I think they're just without the knowledge.
01:04:35.360Like, I think a lot of these people, if they sat down and learned it their own way, they could figure it out.
01:04:39.560I think, I don't even think it's that necessarily.
01:07:18.820Christian religious freedom, but sure.
01:07:21.860I mean, I guess if you want to extend that to mean everything, because who were the only, what was the only religion in Canada in, you know, 1867 that the country was founded on?
01:07:34.200Barying degrees of Christians, but that was pretty, I don't know, maybe there's a few examples of, like, Taoists or Sikhs or something at that.
01:07:57.200That's a big, so, pluralism in the sense of two European peoples and religious freedom in the sense of religious freedom among the varying sects of one overarching religion.
01:08:09.620To conflate that with fucking everything in the world and anyone from anywhere in the world, I don't know.
01:08:17.920To me, that's bordering on an insane, you know, jump in logic.
01:08:25.560That's why they say Canada's always been multicultural.
01:08:31.060I say this all the time when I don't like whenever I understand why people use, you know, when our side uses multiculturalism, they're using it in the way that everybody understands it, but it's incorrect.
01:08:49.280So, when they say that, like, Canada was not, you know, wasn't always a multicultural country, they're wrong.
01:09:16.440So, it's not multiculturalism that's the problem.
01:09:18.640It's multiracialism that's the problem, which is, it doesn't really matter, I guess, but accuracy in these things does, it's one of those things where, like, are you against immigration?
01:10:22.140This is why they can't argue with us, because if Garrett, let's say, hypothetically, Garrett Jean-We and I were having a discussion about the values Canada was founded on,
01:10:33.640I could just pull out a few John A. McDonald quotes, you know, maybe some Alexander McKenzie quotes, one from Wilfrid Laurier, you know, one from whoever, George Etz.
01:10:43.620Like, I could just start pulling some of these out and be like, okay, now what?
01:10:48.220You're telling, so John A. McDonald said that Canada was an Aryan nation or, you know, a nation that must remain Aryan in character.
01:10:55.720And, yeah, when he said that, what he meant was anyone from anywhere, so long as they believe in, you know, diversity and inclusion, like, you're an idiot.
01:11:08.040Like, obviously, the guy who was the architect and the chief, you know, behind the statecraft of Canada said that.
01:11:16.360Yeah, no, that's not the values that Canada was founded on, obviously.
01:11:22.180No, the left is actually more accurate with it.
01:11:24.340That's why they're trying to tear down his statues.
01:11:29.860I always thought this was funny, though.
01:13:31.420And so, even Duplessis was a Catholic fascist.
01:13:39.280Well, yeah, they were all, like, look, whether you agree with Christianity or not, like, it's objectively true that Canada was founded as a pretty, again, it's one of those things where the reason, I use this one.
01:13:52.620America is a perfect example of this because it guarantees, you know, religious freedom, right?
01:14:03.840And do you think that the founding fathers were like, yeah, should we maybe, you know, explicitly say Christianity, the Christian God, when we say God?
01:14:16.820Because what if, down the line, there's millions of Muslims and Hindus and shit in this country, and somebody says, you know, when they say God, what they really mean is any, you know, spiritual belief.
01:14:32.140Like, do you think that they, that they didn't consider that as a fucking potential, like, they didn't believe that was possible, that that would happen.
01:14:41.000The reason why they don't explicitly have to say, like, oh, yeah, it's a Christian country, and we do not want, like, foreign religions in our country is because they didn't think that was ever going to happen.
01:14:53.520That, that, that, that variable, you know, coming to, to fruition was, was, that would be like us being like, um, well, like, I mean, there's all kinds of things.
01:15:05.960Imagine what they would have said about, you know, transgender people chopping their fucking dicks off.
01:15:10.140Like, they would have been like, what, what, like, if you told them that, that would have been the craziest science fiction of the era.
01:15:17.180So, yeah, like, it's just obviously incorrect, but also.
01:15:21.860They didn't think that our Secretary of Defense would be reading the Bivagata or whatever the fuck their book is.
01:15:27.300Did you think, do you, do you think that John A. MacDonald ever envisioned a time where they would be speaking fucking Punjabi in the House of Commons or that the national anthem would be sung in Hindi?
01:15:42.060Do you think that would ever cross their mind?
01:15:43.840No, it was never, like, that could, absurd to even think about.
01:15:59.160The best response to Garrett in that situation is you just spam him with fucking John A. MacDonald quotes, Sir Robert Borden quotes, William Lyon, Mackenzie King quotes.
01:16:09.480Just all, everybody, basically, until the 1960s and just be like, you're an idiot.
01:16:15.040Like, you're obviously objectively wrong and you're lying to everyone and yourself right now.
01:17:37.960Scotian lady says, article from Toronto Sun recently quoting the father of 24-year-old Canadian soldier who died in Latvia January 29th, saying he strongly encourages people to join the Canadian forces.
01:19:32.180If I continue down the rabbit hole, I'm fucking going down.
01:19:34.980I like it, though, because when I get hooked into finding something, like, that's how I found out about Goldwyn Smith and Henry Barasa and shit.
01:19:43.160Like, we do have some really cool Canadian historical figures.
01:19:46.780It's just, they're not thrown in our face, you know, like, with the Canadian heritage moments and stuff like that.
01:21:18.360When I do confirm it, I'll do a stream on it and whatnot.
01:21:25.100But would anybody be surprised if we're giving away contracts to companies that aren't even in Canada?
01:21:31.380Like, we're giving away loans to people that don't even live in Canada to come here and start a business and to buy a franchise.
01:21:37.240You know, we don't see these little mom-and-pop shops anymore and people trying to, you know, start being an entrepreneur.
01:21:46.960No, all that money has been given to, like, black people and fucking natives and all the minorities and BIPOCs.
01:21:53.240Yeah, our kids would like investment, too, you know.
01:22:03.720You don't have to send your investment overseas to somebody that doesn't even live here to come over here just to exploit our system and say we can't find anybody, any Canadians to hire.
01:22:11.960So they got to bring somebody from back home to work at Bar Burrito or fucking Subway.
01:22:22.460That is one thing that I fucking got to say.
01:22:26.120If it wasn't for the Jeets, I probably wouldn't have quit fast food.
01:22:28.460Because as disgusting as fast food is, it's still edible, unless a Jeet makes it.
01:22:35.780And then you're just like, nope, just not going to do it.
01:22:39.320I've seen what you guys do with your feet in your country.
01:22:44.280Hell, I've even seen what you did with your feet and our food in this country.