Juno News - June 21, 2024


Are we witnessing the end of the Trudeau Liberals？


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00:00:00.480 You have the Calgary Stampede coming up, don't you, William?
00:00:03.840 Yeah, it starts in, I would say, two weeks, and we're excited.
00:00:08.220 And if there's enough water to last it, we'll be even more excited.
00:00:11.880 I've never, I've still never, I keep wanting to go.
00:00:13.840 I've never actually been.
00:00:15.220 For all the time I've spent in Alberta, it's never coincided with the Stampede.
00:00:19.100 It's a hard time.
00:00:19.980 How are you double my age and you've never been?
00:00:21.620 That's crazy.
00:00:22.600 I'm going to double your, how old are you, you jackass?
00:00:25.020 Oh, okay, I understand my own age, I'm 21, but, you know, kind of close.
00:00:31.680 That was when Sean and I were coming back from Davos, and the Air Canada woman thought he was my son.
00:00:38.780 And he's like 12 years younger than me, which was like just mortifying.
00:00:44.520 I mean, if you did adopt Sean, that'd be a pretty interesting family you got there.
00:00:48.480 At the age of 12, I thought I needed a redhead videographer for my entire life as my son, anyway.
00:00:53.360 All right, let's get this started.
00:01:04.820 Hello and welcome to you all.
00:01:07.320 This is Off the Record on True North.
00:01:09.740 It's Friday, June 21st.
00:01:11.180 We like to kick back, look at the lighter side of things and analyze, not analyze, no, analyze is too serious a word.
00:01:17.360 We like to just, you know, kick around, vamp on the week that was, things that are coming up.
00:01:22.360 And we do this with a regular cast of characters at True North.
00:01:26.580 It's, well, irregular at times.
00:01:28.320 Today is one of those days.
00:01:29.340 We've got William Macbeth, who is the COO and occasionally a voice on The Daily Brief.
00:01:34.740 And Noah Jarvis, who you've seen on here before.
00:01:37.500 I think he was on last week as well, and you hear him all over the place as well.
00:01:41.200 William, Noah, good to have you both with us.
00:01:43.120 Thank you.
00:01:44.060 Happy to be here.
00:01:45.460 It's always a pleasure.
00:01:46.580 I'm Andrew Lawton, by the way.
00:01:47.620 You guys sounded so depressed with that.
00:01:49.940 It's like, I was like, I'm trying to lift up the energy.
00:01:51.820 You're like, yeah, it's great to be here.
00:01:53.120 I was following William's lead, but, you know.
00:01:54.620 Like Ross from Friends.
00:01:55.920 Hi.
00:01:57.220 That's an old reference now, I realize.
00:01:59.400 You guys have, well, William, are you like just parched right now?
00:02:04.480 Yeah, you know, people are down on 8th Avenue with little buckets begging for a quart of water of people coming to work.
00:02:11.860 It's, you know, it's not too, too bad yet.
00:02:14.320 We have had to reduce our water usage.
00:02:17.300 You know, it's funny.
00:02:18.200 The city of Calgary spends billions of dollars every single year, very little bit apparently, on keeping water going into our taps.
00:02:27.020 They prefer to spend it on things like the climate crisis and bike lanes that nobody uses in the city.
00:02:34.040 But I think this is a reawakening that cities have important jobs.
00:02:37.580 One of them is to get water into your taps.
00:02:39.900 And when that doesn't happen, people notice.
00:02:42.880 People notice and they're not really that happy.
00:02:45.040 A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and a droplet of water in every faucet.
00:02:50.200 Apparently not for the last one.
00:02:51.580 But did, so are you actually, like, doing the good citizen thing and, like, you know, showering every, you know, nine days or whatever it is they're asking you to do?
00:02:58.500 Or are you just, like, business as usual?
00:03:00.800 Well, I left the city for about five days.
00:03:03.580 So I'm hoping that means I get to use up all of the water I didn't use.
00:03:08.260 Oh, yeah, you've accrued, yeah, you've accrued water credits.
00:03:10.700 Yeah, isn't that how that works?
00:03:12.340 You know, I don't use water then and I use it now.
00:03:14.940 And somehow that helps with our carbon emissions, I think, if I read that correctly.
00:03:18.760 The new social credit score, you've got all your H2O credits.
00:03:23.140 Well, and you're in Toronto, so you probably just don't want to use the city water anyway.
00:03:27.200 No, probably not.
00:03:28.060 But, you know, I like to think that, you know, the Calgarians were self-righteous about, you know, having the, being the best part of Canada, you know, and now they're looking to Toronto, you know, spare any water?
00:03:39.040 You want to donate some water to us?
00:03:41.480 But, you know.
00:03:42.640 It's reverse equalization.
00:03:43.960 You got to get some water shipments from Atlantic Canada, will you?
00:03:46.480 I mean, there is an awful lot of water out there, although Toronto only seems to be sending us their crime and we're perfectly okay if Toronto didn't keep doing that.
00:03:54.740 I'm just imagining like a line of people from, you know, Halifax to Calgary, just holding like a pail that they just keep dumping, dumping into the next one there.
00:04:03.200 This is how we're getting by.
00:04:04.460 All right.
00:04:04.760 We are like four minutes in and it's already a train wreck.
00:04:07.060 Welcome to Off the Record, everyone.
00:04:08.840 Let's talk about the one thing we can all unite on, Calgarian or Ontarian or Manitoban or from anywhere else, which is that the Liberals are not exactly popular right now.
00:04:19.840 The latest poll that came out was from Abacus.
00:04:23.040 It showed the Conservatives with a 20-point lead, literally 40%, 40-some-odd percent, exactly 20 points ahead of the Liberals.
00:04:31.440 That is just blowout territory.
00:04:34.200 Not quite, you know, Kim Campbell 93 blowout territory, but, I mean, could conceivably bring the Liberals down to being the third party.
00:04:41.840 Absolutely embarrassing.
00:04:43.060 And no one in that party is openly saying that Justin Trudeau is the problem.
00:04:50.080 And there was a piece in Radio Canada, the French arm of CBC, which interviewed a few anonymous MPs that were all saying, basically, they need to change in leader, but they don't actually have an ability to get rid of him.
00:05:02.400 Now we have the Liberals getting a little bit desperate on all sorts of things.
00:05:06.660 Talk about the mug, Noah.
00:05:08.160 Yeah, well, a couple of days ago, Liberal MP Mark Garrison, perpetually not a caucus member of the cabinet, so, you know, just want to put that out there.
00:05:18.600 But Mark Garrison, he printed a mug from, I guess, his local Walmart photo center, and he has it plastered on it with a big face of Jennifer O'Connell and the quote, boo-hoo, get over it.
00:05:31.740 Now, if you might recall, Jennifer O'Connell in a committee meeting, she basically said, boo-hoo, get over it, to Conservative MP who was trying to demand the government release the names,
00:05:42.780 or at least be a bit more transparent of what is in the NCI COP foreign interference report, which basically stated that there are certain parliamentarians who have been collaborating with foreign governments against the interests of Canada.
00:05:57.140 And so, you know, just to brag about protecting people who are potentially betraying our country is quite something, but I don't know.
00:06:06.020 It seems like the Liberals, they sink to new depths every week that goes by.
00:06:11.700 Yeah, I mean, Mark Garrison is, I don't really hold him up as being a skilled political operator by any stretch, but I'm trying to think of what this would be like.
00:06:22.080 Like, this would be like Justin Trudeau drinking out of an Essency Lavalin mug after he fired Jody Wilson-Raybould.
00:06:27.200 It would be like, you know, Harper drinking out of a Mike Duffy mug at the middle of the expensive scandal, basically.
00:06:32.640 Like, it just says, I do not care about this thing that Canadians clearly do care about.
00:06:38.020 Canadians are clearly frustrated about.
00:06:40.560 And just to go back to the poll numbers for a second, I wanted to ask you about this, William, because this house just rose for the summer.
00:06:46.360 I think it was Wednesday, Wednesday or Thursday, whenever it was, which means that they've now got, you know, basically three months of runway to go out and campaign, spend time in their ridings.
00:06:57.080 Like, what do you think Justin Trudeau, is there something he could do to turn this around?
00:07:02.640 And if there is, what would that look like over this summer?
00:07:06.180 Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting question.
00:07:07.360 MPs usually spend an awful lot of their calendar year, actually, in Ottawa.
00:07:15.160 The House sits a lot longer than many of our provincial legislative assemblies do.
00:07:19.940 But, you know, now you've got sort of a two-month break and you're going to have Liberal MPs back in their ridings.
00:07:25.400 And I think they're going to get a bit of an earful from voters over the course of the summer as they go to every church fair, small town festival, Lions Club or senior center to visit.
00:07:36.260 They're going to be hearing, I think, a lot of unpopularity.
00:07:39.520 And that is going to put pressure on the prime minister.
00:07:41.760 I think he is going to come back at the end of summer and there's going to be a sense that things are not going well.
00:07:47.980 And, you know, I think they really tried to change the channel with their budget and that didn't work.
00:07:53.380 They thought the capital gains tax cut was going to be a slam dunk.
00:07:57.580 Hashtag generational fairness.
00:07:59.240 Yes. And, you know, if you listen to Minister Freeland and others talking about that with increasingly dire messaging around it.
00:08:08.100 And, you know, it does point to the fact that this government simply has run out of steam.
00:08:12.440 They don't seem to have any new ideas.
00:08:15.060 And it's a real big problem because I remember back in 2015 when the Conservatives went on to the campaign trail.
00:08:20.560 They went out to talk to Canadians.
00:08:22.280 I didn't think that we had as much of a vision to sell people as we had in previous elections.
00:08:27.500 Vote for us because X.
00:08:29.160 It was because if you vote for the Liberals, they could blow up the economy.
00:08:32.880 By the way, turned out to be completely true.
00:08:34.940 But, you know, what is Justin Trudeau going to say?
00:08:38.320 Vote for us or Pierre Poliver will take away your abortion or will, you know, put you all into concentration camps because he's a white supremacist.
00:08:48.780 I don't think that's a compelling message.
00:08:51.160 So is there anything the prime minister can do to turn it around?
00:08:54.080 Well, there's one thing he could he could go, I guess.
00:08:57.220 That would be one thing.
00:08:58.220 Yeah, I think it was a line from, you know, was it, you'd know if it was from Frazier where it's like, you know, so-and-so lights up a room by leaving it.
00:09:07.680 That was the, I can't even remember who it was about, but there is something about that.
00:09:11.420 Like right now, you've got a lot of Liberals that are just waiting.
00:09:14.040 And again, I mean, who the heck wants to take over that?
00:09:16.220 Like you'd end up with someone who doesn't have ambitions of being the leader long term that would just be an interim prime minister and get the Liberals through the election.
00:09:24.940 And then afterwards, they can have their, you know, grand reconstruction with, you know, Mark Carney or something like that.
00:09:30.940 But I'll ask, you know, as you alluded to before we started recording here, you are half my age.
00:09:36.620 You are not actually.
00:09:37.460 But the question I'd ask about younger people, because it was younger folks that in a lot of ways got Trudeau elected in 2015.
00:09:46.100 And those folks we've seen have just turned on him entirely.
00:09:49.360 Like they're the ones who, you know, if you were 18, 19, and 2015, you're now nearing 30.
00:09:54.940 You're finding that you can't afford a house.
00:09:56.900 You maybe can't find a job that you like.
00:09:59.240 You may be living with your parents.
00:10:00.440 Like all of these things that are naturally pushing people in Pierre Polyev's direction.
00:10:05.560 But when you talk to people your age, what's the sense of Justin Trudeau?
00:10:08.340 I think the sense of Trudeau is like he's a phony and that he's robbed sort of my generation of their future.
00:10:15.600 You know, people who are apolitical, they tell me that, you know, they have no sort of opportunity or shot to buy a home in the next 10 years.
00:10:24.200 And, you know, they're 20 and they want to, you know, start a buy a home, start a family like everyone else, you know, in human history.
00:10:29.980 Yet this is not really possible, not just for young Canadians, but even people who are like in their 40s, you know, there's people who are still renting far longer than they thought they would be when they voted for Trudeau originally.
00:10:42.240 You know, and, you know, a lot of them, they probably thought, oh, you know, he'll we'll be able to get some pot and, you know, hotbox my new home when I'm, you know, in my 30s.
00:10:51.520 And then, you know, he can't buy a home. So now you're smoking pot in a homeless shelter.
00:10:55.640 So, you know, it's not really great for Canadians who are going through these times.
00:11:00.240 Quite the vivid picture you're painting, Noah.
00:11:03.680 You know, but it's not it's not really great for the average Canadian who has to, you know, get up every day, go to a job, come home, cook food for their children and, you know, all those things.
00:11:15.800 Instead, it's really great for, you know, liberal insiders who are, you know, making money off SDTC or who are just, you know, really wealthy and just profiting off of their assets, getting a lot more expensive.
00:11:30.420 What's your read on the coalition, William?
00:11:34.720 Because I think there have been you've been involved in conservative politics since it was reform politics.
00:11:38.400 So you've seen the various iterations of this party.
00:11:41.300 It seems like the base of accessible voters looks a lot different now than it did for Harper and certainly than it did for, you know, the alliance before him.
00:11:51.520 Yeah, no, I think something you really have to give credit to Pierre Poliver, either because he read Alberta pronunciation.
00:11:58.900 Yeah, I get I should say probably I apologize.
00:12:03.200 You have to give him credit, though, because he either read where Canadians were going or he helped to bring them there himself.
00:12:12.320 But he really did change the fundamental voter coalition for the conservative party.
00:12:18.540 A lot of people who either had never voted conservative before are now open to voting conservative or people who had never playing voted at all before are now open to voting conservative and voting for the first time.
00:12:32.160 And that's a that's a tremendous difference.
00:12:34.160 And it really changes the political calculus.
00:12:36.300 When when Stephen Harper was trying to win his majority government back in 2011, the path to victory was on the edge of a knife.
00:12:44.860 Right. You know, it required the new Democrats to outperform anywhere they've ever been.
00:12:50.040 The liberals to hit historic untimed historic lows in popularity and the absolute right set of conditions, because the conservatives at best could scrape up to just about 40 percent under ideal conditions.
00:13:03.460 And now you're seeing with these polls that Pierre is routinely getting above 40 percent.
00:13:09.320 So that voter ceiling is higher, which makes the path to a conservative government far more easy, far easier than it's been in the past.
00:13:18.320 And for the liberals, the exact same problem, but an opposite.
00:13:20.880 They have a much smaller voter universe.
00:13:22.340 Them being able to hold on to power becomes it was already difficult.
00:13:25.320 They were already winning minority governments with the lowest percentage of the popular vote in our history.
00:13:30.000 And now it's all but impossible for them unless something fundamental changes in the next year.
00:13:35.540 Yeah. Like I recall during the 2021 election, it would have been I had made a I don't even know if it was a prediction per se, but I had remarked that I couldn't see another conservative majority government in Canada.
00:13:47.200 Like I just was not seeing that for the reasons you just mentioned.
00:13:50.080 And people forget the 2011 election was weird for a number of reasons.
00:13:53.900 That was the election in which you had all of these like, you know, 12 year old NDP MPs that were elected in Quebec.
00:13:59.540 It was the year you had, you know, this collapse of the bloc, a collapse of the liberals.
00:14:04.580 You had this surge of the NDP.
00:14:07.000 It was an election in which you had a majority that didn't really involve Quebec.
00:14:12.400 The conservatives didn't make a breakthrough in Quebec.
00:14:14.520 It was all GTA, lower mainland Vancouver.
00:14:17.620 So there was a lot of there was a lot of weirdness to that.
00:14:20.560 And, you know, that was where I think early on when when Polly have one and I had interviewed him about it, I think.
00:14:25.360 And I was asking about, you know, the path to victory.
00:14:28.180 They weren't saying what it was, which I understand.
00:14:31.100 They don't want to give up their strategy.
00:14:32.520 But I actually think they're going to put some more areas in play.
00:14:35.200 I think Quebec, I mean, I could see that going both ways.
00:14:38.220 But it's going to you're right.
00:14:40.560 It seems a lot more natural than it did even for Harper in 2011.
00:14:43.720 And there's definitely more parts of the country that are competitive.
00:14:48.360 The conservatives are absolutely dominating a large swath of British Columbia, including quite close to Vancouver, the proper city of Vancouver itself, which is not always something they've been competitive in.
00:15:00.580 In fact, I think it's been back until the 2000 election that the conservatives have been this popular in and around the region.
00:15:06.240 They're competitive in large swaths of Quebec, including coming up to, if not actually in Montreal, pretty darn close to it.
00:15:13.760 And a ton of Atlantic Canada, which used to be considered a safe liberal bastion, is now trending very much towards the conservatives.
00:15:21.440 And I think it's because everything what we know, property values, the cost of housing, the cost of living, the fact that the carbon tax is deeply unpopular from one end of the country to the other.
00:15:32.840 All of these are giving Pierre Prollievre and his conservative party a lot more opportunity electorally than any conservative has had since, I would say, Stephen Harper in 2011, or possibly even since before that.
00:15:46.520 And there is coming up going to be one test of the political leaders to some extent.
00:15:53.580 Noah, what's going on next week?
00:15:56.240 Well, next week, there's going to be a by-election here in Toronto.
00:16:00.020 Well, I'm actually in Mississauga.
00:16:01.320 But in Toronto St. Paul's, it's usually considered a safe liberal rioting.
00:16:05.820 There's going to be a by-election, but it looks like it's going to be suspiciously competitive because I have 338 Canada up right now.
00:16:13.240 It says that the conservatives are within striking distance of the liberal candidate.
00:16:18.300 They are polling at about 35% to 40% for the liberals.
00:16:22.400 Now, riding by riding, sort of polling isn't as, say, accurate as, say, you know, national polling.
00:16:27.800 But at the end of the day, the fact that the conservatives are even competitive in this riding shows that there is a massive swing in Canada.
00:16:36.280 I mean, Toronto used to be, you know, a liberal stronghold that was impenetrable, especially the downtown core of Toronto.
00:16:42.260 I mean, we're talking about, like, you know, the people who are, you know, living up in apartments and, you know, they take the TTC instead of a car.
00:16:49.900 And, you know, they are the most concerned about climate and stuff like that.
00:16:53.300 This is the type of people that are swinging over to the conservatives.
00:16:57.140 So the fact that Trudeau really has, you know, pissed these people off is it's incredible.
00:17:02.320 Yeah, and it's funny because Toronto Paul's used to always be the one where if you were the conservative there, you were the sacrificial lamb.
00:17:09.860 And you do it either because you're, you know, a complete idiot that doesn't know what a conservative at St. Paul's is,
00:17:14.920 or you're doing it because you want to get in the good books so that, you know, down the road you can get Mississauga Streetsville or something as a candidate or get some good staffer job.
00:17:22.960 Like, it was always the joke.
00:17:24.860 And there are other ridings like that.
00:17:26.440 Like, you don't want to be the conservative running in Toronto Danforth.
00:17:29.800 And you also don't want to be the NDP or liberal running in Grand Prairie.
00:17:33.680 I mean, politics has these safe seats.
00:17:35.820 The fact, like, I still think the conservatives are probably going to lose.
00:17:40.500 But the fact that it's even a discussion, the fact that it's even a discussion,
00:17:44.600 the fact that we can have this debate about St. Paul's as though this by-election is in play.
00:17:48.940 Like, William, did you see this coming?
00:17:52.820 No.
00:17:53.840 Frankly, I did not think the conservative party would be a viable force in this by-election.
00:17:59.460 I thought we could muster a reasonable show of support, but nothing extraordinary.
00:18:05.620 And it's remarkable to think about if you look at who we're talking about in terms of who lives in this riding, right?
00:18:10.640 You've got a large number of working professionals,
00:18:13.900 people who work in professional jobs in suits and ties and work on their computers.
00:18:20.620 You've got immigrant families, people who are first, second, third generation immigrants.
00:18:25.520 You've got large numbers of LGBTQ people who live and work there in this downtown urban riding.
00:18:31.920 And all of these people are not in small quantity now considering voting conservative.
00:18:37.900 That is a disaster for the liberal government because they rely on a lot of those groups to keep up their support.
00:18:46.300 So if they're starting to see cracks, if they're starting to see bits of their core voter coalition peel off,
00:18:52.400 that's absolutely terrible.
00:18:54.080 That is when, if you're in the liberal campaign,
00:18:57.820 you begin to look around and see what things you can steal and smuggle out of the campaign headquarters
00:19:03.060 because you're not going to have a paycheck at the end of the month.
00:19:06.600 So, yeah, I can't imagine they're very happy about how that by-election is going.
00:19:12.540 Yeah, it's just like completely and utterly embarrassing in the same way that it would be if like,
00:19:18.000 you know, the conservatives were to lose, you know, Grand Prairie or Peace River Wetaskiwin or something like that.
00:19:23.960 Okay, the, oh, let's talk about this one.
00:19:26.980 The liberals, I think perhaps why they might not be doing all that well in the polls
00:19:31.860 because they don't focus on the things that matter.
00:19:34.500 Polly Ebb's out there talking about housing.
00:19:36.640 He's talking about the carbon tax.
00:19:38.320 The liberals are saying, you know what we really need right now?
00:19:41.100 Gender neutral bathrooms on Parliament Hill.
00:19:44.420 So, uh, center block right now is going through a massive, massive transformation.
00:19:50.120 It's going to take, uh, you know, billions of dollars and many, many years
00:19:53.800 to finally be brought back up to what it was before.
00:19:57.220 So the House of Commons and Senate are actually in other buildings right now.
00:20:01.500 They've set up these temporary chambers, uh, for them to take place.
00:20:04.720 But when they rebuild them, when they rebuild them,
00:20:07.680 Parliament Hill is going to have all gender neutral bathrooms.
00:20:11.620 Any surprises here?
00:20:14.520 No, not at all.
00:20:15.660 I mean, this is part of sort of the Trudeau government's agenda.
00:20:19.320 And, uh, and it's kind of surprising because, um, you know, the, the liberals,
00:20:23.920 they have like, uh, a fundamental problem resonating with, uh, Canadians
00:20:28.260 when it comes to these cultural issues.
00:20:29.560 For example, uh, they've tried to throw the, uh, conservatives under the bus
00:20:34.000 on abortion.
00:20:34.740 And if you noticed in recent weeks, they've stopped, you know, talking about it
00:20:37.940 because they probably realized that, um, it's not actually working.
00:20:41.360 It's not resonating.
00:20:42.180 And a lot of Canadians are actually becoming, uh, conservatives because the
00:20:47.140 liberals are, uh, you know, just kind of revolting to a lot of people, you
00:20:51.220 know, in terms of like what they've done with the economy, what they've done
00:20:53.520 even with COVID lockdowns, because people remember that pretty vividly.
00:20:57.080 So, you know, just to push this issue, it's not something that people care
00:21:00.240 about.
00:21:00.460 It's not affecting their pocketbook.
00:21:02.000 Uh, it's not affecting, you know, their life.
00:21:04.220 It's not like, uh, uh, a needed, a change to Canada's institutions or just to
00:21:09.300 the bathrooms of, you know, Parliament.
00:21:11.440 Uh, it's just, you know, a very, uh, it's, it's something that will grab
00:21:14.600 high headlines.
00:21:15.260 It'll say, you know, maybe rise a little support in the LGBTQ community, but I'm
00:21:21.140 not, I don't think like, you know, it's going to boost their polling numbers, uh,
00:21:24.420 very much at all.
00:21:25.360 If not, it's just going to become a source of, uh, ridicule, uh, for the
00:21:29.060 liberals.
00:21:29.480 Like most things have become, uh, for them nowadays.
00:21:32.620 Uh, and you know, uh, we, we get to laugh about it, but you know, people are, um, are
00:21:37.560 going to have to go to Parliament and women are perhaps going to be put at risk, uh,
00:21:41.220 because they have to, uh, go in the same washroom with, um, a bunch of men, you
00:21:45.060 know, even just the fact that it can make a lot of women uncomfortable, uh, being in
00:21:48.920 the same washroom, uh, as men is a reason enough, uh, to not, uh, bring in these all
00:21:54.000 sex, uh, washrooms.
00:21:55.300 But, uh, it's not like the Trudeau government cares about gender-based analysis or, or they
00:22:00.300 actually do claim to care about it, but not in this instance when it, uh, affects the
00:22:04.460 trans community.
00:22:06.000 Yeah.
00:22:06.500 It's the far cry from the government having no place in the bathrooms or the bedrooms
00:22:10.120 of the nation, but, uh, in the bathrooms of the nation, absolutely.
00:22:13.000 Apparently.
00:22:13.740 Yeah.
00:22:14.220 Uh, William, you, you worked on Parliament Hill back in the day.
00:22:16.880 Was this, uh, you know, a pressing concern that, uh, you know, you had to decide which one
00:22:21.180 to use and you weren't quite sure and all of this, uh, with that gender segregation of
00:22:25.640 the bathroom?
00:22:26.880 Yeah.
00:22:27.180 You know, I'm thinking back to my time on Parliament Hill and, uh, at least to the
00:22:31.260 building I was in, bathrooms were not our biggest priority.
00:22:34.480 I think what we really wanted was working air conditioning for Ottawa's hot and humid,
00:22:40.200 some would say swampy summer weather, uh, because it never seemed to have working air
00:22:44.940 conditioning.
00:22:45.800 You know, it's funny.
00:22:46.740 Um, uh, nobody cared about bathrooms.
00:22:51.180 First of all, in most cases, you're already having to go through security checks in order
00:22:57.820 to get into these spaces.
00:22:59.360 You have to swipe your security card, go past actual security guards who man their desks.
00:23:05.380 And so we're talking about people who work for MPs.
00:23:08.800 And, uh, so this idea that there are hordes of strangers roving through center block who
00:23:13.620 somehow pose risks.
00:23:15.300 And therefore we need to make fundamental changes to our entire, uh, structure to help people
00:23:20.600 feel safe is, is frankly, um, just a made up nonsense answer.
00:23:25.740 And I think it's because it's one of the few groups who are still supporting the liberal
00:23:30.240 government, the ultra woke, the people who think it doesn't matter how much progress has
00:23:35.540 been made.
00:23:36.540 There's still so much more we have to do and we have to do it in the most angry and confrontational
00:23:41.060 way possible.
00:23:42.060 You know, one of the few legacy journalists who I think, uh, some of us still enjoy reading
00:23:46.940 is Adam Zivo.
00:23:48.320 And I thought he had a great piece where he said, uh, you know, the extreme and radical
00:23:53.920 LGBTQ activists are actually undoing the progress being made on, uh, the LGBTQ rights movement
00:24:02.460 that we're taking steps backwards.
00:24:04.020 People are becoming less welcoming, less tolerant because they're tired of being, having this
00:24:10.300 stuff shoved in their faces and told that if you don't subscribe a hundred percent to
00:24:15.720 what you, uh, to what you're being told that you're hateful and you're a bigot, you know,
00:24:19.720 if you dare question the need for multi-gender washrooms, you know, to represent all 18 or 47
00:24:26.720 genders, or if you somehow question whether or not four-year-olds should be allowed to go on
00:24:32.460 puberty blockers, uh, well, that means you're hateful and you're intolerant.
00:24:36.320 And, uh, but the liberals, that's one of their only constituents.
00:24:40.160 They've got the ultra woke and they're doing whatever they can to keep them in the liberal
00:24:45.440 voting coalition.
00:24:46.780 Well, to remember, they made this big thing, uh, six months ago of having tampons in the
00:24:51.240 men's washroom of all federal buildings, including army bases where soldiers were just like ripping
00:24:56.680 out the dispensers because they thought it was all nonsense.
00:24:58.780 And then you had that, uh, conservative MP, Michelle Ferreri that like went into the men's
00:25:03.440 washroom with her, uh, younger male staffer to like film the thing there.
00:25:07.640 And I think she ended up deleting that, but yeah, these things are like, I, it's not going
00:25:11.060 to win the votes in St. Paul's.
00:25:12.340 I guess that's my takeaway unless you disagree, Noah.
00:25:15.840 Well, I think, you know, William, maybe it wins them a couple of votes in St. Paul's,
00:25:19.280 but, but, but I think, you know, he's generally getting at something.
00:25:23.100 The liberals are trying to keep, you know, their main constituency.
00:25:25.460 It kind of reminds me of the Rishi Sunak strategy that's going out now.
00:25:29.000 If you guys don't know the UK, they're having an election and Rishi Sunak, the conservative
00:25:32.960 leader is going to lose in a blowout.
00:25:34.660 And apparently he's trying to just, uh, appeal to, you know, his right wing sort of older
00:25:39.480 gentlemen base by, uh, trying to bring back the national service and, you know, some other
00:25:43.900 programs that it's meant to appeal to them so that they don't get killed by the new reform
00:25:47.860 party by Nigel Farage.
00:25:49.740 It just seems like, uh, a kind of similar strategy.
00:25:52.740 The liberals are trying to, you know, uh, keep their vote coalition together and not
00:25:56.680 have it sort of break apart, uh, you know, by voting for the NDP or the greens or whatever.
00:26:01.380 So, uh, I don't know.
00:26:02.740 It seems like, uh, the liberals are in survival mode right now.
00:26:06.880 Yeah.
00:26:07.340 And it's not even like they're particularly doing a great job at, uh, at that survival.
00:26:12.640 Uh, we'll, uh, move from federal politics here to provincial politics tomorrow, the NDP
00:26:18.880 will crown their new leader.
00:26:21.020 It's not exactly a horse race here.
00:26:22.920 All roads are leading to, uh, Nahed Nenshi, the former Calgary mayor as taking over, uh,
00:26:29.180 William, uh, as the token Albert, and I'll just let you, uh, lead into what's going on
00:26:33.000 here.
00:26:34.200 Uh, yeah, no, it's going to be the, the Soviet secretariat of Alberta is meeting and it's
00:26:40.320 conference and they're going to choose a new chairman and it looks like the head
00:26:44.200 Nenshi is going to be the winner.
00:26:45.760 So, I mean, a few interesting things.
00:26:47.680 First of all, when he was mayor of Calgary, he liked to pride himself on saying he wasn't
00:26:52.820 left or right.
00:26:54.440 You know, he had, his color was purple because he said he was blue on some issues and red on
00:27:00.100 some others.
00:27:00.720 And we said, you're not a conservative by any definition.
00:27:03.920 You're a crazy communist who wants to destroy our way of life.
00:27:07.700 And so pretending you're a conservative, uh, is not believable, but then good news.
00:27:12.860 He's just going out.
00:27:13.560 He's announced he's becoming the leader of the new Democrat party.
00:27:16.420 Any facade of being a conservative gone out the window.
00:27:19.280 So, yeah, I mean, unless something extraordinary happens, like, I don't know, a comet hitting
00:27:23.980 the planet, I think he's probably going to become the new leader.
00:27:27.500 And then it'll be an interesting matchup in Alberta politics.
00:27:30.840 You'll have Daniel Smith for the United Conservative Party and the head Nenshi for the Alberta
00:27:34.820 New Democrats, uh, they went to university together.
00:27:37.620 They were both at the university of Calgary.
00:27:39.360 I think they may have run against each other or for opposing slates, uh, for the student
00:27:44.120 council.
00:27:45.200 And certainly they've been a thorn in each other's side on multiple occasions.
00:27:49.340 You know, when I worked for, uh, Daniel Smith in the wild rose days, uh, we used to have
00:27:54.440 to think, well, how is, how is his purpleness as we called him going to react to whatever we
00:28:00.380 were deciding to do, because if he made it a, if he made it a big issue, if he really
00:28:03.720 went after you, it's a problem.
00:28:05.380 Um, but yeah, I mean, still being a new Democrat in Alberta, not an easy job.
00:28:11.560 There is not a lot of love for that party.
00:28:14.480 I think Rachel Notley did as well as could possibly be expected, uh, for a new Democrat
00:28:19.780 leader electorally.
00:28:21.400 Uh, she got one government before being, uh, booted out.
00:28:25.120 Uh, but I guess we'll see.
00:28:26.920 Not at all the time though.
00:28:27.960 I mean, Alberta politics used to be very sleepy and certainly that's not the case anymore.
00:28:32.360 And do I understand he's like proposed a divorce from the federal NDP basically?
00:28:37.680 Yeah.
00:28:38.280 I, you know, it's always been a contentious thing, uh, being a new Democrat in Alberta.
00:28:42.880 This is of course a party that up until, uh, I think, uh, Rachel Notley became leader had
00:28:48.340 never won more than four seats out of, uh, 83.
00:28:52.940 So that's not a great track record.
00:28:54.800 Uh, and certainly outside of Edmonton and Calgary, outside of the two big cities, being
00:28:59.240 a new Democrat is an extremely hard, uh, ticket in order to try and get elected.
00:29:03.340 So, yeah, so there is some conversation about divorcing, uh, from Jagmeet Singh, he's very
00:29:08.300 anti-oil, the federal new Democrats that's offside for a lot of Albertans.
00:29:12.760 Uh, Rachel, I think did a pretty good job moving the party towards the center, at least
00:29:18.600 on some files.
00:29:19.600 And, uh, I think they want to probably continue that without, uh, without having the association
00:29:25.120 with Mr. Singh, who is not widely liked in Alberta, but, you know, changing the name of
00:29:30.800 a party.
00:29:31.220 Well, it's a double-edged sword.
00:29:32.600 You only have to look at British Columbia to see how changing from BC liberals to BC United
00:29:36.980 has gone over.
00:29:37.880 That party is, is literally in a nosedive to oblivion as we speak.
00:29:42.600 So it's an implosion.
00:29:44.320 Yeah.
00:29:44.500 And it's weird in NDP because the Alberta NDP has always had that weird coalition of
00:29:49.520 like the crazy, like, you know, blue haired Wokies.
00:29:52.220 And then also, you know, you're more centrist people that might identify as liberal, but really
00:29:58.260 just don't because that party doesn't really exist in Alberta anymore.
00:30:02.500 And then you have some disgruntled PCers like that former, uh, minister, uh, name, I can't
00:30:08.040 remember anyway.
00:30:08.640 Um, the, the PC minister, who's now an NDP supporter, but yeah, the reality is like,
00:30:14.000 I don't know if Nenshi was Nenshi really popular in, in what to you, like Noah, like, do you
00:30:18.800 care who Nahed Nenshi is?
00:30:21.280 No, I only had to learn and learn about who Nenshi is.
00:30:24.480 Well, I know William used to complain about him a lot before he started running for the
00:30:27.820 BC NDP leadership.
00:30:29.320 That tracks, that tracks.
00:30:30.360 So, you know, that, that was my introduction to him.
00:30:32.740 So I already didn't get a good impression.
00:30:34.020 Uh, but you know, I mean, he, Nenshi, uh, it seems like the type of guy who, you know,
00:30:38.880 is popular amongst the kind of like certain type of type of person, maybe has like a bit
00:30:42.900 of a Doug Ford type appeal, uh, and sort of like, you know, he's able to appeal to the
00:30:47.220 common man, a little folksy, you know, William's probably like, ah, the common man, you know,
00:30:51.200 this guy's anything but that, uh, which is true.
00:30:54.240 But you know, at the end of the day, I mean, how common is that?
00:30:57.640 Yeah, exactly.
00:30:59.660 Right.
00:31:00.000 So, uh, I don't really know if, uh, you know, separating off from, uh, the federal NDP
00:31:05.000 and then, you know, just keeping the name NDP will do anything in like the minds of
00:31:08.580 the average voter.
00:31:09.360 I think you would have to actually, uh, change the party name, but you know, as you know,
00:31:14.000 William mentioned, I'm covering well, BC politics a lot.
00:31:16.840 Uh, changing your name is, is, you know, a very, very big step.
00:31:20.640 You know, the, it didn't really help the reform, uh, when they changed it to Canadian Alliance
00:31:23.960 all that much.
00:31:24.600 Uh, it didn't, it's not helping, uh, the BC liberals at all.
00:31:28.340 Um, so, you know, there is that risk with that said, I don't know if like the current
00:31:32.820 political landscape in Alberta sustainable right now, because before it was PCs versus
00:31:37.380 wild rose and they've sort of merged together and it's become a more of a right left battle.
00:31:42.920 So I don't know if, uh, you know, maybe Alberta will go back to that sort of dynamic or maybe
00:31:47.920 the NDP will sort of have to mellow out, uh, in terms of their radicalism to, uh, really,
00:31:52.840 uh, be, uh, maintain their relevance in the post not Lee era.
00:31:58.100 Yeah, fair enough.
00:31:59.360 Uh, there was, I totally lost the story we were going to go to next here.
00:32:03.040 Oh yes.
00:32:03.800 William, uh, you get to also complain about bureaucrats here.
00:32:07.660 I would never complain about the hardworking public servants who keep our government moving
00:32:12.800 with peak efficiency and deliver valuable services to Canadians in a timely and affordable
00:32:18.040 manner.
00:32:19.040 Um, but fortunately I don't have to, because we're about to hire a squad of terminators
00:32:23.520 to wander the halls of the federal civil service to keep an eye on them.
00:32:28.120 Yes, there are going, there are spy robots trundling through the halls of some of the federal
00:32:33.960 public service buildings.
00:32:36.100 Although if you talk to the people who own them, the government, they're not really for
00:32:39.720 spying.
00:32:40.260 Therefore, apparently making sure.
00:32:42.380 Making sure the air conditioning is running the way it's supposed to or something.
00:32:45.140 All civil service are being kept comfortable.
00:32:47.520 It's, um, it makes them sound like plants that they require enough light and oxygen and
00:32:52.860 humidity.
00:32:54.240 But let's just take it at face value for a second.
00:32:57.180 Let me, let me pull up the, uh, the article here, uh, and read that line.
00:33:01.500 So the, it said the robot gathers information on air quality, light levels, noise, humidity,
00:33:11.000 temperature, and even measures CO2, methane, and radon gas.
00:33:14.440 So, I mean, arguably, I guess they're monitoring, you know, particularly flatulent bureaucrats,
00:33:18.820 but it's like a classic, classic government.
00:33:21.400 They can't just have someone go over and check the thermostat and, you know, say, oh, the
00:33:25.380 light's bright.
00:33:26.160 I'm going to turn it off.
00:33:27.000 Like it's, they need to get this like expensive robot to do it.
00:33:30.740 Yeah.
00:33:31.240 The glides up and down the halls and may or may not be counting how many people are in
00:33:35.580 the office to determine if there's enough workspace and possibly whether or not you're in your
00:33:40.840 individual office at any given time.
00:33:43.560 Look, first of all, I don't think we have done a good enough job monitoring federal public
00:33:47.840 servants at all.
00:33:48.980 Yeah.
00:33:49.340 Uh, the fact that thousands of them, tens of thousands of them, hundreds of thousands
00:33:53.920 of them just walked off jobs and to work at home and none of us really noticed says a
00:33:58.980 message that maybe these people aren't the paragons of efficiency that the federal public
00:34:04.360 service paints itself into being.
00:34:06.220 So I personally would welcome some more oversight and ensuring that the, the very expensive federal
00:34:13.600 civil service that we pay for is actually doing some work.
00:34:16.920 But of course the union, uh, is deeply opposed to all of this.
00:34:20.280 They're, first of all, they're deeply opposed to having any of them have to go back to the,
00:34:23.080 to their offices.
00:34:23.960 They think they should be allowed to work from home forever.
00:34:27.420 And then now they're very upset that people might be monitored as to whether or not they're
00:34:32.360 actually in their office at any given time.
00:34:35.800 Well, the union's opposed to all work.
00:34:37.980 Yeah.
00:34:38.300 You know, if they have to be back in the office, surely they don't have to be actually at their
00:34:42.860 desk and working.
00:34:44.160 Well, you know, they, they should be, uh, you know, I don't know, synergizing with their
00:34:48.520 colleagues at the water cooler, whatever it is, uh, they might be spending their time
00:34:52.320 doing.
00:34:52.560 But, um, yeah, it is interesting that the, that the solution proposed by the government just
00:34:57.920 happens to be a, the most controversial and, and be the most sort of expensive and over
00:35:03.400 the top one, as opposed to, oh, I don't know, making supervisors accountable for the behavior
00:35:08.580 of their subordinates and saying, why does your department of 14 people only produce the
00:35:13.980 work of one half person every other week?
00:35:18.080 Fair enough.
00:35:19.040 Uh, this one was a weird, well, actually we don't have time for this one.
00:35:22.740 We'll do that one on my show next week.
00:35:24.440 Uh, so here we can all complain about the quality of what's on TV.
00:35:29.020 Now I'm assuming that most of you, uh, tuning in have just chosen to like swear off the,
00:35:33.900 you know, crappy TV and you're watching true North shows and we thank you for it.
00:35:36.800 But if you happen to like flip through the channels, as I have from time to time, you'll
00:35:41.180 come across things and you're like, this is just so bad.
00:35:44.000 Well, this clip was from a show called new Amsterdam, which is off the air now.
00:35:49.120 Thankfully it ran from, I think 2008 to 2000 or no, when did it run?
00:35:53.220 And I've already forgotten when it ran.
00:35:55.740 I think it was 2018 to 2023.
00:35:58.880 Yeah.
00:35:59.060 So it just went off the air last year, but I saw this clip circulating and I was like,
00:36:03.940 this is like perfect off the record material because this is exactly why none of the shows
00:36:09.160 on TV are good right now.
00:36:10.480 Let's just, let's just let the video do the talking here.
00:36:12.860 Make yourself comfortable.
00:36:15.920 There's a couch over there.
00:36:17.320 Hey, is he okay?
00:36:19.080 Yeah.
00:36:19.460 Yeah.
00:36:19.700 He's, um, he's okay.
00:36:21.660 I had Cephas answer some questions from a Harvard test known as unrest.
00:36:25.820 It is designed to, um, measure someone's level of social resistance.
00:36:29.800 Social resistance?
00:36:31.080 When people like us oppose the values and policies of the dominant culture.
00:36:35.920 That's right.
00:36:36.640 And what does that have to do with-
00:36:38.240 Your son, he feels threatened on a daily basis, like everything he's earned can just be taken
00:36:43.480 away.
00:36:44.540 He's disenfranchised.
00:36:46.560 But because his life is seemingly free from all this, because he can't name it, he's internalizing
00:36:52.620 it.
00:36:53.760 Name what?
00:36:57.040 Racism.
00:36:57.560 Now I don't have a medical degree, so I may be missing something, but I am not aware
00:37:16.720 of racism causing tumors.
00:37:19.180 I don't, I did not, I did not think that Black Lives Matter was an anti-cancer campaign, just
00:37:25.440 to put that point on it.
00:37:27.760 Noah, how do you feel on this?
00:37:29.180 Do you feel seen?
00:37:30.100 Do you feel represented?
00:37:32.660 Oh yeah, totally.
00:37:33.840 I mean, you know, it's just all that social resistance building up in my chest and now
00:37:37.240 I got like heart palpitations, you know, maybe I gotta go to my doctor, but you know, it's
00:37:42.580 kind of funny.
00:37:43.120 It's like, you know, when he said social resistance, I'm like, you know, I live in Canada.
00:37:45.800 I'm a conservative.
00:37:46.520 It's a pretty liberal country.
00:37:47.500 I mean, am I growing a tumor?
00:37:49.260 Like this has got to be something, you know, that's happening.
00:37:51.420 I'm pretty sure like Ezra Levan is like in stage four or whatever.
00:37:55.220 Like this guy, you know, needs a checkup, but I think it's utterly absurd that it's
00:38:01.840 great that we get to laugh at this stuff, you know, it just really shows that, uh, you
00:38:05.420 know, this wokeness whole thing is nonsense.
00:38:07.780 And, you know, I, I sent it to a couple of my friends who are also black and they're like,
00:38:11.380 you know, like what is going on?
00:38:12.740 Like, can you just like be normal?
00:38:14.760 Can you like tell a good story instead of like just trying to overtly appeal to like
00:38:18.240 one race racial group in your, in your show?
00:38:20.880 I used to like back at the last medical show that I watched on TV was house and house was
00:38:26.120 about this, you know, cranky doctor played by Hugh Laurie that just was an absolute brilliant
00:38:31.000 guy.
00:38:31.760 And he would always find the most obscure conditions, uh, imaginable that people had.
00:38:36.960 And he would save the patients generally.
00:38:38.380 And I'm like, they never did the racism thing.
00:38:40.380 You know, they never did the, like Dr.
00:38:42.140 House, we cannot figure out why this person is dying.
00:38:45.060 And he just looks at them and says, racist tumor.
00:38:48.660 They never did that.
00:38:50.940 Well, I have to say if, if I'm wheeled into hospital and it's a cancer diagnosis, I would
00:38:57.140 ask that they please use conventional cancer treatment on me.
00:39:01.140 I don't want the doctor to say, I need 10 CCs of DEI training stat to be, I'm like, no,
00:39:08.520 no, no radiation and drugs, please.
00:39:10.860 I don't need everyone sitting in a talking circle, learning how to be anti-colonial.
00:39:15.980 That's not going to take the tumor out of my brain.
00:39:19.180 Thank you.
00:39:19.580 So your doctor diagnosing you with wet fragility does it in gender confidence that that's kind
00:39:24.140 of crazy William.
00:39:24.940 I don't know about that.
00:39:25.980 Yeah.
00:39:26.380 Well, we, we can send you to the radiologist or, or we have this great working group on,
00:39:32.140 uh, confronting unconscious bias.
00:39:35.260 Yeah, but don't worry.
00:39:36.140 We have a whole selection of washrooms for you to choose from as the tumor makes your
00:39:41.500 brain explode from the inside.
00:39:43.500 So this is a, to be honest, this is, this is an American show, but I'm kind of getting
00:39:48.540 like some Canadian healthcare vibes from, uh, from it there.
00:39:51.820 Uh, all right.
00:39:52.860 That was a new Amsterdam.
00:39:54.380 So there was, I used to love this show in its first season.
00:39:57.980 It was called designated survivor.
00:39:59.580 And it was this like political thriller starring Keifer Sutherland.
00:40:03.420 And the first season was like the first episode was that the white house or the Capitol gets
00:40:08.700 blown up in the middle of the state of the union.
00:40:11.260 And the designated survivor, who's like some obscure cabinet secretary is the guy that takes
00:40:16.140 the presidency and he has to navigate through this massive, massive terrorist conspiracy.
00:40:20.300 Fantastic show.
00:40:21.500 Second season.
00:40:22.540 Yeah.
00:40:22.860 A little bit less good, but I was still there.
00:40:25.420 Got canceled.
00:40:26.780 Netflix brought it back for season three.
00:40:29.500 And in season three, half of the episodes of the season, I kid you not, were about the
00:40:33.740 president's transgender sister-in-law.
00:40:36.620 And in one of the episodes, the president's transgender sister-in-law who was born a male
00:40:41.740 is giving the president's daughter advice on how to get through her first period.
00:40:46.460 And I'm like, can we bring back the terrorists?
00:40:48.540 That was like why I started watching this show, but this is what TV is doing now.
00:40:52.940 Yeah.
00:40:53.180 You're out.
00:40:53.580 You know, I actually loved the first season of that show.
00:40:56.060 It was a political thriller.
00:40:57.340 It was supposed to have elements of politics.
00:40:59.580 You know, the guy is trying to rebuild a government that's been blown up by terrorists.
00:41:03.740 And, you know, while simultaneously trying to track down the terrorists who did it.
00:41:09.900 And yeah.
00:41:11.260 And by the end, it's this weird social studies lesson in wokeism that isn't remotely enjoyable
00:41:20.700 to watch anymore.
00:41:21.980 It's like, ooh, the president denounced his sister-in-law to win in Texas.
00:41:26.060 It's like, what the hell?
00:41:27.260 Where did this come from?
00:41:28.220 Yeah.
00:41:29.660 No, it was deeply disappointing what happened to that show and unbefitting what I think Mr.
00:41:34.380 Kiefer Sutherland deserves in his career.
00:41:38.060 Who's father just, or whose grandfather rather just passed away?
00:41:42.540 Yeah.
00:41:42.780 No, his father.
00:41:43.500 No, his grandfather.
00:41:44.380 Yes.
00:41:44.860 Shirley Douglas's father.
00:41:46.860 No, wait.
00:41:47.660 I've forgotten this whole family now.
00:41:49.260 I used to know this.
00:41:49.980 It's his father.
00:41:50.780 So yeah, Donald's because he was so old.
00:41:53.100 Yeah.
00:41:53.260 Donald's his father.
00:41:54.220 And then his mother, his grandfather was Tommy Douglas because yeah.
00:41:57.980 Okay.
00:41:58.300 Got it.
00:41:58.620 Yeah, no, it's very sad.
00:42:00.700 I mean, I didn't agree with Donald Sutherland's politics.
00:42:04.860 He was a pretty hardcore raging lefty, but I enjoyed him in a lot of movies.
00:42:09.500 And so it is sad when we lose someone who's an actor.
00:42:13.020 And you know, that's one of the things I like to say is I don't have to necessarily agree
00:42:17.420 with everyone's politics to enjoy a movie they make.
00:42:21.580 Because there's, you know, the woke say, oh, you can't watch so-and-so, he's a Republican,
00:42:26.380 or you can't listen to so-and-so's music, he's a Republican.
00:42:29.260 I think, well, I enjoy their content.
00:42:30.780 I actually don't care about their politics.
00:42:32.780 I'm not choosing who to vote for because of this actor.
00:42:36.300 But he was great playing the evil president on The Hunger Games.
00:42:40.300 And that was an entertaining role.
00:42:41.740 So yeah.
00:42:43.100 All right.
00:42:43.420 Final words.
00:42:43.820 Yeah, no, it's the test.
00:42:45.260 Well, that's exactly how I feel about Kanye West.
00:42:47.260 It's like, you know, he might say some crazy things every now and then.
00:42:49.980 But hey, you know, you put on that graduation album from 2007.
00:42:55.260 It's really good.
00:42:55.900 Great music, like 20 years ago.
00:42:57.900 Yeah.
00:42:59.500 Okay.
00:42:59.900 Okay.
00:43:00.220 Relax, William.
00:43:01.100 Let's not, you know.
00:43:02.940 I think you just gave Noah a tumor, William.
00:43:06.780 Yeah.
00:43:07.740 I think I just had a stroke there.
00:43:09.260 I'll go check our insurance policy.
00:43:11.100 See if you're covered for some DEI treatment there, Noah.
00:43:13.980 All right.
00:43:14.620 Noah Jarvis.
00:43:15.500 Thank you, sir.
00:43:16.060 William McBeth.
00:43:16.780 Thank you.
00:43:17.180 My name is Andrew Lawton.
00:43:18.380 And remember, everything you've heard is off the record.
00:43:29.900 I actually don't know if I know any Kanye West songs.
00:43:33.420 Oh, man, Andrew.
00:43:34.540 I already knew this was going to happen.
00:43:35.820 You got to culture yourself, you know.
00:43:37.980 Maybe I'll go to London one day and just, you know, lock you in a room.
00:43:40.700 Okay.
00:43:40.780 Name five ABBA songs, Noah.
00:43:46.220 Somebody that I used to know.
00:43:48.140 Wait, no.
00:43:49.420 No, that's not, that's the wrong person.
00:43:51.020 You came out like 40 years after ABBA.
00:43:53.180 Okay, okay, okay.
00:43:55.820 In my defense, in my defense, like, I've only heard, like, one song at a club.
00:44:01.340 And, like, my friend was like, hey, you know, is that somebody I used to know, guy?
00:44:04.860 Like, so, I don't know.
00:44:05.740 I was stuck in my head.
00:44:07.100 Andrew, you would maybe know all of the lights.
00:44:09.180 I think that's probably the most famous Kanye song from that got a lot of radio play.
00:44:16.060 Oh, yeah.
00:44:16.380 Or stronger.
00:44:16.940 Rihanna would do that one.
00:44:18.300 Make it better, faster, stronger.
00:44:23.180 Yeah, that one.
00:44:23.900 Good impression?
00:44:25.020 Yeah.
00:44:25.420 That was great.
00:44:25.980 That one.
00:44:26.540 Yeah.
00:44:26.860 Like he was in the room.
00:44:28.940 All right.
00:44:29.340 You all listen to a Kanye album.
00:44:30.860 You listen to an ABBA album.
00:44:32.060 And then we'll share our cultures next week, Noah.
00:44:35.420 ABBA's not my culture for, I'm not Swedish or.
00:44:37.980 I was going to say, are you Swedish in a Eurovision?
00:44:42.460 I don't know.
00:44:42.860 You could pass off.
00:44:44.300 All right.
00:44:44.780 You can pass off as Swedish.
00:44:46.060 I think I'm a little bit too brunette.
00:44:47.180 All right.
00:44:47.500 We just pass it.