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- March 15, 2024
Surprise, surprise! CBC defends Trudeau’s carbon tax
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authentic and official or something yeah yeah i get calls from the u.s it's it's and they claim to be
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a canadian government official i'm just uh well i i don't i don't have any tricks like you do candace about
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how to play with them i just i just wonder why it's why it's so out of control i've heard some i've heard
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some theories about it but we'll save that for a different show well do you know why because i
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listened to a podcast once where basically they were getting all these scam calls and so the guy
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played along and then he ended up doing investigative work we flew to india and like went to the town
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where they were doing this and like try to take down like the whole empire and so i listened to that
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podcast series it was like this is like probably eight years ago now and so then i whatever he was
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doing i like to use those tricks to try to like find out who it was that was doing it but yeah maybe we
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should do some true north investigation into the fake sea array agents harrison we're sending them
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all right guys let's get this started
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hi everybody welcome to off the record thank you so much for joining us today so this is a
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show where we just talk about our favorite interesting stories of the week not really
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newsy per se but we have a little bit of a more relaxed conversation about it so i'm joined by
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andrew lawton who is the host of the andrew lawton show and the senior editor here at true north and
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also joined by harrison faulkner who is the host of ratioed and also a reporter at true north so thank
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you for joining me both so yeah so i never know whether to respond in that moment sometimes you
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just plan to go right through anyway i'm here well if you if you had something to say you could jump in
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and say it at that moment but then if you don't then we'll just carry on keep calm and carry on so
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let's talk about this cbc story so justin trudeau was out in alberta uh this week and we were told that
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he was going to give us some kind of announcement he really didn't he was just kind of there to talk
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about how great the carbon taxes and how great his dental plan is or his pharma care plan like he
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didn't he didn't really have anything uh the the main story for me was that he would not let rachel
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emmanuel into his press conference which is just rude and annoying and you forget that justin trudeau
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is a tyrant right like you see him failing in the polls you see him making silly embarrassing things
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uh saying silly embarrassing things online all the time uh you you think that maybe he's gonna like
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soften up and and and try to be more like reconciliatory but then as soon as he sees a true
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north reporter or a sig a daily signal reporter counter signal report uh porter he he just goes right back
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to like tyrant mode where he gets the police to push them out anyway uh luckily he has the cbc
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there to defend him so we had this article that we saw the real problem with the carbon tax guys
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is not that it's a bad policy it's not that it's making life so unaffordable it's not that they're
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raising the price at the worst time when canadians are suffering from inflation which in part was caused
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by the carbon tax the real problem according to the cbc is just that they're not communicating it
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properly they just need to figure out a different way to communicate it andrew what are your thoughts
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on all this yeah this was i mean literally this is liberal communications this is liberal spin because
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a couple of months ago you may recall maybe it was about six weeks ago the liberals set out on this uh
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grand canadian effort to rebrand the carbon tax because the liberals decided to take the view that
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the carbon tax was just a messaging problem it was a communications problem which is really
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insulting to canadians because what they're saying is that no no no you're just too dumb to understand
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the policy so we're going to really explain it to you and then once you understand it then you'll
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like it it's like uh you know basically the liberals are just saying that there's no way canadians could
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possibly be against them unless they just don't know enough information uh like i try try applying
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that to dating if someone does not interest you no no you don't know me yet you don't know me it's
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just not going to work so the reality is aaron wary's piece in cbc is literally taking that
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approach from the liberals that this is just a messaging problem not that canadians cannot afford
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uh a carbon tax cannot afford the increases to the carbon tax and do not want to pay for something
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that has at best a dubious relationship with the environmental objectives that the liberals claim
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the carbon tax will solve i think that's absolutely right harrison what are your thoughts
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well given that the cbc is the communications wing of the pmo he should be taking his frustration out
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with his own employer the cbc but it's weird because in the article aaron weary is basically
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blaming the banks for not manipulating their statements so that canadians can clearly see what
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is a rebate and and and and not uh he basically says right here while energy suppliers specify the
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federal carbon change on the bills they send to customers banks are not obliged to clearly label
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their rebates when deposits are made to canadians accounts so he's taking it out on the banks for
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not clearly labeling labeling what the cbc what the pmo want canadians to see the reality is as andrew
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said this is not a communications issue canadians just don't want to don't want to have to pay for
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another tax which they know isn't working so it's just it's just classic i mean of course the whole carbon
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tax house of cards is crumbling provinces are now uh pushing back except for except for i guess yukon
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recently but a lot of the provinces now are pushing back on this and they've got their they're in
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panic mode trito went on an eight minute uncontrolled rant a few days ago at this press conferences at the
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press conference trying to defend his carbon tax which is which is crumbling so it's nice to see
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yeah he seems a little unhinged in that video if i'm if i'm being uh critical and honest uh andrew you
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cover this on your podcast that i think seven or eight out of the premiers out of the 10 premiers
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everyone other than bc and perhaps manitoba although manitoba sort of half in and half out
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uh have come out opposed to the uh carbon taxes it's interesting because uh when you see the cbc
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write a piece like this it's kind of like telling you what's going through their own heads in the pmo
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like like like the idea that really the canadians just must not understand it i know that the auditor
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general came out with a pretty damning report saying that most canadians are actually worse off
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under this uh under this new tax regime uh what what would you do if you were advising the liberals
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well the the problem is is that it's kind of too late for them to save face on this without having
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some colossal embarrassment because they have been so unrepentant about this i mean you mentioned
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harrison justin trudeau's eight minute long answer and i don't know what's worse that people had to hear
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him try to defend the carbon tax for eight minutes or just people had to hear him for eight minutes
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but the reality is the government has been just they've just had scorn and disdain for anyone
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opposed to this policy they've decided to make this really the flagship policy of their government
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and imagine that like harper's the the policy that i mean i i would say harper's government was not as
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bold as it could have and should have been but but if you were to try to link like harper to a
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particular policy outside of the recession you'd probably say the gst reduction like that's probably a
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flagship enduring legacy policy from that government justin trudeau wants to make an
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added tax the policy that people most closely link to him so given that there is this revolt of the
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premiers now uh seven of the ten uh main canadian provincial premiers have not condemned it manitoba
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you're right is they're like not saying if they have or haven't privately which is weird in and of
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itself you've got the premier of the northwest territories who's against it uh the but the reality
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is that the liberals have boxed themselves in so much where uh showing weakness is not going to
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help them so i'd say the only card left to play is just simply doing the right thing which is uh
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letting canadians have some relief it's not going to help them politically but it's the right thing
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to do well no i think you're right i think that justin trudeau sees himself as an environmentalist
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that's probably the pet issue that he cares the most about hence why he had that embarrassing
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groveling media uh with greta thunberg during one of the previous elections you know he's got a
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radical environmentalist as his environment minister which is is so unbecoming and when you
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know when when uh uh governments complain that they can't get meetings with him and they can't
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communicate with him he just says like it's your problem not ours uh he's he's quite proud of his
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his environment minister uh so i think right andrew it's like a hill he wants to die on and i think he
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wants to run in the next election using this as one of the wedge issues to say like conservatives and
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peer polio don't believe in climate change that's just like every day in the house of commons they're
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talking about this that's all we hear that same platitude the conservatives don't care about
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climate change we're the only ones that care about climate change uh do you think that's a
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good message for them to go into the election with harrison well i don't i don't because it looks as
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though you know the premiers across the country even liberal premiers know that it's politically
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uh it's politically dangerous we just had we just heard from i think it was rachel emanuel's
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interview with an ndp strategist pointing this out in alberta that even though even the ndp can't
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can't stand for a carbon tax because it's not going to work for them uh we're starting to see
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the serious damage this is causing not just um for canadians but also look at the agriculture industry
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the our farmers in our country are being crippled by a carbon tax all of these the this carbon tax led
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by stephen gilbo who as you point out is is a radical environmentalist
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this is having real impact on canadians and if liberal premiers aren't willing to stand shoulder
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to shoulder with a key legacy policy like andrew you pointed out for justin trudeau then it's
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obviously not going to work for them and it obviously hasn't worked out for them if you take
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the polls uh if you take the polls as as an indicator of where this country is right now yeah
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no i think i think that's uh i think that's right i i can't imagine that you know affordability
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being the biggest issue in the country right now i don't know why you would don't want to double down
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on not just attacks but like the issue is that they're raising the tax rate april 1st attacks
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goes up so we're about to get hit uh even harder with this all right uh let's let's transition i'm
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trying to think of a good way to transition uh to this one but i'm going to hand it over to you
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andrew uh to talk about uh something a new initiative from the ottawa uh school board uh that's really
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you know highlighting how you can fail fail up in this country
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well yes the ottawa carlton district school board now this is just for context the school
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board that has as a trustee nilly caplan mirth so uh this is basically the caliber of those in
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charge at the ottawa carlton district school board they've decided that they need to make school more
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inclusive and you may think okay what's the big deal doesn't really matter uh ottawa school board could
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make graduation ceremonies more inclusive by allowing those who didn't pass to participate so no we're not
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talking about racial inclusivity sexual orientation inclusivity gender inclusivity grade inclusivity
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and if you don't graduate well it would be not inclusive to not invite you to the graduation
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ceremony now this is not just a change in language as the article says uh this is that they are now
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pivoting from a graduation ceremony which is something very specific to a commencement ceremony which will
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allow students of all levels of achievement to cross the stage with their peers even if they have
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not completed all the requirements to leave high school so look students are going to have different
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levels of capability you have students with learning disabilities i i get it but the way you deal with
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that is not by just pretending that everyone's graduated i mean why how far are we going to push this was
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my question do we uh just say universities have to start being inclusive with their offers of admission
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and just letting anyone come even if they didn't make it in universities then have to do inclusive
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commencement and at a certain point when everyone's crossing the floor to pick up their medical degree
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uh we've just like inclusived our way all the way to the end where everyone's just being called doctor
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whether or not they graduated i'm being a little bit facetious here but that feels like the direction
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we're going well it's interesting because andrew you and i are millennials and i think that that was
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the generation where like everyone would receive a trophy like it didn't matter if you won the race or
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not you got the the party the participation medal and i you know i i think that that the outcome of that
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is that you have a lot of pretty entitled pretty you know lazy people in our generation that aren't
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aren't doing aren't achieving like they could i i think it's kind of changed for gen z and i think the
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problems facing harrison's generation are much more about sort of like us being scared to to take a
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step into the real world and you know the whole like i need a safe space and and and you know i
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need a trigger warning and all this kind of stuff so this this is strange ottawa policy is kind of like
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merging uh those all together it's like yeah you don't really need to do anything you don't really need
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to try you don't really even need to show up and graduate but you still get the uh diploma at the end
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of the day which i i don't know what you're supposed to do with that like what what what comes next after
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you kind of like fake your way through you know high school and then and then and then what comes
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next harrison what do you think yeah i i don't know how this will play out but i i can't think of
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like something worse than not passing high school but then being brought up onto the stage to like
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pretend as though you did like first of all that's just that's just terrible but i think there's all of
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these all these policies are all kind of part of the same family take your quotas uh take your dei
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initiatives uh all this equity stuff all these participation trophies it's all part of the same
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i think it's all part of the same uh family of policy which is basically to lower standards to such
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a point where everybody's just everybody's just told to accept that we're all capable of doing the
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same thing that there shouldn't we shouldn't be celebrating excellence we shouldn't be celebrating
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achievement and unique uh uniqueness we need to just all pretend as though we're we're we're doing
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the exact same thing um it is it is i think this is only the beginning unfortunately i think this is
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going to get way worse and we're going to see this go into universities next um you know we're going to
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see this go into the workplace if we haven't already it's it's a continuation of the participation trophy
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idea uh and it's just going to get worse instead of the trophy uh we're basically going to be forced
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to accept that yeah you you might not be smart enough for example to uh to to be building airplanes
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but we don't care we're going to let you do that uh you might not have the qualifications to be an
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engineer but we don't care we want you to be an engineer we want to have you know specific race
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quotas or gender quotas in the engineering field so we're just going to let you build a bridge see how
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that goes all of this is going to have problems in the future you can you can see it going that way
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uh but i i kind of view this as almost an attack on on excellence in a way well there there was a
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story years ago in and it was also in ottawa oddly that i i it was one of my favorite like of those
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canadian stories that kind of becomes a bit of a thing like they talked about it on red eye and fox
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and friends and all of that and i i had kind of contributed to blowing it up a bit but it was
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basically where an ottawa soccer league had said that if you win by more than five points
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you automatically lost uh because they were trying to say that it was just not fun anymore for the
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losing team if they got just absolutely slaughtered on the field so the rule was if you won by more than
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five you lost and that has stuck with me now for like 10 years because that's the same phenomenon
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it's the same culture and but the thing is what i don't know and you have kids candace so maybe you
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can weigh in on this i think kids get this in a way that adults don't and and i'll use myself as
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an example so years and years ago when i was oh i've played piano my almost my entire life but i did
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these competitions i think they were called kiwanis competitions there was one time where you know i go
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and i play my song and at the end of it they're handing out the awards and they give you know first
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place second place third place and then i got something called the award of merit which i had never heard
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of but i got the sense that it was nonsense and that it was as though i had lost or uh maybe i
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got like a non-existent fourth place award and something but i knew that it was a fake award and
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i felt nothing about it as a kid but kind of annoyed because i knew that i had lost but i but i don't know
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if i'm in the minority that or of that or if kids are kind of aware that there is this game being played
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on them by the woke uh no i think kids know i think i think they get it like uh as far as that
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auto story i never i never heard that story before but when i was growing up you're playing sports
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sometimes it would stop counting right if you if you were really winning uh they would stop counting
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or in baseball sometimes they would just call the game if you were if your team was up by like 10 10
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runs and you're going into the last inning they just wouldn't play the last inning uh but i can't
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imagine losing over that yeah interesting that you mentioned that andrew because my my son
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is he's he's the youngest in his class he's youngest in his grade by by over a year just because uh you
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know he we kind of he skipped himself ahead and because of that whenever it comes to pe and races
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he's always last and the school maybe it's because it's a traditional school they don't skirt around
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it like they say you came in last you came in 13th out of 13 boys and like and he knows his time and
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yeah deal with it kid you know and he does and and and he's like you know i really want to practice
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running and getting better because i don't like finishing last and we're like well you know you're
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smaller than the other boys so that's probably likely that you will finish last uh but you can
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try to beat your own time uh kind of thing and no i i think kids understand the inherent need for
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competition and they like competition that's what drives them especially boys they love being
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competitive and you know that it's part of human nature and and when you try to take it away and and
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water it down i think kids understand and recognize that and to your point andrew they feel
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like shortchanged by the fact that you're not being honest with them like if you lost you lost
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and you should learn and to deal with that and uh just final comment on this i think we've seen
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i think we've seen like the peak of this and we're starting to turn around because i know in the u.s
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after 2020 and the george floyd riots a lot of elite schools started doing away with uh tests like no more
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uh standardized tests to determine who gets into the school and i think it's like the the consensus is it's
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been a disaster like they're bringing back tests let's just say that uh a lot of the students who
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were brought into those schools uh have not proven that they are uh you know at the level needed to
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to be at that institution and graduate and so because of that a lot of the administrations at
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schools like brown and dartmouth are now announcing that they are going to return to you know grading by
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standardized testing and using them for part of their admission so i i i think i think we're kind of
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like experimenting and trying and hopefully that we're learning from it and we're not gonna we're
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not gonna continue down that path okay let's uh let's let's move on i i wanted to uh talk about a
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little online uh controversy that happened uh with a conservative uh podcast host ben shapiro who runs
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the daily wire and he went viral online basically we're talking about something that i think is like
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a pretty standard conservative position that has been a long-standing conservative position so let's play a
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clip of ben shapiro and let's be real about this it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement
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age in the united states it's totally crazy joe biden if that were the case joe biden should not
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be running for president hey joe biden is 81 years old the retirement age in the united states at which
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you start to receive social security and you are eligible for medicare is 65. joe biden has technically
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been eligible for social security and medicare for 16 years and he wants to continue in office until
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he is 86 which is 19 years past when he would be eligible for retirement no one in the united
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states should be retiring at 65 years old frankly i think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you
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have some sort of health problem everybody that i know who is who is elderly who has retired is dead
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within five years and if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by
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losing their job and they stop working things go to hell in a handbasket real quick but put all of that
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aside just on a fiscal level and on a logical level when franklin delano roosevelt established 65 as the
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retirement age the average life expectancy in the united states was 63 years old today the average
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life expectancy in the united states is close to 80. so that blew up the internet it was really kind of
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something i mean i think people were sharing that video it had tens of millions of views uh conservatives
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were the ones that were sort of like so i should say right wingers online uh were the ones that were
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particularly you know outraged and offended by it saying like ben shapiro sort of touched he doesn't
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understand uh working class people and and how you know hard it is on your body to be like a bricklayer
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uh or work on a farm and and how you know 65 is is old enough uh obviously ben shapiro is thinking
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more of like people who are in his line of work uh people who sit at a desk all day and and there is
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two totally different realities here uh so i i was i was i was thinking of the canadian example because stephen harper
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under the conservatives did raise retirement age to 67 and it was promptly moved back to 65 uh when
00:22:06.880
justin trudeau was elected i mean i i wrote about this a long long time ago in my book generation
00:22:12.400
screw that came out over a decade ago now but the idea that you know demographics have shifted rapidly
00:22:18.400
um the idea that you retire at 65 is little antiquated when people are living into their 80s you
00:22:23.360
know what are you supposed to do for that last two decades of your life if you're not working a lot of
00:22:27.360
people didn't save up properly uh to to afford that so interesting debate and also just interesting
00:22:33.120
that it went it went so sideways for ben shapiro and he got slammed so hard for it so harrison what
00:22:38.800
do you make of all this yeah well i think it's exposing one of the new shifts that we're seeing
00:22:44.320
in the right which is this sort of push um especially from younger uh younger conservatives younger people
00:22:50.960
to look at look at the social safety net as a as a core you know needed institution in the united
00:22:57.440
states and in canada and not view it as something that you know traditional conservatives in the past
00:23:02.480
would look at as an issue now in reality i think that without it if if it never came into canada in
00:23:08.320
the first place after the second world war we might be in a better position but we have it now and we have
00:23:12.560
to live with that reality because canadians have been paying into it for many generations with the
00:23:17.120
expectation that they get they get what they pay into it when they're when they retire now the
00:23:21.920
reality is with ben shapiro if you are a lawyer or if you are a you know a banker or you are in media
00:23:28.320
and you sit behind a desk and you're not using your hands all day well yeah i think that's one thing i
00:23:33.360
think you do have you should be able to work up until the point where you literally can't you can't
00:23:39.040
but when you're talking about blue collar work manual labor is it really is it really good for
00:23:44.240
society to have you know people you know breaking their backs when they're you know 65 and older
00:23:50.640
um in in the manual labor industry i think that there's a reality here that ben shapiro doesn't
00:23:54.800
know about which is the the life that a lot of americans and canadians face you know or you should
00:24:00.880
should you be in the oil fields working an oil rig when you're 70. uh it doesn't seem like that's a
00:24:06.560
good idea um and i think that's what we're seeing right and and canis we talked about this earlier that
00:24:11.520
there's starting to be this this look at daily wire as sort of an out of touch uh conservative
00:24:17.120
organization making you know they've been they've become so successful and so big that they're
00:24:21.120
starting to lose touch with their base and i think this is kind of this kind of exposes that a little
00:24:26.320
bit obviously we know that the social safety net debate was a big dividing factor between donald trump
00:24:32.080
and nikki haley um in this presidential primary donald trump is a is a staunch supporter of the social
00:24:38.480
safety net in the retirement age and he's been he had been attacking nikki haley for saying she
00:24:42.800
wanted to raise the retirement age in the united states so it's exposing a new fault line in the
00:24:48.160
conservative dialogue and i think it is exposing a new divide amongst young conservatives and older
00:24:53.040
conservatives yeah and i would even say the difference between the traditional conservatives
00:24:58.240
and sort of the new right the new online right and the mega uh right andrew what do you make of this
00:25:03.360
do you think we should have two retirement ages one for white collar workers and one for blue collar
00:25:07.120
workers well i i one one point i should raise here and i i don't want to you know i don't want to
00:25:11.920
attract my own level of the ben shapiro controversy but a lot of blue collar work exists because uh people
00:25:18.320
with white collars just are too lazy to do something or just don't have the time to do it i mean and i'm
00:25:23.360
guilty of this myself it's like so but i but i'm trying to think of how i would feel if you know some 95
00:25:29.040
year old guy showed up to cut my lawn or something like that and and how a lot of other people would
00:25:34.560
feel so i i do feel there is a there's a societal aspect that is concerning and challenging if the
00:25:40.960
elderly have to work and there's a difference between having to work and wanting to work right
00:25:46.000
because i i do agree that people can have great meaning and purpose from their work and i i'm one
00:25:51.680
i'm an example of that i love it i want to do what i do and until i can't anymore and i and i couldn't
00:25:56.320
see myself not in some form but i also would love to just go down to part-time maybe when i'm you know
00:26:02.800
107 and uh perhaps not do the five shows a week that i do now maybe i could go down to four and a
00:26:08.320
half or something and i do think the blue collar white collar distinction is an important one
00:26:14.000
but where i have kind of changed on this issue is that i do feel that we can people on the right
00:26:21.360
generally make a big point especially people on this call of talking about for women in
00:26:26.080
particular not working being a legitimate life choice and and that you should actually celebrate
00:26:30.960
if you want to take a role as a mother and that's something you choose to do and i think that the if
00:26:36.960
you take that to its logical end there are forms of purpose and meaning that are not built around labor
00:26:44.160
and if someone says you know i actually want to take the last 20 years of my life and spend time with
00:26:49.120
my grandkids and spend time with my friends and volunteer i actually think that's a perfectly
00:26:54.560
legitimate thing so i i don't buy this idea that retirement instantly means you go from doing
00:27:00.960
something to doing nothing i think it's about shifting priorities no i think you're right i think
00:27:06.080
that i think that where ben kind of got into a little bit of trouble here is he didn't properly
00:27:10.240
distinguish between you know personal responsibilities and personal choice right so it's like the problem
00:27:16.160
with social security and the us and and our cpp and oas and gas programs in canada is that they're not
00:27:22.400
properly funded so i don't think like any of the three of us realistically expect that when we retire
00:27:27.840
like when when we hit that stage in our lives whether it's at 65 or 70 or who knows 75 at that
00:27:32.560
point that the government safety net will exist in order to protect us like i i don't think the
00:27:37.920
governments have funded these programs properly and so it is like it's your personal responsibility to
00:27:44.800
save up and make sure that you're personally prepared for retirement and i don't think that most
00:27:48.720
canadians and americans are doing that right now i doubt people in our generation are many of them
00:27:53.520
haven't even been able to afford life uh milestones like buying a house uh let alone you know putting
00:27:59.040
aside 20 of your income every month uh for retirement i i'll just uh share a personal anecdote
00:28:04.880
some of my family and this shows the point about why retirement is bad it's like okay so i have a
00:28:10.800
family member who was a school teacher she loved being a school teacher that was like her whole life
00:28:15.840
basically hit 65 and got forced out like pushed out um so that you know new teaching spots could
00:28:21.280
become available for younger teachers but you know 65 she was still young and vibrant and wanted to do
00:28:26.320
more so what did she do she went back in and became a university professor and started doing consulting
00:28:31.040
so she was collecting her full pension as a teacher and then she was also collecting a full-time
00:28:36.560
salary as a university professor and also consulting with other school districts so she was making
00:28:42.480
all of this money while collecting from you know the the pool of retirement it just to me looking at
00:28:49.520
her situation and i don't begrudge her i think it's great that she was able to make all that money later
00:28:53.920
in life but it's like you know our institutions are going bankrupt and we don't have all this money
00:28:58.960
sitting around and yet here we are shoveling money out the door uh to get people to retire who
00:29:03.600
aren't ready to retire who don't want to retire who will not retire who will just move on to
00:29:07.120
a second or a third career so from a financial perspective i i just don't think that the whole
00:29:11.920
thing is is organized properly and you have another thought oh yeah because the counterpoint
00:29:16.000
to that it's not as much an issue now because like no one wants to be a teacher now but there was a time
00:29:20.800
when like and i think it was around the time that i was either in university or entering university
00:29:25.840
where not that i ever wanted to be a teacher but like everyone's being told don't go to teachers
00:29:30.720
college just don't there are no jobs available you're never going to get hired and one of the
00:29:34.720
problems at the time was that younger newer teachers couldn't even get supply teaching jobs
00:29:40.560
because the supply lists were all dominated by retirees that just didn't want to leave that
00:29:45.360
just wanted to continue doing it and and that's a really tough situation because i i do believe
00:29:49.840
there's kind of a moral responsibility for older generations to look out for the younger generation
00:29:55.840
and and i do believe that you know there there is something problematic to use the the word of the
00:30:00.400
left here when you have a bunch of uh people that are you know 70 75 have a pension and they just want
00:30:06.400
to be you know in the classroom still and uh as a result younger people the next generation can't
00:30:11.680
get experience so i i agree that's an issue i don't see a solution to it i i think that generally
00:30:16.960
speaking we all need to have as a society a bit of a bigger picture discussion about work and the meaning
00:30:22.480
of work and one of the problems now is that young people are are not finding careers a lot of young
00:30:28.560
people are they're finding jobs they're finding five six seven jobs but they're not finding careers
00:30:32.880
and i don't know if that's a matter of the the workforce and its strain or if it's a matter of
00:30:38.880
people that are a bit directionless or a bit of both but i i think that's something that we need to
00:30:43.440
talk about because the idea of deriving that meaning from your work that's going to keep you there
00:30:48.480
and not have you retiring i i don't think for most people is going to be there if you're driving for uber
00:30:53.280
and i should just say i think i think what we should be doing in this country is actually
00:30:57.680
encouraging families to start looking after each other you know eventually if this social safety net
00:31:02.960
isn't going to be able to exist for um you know for even my entire lifetime um then we need to we
00:31:09.280
need to start looking at how other cultures have been able to have been able to you know uh you know
00:31:14.640
look after their look after their families like when when you're when you're taken care of by your
00:31:18.640
older generations as you get older and they get even more older and you know and it's your
00:31:23.440
opportunity to now take care of them like that is that is how you know societies in the past have
00:31:28.480
always worked out that's how our country managed to our people managed to survive before we had our
00:31:33.360
social safety net and i think that it's something we should be encouraging not looking at you not not
00:31:38.000
not trying to promote individualism and this idea that you end up going off to a home you end up
00:31:42.720
getting you end up getting you know a retirement benefit from from the government we need to start
00:31:46.960
moving in a direction i think that recognizes that yeah families do play a role in this and families
00:31:51.600
are important well and your comment on individualism is exactly right i think we that there's a story
00:31:57.040
this week that found that 70 71 of canadians wanted to change their jobs within the calendar year
00:32:02.240
so you know to your point andrew you're not talking about people who have uh satisfied careers
00:32:06.560
you're talking about a job and jordan peterson talks about this a lot that the expectation that we
00:32:10.560
give to young people is that they're going to have a meaningful career most people don't really
00:32:14.160
have a meaningful career most people have a job and the job is there to pay the bills and we know
00:32:18.720
the the ideas that they're waiting for the day uh that they can retire and i think we sell a false
00:32:23.520
bill of goods particularly young women telling them to pursue a career that will be the number one
00:32:27.840
uh source of meaning in your life i went to your point harrison no the number one source of meaning
00:32:32.960
in your life will be you know your experiences and your family and your community and you know the the
00:32:38.480
things that you invest in on a personal level okay let's let's move on to uh this story about the
00:32:44.800
the u.s government looks like looks like they might be banning tick tock um which which is you
00:32:49.440
know if we sort of saw it coming but it surprised me how quickly it's coming so it passed in the
00:32:53.920
house it's over to the senate and if if it passes in the senate uh the uh biden administration
00:32:59.520
could go ahead and implement this uh very soon uh kind of a split again among the right uh where where
00:33:05.920
a lot of right-wingers are saying no this is a huge uh imposition governments can't step
00:33:10.960
in and ban private companies uh other conservatives saying uh look it's pretty clear that tick tock is
00:33:15.760
a chinese uh entity here and they're that this isn't a good thing for our society uh andrew why
00:33:21.920
don't you take it from here as the as the token uh libertarian uh so this is a tough one and i'll i'll
00:33:29.520
both sides it at first and in the process of doing this perhaps i'll find a position to take
00:33:33.920
um so i i think that you know absolutely free market free enterprise not banning apps is the
00:33:39.520
right way to go um however even the most sort of libertarian framework lets countries control their
00:33:46.400
borders uh there are import restrictions you can have free market within the country but have a
00:33:51.680
protectionist approach to what's coming in the internet is the the challenging factor there because
00:33:58.080
you could argue that this is an import restriction in a way is that you know the u.s doesn't want to
00:34:02.160
import tick tock into the united states which isn't you know how we relate to international uh
00:34:08.080
companies online but if you're talking about the technicality of it this is an export from china this
00:34:13.440
company so i think there is an argument to be made if the government thinks that there is a a significant
00:34:19.520
security breach or security threats to people that's coming from this app however and this is where i go
00:34:25.280
to the other side i'm not convinced that this is the right way to do it i think it's taking a sledgehammer
00:34:31.360
to something that like for example no one's talking about wechat wechat when i ran for office
00:34:36.560
in 2018 everyone i talked to said you got to get on wechat because it's where all the chinese canadians
00:34:41.360
talk and uh you go on wechat and and then the people you know it's like anyone involved in politics
00:34:46.880
and anyone you know who's chinese those are the two the two groups that i saw on there and then so
00:34:51.280
i got on it and i kept in touch with people because i had a lot of volunteers from the chinese community
00:34:55.920
and then you afterwards i was reading up about it on man i want to get this thing off my phone
00:35:00.320
because like any other chinese company uh it is essentially not offering any protection at all
00:35:06.960
against state seizure of its information by china now whether they were interested in my you know
00:35:12.000
canvassing schedule i have no idea but they they would have had access to that the chinese government
00:35:17.040
would have so i i think there is an argument to be made but we would have to expand this far
00:35:22.480
beyond tick tock and i i think that the the problem i have here is that uh if we allow
00:35:28.400
and normalize this type of power it's the same type of stuff that gets parlor taken offline that
00:35:35.200
would get uh whatever uh we can't say that we can't say the my pillow guy's name because we get a youtube
00:35:39.680
strike but you know that would get the my pillow guy's social media app off or trump's social media
00:35:44.160
app like like that's the problem is that i i don't want this this precedent to be weaponized when it
00:35:49.840
has nothing to do with china harrison what are your thoughts yeah i i have no time for tick tock
00:35:55.840
or the ccp and think that anything that combines the two i view as as a dangerous as a dangerous app or
00:36:02.480
a dangerous tool i don't want anything to do with it but that being said i think that uh i'm quite
00:36:09.200
skeptical of these of these pieces of legislation like this that are unanimously supported by both the
00:36:15.760
democrats and the republicans in the us that are going to uh significantly impact the social media
00:36:21.520
space i see that as a red flag myself um i i'm i'm curious as to what we don't know about the bill
00:36:28.160
that is in the legislation i think that there's a lot of talk that you're starting to see more about
00:36:32.880
what this really could be motivated about and what this what this is all about because you wonder
00:36:37.840
like it's not it's not as though bite dance the tick tock parent company has all of a sudden just now
00:36:42.960
started to you know engage themselves in the app they've been doing this since the very beginning
00:36:47.280
um and tick tock has is has got itself all the way into the american uh cultural system so why now
00:36:54.960
and and what is really behind this legislation what what is it about this bill that we don't see that i
00:37:00.160
don't know but i'm just very skeptical about this stuff especially when it gets such heavy bipartisan
00:37:05.280
support i'm starting to i'm starting to have see some red flags waving about this but
00:37:09.680
we'll see that being said i i don't care about tick tock or the ccp or bite dance i think i think
00:37:14.480
they should all be banned but i don't know what this is really all about yeah i mean i like the
00:37:19.200
heavy skepticism towards uh you know huge use of state power but at the same time it's like
00:37:24.160
you know tick tock is not a good faith actor it's like tick tock in china is like teaching kids math and
00:37:28.960
tick tock in the united states and canada is like teaching kids how to like mutilate their bodies and
00:37:32.960
transition and and just pushing like the worst kinds of social contagions and you know it's interesting
00:37:38.560
because if you look back at like the history of media companies in the united states like uh
00:37:43.040
rupert murdoch i think they made him become an american citizen he was an australian uh because
00:37:46.880
he wanted to buy a newspaper and even just owning a newspaper is like well you have to be subject to
00:37:51.440
the american jurisdictions and and here we have you know these huge platforms that are they're far more
00:37:57.120
influential than any newspaper has ever been or will ever be and they're allowed to be run by you know
00:38:02.480
some sketchy firm on offshore uh you know on behalf of potentially nefarious adversaries i i don't i don't
00:38:11.200
i don't like that so i'm okay with with it being banned but i i appreciate the libertarian uh streak
00:38:17.120
on on this issue for both of you all right let's uh let's move on to a sort of a lighter funnier topic
00:38:21.760
i i just thought this is hilarious i love the internet and uh the fact checks on x have become delightful
00:38:28.000
the community notes so we had the mayor of new york uh you know i just a bit of background you
00:38:32.880
know there's a huge civil war happening in in haiti haiti is a god-awful country has been for a very
00:38:36.720
very long time and you know obviously our sympathies and and hopes that hopes and prayers that that
00:38:42.880
things turn around and that people are safe and okay over there but the country is is dealing with
00:38:46.720
a civil war and pretty much anarchy gang violence uh run amok the mayor of new york made an interesting
00:38:53.600
statement on social media uh so we can put that up on the screen he says we we call new york city the
00:38:59.200
port of prince of america we feel the pain of our haitian neighbors uh i feel as the situation goes dark
00:39:04.480
uh fellas has anyone ever heard new york city be called the port of prince of america that was like
00:39:09.680
the strangest phenomenon like you're the mayor of the greatest city in the world you know no but they
00:39:14.240
call it that he said himself they call it that so who am i to to point out my ignorance on this
00:39:19.200
as being relevant that i just haven't happened to have heard this widespread nickname i've never
00:39:24.400
i've never heard anything of the kind i i don't know i don't understand where this is coming from
00:39:28.800
i i've never heard a single person ever call it that am i am i alone in that unless they really
00:39:33.600
hate new york and it's like yeah this is like this this city is the worst it's basically port of
00:39:38.160
prince but in the united states i mean i i mean maybe erica doesn't understand what's going on here
00:39:44.160
and thought that oh that sounds great we we actually want to be like haiti we want to be more like
00:39:48.720
like like the haiti city uh it's just absurd but it's kind of it's kind of it is funny at least
00:39:55.200
well right like lawlessness uh okay sorry andrew what were you trying to say i couldn't i couldn't
00:39:59.600
make out what you know eric adams said that we call it that so it people must call it that well so
00:40:06.800
this is the funny part so the community notes jump in and slap this community note on the on the tweet
00:40:13.520
not one person has ever said this before eric adams and so someone did a a google search
00:40:21.200
of you know um new york city being the port of prince of america and then just like removed eric
00:40:26.240
adams as a reference to find out if there's like any history of anyone ever seeing it online and there
00:40:31.040
was nothing so i was like when uh when pot was legalized in canada the new york times canadian
00:40:37.760
correspondent catherine porter had written in an article that people are calling it c-day for
00:40:42.880
cannabis and it was like no one had ever said it outside of that article i i love that there's
00:40:49.680
like google analytics you can actually check you can fact check these things yeah um but just a
00:40:54.160
strange a strange moment uh from the mayor of new york city and then the internet came to the rescue
00:40:58.880
to make it a hilarious story so i appreciated that uh another good news story to end the episode on so
00:41:04.720
you might recall uh earlier this football season andrew i know you're a huge huge sports fan and
00:41:09.200
football fan um so you know you can you can provide some sports insights on this story but
00:41:14.240
uh young young man uh at the kansas city chiefs game uh was wearing a kansas city chiefs sort of
00:41:20.640
outfit uniform here you can you can see he's very festive and he's wearing the native american headdress
00:41:26.000
he's got uh face paint on his face red and black for the team which i'm told is a fairly uh you know
00:41:31.920
popular thing to do uh you know we've always seen people wear face paint at sports games that's just
00:41:36.880
a thing that they do well that's been which is a sports um online publication uh they decided to
00:41:44.240
take a run at this child and here was a headline that they ran saying the nfl needs to speak out
00:41:49.760
against the kansas city chiefs fan in blackface and a native headdress so they pretended that he was in
00:41:55.040
blackface only showing half of his face even though from the full clip we can obviously see that he
00:41:59.360
wasn't in blackface he was just wearing face paint red and black uh the native american headdress it
00:42:03.920
was very clear in those videos that his mom was uploading that he is native american and that he
00:42:08.640
was part of a tribe and the reason that he had that headdress is because of one of his ancestors who
00:42:12.960
was who was the head of the tribe so anyway the the dead spin sports reporting uh took aim at this child
00:42:19.760
a nine-year-old boy tried to write a hit piece on him led to endless harassment uh anyway the story goes
00:42:25.040
on because the family of that boy decided to launch a massive lawsuit against deadspin and we've just
00:42:32.160
learned that deadspin has basically effectively just shut down they've laid off their entire new
00:42:37.440
stuff everyone has been fired uh they were bought up by a european startup and the new european
00:42:42.560
company just basically fired everybody so uh this is what happens to bad journalism uh i i think you
00:42:48.240
know i don't i don't want to celebrate uh people losing their job but at the same time it's like when you
00:42:53.200
run journalism like this it's completely race-based completely designed to demonize and you know
00:42:58.960
destroy the life of a nine-year-old for no reason uh just to stir up controversy to make it seem like
00:43:03.520
all americans are racist or whatever the point of that story was uh bad things will happen so this is
00:43:08.240
a little bit of karmic justice yeah harrison what do you think well first of all i i don't think it's
00:43:13.600
journalism right i think that this is just pure uh pure you know rage whatever you want to call it
00:43:20.080
it hating uh you know trying to feed the machine trying to just manipulate algorithms and get a
00:43:25.600
bunch of clicks like you're revering far away from journalism when we're talking about this story here
00:43:30.240
um but these journalists if we can call them that these bloggers yeah they're bloodthirsty right they
00:43:35.280
see something and they want to basically ruin the life of even a kid enjoying a game and they know for
00:43:41.280
a fact that they're that he's actually not wearing blackface but they don't care they're going for blood
00:43:45.760
they want to ruin his life they want to ruin his his mother's life and the reality is i think you
00:43:50.240
know what goes around comes around this is this is this is karma for you they're going to have to re
00:43:54.880
they're going to have to deal with the consequences of whatever this is because i don't even want to
00:43:58.800
call it journalism andrew what are your thoughts yeah i dig i mean you are right about the goes around
00:44:05.440
comes around aspect i mean if digging into the archives again which i realize i've done now twice in
00:44:10.240
this show there they're five years ago i don't know if you guys remember it there was this uh
00:44:13.680
controversy in iowa where a guy at a sporting event had held up a sign uh asking bush to uh give him
00:44:21.040
money to buy more beer uh bush the beer company not george bush and uh then you know he so it became
00:44:26.480
this viral sensation and then the des moines register in iowa ran this like hit piece on him because he
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had written something you know rude on twitter when he was a teenager this guy so this feel good viral
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story ends up becoming it but then people dig into the reporter and find that the reporter who wrote
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the story had also said naughty things online and then he got fired and it's like no one wins when
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we do this so in this particular case the uh kid that was guilty of being a sports fan and nothing
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else comes out on top and the hack reporter has no outlet so again i i don't celebrate people losing
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their jobs in terms of the shutdown but i think that one individual person who lost their job was
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probably warranted if nothing else just because they were bad at looking at the left side of someone's
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face when they want to write a story about what's on their face well it's just like basic journalism
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and journalistic integrity it's like you know you're writing a story you have a screenshot that
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shows half of his face you must have watched those videos you must have known as a journalist that he
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didn't he wasn't wearing blackface he was wearing half half and half and it was like they just didn't
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care editors didn't care whoever looked over the story whoever signed it like i i think that the fault
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is is broader than just the one journalist and and i think that obviously it showed the raw that this
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this entire outlet was just not worth saving because what what they were what they're engaging
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in was just so you know bottom of the barrel mud throwing that that you know no no one no one deserves
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a job when when you're running an outlet like that harrison i'll give you the final word on this one
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yeah well it's all part of the the effort to try to erase these names right from sports teams they
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want to try to erase the kansas city chiefs like they erased the cleveland indians baseball team
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like they erased the washington redskins none of these names were racist when they were the names
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none of them are racist now they're actually celebrating that part of american history and
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that warrior aspect of the people but of course this is all an effort to try and make the kansas
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city chiefs and their fans look racist including a kid uh you know they won't stop until they eventually
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succeed and what and what their plan is which to erase these important cultural uh symbols of the united
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states and no matter what we say about it these football teams are cultural symbols of the u.s
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and so is the can so are the kansas city chiefs so that's what they're going for they want to try
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and you know they have them in their targets uh they're going to try to take them out and they're
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not going to stop this is just i don't think the reality is i don't think anyone is going to learn
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from this right there's going to be some dead spin you know knock off blog then the next person is
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going to write a similar article next year and the same cycle is going to keep happening because they
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don't actually they can't see what's going on they're they're solely focused on trying to take
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out these teams trying to paint half the country as racist and this is the this is the uh these are
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the consequences yeah it's like the epitome of the two things that uh the left hates the most right it's
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like masculinity and and the celebration of masculine strength uh and then second patriotism and and and
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the celebration of community and and america so i think you're totally right with that one harrison
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all right everybody let's uh call it a day let's have a great weekend everybody thank you so much for
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tuning in to off the record i don't remember everything you just heard was in fact off the
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record i exhausted all of my sports knowledge in that uh yeah including including calling goals and
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soccer points which i i was going to make a point about but i didn't want to interrupt the flow of
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the conversation yeah wait wait goal you can't call goals points no no they're not because there's no
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they aren't points they're just goals that's just that's just how you get a goal does your score go
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up by one point but it's one goal it's a point well we'll have to have this conversation we'll have
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we'll have to have this debate at a later date so you guys can debate about sports i i really wanted
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to talk about princess kate kate melton and how she disappeared uh but i i didn't i didn't think you
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fellows would want to talk oh i would have i would have taken that over the uh the sports one no i i'm
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i'm all in on the princess of wales drama okay what's your what's your what's your take what's
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your oh no i just i i'm fascinated by but the problem is you can't talk about the story without
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talking about that like alec i don't think we can use the word uh pegging on our show but like the
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weird like really kinky affair allegations which i think are relevant to it and now we're getting
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reported on see i haven't read that deep into the story here so this is like this is everyone's
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talking about it like you go i go to school kids and like all the moms are like what's happening
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with kate middleton is she alive she dead vaccine injured like murdered by prince william it's like
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it's like that part that part i was aware of but not what andrew just said i was not aware
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yeah so there have been years there have been these affair allegations and they got like and and
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the british tabloids will just not report on them at all um and and like one of them was that like
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marchioness of chumlee
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and now uh this is like the theory is that kate has left william and the palace is in like a free
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fall over it wait they actually printed those those alligators no the british media didn't
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but uh spanish media did oh my goodness and now even like uh american outlets are starting to like
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reference them everyone but britain but it's like when when there was a big like scandal with elton john
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and his husband everyone but the british media reported on it well i guess we'll have to tune
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in next week on off the record as the uh the content really gets gets a little strange as long
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as long as i get to say the marchioness of chumlee on the show i'm happy
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