Trudeau gives MORE money to CBC
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Noah Jarvis joins us on the Off The Record to talk about the federal government's $42 million in additional funding for the CBC. Plus, a new segment called Off the Record, where we take a look back at the week that was.
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I feel like I'm outnumbered as a non-sports person.
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Well, when we get to that story in the show, Andrew, we'll just have you, maybe we'll just
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have Sean kind of make it a two, a two shot and you'll just slide out a frame.
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And then when it comes back into, uh, I was outvoted.
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This was supposed to be my show when we envisioned it.
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I, this became way too democratic for my liking.
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Well, Andrew, there's some statistics in the story.
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You can go to me as like the sad, lonely stats guy in the corner.
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Like, uh, you know, John King on CNN with his little, like, you know, magic board or whatever.
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We try to think back, take a bit of a less serious look at the week that was, and we
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We have, uh, my friend and colleague, Harrison Faulkner, host of ratioed and the Faulkner
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show and joining us for the first time, Noah Jarvis, a true North journalist.
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You also hear from time to time on daily brief that you don't see him there.
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Well, it was about as much as I expected the budget to be.
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And, uh, you know, like all my, all that I ended up hearing on Twitter and seeing on
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Twitter were, you know, all this talk about the, uh, capital gains tax taxes rising.
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One of our colleagues, uh, who I won't, uh, it wasn't one of the ones on the call.
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People could figure out was like, ah, the budget's boring.
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So we have to care about it for the sake of, uh, for the sake of one day.
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But, uh, I think you're the young, well, you're certainly younger than me.
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No, I like, I, I don't think budget was like the galvanizing issue among your circle of
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No, my friend's circle from high school wasn't, you know, just, uh, grasping for the budget.
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But I would say that, you know, at least in my circles, a lot, I got a lot more attention
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And, uh, uh, people were just generally disappointed, you know, taxes going up, uh, more government
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What we're making you care about one page here because it is a page that says the federal
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government is going to give $42 million to CBC.
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Now you may think, oh, well, 42 million, you know, CBC, they get 1.4 billion.
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That's 42 million additional dollars, 42 million additional.
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They're still getting their $1.4 billion subsidy.
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This is like a third of a page in the budget, page 236 under the chapter of safer, healthier
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I don't know how this is contributing to a safer, healthier community, but nevertheless,
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investing in CBC is to give us, uh, Canadian, sure Canadians across the country, including
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rural, remote, indigenous, and minority language communities have access to high quality, independent
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Now, I think the real breaking news story here is that CBC is offering high quality journalism
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I was setting one of you up for something there.
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I'm looking for CBC, you know, television shows, some of those really great shows, uh,
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that, that, you know, I, I think probably amount to about $42 million.
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I can't think of better ways to service rural Canadian communities in the French Canadian
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communities by, you know, more shows like 22 minutes, more shows like Schitt's Creek.
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Actually, no, that show was actually like maybe one of their better ones.
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Uh, all the ones that they did, they had that show Lido TV.
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If you recall talking tomatoes, the one, the lecture, yeah, it was the tomato, the lecture
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Send that to the rural community, send that to the farther, the far North and give them
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That's probably enough for another season or two, Andrew.
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Well, yeah, you can get like a full, uh, jaws style animatronic tomato now, instead of,
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We'll do like Avatar three will just be like a big, uh, C CGI tomato that, uh, James Cameron
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And again, like they try to say that they're going to be the ones that stand up for these
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forgotten pockets of Canada, the North indigenous communities, people that speak French.
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Olympics and the Oscars and all of these really popular things.
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So it's not even like no other really focusing on that underserved market that they claim
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No, they're not focused on the underserved market.
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It seems like half the time you flip on CBC, they're talking about the American election
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or Donald Trump or whatever, you know, he said on Twitter, Trump social or truth social,
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Uh, you know, so they're not focused on, you know, real Canadian stories.
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Uh, and when they are focused on Canadian stories, it's, uh, stuff that the top 10% Laurentian
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elite, uh, would care about, you know, talking about the, why drag queen story hours, uh, need
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And, you know, why, uh, this, uh, particular LGBTQ, uh, black woman is facing intersectional
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discrimination or whatever, and how we can combat that, you know, uh, radio kind of that
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They've been, they did an investigation going into, uh, what, uh, what happens when, uh, people
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go through the gender transition process, but, you know, English CBC, they have no sort of,
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uh, backbone to really, uh, talk about those types of stories.
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So when, uh, politicians talk about, you know, defunding the CBC and, you know, maybe keeping
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around Radio Canada, I think, well, that might be for the better.
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Yeah, I did this bit a few weeks ago and I'm going to repeat the same bit where, uh, we
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were talking about CBC on this show and I just went to the CBC first person page, which
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is this, uh, particular series CBC does where they have like a first person essay about something.
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And these are always like the most absurd, like wokey, weird things.
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I chase eclipses to witness nature's awesome glory.
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This is a story from a CBC radio host who apparently just loves following eclipses.
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Ramadan leaves me feeling hungry, tired, and a bit giddy.
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This is like, see, I should actually get ChatGBT to like give me a CBC first person article.
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But no, these are, uh, from the first person website.
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I solo hiked from Mexico to Canada for my inner journey.
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Uh, farming in extreme heat showed me climate change is real.
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I don't know how many more of these that buys us, but probably too many.
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You remember, uh, the CBC executives got $14.9 million in bonuses paid out at last year.
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So if this is any indication, perhaps bonuses are going to go up for the CBC executives.
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They've already recovered all that, uh, all that pay for their bonuses.
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Now, I, I forgot to mention a few other shows here, which I think, you know, this, this, uh,
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this money can go towards perhaps a new season for, uh, what's it called Murdoch Mysteries.
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Um, how about Baroness one sketch show five seasons?
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It looks like it just, I just recently did one.
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I, I don't know if we can play it, but they did a really good sketch.
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A really good, like bit, uh, a couple of years back on land acknowledgements that I actually
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But again, like even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while.
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I, yeah, I, I try to remember the last one I watched again, like Schitt's Creek is good,
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but I'm also convinced that Schitt's Creek would have been produced and funded by a private,
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And how many like bad ones do you have to suffer to get that?
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I went to elementary school with the star of Heartland.
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I mean, so I was happy for her, but, uh, it would probably pain me to know how much,
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uh, in, you know, and it's, but by the way, it's on both ends because CBC gets funding for
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this, but all of these like Canadian productions are also getting like huge, uh, tax credits from
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So we're, we're getting hosed left, right, and center.
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We also have the, the money losing news division.
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So I, I know I, I, I'm using you as like the token young in here, Noah, but again, like
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is CBC at all culturally relevant to anyone in your life?
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No, the litany of shows, you guys just listed off.
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And I would assume that, uh, they're even less familiar to my friend group.
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And I just say like, you know, people at my age, you know, they're on Tik TOK, you
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know, they get their, you know, long form video content from YouTube.
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You know, they're less, uh, watching, you know, traditional TV shows and, uh, that
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So the CBC has, is just becoming a more and more obsolete institution, uh, as you
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Uh, and it's especially, uh, you know, obsolete for my generation who, you know, isn't
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You know, they're not necessarily reading the news like you and I.
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Um, but you know, if they do choose to read the news, it's on six buzz or, you know,
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some of these, uh, social media accounts, not, uh, necessarily the CBC.
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So, you know, the CBC's audience is getting older and older and perhaps that means the
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political will to get rid of the institution will get, uh, better as the time goes on.
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Or they're just going to use the, uh, the 42 million to get like Peter Mansbridge TikToks
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or something, which is, uh, just what, just what Canada needs.
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You know, if the CBC, they wanted to, no, I was going to say, if the CBC, they wanted
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to, uh, you know, produce a show that Canadians would watch, they should make, you know, a
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spinoff of Breaking Bad, but instead of Albuquerque, it's in Vancouver, you know, it's kind of like
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It's a, you can even say it was based on a true story.
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If they made a spinoff, it would involve some, you know, paraplegic.
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And so I would take all the different diversity boxes, you'd be like Breaking Bad, but it would
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be like, uh, some sort of a blind, uh, diverse, uh, paraplegic involved in the, in the drug
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Just be like, I believe that's actually a documentary in Vancouver.
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Uh, there's no natural segue from that to our, our next topic.
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This was one, uh, well, we talked about it earlier on my show this week, uh, but you,
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you flagged it here, Noah, and it seems to be actually getting some steam online, this
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So, uh, basically what happened was, uh, the governor general, she hosted a big ball.
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I call it the online harms ball, uh, where she basically invited a ball.
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Uh, but basically they invited a bunch of pro, uh, you know, censorship pro online harms
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legislation people, uh, to the governor general's mansion, uh, you know, the justification
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for this is that the governor general can promote, uh, certain causes that, uh, he or she wants
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Uh, it is very contentious legislation that was just, uh, tabled by a very unpopular Trudeau
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And, uh, I believe polls would also show that this, uh, legislation is quite, uh, divisive,
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So she invited, uh, a governor or not governor general, the attorney general, uh, a reeferani
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She invited the likes of Billy Capital Mirth, uh, the notorious Ottawa, uh, school board
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She also invited, uh, Rachel Gilmore, the greatest, the best and brightest in Canadian
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Uh, and she invited a bunch of other, uh, just pro censorship, pro online harms, uh, people
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to this, uh, to the governor general's mansion, which compromises the integrity, uh, of the
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governor general's office and the impartiality, uh, that that office is supposed to hold a hold.
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I didn't know that this was the 1840s where the governor general is, you know, actively
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involved in politics and, you know, the day-to-day workings of a Canadian society.
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But it seems like we are regressing quite a bit under the Trudeau government.
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We have to be very careful when we're talking about these, uh, these journalists and these
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activists who are at the, uh, at this governor general's event.
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So any mention of their names whatsoever might trigger a, uh, some sort of, uh, awful response
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I mean, I'm not really that surprised to see it.
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I think that everybody knows the liberals seem to not have as much respect for these
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institutions, um, that you would see perhaps in the previous conservative government and
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view it more as some sort of vessel for, you know, vessel to advance their political
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So to see, uh, the governor general, Mary Simon, get involved in essentially promoting
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a piece of legislation, which, uh, is, is roundly thought of in this country as being
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In fact, the people who are now supposed to, uh, you know, execute the legislation to think
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of a, you know, not, not to have the best word for it, but that's really what it is.
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Uh, the human rights tribunal, I've spoken to a member, a former commissioner of the human
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rights tribunal who said that this, this legislation was dangerous.
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Um, so again, I'm not that surprised to see, uh, Mary Simon get involved in this way, but
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I would appreciate it if the, the federal government took the role of the governor general
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more serious and put someone in there who respected the institution as much as it deserves
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Yeah, I, I think you're by far like the most, uh, you, you've got like the hair trigger sensitivity
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I think as far as our team is concerned, you're like the, the most, uh, stalwart defender of
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I'm, I'm kind of of the mind that like, it was better when Britain sent us a governor general
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because at least they were the crown's representative in Canada truly, instead of this like Canadian
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who's been picked for all of these political reasons and really isn't interested in holding
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I mean, you look at Mary Simon, uh, she is, uh, clearly taking a political role when she's
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Her predecessor had zero interest in, in all of the responsibilities of the governor general,
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I mean, here's a guy, he had a relatively uncontroversial team as governor general, but just completely
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became a partisan political sellout afterwards.
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So we've not exactly had a good run lately in this role.
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So I'm not all that surprised, but, but it actually, it undermines the institution itself.
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I'm of the belief that they should just put a member of the Royal family into the position
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No, I'm thinking, I'm thinking the Duke of Edinburgh.
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I think Prince Edward would do a great job as governor general.
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Well, I think you bring up a good point, Harrison, where like the current system we
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have right now is like this weird halfway house between the old system where the British
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would appoint our governor general and, you know, other democracies where, you know, they
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have a figurehead president that is elected, uh, but they don't do anything.
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You know, it's really just the prime minister, uh, that, you know, is the head of government.
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So I think that, yeah, there could be, you know, some, something to glean from this story
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that, uh, perhaps we just have this weird role for the governor general, uh, and it
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But, uh, it seems like Mary Simon, our current governor general, uh, likes to, you know, spend
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lavishly and, you know, get involved in political affairs.
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And she doesn't particularly take the job seriously.
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It really calls into question the type of people that the Trudeau government is appointing
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Uh, we had Julie Payette who, uh, it had to resign in shame because, uh, she was, you
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know, harassing her staff and, uh, overspending.
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And it seems like, uh, we got someone who, uh, wants to get involved in political affairs
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and eat caviar on the, uh, jet, uh, Canadian jet or whatever.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like let, you know, we can, there are jokes that we can make
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about it, but also the role is very serious because we can get it.
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We can find ourselves in a situation where an election results in a very close, uh, in
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a very close, uh, you know, makeup of parliament and a minority government situation will perhaps
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result in, in the governor general having a major decision on their hands.
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Uh, we've seen this happen before in our country and it's not like it can't happen again.
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It's a, it's a serious role and you really want to have someone who is guaranteed to
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I think we've kind of gone further away from that.
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David Johnson has shown himself, uh, in his post governor general life to not be that,
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to not be that case and not be that way in the ski buddy of Trudeau's and is a part of
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But I don't think many people thought of David Johnston as a, as a particularly partisan governor
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We, you want to have faith in this institution because there are times when it can be
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very consequential and the governor general can decide whether or not to, uh, dissolve
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parliament can decide whether or not to force an election.
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Uh, there, there are times when this becomes really important.
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And so I think it's time that this institution is taken more seriously.
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Because when you have an incompetent, a competent governor general, things could go awry.
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If you guys, uh, recall, I don't know if you're, uh, still alive in the 1920s, Andrew,
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but, uh, you know, back then, uh, there was this thing called the King.
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I remember when I was always the young one, by the way.
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And then there was a flip that's a switch that flipped and I became the old one, but
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Well, uh, but back in the 1920s, uh, there was an affair where the prime minister, William
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Lyon, Mackenzie King, uh, he asked the governor general to, uh, dissolve parliament and to
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Uh, however, the governor general, he, uh, did not.
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He appointed, uh, the opposition leader who was, uh, I believe, uh, it was a conservative.
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Um, and then, uh, he basically could not manage parliament.
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Uh, the, the government, um, was dissolved and an election was called William Lyon.
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So you can see like the sort of political crisis that can happen where you have a, a poor governor
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And also, uh, maybe this would happen, this happened in your lifetime, Andrew.
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But in 2008, uh, when prime minister Harper asked, uh, the governor general to dissolve
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parliament, call for an election, uh, it took her hours just to even take the meeting, uh,
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She left Harper out in the hallway for hours on end, uh, consulting with her advisors, trying
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to perhaps maybe even undermine the prime minister.
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Um, so it, you know, it really is important that.
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And, uh, it is something that our current governor general, Mary Simon, doesn't take
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Quick Noah, since you brought it up, you have to give me the governor general's name in the
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The prize is, uh, well, it's nothing, but well done.
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Well, now that we got that history lesson out of the way, let's jump back to, uh, current
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Well, this is very interesting and hardly surprising.
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I'm afraid to say it turns out that in the military, uh, just a few weeks ago, actually,
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a, uh, the first transgender chaplain was being celebrated and honored by the Canadian military
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Just a few weeks ago, she was all, she, he was all over Twitter, celebrated as this great,
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you know, uh, you know, visionary figure in the military.
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Well, look at this story we've just published as an exclusive in True North.
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This person has just been suspended over an alleged sexual groping comment.
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D. This incident stems from an inappropriate comment to request to another individual.
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Either member was in a position with pretty or the other.
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Gale received a relatively minor service infraction on April 3rd.
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Uh, Gale was also found to have violated the Queen's regulations and orders, which
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The reason the story is interesting, however, is because there seems to be two standards in
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As you all will well be aware, the military has gone through several high-profile sexual
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misconduct allegation stories involving some very senior officers in the military, all
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the way up to the role of, uh, chief of the defense staff.
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Uh, there was one, uh, uh, uh, first of all, True North reached out to Gale for comment,
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And when True North reached out to a military lawyer who represents other, uh, members who
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have been in, who are being accused of, uh, of all number of things, uh, this lawyer pointed
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He says, if a male officer behaved in a similar manner toward a subordinate female, the situation
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will be dealt with differently and the offender's name will be leaked to the press.
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Unfortunately, there's a lack of equality in how the Canadian armed forces handle such
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I just find it to be one of those, one of those classic Canadian armed forces, 2024 stories.
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So I think there are a couple of problems here.
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I mean, look, anyone is, anyone is, has it in them to commit an act of wrong in the military,
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transgender or otherwise they have disciplinary systems in place to deal with those.
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I think the fact that this person was a chaplain makes it particularly more egregious because
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a chaplain is someone who's there to deal with people in terms of their spiritual health
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I mean, it puts them, uh, look, working with people who are in a very vulnerable place.
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I think the problem you have here is when the military bends over backwards to look woke
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And you know that that tends to come at a cost.
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I mean, Noah, you and I have talked about this in other contexts where DEI policies are
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advanced and, and everyone says it's not anti-merit, but a lot of the times it is because people
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So when you have the military saying, oh, this is our, our hero of, of inclusivity or
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hero of this, then they turn around and okay, well, this is a person who is, uh, by the
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military's own processes, uh, committing, uh, an infraction of service, which again, from, uh,
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Cosman's reporting, it, it, uh, sounds like it was a request to grope side of, I mean,
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look, maybe great that they're requesting instead of just doing, but like at the end
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of the day, there's a, an inappropriateness here from a chaplain.
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And again, how does this still get treated as though someone is being this icon of inclusivity?
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And you see this in the U S there's that Admiral Levine that is trotted out there.
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And I, I think the, the military has to start focusing on being a good, respectable military
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and not being the most inclusive, diverse, uh, woke armed forces in the world.
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And, you know, it really undermines the cohesiveness of the military.
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I mean, the military has already been going, uh, through some problems when it comes to military
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Um, we have, you know, uh, people or we have the, the government imposing, uh, the military
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to put, you know, tampons in the mail bathroom.
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Uh, we have, you know, drag queen, uh, story hour or, or drag queen shows happening on military
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bases and just, you know, poor recruitment numbers.
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Uh, you know, it just all points to, uh, you know, discohesion, uh, within the military.
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And, uh, this sorts of sort of thing doesn't help.
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There's a couple more important details about this story that I want to address because it
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goes, it kind of goes more into detail of this double standard here when it comes to prosecuting
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So, uh, Cosman tried to get some more details here from the, uh, from the Canadian Armed Forces.
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And basically, this is, this is how it, this is how it went.
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The Liberals introduced a bill to strip the military of its ability to investigate and
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That means it has to go to a, an actual court outside of the military court.
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This allegation, however, is being prosecuted inside the military.
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The CAF has decided to withhold the records of Gale's summary hearing, citing privacy grounds.
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However, according to military rules, a summary hearing is to be held in public, except if
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the conducting officer believes information affecting a person's privacy or security interest,
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or if that interest outweighs the public's interest in the information would be disclosed.
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There, there, there's two things happening, which are not happening.
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They're not releasing the public, uh, some hearing, uh, of what happened to this, this
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individual and what this individual allegedly did.
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And they're prosecuting it within the military.
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I think, I think the point should be made that this would not be the case had it been
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Had it been a member who basically fits into the, the, the rank and file troops, they would
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I just find it ironic that a week before this story comes out, or maybe a few weeks before
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the story comes out, they were trotting out this transgender chaplain as a symbol of what
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the military can be and how great the military is.
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Uh, you guys sent me something about, uh, a basketball, which I had trouble following.
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So I just didn't bother with it, but whoever wants to talk about that, go ahead.
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This is the part where, uh, where the, the gen, uh, the gen Zed take or begins, I guess
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And this is always going to, this is always bound to happen.
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There was always going to be an athlete that was going to get caught up in this mess.
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And it just so happened to be a relatively unknown Toronto Raptors player to be the first
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big name, I think, to fall, uh, under what I think is going to be several eventually.
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Now this guy, John Tate Porter, uh, you probably don't know about him because not many people
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Now he was on, um, I, these, these, this information is important.
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That's a lot, of course, but compared to basketball standards, that's at the bottom of the league.
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This guy has just been banned for life from the NBA for essentially betting against himself
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involved in some sort of group or other people were also involved in betting against himself
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and producing those kinds of performances on the court, essentially facing his own performances
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to make sure people, people could cash out in the millions.
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So for my research here, Noah, basically what happened was one of these sports books noticed
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that the biggest winner on two separate occasions was the Dante Porter under figures.
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People were betting under this guy's, uh, you know, rebounds points.
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People were betting underneath what, what the, um, what was going to be expected.
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And then they were the biggest winners of the night.
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Millions of dollars on this one random player that nobody heard of.
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People were, were cashing out big time on this.
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Why, how did they think they could get away with this nonsense?
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You know, as a Raptors fan, the, the, this really strikes deep at my core.
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It's a shame that this happened to, you know, one of our players, uh, and it's not like this
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guy had been around for a very long, but, uh, I think it's a, it's a good thing that the,
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you know, the NBA, they're cracking down hard on this.
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They gave him a lifetime ban to sort of disinvent us and disincentivize other people from doing
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But, um, yeah, like if this happened to like, you know, an all-star level player, you know,
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this would be a really, uh, terrible thing for the league.
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Um, and it would just, you know, put the, uh, the league in a, uh, in a sort of situation
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where, uh, they have to either, you know, ban the guy and perhaps, you know, sacrifice
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profit, uh, or they would keep him around and sacrifice their integrity.
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Uh, but you know, the fact that this happened to a player on the Raptors is terrible.
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Uh, I don't know if you guys have been watching the Raptors, uh, this season it's, it's over
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Uh, but the, you know, the Raptors, they brought in like a bunch of random players that you've
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I care about true North to gift Andrew a Raptors, Freeman Liberty Jersey, and you can
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I'd have been a color behind your shot there, Andrew.
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And his middle name is, uh, I don't know if I find a good middle in justice, you know,
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But when you, when you bring my, my one question on this, aren't these guys paid enough that
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the payoff of this is relatively low that you make more money by being good than by, you
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Or am I just, here's what I found out about this.
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I didn't know about this, but this guy, this guy was making like basically league minimum.
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You shouldn't be involved in a major multimillion dollar gambling scandal, but this guy's brother
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Maybe there's a little bit of like nothing to lose.
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And you know, he probably only has three years left in the NBA in his career.
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So somebody went to this guy probably and said, listen, we're going to, we're going to
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You, if you throw your performances, you don't get like four rebounds in this game.
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We'll set you up for life and no one will notice, but they're so stupid.
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They probably could have got away with it if they weren't so, if they weren't so greedy
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So he didn't, he didn't get, uh, he didn't get as many field goals as he was supposed to.
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There's a video of this guy shooting the three pointer.
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And like egging it off the backboard and he's not happy at all.
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Like he obviously tried to miss by like throwing it off the backboard, but it just like went
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Uh, I dropped something mysteriously that I hope wasn't, uh, breakable anyway.
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This is a fun one to let, I mean, it's, it's a sad one, but it's a fun one.
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And as someone who had a, uh, a grandmother with a great sense of humor, who's now passed
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away, sadly, I, I feel this lady has a bit of a sense of humor as well.
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This, uh, one video went viral of a, uh, dying woman finding the silver lining in her
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Well, folks, the doctors told me that I'm on my way out, meaning I'm dying.
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I'm so damn happy that I'll finally get Justin Trudeau out of my life.
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The granddaughter's username is furyatthewall on TikTok.
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And then I, I, I don't use TikTok on account of, you know, like the Chinese stuff, but, uh,
00:32:17.920
like the, the Chinese government's oversight of it.
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But, uh, every now and then I'll see a video and I, I don't log in or anything.
00:32:23.320
Uh, but I, I went to this person's TikTok and they had posted another video from this
00:32:28.300
woman in which she also had some, uh, well, why don't I just, you know, let granny describe
00:32:44.240
He gives me the, the word starts with S and ends with T.
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You should go to the hospital and have a, a gallon of shits proof stuff stuck up his
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By the way, really convincing censoring job there, Sean.
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I had no idea what word was being uttered there at all.
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It's like, you take out like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a syllable.
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But, uh, uh, anyway, we got to keep our, uh, clean tag on Apple podcast.
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This is not the video you want to become, you want to have when you're a prime minister.
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I'm afraid it's the kind of thing you really want to be able to avoid having, you know,
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dying old ladies wishing that just being thanked.
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Oh, just horrendous for, uh, uh, this role that here seems major, but also my, is that
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at this and is with us and that she can last Dustin Trudeau's time as prime minister.
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I want her to see a light before it, before she leaves this, uh, leaves this earth, leaves
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I have to imagine it may be a while, but maybe if a liberal, uh, senior liberal cabinet
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minister is watching and is motivated by this to see, to, to give her one last look at
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the light of Canada without Justin Trudeau before she passes, hopefully she's still with
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What do you think, Noah, do you buy granny's story there that Justin Trudeau gives her the
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Uh, yeah, I mean, I mean, she, he gives me the bleep, so, you know, I kind of, you know,
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feel that her pain, uh, but you know, kudos to this lady, uh, that, you know, she's able
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to turn lemon to lemonade because, uh, you know, she's, you know, on her deathbed, she
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could be all depressed about it, like, oh, you know, I'll have these regrets or whatever.
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Uh, but you know, she's like, you know, there's a positive to this.
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I don't have to deal with Justin Trudeau's bleeps anymore.
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So it's, uh, I could, kudos to her, you know, she, she can demonstrate how to, you know,
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You could take a good message out of this, you know, it doesn't have to be, you know, all
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You're, you're a regular Tony Robbins there, Noah, with your, uh, your insights on, on the
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Well, uh, if you are, if you are listening, we stand with you.
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Harrison's hoping you can hold out until, uh, 2024, but you know what?
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I, I good to have a sense of humor about the world.
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If you're not, uh, if you're not laughing, you're crying.
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And there's been plenty of reason to do that as well.
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My thanks to Harrison and Noah for coming on and remember everything you've heard is
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I really want to try to get this grandma on my show.
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I have no idea, but I think, uh, yeah, I don't know.
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I feel like Noah has a Tik TOK account, so we should ask, we should like ask Noah to go
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Even though I'm the young one, I, I, I stay away from Tik TOK for the same reasons as
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and also like Tik TOK is terrible for your health.
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She, so she just like posted like seven minutes ago, another video, uh, saying her grandma
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worked in parliament when Pierre Trudeau was in office.
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Um, and there's like a, she has like a montage of, uh, but still doesn't say the name of
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Oh, you're, you're, you're rocking the Canadian history, uh, today, Noah.
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I'm a Canadian history, uh, uh, par excellence, you know?
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I think your, uh, your second official language needs a little work there.
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I don't know, my long deuxième n'est pas très, très mal.