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 new funding for the CBC. Plus, a new face on the show, Harrison Faulkner of Ratioed joins us for the first time.
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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,
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maybe we'll just have Sean kind of make it a two shot and you'll just slide
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And then when it comes back to new, 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,
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We try to take a bit of a less serious look at the week that was, and we have a new face
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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 I, 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, 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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I'm like, well, we're a news organization, so we have to care about it for the sake of,
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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
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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, it 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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Now I'll read the why this is like a third of a page in the budget page, 236 under the
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I don't know how this is contributing to a safer, healthier community, but nevertheless,
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uh, 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
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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.
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Some of those really great shows, uh, that, that, you know, I, I think probably amount
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I can't think of better ways to serve as 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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They had that show Lido TV, if you recall, talking tomatoes, the one that lectured, yeah,
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it was the tomato that lectured you about colonialism and feminism, wasn't it?
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Send that to the rural communities, 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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So yeah, well, yeah, you can get like a full, uh, Jaws style animatronic tomato now instead
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We'll just be like a big, uh, CGI tomato that, uh, James Cameron will consult on, on CBC
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And again, like they try to say that they're going to be the ones that stand up for these forgotten
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pockets of Canada, the North indigenous communities, people that speak French.
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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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actually, 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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more attention and, you know, why, uh, this, uh, particular LGBTQ, uh, black woman is facing
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intersectional discrimination or whatever, and how we can combat that, you know, uh, radio
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They've been, they did an investigation going into, uh, what, uh, what happens when, uh,
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people go through the gender transition process, but, you know, English CBC, they have no sort
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of, 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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I did this bit a few weeks ago and I'm going to repeat the same bit where, uh, we were talking
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with CBC on this show and I just went to the CBC first person page, which is this, uh,
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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 from the first person website.
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Or, 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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It looks like it just, I just, recently, they did one, they did one really good one, though.
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I, I don't know if we can play it, but they did a really good sketch, a really good,
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like, bit, uh, a couple of years back on land acknowledgements that I actually thought
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But, again, like, even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while.
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So, it doesn't undermine the core thesis there.
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I, yeah, I, I try to remember the last one I watched.
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Again, like, Schitt's Creek is good, but I'm also convinced that Schitt's Creek would
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have been produced and funded by a private, uh, media company if CBC weren't there.
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And how many, like, bad ones do you have to suffer to get that?
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Well, they had, they had three seasons, it looks like, starting in 2017.
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I, 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.
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Because CBC gets funding for this, but all of these, like, Canadian productions are also
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getting, like, huge, uh, tax credits from the government anyway.
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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 youngin here, Noah.
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But, again, like, 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, they're pretty much all foreign to me.
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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 TikTok, you know,
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they get their, you know, long-form video content from YouTube, you know,
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they're less, uh, watching, you know, traditional TV shows and, uh, that sort of deal.
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So, the CBC has, is just becoming a more and more obsolete institution, uh, as, you know,
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time goes on, uh, and it's especially, you know, obsolete for my generation who, you know,
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isn't particularly engaged in politics, you know, they're not necessarily reading the
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news like you and I. Um, but, you know, if they do choose to read the news, it's on
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Six Buzz or, you know, some of these, uh, social media accounts, not, uh, necessarily
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the CBC. So, you know, the CBC's audience is getting older and older, and perhaps that
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means, uh, political will to get rid of the institution will get, uh, better as, uh, time
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Come on, no one's, no one's watching Family Feud Canada?
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Canada? Or they're just going to use the, uh, the $42 million to get, like, Peter Mansbridge
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TikToks or something, which is, uh, just what, just what Canada needs. Uh, oh, man. Okay.
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You know, if the CBC, they wanted to, no, I was going to say, if the CBC, they wanted to,
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uh, you know, produce a show that Canadians would watch, they should make, you know, a spinoff
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of Breaking Bad, but instead of Albuquerque, it's in Vancouver, you know, it's kind of like
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what's going on right now. It's, uh, 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, and I would take all
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the different diversity boxes. You're like, Breaking Bad, but it would be like, uh, some
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sort of, uh, blind, uh, diverse, uh, paraplegic involved in the, in the drug trade, I think.
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Yeah, just be like, I believe that's actually a documentary in Vancouver. It's not even a
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fictional programming. Uh, all right. Uh, there's no natural segue from that to our, our next
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topic. This was one, uh, well, we talked about it earlier on, uh, my show this week,
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uh, but you, you flagged it here, Noah, and it seemed to be actually getting some steam
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Yeah. 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. It was this, it
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was a symposium. It was a symposium. Makes it sound nicer. Uh, but basically they invited
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a bunch of pro, uh, you know, censorship, pro online harms, legislation people, uh, to
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the governor general's mansion. Uh, you know, the justification for this is that the governor
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general can promote, uh, certain causes that, uh, he or she wants to promote, but, uh, this
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is a partisan issue. Uh, it is very contentious legislation that was just, uh, tabled by a very
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unpopular Trudeau government. And, uh, I believe polls would also show that this, uh, legislation
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is quite, uh, divisive, uh, amongst the Canadian people. So she invited, uh, a governor or not
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the governor general, the attorney general, uh, Arif Verrani to the mansion. She invited
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the likes of Billy Capital Mirth, uh, the notorious Ottawa, uh, school board trustee. She also invited,
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uh, Rachel Gilmore, the greatest, the best and brightest in Canadian journalism. Uh, and
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she invited a bunch of other just pro censorship, pro online harms, uh, people to this, uh, to the
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governor general's mansion, which compromises the integrity, uh, of the governor general's
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office and the impartiality, uh, that that office is supposed to hold, uh, hold. I didn't
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know that this was the 1840s where the governor general is, you know, actively involved in
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politics and, you know, the day-to-day workings of a Canadian society. But it seems like we
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are regressing quite a bit under the Trudeau government. Uh, how'd you guys feel about this
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Go ahead. We have to be very careful when we're talking about these, uh, these journalists and
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these activists who are at the, uh, at this governor general's event, we know they're very
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sensitive. So any mention of their names whatsoever might trigger a, uh, some sort of, uh, awful
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response and they might get very scared. I mean, I'm not really that surprised to see it. I think
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that everybody knows the liberals seem to not have as much respect for these institutions, um, that you
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would see perhaps in the previous conservative government and view it more as some sort of vessel
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for, you know, vessel to advance their political interests. So to see, uh, the governor general,
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Mary Simon, get involved in essentially promoting a piece of legislation, which, uh, is, is roundly
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thought of in this country as being a dangerous piece of legislation. In fact, the people who are
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now supposed to, uh, you know, execute the legislation to think of a, you know, not, not to
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have the best word for it, but that's really what it is. Uh, the human rights tribunal, I've spoken
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to a member, a former, uh, commissioner of the human rights tribunal who said that this,
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this legislation was dangerous. Um, so again, I'm not that surprised to see, uh, Mary Simon
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get involved in this way, but I would appreciate it if the, the federal government took the role
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of the government general more serious and put someone in there who respected the institution
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as much as it deserves to be respected. Yeah. I think you're by far like the most, uh, you've
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got like the hair trigger sensitivity to attacks on the monarchy Harrison. I think as far as
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our team is concerned, you're like the, the most, uh, stalwart defender of it. I'm kind
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of of the mind that like, it was better when Britain sent us a governor general, because
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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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the responsibility. I mean, you look at Mary Simon, uh, she is, uh, clearly taking a political
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role when she's wading into this. Her predecessor had zero interest in, in all of the responsibilities
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of the governor general, Julie Payette. And you go before that, David Johnston. I mean, here's a guy,
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he had a relatively uncontroversial team as governor general, but just completely became a partisan
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political sellout afterwards. So we've not exactly had a good run lately in this role. So I'm not all
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that surprised, but, but it actually, it undermines the institution itself. Right. I'm of the belief
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that they should just put a member of the Royal family into the position and call it a day.
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No, we'd get Megan Markle then. Yeah. No, no. That would be our punishment.
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No, I'm thinking, I'm thinking the Duke of Edinburgh. I think Prince Edward would do a great
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job as governor general. And, uh, I think if, you know, give it a shot, Pierre, if you get the job,
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give it a shot. Trust me. I think it might be good. Well, I think you bring up a good point,
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Harrison, where like the current system we have right now is like this weird halfway house between
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the old system where the British would appoint our governor general and, you know, other democracies
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where, you know, they 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. So
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I think that, yeah, there could be, you know, some, something to glean from this story that,
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uh, perhaps we just have this weird role for the governor general, uh, and it should,
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and it ought to be reformed. But, uh, it seems like Mary Simon, our current governor
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general, uh, likes to, you know, spend lavishly and, you know, get involved in political affairs.
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And she doesn't particularly take the job seriously. It really calls into question the
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type of people that the Trudeau government is appointing to be governor generals. Uh,
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we had Julie Payette who, uh, had to resign in shame because, uh, she was, you know, harassing
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her staff and, uh, overspending. And it seems like, uh, we got someone who, uh, wants to get
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involved in political affairs and eat caviar on the, uh, jet, uh, Canadian jet or whatever.
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Oh, I forgot about that story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like let, you know, we can, there are
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jokes that we can make about it, but also the role is very serious because we could get it.
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We can find ourselves in a situation where an election results in a very close, uh, in a very
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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. Uh, we've seen
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this happen before in our country and it's not like it can't happen again. It's an, it's a
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serious role and you really want to have someone who is guaranteed to be impartial. I think we've
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kind of gone further away from that. David Johnson has shown himself, uh, in his post governor
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general life to not be that, not be that case and not be that way in the ski buddy of Trudeau's
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and is a part of the Trudeau foundation. But I don't think many people thought of David
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Johnston as a, as a particularly partisan governor general when he was in the role. And I think that's
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important to remember. We, you want to have faith in this institution because there are times
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when it can become very consequential and the governor general can decide whether or not to,
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uh, dissolve parliament can decide whether or not to force an election. Uh, there, there are times
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when this becomes really important. And so I think it's time that this institution is taken more
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seriously. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. Go, sorry. Go ahead, Noah. No, I was going to say
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you're right because when you have an incompetent, a competent governor general, things could go awry.
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If you guys recall, I don't know if you're, uh, still alive in the 1920s, Andrew, but, uh, you
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know, back then, uh, there's this thing called the King. When did I become the old one? I remember
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when I was always the young one, by the way. And then there was a flip that switched that flipped
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and I became the old one, but no, assume that I wasn't Noah. Well, uh, but back in the 1920s,
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uh, there was an affair where the prime minister, William Lyon, Mackenzie King, uh, he asked the
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governor general to, uh, dissolve parliament and to call for an election. Uh, however, the governor
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general, he, uh, did not, uh, he appointed, uh, the opposition leader who was, uh, I believe, uh,
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it was a conservative. Um, and then, uh, he basically could not manage parliament. Uh, the,
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the government, um, was dissolved and an election was called William Lyon, William Lyon, Mackenzie
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King won a majority. So you can see like the sort of political crisis that can happen where
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you have a poor governor general. And also, uh, maybe this would happen, this happened in your
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lifetime, Andrew, but in 2008, uh, when prime minister Harper asked the governor general to
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dissolve parliament, call for an election, uh, it took her hours just to even take the meeting,
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uh, with Harper. She left Harper out in the hallway for hours on end, uh, consulting with her advisors,
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trying to perhaps maybe even undermine the prime minister. Um, so it, you know, it really is
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important that job. And, uh, it is something that our current governor general, Mary Simon doesn't
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take too seriously. All right, quick, Noah, since you brought it up, you have to give me the
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governor general's name in the William Lyon, Mackenzie King debacle. Uh, it was Lord Bing or
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something. I don't know. Yes, there you go. The King Bing affair. You win the, uh, Canadian history
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quiz today. The prize is, uh, well, it's nothing, but well done. Uh, all right. Uh, Harrison, what do
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you have? All right. Well, now that we got that history lesson out of the way, let's jump back to,
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uh, current times here, folks. Well, this is very interesting and hardly surprising. I'm afraid
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to say it turns out that in the military, uh, just a few weeks ago, actually a, uh, the first
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transgender chaplain was being celebrated and honored by the Canadian military during transgender day of
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visibility. Uh, what is this guy's name here? Beatrice Gale. Just a few weeks ago, she was all,
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she, she was all over Twitter celebrated as this great, you know, uh, you know, visionary figure in
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the military. 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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Here are some of the details from the DND. This incident stems from an inappropriate comment to
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request to another individual. 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. Uh, Gale was also found to have
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violated the Queen's regulations and orders, which govern military conduct and affairs.
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The reason the story is interesting, however, is because there seems to be two standards in the
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military when it comes to these incidents. As you all will well be aware, the military has gone through
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several high profile sexual misconduct allegation stories involving some very senior
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officers in the military, all the way up to the role of, uh, chief of the defense staff. Uh, there was
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one, uh, uh, uh, first of all, Trunorth reached out to Gale for comment, didn't get a response.
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And when Trunorth reached out to a military lawyer who represents other, uh, members who have been in,
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who are being accused of, uh, of all number of things, uh, this lawyer pointed out this double
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standard here. He says, if a male officer behaved in a similar manner toward the subordinate female,
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the situation 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 allegations.
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What do you guys think of this story? I just find it to be one of those,
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one of those classic Canadian armed forces, 2024 stories.
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Yeah. So I think there are a couple of problems here. I mean, look, anyone is, anyone is, has it
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in them to commit an act of wrong in the military, transgender or otherwise they have disciplinary
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systems in place to deal with those. I think the fact that this person was a chaplain makes it
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particularly more egregious because a chaplain is someone who's there to deal with people in terms
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of their spiritual health and wellness and wellbeing. I mean, it puts them, uh, look, working with people
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who are in a very vulnerable place. I think the problem you have here is when the military bends
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over backwards to look woke and progressive. And you know that that tends to come at a cost. I mean,
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Noah, you and I have talked about this in other contexts where DEI policies are advanced and everyone
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says it's not anti-merit, but a lot of the times it is because people prioritize this one thing over
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the other. So when you have the military saying, oh, this is our, our hero of, of inclusivity or hero of
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this, then they turn around and okay, well, this is a person who is, uh, by the military's own
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processes, uh, committing, uh, an infraction of service, which again, from, uh, Cosman's reporting,
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it, it, uh, sounds like it was a request to grope side. I mean, look, maybe great that they're
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requesting instead of just doing, but like at the end of the day, there's a, an inappropriateness
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here from a chaplain. And again, how does this still get treated as though someone is being this
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icon of inclusivity? And you see this in the U S there's that Admiral Levine that is trotted out
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there. And I think that the military has to start focusing on being a good, respectable military and
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not being the most inclusive, diverse, uh, woke armed forces in the world. And, you know, it really
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undermines the cohesiveness of the military. I mean, the military has already been going, uh, through
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some problems when it comes to military cohesion. Um, we have, you know, uh, people or we have the,
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the military, the government imposing, uh, the military to put, you know, tampons in the mail
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bathroom. Uh, we have, you know, drag queen, uh, story hour or, or drag queen shows happening on
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military bases and just, you know, poor recruitment numbers. Uh, you know, it just all points to, uh,
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you know, discohesion, uh, within the military. 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
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it goes, it kind of goes more into detail of this double standard here when it comes to
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prosecuting these cases. So, uh, Cosman tried to get some more details here from the, uh,
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from the Canadian armed forces. 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 prosecute
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sexual offenses within the military. That means it has to go to a, an actual court outside of the
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military court. 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,
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except if the conducting officer believes information affecting a person's privacy or security
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interest, or if that interest outweighs the public's interest in the information would be
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disclosed. So you see, right? There are, there, there's two things happening,
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which are not happening. They're not releasing the public, uh, some hearing of what happened to
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this, this individual and what this individual allegedly did. And they're prosecuting it within
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the military. I think, I think the point should be made that this would not be the case had it been
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anybody else. Had it been a member who basically fits into the rank and file troops, they would not
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be given the same treatment. I just find it ironic that a week before this story comes out, or maybe a few
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weeks before 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. Yeah, no, very, very, uh, good point on that.
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Uh, you guys sent me something about, uh, a basketball, which I had trouble following, so I just didn't
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bother with it, but whoever wants to talk about that, go ahead. So here we go. This is the part where,
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uh, where the, the gen, uh, the gen Zed take or begins, I guess, on the sports commentary.
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Now, here's the thing about this story, right? Sports gambling is in the news. Everybody sees it.
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They see way too many ads for it. 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. And it just
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so happened to be a relatively unknown Toronto Raptors player to be the first big name, I think,
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to fall, uh, under what I think is going to be several eventually. Now this guy, John Tate Porter,
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you probably don't know about him because not many people did know about this guy. He was basically
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unknown. Now he was on, um, these, these, this information is important. This guy was on about
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420, $440,000 a year. That's a lot, of course, but compared to basketball standards, that's at the
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bottom of the league, essentially. This guy has just been banned for life from the NBA for essentially
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betting against himself involved in some sort of group where other people were also involved in
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betting against himself and producing those kinds of performances on the court, essentially facing
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his own performances to make sure people, people could cash out in the millions. So for my research
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here, Noah, basically what happened was one of these sports books noticed that the biggest winner on two
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separate occasions was the Dante Porter under figures. People were betting under this guy's,
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you know, rebounds points. People were betting underneath what, what the, um, what was going
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to be expected. And then they were the biggest winners of the night. Millions of dollars on this
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one random player that nobody heard of. People were, were cashing out big time on this. I mean,
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clearly that's a red flag. 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. It's a shame that this
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happened to, you know, one of our players. Uh, and it's not like this guy had been around for a very
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long, but, uh, I think it's a, it's a good thing that the, you know, the NBA, they're cracking down
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hard on this. They gave him a lifetime ban to sort of disinvent us and disincentivize other people
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from doing this. But, um, yeah, like if this happened to like, you know, an all-star level player,
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you know, this would be a really, uh, terrible thing for the league. Um, and it would just,
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you know, put the, uh, the league in a, uh, sort of situation where, uh, they have to either,
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you know, ban the guy and perhaps, you know, sacrifice profit, uh, or they would keep him
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around and sacrifice their integrity. Uh, but you know, the fact that this happened to a player on
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the Raptors is terrible. Uh, I don't know if you guys have been watching the Raptors, uh, this season
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it's, it's over now, thank God. Uh, but the, you know, the Raptors, they brought in like a bunch of
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random players that you've never heard of, uh, you know, this guy named Freeman Liberty. Uh,
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that's his last name. It's a pretty redundant. I like it. I like him. That's the guy. Sounds
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great. Yeah. Free Liberty. That's I can get behind that. I care about true North to gift
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Andrew a Raptors, Freeman Liberty Jersey, and you can hang it up in the back. I'd have a bit of color
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behind your shot there, Andrew. And his middle name is, uh, I don't know if I find a good middle
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injustice, you know, free man, justice, Liberty or something. Yeah. But when you, when you drink
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my, my one question on this, aren't these guys paid enough that the payoff of this is relatively
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low that you make more money by being good than by, you know, being bad or am I just way off?
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Here's what I found out about this. I didn't know about this, but this guy,
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this guy was making like basically league minimum. And again, you're making $400,000. You're, you're,
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you're, you're doing well. You shouldn't be involved in a major multimillion dollar gambling
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scandal, but this guy's brother was guaranteed over a hundred million dollars. So maybe there's
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a little bit of a jealousy. Maybe there's a little bit of a nothing to lose. Cause this
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guy's on the league minimum. And you know, he probably only has three years left in the
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NBA and his career. So somebody went to this guy probably and said, listen, we're going
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to, we're going to find a way to make you super rich. We're going to give you a bunch
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of money. You, if you throw your performances, you don't get like four rebounds in this game,
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then, then we'll set you up. We'll set you up for life and no one will notice, but they're
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so stupid. They need it. They need it twice. Obviously they were going to get caught. They
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probably could have got away with it if they weren't so, if they weren't so greedy about
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it all, but I don't know. It sounds ridiculous. So he didn't, he didn't get, uh, he didn't get
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as many field goals as he was supposed to. No, no, no. Look, there are videos of it.
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There's a video of this guy shooting the three pointer and like egging it off the backboard
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and he's not happy at all. He's like gutted. He's disappointed about shooting. Yeah. It
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went in and he was, he was mad. It was ridiculous. Like he obviously tried to miss by like throwing
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it off the backboard, but it just like went back in. He was like, Oh no, you gotta be a
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better actor. Now I hit that over. Yeah. All right. You guys have had your fun. You got
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your sports story out of your system. Uh, I dropped something mysteriously that I hope
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wasn't a breakable anyway. Uh, all right, let's go to this. This is a fun one to let
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it. I mean, it's, it's a sad one, but it's a fun one. And as someone who had a, a grandmother
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with a great sense of humor, who's now passed away. Sadly, I feel this lady has a bit of a
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sense of humor as well. This one video went viral of a dying woman finding the silver lining
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in her upcoming fate. Well, folks, the doctors told me that I'm on my way out, meaning I'm
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dying. And you know what? I'm so damn happy that I'll finally get just and true out of my
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I don't even know that woman's name. Her granddaughter posted the video on Tik TOK.
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The granddaughter's username is fury at the wall on Tik TOK. And then I, I, I don't use
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Tik TOK on account of, you know, like the Chinese stuff, but I like the, the Chinese government's
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oversight of it. But, uh, every now and then I'll see a video and I don't log in or anything.
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Uh, but I, I went to this person's Tik TOK and they had posted another video from this woman
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in which she also had some, uh, well, why don't I just, you know, let granny describe
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That's what Justin Trudeau does to me, how he affects me. He gives me the, the word starts
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You should go to the hospital and have a, a gallon of shits proof stuff stuck up his butt.
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By the way, really convincing censoring job there, Sean. I had no idea what word was being
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uttered there at all. It's like, you take out like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction
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of a syllable. But, uh, uh, anyway, we got to keep our, uh, clean tag on Apple podcast.
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Uh, granny for prime minister, right? This is not the video you want to become, you want
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to have when you're a prime minister. I'm afraid it's the kind of thing you really want to be
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able to avoid having, you know, dying old ladies wishing that just being thanked. You are the
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reason I'm not sad that I'm dying. Cause I won't have to deal with you anymore. That was her
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message. Oh, just horrendous for, uh, uh, but also my, that at this one is with us and that she can
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last Dustin Trudeau's time as prime minister. I want her to see a light before it, before she
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leaves this, uh, leaves this earth, leaves this country. It would be a nice thing for her. I have
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to imagine it may be a while, but maybe if a liberal, uh, senior liberal cabinet minister is
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watching and is motivated by this to see, to, to give her one last look at the light of Canada
00:34:26.940
without Justin Trudeau before she passes, hopefully she's still with us and hopefully she can outlast
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Trudeau. Yeah. What do you think? Do you buy granny's story there that Justin Trudeau gives her the
00:34:37.300
bleeps? 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 to turn
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lemon to lemonade because, uh, you know, she's, you know, on her deathbed, she could be all depressed
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about it. Like, Oh, you know, I'll have these regrets or whatever. Uh, but you know, she's like,
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you know, there's a positive to this. I don't have to deal with Justin Trudeau's bleeps anymore.
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Right. So it's, uh, kudos to her, you know, she, she can demonstrate how to, you know,
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be positive about life. You could take a good message out of this, you know, it doesn't have
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to be, you know, all depressing all the time. Right. You're, you're a regular Tony Robbins
00:35:16.140
there, Noah, with your, uh, your insights on, on the world and the human spirit. I like it. It's all
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positive. It's all, no worries. Hakuna Matata. Right. All right. Well, uh, if you are, if you are
00:35:29.260
listening, we stand with you, Harrison's hoping you can hold out until, uh, 2024, but you know
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what? I, I good to have a sense of humor about the world. If you're not, uh, if you're not laughing,
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you're crying. And there's been plenty of reason to do that as well. All right. Uh, that does it
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for us for today. My thanks to Harrison and Noah for coming on and remember everything you've heard
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Okay. I really want to try to get this grandma on my show. I don't know if it's possible. I'm
00:36:00.380
going to try it. Can you message people on Tik TOK? Do either of you guys know? I have no idea,
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but I think, yeah, I don't know. I feel like Noah has a Tik TOK account, so we should ask,
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we should like ask Noah to go and figure that out. You have Tik TOK? Oh gosh. Even though I'm the young
00:36:17.540
one, I, I, I stay away from Tik TOK for the same reasons as Andrew. And also like Tik TOK is
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terrible for your health. It cooks your brain. It's, it's not good. You know, don't recommend
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it whatsoever. Keep your kids off Tik TOK people.
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She, so she just like posted like seven minutes ago, another video, uh, saying her grandma worked
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in parliament when Pierre Trudeau was in office. Um, and there's like a, she has like a montage
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of, uh, but still doesn't say the name of the person. Uh, was it a Robert Sanfield, uh, supporter?
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Bob Sanfield. 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 don't know. I think your, uh, your second official language needs a little work there.
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See you guys. I'm out of this French conversation.