SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ New Year's Eve '12 Days of Cringemas' Special
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Summary
A recorded version of The Gunn Show, featuring guest host Lise Merle ( ) and host Sheila Gunn-Reed ( ), to celebrate the life and career of Lise's bestie, author and friend, Buck the Rainbow Unicorn ( ), and to look back at some of the most cringe-worthy moments of 2019.
Transcript
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I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
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Well, friends, this is a recorded version of The Gunn Show, because for at least at some
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point during the Christmas season, I would like to be unchained from the desk at which
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So I've worked ahead, and I've called in the big guns.
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Yes, I've called in my very best friend, Lise Merle, to help me with the show today.
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And there are so many double entendres there, for sure.
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I was like, oh, they're never going to let this go in the comments.
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But I wanted to have Lise on the show, first of all, to celebrate the approximately last
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two and a half weeks of her life, because as many of you know, she has become an acclaimed
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LGBTQIA author with her best-selling children's book, but also best-selling book about horses,
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Buck the Rainbow Unicorn, available at BuckTheRainbowUnicorn.com or on Amazon.
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And thank you to everybody who's made Lise's book a success.
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But one of the most popular segments of the show that Lise and I do together, the Rebel
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Roundup on Tuesday and Wednesdays, is something that happens at the end of the show, and it's
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something we created together, and it's called The Daily Cringe.
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And it's so important to poke fun at the people who appoint themselves with no authority whatsoever
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to be our moral and intellectual superiors, because if you really watch them, they're
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And so what we know about people who are not good at their jobs is that they are often sensitive,
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very sensitive about people pointing that out, especially us peasants and plebs.
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We're going to look back at some of the heaviest hitters, the recidivists in the Daily Cringe
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We're going to poke a little fun and end the, I guess, kind of a terrible year with
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the Liberals being re-elected, rewarded for 10 years of corruption with what appears to
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I think they're going to beg, steal, and borrow a way to get there.
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But in the meantime, if you're not going to cry, at least you can laugh.
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I tried to do it a different way, but nothing would cooperate.
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So we're trying it a similar way to what we did last year.
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So, figures crossed, let's go with the first Daily Cringe.
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One of the top general cries during an apology for systemic racism in the armed forces.
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Systemic racism, racial discrimination, and harassment are an affront to these values.
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And yet, we allowed these injustices to occur and fester within our ranks.
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Therefore, on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces, I offer my most sincere and deepest apologies.
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I apologize to every CAF member, veteran, who experienced racism, discrimination, and harassment.
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It's just so touching that our military is concentrating on hurt feelings instead of fighting bad guys.
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We have a crisis in recruitment, a crisis in retention, a crisis in procurement.
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They're deploying without appropriate gear, like, you know, flak jackets, helmets, families are sending MREs.
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But we've got the DEI head of the military bawling on camera.
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On the first day of Cringemas, my bestie gave to me the military crying like sissies.
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Like, I just, I feel bad for the guys who signed up to the military who are like, I want to make the world a better place.
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Everybody, please, a moment of silence for the hurt feelings of somebody 30 years ago?
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Because the next one, I almost forgot about this one until you sent it to me.
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And if this isn't a United Church of Canada, I'm going to be shocked.
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This is a church in Canada with a drag queen in front of kids.
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Tell me this isn't a sign of the times if you're a Christian.
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In this house, we believe in equality, peace, kindness, and love.
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I don't know the, like, gay regalia, but I don't see a cross.
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I actually got a full-on body quiver looking at that person.
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What a treat to be here this morning, as I am most Sunday mornings.
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Unless Ian or Cliff, one of you, wants to be the queen.
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But seriously, I love being a part of this community as a part of the choir.
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You know, music is such a beautiful way to connect with ourselves, with spirituality, with the world around us.
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And I'm so excited I get to share this part of me, too.
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No, but seriously, one of the things about drag is that, unlike Vegas,
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what happens in drag does not necessarily stay in drag.
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Sometimes you try a piece of clothing that somebody said is not for you.
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Maybe it's not fierce for you, but for me it was fierce.
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So we're soft-launching cross-dressing in Canadian churches is what we're doing.
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Literally encouraging parishioners and young children to dip their toe into drag,
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Because he said something like, you see me here every single week.
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And again, I look at things through my own Catholic worldview.
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I've said before, I notice an absence of crucifix in these places.
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But even, okay, where's the cross in this church?
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Because believing in God or Jesus in churches, in United Churches, excuse me, isn't a prerequisite in Canada.
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They actually have atheist pastors in the United Church.
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Or ladies that think, like crazy lunatic ladies that think that Jesus was a woman.
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Did that, that was, that gave me five minutes of all of her body cringes.
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Just for the record, we never want to hear you guys talking about our makeup ever again.
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You see, you saw from that video, how bad it can be.
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The little kids right up front to be brainwashed.
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Because I'm about to tell you the Reformation was bad.
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When I see that, I'm like, these are the fruits of the Reformation right here.
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And this is not a theology show, but that is a violation of the first commandment.
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Because that is a person who is remaking himself in the image of whatever he would like himself to be.
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It is the furthest thing away from looking to God.
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And I'm glad you brought up like if it feels good.
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Because sometimes doing good actually feels bad.
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Like doing the right thing sometimes kind of sucks.
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And it's like, you know, that's been a real problem with modern society.
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Is they chase the feeling of happiness instead of the action of good.
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The action of good actually makes your community and the world better for other people.
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And the feeling that chasing happiness is actually a selfish way to go about your life.
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I think they're chasing a lot more than happiness, Sheila.
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I think that that's just a nice umbrella term for some of the more dark and devious things that humans can chase here.
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Well, you chase happiness instead of goodness and you always end up unhappy.
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She's a two-term MLA for Edmonton Highlands Norwood, a member of the NDP.
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I'm honestly not sure if this is a man or a woman.
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She's the example of the radicals we have allowed to infiltrate our institutions.
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She only cares about one issue, which is giving more rights to the alphabet crowd.
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That's something she published to her own TikTok.
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Out there just dancing on a dirty Edmonton street.
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Oh, I was going to say, I was a lineup of cameras.
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And here we have a barefoot Gary Busey dancing in an outdoor urinal.
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Oh, that's the government in waiting in Alberta.
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Like, thanks so much for giving us all of this cringy content over this last 2025.
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Imagine, like, if the NDP were in power, just how horrible things would be.
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Uh, imagine a trade mission to Washington led by the likes of Janice Irwin.
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Could you imagine what Trump would be like looking at that?
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I mean, Janice Irwin, what, after we separate, she's more than welcome to just move to old Canada.
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And, uh, and she can do whatever she likes there.
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But there's coming a day when there is going to be a reckoning when we put this all to bed.
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And, uh, friends, I do believe that, um, that we're starting that reckoning.
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And we've got, we've got this walking in the, could you imagine her just walking in the White House and bare feet?
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Just goblin feet, too, after being in that alley.
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It just sort of flashed, but it's like, there's like 10 serious cameras lined up to catch this lunatic dancing.
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And like, if there are 10 cameras there, I'm going to have something, I think, I'm going to do my best to have something important to say.
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Do you remember when it was so tone deaf during COVID, when they were saying that our hospitals were so overwhelmed with patients, and then all of the staff in the hospitals made TikToks of coordinated dances?
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This feels like modern day tone deaf like that.
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How many homeless people did you have to step over barefoot?
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Also, I'm not taking any, you better get your COVID shot advice from someone who's doing that in bare feet on an Edmonton street.
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I'm not taking advice about communicable diseases from that person.
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This is, I think, quite potentially the cringiest thing of the year, but this is a year of cringe.
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Just knowing what an absolute disgrace the entire thing has been with the carnies.
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And then seeing that and being like, oh, there's no, they got no riz.
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Thank you, Toronto area boomers for that, because that's what you did to us.
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If you didn't vote for Mark Carney, I'm not talking about you.
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And as we know on the prairies, our boomers are like arch conservatives.
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They've been through two Trudeaus, so they're doubly conservative, right?
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Herky jerky, full body, dry heave, set to music of those two.
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And it will be an enduring gift for the carnies.
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I mean, that's the only comfort we can take, is that we are comforted by how cringy they are.
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But like in the before times, in the olden days, they would be like, stick a spoon in his mouth.
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That would have been the advice if you saw somebody doing that.
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Now we're like, here, you're in charge now, buddy.
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I'm just picking them off as they come up in my list.
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Look at all these just absolute weirdos in the background.
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It's just like a Metamucil commercial in the background, isn't it?
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We are fighting the Americans everywhere they understand.
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We're fighting the Americans in the pocketbook.
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We're fighting them on Fox News, which is what they understand.
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We're sending Doug Ford onto Fox News to show them that we're not messing around up here.
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Um, looking back now, knowing what we know, was that a good strategy or a bad strategy
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to hit the Americans with all those tariffs in the auto sector?
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Your point person with the Americans, your biggest trade-
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Yesterday, Carney got asked a real pointed question about Doug's actions and how they
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We'll take Danielle any day over these two buffoons.
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We're talking on Fox News because that's the only thing the Americans understand.
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If you want to talk to anybody, you talk there.
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But you know that Trump watches Fox and Friends.
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You go on MSNBC, the only people listening are the Democrats and they don't hold power.
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Increased tariffs across the board and a near international meltdown.
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Let's just let Doug off the leash and let him speak his mind.
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Also, who does he think he is saying, oh, we're going to manage Danielle Smith?
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I think it says a thing about a man, about how he talks about women when the women aren't
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That little strategy did not work out well, did it?
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My number one job is make sure we protect the people of Ontario.
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I need to protect the communities against that tyrant south of the border, which drives
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And we'll always be there to protect the families and businesses who call our province
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Doug, do you not have a bottle of whiskey to choke on?
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Like, could you just like, these are, these are the thoughts of a drunk person in a sober
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Like, this is, this is the, this is the depth at which Doug Ford operates at.
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Keep calling name, keep calling the president name, Doug.
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They're taking the money the Canadian government is giving them for free and taking it and investing
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I shouldn't be laughing because those are Canadian jobs that Doug Ford is murdering with
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Most of Donald Trump's foreign policy comes down to, do I like you and trust you or do
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Well, and I think that's a rather shallow view of things.
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Like if, if Donald Trump doesn't like you, he's not going to do business with you.
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So what has, and I'm not saying suck up, but don't go around calling somebody names.
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Don't be antagonistic in the middle of a trade war.
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But then again, I think Doug Ford is doing a lot of dirty work for Mark Carney and Mark
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Carney desperately needs to work with his European counterparts to sort of try and right
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balance our economy because the Americans aren't playing ball with us.
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And so Doug is being, Doug is being, um, the errand boy for Mark Carney in this regard.
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Like it still won't work what they're trying to achieve.
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And this was like post, this was before Doug Ford thought I should do that ad and ruin
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It's like in COVID when you're like, maybe I need bangs, like, but at least your bangs can
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Doug Ford is doing that to the entire country right now.
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I hope the people of Ontario, I hope the people of Ontario are taking notes on this.
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Well, so, you know something, a message of the CEO in France, you hurt my people.
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You're going to feel the pain in February when these people don't have a paycheck and
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I'm going to stand up for the people of Ontario.
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And I encourage all of Canadians, all of Ontarians, stand up for the people because
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But what I don't get when you're someone's largest customer in North America, you're
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And you guys are about as dumb as a bag of hammers for doing this.
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And I think everyone else should do the same thing.
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That's what we need to do is support each other.
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I know Mary wants to lie on the floor right now.
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And then it dribbles out of the bottle like a middle-aged man with prostate issues in the
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My favorite is, you're dumb as a bag of hammers.
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And it has a low-flow cap, which you didn't care to confirm before your big stunt.
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And yeah, at the end of this, Doug Ford might have tossed the guy a hot dog.
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You know, just for having to stand out in the sun and bake and listen to Doug's stupid
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Um, and I'm, I'm regret saying that just now, but we have seen a lot of old lady gyrating
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and like side groin from her over the last year.
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And, uh, I'm going to start with this one first, but she just loves to cut a rug and look,
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I try to keep my genitals under wraps when I do.
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I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to
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It's like I said, you know, Timu Yoko Ono never fails to disappoint.
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You guys look at her, a creative genius, even in her, in her plumage and costuming.
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And meanwhile, Jack Layton is rolling in his grave, like a rotisserie chicken while she
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rides his coattails all the way through the Caribbean festivals of Toronto.
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Like a hot dog down at the 7-Eleven, just rolling around.
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It's the baggy bum old lady panties that really do it for me, where there's like a little
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bit of a cheek hanging out, just, but baggy in the middle.
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You don't have other things going on in Toronto?
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You need a serious person to deal with Toronto.
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But I wish they were granny panties, because granny panties have some coverage.
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And respectfully, we would like to bow out of having this.
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We've got another Olivia Chow, because she has really been a recidivist this year.
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I like this one because it lists all the bad things happening in Toronto at the same time
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You know, I think this really illustrates the selfie culture that modern politics has been hijacked by.
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And as long as you look like you're having a good time and like what you're doing is fun and exciting
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and engaging for social audiences that we won't notice that you're letting everything burn to the ground in the background.
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Like, start calling politicians out on their selfie culture.
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So it was like when they were in the Middle Ages, an entire town was afflicted with this dancing sickness.
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At first, they thought it was weird and they thought, oh, they're dancing.
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I think it was ergot poisoning, if I had to guess.
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That's sort of what people are saying, which is like a fungus on the rye.
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And it caused them to have, like, hallucinations and stuff.
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When it first started, I think we're in the middle part of St. Vitus' dance.
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So they started dancing and everybody thought it was strange.
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And then the town was like, maybe they needed accompaniment.
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So they started playing music while they were dancing.
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But at the end, the people afflicted with St. Vitus' dance started dropping dead because people,
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And I think that's what's going to happen to Toronto.
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that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
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You know, when you, you know, when you spend way too,
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when you spend like way too much time at a wine bar and then get in the Uber and then
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the Uber has their playlist on and then you absorb the Uber's playlist and then you get
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That is what just happened to Elizabeth May there.
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I, I want to make fun of Elizabeth May because like, that's a national TV camera.
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You did that in front of, and that's the problem with what happened here,
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because I should tell you that I have pulled this exact stunt.
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You and I together on David Menzies, when you and I made him play Thistle hair,
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the Christmas bear, and then we sang a stirring rendition of it
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because he had never heard that beautiful Alabama Christmas song.
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And did you know the bears living in the woods are Christian?
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We did do this to David Menzies and Drea Humphrey.
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And Drea Humphrey was like, she didn't appreciate it.
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Drea Humphrey did not enjoy our, um, our delightful rendition of Thistle hair,
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the Christmas bear, so much so that she cringed down in her seat and fell asleep.
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Yeah, well, Thistle hair, the Christmas bear, spreading the good news everywhere.
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For Christmas time and what it means to all the children of the world.
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Every little boy and girl out there loves Thistle hair, except Drea.
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We're going to, we're going to float it by Drea again.
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Because I know I have stage presence, but not a lot of skill.
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Maybe that's my 2026 resolution is have the two meet.
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And before I go, just let me wish you a very Merry Christmas.
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And thanks so much for making 2025 the best year of my life.
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And wishing you all health, wealth, and happiness in 2026.
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Lee said to go because I had technical difficulties.
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We started late and she is on a promotional tour of her new book.
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So she had to jump off the air with me and go to the Sean Newman podcast.
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So if you want to hear what she had to say, you can go over there and watch her while she
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talks about the reason for Buck the Rainbow Unicorn.
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And you guys can watch her on Tuesdays and Wednesdays on Rebel News.
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So I'll finish the last two cringes with you and then say my goodbyes.
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As an ECMP, I'm just curious what your take is on the ostrich situation at Universal Ostrich
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Well, I wrote the Minister of Health in the last, well, so long ago now, a very different
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It was January 2025 that I wrote to say, look, can't we get the Canadian Food Inspection
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That will remove a lot of the either anxiety divisions.
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So I think CFIA could help themselves potentially by doing independent testing.
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I must say most of my constituents who write me want that ostrich cull not to happen.
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And they want to, and I want to know, I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't happen,
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Why not redo the testing and verify the health of that flock of ostriches before engaging
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And I can't imagine, this is absolutely astonishing to me, that an animal welfare issue in Canada
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has garnered the attention of MAGA-type billionaires in the United States, which makes me sympathize
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What matters is we get our facts first, and we don't have all the facts because CFIA has
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So now it's the wrong kind of, the ostriches are, I guess, they have the wrong kind of politics?
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She says it doesn't matter, but apparently it definitely does matter to her, doesn't it?
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She says it makes her sympathize with the ostriches less.
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So the ostriches have less right to live, less right to fair treatment, less right to
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I guess the farmers have less right to access to justice and fair treatment before the law
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because you don't like the people who like the birds.
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And yet still, yet still, crazy old Elizabeth May actually makes more sense than, well, the
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health minister who didn't have a clue about the ostriches.
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Remember when Ezra asked her about the ostriches?
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And then she had an old malfunction at the junction, and one of her staff had to step in.
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So just imagine being more crazy than Elizabeth May.
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Hey, I think this is the last day of Cringemiss.
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Thank you for coming along this wild ride with me.
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Loss of national identities and self-confidence.
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It's a nationalistic, white supremacist, misogynist, against immigration.
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Also against the Paris Agreement, against climate action.
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But I have to say that given that Canada shares those values, when we expand our trading
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relationships, I think we should be seeking out countries that have shared values with
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There's something pathological about Elizabeth May's need to get in front of a camera and
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Like, it might be a birth defect, that when she sees a camera, she'll just get in front
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I think on election night, she did like a folk music.
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It wasn't Thistle hair, but she did some sort of folk act with her husband, where she did
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Now she's holding conferences on CPAC, where she's calling the Americans white supremacists.
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She's a very helpful lady in the middle of a trade war.
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And, you know, we saw her break into a rendition of a Joni Mitchell song.
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Like you mentioned her name and then the plates rattle and the doors slam and the windows go
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You know, you mentioned her name and she's out there singing and saying crazy things that
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are just very unhelpful in these very trying times with our American friends.
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I can't, you know, the problem is the liberals, the left, the environmentalist movement and
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the media mainstream, of course, treat her like she's not a crazy person.
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There's something wrong with the people of her riding to continue to keep electing her.
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I'm trying to do two weeks worth of work in about 48 hours so that our editing team can
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If you've got your feedback, as always on this show or any of my shows, Sheila at rebelnews.com
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But let me say, and I said it on my other show over the holidays too, from my family to
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yours, from the Rebel News family to all of you, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy
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Thank you so much for allowing us to do, I think, the most meaningful work that we've ever
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It is a great joy to me to be able to give voice to your issues, like the issues of normal
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people, because I'm one of you, you know, your challenges are my challenges, your, your
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concerns about, you know, jobs and taxes and affordability and civil liberties and hate
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marches in our streets and the ability of your priests and pastors to say the things they
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And I'm, I'm grateful and thankful that you allow me this outlet.
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I'm sure my family is thankful that you allow me this outlet to be able to discuss these things
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in, I think, a way that sometimes is serious, but also is fun.
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Because sometimes it's like we said off the top of the show, you can either laugh or cry.
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Thank you for making this the most fulfilling job that I've ever had.
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You know, I'm a mom too, but the most fulfilling paid job that I've ever had in my life.
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And as always, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.