Blowing Smoke! EP#372
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In this episode of the crusty connect podcast, I discuss recent budget numbers and a certain plea from the federal government to upgrade our military. My question is, where the fuck are they going to get the money from?
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a good evening ladies and gentlemen it's a beautiful 10th of june 2025 come up to this
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episode of the question podcast episode 3 into 72 blow and smoke that's right recent budget
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numbers and uh of course uh a certain plea from the the federal government to saying they're
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really going to upgrade our military my question is where the fuck are they going to get the money
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from interesting eh all that more coming to the show please stick around listener view discretion
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will be advised because it will swear smoke cigarettes and just get really really mad at
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hit it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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from western canada this is the crusty connect podcast
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a canadian veteran's point of view on political social economic issues and life
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that's right ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode 372 of the crusty connect podcast i'm your host
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crusty connect and if uh it's also brought to you in part by veterans for freedom stand to
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brought to you and supported by veterans for freedom and coming soon veterans for freedom tv stand to hi
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everybody i'm your host crusty connect my apologies once again for uh being late
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two things i know i should have had a few more episodes up and running there for you this week
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however my work schedule has been very very uh how do you say busy you know because i owe the
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government lots of money and all this good stuff anyway make a long story short
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okay my apologies for being absent ladies and gentlemen i'm getting a few more comments on it too
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in recent news the federal government has uh promoted the fact that they're going to spend
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an additional nine billion dollars on an already 61 million dollar defense budget to bring us up to
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two percent now mr carney plans plans to bring us up to the two percent nato standard by the next
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fiscal year meaning next april which i highly fucking doubt because the procurement process in this
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country is a joke you come on national television there yesterday talking about how we only have one
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operational submarine we need more presence in the arctic i need more bases more troops more updated
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equipment and it sounds roughly like pierre pauliev's campaign that he was doing before the election
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what's that tell you okay it's all lip service ladies and gentlemen i don't buy the fucking hype
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i spent 20 years in the military and we used to hear all the excuses all the time when it comes
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to procurement and when it comes to acquiring this and acquiring that and test phases and trial phases
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we have to trial this again to make sure you can't see the woodland camel make sure you can't see the
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camouflage hat from a far distance trial trial after trial what a shit show that's all it is so
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maybe maybe it's maybe because i'm too pessimistic i don't know maybe i'm a little too pessimistic
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because of it needless to say ladies and gentlemen seeing is believing right seeing is believing
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i'll believe it when we see the numbers go up when it comes to actually recruiting soldiers that want
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to be soldiers not social justice warriors okay because the likes of the last liberal government
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they changed the mandates and the policies when it comes to dress and deportment they also changed
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the mandates and the policies when it came to tampons in the men's washroom
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some people's kids anyway i will be a believer once i see it now a proper upgrade is not going to
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happen overnight okay but when you look historically at our country now when you look at world war ii
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i know it's a terrible reference it was 80 years ago okay but the canadian population was roughly
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about 11 million plus people okay now from the time war was declared in september of 1939
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by the end of 1945 canada had the third largest navy on the open waters third largest navy
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you had the states you had britain and you had canada now a population of 11 million people can
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mobilize and get things built like having the third largest navy on the planet i think that's
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something to be to be proud of right now with a population of roughly 40 million we cannot put
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together a full brigade or a full battle group to deploy anywhere you have to scrape here scrape there
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borrow this borrow that and i highly suggest you talk to some navy personnel that served during the
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gulf war they might have some interesting stories when it comes to slicing and dicing certain pieces
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of museum equipment to put onto ships to make them battle ready there's a lot of those stories going
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around too and i highly suggest ladies and gentlemen you talk to some people that served in the balkans
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in the early 90s during the yugoslavian civil war they've got some interesting stories when it comes to
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slicing and dicing getting things ready to go to be at operational readiness so the canadian forces has had a
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really really long time uh trying to overcome and adapt and now i'm not dissing the men and women in uniform
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i was a guy in uniform i was one of those men that was there in the front lines in afghanistan
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did my part for queen and country yes did my part for queen and country and we would we would too
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would incur certain situations it just didn't seem right when it came to military procurement
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when it came to getting things done there was money there was budget that was supporting
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our part in that war but in the same sense things were not being upgraded in a timely manner
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okay things went missing things weren't allowed to come back into canada blah blah blah regulation
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regulation more bureaucracy and administrative bullshit okay so when i hear the federal government
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talking about oh we're going to upgrade this and we're going to upgrade that it's all blown smoke
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that's all it is okay the canadian military has had its problems for a very very long time
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and what it's going to take now this is just my point of view what it's going to take is the simple
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fact of cutting all the office jobs cutting the bureaucracy right from the top all the admins
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okay get rid of this procurement board there's too many goddamn boards that have to sit around and
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decide what kind of tire to use what kind of wiring system to use or what kind of schematics to use
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okay and they'll get paid a hefty paycheck to sit around scratch their balls and go ah is this
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gonna work oh is this canadian is this canadian enough right now mr carney also said something
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about the canadian defense industry being able to make bullets at home well we had that ability what
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the fuck happened to it we had the ability to make proper artillery shells and proper rifle ammunition
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and machine gun ammunition right we had that ability what happened why don't we have that ability
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there's some interesting things that are being done on our behalf in the name of security in this
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country now i'm probably going to queue up a video later of our new of our new safety minister i can't
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even pronounce his name but it's quite funny uh andrew lawton got recently elected of the london ontario
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writing for the conservatives and he questions him in parliament and it's it's quite entertaining
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now it's only about maybe about 30 seconds but it's really worth your time ladies gentlemen i'll cue that
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up later for you but uh needless to say it we're heading into a a zone where we cannot recover now
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regardless of what's going to happen in the world in the next couple years okay for the government to
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sit there and say we are going to produce this and have this within the next fiscal year even though
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the whole f-35 issue is a big effing debacle okay how is it going to be done where's the money
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going to come from right i ask you that we're gonna have to pay higher taxes because it's not
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going to be borrowed and printed for the sake of making our military shine no it's going to have to
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be taken things are going to have to be sacrificed things are going to have to be cut from the waste
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but are they going to cut waste from the top are they actually going to make a difference when it
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comes to defending this country right are they going to really do that or they're just going to keep
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blowing smoke okay they're going to blow smoke stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook
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and you're back ladies and gentlemen to episode 372 of the crusty canuck podcast blowing smoke
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that's right i'm your host crusty canuck if you like to hear what you see click like subscribe share
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thumbs up let me know what's on your mind help the algorithm help us canucks get our words out there
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now another interesting tidbit too is that the federal government's contemplating um something to do i
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think it's called bill c2 correct me if i'm wrong i think it's called bill c2 where the government
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has the opportunity to open up your mail that's a scary effing thought right when the federal government
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has the possibility to open up your mail like there's all these ideas that are out in the woodwork
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now maybe i'm just pulling blowing smoke up my ass i don't know but to make a long story short it
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doesn't look promising for us okay now what gets me about this parliament right now they're finally back
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to work and they're finally getting things done and they're probably going to go off on holiday in the
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next 10 days another three months of pure summer bliss when the reality is they should be back at
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fucking work getting things done procuring things starting out the budget as they should you know
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the talking points you know the whole elbows up crowd and yet they fail to realize that they've
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screwed the elbows up crowd because now they're talking about an equity tax in your home that that's
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a possibility too that's that's another possibility that might come to fruition probably within the next
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fiscal year you know that will probably pay for the military you sell your house you're going to pay
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50 tax on it and for what to make the government happy i already owe the government a lot of money
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according to their math right and i'm guilty of not filing properly uh but i'm just a blue collar guy
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who doesn't have forty thousand dollars to throw around i don't do you know anybody who has that do you
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know anybody personally who can just say here here's 40 grand there you go have a good day thanks for
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coming right do you know anybody who has that i don't i don't maybe 20 you know but i don't know
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anybody who does so my question is to you my wonderful audience okay how how can we afford this
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is is the liberal government really going to try to really upgrade our military as it should
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are they gonna make excuses they have to worry about how much of this is canadian how much of this
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is made here how much is made there or how about the fact that it's supposed to work okay now they
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bought blackhawk helicopters for the rcmp overnight just like that when donald trump first threatened
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canada being the 51st state you remember trudeau and dominic leblanc sitting there at curio largo
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going oh my god oh we gotta panic you know what was what was done about it oh yeah we'll get some
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blackhawks and a few more mounties on the border okay why can't you give our military the blackhawks
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they're a great helicopter doesn't matter if it's american or not it doesn't matter what kind of
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partnership that you think mr carney that's going to help this country okay now you notice though it
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was it was mr trump's idea to motivate our leaders to do something don't forget that regardless if you
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agree with donald trump or not okay it was his new words about the 51st state and canada joining
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the americans that motivate our leaders to pull the heads of their asses to actually try to get
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something done now based on what trudeau did after he stepped down in proto parliament oh my god
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what did mark carney do oh here's here's a defense plan he basically just plagiarized what the
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conservatives promoted what pierre polyev promoted so there's no real foundation to it and the more
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and more i've listened to it the more i think he's full of shit now if it means i have to eat crow
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let's say a year from now where recruiting has gone up and there's actual boats on the water in
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the name of canada okay i'll eat some crow but until then time will tell i'm not going to buy the
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bullshit i'm not going to sniff the bad bacon i'm not going to drink the kool-aid and neither should
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you neither should you my wonderful audience you shouldn't have to at all right but anyhow without
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beating on a dead horse time will tell when it comes to this whole issue of procurement and how
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things are going to work and how people will be proud to serve in the military you know one thing
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they should do is work on the actual commercials okay actual advertising for the military like
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actually reaching out and grabbing somebody you know and my american friends i'm sure you could
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attest to every time you've seen a commercial in the united states but you knew at u.s marines
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united states navy you know united states army the coast guard you know national guard i'm sure
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there's lots of commercials you see out there that represent and and do your men and women proud when
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it comes to serving your country the last time i saw a canadian armed forces commercial was roughly
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and it was just just lame it just it didn't really appeal and not because i spent 20 years in the
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canadian army but the fact that it just it didn't really speak to anybody my little nephew told me
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about it said hey uncle i saw i saw a military commercial so what did you think of it i didn't like it
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at the time he was about uh 14 years old right so if you're not going to reach out to the young
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crowd who are trying to search for a career or opportunity then you're just wasting tax dollars
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tax dollars monies you're just wasting all the money to put together a commercial that you think
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people want when you should actually market research what are kids looking for what are young men and
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women looking for they want a purpose right something to do it doesn't matter if they go to college
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university whatever career they pursue okay they they they want something different
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what got me in the military was a simple fact that i need a job and i couldn't afford university or
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or college for that matter i didn't qualify for a loan right and mind you at the time i was studying
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screenwriting and improv acting so in a way it wasn't that lucrative but in the same sense i was training
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but i needed something a little more secure so i joined the military and it wasn't a settlement
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it was a better decision for me that is for me not maybe not for you or your neighbor or joe bob down
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the road but it was my decision okay and there were some decent commercials on tv back in the 1990s that
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and i joined and i did my 20 years and i got hurt in the job but that happens you know that's all part
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of the credo right that's all part of the credo when it comes to taking a chance whether you become
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a firefighter or police officer or a paramedic or you know a physician or a nurse in an er you take
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those chances right you take the chances when you're working on the rigs you take the chances when you
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climb the hydro lines to make sure that there's power in that home when it's minus 30 fucking five
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okay take the chances and with those chances come the consequences which i'll probably get to later
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in the show because it's june too ladies and gentlemen it's also men's mental health month
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and it's also pride month too but i'm not going to sit and dwell on that shit okay just for the
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record ladies and gentlemen i don't care if you're gay i don't care if you're straight i don't care if
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you buy i don't care if you identify as this i don't care if you identify as that just live your
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life and just do your best to be good to people that's all you know i'm not going to give you
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stunning and brave accolades because you come out of the closet a year ago good for you well done okay
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carry on you go love who you want and understand there's a difference between loving somebody
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and lusting for somebody there is a difference you learn that pretty quick trust me doesn't matter
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who it is doesn't matter what person what identity you fall under okay you learn the difference between
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loving somebody and lusting for somebody understanding the repercussions of said decisions
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understanding when it comes to fidelity and infidelity the difference between doing what's right and doing
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what's wrong and just doing what's fucking stupid too right i see a lot of that what do you my
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wonderful audience think please let me know in the comments what you think about certain
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fidelities and infidelities right let me know in the comments what you think about men's mental health
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because i think it's just as important as women's mental health or children's mental health
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right well when i look at my issues that i've had over the past god 10 years now i'm sorry 11 years
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spare with me place um when i came to certain revelations about how i wanted to hurt myself and
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how i wanted to do some terrible things to myself there are a lot of demons that i never slayed a lot of
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demons that i ignored and we as people we do that but men are always taught chin up suck it up just you
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know tomorrow's another day it is but when those tomorrows turn into every day like a groundhog day
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when those tomorrows turn into something mundane dark it's scary what do you do now there's a few
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people in my life at the time that gave me the old suck it up attitude you're a man you're a man
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yeah i'm being a man and i'm fucking dying inside i'm being a man and i just don't see what's going on
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i just don't feel what's happening i just don't
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reach out and take it like the cheap trick song
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i was hearing voices sometimes i was hearing little tidbits little hints
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oh hello why don't you do this why don't you do that try this out yeah swallow this
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put this around your neck put this to your head
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second guessing myself hating myself hating the world
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grab a coffee drag my ass to work get chewed out for this get chewed out for that
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and then inside i was banging my head against everything i could
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little reminders little visions from my tours little
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you know if if ladies if your boyfriends or your husbands
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you're married and you're dating them for a reason
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don't tell him what standard he should live up to
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it might be some second guessing going on there