Gratitude and NO Gratitude. EP#324
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In this episode of The Cranky Canuck Podcast, Cranky canuck talks about the PM, the tech sector, politics in this country and all the other bs going on in the rest of us festivus.
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a good evening ladies and gentlemen and merry christmas it's a beautiful 24th of december
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2024 coming to this episode of the christian podcast episode 324 gratitude and no gratitude
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of course the prime minister politics in this country yada yada yada all the other bs and i
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want to go over who's grateful and who isn't grateful ladies and gentlemen all that and more
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coming to the christian podcast please stick around listener of your discretion is advised
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because i will swear smoke cigarettes and uh be a little dramatic see you in a bit
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get it sweetheart because i am hard you will not like me
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast a canadian veterans point of view
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on political social economic issues and life here's crusty
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that's right ladies and gentlemen welcome to the episode 324 gratitude no gratitude or of course you
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know for the rest of us festivus all that good stuff in this podcast is brought to you in part
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by and supported by veterans for freedom network that's right stand to veterans for freedom and
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coming soon veterans for freedom tv maybe next year sometime i don't know we'll see anyhow everybody
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how you doing i am crusty canuck your wonderful host and i want to say thank you out there to
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the wonderful subscribers i have had uh the past couple days i noticed that my subscriber count has
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gone down uh effective on the 21st and 22nd i noticed uh roughly 440 or maybe 450 subscribers
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have just left the page all of a sudden interesting hey
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what do you say i smell bs on the part of the people at yt yankee tango uh who knows exactly
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what it is i've written emails thinking what's happening here now i know there's bots and stuff
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like that there's a lot of fake accounts out there roaming around but that's quite a bit of
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a subscription loss to happen in less than 24 hours don't you think
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something to think about anyway if you like to hear your see click like subscribe i'm thankful
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to my new subscribers keep subscribing keep liking commenting sharing this all over your social media
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platforms do not be shy uh but there's a lot of bs going on not just in the tech world but in our
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political world too ladies and gentlemen uh there's still people speculating about the whole donald trump
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thing about the tariffs about canada being the fifth state and so many pm's uh supporters and allies
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alike clenching the pearls hoping that isn't true when all these people in the powers that be have
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shown no gratitude whatsoever for this country we call canada anyway like the title card said
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uh basically festivus right it's christmas ladies and gentlemen time we should be with our families
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time we should be loved ones and appreciate what we have and what we can get later on in our lives
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uh the more we struggle the more we try the more we work the more we should get ahead so you'd think
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but this year i think has been a classic example of no matter how hard you really try to get ahead
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there's always going to be people holding the key or holding open the gate or closing the gate on you
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uh my gratitude is this i have a home i have lights on i have you my wonderful audience give
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yourselves a round of applause you guys are awesome and i'm grateful i am really grateful for the people
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that have tuned into my show tuned in my podcast and give me some positive feedback uh i like to say
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i noticed on my podbean account there i've had about 32 people from israel watch my show so thank you very
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much shalom happy hanukkah uh to my israeli uh fan base out there thank you very much and i've also
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received a few comments on my shorts uh in regards to uh people saying anti-semitic things i don't tolerate
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it ladies and gentlemen okay i don't tolerate any anti-christian sentiment anti-anti-jewish sentiment
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or any anti-muslim sentiment in fact i'm not going to tolerate any anti-semitic religion whatsoever
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my personal belief in religion is this if it makes you happy do it but if your religion tells you you
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have to kill or hurt somebody in the name of said god then maybe you should get a new religion that's
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where i stand okay and when i look at christmas it's not just a christian idea behind it it's not
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just the birth of christ it's not just the birth of uh whatever uh god that is out there it is also
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a celebration of a lot of european heritage where the pagans you know prior to christianity in europe
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that they would celebrate the end of the harvest the winter solstice celebrate the trees and the snow
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and a good year good stocks to feed the livestock and to feed the families and they all danced and
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were merry and celebrated the end of the year with a festivity right that's that's the kind of tradition
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i like ladies and gentlemen what do you like right now if i've angered some people who listen to this show
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well too bad okay i'm an advocate for free speech and that's free speech absolutely it doesn't matter
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if you're offended or not i'm not here to tiptoe i'm not here to cater or to pander i'm just here to
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speak my mind if you like what i do that's great enjoy what i say and do that's fantastic too uh but
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when i look at this christmas season i look at gratitude for for people that are trying to get ahead
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and i show gratitude to those who make an effort who give an effort who give time and effort to things
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i am grateful for my wife i am grateful for my family i'm grateful for my home i am grateful for
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the ability to be able to sit here and talk about these wonderful things and to speak our mind as we
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should and it doesn't matter if you're canadian or american it doesn't matter if you're british
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german french it doesn't matter if you identify as this or that you have every right to speak your mind
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and so we should so let's be grateful for the ability we can still do that even though there are
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people and the powers that be as i sit here and talk to you wonderful human beings uh that would
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like to change that someday so i have no gratitude for the people that increased our cost of living
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i have no gratitude for the individuals that would cry bully their way into something into getting
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someone fired or getting someone hurt or getting someone sued or getting someone to pay a fine
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because their feelings got hurt because there are a lot of people out there as we speak today that
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are going without on a regular basis because of decisions that were made on their behalf
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and most of those decisions have come from bureaucrats and paper pushers and bean counters the
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like so i am not grateful for individuals that have screamed about uncomfort or uncomfortable
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times i am grateful for the people that have persevered and overcome options i am grateful for people
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that look at themselves in the mirror every day and go yeah i've been hurt i've been screwed over but
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guess what i'm carrying the fuck on i'm grateful for those people and guess what they come in all
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shapes and sizes ladies and gentlemen all colors all creeds all genders and all spectrums however they
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want to reinvent society or not now for this christmas 2024 i am grateful for the fact that i can sit here
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and speak my mind and i still have my health no pun intended
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i am grateful that i can still buy a few of these and enjoy them i am grateful that you have a steady
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job and the bills are getting paid and i'm grateful for you my wonderful audience that have stuck with me
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this far and put up with things and ask me good questions and i'm more than happy to answer too
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and i am grateful that i still live in a country that's worth fighting for
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it's that simple ladies and gentlemen this country is still worth fighting for regardless of how you
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feel about it or not regardless of history regardless of mandates that have come and gone
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over the years i am still grateful that i live in a country called canada and i'm happy we have a
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democracy still knock on wood and i'm grateful that we have people that are willing to fight the good
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fight to make sure that we see more light in the manufactured darkness right back after this
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stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter gap telegram youtube and podbean
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and you're back ladies and gentlemen episode 324 of the crustycanuck podcast gratitude and no
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gratitude uh the title card says for the rest of us festivus right festivus for the rest of us the old
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uh jerry seinfeld uh joke there one of their uh festive episodes per se um it's a joke all right christmas
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is for kids christmas is for adults too but it's still a time to celebrate and reflect
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excuse me just like thanksgiving but every day we should be thankful for something every day we
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should be thankful for things that we do have the little things that we have okay uh ideally i would
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like to be making a lot of money with this podcast but you know at the moment i'm not like i said i'm
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losing subscribers and uh yankee tango are being a bunch of how do you say twat waffles when it comes
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to telling you the truth however i'm sure fellow uh yankee tangos out there have had uh the same
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situation with some of their shows and broadcasts too um i am grateful to the fact that we can look
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at the whole dei thing and dismiss it that's what it is it's nothing but pandering okay i'm grateful
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that i have worked with and worked for people that have come from many different backgrounds who have
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given me insight into how to be a better man and a better leader okay and i'm also grateful once
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again for my wife my wife is an amazing human being she's overcome so many odds in her life prior to
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meeting me and prior to marrying my sorry ass but uh she's she's there she's a pillar so to every man
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out there look at your wife and give her the respect she deserves and for you ladies too look at your
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husband and give him every respect he deserves and then this in this in this festive season look at
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your kids and see their faces light up tomorrow morning and appreciate that little things like
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that right and for those adults out there who cannot give as much to their children as they wanted to
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the thought is there but the actions will speak louder than words maybe do better next year maybe do
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better this year or just do what you can just to be a good mom pa you know what i mean
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and just try to be a good human being i'm going to play the prime minister's christmas message here
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okay now it's only about a minute 40 long but i don't really think it's really worth the time
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however you would think that mr pm would make a better effort on wishing good tidings to the citizens
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of this country but i'm going to play it for you and i want you to assess what you will out of it
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i'm not telling you what to think or how to think or what to do but needless to say ladies and gentlemen
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get what you can out of it because i just got nothing but bs out of it and i will do a little
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critique thereafter as always because the man's so full of crap and i know i just said try to be kind
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to people be good to people but i'm not going to give him any gratitude whatsoever i've never really
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had any plan uh to give the prime minister of this country any gratitude uh because his actions have
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spoke a hell of a lot louder than conventional words and uh like just look at the shitting grin
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in his face you know look at me i i'm just such a great man oh look at me i'm so cool you're so full
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of it you wanker but here i'll play it for you and you all listen and get what you can out of it
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merry christmas this is a time of year to slow down to rest and to connect with the people you
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love most it's a moment to put our phones down put our politics aside even when that one cousin makes
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it really hard and to focus on what matters for christians it's a time to celebrate the birth of
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christ and think about his story of kindness forgiveness and faith the lessons of his life are
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universal and they inspire and comfort people every time they're told and retold for so many
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the holidays are a time of big family gatherings and feasts of gifts and celebrations but maybe it's
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a very hard time for you if you're grieving worried or alone this can be the toughest time of the year
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it can be the loneliest so let us all check in on the people in our lives who've not had an easy
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time this year and who may be needing us more than we know for a lot of canadians christmas is not a
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holiday at all so thank you to our brave first responders calf members health care and essential
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workers and everyone who's on a job right now so that others can stay home safely you embody what
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christmas is really about giving gifts food and service to those around us i wish joy to everyone
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who's celebrating today and comfort to those who are suffering wherever you are i hope you find light
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what a smug son of a you know what okay honestly some people's kids i tell you okay well the only
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thing i got out of that is he made a crack about you know some cousin making a comment a political
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cousin uh actually justin you are the political cousin that we fear and uh i don't mean fear as in
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fearing of our lives uh we fear that we're going to do something we might regret because of you
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we fear what kind of people we're going to turn into because of individuals like yourself and your party
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and your backers and supporters and all that too i fear how much more anger i have to feel
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because of men like you because of people like you that intentionally increase our cost of living
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that have made our lives even harder now it's not just the pm's fault ladies and gentlemen it's
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everyone that backed them up it's the people that okayed the spending it's the people that denied
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our troops access to things it's the people that forbid us to own firearms it's the people that
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have divided this country that make me angry and i try to keep my anger at a certain level i try to
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keep my rage at a certain level but here i am a better part of 50 years of age
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and i have sacrificed time and effort for people i have given my heart and soul to this nation
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and there's a man who shows no gratitude whatsoever
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for anything because he was raised in a well-to-do family he said everything his heart desired
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and he's never showed any gratitude for this nation whatsoever now the liberal christmas party he
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says he loves being canadian but then again he also said prior to his election in 2015
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we are a post-national state so which is it justin you admire basic dictatorships so you try it on for
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yourself to see how it goes and members of your own party are getting sick of you
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so to the likes of justin trudeau to the likes of all the supporters maybe you should reflect on what
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you're grateful for and maybe you should reflect on the actions you have taken to hurt people
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and maybe you should reflect on the actions you've taken to have people fired
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for questioning the science or questioning uh the climate or questioning certain authorities
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or questioning the bail conditions or questioning uh the gun laws or for questioning anything you
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guys have laid out in the table in a half-assed laxadaisical slackadaisical matter or manner
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i am not grateful for you i am not grateful for you liberal party of canada and some members of the
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conservative party and definitely not the ndp i am not grateful for backbenchers who've sat in
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parliament and done nothing all this country goes broke i am not grateful for individuals that spit
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on the truckers i am not grateful for people in this country who have spit on our flag
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i'm not grateful for that you have every right to do it you have every right to express yourself
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i'm not grateful for people that want a good life in this country and they want to change the rules
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and change the laws to satisfy their own comfort i'm not grateful for that i'm grateful for the
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wisdom that i was given by some members of the first nations who told me things about the wolf
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told me things about rivers and the trees i'm grateful for that i'm not grateful for the ungrateful
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it's that simple however i i intend to keep standing up for what is right for this country
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and i expect you my wonderful audience do the same thing too well if you see something stupid call it
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out you know laugh at them wasn't the old folklore that if you try to hunt a witch you bring her out
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in the open and you put her on the spot right wasn't that you know i'm thinking metaphorically here
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okay you call into question right that's been done to a lot of people the past 10 years in regards to
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what people tweet or what people say or people write and then you have certain individuals who have
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the audacity to come out and say i have ptsd because of what they said bullshit you're just
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uncomfortable and you can't handle it right so let's be grateful we have the attitude and the
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ability to still dissect and look for the truth ladies and gentlemen regardless of how many
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individuals say they're giving you the truth i would still look at it under scrutiny and make sure
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they are telling the truth this year let us remember who we are and what we can do let us be grateful for
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what we have i just mentioned to you what i'm grateful for what are you grateful for please
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tell me in the comments give me a thumbs up all that good stuff it's a matter too if you like and
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hear what you see ladies and gentlemen click like subscribe share this content on those social media
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platforms do not be shy let me know what's on your mind resub if you have to just double check your
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notification bell there too on your page resub if you have to just in case because really 440 plus
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individuals gone in less than 24 hours that's quite a lot of bots apparently you know or maybe
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there's 440 people just don't like what i have to say anymore either or i just find it kind of
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clinky dink that uh i lost all those subs in that short a time but you know you my wonderful audience you
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decide what you like and he like and see and uh you know i'll be right back after this
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stay updated and follow crusty canuck on facebook twitter gap telegram youtube and podbean
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and welcome back ladies and gentlemen to episode 324 of the crusty canuck podcast
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gratitude and no gratitude the rest of us festivus for the rest of us all that good stuff i'm your
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host crusty canuck and i hope you like when you hear what you see click like subscribe all that good
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stuff i've been through this before i just got to keep repeating it because the algorithm is is
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screwy so you know i trust your judgment ladies and gentlemen and now this christmas let's just do
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what we can to be good to repeat each other you know the prime minister did say about kindness and
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everything you know but uh we both know that it's uh he's full of it you know he hasn't been kind to
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many canadians he wasn't kind to the uh convoy uh people he wasn't convoy uh he wasn't kind uh to
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veterans he hasn't been kind to seniors so just let him have his little you know swan song his little
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his little blurb there right uh what i'll do is i'll leave the uh message in the description
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and uh his actual statement that come from parliament there too right uh he also mentioned
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something about the military uh quote unquote as we reflect on the past year and look to the future
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let us continue to show love and kindness to ourselves and those in need let us also take a
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moment to thank those who give so much to themselves to make canada the place we are proud to call home
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including the brave members of our canine armed forces the dedicated first responders and essential
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workers and the countless volunteers thank you thank to all of you i wish joy to everyone who is
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celebrating today and comfort to those who are suffering wherever you are i hope you find light
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and hope your head merry christmas well you uh caused some of that darkness buds you did your whole
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party did um i'm not blaming it all on you you know we're all guilty of making decisions in our lives
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we're all guilty of not showing up we should have shown up or you know we're all guilty of uh putting
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90 percent in when we should put 100 percent in but uh i'll make an exception for your case pal
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okay some of the laws you want to push down our throats you know uh some of the regulations you
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want to uh permit and throw at us in the name of safety and comfort uh you're just full of it
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your your cabinet's full of it and while you criticize alexa mr polia for being a career politician
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how many backbenchers in your party right now have been in more than 20 years okay
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how many members of your cabinet were selected based on their identity and not their qualifications
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how many of your backbenchers and buddies were at your wedding party
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quite a few quite a few now i'm still going to believe in merit and i believe in humanity
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you know if i was to see you on the street and you were bleeding i would give you first aid i would
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i would but i wouldn't have small talk with you i wouldn't talk with you at all i don't want to see
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you demise i don't want to see you unaligned i want to see you be humbled i want to see a lot of
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you leaders be humbled this holiday season i want to see a lot of you bureaucrats and the people you
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hired to tell guys like me and my friends and my wife that you owe us more money this year because
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something went wrong with the filing system i want to see all the bureaucrats and all the so-called
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leaders get a pie in the face and i mean that metaphorically okay it's not much of a christmas
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wish but uh it'll do for now okay i am grateful for the friends i've had and the friends i have
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made the past couple years while doing this podcast special shout out to northern perspective
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you know ryan and tanya well done my buddy paul radio reaction well done to moose in the loose well
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done you know to fringe minority well done out of calgary derek does a great show right and to
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clyde do something well done to marty up north well done to mary leach well done and your ground
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to everybody else out there i am very very grateful that you have tuned in and stuck with me this long
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and listened to my show and given me some good points and some good feedback and i'm also grateful
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to do some of the negative feedback too because it means i'm making you think and that's what we
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got to do ladies and gentlemen we got to start thinking again it's that simple so i won't have
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a show up for new year's maybe i might i don't know depends on my work schedule but we'll have to see
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in the meantime please stay tuned share this content on your social media platforms do not be shy ladies
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and gentlemen check out my shop there too it's in the description where you can donate check out my store
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grab a t-shirt grab a hat whatever you know uh just help out the podcast as best you can ladies and
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gentlemen you know this christmas let's just celebrate and be grateful for what we are and what
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we have and what we can be and what we can gain obtain and what we can do just be better citizens
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be better people you know uh the reason i say humanity and merit wins the days means you got to be good
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to people and you got to earn something let's keep setting that example ladies and gentlemen let's keep
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setting that example this year and next year and years from now now i wonder if assuming that there's
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election called in february or the spring and mr polyev does a christmas message who knows what's going
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to happen but let's just hope it's going to be a hell of a lot better than uh potato puppets half-assed
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rant toting a virtue when he bloody knows what he's been doing and what he's done
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and now ladies and gentlemen i have been crusty canuck in this beautiful 24th of december
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2024 i wish yous all a very very festive season a very very happy and merry christmas to you as all
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out there i hope all your wishes come true and just do what you can to be good to each other in
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these trying times regardless of the scenarios and the situations that lay before us we will overcome
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these endeavors our grandparents survived the depression we can survive this like i say
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have a very very merry christmas happy holidays happy kwanzaa happy winter solstice to my pagans out
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there yes you know and just all around have a great have a great season and i'll hopefully see you in a few
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days with vids on the fly or another episode but in the meantime just do what you can help each other
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in these trying times and like i always say ladies and gentlemen humanity and merit wins the day
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oh but before i go there is a song i will add to this show it's done by greg lake from emerson
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lincoln palmer it's basically called i believe in father christmas and i will plug it in the description
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you guys listen at your leisure um i the first time i heard that i might have been about maybe seven years
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old and i've loved the song ever since so i hope you get the same feeling out of it as i do uh but
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enjoy on this festive season and all the best to you like i said mandy and merit wins the day
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take care ladies and gentlemen and i'll see you next time merry christmas
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this has been another episode of the crusty canuck podcast stay safe and thank you for listening
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from western canada this is the crusty canuck podcast
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i hope santa brings me a big rifle get me a goose or two merry christmas everybody happy new year