Western Standard - Let’s Talk, Up North (with @Martyupnorth)

00:00:00.000 G'day and welcome, I'm Derek Fildebrandt.

00:00:29.000 Today is February 12th, 2026. I'm sitting in a different chair than I usually sit. I'm just a couple feet over here because today we're launching it's because you're not actually gonna be listening to me. Thank goodness for more than just a couple of minutes here. I'm going to be introducing the host of our newest show on the Western Standard, but it is not a new show.

00:00:51.760 Marty Up North hasn't been doing regular episodes for a little bit now, but many of you will remember it as a great and fearless, independent podcast and video show tackling the issues of Albertans.

00:01:13.260 Fearless, willing to really willing to get into it and push the boundaries on what is acceptable discussion for Albertans.

00:01:20.960 and so uh not that long ago marty and i sat down and we decided that marty up north was too good

00:01:28.560 a show to not be doing and uh we agreed that marty was going to bring his show right here

00:01:34.400 to the western standard so uh i want to welcome mr up north well thank you i'm uh pleasure to be

00:01:42.920 here. And actually, this is pretty exciting. Yeah, you know, I put aside my show for a

00:01:50.880 while. And then I'm, and I'm, I'm mostly known on X these days, right, where I engage

00:01:56.540 very regularly. I mean, one of the reasons I like X is because I get immediate feedback.

00:02:01.680 And I think that's one of the things we're going to do on this show here is we're going

00:02:04.100 to do, we're going to bring back the, the calling concept and get some instant feedback

00:02:09.540 from people.

00:02:10.540 so that's so it's not going to be just uh traditionally we've just had the comment

00:02:14.140 section sometimes we uh interact in the comments and we want that lots of comments we were and

00:02:19.400 that'll be part of it but we're actually going to be bringing back kind of the old radio style

00:02:25.500 call-in show uh actually i think we got a phone number we can uh put up on uh on here don't call

00:02:31.060 just yet don't yeah yeah give us a second get ready oh yeah so maybe don't put the number up

00:02:34.600 yet don't put the number up yet um but yeah we're gonna it'll be kind of like just the old days

00:02:39.660 uh you know you call in and some people have something interesting and insightful to say

00:02:44.300 some people are totally crazy everyone's welcome though yeah and i welcome everything i mean you

00:02:48.720 know i think i think uh historically my focus is alberta politics and and some federal politics

00:02:54.880 less less federal these days but uh but i'm alberta politics i'm uh current events any issues

00:03:00.600 uh and that's what we want to encourage that's what i want to encourage i mean just call

00:03:04.440 and uh let's have a chat yeah uh i i don't really listen to talk talk in alberta they got rid of i

00:03:12.980 think daniel smith was actually kind of the last really good and interesting and engaging uh host

00:03:17.660 and i don't mean that to bash any of the others like some of them are we're okay but she was the

00:03:21.360 last of the kind of the greats you know we had um dave rutherford in time uh you know we've had

00:03:27.300 some greats uh you know Saskatchewan they had um John Gormley um you know every major city in

00:03:35.900 Canada used to have kind of their great more you know especially the you know the morning you know

00:03:41.140 kind of beginning around nine or ten o'clock kind of the morning block well I mean we don't have

00:03:45.240 that anymore actually you know I hate to give a shout out to the CBC but in the good old days

00:03:50.420 cross-country check-up and some of those talk shows like that were they had Rex Murphy once

00:03:54.540 upon it yeah i mean that was that was my staple you know just for the viewers right it's marty up

00:04:00.060 north and so the the up north name sure i live in calgary nowadays but the up north name came from

00:04:04.940 the fact that i used to live in northern alberta and as a as a young professional in northern

00:04:10.460 alberta i had to travel a lot and radio was was uh was a necessity you'd listen to the radio on

00:04:16.220 those long drives yeah um it was it always it was a great part of the public conversation i guess

00:04:23.100 you know podcast killed the radio star yeah but we're trying we're taking a stab here at trying

00:04:28.880 to marry the new with the old um and and actually we're gonna we're gonna bring it to some of our

00:04:33.920 other live shows like the cory morgan show we're gonna try to bring it in uh every once in a while

00:04:38.520 i do a live stream it's not it's pretty pretty pretty seldom i do but when i do it you know

00:04:43.880 we're gonna start experimenting experimenting with it i think it's more interactive than just

00:04:47.620 uh you know uh you know what do we got right there mostly just people happy to have you on

00:04:53.700 there but are we getting comments already oh yeah yeah okay but mostly just good job you know happy

00:04:58.500 to have marty up north stuff like that but you know you know normally you know it's like uh

00:05:03.220 bob from lethbridge 2 uh says blah blah blah and that is interactive but um i like the phone because

00:05:10.900 you know if say we try to cop out of the answer they can hold us to account you know or or if

00:05:16.740 if they're making a claim and we're not sure where they're going with it they can maybe elaborate a

00:05:20.340 bit well and and and the other thing i want to say to the viewers right is um online i'm known

00:05:26.500 as the unacceptable fact checker so that's what i want from your calls i mean if if you're going to

00:05:32.100 call uh you can call just a comment but what i'm really hoping to do is i do this every day

00:05:38.820 we're being told lies all the time there's two sides to the story and i think i bring that

00:05:42.740 different side to the story so when you call don't i'm i want to talk about the topics that the

00:05:48.660 mainstream media are not talking about i want to talk about the topics that the

00:05:52.100 politicians are not talking about we want to get to the root of the you know to the topics yeah

00:05:57.460 well and on that you know um and i'm not saying this is a cop-out uh saying it legitimately i

00:06:04.340 think in good faith um you know we're not going to agree on everything that's why you're the marty

00:06:09.940 up north show is on here it's not just me doing the show if i wanted exactly my opinions i would

00:06:15.040 i would just do a more regular show than i do and maybe i will start doing more regular shows at

00:06:19.420 some point but um you know i have cory morgan because i want cory morgan's views on things

00:06:23.960 i got nigel hanaford because i want nigel hanaford's uh views on things and now we got

00:06:28.340 marty up north because i want marty's opinion on things so i you know we're not you know so you

00:06:33.500 know we generally kind of row in the same direction here in the you know in the broad

00:06:37.420 strokes we agree on a lot of the big things but there'll be some things we don't but that's

00:06:40.780 that's that's a good thing we uh this is a show to encourage debate discussion be provocative

00:06:46.820 challenge our assumptions and including my own perfect awesome all right well that's you know

00:06:53.000 i am now uh yeah so you're not used to being in the driver's seat yeah but it's great the door

00:06:58.400 is on this side yeah yeah so i'm taking over the driver's seat for today for the rest of this hour

00:07:02.640 so for that yeah well uh i'm gonna check out here now and uh just hand it over to you good luck

00:07:07.580 I'm going to walk right over to my office on the other side of the newsroom, and I'll just be watching.

00:07:11.760 Awesome.

00:07:12.600 All right, good luck.

00:07:13.320 Thanks, Derek.

00:07:13.820 Let's go.

00:07:16.320 All right, folks.

00:07:17.280 So what are we talking about today?

00:07:20.920 I mean, I guess let me start off by just giving a little introduction of who I am, right?

00:07:27.240 I think some of you do follow me on X, but not everybody's on X.

00:07:32.600 I'm Marty up north.

00:07:34.400 Martin Belanger is my full name.

00:07:36.320 i'm uh i'm an engineer i'm i'm an albertan who's been living in alberta for uh 35 years now came

00:07:45.040 here full disclosure uh i was born in ontario uh educated out east did my university degree

00:07:51.840 in ottawa don't like to admit that uh you know ottawa used to be a pretty nice city um but i

00:07:59.280 nowadays i'm i'm almost embarrassed to admit that i went to the university of ottawa but

00:08:04.160 you know when i graduated university there was not a lot of jobs in uh late 80s early 90s so i

00:08:10.640 came out west and i ended up in northern alberta in a small town called fox creek is where i started

00:08:15.280 my career and uh and that's where i got the name marty up north you know it's one of those things

00:08:21.440 at some point in my life i had to come up with you know you know subscribe to something or enter

00:08:26.240 a a username and the marty up north stuck um and so so i'm an engineer i'm retired now retired a

00:08:35.760 couple years ago after a pretty decent career my career was all oil patched um all through alberta

00:08:43.440 saskatchewan bc a few stints overseas and and and i think i think that part of me the the engineering

00:08:53.200 part of me uh has always made me a curious person and and and online on my x handle i'm known as

00:09:00.960 marty up north the unacceptable fact checker and and the unacceptable comes from the covet era you

00:09:07.440 know trudeau uh when trudeau called people like me um you know racist and misogynistic and also

00:09:14.960 and unacceptable because we weren't because i wasn't willing to just bend and go along with the

00:09:19.840 uh, the, the COVID mandate. So that's the unacceptable. And the fact checker comes from

00:09:24.600 the fact that, you know, hardly a day goes by. I mean, in the morning I can look at the news.

00:09:29.520 I can look at any story, whether it's a politician speaking or a business speaking or a journalist

00:09:35.080 or whatever. And every story that I listened to almost inevitably, I go, Hmm, something's not

00:09:41.280 right with that. And so over the years, that's, that's what I've become known as is the guy who

00:09:46.320 tries to dig into stories and bust some narratives and we live in a world right now where they're

00:09:51.900 just there are just so many narratives so many crappy stories that were being fed conspiracies

00:09:58.480 in some instances and uh and that's what i do and that's what uh that's what i want to do on the

00:10:03.400 show here just uh you know have have those discussions uh this is the this is the first

00:10:09.460 show where we're we're you know we're gonna we're gonna take it places i mean i i gotta i gotta

00:10:14.480 figure out all the technicalities here but i think one of the things we're going to do is we're going

00:10:18.320 to do the call in i also hope that i'm going to bring in some guests um i think i can bring in

00:10:23.680 some guests to talk about topics that maybe aren't so common so i you know that that so that's what i

00:10:30.400 do um and so i just wanted to put that out there that's that's that's who marty is uh currently

00:10:36.640 living down south here in in uh in this part of the world in the alberta part in the calgary part

00:10:42.080 of the world but uh yeah so what do we want to do next john do we want to take a few questions or do

00:10:48.800 we want to i got to get my earpiece we're working out here we're good actually maybe um well before

00:11:00.640 we jump into questions uh i let let's talk about the i i before we jump into questions i think

00:11:08.480 that there's going to be you know this morning i looked at the news and there's only one topic

00:11:12.400 that's dominating the news right now and that's unfortunately it's the shooting that happened

00:11:17.200 in uh tumblr ridge and uh and and i want to talk a little bit about that from um from my close

00:11:24.800 perspective so i i've told you guys i i lived up north i spent 20 years of my life more than that

00:11:31.200 25 years of my life living up in northern alberta i lived in places like fox creek edson and grand

00:11:37.040 prairie so i i i lived several years in grand prairie uh i was the superintendent for an oil

00:11:42.480 company in those days and i had operations in fort st john and just south of fort st john i

00:11:47.520 had operations in tumbler ridge so tumbler ridge to me is not just a spot on the map it's a place

00:11:52.800 that i've been to many times and uh just want to say right off the bat i mean what happened yesterday

00:11:59.360 or two days ago was absolutely tragic um you know my heart does go out to to the families i'm i am

00:12:07.600 a father luckily my kids are older and and i'd never have to experience what some of the parents

00:12:12.240 experienced there but a shooting at a school is absolutely um terrible and i want to talk a little

00:12:21.760 bit about the you know how some people i think are trying to politic politicize this and i guess

00:12:29.120 we have no choice by talking about it perhaps we are police politicizing it as well but you know

00:12:36.320 tumblr ridge is a community that has been more or less devastated in the last 10-15 years by

00:12:45.360 failed policies of the liberal governments right so the liberal government it's it's it's a small

00:12:51.200 community in the foothills of the rockies you can literally see the rockies there it's surrounded

00:12:55.840 by wilderness and and it's a small town that made its livelihood from uh coal mining basically and

00:13:04.480 that industry has been decimated by the liberals over the years you know with the net zero and the

00:13:09.600 green future and everything else so little towns like that are are struggling thankfully there's

00:13:14.560 still oil and gas there but but the big big industry was uh was coal mining so the town as

00:13:21.120 it's in and of itself has has been in somewhat of a downturn for a while and things are stressful

00:13:27.520 enough as it is without needing an incident like this and uh and and and what's shocking to me

00:13:36.800 is it's not shocking but to me this what you know the fact that the incident was

00:13:42.000 perpetrated by somebody who was a trans person that doesn't shock me um you know i i i honestly

00:13:53.400 think that in in the world that we live in of the last decade this is a wake-up call again right

00:14:00.220 we've we have these crazy people with crazy ideologies that have infiltrated all our

00:14:05.420 institutions in this country right people they've infiltrated um our our schools they've

00:14:12.780 infiltrated our courts our government and they're pushing this crazy ideology on people and this is

00:14:18.640 just one example and and this is the consequence now we're seeing the consequence of some of these

00:14:24.560 bad policies to me you know um people that are suffering from this transgenderism need help and

00:14:36.360 we don't need to encourage them and and and and that's what we're seeing right now so you know i

00:14:41.660 just wanted to bring it up because in the coming days we're going to hear about people who are

00:14:45.840 going to use this as an excuse to to to further lock us down to further take away our guns and

00:14:51.720 further do things and and and my fear is that we're not gonna we we continually forget to look

00:14:59.880 at the root causes i mean some of the policies of the last 10 15 years have had unintended negative

00:15:07.500 consequences and i think it's slow and i think it's valid that we need to slow down as a society

00:15:12.420 and look at some of these policies and perhaps reconsider some of the things we've done and and

00:15:17.460 and go backwards got a call okay go ahead

00:15:25.220 oh hello am i on the air or just sticking in no no you're on the air go ahead

00:15:30.900 uh no what i'm asking about is uh and guess i guess that you should have on uh people like

00:15:36.900 thomas okazic uh jason kenney people like this make them answer to albertans for their positions

00:15:44.340 on the independence movement i 100 agree um i don't thomas lukazi could be an interesting person

00:15:54.740 i'd sure like to have his take uh he's been relatively quiet in the last little while

00:16:00.260 uh you know i think i think thomas had sort of a misfire right thomas uh did his petition and then

00:16:06.340 suddenly realized that his petition uh to to request a referendum to stay in canada was just

00:16:14.500 simply the opposite of uh ref of the current refer uh petition that's circulating to to leave so uh

00:16:20.980 yeah i'd love to have thomas uh kenny me personally i got attacked by kenny recently because of my

00:16:28.260 you know by the way i need to clarify this we will talk in the future more on independence i i'd love

00:16:34.580 to talk about independence but i think today it's probably not the most uh you know that like i

00:16:39.540 said earlier the the the story of the day is what happened in in uh tumblr ridge but i i will talk

00:16:46.660 about more about independence but you know i am not officially i am not a leader of the independence

00:16:53.140 movement i'm a i'm an engaged citizen and i found it very interesting that a couple of weeks ago

00:16:58.900 the former premier of this province decided to try and discredit me uh as a leader of the uh of

00:17:06.580 the independence movement but yeah thanks for the chat thanks for the call yeah well no it needs to

00:17:12.020 be it needs to be brought up because he's been using from pretty strong language of calling

00:17:16.820 people nazis i mean he's it's getting bolder and bolder and we know why but we got to bring it out

00:17:24.340 so i understand you're going to talk about a lot of issues but this should be one of them

00:17:28.100 yeah yeah no i agree um and and and in my world you know when when we get uh sort of attacked

00:17:34.740 like that i call it you know being over the target you remember the bombers in world war

00:17:38.260 ii that flew over uh germany to drop their bombs and they started getting the flack when you're

00:17:43.380 getting the flack that's because you're over the target so when a guy like kenny starts attacking

00:17:48.580 for people he perceives as leaders of the independence movement you know we're over the

00:17:52.580 target yeah well like i said you know because they get on these other shows and they get their

00:18:00.340 audience but we never have a chance to question them back perfect well we'll change that we'll

00:18:07.860 change that okay good show thanks okay i'm gonna go listen on my internet to the rest of your show

00:18:14.820 okay see you later bye so yeah no no oh sorry is there another question

00:18:23.220 no okay um well actually i mean let me let me talk just a wee bit about uh independence um so

00:18:30.580 so as i said right i'm i'm uh i'm definitely known as a pro independence guy um but i but one thing i

00:18:38.340 i really would like to talk about a little bit just today is that um i i at first i was reluctant

00:18:44.880 to i was worried about becoming a canvasser right so i'm i got a pretty solid following and a big

00:18:50.380 voice and i was reluctant to become a canvasser because i thought that elections alberta might

00:18:54.880 come after me right elections alberta has a history of going after people um who who uh who

00:19:01.920 are too uh vocal so i was reluctant to become a canvasser but i i changed my mind eventually and

00:19:07.720 became a canvasser so a couple uh two weeks ago i got my badge as a canvasser so i'm allowed to go

00:19:12.840 and collect signatures so i've been collecting signatures now for about six days and uh and

00:19:18.360 it's been a fascinating fascinating um experience for me you know i i engage with people but during

00:19:25.640 the process of collecting signatures you're really engaging with people i mean what i've been doing

00:19:30.040 is i've been doing what's called a pop-up right i got a i got my pickup truck i threw in a couple

00:19:34.360 of Alberta flags and a folding table and two chairs. And I found a roadside turnout next to

00:19:41.400 a highway, a service road. And I go park my truck there, put up a sign, put up my flags and start

00:19:46.420 collecting signatures. I wasn't sure how that would go at first, but lo and behold, I started

00:19:50.640 collecting 25, 30 signatures a day. Been doing that for six days in a row now. And the support

00:19:57.760 has been overwhelming. It's absolutely amazing to have people stop by. Like I've had people stop

00:20:03.840 almost in tears so thankful that they get to sign and and exercise their um their democratic voice

00:20:12.720 uh not gonna lie i've had quite a few people there are still people who drive by and and uh

00:20:18.000 you know hurl out insults and stuff like that but generally speaking i've been uh

00:20:24.160 pumped by the people and and and i gotta say this there's no i can't put my finger on a particular

00:20:32.000 demographic of who wants to uh sign because the demographic is so varied i've had you know uh

00:20:42.320 trades people come by jokingly i actually here's an observation the most common trade that i've

00:20:48.080 seen come sign my petition so far are drywallers and painters which is probably a reflection on uh

00:20:54.800 on on calgary's booming construction industry right now but i've had trades people i've had

00:21:00.000 professionals show up in suit i've had tons of pickup trucks mercedes cars uh young and old i

00:21:07.120 mean old i had uh three ladies in uh in their late 80s three sisters come by brought cookies

00:21:15.280 uh sang a song for me and the people that were standing there and they were they were probably

00:21:19.520 some of the most excited about signing you know they they had all said that they'd been waiting

00:21:24.080 for this moment for 40 years i guess they'd lived through the uh the national energy program of you

00:21:30.800 know of the 80s i mean anybody who lived through that through that first uh trudeau era uh remembers

00:21:37.120 that um had young people old people so i can't put my finger on the there is no specific demographic

00:21:45.040 of who wants to sign it's it's been absolutely fascinating now i will say this i might i might

00:21:52.320 get a little bit of pushback on this but i have noticed one demographic in particular that has

00:21:58.560 been uh the most uh aggressive towards me and uh that's the older uh males the older white guys

00:22:09.360 i'll say it i'll be blunt they're the ones that that they're the only ones so far who go out of

00:22:14.800 their way to drive up to the table roll the window down and give me some sort of obscene gesture so

00:22:21.120 i'm not sure why that is uh i i i guess the boomers i i've been critical of boomers from

00:22:28.320 out east but i think there's uh there's a critical group of boomers everywhere in the country if i

00:22:34.720 had to to figure to to to make an assumption as to why they're the people who profited from

00:22:41.520 uh canada they got their house paid for they're getting their pension and and uh they just they're

00:22:48.160 just scared of a change and and uh it manifests itself that way so yeah um any any uh my earpiece

00:22:58.000 keeps falling out sorry about that folks and uh john any any questions right now or any comments

00:23:05.040 keep just keep going all right cool cool so um yeah um well let's talk a little bit more about

00:23:15.040 independence then so the um you know i'm i'm on trend personally i set myself a goal of of

00:23:21.760 collecting a thousand signatures i'm already like an eighth of the way there which is which is

00:23:27.440 phenomenal um my my my badge as a canvasser is like number 3300 there's about 6 000 people that

00:23:35.520 are collecting signatures so i just want to put that into context real quick right danielle smith

00:23:41.520 gave us an amazing piece of legislature last year when she passed the citizens initiative act

00:23:49.200 which allows citizens to formally you know because remember in the past when you when

00:23:54.000 how many how many people have signed a petition at one point or another right did lots of petitions

00:23:58.320 are circulating even the ones for the house of commons and they seem to never go anywhere

00:24:02.320 whereas this process now has teeth because smith passed the citizens initiative act

00:24:09.120 and and put a pretty you know pretty rigorous process in place and under the act right now

00:24:16.620 a citizen miss sylvester is is the one who started the petition and he needs to collect 177 000

00:24:24.540 signatures and if he gets 177 000 signatures smith has no choice but to consider what the petition

00:24:31.060 asks which in this case is a referendum and i'm pretty confident that uh from what i've observed

00:24:37.400 that the 177,000 is a pretty easy hurdle to achieve, would I be happy with 177,000 signatures?

00:24:47.400 No, I want way more signatures of that. I want 500,000 signatures. And I'll tell you why.

00:24:55.200 Right now in Alberta, there's about 3 million electors that are registered that can vote in

00:25:01.020 an upcoming election or in a referendum in a good year we get about 35 percent of the electors come

00:25:07.340 out so you know out of three million registered electors in a good year we get a million million

00:25:11.580 and a bit people come out and vote i think something like a referendum on separation will

00:25:17.020 bring out a lot more people than that so let's say we get you know 75 80 percent voter turnout

00:25:22.620 out of the three million people that's like two million people coming out to vote right two and a

00:25:26.940 a half so um i and so if you get two and a half million people come out to vote and we want to

00:25:32.780 win a referendum then we need 1.2 million uh voting in favor 1.3 which is why getting 1 million

00:25:40.880 signatures is so critical because if we get 1 million signatures those are the people that

00:25:46.580 would vote if we get 1 million signature and everybody who signs convinces one of their

00:25:51.020 friends one of their neighbors one of their colleagues to also vote on the day of the

00:25:55.200 referendum then then we have uh then we have our deal so um yeah that's you know i'm i'm not hiding

00:26:04.080 it marty is a is an absolute uh in favor of uh of an independent alberta i mean that's um

00:26:13.200 that well that's a whole topic in and of itself and and and you guys have heard cory talk about

00:26:17.680 this all the time i i think it's pretty fair to say that the uh the audience on board as well

00:26:24.160 um yeah so john no questions yet folks if we're gonna do a call-in show you gotta you you got the

00:26:33.520 number right there on the screen you've got to call in right get challenge me with your best

00:26:37.760 questions i mean i'm not shy that's what i you know that's why i like x i've always said i like

00:26:43.200 x because i found a voice on x but what i like about x is you can test out theories and ideas

00:26:50.080 is and if you're right about something you'll get praise and if you're wrong you're going to know

00:26:54.960 about it real quick right i think more politicians should actually be on x legitimately themselves

00:27:01.800 not you know their account managers or whatever so i like x because it's instant feedback that

00:27:08.020 was one of the things i used to like about my podcast is that i i engage people so um yeah it's

00:27:14.140 a new show here and hopefully you guys will get up but uh oh we got a comment all right let's go

00:27:18.400 let's hear this one you're on the air go ahead oh cool i've been trying to call but i was going to

00:27:23.940 voice now hi marty uh nice to nice that you're uh online with western standard that's great

00:27:30.020 um uh proud independent supporter jr michael in the comments there um i just i what i really like

00:27:38.900 and sorry to interrupt what you're talking about uh you know people are calling us traders obviously

00:27:44.500 whatever um uh we we still have to vote in the federal election if if we don't get to our goal

00:27:52.820 right or if they let's say call an election right beforehand so hopefully people understand that

00:27:58.480 that we're you know we're still we still have to vote federally regardless of what the outcome is

00:28:04.980 for now right um and that just bringing me to a federal topic that i don't think a lot of people

00:28:11.020 are discussing or haven't really brought it up, and of course I'm a Conservative, always

00:28:15.880 have been, one thing that I've noticed is that the Canadian legacy media have not shown

00:28:26.760 the results correctly in the last federal election, because ultimately the Conservatives

00:28:31.940 got what they were expected to regarding their vote counts.

00:28:36.140 They got 41%, Liberals got 42%, whatever it was, don't quote me on those numbers.

00:28:41.020 But what they're not mentioning is that the NDP failed.

00:28:44.440 So the Conservatives ultimately did win just, you know, what they were expected to.

00:28:49.940 We just lost all those NDP votes.

00:28:52.280 Yeah, I hear what you're saying.

00:28:55.780 I mean, it's, you know, when I looked at the vote from the last election, statistically, the Conservatives fought an amazing battle and won more votes than they've ever had, right?

00:29:07.520 poiliev if you look at statistically poiliev is the most popular conservative leader that this

00:29:12.800 country's had in a long time um and he he he got more votes than anybody else but but what you're

00:29:20.400 singling out i think is um in this country unfortunately if if it's just conservative

00:29:28.240 and liberal the liberals will always win that's that's a statistical uh certainty right i i've

00:29:35.120 actually done that math many times so the only chance that the conservatives have of winning

00:29:41.440 over time is whenever the left is split and i know we talk about not splitting the right but i

00:29:46.560 but weirdly we are counting on the left to be split and and jagmeet singh to me had one job

00:29:54.160 in the last election which is to split the left but he he failed miserably and thus the liberals

00:29:59.760 were able to win again and let's not forget too right i mean uh poiliev has the odds stacked

00:30:06.240 against him as you're saying and you know the the media is not friendly to him and uh and then

00:30:12.080 carney was given a pretty sweet prize in the last election he had an instant uh crisis boogeyman

00:30:20.320 with uh donald trump just south of us right and he capitalized on that gloriously that he did and um

00:30:27.760 It would be interesting because, you know, Jagmeet, who would bring, you know, we'll say an OF model onto their tour bus?

00:30:37.400 I think he purposely tanked that whole campaign just to finally, for one last hurrah, prop up the Liberals.

00:30:45.280 Yeah, yeah, no, we're on, I'm in agreement with you there.

00:30:49.320 I mean, it looked like that's what he was doing, right?

00:30:51.500 I mean, some of the, like, in Canadian politics, we often, we used to refer to something as a bozo eruption, right?

00:30:59.120 There was always, almost every campaign has a politician that does something really silly.

00:31:04.400 Usually, it's not the leader.

00:31:05.760 Usually, it's somebody in the ranks does something silly and then gives a really bad, you know, causes a drop temporarily.

00:31:14.800 In this case, the bozo eruption came from Jagme.

00:31:18.080 but you're right it looked almost fabricated to the point of being um intentional so yeah we'll

00:31:23.920 see i mean uh the interesting things have you been following the um the the current the ndp

00:31:30.000 like my thoughts on the on the ndp uh race is i hope they actually elect a moderate

00:31:37.280 good uh leader that will do what they're supposed to do which is uh split their split the left with

00:31:44.000 With the left.

00:31:45.000 Yeah.

00:31:46.000 That's right.

00:31:47.000 Because that's ultimately what happened.

00:31:48.000 And a lot of people were like, oh, Pierre lost.

00:31:50.000 Pierre lost.

00:31:51.000 Actually, no, he didn't.

00:31:52.000 The NDP tanked.

00:31:53.000 And that's what propped up everybody.

00:31:54.000 And, of course, the $1.4 billion going to CBC, they're not going to report on that.

00:31:59.000 And I wonder why they're not reporting positively towards the Conservatives.

00:32:03.000 Their whole platform is to defund that.

00:32:05.000 And I think that needs to kind of change as much as we don't want to hear it.

00:32:09.000 But it needs to hold the CBC to account.

00:32:11.000 Let's stay on this topic just for a second.

00:32:13.000 Right. I mean, I I've looked at the math. So if you if you look at the last 10 federal elections in this country and you take out Alberta, pretend Alberta doesn't exist.

00:32:21.200 Right. There would have never been a liberal government. So Alberta, sorry, there would have never been a conservative government, not even a Harper government, because the the the block of votes that that that are conservative from Alberta is huge.

00:32:35.480 it's always about a million and a half to two million votes so then if you look at it statistically

00:32:41.400 you have to wonder and it and it plays into this independence movement without alberta canada would

00:32:48.280 never have a conservative government ever again so if you're carny what do you want you you're

00:32:54.280 weighing two options you can actually encourage alberta to leave which then would mean a liberal

00:33:00.280 victory forever and ever and maybe that's what they want or you or do they want us to stay

00:33:07.240 because the money that we send is good right so what does carney want does he want our money or

00:33:12.360 does he want uh to lose our votes so i think i think uh in the coming months i think carney's

00:33:19.480 this is my opinion i think that the future of alberta independence the biggest impact will

00:33:24.920 come from carney carney can can can decide alberta independence more than anybody else

00:33:30.840 if that makes sense yeah and i hope yes and i hope that i actually hope they call the election

00:33:36.520 before the uh referendum is set in that way it will because you you know it's almost a guaranteed

00:33:42.340 win for the liberals as always without it without a good uh yeah alternate left yeah it sure sure

00:33:48.040 looks like they're interested in doing that right i i have a bottle of whiskey on that i i think

00:33:52.640 personally that before the end of this year there will be an election is it going to be in april or

00:33:57.440 may i'm not sure but i think before the end of this year either either carney feels uh cocky

00:34:03.200 and that he can go get a majority and he'll do it or uh he gets defeated i mean he he passed that

00:34:09.440 budget bill by the skin of his teeth and i think um statistically he just lost uh bill blair who's

00:34:16.480 going to go be the um the high commissioner to england which is basically a diplomat he lost

00:34:22.960 uh free land he's lost others he has to call a few by elections to replace them but right now

00:34:28.240 carney's minority got smaller he's he's he's more of a minority than he was two months ago

00:34:33.120 so he could technically be defeated by the conservatives and the others uh if they get

00:34:38.240 together i mean technically speaking there's there has to be a budget that's a weird thing

00:34:41.760 thing we you know we we just approved the budget in uh in november and uh but the budget cycle in

00:34:49.740 this country ends on april or sorry march 31st so we're already getting close to the point where

00:34:54.980 the liberals are going to have to introduce the next budget we haven't even spent a dime on the

00:34:58.400 old one fascinating stuff um thanks yeah unless they use a you know a scare tactic yeah right to

00:35:04.380 to postpone it but yeah thanks all right just one last one last word if i could sure forget folks

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00:35:22.620 Thank you.

00:35:23.240 Excellent.

00:35:24.260 Okay.

00:35:24.760 Yeah, I think just to further expand on that, I think the Alberta separatist movement,

00:35:36.400 the phase that it's going through right now is pretty easy.

00:35:39.320 collecting signatures uh you know people it's it's not a huge commitment on the behalf of anybody

00:35:44.840 right you're signing a petition i think um if we get to a if if if danielle smith does give us a

00:35:53.240 referendum let's say at the end of this year in october november the referendum campaign that's

00:35:59.480 a different beast right and and convince and and what i want to make sure is that when somebody's

00:36:04.600 in that booth when you're in that voting booth and you got those that cardboard thing and you're

00:36:09.000 by yourself and you're looking at the questions you want to stay or leave some people might get

00:36:13.400 cold feet uh so i want to i want to bring those uh cold feet people on board make it make sure

00:36:18.840 they're they're comfortable signing but um i i think it's i hope it doesn't become too divisive

00:36:25.880 with uh with with the actual referendum campaign go ahead yeah yeah i'm getting used to this folks

00:36:33.640 i'm it's a it's a every i've done podcasting i've done uh this stuff for a long time but

00:36:39.560 you know i gotta get used to it but one before i get to the question oh i'll come back to no

00:36:44.760 before i get to the question that this is one of the reasons i was excited to do this because i get

00:36:50.200 to actually do this in a very professional format i got a we got a producer here now i have a small

00:36:56.040 team you know uh before i always had to do everything by myself now i got a small yeah i

00:37:00.680 I got people to help me if there's an interesting story and I need to try and

00:37:04.460 get a guest speaker or somebody to talk to.

00:37:07.180 Now I got a few little resources.

00:37:08.640 So that's why I was really excited to come and join the team here and,

00:37:12.260 and, and, uh, at the Western standards. So go ahead on the air.

00:37:19.120 Hi there. Am I on the air? Yeah, go ahead.

00:37:22.900 Oh, hi Marty. This, uh,

00:37:25.640 I'm a long time follower of yours on X or one of my favorite follows.

00:37:29.240 I just wanted to put that out there.

00:37:30.680 My question for the independence movement is how do we prevent the powerful globalist entities who are really good at, you know, coups and color revolutions and stuff like that from infiltrating our movement and just getting, you know, even if we win,

00:37:53.580 And how do we keep them from just turning or changing our trajectory back towards their agendas, you know, by getting us to sign up to the United Nations, Agenda 2030, all that stuff, all these international alliances that would give away our sovereignty all over again?

00:38:12.380 I mean, lots to unpack there.

00:38:15.660 I'll give you sort of a quick answer.

00:38:17.720 I mean, there's no – let me step back.

00:38:22.220 we we we're going to get attacks so i don't know where those attacks are going to come from but

00:38:27.900 there are people maybe attacks a harsh word but right now in alberta there is a growing separatist

00:38:34.360 movement in in in in the separatist movement in this sense in our sense is a grassroots movement

00:38:40.080 think about that right it's grassroots like there's no defined leaders these are we we have

00:38:44.600 citizens that are fed up they're demanding change and that stresses i point this out all the time

00:38:51.360 that perhaps stresses people in Alberta, in power in Alberta,

00:38:56.580 you know, the government, the smiths of the world.

00:38:58.300 It certainly stresses people in Ottawa and people in other provinces

00:39:02.300 who know the, you know, senior politicians do not like a population that awakens.

00:39:10.680 So we're stressing people in Alberta and Canada.

00:39:13.820 And to your point, I think we're actually going to start stressing people

00:39:16.720 in the rest of the world.

00:39:17.740 i mean there are democracy there are there are democracies around the world that are kind of

00:39:21.620 fragile there are non-democratic places you know what i mean there's there's lots of places around

00:39:26.060 the world so there are others that are looking i call them the powers to be right we always

00:39:29.780 i don't know who the powers that be are you know some people say the world economic forum or the

00:39:36.100 rothschilds or whatever but i think to your point there are powers that be that don't like

00:39:40.720 know what's going on what's that we know who the public front man of the power to be are yes exactly

00:39:48.880 so no i don't know how to i i guess we'll just have to be vigilant when they start showing up

00:39:54.380 and and showing what they're doing we have to uh we'll have to start fighting back and addressing

00:39:59.220 it i mean we're already seeing it right we're seeing it um we're we're seeing it in in in like

00:40:05.800 you said with only one side of the story coming out right like a like a like a david eby last

00:40:11.280 week standing up and calling people in alberta traitors for what they're trying to do right

00:40:16.400 by the way i just want to correct that there's nothing treacherous treasonous about what we're

00:40:21.840 doing it's allowed under the canadian constitution the clarity act uh said that we're allowed to do

00:40:27.180 it the alberta citizens initiative act like what you know people getting together and collecting

00:40:31.860 signatures is one of the most democratic things you can possibly do so yeah now good question i

00:40:37.140 don't have a perfect answer but let's be vigilant vigilant thank you marty yeah you're welcome um

00:40:46.500 yeah that was a that actually was an interesting thing of eb to uh you know that that's an example

00:40:52.580 of uh of an attack and and misinformation um actually you know speaking of misinformation i

00:41:00.660 I mean, we saw what happened in the House of Commons just this week, right?

00:41:04.020 Bill C-9 is still being pushed forward, pushed through.

00:41:08.100 That's a direct attack on our free speech.

00:41:12.840 They don't, like I said, governments in particular don't like a citizenry that's awakened and exercising its rights.

00:41:25.120 um yeah john any other quick questions right now or uh you want me to go to the screen i'm looking

00:41:31.780 at the screen which is fascinating i'm so i'm trying to figure out all these tools i have here

00:41:35.520 so i got a producer who can feed me some questions and i got some questions on the screen over there

00:41:40.860 um yeah the new world order oh boy oh boy i don't know if i can unpack that one at all i won't

00:41:49.720 There's so much to unpack with Carney's comments about the New World Order.

00:41:54.120 All I want to say is that – oh, you got a question?

00:41:58.760 All right, let's go to the question first before I dive into the New World Order.

00:42:02.200 Go ahead.

00:42:05.640 Hello?

00:42:06.380 Yeah, go ahead.

00:42:08.900 Oh, sorry.

00:42:10.620 Yeah, I was just going to call in about the Tumblr Ridge shooting and that.

00:42:16.280 And, you know, when we look at, say, the obvious failures of our gun control system, in the sense that, you know, there was somebody in the household that had mental health issues, and obviously they were criminally insane, I would say.

00:42:34.760 The guns get taken away, the guns get put back.

00:42:38.000 The kid had a youth pal or whatever, which, again, you can lend the kid the gun and this and that, whatever.

00:42:46.280 The real issue here is how did the kid get into school, and why wasn't anybody able to stop the kid when he got into the school?

00:42:54.620 I think the time, you know, and again, we're going to have this conversation, you know, while we're in Canada.

00:43:01.260 But I'll tell you what, the minute we separate, one of the first questions I'd be asking the new leaders is,

00:43:08.040 how are we going to strengthen the security in our schools to protect our kids,

00:43:11.560 uh the right to self-defense and the ability to carry a tool for self-defense yeah yeah you know

00:43:19.480 even in the wilderness or in the city i don't care which and arm our teachers like

00:43:25.760 they're the first line of defense for our kids those are you know good good comments i hope we

00:43:31.600 don't have to get to that point i mean i i i don't want to send my kids to a school where

00:43:35.700 the teachers arm i think we can we can hopefully resolve it but but i agree with you know one of

00:43:40.240 what i will say about what you just said is um what frustrates me as a former engineer is i've

00:43:48.820 i've experienced failures in my life you know equipment failures design failures and then so

00:43:53.360 then i investigate i get to the actual root cause try and figure out why and and i think you you

00:43:58.680 brought up a whole bunch of things right when when somebody if somebody if if life gets so bad for

00:44:04.520 somebody that they decide to walk into a school and start shooting people holy smokes right like

00:44:09.160 I'm guessing it's not just one thing. There's a whole chain of things that failed. And as the curious person in me wants to get to the root cause and also wants to find all the things that broke down. You're right. I mean, like there's definitely an aspect of somebody who is crying for help of some sort. So that's a failure. You're right. There's a failure of the firearms control. There's a failure at the school.

00:44:34.600 there's so many of them to single them out and i hope that i i've been advocating for that all

00:44:39.960 that's what i advocate for let's get to the root causes let's reverse some of these policies that

00:44:45.080 are not working so yeah great comment and uh but but and i i will i do support i do agree with you

00:44:51.160 on one really key one i'm i'm i'm i am a firearms owner and look at what i just did right i mean

00:44:57.640 i've i've i've even changed my language to adjust right i say firearms no i'm a gun owner i own

00:45:03.720 guns okay like i've been so i own guns and uh i think we should be allowed to have guns to defend

00:45:10.520 ourselves 100 agree yep yeah absolutely great call thank you yeah okay thanks for your chat

00:45:17.480 you're welcome thank you marty yeah um where was i before that call yeah i was going on uh the the

00:45:23.160 new world order boy did anybody else's tingly bat hairs on the back of their neck go up when

00:45:30.520 carney said you know we're in the new world order like that's that's bonkers and um i mean how many

00:45:37.800 like carney himself you know people forget this carney himself a year ago during the election

00:45:44.600 uh campaign no before the election campaign so when when the liberals were having their

00:45:50.120 um leadership debate in montreal or wherever the heck it was they were supposed to talk about

00:45:55.960 security and and the the debate host sort of glanced over security and i remember carney like

00:46:03.760 literally going hey we're supposed to talk about security and he just wanted to make a you know

00:46:07.860 make a uh throw out a line there so he's like he just literally threw it out saying i think china

00:46:14.340 is the biggest threat to canada like he just threw it out there because he wanted that was one of his

00:46:18.860 talking points and it hadn't been brought up so less than a year ago we got carney telling us that

00:46:23.640 china is the biggest threat to canada and uh and then within a year he's he's in china cozying up

00:46:31.300 to them uh getting us in deals and talking about the new world order which which is like i want

00:46:40.060 i mean i could go on this topic for a long time i want i want carney and i want trump to

00:46:45.920 like to be both statesmen they're both guilty of this i mean you know trump is trump loves to troll

00:46:52.400 It's obvious he loves to troll, right? Look at what he's doing with the new Gordie Howe bridge, right? I'm going to block the bridge. But I think these two guys need to properly sit down at the room and work it out because we're going down a really scary path if we get in bed with China and we start to completely alienate our American neighbors and cousins.

00:47:15.940 I mean, we've had a relationship with the Americans for 250 years, longer than that. And absolutely, pragmatically speaking, they are by far our biggest trade partner. I mean, 80% of our trade is done with the Americans. And that's a function of geography and reality.

00:47:34.580 no amount of of effort to go secure deals in europe or china or or asia is going to replace

00:47:42.640 our american partners i mean the the you know they're across the border you drive a truck and

00:47:48.280 you deliver the you deliver the parts and they come back and you bring back the food i mean it's

00:47:53.080 so easy versus you know carney went to to to europe last week and he he came back bragging

00:47:59.140 about having done a deal with luxembourg so i'm like okay luxembourg where's luxembourg right now

00:48:05.540 most of you wouldn't be in the nobody can point luxembourg to the map so i go look at luxembourg

00:48:11.060 and i'm like wow we did in fact we only do about 70 million dollars worth of business with luxembourg

00:48:20.900 and they in return send us 140 million like not billions with a b but millions like millions is

00:48:28.420 nothing and so we barely do anything and even now what we do with them is a trade imbalance we buy

00:48:34.720 more from them than we sell to them so there's no like in carney comes back and tries to sell that

00:48:39.340 as a as a win for us there's no win there um in now in hindsight or in further you know uh study

00:48:48.020 turns out that luxembourg is like one of those big financial capitals like second best place in the

00:48:53.480 world for managing mutual funds after New York. So what do they do? They manage other people's

00:48:59.020 money. And what do those people do? They invest here and then they take their profits back to

00:49:02.980 wherever they're going. Anyways, go ahead. We got another question. Sorry. Hello. For the first

00:49:11.900 time, I just signed up for Western Standard here not long ago on recommendation from a friend of

00:49:16.840 Oh, that's me on the air.

00:49:22.600 You've got to turn off the sound in the background, buddy.

00:49:26.260 I'll turn it off.

00:49:27.220 Okay.

00:49:27.880 Okay.

00:49:28.240 So now what's happening is I'm 70 years old, 71.

00:49:33.560 And I remember I was born and raised Albertan.

00:49:36.380 My grandparents and my teens, they were farmers in the province of Alberta,

00:49:40.260 would start to educate me about how the East has rigged programs from the crow rate,

00:49:45.780 their shipping to and from Ontario for their products and all that and how unfair it was.

00:49:51.120 So I did sign up to separate and I'm serious about separating. And when I signed, I told the

00:49:58.540 lady where I signed it, I said, I'm not only signing for myself, but I'm signing for my

00:50:02.940 grandparents as they both passed away. And we've all three of us have lived under the oppression

00:50:08.040 of eastern politicians but my question and I'd like I've sent off emails to CBC and CTV to their

00:50:16.340 power questions and that is two one is Pierre Trudeau years ago brought it up when Lougheed

00:50:23.980 was in power in Alberta that Quebec when they signed into confederation said that they will

00:50:29.460 always have 25 percent of the power of Canada so when you do the math if all four western provinces

00:50:37.200 voted the same, they could outvote Quebec by just a few seats.

00:50:41.580 Now, no wonder all the politicians kowtowed to Quebec to get elected.

00:50:46.560 And our voices mean nothing in the West.

00:50:48.600 And the second one is, the big one, is Jacques Bargeau brought it up when I first learned

00:50:54.980 about the Angaba Treaty.

00:50:57.560 And I've tried to understand it in that, but what it is, they said it's one of the very

00:51:02.600 few treaties signed in canada that when quebec uh became signed into confederation they were

00:51:11.720 quebec was originally just a few miles north and south of the saint lawrence seaway and the rest

00:51:18.360 was assigned to quebec as the landlord and if they were to ever leave canada that would go back to

00:51:24.680 canada and they say it's one of the very few documents that's written in french and english

00:51:29.160 that can't be misinterpreted okay and i just wonder if you knew this no so i mean i i can

00:51:35.320 really speak to the first point right um the first point you you're describing one of the major flaws

00:51:42.040 of confederation right so quebec ontario and and the maritimes joined first alberta joins last so

00:51:48.200 when we joined last we didn't even get the same proportion of seats right off the bat right right

00:51:54.760 we didn't get the same proportion of seats we got a bump deal and to your point even if we had the

00:51:59.880 same proportion of seats we'd still be insignificant because there's you know between ontario and quebec

00:52:05.480 there's like 29 30 million people and there's only five here even if we all gang up we're still going

00:52:10.440 to be you know you look at you look at the way canada exists as a on the map and there's a little

00:52:15.240 triangle between ottawa toronto and montreal like there's 26 million people there so they'll always

00:52:20.120 outrule us so so that's just a fact no even trying to correct it wouldn't wouldn't solve that

00:52:26.280 inequality the second part of your question i i'm not familiar with that anymore but i but i'll just

00:52:32.200 say this a lot of those old treaties people bring them up all the time right some of those old

00:52:37.800 treaties canada is like a common law country and after a while whatever we've done becomes the law

00:52:45.640 no matter it doesn't matter what was written in paper as we've evolved the papers are you know i

00:52:52.040 i i know people bring up some of those old treaty the the the treaty of westminster is another one

00:52:56.840 that people bring up all the time so but but those all become irrelevant for us if we uh

00:53:02.040 you know thanks for signing and and uh hopefully we we we become uh independent and re and and

00:53:08.280 fix all that anyway so appreciate the call you bet thank you yeah yeah thank you

00:53:15.640 do i have time for one more or uh we're we're getting one more all right let's do one more

00:53:21.960 boy i'll tell you this is amazing the time flies like i'm almost nervous going like i can't believe

00:53:26.840 it's been an hour i feel unprepared folks i'm sorry if i'm a little unprepared but next week

00:53:30.920 i'll be way better prepared but go ahead uh you're you're on the air i always wanted to say that

00:53:35.560 you're on the air no did we lose them john

00:53:45.640 all right um i'm seeing some of the questions there there's so many great questions actually

00:53:54.400 i've somebody people are asking questions about first nation treaties and stuff like that when

00:53:59.340 cory comes back uh from his vacation there next week cory is the guy to address some of those

00:54:05.120 things um who else what else i think we're that that's it for that question okay um so folks you

00:54:14.580 know listen this is this is the this is my first episode of this show um i i'm like i said i'm

00:54:21.220 excited to be here i really hope that uh you guys tune in every week and start asking me questions

00:54:27.240 like as you've noticed right it's not one-sided i mean if when we got time here we can have a

00:54:32.920 little bit of back and forth oh we got one more question all right go for it one question you're

00:54:37.260 here am i disconnected by accident nope there you go go ahead go ahead call me

00:54:49.580 hello yeah yeah go ahead

00:54:54.860 oh we're just

00:54:59.420 and we lost them oh well it will we'll work out those uh technical difficulties i guess

00:55:05.820 the the the art of uh the art of doing the call-in is maybe uh a little lost here on the team so

00:55:14.060 john will get better at it i'll get better at it and we'll we'll we'll figure it out in the coming

00:55:18.540 weeks um but yeah as i was saying uh i'm super pumped to be here um you know if you guys have

00:55:26.220 ideas for topics you want me to cover uh guests you want me to bring on board you know put it in

00:55:32.380 the comments there and then we'll see what we can uh we can accommodate like i said i i mean i i

00:55:38.460 like talking about politics but i do also like talking about you know other more mundane stuff

00:55:44.700 like for instance you know the the uh the water line break that we had here uh i'd love to sit

00:55:51.180 down in the studio here and bring somebody like you know the manager of engineering from the uh

00:55:56.300 from from the city of calgary or some of the consultants that have been doing the repairs

00:56:00.300 and bring those guys out here because you know when you when you talk to some people when you

00:56:05.140 talk to the politicians you're only getting one side of the answer and and quite frankly no

00:56:09.760 disrespect to some of my co-hosts and stuff like that but you know there's some topics that are

00:56:14.920 that that that are more suited for other people and i think i i could be uh able to do a pretty

00:56:21.740 good deep dive on some of the engineering technical topics like you know what caused the water line to

00:56:28.680 uh to break in uh in calgary um yeah so hopefully you guys got some good ideas for um for for for

00:56:37.320 topics for for guest speakers um otherwise any any more john or uh we're gonna i got a couple

00:56:46.520 of seconds so what am i supposed to say at this point uh um so this is the marty up north show

00:56:53.480 on the western standard i'm you know thank you for uh thank you to uh derek and and the guys for

00:56:59.160 reaching out and giving me this opportunity give them you know uh show some appreciation back make

00:57:06.040 sure you uh subscribe to the to the western standard and uh and then hopefully we'll uh

00:57:13.160 get uh more of you guys to come back in the in the coming weeks give me some feedback and uh

00:57:18.760 and then we'll go from there yeah anything else john and stream

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Western Standard - February 12, 2026

Let’s Talk, Up North (with @Martyupnorth)

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