Western Standard - MARTY UP NORTH： Court allows Alberta independence petition signatures to be counted

00:00:00.000 hey everyone happy thursday um hey it feels like i've been gone for a long

00:00:29.520 time in fact i have i guess uh i missed two shows uh big bosses had to step in and cover for me

00:00:36.080 derek did one show and josh did the other uh haven't had a chance to go back and look at those

00:00:41.420 hope they went well um yeah i was gone for uh just finished my hike i took a couple of weeks off

00:00:48.120 headed off to vancouver and then took a ferry up the coast and went up the sunshine coast just

00:00:54.400 past powell river with three friends and we hiked something called the sunshine coast trail it's an

00:01:02.640 interesting idea not the typical hike that i do you know i'm used to hiking in uh in remote jasper

00:01:10.320 banff wilmore wilderness this was uh definitely did not have that remote feeling to it you know

00:01:17.360 at any given time we were never more than a couple of miles from a quad trail or a logging road

00:01:23.520 encountered a lot of people on the trail that i would call locals you know so we started at one

00:01:28.960 end went all the way to the other end did 135 kilometers the trail's famous for its huts there's

00:01:34.400 huts all along the trails evenly spaced about every 15 kilometers at high spots uh tin hat hut

00:01:42.080 waltz hut nice little huts where you can um just you know sleep on the sleeping bag upstairs in the

00:01:50.080 huts um but yeah not a not a remote trail because uh like i said easy access by by locals uh on

00:01:58.720 quad i mean it's a weird feeling to hike 15 kilometers and at the end of the day you get

00:02:02.520 to a hut and then there's other people that are already there that got there by driving their

00:02:06.440 pickup truck kind of thing but still good to get away and um and i'm not gonna lie like when i cut

00:02:13.240 you know there when i go on long hikes like that i disconnect even though there was some cell

00:02:18.900 service I disconnect I try not to follow what's going on I mean that's the whole purpose for me

00:02:23.880 of going out in the wilderness is to disconnect but I came back here and then we had a 12-hour

00:02:29.980 drive so while we're driving back and taking turns driving had time to log on to the internet and see

00:02:35.880 what's happening and I'm telling you within minutes within minutes I just wanted to turn around and

00:02:41.400 just go back into the wilderness right I mean what are what are the what are the first things

00:02:47.220 i saw when i got on the on the internet coming out of the wilderness well sad stories right there's

00:02:52.820 the shootings i what what was there last week like three or four by the way that's a good reminder

00:02:57.460 okay so i am disconnected right now i've had sort of a chance to reconnect with what's going on but

00:03:02.740 i am disconnected uh i'm not fully up to speed on everything that happened so let's make this your

00:03:08.820 show you call me today the numbers on the bottom of the of the screen there you call me and you tell

00:03:14.180 me what were the big stories last week and let's talk about those big stories but you know like i

00:03:19.860 said when i come out first thing i hear about is uh i don't know was there two or three shootings

00:03:24.260 that went on uh pride was finishing you know one of the first things that come out of the wilderness

00:03:29.380 and i'm seeing uh mark carney doing a pride parade somewhere and getting sprayed with liquids or

00:03:34.500 whatever uh then i saw the videos of trudeau doing a speaking tour in finland lecturing fins on how

00:03:41.860 to be finish and uh and stuff like that so i i just wanted to turn right around when uh but but

00:03:48.420 here i am so all right let's make it about you you guys call in and tell me what you want to talk

00:03:53.780 about but here are some of the things that i did notice this week right that i got on my list of

00:03:57.460 things to talk about um the usmca yesterday by the way i didn't celebrate it but i'll wish it

00:04:05.780 to you guys happy canada day i mean i i honestly uh didn't really celebrate canada day having

00:04:11.780 celebrated it for a couple years now. You know, it's one of those things post COVID. It's one of

00:04:18.640 those things that changed for me COVID ruined Canada Day and other events and post COVID has

00:04:23.280 never been the same. And didn't really feel like celebrating it yesterday, especially since I just

00:04:28.860 come back and I had a whole bunch of other things to do. But happy Canada Day if you did celebrate

00:04:35.000 it so um yesterday was july 1st so usmca is on life support we'll talk about that the one thing

00:04:42.680 i learned while i was gone is carney's bailout of the big housing uh the big condo market

00:04:48.600 um signatures can be counted here that's good news the the petition signatures can be counted

00:04:55.720 i was hoping to have a pipeline announcement from uh smith today but we will guess we'll

00:05:00.680 We'll have to wait till 6 p.m. for that.

00:05:02.360 The $100 energy rebate and a few other events.

00:05:07.560 So actually, before we get too deep into the show, you know, going to British Columbia was an interesting thing for me.

00:05:17.040 I don't go to British Columbia often.

00:05:19.480 I do cross over into B.C. when I'm hiking along the Continental Divide.

00:05:24.360 But otherwise, I don't generally take vacations over to B.C.

00:05:28.100 i find it uh overly crowded and uh and a little bit too socialist for my taste

00:05:36.700 and i definitely got a heavy dose of socialism while i was gone and and you do get to see

00:05:45.160 in bc like when i've come back and everybody was asking me like what do you think of bc and and i

00:05:50.160 just have one real overarching comment for bc everything in bc is in disrepair like do they

00:05:57.580 not understand the concept of maintenance like everything's in disrepair right we showed up at

00:06:02.860 the like you're driving through the towns as you're driving we went via the southern route

00:06:07.100 because i had to pick up a buddy in uh kimberly so you know we're going through a soyuz and uh grand

00:06:12.300 forks and and places like that and uh you know um cranston and um it like everywhere along the way

00:06:20.940 you see the homes are all in disrepairs the cars are the the lawns are full of beat up cars all the

00:06:27.100 businesses all the farms all the everything looks just like they don't do maintenance on anything

00:06:32.860 and then we got to the ferry terminal and the ferries like you get on the ferry and those

00:06:37.180 things look ancient man like everything is rusted i had i took a picture one funny picture at one

00:06:42.720 ferry terminal a whole giant section of the parking lot was closed because and it was flagged

00:06:49.280 off and then there was warning signs everywhere dangerous trees and like about 100 yards away

00:06:53.560 were a couple of dead trees so they shut down the whole parking lot in this uh at the ferry terminal

00:06:59.460 because of a potential dead tree that could fall and all i kept thinking is we're in british

00:07:04.200 columbia man like a place once famous for its locking industry and you can't find a logger to

00:07:09.620 go kill that and we've cut not kill the trees already dead can't find a logger to go knock

00:07:13.400 down that one tree took off for 10 days came back and that was one of the things i was looking

00:07:17.840 forward to i thought okay well hopefully on the way back when we go by that ferry terminal

00:07:21.260 that that one tree will be down and they'll have reopened the uh parking lot nope 10 days later

00:07:26.800 parking lot is still closed so you know and and and then the other thing while you're in bc

00:07:33.060 like i'm gonna i'm being critical of british columbia but you know bear with me i mean when

00:07:38.060 i was in bc you almost like every little map we picked up every every street sign everything now

00:07:44.920 is in two languages right you got everything in english but now everything else is not in french

00:07:50.080 or some other language or punjabi or chinese it's in these made up languages right so the

00:07:56.480 they they they got they got a translation for everything in the local native tongue and there's

00:08:02.480 like about 15 different languages depending on as you travel through and and i don't know how

00:08:09.120 to read that language and some of the science to me it's literally like it's made up and it's weird

00:08:14.880 like this this virtue signaling of of literally handing it like it feels like it honestly feels

00:08:21.200 like british colombians at this point are going to hand over everything that they've done for the

00:08:26.080 last 200 years like they feel so guilty that they're going to hand everything over back to

00:08:30.240 the first nations like that's what it feels like when i was there so yeah um i mean the hike was

00:08:36.000 pretty the weather was okay but uh boy am i glad to be back home all right nobody's calling that's

00:08:44.320 fine so let me uh get on to uh in no particular order one of the one of the happiest things i

00:08:51.520 saw when i came back was the announcement that um the signatures for the citizens initiative

00:08:59.680 petition can finally be counted right so just a quick recap um stay free alberta was the

00:09:07.520 petitioner we collected thousands and thousands of signatures but just at the end when we were

00:09:13.520 When we're ready to hand him in, when Mitch Sylvester was ready to hand him in, there was a case, the six or seven First Nations up in northern Alberta tried to get the process invalidated, were successful in getting the process invalidated.

00:09:30.860 And the first judge, Judge Leonard, said that she was putting a stay, a stop to all of it, that Elections Alberta could receive the signatures, but couldn't count them, couldn't validate them.

00:09:45.440 All right. So that was back in late April, early May.

00:09:50.140 And then so immediately after that, you see on the picture there, Mitch Sylvester and

00:09:55.220 Jeff Rath, who's the lawyer, what he's one of the leaders of Stay Free Alberta, but he's

00:10:00.260 also one of their lawyers.

00:10:01.440 So immediately after that ruling, Stay Free Alberta filed an appeal.

00:10:07.620 So did the government of Alberta, right?

00:10:09.800 So there are several parties that filed an appeal and and we just had a partial stay

00:10:15.340 of.

00:10:16.460 OK, I'll come back to that because I do want to take the callers.

00:10:18.840 i got callers on the line uh as usual folks we don't have a fancy switchboard um so if you call

00:10:25.000 and it's busy stay on the line john will get to you and give me your name number where you're

00:10:29.200 calling from and what you want to chat about go ahead caller hi good afternoon uh it's gordon

00:10:35.660 calling hey gordon and uh uh yeah i'm glad you had a good hike i've done a little hiking in bc

00:10:42.120 myself and uh but uh i'm calling about was just in regards to the uh the announcement going on

00:10:48.840 today with the harney and ed and uh bc all of a sudden becoming very on board with the new uh

00:10:56.120 proposal with a pipeline to the southern coast and i know danielle will make a danielle will

00:11:02.920 make an announcement this afternoon and i'm sure she'll be joined by carney and it's going to go

00:11:07.240 well. But my point is simply this. I hope people are taking note, and I'm sure they are, of all of

00:11:13.800 a sudden the urgency from the federal government, the urgency with B.C., that all of a sudden they

00:11:20.120 are becoming so cooperative with Alberta and our oil industry and getting these projects done.

00:11:26.960 And it's a major reason for that, of course. They're not fooling anyone. It's because of our

00:11:32.700 very real threat of separation they have to take it serious this is not like dealing with quebec

00:11:40.560 quebec they throw a little tantra once in a while to get a score a few points but this is real and

00:11:48.000 they know it so they have to do what they have to do so so gordon pause for a second gordon stay on

00:11:54.740 the line so are you saying people is it the government that's getting a dose of reality or

00:11:58.920 is it the people that are pushing the government are people getting a dose of reality no it's the

00:12:04.920 government is getting a dose of reality of the seriousness of the alberta separation issue

00:12:10.820 absolutely right so that yeah people in power know that if alberta goes that's a chunk of tax

00:12:16.420 revenue and the economy and everything else oh it would it would be devastating to the rest of

00:12:24.240 canada if alberta exit it would be absolutely devastating they know it we know it all we all

00:12:31.700 i'm trying to stress is those of us who are in favor of separation don't be duped by what's going

00:12:37.720 on and all of a sudden all these canada speeches by carney and oh my we're gonna have this uh

00:12:44.620 united sovereign province within the united canada just yeah no no i i um yeah as i said

00:12:52.680 just early in the show i was hoping that we would have the smith announcement because the deadline

00:12:56.780 for smith to uh propose a project to the major project office was yesterday but i guess she gets

00:13:02.420 a bit of a day uh an extra day because yesterday was july 1st she um carney's flying back from

00:13:08.720 vancouver to alberta tonight and they will make a joint announcement about an alberta pipeline at

00:13:14.160 6 p.m tonight so i guess we'll we'll wait to see yeah but in the meantime if you saw the

00:13:20.100 announcement that carney made yesterday or today i agree right they're they're getting a dose of

00:13:25.340 reality they understand that they got to throw more than just a couple of carrots now they got

00:13:29.280 to pretend to show some real collaboration but hidden in that memo today carney's still pushing

00:13:35.140 his agenda right if you read the memo today um alberta or sorry bc and ottawa agreed to a carbon

00:13:42.880 credit a working carbon credit market and guess who's going to pay for that right we're going to

00:13:48.740 get a pipeline one way or another but they're going to make us pay for it no absolutely yeah

00:13:54.200 it's always that way but but i i just my point was just make sure we stay on track

00:14:00.040 with our separation movement you know let's not be fooled and i'm sure we're not people are getting

00:14:05.580 too wise from the way federal government easterners the eastern elite how they operate

00:14:11.160 awesome thank you and by the way where'd you call where are you calling from gort

00:14:14.440 oh i'm from edmonton edmonton awesome and uh you guys had nice weather this week or you're not

00:14:20.140 affected as much as the flooding that we're having down here right we've had a ton of rain

00:14:25.780 buddy i was up uh hiking up in the columbia ice field uh the past weekend and it was cold and

00:14:33.140 raining and snow it was everything typical alberta weather thanks for calling gord have a great day

00:14:38.920 yeah you bet take care cool bye so uh yeah um by the way uh the flooding down in kananaskis was

00:14:49.080 impressive i hope everybody that was trapped behind those failed bridges or whatever is okay now

00:14:55.640 um yeah we're getting a lot of rain right now that's uh that's a fact uh so just back to what

00:15:03.320 was talking about so um so uh the stay free alberta and the government both appeal the the

00:15:10.360 the previous hearing and um and as part of the appeal they immediately asked for a stay

00:15:17.720 so a stay of a stay like it's crazy you you get lost in the in the um in the technicalities but

00:15:24.520 yesterday the judge or earlier this week i think it was on the 30th monday tuesday the new the new

00:15:31.000 judge in this one, the appeals judge, Judge Woolley, granted a partial stay of the ruling

00:15:39.080 from the lower court. And she said that Elections Alberta can now go ahead and validate the

00:15:46.140 signatures and count them and publish the number. Okay, so that's good because, you know, me

00:15:53.660 personally, as you know, I had collected 700 signatures and I felt that there was a slap in

00:15:59.340 the face for a judge to simply say that the signatures I collected couldn't be counted.

00:16:07.660 Like, I thought that was anti-democratic. So this judge, the appeals judge, said, no,

00:16:12.220 the signatures can at least be counted. Now, the judge will still rule on whether

00:16:18.980 the First Nations had the right to stop this whole citizen's initiative process.

00:16:27.780 um so the the interesting thing about all of this is that there's still like a really really really

00:16:34.900 slim hope that the referendum question could be changed i'm not gonna i'm not gonna hold my breath

00:16:41.420 on that one but uh but i'll take this as a partial victory because at least as a citizen

00:16:46.000 part of my voice the fact that we collected signatures can be validated and then there can

00:16:51.760 be a a number published so we'll we'll see how that goes or the uh the amount of money being

00:16:57.320 spent on on on on different law courts and cases in this country is absolutely crazy all right um

00:17:06.760 okay so i'll just go down my list so yesterday is uh actually i want no i won't go down the list i

00:17:13.720 want to talk about the ones that that that to me are the most fascinating ones the carney housing

00:17:19.240 bailout right that was another interesting one this week or while i was gone i think it happened

00:17:25.560 last week hopefully derek or some of the others didn't talk about it too too much but let me give

00:17:30.280 you your my take on this one right so in british columbia canada's real estate market canada's

00:17:37.880 real estate market is about 13 of our gdp it's huge like no other country relies it makes real

00:17:46.360 estate part of its gdp to the same extent that we do most other countries are are are putting uh

00:17:53.720 you know are developing resources they're developing manufacturing

00:18:01.160 other service industries and so forth and so forth but in canada one of the top four chunks

00:18:07.080 of our industry of our overall economy is real estate in a country of like 40 million people

00:18:13.080 with huge amounts of land real estate is one of our top uh parts of our gdp why because people

00:18:19.960 speculate all the time and people keep the supply low and the demand high and it's a and our market

00:18:27.800 attracts people from all over the world come here speculate buy land buy property turn around and

00:18:34.680 re-rent it and rent it to canadians real estate has become completely unaffordable for young

00:18:41.320 canadian families especially in markets like toronto and vancouver and montreal it's becoming

00:18:48.440 I mean, apparently here in Alberta, but statistically Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary are still some of the more affordable markets, but we know that they're going up, right?

00:18:57.080 And we've had these bubbles year after year.

00:18:59.060 We have these huge bubbles because too many people speculate and drive up the prices.

00:19:05.840 And so in recent years in British Columbia and in Toronto, speculators have driven up prices and condo builders, developers have built a whole bunch of condos.

00:19:17.760 and finally the supply and demand side of the equation balanced itself out and there were more

00:19:23.440 condos than there are buyers and so apparently in uh in in those two more in vancouver alone

00:19:30.240 there was something like 2200 condos sitting unsold brand new condos that have been built

00:19:34.880 that are unsold and rather and and the develop and rather than let the developers the speculators

00:19:43.120 almost the leeches in this instance,

00:19:45.400 rather than let them take it on the nose.

00:19:47.520 So you speculated, you built a condo,

00:19:50.380 you drove the price up, and now it's not selling.

00:19:53.440 What should happen?

00:19:54.940 You sell it at a loss, okay?

00:19:56.520 That's what speculating is all about.

00:19:58.680 You speculated, you lost in this one,

00:20:00.660 sell it at a loss, put your condo on the market.

00:20:03.660 But rather than let that happen,

00:20:06.100 Mark Carney went into Vancouver last week

00:20:08.460 to coincide with one of the FIFA Cup games.

00:20:13.120 And he announced a bailout like worth like $2.2 billion of your money, of our money, going to bail out these condo developers, speculators.

00:20:25.220 And he calls that somehow or other, that's part of the plan to make housing more affordable.

00:20:31.860 That's not how it works, folks.

00:20:33.240 So what Carney should have just done, and he's on the record as having said this.

00:20:37.100 I mean, there are old videos that surface of Carney from 10 years ago, 11 years ago, talking about this very subject and saying how businesses that are unsuccessful should be allowed to fail, which is which is part of his overall theme that you'll keep seeing all the time.

00:20:55.720 right he wants businesses to fail and he doesn't believe in true capital markets he believes in

00:21:02.100 capital markets with guidance from the government and letting the government pick the winners and

00:21:08.040 losers so that that bailout last week backfired on him immediately it was all over the all over

00:21:16.060 the media people were upset and and journalists even everybody everybody was upset about this one 0.98

00:21:22.520 I mean, there's nothing good about this so much so that it's actually people started doing digging.

00:21:28.580 And, you know, when you dig around Carney and these kinds of announcements, the word Brookfield shows up real quick.

00:21:33.900 Doesn't take long to see if to realize that Brookfield Asset Management, the condo management is part of that deal getting bailed out.

00:21:41.220 So basically, Carney was going to go out and bail out his own buddies.

00:21:44.980 And so the ethics commissioner and other people got immediately advised and you're not hearing about it much.

00:21:51.420 In fact, I think Carney's so scared right now that he's if you if you go look, I do this for a living.

00:21:59.680 I said not for a living. I don't get a lot of money from it, but I'm online all the time and I can see when somebody is trying to distract or hide.

00:22:05.840 And so Carney right now is trying to whoever's managing his Twitter accounts and his Facebook accounts is just posting, posting, posting, posting, posting, posting, posting to try and make sure that bad stories get buried.

00:22:20.280 and I think this is one of the bad stories now that said um you know Carney's been in power for

00:22:27.380 over a year now and he's got like just like just like Trudeau before him bad stories about him

00:22:35.300 keep popping up and nothing's sticking so I don't know when's the story when something going to

00:22:40.000 finally stick to uh to Carney I don't know I was hoping that this would be the one I mean in line

00:22:46.740 with this this week so carney i think is having a bad week but that's why he's doing what he's

00:22:51.460 doing he went to vancouver to watch the world cup now he actually flew to vancouver twice he's on

00:22:56.500 his way to edmonton tonight um carney's having a bad week the condo thing was a bad week a bad

00:23:03.940 event but i think the worst one is what happened yesterday right so yesterday uh donald trump

00:23:08.660 finally officially said that he is not opening up the usmca or or the canada us agreement free trade

00:23:19.860 agreement call it whatever you want i i i call it the usmca lately he's not reopening it okay so the

00:23:27.520 usmca was signed on july 1st 2020 this was the it's a 16-year deal with a sunset clause a weird

00:23:34.700 clause the clause was yesterday what the three countries canada usa and mexico yesterday had

00:23:41.500 the opportunity to all three say hey um let's extend it but nobody exercised that right so now

00:23:49.820 the canada so now it goes into an annual review it automatically goes into an annual review

00:23:55.820 and and now it's set to expire its normal course on july 1st 2036 and 10 years from now

00:24:02.220 this is this is donald trump renegotiated this deal put in those clauses and he's working this

00:24:09.100 deal the way he wanted it he's cozying up right now he's talking with mexico making it a little

00:24:15.020 bit uh you know leaving the door open for mexico but when it comes to canada he is leaving that

00:24:19.860 door shut and you can tell that carney at this point remember carney got elected the big fear

00:24:26.720 last year during the election was that donald trump was gonna you know fight an economic war

00:24:32.780 against canada and that the only person's um best suited to stand up to trump was carney so the

00:24:40.000 liberals out east with their elbows up strategy elected trump or elected carney carney promoted

00:24:46.300 himself as the man to negotiate a better deal with trump well that ain't happening and um and

00:24:54.120 And in fact, I think this is setting up Trump to do what he – well, before I go there, it's obvious now that Carney is staying super low-key.

00:25:06.080 And Carney's new strategy now is to hope that as little happens between now and in the next two years and that Trump loses the next election – well, he will.

00:25:15.680 he can't run again that the that the uh americans don't elect another republican and that maybe he

00:25:21.600 can negotiate a better deal with the next american administration so carney has completely failed and

00:25:28.020 now he's staying low-key and uh and he's going he's going with that route uh what uh what uh

00:25:35.300 what an and and who loses in all of that it's not us here in alberta right i mean the americans uh

00:25:41.240 the free trade agreement doesn't include oil.

00:25:44.120 We've been trading oil back and forth.

00:25:45.880 The Americans need our oil.

00:25:47.020 But right now, the only thing protecting, you know, the Ontario auto industry

00:25:53.820 and the Quebec agriculture and cartels and mill cartels

00:26:00.840 and protecting BC's forest industry is the fact that this deal exists

00:26:07.040 and that Trump can't just impose further tariffs.

00:26:10.100 so um a lot lots more to watch on that one but uh not a not a good day for not a good day for

00:26:17.520 carney but again nothing sticks to him uh today you know you see the stories online and everybody's

00:26:23.820 doing mental gymnastics and backflips to defend carney as still having uh accomplished a mission

00:26:30.820 accomplished somehow i i just don't understand how people can can wrap their head around and

00:26:35.580 continue to support somebody who's who's just not doing that um so folks go ahead like i'm

00:26:44.500 gonna run out of material just as i said that somebody calls go ahead caller where are you

00:26:48.880 calling from hello hello go ahead am i on yeah yeah

00:26:58.700 how will we ever get rid of carney if the mainstream media acts like everything that

00:27:06.280 goes wrong is pure trump's fault yeah no good um well we're going to get we're going to get rid of

00:27:14.360 we won't a short answer is i don't think we can because we're going to get rid of trump

00:27:20.060 trump trump's going to lose and then and then carney's going to outlast him

00:27:23.840 And then they'll build

00:27:26.520 Either they'll promote Carney

00:27:29.200 As an alliance for the next leader

00:27:31.560 If he's a Democrat

00:27:32.420 Or they'll promote him again as the defender

00:27:35.020 If the Americans re-elect the Republican

00:27:36.840 Do you see a way around that?

00:27:40.740 No, I don't

00:27:41.560 That's why

00:27:42.240 It seems like everybody is locked in their position

00:27:45.540 And nobody wants to even listen

00:27:47.640 Which is

00:27:49.600 Yeah, which is

00:27:51.460 um which is part of the bigger problem right it's like you you're you're you're expressing

00:27:58.200 a frustration that most of us have expressed by the way where are you calling from

00:28:02.300 uh dar alberta perfect okay so you're so you're an albertan expressing a frustration over the

00:28:11.320 fact that there's nothing we can do about um about eastern canada electing liberals right

00:28:18.100 there's nothing we can do i'm a separatist i'm a canvasser i i'm pretty much done with canada

00:28:26.960 bingo there you go so we're on the same page thank you yeah yeah that's the there's nothing

00:28:31.900 the the short answer to your question is how do we get rid of trump or how do we get rid of carney

00:28:36.060 we can't we're we're powerless to do anything eastern canada will continue to elect guys like

00:28:41.540 trudeau and carney and uh that's why alberta independence is so important i think that's

00:28:46.540 the answer right there thanks for calling thank you had a perfect day you too um yeah yeah and so

00:28:56.140 we're gonna see uh as as as gore the first caller said you got current people are real what we just

00:29:02.740 said right it comes back to this so we always have to remind ourselves i i don't need to remind

00:29:06.840 myself i i live this every day we live in alberta we we we we we watch the polls close at 8 p.m on

00:29:16.340 election night and then at 805 the outcome of the election has been determined already cbc announces

00:29:22.660 a winner because the people out east have selected somebody and our vote doesn't count and so we've

00:29:28.500 been kicked and abused and we did now we have a very real we've had some in the past but this is

00:29:35.620 probably the most realistic separatist movement we've had in a long time and i think it is starting

00:29:43.460 to send some fears in the powers that be and so this week sure it's because it's stampede but

00:29:51.060 everybody this week was here in calgary right poiliev was in calgary carney's coming tonight

00:29:56.580 they're all going to come back next week during stampede suddenly everybody's focused on on

00:30:02.100 on alberta you can see you can see it in the behavior of of david eby yesterday that he's

00:30:10.740 being coached by carney and others that are like hey we've kicked alberta a little bit too much

00:30:16.660 their threat of separation is real tone down the rhetoric start talking about the fact eb yesterday

00:30:23.940 literally said that if there's a pipeline approved he won't fight it okay like wow that's that's

00:30:31.460 unheard of from him so he's basically saying he's taking a step back and he's gonna allow

00:30:37.140 federal jurisdiction uh to to take precedence and then and then carney going there is no coincidence

00:30:45.700 some of the projects that are being announced even though they come with a lot of strings attached

00:30:49.860 they're not a coincidence and then tonight carney is flying back now i was hoping tonight

00:30:55.380 that that we would hear um about the alberta pipeline today so i could talk about it on the

00:31:01.140 show i guess i'm going to have to wait until tomorrow but this is my prediction my prediction

00:31:06.180 is um there is no pipeline okay they're still going to be they're going to just push the mou

00:31:13.140 forward and extend somehow because no private sector enterprise came forward to say that they

00:31:21.940 wanted to build a pipeline and honestly it is not the bit i do not want the government to own a

00:31:27.780 pipeline i didn't want government to own trans mountain and i sure as heck don't want our

00:31:32.820 government you know transmountain is owned by the federal government i don't want danielle smith i

00:31:37.220 don't want the provincial government to own another pipeline that's the clue that's the hint

00:31:42.420 that's the evidence that things are not working when governments have to build stuff that used to

00:31:47.060 be built by the private sector that's the evidence that something's not working so something's not

00:31:53.220 working in this country when we can't get the private sector to invest without bailouts or

00:31:59.060 without subsidies or without tax breaks or without anything and so i think we're gonna we're gonna

00:32:04.340 see some sort of weird um uh patting on each other's back between smith and carney tonight

00:32:12.100 and they're going to try and convince us that the pipeline is still a reality the pipelines

00:32:17.540 the only way pipelines are going to go forward in this country is if carney immediately reverses

00:32:23.460 questions he was asked all day today at the press conference like does this mean you've removed the

00:32:27.700 tanker ban and he dodged that question he's not moving the tanker ban like i said he added more

00:32:32.980 regulations today buried in and what in the announcement is a working he called it a working

00:32:39.060 carbon credit market okay a carbon credit market a carbon credit market is just a another way to

00:32:46.900 redistribute wealth who has a carbon credit who has a carbon sink in this country by definition

00:32:53.140 by the carny liberal definition the only two provinces that have a carbon sink are alberta and

00:32:58.980 bc because they produce their electricity from hydro and they don't produce a lot of hydrocarbons

00:33:05.700 and who has a a carbon uh deficit alberta so when they're talking about a working carbon credit

00:33:14.820 market he's literally talking about hey alberta you'll get your pipeline if you pay bc a carbon

00:33:22.420 tax so we're so that's what it's going to be it's going to be a carbon tax for bc and a carbon tax

00:33:27.780 for for quebec on top of the equalization payments and stuff like that so i i don't know i'm not i i

00:33:34.420 i wish they they had done the announcement today but we'll i guess we'll wait until tomorrow and

00:33:38.420 see what that's all about ah man oh man um hey um just just wanted to speaking of stampede uh just

00:33:49.620 want to bring it up in case uh i run out of time uh western standard will be uh hosting its own

00:33:56.020 stampede uh barbecue right away here uh stampede what does stampede start stampede starts next

00:34:03.140 next friday right next friday is the stampede parade that's for for people who don't uh

00:34:09.460 who don't know stampede is always is not always the same weeks but it's it's always the same

00:34:13.700 length it starts on a friday we shut down most of calgary in the afternoon we have a big parade

00:34:19.540 and then uh officially saturday until the next uh weekend is the stampede so it's 10 days so

00:34:26.920 it's coming up and uh john are you flashing that the barbecue is tomorrow

00:34:32.860 the stampede starts tomorrow oh man i'm i'm holy smokes i've been gone for so long yeah stampede

00:34:41.300 starts tomorrow holy cow all right well um no that i'm gonna argue with you john i don't think

00:34:48.460 that can be right is stampede actually starting tomorrow holy smokes wow okay so the stampede

00:34:58.620 parade is tomorrow so the barbecue is next week on uh on wednesday go to the website there's

00:35:05.280 details there um i'm pretty certain that the barbecue with the western standard barbecue is

00:35:12.000 is free to attend as a show of thanks for supporters but they will be selling water balloons

00:35:19.440 and there will be uh i don't know if the water are they selling water balloons so you can hit

00:35:24.300 derrick with a water balloon or are they selling sort of balls so that you can hit uh derrick and

00:35:29.300 sink him in uh some something like that there'll be a there'll be a little fundraiser that way and

00:35:33.760 you get to uh poke fun at the derrick uh with that and speaking of derrick and tied in with other

00:35:40.880 things um next week also next uh next thursday derrick derrick is going to be debating dwayne

00:35:50.280 bratt uh so derrick is a diehard separatist and dwayne bratt is a political science professor

00:35:59.600 at the mount royal university you see i see dwayne all the time online and um i i i don't

00:36:07.980 particularly like Dwayne's takes on anything. So I think that's going to be really interesting to

00:36:12.360 have those two finally debate. In fact, I think this might be an even more interesting debate

00:36:21.040 than the Keith Wilson, Jason Kenney debate, because Kenney really immediately went to all

00:36:28.760 emotions and didn't bring anything really meaningful to that debate. And he was outgunned

00:36:34.540 by keith wilson uh i still think derrick will uh is is no match for duane but mr bratt will

00:36:44.520 he's a political professor so he's been he you know he thinks about this kind of stuff for a

00:36:50.260 living and he might bring a few good arguments to the table but i think he's going to find that

00:36:55.980 debating derrick is a little bit different than debating your 21 22 year old political science

00:37:01.060 students so uh that one is uh rsvp it's at the glenmore uh hotel the old glenmore um on uh

00:37:12.820 just off uh glenmore trail down south kind of thing and i don't think the tickets are that

00:37:18.340 expensive uh i think they might be 20 bucks 30 bucks something like that it goes of course um

00:37:26.100 and and there's probably room for a couple hundred people so make sure you get a ticket for that folks

00:37:31.060 um any other debates any other news on uh upcoming western standard news i guess not so

00:37:38.320 all right um keep going down my list of uh stories here um oh and here's another interesting one

00:37:47.820 that's july 1st actually a lot of things happen on july 1st your hundred dollar energy rebate

00:37:53.920 that danielle smith announced a couple of weeks ago i don't know if you guys remember that one

00:37:58.340 So Danielle Smith announced a couple of weeks ago that because of the increased price of oil due to the Gulf War and the Strait of Hormuz being closed, the government had a little extra money.

00:38:12.760 And so she announced that every Albertan over the age of 18 who had filed their taxes last year would be eligible for a $100 check.

00:38:23.500 this is a bit of a throwback to ralph klein ralph uh near the end when his popularity was waning

00:38:34.080 ralph gave everybody the 300 ralph bucks i personally you know personally a couple of things

00:38:40.140 i mean everybody likes a little bit of money but 100 bucks like i at this point i'd rather

00:38:46.100 i'd rather like 100 bucks times 3 million people like that's still 300 000 or 300 million dollars

00:38:52.180 Right. I would have preferred that that money either goes towards some of our debt, which we are accumulating, or I would have preferred that the money would have gone to some actual tax relief.

00:39:04.300 Like maybe she could have lowered the taxes a little bit or taken away the gasoline tax temporarily or permanently.

00:39:11.840 But a hundred bucks is not a lot. But but the but the thing is that I worry the most is I did go online this morning in preparation for this.

00:39:19.980 And I wanted to see, because you're not just going to get the $100 mailed to you, okay?

00:39:25.000 You have to apply for it.

00:39:27.400 And so then I was curious.

00:39:29.020 I went online to see how do you apply for it.

00:39:31.160 And then you realize, okay, so I went through the process.

00:39:34.000 Very painful.

00:39:35.380 So if you don't have a MyAlberta account, you need to set up a MyAlberta account.

00:39:40.400 And once you set up a MyAlberta account, you need to verify your account by providing a driver's license.

00:39:45.520 And then once you provide a driver's license, now you're set up.

00:39:48.160 then you click on um on this rebate and you got to answer a couple of questions you know

00:39:54.400 regarding your previous income and this and this and this and then you give the government permission

00:40:00.880 to verify all of the information by providing your social insurance number and then it takes

00:40:07.360 you to another page and when you get to the other page it also says well we can't send you a check

00:40:13.200 so um we don't want to send checks anymore so now you have to sign up for automatic deposit and i

00:40:18.720 hate that because when you sign up for automatic deposit you're also signing up for automatic

00:40:23.120 withdrawals like i've i insist i i pay my government federal taxes to ottawa i've always

00:40:29.680 paid them by uh by a check by a deposit i send you the cash i've never signed up for

00:40:36.720 auto deposit by ottawa because if ottawa thinks that you owe them money they can just pull it

00:40:41.440 out i mean i'm sure they could pull it out if they if they ever need to the government has so

00:40:45.040 many powers right but i don't make life easier for them so in this instance when all you do all

00:40:51.760 these steps for danielle so or for the alberta government get in my alberta account tell them

00:40:57.360 your social insurance number tell them how much money you earned um verify your driver's license

00:41:02.720 provide your uh and then and then provide your banking information and that's not just saying

00:41:08.320 like here's my checking number or whatever no you have to do a link through interact and everything

00:41:12.960 else do all those things and we'll send you a hundred bucks well when you do all those things

00:41:17.520 you start realizing the government is paying you a hundred bucks to take the first step

00:41:23.600 in true digital id okay they're like i i i couldn't like i couldn't bring myself to finish

00:41:32.800 and do all the steps i was like yeah no not gonna do that and i stopped the process it's not worth

00:41:39.340 100 bucks to give the government all that information but you you you be you folks you

00:41:45.400 do what you want to do i mean a lot of people i talked about this online yesterday a lot of people

00:41:49.820 say you're already doing that with the government uh yeah we do give the government a lot of

00:41:55.540 information already but it makes you wonder why would the government request all of that again

00:42:01.480 if they already know everything right so it's um you know i i i have my doubts about all the

00:42:09.560 legitimacy of why the government is give it's it's a valid reason to give you 100 bucks give

00:42:14.520 you 100 bucks in return for something about you and uh and that and that makes me a little bit

00:42:20.360 nervous ah boy um so what do you guys feel i mean somebody let me know like are is the what's your

00:42:28.600 your thoughts on a hundred bucks would you have preferred that the hundred dollars be uh uh applied

00:42:34.500 somehow to the debt or or are you going to collect a hundred bucks is what's a hundred bucks to to

00:42:40.960 somebody these days i mean a hundred bucks barely covers i'm trying to go through the comments here

00:42:45.440 and i think john's trying to do the same thing like what does a hundred bucks cover these days

00:42:49.060 it's a mission at the stampede i think maybe not not sure um all right where else uh

00:42:56.820 uh let's keep going down here

00:42:59.860 oh yeah okay well snowbirds right yesterday another sad day i'm trying to i want to okay

00:43:10.120 i want to add a couple of let me let me add a let me add a positive story let me add a positive

00:43:13.740 story real quick um so canada we were in vancouver and uh the town as we're driving you know we we

00:43:20.300 spent an afternoon there the town was buzzing it is evident that the world cup is happening even

00:43:24.920 though the world cup is expensive uh the world cup is happening uh pretty pretty cool to see

00:43:30.700 canada advance uh to the round of 16 so congratulations to the guys on the team i

00:43:36.580 mean we've never done that before um and then one guy on i mean the game i re-watched not gonna lie

00:43:44.820 i i do like uh soccer football as uh as people call it it is on my bucket list would be to go

00:43:52.180 to South America and see the World Cup being played in a country like Argentina or Brazil,

00:43:57.240 I think that would be epic. I think the way they're doing it in Canada is a little bit goofy

00:44:02.480 with some games in Toronto, some games in Vancouver, some games in the US. It's a little

00:44:09.200 too spread out, but it was good to see Canada advance and maybe someday it'll be Alberta in

00:44:16.820 the world cup one of our players got a uh a hat trick came in a weird game right the weird game

00:44:22.960 against qatar um qatar got two red cards so two players from qatar got expelled from the game so

00:44:29.420 that meant that canada basically had a two-man advantage for for uh about half the game and a

00:44:36.020 two-man advantage on the soccer field is a huge advantage and canada was able to capitalize on

00:44:43.100 that um and then uh canada who was the other victory again so that was the first one and then

00:44:50.780 we defeated uh was it no it wasn't morocco who did somebody somebody put it in the comments i

00:44:57.360 don't even remember who i haven't had to watch the second game yet but uh we we we won the second

00:45:03.700 game seriously marty if you want your oas and cpp in the future everyone goes through the process

00:45:09.940 of direct deposit.

00:45:11.700 Well, yeah, no, I'm reading that comment.

00:45:14.020 I agree, but I'm just delaying it as long as possible.

00:45:17.320 I'm not collecting my CPP and my OAS,

00:45:20.100 and I know that that future is coming.

00:45:22.220 I just don't, I mean, I'm just one of those guys

00:45:24.760 who resists a lot of things as long as possible.

00:45:27.540 Just because something is inevitable

00:45:29.320 doesn't mean you need to give in

00:45:31.140 and subject yourself to it right away.

00:45:33.300 I mean, like I got a watch, like I got a watch.

00:45:36.800 I haven't enabled my wallet on my watch.

00:45:39.040 i get nervous i have friends who do that i have like i'm traveling uh you know going to vancouver

00:45:43.680 last week and and every time i'm stopping to uh at a gas station get a little bit of gas and go in

00:45:48.960 and get a snack i got a buddy who just takes his watch and then puts it to peep and then he's done

00:45:54.640 and i'm like wow and i asked him like you know would you would you implant a microchip in your

00:46:00.240 hand that would simplify all that and he's like oh yeah absolutely so yeah i get that some people

00:46:04.800 are abandoning themselves to that and uh but then at the same time i mean that's another story that

00:46:11.920 broke out this week is you know remember the controversy a month ago about the fact that

00:46:19.040 uh the electoral list had been quote unquote leaked right and what's on the electoral list

00:46:26.920 right the electoral list is no different than a phone book i mean it's people's addresses

00:46:32.320 is and uh whatever your address your name and uh perhaps your phone number and and everybody made

00:46:40.200 a lot of people made a big cry over the fact that that got leaked but then you got the same

00:46:44.460 group a minute later we'll say oh yeah what i'm signed up for for for automatic deposit i have

00:46:49.980 this on my watch blah blah blah blah blah i mean we share information but i guess we have the right

00:46:54.440 to to choose how that information is shared but i think i think i think that's those lines are

00:47:01.040 getting blurred especially now in light of uh of uh c9 c9 anti-hate bill that came into effect

00:47:08.180 just before the house paused but now the next one on the table is that uh i can't remember the

00:47:14.020 number i think it's c14 is c14 the one where the liberals are proposing to make uh to restrict

00:47:20.480 social media to those over the age of 16 well how do you restrict it to those over the age of 16

00:47:27.300 Well, by forcing those above 16 to prove that they're 16, and that's going to be by providing either a driver's license or something.

00:47:36.580 Basically, the Liberals are going to force anybody in Canada who wants to go on social media to validate their identity.

00:47:45.000 Yeah, so, yeah, yeah, I appreciate the comment.

00:47:48.920 I mean, you can whine and you can not whine about privacy.

00:47:56.080 It's a it's a double edged sword. And back to that privacy breach, there was a there's a law firm out of Bright Creek that is trying to build a class action lawsuit for that data breach for the sharing of the electoral list.

00:48:14.920 and they named the chief electoral officer of Alberta as a as a defendant.

00:48:23.440 They named the government of Alberta.

00:48:25.520 They named the Republican Party, the Centurion Project, a bunch of other groups.

00:48:31.080 So they did the whole shotgun approach of of naming a bunch of defendants and trying to build a class action lawsuit.

00:48:38.900 Now, in order to build a class action lawsuit, they're going to have to find somebody who's an actual plaintiff,

00:48:43.580 who's going to have to prove that harm was done to them right so just because like like me personally

00:48:50.320 speaking no harm has come to me from that data breach none that i know of right just because a

00:48:56.000 data breach occurred and data breaches occur all the time right the ndp uh leaked uh years ago the

00:49:02.680 alberta health numbers there are breaches of you know how often do you get a phone uh an email from

00:49:09.060 a service provider whether you know tell us we'll contact you saying hey you know our data was

00:49:14.000 compromised and according to our records uh you were unaffected that's a fact right that's that's

00:49:19.880 one of the tenets of our courts if you have no damages then you have no recourse it doesn't

00:49:25.480 matter that somebody came close to hitting you coming close to hitting you because they

00:49:30.380 you know uh were driving too close to you is not a crime and so unless you prove damages there's

00:49:37.300 no case so in this lawsuit some I'm going to be curious to see if they find a plaintiff who will

00:49:43.520 actually say that they suffered damages as a result of this breach okay I got time for a couple

00:49:49.060 of callers go ahead caller where are you calling from please Edmonton how's it going today what's

00:49:56.440 your name so what's on your mind um barney um they have all your information you everybody has

00:50:11.980 just done and finished all their taxes right so they can automatically go into that information

00:50:20.000 on the tax information and send you out your $100 immediately.

00:50:30.040 I agree.

00:50:31.040 I agree.

00:50:31.500 They could do that, but I can see that while they're taking advantage of this

00:50:39.180 to try and promote some new system, right?

00:50:40.980 They're promoting the MyAlberta account.

00:50:43.880 Did you have one of those?

00:50:45.280 Do you have a MyAlberta account?

00:50:48.360 No, I don't.

00:50:50.000 The government is being so incompetent in that matter, and furthermore, Marty, love your show, but there is something else you guys have to know.

00:51:10.000 This is what Alaska gets.

00:51:16.620 They get a personal dividend fund.

00:51:20.000 from their pipeline we should get ours as well we are getting ripped off our

00:51:29.060 personal dividend funds from our pipeline and where is our interest in that yeah

00:51:41.420 like our money's interest like really and the government shouldn't own it because

00:51:50.000 If you want a personal dividend fund, you look it up on the Alaskan White website, and they will give you the amounts that they've gotten every year.

00:52:05.020 On a good year, you can get $13, maybe $2,400 per each individual in your household, and that includes your children.

00:52:19.020 Yeah, I appreciate that comment. No. Yeah. Alaska is an example of a small jurisdiction that's very well managed and everybody gets a dividend check. Absolutely. Yeah. If I agree with you, if Alberta was running that way, we could probably pay ourselves two, three hundred dollars a month. Never mind a year. Right. I mean, that's that's that that would be real money. That would be fun.

00:52:46.560 but daniel smith is ripping us off a personal dividend fund

00:52:53.260 we should be we we we should be pressing her on this subject marty because it's valuable

00:53:06.020 for your children to get a personal dividend fund so they can pay for their education and their

00:53:13.740 college and furthermore if they have some uh health problem we can they can get prescriptions

00:53:23.580 for whatever maybe no no we're we're in agreement thanks for calling uh um yeah thanks thank you for

00:53:30.300 calling yeah i think the uh i think the hundred dollar check is just um like i said it's it's a

00:53:36.140 way to distract from other things it buys a couple of votes makes danielle popular among a small crowd 0.95

00:53:42.620 And they added benefit, it gets Alberta 1.00

00:53:44.940 to drive some of their other agendas

00:53:48.200 and advance some of their software and their technology

00:53:51.400 towards more digital ID.

00:53:56.440 Digital ID is inevitable, I get it folks,

00:53:58.580 but it's something I'm gonna fight a little bit longer,

00:54:02.580 that's all.

00:54:05.060 Taking a quick look at some of the comments here.

00:54:08.080 And I, oh, caller on the line.

00:54:10.780 Go ahead, caller.

00:54:12.620 hi hi hi my name is lena i'm from west of stony plains uh my only question is what is your take

00:54:24.940 on smith's attitude towards all the violence happening towards the purpose i'm sorry i missed

00:54:32.940 the violence the violence that's happening towards who i missed the last bit our our independent

00:54:39.580 spoke oh for example the guy that got into it the other day on the road there and we we all know

00:54:46.540 about the cigarette butts and the coffee i just want to know your take on smith's response to

00:54:53.040 what's been happening to our side and not calling anything out yeah well i mean i don't have a

00:54:59.960 honestly i i missed that event last week and yes i let me take it back i i re i spoke about this

00:55:09.220 at length when i was collecting signatures right you remember when i was collecting signatures we

00:55:13.460 were sub i was i do i was subject to a lot of that crap and i was upset i it wasn't just smith

00:55:19.860 i wanted smith i wanted nenshi i don't care what side of the political arena you are i thought that

00:55:26.020 all any politician should have spoken up and they didn't right so it's not it's not just on smith

00:55:31.220 i think every politician should speak up against this kind of nonsense uh abuse uh aimed at people

00:55:40.080 that are simply exercising their democratic rights but but her her silence is particularly

00:55:46.280 galling because she's the most senior person but but yeah um i i really wish more of them would

00:55:52.720 speak up my fear right she's that's my fear she's not she's not speaking out loud enough

00:55:59.100 you know what i mean i don't know yeah anyways thank you i appreciate it thank you yeah i saw

00:56:05.320 that on the news i i guess she's referring to the gentleman or person who got pulled

00:56:10.380 almost pushed into traffic like that's crazy that's that's totally crazy um you know and

00:56:17.240 one of the one of the things that i've i gotta i'm running out of time but i i just want to

00:56:25.840 maybe it's one of my closing thoughts i'm at the point now where i don't believe anything anymore

00:56:30.320 right you know what i mean like plane crashes in the world trade center i don't believe it's

00:56:34.080 a coincidence a boat hits a bridge i don't believe it's a coincidence mark carney walks

00:56:38.880 in a parade and gets liquid sprayed on him i don't believe it's a coincidence it's all orchestrated

00:56:43.120 right it's it's just an attempt to say to be able to say oh uh the prime minister is more at risk

00:56:48.480 we need to beef up security we need to uh you know more justification for c9 the anti-hate bills and

00:56:54.880 stuff like that and and then and it comes down to even this kind of petty small violence and events

00:57:01.920 i just some of them i just don't think they're coincidence anymore i think they're they're done

00:57:05.680 on purpose to trigger an emotion to maybe re trigger a response from one side or the other

00:57:11.360 that then justifies more rules right i've i've shared a poster many many times you know i'll

00:57:16.480 paraphrase but the the the rule says if you allow the government to break the law for every

00:57:20.880 emergency they always create an emergency or or a crisis right and um and and and i just hate the

00:57:29.460 fact that we go down that path i mean we we didn't even talk about like covid was an example of that

00:57:33.980 right covid was a crisis that allowed them to put all sorts of measures in place for our security

00:57:38.660 i wouldn't be surprised now you know there was some major flooding in canaanaskis and i wouldn't

00:57:43.100 be surprised if as a result of this they they say oh well see this is one more reason why we should

00:57:48.600 should shut you out of the parks it's too dangerous to go into the parks and so and and then and then

00:57:54.600 these these these incidents with people i mean i lived it i i started realizing that the people

00:57:59.800 that are coming to harass me when i was collecting signatures were coming to harass me and were being

00:58:04.200 paid by somebody to elicit a reaction out of me to give an excuse to shut me down i got it i got it

00:58:11.480 So anyways. Okay, cool. Running out of time. A bit of a slow show today, but I guess I missed a couple of weeks and we'll catch up and hopefully next week you guys are back on board. Actually, next week might be a really tough show with Stampede going on. We'll see how that goes.

00:58:28.040 um as usual we can't bring you stuff like this for free um please consider getting a subscription

00:58:36.600 to the western standard the uh the link is just down there uh www.westernstandard.news

00:58:44.340 slash subscription ten dollars a month hundred dollars a year john did you guys draw and

00:58:49.720 announce the winner of the couple of hats or is that going to be something tomorrow or today

00:58:54.800 they were running a promo but i think the promo was done um there will be more events during

00:59:01.580 sampede anyways uh happy to be back as much as i'd like to go back into the wilderness

00:59:06.840 uh be here next week hoping you guys all call in same time thursday afternoon i know everybody's

00:59:13.120 done with their big lunches but uh hope to see you next week folks cheers and have a great weekend

00:59:24.800 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - July 06, 2026

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