Western Standard - THE PIPELINE： War： What is it good for？ Alberta’s budget

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard.

00:00:28.160 Today is March 4th, 2026, and you're watching The Pipeline.

00:00:32.740 I've got the usual crew here, former Western Standard Opinion Editor, Nigel Aniford.

00:00:37.200 Good afternoon.

00:00:38.400 Senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:40.260 Good day.

00:00:40.980 And news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:00:43.000 Thanks for sticking me with the guy who's got pickled sausage gurgling around his stomach.

00:00:47.740 Most of it's cleared out now.

00:00:49.740 It's not the stomach where the problem is.

00:00:51.680 Yeah, lucky I left my pickled herring at home, but that's my jam.

00:00:56.900 that's probably much worse than just the pickled sausage you're eating yeah well i went to seven

00:01:01.300 persons and they got a beautiful uh a big sausage shop actually down there i had to buy something

00:01:06.580 so i bought a big jar of pickled sausages and ate them while i drove for a few hours that's what's

00:01:11.220 on sale that you couldn't well it was a sausage place you know what i mean these are good road

00:01:16.660 snacks uh either way i'm everybody including jane is paying the price for my indulgence okay all

00:01:22.260 What price it is.

00:01:24.940 Well, we're going to be talking about

00:01:26.720 the war

00:01:28.820 between Israel and Iran

00:01:31.600 and the United States.

00:01:35.500 The implications there.

00:01:37.080 Canada's reaction to it.

00:01:38.980 And the broader West's reaction to it.

00:01:41.340 The politics going on around it.

00:01:44.160 And also the

00:01:45.160 local effects. What the war means

00:01:47.220 for Canada. And in particular for Alberta.

00:01:49.580 Does Danielle Smith regret

00:01:51.260 not tabling her budget, just a few days later as oil goes to wartime levels.

00:01:57.580 But we're going to start first with a curious decision of the federal government.

00:02:03.500 It wasn't even a court decision, just a decision of the federal government

00:02:05.680 to give Vancouver away, sort of, maybe opening the door to having to give it away.

00:02:13.260 Musqueam First Nation, I guess, had laid claim to Metro Vancouver and quite an area around it.

00:02:21.260 uh fishing rights and whatnot and ottawa just said yeah sure have it and this is uh started

00:02:28.140 squabbles now with some other uh indigenous groups in the area i think um it was it was

00:02:33.040 the one that was fighting this now in court is it the cowichan i don't know there's squamish

00:02:37.260 i think it's squamish i was on the island yeah no it's worshiped yeah uh no the cowichan got a

00:02:44.240 different strip of land that people live on right uh so cory uh the musculium now uh it's not fair

00:02:51.880 to say they uh they own it they can just walk in any office tower and kick everyone out and this

00:02:55.880 is their land now but uh ottawa has granted some significant rights to them that seem to further

00:03:03.560 erode the quicksand below the feet of british columbians very basic property rights yeah people

00:03:10.820 are rightly concerned because of the Richmond one, everybody was told not to worry about that

00:03:14.840 either. And suddenly they found that they can't get their mortgages renewed and businesses pulling

00:03:19.020 the heck out of there because they can't finance things. Because I mean, they might not have taken

00:03:22.660 the land, but they put such a question mark on it that it's virtually valueless unless something is

00:03:26.800 resolved. This isn't the same with Musqueam, but what people are seeing is

00:03:30.900 a step in the same direction. So yeah, it's talking about just giving increased

00:03:34.820 control for fisheries and emergency management, marine things,

00:03:38.880 which are kind of odd considering they just had dug out canoes to begin with but it's another one

00:03:44.940 of those just endless agreements and as it covers a lot of land but it's again these question marks

00:03:49.900 let's make sure we got an image up on the screen there of this thing this is a this is some of the

00:03:55.180 most expensive real estate in north america oh yeah in the world and the musquehams if you might

00:03:58.740 remember you might not but in the 90s there was a big stink with that because they had a lot of

00:04:02.980 expensive housing leased on what was musqueham land and they turned over the leasing ability

00:04:08.060 to the ban because it used to be run by the federal government and they hit people with

00:04:11.200 like retroactive 4,000% increases in their lease rates. Oh yeah, look it up. People walked away from

00:04:17.340 their homes. This happened in the 90s. Though to be fair, it was a gross like $100 a year lease

00:04:22.920 rate they'd been getting for a long, long time. Either way, it's an active ban in some very

00:04:27.000 valuable land down there. It's the question marks again are part of the problem. So the chief,

00:04:33.420 Wayne Sparrow, I'm looking at this, he's saying, you know, because there's discussions, it's only

00:04:37.420 federal crown lands considered

00:04:39.520 for potential land transfers and other

00:04:41.340 negotiations. Again, he's already talking about land

00:04:43.480 transfers, but as we

00:04:45.440 know, too, it doesn't tend to stop

00:04:47.220 there. So, people are rightly

00:04:49.400 worried anyways, and there's a lot of lack of

00:04:51.440 clarity on this. So,

00:04:53.240 Dave, the

00:04:54.460 BC's land

00:04:57.560 claims are a mess because they're, for the most

00:04:59.540 part, not covered by treaties the way, say, Alberta

00:05:01.460 and Saskatchewan are.

00:05:03.580 So, it is, you know,

00:05:04.720 to be fair to these bands it's a bit more ambiguous there are probably some legitimate

00:05:09.760 claims but you know as we saw the cowichan decision with richmond uh you know they say hey

00:05:15.460 uh you know my great great great great grandfather uh was fishing there once so therefore it's mine

00:05:20.240 um these things are flimsy um but ottawa just made the decision on its own and now you've got

00:05:28.360 the cowichan uh putting up its hand it's like no no not so fast uh it's our land or at least

00:05:34.560 big portions of that are ours yeah it's it's very very weird uh the biggest idiot in all this is

00:05:42.840 david eby um he's excuse me he's running around claiming guy he doesn't know anything and doing

00:05:50.040 a sergeant schultz impersonation i know nothing but the federal officials say he attended the

00:05:55.380 briefings and he was there at the signing so somebody's not telling the truth and it might

00:06:02.980 You'd be David Eby. I think if I was a Vancouver owner, one of the questions I would be asking is the BC government promised to, I don't know if the right word is insure, insure the homeowners in Richmond, 120 of them or so that were affected, they would back their mortgages.

00:06:21.680 If I'm living in Vancouver now, hey, is somebody going to back my $4 million mortgage?

00:06:26.920 You know, it's, as Derek said, it's some of the priciest real estate in the world and a lot of money involved here.

00:06:35.760 Nigel, I can't imagine how the federal government could backstop every mortgage in Vancouver.

00:06:42.800 Also, that'll open up, we're not talking, that'd be a gargantuan enterprise to undertake.

00:06:47.180 Like, I mean, you'd end up having taxpayers backing some mortgages that probably should not be backed, even if you didn't have a land claims issue.

00:06:55.180 It would cost a wild amount of money.

00:06:58.360 Huge amounts of Vancouver are owned by, like, Hong Kong and China anyway.

00:07:02.600 So we'd be backing foreign mortgages just to try and back our domestic mortgages at the same time.

00:07:10.440 But there's a dark part of me that's kind of chuckling.

00:07:14.500 it's a part of me that shouldn't exist but I can't help

00:07:17.280 that this part exists that's like

00:07:18.740 all these downtown Vancouver types

00:07:21.360 who just vote

00:07:22.880 oh yeah I'll vote for you know New Democrats

00:07:25.180 and liberals who support UNDRIP

00:07:27.300 a UN declaration on indigenous

00:07:29.340 protection or whatever

00:07:31.180 I'll vote for all these crazy things

00:07:33.440 they like to say land back

00:07:35.240 return the land because they assume the land

00:07:37.480 back is

00:07:38.960 in the bush somewhere

00:07:41.000 some hillbilly owns it

00:07:42.900 and it doesn't really bother them

00:07:44.440 and people can return to hunting and gathering

00:07:47.020 and everything will be great before the European came.

00:07:51.840 But it turns out what they voted was downtown Vancouver,

00:07:55.280 their house.

00:07:56.800 So I don't know, maybe you're a better person than me,

00:07:59.740 but there is a dark part of me that's kind of like,

00:08:02.220 ha, you voted for it.

00:08:04.740 No, I mean, the reason that I stayed with you three years, Derek,

00:08:07.440 is that I think there was the same dark part.

00:08:10.760 I found it so easy to feed, you know.

00:08:13.000 Look, some of these people really deserve what they're getting, and now most don't.

00:08:20.480 But I was informed anecdotally just yesterday that there are people in the affected areas

00:08:27.460 putting signs on their lawn saying, proud to live on native land.

00:08:34.840 Well, if that's what you think.

00:08:37.400 Well, that could mean either way.

00:08:39.660 Corey might say something like that, trying to piss people off.

00:08:42.260 So I'm not actually sure what's meant by that.

00:08:44.480 That could mean two very different things.

00:08:47.700 Well, no, it means they are sucking up.

00:08:50.940 They are the kind of people who probably thought exactly what you thought.

00:08:55.900 This wasn't going to come close to them,

00:08:57.420 but it would be very good if somebody else gave land back.

00:09:00.320 That would be the right thing to do.

00:09:01.820 So they put these stupid signs on their driveways and on their front lawns.

00:09:08.320 So there's a certain part of me that says,

00:09:09.960 You know, if you keep giving land acknowledges and say we're very proud to be here on unceded territory or very proud to be on the traditional territory of the such and such tribe, one of these days somebody's going to come calling and say, yes, you're right, you are on our land, get off it or pay for it or something like that.

00:09:28.940 and that's what we are now starting to see but what is a puzzle to me and i think probably a

00:09:34.620 puzzle to all of us is why our senior politicians go along with it so easily and that's where the

00:09:41.820 dark part of nigel hanaford starts to bubble up and froth because i actually think that our

00:09:48.060 senior politicians would rather do this and face up to it and deal with it in the interest of

00:09:54.940 reconciliation but they would rather do this because they feel that if they take a hard line

00:10:01.740 they will have protests terrorism perhaps more repeats of what you saw on the northern pipeline

00:10:08.940 out to kitamat a few years ago and that it would be a situation that they can't control

00:10:15.900 it's cowardly and i could be wrong but that's what it looks like to me i don't know this looks

00:10:21.500 like a big opening for uh you know the bc conservatives and uh the federal conservatives

00:10:28.780 to vancouver voters really everyone in bc to say you know we'll put a an end to this madness we

00:10:34.060 will repeal undrip um i think uh what's her name she's kind of the leading she's leading some of

00:10:39.340 the polls christine elliott christine elliott i think she's talked about uh is she am i correct

00:10:43.500 she's talking about repealing under i'm going to say that okay i don't want to put words in her

00:10:48.140 in our mouth but i know some of the candidates are talking about that uh or what oh no maybe i'm

00:10:52.840 confusing with one bc what bc's talked about it but you know they might have finally pushed things

00:10:57.040 too far though i mean people have been to vancouver north van nice houses and there's a reserve right

00:11:00.660 there down by the water side right there i mean it's big quarters but there's those champagne

00:11:05.640 socialists loads of them and and it's kind of like we've all been saying you put it's great when

00:11:10.420 you're giving away somebody else's stuff but it's amazing how quickly their tune changes when it's

00:11:15.300 their own so maybe that's what the maybe that's what canada needs let's lose some houses so that

00:11:20.500 people of bloody will wake up on the ridiculousness of where are you going cory we can't be too smug

00:11:26.180 on this here in alberto we've all our land is treaty land i've actually looked it up before i

00:11:31.300 came to came to work total 100 treaty land however we have a judicial system that rewrites the rules

00:11:40.500 on the fly. Nobody could have predicted this Cowichan decision last year. If you go through

00:11:46.820 the thing carefully, you find that the judge was quite creative in her interpretations and indeed

00:11:53.140 used a lot of native language as a politeness to the other side, suggesting some people have

00:12:00.900 suggested she might be a little sympathetic to them. So you get a judge with a very different

00:12:05.700 idea about whether the treaties were ever fairly negotiated in the first place and just says that

00:12:13.380 doesn't count anymore guess what calvary edmonton are you listening well i'm aware of it i'm going

00:12:19.460 before a judge on june 30th on a uh indigenous uh uh canada canadians are just they're just

00:12:26.660 sheep it's frustrating why isn't there marches in vancouver of all these homeowners saying

00:12:32.420 hands off our land, right? I mean, you know, I would think maybe at some point, yeah, at some

00:12:40.480 point it's got to happen, but it could happen quicker than people think. Well, stop that from

00:12:45.600 happening because people will, you know, look at all the, you know, the elbows up types, you know,

00:12:51.340 they're defending, you know, they've got these big home values, they're voting kind of status quo

00:12:55.560 political parties, you know, their vote for Carney and stuff. People do not mess around when it comes

00:13:00.380 through their homes. It's their biggest

00:13:01.800 overwhelming number of people. It's the biggest

00:13:04.340 asset if they have a home.

00:13:06.700 The feds are not going to allow it to

00:13:08.320 happen. So what you probably would see

00:13:10.160 is just couching

00:13:11.440 times a million where,

00:13:14.140 okay, the feds come in and they start backstopping

00:13:16.320 it. We're going to continue to socialize this

00:13:18.180 cost out to people across

00:13:20.220 Canada. Canadians across the

00:13:22.300 country are going to be forced to carry

00:13:23.880 the mortgages of people in Vancouver.

00:13:26.340 If, say, all of Vancouver flipped over.

00:13:28.300 I mean, that seems almost dystopian.

00:13:30.540 But, I mean, it happened on a small scale.

00:13:32.900 The blocks of Vancouver be in the billions.

00:13:35.000 Yeah.

00:13:35.720 So what you're going to see is this is going to get socialized.

00:13:39.160 Because I think these people, you know, West Van, they're beside a reserve.

00:13:43.180 And, you know, say that their land comes into question.

00:13:46.660 They're not going to want to be me.

00:13:48.880 They're not.

00:13:49.300 I don't think they're going to flip and say, F off.

00:13:52.100 This is my land.

00:13:53.280 You pushed it too far.

00:13:54.720 We're not friends anymore.

00:13:56.080 They're not going to do that.

00:13:57.040 They're too wrapped up in it.

00:13:59.260 They're going to plead, and Ottawa's going to come in,

00:14:02.700 and the taxpayer is going to bail them out,

00:14:05.660 and we're just going to socialize this cost.

00:14:07.280 Yeah, but the whole thing is we've got to stop sucking up to First Nations.

00:14:11.880 We've got to stop these ridiculous land acknowledgements.

00:14:15.460 We were shocked last week, Derek,

00:14:17.400 sitting listening to a UCP cabinet minister, Mike Ellis,

00:14:21.520 do a land acknowledgements.

00:14:24.260 Other ministers have been doing it in Alberta, too.

00:14:27.260 That's just the first time somebody popped it up to us with a video.

00:14:29.620 Well, we did a search.

00:14:30.300 No, we did an in-depth dive.

00:14:33.140 He's the only one.

00:14:34.200 Okay, good.

00:14:35.660 Otherwise, I'm glad to be wrong.

00:14:37.260 It's done in the legislature every Monday to kick off the week,

00:14:41.440 and it's done at the opening of a session.

00:14:43.360 Still too much.

00:14:44.100 Still too much.

00:14:45.900 Yeah, but this is a cross-Canada problem.

00:14:47.840 It's not Alberta.

00:14:49.140 I mean, every single press conference in eastern Canada

00:14:52.860 starts with a land acknowledger.

00:14:54.080 When I go to a gym and lap and dairy club general meeting once a month,

00:14:57.040 yeah, I don't hang out with the cool kids.

00:14:58.560 They start those out with a landing.

00:15:00.880 It pains me.

00:15:02.080 Well, in Calgary itself, we changed the name Fort Calgary to the Confluence,

00:15:06.600 which just sounds like, I don't know, a hotel or some kind of posh bar or something.

00:15:12.280 Fort Calgary, the very heart that built Calgary.

00:15:16.000 There was no Calgary before Fort Calgary.

00:15:18.160 We don't have Fort Calgary anymore.

00:15:19.900 The previous administration changed that.

00:15:22.280 unfortunately you know we've questioned the current mayor when he was running uh if he would

00:15:26.360 change that uh jeremy parkas he says no uh you know yeah that's a frustrating thing there's no

00:15:31.180 there's no action on a we've got a whole new revamp council and not one of them wants to touch

00:15:35.680 and they're doing land acknowledgements before the meetings yeah everybody's afraid

00:15:39.260 disgraceful why are we still afraid of this shit this is chicken i mean you go to city hall as well

00:15:44.860 look at that garbage dump of a memorial they have from way back when the uh the canloops buried

00:15:49.660 children hoax began and there was a fenced area with a bunch of teddy bears and shoes to represent

00:15:54.720 the children buried in the campers even though it's become almost clear as day that this was a

00:15:59.020 hoax and that thing's been vandalized multiple times there's some of the irony it turned out

00:16:02.320 when they chased the vandal it wasn't a white nationalist it was almost first nations person

00:16:05.900 who burned it but it's still there it's still there it looks awful it's a mess but nobody's

00:16:12.240 got the courage ever whether it's an in an official or real just say you know what it's

00:16:17.300 done it's time it's time to raise the flag from half mass canada you know we we've been in

00:16:23.760 figurative half mass for too long okay let's feel something more cheerful war

00:16:30.600 uh or gang up on derrick time is this gang up on derrick time

00:16:36.520 um a supreme leader of the office um all right so

00:16:44.640 I don't know

00:16:46.780 I interviewed Stockwell Day

00:16:49.320 we had kind of a friendly debate

00:16:51.580 just Monday I think it was

00:16:55.720 I talked to Adam Zivo

00:16:57.220 an independent journalist who was hanging out

00:16:59.160 Tel Aviv

00:16:59.800 and I've already kind of made my own views

00:17:03.400 known

00:17:03.700 this is not America's

00:17:07.440 war, this is not in America's interest

00:17:09.560 in fact it in some ways

00:17:11.120 I think is against America's interest

00:17:12.960 I think

00:17:15.140 they've been drug into it by Israel

00:17:17.220 which has geopolitical aims

00:17:19.100 for the region

00:17:19.900 and who knows how far

00:17:22.800 this could spin out of control

00:17:25.200 it's already resulted in

00:17:27.220 Gulf nations

00:17:29.260 being hit with Iranian

00:17:31.140 ballistic and cruise missiles

00:17:33.080 I don't know

00:17:35.120 it's hard to tell how bad

00:17:37.120 this could get

00:17:38.140 maybe it's kind of similar to the 12 days war

00:17:40.560 they just pound Iran

00:17:42.140 and nothing much changes

00:17:43.640 but I

00:17:44.860 in America's interest or not

00:17:47.980 I propose to you Corey

00:17:49.580 that

00:17:50.860 the two main

00:17:52.980 the excuse for the war changes

00:17:55.280 hourly at this point

00:17:56.980 but the two main ones they went with

00:17:59.220 which were pretty much

00:18:00.360 the Iraq excuses which is

00:18:02.900 on the verge of nuclear weapons

00:18:04.700 which according to Netanyahu they have been weeks away

00:18:07.200 since 1995

00:18:08.560 that's one excuse

00:18:10.900 And the other one is regime change, which, I mean, who knows if that happens?

00:18:15.580 It's not going to just happen through a peaceful color revolution.

00:18:17.880 Best case scenario, it'll be a big civil war.

00:18:21.000 God knows how many people die and we get flooded with refugees again.

00:18:26.080 That's probably the best case scenario for regime change.

00:18:28.440 More likely, the regime just clamps down, gases and shoots a bunch of people and nothing changes.

00:18:34.980 Those are the two big excuses given for the war.

00:18:38.960 Or, I'm being unchartable, justifications given for the war.

00:18:44.540 Do you buy either of those?

00:18:46.780 I don't know.

00:18:47.540 I mean, I admit that with the second Gulf War, when they were looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,

00:18:52.920 and they turned out not to be there, it speaks a lot to the limits on intelligence or the justification they'll put out.

00:18:59.240 But it's undeniable that Iran was not just a benign wart hanging out in the Middle East all by itself.

00:19:05.460 It was funding terrorism all over the place.

00:19:08.480 And they were, it's the most cowardly way I think of these dictators, at least, you know, Saddam wore it on his sleeve.

00:19:14.100 Iran funds others to take care of their ugliness, whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, you name it, as well, you know, against their own people.

00:19:23.540 I mean, we talked 30,000 demonstrators slaughtered in five days for trying to stand up to him.

00:19:28.360 As you said, a civil war would be bloody over there.

00:19:30.980 The question, I guess, is whether or not it's the place of America to play police and go in and do that.

00:19:36.000 But Israel has very directly been hit and threatened and rocketed and...

00:19:44.020 Well, yes, but they started a war.

00:19:45.760 October 7th never would have happened without loads of Iranian help going into Gaza for years

00:19:51.760 to get them armed up and trained up and able to hit as they are.

00:19:58.300 There's a very direct connection between Iran and Hezbollah

00:20:03.180 because they're both radical revolutionaries.

00:20:04.920 And Hamas.

00:20:06.440 A bit with Hamas, but not much.

00:20:07.840 They funded October 7th, Eric.

00:20:10.280 They're involved, but they're not the main backer of Hamas.

00:20:12.860 Hamas is radical Sunni, kind of mixed with local parochial nationalism,

00:20:18.280 but they're radical Sunni Salafists.

00:20:21.460 The Shiite-Sunni thing gets set aside because one thing they can agree on is they all hate the Jews.

00:20:26.160 And so there's no difficulty with Iranian money coming into Hamas,

00:20:30.140 even if they weren't as tightly a bed as Hezbollah is.

00:20:32.900 But I mean, the bottom line is, and how many times has the Ayatollah had to say,

00:20:37.280 we need to wipe Israel off the map, I think it's a pretty good direct threat for Israel to respond to.

00:20:42.200 Yes, but that is Israel's argument.

00:20:44.840 But there's no big American answer.

00:20:47.300 Of course there is.

00:20:48.660 Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt.

00:20:50.060 You were just going over there.

00:20:51.560 Iran has been killing Americans for decades, right?

00:20:55.360 One of the first things that happened when the Ayatollah came back from exile

00:20:59.900 is they captured those American hostages.

00:21:03.620 They kept them for 448 days.

00:21:06.460 The Marine Station in Beirut, blown out.

00:21:10.060 Hundreds of dead Americans.

00:21:13.140 Americans have been killed all over the world by Iran-funded terrorists.

00:21:17.640 So is this a vengeance mission?

00:21:20.460 No, it's to prevent Americans being killed in the future.

00:21:23.560 When's the last time Iran killed an American soldier?

00:21:26.360 I'm not talking soldier, I'm talking terrorism.

00:21:28.260 or civilian when's the last time iran targeted someone on american soil like it's it just hasn't

00:21:34.860 really happened well what about the the austin texas uh uh shooting this week was was uh inspired

00:21:41.900 by uh inspired maybe who knows and you know isis there's isis inspired people look the iranians

00:21:48.040 are uh they're about as bad as you get but they're not a direct security threat to the united states

00:21:55.320 they're a security threat to israel no doubt they're not not a threat to the iron stakes so

00:21:59.200 we'll see if the proof ever shows up as i said i i have some skepticism after the last 12 war

00:22:03.580 but it's not beyond belief that they were having a nuclear program getting close to and if there's

00:22:07.460 any state in the world that is ideologically crazy enough to actually use a nuke might be

00:22:13.320 the option but then that would put lie to the 12 days war where they said they set their nuclear

00:22:18.660 program back by years if not decades that wasn't even a full year ago was it so either they were

00:22:24.240 lying then or they're lying now or lying both times but they can't be telling the truth both

00:22:28.400 sending it back by years isn't enough when you want to completely eliminate it yeah now he says

00:22:32.560 weeks away and he is on the record saying we are mere weeks away since 1995 i was 10 years old

00:22:39.440 well is is at least the uh as far back as ago saying literally he had been done to it over

00:22:45.200 all these years they probably would have had one by now well gents i got a rather different take

00:22:50.000 on this and i don't think any of you are i don't think you're actually wrong it's just that you

00:22:56.960 haven't perhaps explored whether this isn't really about iran but is about china china is

00:23:06.640 basically has colonized iran in the sense that it has created a forward operating base in the

00:23:13.360 middle east sitting right on top of 80 of the world's oil supplies you might recall that very

00:23:20.640 recently the yanks pulled maduro out of venezuela what did he do wrong well he was a bad dude but

00:23:28.080 the significance of venezuela wasn't one more bad dude being pulled from the game it was the fact

00:23:34.240 that the chinese who were buying 90 of what venezuela produced suddenly had to find a place

00:23:40.320 for oil and they have been working on iran for decades to to develop iran as that source

00:23:49.680 so actually we think about american imperialism and we think about the old british empire and we

00:23:56.000 have our sort of our forces distributed all over the world to seek our best advantage but that is

00:24:02.880 what china was doing and they were doing it in iran they were doing it in venezuela so this

00:24:08.640 really is about kicking China out of the Middle East. So let me just consult a couple of notes.

00:24:21.420 The relationship between China and Iran has extended far beyond the oil that I'm talking

00:24:30.500 about. They have got into a military industrial entanglement. Iran was on the verge of acquiring

00:24:37.340 Chinese-built ship-killing missiles,

00:24:40.080 things that evade the defenses on American ships,

00:24:44.620 hypersonic.

00:24:47.040 They have been developing diplomatically

00:24:50.640 and with the Belt and Road Initiative

00:24:53.020 all through that area.

00:24:55.040 What's the object?

00:24:56.240 It is to diminish American power in the area

00:24:59.760 and elevate Chinese power around the world.

00:25:03.340 So I would make the point to you

00:25:04.880 that this is about dismantling and disrupting this emerging Chinese power projection before

00:25:14.160 it becomes permanent, rather than solely about the Israel-Iran conflict. And I admit that it is

00:25:22.400 partly to do with that for very obvious reasons, but that's not all that's going on here. It is

00:25:28.320 China trying to be the new British Empire, the new American imperialism,

00:25:32.480 but this time it's us who were supposed to be at the disadvantage so trump whatever he may say in

00:25:39.240 his news conference it's because of this it's because of that this this is where he's got to

00:25:43.560 look for the real reason i've seen the argument made around china i actually think that is probably

00:25:49.100 at least from a reason for america to be involved i mean israel's got its own reasons for america

00:25:55.140 to be involved is probably the best

00:25:57.060 I've seen, but it's

00:25:59.140 not compelling to me

00:26:01.120 to launch a potential

00:26:03.180 large-scale war. Right now, it's

00:26:04.960 I can't say it's contained, but it's

00:26:07.300 you know, we'll see what happens with the

00:26:09.100 Kurds coming over the border, maybe.

00:26:11.160 But, you know, every big war

00:26:13.200 most big wars start as small

00:26:15.220 wars. And I

00:26:17.000 don't want to play Jake and Little and say this is definitely

00:26:19.160 going to spiral into something big and goes on for

00:26:21.080 years and millions die.

00:26:23.220 I can't tell. But

00:26:24.960 So the pushing back a potential Chinese outpost, okay, that one I could see is in America's interest, but this would seem to be not the normal, correct American way to do it.

00:26:39.220 Like, in the Cold War, you know, someone flirted with, you know, with the Soviet Union.

00:26:45.440 You did just invade the country.

00:26:47.520 You funded their neighbor to push back against them or something.

00:26:52.320 You know, a bit more finesse, a little less death, a little less blood, a little less treasure.

00:26:57.500 This would just seem to be, if that's the case, if it is pushing back a Chinese forward operating base, maybe,

00:27:03.120 this would just not seem to be the smartest way to go about it.

00:27:06.120 I don't know how else you really would.

00:27:07.840 I mean, a couple of things.

00:27:09.780 One is that it's good for the Americans that the Israelis are involved

00:27:13.340 because Israeli intelligence in that area is vastly superior to American resources.

00:27:20.700 Now, nobody's come out and said this,

00:27:22.660 but it would be highly surprising if I were to learn that that operation

00:27:27.380 in which on the first day the leadership was totally eliminated

00:27:31.860 is a consequence of Israeli intelligence, not American.

00:27:35.960 They knew where he was going.

00:27:37.200 that was my assumption because they run through the window that's my assumption because the

00:27:41.200 facade's legendary but uh a lot of what i've seen it actually is to the contrary it was the united

00:27:46.980 states actually watching a lot of this so it's probably a combination i i i've heard the opposite

00:27:51.600 the second day when all the clerics were together uh they dropped a bomb on them brilliant intelligence

00:27:57.380 nobody does it better than the massad and apparently they had control or viewing control

00:28:02.340 of every traffic station every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor when the supreme

00:28:09.060 leader left his mosque and when and when all these 80 people gathered they're watching it on the on

00:28:14.180 tv and i just gotta note the the irony and the beautiful part of that though because it is a

00:28:18.900 totalitarian state and they put those cameras in i'm certain with a lot of intent to oppress their

00:28:23.300 own people yeah it is that irony massage great at like the pagers hey we actually sold you the device

00:28:28.180 that blow your nuts off and uh and here you are you put that in to oppress your own people but

00:28:33.540 we've hacked it so that we can track your own leadership around the streets it's brilliant

00:28:38.740 if i may is that we talk about iran's government what we really have is a muslim of the equivalent

00:28:45.860 of the hell's angels running a country this is not a normal government well this is like

00:28:52.340 this is we all agree the iranian government's bad i don't think that's really a point of

00:28:56.100 Well, no, they're bad. It's just that it is a criminal organization.

00:29:00.500 It is. And my skepticism, I mean, part of my enthusiasm in a way, I wouldn't call it enthusiasm,

00:29:05.140 but optimism or whatever, I think it's almost time for the world to start having out with radical

00:29:09.700 Islam, which I know is a broader thing to define and so on. But at the same time, well, how well

00:29:16.100 has regime change ended up working on Afghanistan or Syria or Iraq or anytime they try it? That's

00:29:22.100 part of the problem is that if you still have a core of radical islam in the country the next

00:29:27.300 regime typically isn't any better than the one you just got rid of they've just changed names so

00:29:32.260 so you're going live memes though why it's not us but i guess us is the west but why is america

00:29:39.540 and the west still trying to fight radical islam over there when we're not really doing it here

00:29:45.220 oh you don't hear me disagreeing with you there like it's a radical islam is a much bigger threat

00:29:51.620 here than it is over there over there it's it's still a problem it's a pro i wish it wasn't over

00:29:58.020 there either but i i have an infinitely bigger problem with it right here yet we don't do

00:30:03.540 shit about it here there was a memorial for uh in the art of the van brampton held and as i treat

00:30:09.460 it which got a fair response back i would say what a perfect place to choose candidates for

00:30:13.540 deportation here's the ones here's self-identification i've had a canadian ice van

00:30:17.700 Extreme lunatics supporting

00:30:19.920 monsters. Get them the hell

00:30:21.820 out of here. And I fully agree there. Clean up our

00:30:23.740 rules. Americans,

00:30:25.180 you know, I saw a good

00:30:27.780 meme. We'll put it up right now.

00:30:30.260 It has,

00:30:30.800 you know, it's from the office.

00:30:34.220 It says, you know, Mega was

00:30:35.560 promised mass deportations, you know,

00:30:37.880 getting rid of all these illegals.

00:30:39.820 And instead of, you know, Michael Scott

00:30:41.880 saying mass deportations, he says

00:30:43.840 mass deployment in Iran.

00:30:47.040 Trump

00:30:47.480 ran for president three times no new wars and no war with iran in particular because iran

00:30:53.880 was the neocon wet dream they've always wanted iran and he said no war with iran and they get

00:31:01.400 iran and americans are not getting mass deportations the ice thing it's a thing but it's

00:31:07.020 not nearly as big as everyone's promised in fact obama's deport deported more people as president

00:31:11.460 It was just done with less fanfare.

00:31:15.000 So we're, in America itself, where you've got Trump,

00:31:19.100 they're not dealing with radical foreign elements

00:31:22.320 the way Republican and mega voters were promised.

00:31:27.080 But instead they're getting a war with Iran

00:31:29.380 that they were promised would not happen.

00:31:32.140 So yeah, radicalism is a big, big problem.

00:31:35.200 You know, I oppose the war for different reasons

00:31:37.000 than someone on the left would.

00:31:38.720 These guys do not see a problem with radicalism.

00:31:41.000 i do but i see it as a problem here we should fight it here but we have to take the speck out

00:31:46.700 of our own eye before we take the log out of our out of our neighbors we have to do both let's

00:31:51.380 let's at least start here before we launch these gigantic wars overseas that are going to kill

00:31:57.600 thousands of people disrupt the region and potentially at least spiral out of control

00:32:02.860 into something we can't control and then we've got fifth columns here let's deal with that first

00:32:09.080 before we go do it this might expose those fifth columns actually and what are we going to do about

00:32:14.360 how many deportation fans were sitting in brampton waiting for the ayatollah we do things right on

00:32:19.360 october 19th we can deport them at least out of elbert well hard for me to argue with that one

00:32:26.380 there's your headline for tomorrow dave well speaking of bringing this conversation back

00:32:36.440 to alberta can we just have a quick i'll comment on this the other thing that nobody talks about

00:32:43.320 is that if you actually separate china from a consistent oil supply china is going to come

00:32:49.960 looking for it they've got a reserve that's supposed to keep them going for about a hundred

00:32:54.040 days but this whole situation of starving amount of oil reminds me of the 1930s when

00:33:00.120 And the Americans cut the oil off to Japan.

00:33:06.480 Are you mentioning that turned out to be a very bad idea, resulted in war.

00:33:10.960 The Japanese came looking for oil because they needed it for their economy.

00:33:15.240 And they, well, you all have a story.

00:33:17.920 So this could work if this is actually the plan.

00:33:22.340 So if it does work, then that is where the greater danger of a wider war may come in.

00:33:30.120 Okay, I just want to make sure I'm understanding.

00:33:32.240 I don't know if you're making pro or con,

00:33:34.140 but if you're making the analogy there that the United States froze their assets,

00:33:37.600 cut them off from oil, and it left the Japanese with two choices,

00:33:41.180 which was essentially surrender and fall down the empire without a fight

00:33:44.460 or roll the dice on Pearl Harbor,

00:33:47.240 I don't want to push China into a position

00:33:51.520 where they've got to roll the dice on a Pearl Harbor.

00:33:53.360 I'm not recommending it.

00:33:54.480 I'm just saying that this is where this could go.

00:33:57.500 So if you're making investments, Derek,

00:33:59.340 you just scared the hell out of me because i think that history doesn't repeat itself but

00:34:06.580 sometimes there are these echoes that come by and it's a similar circumstances so that is

00:34:12.900 okay well a great segue to how this affects oil you read it here first you're gonna have to tease

00:34:20.460 this one out a bit nigel because i do that okay i don't like that that's scary i like beating up

00:34:25.660 on China, Constraining China, but

00:34:27.100 I don't want to push them into a Pearl Harbor.

00:34:30.680 Okay.

00:34:31.860 So, excellent

00:34:33.560 but terrifying segue into how

00:34:35.760 this affects Canada and Alberta

00:34:37.520 in particular with oil.

00:34:39.660 Dave,

00:34:40.700 last Thursday

00:34:42.920 the Alberta government tabled

00:34:45.740 its budget in the legislature.

00:34:48.440 Record deficit

00:34:49.480 9.2, 9.5 billion.

00:34:52.460 Just a

00:34:53.620 bloodbath of red ink.

00:34:55.660 Um, and I'm not too sympathetic to the Alberta government's excuses on this one.

00:35:01.000 Oil's at $60.

00:35:01.940 It's lower than they had projected, but $60, people are still making money.

00:35:05.480 It's not bad oil prices.

00:35:07.720 Um, this is overspending.

00:35:09.460 Some of it's because, yeah, we've been swallowed by migrants, but a lot of it is we just haven't

00:35:12.860 controlled spending that we can control.

00:35:14.380 It's both.

00:35:16.340 But over the week, she tables out Thursday.

00:35:19.560 We wake up Saturday morning to find, you know, war is broken out and oil is going to certainly spike when markets open Monday morning.

00:35:29.600 If you're Daniel Smith, how much do you regret not waiting a week to table your budget?

00:35:34.200 Well, the deficit certainly would have been billions of dollars less.

00:35:38.640 Every dollar above that $60 budgeted mark is worth about $700 million to the Alberta Treasury.

00:35:47.000 so it's now trading about 74 dollars today which is 14 above so it's a good chunk of money i failed

00:35:55.420 math but it's several billions several billions of dollars and it's not just the alberta go it's

00:36:01.060 all there's a lot of people in canada that are going to make money off this war the energy

00:36:05.880 minister tim hudson was in toronto today saying and the quote was we see money right which is

00:36:13.200 Maybe I'm a bit crass, but it's not wrong.

00:36:15.000 No, it's a bit crass, but it's not wrong.

00:36:17.500 The potential is there for, if this war goes on for a month or so,

00:36:23.300 we could wipe out that deficit completely and actually run a budget surplus,

00:36:29.200 which had to be the greatest budget turnaround in budget history, I would think.

00:36:36.200 Yeah, I mean, if it's a short, if it's like the 14 days war goes back,

00:36:41.360 you know then the price probably reached somewhat more of an equilibrium again but

00:36:45.360 i i think uh nagel u.s and israel i don't think they thought that the iranians were going to be

00:36:52.840 able to shut down the strait of hormuz as effectively as they did because they wiped

00:36:57.940 they wiped out their navy the navy was no contest they destroyed it so i think they were thinking

00:37:02.860 more conventionally that well the iranian navy doesn't stand a chance of blocking it but what

00:37:07.020 the iranians did is they go and they sunk one of they scuttled one of their own oil tankers

00:37:11.140 and that got every insurance company on the planet to say we're not covering oil tankers going through

00:37:16.060 the strait right now so everyone voluntarily shut their tankers down so uh without really

00:37:21.780 a military action the iranians managed still to shut it um the uh anti-air defenses against these

00:37:29.980 uh the iranians are now deploying hypersonic missiles not a lot of them are regular ballistics

00:37:34.100 some of them are hypersonic

00:37:35.080 the anti

00:37:37.440 the missile interceptors are not as effective

00:37:40.160 as

00:37:41.400 they say they were in the 14 days war

00:37:44.140 they were pretty effective then

00:37:46.360 but you know

00:37:47.280 the Iranians are now hitting all these Gulf countries

00:37:50.340 that host American bases

00:37:51.560 to try and get them to put pressure on the Americans

00:37:54.340 to call this off

00:37:56.120 and that is now starting to

00:37:58.180 do serious damage to the oil

00:38:00.060 infrastructure around there

00:38:01.360 so even if

00:38:02.440 even if this war is over in 14 days or something and it's not looking like it will be right now

00:38:09.320 but who knows even if if serious damage is done to the infrastructure over there as much as i

00:38:15.420 might think this is not a good war and we might come out ahead because oil infrastructure over

00:38:20.660 there being seriously damaged that will have knock-on effects for some time yeah i think

00:38:25.820 It's a reasonable expectation that Alberta can only do well out of this.

00:38:31.700 It's kind of crass to point it out.

00:38:34.080 Alberta secretly started this war to save the budget.

00:38:37.500 What was Danielle Smith doing that weekend anyway?

00:38:41.180 So I think the facade's good.

00:38:42.440 You should see the rat patrol.

00:38:43.860 As far as the exact way this war is conducted,

00:38:48.860 the weapons used and how effective they are,

00:38:51.100 there are people better qualified than me to pass an opinion.

00:38:54.300 but to your point about the hypersonic missiles i was not aware that they the iranians had received

00:39:03.120 hypersonic missiles they got everything else that's a very particular title weapon that you

00:39:08.560 wouldn't waste on an oil tanker you'd be looking for aircraft carriers without one but they can

00:39:14.320 actually do the damage they want to do with drones that cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars a

00:39:19.560 copy and you know the most sophisticated anti-aircraft defense system that you can build

00:39:26.260 sort of can handle a number at a time but a swarm of a couple of hundred no that's that's what that's

00:39:34.740 the leverage they have so obviously what we're seeing now is strikes on iranian territory along

00:39:40.920 the coasts of the

00:39:42.980 strait, particularly, to just

00:39:44.780 isolate and

00:39:46.200 eliminate the

00:39:48.240 launching pads for these things.

00:39:50.520 The Iranians,

00:39:51.980 they're launching different kinds of missiles

00:39:54.900 here, but a lot of the ones they're launching,

00:39:56.860 they cost about a quarter million dollars a pop

00:39:58.900 to build. I mean, to the average

00:40:00.920 person paying taxes, that seems like a lot

00:40:02.880 of money, but that is cheap

00:40:04.940 like borscht for

00:40:06.380 a missile. On a bang for the buck.

00:40:08.920 Yeah, and most of these interceptors cost $2 million a pot.

00:40:14.260 And you'd only have to fire several interceptors to have a pretty good chance of taking out a missile.

00:40:18.840 The economics of this are non-good.

00:40:21.320 Now, the American economy is infinitely larger than the Iranian economy.

00:40:26.280 The Israelis have a fairly strong economy.

00:40:28.500 But the Iranians have figured out how to build this stuff cheaply and fast.

00:40:33.440 So they might be able to keep this up for a while, and then you run out of interceptors.

00:40:37.860 it's plausible, Dave, that

00:40:41.400 again, I'm making an argument just for purely crass

00:40:43.840 self-interest for Alberta

00:40:45.560 now I'm on the other side, I'm like, yes, war

00:40:47.700 is good for oil

00:40:48.460 it's not implausible that the Iranians

00:40:51.920 are going to be able to do, also the Americans

00:40:53.700 the

00:40:55.660 Gulf states are kind of getting very angry

00:40:57.840 at the Americans because they've deployed

00:40:59.120 the bulk of their interceptors

00:41:01.460 to protect Israel, not the Gulf

00:41:03.800 states, which they've found to protect here

00:41:05.540 so these guys are getting hit

00:41:06.840 And they were promised protection in this.

00:41:09.900 So that oil infrastructure, if the Iranians can keep this up, could do a lot of damage to refineries, to shipping facilities.

00:41:19.140 This could shut down major oil production or retard oil production in the Middle East for quite a while to come.

00:41:25.760 I didn't think you could use that word.

00:41:27.740 Retard is back.

00:41:28.740 And I didn't even use it offensively in this way.

00:41:31.160 This was purely an element.

00:41:32.860 One of the big winners that may or may not come out of this is the Ukraine.

00:41:38.640 They were getting pounded by Iranian-made drones given to Russia.

00:41:45.200 And now that pipeline has dried up.

00:41:48.680 They're not getting, Russia's not getting any more Iranian drones.

00:41:52.100 So that will work well for Ukraine.

00:41:57.100 And yeah, it's, you know, I was talking to a friend in government yesterday.

00:42:02.860 And, you know, $100 oil is not out of the question if this all goes to hell.

00:42:08.680 I mean, yeah, there's so many ways we can follow this now.

00:42:12.580 But the Ukraine war had like three very distinctive phases.

00:42:16.620 You had an initial kind of blitzkrieg phase where the Russians were going to rush it with tanks and aircraft.

00:42:21.920 And most people thought it would succeed.

00:42:24.020 It did not.

00:42:25.140 Then you had kind of a trench war.

00:42:26.460 Then you went backwards, the World War I style trench warfare.

00:42:29.160 Now you're into very innovative drone warfare.

00:42:32.940 I mean, the Instagram reels are wild to watch.

00:42:37.340 We've never seen warfare like this.

00:42:39.600 But it's been pioneered in Ukraine, and now we could see it.

00:42:44.000 This is bombarding drones.

00:42:46.580 But you want to bet that the Iranians have certainly built kind of anti-personnel drones.

00:42:54.120 So that, you know, say if the Kurds start coming over, maybe they want to fight a typical kind of asymmetrical insurgency against the Iranian regime.

00:43:03.460 I'm betting the Iranians have probably learned from the Ukrainians now because the Iranian drone technology is cheap and effective and they're watching what's happening in Ukraine.

00:43:12.140 This would be drone warfare again, second drone war going on.

00:43:16.340 If it's still available. It may have been bombed out of existence by the Americans.

00:43:21.000 Maybe. I don't know.

00:43:24.120 all right all right all right and we can talk this shit all day but i don't know if yeah if

00:43:32.260 there's any silver lining it's that maybe this fixes the alberta deficit but temporarily because

00:43:38.280 we'll never we never seem to get spending under control okay uh put a pin in that there and have

00:43:44.360 our parting shots uh nagel yeah well to your last point there derrick about the never getting

00:43:50.160 spending under control. So last year we had the teachers on strike, you had the doctors,

00:43:55.260 the nurses asking for more money. It's the same all the time I mentioned last year,

00:43:59.240 but it goes on and on and on. And always the advice from the general postulations,

00:44:05.120 they deserve it, give them what they want. Well, that's mostly where the deficit comes from.

00:44:09.440 80% of the provincial budget is wages, and 80% of that goes to those two professions,

00:44:14.920 the medical profession and the teaching profession so all of a sudden we have a you know oil prices

00:44:21.480 are down or we're down at the time and people's and they present a deficit budget well that's

00:44:29.000 terrible they got to get spending under control it's the same people who are saying give the

00:44:32.680 doctors more money give the nurses more money give the teachers more money but so what are you got

00:44:37.080 to get spending under control what do albertans want well what that's why every politician promises

00:44:42.440 We're going to trim the fat.

00:44:44.400 We're going to get rid of the unnecessary duplication in bureaucrats.

00:44:48.240 Guess what?

00:44:48.700 The government just has that no matter what.

00:44:50.600 No matter what party's in power, you're always going to have that.

00:44:53.000 So anytime the politicians come out and they don't give you very specific big line items what they're going to cut, it's the same bullshit.

00:45:00.320 Yep.

00:45:01.160 That's the way it goes.

00:45:02.300 Corey.

00:45:03.020 Back to the bumper sticker, which is a brilliant one that comes out about every eight years.

00:45:07.020 It says, oh God, let there be another oil boom.

00:45:08.860 I promise not to piss it away this time.

00:45:11.020 And we never learn.

00:45:11.840 I wrote a column that'll come out in the standards soon where I said the best time for Daniel Smith to cut spending is now when the oil prices are high.

00:45:20.420 Yep.

00:45:21.020 Yeah.

00:45:21.360 I don't care.

00:45:21.960 No excuses.

00:45:22.800 It's never when they do it, but he hasn't got a nickel.

00:45:25.360 No.

00:45:26.140 Dave?

00:45:26.900 It's been a tough week to be British.

00:45:30.960 Our Royal Air Force Base in Cyprus was bombed.

00:45:34.800 And unfortunately, every single ship in the formerly mighty British Navy was in port at the time.

00:45:41.840 So Prime Minister Keir Starmer has dispatched a destroyer, but it will take a week to get there.

00:45:48.840 So the RAF is under the protection of other people, I guess.

00:45:52.840 It's really personal. My nephew is in that very base at Akroteri at the moment.

00:45:57.840 Oh, hopefully stay safe. Can we talk to him?

00:46:00.840 Yeah.

00:46:01.840 Well, I can say all I want, but he is professionally cautious about what he says to me.

00:46:08.840 And the week sort of ended yesterday with President Trump correctly noting that Keir Starmer, quote, is no Churchill.

00:46:20.480 All right.

00:46:22.460 Well, you've all got war, war, war.

00:46:25.500 I'm sick of war.

00:46:27.020 Let's talk about the dad in Grand Prairie.

00:46:31.320 This guy is, he's trans and so thinks he's a woman.

00:46:35.520 and he brutally stabbed and attempted to murder his own children.

00:46:40.080 One child had, I think, three-quarters of her esophagus cut,

00:46:45.020 miraculously survived.

00:46:47.880 This guy was, I guess, brought up on some kind of aggravated assault or something,

00:46:51.680 but not even attempted murder.

00:46:52.780 It's clearly attempted murder.

00:46:54.540 He only got five years.

00:46:56.160 And the Crown only asked for five years for a psychopath

00:47:01.060 who brutally attempted to murder his own children this guy is clearly nuttier than a fruitcake

00:47:08.400 and should be locked up in a mental facility for a long time but you notice what it's a trans person

00:47:13.140 they don't they don't go like the route of crazy they're just going to keep them in traditional

00:47:17.840 corrections this guy is clearly crazy and uh there was a very heavy publication ban banning us from

00:47:23.940 covering this dave you and i talked about this god knows how many times we broke the publication

00:47:28.780 ban finally, when this guy came out

00:47:30.960 and posted a crazy

00:47:32.780 maniacal video of himself on social

00:47:34.980 media, we're like, well, he's broken it so we can

00:47:36.800 share his social media post.

00:47:38.900 But we were banned by law

00:47:40.740 from reporting on this for a long time

00:47:42.700 for this psychopath, and he got only

00:47:44.520 five years for attempting to murder his own

00:47:46.860 children. This guy needs

00:47:48.740 mental help, but he's not

00:47:50.800 being put in a mental facility here.

00:47:54.560 It's just the way we do business.

00:47:56.200 He has a sense not to commit a mischief.

00:47:58.780 of charge in a lot of it yep yeah if he would have blown up a bouncy castle you'd be facing

00:48:03.140 a lot more and it's worth pointing out grand prairie it's only what two hours away from

00:48:07.560 tumblr ridge it's a it's the low uh if you consider grand prairie a big place it's the

00:48:13.520 only big place near tumblr ridge it's it's kind of the metro uh center of gravity for a place

00:48:18.840 like tumblr ridge and peace uh peace country okay so lots of break topics to end on today

00:48:25.780 It all sucks, Derek.

00:48:27.420 Yeah.

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