Western Standard - There is no such thing as a zero-risk world.

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00:00:30.000 good day it's september 7th 2022 welcome to cory morgan untied literally figuratively

00:00:41.680 some people say unhinged some unstable or whatever i'm here again i gotta admit i missed you guys i

00:00:49.420 missed doing this so uh this will be much like the past show though it is going to be weekly it is

00:00:54.160 just an hour. It's still live. It's still me. I'm going to have one guest a day rather than two.

00:01:00.400 So we should get some, not that our past guests were of low quality, but I could really make sure

00:01:04.620 we get some good hard hitters here on the show to have some good discussions, a little more easier

00:01:08.780 timeline to work with. Lots of time to rant. And of course, lots of time for the comments.

00:01:13.060 Hey there, Lisa Paradoxy. Good to see you guys back. And Ashley, all of you. It's been a bit.

00:01:19.460 So this, you know, where I like to remind everybody to use that comment, scroll, let's make this

00:01:24.280 interactive. That's the benefits of being live is being able to chatter with each other and

00:01:28.780 share ideas, argue with each other, argue with me, argue with my guests. Again, keep it civil.

00:01:34.940 We're untied, but we're not impolite, right? We can still argue and debate and have discourse

00:01:39.880 without being too nasty. And oh yeah, all those familiar names, you know, Pat, Soneco, Scott,

00:01:46.420 Brenda Cliff, good to see you all. Yeah, I couldn't stay away. There's just too much to cover. So it's

00:01:51.080 going to be once a week. We're going to have a good time. And yeah, Mike Damore expressing shock

00:01:56.120 that I'm still here. Yes, Mike, the standard just can't get rid of me that easily. So it's going to

00:02:01.840 be pretty similar. I'm not going to go through the daily observances because it is a weekly show. So

00:02:05.480 I won't fill the time with that. You know, it's just a bit of my babbling. And I do have a new

00:02:10.100 teleprompter. So, you know, I write these things every time, but for a while it was down. If those

00:02:13.840 or past regular viewers remember, I was kind of always looking at the laptop. So let's get on to

00:02:19.780 what I'm going to rant about for kicking off this show. And it's just more some broader thoughts on

00:02:24.380 things. And it goes with the title of the show, which was, there's no such thing as a zero risk

00:02:28.420 world. I mean, every day, every person on the planet begins doing a risk benefit analysis for

00:02:33.760 themselves with every action and choice they make during the waking hours, even if we do it

00:02:37.340 unconsciously. I mean, we know that a number of people are killed or injured every year just by

00:02:42.240 sleeping in the shower, but we still choose to shower anyways, thankfully. We eat breakfast

00:02:46.880 without fear, even though we know that choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury

00:02:51.480 and death in North America. We drive to work daily despite automobile accidents killing thousands.

00:02:56.600 We take part in sports like skiing and mountain biking despite being people killed every year

00:03:00.360 doing those things. And we can eliminate the risk of death from each one of those actions to nearly

00:03:05.380 zero. We could all stop showering. We could put all our food into a blender before we eat it. We

00:03:10.400 could participate in only yoga and other risk-free methods of exercise, and we can walk everywhere

00:03:15.060 we go while avoiding roadways. So why haven't we taken action to reduce the death risk down

00:03:20.560 to zero through these activities? Well, it's because it's ridiculous. And my teleprompter 0.84

00:03:27.920 ran out of my text on that. So I'm going to have to get on my computer and find out where

00:03:30.640 it was. Okay, so either way, we accept there's a degree of avoidable risk, and we're willing

00:03:37.920 to take with everything we do. COVID zero adherence though, and that's who I want to get onto. That's

00:03:44.620 these people who seem to think we could create this zero risk world. And I mean, they're cult

00:03:48.880 like in their fervor and they should be dismissed as the extremist they are. Legacy media and

00:03:53.280 politicians continue to take these zealots seriously. We can't pretend the numbers aren't

00:03:57.140 in anymore. COVID-19 clearly doesn't present the threat to the health of society at large,

00:04:03.300 warning further lockdowns and mandates. If you're a healthy person under 70 years of age, COVID-19

00:04:09.160 is way down the list of things that might kill you in the course of a year. So if you're under 18,

00:04:14.660 you have a better chance of dying from a lightning strike than from COVID-19. Yet despite this,

00:04:18.920 we're barraged with experts assisting we have to apply masks to children and infringe on the rights

00:04:23.300 of citizens who choose not to get vaccinated. They just won't quit. Now Justin Trudeau, we probably

00:04:28.820 saw that video clip recently, is already using threatening language as fall approaches. In a

00:04:33.240 recent interview, he implied that we don't get 80 to 90% of

00:04:37.080 the population boosted, we might see a return to

00:04:38.880 restrictions. Yeah, he wants to go back. Says my mic's been

00:04:44.080 muted. So I'll, okay, it's all good. Oh, wait, there's a

00:04:47.980 multiple mic stuff. So we're debugging a few things as we're

00:04:50.480 back. And it's good to see you all back. The government now is

00:04:54.720 on the hook for billions in vaccine purchases. So that does

00:04:57.720 explain some of the fervor and trying to compel Canadians to

00:05:00.580 undergo constant vaccinations, but it doesn't justify it.

00:05:03.240 Now, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization in Canada suggesting Canadians are going to have to get boosters every 90 days.

00:05:10.100 I guess we could presume we'd need these boosters for life, as we know the vaccination doesn't prevent transmission.

00:05:15.680 That was an outrageous suggestion, yet we heard very little about it. 0.98

00:05:18.420 The committee should have been condemned and called out for suggesting such an idiotic policy, yet we've heard next to nothing about it. 0.95

00:05:24.740 The world has endured two and a half years of misery, and not so much due to COVID-19, but due to the efforts of governments to control the outbreak. 0.99

00:05:33.260 Our economies are in shambles and our societies are divided.

00:05:36.540 We're finally starting to approach fiscal and social recovery.

00:05:39.960 Yet we have people like Trudeau and legacy media outlets trying to convince us that we have to remain in fear

00:05:45.440 and that our rights might be violated again in a feudal battle against a virus that just isn't that damn dangerous.

00:05:51.480 There are a few statements more vacuous and dangerous than those that begin with,

00:05:56.200 if it saves just one life.

00:05:58.120 The COVID zero cult won't stop on their own.

00:06:00.720 They're fanatics.

00:06:01.860 So until and unless Canadians start pushing back harder,

00:06:04.720 we're going to be returning to government-restricted life by the end of the year

00:06:07.300 in this pursuit of an impossible zero-risk goal.

00:06:10.920 So get ready, guys.

00:06:11.680 The pandemic's not over in the sense of the infections,

00:06:14.460 and it's not over in the sense that we've got to fight back.

00:06:19.500 All right, that's my rant, and yes, we will continue with things.

00:06:24.200 Thanks for bearing with me for that return.

00:06:27.000 Yes, you know, a couple weeks off, I'm going to be a little rusty,

00:06:29.820 but I still got lots of rent and energy and things within me. Lisa, he's saying good luck

00:06:35.420 getting 80% vaccine, Trudeau. Yeah, absolutely. And that's the boosting he's talking about even.

00:06:39.340 I mean, we don't even have that with the people with the first two yet. So come on, it's absurd.

00:06:44.140 I don't know if I mentioned, so my first guest, you probably saw it in the show description. I

00:06:46.980 got Jeremy Farkas coming in. For those who might be out of the province or in other areas, Jeremy's

00:06:52.560 been very involved in politics over the years. He's a young man. He was a city councillor in

00:06:57.380 Calgary for one term, and he really shook them up. He was the one who really shook up the lefties

00:07:01.820 on council, drove them bananas, and then she would just go crazy on them. And then Jeremy ran for

00:07:06.280 mayor and came in second to Jody Gondek. So fair enough, but he needed a new task. And what Jeremy

00:07:12.380 did, he actually, for Big Brothers and Sisters, some of you might have seen it online, did a hike

00:07:18.180 up the Pacific Coast Trail. It starts in Mexico, all the way up to the Canadian border, all in these

00:07:23.980 isolated desert and high mountain areas and everything. He just finished it. He started

00:07:28.020 last spring and he just finished it about a week ago, got back to Canada. So we're going to have

00:07:31.700 him in the studio and we're going to talk about that hike, some of the pictures, things he saw,

00:07:34.620 things he did there, and it'll be a really good conversation. So let's go into some new stuff

00:07:39.960 before we're actually, you know, I'm going to cover my sponsor. That's what I want to do,

00:07:43.100 because these are the guys that pay the bills. This is the reason I'm back once a week, even

00:07:45.880 they still have to pay to keep these things rolling. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports

00:07:50.600 Association. These guys are out there standing up for your rights as a firearm owner. Whether

00:07:56.780 you're a sports shooter, you know, whether targets, hunting, collecting, it doesn't matter.

00:08:01.820 If you enjoy firearms, or again, if you appreciate the rights of others to enjoy firearms, even if

00:08:05.740 you don't, this is the association you'll be a part of. They have all sorts of resources for

00:08:10.160 say firearm use, events, things that are coming up like any association would. And they also,

00:08:15.500 of course, lobby on your behalf, which is very important. I mean, we're going to lose those

00:08:19.500 rights, as we were talking about with this early thing, the zero risk call, things like that.

00:08:22.440 They will step on our ability to do things if we don't push back. So the Canadian Shooting 0.99

00:08:27.740 Sports Association is doing that on your behalf. You own a firearm, take out a membership with

00:08:31.900 these guys. Got to look them up. Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Their website is cssa-cila.org.

00:08:39.620 Good to see you too, DL Timbers, by the way. And yes, lots of other people saying they haven't

00:08:46.400 complied yet and do not comply. And yeah, and some of us who did comply at first, hey, I got my first

00:08:50.920 two shots, but you know, I've had it with it. I'm done. I see the numbers. I mean, you know, my risk

00:08:56.420 is low. I'm not going to go out and get it again. The bottom line is it has to be a choice. That's

00:09:00.280 where we keep losing the narrative. People who don't believe in choice. They don't believe in

00:09:04.260 trusting people to make up their own mind on what they can do with themselves and with not. That's

00:09:11.300 the difference between an authoritarian, a totalitarian. And we really need to push back

00:09:17.220 on these people. You know, I want to get on some new stuff. Like this has been hot. We're going

00:09:20.660 to talk about that in the pipeline a little later today. And that is, you know, the UCP race is sure

00:09:26.840 getting heated up. And I'm trying to get Danielle on. I want to get her on to talk again. She's been

00:09:31.060 on the show before. Because I mean, it's clear she's the front runner. And not just of a bias

00:09:36.880 of wanting her to be or polls or anything, just with the fact that every other candidate has their

00:09:41.520 guns pointed at her and her policies and are in full attack mode with her. So, I mean, there's 0.52

00:09:46.300 no doubt. They're always doing internal polling. They're always watching these things. That's part

00:09:49.900 of a campaign. That's the way it works. But that's fine. That's the way it goes. But what won't stop

00:09:56.960 is Jason Kenney has come right out of the gates in full campaign mode. He can't open his mouth

00:10:02.160 without jumping into this race. I mean, it was bad enough that once he was basically pushed aside

00:10:07.580 by the membership of his own party, that he said, well, even with 51%, I'm going to hang in there

00:10:12.660 as a lame duck premier for the next five months while we pick a new one or whatever it's going

00:10:16.600 to be. But at least you would presume that he would, you know, show the dignity, the class,

00:10:23.420 like any interim leader should, you know, any placeholder leader of just staying out of it.

00:10:28.340 And I've seen some of the debates of people saying, but he's right with this. He's right

00:10:30.680 The question isn't whether or not Kenny is right. It's whether or not he should be speaking to it.

00:10:35.640 People say he has a right to a point of view. Absolutely. But when he wants to sit on the chair of being the interim leader, when he's still the premier, he should keep those views to himself.

00:10:45.080 Likewise, with the lieutenant governor, what a scene. Man, it doesn't matter whether you agree with them.

00:10:49.920 They've got some roles that they're sitting in right now that they should stay the hell out of.

00:10:55.260 And with the lieutenant governor, that was even bigger.

00:10:58.080 I mean, this is a role that it's appointed.

00:11:00.260 It's appointed by the queen on this recommendation of the prime minister.

00:11:03.500 This person should not be talking about policy.

00:11:05.900 They're a rubber stamp.

00:11:06.840 They're a ribbon cutter.

00:11:07.640 Let's get real.

00:11:08.520 I know they've got a lot of theoretical power.

00:11:11.220 And they certainly signify a lot of things in the country and in the provinces.

00:11:16.460 But they should not be getting into policy.

00:11:21.860 Here's some of the beauty with discussion.

00:11:23.280 And Dean's Russ mostly saying, yikes, you're standing behind Daniel Smith.

00:11:25.980 Wow, I just lost all respect for the Western Standard.

00:11:28.200 That's only fair. I got no respect for you, Russ.

00:11:30.680 Look, I put my view out there, guys.

00:11:33.060 It's an opinion show, and I don't speak for the whole Western Standard.

00:11:35.420 And I didn't say I was standing behind Daniel Smith. 0.98

00:11:37.180 I said that our asshole Premier, Jason Kenney, has got to stop dipping into a leadership to replace him. 0.97

00:11:42.640 If he was representing what the members wanted and what Albertans wanted, he'd still be Premier. 0.99

00:11:47.480 We wouldn't be in the middle of a leadership race, would we?

00:11:50.180 I'm not endorsing any particular candidate.

00:11:52.020 it. I'm just saying there's appropriate people who should be speaking to these issues at times

00:11:56.240 and when they should and when they shouldn't. You see, that's where some of the discussion goes

00:12:00.260 with people saying, well, he was right when he said this or that. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't,

00:12:04.060 but it's not his place. He should be just holding the spot for the next month and moving along to

00:12:08.380 retirement with whatever he's going to do. All right, that's enough ranting. For now, I'll get

00:12:12.200 back to some ranting when I'm done with my guest. I see Jeremy Farkas is in studio with me today.

00:12:16.380 Hey, welcome back to Canada. Well, thanks so much for having me. I know we did a couple of chats

00:12:21.820 remotely from the trail and just really appreciate the the coverage and the love that uh the western

00:12:26.940 standards been giving big brothers and big sisters well it's a good cause i mean you know and if 0.97

00:12:30.940 you're if you're doing some run for uh for something stupid you know how fair about it

00:12:36.540 but no it's a good cause and it was a good creative way to do it i mean some people 0.95

00:12:39.900 some of that discussion they're saying you know why can't these people just donate when they was

00:12:43.340 going to do a run well because that's the way it works you bring attention to something you make it

00:12:46.700 an event and it draws people's eyes so we'll start with i mean so i'll get you to explain the whole

00:12:52.380 thing in a sense but i mean it's been a great success what number is the fundraising at so far

00:12:56.460 and i know there's still room to help out with this yeah so by day one on the trail we hit the

00:13:00.540 fifty thousand dollar goal and then by halfway we hit a hundred thousand and then we've set this new

00:13:06.060 goal of 125 000 which we're going to be fundraising until september 20th when we are hosting sort of

00:13:11.820 like a welcome home party kind of movies from the trail kind of nights at kenya meadows theater yeah

00:13:16.460 so there's tickets that people can buy for that but sort of rewinding a bit uh last five and a half

00:13:21.740 months have just been insane i've ran something like 5 000 kilometers all the way from mexico to

00:13:27.660 canada and of course as you said you have to have a hook right there's a lot of good charities out

00:13:32.540 there but they're not all made the same and myself as a fiscal conservative i spent a lot of time

00:13:37.260 looking at their books and reviewing just where that money is going and i was just really really

00:13:41.900 proud to see how their volunteer organization making a difference in the lives of kids and

00:13:46.800 that money that's being raised is actually going out the door to help kids and not on

00:13:50.620 bloated administration and stuff like that. Yeah. And Big Brothers and Big Sisters, I mean,

00:13:54.580 it's more like a mentoring organization for kids who might not have a household where they're

00:13:59.120 getting enough time with, I guess you could say, guiding figures and so on. And they help

00:14:04.300 with that sort of relationship for kids. I mean, it's very beneficial for everybody in the long

00:14:08.560 run. I mean, there's a lot of good causes, but it is a good one. So I start describing your run

00:14:14.360 there. I mean, you know, you documented it for people who aren't following, you know, Jeremy

00:14:18.180 is really documented excellently on Facebook. You know, you can have a look at it and you've been

00:14:24.040 posting your almost a diary and pictures and thoughts. And there's some of the pictures coming

00:14:27.820 up on the screen you took, you know, the Canadian flag and up on mountaintops. I mean, you started

00:14:32.480 on the Mexican-American border as far south as we're going to get. So I guess you're beginning

00:14:36.360 in quite a desert environment. Yeah, it's pretty much all of the above. My friends dropped me off

00:14:40.920 at the Mexican border and from there was sandstorms. Even though it was the desert, it was

00:14:45.640 very cold at night when I started in March. So it was still sometimes minus 20, minus 30 degrees

00:14:50.560 Celsius. And the hottest day I had was 118 degrees Fahrenheit, which I had to look it up. It

00:14:56.620 translates to like 47 degrees Celsius, which I cannot believe some of the conditions. And again,

00:15:02.620 we had all the above. So we had blizzards, we had snow storms, raging rivers, creek crossings. And

00:15:08.300 you know, it was, it was a great experience for me personally. And I felt that, you know,

00:15:12.440 maybe there's a potential there for sending off more former politicians into the wilderness.

00:15:16.920 Yeah. Well, no doubt. Maybe some current ones. I mean, I got, you get a lot of time to think

00:15:20.500 though. I mean, being serious almost, you know, I mean, it would have an opportunity for some

00:15:24.460 introspection. I mean, the views look incredible. I'm sure you're distracted with a lot of that,

00:15:29.000 or just trying to keep your legs moving or try not to freeze your knackers off in the night,

00:15:32.920 but still you get a lot of time to dwell on things and meditate and think of what you might do with

00:15:38.140 stuff. I mean, that was, what was it? Four months, five months? Yeah, five months. And I had a lot

00:15:43.440 of close calls, a lot of challenges, ran into frostbite and other issues. And there was a lot

00:15:49.080 of times I really wanted to quit, but I had so many people from back home supporting me,

00:15:53.480 supporting big brothers and big sisters, contributing, following along online. And that

00:15:58.160 that really helped me. And, you know, I'll even admit to Korn, on just a personal level, you know,

00:16:03.680 after you're done on the election night, and it's a failure in a very public way, it's hard to bounce

00:16:11.300 back from that. And I knew on election night, I knew I could either focus on being bitter or

00:16:17.180 getting better. So I knew I wanted to continue to make a difference. And I wasn't happy to take no

00:16:22.040 for an answer. And just really, really thrilled to see how Calgarians has stepped up in such a

00:16:26.760 big way for such an incredible organization. Yeah. And it is a good positive bounce. Like

00:16:30.660 for people who haven't run before, don't understand necessarily. I mean, I've run before,

00:16:34.280 but I never ran under illusions that I was going to win. I always did to make a statement,

00:16:37.120 but I actually managed some campaigns where we had a very realistic chance of winning.

00:16:40.140 And when you're that immersed in it, it's personal, it's serious. And when you narrowly

00:16:45.820 lose or, you know, you, you, or even with a low wide margin, but you thought you were going to

00:16:49.680 win, it, it's quite a blow. It takes some recovery. I mean, you know, so that's a good,

00:16:55.360 a healthy way. You didn't curl up in bed and watch the world go by. You jumped on something else and

00:17:01.960 you got rolling. It's great. Yeah. And I wasn't ever sure how much of that support for me

00:17:08.420 politically would translate into something completely different. I don't think anybody

00:17:12.780 on their 2022 bingo cards had Jeremy Farkas running from Mexico to Canada. But I had a lot

00:17:19.960 of people step up in a big way. And even to his credit, former Mayor Nenshi, he did a great video

00:17:24.820 before me and a lot of funny jokes in there.

00:17:26.860 You should watch it, but he's talking about, well,

00:17:29.440 Farkas, I told you to go take a hike how many times, 1.00

00:17:31.920 but I never thought you'd take it literally.

00:17:33.640 So it's, it's been very, very, uh, fun to see how Calgarians

00:17:38.260 have stepped up in such a big way.

00:17:39.560 And now I just got to figure out what else to do with my life.

00:17:41.980 Well, I wanted to get onto that a bit.

00:17:43.820 I mean, you're here, uh, you know, we got a whole lot

00:17:45.960 of political activity happening.

00:17:47.580 I mean, we know it's in your blood, whether you like it or not.

00:17:49.820 I mean, it's a terrible affliction.

00:17:51.760 I suffer from it myself.

00:17:53.920 I'm never running for office again.

00:17:55.740 Now I just sit on the sideline and picket, you guys.

00:17:58.280 But have you got any plans?

00:17:59.600 What's going on here?

00:18:00.760 Well, on September 20th, we're going to be hosting that Welcome Home Party.

00:18:03.960 So really my focus right now is selling tickets to that.

00:18:06.600 I think we still have maybe two dozen tickets, so that's selling out fast.

00:18:10.280 And it's bbbscalgary.ca where people can find that.

00:18:14.460 But beyond that, you know, I'm looking for opportunities to still make a difference.

00:18:17.900 And the last five months, I've been really good.

00:18:20.180 I've been off of Twitter.

00:18:21.060 but now that I'm back, it's sort of like, it's a drug that you're addicted to and I'm kind of

00:18:26.180 relapsed. But, uh, I think right now just kind of taking it easy, eating all of the ice cream

00:18:32.100 and enjoying my air conditioning. Yeah. I mean, there's just those comforts in life. You'll

00:18:36.460 certainly learn to appreciate a lot more. I mean, I remember the first time I had you on,

00:18:41.440 cause you're still kind of in the desert area too. And you were dealing with, I mean, well,

00:18:44.580 again, the extremes, you're getting near frost at night, but you got rattlesnakes to watch out

00:18:47.660 during the day and things like that. And then you hit the high country. I mean, you've got bears to

00:18:52.660 look at or even concerns, I guess, about other hikers. Actually, there's something I want to ask

00:18:58.060 about. I worked on the Texas and Mexico border a lot in the past, oil exploration, but it could be

00:19:04.020 very dangerous down there in the sense of some of the people, unfortunately. I mean, most of them

00:19:08.540 were people just trying to cross and make a better life and they're running for it, but there's a lot

00:19:11.660 of cartel activity and drug runners and so on. Was that a concern while you were doing that first

00:19:15.940 south zone down there? Oh, it was pretty much everything. Like you'd run into crazy encounters

00:19:24.160 with animals like mountain lions, bears, rattlesnakes, all the above. And then I'd say the

00:19:30.040 people were the best part of the experience for me. Like I'd run into all sorts of incredible

00:19:33.760 people that I never in my ordinary life would ever have the chance to. And it's about one in 10 or

00:19:41.280 one in five who start in mexico actually make it to canada so by the time you're nearing the end

00:19:46.640 these are people who are battle-worn buddies like they're comrades who you would give everything and

00:19:52.080 anything to see them finish more so than you want to see yourself finish so you make some incredible

00:19:57.280 friends for life but uh i'll i'll be sharing more stories uh you have to hitchhike a lot which is

00:20:03.520 just that is an incredible tour of small town america having uh gotten maybe 50 or 60 hitchhike

00:20:09.440 rides and there's some interesting uh people that i got to meet and maybe i'll leave it there

00:20:14.080 yeah well and you know the social opportunities i mean you know for crabby introverts like myself

00:20:19.840 for example i drive uber i i like driving it i always have i never you know i actually enjoy

00:20:25.520 it and part of the reason for it is i get a completely unfiltered mix of people in the

00:20:28.720 box i mean some of them oh they suck because some of them stink literally i mean in summer weather 0.65

00:20:32.160 there's some you know i should be able to charge extra for people for personal hygiene well that 0.96

00:20:36.080 that would be the hikers. That would be me for sure.

00:20:38.220 Well, you got an excuse for when you're in the mountains for a week,

00:20:40.800 at least you're in an open area. So the wind can blow it away. But I mean,

00:20:44.060 what I mean though, is it's, it's nice to get, you know, when we're in politics,

00:20:47.620 when we're at home, when we're in Alberta, we can get into our own bubbles.

00:20:50.520 We only talk to our own social circles. We only talk to our own.

00:20:54.140 And when you get something that's completely random as you would be, you know,

00:20:58.220 in hiking a trail, I mean, you get every sort of person who's joining you,

00:21:00.800 whether for a day or maybe they're doing a couple of weeks or whether you're

00:21:03.580 hitchhiking. I just think likewise in Uber,

00:21:05.520 I never know who I'm going to get. And there's some very interesting and they help me think

00:21:08.220 sometimes people, geez, I never thought that. And you know, I would never get that idea from

00:21:11.340 somebody here in the newsroom. Not that there's lots of ideas here. But it's interesting how much

00:21:15.860 they say that all politics is local. Like I did the side trip to San Francisco where their big

00:21:21.200 Democrat defund the police district attorney was actually being recalled. And there's that

00:21:27.260 election going on. And there's a part of Oregon and California that's actually trying to separate

00:21:31.800 and go on their own as their own state.

00:21:34.340 And they're frustrated with the big cities

00:21:37.820 making the decisions for them.

00:21:39.580 And it's interesting, history doesn't repeat itself,

00:21:42.220 but it seems like it rhymes.

00:21:43.760 For me, it was just incredible to be able to unplug.

00:21:47.360 And especially after the election,

00:21:48.720 where you're just so busy or nonstop,

00:21:50.760 maybe doing 40, 50 events a day,

00:21:52.640 to actually hear nothing, hear silence.

00:21:55.980 That was an incredible experience.

00:21:57.480 Yeah, I mean, it's a big challenge,

00:21:59.420 but your goal is kind of a lot more simple too.

00:22:00.920 is just keep that one foot in front of the other, keep going. I mean, it's not nuanced in that sense.

00:22:06.740 It's still challenging. I mean, the psychological aspects, I mean, your writings, sometimes you can

00:22:10.520 see you were seriously questioning yourself at times. One, I got to admit, you did that on

00:22:14.540 purpose a bit. You started out as if, oh, I'm pulling the pin. I'm out of here. You know,

00:22:18.480 I'm going to be at the airport. I think you were near Sacramento at that time or something. Ah,

00:22:21.940 shit, he gave up. And no, no, you stuck at it. Well, for me, I just wanted to do something I 1.00

00:22:27.580 really never could as a as a politician i just wanted to be very raw i wanted to be unfiltered

00:22:33.500 i guess as a politician i was relatively unfiltered but i wanted to actually show people the highs and

00:22:38.780 the lows and for me it was an incredible experience because it made me really realize that you know

00:22:43.820 life is just not a it's not just a straight line between successes and successes there's failures

00:22:49.420 there and uh for me i think i've come back to calgary now and probably the toughest i've ever

00:22:55.100 been physically and mentally well it helps humanize you when you're writing your thoughts and things

00:22:59.180 like that too if you forget politicians are just uh they're people with thoughts and ideas and

00:23:04.060 doubts and things such as that i see linda gibson saying uh you should write a book are you

00:23:07.820 considering such i mean that could be the basis uh you know one of the most interesting books i

00:23:11.260 ever read was a young guy who sailed solo around the world in a little sailboat and that was just

00:23:15.660 you know his diary and thoughts all the way through uh you know i'd want it to be interesting

00:23:20.940 I would like to write a little bit more about how my experience during the election shaped some of

00:23:26.580 what I was seeing and what I was feeling on the ground. But I'd like it to be more like a

00:23:30.840 how-to manual. I don't want it to be a boring memoir of somebody who's been off on some

00:23:34.900 adventure. I see the best potential in terms of how I can challenge people to get up and try to

00:23:40.980 do the same. You don't just wake up one day and decide you're going to run 5,000 kilometers across

00:23:45.680 the continent like i would want to challenge especially young folks to think bigger and to

00:23:51.200 want to take on a challenge like that or even bigger so it would be more of an invitation it

00:23:55.840 would be more of a challenge to people to you know for me i never thought when i started that

00:24:01.280 i would be able to finish but i was able to learn along the way and i think that speaks to a lot of

00:24:06.400 life as well as the work that big brothers and big sisters do so it sounds like you have thought

00:24:10.000 about writing a book already but you got a little bit in mind if you were to write one that that's

00:24:14.000 kind of where you would go with it well i got probably thousands of pages already up on facebook

00:24:18.480 where i go on a daily basis the people that i'm at the adventures that i've had and really excited

00:24:23.200 to share some more of the video and the pictures uh on our movie night on september 20th where

00:24:28.000 i'll actually be able to go into the details and see well this is the mountain that i've climbed

00:24:33.040 and it's just it's astonishing to think about how far i've come and i can't help but think though a

00:24:38.240 lot of the people that i met along the way who are not as fortunate enough to me had injuries and

00:24:42.800 and for one reason or another, we're unable to finish.

00:24:46.100 So I think a lot about the people that I met.

00:24:48.700 Yeah, so how are you settling in?

00:24:50.740 Like I remember my oil field time,

00:24:52.340 so I go for 60, 80 days away.

00:24:54.420 Actually, for my first couple of weeks back to Calgary,

00:24:56.300 Jane would note it,

00:24:57.140 I'm a little squirrely for the first little while.

00:24:58.580 It takes a bit to get used to the city again,

00:25:00.520 to other people, traffic, routines.

00:25:05.020 Has it been a bit of a culture shock coming back?

00:25:07.380 Well, I've been eating all of the food.

00:25:09.920 When I got back, I went to Costco,

00:25:11.560 and i think i'm gonna have to go to costco again in terms of all the cookies and the chips and the

00:25:15.560 stuff that you really really crave when you're out there pizza too and you kind of get tired

00:25:20.280 eating all the same stuff because when you're out there of course you have to carry everything on

00:25:24.200 your own back you have to wear basically your tent your shelter your food your cooking supplies and

00:25:31.720 stuff like that so i try to keep everything really ultra light but yeah i've been eating a lot and

00:25:37.160 And hopefully, well, there's the benefit, though, that I think I'm the only one who's been away as long as I have.

00:25:42.480 And I actually came back with my jeans fitting better than when I left.

00:25:46.400 Well, there you go.

00:25:47.520 Yeah, most people come back from vacation.

00:25:49.140 You know, like me, I go up a bra size, but I go to sit around.

00:25:55.520 So with all of that, though, I mean, basically, are you considering other types of runs then down the road?

00:26:01.680 I mean, there's a East Coast Trail that goes through the Appalachians and things such as that.

00:26:05.580 That looks pretty fascinating.

00:26:07.220 Not quite that long connected stretch like the West one, but.

00:26:10.420 Yeah, I have a lot of ideas kicking around.

00:26:12.880 I know I want to be involved in youth mentorship.

00:26:15.560 Politics is very much my passion.

00:26:17.700 I was able to kick my Twitter habit while I was gone,

00:26:21.180 but now I just really, really care about what's happening in our community.

00:26:24.300 And I know that for better or for worse, I built a certain kind of platform.

00:26:28.120 And people, I was just so fortunate that people were willing to actually take a look at Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

00:26:34.940 So I'm thinking about ways that I can make a positive difference that way.

00:26:39.160 But, you know, I haven't really thought too much.

00:26:41.480 And there's not a lot of mental bandwidth when you're out there.

00:26:44.300 But just so grateful for the fact that people have stepped up in such a big way.

00:26:47.680 And I'd say for all the kind of adversity I experience, there's a lot of kids here in Calgary who are experiencing absolutely worse every single day of their life.

00:26:57.440 So when I think about ways that I can contribute to them, to be able to help them make a, uh,

00:27:02.240 write a new chapter or rather a new ending to their story, that, that makes all the difference

00:27:06.000 to me. Well, that's it. I mean, it's a very important developmental time. I mean, if we

00:27:09.280 get into the larger conversations, these things, I write my columns on things like that though.

00:27:12.640 I mean, when you're talking about criminals or people who are in trouble or, you know,

00:27:16.640 rehabilitating, I mean, the best time to get somebody back on track is in that first 20 years

00:27:21.120 of their life, not once they're 30 and already in grave trouble and things like big brothers,

00:27:25.360 big sisters that helps catch kids before they get on the wrong track quite often i would just

00:27:30.480 challenge uh the typical conservatives to to donate to contribute if if you're not wanting

00:27:35.280 government to do things like this i think it's our responsibility to step up and support those

00:27:39.440 organizations because organizations like big brothers and big sisters they have a strong

00:27:44.640 stated goal to be less reliant on government programs and government grants and that's going

00:27:49.200 to rely or require that grassroots support to be able to step up and allow them to roll out these

00:27:54.800 programs. Yeah. Likewise, there's a lot of volunteer opportunities too, of course. I mean,

00:27:57.840 there's that mentorship that's involved. So, I mean, if somebody has the time and is good with

00:28:01.680 that sort of thing, they can sign up and get involved directly with Big Brothers and Sisters

00:28:06.400 as well. I mean, they need those people, right? Yeah. And there's many, many different ways that

00:28:10.560 you can give. And I think that the fact that we've been able to use that platform and showcase a lot

00:28:17.120 of the work that BBBS is doing, I think that's incredible success. And we're going to be pushing

00:28:21.760 as hard as we can over the next, I think two weeks or so to be able to smash through that

00:28:26.240 final $125,000 goal. So just maybe just a bit back to the hiking. So you're talking about

00:28:32.200 carrying your food and I know you got to work, you know, stuff that's a nutritional and light,

00:28:36.280 but I mean, so you had quite an organizational thing too, like you had mail drops or you had

00:28:40.120 food set ahead of you, didn't you response like that? Yeah. So I was on my own and there wasn't

00:28:46.620 any kind of support crew or van or anything like that following me. And whenever I was in a big

00:28:51.820 enough place, like say Palm Springs, I'd go to the Trader Joe's or the Costco or the Walmart,

00:28:56.860 and I'd take these boxes. I'd go to the post office and say, well, all right, I'm going to

00:29:01.420 send this package with granola bars out to this corner store in Washington state. And then I'm

00:29:07.420 going to hope that it's still there when I roll out the dusty trail.

00:29:12.060 You're surprised you're looking forward to it and it's not there.

00:29:14.140 yeah so there's a lot of logistics and that was probably the most challenging

00:29:18.300 sometimes you could be walking or running say 100 or 200 miles without any water in between

00:29:25.180 so can you imagine carrying enough water to last you for a week or two weeks like that

00:29:30.060 is just it's heavy and every step of the way though there's these uh trail angels who step

00:29:35.820 up and they're members of the local community that will arrange rides they'll maintain water caches

00:29:41.660 and stuff like that. And it was really the, I thought the trail was going to be the dirt or

00:29:46.220 the mountains or the sand or the deserts, but it was so obviously the people and it's been

00:29:51.500 incredible experience. And I've definitely come back and feeling a lot more mellow,

00:29:54.540 especially after the election. So maybe outside of that, you know,

00:29:58.940 outside of the big brothers and the, if somebody's of a hiking mind or is interested in that trail,

00:30:03.420 like where do you find what's it calling us the Pacific coast trail?

00:30:05.420 Yeah. So it's a Pacific crest trail. I'm told that there's this movie wild with Reese Witherspoon.

00:30:10.620 so it showcases it but i've not actually seen the movie okay but i would definitely encourage

00:30:14.940 people to take a look and there's many people i met uh i think the youngest who was doing it was

00:30:20.060 five years old and i think the oldest was 78 that i personally met yeah uh there's some people who

00:30:25.900 do a different section every single year but for those who actually start in uh march or april and

00:30:31.340 make it to the end it's only about one in five who are able to finish and for me i was really lucky

00:30:36.620 a lot of things had to go right for me to be able to make it back home in decent shape.

00:30:42.700 Well, and one badly twisted ankle or there's a number of things that could happen that stop it.

00:30:47.020 I mean, even if you have the best of intention. And so, I mean, you'd also got nailed with COVID

00:30:52.940 while you were there. Yeah, I know. I think I got that in San Francisco. It's like the most

00:30:56.780 ridiculous thing to get COVID when you're completely alone for many, many days at a time. 0.91

00:31:02.460 So you get monkeypox. So I mean, COVID, I mean, if that's one thing I've heard from everybody 0.84

00:31:07.420 who's gotten it, actually, of all the things it does, those really drains the energy out of you.

00:31:10.540 So I mean, of all the things to get hit with when you've got to hike miles and miles every day,

00:31:16.700 it was just an unfortunate thing to lay you up with.

00:31:19.580 Yeah, my target was about a marathon every day. So I'd be aiming for about 45 kilometers every day.

00:31:25.900 Toward the end, I was able to dial that up to about 70, 80 kilometers. I was able to

00:31:31.660 to manage, but if you're running into any sort of physical issues, injuries, stuff like

00:31:38.020 that, that really makes it tough. But it also helped open my eyes to really what's possible

00:31:43.700 for me personally, but I've met so many others with other physical challenges, disabilities

00:31:49.740 who made a point to complete the trail that I have incredible, mad respect for them being

00:31:55.860 able to finish.

00:31:56.860 So safety issues though, I mean, some of those areas, you don't have anything for cell coverage.

00:32:00.900 I mean, what sort of plans did you have in case there was something untoward happened?

00:32:04.020 You have to have at least a plan in mind.

00:32:05.860 Yeah, I had a health insurance for Canadian travelers.

00:32:09.060 I had a inReach device, which is a satellite communicator.

00:32:13.380 So at least I could send messages back home.

00:32:16.660 And then otherwise I had a lot of these actually like paper maps, which a lot of people made fun

00:32:24.660 of me at the start because with your watches, smartwatches, your cell phone, your GPS, like

00:32:30.020 nobody uses paper maps anymore. But we were in a pretty remote place in the Sierra Nevada,

00:32:35.300 where the snow is just coming down. And it was so cold that all the electronic devices just failed.

00:32:40.740 So a lot of people were just looking around, but I actually knew how to get us back to shelter and

00:32:46.100 back on the trail using my paper maps. And then from there, people didn't call me Jeremy,

00:32:50.340 they just called me Pathfinder. There's something to be said for the tried and true. I mean,

00:32:55.860 GPS is fantastic. I mean, the things we've got now, it frustrates me. I mean, as a starting

00:33:01.540 Rodman way back in the day, and I moved up to being a junior surveyor and I had to learn the

00:33:05.300 formulas. They wouldn't even let me touch a transit until I'd spent two and a half years.

00:33:08.240 You know all of that stuff and its limitations.

00:33:10.240 And then GPS came along and now somebody with a phone can get a position as accurate

00:33:15.460 in elevation as what it would have taken me hours or a day or two to determine in an isolated area.

00:33:21.240 I mean, it's great developments, but it's nice to have the fallback and know how to read a map

00:33:24.180 anyways. Even by satellite, my communicator, I could send messages with only about a 30 second

00:33:28.780 delay. So anywhere in the world, which is just astonishing. But you know, with all the tips and

00:33:35.620 the tricks and the fancy equipment, it doesn't, it doesn't replace you actually having to walk

00:33:40.700 those miles or run those miles. So there's some really, really terrible conditions we went through

00:33:45.900 and still though, like it was very good for me to be just out of that political situation and to be

00:33:51.960 will have the time to reflect. And as a politician for the last four or five years, I never really

00:33:56.600 heard silence in the way that I did out on some of these mountaintops. So, I mean, I'll twist you

00:34:01.880 back to that a little bit, though. You've been back for a little while, as you said, you've

00:34:04.840 dived back into Twitter, not getting, you know, in my way of calling people picks and getting right

00:34:09.220 onto things, but you're catching up on the issues. You're watching things. You're still politically

00:34:12.780 involved. I mean, what are your thoughts on our picture today? We've got a lot going on. We've

00:34:15.980 got a provincial race happening. We've got a federal race happening. Well, you know, our

00:34:20.700 municipal where you used to be at, that's going to be stuck for three more years. So we'll see

00:34:24.620 what happens there. Well, you know, my, my message is actually the same as I left with on election

00:34:29.280 night. You know, I, I said, I was going to support our mayor and our council and at least give them

00:34:33.020 some time to be able to come into their own. And I know that tour credit, Mayor Gondek has actually

00:34:38.640 sent me a very supportive messages and stuff, which how cool is that? Like you're out in the

00:34:43.160 middle of nowhere and your mayor back home is following what you're doing. I'm really grateful

00:34:48.500 for that and i think as far as just the politics i've promised big brothers and big sisters when

00:34:53.400 i'm in this kind of role and uh not exactly a spokesman but kind of a brand ambassador i'm not

00:34:58.520 going to be diving too deep into that political stuff but you know for me like uh when i was out

00:35:04.020 there sometimes i really felt like i was definitely itching to get involved because

00:35:07.600 if you don't get yourself involved then all these decisions are made without you

00:35:12.680 it. No sense in complaining if you didn't try to fix it. No. And fair enough. I mean, you know,

00:35:17.920 when you're raising funds for something like that too, it's good to have that cross party

00:35:22.400 participation. As I kind of said earlier, I mean, you used to also drive an inch right out of his

00:35:26.280 mind. I used to quite enjoy it, but Hey, you came together when it came. There's no doubt he's got

00:35:31.300 a social media reach. And when he put that video that got, you know, reached out to a lot of people

00:35:36.040 that wouldn't normally have paid attention to you. And it helps bring those funds into the,

00:35:39.400 the cause, which was the whole goal of the run and the end of everything. I mean, you got plenty

00:35:42.800 of time to fight with Nancy and Gondek. I was hoping to get you to do some of it today, but

00:35:47.520 I understand why you can't at this point. And you've still got, you know, before we close out

00:35:50.980 then, I just remind everybody that event that's coming up at the Canyon Meadows Theatre. Yeah,

00:35:54.140 it's September 20th at Canyon Meadows Theatre. The more details are online at

00:35:58.420 bbbscalgary.ca, as well as ways to be able to contribute to them. Again, they're such a fantastic

00:36:04.760 organization incredible caliber volunteer who is willing to step up and be such a shaping

00:36:12.280 and formative influence for a long period of time in the lives of some of these kids myself growing

00:36:18.120 up in east calgary and seeing the impact of programming like that really means a lot to me

00:36:24.120 that calgarians would step up and support them but also to give me a second chance because

00:36:29.000 you know on an election night when you have a very public failure sometimes it just feels like

00:36:33.320 like the, the world, uh, it's the worst thing that could have ever happened to you.

00:36:36.680 It isn't the wrong term for failure. You didn't win. It's okay. Lots of people don't, you know,

00:36:43.400 I mean, it takes a few goals. You lose some. Yeah. Not the first try. Yeah. So failure is,

00:36:49.340 it's just a step. That's all. Well, I, I came to, I came around to really love this idea of failure

00:36:55.160 because it's, it's only truly a failure if you don't get back up on your feet and if you don't

00:36:59.840 learn from it. So I had a lot of mistakes and a lot of opportunities for learning out on the

00:37:04.420 trail. And I think it's really a sharpened to my focus. And trust me, I've been thinking a lot

00:37:09.180 about, uh, that past election, my own time in politics and how, if I did it again, I'd want to

00:37:14.340 be, uh, better. So we can get that out of you at least you ain't done. Okay. Well, right on. I

00:37:21.120 appreciate you coming in to talk to us today. I really appreciate what you did on the run. It's

00:37:24.440 great stuff. I mean, that's a conservative way of doing things. Aaron Fagan government take care of

00:37:28.160 a problem. We're encouraging each other to take care of it as a community. And it was a really

00:37:32.600 unique and neat way to do it. Just to encourage everybody else. You know what, Jeremy Farkas,

00:37:36.660 look it up on Facebook. You can really see all of the great postings and pictures you took and

00:37:42.280 things like that. So yeah, thank you again, Corey. And yeah, I'm sure we'll see you again soon.

00:37:47.020 And then I'll grant you some politics stuff when you're done with your brand ambassador.

00:37:49.720 And keep turning those screws. 0.96

00:37:50.820 Oh yeah, thanks. My job is more angry than yours, but I enjoy it.

00:37:54.500 I'm very mellow now. I couldn't sit in your chair.

00:37:57.100 all right thanks again yeah thank you sir cheers all right so there you go guys jeremy farkas back

00:38:04.460 from the wilds and the uh the hiking and again it was really cool to watch i was mixed between

00:38:09.340 envy and also knowing that i wouldn't have the the wherewithal to stick to it throughout all

00:38:13.780 those extremes i mean the the elevation differences he hit the going from yeah freezing to overheating

00:38:19.820 and uh all in the name of a really good cause that that's what's really important about it you

00:38:24.980 know, and spinning things, I mean, to get into that political aspect, and that's what Jeremy

00:38:29.500 talked about a little, is this is how we take care of things. I mean, people talk a lot about that.

00:38:33.960 When we got a lot of social ills, we got a lot of problems, we got things happening, and a lot of

00:38:37.780 it's due to broken families, right? We get a lot of kids who are kind of unguided, they're on their

00:38:42.820 own, they're in development, and they don't have a solid family unit to help them with that, and

00:38:49.380 they can drift off the rails. Big Brothers and Sisters has been a really good organization to

00:38:53.500 to help kids with, with things like that. Or I like seeing preventative things. I really do.

00:38:57.680 And I like seeing community-based, just like if people remember, I had a guest on a fellow named

00:39:00.880 Gar Gar, and he works in, in Eastern Calgary because he gets bicycles for a lot of the kids,

00:39:06.620 a lot of new Canadian kids and ones, you know, so that they can get involved in healthy activities

00:39:11.800 and things like that, rather than falling through the cracks and getting into gangs and in problems

00:39:16.320 like that. Like that's so much more effective than being, you know, punitive after the fact

00:39:22.220 once somebody's gotten in trouble. So yeah, it was good to get Jeremy in. And as he said,

00:39:27.120 there's going to be more to come from him. And I really like how he was looking at it though,

00:39:31.880 right? He's, for a young man, he's made quite a bit of progress in politics and things like that

00:39:36.280 as it is. He's still got aspirations and five months of hiking by yourself and with others and

00:39:42.040 so on and interacting with other people. I imagine he's got, there's some awesome pictures that you

00:39:47.600 see, you know, like that sun, I don't know if that'd be a sunset or a sunrise in that case, but

00:39:51.340 great shot. And, and, uh, I'm sure he's got a much different outlook, uh, on how things are

00:39:57.140 going to go going forward for himself there. And, um, what's that, uh, uh, avoid heating the

00:40:05.120 afternoon. Uh, yeah, well, Farkas is going to be a joy, you know, dealing with a lot of things to,

00:40:10.580 uh, readjust. As I said, you know, he's only been back, uh, a little bit and, uh, paradoxically

00:40:15.760 saying, it strikes me that the experience took the politics out of him. And I appreciate the

00:40:19.120 commitment to BBBS. I think actually kind of what I gathered, I don't think the politics are out of

00:40:23.580 him, but he's fair enough. Like I said, he's keeping it to himself for now. I mean, it's not

00:40:27.680 over the final thing. Will it be at the Canyon Meadows Theater on September 20th? You know,

00:40:32.040 you don't want to start dividing people. There's people on left, right, and center, at least who

00:40:35.860 support Big Brothers and Sisters. So, you know, let's get them all involved in helping out with

00:40:40.920 this until the end. I got a feeling, I'm just guessing that Jeremy's going to be reappearing

00:40:46.940 and being as political as ever in the future pretty soon. He's got way too much ambition to

00:40:54.780 give up. Cheryl Dawn saying, did they catch the second serial stabber in Saskatchewan? Yeah,

00:41:00.140 I don't think so. I don't. And you know, that is so maddening. I mean, so I mean, we're talking

00:41:06.860 farther back proactive things like, you know, getting kids before they get in trouble. I was

00:41:12.480 reading the things with that guy who's accused. I don't even like using the names of these killers.

00:41:16.760 I don't. I don't want to give them any more attention than they've gotten. No, I can't name

00:41:21.340 all the victims because there's so many. And I looked at it. That was released. It's on the

00:41:24.860 Western Standard site, all the names of the four people who've died so far. And I believe there's

00:41:28.840 still three in critical condition in hospital right now. And I also read, though, some of the

00:41:34.620 writings about. So this guy was a nasty character, this murderer. He had 59 convictions already. And 0.97

00:41:40.840 this isn't an old guy, right? 59. What does it take to put these guys away for life? We've got

00:41:49.760 to protect society first. On my own YouTube channel, if you look up Cory Morgan, I got my

00:41:53.640 own where I just do little rants and things like that. I just did the other day. And this was prior

00:41:57.660 to this stabbing spree from this guy. And that was over the Nikita Barron. If you remember that

00:42:03.920 name. She was murdered in a shooting, a double shooting down in South Calgary. It turns out,

00:42:11.120 of course, the guy who shot her, he had been arrested for murder a year and some ago and let

00:42:15.780 out. And that covered, you know, there's a story I wrote in the Western Standard too, because prior

00:42:20.980 to that, there had been three. Now there's four. Four women in Alberta in one year have been 1.00

00:42:26.860 murdered by four different men, all of whom had prior violent records. We've got to stop letting

00:42:34.900 these murderers out. And the parole board kept talking about how that other gentleman, either

00:42:39.180 way, the one who's on the loose, who's been stabbing people, oh, he had a rough childhood,

00:42:43.560 and he's got PTSD, and he was on the reserve, and there's intergenerational residential school

00:42:47.580 damage. Look, guys, I'm sure it's a tragic story. Sure it is. But I don't care. I don't give a shit.

00:42:55.900 It doesn't make him any less dangerous. 0.99

00:42:58.320 That's what we got to look at when you're looking at a parole board, not what got him there.

00:43:02.580 You got to wonder what he's going to do tomorrow.

00:43:05.540 We want to work on things definitely to fix it so we have less people so damaged that they would go out and kill people like that.

00:43:14.500 But in the meantime, when we've seen, when we've seen a guy with 59 convictions of a bunch of violent crimes, you got to stop letting them out.

00:43:22.320 I think with these guys who let them out on parole, the guys who do this sort of thing,

00:43:27.340 you know what we should do? They should billet the criminals with them then. You think they're

00:43:31.980 safe? Have them in your household. Have them watch your kids. Have them babysit for a little while. 0.99

00:43:35.580 See how that works out. Or at least maybe even hold them criminally responsible for when they

00:43:39.840 let these animals out and they kill people. I mean, really? What do you think you're doing?

00:43:45.140 If I went out with a dog that had been abused and nasty, you see, there's something that's,

00:43:49.140 you know, I don't want to call every person a dog, but let's talk about a dog is faultless, right?

00:43:52.400 I love dogs. I love the rescues. I take part in them, things like that. But if it's been terribly

00:43:56.640 abused, a dog can become dangerous. It can become vicious. Unfortunately, it's nasty asshole people

00:44:02.500 who make them that way. But if I've got a dog that's that dangerous, if we're fostering one 1.00

00:44:07.340 that's that dangerous, or if I was some sick devil who harmed one like that, and then let the dog 0.99

00:44:13.020 loose in a playground. Is it the dog's fault for all the children who are about to get bitten

00:44:17.940 or mine for letting the dog loose in the first place

00:44:20.580 when I knew the dog was vicious.

00:44:23.060 Yeah.

00:44:24.200 And the dog needs to be controlled.

00:44:26.160 There's no getting around that. 1.00

00:44:27.880 But the person who let the damn dog out in the first place 0.99

00:44:30.160 should be held accountable too. 0.99

00:44:32.060 And that's not happening.

00:44:33.140 As Arthur Green there,

00:44:34.380 our great Newfie writer from the North is pointing out

00:44:36.600 the catch and release justice system in Canada is appalling.

00:44:39.720 It is.

00:44:40.760 And, you know, if people remember from in Alberta,

00:44:44.480 you know, some of the news guys like Dave

00:44:46.060 and that would definitely know it.

00:44:47.060 If you remember a name with a guy named Daniel Gingras, he was in Edmonton in the jail.

00:44:52.400 This is in 89, I think it was, or 87.

00:44:54.520 I'm not sure.

00:44:55.540 He was in for murder.

00:44:57.200 And they thought, you know what?

00:44:58.220 He's been pretty good the last few months.

00:44:59.980 Let's let him go to West Edmonton Mall for his birthday.

00:45:02.860 Yeah, they really did. 0.98

00:45:03.960 The guy had born to kill, tattooed down his arm.

00:45:06.500 He's in for murder.

00:45:07.740 They let him into West Edmonton Mall for his birthday.

00:45:10.360 By the time they caught him, because guess what?

00:45:12.140 He ran off, overpowered his unarmed escort, ran off.

00:45:15.020 he killed two more people while he was loose. The people who let him out should have been charged

00:45:19.620 with murder just as much as him. How could you possibly see a savage animal piece of crap like 1.00

00:45:26.000 Daniel J. Gresson let him out among the public? And then two innocent people died during the time. 0.99

00:45:31.440 And that's how vicious and that's how nasty this guy was. That's how broken this man is. You can't

00:45:36.300 reform a person like that. The second he was out, he was killing more people. And we have a lot of 0.99

00:45:42.640 them. And we keep letting them out. And it's got to stop. All right, let's talk about something a

00:45:47.360 little lighter. There's a video. And if people remember Derek Smith, he wrote How Trudeau,

00:45:52.760 or no, sorry, How the Prime Minister Stole Freedom. If you remember that it was written

00:45:55.500 in a Dr. Seuss sort of style book. It was a bestseller. It went really good. I had him on

00:45:59.860 the show. He's going to be writing another book, but he worked with somebody and they put together

00:46:03.660 a video where, I don't know exactly how they do it, but I think they call it that deep fake in a

00:46:08.620 where you can take a public figure and really make it appear that they are reading and saying things

00:46:13.500 well they've got uh we'll play a portion of that video of justin trudeau reading uh from

00:46:19.660 how the prime ministers stole canada and they'll talk a little bit about that

00:46:24.780 hi this is justin trudeau the great canadian book that i'd like to share with you today

00:46:30.060 is one that marked me very recently it was a book that i got excited about reading through

00:46:36.300 it's called how the prime minister stole freedom by derek smith here was a book that i could relate

00:46:42.220 to on just about any level hey so i mean that goes on for nine minutes uh i i shared that video

00:46:49.820 on my twitter and and some other things the whole book gets read page by page and it really really

00:46:55.900 does appear i mean the voice uh you can see a little bit of you know the mouth not matching

00:47:00.860 the words perfectly, but for the most part, it really, really was a good job. And it's hilarious

00:47:06.800 as others who have seen it so far, you know, in Justin Trudeau reading what was such a funny yet

00:47:13.180 cutting parody book of what his actions were last winter. I think I said it wrong before. I said,

00:47:19.820 oh, Justin Trudeau stole Canada. It's how the prime minister stole freedom. And it's very clever.

00:47:24.520 As I said, I had the author Derek Smith on before, and I messaged with Derek just the other day. He

00:47:28.880 said he's got another book coming out in November. So we'll definitely talk to him at that time and

00:47:32.040 see what he's up to. But that video, it's hilarious. And it's worth sharing as Wendy's

00:47:36.040 saying. And, and, and June, you know, it's very funny to watch that thing, right? But it also

00:47:41.220 scares me. I mean, look how close to realism. I mean, we know Justin Trudeau didn't really sit

00:47:48.660 and read that book. I mean, he can't read. So, you know, there weren't even pop-ups, but all the

00:47:53.340 same, it was made, but it was made realistically. And I do worry. Some people have talked about

00:47:58.120 that before. How far can that go? You know, you could really get a person in a whole lot of

00:48:05.600 trouble. We know how unforgiving the social media and internet world is if something goes out,

00:48:10.200 even if it's proven to be wrong and untrue. What if somebody took a video of a public figure,

00:48:15.740 again, and did something far less, you know, than just being funny with a book reading,

00:48:19.920 and had them, you know, say a bunch of nasty neo-Nazi things or just other abhorrent stuff,

00:48:27.000 and it would look so believable and go viral that even once it's corrected, you know, you know how

00:48:32.000 that works. People don't remember the correction. That's a very potentially dangerous software.

00:48:38.180 I'm not one of those saying it's time to call in and get the state to intervene and control more

00:48:42.580 software or social media or anything. It's just saying that, boy, technology is really getting

00:48:48.000 incredibly advanced in ways that can be used for good and for laughing and parody like Derek Smith

00:48:54.520 or the person he got, you know, involved with it did.

00:48:56.760 But unfortunately, some people could be really nasty with it.

00:48:59.420 Brenda Hayling saying, Link, I need that video.

00:49:01.640 Yeah, I put it on Twitter, on my account at Corey B. Morgan.

00:49:06.400 It's on Facebook and going around.

00:49:08.620 If you search, I know Derek Smith is pretty Google-proof

00:49:11.480 if you're not on either of those platforms.

00:49:13.100 If you search around enough, you should be able to find it.

00:49:15.920 And it's going pretty viral, so you'll see it shared in other areas.

00:49:19.600 And some other folks saying they got theirs too.

00:49:22.040 And yeah, it was funny.

00:49:22.940 I saw Derek Smith's book. That very book just yesterday, I went to actually to a wholesale

00:49:27.320 firearm center. I got a tour there. Jane and I went and we toured it. And actually we picked up

00:49:32.200 a firearm for ourselves since we've got, oh, there's the link. Vico is always on the ball.

00:49:38.640 So there's the link guys. If you want to see that video, wait until my show's over before you click

00:49:41.500 on that though. And yeah, you know, cause Justin Trudeau has been the best handgun salesman in all

00:49:47.060 of Canada. Everybody who was thinking about getting one decided lately to rush out and get

00:49:51.600 one. It took some months and everything. But it was funny. The first thing reading in the lobby

00:49:54.480 of this wholesale facility we went to was that book sitting up there, How the Prime Minister

00:50:01.740 Stole Freedom. I found that quite funny. It is a good, funny book. And I like seeing humor injected

00:50:08.540 into serious issues because it's very serious. It was a very serious issue with Justin Trudeau

00:50:12.800 imposing the Emergencies Act upon Canadians, stepping on rights like that to stop the protests

00:50:19.820 like that are trying to, but this gives a way to read through it, sort of laugh about it,

00:50:24.180 but to also take a poke at the prime minister and deal with those sorts of things. And we're

00:50:30.680 in for some tough times yet. So I mean, this is just looking at some of the news, another

00:50:36.200 0.75% increase to the overnight prime rate from the Bank of Canada. Let's twist off into a little

00:50:41.480 more politics again. And this is the only, no, this isn't the only way. This is the only way

00:50:50.320 the government knows how to try and control inflation. We dealt with this in the 80s too,

00:50:53.400 and they cranked up interest, cranked up interest. Yes, if you raise interest rates enough,

00:50:59.840 inflation goes down. But the reason for that is because you've chilled the economy. You've hurt

00:51:03.680 the economy. You've beat the economy down. And if you use that blunt instrument too much,

00:51:10.500 if you use it too tough, then you can push us into a deep recession. So we've got to watch it

00:51:18.760 with these increases. And they sound small because this is how the Bank of Canada is doing it. They're

00:51:22.100 doing it incrementally. So that was another 0.75 of a percent. But that brings us to now,

00:51:29.380 in just in the last few months, it's raised to 3.25% of the overnight prime rate. And that makes

00:51:34.200 Canada one of the highest in the world for that. And those numbers, again, while they sound small,

00:51:39.440 that has a huge impact on the economy. That chills capital investment, large companies,

00:51:45.180 large outfits, they're thinking of doing advances or large developments, things like that, or

00:51:49.640 projects. They start to rethink it because those minor sounding percentages add up to tens of

00:51:55.960 millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars sometimes. So then they start re-evaluating

00:52:00.300 whether they're going to do it. And if they don't do these projects, then people end up unemployed

00:52:03.320 and we go into recession. So we are not out of the woods yet, not even close. And that's what

00:52:12.120 really worries me a lot. People thinking it's over and forgetting, look at the debt we took on

00:52:18.720 and look at the interest rates. The other thing to keep in mind, whenever they raise that interest,

00:52:23.740 that's more money that's going to go to servicing that debt. There's so much economic illiteracy

00:52:28.500 out there. It's agonizing to watch with people. They just think there's a magical money bin out

00:52:33.060 there that's going to pay for all our programs. And if government would just spend enough on 0.68

00:52:37.060 everything, we'd all be rich. It doesn't work that way. But it does seem to work in winning

00:52:41.100 elections. And it works in Europe. Like the intensity of stupidity in Europe. You know,

00:52:46.820 look at some of the recent news that's saying, we're going to cap the price of the natural gas

00:52:50.000 coming out of Russia. They're going to freeze your balls off, you guys. You can't tell Russia 1.00

00:52:55.220 how much they can sell the gas to. You got dependent on them. You put your head in that

00:53:00.720 noose with them. And yes, we've got Prime Minister Ding Dong in Canada, who even when Germany asked,

00:53:05.880 could Canada supplies with some natural gas? Well, I don't think there's a business case for it. I

00:53:10.000 mean, this is a guy, Justin has never even run a lemonade stand in his life. He doesn't know

00:53:13.580 anything about business opportunities. We could have helped Europe. But Europe is still in denial

00:53:19.180 too. And the progressives hate talking about it. But a very large part of the reason that Germany 0.91

00:53:23.980 is so screwed right now is that they heavily invested into green technology, which doesn't

00:53:30.780 work. It's supplemental at best. It's a novelty. It's like electric cars are right now. Oh, you 0.77

00:53:36.940 got your windmills. You got some tidal power. You've got some geothermal heat. You got some

00:53:41.180 solar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all little luxuries. The reality is you need a base of coal,

00:53:46.040 natural gas, and nuclear to keep it rolling. And these idiots shut down their coal, which they've 1.00

00:53:49.820 refired up. They're shutting down their nuclear, which is even dumber, but they're refiring or at 1.00

00:53:55.660 least putting that off as well. And even now, though, they still don't seem to have realized 0.88

00:54:00.720 what sort of trouble they're in. They're thinking they can artificially cap what the price is

00:54:04.900 of what's coming from another country. Look, Russia has been smarter than Canada with these 0.93

00:54:10.660 things. You want to know how? Because they got more than one customer. Our biggest problem is

00:54:15.980 our only export customer, our only one for our oil and gas in reality is the United States.

00:54:21.180 It's the only one for gas and it's 99% of our exports or whatever, oil. When you can,

00:54:27.320 and that's part of why we sell everything at a discount. When you've only got one customer,

00:54:29.900 they can sort of dictate to you. When Russia now can sell to India and China and all sorts of

00:54:35.920 places that are more than happy to buy their energy products. So Germany and Europe and that

00:54:40.740 can't make any demands. They don't have any terms of things. Canada's the other way around.

00:54:45.020 If we could get our bloody stuff to port, if we could get to tide water with our energy products, we could have a whole bunch of customers out there. 0.96

00:54:53.340 If we had LNG plants, multiple terminals, multiple of them on each coast, and the Americans say, we want to buy your gas at discount, we say, go to hell.

00:55:01.960 You know, no, China will buy it for this much, or Philippines will, or whatever.

00:55:06.100 We've got all sorts of customers.

00:55:07.080 You're going to pay world price, guys.

00:55:09.180 But we've got a prime minister who's stunting all that. 1.00

00:55:11.580 Just the stupidity of all of this altogether. 1.00

00:55:14.280 It's just compounding. 1.00

00:55:15.640 And some of us are kind of laughing

00:55:17.260 at how Germany is going to freeze this winter,

00:55:18.840 but at the same time, it is kind of dark.

00:55:20.120 People are going to suffer very badly over this.

00:55:25.360 And I don't know how much the suffering has to get to

00:55:27.600 before the reality check comes in.

00:55:32.060 It's just beyond reason, you know?

00:55:36.420 Something else that we got,

00:55:37.540 and this is something I'm looking forward to as a news weenie

00:55:39.540 and also hopefully to see something happening.

00:55:41.560 I believe it's September 10th.

00:55:43.720 So the inquiry is going to begin into the use of the Emergencies Act by the federal government last February on the bouncy castles and hot tubs.

00:55:56.060 That was the biggest crisis since terrorists in Quebec were murdering politicians and foreign workers.

00:56:03.940 So I'm really getting rumblings, I hope, and I think, and they're going to be televising it, I guess, or they're going to be live streaming it so you can see it, that they dig deep.

00:56:11.440 I mean, there's a lot of all of that has already been coming out, showing that the government had no justification in imposing that act, no justification in bringing in a form of martial law upon the citizens to deal with that emergency.

00:56:23.440 And the people who crafted the emergency act, oh, wait a second, Sylvia's saying it's been pushed back to October.

00:56:28.480 Okay, sorry, I appreciate the correction, Sylvia, but they have a hard, okay, and Gandhi correcting me as well, it's been pushed to October, I'm out of touch with that one, I'm sorry, I missed it.

00:56:37.640 damn, I was really looking forward to that going to go on. They can't push it too long.

00:56:41.160 And actually, that tells me another thing. This government's terrified then. What's your excuse,

00:56:44.620 you guys? They have to have that. They have to. And it has to be released by that end. So they

00:56:50.760 can kick that can down the road, but it's going to get them. So either way, well, that sucks. I 0.98

00:56:55.620 was looking forward to watching that next week. That's why I like this live show. Hey, when I'm

00:56:58.360 off the rails, you guys will let me know. But I do hope that that judge, and I know people say

00:57:03.880 he's liberal appointed and things like that, perhaps. But he sounds like he's really going

00:57:08.940 through it. And there's been some liberal appointed judges who still take their jobs

00:57:12.060 very seriously and really want to get to the bottom of things. So I hope that's the case in

00:57:19.200 this, because we really had an unprecedented action by the government against us last February,

00:57:25.460 and they should not get away with it. Cheryl Dunsing, justice will call an election before 0.97

00:57:30.480 the inquiry to avoid it? Well, the inquiry still has to go. It has to. As I was saying, the people

00:57:37.100 who made that legislation, who changed the War Measures Act into the Emergencies Act, changed

00:57:43.640 a few things. And what they did was said, though, they understood how serious it is. The government

00:57:50.900 has no choice. No choice. If you're going to impose it, you have to have an inquiry as to why

00:57:56.460 you did it within a year. So yeah, they can kick it down the road and they can mess with procedure

00:58:00.560 and they can do a lot of things, but it's going to happen one way or another. You know, the modelers

00:58:04.980 of that policy were smarter than the prime minister is about it and they understood how

00:58:10.080 serious it was. So, okay, but it's good to find out from you guys. And others saying the judge

00:58:16.320 had a medical procedure or Linda saying the judge is sick and that's why it's being pushed back.

00:58:19.500 Okay. It's unfortunate. Well, let's get her rolling. Let's get on with it.

00:58:24.120 so uh and another uh fellow there asking uh or somebody uh ab free asking when i'll be on again

00:58:31.000 uh yeah it's gonna be next wednesday at noon we're gonna do this once a week every wednesday

00:58:35.200 at noon i'm not sure who my guest will be next week yet and uh it's gonna be once a week it's

00:58:41.320 gonna be a good show it's gonna be lots of ranting lots of covering things it's gonna be live we will

00:58:45.200 have our discussions so hey spread the word i'm back you couldn't get rid of me that easily i'm

00:58:50.440 going to be doing the daily thing. Going to be doing the pipeline that's going to be airing

00:58:54.200 tonight. There's going to be a special this weekend covering the Conservative Party of Canada's

00:58:58.060 leadership race when that gets released. So watch the Western Standard Channels for that.

00:59:02.600 And yes, I'm untied in many ways. Thanks. Good to see you all guys. And I'll see you

00:59:09.020 all again one week from today.

00:59:20.440 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - September 08, 2022

There is no such thing as a zero-risk world.

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