Western Standard - Triggered： From farms to rodeos to COVID cults.

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00:00:30.000 hey it's january 14 2022 welcome to this episode of triggered i'm cory morgan and i'm chronically

00:00:44.580 triggered this show is going to be coming every day at 11 30 a.m mountain standard time monday

00:00:50.560 until friday with the exception of next week actually we're going to take a short breather

00:00:55.880 for it a week off uh there's gonna be all sorts western standard content coming out actually

00:01:00.440 and uh we'll be discussing some things uh i'm probably gonna pop in for a special i'm leaving

00:01:06.040 the country gonna do some things down south for a bit among which is visiting my mother if she's

00:01:11.020 tuning in today uh mom's birthday is today so uh yes we celebrate that moment when the person

00:01:17.440 who brought me into this world was brought into this world herself happy birthday mom if you're

00:01:21.880 watching if not i'll do the the good son thing and send you a facebook message soon uh so yeah

00:01:27.460 good to see you ashley and uh thanks for the thumbs up and sharing and as i said this is a

00:01:32.440 show that i want to see interaction you know comments let's talk back and forth this is sort

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00:01:55.580 or around the house or wherever we can have these discussions and spread the word I got a good show

00:02:00.020 today it's gonna be a lot of an agricultural theme in a sense that kind of fits with the big

00:02:03.420 Yellowstone craze going on and all that though hi Sandy we've got Kelly Malmberg I had him on

00:02:09.740 before actually and unfortunately we had some technical issues and Kelly's an agricultural

00:02:15.080 producer down in Blackie and you know we just got so many things going on I mean the the ag sector

00:02:20.220 is having such a hard time. They always are. It's a tough way to make a living. You know,

00:02:23.240 it's a good lifestyle, but they certainly have their challenges. And then the other thing is

00:02:26.520 we've got a lot of very expensive food items going on. Like what's going on? The farmers aren't

00:02:31.340 getting all the money. The consumers are paying all the money. Where's it going? Maybe Kelly can

00:02:35.200 answer some of those questions. Then I'm going to talk to Ty Northcott. For those who may remember,

00:02:40.500 Ty was, he held that rodeo back in Bowdoin last May, you know, the big rebel rodeo. We were set

00:02:45.960 up there with the Western Standard. It was a really good time. And there was a lot of hysteria

00:02:50.660 over it. Oh, it's going to be a super spreader event. You're going to kill people. It didn't

00:02:53.400 turn into one. We just had a really good time out there. But Ty has been charged and it's still

00:02:58.340 dragging through the courts. They're putting them through the ringer. I believe his next court date

00:03:02.540 is coming in about 10 days here in Alberta. I'll get an update from Ty and see what's going on with

00:03:10.120 him, how it's been going. He's done a good job. I hope he's got more rodeos coming. And hi there,

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00:04:22.660 So who we got there?

00:04:24.000 Doug, listening from Mexico.

00:04:25.600 Hey, Doug, I'm going to be in that same country as you in just a few days.

00:04:29.980 I'm looking forward to it.

00:04:30.680 And I will be reporting from freedom as I pass through the States, you know, being able

00:04:34.340 to breathe freely and away from these insane restrictions of Canada.

00:04:37.580 And I'm really looking forward to it.

00:04:40.540 But for today, I'm triggered.

00:04:42.140 I'm always triggered.

00:04:43.140 That's part of my nature.

00:04:44.440 I rant and I go on.

00:04:45.380 So what's got me today?

00:04:46.420 Well, we've got a cult of fear who will not let COVID go.

00:04:50.300 I mean, as the Omicron variant or Omicron proves to be much weaker than previous incarnations of COVID-19,

00:04:55.880 we should be thrilled.

00:04:57.040 We should be celebrating, you know?

00:04:58.160 I mean, how this variant is spreading like wildfire, but the symptoms are remarkably weak.

00:05:02.800 Most people don't even realize they're infected until they actually test positive for it.

00:05:06.720 Alberta's official COVID-19 case count is well into 60-some thousand active people right now.

00:05:12.080 Dr. Dina Hinshaw said that the number is likely 10 times that.

00:05:15.400 That means we have over half a million Albertans currently infected with the Omicron variant.

00:05:20.080 So how's that turning out for our hospitals?

00:05:22.000 Well, when I checked last, among ICU admissions in Alberta, 11 were identified as Omicron infections.

00:05:28.020 66 of general hospitalizations were Omicron cases.

00:05:32.020 These are the sort of medical pressures that a bad outbreak of the common cold presents.

00:05:35.440 I mean, they'll hit the vulnerable and they put some people in the hospital.

00:05:37.560 But this isn't the plague, but we're acting like it.

00:05:40.260 We got lucky.

00:05:41.280 This virus could have mutated into something much more rather than less deadly.

00:05:45.900 The high transmissibility of the variant may be a hidden blessing.

00:05:49.820 I mean, we're seeing pressures in the workplaces due to staff calling in sick,

00:05:52.780 and we're also seeing people gaining a whole new level of immunity against COVID-19 through a low-risk infection.

00:05:59.280 Researchers have found that many people who have been vaccinated and then become infected with the Omicron variant

00:06:04.740 are gaining what they're tentatively calling superimmunity.

00:06:07.880 They might have as much as a thousand percent better resistance against COVID-19

00:06:11.460 than somebody who's not been vaccinated and or infected.

00:06:14.880 So how are the doomsayers responding to these new developments?

00:06:17.740 Oh, they're freaked out.

00:06:18.900 They're working to raise the level of fear, demanding more lockdowns,

00:06:22.080 and insanely calling for mandatory vaccinations across the country.

00:06:26.260 There's a number of unions in Alberta calling for complete lockdowns in the province.

00:06:29.340 They love calling them circuit breakers.

00:06:31.040 Why?

00:06:31.860 Our hospitals aren't even close to being overwhelmed at this point.

00:06:34.660 And some journalists have gone completely off the rails.

00:06:36.860 I'm just going to quote some stuff from Randy Boswell, who wrote in a global news column.

00:06:41.000 This is his words.

00:06:42.400 How hard should Canada be pushing unvaccinated citizens to finally get inoculated against COVID-19?

00:06:47.540 We should be pushing them extremely hard.

00:06:49.480 We should be persuading and pressuring vaccine holdouts in every way we can think of.

00:06:54.140 Educating, incentivizing, penalizing. 1.00

00:06:57.020 Just my ass, dude. 1.00

00:06:57.960 Okay, those are my words. 1.00

00:06:59.020 Short of all out public shaming and frog marching them to clinics and forcing needles into their arms.

00:07:04.720 I'm not sure Boswell, where he thinks he stopped short of public shaming, because that's what he's doing already.

00:07:09.540 And the entire rest of his column is dedicated to shaming and inflaming public sentiment against people who have chosen Knox to be vaccinated.

00:07:16.320 The measures he proposes and supports to push people into vaccination are not terribly short of the frog marching he's talking about.

00:07:24.100 While children are at a remarkably low risk from all of the variants of COVID-19,

00:07:29.120 The panic-mongering advocates are demanding school closures

00:07:31.880 and the implementation of even stronger masking mandates.

00:07:35.100 Again, the weaker this thing seems, the more hysteric the panic porn pushers get.

00:07:40.080 We have a new subculture of people.

00:07:41.660 They're doing harm to the entire nation due to their ideology.

00:07:44.960 These people need to be called out and they need to be shamed for the damage they're doing. 0.98

00:07:48.700 And I'm not talking about the unvaccinated. 0.73

00:07:50.120 I'm talking about the lockdown cult.

00:07:52.000 There's some people who built their entire essence around the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:07:56.140 Think NDP Joe Vipon, for example.

00:07:57.880 and they get off on terrorizing people over it.

00:08:00.360 They've taken the most negative approach

00:08:01.760 to every development of the pandemic

00:08:03.260 and they've built a sense of purpose around it.

00:08:05.620 These people are self-styled heroes.

00:08:07.440 They really think they're super people

00:08:08.440 who believe they're saving the world from itself

00:08:10.320 by pressuring governments

00:08:11.320 to reduce individual liberties as much as possible.

00:08:13.860 They don't want this pandemic to end

00:08:15.560 because then they suddenly lose that feeling

00:08:17.260 of purpose and superiority over the unwashed

00:08:19.980 who haven't dared to join them

00:08:21.560 on their roller coaster of fear.

00:08:23.360 These purveyors of panic get outright giddy

00:08:25.660 when case counts rise

00:08:27.240 and warned of doom and gloom being but two weeks away

00:08:29.900 whenever the case counts drop.

00:08:31.980 They've adopted a zero-risk outlook towards the pandemic control,

00:08:35.240 despite that being completely impossible.

00:08:38.600 They overlook all of the damage caused by government restrictions

00:08:41.080 while exaggerating the harm caused by the virus itself.

00:08:44.660 For every example of something positive,

00:08:46.480 these zealots will seek out something negative to counter it.

00:08:48.880 They're almost jubilant when a 14-year-old Albertan

00:08:51.720 was listed as the province's first COVID-19 fatality last summer.

00:08:56.600 Their sanctimonious cries of, I told you so, were hard to miss.

00:08:59.900 The disappointment was almost evident in them when it was found that the death of that young

00:09:03.660 man had nothing at all to do with COVID-19.

00:09:05.540 In fact, it turned out to a huge embarrassment for the government, and they pressured the 0.97

00:09:08.800 family over all these jubilant assholes celebrating what they thought was the death of a child 0.99

00:09:13.540 with COVID-19. 0.98

00:09:14.980 They then scoured the internet to find outlying cases of young people succumbing to the virus

00:09:18.700 in other parts of the world in a desperate hope to maintain the illusion that COVID-19

00:09:22.160 threatens kids.

00:09:22.780 They just don't want to accept any good news.

00:09:25.680 As with any cult, there's no reasoning with the adherence of this one.

00:09:29.740 We can only learn to sideline them and ignore them as we would any other lunatic howling the end is nigh while ringing a bell and accosting people in city streets because that's what these people are.

00:09:39.020 They're just using the internet now rather than city streets.

00:09:41.580 And unfortunately, a lot of them are politicians and journalists who have a fair reach with their crazed apocalyptic predictions.

00:09:48.740 We may be nearing the end of this two-year nightmare and we should be looking forward and ahead to better times.

00:09:53.300 The people who have learned to love living within this emergency don't want to let it go, though.

00:09:57.580 Their voices are getting more shrill and their predictions more dire as they face the prospect of normalcy in people's lives.

00:10:04.320 Let's work to ensure the voices of reason begin to dominate the discussion as we start to see the light at the end of this tunnel.

00:10:09.620 The doomsayers have disproportionately loud voices for their numbers.

00:10:12.780 We can shut them down with a message of cautious optimism.

00:10:16.200 To let them win now is to accept a perpetual state of restrictions.

00:10:20.700 And that's what's got me triggered today.

00:10:22.300 A big one.

00:10:23.300 Now, I'm going to check in with Melanie Rizden. She's one of our news reporters. You see a lot of her stories at the westernstandardonline.com. She's constantly putting them out there and she's going to tell us what is making the news today and what we got to look forward to. How are you doing, Mel? 0.74

00:10:37.800 Good. How are you?

00:10:39.540 I'm all worked up.

00:10:41.020 Outside of all worked up.

00:10:42.860 Good. Aside from that, again, I'll be escaping soon.

00:10:45.160 Well, why don't we stick to what you were ranting about. We do have a few stories that we've put out today in the COVID realm. BC firefighters have lost a case. They had an appeal by a group of BC firefighters to halt mandated vaccines, and that has been rejected by a Labour board adjudicator.

00:11:10.160 So we've got details on that on the website, and people can look into the reasoning behind that.

00:11:17.220 Also, what else do we have here?

00:11:19.360 MPs have voted to say federal snooping of people's cell phones to the tune of 33 million Canadians during the pandemic is going to head to an ethics committee for investigation.

00:11:31.960 apparently not too happy that the feds were snooping into people's whereabouts during the

00:11:39.900 pandemic. So that's another story we have up right now. Looks like because likely because of COVID

00:11:46.780 and some of the craziness that's come, a lot of people are looking to de-urbanize. So it looks

00:11:53.580 like there's a record-breaking amount of people migrating from urban centers to rural. Looks like

00:12:00.200 from mid-2020 to mid-2021, 59% increase in that de-urbanizing movement of people. So we've got

00:12:11.720 that up. Let's see what else we have. A federal report recommending climate change insurance be

00:12:18.360 made mandatory. So that feels like it's going to be an expensive year ahead of us with that on the

00:12:28.920 table uh and we've got a couple of great columns out right now uh one from linda slobodian where

00:12:35.000 she's uh taking a stab at prince andrew uh he was stripped of all of his military duties and uh

00:12:42.520 he's he's uh looking at uh some an investigation uh yeah you can see there uh it's on the website

00:12:50.040 you can read into it and see what our columnist linda has to say about her thoughts around this

00:12:57.320 story. We also have another column up from Dave Makacheck. He is comparing Trudeau and Trudeau's

00:13:05.960 accomplishments to that of a bomb-sniffing rat. And that is a really interesting comparison that

00:13:15.480 I really suggest our readers dig into. We also are working on a piece on inflation. I believe

00:13:22.760 you mentioned it, Corey, about how prices are just skyrocketing when it comes to food and the cost of

00:13:32.120 goods. So our reporter Eva is working on a story on inflation. Apparently, according to a recent

00:13:39.880 survey, Canadians, that's their number one concern is the rising cost of consumer goods and the cost

00:13:47.080 of food. So, and I, again, think you're going to be touching on the fact that just yesterday,

00:13:53.240 the price of pork has jumped by 50%. I'm not sure if people have noticed that in the stores yet,

00:13:59.880 but you will very soon. Great. Yeah. It's been interesting with that. And Kelly's going to be

00:14:06.560 coming on pretty soon, Kelly Malmberg, to talk a bit, at least from an agricultural producer's

00:14:10.480 perspective. I mean, the thing is with the food, it's a long and complicated supply chain all the

00:14:14.700 away from the the egg producer to us when we finally get it in the supermarket but somewhere

00:14:19.040 in the middle these prices are going through the roof and from what we can hear it's not the people

00:14:23.260 producing and we're getting that money and it's not the people buying it or getting any savings

00:14:26.880 so we got to try and track down where we're getting hooped here because uh it seems to be

00:14:30.740 happening yeah that's right the other thing uh we've got out right now and uh i'm working on a

00:14:36.480 little bit further uh on this story is uh the story of the family that was um you know evicted

00:14:42.360 from the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver.

00:14:45.840 It's based on their vaccine policy,

00:14:48.220 and this has created a massive amount of division.

00:14:52.320 Now, I believe the family was featured on Fox News.

00:14:55.300 I think it was Wednesday evening.

00:14:57.660 And so coverage has sort of exploded,

00:14:59.900 not only Canada-wide, but through the states as well.

00:15:04.260 And again, very polarizing.

00:15:07.240 You have got people on social media

00:15:09.960 and you know commenting on mainstream articles that this family you know it's a travesty that

00:15:16.560 this family is needing to choose between getting vaccinated and the care of their child who is

00:15:24.620 their four-year-old son is undergoing cancer treatment right now but then you've got the

00:15:27.920 other side of the coin where you've got a lot of people arguing that they're in a facility where

00:15:32.120 you know immunocompromised kids are staying and and so you know a lot of people arguing that

00:15:39.540 a vaccine should be mandated in that kind of environment to protect all of the people that

00:15:45.840 come through the house and are, you know, in and around these children who are immunocompromised.

00:15:51.620 So very divisive. I mean, the topic has been so polarizing to begin with. It's just growing.

00:15:59.880 Yeah, that was frustrating because I've always admired Ronald McDonald House. I mean,

00:16:02.900 it's been a fantastic charity and they've helped thousands and thousands of families when they're

00:16:06.980 dealing with a terrible time and dealing with medical treatment for their children. But for

00:16:11.420 them to take this ridiculous stand, and I know it puts them in a rock and a hard place. And I mean, 0.96

00:16:15.220 I think part of that's due to a lot of that misinformation from the fear mongering jerks 0.91

00:16:18.380 I've talked about before, where they were always talking about the unvaccinated spread COVID. No, 0.89

00:16:23.340 they don't. Or at least no more than the vaccinated. We've discovered that maybe a year

00:16:28.060 ago, we had an excuse for this, but we don't. So now yes, a four year old child in such care

00:16:32.780 is now been evicted from a Ronald McDonald house. And it's harming their whole charity. It's

00:16:36.660 dividing people again in the worst possible way. It's no wonder that story is still holding up so

00:16:41.160 strongly. Yeah, we've got a piece out today, just got a response from the Ronald McDonald House on

00:16:48.720 their vaccine policy. So again, they are, you know, very focused on keeping their facilities

00:16:57.000 and their environment that these immunocompromised children are in as safe as possible. So they are

00:17:03.660 doing what's been recommended to them and what their board has has decided on but yeah very much

00:17:08.680 polarizing people yeah i mean all i can say to those i mean for the people who are still going

00:17:14.420 to ronald mcdonald mcdonald house facilities or even mcdonald's itself i mean you might want to

00:17:18.480 hold off of donations but you know be nice to the folks at the working at the drive-thru window the

00:17:22.740 people working at those ronald mcdonald houses i mean they're they really are working very hard

00:17:26.840 for for the best outcome even if they're dealing with some some regulations that might not be

00:17:30.600 realistic. Well, and I think it's probably wise to point out right now that Ronald McDonald House

00:17:36.200 is not McDonald's, the restaurant. The McDonald's restaurant does support Ronald McDonald House,

00:17:44.160 but you don't go to a Ronald McDonald's house to get a burger. So I just thought I would clear

00:17:50.920 that up for some people who may not. Yeah, it's getting confused by the two. Yes, it's the charity

00:17:55.880 that was formed. I mean, I'll give a quick background. Some people might not be familiar

00:17:58.860 with it too uh that that mcdonald's you know a huge corporation and a lot of them do do that

00:18:02.660 they'll pick a particular uh charity i mean i think tim hortons has a lot of camps around the

00:18:07.560 country ronald mcdonald house gives a place for if parents have their their children getting

00:18:12.320 treatment extended treatment in a hospital they have facilities where the families can stay and

00:18:17.060 try and live a little more normally and and affordably i mean if you live out of town and

00:18:20.400 your child's in the hospital you could bankrupt yourself on hotel bills that's right and they

00:18:24.120 can stay close to their children while they're being treated and and it's a very very good cause

00:18:28.160 And it's unfortunate that this unholy mess has come out of it.

00:18:31.160 So we'll certainly be following and watching this as that develops.

00:18:33.800 I'm glad you're following up on it.

00:18:35.160 Maybe we can get a, I don't know, some reasonably good idea to come out of this.

00:18:39.060 Yeah, you bet.

00:18:40.300 All right, Mel.

00:18:40.900 Well, thanks for checking in.

00:18:41.980 I'm further triggered on a few things, but I'll calm down a little bit and talk to Kelly

00:18:45.460 for a bit after we speak to our sponsors.

00:18:47.580 And I'll see you in the newsroom in a bit.

00:18:49.080 Glad to contribute.

00:18:50.280 Thanks, Corey.

00:18:51.080 Great.

00:18:51.320 Thanks, Mel.

00:18:52.940 So yeah, always lots of news.

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00:20:57.540 out much longer i already abused him so badly last time with technical issues uh kelly malmberg

00:21:02.600 coming from southern alberta hey kelly how you doing good cory good off sounding much more clear

00:21:08.380 this time i hope i'm coming in well to you it's kind of frustrating uh the challenges of a live

00:21:12.840 show yeah last week that was tough i i was struggling but yeah you're coming in pretty

00:21:17.580 good now excellent well we put you through the ringer see there now the interview is just easy

00:21:21.340 you can actually hear me and uh respond so uh you might have heard me talking a bit earlier you know

00:21:26.860 i mean people don't think of the whole supply chain they don't think of how food gets on their

00:21:31.020 table necessarily it's fair enough we got a lot of things to think about but i mean it begins with

00:21:35.660 the agricultural producer and uh i guess you know give us a rundown it's like there's some things

00:21:40.380 you can't do anything about such as the weather and there's things we can do such as policy but

00:21:45.020 But you guys have been having a tough go lately, huh?

00:21:47.540 Yeah, like we were trying to say last week, last year was probably the worst year I've ever seen.

00:21:52.940 You know, we had, it was a good start.

00:21:55.640 Spring started good.

00:21:56.420 We had the moisture.

00:21:58.180 Crops were coming up.

00:21:59.220 Guys were marketing grain.

00:22:00.600 And then late June hit.

00:22:03.120 And as you guys can remember, you know, we hit 40 degrees.

00:22:06.380 Some of those days, it just decimated our crops.

00:22:10.320 So right now, we're sitting probably the lowest grain stocks I've ever seen.

00:22:13.720 And it wasn't just us.

00:22:14.720 It was also North America in general, parts of Europe and China.

00:22:19.560 So, yeah, low grain stocks, and you guys have seen it in the grocery store.

00:22:26.200 Yeah, I mean, it always travels down the line, and it's a long way of producers.

00:22:31.100 We saw some things actually, it looks like bread price fixing came up again.

00:22:34.560 You know, that's beyond you guys.

00:22:35.920 But if you wonder why bread's expensive, well, we got some very large producers

00:22:39.100 and commercial bakers and retailers that it turns out we're working together

00:22:44.180 to kind of keep those prices fixed on people and but that price that you see that's probably what

00:22:48.580 people don't see is that's not trickling down to the people are producing though the stock that

00:22:52.260 goes into those goods is it well you know if you think about it um you know the yields were down

00:22:57.820 like an average wheat yield in my country so south of calgary east high river you know you can

00:23:04.220 usually pull off a 40 50 bushel wheat crop and to put that into you know in respect to a loaf of

00:23:10.160 bread. One loaf of, one bushel of wheat produces about a hundred loaves of bread. So the price

00:23:16.240 you're seeing isn't really the price, you know, isn't really what we're getting for the wheat.

00:23:21.780 We make a lot of bread off of one bushel. So yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying it's price fixing,

00:23:26.680 but our crops weren't that poor to see that much of an increase on a price on a loaf of bread.

00:23:31.800 No, and I don't expect you to call it that. It's just some investigations have been finding that

00:23:35.660 down the down the line um and another another challenge that's been hitting you outside of the

00:23:40.060 weather though is is uh expenses for your inputs and the carbon tax i mean that's a impacted

00:23:44.940 fertilizers uh you know equipment things that you're using and uh again you've got to pass

00:23:50.500 those costs down somewhere yeah um like going into 2022 fertilizer prices are probably double

00:23:58.080 um there's lots of crop inputs and it's a lot of the logistics of getting stuff we get a lot of our

00:24:03.300 raw material from china and overseas um but yeah going into this spring with the poor yields we had

00:24:11.280 last year um you know these guys are you know they're hurting financially and now these crop

00:24:17.060 inputs are going to be basically double for example um urea fertilizer is usually around 600 bucks a

00:24:23.480 ton phosphate's a little higher and that's essentially doubled so you know we're looking

00:24:27.720 that $1,200 urea and phosphate. But I guess one silver lining is the crops did so poorly

00:24:35.080 last year, we still have a fair bit of nutrients in our soil. So guys are definitely going

00:24:39.100 to cut back on how much fertilizer they put in their fields this year. But yeah, crop

00:24:45.760 inputs, herbicides, it's going to be a seed shortage because there wasn't a lot of crops.

00:24:50.500 So yeah, we're cautiously optimistic. Grain prices are awesome right now. But another

00:24:57.020 dry year and a lot of these guys are going to be in some big trouble. Yeah let's hope we get some

00:25:02.220 some good snowpack going into spring maybe you can wait until a little longer you know before we're

00:25:05.740 thigh deep or something but we need to get that moisture into the ground there's no doubt about

00:25:09.980 it and it's just it's a huge element of well all of Canada we've always been a big agricultural

00:25:15.740 producer and we forget about it we don't talk about it enough I mean if our ag producers hurt

00:25:20.460 we all hurt you know we talk about the energy sector we talk about auto manufacturers

00:25:24.220 but uh again i mean our cost of living in general if a segment of our economy goes down we're all

00:25:30.780 going to pay the price for that yeah and you know um talking my wife the other day it's like the

00:25:35.800 grocery store it's kind of getting weird in there you know there's stuff there's lots of stuff

00:25:39.780 missing um you know this whole covet thing uh the the floods that went through bc there's a lot of

00:25:47.380 things going on right now and it's not just us like you know we grow a lot of beer beef and bread

00:25:53.040 and milk. But a lot of the produce, you know, especially this time of year, you know, we rely

00:25:58.480 solely on California and Mexico. And, you know, if Trudeau goes through with this unvaccinated

00:26:05.640 truckers, you know, that's 10% of our trucking industry is unvaccinated. You know, that's going 0.85

00:26:10.920 to affect us big time. It'll be really interesting to see what happens here. I think Saturday's when

00:26:16.840 they really clamp down on the unvaccinated crossing the border with our supplied goods. So 1.00

00:26:22.140 um yeah there's a lot going on right now we got uh high input cops high input uh on our crops

00:26:29.740 but also produce coming in beef prices are really high and that's not trickling that's not coming

00:26:35.500 from the cattle producer that's that's getting stuck at the packing plants in the stores you

00:26:40.600 know a lot of people are sick um packing plants are running a smaller crew so yeah i 22 is going

00:26:47.960 be a fun year hopefully we get some moisture and we can get back to some normalcy that's for sure

00:26:54.520 yeah and then the meat packing industry i mean it's kind of we created our own monster in a

00:26:58.840 sense i mean we like our our quick low-priced food i mean that's the reality and economies

00:27:03.640 of scale help with that so the bigger the plant the more they can process the more they can bring

00:27:07.480 the prices down but then we found ourselves dependent on just a handful of major beef

00:27:12.600 packers uh and pork and poultry as well that well if one or two of those go down we're all in a lot

00:27:19.400 of trouble and we really see some some repercussions uh uh on both ends i mean you've got only so many

00:27:23.800 places to take your product to and consumers are suddenly seeing massive price hikes because of

00:27:28.760 you know of outbreaks or strikes in those plants yeah like um i was talking about a friend of mine

00:27:35.000 he has a feedlot here by brandt and he says you know we're basically basically relying on four

00:27:40.440 packing plants that account for 85 percent of our kill capacity and you know there's high demand and

00:27:46.600 yeah they're making good money but i heard i think cargill at high rivers got 40 covet cases

00:27:52.760 and so there's a lot of disruption going on but they're making big money we need more kill capacity

00:27:58.520 and there's just so much demand for uh you know no matter what uh they're saying about meat

00:28:03.880 reduction it's pretty high demand right now i don't know what's going on in the pork you know

00:28:08.280 i heard you guys talking earlier about the pork uh prices and how they've doubled i'm not a big i

00:28:13.800 don't know a lot about the pork and but they do feed a lot of grain to them and um but it's all

00:28:17.960 locally produced and those animals are here it's just a matter of getting it on a plate yeah in

00:28:23.160 that case it was ham and it was down in the the states but of course it always trickles up here

00:28:26.840 eventually and it was a supply chain thing i think that shot it up but it's showing how sensitive

00:28:30.920 those price prices are on so many products uh i see a commenter cheryl saying yeah she bought

00:28:35.640 beef direct from a farmer and it wasn't cheap i mean it's still expensive to get no matter how you

00:28:39.480 do it jane and i bought a half a while back and filled our deep freeze and used it but i mean it

00:28:45.000 uh it wasn't terribly cheap but at least we could bypass the uh the packers you know we went through

00:28:50.920 uh redger lake meats for it and and uh and our producer that we bought off you know got a better

00:28:55.960 price than she would have bring it to the processor but not everybody can do that and that's a big

00:29:00.600 uh outlay of money and you got to have a connection directly with the producer i mean

00:29:03.720 I mean, personally, I think if we could just get more, like so many things, competition,

00:29:08.320 get a few more packers out there, a few more facilities, you know,

00:29:10.680 break those semi-monopolies, both the producers and the consumers will win.

00:29:14.840 Right now, we're kind of at their mercy.

00:29:18.260 Yeah, I know, you know, a lot of these feeder guys, you know, a lot of,

00:29:21.020 there's been lots of groups over the years, like, you know,

00:29:22.920 the one that happened there north of Balzac.

00:29:24.840 They tried to, you know, we've tried to bring our own packing plant in,

00:29:31.360 but it just doesn't seem to you know there's just so much involved to it um manpower especially

00:29:36.360 but i yeah i totally agree cory um i know in our neck of the woods we've got some local hutterite

00:29:42.660 colonies that have full meetings you know they've got meat inspectors there um arrowhead colony for

00:29:47.820 example a lot of people from the high river country uh they're very reasonable priced and

00:29:52.940 yeah i would encourage trying to go like you said rib deer lake um there is lots of opportunity to

00:29:58.740 try to support some of the local butchers, high river producers.

00:30:03.480 Yeah. And then as Cheryl was saying, you might not save a pile of money,

00:30:06.240 but you get more direct to that producer and to a smaller, uh,

00:30:10.240 packing place, which will help add to that competition that we really want to

00:30:13.580 see. As you said, there were others that tried it. I mean, it's a tough,

00:30:16.240 expensive business. You need big facilities. You need a lot of health for good

00:30:19.660 reason. Uh, you know, levels of health inspections and bureaucracy,

00:30:22.860 unfortunately you're never going to get really, really cheap meat,

00:30:25.840 but you can have it affordable and enjoy it

00:30:27.740 and still support your local producers.

00:30:30.440 Maybe I'll throw something,

00:30:31.340 I think we talked briefly on it before,

00:30:32.780 it's a little out of your area,

00:30:33.480 but it's supply management.

00:30:35.180 You know, it's kind of a divisive area

00:30:36.380 in some agricultural circles,

00:30:37.920 but it does impact, I mean, our dairy, our poultry,

00:30:41.140 eggs, things such as that.

00:30:43.420 Are you seeing much movement perhaps on producers

00:30:45.520 to say maybe it's time to start moving away

00:30:47.280 from that system of having governments

00:30:48.700 so strongly control those agricultural sectors?

00:30:51.960 just well you know it's that topic is it's such an unknown nobody knows about it nobody ever

00:30:59.020 questions it the masses just go to the store and i see their um you know they are going to be raising

00:31:05.360 their prices i think they started january 1 and they're going to go up 10 so they're actually

00:31:09.140 they're raising their prices higher than the average rate of inflation they're a very powerful

00:31:14.100 organization they've got um you know on every constituency board i can almost guarantee you

00:31:20.080 there's a dairyman or a poultry guy on there.

00:31:22.720 It doesn't matter which political party you're in.

00:31:25.820 They're strong supporters of supply management.

00:31:29.680 And there is, you know, it didn't work with the grain.

00:31:32.820 The Canadian Wheat Board was probably the most communistic,

00:31:35.360 worst thing we ever had.

00:31:37.120 And, you know, I watched my grandpa and my father go through it,

00:31:40.320 you know, and they sold their grain for next to nothing

00:31:42.620 to make deals with the Russians and the Chinese.

00:31:44.840 But supply management, I'm not a big fan of it,

00:31:47.540 but very strong uh group very strong lobbyists um they'll probably never get rid of it but i think

00:31:52.980 if people actually uh i just don't think they're informed enough to understand how it works

00:31:57.940 it is a you know a good supply it's a steady supply it's well regulated but yeah it's that

00:32:04.820 really um i think it's something needs to be looked at um to open it up and let everybody

00:32:09.780 have an opportunity i don't know how it's so locked in right now we've got guys that paid

00:32:15.060 big money for quotas and I just don't know how they do it. I see with the Americans now

00:32:20.280 through that new trade agreement, you know, they're actually in a lawsuit right now that

00:32:24.920 they're not allowing enough U.S. dairy in. So we'll see what happens with that.

00:32:30.860 Yeah, it's impacting things with trade and otherwise. I mean, other countries did have

00:32:34.800 it. Australia and New Zealand had supply management. They got out of it. It was expensive to get out

00:32:38.480 because, I mean, you've got a lot of families and companies invested and they spent a lot of money

00:32:42.980 on those quotas. I mean, you can't just cut their legs out and leave them ruined. So you have to

00:32:47.660 kind of phase it out. But if we can move towards that discussion, because it really, I mean, I

00:32:51.000 think most of us agree, isn't the system that serves most people well? There's been some studies

00:32:56.100 showing that the average family can be paying anywhere from five to 700 a year more in groceries

00:33:00.400 just due to supply management alone. And, you know, that's reason enough to start getting out

00:33:05.380 of that. Yeah, you know, it's, I don't know, I'm a big cheese connoisseur. And we just, everybody,

00:33:10.680 all we do in this country is make milk because that's where the money's at um you know maybe if

00:33:16.180 we opened it up we'd be able to get some more uh some better grade cheese like cheese in this

00:33:21.120 country is brutal but yeah we didn't make good milk we have a steady supply um and hats off to

00:33:27.280 those guys they're they're on every board and uh don't matter if you're a conservative or a liberal

00:33:32.400 they love supply management because they're told to well they know how to lobby you know you got

00:33:37.500 to give them credit where it's due and uh you know they like spread the fear I like the cheese

00:33:41.240 example I mean for people to think back think 30 years ago when all you could get was a handful of

00:33:45.760 crappy different kinds of beers once we opened it up it allowed people to do so many more of these

00:33:49.980 craft breweries and everything now you can get crappy craft beers all over the place but there

00:33:53.820 are some good ones among the mix too I mean you know leave it open it up let's get some variety

00:33:57.340 same with cheeses I mean there's so many great ones but you've got to open it up and bring them

00:34:01.140 in uh the other example bringing up the wheat board I mean yes you remember as well as I when

00:34:05.100 when we finally started dismantling that old dinosaur,

00:34:08.780 some of the people saying doom and gloom

00:34:10.840 and oh, it's going to be a catastrophe

00:34:12.320 and it didn't happen.

00:34:14.360 And I think the same for supply management,

00:34:16.720 if and when we finally move away from it,

00:34:19.100 people will say the same things,

00:34:20.080 but don't worry, the world won't end.

00:34:21.780 No, that's right.

00:34:22.500 I remember like, for example,

00:34:24.360 like right now, grain prices are insane.

00:34:26.860 If we had the wheat board right now,

00:34:29.040 and I've probably got about a handful of people

00:34:30.740 who kill me for saying this,

00:34:31.840 but if we'd had the wheat board marketing our grain

00:34:34.640 this last year they would have been marketed it a year ago we're getting about 10 12 a bushel right

00:34:39.740 now they would have probably had most of it sold for about six bucks we would have probably got

00:34:43.960 seven eight bucks so that's my dig at the wheat board but i'm sure glad it's gone that's for sure

00:34:48.760 right on well i appreciate you coming on because these are things again a lot of our

00:34:53.180 urban or just non-agriculture producing you know listeners and viewers and so on

00:34:57.920 don't necessarily know about i just like to get that voice from people on the ground and

00:35:01.660 And, you know, be patient with our agricultural community and be supportive.

00:35:05.140 They're a big part of our things in the West, and they're having a tough time.

00:35:07.740 Everything's having a tough time.

00:35:09.120 But that's another one of them.

00:35:10.840 And, well, one of the ways is learning what's going on out there and talking about it.

00:35:14.400 So thanks for coming in, Kelly.

00:35:15.480 And I'm glad we didn't mess with you with audio issues this time.

00:35:19.180 I really appreciate it.

00:35:20.360 Yeah, thanks, Corey.

00:35:21.080 That was fun.

00:35:22.120 Let's keep in touch.

00:35:23.600 Absolutely.

00:35:24.100 I'll check in with you again sometime soon.

00:35:26.020 Okay.

00:35:26.880 Great.

00:35:28.020 So, yeah, you know, again, it's such an important sector for us in Canada.

00:35:31.660 I mean, that's what built the West.

00:35:32.840 That's how we began.

00:35:33.600 Most people, if they have been out here for a couple of generations, they look back and their family members came over here to be sharecroppers or farmers, you know, and get rolling on things.

00:35:42.220 And they're having a tough time and it's all connected.

00:35:45.060 I mean, there's so many issues, you know, from the weather to government policy, to supply chains, to the bloody COVID. 0.98

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00:35:54.940 Do we allow them in? 1.00

00:35:56.020 Do we not allow them in?

00:35:57.100 It's just absurd.

00:35:58.140 And we're all going to pay a bad price for it.

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00:37:10.540 Okay, so where are we at? We've got a little bit of time to talk before we get to

00:37:15.060 Ty, who's going to come in and talk to us for a bit. Let's see, you know, look at some of these

00:37:20.920 Omicron study results. I'm just looking at the CDC saying there's a 53% less chance of

00:37:26.660 hospitalization, and repeated boosters. Oh, I know what I want to get to. Sorry. Okay.

00:37:33.980 I do have one picture that was sent to me as a meme. I'm looking to get more and more of those

00:37:39.080 all the time, but somebody sent one that was kind of funny and it's the Dina Hinshaw cat.

00:37:43.260 I think maybe if, there we go, Dina Hinshaw's cat. I can add a little humor on some things

00:37:49.480 that are serious. I mean, we get tired of Dina and yes, her bangs are something outstanding.

00:37:53.100 they've become something of a trademark for her. And this cat just matches it. I think one of the

00:37:57.140 funnier things I saw, it was people saying before a press conference, watch for her bangs and what

00:38:03.700 level they're at. And if they're higher or lower, you know that we're going to be seeing longer

00:38:09.080 lockdowns. Sort of like watching the groundhog at a groundhog day to try and predict the weather.

00:38:14.860 City council, you know, so I'll get onto that. Yes, Cheryl sent that to me. Thank you, Cheryl.

00:38:20.320 I did get that. And again, as I said earlier, aside from the other fella, send me these memes,

00:38:25.220 send me these pictures. We can break some things up with humor. We can have a chuckle with things

00:38:29.160 while still talking about serious issues. It can be done. And memes are a fun way to communicate

00:38:34.840 them and just funny pictures and things like that. At Corey B. Morgan, you can see my Twitter

00:38:39.560 account there that Nico's pulled up. If you want to see me on Twitter, that's where I get my most

00:38:43.860 unrestrained discourse and conversations going. And of course, you know, send that stuff off to

00:38:49.420 me, I'm more than happy to look into them. Now, another one, just to show, actually, just a

00:38:56.500 cartoon, because I tweeted that out recently. And it's when I'm talking about Calgary City Hall,

00:39:01.100 because they are speaking of going back into the Flames negotiation. And something got leaked.

00:39:08.660 There was an article in the Herald by Corbella. And I guess from an in-camera meeting, which means

00:39:13.600 they're in hiding. These are Nenshi's favorite things. Now, it seems Gondek is much the same

00:39:18.040 way, they've decided to have a third party go and try and beg the Flames to reopen negotiations,

00:39:25.280 to try and get on their knees and cry and say, please, please, we're sorry. We didn't mean it.

00:39:31.000 We want you back. We understand. We love you. We need an arena. But the best part of what came out

00:39:36.780 of that meeting, I guess, was there was a vote in camera. And I know a couple of councillors,

00:39:40.920 you know, Gondek's, you know, fart catchers who are already in there on council are upset that

00:39:46.060 Somebody leaked from an in-camera meeting,

00:39:49.520 but they voted to say, don't send Gondek.

00:39:52.900 She is not to take part in it.

00:39:54.240 She already blew the deal. 1.00

00:39:55.380 She broke the deal.

00:39:56.900 And there's been a lot of discussion with that.

00:39:59.240 She's been pointing fingers.

00:40:00.840 Her little weasley chief of staff, Stephen Carter,

00:40:03.500 has been pointing fingers.

00:40:04.360 Even Blame Nenshi shows his loyalty.

00:40:08.160 The bottom line was the mayor had the ability

00:40:11.680 to call a special meeting when the deal was falling apart. 1.00

00:40:14.020 She could have brought council together. She chose not to because she's trying to say, well, I'm just one person. I couldn't do anything. Yes, you could have. And you chose not to. You wanted that deal to die. And now it's blown up. And now they don't want you to have any more part in it. I don't know if the flames want to come back to the table, but they're going to be having the upper hand now.

00:40:32.580 I mean, as was said in some of the articles and other things about that so far, it's city council who blinked and, you know, the negotiations from this point going forward are going to be with them in a much stronger position.

00:40:47.460 um there's uh yeah there's some discussions where we're talking about privacy we're talking about

00:40:52.660 a task force uh clint mentioned that uh yeah that's where things go to die unfortunately

00:40:57.600 they often are but uh they have been tracking the government's been tracking us through our

00:41:02.480 cell phones and it should be of concern for us another thing is the rcmp commissioner is urging

00:41:07.820 people to tell them when they spot anti-government uh chatter on the net you know this uh pointing

00:41:14.800 fingers going at each other, getting neighbors against

00:41:16.940 neighbors, things like that. That's the stuff of

00:41:18.760 authoritarians that always scares me. It happened

00:41:20.800 with the, you know, COVID stuff

00:41:22.800 going on and everything. Neighbors,

00:41:24.760 the Karens leaning over the fence and seeing

00:41:26.820 if their neighbors are breaking rules. And now the RCMP

00:41:28.740 want you to report it if they see

00:41:30.820 the wrong anti-government chat

00:41:32.940 on Facebook or other internet spots.

00:41:34.900 They're asking for that. You know, Brenda

00:41:36.700 Lucky, we're going to have to have a future show 1.00

00:41:38.960 on her that's the head of the RCMP

00:41:40.760 because there's some very controversial things coming 1.00

00:41:42.760 out about her. And that's that federal force. One day, one day, we may start towards the Alberta 1.00

00:41:51.660 agenda that we started talking about 20 some years ago, the fair deal panel, the things that

00:41:58.600 Jason Kenney promised, which is let it talk and talk and more talk and more talk and more deferrals.

00:42:04.480 It means he doesn't want to do it. If Kenney wanted to do something, do it. The RCMP has some

00:42:08.960 fantastic members. They got some great policemen among them and women. But their organization's

00:42:16.420 broken. It's corrupt. It's a mess. And it's controlled by Ottawa. It's time to move on to 0.98

00:42:21.740 our provincial police force. I mean, some of them said, oh, it's going to be more expensive, maybe,

00:42:24.760 but it'll be worth it. Is everything about money when it comes to policing? And hey, who's to say

00:42:28.980 if we start bringing in an Alberta police force that a lot of those members won't be former RCMP

00:42:34.260 members? It doesn't mean we have to fire them. We just got to change the training and the mandate.

00:42:37.220 the RCMP will still be there

00:42:39.480 they'll just be a federal force

00:42:40.940 much like the FBI in the United States

00:42:43.760 it doesn't mean every other force

00:42:45.900 is gone because the FBI is there federally

00:42:47.560 it just means that

00:42:48.460 that's what they do

00:42:51.700 they stick to federal issues and local police

00:42:53.780 can do local policing

00:42:54.780 so yeah, let's see, they're not worried about the commissioner

00:42:57.680 talking about us spying on each other, let's talk about how we can

00:42:59.760 get ourselves free, but I really wish

00:43:01.640 that our premier would start moving on

00:43:03.760 with some of his promises to distance ourselves from Ottawa

00:43:06.700 Something that Melanie brought up as well, and that's been an interesting trend,

00:43:09.060 is people are moving to rural properties, the de-urbanization.

00:43:12.480 You know, this is something kind of new.

00:43:15.000 Yeah, I think for generations now, the trend has always been everywhere around the world.

00:43:19.540 People move from rural areas and into the big cities.

00:43:22.800 They're going downtown, and there it is, that headline.

00:43:25.340 Honey, you know, pack up.

00:43:27.640 Let's go.

00:43:28.240 Let's get to the country.

00:43:29.320 Jane and I did that almost 10 years ago.

00:43:30.820 We moved to Prittis.

00:43:31.480 We're right on the footstep of Calgary, but we're out of the city, and we love it.

00:43:34.820 I mean, it's great out there. It's worth the extra little while of driving. And we're seeing loads and loads, the largest net migration from cities, basically, in modern time has happened. It's for a number of reasons. You know, the pandemic, I mean, it's definitely tied to that. It's a consequence of that. People don't want to live in a packed downtown apartment sharing elevator buttons and laundry facilities. They want to get out and stretch their legs. They want their own little piece of space.

00:44:02.060 And now that, you know, due to the pandemic forcing so many companies to get people working from home, they're realizing even without being regulated to do so, they want to keep doing so.

00:44:10.880 Or the company wants them to keep doing so.

00:44:12.800 You know, maybe they only need them in once a week.

00:44:15.140 That's fine.

00:44:15.800 Some people say, why the hell am I downtown?

00:44:17.160 Why am I down here with all these attics and dirt and human feces and high parking rates?

00:44:21.880 You know, and she's downtown.

00:44:24.080 And now, Gondex, I'm going to the country.

00:44:27.640 And people have been.

00:44:29.080 And, you know, we've had the discussions with Shane Wenzel and Marcel Latouche, because it's led to quite a problem.

00:44:35.740 I mean, we do have a city that's turning into a donut.

00:44:37.780 You know, Calgary's got 1.4 million people or so, and they're all fleeing the core, and they're all settling on the outside.

00:44:44.720 And it's an imbalance, but it's where consumers want to go.

00:44:48.960 So maybe we should start talking about development more on that basis then, you know.

00:44:52.160 Quit trying to fight it.

00:44:53.220 Quit trying to jam everybody down, down, except where the consumer demand is, and do our development that way.

00:44:58.020 I mean, we've got to figure out something to fill that ever hollowing central donut over there.

00:45:03.600 But in the meantime, people want to get out.

00:45:06.260 And if they aren't living in the country, they're heading to the suburbs.

00:45:09.320 I mean, that's something that's been happening a lot as well.

00:45:12.040 They aren't going deeply into the inner core and urban areas.

00:45:18.720 This is Pamela Jones Kenny saying they live on 273 acres in a small community in B.C.

00:45:23.620 Yeah, far less regulations and people have common sense.

00:45:26.320 Yeah, and I mean, I ran the pub down in Paredes for years,

00:45:29.340 and people down there are fantastic.

00:45:31.180 It is a different sense of community

00:45:32.440 from when you get into a rural area versus an urban.

00:45:35.800 Though there are still some people without common sense, 0.99

00:45:37.580 and imbeciles do populate just about every area at times, 0.98

00:45:43.100 including rural, but I did find it greatly reduced 1.00

00:45:45.600 in the rural areas, or even if you don't like your neighbor,

00:45:48.180 you're not right next to them, so you can escape them

00:45:51.240 and disagree with each other with a little more distance

00:45:55.680 between each other.

00:45:57.200 Tanya should be joining us fairly soon,

00:45:59.180 but there's still more to talk about.

00:46:01.600 So yeah, yeah, Sandy's saying the RCMP

00:46:03.200 is as corrupt as the AHS.

00:46:05.580 Yes, this is an interesting one

00:46:07.860 that Melanie's been working on.

00:46:08.900 Nico brought that up.

00:46:09.840 An Alberta healthcare worker

00:46:10.800 is angered over free rapid testing

00:46:12.700 for unboosted workers.

00:46:15.040 So this is where these goalposts 0.82

00:46:16.380 and this crazed testing

00:46:17.320 and all this is going on.

00:46:18.320 So AHS has realized for one,

00:46:20.580 all of these health places

00:46:22.300 have had to back off

00:46:23.240 on a lot of their vaccination mandates.

00:46:24.780 and they tried to substitute with testing and regimens for that. Now they've raised it though.

00:46:30.580 So even if you've had two vaccinations, if you work for AHS, now you got to get tested all the

00:46:34.600 time to keep going to work if you can get a test. But what they've done now also is said, okay,

00:46:41.420 but if you haven't got the booster, you have to get tested. If you haven't been vaccinated,

00:46:45.820 you've got to pay for your tests. If you haven't vaccinated, you don't have to pay for your tests.

00:46:49.480 Like these multiple tier policies are spreading. I mean, they're spreading within organizations,

00:46:53.940 they're spreading into government policy. It's all over the place. Talk about, I mean, I've never

00:46:57.740 in my lifetime seen our society so divided among themselves and so many efforts to do so. What's

00:47:03.640 the workplace got to be like in those spots between the vaccinated and unvaccinated? I mean,

00:47:07.820 we're here at the Western Standard. We've got multiple people who've made multiple choices.

00:47:12.320 I'm vaccinated. I know people go wild whenever I talk about that. I would never get over yourselves.

00:47:16.200 That's the thing with the free choice, by the way. Don't get upset with me when I say I'm

00:47:18.940 vaccinated. I'm not getting upset with you when you say you aren't. It's a choice thing. It's not

00:47:23.800 that hard. And we can do that here and we can get along and we can work in the same workplace.

00:47:28.160 But these government run places, not so much. You know, we don't get a common sense applying,

00:47:36.160 unfortunately, when you get into a larger bureaucratic organization such as AHS or some

00:47:40.900 of the larger companies where a lot of these things are going on. I want to talk about another

00:47:45.260 medical uh story actually that was kind of interesting coming up was a fellow and I don't

00:47:51.920 know if he's still going I hope he is uh had a pig heart transplanted into himself the other day

00:47:57.720 you might have seen that in other news I don't know if we have a standard story on that one but

00:48:01.060 I just think it's kind of cool and interesting so yes this pig was raised specifically for the

00:48:05.280 purpose of transplant organs uh it had yes some genetic modifications onto it and I guess this

00:48:11.400 gentleman didn't qualify for regular human transplants. You know, hearts are rare and

00:48:14.940 hard to come across and they have to prioritize between people who have a higher and lower

00:48:18.940 percent chance of survivability. And they basically said, well, you want to be the one

00:48:24.940 to try this out because you're kind of out of luck waiting for a human one. You got nothing

00:48:29.220 to lose in trying. So he said, yeah, go for it. And it seems to have worked. And the last

00:48:32.680 I checked, he was still living and the heart was pumping away. Talk about a deal breaker.

00:48:38.680 I mean, or a deal changer, I guess, a game changer.

00:48:41.140 There's the term I'm looking for.

00:48:43.000 I mean, if we can start, you know, unfortunately, not enough people have voluntarily been, you know, signing up to be organ donors.

00:48:51.720 I'm one, by the way.

00:48:52.480 It's easy to do.

00:48:53.340 You know, as strong as among medical things, suggest people do it.

00:48:56.100 It's the cheapest and easiest charity you can give to is giving an organ.

00:49:00.920 And, you know, if we can start, but there's never enough and it's difficult to get by.

00:49:05.640 if uh we could start doing it through pigs for that purpose why not kidneys lungs i don't know

00:49:12.720 corneas there's all sorts of things i'll come back to that but i see ty it looks like he's

00:49:16.680 still on the road i know he was busy he's been traveling in that so i think maybe we'll pull

00:49:19.700 him into the show fast while he's still uh available i don't want to cause an accident

00:49:24.220 there so uh ty northcott he is the gentleman who yes held the big rebellious rodeo um we'll have

00:49:31.440 them pulled into the show in a moment here and uh we'll have a chat and get an update

00:49:37.560 hey there you are careful you're driving there good good to see you it's been a while i saw you

00:49:44.040 at that uh briefly at the uh ucp thing there a month or some ago but uh oh shoot i missed you

00:49:50.480 there well i can't remember i'd seen seen so many people there it was a busy weekend yeah no i just

00:49:56.920 said a quick hello and moved along there. So good to see you again, though. I see you're busy as

00:50:02.240 always. I know I was trying to get you the other day, but you were on the road. Yeah, we're just

00:50:07.120 headed home from Grand Prairie. My oldest daughter just got her new house yesterday and we set it on

00:50:13.460 the foundation. So it was a good day yesterday. Well, good, good. Right on. Hope the roads were

00:50:19.760 good. So let's, I guess, get straight to it and check in. You said the last time I talked to you,

00:50:25.300 You said your next court dates, perhaps January 25th for your having dared to hold a rodeo in Alberta.

00:50:33.580 Yeah, we we've been pushed back a few times and it looks like right now the 25th, I don't know.

00:50:44.140 It looks to me right now, like a lot of the cases are getting pushed back because of the Ingram case.

00:50:48.440 They're all waiting to see what happens there.

00:50:50.840 I don't know if ours is that case or not, but, um, or I don't know if we're that situation or not,

00:50:57.500 but it kind of seems like a lot of them are getting pushed back because of that.

00:51:02.840 Yeah. So what exactly were you charged with then?

00:51:07.680 Not sure. I think putting a rodeo on.

00:51:11.420 Yeah, we got that part. So I imagine that they'll have a big list of, uh, I mean,

00:51:16.060 it's truly the fun police. I mean, we know, we were at that rodeo for two days and we had a hell

00:51:19.520 of a time. That was the best time I had all spring. And then best time a few thousand Albertans had

00:51:23.960 that spring. And you know what? Nobody got sick. Nobody got hurt. It was a really good time. And

00:51:28.420 I'm guessing just some Alberta Health Act violations are what they're upset with you for.

00:51:34.960 Yeah, it was one violation in the Health Act. I can't remember what exactly it was.

00:51:40.260 I don't worry about that stuff. I let my lawyer do that. We're in pretty good hands, I think.

00:51:45.280 and we just feed them whatever information we can to help the case along and just kind of wait

00:51:54.140 and see. I'm kind of excited to get to court sooner or later and see if we can't iron out

00:52:00.100 some issues with our Alberta Health Services and our tyrannical government we have right now.

00:52:07.260 Yeah, well, we found that with a lot of these things with people they've charged, whether it

00:52:10.800 was, you know, Chris with his restaurant or other things is they drag it out. And often when they

00:52:14.540 get there, they finally drop it. But I think a lot of this, they drag their heels. They might

00:52:18.600 drop it on you though. You're living in stress. You don't know, but they're just want to drag

00:52:22.500 it out until hopefully they think this pandemic will come to an end and they'll just kind of

00:52:26.100 quietly fade away and let life go to normal. I wonder if that might be what they're up to with

00:52:30.540 you right now. Well, if they're trying to stress me, they're not. Good. Perfect. They're losing.

00:52:39.820 So have you got more rodeos in the can and we got stuff to look forward to this spring?

00:52:44.540 Well, in 2021, we had a couple events that went forward that would have been regular events in 2019.

00:52:53.400 It's pretty slow right now.

00:52:56.060 In our world, there's optimism, but not like you would hope.

00:53:01.420 Like right now is kind of a booking time for a lot of our events.

00:53:05.100 And things are kind of quiet right now.

00:53:08.560 So just waiting to see.

00:53:10.940 pretty much rode off all of our spring indoor events and uh i think we're gonna see what ones

00:53:18.420 would move to an outdoor venue for 2022 and then uh go from there yeah well i mean that's what we

00:53:26.500 talked about a lot earlier when i've had you on past shows you know i mean albertans forget that

00:53:30.220 this is an industry with generations and generations of tradition and having a terrible

00:53:34.940 so many industries having a terrible time with the covid and you guys have to keep live stock

00:53:40.240 literally what the term is it's not something you can just throw on a shelf and wait until the

00:53:43.600 pandemic's done or doesn't cost you to keep i mean you've got your your uh as you call them

00:53:48.240 animal athletes that you care about you're keeping them fit and ready and they got to get out there

00:53:52.840 and get used and uh you know these these rodeo whether it's competitors or producers or organizers

00:53:58.640 or like so many other businesses going broke well um probably the easiest way for me to explain it

00:54:06.380 is we have 150 to 200 dependents at any time.

00:54:10.700 I mean, it's like having kids around

00:54:12.620 or people that depend on you,

00:54:14.420 you got to feed them and water them every day.

00:54:16.220 And that comes with a price.

00:54:20.020 And some of them are family, or a lot of them are,

00:54:25.020 and we've raised right from,

00:54:27.680 like they were born on the ranch.

00:54:30.740 So you try and hang on to them as long as you can,

00:54:33.500 but we've sold to other producers and that.

00:54:35.560 and different people over the last year or two to just keep our numbers down and

00:54:42.200 we're just trying to make her work right now. I hear you and just that reminder people you know

00:54:46.760 these are specially raised and trained animals you can't just go into a herd of cattle and pull a

00:54:52.360 bull out of there and throw it out into the field or grab somebody's horse and use it for Bronx I

00:54:57.000 mean these are specialized animals that takes a number of producers to be able to keep up with

00:55:03.000 so if we don't have rodeos we're going to lose that well exactly and it's kind of looking like

00:55:09.880 you know some of the people that were raising the animals for us on the side some of them

00:55:15.320 have kind of went under in the last year or two or lost interest and when we do get fired up if

00:55:21.320 we ever were to get fired up to 100 again there's going to be a lot of stress on the rodeo system

00:55:27.160 um i i don't see us ever getting back to where we were in 2019 but i hope i'm wrong

00:55:34.840 but i i just don't ever see it yeah and that's just a sad development and again it's such a

00:55:40.840 traditional uh fun and distinctly western uh you know industry it's i mean there's no not much else

00:55:47.160 in the world that shows it like that uh has these kinds of gatherings i'm glad you're there's one

00:55:51.880 thing i found with you you're good and stubborn anyways i don't imagine you're giving up anywhere

00:55:55.640 we're just uh seeing a setback right now i see a lot of the commenters are saying you know put on

00:56:00.440 a rodeo and uh i'll be there like we got a lot you got a lot of supporters some people really

00:56:05.000 want to make sure that you can uh carry on and do all right so i'll let you get on i see you're in

00:56:10.600 the truck there and uh i really appreciate you coming in to check in with us and uh keep us up

00:56:15.320 to date you know we want to keep reporting on that and see what happens to you we'll be watching your

00:56:19.000 your court date and see if anything actually happens or if they kick the can down the road

00:56:22.360 again um where can people find out more about what you're up to ty uh we've been pretty quiet

00:56:28.600 on our social media just because it's a slower time of year like we're seasonal so uh if you

00:56:33.960 watch northcott rodeo inc facebook page uh usually if we're uh contracting for other groups or doing

00:56:41.080 our own events it's most of our stuff is on that page and uh we've got some things in the work for

00:56:49.160 possibly April, more than likely May because of the weather. So yeah, just kind of keep an eye

00:56:55.160 on that. It's always good talking to you, Corey. I get some of the best interviews from you. I

00:57:01.720 really appreciate it. Oh, I appreciate it. It's always fun and easy to chat with you. It was

00:57:06.280 great coming over to visit with you when Jane and I came out that way. She of course loves to

00:57:10.760 get out onto the farm for a bit like she grew up at. So well, keep fighting the good fight there, 1.00

00:57:15.640 Ty and well I hope to see you soon and yeah Ty and Gail of course yes I should mention Gail and

00:57:22.640 we'll see you again soon maybe another rodeo. Excellent really appreciate that we'll talk to

00:57:29.240 you soon. All right have a good one well that's Ty Northcott and be sure to support these guys I

00:57:36.220 got something breaking coming up here soon in a minute too but yeah you know check them out at

00:57:40.700 the Northcott you look it up on Facebook they keep you up to date he has his stuff going that rodeo

00:57:45.220 really was a good time I can't think of a better you know a more Albertan protest than to hold a

00:57:52.240 rodeo you know to say we're standing up for ourselves we're being Albertans we're unapologetic

00:57:56.280 and if you as you've seen from uh from Ty yeah he doesn't take any bs he's just standing up for

00:58:03.560 himself and pushing back and uh oh I saw uh Dave there okay he sent me a comment he's busy and

00:58:09.840 working hard from the newsroom but yeah we've got something breaking uh and we'll be breaking when

00:58:14.540 when Ty gets exonerated in court, I hope, and we'll report on that too, and we'll talk to him

00:58:19.320 again. But what we got here, it's exclusive, just published, I'm just reading this from a comment

00:58:24.500 now, so go to westernstandardonline.com to see what's going on. The woman at the center of the

00:58:28.760 Shang-Chi sex scandal has launched a fundraising campaign. The woman identified in legal papers

00:58:34.140 as HH, who was 16 at the time of the sexual encounter with Chu in 97, when Chu was a police

00:58:40.320 officer. The case went through two internal investigations, no charges were laid. She's

00:58:48.140 saying she hasn't spoken out publicly out of fear for substantial harassment, severe threats,

00:58:53.320 concern for her family and employment. She's writing in a GoFundMe post, she's looking to

00:58:59.280 raise $25,000. Since the news stories are written, she's been forced to take on legal expenses to

00:59:04.080 keep her identity protected and try to keep herself and her family safe. Several people,

00:59:10.140 including a news outlet, have made her identity known. I don't believe that was us. We respect

00:59:15.260 people and their privacy. And she says she's been getting threats and her home and vehicle

00:59:19.980 have been targeted. So, you know, the Sean Chu horror story, you know, a mess is just won't

00:59:26.620 seem to go away. For those not familiar with it, Sean Chu is the counselor in ward for

00:59:33.220 uh he well he's admitted as much to a a bad choice of judgment back in the 90s as a young

00:59:40.260 police officer uh and uh picked up and apparently now you know it's he said she said uh had i guess

00:59:48.540 some he did he claims he didn't know she was underage uh had uh gone to his place with her

00:59:54.900 i believe and there was some fondling and things that had happened uh it went through a lot of

01:00:00.340 investigations. It was, he was reprimanded by the police for, you know, conduct unbecoming,

01:00:05.940 but he wasn't charged with anything or convicted with anything. And Sean ended it. Now, Sean got

01:00:12.420 reelected in Ward 4, but what had happened? And, you know, let's clarify some of this stuff. I want

01:00:16.600 to anyways. I mean, I'm not going to try and say what Sean did was right or good or bad. That's a

01:00:20.060 whole separate thing. There's definitely some, some things he did that were just not good. There's

01:00:22.840 no getting around it. When you're that old, leave the younger ones alone, damn it. But it all came 1.00

01:00:28.420 out the week before election day when he was running for re-election. Suddenly it got released,

01:00:33.260 it goes public. That's ugly, gross political play. That was the move of somebody who didn't care

01:00:40.200 about the victim. They didn't care about Sean's indiscretion or what it might be. They just wanted

01:00:45.160 to make sure he lost the election. They could have put that out obviously long before that,

01:00:49.840 but they wanted to do the maximum amount of damage. So they waited until the weekend just

01:00:54.480 before election day and threw it out there into the public field to, you know, try and ruin his

01:01:00.400 chances of getting reelected. It had quite an impact, I would suspect. He won by only 100

01:01:05.220 and some votes. I mean, some people were pretty horrified by it. It's up to the voters. I'm not

01:01:10.060 saying what Sean did was good or bad. Well, I think what he did was bad. Whether or not it is

01:01:14.020 something to fire him from elected office or not, well, that's up to the voters.

01:01:18.360 but they didn't

01:01:20.500 whoever released all that stuff didn't do it with

01:01:22.960 the voters in mind again or that girl

01:01:25.040 in mind they just wanted to win that election and that's why they

01:01:27.000 did it at that time because their

01:01:28.920 first release what they put out

01:01:31.060 was all the testimony

01:01:32.380 of this young lady

01:01:34.580 before the disciplinary hearing with Sean

01:01:36.680 but

01:01:38.240 it didn't show the later parts which

01:01:40.940 showed the adjudicator ruling that this

01:01:42.780 girl apparently wasn't credible

01:01:45.000 she was spreading a lot of stuff that

01:01:46.960 was inconsistent and was found to be untrue. So I think, I suspect, again, whoever wanted to do this

01:01:52.780 damage to Sean's reputation, the reason they waited until just before the weekend, it didn't

01:01:56.220 give him a chance to put out the further parts of the testimony. They just wanted to put out the

01:01:59.560 bad parts and not give him a chance to defend himself against it, which again, he still did

01:02:03.680 some stuff. So stuff's still breaking. This girl has definitely been very upset for Sean for

01:02:08.620 getting on 30 years now, and now she's looking for some money. So we'll see what comes out of

01:02:15.760 that, that ugly mess. Uh, whatever happens, I, I suspect Sean's probably on his final term in

01:02:20.820 city council, uh, an ugly thing. So Western standard online.com that's, that's breaking

01:02:26.180 right now. Uh, I'm going to hit then, uh, one of our advertisers before I, uh, go further here.

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01:03:43.760 for you to check out. All right. I'm going to get back to where it was for Ty popped in. Like I said,

01:03:47.460 he was on the road. So I want to go quickly. I see a commenter there. This one's interesting.

01:03:51.140 Franco Shadavari, but you know, some things doesn't like my getting vaccinated or whatever.

01:03:55.400 I don't care. We don't agree. But he says, I'm not smart. Well, okay. Well, I'm the one with the

01:03:59.040 show and you're just a pecker head commenting on Facebook. We'll see. But you know, that's fine. 0.83

01:04:04.360 lots of people don't consider me bright but then he goes on saying oh I'm an organ transplant

01:04:08.320 pusher yes yes I am I think it's a good idea I think if your heart's worn out and you got the

01:04:14.360 option to get another heart it's a good idea you live longer kidneys livers I got an uncle blew

01:04:21.760 his out finally quit drinking still alive 20 years later with a liver transplant what world are we in

01:04:27.900 where there's actually anti-organ transplant people really well that's fine and I don't

01:04:32.020 believe in forced medication. So when your guts go out, I do hope there's a thereafter for you.

01:04:38.220 I'll go for the organ transplant and I'm going to donate my organs. Yes, when I'm done, if there's

01:04:43.540 anything usable in here, make use of it. If I can help somebody else with it, by all means,

01:04:48.600 take anything you want from this body. I can't believe there's people actually opposed to organ

01:04:53.140 transplants. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. You know, the internet is a wild, wonderful,

01:04:57.440 dark and weird place. So yes, I am an organ transplant pusher. I do wish that more people

01:05:03.960 would sign up to donate. As I said, it's a nice cheap charity. It's an easy one. You know,

01:05:08.660 you just got to have it on your driver's license. And if something happens, they can take it out of

01:05:12.640 you, give it to someone else. I like one of the things somebody said before was, don't think of

01:05:18.420 it as you giving an organ to keep somebody else alive. They're giving their entire body to keep

01:05:22.260 one of your organs alive. You know, it's a good exchange. There was a young fellow in politics,

01:05:26.600 Some of you listeners might remember him.

01:05:28.200 His name was Robert Salos.

01:05:29.920 He passed away a couple of years ago.

01:05:32.440 Really nice kid.

01:05:34.180 And I'll call him a kid.

01:05:36.000 He was in his early 30s. 0.97

01:05:36.960 That's really darn young to die.

01:05:39.020 He had been a recipient of a double lung transplant back when I believe he was 15 years old.

01:05:44.600 And yeah, it was just cutting.

01:05:46.260 And he did really well.

01:05:47.500 He was in the transplant games.

01:05:48.600 He got really involved in politics.

01:05:50.980 He used to come to our place to play poker and that.

01:05:53.280 Unfortunately, cancer nailed him.

01:05:54.760 You know, sometimes people just can't get a break with health and he passed away young.

01:05:58.260 But he was a big advocate for organ donation and the benefits of it.

01:06:02.440 And you can see the benefit of it.

01:06:03.720 I mean, he died way too young, but he would have died back when he was 15.

01:06:06.780 At least he did get a period of time living and, you know, giving us the chance to experience

01:06:13.660 him and doing things like that.

01:06:14.980 So again, getting back to this gentleman, there's a picture up now of so far he's still

01:06:18.800 hanging in there.

01:06:19.340 he's had a pig heart transplanted into him, keeping him going. And as I said, there's never

01:06:26.080 enough organs. So if we're at this point where we can start, again, raising animals for organ

01:06:31.260 transplants and saving lives, let's do it, guys. I love some of the technological advances we have.

01:06:37.540 I think, unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we're getting a lot of medical mistrust. People aren't

01:06:41.140 feeling the faith in researchers and medical practitioners as they used to. Politicized

01:06:46.980 clowns like NDP Joe Vipon, who I like to mention all the time. Yeah, they don't help raise one's 0.98

01:06:52.800 faith in the medical community, but most of them really do want to save lives as do the researchers

01:06:57.120 and that transplant thing. I just think it's kind of cool and worth talking about, but yeah,

01:07:01.340 leave it to somebody on here to still be upset with that somehow anyways. Sorry, but I will

01:07:07.920 remain as a supporter of organ transplants for those who need them. I don't think it's a conspiracy

01:07:13.140 of any sort. They're not out to hurt you. So, um, I'm gonna probably tie this off pretty soon

01:07:20.100 here. Some people talking about, uh, Ty Northcott being, um, yeah, I like Cheryl's statement now

01:07:25.760 should be automatic unless otherwise stated the reverse of what we have. I kind of agree with

01:07:29.540 that. You know, I mean, I, I don't believe in forcing a transplant from somebody if they have

01:07:32.680 a, just a personal feeling about it or a religious feeling or whatever, but why not have the big

01:07:36.920 thing than saying there, you know, the stamp on your driver's license, don't take anything. I,

01:07:41.080 I'd rather just burn it and waste it.

01:07:42.660 That's your choice, absolutely. 0.92

01:07:43.780 It's your body.

01:07:44.640 And we're having a lot of discussions these days

01:07:46.140 on the disposition of your body

01:07:48.140 and your choice with it.

01:07:49.320 We're having a hard time being allowed

01:07:50.600 to have our choices of what to do with our bodies

01:07:52.000 while we're alive,

01:07:53.860 much less the choice on what to do with it

01:07:55.620 when your body passes away.

01:07:58.140 But yeah, a person should have a choice

01:07:59.280 not to donate their organs. 0.96

01:08:00.460 I just think it's a foolish choice to make.

01:08:02.660 I mean, you can really make a world of difference 0.54

01:08:05.280 to somebody else.

01:08:06.520 You won't even know you've done it.

01:08:08.100 It's not gonna hurt you.

01:08:09.320 Go for it.

01:08:09.740 But if you don't want to,

01:08:11.080 don't. Of course, it's choice. This one gets lost so much in our extreme and polarized times is

01:08:17.980 respecting the choices of others, allowing the choices of others. We don't all have to be uniform

01:08:22.680 on things. If it's not harming somebody else, leave it alone. So organ donations, they aren't

01:08:27.740 harming anybody. I know people talk about perhaps some of those things, you know, you go to a dentist

01:08:31.140 in Mexico and you wake up after getting your teeth filled and you find a little scar and you're

01:08:35.660 missing a kidney. But I don't think for the most part, these things are happening. Organ donations,

01:08:40.340 It's usually a beneficial thing for a number of people, particularly the recipients of those organs.

01:08:46.500 And yeah, I am going to be heading down.

01:08:48.440 I am actually going to be in Mexico shortly.

01:08:51.040 If I'm missing any organs when I'm down there, I will report on that.

01:08:55.420 I'm probably going to be doing a update from down there just to talk about how things have been down in the Free South.

01:09:03.640 How are things in the States?

01:09:04.580 How is it living unmasked, you know, and outside of this atmosphere of fear?

01:09:11.320 The Americans and people I've spoken with who've gone to the States and that, that's

01:09:15.100 one of the things they always note on.

01:09:16.040 Like, it's a different world.

01:09:16.920 They come up here and, holy cow, you guys are still living in this misery of masking

01:09:20.920 yourself in every place you go in and living in fear and constant fearful updates.

01:09:25.460 They're not doing that down there.

01:09:26.340 The pandemic is still hitting them.

01:09:27.300 It's still killing some people.

01:09:28.420 It's still pressuring people.

01:09:30.380 But they're not wrapping their whole lives around it as much as we have been lately.

01:09:34.580 And, you know, a Supreme Court decision. I'll finish with that too. People might have seen

01:09:39.440 that down in the States. Their Supreme Court acted the way it should. It told Biden to roll

01:09:43.600 up his vaccine mandate and stuff it up his geriatric butt. The rights of the people came 0.99

01:09:50.480 before the legislative wishes of the president, and the court stood up and said, no, that's not

01:09:55.920 going to happen. And that's the way due process works in a system with multiple levels of

01:10:01.020 Government in Canada, unfortunately, our courts do not stand up for the rights of the individuals

01:10:04.680 very often at all. They seem to be quite beholden to those who appointed them, and we're all losing

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