Western Standard - Triggered： Green cultists will put us back in the dark ages

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 good morning it's finally friday it's july 29th 2022 we're going into the august long weekend as

00:00:40.000 ian spencer has pointed out or it's heritage day or whatever way it goes it's one of those

00:00:45.460 non-stat ones but a lot of people take it and it looks like at least out here in alberta it's

00:00:49.580 going to be some great weather for it so i'm sure uh everybody's got one foot out the door at work

00:00:54.840 right now looking forward to taking advantage of it i'll be doing lots of stuff around the house

00:00:59.280 and helping Jane at the Millerville market down there

00:01:02.860 south of town at her setup and things.

00:01:05.160 I'm looking forward to the weekend, though.

00:01:06.240 It's been a long one.

00:01:07.540 I mean, it is.

00:01:08.600 It's wearing having to report on all the idiocy in this country.

00:01:12.900 It gives me lots of things to rant about and lots of material.

00:01:16.020 Man, they tire me out sometimes.

00:01:18.340 It's just an abundance of foolishness to keep me going.

00:01:22.500 I mean, that's the basis of my show.

00:01:23.860 I trade in anger, but I like to hope that it leads to good solutions to policy issues later

00:01:31.860 on as well. That's why I get guests to break it up, so I'm not ranting for a solid hour and a half.

00:01:36.060 Either way, I've got a good show lined up for today, of course, and a couple of good guests

00:01:39.980 as always. So let's talk about the observations. Those things are important as we're getting ready

00:01:45.860 for the weekend here. It is International Chicken Wing Day. Yeah, this is the day you celebrate

00:01:51.320 those chicken wings that uh you know traditional bar food it was a football food this was um

00:01:58.600 uh you know if you look at the history of it it's pretty interesting i owned a bar and oh my god

00:02:02.600 it took me a couple of years you know i mean i'm just starting now to be able to enjoy chicken

00:02:06.280 wings again because i made and sold so many uh orders of it but i mean in buffalo that's where

00:02:12.200 it did all start with the buffalo hot sauce was one little bar and a woman who thought what are

00:02:16.200 we going to do with these leftover old wings because we're cutting them off the birds and

00:02:19.320 they were a waste product and now man they're expensive either way and they also now rent a

00:02:23.880 whole day or rank a whole day to be observed and enjoyed and appreciated so hey before you get

00:02:29.400 ready for the weekend have some chicken wings it's also national talk in an elevator day

00:02:35.640 so if you're like us uh we're downtown in an office tower i've got a ride in elevator i got

00:02:40.520 to spend time in close proximity with people this is the time you're supposed to look over that

00:02:45.720 person you see at the same time the same day every day at the start and at lunchtime and going down

00:02:51.080 the elevator just reach over well not reach over look over and start talking to you reach over to

00:02:56.520 them you might get a lot of trouble and this is not to be mistaken for fart in an elevator day

00:03:01.480 which actually that one can be observed anytime you like but it may not make you popular with

00:03:05.640 others see it is a good way to get an elevator to yourself though you build a reputation you

00:03:08.680 get down to that bottom floor and you're waiting for elevators and suddenly people have other

00:03:11.480 things to do before they get in. All right. I'm going to have a first guest a little later,

00:03:16.300 retired Justice Brian Geisbrecht on. He's been on before and I'm just staying on that issue. I mean,

00:03:21.860 we've had the Pope touring and apologizing and, you know, everything going on. Of course,

00:03:26.740 it's never enough, but all over the residential school issue and Justice, you know, former Justice

00:03:31.720 Geisbrecht has been very, of course, involved in this issue and involved in the law. And

00:03:36.220 we're going to be talking about, you know, when are we going to get an RCMP investigation

00:03:41.600 into these apparent buried bodies all over in these schools? When's it going to happen? Why

00:03:46.300 haven't they? I mean, we've had a crime, apparently, but there's no investigation.

00:03:49.780 So we'll chat about that. And then I'm going to speak to Barry Moore, and he started an app called

00:03:54.780 Flashcard Democracy. He's trying to build a new way of polling, basically, whether it's issue

00:03:59.980 polling, political polling, things like that. He's trying sort of an innovation. He's concerned that

00:04:04.340 People are not necessarily informed if they respond to polls, so this is a way to kind of make sure a person realizes what they're answering to.

00:04:11.280 So we'll have a conversation with Sam and see what that's about.

00:04:13.980 Because polls are big, and they do influence us, whether we like it or not.

00:04:18.320 And, you know, the more accurate they are, the better it is for all of us.

00:04:21.940 All right, let's see what's got me going.

00:04:23.700 Today, it's environmentalists.

00:04:25.080 I mean, modern environmentalists have become a cult of Luddites, opposed to every development made to make life more comfortable for human beings.

00:04:32.520 And they can't be reasoned with.

00:04:34.340 they're blinded by a ideology and an anti-human outlook they can't be dismissed either as they're

00:04:39.540 occupying the halls of power in both the government and the corporate world they're imposing their

00:04:43.700 crazed policies and they are crazy and citizens are suffering because of it their sights are most

00:04:48.900 commonly set on climate change and it's a convenient boogeyman for their cause they can

00:04:53.940 they can and do blame everything on climate change i mean from racism to obesity to weather events i

00:04:58.340 know that sounds exaggerated but i invite you to look it up they blame everything on it climate

00:05:03.140 change is a catch-all term, and when coupled with the word emergency, of course, policymakers then

00:05:07.540 feel justified in pushing the most extreme and harmful of policies. One of Trudeau's top men

00:05:12.480 is Stephen Gilbeau. Gilbeau is an extremist well-known for being led away in handcuffs in his

00:05:17.520 orange prison jumpsuit, as you can see in that picture there, while he manically grins after

00:05:22.340 he's performed yet another extreme and criminal action, ostensibly in the fighting against climate

00:05:26.920 change. Normally, such a record would halt a developing political career. In Canada, it got

00:05:31.720 him a senior cabinet position in the government. Gilball doesn't feel a ban on climate and plastic

00:05:37.360 cutlery goes far enough. He wants all disposable cutlery to be gone, whether compostable or not.

00:05:42.120 Have no fear, though. He has a solution. He says we should eat with our hands. You can't make this

00:05:47.020 sort of thing up. The climate change cult completely ignores the benefits of modern energy

00:05:51.700 sources. Reliable, affordable energy is essential for the survival of the developed world. Eco-fanatics

00:05:58.500 live in a crazed world of denial and hold this romanticized visions of a blissful past where

00:06:03.520 humans lived in harmony with nature and had no impact upon it. They love to push visions of

00:06:08.640 First Nations people living that way, for example. Now let's get back to reality. 300 years ago, 1.00

00:06:13.100 the average lifespan for an indigenous person in North America was under 30 years. There are

00:06:18.400 typically nomadic foragers and hunters, and they were at the mercy of nature. Famines were common,

00:06:23.720 as were deaths from exposure to extreme elements and territorial wars as starving tribes fought

00:06:29.040 over limited resources. Now, I'm not faulting these people for the conditions they lived in. It was

00:06:33.940 just part of every, you know, human culture that came up. But I do want people to understand life

00:06:38.300 before modern energy was no paradise for human beings at all. I don't expect we're going to be

00:06:43.220 driven back to the Neolithic levels of human development, but we're having our advances

00:06:47.120 reversed. An obsessive anti-oil and gas movement has been shutting down production of affordable

00:06:52.080 energy throughout the developed world europe's in an energy crisis right now and they're going

00:06:57.120 to be suffering as winter is starting to loom and this can't all be blamed on russia europe

00:07:01.520 was facing an energy crisis well before the first russian soldier headed west into ukraine

00:07:06.880 germany was advising its citizens to learn how to cook over a candle in 2021 due to the energy 0.53

00:07:12.800 shortage then the reason germany is in such dire straits is they brought in and bought into the 0.99

00:07:18.080 the environmental religion in full. They spent hundreds of billions on supposed sustainable

00:07:23.680 energy sources such as wind and solar. They inexplicably shut down their nuclear generating

00:07:28.320 capacity on the advice of eco-cultists and discovered they're as dependent on fossil fuels

00:07:33.380 as ever. And now we're totally beholden to Russia for their energy sources while they scramble to

00:07:38.220 try and reopen coal plants. Germany was warned. The rest of Europe was warned. Engineers and

00:07:44.120 business people have tried to tell them there wasn't a viable replacement for conventional

00:07:47.660 energy sources. It didn't matter. The climate cult ignored reason and went ahead with their

00:07:52.320 self-destructive policies. Despite the stark failure of Europe's green energy efforts,

00:07:58.280 Canada is insistent on following on the same path. I mean, while the world's begging for our oil and

00:08:02.960 gas, we're shutting it in. While Dutch farmers revolt in Sri Lanka's government fell due to

00:08:09.260 environmentally driven fertilizer bans, Trudeau wants to do the same thing here. Quislings in

00:08:14.780 the corporate world are falling over themselves trying to appease the green cult, and it won't 0.98

00:08:18.280 work. While auto manufacturers commit to ending production of gas-powered vehicles, electrical

00:08:22.740 vehicles are nowhere close to becoming a viable alternative. While oil and gas companies impose

00:08:28.220 ever harsher emission controls upon themselves, the climate cult still demands that they be shut

00:08:32.500 down. They're not going to win, guys. Meanwhile, the cost of energy continues to climb and

00:08:36.860 contribute to an increased cost of living for the entire world. The Luddites and the climate cult 0.93

00:08:41.640 are winning. They're dragging human advancement backwards, and they don't care about the human

00:08:45.780 cost. And while I don't expect we're going to end up back in medieval times, we're heading in that

00:08:49.740 direction. The only question is how far we're going to let the climate cult, and they're cultists,

00:08:54.280 it's time to start labeling them for what they are. And how far are we going to let them pull

00:08:58.440 us back before we stand up for ourselves and say that's enough? We should learn from the Sri Lankan 1.00

00:09:02.720 citizens. Unfortunately, people are going to have to get colder and hungrier before they realize 1.00

00:09:07.140 what they really bought into with this green new world.

00:09:11.060 Well, that's what's got me wound up today.

00:09:13.480 All right, let's get into our newsroom

00:09:15.080 and see what else is winding folks up, including me,

00:09:17.600 I'm sure, with Dave Naylor, our news editor.

00:09:20.160 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:09:21.620 It's going well, Corey.

00:09:23.940 You're winding people up.

00:09:25.420 You've done it again, haven't you?

00:09:26.600 With your social media account and the poor Pope.

00:09:31.100 Well, yes, I mean, I couldn't help it.

00:09:33.760 I mean, it was a striking picture.

00:09:34.860 The Pope was harvesting a holy booger from his beatific nostrils.

00:09:40.860 And I thought, this helps humanize this man and brings him down to earth

00:09:44.120 and make them realize that he's just like one of us in there.

00:09:48.080 And they got upset.

00:09:50.500 How dare you do this with this holy figure and expose him for what he is?

00:09:55.680 And there's just no appreciation out there.

00:09:59.340 Well, I mean, I don't know what to say, Corey.

00:10:02.280 I mean, we all pick our nose.

00:10:03.660 uh you know did he eat it i don't know i just got the still you know i oh as we can see yes

00:10:11.100 sorry you know just to get a kleenex there for a second dave and uh

00:10:15.500 but uh it was just a funny picture i mean yeah you know everybody i mean somebody like him when

00:10:24.840 you got 100 cameras on you 24 7 i mean when you get that uh you know wayward nose goblin you got

00:10:30.420 to deal with it but i had some fun with it but i'm afraid my my catholic followers got upset

00:10:34.840 no sense of humor cory no sense of humor i hear uh duke the wonder dog's having some guests this

00:10:40.860 weekend yeah yeah in our uh b&b we've got well there's the big dog show going on is first meadows

00:10:46.320 this weekend uh so i mean that's you know calgary's version of like that one out on

00:10:51.460 new york every year or whatever it's a big one and we got a bunch of guests coming in and staying

00:10:55.220 in the house and in our glamping facility out there in Prittis, and they're bringing all their

00:11:00.600 dogs for the dog show. So I'm really going to have to be careful with Duke not to have him go

00:11:05.340 out there and consume these show dogs. I don't know if our insurance covers that.

00:11:10.020 That would be high comedy if it did, Corey. So hopefully around seven o'clock tonight,

00:11:15.080 you're going to be at your computer for the premiere of the Western Standard's first

00:11:20.040 documentary. It's called Abandoned, but not forgotten by Canadian generals. And it's the

00:11:27.740 shameful tale, Corey, of what the Liberal government has done in abandoning thousands

00:11:33.500 of Afghans who helped the Canadian military. And they've left them to the hands of the Taliban now.

00:11:40.680 And we know what happens to people with the Taliban. And I've watched the video. It's done 0.80

00:11:46.940 by our senior political correspondent, Linda Slobodian,

00:11:50.940 and put together magnificently by Nico.

00:11:54.480 So, yeah, that's going out at 7 o'clock tonight,

00:11:56.980 and it is a must-watch, in my opinion.

00:12:01.180 Lots of other good stuff on our website right now.

00:12:04.960 Crazy Elizabeth May is apparently going to seek the leadership

00:12:08.860 of the Green Party again.

00:12:10.700 Sources are saying she's going about collecting signatures

00:12:15.300 to be able to enter the race.

00:12:17.940 And we all remember how much fun it was

00:12:19.880 when she was the leader before.

00:12:23.560 Vegas, if you know any friends in Vegas right now,

00:12:26.380 they had a bad night, torrential flooding,

00:12:29.200 shut down the entire strip, Corey, flash floodings.

00:12:33.540 Caesar's Palace was flooded out, underground parking.

00:12:38.260 Our Mike Thomas has got a good story on it up there now

00:12:41.100 and several videos where you can just see how badly Mother Nature treated Las Vegas.

00:12:50.640 The German city of Hanover has banned hot water in municipal buildings and swimming pools and things like that.

00:12:58.300 So no hot showers at work anymore.

00:13:00.820 This is because of the Russians cutting off the gas supply over Germany's helping the Ukraine. 0.99

00:13:07.800 So that's going to be fun and games for them. 0.96

00:13:11.960 Our David Creighton has got a column, his latest column on the Trudeau Follies,

00:13:17.780 this time talking about your friends in the green movement

00:13:21.860 and how they are basically going to kill Canadian farming and Trudeau has got to go.

00:13:30.440 Spare me for a second.

00:13:31.960 There are lots of good stuff up there.

00:13:33.360 We got a B.C. Mountie who was a dog handler, so he was able to take his police car home with him, got absolutely hammered and drove drunk and passed out at a B.C. Burger King where he was discovered a poor Burger King employee couldn't wake him and called the authorities after about 20 minutes.

00:13:55.040 So he's been able to keep his job.

00:13:58.900 You remember the outroar earlier this week over the Canmore Deli?

00:14:03.520 A former co-owner wrote a very homophobic letter to Pride people

00:14:11.280 who were trying to ask him for some sponsorship or a gift for Canmore Pride Week.

00:14:16.040 They put out a new social media policy, hoping to get some customers back.

00:14:22.320 And no surprise to me, Corey, but the cost of the coastal gas link pipeline up 70%.

00:14:29.640 But they're still on time to finish it off.

00:14:35.060 I think it's either by the end of 23 or 24.

00:14:37.400 So we may finally get a pipeline up and operating, but the cost is pretty significantly going up.

00:14:43.600 So that's up there at the moment.

00:14:45.060 lots of good stuff uh this afternoon and uh working to have a little cache of stories uh

00:14:52.180 for the long weekend to keep people interested cory yeah it's that reminder i mean we really

00:14:56.500 actually scrabble quite a bit before long weekends because uh you know we are still a small outlet we

00:15:00.660 got a lot of people out there but that content on the weekend keeps coming out yeah yeah keep an eye

00:15:06.020 on the site as you said too with linda's documentary linda ciboldi and that really

00:15:09.380 is something to look forward to tonight it is uh yeah and we're working hard you can see

00:15:15.060 All the staff behind me, I think a lot of them have already started their long weekend, including boss man Derek.

00:15:21.460 So, yeah, it's going to be good.

00:15:24.440 Linda's piece is absolutely magnificent, and I really do encourage people to watch it.

00:15:29.580 And if you don't feel a sense of shame as a Canadian afterwards, it's bad.

00:15:36.120 Yeah, okay, well, right on.

00:15:38.760 Thank you for the updates, Dave, and I'll see you after the show.

00:15:42.460 And I enjoy the haircut, Corey, very much.

00:15:45.000 Oh, thanks.

00:15:45.720 Yes, I'm good for another couple months now.

00:15:47.900 There you go.

00:15:48.440 Thanks, Corey.

00:15:49.240 All right, Dave.

00:15:49.720 Thanks.

00:15:50.780 So, yes, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor,

00:15:52.800 always busy and hammering away in there,

00:15:54.720 getting that content out.

00:15:55.840 As you can see, so many stories,

00:15:57.620 so much stuff going on.

00:15:59.000 And again, yeah, that reminder of Linda Slobodian's

00:16:01.680 Abandoned But Not Forgotten.

00:16:03.440 Her and Nico have worked on that for a long time,

00:16:06.180 and it's officially coming out tonight at 7 o'clock.

00:16:08.820 It will be up on video.

00:16:10.160 You know, I understand it might not be available right at 7.

00:16:13.680 that's just when you can catch it fresh. But it, of course, is going to be up there to be viewed

00:16:17.260 afterwards as well. You know, you got a weekend coming up. It's full of great information. Linda

00:16:22.560 interviewed a number of retired Canadian generals and other individuals and covered the whole story

00:16:27.980 on just that debacle and horrific, it was almost a year ago, abandonment basically of our allies in

00:16:34.420 Afghanistan. It was terrible. But it's a, you know, it's a dark subject, but it's a well documented,

00:16:40.320 well worth it to go into. And it's sort of a first for the Western standard, you know,

00:16:44.300 doing that sort of documentary form of, of a production. And, uh, I really invite you guys

00:16:49.020 to, to view it. I know, uh, Claudette Lise, a commenter saying, is it going to be a podcast

00:16:53.380 as well? Um, I'm not sure if we're going to put it out in just audio at some point or not,

00:16:57.220 but for now it'll be that the video and it'll be on our, our, our regular channels on YouTube,

00:17:01.420 Facebook, Rumble, all the rest of them, even, uh, uh, LinkedIn, I believe. And, uh, we might

00:17:07.740 have an audio one come out a little later that is a good question i thank you for that so and this

00:17:11.640 is where i like to remind everybody the reason we're doing these documentaries the reason we

00:17:14.580 got this news copy the reason it's all going on is because you guys have been subscribing

00:17:18.660 we are subscriber based and uh like you know can uh always have to express my appreciation to you

00:17:25.340 guys who have ponied up you know it's 10 bucks a month 99 for a year and thousands of you have

00:17:30.700 done so so it's allowed us to build this studio for us to have reporters across the country to

00:17:35.720 have Dave in the newsroom trying to keep them all in line and keep that good news copy coming out.

00:17:40.240 So if you've already subscribed, thank you very much, guys. And if you haven't yet,

00:17:44.000 get on there, guys. It's not much. $99 a year. Let's use those lefty things when they're always

00:17:48.720 talking about spending more money, less than a cup of coffee a day, and you'll get full,

00:17:54.720 unfettered access to all of our opinion content, our news stories, everything as they come out.

00:18:01.300 So let's see what else we got going on.

00:18:03.020 Some of the stuff that Dave mentioned.

00:18:05.740 Yeah, you know, it's funny,

00:18:06.880 that dog show going on down in South Calgary.

00:18:08.620 Somebody else, one of the commenters said,

00:18:10.160 yeah, it was Westminster was the other one

00:18:11.380 I couldn't think of before there.

00:18:14.500 But if you've ever, if you haven't seen it,

00:18:16.900 you know, an older show, a mockumentary,

00:18:18.980 best in show, there was Michael McKean

00:18:21.860 and others in that.

00:18:23.920 It's just hilarious.

00:18:25.040 If you're looking for a weekend watch,

00:18:26.720 not that I throw viewing advice out all that often,

00:18:29.100 but it parodies that dog show culture and things like that.

00:18:35.540 Eugene Levy, just an ensemble cast of comedians.

00:18:39.280 It's fantastic.

00:18:40.500 Give that a watch.

00:18:41.360 Search it out on streaming or something.

00:18:42.960 Best in show.

00:18:43.660 It's a hilarious watch if you're looking for something on the long weekend,

00:18:46.100 maybe when you're hiding within your air-conditioned home from some of that heat

00:18:49.360 and see where it goes.

00:18:52.000 That's a new one.

00:18:52.880 You know, Dee brought up on that with the Hanover, Germany banning hot water.

00:18:58.500 Like when I was talking earlier, but to the point where these environmentalists are getting to sending us into the dark ages.

00:19:03.800 And, you know, what a beautiful example of it coming right away.

00:19:07.860 Honest, we didn't script it that way.

00:19:09.680 This is a point of you're going to live without hot water.

00:19:12.160 Yeah, I know this isn't something that's going to kill us.

00:19:14.660 We're talking about the most basic of comforts now.

00:19:18.900 And we're pulling back on it.

00:19:20.580 And we have the energy sources, guys.

00:19:22.460 We have them there.

00:19:23.280 We're shutting them down.

00:19:24.600 We're kicking ourselves in the knackers.

00:19:27.380 And to what end?

00:19:28.720 You know, it's a real big problem.

00:19:31.780 But there's no reasoning with them.

00:19:33.380 You've got to remember the people in power,

00:19:35.280 you can bet that none of the politicians or higher-ups in Hanover

00:19:38.140 are going to be a part of that hot water ban.

00:19:40.040 They'll probably be in their hot tubs and enjoying themselves quite comfortably.

00:19:44.060 The sacrifices when it comes to fighting climate change

00:19:46.500 seem to quite often come down to the citizen level

00:19:48.720 rather than the governing level on these things.

00:19:51.600 And it's just another example of how far backwards we're starting to go.

00:19:59.360 We're spitting in the face of the technology that has helped us enjoy the comforts we are today.

00:20:07.160 And we've got to get a realistic view.

00:20:08.980 We need to mitigate environmental damage.

00:20:11.320 We can't eliminate it.

00:20:12.580 We impact things.

00:20:13.920 We're on the planet.

00:20:15.080 You walk down the street, you're going to have an environmental impact.

00:20:18.200 You breathe in, you breathe out, you're going to have an environmental impact. 0.52

00:20:21.000 that's the way it goes but as i said when it gets almost religious like with some of the

00:20:26.680 environmental movement where anything and everything that humans do is considered

00:20:31.800 inherently evil it's considered bad and it and every impact we have is wrong look we're never

00:20:38.360 going to be zero impact and we are a part of this planet just like any other species i don't want to

00:20:43.240 to see unrestrained pollution or damage of natural areas or water being ruined or animals

00:20:51.740 being slaughtered or pushed to extinction? No, I don't at all. But we also have to remember that

00:20:56.920 we have a place here too. And part of our role in this place is making things more comfortable

00:21:03.600 for ourselves, increasing our lifespans. Here's an example I can use as well. I mean, as I said,

00:21:09.240 there's romanticized versions of people who lived in the old times. If you go to the buffalo jumps

00:21:14.740 in Alberta and in the prairies, you know, that's where the First Nations people used to chase and,

00:21:19.480 you know, herds of buffalo and they'd chase them off a cliff so they could, you know, so they could

00:21:25.120 eat, so they could survive. I mean, the buffalo pelts and hides and the meat, they were integral

00:21:29.400 to them. And now you got to think, your average tribe, they weren't that big, despite what the

00:21:34.420 movies make them out to be. They'd usually be only 50, maybe 100 people tops. And they're going to

00:21:38.720 run a few hundred buffalo off a cliff. They're going to take everything they can, but in a hot

00:21:44.000 prairie summer in the days before refrigeration, they'll make some pemmican absolutely do what 1.00

00:21:47.860 they can. But aside from that, the vast majority of that meat would go and spoil. And I'm not 0.97

00:21:52.140 faulting them for survival. You use the tools you had to back then. What I'm pointing out at is

00:21:58.020 we are a lot more efficient now. In general, we still consume meat, but we truly don't waste any

00:22:03.820 now. We can refrigerate, we can process, we can cure products. Likewise, they were gatherers.

00:22:10.780 You know, people could go into an area and clear it right out of berries and other items that might

00:22:14.640 harm other animals farther down the line. Now we have good intensive farming practices where we can

00:22:20.520 produce a lot of food with a much smaller footprint than we ever did historically. We should be

00:22:27.260 celebrating that. But what are we doing? We're banning the fertilizers. What's that going to lead

00:22:33.260 to. You know, I mean, part of the other things too, one of the more devastating things to the

00:22:37.060 environment, particularly in South America and parts of Africa was slash and burn farming. You

00:22:41.640 know, you're cutting into forest land, you're cutting into good, you know, productive bush

00:22:46.740 because you want to expand and keep farming to keep feeding a growing population. Well,

00:22:51.780 that still happens, but it's reduced a lot because again, modern farm practices have allowed them

00:22:58.000 to get more harvest out of existing plots of land

00:23:01.540 so you don't have to keep cutting into the jungles,

00:23:03.860 keep cutting into the surrounding areas

00:23:05.580 in order to make enough food to feed your population.

00:23:08.400 But you need fertilizers for that.

00:23:10.200 You need pesticides for that.

00:23:12.060 You need to have all these things together

00:23:13.560 a certain amount per acre.

00:23:15.880 Organic fertilizers are fun for a hobby.

00:23:18.960 They are not feasible on a large scale,

00:23:23.080 not on a commercial scale.

00:23:25.100 But again, try to reason with our political betters.

00:23:29.820 Try and get it clear with them that these are good for us and good for the environment.

00:23:36.400 There's no reasoning.

00:23:37.220 It's black and white to them.

00:23:38.620 They can only respond to things by banning them.

00:23:41.700 So yeah, enjoy those cold baths in Hanover, guys.

00:23:45.660 I feel for you.

00:23:48.020 And what's going to happen?

00:23:49.600 I mean, that's what I mean, too.

00:23:50.840 When they ban these things, does it really help?

00:23:52.580 they're going back to coal in Germany. They're reopening coal mines. They're firing up their

00:23:57.520 coal-generated energy again. I mean, coal has gotten better than it used to be. The days are

00:24:03.740 long gone from, say, when there was that fog in London that was killing people because of the

00:24:08.340 amount of air pollution from coal burning 100 and some years ago. They got much cleaner burning coal

00:24:14.460 now. But I mean, I think most people agree, if you're looking to reduce emissions in general,

00:24:18.400 Coal is the least desirable fuel source. It's also very plentiful. So because we went and shut off

00:24:24.760 plentiful natural gas sources, shut down nuclear, did all these things like that,

00:24:31.000 suddenly they're going back to coal because they're desperate. And what would happen in my

00:24:36.620 area, for example, you know, I burn natural gas to heat my house. If they shut it off,

00:24:41.420 to hell with you guys. You know, I've got a wood stove. I'll get another one and I'm just

00:24:45.040 going to start cutting wood from the bush behind my property and burning that. Is that going to be

00:24:50.080 cleaner than the natural gas? Is that going to be better for the environment than the natural gas

00:24:55.020 was? The loss, there's just a complete lack of reality. That's why I call them a cult. I mean,

00:25:03.060 that's the thing when it comes to cults. Well, again, I've talked about it, but now, you know,

00:25:06.180 I got a flying spaghetti monster tattooed on me. I'm not big on religion in general, but hey,

00:25:09.360 to each they're wrong. But to do those things, to get into a cult in particular, you have to set

00:25:14.260 aside reason. You have to, facts don't matter anymore. Now it's all down to doctrine and gospel

00:25:20.520 orthodoxy. And people, maybe that would take a bigger philosophical mind than mine. Maybe that's

00:25:27.660 kind of what happened. I mean, religion is certainly far less prevalent than it used to be.

00:25:32.140 It's gone. But religion gave, and it's not gone, but there's far fewer people practicing it

00:25:36.900 faithfully. And that gave people, though, you know, a sense of purpose, a place to go, a place

00:25:42.480 to meditate, something to think about. And with that not being there, right, maybe there's an

00:25:47.020 instinct that draws people saying, I have to have something. And a lot of them embraced

00:25:51.200 environmentalism. Well, that's all dandy. Yeah, Paradoxi there said, yeah, they traded one

00:25:57.580 religion for another. I think there's something to that. And I mean, that can transfer to other 0.66

00:26:02.260 forms of extremism too. It's not just environmentalists, you know, there's nutcases

00:26:07.700 who join white supremacist groups.

00:26:10.420 They're not nearly as prevalent

00:26:12.480 as the crazed activists and leftists would always say,

00:26:15.140 but they exist.

00:26:16.080 There's little groups of neo-Nazis and losers

00:26:19.180 and others because they had a void somewhere

00:26:24.120 and unfortunately they filled it

00:26:25.320 with an extremism over on that with racism.

00:26:29.800 And otherwise we get environmentalists,

00:26:31.480 other people, they've got some sort of personal void

00:26:33.200 and they filled it with environmentalism.

00:26:35.560 and uh it's uh no it's not serving us well uh what is it Ashley Ellis saying Idiocracy a good

00:26:42.360 movie yeah uh actually Idiocracy was kind of a crappy movie but the concept was fantastic and

00:26:47.220 it's got a few good chuckles in it and if you haven't seen that one uh what Ashley's referring

00:26:52.680 to it's a movie that goes and the opening sequence I think was the best part of it all because it

00:26:56.760 showed you basically uh you know I won't give it all away but the dumber couples are the more

00:27:02.420 likely they are to breed a lot. You know, the morons who live in the trailers and aren't terribly

00:27:09.720 bright and aren't terribly self-sustaining, the one thing they can figure out is how to reproduce

00:27:13.620 and they are doing so plentifully, whilst the more responsible people and forward-thinking

00:27:20.440 people and educated people tend to hold off and sit back and wait. So, of course, when you get

00:27:25.440 generations happening like this, guess what happens? The stupid end up overwhelming the

00:27:30.960 intelligent in population growth. I mean, that's natural selection, right? It used to be that a lot

00:27:35.680 more people died of stupidity. I mean, they still die of stupidity. The internet gives us examples

00:27:39.520 every day where we could see that. Lots of comical deaths by idiocy, but not nearly as much as it

00:27:46.200 used to. Now morons can very comfortably live thanks to social services and a safe society and

00:27:51.500 things like that, all the way to the point of reproduction and start crapping out those kids 0.94

00:27:55.760 like nobody's business. And with any luck, they'll get a government job because they don't have to

00:27:59.920 show any talent or hard work or intelligence there, and they can make it all the way to a

00:28:03.780 pension. Meanwhile, they just keep breeding and breeding and breeding. So, you know, it used to

00:28:09.260 be the reason intelligence went up was because the stupid died, the intelligent lived longer. Well,

00:28:13.180 that's not happening anymore. Nothing's culling the herd effectively enough anyways.

00:28:19.400 So, yeah, I don't try to insult anybody. I see Sarah Lynn Chris say, hey, I have six kids. That's

00:28:24.540 not me. No, no, not every person who's had a number of children is necessarily an imbecile.

00:28:29.920 But, you know, just getting to that point of it, if we were going to be evolving and getting brighter, you know, the basic tenets of evolution aren't happening right now.

00:28:39.500 People aren't dying off from being stupid like they used to.

00:28:43.840 I mean, there's always going to find an example of somebody who stuck their tongue into a light bulb socket and didn't make it to the point of reproduction.

00:28:50.200 But most of them get to the end.

00:28:52.160 You know, the kid who used to eat paste in the classroom when you grew up 200 years ago probably would have died of something.

00:29:01.820 Now they are a high-ranking bureaucrat in some place, shuffling one piece of paper from one desk to another desk.

00:29:10.280 Dennis pointing out, Lizzie May is running for the green leadership again.

00:29:13.420 Yeah, speaking of green lunacy, I guess, you know, the green party. 0.96

00:29:16.780 it's one thing at least their nuttiness will always keep them from ever actually

00:29:20.880 getting into power because they're just too flaky out there. And Liz May, come on. I mean,

00:29:24.800 she's entertaining. There's that. And, you know, she's back. I mean, the party, she left the

00:29:35.140 leadership. They brought in a leader due to the inherent anti-Semitism of a whole pile of

00:29:40.960 the members of the Green Party, they basically pushed their own leader out. And now Liz thinks,

00:29:48.740 maybe I'll run for it again. Wait a minute, you know, so Elizabeth Henderson, where the hell is

00:29:53.140 this guy leading the convo? Depopulation anyone? Oh, piss off, Elizabeth. No, no, I'm not on the

00:29:58.220 West through the World Economic Forum depopulation front. I think we should populate as much as

00:30:03.460 possible. I just don't want to see more stupid people. That's the thing. I just want to see the

00:30:07.780 herd culled somehow. If we get the hard enough times, as I said, environmentalism sets us back

00:30:12.980 enough that we are actually living off the land and having to, you know, fight off bears to get

00:30:20.480 by and find our sources of heat to, you know, through the winter on our own, a lot more stupid

00:30:25.560 people will die before they reproduce. Maybe we'll be better in the long run. Maybe it's cyclical,

00:30:29.880 but it makes for some hard times for a little while right now. And I mean, again, I think

00:30:33.480 there's no better example of just how high this stupid can rise when you look at Canada's prime

00:30:39.720 minister. I mean, you know, when children are told anybody can become the prime minister,

00:30:46.360 holy crap, it's true. I mean, look at this. Justin gets his shoes on the wrong feet 50%

00:30:51.640 of the days when he gets up in the morning. And he's holding the highest office in the land.

00:30:56.720 And he had kids, assuming Sophie was with him when that happened. So I mean, you know,

00:31:02.020 So, Pierre Trudeau, you know, whatever he was, and it wasn't that good, it wasn't stupid.

00:31:09.160 But I mean, there's some truth to things too, I guess.

00:31:11.340 Well, but then there was Margaret, you know, but your genetics are not guaranteed to make

00:31:15.080 a bright child even if you're bright yourself, you know?

00:31:18.300 I mean, nobody likes to admit that.

00:31:19.460 But hey, sometimes one of your kids might be a little stupid.

00:31:22.880 That's fine.

00:31:23.700 It happens.

00:31:25.180 But again, honestly, seriously, if we're looking at evolution and what brought us up

00:31:29.120 to where we are, the factors aren't there anymore. They aren't there like they were a thousand years

00:31:34.300 ago when people didn't survive to adulthood. Likewise, you know, here's something we'll get

00:31:39.340 some folks wound up. But when you see the prevalence of things like diabetes and asthma,

00:31:45.960 for example, two things that are on the rise a lot. And the environmentalists like saying

00:31:51.060 it's global warming is causing it and then climate change and things like that. No,

00:31:55.080 actually, it's not. The thing is 100 years ago, having serious

00:31:59.880 asthma and serious diabetes was unfortunately a death sentence.

00:32:04.440 Very few people lived in you know, past 15. If they had type

00:32:08.340 one diabetes or serious asthma. And now with with modern

00:32:14.280 medication, we can't cure either of those conditions. But we can

00:32:18.080 treat them and they can live perfectly functional lives and

00:32:20.640 carry on, which is great. And by the way, help please don't

00:32:23.340 nobody start misinterpreting saying that we got to start weeding out people with with those

00:32:26.360 conditions not at all i i have a son with type 1 diabetes i i but that also means that because

00:32:33.340 there is a genetic element to these things that we're going to see more people surfacing with it

00:32:37.180 and we will cope with that that's where again modern advancements are the way perhaps we can

00:32:42.400 deal with the things that evolutionarily were harder on us so somehow maybe we could find a

00:32:47.180 modern solution. I'd like to see cures for asthma and diabetes. Of course, that's the best outcome

00:32:53.480 of things. Maybe with genetic studies, we'll do that. But the other thing we really need a cure

00:32:57.320 for is stupidity. And that one's a tougher one. And it's getting much more prevalent right now.

00:33:02.260 And again, though, I mean, it all makes sense. I mean, modern advancements, things like that,

00:33:08.340 you know, they come with a good and a bad. And the bad isn't impact on the environment,

00:33:12.320 actually. The bad is that we are actually turning our backs on the benefits we enjoy to begin

00:33:17.100 with. Um, yeah, it's part of why I'm rambling in a bit. I'm not sure why my first guest hasn't

00:33:22.260 shown up. Uh, Mr. Geisberg, he's been on before. Maybe there's a scheduling confusion or he's got

00:33:28.180 some technical issues, but that's fine. I'll just keep talking to you. That's one thing I can do.

00:33:32.120 And, uh, I can see our second guest is in the lobby already, but it'll be a little bit before

00:33:35.940 we get to him in case Mr. Geisberg gets here. And I'm looking forward to some of that discussion

00:33:39.780 on polling. It's, it's going to be interesting because, uh, polls are influential. They're

00:33:44.140 important, and they do have an impact on people. But if it's

00:33:47.020 an incorrect poll, then it could be a damaging issue as

00:33:50.520 well. So how do you address that? How do you ensure that

00:33:53.480 you're getting as good an information as possible? And

00:33:56.560 oh, there's a proposal here and you know, a new app, and we'll

00:33:59.720 see how effective that is. So we'll get to that. Let's look

00:34:04.020 into a little more of

00:34:08.800 let's see here.

00:34:10.240 I had to look at the comments now and then. So yeah, there's a story with Gilbo telling us to

00:34:17.500 eat with our hands. You know, that's fine. Especially when I started off with, you know,

00:34:21.260 a segment with Dave and the Pope picking their noses. I'm not sure if eating with our hands is

00:34:24.320 really an advancement. Here's an interesting one too. You know, here's a myth that keeps going on.

00:34:29.960 Income claims are contradicted. So new Bank of Canada figures indicate income inequality is

00:34:34.620 unchanged in 25 years, despite claims of a growing gap. Shows a report that the typical Canadian 0.99

00:34:43.060 grew their net worth by an average of 230,000 last year with real estate gains. Okay. So that

00:34:48.800 shows an equity gap because if you don't own a chunk of real estate, you're not going to get

00:34:51.860 that big chunk of equity building up and savings for yourself. And it's been very healthy for

00:34:57.360 people. As I was speaking to Mike, there might be a correction coming pretty soon. Some of that

00:35:00.900 might be coming down. But some people are saying, oh, it's nothing, you know, generational, every

00:35:05.200 generation that seems to like to claim that the prior generation had it much better. I'm not so

00:35:09.220 sure about that. I mean, you got to think, you know, the people who got into real estate 30 years

00:35:14.340 ago, 40 years ago, yeah, housing prices were less and wages, you know, haven't risen quite to keep

00:35:21.820 up with housing prices quite often. But they were also paying double digit interest for mortgages.

00:35:27.200 So the amount you had to save to try and get by was, was high. And there's a lot of consumer

00:35:32.500 products now that are incredibly cheap relative to what they were years ago. Um, I mean, you look

00:35:39.340 at the price of just household items. There was no Walmart when I first moved out on my own,

00:35:46.120 not in Canada anyways, and things like that. I mean, I've, you know, just even cutlery,

00:35:50.180 crappy cutlery, I'd have to hit garage sales to, you know, to get a few bucks together and

00:35:53.200 do those sorts of things and clothing and stuff like that. I mean, designer stuff was always,

00:35:57.660 you know, out there and expensive and cheaper, but to find really cheap consumer goods. And I

00:36:02.380 know the quality tends to be poor, but if you're on a low income and scraping by, there is much

00:36:06.600 more variety of those goods. A lot of that's due to, um, uh, you know, Chinese imports. I mean,

00:36:13.900 again, we can say whether or not it's worth it or not, but there's ups and downs. There's some

00:36:18.200 areas that are better, some areas that are worse. But this income gap, this thing, because that's

00:36:24.480 always, again, what socialists like to use as their rallying call, their reason to interfere

00:36:30.080 in our lives, their reasons to interfere in the economy, their reasons to tax the rich. That's

00:36:35.480 always a favorite vacuous call. That gap isn't really there as much as people like to make it

00:36:41.860 out to be. In fact, by the numbers, it doesn't really exist. There's always going to be a bottom

00:36:46.640 of the income scale. Always. It's the way it works. And there'd be some at the top. I mean,

00:36:51.800 the important thing is to make sure we always have the equal opportunity to get out of that.

00:36:57.220 And that's why I support, I think student loan programs, for example, are great. I think that's

00:37:02.420 one of the areas in social services where the government spends that. Yes, you know, if we got

00:37:06.940 somebody who wants to further their education, they've come out of high school, maybe they don't

00:37:10.600 have a family with a lot of means, or maybe they don't get along with them, or they just don't have

00:37:13.860 the money set aside. We don't want people missing out on educational opportunities because it's

00:37:17.700 better for us all with the education if possible. Give them a loan and low interest loan and generous

00:37:25.240 terms. And that's what we do. I think it's great. But then I see a lot of them complaining later.

00:37:30.920 Oh, I got to pay my student loans is killing me. Well, that it was a loan. Okay, it was a loan. It

00:37:35.520 was a loan on terms that you would never get in the private market anywhere else. And yes, that's

00:37:41.020 part of your first lesson in the working world is you got to pay off your debts. Get over it.

00:37:45.440 You know, some of that entitlement we see, we see a lot of it. Oh, wow, I can't pay these student

00:37:50.200 loans. But often these are the same ones that, yeah, oh, by the way, I took a six-month sabbatical

00:37:53.980 hiking through Europe before I got a job. You know, or, you know, how much did you party?

00:37:59.940 How many things did you spend? Hey, I wasn't a brilliant wise spender in my younger years either.

00:38:04.280 But you got to pay your damn bills. That's life. That's the way it goes. And you get a good deal

00:38:08.820 on those student loans. Are people talking about writing them off? No. And if you got yourself a

00:38:13.140 degree in interpretive dance or gender studies, I'm sorry that you got to make happy faces on 0.71

00:38:18.080 lattes to make your living. You should have chosen a different course. Unfortunately, what happens

00:38:24.460 then is they often go back into school, get a teaching certificate because they know it's a

00:38:28.500 route to a good pension and getting summers off. And then of course they do nothing but complain

00:38:32.760 about their role in that because teaching is not an easy job, but they had nothing else left.

00:38:36.240 Because again, you know, that philosophy degree is only going to get you so far.

00:38:41.060 But the bottom line is you get all that education.

00:38:43.900 We loaned you that money.

00:38:45.400 We did.

00:38:45.760 I did.

00:38:46.880 Dave did.

00:38:47.960 You guys did.

00:38:49.440 Pay it back.

00:38:50.900 It's the way it works.

00:38:52.340 And hey, again, we give generous terms.

00:38:55.040 You know, it's not like other loans.

00:38:56.440 It's not like they're beating down the door when you owe money on other things.

00:38:59.740 And it's certainly not interest rates, something like credit cards.

00:39:02.200 But I don't like some of that conversation coming with whining people who have finished with their degrees.

00:39:07.740 They seem to think that even with a degree, you're going to stop at the start at the top end of the income spectrum, too.

00:39:12.700 No, guys, it takes a while. You got to work your way up. You've got to get some experience.

00:39:17.580 I know that always seems hard and frustrating. It was seemed like that for me in my early 20s.

00:39:23.100 Well, you can start here, but you need experience to start, but you can't get experience because you can't start anywhere.

00:39:26.920 I know it takes a while and, uh, you just got to, uh, push through it, but the entitlement's

00:39:34.220 got to go aside. I have no use for people saying we should forgive all the student, uh, loan debt.

00:39:39.700 No, absolutely not. I think that was one of the best lessons they learned aside for whatever they

00:39:43.580 learned in post-secondary that you got to pay your bills. So, uh, let's, you know, set that

00:39:48.160 conversation out. And, um, you know, Jed Gorgon saying my man's a drywaller and I was an investment

00:39:54.460 banking. Yeah, people do all sorts of things. You know, my education is very, very limited. I guess

00:39:59.860 some people wouldn't be very shocked with that. But you know, most of my time was in the oil field,

00:40:04.160 things like that. I did some post-secondary, didn't complete it. I'll be blunt with some

00:40:08.680 of my things. And I don't have a big level of high education. And I've done all right. Oh,

00:40:14.700 look at that one. Best dating site. I think we'll just block that fella out there. So yeah,

00:40:19.920 we found a spammer. That means we're getting good traffic out there. But I would suggest against

00:40:23.920 going to that site. It's probably not good. I'm not psychic, but who knows. Getting back to

00:40:29.820 finances, let's look at this story here. Debt warnings for provinces. Two provinces are in

00:40:34.620 such dire shape, their net debt will run close to 100% of GDP or more in a generation. Speaking

00:40:42.040 of debt, speaking of entitlement. This is where I get a big issue with the left too, where they

00:40:45.720 just keep looking the other way while we're doing credit card financing with every level of

00:40:50.220 government. Borrowing, borrowing, borrowing. It's funny, the left always calls us selfish for saying

00:40:55.060 we got to cut back government spending, yet they want everybody to live on the credit cards of our

00:41:01.140 grandchildren, because that's what it is. You're borrowing because somebody down the road is going

00:41:06.740 to have to pay that bill. This is the same culture of the people who think I should be able to get

00:41:11.580 five years of post-secondary education for free and never have to pay the bills. Well, unfortunately,

00:41:16.480 that's reflecting in our government as well. I'm not being selfish saying I want government cut.

00:41:20.220 I'm in fact saying, I don't want to dump my current standard of living, the bill for my

00:41:25.540 current standard of living on my grandchildren. And this is two provinces are at the point though,

00:41:30.280 where they think it's going to be a hundred percent of GDP within a generation. This is not

00:41:34.580 sustainable. Sustainable is a key word. We like, uh, we hear from the left and we hear from so

00:41:39.060 many, it's a buzzword. Well, this is not sustainable. And, uh, you know, so this is what

00:41:46.340 Manitoba's net debt. This is analyst predicted by 2046 is going to be 79% of their GDP. You can't

00:41:54.480 manage a province that way. You've got to cut spending. You have to. And then after that was

00:41:59.760 Newfoundland and Labrador, which they think is going to be 118% of their GDP by 2046.

00:42:07.900 Guys, reality is coming to roost. And you see, interest rates are going up. This is the other

00:42:12.920 thing. You know, I mean, every economist, you know, and every non-economist like me and others

00:42:18.540 were warning back when COVID was going, when they opened the floodgates for spending, every country

00:42:22.560 around the world has been doing it. And that's why currency has been devalued all over the place

00:42:26.380 and cost of living is going up. And there's only one way that the government knows how to deal

00:42:32.060 with it rather than cutting spending. And that's by having the Bank of Canada crank up interest

00:42:36.340 rates to try and cool down the economy and slow inflation. Well, that kind of works, but you got

00:42:42.620 remember, every point that that interest rate goes up, every one of these provinces in our

00:42:46.620 federal government that are carrying all of this debt has to spend billions and billions more just

00:42:51.720 to service the debt. I mean, we're lucky. We've been fortunate for this long with low interest

00:42:57.020 loans, but eventually it's got to go away and it's happening. And I mean, a lot of us learned

00:43:01.640 those hard financial lessons earlier. I learned them when I was young, when I got my first credit

00:43:05.000 card. And then you get to find out just how stupid it is to carry a high balance with

00:43:08.240 20% interest on it because you work and scrimp and save and put your money on it just to maintain

00:43:14.400 the debt. You can barely knock the principal down. Well, right now we should be knocking

00:43:17.940 that principal down as fast as we possibly can, cut spending, apply it to the debt because interest

00:43:23.260 rates are going up and we are going to be in a great deal of trouble when we end up with half

00:43:27.880 of our budgets or more just paying interest on debt. We've got to stop this, but there's no

00:43:33.900 discussion of that. There's none. The governments, I mean, we got Jody Gondek in Calgary with a pie

00:43:41.020 in the sky, $87 billion climate change plan. We've got Justin Trudeau spending like there's

00:43:46.820 no tomorrow. And we've got even the UCP here in Alberta. They're sitting on some good energy

00:43:54.060 surpluses right now, which is fine. And it's lucky for us. And that's good. But I want to see some

00:44:00.220 debt retirement. I know that the leadership candidates are talking about it, but I want to

00:44:03.460 see it. I want to see it on the books. Pay the bills. Don't start promising more spending.

00:44:07.900 Knock down the damn debt. Because you're going to have to pay it eventually.

00:44:13.560 Here's another one. Colavax mandate is upheld. A labor arbitrator has dismissed a union petition

00:44:18.780 opposing vaccine mandates at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in BC. You know, I don't know. I'm mixed on

00:44:24.960 this. It's private companies, yet at the same time, there's workers' rights and things like that.

00:44:32.220 these things don't have

00:44:33.900 they aren't stopping

00:44:35.940 the costs of some of these mandates

00:44:38.200 and what they put on people aren't going away

00:44:39.920 again back to Linda Slobodian

00:44:42.080 who's got the documentary coming out

00:44:43.940 she put a column up recently too

00:44:45.160 there's a big class action suit

00:44:47.240 that's in the works

00:44:48.680 and I think I'm going to be speaking next week

00:44:50.460 to one of the lawyers from that

00:44:51.460 against the government

00:44:54.200 or at least the military

00:44:56.100 because of the abuse

00:44:57.420 and it was outright abuse

00:44:58.660 of soldiers and such

00:45:01.640 who chose not to be vaccinated because the vaccine mandates, like they just went haywire

00:45:05.120 in pushing these things and how they were going to enforce it. So we'll watch as these things

00:45:11.460 happen. It sounds like in this case, though, the labor arbitrator says it's perfectly fine for

00:45:14.520 to fire staff for not being vaccinated. You know, my bigger problem with this is

00:45:20.360 we've already established that vaccines don't stop spread. It's not theory anymore. Not at all. It's

00:45:28.600 quite proven. There's lots of people who have many, many jabs. They still catch it. I still 1.00

00:45:33.260 believe that it's true. And I'm not going to go into the whole debate, but it could reduce adverse

00:45:38.000 outcomes if you get the jab. Fine. But it has nothing to do with the spread. So if it has

00:45:42.760 nothing to do with spread, then why are you worried as an employer? It doesn't matter to you. It

00:45:46.200 doesn't. That person coming in unvaccinated is not going to be any more likely to spread that

00:45:51.300 to a coworker than the one who is. So these mandates, they're ideologically based, not

00:45:57.960 medically based. And it's hurting all of us. I mean, we talk about a screwed up labor market

00:46:02.640 and labor shortages. We got so many companies. That's what I was talking about, virtue signaling

00:46:07.420 companies. And the bigger the company, sometimes the worse it is. And Coca-Cola is a pretty darn

00:46:11.720 big company. So paradoxically, it must have been another justice to the peace deciding. Yeah,

00:46:16.680 I don't know. It was an arbitrator, you know, sort of union thing. So who knows what it was?

00:46:19.820 uh but uh yeah got crazy times uh let's see here yeah something dave was talking about before i'm

00:46:32.160 gonna get to the next guest pretty soon here in a few minutes uh that that cost for the coastal

00:46:36.580 gas link pipeline project is up 70 percent transmountain pipeline the costs are going

00:46:42.980 through the roof these things are so delayed so delayed if this government was based in reality

00:46:49.560 we should be fast-tracking these things. If they cared about the state of Europe and their energy

00:46:55.320 crisis, or if they really do, they claim that they oppose Russia and what they're doing, well,

00:46:59.360 you want to know the best way to get Putin upset? Get some liquid natural gas terminals going and

00:47:04.980 start shipping LNG to European nations that are dependent on Putin right now. That will get on

00:47:10.700 his case. That will get on his nerves. But we aren't. We're canceling them. We canceled it in

00:47:15.560 Quebec. We shut down Energy East. We shut down the Northern Gateway pipeline. We shut, we regulated

00:47:20.900 the, uh, the McKenzie Valley pipeline to death. And then we were just beating the crap out of

00:47:27.360 these pipelines, uh, the coastal gas link in the Trans Mountain and we can't get them done. So the

00:47:31.720 costs keep going through the roof. As Jet Gorgon saying too many eco protesters on there. Yes,

00:47:36.040 absolutely. That coastal gas link pipeline has been held up so many times by these protesters.

00:47:41.120 And again, the government showed if they don't like protesters, look what they did to Tamara

00:47:44.420 a leech. Hey, they will arrest them and they will throw them in jail, you know, indefinitely if they

00:47:50.240 don't like them. Yet we've got protesters who actually attacked workplace sites with baseball

00:47:55.560 bats and firebombs. We had protesters out there who have been on their 10th arrest. We had

00:47:59.700 protesters who built buildings and bonfires in the middle of a road. And they've been arrested

00:48:04.820 and charged and released and arrested and charged and released and arrested and charged and released.

00:48:08.400 Look, if the government wanted those guys gone, they'd be gone. They'd be in jail and this damn

00:48:12.340 pipeline would be getting done. Both of them. You know, the Trans Mountain pipeline, oh, we're

00:48:17.640 going to shut down a section because we found a woodpecker nest. We're going to shut down another

00:48:21.160 section because we found a hummingbird nest. Guys, neither of those things are endangered.

00:48:25.240 We're talking about a pipeline. If you look at even the picture, it's not much wider than building

00:48:28.780 a new road. Get it done. This is absurd. I'm not going to believe these things until I actually see

00:48:36.220 the product going through the other end of it. And this pipeline is supposed to go to our loan

00:48:41.600 liquid natural gas terminal.

00:48:43.600 We're 10 years behind the rest of the world

00:48:45.740 with these LNG terminals.

00:48:46.980 We've got some of the largest LNG deposits in the world,

00:48:51.760 or largest natural gas deposits,

00:48:53.360 and we are not exporting it

00:48:55.240 because we keep sitting on our hands

00:48:57.520 with these terminals and holding them up

00:48:59.820 and letting ideological hammerheads like Quebec

00:49:02.640 stop terminals.

00:49:04.480 There's an easy way to get Quebec

00:49:05.820 to approve the terminal.

00:49:07.780 You see, no more equalization, 0.89

00:49:09.700 you parasitic welfare bums.

00:49:11.620 That's how you do it.

00:49:12.600 You know what?

00:49:12.920 You cut their money off

00:49:14.100 and you watch how quickly

00:49:15.480 they will suddenly set aside the poutine

00:49:18.220 and say, yes, you know what?

00:49:19.520 Maybe having a terminal on our land

00:49:21.880 might not be such a bad idea.

00:49:24.320 But the government doesn't have the courage to do that.

00:49:27.160 So the world goes into an energy crisis

00:49:29.400 while we sit on our own.

00:49:30.620 All right, there's enough ranting out of me

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00:50:51.180 All right. Let's get to a guest. You guys have been listening to me going on for a long time now,

00:50:55.000 and that's Mr. Barry Moore. And he's been setting up the app for flashcard democracy to try and

00:51:01.580 counter, I guess, uninformed polling respondents, to put it in a nutshell, though. I think Mr.

00:51:06.880 Moore can expand a great deal on what that's about. So thank you very much for joining me

00:51:10.300 today, Mr. Moore. Thank you very much for having me.

00:51:14.240 So we spoke on the phone a little while ago, and it's a really interesting concept you've got on

00:51:18.700 the go. So I mean, I guess what you're saying is, well, I mean, polling, it influences people,

00:51:23.940 it influences policy, but often perhaps the results are coming from people who might not

00:51:28.820 be informed on the issues. That's exactly it. Yep. People, I mean, I have to confess, I often

00:51:35.500 would be one of those people um you know it's a busy world and a lot happening and and we often

00:51:42.300 don't have time to really take a deep dive into things before we vote before we poll um yeah so

00:51:49.260 we developed flash for democracy as a way of um just informing people and i guess the whole concept

00:51:55.420 with it is that it's not for everyone not everyone is going to have the time to really take a deep

00:52:01.260 dive into something but i'm hoping that you know the result of a poll uh where people had to look

00:52:08.380 at both sides of something i'm hoping it will influence people they'll see that okay this is

00:52:13.980 the result of people that really looked at both sides or in the case of let's say a leadership

00:52:18.940 campaign um people have to look at every single candidate and understand their qualifications

00:52:25.260 their background their education their policies they had to know about every candidate before

00:52:30.220 they can um vote in a poll on flashcard democracy yeah so this um basically would put person through

00:52:37.260 like a process in the app where they would answer a number of questions to see if they're up to

00:52:41.980 answering you know the final questions on the poll right yeah so so the um app

00:52:46.940 includes flashcards to help you study and um then there's a time test and i want to emphasize that

00:52:52.940 time test is it's not difficult um if you know the material it's actually very simple like when i go

00:52:58.620 to do it um i've got one up right now about the uh proposed alberta provincial police service

00:53:05.580 and when i go to do the time test i've got four and a half minutes left on the time like i can do

00:53:10.780 it easily it's not difficult at all um if you don't know the material then yeah you're not

00:53:15.820 going to pass it so that's the whole point of it i didn't want to make it so simple that um

00:53:21.420 you know you could pass it without knowing what you know what the facts are what's the point of

00:53:26.620 of the poll, the way I'm doing it, what's the point of it?

00:53:30.340 If you could pass it without knowing the material.

00:53:34.300 Yeah.

00:53:34.600 So, I mean, that, I could see how that could lead to getting more informed

00:53:38.320 results on the poll.

00:53:39.760 I would imagine that one of the challenges, I mean, one of the hard things

00:53:42.160 with polling is getting people to dedicate some time to the poll at all

00:53:44.840 in the first place.

00:53:45.460 So it is going to increase your effort in finding people who will be able

00:53:47.860 to be respondents though.

00:53:49.600 Yeah.

00:53:49.840 So for my Alberta provincial police service poll, I'd be thrilled if a

00:53:54.540 hundred people did it.

00:53:55.540 It's not something that just everyone's going to do.

00:53:59.300 But the people that do take the time and do it, I look at it like they're doing a public service.

00:54:05.920 They're saying, hey, we looked into this, we took a deep dive, and here's what we think.

00:54:11.020 I'd like to think of it as like a rotating advisory panel.

00:54:15.260 It's a group of people that took the time to really look into something, and they're advising the rest of us.

00:54:23.220 It's actually kind of fun.

00:54:24.440 if it's challenging it's not you know i did have a friend that said he went to try to do it and

00:54:29.540 he thought it should just be 10 easy questions or something and he at one point said um he was

00:54:35.680 ready to smash his keyboard because he he was having trouble passing it but you know the point

00:54:40.280 is i think it'll be more respected if it's not too easy yeah you have to know the stuff if you

00:54:46.080 know the stuff it's actually very easy yeah and i mean i guess another challenge just for the sake

00:54:52.580 of the uh you know accuracy of the pool uh you know we spoke a bit about that before like polls

00:54:57.780 we know influence people they they can influence people the results do the media uses them saying

00:55:03.300 this and that so accuracy is really really important i mean if you're principled and you

00:55:06.980 want to get a good result uh something unprincipled pollsters do at times is push polling you know

00:55:12.100 they will have a lot of uh leading questions going into the poll and things such as that

00:55:17.300 uh what sort of efforts would you go to because when a person's answering a bunch of flashcards

00:55:20.980 and questions i mean it can theoretically be abused that way i'm certainly not saying you're

00:55:24.900 doing it so how do you control to make sure that that doesn't happen okay i want to emphasize that

00:55:29.780 um the polls that i'm doing flashcard democracy they're not statistically significant they're not

00:55:34.500 like a poll where you you know you randomly select 200 people and they do the poll and and you can

00:55:41.460 claim that it is uh statistically accurate within you know five percent 19 times out of 20. this is

00:55:47.540 not that this um only represents people that have come and they've done the flashcards they've done

00:55:53.700 the they've done the time test they know the material and here's what they what they say on

00:55:59.380 the poll so it's not i'm not trying to mislead and say that this is any type of you know statistically

00:56:04.980 accurate poll it's not that but one thing i really strive to do is to make it non-bias so in

00:56:14.340 for the instance of the alberta police service proposed alberta provincial police service

00:56:20.580 i made sure that i included information from the um government alberta government

00:56:26.420 site about that and also a group called keep alberta rcmp.com i believe it is um

00:56:34.900 yeah so i included both their information and it's one of the things that i'm most concerned about is

00:56:39.940 is making sure that people view this as being non-biased.

00:56:45.560 So one thing that I would like to do in the future,

00:56:48.340 haven't had time to do it yet,

00:56:50.400 is have a little poll that anybody could do

00:56:52.840 where they would rank it on how good of a job

00:56:56.720 we're doing at being non-biased.

00:56:59.680 Okay, a question from one of the people saying,

00:57:02.600 I like this idea,

00:57:03.420 but how do we get a broad spectrum to do the poll?

00:57:05.460 Like the other aspect of getting good poll results,

00:57:07.400 of course, is having at least as large a sampling

00:57:09.840 reasonably possible. What sort of outreach are you doing to get more participants and people

00:57:16.400 involved in the polling? Well, I did put out a press release through a company called PR Newswire.

00:57:24.000 They're also affiliated with an outlet called Sician out of Montreal. And what I'm looking

00:57:32.500 towards in the future is I want Flashcard Democracy to be set up as a non-profit society.

00:57:37.560 and as a non-profit society uh it could actually solicit donations and advertise in the paper

00:57:44.700 that we're doing these polls and getting more people involved because it's like you say it's

00:57:48.980 very difficult to get to get the word out and get people to hear about it i'm hoping that a lot of

00:57:53.780 people on your show will will hear about this they'll try it out again it's not too difficult

00:57:59.440 if you if you go take a bit of time and study the material it's not difficult at all um so yeah i'm

00:58:05.460 looking at at advertising non-profit society that can you know people that believe in um you know

00:58:12.400 in our democratic process um you know i i might be delusional thinking this but i i honestly believe

00:58:19.160 that this app could like could lead to a better world a better world in which people are voting

00:58:27.640 and they understand what they're voting about because it really distresses me that

00:58:32.440 we get people you know going to the polls and they're voting for our mayor for example and i

00:58:37.720 heard people saying they voted uh for our mayor because they saw more lawn signs so um i don't

00:58:45.420 think name recognition should be the only reason why we're voting for somebody we need to know

00:58:50.060 about their policies and what their education is what their plans are well yeah and in a broad

00:58:56.080 spectrum of uh being informed i mean if a person voted based solely on watching my show hey i'd be

00:59:02.180 thrilled, but all the same, they're getting a very biased outlook. I mean, one would hope

00:59:06.780 they're getting their information from a number of sources before they do something as important

00:59:10.580 as voting. You know, one thing I would also like to see, which probably will never happen, but I

00:59:16.960 think would be awesome. Give me one second. I'm in the low battery mode here. I would like to see

00:59:23.500 if somebody challenged a politician. Let's say we had somebody coming from the East and, you know,

00:59:31.600 they're claiming that they understand Alberta and they care about our concerns.

00:59:34.780 They care about us. Well, great.

00:59:36.600 Let's do a little time test and see if you can actually prove that you

00:59:40.900 understand all of the issues that we feel are important.

00:59:45.160 That would be awesome. I mean, I doubt that'll ever happen,

00:59:47.620 but that'd be fantastic if it did.

00:59:51.280 Yeah. So you're looking at setting this up as a, as a nonprofit, but I mean,

00:59:54.400 it wouldn't necessarily mean you wouldn't potentially charge for services like

00:59:58.120 Polling, you know, lots of people, private companies buy polling.

01:00:02.160 They want accurate data for market research, things such as that.

01:00:05.700 Or, of course, in political and media, there's a lot of polls get commissioned.

01:00:10.180 Would your company be commissioning polls, though, for outside organizations?

01:00:15.220 It's not something I've thought of right now.

01:00:17.440 I wasn't thinking of making a service that we charge for.

01:00:20.160 I was actually hoping it would be set up, as I said, like a nonprofit society where, you know,

01:00:27.040 week could actually solicit donations i would actually like to see the opposite i would like

01:00:30.320 to see it set up a future vision of this is that we would actually pay some people to do the survey

01:00:37.040 so um i would like to see it where there's an easier survey kind of an intermediate one and an

01:00:42.400 advanced one and for an advanced one i would like to see it where people would actually get paid to

01:00:47.280 do it because it might take several days of study before they really understand the issues and so

01:00:53.600 So it's going to eat up their time and I would like to see them get paid for it.

01:00:57.260 Yeah, it's interesting.

01:00:58.300 I mean, a large poll is a time commitment and people aren't necessarily going to be willing to do so altruistically as much as we wish they would.

01:01:05.820 And this one's not just a poll.

01:01:07.560 It requires you to have knowledge.

01:01:09.360 It requires a lot of study.

01:01:11.060 You have to take time and learn all the facts.

01:01:13.600 You have to learn both sides of an issue and then do the poll.

01:01:17.840 So it's not the same as just sitting down and doing a poll with your current knowledge.

01:01:21.880 You need to learn, like, for example, for the Alberta Provincial Police Service, proposed Alberta Provincial Police Service poll, you have to study the pros and cons of the police force.

01:01:32.780 You have to know budget numbers.

01:01:33.920 You have to know transition times.

01:01:35.860 What's the projected transition cost?

01:01:38.160 How long will it take to transition to an Alberta police force?

01:01:41.440 What's the minimum and the maximum cost that it's likely to, you know, to cost, according to Pricewater Coopers, who did the study for the Fair Deal panel?

01:01:51.600 You have to know stuff before you do this poll.

01:01:53.440 So that's why I would like to get to the point where people would get paid to do it.

01:02:00.020 Yeah, well, and I just do like the principle, at least, of seeking information for the sake of getting accurate information.

01:02:06.040 Part of the problem with commissioned polls, and it does happen.

01:02:08.680 I mean, if we see a poll commissioned by a tobacco company on the harms of tobacco, surprisingly, it's going to come out saying tobacco is not terribly harmful.

01:02:16.960 You know, and likewise, a poll commissioned, at least a public poll commissioned by a political party will often just have ways of leading or, you know, targeting demographics.

01:02:27.040 So it's going to sound a lot better for themselves. But there's a lot of people who want real and accurate information.

01:02:32.800 I mean, political parties like doing internal polls, which, you know, they keep to themselves, but they want accuracy because that models how they're going to go.

01:02:40.300 So as a public service, I guess, having some data available through yours, it could, the information could be broadly used for a number of people on fronts.

01:02:51.620 Exactly. Excuse me. I just had to make sure I plugged in. I didn't realize my battery was going down.

01:02:57.280 No problem.

01:02:57.680 Should have thought ahead on that.

01:03:00.360 But yeah, absolutely. I just wanted, if I could take a quick minute and just look at my notes and see if there's anything I've forgotten to mention. Is that okay?

01:03:08.100 Yes, yes, yes.

01:03:08.740 Yeah. So, um, yeah, so we want to get basically, um, you know, one of the biggest things with is,

01:03:16.820 is, is, um, finding a way to help us pick better leaders. So it's kind of frozen up a little bit

01:03:31.300 there. Uh, maybe Mr. Moore will come back in a moment. Um, so it's an interesting concept he's,

01:03:37.620 he's putting out, you know, something like, Oh, there we go. You're back. No, he seems a little

01:03:42.840 hung up. Uh, but as I mentioned before, unfortunately, a lot of, uh, pulling numbers,

01:03:48.740 you know, you got to take them with a grain of salt. Depends on who you're getting it from.

01:03:51.580 Depends on who commissioned it. Uh, or we, we look at pollsters, uh, um, such as, uh, Oh,

01:03:58.880 why am I forgetting his name? There's that pollster. He's a liberal fella. He went

01:04:01.940 completely off his rocker there and, you know, just spitting out litriolic things towards

01:04:08.620 other political parties and things like that. And how could you possibly trust anything coming

01:04:13.500 from that guy's polling company? That was with the ECOS, I believe. I could be wrong. I don't

01:04:17.360 want to get the wrong polling company smeared with that. Why am I forgetting his name? I used

01:04:22.020 to beat on him on Twitter quite a bit until he blocked me there. Frank Graves. But, you know,

01:04:27.420 so we want accurate numbers and we want to reduce it. Let's see if Mr. Moore's got his

01:04:31.280 connection back. We'll kind of close things up there. Yeah. So Mr. Moore,

01:04:35.520 before I let you go, where then can people get to your,

01:04:39.300 to your site and your you know,

01:04:41.300 your initiative and your company so they can take part or find out more about

01:04:44.620 it?

01:04:45.320 Very, very simple. Just go to flashcarddemocracy.com. And yeah,

01:04:50.620 it's very simple. There's a button to click on the flashcards. When you're ready,

01:04:54.400 there's a link to the time test. Again, it's not difficult.

01:04:57.540 if you know the material um i can do it with almost five minutes left so i would really like

01:05:03.520 to get some more people that are voting on whether or not we should have our own uh alberta provincial

01:05:08.920 police service i've got the flashcards for both sides so we're not biased look at look at why we

01:05:15.080 should have it why we shouldn't have it and um and share with a friend there's a there's a little

01:05:20.620 form where you can click on it and email it out to a friend um you know send them your time test

01:05:25.920 you get a code that proves that you completed it. So you can challenge a friend. You can say,

01:05:30.740 look, here's my code. They punch it in. They can verify that you passed it and get more people

01:05:35.900 informed. Great. Well, I appreciate your effort and your time to come on to talk to us about it

01:05:42.560 today. And we'll keep an eye on it and see how it develops. Hopefully lots of people participate

01:05:47.100 and we can see some good information out there, Mr. Moore. So thank you very much.

01:05:51.680 Yeah. Perhaps we'll talk again down the road. Take care. All right. So that's Barry Moore of

01:05:56.960 flashcard democracy. And he's trying a new approach to polling, you know, to try and get,

01:06:01.740 I guess, better, you know, better outcomes. We want to get the numbers. And Ashley Ellis saying,

01:06:06.840 why do we want or need polls? Well, we need polls. There's no getting around that, whether it's

01:06:13.400 private business when you're trying for market studies or things like that. Or again, of course,

01:06:19.480 it's used a lot in politics just to get a feel of what the public sentiment is. I mean, something

01:06:25.020 we can be guilty of a lot, particularly myself and others, you get into a bubble. You don't see

01:06:28.960 outside. You don't necessarily think of how people outside of your bubble think. And you can get a

01:06:37.680 broken view on how the majority are thinking. It doesn't mean you have to agree with the majority

01:06:42.120 or things like that. But you can make better informed decisions if you've got a better idea

01:06:46.380 of how everybody else is thinking on things

01:06:48.380 and where they're going,

01:06:49.100 whether you want to change how they're thinking

01:06:50.480 or appeal to what they're thinking.

01:06:53.260 But either way, you don't have to like it,

01:06:55.020 but there's definitely a purpose and a reason for polls.

01:06:57.940 And I mean, it's been known for a long time

01:06:59.400 that polling numbers in themselves,

01:07:01.480 even if that's not what they're supposed to be about,

01:07:03.640 can influence people.

01:07:05.540 And I don't think it still happens.

01:07:08.480 It's mostly just out of expense.

01:07:09.940 I don't know if it's still the law,

01:07:10.940 but I know it used to be illegal in Canada

01:07:13.660 for a company to release political polling

01:07:15.660 on the day of an election.

01:07:18.100 You couldn't put it out that day

01:07:19.260 because they're worried that polling results

01:07:21.320 would impact people on the day of the vote too much

01:07:23.840 and it would mess with the vote.

01:07:25.320 How much that impacted, I don't know.

01:07:27.460 I don't know if that law was worth it.

01:07:29.880 But it did show that people recognized

01:07:31.480 that the poll itself is something

01:07:36.920 that can influence people

01:07:37.980 and change how they might've behaved.

01:07:40.820 And Rain Morden saying, yeah, that's the problem.

01:07:43.340 It depends on who's putting out the poll

01:07:44.540 and who's taking it.

01:07:45.660 And, you know, I guess one thing to be said for Mr. Moore, it doesn't sound like he's got, you know, an agenda, whether money making or politically, he's just trying to put together a system where people vote.

01:07:57.380 I mean, if somebody phoned me up with a pollster and they were asking questions about, I don't know, advanced microbiology in the north, and I just started pushing the touchtone and voting on things in it, I wouldn't be giving them a good result because I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

01:08:11.380 So his theory, I guess, is his plan is to have people have at least a baseline of informed

01:08:17.940 knowledge before they choose how they're going to vote on it.

01:08:22.760 And polls are contentious areas.

01:08:24.080 They are.

01:08:24.520 I mean, we see widespreads within them.

01:08:26.560 We see them in terribly inaccurate before and other times frighteningly accurate.

01:08:31.300 They're also, they can be used as tools.

01:08:34.200 And the term I used earlier was push polling.

01:08:37.180 Ninchy's very first election campaign, when he won in an upset victory in Calgary, one of the

01:08:42.820 biggest tools they had, and Carter, Stephen Carter, his weasel in chief, was his campaign

01:08:49.420 manager back in that time. It was Ninchy's campaign manager. And one of the things they used

01:08:54.180 ruthlessly was push polling. And Carter would bristle and get all upset whenever somebody called

01:08:58.800 it push polling, but it's exactly what it is. So the way that would work is your phone would ring

01:09:02.740 and you would get asked about like five different issues

01:09:05.900 from a recorded thing, touch tone,

01:09:07.520 if you sit long enough, you know,

01:09:08.700 what is your view on this?

01:09:09.820 What is your view on this?

01:09:10.700 What is your view on this?

01:09:11.940 And then at the end of the call, it'd say,

01:09:12.960 based on your answers,

01:09:15.140 the mayoral candidate most appropriate

01:09:16.980 for your policy views is, and guess what?

01:09:21.560 It was always Ninchy.

01:09:22.740 It didn't matter what buttons you pushed.

01:09:25.400 The final answer was always Ninchy.

01:09:28.420 And that influences people.

01:09:30.180 If people weren't paying attention to the issues, if they weren't paying attention to policy stances, and they listened to this thing and suddenly thought they knew what they're talking about, oh, well, the head and inchie agrees with tax reduction, and he agrees with smaller government, and he agrees with supporting businesses.

01:09:47.400 Well, he's definitely my candidate because I said all those things on there, and this phone just told me he's the best one, so I'll vote for him.

01:09:52.380 very unprincipled way, not illegal, but unprincipled way of impacting voters using a poll.

01:10:01.800 Push polls. Yeah, that's one way they can be used. Another thing with polling is, you know,

01:10:08.640 you can astroturf. People sometimes move with the crowd. If you can have a poll that you set up

01:10:13.580 with just a certain area, let's say I was running a campaign in a constituency and I knew that

01:10:19.280 this 10 square block area had a certain demographic that was going to be really strongly in support of

01:10:25.000 us. And I ran a poll just of that area and then showed, Hey, look at that. We got 80% support in

01:10:31.600 this constituency because people in this constituency that we asked all 580% of them

01:10:38.100 liked our candidate. And I released that and I put it out with the press. A lot of people,

01:10:42.100 unfortunately they are sheep-like. It's like, uh, Barry was talking about people voting based on

01:10:45.780 the roads, you know, the lawn signs they see up and down the street on candidates, that could help

01:10:50.420 push them towards it. And I'm not recommending people do these things. I'm just talking about

01:10:54.460 ways that polls get abused and some of the power that polls have. So you got to take a lot of them

01:11:01.060 with grains of salt. Having ones we can trust, that's the hard part, you know, and we've got to

01:11:06.820 look at where things are going. Scientifically controlled proper polls, they're hard, they're

01:11:11.100 expensive, they're time consuming, they are not easy to do. You know, we've thrown a poll on the

01:11:15.300 Western Standard website, that's just more of a novelty. I mean, it gives you a result, it gives

01:11:20.200 you a feel, but it's a selective crowd. It's just an app that's on the website. It can be, you know,

01:11:25.220 people can change IP numbers, I think, and, you know, vote multiple times. Or if I put a poll

01:11:30.940 out on Twitter, I can get, you know, a thousand respondents on pretty much anything within an hour

01:11:37.360 or two. But that only tells you what my Twitter followers think, not what people in general think.

01:11:42.100 So that's not a very good, unless I'm curious about my own followers, it's really of limited

01:11:47.040 use.

01:11:47.420 It's a novelty.

01:11:48.220 It's for fun.

01:11:50.380 You know, Ashley's saying it's mind effery.

01:11:54.480 You know, I wouldn't put it that far.

01:11:55.880 See, there's a lot of polls where the people do want accurate information.

01:11:59.100 And so they don't want to use the poll to change consumer or voter behavior.

01:12:04.720 They just actually want to know where they're standing.

01:12:07.240 As I said, unfortunately, with politics, that's usually internal polls that parties do, which

01:12:10.940 means they run it and they don't share that information. They just want it for themselves

01:12:13.660 so they can use it for their own campaign modeling. But there are good polls out there.

01:12:20.180 It's like everything else, like every bit of news, like everything else. Unfortunately,

01:12:23.320 it's up to us. You got to dig in and have a closer look for ourselves and take every poll

01:12:29.560 with a grain of salt. One of the first things I look at at a poll, if it seems really strange or

01:12:33.560 an outlier or whatever, go to the polling company and see who commissioned it. If they won't say

01:12:38.680 who commissioned it, you really can't take it that seriously. I mean, if it was commissioned

01:12:42.640 by a political party or a lobby group or whatever, you know, chances are it's going to be somewhat

01:12:46.180 skewed. The questions can be leading lots of things. But other times, often, and I'll give

01:12:51.800 credit, often with media, they're just looking for some numbers. You spend money on polling,

01:12:56.380 you get the results, and you can be the first to release those results, and it's good news copy,

01:13:01.160 and it gets your publication out there and things like that. And that publication wasn't

01:13:06.460 necessarily trying to skew the outcome whatsoever, because they really wanted to put an accurate one

01:13:12.300 out. Let's go through some news here. Twitter's warning governments around the world and are

01:13:17.940 asking at an alarming rate. The social media company, governments around the world are,

01:13:23.340 obviously, they're not warning the governments. This is a terribly phrased sentence.

01:13:27.020 But either way, so the Twitter's giving out a warning. There's governments pressuring them

01:13:31.080 all over the place to give them private details of the user accounts. I know this sort of thing

01:13:36.200 makes people uncomfortable online in general.

01:13:38.420 But this is even Twitter saying it.

01:13:40.060 You know, we're seeing a concerning trend

01:13:41.720 towards attempt to limit global press freedom

01:13:43.580 with an increase in government legal demands

01:13:45.560 targeting journalists as well as an overall increasing

01:13:47.560 number of legal demands on accounts.

01:13:49.500 Yeah, we got that in Canada.

01:13:50.640 You know, that's one of the countries

01:13:51.640 that they aren't saying it outright,

01:13:52.980 but that's us, man.

01:13:53.820 That's C11, that's C18.

01:13:56.200 The governments are trying to hate

01:13:57.940 free sharing of information.

01:14:00.300 And Twitter does.

01:14:00.880 And Twitter's already left-leaning.

01:14:03.220 I think they just want to be somewhat independent

01:14:05.060 from government,

01:14:05.620 so that's why they're actually, you know, calling it out a bit. But man, information is everything,

01:14:12.000 whether it's polling, whether it's Twitter, whatever it might be. That's why the government

01:14:15.180 is always so desperately trying to control it on us. Ah, let's see, this was a neat CTV story I saw

01:14:21.600 today going through the Twitters. And it said, should we be naming heat waves like hurricanes?

01:14:27.240 Yeah.

01:14:28.160 You know, CTV, they're getting worse than CBC, I swear.

01:14:33.700 So they're fear-mongering pandemic stories.

01:14:36.200 They're monkeypox stories.

01:14:37.260 They're BS and they're crap.

01:14:38.620 But of course, they're sniveling for more tax dollars all the time.

01:14:41.100 Don't forget, we don't take any.

01:14:43.140 And they put out headlines like that, heat waves.

01:14:45.320 Now we got to start naming them because global warming or climate change.

01:14:49.000 You know, remember, it's not always global warming because we get a snowstorm, that's

01:14:51.320 climate change.

01:14:51.920 If we get a flood, it's climate change.

01:14:52.900 We get a drought, it's climate change.

01:14:54.000 If you get constipated, it's climate change.

01:14:55.160 It doesn't matter.

01:14:55.620 it's always climate change. But they want to make sure everything sounds as scary and nasty and bad

01:15:00.620 as possible. So heat waves, let's name them. Let's make that memorable heat wave. This is a

01:15:05.140 rare occurrence. Oh, bullshit. There have been heat waves since the beginning of summers.

01:15:09.580 This is nothing new. Look at the weather patterns of the dirty 30s. We didn't name them. There was

01:15:16.880 a heat wave. But this is what they're doing. They want to make it more scary, more and more scary,

01:15:22.480 scare people, scare people. Let's see, we got another one of the gun sellers and advocacy groups.

01:15:27.360 Yeah, I agree with cynicism. The announced details of the federal firearms are starting to talk about

01:15:30.620 their buyback plan for all the firearms they're going to steal from people. And yeah, as the gun

01:15:39.660 owners and sellers are saying, no price is high enough. You see, they're not buying back guns,

01:15:44.560 they're stealing them. And if they don't have my consent, it doesn't matter if they're going to

01:15:50.880 offer me a million dollars for my old 22. If I don't want to sell it, and they take it, it's

01:15:57.940 theft. It doesn't matter how much money they gave me. They don't have my consent. So the government

01:16:03.380 wants to steal these firearms, and they're offering our own money to buy it back anyways,

01:16:07.960 because they're tax dollars. And this isn't helping. It's not doing a damn thing anyways.

01:16:12.340 The people causing the problem are gangsters with illegal guns that are smuggled into the

01:16:16.980 country, their handguns. Going after these is just going to be another boondoggle. And it's just an

01:16:22.560 odious policy in general. Don't call it a buyback. Call it what it is, a theft. You want to steal

01:16:28.140 our property and give us some money of our own money back in order to do it. It's like that

01:16:32.940 carbon tax rebate too. Hey, we're going to pull some money out of this wallet and hang on to it

01:16:36.760 and take a big chunk out of it and a cut and we'll hand you some back. And you're supposed to thank

01:16:40.160 us for giving you a little bit of your own money back. That's where this government lands. And

01:16:44.800 Trudeau's fart catchers online saying, it's a revenue neutral thing. The carbon tax doesn't

01:16:48.760 cost you anything. You get a rebate. You're a moron. You don't get a rebate. It's all our money,

01:16:53.880 you twit. Man, these guys really are that stupid. I want them to come by the office. We'll play that

01:16:58.620 game. Give me your wallet. I'll pull out a hundred bucks. I'll give you a 70 back and I'll slap you

01:17:01.980 in the head if you don't thank me for it. Idiots. But they're the ones who put Trudeau in power and

01:17:09.580 there he sits. All right. Let's, let's get people get on to the, uh, long weekend there. And, uh,

01:17:16.680 wait a second. What do we got? Somebody wanted a heat wave named Ashley wants a heat wave named

01:17:21.680 after him. Uh, pick January 5th heat wave. Yes, that's, there's not too many January 5th heat

01:17:26.240 waves, but, uh, there we go. I mean, we could have some vanity heat waves named and everything.

01:17:30.240 So let's make use of this thing, but, uh, yeah, it's just absurdity. So, uh, you know, either way,

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01:18:11.740 watched I'm going to be back on Tuesday

01:18:13.540 and I'll have multiple guests but for now

01:18:15.600 the only one I got solidly is Kevin

01:18:17.680 Hall and he's with the National Police Federation

01:18:19.480 these guys are actually fighting against

01:18:22.000 having a provincial police force come in

01:18:25.800 I don't necessarily agree with them but it'll be a good

01:18:27.620 discussion so have a good long

01:18:29.600 weekend you guys try not to get too sunburned

01:18:31.780 or mosquito bitten or

01:18:33.540 impaired and hungover. And I'll see you all on Tuesday. We'll start another week all over.

01:19:03.540 Thank you.

Western Standard - July 30, 2022

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