Western Standard - Triggered： We can’t pretend we didn’t see inflation coming.

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's April 20th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. April 20th

00:00:39.700 means 420. For those not in the pothead community, it is the annual day when people celebrate

00:00:46.120 having a toke and lightening up and enjoying themselves that way. Personally, I don't use

00:00:51.880 it. Nothing against it at all. It just tends to always make me sick as a dog. Don't know

00:00:56.100 why. I enjoyed it a bit in high school when you could sneak around, but then it started

00:00:59.760 making me sick either way if you enjoy the weed have at her after work or safely somewhere uh it

00:01:06.080 must not be so fun you know you don't have that sneaking around aspect or anything like that

00:01:09.600 anymore now that it's totally legal but uh it's about time they legalize that anyways we got

00:01:13.980 bigger legal fish to fry in the world so this is the western standards daily show we come to you

00:01:20.420 live every day from 11 30 a.m mountain standard to about one o'clock usually have a couple of

00:01:25.960 guests on, talk about news issues, and get some ranting out of my system. Being live, again, we

00:01:31.040 get these commenters, and I appreciate it. Good to see you all there, Marilyn, Sheila, David, and I do

00:01:36.740 encourage, like, seeing you guys have a discourse with each other, sending questions my way, sending

00:01:40.420 questions guests' way. It makes it worth doing this live, despite the challenges that come with

00:01:45.540 doing live shows. You know, you get tech issues, you get guest no-shows, and some of those things

00:01:50.100 that have kept my hair gray as we've been doing this, but it's worth it so we can have that

00:01:53.900 interaction. Again, just try to keep it civil, I guess. Sarah Jane asking, would like to know what's

00:01:58.740 going on with Pat King's court process? I don't know. I just know he got denied bail yet again.

00:02:05.120 I don't know a lot of details on it. I know Melanie and others have been following it. We

00:02:08.460 report as we see and learn things from the courts, much like other people. So let's see. I got a

00:02:14.480 couple of good guests on today, though, or a few, actually. So I got Danny Hozak. People might know

00:02:18.340 his name. He's been outspoken again on social media, of course, a lot and active in the political

00:02:23.840 community for a long time. And he's been always organizing and hosting the Alberta Freedom

00:02:29.160 Conferences. They're gatherings of a lot of conservative-minded people. They get together

00:02:33.880 in a spot and of course discuss conservative-minded things. And it's got a really good guest list this

00:02:39.180 time around. I'll talk to Danny about that. We've got like Patrick Moore, Daniel Smith, Michael

00:02:44.000 Binion, Andrew Lawton, Lauren Gunter, and probably about eight or nine others. So he's got that

00:02:49.260 conference coming up this weekend and we'll have Danny on and we're going to talk about that. Good

00:02:52.660 to see you from Manitoba, Lorna. And then I'm going to have Adam Scorgy and Shane Fantasy on

00:02:57.660 their recent NFT release. So that's that non-fungible tokens. And those guys are

00:03:03.500 established documentarians, documentarians, that's the term for it. They've made a bunch

00:03:09.480 of documentaries, large ones, and they've been well-recognized and spread, and they've got a lot

00:03:13.620 of products. But they're doing this NFT release to raise funds for it. And I got to admit,

00:03:17.180 I don't really fully understand what these NFTs are, or, I mean, they're really taking, you know,

00:03:23.140 financial markets and trading by storm, but they're kind of confusing. I mean, there's some

00:03:27.600 sort of unique items that you can release and have a limited amount of, and people sell them,

00:03:31.780 but they tend to be intangible things. I don't know. So it'll be an interesting conversation

00:03:37.300 to, I mean, it's a local Alberta business, which I always like to promote and things like that. And

00:03:41.280 they'll help me understand just what that's all about and what these guys have got on the go.

00:03:45.880 So, let's see where we're going and where I'm going to get going on.

00:03:50.740 And it's financial stuff, and I'm going to talk about inflation.

00:03:53.380 It's at that at the start of the show.

00:03:54.280 Everybody's hearing about it.

00:03:55.120 We're hearing about the record rise in inflation lately.

00:03:58.800 That's the top of the news today for a lot of people.

00:04:01.140 And I'm not going to pretend that I don't like saying I told you so.

00:04:04.600 So, here we go on inflation.

00:04:05.860 I told you so.

00:04:07.700 Economists and political watchers have been warning for over two years

00:04:10.400 that unrestrained government spending and borrowing is going to lead to spikes in inflation

00:04:14.760 and currencies are going to get devalued.

00:04:17.120 Well, as Canada's inflation rate now has hit a 31-year new high of 6.7%,

00:04:23.520 the warnings that decision-makers chose to ignore now appear prescient.

00:04:28.720 Still, we're seeing an air of denial from many people

00:04:31.500 who want to claim that inflation like this had nothing to do with government policies.

00:04:35.320 It was out of their control.

00:04:37.420 Well, they start with usually pointing out that nations all around the world

00:04:41.380 are experiencing spikes in inflation as well.

00:04:43.260 And that's true.

00:04:44.760 but that only means that every nation on earth has been choosing to deal with the impacts

00:04:48.960 of shutting down their own economies for pandemic lockdowns, and they've been doing it by firing up

00:04:55.880 their printing presses and issuing more currency. Just because if a billion people do a stupid thing,

00:05:00.260 it's still a stupid thing. So yes, Canada is one among hundreds of nations that are dealing with

00:05:04.900 inflation right now, but it doesn't mean we can't do things here to deal with it, and it doesn't

00:05:08.500 mean it's not our own fault to a degree on why it happened. Some other people keep saying, well,

00:05:12.320 it's just supply chain challenges and claiming that's why it's exploding. Well, again, they're

00:05:15.460 somewhat right. The supply chain mess, though, is due to governments shutting down economies for the

00:05:20.280 pandemic. It's the same action from the government leading to the same result, which is leading to

00:05:24.360 inflation. You can't force billions of workers, and that's what happened around the world, to sit

00:05:28.140 home for months at a time without some economic impacts to come down the line. And now it's coming

00:05:33.800 home to roost. Some others are pointing at the Ukraine-Russia war as the culprit. Well, sorry,

00:05:37.800 kids while that conflict is contributing to inflation is and does have something to do with

00:05:42.680 the rise in costs of energy and food goods those were rising sharply well before the first russians

00:05:48.120 stepped over the ukrainian border what has to be accepted and realized is that inflation when it

00:05:54.520 comes when the government uh raises spending and and and while they're borrowing and it's inevitable

00:06:00.120 it's just math guys it's not economic theory it's reality government spending is a false solution

00:06:05.320 to a real problem. Spending is a problem in itself, as a matter of fact. Now, the economically

00:06:10.260 illiterate and ideologically blind just don't want to face this reality. There's many people

00:06:14.860 who live under an illusion that government can magically create goods and services, and if they

00:06:18.720 would only open the floodgates of spending enough, we'd all be rich. These are the folks who think

00:06:23.320 that giving up free post-secondary education for everybody is viable, or they think we could end

00:06:27.640 all health care challenges if we would just spend enough on it. These people think that if we just

00:06:33.520 subsidize electric vehicles and windmills enough, the world will give up on petrochemical fuel

00:06:37.720 sources. It's a fairytale attitude, but it's driving government policies, and we're all going

00:06:41.640 to pay a heavy price for this. We need real, tangible economic activity if we want to maintain

00:06:46.340 our high standard of living. That means resource extraction, processing and exporting. Yeah,

00:06:52.000 oil and gas, mining, agriculture. We've got to do those things. We've got to allow private markets 0.55

00:06:58.240 to explore new technologies based on consumer needs rather than ideological fantasies. Quit

00:07:03.100 pouring all this R&D money, stealing it from successful businesses, stealing it from taxpayers

00:07:07.960 and pouring it in because you've got these green dreams into these companies that are mostly scams

00:07:12.160 and just let the private market deal with advances. We need manufacturing and deregulated

00:07:18.560 commerce. We need those to build up as well. What we don't need is more government spending

00:07:22.620 and more regulation or more hiring of bureaucrats. Hiring of bureaucrats is akin to printing more

00:07:27.820 money. They produce nothing and drain from the productive. Yet we still have governments

00:07:31.720 celebrating how they tackled unemployment

00:07:33.360 through expanding the civil service.

00:07:35.120 This is just a work for welfare scheme

00:07:36.820 and it bloats government spending further,

00:07:39.020 thus causing more inflation.

00:07:41.000 The tax borrow spend cycle is still going.

00:07:43.820 We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg

00:07:44.880 when it comes to inflation.

00:07:46.560 The calls of competent economists

00:07:48.160 were ignored two years ago

00:07:50.260 when governments opened the spending floodgates.

00:07:52.500 The calls of those same economists

00:07:53.820 are being ignored today

00:07:55.000 as the government continues to spend

00:07:56.580 while elements of a lazy population demands it.

00:08:00.220 I like saying I told you so.

00:08:01.440 I do. But I'll be perfectly happy if I don't have the opportunity to say it again in two more years.

00:08:06.960 I'm not confident much is going to change. And in two years, I won't be talking about growing

00:08:11.880 inflation. I'll be talking about hyperinflation. So have a look at Venezuela and see how well that

00:08:16.560 all worked out. All the oil in the world won't save you if your government is out of control.

00:08:21.620 So inflation, guys, you're just getting the first reality check on it. It's only going to go one

00:08:25.840 direction until the government gets themselves under control. That's my rant for today. Now let's

00:08:31.640 get on to the rest of the news that's breaking and what we're reporting on with our news editor,

00:08:35.780 Dave Naylor. Hey Dave, how's it going? Thanks for cheering me up, Corey. Really needed that this

00:08:40.120 morning. I'm here to brighten people's days. Boy, it was already bright enough. I'm crawling

00:08:44.940 through downtown. We just had a dump of snow, you know, down roads that have obviously not seen a

00:08:51.560 snowplow yet and all the bike lanes beside me are perfectly clear and dry it was just infuriating

00:08:57.780 and of course there's not a cyclist in sight uh you know but it oh man sure kicked off my day on

00:09:03.980 the wrong foot yeah well maybe you know you can get up there just kind of nudge a cyclist uh off

00:09:09.460 to the side of the road later on make yourself feel a little better yeah no that would be wrong

00:09:13.560 uh for the viewer who was asking about uh pat king he did appear in court yesterday the three

00:09:20.100 new charges that were talked about last week were officially read to him, including perjury.

00:09:26.640 And then it was just an up and down. He'll be back later, probably this time next week,

00:09:32.160 he'll be back in court perhaps to try for bail again. Other stuff in the news, and it's been a

00:09:38.340 busy morning, Corey. We've got, I think, 15 new pieces of content up already, and it's only 11.30.

00:09:45.600 Premier Kenney announced this morning a multi-million dollar aid package to help Ukrainian refugees trying to flee Vladimir Putin, money that's going to go to help support them when they get to the province.

00:10:02.000 I know an issue near and dear to your heart, Currie, as well as Derek, supply management.

00:10:09.100 Tory hopeful Scott Atchison has become the first candidate to say he would end that form of supply management that covers poultry and dairy.

00:10:20.860 And as you mentioned, we've got a story up by Ewa on inflation, 6.7%.

00:10:26.000 percent uh last time it was this high was 1991 right after the government introduced the gst

00:10:33.840 so there you go uh mike thomas our real estate guy has got his story up on canadian home sales

00:10:40.480 finally starting to slow in uh in march uh led by declines in uh in the greater toronto area and

00:10:48.880 and also calgary uh so that's uh finally starting to slow down uh we've got uh the phoenix pay

00:10:58.160 system uh that's a boondoggle uh billions of dollars and uh still still costing millions

00:11:05.200 of dollars uh every month to try and fix that uh a reporter in toronto jonathan bradley attended the

00:11:12.320 the Pierre Polyev event there last night,

00:11:16.100 more than a thousand people.

00:11:18.620 People were saying on social media

00:11:20.200 that it's all about how much he can attract in Toronto.

00:11:23.620 And he certainly did attract a large crowd,

00:11:25.800 so much so that the overflow room was used.

00:11:29.940 So we've got that up, Corey, a whole bunch more.

00:11:32.700 And heads up on one that we're just about to publish

00:11:36.060 from Eva is on Netflix.

00:11:38.640 They reported their shares are down a whopping 18% after the last quarter results.

00:11:46.700 They're talking about cracking down on people misusing the passwords

00:11:51.460 and sharing them amongst friends and family.

00:11:54.380 And a big new production is starting tomorrow.

00:11:56.760 Corey, I'm sure you're going to want to watch.

00:11:58.500 It's about a pregnant man. 0.99

00:12:01.580 There might be a reason why their viewership is dropping. 1.00

00:12:06.520 I might have to learn to enjoy 420 like I was talking about before and smoke a whole lot of

00:12:10.680 weed to be able to watch something like that and consume it appropriately.

00:12:15.160 Yeah, I would think it would take a large amount of mind altering substances to make that one work.

00:12:21.160 Well, maybe a little introspection is due for Netflix. I mean, they were a groundbreaking

00:12:25.160 place, you know, streaming video. I mean, they took down Blockbuster, they changed the world,

00:12:29.960 but they seem to have, they can't flex to deal with competition. So maybe this

00:12:34.920 economic reality check will make them realize that maybe not a lot of people want to watch

00:12:39.340 pregnant men. Yeah, and other channels like HBO have caught up with them. And you're right. They

00:12:45.720 basically, between them, they've made network TV almost a thing of the past now. Well, always lots

00:12:53.360 of interesting stuff on the break. Thanks for coming to give us the update, Dave. No problem,

00:12:57.660 Corey. Have a good one. Great. That was our news editor, Dave Naylor, and he's the guy who's

00:13:03.160 responsible for us. Yes, as he said, having I think 18 pieces already up this morning. Like we

00:13:07.620 really have a lot of content is coming out all the time. Another reporter in Toronto, the one who

00:13:13.480 went to the Polyev event. And we've got Matthew Smallwood in Ottawa. Like we're just really

00:13:19.600 getting on the ground and getting unique content. It's really been paying off. And we're doing it

00:13:23.820 because you guys have been subscribing to us. So I've just got to reach out. Thank you subscribers

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00:13:53.180 I've got a panel discussion I'm going to have just to let you know that's going to run tomorrow on

00:13:57.660 the show. And I had Andrew Lawton from True North and Sheila Gunn-Reed from Rebel. And we all talked

00:14:03.620 together about independent media and the challenges and everything that's going on with it. I mean,

00:14:08.420 it's very important that we can stay independent because we've got a very hostile government

00:14:12.600 coming after us and trying to shut us down or at least sideline us. So as long as you guys keep

00:14:17.320 subscribing, we can stay independent and we can keep bringing that news. Now, I'm going to mention

00:14:23.120 and rant a bit about people.

00:14:25.960 If you follow social media, you know a lot.

00:14:28.420 Speaking of independent media,

00:14:30.240 there's a little wannabe independent media maggot

00:14:33.040 named Nate Pike.

00:14:34.540 He's based out of Calgary.

00:14:36.340 He has run for office a couple of times.

00:14:39.280 Hey, that's all right.

00:14:39.820 I've done that too and lost.

00:14:41.540 That's fair enough.

00:14:43.020 He ran for the Alberta party,

00:14:44.340 ran for city council,

00:14:45.600 and he's been trying to get a little publication

00:14:47.040 called The Breakdown going.

00:14:48.340 It's mostly just a Twitter account

00:14:49.940 that reports a lot of rumors.

00:14:51.620 It's at TheBreakdownAB, if you do want to find and look at that thing.

00:14:57.180 And Nate, his own account is at Nate Pike.

00:15:01.140 So if you're asking, why am I putting this guy's picture up there and his accounts,

00:15:04.580 especially if I apparently don't like him?

00:15:06.940 Well, the little turd decided to take somebody who'd been removed from politics for some time,

00:15:12.060 and I don't know why, but Nate was creeping around Tinder profiles online,

00:15:16.480 and he took a person's Tinder profile and ad

00:15:20.080 and decided it would be cute to put it out on Twitter

00:15:23.600 and ridicule it, a person's personal singles account.

00:15:27.780 Why? Why would you do that?

00:15:29.220 What are you thinking?

00:15:30.880 But this is, and he's getting ratioed for it.

00:15:33.980 If people aren't familiar with social media terms

00:15:37.400 and things like that,

00:15:38.420 ratioed means when you put up something beyond the pale,

00:15:40.540 when you've crossed a line,

00:15:41.420 when people are disgusted by what you put up,

00:15:42.980 particularly on Twitter,

00:15:44.780 you get so many responses

00:15:45.940 of people just calling you out that they way surpass the amount of likes and retweets and

00:15:52.140 all of those sorts of things that come along with it. So Nate's getting ratioed for that repugnant

00:15:56.380 little post to his. But the other thing that's telling, you know, we do things. You put things

00:16:01.340 out on a whim. You know, it's Twitter. Hey, I think I have a good idea. I'll tweet it out and

00:16:06.280 you stick it out. And sometimes it's a loser. Sometimes it's stupid. I put stupid tweets out.

00:16:09.860 I'm sure people would remind me of that.

00:16:12.540 I've never invaded and violated somebody's privacy

00:16:16.420 in the way Mr. Pike felt he was entitled to do, though.

00:16:21.000 But the other thing is when you do something stupid,

00:16:23.140 usually at the least, you pull down the offending tweet.

00:16:27.380 You delete it.

00:16:28.100 You say, okay, it was a dumb idea.

00:16:30.140 I'm sorry about that.

00:16:30.820 Delete it and move on.

00:16:31.820 It's still up there, guys.

00:16:32.940 It's still out there.

00:16:34.220 He won't.

00:16:34.760 Even lefties are screaming at him.

00:16:36.840 What is the matter with you, Nate Pike?

00:16:38.400 Like, why have you still got this ridiculous, insulting, petty, childish tweet sitting up there?

00:16:45.060 So I just want to remind everybody, because, you know, there's only one way to push back on these.

00:16:48.740 And I'm not going to fully dox like he is.

00:16:50.760 You know, if Nate had a singles profile going on out there, I wouldn't share it.

00:16:55.060 I'm just sharing what he's already got.

00:16:56.380 You know, his public Twitter persona and his sad little attempted alternative media outlet, The Breakdown.

00:17:04.780 Because I think you should wear your actions.

00:17:07.260 And we've made mistakes.

00:17:08.680 We made mistakes at the Standard.

00:17:10.060 The Standard actually had to apologize for something once it happens.

00:17:13.120 And we do that.

00:17:13.660 We take responsibility.

00:17:15.160 Nate has it.

00:17:16.040 And as we watch independent media develop and we see new sources and we see things getting

00:17:19.280 up there, it's great.

00:17:20.440 The more the merrier.

00:17:22.000 But it also means the responsible ones, the professional ones, the stronger ones should

00:17:25.940 survive.

00:17:26.920 And the little weenies like Nate Pike should be pushed off to the wayside where they richly

00:17:33.080 deserve to be.

00:17:34.400 So I just wanted to call out Mr. Pike today because, again, you know what?

00:17:38.460 If he had even deleted that thing, I wouldn't even mention it today.

00:17:41.440 But it's worth mentioning and it's worth reminding people of.

00:17:44.020 And, hey, if you're on Twitter, go out there and say hi to Nate

00:17:46.520 and tell him what you think about getting out there

00:17:50.520 and taking people's personal information and sharing it on Twitter

00:17:54.740 and how much you feel about his future with an alternative publication.

00:18:00.480 It's at the Breakdown AB.

00:18:02.600 and Nate is at, at Nate Pike on Twitter.

00:18:07.420 So yeah, you know, again,

00:18:10.060 he feels that people who have run for office

00:18:12.540 should have no personal privacy

00:18:13.760 and well, he's run for city council

00:18:15.340 and for the Alberta party.

00:18:16.320 So I guess at the very least we can call him out.

00:18:19.580 And again, good social media outlets

00:18:22.620 will rise to the top as we have been.

00:18:24.580 And again, as I want to thank you.

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00:19:47.820 And there's a digital conference going on downtown Calgary. One of our reporters is down there

00:19:53.260 covering that today, actually. So a bunch of speakers going on in there. I don't know what

00:19:59.860 this is about. Gary Brunette's saying, is the Western Standard going to report on a parade our

00:20:03.220 mayor is going to be in? Send me info. I don't know anything about it. So I haven't heard anything

00:20:09.780 about it, but I mean, I, you know, it gets my vein pulsing when I look at our city council. So

00:20:13.760 if there's something going on, by all means, sharing it to me and see if it's worth reporting

00:20:19.760 and following up on. There's not much surprises me out of Madam Gondek, her worship these days.

00:20:25.160 Let's talk about Crown Corporations for a minute. Moneygram Marginal. This is a new story that came

00:20:32.000 out too. This is Canada Post. Speaking of dinosaurs, speaking of bureaucrats, I was

00:20:36.980 talking about where we overhire and just keep loading. Canada Post, you can understand way

00:20:42.260 back in the days, a hundred and some years ago, where it was so critical to communication, where

00:20:47.580 there was no profitability to sending packages and letters to isolated locations. We needed to

00:20:53.640 get together as a society and form a crown corporation to take care of that. That's why

00:20:58.200 the U.S. Postal Service is still there. And even in Switzerland, with that tiny minor government

00:21:02.780 that I love they have over there, one of the federal responsibilities is the Post. But it's

00:21:06.560 changed. The world has changed. Now, Canada Post, rather than what I think should be just phased

00:21:12.380 out, because we can pretty much replace almost everything they do with private services,

00:21:16.520 Unfortunately, they still just keep drawing cash

00:21:18.560 and they're trying to change and adjust

00:21:21.020 and get into the modern business market.

00:21:24.940 And of course, like any government corporation,

00:21:27.040 they're not having any luck with it.

00:21:29.000 So they've tried this MoneyGram idea

00:21:31.520 of cash transfer services.

00:21:33.360 They introduced it two years ago.

00:21:35.260 And now that there's been a management report to MPs,

00:21:38.780 they're trying to, they wanna propose even more

00:21:40.940 financial services and expand them to raise revenue.

00:21:43.980 And I gotta ask why?

00:21:45.080 the why we've got and that's why they're failing i mean look at all of the options that are out

00:21:50.260 there you've got paypal you've got e-transfers you know you don't need the old days of western

00:21:55.020 union to be able to get funds to somebody in a different place or across the country or across

00:21:59.020 the world uh can post is getting into this market you know years behind uh the curve

00:22:04.300 and they're only uh you know failing in it but here we go so uh let's see uh there's a submission

00:22:12.660 to the Commons Government Operations Committee

00:22:14.760 and they were asked,

00:22:15.360 do you know how much revenue MoneyGram generates per year?

00:22:17.900 And management replied,

00:22:19.040 it was marginally profitable in 2021

00:22:21.320 and that's as far as they would go with it.

00:22:24.700 And they contracted,

00:22:25.980 that was a US-based company to do it,

00:22:27.880 to operate those transfer services

00:22:29.700 in 5,200 post offices nationwide.

00:22:32.620 I mean, you know, packages, mailing,

00:22:34.880 it's bigger than it's ever been.

00:22:36.600 Lord knows my wife, Jane, Queen Kijiji there,

00:22:40.520 plus Amazon, it's rare when I get home

00:22:42.440 when there isn't another package on the step

00:22:43.800 or I'm dropping something off that she's sold.

00:22:45.840 That's what a lot of people do,

00:22:47.360 but mostly it's not Canada Post that's showing up with this.

00:22:49.620 This is all sorts of private operators and delivery services.

00:22:52.800 It's time to let that dinosaur fade to the background,

00:22:55.120 but instead we're continuing to try

00:22:57.360 and keep that thing alive.

00:22:58.600 Okay, I see my next guest on deck there.

00:23:01.880 Somebody was asking though, Paulette,

00:23:03.080 is cryptocurrency a digital currency?

00:23:05.720 Also, yeah, it's all the same thing.

00:23:07.340 Digital currencies, cryptocurrencies, alternative currencies,

00:23:10.720 and Bitcoin is one of those.

00:23:12.860 So let's bring Danny Hozak in.

00:23:15.020 I see him down there ready to chat.

00:23:16.920 And hey, Danny, how's it going?

00:23:20.660 You hear me there, Danny?

00:23:23.360 Okay, well, Danny can't quite hear us.

00:23:25.420 He might have to turn his volume up.

00:23:28.020 Hey, Danny, I can't hear you.

00:23:33.680 But as we work towards that,

00:23:35.400 I'll kind of review as Danny works out his sound there.

00:23:38.960 And let's see.

00:23:40.100 So the speakers he's got coming at the Freedom Talk Conference, and it's starting on Friday.

00:23:46.500 Michael Binion, he's with Modern Miracle Network.

00:23:48.560 Danielle Smith.

00:23:50.280 Michelle Sterling, she's with Friends of Science.

00:23:52.820 She's been on the show before.

00:23:53.860 Andrew Lawton from True North.

00:23:55.220 We've got Lauren Gunter, a columnist that a lot of people are familiar with.

00:23:58.760 Patrick Moore, of course, that former Greenpeace founder.

00:24:02.540 Tammy Nemeth.

00:24:03.860 Mark Morano.

00:24:05.480 Robert Lyman.

00:24:06.260 Maxime Bernier is going to be there.

00:24:07.980 Paul Hinman.

00:24:08.980 John Robson.

00:24:10.100 Malcolm Roberts is going to be coming online from Australia and they have invited a Conservative

00:24:15.200 Party of Canada candidates to speak. So yeah, it's going to be quite a conference. I think

00:24:21.200 Danny's still working out his technical issues over there. We should hopefully get in to talk

00:24:25.100 about them soon here and explain a little more about it. But in the meantime, let's see what

00:24:30.940 else we got going on. I should show where it's held. I'm just looking through their website,

00:24:34.920 all these speaker bios. It's at freedomtalk.ca. And let's see here. Where is the location?

00:24:44.420 Your downtown Calgary? No, Northeast Calgary, I believe at a hotel there. There we go. It's

00:24:50.180 at the conference at the Best Western and Plaza Hotel and Conference Center

00:24:55.120 up in Northeast Calgary there. So check out freedomtalk.ca if you're looking to get in on

00:25:00.300 that guest list, and hopefully we can get some sound out of Danny and be able to discuss it a

00:25:06.560 little further. He's been holding those conferences for quite some time. A lot of these are regular

00:25:10.740 guests he's had on to cover a lot of issues. As you can see from that guest list, they'll talk

00:25:14.820 about Western Canadian issues, independence leading. Danny was very involved with the Wild

00:25:19.840 Rose Party in the past with us, with Danielle Smith and myself. For those who might be honest,

00:25:25.580 their conferences go a lot more smoothly than Danny's show appearances do. And he's just having

00:25:30.960 some issues getting the sound rolling there. Maybe in the meantime, while Danny works on that,

00:25:36.200 let's see what else we got in the news here. More stuff on the... Oh yeah, let's talk about that

00:25:44.740 Phoenix. Let's talk about government inefficiency. Again, there's always more shared with us and

00:25:49.400 stories of that. And that is with the Phoenix payroll system. I don't know if everybody's

00:25:53.480 familiar with that. I like mocking it quite often because it's such a grand demonstration of how bad

00:25:58.660 government is and how poorly they manage just about everything. It's a huge payroll system

00:26:03.200 for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. I don't know how many federal civil servants they

00:26:08.060 got. And they've not been able to get that thing to run right since they brought it in. It's been

00:26:13.980 in for, I think, nearly a decade now. And they screwed up paychecks all over the place. It's

00:26:18.840 costing millions and millions of dollars for them to be fixing up payroll errors, to get all that

00:26:23.600 stuff together. I mean, this is the biggest organization in Canada, essentially, the federal

00:26:26.600 government, and they can't even pay their own people correctly. You know those union contracts.

00:26:32.440 I mean, I don't blame even civil servants. If your paycheck got screwed up, you want your money. You

00:26:38.040 worked for it. I mean, you know, whether you're overpaid or whether you should have had that job

00:26:41.160 or anything like that, well, that's a separate issue. As it is, that's what you're agreed for.

00:26:44.800 Well, there's 25,000 former employees now, and they filed a claim for general damages to the government because the government screwed up their payroll that badly.

00:26:56.140 Like any big business on the planet, that's one of the things that you have to do.

00:26:59.240 If you've got employees, you need a payroll system.

00:27:01.460 It's not that complicated.

00:27:03.160 I mean, it's more complicated than I could manage.

00:27:05.140 So what do you do?

00:27:05.740 You hire somebody who knows how to do it, and you get them to manage it.

00:27:09.800 Not in our federal government, though.

00:27:11.660 As I was talking about before with inflation.

00:27:13.300 See, look at this clown show.

00:27:15.100 This is how they deal with fixing up the economy.

00:27:18.220 This is how they are supposed to make things better, is by hiring more civil servants.

00:27:24.600 Well, for one, we don't need more civil servants.

00:27:27.560 And for another thing, they can't even pay them.

00:27:30.180 They can't get that together.

00:27:32.060 So yeah, let's see, 24,000 of these claims have been resolved so far with the remainder

00:27:37.020 in progress.

00:27:38.060 Total amounts paid to date at $27 million.

00:27:40.260 And that's just for the claims.

00:27:42.440 It's just for the screw ups. And this system has cost billions, billions, just to figure out how to pay employees, your government at work.

00:27:51.880 So, I mean, again, when you get people campaigning on saying, you know, why the government should be larger, why they should be spending more, why they should be expanding.

00:28:01.220 How can you look at the constant, chronic, inefficient failure of governments and say we need more of that?

00:28:09.420 It's just bizarro world. I don't get it.

00:28:12.440 But that's what we're doing.

00:28:14.460 And I love rubbing their noses in it

00:28:15.940 because it's one of the most blatant examples.

00:28:17.520 I mean, you'd think if there's one area at all

00:28:19.600 that they could possibly get right,

00:28:21.620 it would be where they're paying themselves.

00:28:23.260 And they haven't quite figured out how to do that.

00:28:26.580 It looks like the treasury board's given no deadline

00:28:28.460 for when they're going to wind up these claims.

00:28:30.160 Well, they can't because they're still screwing up

00:28:32.040 the pay even today.

00:28:33.380 They haven't got it together.

00:28:35.080 I mean, it reminds me also of giving locally

00:28:38.300 and I'm sure we've seen it in other cities.

00:28:40.220 Calgary, I think for over a decade,

00:28:41.900 tried some sort of card pay system for transit.

00:28:45.620 You know, you could do almost anything on a card.

00:28:47.420 You could do anything on an app.

00:28:48.620 You can do stuff all over the place,

00:28:49.760 but they screwed it up over and over and over again.

00:28:53.060 They spent millions and millions of dollars

00:28:54.480 trying to get this card pay.

00:28:56.620 I think the technology with what they were trying

00:28:58.880 to get going in Calgary Transit,

00:29:00.140 it was under Nietzsche's regime.

00:29:02.880 They never managed to get it working

00:29:05.240 and the technology's out of date now already.

00:29:08.380 So it's good for nothing.

00:29:10.220 Danny's saying he can hear me.

00:29:12.320 We'll see if we can pop him in and see if we can hear him.

00:29:14.780 That was where the challenge was.

00:29:16.620 So we'll pull Danny in.

00:29:17.960 Hi, Corey.

00:29:18.600 Can you hear me now?

00:29:19.660 Much better.

00:29:20.380 Excellent.

00:29:20.780 Glad to have you back here.

00:29:21.900 You've got a Yeti mic there.

00:29:23.860 I had a Yeti mic, but I had to unplug it for some reason and go to my iPhone.

00:29:28.620 So I don't know what was happening.

00:29:29.800 But in any event, I'm here now.

00:29:31.840 Thank you very much for having me on.

00:29:34.200 No problem.

00:29:34.980 Better late than never.

00:29:36.200 So, I mean, it gave me a chance to kind of run down what you're doing, but maybe I'll get you to kind of encapsulate what freedom, your freedom talk is about.

00:29:44.920 I mean, you've held a number of these over the last few years and you've got, well, this is your first kind of big, fully unrestrained one in a while.

00:29:51.360 This is our first, you know, post-COVID event.

00:29:54.680 You're right.

00:29:55.140 We've had two or three during COVID, which, you know, presented their own challenges.

00:29:59.860 But anyway, thankfully, that's behind us or hopefully it's behind us for the long run.

00:30:03.820 And so, yes, we've got this. The theme of this conference is called meeting the return to freedom challenge. As you know, we've done meeting the climate change challenge, meeting the debt and deficit challenge, meeting the unity challenge.

00:30:16.800 Well, this is going to be the meeting the return to freedom challenge. And so we've got a world class group of speakers. One of the things that I think that the point I would like to make is I really appreciate you getting me on and giving us some coverage.

00:30:29.760 But one of the things we're trying to do is sort of facilitate a respectful discussion from all sides of the spectrum.

00:30:38.400 Like I've had quite a few people call over the last few days saying, well, I'm not coming if they're coming and I'm not coming.

00:30:44.160 Someone else calls and says, well, I'm not coming if they're coming.

00:30:46.840 And I'm thinking, quite frankly, that's what's wrong with our political debate these days is like no one will go to the meeting where we're going to talk about both sides of the situation.

00:30:55.900 And one of our major sponsors is the Modern Miracle Network, and we all know Michael Binion.

00:31:01.720 But one of the things I really appreciate him for is the fact that he's prepared to talk to people from all sides of the spectrum.

00:31:10.180 As you know, like-minded people didn't develop the tar sands.

00:31:14.660 It was a whole group of people thinking differently, looking at the same problem.

00:31:18.580 And together they came up with something which, quite frankly, is the engine of Canada and one of the miracles of the modern world.

00:31:24.440 So I would just invite everybody to try and join us.

00:31:27.860 Yeah, well, and Michael Binion's a good one to bring up when you're talking about unity.

00:31:31.500 And I was involved in communicating.

00:31:33.720 Well, he's been on the show when I was running Suits and Boots.

00:31:37.060 And it kind of reminded me, like, what Michael's really taken on is getting all of these disparate energy groups together and at least marching in the same order and together.

00:31:45.540 Because they've got common causes, but we're still scrapping with each other.

00:31:48.580 It reminds me of the gun show I was at last weekend, too.

00:31:51.600 We were talking about the 90s and how there's so many gun lobby groups, and a lot of them, again, can't stand each other, won't be in the same room together.

00:31:57.920 We used to have the Law-Abiding Unregistered Firearms Association in the 90s, and then the RFOA with the Responsible Firearms Association, Owners Association.

00:32:07.260 And then there was the NFA, and none of them would all talk to each other.

00:32:10.000 I think we're a little better now, but I'm glad you brought that up because we're not going to get stuff done if we're not going to get in the same room together.

00:32:16.180 No, that's exactly right.

00:32:17.500 And so, and I mean, so let's, yeah, we still have some room.

00:32:21.700 We're looking for some more people.

00:32:23.420 You already pointed out, quite frankly, we're at the, we're at the, you know, the Calgary

00:32:27.740 Coast Plaza Conference Centre.

00:32:30.280 We've got room for more people and we're looking forward to a really good group.

00:32:34.800 We actually have, you know, unless something goes wrong, you can, I guess this was a good

00:32:39.820 example of what can go wrong with technology, but we actually have Malcolm Roberts, who

00:32:44.100 I think is an Australian senator presenting by Zoom.

00:32:48.700 And one of the things he's talking about is he said so often with, you know, quite flying to the left,

00:32:54.920 they would go and make a presentation when they were done.

00:32:57.220 The left would just say, well, that's been disproved and move on.

00:33:00.080 And so he said as he's talking to a lot of these people, he's asking them questions, saying, well, how would you answer this?

00:33:06.260 How would you answer that?

00:33:07.280 And sort of his theme is if you want better answers, ask better questions.

00:33:11.460 And so one of the things that we're planning on doing is asking some questions of our participants.

00:33:16.620 And we've got quite a few people signed up to watch online.

00:33:19.780 And we're going to try and facilitate a respectful discussion on a whole range of sort of returning to freedom, both with climate and COVID.

00:33:29.300 Well, that's great.

00:33:30.280 And, yeah, so that's your theme is climate and COVID.

00:33:32.600 And, of course, they're top of mind types of issues at this time, for sure.

00:33:38.440 Some of your other guests we could speak on there.

00:33:41.060 You've had him at other conferences.

00:33:44.760 His name's escaping me here.

00:33:46.100 He was with Greenpeace originally.

00:33:47.620 Oh, Patrick Moore.

00:33:48.820 Yeah, Patrick Moore isn't going to make it.

00:33:51.780 He was late getting to Mexico, and he said,

00:33:55.780 sorry, Danny, it's just too warm down here.

00:33:58.360 I'm not coming back.

00:33:59.320 I think if it hadn't have snowed yesterday, we'd had a better chance,

00:34:02.020 but he's not going to make it.

00:34:03.500 But we have Mark Morano presenting by Zoom.

00:34:07.600 He was fully prepared to be here,

00:34:09.240 and there's no way he can get he's not vaccinated there's no way he can get into the country we have

00:34:14.540 some of our best supporters from eastern canada who quite frankly aren't vaccinated and they can't

00:34:20.440 get here as as well and so one of the things that we're looking at and i'll just mention this like

00:34:25.020 we have some really good supporters that are you know double and triple and quadruple vaxxed and

00:34:30.480 there's some people that aren't vaccinated and we're you know we're happy we're hoping we'll all

00:34:35.340 you know get to spend some time together and old folks home in about 20 years from now but

00:34:39.800 like I mean to me we're respectful of the vaccinated people we're hoping that I'm not

00:34:45.860 vaccinated but I mean that that's my choice we believe in freedom and I guess one of the other

00:34:51.320 things we're going to talk about is how you know the governments and some of these people have used

00:34:55.840 misinformation to cause misery in people's lives both in COVID and in climate so yeah we're going

00:35:03.000 to have a good discussion we've got uh you know catherine swift she's uh as you know she's with

00:35:07.840 the ontario manufacturers association now she'll be talking we have uh uh robert lyman who's an

00:35:14.540 economist from eastern canada talking about you know the cost of net zero and uh danielle smith

00:35:20.380 was on our uh was on our agenda and then we ended up with a conflict that we just couldn't work

00:35:25.760 around but uh john carpe is going to be here he's going to be give us an update on uh some of these

00:35:30.840 challenges that he's involved in and as we mentioned we've got michael binion uh paul

00:35:36.620 himman's going to be in on friday night paul himman and uh and joseph burgo we reached out to

00:35:42.300 the federal conservative candidates and the only one that agreed to come and speak was

00:35:46.640 joseph burgo which any of you people in the farm industry will recognize the name burgo farm

00:35:52.200 equipment but uh people like joseph burgo are typical you know western entrepreneurs and one

00:35:58.660 of the reasons that famine 1975 never happened is because of entrepreneurs like joseph or go and

00:36:04.800 he's uh committed to uh building a better canada and having uh you know the west be part of it so

00:36:10.380 we think we're going to have a really good discussion and then of course andrew lawton

00:36:14.260 will be speaking twice i don't think uh i think uh what does it say on the thing he's actually

00:36:20.080 i think he's coming i don't think i'm letting the cat out of the bag to say that he's uh

00:36:24.100 yeah he covered the convoy quite a bit and he's going to give us an update on covering the convoy

00:36:28.380 And we found him to be not only a very good reporter, but one of, you know, I think one of Canada's leading intellectuals.

00:36:36.000 So we're looking forward to seeing him, too.

00:36:37.540 And then so anyway, yeah, we've got a great lineup.

00:36:39.620 Are you going to be able to find some time to come and join us?

00:36:42.160 I'll see if I can get out there tight on the weekends, but I'd sure like to.

00:36:46.980 And that's part of the other part of what I'd like to point out to people.

00:36:49.560 I mean, it's not just the guest speakers.

00:36:50.900 And this is something I'm glad that's getting going again.

00:36:53.420 You know, I've been to a lot of conferences and conventions.

00:36:57.040 It's the breakout sessions.

00:36:58.360 It's interacting with the other attendees.

00:37:00.200 You know, not necessarily the keynote speakers.

00:37:01.800 It's the chance to talk with each other and rub shoulders with just other concerned citizens going to these conferences.

00:37:09.500 Back when I used to smoke, I used to find the discussions at the smoke doors sometimes more important than any other part of the conference in itself.

00:37:16.580 You know, just reminding people why it's important to sign up and get out to these in person.

00:37:20.080 It's not the same as a YouTube video or something like that.

00:37:22.960 It really is.

00:37:23.680 And thank you, Corey.

00:37:25.400 And I mean, you're right. And I think people I mean, I mean, we could sit at home and you could spend 24 hours a day sitting at home watching videos.

00:37:32.380 But there's something about going there and the interaction and, you know, visiting with people, getting to make friendships.

00:37:38.300 We've got, you know, quite a group of followers that this is this is sort of one of the things on their their agenda for the year where they go and touch base with their new group of freedom friends.

00:37:48.180 And I don't know if any of you saw my tweet in our invite.

00:37:51.900 The quote was actually from J.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

00:37:58.200 But basically the fellow said, what are we doing?

00:38:00.780 Why are we doing all this?

00:38:02.440 And the hero, I think it was Frodo, said, well, because there's some good in the world and it's worth fighting for.

00:38:08.580 So we think there's a lot of good in the world.

00:38:10.960 I mean, it's easy to be depressed, but there's lots to be cheerful about.

00:38:14.200 And there's lots of opportunity to make it better.

00:38:16.280 And that's what we're fighting for.

00:38:17.660 we just invite people to join us great so your website's freedomtalk.ca uh that's where people

00:38:24.480 can register for the conference is there registration at the door as well if somebody

00:38:27.260 shows up yes there is like uh the the online registration is going to shut off like there's

00:38:34.220 there's online registration to watch from home but we're going to shut that off probably sometime

00:38:39.500 you know thursday evening about supper time because uh one of the problems we had last fall

00:38:44.020 was uh you know at our October conference we got up in uh you know at seven in the morning and we'd

00:38:49.100 had 20 or 30 people register overnight well then it was quite a rush to try and get them a link to

00:38:54.160 watch and everything so the online will uh the online will uh uh shut off about supper time on

00:39:00.600 Thursday night but uh if you show up at the door with cash you can have my seat if you need it yeah

00:39:05.600 and yeah and you don't have to bring cash you just have to show up because we know you and we'd

00:39:09.560 be thrilled to uh we'd be thrilled to have you there covered and again it's uh Andrew Lawton

00:39:15.160 comes and he usually uh he usually takes some time during the weekend and interviews some of

00:39:20.440 our guests and it helps him with his true north thing as well and uh and uh you're certainly

00:39:25.760 welcome to do the same okay yeah no I appreciate that absolutely uh and what hours does it run

00:39:31.100 again just to let everybody know so it's Friday we go from nine till five and then we take a break

00:39:37.580 for supper till 7 and then from 7 till 9 we're going to have this discussion it'll be moderated

00:39:42.820 by Andrew Lawton and John Robson and there'll be Paul Himmon and Joseph Burgot speaking I think

00:39:47.920 it'll be quite you know actually Theo Fleury is actually going to be there to introduce Joseph

00:39:53.840 Burgot which we think is sort of it's sort of a neat twist because as you know Theo is making

00:40:00.120 quite a name for himself talking about some of you know how he was abused by powerful people

00:40:04.660 and quite frankly that's part of uh paul him his messages we're in a dysfunctional relationship and

00:40:10.680 we need to uh we know we need to get out of this dysfunctional relationship and uh joseph or go is

00:40:16.040 basically saying yeah the relationship may be dysfunctional but we think we can fix it so i

00:40:20.620 think we'll have a really interesting visit friday night as well and then on saturday we go again

00:40:24.880 from nine till about three o'clock or 3 30 we've got we've got some time for discussion at the end

00:40:30.340 the day on Thursday, but it'll be

00:40:32.340 a really full day Friday and a good day

00:40:34.340 on Saturday, okay? Right on.

00:40:36.440 Well, I appreciate you coming on to

00:40:38.180 talk to us about it today, Danny.

00:40:40.280 First time I've kind of seen your face in a while. We've talked

00:40:42.320 on the phone. I know, we've talked on

00:40:44.300 the phone, and yes, exactly, and thank

00:40:46.380 you very much. Sorry for the confusion I was

00:40:48.280 over. Anyway, good. Thanks a

00:40:50.360 million. We'll look forward to seeing you and some of

00:40:52.280 your viewers on the weekend, okay? You

00:40:54.340 bet. I'll try and get out there. Take care.

00:40:56.440 We'll look forward to seeing you. Okay, bye for now.

00:40:58.240 Yeah, thanks.

00:40:58.800 Bye.

00:41:00.120 So, yes, that was Danny Hozak.

00:41:01.700 As I said, I've known him for a long time.

00:41:03.080 He's been very active in Alberta politics and that.

00:41:06.340 And, yeah, he had some tech challenges that happens when we get these shows going on occasion.

00:41:10.560 And it is a good gathering.

00:41:13.640 Yeah, Pamela Jones, Kenny Singh, Andrew Lawton should be the moderator for the candidates.

00:41:16.880 Yeah, there's only one of them.

00:41:18.240 And that's Joseph Borgol.

00:41:19.120 I did actually see him at the gun show last weekend.

00:41:21.360 And Joseph's been on this show for a non-member of parliament candidate.

00:41:25.060 it. He's really getting on the ground and hustling and working it out there. So we'll see how he

00:41:30.280 climbs in this conservative race. There's so many candidates. Everything's kind of getting

00:41:35.320 overwhelmed with Pierre Poly of coverage, but there are a whole number of other ones still

00:41:40.900 involved in there too, and making a push. And Borgol is one of them. So again, if you're looking

00:41:45.000 to attend that conference, though, check it out, freedomtalk.ca. A lot of good subjects and issues.

00:41:50.320 I'm going to try and get there Friday night. I think we'll see, at least to make an appearance.

00:41:54.480 is just such a tight schedule with the stuff we've got going on. And again, there's going to

00:41:59.400 be, it's important to get to these in-person things. It really is, you know, meeting the other

00:42:04.060 people who are attending and watching and communicating. It's interactive. You know,

00:42:08.800 it's not just watching another virtual conference, another Zoom meeting. I think we're all sick to

00:42:14.540 death of those. And Danny's very happy to be able to hold one of these where you can get people

00:42:18.860 there in person. I'm going to speak to one or more of our sponsors before I move along with

00:42:23.760 some news items and then get on to these next guests. I've been looking forward to that too,

00:42:26.560 because I've really got a lot to learn today on this NFT thing. It confuses the crap out of me.

00:42:31.080 And it still sounds pretty exciting from what I have figured out from it though. So

00:42:34.680 looking forward to that. So let's talk about something a little more straightforward that

00:42:38.520 everybody understands. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Anybody who is

00:42:43.000 into firearms or wants to get into firearms, we want to be responsible. We want to be safe.

00:42:48.320 We want to be legal. We're talking about law abiding firearm owners. This is an association

00:42:52.400 of just that. You know, this is where you network with other firearm owners. This is where you find

00:42:56.740 resources that you can see for competition shooting or target shooting. That looks like

00:43:02.380 a strange cowboy action thing going on in there. Black powder shooting. It doesn't matter what you

00:43:06.760 want to do. If you just want to collect them, hang them on your wall. If you want to hunt,

00:43:11.000 it's all there for you. Those resources. The other thing with networking, we got a lot of people who

00:43:15.960 they don't have that live and let live mentality. People say, I don't know. I don't need a firearm.

00:43:20.940 so I don't think anybody else needs it.

00:43:23.000 And we've got a federal government

00:43:25.140 that's more than happy to oblige them,

00:43:26.620 that's constantly pressuring

00:43:27.800 and trying to take away your ability

00:43:29.080 to legally and safely utilize firearms.

00:43:31.200 So the CSSA has had a number of legal challenges out.

00:43:34.860 They push back, they stand up for you.

00:43:36.680 They're trying to make sure you can maintain those rights

00:43:39.020 to, again, responsibly and safely enjoy firearms.

00:43:41.460 We're not talking about dangerous people out there.

00:43:44.040 And they need your help to do it though.

00:43:45.960 So you gotta get on there.

00:43:47.040 You gotta take out a membership with them

00:43:48.280 so they can continue to stand up for you

00:43:50.800 and your rights. It's at cssa-cila.org. And that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:43:58.080 Their name kind of says what they're all about. So what do we got here going on? I just got to

00:44:04.180 hit another quick news item. We're back to the electric cars again. And yes, the Department of

00:44:11.820 Transport commissioned another bit of research on whether the millions in climate rebates actually

00:44:17.360 reward affluent drivers. There's one of the, so they're reviewing the results and a questionnaire

00:44:22.720 was sent out over a year ago to try and figure out who actually benefited from it. And I got a

00:44:29.240 feeling they didn't get the outcome they liked because they won't tell us exactly what happened

00:44:32.020 with it. So they spend our money to study it. And if the outcome isn't what they want to hear,

00:44:36.640 they don't talk about it. There's part of the problem with the electric vehicles and the

00:44:39.620 subsidies. I mean, if we're looking anyways, if anything should be subsidized, I think that most

00:44:43.760 people agree with. And I believe in small government anyhow, but it should go towards

00:44:48.040 the ones in need, the people who are a little tight for cash. But in reality, I mean, nobody

00:44:51.860 who's tight for cash is in the market for a $70,000 Tesla. So the ones getting those $5,000

00:44:57.280 rebates on them were typically people who were doing okay already in the first place. So these

00:45:02.060 plans to try and bring more of the common market into the electric vehicle market haven't really

00:45:07.900 worked out as the government hoped they would. But again, as I like to go on, and it gives me

00:45:11.620 lots of talking material all the time. There rarely are things the government gets into that

00:45:15.240 turn out the way they hoped they would. Unfortunately, we're the ones who always get

00:45:18.600 the bill for it. Maybe I'll move on into private enterprise. This is the area I love. I love seeing

00:45:24.000 people doing things on their own, non-government initiatives and doing unique things. And that's

00:45:29.420 what these guys are about. And I could be killing some name pronunciations here, but I think it's

00:45:34.040 Adam Scorgy and Shane Fennessy. And they have released an NFT and they're involved in a bunch

00:45:40.980 of things with this creative Hustler key and through Scorgy Productions. So let's bring them

00:45:45.460 into the studio if they're ready and see if they can start explaining what this is all about.

00:45:51.380 So here we go. There we go. Adam and Shane, how are you guys doing?

00:45:57.040 Doing great. Thanks for having me so much, Corey.

00:45:59.120 Yeah, thank you.

00:46:00.460 Well, I really appreciate it. And it's like you might've heard me saying a bit in the introduction.

00:46:04.400 I mean, I've got a bit of an idea of what NFTs are, but if you can kind of, before we move on

00:46:10.220 of the other things break down a little bit of what it actually is and then and then we can move

00:46:15.120 on to why and what your your particular release is and what it's looking to do yeah i can jump in on

00:46:20.620 that i mean nft stands for non-fungible token which is basically a fancy way of saying it's a

00:46:25.760 one-of-a-kind digital item that users can buy own trade uh some nfts have functions like digital art

00:46:34.120 they look cool others are utility based access to websites or participations in events so it's

00:46:40.760 basically like a rare piece of art that can also act as a member's card that's kind of what it is

00:46:45.720 and then what it does or what it can enable you to do a whole different slew of things well so yeah

00:46:51.000 it's a it's a unique product that somebody's created that's the main thing is it has to be

00:46:54.360 unique uh or in a sense or limited i mean in your case you've put out a limited number of things

00:46:59.640 with your release these tokens uh i mean we hear about some bizarre ones there there was what a

00:47:03.960 person selling uh farts in a jar or something i didn't hear about that one but i'm not looking

00:47:10.360 up it's uh you know the truth is stranger than fiction sort of thing but i guess it allows for

00:47:14.760 creativity but some things are more serious than others but she raised six figures with that uh

00:47:19.400 you know bless her her butt um well put well people have been selling weird stuff long before

00:47:26.200 nfts that ever came on the scene that's a very valid point i mean as long as we had public

00:47:30.760 trading so you guys then uh with this uh it's called the creative hustler key so these have

00:47:36.840 got uh and you call it minting right so you've created these and there's a limited number of

00:47:42.120 them that you've just released yeah that's correct so minting essentially means creating something on

00:47:47.080 the blockchain uh blockchain for people who don't know is uh distributed network around the world

00:47:52.840 backed up by thousands if not tens of thousands of computers just depending on the network

00:47:57.720 um and what it does is it it sequesters new entries new bits of information in blocks

00:48:04.200 and as new blocks get formed they get they get cemented into that block and stored across all

00:48:09.080 those thousands of computers around the world meaning it's immutable it's unforgeable if one

00:48:13.560 person tries to say um you know oh i i didn't buy that or i didn't spend that money or i do own that

00:48:19.560 well it gets compared against all the other computers on the network and pretty easily

00:48:23.080 shows that actually you're lying so no so as information gets added it just gets put on

00:48:28.280 block by block on the chain creates this massive forever back ledger of transactions and items

00:48:35.240 okay so pulling it i guess more into adam's turf this is tied in with your scorgie

00:48:39.560 productions and then this is a means of raising funds for more productions i guess

00:48:44.440 a combination of that but also really connecting and making a community and a utility to it because

00:48:50.520 when we dug into this and shane did a lot of great research on nfts and which kind of which ones

00:48:55.280 stand the test of time and really provide value to their customers and which ones are just art

00:49:00.300 pieces which you know some people don't really see the value in that but if you're not a fine

00:49:04.120 arts collector then you know that probably wouldn't connect with you if you're not into

00:49:07.240 fancy rolexes or fancy cars then a fancy nft probably isn't your thing either so what we

00:49:12.260 wanted to do was to provide all three yes we have great artwork uh you know a digital animator out

00:49:17.220 of calgary did a fantastic job creating all the world but really what we're excited about is the

00:49:21.700 community and utility we're going to provide with it so if you're a member if you hold a creative

00:49:26.580 hustler key then anytime if you're in the film industry you want to connect with us you want to

00:49:30.900 learn you want our contacts you want to understand you want to connect to distributors you want to

00:49:35.700 get budgets you want to get things we're always available that's part of the utility that we're

00:49:39.540 providing if you're a tri-key holder which means you have three and you burn them into the one

00:49:43.860 then you're open for the maximum benefits of like winning trips to chance to be a producer on set so

00:49:48.980 if we're filming with one of the various talents be that michael bisbing dolf longren you'll get a

00:49:53.460 chance to be a producer for a day or you get to be you know uh come in for a recording session so

00:49:58.660 because we kept experiencing that people wanted when we tell them where we're going what we're

00:50:02.500 filming people like man that sounds so cool i'd love to experience that so we thought this is a

00:50:06.660 great way that we could allow people to do that while still giving them value in a creative token

00:50:11.860 with the creative hustle key okay so and uh so your production company you're a pretty prolific

00:50:17.460 one and a canadian-based one at that right well thank you yeah we're right out of edmonton alberta

00:50:21.940 and uh i i i guess we keep hearing we're prolific we just love what we do and we we do get to tell

00:50:27.860 some incredible stories and travel the world and do some really cool things so uh and i mean we've

00:50:32.980 most recently heard which is pretty cool our distributor uh on our last film bisbing which

00:50:37.220 uh released with universal pictures uh we actually just set records with them as one of their best

00:50:43.780 released documentaries so pretty proud of our team to accomplish that out of edmonton alberta and

00:50:48.660 and apparently we did it back to back as they said this only beats our last documentary which

00:50:53.780 was also produced by our team called inmate number one the rise of danny dreyer so uh yeah we're

00:50:59.380 we're still geeking out about that and kind of getting the word out about that we we just got

00:51:02.980 that message last week from universal well everything with danny trejo is always cool

00:51:07.380 there's no avoiding that you can never be bored seeing anything his so this has been a limited

00:51:13.300 thing so it's kind of gives a i guess you could say a transferable vip sort of access to to your

00:51:19.620 company and productions in a you know i guess in a nutshell yeah that's exactly right it's so

00:51:24.340 essentially the reason we wanted to get into nfts is because we've always liked to innovate with

00:51:28.340 square g productions i mean even before i joined on with adam he was you know he had facebook

00:51:32.660 groups to some of his films over a million people back in 2007 uh back when legitimate businesses

00:51:38.500 would laugh at people and say uh oh that's cute you've got a facebook group uh what's that good

00:51:43.140 for um and then even then in kicks um in 2013 he raised 240 000 on kickstarter before crowdfunding

00:51:50.020 was even a recognized term uh for one of his films so we like the idea of innovating um what nfts

00:51:56.100 offer artists and creators which is so novel is uh full control and they can they can distribute it

00:52:02.180 how they want they can take a hundred percent of royalties unlike platforms like spotify or itunes

00:52:07.060 which take a huge chunk of people's revenue even youtube for example will you know sell ad space

00:52:12.180 and take the bulk of the revenue um and artists can also program and create a royalties so you

00:52:17.460 can bake in a two and a half five and a half or five percent uh royalty so anytime that nft gets

00:52:22.580 sold down the line you get a portion of that that's kind of like the old picasso problem it's

00:52:27.300 you know he don't died broke because he would sell his paintings for whatever 100 bucks worth at the

00:52:32.500 time um but now fast forward hundreds of years later and they're selling for tens of millions

00:52:36.820 well if he had painted that and minted it into an nft you know his estate would be getting that

00:52:42.020 residual revenue in perpetuity so it's exciting that it empowers uh creatives but what it also

00:52:47.700 allows us to do is bring bring the audience and our community closer to our work because

00:52:52.660 we organize everyone through a program called discord that allows us to do live calls with

00:52:58.020 our team uh with the talent that we work with we're going to implement community voting for

00:53:02.660 creative hustler key holders so as we get down the line we might say hey we've got a couple

00:53:06.900 projects on you know in the hopper what would the community like us to see tackle first or

00:53:11.380 even get input on certain rough cuts or certain creative decisions um so as adam alluded to

00:53:16.820 earlier it's really a way to bring people into the creative process of what we do and it just allows

00:53:21.540 us to manage and utilize the the community and implement the utility even providing like token

00:53:27.380 gated access to certain things so token gated means if you own the nft it's in your wallet

00:53:32.420 you connect your wallet it verifies it and then that gets you past the the gate to whatever

00:53:36.740 content that is whether it's our documentary catalog of films or it could be uh you know

00:53:41.700 know certain channels that only members get to access yeah well and with this modern technology

00:53:46.840 i mean we've got this ability now for more independent producers than we've ever seen

00:53:50.840 before ways to distribute good product as you said i mean they laughed off a facebook page and

00:53:55.880 now with a million followers hey that's a an asset in itself i mean to reach out if you've got a

00:54:00.620 production i mean just distribution is the other half of it uh so i mean this unique means to have

00:54:06.440 i mean hollywood and and documentary productions anything of that level to a consumer used to be

00:54:11.680 just out of reach. You never imagined you would ever see any inside glimpses, you know, 20 years

00:54:15.040 ago, 30 years ago, or potentially even have input. So this is sort of making an interactive

00:54:19.360 experience, I guess you could say. Exactly. And we're seeing it. It's interesting because Shane

00:54:24.340 kept bringing it up to me and I was almost the old dog, right? And I was like, oh man, it's so

00:54:28.240 hard. Like yourself, Corey, I was like, I don't really understand it. And it's confusing. And a

00:54:31.880 lot of times when things are confusing and we're kind of set in our ways, we don't take the time

00:54:35.200 to fully understand it. But, you know, on top of what Shane was educating me on, what really sealed

00:54:39.760 the deal for me is when i saw all the major distributors starting to put this on their

00:54:43.560 contract agreements for rights right they started putting nft rights and started putting these things

00:54:48.000 because they're preparing for the shift right just like when netflix got streaming rights from

00:54:52.140 everybody because all the distributors said oh nobody's going to be streaming content it's either

00:54:56.540 theater tv or physical right and boy do they look stupid now right like they gave away all that

00:55:01.360 content that's how netflix gained its marketplace so having something like this where we can have

00:55:05.780 access to the community and allow them to fund something but you can keep track of it like even

00:55:10.020 now you get distributor reports right and i can't say which one but one of our distributors had

00:55:14.820 miscellaneous charges of 70 000 and like we can't even argue it because we want to work with them

00:55:20.820 again right but they just what is 70 000 of miscellaneous charges where if this was on the

00:55:25.940 blockchain we could see exactly what those are where they were sold what countries they were

00:55:30.260 sold to how much revenue is coming in right now the whole film industry is reliant on distributor

00:55:35.380 reports to be honest and accurate. And they send you a two-page report saying, this is what the

00:55:38.780 world sold. And you have to just say, okay, that sounds right to me. I don't know if it's right or

00:55:42.960 not. Well, and nobody in the entertainment business has ever been unprincipled before.

00:55:47.580 Yeah. They're all totally above board and pay you to the letter all the time.

00:55:53.160 Yeah. Well, and it's just very interesting. So it's still, it's an investment though. I guess

00:55:56.220 you're looking at that, you're buying an asset and you're hoping, I mean, there's always a risk. So

00:56:00.160 it's going to be something that could rise in value or drop. Presumably if your production

00:56:03.420 business is really becoming even more of an item. Your token is going to be much more in demand and

00:56:08.720 you could theoretically sell it if you wanted to for more than you purchased it for. It's got that

00:56:12.940 sort of value, right? That's exactly right. I mean, unlike the conventional membership,

00:56:18.760 you can sell it. It is an asset on the blockchain, so we don't recommend it. But if you ever need the

00:56:23.000 liquidity, we don't judge. People's personal situations are always different. I think what

00:56:29.020 we're going to see is as we start rolling out these experiential giveaways these basically

00:56:33.640 experiences that money can't buy you know like adam mentioned days on set as a producer studio

00:56:38.820 sound mix sessions uh vip red carpet premieres like we've got we've got the the horsepower in

00:56:44.920 in talent that we work with guys like like michael bisbing dolf lundgren danny trejo connor mcdavid

00:56:51.320 grant fear you know we've got the horsepower there that that people are going to want to come

00:56:55.040 to these events and to hold a creative hustler key and have the chance to be selected i mean right

00:56:59.280 now we've got just over 10 of our our creative hustler keys minted so to over 100 so if you own

00:57:05.200 one right now we're planning to do the first giveaway in may you've got a one in just over

00:57:09.320 100 chance i mean as these things start to sell out closer to 999 your chances are going to go

00:57:14.000 down but at the same time as more people buy it the supply gets less demand gets higher the value

00:57:19.860 should theoretically go up unlike most projects in the nft space or a good portion of them

00:57:25.140 we're not concerned with with the price on the secondary market for people we're concerned with

00:57:28.980 long-term development uh delivering on community and utility that we promised so it really isn't

00:57:35.860 a hype project like some of the other ones it's it's more something that's near and dear to adam

00:57:40.100 and my heart that we're planning to to do as long as we keep making films which we i think plan to

00:57:45.380 to do for a long time right on as long as my body will let me i will continue to do it and and you

00:57:50.220 know just to add to a shame thought i've already put that beautifully but you know we we really

00:57:54.400 want like we've already been helping where you know another kind of thing we wanted to break in

00:57:58.340 the film industry when i was coming up is that a lot of producers never wanted to help you right

00:58:02.560 like anytime you try to figure out budgets or how the financing work there's this icky that's another

00:58:08.160 word for it of feeling of where if they helped you somehow that would take away from what they were

00:58:12.020 doing and ever since I started Scorgy Productions I've always wanted to shatter that if a young

00:58:16.800 filmmaker reached out to me and said Adam I wanted can you help me with this can you help me with

00:58:21.300 that or even when I get you know our team would get paid to speak at panels at Banff or various

00:58:25.540 festivals like people would always come be like I love how candid you were and you shared your

00:58:29.880 budgets and your financials and how this all works and we've seen it paid forward where we've had two

00:58:35.440 or three young filmmakers then get green lit on something and hire us right because they're like

00:58:39.360 adam you guys never asked for anything you know and you gave us all this information that like

00:58:43.520 we would have killed for in film school that they didn't provide for us so kind of like a union or

00:58:48.560 a lot of these film unions and stuff like that where you pay annual dues and you get insurance

00:58:52.780 discounts but and maybe some connection is we're like look you do a one-time fee and you get this

00:58:57.920 and you got us forever right you can connect and we'll provide you with all of our assets we'll

00:59:02.420 even connect you to some of our talent which is a huge no-no for producers you're never supposed

00:59:06.340 to connect somebody else with like the president of super channel or your connection at Netflix,

00:59:10.380 right? But that's what we're trying to shake with this community. And that's where on top of

00:59:14.420 the, you know, just the value of the creative usher key is the utility and community. I think

00:59:19.000 we're building is there's nobody that we found yet doing anything like it. Great. So I guess just

00:59:24.860 to point out, you've, you've set this up and set up in the blockchain. There's only going to be

00:59:29.340 just under a thousand released. What does keep you from releasing a comparable product later on?

00:59:36.340 Oh, basically, our word. I mean, we've delivered high quality, innovative, award winning work for the last 15 years, and we're putting our name behind this. So, you know, if we go in and screw this up, our butts are on the line. I mean, there's plenty of NFT projects out there that have anonymous founders, you know, who sell out 10,000 piece collections, and then just, boof, they're in the wind. It's called a rug pull in the industry. But we thought it was very important to put our names and faces right front and center of this project.

01:00:07.220 so we can guarantee there's never going to be another creative hustler key made

01:00:11.220 we will do collections with our documentary stars down the line but people who hold the creative

01:00:16.260 hustler key early on will always be priority prioritized in those future drops especially

01:00:21.540 people who hold a tri-key and that's all i can say for now but yeah no fair enough and i just want

01:00:27.860 yeah you bank on us and we're going to make sure that you're rewarded right just like we did when

01:00:31.780 when we did when uh we raised 242 000 on kickstarter people didn't really understand

01:00:36.100 crowdfunding they didn't really understand what they were going to get in their rewards and if

01:00:39.300 their rewards are going to be fulfilled and there's a lot of people on crowdfunding sites

01:00:42.740 that didn't get their rewards filled either right and i remember daunting i had to hire a whole crew

01:00:47.140 we went way over in shipping costs because we had 3 000 rewards from all over the world and

01:00:51.460 you know shipping a dvd in alberta is not that expensive shipping into sweden or something where

01:00:55.780 they wanted it right and making a pal format all of a sudden it cost us like four times the price

01:01:00.500 but we made sure everybody was happy in those things i remember i had to bring on i thought i

01:01:04.900 would be able to handle it all by myself i had to bring on a team of like 10 people to help me

01:01:08.180 because it was such a daunting process but we made sure everybody was there we responded to

01:01:12.500 every message and yeah at times people are frustrated i haven't got it yet and that's

01:01:16.660 we're going to continue to do here that's why we're doing interviews with you and we're always

01:01:19.620 available on the discord you can reach out to us through social media like yeah we can't always

01:01:23.860 guarantee we're going to respond in five minutes but you will get a response from us right just

01:01:27.460 Just like, that's how we built our social media followings is people like, I can't believe

01:01:30.640 I'm actually hearing from the producers and stuff.

01:01:33.120 You're actually responding.

01:01:34.260 And it was like, yeah, that's, that's building a community, not having bots and stuff run

01:01:38.280 it for you.

01:01:39.240 Oh, that's great.

01:01:40.060 And I mean, I, I, again, as I said, I'm a good libertarian capitalist.

01:01:43.240 I just thrive on personal responsibility.

01:01:45.240 I mean, if you guys get a bad reputation, you're going to go down with it.

01:01:48.600 And I just wanted to ask you again, I mean, if you tried to issue another one that was

01:01:51.800 very similar, it'd be hard selling point anyway, say, well, we screwed all those last guys,

01:01:54.960 but we won't do it this time.

01:01:56.520 Exactly.

01:01:57.460 exactly but i mean these are questions people who are new to this and considering getting into that

01:02:01.940 would would want to ask and understand why they should feel assured with their their investment

01:02:06.260 so no i love i'm glad that you asked that corey that was a big thing when shane brought this to

01:02:10.260 me and obviously putting you know we've had 15 years of success and never let our clients down

01:02:14.820 either our clients or or our audience down before so that was a big thing about not being anonymous

01:02:20.420 and putting our our company and thing right in the fold to be like no we're here we're going to make

01:02:24.340 sure you're happy and we'll make sure that if you know we'll provide the utility and community and

01:02:28.420 value that you want from it right otherwise at the worst case then you can put it on the blockchain

01:02:33.380 and sell it if you're not completely satisfied but i don't think with what we have coming up that

01:02:37.540 that's going to be what you want to do but you know there is a risk in any investment i would

01:02:42.420 we'd be lying if we said it's going to be perfect and nothing it's smooth sailing everybody's going

01:02:46.100 to make 100 times their money it doesn't i don't think there's any investment other than maybe

01:02:50.100 canadian real estate long term that can say that yeah no and i appreciate you guys breaking down

01:02:54.900 explaining i mean i honestly do understand a little more about it and i mean they come in so

01:02:58.020 many other forms as i said whether it's from flatulence and jars or art pieces that remain

01:03:03.140 unique but this is something that's kind of actually an ongoing service that has a uh you

01:03:08.420 know a return on it it's got a use it's not something you put on the shelf and stare at as

01:03:12.500 well so uh i i it makes more sense to me now now that you guys have kind of laid it out and they

01:03:18.100 they can come in all sorts of ways so uh before i let you go then uh where can people find more

01:03:22.900 information about you guys with the production company and the the nft key and the the rest of

01:03:26.980 it so for production company the best spot to go to is scorgie productions.co that's s-c-o-r-e-g

01:03:35.340 productions.co and then for the creative hustler nft it is just simply creative hustler key.com

01:03:41.400 you can find links to mint there you can find link to our discord and again like we are fully

01:03:46.840 accessible if someone we recognize that crypto web 3 nft space it really requires kind of a one-on-one

01:03:52.440 onboarding um platform and so we're happy to make ourselves available if anyone just wants to know

01:03:58.200 more even if they're not planning to buy one we're always happy because we really believe in the

01:04:02.280 underlying technology behind it uh we believe in the autonomy that blockchains and cryptocurrency

01:04:08.360 provide people uh so we're happy to help and shed light on it we even set up shane was uh smart and

01:04:15.080 forward thinking enough that we also created a fiat system, a credit card system that will set

01:04:18.800 up the wallet and stuff for you. For those that, Corey, like yourself and me, I'm more of an old

01:04:22.640 dog. I didn't understand crypto and stuff either. I'm like, Shane, you got to walk me through this

01:04:25.680 thing, man. I got to learn. So we thought about that ahead of time and set that up for people.

01:04:30.160 And actually a lot of our current buyers were people like that. They're like, listen,

01:04:33.140 I don't fully understand this, but I like the utility and community you're providing. I'm in,

01:04:37.220 I see value in this. And we had to walk them through and walk them through the credit card

01:04:41.300 set up and everything. So you wouldn't be alone in that, including me when I had to buy my own

01:04:46.460 and get in there. Shane is like, hey, Adam, I'll come in the office. I'm going to show you how to

01:04:50.340 do it. I'm like, thanks. Yeah, no, and I appreciate that. I set up my own ledger a little while ago

01:04:57.100 and it took a lot of back and forth to get that rolling and fully understand how that works and

01:05:02.100 everything for Bitcoin. But now that it's done, it's plug and play. It's nice and simple. It's

01:05:06.340 It's great that way.

01:05:07.660 So anything else you'd like to add before I let you guys go?

01:05:11.700 No, I think just thank you very much for having us on and taking the time to understand.

01:05:15.280 I think I think it's the biggest thing we're kind of seeing the hurdles right now is and

01:05:18.580 it reminds me so much when social media first started, when crowdfunding first started and

01:05:22.160 streaming is that because it's new, because it's difficult to understand and you're new

01:05:25.920 to it, like people are like, it's garbage or it's a scam or I'm not into it because

01:05:30.660 they, you know, they haven't taken the time to fully understand it.

01:05:32.980 uh and i was like that too until shane brought it up with me and really educated me on the value we

01:05:37.740 could provide so i think just like anything else take the time to actually learn it and hey if it's

01:05:42.100 not for you it's not for you we totally understand that but uh you know then just enjoy our films if

01:05:46.640 you everybody likes entertainment so if the nft is not for you no problem just enjoy our films in

01:05:50.720 the process and be part of the community that we're building right on well thanks for coming

01:05:55.220 on to join us today and i really hope it goes well for you guys thank you thank you so much

01:05:59.280 appreciate it thanks

01:06:02.980 Yes, that was Adam Scorgy and Shane Fennessy on, yeah, this unique way of raising funds,

01:06:11.740 raising interest. I just love seeing some of this stuff unfold and how much things have changed.

01:06:16.960 As I said, people, as Adam was saying, they dismissed the amount of people who were

01:06:21.780 following on Facebook. I tell you what, you've got any kind of company, particularly where you're

01:06:26.440 sharing an asset like entertainment. If you've got the ears of a million Facebook followers,

01:06:30.740 you've got a strong asset there. Some people dismiss that at their peril. And what's great

01:06:37.600 too is, again, I always love going back to that here, is they're local, they're an Alberta company,

01:06:43.280 the productions. And if you check out that website, I mean, there's an impressive,

01:06:47.720 at Score G Productions, impressive list of documentaries and productions and cool people.

01:06:52.200 They've dealt with a lot of awards, festivals they've been at. These guys have got, you know,

01:06:57.560 this isn't a startup or a fly-by-night company.

01:07:00.980 This is a well-established production company.

01:07:03.100 And again, until we interviewed him,

01:07:05.080 I didn't fully understand what he's talking about.

01:07:06.520 If you're looking for an experience

01:07:08.300 and it looks like it's something,

01:07:10.060 if you're another producer,

01:07:11.700 you're looking to get into the field

01:07:13.040 or you're looking for some different types of direct access,

01:07:15.840 this is a way to do it and get that in,

01:07:20.220 which is really important.

01:07:21.720 It's a difficult industry and a very competitive one.

01:07:24.280 And I just love seeing stuff on the ground level.

01:07:26.380 And that's what this is.

01:07:27.060 this is ground level. I mean, hey, who knows? I mean, they're taking the gamble. Other people

01:07:31.140 buying them take the gamble. Things like that. When you get in on new technology, it could blow

01:07:34.700 up in your face or you could be the one who bought Bitcoin 10 years ago or whatever when it first

01:07:40.200 came out. How's that going for some of them? I mean, I think now my wallet has this little sliver

01:07:44.900 of a Bitcoin in it. I couldn't afford a whole Bitcoin right now unless I really started to

01:07:49.300 score some money away. So, you know, again, check these guys out. It's a pretty cool new offering.

01:07:53.620 in it. And again, they're being transparent. That's something I appreciate. As they said,

01:07:56.960 they got their names behind it. They're coming on, they're coming on shows like this and they're

01:08:00.440 talking to people and they're local. And that is the sort of thing that, you know, makes one feel

01:08:04.980 more safe with their investment too. So check it out and see if it's for you. Speaking of which,

01:08:08.800 I'm going to segue into one of our sponsors again, and that's Bitcoin. Well, this is, you know,

01:08:13.560 a good segue anyhow. These are another Alberta company and they are there to educate you, help

01:08:19.580 you get you involved in digital currencies. As we said with conversations with that gentleman too,

01:08:24.660 there's a lot to learn with these things. It's new. It's a little different. It's odd.

01:08:27.860 Bitcoin Well is there to help teach you about it. I mean, whether it's the personal one-on-one

01:08:31.440 service, or again, if you want just to learn about it, they've got a free online curriculum

01:08:35.380 they call Bitcoin Academy, and they will teach you how Bitcoin works, how you can set up that

01:08:41.200 wallet, that ledger, like I was talking about. How is your money safe? Answer a lot of those

01:08:45.500 questions. People always have a lot of questions when it comes to it. And they will lead you so

01:08:49.600 that you can safely get into it and keep your money safe and take control of your money. That's

01:08:53.480 the important part. I mean, we've got a federal government that has literally seized people's

01:08:57.880 bank accounts. And contrary to what some people believe, there's a rumor almost that, hey, they

01:09:02.340 got into some digital wallets and Bitcoin that they didn't. They can't get at those guys. They

01:09:06.500 can't. And it's secure. It's on your key. And I'm sorry, Lori, that not all my subjects follow on

01:09:15.100 your interests every time, but we do do a variety on the show and we do cover a number of things.

01:09:20.180 So I will get onto some news too soon, but for the moment I do have to talk about sponsors and

01:09:24.200 that's things like Bitcoin and digital currencies. And it is news that the banks, you know,

01:09:28.680 capitulated and stole Canadians money and seized their accounts. And this is one of the ways you

01:09:34.640 can avoid getting caught in that trap. So let's get onto some news, talk about some healthcare

01:09:40.660 things, you know, as we wrap things up. This is some numbers that came in and I believe there's

01:09:44.640 standard story on it. The incentives offered across Canada for healthcare workers to relocate.

01:09:50.140 This is nothing new. And we're getting interprovincial competition to try and get

01:09:54.320 doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals into different provinces because the healthcare

01:09:58.940 facilities are getting overwhelmed pretty much everywhere they go. And so now they're offering

01:10:04.140 bonuses up to $125,000. What is it? $25,000 on signing on and $20,000 a year on top of that for

01:10:12.500 five years if you meet certain targets for seeing patients which is probably pretty easy if you move

01:10:16.420 and relocate to an underserved area so in alberta they've got this hearts for health care it's a

01:10:22.060 physician incentive program and they're trying to bring professionals to places like cold lake and

01:10:25.700 such well that's great and i understand that you know we've we've got uh shortcomings in these

01:10:32.900 places um and and rural areas that need health care but this is the government again doing what

01:10:38.400 they usually do. They're throwing money at it. They're throwing money and they won't face the

01:10:43.180 elephant in the room. I've talked about it a number of times. I'll keep talking about it. It's the

01:10:47.000 system. The system is broken. So having provinces upping the ante and having bidding wars for health

01:10:53.920 professionals and moving them across and around the country, or even bringing in new health

01:10:57.860 professionals from other countries, it doesn't change the fact that the system's failing. You

01:11:04.460 can't keep up with it. You're running on a treadmill that you can't keep up with. And

01:11:08.960 you look at, I remember a story a few years ago. It's tough to get it in those small towns. And I

01:11:14.860 mentioned Grand Cache earlier in a story that was semi-comical. And I'm not sure why we've really

01:11:19.460 tapped into a lot of South African doctors. There's a number of practitioners who came to

01:11:24.040 Canada from South Africa and they located here to practice. Well, I could see why they wanted to get

01:11:28.460 out of South Africa. They don't want their welcome there. That's a bigger issue and a whole different

01:11:33.000 show. But there was one that showed up with his family. I guess he was supposed to go to Grand

01:11:37.780 Cache, Alberta. It was wintertime. He got as far as Winnipeg and they had a layover over there.

01:11:42.360 And it was during a cold snap and a blizzard. And he stepped outside and felt that temperature

01:11:45.820 for 10 minutes. And he said, screw this. I want no part of it. And they got back on the plane and

01:11:50.160 went home. He never even got as far as Grand Cache. And I think that town actually went a while

01:11:53.860 without even having a single doctor. They couldn't find someone who wanted to live and practice

01:11:57.920 there, which is too bad because they got beautiful mountains out there. They're kind of like a little

01:12:00.940 Banff without all the tourists. But either way, it shows that this has been going on. I mean,

01:12:07.080 that story I think is from about 15 years ago. This issue is going to continue as we've got this

01:12:13.500 rigid, socialized system of health care. We've got to change how we're providing it. We've got

01:12:19.840 to change the means of it. I mean, we still, everybody wants a universal coverage. Fair enough.

01:12:24.640 Absolutely. I mean, almost all of the developed world has universal coverage systems. The Americans

01:12:30.120 are the ones that don't. 1.00

01:12:30.840 You know, I don't care.

01:12:31.920 And don't do the American system.

01:12:33.660 Let's look at the Swedish system.

01:12:34.840 Let's look at the French system.

01:12:36.540 Let's look at the English system.

01:12:37.500 Let's look at the Australian system.

01:12:38.720 And they all allow a heck of a lot more flexibility

01:12:42.600 within their systems,

01:12:43.800 particularly with private provision,

01:12:45.880 while still making sure everybody is fully covered.

01:12:49.280 They're not talking about credit card healthcare.

01:12:51.680 So maybe some creative private interests

01:12:53.880 could find ways to draw people to, you know,

01:12:58.060 Cold Lake or Grand Cash or any number of these smaller centers or even larger centers that are

01:13:02.480 running short of healthcare workers. As we said, when you leave it in the hands of government,

01:13:05.580 how many times did I talk about on this show, this is a government that can't even get their

01:13:08.940 payroll right. Why would you ever think that a government-run healthcare system is going to be

01:13:14.580 efficient? Why do you think they would manage to bring enough professionals in or train enough

01:13:19.300 professionals and have a good enough system to have them get trained up and stay here? Part of

01:13:24.600 the problem with our rigid system as well and not allowing enough opportunities for people who are

01:13:28.380 qualified in health care is they get bid out by other countries. There's a lot of Canadian 0.96

01:13:34.500 graduates end up moving to the States or Australia or Europe because they say, well, you know what,

01:13:38.900 I can make a lot more money over there and I don't have to deal with winter. So we've got these going

01:13:44.760 on and the problems are ongoing and it just seems that the creative solutions are completely lacking

01:13:50.140 and everybody is abjectly terrified

01:13:52.940 of even having a discussion on it.

01:13:54.960 You know, Premier Kenney, he's in all sorts of trouble,

01:13:57.920 a world of trouble,

01:13:59.120 and we're going to see how this review goes and everything.

01:14:00.840 And one of the other areas too,

01:14:01.940 he really hasn't shaken anything up

01:14:03.560 and changed it heavily.

01:14:04.380 If you listen to the lunatics

01:14:05.620 with a not least party screaming,

01:14:07.100 you would think he's already

01:14:08.100 completely privatized the system.

01:14:09.920 He's barely even scratched the system

01:14:12.200 and he won't even talk about it.

01:14:13.720 And I can't imagine the storm he would get if he does,

01:14:16.260 but it's somebody who's got to.

01:14:18.040 And, you know, as Premier Kennedy liked to think he was going to model himself and be the next Ralph Klein, it didn't turn out that way.

01:14:24.320 But if you looked at interviews with Ralph Klein, Klein didn't make a lot of regrets about how his time was as premier or things like that.

01:14:31.760 He spoke, you know, he was as much of a candid premier as you would ever find.

01:14:35.700 And one of the areas he always said, though, that he kind of regretted after the fact was that he didn't go far enough pursuing what they used to call back then the third way health care.

01:14:43.280 And that was a third way of allowing more private public partnerships and provision and things like that while maintaining the universal system because he just, the battles were so hard with the unions and the entrenched AHS bureaucrats and people like, you know, Dr. Yu, who that was one thing, I guess the Kennedy government, you know, give them credit.

01:15:01.140 They fired her as these parasitic bureaucrats, these $700,000 a year bureaucrats who are beholden 1.00

01:15:07.460 to the system and inefficiencies. They've got to be flushed out of there and they're not going to 1.00

01:15:12.860 go out easily. If you've ever been out in the bush and dealt with wood ticks, as I used to as a

01:15:17.820 surveyor, a wood tick never grabs harder than when you're trying to pull them out. So it takes a lot

01:15:23.120 of political courage to take on those vested interests and actually change the system. And I

01:15:28.080 don't see anybody in office right now who has that courage. So right now we're doing the other

01:15:32.180 stupidity, as I said, is bidding wars to try and get these professionals moving along, but you're

01:15:36.940 running along plugging holes in a ship that's full of holes instead of rebuilding the ship,

01:15:41.180 which is what you need to do. I don't know what it'll take. I think we're just going to have to

01:15:45.980 crash and burn and get worse, but I'm not going to celebrate these programs that are coming from

01:15:51.520 Alberta where they celebrate and say, look at this thing. We managed to bring a bunch more

01:15:54.480 professionals over with incentives. Well, that's fine until the next province comes up with better

01:15:58.640 incentives and steals back a whole bunch of them. Why don't we look at the whole system?

01:16:02.560 I'll keep nagging about that whole systematic change, but I'm not going to hold my breath on it.

01:16:07.800 And let's see, maybe don't chase them away by forcing them on unpaid leave of vaccines. Yeah,

01:16:12.560 that's another thing. Absolutely. The idiotic vaccine mandates, I think that's still going on

01:16:16.660 in BC and some other areas. I mean, some they chased off and basically fired. And then they

01:16:21.740 said they took their policy back and said, oh, come on back. All is forgiven. Well, not everybody

01:16:26.480 came back. They said to hell with you. You fired me for not wanting to choose to get vaccinated.

01:16:31.200 What a brilliant time to kick out so many. And then we're talking health professionals of all

01:16:35.180 sorts, doctors, nurses, but laboratory staff, even cleaning staff, you name it. If they worked in

01:16:40.100 healthcare and they were very important, we drove them all out. So that didn't help. No, that's a

01:16:44.560 very good point from Wendy on that. Cheryl Dawn asking if the UCP gets a new leader, can low

01:16:51.400 and Barnes be allowed back into the party. You know, I guess that's up to, I think Mr.

01:16:56.880 Lohan, Todd's always been very popular. Drew, he's really, a lot of bombs we'd see. I think

01:17:02.720 typically it would be a caucus decision. You know, that's theoretically how it should happen

01:17:06.720 in a party system. If you're going to kick somebody out, you do it with caucus. And likewise,

01:17:10.620 I think if you were going to bring them back in, and I'm just speculating here, it would be a

01:17:15.240 caucus vote, but maybe for the sake of unity and trying to build a big party, I think under a new

01:17:19.600 leader, they probably would try and bring them all back in. Pamela saying disband the government

01:17:24.640 and start again. Well, disbanding would be difficult, though I understand what you're

01:17:31.200 saying. That's where I go towards independence. I look at a way that we could have a province vote

01:17:36.400 for independence and get to that brink or actually out. And that's when you get the sort of a similar

01:17:41.220 of disbanding the government. But now we've got to redraft a whole new agreement, whether it's with

01:17:45.200 a province inside confederation or outside of it and just make your own provincial constitution

01:17:50.560 and we'll deal with foreign affairs with canada and the rest of it how we will after the fact

01:17:54.540 because otherwise uh the government system will be difficult uh denise saying change the the

01:17:59.940 health care system from the top down find the corruption we need accountability and hire the

01:18:04.000 unvaccinated back yeah hire back we're shorthanded guys vaccination doesn't stop the spread we've 0.65

01:18:08.700 proven that now it's just an annoying point of principle that some vaccination fascinated people

01:18:13.400 are stuck on. I mean, again, I've been supportive of vaccination. I still think it's a good idea.

01:18:18.320 I know everybody gets wound up when they say it, but I don't believe in forcing it. I don't believe

01:18:21.720 in firing people for not being vaccinated. I don't believe in banning people from getting

01:18:24.940 on planes or in restaurants for not being vaccinated. Let people choose and then lay off

01:18:29.900 them. Leave them alone. It's not saving the public or making them any safer by trying to force and

01:18:35.960 coerce and nag and harass people into vaccinations that they don't want to get. And then we all end 1.00

01:18:41.100 up paying the fact. Look, if I go into the hospital with a dire injury, I slipped on the sidewalk and

01:18:47.060 broke a bone and I'm bleeding out of the head, I am not going to care if those health professionals

01:18:52.460 are vaccinated or not. I just want them to be competent and sewing me back up and setting my

01:18:57.160 bones and doing a good job as the vaccinated and unvaccinated ones I'm sure are capable of doing. 1.00

01:19:02.160 So let's keep as many of them on the ground working as we can. Not to mention our ambulances 1.00

01:19:06.940 again are short service. That's another area that's just gone to crap and we're suffering for

01:19:13.460 it. But again, nobody's creative enough to come up with solutions more than just throwing more

01:19:17.380 money at it. It doesn't work, guys. It's a bottomless pit. And not to mention our money's

01:19:21.600 getting to be worth less and less and less than we have. Lori is saying, you know, yes, hire our

01:19:27.540 own. Stop bringing them here. Yeah. You know, if we've got some unemployed health professionals 0.99

01:19:31.120 here, we've got more that are graduating by all means. But also we've got such a growth thing

01:19:35.940 going on in our healthcare, we need to bring in professionals from around the world, uh, you know,

01:19:39.840 around the province and everywhere. And we get some fantastic professionals from around the world.

01:19:43.600 We got to keep making us a better destination for people to set up and take their careers.

01:19:48.740 But thanks enough for today. I think I'm going to talk about the, I, again, uh, for tomorrow to

01:19:53.700 remind you, and again, follow us on all those social media majors. You know, that's important.

01:19:57.440 We got specials popping up and things going on all over. Danielle Smith's been doing her show.

01:20:01.060 She did your second episode came out this morning, a half hour show. She's going to have another one

01:20:05.120 Friday morning for half an hour. And then Saturday, she's going to do her long four,

01:20:08.740 four shows a week. It's going to be three half hour shows, nine o'clock, Monday, Wednesday, 0.97

01:20:12.700 Friday in the morning, and then Saturday for an hour and a half with a guest. And she'll do like

01:20:17.180 a deep dive. So, uh, you know, you see on some of those podcasts where they talk for an extended

01:20:21.340 period and really drill down into subjects. It's great stuff. And Danielle's, you know, fantastic

01:20:24.900 on that format. So be sure to turn into those subscribe to everything, you know, Facebook

01:20:29.520 rumble in particular, cause you never know when we're going to get canceled. Uh, YouTube,

01:20:33.980 all of those social media majors.

01:20:36.260 It's important.

01:20:36.800 This is how you can keep up with these things

01:20:38.000 and these shows as we do them.

01:20:40.000 And tomorrow, I'm going to have another Conservative Party

01:20:43.660 of Canada declared leadership candidate.

01:20:45.900 Anyways, Elizabeth Clare Lewis.

01:20:47.760 I'm not terribly familiar with Ms. Lewis,

01:20:49.980 but it's another one.

01:20:51.060 There's a lot putting their names for it.

01:20:52.300 As we said, though, with Bourjois,

01:20:55.380 I mean, there's people showing up

01:20:56.440 that are putting their names in that are quite interesting

01:20:58.120 and it's a diverse number.

01:21:00.060 And everybody who's pursuing that,

01:21:01.800 I'm offering them an interview on here.

01:21:03.480 I've had a number of them all the way from Polly Eve to Joseph to, and I'll have Elizabeth.

01:21:08.260 So she's going to be on and we'll talk about, see why she's looking to enter the race and 0.91

01:21:11.060 what she wants to bring to it.

01:21:12.540 And then there's going to be the panel discussion I had with Andrew Lawton from True North and

01:21:17.500 Sheila Gunn-Reed of Rebel News and myself.

01:21:20.120 We really covered it.

01:21:21.320 You know, I couldn't get that one live.

01:21:22.460 It's too hard with us scheduling, but we're going to run it at that time.

01:21:24.920 And I'll talk on the chat while we go and things like that.

01:21:26.900 It was a really good conversation about government attempts to control media, how they don't

01:21:31.660 consider Rebel to be an official media source and the ridiculousness of it being the government's

01:21:35.780 job to even consider those things anyways in the first place. So that's going to be a really good

01:21:39.620 show. And of course, there'll be lots of ranting and other news subjects coming up at the time as

01:21:44.840 well. So thank you all for tuning in today, guys. Marilyn, yes, that's tomorrow. I'm going to run

01:21:49.320 that after I talk to the leadership candidate. And I'll see you all then at 11.30 a.m. Again,

01:21:55.220 sharp guys. Thanks.

01:22:25.220 Thank you.

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