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Season 3, Episode #1-Echoes of Change from Studio to Sunny Horizons
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When the walls of our trusty studio began to echo with refurbishment rumbles, we pulled up our socks and hit 'record' amidst the chaos. Diving headfirst into the fray, Christine's tales of Air Canada woe, and a COVID curveball, join us over Bluetooth—proving that neither distance nor germs can keep good banter down. Our time warp teases out smiles and sighs as we weave through tech hang-ups and local political yarns, including the puzzling recall petition against Jyoti Gondek.
A hop, skip, and a jump away from our usual locale, the sunny horizons of Tempe Mesa and Phoenix beckon with the promise of expansion and the adrenaline of part-time residency dreams. With Christine on audio, we unpack the complexities of setting roots in new soil, all the while keeping an eye on the economic forecasts and sifting through the political satire that has become our bread and butter. And who could forget the Foo Fighters concert escapade? Alberta plates, a Yeti cooler, and a cross-border adventure that left us chuckling over college town surprises and the perplexing nightlife of Spokane.
we steer towards the digital realm, our reboot strategy is not just a plan, it's a full-blown odyssey, complete with glow-in-the-dark leotards proposals—because why not? We tackle the thorny issue of transgender athletes in sports with the attention it deserves, before rounding off with a look at Fortnite's foray into turning pixelated loot into physical swag. Fasten your seatbelts and sink your teeth into this rollercoaster of an episode, where humor and heart collide with the nitty-gritty of today's tech and societal fabric.
Recall Petition Against Jyoti Gondek
Speaker 25 , 4 , 3 , 2 , 1, . Welcome to the village .
Speaker 3Confidential , confidential Hello everyone Christine , ernesto and Dr Brad King .
Speaker 4What .
Speaker 3So I'm not paying you anymore . But she's taking it .
Speaker 4I had a dollar for every time and I kind of look up to my phone and I am in Narnia . Oh , feel like I know you .
Speaker 3Well , well , well , we're back again . We're back when are we ?
Speaker 2Oh , my goodness .
Speaker 3Oh there's .
Speaker 4Christine , Hello Christine .
Speaker 3Hey .
Speaker 2Christine , how can you not in ?
Speaker 3the studio .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , there's an unfortunate incident . It involves somebody being sick beside me on a plane .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 1Was it West Shed or Air .
Speaker 2Canada . It was Air Canada . Of course , Air Canada sucks .
Speaker 3There you go . So it wasn't January beside you then .
Speaker 2No , you're bad . That would have been a really good story though .
Speaker 4The OGs will get the reference .
Speaker 2Sensitive . Yeah , I know I can't believe that . I can't believe I got COVID for this episode , like how unfortunate is that ? It's unbelievable actually .
Speaker 4I feel like it's kind of ironic because this whole thing started with COVID . Yeah , maybe .
Speaker 1Maybe , I think , from COVID .
Speaker 2Well , the chances of getting COVID back then were so much smaller than they are now , even right .
Speaker 4Yeah , that's true .
Speaker 3Is that a fact ? But I don't have it , you know , and we still don't have a fact checker for Christine Statz .
Speaker 2Yeah , but I do think that's actually really quite true , because there was COVID wasn't as quite as rapid as it is now .
Speaker 3Okay , well , as anyone want to explain why we're here .
Speaker 1Oh , I feel like that's your responsibility .
Speaker 3Well , I was sitting on my deck listening to our last podcast for about the 19th time , and it was nostalgic . So I thought why not go back in time on LeapFrog Day and record something I love it and everyone was going to be in studio until Christine got a dirty flight .
Speaker 2I know it was so much more like what's going on over there . You guys , I need to know where's the setup like , because it's not in the same place , right Like . So where are you ? What does it look like ?
Speaker 3Well , it's actually the same , because you know what I'm going through renails again .
Speaker 2Oh no .
Speaker 4So let me paint it for you . The walls are blank . There is a mattress in plastic in the doorway . The casting couch is here , I'm expecting migrants but , it's a little dusty . It's a little dusty , but I tell you it feels like home .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , it has that same old smell . What was that candle used to burn forever ?
Speaker 4Yeah we're not right Well we'll just light the couch on fire . We'll be fine . We're not prepared for this .
Speaker 2Oh , there you go , there you go , maybe we should I feel like there's enough accelerants in the couch .
Speaker 3It should be good . Yeah , yeah , it should be good . So yeah , back in the original studio Christine is oh yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , at home , yeah , and you know , funny enough , I'm under renovation . To it's gross . There's like a layer of dust on everything in it . That's the nightmare over here right now . But hey , I'm here , it's all good .
Speaker 3Okay , well , that's good . Dr , Kane , how you doing I'm great .
Speaker 4So I'm having a flashback of significance right now . This is so great . I heard that music come on . Oh yeah , here we go . And when the voices come on during the interest song I can remember every episode we recorded .
Speaker 3Yeah , it was funny . I was trying to like this computer is not up to snuff . This that we had for a couple of years ago . And I've had some issues already , so I was trying to get things set up for some topics that I feel that we should touch on , and I was struggling . I was struggling with this stupid computer , so I've been at this for a few hours . I had to go buy dongles , so we can call Christine . Well , you know what ?
Speaker 4Like maybe Apple wants to sponsor us .
Speaker 3Well , they don't make the right dongles . So not only did I buy one dongle , I got two , because I have like a daisy chain of dongles .
Speaker 1I have a daisy chain of dongles , just so we can get .
Speaker 2Christine , and then you know what she's on Bluetooth right now , so it didn't even fucking matter .
Speaker 3So there goes 60 bucks for nothing . Love the Apple store .
Speaker 2Oh dear , oh dear . I had to have an iPhone 15 with the new plug .
Speaker 1Thank , you Apple for changing the plug again . It made my phone so much better though .
Speaker 2No it didn't . Oh my God , it did not . It didn't do anything to it .
Speaker 3Hey , funny thing , Geodicondacks in trouble Really .
Speaker 2Oh , shocking , this is a surprise . Let's get into it , Last episode she was just elected .
Speaker 4That's right . We saw a climate emergency .
Speaker 3I can't remember , I don't know . You know it's a petition emergency .
Speaker 1Totally .
Speaker 4So didn't that legislation that because we're talking about the recall legislation that came in from the PCs , right From the conservatives Did they put it in ?
Speaker 3Is that ? Was it provincially put in ? Sorry , I'm not on this stuff .
Speaker 4So basically so I think , if I heard the stats . So if one guy decided he needed to call her to the carpet , yeah , so he comes out with a petition , goes out to the city , gets all this media attention about this petition going against to recall Geodicondacks' victory in the municipal election and 274,000 or something like that Calgary and showed up to vote . But this petition requires 500,000 signatures .
Speaker 3So I emailed him . Oh , the guy . Yeah , he mailed the guy . How'd that go ? He asked me to go sit in the Costco parking lot in Northwest .
Speaker 4Is he selling you a story or something ? No , with a petition he wanted me to go sit in the Costco and get signatures yeah , he doesn't have my signature yet .
Speaker 3I'm not impressed with him .
Speaker 4Are we doing a bottle drive for him ?
Speaker 3He lost me on , he lost me on . Can you sit in the Costco parking lot for me ?
Speaker 4Oh my .
Speaker 2God .
Speaker 4What kind of snacks do you have ?
Speaker 1here .
Speaker 3I don't want to go to the Costco at the best of times , I'm not going to stay there and try and get signatures from irate people .
Speaker 4You know what you can do . You can walk through the cars that are lined up for 20 minutes to get gas from Costco and get signatures that way .
Speaker 3I'll tell you what though .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3A little Costco entertainment . For sure . So Lisa from she works for me we went for a walk through the plus 15s . They were collect . There was 10 different stops for collecting signatures . Seriously , they're doing good business downtown . Wow , I don't think they're going to get to the number . What's the total ?
Speaker 4Do you know what the number is ? I don't know .
Speaker 3The total is like it's almost . This is where whoever set this rule up screwed up , because it's got to be wet , ink Right .
Speaker 4It has to be actual signatures , right . Whoever set this up didn't want to be recalled , right .
Speaker 3Well , it was definitely not the Democrats who set it up .
Speaker 1They invented the mail in ballot .
Speaker 4I wonder what ? How many Scott ? Is there a website on this thing ?
Speaker 3I don't know , but there was so and , given this was at lunchtime , but it was , they were doing good business . They lost people's sign , like in one plus 15 , they had eight people collecting and they were still lined up .
Speaker 2Holy Wow . So , Was there like a big sign , like how did people know that was what they were doing ?
Speaker 3It was almost like you're buying weed before it was legal .
Speaker 2Hey , hey do you ?
Speaker 3have a minute . I'm like no , I don't want to save sick children . They're like , no , this is about getting rid of the mayor . I'm like oh you had me get rid of the mayor .
Speaker 1Clear my warning . Lisa , hold my calls .
Speaker 2And they weren't giving away free Starbucks for everybody . That side , I didn't have to .
Speaker 3People were like yeah , right . Got their income tax assessment or , sorry , their property assessment and they were like right , right yeah . So , no one has any . Everyone's like dancing around the topic of God , that getting getting called Like . I think this is hilarious . Oh , I think it's great .
Speaker 4Yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 4And you know , at minimum , if she kind of has to have a look in the mirror , be like maybe . I have not been what I , what I was elected to be , over the last couple of years .
Speaker 3I don't like . I actually don't know if that's I , I , I , my favorite , my favorite , my favorite , my favorite . Goti gondect move was when they were announcing the new event center and when one person was like I thought you didn't want to do this . She just left the podium , she just walked away from the podium . She didn't even want to answer the question , so yeah , that was a good moment yeah .
Speaker 4I'm only going to answer the questions I want to answer . It was wild . Like she's not , like she's doing a podcast , she's the mayor .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 3Someone in my office invited me that like . Rotary's having her out for lunch , like for a speech at lunch , and someone in my office is like hey , you want to come , jody , jody gone . I'm like I don't think you want me there . I have too many questions .
Speaker 4I'm not , I'll bring my petition no it's not even that Like .
Speaker 3again , I'm not signing the petition , but I have questions because , like , what are we going ?
Speaker 2to do ? She doesn't .
Speaker 3she doesn't do questions , so you know okay let me ask you this Do you think our tax is going to be higher or lower if we have another election that we don't need right this second ? Oh for sure , Higher .
Speaker 1Like why do we , why do we want to spend more ?
Speaker 3money to take her out . So we pay less taxes , so the next person has to raise more taxes . Like this is Grimace's fault Period . Spenshy whatever you want to fucking call , and then he has the stones that like . I'm going to run for spiritual Right . You need another pension .
Speaker 4Yeah , mom's basins getting expensive .
Speaker 2Yeah , did , you see did you see him on that new ? Did you see him on that new literacy commercial where he gets to show off like his favorite book and they , they pan on him , in on him like showing off his favorite book and pan out with all these other celebrities and they're like making a look like he's some big celebrity for Canada .
Speaker 4Wait , what's ? Celebrities Like Big Bird and Jen Arden .
Speaker 2No , I don't even know . I think I feel like Jen Arden might have . Jen Arden might have been in there . Really . Yeah , I got a client and I'm like what the hell ? I thought this men's guy was gone and they're using him as like a celebrity guy in this set . He comes again , I , think it was audible or something like that . Yep .
Speaker 4Yeah , second kind .
Speaker 2People still love him .
Speaker 3I don't know , I don't get it . What's going on in Arizona , Christine ? What's now ? Oh well , it's not .
Speaker 2it's really nice weather down there , that's for sure .
Speaker 3No , what are you doing down there , besides catching ?
Speaker 2What am I ? I'm building . I'm building things . That's what I'm doing down there , so I don't know .
Speaker 3Let's make a long story short . That's very vague , very vague .
Speaker 2Just building some entertainment centers down there . I have this new concept . So actually , oh my gosh , this is such a long story . You want the long story . You want the quick long story , the short long story . We're 13 minutes in , so let's have the minute and 30 seconds . A minute and 30 seconds story .
Speaker 2Sorry , okay , so it started . It all started with an MST , actually . So I'm actually yeah , it's a curse , which was silly but I have a new business partner in Phoenix and we were just actually working on building up some new location based entertainment centers down there , and so we have our dream , which is a hundred thousand square foot center which is a fully immersive , a narrated center , but that's going to take a while . They're initiating all the capital for it . We're building some smaller centers and they're so fun , oh my gosh . So we're going to be opening up these guys with all the new immersive entertainment that you can get so immersive mini golf , immersive go karting , immersive darts , immersive games and just different things that haven't even been exposed in the market yet .
Speaker 2So what we're doing is we're creating this place and it's going to be like a peak easy . So to get into this , this entertainment center , you have to come through the front , and so we're going to be putting up these delis called the grinder and we're going to be selling sausages in the front , and if you want to get through to the place where you play the games and do all the videos and all that kind of stuff , it's called the back alley . It's in the back . You have to kind of go through the grinder . So we're turning this entertainment center into this fun little .
Speaker 3So is it like a sausage speakeasy .
Speaker 2Kind of like a sausage speakeasy .
Speaker 1So the grinder in the front .
Speaker 3Grinder . I think that's taken the grinder .
Speaker 2Yeah , I know , this is why it's so funny .
Speaker 1What part of it
Moving to Tempe Mesa and Phoenix
Speaker 1is this the grinder ?
Speaker 2Yeah yeah , so we're going into Tempe Mesa and , yeah , chandler , nice . So yeah , it's fun , it's different , for sure .
Speaker 4Okay , very cool . Congrats on that .
Speaker 2Yeah , thank you . Yeah , it's been a hard few years getting that all kind of hard year , getting it all organized and started out , but we're finally there , ready to figure out this now .
Speaker 3So , yeah , good , if anyone's up to that , you are that's for sure , for sure . Oh thanks .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's been a lot of fun , that's for sure , and Phoenix is a great place . It's just too hot in the summer . That's my only thing that I don't like about Phoenix . It's hot there . Yeah , a little bit .
Speaker 4Are you moving ?
Speaker 2down . So is that the ?
Speaker 4plan .
Speaker 2Yeah , so I will be actually pretty close to him here . So I have to get my ATM . I'm getting a visa , though , first , so I won't become an American citizen , but I'll get my visa so I can spend more than six months down there , essentially , and then I'll be down there for a while at first , and then back and forth a lot .
Speaker 1Nice Cool .
Speaker 3Exciting stuff .
Speaker 2It's okay , I don't know . It's exciting , but at the same time it's a little nerve-wracking . I want to throw up in my mouth half the time thinking about how challenging it is . But do you know what ? That's ? What life's for ? That's what I figure I learned through COVID is you got to take chances and risks and do those things in your life so that you don't regret it , right ?
Speaker 3Well , maybe it is the COVID that's making you want to throw up in your mouth . Could be that ?
Speaker 2Yeah , it might be , and I know it could be all the night goals too . I don't know .
Speaker 4Don't forget about us . A remote session in Phoenix in February , next February , would be really nice .
Speaker 2Yeah , oh , I know We'll have to have you down .
Speaker 3I need somewhere I can wear my white pants .
Speaker 1Well , you don't even need pants , that bad that time of year . You can wear shorts .
Speaker 3I have white pants and I only get to wear a few months of the year up here , so it's amazing as soon as Labor .
Speaker 4Day hits , that's it Back to the blacks . Oh my God , you know that , you guys are acting like you don't have white pants .
Speaker 1Okay , I do oh God .
Speaker 3I was going to say , Christine , guess what we're drinking .
Speaker 2What are you drinking ?
Speaker 3We have the new banded peak fired up Mika Kiprasov cans of beer . It's well , it's the same as fired up . It's the same as the other beer they serve at the home . But .
Speaker 1I don't think we'll have as much of a headache .
Speaker 3Will we Brad ?
Speaker 2Oh , why did you guys do something special ?
Speaker 3No , I just like hunted these things down . I heard about them on the radio , so I found a bunch of Colton got into them before we started recording , so I don't know how many we got left . And that noisy ass fridge is how do you know where that is actually ?
Speaker 2that red fridge .
Speaker 3I doubt how many of the fridge was noisy so I had to unplug it and move it and there was still stuff in there from two years ago .
Speaker 1Oh God , that's so disgusting this room was actually a time capsule .
Speaker 2Oh my gosh , that's so disgusting . Something was growing .
Speaker 3Yeah , for sure . So , dr Kane , you're still doing your thing , still doing my thing .
Speaker 4Clinics all recovered . We're good hiring new people and yeah it's going well .
Speaker 2Nice , yeah , good banded , you have more than one clinic .
Speaker 4No , no , yeah , that's , that's kind of on the horizon . We're looking at some options . We're just kind of waiting for spaces to become more available and interest rates to come down , and then we're probably going to look at , interest rates are terrible , yeah , well come down please .
Speaker 3Somebody told you rates are going up .
Speaker 4Interest rates are going up and inflation . No , they're not going up anymore .
Speaker 3No , the rates are are capped there , I think we're at the high . We're past the high point .
Speaker 2Now it's just everyone's excited for when they start cutting yeah but when do you think they're actually going to come down though ?
Speaker 3Before the election ? I would suspect definitely before then . Yeah , I think good old . Jimmy , jimmy Powell doesn't have a choice in the matter .
Speaker 4When is the election ? Is it next ?
Speaker 3fall .
Speaker 4November , november of 25 .
Speaker 3No , no , we're talking US election .
Speaker 2Oh US election Sorry .
Speaker 3Okay , oh my gosh . So Jimmy Powell will be like . Even though they're not meant to be connected , biden or his keepers will tell him that rates are going down .
Speaker 4Hey , so here's a flashback for you from two and a half years ago Well , actually four years ago , in 350 plus million people . How are those two the still the candidates ? Biden versus Trump ?
Speaker 3Well , Biden's not . He doesn't even know where the fuck he is right now . Does Trump ? Yeah jail , that's easy to know . The payday loan I actually saw that the first $83 million award that went against them . The lady's looking for her money already , but the SEC has approved his digital company to go public , so he's just made billions . So really they'll be stroking couple checks and away he goes .
Speaker 4It wasn't the sneakers that got him ahead .
Speaker 3Those are pretty sick .
Speaker 4Are they no ?
Speaker 3Like COVID sick .
Speaker 4Yeah , I don't think I'd wear those . No , I don't think I'm wearing those .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm not like , I'm not inspired by anyone politically down , so no , I just you know what . I'll back that up . I don't mind the who's . The guy who smells like he's got there , sounds like he has a trachea problem . What's his name ? He's a Kennedy . What's his name ?
Speaker 4Oh , Robert F .
Speaker 3Yeah , I don't mind some of his shit .
Speaker 4What was the thing ? Is he a plant ?
Speaker 3He could be a plant and , just like what's her name , nikki is a plant on the other side . Is that ? Is that what we've ? Why don't we just have four parties ? We should just have four parties . Yeah , what happened with the ? Were we scheduled to talk about you as a ?
Speaker 4poll deck , so we just devolved into it .
Speaker 3I gave some pretty good topics and we well , we talked about conduct . Yeah , is she going to get recalled ?
Speaker 2No , no , no , it's just funny .
Speaker 3She needs five times the votes to get rid of her . That took to get her in there .
Speaker 4It is funny I had like the legislation is clearly flawed , but that being said , if it was , what ? If it was ? If it was easier to get her out ? I mean it could go both ways , for any politician Fair . Like you get voted in , you should be able to . Here's what I think . Let's say she got 274,000 votes .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 4Should be 275,000 signatures .
Speaker 3Just one more that took to get her in Plus one .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 4Yeah , If anything it might motivate you .
Speaker 3I don't think she got that many .
Speaker 4No , I don't think you're right . Oh , sorry , I do . I believe you're right . I think I'm right on that . Yeah , it's probably because what she would have , what's the margin for victory in ?
Speaker 3I think I have more fucking empties in my garage than she got votes .
Speaker 4Everyone's already , you're such a regat , dad . Yeah , next stop new Bradswick .
Speaker 3Oh , there you go . Hey , christine , brad's daughter is a provincial champion .
Speaker 2I can't hear what you think .
Speaker 3Brad's daughter is a provincial champion .
Speaker 2A provincial champion ? Yes , in what ? So , a CROD A .
Speaker 4U16 AA ring at and ring it , right , ring it .
Speaker 2So did you say lacrosse ? Wow , yeah , I know , I couldn't remember lacrosse .
Speaker 4Ring it . Yes , I get it .
Speaker 1It's not that fringe sport , it's the other one . That's amazing .
Speaker 2Pickleball . Oh my gosh , I pickleball is so stupid . You know what I ?
Speaker 3watch one pickleball video on Instagram and now my whole fucking feed is that . We know you , oh , yeah , oh there's a few other things that have slid in there , but for the most part is pickleball .
Speaker 4But that's only came up because he's called Jeanne Bouchard . Oh , is she in pickleball ? She was signed by the professional pickleball association .
Speaker 3I didn't know there was one .
Speaker 2Oh my , how did you know that ? I kind of watched the .
Speaker 3European one where you know where they hit it off the back wall . Is that pickleball ?
Speaker 2No , is that that ? No , it's not .
Speaker 3It's not ping pong , Christine . I know what fucking ping . No , it's like pickleball , it's like pickleball in a racquetball court where they can play it off the back wall .
Speaker 2Whipple ball .
Speaker 3Whipple ball Whipple ball , I think . I think it's whipple ball , but remember I'm left not for a fact checker , I'm to you . I don't think that's what it is it could be whipple ball . You're right , you're right . You know , what this mattress I have down here that . I'm waiting for a migrant . I'm going to find one that's a fact checker and we're going to have him in here .
Speaker 4He's going to live in the studio . Give him your old laptop .
Speaker 3Yeah , probably no , they're getting new laptops and new bank cards and whatever and they get can of goose jackets and what else .
Speaker 2Oh wow , Isn't that what's going on Healthcare ?
Speaker 3No , I thought that's what they were getting . I don't know that . Oh you get these cards with 10 grand on them . Oh , the debit cards .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 4Yeah , 10 K I'll make two months , I'm like what's that ?
Speaker 3I'll make too much , Sir Christine . What are you saying ? I was ?
Speaker 2going to say that Ukrainian immigrants Is that what you're speaking of ? Or just immigrants in ?
Speaker 3general Migrants . Migrants is what I said . Oh , I'm sorry , what's okay . Can someone tell me the difference between a migrant and an immigrant ?
Speaker 2Yeah , Can someone please tell me , because I don't know .
Speaker 4Is a migrant like they . One is legal One side of oh , oh .
Speaker 2how are they getting all this free stuff then ?
Speaker 3Yeah , from the government . This is what's going on , it's not here but I feel like an American right now . We're doing this for you because you're going to be in the fairway . You're in the migrant fairway setting up experiences .
Speaker 2Oh , I know , it's safety . It's safety . I've seen some safety things down there , yeah , and people carry guns down there .
Speaker 3Well , they've always carried guns down there . That's what I like about them .
Speaker 4They're concealed carry or is it just like open , carry on down there Concealed carry .
Speaker 3You get a gun when you open a bank account down there . It's great , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2Very interesting .
Speaker 3Did you find a bank down there ? You know like .
Speaker 2No , me , yes , no , not yet I'm not talking .
Speaker 3Brad's not down there , it's you . We're talking to you in your southern exposure , so when is when ?
Speaker 1is this happening ? I ?
Speaker 2don't have a bank account , yet when is this happening ?
Speaker 4When are you moving ?
Speaker 2Well , we're just . No , I don't know . Have you told your mom yet ? No , oh yeah , she knows , everybody's aware .
Speaker 4Have you sold your car .
Speaker 2We're all dealing with it right now . Have I sold my cars yet ?
Speaker 4Yeah , have you liquidated everything ? No , I'm leaving . Are you on the run ? I ?
Speaker 2haven't liquidated anything yet .
Speaker 4So not quite Are you on the run , it's not that bad .
Speaker 2Close Not yet . I haven't filed my taxes for like three years , so you ?
Speaker 4know they're going to be coming out three years Do you want me to edit that part Migrants .
Speaker 2I'm kidding , oh my God . I'm kidding , I'm going to become a migrant . I'm trying to tax avoid Canadian government taxes . Yeah no , I'm totally against that .
Speaker 3Avoidance is fine .
Speaker 2Evasion is bad ? I don't know . I just try to do everything I cannot .
Speaker 3This has been the financial advisory component of our episode brought to you by Ernest J Wider .
Speaker 1Wider Wealth Partners EW why do you .
Speaker 2You've been so instrumental in this .
Speaker 1Thank you .
Speaker 2Thank you for all your wise advice .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm looking to do something else where too . So how do you feel about migrants , Brad ?
Speaker 2Me , oh Brad .
Speaker 4I don't know if I have any opinion on it . I wouldn't know , really , yeah .
Speaker 3Why do you think that it's just like this ? And I know you don't have the answer right , but don't even think it's odd that they're just like .
Speaker 4I would be . Did you just reboot ? Is that what happened there ?
Speaker 3No , no , like for me . If I were a migrant , I would be like why are you letting me in ? What's over there ? I don't want to come in . They're literally cutting the fence open and say come on in . Would you not think for a second ? Why the fuck do you want me in there ? Like what's in there .
Speaker 1I feel like you ask more questions than the average migrant .
Speaker 3Well , you got to ask like why do they want me in there ? Are they cannibals , like ?
Speaker 4what's going on . It depends on the border , for sure .
Speaker 3Well , don't you think they're cutting the board ? Like why would they cut the fence ? Like tell me , why are they cutting the fence open ?
Speaker 4Yeah , I don't know , I can't figure it out . The whole thing doesn't make sense to me . It's wild . Yeah , it really is . I can tell you oh , you've been there .
Speaker 3Let's go back to last summer .
Border Crossing Foo Fighters Concert Adventure
Speaker 3So I tried to take three friends to a Foo Fighters concert . I get stopped at the border for 45 fucking minutes Driving across , trying to drive across . I'm not migrating . I was just trying to drive to Spokane to go see the Foo Fighters . Were your friends in the back of your truck . Yeah , they were like they were alive and they were like they had seatbelts on .
Speaker 1Oh , okay , right , yeah , yeah and they were like in the cab or anything , and we were there for 45 minutes .
Speaker 3What were they asking you ? Everything . Really , do you have any cannabis ?
Speaker 2You do not have your passport with you .
Speaker 3Yes , and the flag was that we had four people with all different last names .
Speaker 1Moving from Canada to the US and we were in the Yeti cooler so that might have been a flagged . Yeah , might have been a flagged .
Speaker 4What do you ? Got in that roller cooler .
Speaker 3But don't you find it funny on one side of the fence or cutting it open , you know , like you know , four people come to see a Foo Fighters concert and that's a red flag .
Speaker 4That's weird . So 45 minutes and they asked you all the questions .
Speaker 3All the questions and I was slow answering about cannabis . Like I was slow , I was just thinking about something else . So and then he goes which bag is yours ? Let's play this up . That's what he said .
Speaker 4So , mr , Wider , if that's your real name .
Speaker 3I believe the way the question was which bag is yours boy ?
Speaker 1Okay , the black one .
Speaker 3They're all black . Sir , before I open this , do you have any cannabis ? No , I have anti-inflammatories . I'm 51 years old .
Speaker 4What else would I have ? But just know I have many types and I need them all .
Speaker 3It was wild Crazy . We were there and I one of the guys was an American- Is this a random selection ? No , it was such a slow . Maybe it was because the border was so it's one of the small borders , Like it's just , you know , Stain , it's like that one that's like half an hour from .
Speaker 4Did you go from the Shangri-La Nelson stuff .
Speaker 3Yeah , that was done . The what do they call that drug fest there ? What I'm saying , Shambhala , Shambhala was not yeah , no , it wasn't . You got a rolling cooler that had cleared the valley .
Speaker 4By that you got a rolling cooler . With Alberta plates Four different people in it . Last different last names From Nelson across the border .
Speaker 3Well , I'm outside Nelson , yes .
Speaker 1Well , you know in the first elevator sure , Sorry you've been established .
Speaker 2You know that wasn't even the worst part of the trip , I know .
Speaker 3You want to know the worst Everyone does here ? Okay , yeah , let's hear First things first . Some someone in our group but like they had not just killer cans , they had like the cans that like hobos drink , you know , like giant Shout out to hobos .
Speaker 4Shout out to hobos .
Speaker 3But someone bought a topo . What is it ? Topo , chico , topo . It's like a cooler . I will never , ever drink two ounces of that . They were 24 ounce cans of Topo Chico .
Speaker 4A 24 ounce can they were massive .
Speaker 1But we're in Spokane , okay .
Speaker 3Okay , food fighters just blow . Three hours Great show .
Speaker 4They always have a great show .
Speaker 3Everyone's a little lit . So we leave every bar in Spokane's closed what we walk . We're like this is so great . It's right downtown . We just walk across the bridge and we're right downtown . Everyone's last call or last call is done .
Speaker 4What time was this ?
Speaker 3at 10 30 . Holy shit On a Friday night in Spokane .
Speaker 4Wow , the border mook . I must have tipped them off , I don't know Like what happened there .
Speaker 3It's a college town . Like it made no sense whatsoever .
Speaker 1Hmm , what Are you ? Just in a weird part of town .
Speaker 4Like ? Is it like a strange county , like a religious county , or what's the no .
Speaker 3Well , what's the college ? What's the basketball team ?
Speaker 4Oh , the Spokane .
Speaker 3The college basketball team , the Spokane one . They're always in the final eight . No , is it Washington Huskies ? No , no , no , no , no , it's a Shit I can't remember , anyways , it is Cool story bro . Sorry . Thanks , pal , it was a punchline . I'm just trying to include you .
Speaker 2On the Gonzaga . Yes , the Gonzaga , it's the Zaga Gonzaga .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3You're like a new laptop going in . You're like , yeah , I think Kristy , she's good , I do .
Speaker 2She doesn't have a fact checker .
Speaker 1I'm going to fact check that she facts checks us .
Speaker 2So we do have a fact checker , so we do what the hell Look at me . I'm like , why am I not on my computer fact checking while we're doing all this stuff ? Yeah , it's Zags . This could be a really fun job . It's Zags , yeah .
Speaker 3So isn't that a Jesus ? It's Zags Jesus campus ? I don't know .
Speaker 1I think it is . I think it's Christian . It looks like .
Speaker 3Yeah , I think it is .
Speaker 4We're a fact checker , can check it out .
Speaker 2Oh hey , march Madness is coming up .
Speaker 4Yeah , it's almost , it's March Madness .
Speaker 3It's funny what happens sometimes in March Weird .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2But oh , there's alcohol . There's alcohol on the site , though . I'm sorry there are just . Oh , ok , so . I don't know Were you in the right spot . I can tell you after the .
Speaker 3No , we were downtown , we were at the hotel . Like they don't have a lot of hotels , good hotels , we were at the hotel which is on the side . Last time I was in town .
Speaker 2They had a magic convention there it was .
Speaker 3What is the name of that ?
Speaker 4I don't know if you can say that anymore . Is it Little People ? What do you say ?
Speaker 1Medgets , Mm got it , carmat me .
Speaker 3Still there , Christine .
Speaker 4She's fact-checking .
Speaker 2Yeah , I was just , she's small , I was still fact-checking . Sorry guys , I got caught up in this whole March Madness thing I was looking for .
Speaker 3Midget . Maybe she was taken aback by the Midget comment because she is quite short .
Speaker 2Are you talking about me ? Yeah , yeah , I'm not short , I'm tall . I'm tall for a woman . You're tall , you know , I'm an inch tall . I'm 5'6" , so I'm like 2 inches taller than the average female .
Speaker 1No , I was always 5'6" .
Speaker 2That's a fact . You can ask my mom . Tell them .
Speaker 3Average female . Average female .
Speaker 4You're nowhere close to average , Christine . You're far above that . Aw thanks , brad , I miss you .
Speaker 2I miss you too .
Speaker 4Oh , my God , you wish you didn't have COVID .
Speaker 2You know , I was so upset yesterday when I was like God damn it , you're kidding me . I've been funny to see Brad for years and here we go .
Speaker 4Is it really COVID and Ernie ?
Speaker 1The average female height in Canada is 5'4" . Brad , it's hard to see Ernie too .
Speaker 4Oh and sorry and Ernie , of course .
Speaker 1Well , that's just a fucking given . I wanted to see both . I wanted to hang out .
Speaker 2I was really hoping . So what I was actually hoping is that we'll do this again soon , anyway , when I don't have COVID .
Speaker 4Well , there's not a leap year for another four years .
Speaker 2Oh boy , that's a long way away .
Speaker 3I can't afford all the fancy graphics that I had done for this episode .
Planning Digital Reboot and Pronouns
Speaker 3All right so .
Speaker 4I think all we need for us to reboot the whole series is one like an Instagram . We already got it , did we ? Oh , we're back , we're back .
Speaker 2Oh my gosh , that's it . That's all we need . Did you like the music I had ?
Speaker 3on the post this morning .
Speaker 1I did like that .
Speaker 3That was good yeah , mm-hmm . It was cute . I was hoping it was going to motivate Christine's COVID to leave her body .
Speaker 4But I clearly did .
Speaker 2Got it . No , how's our website ?
Speaker 3looking it's down , it's not . I think someone has a prostitution . It's like I think it's a porn site now .
Speaker 4I feel like we're headed there anyway . That makes that really makes sense actually .
Speaker 3It feels right that feels right , very unbranded yeah . So yeah , we should probably get that sorted out if we're going to continue recording , oh , dear Even if we continue at one , one tenth of what we recorded the last 10 , 10 year or two years . I think we're in your shape .
Speaker 4Definitely . I think we justify website .
Speaker 3If we record Any , we can monetize that .
Speaker 2I feel , like we can monetize the shit out of this . You know we'll do some swag . You know we'll get it all branded . This is like hot . We'll throw it on our website . People buy it .
Speaker 3We call them wait till you hear the wormhole casting .
Speaker 4Mmm , it's cool , mmm .
Speaker 3I Added a wormhole to the beginning of our introduction is quite nice . You should talk about I hope . I hope people are listening . Don't have the turn up too loud .
Speaker 2I hope they don't get sucked in .
Speaker 4The wormhole like what . Where's the ?
Speaker 3well , I felt like we needed to be pulled back in , pulled back in time to get back on the mics , and I thought the villagers heading into the wormhole was . But the marketing guy just bent me over on this whole concept like it was expensive . But our old guy , we're not using him anymore . No , it was . Well , it's insane . Inflation has hit the yeah . I'm not design's website has been hit by inflation big time .
Speaker 4So it's a hundred one design .
Speaker 3So it's , it's punitive and it's very distinct what they will do For you , like we used to be the worst that hey would you mind ? Hey , would you mind , can you ? Can you make it round ?
Speaker 1There's a fucking none of that with this guy .
Speaker 3There's none of it with this guy . He was just like here's what I will do right .
Speaker 4Does he send like per my last email ? And let's circle back .
Speaker 3It's like the worst prior , like let's say you're yeah , it's an arranged marriage . It's like I will hold your hand on the wedding day . I Will not touch you below the belt and that's it . That's what you get for 350 us . Below the belt 350 , definitely not that what you paid 350 us for that , for which ? Wow , for for what I provided you guys .
Speaker 2Yeah , so the person who wanted to know hang on look the guy you want to do it for 118 us .
Speaker 3I looked at his portfolio .
Speaker 1Like I would .
Speaker 3I would might as well just let the money on fire . Let's put it on a hat and a shirt . Oh , I'm good . Yeah , yeah , bring this back . I like the new design . No , we're gonna get leotards made up with the wormhole .
Speaker 2Oh , can you make them ?
Speaker 3glow , glow in the black glow .
Speaker 2Glow in the dark ones . I want some glow in the dark .
Speaker 3Yeah , cuz In our market study we just weren't bringing in the furries like we should .
Speaker 4I want to bring them in . That's what this show has been missing for four years now .
Speaker 3That's all .
Speaker 1Sure .
Speaker 4Don't get along with what , what ?
Speaker 3did you say before we days ?
Speaker 2That even around anymore , to those guys even exist of course they do , for sure they do yeah .
Speaker 3Do you and I'm just asking , I'm asking I'm not looking to pick on any Demographic have you ever looked on your LinkedIn to see how many people that you're connected with have ?
Speaker 2They them yeah , I .
Speaker 3Not , I don't have , like my one friend , heidi , who's in . You know she's in communication , so she has it .
Speaker 4So a lot of people that I work with in the board world have do they ? Like he she or not he she , he him or she her . Yeah , I have people in my practice that are she ?
Speaker 3I've never seen she . Her is that ? What is it , christine ? What do you call yourself ? I don't . Know it is see her .
Speaker 2It is right , it's here .
Speaker 1Yeah , you're right here .
Speaker 4Okay , wait , can't believe we're here now , oh , but you could also be . Here's this , here's the challenge you could also be a she they .
Speaker 2You can be a she they , she they . You can be a he him or a he they , or are they them or he she or he she they . These are the terms that you could all be . I've never seen they could be a he , she they .
Speaker 3I've never seen they .
Speaker 2This is what it's in there . I'm reading all the terms yeah , they them .
Speaker 4So I have people in my practice that they are Like a non-binary yeah so when we ?
Speaker 4when we come first , it's like so how are they feeling , know that kind of thing , and it's really awkward for me and I tell they Like I'm so sorry , I'm in a butcher . This I'm trying really hard to see , to help me through this and understand what , what works and what doesn't work , and it's and I'm okay with it , it's fine , I don't , whatever , I don't , I don't care , but I don't , I'm still learning how to do it . It's quite challenging . So I have pronouns as well . So I have started a . I'm a foodie now , so I have an Instagram account called at rink fries , so I review all the arena for a fries that I have from all the arenas , cross-counter . Yeah , and my pronouns are deep and fried .
Speaker 3Jesus . So what's the ? So it's male , female or Bio .
Speaker 2This is the thing that I don't understand .
Speaker 3What are they ? What do they ?
Speaker 4them mean I think it's non-binary non-binary .
Speaker 3Yeah , so I have a story about this .
Speaker 4Well , let's get into it . Do we need a theme song for the story ?
Speaker 2Hang on , I gotta turn everybody put their unicorn horns on .
Speaker 4There you go brought to you by bad ideas . I've been expecting your let's go this is a champagne moment or that's so . So friend of mine .
Speaker 3He was him and his fiancee him and is from Mexico . No , they do it . Him and his fiancee are doing a 10k run , so he registers them and they run the race . He was faster than her , like both of them . Both of them run and she's like I can't believe I got top 10 in my Group .
Speaker 4I know where this is going .
Speaker 3Well , he signed her up as non-binary .
Speaker 4Jokes that wouldn't have worked ten years ago . No , how did she ?
Speaker 3was but she did really well . So what Brad and I would know from our racing days ? That doesn't not fool you ever .
Speaker 4It never shows up on Google and she's the teacher .
Speaker 3Oh , that's amazing . Yeah , never , ever , let someone else register you for a race .
Speaker 2So , I think it's crazy that we even have those options now .
Speaker 4Yeah , but I mean it's .
Speaker 1It's there . That's where we are .
Speaker 2Yep , so I get it .
Speaker 4I get it you got to be comfy with it .
Speaker 3So how are you feeling , christine ?
Speaker 2I'm feeling like I have COVID .
Speaker 1So I'm gonna ask you how you feel .
Speaker 3What's the first thing you think about ? Like , as far as describing how you feel , what's the first thing that you think about ?
Speaker 2like when you have COVID , you mean .
Speaker 3Well , however , you're feeling what's the first thing like , what's the top symptom for you right now ?
Speaker 2Right , currently it's my nose , it's like the next thing would be my head like I can't concentrate , like I'm having a hard time Concentrating and like hearing because there's that , and actually my ears right now they're kind of stuff and then I have this one gland on the one side , only the one side . That's really really cool and terrible You'll get it .
Speaker 2But it's not nice and actually I Think it could be worse , like this is probably the best form of COVID I've ever had . If I yeah , just read all my food Residents . It's still not nice . I feel like I am , I feel like I've had it way too many times .
Speaker 3I think I got nuked by it a couple weeks ago and yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2I . Is that your first time ? Yep .
Speaker 3Oh , I got tiger blood . Yeah , tiger blood . Now it's now . I'm just another number .
Speaker 4Yeah she actually had , you'd never had it right now , piss me off you that said Drugs don't ruin sports testing does yeah , that's what I said .
Speaker 3What's your point ?
Speaker 4Speaking of . We should talk that . That is a good segue . We should talk about the enhanced games . I'm down with that .
Speaker 3Have you read about this ? Yes , and I'm 100% behind , christina . Are you aware of this ?
Speaker 2No , I'm not aware of this . You have to fill me in here .
Debate on Transgender Athletes in Sports
Speaker 4So the enhanced game who's the guy that's backing ? It's like a billionaire , I think . Founder of PayPal , right .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 4So he's he's funding this Olympic Games , olympic style games where drugs are totally legal .
Speaker 2So oh yeah , all these . I saw this super modified . Yeah , uh-huh yeah .
Speaker 4They've got running in there , they've got some other stuff in there , like it's just an absolute free show and I can't wait to watch it Wow .
Speaker 3I mean , okay , well , let's back up to Um guys who want to be girls and want to participate in girls sports . We're gonna gain , or lose . Wow , what are we starting at ?
Speaker 4zero .
Speaker 3We're not relevant . Let's get relevant fast . Let's get canceled . No I , I just find it interesting .
Speaker 1Hmm like .
Speaker 3Obviously , there's never been a time where the lines of male female have been so blurred . Yeah and I find I just I'm fascinated About all these different sports that it's showing up it and a pickleball like I'm talking we're talking combat sports it's showing up , like that's insane where you've got biological males competing as females . Yes , yeah , golf swimming like Now . You're closer to the . You know the medical profession than me , but aren't men typically have longer lameness than women ? Why Men are just stronger , so say it louder .
Speaker 4Here's , here's , here's the take . No , not you .
Speaker 3her Please say that again what I actually put my ear up to the microphone .
Speaker 1That's not where the sound's coming from . I'm sure a little microphone is .
Speaker 3So to me , to me if my daughter were competing in a sport and some dude is beating her up , I would have a problem with that .
Speaker 4So here's the thing is . I think that every kid , irrespective of how they feel , has the right to compete 1000% . That being said , choices of consequences , and there's two things . There's two aspects of this . One is is a male that has chosen or feels that they should be female . I have no issue with that , no issue whatsoever . You'd be what you want to be . Whatever makes you happy is it gets great If you have gone through a male puberty . Your bone density and muscle structure is different .
Speaker 4And there's no , there's no amount of drug regulation that you can do to make that level , that playing field level . And you know the the the PC side of things . Put that all aside for a second . Somebody that's gone through a male puberty is built differently than a female , just by genetics and by hormones . Yeah . So if you're up regulating hormones through synthetic drugs , whatever , or you're down regulating , it's still manipulation . Like there's not . You know , unless you're going to have a minimum threshold that everyone can take something , yeah , but you can't have this women's field that is tested and they can't have any in their system . But you've got someone else that's competing as a male or , sorry , as a female , that has down regulated their hormones bill to fit into that category .
Speaker 4That's not a level playing field , it's not equal , it's not fair . So , in my opinion , someone that has decided to become trans and I think and good for them , that's a choice that they've made , they feel good about it Fantastic . I think there needs to be a competitive category for that type of human being because I don't think that it is a fair and level playing field . And I'm with you and it may not be the most PC take , but if my daughter works her ass off as a genetic female . I'm not talking about like what they've chosen . So she's a genetic female and worked as hard as she can to get to the level she's out in a sport and her spot gets taken by someone that chooses to become a female . I also have an issue with that . I don't have an issue with that person . I have an issue with that process .
Speaker 3Yeah , fair .
Speaker 4I think that's fair , that's that's . I don't .
Speaker 3And again , I'm not saying it in a disparaging way . I just think that this is like getting a little farfetched here .
Speaker 4I think at some point you can't wind it back and I think if there was a level playing field , if you had enough females that were competing in the male category with the same type of success that they're having with males competing in the female category , they're just not doing it , they're not .
Speaker 4There's one , I think that's . I read about it the other day , but I think there is a competitive advantage in terms of genetics and hormones for someone that's gone through a male , male puberty and advantage being described as just bone density and muscle and lean muscle mass . There is a difference . It's not better or worse , it's just there is a difference .
Speaker 2Yeah , so you don't think that there's any like ? Is there no actual difference if they haven't gone through puberty ?
Speaker 4Well , I don't know that , but but I know that that is a very significant difference . But I still think you take two different genetic organisms and put them , you know , in a , in a competition setting , there will be a difference between the two . I mean female to female . There's going to be a difference between them too , but it's based upon work , ethic , genetics , et cetera , et cetera , et cetera . But we're talking about biologically different , different entities .
Speaker 3So that's , right .
Speaker 2I think he's worth , sorry , go ahead .
Speaker 3Esports . Marie , I'm better at video games than you , christine .
Speaker 2What .
Speaker 3Did you say esports ?
Speaker 2I said , that's why esports is on their eyes , is because there's no genetics required for this .
Speaker 3Everybody . I know I'm better at video games than you , just .
Speaker 2Oh , I well , I mean , I don't do Fortnite every single day of my life , you know , but in who knows that I might so soon because , because I might , because Disney actually is , they're doing a deal that them and Fortnite are getting together and they're building a Disney world Unfortunately not really cool , and you can get your own character and design it . I'll have them play .
Speaker 3Disney and Sony have been pounding money into Epic Games for years . Actually , epic Games or gaming engine , unreal Engine yeah , has Is Is what has been generating the Mandalorian , all of the landscapes , all , and Boba , the fat law , the Star Wars movies , it's not Boba the Fats , it's a Mandalorian . But yeah , that's Epic Games . They , their gaming engine , is actually what produces a lot of landscapes for those shows Fact . They're Check that fact Stain .
Speaker 2Right now .
Speaker 3Anytime you want to hop online , but I think your ass that might be a little segment of podcast Ernesto versus Christine . There's no way she beats Daetalus Panda 48 .
Speaker 4There is no way . I think we need to have make this happen .
Speaker 2Oh , my God .
Speaker 3Hi , there's no .
Speaker 2Nobody beats .
Speaker 1Not in the same .
Speaker 2Not , not in , not in Fortnite . No , what if we ?
Speaker 4find you a coach . We'll get you a coach and get you a Okay . You got two weeks to prepare , yeah .
Speaker 2Oh , I don't think two weeks is going to give me . We have to get a whole new platform . There has to be a whole new platform and it has to be different than Fortnite . Why ?
Speaker 4What Like ? What's the platform New ?
Speaker 2skill . I'm going to start from scratch , from zero , and they have to learn a new platform . I don't know , maybe it's like some Mario Brothers thing or something like that what haven't you played . What haven't you played ?
Speaker 1Well , I'm just saying that's .
Speaker 3that's an arena you can't beat me in , Just like all of the board games that would kick your ass in .
Speaker 4This is all .
Speaker 2Okay , hold on , I'm going to
Discussion on Digital Assets in Fortnite
Speaker 2be here for a second . We know that's not true . We 100% that . Know that that is not a true fact actually .
Speaker 3What do you mean ? But do we ? I don't know what you're talking about .
Speaker 2Yeah , oh , we know we do , because I'm the one that usually wins the board games that way , except for , except for I fall asleep from you , from you .
Speaker 3Sometimes I get tired , okay .
Speaker 1Well , let's not add .
Speaker 3Or enter or first wormhole episode on Right Trans .
Speaker 2Let's not no Trans Fortnite oh that's .
Speaker 3that's going to be a thing , you know it's totally going to be thing .
Speaker 4Actually , do you know what's ?
Speaker 2cool about Fortnite ? No , is . They're doing that digital stuff . So they're like taking digital assets inside of Fortnite and making them into real things , like the shoes with the wings on them . I don't know if you ever saw those they were making . They actually made those . You could buy them online . They're going to be doing tons of other things like that too . Feel free to fact check me . I know that Well . I'm sure you do . You're in that arena .
Speaker 3All right , folks , that's us , we're going to be doing a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a podcast . So come back .