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The Village Confidential
Season 3, Episode #1-Echoes of Change from Studio to Sunny Horizons
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.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1,. Welcome to the village.
Speaker 3:Confidential, confidential Hello everyone Christine, ernesto and Dr Brad King.
Speaker 4:What.
Speaker 3:So I'm not paying you anymore. But she's taking it.
Speaker 4:I 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 3:Well, well, well, we're back again. We're back when are we?
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3:Oh there's.
Speaker 4:Christine, Hello Christine.
Speaker 3:Hey.
Speaker 2:Christine, how can you not in?
Speaker 3:the studio.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, there's an unfortunate incident. It involves somebody being sick beside me on a plane.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Was it West Shed or Air.
Speaker 2:Canada. It was Air Canada. Of course, Air Canada sucks.
Speaker 3:There you go. So it wasn't January beside you then.
Speaker 2:No, you're bad. That would have been a really good story though.
Speaker 4:The OGs will get the reference.
Speaker 2:Sensitive. 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 4:I feel like it's kind of ironic because this whole thing started with COVID. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 1:Maybe, I think, from COVID.
Speaker 2:Well, the chances of getting COVID back then were so much smaller than they are now, even right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3:Is that a fact? But I don't have it, you know, and we still don't have a fact checker for Christine Statz.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:Okay, well, as anyone want to explain why we're here.
Speaker 1:Oh, I feel like that's your responsibility.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 2:I 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 3:Well, it's actually the same, because you know what I'm going through renails again.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 4:So 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 2:Yeah, yeah, it has that same old smell. What was that candle used to burn forever?
Speaker 4:Yeah we're not right Well we'll just light the couch on fire. We'll be fine. We're not prepared for this.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go, there you go, maybe we should I feel like there's enough accelerants in the couch.
Speaker 3:It should be good. Yeah, yeah, it should be good. So yeah, back in the original studio Christine is oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:Okay, well, that's good. Dr, Kane, how you doing I'm great.
Speaker 4:So 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 3:Yeah, 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 4:Like maybe Apple wants to sponsor us.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 1:I have a daisy chain of dongles, just so we can get.
Speaker 2:Christine, and then you know what she's on Bluetooth right now, so it didn't even fucking matter.
Speaker 3:So there goes 60 bucks for nothing. Love the Apple store.
Speaker 2:Oh dear, oh dear. I had to have an iPhone 15 with the new plug.
Speaker 1:Thank, you Apple for changing the plug again. It made my phone so much better though.
Speaker 2:No it didn't. Oh my God, it did not. It didn't do anything to it.
Speaker 3:Hey, funny thing, Geodicondacks in trouble Really.
Speaker 2:Oh, shocking, this is a surprise. Let's get into it, Last episode she was just elected.
Speaker 4:That's right. We saw a climate emergency.
Speaker 3:I can't remember, I don't know. You know it's a petition emergency.
Speaker 1:Totally.
Speaker 4:So 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 3:Is that? Was it provincially put in? Sorry, I'm not on this stuff.
Speaker 4:So 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 3:So 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 4:Is 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 3:I'm not impressed with him.
Speaker 4:Are we doing a bottle drive for him?
Speaker 3:He lost me on, he lost me on. Can you sit in the Costco parking lot for me?
Speaker 4:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 4:What kind of snacks do you have?
Speaker 1:here.
Speaker 3:I 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 4:You 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 3:I'll tell you what though.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:A 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 4:Do you know what the number is? I don't know.
Speaker 3:The 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 4:It has to be actual signatures, right. Whoever set this up didn't want to be recalled, right.
Speaker 3:Well, it was definitely not the Democrats who set it up.
Speaker 1:They invented the mail in ballot.
Speaker 4:I wonder what? How many Scott? Is there a website on this thing?
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Holy Wow. So, Was there like a big sign, like how did people know that was what they were doing?
Speaker 3:It was almost like you're buying weed before it was legal.
Speaker 2:Hey, hey do you?
Speaker 3:have 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 1:Clear my warning. Lisa, hold my calls.
Speaker 2:And they weren't giving away free Starbucks for everybody. That side, I didn't have to.
Speaker 3:People 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 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And 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 3:I 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 4:I'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 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Someone 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 4:I'm not, I'll bring my petition no it's not even that Like.
Speaker 3:again, I'm not signing the petition, but I have questions because, like, what are we going?
Speaker 2:to do? She doesn't.
Speaker 3:she 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 1:Like why do we, why do we want to spend more?
Speaker 3:money 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 4:Yeah, mom's basins getting expensive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 4:Wait, what's? Celebrities Like Big Bird and Jen Arden.
Speaker 2:No, 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 4:Yeah, second kind.
Speaker 2:People still love him.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I don't get it. What's going on in Arizona, Christine? What's now? Oh well, it's not.
Speaker 2:it's really nice weather down there, that's for sure.
Speaker 3:No, what are you doing down there, besides catching?
Speaker 2:What am I? I'm building. I'm building things. That's what I'm doing down there, so I don't know.
Speaker 3:Let's make a long story short. That's very vague, very vague.
Speaker 2:Just 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 2:Sorry, 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 2:So 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 3:So is it like a sausage speakeasy.
Speaker 2:Kind of like a sausage speakeasy.
Speaker 1:So the grinder in the front.
Speaker 3:Grinder. I think that's taken the grinder.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, this is why it's so funny.
Speaker 1:What part of it is this the grinder?
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, so we're going into Tempe Mesa and, yeah, chandler, nice. So yeah, it's fun, it's different, for sure.
Speaker 4:Okay, very cool. Congrats on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:So, yeah, good, if anyone's up to that, you are that's for sure, for sure. Oh thanks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 4:Are you moving?
Speaker 2:down. So is that the?
Speaker 4:plan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 1:Nice Cool.
Speaker 3:Exciting stuff.
Speaker 2:It'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 3:Well, maybe it is the COVID that's making you want to throw up in your mouth. Could be that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it might be, and I know it could be all the night goals too. I don't know.
Speaker 4:Don't forget about us. A remote session in Phoenix in February, next February, would be really nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I know We'll have to have you down.
Speaker 3:I need somewhere I can wear my white pants.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't even need pants, that bad that time of year. You can wear shorts.
Speaker 3:I 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 4:Day 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 1:Okay, I do oh God.
Speaker 3:I was going to say, Christine, guess what we're drinking.
Speaker 2:What are you drinking?
Speaker 3:We 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 1:I don't think we'll have as much of a headache.
Speaker 3:Will we Brad?
Speaker 2:Oh, why did you guys do something special?
Speaker 3:No, 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 2:that red fridge.
Speaker 3:I 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 1:Oh God, that's so disgusting this room was actually a time capsule.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's so disgusting. Something was growing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure. So, dr Kane, you're still doing your thing, still doing my thing.
Speaker 4:Clinics all recovered. We're good hiring new people and yeah it's going well.
Speaker 2:Nice, yeah, good banded, you have more than one clinic.
Speaker 4:No, 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 3:Somebody told you rates are going up.
Speaker 4:Interest rates are going up and inflation. No, they're not going up anymore.
Speaker 3:No, the rates are are capped there, I think we're at the high. We're past the high point.
Speaker 2:Now 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 3:Before 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 4:When is the election? Is it next?
Speaker 3:fall.
Speaker 4:November, november of 25.
Speaker 3:No, no, we're talking US election.
Speaker 2:Oh US election Sorry.
Speaker 3:Okay, 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 4:Hey, 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 3:Well, 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 4:It wasn't the sneakers that got him ahead.
Speaker 3:Those are pretty sick.
Speaker 4:Are they no?
Speaker 3:Like COVID sick.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't think I'd wear those. No, I don't think I'm wearing those.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 4:Oh, Robert F.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't mind some of his shit.
Speaker 4:What was the thing? Is he a plant?
Speaker 3:He 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 4:poll deck, so we just devolved into it.
Speaker 3:I gave some pretty good topics and we well, we talked about conduct. Yeah, is she going to get recalled?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, it's just funny.
Speaker 3:She needs five times the votes to get rid of her. That took to get her in there.
Speaker 4:It 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 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Should be 275,000 signatures.
Speaker 3:Just one more that took to get her in Plus one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, If anything it might motivate you.
Speaker 3:I don't think she got that many.
Speaker 4:No, 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 3:I think I have more fucking empties in my garage than she got votes.
Speaker 4:Everyone's already, you're such a regat, dad. Yeah, next stop new Bradswick.
Speaker 3:Oh, there you go. Hey, christine, brad's daughter is a provincial champion.
Speaker 2:I can't hear what you think.
Speaker 3:Brad's daughter is a provincial champion.
Speaker 2:A provincial champion? Yes, in what? So, a CROD A.
Speaker 4:U16 AA ring at and ring it, right, ring it.
Speaker 2:So did you say lacrosse? Wow, yeah, I know, I couldn't remember lacrosse.
Speaker 4:Ring it. Yes, I get it.
Speaker 1:It's not that fringe sport, it's the other one. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:Pickleball. Oh my gosh, I pickleball is so stupid. You know what I?
Speaker 3:watch 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 4:But 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 3:I didn't know there was one.
Speaker 2:Oh my, how did you know that? I kind of watched the.
Speaker 3:European one where you know where they hit it off the back wall. Is that pickleball?
Speaker 2:No, is that that? No, it's not.
Speaker 3:It'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 2:Whipple ball.
Speaker 3:Whipple 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 4:He's going to live in the studio. Give him your old laptop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, probably no, they're getting new laptops and new bank cards and whatever and they get can of goose jackets and what else.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, Isn't that what's going on Healthcare?
Speaker 3:No, 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 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 10 K I'll make two months, I'm like what's that?
Speaker 3:I'll make too much, Sir Christine. What are you saying? I was?
Speaker 2:going to say that Ukrainian immigrants Is that what you're speaking of? Or just immigrants in?
Speaker 3:general 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 2:Yeah, Can someone please tell me, because I don't know.
Speaker 4:Is a migrant like they. One is legal One side of oh, oh.
Speaker 2:how are they getting all this free stuff then?
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 2:Oh, I know, it's safety. It's safety. I've seen some safety things down there, yeah, and people carry guns down there.
Speaker 3:Well, they've always carried guns down there. That's what I like about them.
Speaker 4:They're concealed carry or is it just like open, carry on down there Concealed carry.
Speaker 3:You get a gun when you open a bank account down there. It's great, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Very interesting.
Speaker 3:Did you find a bank down there? You know like.
Speaker 2:No, me, yes, no, not yet I'm not talking.
Speaker 3:Brad's not down there, it's you. We're talking to you in your southern exposure, so when is when?
Speaker 1:is this happening? I?
Speaker 2:don't have a bank account, yet when is this happening?
Speaker 4:When are you moving?
Speaker 2:Well, we're just. No, I don't know. Have you told your mom yet? No, oh yeah, she knows, everybody's aware.
Speaker 4:Have you sold your car.
Speaker 2:We're all dealing with it right now. Have I sold my cars yet?
Speaker 4:Yeah, have you liquidated everything? No, I'm leaving. Are you on the run? I?
Speaker 2:haven't liquidated anything yet.
Speaker 4:So not quite Are you on the run, it's not that bad.
Speaker 2:Close Not yet. I haven't filed my taxes for like three years, so you?
Speaker 4:know they're going to be coming out three years Do you want me to edit that part Migrants.
Speaker 2:I'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 3:Avoidance is fine.
Speaker 2:Evasion is bad? I don't know. I just try to do everything I cannot.
Speaker 3:This has been the financial advisory component of our episode brought to you by Ernest J Wider.
Speaker 1:Wider Wealth Partners EW why do you.
Speaker 2:You've been so instrumental in this.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for all your wise advice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm looking to do something else where too. So how do you feel about migrants, Brad?
Speaker 2:Me, oh Brad.
Speaker 4:I don't know if I have any opinion on it. I wouldn't know, really, yeah.
Speaker 3:Why 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 4:I would be. Did you just reboot? Is that what happened there?
Speaker 3:No, 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 1:I feel like you ask more questions than the average migrant.
Speaker 3:Well, you got to ask like why do they want me in there? Are they cannibals, like?
Speaker 4:what's going on. It depends on the border, for sure.
Speaker 3:Well, 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 4:Yeah, 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 3:Let's go back to last summer. So 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 1:Oh, okay, right, yeah, yeah and they were like in the cab or anything, and we were there for 45 minutes.
Speaker 3:What were they asking you? Everything. Really, do you have any cannabis?
Speaker 2:You do not have your passport with you.
Speaker 3:Yes, and the flag was that we had four people with all different last names.
Speaker 1:Moving 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 4:What do you? Got in that roller cooler.
Speaker 3:But 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 4:That's weird. So 45 minutes and they asked you all the questions.
Speaker 3:All 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 4:So, mr, Wider, if that's your real name.
Speaker 3:I believe the way the question was which bag is yours boy?
Speaker 1:Okay, the black one.
Speaker 3:They're all black. Sir, before I open this, do you have any cannabis? No, I have anti-inflammatories. I'm 51 years old.
Speaker 4:What else would I have? But just know I have many types and I need them all.
Speaker 3:It 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 4:Did you go from the Shangri-La Nelson stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 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 4:By that you got a rolling cooler. With Alberta plates Four different people in it. Last different last names From Nelson across the border.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm outside Nelson, yes.
Speaker 1:Well, you know in the first elevator sure, Sorry you've been established.
Speaker 2:You know that wasn't even the worst part of the trip, I know.
Speaker 3:You 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 4:Shout out to hobos.
Speaker 3:But 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 4:A 24 ounce can they were massive.
Speaker 1:But we're in Spokane, okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, food fighters just blow. Three hours Great show.
Speaker 4:They always have a great show.
Speaker 3:Everyone'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 4:What time was this?
Speaker 3:at 10 30. Holy shit On a Friday night in Spokane.
Speaker 4:Wow, the border mook. I must have tipped them off, I don't know Like what happened there.
Speaker 3:It's a college town. Like it made no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 1:Hmm, what Are you? Just in a weird part of town.
Speaker 4:Like? Is it like a strange county, like a religious county, or what's the no.
Speaker 3:Well, what's the college? What's the basketball team?
Speaker 4:Oh, the Spokane.
Speaker 3:The 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 2:On the Gonzaga. Yes, the Gonzaga, it's the Zaga Gonzaga.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:You're like a new laptop going in. You're like, yeah, I think Kristy, she's good, I do.
Speaker 2:She doesn't have a fact checker.
Speaker 1:I'm going to fact check that she facts checks us.
Speaker 2:So 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 3:So isn't that a Jesus? It's Zags Jesus campus? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think it is. I think it's Christian. It looks like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 4:We're a fact checker, can check it out.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, march Madness is coming up.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's almost, it's March Madness.
Speaker 3:It's funny what happens sometimes in March Weird.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But 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 3:No, 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 2:They had a magic convention there it was.
Speaker 3:What is the name of that?
Speaker 4:I don't know if you can say that anymore. Is it Little People? What do you say?
Speaker 1:Medgets, Mm got it, carmat me.
Speaker 3:Still there, Christine.
Speaker 4:She's fact-checking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:Midget. Maybe she was taken aback by the Midget comment because she is quite short.
Speaker 2:Are 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 1:No, I was always 5'6".
Speaker 2:That's a fact. You can ask my mom. Tell them.
Speaker 3:Average female. Average female.
Speaker 4:You're nowhere close to average, Christine. You're far above that. Aw thanks, brad, I miss you.
Speaker 2:I miss you too.
Speaker 4:Oh, my God, you wish you didn't have COVID.
Speaker 2:You 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 4:Is it really COVID and Ernie?
Speaker 1:The average female height in Canada is 5'4". Brad, it's hard to see Ernie too.
Speaker 4:Oh and sorry and Ernie, of course.
Speaker 1:Well, that's just a fucking given. I wanted to see both. I wanted to hang out.
Speaker 2:I 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 4:Well, there's not a leap year for another four years.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, that's a long way away.
Speaker 3:I can't afford all the fancy graphics that I had done for this episode. All right so.
Speaker 4:I 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 2:Oh my gosh, that's it. That's all we need. Did you like the music I had?
Speaker 3:on the post this morning.
Speaker 1:I did like that.
Speaker 3:That was good yeah, mm-hmm. It was cute. I was hoping it was going to motivate Christine's COVID to leave her body.
Speaker 4:But I clearly did.
Speaker 2:Got it. No, how's our website?
Speaker 3:looking it's down, it's not. I think someone has a prostitution. It's like I think it's a porn site now.
Speaker 4:I feel like we're headed there anyway. That makes that really makes sense actually.
Speaker 3:It 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 4:Definitely. I think we justify website.
Speaker 3:If we record Any, we can monetize that.
Speaker 2:I 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 3:We call them wait till you hear the wormhole casting.
Speaker 4:Mmm, it's cool, mmm.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:I hope they don't get sucked in.
Speaker 4:The wormhole like what. Where's the?
Speaker 3:well, 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 4:So it's a hundred one design.
Speaker 3:So 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 1:There's a fucking none of that with this guy.
Speaker 3:There's none of it with this guy. He was just like here's what I will do right.
Speaker 4:Does he send like per my last email? And let's circle back.
Speaker 3:It'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 2:Yeah, so the person who wanted to know hang on look the guy you want to do it for 118 us.
Speaker 3:I looked at his portfolio.
Speaker 1:Like I would.
Speaker 3:I 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 2:Oh, can you make them?
Speaker 3:glow, glow in the black glow.
Speaker 2:Glow in the dark ones. I want some glow in the dark.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cuz In our market study we just weren't bringing in the furries like we should.
Speaker 4:I want to bring them in. That's what this show has been missing for four years now.
Speaker 3:That's all.
Speaker 1:Sure.
Speaker 4:Don't get along with what, what?
Speaker 3:did you say before we days?
Speaker 2:That even around anymore, to those guys even exist of course they do, for sure they do yeah.
Speaker 3:Do 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 2:They them yeah, I.
Speaker 3:Not, I don't have, like my one friend, heidi, who's in. You know she's in communication, so she has it.
Speaker 4:So 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 3:I'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 2:It is right, it's here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right here.
Speaker 4:Okay, 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 2:You 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 3:I've never seen they.
Speaker 2:This is what it's in there. I'm reading all the terms yeah, they them.
Speaker 4:So I have people in my practice that they are Like a non-binary yeah so when we?
Speaker 4:when 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 3:Jesus. So what's the? So it's male, female or Bio.
Speaker 2:This is the thing that I don't understand.
Speaker 3:What are they? What do they?
Speaker 4:them mean I think it's non-binary non-binary.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I have a story about this.
Speaker 4:Well, let's get into it. Do we need a theme song for the story?
Speaker 2:Hang on, I gotta turn everybody put their unicorn horns on.
Speaker 4:There 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 3:He 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 4:I know where this is going.
Speaker 3:Well, he signed her up as non-binary.
Speaker 4:Jokes that wouldn't have worked ten years ago. No, how did she?
Speaker 3:was but she did really well. So what Brad and I would know from our racing days? That doesn't not fool you ever.
Speaker 4:It never shows up on Google and she's the teacher.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, never, ever, let someone else register you for a race.
Speaker 2:So, I think it's crazy that we even have those options now.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but I mean it's.
Speaker 1:It's there. That's where we are.
Speaker 2:Yep, so I get it.
Speaker 4:I get it you got to be comfy with it.
Speaker 3:So how are you feeling, christine?
Speaker 2:I'm feeling like I have COVID.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna ask you how you feel.
Speaker 3:What'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 2:like when you have COVID, you mean.
Speaker 3:Well, however, you're feeling what's the first thing like, what's the top symptom for you right now?
Speaker 2:Right, 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 2:But 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 3:I think I got nuked by it a couple weeks ago and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I. Is that your first time? Yep.
Speaker 3:Oh, I got tiger blood. Yeah, tiger blood. Now it's now. I'm just another number.
Speaker 4:Yeah 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 3:What's your point?
Speaker 4:Speaking of. We should talk that. That is a good segue. We should talk about the enhanced games. I'm down with that.
Speaker 3:Have you read about this? Yes, and I'm 100% behind, christina. Are you aware of this?
Speaker 2:No, I'm not aware of this. You have to fill me in here.
Speaker 4:So the enhanced game who's the guy that's backing? It's like a billionaire, I think. Founder of PayPal, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So he's he's funding this Olympic Games, olympic style games where drugs are totally legal.
Speaker 2:So oh yeah, all these. I saw this super modified. Yeah, uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 4:They'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 3:I 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 4:zero.
Speaker 3:We're not relevant. Let's get relevant fast. Let's get canceled. No I, I just find it interesting.
Speaker 1:Hmm like.
Speaker 3:Obviously, 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 4:Here's, here's, here's the take. No, not you.
Speaker 3:her Please say that again what I actually put my ear up to the microphone.
Speaker 1:That's not where the sound's coming from. I'm sure a little microphone is.
Speaker 3:So 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 4:So 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 4:And 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 4:That'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 3:Yeah, fair.
Speaker 4:I think that's fair, that's that's. I don't.
Speaker 3:And again, I'm not saying it in a disparaging way. I just think that this is like getting a little farfetched here.
Speaker 4:I 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 4:There'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 2:Yeah, so you don't think that there's any like? Is there no actual difference if they haven't gone through puberty?
Speaker 4:Well, 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 3:So that's, right.
Speaker 2:I think he's worth, sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3:Esports. Marie, I'm better at video games than you, christine.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 3:Did you say esports?
Speaker 2:I said, that's why esports is on their eyes, is because there's no genetics required for this.
Speaker 3:Everybody. I know I'm better at video games than you, just.
Speaker 2:Oh, 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 3:Disney 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 2:Right now.
Speaker 3:Anytime 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 4:There is no way. I think we need to have make this happen.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 3:Hi, there's no.
Speaker 2:Nobody beats.
Speaker 1:Not in the same.
Speaker 2:Not, not in, not in Fortnite. No, what if we?
Speaker 4:find you a coach. We'll get you a coach and get you a Okay. You got two weeks to prepare, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, 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 4:What Like? What's the platform New?
Speaker 2:skill. 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 1:Well, I'm just saying that's.
Speaker 3:that's an arena you can't beat me in, Just like all of the board games that would kick your ass in.
Speaker 4:This is all.
Speaker 2:Okay, hold on, I'm going to be here for a second. We know that's not true. We 100% that. Know that that is not a true fact actually.
Speaker 3:What do you mean? But do we? I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 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 3:Sometimes I get tired, okay.
Speaker 1:Well, let's not add.
Speaker 3:Or enter or first wormhole episode on Right Trans.
Speaker 2:Let's not no Trans Fortnite oh that's.
Speaker 3:that's going to be a thing, you know it's totally going to be thing.
Speaker 4:Actually, do you know what's?
Speaker 2:cool 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 3:All 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.