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The Village Confidential
Season 3, Episode #2 - The Tangled Threads of Romance, Roots, and Reparations
Ever stumbled through the dark, both literally and metaphorically, in the quest for love? Take a seat at our table where we bring to light the peculiar parallels between the come-back of vinyl and navigating the modern dating scene. From blind dates in pitch-black restaurants that challenge our senses to the unexpected hilarity of appearances versus reality, we're spinning tales that will have you both laughing and pondering the human connection.
The plot thickens with Sunny Hostin genealogical bombshell that traces her lineage back to Spanish slave owners—a revelation that stirs up a storm of emotions and questions about inheriting the past. We wade into the tumultuous waters of reparations, historical accountability, and the spicy disagreement between Dr. Phil and Whoopi Goldberg over pandemic school closures, all while peeling back the layers of what these discoveries mean for our identities and society.
For a dash of practicality with a sprinkle of whimsy, join us as we sift through the gritty topics of political division in healthcare resource allocation and the environmental tug-of-war in our daily decisions. We'll swap stories from entitlement in the workforce to debates over leap year paychecks and coffee preferences—all served with a side of environmental consciousness. Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride through the joys and conundrums of work, life, and the pursuit of a more sustainable existence.
Welcome to the Village.
Speaker 1:Confidential. Hello everyone.
Speaker 2:Christine, ernesto and Dr Bradkink. What so? I'm not paying you anymore?
Speaker 1:But she's taking it.
Speaker 2:I had a dollar for everything.
Speaker 3:And I kind of look up for my phone and I am in Narnia. Oh, feel like I know you.
Speaker 2:Man, I love that scratching.
Speaker 1:Don't you love that scratching?
Speaker 3:It's so good.
Speaker 2:I feel like I could do it. It's so perfect.
Speaker 1:It's literally so perfect you could for sure scratch.
Speaker 2:I feel like I could do it. Oh, my oh my gosh Mix Master.
Speaker 3:E Mix Master E. Next time we're going to bring in the ones in the two spring in your way, I go to wreck them Fucking wreck.
Speaker 2:Hey, I got lots of records at my house that haven't thought I even know what the fuck they are.
Speaker 3:So at the cabin. Christine, you got any Taylor Swift records we can practice with.
Speaker 1:Oh oh my gosh, you know what I did? I had one, but I got rid of it. Keeps records, keeps records. Anymore you can just download everything on your phone.
Speaker 3:They're all the rage now.
Speaker 2:My kids have records Christine will never, ever own an antique store. No.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, they're smelly.
Speaker 2:So would you ever jump in a relationship with someone without seeing what they look like? It's a tough question.
Speaker 1:Okay, Actually I have a story.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, here you go. You've done this then.
Speaker 3:Obviously, let me light a candle.
Speaker 1:I have Okay. But kind of an not totally Okay.
Speaker 3:Are you?
Speaker 1:ready for this. I'm waiting, let's go. So I was. This was many, many years ago, but I was like I'm not sure what website it was, or it was like match or whatever it was. We get this way. We think he really called those dating apps, Anyway. So I was, I was on there and I was talking to the sky and so, okay, legitimately, I could see a picture on there.
Speaker 1:He probably had five or six pictures and we talked on the phone for a couple of weeks actually, which was great and we got along. He was awesome and everything. And so then I had this idea. I'm like, okay, this has been so awesome. What we're going to do is, let's, let's go meet at that dine in the dark place and you go in first and then I will come in after. We'll have this whole meal and conversation beside each other without actually seeing each other, and then at the end, of the meal we'll leave and whatever happens from there, and so we actually did it Seriously, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:So we had this.
Speaker 1:Did you have catfish for dinner?
Speaker 3:I don't know what it was. How long did it stay dark for?
Speaker 1:The whole, the whole meal. So he went in first, and so then I got there and I was holding it.
Speaker 1:I was like okay, this is what we're doing. She's like okay, yeah, she's like he's not too bad, he's okay. I'm like okay, good to know. So. But we had this. It was the weirdest thing because I had never seen this face or in real life when someone's acting, or facial movements and everything like that, and so I had no judge of that, but it was really interesting. And at the end of the meal he's like okay. He's like can I kiss you before we leave? Oh man, and I was just like okay, I'm like fine, but just like just a pack. You know what I mean. So we had a little kiss.
Speaker 2:No tongue.
Speaker 1:Like we get excited about and then we get out into the lobby and, of course, disappointment and it's like no. That's horrible. I know why would you put yourself through that it was an experience.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I just, I was bored, I was bored.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:There are other ways to satisfy that. Well, you don't have to.
Speaker 2:It was fun.
Speaker 1:How was that? I've never like that place doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 3:Does it the Dine in the Dark thing? Is it still around? I don't know. Let me just let me go.
Speaker 1:When they do that in Mexico, I fear for my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't go to a place in Mexico, where it's dark, oh man. You can just be real quick.
Speaker 1:Not just that, it's just dark, it's called yeah Dark table. It's still open, by the way it is.
Speaker 3:So I heard um. Is it bright that the, the serving staff there, are blind? And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like.
Speaker 1:I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm, I'm like okay. You don't have to you, don't have to go to a place like that.
Speaker 2:They don't have to go to a place like that and they just they're all blind. They memorize the room, and is that true?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's, that's unreal.
Speaker 2:That's cool, it's totally true.
Speaker 1:And you're turning it into some fucked up blind date situation.
Speaker 3:Like Can you imagine those people are going like that goes on there.
Speaker 1:I just can't. There's so many ways.
Speaker 2:They thought it was. They thought it was awesome. He was hot too. Imagine if that had been worked out.
Speaker 4:No they did. He said he was okay.
Speaker 3:He was okay, smokeshow, trust me, he's a smokeshow.
Speaker 1:Just to be fair, he wasn't actually that bad, just not for me.
Speaker 2:Got it, that's just not my person.
Speaker 3:That's different from disappointment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not how you ended the story the first time around.
Speaker 4:So anyways the reason they.
Speaker 1:I don't have time.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead. What, no? Okay. So the reason they bring this up is there's been some headlines about this. Love is blind.
Speaker 3:So this is a TV show reality, yeah, and you know what?
Speaker 2:Maybe this is a realm I shouldn't dive into, because I have and I love reality TV Like I fucking love it and I did. I have this Like I'm in it now, 90 Day Fiancé, like I'm fucking in there. You're deep, I am deep in there.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that existed, like I follow some of the people on Instagram.
Speaker 2:That's how far in I'm a fucking 90 Day Fiancé. Okay, I'm in. I gotta Google this. This shit I can't get behind Because you.
Speaker 3:So what's it called?
Speaker 2:Love is blind.
Speaker 3:Love is blind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, so in theory you're not supposed to ask what season?
Speaker 1:What season is it I?
Speaker 2:honestly don't know. I ran into it once before, but it was in Sweden and it was all subtitled, so there was just too many senses that weren't getting it, tell us so.
Speaker 3:I just couldn't do it. So what's the premise?
Speaker 2:Like so the premise is they can't see each other, they talk to each other. You can't give guidance as to Like, if I say are you fat? You can't ask that.
Speaker 1:Okay, right, so apparently yeah, but you can ask around about ways, how.
Speaker 3:Are you round? How did?
Speaker 2:you ask the guy in the blind, the dark place? I never asked.
Speaker 3:You never asked them what you look like and it's called dark table. I just said here it was a dark place.
Speaker 1:I was like that was the point.
Speaker 3:The point was trying to match and Did he set this up with you?
Speaker 1:Utilize the senses. What's that?
Speaker 3:Was this his idea? Did he get it at a place that you couldn't see him?
Speaker 1:No, it was totally no, it was totally my idea. It was totally my idea, jesus, I just thought it would be such a cool story.
Speaker 3:It is a good story. I'm really glad you lived.
Speaker 2:Anyways, so there's this guy. So this is what I've read on Ax or Twitter, or whatever we're calling it now, and formally known as Twitter. So the girl he was talking to two different girls. He got to choose between the two girls, as I understand it Naturally. I just understand it that way.
Speaker 1:So the one no, but there's lots of people you're choosing from.
Speaker 2:Oh is there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because what happens is you? Okay, there's like this is how it works there's 10 guys and there's 10 girls and they all kind of date each other. They're in separate rooms and the girls sit on one side, the guys sit on the other side and there's a screen in the middle and they can talk back and forth, so they can't see each other All right. And what happens is each guy rotates around and goes on a date with each girl. Then they come back and they say, okay, I like this person, I want to go on a date again with this one, this one and this one. And they keep on doing that until someone says will you marry me? And once they decide to get married, then they finally get to come together and see each other.
Speaker 3:So what's the date? So they sit across the screen and just talk about stuff.
Speaker 2:Their feelings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, stuff Exactly.
Speaker 3:Worf.
Speaker 2:So, Feelings.
Speaker 1:It's totally. They talk about their feelings. Okay, so here's the part.
Speaker 3:There's no physical interaction and all of a sudden it's like you will marry me Well.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that's what it is Zero. Zero, anywho, I watched it.
Speaker 1:That's what it is From what I understand.
Speaker 2:What went down this one guy? He's going between two girls. One is a bombshell and the other one is Her claim to fame is her friends tell her she looks like Megan Fox, so Buddy is like hey. I love the Transformers. Let's date and he chooses the one looks like Megan Fox, but the punchline is she doesn't look like fucking Megan Fox, because you know, so he loses my Megan Fox. Meanwhile, the bombshell is gone.
Speaker 3:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Sh ain't that some somebody else that's not.
Speaker 2:Ain't that some shit.
Speaker 1:That's someone else. Did someone else get the bombshell, though? Just the bomb? I don't know.
Speaker 2:This is I was just trying to. I was piecing this together on Twitter X, whatever we're calling it now, and yeah, I had no idea this is even a thing.
Speaker 3:It's fascinating.
Speaker 2:I have a friend of mine. She watches the Swedish. She watches the Swedish. So that's too much, because to me, you're reading subtitles while you're trying to watch people who aren't looking like they have no idea and you're not allowed to ask what they look like, like it's just too much, too many centuries, or like it's completely contrived, yeah, so like the whole premise is like, can you get past the physical attraction barriers or they're not and see if you actually find someone that you've got to battle with?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. And it sounds like everybody in this show is equally stupid, so they should all be perfect for each other.
Speaker 1:Well well, yeah.
Speaker 2:And we're going to boil it down. Okay? Well, I don't think so. Christine fucking built this on her own. She didn't even need the fucking show. She did this herself. She stepped out and fucking did it herself. I did this before the show.
Speaker 1:I did it before the show we even came out. I should have fucking started this show. I made a lot of money, man.
Speaker 2:It's not like this. Is that unheard of Christine did it in fucking Kensington or Inglewood or wherever this dark place is Somewhere downtown?
Speaker 1:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:That's amazing. Yeah, it was so dark, you'd even know.
Speaker 1:I just can't.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even like I don't even know what to say. Yeah, so if you're like, you're like you know, we really got something going on here. Lights come on. It's like, yeah, this isn't for me.
Speaker 3:I feel like so what's the message there? I feel like that happens at 2am at most places. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I get it Like last call right.
Speaker 3:But the I go, that's come on. You're like oh no but.
Speaker 2:But you're going down this road like, oh yeah, you're so special, we connect on so many levels, and then the lights come on, the barrier comes down. You're like, oh, this is a disappointment, we don't connect on all these levels anymore. I'll get it. No, you can't connect on one fucking level.
Speaker 3:We're missing the foundation of this house, Like isn't that wild. That is wild, so okay. So what's the status on? Like what?
Speaker 2:did you say, christine, you're just like oh, we connect on so many levels and then you don't. As soon as you see him, he's like yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you know, I I can't even really remember what happened. I just I vaguely remember we went out for a beer after that and then I found out that he ran kind of a stores and I was just like, oh yeah, no, like that's not for me, and you didn't ask that before that already.
Speaker 1:And then I don't know why I didn't know that before. No, I must. I don't know why I didn't ask. That it's really weird. And then he was telling me all about that and I don't know. We ended the date and I just never talked to him.
Speaker 3:So I got to wind this back a little bit. So you're, you set this up, you got the conversation going over text or whatever, right, that's how it was. And you meet for dinner at the dark table, and that's a it's like a three hour dinner, isn't it? It takes a while.
Speaker 1:No, it's not that long.
Speaker 3:It's not long.
Speaker 1:I'd say it's 90 minutes.
Speaker 3:So okay, so 90 minutes you got, you get like three servings, three courses, okay so you got 90 minutes.
Speaker 2:You're crossing this guy Just not the inner course.
Speaker 3:Just just not that. So you're you're 90 minutes at this place Pitch dark, yeah, I mean, and like were you vibing it, were you into it? Like did the conversation work? Yeah, because, okay, this is the thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the conversation was great and this is the thing. He had a really awesome voice, Okay. So this is what kept me hooked in there and and that was one of the reasons we were talking and he I remember talking with him and he wanted to face for radio.
Speaker 3:This was when it all came out, I'm like I don't want to.
Speaker 1:I don't want to see your face.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Like I know I'm going to be disappointed and so so he was built up as being like this Fabio kind of awesome guy, like so good looking, great voice. And then the lights come on. You're like oh, fuck. Well, like oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Imagine this wasn't there. Well, yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, yeah, I feel actually really bad now.
Speaker 3:We don't know what he looks like either.
Speaker 2:That's rough, you know. It's funny, Like when we, when we talk about things we're going to talk about. This was just like a sidebar, but this has turned into a significant part of this episode.
Speaker 1:I totally forgot about that experience too. That was so funny.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, I'm going to do that again.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm going to set that up in Calgary as a thing, oh no.
Speaker 3:We should, uh, we should. Podcast from the dark table.
Speaker 1:Oh God, oh my God, I love it. Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 2:I've never been there we should go. Dude, I didn't tell you this. And uh, people calling my office soliciting me to be. They listened to the village confidential and they wanted me to be there so that people, even though I'd gotten right yeah. People. No. So, christine, I was just saying like I had people reach out to my office and they want me on their podcast to be a financial professional because they'd listened to the village confidential.
Speaker 1:Really yes, oh my God what.
Speaker 2:And I didn't return the call and they've emailed me six times. Wow, it's, it's weird.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:So, and what kind of they're? They're like a commercial, or what do they want you for, or is it some of the?
Speaker 2:no, like a show they want because they produce a bunch of different podcasts. So they want and I'm like no, no A. You know I've been writing this podcast for uh, into the close for how long and it's getting it through. Compliance is like I can get it through compliance, but it's not the show that I want to do. So this is what's going on right now. So you don't want to go on the, so I'm not going to go do it somewhere else for free Right.
Speaker 3:And then, and the resume doesn't. It's not accented by the leather and whips podcast. Right, that's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the dark castle. Where, where'd you eat Dark, what Dark table.
Speaker 1:Dark table.
Speaker 2:Dark castle sounds better, Especially if there was a Gimp Like a zipper mouth. Oh, I'd be. I'd be gold.
Speaker 3:He wasn't wearing that, was he?
Speaker 2:He was wearing that, so here's a question Maybe there's been this conversation around reparations, and I think it's happened in the States, it's definitely happened in Canada. So there was a conversation that was going on around this and one of the hosts of the view had was very strong on the side of reparations. So if you were a descendant of someone who was a slave, you would receive compensation.
Speaker 3:So this is you're getting money for what your ancestors or relatives had endured.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. So, and I again I don't understand the topic that well, because I don't understand if it would be the state, ie, the US government, that would have to pay it, right, or who would have to pay it. Okay, so now I have to look up her name. I can look it up. Can you look it up from her?
Speaker 1:S-O-N-N-Y-S-H-O-S-G-I-N.
Speaker 2:Is that what it is, sunny? Is there a name Sunny?
Speaker 1:Yeah, sunny Hauston, s-o-n-n-y-s.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Sunny Hauston, honey, honey, sauston. See, I just fucking helped her Right.
Speaker 3:See, that's alias.
Speaker 2:Honey Sauston Like it's.
Speaker 1:She just needs to start a bar with you.
Speaker 2:Wait, I'm going to start a podcast on sex and that's going to be my name, honey Sauston, anywho. So she goes on this PBS show to find out her roots and they test her for it. They do this build up and explain where all the nuances of her family and she is feeling that she's entitled to reparations.
Speaker 2:Well, she's in favor of it. She considers herself Puerto Rican, okay, okay. So right at the end of the show then they're like okay, it's time for us to disclose, kind of, what your roots are, and I'm going to play this clip.
Speaker 3:Okay, here we go.
Speaker 4:Wow, I'm a little bit in shock. I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican, you know, half Puerto Rican. I didn't think I was. My family was originally from Spain and slaveholders yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so how are you feeling, my friend?
Speaker 4:I just I think it's actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots, so I do appreciate that and I think it's great for our children to know this information. I guess it's a fact of life that this is how some people made their living.
Speaker 2:So there you have it. She is the descendant of Spanish slave owners.
Speaker 3:So, according to the New York Post, her ancestors quote owned at least one human.
Speaker 2:Not funny, but what do you do there? So does she owe, like? Does her family owe reparitions to the descendants of the people that they owned?
Speaker 3:I don't think that I mean, like you said before, you don't know where it comes from, right.
Speaker 2:How does that work?
Speaker 1:No, I think it's the government that pays that, not individual people.
Speaker 3:It's wild, but I think you. So there's a couple of things.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine, like, don't you think you would check into that first, Like hop on theanchestercom.
Speaker 3:Just have a quick little search.
Speaker 2:It's wild. You're so confident Like I, I mean. This whole thing makes me question where.
Speaker 3:I'm from. You go into ancestry and you put in your name and then you click on the box says did I own slaves? Oh, yes or no Is that true?
Speaker 1:Is that the search?
Speaker 3:I don't know if it's there, but I feel like she wants that button.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do that. I want to know if I've owned slaves.
Speaker 2:Well, like, okay, let me give you a scenario. Like my grandfather migrated or, pardon me, immigrated. He didn't bust through the fence, he came through in legal methods to Canada, he immigrated.
Speaker 3:No migration.
Speaker 2:No migration. So from Switzerland he could have easily been on the wrong side of the Swiss border. You know, if I go back I think about it. He probably got here right after World War II, right? So am I a Nazi? I'm scared shitless of doing one of these things. By the way.
Speaker 3:I mean the community government made that mistake last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah they can't even identify him when they know that's what they are Like throwing some. Google next time you invite someone Right, but can you imagine?
Speaker 3:Oh, I mean the embarrassment that would come from that. I'd be horrified for sure. And you know you like. Here's the conundrum, like do you want to know what is in your past?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3:That's the big question.
Speaker 2:I hate. Look, I have a past that I actually know about and I don't want to know it.
Speaker 3:So I actually did it myself and I'm just like fuck, I don't think I can tell Colton about this.
Speaker 2:What time is it?
Speaker 3:Probably best to leave that at the dark table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, just leave that at the dark castle.
Speaker 1:Leave it under the dark table, under the dark table.
Speaker 3:That would be an interesting episode or like show to like have people go back into their history and find out who they're related to and what they're related with.
Speaker 2:And who would have thought PBS can't figure this one out? Oh, yeah, right, pbs did it. Yeah, not TBC, someone had it out for her. You think Like her face in the clip is like it's wild.
Speaker 3:I feel like somebody had PBS, just did a little ancestry search and was like have I got an episode for you? Yeah Right, like that had to be set up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you would think so.
Speaker 1:It's wild I feel like she just did it for? Do you think that maybe she just did it for the attention? Now everybody's going to know who she is.
Speaker 3:I don't know if that's the attention you want. Yeah, I mean you could do a lot of things to get attention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, speaking of the view, where are you coming on the view there, christine?
Speaker 1:I just I can't watch it. I can't listen to all those women gaggling back and forth about shit.
Speaker 2:So couple weeks ago Dr Phil wheeled in there, oh great, and he got into it with whoopie and it was all around COVID and shutting down schools, right.
Speaker 3:Is that a topic that you should be?
Speaker 2:discussing.
Speaker 1:Who is on what side?
Speaker 2:Well, dr Phil was like that was the absolute worst thing they could have done, because he had the age group. That was the absolute lowest impact from COVID and the big point he was making is, at schools there's observers where they are looking at, there's professionals that they are looking to find, make sure that there's kids not in distress through abusive relationship with family members or parents, and that whole side of it was shut down. So then you had these kids that were subjected 24, seven to these abusers for two years in a row, and that's what the data shows. It was wild.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was Dr Phil's point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I don't know if we want to retread COVID stuff, but nobody won with any of those restrictions, like nobody came up better. No.
Speaker 2:No, no, peloton was better. Peloton stock was a lot better. Like a lot better, that thing was yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Past tense on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, it's funny, the and I always. You know I work in this racket, but I'm always amazed at just the cycles and things. Right, that's always so amazing to me. What are you doing, christine? You're writing an essay. What's going on over there?
Speaker 1:I'm trying to log into something over there to get some information that you think are challenging.
Speaker 2:Are you doing some work while we're entertaining?
Speaker 1:I'll get it, though. No, I'm not. I was trying to get some, I can see it in your glasses.
Speaker 2:It's reflecting and I can see what you're doing.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to play with you all the time.
Speaker 1:I'm looking for my e-sports trainer. Oh okay, I thought I'd have a friend somewhere.
Speaker 2:So your business is fully back on from COVID.
Speaker 3:I would say, yes, you know. What's interesting, though, is the well, from one point, everybody's working from home, right, yeah, and then everybody still wanted to be at home, and then everybody wanted to be back at the office, and then the office has mandated people to come back, and now everybody's pissed about it. But what I've noticed with our business because we sit on the periphery of downtown the days that are really busy with traffic are Tuesday, wednesday, thursdays, monday, fridays are dead, yeah. Because everybody's at home, yep and I guess what translates to busy day for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2:That's interesting yeah.
Speaker 3:It's, yeah, it's a different world and we you know people now because money's tighter, recession well, I guess technical recession were we ever in that? Or just on the brink of yeah, I mean longer?
Speaker 2:It felt like a rolling recession through sectors Like it wasn't all at once.
Speaker 3:It was, yeah, inflation and then job losses, whatever, whatever. We find that we're just having to rebuild a lot now, where people are waiting until they're completely destroyed before they come in to see us. So the work that we do is harder now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right, but we're more likely Bot meidän capable of really really broken, but it's coming like no complaints, happy. We're only closed for a couple of months, a couple of years ago, and we're doing lessons.
Speaker 2:And here's Christine just wandering around with COVID. Just wandering flying to Arizona looking for new strains. How can I give this to 300?
Speaker 1:more people.
Speaker 2:I know I'll go on a flight.
Speaker 1:I'm so mad at that lady. I had a moment and so this was my. I'm like I'm carrying a mask with me from now on, because I just took them all out of my bag. I just didn't think they were needed anymore. But obviously people don't wear masks when they're sick on planes, and they should.
Speaker 3:Was it the no.
Speaker 1:However, who knows?
Speaker 3:Was it the giant bag of fishermen friends, that you put out on the tray table that gave it away?
Speaker 1:Is there a horsey voice when she was talking to her husband. I'm like you're sick.
Speaker 3:I'm like you're sick, Was it? Was it the rectal thermometer she pulled out?
Speaker 2:Have you ever looked back at the mask? Have you ever looked back at all the mask inventory you have? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:When I took my vehicle, I traded my vehicle in.
Speaker 1:I think it's all thrown out.
Speaker 2:I traded my vehicle in and I emptied my like glove box. Matt, I had a lot of different masks in there.
Speaker 3:You know I'm all hanging off the review mirror. Yeah, no.
Speaker 2:It was like, and it was always like I'd go to get an x-ray and you go on there and like they're like you need a mask. I'm like do you have one?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 2:So then you know, run out to your vehicle, get whatever you had, your bedazzled mask that has zero protection, an old sock Like wander back in. I've been walking for years. Can I have my x-ray now? That's not a medical mask, You're going to have to rebook. See you in November, it's only six months away. Oh okay, I'm sorry I wasn't prepared for this meeting.
Speaker 3:Like I don't miss those fucking days. No, I don't either. I don't either. It's funny going to the hockey game the other night and watching the flames out there and remembering back when the whole thing was shut down.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Remember they were playing in the saddle dome and all the rain is around the city and they had those blankets or whatever they were, the covers over top of the seats. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wild it was such a strange time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, really was.
Speaker 1:What is the stupid thing to do?
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, you think back and I like I will say that if you go back and we always said this before- two years ago we talked about.
Speaker 3:This is the post mortem on this is going to be really bloody because we don't know what we're doing right now, but everybody's trying to make the best decisions they can. Yeah, so at the time it was like, okay, that makes perfect sense, that keeps in line with the public health measures, it could be everyone safe. And then you look back at it now so for second time, there's bullshit. Whoa we doing. Yeah, yeah, and not that it wasn't appropriate at the time Like I'm not seeing that, it's just like what you know now. That's why hindsight is always 2020.
Speaker 2:I remember when it was just two weeks. It's two weeks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's two weeks man, it's to be a bump.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:And you know I mean it's still, it's still out there, but you know it's different now. I remember, and I was never one of the ones that was wiping off my or like selling my groceries and that kind of stuff, right, Christine, was I worry?
Speaker 2:I did.
Speaker 1:I did, I did, I totally did.
Speaker 3:Did you forget to wipe your groceries? Is that what happened? This?
Speaker 1:is what happens, but yeah.
Speaker 3:I remember like going to the grocery store and, like you know, you had to walk on the right side of the aisle and you had to maintain the spacing and yeah, and now it's just a free for all, like who cares, I mean think about it, dude, like just thinking about, like when I was in Nelsonette and to go to the gym and you'd your masking tape lines that you had to stay within.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that. God so crazy. Yeah, it was so crazy. So arrive can app.
Speaker 3:Where is the conspiracy about over there Arrived?
Speaker 2:can app. Why don't we talk about that? Oh my gosh. 60 million.
Speaker 3:It was more than that, wasn't?
Speaker 2:I thought it was 300 and someone Well, it was 300 and someone million went to that same company. But they think arrive scam was only 60 million even, which would cost 80 grand to build that app.
Speaker 3:And you're getting around to the thing that came out, where the CEO of that company works for the Department of National Defense. Yeah, I just want to listen to peer poly talk about this. I just want to hear it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to hear the RCMP talk about it. That's even better. Yeah, in an interview room. You know the ones that they lock the doors.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the light in the eyes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I want, to like man.
Speaker 3:Unbelievable.
Speaker 2:And then now there's a problem with our you know these people that we like going Winnipeg and they were sharing information on some of the COVID viruses that they were working on.
Speaker 3:In Winnipeg. Yeah, no, I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2:You haven't seen this one yet. That's yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3:That's great. Shut up Winnipeg. Yeah, Like not just Winnipeg like Canada. Wow.
Speaker 2:That's awful. Yeah, go Canada. Yeah, hey, at least we got that arm on the space shuttle. We're getting a lot of home runs on plate. It's a nice arm. It's just wild, Like it's just a wild time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, do you think this stuff always went on and we're just more aware of it now, like they're reporting?
Speaker 2:so much different. Hey yeah, I just don't know. I'm just so disappointed how many conspiracy theories are actually accurate?
Speaker 3:I'm so disappointed. I didn't believe any of them. Shut up Flat Earthers.
Speaker 4:Yeah you're next.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I'm just going to start apologizing now. Yeah, it's wild, Like the amount of stuff that's been going on. It's just wild.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's interesting. So we in the population becomes further and further divided over topics that they know nothing about, 100%.
Speaker 2:This doesn't help anything. This you, that was a perfect segue. Like, I don't care to know what your political skews are, but I've like I find it. I find it. Yeah, sorry about that. I find it. I've found that I'm becoming less tolerant of different opinions, like I really am.
Speaker 1:You're finding this now, I feel, I feel, I feel like this is all he's been.
Speaker 3:This is a good. This is a good comment right here. This is not new. Christine's got the knife out. Now here she comes.
Speaker 1:Are you saying about me? I feel like that you would have said the same. Yes, you would have said the same thing three years ago.
Speaker 2:Hey look, I'm just bringing something to light. You don't have to bring the past into it, I'm just bringing something forward. I just feel like I'm just bringing something forward. That is new to me. It may not be new to you.
Speaker 1:This is the safe place to share.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I felt like this was what's welfare I'll say. In old school I thought this was the safe tree, Clearly not.
Speaker 3:I did to your point, though, like I get frustrated with decisions that are being made strictly and political stripe and not common sense, and that's where we're going. Yeah, it's just, it's so silly, and I'll bring up a very relevant example that happened in the last few weeks.
Speaker 3:The federal government comes up with this pharma care system, to my knowledge, didn't consult any of the provinces on it, at least not to any significant degree. It's an overreach. It's an overreach. And then, like we, you know, as the our listener knows, we have a type one diabetic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that was your list.
Speaker 3:And we've fought for years and years, and years to get covered for all of her supplies and blah, blah, blah, and we've been successful. It's taken us 17 years to get it all done, but we're there. But the only thing that isn't covered, the only thing that is not covered now is insulin. The fucking one thing that keeps them alive is not. The is the thing that isn't covered. Yeah. So pharma care comes up and they're like, hey, we're going to cover it. And we're like, shit, we finally got the full package. And crazy Danny denied yeah. And so I have no affiliation to liberals or God knows the federal NDP, but I'm like, finally, somebody spoke up for the kids that need this stuff. Yeah, and then, based on a political strife that has nothing to do with healthcare, yeah. And then it pulls the, pulls the, the void stamp.
Speaker 2:Now, now, I don't think she's, I don't think that's what they said, what they said was they would do something else. No, all they said is they want details on what it actually is, which I think is a fair question. Don't you think that's a fair question? Totally fair question what? What is it?
Speaker 3:Could you send a memo before you announce it to the Canadian population?
Speaker 2:Well, they're doing it because there was a deadline for the government to be.
Speaker 3:But don't you think it also leverages? Like it, you know it basically pits political affiliations against. Like it, it works for them from an election standpoint.
Speaker 2:It does, but you were in my opinion. You were asking for it because you were it's not a part of your mandate? Yeah, right, and yes, some. Yeah, federal funding goes to healthcare, but the allocation of it is a mandate. Totally 100%, so did not like. Hey, everyone we're going to have a meeting about this new farm care that we're going to bring out. Let's get together and talk about it. There wasn't that.
Speaker 3:So in, in. That is the point that I'm making, from the perspective that, if they're going to come out with this program, no and I understand what you're saying why don't you make a?
Speaker 2:couple. Danny, crazy Danny did it. It's just like no it's. But that's the optics, sure, and she's fine with that.
Speaker 3:A quick little phone call but like hey, we're thinking about this, what do you think?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she was a said fuck off anyways. Yeah, she probably was. But right, well, prime minister, showed up in in our, our capital, and didn't even go and see her. So, yeah, so that's a lot. Wouldn't have a meeting with her when she went to Ottawa, so it goes both ways. For sure, I'm not a fan of hers, but I can also see you know what's going on.
Speaker 3:She's good if she doesn't talk.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think that's fair. I could say that about the other guy too. Yeah, sure Good.
Speaker 1:There's a problem in the century.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I mean we have big issues up here, but we're not, we're not our Southern neighbors right now.
Speaker 2:No, that's totally different situation. Yeah, Like we at least. We have three parties and depending on what province you're in, it's four. And why is it okay for Quebec to opt out? Just curious of, but it's a problem for Alberta.
Speaker 3:Oh, and the healthcare? Yeah, oh, I didn't anyone that opts out.
Speaker 2:So no, but Quebec opted out and still received their funding.
Speaker 3:But that's how Quebec works.
Speaker 2:Okay, I wasn't sure how that worked Well because that's Quebec Right. They'll take all the funding they want. But if we opt out we lose our funding Totally. Yeah, interesting yeah.
Speaker 3:But we don't have a second language.
Speaker 2:Christine, did you own a French person? Is that what happened?
Speaker 1:Did I owe you.
Speaker 2:Are you descendants of people who own French people?
Speaker 1:I thought you found me out.
Speaker 4:You found me out for God's sake.
Speaker 2:You owe reparations. I mean over and above the trend, over and above the 12 billion we sent Quebec every year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:Over and above the 12 billion in equalization payments, you owe them reparations.
Speaker 1:I don't even know some insulin please. My daughter right now is doing her social 30 for upgrading in school, and this is what they're talking about. What makes Canada such a great place? How is the balance between individualism and oh my God, what are we? Collectivism? Why is that made Canada so special? I'm trying to help her and I'm like it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 3:Do we have a balance? Well, this is what the argument is.
Speaker 1:And so this is what yeah, we lean more.
Speaker 2:If you have enough population to have enough votes, yes, but if you're sparsely populated, not so much, not so much. Oh man, it's wild, interesting time and I think, the perspective.
Speaker 3:Like a teacher's perspective would be different than other people.
Speaker 2:Well, I think in this room, all self-employed.
Speaker 3:Different perspective from those that are government employed. Or I remember when Colton right Great 11, Colton came home and his teacher gave him an NDP pin.
Speaker 2:That was my favorite day. That's an overreach right there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so okay, this is a few weeks ago. But I got it. I got it back this up. So, speaking about the entitlement of society, well, here we go. So there was a lot of people who were like I'm not going to be able to do this, here we go. So there was this push and it was all over the radio stations. It was when we did our leap year episode Whatever that was and Salary employees want extra pay for February 29th because it's an extra day in the year.
Speaker 1:Nice At least don't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was on the news. They were talking about it. Shut up. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, god, can you believe that it's a day Fuck just by itself.
Speaker 3:Well, it makes up for the four hours you miss Let it make you seriously hate.
Speaker 1:Oh no, oh, my God, it's just it's a different world being employed and being self-employed. It's just different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just fucking different.
Speaker 3:It doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:Two weeks, three weeks ago I guess, we had to have six days of trying different coffees in the office.
Speaker 3:Do tell oh.
Speaker 2:Staff are very passionate about their coffee.
Speaker 1:You need to go and look at the fire.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Wait, they're passionate about the coffee that you provide.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it wasn't me. It was can't accord, but it was just interesting the process, like the fear of change.
Speaker 1:The absolute fear of change. I don't.
Speaker 2:so, christine, you know me and Nespresso have a very deep personal relationship. I have an Nespresso in my office, so I don't, I'm like you don't really care what the thing is. You could. You could fucking have tequila out there. I wouldn't know. Like I wouldn't know, I slither in, have my little double espresso, throw an extra shot in a little bit of hot water. I'm good, done Shakey for the morning, me. And who's the guy who owns it? He was in Oceans 13. What's his name?
Speaker 3:George Clooney Clooney and.
Speaker 2:I wait, Clooney owns Nespresso. He's in there, yeah.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I learned so much when I do these things.
Speaker 2:Like I just my coffee's just so sexy as George is in there, yeah.
Speaker 3:You didn't know that? No, I didn't. I feel good about my coffees. Now you should feel good about your coffee. I really do, because since I've been to your place in Nelson, I bought an espresso the week after and I have a. I have a backup machine, as do I.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:I've been a fiend since I was at your place a year and a half ago.
Speaker 2:You gotta have all the colors.
Speaker 3:I do have my favorites for sure.
Speaker 2:And then I used to give Christine all the colors I didn't like at the end of the season.
Speaker 1:I know, don't you feel guilty, though, about this color, like don't you feel guilty about the pods? I felt guilty about the pods.
Speaker 3:Never thought of it till now, ladybugs live in those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I feel, I feel bad. Even though they recycle, then we know they'll.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I put them in the plastic bag and then we're like sending them back.
Speaker 1:You really dumped them in the ocean.
Speaker 2:No, I have villages of ladybugs that live in them. Ladybugs move into them.
Speaker 1:When I'm done and they make things. I don't think there's that many ladybugs.
Speaker 3:See, I put them in a plastic bag and I put them in the, in the whatever for the post office and then they fly off somewhere. So the carbon footprint of my recycling is it's a I'm net zero, basically yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes I can't handle it, I can't do it, sometimes I put them in the red bag.
Speaker 2:I feel so guilty and I don't feel like going to the post office. I throw the red bag at the garbage Right now in a and throwing them back.
Speaker 3:Back in nature, back to nature, my friend, the giant refrigerator sitting in that landfill?
Speaker 4:Yeah, Terrible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, linking free on everywhere.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 1:I'm surprised that they still allow that because without, because without, like now they've reduced, like you can't have single use items. I'm surprised that the government hasn't stepped in and said no, you may not have, you're not going to allow you to sell that stuff in Canada.
Speaker 3:I thought that got repealed. I thought the single use thing in Calgary got repealed. What?
Speaker 2:The bylaw. Yeah, yeah, danielle canceled it.
Speaker 1:Oh god, Rupia did. It got taken out. She can't do it. She allowed to cancel that she's allowed to cancel that.
Speaker 3:I think they were looking into it in the city council. We're going to have to repeal it.
Speaker 2:Hey, we're not saving it. It's not a climate emergency anymore.
Speaker 1:Okay, I hope that's the case because I'm really missing my green stuffers from Starbucks. Like I cannot tell you how I miss them. Like when I go to the US I hold onto them and I bring back a big pack of them. I can stick them in my coffee when I get them.
Speaker 2:I don't think they've done that. Like, even Booster Juice is still in the paper straws, which drives me up the wall.
Speaker 3:Got to get through your drink and hurry on those things. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, true story. How's your nose?
Speaker 1:So that's what I need, that's the. Oh my god, I just had it. It was disgusting, it was just running out. It was different stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, you can thank Winnipeg for that.
Speaker 4:The Wuhan flu isn't that what they call it?
Speaker 2:The Wuhan flu.
Speaker 4:Well, have we ever?
Speaker 1:got concrete? Have we ever got concrete evidence that it was man-made Like? We all think it's man-made, right, but have we ever actually got concrete evidence?
Speaker 2:No, no, and I don't think it's important. I think it's the planet telling us that we need more paper stoppers for our Starbucks, no more green stoppers for you.
Speaker 1:Back my green Starbucks stoppers.
Speaker 3:No more stoppers, so you feel like the uh.
Speaker 1:I feel like you. I kind of I look.
Speaker 4:You feel like COVID was a green peas project.
Speaker 3:Is that what you think?
Speaker 2:But you know what I love? The people raging going, going to E&W. All you want is a burger and fries. No bag, you can't have a bag no bag. Yeah, you just toss all your ingredients People losing their shit over it. That was the like breaking point People going through a drive-through and not getting a bag Like, but that's a great way to find out if you actually get all the food you paid for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jeff, it's good in this hurry here, here's your fries.
Speaker 2:Here's your burger.
Speaker 3:So I've got a story about that, so I was in um.
Speaker 1:Did you want? You want some ketchup with that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hold your bun out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the ketchup bottle in the window.
Speaker 3:So I was in, I was in LA, I was in Pasadena last May May 23 for the CrossFit uh semi-finals, working on some athletes there, and I found and every time we go to California I got to get sushi, because that's as close as I get to the Pacific Ocean at any given time. So I got to the sushi place and it was incredible Like unreal Food was amazing Gorge myself. It was so good. I went back the next night and I had different stuff from the sushi placement Same place.
Speaker 2:Mercury poisoning.
Speaker 3:Might have been to that. So the third night. I was like I just don't feel like sitting down for dinner, so I'm going to get takeout. So I went to the sushi place and got takeout. I heard it Went in there, picked up my bag, went home, went back to the hotel, watched a movie and I opened up the sushi thing and the portions are 30% lower than what I got in when I got in the restaurant.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I phoned them up and I was like, hey, I just picked up my takeout order, yeah, and I've been in there the last two nights eating in person. Is there anything I need to know about my portions? He's like, yeah, if you drop by, we'll get your free portion, because they knowingly cut the portions and maybe it's because they've got plastic bags and you know whatever else. People will go back, yeah, I call big teas.
Speaker 2:Oh, you did. I love big teas. Shout out to big teas.
Speaker 3:But I feel like big teas is about to get ripped. So what did we?
Speaker 2:we got a few people over and I had like those platters, but I added, and you had the option to add their mac and cheese, right, and it came in this like like tiny little thing, like the great thing. It came in like a sampler container, yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was 15 bucks, so I called them and I'm like, is this right?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's eight ounces, and I'm like that's a rip off. Sorry, sir, but that's, that's, that's inflation. And he's like, and gave me that answer that's inflation. Yeah, that's that's inflation. Yeah, and I was like I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, that's oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know who did the best in COVID Restaurants.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm feeling killing.
Speaker 2:Like I'm sick, I'm done with that. Like and they crank up the prices, like it is insane how much it costs to go over now.
Speaker 3:A steak now is 65 bucks, like come on, come on, crazy.
Speaker 1:And then on top of that they want 40%. So yeah, but also on the other side of it, like stupid and they've cranked like again.
Speaker 2:our government cranked up minimum wage, did they? Isn't it 15 bucks now?
Speaker 3:Oh, that was a couple of years ago, yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's like 15 for a while.
Speaker 2:We're still the lowest in Canada, or one of you think that's 15 boxes Like I don't know, that seems, that seems nuts.
Speaker 3:So let me tell you what's so we I was in just outside of St Albert this past weekend yeah, st Albert in a blizzard and the restaurant there's a poster in the elevator weekly drink special a margarita Like. Not a special like a margarita, just lime, tequila, ice, sugar ramp salted ramp 20 bucks, 14 bucks on special.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:In St Albert.
Speaker 1:Yeah, really. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, it's bananas. You know, minimum wage in the US for lots of states is still 725.
Speaker 3:What 725. Yeah, okay. That's half of what you thought was good at 15.
Speaker 1:Thanks stats Like they haven't gone through this thing, but they haven't gone through that whole revolution yet.
Speaker 2:What revolution? Socialism.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly Okay, california.
Speaker 2:That's not a revolution. They're actually inside. Like Marx tried it a long time ago Revolution Well you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I got you. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I like how. But when you think about it, like how, how do people actually survive on $7.25 an hour? I mean, I've spent $50 an hour, but you know.
Speaker 3:Math, it's all math.
Speaker 1:Crazy.
Speaker 2:Cocaine is a hell of a drug. Yeah, no one can afford it apparently. Yep, okay, kids. Well, that was fun.
Speaker 3:Well, it was fun. I really enjoyed this yeah. I think it was a good nice to be back with you guys.
Speaker 2:It's nice to be back virtually with Christine.
Speaker 1:I was back.
Speaker 2:She drinks less in this format. Yeah, that that is the issue, and there was more Chinese food for us.
Speaker 3:There was. Yeah, are you right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Next episode I hope we get to see in person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know we do. I know when you're possibly happen.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's sign off here. Good night. All right, thanks Bye.