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The Village Confidential
Season 3, Episode #2 - The Tangled Threads of Romance, Roots, and Reparations
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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.
Blind Dating Reality TV Shows
Speaker 2Welcome to the Village .
Speaker 1Confidential . Hello everyone .
Speaker 2Christine , ernesto and Dr Bradkink . What so ? I'm not paying you anymore ?
Speaker 1But she's taking it .
Speaker 2I had a dollar for everything .
Speaker 3And I kind of look up for my phone and I am in Narnia . Oh , feel like I know you .
Speaker 2Man , I love that scratching .
Speaker 1Don't you love that scratching ?
Speaker 3It's so good .
Speaker 2I feel like I could do it . It's so perfect .
Speaker 1It's literally so perfect you could for sure scratch .
Speaker 2I feel like I could do it . Oh , my oh my gosh Mix Master .
Speaker 3E 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 2Hey , I got lots of records at my house that haven't thought I even know what the fuck they are .
Speaker 3So at the cabin . Christine , you got any Taylor Swift records we can practice with .
Speaker 1Oh 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 3They're all the rage now .
Speaker 2My kids have records Christine will never , ever own an antique store . No .
Speaker 1No , no , no , they're smelly .
Speaker 2So would you ever jump in a relationship with someone without seeing what they look like ? It's a tough question .
Speaker 1Okay , Actually I have a story .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , here you go . You've done this then .
Speaker 3Obviously , let me light a candle .
Speaker 1I have Okay . But kind of an not totally Okay .
Speaker 3Are you ?
Speaker 1ready 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 1He 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 4So we had this .
Speaker 1Did you have catfish for dinner ?
Speaker 3I don't know what it was . How long did it stay dark for ?
Speaker 1The whole , the whole meal . So he went in first , and so then I got there and I was holding it .
Speaker 1I 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 2No tongue .
Speaker 1Like 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 2Oh , my God , yeah .
Speaker 1So I just , I was bored , I was bored .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 1There are other ways to satisfy that . Well , you don't have to .
Speaker 2It was fun .
Speaker 1How was that ? I've never like that place doesn't exist anymore .
Speaker 3Does it the Dine in the Dark thing ? Is it still around ? I don't know . Let me just let me go .
Speaker 1When they do that in Mexico , I fear for my life .
Speaker 2Yeah , I wouldn't go to a place in Mexico , where it's dark , oh man . You can just be real quick .
Speaker 1Not just that , it's just dark , it's called yeah Dark table . It's still open , by the way it is .
Speaker 3So 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 1I'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 2They 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 1Yeah , yeah , that's , that's unreal .
Speaker 2That's cool , it's totally true .
Speaker 1And you're turning it into some fucked up blind date situation .
Speaker 3Like Can you imagine those people are going like that goes on there .
Speaker 1I just can't . There's so many ways .
Speaker 2They thought it was . They thought it was awesome . He was hot too . Imagine if that had been worked out .
Speaker 4No they did . He said he was okay .
Speaker 3He was okay , smokeshow , trust me , he's a smokeshow .
Speaker 1Just to be fair , he wasn't actually that bad , just not for me .
Speaker 2Got it , that's just not my person .
Speaker 3That's different from disappointment .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's not how you ended the story the first time around .
Speaker 4So anyways the reason they .
Speaker 1I don't have time .
Speaker 2Okay , go ahead . What , no ? Okay . So the reason they bring this up is there's been some headlines about this . Love is blind .
Speaker 3So this is a TV show reality , yeah , and you know what ?
Speaker 2Maybe 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 3I didn't know that existed , like I follow some of the people on Instagram .
Speaker 2That'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 3So what's it called ?
Speaker 2Love is blind .
Speaker 3Love is blind .
Speaker 2Yeah , okay , so in theory you're not supposed to ask what season ?
Speaker 1What season is it I ?
Speaker 2honestly 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 3I just couldn't do it . So what's the premise ?
Speaker 2Like 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 1Okay , right , so apparently yeah , but you can ask around about ways , how .
Speaker 3Are you round ? How did ?
Speaker 2you ask the guy in the blind , the dark place ? I never asked .
Speaker 3You never asked them what you look like and it's called dark table . I just said here it was a dark place .
Speaker 1I was like that was the point .
Speaker 3The point was trying to match and Did he set this up with you ?
Speaker 1Utilize the senses . What's that ?
Speaker 3Was this his idea ? Did he get it at a place that you couldn't see him ?
Speaker 1No , 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 3It is a good story . I'm really glad you lived .
Speaker 2Anyways , 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 1So the one no , but there's lots of people you're choosing from .
Speaker 2Oh is there .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 3So what's the date ? So they sit across the screen and just talk about stuff .
Speaker 2Their feelings .
Speaker 1Yeah , stuff Exactly .
Speaker 3Worf .
Speaker 2So , Feelings .
Speaker 1It's totally . They talk about their feelings . Okay , so here's the part .
Speaker 3There's no physical interaction and all of a sudden it's like you will marry me Well .
Speaker 2I don't know if that's what it is Zero . Zero , anywho , I watched it .
Speaker 1That's what it is From
Dark Table Dating and Reparations
Speaker 1what I understand .
Speaker 2What 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 3Hmm .
Speaker 1Sh ain't that some somebody else that's not .
Speaker 2Ain't that some shit .
Speaker 1That's someone else . Did someone else get the bombshell , though ? Just the bomb ? I don't know .
Speaker 2This 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 3It's fascinating .
Speaker 2I 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 3Yeah , yeah . And it sounds like everybody in this show is equally stupid , so they should all be perfect for each other .
Speaker 1Well well , yeah .
Speaker 2And 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 1I did it before the show we even came out . I should have fucking started this show . I made a lot of money , man .
Speaker 2It'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 1That's amazing .
Speaker 3That's amazing . Yeah , it was so dark , you'd even know .
Speaker 1I just can't .
Speaker 2I 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 3I feel like so what's the message there ? I feel like that happens at 2am at most places . Yeah .
Speaker 2No , I get it Like last call right .
Speaker 3But the I go , that's come on . You're like oh no but .
Speaker 2But 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 3We'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 2did 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 1Yeah , 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 1And 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 3So 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 1No , it's not that long .
Speaker 3It's not long .
Speaker 1I'd say it's 90 minutes .
Speaker 3So okay , so 90 minutes you got , you get like three servings , three courses , okay so you got 90 minutes .
Speaker 2You're crossing this guy Just not the inner course .
Speaker 3Just 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 1Yeah , 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 3This was when it all came out , I'm like I don't want to .
Speaker 1I don't want to see your face .
Speaker 3Yeah , 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 1Imagine 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 3We don't know what he looks like either .
Speaker 2That'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 1I totally forgot about that experience too . That was so funny .
Speaker 4Oh my God , I'm going to do that again .
Speaker 3That's amazing .
Speaker 1I'm going to set that up in Calgary as a thing , oh no .
Speaker 3We should , uh , we should . Podcast from the dark table .
Speaker 1Oh God , oh my God , I love it . Wouldn't that be fun ?
Speaker 2I'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 1Really yes , oh my God what .
Speaker 2And I didn't return the call and they've emailed me six times . Wow , it's , it's weird .
Speaker 1Right .
Speaker 3So , 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 2no , 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 3And then , and the resume doesn't . It's not accented by the leather and whips podcast . Right , that's right .
Speaker 2Yeah , the dark castle . Where , where'd you eat Dark , what Dark table .
Speaker 1Dark table .
Speaker 2Dark castle sounds better , Especially if there was a Gimp Like a zipper mouth . Oh , I'd be . I'd be gold .
Speaker 3He wasn't wearing that , was he ?
Speaker 2He 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 3So this is you're getting money for what your ancestors or relatives had endured .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 .
An Unexpected Family History Discovery
Speaker 2Okay , so now I have to look up her name . I can look it up . Can you look it up from her ?
Speaker 1S-O-N-N-Y-S-H-O-S-G-I-N .
Speaker 2Is that what it is , sunny ? Is there a name Sunny ?
Speaker 1Yeah , sunny Hauston , s-o-n-n-y-s .
Speaker 2Okay , so Sunny Hauston , honey , honey , sauston . See , I just fucking helped her Right .
Speaker 3See , that's alias .
Speaker 2Honey Sauston Like it's .
Speaker 1She just needs to start a bar with you .
Speaker 2Wait , 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 2Well , 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 3Okay , here we go .
Speaker 4Wow , 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 3Yeah , so how are you feeling , my friend ?
Speaker 4I 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 2So there you have it . She is the descendant of Spanish slave owners .
Speaker 3So , according to the New York Post , her ancestors quote owned at least one human .
Speaker 2Not 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 3I don't think that I mean , like you said before , you don't know where it comes from , right .
Speaker 2How does that work ?
Speaker 1No , I think it's the government that pays that , not individual people .
Speaker 3It's wild , but I think you . So there's a couple of things .
Speaker 2Can you imagine , like , don't you think you would check into that first , Like hop on theanchestercom .
Speaker 3Just have a quick little search .
Speaker 2It's wild . You're so confident Like I , I mean . This whole thing makes me question where .
Speaker 3I'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 1Is that the search ?
Speaker 3I don't know if it's there , but I feel like she wants that button .
Speaker 1I'm gonna do that . I want to know if I've owned slaves .
Speaker 2Well , 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 3No migration .
Speaker 2No 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 3I mean the community government made that mistake last year .
Speaker 2Yeah 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 3Oh , 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 2Yeah , I don't .
Speaker 3That's the big question .
Speaker 2I hate . Look , I have a past that I actually know about and I don't want to know it .
Speaker 3So I actually did it myself and I'm just like fuck , I don't think I can tell Colton about this .
Speaker 2What time is it ?
Speaker 3Probably best to leave that at the dark table .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , just leave that at the dark castle .
Speaker 1Leave it under the dark table , under the dark table .
Speaker 3That 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 2And 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 3I 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 1Yeah , exactly .
Speaker 2Yeah , you would think so .
Speaker 1It'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 3I don't know if that's the attention you want . Yeah , I mean you could do a lot of things to get attention .
Speaker 2Yeah , speaking of the view , where are you coming on the view there , christine ?
Speaker 1I just I can't watch it . I can't listen to all those women gaggling back and forth about shit .
Speaker 2So 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 3Is that a topic that you should be ?
Speaker 2discussing .
Speaker 1Who is on what side ?
Speaker 2Well , 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 3Yeah , that was Dr Phil's point .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3I 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 2No , no , peloton was better . Peloton stock was a lot better . Like a lot better , that thing was yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3Past tense on that one .
Speaker 2Yeah 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 1I'm trying to log into something over there to get some information that you think are challenging .
Speaker 2Are you doing some work while we're entertaining ?
Speaker 1I'll get it , though . No , I'm not . I was trying to get some , I can see it in your glasses .
Speaker 2It's reflecting and I can see what you're doing .
Speaker 3I'm trying to play with you all the time .
Speaker 1I'm looking for my e-sports trainer . Oh okay , I thought I'd have a friend somewhere .
Speaker 2So your business is fully back on from COVID .
Speaker 3I 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 2Yeah .
Speaker 3Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday .
Speaker 2That's interesting yeah .
Speaker 3It'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 2It felt like a rolling recession through sectors Like it wasn't all at once .
Speaker 3It 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 2Yeah .
Speaker 3Yeah , 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 2And 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 1more people .
Speaker 2I know I'll go on a flight .
Speaker 1I'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 3Was it the no .
Speaker 1However , who knows ?
Speaker 3Was it the giant bag of fishermen friends , that you put out on the tray table that gave it away ?
Speaker 1Is there a horsey voice when she was talking to her husband . I'm like you're sick .
Speaker 3I'm like you're sick , Was it ? Was it the rectal thermometer she pulled out ?
Speaker 2Have you ever looked back at the mask ? Have you ever looked back at all the mask inventory you have ? Oh , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 1Oh , my God .
Speaker 2When I took my vehicle , I traded my vehicle in .
Speaker 1I think it's all thrown out .
Speaker 2I traded my vehicle in and I emptied my like glove box . Matt , I had a lot of different masks in there .
Speaker 3You know I'm all hanging off the review mirror . Yeah , no .
Speaker 2It 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 4No .
Speaker 2So 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 3Like 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 4Yeah .
Speaker 3Remember 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 2Yeah , wild it was such a strange time .
Speaker 3Yeah , really was .
Speaker 1What is the stupid thing to do ?
Speaker 3Well , 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 3This 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 2I remember when it was just two weeks . It's two weeks .
Speaker 3Yeah , it's two weeks man , it's to be a bump .
Speaker 1Yeah , yeah , yeah yeah .
Speaker 3And 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 2I did .
Speaker 1I did , I did , I totally did .
Speaker 3Did you forget to wipe your groceries ? Is that what happened ? This ?
Speaker 1is what happens , but yeah .
Speaker 3I 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 2Yeah , I remember that . God so crazy . Yeah , it was so crazy . So arrive can app .
Speaker 3Where is the conspiracy about over there Arrived ?
Speaker 2can app . Why don't we talk about that ? Oh my gosh . 60 million .
Speaker 3It was more than that , wasn't ?
Speaker 2I 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 3And 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 2Yeah , 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 3Yeah , the light in the eyes .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's what I want , to like man .
Speaker 3Unbelievable .
Speaker 2And 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 3In Winnipeg . Yeah , no , I haven't heard this .
Speaker 2You haven't seen this one yet . That's yeah , that's a good one .
Speaker 3That's great . Shut up Winnipeg . Yeah , Like not just Winnipeg like Canada . Wow .
Speaker 2That'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
Political Strife and Healthcare Allocation
Speaker 2arm . It's just wild , Like it's just a wild time .
Speaker 3Yeah , do you think this stuff always went on and we're just more aware of it now , like they're reporting ?
Speaker 2so much different . Hey yeah , I just don't know . I'm just so disappointed how many conspiracy theories are actually accurate ?
Speaker 3I'm so disappointed . I didn't believe any of them . Shut up Flat Earthers .
Speaker 4Yeah you're next .
Speaker 2I'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 3Yeah , it's interesting . So we in the population becomes further and further divided over topics that they know nothing about , 100% .
Speaker 2This 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 1You're finding this now , I feel , I feel , I feel like this is all he's been .
Speaker 3This 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 1Are 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 2Hey 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 1This is the safe place to share .
Speaker 2Yeah , I felt like this was what's welfare I'll say . In old school I thought this was the safe tree , Clearly not .
Speaker 3I 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 3The 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 2Yeah , and that was your list .
Speaker 3And 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 2Now , 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 3Could you send a memo before you announce it to the Canadian population ?
Speaker 2Well , they're doing it because there was a deadline for the government to be .
Speaker 3But 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 2It 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 3So 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 2couple . 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 3A quick little phone call but like hey , we're thinking about this , what do you think ?
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 3She's good if she doesn't talk .
Speaker 2Well , I don't think that's fair . I could say that about the other guy too . Yeah , sure Good .
Speaker 1There's a problem in the century .
Speaker 3Yeah , yeah , I mean we have big issues up here , but we're not , we're not our Southern neighbors right now .
Speaker 2No , 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 3Oh , and the healthcare ? Yeah , oh , I didn't anyone that opts out .
Speaker 2So no , but Quebec opted out and still received their funding .
Speaker 3But that's how Quebec works .
Speaker 2Okay , 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 3But we don't have a second language .
Speaker 2Christine , did you own a French person ? Is that what happened ?
Speaker 1Did I owe you .
Speaker 2Are you descendants of people who own French people ?
Speaker 1I thought you found me out .
Speaker 4You found me out for God's sake .
Speaker 2You owe reparations . I mean over and above the trend , over and above the 12 billion we sent Quebec every year .
Speaker 1Yeah , exactly , exactly .
Speaker 2Over and above the 12 billion in equalization payments , you owe them reparations .
Speaker 1I 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 3Do we have a balance ? Well , this is what the argument is .
Speaker 1And so this is what yeah , we lean more .
Speaker 2If you have enough population to have enough votes , yes , but if you're sparsely populated , not so much , not so much .
Perspectives on Entitlement and Sustainability
Speaker 2Oh man , it's wild , interesting time and I think , the perspective .
Speaker 3Like a teacher's perspective would be different than other people .
Speaker 2Well , I think in this room , all self-employed .
Speaker 3Different 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 2That was my favorite day . That's an overreach right there .
Speaker 3Yeah , 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 1Nice At least don't .
Speaker 3Yeah , it was on the news . They were talking about it . Shut up . No , I'm not .
Speaker 1Yeah , oh , my God .
Speaker 2Yeah , god , can you believe that it's a day Fuck just by itself .
Speaker 3Well , it makes up for the four hours you miss Let it make you seriously hate .
Speaker 1Oh no , oh , my God , it's just it's a different world being employed and being self-employed . It's just different .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's just fucking different .
Speaker 3It doesn't make sense to me .
Speaker 1Well .
Speaker 2Two weeks , three weeks ago I guess , we had to have six days of trying different coffees in the office .
Speaker 3Do tell oh .
Speaker 2Staff are very passionate about their coffee .
Speaker 1You need to go and look at the fire .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3Wait , they're passionate about the coffee that you provide .
Speaker 2Yeah , it wasn't me . It was can't accord , but it was just interesting the process , like the fear of change .
Speaker 1The absolute fear of change . I don't .
Speaker 2so , 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 3George Clooney Clooney and .
Speaker 2I wait , Clooney owns Nespresso . He's in there , yeah .
Speaker 1Really .
Speaker 3Yeah , I learned so much when I do these things .
Speaker 2Like I just my coffee's just so sexy as George is in there , yeah .
Speaker 3You 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 2Yes .
Speaker 3I've been a fiend since I was at your place a year and a half ago .
Speaker 2You gotta have all the colors .
Speaker 3I do have my favorites for sure .
Speaker 2And then I used to give Christine all the colors I didn't like at the end of the season .
Speaker 1I 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 3Never thought of it till now , ladybugs live in those .
Speaker 1Yeah , like I feel , I feel bad . Even though they recycle , then we know they'll .
Speaker 3Yeah , I put them in the plastic bag and then we're like sending them back .
Speaker 1You really dumped them in the ocean .
Speaker 2No , I have villages of ladybugs that live in them . Ladybugs move into them .
Speaker 1When I'm done and they make things . I don't think there's that many ladybugs .
Speaker 3See , 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 1Yeah , sometimes I can't handle it , I can't do it , sometimes I put them in the red bag .
Speaker 2I 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 3Back in nature , back to nature , my friend , the giant refrigerator sitting in that landfill ?
Speaker 4Yeah , Terrible .
Speaker 3Yeah , yeah , linking free on everywhere .
Speaker 2Oh my god .
Speaker 1I'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 3I thought that got repealed . I thought the single use thing in Calgary got repealed . What ?
Speaker 2The bylaw . Yeah , yeah , danielle canceled it .
Speaker 1Oh god , Rupia did . It got taken out . She can't do it . She allowed to cancel that she's allowed to cancel that .
Speaker 3I think they were looking into it in the city council . We're going to have to repeal it .
Speaker 2Hey , we're not saving it . It's not a climate emergency anymore .
Speaker 1Okay , 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 2I don't think they've done that . Like , even Booster Juice is still in the paper straws , which drives me up the wall .
Speaker 3Got to get through your drink and hurry on those things . Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , true story . How's your nose ?
Speaker 1So 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 2Well , you can thank Winnipeg for that .
Speaker 4The Wuhan flu isn't that what they call it ?
Speaker 2The Wuhan flu .
Speaker 4Well , have we ever ?
Speaker 1got 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 2No , 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 1Back my green Starbucks stoppers .
Speaker 3No more stoppers , so you feel like the uh .
Speaker 1I feel like you . I kind of I look .
Speaker 4You feel like COVID was a green peas project .
Speaker 3Is that what you think ?
Speaker 2But 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 1Yeah , jeff , it's good in this hurry here , here's your fries .
Speaker 2Here's your burger .
Speaker 3So I've got a story about that , so I was in um .
Speaker 1Did you want ? You want some ketchup with that .
Speaker 3Yeah , hold your bun out .
Speaker 1Yeah , the ketchup bottle in the window .
Speaker 3So 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 2Mercury poisoning .
Speaker 3Might 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 3Yeah . 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 2Oh , you did . I love big teas . Shout out to big teas .
Speaker 3But I feel like big teas is about to get ripped . So what did we ?
Speaker 2we 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 3And it was 15 bucks , so I called them and I'm like , is this right ?
Speaker 2Oh 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 3Oh , I'm feeling killing .
Speaker 2Like 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 3A steak now is 65 bucks , like come on , come on , crazy .
Speaker 1And 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 2our government cranked up minimum wage , did they ? Isn't it 15 bucks now ?
Speaker 3Oh , that was a couple of years ago , yeah .
Speaker 1But that's like 15 for a while .
Speaker 2We'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 3So 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 1Yeah , yeah .
Speaker 3In St Albert .
Speaker 1Yeah , really . Yeah , it's crazy . Yeah , it's bananas . You know , minimum wage in the US for lots of states is still 725 .
Speaker 3What 725 . Yeah , okay . That's half of what you thought was good at 15 .
Speaker 1Thanks stats Like they haven't gone through this thing , but they haven't gone through that whole revolution yet .
Speaker 2What revolution ? Socialism .
Speaker 1Yeah , exactly Okay , california .
Speaker 2That's not a revolution . They're actually inside . Like Marx tried it a long time ago Revolution Well you know what I mean .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2I got you . Yeah , fair enough . Yeah , yeah , yeah .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 3Math , it's all math .
Speaker 1Crazy .
Speaker 2Cocaine is a hell of a drug . Yeah , no one can afford it apparently . Yep , okay , kids . Well , that was fun .
Speaker 3Well , it was fun . I really enjoyed this yeah . I think it was a good nice to be back with you guys .
Speaker 2It's nice to be back virtually with Christine .
Speaker 1I was back .
Speaker 2She drinks less in this format . Yeah , that that is the issue , and there was more Chinese food for us .
Speaker 3There was . Yeah , are you right ?
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3Next episode I hope we get to see in person .
Speaker 2Yeah , let's .
Speaker 1Yeah , I know we do . I know when you're possibly happen .
Speaker 2Okay , let's sign off here . Good night . All right , thanks Bye .