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SPEAKER_03 0:28

It has been a while, but boy am I super excited to be back on your iPhones, Androids, in your ears at the gym, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome to episode one of the Family Business. Here's the thing. The name probably has nothing to do with what you think this show will be all about. Am I a business owner? Yes. Is my dad a business owner? Yes. But I really don't think any of you will care about our daily dealings and operations. I am sure as this thing gets going, we will share a bit of our occupations, but let's not make that about that right. Let's not make it about that right now. Hold on a second. Some of you may be wondering, did you just say my dad? I sure did. The Family Business Podcast will be a two-man show featuring myself and my old man, and of course down the road, we will have special guests and family members, etc. etc. So what are we doing? Why will we be recording once a week? What is the point of this show? Well, without throwing out any personal information out just yet, my family is known for one specific thing. Whether we are around the dinner table or in the car or at a family gathering, the conversation points are always the exact same. We are either talking politics, religion, or conspiracy theories. Every single time. It's as if my family bonds over these conversations. Literally, just last week, my dad and I were driving, and we were saying that it's hard to find a good podcast that will tackle these conversations. Opinions that will make you think, make you frustrated, agree or disagree. So together, we will dive into politics, religion, culture, and events that are shaping our world, not as experts. Oh god, no, definitely not as experts. 100% not experts, but as family members that are willing to have these conversations that many people avoid. Raw, unfiltered material coming from two different generations. I'll introduce you to him in a second, but my dad will be bringing a lifetime of experience, a few strong opinions, and maybe a story or two from the good old days. While I will be asking questions, challenging assumptions, and trying to make sense of a world that seems to change faster every day. Some episodes might get heated, some might get philosophical, but at the end of the day, it's about something bigger than debate. It's about understanding, curiosity, and ultimately the bond between a father and son. So pull up a chair, sit back, grab a drink of your choice, and join our conversation. So how are you feeling, Dad?

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Well, you started off by calling me, uh uh calling me your old man, and you know what? I don't take offense to that because I've come to the conclusion I am not a spring chicken, so I can live with it. That's fine. As long as you call me old man, nobody else. Um, but no, it's a it's a pleasure to be here.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

I'm excited. It's a start of something new. It's nerve-wracking whenever you do something like this. I mean, you know, you were just telling me today over over lunch that, hey, we could fall flat on our faces. But you know what? It's just like just like Wayne Gretzky says, you miss nine-nine of the shots you don't take, or whatever, whatever that quote is. I've I've probably totally butchered that. But it is what it is. So you know what? Without wasting your time, I'm gonna get into our first topic of conversation, and it's a story that just happened a few days ago down in Florida. Now, just so the audience is clear, this is not a scripted show. So my dad has no idea on the topics that we'll be discussing, on what I'll be bringing him, on what I'll be asking. I literally want this to be raw and filtered. All right. So let me ask you did you hear about what happened in uh Nashville with the airline a couple days ago? But believe it or not, I had not. Okay, so I'm gonna read this article here. So passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale experienced tense moments Friday night after a man's behavior prompted the crew to divert the plane to Atlanta, where a tactical team boarded and removed him. Okay, so check this out. So this flight, Southwest Airlines flight 2094, departed Nashville International Airport and was en route to Florida when passengers said a man began praying aloud while his cell phone alarm repeatedly sounded. The plane was diverted to Hattsville, to Hartsville, Jackson Atlanta International, where law enforcement officers with guns drawn boarded the aircraft and escorted the man off. Okay, this was the quote from one of the passengers. This man had a timer going off on his phone every 10 minutes, and every 10 minutes he started praying in a foreign language. Apparently, he was sweating, and he constantly kept asking the flight attendant where his bag is multiple, multiple times. So basically, and I did a more reading on this and stuff like that. So there was this Middle Eastern gentleman who I guess was praying for whatever, whatever religious holiday was Ramadan or whatever it might have been. But what he did was that he had apparently had more than one phone that had a timer on it. And he put the timer on the phone on the dash, uh, you know, the tray. And what he did was is every time the phone would go from 10 minutes to zero, he would start praying. So these custom the the the flight the passengers got very anxious and very nervous because hey, I hate to say it, you see a Middle Eastern gentleman with a timer on an airplane speaking a foreign language, saying who knows what, what are you automatically going to assume?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Well, well, clearly, clearly, um, it's what everybody assumes that what it that's what it is. Now, keep in mind, even before 9-11, okay, and we know what who was involved in that, George Bush, of course. But uh, what these guys would do is they would call the fire department and time the fire department from point A to point B. That's how they would coordinate their attacks. So I'm this is just me thinking that um what this guy did is he was just testing the uh the system, how long it would take them to react, how long it would the air marshals would show up. Again, this is what it sounds like because they're not making a big deal about it. Right. I you would think that all the networks would be filming this like crazy.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Yeah, a potential terrorist threat, right? Well, what else would it be? Yeah, I mean, so the yeah, so I I was right. So he was praying, he had a timer set on his phone so he could pray for Ramadan. So he was in the air and he didn't want to miss his prayer, I guess the pr I don't know much about Ramadan, but I guess they have specific times of prayer, and he didn't want to miss his prayer, so that's why he was that's why he had his timer set. But to play the flip side, you gotta use your brain. Like Well, what this is what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Now, okay, you're on a flight. Now, I'm you know, I'm pushing 60, I'm a white guy, and I uh I stand up on a crowded airplane and I yell at the top of my lungs. Confucius says, he who, you know, whatever, if I were to quote Confucius, I would get arrested. Sure. Doesn't matter if he was doing Ramadan, Hamadon, whatever the Don it is, uh that that's still you're disrupting a flight. Now, especially post 9-11, you you can't even joke around. You know, here, hold my bag. I think I hear something ticking. You can't do that anymore. No. So now my my biggest concern on this story is the fact that it's not a story at all. Meaning, I I haven't, you know, I followed the news quite regularly, and uh there might have been a blip about it, but nothing to the to the to raise awareness.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

Yeah, we're recording on the Monday, so three days, two, two and a half days after it happened.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

So that's that well to me that's very strange. There's definitely more to the story than some uh some you know uh alleged crazy guy, you know, saying whatever it is, Ali Akbar or whatever. Yeah. So um that's that's the fact that it's not a big story is what concerns me more than what actually happened.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Well, and this is this is the even well, I mean, uh obviously if they prove he was innocent, he was innocent. Uh, but the spokesperson for the FBI in Atlanta did say that there was no actual credible threat and that no charges are gonna be filed. And then uh Southwest Airlines in a statement later on said that the Southwest Airlines crew of Flight 2094 on Friday made the decision to divert to Atlanta out of an abundance of caution due to what turned out to be a total misunderstanding of a customer's behavior. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the misunderstanding and a significant delay. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

So I have a question for you. Go for it. Do you buy that? They diverted a flight. How is this guy not in shackles? You or me, we would be in shackles right away. Regardless. And they would regard question us. Because I what? I raised my voice. Look, I've been on flights, and because I mean I had some situations and I didn't say a thing. But as soon as I left the airplane, I got on the phone, I called customer service, and I ripped into them. Ripped them apart. And they said, Well, why didn't you say anything on the flight? I said, because I didn't want to get arrested. You can't, you cannot raise your voice on a flight. You can't even have an opinion on a flight. Like I was uh one I had some issues uh flying from um uh from Saskatoon to Toronto, and um they made me wear a mask, and I I had no choice. I wasn't gonna raise my voice. So I had to do what they said because I'm on I am on the um I'm on the flight, and you don't disturb a flight, regardless. If the stewardess tells you two plus two is five, yes, ma'am, it's five. Shut your mouth, sit there, because anything can be misconstrued. Now, in the States it's a little different. I don't know if we have air marshals in Canada. Uh, but yeah, the fact that nobody was charged.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

No charges, no nothing. The the customers who obviously the the other people on the plane, uh, they were stuck on the plane for just under three hours once they landed in Atlanta.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

Now, I I don't want to go uh I don't want to go too crazy, but just just think, just think. Because he was saying Ramadan and all that stuff and this this foreign language, let's just assume this guy was Muslim. Now the other people, nobody can say anything. Because if I well, I would listen, I wasted three hours of my life and we landed in Atlanta. What's this? Where's my compensation? Oh, you're Islamophobic. It's no, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying how could how can nobody be charged? A flight okay, a flight was diverted. That's all that needs to be said. Right. A flight was diverted, and nobody's gonna get in trouble for that? Absolute nonsense. I don't buy it. There's definitely more to this story.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Yeah, and to flip it on the flip side, not to get too um uh political in terms of religion, um they're very specific that it was for a Ramadan prayer. Now just imagine, just imagine. Now, mind you, as Christians, there's no in the Christianity faith, there is no set time for prayer or the sunset or anything like that. But I bet you, I bet you that if this was a specific Christian prayer, if they weren't highlighting Ramadan prayer, if they were saying Christian prayer, I think this would have been not only charges filed, but also a lot more of a story. And it would have been look, look at all those crazy Christians, look at the way they what they do, they disrupt the public and they disrupt flights and this and that. But because it's a Ramadan prayer, right? If I'm not mistaken, Ramadan is tied with the Muslim with Islamic faith. Um you're telling me that's got nothing to do with it.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

Where where does it stop? Like, uh what am I not allowed to have an opinion? If I okay, um I don't agree with the premise of Islam. I just don't agree with the way they the the religion is structured. I don't uh I don't believe that you know their leader, you know, whatever they say about their leader and all that stuff. Uh I just don't bother with it. But if I don't agree, does that automatically make me Islamophobic or something? It shouldn't, but in today's society it does. But why? See that that's the thing. If you if you want to be uh if you want to pray to Allah, pray to whoever, knock yourself out. But if what happened to Canada? Are we not allowed to have opinions anymore? I I I simply don't buy into that philosophy. Okay. Now, if somebody uh doesn't like Jesus, you know what? Fine. I I I have no problem with that. But here's the thing. Um, I don't know if you remember this story, but uh some cartoonist uh made uh uh made a cartoon of uh of uh Muhammad with a bomb to his turban and all that, and the Muslims went crazy. And you know what? Whether they went crazy or not, I I'm not gonna judge them. I mean, you know, somebody insulted their prophet, you know, as dumb as it is, that's just that's just rude and uncalled for. Uh I'll I'll be the first to say that. But when uh when the performing arts or uh you can probably look this up, they gave a grant for artistic freedom. So they had a mason jar full of urine with the crucifix upside down, and nobody said anything. Right. Well, you're supposed to turn the other cheek. You're supposed to be forgiving. Hey, 70 times seven, we're supposed to forgive. Yeah, but we also have to call these things out saying, wait a second, that's not right.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

I don't I don't know if you were, I don't know, a little bit off topic, but you said you said the term turn the other cheek. I forgot who wrote the book. I remember I gave it to you, and I think you read it. It was about the uh being a man in the wild. I think it might have been John Bevere.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

I think sounds something like he would write it.

SPEAKER_03 16:13

And he was talking about turning the other cheek. And now that scripture, turn the other cheek. Well, guess what? That doesn't mean get up and walk away. No, that means get up, turn your other cheek, and get prepared to get hit again. So, what does that mean? That means no, fight back, right? And then we that and that's the issue, and then what we're gonna go into some other stuff that affects the Christian faith later on on this show, on this episode, but we were talking about it even yesterday at church, and it's like and let me ask let me ask, let me just ask you flat out. As Christians, yes, we're we're supposed to rely on God, and we believe God's in control, God will not be mocked. At the end of the day, God will come out victorious. We believe that. But are Christians being babies in society?

SPEAKER_01 17:02

I I I think so. Why don't you just stand up and and and profess your faith? No, I'm not gonna allow you to call Jesus just a carpenter. It you know, uh history, oh, I I can go into this, uh, we don't have enough time. But no, to stand up for your faith, that's not being rebellious. That's not being now you don't break the law. Like you don't um, you know, you don't punch the guy in the mouth and say, you know, Jesus is king. No, you can't do that. Clearly. But um, but let your voice be heard and stop being so uh so passive. Uh I I was I you know I don't agree with the Muslims, but I I respect their candor. They they've got guts.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

I mean Well, going back to the whole Muslim and Christian thing, and you know, you see what's happened in London, right? Christians are being arrested for preaching the gospel, uh sharing the word, and praying for people on the streets is now a crime. I don't know if that officially passed, but I believe in London it did. Yet they'll close the streets and allow thousands of Muslims to pray. And we're slowly seeing that in Toronto here in Canada, where the cops were barricading and blocking protesters, and they were protecting all the Muslims because they were in the middle of their prayer. What would happen if we asked the cops if we want to do uh an hour of prayer at Dundas Square? You think the cops would be there to protect us? No, they would let the Muslims walk right in and protest.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Because they're not afraid of us, that's why. That's my point. You tell a Muslim you can't pray, trust me, there's gonna be a thousand people the next day ready to pray.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

And I'm not generalizing everybody because I know some evangelists, some pastors and preachers and prayer warriors that will take a bullet to the head uh on the streets of Toronto, but generalization, and that's the issue, is if a Muslim says you can't pray here, oh okay, they'll tuck their tail in and go walk away and go uh as if you know as if they're defeated.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Then you know what? And then this this might get a lot of emails of complaints, but in my opinion, and what I do know about the faith, those aren't real Christians. If something like that scares them, if something like that uh makes them uh makes them shudder, then my question to you is do you honestly believe everything that you you've heard about Jesus Christ? Do you believe that he is the Son of God? That uh as you know, I I again I'm not gonna start preaching, but um clearly your faith is there's there's definitely a lack in your faith. If a cop tells me to do something, like of course, we we have the criminal of code of Canada, we have, you know, uh we have our freedom to do what we're supposed to do, not what we want to do, and that's what a lot of people uh they they get this mixed up. No, we have to follow the law 100%. I I'm I agree with the law. Uh but if a police officer or if a politician were to say something that contradicts the Bible, then unfortunately our loyalty is to Christ. So then I would say, if that's the case, then you're gonna have to arrest me. Yeah. And see where things go. But not enough Christians are doing that. Whereas the Muslims, and again, I I I respect them for it, they will lose their ever-loving minds. And the cops don't listen, the cop wants to finish his shift and go home. He doesn't want the headache, he doesn't want, he knows when you have 20 Christians wanting to pray, he tells them to stop, they'll stop, they'll stop. The Muslims, they'll start throwing things.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

What are they violent people? Well, listen, I don't know many Muslims. I'm not gonna say, oh, some of my best friends are no, they're not. I don't know. I just know what I see. And uh, you know, am I being judgmental? No, I mean, I'm being what I'm doing is I'm being prejudiced. Okay, so and a lot of people get those two terms mixed up. There there are racists and there are people that are prejudiced. We are all prejudiced, we prejudge things. I see two guys, I will prejudge what I see. Is it right? Yeah. 99.9% of times you're wrong, but that's just the way we're built. Now, if I see a hundred Muslims, I'm gonna again I'm gonna prejudge the situation and think something's going down, something's happening. You know, not being mean, not trying to be, you know, you know. Exhibit A, the Southwest flight. That's one Muslim. So there you go. So that's why um it it's very frustrating because there were times. I remember even as a kid in school, we had two Muslim kids in our in our class, and they didn't care. Nobody said anything. We did Christmas carols. We did we did prayer. They they just they they stood out of respect. I remember as if it was yesterday. We did the Lord's Prayer in classroom. And those guys just stood there respectfully and said nothing. Nobody cared. Of course, some kids will why didn't you say the Lord's Prayer? Oh, because we're not Christian. Cool, okay, cool. But at least they stood in respect. They they were respectful. Yeah. Now, I mean, there was, I think it was in grade seven. One, one Jewish kid was in our class. God bless the Jews, I'm not saying it. But, you know, and we couldn't sing Christmas carols because of one kid. Right. And that's slowly, slowly now it's, you know, you can't bring peanut butter into school.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

Whatever. Can't work cologne in school anymore. Well, sticking, I was gonna go somewhere else, but since we're kind of led into that topic already about you mentioned about the law, and as long as we obey the law versus you know what's biblical and stuff like that. One big, big issue that us as Canadians are facing right now is this whole C9 bill. Okay, I got a couple of points, and more specifically, now listen, I'm not gonna lie to you. Uh it's not that I'm not prepared or I'm not I didn't go over things. I kind of I've hit the point when it comes to politics, not that I don't care, but I don't care. Because at the end of the day, everyone in politics, in my opinion, are all the devil, so to say. Like, they're all the same people, all the same crap. They're Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, Green Peace Party, whatever the heck they are. They're all they're all they're all for themselves. They don't truly care about the people. But this C9 bill has huge, huge implications, especially for religious organizations, to the point where they're trying to fast track it past the point of being argued in the house, and they want to just pass the bill. Alright, so I'm gonna read you a couple of these things. Uh, key concerns for Christians regarding the Bill C9. Okay? And I'll get your opinion on them. Removal of religious defense. So that is the repeal of the quote good faith clause, which means sincerely held religious beliefs or citing religious texts could no longer be used as a defense against charges of willfully promoting hatred. I I don't know where where do you start? Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me let me read a couple of these and I'll get your get your your your big opinion. Alright. Criminalizing biblical teachings. Concerns exist that traditional Christian views on sexuality, marriage, and other issues could be deemed hate speech under the new broader definition. So obviously, as Christians, uh I'm not getting into the debate right now, but homosexuality is is, is, not a debate. It is a sin. That would be considered hate speech if this bill were to pass. I see your mind moving there. Increased vulnerability for pastors slash believers. There is a fear that pastors, ministers, and individuals could face legal prosecution with activist groups potentially targeting church websites or teachings. Alright. This C9 bill will broaden the definition of hate. The legislation lowers the threshold for criminalizing speech, making it easier to label traditional, conservative, or religious views as hateful. Impact of public expression. The bill targets the display of symbols in public places and can limit the public declaration of biblical truths. Alright. And I know I didn't mention on this one, but one big problem, because I know that we are currently facing this, is the whole religious tax. And how rel the a lot of churches they don't pay property tax because they're considered a charitable organization. So the charity numbers will be taken away from all these churches. Right? So and I know I know that the Catholics are in a big uproar right now because the Catholics are known for like their food banks and giving back to the community. Well, all that would have to be paid for now. They wouldn't be able to get the charity from Second Harvest or all these government organizations anymore for free. Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Well, let me let me start off by saying I don't blame the government for doing this. Now you might think, well, why would you say something like that? You you go to church, you're a church person. Yes, yes. But here's the thing. You get some of these pastors that um they take the church funds and they they abuse the system so much, and there's no accountability. Like I know I know pastors that have $50,000 Rolex and all this stuff. They have the the Rolls-Royce and all that. It's not jealousy, but that's the money that they take from the trough because they don't pay any tax. Like, of course, I'm playing devil's advocate here. Yeah. You see, and and I don't actually blame the government for doing that. Because of these clowns that apparently, you know, I don't want to get into the prosperity gospel and all that, but some of these pastors live like rock stars. Where's where's Jesus in all of this? So when the government looks at these people, well, these these rock stars don't pay tax. You can't blame them. It hurts, hurts for me to say, but I I would I'd be the first to uh to say, hey, what are you doing? This is that's not the way it was supposed to be.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

But the problem with that, and I I I wholeheartedly agree with you. I mean, to me, to me, it's all about accountability. Right. Right? I'm not gonna I'm not gonna throw any names out there just for the sake of Well, that's too easy, too.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Everybody knows who they are.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

No, no, but going from another point of view. But I do know some pastors who um drive nice cars, they have a little bit of money, but when it comes to the books, they're an open book. Here, I don't have I don't take any church mod heck, I don't even take a salary from the church. They write a few books, they write a couple books, they do all this, they earn their money on the side. All right, you know, to me, I have no issue. But the issue is is a lot of the guys that you're talking about, um I would bet you 99.9% of them, if you were to ask for their books or where their money is going, they would it wouldn't be public.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

And then at that point, okay, give me your status. Bye-bye. Right. And I would be totally for that.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

And I agree with that, even though it's the church, but if you have the pastor who's taking advantage of the funds, taking out taking advantage of the tax breaks, well, I'm not gonna say he doesn't deserve to be a pastor, even though that is my deep down opinion. But why are you gonna let all the other churches, the churches of 50 to 100 people, even what even the church that has 300 people who rely on the food from the food bank, who can barely make their rent payments every month, right? Those are the ones that are being hurt in all this. 100%. I know so many of them. That's right. So, so to me, it's like I I agree with you. I see it, I see the whole point of the C9 bill, but at the same time, I do see that as how it's unfair for a lot of these, I would say majority. Let's be honest, that you see a lot of mega churches in for one and for every one mega church in the states, there's probably 50 smaller churches. That those 50 smaller churches wouldn't even fit inside that one mega church. No, you're right. So those are the churches that I'm worried for. Those are the churches that in Canada that I'm that I fear for. Because at the end of the day, if you have to pay property tax on top of your rent in the building, how your churches are gonna fold. Oh, you're done, if not more. Yeah. It's gonna be impossible. You're gonna you're gonna see you're gonna start seeing churches like in the old times, it's gonna be in people's homes. They're gonna be rotating from people's homes every Sunday morning.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Well, if you want to debate that, that's the actual that's the that's a whole different argument.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

That's right. That's yeah, no, the the whole the whole C9 bill, like I said, there's a lot, apparently, there's a lot more good stuff and and bad stuff, but the main the main thing I wanted to hit was the whole C9 and how it affects the the Christian uh the church. And how and I just don't know where if this bill passes, especially this is only Canada, but if this if this bill does pass in Canada, I wonder what direction the church is gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

One thing I don't understand though is you know, as as a church, I've been I've been a part of a a couple of bigger churches, and and I don't ever remember. Is I I go back and I and I'm thinking, we have oh let's take that topic, for example. Um the uh like the Bible says that um you know a man being with another man is an abomination. Okay. How how is that hate speech? Because we we you know that could be said about stealing, about lying, uh which which a lot of people do. Now, I have never seen uh uh homosexuals coming into church and being kicked out because they were gay. I don't ever I remember we had a couple of people that came uh to church and they they were uh they were involved in a relationship and the pastor never hated on them. He just explained, listen, the word of God says A, B, and C, and if you want to be a part of this believer, this body of believers, you can't live that lifestyle. Now, they picked they're just picking on gays. But if I cheat on my wife, I'm no different. Yeah, it's a sin, is a sin, is a sin. And and that's so they they take it as hate speech. We don't hate anybody. We hate what I mean, we hate what they do. If this guy was a bank robber, well, he'd probably get arrested. But he stole a thief. Yeah, so that doesn't change the situation. Now, they're saying, well, your Bible says that this is uh this is an abomination. Okay, but that's what the Bible says. Yeah, we're not hating on anybody. So that's where that's where we have to be very specific. Um, I've heard pastors uh talk about homosexuality, and they will spend 10 minutes apologizing for their message. Yeah. So if I start, if I was doing a sermon and I started by saying, um, you know, I know a lot of thieves. I have a couple of friends that are thieves. Thieves are, you know, they're people too. You'd say, Pastor, what are you talking about? But that's the way they start preaching about homosexual. I've got gay friends, they're good people, this and that. Why? Justifying. Why? Why are you justifying it? Exactly. So just call it what it is, and if if somebody who is a homosexual doesn't like it, there's the door.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

I mean, case in point with the people that um that wouldn't bake a cake. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And they got sued. Yeah, but you know what? Go to another bakery. But it's the whole point is um uh they've got to make it a big deal. I I ran into a friend of mine, this would have been about five years ago, and uh we went to school together. And I uh we ran, I guess I was on Young Street waiting for uh a bus, and um and we we were talking, and he said, you know, I I came out of the closet. I said, Well, I'm not surprised. I mean, he was kind of uh he was a he was a uh really happy guy, you know. And and I said, Oh, okay. I mean, whatever floats your boat, I never cared. And then um we went to I still had some time. We went to Tim Hortons, and uh so we had a coffee, so we sit down and he asked me, he goes, I know uh I remember from high school, you go to church, you still do that churchy stuff. I said, Yeah, believe it or not, I still do. He goes, So what do you think of uh homosexuality? And I said, Well, I for one, I don't understand that lifestyle. I don't lust after men, I I really don't get it. I I don't understand so he goes, Oh, so you're homophobic. I said, Okay, think of what you just said. Now let's because logic is gone. Uh logic has, I think, went out in the mid-90s. And I said, Okay, so if I'm homophobic, why am I sitting in a Tim Hortons with you? Yeah, why are we even talking? You told me once we met that you came out of the closet and yet I still invited you for a coffee. It's very homophobic of you. Clearly, clearly, I hate the guy. You know, so and that and that and that mentality is what's wrecking our society. Yeah, if you want if you want to have a gay parade parade, if you I you know what I I just think it's wrong. Does that make me homophobic? No, that makes me sinphobic. See, because for me to say that homosexual is a sin, they might even kick the kick kick us off. Who knows? Yeah, it's it's that's how crazy it's gotten. Nobody can have opinions anymore.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Well, if the C9 bill passes, this episode will get deleted because of this would be considered hate speech.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Yeah, all those expletives I use. Right. Yeah, it so where does it stop? I mean, I I would be very, very cautious. Yeah to have opinions is is I mean, it's free speech. Now, you uh you should be able uh you should be able to say whatever you want. Really, I mean, free speech is free speech. Hateful speech, okay, okay, so you're gonna you're gonna uh throw hate speech at me. You know what I'm gonna do about it? I'm not gonna talk to you again.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

Well, we use you you you use this example all the time, and I'm gonna bring it up now. You should technically you should have the right of freedom of speech to rent rent uh a building on the corner of Young and Dundas, and you should have the right of freedom of speech to fly a Nazi flag outside your building. Is it the right thing to do? No. Was your building gonna get destroyed? Probably, but you should have that right to do that. Freedom of speech. And guess what? You're probably well, the sad part is you might make a lot of money in that business, but you're not, you're not, you're, you're probably not gonna make a lot of you know your business isn't gonna be successful, it's gonna be protested against, but you should at least have that right to do that. To be stupid, just like that the Christian bakery that you mentioned, in case anyone missed it when you said uh the bakers, the gay couple went to a Christian bakery, right? Now, I don't know if they promoted as a Christian bakery or not, but the owner was a Christian, and a gay couple walked in and they wanted him to make a cake for them, and he said, I refuse. Apparently, he wasn't vulgar, he was very polite. He says, Unfortunately, my belief, I don't believe in homosexual marriage, so unfortunately, I'm not gonna build I'm not gonna make a cake. He should have the right to do that. Oh, exactly. Right? But then to go and sue them and this and that. But this seed thy bill, if this was in effect when that happened to bakers, those bakers would legally have to bake them that cake. How can you do that? How can you dictate that? That's not freedom of speech, that's not freedom of religion. And to turn a point even more so, let me flip this. And this is the frustration, and this all go to me, to me, this all goes back to Christians being a bit of babies, I hate to say it. If a Christian couple went into a Muslim bakery and the Muslim bakery said no, no, no, no, it would never make the news. That's right. That's that's that's the sad part. Where does it stop? Right? To me, to me, moving forward with the C9 bill, with everything that's going on, to me, it's not a political war. It's not between the left and the right. It's not between honestly, to me, it's not even a racial war anymore. I I we'll get into racism maybe another episode, but to me, it's turning into the literally what the Bible says. It's gonna be a religious war. It's between the month, it's gonna be between Islam and Christianity. That's what's gonna dominate the world, that's what's gonna dominate the news, that's what's gonna dominate society here in the next couple of years, you know, and it's gonna be one of those things where you look at London, right? More specifically, the sit this, you know, London, the city of London, every single member in the political board, Minister of Education, Minister of Parks, Minister of All That, they're all Muslim now.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

What do you think is gonna happen to Canada in the next five years? Here's what I don't understand. Maybe you can explain this to me. Are there people from Britain, Canada, United States, Sweden, all these countries, are they trying to get into Muslim countries? No. No, they're not they're not breaking down barriers to get into but the Muslim countries are trying to get into ours. Why? Because they're they don't even hide it. What's their teaching? Why are they doing this? To take over. To take over. They actually say it. They don't even they don't even hide it. They don't even uh so we are gonna take over your society. Yeah, and that's what happened. Uh, I don't know if this is the right time to bring this up, but I remember as a kid, uh, you know, the Islamists, they wanted to change a society. So what did they do?

SPEAKER_03 41:06

They did. They did. I know exactly where you're gonna go with this. This will roll right into our next topic.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

All right. So what do they do? They had a good they were Persians, they were not Muslim, they were they were more, they were more agnostic in those days in uh during the the time of the Shah. And uh the mullahs took over because we had a Joe Biden the first, Jimmy Carter, in office, who gave away Panama, by the way, for a dollar. Right. But that's again, that's another topic. But and they went and steamrolled over the Shah, they took the Persian people hostage. And and this is these I remember this like it was yesterday. And until until Ronald Reagan came in and said, if you don't release those hostages, Tehran will cease to exist. And they they released the hostages right away, but the mullahs were still there, and the Persian people have been oppressed for 47 years, and these Karens are freaking out saying, Oh, leave Iran alone. They basically have a Hitler 2.0 and nobody wants to talk about it. Yeah, and it's the Persian people that are saying, Hey, idiots, shut the heck up. This this Trump guy is actually saving us.

SPEAKER_03 42:32

Right. Well, I I love I love seeing that clip, not just in um in Toronto, but all over the states, they had all those, I'm not gonna call it a protest because it wasn't, they weren't protesting, but when Trump um on February 28th, when they call it Operation Epic Fury, when when they attacked Iran, and then when they ended up killing the leader, you see how many of those Iranians on the streets were chanting USA, USA, they were crying, thank you, Trump, thank you. Yet these people are trying to flip it, saying that Trump is starting an unnecessary war. The war started 47 years ago. That's my point, right? So I but but going back to what you said, because Iran as it was was never an Islamic state. It was never Islamic, no, right? It was not the leader who's now dead, um he basically took over and just like you said, became Hitler 2.0 and turned Iran into a radical Islamic state.

unknown 43:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:42

What are they gonna do about it? You you you raise your voice, they'll shoot you in the head.

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Well, this is welcome, welcome to what you guys the the the people that are against this, what you're against is what uh what they started. 47 years ago. You might have heard this or maybe not, but this is what you guys want to bring here. It's called Sharia law. So they've had 47 years of Sharia law, which they want to bring into parliament. They want to bring into Canada. They want their own court system because our laws are clearly not good enough. But yet, if I walk into your home and say, I don't like the way your fruit smells, I don't like the lumpy bed, what are you gonna do? You're gonna tell me. Don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out. Get the heck out if you don't like it. So these people will come here and and now, mind you, now what I'm doing, what am I doing right now? You're being anti- You're being anti-uh immigration, I'm being anti-Muslim. I'm being I'm just calling, I'm calling balls and strikes. Yeah. Are we a perfect society? No, but we strive for perfection. So now you get these people, well, yeah, yeah, and I'm saying it that way. If you don't like it, well, then write me an email and call me all sorts of names. I don't care. But enough is enough. And I'm not uh I'm not a uh Islamophobe. And and the reason I'm not Islamophobic, if if that's even a word, and again, this might sound insulting, but I don't mean to be insulting. I don't care enough. I don't hate Muslims because I don't care enough about the religion. Yeah, I don't. I I I could care less. I will start caring once they start trying to change our society, trying to change our laws, trying to move into our parliament with you know, holding a Quran instead of a Bible. Sorry, pal, we've been holding Bibles for 200 years. Well, they swore that New York Bayern with the Quran. The Quran, yeah. How is that even what's the legalities behind that? I I don't know. But there's gotta be a point where enough is enough. You know, and to say something, well, you're you're being hateful. No, I'm not being hateful. I want to preserve our Canadian society as much as I can. Now, how how successful we're gonna be is depends how much guts we have to call to call it. And uh, and if uh and you know, and I'll tell you, the the society that's really growing right now is Poland. They will not, and again, this look it up, YouTube it if you like. Uh, Polish MP said, we will not allow Muslims into our country. So the BBC host said, Well, you're you're racist. Okay, I love it in his accent. Call me racist. I don't care. I don't care. Because he doesn't care, he cares what his constituents, his constituents, they don't want the headache, they don't want the rape gangs and all this stuff, they don't want that in their country. And they and again, they have the right. So what are you gonna do? So BBC calls them a racist. He goes, Okay, fine. Okay, I'm a racist. Yeah, he doesn't care. I'm doing what my people want me to do. And he's and they're right. And and and the Polish uh society right now, if you follow them, they are one of the most successful. They are they're making money, they're they're actually they're America's second largest purchaser of uh arms. And uh out of all the European nations, Poland is number one. But now, what did Poland do? They crowned a king. Do you know who they crowned as king? No.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Oh, they did, Jesus. Jesus Christ is their king.

SPEAKER_01 47:30

And you wonder why they're being blessed. Yeah, that's right. I did hear that. Yeah, so and no more shopping on Sunday, Sunday's God's Day. How dare you? Well, yeah, well, that's what that's what we're gonna do. That's what our people want. The people don't want these Muslim guys trying to change their society. What's wrong with that? Oh, it's hateful. How is it hateful? Right. Do you lock your door at night? Well, why do you lock your door? That's hateful. Do you uh are you uh, you know, do you leave your wallet on your dashboard? No. So, well, that's hateful because you don't trust any you don't trust us. Right. Well, no, I've got common sense.

SPEAKER_02 48:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Which is common sense.

SPEAKER_03 48:15

Made so common. Well, let me let me let just go back backtrack a bit. So then what's your take on I guess the chess move that Iran made, naming the son of the dead supreme leader? Um they named Much, I'm gonna butcher this saying that his name, Muchtaba Khamanal Kamenai. Yeah, he's the new Iranian Supreme Leader. He's the son of the previous successor. Look up why? Why did Iran why did Iran do that?

SPEAKER_01 48:46

Look up the term nepotism, I guess. Yeah, I guess, yeah. Um uh because they need all the support they can get. And it's I I personally, like, I do you see a civil war happening in Iran? Yeah, the problem is, is that the mullahs in in the late 70s took all the guns away. Okay. So that's why they I I again these numbers might be wrong, uh, but apparently like 40 to 50,000 people lost their lives in the last two weeks for what crime? Protesting.

SPEAKER_02 49:22

Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

So the people have had enough now. Uh the Kurds in Iraq apparently are invading because what Donald Trump doesn't want to do is put boots on the ground, because that's gonna lose a lot of support for Trump. So he wants, if he can get somebody else to do the legwork, literally the legwork, uh, then I can see the per see the Persian people. Uh okay, you hear this term, you know, Iran against Israel. Well, in the 70s, um, the Persians loved the Jewish people. There was a huge Jewish population in Tehran, huge business, and uh society was great. And when the mullahs came in, they kicked out the Jewish population, all that, and now they're against each other. Israel and uh Iran are not enemies, theoretically. If you take the people, the Persian people have no problem with the Jewish people, none. It's the crazy Islamics, it's again looking at from a geopolitical, yeah, crazy Islamics, and that's the stuff you guys want to put in Canada. This crazy stuff, yeah. And then, you know, um, this is a story my mother uh told me this would have been about oh at least 20 years ago. She was at a mall, and one of these um these ladies had a burqa on, and all she can see was uh her eyes, and she was sitting uh beside her, and my mom, uh you know, my mother was a very outgoing uh person, and she um she said, Hey, aren't you like hot in that? Like, I mean, it's all black, and all I can see is your eyes. Is it an uncomfortable? And so she looked my mother right in the eye clearly and said, Lady, there's gonna come a time when you are gonna be wearing one of these. And that's what she said. And my mother goes, Well, maybe not in my lifetime. She goes, Yeah, but your daughters and your granddaughters will be wearing burkas. Right. Those were her words. That was 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 51:30

Again, it's it's a slow the trajectory is on its way, but that's say what you want, but that's the way it's going. And that's the problem. I wonder what it's gonna take. I I I sometimes I I lie, I lie in bed at night and I think about this. What it's gonna take for people, and I'm thinking about like myself and my family and whatever, to actually get up and leave Canada. To a certain point, it's like, yeah, this is my country, this is where I was born, proud to be Canadian. But to a certain point, if certain things happen, like you're gonna, we're gonna have no choice. You want to know what's in my mind? Or or I'm never gonna be able to leave because I'm gonna get shot in the head for not praising Allah.

SPEAKER_01 52:14

So die, or the way like there's really no other country like America when it comes to freedom, but Poland's starting to look good, you know, uh, because they've they've they got it. They said uh the politicians said, Look, we had like three million Ukrainians come in, they assimilated, they work, they they pay taxes, everything is fine, no headaches. See what happened. And then there was a German guy uh on the same on the same panel, and the and the Polish guy goes to the German guy. Well, how's your country doing? Yeah, I saw that. It's it's a it's you know, it's a bloody mess.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:54

So if I had to leave Canada because because of this craziness, go to Poland. I Poland's probably very easy for our family to get to Poland. Yeah, we'll leave it at that. But um, but that's that's just uh crazy. So, but I I do love our country. I was born in this country. Uh my dad moved heaven and earth to get into this country. So is it saveable? The politicians are gonna have to grow a pair. And and you know, not being worried about you know being uh you know any sort of phobia. I mean, I put it this way: if we had a politician today that got up and said, enough, he would win. But nobody's got the guts to say no.

SPEAKER_03 53:44

See, that and that's what I think needs to happen. There needs to be, listen, going back to old Christians and being babies, if you get a Bible-believing, Holy Spirit-filled Christian running for parliament, running for prime minister, get him in parliament, get him voted in. Start, you know what? It's gonna be very controversial. He's gonna be like a Trump figure, just hopefully not as much of a narcissist. But if you get a guy like that, I the Christians will start to come out of the woodwork, so to speak. I believe they will hopefully start to raise their voice and get involved and take Canada back, so to speak.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Well, pretty much, yeah. You have no choice because what's happening in parliament now, it's it's scary. Um, I had I was um I was at a let's let's say uh health club for for the sake of argument, and I was talking to two Sikh lawyers, and um, this was really funny when uh we were talking, and um, and and they know me, I know them, and we we were we were doing what we're not supposed to do. We were talking politics, and one of them asked me, and he goes, uh, hey, uh, he mentioned my name, and he goes, Besides Justin, that's just too easy. Uh, who's your least favorite politician? I said, Oh, that's easy. Jagmeet Singh. They go, hmm, that's interesting. Why did you say that? Well, because clearly I'm I'm I'm a racist. Right. They said, no, you're not a racist. We know you. No, tell me, why do you not like Jagmeet? And I told them, A, B, and C, why I didn't like him. And they go, you know what? The C community agrees with you. Nobody likes him. But you see, and that's the thing. Nobody wants to say anything because, oh, I can't be a racist. You know what? If if somebody c uh if somebody calls you a racist, you know what? The conversation's over. That that's pretty much they they dropped every letter. Uh case in point, there I was uh I'm not gonna share that story. But yeah, what once once they drop the R word, there's no no point even.

SPEAKER_03 55:58

It's done. Yeah, there's no, there's no yeah, there's no point. But go on, so we're gonna we're gonna end it off with one more thing here because we're approaching an hour. Okay. Um I do want to bring up Trump. Let me make my stance very, very clear on Trump. Okay. Do I like Trump? Yes. I think that Well, the reason, the main reason I like Trump, say what you want about him. He is America first. You can say he's Trump first, whatever, but he is America first. He doesn't care about anyone else except America. Okay. Do I think he needs to be more professional? Sure. Do I think he needs to tone down some of his attitude towards other other people? Sure. Right? Like, I believe sometimes he's not professional. Do I think he's sent from God and he's the next? No, I don't think he's God sent. I don't think any of that. I think that's stupid. Okay. But I will say that what we're gonna talk just briefly about it, and I want you to highlight your key moments. A couple weeks ago, that State of the Union address that Trump gave. Alright. I personally thought, and a lot of you who disagree with Trump are gonna say that I'm being completely biased, which hey, that's fine. You're entitled to your opinion. But some of the stuff, and I'm gonna call them stunts because it was very pre-calculated on some of the stuff that Trump said. Some of the stuff that he said and he did, and I'm gonna say this very, very boldly, I'm not gonna be ashamed of saying this, just showed you, showed you how much of the left, how far the left wing, how those people, they are literal demons from hell. Some of the stuff that they wouldn't stand for, some of the stuff that they were booing for. Like to me, it's like there's a difference between being right and left versus being a human being. Okay. One of my biggest highlights, okay, I don't have the actual quote here, but he basically said, I want to take a poll, and if you agree with me, I want you all to stand. And he basically said the whole job of the government, of the American government, is to protect Americans first. Stand up. Not well, I shouldn't say not one. There were a couple, but majority of the left side sat. What does that tell you? I I'm honestly, I'm honestly at the point, and I'm sure by now it's not a secret where we s where our family sits on the pendulum. I don't think that's that's a mystery. But honestly, I'm at the point now in my life where remember I said I don't care, that I just don't care. Right. Many times you've said that. It's to the point now where it's like, I don't even want to be your friend if you support that side. I want nothing to do with you. You know, like like they literally, you can hate Trump all you want. That's fine. Hate the person, but you can't argue against his policies, you can't argue against putting America first. You can't argue against, you know, like I said, you can argue about him being an imbecile, you can argue about him being narcissistic and whatever, prideful. Sure, cool. I I'll I'll I'll give you that bone. But to I don't know. It just honestly, like, it was eerie. As much as I enjoyed it, it was eerie because it showed you what kind of people they really are.

SPEAKER_01 59:43

Well, let me let me start off by saying this. I remember I remember Donald Trump in the 80s, and he was always a bombastic uh, you know, narcissist, and he was he was always and and you know what, and to this day, he still is all those things. Right. But you know what? As I as a human being, I never really liked him, but I did something. I read his book, and when I read his book, The Art of the Deal. The Art of the Deal, yeah, it was a good book, I'll tell you. I I rec I highly recommend it. Okay. Um, but even there was an interview of him back in 1980. He must have been like 34 years old or something. And and then in those days, he said, Why is America putting up with this? We're a superpower. Why why do we have hostages in Iran? He was always, even in those days, he said, go bomb the snot out of them. That's the way he was. And and he he was always looking out for America first, because America made him his fortune. Sure. So and uh he he loves this country. And I I don't I don't blame him for that. But as as for these uh these democrats and all, I do the Democrats want to harm America. They they are so uh so infested with Trump derangement syndrome that the fact they didn't stand, they didn't they didn't uh not stand double negative here because of the American people. They just didn't stand because they hate Trump so much. And he uh called them out. Every see Trump builds buildings, okay? So he's not a janitor, he's a building maker. So now I want you to imagine this. You get a plot of land, and then in two years you got a big building. Okay, that's not instantaneous. There's planning, there's zoning, there's concrete, there's he plays 4D, 5D, 6D chess. The fact that he hit Iran, people there's there's more of a reason, yeah, the mullahs were were going crazy. They slaughtered you know 50,000 protesters, but that wasn't the reason. There's another reason that we don't even know yet. I heard one guy say, well, he's choking China uh for oil, because Venezuela and uh Iran gave a lot of oil to China. Now China's scrambling. There's so much more that we don't know. And then you get these people uh on one end, uh the the Persian people are just praising this this this savior, Trump, while these Karens are you know getting all upset. And then where's where's your common sense? Women are second-class citizens. Actually, women were put, uh uh the Ayatollah had a statement where women were like dogs. And uh and a Persian woman said, Listen, you you protesters, you know nothing. You know nothing. You've never been, you you you grew up in this wonderful country, you had lack of nothing. Like Persian people are not Arabic. We have Arabic on our flag since when? Since 79, when they took over. We are not Muslim, we are not Arabic, we are Persian. And and Donald Trump, I mean you gotta you gotta praise the guy for this. He went, he it takes guts. It takes guts. He knew he was gonna get this backlash. So what for I again for for Donald Trump as a president, I think he's brilliant. I I think he's uh I think if there was a vote of let's say let's say the North America had a vote, I would vote for him to have his face on Mount Rushmore. You know, because for the American people, I I think he's the best president ever lived. So that's that's my take on that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:57

What was your key highlight from the well we'll wrap up here? What was your key highlight from the uh State of the Union address?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:05

Ary is your favorite moment or the whole thing, I I think the whole thing was scripted. It's the longest one ever. Right. Uh when I I watched I watched every frame and um and what what I I took, he he is he is like he's our modern day PT Barnum. He's a showman. His hair has to be just right, his suit, his tie's gotta like he will correct his tie. The light, if the light's not right, he's gonna call it out. So he knew that he's gonna have the U.S. hockey team come out, which I thought was brilliant.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:43

I thought that was awesome. Even as a Canadian, even though it was heartbroken, we lost. That's right, but still, just for reference sake for you millennials out there, P. T. Bardum, uh, the greatest showman.

unknown 1:04:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:53

If you watch that that's who we that's the reference.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:56

So um uh and then when he called out, and then when when that Ukrainian girl's mother was there, that was heartbroken. He died on the subway. On the subway. When no one did anything about it, and oh, he's such a racist. He never brought up race. The only thing he brought up was this guy was convicted, whatever it was, 13 times or something. He never said race, he never said nothing. And so the word he never said the word black. No, he did not. But the video was clear it was a black. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's he's a man, and and um and and the left is going crazy because he caught them off guard. Because you see, and and a lot of democrats seem to forget that that uh uh what's that uh the insider traitor, apparently. Uh Nancy Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi. You you you because like I'm on I'm on the left uh right side, so I say you leftists. But she committed a felony right on uh on TV when she ripped up that speech. Yeah, that's right. I remember that. That is actually a felony. Yeah. You know, so you know, they like to talk about well, Trump won't uh uh uh you know, he won't accept the uh the election. A lot of you don't remember, but in the year 2000, 2001 with uh with George Bush and um oh, his name escapes me. Uh Al Gore. Al Gore. Oh, it was it it was a fist fight. It was nuts. The the the pregnant Chads. You're gonna have to look that up. Uh and um and the Democrats went nuts. So um we have laws in like the well, I say we because we're Canadian, but uh the Americans have laws in every state can challenge the election. And I watched uh I watched the speech in 2021 when uh and try I remember it like yesterday, and Trump said, go peacefully, respect the police officers, respect them. He said that so many times, and yet the media wants to uh it's it's getting to the point where you're lying eyes, your lying ears. No, that's not what you heard. It's clearly what I heard. Yeah. So um we have to be very careful, but you know, something that you said, um, you know, it's not right or left, it's Democrat, liberal, republican. I'm telling you, uh, it is very clear that it's good versus evil. It's clearly, clearly, clearly evil that wants to overtake good. And um and as you know, as people, we have to be very, very careful on what what we listen to. Um and and and I would say be ha have an open mind and research. Just because some guy on the news, like the news has got so bad, I I have a hard time listening to it. I listen to you know various podcasts and all uh you know news programs that are uh well they say they're uh they're not biased, and um, and the ones I listen to are the ones that will call out a Republican if he says something wrong. Like uh like John uh John Kennedy was very, very vocal against Christine Gnome. He said, Did Trump know you spent that money? You sure? And she lied. Well, apparently, apparently, so I don't know. Apparently, she she lied. Well, what happened? She lost her job. She won't. She was shipped shifted somewhere else. But those are the see, the Republicans will always call ball and strikes. On the most part. Democrats won't. Right. You know, you're a child molester, but you know what? You're a Democrat, that's okay. So where does it stop?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:56

Well, I will say this. Just this past hour conversation has definitely opened the door to many other side conversations that we could be having. Uh, so I'm looking forward to taking a deep dive into some other um conversations. Like you mentioned the immigration, you mentioned the racism and all that. So that's something we definitely will be diving into. But to wrap it up, let's get a little bit uh bright side here. Um, I just pulled up this quiz. It's a millennials versus Gen X. Alright. Alright. And let's see. I'm gonna ask you the questions. Okay, and maybe next week we'll reverse saying you ask me the questions. Okay. So, question number one which iconic 1980s movie features the quote Nobody puts baby in a corner? Dirty Dancing. Okay, well, I was supposed to give you the four options first. Oh, sorry, but I'll go with Dirty Dancing. Okay. Alright. Which 2003 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and serves as the final installment of the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Two Towers, A Hobbit, The Return of the King, or The Fellowship of the Ring? I know the answer to this one. I I have, you know what? I So the third one is it's the Return of the King. The Return of the King? Okay, I never got into the bought that in. Okay. This one's definitely for you. What what popular gaming console was released in the US in 1985, becoming a staple in Gen X households? Was it either the Nintendo Entertainment System, NES, Sega Genesis, PlayStation, or the Atari 2600?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:39

In 1985? 1985.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:42

It's not the PlayStation. I would say Atari. Atari? Okay. What social network site launched in 2003, becoming one of the first platforms to connect millennials online before the arise of Facebook? I'm gonna answer this one. So it's either the options are Friendster, LinkedIn, High Five, or MySpace. I believe it's MySpace. MySpace, that's what I would say. In 1985, which scientists led a team to make one of the most important geophysical discoveries of the 20th century, a hole in the ozone layer? Was it James Lovelock, Joe Farman, Stephen Hawking, or Carl Sagan? I I would I would probably guess Sagan. Okay. It's not giving me the answers, yeah, at the end of the quiz. So four more. Which mission successfully landed a rover on Mars in 2012, a major achievement during the millennial era? Opportunity, spirit, curiosity, or perseverance? 2012. I would say spirit.

unknown 1:11:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:50

That's a good question. That's a very good one.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:54

First released in 1993, which collectible card game became hugely popular with Generation X and is still played today? Yu-Gi-Oh! Pokemon, Digimon, or Magic? I'm gonna say Pokemon. That's really yeah, they're really the only ones. I know Yu-Gi-Oh! was popular when I was growing up, but kind of fell off. Which 2016 board game designed by Isaac Childress became highly acclaimed for its deep tactical gameplay and expansive story-driven campaign, and it's set in a dark fantasy world where players cooperate to survive. I have no freaking idea. Yeah, it's not Catan, the sellers catan. I love that game. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:44

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:45

I'm gonna say uh uh pandemic legacy. Sounds uh which Pittsburgh Penguins player won five Art Ross trophies as the NHL's leading scorer and was a key figure in their 1991 and 1992 Stanley Cup victories. Was it Marion Lemieux, Ron Francis, Yammer Jagger, or Paul Coffee? Ooh. It's a toss-up between Jagger and Lemieux. I think it's Lemieux. I don't think Yager has won five Art Ross trophies.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:13

Okay, I'll say I would say Lemieux for sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:15

He was phenomenal in those days. He went. Let's see here as they load up the answers. Alright, question one, dirty dancing. Question two, return of the king. Number three was wrong. It was not Atari. Oh, it was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Okay, yes. There you go. Number four was MySpace, we were correct. Number five, it was not Sagan with the whole nose on layer. It was Joe Farman. Okay. Then yeah. The mission Mars in 2012, which we both didn't know. It was not the spirit, it was a curiosity. Curiosity, wow. Wow. Okay. 1993, which collectible card game was became hugely popular with Generation X that is still played today. It's not Pokemon. I guess 93 might be too early for Pokemon. Right. Uh it's Magic, the Gathering. Jeez. I I wouldn't know that to say my eye. I've never heard of that. Uh the the board game, the Dark Fantasy World, we just took a guess. It was not Pandemic Legacy, it was Gloomhaven. And I was wrong. It was not Lemue. No. It was Yammer Dogs. It was Yamar. It was Yamar.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:18

I knew it was toss-up between those two, but wow. Wow. Okay. Okay. Well, thanks for listening. That is a wrap for episode number one. Like I said previously, this uh podcast idea just came on a limb. We were uh having breakfast, eating omelets, and and my dad said, Hey, why don't we do this? And I'm like, you know what? Why not? Let's do it. It'll be fun, um, entertaining, but we want to hear from you. Uh, we're not on social just yet. We are working on that now. We'll get an email address, we'll get an account, all that set up, and we want to hear from you. We want to get your opinions, we want to get your questions, we want to answer anything that you have. If you care about our opinions at all, please send in your questions and we will make sure to get them in on the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:01

But I'll tell you this though: if you do send me a message and you want to know my answer, I'm not gonna pull any punches, I'm not gonna try to be nice, I'm gonna tell you what I honestly think. If you're offended, like Matt Gates uh said, be offended. I you know, it's not that I don't care, but I want to be real and I want to be straightforward with you. So um, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:24

Oh, I have a blast. And taking it out to end the show, I'm gonna play you guys a little snippet from I'm not gonna say it's a family song, but it's a song that let's just say it's got some family history towards. And obviously, none of you none of you are gonna understand it, but take a listen and uh we'll see you next week.