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CTP (S3EMarSpecial7) The Weird Canadian (yes, he calls himself that)
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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We sit down with Cody Johnston aka The Weird Canadian to trace his path from rural Ontario to Newfoundland and the moments that pushed him to own being different. Along the way we get into bullying, tech careers, AI tools, and why attention and personal responsibility matter more than ever.
• meeting Cody through PodMatch and why he brands himself The Weird Canadian
• growing up rural in Ontario and how limited internet shaped perspective
• school, early tech interests, and working inside government IT
• taxes, regulation, and what Canada’s alcohol system reveals about incentives
• online bullying versus physical bullying and how mental scars linger
• anime, cosplay, creativity, and learning to stop caring what people think
• moving to Newfoundland and building a small town tourism destination
• using AI for writing, video editing, and music creation while staying human in the loop
• the shock of GPT and why it triggered a career pivot
• distractions, propaganda, and choosing curiosity over ignorance
• capitalism, communism, UBI skepticism, and lessons from Cuba and China
• energy reality, domestic manufacturing, and why policies collide with human nature
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LOL, pardon the opening TYPO - episode PG-13, not episdoe
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We sit down with Cody Johnston aka The Weird Canadian to trace his path from rural Ontario to Newfoundland and the moments that pushed him to own being different. Along the way we get into bullying, tech careers, AI tools, and why attention and personal responsibility matter more than ever.
• meeting Cody through PodMatch and why he brands himself The Weird Canadian
• growing up rural in Ontario and how limited internet shaped perspective
• school, early tech interests, and working inside government IT
• taxes, regulation, and what Canada’s alcohol system reveals about incentives
• online bullying versus physical bullying and how mental scars linger
• anime, cosplay, creativity, and learning to stop caring what people think
• moving to Newfoundland and building a small town tourism destination
• using AI for writing, video editing, and music creation while staying human in the loop
• the shock of GPT and why it triggered a career pivot
• distractions, propaganda, and choosing curiosity over ignorance
• capitalism, communism, UBI skepticism, and lessons from Cuba and China
• energy reality, domestic manufacturing, and why policies collide with human nature
https://tinyurl.com/SubscribeToCTP
CTP Audios: https://tinyurl.com/CTPonBuzzsprout
CTP Videos: https://tinyurl.com/JLDonBITCHUTE
https://tinyurl.com/CTPgear
Kennedy theme (suno) unplugged/acoustic version: https://suno.com/s/rjKwfc4TQSMUZF7c
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of First Tututionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D. It looks French. It's not. It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:26A special segment for February and March, mid-week drops.
00:35Normally Saturday monologues and normally a guest appearance on a Wednesday.
00:41February and March, two a week, Tuesday and Thursdays,
00:46in order to get caught up on some interviews that have been stacking up. Enjoy.
00:53Joining me today will be Cody Johnston.
00:58Not John-son, John-stun.
01:01But before we get to Cody, I want to do a little brief monologue.
01:07I make no secret that First Tututionalist Podcast uses a service called PodMatch,
01:13which is where we met.
01:15You can go to check it out at tinyurl.com joinpodmatch.
01:22You don't have to join right there.
01:24You can just check it out, tinyurl.com joinpodmatch.
01:30And I saw his profile, and it said,
01:34The Weird Canadian.
01:36Oh, that's all I needed to read, as I told him our online communication before 9-11
01:44and cross-border travel for personal reasons got all messed up, obviously.
01:52I used to vacation up near Aurelia, RIP native son Gordon Whitefoot.
01:59I used to vacation on Sparrow Lake up there all the time.
02:03So to discuss all things Canuckostanian land, welcome to the show, Cody Johnston.
02:11Thank you very much for having me.
02:13And yes, I am The Weird Canadian.
02:15I thankfully coined that.
02:16That is my online persona.
02:18I have it everywhere.
02:20So if you ever want to search me up, The Weird Canadian, you'll find me everywhere.
02:23Okay.
02:24I got very lucky.
02:26But yeah, I define myself as that too.
02:29So feel free to throw in as many questions as you'd like, and we can get weird with it.
02:35First, let's do the Christian show.
02:38So pun intended, proverbial, first obvious question.
02:43Where were you born and raised?
02:45Where are you now?
02:47Significant places you've been in between.
02:49How much time have you spent in prison for what?
02:54For the record, for the transcript, he's laughing.
02:57It's a joke, people.
02:59It's a joke.
02:59Let's lighten up.
03:01And for the record, for the record, I think I've only ever been, like, gotten a citation
03:08for drinking in public, and that's because I got pushed off a lawn.
03:11And that's a whole story.
03:14But yeah, I'm Cody Johnston.
03:18I was born and raised in Ontario, Canada.
03:21I spent the majority of my 30s.
03:25I ran, so Oshawa until I was 16, and then Port Hope, which is what I deem my home, my
03:32hometown.
03:34So my parents own four acres in the middle of the Gannaraska Forest.
03:38We grew up in, like, middle of nowhere.
03:41I got to learn to drive, I got to go to school, and had a good time out there.
03:45Also had no internet for four years, so I got to, I got lucky.
03:50I had that four years where social media was starting to get big.
03:53I never got on that.
03:54So I never really understood social media until lately, actually, as I started doing my
04:00podcast.
04:00Oh, that's good.
04:01I'm glad.
04:02That spared you a lot of heartache in a way, right?
04:06All that online bullying nonsense.
04:10Yeah, that did end up affecting me in college, but it does what that, like, I learned about
04:18it, I learned from it, and now I'm a better man for it.
04:21But the, so I've moved from Kingston, I went to Kingston for college, computer networking
04:28and technical support.
04:29Then I went down to Niagara for computer programming, where I ended up working, or getting a co-op job
04:37with the Ministry of Transportation, building applications for the general public, and learning
04:44how our government doesn't fucking work.
04:46Sorry.
04:48Yeah, I'll tell, ours doesn't either, but I'm sorry to say, yeah, in many respects, yours
04:55is somewhat better in some place, and somewhat worse in other ways.
05:00Fun fact for your crowd, 40% of the Canadian population is employed in some way, shape, or
05:07form by a government entity.
05:10Non-productive side of mostly.
05:13I mean, obviously, there's, now we have to explain to some, like, especially in our southern
05:20states, some of those are, you have beer, wine, liquor stores.
05:26It is so harshly regulated that you have government-run, owned, and operated beer, wine, liquor to really
05:36be able to ensure crackdown, although your drinking age is 18, or did it go to 19?
05:44No, it's still 18.
05:4518, yep.
05:47Fun fact, two-thirds of the price of our alcohol is tax.
05:51Yeah, yeah.
05:52Well, again, you want less of something, you tax, and it's a punishment, right?
05:57The idea is to tamp down demand to a degree.
06:01So, I complain about taxes all the time, but that sin taxes, or tax on cigarettes, things
06:09like that, you've got to have some tax to run a society.
06:15What are those going to be, right?
06:17My issue is when the tax is three times the product.
06:21That's...
06:21Yeah, yeah.
06:23It is a tad outrageous.
06:26But, yeah, you've got the government-run stores to really control that.
06:31And I say, you know, if we're going to legalize pot here, that perhaps maybe we might want
06:38to do that.
06:38But, yeah, there's that downside.
06:40More government employees.
06:44And they feel like they're elitist above everyone else.
06:48You can't fire them when they stand around doing nothing, which is why there are so many
06:54of them.
06:55It's like construction.
06:56Even here in the U.S., you go buy a construction crew, you see two people working and standing
07:03around.
07:05And I started calling it luxury welfare.
07:09You go get paid to be there, but not to actually do any work.
07:13And the few people who actually do the work, so this is one of the reasons I left, was because
07:17I was one of the people trying to make a difference, trying to do the work, and you're rewarded
07:22with more work.
07:23And it's just somebody else's work because they don't want to do it.
07:27We could talk for hours just on whining about our governments alone, but oh, let's not do
07:34that.
07:35Yeah.
07:35So let's go on to the rest of my path.
07:39Why weird Canadian?
07:41What's the genesis, Christian Chopin intended again, the genesis of this weird label?
07:50So I always felt like a different person, like different from my peers growing up.
07:55Like I always felt like I had the rich history of Canada, like I've always been proud of our
08:01history, how we got to become a nation, how we're always like, we always band together
08:06during the hard times.
08:08But as a Canadian, I always felt like I didn't fit in.
08:12And it was because I spent most of my life on the internet.
08:15Like I actually, aside from those four years, I had internet since I was 10 years old, and
08:22I've been on it since then.
08:24So it's literally like I got ripped out of my environment, and I just, I'm more world
08:30traveled through the internet.
08:31I listened to more music on the other side of the world.
08:35That's the good side of it.
08:36Yeah.
08:37There's the good, the bad.
08:38I'm former IT.
08:39So good, bad, ugly.
08:41Same with AI.
08:42There's good.
08:43There's bad.
08:44There's really ugly.
08:46Yeah.
08:46Um, yeah, so I got really detached from like Canadian and I was, I was always called the
08:52weird kid.
08:53I was always called the, yeah.
08:54So I'm just like, at this point, I'm taking it over.
08:57Yeah, for the record, those looking on behind the scenes can see, but those on the 25 plus
09:02audio platforms are reading in the transcript.
09:06The kid looks weird.
09:07That's a joke, people.
09:09Roll it.
09:10That's a joke, people.
09:11Oh, the shirt says, beware the Cobra chicken.
09:17Okay.
09:18Which is our, our goose.
09:20Yeah.
09:20The Canadian goose on there.
09:22Yeah.
09:22It says, one again, beware the Cobra chicken, right?
09:26Yeah.
09:26The Canadian geese.
09:27Yeah.
09:27Oh, we hate those.
09:30Oh, here in Michigan.
09:33They are.
09:33Would you please keep them?
09:35Yes.
09:36Those.
09:36Oh, ornery little SOBs.
09:42Yeah, so we call them Cobra chickens up here because, yeah, they're just annoying and they
09:46just want to attack you all the time.
09:50But yeah, it's just like, I've just always been this person.
09:53And fun fact, now I'm out in the middle of nowhere.
09:56So I live on the rock, a little known island called Newfoundland in Canada, a little town
10:03called Lewisport.
10:04And I'm actually the tourist coordinator now.
10:06So I'm actually building up a tourist destination here.
10:09That's a private position, though?
10:11Or public?
10:12It's a non-public.
10:14Yeah.
10:15Public non-profit.
10:16Okay.
10:17Okay.
10:17So, yeah, I would call that private.
10:20So it's a non-profit, but we would say 501C, a non-profit organization.
10:27Although I would imagine gifts are not tax deductible in Canada for such an endeavor, right?
10:35Yes.
10:37So, yeah, I'm just working, building up their tourist infrastructure here, promoting them.
10:44I'd love to come visit, but again, getting over the border still is a major pain in the butt.
10:50So I don't go over there anymore, unfortunately.
10:53And I miss a lot of friends.
10:55I don't get to see anymore.
10:56But anyway, sorry to interrupt you.
10:59No worries.
11:00I just, I fell in love with the town, the community.
11:02Like, we have the largest marina in the North Atlantic, biggest hunting and fishing store on the island.
11:08It's just, and the people are just so welcoming.
11:11I felt at home.
11:13And now I just do everything I can to bring people here, showcase it, and on top of doing my
11:20podcast, running a 3D printing company, and everything else I do.
11:26You know, I'm sure you probably don't get it there, but you might be able to stream it.
11:33It's on Fox Television Network here in the state.
11:39A new series called Best Medicine takes place out of Maine in a town called Fort Wynn.
11:47I'm kind of picturing your place like that place.
11:51Have you heard of the series?
11:53Have you seen it?
11:55Yeah.
11:55So I've started watching it, but we're a little bit bigger in population.
11:58We're about 3,500 people, but there are plenty of places here that have less than 100 people.
12:06And they're, yeah, it's just a town full of people working together, supporting each other, just getting by in their
12:11daily lives.
12:12It's a beautiful thing to see.
12:15Now let's go back to the internet thing.
12:18We kind of touched on bullying a little.
12:21Well, in my books, especially I'm grabbing, I'm grabbing the Book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem, my whole life and
12:34living series of books.
12:36Bullying is unfortunate.
12:39It's never going to go away, though.
12:42And really, it's life conditioning.
12:45It helps make us better people.
12:48As I say in Book of Kennedy, you don't want to be like that, as I coined them, math holes
12:56that are always miserable and angry and whatnot.
13:01It helps actually build better character in people.
13:06So it's a rite of passage.
13:08It's almost a necessity of life.
13:11Your thoughts?
13:12No, I've actually started contemplating that recently, especially when it comes to online bullying.
13:20Because I had that gap of not using the internet, I think I have a really interesting perspective in terms
13:26of nobody can hurt you online.
13:28Like, I'm sorry, that's not bullying to me.
13:31Not really.
13:31Like, I've had a swirly.
13:33I've been beaten to a pulp.
13:35I've been choked on multiple occasions.
13:37I, like, I've come home and had to change schools because it's been so bad.
13:42There's physical and mental bullying, yes.
13:44Just like abuse.
13:46Physical and mental abuse.
13:47And mental abuse can be as bad as physical.
13:51Because physical, like a bruise will heal.
13:54The mental scar can remain a long time.
13:57I'm not trying to necessarily...
14:00But I'm trying to put it into perspective of, like, the mental harm you can fix.
14:07Right?
14:08The physical harm is something...
14:09Hopefully, yes.
14:09Well, yeah.
14:10You can...
14:11Because it's something about yourself.
14:12You're finding it harmful.
14:14Therefore, it's something about you that you need to figure out.
14:19Now I want to break into Disney.
14:21Let it go.
14:22Let it go, right?
14:25When it's coming from somebody else, you don't have a choice.
14:28Like, it's not up to you.
14:30Except to fight back.
14:32Yes.
14:32Exactly.
14:33So, and I'm really starting to understand that distinction.
14:37And I'm really starting to get that sense of we've lost that line.
14:42That delineation of one's worse than the other.
14:44And we really need to make that prominent.
14:46Yeah.
14:47I'm glad we...
14:49I never script these shows.
14:52There's a never know what rabbit holes will open when we go down.
14:55So, I'm going to refer people back into my Christitutionalist podcast catalog.
15:00Please look up the Bullseye the Clown episode.
15:06Bullseye name because he was the target of bullying.
15:10He became a clown out of that.
15:12And indeed goes around talking about bullying.
15:16So, that episode is very worth listening to.
15:19But, I don't know what to pivot to next.
15:24No worries.
15:25Like, I can go a little bit more into, like, the bullying side.
15:28So, like, I was a really different kid.
15:30Like, I liked to cosplay.
15:32Like, I liked to...
15:32I was anime.
15:3490s anime kid.
15:35Oh, okay.
15:37Finding DVDs...
15:37Anime, not Pokemon.
15:39The two were different.
15:40Yes.
15:40I was heavily into the actual Japanese animation.
15:44Like, to the point where I'm now over, like, a thousand series watched in my lifetime.
15:51Like, it's...
15:52I've actually calculated it out.
15:55It's worth six months of actual life that I've spent watching anime.
15:59Well, and you said in your lifetime.
16:01So, how old are you?
16:0434 years old.
16:05Oh, okay.
16:06See, now, you look younger.
16:07I would...
16:08I've only guessed you in your 20s.
16:11So, looks can be deceiving, right?
16:14That's why, Martin Luther King Jr., you have to engage and understand the content of one's character.
16:23Not how they look.
16:24Not the group.
16:25The left loves to put people in boxes.
16:30Yeah, over.
16:31Anyway, go on.
16:32Yeah, so, like, I was very imaginative, always in my own head, always, like, trying to play out what I
16:38wanted to do.
16:40As I got bullied, that kind of became an inward self.
16:44And fun fact, like, I used to dance.
16:46Like, I loved to dance as a kid.
16:48I was called Crazy Legs, and I didn't realize it was actually somebody, like, yelling, oh, like, a slurve to
16:55me.
16:56And I'm like, oh, I'm just going to call myself Crazy Legs, because I'm crazy, like, right?
17:00And then, like, it just grew to more self.
17:04So, the weird Canadian, a.k.a. Crazy Legs.
17:08Oh, I also have sugar-free.
17:11So, sugar-free Cody.
17:14Because I'm not a fan of sugar.
17:17Everything in moderation.
17:19See the Health Weeks episodes.
17:22Blah, blah, blah.
17:23But, yeah, like, I'm just, I'm a weird individual.
17:26And the bullying kind of made me internalize a lot of that.
17:32But as I grew, I learned that it was helpful.
17:36A lot of that was helpful.
17:37It's just a matter of, you need to grow up.
17:41I don't know how else to put it.
17:43You just need to grow up.
17:44Some people never want to, exactly, unfortunately.
17:48We need to let, I've got episodes on this, and articles at thelibertybeacon.com and beforesnews.com.
17:57We need to let kids be kids.
18:00Some people are trying to force children to deal with too much adult stuff too early.
18:06But then, yes, 18, 21 for sure, 24, when the brain is fully developed.
18:14Help, yes, grow the bleep up.
18:20It's just fascinating how you, as you get to that point, when you realize you look back on your life,
18:26it's like, I needed to hit those to become who I am.
18:29Like, I wouldn't have started my podcast without being able to understand who I was, what I was trying to
18:35do, these kinds of things.
18:37Honestly, it's so freeing to not worry about it anymore.
18:39Like, I don't know how to relay this to the kids out there, to the young people who think everything
18:46is going to blow up and the world is crappy.
18:50I can promise you it's not.
18:53And once you understand that and start seeing it as, like, bad thoughts in your head, bad thoughts in your
19:00head, just throw them away.
19:03Basically, you're going to feel a lot better.
19:05Yeah, bad things sometimes happen to good people.
19:08But you're right.
19:09Likely Armageddon coming tomorrow is slim.
19:14Terror strikes coming soon to a city near you.
19:17I don't sell fear porn.
19:19I want people at least awake and alert and have a modicum of situational awareness and understand bad things sometimes
19:30happen to good people.
19:32So don't be an ostrich.
19:35Don't have your head buried in the sand or up your hind side.
19:39Hey, attention.
19:41Now, you mentioned creative.
19:43Have you written any books?
19:45No, I am starting because...
19:47Well, and let me recommend to you how to write a book and get it published.
19:53Fair enough.
19:53I am starting to write a book.
19:56I did kind of write a 5,000-page piece on my life, on how I got to where I'm
20:05at.
20:05Although no one knows who Cody Johnston really is.
20:09So you don't want a memoir, but you can have a dramatic book based upon your life.
20:17That would work.
20:18Absolutely.
20:19So I'm working with AIs to really flush that out right now.
20:23But in terms of creative, like, I am very good on camera.
20:27I have found I am charismatic talking to people and really good at...
20:31No, you don't say.
20:32I thought you were pretty darn boring, actually.
20:35It's a joke, people.
20:36Light up.
20:38Fun fact.
20:39I really don't like people.
20:42Like, it's like I get charismatic.
20:44My sister has a shirt that says, people, not a fan.
20:47She's got a bumper sticker I love.
20:49The more people I meet, the more I love my cat.
20:53Right?
20:53Yeah.
20:54I hear you.
20:55Absolutely.
20:56I'm taking from, like, the George Carlin era where it was like, like, people are stupid, but the individual.
21:03Like, I'm really excited about the individual.
21:06So when I bring somebody on my podcast, it's like, I just want to know who you are, why you
21:11are, what you're doing.
21:12How is it different?
21:13What are you going to do with this?
21:14I just want to understand from your perspective what's going on to the bigger world because I'm just naturally curious.
21:23I want to know as much as I can.
21:26And it's funny because I always put this in Doctor Who terms, but I want to be the face of
21:32Bo.
21:33Like, I just want to be somebody there that watches history, human history throughout the lifetime of it.
21:39Not really, really interfering, but just being able to see it progress and learn and understand and just be there.
21:47That's my reason for being, which is really weird.
21:50So you're also the nerd.
21:52Yes.
21:53I'm kidding.
21:54I love Doctor Who.
21:55I go back to the original series.
21:57So I don't watch it these days.
22:01I found it's like just gone off the rails, but I like the older Doctor Who, but at any rate.
22:08Yeah.
22:09So it's just like a matter of like perspective.
22:11And I have like a lot of big theories on the world.
22:14I have a lot of things to tell.
22:16And I like to just kind of put the conversation between the two people into perspective for others.
22:23And that's where my creative comes in.
22:25And then also on top of that, like I use AI to edit my videos.
22:28I'm also an AI musician.
22:31I just was on Suno.com the other day for my, I'm grabbing again, for the Book of Kennedy Project
22:42Carpe Diem.
22:43I had it create a theme song, Kennedy's theme.
22:47And I just put that up on YouTube and BitChute the other day.
22:53Exactly.
22:54AI music creation has gotten a lot better than where it was.
23:00And the Kennedy's theme song, I've got a rock version, a pop version, a country version, and an unplugged version.
23:08And all the same lyrics.
23:10But wow, is it great.
23:13So I have six albums on Spotify.
23:17Oh, wow.
23:19I have so much music that I don't, I can't afford to keep on putting it on Spotify is the
23:25problem.
23:26And yeah, so like I've just been creating, I really get involved with it.
23:31So it's not just the AI creating it.
23:34It's me creating it with the AI.
23:36It has to exactly feel what I'm thinking.
23:39I understand exactly what you're saying.
23:42Like Suno, unfortunately, there's only like, it's almost like a tweet, 250 characters.
23:49So you have to carefully craft what you're telling it to get.
23:53But the song it created, the lyrics, the verses, the chorus, the bridge are all, it's like it read my
24:04book.
24:05It is so perfect.
24:07It is amazing.
24:08But it's like Grok.
24:10I use Grok Imagine 1.0 on occasion.
24:14And sometimes you get out great stuff.
24:17Sometimes it's a dud.
24:19It hits the recycle bin.
24:22So I get it.
24:24I take it more as this is the start of the new way of things.
24:30Because when we had the internet, like I remember this so clearly.
24:34When the internet first came out, the crap that was being posted was pick flicks and like little doodles on
24:44your computer and like crap.
24:47So I understand.
24:48Well, there wasn't very much bandwidth then, though, either.
24:51But yeah, that's true.
24:52But it was like the good stuff was getting up and coming.
24:56And the bad stuff was getting sorted out, just as humans do.
24:59And that's just the phase we're going through with AI right now.
25:02Sometimes you're going to get crap.
25:04And sometimes you're going to have a masterpiece.
25:08And nine times out of ten, you're getting that masterpiece.
25:11Geez, I agree more times than not.
25:14And I like how you said you're curious.
25:17You like to.
25:18I, too, am that way.
25:20But unfortunately, there's a lot of people who love to wallow in ignorance.
25:25They don't care that they don't know.
25:27They don't know.
25:28They don't want to know.
25:30They prefer a delusional bubble.
25:32And that's sad.
25:33Because I, Coyne, as a former IT guy, never before in the course of human history have had people had
25:41information, factual, at their fingertips.
25:46But at the same time, conversely, the ability to live in a delusional bubble.
25:54Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
25:56But it matters if your opinion's based on reality or unicorn fart fantasy.
26:03Right?
26:05It's the quote I go back to when, or a Reddit quote from, like, 2012.
26:10About what would you tell a time traveler about this period that would astound their mind?
26:16And it was, I have a device in my pocket capable of accessing the entirety of human knowledge.
26:23And I use it to look at cats.
26:28And it's just, that's what it defined down to.
26:30Is, is we, we have the ability for all of life knowledge.
26:35And now, so with AI, even more.
26:38The cat playing the piano immediately comes, I love that video.
26:44But yeah, like, this is, this is where we're at.
26:46And I love the cats dancing.
26:48Like, I keep on getting the cats dancing now with the AI cat dancers.
26:52There's a, there's a, there's a great spoof of Guns N' Roses, uh, uh, sweet child of mine, uh, something
27:02paw, paws and roses, and, you know, sweet paw of mine or something.
27:07Oh, what a, what a great little video spoof.
27:12But yeah, but, and everything in moderation.
27:16It's okay to have distractions and deflections, but it's important to understand Roman bread and circus.
27:26You can't be consumed by that all the time.
27:30People want you distracted and consuming that idiocy all the time and not paying attention to our politicians who are
27:40robbing us blind and selling us up the river.
27:44Back to that again.
27:46Yeah, uh, just to like, well, to get back into that, that's what sold me.
27:50So I was actually sitting in my office in the government, uh, GPT popped out for the first time in,
27:57in October of 22, 23.
28:00And I was sitting in my office and I'm like, I'm in the wrong job.
28:05Just right there.
28:06It dropped.
28:08I was like, I don't need Stack Overflow anymore.
28:10I am in the wrong job.
28:12I am going to be irrelevant in 10 years.
28:14What do I want to do?
28:16That was the snapping point.
28:17I was just like, okay.
28:19And now having the tech background, I have this, the pre-knowledge of understanding what that moment actually meant to
28:27me.
28:28And it was understanding that I am not a good enough coder to out-compete the best in this field.
28:35But yet now here comes a device that can do it better than the best coder in my field.
28:42Yeah.
28:43Former IP guy.
28:44I, I was mainly operations administration, but yeah, I dabble a lot for a while.
28:51I go back to MS-DOS.
28:53I used to write DOS utilities for God's sake.
28:58I had to learn COBOL.
29:00Yeah.
29:01Yeah.
29:01HTML websites, the original websites, my super simple computer enterprises business website, hand-coded by HTML.
29:14Yes.
29:15To, to the audience out there, that knowledge is still highly valuable.
29:19I still suggest learning it because as far as I'm concerned, coding is how the world functions.
29:26If you understand coding logic, you understand the entire world.
29:30But you're right, what, a boss comes in, write me a program that gives me, from this data, I want
29:38these things in these fields.
29:40A, I could do that in five minutes or less.
29:44You don't have five days to do it.
29:47Yeah.
29:48So that's where this came in to be, was me just trying to figure out what I wanted to do
29:52now.
29:53So, um, during that transition, I got to work for FIS Global, Fidelity's parent company, working in banking software.
30:02So it was really cool because I got to see private industry is just as bad as public industry.
30:07It can be, yes.
30:09Yeah.
30:10Great knowledge there.
30:12And then, yeah, I stepped away to start my channel, which is a combination of me giving, uh, like entrepreneurs
30:20and, and small and medium sized businesses, the tools, the information, the people to build what we need.
30:28I think giving people, um, hope and experience and understanding of these tools will help fix the problems that we're,
30:38we're all experiencing because we don't have enough people to solve those problems or solving those problems.
30:44Like it's always been caveated to the rich who have the money to invest in those problems.
30:50Well, now intelligence fixing those problems comes at no cost.
30:55Like you can figure out a solution to that problem and run it at a thousand dollar cost now, instead
31:01of the hundred thousands.
31:03There's part of the problem right there though, human nature and why I wrote the life and living series of
31:09books, human condition, human nature, psychology.
31:13There will always be some who will go, will work harder at not working than they would take to do
31:22the job, right?
31:23That's why the Bible makes the distinction between those who are unable to work and those who are unwilling.
31:32And like Jesus said, the poor will always be among you.
31:35There will always be some who will try to skate and do the least effort possible and always conners and
31:45scammers and who don't want politicians, wink, wink, nod, right?
31:50They don't want a problem solved.
31:54They make their living bilking the public on not solving, using an issue as a problem, but never really solving
32:05it.
32:05It's one of the reasons I will never endorse UBI because our universal basic income, because that is just not
32:14something that's remotely feasible with that type of people.
32:18And that's the denial of human nature.
32:23Communism fails.
32:25I talk all the time.
32:27Biblical community, free will, voluntary.
32:32You want to be your brother's and sister's keeper, but bearing in mind, I have no Christian obligation to unwilling
32:41but the unable versus communism forced at the barrel of a gun.
32:47And the laziness in the society.
32:50That's why it fails.
32:51It fails to recognize human nature.
32:56And like I've been like, so another fun fact about me.
33:00My family has been going to Cuba since the 98.
33:04My parents run a nonprofit in Cuba right now, been has been running it since COVID just to get supplies,
33:11food, medicine, whatever.
33:12If you're ready to hunker down, Cuba might not be standing.
33:16Or the government might not be standing much longer.
33:20We're hoping the government gets taken out because, yeah, that's the problem with Cuba.
33:25But, yeah, for right now, we're supporting them.
33:27All those beautiful old cars, though.
33:30If you like running.
33:3257 Chevys, that's the place to be.
33:36But, yeah, just the people, people are beautiful.
33:39The governments just ruin them.
33:41And that communism has showcased really hard in that.
33:45So, like, I know that system.
33:47I don't, I refuse to ever enlighten that as a system.
33:50And Canada goes that way.
33:51I will be leaving.
33:53As much as I love Canada.
33:55You're further down the path of it than we are.
33:58As Reagan said, if we lose it here, there's nowhere left to go.
34:03We must keep it here.
34:06And there are so many on the left eager to repeat them.
34:10We tried communism in the United States before we were a nation.
34:16The Bradford Colony, the Mayflower Compact, was a commonwealth communist before the term was coined, compact.
34:27No one owned anything.
34:29I think it was all communal.
34:31And, indeed, more, I am ran.
34:34Atlas shrugged.
34:35More people kept wanting to get in the cart and be pulled than were able to pull it.
34:40They almost all starved to death.
34:43Bradford then instituted personal rights, freedom, individual rights, and personal responsibility, and private property ownership.
34:54And the rest, as they say, is history.
34:57The problem I see right now is we've stopped teaching that.
35:02We've stopped teaching what our history is about.
35:04On purpose.
35:05On purpose.
35:06But we've also increased showing what China's like.
35:11Not what China's like.
35:13Not what it actually is like, but what it's like.
35:16The propaganda version of what China is like.
35:20They sing that they have unbelievable robots, and the cleanest streets, and the nicest people.
35:27And then under the belly of that, you understand the 300 years of Maoism.
35:32The suffering, yes.
35:32The suffering of the Uyghurs.
35:35Canadians.
35:36We've had Canadians arrested on diplomatic charges, put into prisons there, and put at gunshot.
35:42We have, like, spy satellites all over the world for Chinese spies.
35:48And it's just like, these are the things you don't get showcased.
35:52And if you literally actually go look, you find it.
35:56It's not even hard to find.
35:57You look at one alternative source, and you'll find everything about them.
36:02Yeah.
36:02The Western left is in bed with the CCCP.
36:07And unfortunately, I don't just call out Democrats here.
36:11I call out rhinos here.
36:13St. Mitt Rhinomny, as I call him, right?
36:17In bed and profiting off of shipping our manufacturing over to China, which I get a degree of globalism.
36:29When Nixon opened China, it made sense.
36:32But when Clinton and Romney and their ilk invited them into world trade and most favored nation, no wrong thing
36:44to do.
36:46And now we sit at a point where China has a lot of influence, like a lot of influence.
36:52And the U.S. has been losing it all the time because their propaganda is just death, death, death, death,
36:59death.
36:59Like all the propaganda for the U.S. is we want to take over everything.
37:03All the propaganda from China is we want a polite society.
37:07We want love.
37:09We just want to get along.
37:10They make it sound biblical, but it is not.
37:14Yes.
37:14And it's like, okay, we're at this point where AI is now going to determine who wins.
37:21We're either going to have capitalism or we're going to have communism.
37:24That is the choice we are going to make as a world, not as a country or anything.
37:29As a world, we are now at a pivotal point where that is the choice.
37:34And all our governments right now are understanding the pride of domestic manufacturing, the understanding of domestic everything.
37:42The national security aspects alone.
37:44You cannot rely on your enemy for parts for your military.
37:50That's just stupid.
37:53And on top of that, it's becoming easier to do these things.
37:57Like I run a 3D printing company.
37:58I can manufacture parts as needed.
38:01It's becoming much easier to run domestic facilities at home too.
38:06So why aren't we doing it?
38:07And this is why I get so pissed off at Canada and why I yell at Canadians all the time
38:13is because Canada is actively moving more to China.
38:18And less building domestic manufacturing and we're like, America's do it, did the exact same thing.
38:26Why are we expecting something different?
38:28How do you not learn the, that's the hubris and the stupidity of communist thinking.
38:34They did it wrong.
38:36We're so much superior in intelligence and ability.
38:41Our elite know better and will do it the right way.
38:46Again, the continuing failure of socialism and communism.
38:50Failing to learn when others screw things up and learn the lesson from it.
38:56So yeah, and I'm really, I'm really excited because Canadians are starting to wake up.
39:03Like we are starting to see things.
39:04I am, we're, we're on the cusp of another election coming up.
39:07We're not sure when we're probably going to have it in the fall.
39:10And we need to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't say f***ing anything about Canada.
39:16Nothing.
39:17He cannot say a word about Canada from now on because if he does, we are going full on communist.
39:23Right.
39:24That's that risk.
39:26If we try to meddle too much, hoping to prop up conservatism and anti-communism, it will backfire.
39:37I agree with what you're saying.
39:40He needs to shut up and do things quietly behind the scenes.
39:46What do you think of circus clown Carney?
39:50Better than true, don't, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, worse in a lot of ways.
39:56Yes, we are.
39:57We are double the deficit since he came in double like a year.
40:04We've doubled the deficit in a year.
40:06Spend, spend, spend, yes.
40:07He is never at home.
40:08He spent 72 days last year in Canada and most of that's their weekends.
40:14So he's not working.
40:16That's why I say he's perfectly named Carney as in circus clown.
40:22Yes.
40:23He's all around the world securing deals for our mineral rights, but we have no infrastructure to dig those up.
40:30No infrastructure to actually send them out.
40:32No, nothing to actually get us to the minerals.
40:35And as you said, a lot of time cozying up to Xi in China.
40:40And then, so my theory is he's getting contracts from foreign companies.
40:45Foreign companies are going to come in.
40:46They're going to own those mines, own those resources, and Canada's going to get none of it.
40:50He's selling off our debt to fund selling off our resources is what essentially it boils down to.
40:59And I'm really getting sick of Canadians not understanding that.
41:03But the nice part is pressure from us could backfire and just drive it because you can't fix stupid.
41:13Stupid people just will not wake up.
41:16The more you try to educate them, it goes back to delusional bubble.
41:24The one thing we have going for us right now is Carney said at the start of his promise was,
41:30judge me on the food prices, not what I say or do, or not something, right?
41:37Yeah.
41:37And our food prices are the highest in the G7.
41:41Shall be known by your fruits.
41:44And in this case, literally, the price of the fruit.
41:49Unintended.
41:50And that's literally all we have to go on.
41:53If he was to run right now, he would fail because we're judging.
41:57Good.
41:57But the problem is we have a few months.
41:59But again, I need to shut up and stay out of it.
42:01I agree with you.
42:03I need to also maybe quietly behind the scenes, but I shouldn't even have said what I've said on this
42:10show.
42:11No, it's just the reality.
42:13And I like to talk about this as much as possible because it is just the reality.
42:17And the utter stupid part that is just baffling to me, the only thing or the actually, yeah, the only
42:27thing that's stopping us from being a productive country is our laws against drilling for oil.
42:37Oh, the same with Obama and Biden here, right?
42:42Yeah.
42:43And Trump.
42:43We just had to ship it in from Australia.
42:47Yeah.
42:51The conflict going on now and issues with the Straits of Hormuz, Europe is going to hurt.
42:59Maybe UK and France will now finally get their butts off the sideline and send their Navy in to make
43:07sure the Straits stay open.
43:08Because we, under Trump, have gotten a lot more energy independent.
43:14And that's, for national security reasons, why you want to be, why you mustn't be.
43:22So even if you don't take the national protection stance, even if you take it at an environmental stance, we
43:30don't have the environmental tech to be renewable.
43:33We need the oil to build the infrastructure, to build the renewable.
43:39It takes oil for the windmills.
43:42Yeah.
43:42It takes oil for the vehicles to build the roads.
43:46It takes oil to build the houses.
43:48It takes oil to run a nation right now.
43:51And that's the unfortunate fact.
43:54Yeah, you're really right.
43:55It's an oil economy still.
43:57No matter how much the climate charge and how climate responsible is it, when you could drill in your own
44:07backyard with our Western standards of, you know, wanting to be Christian good stewards of the environment, do it responsibly,
44:20distill it at home.
44:21How is it more environmental to ship it all across the world?
44:29That's not environmentalism.
44:31That's climate idiocy.
44:33That's climate cultism.
44:36That's non-thinking.
44:38I would suggest anybody look up Desiree Fixler.
44:42She's a WEF whistleblower.
44:45And she talks how all of the money got funneled for climate change.
44:50It's a scam.
44:52Money laundering.
44:53It's been a money laundering scheme ever since Al Gore's An Inconvenient Lime movie.
45:01If it had have been invested, we'd be at that green future right this second.
45:06That's the simple fact.
45:09But they've been too busy lining their pockets with most of it.
45:13Exactly.
45:13Okay, well, wow has the time flown.
45:17I did not expect we'd have these many rabbit holes we'd dive down.
45:23So I want to, we could go for hours.
45:26But, you know, you know, as a podcaster, the longer it gets, the fewer the views.
45:32Today's Twitter attention span, I call it, right?
45:35Just give me the headline.
45:36Just give me the TikTok video short version.
45:40Well, sorry, people.
45:43Details matter.
45:44And you need to learn that.
45:47So anyway, do you have a website?
45:50Yes, I do.
45:51It's called theweirdcanadian.ca.
45:54Yep.
45:55The Weir, I'm writing it down so I can make sure to put it on the scrawl.ca.
46:01As most sites in Canada and in .ca, just like in Europe, a lot of them have their own .extensions.
46:11It's in the U.S.
46:12We have a bazillion different ones now.
46:16We don't have just .us for government, .com.
46:20Like I have terrorstrikes.info for one of my books.
46:24You can even get .party now.
46:26Oh, that makes sense.
46:29All the political parties should have their own extension instead of trying to, because that's another thing.
46:38All the NGOs here, non-governmental organizations, they're not non-partisan, private, public, non-profits.
46:48They're money laundering operations.
46:51You're not, well, unfortunately, they are fooling, as I call, the independents who refuse to pick a side.
47:01At any rate, we are way blown over in time.
47:05So I don't know exactly when this will air.
47:08Of course, I will reach out via PodMatch and let you know when it does.
47:13Take care.
47:13God bless, brother.
47:14See ya.
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