Latest / Kvetch & Release / 610 CKTB | "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die" is the Doctrine for 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We're joined by a great storyteller on this show. John
- 0:03Speaker 1: Litkey is back.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Good morning, John, Good morning, Gene.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I love you sent me a message here and we're
- 0:09Speaker 1: going to be talking about this brand new virus. And
- 0:12Speaker 1: you said tomorrow morning, I want to talk about the
- 0:15Speaker 1: dajja vou machine. Good luck, have fun, don't die now.
- 0:19Speaker 1: I know that you've been tracking the headlines as have
- 0:22Speaker 1: I about the heat of virus. It was from that
- 0:27Speaker 1: cruise ship out in the Atlantic now, interestingly enough, and
- 0:30Speaker 1: talking about deja vu. That's what I got. Yesterday I
- 0:33Speaker 1: started seeing ticker tape numbers on CNN right next to
- 0:37Speaker 1: the oil prices, and my first question was, Man, this
- 0:43Speaker 1: feels like twenty twenty all over again. Or John, are
- 0:46Speaker 1: we smarter this time?
- 0:49Speaker 2: Are we smarter this time? I'd like to thank you
- 0:51Speaker 2: and I are smarter this time, Jean collectively. I don't know.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Put the two of us in our room. Who knows
- 0:56Speaker 2: if we're smarter or not. But it's twenty twenty six
- 0:58Speaker 2: and we are back in the It's like scarface just
- 1:01Speaker 2: when we thought we were out there, pulling us back
- 1:03Speaker 2: in again. It does feel like total dashavu. We've got
- 1:06Speaker 2: the ticker tape at the bottom of the screens. The
- 1:08Speaker 2: media is sensationalizing it without telling us clear information, and
- 1:13Speaker 2: they're actually telling us that they're not telling us clear
- 1:15Speaker 2: information about it. For whatever reason. Whether we're smarter this
- 1:18Speaker 2: time around is debatable. But the machinery has gone back
- 1:22Speaker 2: into full swing. The gears are in motion, the oil
- 1:24Speaker 2: has been put into the mechanics. We're watching the same
- 1:27Speaker 2: panic loops start to spin up, but only this time
- 1:30Speaker 2: the cemicism is higher because we've seen how the sausage
- 1:33Speaker 2: is made, We've seen what the problems are. And oh
- 1:36Speaker 2: that's right. We're still in the middle of a protracted
- 1:39Speaker 2: European engagement between Russia and Ukraine and the world. Oh right,
- 1:42Speaker 2: this time, we've got the Middle East going on. So yeah,
- 1:46Speaker 2: you know, I think all of our nerves are up
- 1:47Speaker 2: to about.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Eight and a half right now, yew I tend to agree.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Now do you trust the current federal software to handle this?
- 1:56Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, it's a forty percent mortality rate.
- 1:59Speaker 2: We've seen three deaths on a ship of one hundred
- 2:00Speaker 2: and fifty people. That's that's scary. This isn't a drill,
- 2:03Speaker 2: I mean, this is a predator. Now is it going
- 2:05Speaker 2: to be spreading as quickly as COVID did. By all accounts,
- 2:08Speaker 2: it doesn't seem so. But we're not being told this information.
- 2:11Speaker 2: But no, I don't entrust our executive software running the
- 2:14Speaker 2: system right now, And you and I have spoken about that.
- 2:16Speaker 2: If this thing scales up, the government's going to move
- 2:18Speaker 2: straight into digital martial law territory. They're going to view
- 2:22Speaker 2: the citizenry as stupid and crass. And I don't know
- 2:25Speaker 2: how far they'll go this time. We know they didn't
- 2:27Speaker 2: seize airwaves last time, they didn't do a digital censorship
- 2:31Speaker 2: Act or anything. But we didn't see the prevention of
- 2:35Speaker 2: conspiracy theorists running amuck with it either. And there was
- 2:38Speaker 2: a large sensible group of people that were left looking
- 2:40Speaker 2: to the left, looking to the right, wondering what am
- 2:43Speaker 2: I supposed to believe right now? What I can tell
- 2:45Speaker 2: you is is that people will react to lethal chaos.
- 2:49Speaker 2: But the government rather would control the story than just
- 2:51Speaker 2: trust the people with the information.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they did seize bank accounts way back when,
- 2:57Speaker 1: and we tend to kind of forget that. You've told
- 3:01Speaker 1: me in the past that you're a fan of Sam
- 3:02Speaker 1: Rockwell's film Good Luck Have fun, don't die. Now, looking
- 3:07Speaker 1: at that Trump presser yesterday and the virus news and
- 3:10Speaker 1: he falling asleep again at his desk, is that basically
- 3:14Speaker 1: the new global national anthem good Luck, have fun, don't die.
- 3:19Speaker 2: It's not just a movie line. It's the fine print
- 3:21Speaker 2: on every government press release from Ottawa to DC around
- 3:24Speaker 2: the globe. Right now, we are living a live action
- 3:26Speaker 2: sci fi flick, and the lead actors are all reading
- 3:28Speaker 2: from the teleprompter that's been unplugged for years, but now
- 3:31Speaker 2: turn back on. It's pooled back up. Honestly, watching that
- 3:34Speaker 2: presser yesterday with the virus reports, the movie title good Luck,
- 3:38Speaker 2: have Fun, don't die, is the only thing that actually
- 3:40Speaker 2: makes sense. It is the unofficial doctrine. Right now, we've
- 3:43Speaker 2: all checked out, but that's the remaining sentiment. It's dark,
- 3:46Speaker 2: it's bleak, but it's the reality of a world without
- 3:49Speaker 2: institutional trust or institutional adults.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, back in twenty twenty and I remember this,
- 3:55Speaker 1: and it's still right there center. And I brought this
- 3:58Speaker 1: up with Sue n Lev yesterday when she was on
- 4:01Speaker 1: in Monday. In twenty twenty, we saw politicians because everybody said, well,
- 4:05Speaker 1: it's coming from Wuhan, China, and people were starting to
- 4:08Speaker 1: criticize Chinese Canadians. Then Mayor John Tory and doctor Tam said,
- 4:14Speaker 1: you know, go out and have dinner at a Chinese
- 4:16Speaker 1: food restaurant tonight to show solidarity with the Chinese Canadians. Well,
- 4:21Speaker 1: you know what, it's twenty twenty six. You know you
- 4:24Speaker 1: do work for bene breath. Anti Semitic attacks are way
- 4:28Speaker 1: up there. Where are the politicians, as Sue Ant said yesterday,
- 4:33Speaker 1: like where they go out and have some mots of
- 4:36Speaker 1: ball soup, go out and buy some bagels. I mean
- 4:38Speaker 1: they haven't done anything.
- 4:40Speaker 2: No, no, no, we've seen no stopping of anti Zionist,
- 4:45Speaker 2: anti Israel rhetoric whatsoever. In twenty twenty, the world's institutional
- 4:49Speaker 2: public health elite were the most expensive restaurant critics that
- 4:52Speaker 2: we've ever seen. The bureaucracy, though, traded a neutral wistful
- 4:55Speaker 2: for a campaign strategist spreadsheet, as you and I have
- 4:59Speaker 2: discussed as of late, in picking and choosing of electoral favorites.
- 5:03Speaker 2: So back then the optics was supporting Chinese restaurants. But
- 5:05Speaker 2: right now, where is that energy for Jewish or Israeli Canadians?
- 5:09Speaker 2: The safety and rights of our community has been sidelined
- 5:12Speaker 2: or ignored because electoral math doesn't work out. The bureaucracy
- 5:15Speaker 2: isn't being neutral. It's been co opted by forces that
- 5:18Speaker 2: treat protection as a political reward rather than a fundamental right.
- 5:21Speaker 2: It's depressing.
- 5:24Speaker 1: You floated the idea with me and in the past
- 5:26Speaker 1: of what you call the system shake and having an
- 5:30Speaker 1: adult in the room explain that, Yeah.
- 5:33Speaker 2: We definitely do need to have a system shake. And
- 5:35Speaker 2: I look to someone like Jason Kenny, who is making
- 5:37Speaker 2: a lot of noise right now on the national scene
- 5:39Speaker 2: and for obvious leasons with that data breach out of
- 5:42Speaker 2: the Alberta out of Alberta right now. But he's a
- 5:46Speaker 2: realist who understands how the gears of the state turn.
- 5:49Speaker 2: He's an institutionalist who can act as an honest broker,
- 5:52Speaker 2: unlike the current crop who quite frankly, let's be honest,
- 5:55Speaker 2: a lot of people like the liberals, but a lot
- 5:57Speaker 2: of people are also still very concerned about them. So
- 6:01Speaker 2: and Carney is still painting inside of Justin Trudeau's lines
- 6:04Speaker 2: right now. So Kenny does have the potential to be
- 6:07Speaker 2: a different adult in the room who flips the script,
- 6:10Speaker 2: ends the post twenty fifteen fairy tale that we're still
- 6:13Speaker 2: sort of living in the hangover of and bringing us
- 6:15Speaker 2: back to reality. I'm not being a pusher of Kenny,
- 6:18Speaker 2: but just rather someone of that scope. If I were
- 6:21Speaker 2: Mark Karney, I'd be bringing in oppositional forces that are
- 6:23Speaker 2: outside of current government that we're in past government to
- 6:26Speaker 2: try to create a you know, a coalition if.
- 6:29Speaker 1: You will, Yeah, final one. Because I'm just about at
- 6:32Speaker 1: a time here if the ticker tape on the TV
- 6:35Speaker 1: thing tells us to stay home tomorrow, John, are you
- 6:38Speaker 1: staying home? Or have you reached your limit on selective
- 6:41Speaker 1: government advice?
- 6:43Speaker 2: I've reached my limit on selective advice. I will do
- 6:46Speaker 2: what I did during COVID, which is follow my own
- 6:48Speaker 2: public health advice based off of what I'm seeing. And
- 6:51Speaker 2: you know, I do a full amalgam of like all
- 6:54Speaker 2: of the different public health advice and see what applies
- 6:56Speaker 2: to us locally here. But when the government spends a
- 6:59Speaker 2: years taking and choose which groups to protect based on
- 7:01Speaker 2: their own survival, they've lost the moral authority to tell
- 7:04Speaker 2: me how to manage my own I'm not going to
- 7:05Speaker 2: follow a script written by a co opted bureaucracy I'm
- 7:08Speaker 2: waiting for an institutionalist that I could actually trust him.
- 7:11Speaker 2: But you know, at this point, selective advice is just
- 7:13Speaker 2: a fancy way of saying they're guessing, and I'm done
- 7:15Speaker 2: of being a test subject for their PR experiments.
- 7:19Speaker 1: All right, good job this morning. I just love this.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And before you go, I'm gonna wish you good luck,
- 7:24Speaker 1: have fun, don't.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Die Anti Eugene.
- 7:28Speaker 1: There he goes John Letke. We love having him on
- 7:30Speaker 1: the show.