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9-2: Canada's PM Wants Us To Stop Mocking Them With Memes. So Here's More! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: When you tell us Americans to stop doing something, stop
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Speaker 1: being mean, stop making fun of us, it's in our
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Speaker 1: nature and I think it's in our character to rebel
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Speaker 1: against that and to come back even stronger. So when
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Speaker 1: Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a press conference and
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Speaker 1: says when the Americans, mostly meaning the administration, but said
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Speaker 1: when the Americans, and that includes you and me, want
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Speaker 1: to get serious and stop making memes, then we can talk. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know what that means. It's time to meme even harder,
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Speaker 1: and I'm going to bring some of the best ones
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Speaker 1: to you this morning on the podcast in the replay.
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Speaker 1: I know this is mostly a spoken word format, and
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Speaker 1: I get that, and this is a visual thing with memes,
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Speaker 1: so I'll try my best to describe them for you
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Speaker 1: audio podcast listeners, but for everybody else, I'll pop them
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Speaker 1: up on the screen. Just 10 of the best that
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Speaker 1: I've found, my personal favorites, but you can literally find
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Speaker 1: tens of thousands of them that are out there right now.
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Speaker 1: How clueless would you have to be as a prime
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Speaker 1: minister of a bordering nation, to challenge us like that.
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Speaker 1: You know we're going to come back stronger. You just
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Speaker 1: know we are, and we'll get to it. Speaking of that,
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Speaker 1: thanks for finding me. Welcome to the Wicked Radio livestream.
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-ish, Eastern Time on X YouTube
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Speaker 1: and Facebook, and the replay on those channels, and video
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Speaker 1: clips as well on those. More importantly, on the audio podcast,
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Speaker 1: uploaded right after the livestream. And again, you audio-only listeners,
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Speaker 1: I'll do my best to describe these, because they are Fantastic.
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Speaker 1: All right, here's what kicked it all off. Just yesterday,
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Speaker 1: this is in record time, this is how quickly this
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Speaker 1: all developed, Mark Carney, the Canadian PM, who basically, and
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Speaker 1: this is what started this whole thing, wants our neighboring
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Speaker 1: nation to the north, and they're in a recession, by
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Speaker 1: the way, the only G20 country that is, they want
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Speaker 1: to basically become a North American version of the European Union.
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Speaker 1: This is most likely what has pissed Trump off so
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Speaker 1: badly in these trade negotiations. And what really led to
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Speaker 1: this was us getting screwed for decades and decades on
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Speaker 1: trade deals. Well, they finally got some pushback by you-know-who
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Speaker 1: who's in the White House right now, and they didn't
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Speaker 1: take to that too well. So we have basically cut
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Speaker 1: off all negotiations with them. Now, being a political leader,
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Speaker 1: Mark Carney turns around and he says, no, we won't
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Speaker 1: talk to them until they're getting serious about things. And
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Speaker 1: this was the statement. that kicked the whole thing off
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Speaker 1: just yesterday. Seemed like a little impromptu press conference outside of,
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Speaker 1: I think, a government building. I'm not too sure. But
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Speaker 1: this is the clip that everybody grabbed and has made us, yes,
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Speaker 1: meme harder. Now, what's a meme? Everybody knows what a
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Speaker 1: meme is, but to put it into words, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of hard to describe. It's a visual representation of a
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Speaker 1: joke that becomes a cultural reference to make a point, right?
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Speaker 1: I've always thought memes are, and they've been around forever now,
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Speaker 1: I think memes are kind of like the social media
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Speaker 1: version of a political cartoon. You know, they make a statement.
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Speaker 1: So it's a visual and it's a funny and it's a,
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Speaker 1: we're in the internet age now. This is a whole
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Speaker 1: new open digital communication platform. So this is the way
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Speaker 1: that humor is expressed these days to make a point,
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Speaker 1: which he apparently has no clue about. This is what
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Speaker 1: started the whole thing off yesterday. How clueless and tone
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Speaker 1: deaf would you have to be?
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Speaker 2: And when the Americans stopped doing memes, stopped, throw in shade,
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Speaker 2: stop trying to be tough, and start being serious about
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Speaker 2: having those discussions, we can have those discussions. But it's
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Speaker 2: not constructive, but that's their democracy.
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Speaker 1: The first thing I thought when I heard that was,
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Speaker 1: because let's get this out of the way right now.
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Speaker 1: Here's a little caveat here. The Canadian people, by and large,
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Speaker 1: are great, strong, independent people that are held captive by
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Speaker 1: their government, which is going so completely socialist and bending
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Speaker 1: over and bending at the knee for China so badly
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Speaker 1: that all of this is coming to fruition now so
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of Canadians have a heart for them
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Speaker 1: they're good people they're they heard this too and they're
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Speaker 1: like oh god oh no he didn't oh because they
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Speaker 1: know what's coming on their social media meet you know
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Speaker 1: we're going to take a challenge like that and we're
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Speaker 1: going to meme even harder and we're going to come
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Speaker 1: back even stronger and oh boy we did like I
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Speaker 1: said It's our responsibility now as proud Americans to bring
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Speaker 1: the memes because that guy doesn't want us to. This
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Speaker 1: is how we rebel. So let's go through some of them.
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Speaker 1: Mostly a visual. I get that. So I'll try to
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Speaker 1: describe them for you audio only listeners. But for everybody else,
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Speaker 1: I'll just kind of like pop them up on the screen.
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Speaker 1: Meme number one. And by the way, these are just
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Speaker 1: the ones that I had cherry picked. These are my favorites.
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Speaker 1: You can find any one you want. You've probably made
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Speaker 1: your own if you post it anyway. But here's some
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Speaker 1: of the best ones. Meme number one. Here's one. Here's
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Speaker 1: that very same Mark Carney with a I heart Lake
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Speaker 1: America t-shirt. I thought that was cute because that's great.
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Speaker 1: And it starts it all off with, you know, him
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Speaker 1: and the Lake America thing. And by the way, the
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Speaker 1: whole Lake America issue, this was an act. We have
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Speaker 1: a president now that understands humor and how it works
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Speaker 1: and how cutting and effective it can be. Otherwise you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have the PM of the Canada of Canada, his,
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Speaker 1: his trade negotiation partner. which is now his adversary, reacting
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Speaker 1: to this so badly. You've got a president now that
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Speaker 1: actually will take this and make his own memes, put
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Speaker 1: them on Truth Social or repost them, and it actually
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Speaker 1: gets to the heart and actually affects what's going on here.
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Speaker 1: Here's the other takeaway. You've got a world leader, and
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Speaker 1: he is. Mark Carney is the PM of Canada, our
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Speaker 1: neighbor to the north. who's reacting to this, which should
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Speaker 1: tell you and me and everybody else that they see
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Speaker 1: them too, which means these memes, these little modern-day political statements,
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Speaker 1: they have an effect. They do. So meme away. Number two,
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Speaker 1: I thought this was fascinating. And this kind of speaks
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Speaker 1: to Canada and their bizarre new alliances they have with
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Speaker 1: other countries that normally you wouldn't want to associate with.
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Speaker 1: This right here is the Canadian Maple Leaf, three of
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Speaker 1: them over a flag of Syria. So the caption on
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Speaker 1: this meme is Maple Syria. I don't know. Maybe it
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Speaker 1: was the play on words that got me on that one.
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Speaker 1: I like that one too. Meme number three. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to describe this for you audio only folks, but the
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Speaker 1: visuals are here for everybody else. This is Trump with
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Speaker 1: a make geese great again meme. And they're not Canadian anymore. Basically,
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Speaker 1: this is following up on the joke that now all
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Speaker 1: the geese in Lake America are now Donald Duck's. That
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Speaker 1: was a great meme that happened before Carney even made
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Speaker 1: his statement there. That was another one there. I thought
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Speaker 1: that was an acute element there, so that was nice.
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Speaker 1: Here's a good one here, and this speaks to, and
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Speaker 1: you saw a lot of these pop up in the
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Speaker 1: memes that went viral yesterday. This speaks to Canada's association
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Speaker 1: with China. This is the main thing that got Trump
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Speaker 1: all in an uproar because they could have been trading
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Speaker 1: with us, but instead they went right to China. That
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Speaker 1: pissed him off, and that pissed us off once we
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Speaker 1: found about it. Chinada. Big Canadian flag with the label
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Speaker 1: Chinada under it. effective, a meme. Not so much on
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Speaker 1: the funny part, but still effective. Following up on that meme,
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Speaker 1: here we go again. Here's another one that went viral.
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Speaker 1: The G20 countries. Here's a list of all of them.
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Speaker 1: All of them not in a recession. The one that's
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Speaker 1: in a recession is Canada. So that's one that's kind of, again,
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Speaker 1: speaking to the economic thing of this entire thing. This
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Speaker 1: one went to right of the sports fans. This is
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Speaker 1: another meme that went viral yesterday. This is, of course,
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Speaker 1: referencing what happened in the Olympics. This is our USA
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Speaker 1: hockey-playing eagle with a gold medal completely just dominating a
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Speaker 1: Canadian hockey-playing goose. This is the one that probably hurt
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Speaker 1: the feelings of the Canadians most. You've got to understand
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Speaker 1: what happened there was probably one of the most devastating
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Speaker 1: things to ever happen to Canada. Since they broke away
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Speaker 1: from the UK, them losing to us in the gold
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Speaker 1: medal game in the Olympics, that was massive. This was
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Speaker 1: a great one, too. This is one of the best
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Speaker 1: memes that popped up yesterday. This speaks again to the
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Speaker 1: China issue. So this is Xi Jinping, president of China,
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Speaker 1: which kind of insults them as well, in a Canadian
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Speaker 1: Mountie uniform, holding a Canadian flag. A lot of these
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Speaker 1: reference the China thing, a lot of the ones that
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Speaker 1: were some of the most popular and made the most headway.
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Speaker 1: This is a good one too. Here's another one. I
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Speaker 1: personally like this one, so I put it in my
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Speaker 1: top 10. This is a response of Canadians trying to
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Speaker 1: get back at Americans, and you saw this a lot too,
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Speaker 1: and this speaks to the lack of humor there There's
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Speaker 1: a guy in a Canadian t-shirt saying, I think Americans
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Speaker 1: are immoral, racist, and evil. And then there's a guy
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Speaker 1: in a Canadian t-shirt saying, I don't think about Canada
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Speaker 1: at all. That kind of speech, you saw this as
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Speaker 1: well a lot yesterday. I don't know if you've ever
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Speaker 1: heard this expression that the left can't meme, meaning those
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Speaker 1: of the left and liberal mindset, they're not funny. That's
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Speaker 1: why they can't meme. They never come, they've tried. And
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Speaker 1: you saw this a lot in the comments of a
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Speaker 1: lot of the memes here. They tried to come back with,
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Speaker 1: you know, digs their own memes of their own in America.
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Speaker 1: If you looked at most of them, they weren't funny.
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Speaker 1: And I think it kind of proves the point that
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Speaker 1: people have been trying to make for a long, long time.
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Speaker 1: The left aren't funny. That's why their memes kind of suck,
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Speaker 1: you know, as opposed to something like this. Here's another one.
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Speaker 1: Snow Mexico. That's one of my favorite ones of all time.
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Speaker 2: The.
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Speaker 1: The Snow Mexico reference with, of course, Mark Carney in
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Speaker 1: his little outfield holding a little flag. And it's always
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Speaker 1: the same visuals. And this has been going on since
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Speaker 1: the old days in the 1920s of political cartoons, our 1800s.
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Speaker 1: Whenever they're trying to disparage somebody, when they're holding their
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Speaker 1: own flag, it's tiny. It's all visual. It's all persuasion.
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Speaker 1: It all matters. But here's a video meme, and that's
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Speaker 1: a version of this too, that probably made the most
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Speaker 1: impact yesterday. This was going back again to Mark Carney's
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Speaker 1: original statement, But somebody put a little musical background in this,
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Speaker 1: and you'll see here or here. here while he's talking
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Speaker 1: trump comes up and just plays a little mocking flute.
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Speaker 2: And when the americans stop doing memes stop throwing shade
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Speaker 2: stop trying to be tough uh and start being serious
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Speaker 2: about having those discussions.
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Speaker 1: I don't, again, I can't, the thing that stuns me
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Speaker 1: the most is you've got a guy here who, well,
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Speaker 1: here's the first takeaway. He obviously sees a lot of
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Speaker 1: the memes. He obviously sees and was mostly talking about
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Speaker 1: Trump who is posting his own memes. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: to make a statement here, to mock them to death.
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Speaker 1: This is what he started. It's the whole reason why
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Speaker 1: he called Lake Ontario, you know, Lake America and got
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Speaker 1: Google maps and Apple maps to actually follow through. And
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Speaker 1: you go on your phone and that's what it's actually
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Speaker 1: called now. That's, I mean, that's, that's a meme in
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Speaker 1: action here. which tells you that world leaders, not just Canada,
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Speaker 1: all of them see the meme. They actually are affected
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Speaker 1: by this kind of stuff, which is why it's been
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Speaker 1: so great for almost all of our country to respond
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Speaker 1: to this with more memes. You saw it almost immediately
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Speaker 1: where you had this guy. As soon as this guy
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Speaker 1: made a statement and it went viral, it was about 2,
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Speaker 1: 3 o'clock Eastern time yesterday afternoon. It was almost immediate,
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Speaker 1: and everybody said it all at once. Oh, where's it?
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Speaker 1: picked up your phones and response. I did too and said, oh,
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Speaker 1: that just means we're going to meme harder. I guess
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Speaker 1: it's a lack of understanding of the American mindset, I
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Speaker 1: think is what this comes down to, that that guy
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Speaker 1: doesn't have. A bunch of regular, good, honest Canadian citizens
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Speaker 1: who can't stand that guy, they get it. They understand
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Speaker 1: it too. They're funny people. They're strong. They're independent, but
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Speaker 1: they're held captive because they don't have an electoral college.
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Speaker 1: They're held captive because by that guy and that kind
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Speaker 1: of government, which is just going further and further left. Globalist, snobbish,
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Speaker 1: not funny, elitist, that is not working. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: maybe the most important meme of the entire thing, of
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Speaker 1: all the ones we just went through, is that one
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Speaker 1: showing all the G20 nations. All of them, not in
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Speaker 1: a recession. The one that is, Canada. How's that working out?
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Speaker 1: But instead of focusing on that, he wants us to
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Speaker 1: stop being meme- Stop memeing. Stop doing this and get
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Speaker 1: serious with the real negotiations. And the big takeaway on this, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and the more serious part of this whole thing is
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Speaker 1: that early part of that press conference he held yesterday
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Speaker 1: that's getting mocked to death with more memes, the early
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Speaker 1: part of that, which he said partly in French, because
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Speaker 1: he has to speak to his French Canadians, and partly
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Speaker 1: in English, was where it's possible to have an equitable
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Speaker 1: trade relationship between our two nations, but they have to
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Speaker 1: get serious. It's possible if they want to come to
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Speaker 1: the table with it. Here's the problem, Mark. It hasn't
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Speaker 1: been equitable. It hasn't been fair at all because we,
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Speaker 1: as Americans, and this does affect everyday hardworking Americans, have
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Speaker 1: been getting screwed by your country for decades now. And
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Speaker 1: we have an administration now that looked at this and
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Speaker 1: they said, you're not a fair trade partner at all.
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Speaker 1: And once we wanted to make fair trade deals, you
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Speaker 1: walked away from the table for political points. That's what
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Speaker 1: you did. Not only that, and I think this, everybody,
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Speaker 1: I think this gets to the heart of the issue.
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Speaker 1: I think this is what truly, personally, pissed off the
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Speaker 1: Trump administration and him himself so deeply, and you saw
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Speaker 1: it in the memes there, not only did they walk
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Speaker 1: away from us as a trade partner, as their neighbors,
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Speaker 1: where we share a border to the north, they went
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Speaker 1: right to China to try to make their deals with them.
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Speaker 1: I think that was the main issue that pissed them
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Speaker 1: off so much, which is why this morning and yesterday
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Speaker 1: afternoon you saw so many of these memes come back
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Speaker 1: in full force calling them China's puppet. And there you go.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if countries like Canada,
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Speaker 1: I'll say administrations, their administration, because the people of Canada
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Speaker 1: understand this, but their administrations don't. I don't think they'll
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Speaker 1: ever truly understand the American mindset. If you piss us off,
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Speaker 1: we'll just dig down deeper and push back even further.
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Speaker 1: And again, and I kind of made this point, I
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Speaker 1: think it was early this week or late last week
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Speaker 1: about the whole Lake America thing, the whole deal. It's
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Speaker 1: a funny, it's a ha-ha. There's an important message behind this.
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Speaker 1: The reason why Trump does that and sends out these
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Speaker 1: memes and all this other stuff, and now even further
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Speaker 1: now because we're responding so strongly, is because it gets
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Speaker 1: people to wake up to the issue. The reason why
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Speaker 1: Trump name calls all the time, the reason why he
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Speaker 1: makes fun of things, the reason why he says certain
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Speaker 1: things and has catch names, and yeah, reposts on Truth
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Speaker 1: Social his own memes or somebody else's memes, is because
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Speaker 1: it gets most Americans who are busy in their lives
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Speaker 1: to pay attention to an issue. Before the Lake America
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Speaker 1: thing happened last week, and now with the meme war
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Speaker 1: that we're sending across the border, most of us had
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Speaker 1: absolutely no idea how badly we were getting screwed in
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Speaker 1: our trade deals, especially our American dairy farmers with Canada.
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Speaker 1: No idea. And why would you? It's not the most
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Speaker 1: exciting thing. You have everything else going on in your
15:03
Speaker 1: life with your business and your job and your family
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Speaker 1: and your career and all this other stuff. Not a
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Speaker 1: lot of us were actually paying attention daily to the
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Speaker 1: trade deals we're making with Canada. But here's the takeaway.
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Speaker 1: We are now. Now because of all of this, people
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Speaker 1: are aware of what needed to get fixed. And it's
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Speaker 1: most likely going to. That's why you started a meme
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Speaker 1: war with these people. And that's why we're winning. Telling
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Speaker 1: Americans not to send memes anymore. Good move, Mark. What
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Speaker 1: a dope. All right. Thanks for hanging out with me. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: audio listeners, for hanging out through the description of those things,
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Speaker 1: because I know it's mostly visual, but hey, you've probably
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Speaker 1: seen most of these anyway. Most of them went viral.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. Livestream, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
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Speaker 1: Eastern Time, and the replay for Wicked Radio on X
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Speaker 1: from right now, on your favorite audio podcast platforms, wherever
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Speaker 1: you want to get them. It's midweek. Send out those memes.
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Speaker 1: Piss off Canada even more. It's our moral duty as
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Speaker 1: patriotic Americans. Make it a great one. A wicked awesome Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you tomorrow.